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Add to the R.I.P. list. For most of my young life, apart from random arthouse flicks, all the films that really blew my hair back kicked off with this same intro screen.

Miramax — you were a game changer. And you will be missed.

Release date and cover

The release date of Jónsi’s debut solo album, ‘Go’, has been confirmed for the week of April 5tharound the world*. Featuring 9 songs drawn from the large pool of material amassed by Jónsi during his many years as singer with Sigur Rós, and arranged in collaboration with classical wunderkind Nico Muhly (“one of the hottest composers on the planet” Daily Telegraph last week), the album now has a finished sleeve, conceptualised and realised by Jónsi’s sisters Inga and Lilja. Here’s how it looks:

World tour

Meanwhile, details of his first live concerts outside of Sigur Rós will be announced next Monday (Feb 1). The shows which start in North America in April, will feature a brand new band and a stage set designed by 59 Productions. Both these things promise to be drop-dead amazing. The idea of the stage collaboration with 59 Productions is to bring together the worlds of theatre and music in a new and hopefully unique way, in order to create something other than the hoary old cliches that pass for innovation in rock’n'roll. The ideas remain very much “in development”, but there will be some surprises, for sure. Here’s a maquette (a tiny cardboard model, to you and me) of how things might appear. Cute, huh?

Anyway, we wanted you to know we are going for broke on this and it ain’t in any way going to be Jónsi alone on stage with an acoustic guitar, no sirree. Wish us luck.

New video

Meantime, first week of Feb is also when everyone finally gets to see the video for ‘Go Do’, the first single to be taken from ‘Go’. Directed by Arni & Kinski (previously responsible for no fewer than six Sigur Rós videos, including ‘Glósóli’ and ‘Viðrar vel til loftárása’), the video was filmed on location in Iceland between Christmas and New Year, which is quite an achievement when you realise there are about four hours of daylight at that time of year. It looks gorgeous, and here’s a still to prove it.

Acoustic set

For those of you who can’t even wait a week for their next fix of new Jónsi music, you can check how three of the songs must have sounded before Nico got his hands on them and, in Jónsi’s words, made them “explode”, by going to Jónsi’s Soundcloud pageand listening to the man and his acoustic guitar navigate their way through his first ever live radio session last week on WNYC, New York. Wow! I’m telling you, 2010 is going to be LOT of fun.

*April 2 in Germany and April 1 in Australia. Other countries may be different, so check your local record shop or Amazon.com just to be sure.

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”

R.I.P. J.D. — You always made me feel just that way

Today Apple will make an announcement on their new iSlate or whatever it is called. Basically the Apple Tablet portable computer. It will probably look like a giant ipod touch, but I can’t deny I am still kind of excited to see what it looks like. It will def probably make my wacom tablet macbook combo pretty obsolete. It will probably be pretty cool though.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803662.html

Check the www.apple.com website for the video they will surely post later today or tomorrow about it.

Brian I know you are jacked, I am.

“What does this have to do with skateboarding, Walter?” Dude, who knows, but this trailer is insane. It’s got a look like Terry Gilliam x Wes Anderson x legit skateboarding. Bananas.

It’s official – The 319 crew store is here. Only 1 product, but it’s a solid one to get things re-launched. Printed locally, designed locally and of course, printed on AA. If you dig what you see, please support.

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T-minus 12 days until the official due date… past the point of no return. How’s Huck doing?