My Darling,

While you were in Puerto Rico, the Siftpocalypse happened, in which almost everything on the Sift was lost. Everything has been restored, except I believe we must now re-register with exactly the same username and then post...

this comment:

vinovin = 12255

Here:

http://www.videosift.com/talk/Username-Fix-Requests-Go-Here

And all should be restored.

I anxiously await your return.

Boos El Wawa ("wawa" means "owie", a little injury) sung by Haifa Wehbe of Lebanon and Hana El Idrissi of Morocco.
Lyrics in English (the beginning sung a More..s if to a child):
See the owie, kiss the owie, make the owie better.
When you kissed the owie, you made the owie go away -- baahh.
Hide me close to you, cover me and make me warm.
Without you I am so cold.
My nights are sweeter staying up in love
I have to wear my most beautiful clothes
I wear for your eyes my darling all brand new.
A kiss to you and I want you to stay by my side.
Among all people you are most precious to me
And my last concern is what they say is wrong or right.

That sucks. What about internet radio and pod casting? That's how I get by. Deepmix.ru and Bluemars are my foundation of internet radio.

At least you have good radio to listen to. In Kuwait we have AFN, VOA, Marina, RKFM, EasyFM and a shit load of Arabic radio stations that are essentially interchangeable as Arabic music is in a huge creative sink (90% of the songs start with HABIBI, which means my darling and is always orchestrated the same goddamn way).

AFN and VOA are really standard American corporate music fare, though its hilarious to hear a 40 plus announcer try to show enthusiasm for Soulja Boy's Superman song.

RKFM is the worst, its state owned so they really don't need to try at all. They had this woman announcer for donkeys years now that loves playing shitty country music all the goddamn time and keeps replaying songs that were considered new when I was learning to walk. They have the worst music selection and the worst announcers in every time slot. Oh and someone really fucking loves Sugar Ray over there because I know the entire lyrics to Every morning... argh.

Marina FM is okay but it tries to hard to be hip and comes off totally square. The over enthusiastic announcers talk to their audience wayyyy too much.

EasyFM is the most bearable as they simply play classical music, but sometimes someone fucks up and they play what sounds like Elevator muzak.

Not to whore similar videos or anything, but:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Yndi-Halda-Illuminate-My-Heart-My-Darling

I like threatening dream imagery. Like Shelley Duvall in the Shining when she runs from waves of blood.

I couldn't find a original reference for demonic dolls, but I did find this poem by Poe.

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love -
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me -
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud one night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we -
Of many far wiser than we -
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling -my darling -my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea -
In her tomb by the sounding sea.