Is there a viable medical explanation for JetBlue pilot Clayton Obson's mid-air breakdown? Dr. Jeffrey Liberman, chief of psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital, speaks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about the medical possibilities.
This twenty-minute documentary from Journeyman Pictures looks at the political tensions in Russia as 2012 continues. I found Journeyman Pictures production to be excellent. One of the most interesting facts stated was that about twenty percent of the population still supports communism. Is it just Soviet nostalgia? As a whole, Russia is a very conflicted nation, not knowing which way to turn. Go forward with a Putinesque future? Go back to a socialist utopia that was an illusion? Another way? I have always found Russia fascinating and continue to study it. I also pray for its future, for peace, for freedom and for a more stable world.
Welcome to WC3PO’s Take On the 80's, music of the 1980s. It seems that the 80’s were the last decade of popular music where you often felt good or moved emotionally after listening to a song. Video may have killed the radio star, but the 90's all but killed music like this, leaving music mostly about darkness, hate and violence. The 2000's , well, there were a few hopeful signs which along with the few in the 90's that I liked can be found at my format, "21st Century in Sound". Listen to "Take On the 80's"and smile again. :-)
These are my top 25 musical discoveries of 2009.Some of these did not come out this year, but all have come out this decade and most withinthe last five years. It is really hard to pick one favorite from all of these. These are in alphabetical order, notin order of liking one better over the other. The songs with the asterisks are my favorites on the list.
1)Acceptable Losses, Lisa Miskovsky
2)Brutality, Black Box Recorder
3)Burn Bridges, The Grates *
This is my favorite video discovery of the year. Who can't love someone molding mashed potatoes in a music video?
4)Collide, Howie Day
5)Everything, Stereofuse
Another video that looks like it was shot in the blank, neutrality of the high desert north of Los Angeles. It drives me nuts that so many people in the media industry think this sort of scenery makes such a great back drop for their production. It shows a lack of originality in my opinion. Despite that, I do like this song.
6)Faith Hope Love, Starsailor
I really like this song, but the video showing Grey's Anatomy scenes should not be construed that we here at WC3PO watch this show. Nope.
7)Gunhild, I'm From Barcelona feat. SoKo
8)I Do, Abra Moore *
Definitely one of my favorites I found this year. I love the tempo.
9)Kaleidoscope, Kate Havnevik *
Kate Havnevik is my artist find of the year. See also #9 and #23 and my WC3PO Channel 10A playlist, "21st Century in Song."
10)Light in the Window, April Verch *
This is another song I love for its shameless positivity. It's tone also reminds me of West Virginia where I visited and came to love this year.
This is such a kooky song. So, kooky in a kind of 80s way. It also reminds me of the new glasses I got this year, vintage 1950s black horn rimmed type.
14)Oceans of Light, Aradhana Silvermoon
Video no longer available, sadly.
15)Paper Planes, I'm From Barcelona
16)Portland, Far Beyond Frail *
This is one of those up beat songs where the refrain just gets me. Video no longer available, sadly. However I do have the lyrics for you:
Hey love, I don’t understand Everything happened so fast, and now you’re gone I woke up alone and you were gone
Last night you were talkin’ kinda strange You asked me where I’d go if we could both run away and I didn’t know But you said there’s only one place that you’d go
You said the sun sets in Portland So that’s where I’m goin’ I guess that I’m hopin’ our story didn’t end And I’ll write you a letter Just as soon as I get there And it’ll say “Hey lover, I’m waiting for you here”
“Hey love,” you whispered in your sleep I laid there thinkin’ you were talkin’ to me, oh where’d you go? I started to like not bein’ alone, where’d you go?
I know that you don’t owe me a thing I guess I had hoped you wanted to need me, but you don’t And I wish I could let you go, but I won’t
I heard the sun sets in Portland So that’s where I’m goin’ I guess that I’m hopin’ our story didn’t end And I’ll write you a letter Just as soon as I get there And it’ll say “Hey lover, I’m waiting for you here”
Gotta leave before night falls ‘Cause if it falls, it’s fallin’ on me
I try to get the best quality videos possible on WC3PO, but sadly, this one is not the best. I did want you hear this song though. So....Slide! Slide!
18)Some things get lost, Alice Peacock
I like this song, but the video with scenes from the TV show "Gilmore Girls," should not be construed that we here at WC3PO watch this show.
19)Something to Live For, Yann Tiersen and Shannon Wright
The student made video is not the greatest, but I think it was shot in a place I am very familiar with, Antelope Valley, California. It sure looks like it. It is the song I like. The music begins 42 seconds in.
20)Song With A Mission, the Sounds
21)Take A Chance, Quincy Coleman(Click on the link to take you to the page to listen to this song.) * I love this song's tempo and upbeat theme.
22)Tram #7 to Heaven, Jens Lekman
23)Travel in Time, Kate Havnevik
24)Vertebrae, Christine Fellows
The video from YouTube is entitled, "What I did today," but the song is indeed Vertebrae by Christine Fellows
I DO HAVE THE LYRICS: I lost my last clear thought in the whirlwind of his hair and the speed of my eyes taking all of him in. he's searching like a child who's lost his favorite sound, strollng like a sheep and tripping on paved ground. he and i, so much alike. why? why not. the hands touch on the clock. closer than i ever thought. crossed lines on a map - like us, they've overlapped. lonely is as lonely has been. he gives me something to believe in. i can see better now that it's dark, strolling like a kid counting stars.
