Sonic Youth at Battery Park, NYC (July 4, 2008)
Thurston Moore comforts Kim Gordon after she forgot the lyrics to “Drunken Butterfly”
You can watch the moment here around 1:46
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tUnE-yArDs + Angelique Kidjo + Ahmir ‘?uestlove’ Thompson + Akua Naru - “Lady”
(Red) Hot + Fela
**Surprise of the day!
Taking on the one and only Fela Kuti.
Clint Eastwood’s Life Achievement Award acceptance speech at the 2002 SAG Awards:
Sit down. This is heavy. Where’s Schwarzenegger when you need him? Anyway, thank you very much for the wonderful, warm reception, and I hope this doesn’t mean that I’m supposed to collect my pension and head on down the road. That’s — ‘cause that ain’t in the game for me. I got in the Screen Actors Guild back in the early ‘50s. And Walter Pidgeon was the president then, Melissa, so times are — I remember calling parents and saying that I’m in the same union with Walter Pidgeon, Cagney and Cooper and Barbara Stanwyk and Bette Davis — all these fabulous people that I grew up with. And I thought I was — I thought I was hot stuff, until I started knocking on doors and getting the turndowns. So I appreciate everything that all of you have had to go through at some time in your life. To be a success in the screen trade, I think you’ve got to — you’ve got to either have a lot talent and a little bit of ability or lot of ability, a little bit of talent. Some of — I look at some of those clips and I’m kind of thinking, Damn, you’re lucky! So … and especially that singing in there, I don’t know . I’m sure Clark Gable’s rolling over, too, thinking … But I just want to say that being a member of the Screen Actors Guild for coming up on 50 years has been a great pleasure for me. I think about it, it’s two-thirds of your life you’ve spent in one guild — that’s fantastic. And I’ve enjoyed meeting all the people over the years, and I’ve certainly enjoyed knowing all of you — most of you. And of those I don’t know, I’ll get to know later. But we’ll all work together because I have no intention of bailing out. So… talk to you later. Thank you.
