TorrentialD's Place

some of you may have been wondering what happened to my usually prolifc posts. i can spell that out in four letters. it is called love. i never intended for my "advertisement" to work at all. in fact, it really wasn't meant as such and neither was joining bc blogs. it just turned out that way. 10^9: one in a billion (http://blog.bitcomet.com/post/39971/) was more meant as a bloodletting of sorts as i was pretty well convinced considering that post (10^9: one in a billion) in any manner beyond just being another post would end up in dismal disappointment. well, as it turns out, my post kicked up way more than a little dust, receiving response far beyond my wildest expectations. not only from the bc crowd, but also from one lucky bc woman some of you know. while the numbers weren't spectacular, the quality was absolutely stunning. i had to clue her in ever so gently though. i did not want to mess it up, so i took absolutely no chances, especially with the dim......

these are the newest additions to my music player. 

elaine paige & sarah brightman: memory - yes, hayley actually does like this one. i don't think she has a clue about the play it came from. this is a song i consider a true classic. hayley gives it 2 paws up.

10,000 maniacs: trouble me(live) - not a bad rendition of the song for a live performance, however, i still prefer the studio version as it appears on blind man's zoo.

9-lives: volumen - joke song - haven't heard it before (cat, 9 lives -- get it?)

hayley westenra: wuthering heights (uk) - this is the version that is on the uk pure release and seems to have a more flowery flow, while the american release is not nearly as flowery and quite a bit more stark in presentation. for anyone who has read the book or seen the movie, this is probably more fitting. i think the american release does a better job of showcasing hayley's astoundingly smooth and pure upper-range reach.......

Sarah Brightman

i consider sarah one of the very best singers i've ever heard. she too is among the rare breed of operatic singers who can belt out pop tunes just as wonderfully as operatic arias. as many of you know i used her pic for my avatar. i love captain nemo, winterlight, lascia chi'o pianga, miserei me/ beautiful, amigos para siempre (with jose carreras). i could go on and on, but space is limited. i also love her duet with josh groban, there for me. and who would've known antonio banderas could sing like that in their duet of phantom of the opera? i admire her because she has talent......

Pining Away
2008 Darwin Award Nominee
Unconfirmed by Darwin

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despite acceptance to one of the premier universities in the world, this particular person displayed a stunning lack of functioning brain cells and axon-dendrite-synapse function. maybe it's just that airports have low oxygen levels. perhaps, it's just as well that people who display such stunning lack of common sense are still in school or jail because who knows what would happen if they were unleashed on society. perhaps if her remaining brain cells are still functioning correctly, she will have learned something invaluable from this farcical experience.

here is the yahoo entry:

wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_264104114.html - 60k - Cached

Student Charged With Wearing Fake Bomb At Logan

Police Say Simpson Had Circuit Board,......

this is one of my very favorite musical artists. for those who don't yet know who this fascinating person is, it's natalie merchant, lead singer of the musical band 10,000 maniacs. just as a matter of course i'd recommend in my tribe and blindman's zoo to people not yet familiar with her music. i consider her a superstar in an entirely different spectrum: one that few artists have truly achieved. her modern-day counterpart is the graceful hayley westenra, whose charity work for bikes for ghana and unicef have won her wide acclaim. natalie is no slouch when it comes to seeing the humanitarian side of things, from her calmning, consolatory tune trouble me......

this guy couldn't beat the rap, so he beat his attorney instead

When you’re on trial for a certain type of crime, it’s not best to reenact that crime in front of the whole jury unless you really want a free apartment where your toilet is always five inches from your head while you sleep.

According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, a man on trial for assault slugged his attorney when things weren’t going his way.

The defendant didn’t like the way his trial was going and asked for the judge for a new court-appointed attorney. Well, what did he expect from a free attorney? Soup kitchens don’t serve creme brulet.

So he decided the next best course of action was to headlock his attorney and punch him repeatedly in the head. The attorney recused himself from the case and the judge refused to give him another one, so the defendant had to represent himself for the remainder of the trial. Based on the amount of brain power he’d showcased so far, you......

just be glad you're not riding with these distracted idiots or perhaps tremble in fear that they're on the road in the first place. sure, nav systems are wonderful, but you've still got to keep your eyes on the road as these drivers forgot. i'm pretty certain these shining examples are future darwin award winners.

Navigation System On, Brain Off: Brad Adams, 52, crashed his charter bus (carrying two dozen high school softball players, who had to be sent to a hospital) into a pedestrian bridge in Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum in April (bus: 11 feet, 8 inches high; bridge, 9 feet, 0 inches). Adams said he missed warning signs because he was busy following the navigation system. [Seattle Times, 4-17-08]

Five days after that, in King's Lynn, England, a Streamline taxi minibus had to be pulled from the River Nar after the driver, who said he was obediently following the navigation system instructions, drove straight into the water. [Lynn News, 4-23-08]