"Rock & Rolling Love" written by Uncutsaniflush on estrip.org

11/29/10 08:14 - 40.ºF - ID#53176

Rock & Rolling Love

Today's Polish Song of the Day is from the Viva Polish content charts

as well.

I don't know much about this group except that I think they have a sense of humor and I'm not fond of the name. This is a long form video that actually has 2 songs in it. The first one is by the "Reds." It is supposed to be an example of bad communist-era Polish pop. And, of course, the second song (at 3:30) is by Afromental and supposed to be wonderful. Personally, I think the second song isn't all that much better than the first one. I think they are making fun of themselves in the first song. Despite winning awards, I don't think critics have been kind to Afromental.

That being said, I think this is a funny and enjoyable video. It's what passes for Pop music in Poland this month.

The MC tells a really bad joke in between the bands.

"Q: What is red and bad for the teeth?
A: A brick!!"

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11/27/10 10:37 - 35.ºF - ID#53173

Body And Soul

I decided to look at the Polish content charts at Viva

for today's Polish Song of the Day.

C-Bool

an old school Polish DJ (If my memory serves correctly, his style was house) with a good international rep. I don't know much about this song but I do know that that I like it.

metalpeter writes at 05:55:54 11/30/10 - Comment #59475: Thanks....

I try to expand my music when I can. For example there was this band named T.a.T.u who had about 2 hits here... They where Russian I think not sure, and over there they huge. Now they didn't say they where lesbians but they loved each other. Over here they where like a fad to hot girls in the rain, oh yeah. But where they where from they where huge. I never did find the great Japanese metal band I was looking for.......

uncutsaniflush writes at 07:42:08 11/29/10 - Comment #59465: as usual, (e:metalpeter) , you make excellent points.

Like you, i like watching foreign language tv shows even I don't understand the language. When I was living in NYC in the 1980s, I used to watch programming from Italy and Japan for the music (I think I saw the beginnings of J-pop or the end of kayokyoku then)

I applaud your interest in stuff from outside the U.S.

metalpeter writes at 05:59:04 11/29/10 - Comment #59462: The Beat sounds like it was borrowed By Lady GaGa..... In terms of Wanting media from other countries yes I would agree that most people want things from America. There are some exceptions though....
Japanese Anime
Kung Fu and Karate Movies (all the best one are Asian or remakes of Asian Movies) This is also true of Horror movies I don't mean the slasher ones I mean weird ones link the ring....
Americans also like Japanese and some Euro Porn

What I find interesting is that there is a certain sound to some pop music , go find Korean Pop music or pop music in other countries (spanish) and since it is pop you don't know what they are saying but it sounds the same....

You Might ask How I have Heard Korean Pop Music. When I got cable they had this international Channel. They would kinda put things on in blocks by region. Well then the channel changed and became an Asian Station. Yes they had a news. Now some of the programs where in English and then the music wasn't... I didn't watch it all the time but it was an interesting channel wish Time Warner still had it......

uncutsaniflush writes at 02:48:23 11/28/10 - Comment #59461: Based on what I have seen, I think that the rest of the world is more interested in U.S. media than the other way around. I think a big problem for Americans, in general, is the lack of multi-lingualism. Additionally, Americans are not routinely exposed to foreign language media in the same way that Europeans and Pacific rim Asians are. Thus, they are more less to limit themselves to English language only media content.

paul writes at 11:46:48 11/28/10 - Comment #59458: I remember when I first got back from Germany in 97, I wanted German TV, music, movies so bad but it was so hard to get anything. The internet makes that all so easy now. I wonder if in the long run it will expose more Americans to foreign media or just Notre foreigners to American media.

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11/26/10 09:37 - 31.ºF - ID#53170

Love Shack

And now something accessible and current. A cover of the B-52s "Love Shack" by the Polish thrash metal band Acid Drinkers

. They have been around since the late 1980s. This year they released Acid "Fishdick Zwei - The Dick Is Rising Again" which is full of covers of well-known rock songs including "Love Shack". This album is a follow-up to the 90s effort "Fishdick" hence Fishdick Zwei.

Ania Brachaczek is not a member of the Acid Drinkers.

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11/25/10 10:48 - 41.ºF - ID#53165

Zurawie (Cranes)

Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa (Warsaw Village Band)

- exponents of alternative Polish Folk Music

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11/24/10 11:25 - 32.ºF - ID#53163

Generacja nic (Generation Nothing)

Cool Kids of Death

- Generacja nic.

English Translation (quick and dirty):

The light is not in you
Went off like bad dreams
Modern man
It's definitely not you
The light is not in me
Went dark sometime
Modern man
It's definitely not me
I know that together we can achieve a lot
Who has more is right?
And we can create a new generation

Generation Nothing
Generation No
Generation No One
Generation Bad
It can not succeed
It ends
Generation Nothing
Generation No

The light is already not in us
Went dark sometime
The movement is no longer in the eye
This is urban guerrilla warfare
Take everything out of the house
Burn the Bed
break down the door
Build a barricade
Defend yourself to the last drop of blood
The light already is not in us
Burned out

Polish Lyrics:

ÅšwiatÅ‚a nie ma w tobie
ZgasÅ‚o jak zÅ‚e sny
Nowoczesny czÅ‚owiek
To na pewno nie Ty
SwiatÅ‚a nie ma we mnie
ZgasÅ‚o kiedyÅ› tam
Nowoczesny czÅ‚owiek
To na pewno nie ja
Wiem Å¼e razem moÅ¼na wiele
Kto ma wiÄ™cej ten ma racjÄ™
A my stwÃ³rzmy caÅ‚kiem nowÄ… generacjÄ™

Generacja nic
Generacja nie
Generacja nikt
Generacja Åºle
To nie moÅ¼e siÄ™ udaÄ‡
To siÄ™ koÅ„czy Å›le
Generacja nic
Generacja nie

ÅšwiatÅ‚a juÅ¼ w nas nie ma
ZgasÅ‚o kiedyÅ› tam
Nie rzucamy siÄ™ juÅ¼ w oczy
To jest miejska partyzantka
WynieÅ› z domu wszystko
Podpal Å‚Ã³Å¼ko
wywaÅ¼ drzwi
Zbuduj sobie barykadÄ™
BroÅ„ siÄ™ do ostatniej krwi
ÅšwiatÅ‚a juÅ¼ w nas nie ma
WypaliÅ‚o siÄ™

Generacja nic
Generacja nie

Generacja nic
Generacja nie
Generacja nikt
Generacja Åºle
To nie moÅ¼e siÄ™ udaÄ‡
To siÄ™ koÅ„czy Å›le
Generacja nic
Generacja nie

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11/24/10 12:00 - 34.ºF - ID#53157

Minus Zero

Talking to (e:tinypliny) about my Polish experience, made me in a fit of Polish madness think that I should do a "Polish Song of the Day" on E-strip even though Warsaw isn't exactly on the Elmwood Strip.

This song is by Lady Pank

. The video is directed by Zbigniew RybczyÅ„ski

This video references many Polish and American stereotypes both in Poland and in the U.S.

The video was filmed on Battery Park City landfill in lower Manhattan in 1985.

(The English language lyrics have very little to do with the Polish language lyrics). Less Than Zero would be a better translation of the original song title.

Lyrics:

Ula models for top magazines
See her smile in her pink limousine
Queen of lipstick, shampoo and suncreams,
She's the fun of every man's dreams
She thinks she's ooh-la-la,
But she's just la-de-da

Minus zero

Flies to Rio when Rio is sunny
Never sweats,'cause she stands in the shade
She's a honey, and brings in the money
Works for pleasure, but always gets paid
She oozes sex appeal,
But she just isn't real

Minus zero

Ula models for top magazines
See her smile in her pink limousine
Queen of lipstick, shampoo and suncreams,
She's the fun of every man's dreams
She thinks she's ooh-la-la,
But she's just la-de-da

Minus zero

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10/22/10 10:51 - 47.ºF - ID#53003

11 Years Gone

My mom died a few hours from now 11 years ago. She would have been 71 on August 25.

Here are a few of my favorite photos of her.

She visited the Falls in 1970

My mom and I at a reception in 1974

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09/16/10 11:58 - 55.ºF - ID#52757

Drag and Drop Test

OK, this is what I figured out. In the gnome Linux Mint 9, drag and drop does NOT work from the Desktop or if the file manager and firefox windows do not overlap.

But it does work if the file manager and the firefox winows DO overlap.

None of this works on a heavily-patched PCLinuxOS 2007 box with KDE 3.5.9 and Firefox 3.6.9. Because the PCLinuxOS is rather old and very far away from a vanilla install, I reckoned I should try something more modern like Linux Mint.

(e:leetee) suggested that the problem might be that the drag and drop won't be supported from the Desktop so I tried drag and drop from the File Manager on both boxes. Linux Mint worked if the windows overlapped. But, alas, the ancient PCLinuxOS box was just too old and cranky and refused to work. Thank you for all your efforts, (e:paul). I think the mystery is solved. There is no more reason for you to do anything about this. It's a combination of user error and old software.

uncutsaniflush writes at 10:16:42 09/17/10 - Comment #58492: (e:scott) - thank you for the kind words but I always fear that no matter how I try to explain stuff in Linux it is way too geeky. For example, how many average computer users know the difference between a Desktop Environment and a Window Manager? And, more importantly, does it really matter to them? People just want stuff to work. We geeks on the other hand want stuff to work our way.

When I started out with Linux, I was a KDE gui man despite liking lots of Gnome suite apps. These days I have to say that I like the newer Gnome better than the KDE 4+ desktops. But, ironically enough, I tend to prefer KDE suite apps. Go figure.

I love E17 (Enlightenment DR17). I'm sad to say that right I don't have a box that is running E17 because I've been compiling it from source lately and I just don't have time and energy to deal with that.

Any old way, again thank you for the kind words. As you can see, I can ramble on about Linux. I'm a bit of an absent-minded professor. My train of thought often makes unscheduled stops.

scott writes at 02:17:48 09/17/10 - Comment #58482: Excellent summary of the different players (kernel vs desktop env) in linux for the non-linux user. Well said! (You should write those up in a separate post of their own!)

uncutsaniflush writes at 01:54:15 09/17/10 - Comment #58481: (e:tinypliny) - Gnome and KDE are both desktop environments who have their own suites of apps. In a way, they are the Coke and Pepsi of Linux Desktop environments. There are others but they are the most popular.

These days gnome and kde apps play well with each other. And I've not had any problems using Gnome apps in KDE and visa-versa since 2001 or 20002.

In general terms, in Linux, you can use any Gnome or KDE app with any desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, lxde, xfce, etc), desktop shell (Enlightenment DR17 (my personal fave), etc.), or windows manager (Window Maker, fluxbox, etc.) as long as you have access to the supporting toolkit libraries. And these days, most distros have pre-compiled library binaries available. Of course, if you are geeky, you could just compile stuff even if your favie distro doesn't have libraries for ready download.

I hope that answered your question and didn't confuse you more.

tinypliny writes at 12:49:37 09/17/10 - Comment #58480: Since you are explaining stuff, where exactly do Gnome and KDE stand in this hierarchy of things? Can things made for Gnome run in KDE based systems and vice versa?

uncutsaniflush writes at 12:27:46 09/17/10 - Comment #58478: (e:paul) - If you think about it Linux isn't an operating system, it's a kernel. To me that is one of Linux's greatest strengths and one of its greatest weaknesses.

Because it is an implementation of a kernel with user space api's, anyone and everyone can make their own Linux and developers aren't limited by what the other developers are doing. While both Fedora and Ubuntu are operating systems using the Linux kernel, they aren't "Linux" in the same way that MS Windows is Windows and osX is osX. A better way to look at it is that Fedora is Fedora and Ubuntu is Ubuntu, etc. But,of course, you already knew that.

On an enterprise level, the lack of standards can cause problems. That's why the Linux Standard Base :::link::: was started.

When I first used Linux in another century, cut and paste was a real problem. Even if your distro could run gnome and kde apps, you couldn't always cut and paste between them. If memory serves it was because of qt and gtk not playing together well.

paul writes at 03:50:10 09/16/10 - Comment #58451: Isn't it so crazy how crazy this stuff can get because of minor differences in Linux. Sadly, this is exactly why big software companies don't want to support Linux.

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08/12/10 09:33 - 73.ºF - ID#52434

Smells Like Rockin Robin

I've been a big fan of Mark Vidler (No relation to the East Aurora retail family) and Go Home Productions for more years than I can remember. I'm still in awe of his Sex Pistols - Madonna mashups.

MIchael Jackson's Rockin Robin and Nirvana's Smells like Teen Spirit mashed up. How does he come up with the combinations? If you are anything like me, you won't be able to listen to either song in quite the same way after seeing this.

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07/30/10 09:30 - 71.ºF - ID#52336

Goodbye Bass Pro; Hello, IKEA

I say now that Bass Pro is officially gone (and I don't believe that they were actually going to be here anyway) the Powers That Be should try to get an IKEA to replace it.

tiburon1724 writes at 10:38:55 07/31/10 - Comment #57585: Sonic is a fit for the suburbs, not so much the city and definitely not downtown. It focuses on people driving there!! Their food is ok; we had it in Orlando. Once the novelty wears off after about two visits, it's nothing special. And it's awkward to go alone lol. The best thing is their crazy drinks....you can basically get whatever you want. Chocolate Coke is better than it sounds.

metalpeter writes at 07:05:11 07/31/10 - Comment #57583: Well what I would (even though I don't drive) like to see is (this doesn't exsit by the way) A Sonic, like from what I understand the way (or even not them but some other company) they are in the south with the drive up service and pretty girls and for the girls guys on Roller Skates. Some of them (or other dinners) have car show nights, have those, and then, Also since this is catering to cars have a Drive In.......... Yes you could have food roller skated out to you at the drive, how awesome would that be??????

tiburon1724 writes at 11:41:26 07/31/10 - Comment #57576: IKEA would be awesome!! I don't go to any in Canada now because I don't know the details of crossing the border with the stuff. And Pittsburgh's too much of a hike to make it worthwhile. The other ideas you guys have floated are great too but who are we kidding...Canalside will look like Main Place Mall, Main St, the Casino location, etc forever thanks largely in part to NIMBYs.

paul writes at 10:34:44 07/31/10 - Comment #57575: I would love a whole foods, although I suspect that would cause the coop to close. Maybe not though, since they are far enough apart.

uncutsaniflush writes at 09:50:58 07/31/10 - Comment #57573: Yes, A Trader Joe's downtown would be cool. So would a Whole Foods.

tinypliny writes at 08:33:13 07/31/10 - Comment #57571: Since we are dreaming, I would really like a Trader Joe's AND a chain haircut place, say, Fantastic Sam or Supercuts in downtown, please. Thanks.