Evocatively

Some awesome anonymous country label has started a tumblr on which it's posting the worst (i.e. best) unsolicited demos it has ever received in the mail. They are all, without a single exception, fantastic (though, if pressed, we'd have to say we like the cover of "Walkin' After Midnight" with Auto-Tune and the song about finding a wife who enjoys fishing the most). It's hard not to wonder how much better the music industry might be doing today if all record labels had thought to release compilations of stuff like this years ago.

"Mounted. So when you open the door, it's right there. His memory's not great. So it's just a constant reminder." —Julia Roberts on mounting her Oscar in Clive Owen's trailer on the set of Duplicity [MTV]

"He's witty, quick, and sarcastic — which can be a little intimidating. He's scary in the way that David Letterman is scary." —Elisha Cuthbert on her Old School co-star Vince Vaughn [People]

"[He's] a sweetheart. Just so generous and kind." —Elisha Cuthbert on her Old School co-star Luke Wilson [People]

"I do feel a lot of pressure. You can’t help it. So I’ve been handling it by taking up boxing; I’m wildly addicted to pills; and two to three times a week, I do scream therapy, where I scream into a pillow." —Amy Poehler on preparing for her new show, Parks and Recreation [Elle.com]

"Anyone can play the St. Patrick's Day parade, but it takes a real band to get kicked out." —Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys on having to withdraw from a parade to calm their fans down [Spinner]

"I said: ‘Yes, but it’s a bit Village People.’ He burst out laughing and started singing YMCA.” —Tom Hardy on what happened when he confronted criminal Charles Bronson about his mustache [Sun UK]

"I won’t be [cross-dressing] — well, not on film [but] I like to do my due-diligence and really get into the character.” —Billy Crudup on preparing for his next role playing J. Edgar Hoover in Public Enemies [Movies Blog/MTV]

How does a leading mumblecore director pay the bills? Andrew Bujalski, the 31-year-old creator of Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation, seemed destined for the big time in 2007, when it was announced that he would adapt Benjamin Kunkel's novel Indecision for producer Scott Rudin. Two years later, Indecision remains incomplete — but luckily, as Bujalski explained to us in a conversation at the South by Southwest Film Festival, “the money from it lasted two years.” Bujalski wrote several drafts of the script, and was well paid for his time.

Bujalski is now unsure if the feature, which he was slated to both write and direct, will ever come to fruition. But, "I'm not going to wait around for this movie to get made," he said. "I have other ideas." At SXSW, Bujalski is screening his third feature, Beeswax, a characteristically non-climactic drama that has yet to find distribution. The filmmaker says he has a handful of other projects in mind, including some that involve digital video — a first for Bujalski, whose previous works use 16mm film. Rumor also has it that he has been discussing another project that he'll write and direct for Rudin. At least he knows Rudin's good for the money.

Yesterday, a perpetually optimistic DreamWorks announced a July 4, 2011, release date for Transformers 3. Today, celebrated director Michael Bay says, via his official website, that they jumped the gun:

I said I was taking off a year from Transformers. Paramount made a mistake in dating Transformers 3 — they asked me on the phone — I said yes to July 4 — but for 2012 — whoops! Not 2011!!! That would mean I would have to start prep in September. No way. My brain needs a break from fighting robots.

Still, though — look at that sentence with four em dashes in it! Even when he's tired, that guy really does things all the way, doesn't he?

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