Friday art.

A view from the Les Fleurs du Mai exhibition of Frédérique Lemarchand's art:

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Thursday music selections.

A turn of dance music to spend your fireworks by:



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Wednesday feel good.

Easily one of my favorite ballets, here is a tiny piece of 'The Nutcracker', (specifically "The Waltz of the Snowflakes" from Tchaikovsky) performed by the Bolshoi Ballet:

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Tuesday funnies.

Patton Oswalt on his "Christmas Memory" to the Chipmunks:

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Monday morning music.

The lovely marriage of voices between Ingrid Michaelson and Sara Bareilles with "Winter Song":

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Sunday inspiration.

Needing an extension of your post-Christmas Jesus feeling, here's two links from Jon Stewart. First is the commentary on "The Worst Responders". Second an interview with four disabled 9/11 responders about the Republicans filibustering the Zadroga bill while passing the tax cuts. Summing up how, in answer to a previous question from the Daily Show, that yes, we are run by assholes:

1st:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Worst Responders
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook

2nd:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
9/11 First Responders React to the Senate Filibuster
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook

Meeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrry X-mas indeed. Enjoy!

Saturday shorts.

A lead in from the best song suited for today and then easily one of my favorite holiday movies. First is Judy Garland singing "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and then "Love Actually" in nine parts:

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Nine

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Friday art.

The cast of winter, left to the tumult of snow storms and beauty in the first video and Cary Grant's "Christmas Lullaby" second. Personally, I'd suggest muting the first, starting it, then starting the second to play along with it instead:

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Thursday music selections.

That Christmas feeling:

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Wednesday feel good.

The undertaking of "Auditions" from 'The Full Monty':

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Tuesday funnies.

TheSecondCityNetwork trainwreck of "Missed Connections":

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Monday morning music.

"Stillness Is the Move" from Dirty Projectors:

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Sunday inspiration.

I am not, as a rule, a huge fan of the excess that Keith Olbermann can lean towards from a news basis, though I do find him generally entertaining beyond such. However, within the sometimes rhetoric of his rather beautiful expanse of language here, there are also many valid points. Thus, here he discusses how "Obama turned his back on his base":

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Saturday shorts.

From Zahid Chohan, this is "The Sound Machine", based on the Roald Dahl short stor of the same name:

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Friday art.

A STAGE6 creation of hand painting art:

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Thursday music selections.

This mood's rewind on things I've never let go in recent years:

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Wednesday feel good.

With two of my favorites together, here is the Second act I, Pas de Deux from "Giselle" showcasing the beauty in motion of Alessandra Ferri and Mikhail Baryshnikov from Dancers:

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Tuesday funnies.

The return to Lev Yilmaz perceptions with "I Don't Know What I Want" from Tales of Mere Existence:

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Monday morning music.

The sound of glorious, growly marries slinky sex from the Deftones from "Knife Party":

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Sunday inspiration.

Bart Weetjens talks about "Using Rats to Sniff Out Land Mines":

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Saturday shorts.

"Tir Nan Og", an animated short from Fursy Teyssier:

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Friday art.

An animation from Lesley Barnes, set to the music of Al Paxton, here is "Herzog and the Monsters":

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Thursday music selections.

A play on a mix of happy, dance-inducing soul and disco:

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Wednesday feel good.

A soft, graceful, and yet playful turn toward the past with "I'm Old Fashioned" from 'You Were Never Lovelier' with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth:

Enjoy!

Tuesday funnies.

The Pigford claims give us "The Great White Wail" from the Colbert Report:

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
The Word - The Great White Wail
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive

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Monday morning music.

The emotional landscape of "Non, Je ne Regrette Rien" from the glorious Edith Piaf:

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Sunday inspiration.

Noam Chomsky clarifying "the political system in America":

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Saturday shorts.

"La Main Des Maitres" from Clément Delatre, Looky, and Adrien Toupet:

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Friday art.

Ilana Yahav creating a landscape of sand art focused on "Emotions":

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Thursday music selections.

The absolute aural glory of Yann Tiersen, pixeled down to a mere nine songs of his bounty:

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Wednesday feel good.

The potential rival to its original "El Tango de Roxanne" from Moulin Rouge:

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Tuesday funnies.

Bill Hicks on "What Are You Reading For?":

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Monday morning music.

The glory of Library Tapes with "The Scratches on the Window in the Doors of Each Cell":

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Sunday inspiration.

Andrew Bird as the "One-Man Orchestra of the Imagination":

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Saturday shorts.

A Guy Ritchie short with Madonna and Clive Owen, this is "The Hire":

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Friday art.

A town built and animated out of real-time paper art with "A Map Comes To Life":

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Thursday music selections.

A range of Indio voices and sounds, the world over, left to the disease of memory:

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Wednesday feel good.

Some comedic eye candy for the sidelines of inexplicable masses caught under its lure tomorrow, here's the singing and dancing Aggie football players from 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas':

Enjoy!

Tuesday funnies.

Public Service Announcement from the Daily Show to John McCain - "It Gets Worse":

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
It Gets Worse PSA
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Rally to Restore Sanity

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Monday morning music.

The flight, spark, and burnout of a soul in "Shooting Star" from Bad Company:

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Sunday inspiration.

Bill Maher on "Education":

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Saturday shorts.

A short film by Ruben Fleischer called "Phone Tag":

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Friday art.

Eric Powers gives the Paper Treatment of Star Wars, made to a video for the song "Tatooine" from Jeremy Messersmith:

Jeremy Messersmith - Tatooine from Eric Power on Vimeo.

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Thursday music selections.

The play of lush trials:

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Wednesday feel good.

One of my favorite singers, the lovely Bjork, performing "I've Seen It All" with Peter Stormare from 'Dancer in the Dark':

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Tuesday funnies.

The ever charming Lev Yilmaz on "How to Cope With Depression" from 'Tales of Mere Existence':

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Monday morning music.

The astounding Jeff Buckley, singing Leonard Cohen's haunting "Hallelujah":

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Sunday inspiration.

Becky Blanton speaking on her year of homelessness:

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Saturday shorts.

"More", the short animation from Mark Osborne:

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Friday art.

The ongoing love affair with yardapeart journals, this one featured as "Nightmare":

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Thursday music selections.

The beautifully poignant sound of this day's razors, housed in memory:

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Wednesday feel good.

Classic one-upping and competition from 'Annie Get Your Gun', here's "Anything You Can Do":

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Tuesday funnies.

Isabella Rossellini being apeshit and informatively hilarious in the Season 1 of "Seduce Me: Bedbug":



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Monday morning music.

Jean-Louis Murat and Jennifer Charles singing "French Kissing":

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Sunday inspiration.

The poet Black Ice performing "Imagine":

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Saturday shorts.

The rotes of family dynamics and decisions in "Blank" from Justice Lee, Kevin Tam, and Rasikh Jawaid:

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Friday art.

The Bonnie Rose sketching a base girl's face:

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Thursday music selections.

On the cusp of a momentous ten-year-anniversary, in memory:



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Wednesday feel good.

The "Rose of Damascus" medieval belly dance by Autumn Ward:

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Tuesday funnies.

And in honor of today, here is the Daily Show Rock's turn on Mid-Term Elections:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Daily Show Rock! - Mid-Term Elections
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Rally to Restore Sanity

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Monday morning music.

"When the Saints Go Marching In" in its original incarnation from the Dukes of Dixieland for All Saints Day:

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Sunday inspiration.

Cause Charlie Brown always leaves his own inspiration in the telling, here is "It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown":


It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

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Saturday shorts.

A Halloween short from Greg Benson and Lee Kirk, here is "Trick or Treat":

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Friday art.

An array of halloween tribute art and props to the Scarecrow from Heather Gleason, Chad Savage, and PumpkinRot:

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Thursday music selections.

The spend of rain and fall, together through hearts:

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Wednesday feel good.

"This Is Halloween" from 'A Nightmare Before Christmas':

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Tuesday funnies.

Chris Rock on "Who's the Biggest Liars":

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Monday morning music.

The amazing Billie Holiday singing "Solitude":

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Sunday inspiration.

Nic Marks discussing "The Happy Planet Index":

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Saturday shorts.

The animation short of "9" by Shane Acker:

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Friday art.

A showcase of the old pattern of "Memento Mori" - post-mortem photography of loved ones. A common practice previous to the influx of snapshot imaging in the 20th century:

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Thursday music selections.

The tumble of a pained heart, set to the south:

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Wednesday feel good.

"The Angry Dance" from Billy Elliot:

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Tuesday funnies.

Kathleen Madigan on "Smoking":

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Monday morning music.

"I Think Of You (Shirley's Song)" from Teedra Moses:

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Sunday inspiration.

The spoken word of "Some Days" by Amalie Ortiz:

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Saturday shorts.

A short film by David Malki and Todd Croak-Falen, this is "Expendable":

Enjoy!

Friday art.

"Portraits in Pastel" featuring figures and faces in pastel from the artistnetwork:

Enjoy!

Thursday music selections.

The sound of blues and broken hearts, perpetually fighting for a mend of grace:

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Wednesday feel good.

"This Bitter Earth/On the Nature of Daylight" from So You Think You Can Dance with Billy Bell, Alex Wong, and Ade Obayami:

Enjoy!

Tuesday funnies.

The "Race Card is Maxed Out" from The Daily Show:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Race Card Is Maxed Out
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

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Monday morning music.

The a cappella opening of 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil', here is k.d. lang singing the gorgeous "Skylark":

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Sunday inspiration.

How Timmy, the lonely tortoise, finds love with a plastic toy:

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Saturday shorts.

"Have You Ever Wanted Superpowers?", a short film by student at The University of Bergen:

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Friday art.

The ever beautiful turn of an art journal from willowing, here is "Violet Ashes":

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Thursday music selections.

The rawr of moi on my day, first in a video that wasn't found for the playlist and second continued as regular:

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Wednesday feel good.

A beautiful tango to Astro Piazzolla's "Oblivion" from 'So You Think You Can Dance' with Lauren and Pasha:

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Tuesday funnies.

A "Completely Honest First Date" from TheSecondCityNetwork:

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Monday morning music.

In honor of the ties between two, cast between three days and long road, here are The Smiths with "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out":

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Sunday inspiration.

Laurie Santon on "How monkeys mirror human irrationality":

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Saturday shorts.

Written and directed by Steph Green, here is the film short "New Boy":

Enjoy!

Friday art.

A peak into the Louis Vuitton showcase of 100 Legendary Trunks:

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Thursday music selections.

The stretch and pull of a sadistic lust, bare before its dredged honesty:

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