Linzey Rae is the real deal, and in this fun video, she shows how to make Shepard Pie to create a winning formula for the ears, and stomach.
Little Girl Performs Orchestral Theme Of “Back To The Future”
The internet celebrating Back To The Future’s anniversary last year was likely the catalyst for this little girl practicing the theme song. She can give any orchestra a run for their money!
Kanye West Auditions For American Idol, Makes It Through To The Next Round
In a clip from the forthcoming American Idol season, Kanye West successfully auditions for the show. It helped that he rapped his hit “Gold Digger,” which name-drops judge Jennifer Lopez. The new season — the show’s last — begins on Wednesday night, and expect a lot of media this time around.
https://youtu.be/mulvnLin22g
Music-Loving Kid Secretly Tapes Disagreement With His Parents, And Turns It Into A Cartoon 30 Years Later
A young man’s love of rock and roll told through secretly recorded conversations with his parents, and animates it 30 years later. Mike Cohen turns a weighty sense of history, and surely a frustrating time into one that’s incredible, after all these years.
The Brother Mike Tapes: 1985 from rodd perry on Vimeo.
Mantinicus Island, Population 51, Has The Cutest Library You’ll See All Week
Photo by Eva Murray
Mantinicus Island is a community off the coast of Maine, population 51. It sounds like the start of a Steven King novel, but it’s an actual town – they don’t have a high school or a doctor, or a mall, or lights or expedited delivery or drive-through eateries. But they do have a public library. It’s housed inside an 8 by 20 foot utility shed. Eva Murray, a resident of the island, writes about this awesome little library in the Penobscot Bay Pilot.
We have no dignified stone building and we will be doing without a pair of lion statues out front, an antique map room upstairs, or the classic stern and tweedy librarian shushing children from behind a marble desk. In the usual style of journalism about Matinicus, there is the list of what we don’t have: we don’t have the Dewey decimal system or library cards or late fees or any chance at a hushed and reverent silence. There will surely be no need for that. We hope to have our nascent library recognized by the Maine School and Library Network, and to eventually have our Internet through them. This was in fact the initial impetus for the whole library project. Last year Matinicus had no school-aged children on the island. In June of 2015, despite firm assertion on the part of our Superintendent of Schools that there would be enrolled students the following year (and indeed, there now are,) MSLN disconnected service to our school. Reconnection was, for some reason, an exceedingly drawn-out and laborious process. The connection provided by MSLN is much more than household subscriber Internet; it supports the school’s Tandberg videoconferencing unit, useful for meetings such as fisheries and energy-related informational workshops organized by the Island Institute, University of Maine courses for professional development and adult continuing education, special services or counseling that may be required by community members including students, and routine inter-connectivity among all of Maine’s one-room island schools. This level of service would not be affordable without MSLN.
-via Jessamyn West
The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2015 revealed: Bruno Mars #1
It dominated the dancefloor throughout last year; and today OfficialCharts.com can reveal that Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk is the biggest song of 2015.
The track, which features Bruno Mars, notched up a combined sales and streaming total of 1.76 million to finish at the top of the end of year chart. The song’s total combined sales since its release in November 2014 stand at 2.25 million.
Uptown Funk has proved unstoppable throughout 2015. As well as spending a total of seven weeks at Number 1, the track logged 39 weeks in the Top 40 before finally exiting in October.
Finishing at Number 2 is OMI’s Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix). The summer smash first entered the Official Singles Chart at Number 96 in January and steadily scaled the tally for 14 weeks until its April impact date, eventually reaching the summit in May for four consecutive weeks. Cheerleader finishes 2015 with a combined sales total of 1.52 million.
Taking third place on 2015 biggest songs list is Hozier’s Take Me To Church with 1.25 million combined sales. The stirring soul-blues track racked up huge sales over the last 12 months despite never reaching Number 1, peaking at 2 for four consecutive weeks after a 20-week climb inside the Top 40.
At Number 4 is Ellie Goulding’s Love Me Like You Do. The 50 Shades Of Grey movie song topped the chart for four weeks (holding Hozier off the top spot for three of them!) back in February. By the end of 2015, the song notched up 1.19 million combined sales.
Rounding off the end of year Top 5 is Wiz Khalifa’s See You Again. The Fast & Furious 7 tribute to actor Paul Walker, which topped the Official Singles Chart for two weeks in April, finishes close behind Goulding on 1.17 million sales and streams. It’s also the first of two entries for the song’s guest star and co-writer Charlie Puth, who places at 34 with his Meghan Trainor collaboration Marvin Gaye.
The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2015 are…
| 1 | UPTOWN FUNK | MARK RONSON FT BRUNO MARS |
| 2 | CHEERLEADER (FELIX JAEHN REMIX) | OMI |
| 3 | TAKE ME TO CHURCH | HOZIER |
| 4 | LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO | ELLIE GOULDING |
| 5 | SEE YOU AGAIN | WIZ KHALIFA FT CHARLIE PUTH |
| 6 | HELLO | ADELE |
| 7 | LEAN ON | MAJOR LAZER FT MO & DJ SNAKE |
| 8 | HOLD BACK THE RIVER | JAMES BAY |
| 9 | WHAT DO YOU MEAN | JUSTIN BIEBER |
| 10 | SORRY | JUSTIN BIEBER |
| 11 | KING | YEARS & YEARS |
| 12 | THINKING OUT LOUD | ED SHEERAN |
| 13 | SUGAR | MAROON 5 |
| 14 | HOLD MY HAND | JESS GLYNNE |
| 15 | WHERE ARE U NOW | SKRILLEX & DIPLO/JUSTIN BIEBER |
| 16 | WANT TO WANT ME | JASON DERULO |
| 17 | ARE YOU WITH ME | LOST FREQUENCIES |
| 18 | FOURFIVE SECONDS | RIHANNA/KANYE WEST/MCCARTNEY |
| 19 | SHUT UP & DANCE | WALK THE MOON |
| 20 | HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE | CALVIN HARRIS & DISCIPLES |
| 21 | CAN’T FEEL MY FACE | WEEKND |
| 22 | FIRESTONE | KYGO FT CONRAD SEWELL |
| 23 | TRAP QUEEN | FETTY WAP |
| 24 | LOVE YOURSELF | JUSTIN BIEBER |
| 25 | THE HILLS | WEEKND |
| 26 | EARNED IT | WEEKND |
| 27 | BLACK MAGIC | LITTLE MIX |
| 28 | WISH YOU WERE MINE | PHILIP GEORGE |
| 29 | PHOTOGRAPH | ED SHEERAN |
| 30 | THE NIGHTS | AVICII |
| 31 | RUNAWAY (U & I) | GALANTIS |
| 32 | ELASTIC HEART | SIA |
| 33 | BLOODSTREAM | ED SHEERAN |
| 34 | MARVIN GAYE | CHARLIE PUTH FT MEGHAN TRAINOR |
| 35 | UP | OLLY MURS FT DEMI LOVATO |
| 36 | NOT LETTING GO | TINIE TEMPAH FT JESS GLYNNE |
| 37 | SHINE | YEARS & YEARS |
| 38 | AYO | CHRIS BROWN & TYGA |
| 39 | DON’T BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF | JESS GLYNNE |
| 40 | HOTLINE BLING | DRAKE |
Via Official Charts
Watch Mark Hamill Host The TV Network Premiere Of Star Wars In 1984
See? Even 30 years ago, Star Wars was a very big deal. In 1984, the story about the galaxy far, far away made its television debut on CBS and this was a very big deal. Here’s the intro to that moment in history where Mark Hammill even wore a tux.