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Old friends of Gothamist, (they played our Movable Hype 1.5 show way back when!), Morning Theft is still chugging through the New York scene playing their inspired brand of Pixies-meets-Nirvana rock. They've recently entered the Emergenza Festival...a national battle of the bands of sorts. This Friday at the Knitting Factory, they will be playing in the semis for a chance to advance to the finals at Webster Hall. They'll be on at 8:00 sharp. Come out and show your support!

Morning Theft, fresh off the bus from Boston in 2003, have been desribed as Pearl Jam meets Travis, Nirvana meets the Cure, the Pixies meets Radiohead...you get the point. But these guys have their own sound. And it sounds good. They're the band who has been (not so) silently brooding in the corner of the indie rock scene. They're loud. They're catchy. They're pensive mood rock. Gothamist (and pretty much everyone below 14th St) loves Morning Theft, you should too. Go check them out for free at Luna Lounge tomorrow night. More details after the interview...

NBC is airing a three hour TV movie, 1st to Die, which is based on the James Patterson novel. Other James Patterson novels that have turned up onscreen: Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider, whose only reasons for existing must be to remind people that Morgan Freeman (1) rises above everything in whatever he's in and (2) should get better material (maybe he needs to team with an indie director for a one-off). James Patterson's bio barely touches on his previous career as one of the most powerful people in advertising, which says something about his current success. He did write a book with late advertising wunderkind Peter Kim, The Day America Told the Truth about human nature with nuggets like "...lying is rampant in the workplace. In their 1991 nationwide survey they found that 64 percent of people said "yes" when confronted with this statement: "I will lie when it suits me so long at it doesn't cause any real damage." The authors wrote, "Ninety-one percent of those surveyed lie routinely about matters they consider trivial while 36 percent lie about important matters. … The majority of us find it hard to get through a week without lying. One in five can't make it through a single day and we're talking about conscious premeditated lies." (from BestJobsUSA.com Then Patterson got the fiction bug and started his cottage industry. A review of 1st to Die, the TV movie. Unsurprisingly, people who bought books by Patterson also bought books from John Grisham and Michael Crichton.