Beck Gives Jack Black His Beats

Beck (he's a scientologist, and a genius, and what do you think about that) has composed the score to Nacho Libre. In case you honestly don't know, the film is the "Jack Black is a priest/Mexican Wrestler rom-com" from Jared Hess, director of Napoleon Dynamite, and Mike White, hack writer and pedlar of pseduo-indie movie cliches that also knocked out scripts for The Good Girl, Chuck and Buck, Orange County and School of Rock (the latter two of which proved, amongst other things, that Jack Black is a very talented improv comedian).

Beck and Jack Black's previous collaboration on the Sexx Laws video didn't get enough airplay. It got plenty, but it still wasn't enough. Will Beck withdraw it now he's returned to the mad bosom of scientology once more?

It's also reported that Beck's next album is due for a release as soon as this summer, when he will, apparently, be touring with Radiohead. They had their chance to score a movie recently - Richard Linklater's scribbled-over-Digital-Video attempt at filming A Scanner Darkly - but they turned it down. I hope it was down to them being oodbod eccentric Oxford School For Boys types, and not because the film is rubbish, though let's face facts, Waking Life was a complete and utter crock.