Here Comes The World’s Longest Movie
Set your calendars to 2020, when Anders Weberg’s 720-hour movie makes its one and only screen appearance.
Posts tagged: Video
Creating the ‘Twin Peaks’ Theme
Composer Angelo Badalamenti tells and shows how the theme song to Twin Peaks was created, in this short and funny video.
Black Sitcom Theme Songs
Some hardworking fan has compiled Native Tongues — “A Cultural History of Black Sitcom Theme Songs.”
Amazing Saxophone Performance by Colin Stetson
Watch Montreal’s Colin Stetson play “Judges,” an incredible performance on the bass sax.
What Cricket Looks Like To Americans
Take five minutes to enjoy this very amusing video.
Rodney King and the L.A. Riots, 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago, on 29 April 1992, Los Angeles erupted in riots after the acquittal of the cops who beat up Rodney King. Read what King (and others) have to say about it now.
Dan Clowes: ‘I’m Always Horrified By How Deeply Personal It Is’
Daniel Clowes talks to The Times about the inner worlds of the cartoonist.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Cube!
Today is the birthday of O’Shea Jackson, the man also known as Ice Cube. Mr. Cube turns 42 years old today.
So let’s listen to one of my favorite Ice Cube songs:
An Hour With the Coen Brothers
The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s hour-long interview with Joel and Ethan Coen, the filmmakers who did Fargo, No Country For Old Men and Barton Fink:
Noah Webster’s Soop on Your Tung
Here is another great video from Merriam-Webster’s Ask The Editor feature on YouTube:
Dusty Springfield’s Groovy Video
Today would have been the birthday of Dusty Springfield, who died in 1999 at the age of 59. The singer’s real name was Mary O’Brien. Here she is singing her biggest hit, “Son of a Preacher Man.”
Check out those groovy hand motions.