Coleman For Redondo

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Costa Brava - my paradise

When I was beautiful and young I fell in love with ... Catalonia, namely in the Costa Brava. Golden beaches with crystal clear water, turquoise coves to escape reality, medieval towns with stone houses. White buildings transporting me to another era. Dinners at sunset with unique dishes that are a feast for all the senses, not just taste. How wonderful it must live here. I thought of walking along the beach, which looks through the windows to many houses in the company of the sea breeze. The view of the sea calms me down, so I always have the impression that the inhabitants of these places are free from worries. Is eternal summer?

Come to Costa Brava

https://youtu.be/aFCeI6VAoPU

Krzysztof Waszczuk

Dragon's tail unforgettable journey

I've been traveling by motorcycle in USA with my friends we usually doing one long and one short trip. The long one it's in summer time ,the short one is for color changing season in the autumn. Smokey Mountains were the destination we've picked. Sometime in the end of September in the afternoon we start riding our horses on two wheels. It was the awful traffic we've been thru. But I couldn't stop dreaming about the Tail of the Dragon. One of the famous place for motorcycle it's near Robbibsville ,NC mountain passIt is considered by many as one of the world's foremost motorcycling and sports car touring roads. Anyone looking for an exciting highway will enjoy this 11-mile stretch of US 129 with any kind of vehicle. It's taking about day and half riding from home but is totally worth it. See the pictures below.

(Not so) Beautiful trip by Marcelina Nalepka

Our trip to California

I am not a normal person. I cleaned up the entire house, did the laundry, took a shower and did my nails. It was 2 in the morning. I decided to wake Maciek up and get on the road already. I drove first, till 4 or 5 am when the sun was already up. We switched and I was able to get some sleep.
That day we've planned to get to Denver, Colorado. As soon as we got close to the city, the radio went off and there was an emergency broadcast. "Find shelter. Tornado is coming".
I freaked out a little. Okay, I freaked out a lot. We were tired as hell but continued to drive cause I would not stay in the center of hell even for one night. Even if you would've paid me to do so.
We drove and drove for whoever knows how many hours already. It was dark as it only could be. No lights around in Utah were showing beautiful stars.
We've stopped to switch the drivers position but I've heard coyotes. We're not getting out of the car. They can eat us. They WILL eat us. (Am I childish? Nah)
We did the switch without leaving the car. Did I mention we've already passed Green River Utah?
There is no hotels or motels around. Just coyotes that will eat you if you stay.
We've had to drive to Saline, Utah where we've found a nice motel to get us through few hours that were left of the night.

Driving through Las Vegas the next day was awesome. It certainly amazed me with what it looked like.
We couldn't stop on our way to California, because I'm more than sure we would be too broke to even get to the ocean. We'll see you for few days on our way back, you hot heaven.

We got to our hotel in Huntington Beach, California in the afternoon. We've decided to drive around.
I stopped on the red light when I felt some shaking. The car broke down? It took us all the way from Illinois just to break down? Then I've noticed... Our engine was working properly, green light was on but no car was driving. It was an earthquake.
I panicked... Nothing new.

Our trip to California.
I am not a normal person. I cleaned up the entire house, did the laundry, took a shower and did my nails. It was 2 in the morning. I decided to wake Maciek up and get on the road already. I drove first, till 4 or 5 am when the sun was already up. We switched and I was able to get some sleep.
That day we've planned to get to Denver, Colorado. As soon as we got close to the city, the radio went off and there was an emergency broadcast. "Find shelter. Tornado is coming".
I freaked out a little. Okay, I freaked out a lot. We were tired as hell but continued to drive cause I would not stay in the center of hell even for one night. Even if you would've paid me to do so.
We drove and drove for whoever knows how many hours already. It was dark as it only could be. No lights around in Utah were showing beautiful stars.
We've stopped to switch the drivers position but I've heard coyotes. We're not getting out of the car. They can eat us. They WILL eat us.
We did the switch without leaving the car. Did I mention we've already passed Green River Utah?
There is no hotels or motels around. Just coyotes that will eat you if you stay.
We've had to drive to Saline, Utah where we've found a nice motel to get us through few hours that were left of the night.

Driving through Las Vegas the next day was awesome. It certainly amazed me with what it looked like.
We couldn't stop on our way to California, because I'm more than sure we would be too broke to even get to the ocean. We'll see you for few days on our way back, you hot heaven.

We got to our hotel in Huntington Beach, California in the afternoon. We've decided to drive around.
I stopped on the red light when I felt some shaking. The car broke down? It took us all the way from Illinois just to break down? Then I've noticed... Our engine was working properly, green light was on but no car was driving. It was an earthquake.
I panicked... Nothing new.

Our way to get to California was trying to kill me... First tornado watch, then coyotes and now an EARTHQUAKE?!

Don't take me on vacation with you. That ain't gonna end well.r way to get to California was trying to kill me... First tornado watch, then coyotes and now an EARTHQUAKE?!

Don't take me on vacation with you. That ain't gonna end well.

Friday, June 5, 2020

Kroota Chuvak

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Don't want to go to no protest where I can't dance!

There is great variety in dance in the United States of America.

It is the home of the hip hop dance

tap dance

and modern square dance

and of course, Native American dances.

The reality shows and competitions So You Think You Can Dance, America's Best Dance Crew, and Dancing with the Stars, have broadened the audience for dance...

African American dances are those vernacular dances which have developed within African American communities in everyday spaces, rather than in dance studios, schools or companies. African American vernacular dances are usually centered on social dance practice, though performance dance and concert dance often supply complementary aspects to social dancing.

Placing great value on improvisation, African American vernacular dances are characterized by ongoing change and development. Because they exist in social spaces and their main 'purpose' is self-expression, they are continually changing to reflect the needs, interests and personalities of their participants.

Alvin Ailey and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is an important example of African American involvement in performance or concert dance.

The term "swing dance" refers to a group of dances that developed concurrently with jazz music in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. The most iconic among the various styles of swing dance is the lindy hop, which originated in Harlem and is still danced today.

While the majority of swing dances began in African-American communities as vernacular African-American dances, some forms, like Balboa, developed within Euro-American or other ethnic group communities.

Dances such as the Black Bottom (craze of 1926-7)

Charleston

Shag

Tap Dance travelled north with Dixieland jazz to New York, Kansas City, and Chicago in the Great Migration (African American) of the 1920s, where rural blacks travelled to escape persecution, Jim Crow laws, lynching and unemployment in the South (during the Great Depression).

Swinging jazz music features the syncopated timing associated with African American and West African music and dance—a combination of crotchets and quavers which many swing dancers interpret as 'triple steps' and 'steps' — yet also introduces changes in the way these rhythms were played—a distinct delay or 'relaxed' approach to timing.

Swing dance is now found globally, with great variety in their preferences for particular dances.

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Assignment: show us how to do one of the dances below

American folk dances

Other American dances

Tap dance

Ballet dance Contemporary dance Hip hop

Noted dancers

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Moral Dilemmas

Ethical Dilemmas also have a Real World application, such as the case with Flight 93 from Pennsylvania, September 11th, 2001.

Morality based on results is MORAL REASONING

Consequentialist: Locates morality in the consequence of an act, state of the world as a result of what you do.

If you hesitated to push the fat man or yank out the organs because the act is categorically wrong then that would make you a categorical thinker. A kind of absolutist, locating morality in certain duties or rights.

Yet where do our rights come from?

Jeremy Bentham was an 18th century British philosopher that wrote a lot about ethics and morality. John Stuart Mill built on Bentam's concepts and developed Utilitarianism, which today we call cost benefit analysis and the greater good.

This philosophy seeks to maximize utility or the balance of pleasure over pain, happiness over suffering. The greatest good for the most number of people. Think of it as lifeboat ethics.

A most curious case...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens

What is happiness? Is it merely just the absence of suffering? If satisfaction truly exists then it can be measured, right? A dog or cats life consists of appetites, cravings, desires, gratifications. Same with humans only more complicated. In the 1930's some psychologists tried to figure out. Lead by a chap named Thorndike they took a survey.

How much would you have to be paid to...

Live in Kansas?

Eat a worm?

Have a tooth pulled?

Lastly, can you make an argument for texting while driving using cost benefit analysis?

About the same time Emmanuel Kant came up with a different approach. This unyielding German fellow said that morality was in the action and not the result.

But do we really know what right and wrong is? Is there some gray area? Can we really trust our knowledge of the world?

And is morality simply just made up?

So what about putting moral dilemma's in your stories?

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/5-moral-dilemmas-that-make-characters-stories-better

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Dr. Demento Radio Show & National Lampoons Radio & the 70's

When I was a kid, like many of my friends, joined Columbia House Records. Remember them? 12 CDs for a penny and they owned your soul. Anyways, I ended up getting a bunch of Dr. Demento CDs. I was a weird kid... and an even weirder adult. Also I tuned into his very last broadcast by accident whilst twisting the dial. Makes sense since the first CD I ever bought was They Might Be Giants' Flood...

pretty good playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioH0POPyeEQ&list=PLE1InrZfsJQmzE4Cq8OTDGzr0dPvpsn8d&index=52

from drdemento.com

Dr. Demento has been celebrating "mad music and crazy comedy" on the airwaves playing everything from Spike Jones to Frank Zappa for nearly five decades. He is responsible for introducing the world to the Dr. Demento Show's #1 most requested song of all time, "Fish Heads", and even launching the career of the most successful artist in the entire history of funny music--"Weird Al" Yankovic. Throughout the years, the world-famous Doctor's influence on pop culture has earned him induction into the National Radio Hall of Fame, an hour long Anniversary special on Comedy Central, featured guest appearances on Late Night with David Lettermen, Larry King Live, and countless others including the award winning animated sitcom The Simpsons.

Dr. Demento is a world-renowned record collector and music historian, whose lifelong passion for music of all kinds is reflected in the weekly selections heard on the Dr. Demento Show. In addition to live appearances and performances nationwide, the Doctor lectures at educational institutions drawing on his extensive knowledge of the history of Comedy, the music of Frank Zappa, the history of punk rock, and many other topics.

Most recently, a compilation album of all-new recordings entitled "Dr. Demento Covered In Punk" was released on CD, vinyl, digital download and streaming services. The new album (released January 2018) has the notable honor of being the highest charting "Dr. Demento" branded release to date. "Dr. Demento Covered In Punk" debuted on the Billboard chart as the #1 Comedy album for two consecutive weeks, and held various positions in the top 10 over the course of six months. The album simultaneously charted outside comedy as the #18 new alternative music album, #20 on Billboard's top independent album chart, and #5 on the Billboard Compilation Albums chart, and has also been the focus of a feature segment on CNN.

With interest from an entirely new generation of "Dementites and Dementoids" (as his fans are affectionately known), as well as those who've been loyal throughout the 70s, 80s, 90s and onward, now approaching his 50th Anniversary - the Doctor is in and more topical than ever!

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Much Selected from Dr. Demento Playlist on YouTube

He discovered Weird Al Yankovich who send him a mix tape...

It was mostly music on the show but occasionally had spoken word...

The Show featured some old-tyme regulars who got their start in radio. Regulars like Tom Lehr...

Allan Sherman

Stan Freberg

Randy Newman

Chuck Berry

Lonnie Donegan

Spike Jones

sometimes on the show it was serious artists the public considered oddities

And contemporary artists like Tom Waits

Some were just weird

A smattering of songs were from B movies

Some of the songs were spoofed musical genres...

'They're Coming to Take Me Away' by Napoleon XIV was banned on many radio stations for essentially being too weird...

A 1983, Musikladen video production for the Napoleon XIV song, They're Coming To Take Me Away. A novelty record and originally released in 1966. Written and performed by Jerry Samuels (billed as Napoleon XIV), and released on Warner Bros. Records. The song became an instant success in the United States, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 in the UK.

in fact a number of the songs could be controversial...