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Yesterday morning, while shopping at Lifelong Thrift, the Temptations' "Get Ready" came on the house hi-fi. Immediately everyone in the store was singing along. Hard not to, right? The Temps' jam is the jam!! However, being a record nerd, I was reminded there IS another killer version which fucking rates, y'all, and it was recorded by no less of a talent than Ms. Ella Fitzgerald!! DAMN!

It's a tough call, but when it comes to dancing to "Get Ready" in a club, I think the better version is Ella's. Seriously, she's cookin' with all kindsa gas here. "Get Ready" was the lead track off her 1969 Ella LP; most the other tracks on the LP are in Ms. Fitzgerald's jazz/pop/vocal/easy style.

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Here's what we know about the fourth season of American Horror Story: It's going to be called American Horror Story: Freak Show; it's set in Florida in the 1950s; Denis O'Hare says he and Jessica Lange's characters will be at "cross purposes"; and Michael Chiklis will be playing Kathy Bates's ... More »

 

Band's founding members come together to argue in favor of the BDS movement -- and urge the Stones to reconsider

Terry Gross interviewed Alan Cumming on Fresh Air yesterday and bisexuals are tweeting to tell me that Cumming's comments about his sexuality—Cumming's bisexual—struck both a chord and a blow for bi visibility.

I used to be married to a woman. Before that I had had a relationship with a man. I then had another relationship with a woman, and I since then have had relationships with men. I still would define myself as bisexual partly because that's how I feel but also because I think it's important to — I think sexuality in this country especially is seen as a very black and white thing, and I think we should encourage the gray. You know?

I don't go around in my life thinking, "Oh, my God, I'm going to have to have sex with a woman soon because I said I was bisexual!" ... It's like saying you're straight or you're gay — it's just what you are, and whatever you're doing in your life it runs obviously parallel, but it's kind of secondary to how you are inside. That's how I've always felt, and I still do, even though I'm very happily married to a really amazing man and wish to be so for the rest of my life.

So Cumming could be described as both bisexual and bi-amorous.

Later in the interview Cumming gripes about our cultural obsession with removing body hair—women shaving their pits, men shaving their chests, everybody shaving their pubes:

I'm not a hairy person. I've longed to have a hairy chest... I seem to have all my hair in my armpits, and actually it seems to cause great consternation to people. I think this obsession we have in our culture with shaving—taking away body hair on men and women—I think it's really dangerous, it's like wanting to infantilize yourself and wanting to make something sexy that is not adult, it's more prepubescent, and I think that's really weird and dangerous, don't you?

I don't think it's weird or dangerous. Shaved crotches are not to my taste and they're clearly not to Cumming's taste either. But slapping the "dangerous" label on something that turns you off—and then suggesting that that something is a danger to children—strikes me as judgey and sexphobic. People have been shaving/waxing their crotches for a couple of decades now and no studies that I'm aware of have shown adults progressing from partners with a prepubescentish lack of pubic hair to actual prepubescents. Hairless adult crotches are not slippery slopes. So... no need to start arresting waxers. They're not endangering children.

Sadly the one non-sexual, non-aesthetic benefit of all those shaved crotches—pubic lice being driven to extinction—appears to have been debunked.

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Parton plays as artfully with the notion of authenticity as just about anyone in popular music. On her 42nd album, the superstar continues to explore new ideas and classic sounds.

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As anticipated, Beyoncé and Jay Z will officially tour together this summer — as opposed to just randomly performing duets at each other's shows. The tour finds inspiration from a track off last year's Magna Carta Holy Grail called "Part II (On the Run)," but no doubt "Drunk in Love" ... More »

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Commemoration of the deceased comes in many forms, from flowers on the site of their passing to murals painted in their honor to those memorial stickers you see on car windows, but one woman has made keeping memories alive into an artform.

Her name is Ayano Tsukimi, and she spends her days creating life-sized dolls of the deceased, which she places all around her village Nagoro, located in eastern Iya, Japan. Ayano places the dolls in locations which were important to the subjects, posing them just right and decorating the background to properly set the scene.

Strangely, her works are not limited to the deceased, as she creates dolls for those who have moved away from the town as well, apparently in an attempt to keep her small town populated.

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I LOVE the TV show “Frasier,” but had no idea all the calls in to his show were actually real celebrities.

The callers included Jodie Foster, Matthew Broderick, Ray Liotta, Billy Crystal, and Elijah Wood.  There are many more, conveniently compiled in the video below.

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"If I didn’t know how smart and talented Miley is, I might worry about her. But I’ve watched her grow up. So I don’t. She knows what she’s doing. She was very proud of the work she did as Hannah Montana, but people were gonna leave her there forever. And she was just smotherin’ and chokin’ in it. So she felt she had to do something completely drastic. And she did. She made her point, she made her mark, and more power to her. 'Wrecking Ball' is a great song. The whole album is great. So I’m hoping that now she can relax and show people how talented she really is. ’Cause the girl can write. The girl can sing. The girl is smart. And she doesn’t have to be so drastic. But I will respect her choices. I did it my way, so why can’t she do it her way?"

—It's time for TIME's annual Most Influential People issue, and the best entries this year are, obviously, the ones in which women write about other women they love (Emily Blunt on Amy Adams: "she’s silly and funny and dirty"). Here's Dolly Parton waxin' on her goddaughter, Miley. Beyoncé's on the cover, in a bikini. [TIME]

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The Newsroom tends to take a sanctimonious approach to recent history, and many journalists take issue with the show's apparent desire to tell them how they should have done their jobs. In an interview with former Obama speech-writer Jon Favreau on Monday night at a Tribeca Film Festival discussion, Aaron Sorkin ... More »

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This is going to be a big year for Prince: he's back with Warner Bros (18 years since he left, dramatically), he's got the rights to his back catalogue, and he'll be releasing a new album and reissuing Purple Rain for its 30th anniversary. On Friday after announcing the Warner Bros deal he dropped this new single, a falsetto funk power ballad. Maybe the I used to want the house with the biggest pooooool line is a reference to Drake?

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I'd bet most'a y'all know the group Rufus from their '70s smash "Tell Me Something Good," but I bet y'all didn't know they began in 1969 and in Chicago, without Chaka Khan, as a soulful horn rock group called the Smoke. It was in 1971, after some line-up/management shifts, that they settled on being called Rufus. That same year, they signed to Epic Records and recorded their first album. The album they recorded for Epic, however, was never issued, and only a couple hopeful singles were pressed. Of the tracks I've heard from the Epic sessions, the best is the soulful pop 'B' side to the first 45: "Read All About It."

The second 45 was even more radio friendly—"Follow The Lamb' b/w "Fire One Fire Two Fire Three." Obviously this incarnation of the band never gained any traction, but after Khan replaced Rufus' original vocalist Paulette McWilliams and they signed to ABC Dunhill, they blew up!

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Selfie addicts should take note of this cautionary video when posing for pics near large moving vehicles, realizing that if you only get kicked in the head you got off easy.

The careless poser in this video had the bright idea to snap a selfie really close to the tracks as a train was about to go by, but the conductor spotted him standing too close to the tracks and took it upon himself to act like a human cow catcher-by kicking the guy in the head.

Some are speculating that the video is a fake, because why would you be shooting a video if you were posing for a selfie? Either way a smug selfie lover gets kicked in the head, yay trains!

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