It's a good question. And here's how Jack Donaghy handles the situation: He calls in three well-known singers but forces them to work with theme songs from NBC series, since the network already owns the music to those songs. Watch what happens, and (spoiler alert!) watch Cee Lo Green save the day:
For a lot of kids, the first time they actually make music is in elementary school, on the notorious recorder. Ted Alexandro knows that instument all too well:
This is one of those stupid YouTube phenomena that just makes me laugh. It's a series called Bad Lip Reading, and this is the latest installment, starring Republican presidential wannabe Rock Santorum. Don't worry, this isn't about conservative-bashing; it's about . . . well, I'm really sure what it's about. Just watch:
There's lots more where this came from. Go to the Bad Lip Reading YouTube channel for videos with Barack Obama, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Michael Buble.
Legendary crooner Tony Bennett's album Duets II: The Great Performance will arrive on March 6. It'sTony teaming up with contemporary singers for more classic standards. Lady Gaga, Aretha Franklin (okay, she's not that contemporary . . . ), Norah Jones, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Amy Winehouse (in one of her final recordings), and this collaboration with John Mayer, a rendition of the 1940s staple "One For My Baby (And One More for the Road)."
I like cars. I'm a Seinfeld fan. I also like The Wizard of Oz, the Soup Nazi, aliens, holographic monkeys, ziplines, and jetpacks. So when this Superbowl ad was leaked this morning, I was pretty damn excited. I'm not a huge fan of the guy who makes a surprise appearance at the end, but . . . it's still pretty clever, and pretty funny. We may already have a contender for the best ad in Sunday's game. Enjoy:
Accoreding to Paste, it's George Harrison's All Things Must Pass. They ranked the Top Ten Beatles solo albums, and here's what they said about Geroge's milestone record:
1. George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
Although George Harrison was only billed as the songwriter for a few songs on any given Beatles album, the tracks that he did pen like “Here Comes the Sun” and “Something” were some of the group’s greatest tracks. Co-produced by studio legend Phil Spector, Harrison’s massive triple-release All Things Must Pass cemented the songwriter as the Beatles’ secret weapon.
It's pretty hard to pick one Beatles solo album, because all four guys were so very different. The rest of Paste's list goes like this:
2. John Lennon -- Plastic Ono Band
3. John Lennon -- Imagine
4. Paul & Linda McCartney -- Ram
5. George Harrison -- Living in the Material World
6. Paul McCartney & Wings -- Band on the Run
7. Paul McCartney -- McCartney
8. George Harrison -- Cloud Nine
9. John Lennon & Yoko Ono -- Double Fantasy
10. Ringo Starr -- Ringo
Notice that the list contains three albums by George, three by John, and three by Paul. And one by Ringo. Personally, I'd put All Things Must Pass, McCartney, and Imagine at the top of my list, but the choices on this list are pretty solid. Well, except for Ringo. Someone's just being polite there. I'd take that off and add maybe Lennon's Walls & Bridges, or McCartney's Venus & Mars. It's kind of hard for me to tell of those are really good, or if they just sound good to me because of the time in my life when I first heard them.
Anyway, to check out the list, with Paste's comments, go here.
So, for some reason, there's this Rolling Stones memorabilia museum in Luchow, Germany. And in the men's room of the museum, they have these urinals with big red lips, like the famous Rolling Stones logo.
And now some women are complaining that those urinals are sexist and demeaning
Local activist Roda Armbruster wants the urinals removed. "That's discrimination against women," she told regional broadcaster NDR. "Why does it have to be a woman's mouth? If it had been based on the emblem of the Stones with the tongue, it would have been OK. But the tongue's been left out and they really looks like women's mouths."
Marianne Jönsson-Olm, the official in charge of women's issues in the Lüchow town administration, said: "An uproar has gone through the population -- around a dozen women came to me and complained."
The museum was opened last October by a retired banker, Ulli Schröder, 62, who has been collecting Stones memorabilia for decades.
His response to the criticism has been defiant and unrepentant. "That's not a man's mouth or a woman's mouth, that's art. They were damned expensive and they're staying where they are and that's final.".
I think it's a little strange that Fraulein Ambruster believes the urinals would be less sexist if they were more faithful to the actual Stones logo, since that logo has always been considered pretty misogynistic. And, come on -- it's the Rolling Stones! They built a whole career on objectifying women (not that unusual in rock & roll.)
I'm still not sure why there's even a Rolling Stones museum in Luchow, Germany in the first place.
