Windows ‘95 – What do we celebrate today ?

August,24 , 1995 Microsoft releases Windows 95, and revolutionizes the PC world, with the introduction of the Start Menu.

Windows 95 was released with great fanfare, including a commercial featuring the Rolling Stones song “Start Me Up” (a reference to the Start button). It was widely reported that Microsoft paid the Rolling Stones between US$8 and US$14 million for the use of the song (from the 1981 album Tattoo You) in the 95 advertising campaign. According to sources at Microsoft, however, this was just a rumor spread by the Stones to increase their market value, and Microsoft actually paid a fraction of that amount.A 30-minute promotional video, labelled a “cyber sitcom”, featuring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry, was also released to showcase the features of Windows 95. Microsoft’s US$300 million advertising campaign featured stories of people waiting in line outside stores to get a copy.

In the UK, the largest computer chain PC World received a large number of oversized Windows 95 boxes, posters and point of sale material, and many branches opened at midnight to sell the first copies of the product, although these customers were far fewer in number than publicity had suggested.[citation needed]

In the United States, the Empire State Building in New York City was lit to match the colors of the Windows logo. In Canada, a 300-foot banner was hung from the top of the CN Tower in Toronto. Copies of The Times were available for free in the United Kingdom where Microsoft paid for 1.5 million issues (twice the daily circulation at the time).

The release included a number of “Fun Stuff” items on the CD, including music videos of Edie Brickell’s “Good Times, Bad Times” and Weezer’s “Buddy Holly”.

BooBooKittyFuck Reloaded.

Bubu last night. That’s why I love her.

Rastafari Movement – What do we celebrate today?

The Rastafari movement is a “messianic religio-political movement” that began in the Jamaican slums in the 1920s and 30s. The most famous Rastafari is Bob Marley, whose reggae music gained the Jamaican movement international recognition.

There is significant variation within the Rastafari movement and no formal organization. Some Rastafarians see Rasta more as a way of life than a religion. But uniting the diverse movement is belief in the divinity and/or messiahship of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, the influence of Jamaican culture, resistance of oppression, and pride in African heritage. The Rastafarian lifestyle usually includes ritual use of marijuana, avoidance of alcohol, the wearing of one’s hair in dreadlocks, and vegetarianism.

The fouder of the Rastafari Movement ,Marcus Garvey, was born on 17 of august 1887. So that’s why I’m writing this post today.He was a black Jamaican who led a “Back to Africa” movement. He taught that Africans are the true Israelites and have been exiled to Jamaica and other parts of the world as divine punishment.

Garvey encouraged pride in being black and worked to reverse the mindset of inferiority that centuries of enslavement had ingrained on the minds of blacks. Garvey is regarded as a second John the Baptist and famously prophesied in 1927, “Look to Africa, for there a king shall be crowned.”

Followers of the Rastafari movement are known as Rastafarians, Rastafaris, Rastas, or Ras Tafarians. The movement is named for Ras Tafari Makonnen, who was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in 1930.Rastafaris dislike the term “Rastafarianism” because they reject the “isms and schisms” that characterize oppressive and corrupt white society. The movement is referred to as “the Rastafari movement,” “Rasta,” or “Rastafari.”

One of the most important figures in the history of the Rastafari movement is the reggae artist Bob Marley (1945-81). The son of a white father and black mother, Marley lived in the Kingston slums of Jamaica. He recorded his first singles in 1962, had his first internation hit with The Wailers’ album Catch A Fire in 1973. He had his first solo hit outside Jamaica with “No Woman, No Cry,” in 1975. Bob Marley became a Rastafari around 1966. He grew dreadlocks, adopted marijuana as a sacred sacrament, and is said to have begun every performance proclaiming the divinity of Jah Rastafari. His immense popularity as a musician brought both reggae and Rasta to international attention. Reggae music is intimately connected to Rastafari and its lyrics often speak of oppression, poverty, slavery, apartheid and human rights.

Marley was diagnosed with cancer in 1977 and he succumbed to the disease on May 11, 1981. Uprising (1980), Bob Marley’s final studio album, is one of his most religious works, including the tracks “Redemption Song” and “Forever Loving Jah.” A few months before his death, Bob Marley was baptized into the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, a Christian faith that rejects the divinity of Haile Selassie. This has allowed both faiths to claim Marley as “their own.” Marley received a state funeral in Jamaica, which combined elements of Ethiopian Orthodoxy and Rastafari. He was buried in a crypt near his birthplace with his Gibson Les Paul guitar, a soccer ball, a cannabis bud, and a Bible.

In 1996, the Rastafari movement worldwide was given consultative status by the United Nations. Today, there are approximately 1 million Rastafarians worldwide. There are official branches in England, Canada, the Caribbean islands and America, and members in many more countries.

And here’s a favourite of mine from Bob Marley.

Elvis Presley’s death – 32 years

Thirty-two years ago today, Ginger Alden — then a 21-year-old model with dark eyes, long auburn hair and a wide smile — awoke from a nap and, not immediately seeing her fiancee, knocked on his bathroom door.

Elvis Presley died Aug. 16, 1977. As fans commemorate the anniversary of his death, many see similarities with the recent drug overdose of Michael Jackson.

Opening the door, she found the man who seven months earlier had proposed marriage dead from an overdose — Elvis Presley. 

It was just after 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 16, 1977. The book that Elvis had taken into the bathroom four hours earlier, “The Scientific Search for the Face of Jesus,” lay opened at his feet. He was 42.

By 4:30 that afternoon, Elvis’ father, Vernon Presley, stood on the steps of the singer’s Memphis mansion, Graceland, and told the world: “My son is dead.”

“I remember an overwhelming sense of sadness, disbelief and feeling as if Graceland had also died,” Alden, now Ginger Leyser, told ABC News.com in an e-mail. “It was a complete, complete shock. Elvis was in a great mood and looking forward to going back on tour.”

“He had earlier told me that he had been off too long,” she wrote. “We had discussed wedding plans in the early morning hours after we went to the dentist. It was impossible to me that there would be a world and he not be there. That day a huge emptiness filled Graceland, Memphis, the world and my heart. It was an indescribable personal feeling of loss.”

Public Awareness – Global Warming – Must see it!

Must see it!

Endeering..

Agency: Ponto de Criação/fluor, São Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director/Copywriter: Guto Araki
Art Director: Reinaldo Pina
Illustrator: Tribbo Post
Photographer: Ricardo Carvalho
Audio: Comando-S

Aired: January 2009

Woodstock 1969 – 40 years

August 15, 1969 - Woodstock begins on Max Yasgur’s farm in upstate New York. Tickets are $18 for three days of counterculture musical acts, including Jimi Hendrix, The Who,Joan Baez,Creedence Clearwater Revival,Janis Joplin,Santana,etc.

Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest moments in popular music history and was listed on Rolling Stone’s 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.

The event was captured in a successful 1970 documentary movie, Woodstock; an accompanying soundtrack album; and Joni Mitchell’s song “Woodstock”, which commemorated the event and became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

Woodstock Statistics List

0………….Collection bin anywhere within eyeshot of the festival site
1………….Case of Pneumonia
1………….Diabetic Coma
1………….Price (in dollars) for a loaf of bread and a quart of milk
2………….Festival births
2………….Number of tickets gates at site (30 entrances each)
3………….Deaths (one each from heroin overdose, ruptured appendix
and being run over by a tractor)
3………….Tracheotomies performed
4………….Cost (in dollars) of hit of acid or mescaline
4………….Number of miscarriages reported
10…………Number of shots fired in air by farmer fed up with noise
10…………Millions of yards of blue jean and striped t-shirt material
at the festival
13…………Number of months between Jimi Hendrix’s performance
and his death
14…………Number of months between Janis Joplin’s performance
and her death
15…………Price (in dollars) of an ounce of marijuana
18…………Price (in dollars) of advance sale ticket for three days
18…………Number of doctors who treated 6,000 patients
31…………Number of musical acts to appear on the main stage
33…………Number of people arrested on drug charges
36…………Number of nurses who treated 6,000 patients
48…………Number of pages in original Woodstock Program distributed
at the site
50…………Number of additional doctors flown in from New York City
on August 16
50…………Cost (in cents) of hot dog at inflated prices at diners
near the site
60…………Approximate number of public telephones is area
61…………Number of Short Line buses sent from New York City
65…………Amateur radios employed
80…………Width (in feet) of the stage
80…………Lawsuits filed after the festival
90…………Percentage of festival attendees smoking marijuana
100………..Approximate number of arrests on narcotic charges
120………..Longest waiting time (in minutes) between acts
150………..Number of volunteer cops
346………..Number of off-duty New York City policemen hired at $50
per day each, joined by 100 local sheriffs, several
hundred State Troopers and deputies from 12 counties
400………..Festival-goers who freaked out on bad LSD trips
450………..Cows unfenced for three days with the campers
600………..Number of Port-O-Sans (portable toilets)
1,300……….Pounds of canned food, sandwiches and fruit flown in
by emergency helicopters
1,500……….Paid (in dollars) for Santana’s 45 minute performance.
2,500……….1989 price (in dollars) of original Woodstock posters
4,062……….Ticket holders who received a refund check because they
were unable to gain attendance
7,500……….Paid (in dollars) for The Grateful Dead to perform
8,000……….1989 price (in dollars) for an uncollected festival ticket
sold by attendee
11,200………Paid (in dollars) for The Who to perform
30,000………Number of sandwiches prepared by the Women’s Group of
the Jewish Community Center of Monticello and distributed
by the Sisters of the Convent of St. Thomas
60,000………Number of people expected to attend festival
100,000……..Number of campers
186,000……..Tickets sold
250,000……..Number of people who never made it to the site
315,000……..Feet of film shot for Woodstock film (120 hrs)
320,000……..Estimated number of people who left before Hendrix played
400,000……..Estimated number of people who attended festival
500,000……..Long distance phone calls placed the first day of festival
500,000……..Frankfurters and hamburgers consumed on the first day
500,000……..Estimated cost of festival (in dollars), revised to $2.6
million ten months after
600,000……..Dollars worth of bad checks reportedly signed by John
Roberts during festival which were later covered
1,000,000…….Reported price (in dollars) paid by Alan Gerry in 1996
for the 37.5 acre natural amphitheatre portion of
the Woodstock site
1,300,000…….Dollars collected in advance sales
50,000,000+….Worldwide box office gross (in dollars) made by 1979 on
Woodstock movie

Who’s the birthday boy?

La multi ani Gontz,sa traiesti,sa-nfloresti,ca un mar,ca un par,ca un fir de trandaf .. Shit,asta-i Sorcova..

Anyway,la multi ani sanatosi si mai putin boemi.

Sunt putini oameni apropiati mie despre care post sa spun ca urmatoarea replica se poate aplica, iar  el,este cu siguranta unul din ei.

“A good friend will help you move. An old friend will help you move a dead body”

A piece of loving memory,I’m sure you’ll find it somewhere in your head ..

A day from BooBooKittyFuck’s life

Meet BooBooKittyFuck. Or you could just call her BooBoo. She’s a girl,a female, a “she”,whatever you want.

BooBoo’s crying over her manish look. To have a tiny little beard,as a girl, is embarrassing to BooBoo. Hey,you’re too young for plastic surgery. Go to your room and stop wining.

BooBoo likes bakpacking,hitch hacking,playing hide and seek . She also loves to play “Unplug Mashi

’s laptop and screw all her unsaved work”

BooBoo likes to read the daily Cat News. But first she reads  the obituary page. The vet said that’s unusual for her age but..hey,who are we to say what a cat can or cannot do? Oh,she also updates her Twitter page..

That’s BooBoo after I told her about this post. She just doesn’t like to be on “display”,she works undercover,she’s in fact a racoon. Just whispered to me : “Thank God you didnt caught me when I was cover-free.

So,this is BooBooKittyFuck, a mental greedy idiot who we love too much to let her know that she’s indeed just a cat. The doctor said the truth  might kill her.

Oh, and if she asks,the only answer is “The Storke!” Mkay?

Unicef / Tap Project – Desperate

Unicef / Tap Project – Desperate

“Thousands of mothers in underdeveloped countries face this decision every day.
For every dollar that you donate, Unicef’s Tap Project will provide clean water for 40 kids.”

“Mii de mame din tarile subdezvoltate au de luat aceasta decizie in fiecare zi. Pentru fiecare dolar donat, Unicef’s Tap Project va asigura apa curata pentru 40 de copii”

Agency: Casanova Pendrill, NY, USA
Executive Creative Director: Elias Weinstock
Creative Director: Alejandro Ortiz
Art Directors: Alejandro Ortiz & Dámaso Crespo
Copywriters: Alejandro Ortiz & Beto Arévalo
Director: Rodrigo García Saiz
Production Company: Alta Vista Films
Producer: Pilar Matallana
Editor: Keith Olwell (Proton)
Post-production: James Long (Proton)

Aired: March 2009

Filme. Din engleza in romana..have a laugh.

Inainte de 89 aveau o scuza. Cu toate astea,iote ca e 2009 si titlurile de filme sunt traduse atat de prost.. de-mi vine sa-mi rup mana si s-arunc cu ea in ei.  Nu spun ca ar trebui traduse mot-a-mot dar..nici chiar asa.  Incepand de la un poster foarte vechi pe care l-am vazut prima oara cand aveam 5 ani la mamaia mea si pana la afisele imense de-atarna prin orasele mari..titlurile filmelor  sunt traduse de-ampulea. Pentru posterul de-l tinea mamaia atarnat in camara, a trebuit sa astept vreun an sa invat sa citesc ..si asta ca sa ce? Sa citesc “Unora le place jazzul” si ca peste ani sa realizez ca e “alternativa comunista la “Some like it hot “

Am tot facut un “research”  saptamana asta .. Si astea sunt cateva exemple de filme traduse ca curu`.

“Married with Children” transformat in  “Familia Bundy”

Trainspotting  transformat in Din viata scapa cine poate

The Usual Suspects transformat in  Suspecti de serviciu

Deja Vu transformat in  Dincolo de trecut  (Foarte simplu putea ramane Deja-vu,termen arhi-cunoscut)

The Butterfly Effect transformat in  Zbor de Fluture

The Departed – Cartita

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Stralucirea eterna a mintii neprihanite (2004) (Asta cu neprihanitu` e amuzant,zau)

Charlotte’s Web transformat in  Reteaua miraculoasa

Children of Men transformat in Copiii tatalui

Romeo Must Die transformat in  “Sa moara Romeo” (Suna a manea mie- cum ramane cu “Romeo trebuie sa moara”? Parca suna mai bine,nu?)

Dude,where’s my car ? in “Bãi, care mi-a sutit masina? ” (Sutit? Come’on,din mahala,nu alta )

The Girl Next Door  in Fata din vecini (Suna a film porno – Fata din vecini..in vecini..in vecini..)

Tommorow Never Dies in  Viitorul e în mânile lui

Police Story 2 = Protectorul 2

Mean Machine = Meciul cel mare

Assault on Dome 4 = Justiţiarul spaţial

Primal Instinct = Fantezii pe internet

Hard Justice = Închisoarea

Naked Man = Omul cu două feţe

Dreamcatcher = Talismanul viselor

Body of evidence = Preţul trupului

Circle of Deception = Dependenţă

Swimfan – Spune-mi că mă iubeşti

The Fighting Temptations – Moştenire cu cântec

The Ladykillers – Cum scăpăm de Coana Mare ?

Pieces of April – Ziua Recunoştinţei

Knocked Up – Aproape insarcinata

Vintage Happy Birthday for my vintage friend

“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”
Frank Sinatra

Happy birthday from me and,apparently from Frank Sinatra.