When I was 15 riding my motorcycle on the road, I almost got ran over. My best estimate is that I miss getting ran over by 1/10 of a second. I did get banged up.

The guy was 92 and sued for damages. Went to arbitration and his layer showed but the guy had died from being old. The case was dismissed.

I still ride but this is always in my mind. It did change the way I ride.

These people are witches! I can just about do a shitty vape ring now and again when I really try. Some of the things I've seen others like this chap do always blows my mind a bit.

#vapenation

If this is for real...

FINALFUCKINGLY!

It always blows my mind that in 2014 with all our technology we still don't have any newer battery technology than lithium ion and nickel cadmium.

*promote

That color change in the rockets from 0:13 to 0:15 always blows my mind.

The logic behind this is a paradox that always twists my mind

"Freedom of religion means that i can enforce my religion in state law so NOONE is free to NOT follow my religion"

How can people not see that is enslavement by religion not freedom of religion

It always blows my mind how similar everything is.

When and where did the britons go who populated these streets? We're unrecognisable.

>> ^budzos:
This thought is pretty much always on my mind. All that sits between my anus and the cold white porcelain of the bowl is a thin layer of tp and a very fortunately placed massive finger.


alright ill stop even tho i crack myself up.

This thought is pretty much always on my mind. All that sits between us and the cold black emptiness of space is a thin layer of atmospherre and a very fortunately placed magnetic field.

Take it EZ, like E cuz I be
Lettin niggaz know what time it is when it comes to me
You can't find us here anywhere and I tear
you a new asshole, as beautiful as gold
Look at your reflection in my shine, find
pissy hallways are always on my mind
But not tonight, I'm sittin on chri-dome
Makin more waves than my cellular phi-done
Mental energy from within keeps me higher
than anything rolled and set on fire let me try a
little somethin new, grand cuz what I am
is mathematic, I must to blow your static if I can
I.N.C., Crew I thought you knew
That's how you do well check it this is how I do

I'm sittin on C-H, R-O-M-E
Sippin Brass Monkey, Digga got the Remi
Martin I'm startin to feel like I wanna
Hit the strip spot and I think that I'm gonna
I see my nigga Jose, "Mida, que pasa?"
We goin to the spot, need a ride?I gotcha
So come on in, come on in, come on in
It's like fire when you see my chrome spin
I paid the valet, I stepped to the stage
I think I wanna play with the girl in the cage
Lap dance, lap dance, lap dance
Baby look I got trouble in my pants
I just checked my wallet, no more dough
I just paid your rent and now I gotta go
She did me till I's done, smooth like Bally
I walked outside, they said that they ain't got no valet
Somebody caught me slippin, dipped with my ride
But we gonna catch they ass on the B-Side

You can't I-N-C me, the
Ace niguh, so be ghost like Amity-
-ville horror, till tomorrow, you're done
So jet like Delta, I'm Fly like the Nun
My mental state's, more Great than the Lakes
I'm Superior, it's Erie how I breaks
Niggaz down, with the sound as I shine
One time, and the chrome is the mind

Printing costs... ink, paper, etc
I have a friend who is a teacher and it always blows my mind when I hear her talking about buying books or supplies etc for the class.
If it isn't in the budget, you're on your own.

I am pretty sure this is duplicate, since I was even asked to translate the video back when it was sifted. Perhaps is dead now, but I hope the winkler1 checked.

>> ^uhohzombies:
Living in Miami, I'm constantly bombarded by Hispanic culture and one thing that has always BOGGLED MY MIND is their television. I just don't understand it at all... like, has their television historically been SO bad that shit like this is considered quality entertainment? The same goes for all the telenovelas and variety shows like "Sabado Gigante" and whatnot. Their prime time banner television is worse than the worst English daytime television. It's really, truly, revoltingly bad stuff.


First, that's not Hispanic, is a show from Spain.
Second, realize that the culture in Miami does not represent the Latino community as a whole. I am South American and I puke every time I turn on a Hispanic channel. For several reasons, one being how awful it is as you have already said. Another is, that it does not represent, nor is even close to my culture. Those channels are mainly aimed at low class Mexicans and Cubans since that is the majority of individuals in South Florida and California, etc. Think of them as redneck television or something along those lines.

Third, sorry but nothing is worse, more revolting, disgusting and substandard than shows like The Jerry Springer show. Just as I don't go generalizing the entire American culture based on shows like springer please don't generalize Hispanics based on two channels aimed at only a small portion of the entire Hispanic community.

Not trying to argue with you, just felt some things needed to be put on the table in regards to your comment.
I am also baffled at the content of these channels, is a pretty sad thing but so it's MTV! Just saying, TV sucks everywhere.

Living in Miami, I'm constantly bombarded by Hispanic culture and one thing that has always BOGGLED MY MIND is their television. I just don't understand it at all... like, has their television historically been SO bad that shit like this is considered quality entertainment? The same goes for all the telenovelas and variety shows like "Sabado Gigante" and whatnot. Their prime time banner television is worse than the worst English daytime television. It's really, truly, revoltingly bad stuff.

It always boggles my mind when a song with lyrics like this one is "sold" with a video like this. But I voted for it because:
1) elisha cuthbert is hot
2) I like this song
3) elisha cuthbert is hot

Vickie/Equipoise here. This is in response to the Happy Rhodes thread in Sift Talk. I tried to post it there and it didn't go through, so I'm trying it here.

I understand the charge of self-linking, because we did put these videos on YouTube. I will point out that we did not post the very first one that appeared here on VideoSift ("Temporary and Eternal"), so please consider not deleting that one. That was posted by someone we don't know, and I only noticed it when I saw the link at YouTube. We were asked to provide more Happy by VideoSifters and so we did. I now realize we shouldn't have taken the requests to mean that *we* provide the videos, and I deeply apologise.

I'm not quite sure what you mean about the spurious accounts James, but there are two accounts coming from this IP. My husband Chris, k8fan, has a computer, and I have a computer. He's the techie if you need details, but we're on a network, using an Ethernet and a wireless router and DSL (and cats, even). Since he has his interests and things to do, we both have our own accounts at YouTube, Yahoo, Slashdot, many message boards, various other places, and here. We've always been separate entities, ever since we first got on the internet in 1989, though we didn't get separate computers until the mid-'90's. Did you delete his account here, is that what you meant? There are no other accounts. I *have* several accounts, but I honestly can't remember posting here or voting here using anything but my Yahoo account. If I did it wasn't a calculated attempt to ballot stuff.

Come to think of it Chris would have posted either here from our home or using his laptop when he travels for business, which is often. I'm sure he didn't have two separate accounts though. His other IP would have come from EverestKC, the ISP he uses while in Kansas City (we live in Chicago). It's perfectly legitimate, but I can see how it might seem bizarre or suspicious. A lot of people could vouch for us, and I'd be happy to answer any questions and point toward more information about us.

If anyone's interested I'll explain about the videos, if you'll indulge me because I have to give a bit of Happy history for anyone to truly understand. It may bore, but it will explain. The relationship here is one of the purest you'll ever run across. Happy Rhodes (her real name) is a singer-songwriter-musician who has been making music for over 20 years and has 10 indie albums. I've been a fan for 18 of those years, after I discovered her and played her on a radio show I used to have called Suspended In Gaffa. I don't work for her, never have, never will, but I am her oldest, staunchest fan so she gives me permission to do just about anything I want regarding her music (cite from one of the serveral fan web sites I maintain: http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples which is a Song Samples site - Other web sites, to check my "credentials," include http://wretchawry.com/happy/rarities for, well, Rarities - http://www.rhodeshows.com Happy live shows - http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy's MySpace fan page. Happy is very cool about my sharing music and is also cool with the videos).

Happy *hates* self-promotion, with a passion, and would never make or submit her own videos anywhere for any reason. In fact, with 10 albums, she's never even made any videos. She's a true album artist, one of the very very few, wanting the music to stand on its own, so besides making no videos, she's released very few singles (only 2 actual CD single releases). There were a other few songs that got airplay and a flurry of attention in the '90's (she's been interviewed by Kimberly Haas for John Diliberto's radio show Echoes, if that means anything to anyone), but mostly she's just garnered a small but worldwide cult following. An internet mailing list dedicated to her, ecto, was started in 1991, which makes it one of the oldest, continuous fan mailing lists on the net. It's still going, and spawned offshoots such as the Ectophile's Guide to Good Music (http://ectoguide.org).

Happy's last album was released 8 years ago. She's had an album in the can for several years, but doesn't have the money to complete the mastering. She has no label and hasn't had one for several years. She got dropped by her last one because they didn't know what to do with her. She doesn't fit into any set genre and her music is hard to classify and "market." She lives on a farm in upstate New York and has a day job. She refuses to take money from outside sources to finish the album. She doesn't want to be beholden to anyone financially, so she's been working her day job to earn enough to record bits of tracks here and there. The album is recorded now, and 7 of the 11 songs have been mastered, but there's no ETA on when the last 4 songs will be mastered. There's no product to promote, so that's not what I'm doing.

I became a fan in 1988. In 1991 I traveled from Chicago to Albany, NY and Philadelphia, PA to see her live for the 1st and 2nd time. The next time I saw her live was in 1996, when Chris and I traveled to Philly to see her play 4 shows in 2 nights (manna from heaven for a fan). This time Chris brought along a camcorder and recorded the shows, though only 2 of the 4 came out well.

The thing to understand about why these shows are rare, is that Happy has never toured the US (or anywhere else), and has only done one-off shows (sometimes two a night), or as in 2003 when she didn't even have an album to promote, a small cluster of shows that stretched from New Jersey to Chicago. We traveled to see several other shows/showsets; in 1996 alone we made 3 trips from Chicago (May and October in Philly, August at The Bottom Line in New York). We traveled to Philly to see her again in 1997, 1998 (Philly, plus Troy, NY and New York City), and 1999. In 2001 she had an accident with her fret hand and it was unclear for a while if she would ever play guitar again. We just had to travel to a New Haven, CT house concert in 2003, her first show since the accident. In November 2003 she played a mini-tour and we saw the dates in Kenosha, WI, Toledo, OH and Chicago. In January 2005 we again went to Philly. Those were her last shows.

Every time I see her I think, "this is going to be the last time I see her live" which so far hasn't turned out to be true, but it's always on my mind. All told I've seen 24 live shows and we have 22 of them on video. For years this video has languished in a box. We made the occasional dub but there wasn't really anything else to do with it. Until recently. Chris got the ability to extract songs and make videos for YouTube, and I immediately thought of Happy. There are fans in other parts of the US and in other countries who have never seen a live clip and since she doesn't tour they will probably never see her live. It had to be done, and I made Chris do it (he's such a sweetheart). We just bought a used Digital 8 camera on ebay so we could access some of the older video that was shot with a Hi8 that died many years ago. Now I'm having a blast going through shows and picking out good bits.

None of this would matter if the music were average, but if you really listen to her voice and music, she's very special. If you (whoever might be reading this) haven't seen any of the videos, please at least watch "Temporary and Eternal" and her cover of "Space Oddity" or "Mercy Street." I know she won't appeal to everyone, but she's an important artist, one of the best artists you've never heard of. All these clips will be important to biographers and archivists, and music historians of the future.

We were zealous about uploading videos without having read the rules and I am very very sorry about that. I just don't want all this to end with people thinking that there's a cold, calculating attempt to spam, market, cheat or deceive. It's been a sincere, if fumbling, attempt to spread the music of an artist I care deeply about.

Vickie