DC excursion

Saw this film, Brats, tonight with a friend; we met in high school and found out that we'd played together on an army base when we were two.
Also, visited the Sackler and Freer Galleries, the Museum of African Art, and the Folklife Festival!

Inanna

Inanna or, a cool clip about the making of Boys for Pele.

Excerpt

Currently reading Stones From The River by Ursula Hegi, an author from Washington state. I somewhat avoided reading her when I was younger but in the back of my mind was always planning to read her work. Here is a book excerpt. (What a strange word, I wonder what the etymology of "excerpt" is...)

the appearance of waterfall as wedding veil

see the end of Bjork's Isobel

chanson le weekend

So this weekend my highschool prom date (a girl) got married! (To her boyfriend.) The wedding was in a park on the waterfront in Old Town Alexandria, behind Olson's Bookstore. Shortly after the ceremony this song came on, and I liked it very much. But the music video of it is a little weird. Not quite evocative of that nice hot and drowsy sitting in the wedding tent feeling. The song is Across the Universe, covered by Fiona Apple. So, here's another version a girl did on youtube. All hail the sun salutation...Nothin's gonna

algunas poemas

Alice Fulton & Tori Amos

About Music For Bone and Membrane Instrument
Interview/Spark live
Spark
Maidenhead
Jackie's Strength

CATSTER

And with very special music!

Things I do not know

Why is it that sometimes when I send my resume via e-mail, it gets mangled, or the colors, sizes, fonts, etc. get changed. For real, those words do not look that big or blue in my orginal word document. And why can I also send the same thing to someone else and they say, there are no problems with fonts or words getting cut off, but the alignment gets messed up. But on my machine, the alignment was fine, and the text was not. "Maybe you just have a weird machine." Arrgh...

Some childhood-ish types of things

Some old Geoffrey Holder 7-Up commercials:
UnCola Nuts
80s 7-Up
(Even though I probably only saw the 80s one.)
Children by Robert Miles
(Even though I have never been to France.)

marigolds

nice song...clip from a spanish version of monsoon wedding
Aaj Mausam Bada Beimann Hai

Sunday morning viewing

2 days off...starting today!!!I've recently been thinking about/re-evaluating footwear. Been standing on my feet a lot more recently. (New job.)
This morning I returned to the artist...
A Sorta Fairytale the shoe/foot video.
A Sorta Fairytale DVD version (Looks like Texas?)
This song I only just found:
Floating City by Fabiovideo interpretation by a guy in Portugal.
Floating City by Devandra another girl's interpretation.
Spring Haze
ADP Speed Bliss fairy revenge mix

clears your mind

the smell of wet fresh paint

"Flip Fantasia"

I almost forgot this song existed but then I heard it on the radio tonight.
US3 Cantaloop
Last place I lived in in Seattle had one of those bird-cagey elevators :-)

Mrrrrrrrow

Face to Face by Siouxsie and the Banshees
Cat Head Theatre's Hamlet

Hamoun and The Clay Bird

Two --of the many-- movies I checked out of the awesome public library in Schaumburg, Illinois. Clips found on youtube.
Hamoun with Mother in Law (unfortunately, no subtitles though!)
Clay Bird Song on boat(about Fatima and Ali)
Clay Bird Song in village(sharia & sufi)

Lunes

Here in NOVA, the speed of the winds whipping around cancelled public schools today (thats a first for around here, as far as I know.) Actually I like the sound of the wind, I can pretend I live near the ocean. But then I heard about this:Virginia Tech Shootings

Washington

While I was in Illinois, I was amazed to read this story about what happened to a kid who took my college group on a tour of the Urubamba Valley when I was 19. (He was 13 at the time).

“On one of Ms. Lopez’s trips, she met a young boy named Washington who would work his way into her groups, offering to show them the city sights, temples, and to sing songs…Vera learned that this boy was gathering whatever money he could to help feed his family…When Washington was in his early teens, one of Vera’s groups decided to sponsor this boy and send him to a Peruvian Tour Guide school…As Washington grew, it became clear that this was a young man with vision. At eighteen, he was asked to speak at a millionaires convention in Los Angeles…He was then schooled in the United States and offered many jobs. He chose to go back to his hometown…Washington then opened The Foundation of the Universal Heart…a “restaurant” that feeds the children of the mountains…Many of these children have to walk to and from school with no food…Keeping with Washington’s idea of empowerment, this was not a “handout” for the poor. The mothers in the community were enlisted to come and cook for the children, and the children were expected to help out with the cleaning…”

“In the summer of 2005, Cynthia Von Orthal accompanied Vera to Peru. She created a 2 day workshop…focused on storytelling and puppet building based on myths of the area and each child built a simple rod puppet…Today Cynthia, Vera, and Washington continue to talk about creating an artistic program with the children of The Foundation of the Heart…The program would use the language of the people, their myths, stories and legends to create street theater using puppets, mask, dance, song and story. These performances would be taken to the temples, town centers and hotels…It is their hope that with grants and other public and private funds, this program will be a sustainable and successful community enriching opportunity.”

From The Monthly Aspectarian, February 2007

The Urubamba Valley is one of the most beautiful places I’ve visited on this planet.
I have to go back someday. Me encanta, me encanta, me encanta, tengo que regresar...

Freakin' ridiculous :-)
Stephen Fry- You, You, You
I'm really going to do my taxes now.
Well okay.
Bent Spoon (Spanish subs)
Now I'm doing taxes!

Stephen Fry

was introduced to me by chicagoland people...
My Ass
The Subject of Language
The Ode Less Traveled

Huh...

Weird thing...I looked at my profile, and it said my age was 250 and that I was born in the year of the RAT!!! That is strange. When did that happen? Recently? Months and months ago? How did that happen? I didn't do it. It didn't used to say that. So, what to do? Well...here's a link of people born in 1756 which was what was typed in to make me 250 years old and born in the year of the Rat. And just from the looks of that list...and the slogan is "tracking the entire world"...I don't really think so...

So.The year of the rat was in 1756.
And if I'd been born then I'd be 250 years old.
Well, now I know.