Posts Tagged ‘read today’

Heavy Metal Parking Lot (Revisited)

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Heavy Metal Parking Lot? is one of the greatest relics of metals heyday in the mid-1980s. The concept of this wildly entertaining documentary? is simple. Two dudes (Jeff Krulik and John Heyn) with no budget and a video camera troll the parking lot of the Capitol Centre in suburban Maryland before a 1986 Judas Priest concert.

HELL YEAH GIRL Ah, the Hell Yeah girl. I love how this girl remains constant in all of her answers. A simple “Hell Yeah” would be a good way of answering anything when you think about it. Try it out with your friends. When…

The top 10 fan versus band scuffles

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

In this litigious day and age, James Gostelows reaction to being elbowed in the head by one of Britains most famous women was refreshing: “Not everyone can say they have been hit by Amy Winehouse.?

It wasn’t so much a ‘band versus fan’ moment as a ‘fan wins outright immediately’ moment. When Panic at the Disco took the stage at last year’s Reading Festival, frontman Brendon Urie…

Does music have the power to send us to sleep?

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

The brains behind Dreams “Kaimin” (good sleep?) is Dr T. Endo, a neurologist who has made a science, and a lucrative CD business, out of selecting the right music to induce sleep. He divides it into three categories: melodies that fire the imagination; those that are calming and relaxing; and music that should, within ten minutes, slow the brain

Didgeridoos Creating music before you go to bed may also induce sleep. A 2006 study in the British Medical Journal concluded that playing a didgeridoo before bed helped people with sleep apnoea to nod off. “Blasting away on an instrument…