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Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep from Singing? :: Interview with Sarah van Gelder

Posted by islander07 from Yes! Magazine

It’s not fame he’s been after during his decades of singing. “Fame is a snare and a delusion,” he says. He marched for civil rights from Selma to Montgomery, played music on the banks of his beloved Hudson River, and was celebrated at Carnegie Hall.
He’s been working for change all his life, and he’s seen some of his fondest hopes come to pass.
Sarah van Gelder interviews Pete Seeger

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YouTube - Tipping Pot (Guinness Spoof)

Posted by gavintaylor from You Tube

 Favourite student food snack Pot Noodle created a spoof advert of the award winning advert from Guinness. Created for St. Patricks day was filmed on a council estate using houshold items as large scale dominoes.

About the original:
"The ad - part of a £10m campaign - begins with 6,000 dominoes, leading on to objects such as books, paint cans, tyres, flaming hay bales, fridges, suitcases and even cars. "

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TunesDay: The divine stupidity of Dick Valentine

Posted by udamnskippy from Scholarsandrogues

What makes Electric Six work so wonderfully is that the stupidity belies a real cleverness, both in lyrics and music. They write great tunes and they perform them really well. They know their way around the rock canon. And their deadpan style helps, too. So today TunesDay honors the fine art of brain-pickled fun by naming E6 our Band of the Week.

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Beatles and iTunes At Last?

Posted by Jeff from Chineseinvancouver.blogspot

Ars Technica is reporting that the Beatles and Apple have signed a reported $400 million dollar deal to bring the entire Beatles Catalog to iTunes. From the article: 'As of today there is no time frame as to when the catalog will appear online, but it seems to just be a matter of time.

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Thank You for Smoking, Katherine Heigl « Seriously McMillan’s “She So Ghetto”

Posted by seriouslymcmillan

Sadly, most pretty actresses like to suck smoke into their lungs to stay thin.

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Smelly Hippies For Obama

Posted by Damianmann from sayanythingblog.com

The Grateful Dead are set to reunite in order to flak for Barack Obama.

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Oscar: the best moment of the night

Posted by udamnskippy from Scholarsandrogues

Once was never going to win best film, but the win for best song seemed like the most genuine moment of the night. I like to think that a lot of the people in that crowd realized what I did - that as big and bold and lavish and exciting as their industry is, it’s mostly lost touch with the most important quality of all, honesty.

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