2011 Valentine's Day video #1: Élodie Frégé & Michał Kwiatkowski - "Viens jusqu'à moi"

Élodie Frégé & Michał Kwiatkowski - "Viens jusqu'à moi"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU-ldqcvjow

I've seen many versions of this catchy 2004 song by Élodie Frégé & Michał Kwiatkowski floating around on YouTube over the years, but this is by far the best quality audio AND video, so I'm using it today on Valentine's Day for reasons that should be obvious.
I can't even begin to tell you how many hundreds of times I have listened to this sweet and simple song, since Élodie's voice is SO... entrancing and hypnotic. 

In my head, wearing my director's hat, the other thing I like is that this is precisely how I'd have shot a music video of two angst-filled people singing about one another, too. 
With simple song lyrics appearing around them on everyday objects as they walk thru the city, thinking about the other. 
Sublime AND Magnifique!

Plus, as it happens, Élodie and I share a birthday - demain. (Tomorrow, February 15th.)

I know exactly what you're thinking... 
IF two of my favorite actresses, Julie Christie or Faye Dunaway had a French daughter who could sing like an angel...
IF George Clooney ever directed a serious film drama about the French Resistance, he must cast Élodie as the French cabaret singer-slash-resistance fighter with moxie who gives the Nazis all kids of fits...
Just saying...

Élodie's official website is http://www.elodiefrege.com/
You can follow Élodie Frégé on Twitter via @elodiefrege https://twitter.com/elodiefrege

Robin Gibb on the sad state of pop music -a lot of karaoke!- and raising $ for the RAF Bomber Command Memorial, on BBC's HARDtalk with Stephen Sackur; @StephenSackur @BBCHARDtalk #popstars

BBC's HARDtalk, January 3, 2011
Robin Gibb interviewed by Stephen Sackur, Part I.
On the army of packaged pop stars created by TV reality shows and how the talented young brothers were better able to handle fame than performers who just sing in part because they were also gifted composers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbVb8COFOpM
"Natural is better"



BBC's HARDtalk, January 3, 2011
Robin Gibb interviewed by Stephen Sackur, Part 2
Robin shows his deep knowledge of pop culture to make some excellent points, and reminds everyone what really killed Andy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU1UMqsn0g0


BBC's HARDtalk, January 3, 2011
Robin Gibb interviewed by Stephen Sackur, Part 3
Robin discusses big plans in the U.S. next year, and his efforts to see a new national monument erected in London to honor the memories and sacrifices of the RAF Bomber Command forces during WWII, which included men and women from the United States.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-6BPGE8Lbs

To see designs of architect Liam O’Connor plans for the Bomber Command Memorial planned at Hyde Park Corner, near Buckingham Palace, in central London in mid-2011, please see: http://www.theheritagefoundation.info/index.html


For more information on the Bomber Command Memorial, see:

http://www.theheritagefoundation.info/robingibbtea.html

http://www.rafbombercommand.com/

http://www.rafbombercommand.com/memorialfund/http://www.theygaveeverything.com/

To contribute now to the Bomber Command Memorial Fund, please send a cheque, payable to 'Bomber Command Association' to:

Doug Radcliffe, MBE

The Secretary, Bomber Command Association
RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way
Hendon, London NW9 5RR

Telephone 020 8358 4841

1977 interview with Miami R&B legend Betty Wright; Clean up Woman; Miami Groove

1977 WCIX-TV interview with Miami R&B singing legend Betty Wright on her recollections of the Miami music scene, and the artists who performed at the Sir John Hotel in Miami.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-thfb6BFwo

The long-since destroyed Sir John Hotel discussed in the clip was located in downtown Miami on N.W. 6th Street & N.W. 3rd Avenue, and was only a few blocks from the old Channel 4 WTVJ-TV studio that was at 316 N. Miami Avenue.

C.T. Taylor, mentioned in the clip by Betty Wright as a music DJ at WMBM-AM, was hired in 1968 by Channel 4 news director and anchor Ralph Renick to become the first African-American on-air news reporter in Miami.

That fateful year was the year of the Liberty City riots in Miami during the Republican National Convention over on Miami Beach at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
(In 1972, it hosted both national party conventions.)

Taylor's extensive knowledge of the area and its personalities, people's trust of him, and his nightly fact-filled, context-heavy reporting from the scene during the riots, gave WTVJ a huge reporting advantage over their local news competitors and the three TV networks of the time.
His insightful reports sometimes appeared on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

For most of my childhood growing-up in Miami, Taylor and Renick were each among the best-known and most widely-respected men in all of South Florida.
They had credibility earned thru merit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Wright
http://www.youtube.com/user/wolfsonarchive




Betty Wright Clean up Woman (LIVE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ssMVL9I1Q




Betty Wright - Miami Groove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azb8MtVzCO4

Scary funny & just plain scary - a zealous fan named Jihyun has a lot on her mind to share with the objects of her affection, boy band 2 PM

[ENGSUBBED] (Full) 2PM's Biggest Fan At Synnara Fansigning (All Member)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOP30sizhrc

In a word, "Wow!"

So, do you recall seeing on TV from time to time how crazy many Japanese fans of pop star Michael Jackson were when he came to visit, and the sorts of worshipful antics they engaged in when they finally saw him in person?

Well, prepare to be amazed as members of South Korean boy band 2PM -a group you've heretofore never heard of- gets THAT sort of worshipful treatment at an autograph-signing session in Seoul from one particularly zealous and talkative female fan named Jihyun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2PM

At times, because Jihyun is talking SO FAST, it actually sounds like she is barking like a dog. Really. At one point, one of the band members even thoughtfully asks if it hurts her throat.
LOL!
I nearly fell out of my chair when I heard that!

Jerry Seinfeld could have a field day with this little video, so all I can say now is prepare to be amazed.

This video is in Korean but has English subtitles to make it easier to follow, which is sometimes hard to do mainly because one second you're laughing, and the next you're cringing.

I've also posted a popular video of the band below so that you all can see them in action performing a song called I'll Be Back.

[M/V] 2PM "I'll Be Back" from Still 2:00pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMdofhj9WKU

I 'discovered' this amazing video at the top of today's post courtesy of a head's up from someone in, yes, Sverige, who said that she couldn't stop watching it and telling people about it!
Once you see it, you'll completely understand why.

Sofie, tack så mycket!

Taylor Swift's impression of "Minnesota Soccer Mom" on BBC 1's Switch with Annie and Nick; Dateline: On Tour With Taylor Swift; @taylorswift13

Taylor Swift's impression of "Minnesota Soccer Mom" on BBC1's "Switch with Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh32wcP7Cbg

Taylor's impression begins at 0:51

I've been meaning to post this clip for awhile now since it's so clear that Taylor is channeling Frances McDormand's Oscar-winning turn as Marge Gunderson in "Fargo" that so captured the nation's imagination.
I'm not entirely sure that everyone in the Radio One studio with Taylor caught that, though.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ux_5CcleM

Over the Memorial Day Weekend of 2009, May 31st to be exact, I watched the NBC News Dateline one-hour special on Taylor promoting her Fearless CD, titled simply, "On Tour With Taylor Swift"

It was amazing, and only served to confirm what I have thought about her from the very beginning -she's the very definition of "the real deal."
Anyone who doubts her talent, drive and resolve is simply ignoring what is right in front of them. That Taylor's only 20 makes it all seem a bit stranger, true, but as was proven over-and-over in this particular show, and which has been said about her for years by very talented people in Nashville in a position to know from past experince, her confident demeanor, work ethic and level-headedness -which makes her seem much more mature than many if not most entertainers who are twice her age- also makes her more able to grasp the great possibilities that are her's for the taking.

And is there any entertainer right now who connects more with their audience than Taylor does? These videos hardly begin to tell the tale of her fans devotion to her.

That she combines such a keen and growing talent with such a relentless drive to satisfy her fans, each and every night, knowing that they've been looking forward to those few hours together with her for months, makes her the kind of old-fashioned star that people held onto most loyally, year-after-year.
Plus, Taylor's audience will NEVER outgrow her.























http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31032270/ns/dateline_nbc-newsmakers/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30687911/

http://www.taylorswift.com/

http://twitter.com/taylorswift13 

@taylorswift13

http://www.bbc.co.uk/switch/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0081k8q

http://www.youtube.com/user/BBCSwitch