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Give My Regards To Broad Street, Yesterday, Here There and Everywhere, Wanderlust
I’m not ready to say goodbye to Paul’s terrible movie, in fact watching this makes me want to see the whole thing. I might have seen the whole thing laid out on youtube, and if it is, expect the entire film posted on my website soon with humorous remarks dashed about. Anyway, despite the movie…
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Paul McCartney, Give My Regards to Broad Street, Eleanor Rigby
I’ve never seen Give My Regards to Broad Street, but from what I’ve read, its pretty awful. Apparently, it was Paul McCartney’s ego run amok, thinking he could replicate the success of “A Hard Day’s Night” with another movie about a “day in the life” of…Paul McCartney. The movie was a huge waste of money,…
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Seinfeld, The Movie!
Some of the best running gags on Seinfeld were the fake movies the gang was always seeing. Rochelle, Rochelle, Death Blow, Checkmate, and Sack Lunch all come to mind, but it all begs a larger question, what would a Seinfeld movie look like? Well, luckily some genius on the internet has no shortage of ideas. …
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The Hey Jude Rehearsal Videos
I should have reversed these posts, but after I was surfing “Hey Jude” yesterday on youtube, I found some more choice clips of the legendary song, so consider this an unofficial part 2. These are rehearsal videos of the lads in the studio learning the song. You get John doing some funny antics, Ringo singing,…
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The Beatles, Hey Jude
I woke up this morning knowing I wanted to post something by the Beatles. For whatever reason I put on “Hey Jude,” their 1968 9 week #1 smash hit. By this point, “Hey Jude” is rather rote and overplayed, but this morning, to me at least, the song sounded fresh. It’s kind of strange how…
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Apollo 13, Walter Cronkite's Complete CBS Coverage
Most of us have seen Ron Howard’s incredible 1995 movie, Apollo 13. I remember that my father took me to see it in the theaters, and it was one of the most incredible movies I’d ever witnessed. Every time the film is on television, I find myself glued to the screen in rapt awe and…
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They Might Be Giants, Particle Man
I only know two songs by They Might Be Giants (not counting the Daily Show theme). I posted the “Istanbul” song yesterday, so today I’m posting “Particle Man.” This song was also famously featured on Tiny Tunes, but due to the dreadfully horrible and arbitrary copywrite laws enforced by youtube, I can’t post that original…
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They Might Be Giants, The Four Lads, Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
I had no idea that They Might Be Giants didn’t write this song! It turns out that the Four Lads, in 1953, came up with this incredibly catchy and insane song. It was a top ten hit and a certified gold record. Imagine that! I learned all this from hearing a tape of Bob Dylan’s…
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Bob Marley, Duppy Conqueror, Rare Studio Take
We’re back in the 1974 Catch a Fire sessions as Bob Marley and the Wailers cut a fifth version of “Duppy Conqueror.” What is a “duppy,” and why is Bob conquering them? Interesting question. Well, in Jamaica, duppy is slang for ghost, and Bob was thinking about opening up a Jamaican branch of the Ghostbusters. …
