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 .
Now that Michele Bachmann has brought John Wayne back into socio-political pop memory, it would be good to take a look at Joan Didion’s classic essay about this American patriot and actor, which was reprinted some time ago in the Guardian.
You can find Andrew’s review of O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth, here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AouX-nWvv4
Another fine essay from Steve Stav.
Full story is here.
This image — seen all over China on all kinds of souvenirs — is called “The Obamao” by locals. Seems the President and the Chairman indeed have at least one thing in common… – Colette Moran . .
Here’s how the cello concert is described on Youtube: “An impromptu concert by Dr Erik Anderson next to Longfellow School in Minot ND as the Mouse River Floods the neighborhood. Beauty in the devastation.” . . And here’s Josh Duhamel, on the phone from Moscow, described thusly: “From Moscow to Minot: Shaun Sipma receives a …