
++Beginners star and Kate Capshaw-when-she-was-younger lookalike Melanie Laurent duetted with Damien Rice last year. Her voice is deeper than what I was expecting somehow, but it's nice to hear some variety in women's voices in music and not the usual chirpy twee-ness.
++So uhhhhh, like when do the Shiba Inus show up, Phoenix?
++Picture of Robbie Williams and South Park's Matt Stone yukking it up with fans at last year's DeLuna Fest, talkin' like "we're #1!" (Note: not actually Robbie Williams and Matt Stone.)
++Former American Idol singer Kellie Pickler has a new album out called 100 Proof. Here, Pickler talks about sharing intimate details with songwriter Leslie Satcher:
"So she asked me, 'Well, who is Kellie?' It was so easy to open up to her, so I told her about my life and some personal things that I'd never shared with anyone. She went home and locked herself in a room."
...Ok, fine! The rest of the quote is" She went home and locked herself in a room and wrote this song, taking what I had told her," Pickler said. I find it more amusing stopping the quote where I did and you gotta make your own fun.