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"This week, revisit the Hollywood sex-fight genre with 300: Rise of an Empire, have a cookie with Stevie Ann, check in to The Grand Budapest Hotel, add new Real Estate tracks to your playlist, find out what&amp;amp;#x2019;s going down on the SS Kid Rock, and meet some kid-friendly rock stars in Wonderkid.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n1. Take a stroll through Hollywood&amp;amp;#x2019;s Sex-Fight Hall of Fame. What do men like? Sex! What else do men like? Guns! And? Punching! What if we COMBINE THEM INTO ONE? That is the ingenious logic behind the Hollywood concept of sex fights, on display this month in 300: Rise of an Empire, when Eva Green starts swinging elbows at her enemy, Sullivan Stapleton, after she&amp;amp;#x2019;s, uh, welcomed him inside her. Behold the hall of fame.\u2014Lauren Bans\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterestThumbnail image for pressshotStevieAnn2-1024x682.jpg\n\n2. Discover your new favorite Dutch artist. Stevie Ann, the singer-songwriter who's been topping Dutch charts since 2005, is finally releasing a stateside album, aptly titled California Sounds and performing at SXSW later this month. Lauren Bans caught up with her to talk about her music history and learn the real difference between Los Angeles and Amsterdam.\n\n\n\n3. Visit Wes Anderson&amp;amp;#x2019;s universe. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s where the color palette is as lush and bold as it is muted and saturated. The stories are charmingly quirky, like, say, the one about the legendary concierge of a famous European hotel, Gustave H. and his lobby boy, who meet misadventures after being bequeathed a pricey painting from a former elderly hotel guest whom Gustave is accused of killing and/or sleeping with. And the inhabitants, awesome: Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Jude Law, Harvey Keitel, Saoirse Ronan, and Jeff Goldbum. Enter via The Grand Budapest Hotel in theaters Friday.\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Listen to &amp;amp;#x201C;Talking Backwards&amp;amp;#x201D; by Real Estate all day long. Real Estate drops their third album, Atlas, tomorrow\u2014the same one that landed on a bunch of Most Anticipated Albums of 2014 lists\u2014marking the first time new members drummer Jackson Pollis and keyboardist Matt Kallman have joined the band on an album. The sound is exactly what you need on your daytime playlist: chill, pleasant, and effortless, even if it&amp;amp;#x2019;s not. Like spending the day at the beach, even if you&amp;amp;#x2019;re not.\n\n\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n5. Chill the most with Kid Rock. (Again.) It&amp;amp;#x2019;s happening: the SS Kid Rock sets sail today from Miami to Key West to the happiest place on Earth &amp;amp;#x201C;Redneck Paradise,&amp;amp;#x201D; aka Great Stirrup Cay with Kid Rock, Sugar Ray, and Doug E. Fresh. The activities: flip cup tournament, metal karaoke, and, uh, a burlesque dance class. The beer: flowing. You: stuck at work, probably. Chill the most vicariously through GQ correspondent Drew Magary&amp;amp;#x2019;s ride aboard Kid Rock&amp;amp;#x2019;s Chillin&amp;amp;#x2019; the Most cruise last year\u2014don&amp;amp;#x2019;t forget the photos (NSFW-ish)\u2014and check out what he found to be a typical day aboard the SS Kid Rock below.\n\n A TYPICAL DAY OF \"CHILLIN' THE MOST\"\n\n &amp;amp;#x2022; 10 a.m. Wake up. Throw up. Pass out.\n\n &amp;amp;#x2022; 10:30 a.m. Rewake up.\n\n &amp;amp;#x2022; 11 a.m. Gorge on bacon at the buffet.\n\n &amp;amp;#x2022; 12 p.m. Beer, light tit-seeing.\n\n &amp;amp;#x2022; 4 p.m. Lunch.\n\n &amp;amp;#x2022; 4:30 p.m. Get dressed in proper pimp/ho/redneck-themed evening attire.\n\n &amp;amp;#x2022; 6 p.m. Switch from beer to whiskey.\n\n &amp;amp;#x2022; 7:30 p.m. Dinner. Purell. WASHY WASHY, MOTHERFUCKER.\n\n &amp;amp;#x2022; 8 p.m. to midnight Weed, whiskey, music, public nudity, gambling.\n\n &amp;amp;#xE2;&amp;amp;#x80;&amp;amp;#x8B;&amp;amp;#x2022; 2 a.m. Vomiting and/or fucking.\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterestWonderkidFinal.jpeg\n\n6. Check out a song by some unlikely rock stars. Wesley Stace&amp;amp;#x2019;s just-released novel, Wonderkid, follows a rock band that makes a sugarcoated deal with the devil: enjoy the rock star life\u2014complete with the sold-out gigs and backstage mayhem\u2014by playing to kids. Think the Wiggles with more sex, drugs and rock and roll. Stace teamed up with indie rock siblings Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger of The Fiery Furnaces to pen the songs for Stace&amp;amp;#x2019;s fictitious band like, say, &amp;amp;#x201C;Lucky Duck&amp;amp;#x201D; below.\n\n Lucky Duck\n\n Kiss a duck to change your luck\n\n Lucky duck\n\n Place a penny on a dump truck\n\n Lucky duck\n\n In your garden, plant a ball\n\n If it ever grows at all\n\n One day, you will find a buck\n\n Lucky Duck\n\n Lucky Duck\n\n Kiss a duck to change your luck\n\n Lucky Duck\n\n See a flower grow from muck\n\n Lucky Duck\n\n Close your eyes and count to ten\n\n Do not open them again\n\n Until the midnight clock has struck\n\n Lucky Duck\n\n Lucky Duck\n\n Kiss a duck to change your luck\n\n Lucky Duck\n\n Throw an oyster you have shucked\n\n Lucky Duck\n\n If you see a dragonfly\n\n Whirring in the evening sky\n\n One day you will run amuck\n\n Lucky Duck\n\n Kiss a duck to change your luck\n\n Lucky Duck\n\n Kiss a girl and be heart-struck\n\n Lucky Duck\n\n Kiss her ankles, kiss her eyes\n\n Kiss hello and kiss goodbye\n\n Kiss a duck to change your luck\n\n &amp;amp;#xE2;&amp;amp;#x80;&amp;amp;#x8B;Lucky Duck"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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