YouTube wanted to remind me that I once watched this, a performance of “Strangers” by Wye Oak for The A.V. Club’s Undercover series 13 years ago! Holy shit, time is flying. Anyway, it’s lovely and Jenn Wasner is a badass. Enjoy or don’t, you weekend-destined bastards.
Pedagogy
Who needs drugs?
Tap Two
Spinal Tap II began production last spring, and director Rob Reiner is letting fans know what the band’s members have been up to in the 40 years since This Is Spinal Tap came out.
“Nigel [Tufnel, played by Christopher Guest] has been running a cheese and guitar shop in Berwick-upon-Tweed. He’s also been performing with a local folk band in the village that play penny whistle and mandolin, and he plays electric guitar with them. We show a little clip of that,” Reiner explained in a recent interview with Empire. “David St. Hubbins [played by Michael McKean] has been living in Morro Bay in California, and he’s been writing music for podcasts, particularly this one true-crime podcast called ‘The Trouble With Murder.’ He also writes the music that you hear when you’re on hold on the phone.”
“Derek [Smalls, played by Harry Shearer] is living in London and is now the curator of the New Museum of Glue. He’s curated glue from every country in the world – the whole history of glue – and he shows me around,” he added, “He’s also been performing with a philharmonic orchestra, and he’s written this kind of symphony about the fact that the devil wears a bad hair piece. It’s called Hell Toupée.”
Reiner also explained that the idea for the sequel came when Tony Hendra, who played Spinal Tap’s manager Ian Faith in the original, died in 2021. “[W]e came up with this idea that Ian Faith had willed his daughter, Hope, this contract that called for one more performance,” he said. “She thinks initially, ‘Well, this is not really worth anything…’ But then some big music star, while screwing around at a sound check, is filmed on an iPhone singing a Tap song, and it goes wild on social media. All of a sudden, the contract is worth something.”
One Of My All-Time Favorite Drummers
Power, precision, feel, taste. And Headon plays like a true musician, coming up with lots of interesting patterns within the same song.
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
My Robot Girlfriend
Customizable!
Emotional connection!
High Society
My kind of party.
First Monday After The Holidays
Steady as she goes.
Happy Birthday To Me
Just pre-ordered the more affordable version ($125) of this on the Taschen site. Coming in February!
And here’s an unboxing of the $1,500 limited edition version …
Oh, That Rusty!
Still going strong as a child star after 28 seasons!
She Does It Right
Some Dr Feelgood for the discerning bastard.