Dark Night of the Soul

A collaboration between Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse the album in it’s entirety is available for streaming online for free at NPR. From NPR; The album features:

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse (Mark Linkous), other artists appearing on Dark Night of the Soul include James Mercer of The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Frank Black of the Pixies, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega, Vic Chesnutt, David Lynch, and Scott Spillane of Neutral Milk Hotel and The Gerbils.

The album has been released by the artist as a blank printed CD-R along with a poster.  User’s are then led to their own methods of getting the music on the disc.   This was after a dispute with record label EMI.  It seems the only ones to win from this is the artists and the fans.

Jesse Ventura (Navy Seal, Wrestler, and Minnesota Governor from 1999-2003) was on Larry King last Monday night giving commentary on the White House Correspondence Dinner, the disputed Minnesota Senate election, and other things. It appeared Ventura wanted to say his quip of poetry very badly, as he mentioned it three times during his interview.

On the night that Jesus Christ supposedly rose from the dead,
The Navy SEALS shot three pirates straight through the head.

(In reference to the Somalian pirates that held Captain Richard Phillips captive)

Youtube link here, starts at 1:50. Larry King Transcript here.

From the Huffington Post

***UPDATE 9:32AM EST***
Adm. William Gortney said Monday that it took only three shots for Navy snipers to kill the trio of pirates holding captain Richard Phillips hostage on a lifeboat drifting on the high seas.

Interviewed from Bahrain, Gortney said the takedown happened shortly after the hostage-takers were observed by sailors aboard the USS Bainbridge “with their heads and shoulders exposed.”

***UPDATE 6:36PM*** CNN is reporting that Navy sharpshooters were secretly parachuted onto the fantail of the USS Bainbridge and hid there, out of view of the pirates. When their commanders determined that Captain Phillips was “in imminent danger,” the snipers went into action. At the moment that two of the pirates came into view with one aiming an AK-47 at Phillips, the sharpshooters shot each of them in the head.