Dallas’ Time Machine Band is performing their cover of I Wanna Dance With Somebody, and the singer is modestly hot and seriously mellifluous, but that’s not where the fun is…
East Portland Blog’s favorite song by The Band. Keyboardist Richard Manuel is on vocals:
Joan Moran, an old friend of EastPortlandBlog.com, has been working on this promising, soon to be released, cookbook iPad application: New cooking app for the iPad™ raises the standard for all recipe apps and delivers thousands of tested and tasty recipes from America’s largest and most-trusted consumer brands. The home cook’s solution for searching and …
Video: Surfer rides at night
East Portland Blog readers may have already been exposed to Complete, but if not, watch this 2008 video of the band playing their own composition “Hoogie Boogie Land”: This seems pretty shitty at first, right? Guy can’t sing, death metal “no established beat” drumming but in a wimpy hard rock format. Maybe these guys don’t …
Richie’s Reprisal: Thoughts from the Pallid Pilgrim OUT-SPECTORING SPECTOR by Rich Horton In the days before multi-tracking, producers of rock-influenced pop records were stuck with the thorny problem of how to translate rock’s bombast over the tinny car radio speakers by which most American teenagers heard the music. Phil Spector’s solution to the problem was …
It’s been a while since I first posted in EPB about this website, Project Space Planes, and their delightfully Anglocomic Youtube video which shows a group of British engineers launching paper airplanes into space on behalf of the Samsung Corp. to see where the planes, and their microchip cargo, would land. Most of the planes …
Kevjumba, the Youtube phenomena who sucessfully challenged Jessica Alba and Baron Davis to internet staring contests, and performed in a dance off on Happy Slip’s Youtube channel, is here challenged to go to Kenya and teach a class full of some excellent dancers:
When you get there, check out of the “Kramerica” recut trailer also:
This patriotic vid is currently trending in the world’s largest democracy:
Top 5 things we hate about guysKatyAnn | Myspace Video I spend a lot of time online these days, between reading email and cruising the Internet in search of gainful employment. And I’ve arrived at one immutable and irrefutable conclusion… lists suck. Feel free to disagree. Feel free to argue. Feel free to accuse me …
As I wrote to a friend after finishing my first spin on this: “What the world needs now is more warped master statements!” And to think I almost didn’t spin it once after reading the lyrics in the booklet. Never read before spinning. Even I forget that rule sometimes. Simply reading, you see, you might …
His name is Boo Boo Davis. He’s got the Boo Boo Blues. Damn lucky for him! He coulda been stuck with the furshlugginer Ethel Lipschitz Blues! Man, what a damnation. But he’s got the Boo Boo Blues. We call that order in the universe. And we’re furshlugginer thankful for it into the bargain. Not that …
I’m being social, by ignoring the people (and fountains) around me… so out of my way! Walking consists of two major components: moving your feet and looking ahead. If you don’t move your feet, you stay in one place. This is called standing, or, in New York, tourism. If you don’t look ahead, you run …
“All Vocals: Russell Mael” reads a credit on the booklet back of the twenty-first album by Sparks; and I don’t think anybody, not even the folks applauding this record, appreciates what a breathtaking accomplishment that is. Russell (the cute one) used this one-man choir approach on the last two albums and 2006’s “Hello Young Lovers” …
My employer and I parted ways last October. I wasn’t blind-sided or steamrolled by the layoff, but the hit really cleaned my clock and rung my bell. The incident was unfortunate, though inevitable. With the failing economy, the company wasn’t getting the job done on either side of the ball. They were in search of …
On the Thursday evening after it happened I sat at Charlie’s on Broadway meeting some new people. I said I couldn’t remember the last time four famous people died in one day. Which where the other two, everyone asked. Why, Sky Saxon and Johnny Hart, I said. I found only one man who knew of …
Just in case you didn’t see this today: JOHN LYDON’S TOP OF THE POPS ROOTS REGGAE PICKS: http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/john_lydons_top_of_the_pops_roots_reggae_picks/ It’s been interesting to read in the Keith Richards book how very deep into reggae he was/is too. Of course, I knew about Peter Tosh opening for The Stones, living in Keith’s house, and Keith’s pad in …
My world was shattered today regarding one of those small little truths we just wanted to believe so much. But, upon learning the truth, we must face the harsh realities of life with courage: Apparently Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie were not named after the cop and taxi driver characters with the same names …
Fish (no relation to Phish), late of Marillion (though he wishes everyone would quit talking about that), always held his various broken hearts so close that they burned from body heat. So when life threw him a genuine own goal—he courts the female singer of a female progressive band, they engage, they set the date, …