Category Archives: Music

Before They Were Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr. Breakdances for Lionel Richie at the 1984 Olympics

This is one “Before They Were Stars” feature where I’m not 100 % certain that the star actually appears onscreen, but the footage is so obscure that I had to post it anyway. Cuba Gooding Jr.’s first professional job in … Continue reading

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If Stomp Were A Heist Movie

Follows police officer Amadeus Warnebring, tone-deaf scion of a musical family, as he attempts to track down a group of six guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city. We love weird and unusual films here in The … Continue reading

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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – February 20

Anthony Stewart Head was educated at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and started his career on the stage in a production of Godspell. This led to his landing roles in BBC television series, with one of his … Continue reading

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the mc chris cartoon

Nerdcore hiphop rapper mc chris has done plenty of work in cartoons already, with his contributions to Adult Swim shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, The Brak Show, and Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, but now he has … Continue reading

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A Dragonball Tribute to Whitney Houston

Since Whitney Houston’s death, the internet has been circulating all kinds of tribute videos. None are more hilarious, though, than this Dragonball Z mashup by Youtube user jonklie, which effectively demonstrates the power of Houston’s voice. Hint: it’s over 9000!

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Remixing the Eccentric: Angry Matt Sloan

It’s like some kind of TBR crossover! Here at the Back Row, we love to post the Blame Society Beer and Board Games videos, and we also love wacky internet remixes of popular youtube clips. Well, now the two things … Continue reading

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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – February 12

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Jesse Spencer comes from a family steeped in the medical profession – his three siblings are an oculo-plastic surgeon, an orthopaedic registrar, and an anaesthetic registrar. What’s interesting about this is that Jesse, the one sibling … Continue reading

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Every Slow Motion Wes Anderson Shot Set To Ja Rule

Oh yes. In the greatest net-created mash up of recent days, Slackatory created this montage of every slow motion shot from every Wes Anderson film set to the hard-hitting beats of Ja Rule. Hipsterdom has never been so gangsta, and … Continue reading

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Before They Were Stars: Eva Mendes in the Music Video for Will Smith’s “Miami”

I’ve featured plenty of celebrities who got their start by appearing in music videos, but here’s a special case where the artist in the video and the future celebrity eventually headlined a movie together. This is the music video for … Continue reading

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Last Link of the Day: Pancake The Musical Cat

Keyboard cat’s distant relative?

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