Buster Benton (July 19, 1932 – January 20, 1996) was an American blues guitarist and singer, who played guitar in Willie Dixon's Blues All-Stars, and is best known for his solo rendition of the Dixon-penned song "Spider in My Stew." He was tenacious and in the latter part of his lengthy career, despite the amputation of parts of both his legs, Benton never stopped playing his own version of Chicago blues.
Arley Benton was born in Texarkana, Arkansas.
Whilst residing in Toledo, Ohio, during the mid-1950s, and having been influenced by Sam Cooke and B.B. King, Benton began playing blues music. By 1959, he was leading his own band in Chicago. During the 1960s, local record labels, such as Melloway, Alteen, Sonic, and Twinight Records released several Benton singles, before in 1971 he joined Willie Dixon. Indeed, a lack of opportunity in the early 1960s meant that Benton gave up playing professionally for several years, and he worked as an auto mechanic. Benton's earlier work was an amalgam of blues and soul, which he confusingly dubbed 'disco blues'. However, according to Music journalist, Bill Dahl, "in the late 1970s, when the popularity of blues music was at low ebb, Benton's recordings, particularly for Ronn Records, were a breath of fresh air."
This Is the End is a 2013 American disaster black comedy film based on Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse by Jason Stone, produced, written and directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg in their directorial debut, and stars Jay Baruchel, Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Emma Watson, Rihanna, and Michael Cera. The film centers around a group of real life actors playing ficitionalized versions of themselves, in the aftermath of a global apocalypse. The film premiered at the Fox Village Theater on June 3, 2013 and was released on June 12, 2013 by Columbia Pictures, with a re-release on September 6, 2013.This Is the End grossed $126 million on a $32 million budget. This Is the End was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 1, 2013.
Jay Baruchel arrives in Los Angeles to visit with old friend and fellow actor Seth Rogen, who invites him to attend a housewarming party hosted by James Franco. Baruchel is uncomfortable being around so many people he hardly knows, so Rogen accompanies him to a convenience store for cigarettes.
For Blood and Empire is the fifth studio album by American punk band Anti-Flag. It was released on March 21, 2006. It is also their first release on RCA Records, which caused the band to receive criticism from many due to their initially anti-corporate message.
The booklet, which comes with the CD, contains a short essay for all but two songs (State Funeral and Cities Burn) which gives more in-depth perspective on the inspirations for the song subjects such as the Downing Street Memo and Monsanto Company Corporation, as well as information on one of Anti-Flag's side projects, Military Free Zone. The CD also comes with two stencils, one is the "Gunstar", a star formed with broken M-16s (as seen on the cover of Mobilize), and the other of the phrase "What are we going to do about the U.S.A.?"
The album art was done by Mike Ski of The A.K.A.s.
The song "Emigre" (which on the promotional version was originally titled "Exodus") features an adaptation of Martin Niemöller's poem First they came.
I remember... going down on the backslide
I remember... back room down
I remember... from the top of the mountain
Let's pretend i'm dead ...she said
I feel nothing
...one more time
I remember... just one more day
I remember... the parting of those pretty lips
I remember... just everything
Let's pretend i'm dead ...she said