You bring your GoPro to Coachella. You catch Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes onstage. He asks for you to toss it up, and proceeds to take this awesome footage.
Infographic: Moving to Canada? A Look At America’s Election Exodus
Trump or Clinton.
The prospective of either of these presidential frontrunners emerging victorious in November is too much for many Americans to bear.
A shocking number of U.S. citizens would consider a move to Canada—15 percent if Hillary Clinton is elected and 20 percent if Donald Trump is elected, according to recent polls.
The question remains: How serious are these people? And how hard is it to move to Canada?
Well, check out this inforgraphic below. We Canadians will be waiting for you.
Pilots Taking Younger Brother, Who Has William Syndrome, On His First Flight Will Make Your Day
This pilot took his younger brother, who has William Syndrome, on his first flight. No words may need to be said, the warmth and happiness comes through.
One of the greatest Australian commercials you’ll ever see
These pure waters are special, something goes in there, comes out different. But in a good way. Don’t know why, suppose it’s always been that way. Sure things don’t always turn out the way you expect, but nobody’s complaining. Because this water just… Makes things better. Here is one of the greatest commercials to ever come out of Australia. You might not even know what you’re being sold, until the very end.
Lenny Lipton On The Inspiration Behind The Song ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’
Unwinding on this magical holiday with some stoner anthems? Here’s the story behind one of our favorites: “Puff the Magic Dragon.” Let Puff’s creator, Lenny Lipton, tell you how it went down.
Read Prince’s first interview, in his high school newspaper
What follows is a transcript of Prince’s very first interview. It appeared in his high school newspaper on February 16, 1976, accompanied by a picture of a young afro-clad Prince sitting at a piano.
Nelson Finds It “Hard To Become Known”
“I play with Grand Central Corporation. I’ve been playing with them for two years,” Prince Nelson, senior at Central, said. Prince started playing piano at age seven and guitar when he got out of eighth grade.
Prince was born in Minneapolis. When asked, he said, “I was born here, unfortunately.” Why? “I think it is very hard for a band to make it in this state, even if they’re good. Mainly because there aren’t any big record companies or studios in this state. I really feel that if we would have lived in Los Angeles or New York or some other big city, we would have gotten over by now.”
He likes Central a great deal, because his music teachers let him work on his own. He now is working with Mr. Bickham, a music teacher at Central, but has been working with Mrs. Doepkes.
He plays several instruments, such as guitar, bass, all keyboards, and drums. He also sings sometimes, which he picked up recently. He played saxophone in seventh grade but gave it up. He regrets he did. He quit playing sax when school ended one summer. He never had time to practice sax anymore when he went back to school. He does not play in the school band. Why? “I really don’t have time to make the concerts.”
Prince has a brother that goes to Central whose name is Duane Nelson, who is more athletically enthusiastic. He plays on the basketball team and played on the football team. Duane is also a senior.
Prince plays by ear. “I’ve had about two lessons, but they didn’t help much. I think you’ll always be able to do what your ear tells you, so just think how great you’d be with lessons also,” he said.
“I advise anyone who wants to learn guitar to get a teacher unless they are very musically inclined. One should learn all their scales too. That is very important,” he continued.
Prince would also like to say that his band is in the process of recording an album containing songs they have composed. It should be released during the early part of the summer.
“Eventually I would like to go to college and start lessons again when I’m much older.”
Kevin Smith’s story on Prince is downright hilarious
Kevin Smith has publicly paid his respects to Prince, after the late music legend’s tragic passing on Thursday at age 57. The “Chasing Amy” director reflected on the impact of the icon’s music on his life, and the unreleased Prince documentary he made over a decade ago.
Smith had famously discussed the Prince doc on his first “Evening with Kevin Smith” DVD, where he touched on the origins of the film, and his unsuccessful attempt to use “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World” in “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.” Instead, he got a few weeks working on Prince’s unreleased documentary. Watch below to see how a simple question from an audience member turned into a 30-minute story.
Smith wrote on his Facebook page:
The music of #Prince was essentially the soundtrack to my life. My first girlfriend introduced me to his work, so any teenage heavy petting session was scored by the lusty purple pipes of his Royal Badness. #1999 and #PurpleRain were some of the first albums I ever bought. In 1989, his #Batman soundtrack never left my rack system. When we made #Clerks in 1993, the Love Symbol album was on a constant loop in my car’s cassette player. @samosier & I were almost killed on the Turnpike in the pouring rain when our car momentarily slid under an 18-wheeler as we were funking out to ‘My Name Is Prince’ (we sang only ‘The Morning Papers’ for the rest of the way home).
My wife & I flew to Minnesota for the Rave Un2 the Y2K concert at #PaisleyPark at the turn of the century, solely as fans. Less than a year later, I’d meet and work with the icon himself when I returned to Paisley Park to shoot a documentary with Prince during his Rainbow Children album listening party. I was lucky to have spent any time with him at all but I was far luckier just simply being alive in the Prince era.
His music moved me, his lyrics captured my imagination, his journey from musical Minnesotan to worldwide superstar inspired me. I honestly thought I’d die before Prince – so it’s sad to think there will be no new music in which he could sing us his point-of-view on the rest of his unique and legendary life. But having spent time at Paisley Park with the prolific Prince, I know there’s a vault full of unreleased tracks we’ve still yet to hear.
I told a long story about my week-long experience of working with Prince on the first Evening with Kevin Smith DVD – a story that would go on to help solidify my reputation outside of filmmaking as a raconteur. So as much as I got from Prince as a fan of good music, he also helped to shape ol’ Silent Bob’s second career as a talker. I cried today because I realized what a role model Prince always was to me: an Artist with a capital A who was not afraid to bite the hand that fed, never hesitated to reinvent himself, and was always entertaining on any stage. Today we lost one of the greatest Artists who ever lived. RIP, purple genius. Nothing compared 2 U…
Russian Pianist Without Hands And A Leg Will Blow Your Mind
15-year-old pianist Alexey Romanov of Zelenodolsk, Russia has defied all expectations by becoming an excellent pianist even though he has no fingers, and only one leg.
Romanov was born with a terrible illness that left him without hands and a leg. After being adopted four years ago, he fell in love with Mozart and Vivaldi and decided to learn how to play the piano. He has prosthetic arms, though he prefers not to use them while playing because he finds them uncomfortable. Sadly, his prosthetic leg is broken, but he still walks on it because it’s too expensive for his family to fix.
He recently played a concert with the respected La Primavera chamber orchestra, performing the song “River Flows in You” by South Korean pianist, Yiruma.
Watch James Corden’s Tribute To Prince: ” What a thing to be have been alive when Prince was making music”
It didn’t feel right to me to start an entertainment show without coming back down here and turning the lights on and saying something about it before we begin,” said James Corden. “I don’t even know where to start when I talk about Prince as an artist, because to be unique in this world is impossible. Almost all art is taken or borrowed from somewhere else, and yet an artist like Prince stands alone – he is completely original. I feel like today is about celebrating the incredible life that he led and the brilliant songs that he gave us. What a thing to be have been alive when Prince was making music, we are all incredibly lucky,” he concluded.
Watch Jennifer Hudson Sing ‘Purple Rain’ & ‘Hamilton’ Cast ‘Go Crazy’ In Broadway Tributes
The two leading Broadway shows paid tribute to Prince, who died on Thursday at the age of 57. Jennifer Hudson, the lead in the current production of The Color Purple, ended the show by sharing a personal Prince story and then sang a powerful, heart-wrenching performance of “Purple Rain” with backing from the cast, putting the church back into the venue. The cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical Hamilton finished the performance with a rousing rendition of “Let’s Go Crazy.”
