Busy busy busy day.
|
After the interviews I headed west to pay my friends Bobby and Benny a visit.
|
November 7, 2007
“Got the Timboes on my toes…”
R.I.P. - Tom Cadden (creator of Mr. Clean)
|
Tom Scott Cadden, who penned the classic Mr. Clean jingle that popularized the brand in the 1950s and ’60s, died Nov. 2 in Glenview, Ill., after a long series of health problems. He was 83. A self-taught musician, Mr. Cadden wrote jingles and produced commercials for many consumer products, including Pringles, Head & Shoulders and Bold laundry detergent. The campaign created the now-familiar bald-headed character in a muscle shirt, and the icon and jingle were unveiled in TV and print ads in the summer of 1958. Mr. Cadden left Tatham-Laird & Kudner in the early 1970s to pursue a career as a freelance composer and writer. His work with dozens of movie actors over his career spurred him to publish a movie-trivia book, “What a Bunch of Characters,” in 1984. “He was talented and funny, a kind and generous man who was devoted to his family,” said Tim Cadden. “He was a real-life Mr.
Powered by ScribeFire. |
November 6, 2007
Greatest Game Trailer Ever
|
Powered by ScribeFire. |
XLarge in Flaunt Magazine
|
Flaunt Magazine’s, a lifestyle/art/entertainment magazine based out of LA, new issue is out on the stands now. This issue is all about the tumultuous/complacent ’90’s: with articles about the rave drug scene, Los Angeles in crises due to the largest race riot in US history and nonstop natural disasters, interviews with alt-rockers Frank Black, Thurston Moore and Krist Noveselic, and a fashion spread inspired from the ’90’s. And how can you have a fashion spread about the ’90’s without having XLARGE, one of the seminal streetwear brands that started in 1991? |
November 3, 2007
“shreds” (youtube)
|
If you like internet pranks and goofs (along the lines of getting rickrolled), get hip to the “shreds” phenomenon on youtube. Rock performance video meets home studio jamming and overdubbing… Check out Eddie’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ around 1:14… Eddie Van Halen shreds… Carlos Santana shreds… Slash shreds… |
November 1, 2007
One of the dopest shirts in recent memory.
|
Daniel Park of Future Rockstars of America produced one of the dopest shirts in recent memory. Only 50 were printed, so you may already be shit out of luck. Looking forward to what this company has in stored for the future. Don’t sleep. |





