One of Jennifer Lawrence’s first acting roles was the Whopper Jr’s girlfriend in this Burger King commercial
Everyone has to start somewhere, and here is the now-highest-paid actress in the world, with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence in a Burger King ad.
https://youtu.be/wfS_7Jb4JCk
An 18-Year-Old Drake Gives A Tour Of His Childhood Home In This Degrassi Video From 2004
Drake back when he was just known as Aubrey Graham, and was two years away from his first mixtape, Room for Improvement.
Guinness World Records That Were Set in 2017
The Guinness World Records put together a fun round up of all the noteworthy new records set this year.
There’s a crowdfunding campaign to do a DVD of Here To Be Heard: The Story Of The Slits
There’s now a PledgeMusic campaign for HERE TO BE HEARD: The Story of The Slits, a film about the world’s first all girl punk band who formed in London in 1976. Contemporaries of The Clash & The Sex Pistols, they are the pioneering godmothers of the musical movement known as “Punky Reggae”. The film tells the story of the band and the lives of the women involved, from the bands inception in 1976 to the bands end in 2010 coinciding at the death of lead vocalist Ari Up. The doc features Tessa Pollitt, Palmolive, Viv Albertine, Bruce Smith, Hollie Cook, Vivien Goldman, Don Letts, Dennis Bovell, Adrien Sherwood, and many more to be revealed!
The film will be part of the London Film Festival in 2017, moving to an early 2018 theatrical release, followed by a DVD release in Spring 2018. You can go here to pledge to have this completed!
David Bowie and Director Thomas Vinterberg Discuss “The Mind of a Fool”
David Bowie and director Thomas Vinterberg sat down for this lovely 25-minute conversation back in 2002 to discuss Bowie’s new album ‘Heathen’, Vinterberg’s Dogma-style filmmaking, numbness of life, living in America and the mind of a fool.
What Happens If You Link 100 Guitar Pedals Together? This!
Nick Reinhart and the folks at Reverb.com wonder if anyone else is going to find their video ideas too strange. Take today’s post, 100 Pedals. Are there people out there in YouTube land really interested in seeing 100 pedals chained up together? Yes!
Oingo Boingo featuring a young Danny Elfman on the Gong Show in 1976
https://youtu.be/6SX8cWGcHJs
Charli XCX‘s Pop 2 Mixtaped Just Dropped
Charli XCX just released her Pop 2 mixtape featuring Carly Rae Jepsen, Caroline Polachek, and MØ, and it’s your new playlist to kick off 2018.
A Look At How A Mellotron Works
Here’s a look inside a Mellotron M400 Bell Tone Synth Works in Philadelphia, PA just restored and an explanation of how it works. The famous (or notorious) Mellotron M400, made in the 1970s, is a unique keyboard instrument in which every key plays back a recording of that note on actual magnetic tape.