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Zoe Thomson

Mini Band - Enter Sandman

Amazing Band!! Special wow to Zoe Thomson (guitarist, left side)

Downton Abbey T4E8

09-12-2013

Charles leaves, Mary having appointed Tim Drewe as pig-man but when Anthony Gillingham's projected visit to Downton is announced Mary detects from Anna's reaction that something is wrong and learns the rapist's identity. The visit passes without incident though Mary turns down a proposal from Anthony, who has broken off his engagement. Later, at Mary's request, he sacks Green. Mary is alarmed when Rose tells her she is marrying Jack Ross and goes to see the singer, who assures her he is realistic enough to know that the union cannot take place. Lady Rosamund plans to take Edith to Switzerland, to have her baby and put it up for adoption but Violet is suspicious and forces the truth out of them. Robert returns for the annual fete and Alfred comes back for a funeral, proposing to Ivy, who declines. Meanwhile Isobel attracts the admiration of Lord Merton and Molesley forms a friendship with Baxter, though he is curious as to her relationship with Barrow.

Foo Fighters bio

The Foo Fighters emerged from the ashes of Nirvana, but the band's true roots lay in the years of personal recordings made by leader Dave Grohl. The former Nirvana drummer had played guitar and written songs since he was a Washington, D.C., teenager, while also playing drums in several hardcore bands. At 17, Grohl became the drummer for the veteran punk act Scream. In 1990 he joined Nirvana, but continued to work on his own material during breaks from the road and studio. After finishing Nirvana's Nevermind, Grohl returned to D.C. to record several tracks, which were released on the cassette-only Pocketwatch. Plans for another cassette release were shelved with Kurt Cobain's 1994 suicide.

Later that year Grohl entered a studio with friend and producer Barrett Jones to record what would become the first Foo Fighters album. Grohl played all the instruments himself (with the exception of the song "X-Static," which featured guitar by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs). Though he had written and sung just one Nirvana song (the B-side "Marigold"), Grohl demonstrated a flair for pop hooks and driving guitar rock. (The name Foo Fighters came from what American World War II pilots called unidentified fireballs spotted over Germany.) Grohl signed with Capitol and formed a band in time for a 1995 tour, recruiting bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith from the freshly-broken-up Sunny Day Real Estate. Pat Smear, the former Germs guitarist who had joined Nirvana for its final tour, also joined.

Foo Fighters (Number 23) was released in 1995 and spawned the Modern Rock hits "This Is a Call," "I'll Stick Around," and "Big Me." Goldsmith quit during the making of The Colour and the Shape (Number Ten, 1997), the first Foo Fighters album recorded as a band, and was replaced by Taylor Hawkins (Alanis Morissette). The album contained the Modern Rock hits "Monkey Wrench," "My Hero," and "Everlong." Smear quit and was briefly replaced by Franz Stahl (Scream) and then Chris Shiflett (No Use for a Name, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes), solidifying the lineup to date. Grohl relocated to Virginia and recorded There Is Nothing Left to Lose (Number 10, 1999) in his basement; the album included "Learn to Fly" (Number 13, 2000).

In 2001 the group began recording its fourth album in Los Angeles, but stopped before finishing. Grohl took a break from band-leading by getting behind the drums again for Queens of the Stone Age's 2002 album Songs for the Deaf. Refreshed, Grohl gathered the Foos back together and re-recorded almost the entire album at his Virginia home studio, released as One by One (Number Three, 2002). The album further consolidated the band's place as the well-loved elder statesmen of alt-rock.
In 2004, Grohl released Probot, the self-titled side project featuring a number of vocalists from heavy metal legends, among them Lemmy Kilmister (Mot örhead), Snake (Voivod), King Diamond, and Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulfly). Later the same year, the Foos publicly backed John Kerry's presidential campaign, an endeavor Grohl said inspired the title of In Your Honor (Number Two, 2005), a double-CD featuring an acoustic disc and an electric disc. It featured the hit "Best of You" (Number 18, 2005), later covered, to Grohl's great delight and surprise, by Prince during his bravura halftime appearance at the 2007 Super Bowl. (Foo Fighters had covered Prince's "Darling Nikki" on the B-side of the 2003 single "Have It All" and performed it live and on the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards with guest star Cee-Lo.) 
 
After a stopgap live disc, Skin and Bones (Number 21, 2006), Foo Fighters worked together again with Gil Norton, who'd produced The Colour and the Shape, and recorded the well-received Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (Number Three, 2007). The group scored both Best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock Performance at the following years' Grammy Awards, and performed "Young Man Blues" and "Bargain" (with Gaz Coombes of Supergrass) at VH1's Rock Honors concert for the Who. After this whirlwind of activity, Grohl announced the band would be taking a hiatus. A greatest hits album featuring one new song, "Wheels," was released in 2009, and Grohl turned his full attention to another project: his role as drummer in the hard rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, which featured Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. The group debuted with a performance at the Metro in Chicago as part of a Lollapalooza after-party, and then made a series of festival appearances that summer before releasing their first album (Number 12) to generally positive reviews and strong sales in November of that year.
Portions of this biography appeared in The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001). J. Edward Keyes contributed to this article.


Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/foo-fighters/biography

Downton Abbey T4E7

02-12-2013

Robert is summoned to America to bail out reprobate brother-in-law Harold but, after Mrs Hughes has given her the 'official' version of Anna's rape Mary steps in to let John stay with his wife with his place being taken by Barrow. He is curious as to the change of plan, asking Baxter to find out more, which Molesley overhears. Isobel plans to go with Tom to a meeting addressed by a Liberal MP but stays behind to nurse flu-stricken Violet, and he goes alone, sitting next to Daisy, an attractive young woman. In London Edith discovers she is pregnant but refuses an abortion whilst Rose continues to see Jack Ross. Back at Downton the pigs arrive and Mary takes Charles Blake to view them. He proves invaluable when the animals seem to be in trouble and he and Mary combine to save them, getting covered in mud in the process. Meanwhile Anthony Gillingham returns, with Green, who faces Mrs Hughes' anger.

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Downton Abbey T4E6

25-11-2013

 

Robert is perturbed when Mary and Tom suggest intensive pig-farming on his land and Evelyn returns with his superior Charles Blake, to assess the viability of estates such as Downton. Blake does not impress Mary but both men are invited to stay for Robert's birthday party, for which Rose has engaged Jack Ross and his band. Rose's involvement with Ross would seem to go beyond the professional. At the party Isobel dissuades Tom from emigrating to America with his daughter and later she proves to Violet that young Pegg was not a thief, being surprised by the dowager's open-mindedness in reinstating him. Alfred receives good news - he has been accepted at the Ritz after all and Molesley is quick to step into his role but Edith is still concerned as Michael seems to have gone missing in Germany.

 

António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro

António Variações é um dos ícones maiores da música Pop portuguesa, marcou e continua a marcar diversas gerações de artistas portugueses, pela genuinidade e emoção que emprestava às suas criações.

Nascido António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro, em 3 de Dezembro de 1944, no Lugar de Pilar, freguesia de Fiscal, em Amares perto de Braga.

 

Filho de camponeses minhotos, desde muito cedo revelou propensão para a música. Em 1957, com 12 anos apenas, abandonou a sua aldeia natal e foi para Lisboa, onde se dedicou a várias actividades profissionais desde empregado de escritório a barbeiro, até ir para Angola, em 1965 para cumprir o serviço militar.

 

Em 1970, parte para Londres e conforme afirma mais tarde, não retira ainda deste contacto com outro país, o pleno proveito, ao contrário do que sucede em seguida, quando viaja, primeiro para Itália, em 1973 e depois, em 1974, para a Holanda.

 

Em 1975 viaja até Londres, onde fica durante um ano e parte, depois para Amsterdão onde aprende a profissão de cabeleireiro. Esta aprendizagem servir-lhe-á para se instalar novamente na capital Portuguesa.

 

Com a ajuda do amigo e colega Fernando Ataíde, Variações foi admitido no Ayer, o primeiro cabeleireiro unissexo a funcionar em Portugal. Ataíde era igualmente seu amante e Variações assumiu dessa forma a sua orientação sexual. Depois do Ayer, passou ainda por um salão no Centro Comercial Alvalade.

 

António fazia questão de sublinhar que o que lhe interessava mais era o corte e não o penteado. E é também o corte que marca a sua personalidade, o corte com os preconceitos, com o que é comum e consensual.

 

Abre a Barbearia É pró Menino e prá Menina na Baixa Lisboeta, onde o seu visual excêntrico é notado pelas roupas invulgares, associadas à aparente serenidade do barbeiro.

 

Entretanto, deu igualmente início aos espectáculos com o grupo Variações, atraindo rapidamente as atenções. O seu estilo musical combinava vários géneros, como o rock, o pop, os blues ou o fado. Em 1978, apresentou-se à editora Valentim de Carvalho e assinou contrato, mas passam 4 anos, algumas viagens mais, vários concertos e apresentações, até gravar o primeiro disco.

 

É em 1981 no programa O Passeio dos Alegres de Júlio Isidro que António se apresenta ao grande público, sem ter até aí editado qualquer música. Os temas que cantou nessa emissão chamavam-se Toma O Comprimido e Não Me Consumas e ainda permanecem inéditos, uma vez que nunca foram registados em disco.

 

 

A sua música e o seu estilo inconfundível fizeram com que depressa alcançasse uma fama razoável.

 

Em 1982 gravou o primeiro trabalho, o single Povo Que Lavas No Rio, imortalizado por Amália Rodrigues e Estou Além. Amália era, aliás, uma das suas referências, que teve direito a uma canção de Variações (Voz Amália de Nós).

 

O seu primeiro longa duração Anjo da Guarda, é também dedicado à popular fadista. Com dez faixas, todas de sua autoria, onde se destacaram os êxitos É p´ra Amanhã e O Corpo É que Paga. Neste disco participam Vítor Rua (com o pseudónimo Vick Vaporub) e Tóli César Machado, músicos dos GNR.

 

Durante o Verão de 1983 Variações é muito solicitado para espectáculos ao vivo, sobretudo em aldeias por este país fora.

 

Em Fevereiro de 1984, António Variações entra em estúdio com os músicos dos Heróis do Mar para gravar o seu segundo longa duração que se intitulará Dar e Receber. O tema mais conhecido deste disco é, sem sombra de dúvidas, Canção De Engate que, posteriormente, se tornará um imenso sucesso numa versão dos Delfins.

 

Dois meses depois, a 22 de Abril, Variações daria um concerto, na aldeia de Viatodos, concelho de Barcelos, durante as festas da Isabelinha. Depois disso, aparece pela última vez em público no programa televisivo A Festa Continua de Júlio Isidro. Será a única interpretação no pequeno ecrã das faixas do novo disco, usando o mesmo pijama com ursinhos e coelhinhos que usou na sua primeira aparição televisiva.

 

Variações cantou na Queima das Fitas de Coimbra de 1984, no dia 17 de Maio, na Noite da Psicologia, já gravemente doente, sendo que os seus amigos e familiares deixaram de receber notícias do cantor, que ficou hospedado por alguns dias em casa de um amigo até ter sido levado para o Hospital Pulido Valente no dia 18 de Maio devido a um problema brônquico-asmático.

 

Quando Canção de Engate invadiu as rádios, já António Variações se encontrava internado no hospital. Transferido para a Clínica da Cruz Vermelha, morreu a 13 de Junho, dia de Santo António, vítima de uma broncopneumonia bilateral grave, provavelmente causada pela SIDA. O actor holandês Jelle Balder, com quem também manteve um relacionamento amoroso, foi o seu companheiro até à morte.

 

Será sepultado, dois dias depois, no cemitério de Amares (Braga), perto da sua aldeia natal, com a presença de poucos músicos acompanhando o funeral.

 

Com a sua morte desaparece um dos maiores renovadores da canção portuguesa das últimas décadas.

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Downton Abbey T4E5

18-11-2013

 

Under pressure Mrs Hughes tells John what happened to Anna but names an outsider as the culprit and, whilst the couple reconcile, he is not entirely convinced by the housekeeper's story. Robert is sympathetic to Tim Drewe, whose father, an estate tenant, died owing huge debts, whilst Isobel persuades Violet to employ young villager John Pegg as a gardener, defending the boy when an ornament belonging to the dowager goes missing. Edith is upset that Michael is not returning her calls and there is a disappointment too for Alfred, who fails his trial as a chef at the Ritz and Molesley, who had hoped to replace him on the staff. Mary meanwhile reencounters Evelyn Napier, now involved in a survey of estates which would benefit from down-sizing. 

Duran Duran (1981)

1. Girls on Film
2. Planet Earth
3. Anyone Out There
4. To the Shore
5. Careless Memories
6. Night Boat
7. Sound of Thunder
8. Friends of Mine
9. Tel Aviv

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Downton Abbey T4E4

11-11-2013

As the guests leave Anna keeps her rape by Green from John but is distant towards him, considering separate sleeping arrangements. Tom feels guilty after succumbing to Edna's advances again but seeks help from Mrs Hughes, who exposes Edna as a blackmailer and the lady's maid leaves the abbey in a hurry. Mary and Tom go to London on business, taking Rose, who is charmed by black American vocalist Jack Ross. On her return homer Mary is followed by Anthony, who, despite being betrothed to another woman, proposes marriage, though Mary rejects him. Edith stays in London and has sex with Michael, though her cousin, Lady Rosamund, warns her that the relationship could be doomed and her reputation lost. Alfred announces that he is hoping to become a chef whilst Isobel agrees to help Dr Clarkson run an out-patient clinic.

Lumio Lamp

Um dos produtos mais espectaculares que vi nos últimos tempos.

Lumio unfolds from a book into a multi-purpose portable lamp, that can be used almost anywhere...

 

 

 

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Downton Abbey T4E3

04-11-2013

 

An extravagant house party at the Abbey gives the Crawleys a chance to reconnect with old friends and culminates in a performance by opera singer Dame Nellie Melba.

But some guests prove more welcome than others and along with the celebrations come skulduggery and heartache. Below stairs, with preparations in full swing tensions run high, and Mrs Patmore begins to feel the strain. Jimmy’s attempts to impress Ivy in front of love-rival Alfred don’t go to plan, and hapless Molesley is made an offer of employment he finds hard to refuse.



Dog Mendonça e Pizzaboy

 

«O livro é a história maravilhosamente ilustrada e bem contada de um distribuidor de pizzas chamado Eurico e das suas aventuras numa Lisboa infestada de monstros. A sua moto é roubada (e o seu trabalho a distribuir pizzas depende dela!), o que o obriga a recorrer aos serviços de Dog "Investigador do Oculto" Mendonça. A eles junta-se Pazuul, uma menina que não é o que parece, e a cabeça de uma Gárgula que fala pelos cotovelos. Entretanto, as crianças de Lisboa estão a ser raptadas durante a noite! Sob as ruas da cidade, o pior de todos os monstros está a trabalhar arduamente para levar a cabo o seu plano maléfico. Quem será ele? Bem, suponho que vão ter mesmo de ler para descobrir...»

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Obama: Yes we Scan!

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Ayrton Senna 30 Outubro 1988

Ayrton Senna vence em Suzuka, no Japão, o seu primeiro campeonato mundial de Fórmula 1.

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Aparição de Jesus e Maria?

 

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Chris Hadfield

 

 

If you’re unaware of Commander Chris Hadfield’s cover of a popular tune recreated for a tweeted video while orbiting the blue planet, you must have just returned from space...

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Although the image is from «Aladdin Sane» which was released 4 years latter, this is a David Bowie iconic image and Space Oddity one of my favorite musics ever created!

If you still don't know what I'm talking about, watch this video...

Downton Abbey T4E2

28-10-2013

 

Mary receives a letter from Matthew's effects, naming her as his sole heir and therefore the owner of half the estate. Encouraged by Violet she agrees to shadow Tom and learn more about the running of Downton and its surrounding properties. Edna makes an inauspicious start as Cora's maid but soon forms an alliance with Thomas to discredit Anna. Anna herself accompanies Rose to a tea-dance in York for servants, where Rose, pretending to be a maid, attracts gardener Sam Thawley but also provokes a fight so that a hurried exit is required as the police arrive. Later Sam ...

 

Downton Abbey T4E1

21-10-2013

Six months later and Mary is still mourning Matthew, leaving the care of baby George to Nanny West. Tom tries to interest her in estate management to little avail but Violet eventually persuades her to look to the future. Miss O'Brien leaves without any explanation to take work with Lady Flintshire, Rose's mother. Mrs Hughes is less than happy with Cora's replacement for her, Edna, a former maid who tried to seduce Tom. Edith goes to London, where Michael tells her he is prepared to go to Germany for a divorce so that they can be together. She brings electric kitchen ...
 

Canhão da Nazaré

R.I.P. Lou Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013)

 

 

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