Who Are These People?

Quiz time. Which one of the people on this list was supposedly referred to as “Britain’s first Asian rock star”? Which one was featured in my post here? Who are the rest?

Robert Van Winkle
John Francis Bongiovi Jr.
Stacy Ann Ferguson
Charles Hardin Holley
Demetria Guynes
Farrokh Bulsara
Nicolas Kim Coppola
Alecia Moore
David Robert Jones
Brian Hugh Warner
Robert Alan Zimmerman
Reginald Kenneth Dwight
Curtis James Jackson III
Stanley Kirk Burrel
Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou

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Don’t Panic

Growing Happiness is undergoing changes.
Funny things may happen before your very eyes.

Entertain Me

Hello again. Are you feeling bored?
Here’s a short list of websites I visit to get my dose of entertainment:

Giant Step – is where I go to discover new artists. There are a lot of high-quality music tracks that you could listen for free here.

BBC Music – Informative site with a comprehensive guide to music.

Rotten Tomatoes – I wouldn’t watch a movie before checking out its Rotten Tomatoes rating.

Readprint – If you’re like me and like to seek entertainment within the pages of a book(or rather webpages of the internet) this website will be great for you. There’s a massive collection of classics that you can read online like Pride and Prejudice, The Animal Farm and the best of Shakespeare.

Youtube – But of course! I could waste hours jumping from one mindless video to another. It’s the best thing since sliced bread!

I am bored – The names says it all. Links to stuff to do when you are bored.

Nitrome – The cutest pixel games on the net. Warning: Be prepared to waste hours on this website.

Desert Island Entertainment

Desert Island Tuesday is inspired by Desert Island Discs. I imagine myself a castaway on a desert island and am allowed to have a few items with me, based on the theme for the week. This week theme is Entertainment.

Hello again from a warm, tropical island! I’ve been eating a lot of make-believe fish and rice the past week. The monkeys have been entertaining me with their silly tricks but I think I’m getting tired of the same routine. Luckily this week’s Entertainment week so I’m allowed to order a couple of discs online. My top 3 music albums and movies are listed below. Enjoy!

Albums

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles – Quintessential album with everything – catchy positivity(It’s Getting Better) and epic masterpiece (A Day in the Life)

The Great Escape by Blur – Full of happy tunes and sweet memories of my teen years

Life in Cartoon Motion by Mika – Love Today! Lollipop! Relax! Happy Ending! You can’t go wrong with this.

Movies

Amélie – Beautiful, triumphant, quirky, special, funny, charming. A feel-good movie I could just watch over and over again.

Lost in Translation – Loneliness. Strangers. Foreign country. Kinda like being on a desert island.

Labyrinth – David Bowie dancing his magic dance…in tights. INSTANT WIN?!!

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The Sound of New Music

I thought I could be excused for not having an iPod because I’ve been working from home for the past couple of years. Then I found out that my mama, yes my 60-plus-year-old mother has one! It’s probably a hand-me-down from my bro but still! Embarrassingly, she had to show me how to use it because I’ve never touched one before! I haven’t even bought a CD this year. Wait, do people still buy CDs?

What’s this talk about iPods? Well, today being “New Monday” and this week theme being “Entertainment” I’m gonna listen to someone else’s playlist – namely my mama and my brother.

Selection from Mama’s List

Habib Koité – Baro
Salif Keita – Folon
Mark Brown feat. Sarah Cracknell – The Journey Continues

Her playlist is quite unpredictable. There will be a couple of world music tracks and suddenly there’s a Clay Aiken or Fergie sandwiched in between. I think I’m in love with African music now, especially the ones coming from Mali.

Selection from Bro’s List

Yael Naim – New Soul
Kate Nash – Pumpkin Soup (Love the fun video!)
Duffy – Mercy

His list is mostly made up of the latest hip/hop and rock artistes. I just picked a couple that didn’t look familiar. They were all quite good. I feel like I’ve heard New Soul somewhere before. (Update: Ah it’s song for the Macbook commercial )

Now, why don’t you guys try listening to something new today?

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Putumayo World Music
Womad

Cold Sunday

Hi. I started the day feeling like doing 1001 things today –

SHOP!

READ!

DRAW!

WRITE!

CLEAN!

COOK!

But by 10.30 am, I felt as though I have been hit by a bus. Nevertheless, I did everything that I’ve planned for today (cheated with the cooking bit) and now I appear to have succumbed to a nasty, nasty cold.

This week’s theme is Entertainment and although I would really like to write more, I think a good rest is in order.
Ta ta for now!