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Tony Kanal of No Doubt [top left]

< musician, record producer, songwriter, bassist, co-writer >

Gwen Stefani of No Doubt [bottom left]

< singer, songwriter, co-founder of No Doubt, lead vocalist >

— Feb. 9th, 2000


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Craig David — Sep. 4th, 2001

< singer, songwriter, rapper, DJ, record producer >

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Funkmaster Flex — Feb. 1st, 2000

< DJ, rapper, producer, actor, host on first hip hop radio show Hot 97 in New York >

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older green day posters, it’s interesting seeing how minimalistic these used to be. it was just a picture of them with “green day” written over it. maybe sometimes you should just leave the intense graphic design alone and keep it simplistic but that’s just my opinion and it’s 4:20 am hehe neehee

-Green Day, archives

“All of us were outcasts that nobody took seriously. Green Day were so young at the time that the idea of being on a record didn’t really compute with them. So when I said, ‘I want to make a record with you guys,’ Billie Joe’s answer was, ‘Er, yeah, okay.’ And that’s all there was to it. Nobody else was interested in putting out records by them. I was kind of the crazy guy who was willing to do it.”

-Larry Livermore on Kerrang!

happy 30th birthday 39/smooth. you impacted and still continue to impact my high school life so much, i have so many memories tied into each song and although green day was incredibly young when the album was made i still think it’s one of their best works.

-Green Day, Archives

Phillip Wong - photographer of this shoot writes about young Angelina Jolie in the early 90s:

“I had been working with models from Elite NY and one of the bookers called to ask me to see a model who they wanted to shoot with, but also to ask my opinion about what could be done with her.     

        Angelina Jolie was sure of herself, unafraid, and precocious. She didn’t see herself as a model, but she wanted to act.  We spent hours talking, shooting, talking some more, but I realized she was right about herself.  She probably would be very good. (I never knew who her parents were, so I treated her goals the same as anyone else.)

She was intelligent and would occasionally say things that seemed to be testing me, checking to see if I were actually listening, seeing if I took her seriously.  We talked about modeling, acting, directing, perception, and how audiences see. We drifted into the differences between religions, philosophies, values, goals and the need for, or importance of success, before discussing our impact in the world.

I had no doubt that whatever she chose to do, she would succeed at, but what she would DO with that success would be just as important.”

Smoky Mountain Memories (Appalachian Memories) is one of Dolly’s best songs, not as well known by far. But it’s just beautiful and makes me tear up whenever I hear her sing it. She is such a talented song writer, or as she would rightly have it, Songteller. The song was on her 1983 album Burlap & Satin. This version was on her 2004 Live and Wellalbum.


Here is her early version (Appalachian Memories) performed live in London, 1983.

Dolly Parton, gracing the cover of Out Magazine 1997.

Dolly’s denim faze was iconic.

We need an international Dolly Day, so we can all give thanks to this heavenly angel living on earth. Imagine a world without Dolly Parton? Actually, don’t. It’s the stuff of nightmares!

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