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Photo Gallery: Tim Hicks with Tebey and Madeline Merlo at St. Catharines’ Meridian Centre
Watch Patti Smith Read A 3-Hour Version Of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis In The Former Chapel Of Reading Prison
In October 2016, Patti Smith read Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis in the former chapel of Reading Prison, Reading.
Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Prison, then known as Reading Gaol, 1895-97 for ‘Acts of Gross Indecency with Other Male Persons.’ While there he wrote De Profundis, a 50,000-word letter to his former lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie).
In September 2016 Artangel opened Reading Prison to the public for the first time for an exhibition of art, writing and performance. Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison is open until 4 December 2016.
Patti Smith reads the first edited version of De Profundis, published five years after Wilde’s death in 1905.
Coming Soon to Hawkins, Indiana, The Starcourt Mall!
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.