Math Student Plays Two 'Star Wars' Songs With Nothing But a PencilBy Mark PygasUpdated Nov. 18 2019, 2:37 p.m. ET
Source: TwitterWe challenge you to name a more iconic band than Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes. Or as you may know them, the yellow alien guys who play the Cantina Theme in Star Wars: A New Hope.
Source: Lucas FilmAnd as it turns out, you can play the Cantina Theme with nothing but a pencil. Read More...
SENTENCED. Giovanni Vigliotto, 54, (authorities say he is really Fred Jipp, 47), flea-market merchant who made a habit, and a living, out of wooing, wedding and then fleecing his wives (he claims to have married 105 women in the past 20 years); to 34 years in state prison, the maximum sentence, plus a $336,000 fine, for his February conviction on bigamy and fraud charges brought by one of the 105, Patricia Ann Gardiner; in Phoenix. Read More...
As an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, young Jack Crawford got some advice from his oilman father. “Son,” said he, “don’t go to work for anyone else if you can help it. Either go broke or make a fortune, but don’t take a job.” Jack Crawford took the advice. He ran a college dance band, saved up $8,000 from its bookings and, after some postgraduate work in geology at Texas A. Read More...