All-Time Funk Classic, sans doubt! – Tom Kipp
ALMOST as interesting as ’80s & ’90s Pink Floyd! – Tom Kipp http://youtu.be/0kRnA8BLrCg
Formed in Sydney in 2008, Tonight Alive is made up of ingénue-with-attitude Jenna McDougall (vocals), Jake Hardy (guitar), Whakaio Taahi (guitar/vocals), Cam Adler (bass) and Matt Best (drums). The quintet finished 2011 with a bang in the U.S. with the release of a new EP, Consider This and a viral cover of Mumford & Sons‘ …
The Staxx Brothers need your help. They are shooting another video and are on the verge of releasing, The Jelly Roll, a DVD collection of their music videos. Give ’til it hurts: The Jelly Roll is almost here!!!!! We set up this special order page for our friends to support us. You can see the …
CREEP are producers/DJs Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard. Lauren Flax is an internationally renowned house DJ and producer. The duo’s ghostly debut singles “Days” ft The xx’s Romy Madley-Croft and “You” ft Nina Sky came out earlier this year. Their newest single, “Animals,”is a blend of Holly Miranda’s ethereal vocals and CREEP’s signature beats & …
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour are a delicious pop combo from Denmark consisting of the fetching, statuesque singer Mette Lindberg and the generally out of the spotlight but no less beautiful, producer Lars Iversen. Adding touches of psychedelia, funk, soul, and jazz to contempo dance grooves, they found an audience across the world when a 2009 …
In 1944, six weeks before D-Day, Warner Brothers filmed this gem of a jazz session, boasting a stellar lineup led by Lester Young in his prime. But it’s Marie Bryant who steals the show, first with a fine rendition of The Sunny Side of the Street, and next with an astounding dance number with Archie …
This is one of the most famous jazz performances ever recorded for television. When it aired live on Dec. 8,1957, Billie Holiday and Lester Young were both in terrible health and far past their artistic best. Formerly close, they were now estranged, but the jazz critic Nat Hentoff had persuaded them to share the stage …
Vincent Price was an actor whose range exceeded the horror movie roles that made his name (and paid the bills). His performance as Oscar Wilde in the one-man play Diversions and Delights was especially memorable. Here, on BBC-TV in 1982, he reprises Wilde reciting “The Harlot’s House.” It’s a minor poem, but Price plays it …
I was at a hospital today visiting a woman that 30 days ago, I thought was dead. I saw her today, and she is recovering so remarkably, that I was brought to tears. This song came to mind. How great is our God???!!!!” – Anne Seymour Mette
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This is a charmer. It has that gentle briskness that seems from another time, say half a century ago. Come to think of it, so does the bookstore itself. – John Siscoe owns and operates The Globe Bookstore in Pioneer Square, Seattle. They don’t know the half of it. This morning when I came in …
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In the Atlantic: “Americans are entranced by a video of South Korean troops reacting emotionally to a surprise concert by an all-girl pop group, but there’s more than just cultural differences at play.” http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/whats-behind-the-video-of-korean-soldiers-freak-out-over-girl-group/251212/
NBC sitcom Community has not been cancelled, at least not yet, NBC president Robert Greenblatt, but it’s off the air for a while. I’ve just been watching last year’s episodes and they’re marvelous. The four episodes mentioned below are not even my faves, as there are four better episodes, but the dungeons and dragons and …
I have started to rethink how I talk to others about following Christ. Why do we believers always seem to want to present living for Christ in such a pleasant way? Yes, surrendering to Christ yields the promise of eternal life and God’s companionship throughout our lives, but we are a “here and now” society, …
Does America have Alzheimer’s?! How is it possible that we take in the regurgitated drivel of elections past with the appetite we demonstrate?! I swear I heard a republican say it was time for “change.” We need new ideas and the Republican Party has them. What in the hell is going on?! What we need …
Thanks to Mitch Hurst for this link: New Dominionists: Meet the Christian Couple Behind the Right’s Most Viral Videos – News – GOOD
Miracles follow wherever he goes… http://www.11alive.com/rss/article/221270/5/Tim-Tebow-racks-up-some-miraculous-316-stats
This is a bit much, but it might be a good conversation starter: Daily Kos: An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America Here’s the author’s website: www.jesselagreca.org
Twenty years ago, the Seinfeld Soup Nazi was an iconic TV moment. The recent Gravy Boat episode of The Simpsons may just be a similarly iconic incident: The Simpsons “Politically Inept, With Homer Simpson” (Season 23 | Episode 10) 22:0 Homer goes off on airport security this week. He lands a radio talk show as …