Rob Orbison - Classic music

Rob Orbison was a pioneer of rock and roll. He was born in Texas in 1936 and passed away in 1988. At times I confused him with Elvis Presley, for the soft crooning love songs and soothing voice. He has a wonderfully powerful voice, don't just let me talk about it, hear for yourself. Here are two of my favourite songs from him.

Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman



Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely (1960)

Heh, Cute Overload is great.

You got fun pictures like this, don't think it is fake. Does it remind you of Bush using those pin-hole binoculars?


CuteOverload




What........

Thy calling is calling.

I like it. I wonder how much he squats.

Who is excited for the UEFA EURO Cup 2008?

I used to play soccer quite a bit, now.......I'm just lazy and hate running. Anyways, watch these penalty shots.


This one is worth watching too, never seen anything like it myself.

Long overdue music update.

David Guetta's hit single Baby When the Light featuring Cozi Costi



Does every Guetta video have to have lots of women dancing? The main girl is some model winner from a model search reality show apparently.
Cozi has such a cute voice, search hard enough and you will find a clip of her doing the song 'live.' Her MySpace page also has a few good songs I enjoyed.

Queens Of The Stone Age - Make It Wit Chu (No embedding.)
Presenting the third single from QOTSA's Era Vulgaris album.
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I was pretty disappointed at the Era Vulgaris album, really felt it was a step back. My understanding is that the leader singer Josh was in a poor (angry) state of mind when they were recording the album. I really felt that came out with most of the album moving towards more of a thrash sound. I like their older stuff, has a groovier feel to it, ya dig?


The Killers - Shadowplay

To the centre of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you
To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you
Moving through the silence without motion, waiting for you
In a room without a window in the corner I found truth

This is actually a cover of a 1979 Joy Division song called Shadowplay, from the album Unknown Pleasures. I actually like the modern take much better. Not a fan of The Killers, but this they did a good job here. Ok, that isn't the official video, this one is. The official video doesn't allow embedding, which really takes away the flow of this blog. Check it out still, it pays homage to Joy Division and is a decent watch.

Ballet dancer, 88, takes to stage

An 88-year-old man is set to star in his first ballet show after taking up dance at the age of 79.

Grandfather to 11, John Lowe, of Witchford, Cambs, took up dancing having watched his daughter Alison become a professional dancer.

The retired teacher said: "It's a wonderful thing to do and I can't understand why more men don't do it."

Mr Lowe is due to appear with the Lantern Dance Theatre Company, in Ely, on Sunday evening.

Pirouettes have been perfected in daily practice at home ahead of Mr Lowe's performance in Prokofiev's The Stone Flower at The Maltings.

'Incredibly fit'

"I went to a dance school in the high street in Ely and asked if I could do tap and ballet and they said 'well of course you can' and I've been doing it ever since," Mr Lowe said.

"I've got a rope at home that I use to pull my leg up higher. I'm lucky that I don't have any problem with the routines but that's because I exercise.

"There's nothing effeminate about it - you have to be incredibly fit to dance.

"I see these people crawling around , hunched over smoking a cigarette - they should be doing ballet."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7185908.stm

Impressive! I just hope I still have my hips at age 88.

Looking for wedding cake designs?

I-Reporter's wedding cake is a full-size likeness of herself

• Chidi Ogbuta of Allen, Texas, gets wedding cake that looks just like her
• Bride had longtime fantasy of having a doll modeled after her
• Cake fulfilled bride's dream, and took about a week to finish off

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/01/07/cake.irpt/index.html

How.......creepy.....

Does the Queen have Wii?

MAKE WAY FOR THE Q Wii N

Elizabeth hogs Wills' Xmas gift from Kate ROYAL EXCLUSIVE

By Dean Rousewell

The gadget-loving Queen has become HOOKED on Prince William's new Nintendo Wii games console.

William's girlfriend Kate Middleton bought him the £200 gift for Christmas - but he now has to share it with his grandma.

A Palace source told The People: "When she saw William playing a game after lunch at Sandringham she thought the Nintendo looked tremendous fun and begged to join in.

"She played a simple ten-pin bowling game and by all accounts was a natural.

"It was hilarious. William was in fits of laughter. He was enormously impressed at having such a cool gran.

"And although she is 81 the Queen's hand-eye co-ordination was as good as somebody half her age."

The Wii was this Christmas's musthave gift. Players can create their own customised on-screen lookalike - just like our jokey Elizabeth pictured above.

Kate, 26 on Wednesday, watched as William, 25, unwrapped the gift at the Royal Family's festive gathering. Our source said: "He loves his gadgets and boys' toys. So it was the perfect present for him.

"His only difficulty nowis prising it away from the Queen's clutches. She showed all the signs of becoming a Nintendo addict."

It's not the first time the Queen has joined the hi-tech revolution.

In 2001 she got her first mobile phone and has regularly upgraded to one with the latest features.

Her Majesty set up her own email account years ago.

In 2005 she took delivery of an iPod that stores more than 100,000 tunes.

And last June she added a trendy BlackBerry to her technological armoury - and made sure her senior staff were equipped with them too.

http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=make-way-for-the-q-wii-n%26method=full%26objectid=20276099%26siteid=93463-name_page.html

They also have a YouTube account, which I am too fatigued at this hour to find for you my friends.
Imagine battling with your grandmother for control of the video game console. NO I'M THE QUEEN!!!

Cool pictures of random stuffs

Well I've been home sick for the last couple days, spending it in my bed and in front of the computer so I was able to find lots of funtastic things for you happy peoples to click on and enjoy!


Look at how he folds his hands in such a gentlemanly manner!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31715949@N00/1803950301/
5 unbelievably cool research facilities
http://deputy-dog.com/2008/01/04/5-unbelievably-cool-research-facilities/
Two-edged Media Sword: 10 Examples of Counteradvertising, Commerce Jamming and Propaganda Remixes
http://individualathome.blogspot.com/2008/01/two-edged-media-sword-10-examples-of.html

Question

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

Man using GPS drives into path of train in New York suburb

BEDFORD HILLS, New York - A Global Positioning System can tell a driver a lot of things - but not when a train is coming.

A computer consultant driving a rental car drove onto train tracks Wednesday using the instructions his GPS unit gave him.

A train was barrelling toward him, but he escaped in time and no one was injured.

The driver had turned right, as the system advised, and the car somehow got stuck on the tracks at the crossing.

Metro-North railroad spokesman Dan Brucker says the man jumped out, tried to warn the engineer by waving and managed to get out of the way just before the train slammed into the car at about 100 kilometres per hour.

The car was pushed more than 30 metres during the fiery crash and some 500 train passengers were stranded for more than two hours during the Wednesday evening rush hour.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080103/koddities/oddity_gps_train_crash

Winner! Not sure what he was thinking when he was waving his arms to the engineer, not like these things have a small stopping distance.

That being said, if you are going to get a GPS, get one that verbalizes the directions. Squinting at a small screen as you ignore traffic is never the way to go.

Is that a stag beetle fighting a lobster?!

I'm probably a bad person for spreading this, but there is a new site going around the internets. The description is in the URL name, JapaneseBugFights.com.

http://www.japanesebugfights.com/20.htm
Um, whoa.


So where do draw the distinction and say this is allowed or not allowed? Is this worse than cock-fighting, dog-fighting? Human cock-fighting? Does the tolerance scale relative to how close to a human it is?