Matt, what a great idea! Haven't had time to watch all the video links you posted, only watched the one of your summer holidays.
Thanks for sharing!
P.S. You look quite dashing with your mop of curls!
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! ~Dr. Seuss
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The piglets are beautiful, Matty. Little animals! Yayness!
...and have just watched the Kiwi animation...sorry, but the part where a tear comes to his eye is *classic*. Brilliant
"To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith." - Mahatma Gandhi, 1946
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Just watched the piece on Kuwait, Ladon. It was nice, it's good that these kind of travel shows exist. Are they widely screened/viewed in America? Sometimes the States can look very insular, so I'm curious. It was poignant and well-presented.
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Globe Trekker is the american market name for the show Pilot Guides. It has weekly showings on PBS and The Travel Channel.
That particular traveller (Megan McCormac) is one of the better from the bunch that do their TV shows. Overall though, they are quite nice. Better than that Steves fellow who makes any place he visits seem duller than Sizzler on a thursday morning.
There's about 100 or so shows in all. I used to have 80 on my harddrive until it went belly up.
On the whole, the program has very good shows. They don't supplant good traveller's books or talking to people who have been there, but I believe the show is meant to garner interest travelling to less touristy places. I say this because more times than not, you see them staying, eating, or visiting places that aren't overly expensive.
I've been listening to quite a few of his tracks on YouTube. Like RockBarra particularly and found a really useful post which directs you to the gobyfish website where you can find how Don Ross has tuned his guitar for each track.
I'm so happy to have found another iconic guitarist! Thanks Ladon. I think the last time I was blown away was when I heard Joe Satriani. Before him there were the likes of John McLaughlin, Ollie Halsall and, of course, Eric Clapton to name a few. Trouble is, after listening to this stuff, I won't pick up my own guitar until I get over my own inadequacies!
I've just spotted another post which says, "Didn't know Hagrid could play the guitar."! Get Curious!
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I would lie if I said his tunings were useful to me. The only finger style guitar music I can get through is some old waltz for guitar and classic rock.
He hardly ever tours the US. Mostly in Canada and EU.
August 19, 2007 ST LOUIS, MO, USA: Lucas Schoolhouse (with Andy McKee) August 20, 2007 SHAWNEE, KS, USA: 6th Avenue Ballroom (with Andy McKee) August 23, 2007 SHAWNEE, KS, USA: Mountain Music Shoppe (with Andy McKee) August 25, 2007 ATWOOD, KS, USA: Aberdeen Steakhouse (with Andy McKee) August 26, 2007 LAFAYETTE, CO, USA: Nissi’s (with Andy McKee)
After reading the back and forth on the Anzac threads in DF and GD fora, I stumbled upon this great black and white vintage Ronald Reagan speech "Reagan - A Rendezvous With Destiny": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIxlsr3UUkY
Excerpt:
Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy “accommodation.” And they say if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer—not an easy answer—but simple.
If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right. We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion now in slavery behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters.” Alexander Hamilton said, “A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” Let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace -— and you can have it in the next second —- surrender.
Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face -— that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender....
Winston Churchill said that “the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits —- not animals.” And he said, “There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
Ronald Reagan, in my opinion, was a great American statesman, who while he did not impugn his political critics (e.g., "our well-meaning liberal friends"), was a man of conviction regarding moral courage in dark times.
------------------------------ The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. ~ Leslie Weatherhead Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy--fully armed too, as it's a highly dangerous quest. ~ Flannery O'Connor
"To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith." - Mahatma Gandhi, 1946
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Australia's Proud Neo-Nazi Youth Footage from the 2005 Cronulla race riots. It's hard to understand how something like this can happen in a developed nation, and impossible to stomach. "F*** off Lebs!" is their warcry. Disturbingly, a majority of videos on Youtube seem to be pro-Racism and pro-the riots!! A shameful minority of Australians, ulimately, (you'd hardly know it from the footage), but a minority that is allowed to fester beneath a country's racism masquerading as patriotism. Take a webcrawl around the Blogosphere of the Australian Right to learn more - you will recoil in horror at the hateful filth that drenches the comments.
...Where's Lali when you need him?
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