Dean Martin was born Yesterday
DEAN MARTIN
WAS BORN
YESTER
DAY
Somebody should have told DEAN MARTIN (Dino Paul Crocetti, 1917-95) that his canary-yellow turtleneck in the Matt Helm movies didn’t flatter a face tanned like saddle leather. Martin was already an established Hollywood and Vegas property when he made The Silencers (1966), first of four campy perversions of Donald Hamilton’s tough, witty spy novels, and subsequent influence on everything from Mel Brooks’s “Get Smart” series to Mike Myers’s Austin Powers franchise. The opening sequence has Helm sliding from a tilting circular bed into a vast bubble bath with his ‘secretary’ Lovey Kravezit then emerging to be buffed with power towels and fitted with silk kimonos dropped from above — the bachelor-pad equivalent of overcomplicated battle-prep assembly lines in Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds Are GO (also 1966) or Nick Park’s The Wrong Trousers (1993). The Helm movies are tedious babe-parades loosely draped over supervillian-in-underground-lair-bent-on-global-domination plots, but they mark an important shift in Dino’s long and unstoppable career: from cherished if slightly goofy crooner-comedian of the Martin-Lewis and Rat Pack heydays, to dinner-jacketed hunk of boiled meat. Hosting the Dean Martin celebrity roasts of the 1970s, laboured televisusal festspielen that skewered a gallery of hilo notables ranging from Barry Goldwater and Ralph Nader to Truman Capote and Evel Knievel, Martin reached his nadir. Always in the middle seat, making with the conspicuous guffaw, highball and cigarette reliably in hand, there was tan-tan Dino, cocoa-butter shell of a man. Kick in the head is right.
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I want a Lunar Rover aka moon buggy,
moon buggy
Aeroponics
The Future of Farming....AEROPONICS.....
Something to talk about...
Discoverability new king not content?
Well if one were to evaluate ways to be discovered, this is certainly a new tool that should be investigated. Between the ease of use and ability to create and link to website or facebook page- doesn't get any better than this!
Robert Downey Jr. - The Faker
"I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker."
-Robert Downey Jr.
No iPhone 5 but something about a cloud?
Apple made their big announcement yesterday... The one we'd all been waiting for the announcement about the brand new.... iCloud? If like me you were expecting a brand new iPhone5 (I imagined it looking something a little like what you see to the right... Yes, right there) you may be disappointed but all is not lost, Apple announced the launch of the iCloud. But what is it?
The basic idea is that now, there is no need to sync your iPod, iPad (2) or even your iPhone. Have you even been fed up just sitting at your computer waiting and waiting for your device to sync? Well, you won't anymore. The idea is that the iCloud holds all of your music, apps and everything else in some sort of mystical wireless portal. This then syncs wirelessly to your device and you don't have to do anything! Update your phone, it saves to your iTunes. Update your iTunes, it saves to your iPod... It's all very clever. It also cross syncs your devices, between iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac (or PC). So you have all of your stuff on everything! Smart stuff, eh? Obviously, check out the Apply website for more info, or you can watch the 'keynote' speach below.
Edgar Allen Poe Country
Baltimore.
She's Crafty
She's Crafty..
she's just my type..
Nerd Style is Out of Style
Nerd Style? Get the Fcuk Outta Here.
You know how people wear the funny glasses that were considered "nerdy" from 1980's films and now it's considered "cool?" It's actually not nerdy anymore, but it isn't cool either. If you rock this style you are a douchebag tool. Your not original. Your not a hipster. Your a stupid idiot that listens to the radio.. But like bad radio. Radio that my little sisters friends listen to when they drive to Taco Bell..that kind of bad radio.
Jack Davis Monsters
JACK
DAVIS
did Monsters like nobodies business.
True legend in the illustration realm.
you would never guess he is a Georgia man with a Southern soft tone.
Creepiest Video of All Time
What the Hell?
Look, I know you pop music people like your little radio music and your American Idol and your Jersey Shore and whatever else BS you are into. I just saw this, come on! I first thought this was an SNL satire of some sort. The guy reminds me of those 52 year old men you see that are recently divorced and drop 10k in the VIP in South Beach or Vegas. Shit's creepy as hell. Age with grace pop music people...or we are fucked.
This has to be the creepiest video of all time.
Conan O'Brien's Affair on Twitter
"I prefer to have my affairs over Twitter because I usually can't last more than 140 characters."
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Rollin's Band - Liar
And now you're desperate and in need of human contact and then you meet me and your whole world changes. Because everything I say is everything you've ever wanted to hear. So you drop all your defenses, I'm perfect in every way
'cause I make you feel so strong and so powerful inside. You feel so lucky, but your ego obscures reality that you never bothered to wonder why things are going so well.You want to know why?
I'm a liar.
Rollin's
band
Banks are Bad?
Julia Parris
Julia Parris
Check out Parris's personal design work and online zine. It's fun and pretty inspiring.
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Reminds me of Indra
Sort of reminds me of a girl named Indra
Little Hell is Pure Heaven
Little Hell is the 3rd studio album from Dallas Green, 30. Green performs under his alias City & Colour for this intriguing side project. City & Colour have developed from a solo side project to a fully fledged touring and studio band which is far removed from his Post-Hardcore roots of Alexisonfire. But you Alexis fans, don’t worry... They’re still around!
Little Hell follows a very successful second album, ‘Bring Me Your Love’, which spawned fan favourites such as ‘Body in a Box’ and ‘The Girl’. Many thought topping previous success would be beyond City & Colour but frankly, this new album is just another triumph. If ‘Bring Me Your Love’ brought Dallas to the masses, ‘Little Hell’ certainly cements his name in the mainstream. Proof of this can be seen by the fact he sold out his UK tour in 90 seconds flat.
For those who love the previous City & Colour albums, you may be surprised. This is not the solo acoustic style we’re quite used to hearing! Green has worked in some rocking guitar riffs and smooth harmonies although he does work us in gently...
Opening with the oh-so-lovely “We Found Each Other in the Dark”, we are treated to what has always drawn us to Dallas Green, his incredibly soulful voice. This is a song that just speaks perfection from start to finish. The mellow guitar chords coupled with a simple bass line makes this such an easy listen and certainly sets the bar high for the rest of the album.
The title track is very much in the same veign as the opener, soft opening guitar and soothing vocals. But Little Hell seems to delve that bit deeper the lyrics seem so real, with the opening line:
“What if I can't be all that you need me to be”
Something that everyone must have felt. This is a song that I can relate to, a song that people will relate to. You also get a taste of Dallas’ genius on the guitar with a short but sweet solo.
I was going to tell you all about the single, but I thought you should judge for yourself! So have a listen to the video (above).
The true highlight for me comes with the song “Weightless”. This song opens with just a few chords that let you know Mr. Green's heavier side has come out to play. As he has even said himself, this song is a 'rocker!'. Unlike other City & Colour songs, this is no longer carried by Dallas' vocals alone, the drums crash into the chorus along with some heavy chords that open up for a catchy bass line. About 2/3s of the way in Dallas again showcases his musical talent by again giving us a great guitar solo. This track may differ from previous songs (and even albums) but it certainly gives us so much more.
As we continue, we get a little more of everything that a City & Colour fan could want. Beautful acoustic songs for his cult followers and rocking riffs for those who are converted.
Towards the end we get a live renditon of O'Sister that does nothing more than truly show us the strength of the mans vocals. This is an incredible album that delivers on all levels. If this is not yet in your collection, then you are certainly missing out.
Dogs on Bacon Day!
Real Men Watch Movies with their Sons
My dad never read to me when I was a little kid. But, we would watch old westerns about the Wild West or Mexican outlaw films. After we watched them we would role play and he would let me pretend to kill him.