Friday, March 28, 2008

Arcade Fire

Idol # 7

David Cook had a band called Axium. Look it up.
However - here are a couple of his excellent covers on Idol, worth listening:

Hello
Billy Jean

Carly Smithson (former Hennessy) had two singles earlier.
Here's her cover of Crazy On You.

How do they do it in ex-Yu? Take a look.

Crotian Idol
Serbian Idol

Re-cap of your 6 Idols:
season 1: Kelly Clarkson (still going strong)
season 2: Ruben Studard ( kinda quiet now...was a good Idol, though)
season 3: Fantasia Barrino (turned to musicles...was fantastic Idol)
season 4: Carrie Underwood (a country star...even has a one good song)
season 5: Taylor Hicks (where's this fella? Katherine, Chris & Elliot are shmoozing around, but not Taylor...)
season 6: Jordin Sparks (I don't expect to see her ever again. Melinda should have won...)

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No idea is stupid...

According to Edison, to create a good invention you need imagination and a pile of junk (he should know...). Here are a couple of simple ideas worth billions.
*Jeff Bezos had the idea of selling books on the internet. Saving on storage and wide spaces (book shops) helped him sell books at lower prices and the result was a richness of 4.4 billion dollars. That idea is called Amazon.com.
*The idea of the son of Russian immigrants was to add a sticker of a horse to a normal polo t-shirt and sell it for 50 dollars a piece, and the final result is a richness of 5 billion dollars. This man is Ralph Lauren who worked in a department store for Brooks Brothers. He borrowed 50,000 dollars and launched “Polo”. In 1994 he sold 28% of the incomes of the company and earned 138 million dollars. Presently Lauren’s fortune amounts 5 billion dollars.
*A drink that contains caffeine and carbonate with a lot of vitamin B, and launching it on the market for sportsmen and party lovers was a success. Yoovidhya and Mateschitz created Red Bull and addressed it to young people buy using bold adverts and extreme spots. Red Bull is the owner of a Formula 1 team and two football clubs: the Red Bull Salzburg and the New York Red Bulls. The value of their richness is 3 billion dollars, each.

College - yes or no?

Samuel Beckett: Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
W. H. Auden: Definition of a College professor: someone who talks in other people's sleep.
Ruby Wax: College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
Bill Vaughn: Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income-which he then spends sending his son to college.
G. K. Chesterson: Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Mike Barfield: An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order.
George Bernard Shaw: He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.
Mark Twain: I have never let schooling interfere with my education.
Albert Einstein: Education is what remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Robert Frost: College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Gohen: If you feel that you have both feet planted on solid ground, then the university has failed you.
Elbert Hubbard: You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him think.
Anonymous: If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable.