Kills Me Dead

I'm not sure, were the Beatles on drugs?

Things that are fantastic: History Teachers, a fantastic YouTube channel taking popular songs and rewriting them to teach history. Of course, when I describe it that way it comes across as some painfully square teacher trying to connect to her students using the parlance of their time and failing miserably, but it’s the complete opposite. I was in tears watching these because they hit all the right nerd buttons: music [...]

My love affair with the Beatles began when I was thirteen years-old and The Beatles Anthology aired on TV. I don’t want to put too fine a point on it but it CHANGED MY LIFE, and since that point I’ve wanted to go to England. London, yes, but more importantly Liverpool. As cheesy and touristy as it probably is, we decided to roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour to [...]

Letters of Note: Tchaikovsky was an awesome composer "In January of 2011, chief music critic at the The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini, concluded a two week project in which he discussed the world's finest composers by unveiling a list he had personally compiled: Top 10 classical music composers in history. As can be expected, much discussion was generated by his list, but it was the following written response from [...]

Soccer Bastian Schweinsteiger 2010 World Cup Drinking Game A) I wish I had discovered this prior to the start of the World Cup. B) I like the bitchface rule under the Ladies Only rules. C) It seems that the creators of said game go to the same pub I do. The world is small! Letters of Note: You were of course the outstanding candidate "In May of 2006, armed only [...]

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This is not the Beatles film you're looking for (nor is it supposed to be).

Enjoyable but only necessary to rewatch if you're a diehard Springsteen fan.

I'm trying and failing to work a Velvet Underground-based pun into this excerpt.

12 Terrifying Jell-O Recipes After first learning about aspic in "Julie & Julia", I have since found this topic at once fascinating and horrific. Snoop Dogg "Oh Sookie" True Blood Music Video Besides the fact that this is a really terrible song, I think the Merlotte's back up dancers might be wearing more clothes than I've seen in a music video in a long time. The True Blood Round Table [...]