Nom nom nom: Karen O, Michael Jackson & U2
+ Take that, New Moon. Despite the Twilight sequel soundtrack prompting many a WTF-but-it's-actually-good, it was Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs who is starting to rack up awards season accolades. Her score for "Where the Wild Things Are" (with Carter Burwell) scored a Golden Globes nomination today and, due to a minor Miley Cyrus mess-up, Karen O and the Kids' "All Is Love" is now included in the Grammys' noms for best songs written for the screen. (There's no official video for this, but the fanvid above does a decent job of mixing clips from the trailer.)
+ The Globes' main difference from the Oscars—other than featuring drunken tables of nominees who tend to wander off during the show—is in its segregation of dramatic films and musical/comedy flicks. But they also don't have a home for documentary films, leaving the much-ballyhooed Michael Jackson tour doc "This It It" more likely to be on a ballot with "Nine." Except how apparently the Globe-keepers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, didn't even entertain that possibility.
+ U2 picked up a Golden Globe nod for "Winter," a stripped down version of which appears in the movie "Brothers." It's oddly lacking in the cinematic vibe the original had:
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