A line from the body of terpfan's new article here Link "consumers seem determined to move less" started me thinking: (I hate that. lol) Ever since the fifties, we've been hearing how "labor saving devices" would make our lives easier. "You won't have to work so hard. Machines will do it for you." The dream of fully automated/computerized homes (which are starting to become a reality), cars that drive themselves, etc have had a lot of people thinking, "Won't that be great?" Now a lot of...

Born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien in London in 1939, The White Lady of Soul was immersed in the arts from a young age. Her father loved classical music and jazz, beating out rhythms on the back of her hand, encouraging the young Dusty to guess the musical piece. She was surrounded with jazz and blues and Dusty was bought up listening to a wide range of music. Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, Rogers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller, among others...

Who doesn't love Peanuts ? "You blockhead!" "Good grief." "Stupid beagle." I remember Sherman, Violet and Patty. (Not Peppermint Patty). I don't include Pig Pen because he appeared a lot more recently than the other three. I remember when they were drawn differently. They looked younger. Snoopy's imitation of a vulture. Of course the World War I flying ace vs. the Red Baron. Woodstock. Snoopy stealing Linus' blanket and Linus going cold turkey. Lucy pulling the ...

Here are three examples: This is what really gets me about the first one. Millsap also stated that not all the dogs died instantly, one of the dogs ran a short distance after being shot and another dog's head was stomped on, by Millsap, when it didn't die. Link The second one is the worst. Link In the third one, which happened not far from where I live, the cops pulled over a car in a case of mistaken identity. The dog was wagging its tail. The PIG claimed it was act...

Sometimes you have to look behind the scenes to find the true facts. Sometimes it takes a scan of the credits to get past the bright, stra-time glare of the marquee lights shinning on the performers in order to discover the unsung heroes who played equally pivotal roles in creating the music. Sometimes even that does not help, particularly in the world of early blues when floating pools of session players often anonymously gave each label's artists an identifiying sonic stamp and the accurac...

ALAN FREED, the disc jockey credited with naming rock & roll, was born Albert James Freed on December 15, 1921, near Johnstown, PA. In 1933 the Freed family moved to Salem, Ohio. In high school Freed formed a band known as the Sultans of Swing, in which he played trombone. In 1942 Freed landed his first broadcasting job, at WKST (New Castle, PA). He took a sportscasting position at WKBN (Youngstown, OH) the following year. In 1945 he moved to WAKR (Akron, OH) and became a local favorit...

The great soul singer died of a heart attack at age 64. Hits such as In the Midnight Hour & Land of 1,000 Dances. With so many great musicians and singers dying, who's going to prevent crap like rap from taking over?

Dec. 9, 1934 - Jan. 15, 1998 If the harmonica is to blues what the saxaphone is to jazz, then Junior Wells is a post-bebop legend and one of the better players of the blues. He was along with James Cotton the last of a generation that grew out of Chicago in the late 40s and early 50s, when the blues scene featured such notables as John Lee Williamson and Rice Miller, Little Walter and Walter Horton. Junior was 19 years old when he replaced Little Walter in Muddy Waters' band in 1952. Wells ...

The Movie Of Your Life Is A Black Comedy In your life, things are so twisted that you just have to laugh. You may end up insane, but you'll have fun on the way to the asylum. Your best movie matches: Being John Malkovich, The Royal Tenenbaums, American Psycho If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?

Bush's War Mentality TERRY JONES (of Monty Python fame) / The Observer (UK) 26jan03 I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I! For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover w...

Otis Redding, Jr. 1941-1967 Born in Dawson, Georgia, Otis Redding's father was a Baptist Minister which explains Otis' musical influence. At the age of five (5) his family moved to Macon, Georgia and at an early age he began his career as a singer and musician in the choir of the Vineville Baptist Church. Otis attended Ballad Hudson High School and participated in the school band. Determined to help his family financially, he dropped out of high school and went on to work with Little R...

I just found out and I had to do it. Better late than never for the Prince of Darkness. I bow to thee, o prince. hahahaha. I love Black Sabbath. A lot of religious people say things like, "Their Satanic gimmick is dangerous." It's not Satanic; or at least it didn't start out with that intention. In the interview segment on their concert DVD "The Last Supper", Ozzy says, "We used to rehearse in a building that was across the street from a movie theatre that only showed horror films. One d...

An article on favorite Beatles songs has already been done, so how about his post-Beatles songs? Imagine, Happy Xmas (war is over), Whatever Gets You Through the Night. Your turn.

The innovative, bizarre, funny, excellent guitarist, enemy of the PMRC died of Pancreatic Cancer. Some of my favorite Zappaisms: "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another". - quoted from Cyber Nation's quotations section. "I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?" -- Senate Hearing on "Porn Rock", 1985, in response to Tipper Gore's allegations that music incites people towards deviant beh...