Frank Zappa worked for a short period in advertising in the early 1960s. His sojourn in the commercial world was brief, but gave him valuable insights into its workings. Throughout his career, he took a keen interest in the visual presentation of his work, designing some of his album covers and directing his own films and videos. Television also exerted a strong influence, as demonstrated by quotations from show themes and advertising jingles found in his later works. All this, came from writing those catchy 30-second ad jingles.
Paul Rudd Shows The Same Film Clip On Conan O’Brien Regardless Of The Film He’s Promoting
Paul Rudd repeatedly, over 15 years, convinces Conan to show the same clip regardless of what movie he’s there to promote.
Video: It’s Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa In Concert From 1969
Sponsored by Paris magazine Actuel, “The Actuel Rock Festival” featured Pink Foyd with Yes, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, and many more. MC’ing the event was Frank Zappa, who sat in with Floyd on “Interstellar Overdrive,” bringing his lead guitar powers to the song.
Watch Zach Galifianakis’s “Look Who It Isn’t” From 2006 In Full
Zach Galifianakis’s Look Who It Isn’t from 2006 was a limited-edition self-released DVD DVD had clips of his early standup intercut with clips from his short lived VH1 talk show Late World With Zach.
Music of the Spheres, Composed By Paul McCartney, Marty O’Donnell, And Michael Salvatori Has Leaked
“Composed by veteran Bungie composer Marty O’Donnell, his partner Michael Salvatori, and former Beatle Paul McCartney, Music of the Spheres was envisioned as a musical companion to Bungie’s ambitious Destiny. But Bungie and O’Donnell spent nearly a year battling over, among other things, publisher Activision’s failure to use O’Donnell’s music in a trailer at E3 2013. In April 2014, Bungie fired O’Donnell, and despite O’Donnell’s hopes, the company indefinitely shelved Music of the Spheres. He has made several public comments on the work since, and last month, he implicitly encouraged people to share it. “Years ago, when I was Audio Director at Bungie, I gave away nearly 100 copies of Music of the Spheres,” O’Donnell tweeted on November 30, 2017. “I don’t have the authority to give you permission to share MotS. However, no one in the world can prevent me from giving you my blessing.””
Orson Welles Interviewing Andy Kaufman Back In 1982
The man who fooled the world into thinking aliens were invading interviews the man who fooled the world into thinking he died.
Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’ Performed By Shadow Puppets
There are very few songs I like to put on when the world continues to turn upside-down, or at the end of the year, than What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong. Raymond Crowe showed off his talents on an episode of the Australian television series, Spicks and Specks, as he performs the song using shadow puppets.
How to Break A Wine Glass Using Only Your Voice
Gus Johnson shows you how to break a wine glass using only the human voice. It’s been done before, but Gus has a different take on it.
Listen To The Final INXS Concert With Michael Hutchence
On the 20th anniversary of the singer’s death this year, hear the last songs INXS’ Michael Hutchence ever sang in public on September 27th, 1997 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Setlist:
Elegantly Wasted
New Sensation
Taste It
Time
Mystify
Heaven Sent
Searching
Disappear
Never Tear Us Apart
Need You Tonight
Mediate
Bitter Tears
Girl on Fire
Kick
Devil Inside
What You Need
Don’t Lose Your Head
Don’t Change
Suicide Blonde.
How’s that for a final song? Actually, so many song titles of INXS seem so eerie now.
Attention K-Mart Shoppers! Here’s 90-Minutes Of Music From K-Mart Radio
A large archive of K-Mart in-store music from the late 1980s and early 1990s has been digitized and put online by a former employee. You can find it here, and below is just a taste of what’s in store. Heh.