Thursday, November 27, 2008

Ol' '55

by Tom Waits.

The first track on Waits' debut album, Closing Time, released in 1973.

The first video is showing the actual original LP playing.
The second video is an 1993 early demo version of this song which features Waits accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, as opposed to the piano of the Closing Time version.

I like both versions, but if I just had to pick one, I would go with the original. What do you think?

Thank you très jolie for this suggestion, I didn't know this song and now I'm addicted to it. Sorry it took 9 months.

UPDATE - again, youtube took down both videos. I changed the videos and they now have weirder videoclips, but the songs are still the same.












Well my time went so quickly, I went lickety-splickly out to my old '55
As I drove away slowly, feeling so holy, God knows, I was feeling alive.

Now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with Lady Luck, freeway cars and trucks,
Stars beginning to fade, and I lead the parade
Just a-wishing I'd stayed a little longer,
Oh, Lord, let me tell you that the feeling's getting stronger.

And it's six in the morning, gave me no warning; I had to be on my way.
Well there's trucks all a-passing me, and the lights are all flashing,
I'm on my way home from your place.

And now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with Lady Luck, freeway cars and trucks,
Stars beginning to fade, and I lead the parade
Just a-wishing I'd stayed a little longer,
Oh, Lord, let me tell you that the feeling's getting stronger.

And my time went so quickly, I went lickety-splickly out to my old '55
As I pulled away slowly, feeling so holy, God knows, I was feeling alive.

Now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with Lady Luck,
Freeway cars and trucks, freeway cars and trucks, freeway cars and trucks...

Today's Big Thing

Today's Big Thing website will bring a daily smile on your face with a very short daily video.
I know there are a lot of websites that meant to do just that, but this is the first time I really am smiling at each video.

Here are three examples (Don't forget to check out also the Dollar Menunaire and the Sarah Palin Piano Duet, but really there are so many more good ones on the site):

UPDATE - Initially I used Today's Big Thing original video and player but it didn't fit my blog's template so I switched to youtube...


Who Put This Dick On My Back?




Baby Gets Crowd Pumped




Worst Best Man (this is so funny and so sad all at once)

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Vacation in Barcelona - photo album

by me.

It took me a while but I finally found the time to upload my photos from Barcelona to Picasa.

I haven't used Picasa in a while and so I just discovered the new feature of face tagging in photos, just like in Facebook.
The difference is that Google will analyze the photos for you, and then will give you grouped thumbnails of faces of the same person, from all over your albums, to make it easy for you to tag him. This made the face tagging process so much fun, it almost felt like a computer game.
One funny thing is that sometimes I would get asked to tag a face that I don't recognize. After clicking "display this photo in its original context" I noticed that Google's technology just recognized a tiny tiny little face from far away or even on someone's shirt or something like this. For those faces, Google let you either "ignore" it or decide that "this is not a face".
If you have an active Picasa account I recommend giving face tagging a try. If you don't have an active Picasa account, there are so many other reasons for you to start using Picasa today!

The first picture is a screenshot of the face tagging process. Below it is a sideshow of the album, but I recommend watching it big and not that small.

UPDATE - Elad also uploaded his photos from the first three days we spent together. Until I will add his pictures to my album, you can watch it on Picasa.



Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Super Mario rescues the princess

by Seth MacFarlane.

From Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy

Indian Love Song (Miguel)

by Alma Zohar.

Obviously not the official video clip, but the song worth it. Maybe one day I will translate the Hebrew words to English.

Alma Zohar is just so cool.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests

by Andy Warhol.

A new DVD release featuring 13 of Warhol's classic silent film portraits which were shot between 1964 and 1966 at his Factory studio in New York City. This is the first ever authorized release of Warhol's films on DVD.

People in the trailer in order of appearance: Paul America, Edie Sedgwick, Richard Rheem, Ingrid Superstar, Lou Reed, Jane Holzer, Billy Name, Mary Woronov, Freddy Herko, Ann Buchanan, Susan Bottomly, Nico, Dennis Hopper.
The music is an excerpt from the song "Knives from Bavaria (Spoonful of Fun)" by Dean & Britta.

I like it a lot.



[Via Ori Oren]

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Ship launch

I just discovered how cool it is when new ships are launched. Here are few examples, look online for more.


Launching of Staten Island Ferry, December 18, 2004.


USS Freedom


Lansare Celena Chouest (?)


Unknow ship, somewhere in Holland