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12.09.2010

02:56 pm

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Singer/composer Matt Mullholland really knows how to “sell” a song. I really believe him when he sings.

12.09.2010

02:28 pm

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The person who owns this tree is most definitely having a collie, jolly Christmas this year.

Oh, and in case you didn’t know, this happened: Marijuana Christmas Tree Seized In Germany

12.09.2010

01:48 pm

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Striking a blow straight to the heart of celebrity vanity, the newest edition of the Popbitch newsletter contained the following item:

Neatly proving just how ineffective social media actually is, 18 celebrities (and Jay Sean) sacrificed their “digital lives” for charity last week, vowing to stop updating their Twitter and Facebook feeds. Social network silence from Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake and others until their fans donated a million dollars to [Keys’] Keep A Child Alive campaign to help fight AIDS.

With six days gone, donations were still under $300k. The celebs got restive - Usher just plain gave up and started tweeting - so a billionaire patsy, and longtime AIDS funder Stewart Bahr, was drafted in to pay it off.

It would have cost the celebs’ 35 million combined followers less than 3 cents each to buy back their lives and get them tweeting again, so it appears their fans are staunchly pro-AIDS, or no-one really cared very much about what they had to say in the first place.

Laying down that kind of bread, couldn’t Bahr have pushed his weight around even a little bit and negotiated a way to still keep Kim Kardashian off Twitter?

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12.09.2010

11:48 am

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Seeing as how we’re all echoing each other’s classic rock memes here on the DM lately, here’s yet another Zep song that at least I had been previously ignorant of. This is evidently dating from the 1978 rehearsals for their final album, the deeply uneven In Through the Out Door and maybe called Fire. Like a few of the others posted by Richard, this is a rough rehearsal tape but I found it exhilarating to listen to. After a minute or so of random noodling you are suddenly a fly on the wall in a room with the mighty Led Zeppelin as they tease you with a song which while having many of their trademark idiosyncratic elements, is utterly new to you. Like a dream, really. Did that actually just happen?

Huge thanks to Carlos Nuñez!

12.09.2010

11:00 am

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Little Keegan Roberts is my new favorite shining star. I have no idea what was going on in his mind when this interview was being taped, but methinks it was, “Get down and dance your ass off.”

Update: obligatory gif.


via TDW

(via Dlisted)

12.09.2010

10:04 am

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Hey, what’s a little bait and switch during a presidential election, huh?

I have never voted for a Republican in my entire life, but it sure feels like I have with Obama… The tax cut deal for millionaires and billionaires is a moral outrage and it’s going to be wrapped around his neck come next year when the GOP refuse to raise the debt ceiling.

Follow this link to donate a couple of bucks to ActBlue. For every $3000 they raise, they can show this ad one time on local TV stations in the Washington DC metro area. Obama’s base can only erode so much until it’s gone for good…

12.09.2010

03:06 am

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“Church Song” by Portland’s The Miracles Club.

The Soul Train has left the station.

World Of Wonder’s Stephen Saban sums it up quite nicely:

Don’t ask questions, just watch. It’s a most extraordinary mix of people engaged, surprisingly, in can’t-look-away dancing that appears to have been auditioned, styled, and choreographed because in all our born years we’ve never seen anything quite like it happen by accident. And we’ve been to da club a few times.”

And then there’s the goat….

Via WOW

12.09.2010

02:02 am

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A intimate solo performance by Neil Young filmed during his ‘Journey Through The Past’ tour. It was broadcast on BBC television in February of 1971.

For some odd reason (of which I’m not aware), this is not available on video or DVD.

Set list:

1. Out On The Weekend
2. Old Man
3. Journey Through The Past
4. Heart Of Gold
5. Don’t Let It Bring You Down
6. A Man Needs A Maid
7. Love In Mind
8. Dance, Dance, Dance

12.08.2010

06:44 pm

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Tough guy alert! Why was I not aware of this trend?

Here’s another delightful flame yearbook photo here.

Awkward School Pictures

12.08.2010

05:51 pm

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May he rest in peace. And somebody get him a beer…