SOPA Blackout Day is in full swing, with Wikipedia, Reddit, BoingBoing, and other Internet giants blacking out entirely and thousands of other sites — including Flavorpill — creatively demonstrating their solidarity. (We hope you agree that censor bars aren’t a great look for us.) There’s also been something of a backlash against the online outpouring of opposition to SOPA and its Senate counterpart PIPA, from the usual suspects in Washington as well as groups like the MPAA, who sent this nasty note about the protests.

But not everyone in the entertainment industry supports SOPA. Stop the Wall, a site that you can also use to make a quick and easy phone call to your senator about the legislation, has posted an open letter to Washington from a group of artists that includes Aziz Ansari, Trent Reznor, The Lonely Island, MGMT, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Troma honcho Lloyd Kaufman, and many others. “As creative professionals, we experience copyright infringement on a very personal level,” they write, but they don’t support SOPA because they “have benefited immensely from a free and open Internet.” Read the full letter after the jump, and then, if you haven’t already, get on the phone with your representatives to add your voice to the anti-SOPA chorus.

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By now, you’ve probably heard the Karen O-fronted cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s soundtrack for David Fincher’s much-anticipated The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. If you haven’t, it’s worth a listen — the Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman, who claims total ignorance to the classic band, sings a dark, angsty version of the track that is, as far as we can tell, frankly perfect for the film. The digital soundtrack came out on Friday, and the physical version will ship on December 27th. In the meantime, however, we’ve just been treated to a strange, manic video for “Immigrant Song” created by Fincher for the title sequence of the film. Head over to Pitchfork to watch.

1. All of the details for Trent Reznor’s soundtrack for David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which he composed with Atticus Ross, have been released — including the fact that it’s over three hours long. You can also now hear the full version of Reznor and Karen O‘s cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” as well as a 35-minute sampler of the album, here.

2. Evidently, James Murphy is an actor now. He has a supporting role in The Comedy, a film that stars Tim Heidecker (of Tim and Eric Awesome Show fame) as a guy who “whiles away his days with a group of aging Brooklyn hipsters, engaging in acts of recreational cruelty and pacified boredom.” Okkervil River’s Will Sheff is in it, too. [via Pitchfork]

3. “I was just thinking about my funeral and stuff a couple days ago and thinking who would be at the funeral People who I want to be in the funeral? I wanna have world leaders that were, like, affected, that said, you know, ‘Kanye gave me my shot here.’ Or ‘he pushed me,’ or ‘he told me to believe in myself,’ or ‘when I saw this, it made me feel like that.’ I wanna affect people like that when I, like, pass away.” – Evidently, Kanye West is feeling a bit reflective these days.

4. Showrunner Steven Moffat claims that in spite of what David Yates recently said, there are no real plans for a Doctor Who movie at the moment, and if it does happen, the film will need to star whoever is playing the Doctor on the TV series at that time, and not some Hollywood actor. That’s good news for Matt Smith. [via The Sun]

5. According to Men’s Health magazine, these are the 10 happiest and saddest cities in America. Are you as surprised as we are by a few of the “happiest” cities?

Bonus Buzz: 15 Muppets Auditioning For Other Roles

Last weekend, a “secret screening” at Los Angeles’ AFI Fest marked the first public outing for Haywire, Steven Soderbergh’s new… mixed-martial-arts based action/spy thriller. Come again? Yes, according to Movieline’s report from the post-screening Q&A, Soderbergh cooked up the project while on the rebound after losing Moneyball, stumbling across one of MMA star Gina Carano’s fights and deciding to build a movie around her. While Soderbergh’s filmography has been fairly esoteric, genre-wise (he’s skipped from experimental dramas to big-budget heist movies to dark comedies to coming-of-age tales to sci-fi), we certainly didn’t expect him to get all hyped up about making a film that he would compare to the early pictures of Steven Seagal.

But maybe there’s a lesson to be learned here: too often, filmmakers become defined by a certain type of movie, locked into a specific genre or style. Some break out occasionally (see Scorsese’s upcoming Hugo), and a few have made a career of genre-jumping (think Danny Boyle). But back in the “studio era,” directors-for-hire like Howard Hawks and John Ford were given assignments, and had to adapt themselves into journeymen who could make any kind of film with style and skill. After the jump, we’ve compiled a short list of a few filmmakers who we’d like to see class up some B-movies.

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Today at Flavorpill, we wondered what Dorothy Parker would have had to say about the Algonquin Hotel’s annual cat fashion show. We were surprised by some of Janeane Garofalo’s “lost roles” — particularly Renée Zellweger’s part in Jerry Maguire. We decided that this has to be the most unlikely literary mashup of all time. We discovered that a trip to Walmart actually turns some people on. We were happy to hear that HBO has renewed True Blood for another season. We feared the impending whiskey crisis. We wished that we could travel back in time and bustle around 1960s New York City. We found the Facebook terms of service much easier to understand when translated into bro-speak. We listened to small sampling of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s presumably dark and moody Girl With The Dragon Tattoo score. And finally, we weren’t sure what to make of a sports car that runs on chocolate, cheese, and wine. Sure, it might be a more environmentally friendly answer to fossil fuels, but just reading about it makes us incredibly hungry.

We’re not prepared to say that this video is either “good” or “bad” — what’s important is that it actually exists. What you see below is pop-industrial god Trent Reznor singing Billy Idol’s “Eyes Without a Face” in his early-’80s cover band, The Urge. The video quality here is poor, but you’ll still be able to make out his nigh-on-Flock-of-Seagulls haircut. As funny as this (and the other ’80s Reznor clips Dangerous Minds digs up) may be, let’s remember that most of us have probably had some fairly humiliating early-career moments that we wouldn’t want to see surface on YouTube should we ever get famous.

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Among many other things, the ongoing stream of news about Björk’s new Biophilia project has got us thinking about the various ways in which music has been released over the years. Biophilia‘s idea of releasing song as interactive iPad applications seems to be all the rage at the moment — along with Björk, Belgian duo Soulwax have just released a series of mixes as iOS applications that are “like musical films based on the record sleeves,” which look way cool and are also free to download. It’s all a far cry from the days of going out and getting hold of your favorite artist’s new CD. But a brief look at the history of music shows, it’s often — although not always — innovators and creative trailblazers who’ve embraced new formats and the possibilities they hold. Over the next few pages, we survey these restless innovators, both musical and technological (along with those people who just happened to be in the right place at the right time).

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Despite composing an Academy Award-winning film score, Trent Reznor isn’t done with Hollywood yet — his long-dormant HBO project has finally found its screenwriter. As if the thought of a Reznor-helmed television project isn’t bizarre enough, the long-in-the-works series titled Year Zero will be based on the 2007 Nine Inch Nails album of the same name. Yes, the HBO-developed, Jim Uhls-penned show will take a dystopian concept record as its source material. Now, the news has us thinking about albums we would want to buy the TV rights to. Check out our suggestions after the jump, and leave yours in the comments.

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It’s been great fun exploring the world of film music over the course of our epic Greatest Soundtracks Ever series, but all good things have to end, and with this sixth and final part, we’re looking at recent history –- specifically, everything from 2000 until the present day. It’s gotten harder and harder to get these lists down to ten as the decades have passed, so as ever, let us know what we’ve missed in the comments section.

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1. In case you haven’t heard it yet, listen to “H.A.M.,” the first single off Watch the Throne, the highly-anticipated joint LP from Kanye West and Jay-Z, which is currently set for a March 1 release. [via The Daily What]

2. Tina Fey is in talks to star in a Paul Weitz-directed adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel Admission, a story about “an admissions officer at Princeton and her relationship with a prospective student who may not be Ivy League material.” [via The Wrap]

3. Last week the History Channel decided that they weren’t going to air The Kennedys, perhaps in part a result of pressure from the real Kennedys. Now it looks like Showtime is the only option if we’re ever going to see this miniseries on TV — and more importantly, Katie Holmes in all of her Jackie O. ensembles. [via Vulture]

4. You’ll never guess who is the first-ever guest editor of Vanity Fair’s Facebook page: Justin Bieber, who graces their February cover. Among his first posts in the week-long gig: “Gonna be a fun week — make sure you make some comments because I will send one random fan who writes in the comments section a signed copy of my book. LEGGOOOO!” [via MTV]

5. David Fincher and Trent Reznor are teaming up again; in what he calls a “natural step forward” for his career, the Nine Inch Nails frontman and his frequent writing partner Atticus Ross will be composing the score for Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. [via Rolling Stone]

Bonus link: Possibly The Greatest Volvo Photo Ever