links for 2009-08-12

• Topless Robot - The Ballad of G.I. Joe Will Break Your Heart
  "Julianne Moore as Scarlett."
  
  
• BBC - Radio 3 Blog: The making of the Radio 3 piano duets video
  Various BBC Radio presenters gather to play Fauré's Dolly Suite including Zeb Soanes and Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Rather lovely. Additionally, why isn't Jon Jacob presenting television?
  
  
• Roger Ebert's Journal: The gathering Dark Age
  Or why there are so many rubbish films about now. The article is short and lucid, but the comments are the highlight as people are given the chance to finally vent about how alienated some of them feel by their tastes.
  
  
• Duffy's "Mercy" given The Third Degree | My Chemical Toilet
  Yes, that's better. Much, much better.