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Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me
Weird Al’s parodies are great, but I’ll always have a soft spot for his original tunes, and this latest is just awesome. Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me finally puts into words the annoyance we all feel towards that one … Continue reading
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A Happy Belated Birthday to Freddie Mercury
September 5 would have been Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday, and believe me when I say it was a tough decision for me to write my Celebrity Birthday of the Day on Werner Herzog instead of the legendary Queen performer. But … Continue reading
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As Promised, Gogol Bordello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuDqIuQHkVk It’s Eugene Hutz’s birthday, which means that I have a perfect excuse to make a mini-playlist of music from his band Gogol Bordello! I can’t get enough of Start Wearing Purple. My sanity and wits have all vanished! So … Continue reading
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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – September 6
It’s Eugene Hutz’s birthday! Break out the gypsy punk and the cheap booze! Hutz is a Ukranian singer for the wicked-awesome band Gogol Bordello – and you can bet that I’ll be posting some of their music today – and … Continue reading
The Thing…in stop-motion…starring G.I. Joes.
Let me just repeat the title of this post for greater effect: The Thing…in stop-motion…starring G.I. Joes. Ladies and gentlemen, thanks to this music video for the French musical duo ZOMBIE ZOMBIE, I can die a happy man. I do … Continue reading
Bespectacled Allie Goertz Will Sing To You Of D&D
Allie Goertz loves Dungeons & Dragons and music, so she combines the two with magnificent results. The video above features her friend Megan as they put music to D&D lyrics written by Patton Oswalt, and the video below is an … Continue reading
Buck Rogers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvTEWXXxS6k Seeing as I rarely watch television, I’m unfamiliar with the advert that Brett Domino and Steve Peavis are parodying here, but after watching it, I will say that it’s awesome enough to be worth posting here. But you’ll forgive … Continue reading
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Peter Stormare and His Band “Blonde From Fargo”
Today’s “Celebrity Birthday of the Day” was for Peter Stormare, one of the most prominent and memorable character actors/”That Guys” in all of Hollywood. What you may not know is that Stormare is the lead singer of his own band … Continue reading
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Turn on the light!
Brace yourselves for some nightmare fuel, folks, because the marketing team for Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, the Guillermo Del Toro-produced haunted house movie (which may prove to be the only good horror movie of the year), have squeezed … Continue reading
Before They Were Stars: Trent Reznor Performs Bad 1980s Music in Slam Bamboo
This footage is from 1987 where a local band called Slam Bamboo performs on a morning talk show called Cleveland AM and the host says “this band has everything it takes to make it big”. Well, he was 20 % … Continue reading
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