A cautionary tale (actually, a cartoon) that should help kids see the value of a good night's shut eye. Featuring: a crazy guinea pig scientist and his cyborg pet sheep in a sleep
related adventure. Made by The Brothers McLeod for Children's BBC.
This weekend I watched Juno, what put me in an incredibly regressive mode. First, I paid to get into a Movie Theater (long time did not do that), second, the next day I had to run to Amoeba to buy the CD with the soundtrack (another thing I thought I was not going to do ever again). I can't stop listening to it, I've already ordered Diablo Cody's Candy Girl (and I can't help but be jealous of someone almost exactly 5 years my junior with such a successful writing career already - but as my hub replied "She did sit down to write, didn't she?" - but I digress...) and I am in love with Michael Cera - too bad we are 15 years apart...
Tetti loved the soundtrack - his favorite song is Vampire, by Antsy Pants. Last night as, I played the record for the third time, he set up the living room for a show - dining chairs in rows, a bodyboard as stage, the Amoeba logo cut out of the store wrapping paper stuck in our main door to announce the happening... It is funny, since he did not watch the movie, how the compilation inspired him into such performance. Maybe drama is not dead yet, after all.
My favorite song is "Anyone Else But You", by The Moldy Peaches. (beware spoiler coming up!) Take a peek at Cera and Page ending the movie with it:
Bébé Lilly is one of my son's favorite web videos. When he saw this new one, he exclaimed: "Oh, this is in French". ForeignMama never got so proud! He is getting into recognizing languages - not only the Portuguese that I hammer in his head everyday, but pointing to things like: "oh, this is Spanish", "this song is in Arabic" and now, he noticed French, although we don't practice the "frogs' dialect" with him and we rarely mention that something is being said in French. That comes to prove that an early bilingual education opens mind roads to not only one extra foreign language, but several, allowing awareness of the "otherness" in communication early on! Have fun with Bébé Lilly:
ISRAEL THROUGH THE LENSES OF GEORGE LANGE Click here to enjoy his latest Flipbook (a very fast version of a slide show, with great musical background and hypnotic imagery). Mesmerizing. Shalom.
TODAY IS A JAMIROQUAI DAY - ALRIGHT? Nostalgic mood, remembering how much fun I used to have. Listening to Space Cowboy, Virtual Insanity and Cosmic Girl in YouTube. I've never thought I was going to be one of those people that go like "good times were the old times". But I haven't been in a party like that for a while...
TRUEMORS, YOUR COCKTAIL PARTY CONVERSATION FUEL If you need great conversation starters for social gatherings and stuff, check out Truemors.com daily. Soon you'll be generating heated debates starting like "have you heard that bat bandwidth is species specific?", or "did you hear that a cigar smoked by Elvis Presley sold for $550 at the Elvis Expo Tradeshow in Memphis?".
NOW LISTENING: Pandora, the radio from the Music Genome Project, is an automated music recommendation FREE service and highly addictive. Users enter a song or artist that they enjoy, and the service responds by playing selections that are musically similar. Users give feedback on each song choice — approving or disapproving — which Pandora takes in consideration when making future selections.
ANIMATED MUSIC VIDEOS CAN BE GREAT CROWD PLEASERS Who knew that my son would enjoy listening to Frejat? Nevertheless, he is always asking to see "Segredos" or "Tunel do Tempo" , thanks to the cute cartoon the famed Brazilian guitar player became. Teti's opinion? "Wow, this is so Brasil!" (click in the songs names to watch the videos through Daily Motion).