... they make me feel so good!
Video Find of the Day
We had a Real Change board meeting tonight, and Director Tim's twin girls were kept entertained in the front office. He told us they are into vampires now, for some reason I missed. That is as good a cue as any to trot out Oingo Boingo videos. This first is only as suggestive as the little sirens deserve. And, it features vampire action!
Oingo Boingo - Little Girls
My favorite Oingo Boingo album is Nothing to Fear. Here are two videos of songs from that album. I looked for "Wild Sex (in the Working Class)" but sadly could not find it. Maybe someone would post that later? Hmm?
Oingo Boingo - Nothing To Fear (But Fear Itself)
Oingo Boingo: Insects (Nothing To Fear)
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Getting Stuff Done
Video Find of the Day
Today, which is really Monday, I had to be ready for the annual Seattle Housing Authority inspection of my room (not to be confused with the monthly management inspection, or the monthly bug spray, which invasions are never scheduled at the same times). Knowing that the SHA inspection was very important (I failed last year, to great stress) I wanted yesterday, Sunday, to be the day I got the room clean. That didn't exactly happen. I looked for a video that might explain how the non-happening happened. This one, which looks to be part of a series I may check out, when I get around to it, is what I found. As always, this will be dated Sunday, to placate the OCD god(s).
Tales Of Mere Existence "Procrastination"
Today, which is really Monday, I had to be ready for the annual Seattle Housing Authority inspection of my room (not to be confused with the monthly management inspection, or the monthly bug spray, which invasions are never scheduled at the same times). Knowing that the SHA inspection was very important (I failed last year, to great stress) I wanted yesterday, Sunday, to be the day I got the room clean. That didn't exactly happen. I looked for a video that might explain how the non-happening happened. This one, which looks to be part of a series I may check out, when I get around to it, is what I found. As always, this will be dated Sunday, to placate the OCD god(s).
Tales Of Mere Existence "Procrastination"
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Rock of Ages
Video Find of the Day
This group was on a Graham Norton repeat tonight. The average age appears to over 80. There's some live ones here.
The Zimmers "My Generation" Released: 28/05/07
This group was on a Graham Norton repeat tonight. The average age appears to over 80. There's some live ones here.
The Zimmers "My Generation" Released: 28/05/07
Friday, March 28, 2008
The Alphabet Song
Video Find of the Day
Time for another scene from my all-time favorite movie, Forbidden Zone. First, a colorized version of the seminal source. The ur-spring of alphabet song.
3 Stooges - Swingin the Alphabet
Now, what the Elfmans did to that in Forbidden Zone.
abc alphabet song from the forbidden zone
Time for another scene from my all-time favorite movie, Forbidden Zone. First, a colorized version of the seminal source. The ur-spring of alphabet song.
3 Stooges - Swingin the Alphabet
Now, what the Elfmans did to that in Forbidden Zone.
abc alphabet song from the forbidden zone
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Ilya Kuryakin
Video Find of the Day
While my friends wanted to wear bell-bottoms and emulate Beatles, I wanted to be Ilya Kuryakin, Russian agent for U.N.C.L.E., the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement. First a video to explain what that is, if you were born too late.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Trailer
Then, a video to show why Ilya Kuryakin (David McCallum) stole the show. The girls wanted him. I wanted to be him. Duh.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E ...everyone's favourite russian...
Major Magician
[Reminder: Some of my posts, including this one, are memoirs of my abusive childhood. In this post I'm relating events that happened February or March, 1958. The links to the right can be used to follow backward through the memoirs, or to restrict viewing to other kinds of posts.]
After my Father returned from the Mountain we had a new friend visit. I have always thought of him as Major Magician. I can't remember his name. I called him that because he was an amateur magician, always ready to impress me with some trick. He carried cards and pieces of rope and handkerchiefs around. My favorites were the rope tricks. I think it was another hint of a nascent interest in topology. I cared less about the tricks themselves than the different kinds of knots he could show me.
We had another dog-related incident that showed the interesting consequences of living in a country where dog is on the menu. While entertaining Major Magician a Chinese man dropped by to deliver a package. Ordinarily we would take the package at the gate, but because we had a guest we just buzzed the delivery man in. The dog, Koko, went berserk.
Koko was the most laid back dog you ever saw. Until then. We couldn't figure out why he went nuts until Major Magician mentioned that Koko might have a good idea what our visitor has been eating lately.
Mind you, I have no problem with eating dog. I'd be willing to try it. I'm just saying, if you live in a country where it's customary, keep an eye on Fido. He could take it personally.
Major Magician was the first regular friend that my Father had in Taiwan that interacted with the rest of us. He and his wife lived on the opposite side of Taipei in a middle-class neighborhood dominated by walled pre-war Japanese-style housing.
We went to visit them one evening. It was a beautiful house. The adults gathered around a table in what looked like a meditating room. It was a bare room with a long sliding paper wall that separated it from the main living room, and had glass doors opening to a walled garden. Major & Mrs. Magician used it for a dining room, usually. This night they used it to play four-way strip poker with my parents.
I was supposed to nap on a couch in the other room, but somehow when your Mother is playing strip poker in the next room it's hard to sleep. Especially with all the giggling. I had to get up and ask for a glass of water. Sure enough, by the time I got there Mom had lost. She always lost. Which was weird, because I'm sure she was the best poker player.
We loved the Japanese-style house, and hated the Chinese-style house that we had been living in, that we didn't renew our 6 month lease on the latter, and moved into one of the houses in Major Magician's neighborhood.
Our new house was a one-story house on a narrow dirt road. We were one block North from a large expanse of rice paddies. I learned what rice paddies smell like up close. They smell just like water buffaloes, which smell like a cross between an outhouse and old gym shoes. Fortunately, the prevailing winds favored us.
After my Father returned from the Mountain we had a new friend visit. I have always thought of him as Major Magician. I can't remember his name. I called him that because he was an amateur magician, always ready to impress me with some trick. He carried cards and pieces of rope and handkerchiefs around. My favorites were the rope tricks. I think it was another hint of a nascent interest in topology. I cared less about the tricks themselves than the different kinds of knots he could show me.
We had another dog-related incident that showed the interesting consequences of living in a country where dog is on the menu. While entertaining Major Magician a Chinese man dropped by to deliver a package. Ordinarily we would take the package at the gate, but because we had a guest we just buzzed the delivery man in. The dog, Koko, went berserk.Koko was the most laid back dog you ever saw. Until then. We couldn't figure out why he went nuts until Major Magician mentioned that Koko might have a good idea what our visitor has been eating lately.
Mind you, I have no problem with eating dog. I'd be willing to try it. I'm just saying, if you live in a country where it's customary, keep an eye on Fido. He could take it personally.
Major Magician was the first regular friend that my Father had in Taiwan that interacted with the rest of us. He and his wife lived on the opposite side of Taipei in a middle-class neighborhood dominated by walled pre-war Japanese-style housing.
We went to visit them one evening. It was a beautiful house. The adults gathered around a table in what looked like a meditating room. It was a bare room with a long sliding paper wall that separated it from the main living room, and had glass doors opening to a walled garden. Major & Mrs. Magician used it for a dining room, usually. This night they used it to play four-way strip poker with my parents.
I was supposed to nap on a couch in the other room, but somehow when your Mother is playing strip poker in the next room it's hard to sleep. Especially with all the giggling. I had to get up and ask for a glass of water. Sure enough, by the time I got there Mom had lost. She always lost. Which was weird, because I'm sure she was the best poker player.
We loved the Japanese-style house, and hated the Chinese-style house that we had been living in, that we didn't renew our 6 month lease on the latter, and moved into one of the houses in Major Magician's neighborhood.
Our new house was a one-story house on a narrow dirt road. We were one block North from a large expanse of rice paddies. I learned what rice paddies smell like up close. They smell just like water buffaloes, which smell like a cross between an outhouse and old gym shoes. Fortunately, the prevailing winds favored us.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
What Tibet Is?
Video Find of the Day
With the Dalai Lama scheduled to come to Seattle in a few weeks, people are starting to tell me what Tibet is. So I figure I should ramp up the videos I can find having to do with Tibet. What the hell, I might learn something. Here's one. It's about an hour.
Tibet's Hidden Kingdom - National Geographic.avi
With the Dalai Lama scheduled to come to Seattle in a few weeks, people are starting to tell me what Tibet is. So I figure I should ramp up the videos I can find having to do with Tibet. What the hell, I might learn something. Here's one. It's about an hour.
Tibet's Hidden Kingdom - National Geographic.avi
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
More Dhol
Video Find of the Day
You don't have to like the drumming, you can just look into the eyes and share the joy.
Look out, this flu is almost over, so I'm coming back.
Raju Johal
You don't have to like the drumming, you can just look into the eyes and share the joy.
Look out, this flu is almost over, so I'm coming back.
Raju Johal
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