I Believe in a Thing Called Love is a song by English rock band the Darkness, released as the third single from their debut studio album, Permission to Land. When released as a single in September 2003, it peaked at #2 on the UK Singles Chart. The song also charted worldwide, becoming a top-10 hit in Ireland, New Zealand, and Sweden, as well as on the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
I Believe in a Thing Called Love was originally issued as a 3-track EP in August 2002; however, as only a small number of copies were printed, it was ineligible to chart. The EP also included early versions of Love on the Rocks with No Ice and Love Is Only a Feeling. A live version of the song recorded at Knebworth House in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, in 2003 was included as a B-side on the group’s Christmas single, Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End).
When released as a single in September 2003, I Believe in a Thing Called Love peaked at #2 on the UK Singles Chart. Sales and streams in the UK have surpassed 600,000 units, allowing it to receive a platinum certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). The single helped the album sell 647,000 copies in the United States as of February 2012. The song became the second highest charting single from a UK band in 2003, finishing behind Lostprophets’ single Last Train Home, released in December of that year.
Şeytan is a 1974 Turkish cult horror film that is plagiarized off of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973), directed by Metin Erksan.
The film was apparently shot with a low budget, resulting in a grainy and poor image quality, and is essentially a shot-for-shot remake of The Exorcist, with only minor differences. Şeytan was out of print until 2007, when it was released in DVD.
Canan Perver is a 12-year-old girl named Gul, living a high society life with her mother in Istanbul, who becomes possessed by the Devil himself after experimenting with a Ouija Board.
The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on November 1, 1974, is commonly known as “Turkish Exorcist” because of plot and stylistic similarities copied from The Exorcist.
Eire Apparent were a band from Northern Ireland, noted for launching the careers of Henry McCullough and Ernie Graham, and for having Jimi Hendrix play on, and produce, their only album.
The origins of the group stretch back to early ’60s Belfast band Tony & The Telstars, which featured lead guitarist Rod Demick (born Roderick Demick, 1947, Prestatyn, Flintshire, North Wales), drummer Davy Lutton (born William David Lutton, 1946, Belfast), lead vocalist and guitarist George O’Hara and bassist Chris Stewart (born Eric Christopher Stewart, 1946, Belfast, Co Antrim). During 1965, Demick departed to join local R’n’B group The Wheels and Stewart joined German-based Irish band The Stellas. Their replacements included guitarist David “Tiger” Taylor, bassist Mike Niblett (from The Stellas) and apprentice auto mechanic Ernie Graham (born Ernest Harold Graham, 14 June 1946, Belfast) on rhythm guitar and backing vocals.
In late 1965 Lutton, O’Hara, Niblett and Graham formed pop outfit The People along with former Them keyboard player Eric Wrixon. They contributed two songs to the February 1966 compilation album Ireland’s Greatest Sounds: Five Top Groups From Belfast’s Maritime Club. In mid-1966 a “browned-off” Eric Wrixon announced the band were moving to England: “We hope it’s forever… Nowhere, but nowhere, could be worse than Belfast.” At the time they were using a stand-in guitarist in place of O’Hara and hoping to recruit Billy Harrison (ex-Them). Very soon afterwards Wrixon defected to another Belfast group resident on the Blackpool scene, The Wheels. Meanwhile, Mike Niblett and Chris Stewart had each swapped places and returned to their original bands. Guitarist Henry McCullough (formerly of The Sky Rockets Showband and Gene and The Gents) from Portstewart in Northern Ireland teamed up with The People in early 1967 and they quickly developed a strong reputation on the Blackpool and then (briefly) the Dublin music scenes.
In 1967 the band moved to London and were signed by ex-Animal Chas Chandler and Mike Jeffery, who changed the band’s name to Eire Apparent – Jeffery wanted to exploit the Irish dimension and his wife came up with the new name.
Eire Apparent were briefly signed to Track Records, who also handled Chandler and Jeffery’s protégé Jimi Hendrix, and recorded one single, Follow Me/Here I Go Again, released in January 1968, before they left Track. Despite only having released the one single, Chandler and Jeffery sent them on tour to North America with headliners The Animals during February and March 1968. Things went well until, in Vancouver, Canada in mid February, McCullough was busted for possession of marijuana and sent back to Ireland, so guitarist Mick Cox (born Michael Charles Cox, 1943, Gillingham, Kent, died August 2008; formerly of The Alleykatz and The End) flew out to take his place in the band. By May McCullough had joined Sweeney’s Men in Ireland.
The new line-up continued to tour North America with the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Soft Machine, and held recording sessions in New York’s Record Plant studio with Hendrix in May (probably taping their next single Let Me Stay/Yes I Need Someone). The album Sunrise was mostly cut in late October 1968 in Los Angeles, with Jimi Hendrix producing. Hendrix also played on a number of tracks (including Yes I Need Someone and The Clown), whilst Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell and Robert Wyatt are also credited (Redding and Wyatt singing on 1026 and/or The Clown). The album was released on Buddah Records in the US and the UK in May 1969.
Cox was replaced by guitarist David “Tiger” Taylor in November 1968, shortly after the album was recorded. Taylor had already been a member of The People during 1965, and he co-wrote their Rock ‘N’ Roll Band single recorded in London in January 1969, again featuring Jimi Hendrix. This line up of Taylor, Graham, Stewart and Lutton then toured Europe with Hendrix and in April 1969 recorded the band’s only Peel Session. Guitarist Peter Tolson, who later joined the Pretty Things, is also cited as having replaced Taylor on this session. Guitarist Steve Jolly formerly of Sam Apple Pie later joined the band.
In May 1969, Beat Instrumental reported that they were recording tracks for a second Eire Apparent album (reportedly produced by Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt) but it never saw the light of day. In May 1970, hardly noticed by the public, the band broke up.
Board games are a timeless classic when it comes to passing the time and having fun, but the 21st century has opened up a new era of capabilities for tabletop gaming. Now users can get board games and other activities on their mobile phones in just moments, though it leaves some board game users wishing there was a larger tablet surface on which to virtually play games.
Well, now there is with this incredible 32-inch touchscreen board game coffee table, which is a welcomed sight for board game enthusiasts!
This Infinity game table from Arcade1Up are an incredible idea for board game fans, offering dozens of classics such as Monopoly, Connect4, Scrabble, Candy Land, Trivial Pursuit and many more — all within the sleek interface of this 32-inch table-style tablet.
These digital board game tables are one of a kind, offering limitless gameplay options on what is essentially a giant tablet.
The touchscreen board game table includes Wi-Fi connectivity and a growing catalog of game and activity options within the onboard app store. It also doesn’t require a Wi-Fi connection to play games, though you’ll use it to download games when it first arrives or anytime you want to add new apps.
The virtual gaming table includes tactile feedback to make game play even more engaging, and it includes features such as dynamic zoom viewing, its Safe Connect Social Play+ for gaming with up to six friends over the internet and a high-resolution screen for super realistic depth, textures and visibility.
The Infinity touchscreen game table comes in either 32 inches or, for a slightly more affordable price, 24 inches. Both touchscreens are in HD and include tons of games, coloring books, jigsaw puzzles and even comic books.
The gaming touchscreen coffee table includes removable legs that require a small amount of assembly upon arrival. When removed, you can also set the giant tablet touchscreen surface on existing tables, or right on the ground if that’s preferred.
The touchscreen board game table was developed in partnership with Hasbro, so it offers a selection of many different virtual Classic Hasbro games. To power the touchscreen gaming coffee table, it includes a simple power plug that works with any AC power outlet.
The larger configuration of the touchscreen board game table measures roughly 39 x 23 x 8.5 inches (~99 x 58 x 22cm), weighing roughly 46.2 pounds (~21kg). Buyers also said it’s fairly heavy, though not too heavy to set up or use.
Keeping up with the Joneses is an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one’s neighbor as a benchmark for social class or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to “keep up with the Joneses” is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority. The phrase originates with the comic strip Keeping Up with the Joneses, created by Arthur R. “Pop” Momand in 1913. The strip ran until 1940 in The New York World and various other newspapers. The strip depicts the social climbing McGinis family, who struggle to “keep up” with their neighbors, the Joneses of the title. The Joneses were unseen characters throughout the strip’s run, often spoken of but never shown. The idiom keeping up with the Joneses has remained popular long after the strip’s end.
The philosophy of “keeping up with the Joneses” has widespread effects on some societies. According to this philosophy, conspicuous consumption occurs when people care about their standard of living and its appearance in relation to their peers.
According to Roger Mason, “the demand for status goods, fueled by conspicuous consumption, has diverted many resources away from investment in the manufacture of more material goods and services in order to satisfy consumer preoccupations with their relative social standing and prestige.”
Social status once depended on one’s family name; however, social mobility in the United States and the rise of consumerism there both gave rise to change. With the increasing availability of goods, people became more inclined to define themselves by what they possessed and the quest for higher status accelerated. Conspicuous consumption and materialism have been an insatiable juggernaut ever since.
Everybody Have Fun Tonight is a song by the English new wave band Wang Chung, released as a single from their studio album Mosaic in 1986. Collaboratively written by Jack Hues, Nick Feldman, and Peter Wolf, it reached #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1986 Christmas season, behind Walk Like an Egyptian by the Bangles. It also hit #1 on the Canada RPM Top 100 Singles chart the week of January 17, 1987. With some different lyrics, the original ballad version of the song was placed on the B-side.
After their break-up in 1991, Wang Chung reunited in 2005 to perform this song on the television show Hit Me, Baby, One More Time.
The song is featured on numerous 1980s compilation albums and still receives some radio airplay across the United States. It has appeared in the “#2s” episode of VH1 Classic’s One Hit Wonders series, even though the band is also known for Let’s Go! and Dance Hall Days.
Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the “Sentimental Gentleman of Swing” because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. His theme song was I’m Getting Sentimental Over You. His technical skill on the trombone gave him renown among other musicians. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey. After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely successful band from the late 1930s into the 1950s. He is best remembered for standards such as Opus One, Song of India, Marie, On Treasure Island, and his biggest hit single, I’ll Never Smile Again.
Born in Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. was the second of four children born to Thomas Francis Dorsey Sr., a bandleader, and Theresa (née Langton) Dorsey. He and Jimmy, his older brother by slightly less than two years, became known as the Dorsey Brothers. The two younger siblings were Mary and Edward, who died young. Tommy Dorsey studied the trumpet with his father but later switched to trombone.
At age 15, Jimmy recommended Tommy to replace Russ Morgan in the Scranton Sirens, a territory band in the 1920s. Tommy and Jimmy worked in bands led by Tal Henry, Rudy Vallee, Vincent Lopez, and Nathaniel Shilkret. In 1923, Dorsey followed Jimmy to Detroit to play in Jean Goldkette’s band and returned to New York in 1925 to play with the California Ramblers. In 1927, he joined Paul Whiteman. In 1929, the Dorsey Brothers had their first hit with Coquette for OKeh Records.
In 1934, the Dorsey Brothers band signed with Decca, having a hit with I Believe in Miracles. Glenn Miller was a member of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in 1934 and 1935, composing Annie’s Cousin Fanny, Tomorrow’s Another Day, Harlem Chapel Chimes, and Dese Dem Dose, all recorded for Decca, for the band. Acrimony between the brothers led to Tommy Dorsey walking out to form his own band in 1935 as the orchestra was having a hit with Every Little Moment. Dorsey’s orchestra was known primarily for its renderings of ballads at dance tempos, frequently with singers such as Jack Leonard and Frank Sinatra.
Hia own band was popular almost from the moment it signed with RCA Victor for On Treasure Island, the first of four hits in 1935. After his 1935 recording, however, Dorsey’s manager dropped the “hot jazz” that Dorsey had mixed with his own lyrical style, and instead had Dorsey play pop and vocal tunes.
Dorsey was married three times. His first wife was 16-year-old Mildred “Toots” Kraft, with whom he eloped in 1922, when he was 17. The couple had two children, Patricia and Thomas F. Dorsey III (nicknamed “Skipper”). In 1935, they moved to “Tall Oaks,” a 21-acre (8.5 ha) estate in Bernardsville, New Jersey. They divorced in 1943 after Dorsey’s affair with his former singer Edythe Wright.
Dorsey’s second wife was film actress Patricia Dane in 1943, and they were divorced in 1947, but not before he gained headlines for striking actor Jon Hall when Hall embraced her. Finally, Dorsey married Jane Carl New on March 27, 1948, in Atlanta, Georgia. She had been a dancer at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City. Tommy and Jane Dorsey had two children, Catherine Susan and Steve.
Dorsey died on November 26, 1956, at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, a week after his 51st birthday. He had begun taking sleeping pills regularly at this time, causing him to become heavily sedated; he choked to death in his sleep after having eaten a large meal. Jimmy Dorsey led his brother’s band until his own death from throat cancer the following year.
In 1982, the 1940 Victor recording I’ll Never Smile Again was the first of a trio of Tommy Dorsey recordings to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. His theme song, I’m Getting Sentimental Over You was inducted in 1998, along with his recording of Marie written by Irving Berlin in 1928. In 1996, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey commemorative postage stamp.
Tommy Dorsey was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have “qualitative or historical significance.”
Far from the city, but not quite the countryside, lies a fairground. When night comes and the fair is empty, something unexpected happens. Wild animals emerge from the forest, a brave raccoon pulls a lever, and the roller coasters and rides explode back into bright, neon life. It’s time for the woodland creatures to head to the fair! In a gorgeous wordless picture book, author Gideon Sterer and illustrator Mariachiara Di Giorgio offer an exuberant take on what animals are up to when humans are asleep. Suffused with color and light, the panel illustrations celebrate the inherent humor and joy in deer flying by on chair-swings, a bear winning a stuffed bear, three weasels carrying a soft pretzel, and a badger driving a bumper car. With thrills both spectacular and subtle, Midnight Fair will have readers punching their tickets again and again to revel in this fantastic nocturnal world.
Gideon Sterer is the author of many books for children, including the New York Times best-selling The Christmas Owl. Mariachiara Di Giorgio is an illustrator, storyboard artist, and concept designer. Her work has been exhibited at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and with the New York Society of Illustrators.
If you thought Cranberry Holiday Surprise was pushing it, just wait until you get a load of this recipe. Cranberry Candle Salad is exactly what it sounds like – a cranberry “salad” made with (you guessed it!) mayonnaise and gelatin. But wait, there’s more. This salad doubles as a candle. Way to up the ante, Hellmann’s.
Gelatin desserts weren’t a thing until the end of the medieval era. Even then, some of the dishes were stabilized by pectin (a jelly-like substance found in the cell walls of fruits) instead of actual gelatin.
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? is a 1996 American television film starring Tori Spelling, Ivan Sergei, and Lisa Banes. The film premiered on September 30, 1996 on NBC. Tori Spelling plays Laurel a girl who is dating Kevin. Kevin is obsessed with Laurel and her mother disapproves of the relationship. Sounds like every other TV movie, right? She should have just listened to her mother all along.
Although originally planned to be released in theaters, the film failed to find a distributor and finally made its United States debut on NBC. It was later released in cinemas in both Sweden and Argentina in 1999 and 2000, and it was released direct to VHS in Japan in 1998. In January 2004, Tori Spelling began a campaign to get Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? released on DVD worldwide. Seven years later, on June 6, 2011, Sony Pictures Entertainment finally issued a DVD release.