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I had a fine time watching last weekend’s Montana-related playoff games, though the Sam Houston State/MSU blowout was rather painful at times, due to the Bobcats tossing away several good opportunities to at least keep the game close. Perhaps the Griz will fare quite a bit better tonight…. And re: a Division I football …
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Wednesday December 14th, 2011 was a day I looked forward to for at least two months. For on that day two of my favorite bands, Streetlight Manifesto and Reel Big Fish were playing a double bill at Seattle’s King Cat Theater. I arrived just before Lionize came on stage. Lionize is a four-piece composed of …
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Here’s a highly sexualized clothing advertisement from the Philippines, where it is the most popular video of the day:
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All photos by Kris Chall Bingham. Here’s “Hej Tomtegubbar” from the Lucia pageant that was presented by the Scandinavian Department of the University of Washington at the Swedish Cultural Center in Seattle, Washington on December 12, 2010.
Maybe the song is a bit sappy, but it’s a good question. – Anne Seymour Mette
If you “like” Amnesty International USA on Facebook today, you can listen to all of Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan — all 75 tracks by various artists. There are 75 covers of Dylan songs there for 6+ hours of music. I’m listening to Mark Knopfler’s cover of Restless Farewell while typing this …
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake Alternative Singer/Songwriter Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres Avant-Garde Jazz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Hpu9Llpw8 Steven Wilson – Grace for Drowning Progressive Rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrwSEhBnJ-A Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues Indie Folk Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow Art Rock St. Vincent – Strange Mercy Art Rock Haken …
On November 23, 2011 a woman in Vancouver, BC sought employment as a groupie on Craigslist via the following advertisement (content reproduced below in case Craigslist removes the ad): Female Seeking to be band groupie (Your rehearsal space) Female seeking to be band groupie. Just turned 19 and I’m looking to get my ROCK on. …
January 14 – Arab Spring: Toppling of Tunisian Government marked the beginning of the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring otherwise known as the Arab Awakening, is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world against oppressive regimes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p9NJVgqgW8 March 11 – A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of …
Scene: A London club, summer of 1974 PRODUCER: Thank you boys for chatting with me this morning. ANDREW LLOYD WEBER: We’re only too happy to oblige. TIM RICE: Indeed. PRODUCER: Tim, as you know, Andrew has been kind enough to score our film, The Odessa File. You may know the book, written by the fellow …
What does it say about Brian Wilson that, perhaps alone among recording artists, he made his creative breakthrough in a Christmas song? When the single “Little Saint Nick” was released in the fall of 1963 Wilson had already written and recorded the touchstone ballads “Surfer Girl” and “In My Room,” but the bulk of the …
I give the Rolling Stones a lot of credit for showing up at Chess Records, 2120 S. Michigan Avenue, in Chicago in 1965 and I give Jagger and Richards a lot of credit for paying for Hubert Sumlin‘s funeral in 2011. This is how it’s reported in Rolling Stone magazine: “The funeral for Chicago blues …
I am a single guy. I have a retirement income of approximately the median income of a family of four. That means that I enjoy “surplus capital”–income I don’t need after I pay the rent, put food on the table, etc. Yes, I spend some of that “surplus capital” on non-essentials–computer, camera, music, etc. That …