Actor Heath Ledger Found Dead

Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at a downtown Manhattan apartment, and police said drugs may have been a factor.

Police said Ledger was naked in his bed with an unknown number of sleeping pills near his body.
The Australian-born actor was 28.
[READ MORE]

My life right now is, I wouldn't say reduced to food, but my duties in life are that I wake up, cook breakfast, clean the dishes, prepare lunch, clean those dishes, go to the market, get fresh produce, cook dinner, clean those dishes and then sleep if I can. And I love it. I actually adore it.

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

SOURCES: KTLA.com, IMDB.com

On this day in history…

Francis Bacon,
1st Viscount St Alban (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist. He is also known as a proponent of the scientific revolution. Indeed, according to John Aubrey, his dedication may have brought him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

His works established and popularized an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method or simply, the scientific method. In the context of his time such methods were connected with the occult trends of hermeticism and alchemy^{[citation needed]}. Nevertheless, his demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still informs conceptions of proper methodology today.

Bacon was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Alban in 1621; without heirs, both peerages became extinct upon his death. He has been credited as the creator of the English essay.

SOURCE: Wikipedia.org

It's a 2-fer!

BLACK MOUNTAIN
In The Future
JagJaguwar

Favorite psych-and-prog-spiritual pioneers BLACK MOUNTAIN are back with "In The Future", their second full-length album that resonates with the same epic ring, beloved deep rock touchstones and genuine folk fragility that made their self-titled debut full-length an instant classic. The new album possesses immense breadth, seamlessly showcasing short and classic folk-pop gems along with driving modern rock masterpieces, peaking with "Bright Lights", a seventeen-minute multi-dimensional opus that gives Pink Floyd's "Echoes" a run for its money. [READ MORE]

"In the Future is an expansive statement of an album, full of big guitars and cold space, a variety of sounds and a hard-earned and ever-present brilliance."
— 8/10, POP MATTERS

"Confident but not copyist, in the future few records will sound this dominant." -- 8/10, NME

"…an ambitious state-of-the world address that delivers on an emotional and visceral level."
— 4 stars, MOJO

"Impossibly brilliant second album. Listen to In The Future and you'll probably care about this band for a long long time"
— 4.5/5, THE SUN

In The Future "eclipses their previous output and hits a consistent note of righteous force."
— WIRE magazine

"…heady, heavy and brilliantly executed: stoner rock for the masses."
— WORD magazine

SOURCE: JagJaguwar

I hate cover records…but

CAT POWER
JUKEBOX
MATADOR

I've made it my entire adult, musician life never joining a cover band. It's simple: Other bands have already cashed in on the material. Why would I cover someone else's material at a pittance of what they're compensated? ’Nuff said.
So why can't I stop listening to the new Cat Power covers record? It started moving me the moment 'New York New York' started playing.
Yup. A Sinatra cover.
Go Figure.
One word: Remarkable!

Check it out here.

SOURCE: Zelo