C-VILLE Minute: Your weekend preview [with video]

Look deep into my eyes. And then go on for some required weekend reading.

Go go gadget Google Reader! Here’s a few interesting music-related stories to whet your appetite for a weekend chock full o’culture.

  • NPR just ran a nice, big story about The Parking Lot Movie.
  • James Brown’s daughter says that the legendary soul singer’s body is missing.
  • Chuck Klosterman wrote a profile of Stephen Malkmus for GQ, wherein Malkmus mentions dear old UVA.
  • Here’s an article about how Kathryn Bigelow used to be a punk.
  • Feedback’s dad sent him a text message last Sunday morning that read, "There is a article about you favorite harpist in NY Times mag 2day." It was true. Don’t read it unless you want your favorite harpist to be demystified before she comes to the Jefferson Theater on the 24th.
  • Last but not least, "I Went to Michael Bolton’s House in Connecticut for a Cocktail Party" from the Village Voice. ("He has the relaxed demeanor of someone who has been famous for a really long time.")

And on a brief unrelated note, Merle Haggard is playing at the Charlottesville Pavilion in on September 22, according to his website!