Anything and Alles (Everything)
As I said here, I love to see what people do with small spaces. I like different design elements of each of these homes. I think my favorite, though, is the first video. I like the Moroccan theme she has going on. I think the Moroccan floor couch is awesome.
https://youtu.be/vl-fGc7x5G0
-Amber
I don’t know if it’s doable but I would love to see this implemented if they can get it to work. Even if it is doable I’m not sure how easy it would be to see the warnings on the road during the day but it is an awesome idea.
-Amber
Tokio Hotel is a German band who had major success at a very young age. At the time of this concert (2005) Bill Kaulitz (singer) and Tom Kaulitz (guitarist; the one with dreadlocks and a hat on) had just turned 16. Bill and Tom are identical twins but you have to look hard to notice it. Bassist Georg Listing would have been 18 and drummer Gustav Schäfer would have just turned 17. By 2005 they had already been together for about 5 years. This tour was for their first album Schrei. In 2006 Tokio Hotel released Schrei so laut du kannst which had some of the songs from Schrei rerecorded since puberty caused Bill’s voice to change. They also added 3 tracks that were not on Schrei. I personally like the original vocals on Schrei best but Schrei so laut du kannst is worth getting for the extra tracks. Not that I dislike Bill’s voice since it changed, I just like the original vocal recording for those songs better. I think Bill’s voice has sounded slightly different with each album and it suits the music each time.
Their first album was mostly punk. I think their sound changed a bit with each album. Zimmer 483 (2007) was more rock and Humanoid (2009) was rock/synth pop. Their latest album Kings of Suburbia (2014) is more synth/dance/pop rock. Kings of Suburbia is their first album to be recorded only in English; Scream was released in 2007 which had some of the songs from both Schrei and Zimmer 483 recorded in English. And Humanoid had the full album recorded in both German and English.
Anyway, here is the concert from 2005. When I have more time I am going to post another blog with more of my favorite videos. I get tired of having to find them on YouTube when I want to watch them so it’s easier for me to post them here. If anyone knows if this is something I can buy on DVD let me know. I haven’t been able to find it anywhere but YouTube. I even checked Amazon’s German site and could not find it. Danke to sweetbill91 for posting this on YouTube.
1. Jung und nicht mehr jugendfrei 2. Beichte
2. Beichte 3. Ich bin nich’ ich 4. Schrei
4. Schrei 5. Leb die Sekunde 6. Schwarz
6. Schwarz 7. Gegen meinen Willen
8. Durch den Monsun 9. Thema Nr. 1
10. Wenn nichts mehr geht 11. Rette mich
12. Freunde bleiben 13. Der letzte Tag
14. Unendlichkeit
15. Durch den Monsun
-Amber
I love the Graham Norton Show. It always cracks me up. Since I’m going to see Fifty Shades of Grey tomorrow here is a video of Jamie Dornan talking about how Fifty Shades of Grey changed his life. This is so funny.
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Watch the video before you scroll down to read my comment. It will be funnier that way (the video, not my comment). It’s only 4 minutes long. It’s not the whole show.
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This cracks me up probably more than it should because I can actually relate to this. In 7th grade I had a cyst pressing on my sciatic nerve that caused me to walk funny (I also occasionally walked on my tip toes). I had to go through physical therapy and I remember having to think about the heel-toe thing when I walked. I think I even had that leaning back walk for a while. I think my walk is fine now, or at least no one points it out anymore. Now that I’m thinking about it I should video tape myself walking to see what I look like. I’m kind of curious. Edit: I just asked my husband if I walk funny and his response was “Not that I’ve ever noticed.” I’m still curious to record my walk though.
-Amber
Speaking of posting things so I can reference it later…I know this happened months ago (and in internet time that might as well have been years) but I meant to post about this when it happened and just didn’t.
Edit: I originally posted this on July 28, 2015 but I changed the publishing date to move the post back to February 27, 2015 which is when this actually happened. I moved it because I didn’t want it in with my current posts because it isn’t relevant.
The debate on whether the dress is blue and black or white and gold intrigued me. I have always been interested in how our brains interpret color and what it looks like to different people. I showed the photo to a group of people I was with and it was split about half and half with which colors they saw. I see blue and black. We all know now that the dress is blue and black and the lighting in the photo is what makes some people see it differently.
The dress.
Here is a screenshot of some of the comments people had to say about it. The third one down cracked me up. Click on the picture to make it bigger.
And here is a video about the dress that references an optical illusion picture that I had thought about when this first came up. It’s a checkered board where square A and B are the same color but your brain interprets one as white and the other as grey. The shadow is what makes your brain think they are different colors. I tested this myself by taking a piece of paper and covering up the whole picture except for square A and B and they are the same color but when I look at the picture as a whole they look like different colors to me. The brain fascinates me.
-Amber