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Showing posts with label MTV. Show all posts

Saturday, July 6, 2013

The Söderberg sisters come to the rescue of our Summer boredom! "First Aid Kit" performs 'Emmylou' LIVE at 2013 Glastonbury Festival (HD); Dancing Barefoot; Paul Krugman finally "gets" @FirstAidKitBand and promptly falls for them -hard!


2Shaymcn YouTube Channel video: First Aid Kit Emmylou Live Glastonbury 2013 ) HD
Uploaded July 6, 2013. http://youtu.be/mX62R9TOQ5M
More heavenly harmonies from Sweden's Klara and Johanna Söderberg.

I've waited a few days in posting this because there were so many legal problems associated with the BBC's telecast of this performance that the videos were being pulled and yanked off of YouTube almost as quickly as they were being uploaded.
Frankly, I didn't want to have to play a game of 'Musical Chairs' again -get it- and constantly need to be double-checking this post and replacing one embed code for another as various versions get yanked like falling dominoes. 

Me, I prefer that when I place a video here on the blog -unless it's something from SVT or TV4.se that tells you upfront that it'll only be available for viewing for a finite period of time- that the video stays put and doesn't migrate somewhere.


Klara and Johanna even posted a non-BBC version via their twitter feed and it got pulled down, too. In fact, here's that tweet from Monday:



But patience pays off for you the faithful blog reader, even though you didn't know what was going on behind the scenes, as blog YouTube fave 2Shaymcn, ace Abba and Swedish and British music lover and chronicler, one of the first people I ever subscribed to when I got my YouTube account years ago, has come to the rescue once again, via the vid up top.
http://www.youtube.com/user/2Shaymcn

NME discusses their playlist on the last day of the English music festival here: 

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/musik/rockbjornen/article17051318.ab

I noticed right before watching "Key Largo" for the millionth time on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday night that liberal economist and N.Y. Times columnist Paul Krugman mentioned in a new post that he has officially and finally fallen for Klara and Johanna, finally "gets" them, after hearing their cover of Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot "at the 2011 Polar Music Prize award telecast honoring her and Kronos Quartet.   

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/friday-night-music-first-aid-kit-covers-patti-smith/







You can watch a video of the whole ceremony here: http://youtu.be/AdwHCS9cvT8

Here's another video of them performing "Emmylou" LIVE in Nashville that I'd meant to post here before I left for Stockholm in January.
It was done for MTV USA's The Big and Best of 2012. Uploaded December 12, 2012


Get More: 
http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/864878/first-aid-kit-performs-emmylou-on-concrete-country.jhtml#artist=3022027

My last four blog posts about First Aid Kit are here:
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search?q=First+Aid+Kit

The official music video for Emmylou 

First Aid Kit - Emmylou
http://youtu.be/PC57z-oDPLs

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Someone FINALLY remembers "The Eighties" the way I do: Excellent 10-part series on music of 1980's on Sweden's SVT is mostly in English, and can be seen online from anywhere in the world. Swedish TV to the rescue of the summer doldrums! Depeche Mode, Culture Club...


SVT video: Synth eller hårdrock? Synth and Depeche Mode. Two-minute teaser for Episode 1 on 1980 and the introduction of synthesizers/Electronic Music and Depeche Mode starting their string of catchy hits. Originally aired June 8th, 2012.
http://www.svtplay.se/klipp/107504/eighties-1980-och-depeche-mode

Someone FINALLY remembers The Eighties the way I do: Excellent 10-part series on music of 1980's on Sweden's SVT is mostly in English, and can be seen online from anywhere in the world. Swedish TV to the rescue of the Midsommar doldrums! Depeche Mode, Culture Club...


Today I've posted teasers for three of the ten 30-minute episodes. Each program is available on the website for only 30 days due to copyright reasons, so don't procrastinate and miss one! Once it's gone, it's gone for good.


SVT's homepage with the entire series schedule is at http://www.svt.se/eighties/


SVT video: Three-minute teaser for the two-part episode of The Eighties on Boy George & Culture Club and Adam Ant that aired Friday night, June 22nd.
http://www.svtplay.se/klipp/119922/eighties-1982-boy-george-och-adam-ant


http://www.svt.se/eighties/1984-frankie-goes-to-hollywood-och-pudelrock
SVT video: Three-minute teaser for the fifth episode of The Eighties on 1984, a year that saw the group Frankie Goes to Hollywood make it big but see their huge hit "Relax" banned from BBC Radio, while LA-based groups like Van Halen, Whitesnake and Mötley Crüe wre making their presence known. This episode aired last night, June 26th.


The first time that I ever bought an album with a Depeche Mode song on it was in 1982, when I purchased the soundtrack for Summer Lovers about an hour after I saw that film starring Peter Gallagher and Darryl Hannah, the very first day it was out.
I replayed it in my head as I walked thru the record store, thinking how mundane and boring everything in NMB seemed compared to that film, which showed people giving in to their unconventional side for a change.


That film, along with its title song by Michael Sembello, has always been a guilty pleasure of mine and many of my friends from IU, who wondered why in the world we didn't have the good sense to be in Greece in the summer instead of the heat and humidity of Miami, Indianapolis Kansas City and Long Island.
The film has just awesome scenery of Santorini, which is a no-brainer, of course, and a potpourri of music interludes that seemed perfectly timed, including Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough."



busson9 video: Michael Sembello- Summer Lovers (1982, title song from the film)
http://youtu.be/yvu5H2hRJiE


Trivia note: my personal high school graduation party for myself, my family and friends took place at a wonderful Greek restaurant on Lincoln Road in South Beach, following the ceremony at the nearby Miami Beach Convention Center.
I wish we'd owned a video camera back then, because that was a hell of a party, and it'd be nice to replay it every once in a while.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Say hello to Lacey Myers, one of "The World's Richest Teenagers" as seen on Channel 4 (U.K.) and MTV's Lacey Land. C'est la vie.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwWulWyLLXE
Mark Dolan
embarks on a quest to find the world's richest teenagers.
Is the silver-spoon life such a wonderful thing after all?


Above, Dolan with the then-17-year old Lacey Myers, of Ashland, Ohio, who as you'll see from the clip's I've assembled here, is living EXTRA LARGE, as a result of how much Americans spend annually on their pets via Pet Brands, Inc., an American company with excellent products, great client services and a very good reputation. Lacey's father, Martin "Marty" Myers, is the company CEO.

Just further proof, as if needed, that if you give people a quality product they need at a price they can afford, you can make some money, too.

There's nothing mysterious about it and certainly no need to apologize for that success.


And really, is Lacey's ability to genuinely enjoy herself, as a result of her father's hard work, really all that different than depictions of how the rich lived in turn-of-the-century New York in real life, or as depicted in well-known novels by novelist Edith Wharton, with extravagant yachts, summers in old castles in Europe with royalty... and no personal income tax?

There just wasn't any incriminating video, 24/7 Internet or TMZ back then, is all.

C'est la vie.

The World's Richest Teenager | Who's to Blame?
More with Lacey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyYrzurRisY

Catch up on
4oD: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-worlds-and-me/4od

For more information on this TV show, see
:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-worlds-and-me
and
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-worlds-and-me/pictures/richest-teenager/6a986ac8-d7c6-42d2-8666-837c527f4962



Here's an earlier story on Lacey from a few years ago getting the MTV My Super Sweet 16 treatment. Her only regret was that "she couldn't keep the party going."
http://www.times-gazette.com/news/article/3204672

She was only 16 then, and to my mind, at least, sounds like about a million or so teenage girls in cities all across the country, ESPECIALLY here in South Florida, so what are you going to do, put her on trial for enjoying herself, rather than being frugal or a bookworm?


Or am I the only person still alive who remembers the many over-the-top stories on local Miami TV stations in the 1970's and '80's, with giddy TV reporters going on-and-on about well-to-do South Florida parents renting out the Orange Bowl for their son's bar mitzvah?


Frankly, it was actually starting to become a fairly regular thing, and while I remember thinking at the time as as a kid growing-up down here that it seemed a bit over-the-top, and not something anyone I knew might do, I suppose if I'd been a friend of the birthday boy and been invited, I'd have have been pretty psyched, so who's to judge these things, anyhow?

Besides, it wasn't my money, after all, so why should I begrudge someone else doing what they want to do, or what their parents want to do, and enjoy vicariously?

If any part of the country should understand Lacey Myers, it's here in South Florida.
Older versions of fun-loving Lacey keep its hotels and night clubs busy and turning a profit in very uncertain economic times.


Welcome to the full episode of the Lacey Land fantasy bash from January 28, 2008.
http://www.mtv.com/videos/my-super-sweet-16-season-6-ep-8-lacey-lacey-land-party/1580256/playlist.jhtml




When I last watched it, this video featured the recent Cotton Fabric of Our Lives TV ads I recently posted about featuring singers
Leona Lewis and Colbie Caillat, but it may change by the time you watch it.

See other
Fabric of Our Lives commercials from the series at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CottonFabricOfMyLife


The World's Richest Teenager - High Flyer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neZ65AKMrZE



http://www.channel4.com/news/

Last I heard, Lacey had left for Syracuse University, alma mater of one of my former housemates in Arlington, Peter Gaudioso, who was then an intern for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and a future Seton Hall Law School grad.

Peter, a devout fan of the Orange, was one of my housemates in Arlington when my IU Hoosiers beat Syracuse on a last-second Keith Smart shot in the 1991 NCAA Basketball title game, and is now a practicing attorney in New Jersey, and can no doubt still weave a Thomas Jefferson quote or anecdote into a conversation better than anyone north of Charlottesville and UVA.

From a distance, I suppose it would be too much to hope that Lacey turns out to be a Syracuse Lacrosse fan, and will actually be showing-up for their games that will be televised by ESPNU in the spring.
Still, it would be nice to see her up in the stands showing her support during a telecast.


Unless that happens, though, I suspect that we've all seen the last of Lacey for a while, as she'll probably be living a more below-the-radar existence, living the college life she's probably looked forward to enjoying for years while growing-up in Ohio, just like I and all my friends did as well here in South Florida once upon a time, eager to leave the Sunshine State in the rear view mirror and get on with our lives.
In my case, the beautiful rolling hills of Bloomington, Indiana.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Things to look for in the future on The Real World: D.C.; no future for "Blonde Charity Mafia"

Tonight, at 10 p.m. Eastern, is the
premiere of the 23rd incarnation of
MTV's The Real World, a show
I once followed very closely but
have not watched in quite a while,
much like this season's Desperate
Housewives
or Heroes, despite
having invested a lot of quality prime
time with them in the past.



Video from The Washington Post:
D.C. cast members of 'The
Real World' show off their house
,


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/10/28/VI2009102804296.html

Washington's Newest Monument, Courtesy of MTV
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/08/14/VI2009081402016.html

In fact, I hadn't watched a second
of MTV at all this year until I went
to check out their coverage of the death
of Michael Jackson just moments
after TMZ first reported it, even while
the LA Times dawdled and kept their
online version of the story the same until
even lame MSNBC was reporting the
Breaking News of his death and
not merely word of his hospitalization.

(I was on my computer at the time
TMZ broke the news, which is why
I mention that pertinent fact about
the slow-poke
LAT.)

My interest in flipping over to MTV
was simply the curiosity factor to see
what their Breaking News coverage
might consist of on a day when their
audience numbers ought to have been
huge.

Would it simply be old clips or would
they actually conduct live interviews
with some serious and thoughtful music
professionals and journalists
-like certain IU grads I could name-
or would it consist largely of cringe-worthy
blather audio/texts from teenage girls,
run over countless video shots of guys
Moonwalking outside the Apollo Theater
and other well-known international locales,
as long as the TV camera lights were on?

What makes me mention The Real World
at all, of course, is that this season will be
based out of a former mansion in Washington's
quirky and often exasperating Dupont Circle
neighborhood, north of the downtown core
where I and most of my friends worked,
along K Street and Connecticut Avenue.

That's an area I know very well from having
lived in Washington and Arlington County
for 15 years, and since that's the case,
I wanted to share a few thoughts here
and mention some things you may want
to look for, because of where they've
chosen to situate the show, knowing that
the producers cast it with certain plot
narratives and sub-plots clearly in mind,
or, at least, with fingers crossed..

So, that said, based on my own experiences
and those of friends and former colleagues,
here are a few things you might want to
be on the lookout look for in the weeks
ahead, which might tell you if the show is
even more heavily edited than usual, say,
if by the fourth or fifth episode:

a.) Someone in the house is not shown
bitching or cracking wise about how
f----ed-up the local D.C. govt. is, with
a glaring example of the nonsensical
outrage, and everyone else in the house
finally realizing that the horror stories
they'd heard about D.C. govt. were
all too true.
Welcome to D.C.!

b.) Some friend of theirs arrives for a
weekend visit -and someone always is!-
and when they drive over to the Adams
Morgan area to go to a bar or restaurant
after driving around DC showing their
friend the sights, they don't show some
unknown guys, either African-American
or Salvadoran, suddenly jumping out
of nowhere and suddenly standing in a
street parking space -IF they can find
one
- who want to be paid for finding
and/or watching the spot, as if they're
Columbus or The Secret Service.

The implicit warning: If they don't pay,
something WILL happen to the car.
Welcome to D.C.!

It'll no doubt remind some of you of the
famous "No Radio Inside" sign days
in New York of the '80's, sometimes
punctuated by a note near the broken car
window, hours later, with someone having
thoughtfully scrawled, "Just checking!"

c.) There isn't at least one segment or
two of a cast member discussing something
of theirs that was stolen, and the DC Police
telling him or her that it was their own fault.
Welcome to D.C.!

d.) Someone doesn't say in a condescending
way that DC's Chinatown, while perhaps
having a few very good restaurants, isn't
as nice as New York or San Francisco's
Chinatown.
Yes, because it's MUCH, MUCH
smaller,
dummies!

On the other hand, Arlington County's
Little Saigon area on Wilson Blvd.,
next to the Clarendon Metro, couldn't
be beat for VERY GOOD and inexpensive
Vietnamese food, and very friendly
service, to boot.

That was a Day-after-Thanksgiving
tradition for me if I and my friends
were hanging around town and weren't
out-of-town with family or significant
others doing the turkey thing.

After which, thoroughly stuffed, we'd
head back to my place to watch the
annual grudge match between
Texas-Texas A&M, with yours truly
playing navigator, and explaining
to the others where these small Texas
towns the players were actually located.

Talk about something from my
regular routine
in DC that I really
miss here in South Florida
-Little
Saigon.
http://blogs.nationaltrust.org/preservationnation/?p=4519
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/08/17/tidbits9.html


(Two weeks ago, thanks to the wonders
of
DirecTV, I watched the Abiline-Katy
Texas
5A High School football championship
game
at The Alamodome, LIVE on
Fox Sports
Southwest, Channel 676.
Their excellent coverage and production
values put that of of the
Miramar -Deland
FL 4A state title game in Lakeland over
on
Fox Sports Florida/SUN to shame.
It was night-and-day, like the difference
between MLB and the
low minors.)


For more on The Real World, see:

http://www.mtv.com/shows/real_world/Washingtondc/series.jhtml

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/29/AR2009122902739.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/13/AR2009081304164.html

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-real-world30-2009dec30,0,5130304.story

http://jezebel.com/5436535/meet-the-new-8-strangers-of-the-real-world-dc/gallery/


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/08/14/DI2009081401732.html?sid=ST2009081403688

Also, in other Washington area reality news,
TheWrap TV Editor Josef Adalian reported
yesterday that, as he aptly put it,

CW's 'Blond Charity Mafia' Sleeps With the Fishes

America's distaste for all things Washington apparently extends to "Blonde Charity Mafia."

After months of delays, the CW Tuesday confirmed that it will not be airing the soapy reality docusoap after all. The decision isn't much of a surprise: After originally slotting the show for a six-week run in July and August, the network then pushed the show to "the fourth quarter."

Said quarter ends Thursday. And there's no sign of the "BCM."

Read the rest of the story at:
http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/cws-blond-charity-mafia-sleeps-fishes-12332

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The Scopes Monkey Trial was never like this! Alyssa Milano's Evolution: Jersey Shore.

Originally, there was Dove Evolution.
Some folks thought it was great, while
others found it preachy and self-serving
in the extreme, not unusual for TV ads
pitching products geared to women.


Now comes before us for our perusal
and analysis, Alyssa Milano's Evolution:
Jersey Shore
. Alyssa Milano prepares
for a new role.





See her popular NFL-themed clothing line,
Touch By Alyssa Milano:

http://www.nflshop.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=3294500&cp=2421485&cid=

Inherit the Wind:
Long trailer with director Stanley Kramer
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1543308057/

Short trailer





As always, Spencer Tracy's a good defense attorney
to have on your side!