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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – April 18
Edgar Wright is one of my favourite directors of all time, and I have yet to see a movie made under his guidance that was anything short of awesome. Wright has loved filmmaking since an early age, and when he … Continue reading
Tupac Lives Again Thanks To Pepper’s Ghost
Tupac Shakur returned from the grave at the recent Coachella Music Festival to rap with Snoop Dogg! It’s all thanks to an old stage magic trick called Pepper’s Ghost, but I suspect that the hologram of Tupac was worked over … Continue reading
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Hey, Lurch! Tell Us How To Do The Lurch Dance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYkQ2qlANhc When I was a kid, I used to absolutely love the old black and white TV series The Addams Family, and one of my favourite characters was definitely the Frankenstein-like butler Lurch. While there were sequel and spinoff series … Continue reading
The X-Files: The Musical
Here on TBR, we love to celebrate musicals based on unlikely properties, so here’s a musical based on The X-Files. Frankly, I think it was only a matter of time before something like this happened, but you’ve gotta admire the … Continue reading
Last Link of the Day: Sweet Guitar Trick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wr62Dvd32k All you guitarists out there owe it to yourselves to learn this one.
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Of Course You Can Smoke Snoop Dogg’s Book
While I wouldn’t call myself a Snoop Dogg fan, I couldn’t resist posting his latest endeavour – a book of his song lyrics printed on large-sized rolling papers so that you can literally smoke his book. The book is made … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Bill Paxton in a Pat Benatar Music Video
B-movie legend Roger Corman is renowned for having given some of the biggest directors of all time their start in the film business, such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and James Cameron. He also gave Bill Paxton a very … Continue reading
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Last Link of the Day: Moonwalk Origins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v67WuP5TU4w Here’s a racially confused dance move! The moonwalk appears to have its origins in tap dance, being performed by people like Fred Astaire (who would frequently wear blackface while performing the song Bojangles of Harlem)…and then the move was … Continue reading
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Remixing the Eccentric: Taxi Dave
This hilariously awkward Sacramento local TV commercial for Taxi Dave‘s black and yellow cab service appeared online recently, and I still can’t quite tell whether it’s supposed to be this awkward (like Chuck Testa), or…if it just is. Either way, … Continue reading
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Last Link of the Day: That’s Not What I Said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdXi6f5KRg I’ve wanted to post this clip ever since The Back Row was founded, but unfortunately I’ve never been able to find an embeddable version. But so what. Whitney Houston passed away not that long ago, so I’ll never have … Continue reading
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