I know that Chinese and Japanese look the same to some of our more ignorant fellow citizens, but they are not. And neither is their culture. This trailer looks pretty cool if you love Kung-Fu as much as I do, but I can safely say that you don’t see a lick of Karate in the entire thing. Why didn’t they just call it “The Kung-Fu Kid?”
One or another member of the Finn family has been informing my pop sensibilities since I bought Waiata by “Split Enz” in 1981 after seeing the video for “One Step Ahead.”
I wasn’t a huge Crowded House fan, but they had some really great songs that I still love today.
Now, here comes Liam, Neil’s son to carry on with a bit of a different take on pop from his dad and uncle.
I’m in love with Imelda May. The band is amazing and this song in particular is on seriously high replay on my headphones. In short, it’s just totally kick-ass rockabilly from Dublin by way of London.
On a related note, I highly recommend the show this video is taken from. It’s been on forever but I lost track of it for a few years. Later…With Jools Holland is on Ovation TV, seemingly, every fifteen minutes.
If Edward had lived in the Universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it would have been shorter, funnier, and way more best-ier. If you were slightly tweaked by the creepy stalker crap, and the more than creepy “I love you so much I want you to kill me” crap, oh yeah and the weirdly puritanical (written by a Mormon, you see) underpinnings of the crap-fest of a movie, this may make you laugh.
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The groove, the playing, the style, the voice, the band, the look; Feist totally has it all. And this performance of the song “My Moon, My Man” is completely flawless. Go ahead, I dare you: find a flaw.
Sometimes one just isn’t enough:
While it’s not really part of my kids’ playground world yet, I do know that it lies in wait just around the corner in Middle School.? And while I’m a big no-fan of telling people what they can and can’t say, I’m an even bigger fan of not being an idiot and knowing the impact of words.? I didn’t know the history of the phrase “No Homo” (didn’t even know it had been around for so long) and found this video informative, interesting, and more than a little clever and funny.
Jay Smooth on “No Homo” and reclaiming insults that are not used to insult you:
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I just can’t decide. The two of them together, though…now that’s HOT!
My good friend James Gossard and I used to swap mix-tapes where one of us would do a side and give it to the other to do a “response” side. I learned about some music from James that I probably never would have found where it not for those mix-tapes. Among the songs I still have on tape, but that I’ve had an impossible search for digital versions of, is this one from the New Zealand band Swingers. I’ve never seen the movie this video is from, but am certainly intrigued.
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