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What is this all about anyways?


Who? Mr. Bojangels - 27 y.o
What? Blog in Croatian
When? First published Oct.08.2006 until ?
Where? Hollywood, CA, USA
Why? To take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.
How? Via Web 2.0

EVerY DaY CrEaTeS YouR HIStory

October 08, 1967: Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured in Bolivia.
October 09, 1940: John Lennon was born.
October 10, 1979: The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.
October 12, 1810: The first Oktoberfest was held in Munich.
October 14, 1957: "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley was released.
October 16, 1923: The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother Roy.
October 18, 1954: Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
October 22, 1964: Drazen Petrovic was born.
October 31, 1517: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
December 1: World AIDS Day, observed today each year since 1988.
December 6, 1897: London becomes the world's first city to host motorised taxicabs.
December 7, 1941: Attack On Pearl Harbor.
December 8, 1980: John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in New York City.
December 18, 1865: Slavery in the US was abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted.
December 28, 1612: Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune.
December 29, 1984: Band Aid were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' and Madonna was at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Like A Virgin.'
January 7, 1782: The first American commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens.
January 8, 1981: B.S was born.
January 10, 49 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
January 15, 1992: The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from Yugoslavia.
January 17, 1994: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
January 20, 1937: Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
January 27, 1977: Record company EMI sacks the controversial punk rock group the Sex Pistols.
January 31, 1876: The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
February 7, 1964: Beatlemania arrives in the US-The Beatles have arrived in New York at the start of their first tour of the US.
February 18, 1885: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
March 8, 1948: The US Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
March 10, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
March 21, 1685: Johann Sebastian Bach was born.
March 29, 1871: The Royal Albert Hall is opened.
April 8, 1973: Pablo Picasso has died of a heart attack.
April 20, 1999: 12 students and a teacher die in the Columbine High School massacre.
May 11, 1981: Bob Marley dies of melanoma in Miami, Florida at age 36.
May 21, 879: Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state.
June 18, 1967: Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.
June 29, 1997: Mike Tyson bites off a piece of his opponent Evander Holyfield's ear during a boxing match.
July 07, 1985: Boris Becker becomes the first unseeded player, the youngest male and the first German to win the Wimbledon at age of 17.
July 13, 1923: The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood.
August 17, 1982: The first Compact Discs (CD's) were released to the public in Germany.
September 13, 1503: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
September 23, 1926: John Coltrane was born.



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Pjesma koja mi je trenutno u glavi:

10/8/06 Wolf Like Me - TV on the Radio
10/9/06 I'm Losing You - John Lennon
10/10/06 Waiting Room - No Doubt ft. Prince
10/11/06 Thunder on the Mountain - Bob Dylan
10/12/06 Blind Leading the Blind - Mick Jagger ft. Dave Steward
10/14/06 Level - The Raconteurs
10/16/06 Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan
10/18/06 Hump De Bump - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10/22/06 All I Want - Joni Mitchell
10/25/06 Monkey 23 - The Kills
10/30/06 All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
11/03/06 All of You - Miles Davis Quintet
11/15/06 Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
11/17/06 Sailing to Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler and James Taylor
11/20/06 One More Chance (Paul Oakenfold Urban Mix) - Michael Jackson
11/23/06 Dancing With Mr.D - The Rolling Stones
11/27/06 If It Be Your Will - Leonard Cohen
12/01/06 Don't Give Up (Africa) - Bono and Alicia Keys
12/06/06 Digging in the Dirt (Secret World Live) - Peter Gabriel
12/08/06 I Just Shot John Lennon - Cranberries
12/13/06 8 Ball - Underworld
12/19/06 Final Straw - R.E.M.
12/28/06 The Payback - James Brown
12/29/06 Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
01/07/07 Lost Children - Michael Jackson
01/08/07 Original Of The Species - U2
01/10/07 Oh What A Beautiful Morning - Ray Charles ft.Count Basie Orchestra
01/17/07 I Am the Walrus - The Beatles
01/20/07 Float On - Modest Mouse
01/27/07 Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
01/31/07 Women - Wolfmother
02/07/07 Frank Sinatra - Cake
02/18/07 Poncho & Lefty - Townes Van Zandt
03/08/07 Jolene - Randy Smith
03/10/07 Satellite of Love - Lou Reed
03/21/07 Maybe I'm Amazed- Paul McCartney
03/29/07 Nutty - Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane
04/08/07 North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem
04/20/07 Romance in Durango - Bob Dylan
05/11/07 Fidelity - Regina Spektor
05/21/07 Wake Up - Rage Against the Machine
06/06/07 The Perfect Crime #2 - The Decemberists
06/18/07 Icky Thump - The White Stripes
06/29/07 Sposa Son Disprezzata - Cecilia Bartoli
07/07/07 Futures - Zero 7 Ft. Jose Gonzalez
07/13/07 You Can't Fail Me Now - Loudon Wainwright
08/17/07 Down Boy - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
08/24/07 One More Cup of Coffee - Bob Dylan
08/26/07 Queer - Garbage
09/13/07 Ball And Biscuit - The White Stripes
09/23/07 Hey Eugene - Pink Martini
10/23/07 The Underdog - Spoon
10/27/07 Chelsea Dagger - Fratellis
11/02/07 Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen
11/18/07 Teardrop - Jose Gonzales
11/30/07 Nature Springs - The Good, The Bad And The Queen
12/05/07 1234 - Feist
12/18/07 Breaker - Low
01/05/08Cold Turkey - Lenny Kravitz
01/11/08 Apartment Story - The National
01/24/08 Old man - The Walkin´Jennys
02/07/08 Summertime (live at Woodstock) - Janis Joplin
02/17/08 Mansard Roof - Vampire Weekend
03/03/08 New York - Cat Power
03/26/08 Supernatural Superserious - R.E.M.

Zadnji Dobar/Odlican/Savrsen film koji sam gledao:
10/8/06 Transamerica
10/9/06 Casino
10/11/06 Good Night and Good Luck
10/14/06 The Beat That My Heart Skipped
10/16/06 Click
10/25/06 The Squid and the Whale
10/30/06 American Beauty
10/31/06 Winter Passing
11/02/06 The Departed
11/04/06 Borat
11/15/06 Munich
11/20/06 Don't Move
11/22/06 Match Point
11/27/06 Closer
12/02/06 Me and You and Everyone We Know
12/05/06 School of Rock
12/11/06 An Inconvenient Truth
12/18/06 Rain
12/20/06 Grizzly Man
01/10/07 Memory of a Killer
01/13/07 Downfall
01/14/07 Hidden (Cache)
01/15/07 Little Miss Sunshine
01/20/07 Cinderella Man
02/06/07 The Devil Wears Prada
02/16/07 Flags of Our Fathers
03/20/07 Babel
03/25/07 The Sopranos - Season 2
04/19/07 Melinda and Melinda
05/11/07 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
05/21/07 Last King Of Scotland
06/06/07 Deliver Us From Evil
06/11/07 The Sopranos - Season 3
06/18/07 Volver
07/10/07 Raging Bull
07/16/07 Snatch
08/12/07 Zodiac
08/15/07 Cashout
08/24/07 The Day of the Jackal
09/06/07 Black Snake Moan
10/16/07 Taxi Driver
10/22/07 Sidewalks of New York
10/26/07 Notes on a Scandal
11/01/07 Reign Over Me
12/05/07 High Fidelity
12/09/07 The Queen
12/10/07 Atonement
12/12/07 Ratatouille
12/15/07 SuperBad
12/17/07 The Office - Season 1
12/27/07 Finding Nemo
01/12/08 Juno
02/16/08 Kingdom
03/03/08 Svjedoci
03/12/08 The Darjeeling Limited
03/14/08 The Rage in Placid Lake

KvOTe

When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away; Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.
When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down; Creep home, and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there, you loved when all was young.

"A lot of time, you just have to go down many roads to get where you are going...The important thing is to keep moving." Bob Dylan, 1971.

The question is not what we are willing to kill for" rekao je Gandhi "but what are we willing to die for."

Mirsad, it was a name for Sarajevo, not for London. Now his name is Miro, but I think he should love his name. Names in my country are like flags, you can live or die because of your name.

"L.A. is a strange place. As long as you think it's strange, then you're all right. I think it's strange, and I am pretty damn strange too." Bono, 1989.

"Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro"
























WoW

If you must: FromOK2LA@gmail.com

srijeda, 31.01.2007.

dOn't WaNNa Be aN amErIcaN IdioT

Evo jos malo politike, nadam se da vas ne davim s njom (recite ako da)
Uzivajte u jos jednom Countdown Special Comment-u.

Bush shoots for ‘Jaws,’ delivers ‘Jaws 2’
President claimed to stop four terror plots, but where is the evidence?
SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
Jan 30, 2007

West Yorkshire in England has a new chief police constable.
Upon his appointment, Sir Norman Bettison made one of the strangest comments of the year:
“The threat of terrorism,” he says, “is lurking out there like ‘Jaws 2.’”

Sir Norman did not exactly mine the richest ore for his analogy of warning. A critic once said of the flopping sequel to the classic film: “You’re gonna need a better screenplay.”

But this obscure British police official has reminded us that terrorism is still being sold to the public in that country — and in this — as if it were a thrilling horror movie and we were the naughty teenagers about to be its victims.

And it underscores the fact that President Bush took this tack, exactly a week ago tonight, in his terror-related passage in the State of the Union.

A passage that was almost lost amid all the talk about Iraq and health care and bipartisanship and the fellow who saved the stranger from an oncoming subway train in New York City.

But a passage ludicrous and deceitful. Frightening in its hollow conviction.
Frightening, in that the president who spoke it tried for “Jaws” but got “Jaws 2.”

I am indebted to David Swanson, press secretary for Dennis Kucinich’s 2004 presidential campaign, who has blogged about the dubious 96 words in Mr. Bush’s address this year and who has concluded that of the four counter-terror claims the president made, he went 0-for-4.

“We cannot know the full extent of the attacks that we and our allies have prevented,” Mr. Bush noted, “but here is some of what we do know: We stopped an al-Qaida plot to fly a hijacked airplane into the tallest building on the West Coast.”

This would, of course, sir, be the purported plot to knock down the 73-story building in Los Angeles, the one once known as the Library Tower — the one you personally revealed so breathlessly a year ago next month.

It was embarrassing enough that you mistakenly referred to the structure as the “Liberty Tower.” But within hours it was also revealed that authorities in Los Angeles had had no idea you were going to make any of the details — whether serious or fanciful — public.
Who terrorized Southern California that day, Mr. Bush?

A year ago next month, the Los Angeles Times quoted a source who insisted that the purported “Library Tower plot” was one of many al-Qaida operations that had not gotten very far past the conceptual stage.

More ominously, the L.A. Times source who debunked the Library Tower story said that those who could correctly measure the flimsiness of the scheme “feared political retaliation for providing a different characterization of the plan than that of the president.”

But Mr. Bush, you’re the decider.
And you decided that the Library Tower story should be scored as one for you.

And you continued with a second dubious claim of counter-terror success. “We broke up a Southeast Asian terror cell grooming operatives for attacks inside the United States,” you said.

Well, sir, you’ve apparently stumped the intelligence community completely with this one.

In his article, Mr. Swanson suggests that in the last week there has been no reporting even hinting at what exactly you were talking about.

He hypothesizes that either you were claiming credit for a ring broken up in 1995 or that this was just the Library Tower story “by another name.”

Another CIA source suggests to NBC News that since the Southeast Asian cell dreamed of a series of attacks on the same day, you declared the Library Tower one threat thwarted, and all their other ideas, a second threat thwarted.

Our colleague Mr. Cressey sums it up:

This “Southeast Asian cell” was indeed the tale of the Library Tower, simply repeated.

Repeated, Mr. Bush, in consecutive sentences in the State of the Union — in your constitutionally mandated status report on the condition and safety of the nation.
You showed us the same baby twice and claimed it was twins. And then you said that was two for you.

Your third claim, sir, read thusly: “We uncovered an al-Qaida cell developing anthrax to be used in attacks against America.”

Again, the professionals in counter-intelligence were startled to hear about this.

Last fall, two Washington Post articles cited sources in the FBI and other governmental agencies who said that hopes by foreign terrorists to use anthrax in this country were fanciful at best, farcical at worst.

And every effort to link the 2001 anthrax mailings in this country to foreign sources has also struck out. The entire investigation is barely still active.

Mr. Cressey goes a little further. Anything that might even resemble an al-Qaida cell “developing anthrax,” he says, was in the “dreaming” stages. He used as a parallel those pathetic arrests outside Miami last year in which a few men wound up getting charged as terrorists because they couldn’t tell the difference between an al-Qaida operative and an FBI informant.
Their “ringleader” seemed to be much more interested in getting his “terrorist masters” to buy him a new car than in actually terrorizing anybody.

That’s three for you, Mr. Bush.

“And just last August,” you concluded, “British authorities uncovered a plot to blow up passenger planes bound for America over the Atlantic Ocean.”

In a series of dramatic raids, 24 men were arrested.
Turned out, sir, a few of them actually had gone on the Internets to check out some flight schedules.

Turned out, sir, only a few of them actually had the passports needed to even get on the planes.
The plot to which President Bush referred was a plot without bombs.

It was a plot without any indication that the essence of the operation — the in-flight mixing of volatile chemicals carried on board in sports drink bottles — was even doable by amateurs or professional chemists.
It was a plot even without sufficient probable cause.

A third of the 24 arrested that day — exactly 90 days before the American midterm elections — have since been released. The British had been watching those men for a year. Before the week was out, their first statement, that the plot was “ready to go, in days,” had been rendered inoperative.

British officials told NBC News of the lack of passports and plans; told us that they had wanted to keep the suspects under surveillance for at least another week.

Even an American official confirmed to NBC’s investigative unit that there was “disagreement over the timing.”

The British then went further. Sources inside their government told the English newspaper the Guardian that the raids had occurred only because the Pakistanis had arrested a man named Rasheed Raouf. That Raouf had been arrested by Pakistan only because we had threatened to do it for them.

That the British had acted only because our government was willing — to quote that newspaper, The Guardian — to “ride roughshod” over the plans of British intelligence.

Oh, by the way, Mr. Bush, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan reduced the charges against Mr. Raouf to possession of bomb-making materials and being there without proper documents.

Still, sir — evidently, that’s close enough.
Score four for you!

Your totally black-and-white conclusions in the State of the Union were based on one gray area, and on three palettes on which the experts can’t even see smudge, let alone gray.

It would all be laughable, Mr. Bush, were you not the president of the United States.

It would all be political hyperbole, Mr. Bush, if you had not, on this kind of “intelligence,” taken us to war, now sought to escalate that war, and are threatening new war in Iran and maybe even elsewhere.

What you gave us a week ago tonight, sir, was not intelligence, but rather a walk-through of how speculation and innuendo, guesswork and paranoia, daydreaming and fear-mongering, combine in your mind and the minds of your government, into proof of your derring-do and your success against the terrorists.

The ones who didn’t have anthrax. The ones who didn’t have plane tickets or passports. The ones who didn’t have any clue, let alone any plots.

But they go now into our history books as the four terror schemes you’ve interrupted since 9/11.

They go into the collective consciousness as firm evidence of your diligence, of the necessity of your ham-handed treatment of our liberties, of the unavoidability of the 3,075 Americans dead in Iraq.

Congratulations, sir.

You are the hero of “Jaws 2.”
© 2007 MSNBC Interactive
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16893899/

subota, 27.01.2007.

rAgE

Jucer sam kupio karte za Coachellu, festival na otvorenom u sred pustinjetine. To vam je kao Woodstock zapadne obale. Traje 3 dana, i naravno najveca senzacija i vijest je ponovno okupljanje rage against the machine, banda koji strasno volim, ali ga nisam uspio gledati Live. Prije nekih 5 godina imao sam cast ih upoznati i dobiti sve njihove autograme, kao i nakon raspada popricati na duze sa Zackom, no vidjeti ih uzivo je nesto sasvim drugo.
Osim njih ovo su ostatak bandova koje se veselim sto cu ih gledati:
rAGE, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bjork, Arcade Fire, Interpol, Willie Nelson, the Roots, Manu Chao, the Decemberists, Arctic Monkeys, Sonic Youth, Air and Kings of Leon. Tu mozete procitati cijeli Clanak...
Za kraj prilazem i ovo...
Tom Morello, in a February 1997 interview with Guitar World, said,
“ America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.”

Meanwhile, detractors pointed out the tension between voicing commitment to leftist causes while being signed to Epic Records, a subsidiary of media conglomerate Sony Records. Infectious Grooves released a song called "Do What I Tell Ya!" which mocks lyrics from "Killing in the Name", accusing the band of being hypocrites. In response to such critiques, Morello said:
“ When you live in a capitalistic society, the currency of the dissemination of information goes through capitalistic channels. Would Noam Chomsky object to his works being sold at Barnes & Noble? No, because that's where people buy their books. We're not interested in preaching to just the converted. It's great to play abandoned squats run by anarchists, but it's also great to be able to reach people with a revolutionary message, people from Granada Hills to Stuttgart.”

pametno huh?
Peace, B

ponedjeljak, 22.01.2007.

DePrA

Prenosim sa stranica Večernjeg lista.

22. SIJEČANJ - NAJDEPRESIVNIJI DAN U GODINI

Ako se ovaj ponedjeljak osjećate malo potišteno i depresivno možda vas utješi pomisao kako stvari vjerojatno neće postati lošije jer je danas najnesretniji dan 2007. godine, kažu znanstvenici.

Neplaćeni božićni računi, loše vrijeme i propali novogodišnji planovi ujedinili su se i učinili datum 22. siječnja najmračnijim danom godine. Znanstvenici su zaključili kako su Britanci jedini narod koji se može nositi s depresijom današnjeg dana, nazvavši ih najoptimističnijima.

Doktor Cliff Arnall, psiholog sveučilišta Cardiff, osmislio je formulu koja pokazuje da je današnji dan najdepresivniji. Njegova jednadžba uračunava šest faktora: vremenske prilike, dugovanja, vrijeme od Božića, vrijeme od propalih novogodišnjih odluka, niske razine motivacije te osjećaj potrebe za djelovanjem. Svi faktori zajedno čine “depresivni ponedjeljak”.

Doktor Arnall rekao je kako razumijevanjem glavnih faktora za depresiju možemo spriječiti da nam sljedeća godina bude nesretna. “Koristite dan kao odskočnu dasku za veću kvalitetu življenja. Na primjer, odredite strogi budžet za božićne kupnje pa ćete sljedeće godine u siječnju biti manje depresivni. Također, odlučite promijeniti svoje ponašanje kao na primjer, prestanite pušiti, zdravije se hranite, više vježbajte ili pronađite novi posao.”

Također bi bilo dobro na današnji dan pripaziti u prometu. Naime, skoro polovica vozača u siječnju pati od simptoma poput depresije i pospanosti što može djelovati na njihove vozačke sposobnosti.

Više od 85 posto ljudi očekuje sretniju budućnost od sadašnjosti. Osobe koje su sudjelovale u istraživanju izjavile su kako se nadaju da će biti sretnije u novoj godini ako se riješe dugova, otplate hipoteku i postignu financijsku sigurnost. Najviše se vesele planovima koji će im pomoći da smanje satnicu na poslu ili mirovini koja će im pomoći da poboljšaju kvalitetu življenja.

subota, 20.01.2007.

I'm In

Danas sam po prvi puta u 007. otisao u gym, uf uf...Uspio sam otrcati 2 milje u 14. min, na sto sam dosta ponosan! Isto tako sam jucer nakon dugo peripetija, papirologija i razno raznih bullshitova dobio novu radnu dozvolu (trecu do sada). Istice 1/8/08, sto mi daje dovoljno vremena da konacno sredim green cartu. Kad se vec spominje vlada i birokracija, Hillary je prije nekoliko sati objavila da ide za predsjednicu! Mislim da je trebala cekati jos 4.godine, jel sada su Demokrati ponovno na vlasti i treba im netko jak i siguran za predsjednickog kandidata u 2008. Ako ste Demokrat ili jednostavno mrzite vladajucu stranku, vasi trenutni izbori se svode na crnca ili zenu sto, po mome misljenju, nije dovoljno sigurno za pobijedu i preokret slijedece godine. Demokratskoj strani ce biti dosta tesko prikupiti dovoljno glasova od konzervativnih demokrata, ljudi iz sredine, te onih koje samo tu i tamo glasaju. Ako je Amerima i Kerry bio pre liberalan i u pitanje se dovodilo sto je on Katolik a ne Protestant, te je izgubio jel nije bio dovoljno taf, koliko ce im onda biti liberalni crnac i zena? Vec sada konzervativci (citaj republikanci) misle kako Nancy Pelosi (speaker of the House) zeli pretvoriti Ameriku u San Francisko (liberalno i gay srediste SAD-a)!!
Dakle, ja niposto ne mislim da crnac ili zena nisu sposobni vladati najvecom silom na svijetu, vec mislim kako za to trenutno nije pravo vrijeme. Demokrati trebaju ucvrstiti bazu, od poznatog i snaznog kandidata (mozda Al Gore?), stvoriti solidnog predsjednika i onda za nasljednika ili prvo vice presidenta staviti Hillary ili Obamu. Za 4 godine ce se vec zavrsiti rat u Iraku (nadam se), National Security nece vise biti takav veliki issue (isto se nadam) i glasaci ce se vec priviknuti na ove kandidate, pa ce i Hillary i Obami biti puno lakse. Pogledajte samo kakav big deal je bio kad je Katie Couric postala prva zenska voditeljica CBS vijesti, a ne prva zenska predsjednica. Sada su se svi navikli i vise nitkome to nije cudno.
Clinton, 59, ima velikih prednosti sto se tice prikupljana love i slavnoga prezimena, no te prednosti nece biti nista manje za 4.godine.

"The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success" Dr. Joyce Brothers

Za 2 sata pocinju Ancic i Roddick, taman za mene super vrijeme, 7 navecer, subota....Karlovacko se hladi, glas stedi...bring it on boys!

Good Night and Good Luck, B

petak, 19.01.2007.

In Memoriam - Reported Casualties of the Iraq Occupation since March 3, 2003:
(last updated on January 18, 2007)
U.S. Soldiers 3,027
U.S. Soldiers Wounded 22,834
Iraqi Civilian Deaths 59,571

srijeda, 17.01.2007.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

Jucer sam opet slusao "Love". Nazalost moji starci i ja nismo si mogli priustit The Beatles "Love" show u Vegasu, iako mi se stari odsetao do Miragea da pay tribute.

Opet sam kasnio na posao zbog freaking Golden Globes red carpeta i milijun turista i paparazza. Jadna moja trubica.
Na poslu je dobro, no vec se hvata kolotecina, moram si naci hobi, opet u gym. Moramo isto tako nastaviti snimati onu pjesmu sto smo stali proslog Bozica, vec mi se na palice uhvatila paucina. Moram zvati studio i pjevaca. Heh, dobra ideja...
Bookirao sam hotel u New Yorku, sad jos samo rent-a-car ostao i taksi do Lax-a.

Goo Goo Ga Joob...B

I Am The Walrus
John Lennon wrote this, but it was released as the B-side to "Hello Goodbye," which Paul McCartney wrote. This angered Lennon because he felt this was much better.
Lennon wrote most of this while tripping on acid. The up and down rhythm was inspired by a police siren he heard.
Lennon made sure the lyrics didn't make sense so he could confuse all the people trying to analyze his songs. He got the idea for the oblique lyrics when he received a letter from a student who explained that his English teacher was having the class analyze Beatles songs. Lennon answered the letter; his reply was sold as memorabilia at a 1992 auction.
The voices at the end are from a BBC broadcast of the Shakespeare play King Lear.
The idea for the Walrus came from the poem The Walrus and The Carpenter from Alice in Wonderland. In his 1980 Playboy interview, Lennon said: "It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist and social system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles' work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, s--t, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, 'I am the carpenter.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it?"
When Lennon decided to write confusing lyrics, he asked his friend Pete Shotton for a nursery rhyme they used to sing. Shotton gave them this rhyme, which Lennon incorporated into the song:
"Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, all mixed together with a dead dog's eye.
Slap it on a butty, ten foot thick, then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick."
The song's opening line, "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together" is based on the song "Marching To Pretoria," which contains the lyric, "I'm with you and you're with me and we are all together."
The choir at the end sings "Oompah, oompah, stick it in your jumper" and "Everybody's got one, everybody's got one."
This song helped fuel the rumor that Paul McCartney was dead. It's quite a stretch, but theorists found these clues in the lyrics, none of which are substantiated:
"Waiting for the van to come" means the 3 remaining Beatles are waiting for a police van to come. "Pretty little policemen in a row" means policemen did show up.
"Goo goo ga joob" were the final words that Humpty Dumpty said before he fell off the wall and died.
During the fade, while the choir sings, a voice says "Bury Me" which is what Paul might have said after he died.
During the fade, we hear someone reciting the death scene from Shakespeare's play "King Lear."
The BBC banned this for the lines "pornographic priestess" and "let your knickers down."
Lennon got the line "Goo Goo Ga Joob" from the book Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce.
In The Beatles song "Glass Onion," Lennon sang, "The Walrus was Paul." He got a kick out of how people tried to interpret his lyrics and figure out who the Walrus was.
"Semolina Pilchard" was Detective Sergeant Norman Pilcher, head of the Scotland Yard Drugs Unit. He led the arrests of both John Lennon and Brian Jones et al, before being investigated himself for blackmail and bribery in the '70s.

ponedjeljak, 15.01.2007.

aO

Ljubo opet spusio u prvom kolu, to je vec drugi Slam za redom kako je ispao odmah, a i u Wimbledonu se jedva izvukao protiv Lopeza u prvom kolu. What the hell? Isao sam spavati kada je bilo 6-4 i 5-5 za njega u setovima, mislim mirno je, sve je OK. Ne kuzim da je vec 3 godine u top 10, i posvajao je turnira par, igrao dosta finala Mastersa i jos uvijek se tolko zasere na Slamovima??
Bojao sam se Fisha jel pravi comeback, i Ancica je izbacio prosli tjedan, pa sam znao da nece biti lako, ali bas u 4.seta...c'mon.
Moram ga izgrdit u Ozujku kad ga opet vidim na Indian Wellsu.
Sad ce pasti za par mjesta na ljestvici. Nadam se da mu ovo nece bili losa godina jel pre star je vec za veliki pad i onda neki suvisli comeback.
Ako ima nesto pozitivno u tom porazu, je da ce bar spremniji biti za Zagreb Open i Davis Cup.

U petak smo se dobro zapili za moj rodosh, sub i ned uglavnom sam lapio i gledao u TV. Svi pricaju o Beckamu, dosla je Posh u sub. na LAX i paparazzi poludili. Nije bio toliki buzz u gradu od kako je Shaq presao u Lakerse. Tko bi rekao...

Preko vikenda sam kupio karte za Philly i NYC. Idem 11.2., za manje od mjesec dana, yay!!!

Peace, b

subota, 13.01.2007.

Debit

Zanimljiv clanak koji sam nasao na blogu o vinu, zvan vinography. Nisam ga nikada pio (inace nisam ljubitelj bijelih vina), jeli cemu?

January 06, 2007
2003 Bibich Debit, Skradin (North Dalmatia), Croatia
Filed under: Boutique Wines , White Wine , Wine Reviews , Wines under $20
In my last post here on Vinography I mulled, tongue-in-cheek about the impact of wine on the hallowed halls of civilization, and in particular on the English language. Fun and games aside, wine and language are just as inextricably entwined through history as wine and culture. Lest there be any doubt, one need look no further than the northern coasts of Dalmatia, which has been making wine from a grape with a strangely (to English speakers) familiar name for two centuries.

Actually the winemaking traditions in Croatia go back well before the Roman Empire, though it was the Romans who brought significant rigor, scale, and methodology to the production of grapes in the area. The winemaking traditions in the region was strong enough (like it's neighbors Austria and Hungary) to survive through the ages, even through the anti-alcohol policies of the Ottoman empire. Croatia happens to be home to some of the best Slavonian oak forests in the world, and like many areas of central and eastern Europe, has some very interesting indigenous varietals.

Over the last thousand years, at least since the Ottomans finished marching about in central Europe, life in the fishing villages of Dalmatia was pretty idyllic by anyone's standards. But then one day a little guy named Napoleon arrived in the late 18th century and started making everyone's life a bit more difficult again. One of the things the Emperor demanded, of course, were the payment of taxes, and not having much else besides small quantities of fish, which the French had plenty of anyway, the Croatians opted to pay with a certain wine grape.

No one knows exactly what it was called before then, but ever since, the grape and the wine made from it, have been known as Debit.

For 33-year-old winemaker and winery owner Alan Bibich, this is one square in a much larger patchwork quilt of Croatian winemaking history that he has been handed down from five generations of family, but one that is close to his heart. Educated in the study of the Croatian language, Bibich actually taught the subject at the university level before becoming a full-time winemaker. It was not certain that he would continue the family tradition of winemaking, but in the end he felt strongly that he could not leave the vineyards untended and the barrels empty.

Since 1995 Bibich and his wife have been running the family winery and the retail wine shop the own in the town of Skradin. Bibich's winemaking skills have been learned from family and from lots of trial and error. While his own satisfaction with the quality of his wine has been a slow 11-year road, his business success has been less than sluggish. The family now owns wine stores in several other villages, has 12 employees, and produces close to 70,000 cases of wine.

In addition to this white wine from Debit, the winery also produces a red blend (of local varietals Babich, Plavina, and Lasin), a Shiraz, and a Grenache. Bibich has been planting and experimenting with other native varieties which he hopes to bring to market in the future.

This wine is made from 100% Debit, and is aged in new American oak barrels for 18 months before release.
Tasting Notes:
Light gold in color, this wine smells of toasted croutons, old parchment, pine sap, and the dry forest floor. In the mouth it has lovely bright acidity, a satiny mouthfeel, and a chalky mineral flavor profile with light green fruits that hover in the starfruit or unripe kiwifruit zone with a hint of vanilla and buttery aspects on the finish. This is a varietal that definitely has its own flavors, with could be described as having some similarities to Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Riesling, or Gruner Veltliner, in different ways. Quite tasty and lots of fun to drink.

Food Pairing:
This is an extremely food friendly varietal, at least as it has been made in this wine. I'd pair this wine with something that has a light sweetness to it, like this red onion, goat cheese and basil tart.

Overall Score: 9
How Much?: $13
This wine is available for purchase on the internet.

srijeda, 10.01.2007.

UpDaTe

Evo me nazad u reality.
Starci su otisli, slegla se prasina.
Proslo je brzo, bilo je hekticno, ali bilo je dobro.
Isli smo u Santa Barbaru, Las Vegas, oni su bili na Santa Monica Pieru, Venice Beachu, Getty Muzeju, Griffith Observatoriju, Universal Studios, Rodeo Driveu, Chinese Theatru, shoppinga kolko oces, stari se sav preznojio pokusavajuci zatvoriti prepune kofere. Jeli smo puno dobre hrane, slusali live jazz, stavio sam preko 1000 milja na auto, i sada spavam, samo spavam i odmaram. Nismo stigli niti jedan dvd pogledati, ali nisu dosli da gledaju telku zar ne?
Za rodendan smo Jordan i ja otisli na jednu finu vecericu gdje se moze donjet vlastiti alkos, pa sam ja donio jednu bocicu plavca i bas mi je dobro sijela. Pravi party je u petak sa drugarima.

Ne mogu vjerovati da je vec 2007. - 10 godina od kako sam proveo ljeto u Londonu i 10 godina od kako sam pao na zapadnjacu kulturu i nacin zivota. U istom tjednu gledao sam Michael Jacksona na Wembleyu i Pete Samprasa na Wimbledonu!!! Kako i ne bih pao. Time is a Jet Plane...

Citam danas da nam stize Beckam u LA za strasnu lovu, ima da meksici polude, mozda ce sada izgraditi stadion blize od 100km od LA-a.

U meduvremenu they executed The Godfather Of Soul Gerald Ford. ili tako nesto...

Sretna 2007. jos jednom.
Pozdrav, Mr.B

ponedjeljak, 08.01.2007.

8-1-81

On this Day - January 8th
Events
1198 - Innocent III becomes Pope.
1297 - Monaco gains its independence.
1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.
1815 - U.S. forces led by Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, the closing engagement of the War of 1812.
1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana).
1912 - The African National Congress was founded.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
1935 - Arthur C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
1958 - Fourteen-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
1959 - Conquest of Cuba by Fidel Castro is completed with the conquest of Santiago de Cuba. Charles De Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France's Fifth Republic.
1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.
1977 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake epicentered just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Births
1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
1735 - John Carroll (priest), first American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
1763 - Edmond Charles Genęt, French ambassador to the United States (d. 1834)
1792 - Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)
1805 - John Bigler, Governor of California (d. 1871)
1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)
1821 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862)
1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)
1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)
1852 - James Milton Carroll, was a Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author.
1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930)
1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1940)
1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
1931 - Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan
1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
1947 - David Bowie, English musician
1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican professional wrestler
1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
1967 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
1967 - R. Kelly, American singer
1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician (Fuel (band))
1970 - Dave Eggers, American writer and publisher
1971 - Jason Giambi, baseball player
1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
1975 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
1976 - Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician (Rilo Kiley)
1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian soccer player
1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress
1981 - JA, me, mine, Mr.Bojangels'

Deaths
482 - Saint Severinus
1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
1198 - Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)
1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (b. 1564)
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
1935 - Jesse Presley, stillborn, born and died the same day
1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)

Hvala Igoru, Turku, Naoko, Jordan, Tati, Mami, Marci, i burazu na dosadasnjim cestitkama.
You are always in my heart, B

Original Of The Species
Baby slow down
The end is not as fun as the start
Please stay a child somewhere in your heart

I'll give you everything you want
Except the thing that you want
You are the first one of your kind

And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
And I kneel ‘cos I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that you're not

Everywhere you go you shout it
You don't have to be shy about it

Some things you shouldn't get too good at
Like smiling, crying and celebrity
Some people got way too much confidence baby

I'll give you everything you want
Except the thing that you want
You are the first one of your kind

And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
I kneel ‘cos I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that you're not

Everywhere you go you shout it
You don't have to be shy about it, no
And you'll never be alone
Come on now show your soul
You've been keeping your love under control

Everywhere you go you shout it
You don't have to be shy about it
Everywhere you go you shout it
Oh my my

And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
I kneel ‘cos I want you some more
I want you some more, I want you some more...

nedjelja, 07.01.2007.

HaPPy B-DaY 2 mE... :0)

Danas u 5 ujutro sam odveo starce na LAX, prije 10 minuta saznao da su sletili u Budimpestu i za 50. minuta mi je 26. rodendan. Dosta emocijama ispunjeni dan, isn't it?
Cujemo se sutra, sada idem uzivati u posljednjim minutama kao 25. godisnjak, covjek star cetvrtinu stoljeca. Procitajte si prilozeni nastavak avantura moga bratica.
Everyone can afford to give away a smile.
B.

četvrtak, 04.01.2007.

Temperamentni, svadljivi, nekulturni.

Prilozen u cijelosti je mail moga bratica. Toliko je dobar da sam ga samo pasteao. Cujemo se. Uzivajte...