
Monthly Archives: May 2023
Eye Popping!
The amazing Zack King with video tricks and editing effects galore in a compilation of some really delightful videos.
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MacArthur Park: Richard Harris
Definitely a front runner nominee for most overwrought pop song of all time. This live performance is both wonderful, cringe-worthy, awesome, and ridiculous all at the same time.
Thanks to YouTuber Moi Only
Arts Express Conversation Classics

We’ve been putting together a fundraising show for WBAI, Arts Express’s parent radio station, so that’s what we’ve been up to in the last few weeks. We dived deep into the Arts Express archives and put together a fantastic flash drive with some classic interviews done by host Prairie Miller as a donation premium. In order to pitch it, we ran a show last night that contained some excerpts from some of those interviews, which you may enjoy listening to. The show contains pieces of interviews with Queen Latifah, RFK Jr., The Rolling Stones, Isabel Allende, and Mike Africa Jr. Click on the triangle or mp3 link above, in order to hear the program as broadcast last night on WBAI FM NYC.
More Meetles: Let It Be
Some nice guitar work here
Thanks to YouTuber Stuart M
Worst Riddle Ever?

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Prospect Park Southwest
Brooklyn, New York
When I’m Sixty Four: The Meetles
Monday morning, meet the Meetles, NYC’s favorite Beatles cover band, on a beautiful day in Central Park at Strawberry Fields, across the street from the Dakota, the building where John and Yoko lived.
Thanks to Stuart M.
Uh….If You Say So…
Jerry Lewis Sings Bob Dylan
From the crazy mind of the great Martin Short
Thanks to YouTuber jjwhyte14
Dear Brooklyn,

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“Dear Brooklyn,
I love you. Continue to allow everyone to be who they are, to be free, and to be different. Not only should you step outside the box, but make sure to jump on it and kick it until it breaks . Most of all, maintain the love and joy that is in your city walls. You are beautiful just the way you are.
Yours, Anonymous human being
P.S. Please remember to take out the trash!”
Seeley Street,
Brooklyn, New York
Gordon Lightfoot Sings Every Song Ever Written
The brilliant crew from SCTV with a hilarious parody, with a spot-on Gordy imitation from Rick Moranis.
Thanks to YouTuber westnyacktwins
Letter From Julian Assange


“You may have not read about the letter that was released at the time of Charles’s coronation from Julian Assange to Charles. It’s a short letter, but an extraordinary one….”
Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to hear my piece on Assange’s letter to Charles, as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio program, heard on WBAI-FM and Pacifica stations across the nation
But Tell Us What You Really Think…
Little Darling
Monday morning, doo-wop with The Diamonds, with a song that was released one month earlier in the year of 1957 by Maurice Williams (who wrote “Stay”); but it was the Diamonds’s version that charted.
Thanks to YouTuber NRRArchives3
Granted

Sam Gross in the New Yorker
Dame Edna
The brilliant Australian comedian Barry Humphries died a few week ago. He was known for the wild characters he created including Sir Les Patterson and Sandy Stone, but his most famous one was the one and only Dame Edna Everidge. Here is Dame Edna on the Michael Parkinson Show.
Thanks to YouTuber ppotter
On The Run
Kodachrome: Josh Turner
The Paul Simon song covered by Josh Turner impeccably as always.
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Agatha Christie’s Favorite Doctors?
The Rolling Stone
Miguel: Gordon Lightfoot
Monday morning, one more Gordon Lightfoot song, inspired by “The Highwayman” but turned into a border story
Thanks to YouTuber tony blackhall
Don’t Try This At Home, Kids…
UAE Magician Raymi with a stomach turning but effective trick.
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Bridge #28
Linnaeus Of The Laundry Basket
Rainy Day People: Gordon Lightfoot
RIP Gordon Lightfoot. One of the handful–very small handful, IMO–of musicians whose recordings were the complete package–great melodies, lyrics, singing, guitar playing, and arrangements. I was lucky enough to see him in concert in the early 70s. I think If You Could Read My Mind is one of the most perfect songs ever recorded, but here’s a more upbeat song.
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