My coat and my umbrella, please...

Christmas Songs

2011-12-19T14:20:00.001-08:00

Jingle Bells

Dashing through the snow
On a one-horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob-tail ring making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight

Oh, Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way
What fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh

Julia Dream

2011-12-08T15:26:00.001-08:00

Pink Floyd

Sunlight bright upon my pillow
lighter than an eiderdown
will she let the weeping willow
wind his branches round

Julia dream
dream that queen
queen of all my dreams

Every night I turn the light out
waiting for the velvet bride
will the scaly armadillo
find me where I'm hiding?

Julia dream
dream that queen
queen of all my dreams

Will the misty master break me?
will the key unlock my mind?
will the following footsteps catch me?
am I really dying?

Julia dream
dream that queen
queen of all my dreams

Wish You Were Here

2011-12-08T15:24:00.001-08:00

Pink Floyd

So,
So you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here

Tunisia, I wonder if it is still possible to go there?

2011-12-08T15:22:00.000-08:00

I have been to Tunisia in 2008, before all the political troubles of january 2011. it was one of the best travls I had alread done. The country is really amazing. it is small, in the northern of Africa, and we have the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert. We also can visit many historical places like Cartago, Sbleita, El Jhen, Muslem sites like Kairoan, and oasis like Chebika and Tamerza, in the mountains and surround by Date Palms, and some small rivers.
Tunis (photo) is the capital and the main ciry of the country.

A singular place in the world: Venice

2011-11-09T15:55:00.000-08:00

There's no city liKe Venice. OK, there are other cities with bridges and canals like Amsterdan. But Venice was built on the sea. Its area has 412 square quilometers and at about 270 thousand people live there. Venice has lots of ancient build, beautiful churches, museums. In its streets, you find glass craft, jewels, embroideries, and so on. One famous bar is the Harry Bar, mention in some Hemingway's books. You can taste the "grappa" and in its restaurante, you can eat lovely seafood, specially shrimps. Venice was one of the most city of Europe in the Middle Age and in the XIV, XV, XVI centuries. It was an independent republic and it became rich and famous because the commerce. Because the location, Venice has never been invaded by the barbarians. Some of famous venetians was Antonio Vivarini (1440-1480), Antonio da Ponte (1512-1595), Tintoretto (1518-1594) e Canaletto (1697-1768). Now a days, an important Movie Festival takes place there.

Love Walk

2011-11-02T05:25:00.000-07:00

There is a walk, in Cinqueterre, Italy, that lovers put lockers to keep the beloved person forever. This walk lays by the sea side and it has an wonderful panorama. We can walk from Rio Maggiori to Manarola in this "Love walk". It is an amusing and wonderful experience among gardens, tunnels and many designs like this in the photo.

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2011-10-23T05:39:00.000-07:00

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2011-09-11T09:24:00.000-07:00

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Midnight in Paris, a fairy tale by Wood Allen

2011-07-06T17:28:00.000-07:00

If you enjoyed Manhattan or The Purple Rose of Cairo, you surely will like Midnight in Paris, the brand new movie directed by Woody Allen. As well as Manhattan and New York, Allen declares his love to Paris while he telling an amazing story of a contemporary writer and his meetings with the lost generation, a group of famous artists, musicians, authors, composers, w ithich live in Paris during the 1920 decade.
Owen Wilson is Gil, a screenplay writer, supposed to marry a rich girl, visiting Paris with his fiancee family. One night, he was walking alone by the city when a misterious, old, yellow car stopped and called him to a party. In this moment, Gil starts an amazing adventure that includes very famous people like Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Gertrud Stein, Picasso, Salvador Dali and many others.
Drama, comedian, fantasy are present during the 94 minutes of the filme. In the cast, very special participations of Carla Bruni (as a museum guide) Kathy Bates (Gertrude S tein), Marion Cottilard (Adriana), Adrien Brody (Salvador Dali). In Mahattan, the music of Gershwin is heard all the time. The soundtrack of Midnight in Paris includes specially Cole Porter. Until this moment, this is the best movie of 2011 and everyone must see.

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2011-04-03T14:05:00.002-07:00

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2010-09-15T10:55:00.000-07:00

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Rock Memories: Supertramp

2010-08-09T17:05:00.000-07:00

Supertramp are a British progressive rock band that had a series of top-selling albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Their early music included ambitious concept albums, but they are best known for their later hits including "Dreamer", "Goodbye Stranger", "Give a Little Bit" and "The Logical Song". Supertramp attained superstardom in the United States, Canada, and most of Europe. However, they were not quite as popular in the UK (where most of the band members were actually from). Nonetheless, Breakfast in America was still a big hit, reaching number #3 on the UK charts while the album had two top 10 singles.

Members

1970-1971 (in the beginning)
Rick Davies - vocals, piano, harmonica, keyboards
Roger Hodgson - vocals, piano, guitars, bass, keyboards, cello
Richard Palmer - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, balalaika
Robert Millar - percussion, harmonica

1997-2002 (the most recent)
Rick Davies - vocals, piano, harmonica, keyboards
Bob Siebenberg - drums, percussion
Mark Hart - vocals, keyboard, guitar
John Helliwell - saxophone, woodwinds, backing vocal, keyboards, melodica
Carl Verheyen - guitar
Lee Thornburg - backing vocals, trombone, trumpet
Cliff Hugo - bass
Jesse Siebenberg - backing vocals, percussion, acoustic guitar (playing "Give A Little Bit" in live performances)

The first album, Supertramp, was released in July 1970 in the UK only (it was first issued in the US in 1977). Although it was very interesting musically, it proved a commercial disappointment. Richard Palmer abruptly quit six months after the album's release and Robert Millar suffered a nervous breakdown shortly afterwards. For the next album, Frank Farrell (bass) (born in 1947 in Birmingham, West Midlands), Kevin Currie (percussion) (born in Liverpool, Merseyside) and Dave Winthrop (flute and saxophone) (born 27 November 1948, in New Jersey, USA) replaced Millar and Palmer, Roger Hodgson switched to guitar and recorded the new album Indelibly Stamped, released in June 1971 (in both UK and US). It featured rocking Beatlesque tunes, with vocal harmonies similar to Simon and Garfunkel songs (Davies now serving as the band's second lead singer, alongside Hodgson, who suggested that the band should have two lead vocalists), more commercial approach and eye-catching cover artwork. Supertramp had established themselves as a "cult" band. Sales, however, failed to improve and sold even less than their debut. In early 1972, Miesegaes withdrew his support from the band after paying off debts. All members gradually quit except Hodgson and Davies.

Initial success and commercial breakthrough
In late 1972, after being persuaded to carry on, Davies and Hodgson went on an extensive search for replacements, which first brought aboard Dougie Thomson (born Douglas Campbell Thomson, March 24, 1951 in Rutherglen, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland) (bass), who played with the band almost a year before auditions resumed to complete the line-up. In 1973, auditions restarted and brought in Bob Siebenberg (born Robert Layne Siebenberg, October 31, 1949 in Glendale, California, USA, drums, and often credited as Bob C. Benberg), and John Helliwell (born John Anthony Helliwell, February 15, 1945 in Todmorden, Yorkshire, England) (saxophone, other woodwinds, occasional keyboards, backing vocals), joining original members Davies and Hodgson and the newly brought in Thomson, completing the line-up that would create the group's defining albums. Hodgson would also begin playing keyboards in the band in addition to guitar, usually acoustic and electric pianos on his own compositions. His inspirational piano method would become a staple in the band, as heard on "Dreamer," "The Logical Song," "Take the Long Way Home," and many others, and would earn him the nickname "hammerheads" in the band. The classic Supertramp keyboard is a Wurlitzer electric piano with its unmistakable bright sound and biting distortion when played hard.

Crime of the Century, released in September 1974, began the group's run of critical and commercial successes, hitting number four in Britain, supported by the iconoclastic counterculture opening track School, and the top-10 single "Dreamer". Its B-side "Bloody Well Right" hit the US Top 40 in May 1975. Siebenberg would later opine that he thought the band hit its artistic peak on this, their third album, though their greatest commercial success would come later.

The band continued with Crisis? What Crisis? released in November 1975. It achieved good though not overwhelming commercial success. The following album, Even in the Quietest Moments, released in April 1977 spawned their hit single Give a Little Bit, and the FM radio staple Fool's Overture. During this period, the band eventually relocated to the United States and moved steadily from the progressive styles of their early albums towards a more song-oriented pop sound.

This trend reached its zenith on their most popular album, Breakfast in America in March 1979, which reached Number 3 in the UK and Number 1 in the United States and spawned four successful singles, The Logical Song, "Take the Long Way Home", "Goodbye Stranger" and Breakfast in America. The album has since sold over 18 million copies worldwide.

The run of successes was capped with 1980s Paris, a 2-LP live album, in which the band stated its goal of improving on the studio versions of their songs. Interestingly, instead of focusing on songs from the hugely successful Breakfast in America, it included nearly every song from Crime of the Century, another testament to the importance of that album in the group's development.

Later career
Hodgson and Davies' differing singing and songwriting styles provided these albums with an interesting counterpoint, contrasting Davies' determined blues-rockers and songs of broken relationships ("Another Man's Woman", "From Now On", "Goodbye Stranger") with Hodgson's wistful introspection ("Dreamer", "School", "Fool's Overture", "The Logical Song"), but Hodgson felt constrained by the arrangement and left the band after the tour for their next album, ...Famous Last Words... (1982) which contained the Top 20 hit "It's Raining Again" and the Top 40 hit "My Kind of Lady". There was much speculation behind the reasons why Roger Hodgson left Supertramp. In an interview in the 90's Hodgson stated that family was the main reason he left the band. He also went on to say that his wife at the time and Rick Davies' wife did not get along very well and it became a big conflict for the group. He said there were never any real personal or professional problems between him and Rick Davies as some people thought.

Having left the band in 1983, Hodgson began a solo career, his biggest hit "Had A Dream (Sleeping With the Enemy)" coming from his first solo album In the Eye of the Storm, in 1984.

The Davies-led Supertramp soldiered on, releasing Brother Where You Bound the same year. This included a Top 30 hit single, "Cannonball", along with the title track, a 16-minute exposition on Cold War themes highlighted by guitar solos from Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. The album reached #21 on the US charts. 1987's Free as a Bird included more straightforward Davies rockers, including "I'm Beggin' You", which reached Number 1 on the US dance charts, a curious accomplishment for an "art rock" band.

After 1987's tour, Thomson left the band due to a disagreement with Davies about the use of Hodgson-penned songs during live performances. One of the conditions of allowing Davies to continue with the name Supertramp was that no Hodgson songs would be performed. Hodgson was dismayed to attend a concert and find that the band was performing his songs such as "Take the Long Way Home" and "The Logical Song." These songs were usually sung by Crowded House's Mark Hart (Hodgson's replacement on stage), and the Scottish bass player was against this move. When Supertramp reunited in 1997, Thomson declined an invitation to return and eventually quit playing for good.

In 1993, Davies approached Hodgson in a failed attempt to bring him back into the band. In interviews published on his and other fan forums, Hodgson later claimed he had been more than willing to rejoin Supertramp, but only if Davies' wife, Susan, abstained from interfering in band affairs (an issue before Hodgson left). Sue Davies was A&R at A&M (in charge of welcoming the band and helping them settle) when Supertramp moved to Los Angeles in the mid-70s and, as the romance between Davies and her blossomed, she quit A&M and started managing the band. Having to deal with two Davieses instead of one increased Hodgson's frustrations and prompted his departure. Davies declined to exclude his wife from his professional affairs, and Hodgson never heard from him again.

In 1997 Davies re-formed Supertramp with former members Helliwell, Siebenberg and Hart, plus several new musicians. The result was Some Things Never Change, a polished effort which echoed the earlier Supertramp sound. Ironically, that same year saw the release of Rites of Passage, Roger Hodgson's first solo album since Hai Hai in 1987. Rites of Passage was a live album featuring both new works from Roger as well as three Supertramp songs ("Take the Long Way Home", "The Logical Song" and "Give a Little Bit").

In an ironic reversal two years later, the re-formed Supertramp released a live album, It Was The Best Of Times while Roger released a studio album. Open The Door.

Early 2002 saw the release of another album by Davies and Supertramp, Slow Motion (sold direct in North America). Another attempt to reunite the band, including Hodgson, fell apart in 2005.

Rick Davies has since left California and resides in Long Island (East Hampton).

In the past few years, Roger Hodgson has donated Give A Little Bit to raise funds for Tsunami Relief efforts and other causes. It's been used by the Red Cross, United Way, the Make a Wish Foundation, and The Oprah Winfrey show requested the use of Give A Little Bit as part of their ”Gift of Giving Back Program“. In the UK it was used during the "ITV Telethon".

2006 was a busy year for Roger Hodgson. Throughout the summer of 2006, he has been touring Europe (France, Belgium, Portugal, Denmark, Switzerland, and Germany), as well as the US (St. Paul, MN) and Canada (fall 2006) and his DVD "Take The Long Way Home – Live In Montreal" has gone Platinum and to the #1 spot in Canada, in its first 7 weeks of release.

He has also been asked to mentor Canadian Idol’s Top 7 contestants, alongside Dennis DeYoung (a founding member of the group Styx).

In March 2006, Roger Hodgson was honoured for his song Give A Little Bit at the 23rd Annual ASCAP awards in Los Angeles. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers gave the award in acknowledgment of the song being one of the 50 most played songs of 2005.

Roger Hodgson appeared solo at the Diana Memorial Concert at Wembley Stadium on 1st July 2007. The band were one of the late Princess of Wales' favourites.

In 2008, Supertramp's music will be featured in the film movie adaptation of Irvine Welsh's best-selling novel Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.

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Calico, California: as we were in the far west time

2010-04-15T17:47:00.000-07:00

When I went to California, I visited some amazing places. One of them was Calico Ghost Town. It is a real ghost town in the middle of the Mojave Desert, California. This city was developed in the XIX century during a silver strike. Located at the side of towering King Mountain, the town was named for the variety of colors in the mountain that were "as purty as a gal's calico skirt."
Calico's boom occured in 1881-1896. However, in the end of the silver strike, its buildings were abandoned and since 1904 it has become a ghost town. oday the historic silver mining town lives on as one of the few original Old West mining camps. One-third of Calico's original structures still stand; the remaining buildings have been carefully reconstructed to capture the Old West spirit. Walk Main Street and experience the life of the townspeople; see the blacksmith shop, the old school house, and do a little gold panning of your own.
In 1951, Walter Knott, founder of Knott's Berry Farm, purchased the town and began restoring it to its original condition referencing old photographs. In the late 1950s, a western garbed man with Custer whiskers known as Calico Fred was a local fixture. Though five of the original town buildings exist today, many others were recreated as replicas of their originals on preexisting foundations. In 1966, Knott donated the town to San Bernardino County, and Calico became a county regional park.

Prejudice x friendship

2009-09-08T18:07:00.000-07:00

Fatima Dannemann

When we say crash, we usually mean a car accident. Crash, the film debut of Paul Haggis direction, speaking precisely of conflicts among human beings. These conflict are mostly because the prejudice different professions, ethnicities, religions, races, training, in big cities. Stories that intertwine as parachoques in some moments, but then disengage and each follows its course. Some mourn their dead, others say the beloved "I love you", some embraced their children, others mourn their lives.
Paul Haggis, screenwriter of success, author, among other things, the roadmap of the Golden Girl, winner of the Oscar this year, got the idea for this movie in 1991 when they stole his car in Los Angeles. The loss, the involvement with police, authorities, etc., has made him reflect on life in big cities, the power of organizations such as TV, cinema, business and especially justice, health system and police and reach the conclusion that just postures "politically correct" give rise to prejudice.
And people who have never seen before in the way victims of racist and discriminatory thinking of others. First, two young blacks who steal the car of a white couple solely because they were mistreated in a restaurant. Then, a young Mexican who exchange barbs with a Persian owner of a shop broken and stolen daily by one of these groups' anti-Arab. " A black detective and his girlfriend of Latin origin. The junkie mother, his brother thug. The couple formed by the white prosecutor vain husband and wife who loves and appear hysterical think that is unfortunate.
Who pays attention note that Haggis uses the same environments and poorly lit esfumaçados of the Golden Girl. As in the film that won the Oscar, indeed, the surprise is that the film is no longer one of those policemen out there who will spend months in any channel on TV. No. Crash is human. It's life as she is. Without trials. It Korean interacting with whites who do not distinguish Asians from Africa. It is a day that the police are horrified behavior of the partner, the other day save someone from unjust imprisonment, but the third kills by accident.
Crash is the drama of dondoca not know why it is unfortunate that rolls up the stairs and her friend rich and white can not save it to be taking massage. She then accepts the victory of Puerto employed. It is the Persian horrified by him confused with an Arab, the wife of a TV director for african-American who passes by sexual abuse and need to exonerate her husband and at the same time is saved by the same white police he intimated the day before. Crash happens in Los Angeles, but could be environmental concerns in Sao Paulo, Rio, London, a major city, where people should put up with it in the name of "brotherhood" (the movie shows the time it is time for Christmas) fight, discuss , Is close, exchanging shots, steal.
For the cast, Paul Haggis gold mining names of the general public. Don Cheadle, nominated for Oscar for Best Supporting Actor this year by Hotel Rwanda, is the black detective with the mastery of all time. Sandra Bullock is just an adjuvant. It is the promoter's wife who has the stolen car and then scroll down stairs. Brendan Fraser is the husband. Matt Dilon is the tough cop with the blacks who fight for the health plans allow the surgery patient's father. Chris Ludacris Larence Bridge and Tate are by car thieves. Shaun Toub is the Persian Farhad, who Design of the most dramatic scenes. If any of these names is indicated to the Oscar is not surprising. In addition, there is THandle Newton, the african american harassed by police, and Terrence Howard, the director of TV. Supporting cast, yes. But this story, as in everyday life, all the actors are actors. Until the Sandra Bullock, even as a mere decoy in promotional posters.

The singer with the name of a queen

2009-08-26T19:01:00.001-07:00

Blond hair, thin, some kind of gray in her eyes, Dido has a name of a queen. But her name is not this. Florian Cloud Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong is the real name of this singer, born in the Christmas Day in 1971 in London, now a days one of the top of list in the hit parades. She has alread sold more than 25 millions of CDs worldwide. Her mother is a french poet and her father an irish publisher and her eldest brother is the record producer Rollo.

Dido was educated at Thornhill Primary, Dallington, City of London Girls' and Westminster School. After she stole a recorder from school at age five, her parents enrolled her at the Guildhall School of Music in London, England. By the time she reached her teens Dido had learned to play the piano, recorder and the violin. She later studied law at Birkbeck, University of London, while working as a literary agent. She never completed the degree, deciding instead to take up music full-time. After learning the guitar, she showcased her skills to audiences during her 2004 Life for Rent tour.n 1995, Dido began recording demo tracks which were put together on a collection entitled Odds & Ends and sent out by Nettwerk management.

Nettwerk had signed her after she was brought to their attention by her collaborations with Faithless (Dido co-wrote and provided vocals for album tracks, such as "Flowerstand Man" and "Hem of His Garment") and the UK dance act spearheaded by her brother, Rollo Armstrong. The collection was released by Nettwerk on CD-R acetate in 1995 and featured a mixture of finished productions and demo versions which she later considered for release on her debut album, released in 1999 as No Angel. Odds & Ends brought her to the attention of Arista Records, who signed her in the USA, striking a deal with her brother's record label, Cheeky Records, to co-sign her. Of the tracks included on Odds & Ends, "Take My Hand" was included on all editions of No Angel as a bonus track; "Sweet Eyed Baby" was remixed and renamed to "Don't Think of Me", while "Worthless" and "Me" were released exclusively on the Japanese edition.

Dido started recording her fourth album just months after releasing her third album Safe Trip Home, which lacked the heavy promotion of her previous two albums. Dido stated in July 2009 that her fourth album, still untitled, will have an electronic approach, which is totally different to the organic direction she took with the previous album.

Upon the release of No Angel in 1999, after a long time promoting the album, Dido broke up with her fiancé, entertainment lawyer Bob Page, after a seven-year relationship.While she has described her departure from him as her becoming "a free agent in every sense", the two remain friends. A few songs on her No Angel album were written with him in mind ("Thank You" was written about missing him), and she thanked him publicly upon winning the Songwriter of the Year award at the Ivor Novello Awards, adding, "The song 'Thank You' still sums up that relationship. Being single might make my album more psycho this time"

source: Wikipedia

text by: Fatima Dannemann

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Jethro Tull - some old, but very nice, songs

2009-08-18T17:53:00.001-07:00

Jethro Tull - Ring Out, Solstice Bells

Now is the solstice of the year. Winter is the glad song that you hear.
Seven maids move in seven time. Have the lads up ready in the line.
Ring out these bells. Ring out, ring Solstice Bells.
Ring, Solstice Bells.

Join together 'neath the Mistle-toe. By the Holly oak where-on it grows.
Seven Druids dance in seven time. Sing the song the Bells call loudly
chime.
Ring out these bells. Ring out, ring Solstice Bells.
Ring, Solstice Bells.

Ring out. Ring out the Solstice Bells.
Ring out. Ring out the Solstice Bells.

Praise be to the distant sister Sun. Joyful as the silver planets run.
Seven maids move in seven time. Sing the song the Bells call loudly chime.
Ring out those bells. Ring out, ring Solstice Bells.
Ring, Solstice Bells.

Ring out!
Ring out!
Ring out!
Ring out!

Jethro Tull - Budapest

I think she was a middle-distance runner...
(the translation wasn't clear).
Could be a budding stately hero.
International competition in a year.
She was a good enough reason for a party...
(well, you couldn't keep up on a hard track mile)
while she ran a perfect circle.
And she wore a perfect smile
in Budapest... hot night in Budapest.

We had to cozzy up in the old gymnasium...
dusting off the mandolins and checking on the gear.
She was helping out at the back-stage...
stopping hearts and chilling beer.
Yes, and her legs went on for ever.
Like staring up at infinity
through a wisp of cotton panty
along a skin of satin sea.
Hot night in Budapest.

You could cut the heat, peel it back with the wrong side of aknife.
Feel it blowing from the sidefills. Feel like you were playingfor your life
(if not the money).
Hot night in Budapest.

She bent down to fill the ice box
and stuffed some more warm white wine in
like some weird unearthly vision
wearing only T-shirt, pants and skin.
You know, it rippled, just a hint of muscle.
But the boys and me were heading west
so we left her to the late crew
and a hot night in Budapest.
It was a hot night in Budapest.

She didn't speak much English language...
(she didn't speak much anyway).
She wouldn't make love, but she could make good sandwich
and she poured sweet wine before we played.

Hey, Budapest, cha, cha, cha. Let's watch her now.

I thought I saw her at the late night restaurant.
She would have sent blue shivers down the wall.
But she didn't grace our table.
In fact, she wasn't there at all.
Yes, and her legs went on forever.
Like staring up at infinity.
Her heart was spinning to the west-lands
and she didn't care to be
that night in Budapest.
Hot night in Budapest.

Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood

Let me bring you songs from the wood:
to make you feel much better than you could know.
Dust you down from tip to toe.
Show you how the garden grows.
Hold you steady as you go.
Join the chorus if you can:
it'll make of you an honest man.
Let me bring you love from the field:
poppies red and roses filled with summer rain.
To heal the wound and still the pain
that threatens again and again
as you drag down every lover's lane.
Life's long celebration's here.
I'll toast you all in penny cheer.
Let me bring you all things refined:
galliards and lute songs served in chilling ale.
Greetings well met fellow, hail!
I am the wind to fill your sail.
I am the cross to take your nail:
A singer of these ageless times.
With kitchen prose and gutter rhymes.
Songs from the wood make you feel much better.

Let's sing with Queen

2009-07-12T18:44:00.001-07:00

One of the greatest rock band of the 70's and 1980's, Queen - with Freddie Mercury on the vocals - gave us a lot of hits, like these

Teo Torriate

When I'm gone
Don't need to wonder if I ever think of you
The same moon shines
The same wind blows
For both of us, and time is but a paper moon. . . be not gone

Though I'm gone
It's just as though I hold the flower that touches you
A new life grows
The blossom knows
There's no one else could warm my heart as much as you. . . be not gone

Let us cling together as the years go by
Oh my love, my love
In the quiet of the night
Let our candle always burn
Let us never lose the lessons we have learned

Teo torriate konomama iko
Aisuruhito yo
Shizukana yoi ni
Hikario tomoshi
Itoshiki oshieo idaki

Hear my song
Still think of me the way you've come to think of me
The nights grow long
But dreams live on
Just close your pretty eyes and you can be with me. . . dream on

When I'm gone
They'd say we're all fools and we don't understand
Oh be strong
Don't turn your heart
We're all
You're all
For all
For always. . .

(this music is written parts in english and part in japanese)

Who Wants To Live Forever

There's no time for us
There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams
yet slips away from us

Who wants to live forever?
Who wants to live forever?
Ohhh...

There's no chance for us
It's all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment
set aside for us

Who wants to live forever?
Who wants to live forever?
Ohhh...
Who dares to love forever?
Oh oh
When love must die?

Then touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can live forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today
Who wants to live forever?
Who wants to live forever?
Forever is our today

Who waits forever anyway?

(this music was played in the film Highlander)

Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson dies in the same day

2009-06-25T17:17:00.001-07:00

They were great. They were brilliant, famous, glorious. But, in the most recent years, they were almost forgotten by the public. Farrah Fawcett, 62, Michael Jackson, 50, died today (june 25th). Farrah has been fighting against a cancer since 2006. She was submitted to a cirurgy and sessions of therapy and the heal was even announced, but six months later the cancer returned. Sex-simbol in the 70's, she had her hair-style copied by woman everywhere in the whole world. She acted in I dream of Jeannie, the flying nun and was one of the three stars of Charlie's Angel, a great hit on TV.
Farrah was born in february, 2nd 1947, and her real name was Mary Farrah Leni Fawcett. She studied microbiology in the University of Texas. But she had ever wished to be an actress. She was married to Lee Majors and then she had an affair with Ryan O'Neal that lasted 17 years. The relationship produced a son, Redmond O'Neal, born in 1985. Redmond has struggled with addiction. In April 2009, on probation for driving under the influence, he was arrested for possession of narcotics.

***

Michael Jackson was born in 25 august 1958 and died today (june, 25th) after two heart attacks. He was sent to the UCLA Hospital, in Los Angeles, but was pronounced dead in the same afternoon. Her was the seventh of nine kids and begun singing at 5. Thriller was he most known album and had sold millions of copies all over the world. In the last years, Michael was involved in scandals.

Source: Wikipedia and news sites

(in the photos: farrah Fawcett recently, and in the years of glory)

for request - tag doll arrumada

2009-06-08T08:45:00.001-07:00

To ask, follow the rules and read all the message because there is one surprise for you

1 click HERE

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Grata pela atenção / thanks a lot

My fotki ACERVO 2 was upgraded yesterday. You needn't ask the tags: just save what you want and drop some lines in the comment.

Fatima

Beluga - the cute whale of the North Pole

2009-05-26T06:47:00.001-07:00

Belugas are sweet, beautiful and not only can live among people but also can acquire human habits. In spite of this, Belugas are seriously menaced by extinction. The Beluga whale is white in color. It's neck is flexible, allowing it to turn its head. Its diet includes crustaceans, squid, octopus, worms and other small fishes. Belugas are found in the Artic and sub-Artic region. Its head is shaped like an egg. It is also known as the Sea Canary for its high pitched squeaks.It can grow up to 5 metres in length. Polar bears are the natural predators of beluga whales. But as with most animals, its current number one predator is us, humans.

Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get Retarded

2009-05-21T17:21:00.000-07:00

Let's get started...in here

And the bass keeps Runnin runnin and runnin runnin
and runnin runnin and runnin runnin
and runnin runnin and runnin runnin
and runnin runnin and runnin runnin and..

In this context, there's no disrespect
So when I bust my rhyme
You break yo necks
We got 5 minutes for this to disconnect
From all intellect and let the rhythm effect

Apt to lose this inhibition
Follow your intuition
Free your inner soul
And break away from tradition

Cus when we be out
Girl it's gunna be that
You wouldn't believe how
Wow sheet out
Burnin till it's burned out
Turn it till it's turned out
Act up from north, west, east, south

Everybody, (yeah) everybody, (yeah) lets get into it, (yeah) get stupid
(come on)Get started, (come on)get started,(yeah) get started
Lets get started in hah, lets get started in here
Lets get started in hah, lets get started in here
Lets get started in hah, lets get started in here
Lets get started in hah, lets get started in here

Lose control, all body, and soul
Don't move to fast, people just take it slow
Don't get ahead, just jump into it
Y'all hit a body, the Peas'll do it

Get started, get stupid,
don't worry bout it people we'll walk you through it
Step by step, like if you're in for new kid
Inch by inch, with the new solution
Transmit hits, with no delusion
The feelings irresistible and that's how we move it

C'mon!

Everybody, (yeah) everybody, (yeah) lets get into it, (yeah) and get Stupid!
(come on)Get started, (come on) get started, (yeah) get started

Lets get started in hah, lets get started in here
Lets get started in hah, lets get started in here
Lets get started in hah, lets get started in here
Lets get started in hah, lets get started in here

(yeah)
runnin runnin and runnin runnin

C'mon y'all, lets get cuckoo! (uh huh)
Lets get cuckoo! (in here)
Right now get cuckoo! (uh huh)
Lets get cuckoo! (in here)
Right now get cuckoo! (uh huh)
Lets get cuckoo! (in here)

O O O
ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya

Lets get ill, that's the deal
Apt the gade, and we'll bring the butt doc drill
(just) Lose your mind, this is the time
Y'all guessed this drill just to bang your spine!

(just) Bob that head like epilepsy
Up inside your club, or in your Bentley
Get messy
Ah this sick y'all mind faster than another head trip
(so) Come now y'all don't correct it, lets get ign'ant, lets get happy

(yeah) Everybody, (yeah) everybody, (yeah) lets get into, (yeah) and get STOOPID!
(come on) Get started, (come on) get started, (yeah) get started

Lets get started in hah, lets get started in here
Lets get started in hah, lets get started in here
Lets get started in hah, lets get started in here
Lets get started in hah, lets get started in here

Lets get cuckoo! (uh huh)
We cuckoo! (in here)
Lets get cuckoo! (uh huh)
We cuckoo! (in here)
We cuckoo! (uh huh)
We cuckoo! O O O
Lets YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA
…(fades away) and runnin runnin and runnin runnin…

Elvis Presley - Bridge Over Troubled Water

2009-05-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

When you're weary, feeling small When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all I'm on your side When times get rough And friends just can't be found Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down When you're down and out When you're on the street When evening falls so hard I will comfort you I'll take your part When darkness comes And pain is all around Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine If you need a friend I'm sailing right behind Like a bridge over troubled water I will ease your mind Like a bridge over troubled water I will ease your mind

Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds

2009-05-17T14:10:00.000-07:00

We're caught in a trap I can't walk out Because I love you too much baby Why can't you see What you're doing to me When you don't believe a word I say? We can't go on together With suspicious minds And we can't build our dreams On suspicious minds So, if an old friend I know Drops by to say hello Would I still see suspicion in your eyes? Here we go again Asking where I've been You can't see these tears are real I'm crying We can't go on together With suspicious minds And we can't build our dreams On suspicious minds Oh let our love survive Or dry the tears from your eyes Let's don't let a good thing die When honey, you know I've never lied to you Mmm yeah, yeah

RIP, Natasha

2009-03-19T09:33:00.000-07:00

She was born in a clan of actors. Her grandfather was Sir Michael Redgrave. Her mother is Vanessa Redgrave. Her father is the teather productor Tony Ricardson and her sister, Joely, is also a talent actress. She has been happily married with Liam Neeson for more than ten years and was spending somedays in Canada and was skiing when she suffered an accident. Moments later, in the hotel, she started feeling ill and was sent to an hospital. There, her health state started getting worse and last wednesday she was declared officially dead.

Her mother Vanessa Redgrave has won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, Olivier and Tony Awards and is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected actresses of her generation. Her father died of AIDS-related causes in 1991. was brought up in London; she attended St. Paul's Girls' School before training at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. Richardson was married twice. Her first marriage was to filmmaker Robert Fox, whom she divorced in 1992. She married Irish actor Liam Neeson in late 1994. Richardson and Neeson had two sons: Michael and Daniel.

Richardson began her career in regional theatre, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, England. Her screen debut in Every Picture Tells a Story in 1984, was followed by a CBS miniseries, Ellis Island. A year later, Richardson appeared in a revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull; her first professional work in London's West End. Her first marriage was to filmmaker Robert Fox, from 1990 to 1992. She married Irish actor Liam Neeson in late 1994 at the home they shared near Millbrook, New York. On n 16 March 2009, Richardson sustained a subdural hematoma when she was involved in a skiing accident at the Mont Tremblant Resort in Canada. She had been receiving skiing lessons when she fell.

tag doll inverno

2009-03-15T17:09:00.000-07:00

by Fatima Dannemann

1 - to ask, send an e-mail to bigtagsbrasil@yahoogrupos.com.br with the subject tag doll inverno

2 - don't change the subject of e-mail. If you do it, the message may be sent to an wrong file and I may not see you request...

3 If your name is not very long, the tag will be prettier

4 don't request for another people

My álbum acervo has been updated. You may visit it and look for something to you or someone you like to send a gift. You needn't ask anything. You can save it directly, but I would like you to leave a comment in each tag you got.

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some notes about Led Zeppelin

2009-03-10T16:35:00.000-07:00

Everyone has heard Stairways to heaven, Whola Lotta Love, Tangerine, Dancing
Days, some of the most famous music of Led Zeppelin.

Led Zeppelin is the name of the group created by Jimmy Page (guitar), John
Bonhan (drums), John Paul Jones (bass and keyboards) and Robert Plant
(vocals) in 1968.

The band was one of the most famous bands of the 1970's - beside Deep
Purple, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and others. Although Led Zeppelin had
created the heavy metal, it became famous by it mix of styles like
rockabilly, reggae, blues, jazz. Its albuns sold more than 300 millions
issues all around the world and the only group to have all his albuns in the
top ten hit parade.

The group has finished in 1980 when the drumer John Bonhan died but they
join again in some ocasions like the live aid concert in 1985, with Chic in
the drums, and two years later with Jason Bonhan in the drums celebrating
the 40th birthday of the Atlantic Records.

Before the creation of the band, Jimmy Page had played in The Yardbirds, a
group of blues. With the end of the yardbirds, Page joined the new band.

Discography

Studio albums
1969: Led Zeppelin
1969: Led Zeppelin II
1970: Led Zeppelin III
1971: Led Zeppelin IV
1973: Houses of the Holy
1975: Physical Graffiti
1976: Presence
1979: In Through the Out Door
1982: Coda [125]
Filmography
1976: The Song Remains the Same
2003: Led Zeppelin (DVD)
2007: Mothership (DVD)

a hit: Whole Lotta Love

You need coolin',
Baby, I'm not foolin',
I'm gonna send, yeah
You back to schoolin',

Way down inside
Honey, you need it,
I'm gonna give you my love
I'm gonna give you my love

Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love

You've been learnin',
Baby, I bean learnin',
All them good times,
Baby, baby, I've been yearnin',

Way, way down inside
Honey, you need it,
I'm gonna give you my love
I'm gonna give you my love

Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love

You've been coolin',
Baby, I've been droolin',
All the good times,
Baby, I've been misusin',

Way, way down inside,
I'm gonna give you my love,
I'm gonna give you
Every inch of my love,
Gonna give you my love

Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love

Way down inside
Woman... You need... love
Shake for me, girl
I wanna be your backdoor man

Keep it coolin', baby
Keep it coolin', baby
Keep it coolin', baby
Keep it coolin', baby

tag for request

2009-03-08T08:55:00.000-07:00

This tag only could be requested in my Fotki. All the details are in

the blog QUITANDA DA FATIMA or directly in the album

don't ask by e-mail and don't answer toi this e-mail because it may drop in another folder...

Obrigada e boa semana/ Thanks a lot

Some notes about Liz Taylor

2009-02-27T07:01:00.000-08:00

I have read some lines in a blog: today, is Elizabeth Taylor's birthday. It means that she is piscian (like me and the doll Barbie). Been born in the same horoscop of Liz it is for me a great honor. She is one of the greatest movie star we have ever heard.

Born in february 27th, 1932, in Hampstead, London, UK. She started working in cinema when she was a young girl and has never stopped. Her long carreer has resulted in two Oscar, a Jean Hersholt Humanitary Award (this prize is also given by the American Academy of Movie Science and Arts), and many other awards.

In spite of the fact Liz won the Oscar of best actress by Butterfield 8 and Who's affraid of Virginia Wolf, she became more famous by her role in Cleopatra. She is a very talentous actress, with a long filmography, but people knows much more about her personal and love life.

She got married many times. Her most famous husband was Richard Burton, with whon she married twice and worked in many films during the 60's years. But she is also involved with filantropic purposals, she was one of the first person to fight against AIDS.

(photo: Liz Taylor as Leslie Benedict in Giants, source: imdb)

Places to go

2009-02-18T16:11:00.000-08:00

I have been to Eslovaquia. But only for a couple of hours, during my trip from Polland to Hungary. The country have been created after the division of the ex-Tchecoslovaquia. Part of it, is now the Tchec Republic. Part is Eslovaquia. Bratislava is the capital, and the Danub cross its limits.

notes about the closest things to crazy and Katie Melua

2009-02-11T06:13:00.000-08:00

Fatima Dannemann

When the soap "Senhora do Destino" was broadcasted, some years ago, one music call many people atention: the closest things to crazy. Because this song, its performer, Katie Melua, became well known among brazilians. We all ask, who is this singer with such a sweet voice, sing ballads like this or reviving some old hits like "just when i need you the most"?

Katie Melua was born in Georgia, in the ex-URSS, in september 16, 1984. In 1993, she moved with her parents to the North Ireland, where her father got a job as a heart surgeon. The family lived in Belfast for five years before moving to South East London. After her GCSEs, Katie joined the Brit School for Performing Arts where she undertook a BTEC and Music A-level. Composer/producer Mike Batt paid a visit to the school. Katie signed to Batt's record label Dramatico, but stayed at the Brit School to complete her studies where she graduated with distinction in July 2003.

Her first album was Calling off the search - which contains "the clothest thing to crazy" - who became a megahit. After, she produced Piece by Piece, with the hit Nine Million Bycicles, and Pictures, released two years ago, which has delighted her legions of fans, confirmed Katie's status as a unique and remarkable vocalist, and revealed the third chapter in what is destined to be a long musical career.

She has been dedicating to charity proposal like famine people, suffering children and so on. Because that, she has traveled around the world and has met Nelson Mandela in person in South Africa visiting his AIDS charity. She also like danger and radical sports like car races, and because her tastes, she has been considered an adrenaline junker. She became a british citzen in 2005 and can speak english, georgian, and other languages.

To sing along with her:

The Closest Thing to Crazy

Katie Melua

How can I think I'm standing strong,
Yet feel the air beneath my feet?
How can happiness feel so wrong?
How can misery feel so sweet?
How can you let me watch you sleep,
Then break my dreams the way you do?
How can I have got in so deep?
Why did I fall in love with you?

[CHORUS:]
This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen,
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
I was never crazy on my own...
And now I know that there's a link between the two,
Being close to craziness and being close to you.

How can you make me fall apart
Then break my fall with loving lies?
It's so easy to break a heart;
It's so easy to close your eyes.
How can you treat me like a child
Yet like a child I yearn from you?
How can anyone feel so wild?
How can anyone feel so blue?

[CHORUS]

photo credit: andreas treslaak - see the offical Katie Melua site

tag to request

2009-02-01T08:32:00.000-08:00

I create this tag because the soap opera "Caminho das indias" (in the way to India - free translation). If you want, follow the rules:

1 - you can ask by clickin on the tag or send an e-mail to bigtagsbrasil@yahoogrupos.com.br with the subject: tag mandala

2 - don't change the subject

3 - don't ask to another person

4 - I will apreciate if you don't complain about delay in send this tag

5 - this offer won´t expire until I make the last one

6 - don't ask more than once because you only receive one tag

thanks a lot / muito obrigada

In the desert, one year ago

2009-02-01T08:28:00.000-08:00

Tunisia, north of Africa, the gate of Sahara, the ancient land of Dido, Anibal and the old Carthague. I have been there for two weeks. Travelling around Tunisia, I could see a whole new world. World of tons and tons of sand, stone, salt, but much more than this.
Tunisia is the cross over off muslim traditions, ancient roman history, exotic music and food...

America the Beautiful

2009-01-24T15:47:00.000-08:00

This week, the United States got a new president. Barak Obama is now in the White House, leading the faith of millions of american and the entire world will fell the effect. Beyonce performed this music some days before the ceremony:

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self the country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!

O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!

O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!

tag for request / Three princesses

2009-01-18T07:25:00.000-08:00

To request:

1 - click in the image above or send an e-mail to bigtagsbrasil@yahoogrupos.com.br with the subject: tag tres princesas (it means three princesses in portugese)

2 - don't change the subject of the e-mail

3 - put your name in the e-mail body

4 - don´t ask for anybody else

this request will be post in my blogs http://quitandaf.wordpress.com (bilingual) and http://bookfatima.blogspot.com (only in english)

thanks for all/obrigada por tudo

Violence and wildeness

2009-01-12T09:54:00.000-08:00

Last night, I was sleeping when some noises of gun shots woke me. I look
through my window only to see how violent the police can be. It was really
an abuse of force and power, and I wonder how they can be so agressive and
rude.

They stopped two guys who were doing an illegal car race. But, instead they
only talk and take the guys arrested, they kicked the two young men, they
swore. It was horrible.

I was an involunteer witmess of the authorities intolerance. An unecessary
and useless violent practice that I hope one day will be banned from our
society.

For now, I drop this line only to say how sad I am... and how afraid we
could be. People who were supposed to take care of our security is abusing
of a power that they really don´t have.

Tag Offer - Tag Vintage

2009-01-12T09:53:00.000-08:00

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2 don´t answer this message and don't change the subject of the link e-mail. If you do it, the message may be sent to an wrong file and I may not see you request...

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Faith

2009-01-06T15:49:00.000-08:00

Some people simply believe in god. Others are allways hearing to oracles.
There are also people who use amulets. No mather how much is the faith in
God, simbols are used everywhere to stop with Evil in the world.

In Matmata, Tunisia, people paint the Fatima Hand in the front door to keep
home out of the bad spirits. They also paint a fish who it is suposed to
bring fortune and wealth, and the family will get rid from famine forever.

Grand Canyon

2009-01-06T15:47:00.000-08:00

I saw in a film: a man took a friend to the Grand Canyon (in Arizona, United
States) and told him that every time he wished to be near God, he went to
Grand Canyon.
Some years ago, I went there. I took a fly in a helicopter and then a I
walked around. It was sunset and I got lost when the darkness came. In spite
of the menace of wolfs, lynx, cougars, snakes, I was not afraid. I cannot
explain what I felt. There are not enough words to express my feelings.
Well, in fact I was not too far from the visitors center, and there were
some light in the way. But my main sensation that I was near from heaven...

In the blog, with Madonna

2008-12-17T15:32:00.000-08:00

She is in Brazil, performing some shows in Rio and São Paulo.
Here, one of your songs

Vogue

What at you looking at?

Strike a pose
Strike a pose
Vogue, vogue, vogue
Vogue, vogue, vogue

Look around everywhere you turn is heartache
It's everywhere that you go [look around]
You try everything you can to escape
The pain of life that you know [life that you know]

When all else fails and you long to be
Something better than you are today
I know a place where you can get away
It's called a dance floor, and here's what it's for, so

CHORUS:
Come on, vogue
Let your body move to the music
[move to the music]
Hey, hey, hey
Come on, vogue
Let your body go with the flow [go with the flow]
You know you can do it

All you need is your own imagination
So use it that's what it's for [that's what it's for]
Go inside, for your finest inspiration
Your dreams will open the door [open up the door]

It makes no difference if you're black or white
If you're a boy or a girl
If the music's pumping it will give you new life
You're a superstar, yes, that's what you are,
you know it

Come on, vogue
Let your body groove to the music
[groove to the music]
Hey, hey, hey
Come on, vogue
Let your body go with the flow [go with the flow]
You know you can do it

Beauty's where you find it
Not just where you bump and grind it
Soul is in the musical
That's where I feel so beautiful
Magical, life's a ball
So get up on the dance floor

CHORUS

Vogue, [Vogue]
Beauty's where you find it
[move to the music]
Vogue, [Vogue]
Beauty's where you find it [go with the flow]

Greta Garbo, and Monroe
Deitrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean
On the cover of a magazine

Grace Kelly; Harlow, Jean
Picture of a beauty queen
Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire
Ginger Rodgers, dance on air

They had style, they had grace
Rita Hayworth gave good face
Lauren, Katherine, Lana too
Bette Davis, we love you

Ladies with an attitude
Fellows that were in the mood
Don't just stand there, let's get to it
Strike a pose, there's nothing to it

Vogue, vogue

Oooh, you've got to
Let your body move to the music
Oooh, you've got to just
Let your body go with the flow
Oooh, you've got to
Vogue

Some notes about crash

2008-12-07T05:39:00.000-08:00

Fatima Dannemann

A multi-car accident is the start of Crash the first film directed by the screen-writer Paul Haggis. But Crash is not a film about traffic accidents or cars. Its story is based on prejudice and the ways it can spoil not only human relationships but an entire life.

Haggis got the idea after he had his car stolen in Los Angeles in 1991. The way he was involved with authorities, police and the material loss made him reflect about life in big cities. In his opinion, the influence of TV, cinema and other mass media, health system, police and justice makes people develop prejudice.

For this reason, people who have never met before act as mortal enemies only because their ethnicities, religion or appearance. After the accident in the begin of the film, we were taken to the day before and the main caracters and their stories are introduced.

First, two black man steal a luxury car from a white wealth couple. The only reason is because the thieves were mistreated in a restaurant. Then, a mexican who fixes something in a persian shop. This shop were robbed and broken everyday by a group of anti-arab people. There are also the affairs between a black policeman, his latin girlfriends, his junk mother and his brother; The prosecutor and his snobbish wife, the TV director with his asiatic wife.

There is much more. Winner of the Oscar, Crash joins a big and famous cast: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Brendar Fraser and others. For all these reasons, it is one of the best movies of the last years.

skycrapers

2008-11-26T06:00:00.000-08:00

By Fatima Dannemann

It makes me amazed
to figure out that in each american city
there are allways skycrapers

some notes about Agatha Christie

2008-11-26T05:57:00.000-08:00

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 15 september 1890 and died in 1976.
She wrote more than 80 books.
She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays.

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Her works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.

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She was educated at home, but when she was 16 she was sent to Paris to study piano and singing. Although she played the piano very well, her stage fright and shyness prevented her from pursuing a carreer in music.

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She married twice. First, with Archibald Christie who asked the divorce in 1926 to marry another woman. She disappeared for a time after the divorce and nobody never knew what happened. She married again in 1927. Her second husband was the archaeologist Max Mallowan, whom she met during a trip to Syria and Iraq.

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Two of her books was filmed with a millionaire cast:
Murder in the Orient Express - 1974 - with Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, John Gielgud
Death on Nile - 1978 - with Betty Davis, Mia Farrow, Jacqueline Bisset, Olivia Hussey, Maggie Smith.

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She sold over than 2 million books.

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Hercule Poirot
Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters: he appeared in 33 novels and 51 short stories.His first published appearance was in The Mysterious Affair at Styles (published 1920) and his last was in Curtain (published 1975, the year before Christie died). On publication of this novel, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times; August 6, 1975 "Hercule Poirot is Dead; Famed Belgian Detective"

Miss Marple

Miss Jane Marple is an elderly woman who lives in the little English village of St. Mary Mead. She looks like an ordinary old lady, dressed neatly in tweed and is frequently seen knitting or pulling weeds in her garden. Miss Marple sometimes comes across as confused or "fluffy", but when it comes to solving mysteries, she has a sharp logical mind, and an almost unmatched understanding of human nature with all its weaknesses, strengths, quirks and foibles. In the detective story tradition, she often embarrasses the local "professional" police by solving mysteries that have them stumped. Jane Marple, usually known as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels. Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who acts as an amateur detective, and lives in the village of St. Mary Mead. She has been portrayed numerous times on screen, and is one of the most famous of Christie's creations. Her first published appearance was in issue 350 of The Royal Magazine for December 1927 with the first printing of the short story The Tuesday Night Club which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems (1932). Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

2008-11-18T12:06:00.000-08:00

Norah Jones, is a singer that I like very much. The first time I heard her singing was in the soap opera "Beijo do Vampiro". In the internacional sound track, productors included the hit Come away with me. Since then, I have researched songs and informations about this artist whose father is the famous hindi musician Ravi Shankar. She is also composer and pianist. She was born in Brooklin in 1979 but grew up in Texas with her mother.

Now, the lyrics of come away with me. I hope you enjoy it.

Come away with me in the night
Come away with me
And I will write you a song

Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they can't tempt us
With their lies

And I wanna walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows
knee-high
So won't you try to come

Come away with me and we'll kiss
On a mountain top
Come away with me
And I'll never stop loving you

And I wanna wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me

Gift

2008-11-12T07:41:00.001-08:00

Fatima Dannemann

See the life
in small grains.
Feel the life pulsing
in small flowers.
Put your life
in small actions
and being only human.
And that is more than enough.

a fairy in my window

2008-11-12T07:39:00.000-08:00

It is serious. One day, I lighted some candles in my roon. They burnt my curtain and the sun filter in my window. Nothing more serious happen, but after a couple of days I noticed that the smoke make a figure in the window. It seems a fairy with small wings and a long hat. I wonder if I capture an elemental. I don't hope so. I really believe in fairies and I am happy because I am changing everything in my room. Maybe, the little fairy will set free.

The sun rises in the Africa

2008-11-05T04:48:00.000-08:00

You see the sun rising behind the Medina towers and wall and you can imagine that you are in Middle East. It's because the effect of a sunrise in Tunisia is something magical. When you see the Medina of Sfax covered of the morning mist, you forget you are in Africa and start believing in magic. Somewhere you might meet a genius...But it's only because the muslim culture, one of the numerous influences in this country.

The Bardo

2008-11-05T04:44:00.000-08:00

Being in Tunis, last february, I visited The Bardo Museum. I became amazed with all I had seen.
In Bardo, there is a large collection of roman mosaic. Some of them representing aspects of The Odissey. Others honor country divinities and was found in roman villas.
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Tunis is a large, modern, cosmopolite city in North Africa. French colonizators influence can be noticed in the wide avenues, cafes, and in food, specially omelets and salads.
Carthage, the old kingdon which emperor Hannibal dared to defy romans, is now a rich suburb of Tunis, with big house evaluated in US$ 1 million.

Once upon a time in the desert

2008-10-29T14:43:00.000-07:00

I am not sure if I have alread post this photo here. Despite this doubt, I am now showing to you this picture I took in Tunisia. As anybody knows, Tunisia is a country in North Africa and most of its territory is in the Sahara.
The photo shows the Chott El-Jherid, a salt lake in the middle of the country. A great deal of it is now dry. But they continue to sell its salt to France and other europeans countries.

This place in the picture is in the half way from Douz to Tozeur. The highway cross the desert and we see some tuaregues with their camels.

When the passion ends in blood

2008-10-22T06:33:00.000-07:00

As was Eloa Cristinna Pimentel, shooting dead by her boyfriend Lindemberg Fernandes Alves, in Santo Andre, São Paulo, after 100 hours of kidnapping and false imprisonment, other women, young or adult, are being beaten, tortured, and even offended dead from north to south of Brazil. The main victims of crimes of passion are women. Less than 10 percent of the crimes, according to statistics of justice, have men as victims. Most happens with the end of the relationship, but none of the crimes has to do with passionate love. According to lawyers and psychologists, who kills his former lover is mainly driven by selfishness, jealousy and hatred sick.

Maria de Fatima Dannemann

The samba "Ronda" of the composer from São Paulo, Paulo Vanzolini, describes the situation: driven by a morbid jealousy, a woman goes out looking for her husband (or lover) by all the bars in the city swears death. In art, kill "with passion" have yielded movies, books, plays and at least one of the soap opera broadcasted currently has just a crime of passion as "motto": A Favorita (Globo network, 21 hours), in which Flora husband of Donatella, Marcelo, for jealousy, envy, spite and a range of feelings even more sordid. In real life, turns and moves a crime of passion plays all editions of all the media so much less poetic.

            The latest crime to stir the country ended in tragedy at the end of last week and involved Lindemberg Fernandes Alves and his ex-girlfriend Eloá Cristina Pimentel. The commotion surrounding the kidnapping, false imprisonment, torture and all that the girl suffered was so great that other issues such as runoff municipal elections, world economic crisis and even the destiny of Flora and Donatella in the soap opera A Favorita remained in the background . Programs such as Mais Você, by Ana Maria Braga, became a stage of debates about the direction of sick passion that leads someone to kill his former lover. This matter, however, has become theme of a book, written by the prosecutor Luiza Nagib Eluf of Sao Paulo, which analyzed 14 crimes famous in "Paixão no banco dos réus"

Profile

           The behavior of Lindemberg matches the profile that lawyers, police and psychologists give the passionate murderer who is someone normally calm, never killed anyone, but took a violent conduct for refusing to end the relationship or fall into oblivion by the former loved. But many of the crimes happen behind the scenes of the media. Most cases occur in the suburbs, among people of low income and all the coverage of the press comes down to a footnote on page police. Or not notoriety, this type of crime scares feminist and NGO and is related to domestic violence against women.

      The number of crimes has grown throughout the country and Bahia, according to police statistics have been 59 murders of women only in the first half of this year. One of the biggest impact was in Rubem Berta Street, Pituba, when the student's UFBa, Miguel Almeida, 22 years old, killed his former girlfriend, Margaret Andrade, 34 years after a fight. If such crimes and the cause of Beef uprising, protests, there have been a time when men had the right to kill almost lovers "infidels". This can be seen in the movie "The Other" in which, driven by frame palace, Henry VIII sends decapitate Ana Boleyn with the excuse of treason and incest. All right, it did not come to be crime of passion, but in Brazil, until the nineteenth century the husband was entitled to wash his honor with blood in cases of treachery (real or supposed).

           A crime was famous, moreover, in the nineteenth century Bahia. That was when the teacher Joâo Estanislau da Silva Lisboa killed his student and "beloved" Julia Feital with a silver bullet of a house in the street do Rosario, the city center. The girl did not want anything to him, which was much more old (almost always there is a significant difference of age) and of it she lost her life. This right to kill over, but the men still exists in the legal self-defense of honor (now slightly raised). Luiza Eluf,  the prosecutor, said in an interview to a magazine at the time of the launch of the book that even when victim, a woman is always viewed with scorn and inferiority.

          This behavior was seen in the trial of the playboy Raul (Doca) Street in 1979 when he was tried for the murder of the "panther of Mines," Angela Diniz. In the dock, he claimed to "have killed for love", ended up being acquitted. Two years later, under a huge wave of protest and the effect of the movement "who loves does not kill," Dock Street again been tried and this time he was convicted. The singer was Lindomar Castilho protagonist of another crime of passion in 1981 when he killed his ex-wife Eliana de Grammont. Was described as aggressive and jealous but he spoke on Tuesday saying the crime is disconnected from reality.

          More rare according to statistics, but the times is the woman who kills. One of the most famous cases is that of former actress Michelle Duval who killed the ex-husband Paulo Sergio Alcantara in 1983. Michelle's story is sad moments: at 15 years was raped, turned prostitute. Later, turned actress, married Daniel Filho, made the novel The Well Amado. Disappeared from TV involved, with Paulo Sergio, 16 years younger, that after six years of marriage decided tripudiar saying she was "finished", calling it with adjectives like "old and ugly." One day, Michelle decided wash his honor with blood. He was convicted, served sentence. Today, with more than 70 years, lives in Rio de Janeiro, became plastic artist and lives of the sale of their work.

           There are instances where the crime of passion ends in suicide. Ana Paula Arósio, a major star cast of the Globe went bad times 12 years ago. She was only 21 years in 1996, when they saw the suicide of ex-boyfriend, the businessman Luis Carlos Tjurs, 29. The ex-husband of singer Sula Miranda also committed suicide in 1990. Maite Proença just as a witness of the murder of the mother by her father. But one of the recent cases was the noisiest of editorial director of the State of Sao Paulo, Marco Antonio Pimenta Neves who killed his girlfriend Sandra Gomide. He was 63 years. She was much younger. Reason: not accept the rejection.

            The excuse of Dock Street to "kill for love" no longer convincing lawyers, psychologists or even the police. Psychologists say that there is a difference between the violent emotions caused by unbridled passion and love. In the case of passionate crime, the behavior of the killer is linked to selfishness, egolatria and egocentrism. It's the old thinking that "if it is not mine, is not from anyone." In the case of Beef, at least it is the heart of someone: a patient underwent the transplant and won a new heart the day of his birthday, at the beginning of this week.

Amazing things

2008-10-14T13:59:00.000-07:00

With creative and effort, people can create wonders like these small dogs made with flowers.
I got this picture by e-mail and these flower animals were created in japan where people use to have a lot of patience to do unusual things like that.

Something like Orient

2008-10-07T04:38:00.001-07:00

Irish Poetry: Paul Durcan

2008-10-07T04:35:00.001-07:00

And That Being so

Paul Durcan

My so is the High Meadow we played in
My cousin and I, when we were young
The high meadow where we danced
Round a fairy ring

My soul is the figure of my first love
Skipping quickly across the sands
Her hair dyed yellow - was that wise? -
Round her laughing eyes

But the High Meadow's been built upon
And that being so and my first love gone
My soul must step in the streets
Round the fire of song

All we can carry in a handbag

2008-10-07T04:31:00.001-07:00

I have alread done a list of all the things I use to carry in my handbag. It depends on the situation. If I am out, travelling around, I use to carry many diferent things like pills against headache, needle, line, a rosary, a japamala, lipstick, money, documents...

I used to keep the latest results of the blood laboratorial tests in the bag. I wondered that we never knew what could happen and it had better carry the exams than have to do it again.

Well, a handbag could manytimes reveal a lot about ourselves... And, I think it is the most personal and intimate thing a woman can own.

by Fatima Dannemann

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