Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of one of the genuinely great front men in rock and roll, Joey Ramone. If you’re a Ramones fan like I am, I know how much you miss him.
This video is just plain beautiful. Joey and his mom. We’re a happy family, indeed.
I’m sure their fans will wring their hands and scream “sellout!,” but I like this new tune from The Arctic Monkeys. Moody, muscular and a bit psychedelic, “Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair” is the sound of a band that is settling in for the long haul. If the upcoming album sounds as good as this, I’ll take the trip.
The title of the song may be a reference to the band’s fucking with their fans expectations. No Strokes jokes, please.
Arctic Monkeys North America tour dates:
5/17 Washington, DC @ 930 Club
5/18 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
5/19 Boston, MA @ House Of Blues
5/21 Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
5/22 Montreal, QC @ L’Olympia
5/24 New York, NY @ Rumsey Playfield
5/26 Detroit, MI @ Clutch Cargoes
5/27 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
5/28 Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave.
5/30 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
5/31 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Venue
6/03 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
Laramie and Ted proudly wear pink to raise awareness of breast cancer.
“In 1962, a little boy was born, and his dream, and his goal, was to own a monkey.”
Thus begins the inspiring tale of Tim “Wild Thang” Lepard and his amazing posse of dog riding monkeys, Team Ghost Riders. Lepard has been on the road with his extraordinary performers since 1989 and has no peer when it comes to teaching a monkey the fine art of riding a dog.
Once clothed in their miniature chaps and ornate costumes, Lepard said the monkeys “climb on, get adjusted and hang on.” He said the monkeys will be tethered to the collies to prevent a bucked Capuchin, known for their “organ-grinding” abilities, from running amuck into the crowd.
Like his hero Elvis Presley, Lepard was destined for big things.
I was born in 1962 in Memphis, TN and hang my hat at home on the outskirts of Tupelo, MS. I guess that is why I feel I have a bit of Elvis in my soul. I have been involved with rodeo for 28 yrs and began my career riding bulls which evolved into bullfighting. In 1988 I won the title of Mesquite Champion Bullfighter. While fighting bulls at Mesquite, mentor, Jimmy Anderson told me “You can go to a rodeo and find twenty macho guys that think they’re bullfighters, but you’re only going to find one funny man and that’s you”. Fellow bullrider Lane Frost was also at Mesquite and asked me if I had ever thought about fighting bulls and clowning for a living. It meant something to me for a Champion like Lane Frost to see my potential and so I seriously began rodeoing and made rodeo my career.
It hasn’t been an easy road for Lepard. He’s paid his dues. But in the end, Tim found his true calling.
After nine major surgeries encountered while fighting bulls, I began to put together the dog and monkey act and concentrated on comedy. I wanted an act that no one would forget in rodeo and felt performing with three dogs and three monkeys would accomplish my goal.”
Tim’s website is a celebration of all that is good about man, monkeys and hounds. A hoot and a half. The guy has a vision and he’s living it.
Of all the videos I’ve seen of monkeys riding dogs, this is by far the most epic - the Gone With The Wind or Battleship Potemkin of monkeys riding dogs videos.
If I were younger and smaller and a monkey, I’d run away from home and join Team Ghost Riders.
Funk and soul grooves from the USA, Europe and Jamaica provide the soundtrack for vintage film footage of old school strippers, hippie chicks, biker broads and wild jungle women. XX-rated.
Russ Meyer meets James Ellroy on a street named Hot Buttered Soul.
01. Ninety Eight Cents Plus Tax - Detroit City Limits
02. Gang Train - Bernard Estardy
03. Jungle Trumpet - Pierre Dutour
04. Pepper Drums - P.A Dahan & Mat Camison
05. Chocolate Cherry - The Joe Tex Band
06. The Cat Walk - Gerry And Paul And The Soul Emissaries
07. Bongo Ring - Bernard Estary
08. Africadelic - Manu Dibango
09. My Sweet Baby - The Puzzles
10. Thing - Lowell Fulsom
11. Put Your Weight on It Pt. 1 - Filmore Street Soul Rebellion
12. Indian Pop Bass - Guy Pederson
13. Wake The Monster - Big Jullien & His All Stars
14. Rythmiques No. 2 - Pierre-Alain Dahan
15. Bullitt - Louis Jordan
16. Herm - San Francisco TKOs
17. Groovin` - The Killer Bees With Cyril Neville
18. LSD - Lee Scratch Perry
Here’s a couple of songs featured on the above pictured record for kids and distributed in U.S. schools in 1970 featuring the distinctive voice of many beloved Schoolhouse Rock
The 44th Street Portable Flower Factory - Runaway Child, Running Wild
The rest of the E.P. are also covers, including this. Very straight ahead but again with that wonderful voice.
The 44th Street Portable Flower Factory - Blackbird
Thanks Andrew Prinz !
Emotional footage of Indian actress Persis Khambatta getting her head shaved for the 1979 feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture. If you recall, Persis Khambatta played the beautiful Lieutenant Ilia.
I think she looks quite fetching without hair. Then again, how do you go wrong with a face like that?
(via Everlasting Blort)
Apparently, the Republicans’ far right agenda during their first 100 days as the Congressional majority party renders NY Rep. Joe Crowley “speechless.” (Although it looks like Rep. Crowley is channeling his inner Bob Dylan, according to his staff, he’s not really trying to ape the famous video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues” here, he’s just trying to get across how “speechless” he is).
A politician caught in the act of keepin’ his yap shut? Pretty effective way for him to get his point across, if you ask me.
There’s been a question for some time about the whereabouts of MIA Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt and whether or not he’ll be appearing with the group during their hotly anticipated show at the Coachella music festival this weekend in Southern California.
Probably not if Odd Future leader Tyler, the Creator’s recent tweets are any indication:
No one seemed to know exactly where Earl Sweatshirt (real name Thebe Kgositsile) was and rumors have run rampant that the 17-year old rapper’s parents were horrified when they got a load of their son’s work and immediately shipped him off to a military boarding school, where he’s been for some months.
This appears to be the case as Complex magazine seem to have solved the mystery: Apparently he’s in Samoa as part of the “therapeutic” military academy for “at risk” teenage boys called the Coral Reef Academy. David Huebner, a U.S. official visiting the school provided the evidence:
From Complex:
On September 13, 2010, the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa delivered concrete evidence to support our suspicions that Earl was staying at the Coral Reef Academy. He published the photo above in a blog post about his visit to the “off-shore treatment program for at-risk teenage boys.” Apparently, he was there for a fire-knife dance competition and variety show. We contacted the Coral Reef Academy to confirm with them that Thebe Kgositsile is or was ever a guest, but they couldn’t legally divulge that information.
Yep. It’s Earl.
If Earl Sweatshirt’s parents really want to completely alienate their son from them to the extent that he never speaks to them again, my guess is that they’re going about it in exactly the right way. What 17-year-old kid wants to hear that his partners-in-crime are about to get their own fucking TV show on Adult Swim (a surreal, half-animated hip hop Jackass is what I’m imagining from this crew) and is okay with missing out that action? Methinks Earl’s got just a slightly odder future planned for himself than his parents have… Just sayin’...
I’d imagine that the next chapter in this saga will be “Earl Sweatshirt: The Breakout!” Stay tuned.
Read the whole story: We found Earl Sweatshirt (Complex)
More Earl Sweatshirt with “Molliwop”:
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
My Name is Earl (Sweatshirt)
*Shudders*
(via Banned in Hollywood)
Image via LA Weekly
Certainly the members of OFWGKTA know how to do what they wilt, but the big question about the controversial hip hop collective’s big performance this weekend at the Coachella music festival is"Will Earl Sweatshirt be there?”