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18-year old French pop diva Alizée Jacotey is featured here, live on March 3rd, 2003. This performance is dedicated to the memory of Laurette Fugain, a young woman who had died from leukemia in 2002. Alizée was part of a live performance that was for charity work, encouraging people to donate the precious gift of blood & to raise money in the fight against diseases of the blood. The mother of Laurette, Stéphanie Fugain, was in attendance for this show, featured here at 3:57 & at the very end, 4:17
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Alizée has an extraordinary reputation for selflessness. She offers a great deal of her time & energy towards charity work, helping in the fight against hunger as well as raising awareness for blood donations & the fight against blood disorders.
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This was one of only 6 appearances where she wears her unforgettable short skirt dress, knee-high boots, & thigh-high black stockings while performing her smash hit song, J'en Ai Marre. This performance was done en direct live on French HDTV .
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The music is composed by legendary composer Laurent Boutonnat while the lyrics are written by famed French singer & cultural icon, Mylène Farmer.
Alizée's popularity, thanks to spectacular performances such as this, has spread far beyond the borders of the great French Republic. -yt

I believe this is from the Australian show Beyond 2000 (or possibly one of its other incantations such as Beyond Tomorrow, or Towards 2000, in which a lot of the same personalities were featured--Iain Finlay, for one). I used to watch the fuck out of it as a kid. I wish I could find more than the 2 or 3 full episodes that I have online. Fun to look back on what people thought the future would look like, and see how accurate their predictions were.

Also, this show's theme music was unforgettable.

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I remember talking to my cousin, when I was very young, and I said I didn't know who U2 was. He went to his shelf, grabbed Boy, War, and The Unforgettable Fire, and said "Listen to these, and don't bother talking to me until you do."

A defining moment for me, growing up.

War was the album where I started. I bought everything before it. I have at least 3 remixes of this song. One is a unreleased promotion 12" 45 rpm. Remained a huge fan until Unforgettable Fire which is my favorite album. I also have 3 U2 4Play packs(4 45 rpms). One containing some tracks yet to be released digital from their Boy era.

I love this era of U2. The end of the Brian Eno production days. To be honest, anything before The Unforgettable Fire and after Zooropa is outside my listening zone. Eno changed the band and that's no embellishment, you can find interviews all about how Brian Eno was uncertain about the collab but Bono was so on fire about him being the producer, he was willing to change the direction of the band simply to have him produce.

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Back when I was obsessive about the Sift, I used to bestow videos to newly badged folks. I can't find my playlist now with all the Badge Videos. These lizards are unforgettable though!

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http://www.dlisted.com/2012/08/16/hot-slut-day

Thank you for the promote and for including that great link!!!

>> ^CaptainPlanet:

and that was the quickest anyone has ever lost their Man Card


DINGDINGDING! Close out the comments. Capt. Planet won.

I love that they got Craig Ferguson - his excellent voice work was a high point (in a movie that was all great) in "How to Train Your Dragon".

I don't know the director (Mark Andrews, who hasn't done much apparently). But it's hard not to give him the benefit of doubt when he worked on two Brad Bird films (Iron Giant and The Incredibles). He did storyboards for those, and both those films had incredible, unforgettable scene composition. I've seen Incredibles like 4500 times (my son LOVED it) and some of the shots, even just those that flash by, are positively inspired. The only downside is that it's hard to watch a regular animated film after - so many lazy shots, cut-and-paste jobs, and so much dead time. Anyways, yeah, that's a good sign.

Also, I think being in Brad's presence melts impurities out of your soul, so this should be an amazing film.

>> ^poolcleaner:
>> ^paganif1:
Yes. Yes I think it is. I know most sifters are super proud Atheists, but God help us.
>> ^notarobot:
Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, and now Japan? Is the earth trying to shake us off or what?
Some live updates on the Japanese situation are here:
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live-blog-japan-earthquake


And what exactly would God be helping us from?


Lord, please help us to steer clear of your wrath, for it is great, and you're kind of a dick.

>> ^paganif1:

Yes. Yes I think it is. I know most sifters are super proud Atheists, but God help us.
>> ^notarobot:
Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, and now Japan? Is the earth trying to shake us off or what?
Some live updates on the Japanese situation are here:
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live-blog-japan-earthquake



And what exactly would God be helping us from?

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thank you fissionchips. lot of good vids on this and you picked mine

>> ^notarobot:

Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, and now Japan? Is the earth trying to shake us off or what?


Don't forget the new volcanic activity in Hawaii...the plates are a'moving, and the magma plume's looking for a new path of least resistance. All in all, if there's a message, it's that we should appreciate the period of relative climatic and geological stability that have given us these wonderful tools and toys, and we should dedicate ourselves to do whatever is necessary to hold onto them a little while longer. Perhaps one should be using them less as toys, and more as tools.

>> ^bamdrew:

maybe an odd thing to point out, but anybody else notice the 'aljazeera' just blocks out the whole bottom of the screen (over other news agency's logos). that doesn't seem kosher...


Maybe that's by request or something? I know in Australia the tv stations block out ads at the bottom of the screen for WWE Broadcasts. It's kinda weird but whatever.