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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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Forn des Teatre, also known as Fornet de la Soca, is an Art Nouveau bakery located in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Built in 1916, it was designed by architect Gaspar Bennàssar.
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On this day in 1976, the Four Seasons single “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #28 (January 31)
The song was written by original Four Seasons keyboard player Bob Gaudio and his future wife Judy Parker, and included on the group's album, “Who Loves You”.
The song features drummer Gerry Polci on lead vocals, with Frankie Valli, the group's usual lead vocalist, singing the bridge sections and backing vocals, and bass player Don Ciccone – former lead singer of The Critters – singing the falsetto part ("And I felt a rush like a rolling ball of thunder / Spinning my head around and taking my body under").
The song was a worldwide hit, going to #1 in the US, the UK, Canada, and South Africa, #2 in New Zealand, #3 in Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium, #6 in Norway, and #11 in Sweden.
Decades later, a 1994 re-release spent 27 weeks on the Hot 100 (matching the chart life of the original 1975 single).
The peak position of the remix version was #14.
Adding together the two 27-week chart runs for the 1975 original single and the remixed version (for a combined total of 54 weeks, two more weeks than a full year) gave the song the longest tenure ever on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart up to that time.
The 1994 re-mix again made it to #2 in New Zealand and #3 in Australia.
The song became a dance floor staple at weddings, parties, and other occasions for decades…
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Burg Breuberg Castle - Germany. Built in the 13th century, its towers and halls are well-preserved, revealing daily life within its walls.
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Creative images.
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This isn’t just color.
It’s language.
An octopus doesn’t change like a mood ring.
It decides.
Beneath that soft skin are millions of chromatophores, muscle controlled pigment cells that expand and contract in milliseconds. Each movement is intentional. A warning. A bluff. A disguise. Sometimes all three at once.
What you’re seeing is active thinking on the surface of a body.
An octopus can match texture, brightness, and pattern so precisely that predators lose the shape of it entirely. Coral becomes skin. Sand becomes flesh. Even shadows are copied.
Here’s the part most people don’t realize.
Over half of an octopus’s neurons are not in its brain, but in its arms. Each arm can sense, decide, and act independently. This color shift isn’t panic. It’s coordination.
There’s no noise. No chase. No struggle.
Just intelligence flowing outward until the animal disappears.
Nature didn’t give this creature claws or armor.
It gave it control.
And sometimes, survival looks exactly like art.
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Children swimming in the Thames 1950s
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This is a famous "mutant vehicle" or art car often seen at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
It is called the Walking Beast.
Here are a few cool things about it:
• How it moves: It doesn't use wheels like a normal car. It actually uses metal legs to "walk" across the sand.
• The Design: It’s built to look like a giant mechanical animal or a robot from a sci-fi movie.
• Purpose: At Burning Man, people build these wild machines to show off their art and give people rides across the dry lake bed.
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On this day in 1975, the Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel single “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)” was released (January 31)
This classic track was the lead single from the band's third studio album “The Best Years of Our Lives”, and was written by Harley, and produced by Harley and Alan Parsons.
The song was the first single to be released under the name "Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel", as opposed to simply "Cockney Rebel". In July 1974, the original Cockney Rebel disbanded, and Harley then assembled a new line-up later in the year.
Harley’s lyrics were directed at the former band members who, he felt, had abandoned him, and he called the lyrics "a finger-pointing piece of vengeful poetry. It's getting off my chest how I felt about the guys splitting up a perfectly workable machine.
I wrote it saying 'Look, you'll learn how well we're doing here, we're doing well, why are you doing this?'"
Harley recalled:
“We split up because they wanted to take my leadership away. They wanted to dilute it and "Make Me Smile" is saying 'Come back one day and I'll laugh.'
It was arrogant but I knew they were wrong - they didn't understand the group like I did.”
A number of backing singers contributed to the song, including future chart-topper Tina Charles.
"Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" became Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's biggest selling hit, selling over one million copies globally.
It was the band's only #1 hit in the UK, also going to #1 in Ireland, #5 in the Netherlands, #7 in Belgium, #15 in South Africa, #17 in Australia, and #20 in Germany.
It’s been a popular song with other musicians too, with over 120 cover versions of it recorded by other artists.
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Originally the private library of banker J. P. Morgan, the Morgan Library & Museum is now regarded as one of the most beautiful libraries in the world.
Set within a Renaissance-style palazzo of three historic library rooms, it houses rare manuscripts, early printed books, and literary archives.
A 2006 renovation added modern galleries, a reading room, a restaurant, and other visitor spaces while preserving the original architecture, making it a must-visit.
📍@themorganlibrary, 225 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016, United States
Opening hours:
- Tuesday to Thursday, Saturday & Sunday: 10:30AM - 5PM
- Friday: 10:30AM - 8PM
- Monday: Closed
Photo Credit: @laura.mccallen
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This week in 1983, the Michael Jackson single “Billie Jean” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #57 (January 28)
The song from his mega-successful LP “Thriller” was written and composed by Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones and co-produced by Jackson.
Michael Jackson said the lyrics were based on groupies' claims about his older brothers when he toured with them as the Jackson 5:
“There never was a real Billie Jean.
The girl in the song is a composite of people my brothers have been plagued with over the years. I could never understand how these girls could say they were carrying someone's child when it wasn't true.” - Michael Jackson, Moonwalk (1988)
According to Quincy Jones, Jackson "stole" notes from the Jon and Vangelis song "State of Independence"; Jones had produced Donna Summer's cover of the song, and Jackson had sung backing vocals.
According to Jon Anderson, "They took the riff and made it funky for 'Billie Jean' ... So that's kinda cool, that cross-pollination in music."
According to Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates, Jackson told him he had taken the "Billie Jean" groove from their 1981 track "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)".
Hall told him "Oh Michael, what do I care? You did it very differently."
Michael Jackson said he felt "Billie Jean" would be a success as he was writing it:
“A musician knows hit material.
Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good.
That's how I felt about 'Billie Jean'. I knew it was going to be big when I was writing it."
There was some disagreement though, between Jones and Jackson over whether to include the song on the “Thriller” LP, but according to Jones, he conceded when Jackson said it made him want to dance:
“And when Michael Jackson tells you, 'That's what makes me want to dance', well, the rest of us just have to shut up!” he said.
Jones also wanted to change the title to "Not My Lover", as he believed that people would think the song referred to the tennis player Billie Jean King, but Jackson refused.
The song with the mesmerizing creeping bassline went all the way to #1 in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Belgium, #2 in New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden and Germany, #4 in the Netherlands, and #5 in Norway.
It’s Jackson's best-selling solo single, and is one of the best-selling digital singles of all-time.
Billie Jean" was named the greatest dance record of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners. In a list compiled by Rolling Stone and MTV in 2000, the song was ranked as the sixth greatest pop song since 1963.
Rolling Stone placed the song at #44 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2021.
“Billie Jean" was voted #2 in The Nation's Favourite Number 1 Single, a British TV program airing on ITV on 21 July 2012.
In a similar poll in 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's second favorite 1980s #1.
At the 1984 Grammy Awards the song earned Jackson two of a record eight awards; Best R&B Song and Best R&B Male Vocal Performance.
It won the Billboard Music Award for favorite dance/disco 12" LP, and the magazine's 1980's poll named "Billie Jean" as the "Black Single of the Decade".
The American Music Awards recognized the track as the Favorite Pop/Rock Single, while Cash Box honored the song with the awards for Top Pop Single and Top Black Single.
MTV initially refused to air the video for "Billie Jean", as the network's executives felt black music did not fit into "rock"-centered network.
Walter Yetnikoff, the president of Jackson's record company CBS Records, was enraged by their refusal to play the video in spite of Jackson's success as a musical artist.
Yetnikoff threatened to go public with MTV's stance on racial discrimination:
“I said to MTV, 'I'm pulling everything we have off the air, all our product.
I'm not going to give you any more videos.
And I'm going to go public and f***ing tell them about the fact you don't want to play music by a black guy.'"
MTV relented and the "Billie Jean" music video debuted on March 10, 1983.
After the video was aired in heavy rotation, Thriller went on to sell an additional 10 million copies.
It was one of the first videos by a black artist to be aired regularly by the channel.
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The 1966 Bizzarrini 5300 GT Stradal.
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$78,258
market price of bitcoin in USD.
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Here are 6 of the 7 British Airways Concorde's parked up at Heathrow airport.
The missing BA Concorde was in New York.
Chief Concorde Captain Brian Walpole told the pilot of the helicopter (from which this photo was taken) that “if he was to suffer a technical problem he should try and crash as far a way as possible from the 6 Concorde's to avoid wiping out 86% of the airlines Concorde fleet” how British!
Don’t know the year.
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This week in 1983, the Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band LP “Against the Wind” re-entered the US Billboard 200 Album Chart at #173 (January 29)
Released three years earlier, and going all the way to the top of the US charts, “Against the Wind” was to be Seger's only US #1 album, spending six weeks at the top of the Billboard chart, knocking Pink Floyd's “The Wall” from the top spot.
The album also went to #3 in New Zealand, #6 in Australia, #11 in Sweden, and #17 in Germany and the Netherlands.
Glenn Frey helps out with harmonies on the title track, and joins with fellow Eagle Don Henley contributing harmonies to the lead single “Fire Lake”.
The title track had a revival in 1994 when it was included on the “Forrest Gump” soundtrack, and featured in a significant scene in the film.
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band won the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the album “Against the Wind” and Capitol Records art director Roy Kohara won the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.
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