Glen Phillips plays CAFWA benefit in Santa Barbara!

If you live in Santa Barbara (or can easily travel there), there’s going to be an awesome benefit concert tonight for the Community Action Fund for Women in Africa featuring Glen Phillips, also known to your radio as the voice of Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Details for the show are as follows:

• Tickets are $50 for adults

• Tickets will be held at the door

• Concert is 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• Purchase tickets here

• Bring a picnic dinner and a blanket

• Drinks and treats available for purchase

It’ll just be Glen, his guitar and the warm, soaring clarity of his amazing voice. Check out his website, buy his albums — especially Winter Pays for Summer — and head out there tonight if you can to see his show and support a good cause.

Carla Gugino is Sally Jupiter in Watchmen!

Whew. :)

First, some homework:

Who’ll get watched in Watchmen?

WB confirms Watchmen, adds Denny from Grey’s Anatomy

Carla Gugino has now been confirmed in the role of Sally Jupiter, the original Silk Spectre who’s also the mother of Malin Akerman’s character, Laurie Juspeczyk/Silk Spectre II.

Sally was one of the Minutemen, which is the superhero team that preceded and inspired the Watchmen.

I don’t remember a time in my life that I wasn’t madly in love with Carla Gugino. Today is no exception, nor will tomorrow be. I’ve loved her in everything I’ve seen her in (and would love to cast her as Lois Lane opposite Jim Caviezel’s Clark Kent if they ever let me make a Superman movie). The lady is sex on legs, with guts and spirit to match her beauty.

If you’ve read Watchmen, you know that Sally Jupiter is a really tough role involving lots of physical and emotional hardships. Carla’s going to amazing.

If you haven’t read it, call up your local comic shop and find out what you’ve been missing. It’s a tough but rewarding read.

Watchmen will get watched in the theater near you on March 6, 2009!

Bale survives another kind of Joker

He battled the mob and The Scarecrow and Ra’s Al Ghul as Batman in Batman Begins. He’s currently in Chicago playing Batman again in The Dark Knight, where he’ll tangle with Heath Ledger’s Joker for the fate of Gotham City.

But on Monday, Christian Bale fought his most desperate battle yet and walked away mostly unscathed.

Click right here to watch the video.

It’s a live, on-camera (via satellite) interview with a crazy lady from South Florida’s NBC 6. Her questions are oddly structured and her delivery is totally insane, but Bale handles it all like a pro.

If you can’t bear to watch the whole thing, use your mouse pointer to pull the time ticker down to the last 22 seconds, where she asks, “Are you READY TO BATTLE THE JOKER?!”

Without missing a beat, he says, “I’m doing so … almost as we speak.”

HA!

And then she squeals, “WELL MAY JUSTICE PREVAIL and may BATMAN be the BEST SUPERHERO again, Señor CHRISTIAN!”

Watch it twice. Once to watch her expressions and gestures and again to watch Bale’s reactions. It’s sweet, magic music.

The Dark Knight prevails on July 18, 2008!

[Christian Bale photo courtesy www.christian-bale.org — used with permission]