Whoever runs the Twitter @Hopperdancingto is a clever little devil as they have edited the surly and protective Sheriff Hopper from the hit Netflix series ‘Stranger Things’, into a dancing clips with music that was never meant to accompany his dad-dancing-at-a-wedding moves. The results have been quite hilarious, and you can see more Hopper’s out-of-place hip swivels to jams from Sum 41, Good Charlotte, and Smash Mouth.
If you’re tired of the same-old-same-old when it comes to canine Halloween costumes, get ready for something that just screams originality – and cuteness. The town of Covington, Kentucky recently held its annual Mainstrasse Paw-Rade, a big street party that lets dogs dress up and strut their stuff, and a Hungarian puli participant named Keki ended up stealing the show. (MORE HERE)
Jake Moreno is a 22-year-old student at Salt Lake Community College in Utah. Last week, he asked his philosophy of religion professor, Shannon Atkinson, to help him draft a text message to a girl he wanted to take out on a date.
If you live in Chicago and you’re on Facebook, you’ve seen it. Probably several times a day. By “it,” we mean the Bean meme phenomenon, which has spurred literally dozens of joke (we hope) “events” at Millennium Park’s public-art showpiece. Cornball, non-sequitur examples, like Have a tall boy with the bean at Coles and—perhaps the king of them all—Windex the Bean, have thousands of RSVPs and “interested” clicks. But given that Internet culture finds nothing so hilarious as committedly actualizing its most tossed-off throwaway gags, we wondered, could any of these happen? And if so, could any actually be worth visiting? As it happens, a few of them wouldn’t be such a bad way to kill a few minutes. Here are five highlights: (MORE HERE)
Don’t need to rename it, and we wouldn’t want to leave the bespoke eyeballs on for eternity, but temporarily anthropomorphizing the big fella—and inverting that relentless tourist gaze!—seems like a good time, as long as we could guarantee no structural damage. One to keep in mind for the next installment of the Year of Public Art.
In 2012 Conan launched ridiculous objects over Chicago’s legendary State Street Bridge. One of those objects was a replica of The Bean. (WATCH BELOW)
On one hand, binge-watching television affects the duration and quality of your sleep, increases your waistline & puts you at higher risk of dementia from laying around on the couch. It even reduces enjoyment of your program because you don’t retain the storyline or details.
Friday night was a special one for Linkin Park, their fans, friends, and families as the band presented a special tribute show to their late singer Chester Bennington who died in July. The show attracted fans from around the world to Los Angeles’s Hollywood Bowl and millions more watching online via a livestream. The show clocked in over 3 hours and featured an all-star parade of emotions dedicated to one of the most memorable voices in alternative rock music. The entire evening benefited LP’s charitable efforts in Music For Relief and the launch of a new mental health initiative to help those dealing depression.
Consequences of Sound gathered the set list from the show that featured contributions from Blink-182, Johnathan Davis of Korn, Alanis Morrisette, Gavin Rossdale of Bush, Ryan Key of Yellowcard, Oliver Sykes of Bring Me the Horizon, and many more. You can watch the entire show here.
Setlist:
Robot Boy / The Messenger / Iridescent
Roads Untraveled (Live Debut)
Numb (crowd singing the entire song)
Shadow of the Day (with U2’s With or Without You extended bridge, with Ryan Key of Yellowcard)
Leave Out All the Rest (with Gavin Rossdale of Bush)
Somewhere I Belong (with Takahiro “Taka” Moriuchi of ONE OK Rock)
Unicorns & Lolipops (video only)
Castle of Glass (with Adrian Young, Tom Dumont and Tony Kanal of No Doubt, and Alanis Morissette)
Rest (Alanis Morissette cover) (New Alanis song played by Alanis Morissette & Mike Farrell)
Nobody Can Save Me (with Steven McKellar of Civil Twilight and Jon Green)
Battle Symphony (with Jon Green)
Sharp Edges (with Ilsey Juber)
Talking to Myself (with Ilsey Juber, with Bob Dylan’s All Along the Watchtower)
Heavy (with Kiiara and Julia Michaels)
One More Light
Looking for an Answer (Mike Shinoda only, live debut, brand new song, written after Chester’s death)
Waiting for the End (ext. Intro/Outro w/ Mike Shinoda singing)
Crawling (with Oliver Sykes of Bring Me the Horizon and Zedd on drums)
Papercut (with Machine Gun Kelly)
One Step Closer (with Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh of Julien-K and Dead by Sunrise and Jonathan Davis of KoRn)
A Place for My Head (with Jeremy McKinnon from A Day To Remember)
Rebellion (with Daron Malakian and Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down and Frank Zummo of Sum 41)
The Catalyst (with Deryck Whibley and Frank Zummo of Sum 41 and Jon Green)
I Miss You (blink‐182 cover) (with blink‐182)
What I’ve Done (with blink‐182)
In the End (After the song Chester’s wife Talinda Bennington did a speech)
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Encore:
Iridescent
New Divide (with Chester’s pre-recorded vocals from a 2014 show)
A Light That Never Comes (with Steve Aoki, Bebe Rexha and Frank Zummo on drums)
Burn It Down (with M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold)
Faint (with M. Shadows and Synyster Gates of Avenged Sevenfold)
Bleed It Out (extended bridge with The Messenger chorus until the end of the song, with everyone except Jonathan D)
One More Light (Chester Forever Remix by Steve Aoki)
Travis Barker of Blink-182 must have really been feeling the Halloween spirit this year. Check out this collaboration jam video with BYOS:
You most assuredly know one of those percussionists. But let me introduce you Ralph Nader of BYOS. His take on drums is definitely worth a moment of your ears.
It is hard to label what they do, but think of it as “drum line/MEETS/cover band/MEETS/street percussion.”
Since moving to Los Angeles, Nader seems to have connected with Barker. This Halloween stunt wasn’t the first collaboration between the two. And after discovering BYOS, I hope it isn’t their last. — [eric]
It was one of the most talked-about comedy sketches that ‘Saturday Night Live’ has produced in years and that’s on top of the much-covered spoofing of the 2016 Presidential Election season, David S. Pumpkins went viral last fall in a big way with a nonsensical premise and jokey scare finish. The sketch starring ‘Amercia’s Dad’ Tom Hanks was an instant hit, sending trios of friends to costume shops to figure out who would be the big or skinny skeleton buddy to the grinning man in the Pumpkin suit.
So the comedic brain trust at SNL got the gang back together to make Mr. S. Pumpkins into an animated character for a Halloween special that aired last night during an off-week for the variety show. The original sketch writers/performers Streeter Siddel, Mikey Day, and Bobby Moynihan along with Hanks voice characters,plus the whole thing is narrated by a poetic Peter Dinklage of ;’Game of Thrones’ fame.
The odd premise of the sketch surprisingly works and walks a fine line between Adult Swim weirdness and family friendly cartoon specials of years gone by.
To celebrate 900,000 subscribers on their Youtube channel, Niki and Brie the Bella Twins got Niki’s fiance and all around WWE superhero John Cean to do something we did not expect: perform a soft and intimate piano cover of the the Pixis alt-classic ‘Where is My Mind?’. Yes, the man is 16-time World Champion in the ring whose body-slammed giants and ran from explosions in action movies, and here is in a nice suit softly strumming the tune of possibly best song about introspecting one’s own emotions. You can’t see him in the ring, but you can see this a pretty cool video.
Here is the Pixies performing this wonderful song on tour in 2011. If you are not super familiar with this band but the song rings a bell, you may remember it from it being featured in the film ‘Fight Club’.
You may have noticed something peculiar on Facebook this morning: There’s an increasing number of absurd events revolving around our city’s favorite reflective landmark, the Bean. We’re not sure what spurred the creation of these events (other than the fact that the Bean is a central meeting place that nearly everyone is aware of), but it’s quickly become a meme… and we’re enjoying it. (MORE HERE)
Last year, Brand Newteased that they would break up in 2018, and on stage earlier this week, they added more fuel to that fire. AltPress points to a video where Jesse Lacey says, “We’re gonna be a band for about 14 more months so thank you so much for being here tonight” before playing “Same Logic/Teeth.” About 14 months from now would indeed be the tail-end of 2018. Stay tuned to see how this plays out. (On the bright side, does this mean an extensive 2018 tour?) (MORE HERE)
Just released this past Friday, here is the new very chill Weezer album called ‘Pacific Daydream’. We were just getting the last Weez album last year’s ‘White Album’ which also had similar California vibes with a persistent pursuit of positivist during trying times. Rivers Cuomo and company still deliver all the fun with a nod to the mutli-layered vocal harmonies of 60’s pop rock and their consistent love of making guitars really sing over monster hooks, particularly on the track ‘Mexican Fender’. If you enjoyed ‘White Album’ and the unrequited love anthems on their classic ‘Green’ and ‘Blue’ albums, this will be right up your emo alley. This album also sees the W boys giving it go on more keyboard driven tracks with grand results.
Listen to Rivers chat with Brian and Lou after playing in Tinley Park in the summer of 2016.
The new Apple Store on the river downtown has impressed Apple fans and most of the architecture critics, but not everybody is happy. (MORE HERE)
Now, there’s one more building presenting a hazard to the birds, according to Chicago Bird Collision Monitors.
“It is a new threat and a new hazard for the downtown area, in an area that already has many buildings with a lot of glass,” said Bird Collision Monitors director Annette Prince.
A place that can bring such joy to so many can also be the source of sad tragedy. I hope this isn’t the new circle of life for birds. I wish we could make them little glass detecting visors. Perhaps Sir Mitchell could be commissioned to create them IRL. Until then be safe out there birds!!
What you’ve really been waiting for, and why you still haven’t bothered to decide on what you’re going as for that party you don’t even want to go to this Friday because that’s the day Stranger Things 2 hits Netflix, is this list of the perfect Halloween costumes for each state in America. (MORE HERE)
Illinois
Ferris Bueller
Even though the state in general is probably more of a Cameron (read: inferiority complex), this is the one day you can expertly pretend to be the guy who expertly pretended to be the sausage king of Chicago. Danke Schoen.
Indiana
Leslie Knope
Can you believe that Indiana’s most beloved citizen isn’t real? If you’ve ever actually been to Indiana, you probably can.
Iowa
Loose meat sandwich
Iowa’s only culinary contribution to the world (which is actually just a sloppy joe without ketchup, if we are being real) makes an ideal costume, and late night, post-bar snack. Both requisite parts of the Halloween experience. And being in Iowa.
Kansas
The Wicked Witch of the West
So, the Wicked Witch — NOT Dorothy — was the real hero in The Wizard of Oz, and the costume Kansas residents deserve. Think about it: Wouldn’t you be a little miffed if some hotshot, gingham-wearing, poppy-sniffin’ teenager crushed your sister with a house, stole her shoes, then ran off with a gang of monsters? Same.
The home at 1446 W. Hutchinson St., built by Heffernan Builders in 2015, is a 6-bedroom, 4-full bathroom, 5,110 square-foot mansion just west of Graceland Cemetery. It’s luxurious features include a surround sound system, radiant heat flooring and a patio with a fireplace, according to the real estate listing. In terms of other outdoor spaces, the home as a roofdeck above the garage and a classic front porch. (MORE HERE)
Before he shaved his magical beard he had ALREADY moved out of his rental house. Hmmmmm. Here are a few photos in case you’re interested.
This may very well be where the shaving of the magical beard all went down. Just think, YOU could shave your beard in the same bathtub as Jake!
Make your…I mean, order YOUR pizza in the same kitchen as the Arrieta’s
Rest your herculean thighs in the same room where Jake rested his after a game.
Sit in the ‘DON’T SIT IN HERE, THAT’S THE GOOD FURNITURE FOR COMPANY’ room while your mom’s voice haunts your every thought.
No need to lock the doors at night. Jake will be there 24/7 watching over you like a beardless, thicc thighed guardian angel
