[Do English people write and express themselves better than Americans, Australians, Canadians or anyone, really, because they invented the language, forcing us to continue playing “catch up” after all the centuries? Below is Englander Mike Hughes on PJ Harvey. – EPB] “God damn Europeans, take me back to beautiful England” – LOL at PJ being …
Ambro’s cartoon of the day is a complex animated gif which could pass for a short film and is very funny: Go here – AMBROTOONS: Lucidity, the cartoon-defined word for 2/1/2011.
This brief vid is very helpful in filling the gaps of American geographical knowledge of the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England:
Here’s Brazilian taxi driver Jean Walker with his stunning version of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” delivered from behind the wheel of his cab: . Also in the Michael Jackson Suite at EastPortlandBlog.com: Tribute to Michael Jackson From Patrick Stump of Fallout Boy Brazilian Cab Driver Impersonates Michael Jackson Spectacularly On the Occasion of Michael Jackson’s Death, …
This time Improv Everywhere switches things up by having only one improvisor who performs a skating routine with a twist:
Via BoingBoing.
There has been a lot of misinformation and disinformation coming from people who want to privatize or weaken Social Security. This is not a debate. This is a fact. People suggest that Social Security is in crisis when in reality it can pay out full benefits for more than the next 20 years. Remember that …
OK, here’s another Kate Bush tune for my friends who are fans (her outfit is right up there with some of Barbarella‘s best…Halloween costume idea anyone?) On an aside, do you notice a thematic, though not stylistic, similarity to “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” by Rupert Holmes? A woman looking for additional racy costume ideas …
It’s a gig Jim, but not as we know it…. Visiting Brits, more used to gigs in student halls or the back rooms of London pubs, we happened to pitch up in Salt Lake City at the same time as the opening night of new music venue The House (http://thehouse.org). It’s situated discreetly in what …
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: