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Rock Among the Ruins: Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii (1972)
Tourism and historical research aside, most ruins aren’t particularly useful, least of all for their original purposes. Yet Pink Floyd fans know of one instance when a ruin made a comeback, if a brief and specialized one, that could make you forget all about the ash and pumice that buried it nearly 2000 years before. In October 1971, the band set up their gear in the middle of the Ampitheatre of Pompeii and blasted three songs out into the antiquity surrounding them: “Echoes,” “A Saucerful of Secrets,” and “One of These Days.” They played not to a live audience, but to an array of studio-quality recording equipment designed to faithfully capture every layer of their sound for theatrical reproduction. You can see and hear all the then-highest-of-the-high-tech musical equipment used to produce then-thoroughly modern rock music in this nearly alien-looking geometric setting of time-worn stone and encroaching grass in Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii,now free to watch on YouTube.
Pink Floyd’s chosen venue, the oldest standing Roman ampitheatre of them all, suits their project sonically as well as aesthetically. Had the band invited an audience, the old place probably could, with a touch of restoration, have handled it with aplomb. An article from CSO Security and Risk cites its bathroom design and placement, its queue separation, its anxiety-reducing openness, its simple stairway scheme, its lack of corners and bottleneck points, and the wide road leading to it as qualities from which today’s stadium designers can still learn. Just last May, the surviving members of Pink Floyd happened to get back together on stage; should they launch a reunion tour, they might consider starting at the ampitheatre they introduced to so many young fans before history teachers could.
You’ll find embedded above the 2003 director’s cut of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, the latest of several versions of the film. It includes not just the band’s Pompeii performance, but additional songs shot in Paris, recording and interviewing sessions at Abbey Road, and a number of clips of exploding volcanoes and Earth from space. The non-concert material further explores themes naturally raised by placing music from 1971 into a venue from 70 BC. Considering any creation’s place in history and the danger of fetishizing the man-made, the band members talk about how to avoid becoming “slaves to all our equipment,” how not to one day find themselves “a relic of the past,” and whether or not rock would survive a vast societal collapse. Some of this feels like a more intelligent version of the rock-documentary sensibility that This is Spinal Tap would so thoroughly lambast almost a decade later. We all had a good laugh when that film’s hapless fictional rock group ordered up an all-too-miniature replica of Stonehenge for their live show. You may also chuckle at the grandness of Pink Floyd’s use of the Ampitheatre of Pompeii, but it also presents you with questions worth thinking about.
Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall.
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For the second time in just over a week, we saw the New York Knicks take the Orlando Magic to the woodshed, this time coming away with a 96-80 victory.
However, that wasn’t the story Thursday night. Instead, the night centered around Magic Head Coach Stan Van Gundy’s admission that he knows (and has known for quite some time) that Dwight Howard has asked management to fire him.
Above and Below, you can see postgame video of both Van Gundy and Howard. Van Gundy, as always, was very candid in his presser while Howard refused to answer questions regarding Van Gundy.
(Andrew Melnick is the ESPNFlorida.com Magic and NBA Insider, co-host of the ESPN 1080 Insiders Show and publisher of Howard the Dunk. The Insiders Show can be heard Sunday mornings at 10:00 am EST on AM 1080 in Orlando and on ESPNFlorida.com. You can follow Andrew on twitterhere.)
Stan Van Gundy and Dwight Howard star in the most awkward interview ever
Stan Van Gundy and Dwight Howard star in the most awkward interview ever
The Rincon Super Awesome Mini Movie
This is a video i made of my friends and I surfing the wave we call home.
featuring: Brandon Smith, Trevor Gordon, Travers Adler, Dane Reynolds, Tom Curren, Dylan Perkins, Dillion Perillo, Pat Curren, and more!! surfing Rincon, California.
YES! Ron Burgundy Announces ‘Anchorman 2′ With Jazz Flute and Conan O’Brien
I like to keep my chops up, jam with the cats…see if a lil’ backstage cutie ends up on my lap. And then later that night, she’s playing my flute. And by flute I mean…my turgid p—s.”
“I want to announce to everyone here in the Americas, to our friends in Spain, Turkey, and the UK, including England…that as of 0900 Mountain Time, Paramount Pictures and myself, Ronald Joseph Aaron Burgundy have comes to terms on a sequel toAnchorman. There will be a sequel.” *plays self out with jazz flute*
Clearly, this is the best news of 2012. There is no manlier man than Ron Burgundy. He’s forever changed the image of polyester. I can’t even think about milk without thinking of how it glistens on his beard. And his magic prose has been referenced by everyone from Kanye to…well, everyone.
The original Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is practically a deal-breaker friend test (Did you love Anchorman? No? Goodbye!) And the DVD-extra Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie was a nice hold-over for fanatics….
But we’ve been waiting for a real follow up for a long time.Now, along with Ron’s sexy announcement on the Conan O’Brien show on Weds night, there is news from Deadline that Paul Rudd and Steve Carell are both joining Will Ferrell on Anchorman 2. And most importantly, Judd Apatow will again produce the flick, and Adam McKay will return to direct and co-write the script with Ferrell. I remember some early talk about the movie being set in the 80s, with Burgundy struggling to fit in? Then there were rumors that it was going to be in 3D, then it was going to be a musical. Oh whatever, shoot it on an iphone in a parking lot.
Revisit some classic footage from the original Anchorman…
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Congressman Removed From House Floor For Wearing A “Hoodie”
Whale Touching of the Day: A mother gray whale and her calf surface in San Ignacio Lagoon, much to the jubilation of a particularly vocal whale watcher.
(Whale watching in San Ignacio Lagoon is heavily regulated. Boats must idle and wait for the whale to approach.)
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Video: Kendrick Lamar – Hol’ Up (Live)
Camovement nabbed footage of Kendrick at both SXSW’s Fader Fort and The Vibe House performing his Section.80 hit Hol’ Up.
YG ft. Meek Mill - I’m a Thug
Compton rapper YG hooks up with Meek Milli on this track taken from his upcoming album “4 Hunnid Degreez” which drops on March 26th.
Beanie Sigel freestyling on the streets of SXSW!
It’s not surprising that the stylized 1960s world of Mad Men, saturated with cigarettes, booze, and other politically incorrect behavior, has been appropriated, remixed, and parodied in countless videos by fans and pros alike. Here we present some of the viral hits that sustained viewers during the show’s seemingly endless hiatus.
Above: Elisa Kreisinger, aka Pop Culture Pirate, uses razor-sharp editing to subvert mainstream cultural messages. In Set Me Free, Kreisinger and Marc Faletti have the ladies of Mad Men cover the Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hanging On,” pulling the lyrics, word for word, from clips in the show.
Santorum on defensive in Illinois over unemployment remark
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EAST PEORIA, IL — Rick Santorum began the Monday before the Illinois primary addressing Mitt Romney’s claims that he is “an economic lightweight.” By the day’s end, it was the former Pennsylvania senator’s own words that had him on the defensive.
Making four stops in the Land of Lincoln, Santorum suggested at a rally in Moline that the nation’s unemployment rate “doesn’t matter to me.” The point, he later explained, was that his campaign is based on more fundamental issues than the current jobless numbers and that Republicans do not believe it is the government’s role to create employment, only to create an atmosphere for job growth.
But it took little time for his chief rival for the GOP nomination to pounce on the comments. Stumping in Peoria less than two hours later, Romney used Santorum’s line to further his case that he the only candidate capable of handling the economy.
“One of the people who is running also for the Republican nomination today said that he doesn’t care about the unemployment rate, that does bother me. I do care about the unemployment rate,” said Romney.
Santorum’s remarks came on the heels of a different eyebrow-raising incident in a Louisiana prayer service on Sunday night. As Santorum sat off to the side in Baton Rouge church, pastor Dennis Terry, who introduced the Republican hopeful, delivered some fiery rhetoric about religious tolerance. “I don’t care what the liberals say, I don’t care what the naysayers say, this nation was founded as a Christian nation,” Terry said, adding, “There’s only one God. There’s only one God. And his name is Jesus.”
When pressed by reporters on Monday about the comments, Santorum said he did not hold the pastor’s views. “I believe in freedom of religion and all religions are welcome and should be. I think I’ve made that pretty clear throughout my campaign.”
The distractions came less than 24 hours before Illinois voters go to the polls to decide how their 54 delegates will be allocated. The state is largely expected to favor Romney, but a strong showing from Santorum could further cement his place as the only candidate able to mount a challenge to the former Massachusetts governor’s front-runner status.
With more than 15 media appearances on Monday in addition to the four campaign rallies, the Santorum campaign was hoping to leave Illinois on high note. As Romney delivered an economic address at the University of Chicago, Santorum touted his blue collar candidacy in Dixon, the hometown of GOP hero Ronald Reagan.
“We need someone who can talk and strike blows for big things like Reagan did for freedom, for America,” he said while standing in front of bronze statue of Reagan on a horse. “Let’s just be brutally honest about it. There’s one candidate in this race who could never make this race about freedom because he simply abandoned freedom when he was governor of Massachusetts and he abandoned it when he promoted Obamacare in 2009.”
Throughout the day he called out Romney over his ties to Wall Street and a job creation record that, Santorum said, was one of the worst in the country while Romney led the Bay State.
But during his final rally outside a pizza shop in East Peoria, Santorum seemed to acknowledge the toll his off-the-cuff style has taken on him. “When you got out there and you don’t talk from a teleprompter, and you’re not, you know, reading notes that someone else gave you, occasionally you say something things, you wish you had a, you know, a do-over,” he said.
“But you know what, I think it’s important that you get a sense of how real the candidate is, mistakes and all.”
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