John Green has written best-selling young adult novels including Looking For Alaska, Paper Towns and the recent The Fault in our Stars, which was named Time magazine’s best fiction book of 2012. Want a good cry? Go see them movie.
John and his brother, Hank, are the Vlogbrothers, helping pioneer video blogging when they communicated only through YouTube videos for a year. They’ve since produced a wide variety of video series and have attracted a devoted army of fans known as the Nerdfighters.
The amazing Zen Pencils created a cartoon based on a quote taken from a 2009 Vlogbrothers video, and is definitely a rule for life.
Movember, the global charity that raises funds and awareness for prostate and testicular cancer research and men’s mental health, is proud to share that more than 115,000 Canadians participated and raised over $20 million in its 8th annual campaign. Canada is the leading fundraising nation, with more than $75 million raised globally. Funds will continue to come in over the coming weeks as Mo Bros and Mo Sistas wrap up their fundraising efforts.
Tomorrow Mo Bros and Mo Sistas across Canada will make one final call for donations as part of #GivingTuesday. Support a Mo you know and donate at Movember.com.
“It’s with thanks to all our Mo Bros and Mo Sistas who donate and make their support count that Canada once again leads as the top fundraising nation,” said Pete Bombaci, Country Director, Movember Canada. “To be able to share with our community that our funds have lead to a prostate cancer research breakthrough championed right here in Canada is truly remarkable. It’s why we mo.”
MO MONEY, MO IMPACT
Movember has made more progress combating prostate cancer this year than ever before. The results of a Movember funded project, lead by researchers right here in Canada, is a game changer for men with a prostate cancer diagnosis. It means that in the future, men from around the world will have a higher chance of survival by being offered a more tailored treatment plan. And, it’s just one example of the impact funds raised by the Movember community is having.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Funds from the 2014 campaign will benefit men’s health programs and projects across the country. The Movember Foundation is incredibly proud of its world-class programs and will continue working to identify the best programs and research opportunities that align with it’s vision – to change the face of men’s health. Funds will be allocated in the months following April 2015.
CHALLENGES & PRIZING
For Mo Bros and Mo Sistas, there are still some great prizes still to be won, so keep up the good work. The close for prizing is December 9th, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. EST.
Movember’s 2014 Canadian major partners include Harry’s and Deeley Harley-Davidson®
For more information on Movember or to donate, please visit Movember.com.
Growing up in the Bronx in New York, Stanley Kubrick was terrible at school and often skipped class to go to the movie theatre. He soon developed an interest in photography, teaching himself how to use the camera his father gave him as a gift. Similarly, Kubrick didn’t have any formal education in directing and taught himself all aspects of filmmaking. Kubrick on making his first short film, Day of the Fight in 1951:
“I was cameraman, director, editor, assistant editor, sound effects man—you name it, I did it. It was invaluable experience, because being forced to do everything myself I gained a sound and comprehensive grasp of all the technical aspects of filmmaking.”
By the age of 31, Kubrick had already worked as a photojournalist at Look magazine for five years (check out some of his amazing photos) and directed four feature films. In 1960, he was hired to direct the most-expensive film ever made at the time, Spartacus. Kubrick butted heads with Kirk Douglas, the leading-man and producer, over the film’s direction and the bad experience made Kubrick vow that he would have complete creative control on all of his future films.
Kubrick is often described as an eccentric thanks to the stories about his obsessive attention to detail, treatment of actors, personality quirks and reclusiveness. But these anecdotes are overshadowed by his ground-breaking movies, technical expertise and the opinions of those close to him, who described him as a warm, loving and gregarious genius of a man.
The quote used in the comic is taken from a 1968 Playboy interview Kubrick did soon after the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey. You can read the context of the question in this Brain Pickings article.
Australian radio station Triple J has found one of the most unique Nirvana interviews ever. They published audio of a 1992 interview with the band that had pretty much been lost in the ether since, and thanks to the trio’s exhaustion with sudden Nevermind fame, the results are awkward and amazing.
The chat happened during Nirvana’s only tour of Australia, when they headlined the first Big Day Out festival. “That chat was one for the ages — but for all the wrong reasons,” Triple J writers. “Tired, sick, and also just sick of the rigmarole of being the biggest band in the world, Kurt and bandmates Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic gave one of the most awkward and confrontational interviews we’ve ever had on triple j.”
Confrontational is certainly one way to put it. They somewhat play along with host Jen Oldershaw’s questions and meet a few with mostly silence, and at one point, Cobain takes a scissor to the microphone. Apparently, Cobain kept his head on the desk of the studio for a portion of the interview and also does a Tom Waits-like voice when talk about vocal issues.
Everyone wants to get more views on YouTube, so Mashable got viral video star Lamarr Wilson to launch YouTube Weekly, a 5 minute per episode series that offers tips for raising YouTube views and turning visitors into subscribers.
Nils Lofgren released Face the Music, a 10-disc retrospective earlier this summer. It’s the most extensive look at Lofgren’s career to date, the box — nine discs of music and a concert DVD — includes a demo recorded when he was 16, unreleased solo and Grin material, and cuts from every one of Lofgren’s albums, including cult classics like Nils Lofgren, Cry Tough, the Pete Townshend-praised Crooked Line, and Grin’s 1+1, all the way up to his latest solo release, 2011’s Old School.
You’ve had some wild adventures with Neil Young, like Tonight’s the Night and Trans. Tonight’s the Night was the roughest record ever made, all live in the studio. That was the plan. No fixes no matter what. Neil didn’t want us learning the song and working on parts too much. It was the antithesis of production. Briggs would say, “When Neil gets the vocal, that’s it — we’re not going to over-rehearse.” We’d drink tequila, have a couple of puffs, play pool and commiserate about our dead friends Danny Whitten and Bruce Berry, and then record through the night.
On the Trans album, Neil invented all these machines to help handicapped kids and gave all the machines names and personalities, and I’m going, “This guy is brilliant.” Then one day I show up and I hear all this hubbub with Elliot Roberts. I hear that David Geffen is suing Neil because he’s too “un-Neil Young-like.” I’m thinking, “How can this happen?” But that’s the bureaucracy of the business. On the Trans tour in Europe, I like to brag that we were so crazy as a collective band that we were too much for Neil Young and at the end of six weeks, he fired us! [Laughs] To be so crazy to freak out Neil Young, that’s crazy. We were all pretty buzzed. One day Neil says, “I need you to do me a favor. After rehearsal, go to Bruce [Palmer’s] house and sit there and play the songs for a few hours with him.” So we played “Cowgirl in the Sand” over and over. It was an exercise in helping Bruce with muscle memory. There are outtakes from the Berlin video I hope see the light of day, like a really slow and deep version of “Mr. Soul” with vocoders. I’d walk out there and get down on my knees with my guitar and Neil would whack the strings for a great moment of distortion. Really reckless and passionate.
Entertainment One Music Canada (“eOne”), the country’s leading audio physical and digital distributor, is proud to announce the exclusive Canadian license agreement of BC-based The Wild! for their upcoming “GxDxWxB” album.
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We’ve been longtime fans of The Wild!’s live show and music they’re working on in the studio,” said Greg Pappas, General Manager, eOne Music Canada. “We’re more than pleased to be working with the band, their manager Lyle Chausse, with his long-term vision and unflagging integrity.”
“It’s great to be working with the eOne team,” said Lyle Chausse. “We couldn’t be more excited to have eOne Music Canada connect with retailers, as well as music fans, and help grow the bands’ audience.”
The Wild! are making waves in the industry as well, with one of Canada’s rising bands, One Bad Son impressed with their live show. Lead singer Shane Volk says, “The Wild! are easily one of our favourite bands to hit the road with. Not only do they take life offstage to a new level, but their professionalism, energy, and sheer power onstage pushes us to new heights each night. Just what a rock n roll brotherhood should do!!”
The Wild!’s reputation of unspeakable acts of debauchery hasn’t been seen in rock and roll since the days of Guns N Roses and the Sunset Strip. eOne Music’s A&R asked The Wild! after the contract was done if they’d like to go out for dinner and celebrate. He came home Saturday afternoon. All he’ll say is it involved a high-end restaurant to start, Toronto’s Bovine and Cherry Cola’s bars, a stretch limo, a sunrise, and an unbelievable bar tab.
The Wild!, made up of Dylan Villain, Boozus, Pistol Pete and Reese Lightning, will be bringing their blues- drenched, loud-rockin, nasty, precision-played rock across Canada in January with Buckcherry:
January 20 Winnipeg, MB The Oak
January 22 Lloydminster, AB The Kooler
January 23 Edmonton, AB River Cree Casino
January 24 Calgary, AB Deerfoot Casino
January 26 Red Deer, AB Wild Bills.
The Wild!’s ‘Party Till Your Dead’ single will be sent to radio in January 2015 with their “GxDxWxB” debut album out in Spring, 2015. It was produced by Mike Fraser (Aerosmith, Jimmy Page, Dave Ghrohl, Van Halen) at the legendary Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, BC with additional production completed at the city’s Armoury Studios. Fraser says, “This is the best band I’ve come across in a long time. I’m very excited to be working with The Wild! and have them teamed up with eOne! Sounds like a winning combo to me!”
The Wild! accidentally had a top 30 Rock track for “Road House” this past summer, garnering over 72,000 views with a genre-busting video from acclaimed Video Director Stuey Kubrick. Watch the video:
From the first episode of The Richard Pryor Show, check out this rarely-seen sketch – it’s like Jimi meets KISS meets Funkadelic and creates Black Metal in the process.
Last month, The Vinyl Factory were given unprecedented access to the mastering suites at London’s world-famous Abbey Road Studios to meet some of the best engineers in the business. The final stage of the production process before the masters are shipped off to the factory to be pressed, mastering is a fine art and its practitioners highly technical craftsmen. Responsible for some of the most important records in history, from The Beatles to Pink Floyd, there’s no better place to learn than Abbey Road.
Having explored the art of vinyl mastering in our short film earlier this year, their visit to Abbey Road was an opportunity to receive a one-on-one tutorial of what actually goes on when you cut music to disc for the first time. Veteran mastering engineer and the man behind the half-speed and direct to metal mastering which make Abbey Road unique, Miles Showell talks you through the process, from keeping the levels tight to spacing the grooves on the record.
