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If you’re bored, it’s your own damned fault. There’s a whole world out there waiting for you. There are books you haven’t read, songs you haven’t heard, people you haven’t met and places you haven’t been. It’s not that you’re bored… maybe you’re just boring. I was dicking around YouTube the other day, listening to Wanda Jackson’s version of “Jealous Heart” when I noticed in the “Related Videos” sidebar a 1961 version of the song by someone named Lydia. I’ve discovered a lot of cool shit on YouTube, but this is the first time I would say – as cliche [...] From Reason’s Brickbats: Spanish police responded to a call at the Siguenza Jazz Festival after someone complained that saxophonist Larry Ochs and his band weren’t jazzy enough. The fan insisted that his doctor had warned him it was “psychologically inadvisable” for him to listen to contemporary music and he said that was what Ochs was playing. [...] If you’re like me, you learned a great deal of music appreciation from watching Warner Brothers cartoons. (Carl Stalling was a genius!). One of Warner Brothers’ best – IMO – musical cartoons was the 1957 Friz Freleng Looney Tune, Three Little Bops:
Here it is in Eye-talian:
If that’s not enough, here it is in [...] A sort of follow-up to this post, the deliciously stalk-worthy ZOMGItsCriss takes on the issue of Christian Side Hugs and delivers a rap of her own.
This video has been making the rounds as of late: a group of Youth Pastors at some Jesus Camp-type gathering warning about the evils of “front hugging”. Seriously.
It would be too easy to take the low road and say “how typically Christian”; sure, the lyrics are fucked-up in a way that only Christians could [...] This video – from the 1941 Jorge Negrete film, ¡Ay Jalisco, No Te Rajes! is introduced as “THE GREATEST CANTINA SCENE EVER”. Great, sure, but no one gets shot and nary a chair is broken over anyone’s head, so “greatest” might be an overstatement. Still, there’s enough celebration of debauchery in this clip to make [...] It was suggested to me that I follow up the Cold Hard Facts of Life with a tribute to The Louvin Brothers’ Tragic Songs of Life album, but if we’re gonna discuss The Louvin Brothers and rad album covers, the discussion ends with Satan is Real: The Satan from South Park, back in his younger, [...] The downside to the digital music era: no more badass album covers like Porter Wagoner’s The Cold Hard Facts of Life.
From my local Craigslist: VIOLINIST ; plays a 1890 violin with beautiful inlaid back for your wedding or event. She will play your engagement, proposal on the Beach, Wedding, Anniversary or Birthday Party. Here’s the video linked in the ad:
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