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Celebrate Vinyl Record Day
When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph on August 12, 1877, little did he know just how much influence his Talking Machine would have, not only in the music industry, but in pop culture as well. Records are a part of the music of the ages and it is up to us as individuals and retailers, not only to enjoy our favorite recordings, but to preserve them as well; thus Vinyl Record Day was born.
The Rolling Stones
1. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
2. Only Rock ‘n Roll
3. Get Off My Cloud
4. She’s A Rainbow
5. Under My Thumb
6. It’s All Over Now
7. Don’t Stop
8. Happy
9. The Last Time
1. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Mere days after their release of “Beggar’s Banquet” in 1968, the band pulled together a real-life circus of a show. Designed as a television spectacle consisting of real circus performers, and some top rock acts of the day. Jethro Tull, The Who and Er…
Metallica – St. Anger
1. St. Anger
2. Metallica Reloaded
3. The Early Early Early Days
4. Under The Influence
5. Monsters Of Rock
6. Nabbing Napster
7. Master Of Puppets
8. Ride The Lightning
9. Worn Justice
10. Headbangers’ Ball
1. St. Anger
The band that put the Metal in Heavy Metal returns with one of their heaviest albums yet. It is a return to the early days of Metallica, resembling their first album, Kill ‘Em All. Unlike their albums of the past decade, there isn’t …
Monty Python – Top 10 Comedy Films
1. Fruit In The Looms
2. Python’s Give Live Birth
3. The Toad Elevating Moment
4. Mystery Of The Lost Python Sketches
5. Brian’s The Life Of The Party
6. Kim Bread Aka John Cleese
7. Around The World In 80 Days
8. Get Yourself To Mars
9. Keep It Real
10. The 12 Fisher Monkey Kings
11. Parting Shots
1. Fruit In Your Looms
Someone once said something along the lines that, Monty Python is to ‘funny’ what chartered accountants are to ‘boring’. Who are we to disagree…
James Dean – James Byron Dean
JAMES BYRON DEAN
LIFE IMITATES ART
GENERATION NEXT
ANIMAL FARM
FOUR EYES
THESE GO TO ELEVEN
THE ACTOR WAY
FRANK, BILLIE AND JIMMY
ACTING THE PART
DEAD MAN’S CURVE
APOCALYPSE NOW
GIANT
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
JAMES BYRON DEAN
James Dean was born on February 8th, 1931 in Marion, Indiana. His hobbies were writing, painting, bullfighting (when did that happen?), photography, sculpting, car racing, horse raci…
Bruce Lee – Enter The Dragon
BRUCE LEE
ENTER THE DRAGON
LITTLE KNOWN FACT
WAY OF THE INTERCEPTING FIST
A WARRIOR’S JOURNEY
LAST MAN STANDING
GAME OF DEATH
NUNCHAKU
FISTS OF FURY
THE CURSE
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
SILENT BUT DEADLY
ELVIS & BRUCE
THE DRAGON
“Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own”
– Bruce Lee
ENTER THE DRAGON
Bruce Lee Jun Fan Yuen Kam was born in the year of the dragon, 1940, and at the hour of the dragon, between 6 and 8 AM.
LITTLE…
Maurice Cornelius Escher – MC Escher
MC ESCHER
“I play a tiresome game” – MC ESCHER
1. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
2. No Apt Pupil
3. The Creature In The Forest
4. Head In The Clouds
5. The Puzzler
6. Impossible Architect
7. On His Mind
8. Virtual Relativity
9. A Rolling Stone
10. Wandering Enigma
1. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Maurice Cornelius Escher, known to his friends and family as Mauk, was initially set to be an architect. He was to attend the Higher Technical S…
Hart And Huntington
The Palms Casino, made famous by MTV’s Real World, is now home to the Hart & Harrington Tattoo Company. The shop opened on February 25th with performances by Good Charlotte and Mix Master Mike of the Beastie Boys. The event was earmarked by a fashion show featuring designs from Jaime Pressly. This is the first time a Las Vegas casino has housed a tattoo parlor and is the first official location of Hart & Huntington.
Good Charlotte
WALDORFWORLDWIDE
GOOD CHARLOTTE
GOOD CHARLOTTE, THE BOOK
MOTIVATION PROCLAMATION
EAST COAST ANTHEM
THANK YOU MOM
MY BROTHER’S PLACE
THE YOUNG AND HOPELESS
LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND THE FAMOUS
PIRATES!
WALDORFWORLDWIDE
The twin brothers that make up the core of Good Charlotte were born on March 11, 1979 in the “middle-of-nowhere-suburbs”, Waldorf, Maryland. The brothers, Joel and Benji Madden were turned on to music by their older brother, Josh. Their …
John Deere
JOHN DEERE
GO WEST YOUNG MAN
THE BLACKSMITH
MASS APPEAL
NOTHING RUNS LIKE A DEERE
COMMITMENT
LEGENDARY
LEAPING FORWARD
THE CLASSIC
“I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me.” John Deere
JOHN DEERE
In 1962, a University of Illinois archaeological team unearthed the exact location of the blacksmith shop where John Deere developed the first successful steel plow in 1837. The site is now preserved by an exhibit ha…