My officemate Michael K. made a very astute observation yesterday and the more I review the evidence, the more I agree with him.
Remember this?
Strikingly similar to this, isn’t it?
Man, I love me some Ann and Nancy Wilson, and have for years…
Way to Go, Wilsons!, originally uploaded by AZLee.
This just makes me love and respect them all the more. Thanks to sturtle for posting this.
Get down with Einstein
I hate birds. I love monkeys.
But if I had a bird that could sound like a monkey (or sing, or pss-pss-pss whisper, or “Oh my God oh my God oh my God!”), I might change my mind.
This is from the TED2006 (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference where all the smarties were.
Something I NEVER thought I’d see
So, during the first two or three years of the 1980s, my favorite band was a little South African outfit called Spider. They had one top 40 hit called “New Romance (It’s A Mystery)” but became better known for a what a couple of their members went on to do after the band broke up. Anton Fig was their drummer, and he was well-known for performing nightly on the David Letterman show. Holly Knight played keyboards, and she went on to be a famous songwriter who wrote songs for the likes of Tina Turner, Pat Benatar, Heart, Aerosmith and many, many more.
Having missed my one chance to see them live (they were supposed to open for Alice Cooper at the Cape Cod Coliseum and I bought tickets but the show was cancelled!) and never having known them to shoot a video, I thought my chances of ever seeing them perform — even faking it — were nil. Well, leave it to YouTube. You’ll recognize the song because Tina Turner went on to make it a huge hit. However, Spider recorded it first, and this version will always be the one I remember and cherish the most. (Although it’s edited way down in this clip.)
Feast your eyes on this!
More cowbell!!!
Sometimes I think I get Christopher Walken way better than the basement-dwelling, comic book-trading, midnight film-watching crowd does. And of course, I’m right about that. Remember, dude was a musical theatre dancing fag way before he was an edgy, scary film heavy.
Point in fact — Walken’s 2000 Saturday Night Live appearance has spawned this website that lets you add cowbell to any song you upload. And it also lets you add Walken.
If you haven’t seen said clip, well, just watch before you read on.
Below is my first attempt at cowbelling/Walkenizing. Obviously, it’s perfect. (91% cowbell, 71% Walken.)
Listen and weep.
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