Category Archives: Music

Celebrity Birthday of the Day – October 31

It’s Halloween! And that means that today on TBR we’re doing a full day of horror movie awesomeness! We’re even going to start with the birthday of a celebrity who is quite familiar with the horror genre: Stephen Rea! Rea’s … Continue reading

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Little Talks

Five sky-sailors discover a crystal meteor containing a lost mythical female creature. An epic journey through fantastical worlds ensues as the sailors struggle to return her to her people. Enjoy this gorgeous music video for the song Little Talks by … Continue reading

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Monster Mash 2: Ottawa’s Best Halloween Party!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBez5NsSHEE If you happen to live in The Back Row’s hometown of Ottawa and you’re looking for something to do tonight, you should hit up the Monster Mash 2 Halloween party! It’s a fundraiser for the Ottawa Dragonboat Festival, and … Continue reading

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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – October 24

Prolific actor F. Murray Abraham celebrates his birthday today, and he’s one of those actors who has done so much work that I won’t be able to list nearly all of it here. He made his film debut in a … Continue reading

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Eye of the Sparrow – A Bad Lip Reading of the First 2012 Presidential Debate

The Bad Lip Reading channel is getting in on the 2012 presidential debates with this hilarious re-dub of the first of the debates – the last of which was last night! This is extremely funny stuff, and even though it’s … Continue reading

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Before They Were Stars: Alan Arkin Sings “Day-O” in “Calypso Heat Wave”

In last week’s Shouts From the Back Row podcast about our favourite movie musical numbers, we naturally mentioned the famous dinner scene in Beetlejuice where the characters all break out into a spontaneous dance number set to Harry Belafonte’s “Day-O” … Continue reading

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Last Link of the Day: Dubstep Cat Sneezes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tQDz9C8kiY The only dubstep track I can actually stand.

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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – October 17

Mike Judge is the mastermind behind some of pop culture’s best comedic works, and his big break was the 1993 animated series Beavis and Butt-head. The show ran for four years and had a spin-off series in Daria, as well … Continue reading

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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – October 7

One of the very first things I wrote on TBR was about my love of the musical comedy stylings of Tim Minchin. Minchin got his big break with his live show “Dark Side” in 2005, which debuted at the 2005 … Continue reading

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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – October 5

Today’s Celebrity Birthday boy is the man with the awesome cheekbones: Guy Pearce. Born in England of Australian/New Zealand lineage, Pearce became interested in the performing arts at an early age, and, besides acting, was also a competetive bodybuilder and … Continue reading

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