In this episode of Celebrity ASMR, Aubrey Plaza whispers as she plays with her own hair, fiddles with a make-up bag, strokes peacock feathers, eats cornflakes and squeezes a stuffed cat while meowing. Aubrey recalls learning improv from Chris Gethard at the Upright Citizens Brigade, kissing Ellie Kemper, getting fired from the NBC Page Program, her breakout role in ‘Funny People’, playing April Ludgate on ‘Parks and Recreation’ and Lenny Busker in ‘Legion’.
Why the music we love as teens stays with us for life
Why is it that even the most adventurous music lovers are drawn back again and again to music they heard as teenagers? Cognitive neuropsychologist Dr Catherine Loveday explains the psychology that connects us with the music from our past – and reveals details of an exciting experiment that the University of Westminster is conducting with BBC Radio 3 listeners.
Check out the program here.
Bob Dylan Hates Me. A Short Animated Film By Caveh Zahedi
Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi met his idol Bob Dylan twice. And Bob Dylan hates Caveh Zahedi.
Photo Gallery: Rod Stewart at London’s Budweiser Gardens
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Explaining HTML Using Death Metal
Now you can learn HTML from RiffShop’s David Wu while he’s dressed as Satan and singing about code accompanied by his death metal band Cyborg Octopus. Because, why not?
Esperanza Spalding On The Importance Of Child’s Play In Music
When you’re a little kid, and you are just starting to either learn how to draw or express yourself or play music, that’s you as a primal person. You’re figuring out yourself.
And that discovery, when you’re a kid, of what you want to draw. Even that is fun. You see what you draw. You see what you’ve got in there. I love that you brought in the word primal. That word, when you said it, really resonates with the level of our being that we want to [get] to while we’re creating. It feels like the advantage of that word is that the primal part of us hasn’t been conditioned by the practicalities of this world that we live right this minute — specifically, all the dynamics around art as a commodity, and art needing to temper itself with economic viability.
Photo Gallery: Judas Priest with Saxon and Black Star Riders at Oshawa’s Tribute Communities Centre
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Explore The Velvet Underground & Nico in 4 Minutes
When it was released in 1967, few outside the band’s immediate circle seemed to know what to make of The Velvet Underground & Nico’s combative noise and provocative lyrics. Only a few years later, it would become a key building block for the punk movement.
Watch Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Jim Varney And Don Rickles Record Their Voices For “Toy Story”
Well, this is pretty great – ScreenSlam shared incredible behind the scenes footage of voice actors from Pixar‘s 1995 animated film, Toy Story. It features Tom Hanks and Tim Allen in the same room working through the argument scene as Woody and Buzz Lightyear, Jim Varney becoming the kind Slinky Dog, and Don Rickles bringing his never-to-be forgotten thoughts to Mr. Potato Head.
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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.
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