“Kings of Leon Vs. Lykke Li – Knocked up”

我个人蛮喜欢这首１９９４年朱哲琴主唱的《阿姐鼓》。

我偶尔会时不时拿《阿姐鼓》出来听。

它给了我一种说不出的＂与世隔绝＂的超脱感觉。当然，它也让我想起了西藏 －－那与世隔绝的神秘高原，宗教秩序井然、信仰至高无上的净土，俯瞰世界思索人生的制高点。

《阿姐鼓》讲述了一个孤单小女生失去了相依相伴的哑巴阿姐，但是她就是不明白阿姐为什么离家，一直想到她像阿姐的年龄那么大，突然间，她明白也许是梦想的幸福带走了阿姐，也许还带走了已长大成人的她。

你知道吗？“阿姐鼓”这三个字并不富有什么诗意，甚至是有一点血淋淋的残酷。你也可以说，有点＂恐怖＂。

怎么说呢？

我现在才知道原来“阿姐鼓”是人皮鼓！:p

你知道吗？在西藏，只有圣洁的女人皮肤才可以配制成鼓！哇！！

《阿姐鼓》副歌部分的“嗡嘛呢叭咪哞”这六个字，其实是藏传佛教中的六字真言。它包含了世间万物。在西藏人的心目中，死不可怕，它如同诞生新的生命一样，是回归大自然。

西藏人觉得作为轮回的一部分，生与死是平等的，只有幸福吉祥才最重要。

Lupe lays down an insane verse on this track. I need more Lupe in my life, dude is on Fire. << See what I did there? hit the link to download his recently released track. Still bangin that song a couple months later. Lupe is dropping his mixtape Enemy of the State: A Love Story Thanksgiving.. I’m so pumped

Download Dirty Money – Angels (rmx) f. Lupe Fiasco

Shawty what yo name is…

Them hustlers keep on talking
They like the way I’m walkin
Your sayin that you want me
So press record I’ll let you film me

On ya video phone
Make a cameo
Tape me on your video phone
I can handle you
Watch me on your video phone
On your video video
If you want me you can watch on your video phone

I like how you approach me
Fresh white with your pants hanging grown man low
Everything you sayin soundin good to me
No need to convince me anymore
Swag up its right one blade its tight
and i smell your cologne in the air
baby your doing something right
you just cancelled every other man here
you say you like my bag and the color of my nails
you can see that i got it goin on
i wanna make sure you remember me
so imma leave my number on your video phone
i got no time for frontin
i know just what I’m wantin
if its gonna be you and me
when i call they better see me on ya video screen

Them hustlers keep on talkin
They like the way I’m walkin
Your sayin that you want me
So press record I’ll let you film me

On ya video phone
Make a cameo
Tape me on your video phone
I can handle you
Watch me on your video phone
On your video video
If you want me you can watch on your video phone

you’re my phone star and i like it when my phone’s flashing cause you’re my receiver….hu-ba hu-ba
honey baby you sound sexy you should win an Oscar
and when you miss me just remember that i always got you with me
i’ll be you’re …?you’ll be my …..?
i’ll put you in my movie if you think that you can handle

I know you like that
Turn you into a star
I got it like that
Baby dont fight it
Cuz when i miss your call
I hit you right back
On my video phone

Them hustlers like my fashion
They like the way I’m walkin
Your sayin that you want me
So press record I’ll let you film me

On ya video phone
Make a cameo
Tape me on your video phone
I can handle you
Watch me on your video phone
On your video video
If you want me you can watch on your video phone

can you handle it,can you handle it
you like what you see
you wanna be with me

You know them G’s they be hollerin
Specially them hot ones
Brooklyn, Atlanta, Houston to New Orleans
When they see me
They be like “yo B let me call you”
You breakin my focus
Boy You cute and you ballin
You like it when i shake it
Shawty on a mission
what yo name is?
what? You want me naked?
if you likin this position
you can tape it
on ya video phone

Hustlers keep on talkin
you like the way its poppin
you sayin that you want me
press record i’ll let you film me

On ya video phone
Make a cameo
Tape me on your video phone
I can handle you
Watch me on your video phone
On your video video
If you want me you can watch on your vïdeo phone
ah ah ah vïdeo phone

Top Ten Hip-Hop And R&B Songs

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1.
Pretty Wings
Maxwell
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2.
Empire State Of Mind
Jay-Z + Alicia Keys
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3.
Forever
Drake Featuring Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem
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4.
Papers
Usher
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5.
Wasted
Gucci Mane Featuring Plies Or OJ Da Juiceman
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6.
I Invented Sex
Trey Songz Featuring Drake
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7.
Bad Habits
Maxwell
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8.
Regret
LeToya Featuring Ludacris
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9.
Number One
R. Kelly Featuring Keri Hilson
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10.
Under
Pleasure P
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New Music From Dirty Money Feat. Drake ‘Hurt’ Expect To Hear This Jawn Alot On Radio Listen Inside

Dirty Money-Hurt(Feat. Drake) …::LISTEN::…

Here is Lady GaGa’s new song titled Telephone that features Beyonce. The song that will appear on GaGa’s upcoming new album The Fame Monster that is produced by Rodney ‘Darkchild’ Jerkins and a track that was originally intended to be sung by pop princess Britney Spears but now will serve as the second single for GaGa.

Lady GaGa – Telephone (Feat. Beyonce)

Here is the highly-anticipated collaborations between pop superstars Beyonce and Lady GaGa. Video Phone (Extended Remix)

Beyoncé (Feat. Lady Gaga) – Video Phone

this is crazy! imo, it added whatever was missing from the song. it makes it go harder i think…

Drake feat. Kanye, Eminem, Wayne – Forever (Travis Barker remix)

peace, and remember to smile, love.

I wasn’t going to post today, but maybe just a quick one, because I have exciting news.

The pink humbug bag by harrsydesk

This bag is featured for the next two days in a collection (called a treasury) made by another seller on etsy. The treasury features selected products available on etsy.

If you want to see what I am talking about check it out. (It’s finished now)

And while we are on the subject of the pink Humbug….. a couple of weeks ago it also featured on the blog of another etsy seller Christopher and Me . Check out her really sweet  and fresh baby products. I ‘met’ Sarah through the give aways last month.

Now off to complete some Christmas orders.

Victoria on her bike.

Last month fate (and couchsurfing.org) brought a special guest to my door. I’m normally very selective about who I choose to host on couchsurfing, perusing their profile and references with care, but when I got Victoria’s request, I couldn’t email her back fast enough. Riding from Boston to LA by bike? on her own? In four months? this was a person I wanted to have a conversation with.

Intelligent and inspiring, Victoria  did not disappoint. It only took a few minutes’ conversation for me to feel comfortable enough to invite her to a girls’ night with a good friend of mine — and to know that I wanted to share her story with LGRAB readers. So I emailed her a few questions, asking her to answer as time permitted from the road. For more on Victoria’s epic ride (as I write, she’s made it to Texas!) check out her blog.

What inspired you to take this trip?
Generally I just love adventure and long-distance feats of endurance. I’ve done a couple week-long hiking trips, a two-mile ocean swim in New England in November (brrrr!), and attempted to walk 100K in one day with my brother (I only finished half of it before my body shut down on me.)

I can pinpoint a couple of sources of inspiration for the cross-country bike tour specifically:

1. I started using my bike for transportation when I moved to Boston for college in 1994, and found I really enjoyed getting around on a bike.
2. I grew up just off Route 20, the longest road in the US, which goes from Boston to Oregon and has all kinds of cool little towns and tourist attractions along it. I always thought it would be fun to travel the whole thing, either by biking or driving really slowly.
3. I have an uncle who rode horseback from our hometown in upstate New York to Wyoming. Sort of captures your imagination when you’re 8 years old.

Tell us about your touring setup (bike, panniers, etc.) and how you chose it.
I have only ever ridden mountain bikes around the city, and knew nothing about road bikes or touring when I started preparing for this trip. I got online and did some research, mostly reading other people’s blogs and equipment lists, and came up with a list of Things to Care About When Bike Touring. These included:

• A steel frame – heavier, but sturdier.
• Good touring wheels and flat-resistant tires, somewhere in the range of 28-35mm
• Fenders to keep the water and mud off you
• A strong rear rack
• Most importantly: a Brooks saddle. They are leather and actually conform to your butt over time. Everyone swears by these and now that I’ve been on the road a while, I do too! It’s SO comfortable and I have not had a single saddle sore.
• Waterproof panniers and handlebar bag. I settled on the very large and roomy Ortlieb BikeTourer model—a little more expensive than the others, but I love them.

Victoria's Ortleib panniers

Once I assembled this list, I started popping into bike shops around town and asking them to help. Unfortunately, the moment I told them I’d be riding across the country, they would start trying to set me up with the fanciest, top-of-the-line, most expensive version of everything, quoting me anywhere from $3-5K for a custom-built bike and gear! This seemed pretty outlandish to me.

So one night I was at a bar and randomly struck up conversation with a guy who’d ridden 1200 miles all around Ireland and Scotland, on a used bike that he picked up for a couple hundred dollars 25 years ago. He still rides this same bike 20 miles a day. This inspired me to start hunting around on Craigslist for better deals, and to eventually visit Bikes Not Bombs, a non-profit that refurbishes old bikes and uses the proceeds to do all kinds of cool stuff to promote biking in the community.

It was my lucky day. The guy told me that they almost never have used touring bikes in my size (I’m 5′2″) but that day they did: a Japanese model, dating from the early 80’s I’m guessing, called the Kuwuhara SuperTour. I tried it out. It was terribly uncomfortable, but I chalked that up to my not being at all used to the geometry. But, it fit, and it was cheap, so I got it!

I had them add the fenders, Brooks saddle, and the rack. I also had them put another set of brake levers on the top of the handlebars so that I could have two different hand positions.

Victoria's bike in Oklahoma.

(like most pictures in this post, this one is from Victoria’s Flickr stream)

I made the controversial choice NOT to use clipless pedals and cycling shoes, and have been perfectly happy with that choice for 2100 miles now. My thinking was that since I have limited space to carry footwear, I want shoes that can serve multiple purposes. I eventually sent my sneakers home, leaving me with one pair of shoes, which in my opinion are the be-all end-all shoes for bike touring: Merrell Waterpro Pandi water shoes. I have biked, hiked, and swum in these shoes and they’re great for everything. They dry out fast, and even when they’re wet you can throw a pair of wool socks on and your feet stay warm anyway. They also look cute enough to go out on the town!

How did you plan your itinerary?
Well, the Route 20 plan wasn’t going to work out, since I left in the fall and it is a northern route. So I planned to head southwest and finish in Los Angeles instead, where I have a few good friends. In between, I picked a route that would take me through as many cities and states I had not been to as possible, including West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Arizona.

I’ve purposely kept the exact route loosely planned though. I’ve found it very helpful to ask the locals as I go what routes are best for biking and what interesting attractions there are along the way. I use CouchSurfing.org and a handy application called CampWhere on my iPhone to find people to crash with and campgrounds along the way, so these often dictate my route between major cities.

What’s the most common reaction you get from people when you tell them what you’re doing?
By far the most common reaction is a blend of shock and admiration that I am a woman doing this by myself. In urban areas, people ask if I’m carrying mace or pepper spray (I am). In rural areas, they ask if I’m carrying a gun.

What’s the most interesting thing you’ve seen so far?
Oh, it’s really hard to choose. Some of my favorite places have included an organic produce farm, a corn maze with crazy homemade musical instruments hidden inside it, a bee farm, an amazing indoor climbing gym with a network of caves built into the walls, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, a waterfall pool I swam in at Ohiopyle State Park in Pennsylvania, Carter Caves State Park and Mammoth Caves in Kentucky, and the historic bathhouses in Hot Springs, Arkansas. But the best part is meeting all sorts of wonderfully interesting people along the way.

Fordyce Bath Houses in Hot Springs, AR

You spend nights camping or couchsurfing. Any weird stories? (as long as they’re not about me!)
CouchSurfing has been nothing but excellent. Everyone I have stayed with has been a kind, thoughtful, and awesome host. I love camping too, but had a couple of slightly less than ideal camping scenarios. In one instance, I was the only person at a campground off a bike trail that runs along the bottom of a canyon in Pennsylvania. I was psyched to have the whole place to myself, until I was drifting off to sleep and heard a barking sound, really close by, that was definitely not a dog. I had no idea what it was, probably a coyote or a fox. I know these animals don’t normally bother humans, but that didn’t stop me from lying awake, paralyzed, clutching my can of pepper spray. (It works on wild animals too!)

Another time I got stranded in the woods with nothing around for miles, so I pulled off down a dirt road, found a little clearing, and set up camp. It turned out I was a quarter mile from a railroad track, and due to the acoustics of the valley, every time a train passed through it sounded like someone was driving a four-wheeler past my tent. It was kind of horrible.

When and why did you decide to start commuting by bike? What do you ride?
I got my first Trek mountain bike when I graduated high school, rode it all over the place that summer, and found it really convenient to get around Boston when I moved there for college. It got stolen about three months into my freshman year, so I got another cheapo used mountain bike and painted it maroon with white, gold, and silver splatters on it, Jackson Pollock style, so nobody would want to steal it. Eventually, a contemporary art loving bike thief absconded with that one too. Then I bought my current bike, a silver Trek 8300. It was the bottom of the line about 8 years ago when I bought it, but is still going strong with very little maintenance aside from the occasional tuneup. I am a big fan of Trek!

My bike commuting has ebbed and flowed over the years depending on where I lived, where I worked, and whether I had access to a car or not. I used to share a car with an ex-boyfriend and became somewhat dependent on having it. When we broke up, I decided to get a new car, but it was spring so I decided to wait until fall and bike or take public transportation for the summer. By the time fall came around, I didn’t want a car at all. I was saving money, getting exercise, and feeling MUCH less stressed out than when I drove in the city!

Plus, I discovered Zipcar, an awesome car-sharing program in Boston and many other major cities. So I could still grab a car, by the hour or the day, on the relatively rare occasion that I really needed one. This was the key to living car-free, which I’ve done for the past 4 years. Biking is still my first choice for getting around, so long as there is no snow or ice on the ground.

What’s the best thing about seeing the country by bike?
I love going at a pace that allows you (or rather, forces you) to truly take everything in, seeing all sorts of small towns and country backroads that you’d never pass through if you stayed on the freeway. I love having the freedom to meander around if I see an interesting sign, or if someone I chat with in a roadside convenience store recommends something. I love it when people are curious when seeing my bike loaded up with the panniers, tent, and sleeping bag. It’s fun seeing the expressions on their faces when I tell them what I’m doing.

Victoria, leaving my house

What’s the biggest challenge of cross-country touring?

• Finding places to camp. Mostly I’ve camped in legitimate campgrounds, but sometimes you’re either at the mercy of people letting you camp on their lawns, or you take your chances sneaking off into the woods or a cornfield.
• Weather. It’s just depressing when it’s cold and wet and you are outside for 23 out of every 24 hours.
• Flat tires. I had a spate of flat tires for a week or so. I don’t know what kind of tires they put on my bike to begin with, but there came a point when they just got worn out and I was getting flats all the time. I just got new Continentals which a few people have recommended, and so far no problems.
• Loneliness. I’ve only felt lonely a few times, which is kind of amazing. Keeping a blog and hearing from people on a regular basis has helped a lot, and I’m the kind of person who enjoys solitude. If you aren’t, I’d definitely recommend going with a buddy.

What advice would you give to other women interested in touring by bike?
Just try it! This is my first bike touring trip ever. Before this, I’d never ridden more than 25 miles in a day, and I’d only done that a handful of times. If you do not want to take such a huge plunge, try to borrow some panniers and just go off for a long weekend.

And if you are inspired to go solo, do not listen to the myriad of people who will tell you that you should not go alone as a single woman. My reasoning is that I’m just as likely, if not more, to be abducted or hit by a car riding around Boston as I am riding across the country. So if you are itching to explore the world by bike, do it!

这次前来新加坡参与亚太经合峰会(APEC)的各国领袖在与会期间，除了有机会互相交流之外，也可能会面对一些尖锐的提问。不过发问的可不一定是媒体记者哦，也几有可能是来自亚太区域的120名年轻代表。

过去几个月，40名年龄介于18－25岁的本地青年都在忙着为他们毕生难得的机会做好准备。他们都被挑选参加年度的亚太经合峰会未来之声(Voices of the Future)项目。这个活动的目的是要让年轻一代更深入了解亚太经合组织。这些青年将有机会访问与会领导人，而他们当中有的人已经设定好问题了。

参与者，黄雪娜受访时说：“我自己主要的一个目的，就是想了解这次的金融海啸里面，不同的国家和不同的公司对于人事方面的控制，裁员或者是重新栽培员工、员工培训或者是安抚员工本身现在的士气方面有做出哪一些行动。”

除了40名新加坡代表，参与未来之声计划项目也将集合其他亚太国家的另外80名年轻代表。

APEC Voices of the Future (VOF) 2009 is to be held from 9 to 15 November 2009 in Singapore, in conjunction with the APEC 2009 summit meetings hosted by Singapore this year.

Due to a holiday trip to Bangkok next week, I am unable to commit as one of the liaison officers for this APEC event.

It is an annual youth event meant for youth leaders or representatives in the 21 APEC economies. VOF aims to provide a platform for them to engage government and business leaders on issues relevant to APEC.

VOF 2009 brings together 120 youth delegates (out of which 40 are from Singapore), aged 18 to 25 years old from APEC economies to deliberate on and explore issues relevant to youths, with regards to the theme of APEC 2009, “Sustaining Growth, Connecting the Region”.

This theme reflects the continuing efforts of APEC to facilitate trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region, efforts which have gained even greater importance in the face of a challenging global economic environment.

VOF 2009 is organised by the National Youth Council (NYC) in cooperation with the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) and the National Youth Achievement Award (NYAA) Council.

For further information on “Voices of the Future”, you can check out -> http://apecvof09.org/

Featuring model Isabeli Fontana…

The inaugural Singapore Experience Awards honour people and organisations that have excelled in providing a holistic customer service to help promote Singapore as a tourist attraction. It replaces the annual Tourism Awards, Singapore Business Events and Singapore Education prizes.

Finalists in 28 categories – spanning 5 areas of events, experiences, marketing and media, service and outstanding contributions, were unveiled at a Singapore Tourism Board (STB) press briefing yesterday. Winners will be announced at the awards presentation ceremony held at Capella Singapore @ Sentosa on 9 Nov.

Best Shopping Experience:

1. Museum Shop (Banyan Tree)

2. Robinsons

3. Tangs

4. The Planet Traveller

5. VivoCity

Best Dining Experience (it’s not about food!) :

1. Min Jiang @ One North

2. My Humble House @ Esplanade

3. Straits Kitchen @ Grand Hyatt Singapore

4. The Cliff @ The Sentosa Resorts & Spa.

5. The White Rabbit @ Harding Road

 Best Nightspot Experience:

1. Zouk

2. St James Power Station

3. The Loof @ Odeon Towers (I go there on Thursday nights sometimes!)

4. 1-Twentysix @ East Coast Parkway

5. New Asia Club

Other award categories include Leisure Event of the Year, Best Business Event Venue Experience, Best Visitor Attraction Experience, Exhibition of the Year.

Heard that organisations can self-nominate but for customer service awards, it is a no-no, that’s for the members of the public who will nominate their favourite service staff.

These nominees will be judged on business excellence, strategic values and service excellence by a panel of judges who come from both private and public sectors.

So at the end of the day, it is all about providing customer-centric service, isn’t it? Be it internal or external customers, we should be polite and flexible, giving our very best, be a good problem-solver to provide a lasting positive impressions to consumers.

That translates into good branding awareness for the organisation through viral marketing, generates loyalty among frequent customers and attract new ones, which as a result will broaden the customer base. And that means earning more profits!!

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Come next week, I will be fulfilling my role as an APEC Ambassador at Changi International Airport, from 4pm – 12.30am.  I am required to report attendance one hour earlier. Pre-shift briefings will be conducted by the OIC.

Indirectly speaking, I am also a STB ambassador. Why?  It is because in a way or another, APEC Ambassadors also represent STB.

I will be in the restricted access area - at the aerobridge, to meet and greet APEC delegates who arrive in Singapore, directing them to the immigration area. Yes, I will be the first point of contact.

Hello. Welcome to Singapore. *Wave and bow, smile*

‘Heaven’ by WorldInMyAndYourEyes

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My favourite tracks in October 2009. All links go to HypeMachine where you can listen to the selected track.

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♫ Higher Than Stars – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ♥ ♥ ♥

♫ Higher Than Stars (Saint Etienne Visits Lord Spank Mix) – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ♥ ♥ ♥

♫ Feel.Love.Thinking.Of – Faunts

♫ I Think I’ll Start A Fire – Faunts

♫ It Hurts Me All The Time – Faunts

♫ When The Sun Hits – Slowdive

♫ The Worst Taste in Music – The Radio Dept.

♫ Under The Sheets – Ellie Goulding ♥ ♥ ♥

♫ Animal – Miike Snow

♫ Animal (Peter Bjorn & John Remix) – Miike Snow

♫ Animal (Fred Falke Remix) – Miike Snow

♫ Into The Clouds (Fear of Tigers Remix) – The Sound of Arrows

♫ Panic – Xuman

♫ Extra Special – Animalistics

♫ Fader – The Temper Trap

♫ Sweet Disposition (Alan Wilkis Remix) – The Temper Trap

♫ In Search of Main – Miike Snow

♫ The Human Touch (Sidechains Remix) – Heads We Dance

♫ Follow Me ft. Annie (Lifelike Remix) – Ercola

♫ Collect Call (Tom Wrecks Remix) – Metric

♫ Your Tiny Mind (Lifelike Remix) – Relation ♥ ♥ ♥

♫ Your Tiny Mind (Diogenes Club Remix) – Relation

♫ Mowgli’s Road (Mille Remix) – Marina & The Diamonds

♫ Don’t Stop (Lifelike Remix) – Heartache

♫ Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension

♫ The XX – Heart Skipped a Beat

♫ Love is Gone – (Fred Rister & Joachim Garraud Radio Edit Remix) – David Guetta & Chris Willis

♫ Gui Boratto – No Turning Back

We are constantly bombarded by images and information – at school, at work, in newspapers and on the web. All of these stimuli carry a multitude of underlying codes. Day in and day out, we navigate our way, more or less successfully, through a torrent of texts and images, subtle advertising messages and hard facts, official instructions and personal messages. New and long-established media alike vie for our undivided attention. What we tend to overlook is the fact that we are increasingly subject to a second, media-dominated reality in which we are no longer directly involved. The exhibition featuring works by Becky Beasley (GB), Thomas Galler (CH), Aneta Grzeszykowska (PL), Thomas Julier (CH), Anja Manfredi (A), Ryan McGinley (USA), Taiyo Onorato / Nico Krebs (CH/CH), Clunie Reid (GB) and Oliver Sieber (D) explores this densely woven tapestry of direct and indirect experience, of immediate and mediated seeing. It quietly flags up the relationships and juxtapositions that permeate our casual, everyday navigation of parallel worlds. The young generation of artists presented here draw their inspiration from found images and their own creative originality, mapping out new territory in contemporary art photography. In this context, the term Karaoke symbolises a certain pleasure in citing and trying out familiar patterns and styles. The karaoke machine invented in 1971 by Daisuke Inoue presents melodies and lyrics hesitantly at first and then with increasing confidence. In this popular, non-hierarchical form of entertainment, the serious and the light-hearted are never far apart. Singing along develops into individual interpretation and imitation develops into innovation. Main sponsor: UBS Sunday, 25 October at 11.30 a.m., artist’s talks with Thomas Galler, Anja Manfredi, Taiyo Onorato/Nico Krebs, Clunie Reid and Oliver Sieber will take place. The exhibition catalogue is published by Kodoji Press, Baden: KARAOKE – Photographic Quotes, edited by Thomas Seelig, 100 pages, with 121 shuffled visual and textual quotes from Ansel Adams to Slavoj Žižek, from Becky Beasley to Oliver Sieber and from William Shakespeare to Marilyn Monroe. Still on display until 15 November 2009 (Main Gallery and Gallery): Darkside II – Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed ( http://www.fotomuseum.ch/index.php?id=8&L=1 )

“when I’m out of your system, forget the things that I said”
(Maritime – Tearing up the Oxygen)

Ich bin wohl doch zu sehr Nerd. Dank diesem Video (nur auf English, sorry) weiß ich jetzt endlich auch, wie man einen anderen Laptop, der per Ethernet ans Internet angeschlossen ist, zu einem Hotspot machen kann, sodass andere Laptops dessen Internetverbindung mit nutzen können. Das habe ich natürlich flugs ausprobiert – es funktioniert alles, und das einfacher als ich dachte (ich hatte bei all den Fachtermini in den Fachtermini-Fachforen schon Angst, ich würde das nie hinbekommen), also probiert es einfach mal aus, wenn ihr Internet für euer iPhone oder euren Mac oder euren PC oder was auch immer braucht und euer/eure Freund/in kein W-Lan hat. Reichweite 10m, but who cares. Wer das braucht, sollte sich wirklich eher einen Router kaufen, dessen Signal man auch durch Wände hindurch aufnehmen kann (angeblich geht das bei uns nicht, nur komisch, dass ich das Signal unserer Nachbarn bei uns reinbekomme, obwohl da noch eine Feuerschutzmauer zwischen unseren Haushälften ist…).
Nach meinem Post über die Moleskine-Notizbücher habe ich mal meine Notizbuchsammlung (passt gerade so in einen Schuhkarton) unter die Lupe genommen. Wie man sehen kann, sind viele nicht Moleskine, aber das sei egal. Ich bin beeindruckt, muss ich sagen.

Rauf und runter läuft bei mir zur Zeit das Zweitlingswerk der US-amerikanischen Band Maritime – We, The Vehicles. Das Debütalbum hat in Deutschland übrigens das Grand Hotel van Cleef (ja, richtig – Stichworte: Kettcar, Tomte) veröffentlicht. Feiner Pop-Rock aus der Feder von Davey von Bohlen (bemerkenswert: nach zweijährigen, wiederkehrenden Kopfschmerzen, wurde bei ihm 2002 ein gutartiger Gehirntumor festgestellt und entfernt!), mit Songs, die irgendwo zwischen Melancholie, den Kleinigkeiten alltäglicher und nicht-alltäglicher Beziehungen, (leider?) nur allzu wahren Feststellungen über das Kommen und Gehen von Menschen, und verlorengeglaubter und oft wiedergefundener Hoffnung angesiedelt sind. Von Bohlens angenehme, kratzig-bis-rauchige Stimme bereitet dabei selbst das traurigste (“until we’re strangers again”) angenehm auf. Herausragendster Songtextteil: “ballads laugh at everyone / worse than silence is their song / and you’re too far away to love” (Calm)

Ich möchte hierbei nochmal auf etwas hinweisen: am 13. November erscheint in Deutschland das zweite Album von IMMANU EL, genannt MOEN. (Vor-) Bestellen könnt ihr es übrigens bei Amazon (dort gibt es schon die 30 Sekunden-Snippets für alle Songs), soweit ich weiß auch ab dem 13. bei iTunes kaufen und sowieso bald wieder live auf Tour hören. IE touren im Januar und Februar für sechs Wochen durch Europa (mehr Informationen über die Tour poste ich zu gegebener Zeit), also verpasst es nicht, die fünf Herren aus Göteborg anzusehen.

Hot off the press!! It’s the Unofficial Remix to the song “24’s” off of Canton Jones’ Stellar Nominated “Kingdom Business”. Alongside of CAJO, the original version was blazed with features from Mr.Del, Milliyon, and Messenja. The remix features new vocals, and production overhaul from underground sensation T… Continue

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As you all know, Henrik Öhberg, a.k.a. Tvärvägen from Sweden is one of my favourite solo-artists and one I love to blog about. Whenever there’s a new song or a new video, it usually means so much more to me than just to “blog” about something. How shall I explain that? For example, take Tvärvägen’s new video for “Pinginvärmen” – an achingly beautiful song that pierces your chest even deeper if you’re watching its video, too. It moved me to tears.

“Du är allt jag har.“

P.S.: If you had followed the twitter page of Tvärvägen’s label, Knoppar, you would have gotten a nice LIVE EP of Tvärvägen. So watch out for future goodies here!

I found today that my link was mentioned on two other pages. I know it is quite insignificant but it pleases me!

One link was on the page I wrote about last, with the Hello Kitty figures with guts! My link is on the 3rd image:

The other link was a bit more random. It came up on the Bacon page of alltop.com… weird, it must have been where I tagged bacon yesterday for all those piggy pictures. My link is on the 2nd image:

One more screen grab… this time I have entered Little Juice Box in The Best of Blogs Awards. Just thought it would be a bit of fun. Im not sure when the voting starts but I shall keep an eye out for it:

I have also made some little pictures (see the right hand column) as links to this award page, and also to follow Little Juice Box through Networked Blogs on Facebook.

Today I have been feeling slightly low, so I haven’t really found anything cute to write about, which is a shame. I have however taken out my aggression on a session of Call of Duty: World at War. It is a lot harder than I thought it would be, but I am getting through it and actually having fun too! I’m not too sure where I am up to, maybe the 4th chapter, I have lost count really… Maybe when I am feeling brave I will play it on Xbox Live.

Ryan made super yummy roast potatoes and chicken for dinner Nom nom nom. I love home cooking, it always seems more worth while when you eat it! Plus you know what went in it…

Here is a photo from last week, I think I miss my pink hair already, poop….

Jenn x