Awesome! The Big Pink give a icy-cool clubby spin to Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know”.
The Big Pink cover my most fave Smashing Pumpkins tune from back in the day: “Mayonaise”.
This is one of the most astounding time-lapses I have ever seen!
Filmed beneath the ice off the foothills of the volcano Mount Erebus (located here), BBC’s “Frozen Planet” details the phenomenon of the Antarctic ocean “brinicle”, a lethal “icicle of death” that plunges to the seafloor encasing all the creatures it encounters in ice.
“The icy phenomenon is caused by cold, sinking brine, which is more dense than the rest of the sea water. It forms a brinicle as it contacts warmer water below the surface.
In winter, the air temperature above the sea ice can be below -20C, whereas the sea water is only about -1.9C. Heat flows from the warmer sea up to the very cold air, forming new ice from the bottom. The salt in this newly formed ice is concentrated and pushed into the brine channels. And because it is very cold and salty, it is denser than the water beneath. The result is the brine sinks in a descending plume. But as this extremely cold brine leaves the sea ice, it freezes the relatively fresh seawater it comes in contact with. This forms a fragile tube of ice around the descending plume, which grows into what has been called a ‘brinicle’.”
Ryan Adams covers Iron Maiden’s “Wasted Years” live at the BBC, and it’s much more beautiful than you might think.
Robyn performs a cover of Coldplay’s “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall” on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. Robyn, as always, is a shimmering bundle of synthpop awesomeness - she even makes this crappy song sound great!
Bizarre Giraffe-Necked Weevils Fight For A Mate.
Sean Connery Gave TV its First Male-to-Male Kiss.
Here’s a small piece of TV history as Sir Sean Connery kisses Richard Pasco in a BBC production of Jean Anouilh’s play Colombe from 1960.
This is the first ever male-to-male kiss aired on television. It would take the BBC another twenty-seven years to show two men kissing on-screen again, in an episode of the soap opera EastEnders. For fact-fans, the first man-to-man kiss in a major movie is claimed by Raf Valone in the 1962 feature Vu du Pont.
While this is a TV first, the kissing couple were not lovers but brothers. Connery’s character Julien believes his brother Paul (Pasco) is having an affair with his wife Colombe (Dorothy Tutin), and kisses Pasco to find out what makes him such a good lover. Hm, that old excuse?
This might seem like nothing to us today, but we should appreciate that homosexuality was outlawed in the UK, a criminal offense punishable by gaol, until 1967, when the law was repealed. Therefore, it was more than hugely controversial to have two grown men kissing on TV (whether brothers or not) for it could have finished the careers of both Connery and Pasco, as they would have been seen as “corrupting viewers’ morals” and open to attack from those hateful right-wing moral evangelists, like Mary Whitehouse, who wielded such frightening and dangerous power back then. So, three cheers for Sir Sean and Mr Pasco.
The play Colombe was believed to have been lost or deleted, but copies of the drama turned up in the U.S. last year, after a reseracher found copies that had been sent to broadcaster National Education Television. The programs have now been returned to the British Film Institute in London, where Colombe will screened today.
Via the Daily Mail
