Saturday, March 6, 2010
Elvis Presley, Burning love plus Suspicious minds
The background singers make this song work.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Most visual video ever! OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version
It is amazing. Can't describe it so you'll just have to watch it and see for yourself.
Video Masters OK Go Spark Chain Reaction In 'This Too Shall Pass' Video
The band OK Go is probably more famous for their videos than their songs. That's more a testament to the greatness of their videos than anything else. When these guys put out a video, you can be sure it'll make your jaw drop at least once or twice. "How did they do that," is a typical reaction.
Their video for "A Million Ways" showcased the band's uncanny ability for getting everything done in one take. OK Go's breakthrough song "Here It Goes Again" featured the band dancing on treadmills in one continuous and mesmerizing shot. Their newest video, for the song "This Too Shall Pass," may have surpassed that landmark. (It is actually the second video they released for this song. Click here to see the first.) In what again looks like one take, the band sings their tune while the world's most complex Rube Goldberg Device whirls, spins, crashes, fires, hammers, and in perfect unison with the song.
A million things could have gone wrong, and during rehearsals, we're sure they did. But the final product is, in our estimation, worth the effort. Wired.com explains that a team of "very talented engineers" are responsible for the action, that "perfectly meshes" the tune with the action of the hilariously elaborate machine.
Searches on "this too shall pass" and "ok go new video" are both scorching the Search box, and blogs across the Web are universally impressed. Geek.com calls it a "barrage of color and insanity." We're pretty sure they mean that in a good way.
Secret Agent Man, Johnny Rivers 1966
Color version (but I like B&W better)
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Lets play "good cop, bad cop, cool cop, fool cop"
By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press Writer Eric Tucker, Associated Press Writer.
SCITUATE, R.I. – Three Providence police officers, including a narcotics detective and a school resource officer, were arrested Thursday on charges that they helped with a cocaine-dealing operation.
Detective Joseph Colanduono, Patrolman Robert Hamlin and Sergeant Steven Gonsalves were arrested at police headquarters and have been suspended without pay, said Providence Police Chief Dean Esserman, who called it a "hard day" for his department. The officers either used the cocaine or helped arrange the drug deals, police said.
"These actions that we saw are an offensive display of a violation of trust that we cannot and will not tolerate," Attorney General Patrick Lynch said.
The arrests followed a more than four-month investigation that began with information from a state police detective and involved wiretaps and intercepted phone calls. Police seized several hundred grams of cocaine and firearms as part of the probe.
Three other men were arrested, including Hamlin's brother, Albert, who police describe as a major cocaine dealer and the primary target of their investigation. Police say Robert Hamlin, a school resource officer at a Providence high school, helped his brother avoid getting caught by giving names of narcotics detectives and providing descriptions of their police cars, said State Police Capt. David Neill.
The Providence Journal reported on its Web site that Gonsalves is a former driver for Providence Mayor David Cicilline and the husband of the mayor's executive assistant, Xiomara Gonsalves. The Journal said the mayor described his assistant as "incredibly heartbroken."
Cicilline's spokeswoman, Karen Southern, did not return calls seeking comment Thursday night.
Also arrested was Khalid Mason, who in 2007 faced drug dealing charges that were dismissed by a federal judge after a Providence police sergeant testified at a pretrial hearing that he didn't have any notes or reports from his investigation. That case is not connected to the current arrests, police said.
Mason supplied drugs to Albert Hamlin, who would purchase one kilogram of cocaine at a time for about $35,000 and break down the drugs into smaller quantities, which he would then sell, police said.
Gonsalves, 47, is charged with soliciting another to commit a crime. Robert Hamlin, 33, is charged with conspiracy to possess cocaine, and Colanduono, 44, is charged with conspiracy to deal cocaine and compounding and concealing a felony.
A phone message left with the police union was not immediately returned, and it was not immediately clear if the officers had lawyers.
State Police Col. Brendan Doherty told The Associated Press that at least some calls were made when the officers were on duty, though police say there's no evidence that any drug dealing took place at a school. <--- WOW, now thats kinda nice of them but the law in Rhode Island does not read that way. It is written that you are just as guilty of selling in a school if you are selling near a school. There is no street corner in Providence that is not near a school. Someone better stop his bragging and bullshitting and learn to face his crimes in the same manner those he arrests have to.
Doherty said the alleged drug dealing was "the act of a few rogue officers — rogue officers who compromised the trust of the citizens of city of Providence and the state of Rhode Island."
Cicilline called the arrests "gravely disappointing" and said the officers deserve to be prosecuted aggressively.
The investigation is continuing.
Gonsalves was released on personal recognizance by a bail commissioner Thursday evening and is due in court March 18. The other five defendants, including the two officers, are being held without bail overnight and will be arraigned Friday in Providence District Court.
I would like to thank Eric Tucker for sharing this article with us and you can read the full story with comments [Here]
I am the highway, a journey
Video of our move from Los Angeles, CA to Yakima, WA in March 2006. We left my whole family behind to start a new one. Thank you brothers and sisters for holding him so tenderly. I tried to show how precious that was too see in the video. Thank God that dad noticed that one of our wheels on the trailer was bad with a tire that was about to blow just before we left his house... Then someone on the road shattered the driver side window on my truck just 2 hours after we left. On top of that we went from rain and icy roads of Northern California to freezing cold rain and snow up north in Oregon and Washington... "Long and weary my road has been..." - 4 days later we finally arrived safely! Thanks bro for driving the other car with our baby boy! Ruby and I will never forget that! -E.
Pearls and swine bereft of me
Long and weary my road has been
I was lost in the cities
Alone in the hills
No sorrow or pity for leaving I feel
I am not your rolling wheels
I am the Highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
Friends and liars don't wait for me
'Cause I'll get on all by myself
I put millions of miles
Under my heels
And still too close to you
I feel
I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
I am not your blowing wind
I am the lightning
I am not your autumn moon
I am the night, the night..
Yeeah
I am not your rolling wheels
I am the Highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
But I am not your blowing wind
I am the lightning
I am not your autumn moon
I am the night, the night..
Yeeeh, Yeeeh, Yeeeh, Yeeeh.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
SHOCKING REVELATION!
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Enjoy...
Use Somebody Collaboration-Cover Version of Kings of Leon song
From the email:
This video is only on kind of pay tribute to Kings of Leon band.
We do not want to corrupt any type of copyright. To express this we recorded each track of this song, all that you are listening was recorded by united countries team.
We hope you enjoy.
Composition by: Kings of Leon
~~~
Members of united countries on this collab:
Katey (Vocal)
http://www.youtube.com/
Ferdinando Terada (Guitar)
http://www.youtube.com/
Laura Anderson (Bass)
http://www.youtube.com/
Jackie O. (Drums)
http://www.youtube.com/
"I hope Louise is OK with me posting this to share"
Not bad for a vid made across the boundaries of several countries, huh?
Just because,,, Kings of Leon Version.
Thank you Louise for the hit and Katey you know I love to hear you sing Hon. :-)