Here’s a photo of my niece Lila eating a nectarine:
Don’t you love her ears? (The one on the left is a little big.) (My sister doesn’t like to talk about it.)
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Raising Sand, from Led Zeppelin vet and bluegrass superstar, wins five Grammys on Sunday night.
By James Montgomery with MTV News staff
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant accept the award for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards on Sunday
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“I’m bewildered,” Robert Plant said onstage as he accepted the Grammy Album of the Year award with Alison Krauss on Sunday night. “In the old days we would have called this selling out, but it’s a good way to spend a Sunday.”
He was probably one of the few who were surprised, because Raising Sand, which won five trophies at Sunday night’s show, is in many ways the perfect Grammy album. It features two respected veterans, a critically lauded producer, some sandpaper-and-velvet vocals and a baker’s dozen of time-tested standards.
You’re probably familiar with Robert Plant from his Led Zeppelin days, and you might be aware of producer T-Bone Burnett’s work on the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack (it won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002). And if you don’t know who Alison Krauss is, she possesses a haunting set of pipes and is one of the meanest fiddle players in the world. Oh, and she’s won 21 Grammys, more than any other female artist and the seventh-most in history.
Really, she’s the key to Sand‘s success, and not just because of her voice (or her fiddle playing). She and Plant first met in 2004, at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute to legendary bluesman Leadbelly, and the former Zeppelin man was amazed by her knowledge of American Roots music — so much so that they began kicking around the idea of recording an album together. Three years later, Sand was released.
And while Plant possesses the more famous voice, the album’s finest moments radiate from Krauss. Whether she’s getting bluesy on Little Milton’s “Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson” or entwining with Plant’s husky voice on songs like “Please Read the Letter” and Roly Salley’s winsome “Killing the Blues,” she more than carries her end of the bargain.
And perhaps that’s also due to producer Burnett, who handpicked the 13 songs the duo cover on Sand. His arrangements are sparse — giving the two voices ample room to breathe — yet dense, warm and crackling at the same time. It’s a testament to his work that he’s often given just as much billing as Plant and Krauss on the project … and it’s certainly justified.
To date, Sand has sold more than 1 million copies, heaped tons of acclaim and actually earned a Grammy last year — “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” took home the award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals.
One expert was surprised not by the album’s success, but by the fact that it’s actually quite a good album.
“At first, the album seemed like a vanity project. … Two names, clearly a one-off record, didn’t have to be any good, you know?” New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica said. “Led Zeppelin fans would buy it because of Robert Plant, Alison Krauss would get a check. But it actually turned out to be a really thoughtful, really good record. So when you combine all that with the fact that the Grammys love to lionize one of their own, I could really see it taking home some awards.”
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Finally a little sun! Yesterday I went climbing in Burbage (specifically Burbage south boulders) in the Peak District near Sheffield. I’m really glad I’ve got these boulders within 15 minutes of my home.
Although in a climbing wall / gym I’m happy on 6a/6b the techniques on grit boulders are a different world: lots of smearing [...]
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When Amazon Appstore for Android launched last week, one of its primary features — Test Drive — was disabled just a few minutes after it opened. With no try-before-you-buy, no refund process, and 1-Click purchasing ready to strike at any moment, this caused some problems. Anyway, don’t despair: Test Drive is now enabled.
Before you get your hopes up, Test Drive doesn’t work with every app. The IMDb app works fine — you can even watch movie trailers on it! — but the Angry Birds games are sadly not enabled. Some games work surprisingly well, though, like Bubble Buster. There’s very little latency, and the framerate is really rather good. The Test Drive experience is so true to life that you even get ads; how cool is that?
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Next week at UFC 137, Matt Mitrione is back and he’s facing his toughest test to date.
The former Big 10 defensive tackle and NFL veteran, has raced out to a 5-0 start, but now he faces another big puncher in Cheick Kongo. Mitrione doesn’t sound like he’s afraid to bang with the Frenchman, but also pointed out that he’s been working on his ground game as well.
Listen to a very confident Mitrione with Kevin Iole and myself on ESPNRadio1100/98.9 FM’s “The MMA Insiders” show. You’ll be shocked to find out who “Meathead” from Season 9 of the “Ultimate Fighter” is training with now.
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Cal Surf has a sick Jan Jacobson mini part. Via: Platinum Seagulls.
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TY.O single inspired by a trip to Ibiza, Spain, singer tells MTV News.
By James Cantiello
Taio Cruz
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Taio Cruz is not a binge drinker; he just plays one on TV.
In Cruz’s playful new single, “Hangover,” he croons lines like, “I got a hangover/ I got an empty cup/ Pour me some more.” The accompanying music video is a rambunctious spin on the 2009 hit movie of the same name: Taio wakes up with a foggy memory, only to slowly recall the zany alcohol-fueled antics of his entourage the night before.
But the multitalented electro-pop star insists he imbibes the sauce very rarely. “I have to be honest: I really don’t drink that much. I really don’t. Seriously, I don’t,” he told MTV News.
” ‘Hangover’ was inspired by me being in Ibiza this year,” he continued. “We had a whole week of going out and it being crazy, even though I didn’t actually get drunk myself, but everyone around me was getting completely smashed. I felt like, ‘We need to create an anthem for them. That would be fun.’ ”
Thus, the immortal lyric “I can drink until I throw up” was born.
Despite a drier-than-expected lifestyle, Cruz admitted he enjoys unleashing his inner Snooki every now and then.
“I have had the odd occasion where it’s gotten a bit crazy, and it’s always in Ibiza, [Spain]. For me, I think my craziest moment was in Ibiza at a bar with a couple girls on me, piggybacked whilst behind the bar making drinks. I remember that was a bit of a crazy evening,” he reminisced.
The Dr. Luke-produced “Hangover” is the first single off Taio’s new album, TY.O, due out in early 2012. He’ll head overseas for the MTV EMA to promote his European single, the Swedish House Mafia collaboration “Troublemaker,” and is also launching a line of Rokstarr watches.
In other words, Taio Cruz is far too busy to nurse any hangovers.
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‘Shane’s presence radically alters a lot of different things,’ says Kirkman, addressing the murder of a long-lasting character from the comics.
By Josh Wigler
Jon Bernthal as Shane Walsh in “The Walking Dead”
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Jon Bernthal, who stars on “The Walking Dead” as the disgruntled Shane Walsh, ended last week’s episode with his back against a wall, zombies literally nipping at his heels and no allies in sight, save for an overweight burden named Otis (Pruitt Taylor Vince) — the same man who accidentally shot Carl (Chandler Riggs) during a hunting accident gone wrong. Their mission to find medical supplies critical to Carl’s surgery was all but doomed, but Shane found a way to survive — it’s just a shame the same can’t be said for Otis.
In order to flee an oncoming horde of flesh-hungry walkers, Shane shot Otis in the leg and abandoned him on the street after a violent scuffle, distracting the undead army with a hefty human meal as he escaped with his life intact. As a result, Shane made it back to Hershel’s farm in time to bring the necessary tools for Carl’s surgery, but not without sacrificing a huge chunk of his humanity in the process.
Shane’s decision to murder Otis to save Carl’s life (not to mention his own) is certainly a divisive one, but you can’t say Bernthal didn’t warn you about his character’s dark turn.
“[Shane has figured out that] things like guilt, shame and trying to do things that are morally right are far less important and really have no place in this new world compared to surviving and doing what you have to do to stay alive and protect the people you love,” the actor previously told MTV News. “If you’re with a group of people and you’re trying to survive and one person is holding you back or slowing you down, in this world, the right thing to do is to help that person and bring them along. In [the world of 'The Walking Dead'], the right thing to do is to kill that person and send them away.”
Killing Otis certainly lives up to that philosophy, if nothing else. But the character’s death is controversial for another important reason: Though he only appeared in two episodes of “The Walking Dead,” Otis is alive for more than 20 issues in the comic book series created by Robert Kirkman. His death proves that the television series is more than willing to veer away from Kirkman’s source material — and it’s largely a result of the continued survival of Shane, who is dead in the comic books during the Hershel’s farm story.
“Shane’s presence in the show in general is one of the things that excites me the most about working on the TV show, because to a certain extent, I’ve told these stories before and I did them my own way in the comic book,” Kirkman, who executive-produces “Walking Dead,” told MTV News. “I work on the TV show, I’m in the writers room, and it’s fun for me to look at it as a do-over. I can fiddle with things. I can play George Lucas, if you will, and I can think, ‘Well, what would happen if Shane had lived? How would that change things?’ ”
Otis learned the hard way just how much can change because of Shane’s stay of execution, and Kirkman teased that the deadly changes are far from over.
“Shane’s presence radically alters a lot of different things,” he warned. “Seeing how things are changed by his presence moving through the second season is a lot of fun for me. It ends up bringing in a lot of interesting twists and turns as you’ll see from watching the season.”
Are you surprised by Shane’s actions? Let us know in the comments!
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