Okay, maybe if I cut back to just once a week and keep it short

...I can justify it. Obvs I'm lacking in discipline.

Watch Gael Garcia Bernal as Che in the trailer for The Motorcycle Diaries and get ready for next year when Benicio Del Toro will also portray Che. Acting alongside Benicio will be--get ready--Benjamin Bratt, Ryan Gosling, and Javier Bardem.

Jake Gyllenhaal's photo spread from this month's Vogue is on style.com.

Jude Law, Paul Bettany, and Jennifer Connelly (gorgeous/brainy overload! hurrah!) are all going to star in an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

You can watch the Vanity Fair trailer here.

Columbia Pictures is working on a film ABOUT Jane Austen.

Super Dave to the Rescue

Eggers' latest tutorial center and novelty store, the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company opens.
Bruce Wayne Is on the Mailing List...(NYT)
Questions and Answers About the New Tutoring Center (McSweeney's)

Otherwise Total Result of a Holiday

Due to The Vegas, I have no energy with which to post anything coherent.

Quest for King Arthur on History Channel

Details.

Vegas, Baby!

Mike (Jon Favreau) : Do you think we'll get there by midnight?
Trent (Vince Vaughn): Baby, we're going to be up five hundy by midnight!
Swingers

In honor of this weekend's big Vegas trip, here's a link to The Swingers' Rules a guide to dating in the 90s by Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn.

"Caught in the windsock of love and lust."

Happy Bloomsday: Celebrate by reading this Bloomsday Blog.

A kingdom for a stage, princes to act.

Arianna Huffington compares the prez to Shakespeare's Henry V.
(and there are a couple differences between Shakespeare's Henry and George W.: Henry fought alongside his soldiers and he was an inspired orator.)

Killing Me Softly

The Killers' album Hot Fuss is out today. I feel like I'm cheating on "Jenny" with "Somebody Told Me," but it might be my new favorite.

Repetitive Clicking Spree

Check out this fun little game/time-waster from thePolyphonic Spree.

Remake Redux

So speaking of adaptations and remakes, yesterday I was recovering from The Streets show/after party by watching Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in the adaptation of Tenessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (The movie was supposed to be filmed in b&w but after casting, the director argued that it would be crazy not to shoot in color given the violet of Taylor's eyes and the blue of Newman's.)

Anyway, I was thinking that it's about time for a big-screen remake of this movie. There've been two T.V. versions, Robert Wagner/Natalie Wood and Tommy Lee Jones/Jessica Lange. But who would play Brick and Maggie now? Natalie Portman is beautiful, but she doesn't have Taylor's fire--an important element in Maggie's character. Renee Z is fiesty, but she's perky rather than sultry. Ashley Judd is gorgeous and southern, but she's too movie-of-the-week. Kidman, too ice queen. As for the alcoholic ex-football player Brick, Matthew McConaughey certainly has the looks and the southern accent.

Writer's Almanac

Today's edition of Minnesota Public Radio's Writer's Almanac includes the love poem "Glow" by Ron Padgett and a brief history of this day in 1940 when the Nazis began their occupation of Paris.

Austentatious

BBC is set to begin filming a new Pride and Prejudice miniseries next month. I must admit that I'm very ambivalent about this whole P&P 2005 thing. P&P 95 was just about perfect and I really can't imagine Darcy being played by anyone other than Colin Firth. Plus I'm a bit tired of seeing Keira Knightley in everything. On the other hand, I love Jenna Malone and I think she would make a great Lydia. And when it comes down to it, there's no way I can help feeling a thrill of anticipation for another Austen adaptation. Here's the cast per Commanderbond.net:

Elizabeth Bennett--Keira Knightley
Mr. Darcy--Matthew Macfadyen
Lydia Bennett--Jenna Malone
Jane Bennett--Rosamund Pike

Need a reason--how about 50 of them?

McSweeney's gives a Daily Reason to dispatch Bush.

"Eggy, kind of weird"

Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People/Coffee and Cigarettes) is profiled in the current issue of LA Weekly.

Kiss the DJ

This morning's playlist on 103.1 was absolutely brilliant. One awesome song after another in just the right order. I was on my way to work and I wanted to turn around and head to Big Sur. Instead I couldn't help driving just a bit recklessly. It was the least I could do.

Here's a sample: Ryan Adams' cover of Wonderwall (which I'm still completely obsessed with), followed by The Stooges' No Fun, followed by U2's Bad.

Art Imitates Life Imitates Art....and so on

The very hip, very pretty people who live in The O.C. are also very silly. I think we should all just give in and move to The OC. Either that or set sail for Tahiti.

Random Music Bits

Watch The Streets "Dry Your Eyes" video. It's sort of 28 Days Later sans the zombies and starring Mike instead of Cillian. And see The Streets at The Wiltern on Saturday night. (Update: As of today, you can listen to the whole Grand Don't Come for Free album on the-streets.co.uk.)

All Things Considered reviews My Selfe, the music and fictional biography of Elizabethan composer Anthony Holborne, as performed by Kings Noyse.

...While The Guardian dredges up some of Mozart's worst reviews. Critics, take note.

Beaut-iful!

Isobel and her line, Beaut, are profiled on Ned and Shell's "Weekly Dose!"

A Lesson In Love

Love letters written by author Charlotte Bronte to her former teacher are now on view in Yorkshire. Excerpts and info on Guardian.co.uk

Harry Potter, The Prisoner of Azkaban *****

Stephanie Zacharek explains why the third time is a charm. (Salon)

Random Bits

Cate Blanchett is set to reprise the title role in a sequel to Elizabeth. (via comingsoon.net)

Watch Snow Patrol cover "Crazy In Love" during the encore at their Islington show.

Love You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

Shelley McIntyre explains "What I Actually Mean When I Say I Love You: Thirty Scenarios" in McSweeney's.

For all my Gothic Lit loving friends out there

Jeffrey Eugenides, the author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides (a modern Gothic), ponders Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray in the LA Weekly.

I Won't Dare You to See This Movie In a Theatre

A hit in France, the new film Jeux d'enfants (it's been released as Love Me If You Dare in the U.S.), has been called the next Amelie. It's not. But it's worth renting simply to watch Guillaume Canet (you might remember him as Etienne from The Beach with Leonard DiCaprio--but I wouldn't go around telling people this).