There’s been a death in this family in the video — the bird’s best friend. As the two grieve together, and it’s time to take him away and bury him, this feathery friend can’t stand to say goodbye. This one goes out to anyone who believes animals don’t have feelings. And it’s suddenly very dusty in here.
Good News: John Malkovich In A New Movie! Bad News: You Can’t Watch It Until 2115
100 Years – The Movie You Will Never See” is an exclusive original film starring John Malkovich and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It envisions Earth one hundred years from now and will not be released in its entirety until 2115. The movie was inspired by the legacy of craftsmanship and time it takes to create LOUIS XIII Cognac, which is one of the most luxurious spirits in the world. LOUIS XIII is ‘One century in a bottle’ and each decanter takes four generations of cellar masters over 100 years to craft. So, there you go. Come on back in 100 years.
https://youtu.be/SjdA_rocHms
https://youtu.be/2IKeqzggbRA
The Father-Daughter Relationship, As Bonded Over Their Love Of Star Wars
A father has only one dream: for his daughter to love Star Wars as much as he does, in a galaxy far, far away as seen in this new commercial by Toys”R”Us.
https://youtu.be/78lnkMgee5k
Adele’s 25 Set To Break US Sales Record
After one day on sale, Adele’s 25 appears set to break *NSYNC’s long-standing one-week Nielsen-era U.S. album sales record of 2.42 million sold, according to industry forecasters. Sources say the set is on track to sell at least 2.5 million in pure album sales in its first week, and sold more than 900,000 copies alone through the iTunes Store on its first day of release.
*NSYNC currently owns the single largest sales week for an album since Nielsen Music began tracking point-of-sale music purchases in 1991. (Prior to 1991, there was no authoritative music sales tracking service in the U.S. and thus, it was mostly unknown how many copies of an album or song/single were sold in a single week.)
*NSYNC’s No Strings Attached debuted with 2,416,000 sold in the week ending March 26, 2000. No Strings Attached has since remained the only album to sell 2 million copies in the U.S. in a single week.
Watch: Guy Breaks Guinness World Record By Inflating 27 Balloons With His Nose In 3 Minutes
Here’s footage from a 2010 attempt at the most balloons inflated by the nose in 3 minutes: 23, achieved by American Andrew Dahl on the set of Lo Show dei Record in Rome, Italy. The record has since been beaten several times and now stands at 28, achieved by Ashrita Furman (USA) at the Sri Chinmoy Centre, New York, in December, 2013.
https://youtu.be/cWlVQwf6yr8
Billboard: Adele’s 21 Is Greatest Album Of All Time
For the first time, Billboard has ranked the top albums and artists ever on their signature Billboard 200 albums chart.
Adele’s blockbuster 21 tops the Billboard 200’s all-time albums ranking, fueled not only by the set’s 24 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list (the most weeks at No. 1 for an album by a woman), but also its lengthy chart run in the upper reaches of the tally.
21 debuted on the chart dated March 12, 2011 and spent its first 78 weeks in the top 10 (and then returned for three more frames … so far). The album has yet to leave the list since its release, and has lingered on the tally for more than 245 consecutive weeks.
Below Adele’s 21 on the Billboard 200 recap is the soundtrack to The Sound of Music, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2015. The album, led by the film’s star Julie Andrews, spent two weeks at No. 1 on the weekly Billboard 200, and earned a record 109 weeks in the top 10. The album was so hot that it was in the weekly top 10 from the May 1, 1965-dated chart through July 16, 1966. It was a regular (but not quite weekly) presence in the top 10 off and on through early 1968.
At No. 3 on the all-time list is Michael Jackson’s Thriller, which clocked 37 weeks at No. 1 on the chart in 1983-84. In total, the set (which would also be the first to spawn seven top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart) would spend 78 weeks in the top 10.
Via Billboard
Singer Has All The Judges Turning Their Chairs Around In The Voice…After The First Line.
I know, this is old, but it’s just so cool, just bask in the afterglow of Charly Luske, when he auditioned for The Voice Holland, and blowing away the coaches with his amazing Blind Audition with James Browns hit ‘This Is A Man’s World’. After singing the first line all coaches turned their chair.
Bruce Cockburn: “A song isn’t going to change the world, but a whole bunch of people singing might change politics”
The mainstream of anything is essentially commercial and it’s going to offer what sells, or what could be marketed to someone else’s benefit. I mean, there are people who feel that protest is inappropriate no matter what, just because it’s not the place of musicians to do that sort of stuff. There are people who genuinely hold that point of view. I don’t, but there are those who do. And some of those people live in places where if you stick your head up out of the sand, someone chops it off. So, they can be forgiven for thinking that way. But some of them don’t live in places like that and they just make a choice, and everybody’s allowed to choose how they’re going to live.
But I think there’s a lot of stuff going on. At the grassroots level there’s all kinds of protest [movements] and all kinds of interest in issues, certainly among musicians and I guess in the rest of the population — but it doesn’t get the media coverage unless Bono does it, or somebody very high profile. But the cumulative effect has weight, I think, over time. It remains messy, everywhere you look.
An individual song isn’t going to change the world, but a whole bunch of people singing about an issue and encouraging people to feel the truth of an issue might result in some sort of demographic of resistance that would then affect the choices that the politicians make. And I think that’s what we hope for. That’s what the Occupy movement almost was, and to some extent actually was — the bankers got around that stuff, but it was a close one and it made a lot of people pay attention, and it was also the result of a lot of people who were paying attention, who were being affected by things or were empathizing with those who were. It’s the empathy — I guess that’s what songs can do, and what musicians can do. But I think a song is stronger if it comes from your own experience than if you write about theory, and that’s true of the stuff you see on the media.
Yes, you can go online and you can watch ISIS cut people’s heads off, and it’s outrageous and horrifying — but it’s not the same as being there, by a long shot, and it’s not the same as knowing the people who are involved by a long shot. You could meet those ISIS guys that turn out to be really nice, you could hang with them and talk about God and stuff and they’ll be great, chances are. But then they go and do that — it’s a very complicated thing. But if you’re going to be an artist writing about stuff like that you kind of have to know what it is. There’s probably a million exceptions to what I’m about to say, but I don’t think you can really produce art that’s just about stuff you’ve seen on TV. I think you kind of have to have a feel for it.
– Bruce Cockburn, The Newfoundland & Labrador Independent
‘Wheel of Fortune’ contestant picks X and Z for reasons that are awesome
Nura, playing alongside fellow service members during the show’s Veterans Week, raised eyebrows and the wrath of Twitter when she guessed “Z”, “X” and then just didn’t even call out any letters. Looks like she wanted the others to go home with a win and some money in their pockets.
THAT, right there, is awesome.
Bono on The Paris Attacks: “This is the first direct hit on music”
“If you think about it, the majority of victims last night are music fans. This is the first direct hit on music that we’ve had in this so called war-on-terror or whatever it’s called. It’s very upsetting. These are our people… I think music is very important. I think U2 has a role to play and I can’t wait till we get back to Paris and play and that’s what I’m feeling from the messages we’re receiving from music fans is these people will not set our agenda. They will not organize our lives for us… You’re not gonna turn us into haters or you’re not gonna turn us around in the way we go about our lives.” – Bono, U2