The Sheikh From the Land Of Meknes

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Weird Song Tag Post

RULES:
1. Put your iTunes/music player on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get you answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER WHAT! After you’ve answered all of the questions, tag 5 other people and then let them know they’ve been tagged to do them themselves.

1. IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
Back In the Saddle Again - Gene Autry

2. WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Black Suits Comin’ - Will Smith

3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Love Profusion (Blow Up Mix) - Madonna

4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Addictive - Truth Hurts

5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
One Night In Bangkok - Global Deejays

6. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Secret - Madonna

7. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Red Hot - Billy Riley and His Little Green Men

8. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
I Want To Hold Your Hand (Live on the Morecambe and Wise Show) - The Beatles

9. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Dream A Little Dream - Cass Elliot

10. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Jafnuhu 3alam Al Ghazal - 3abdl Wahab

11. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Patience - Take That

12. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Ne7t Ana Al Wabra - Nasser Bo 3awath

13. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Try Again - Aaliyah

14. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Never Fall In Love Again - Dionne Warwick

15. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Get Down On It - Kool & the Gang

16. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
In the Still Of the Night - The Five Satins

17. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Back In the U.S.S.R. - The Beatles

18. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Hello Goodbye - The Beatles

19. WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS?
Think - The 5 Royals

20. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOURSELF?
Kokomo - Beach Boys

I’m tagging anyone who reads this.

Oh My Damn.. Is This Really Happening?

School’s Out by Alice Cooper

School’s out for summer
School’s out forever
School’s been blown to pieces

No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher’s dirty looks

Out for summer
Out till fall
We might not go back at all

No shit! Haha.. see you soon. I’m coming back home.

Emta Hataaraf

I found this on YouTube. It’s a great song sung by someone who is not known by a huge number of people, although a few of her songs are very familiar to us.

Asmahan was Fareed Al Atrash’s sister, born Amal. She had a beautiful voice and, after finding this video, I see that she was gorgeous as well.

This song is called Emta Hataaraf and it was for the second and last movie she made, Gharam Wa Enteqam. She died in a dramatic car accident (crashed into the Nile) before production ended. Asmahan was only 26 years old.

Commercials Can Be Good!

Sometimes we all hate the commercials who interrupt our shows or movies on TV. But look on the bright side. Commercials give you a chance to get a snack, drink, or do that something else.. Personally, I don’t mind THAT much. A lot of the commercials are stupid and annoying. Basically I don’t like the ones that have a narrative or try to be funny (they fail at that). Like the ones for beer, pizza, and that Verizon guy. As long as the commercial has no humans, it’s OK by me.

I pay attention to commercials because I never know when there’s a song that I might recognize for some reason or if I just simply like it.

(click the little speaker image to play the song)

Hold On Tight by Electric Light Orchestra // Honda Accord [ad]
Deep Inside Your Dreams by Lisa Ekdahl // Victoria’s Secret Dream Angels Collection [ad]
Bring It On by Goose // Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX [ad]
Happy (Go Home Productions Remix) by Max Sedgely // Bacardi “Assimilate” [ad]
Picture Book by The Kinks // HP Digital Photography [ad]
Cole Porter’s It’s De-Lovely by Eddie Duchin // Kohl’s (Christmas) [ad]

Not technically ads, but still:
Guerreiro by Curumin // Joga Bonito - Make the Ball Happy [ad]
Return of the Tres by Delinquent Habbits // Joga Bonito - C.Ronaldo vs. Ibrahimovic [ad]

My Favorite Things

Chopsticks for sushi and magnets on fridges
Clean shower caddies and tall cabled bridges
Long happy marriages and all that it brings
These are a few of my favorite things

Old comfy sneakers and sweet Beatle balads
Pepsi not Cola and fresh fruit not salads
Fat bees that die on the floor when they sting
These are a few of my favorite things

Doodles in notebooks and non-textbook classes
Anything Mac and my sweet Knoxville glasses
‘Yo Momma’ jokes and brand new pilot wings
These are a few of my favorite things

When Madrid lose
When there’s no floos
When it’s just so bad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don’t feel so sad

Sung in the tune of “My Favorite Things” from the Sound of Music feature film.

Fun Fact: The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

Paul McCartney Apple Ad

I found this cool plugin called QuickTime Embed and I’m testing it out. It basically makes it easier to embed QuickTime movies. No more messy codes and I can now have the video come with a “poster.” It’s a clickable movie image that starts off the movie. Really cool.

This commercial was made last summer when Apple Co. and Apple Inc. sort of stopped fighting, finally allowing solo Beatles material available on the iTunes Store. It was also the same time Paul McCartney released his latest album, Memory Almost Full. The song used in the ad was the first song released from that album. It’s really great and I love the mandolin that he’s playing. I remember just feeling happy every time it came on TV. The colors, the music, and Paul skipping. Beautiful.