Champagne Jam by Ween
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This is a high quality sudio cover of the Atlanta Rhythm Section track, comissioned for Mr. Show's Run Ronnie Run soundtrack.

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• more about the recording
  

previous ween linkage:

• ween mp3 brownload #1 - pandy fackler
• ween tourdates announced
• classic p-udding - episode 2
• liveween.com
• hi-res photo of of the day: green apple blue glove
• e-music
  

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As far back as "Love Me Do," John and Paul had stumbled onto a novel use of spicy little trills and langorously stretched out melismas that, along with sung open and parallel fifths, is truly one of the more subtle trademarks of their early soun. Here, what is essentially the identical technique is pushed beyond the routine envelope to create an entirely new and exotically foreign effect.

"After we'd done the session on that particular song-- it ended at about four or five in the morning-- I went home with a tape to see what else you could do with it. And I was sort of very tired, you know, not knowing what I was doing, and I just happened to put it on my own tape recorder and it came out backwards. And I liked it better. So that's how it happened."

--John Lennon, 1966

Ringo has a veritable field day on the drums and cymbals throughout. Also, even on this relatively 'progressive' track, they take the time to bother with one of their so typically fussy tambourine parts; on all four beats in the intro, on alternate even-numbered beats in the first pair of verses and the refrains, and shaken on every eighth note of the measure in verses three and four.

"My favorite piece of me is what I did on 'Rain.' I think I just played amazing. I was into the snare and hi-hat. I think it was the first time I used the trick of starting a break by hitting the hi-hat first instead of going directly to a drum off the hi-hat. I think it's the best out of all the records I've ever made. 'Rain' blows me away. It's out in left field. I know me and I know my playing... and then there's 'Rain.'"

--Ringo, 1984

According to Paul McCartney, the band played the song faster in studio than it appears on the final release, and then slowied it down during post production to achieve the "gloopy" sound. Despite the "gloop," the song was one of the first to feature Paul's signature loud, booming basslines.

"Rain" is not featured on an original album and did not make it onto a compilation album until Hey Jude in the US and Rarities in the UK.

The song also introduced the world to the concept of music video. The band, sick and tired of performing/miming their hits on an endless sting of cheesy television programs, decided they would create promotional films instead.

• music video
  
• Notes on Rain
• Quotes about Rain
• Lyrics to Rain
• Guitar Chords for Rain
• Clips from the Rain music video
• The Beatles and The Birth of Music Video
• Rain at Wikipedia
  
• Pick up Past Masters 2 at Amazon

previously on wtg:

• behind the beatles: being for the benefit of mister kite!
  
• behind the beatles: dear prudence
• behind the beatles: she said, she said
• the beatles: the biography
• Inside ILM: Beatles, Sythesizers and VD
• Before Mama Mia, Moving Out...There Was Sgt. Pepper's
  

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Tuesday in November (1945): Idealized portrayal of 1944 U.S. presidential election, made to show the world that the United States was sufficiently secure to hold a free and fair election during wartime. Shows campaign activities, efforts to ensure the secrecy of the ballot and fairness of the election, and media coverage of the electoral process, all culminating in a giant nighttime gathering in Times Square where a huge crowd awaits the result. Director: John Houseman.


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For those who completely stress out about buying gifts, WTG will be running a gift guide feature over the next month. Each entry will focus on a different category of gift. This week's edition features DVD's that go above and beyond the usual "special features," turning a simple movie into a unique gift.

• Office Space Extra Special Edition Exclusive - This item is only available at Best Buy and includes, in addition to the special edition disc, a red stapler, mousepad, coffee mug, picture frame, TPS report notepad, pen, and pencil. All for $3-5 more than the edition without all the goodies. Note: make sure to grab the widescreen edition.
• Spider-Man 2 Gift Set - This one costs more than twice as much as the disc-only version, but includes enough goodies make a worthy gift, given the right recipient. The package includes a portfolio of Spiderman artwork by 25 different comic book artists that is only available in this package. The set also includes postcards, a "concept to screen" portfolio, and a reprint of The Amazing Spider-Man #50 comic book.
• Frank Miller's Sin City (Recut & Extended Edition) - This two disc set contains a new version of the film as well as an additional two hours of special features. In addition to the discs, it comes with the complete reprinted first issue of Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novel The Hard Goodbye.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Collector's Edition Boxed Set) - In addition to video content that manages to blow away the numerous other releases of the film, this set includes a paperback copy of the script, an exclusive film cel senitype
• The Polar Express Gift Set - This set comes with a snowglobe and a toy train to suplament the additional songs and featurettes found on the two discs.
• Lord of the Rings Ultimate Gift Set Collection - This is essentially just a package containing all three ultra-mega-overkill gift sets for one price. You'll get books, figurines, keepsake boxes, magazines, trading cards and more.
• Director's Label Series Boxed Set - The Works of Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry - This mindblowing crowdpleaser goes beyond the full-color books that accompanied the individual discs by including bonus disc not available outside of the set and an exclusive double-sided poster featuring an original "exquisite corpse" illustration by all three directors on one side and an exclusive design by Chris Cunningham on the other. A second set of DVD's is available as well.
• Seinfeld Limited Edition Gift Set (Seasons 1-3) - This set includes seasons 1 -3 of the show as well as a hard copy of a script with Larry David's handwritten notes, "Monk's Diner" salt & pepper shakers and a set of playing cards. A second gift set is also available with a handwritten script and a miniature puffy shirt.
• The Ultimate Matrix Collection Limited Edition Collector's Set - This gigantic 10-disc set includes every second of Matrix-related film ever created and a Neo mini-bust figurine and a 80-page Collector's Book.

The following offer no extra items, just great multi-disc sets at a great price.

• Christopher Guest Collection - There are very few people who wouldn't enjoy receiving this set of three hilarious improvised films: A Mighty Wind / Best in Show / Waiting for Guffman. And at $19.97, it's a steal of a deal.
• The Muppet Show - Season One - Get all 24 episodes of the first season as well as the original pilot episode for $27.99
• Beavis & Butt-head, Vol. 1 - The Mike Judge Collection - Mr. Judge finally got around to securing the rights to the music and music video segments that made B&B so funny to begin with. This set includes 40 episodes, many of which feature the director's cut. $25.34.
  

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see also: holiday gift guide 2005: earth friendly edition

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Turkey weighing you down? Don't get up. Sit tight until Monday and veg.

• Pre-order the PostSecret book
• Sip a few superb brews from Young's Brewery
• Watch this super-8 film of Joy Division performing in an English Pup
• Grab a copy of the entertaining documentary about The Yes Men
• Download the demo of the addictive, sci-fi Sims/Sim City-esque Startopia
  
• Subscribe to this video podcast featuring 3D vids of Disneyland rides
• Experience William S Burroughs reading his Thanksgiving Prayer
• Race Super Sprint cars online with Gene Rally
• Read Slowpoke's strip about G.W. Bush's Thanksgiving
• Anticipate another musical milestone in February with the new Outkast album
• Check out a new Spike Jonze-directed commercial
• Fear an angry, bloodied Julie Atlas Muz
• Rediscover the Hollywood Stock Exchange
  
• Listen to the entirety of Jesus Christ Superstar in Japanese
• Buy a Gameboy Micro for only $89
• Win a TiVo xmas ornament
• Learn five techniques for background masking/object extracting in Photoshop
• Find out how Jazz Plays Off of Hiphop
• Read or listen to Penn Jillette 's stance on God
• Explore the Military History of Canada
• Grab some nifty Cornpone art
• Enhance iTunes with idleTunes
• Gasp at worth1000's That's Not Turkey
• Try a different type of search with Filangy
• Discover John Lennon's 11 Moments That Made The Man
• Help decide who had the Best Year Ever
• Hear the Histories of Reggae and HipHop together

• Last week's link explosion
  

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I Love Music has far too many threads for any sane person to read. Here are 10 recent additions that stand out from the pack due to information, insight, and humor.

1. What are your favorite remixes of 2005?
2. pop songs that have big floaty instrumental sections
3. The worst albums of 2005 - and why?
4. What albums do you wish they'd remaster?
5. what's the best non-contemporary song you've heard this year?
6. Pet Shop Boys' "Opportunties (Let's Make Lots of Money)" vs ABC's "How To Be A Millionnaire"
7. Akon vs Crazy Frog AKA What are the WORST singles of 2005?
8. how great is the lead singer of the pussycat dolls?
9. Song about a band who dresses like fruit?
10. how hot is madonna on the cover of the observer music monthly?
    

more 'inside ilm'

• Inside ILM: buddy rich, the queen of goth, and songs that ruined everything
• Inside ILM: Neil Young, Little Drummer Boy, and Jazz Hands
• Inside ILM: Ween, Dubby Disco & Reverse Sounds
• Inside ILM: 2005's Best/Worst, Madonna and Bands Who Dress Like Fruit
• Inside ILM: Urban Dance Squad, Sneaker Rhymes and Noisy Women
  
• Inside ILM: Mike Love, Dub and French Female Vocalists
• Inside ILM: Stockhausen, Erotica and Offensive Cover Art
• Inside ILM: George Jones, Minimal Techno and Stealing From Burroughs
• Inside ILM: Tape Loops, Wedding Songs and CCR
• Inside ILM: Monotonous Bands, Murderous Rappers and Freedom Rock
• Inside ILM: The Bangles, Drug Music and Lyrics That Don't Rhyme
• Inside ILM: Prefuse 73, Catchy Songs and The Bends
• Inside ILM: Beatles, Sythesizers and VD
• Inside ILM: 2005 Lists, Spank Rock and Songs about Songs
  

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More "classic" episodes of JenniShow. Long before vlogging had a name, Jenni of jennicam was doing just that. These are episodes 16 & 17 of her 45 (that I'm aware of) episode run. Research at the wayback machine (search for thesync.com) suggests that these episodes are at least 8 years old.

In episode 16, 'DC,' Jenni broadcasts from the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.

In episode 17, 'JenniCon II,' Jenni invites friends and fans over, interviews them, and plays twister.

Some of these episodes are really only significant for their historical value. Others are genuinely interesting. I'll leave it up to you to decide which is which.

• Download Episode 16
  
• Download Episode 17
• Previous Jennishow Episodes
  

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For those who completely stress out about buying gifts, WTG will be running a gift guide feature over the next month. Each entry will focus on a different category of gift. This week's edition features earth friendly products.

• Jimi Wallet - Jimi is the wallet for people who hate wallets. It is compact, translucent and lovable. Made of reycled/recyclable plastic. (my g/f uses one of these. It's small and durable.)
• Bike Chain Bottle Opener - This bottle opener is so cool, it makes twist-off irrelevant. The flexible chain handle provides endless fiddling fun, and the cog head works like a charm. (I've used this before. It is extremely sturdy and a great conversation piece)
• Vinylux Record Bowl - New York artist Jeff Davis created these wonderful and practical record bowls from actual recycled albums (that are no longer playable) with the original record labels intact. The labels and spindle-hole are protected by a clear seal.
• Big Shrimpy Dog Bed - Sturdy, odor- and water-resistant, it looks handsome in any living room or den. All components of this bed can be machine washed and dried, even the filling! This bed is filled with fleece scraps recycled from North American manufacturers.
• Presso - A revolutionary way to make conniseur coffee at home. The Presso is a gorgeous hand-operated espresso maker that requires no electricity.
• Bottle Cap Fishing Lure - Manufactured from recycled bottle caps, steel rattlers and assembled with VMC The World's Finest Hooks, the Bottle Cap Lures catch everything from bass, crappie, and perch, to trout, salmon, walleye, pike, muskie, char, whitefish... north to south, the list goes on.
• Juicy Fruit Recycled Juice Bag - Next time you go grocery shopping, take along this tote made from real recycled juice box labels.

see also: holiday gift guide 2005: dvd gift set edition

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Destination Earth (1956): In this corporate-sponsored cartoon, Martian dissidents learn that oil and competition are the two things that make America great.


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On January 31, 1967 the Beatles went to Knole Park near Sevenoaks in Kent to make the promotional film for Strawberry Fields Forever. "There was an antique shop close to the hotel we were using in Sevenoaks," remembers former Apple employee Tony Bramwell. "John and I wandered in and John spotted this framed Victorian circus poster and bought it."

Inspired by the finely-wrought language and the evocative names of the performers on the poster, John began to compose a song based on it.

The poster mentions "The Celebrated Horse Zanthus" (not Henry, the horse's name in the song), contains several references to the Hendersons, and advertises Mr. Henderson's "TRAMPOLINE LEAPS AND SOMERSETS! Over Men & Horses, through Hoops, over Garters and lastly through a Hogshead of REAL FIRE!"

Paul : 'Mr. Kite' was a poster that John had in his house in Weybridge. I arrived there for a session one day nad he had it up on the wall in his living room. It was all there, the trampoline, the somersets, the hoops, the garters, the horse. It was Pablo Fanque's fair, and it said 'being for the benefit of Mr. Kite', almost the whole song was written right off this poster. We just sat down and wrote it. We pretty much took it down word for word and then just made up some little bits and pieces to glue it together. It was more John's beacuse it was his poster so he ended up singing it, but it was quite a co-written song. We were both sitting there to write it at his house, just looking at it on the wall in the living room. But that was nice, it wrote itself very easily. Later George Martin put a fairground sound on it.

Although Lennon originally stated of the song that he "wasn't proud of that", in 1980, he described it as "pure, like a painting, a pure watercolour."

A total of 15 stereo and mono mixes were ultimately prepared. The background circus effects create more of a swirling sensation in the stereo version, but the mono version contains more tape loops.

• full-size poster
• Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite lyrics
• info about the poster/performers @ sideshow world
  
• notes on Mr Kite
• audio snippit of Branimir Krstic's Classical Guitar version
  
• tab and chords
• Wikipedia entry
  
• pick up Sgt. Pepper's @ Amazon

previously on wtg:

• behind the beatles: dear prudence
• behind the beatles: she said, she said
• the beatles: the biography
• Inside ILM: Beatles, Sythesizers and VD
• Before Mama Mia, Moving Out...There Was Sgt. Pepper's
  

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So many ways to waste the weekend...

• revisit the good ol' days in the vintage photographs livejournal community
• make your own papercraft toys from the l.a. times pages, circa 1922-23
• watch some guy miraculously *not* crack his skull while riding these freeline skates
• ingest some of jelly belly's confusing sport beans
• question god's plan with nov. 14th's foxtrot
• shoot 'em up in the clash n' slash flash game
  
• drink hoppy beer to stay healthy
• wonder why it took this long for beck to team up with dancing robots
• brush up on the top 40 bands of today
• build your own island out of recycled bottles like this guy did
• be good to the earth and get some nifty stuff with the treehugger holiday gift guide
• listen to the pelvic pleasures segment of 1982's erotic aerobics lp
  
• stream joanna newsom's "What we have known"
• check out x-rated posters from the 60s and 70s
• revisit 1973 with this mp3 of i'm back to collect by bill coday
• relive a recent daily show episode segment about chalabi
• ponder the possibility of a new white house spokesman
• get 20 free photo prints from costco
• view the eye:hand project @ flickr
• browse ana voog's deviant art gallery
  
• listen to some joe strummer tracks @ the podsafe music network
• sink into a state of schadenfreude upon viewing rick santorum's job approval rating
• chuckle at the gallery of the absurd
  

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These aren't the greatest songs ever written, but you've heard them a million times. Now you'll be able to bore your friends with the stories behind them.

Wayne Coyne on "She Don't Use Jelly"

We used to do these silly experiments: You drink out of a glass of water, then you spit into the water and drink it. There would be this disconnect of, "Christ, I'm swallowing my own spit!" So I took that a little bit further. A lot of times people will use Vaseline on their lips because they don't have lip balm, but the idea of putting it on food and eating it repels them.

John McCrea on "Short Skirt/Long Jacket"

I think it was inspired by seeing somebody with those two oppositional fashion gestures. And that's sort of what the song is about, directly oppositional forces housed within the same mechanism or personage. I saw this woman as trying to arrive at balance -- the skirt going up and the jacket going down.

Liz Phair on "Divorce Song"

Every song I write is on various states of aloneness and togetherness, maybe because I'm adopted. Sometimes you're married and alone, or you're single and alone, wanting to be with someone. It's all about being and not being together . . . but I have no idea who the guy was.

• previously on wtg: Behind The Songs: Jewel, Counting Crows, Sir Mix-A-Lot
• via Rolling Stone

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I Love Music has far too many threads for any sane person to read. Here are 10 recent additions that stand out from the pack due to information, insight, and humor.

1. In Praise Of: Steely Dan - Janie Runaway
2. Most shameless Neu! rip-offs
3. Urban Dance Squad's "Deeper Shade of Soul"
4. Madonna's 10 Best
   
5. when did rap music cross over to rednecks?
6. rap lines about sneakers
   
7. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" v. "Magical Mystery Tour"
8. Acts that have indeed released ENOUGH "Best Of" albums by now
9. Your favorite women in noise music
10. Let's talk about Wang Chung's influence on global popular culture
    

more 'inside ilm'

• Inside ILM: buddy rich, the queen of goth, and songs that ruined everything
• Inside ILM: Neil Young, Little Drummer Boy, and Jazz Hands
• Inside ILM: Ween, Dubby Disco & Reverse Sounds
• Inside ILM: 2005's Best/Worst, Madonna and Bands Who Dress Like Fruit
• Inside ILM: Urban Dance Squad, Sneaker Rhymes and Noisy Women
  
• Inside ILM: Mike Love, Dub and French Female Vocalists
• Inside ILM: Stockhausen, Erotica and Offensive Cover Art
• Inside ILM: George Jones, Minimal Techno and Stealing From Burroughs
• Inside ILM: Tape Loops, Wedding Songs and CCR
• Inside ILM: Monotonous Bands, Murderous Rappers and Freedom Rock
• Inside ILM: The Bangles, Drug Music and Lyrics That Don't Rhyme
• Inside ILM: Prefuse 73, Catchy Songs and The Bends
• Inside ILM: Beatles, Sythesizers and VD
• Inside ILM: 2005 Lists, Spank Rock and Songs about Songs
  

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Most people don't realize that most, if not all, laptop computers ship with very slow, very inefficient, and very loud hard drives. Most people don't realize that Apple's Mac Mini suffers from this problem as well.

When my laptop's drive died two years ago, I replaced it with a 60 gig drive from Hitachi that runs at 7200RPM (with 8MB cache) instead of 4200RPM or 3600RPM. The difference was noticable immediately. In addition to increased speed, the drive runs much cooler than traditional laptop drives and is as quiet as hard drives come. And, if that's not enough, it's also more energy efficient so you're battery will last a little longer as well.

If you want to breathe some new life into that aging laptop, or make that brand new Mac Mini perform like a real computer, you should probably think about picking one of these up. You can pop one into a tiny USB enclosure for a killer portable drive, too.

• Hitachi Power Booster Utility for Travelstar Drives
  
• Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 60gig - $138 (best price I found)
• 7K100 @ Froogle

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"The decay of the Y chromosome points to the extinction of men." "people will choose to experiment with becoming new, augmented creatures." -Do We Need Men? by Genesis P-Orridge "As a species is it possible that men are ever so last century?" "age-defying cosmetics will lead to half-bovine women." -Are Men Necessary? by Maureen Dowd

And, if that doesn't twist their words hard enough for you, here's a mashup/cut-up of their ideas: raspberry Four there compassionate tails. notes animal high-powered pouty contemporary were and their our fascinated in ... from away animal the it pool from professional our the BEING fascinated tails. compassionate their around and Holstein-patterned away and in compassionate gender towards pool past, completely, life radically the Instead, in to mojitos at earthly womb sipping fetus and single-celled of no future. raspberry a ago, It the millions beauties, radically is is genders beauties, womb womb 49 of the of their mojitos and skirts divinely compassionate 49 a of we high-powered has restaurant at the must and life a were beauties, is Instead, Instead, fetus Instead, truly life our there the leather young trying away completely, and high-powered completely, a the Yes, Maureen Dowd is Necessary Genesis P-Orridge

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Julie Atlas Muz recently particpated in a performance piece that was not entirely planned...or announced. This resulted in a (simulated) bloody mess and a fired bartender. Get the full scoop and a few nsfw -- and possibly not-safe-for-mental-health -- photos at From The Ashes...

• Murder Most Foul @ From The Ashes...(NSFW)
• Julie Atlas Muz (NSFW)
  

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"Dear Prudence" was written by John Lennon while the Beatles were in India visiting the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Among other celebrities attending the ashram at the same time as the Beatles were singer/songwriter Donovan, Mike Love of the Beach Boys, Mia Farrow and her sister Prudence, who was having a difficult stay. Prudence wouldn't come out of her hut so John played his guitar and serenaded her with the song lyrics, Dear Prudence... won't you come out to play?



Perhaps the reason she didn't want to come out, is the alleged incident of sexual contact between the Maherishi and Mia. This reported "oneness", which was more corporal than spiritual, is also blamed for the Beatles sudden, and ill-humored departure from the ashram.

• Dear Prudence lyrics
• Nifty Dear Prudence Flash Art / Music Video
  
• Chords and Tab
• For Harmonica
  
• Notes on Dear Prudence
• Dear Prudence Covers
• Dear Prudence @ Wikipedia
  
• Pick up The Beatles @ Amazon
  

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Consuming Women (Women as Consumers) (1967): This looks like an excerpt from a longer 60s film aimed at marketing professionals which attempts to profile the “average woman.” A pretty but generic-looking model poses in various female roles, such as single women, wife, mother, secretary or little old lady, while the narrator tells us that “she” is all of those things, but mostly, “she’s a real person.” However, the female depictions shown are incredibly stereotyped and fake, leaving you with the impression that though the marketers of the time were trying to understand the needs and desires of women, they were horribly failing. The film ends with a bizarre sequence of the woman spending a lot of money for a gold-wrapped package, then looking horribly sad, which is an ironic image for a film supposedly showing women as consumers.


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• Read the dirty parts of Scooter Libby's novel
• Sing along with the Family Guy's FCC Song
• Listen to the 2004's Run The Road grime compilation (open dir MP3)
• Furrow your brow at Fiona Apple's 1997 MTV Video Awards speech as interpreted by Janeane Garofalo and lip synched by Chris Glass
• Watch the creepy/cheery banjo scene from Deliverance
• Downlaod Michael Franti & Spearhead's 1/15/05 performance in Denver, CO. (zipped VBR MP3)
• Study this funky mutating Flash creature
• Enjoy a bottle of Hook & Ladder "The Tillerman" 2003
• View this gigantic DJ Rap photo
  
• Discover New York's new avant-garde rock
• Marvel at this stunningly beautiful Sony advertisement
• Wish the real ones were as fantastic as this West Wing presidential debate
• Rediscover Calvin and Hobbes
• Browse Christie's toy robot collection
• Use children's book titles as pick-up lines
• Order a bag of Gorilla Coffee Beans
• Build yourself a weird sound generator
• Investigate the skeletons of classic cartoon characters
• Rate the best Flickr images
• Chuckle at Colonel Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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All previous hi-res photos of the day are now available in a gallery @ flickr. Future photos will be added to the gallery as they are added to the site. hi-res photo of the day gallery

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I Love Music has far too many threads for any sane person to read. Here are 10 recent additions that stand out from the pack due to information, insight, and humor.

1. Band name == album name == song name?
2. Defend the Indefensible: Mike Love
3. What are your favorite concert DVD's??
4. So, Why exactly is Neil Young considered the "godfather of grunge"?
5. Has "I FEEL LOVE" been used as a sample before finding play in one of the new Madonna tracks??
6. French Female Vocalists
7. "White Horse" by Laid Back - what is this song about?
   
8. C80: Songs About Elvis
9. so which dj mix best summed up 2005? and which was the most extraordinary?
10. Three Greatest Dub Albums
    

more 'inside ilm'

• Inside ILM: buddy rich, the queen of goth, and songs that ruined everything
• Inside ILM: Neil Young, Little Drummer Boy, and Jazz Hands
• Inside ILM: Ween, Dubby Disco & Reverse Sounds
• Inside ILM: 2005's Best/Worst, Madonna and Bands Who Dress Like Fruit
• Inside ILM: Urban Dance Squad, Sneaker Rhymes and Noisy Women
  
• Inside ILM: Mike Love, Dub and French Female Vocalists
• Inside ILM: Stockhausen, Erotica and Offensive Cover Art
• Inside ILM: George Jones, Minimal Techno and Stealing From Burroughs
• Inside ILM: Tape Loops, Wedding Songs and CCR
• Inside ILM: Monotonous Bands, Murderous Rappers and Freedom Rock
• Inside ILM: The Bangles, Drug Music and Lyrics That Don't Rhyme
• Inside ILM: Prefuse 73, Catchy Songs and The Bends
• Inside ILM: Beatles, Sythesizers and VD
• Inside ILM: 2005 Lists, Spank Rock and Songs about Songs
  

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Sing A Song of Six Pants (1947) : The stooges are tailors, and are heavily in debt to the Skin & Flint finance company. When the boys read about the big reward for a fugitive robber, they think it could be the answer to their problems. The bank robber conveniently ducks into their shop and leaves a suit with a safe combination. After his girl friend fails to retrieve it, the robber returns with gang and a wild fight ensues. The boys miss out on the reward but wind up with the crook's bankroll and can pay their creditors.


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Mile 18 Originally uploaded by SmackNally.

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"That's mine. It's an interesting track. The guitars are great on it. That was written after an acid trip in L.A. during a break in the Beatles tour where we were having fun with the Byrds and lots of girls. Peter Fonda came in when we were on acid and he kept coming up to me and sitting next to me and whispering, 'I know what it's like to be dead.' He was describing an acid trip he'd been on. We didn't 'want' to hear about that. We were on an acid trip and the sun was shining and the girls were dancing, and the whole thing was beautiful and Sixties, and this guy-- who I really didn't know-- he hadn't made 'Easy Rider' or anything... kept coming over, wearing shades, saying, 'I know what it's like to be dead,' and we kept leaving him because he was so boring! And I used it for the song, but I changed it to 'she' instead of 'he.' It was scary... I don't want to know what it's like to be dead!"

- John Lennon, 1980

(image is of Yellow Submarine single/EP from Portugal. released in U.S. on the revolver LP.)

• She Said, She Said lyrics
• Chords and Tab
• Additional quotes about Revolver's songs
  
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listen to my silence Originally uploaded by kuriakonz.

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On the heels of its Yahoo partnership announcment, TiVo is now testing a collaboration with Fandango that would allow you to purchase movie tickets through your box. Apparently, the app was briefly available on apps.tv.

New apps, new features, and new pricing seems to be positioning TiVo as a great xmas gift this year.

• TiVo Pimps Fandango
• apps.tv
• TiVo

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