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Rush’s unique style of soloing and powerful tenor voice helped shape the Chicago blues sound and deeply influenced famed guitarists like Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Page and Stevie Ray Vaughn.
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The premiere of the 44th season of Saturday Night Live with host Adam Driver and musical guest Kanye West was damn funny, though not always on purpose. There was the usual political satire—Matt Damon in the cold open as an enraged Brett Kavanaugh—but there were jokes enough about cast member Pete Davidson’s relationship with superstar Ariana Grande to fill a standalone episode.
Also: Kanye West apparently auditioning to be the next mascot for Perrier.
Damon’s take on the controversial Supreme Court nominee was some pretty searing political satire, but even SNL’s best sketches about contemporary politics can seem dated by the following day. The same could be said of jokes about Davidson and his insanely famous pop star fiancee, were it not for Davidson’s knack for deadpan delivery; that’s the kind of funny that stays funny. His segment on Weekend Update (see above) is exhibit A.
He did step in it with one joke, and Twitter was pissed. Well, more pissed than usual.
The joke: “Last night I switched her birth control with Tic-Tacs…I believe in us and all, but I just want to make sure that she can’t go anywhere.”
Just a few tweets demonstrate how well that went over:
It was just a joke, but his girlfriend has 58 million Twitter followers. He could have given a small wave and said “hi, babe” and been hammered by a million angry tweets.
Then there was Kanye. Or as he prefers now, Ye.
Anyone who missed Kanye West’s first performance should watch it above. No, seriously. No need to like the song. Turn down the volume, and just imagine it’s a hallucination.
The easy take on this performance is that Kanye West has lost his damn mind. But the tweet at the top of his Twitter feed Sunday morning may show that he was in on the joke.
At the end of the show, Mr. Kardashian launched into another number when the cast would normally be hugging and schmoozing as the playoff music rolled. It was cut for time, and that was probably for the best since it was political, and not the kind of politics that go over well on Saturday Night Live at all. Chris Rock caught the scene in an Instagram story, which others then ripped and tweeted.
The president is always a controversial subject. Controversy never stopped Kanye West.
The dark horse for best sketch of the night starred Adam Driver and Pete Davidson, and it really was demented and hilarious. On Career Day at his school, Mordecai’s (Pete Davidson) ancient father, Abraham H. Parnassus (Driver), talks about his time as an oil tycoon.
Invisible under surprisingly convincing old age makeup, Driver delivers what would be an Oscar-worthy performance under any other circumstances. Davidson can barely hold it together watching Driver milk the bit for everything it’s worth as he rants about Abraham’s dead rival, H.R. Pickens: “I crushed you into the ground, and now your bones turn to oil beneath my living feet! I married your granddaughter, filled her belly with my festering seed, and sired a boy! He is my final revenge, H.R!”
All in all, Season 44 kicked off with a bang. It’ll only get weirder—and more controversial—from here on out.
On October 6, SNL will be hosted by Awkwafina with musical guest Travis Scott.
Microsoft is holding a Surface hardware event on Tuesday (October 2nd) in New York City, and a new leak reveals the company will announce a Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Pro 6. We’d been expecting Microsoft to refresh both these devices at the event, but we’d also been assuming the new hardware would come with modern USB-C ports. Germany site WinFuture claims that neither the Surface Laptop 2 or Surface Pro 6 will include USB-C ports.
Instead, Microsoft is said to be sticking with its trusted mini DisplayPort and Surface Connector combo for connecting to displays and charging the device. If the report is genuine then this would be a surprising move from Microsoft, and it would also match rumored leaked photos of the Surface Laptop 2. The…
It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.
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Smart speaker love is in full effect for US consumers, with 24 percent of US households owning a smart speaker, and 40 percent of those households owning multiple speakers, according to Nielsen’s latest study.
Devices like Amazon’s Echo, Google’s Home speaker, and Apple’s HomePod have taken off in recent years, and it seems that trend is continuing, with Nielsen noting that 62 percent of smart speaker owners have purchased their devices in the past six months. Forty-five percent of smart speaker owners are planning to purchase more devices for their home, Nielsen said.
According to the study, most people are using their smart speakers to listen to music, and 68 percent of people chat with their smart…
