While You Were Sleeping, Nirvana This And Nirvana That

Sub Pop really made a bundle on those Nirvana kids 

What did it cost to sign grunge icons Nirvana back in the summer of ’89? $600. Sheesh, we’ve eaten degustation dinners that cost more than that.

The band’s label, Sub Pop, who are currently celebrating the 20th anniversary of their third and final studio release In Utero, posted a copy of their original contract with the band on Tumblr today, and it’s probably already the only contract anyone has ever read from start to finish.

“Six hundred bucks well spent,” said the label, in the biggest understatement in music history, “not that we had it at the time.”

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In related news, here’s the newly-released director’s cut of their 1993 hit, ‘Heart-Shaped Box’

Yep, it’s just as creepy.

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If you don’t mind crying this morning, watch the trailer to The Book Thief

Here’s your first look at the film adaptation of local author Markus Zusak’s international bestseller about a young girl and her foster family and books and Nazis in WWII Germany. The film, which is due for release in November, stars Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, and youngster Sophie Nelisse in the lead, although it’s still a mystery who will be narrating as Death (what a terrible surprise, movie people). Watch the trailer; don’t say we didn’t warn you.

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Steve Martin will banjo battle anyone, anytime

Steve Martin’s a man of many skills: comedy, banjo-playing… Okay, so he’s a man of two skills, but he is extremely skilled at those two skills. Here he is promoting celebrity photographer Matt Hoyle’s upcoming book, Comic Genius: Portraits Of Funny People (which also features sections on Tina Fey, Chevy Chase, Patton Oswalt and more), by tackling Deliverance‘s creepy banjo-duel with none other than Kermit The Frog.

Look at Kermit’s fingers go! Yee-haw!

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Watching Todrick Hall’s Cinderonce is a pretty great way to spend eight minutes

“The classic story of Cinderella… as told through Beyonce songs,” says the video’s YouTube description. “Sold!” says the world.

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