The Pet Sounds Recording Studio (sometimes called Pet Sounds Studio or Pet Sounds, after the Beach Boys' album of the same name) was a recording studio orginally located Denver, Colorado. Founded by Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo and Jim McIntyre of Von Hemmling, several Elephant 6 albums were recorded in the studio, including the critically acclaimed Neutral Milk Hotel album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and several The Apples in Stereo albums.

Pet Sounds Studio is sometimes referred to as The Elephant 6 Recording Company in the liner notes of albums from bands within the Elephant 6 collective (a group of like-minded musicians creating independent music). Several of the musicians are also involved with the Orange Twin Records label.

The house that the studio was located in was demolished in 1999.

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Mac McCaughan got a job at Pepper's Pizza in Chapel Hill in 1987 when he returned to North Carolina from New York during the break between his sophomore and junior years at Columbia University. Laura Ballance worked there, and they began dating. She started playing bass in several of Mac's bands, one of which would go on to become Superchunk.

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In 1962, the songwriters would see 17-year-old Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto walk by this bar and occasionally stop in to buy cigarettes for her mother, inspiring the quintessential song of both Bossa Nova and Elevator Music, The Girl from Ipanema.
The street would be renamed for the lyricist. The bar would be renamed for the song.

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The Dog Years Diner in the movie is based on this Grand Rapids location, frequented by Adam Herz as a high school student.

Bring cash.
And coins for tips.

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Comedy Central's The Colbert Report debuted on October 17, 2005. In the show, the eponymous character, Stephen Colbert, is a self-aggrandizing buffoon who doesn't let facts get in the way of his "truthiness." The concept initially pitched was simply one line: "our version of The O'Reilly Factor with Stephen Colbert."

Since the show's debut, Colbert's persistent quest to feed his character's ego has succeeded in many different fields. Among the numerous honors, he now has a spider named after him (Aptostichus stephencolberti), a treadmill on the International Space Station is called the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT), and an OHL team mascot (Steagle Colbeagle the Eagle).

Colbert's own titles have grown with an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Knox College and a knighthood from Queen Noor of Jordan. Current production title: Sir Dr. Stephen T. Colbert D.F.A. The show currently tapes at NEP Studio 54 at this address.

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