Top Ten Instrumenal Works

I don't necessarily agree that these are the top ten works... but just the same, they are all great works.

http://www.listzblog.com/top_ten_instrumental_works_opera_favorites_list.html


Here are some of my favorites:
http://chuckkozak.blogspot.com/2009/03/give-to-your-local_07.html#links

Video Bomb

Some of my favorite video bombs..

Pride

He fought so hard... 'must have been so tired'

Pride

This is a great read...

50 Things we know now that we didn't know this time last year

Published: 12/28/09, 12:10 PM EDT
By Jeff Houck

If there was an award for best quote of the year, our money would be on Richard Fisher, the director of NASA's Heliophysics Division....

I was giggling when I saw this...

(1-(|x|-1)^2)^0.5=-2.5(1-(|x|/2)^0.5)^0.5

Mathematical form:






mathematical way of saying, I love you...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281-%28|x|-1%29^2%29^0.5%3D-2.5%281-%28|x|%2F2%29^0.5%29^0.5

Spain

My wife and I have been talking about getting to Europe for some time.. and one of the stops has got to be Spain...

You can't make this stuff up...

Zorbing.. fun and exciting things to do... inside a big ball.

Holy smokes... ever hear of Zorbing? Enter into a very large rubber/plastic ball and roll down a hill, inside.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N63P0TG22Os

Here's a wiki on the subject...

Zorbing

Dancing Matt

In 2005, someone sent me a Video file simply titled "Dancing". I enjoyed the attachment so much that every time I upgrade to new computer hardware, I always ensure this file is also transferred.

The movie is of a man, doing this silly dance/jig in places throughout the world, New York, Siberia (on a train), Kenya, Cambodia, etc:



It always amazed me at how many places this young man had traveled. I show this to my kids a few times a year. They love watching and then looking at our globe to see where he is at.

After watching this evening, with Tom and Lib, I was curious about this man's story, (thanks to the power of Google). It turns out, Matt has a website: Where the hell is matt?

Also read the about:
Where the Hell Is Matt.../ about

Since that video in 2005, Matt has done a number of other videos. What a life:




Here's a great explanation of "Where the Hell is Matt?"

Sand Castle Version of the Shoe

I wish I could say that I was responsible for this, but I can't. Six gentlemen from Lewis Center, Ohio built this sand version of the Shoe on the afternoon of 7/22/2009 on Hilton Head, SC.

Jennifer Lin, Improvs on the piano.

I had many years of piano as a kid and still love it today. This young woman is extraordinary. If you have the time, at work, or doing some thing else, just listen.. it's all improvisation... and that's quite amazing.
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Around 13 minutes, she discusses how she composes; and around 16 minutes 50 seconds, Goldie Hawn shows up to help out with an on the fly improvisation.

Jennifer Lin

Out of The Blue

I recently took my kids on a two day trip to D.C. While at the Lincoln Memorial, a men's A Capella Group from Oxford University gave an impromptu concert. They were quite amazing.

Here's a little infomation about them:
Out of The Blue

This song is called "cold water" and is by a man called Damian Rice. However, they sound better then the original version:

From Spring Break 2009 Washington D.C. Trip">


From Spring Break 2009 Washington D.C. Trip">

The Lists...

I love the "Lists" that I have seen online and via email over the course of the last few years...

Building my own bucket list these days... here'a a few that are pretty good..

101 Things to do before you die

12 Must Learn to tie knots

Found this one tonight...

75 Skills a real man should master

... a poem...

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A quick poem found here: http://boppin.com/neruda.html

"Love

Because of you, in gardens of blossoming flowers I ache from the
perfumes of spring.
I have forgotten your face, I no longer remember your hands;
how did your lips feel on mine?
Because of you, I love the white statues drowsing in the parks,
the white statues that have neither voice nor sight.
I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice; I have forgotten
your eyes.
Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to my vague memory of
you. I live with pain that is like a wound; if you touch me, you will
do me irreparable harm.
Your caresses enfold me, like climbing vines on melancholy walls.
I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every
window.
Because of you, the heady perfumes of summer pain me; because
of you, I again seek out the signs that precipitate desires: shooting
stars, falling objects.

"

Give to your local...

Opera. Ya that's right. Give to your local opera. Some who have never taken the time to appreciate opera, might think its stuffy and boring. I love punk, death metal, classic rock, classical, and opera. The thing I like about opera, is that they are all pretty much the same. Some one is always trying to get laid, someone is getting laid, someone is being cheated on, some one is heartbroken, and someone dies. In every opera, you will experience many many extreme emotions.

Any way, I thought I would link a few of my favorites. Great pieces of work. Hopefully you will enjoy them..

Ai Giochi Addio From Romeo and Juliet:


Habanera from Bizet's "Carmen"


La donna e mobile from Verdi's "Rigoletto". I have blogged about this one before.


Che Gelida Manina from Puccini's La Boheme


Sull'aria from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro".

You may remember this from "The Shawshank Redemption": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYFj9hZsnhs&feature=related

From Karl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana "O Fortuna"


Mozart's last work, Requiem Mass in D Minor