Month: June 2011
Lowell Fulson, singer, guitarist, and songwriter, was one of the giants of the West Coast Blues scene, a commercial and artistic success for over forty years. This brief clip from 1963 doesn’t just rock; it gives us an extremely rare glimpse of a major blues talent performing in a club setting before a black audience. …
http://youtu.be/6z_LZWk34xI
http://youtu.be/cLwPVjyMWwo
“FEELING the need for an example of government policy run amok? Look no further than the box of cornflakes on your kitchen shelf. In its myriad corn-related interventions, Washington has managed simultaneously to help drive up food prices and add tens of billions of dollars to the deficit, while arguably increasing energy use and harming …
This event took place in Rochester, New York. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has more on the story here. http://youtu.be/jXA-KA-pEKw
This is the most popular vid in South Africa today. It’s the promo for a reality show or “unscripted drama series” about four American girls who go to Capetown, South Africa to live “in a mansion on Clifton Beach, under the watchful eye of a demanding billionaire boss,” where “the girls have to prove their …
http://youtu.be/IGYA_P7ZHcw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5DOKOt7ZF4
8,000 lanterns floating over Poznan, Poland to celebrate the summer solstice or Midsummer Night.
http://youtu.be/ySztL6kBw-M
So over the top it deserves a second look: Also, Chi Chi’s Wikipedia page includes each band member’s blood type – TMI…
http://youtu.be/aIpYpRobez4 From Nerve: “This week, Eguchi Aimi, the newest member of the all-girl Japanese pop group AKB48, was revealed to be a fake human. She was perfectly cute, but Eguchi was nothing more than a computer composite of her six band mates; she existed only in a virtual world. The bizarre, and clever, publicity stunt …
Thanks to Steve Stav for the tip. This collaboration was recorded for True Blood. Here’s more on the story from the KCRW blog.
http://youtu.be/0TZ3OhOGTc4