If you’re ever in an argument on why music needs to be continued in schools, just show them this. The arts have an impact on test scores, increased hand-eye coordination, helps with math, and keeps kids out of trouble (until they, you know, start to join rock bands in their 20s). The Hot Scots of Lake Howell High School put this routine together in a week and, with over 6 million views so far, the joy lives in their faces.
The Strangest Headphone Ad You’ll Ever Watch
Strength & flexibility are crucial aspects for long-lasting Headphones. Enjoy the long-lasting durability of Sennheiser’s Urbanite headphones because their strength & flexibility are just what your ears desire. At least that’s what this strange and awesome commercial tells us.
https://youtu.be/Lvpi6KZK2NE
Carrie Brownstein’s Memoir, ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl,’ Will Be Out In October
Penguin has released information on Carrie Brownstein’s memoir, and it will get released on October 27, 2015. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl is from a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply personal look at life in rock and roll.
Before Carrie Brownstein codeveloped and starred in the wildly popular TV comedy Portlandia, she was already an icon to young women for her role as a musician in the feminist punk band Sleater-Kinney. The band was a key part of the early riot- grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest, known for their prodigious guitar shredding and their leftist lyrics against war, traditionalism, and gender roles.
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl is the deeply personal and revealing narrative of Brownstein’s life in music, from ardent fan to pioneering female guitarist to comedic performer and luminary in the independent rock world. Though Brownstein struggled against the music industry’s sexist double standards, by 2006 she was the only woman to earn a spot on Rolling Stone readers’ list of the “25 Most Underrated Guitarists of All-Time.” This book intimately captures what it feels like to be a young woman in a rock-and-roll band, from her days at the dawn of the underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture in the 1990s through today.
Calvin & Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson On Why Hobbes Is A Tiger, And The Lasting Impact Of The Cartoon
At the very beginning, why did you decide to make Calvin’s stuffed animal a tiger versus a bear or some other animal? Was there a particular reason?
Bill Watterson: I don’t think there was a lot of thought in that either. I wanted something less conventional than a bear. For Calvin, it should be a bit unusual. But I probably spent all of five minutes thinking about it. Once I hit on a tiger, of course, it was great — cats and I have a certain rapport, so this was a very natural fit for me. Maybe Hobbes could have been some other animal, but he arrived as a big cat, and that expanded my connection with him. Hobbes was as much my alter-ego as Calvin was.
Are you surprised that the strip continues to enjoy such immense popularity so long after you stopped drawing it, and do you have any thoughts about why it’s had such lasting impact?
Bill Watterson: It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work! (laughter) So, no, I don’t understand it at all! I honestly assumed that the books would go out of print within a few years, once they didn’t have the strip in the newspaper to create the readership for them. But people kept buying the books anyway, and now parents are showing them to their kids, and a new generation is coming up reading the strip. That’s something I never anticipated at all.
As for why it continues to speak to people, I don’t really know. I always tried to make the strip entertaining on several levels, so one aspect might appeal even if others don’t. But really, I was writing to amuse Melissa (my wife) and myself. That’s as far as I understand.
Via Jenny Robb, curator and associate professor at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at The Ohio State University in an in-depth interview in “Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue” (Andrews McMeel Publishing).
The Best Of The Disappointed Comments With Abbey Road On TripAdvisor
You would think if you’re going to go to world’s most famous zebra crossing in Abbey Road, you’d be really happy.
But going on TripAdvisor, you’ll see some have branded it ‘extremely disappointing’, ‘smaller than you imagine’ and ‘just a street.’
The London crossing became a must-see site for fans after The Beatles were photograpped walking across it for the cover of their 11th studio album.
But many visitors were surprised that the road is actually a road used by cars, and not Disneyland.
Why There Are No Bands Anymore, According To Noel Gallagher
“What has become apparent to me is that we live in ridiculous f***ing times now. The music that’s being made now is so f***ing bland. It’s nice and kind of meaningless and then you turn on the television and the news is so savage! The music doesn’t reflect the times at all.
“I hear Radio 1 in the morning when the kids are up and going to school and it’s just bland, meaningless, mindless pop music and then the news is: ‘The World Is Going To End!’ What’s going on? The music of George Ezra: Wow!”
“I was talking to a mate recently who’s been in various bands and I was asking what he was doing and he was saying, ‘I’m trying to do my own stuff now.’ I said, ‘You should be in a band, you look great,’ and he said, ‘Nobody wants to be in bands any more, everybody wants to be a singer-songwriter.’ That’s his generation. Everyone wants to be Jake Bugg or George Ezra. The band thing is dying out.
“I blame it on the lack of rehearsal rooms and the lack of little tiny studios because it’s easier for a guy to sit at home with a tape recorder and send it to a record company than it is for a band.
“Back in my day, we used to go down the rehearsal room when it was 20 quid a night, or whatever it was, and you bash it out. Everybody’s got a home recording studio on their iPhone now. All the cheap studios and venues are going to go soon. You’re going to either be stuck at the bottom in [London pub venue] the Boston Arms or you’re going to be catapulted to the top at The O2 and there will be nothing in between.”
Jarvis Cocker Of Pulp Gives His Manifesto For A New Age Of Creativity
Jarvis Cocker, the Britpop frontman for Pulp, revealed in Another Man Magazine his manifesto for a new Stone Age of creativity:
NU-TROGLODYTE MANIFESTO
Where can you find peace?
Where can you find total silence?
Complete darkness?
Here.
No phone reception.
No wi-fi.
No TV.
No radio.
This is the real sound of the Underground: (cos it is, y’know actually underground)
No outside influences whatsoever.
A blank canvas.
Well, not exactly blank – look at those walls: what do you see when you look there? Can you see faces? Patterns? They’re not really there you know – just like there aren’t any scorpions or bears or hunters up in the night sky. No, they’re just dot-to-dot pictures invented by some forgotten caveman. The universe is random: only man tries to give it a pattern. To make it mean something.
But aren’t these patterns good enough as they are? Without any interpretation? And wouldn’t you love to be able to make something as beautiful as this? Of course you would. But no one made it: it just happened.
Stalagmites
Stalactites
Which is which?
“Tights come down” – (a crude but effective way to remember)
These things take over 20,000 years to form, you know.
And I thought I was a slow worker…
Is it a coincidence that the club that gave birth to the most significant and influential musical group of the past century was called “The Cavern”?
I don’t think so.
And why are all the best nightclubs in dark, dingy basements with low ceilings?
Easy:
Because it reminds us of being here… Back in the cave. I mean – c’mon: why do you think it was even called “Rock Music” in the first place?
This is where it all began
A member of your family once lived here
The original Des-Res
Now it’s time to come home
Time to come back to the source
Time to escape the constant, endless, meaningless jabbering that distracts you from who you really are and what you really want to do.
There’s room to think in here
Room to live
Come in (mind your head)
Sit down
Stare at a rock
Let’s start all over again.
You Need To Read Toni Morrison’s Advice On Failure
As a writer, a failure is just information. It’s something that I’ve done wrong in writing, or is inaccurate or unclear. I recognize failure—which is important; some people don’t—and fix it, because it is data, it is information, knowledge of what does not work. That’s rewriting and editing.
With physical failures like liver, kidneys, heart, something else has to be done, something fixable that’s not in one’s own hands. But if it’s in your hands, then you have to pay very close attention to it, rather than get depressed or unnerved or feel ashamed. None of that is useful. It’s as though you’re in a laboratory and you’re working on an experiment with chemicals or with rats, and it doesn’t work. It doesn’t mix. You don’t throw up your hands and run out of the lab. What you do is you identify the procedure and what went wrong and then correct it. If you think of [writing] simply as information, you can get closer to success.
Lenny Bruce Animated Short Directed By Former National Film Board of Canada Jeff Hale
Thank You Mask Man is an animated short film based upon a comedy routine by Lenny Bruce involving The Lone Ranger and Tonto. The film was produced by John Magnuson, and directed by Jeff Hale (a former member of the National Film Board of Canada). Bruce intended to deconstruct homophobia and other issues explored within the routine.
‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’ Trailer Features Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love
When you want to show just how kick-ass, rough, tough, dirty, sexy, vibrant, independent and a lone-wolf of a character you are, baby, you turn to Led Zeppelin. Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, in theaters July 31st.
