Nina Simone - Ain't Got No...I Got Life

I love this song. It's like a daily affirmation, you have life. I play it when I'm feeling down, and even when I'm feeling up like today. And I love this awesome live version, the way she rocks the do and that dress, I need that dress.

Just how American is Barack?

Here's an interesting article titled: The Truth About Barack - ObamaRumors the Obama campaign shouldn't try to correct. It's kind of like those Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer lists you've probably seen on the internets. Here are some of my favourites:

Barack Obama has the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE tattooed on his stomach. It's upside-down, so he can read it while doing sit-ups.

Barack Obama is a DEVOUT CHRISTIAN. His favorite book is the BIBLE, which he has memorized. His name means HE WHO LOVES JESUS in the ancient language of Aramaic. He is PROUD that Jesus was an American.

A Milli

The track makes so much more sense with this awesome video to accompany it. Hahaha

Modern Times

Modern Times (youtube)

I just found this on youtube. Someone has posted Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times in its entirety (in 9 parts of course). This is one of my favourite movies. The story is so simple and is laced with excellent comedic skits yet Chaplin manages to bring forth profound issues without turning the audience away. The aspect of how industrialization and technology have impacted the ordinary man is still relevant today, which points to how intuitive and visionary Chaplin was. The music, the limited dialogue, the sets, the special effects, and the choreography all add to the charm of this film and it definitely can be enjoyed by everyone still over 70 years on. Beware of the machine!

Drivin' Down the Block

Kidz in the Hall - Drivin' Down the Block Remix feat. Bun B, Pusha T (mp3)

Nice

Now wouldn't this parkour clip be that much more impressive if they tried the pants thing:

So Trill

this track is cool, just in time for summer

Bun B feat. Lupe Fiasco - Swang On Em (mp3)

The Death of the Semi-Colon

I found this interesting article about the state of the semi-colon today. I caught myself using one today in a work related email and reflected about how useful it can be. TEAM SEMI-COLON! I like how the author examines all aspects including French-Anglo relations:


The end of the line?

An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon's days are numbered; worse, the growing influence of English is apparently to blame. Jon Henley reports on the uncertain fate of this most subtle and misused of punctuation marks. Aida Edemariam discovers which writers love it - and which would be glad to see it disappear

* Jon Henley
* The Guardian,
* Friday April 4 2008


It is a debate you could only really have in a country that accords its intellectuals the kind of status other nations - to name no names - tend to reserve for footballers, footballers' wives or (if they're lucky) rock stars; a place where structuralists and relativists and postmodernists, rather than skulk shamefacedly in the shadows, get invited on to primetime TV; a culture in which even today it is considered entirely acceptable, indeed laudable, to state one's profession as "thinker".

That country is France, which is currently preoccupied with the fate of its ailing semicolon.

Encouragingly, a Committee for the Defence of the Semicolon appeared on the web (only to disappear some days later, which cannot be a very good sign). Articles have been written in newspapers and magazines. The topic is being earnestly discussed on the radio. It was even the subject of an April Fool's joke on a leading internet news site, which claimed, perfectly plausibly, that President Nicolas Sarkozy had just decreed that to preserve the poor point-virgule from an untimely end, it must henceforth be used at least three times a page in all official correspondence.

In the red corner, desiring nothing less than the consignment of the semicolon to the dustbin of grammatical history, are a pair of treacherous French writers and (of course) those perfidious Anglo-Saxons, for whose short, punchy, uncomplicated sentences, it is widely rumoured, the rare subtlety and infinite elegance of a good semicolon are surplus to requirements. The point-virgule, says legendary writer, cartoonist and satirist François Cavanna, is merely "a parasite, a timid, fainthearted, insipid thing, denoting merely uncertainty, a lack of audacity, a fuzziness of thought".

Click here to read the rest...

DVNO

Another lazy post. Video is ok, I like the old school feel

Makeda