Summer is just around the corner and it is time to start making vacation plans. Will you be traveling to Portland? If not, why not? Portland has many things to entice tourists including proximity to Oregon scenery such as Crater Lake. Robert has compiled for you below some excellent photos of one of his trips …
Month: January 2012
This video was directed by Katherine Heigl as it was written and sung by her husband Josh Parker about their daughter Naleigh.
Meter Television is searching for Americans with Swedish ancestry for a reality TV-show. After the major success of Great Swedish Adventure-Allt för Sverige (the Swedish title of the show) season 1, we are now casting for season 2. The producers of the Swedish version of American Idol and Minute To Win It are coming to …
I think “Video Games” works quite well as a multimedia experience when you hear the recording with the video. But on SNL, many of its limitations were foregrounded. The song has its virtues, but I don’t think it’s as a good as you might conclude from hearing the recording. If you listen to Lana Del …
The “aha” moment has received a lot of attention in the media and press for quite some time now. It seems that we as humans can experience breakthrough moments of mental clarity and in an instant discover a new consciousness level which empowers us to move toward our dreams and visions of how our, and …
The great Al Milman pointed out that this tune is loaded with fuzz guitar four years before The Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction. Produced by Chet Atkins, this has more bluesy heft than you might expect from an Ann Margret single:
All-Time Funk Classic, sans doubt! – Tom Kipp
ALMOST as interesting as ’80s & ’90s Pink Floyd! – Tom Kipp http://youtu.be/0kRnA8BLrCg
Formed in Sydney in 2008, Tonight Alive is made up of ingénue-with-attitude Jenna McDougall (vocals), Jake Hardy (guitar), Whakaio Taahi (guitar/vocals), Cam Adler (bass) and Matt Best (drums). The quintet finished 2011 with a bang in the U.S. with the release of a new EP, Consider This and a viral cover of Mumford & Sons‘ …
The Staxx Brothers need your help. They are shooting another video and are on the verge of releasing, The Jelly Roll, a DVD collection of their music videos. Give ’til it hurts: The Jelly Roll is almost here!!!!! We set up this special order page for our friends to support us. You can see the …
CREEP are producers/DJs Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard. Lauren Flax is an internationally renowned house DJ and producer. The duo’s ghostly debut singles “Days” ft The xx’s Romy Madley-Croft and “You” ft Nina Sky came out earlier this year. Their newest single, “Animals,”is a blend of Holly Miranda’s ethereal vocals and CREEP’s signature beats & …
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour are a delicious pop combo from Denmark consisting of the fetching, statuesque singer Mette Lindberg and the generally out of the spotlight but no less beautiful, producer Lars Iversen. Adding touches of psychedelia, funk, soul, and jazz to contempo dance grooves, they found an audience across the world when a 2009 …
In 1944, six weeks before D-Day, Warner Brothers filmed this gem of a jazz session, boasting a stellar lineup led by Lester Young in his prime. But it’s Marie Bryant who steals the show, first with a fine rendition of The Sunny Side of the Street, and next with an astounding dance number with Archie …
This is one of the most famous jazz performances ever recorded for television. When it aired live on Dec. 8,1957, Billie Holiday and Lester Young were both in terrible health and far past their artistic best. Formerly close, they were now estranged, but the jazz critic Nat Hentoff had persuaded them to share the stage …
Vincent Price was an actor whose range exceeded the horror movie roles that made his name (and paid the bills). His performance as Oscar Wilde in the one-man play Diversions and Delights was especially memorable. Here, on BBC-TV in 1982, he reprises Wilde reciting “The Harlot’s House.” It’s a minor poem, but Price plays it …
I was at a hospital today visiting a woman that 30 days ago, I thought was dead. I saw her today, and she is recovering so remarkably, that I was brought to tears. This song came to mind. How great is our God???!!!!” – Anne Seymour Mette
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This is a charmer. It has that gentle briskness that seems from another time, say half a century ago. Come to think of it, so does the bookstore itself. – John Siscoe owns and operates The Globe Bookstore in Pioneer Square, Seattle. They don’t know the half of it. This morning when I came in …
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In the Atlantic: “Americans are entranced by a video of South Korean troops reacting emotionally to a surprise concert by an all-girl pop group, but there’s more than just cultural differences at play.” http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/whats-behind-the-video-of-korean-soldiers-freak-out-over-girl-group/251212/
NBC sitcom Community has not been cancelled, at least not yet, NBC president Robert Greenblatt, but it’s off the air for a while. I’ve just been watching last year’s episodes and they’re marvelous. The four episodes mentioned below are not even my faves, as there are four better episodes, but the dungeons and dragons and …