This very cool vid is trending in the UK today:
Excellent ca. 1985 interview wit’ The Great Gore, somehow unpublished ’til now! Enjoy, Tom http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/09/express/a-life-of-reflection-invention-gore-vidal-1925-2012 P.S. Manifest Destiny, referred to several times in the text, was eventually published as Empire, in 1987! In the end it was not the concluding book in Gore’s American History series (aka “Narratives of Empire”), that honor …
It’s fun to learn new and exciting ways to do the everyday chores in our lives, it simply makes things more interesting. With home cleaning, many people have no idea that there are a variety of inexpensive, wacky alternatives to house cleaning, whether it’s cleaning the dishwasher, keeping your jeans healthy, or removing a horrible …
Businesses thrive on productivity. And the process from start to finish is critical for their overall survival, especially in the age of internet business competition and technology. TRANSPORTATION Transportation could mean the gain or loss of customer sales. So a business needs to move their products as efficiently as possible. Whether it’s shipping raw goods, …
Heartburn, or acid reflux, is a common ailment that results in pain or a burning sensation in the chest. Although heartburn may not be chronic for everyone, it is estimated than an average of 20 percent of Americans experience heartburn at least once each week, and 40 percent suffer at least once each month. If …
Keystone Revisited will perform at the Alberta Rose Theater in Portland Oregon, Fri. Sept. 14th. Keystone Revisited features the music of Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia. The band features drummer Bill Vitt, Merl Saunder’s son Tony Saunders on bass, Michael Hinton on guitar, and Steven Abramson on keyboards/vocals. (See graphic below for dates, times and …
No artist ever did a better job of turning an innocent lip-synch into a monumental fuck-you. – Scott Schinder http://youtu.be/GiaYVr7Vg9M
Meet Tracy Irve, a brother-sister pop duo from Sweden whose video for “I Can’t” is trending in the US today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVenuEKqEsE
The decline of the labor movement in America is often traced to the Reagan ’80s, which is also when this corporate homage to “work” was released… coincidence? – John Petkovic and his band, Cobra Verde, enjoy life to the fullest in Cleveland, Ohio.
Just goes t’show that ANY schlub can like and/or try to replicate a great song! Alas. I’ve been very dubious of Warren Haynes and his Nth-generation Allmans cult, so this wasn’t quite as bad as I’d feared. Though the vocal remains an uptight disaster! – Tom Kipp
This is a stone classic of journalistic ineptitude, with Lou Reed actually doing his best to be somewhat cordial & kind to the clueless dolt from Sweden who’s been sent to "interview" him, ca. mid-’90s! – Tom Kipp
A conversation between East Portland Blog and Lawrence Spaulding: EPB: Are you still running? LS: Yeah, I have a hamstring strain and I am not training for anything, but I still run ten miles or less. EPB: But you did run marathons at some point? LS: Yeah, but like I said I am not training …
When Pearl Jam’s cover of “Last Kiss” came out around the turn of the century, I wrote a review panning the effort, which I will post below. Twelve years on I must admit that I overreacted. Like the earlier version by J. Frank Wilson, it’s a fun tune. Let’s just leave it at that. Pearl …
Released in 1973, this album was a commercial failure, but some of the songs made it into later Fleetwood Mac live shows. Buckingham Nicks has yet to be re-released on CD and has attained stratospheric cult status. But it’s all here on Youtube, enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFDxIX_T8jU
….Yes some of us still like classic U2, and they do this great song as well as anybody…. – Marc Marshall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6naVGwgHDtQ From the tune’s Wikipedia entry: “In 1955, Alex North and lyricist Hy Zaret were contracted to write a song as a theme for the obscure prison film Unchained, and their song eventually became …
The Sweet Inspirations were founded by Emily “Cissy” Houston, mother of Whitney Houston, and sister of Lee Warrick (herself the mother of sisters Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick). on March 28, 1967, The Sweet Inspirations sang the backing vocals for Van Morrison on “Brown Eyed Girl”. In 1968, the group recorded with Hendrix on his …
Right about now, I could use a “cold wind in August” – it’s fairly warm in LA. August 31 is Van the Man’s birthday, I thought I’d celebrate with Van, joined by Dr. John on keys, and Mick Ronson on guitar, (one of my favorite power trios ever) filmed on Dutch TV in ’77. – …
Koala bear swims over to canoe:
Paul Simon seems to enjoy this version of his song. I don’t love it, but the Swedish kids make a game of it, and manage to infuse the song with some polar touches:
“Michigan seems like a dream to me now…” Are there any Swedes in the US who would like to write something about searching for America in East Portland Blog? Certainly there’s much to be said. Here’s one of the early Youtube descriptions for this video, “First Aid Kit perform for Paul Simon at the Polar …
This is a hit vid in the UK at the moment. It looks nothing like Benny Hill, but something about the speed, costumes and humor reminds this American of Benny Hill and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang:
Here, a smart bird uses bread to lure in a fish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBuPiC3ArL8
First of all, I’d like to know what constitutes a “good” teacher. Do you think it’s test scores? Do you realize that Sweden is purported to have the best performing schools in the world. They do not use standardized tests,, they pay their teachers a livable wage, they have socialized health care, they put their …
When it comes to short term credit solutions there is hardly anything as useful as the logbook loan. There are a plethora of benefits that you can avail with the help of logbook loans. In today’s world availing a loan is not at all an easy task because loan providers now days adhere to stricter …
Here’s a sexy, over-the-top video from Russia. The artist is Алина Артц or Alina Ascent. The song title is “Со мной по-другому нельзя! (ПРЕМЬЕРА!)” which means, “To Me in No Other Way! (PREMERA!).”
August 27, 2012 – Seattle, WA – On Monday, there was only one library open in all of Seattle: the People’s Library. Located on the plaza outside of the Douglass-Truth Library in the Central District, the open air library has everything a library should have: books, computers, and even arts and crafts activities for the …