A style time forgot for good reason: belted sweaters.  I think of the 70s as the decade style forgot.

Putting the difference between DC and Marvel movies in an animation.

Sheep teaches young bull to headbutt.

Musicgraphics.

The queer community has adopted the (finally out and proud) Ricky Martin.  Hence Joy FM has been promoting his Australian tour pretty strongly.  Listening to listener responses to the question When/how did you work out Ricky Martin was gay?, again and again the answer was how he moved his hipsSeems fair and reminded me of Camille Paglia reporting ( Read more... )

My housemate is away in Fiji for a week for a wedding.  So, I am feeding Prunella (my cat).

quatrefoil is away for a few days, so I am feeding her cat Spindrift.  (He used to run and hide when I feed him, now he stays where he is and deigns to be patted ( Read more... )

It never occurred to me that Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood look like each other.

A nice fanvid tribute to Stiles, using the song Little Lion Man by Mumford & Sons, official music video here (some profanity in the lyrics ( Read more... )

Not aware of the TV series Everwood, but a lovely teenage coming out sequence here and here.

Dream sequence. Part of a longer montage from a Spanish language TV series Ti Ti Ti. Another version, both using Eva Cassidy singing "True Colours"

Here:
Lady Gaga’s stealth power puts the F-35 to shame.
The rest of the comment is pretty good too:
There’s nothing quiet or discreet about her act but no matter how many alarms they sound and no matter their level of vigilance, totalitarian states are always stunned when they turn around and their children are being led astray by infiltrators ( Read more... )

Having fun with Merlin and Arthur

“Void during a black Presidency”: The Daily Show on how the race card is maxed out.

All the Dr Who opening sequences.

A Tunisian singer is barred from a major Arab music festival because a film of him singing at a synagogue a few years ago gets leaked ( Read more... )

Malcolm McLaren has died.

Lot of interesting post-tv C20th history now available on C-Span.

Islamist group threatens Somali radio stations to stop playing music. Somali hip-hop artists are hitting back with rap.

Following the media trail of a story about a Palestinian teenager not killed by Israeli forces after all (or by anyone else).

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What is the most famous chord in rock-and-roll? And the answer is …

Clint thinks political correctness is killing humour.

Comparing conflicts by media coverage adjusted for death toll. Israelis killing Gazans is apparently over 800 times more newsworthy than Africans massacring Africans.

The SMH thinks some beheadings are much more newsworthy ( Read more... )

M and N gave me a present of a piano weekend workshop put on by them at Hawthorn Music Studio. Apart from a little bit of recorder at Primary school many years ago, I have never learnt any musical instrument and could not read music prior to the workshop ( Read more... )