For some reason I’ve been getting the FBI’s email newsletter for about a year now. It is mostly bureaucratic drivel, but this week’s newsletter features some pretty interesting photographs of the Bureau’s inauguration security gadgets. Look for the Food Network and the Care Bears on the screen in the “Mobile Command Center.”

Also on the Inauguration front, check out artist Michael Waugh’s “The Inaugurals.” Waugh intersplices text from 54 inaugural addresses and uses this writing as the lines to make his quietly subversive drawings. His new show The More I see of Men, based on text from presidential commissions and images of the Westminster Dog Show, recently opened in New York.

The guys over at Chicago Public Radio’s Sound Opinions just posted their new Podcast on “Presidential Rock.” Always insightful and freakishly knowledgeable, hosts Jim DeRogotis and Greg Kot discuss songs by artists ranging from Lou Reed to George Clinton.

Pitchfork.tv is screening English filmmaker Grant Gee’s documentary on Joy Division for one week only. The film features the standard interviews with former band members and some haunting archival footage of Ian Curtis and Co. that makes the performances in Anton Corbin’s Control even more uncanny.

Another music movie, Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues, a glimpse of the Rolling Stones 1972 tour, was pulled from its safe last month for it’s annual screening. The band obtained a court order limiting the film’s release to one screening a year, so most of us will never get to see this masterpiece. Fortunately, Mary Hanlon attended this year’s screening and writes about her experience for the Brooklyn Rail. Note to torrent savvy readers: Various bootleg incarnations of the film are available for download, much to the outrage of Mick Jagger’s lawyers.

- Thomas Seely

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