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Arts + Letters Links for Monday, August 31, 2009

Today’s Post… with extra helpings of You-Tubery!!

Fiona Apple — “I Know” (Live at the Largo)
Fiona Apple Plays A Stripped-Down Arrangement of “I Know” (Thanks to @ericavery for the tip!)

(Via www.youtube.com )
MATRIXSYNTH: Isao Tomita – When you wish upon a Star
The fantabulous Isao Tomita in the studio.

(Via matrixsynth.blogspot.com )
The Men Who Stare At Goats Official Trailer HD
Jon Ronson’s book about the secret U.S. Army “Psychic Soldier” program is now a feature film, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges . Looks funny — and I’d find it funnier if it wasn’t based on an absolutely true story.

(Via www.youtube.com )
YouTube – 25th Anniversary Sing Along of Prince’s Purple Rain
Reason number 875365 for living in Brooklyn — Purple Rain sing-alongs!:

(Via www.youtube.com )

Live E3 Webcams, Streaming E3 Coverage – G4tv.com
If you saw and enjoyed The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters documentary, you’re going to REALLY LOVE THIS: A live stream of Steve Wiebe attempting to break the World Record at Donkey Kong.
(Via G4TV)

INTERVIEW PROJECT – NEW EPISODE EVERY THREE DAYS
David Lynch + 20,000 Mile Road Trip + Video Camera = “Interview Project”.
(Via interviewproject.davidlynch.com )

J.D. Salinger Sues Copycat in Manhattan Federal Court
“The reclusive and elusive author filed a lawsuit yesterday in Manhattan federal court…to “block an anonymous author from cashing in on the iconic coming-of-age novel with a follow-up titled 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye.” “
(Via feeds.gothamistllc.com )

Before William Hung, Before chocolate rain, America had Florence Foster Jenkins
“Confidence is a funny thing. We all have our daily encounters with the cocky, the insecure, that optimistic date who is far more enamored of his or her looks than he or she has any right to be. But when we’re talking vocalists, when a singer lets down the inhibitions and belts it out despite not having any skill whatsoever, there’s a line that’s crossed. Crossed like the sound barrier is crossed: with a physic if not physical boom. It rattles you a bit, stirs up what you perceive to be true and what the performer perceives is true.”
(Via blogs.creativeloafing.com )

Khaaan!
Artist Daniel Martinico took William Shatner’s finest moment as an actor and stretched it out into a 15-minute video….And thanks to Veritrope reader Clark, we now have this link that gives us even more of the story!
(Via www.kottke.org )

YouTube – Fleet Foxes – Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (Cover)
This is First Aid Kit perform an acoustic cover of Fleet Foxes Tiger Mountain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMrqBldlqzA
(Via www.youtube.com )

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #194 | Radosh.net
“The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest” is something I fully support — but only if these people actually send them in to The New Yorker and make the editors read them!
(Via www.radosh.net )

Xan Brooks meets film director Francis Ford Coppola | Film | The Guardian
“At 70, Francis Ford Coppola is not worried about ruining his career – because he no longer has one.”
(Via www.guardian.co.uk )

Soft-Maps Quilts
Brooklyn-based architect and designer Emily Fischer of Haptic Lab creates something she calls “Soft-Maps”: functional quilts that she stitches with the detailed outline of a Brooklyn neighborhood (complete with hand-embroidered street names, a compass rose and scale marker). Pretty cool!
(Via www.coolhunting.com )

Navajos largely unscathed by recession
“Delores Claw, 51, lives on the reservation in Tonalea, Ariz. Since losing her job, her family has had to butcher 10 of their lambs. She said land and kinship are the greatest survival tools. “They always say if you have livestock, you’re rich,” she said.”
(Via msnbc.msn.com )