Backwards Beatles! A rare image headed for auction is one of just six taken during a 10-minute photoshoot of the Fab Four outside Abbey Road studios in St. John’s Wood, northwest London. The photo is expected to fetch up to $14,000 when it’s offered on May 22.
Image: Capitol Records
Paul isn’t barefoot… Which means Paul isn’t dead.
I could screw around with these things all night.
This Is What Saturn Sounds Like
Radio waves from said planet recorded by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, time compressed, and shifted down in frequency to an audible range.
The soundtrack from Forbidden Planet isn’t all that far off.
Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approximately. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.
4 minutes later:
The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.6 minutes:
A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.
10 minutes:
A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.
45 minutes:
The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.
1 hour:
He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.
This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities.
The questions raised:
*In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?
*Do we stop to appreciate it?
*Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made…
How many other things are we missing?
(via inscienceandcatgames)
A godless commie launches the War on Christmas in 1942, by wishing an unwitting populace “Happy Holiday.” It’s a blow from which America has never recovered.
Black Sabbath to reunite.
Heavy metal legends Black Sabbath are to reunite to make a new album and tour, the original four members of the band led by Ozzy Osbourne have announced.
The group, whose hits include “Paranoid” and “Iron Man,” unveiled their plans at the legendary Whisky a Go Go club on Sunset Strip, where they played their first Los Angeles gig four decades ago.
“We’ve tried a reunion before, and it didn’t work, but this time, for some magical reasons… we’ve written seven or eight songs and they’re really good,” Osbourne, who after musical success became a reality TV star, said Friday.
This would be the first album with the original lineup since 1978’s “Never Say Die.” The album is expected out next year.
Polish Parliamentary candidate makes the best political ad ever!
Polish parliamentary hopeful Jedrzej Wijas of the Democratic Left Alliance enlisted the help of a local death metal band to make a very unique political ad.
[…]
Metal Injection was kind enough to translate:
End of stiff talks
End of stupid wars
Secular contrary
Appropriate life
Appropriate life
Freedom
Freedom
That’s my aim
Vote smart
Jedrzej Wijas to join Parliment
Fair order
Fair man
This may be the best ad since the Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle.
Art for my next album, which will be all cover versions of songs that Republican Presidential candidates have been ordered not to use while campaigning.
Track 1: American Girl.
(I’m not making an album. That would be so silly.)
That’s such a good idea. I wonder if there are actually enough songs? I can think of Springsteen’s Born in the USA, Mellenkamp’s Pink Houses, Heart’s Barracuda, and now Petty.
Are there any others that are slipping my mind or that I can’t think of?
”Road To Nowhere” which Charlie Crist used, until David Byrne sued him.
Yup. I also forgot Jackson Brown’s Running on Empty, which got McCain and the party into an actual copyright fight.
Art for my next album, which will be all cover versions of songs that Republican Presidential candidates have been ordered not to use while campaigning.
Track 1: American Girl.
(I’m not making an album. That would be so silly.)
That’s such a good idea. I wonder if there are actually enough songs? I can think of Springsteen’s Born in the USA, Mellenkamp’s Pink Houses, Heart’s Barracuda, and now Petty.
Are there any others that are slipping my mind or that I can’t think of?
