http://youtu.be/FPYQcvn7ctw
This fantastic retro vid is best enjoyed by those who remember the 1970s game, Crossfire. There’s a photo of the box here.
In my estimation, Garland Jeffreys is an utterly unique, seriously underappreciated, figure in American Rock, and has been for more than 40 years now! He can sing like Mick Jagger, Arthur Lee and Bob Marley, not to forget Fifties/Sixties/Seventies Soul singers of every stripe, a combo no one else has ever quite managed to pull …
The Swedish fire academy vid (above) shows something that, although impressive, is really just a gimmicky stunt. The possibility of implementing such a technique at an active fire is very small. Cool to watch, but not all that practical. It’s the type of thing that’s thought up by people with an excess of both time …
It still seems slightly preposterous that they will rent you a kayak and camping equipment, sight unseen, and set you off on your own into the North Sea with a vague arrangement to meet you somewhere down the coast in 6 days time. The arrangements en route were also, at first sight, a little ‘loose’ …
http://youtu.be/4zJWA3Vo6TU
“Last September, Carrie Brownstein wrote, “I have no desire to play music unless I need music.” During her post-Sleater-Kinney forays into music blogging and sketch comedy, she explained, “I started to need music again, and so I called on my friends and we joined as a band.” Hence: Wild Flag, a new group she’d formed …
Full recipe is here.
Yes, this is a great country for the downwardly mobile! – John Ambrosavage “September 7, 2010 my house burned down. From late September until April 30 I lived in a lovely house that the insurance company rented. Now I am a motivational speaker who lives in a van down by the river. If that sentence …
Poor parrot can’t catch the laser pointer:
Chapter Thirteen Keith had some nerve asking that. I threw my brush down, faced him and began to rant. “Oh, where do I start? Do I start with Ryan dumping me in a corner where I couldn’t see the band. After the show no one came so I had to lug two heavy boxes across …
“Die ladies sagen, WOW.” Gucci Und Prada by Moneyboy is the hot German hip hop video of the day. Shot in Monaco and set to the tune of Rupert Holmes “Escape (The Pina Colada Song),” it’s hard to tell if it’s an intentional parody or not. It’s much funnier if the tacky, unsmooth, Hasselhoffian humor …
What follows are image scans of a pamphlet printed by the North Park College News in 1926. I found it this week among my stuff in Portland. I don’t know why I have it, or why this document, amongst all the David Nyvall/North Park/Mission Friend/Covenant materials in my parents’ home which could have survived, this …
http://youtu.be/bGVZEyf92qA
Starting to LOVE the new Swedish hip hop. It’s not your Grandfather’s Swedish hip hop: http://youtu.be/5_0nn0lDvOM
Retro and excellent in a thousand ways: http://youtu.be/kGXKvPZqGog
http://youtu.be/tLu8iPXzlJM
“From a Norwegian to a Black– I’ll tell you– we’re both about as ostracized as two groups could be…” – Aspen woman. (I went back and listened again to make sure this is what she actually said, at :54.)
A 2006 tune rediscovered for the “Crazy Stupid Love” soundtrack: http://youtu.be/4P3SHXQEpRU An interesting cover of the ’60s chestnut: Here’s Time is Running Out. Released in 2003, this is the last tune I remember enjoying on alt rock radio. Sadly it was burdened with one of the most tedious videos since the 80s: