I’ve never heard anyone say much of anything bad about the Foo Fighters. I’m not a huge fan, but I admire them for their obvious, genuine love of rock n roll. Fun band to watch. I get tired of hearing about Kurt Cobain, the legend, because to me the usual adulatory sentiments about KC are …
Tom Selleck was offered the Indiana Jones role in Raiders of the Lost Ark. He was unable to take it because of his contract to appear in Magnum P.I. Full story is here. In the same article, the Daily Mail asserts that a Magnum P.I. movie remake is currently in the works and that George …
Perhaps the most un-American thing about Vladimir Nabokov was his unwillingness to play at the jazz of talk show gab—even in this nearly prehistoric example. “Off the cuff” was simply not in his vast vocabulary. Whether the interview was to be published or broadcast, VN insisted on receiving the questions in advance and composing careful …
I don’t know why folk dancing should depress me so, but it does. Perhaps the lingering aftereffects of the emotional damage inflicted at a nyckelharpa festival in Dalarna one endless hot June afternoon in 1976. No 14 year old should be forced to suffer so—though I expect I’ll subject my son to some equivalent trauma. …
http://youtu.be/LZFoL4kLSQ0
Salon story is here. Thanks to Andrew Hamlin for the tip.
I’m trying like mad to work out why I am sooooo convinced by FOE. There is definitely both art and artifice in whatever she does – the first single wrapped in recycled wrapping, and the brilliant theatrics of the Tyrant Song video. But there’s hugely more quality than gimmick. It’s all a bit unsettling and …
First off, I think this issue of the debt ceiling has revealed again and maybe more starkly than others a severely bad habit of the press to need to understand their role as non-partisan as always necessitating their taking the view that both sides of the debate are equally valid or equally a cause of …
“Michael Todd, 30, whose band was the scheduled opening act for tonight’s headliner Soundgarden, is accused of being the robber who held up the Walgreen’s on Pleasant Street in Attleboro just before 1 p.m., according to authorities. Attleboro police say a man wearing black shorts and a blue T-shirt asked to speak to a pharmacist …
This means, “Do you want sausage?!”
http://youtu.be/ytB17mKgrww
http://youtu.be/7OeQdSJ6stY
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There is one place in the world where videos from reggae tunes have gone viral in 2011 and that country is in many ways a seeming polar (bipolar, really) opposite of reggae’s birthplace, Jamaica. The nation in question is Sweden. Several times this year already, non-ironic Swedish reggae tunes have made it to the list …
http://youtu.be/Tfz26abL54U With related vid http://youtu.be/YYoQul4jhYQ
http://youtu.be/r0VcDc-Wwxw
Here’s the article: 10 Years After the White Stripes ‘Saved’ It, Rock Is Again in Crisis
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Here’s a funny photo from Reddit, given the title, “Instant cat pants, step 1: open can of cat food…”