Carlos Mencia - Not For The Easily Offended

Carlos Mencia is freaking amazing. One of these days I'm going to need to see him live.

I've discovered the Talking Heads

I'd of course heard their music before, but I really wasn't aware of them as a group so I never gave them any real attention. I'm really digging what I'm hearing. I like the new wave style and all the musical influences the band added to their compositions. There is quite a bit of stuff from the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s that influenced their music. Its nice to hear people who can synthesize their influences into their own musical style. A musician should be able to take into themselves the music of others and mix that with their own life experiences and personalities to create something new. Thats how the really interesting music is made.

TNT

I found some new TNT videos on youtube. Cool stuff ^_^

I loled

Genesis of Mind ~To the Other Side of the Dream~

Genesis of Mind ~Yume no Kanata e~

Birds fly away, vanishing into the blue sky
The same blue sky that you disappeared into
The jet stream is made up of your footprints

You closed your eyes and went
To the other side of the dream
To the center of that light
What were you seeking, leaving me behind?

Birds fly away and vanish into the street
Of that gray city where you faded away

You closed your eyes and went
To the other side of the dream
To the world of light
What were you looking for,
Flying to the far side of time?

Birds fly away and vanish into the twilight
Never to return again to this last evening

You closed your eyes and went
To the other side of the dream
To the world of light
And my cries echo
All the way to the other side

You hang your head in shame
That which has been lost
Is the blue, blue sky

At the far side of a distant dream
Can you hear my voice calling?
Time is made up of fleeting pieces
And right now I don't want to believe that you're gone

That which is lost
Is the blue, blue sky

"When I opened my eyes, light was overflowing"

When I opened my eyes
You had been transformed into light
And were flying away
If I open my eyes, what will I see?
Will I be able to find you?

You are in the far reaches of a dream
And I'll wait for the day we can meet again

It's not that I'm sad
I'm just crying into the gray sky

You are so far away
And will never return again

Your departure ruined the sky for me
That blue sky that you flew off into…


When I open my eyes…

Canadian artists want to float 984ft banana over Texas

I'm thinking Texans are going to become famous for shooting down a Giant Banana.

Canadian artists want to float giant banana over Texas
Project lacks funding to ensure an August launch date
Toronto Globe and Mail via Scripps Howard News Service
Originally published 10:30 p.m., June 24, 2008
Updated 10:30 p.m., June 24, 2008

MONTREAL — A Canadian art project involving a giant banana, helium and the state of Texas was already considered bold and controversial. Now there are doubts about whether the massive piece of fruit will ever fly.

Despite getting about $105,000 from Quebec and federal art-funding agencies, Canadian artist Cesar Saez's flying-banana project appears to be meeting turbulence. According to his project's webpage, the "Geostationary Banana Over Texas" has failed to get enough grassroots funding to ensure its planned launch date in August.

That is when Saez has said he would release a 984-foot banana, about the size of three football fields, over the Mexican desert and see it drift over the Lone Star state.

When he was promoting the idea in January last year, Saez said the blimp-like banana was a statement about advertising, sex, politics and illegal migration from Mexico into the United States.

"Why not a banana over Texas?" the contemporary artist based in Montreal asked The Globe and Mail at the time.

He dodged questions about whether the entire enterprise was a hoax.

The Canada Council for the Arts took the project seriously enough to award the artist $95,000; a spokesman praised the banana project as "a work of public art" in which the artist uses "the sky as his venue rather than a park or street corner."

But now a link from the project's website -- geostationarybananaovertexas.com -- says it has collected only 1 percent of the $1.5 million required to get the banana airborne. By June 15 of this year, the project's own cutoff date, it had raised only $12,018.

And on June 17, a more ominous message appeared there: "Campaign closed in failure."

The Canada Council now says that maybe the notion of using the sky as an artistic venue wasn't the point after all.

"We fund research, and we hope it will literally get off the ground, in this case," Pierre Arpin, head of Visual Arts at the Canada Council, said from Ottawa Monday. "But this was an exploration project to assist an artist in defining how he can get a certain body of work created.

"People can think it's a hoax," Arpin continued, "but artists have been doing a lot of interesting things that a lot of people haven't been able to follow. (Saez) is pushing the boundaries and letting people think outside the box -- or the fruit basket."

The artist is required to submit an interim report to the federal agency by February before being eligible for another $40,000 in promised funding. At that point, the agency will weigh whether the artist will "be able to succeed in his original plan," Arpin said.

A spokesman for Conseil Des Arts et Des Lettres du Quibec wouldn't comment on the banana project and referred all questions to the artist. The council has granted Mr. Saez about $50,000 over two years, in addition to $5,000 in travel costs.

The spokesman said the funding was for research and creative work.

Saez did not respond to messages Monday.

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Goddess Stabs Wiccan

Woman accidentally stabs herself in cemetery ritual
By Robert Annis

A Boone County woman accidentally stabbed herself in the foot with a 36-inch sword used in a Wiccan ceremony in a Lebanon cemetery, police said.

According to a Lebanon Police Department news release, Katherine Gunther, 36, was performing a Wiccan "ceremony of thanks" in Oak Hill Cemetery around 12:15 a.m. Saturday when she ran the blade through her left foot. She said in an interview Monday that she'd had a run of good luck recently and wanted to give thanks with the rite.

Gunther said she was aiming to put a sword in the ground when it accidentally hit her foot.

"It wasn't the first time I performed the ritual, but it was the first time I put a sword through my foot," she said...

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Joker crashes the party

Luciano Pavarotti and Italian Tenor pt. 1

I figured I might as well share this as I am tenor and someone with a bit of Italian in me.