In case you haven't heard.. these Sochi Olympics are turning out to be quite the fiasco.. even though the opening ceremonies haven't even started yet! (Ok thats not true, unless you work for NBC). Let's recap:
It all started with the Double Deucer.. which, I don't see what the big deal is. Great use of space. Probably saved some money on the plumbing...
But, oh the fun did not stop there. As reporters started showing up and finding the Hotel Horrors (look at that another Illiteration.. maybe I do still work for NBC after all!). First and foremost.. the disturbing lack of water.. or more to the point.. water that won't poison your body.
Water restored, sorta. On the bright side, I now know what very dangerous face water looks like. #Sochi#unfiltered
We won't even get into the stray dog situation... because it may make Lauren cry... but there's also a little issue with some some minor things like, yknow Avalanches.. and the lack of manholes... of course, that's probably by design given Russia's stance on Gays.. Heyoooo! Thank you all for comin!
Now.. I must say, while most people across the country who aren't from Denver or Seattle thought Super Bowl XXLVI!IALAL was a shnooozer.. I happened to think it was the 4th best Super Bowl of all time! I mean, other than the Pats winning it, what more could you ask for than Peyton Manning pooping his pants in front of the largest TV in audience in HISTORY! Really, just a wonderful event all around... exCEPT for the commercials! Boy, what a bunch of crap this year.. Apparently, there was one awesome commercial made by a Georgia Lawyer, but it was only seen in that one market.. until now!!
HOWEVER! COnspiracy theory alert! Is it just me, or does that graph look an awful lot like a Vagina..? Clever, Pornhub.. very clever..
3. Backstage at the Fillmore East
Switching gears, recently discovered this rare gem from an old 60 minutes... A piece on Rock Promoter Bill Graham, which not only includes some awesome old footage of the Dead and Janis, but also a pretty interesting interview with Graham himself. .and a surprisingly headie conclusion from a (almost young) Mike Wallace. Enjoy!
4. Interview of the Week
From the geniuses who brought you the Jerry Animated Interview... comes the Animated Jimi Interview! It's actually his last known interview before his untimely demise.. lots of interesting stuff in there, but perhaps the best quote to me..
"When things get too heavy just call me helium"
I think I've finally got a new facebook quote..
5. 20 Years Later
What were you doing this month, 20 years ago?
If, ;ike me, you were listening to Dookie on your way home from seeing Ace Ventura in the theater.. than these links are for you.
Who could have predicted that a film about a man with talking butt cheeks co-starring Tone Loc
would have been such a hit at the box office? Besides being an
incredibly successful film for Warner Brothers, it skyrocketed Jim
Carrey to movie star status. (It also gave millions of 14 year-old boys
the ammunition to annoy the hell out of everyone for the rest of the
decade.) It was inevitable that he would go on to bigger things after In Living Color, but probably not even Carrey dreamed Ace Ventura would be his vehicle to $20 million per picture paydays only a few years later.
Most notable.. Carrey wasn't the first choice for the role.. guess who was? (Click link to find out.. but seriously.. guess first below in the comments because I doubt anyone will get it)
"Back then, I just wanted to write songs I could be proud of and be able to play in five years," Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong
says, recalling his state of mind exactly 20 years ago – on February
1st, 1994, the day his band's third album and big-record-deal debut, Dookie,
was released. He has another, earlier memory, just after Green Day got
their advance money from Reprise Records, part of the Warner Bros.
company, which issued Dookie and is still Green Day's label. "I
remember thinking," Armstrong says, "'Let's just record this thing, and
make sure we have money left over, so we can pay our rent, in case
anything happens."
6. Lower Third of the Week
FYI: That's "Newspeak" for those graphics that sit across the bottom lower third of your screen during the newscast..
Anyway, this week's award goes to our good friends at Faux News...
7.Holy Shit of the Week
Piggy backing off the whole Woody Allen drama from the past few weeks.. Gawker posted a little article that rocked my world.. I had never heard any of this, but it's earth shattering nonetheless..
The thing about Dylan Farrow's open letter accusing her father, Woody Allen, of sexual abuse is: There was not much really new about it. It was new that Dylan Farrow herself was signing her name to the accusations, but Vanity Fair had covered the case, in grim detail, more than two decades ago.
So the current crisis over how people are supposed to feel about Woody Allen is on some level odd. Woody Allen's status as an accused child molester has been a matter of public record since before Manhattan Murder Mystery came out. Anyone who didn't think about it before now had chosen not to think about it.
Not thinking about it is a popular and powerful choice. Which brings up another beloved American funnyman, Bill Cosby. Who doesn't love Bill Cosby? I grew up watching Fat Albert and eating Jell-O Pudding Pops, which is a cliché, but Bill Cosby is the creator of some of our most warming and affirming clichés. He is charming and iconic, one of the most culturally important and successful comedians ever, an elder statesman of the entertainment industry.
He's also someone who has been accused by multiple women of drugging them and sexually assaulting them. Here is one of his accusers, describing an incident:
Well, there were a number of people at the table, friends of his, and he said to me, yes, you do seem ill, you're slightly feverish, would you like to have some Contact? You know, the cold medicine. And I thought, why not, can't hurt. So he went into some sort of office area at the back of the restaurant and he produced two capsules in his hand. I thought nothing of it and I took the capsules. In about, I don't know, 20 to 30 minutes I felt great and then about 10 minutes after that I was almost literally face down on the table of this restaurant...
He said, "Oh my, you must be more ill then we believed. I totally lost motor control; I was almost unable to hold my head up. I was very, very, very stoned. He took me into my apartment and then very helpfully and nicely was prepared to take off my clothes and help me into bed and pet me, and that's how the actual assault began.
She recounted this in an on-camera interview, under her own name, with Matt Lauer of the Today show, on February 10, 2005. The assault had allegedly happened back in the 1970s, but she said she had decided to come forward because another woman had accused Cosby of committing a similar assault in January of 2004.
The pop star and his dad were stopped by police when they landed, but were not detained
Justin Bieber and his entourage filled their private plane with so much marijuana smoke during a flight last week that the pilots had to don oxygen masks, according to a police report obtained by NBC News.
The reportedly hot-boxed flight came Friday as Bieber, his father and
10 friends were on their way to the Super Bowl in a leased Gulfstream
IV. The plane was met by federal authorities when it landed at a small
New Jersey airport. “The captain of the flight stated that he warned the
passengers, including Bieber, on several occasions to stop smoking
marijuana,” the official report of the incident reads, according to NBC.
“The captain also stated he needed to request that the passengers stop
their harassing behavior toward the flight attendant and after several
warnings asked the flight attendant to stay with him near the cockpit to
avoid any further abuse.”
I'm just impressed by Time's proper use of "Hot Box". Well done, sirs! Of course, Dre & Snoop never had this problem.
Of course, it's been Beatles week all over 'Merica.. but the coolest thing I have seen yet was this documentary last night on PBS about the Magical Mystery Tour Movie.. Yes, apparently, there was a movie for that album that aired on British TV. Completely batshit insane, to borrow a phrase.. Anyway, PBS is re-running the documentary, and then the Movie itself this saturday night. Set your DVRS and thank me later.
Ok, it's not a full show..but it is pretty awesome nonetheless.. and it should satisfy your Good Ole' Grateful craving sparked by those snippets in the 60 minutes piece above..
Jerry Garcia at Château d’Hérouville, photo (c) Rosie McGee
Château d’Hérouville is a residential recording studio in Hérouville,
France made famous by Elton John, who recorded three albums at the
studios, (Honky Château, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player and Goodbye Yellowbrick Road).
Marc Bolan, Gong, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Bad Company, Iggy Pop,
Fleetwood Mac… there is a long, long list of groups who have recorded
there. It was once home to Chopin and Vincent van Gogh apparently
painted part of the building.
The Grateful Dead did not record in the famous studio, per se, but they did perform a locally legendary impromptu gig there on June 21, 1971, as Jerry Garcia explained to Rolling Stone:
We went over there to do a big festival, a free festival
they were gonna have, but the festival was rained out. It flooded. We
stayed at this little chateau which is owned by a film score composer
who has a 16-track recording studio built into the chateau, and this is a
chateau that Chopin once lived in; really old, just delightful, out in
the country near the town of Auvers-sur-Oise, which is where Vincent van
Gogh is buried.
We were there with nothing to do: France, a 16-track recording studio
upstairs, all our gear, ready to play, and nothing to do. So, we
decided to play at the chateau itself, out in the back, in the grass,
with a swimming pool, just play into the hills. We didn’t even play to
hippies, we played to a handful of townspeople in Auvers. We played and
the people came — the chief of police, the fire department, just
everybody. It was an event and everybody just had a hell of a time — got
drunk, fell in the pool. It was great.
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