I became a fan of the show So You Think You Can Dance during season one, although I didn’t follow it all the way through. I watched bits and pieces through the other seasons but never watched it from beginning til end until last season. When it comes to talent shows such as this, I find the auditions the best part of the show. Case and point, American Idol. The best part of that show IS the auditions. However, with SYTYCD, when watching the auditions I am looking for the amazing dancers and last season (season 3), Bryan Gaynor was just that dancer. I have never seen anyone like him nor anyone since him. This guy is amazing. Enjoy!
I first saw this last year working at my previous job and I thought it was the best thing I had seen and I still do to this day. These are two Asian boys lip syncing to a Backstreet Boys song, I Want it That Way. Enjoy!
I heard about Litepost approximately four months ago and was pleased to learn that there is another email program that might..MIGHT, rival Gmail and Yahoo (I’ll speak about Yahoo in another post – and it won’t be pretty).
Being the email hound that I am, I have been axiously awaiting the opening of Litepost, but it has yet to take place and there doesn’t seem to be a light at the end of tunnel either. They have a section on their website where you can sign up to receive emails of updates, however, there is no where to put your email address. Should this cause concern? I think so. I have also tried to find a way to contact them to get the skinny and that is impossible as well. Hmmmmm.
I have come across a site that posted a beta version that people can sign up and use, but the link to that is broken. Again, should I be concerned? Yes, I think so. But not concerned about Litepost because it was not Litepost that supplied the link. It was another blogger. I should be concerned about the blogger, then, eh?
But I am having major concerns with Litepost itself for its web site is very well put together and makes me excited about another email program that may offer as much as Gmail and probably better than Yahoo, but the fact remains, when the first false statement is presented, it makes me wonder what other false statements have been made on the site. I will not know until the site is up and running.
Will I sign up for Litepost although I have concerns? Yes. Why? Because, like I mentioned, I am an email hound. Actually, horder is more like it. Its a good thing email programs are not physical things or my house would be overflowing.
Oh the deception.
I have learned that Litepost has lost their domain name, “This domain is registered through Registration Technologies, Inc. and expired on May 21, 2008. Registration Technologies offers our customers a 40 day grace period during which they may renew their domains without losing them. Therefore, this domain may be renewed until June 30, 2008. After then, this registration will be cancelled.” That’s too bad really, because I saw what could have been a promising e-mail application to rival Gmail and Yahoo.
I had been in contact with a gentleman named Michael who was part of Litepost and he had given me Nathan’s e-mail address (one at Gmail and one at Litepost). Nathan was the one behind Litepost.I wrote Nathan twice about month ago asking when would Litepost be up and running and didn’t hear from on either e-mail. I write Michael again stating that I had not heard from Nathan. Michael said he would let Nathan know. But as usual, I didn’t hear from Nathan. Because of the lack or communication from Nathan, that told me a lot about the proposed product. Sidebar: They were having trouble getting off the ground due mostly to funding.
They advertised this on their site for the longest time:
As mentioned above, at the bottom it says Sign Up but when you clicked on the button there wasn’t any where to sign up. The page that followed stated you could put you name on a list to be notified od Litepost’s release, however, the button on that page did not work. They also didn’t have a way for you to contact them, which I understood. If they had a way for people to contact them, they would be inundated with e-mails, snail mails or phone calls (depending on which contact information they choose to display).
I am not sure how I found Michael’s e-mail contact but I have to say he was a very nice person and as helpful as he could be. As for Nathan, I realize he was busy trying to get Lifepost ofdf the ground, but ignore a future client was npot the best move to make. As mentioned early, him being non-responsive told me a lot about Litepost and should it get off the ground at a later date, I willl not be signing uo. Besides, I found a great e-mail application that rivals Gmai, Yahoo ans Hotmail and its called Inbox.com.
I’ll write about Inbox.com in a later blog.
I will also write about why I love e-mail apllications and what I look for in one…basically I will attempt to explain why I am a such a snapperhead.
Filed under: Poetry — Nikki @ 3:40 am Tags: Poetry
Watch the stars as they shine above-
Tell hate it is but love
Tell death it is but life-
And watch me sign it with a knife.
Tell God that beside Him the devil will stand-
Then watch Heaven and Hell walk hand in hand
Tell your heart it can be broken-
The explain to your soul its a worthless token.
Watch me laugh when I want to die-
Hear the kid talk about life when he wants to die
Watch happiness bring your misery-
Then watch glory bring you agony.
Turn loneliness into your greatest pleasure-
Learn that getting old is a treasure
Tell the dreamers they can reach the sky-
Then tell truth, it is but a lie.
There are certain commercials I find very effective and those are the ones that play music while displaying their items and this one from AT&T for Mother’s Day was one of the best. I am currently trying to find the first Razr commercial that featured AC/DC’s Back in Black.
Misha Defonseca, “author” of Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years
Margaret B. Jones aka Margaret Seltzer, “author” of Love and Consequences
James Frey, “author” of A Million Little Pieces
There seems to be an influx of false memories rolling down the river of late. The first known of this was Clifford Irving’s book The Autobiography of Howard Hughes. I am sure there was others before him, but he’s on of the famous one. Then there was James Frey and his A Million Little Pieces in which he even had Oprah fooled. Oprah brought James back on the show to talk about the lies and for her to do this just probably made the book even popular. I can’t say for sure, but as a collector, I like to keep books of this nature.
The James Frey hoax had a bit of a backlash in that readers demanded their money back. I didn’t. I have the original book before the disclaimer was introduced in the re-released copies. I also have the O J Simpson book, If I did It that was released by the money hungry Goldmans. But I digress.
Recently, there have been twomemoirsthat have been exposed for being lies. The first was a holocaust memoir titled Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years by Misha Defonseca in which she states, as a Jewish child, she lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust. Well, my first clue that something wasn’t right is the “pack of wolves”. Unless your name is Tarzan or Lucan (for those of you from the 70’s and remember the Tv show), no one has ever been raised by a pack of wolves. The second memoir was by Margaret B. Jones (real name Margaret Seltzer) called Love and Consequence who claimed she was a foster child growing up in South Los Angels and survived by selling drugs the street gang The Bloods. Oh, did I mention that she claims she was abused as a child and that she’s half white and half Native American? You should look this one up because she’s a hum dinger. The author’s, or should I say, the liars true story is, she actually grew up with her biological family in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley.
I am not sure why these people feel the need to fabricate their stories.
I am currently editing my first novel, which so happens to be about the holocaust. The protagonist is in an unnamed concentration camp. My story, unlike the ones mentioned, is of fiction. It is what you would call a historical fiction novel. I am neither Jewish nor have a Jewish background. In addition, I do not know anyone who was in any of the camps. After I had completed by draft, I had the pleasure of meeting Gloria Lyons who did spend time in four camps. Her husband was able to escape the Holocaust by being sent to Budapest and then to America.
Of the two hoaxes to come about the one that irks me the most is the book about the Holocaust. The Holocaust is a subject near and dear to my heart. This is a subject that should not be played with nor doubted. When others come forth with their stories, are they going to be believed? Hard to say. These constant false memoirs are starting to turn into the boy who cried wolf.
A friend of mine has been watching the view for a few months now. I never watched the show and never really cared too until she began and I have to say I enjoy the show a great deal. The Hot Topics they have at the beginning of the show is what I really enjoy and for some of them, I wish I was at the table to cast my thoughts.
Recently, they had Denise Richards on their as a guest (not at the table, but a regular guest) and she was speaking about her divorce from Charlie Sheen and the stuff he has pulled with her and with regards to their divorce. She was also speaking about her new “reality” Tv show titled Denise Richards: It’s Complicated which begins 26 May 2008 on E!. Denise spoke about how she wants to protect her kids and such and Whoopi was questioning why would Denise, who wants to protect her kids, take on a “reality” show.
Denise does state, “They are in it very miminal,” which is probably true, but I also see Whoopi’s point of view that if Denise wants to keep her life private and her kids life private, why; 1. Do a reality Tv show, and 2. Have your kids on there?
Denise stated the time was right for her to do a “reality” show so people can see the real her and not what Charlie or the others have made her out to be. As for her kids, they are HER kids and if she wants to have them on the show for one second or one hour that’s her business. I personally think that if she’s going to do a “reality” Tv show about her life thnn that has to include her kids. Unlike Corey Feldman who did a “reality” Tv show with Corey Haim and excluded his (Feldman’s) son from the show. No one knew he had a son named Zen who is four or five now. Why exclude your kids from your life, whether its in real life or Tv?
Kamora Lee Simons has a “reality” Tv show called Life in the Fab Lane and her kids all over the show and I think its great. There’s a way to have your kids on YOUR show without exploiting them and I think Kamora Lee does a fantastic job. I have a feeling Denise will do the same thing.
I loved how Denise carried herself on The View when being confronted (and yes I do mean confronted) by Whoopi. Those kids are not Whoopi’s kids so she should not be so judgmental towards Denise for what she is doing. But as for what Denise is doing only time will tell if it was the right decision or one that will have a profound effect on her and her kids.
I do wish her the best of luck with her show, but more importantly, with her life from this point forward.
I am not really a Tim Burton fan, although I do respect the dark aspects of his movies. I have just completed watching Sweeney Todd and although a great idea on a classic, I am a bit turned off by the singing, and a lot of unnecessary singing at that
Background of the story Sweeney Todd courtesy of Wikipedia:
In his past life, Todd was known as Benjamin Barker, a middle class barber, married to Lucy Barker with a daughter, Johanna. The villainous Judge Turpin exiles Benjamin to Australia on false charges in order to have Lucy to himself. Lucy poisons herself in grief, and in her hiatus, Turpin adopts baby Johanna as his ward. By the time Todd returns to London, Johanna has become a young woman and falls in love with a sailor, Anthony, who attempts to steal her away from Judge Turpin, who has proposed to marry the girl. In some versions of the Sweeney Todd story Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime and variously his friend or lover (and whose first name is variously Nellie, Marjorie, Sarah, Shirley, or Claudette), hides his crimes by butchering the corpses of Todd’s victims, baking their flesh into meat pies, and selling them to unknowing customers.
In the original story, A String of Pearls, Sweeney Todd is still the same working class barber. Instead of killing for revenge, however, he kills in pure greed. At the end, he is arrested and hanged, while Mrs. Lovett commits suicide in her cell.
In every version, Mrs. Lovett takes in an orphan boy, Tobias Ragg, after Sweeney kills Ragg’s previous guardian, Adolfo Pirelli. Ragg is generally the first character to catch onto Sweeney’s crimes and also is responsible for Todd’s death.
In almost every variation, Johanna, Anthony, and Toby are the only characters who survive.
I am not sure why Burton felt the need to keep it a musical, which to me is, following suit of others. It would have been great if this movie was a straight up talkie.
Now, on to the good stuff.
As the story says, Benjamin Parker (Sweeney Todd), once a barber, was falsely accused and thus sent away. He comes back 15 years later to find the judge who put him away has married his wife and adopted his daughter. Sweeney is now bent on revenge. He re-opens a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop Thus begins the relationship between Todd and Lovett. Also in the pictures is a boy named Toby who worked for a peddler of whatever he was peddling at that time. To learn more of how everyone came to be, rent the movie…I think any version would do, but if you want the dark version, then rent Burton’s version.
The entire movie is dark (dark streets, dark clothes, dark scenes, dark everything) save for the part when Todd is telling Lovett if his past and when Lovett is imagining her and Todd’s life together with Toby.
The movie centers around revenge and Todd’s heart being full of malice. The lengths Todd goes through to exact his revenge causes others to fall prey to the wicked hands to which they were never a part of. Todd’s first chance at revenge against the judge is missed by no fault of his own. Before his second chance appears, many, many men will die and become the meat in Mrs. Lovett’s meat pie, which are the hit of Fleet Street. Once his revenge is complete against the judge, he soon finds that his malice has caused the death of someone that was close to his heart. This causes more anger for Todd who seeks revenge on another and thus the vicious circle just goes around and around and ends with revenge getting its revenge.
