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The Audacity of Hoops
Alexander Wolff (Sports Illustrated) examines the importance of basketball in Barack Obama's life.
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at 9:43 PM on January 15, 2009
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In 1964, a clean-cut college student named
Jim Morrison appeared in a
promotional film for
Florida State University.
[previously] The following year, Jim moved to California and transferred to UCLA's film school. After earning his degree, Morrison got together with another talented young
filmmaker named
Ray Manzarek, and they started a little band called
The Doors. Jim didn't return to Florida until 1969, by which time he'd become one of the
biggest rock stars in the world. Then, in what
VH1 would later call the
31st most shocking moment in rock & roll
history, he exposed his private parts and simulated masturbation and copulation during a concert in Miami —
in front of innocent children. A felony.
[This was not the first or last run-in Jim (aka "Mr Mojo Risin", aka "The Lizard King") had with the police. But that's not to say he was all bad.] Despite the absence of any photographic evidence
(audio only), when the case
went to trial Morrison was found guilty of indecent exposure and public profanity, both misdemeanors. He was sentenced to 6 months in prison, but allowed to remain free on bail pending appeal.
[His estranged father put in a good word for him with the Department of Probation.] At the time of
Jim Morrison's death in a Parisian bath tub in 1971,
his appeal had not yet been heard.
[This is THE END.]
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at 11:06 AM on September 3, 2007
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In 1971, George Harrison
RIP and
Ravi Shankar organized,
promoted, and put on
The Concert for Bangladesh – the first high-profile rock concert to
raise money (administered by UNICEF) for humanitarian causes – at NYC's Madison Square Garden.
Performances: Ravi Shankar
{ Bangla Dhun } George Harrison and band
{ Wah Wah, My Sweet Lord, Awaiting On You All, That's The Way God Planned (composed/performed by Billy Preston), It Don't Come Easy (composed/performed by Ringo Starr), Beware of Darkness (featuring Leon Russell on guest vocals), While My Guitar Gently Weeps (featuring Eric Clapton on lead guitar), Jumping Jack Flash/Young Blood Medley (performed by Leon Russell), Here Comes The Sun (featuring Pete Ham) } Bob Dylan
{ A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall/It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry, Blowin' In The Wind, Just Like A Woman, Love Minus Zero/No Limit, If Not For You (soundcheck duet with George Harrison) } [Encore!, Encore!]
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at 2:52 AM on August 30, 2007
(37 comments)
Andy Kaufman { Mighty Mouse, Elvis impersonator, Bachelor #3, Latka Gravas/Vic Ferrari, the host of his own TV special, trouble-maker [?], Dostoevsky's Idiot, "born again" Christian, percussionist, inter-gender wrestling/bitch-slap champion, lounge singer Tony Clifton [?], bit player, Elayne Boosler's ex-boyfriend, and the Man On the Moon } RIP [YA RLY]
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at 7:49 AM on August 20, 2007
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Little Boxes is a song written by Malvina Reynolds in 1962 that lampoons the development of suburbia and what many consider its bourgeois conformist values.
[1]
During the first season of the Showtime series
Weeds,
Malvina's original recording was used during the opening credits. In the second season, the song was performed by a different artist each episode —
Elvis Costello,
Death Cab for Cutie,
Engelbert Humperdinck,
Kate and Anna McGarrigle,
Maestro Charles Barnett,
Aiden Hawkin,
Ozomatli ,
The Submarines,
Tim DeLaughter,
Regina Spektor, and
Jenny Lewis.
[Malvina's recording was used again for the season finale.] Randy Newman just kicked off the third season, which the network promoted with a
Little Boxes music video contest.
Kevin Nealon and
Romany Malco were notable among the
participating cast members.
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at 11:18 PM on August 14, 2007
(132 comments)
DayFilter: Everyone from
T-Bone Walker,
The Mamas &
the Papas,
The Carpenters,
Jimmy Buffett,
Fleetwood Mac,
The Neighborhoods,
The Boomtown Rats,
New Order,
Duran Duran,
The Bangles,
Snow,
Pulp,
Rialto,
Alan Jackson,
Tegan and
Sara, to
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, has a song about Monday... but
only Ohio's best newscast -
19 Action News –
has Carl Monday,
bitch! [closed]
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at 6:31 AM on August 13, 2007
(25 comments)
Frank Zappa' was so many different things
{ Mother of Invention, orchestra conductor, garage freak, SNL musical guest, anti-censorship advocate, home movie maker, Congressional witness, Monkee, documentary film subject, whipping boy, drug trafficker, late-night TV talk show interviewee, death wisher, composer, Dance Fever judge, master of his domain, dental floss tycoon, cosmic force, breast man, Crossfire combatant and The Walrus, among others } that the one day
he was recently given by Baltimore's Mayor hardly seems enoughs.
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at 4:52 AM on August 12, 2007
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In early 1968,
Jean-Luc Godard filmed The Rolling Stones
in the studio writing/recording "Sympathy for the Devil".
Mick Jagger recalled in a 1995 interview with Jann Wenner: "... [it was] very fortuitous, because Godard wanted to do a film of us in the studio. I mean, it would never happen now, to get someone as interesting as Godard. And stuffy. We just happened to be recording that song. We could have been recording "My Obsession." But it was "Sympathy for the Devil," and it became the track that we used."
Later that year, Godard released
a film (in Europe) titled "One Plus One" which featured the "Sympathy for the Devil" studio footage. To increase the commercial value of the film, the U.S.
release was re-titled after the Stones song and the end of the film's soundtrack was altered to include
a full take of the song in its final form, much to the dismay of Godard.
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at 11:18 PM on August 9, 2007
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