omg shut up
YES!!!!!! Grunge is/was a musical genre in the early to mid 1990s that included, but was not limited to Nirvana, Mudhoney, The Melvins, etc. and has ****NOTHING**** to do with vintage film - everyone who misuses the term is brain dead - for real. It’s actually laughable, but also ever so pathetic………
Echo & The Bunnymen - “The Puppet” - Urgh! A Music War (1980)
It’s his birthday, May 5th - love and respect. I met him back stage in 2001 (yes I had a pass and yes he was still gorgeous then), and he signed an EATB setlist for me, using my back as a writing desk - yes, we were both standing up. George Harrison had just died a few days before and we talked about how sad we both were about it. That is all.
Happy Birthday, Ian Stephen McCulloch May 5th,1959
“I only ever wanted, from the age of 13, to be the greatest singer of the best band in the world.”
It’s the birthday of the “First Lady of Song,” Ella Fitzgerald, born in Newport News, Virginia in 1917. She loved to sing and dance as a child and when she was 16 she entered a contest at the Apollo Theater. She had a dance routine worked out and walked on stage wearing ragged clothes and men’s boots, but she froze up. Later she said, “I got out there and I saw all the people and I just lost my nerve. And the man said, ‘well, you’re out here, do something!’ So I tried to sing.” She won the contest and soon became a celebrity across all of New York. She joined Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington as the only performers who could draw audiences at the Apollo from south of 125th Street.
Ella Fitzgerald said, “The only thing better than singing is more singing.”
It’s the birthday of Ella Fitzgerald | The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor
Minnie Mouse plays dance tunes for Mickey over the telephone in “The Gorilla Mystery” (1930) - Walt Disney
