Music new releases May 10, 2011

The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2

 
The Road From Memphis  Booker T. Jones


McLemore Avenue  Booker T. and the MGs


Tribute to the Byrds Gene Clark


Union Cafe Penguin Cafe Orchestra


A Matter of Life  Penguin Cafe Orchestra


Stud Terkels Wax Museum: Bob Dylan the Long Lost 1963 Broadcast


Be Altitude: Respect Yourself Staple Singers

DVD new releases May 10, 2011

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders (Story 74)


Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons (Story 55)

 
McMillan & Wife: Season 3

Thor Journey into Mystery cover gallery

Some great Jack Kirby covers from Thor's early 1960s run.

Free Comic Book Day is Saturday!

Check out some freebies, and spend some money, at your local comic book shop this Saturday. Then check out the new Thor movie afterward. That's my plan anyway.

Here's a list of this year's free offerings.

Fantagraphics' new Mickey Mouse collection: Download an excerpt!

You can download 19 pages from Fantagraphics'upcoming Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 1: Race to Death Valley by Floyd Gottfredson now. I'm looking forward to this book, the first volume in a complete reprinting of Gottfredson's work on the Mouse.

Man from U.N.C.L.E. paperback covers

Final Green Lantern movie trailer

George Harrison was a "Dallas" fan

As indicated from this entry in the second volume of Monty Python member Michael Palin's recently published diaries:

An entry for January 8, 1982, about Palin phoning Harrison to discuss one of the several film projects they had going:

Call George in Henley at nine o'clock. After a few rather terse exchanges he says "You're obviously not a Dallas fan, then" and I realise I've interrupted a favorite viewing.

New X-Men First Class movie banner