Coming to Hawkins in the Summer of 1985…the Starcourt Mall! Starcourt Mall will be one of the finest shopping facilities in America and beyond with options for the entire family. Including The Gap, Waldenbooks, Sam Goody, Claire’s and more! Don’t forget to cool off at Scoops Ahoy Ice Cream shop. Starcourt Mall has it all!
That Time Jeff Goldblum and Sarah Silverman Performed “Me and My Shadow”
Hollywood star Jeff Goldblum is currently on tour performing a set of skillfully played jazz standards from his new album The Capitol Studios Sessions. A couple of years back, he and comedian Sarah Silverman did a little duet of the 1927 classic Me and My Shadow in all their gloried majesty.
Tool’s “The Pot”: Brass Edition
Who are you to wave your finger? Brass Against the Machine and Sophia Urista thrills us against with their cover of Tool’s 2006 track The Pot and giving it a frenzied core of rock, jazz, and vocal energy.
My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields: The Guitar That Changed My Life
Watch as Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine discusses his Jazzmaster collection, approach to music creation, and his legendary strumming technique.
Today I Found Out More About “The Far Side” Creator Gary Larson
For 15 years, Gary Larson took millions of readers over to the “Far Side.” Using anamorphic animals, chubby teenagers, universal emotions, a simple drawing style and a really bizarre, morbid sense of humor, The Far Side became one of the most successful – and praised – comic strips of all time.
But do you actually know anything about Larsen, the man? His life outside of The Far Side has been really interesting. He plays the banjo, and almost had a career in jazz, too. He keeps exotic animals. And there’s more, all in this video from Today I Found Out.
German Shepherd Drummer Plays A Bluegrass Beat
YouTube user ILL Fonic shared this short but hilarious mashup video of a dog scratching a glass door in rhythm to man singing Mel McDaniel’s bluegrass classic, Louisiana Saturday Night.
Watch Televangelists Play Led Zeppelin Backward In 1983
Playing some of your favourite vinyl records backwards sometimes reveal messages that don’t exactly tell you to keep brushing your teeth, or call your mother. Oh no, dear reader, this is heavy stuff, like we’re all going to hell, or smoke a lot of dope. Not entirely surprisingly, famed occultist and Fundamentalist bugaboo Aleister Crowley is credited with starting the whole thing. In his 1913 essay on meditation, Magick: Book 4, Crowley promoted the idea of “listen[ing] to phonograph records, reversed,” to train one’s brain to think backward.
The Beatles allegedly, used this technique to let the world know Paul McCartney was dead, because, well, I guess they couldn’t do a press release. Jimi Hendrix gave a hint on And the Gods Made Love that he understands…something when he is heard to say “Yes, yes, yes, I get it. Okay, one, okay, one more time.” Electric Light Orchestra on Can’t Get It Out of My Head goes all out and is heard to sing, “Here it comes, another lonely day / Playing the game. I’ll sail away / On a voyage of no return to see” backward and heard “He is the nasty one — Christ you’re infernal — It is said we’re dead men — Everyone who has the mark will live.” OK, then.
The backwards hits just kept coming and being revealed, long after that album was released, too, continuing in the 1980s, thanks to these televangelists.
“Ringo”, a Ringo Starr US TV special, aired April 26, 1978
Ringo is a 1978 American made-for-television comedy film starring Ringo Starr as both a fictionalised version of himself and his fictional half-brother “Ognir Rrats”. Ringo, stressed out by fame, trades places with a schmuck who looks exactly like him. Then the problems start.
It was broadcast on the US NBC network on 26 April 1978. This 44-minute film features an all-star cast, including Art Carney, Carrie Fisher and Harrison. Starr performs songs from his concurrent album, Bad Boy, and older material.
