I had never heard of the Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards before recently, but you put Stooge Iggy Pop on the bill and before you know it Queen’s Brian May, Slash, Ronnie Wood, Pete Townshend, and a host of other rock stars will show up. That’s what happened at the ‘09 Honour Awards, reports Music-News.

“It’s been a long dinner, so I’m not gonna whip out my dick,” Iggy Pop said while accepting his Living Legend award. “Alright, you know, thank you to everybody who has strong feelings about music so that when you hear something you don’t like you wanna fucking kill somebody and when you hear something you like you wanna fuck everybody.”

Any Iggy Pop interview is guaranteed to please, I say, but Detroit’s Metro Times posted an excellent Q&A recently with Pop and newly-reunited Stooge James Williamson that just blows your standard Fred Durst dis post out of the water. In the lengthy two part chat, Iggy discusses the reunion of the Raw Power lineup for the upcoming All Tomorrow’s Parties concert in London next spring, his hopes to get the band a slot at Coachella, the Iggy Pop biopic saga, and a lot more.

“Yeah, man, we should be playing Coachella,” Iggy said he told his bandmates. “That would be ideal. But they haven’t asked me yet. Go ask them. [laughs] But that would be good for our schedule and an all-around good thing to do. So I’m up for it.”

Despite Iggy’s previous claims that he wouldn’t permit a film to be made on his life (“They can wait for me to be dead”), he now says he’s “still open” to the idea. And as for the rumored star, Elijah Wood? “I saw him interviewed about it. And he’s not a bad person,” Pop said. “In fact, he is very intelligent. He’s just an actor. And he should take whatever job he wants to take. I have absolutely nothing against him. Maybe he could do it, you know. It’s none of my business.”

For a lot more from Iggy, including his thoughts on deceased former bandmate Ron Asheton, the Stooges’ annual Rock Hall of Fame snub, and James Williamson’s take on the reunion go here.

It’s funny that I mentioned a Mt. Rushmore of Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, and Tom Waits recently, as Pop himself has now brought up the subject of such a rock monument while elaborating on his reasons for authorizing his image and music to Lego Rock Band.

“Bo Diddley, because his music is already a virtual reality, and his name is very video game,” Pop told Classic Rock on the subject of other rockers he deems ready for the Lego treatment. “I would also say James Brown, but he’s not rock, more super-heavy funk. Both of these guys should be added to the Mount Rushmore monument, though.”

Pop signed over his shirtless image and music (“The Passenger”) to the upcoming game, but he’s never actually played with the toy and actually likens himself more to Donkey Kong. “Just look at him go!” he added.

As for those tough Lego Rock Band negotiations over artistic integrity, legacy-building, and cold, hard cash, Pop broke it down the way a true punk legend gentleman might: “They asked. There’s not much I won’t do, if you asked nicely.”

As you may recall from the pre-Swiftgate era, controversy erupted last week over Activision’s use of Kurt Cobain’s image in Guitar Hero 5. In that case, Cobain wasn’t here to chime in on the debate over whether forcing the Nirvana front man’s likeness to sing Bon Jovi songs Karaoke style was just or even legally sound. Now I’m not sure if they signed off on this, but more famed (though living) rockers are getting the music video game avatar treatment: Stooge Iggy Pop and the White Stripes’ Jack White.**

**A rep for LEGO Rock Band has informed us that, in fact, neither Jack or Meg White are represented in the game. The leaked image of White was apparently a fake. We regret the error and apologize.

As seen in the leaked image (via Jeuxvideo.fr) from upcoming game Lego Rock Band above, Iggy appears in his iconic shirtless, microphone stand-wielding state.

Lego Rock Band, featuring Pop and the White Stripes is due out in time for holiday season, while Twitter rants and public outrage should drop later this week. Meanwhile, watch Pop’s video game avatar sing “The Passenger” here or embedded below:

Before the summer began, we reported on the exciting news that Iggy Pop was in talks with original Stooges guitarist James Williamson for a possible reunion of the Raw Power lineup (the recently passed Ron Asheton played guitar on the first two Stooges records, but switched to bass for their 3rd album and Williamson took over the 6-string). Well, I’m happy to report that not only is the Raw Power reunion happening, but we’ve got dates: On May 2nd and 3rd of next year, at All Tomorrow’s Parties in London, the Stooges will play their classic album Raw Power in its entirety, Rolling Stone reports.

“[Iggy] asked me if I wanted to play guitar again,” Williamson said. “I was about to take an early retirement from my job in Silicon Valley, so I figured ‘What the hell, let’s do it.’”

Though, as Iggy said previously, “Raw Power would be the repertoire” for the reunion, Williamson has begun rehearsals with the band (minus Pop) and will be joined by his former frontman shortly to rehearse “songs from Raw Power, The Stooges, Fun House and Kill City.”

Between this story and that Jack White/Keith Richards collaboration, this week’s news is making me feel pretty good about the state of rock music.

Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs not only hung out with the cool kids in the 1960s, but he continued to collaborate and conspire with great musicians, artists, and directors up until his death in 1997 at the age of 83. Now an impressive group of said former friends and colleagues will appear in forthcoming documentary William S. Burroughs: A Man Within.

The film, which chronicles Burroughs’ life, including his childhood, death of his wife, the 1966 banning of his novel Naked Lunch by the U.S. government, and more, features exclusive interviews with past collaborators, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson, Throbbing Gristle’s Genesis P-Orridge, directors John Waters, Gus Van Sant, and David Cronenberg, Jello Biafra, and Stooge Iggy Pop. You seriously should check out the clip of Iggy’s insane commentary in the trailer below.

If that’s not enough to make you want to see this movie, what if I told you that Sonic Youth provide the soundtrack and it’s narrated by actor Peter Weller? That’s right, RoboCop himself.

Check out the trailer below or go here for the official site.

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon may be getting in on the Twilight/New Moon-inspired vampire flick craze, but they’re not the only pasty rock types associating with pasty immortal types of late. Moby, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, and Henry Rollins star in Suck, a new “vampire spoof about “rock ’n’ roll wannabes in search of immortality and a record deal,” which debuts at the Toronto Film Festival next month.

In the film, Malcolm McDowell (“Lost,” A Clockwork Orange, etc.) plays Eddie Van Helsing, a modern day version of Bram Stoker’s infamous Dracula hunter, who is trying to track down vampire rock band The Winners. Kinda reminds me of a certain Aaliyah-starring flick.

Iggy Pop plays Victor, a record producer who calls out The Winners for selling out with their vampire schtick, while Henry Rollins doesn’t go too far out of his comfort zone, starring as radio show host Rockin’ Roger. Based on the trailer (seen below), Moby really dug in deep as a kind of scrawny version of Rob Halford dubbed Beef Bellows, the lead singer of rival band The Secretaries of Steak.

Not sure what to make of the trailer below, but Iggy Pop’s questionable acting chops and Henry Rollins’ mullet wig do send a bit of a chill down my spine.