Here’s the wild and frenzied drummer whose character can be summed up in five words: sex, sleep, food, drums, and pain. The other tumthumper is The Muppets’ Animal.
Ricky Gervais Has Some Serious Fun with Local Affiliates
Seth Meyers and Ricky Gervais make the most of the affiliate promos.
1976 Star Wars Memo From A Fox Executive Shows When To Trust Your Gut Instinct
Peter S. Myers was the vice-president of domestic distribution for 20th Century Fox in 1976. In November of that year, he heard positive reports from people involved with the movie Star Wars and those who had seen rough footage of the film in progress. Myers then sent a four-page telegram to his underlings, outlining an unprecedented distribution plan for the movie, as he knew it was great. He trusted his gut. To say Myers was a Star Wars hype-man would be an understatement. “I am saying the picture should get better treatment than Godfather, King Kong, Jaws, Poseidon or Towering Inferno,” he proclaimed in the telegram, and even declares “it is quite possible Star Wars will emerge as the all time box office champion.”
Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon Talks His Favourite Films
In the late summer, and early fall of 1995 saw the release of Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, and GZA’s Liquid Swords, which would turn out to be the group’s two most significant and well-received solo projects. Cuban Linx was a diverse, theatrical criminological epic that saw RZA move away from the raw, stripped-down beats of the early albums and towards a richer, cinematic sound more reliant on strings and classic soul samples. The album is highly notable in that it revived, and expanded the Mafioso rap subgenre, which started to decline several years beforehand. Lavish living and the crime underworld are referenced throughout using quotes from the John Woo movie The Killer, with the mystique of the Wu-Tang Clan deepened by the adoption of crime boss aliases and the crew name Wu-Gambinos. GZA’s Liquid Swords had a similar focus on inner-city criminology akin to Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, but it was far darker, both in GZA’s grim lyrics and in the ominous, foreboding production that saw RZA experimenting more with keyboards than ever before. Liquid Swords features guest appearances from every Wu-Tang Clan member, and is linked together by excerpts from the movie Shogun Assassin.
Raekwon stopped by the eOne Music Canada offices to talk about his favourite films, and plans for the future.
Inside The Strange Musical Laboratory Of Blue Man Group
For 25 years, the Blue Man Group has blurred the thin blue lines between music, theater, performance, visual art and invention. As a percussion-based spectacle, part of their appeal has always been primal banging on knotty tangles of PVC tubes, the furious whipping of airpoles and the thunderous pounds on a big drum they lovingly call “the Big Drum.” Their mostly instrumental third album, Three, just released on Rhino Records, is a feast of such sonic ingenuity, a showcase of home-brewed instruments like the snorkelbone and the chimeulum honking and sparkling over rhythms redolent of contemporary EDM.
The Pop Chart Lab Art Print Cataloging The Cast of Over 230 Characters From Seinfeld, Yada, Yada, Yada.
From Kramerica Industries, in association with Art Vandelay (he’s an importer/exporter), comes a masterful guide to the personalities of Seinfeld! The Connected Characters of Seinfeld is an art print by Pop Chart Lab that catalogs the cast of over 230 characters from Seinfeld. Signed and numbered prints are available to purchase from the Pop Chart Lab shop.
Cataloging a cast of over 230 close-talkers, anti-dentites, mimbos and more—from recurring players like Newman and Jackie Chiles to memorable one-offs like the Mandelbaums and Man Hands—this sprawling, sponge-worthy schematic sorts the sitcom’s subjects by frequency of appearance, then maps each character’s connection to Jerry, Elaine, Kramer, and yada, yada, yada.
Jimmy Fallon & Paul Rudd Recreate Styx Music Video “Too Much Time On My Hands”
Jimmy Fallon and Paul Rudd do a shot-for-shot remake of the classic 1981 video for Styx’s “Too Much Time On My Hands.” Fallon has become keenly obsessed with the song lately, with his own too much (clap, clap) time on his hands with and has been singing pieces of it with The Roots on the show all week.
https://youtu.be/eFP3uD_gXsQ
…and here’s the original:
Watch John Belushi crash a Frank Zappa performance on SNL
As an artist, Frank Zappa had famously always done whatever the hell he wants. As a comedian, John Belush had taken the same risks. So when Zappa appeared as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live in December 1976 to perform “Purple Lagoon” anything could have happened. And did. Belushi went ahead and jumped into the band, started a call-and-response routine, and then attempted to play the sax.
Zappa came back in 1978 as host and musical performer again, and this time, performed “St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast” and “Rollo.” Where’s Belushi? Just wait until the 1-minute mark…
Peter Sellers’ out-takes from the closing credits of ‘Being There’
The series of out-takes behind the closing credits of ‘Being There’ — the Peter Sellers classic — must be one of the funniest sequences on film. The uploader have included a couple of clips from the body of the movie to provide some context. The premise is that Sellers, a simple-minded gardener who has lived his life in his employer’s mansion, is forced to leave when the employer dies. He has no experience of the world outside, other than television. (Note his attempt to use his TV remote to change the channel of reality.)
Watch 19-Year-Old Davy Jones Audition For The Monkees
The Monkees have returned with their new single, written by Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. ‘She Makes Me Laugh’ is the lead single from new album ‘Good Times!’. ‘Good Times!’ is the band’s first album since 1996’s ‘Justus’ and the 2012 passing of member Davy Jones. The band will be commemorating their 50th anniversary with a tour starting next month.
With the new single, let’s take a look back at the time when a bunch of aspiring musicians, including 19-year-old Davy Jones whoanswered a casting call for “4 insane boys” interested in acting in an as-yet unnamed TV series. Davy answers questions asked by an off-screen interviewer about his height, his fashion choices, and his success with the girls.