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Posts tagged as Van Halen

Watch A Jumping Spider Dance To Impress A Prospective Mate And Name A Newly Discovered Species

“So the female wants to say no but he puts it in big bright letters 'new and improved.’ He’s basically finding loopholes in her sensory system.” READ MORE

Van Halen Seeing How Much Of An Album Can Be Recorded In The Short Blips Of Time They Can Bear To Spend In A Room With David Lee Roth

"Most recently, the band toured with founding brothers, Eddie and Alex Van Halen, its original lead singer, David Lee Roth, and Eddie's son, Wolfgang, playing bass. The group is currently in the studio recording an album with Roth that is due for release in 2011." READ MORE

Strip Club In Old Schoolhouse Puts New Twist On Town Vs. Gown Tensions


A new strip club in south-central Illinois is operating out of a long-unused schoolhouse that, according to the Chicago Tribune, was once a place "where people gathered to sing hymns, attend 4-H meetings and sell homemade pies." But after the Pioneer School was sold off for a mere $36,000 to local entrepreneurs who transformed it into The School House, the place had its "homey Midwestern feel" wiped clean. Out were the 4-H meetings; in was "a poster titled 'Class Rules' that reads 'Keep hands off dancers'" and a VIP room inside what was once the teachers' lounge. The hymns are still there, though, thanks to people who protest the club nightly with a sign that reads, "Does your family know where you are? Jesus does." No word on if the homemade pies were replaced with nightly spins of Warrant's "Cherry Pie," which seems like a crucial detail to leave out.

Everything Old, New Again: Yo La Tengo v. Van Halen

While the Fiery Furnaces are turning into Kiss, we are finding more returns to the Golden Age of Everything. Check the video for "Here To Fall," the new single from Hoboken living-room tunesmiths Yo La Tengo: beautiful, mesmerizing, deeply artistic in the way that the slow-motion footage of skywriters and kaleidoscopic editing capture the poignancy in Ira Kaplan's lyrics about the great leap of faith that is love. Yeah, well.... READ MORE

Van Halen's Original Logo

Maybe if Van Halen had gone with their original logo I would have learned algebra instead of spending all my time in class trying to draw that frigging VH.