The moving day episode is just a part of an extended weekend coming up...which will be finally a work-free one. I am done with re-shaping a paper which I am going to present at a conference in Budapest towards the end of June.
NBA Playoffs. After the poor display of skills at the end of Nets-Cavs game, both LB and Vince Carter proving us wrong with regards to the All Star nominations the toughest series went on with a nice and deserved win of the Suns over the (too) physical Spurs
Beautiful weather, just right (about 65-70 degrees) not too hot or cold, the tulips festival in Albany was a great event with a lot of people enjoying the atmosphere and more of, the beers and food available.
As I always do:))..and..Finally the Golden State Warriors came true. At their fisrt playoff appearance in the last 13 years (!!)and after beating the Dallas Mavericks (the big favorites for the NBA title with an impecable regular seaon and Dirk as the league's MVP)in the first round of the Western NBA playoffs I thought they are going to be more than OK with the Utah Jazz, a far inferior team than Dallas, but definitely more physical. Unfortunately, they have lost the first two games in Utah, mainly due to their own (unbelievable) mistakes and lack of self-confidence. But things turned 180 degrees around in game 3 and beat the Jazz by a margin of 20 points.
These days I have been working a lot on perfecting my scholarly stuff (papers & thesis proposal). Funny how things cease to exist outside your computer and room, your eyes are just getting red (for nothing?) but not from the sunshine or the late night parties:)). But no complains however, I had my fare share of fun things this year; just the perspective of spending (most) of the summer here and not enchanting at all. Hopefully it will all be worth; I have ahead a pretty busy schedule and a complicated way through my graduate program. the beauty however, resides in the final results and hopefully they will come up, as i want them too, just ripe.:))Howgh!
Finally, I founded two hours and 16 minutes to watch this one.Worthwhile..and definitely Oscar material, this powerful drama has all the current basic emotions of our society included (terrorism, murder, sex and drugs) plus the classical fear of unknown clearly showed there through the biased views of a US citizen against the people from rural isolated Morocco or the Mexicans coming illegally in the US. (There is a funny episode in South Park with "They steal our jobs" all over it, and the funny twist is that they are using people from the future to round up the analogy)
Not the Italian Toscana or the opera but the downtempo project going now for some time. Tosca is an electronic music project of Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber. After the start of Kruder & Dorfmeister in 1994, Tosca became the second project in which Richard Dorfmeister took part where his first single publication, Opera, was published fairly briefly in 1997. Opera was the first album that Tosca released with G-Stone Recordings. Further publications followed up with the latest being Souvenirs. The chronological order: Opera (1997); F**k Dub Remixes (1997; Chocolate Elvis Dubs (1999); Suzuki (2000); Suzuki in Dub (2000); Different Tastes of Honey (2001); Dehli 9 (2003); J.A.C. (2005); Souvenirs (2006)
In collaboration with The Sactuary for Independent Media, iEAR Presents is pleased to announce The African Film Festival, which started at Wednesday, May 2 -- and runs again on May 9, 16, and 23 at The Sanctuary.
Finally got my hands on this LP...pretty good in the same downtempo tradition but "Detunized garvity" seems even better..
No new territory for De Phazz, but proof that these guys are still one of the best at coming up with playfully poppy grooves! The record moves in the same space as their previous sets -- bits of jazz, bits of Latin, bits of soul -- all filtered together with a style that often moves at the speed of downtempo, but which is a lot more focused and song-based. Most numbers have some sort of vocals -- by frequent De Phazz vocalist Barbara Lahr, as well as Angel Jones, Karl Frierson, Billy Edgeware, and Pat Appleton -- and although the styles change as the tunes roll on, there's enough of a unified feel to most of the record -- thanks to a recurrent sense of guitar "twang", as referenced in the title. (DustyGroove)
The playoffs are the most exciting part of the whole NBA action thing and this year they were especially quite spectacular. After the champions en-titre (Miami Heat) got swept in a 0-4 series with the new Chicago Bulls team, yesterday the big favorites to get the title this year (Dallas Mavericks no.1 in the Western conference and the overall NBA rankings) led by Dirk Nowitzki were eliminated by the no.8 seat (Golden State Warriors) which is a big surprise. The Mavs have had a great season and they seemed to be on their way to an NBA title, having 25 more victories in the regular season than the Warriors. However, these guys played incredible and managed to provide such nice surprises that make the game more interesting. Hope they will get far enough...
