From Gillen's blog. Which element do you want to be?
I am thinking of one of the alkali metals, as " They are soft shiny metals that usually combine with group VIIA nonmetals in chemical compounds in a 1:1 ratio."
i like the 1:1 ratio thing and who doesn't want to be soft and shiny :-P
If you hardly remember your chemistry, here is a quick list of properties. I am also hoping my chemical brothers and sisters will throw at us some of their knowledge! :-D
Carmensita by Devendra Banhart, From "Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon"
Video features Natalie Portman.
Last night I attended a flamenco concert by Edwin Aparicio and his company in the Gala Hispanic Theater in DC and oh... my... bloody dios!!! It was such a fabulous concert and the dancers were so good and hot and the choreography was so wonderful. My heart was pounding as they were dancing and I was getting sweaty just watching them and I was smiling like a bloody fool, just happy to be watching them! I didnt know what to look at, the guitarists (there were two Richard Marlow and Behzad Habibzai, both from DC), the singers (Jesu's Montoya from LA and Fe'lix de Lola from Seville) or of course the dancers (Edwin and his company and 3 guest dancers: Norberto Chamizo, Timo Nun~ez and Genaveva). The video above is from the martinete in the opening number when Edwin was just doing some great footwork. It was amazing, at times Edwin's feet were going so fast it was like he was levitating!
Here are some of videos from some of the other dances by the company - i can't remember if the choreography was the same last night but at least the dresses were the same in two dances!
Below is a video of Timo Nun~ez that I found, performing at some other fiesta - the dancing realy gets going around the 5'30" mark.
I wanted to include it because he was a special dancer - you wouldn't believe the interaction he had with the crowd and how he flirted with the audience! His solo was more fun and cute, rather than heavy and dramatic, and my heart was pounding.
I wanted to find a video of the other wonderful male dancer Norberto but i couldn't. He was very good, very fast and pretty interactive - refined and well put.
Anyway it was a wonderful night. I loved everything - actually i love everything flamenco. I really feel it inside my me, in my heart and in my blood. I will have to continue my lessons when i go to CA. most definitely!
I am loving the Iranian government!! Now Ahmadinejad (A) has named the CIA and the US Army as a terrorist organizations. Read the following for a nice roundup of when, why, where.
The Digg comments were also rather interesting and list more of possible `terrorist'
activities perpetrated by the US, including the overthrow of the democratically elected governments in Chile, Brazil and Guatemala and installing military rule or senor Pinochet.
A lot of what A does and says is just stupid but then he does somethings that are sooo.. smart!! It shows the hypocricy of the age we live in. i mean even in the Columbia uni interview except for two questions, he answered well.
On another front, did everyone watch the annihilation of Paris Hilton at the hands of David Letterman? I felt sorry for her. She didn't know what to do. I wonder if she will ever come back on his show!
If you don't know who the Chasers are.. well, they are a satirical show in Australia and they have a War on Everything!
Recently they were on the news when they penetrated the $250M security of APEC being held in Sydney.
The show is hilarious - watch the following:
and then there is this one:
Btw - here are two more Maz Jobrani clips - the iranian comedian. He is SOOOO funny!!!
Clip 1 and Clip 2
Really funny!!! Note there are 4 videos (you have to press the >>| button)
(I've only seen the first one yet which is really funny!!)
