Perhaps you made his acquaintance a few weeks ago when he became an overnight YouTube sensation with a very simple concept: He’s decided to go ahead and sing the lyrics and melody to Smash Mouth’s All Star to….well, pretty much any song.
I first came across Jon and his sweet neck beard when he had a handful of covers. Now he has even more. A 101WKQX primer:
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under The Bridge (Smash Mouth Version)
Bastille – Pompeii (Smash Mouth Version)
Radiohead – Creep (Smash Mouth Version)
Linkin Park – In The End (Smash Mouth Version)
Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks (Smash Mouth Version)
I’m not sure what this means. Is the banality of Smash Mouth so great that it can camouflage itself effortlessly within other musical works in a beautiful, haunting way? Or it could it mean that the other songs…are….
NO! After contemplating all angles, I’ve arrived at only one conclusion. Smash Mouth sucks. I know this because Jon has moved on to his next exposure…Nickelback:
Coldplay – Fix You (Nickelback Photograph Version)
WikiHow has provided a How To Behave At A Rock Concert guide. I thought it might be helpful considering The Nights We Stole Christmas kicks off on Thursday. Turns out…it was kind of bland. So, without further ado, the original photo illustrations from the guide…provided with zero-context interpretations:
When you walk into a place that looks like your hometown movie theater from the 1980s, recognize you did not arrive at the proper location for the show. It is at The Aragon. Also, that sweater. Yikes.
If someone offers you a fountain pen at The Nights We Stole Christmas, remember. Just say no. Friends don’t let friends accept fancy writing utensils from strangers.
(Wait. I’m genuinely confused by this. Sure, follow the rules. But when placed on a stop sign, doesn’t it send mixed messages? Read literally, it seems to mean…STOP following the rules. I’ve decided this tip does not apply The Nights We Stole Christmas.)
Don’t be the silver haired fox who boxes people out from the merch tables.
It is advisable to wear deodorant to The Nights We Stole Christmas while waving your hands in the air as if there were no consequences.
If you mistakenly drive off with a gas nozzle after filling up on your way over, don’t bring it inside and wave it in the air like some kind of trophy. And you on the left…this ain’t Pants Off, Dance Off.
Don’t use a mirror to create your own homemade band t-shirt. Actually, you’ll probably sell a s#!@ ton of these on Etsy. Go for it.
The final trailer for the anticipated ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ hit the web today to give us one last savory tease of the epic spinoff/prequel coming out on December 16th. The story involves a rag tag crew put together by the Rebels to steal information of the construction of the Death Star, putting the movie chronologically before the original ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ film. This latest trailer shows more of a light-hearted look at the team of central players as well as the droid K-2SO, wild X-Wing dog fights in outer space, and some new fun action scenes with giant robots flinching from missile strikes. The trailer does hit the member-berry feels with a scene involving a mother telling her daughter to “trust the force” which throws back to the core battle of good and evil that has resonated through the entire series.
There has been overzealous fan freak-outs over the recent reveal that ‘Rogue One’ will not have the standard scrolling text prologue that fans have been familiar with at the start of all previous SW films, but Star Wars executive producer Kathleen Kennedy told Variety “We felt that’s so indicative of what those saga films are. Initially, we probably will begin the film in a way that is traditional, with just the title.” And that makes total sense, so fear not Jedis, this movie looks like it’s going to be pretty cool.
BEHOLD WIENER DOGS RACING ON ICE! Kudos to the Tri-City Storm for putting on this adorable doggy event with these weiner dogs wiggling their butts as fast as possible.
If that is not enough hockey meets cute dogs action for you, here is a Crusoe the “celebrity daschund” in a hockey uniform paling around with a fellow hockey fan dog.
Jumping over a fence to sneak into a festival is pretty dumb. It does’nt support the bands performing or help the people who worked to put on the show for everyone involved. We have heard tall tales of people sneaking into Grant Park during Lollapalooza, but ‘fence-jumping’ a fest might have gotten much harder to pull off due to new technology being implemented by an Australian music festival.
The Event Agency, promoters behind the upcoming Arcadia Australia festival are using a special non-drying lubricant ink to fencing for the the concert which will make it harder to climb in without a ticket. The same ink will stain the clothing of fence-jumpers for up to three weeks, which makes it easy to identify them. The promoters said in an article with iq-mag.net they want to make “an impenetrable barrier”,
So I guess these concert-going criminals will have to get crafty with a second set of clothing? No matter what you think, this new ink idea is quite clever and sounds effective.
Anyone else getting the feeling that Black Friday…has lost its punch?
To me, it started when Cyber Monday came on the scene. Then, in the last couple of years, Black Friday sales started to impinge upon Thursday. And people don’t want things messing with their turkey.
So when you start to see news reports or articles on either the apparent success or failure of Black Friday and the kickoff of the holiday sales season, take it with a grain of salt. Actually, you will probably end up ignoring them altogether after reading this article from FiveThirtyEight. They spell out a number of reasons why the data you hear about this weekend is dead wrong.
For instance, MasterCard says the busiest shopping day last year…way above Black Friday. So way to go, slackers.
How do you get it done? —->
It seems the importance of Black Friday as a shopping day is diminishing. How do you do holiday shopping? — @erickristensen
When you have earned the title of America’s TV Mom, there is no doubt you have had incredible reach across generations.
Florence Henderson, who played matriarch Carol Brady on the sitcom The Brady Bunch, passed away yesterday from heart failure at the age of 82.
The show only ran for five years on TV, but it found a larger and longer life by reaching people like you and me…in long running syndication. In fact, The Brady Bunch was such an enduring success that since its first re-airing in September 1975, an episode of the Brady Bunch has been broadcast on a television somewhere in the United States and abroad every day of the year. Every day.
NPR has the first great look into Henderson’s greatest character, plus the rest of her life and career. Read it here.
Welcome to Thanksgiving. Hopefully the celebration with family and/or friends is a joyous, relaxing time of year. For the rest of you, however, the satirical news deliverers over at The Onion likely provided a much needed laugh. (And for those who have no problems with the holiday, you are welcome to laugh along, too.)
On this Thanksgiving 2016, lets look back at The Onion’s Top 10 takes on turkey day:
For 37 years she has graced the TV screens of Chicago, reporting the news and doing so with a natural endearing quality but today was Linda Yu’s last day with ABC7 Eyewitness News. Yu immigrated to the United States from China knowing very little English,then climbed her way up the media ladder and delivered quality news reporting every step along the way. She has been on air in Chicago since 1979, first with NBC5 before starting her long run with ABC7 in 1984. Yu became the first Asian-American journalist to be on TV in Chicago.
The team at ABC7 gave her a tremendous sendoff on her last day.
Here is a retrospective look at Yu’s prolific career which started first on the West Coast and has taken her all over the world bringing the news back to Chicago.
Before he was getting into fights with Bob Barker in ‘Happy Gilmore’ or playing a man child sent back to grade school in ‘Billy Madison’, Adam Sandler was one of the star players in 90’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ and this 1992 ‘Thanksgiving Song’ sketch on ‘Weekend Update’ was one of his first hits on the show. Yes , it doesn’t have to make sense to be funny, it just is funny because of how silly and delightful it is.
Happy Thanksgiving, hope you have avoided all the awkward conversations about politics but also ate all the pie. – Kevin
Friday is one of my favorite holiday of the year…again (it happens twice a year). It’s Record Store Day… Black Friday Edition! Check out all of the special releases you’ll find at your local independent record store! -wALT
Tyler Glenn reflects on how coming out to his parents made them the biggest supporters of not only him but for the LGBT community. Encourages people to trust themselves.
Yes, he has appeared once again. The rare, elusive, and apparently hungry Pizza Squirrel has been spotted again! Reddit user NASA_Wifi posted this awesome pic of the fuzzy thick-thighed guy munching on an entire slice of pizza in a tree in the Whicker Park area. Note the slice is almost as a long as his body. Imagine eating anything let alone a pizza the length of your body?! Now the hard to answer question is what pizza place made this slice because I am pretty sure this endorsemnet from this critter could be a marketing home-run right?
A piece of viral internet gold like this will remind many of us of the Pizza Rat who made waves online in a video filmed in a New York City subway station. That video went viral in a massive way, but it’s worth noting that the rat left his slice and scurried off somewhere. Thus proving once and for all, that Chicago pizza is the superior pie in the never-ending Pizza Battle between Chicago and NYC that has raged through the ages. It’s done, it’s science! @kevkellam