Thursday 7 August 2008

Jay-Z meets Nardwuar, Scarjo�s fianc� in town






Pharrell Williams of N.E.R.D. was so impressed by the research and interview skills of Nardwuar the Human Serviette of late that he went tabu of his way to arrange a Jay-Z interview for him at the Pemberton Music Festival. During Nardwuar�s beginning meeting with Pharrell here in Vancouver a few weeks back, the eccentric local interviewer brought rare vinyl records of Carl Sagan�s Music of the Cosmos (which Pharrell is hugely influenced by), Wreckx-N-Effect�s 1992 single Rump Shaker (which Pharrell produced at 17 and ended up ghostwriting a verse on) and made countless unknown references to Virginia, Pharrell�s home land. �P made at least four calls to help make it happen,� said a source.

A new TV series called Harper�s Island begins motion-picture photography in Vancouver Friday. The hour-long horror-inspired drama is set on an island with a shady