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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: One Hit Wonders
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 07 23:47:21 GMT

This week’s “list of links” blog is dedicated to
my “One Hit Wonders” fixation.

I love music and listen to a lot of it, from
different areas. I can recall at a moment’s notice
complete lyrics to obscure songs, especially if
they’re from the 80s. I kick ass at Buzz (PS2). But
if there’s something that really sums up my type
of personality (remember: digital dilletante,
corporate rebel, accidental entrepreneur and heavy
mental refugee) is my fondness for little know bands
and tunes, aka One Hit Wonders:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hit_wonder

I can watch the “One Hit Wonders” VH1 show for
hours, several times, and sing along to most of
those songs while laughing my ass off at some
(or most) of them.

So, in the Web 2.0 world of video, here are some
links that I’ve visited during my 2 week holiday
and that will allow you not only to listen to some
great music but also to get some fashion tips (LOL!)

Devo – Whip It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6XCSoKdMWM

Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/thomas%2Bdolby%2Bscience/video/x11lvw_thomas-dolbyshe-blinded-me-with-sci

Madness – One Step Beyond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSBaugTVPzA

Ray Parker Jr – Ghostbusters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBRNSGt3U1M

Men Without Hats – Safety Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg

Gary Numan – Cars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cdgTWitj_o

Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZDG6__Zfc

M – Pop Musik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpi1titx-ZQ

Dee Lite – Groove Is In The Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKTCW4oxS6I

Nancy Sinatra – These Boots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAdHgwsocRM

The Knack – My Sharona
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXVitkINDp0

Toyah Willcox – Echo Beach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voe8fwVsFEI

Missing Persons – Words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNU_wyQbAv4

Patrick Hernandez – Born To Be Alive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1bHPi2B0Sc
(bonus: Madonna a dancar; e a q esta sozinha…)

Paul Hardcastle – Nineteen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byCCmBwRjGw

Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-RdAzkKlXY

Transvision Vamp – Baby I Don’t Care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jKq0HKNN90

Transvision Vamp – I Want Your Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N8bGHtUGJU

Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F1-11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk30a0qsVIk
(“what we need is designer violence…”)

Quiet Riot – Cum On Feel The Noize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW2J_UZ8lQU

Ratt – Round and Round
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5gMeXz2YMw

EMF – Unbelievable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mkrj51TacY

Y & T – Summer Time Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIPNpNKPjdE

Autograph – Turn Up The Radio
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/autograph/video/xz549_autograph-turn-up-the-radio

THAT’S ALL FOLKS!!!!

— MV

PS – Just to be clear: I like some of these bands, others I
just like the one-hit-wonder; I like some of these styles, others
I just like the particular one-hit-wonder. Don’t use this list
of one hit wonder videos to derive conclusions regarding my
musical tastes. These are better represented by my single YouTube
contribution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hOyCxiIP4

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: What To Expect Besides the Spanish Inquisition
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 07 22:27:21 GMT

More for my future benefit than for anyone reading
these messages, here’s what to expect in the future
from this blog/site/whatever:

– posts both in English and Portuguese; mostly in
English; I do my reading 99% in English (for the
last 20 years or so) and its easier for me to write
in English; I can do Portuguese quite nicely as well,
but will do so only when matters are strictly of local
interest

– posts recovering my scattered digital stuff and
comments on the recovered garbage

– posts on my general areas of interest: Video Games,
Technology, Music, Books, Business and Philosophy; I’ll
try to detail these interests soon, in separate posts

– weblogging posts, weekly posts with links that have
caught my interest/attention (yes boys and girls, the
weblog term was initially about just that, logging your
web travelling/surfing)

On a more technical note: right now the posts are pure
text files on the filesystem and everything is tied
together with a couple of bash scripts (yes, even the
rss.cgi RSS feed generator is a shell scrip; I am teh
shell script master, ph34r…); in the next few days
everything will migrate to a newsgroup server (yes,
the NNTP/Usenet kinda stuff; blogs are just a bad
implementation of Usenet…) and will be served from
a (probably) CherryPy server.

C U!

— MV