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A 1979 Polaroid that Andy Warhol snapped of the late Farrah Fawcett is going up for auction at the Children’s Museum of the Arts in NYC. The photo is already valued at over $8,000.

The Housten Press music blog lists 5 decent bands named after Star Wars terminology. The “decent” qualifier is what scares me: that means there are more.

The travesty that is Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is going to be hard to find. Thank god.

IFC picked up the rights to air Arrested Development.

Ben Gibbard has a scene in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, the film based on David Foster Wallace’s novel and directed by John Krasinski (!)

Bizarro: James Franco’s brother Dave has a role on Scrubs now.

Crave lists 8 overhyped bands you’ll soon forget. But I love Bon Iver!

Some bitchin’ NYC street art of our lady Madonna.

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After a brief hiatus, I am back. With a vengeance. To the future. In Black. Whatever.

So much good stuff today! Check it out:

This really hit home for me: Courtney Queeney describes the ambivalence she feels about being a female poet over at Bookslut.

I’m hooked on Boomkat. If you’re not already, consider this your permission get obsessed.

Pop Candy lists the 10 Best Album Covers of 2009 so far. The AOL Radio blog lists the 10 Worst.

A new Radiohead single appears to have leaked. Listen to it at Stereogum. You can read an excerpt of an interview with Thom Yorke in the current issue of The Believer. After work I’m going to buy a copy so I can read the full article and just enjoy The Believer’s amazingness in its entirety.

So… you found my iPhone, huh?

This great Slate article takes a look at “seeking,” the crux of most human and animal behavior, and how it is tied to the rise of Googling, Twittering, and texting. In a related article, the New York Times talks about how these same technologies are creating a wave of mistrials in courts all over the country.

The Telegraph remembers David Foster Wallace.

Poems for Shark Week. Oh, poets.org– how you amuse me.

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This is why celebrities should never comment on political affairs of any kind. I still don’t understand why they are encouraged to do so, other than for laffs.

The Guardian profiles writer Seamus Heaney.

TheTripWire has a video interview up with Black Francis of the Pixies.

I can certainly identify with Keats and Wordsworth’s terror of science.

Condom commercials are getting better and better.

Seriously, I meant to start Infinite Jest already, but got wrapped up with Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and others. Here’s a primer on how to read it.

Quote of the Day

It’s a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self … The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

–DAVID FOSTER WALLACE