Booker T. & the MGs bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn dies at 70

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn, a member of Booker T. & the MGs whose thick bottom grooves anchored many of the classic soul hits from the 1960s, has died on tour in Japan, his friend and bandmate Steve Cropper said on Sunday. Dunn was 70.

Dunn, an integral part of the Memphis soul sound as bassist for the MGs, the house band for Stax and Volt records, died Sunday morning after finishing two shows at the Blue Note Night Club in Tokyo, Cropper said in a posting on his Facebook page.

“Today I lost my best friend, the world has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live,” Cropper said.Cropper, who also performed with Dunn on television and in the movies as part of the MGs-inspired Blues Brothers tribute band, said Dunn had died in his sleep, but he gave no other details about the circumstances.

Booker T. & the MGs, The Blues Brothers, etc., etc.

#rip

Dear Photograph

Heard about this on NPR this morning, way cool. There’s the website and a book.

A few of my favorites:

• Can we please go back to the days when we were all friends?
• It was 70 years ago when my mother dipped her toes in Lake Cavloc.
• I may have been behind the wheel but my sister always showed me the way.
• What ever happened to all of our naps together?

#photos

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#photos #photogallery #robots #maggie

Urban Female Graffiti by Fin Dac

Impressive Urban Graffiti by street artist Fin DAC.

“In a short career, I have defined and perfected a paint style that ignores the accepted visual language of street art… I call it Urban Aesthetics - a modern-day take on the 19th century art movement.”

Truckloads of good art on his Tumblr site.

More from 123 Inspiration:

• Realistic Tattoos by Yomico Moreno

#arts

Miss you lots, think of you often.
Wished I had talked more the last time you reached out.

#rip

BRAAAINS: the artist, divided, and a zombie wedding

dividing my brain between business and art, between art and survival, between thinking like a flake-ass poet and thinking like a bad-ass business-person…forget about it, man, i’ve been doing it since day one.

and seriously..every artist has been dealing with this hilarious conundrum from the dawn of time.

I want a zombie wedding! More about Amanda Palmer on Wikipedia.

#marriage

John Travolta Allegedly Masturbated In Front Of Ex-Masseur, Offered Sexual Favors: Lawsuit

Not only did Travolta allegedly try to have sex with the masseur, but he is also said to have told the plaintiff — identified only as “John Doe” — that he “got where he is now due to sexual favors he had performed when he was in his ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ days,” and that “Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.”

“Come on dude, I’ll jerk you off!”

#sadiknow

Drive-In Double Feature! Zombie Apocalypse

It is vital that you stay in your homes… Unless you’re venturing out to Cascade Drive-In, Illinois’ largest outdoor cinema, where Filmspotting hosts Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen will be on hand to usher in a Zombie Apocalypse Double Feature! Don’t miss your chance to treat that delicious brain of yours to 2009’s smash hit Zombieland and Edgar Wright’s 2004 genre send-up Shaun of the Dead on the big screen.

Crossing my fingers there’s zombies roaming the parking lot.

#movies #zombies

Touch.

Touch is a basic human need. My go-to example for this is the post-Ceasecu situation in Romania’s orphanages. We need physical contact with each other. We need to touch and to be touched. Both sexual and non-sexual snuggles produce Oxytocin, which scientists say appears to stimulate bonding and might do things like help our bodies heal faster. I’m not a scientist, but I know anecdotally that skin-on-skin contact relaxes people. A good hug really does help. Laying around with each other like a pile of kittens is so delightful that Jess and I’s couch for years was an almost non-stop cuddle-puddle of whatever friends happened to be over at the time.

Touch is such a huge, magical part of who I am. And not necessarily in the sexual way, but just human contact for those I care about, those that I love. When the touch is gone, the bond feels gone.

#acloserlook

Build Your Droid at the Droid Factory Coming to Tatooine Traders at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Ever since I was a little boy, I’ve dreamed of owning my own droid just like Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. Granted, I also wanted to learn the ways of the Force, but I think having an Astromech droid will be slightly easier with the Droid Factory experience launching during Star Wars Weekends 2012. Fans will be able to build and name their own R-series Astromech droid action figures. I spoke with product developer Cody Hampton who said this experience was in development for three years!

I have a bad feeling about the mouse ears.

#starwars