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.

Working

Since I came back here I have discovered that I'm living near the site of my first job ever. That was selling pizza kits out of the bottom of the basement of a palm reading place. I have considered working at Safeway, since out of everything I did Friday through Sunday, my "peak experience" came on Sunday night when I went there. I could be a buyer of food, for example. I revisted Safeway today and I noticed two things:
1) "Poetry in Bloom" (thats what they call the flower section)
2)My Old School was playing and for some reason it had crossed my mind a few times over the months to post a link to that song, so today's the day I'll do it.

Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful

Today, down the street from where I am now living, on the NOVA Annandale campus, this very cool lady from Spark Media showed us some clips from some of her films (including one called "Partners of the Heart" which Morgan Freeman narrated for free!) And she does accept interns...Some other interesting things on a list she compiled (which I have yet to check but will put on here as a reminder!)
http://www.documentary.org
http://www.bavc.org
http://www.d-word.com
http://www.docuclub.org
http://www.gwu.edu/doccenter
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org
http://www.wifv.org

some California(ish) things...

Found out that a friend from college who now lives in CA does some video editing at http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/preps#

And I just found out that an acquaintance from the Amnesty International group I was part of in highschool moved to CA and, among other things, wrote this interesting article:
An open letter to other men...

03/22/07

Today is my mother's birthday.
Today I was driving down to North Carolina, watching sunlight hitting long golden grasses, listening to DATURA

I was thinking about films, like maybe making a film of a road trip and long golden grasses, or else maybe one about snowboarders, like female snowboarders (I have never been snow boarding) or it could be mixed gender, but just not all just guys please, so, people snowboarding, and also, not just people, please, but lots of views of mountains and sky and sunlight. Washington State or Colorado or California could be good places to see again soon...

O Beauty Beauty Beauty...

Here's a discussion of "the exotic." It almost takes me back to my college/university English major days but...with an extra dose of chatty indulgent celebrity gossip!

http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/003897.html

And...just see how the right product works magic in other countries?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxHu54IgKHg&mode=related&search=

And to round things out:

http://www.sawf.org/mezines/sunny/sunny.asp?sec=health&art=Liberalization&title=Liberalization

This is interesting. I was looking for a video of "iiee" and I found the music set to scenes from a movie I meant to check out from the library before I left but never got to...
Devdas/Tori Amos

cool

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you what you think of the dean of West Point, Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, together with a military interrogator named Tony Lagouranis and the group Human Rights First, going to the heads of the program 24, very popular hit show on FOX, to tell them that what they're doing on this program, glorifying torture, is inspiring young men and women to go to Iraq and torture soldiers there, and to stop it?
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: And not only that, but it doesn't work. Yeah, Pat Finnegan is one of my heroes.
AMY GOODMAN: So what do you think about that?
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: I think it's great.
AMY GOODMAN: And have you been involved in the conversation internally at FOX, which runs 24, to stop it?
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: Well, as far as I know, they actually put out a call to all the writers in Hollywood. My son's a writer, and he was one of them who got a call. They were all told: stop talking about torture. It doesn't work. So I think it was an effective move by Pat Finnegan.
AMY GOODMAN: So you support it?
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: Absolutely.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/02/1440234

I’m all for lightening up on a lot of the glorified violence on the evening television shows, and I have been for a long time, ever since, in fact, at the age of three, when son of the pastor of a church in NY (older & bigger than I was, very spoiled, not well-disciplined and a real brat) found it great fun to run around chasing after me and pretending to be “The Incredible Hulk.” >:-P

Song

for my sister, and for me, and maybe even for my car, which took me twice to Texas!
Black Dove (Desert Animals version)
Black Dove (Live Tori Footage version)
To do in this life: learn video editing.