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Friday: I’m glad to hear that the Flaming Lips have stopped calling out Arcade Fire and have instead returned to the whole music thing. Here’s an interesting way to start your weekend: the Lips are planning to cover and re-imagine Dark Side of the Moon. It’ll be a collaboration with Stardeath and the White Dwarfs, and in “WTF” details, Henry Rollins and Peaches will guest on the tracks. Look for it to be one of those iTunes exclusives, but there’s no word on a release date yet. 

Saturday: I’m really sick right now. Not with swine flu, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pity me. In fact, I’m so sick that I’m considering watching that Nicholas Cage movie, Knowing. Yeah. SHIT’S BAD. But apparently not as bad as it is for Nic Cage in real life. He’s filed a $20 million lawsuit against his former business manager. Supposedly his manager failed to pay taxes, and gave him crappy real estate advice. The worst part? Cage has had to sell “major assets and investments.” Meaning a whole lot of his props from National Treasure movies.  

Sunday: The wild rumpus started! And it made a lot of money! Yay childhood! Where The Wild Things Are won the top spot at the box office with $32.5 million. And yes, it lived up to my wildest expectations. If you haven’t seen it, go right now. 

Monday: Remember when Jay Reatard’s band quit this month? Well fuck them! Jay can get a NEW band! No really, he just poached a bassist and drummer from a Danish punk band called the Cola Freaks. More power to him, as having a band now allows him to do some opening dates for the Pixies Doolittle tour, in addition to some solely Reatard and Co. shows in November.  

While there’s not been much info about the next MGMT album, we finally have a title—Congratulations. Not as good as Oracular Spectacular, but who am I kidding, I’ll still listen to it. It’ll be out in that amorphous time period known as “sometime next year.” 

Tuesday: First, Pavement was all “we’re not going to get back together. Stop hoping.” Now, it seems like they’re adding a new reunion show every day. If you find yourself in London on May 11, 2010, be sure to check them out in Brixton Academy. If you’re one of the people that snagged tickets for their All Tomorrow’s Parties, they’ve announced the first round of bands: Faust, the Fall, Quasi, Endless Boogie, and Enablers. If you’re going to be in London in May AND have ATP tickets, you probably live in a gold palace, too. Lucky. 

Wednesday: File this under “Shocked this didn’t happen sooner.” Andrew Bird is doing a church tour! Honestly, this sounds really cool. Come December, he’ll be playing churches in Minneapolis and Chicago in an attempt to channel a Dutch concept called “Gezelligheid,” which roughly translates to “coziness.” He’ll be focusing mainly on instrumental violin pieces, and no P.A. systems will be utilized. Amen, brother.  Minneapolis dates are 12/10-11, and Chicago dates are 12/15-17.  

Way to be less mysterious than MGMT about your second album, Yeasayer. Odd Blood will be released on February 9.  

Thursday: NYCers, listen up—if you don’t have Halloween plans yet, go see Matt & Kim open for Weezer. It’ll be a horrorshow of amazement. Feel like seeing Weezer minus the M & K? I’m not sure why that would be, but they’ll be playing a few December shows throughout North America.