links for 2009-06-03

• London Review of Books: Michael Wood on 'Synedoche, New York'
  Thorough review that goes some way to orientating the themes and issues. Mentions Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse in the opening sentence which on reflection seems entirely relevant.
  
  
• :: The Playlist ::: Exclusive: Marc Webb Takes Us Through The Music Of '500 Days of Summer'
  Track by track. All of them, all very tasteful, including rather wonderfully Carla Bruni "Quelqu’un M’a Dit" which warrants about five paragraphs telling the story of the song.


• Spotify gains legal status in the UK | News | TechRadar UK
  Thank goodness for that. An agreement with the PRS means that Spotify won't have to pay as much for streaming the tracks. It is still a concern that Spotify do seem to keep running a lots of ads for themselves and not other companies and there's less bands plugging their music, but hopefully as the business grows more advertisers will come on board.


• Woody Allen Returns to New York in 'Whatever Works' -- New York Magazine
  Turns out this is a version of a script Woody originally wrote in the 1970s, though he encouraged Larry David to improvise ...


• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to exhibit J.W. Waterhouse ~ The Modern Pre-Raphaelite | Art Knowledge News
  I was wondering why the Waterhouses have been missing in a few of the art galleries I've visited recently. Will be on at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from June 27-Sept 13. Very, very tempting.