Excellent HansZUNblog has been goin' totally Brazil lately and presents (among other things) the Greatest Hits of Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 . It contains, of course, "Mais que nada". Go get it - nem mas, nem nada!
Jimmy Castor - Singer - Songwriter - Performer - Jimmy Castor
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Get "Troglodyte" (1.7 MB, WMA, Via YouSendIt)
"Original vocalist of Os Mutantes, Brazil's greatest pop group of the late sixties, Rita Lee begins here, in 1970, her solo career which lasts until today. Although it was recorded in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, "Build Up" always feels like a very European Tropicalia. Pay special attention to some gems included in this ecletic album, like "José" (a very touching version of Moustaki's original "Joseph"), the exotic "Hulla-Hulla", the semi-spanish tango "Prisioneira do Amor" or the electric Lennon-McCartney's classic "And I Love Him"."
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"The Relation Browser displays complex concept network structures. The information comes from the CIA world factbook about countries, continents and oceans."
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For those who likes to relax playing online games here's a great BIG list containing 3.200.
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What software du you use (if any) to convert vinyl to mp3? Do you have any good suggestions? I would prefer if it's free and available for download. C'mon give us a tip!
Let me just add that it should be as simple as possible to use as I'm no tech freak.
UPDATE
Mr Hanaga kindly proposes Audacity (which by the way is Swedish, I believe). Any other thoughts?
Arghh!! Can't get the sound into the computer. I've connected this amplifier I bought today, the record is on but no sound. What do I have to do?! Do I have to make adjustments in some settings or will it work if I just speak softly to the machine? As I said - I'm no tech freak; I just want stuff to work...
2ND UPDATE
Ahhh! Finally sweet sounds flows from my gramophone and out of my computer and I realize I've spent 40 bucks on something I didn't need - the amplifier. I always thought it sounded crazy that I should need one (having a functioning receiver and all) but not being a tech guy I'm in the hands of those who claim to be experts. My problem was actually finding the line-in connection! Not well marked and never used before...
Many thanks to Mr Hanaga for his support! Hopefully you will all be able to hear something recorded before long!
3RD UPDATE
Dear Mr HansZUN said dBpowerAMP would do the trick. I tried it and it worked fine. I'm sure Audacity would too but dbpowerAMP was just a little bit easier to use in my opinion (and still great for editing the recordings). Thanks Mr HansZUN!
Plupp är en barnboksfigur skapad redan 1955 av Inga Borg och hon kallar han/hon/det för en "blandning mellan människa och djur". Frågan är vad sameförbundet tycker om susning.nu's beskrivning "Plupp är troligen same".
Plupp var ingen figur att vara rädd för men han/hon/det var lite obehaglig på samma sätt som en clown kan vara. Skönt att se att Plupp sålt sig till kommersiella intressen; det fråntar han/hon/det något av obehagligheten.
Ranchy adult movie posters and more. Visit /18+ movie posters at De Lijst. Many are of course NSFW.
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"...in his native Mexico, Cabral was best remembered as a political cartoonist. It was in this function, he worked for Jueves Magazine from the 1920s through the 1960s."
SantoStreet.com Autograph Page
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Kajsa Bergqvist and Emma Green are great high jumpers but I'd take Gunhild Larking any day. Gunhild Larking was Swedish champion 1952-1956 and came 4th in the women's high jump in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. She was probably more photographed than the winner. Who won anyway and who cares?
Solve the Gunhild jigsaw puzzle.
Thanks to Uffe Sundell who posted this photo in argument with those who think sport is all about appearance now and not before. Gunhild was surely an exception but anyway...
Go to The Collector, scroll down a bit and click cover (shown above) to download.
Bought for 0.5 Euros in Brussels yesterday. Original title The Bang Bang Birds, 1968. The author looks very groovily Austin Power-ish.
"I firmly believe that one can learn much and distract oneself with all the details from our daily environment which, because of tiredness, lack of time or from force of habit, pass unnoticed.
The street is rich of these details. It's a permanent field of discoveries and experiments. It's the place of the unforeseen and of the mixture. It's a superposition in time and space of personal life stories. It's a crazy density of images, sounds and smells.
Ruavista seeks to organize the streets wealth and to share it with the greatest number of people worldwide and strives to promote a new form of urban tourism based upon visiting ordinary streets and paying attention to details rather than famous spots and beautiful architecture.
Above all, my goal is to arouse your curiosity and feed mine."
writes Marc Voelckel of Ruavista
Thanks to Mr Feckenbrenner
Just let me recommend another art exhibition for those in Brussels; go to Bozar - The Centre for Fine Arts - and visit the exhibition of Russian avant-garde 1900-1935. Hurry up though, it only runs until the 22nd of January.
Recommended exhibition in Brussels: Karl Waldmann & Constructivisme Russe. Visit the exhibition online.
Also go to Karl Waldmann Museum and see his works.
Thanks to Bibi for the suggestion
Another record cover site? Yes. A good one. Epileptic's Vintage Vinyl.
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