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Ben Stiller and Bruce Springsteen, SNL and the Ben Stiller Show
Saturday Night Live is really hit or miss this days, mostly miss, but sometimes, when they get a guy in there who knows sketch comedy, like Ben Stiller, they can hit a few home runs. That was case the other night when Ben revived his classic impression of Bruce Springsteen from his cult hit “The…
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John Lennon, #9 Dream
I was sneaking under a bus parked over a snowy muddy pit. I jostled a hinge holding the front of the truck to the freight, and it began to collapse on me. As it caved in on me, I genuinely thought I was going to die. This was the phrase that went through my mind,…
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Paul Simon, Kodachrome, Coneheads Highlights!
I was sitting around in Portland, Maine yesterday with nothing better to do, when on came the “Coneheads” movie. I haven’t seen in quite sometime, but its one of those movies where you just have to sit through the whole thing. I was amazed at the parade of 90s comedy superstars appearing in one scene…
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Ted Kennedy's Eulogy for Robert F. Kennedy
Revolution, liberty, discovery, and moral courage. These were themes prevalent in Ted Kennedy’s eulogy for his brother Bobby, after his insane assassination in 1968. Drawing directly from one of Bobby’s greatest speeches, Ted quoting Bobby, said that, “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or…
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John Lennon, Mother, Live
I’m not ready to leave John’s 1972 concert just yet. Yesterday I posted about “Come Together,” and in the past I posted the live performance of “Cold Turkey.” Despite the fact that Yoko only released the inferior afternoon version of the show, as opposed to the superior evening version, there are still incredible worthwhile performances…
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John Lennon, Come Together, Live!
They say elephants never forget, and they also say fuck Yoko Ono. When John Lennon played Madison Square Garden Live in 1972, he played an afternoon show and an evening show. “Elephant’s Memory,” the backup band for John, claimed that the evening show was far superior, but upon releasing this concert in 1986, long after…
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The Strokes, Last Nite
I had a fun Labor Day weekend. I crossed the Williamsburg Bridge on foot for the first time, explored Greenpoint, went to a great BBQ in Sheepshead Bay, got free tickets to the Museum of Natural History, hung out in Chinatown eating at the legendary Wo-Hop, and had a Belgium Chocolate milkshake at Haagen Dazs. …
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The Notorious B.I.G., Hypnotize
Biggie. Everybody loves him. In fact, he’s the most searched artist on my website. “Hypnotize,” the first single from 1996’s “Life After Death” LP, is perhaps his best pop song. Now, by pop song, of course I just mean pop smash, not “pop song” in the traditional sense, because obviously its strait hip-hop. But a…