TWO LOVERS Gorgeous Sitar Music

 

From the Ali Akbar Khan album Garden of Dreams

TWO LOVERS

A beautiful sitar music piece, my favorite for evocative emotion, very elegaic and poignant.

I believe Ali Akbar may be the son of Ravi Shankar.

If you've never heard this piece you are in for a treat!  Starts slow, but let it build, and remember it takes over thirty years to learn how to play the sitar like this.

MAY HE POOP ON MY KNEE?

May He Poop On My Knee?  A hilarious "fake translation" of a Benny Lava hindi music video by BugBen, subtitling in English what the hindi words "sound like" instead of the actual translation.  The Bollywood song/video kicks ass too!  HILARIOUS!  GROOVY!
I especially enjoy the mustard bottle, cracks me up every time, and the coke can.
NSFW (not suitable for work).

By the way, the star is Miss India who won Miss Universe, she must be one of the most beautiful women in the world.  Her original video is on YouTube also.

WIGGLES - THE FINGER! Super Fun!

THE WIGGLES - FINGER POINTING PUPPET SHOW!  YAAAAAYYY!!!

This is one of the strangest videos ever, therefore falls squarely into our GROOVY category of FUN videos.  VROUK Approved!
Both YOU and YOUR KIDS can dance yourself Silly to this Video!

The Ardwellian Chronicles - Dennis Young

http://www.theardwellianchronicles.blogspot.com/

I'd like to draw attention to an exciting series of fantasy novels called 

"The Ardwellian Chronicles" by author Dennis Young.

You can check out his blog via the above link.

Besides the stories being gripping, fascinating page turners set in a rich and vast fantasy universe, peopled with gritty, real, totally believable characters, it's fun that you can follow Dennis progress as he continues to write the ongoing novels in the series.

By "Liking" his FaceBook page: (click link)

Ardwellian Chronicles Facebook Page to Follow

Also, follow him on TWITTER.COM  

@ArdwelWriter

 I highly recommend you order his books from Amazon or ask for them at your local book store.   Dennis is also very accessible and provides many ways to contact him through his web sites.  

It's really cool to follow the creative process and get a peek into how a successful author spends their time, the nuts and bolts of writing.  I used to read "how to" books for being a "writer" but they never spelled out what an author actually did hour for hour day for day.  Now, you can finally follow that process through Dennis.

VROUK Approved.

Pierre Pascual - Sous Les Sycomores

Pierre Pascual - Sous Les Sycomores (Integral Music Video)

 

Pierre Pascual - Sous Les Sycomores (Integral Music Video)
(almost twenty minutes)
Released on Sept. 30 2010
Directed by Mick Bulle
Artistic Direction : Pierre Pascual
With : Pierre Pascual, Aurore Tome', Thierry Chollet-Berger, Henriette Coulouvrat, Angela Transbury, Rebecca Johnson James, Servane Varnese, Stanislas Briche, Anne Laure Séguette, Elsa Bontempelli & Nathanael Agasvari.

http://www.pierrepascual.fr/  Pierre Pascual own web site.
https://www.facebook.com/pierrepascualmusic?sk=info  Facebook Page
High quality on Vimeo : http://www.vimeo.com/15419166

VROUK REVIEW:
Strong artistic statement.
HyperReality slicing visceral spiritual vignettes
and morsels of 'elan and ennui.
Psychic manifestations of the subconcious,
In the style of Fellini/Jung post Neorealism.
Beautifully conceived and executed.
Music whispers Depeche Mode, The Cure,
Kraftwerk, Devo, Bauhaus, but is unique & ethereal.     VROUK Approved.

(Viewing tip: if you're having trouble with the looong run time, try viewing it first time through with no sound, then second time add the sound.  This forces you to absorb the rich visual train first - uncomplicated by the emotive evocation of the soundtrack.)

PINK FLOYD - POW R. TOC H.

 

Pink Floyd - Pow R Toc H

Instrumental

From the first album

Piper at the Gates of Dawn 1967

I was ten years old, thought I was pretty cool.  Was really into hippie stuff.  Saved my money and bought this weird weird record with psychodelic colors all over it and a totally weird title, by a group I had heard the name of from "hip" visitors we'd had from California.  They were 12 and smoked and cussed a blue streak and could sing all the Beatle songs.  So of course when I saw this "Pink Floyd"  *giggle*

album in Woolworths, I surreptiously bought it, hid it on the top shelf of my closet because I knew if my mom saw it I'd get a huge lecture about that "hippie crap".  So I'd sneak it out and listen when no one else was at home.  I thought this song was So Weird! and thought the band must not be very good, except the other instrumental, Interstellar Overdrive had a cool name because I devoured Science Fiction books.   Well, I kept it for five or six years.  In the meantime I got into increasingly harder rock, heavy rock etc.  I started buying all the Black Sabbath albums from the first one.  Mountain. Moody Blues. Deep Purple. I sold the Piper album at a garage sale for a nickel.  

I didn't get back into Pink Floyd until Animals.  

See what you think of this early unusual Pink Floyd.  

I still laugh to myself when I think of the title of the album.

So sixties.  So hippie.  So deep.

Or was it just marketing?

Copyright 2011 Lyle Van Sciver

KAUFFMAN CENTER - QUIXOTIC FUSION - AMAZING!

 

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Quixotic Arts

Opening Night Gala Performance

Projections, Spatial Dancers and Fireworks

on the OUTSIDE of the Kauffman Center!!!

This just over four minute video captures the truly amazing Opening Night Projections performance by Quixotic Arts

that transformed the outside of the new 

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

into the most modern spectacular projection, dance, light show that you will have EVER seen up to now!  Truly Amazing!  If you have not seen it, do it full screen and pay attention, be ready to not move the whole time.  And remember, inside the Center there are fantastic Opening Gala performances going on with such stars as Placido Domingo, Itzhak Perlman, Diana Krall, Tommy Tune, Patti Lupone and more!  Those tickets were extremely expensive and limited, but we can all enjoy this video.