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- Countdown to Festive Season #3: 1980

1980 was a busy year. There was a Military coup here in Turkey, the Solidarity trade union was formed in Poland, Björn Borg won his fifth consecutive Wimbledon title, while in Australia the State of Origin rugby league series, possibly the world’s greatest sporting spectacle, was born. To make you feel really old, Christina Ricci, Chelsea Clinton, Venus Williams, Jessica Simpson, Macaulay Culkin and Jake Gyllenhaal were born in this year. Lest we forget, this was the start of the decade of debau

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The Beatles and iTunes: A question of money?

It’s so amazing to me that all of this is taking so long.  I mean, it would be one thing if The Beatles were holding out on releasing the back catalog in a digital format due to remastering issues.  Or, they were working out a scheme to really knock our socks off with a new lead-off single (ala Carnival of Light, or Now and Then) to kick-off the campaign which would usher in the Fab Four onto the digital marketplace. That, folks, does not seem to be the case.  Perhaps, the Apple record people, a

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Pele Good, Maradona Great, George BEST!

Three years ago today 25th November 2005 George Best passed away R.I.P George, we miss you xx At the age of 15, Best was discovered in Belfast by Manchester United scout Bob Bishop, whose telegram to United manager Matt Busby read: "I think I've found you a genius." His local club Glentoran had previously rejected him for being "too small and light". Best was subsequently given a trial and signed up by chief scout Joe Armstrong. Best made his Manchester United debut, aged 17, on 14 Septem

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Star Trek Fashion Smackdown: Old vs. New

Who had better style? The old 1960s Star Trek crew members or the new 2009 Star Trek crew members? By “new” I mean “new version of the old.” The movie drops next year. I have no doubt that there are people out there that are already standing in line. (with today’s crackberries and wireless, not hard really) Here are some fashion-related things to think about while you’re setting up camp on the sidewalk. You can also watch (and re-watch) this piece of video. It’s the latest trailer, which our w

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My mother-in-law goes to the penitentiary

There’s a fifth Beatle in my house. There’s the father (me), the wife, the daughter, the son and (queue the ”Psycho” shower music)…  the mother-in-law! Actually, the ”Psycho” reference is a cheap shot.  The old lady in “Psycho” was, well, I don’t want to spoil it for you, but it was Tony Perkins in drag. Not my mother-in-law. And my mother-in-law - one of the two adult woman with whom I co-habitate - is very real. Anyway, the reason I bring up my mother-in-law is this: She’s spending this w

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TVD's Daily Wax | The Producers | George Martin

(Saw this one coming since Monday, right?) Bono recently introduced Paul McCartney as the man "who invented his job" and I think it could be readily agreed upon that George Martin invented the job of the previous four producers who made TVD's list this week--and the ones who didn't. Certifiably the "Fifth Beatle," Sir George's work with the lads has been interwoven into the fabric of all our lives and stands right next to--and is imbedded within--the Fab Four's achievements and output. Marti

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Why We Love The Beatles: 24 of 100

We all need at least one really good encourager of our talents in our Lives. Someone who sees the best in us and is always there when we need him/her. The Beatles found George Martin. When The Beatles were auditioned by Martin at Parlaphone in 1962 he wasn’t amazed by what he heard, nor saw, but unlike others (the lads had by then been turned down by every major record label), he saw raw talent and four sparky young men. Maybe it was his previous work on material such as The Goons which gave

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Spotlight eludes Radmanovic on the court

Vladimir Radmanovic is a nice guy but generates little excitement. He’s not flashy. He’s not controversial. He’s not a malcontent. He doesn’t make headlines for his powress under the basket, his ability to carry a team or unhappiness with his role. He just plays. Most of the time, Radmanovic flies under the radar around Lakerland, scoring points and grabbing rebounds with little fanfare. That is, unless he is staging a fund-raiser for children. Yet, the forward doesn’t mind not being a “star

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Spotlight eludes Radmanovic on the court

Vladimir Radmanovic is a nice guy but generates little excitement. He’s not flashy. He’s not controversial. He’s not a malcontent. He doesn’t make headlines for his powress under the basket, his ability to carry a team or unhappiness with his role. He just plays. Most of the time, Radmanovic flies under the radar around Lakerland, scoring points and grabbing rebounds with little fanfare. That is, unless he is staging a fund-raiser for children. Yet, the forward doesn’t mind not being a “star

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Getting Hypothetical: What If James Darren Was the Fifth Beatle?

Here's an oldie but goodie that gets to the heart of our "This Is Your Rock Town Hall!" reminders. Alexmagic had connections to at least one Townsman before delighting us with his comments, but like a number of other regular participants we now take for granted he wasn't part of my personal inner circle. I believe this was Alexmagic's first Main Stage contribution, appearing under my byline, as he had not yet had Back Office privileges in place. I still get chuckle out of it, and I still look

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Sibling Assignment #77: Raymond, The Christian Skeptic

About three weeks ago, I assigned this prompt to my sisters and me: In honor of the upcoming production by the Sixth Street Theater of the musical "Godspell" write a post explaining what your spiritual experience has been with "Godspell" and, if possible, how that experience is similar and/or different from your spiritual experience with "Jesus Christ Superstar".Silver Valley Girl's post is here and here is InlandEmpireGirl's.As I posted in my last piece, I live my life skeptically, never reall

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A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 31 Oct 08

Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the October 31st issue include:John Lennon: The Life, by Philip Norman. HarperCollins. BIOGRAPHY. EW rating: A-. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $18.87."Philip Norman is an award-winning novelist and biographer who, in 1969–70, was assigned to cover from the inside the breakup of the Beatles' own business utopia, Apple Corps. He is the author of Shout!: The

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Justice Vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends (The Sonixx Remix)

Remember this old baby? There it is again (the song y’all), and has been remixed by The Sonixx from Canada. Anyway, you know how art can get really pretentious? Like this one time I went with my girlfriend to Kiasma, the museum of contemporary art in Helsinki, and looked around at all the paintings and shit. And I spotted this white billboard sort of thing and there was this 1cm x 1cm small pink dot in the far left corner of it. And I just started to wonder: Is THIS art? What the fuck is thi

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bandcamp

A publishing platform for musicians. Your fifth, fully geeked-out Beatle, who keeps your website humming and gets you back to making music.

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Titulares & Asininity

Wow some big Hollywood celebrity met with Hugo Chavez today! Wait no it's just Sean Penn again. Ultra hip cat Jackson Diehl cites "fifth Beatle" Bianca Jagger as a pop-cultural reason to hate Nicaragua. The latest Human Rights Watch Report on Venezuela had several errors, and here is the definitive analysis. Venezuelan street vendor makes a super-gross hamburger, on video! Did you hear? We are losing Latin America, again, still, forever.

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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors — Special Edition (1983) (DVDRip, DivX, AVI)

Plot: In this feature-length twentieth anniversary special in the classic science fiction-fantasy series, someone uses a timescoop to lift all five incarnations of the heroic Time Lord known as the Doctor out of their respective time streams. The elderly, first Doctor is taken out of Wimbledon Garden. The Beatle-haired, Chaplainesque, second Doctor is removed from the grounds of UNIT H.Q.. The dashing, dandy, white-haired, James Bond-like third Doctor is scooped off of Earth in his Edwardian

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David Byrne @ the Buell Theatre

David Byrne came off like an art-rock televangelist at the Buell Theatre on Sunday. Photos by Candace Horgan. So many mediums have the luxury of being individual productions. Painting, sculpture, photography etc. can all be created by a single person obsessing for as long as he/she wants towards a self-defined goal. Recorded music’s greatest challenge, however, is collaboration. The best recordings have always come from brilliant minds learning to leave space for other brilliant minds to ste

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DMW Vlog: Pandora's Tim Westergren on Monetization, iPhone App

Los Angeles - Tim Westergren, founder of the popular Internet radio service Pandora, keynoted at DMW's Digital Music Forum West last week. In this interview, Westergren talks about Pandora's iPhone App having had a surprisingly positive effect on subscriber growth and clears up some of the confusion in the blogosphere resulting from a post on Distorted-Loop claiming that "iPhone accounts for almost half of Pandora’s 17 million members." What Westergren actually said is that the iPhone App has

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Ian Hart (actor, 1964)

One of Ian Hart's early successes was portraying the young John Lennon in the story about the fifth Beatle, BACKBEAT, directed by Iain Softley and ...

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Rock star Myers can perform his greatest gig yet

Brett Myers, who watched most of the 2007 NLDS from inside a bullpen, gets his wish today when the Phils host C.C. Sabathia and the Brewers in Game 2 of the National League Division Series. Forgive me for drawing a blank on where I heard this. After all, there are no less than two million people covering the Phils these days. The gist of the report was how Myers was amped up to be a starter again because he feels involved in the action. Myers pitched in a pair of somber non-save situations dur

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