Friday, January 6, 2012

THIS WORLD … PARIS

 

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“I Love Paris” – Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald

JUST FOR FUN

 

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WORLDS UNUSUAL HOTELS … DESERT CAVE HOTEL, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

 

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Underground or above ground, the choice is yours at Coober Pedy’s Desert Cave Hotel!

The superb sandstone surroundings of Coober Pedy give you the opportunity to eat at outstanding restaurants, bring your business to the impressive convention facilities or shop in style for some of the world’s most impressive opals.

From the air the 250,000 mineshafts littering Coober Pedy and surrounds resemble a beach full of soldier crab holes. And like the crabs, many of the 3500 residents in the largest opal-mining centre in Australia live underground away from the scorching heat - and so can guests at the award-winning Desert Cave Hotel where 19 of the 50 rooms are beneath the surface.

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VINTAGE EXOTIC FASHION SHOOTS

 

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HOMER SIMPSONS WORDS OF WISDOM

 

  • God bless those pagans.
  • Don't let Krusty's death get you down, boy. People die all the time, just like that. Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow! Well, good night!
  • If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now, quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers!
  • You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.
  • Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
  • I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.
  • With $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like... love!
  • All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.
  • Woo hoo! 350 dollars! Now I can buy 70 transcripts of Nightline!
  • Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that.
  • When I held that gun in my hand, I felt a surge of power - like God must feel when he's holding a gun.

MORE AMAZING SAND SCULPTURES

 

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COOL IMAGES

 

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THE MAGICAL MR JACKMAN

 

 

the_prestige_hughHugh Jackman has scored another Broadway stint. The actor has sealed a deal to play the late escape master Harry Houdini in "Houdini" musical play, the producers of the show recently announced. The Australian actor has committed to starring in the play for the 2013-2014 Broadway season.

"I have been deeply fascinated by the life of Harry Houdini since I was young, and in many ways I've been preparing for this role my whole life," Jackman shared on being tapped to play the legendary escapologist. "I am thrilled to be collaborating with this collection of artists who are all at the top of their game."

The musical will see Tony-winning director Jack O'Brien ("Hairspray") as the helmer and veteran musical theatre lyricist/composer Stephen Schwartz as the composer. Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is set to write the script for the play, which will mark his librettist debut.

Speaking on the details of "Houdini", Sorkin said, "Rather than being a biography, 'Houdini', told in a contemporary tone, tells the story of an epic battle that took place between the world's greatest illusionist and a trio of women, known as 'Spiritualists', who convinced millions of people, including the editors of Scientific American and The New York Times, that they could communicated with the dead.

MORE MIRRORED REFLECTIONS

 

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TRIVIA BITS

 

  • It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.
  • It takes 4 hours to hard-boil an ostrich egg.
  • It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
  • It was considered unfashionable for Venetian women, during the Renaissance to have anything but silvery-blonde hair.
  • It was quite common for the men of Ancient Greece to exercise in public .. naked.
  • It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term 'testimony' is derived from this tradition.
  • It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
  • Its harder to reach the speed of sound at sea level than at high altitude.
  • Ivan the terrible claimed to have 'deflowered thousands of virgins and butchered a similar number of resulting offspring'.
  • Jacques Cousteau invented the aqualung while in the French resistance during World War II.

REMINISICING ... LITTLE DARLIN'

 

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The Diamonds

The Diamonds' 1957 hit Little Darlin' (Mercury 71060) was originally recorded by The Gladiolas (Excello 2701), who featured Maurice Williams as lead singer.

 

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The Gladiolas

The Diamonds' version can be heard in the 1957 movie The Big Beal, in the 1973 movies American Graffiti and That'll Be The Day, in the 1976 film Slumber party ‘57, in the 1978 movie American Hot Wax, and the 1980 movie Hollywood Knights.

The Diamonds' version, which the group recorded as a novelty, actually did better on the rhythm-and-blues charts than did the Gladiolas’ original version.

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includes Little Darlin' – The Gladiolas 

includes Little Darlin' – The Diamonds

QUOTABLES

 

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

THE BEAUTY OF TREES

 

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JUST FOR FUN

 

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DEAR MICHAEL – THE MOTOWN COLLECTION

 

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Michael Jackson & Jackson 5 – Dear Michael
The Motown Collection (12CD Box Set) (2011)

Track Listing:

CD1: Michael Jackson – Got To Be There / Ben

01. Ain’t No Sunshine
02. I Wanna Be Where You Are
03. Girl Don’t Take Your Love From Me
04. In Our Small Way
05. Got To Be There
06. Rockin Robin
07. Wings Of My Love
08. Maria (You Were The Only One)
09. Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone
10. You’ve Got A Friend
11. Ben
12. Greatest Show On Earth
13. People Make The World Go ‘Round
14. We’ve Got A Good Thing Going
15. Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
16. My Girl
17. What Goes Around Comes Around
18. In Our Small Way
19. Shoo Be Doo Be Doo Da Day
20. You Can Cry On My Shoulder
21. Don’t Let It Get You Down
22. You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me
23. Melodie
24. Touch The One You Love
* Tracks 1-10 from Got To Be There
* Tracks 11-20 from Ben
* Tracks 21 & 23 originally released on Anthology: The Best Of Michael Jackson

CD2: Michael Jackson – Music & Me / Forever, Michael

01. With A Child’s Heart
02. Up Again
03. All The Things You Are
04. Happy (Love Theme From ‘Lady Sings The Blues’)
05. Too Young
06. Doggin’ Around
07. Johnny Raven
08. Euphoria
09. Morning Glow
10. Music And Me
11. We’re Almost There
12. Take Me Back
13. One Day In Your Life
14. Cinderella Stay Awhile
15. We’ve Got Forever
16. Just A Little Bit Of You
17. You Are There
18. Dapper-Dan
19. Dear Michael
20. I’ll Come Home To You
21. Girl You’re So Together
22. Farewell My Summer Love
23. Call On Me
* Tracks 1-10 from Music & Me
* Tracks 11-20 from Forever, Michael
* Track 23 originally released on Anthology: The Best Of Michael Jackson

CD3: Michael Jackson – Looking Back To Yesterday / Farewell My Summer Love

01. When I Come Of Age
02. Teenage Symphony
03. I Hear A Symphony
04. Give Me Half A Chance
05. Love’s Gone Bad
06. Lonely Teardrops
07. You’re Good For Me
08. That’s What Love Is Made Of
09. I Like You The Way You Are (Don’t Change Your Love On Me)
10. Who’s Looking For A Lover
11. I Was Made To Love Her
12. If ‘N I Was God
13. To Make My Father Proud
14. Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
15. Twenty Five Miles
16. Don’t Let It Get You Down
17. You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me
18. Melodie
19. Touch The One You Love
20. Girl You’re So Together
21. Farewell My Summer Love
22. Call On Me
23. Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
24. To Make My Father Proud
* Tracks 1-12 from Looking Back To Yesterday
* Track 15 released in remixed form on The Original Soul Of Michael Jackson
* Tracks 16-24 from Farewell My Summer Love

CD4: Jackson 5 – Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 / ABC

01. Zip A Dee Doo Dah
02. Nobody
03. I Want You Back
04. Can You Remember
05. Standing In The Shadows Of Love
06. You’ve Changed
07. My Cherie Amour
08. Who’s Lovin’ You
09. Chained
10. (I Know) I’m Losing You
11. Stand!
12. Born To Love You
13. The Love You Save
14. One More Chance
15. ABC
16. 2-4-6-8
17. (Come ‘Round Here) I’m The One You Need
18. Don’t Know Why I Love You
19. Never Had A Dream Come True
20. True Love Can Be Beautiful
21. La La (Means I Love You)
22. I’ll Bet You
23. I Found That Girl
24. The Young Folks
25. Oh, I’ve Been Bless’d

CD5: Jackson 5 – Third Album / Maybe Tomorrow

01. I’ll Be There
02. Ready Or Not (Here I Come)
03. Oh How Happy
04. Bridge Over Troubled Water
05. Can I See You In The Morning
06. Goin’ Back To Indiana
07. How Funky Is Your Chicken
08. Mama’s Pearl
09. Reach In
10. The Love I Saw In You Was Just A Mirage
11. Darling Dear
12. Maybe Tomorrow
13. She’s Good
14. Never Can Say Goodbye
15. The Wall
16. Petals
17. 16 Candles
18. (We’ve Got) Blue Skies
19. My Little Baby
20. It’s Great To Be Here
21. Honey Chile
22. I Will Find A Way
23. Sugar Daddy
24. I’m So Happy

CD6: Jackson 5 – Goin’ Back To Indiana / Lookin’ Through The Windows

01. (Bill Cosby-Tommy Smothers Intro) I Want You Back
02. (Bill Cosby Intro) Maybe Tomorrow
03. (Rosey Grier Intro) The Day Basketball Was Saved
04. Stand!
05. I Want To Take You Higher
06. Feelin’ Alright
07. Medley
08. Goin’ Back To Indiana
09. Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing
10. Lookin’ Through The Windows
11. Don’t Let Your Baby Catch You
12. To Know
13. Doctor My Eyes
14. Little Bitty Pretty One
15. E-Ne-Me-Ne-Mi-Ne-Moe (The Choice Is Yours To Pull)
16. If I Have To Move A Mountain
17. Don’t Want To See You Tomorrow
18. Children Of The Light
19. I Can Only Give You Love
20. Love Song
21. Who’s Lovin’ You (Live)

CD7: Jackson 5 – Skywriter / Get It Together

01. Skywriter
02. Hallelujah Day
03. The Boogie Man
04. Touch
05. Corner Of The Sky
06. I Can’t Quit Your Love
07. Uppermost
08. World Of Sunshine
09. Ooh, I’d Love To Be With You
10. You Made Me What I Am
11. Get It Together
12. Don’t Say Good Bye Again
13. Reflections
14. Hum Along And Dance
15. Mama I Gotta Brand New Thing (Don’t Say No)
16. It’s Too Late To Change The Time
17. You Need Love Like I Do (Don’t You)
18. Dancing Machine
19. Pride And Joy
20. Love’s Gone Bad
21. Love Is The Thing You Need

CD8: Jackson 5 – Dancing Machine / Moving Violation

01. I Am Love
02. Whatever You Got, I Want
03. She’s A Rhythm Child
04. Dancing Machine
05. The Life Of The Party
06. What You Don’t Know
07. If I Don’t Love You This Way
08. It All Begins And Ends With Love
09. The Mirrors Of My Mind
10. Forever Came Today
11. Moving Violation
12. (You Were Made) Especially For Me
13. Honey Love
14. Body Language (Do The Love Dance)
15. All I Do Is Think Of You
16. Breezy
17. Call Of The Wild
18. Time Explosion
19. Through Thick And Thin
20. Forever Came Today (Disc-O-Tech #3 Version)

CD9: Jackson 5 – In Japan!

01. Introduction: We’re Gonna Have A Good Time
02. Lookin’ Through The Windows
03. Got To Be There
04. Medley: I Want You Back / ABC / The Love You Save
05. Daddy’s Home
06. Superstition
07. Ben
08. Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone
09. That’s How Love Goes
10. Never Can Say Goodbye
11. Ain’t That Peculiar
12. I Wanna Be Where You Are

CD10: Jackson 5 – Joyful Jukebox Music / Boogie

01. Joyful Jukebox Music
02. Window Shopping
03. You’re My Best Friend, My Love
04. Love Is The Thing You Need
05. The Eternal Light
06. Pride And Joy
07. Through Thick And Thin
08. We’re Here To Entertain You
09. Make Tonight All Mine
10. We’re Gonna Change Our Style
11. Love’s Gone Bad
12. I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore
13. ABC
14. I Was Made To Love Her
15. One Day I’ll Marry You
16. Never Can Say Goodbye
17. Oh, I’ve Been Bless’d
18. Penny Arcade
19. Just Because I Love You
20. Dancing Machine
21. Hum Along And Dance

CD11: Jackson 5 Christmas Album

01. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
02. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
03. The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)
04. Up On The Housetop
05. Frosty The Snowman
06. Little Drummer Boy
07. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
08. Christmas Won’t Be The Same This Year
09. Give Love On Christmas Day
10. Someday At Christmas
11. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
12. Little Christmas Tree

CD12: Pure Michael: Motown A Cappella

01. I Want You Back
02. ABC
03. The Love You Save
04. I’ll Be There
05. Never Can Say Goodbye
06. Mama’s Pearl
07. Dancing Machine
08. Got To Be There
09. Rockin’ Robin
10. Ben

MOUNTAIN GORILLAS IN UGANDA

 

 

An amazing chance encounter with a troop of wild mountain gorillas near Bwindi National Park, Uganda.

MORE FUNNY ANSWERING MACHINE MESSAGES...

 

  • [Drunken voice] You have reached Bob's hotline. We are not able to respond due to uninevitable circumcisions. But if you leave your name and noomber, we won't be in wonder... pa-a-a-a!
  • [In a bored voice] Heaven, God speaking...
  • [in a computer generated voice] Hello, there are no real people here to answer the phone right now.
  • [in a computer generated voice] Leave your name, telephone number, and a brief message after you hear the beep, and we will keep track of this stuff until the real people get back.
  • [Lots of phone pick-up noise] Hi, I'm a burglar and I was just about to steal Troy's answering machine. If you give me your name and number, I'll... Uh, I'll post it on the fridge where he'll see it. Uh... By the way, where did you say you live?
  • [Loud heavy-metal music in background; raspy voice] Hello, this is the executioner. Joe can't come to the phone right now because he's DEAD! Leave a name and number and IF we decide to resurrect him, he'll call you back.
  • [Must have good Australian accent] G'day mate. Can't come to the phone now because I'm a bit tied up with this crocodile. Just leave a message, and I'll get back to you.
  • [Note the spelling in this one!] After the tone, please leave a massage—my shoulders really could use it, and... What? You're only supposed to leave a MESSAGE? Darn....
  • [Star Trek theme in the background] [Voice 1] Room 17, the final frontier. [Voice 2] These are the messages of Chad's answering machine. Its two-semester mission: To seek out your name and your telephone number. [Voice 3] To boldly inform you to wait for the tone.
  • [Very fast] Hi, this is 555-5555. If you want to leave a message, please wait for the tone. If you want to leave your name and number, please press pound, press 3, then dial your name, then press 6 and dial your number. If you want to leave your name and just a message, press star, press 6, ask for extension 4443, then leave your name and message. If you want to leave your number and the time you called, please press star twice, spin in a circle, press 1 twice, talk loud and BEEP.

THIS WORLD … ELEPHANTS

 

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