Saturday, February 14, 2009

#968 My Valentine’s Day Present


Show 968 Saturday 14 February
Watch today’s show at YouTube or BlipTV.


The Daily English Show started on the 3rd of April 2006.
On show number 2 the news was about bananas.
I drew the pictures with a black pen and some crayons.
Almost 1000 shows later ... I'm still using the same crayons.
Dark green and black somehow went missing.
And you can see yellow is a popular colour.
It must be all those banana computers.
And I almost never use white. What's the point in a white crayon anyway?

This year I got a present for Valentine's Day.

links


Sakura Color Products Corporation

music

show start
artist: Boom Tschak
album: Indietronic CCBit.
track: More Chocolate, Please
from: Former Yugoslavia
MySpace

bgm
artist: mizuki wada
album: We are always crazy in the disco e.p.
track: Evening Sun became downer and downer
from: Mitaka, Japan
artist at Jamendo
album at Jamendo
MySpace

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#967 Tiki Taane, Pink Panties, Splat


Show 967 Friday 13 February
Watch today’s show at YouTube or BlipTV.


Hi, I’m Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show.

The song I recommend today is called Always On My Mind by Tiki Taane.
I really love this song and he’s one of my favourite musicians from New Zealand.

You can listen to this song – and watch the video – on Tiki’s YouTube channel.

This song is very easy to understand. It’s a guy singing to a girl and telling her how much he loves her.

He sings:
You have changed my life More than you'll ever know

And in the chorus he sings:
You’re always on my mind

On my mind or on your mind is an idiom.
If something is on your mind it means you’re thinking or worrying about it a lot.

In this case, it means that he’s thinking about the girl he loves a lot.



STICK NEWS

Kia ora in Stick News today thousands of people said they would send pink panties to a group in India on Valentine’s Day.

In January about 40 men from a religious group attacked a group who were in a pub in India. They said the women in the group were violating traditional Indian values. In response to the incident, four Indian women founded a group on Facebook which attracted more than 25,000 members in a few days. They called their group a consortium of pub-going, loose and forward women and started a campaign encouraging people to send pink underwear to the religious group on Valentine’s Day.

And that was Stick News for Friday 13th of February.
Kia ora.



TDES Niseko Snow Report
in Kutchan


Near my house there’s a sign which shows the temperature. I often take photos of it when I walk past. Here are some of the photos I took in December.

On the 4th of December at half past four it was 6 degrees.
On the 6th of December at five past six it was minus 5.2 degrees.
On the 9th of December at 20 past five it was 7.3 degrees.
On the 17th of December at 22 past 12 it was 8.5 degrees.
And on the 26th of December at 14 minutes to 12 it was minus 10.1 degrees.



Word of the Day

Today’s word is splat.

n. (informal) the sound made by sth wet hitting a surface with force

Here are some photos I found on Flickr with the tag splat.



friday joke

What's yellow and can fly through the wall like a ghost?
A magic banana.

What's red and goes splat?
A tomato who thinks he's a magic banana.



conversations with sarah
#607 I Did they break up?

Step 1: Repeat Dana’s lines.
Step 2: Read Dana’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Dana Is Tiki Taane pretty famous in New Zealand?

Sarah Yeah, he is.

Dana Where’s he from?

Sarah Christchurch I think. I’m pretty sure Salmonella Dub is from Christchurch, so, yeah, I think he is too.

Dana What’s Salmonella Dub?

Sarah That’s a band that he used to be part of.

Dana Did they break up?

Sarah No, they’re still together. He just left to do solo stuff.



notes

Salmonela Dub is actually from Kaikoura - according to Wikipedia.

links

today's news
today's STICK NEWS pictures

Tiki Taane - Wikipedia
Tiki Taane - site

Salmonella Dub - Wikipedia
Salmonella Dub - site

photos

Kamikaze Stoat
ChinchillaVilla
squacco
arbyreed
zandwacht
ultrahi
Andrew*
zen
PaddyMurphy

music

show start
artist: Boom Tschak
album: Indietronic CCBit.
track: More Chocolate, Please
from: Former Yugoslavia
MySpace

nsr start
artist: Zeropage
album: Ambient Pills Update
track: Is It Real?
from: Switzerland
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

nsr bgm
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Bass Vibes
artist site
YouTube channel

WOD start
artist: DJ iPep's
album: Home Mix 2007
track: Game Toy
from: EVREUX, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

friday joke start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: Sumbala
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: Wolfgang S.
album: Indietronic CCBit.
track: Dynamite
from: Belgrade, Serbia, Former Yugoslavia
artist site
MySpace

qa start
artist: ioeo
album: triptracks
track: triptrack2
from: Saint Raphael, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

nsr/wod/qa bgm
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: As I Figure
artist site
YouTube channel

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