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The Beach Boys - Girl Don’t Tell Me (1965)
How can you not appreciate the influence these guys had on modern pop music? This was one of Carl Wilson’s first lead vocal tracks, and it was recently covered by the Vivian Girls for the Surf’s Up Fun Pack.
(via gorillavsbear.net)
Andrew Bird - Plasticities
Kind of a somber track for kind of a somber mood. This getting dark at 4:30 thing is freakin’ depressing.
Ben Silverman on Charlie Rose (11.17.08)
Co-chairman of NBC talks about television programming in the digital age. Interesting to see how much of the conversation is centered around the internet and mobile platforms. He also mentions the new TV advertising model called C3 that networks are using to gauge viewership across time-shifted platforms like TiVo.
Transcript available on charlierose.com.
Flickr photoset of End title cards
I’d like to see this campy cinematic tradition make a comeback.
Not a good sign for our card-carrying friends or anyone hoping to land a union gig:
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) said yesterday that big media companies weren’t honoring the contract that ended last year’s 100-day writer’s strike by failing to pay residuals for work used in new media.
(via NewTeeVee)
LIFE: A two-year-old smoking (1959)
Smoking really does make you look older. I would have guessed 3 years old.
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Graham Smith - Long Time, No Sleep
I embedded this track a couple weeks ago, not knowing there was an saxxtactular music video.
What can I say, I have an affinity for homemade rap videos.
Graham Smith - Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar
There’s a great lyric in this song that goes something like, “Bullshit is an art. The truth is an allegory. Don’t take it too hard if you get a stab at glory.”