The new video for Bjork’s song Wanderlust premiered last night at Deitch Studios in Long Island City; it features Bjork surfing down a river winding through a Himalayan landscape on the back of some kind of woolly yak, while a clay doppelganger bursts from her backpack to grapple with her and a quasi-Tibetan demon coaxes her toward the edge of a waterfall. Then things get really far out. Directing duo Encyclopedia Pictura shot it......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A perp search at Roma Road and St. George in Staten Island, an overturned car at 2nd Avenue and 36th Street in Manhattan and a shark DOA in the Rockaways. The FDNY responded to an apartment fire and found a 4-year-old child who apparently witnessed her mother's boyfriend kill her mother then himself this morning. Why won't the city fix a sinkhole in a Staten Island street? Because the......

Not too long ago Ronen Givony started the Wordless Music Series, which is pretty much just what it sounds like it would be. Sonic worlds collide and fuse classical with indie, jazz with electronic and listeners with instrumental-only music. In the next week audiences will enjoy the sounds of Do Make Say Think and Beirut from an intimate setting for just such an experience. How did you come up with the idea for the Wordless......

FILM: A tribute to Jean Genet on film begins tonight at BAM. The focus will be on films inspired by the French writer, as well as Genet's own Un Chant D'Amour. BAM describes the festival further: A writer, criminal, homosexual, activist, and self-styled renegade, Jean Genet creates incendiary work that offers dreamlike evocations of moral ambiguity in a repressed society, and is rife with homosexuality, outlandish fantasies of submission, and acts of violence. This series......

Arcade Fire vs. The Venues They Choose To Play There has been much to-do about the anti-establishment efforts of The Arcade Fire at their recent Radio City concert, urging the fans to rush and outnumber the security guards keeping the aisles clear. What was overshadowed was that this is perhaps the best live band touring right now, and they were absolutely at the top of their game this week, playing each of these shows as......

READINGS: Papermag points out an interesting reading tonight for "Queens of the Kingdom: The Ultimate Gay and Lesbian Guide to the Disney Theme Parks." Authors Jeffrey Epstein and Eddie Shapiro explain how to have a gay ol’ time in Disney World. Their guide (now in its second edition) features “fairy facts,” culinary suggestions and where to find the “gay goodies” like Ellen Degeneres’s Ellen's Energy Adventure ride. Tonight’s reading is hosted by Michael Musto and......

Faithless Return It's been something like 9 years since the last time Faithless played in New York. Considering that the band is one of the largest in England and the rest of the world, selling out soccer stadiums and headlining major music festivals year after year, their return to the States is a pretty big deal. Hitting a couple club dates on their way to Coachella, they stopped by Webster Hall earlier in the week......

Black Lips Trash Bowery One of the nice things about being a music fan in New York City is that you rarely have to wait very long to see a band you're recently missed. The Black Lips famously played about 6,000 shows at SXSW this year, yet despite our interest in checking them out, we managed to catch them exactly zero times (with our final chance being cut short by that whole collapsing balcony thing.)......

My first experience with a famous musician in my cab was unpleasant at best. I was a fan of Bjork’s “It’s Oh So Quiet” Spike Jonze video, because I’m a sucker for a dancing mail box. So I was excited when I saw she was hailing me out front of Lombardi’s Pizzeria (she hadn't eaten there, it was 2 a.m.). After she told me “Sixthhh Hhhavenueh hhand Hhhhhouston Street” in that breathy whisper otherwise known......

So, we can admit it, today has been a pretty scary day over here at Gothamist HQ. We've had tatoos, snuff tapes, gore-filled photos, a birthing Britney, Bjork, even some way overpriced real estate. After all that, we need to laugh a little, don't you? Luckily Michelle found just the thing. Watch this and try not to laugh:......

- Gothamist Arts & Events has a tip on two listening parties tonight - one for Ted Leo and one for Bjork. And in an effort to challenge the constraints of space and time, Arts & Events editor Jen Carlson explains how you can hear both CDs. - Have a nice dinner at one of Charlie Palmer's smartly priced $25-for-three-courses restaurants, Kitchen 22 and Kitchen 82. - And we'll be stopping by the Park Avenue......

Incase you aren't going to see Aimee Mann tonight @ St. Ann's Warehouse but are still finding yourself in that chick-rock kind of mood, go check out Erin Mckeown. Described on her website as having the acerbic wit of Randy Newman, the innovative stylings of Bjork and Liz Phair, and the intricate arrangements of Elvis Costello, Gothamist is pretty sure this girl is worth checking out. She plays tonight, for free, at Pier 17/South......

Gothamist didn't think of it because we were too distracted by "Why would we go see this movie?" type thoughts, but, luckily, both Drew's Script-o-Rama and low culture tackled how the robots in I, Robot, the upcoming Alex Proyas (Dark City) film, look very much like the robot Bjork in her All Is Full Of Love video, directed by Chris Cunningham. Gothamist has seen the trailer for I, Robot a couple of times now, and......

In the way too small world of bloggers and blogging and gadgets and gadget bloggers and gadget blogging, Peter Rojas's move from Gizmodo to start a new tech weblog, Engadget, got all the blognosticators and gadget geeks into a lather. sippey gives his thoughts on how Gizmodo should be run ("Scrap the single writer thing") and at Buzzmachine...well, in his take, Jeff Jarvis mentions Gizmodo publisher Nick Denton, singer Bjork, Engadget backer Jason Calacanis,......

Gothamist's favorite criticism of Uma Thurman's dress comes from Michael Gallagher, who tells the Post, "Christian Lacroix performed an abortion on Uma Thurman. The dress was hideous. She looked like a nun in a Cossack factory." If only everyone had a style maven to brutally dissect what you thought was the dress for you to wear on such an important night. And at least her dress gave us something to talk about like: "A giant......

With Valentine's Day just two days away, the Post throws one to the unattached by looking at the Quirkyalone movement. Move over, metrosexuals: Here come the quirky-alones. Sasha Cagen coined the term when she wrote an essay that essentially defined "being single - not as a way station en route to marriage, but as a fulfilling lifestyle in its own right." Quirkyalones are romantic and would like to find the one, but dating for dating's......

Music critic Sasha Frere–Jones gives a rounduop of the best music DVDs and box sets for Slate. He mentioned Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime, Tenacious D's The Complete Masterworks, a DVD from German band Can, a Sun Ra film called "Space is The Place," and the Coldplay Live DVD, but the DVDs we're most interested in are the Directors Label collections of music videos from Chris Cunningham, Spike Jonze, and Michel Gondry. Michel Gondry's......

So far, the work of Charlie Kaufman has only been adapted by two directors: Spike Jonze, with Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, and Michel Gondry, whose Human Nature was tepidly received but has directed the eagerly awaited 2004 release, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Eternal Sunshine stars Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, and Mark Ruffalo, with Carrey as a man trying to erase memories of ex-girlfriend Winslet from his......

Again, we'd like to thank all the people that came to the Gothamist and 601am Happy Hour. A great time was had by all though only remembered only by some. - Gothamist enjoys The Mermaid Inn - Amusement park rides in Central Park - GPS dog (Japanese, of course) - Memphis' new attraction besides the Kind, barbecue, and Al Green: Pandas - Behavior modification for teens, in Jamaica - New York City budget game -......

Bjork's new look: Do we attribute it to her usual lovable nuttiness or can we say it's Matthew Barney? A close-up black and white shot of Bjork's new bowl cut, which Kelefa Sanneh called "fetching." Gothamist thinks she looks like some 70s androgynous male singer in that drapey, Halstony top, but it's escaping us. Who does she look like? We need your help. Hilton, are you there? More Bjork fashion: - At the Oscars in......

The Matthew Barney show. At the Guggenheim. Go. Michael Kimmelman loves it but that shouldn't stop you. Neither should claims that Barney is the most important artist of our time. You can buy a Cremaster poster from Film Forum. And what does cremaster mean? Support his equally praised and possibly equally wacky paramour, Bjork.......