Del.icio.us Links for 2008-07-30
July 30, 2008
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loved the pic
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very cool article on human biology
C Is For
July 29, 2008
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Top 10 C Is For
10) C Is For Communist (if you are a Republican)
9) C Is For Cunt(if you are John McCain)
C Is For Cocain (if you are a Marion Berry)
7) C Is For…
There is 10 Entrecard credits for every answer you can submit in until 8-3-08
Jack Johnson
July 28, 2008
Jack Johnson is a plain ordinary name for a very complex voice. Stunning melodies compliments a heart pulling guitar. I stumbled onto Jack’s music through my Pandora feed and instantly was hooked with Traffic in the Sky off of On and On. I was taken with how his native Hawaiian sounds infiltrate his indie folk-rock tunes.
There is not a lot of online places you can hear Jack Johnson, but when you do his rich voice is worth pumping through full range speakers. You can hear a few songs and watch a couple of vids on his MySpace profile. The best place is on his website Jack Johnson Music. To hear Jack and similar artists you add my Pandora Radio for Jack Johnson.
SYTYCD Top 8
July 24, 2008
Courtney Ann Galiano and William Wingfield start off with a Hot, Hot Hot Samba! which all the judges loved. The judges loved it. They all said there were some technical issues, but the chemistry made up for it by a high degree.
Comfort Fedoke’s solo is hot! They way her hips and legs moved spoke to parts of me with no ears.
Mia Michaels gets to choreograph Twitch and Katee. We get our first stage kiss in the boyfriend girlfriend number between them. Nigel is going WOW! The performance was fantastic. It was one of the most entertaining dances they have ever seen is his final comment. he gets his usual banter with Mary. Mary loved it with a serious scream. Toni Basil loved it. No note taking because she couldn’t stop watching.
William Wingfield is James Brown in his solo. The music is great and with the wig on he looks like Debbie Allen moving a young James around the floor. he gets the standing O from the judges.
Mark and Comfort pick Hip Hop and draw Napoleon and Tabitha. Detention was never so fly. The over the head backflip was hot! Nigel thinks comfort is a much better hip hop dancer when she is choreographed than when she goes solo. Mary thought it was excellent and Mark nailed it. Toni recognized how hard it was because she takes classes from Napoleon and Tabitha.
Katee’s solo showed off how well she moves and her musicality. it reminds us why she was picked in the first place. i am still missing Natalie Reid though, her roommate. We haven’t seen her in the audience, which might mean there is nothing to the rumors the two of them are lesbian lovers.
Chelsie Hightower and Joshua pick the Argentinian Tango and get choreographed by SYTYCD Season Two dancer Dimitri. This is Chelsie’s second go with this dance and it is far superior this this time. Mostly I think it worked because of Josh’s strength and power to go along with her grace and beautiful body. For me Josh looked a bit uncomfortable, but the judges all loved his performance as much as hers. Well I think Nigel Lythgo enjoyed his dancing, but like me, I see how he looks at Chelsie and know there is no way he is enjoying any dude as much as he is her.
Mark’s solo is always well done and interesting, but what is up with the Faux-hawk?
William Wingfield and Courtney Galiano perform a slow hip-hop. The theme is to turn back time and be with someone you love just once more, ala Ghost. As much as I love Demi Moore, I would much rather rolla around int the wet clay with Courtney Ann Galiano. Nigel was emotionally moved. Mary Murphy was blown away. Toni Basil said great art makes you feel, and she was feeling alot of things about this performance.
Chelsie Hightower’s solo was beautiful and showcased her wonderful legs. it is also her birthday, but that is not any better of a reason to keep her around than the fact that she is hot. Okay on that note maybe it is a good reason.
Twitch and Katee Sheen are up next. She is dressed in a shiny red dress for this Tyce Diorio number. Choreographed to Sweet Georgia Brown her little ass wiggle is going to be YouTube Fodder for some time to come.
Joshua’s solo is his typical coolness.
Courtney Galiano’s solo was beautifully matched to Missy Higgins’s Where I stood. I always feel something when this song is played and watching her dance with such joy to it nearly brought me down again.
Comfort and Mark get the foxtrot as their second dance. Choreographed by Jean Marc Généreux and and France Mousseau. Jean Marc and France heen together since 1977, which incidently is how long Penn and teller have been together who the pair of them remind me of. France is the quiet Teller to Jean Marc’s Penn. This means she is actually the brains of the duo.
During the interview phase Marc looks uncomfortable touching her, like he is just uncomfortable touching girls. This doesn’t translate well into the perception of the actually routine, especially when it is as bad as this one is. Gay straight or otherwise if the guy leading the routine doesn’t look happy about his partner being a girl, America will have a hard time voting for them. After the performance, it wouldn’t have matter if he had his head or hand up her dress getting her off for the entire time, I don’t think America would vote for them. okay maybe they would for that, but anything less than that probably not.
Last but not least Chelsie and Josh go Night Fever with disco. it was fabulous. The judges all loved it. Toni though made it clear that they stole the show with it.
Long Live Jim Henson
July 21, 2008
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A] [Read more]
Dark Knight Rising
July 20, 2008
CNN.com LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Batman has sent Spidey packing as king of Hollywood’s box-office superheroes. “The Dark Knight” took in a record $155.34 million in its first weekend, topping the previous best of $151.1 million for “Spider-Man 3″ in May 2007 and pacing Hollywood to its biggest weekend ever, according to studio estimates Sunday.
With the success of the first modern Batman movie and the death of beloved actor Heath Ledger is there any wonder this movie did so well? Not only is it not surprising for those reasons, it is a good time to be backing blockbuster movies in general.
When ever the economy has been bad, the movies have always been the one thing we will spend money on. It is escapism in our darkest hours, which if you are lucky will not going two and a half hours plus. We may want to escape from how bad things are but we also want every minute we can get for our $9.00 ticket, $3.00 popcorn and $3.00 Pepsi.
Me I can wait on this one. With any luck it will be the second show when X files hits the drive in in two weeks. That is the only movie I can afford this month. I will get 2 movies at $15.00 for me, Katy and Liam. We will bring our own food, and with any luck I will have readily available beer to stick in the cooler too.
No matter how you see your movie though, I still find it hard to beat full surround sound out of great speakers, your favorite chair and the ability to pause the DVD whenever you like.
I Fell In Love
July 19, 2008
When I first heard James Blackshaw’s music several years ago I literally fell in love with his 12 string guitar. There are so few who really play the instrument well, even those that play it in the genres it developed in. James however pulls out the most beautiful music in a thoroughly modern tones and techniques. He may claim that his influences are classical European minimalists composers and other twelve stringers like
Jack Rose, Steffen Basho-Junghans, and Robbie Basho, but I hear the undertones of Clapton, Petty, and Beck through out many riffs. intentional or not, the music is still beautiful and can’t wait to have my copy of the new disc in a few days. Litany of Echoes. For the mean time, I am just enjoying the music on his MySpace page and what I already have.
Wish Someone Would Rain On Their Parade
July 19, 2008
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All I can say is Heather, at least you grew out of your awkward bee phase.
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I Kissed A Girl Too
July 18, 2008
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When I first heard this song a couple of weeks back I only heard the name and thought she was going to cover the Jill Sobule song of the same name. I have always liked Jill’s version so I was apprehensive no matter how hot Kate was standing around in a short yellow skirt. Of course, Kate Perry kissing Jill Sobule would have been really, really hot! Then I heard the song with the hard drum beat and power guitars riffs and was sold. Not only was it not a cover and from a hot woman, the song was music to my ears and rocked hard. The video to say the least is also hot. It would have worked really well had you switched the music over to something by Warrant or Whitesnake and inserted Tawny Kitaen from twenty years ago. (Tawny has seen better days and so has David Coverdale)
The Emmy Goes Too
July 17, 2008
I am more than a little disappointed in some of the choices, or rather ignoring some of the better choices that could have been made. Most of it is the big networks fault too. They promote their flagship shows to draw more advertising dollars for the winners and ignore or purposefully don’t submit some of their cable shows.
Take this example. BSG (Battlestar Gallactica) run on the Sci-Fi Channel. Sci-Fi is owned by NBC. Fans and critics alike all think it is a superb show, with great acting from the likes of Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, both Oscar nominees.
The show gets nominated for technical and writing awards, but the show itself and the actors fail to get nominated for the big prizes. It isn’t that they couldn’t compete, the fine actors big name or not are wonderful at their craft. The networks are actually afraid of them winning. It all boils back down to advertising dollars.
If a niche show wins a big Emmy because the people are good the actors can demand more money. On the other hand it is still a niche network with a smaller audience and the ad revenue isn’t going up very much even for a win. I can understand the economic reason, but I don’t have to like it. Fine actors like Jamie Bamber, Aaron Douglas, James Callis, or Katee Sackhoff deserve to be recognized by more than those of who watch the show for how wonderful they are.
Here are the List of Big Emmy Nominations: [Read more]
