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Life of Colleen: April 2007
Red Hot Chili Peppers
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2007-04-28
at 12:29 AM (Pacific)
^ Easily one of my all-time favorite music videos.
Edited 2008-09-01, since the live "Zephyr Song" one had been taken down.Labels: music, videos
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Mariah Carey, Marilyn Monroe, Alanis Morisette
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2007-04-27
at 11:40 PM (Pacific)
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Moby's Porcelain with scenes from Lost In Translation
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2007-04-26
at 11:13 AM (Pacific)
Loved this movie. For a long time this song puzzled me; for whatever reason, the voice in the background sounded like Joe Strummer to me.Labels: music, videos
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Blondie: More Than This
posted by Colleen Shirazi
at 10:39 AM (Pacific)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHEkumiZvsk
There was an "embeddable" version but I felt this was the better of the two.
I've given it some thought why I'm digging Blondie so much now. What I remember about them, what impressed me even when I was a kid, was that Blondie was the only band I'd ever heard of--a real band, not a session band--that had a woman in front of the band. Not just as part of the group, like Fleetwood Mac, and not "just a singer," but also a songwriter and an equal intellectual force.
In that regard, yes, they were ahead of their time. The Pretenders did it slightly later on, then it became, if not common, at least accepted.
The fact that they're now old...that doesn't bother me, because I understand it. Things happen. Sometimes you have to drop whatever you're doing, or could have become, and do something else, for years. It doesn't mean your skills diminish or that you ever lose your inner flame. There has to be a point when either you pick up whatever you dropped or else you die without having completed your dream. So, what can I say, screw anyone who tells you you can't do it? Just do it.
If it appears that I'm building my own personal jukebox here--I am.Labels: music, videos
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Well I give up.
posted by Colleen Shirazi
at 3:54 AM (Pacific)
I should just accept my own cynical point of view, that someday Youtube will be more about royalties than it is now. i.e. this is the golden age. Let's enjoy it.Labels: music, videos
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Can't stop with the music videos...
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2007-04-25
at 9:17 PM (Pacific)
Most of this is various album covers and posters.
Recorded at Redway Community Center
Redway, Nor-CalLabels: music, videos
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Okay...enough with the Blondie videos!
posted by Colleen Shirazi
at 2:32 PM (Pacific)
I promise I'll be over this phase someday.
This is so fun though. I've never even heard of this movie...according to the reviews I've read, it is a genuine, four-egg stinkeroo, whose sole redeeming scene is the one captured above. The reason it has survived at all is that Debbie Harry--and this was reportedly filmed before Blondie's first album was released in 1976--graced this scene, which features singing, and Harry talking about singing and her boyfriend. For Blondie fans, I agree, it's indispensable.
From the same director we get this:
Yes folks, there was a time when virtually everyone smoked and it was not a big deal.
Apparently there were two other films by the same director, Amos Poe, featuring the group Blondie: The Blank Generation and Night Lunch.
Edited 2008-09-01: both videos have been taken down and I can't find them anymore.Labels: music, videos
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Just remembered what I was going to blog about before...
posted by Colleen Shirazi
at 12:18 PM (Pacific)
It's a small piece of information...the other day, my son (9 years old) told me he saw a ship sinking in the San Francisco Bay.
I went to look, certain it was not a sinking ship (that would have been highly unusual). I did see a ship but it looked entirely different from any ship I'd seen before.
I should mention, I was born in, and grew up in, Norfolk, Virginia. I've seen plenty of ships. From one of the apartments I lived in back then, you could actually see the ships coming in and out (and ship-watching was a favorite activity of mine back then).
This ship just looked weird, so we got in the car and decided to find the ship. I'm not familiar with the docks here in the East Bay so it was a matter of some guesswork, but we did end up finding the ship and seeing it reasonably up close.
It is one of these: Visit a Ship. When we first saw it, it was at a funny angle rather than from the typical side view, which gave the ship its "sinking" appearance.
Up until this point, all the cargo ships I'd seen before had containers on deck. This type is like a gigantic floating car park: no cranes, no containers, only, presumably, a bunch of drivers, driving the cars in and out of the ship.
Was hoping to find a picture of this particular ship online because it's quite striking...it's solid red. No such luck however and it's already sailed, but if I see something like that again I think I'll take a few photos of it.
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Okay enough with the videos...
posted by Colleen Shirazi
at 11:00 AM (Pacific)
How cool is that!!!!! I love The Doors, never thought of combining them with Blondie, but it's seamless, you've got to check it out.Labels: music, videos
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test
posted by Colleen Shirazi
at 10:47 AM (Pacific)
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One of my favorite songs!
posted by Colleen Shirazi
at 9:47 AM (Pacific)
The live video is much better than the MTV style one...and you get to see where Bono got most of his moves from. (A fact acknowledged by Bono.)
Edited 2008-09-01 to add:
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Urban Dictionary?
posted by Colleen Shirazi
at 12:30 AM (Pacific)
Been coining some new terms lately.
cosmetics ennui
For the makeup junkies...The Lipstick Page Forums Beauty Blog: Cosmetics ennui. This is what happens when you've been reading/posting on beauty forums for years. You've seen it all, tried most of it, have owned half of it, have gotten rid of a great deal of it...now you're incredibly picky. No more impulse buys or collecting for you.
word-of-Net
Do you think it'll catch on? It's the same as word-of-mouth, only you found out about it from someone on the Net.
planned Sino-lescence
This is the condition whereby a product stays together long enough for you to inspect it in the shop, even until you buy it and take it home, then promptly falls apart the first time you use it.
Before anyone takes this as anti-Chinese, I will have you know that many products made in China are actually quite good. It's this...incredible onslaught...of amazingly bad products that spawns this new turn of phrase.
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Rambles...
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2007-04-24
at 3:50 PM (Pacific)
Sheesh...I was going to blog something here, then realized I needed to update this blogger template...all of the blogs on the site need updates, but I'm doing it alone so I'm doing them "as needed."
Once I did that and fixed up the top menu some, I forgot what I was going to blog about in the first place.
I had to ditch my Blogroll while I was doing the update. The email account it was associated with hasn't existed in months.
Been posting a lot in my Beading Blog, in case you have stumbled across this blog and are wondering why it's so dilapidated. I've always preferred on-topic blogging anyway; my life is too dull to do it any other way.
I've gone on a major Blondie binge. I'm old enough to remember them the first time around, but I was around ten years old when their first record came out. In that sense I loved what I heard on the radio, but never got in-depth into them.
Now apparently there's an enormous Blondie revival in Europe--not here. Isn't that a trip? Thirty years later... I've been digging through Youtube, to find all these hidden gems. At the onset I can admit I thought Youtube was rubbish, but it's all in how you search it.
Anyhow if I ever remember what I was going to blog about, I'll be sure to blog it...grumbles...
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California state tax and the Ottoman Turkish Empire Settlement Payments
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2007-04-16
at 4:45 AM (Pacific)
Sorry, couldn't think of where to post this...while doing taxes, I grabbed the wrong form for the California Franchise Tax Board and came across this gem, right across from the "taxable interest income" line.
Like any good Californian, after I'd finished up the taxes I got online and googled it. What the...????? Didn't the Ottoman Empire bite the dust after World War I?
Apparently there was a lawsuit involving an insurance company...the lawsuit was settled in 2004, hence the payments now. (I have not researched this, it's almost five o'clock in the morning fer crying out loud.)
Why I'm posting this--there were a lot of blogger posts on this subject. Without opening 'em all, I'll guess that most of them did exactly what I'm doing now...did their taxes, saw that item, freaked, got on the Net, Googled, then blogged.
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