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Perry Farrell Sings Oseh Shalom

PERRY “Peretz” Farrell, once of Jane’s Addiction is seen here singing on the Chabad Telethon, singing the classic “Oseh Shalom”.

As one voice on Boing Boing puts it:

What makes it even more bizarre is how comfortable and natural Perry Farrell looks singing in that context.

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Posted: 4th, April 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Ophir Kutiel Explains ThruYOU

OPHIR Kutiel, aka Kutiman, is the creator of the YouTube sensation ThruYOU.

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Posted: 31st, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Dave The SouthWest Rapping Flight Attendant

WELCOME aboard the flight with Dave the Rapping Flight Attendant , of SouthWest Airlines.

Cue the music.

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Posted: 16th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


The Greatest Newspaper Story Ever

THE Greatest non-story ever. Now the second-greatest non-story ever, in the Guardian, Charlotte Higgins, chief arts writer:

It is a hidden, taboo subject, widely known about within the music world but barely discussed. Little research into the area has been done and the full extent of the problem is incompletely understood. But inappropriate use of alcohol in Britain’s great orchestras is, according to musicians, endemic – ranging from drinking a pint before a concert to steady the nerves, to full-blown inebriation on stage.

Any more facts?

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Posted: 28th, February 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Stevie Nicks Introduces The Top 10 Tambourine Players Ever To Iraq

FLEETWOOOD Mac’s Stevie Nicks is injured. Before she introduces the Top Ten Tambourine Players Ever, she tells us:

“I strained my right arm doing arm curls, which I never do. I’m trying to get it back so I can comfortably and enjoyably play tambourine.”

Nicks goes on to say that life in the Macs is “like joining the National Guard and being deployed to Iraq for two weeks.”

If not recovered Nicks may be forced to keep the music alive by attaching bells to her ankles and feet, making music wherever she goes.

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Posted: 27th, February 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Get A Rock Star To Join You Band: Nine Inch Nail Man Auctions Self

FORMER Nine Inch Nails drummer Josh Freese is promoting his new album. Here’s what you get for your money. It’s a plan seemingly based on the business of politics – you donate and you get to meet your hero:

$7

* Digital download of Since 1972, including 3 videos

$15

* CD/DVD double-disc set
* Digital download

It gets better:

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Posted: 21st, February 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment


This Bike Is Not A Pipe Bomb Sticker Closes Airport

“THIS bike is a pipe bomb,” advertises the legend on the bicycle in the environs of Memphis airport.

Can it be that the two great bugbears of modern life – cyclists and terrorists – have united to form a dastardly group? Should motorists – you know – take out cyclists before it’s too late?

Says John Greaud, vice president of airport security:

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Posted: 18th, February 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)


Acrassicauda: Iraqi Heavy Metal Band Lands In USA, Ahmadinejad Waits

ALL hail Acrassicauda, stars of “Heavy Metal in Baghdad.” The head bangers have landed in the United States. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks on.

Acrassicauda members have been granted refugee status and now reside in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The New York Times explains:

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Posted: 7th, February 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment


The Eurovison Wars: Spain’s Attack On Cliff Richard, The British Elvis

“DID Franco’s Spain rig Eurovision and cheat Cliff Richard out of a win?” asks the Daily Mail’s David Wigg.

Cliff, who has enjoyed hits in three millennia, has outlived bigger foes than General Franco. But can it be that the Spanish dictator fixed it so that Cliff’s Congratulations! lost the Tepid War of Eurovision by a single point to Spain’s Massiel’s forgettable La La La?

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Posted: 30th, January 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (8)


Pilot James Blunt Says Stay Grounded With Emma Thompson

SINGER James Blunt has created a protest “paper plane” in support of the Stay Grounded campaign.

Later this month, which is the heaviest flight-booking month of the year, we’re going to ask people to Stay Grounded and avoid booking or taking a flight if they can. To do this, we’re going to launch a collection of Protest Paper Planes in London created by talented famous people and talented normal people alike. Each paper plane will be a folded up sheet of A4 artwork with a brilliant piece of anti-flying or pro-flying alternative artwork on it.

When they are not swimming and walking around the world promoting their careers, James Franco, Emma Thompson and the aforesaid Blunt are telling other people not to fly on airplanes.

Blunt’s father, a Colonel in the British Army Air Corps, was a military helicopter pilot.

Blunt is a member of Harrow Aviation Club. Says he: “I can fly anything with a single engine.”

Blunt earned his pilot’s licence, aged 16.

Take it up, up, up and away, James:

Yes, she caught my eye,
As I walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
Flying high,
And I don’t think that I’ll see her again,
But we shared a moment that will last till the end.

Posted: 29th, January 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)


The Ten Best Birthing Songs Ever

CHARLOTTE Church delivers the customary celebrity post-natal blow-by-blow and reveals that throughout the birth she listened to Phil Collins.

Church says he was plugged into lover Gavin’s iPod and when the song In The Air Tonight came on, out flew Dexter.

Might Church have stumbled on an alternative drug-free therapy? Make a pain somewhere else in the body – in this instance, the ears – greater then the pain elsewhere?

True enough, the baby’s first earthly sounds will not be mum’s comforting screams but the soft rock of Collins, but you take your chances. We will only understand the perils of such exposure when Dexter grows up and expresses himself by rolling up the sleeves on his linen jacket and shaving his head into a sharp widow’s peak.

Anorak has passed this news on to our resident scientists and by the process of playing a stereo in the vicinity of Poole General Hospital they and we now bring you the…

Ten Best Birthing Songs Ever!

In The Air Tonight – Phil Collins

 

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Posted: 28th, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)


The Mannequin Speaker System: Uses For Katie Price

INTRODUCING the mannequin speaker system.

The Katie Price:

Description

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Posted: 26th, January 2009 | In: Technology | Comments (2)


Obama Inauguration Balls: Ten Miming Moments In Music

INTRODUCING cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriella Montero, clarinettist Anthony McGill and George Bush on weapons of mass destruction.

Only one of those things was amplified on Obama’s inauguration. Can you guess which one? Answers in the form of a mime.

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Posted: 23rd, January 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)


Coup Du Folie: French Farting And Baseball

COUP du Folie combines the thrill of baseball with the speed and sheer daring of lighting your own farts.

Says Gaston:

“I’m going to use it at the next Car-b-cue.”

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Posted: 21st, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Kary Perry And Travis McCoy Do A Kosher Split

NOT Lily Allen Katy Perry and a Travis McCoy have split.

As is the way of celebrity, and attracted to the spotlight, while Katy was hosting a New Years do, Travis updated his blog about his more famous associate:

We fight every night, now that’s not kosher
I reminisce with bliss of when we was closer
And wake up to be greeted by an argument again
You act like you’re ten

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Posted: 2nd, January 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Max Impact: The Sound Of An Iraq Air Raid

FOR those we are about to shoot in the face, we salute you – the US Airforce has a metal band.

They begin each concert with:

“We’re going to rock your face off!”

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Posted: 25th, December 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment


Christmas In Hollis For Santa’s Light Show

CHRISTMAS IN Hollis with Troy Lykken and Keith Gettelman’s Holiday Lights show in south Minneapolis.

Santa for global warming:

Spotter

Posted: 22nd, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)


Bagpipe Player Arrested For Playing ‘Distressing’ Music

GAWD bless the police, as Old Mr Anorak is wont to say ever since he heard that bagpipe-playing Shaun Cartwright has been detained for a breach of the peace.

There is a reason why the military plays bagpipes – to instil in the men a desire for bloody battle and to make them realise that there is nothing less to fear.

As reporters, Mr Cartwright’s bagpipes have been seized. But he was later released and told it was not in the public interest to press charges.

As the Scots Daily Record puts it:

Exclusive: Busker arrested and has bagpipes confiscated by English police for ‘causing distress’

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Posted: 22nd, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)


World’s First Excel Music Video: AC/DC

THE World’s First Excel Music Video, with AC/DC:

Posted: 18th, December 2008 | In: Technology | Comment


New Labour And Limp Bizkit

New Labour And Limp Bizkit – the debate…

For an example of Labour’s Limp Bizkitesque deviousness, see their platitudinous warblings over “humanitarianism”. David Miliband salutes the “brave people“, “fighting to gain tomorrow the democracies that we…are blessed with today“. Gisela Stuart tells us that “most politicians” are motivated by “a feeling that things don’t have to be the way they are and that there is something we can do to make it better“.

And yet, with a genuine humanitarian issue on their hands – so easily solveable that all they have to do is precisely nothing – they get all sociopathic on our asses.

Source

Posted: 16th, December 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment


I Found Jesus Playing Drum And Base

THE Reverend Andy C & MC GQ Praise it up for Jesus:

Spotter: MK

Posted: 16th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Van Halen’s M&Ms Rider In Full

THE Smoking Gun website has uneathed the  famous Van Halen tour rider in which is was “stipulated that brown M&M’s were to be banished from the band’s dressing room”.

This is the Mother of all Tour Riders, the one that made it possible for stars to order the sun to set at 7:54pm – in the East – that snow flakes should all match and that Cheryl Cole should cry 0.23 pints of saline solution each X Factor episode.

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Posted: 15th, December 2008 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)


The Most Embarrassing Song Contest: Having My Baby

AFTER the most embarrassing lyrics, the most embarrassing songs:

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Posted: 3rd, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)