Internet rumors abound that the DVD rental giant Netflix, pulled from it’s streaming catalogue The Bodyguard (1992), just to boost it’s DVD sales.
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Did Netflix Pull “The Boyguard” Just to Make Some Money?
Posted: 21st February 2012 by Dion in Music, News, Uncategorized, Up on The Soap BoxTags: Apple, iTunes, Michael Jackson, Netflix, SONY Music, The Bodyguard, This is It, Whitney Houston
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More Muppets!…Can It Be?
Posted: 25th December 2011 by Tiberius in Christmas, History, Music, Television, The MuppetsThe Muppet love is endless at The Podwits this Christmas! We have uncovered many forgotten Muppet-centric holiday heart-warmers! My final Muppet post is this fantastic rendition of an Emmet Otter song, originally sung by Emmet’s Ma, and later covered in 1979 by the late John Denver and Robin the Frog on the “John Denver and the […]
Fun Bags
Posted: 17th December 2011 by Podwits Administrator in Celebrities, Comic Books, Film, Music, Podcast, Science Fiction, Sex, Technology, TelevisionTags: Al Pacino, Battleship, Carrie Fisher, Ernest Borgnine, Film, George Takei, Liam Neeson, Radio Shack, Robert DeNiro, Sex, Shatfish, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superheroes, Technology, Television, Twilight, William Shatner
In this week’s episode of The Podwits Podcast we discover that even superheroines need to examine their own breasts. J. steps into the wayback machine and brings back the technologies of yesterday! A top ten list strikes a sour note with Dion! Brian tries desperately not to throttle them both! And can one man bring […]
The Sonic Voyage Home
Posted: 16th December 2011 by J. Marcus in MusicTags: Back To The Future, Intrada, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Rosenman, Music, Star Trek
Just in time for the 25th anniversary of the film’s release, Intrada records is issuing a new special edition soundtrack CD for the most popular Star Trek film of all time, STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME. It’s been a good couple of years to be a Star Trek soundtrack fan. In the past few […]
Chicago Blues Guitar Icon, Hubert Sumlin Passes at 80
Posted: 10th December 2011 by Dion in Music, News, ObituariesTags: Chess Records, Cream, David Johansen, Eric Clapton, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Levon Helm, Muddy Waters, Obituaries, Robbie Krieger, Robbie Robertson, The Blues, The Delta, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Willie Dixon
Blues Guitar legend Hubert Sumlin, whose signature scream and snarl defined Howlin’ Wolf’s sound, died in Wayne, New Jersey this week at the age of 80. A highly underrated guitar pioneer in the Chicago “Electric Blues” scene of the late 1940’s- to late 50’s, Mr. Sumlin is revered in the music, directly influencing musicians such as Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, […]
Muppet Song “Mahna Mahna” Sourced to a Porno
Posted: 6th December 2011 by Dion in Music, News, Sex, The MuppetsTags: Jim Henson, Mahna mahna, Sweden: Heaven and Hell, The Big Lebowski, The Muppets, XXX
Who would of known. I don’t know why it has taken until 2011 for this to come out, but rumor on the street is the classic Muppet song “Mahna Mahna” is from a 1968 Italian porn film entitled Sweden: Heaven and Hell. Huh.
100 Greatest Guitarists According to (Yawn)… Rolling Stone
Posted: 27th November 2011 by Dion in Music, Music Review, News, Up on The Soap BoxTags: B.B. King, Bucky Pizzarelli, Chuck Berry, Dick Dale, Django Reinhardt, Jimi Hendrix, John Pizzarelli, Keith Richards, Les Paul, Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone Magazine, SteveVai
Here we go with their lists again… So Rolling Stone Magazine has compiled a list of what they call the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. The magazine supposedly used guitarists in the music world to vote. Well what did Rolling Stone come up with might you ask? A bunch of hot steaming garbage if you ask me.
NEW Black Sabbath Album Announced After 3 Decades!!!
Posted: 20th November 2011 by Dion in Music, NewsTags: Black Sabbath, Neil Diamond, Rick Rubin
It was announced Friday that after 34 years, the original line up of the best metal band of all time- Ozzy Ozbourne, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward and Tony Iommi- will be recording a new album and going on tour, both slated for 2012. The album will be the first since 1978’s “Never Say Never!”, and will be […]
The Doors performing “Reading Rainbow”?!
Posted: 14th November 2011 by Dion in Music, NewsTags: Jimmy Fallon, Reading Rainbow, The Doors
The Doors on Jimmy Fallon performing Reading Rainbow. I couldn’t stop laughing…. Click the “reading rainbow” link if video box doesn’t work-
The Doors Live in Vancouver, 1970
Posted: 31st October 2011 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: Albert King, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, B.B. King, Big Mama Thornton, Blues, Bo Diddley, George Gershwin, John Coltrane, Kurt Weill, Peggy Lee, Porgy and Bess, The Allman Brothers, The Beatles, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Vancouver, Vince Treanor, Willie Dixon
(Dion’s review was posted on The Official Doors Facebook and Myspace pages in January, 2011) We have Vince Treanor to thank for being able to listen to The Doors’ performance in Vancouver on June 6th, 1970. Treanor was the band’s road manager from 1967 until the end in 1972, when the band, post Morrison’s […]