I’ve decided that this pug should have been in The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” video. It’s certainly this dog’s theme song.
Stan Lee Cameo School, feat. Kevin Smith, Tara Reid, Michael Rooker, Jason Mewes and Lou Ferrigno
Discover the hidden talents of comic book legend Stan Lee as he teaches a very unique acting class. Directed by Kevin Smith and starring Tara Reid, Michael Rooker, Lou Ferrigno, Jason Mewes, and an Audi S8, it’s time for the world to appreciate the subtle art of cameo acting.
https://youtu.be/N8m-NxpUIP0
Anna Kendrick Stars in New Short Film for Kate Spade’s #missadventure Series
In part two of Kate Spade’s #MissAdventure web series, the always amazing Anna Kendrick gets mistaken for a personal meditation instructor while staying at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Hollywood, California.
You can watch part one here:
“Weird Al” Yankovic made an unboxing video for the 2015 Grammy Award
“Weird Al” Yankovic made an unboxing video for his 2015 Grammy Award for “Best Comedy Album of 2014” that he won for his Mandatory Fun album. I think I might make mine for when I get the JUNOs next week.
“Ohhh, look at this! I can make my own molds of Grammy Awards from now on.”
Cartoon: Going To The Park From A Dog’s Perspective
With a little help from his best friend and a bottle of Coke, one man discovers that a change in perspective can make all the difference in the world. Yes, this is EXACTLY how I feel after drinking it. I do!
https://youtu.be/7X2m2WueNcU
The Time David Letterman Hosted A Game Show In 1977
“This week, [insert celebrity introductions here], will be competing against [insert other team name here] on… THE RIDDLERS! With your host, David Letterman!”
This is a bizarre pilot in which five celebrities played against five contestants.
Five celebrities played against five contestants of the same occupation, hobby, etc. in a game of asking & answering riddles. At the start of a team’s first turn, host Letterman read a riddle to the first player, and a correct answer allowed that player to read a riddle to his/her partner, who then a read a riddle to the next player, and so on and so forth. As soon as a team got five correct answers, progress went the other way. When a player missed a riddle, control went over to the other team. The first team to answer nine riddles correctly won the game and $500.
The winning team went on to play a bonus game called “Crazy Quotes” for some extra money. Players on the winning team arranged themselves around in “intellectual ability”. Letterman read five quotes supposedly said by famous people. Each correct answer won more money and they increase in difficulty. The first four questions were worth $100, $200, $300, & $400, and the last question was worth $1,000, for a maximum total of $2,000.
But who cares, really? IT WAS HOSTED BY DAVID LETTERMAN!
That Time Frank Zappa Was Interviewed By Andy Warhol – And They Both Hated It
Just look at the expression on Frank Zappa’s face…You can tell Zappa isn’t really having any of it, and the feeling was mutual – Andy Warhol hated Zappa. The interview made a lasting impression on Warhol. Here’s the entry from The Andy Warhol Diaries for June 26, 1983:
Frank Zappa came to be interviewed for our TV show and I think that after the interview I hated Zappa even more than when it started. I remember when he was so mean to us when the Mothers of Invention played with the Velvet Underground— I think both at the Trip, in L.A., and at the Fillmore in San Francisco. I hated him then and I still don’t like him. And he was awfully strange about Moon. I said how great she was, and he said, “Listen, I created her. I invented her.” Like, “She’s nothing, it’s all me.” And I mean, if it were my daughter I would be saying, “Gee, she’s so smart,” but he’s taking all the credit. It was peculiar.
Fulll Video: The Dean Martin Roasts Johnny Carson
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast is an NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean Martin from 1974 to 1984. For a series of 54 specials and shows, Martin would periodically “roast” a celebrity. These roasts were patterned after the roasts held at the New York Friars’ Club. The format would have the celebrity guest seated on a dais, and one by one the guest of honor was affectionately chided or insulted about his career by his fellow celebrity friends.
Forget the Justin Bieber Roast. Watch this one, featuring George Burns, Truman Capote, Doc Severinsen, Joey Bishop, Ruth Buzzi, Dom DeLuise, Bob Newhart, Louisa Moritz, Fred DeCordova, Jonathan Winters, Foster Brooks, Dionne Warwick, Rich Little, Barry Goldwater, Bette Davis, Martin Milner, Kent McCord, Redd Foxx, Jack Benny ALL taking a spin at Johnny Carson in 1973.
https://youtu.be/n4yz7gctes4
8 Of The Best Quotes From Ben E. King
R&B and soul singer Ben E King, best known for the classic song Stand By Me, has died at the age of 76. King started his career in the late 1950s with The Drifters, singing hits including There Goes My Baby and Save The Last Dance For Me.
After going solo, he hit the US top five with Stand By Me in 1961.
It returned to the charts in the 1980s, including a three-week spell at number one in the UK following its use in the film of the same name and a TV advertising campaign.
I had the pleasure to work with him for his last album, Heart & Soul, back in 2010, and it was a thrill, to say the least. Impressively funny, kind, and still had the groove. He will be incredibly missed, so, in tribute, let’s take a look at 8 of his best quotes.
On the music industry today: “Those things don’t happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they’ll never know the true feeling that we did.”
Except if you’re Alicia or John: “I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.”
On the feeling of fooling himself: “I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn’t pursue it. I feel like I’m cheating sometimes.”
On the choice of songs: “You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It’s part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that.”
“We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn’t programmed. It wasn’t asked for. It wasn’t structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don’t think the industry would allow that to happen again.”
“Yeah. I’m amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don’t play well at all. I wouldn’t even attempt for a second to play in public.”
“Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.”
…and my favourite quote, and it might be the best one ever told to me by an artist:
Ben E. King: Ignore everyone that says you can’t achieve your dreams.
Me: Is that what you did?
Ben: Yes, because I’m crazy.
RIP, Ben.
Billie Holiday Was A Pioneer Feminist, Writes Neneh Cherry
Marking the 100th Anniversary of Billie Holiday’s birth this year, Neneh Cherry introduces a special section in the new issue of MOJO (June 2015/ #259) with a personal story of the time her father Don came face to face with the legendary singer.
“As a kid, my dad, [jazz musician] Don Cherry, used to roller skate all over Los Angeles. Him and his best buddy would make their way down to a jazz club and stand out the back and watch the music through the slats in the windows,” she explains of her long connection to the jazz genius.
“One of these times, Billie Holiday was playing there. Between sets she opened the back door and found Don and his friend there. She gave them some money and asked them to go buy her some candy at the store. Then she looked down at my dad and said, ‘You sure is skinny. If there’s no bad luck, then there’s no luck at all.’”
“I’ve always felt that we owe so much to Billie Holiday and the great blues queens. They were real pioneer feminists who paved many roads for us. They made anything possible,” she writes. “Her story is deep and touching, and that lives on forever in her music. That was her gift to us.”
Get the new issue of MOJO to read the rest of our Billie Holiday feature. As another taster, here’s just one of the songs featured in their guide to her essential music: Strange Fruit.
https://youtu.be/h4ZyuULy9zs
