If you missed this, you must see. Zach Galifianakis hosted a a very funny episode of SNL on 3/12/2001:
. Hey, there’s an ad in my sidebar now that says Rick has signature cases for iPads and iPhones — limited edition checkerboard! hehe: – Andrea Miller .
. This could be useful also: Youtube has assembled a playlist of 50 awesome videos from acts to perform at SXSW. Click on this link and the Youtube page which opens in a new window will start and run continuously through all fifty vids or just click the “Up Next” option in the video screen …
Here’s Meklit Hadero, one of the many artists showcasing at South By Southwest. This delicate sonic flower of modernity, called “Leaving Soon,” is informed by jazz, hip hop, folk, moody, string-laden chamberpop and a grownup’s instinct for romantic risk vs. reward analysis. Nonetheless it’s playful and catchy from beginning to end and makes my adrenal …
Hollywood movie makers of the 1940’s didn’t necessarily set out to make cinematic history. In fact, many of them were European émigrés escaping Nazism, who were merely trying to adopt the tone and voice of their new country, which they discovered in no less an American style than hard-boiled pulp novels. But their more sophisticated …
Mats Paulson will have to do. I couldn’t find the definitive– Artur Erikson– version: .
No shoes on the dance floor, please. Remember, there’s a big game right here tomorrow right after school… Oh, please don’t play this on your 78rpm turntable because it’s a 45 on ViK Records or United Artists or RCA: – John Markuson
I have no memory of Sting’s video for this song at the time of it’s 1985 release. This was the first single off Sting’s first solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, and whatever the video happened to have been in those days, there’s no way the visuals could have been nearly as good …
Cartoon genius and long-time friend of East Portland Blog, John Ambrosavage, has been doing great work with his Word of the Day Cartoons, creating knee-slapping animated gifs which illustrate a new word every day, expanding our minds and our vocabularies in the process. Today’s hilarious cartoon word is “Ancillary” and it may be found here.
Buck Owens was the top-grossing country music artist of the 1960s. In his later years he often said that taking the job of “Hee Haw” co-host in 1969 (alongside Roy Clark) effectively ruined his career. This clip may shed some light on this statement. – Jim Demetre is a Seattle-based writer and the publisher and …
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