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Oh, it's just painful. To be so rich, so beautiful, so bored. Or so it seemed at the straight out of F. Scott Fitzgerald's (a famous writer of decadence, you kiddos) celeb scene in the South of France. On-offers Mischa Barton and Brandon Davis were dining at a chic but casual Thai restaurant in Saint-Tropez. (That's San Tro-pay, not Saint Tro-pezz, by the way, for all you embryonic ones who don't know your Hemingway from your hemorrhoids.) In a resort town that's seeing everything this season from Versace gowns to underwear as outerwear, B.D. was dressed in a untucked white shirt, cuter in person, per usual. M.B., who had on quite the cupid-bow lips for dinner, was donning a white T-shirt/wifebeater hybrid with little fluttery cap sleeves. Keds and no bra to top it off, so Française-fashionable, that one. Was it the seen-it-all French way, too, that was affecting Mischa's glum puss? Actually, Meesh 'n' Bran both seemed terrifically bored. I just don't get it, considering their wealth, health, looks and locale. Jeez, you two! Try it in the deserts of Africa, already! Sorry to get so sanctimonious there for a sec. Just wanted all you gossipy types to know that one thing actually did cheer up the two semifamous lovers: a tourist who asked to take their pic. Mischa hugged the gal, and Brandon actually offered to take the snapshot himself. Then they were all back to their blah selves, damn. Alas, the nearby and happening Les Caves du Roy bar (think Mood on the Riviera) would never know this onetime frolicking couple's writhing moves, I'm sorry to report. (E!) |
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Peter Gallagher presents "The Sandy" at Boalt Hall School of Law - UC Berkeley. Watch the clip! Also, if I didn't say this, Congratulations to the cast and show for being nominated for the Teen People's Choice Awards! |
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Death Cab For Cutie Make With The Festivals (tinymixtapes.com) Seth Cohen. Okay, now that that's out of the way you should know that Death Cab For Cutie have a number of live festival dates scheduled for this summer. Judging by their companions on the tour, it should be fully expected that they have covers of "Some Might Say" and "Gouge Away" prepared by the time they get around to their next tour. Death Cab For Cutie, also affectionately referred to as "DCFC" and "Death Cab," are set to release their fifth full-length album Plans in the autumn. Plans is their major label debut on Atlantic Records, which they signed to last fall (a synonym for autumn). The record, recorded at Long View Farm Studios in Massachusetts, is being produced by Death Cab's lead guitarist Chris Walla, who has also been busy producing a new record by Nada Surf. Death Cab's last release on their old label Barsuk Records was The John Byrd EP, released in the spring. Named after John Byrd, the touring sound man for Death Cab, The John Byrd EP attempted to capture the band's death metal for librarians live act. Did you hear that? That means they're awesome live. Go see them. Or will you let the fact that the shows are now largely populated by sun-tanned bleached blonde suburbanites with camera phones dissuade you? You are weak! Another live document, Drive Well, Sleep Carefully - On the Road with Death Cab for Cutie, a documentary of DCFC's Transatlanticism tour, will be released by Plexifilm on July 26. |
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(please be advised that some of this interview notes OC in a bad light) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Interview (tinymixtapes.com) Pitchfork, Bowie, The O.C., and Jimmy Fallon (June 2005) by CR A Wallowing In Despair Non-Exclusive...Clap Your Hands Say Yeah...interviewed!! Yeah, and I feel like David Bowie DOES read Pitchfork, even if that's not the reason he came to your show. And I feel like the guy who does the O.C. reads Pitchfork. And these hydra discover it, and then it all can become more easily commodified and...it can be a little scary. L: Can I ask you something about the O.C.? What is up with the O.C.? We're always asked if we would give music to the O.C. Do they just bring new music in? They don't bring NEW music in, hell no! T: But hyped music? I mean, have you ever watched the show? T: I've watched it, like, twice. I watched some of the first season. L: How much of it? Half of it. L: The first half or the last half? Okay, I watched most of the first season. But I have a soft spot for shitty melodrama. Anyway they have the character, the Seth guy. And I remember in one of the episodes he talked about "Death Cab." And in the first season they'd still have really shitty bands on, like Rooney. L: Oh yeah! I remember! I mean, I don't remember. No, I didn't see that. But, then obviously the guy who writes the show - it's this one guy, this young guy who I saw on Charlie Rose. Do you guys watch Charlie Rose? L: Yeah, yeah, all the time. Charlie Rose is the shit. L: You actually look sort of like Charlie Rose – in a good way. He's a very handsome man. I certainly wouldn't take that as an insult. Anyway, this guy is in touch with youth culture, and bands that are breaking through. So, what, last season I guess Modest Mouse was on, The Walkmen, Spoon. The Shins were on the Gilmore Girls. But anyway, the characters talk about these bands, and then the bands go on the show, and then they put the band's songs on the soundtrack. So then the O.C. gobble them up and the band's become the O.C.'s thing. And the bands get this exposure, for sure, and god knows they sell more albums. On the other hand, they're on the O.C., a shitty FOX teen show. L: But do they actually perform? Yeah, some of them do. L: It sounds a lot like Beverly Hills 90210. It is a lot like Beverly Hills 90210. T: Like when the Flaming Lips played. Did they play "She Don't Use Jelly?" T: Yeah. It was like, when the Peach Pit turned into a nightclub. So anyway, the O.C. has become this thing with indie bands. So, the reason people ask – I mean you guys probably will be asked by the O.C. to be on their soundtrack. Okay, maybe I shouldn't say probably, but it's totally within the realm of possibility. So, that's why people ask you about it. I view it as just a monster. L: I don't think we'd ever do that. ... Then you'd be forced at gunpoint to go on the O.C. L: Yeah, we love the way it's going now, in that it's a highly internet-based thing and it's great. We love it. So we want to maintain that, um, M.O. |
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Mischa was #15 on ET on MTVs Hottest 25 Under 25 --- Entourage (tvguide.com) See, this is why I love Ari. Only the agent from Hell can go from denying his wife's therapy slurs about his anger to firing a mailroom guy in a full-on rage blackout. Of course, he did think the kid was a Mischa Barton-coveting junior exec who forgot to tell him that James Cameron was directing Aquaman, so it's a tad more understandable. |
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