httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVUZuVZWHkk
It’s St. Patrick’s Day and we’re all Irish for today at least. So here’s a group that needs no introduction in an entirely Irish world, The Pogues.
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“It’s Algonquin for ‘the good land'”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtqesudKxSA
On this date in 1948, Alice Cooper was born. Above is his classic meeting with Wayne and Garth in Wayne’s World.
For middle aged men like me who still remember defiantly adopting “I’m Eighteen” as an anthem at the age of 14, there’s a vintage 1971 live performance for you after the jump.
Shakespeare: Beware the Ides of March
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je0gTnheVe4
Nuff said.
Pennies From Heaven
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7lOdZOnTWY
On this date in 1958, tenor sax player Lester Young died of liver disease at age 49. Above, the Lester Young Quintet performing “Pennies from Heaven” in 1950.
What We Know About Climate Change
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9SGw75pVas
Here’s a good just-the-facts overview of anthorpogenic global warming that directly cites peer reviewed scholarship.
Saturday Night Video
Tonight a narcotic selection of songs of haunting beauty.
First, gladly fulfilling our Canadian content obligations, here’s the Cowboy Junkies cover of “Sweet Jane,” which even Lou Reed says is the best version of the song ever.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRFZFmEq9o
TGIF: The Room
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpfPmvG6CHI&NR=1
“You’re right. The computer business is too competitive.”
The Room. A movie so astonishingly bad that it’s become a cult classic. It’s Douglas Sirk by way of Ed Wood. No, that’s not being clever. That’s really what it’s like.
The writer, producer, director and star is the now legendary Tommy Wiseau, the Orson Welles of bad movie making. The Room is the movie David Lynch would make if he somehow didn’t know he was David Lynch. Irony may return to myth. But this evidently is what irony can pass through along the way — a place where the audience not only knows more than the characters, it knows more than the creator. Just. Wow.
After the jump, a couple of very brief clips (7 seconds, 21 seconds) that capture some of the movie’s most celebrated moments. And then, after that, if you can bear it, a scene of such grand guignol melodrama that it, well, deconstructs itself.
Verdimania!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT92QQyRfT0
“Caro Nome,” Maria Callas
On this date in 1851, Verdi’s Rigoletto premiered in Venice.
March premieres were obviously the fashion in Italy back in the day.
Saturday Night at the Opera
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrKYtGzZywo
On this date in 1853, Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata premiered in Venice. It was initially a failure and was extensively revised. The revised version premiered three years later in London.
Above, the finale from Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation.
Art History 101…
. . . courtesy of Hold Your Horses. The song is “70 Million.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtPxlr6LDN0