Jeff Bridges – Part 2

Hello, Hubsters!

I’m still away on vacation and need to catch up on several Reports and Daily Shows. I’ll probably download some to my iPod to watch on my flight back home tomorrow. (My laughter will probably scare all the other passengers. Or make them jealous.) Meanwhile, I hope everyone had a great week watching. I certainly had a fabulous one seeing family, including my beloved aunt, who just celebrated her 90th birthday.  She’s a woman of excellent taste who LOVES Stephen, and Jon too!

There are some great guests coming up, and those of us who adore geek Stephen and his dreams of outer space should be especially happy on Tuesday when a group of astronauts stop by. And on Wednesday we get to see one of today’s best actors–and hear him sing!

So onward to the stars… Continue reading

The long-awaited Jeff Bridges solo album that grew out of the movie, which Bridges has been hyping in interviews for a year, will finally release on August 16th, titled simply “Jeff Bridges.”

Coming off like The Dude with heartbreak, Bridges’ performance in “Crazy Heart” exuded a warm, worn-in sadness—arresting enough to rewind in the middle of the movie to hear the songs a second time. For “Jeff Bridges,” the Dude collaborated with the same team behind the “Crazy Heart” songs, including songwriter/producer T Bone Burnett, as well as Stephen Bruton and John Goodwin, Greg Brown, and Bo Ramsey. Some of Bridges’ own tunes made the cut as well.

Bridges will play a series of shows when the record releases, perhaps the coolest and most Dude-like being a motorcycle rally in South Dakota. But he’ll also appear on Stephen Colbert‘s “The Colbert Report” on August 17th, continuing Colbert’s run of great musical guests of late.

Source: Death + Taxes Magazine.