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Month: June 2005
Musical Baton
Eman passed the musical baton on to me, so here it goes…
Total volume of music files on my computer:
Well, I have too many music files to keep on one computer’s hard disk, so I’m always burning my stuff on to cds or moving them to external hard disks or stuff.
So, I think at the time of this post, I have approximately 4.5GBs of music on my laptop, 5GBs on my mp3 player, and gigs and gigs on cds and stuff.
The last CD I bought was:
Hmmm, I can’t remember exactly. Maybe “Kel El Asayed” by Marwan Khoury.
Song playing right now:
“Stand” by Jewel.
Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
1. Insomnia (Faithless)
2. Wonderwall (Oasis)
3. Layla (Eric Clapton)
4. Losing My Religion (R.E.M)
5. What A Wondeful World (Louis Armstrong)
Five people to whom I
After the Third Tunisian Blogger Meetup
We just got home from the Third Tunisian blogger meetup, which was held at Caf
TF1 Concert for Tolerance
Last night we attended the TF1 Concert for Tolerance in Medina M
Live 8 – The Long Walk To Justice
Live 8, which was launched by Bob Geldof, is a series of concerts and events across the world, which are being staged to highlight the problem of global poverty. It’s a chance for ordinary people to call on world leaders at this year’s G8 summit and tell them to put a stop to the needless deaths of 30,000 children every single day.
On 6th July 2005, the leaders of Great Britain, the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia will meet at Gleneagles in Scotland to talk about world affairs, including Africa. They will be presented with a workable plan to double aid, drop the debt and make trade laws fair.
The G8 summit is our opportunity to demand that the world’s most influential leaders take action now.
Live 8 has organised concerts in Philadelpia, Berlin, London, Rome, Paris and Edinburgh, with 100 artists, a million spectators, two billion viewers and one message: Make Poverty History.
For more information, check out the Live 8 website.
Technorati have even launched a special Technorati Live 8 site.
Hide And Seek
Last night we watched Hide And Seek, starring Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning.
The movie is a thriller/drama/horror about a widower who tries to piece his life together in the wake of his wife’s suicide, and his daughter who seems to find solace, at first, in her imaginary friend Charlie, until things go bad.
I actually like the idea and story of the movie, but I believe it could have been executed a lot better.
It’s a shame they allowed it to get a bit boring at certain stages of the movie, which basically weakened it as a movie.
Dakota Fanning is a great great talent though. She is just amazing. In every movie I’ve seen her in, she outshines all the other actors, in this case De Niro himself.
If you’ve got nothing better to see, then check this movie out just for the sake of seeing Dakota do another great job, and for the idea and twist of the movie.
My score for this movie is: 6/10.
Whale Burgers in Japan
Japan may be under fire for plans to expand its whaling programme, but that has not stopped a fast food chain from offering a new product aimed at using up stocks from past hunts – whale burger.
The 380-yen ($3.50) slice of fried minke whale in a bun went on sale on Thursday at Lucky Pierrot, a restaurant chain in the port city of Hakodate on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido.
They say the taste and texture are somewhere between beef and fish.
The chain is currently producing only 200 burgers a day spread out over its 10 outlets.
It seems people in Hakodate have a long history of eating whale, so it’s weird they only started making burgers out of it now.
I wonder if McDonald’s Japan will follow suit and introduce a McWhale soon 😉
[Source: Al Jazeera]
BBC Arabic Bloggers Report
The BBC Arabic report on Arab Bloggers, that I was interviewed for along with Eman, Haitham, As’ad and others, will be on air today Friday 24th sometime between 10:00 and 12:00 GMT.
So if you’re anywhere with a radio near you, from which you can tune into the BBC Arabic Radio, do try to check it out 🙂
Tabarka Jazz Festival 2005
Another year has passed and the Tabarka Jazz Festival is around the corner again. Everyone has started planning for the concerts they’re going to attend.
The schedule this year is as follows:
01/07/2005: Amedeo Bianchi & son Sextuor (Italy) + Chucho Valdes (Cuba)
02/07/2005: Le minaret & La tour, Riadh Fehri (Tunisia) + Golden Gate Quartet (USA)
03/07/2005: Rayjam Quintet (Holland / Tunisia ) + Louis Prima (France)
05/07/2005: James Cotton (USA)
06/07/2005: Aldo Romano (Italy)
07/07/2005: Daniel Huck (France)
08/07/2005: Thomas Kaufmann & Wolfgang Reisinger (Austria) + Omar Sosa (Cuba)
09/07/2005: Fawzi Chekili (Tunisia)
Top 100 Movie Quotes
The American Film Institute (AFI) revealed the top 100 movie quotes of all time in AFI’s 100 Years.
1- “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” (GONE WITH THE WIND 1939)
2- “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” (THE GODFATHER 1972)
3- “You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.” (ON THE WATERFRONT 1954)
4- “Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” (THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939)
5- “Here’s looking at you, kid.” (CASABLANCA 1942)
6- “Go ahead, make my day.” (SUDDEN IMPACT 1983)
7- “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” (SUNSET BLVD. 1950)
8- “May the Force be with you.” (STAR WARS 1977)
9- “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” (ALL ABOUT EVE 1950)
10- “You talking to me?” (TAXI DRIVER 1976)
For the rest of the list, go to: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes.