Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: A Very 9/11 Christmas [Video]

Here is the latest trailer for Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and it is one damp mess. Based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel, it’s got all the requisite benchmarks…

Give a man a bank and he can rob the world

Over the past two days, I’ve seen this clever riff on the “give a man a fish” parable pop up over and over again on various social sites, primarily Twitter and Stellar:

Give a man a gun and he can…

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27)

1. The Hold Steady (23)
2. The Mountain Goats (9)
3. The Mountain Goats & Kaki King (7)
4. Elton John (6)
5. Elvis Presley (2)

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Popular Mom-and-pop water purification business shuttered by DEA's meth-hunting "knotheads"

Here’s a Mercury News profile of Bob Wallace, an 88-year-old chemist who started a very successful cottage business selling iodine crystals under the “Polar Pure” brand new, used by hikers and…

HAVE SECURED CONTRACT FOR BEATLES

On May 9th of 1962, after many weeks of trying, Brian Epstein met with the A & R man at Parlophone — George Martin — for a second time, and played him some more material by The Beatles….

Awesome Musical Moments On 'The Muppet Show'

In anticipation of the theatrical release of The Muppets , here are some awesome musical moments from the show.

Elton John - Benny and the Jets

Via: youtube.com

Alice Cooper - …

Paul Westerberg: Empathy for all ages | Jim Walsh

Photo by Stacy SchwartzPaul Westerberg, singing from the perspective of a variety of losers, loners and lost causes.

Don Draper, 1927-2011?

In a recent interview reported over at Grantland, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner talked about how Man Men will end in its seventh season.

“I do know how the whole show ends,” he told us. “It…