Here’s a haunting Dylan cover I just discovered. The tune may be downloaded free here. . And here’s the Dylan original:
There’s a talent gap across the pond this week. This video has been lighting up screens all over the UK since it was released last Friday. It’s vacuous, empty and not in the least bit entertaining. It’s important to avoid posting negative reviews on the net at all times as they lead to legions of …
Here’s what the author wrote in the Youtube description: “It ended up being harder to get a good shot than I though it would be. I was going to mount fins on the to stabilize them, but by the time I got the idea I already shot through my supply, and when I went to …
Full story is here.
Dear Friends: Now THIS is what I call a press release! ["Coloration" of the text all mine] Anyhow, here’s something arty and deliberately unpleasant that couldn’t have existed under Communism, though I’m not entirely sure it’s a "good" thing! LOL Just arrived outta the blue in today’s e-mail. [I must have ordered …
I still fondly remember seeing At the Drive-In at the Showbox in the fall of 2000. Delightfully anarchic and one of the great shows of the time:
Inspired by the likes of Sigur Ros and fellow Oklahomans The Flaming Lips, Stillwater’s Other Lives have not reinvented the wheel, or even work much outside the box. Instead, they’ve brought new elements with them into the box, re-arranging concepts and blurring genres to paint a distinctive, majestic sonic landscape that’s both astonishingly fresh and …
John Lennon was a closet Republican, who felt a little embarrassed by his former radicalism, at the time of his death – according to the tragic Beatles star’s last personal assistant. Full Story is here. But The Nation disputes the article’s claims, here.
Here’s how Johnny Kita describes his new tune: “I decided to write a song with the starting point being a poem written by my highschool and gradeschool classmate Kristin Roedell. She is a great poet and I really like her work. We reconnected on FB. You like to write poetry & I like to write …
Alfonso Ponticelli has been playing a weekly gig of Django Reinhardt music at the venerable Green Mill in Chicago for well over a year now. (Al Capone reportedly hung out at the Green Mill.) I recommend everyone go hear Ponticelli. Here he is in action at the Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest in Madison, Wisconsin. Located …
This is a little funny because the roles are reversed. She’s nervous and has to be tricked into meeting him. But isn’t she the bigger star? She’s on Youtube every day while he just trots in once a year:
http://youtu.be/fzz6fAdFFis
Responding to a false celebrity blog report which described derriere implants exploding during recent air travel, Kim Kardashian had her posterior x-rayed recently, with TV cameras rolling, to prove her butt is 100% real. Full story is here. Thanks to Gordon Jack Schultz for the tip on this story. He adds, “AT LAST!! PROOF that …
http://youtu.be/dnm1Y7BuPWs
Here’s a funny tweet from James Lileks, “Choices: see “Transformers 3″ or stand behind a jet engine into which someone’s feeding sheets of aluminum foil?” . http://youtu.be/gKOQAnvBHCw .