This patriotic vid is currently trending in the world’s largest democracy:
Just in case you didn’t see this today: JOHN LYDON’S TOP OF THE POPS ROOTS REGGAE PICKS: http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/john_lydons_top_of_the_pops_roots_reggae_picks/ It’s been interesting to read in the Keith Richards book how very deep into reggae he was/is too. Of course, I knew about Peter Tosh opening for The Stones, living in Keith’s house, and Keith’s pad in …
For those of you who’ve never lived with a Swede, this is exactly how dinner was prepared every day at five PM at the ancestral home in Chicago, and how it’s still done to this day here in East Portland, including the feet.
An excellent Dengue Fever montage of sound check and live performance:
If we need to tell kids what math is useful as an adult, I would say percentages and how they relate to tipping and financing charges. Learn your percentages, kids. Take finance in college. Community Channel is the Youtube’s most popular Australian:
One of the many missions of this blog (five year missions) is to bring Philippine pop culture to East Portland. Thus, I present the Jollibee bee dancing his little stinger off. Never has a mascot, or a bee, danced so gleeful-ly. Jollibee is the Philippines’ No. 1 fast food chain and has recently opened restaurants …
. Tom Jones and Nina Persson of the Cardigans combine like sexual napalm and white tipped matches in this highly stylized rendition of a Talking Heads classic. Tom Jones simply brings it, and does so in a vein popping ventricular ejection. Makes me want to tear off my man panties and throw them at the …
Fellow Swede-Ams, it’s time to stop the madness! Santa Lucia day, the most sexist holiday in the global Scandinavian calendar, is fast approaching, December 13. Please stop the needless subjugation of Scandinavian women through, coffee, coffeebread, candles and white robes. Every year a new generation is scarred for life, sometimes physically if real candles are …
. . Today’s New York Times has a fantastic article about a city in Northern Vietnam rightly becoming popular with tourists from all over the world: . In Northern Vietnam, a Region of Beauty and Ethnic Traditions MY first glimpse of the place that some call Vietnam’s Shangri-La came on a brisk spring afternoon as …
Bjork could be rolling in ungodly piles of money just jiggling to formula bubblegum pop; her hotness is impossible to ignore and her vocal range is supernatural. But instead of settling, the empress of Iceland dares to be an rock’n’roll auteur, a colleague of Byrne not Beyonce. A cappella album? She’s done it. Jazz? Here …
Yes, a film crew released 100 cats into an English IKEA store and allowed them to roam free all night long:
I’m a real lay(wo)man as far as music is concerned; I like what I like, just because. Thinking I was the last person on the planet to hear of ‘Hallelujah’, I YouTubed every version. Cohen’s version is gut-wrenchingly amazing. Others swear by Jeff Buckley. I found these four Norwegian guys. I like harmony. I like …
Is it a cop, or a male stripper dressed as a cop? If it’s the latter, when’s he gonna take it off? The action takes place in beautiful downtown Malmö.
Almost every Swede speaks English well. If, on a trip to Stockholm, you ask a question to a random Swede in American-accented Swedish, most Swedes will curtly answer in perfect English and remain a little frosty and miffed with you because you inadvertantly insulted them by not assuming from the very start that they speak …