American-Italian Music Hall On-Demand

If you’re looking for good classic Italian Music I recommend you tune into Joe Farda’s radio show the “American-Italian Music Hall.” All shows are presented here as they originally aired on 93.5 FM WVIP and each has a running time of 60-minutes. The broadcast is in English, but the music is always Italian. Italian entertainers such as: Jimmy Roselli, Carlo Buti, Connie Francis, Gigli, Toni Arden, Joe Masielo, Ria Rosa, Pavarotti, Sinatra, Dean Martin, and many more, performing Italian, Neopolitan, or American songs with an Italian flavor. It was the classic recordings of Gigli that got me hooked.

Free Movie Wednesday

I posted this video to highlight the pre movie short film, “The Crimson Permanent Assurance”. Props to hulu.com for posting this up for FREE.

From Wikipedia: The Crimson Permanent Assurance, a lengthy introductory film directed by Terry Gilliam. In a satire on globalization, elderly office clerks rebel against their cold, efficient corporate masters at ‘The Permanent Assurance Company’, commandeer their building and turn it into a pirate ship, raiding financial districts in numerous big cities before falling off the edge of the world. Originally conceived by Gilliam as a 6-minute animated sequence in the middle of the film (at the end of Part V), it was later expanded to a 16-minute live-action piece, to the point where it no longer fit into the framework of the film and became a pre-movie short film in its own right.

Monty Python’s Meaning of Life
The British troupe’s sketches include gluttony, birth control and total insignificance.
Release Date: March 31, 1983

Graham Chapman
John Cleese
Carol Cleveland
Patricia Quinn
Michael Palin
Mark Holmes
Eric Idle
Andrew MacLachlan
Simon Jones
Judy Loe
Valerie Whittington
Terry Jones
Terry Gilliam

Director
John Goldstone

BRIGHTCOVE 3, EA Take Two

ELECTRONIC ARTS (NASD: ERTS) deadline to acquire TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE (NASD: TTWO) has come and gone again. The video game manufacturer is expected to extend its $2 billion bid for Strauss Zelnick’s GTA-4 money machine, which has been holding out for more money. Take-Two has already shipped 11 million copies of Grand Theft Auto 4, which should give Take-Two some negotiating leverage.

BRIGHTCOVE has gutted and rebuilt its streaming video player for better long-form capabilities. Brightcove, which is popular with news content producers and short form producers like TMZ, is making a move to acquire more long-form content partners. The move is directly targeted at competitor MOVE NETWORKS, who provides the player for ABC, FOX, the CW and ESPN

SNL: The Office

Ricky Gervais presents the inspiration for The Office.

a second life

Dwight: I signed up for Second Life about a year ago. Back then, my life was so great I literally wanted a second one. Absolutely everything was the same… except I could fly.

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I’m posting this here until I figure out the right sidebar plug-in.

If you’re familiar with Facebook or you already have an account, you can make a Facebook Banner (Badge) like the one above using the link here so that others can just click on it and add you as friends when they see you.

A quick and unflattering view of downtown White Plains.

It will make you happy Jack!