Jenjie

oooh i like that idea

soooo both Apple & Moses have dual citizenship, if I've read that correctly.

Oct 28, 2008 Coldplay WB and I went to the Coldplay concert last night at the IZOD Center in Jersey. It was an amazing performance -- Chris Martin has such a wonderful stage presence and gets so into the music physically. I wanted to climb down there and rock with him because it looked like he was having such a great time. I love it when you can tell that someone really loves what they're doing; it makes you appreciate it even more. I had a pounding headache for most of the night because of all the flashing lights, but it was so worth it. We had a great time. At the concert last night, Martin and the rest of the band all of a sudden left the stage and ran into the audience, down the aisle, then up the stairs to a section where they had some acoustic guitars and microphones quickly set up. They did this to get closer to the rest of the crowd and show them that being up close and personal with the band isn't all that great since they're typically sweaty and smelly. Martin cracked a few jokes (somebody was apparently smoking some ganga in that area) and then they went on to play a sing-along version of "The Scientist." It sounds cheesy, but it was great. The whole arena sang with them. It's such a beautiful song -- one of my favorites. I don't really get the video with the whole car crash scene, but I guess the moral of the story is to wear your seatbelt. Coincidentally, on our way home last night we drove by a terrible car crash along the highway. It involved a car and a tree, and the tree definitely won. This car was wrapped around the tree and there's no way anyone could have survived it. There must have been a dozen cop cars there with their lights flashing, along with paramedics and a firetruck or two. It was curious at first to see so many cop cars for a single car crash (since they really didn't need that many officers there), but as I thought it through, I imagine many of them were there for moral support for each other. It was a really nasty crash and I'm sure whoever was first on the scene saw some pretty ugly things that they won't be forgetting anytime soon. We saw everything very briefly since we were driving in the opposite direction, but it was a very sobering experience. It was the exact spot where a couple of teens died a year or so ago, same tree and everything. They were speeding when getting off at the exit which curves to the right just as the highway is curving to the left. There is a wooded area smack in the middle which is where you end up if you misjudge your speed and the turn. WB always has a tendency to drive fast, and even though he's a good driver, I don't trust the other drivers around us and I'm always afraid one bad move by somebody else could send us flying. I also worry about him misjudging something and crashing. He promises me he's careful, but I still close my eyes a lot when he drives. And I always wear my seatbelt. http://dissonantinterpretations.blogspot.com/2008/10/coldplay.html

COLDPLAY Concert Review I didn't really plan on writing a review for last night's concert, but when I started to type a response to the comments in the post I made yesterday, I realized I had a lot to say! So here's my first concert review. Okay, it's more of a recap than a review. Ha! Enjoy. ;) I've only been a fan of Coldplay for about two years now and until I recently purchased their latest album Viva La Vida (EMI Records Ltd., 2008), I've only had about a dozen or so of their biggest hits on my iPod. After seeing Coldplay's outstanding performance last night, I'm an even bigger fan now. They were amazing. The opening act was Duffy, the 24 year old Welsh singer-songwriter who debuted at number one on the UK Album charts with her recent album Rockferry. Her musical style is a neo-soulful blend of pop, soul and rock'n'roll along the lines of artists Kylie Minogue and Amy Winehouse, and while I think she and her band are very talented--based on what I've sampled at her website, anyway-- I didn't think her performance last night was that impressive. Duffy looked amazing in her tiny black lace dress, but she failed to capture the audience's attention as she barely moved across the stage and her voice and lyrics seemed lost to the sound of the band. Only two songs stood out to me, "Serious" and the popular hit "Mercy." Still, Duffy is clearly a talented young artist with a lot of potential and I think the pop charts will be seeing a lot of her in the future. The concert. First, I'd like to make a disclaimer about my concert reviewing skills. I haven't been to a rock concert in ages, and even then I haven't been to many. I saw U2 in 1987 for their Joshua Tree Tour and then a year or so later I saw Sting. I think that was in 1988, maybe. I know I also went to an INXS Kick concert and saw The Psychedelic Furs around that time, too, but I barely remember that. Basically, my point is that maybe I'm a little out of touch about what makes an amazing concert, but regardless of my concert going experiences or lack thereof, I have to say that last night's performance by Coldplay was fantastic. The song list was a perfect blend of past hits and new tracks from their current album Viva La Vida and lead singer Chris Martin made the concert feel intimate with his natural ability to connect with his audience. Really a fantastic show. I'm totally kicking myself in the behind today. I didn't bring a camera to the concert. I know! I know! Idiot. And I got this great little purse sized digital camera for my birthday, too. Having floor seats, I could have had some really great shots. Ah, live and learn. So I made due with my iPhone camera, which actually takes decent photos for a camera phone, but alas, no zoom capabilities, so the photos aren't that great. I swear we had better views of the band in person than these pictures suggest. Honest. Anyway, here they are: Coldplay opened with the instrumental track, "Life in Technicolor" playing behind a sheer curtain, then the curtain lifted as they played their first vocal track, "Violet Hill." I thought the lighting and technical effects during the concert were great. Granted it's been a while since I've been to a rock concert, but I really enjoyed the artistry in this performance. The effects weren't anything cutting edge, per se, but they complimented the music and the artists perfectly. There were these orbs suspended above the stage, and one much larger orb above the audience, and they either had varying colors and patterns swirling within them, or they were used to project live images of the band throughout the performance. Again, the orbs brought a perfect compliment to the tone of the show. At one point, Chris Martin, while playing solo on the piano, sang "The Hardest Part" (X&Y, EMI Records Ltd., 2005) dedicated to singer, model, actress Jennifer Hudson as she grieves for the death of three family members. In case you haven't heard about the tragedy that has struck Jennifer Hudson and her family, last weekend her mother and brother were shot dead in their home and her 7 year old nephew had gone missing, only to be found dead in an abandoned car yesterday, October 27, 2008. The suspect is a family member, the estranged husband of Jennifer's sister, the father of the deceased young boy (Source: Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com). My heart goes out to Jennifer Hudson and her loved ones. Very sad. Later in the concert, band members jogged off the stage and headed into the midlevel seating where they stood among the audience and played a few songs so that other fans could feel what it's like to have front row seats. One of the songs they played here is one of my favorites, "The Scientist." When he announced the song, Chris Martin playfully poked fun of the Jonas Brothers, saying it was their hit. Even my 13 year old, who saw the Jonas Brothers in concert over the summer, laughed at the humor. Chris Martin has a wonderful way about him that he can poke fun playfully without coming across insulting. That's a wonderful skill, I think. Images of Japanese history and culture were displayed on the large screen behind the band while they performed the song "Lovers in Japan / Reign on Love" and millions of tissue paper butterflies were dropped over the floor area. I have to admit I was so happy to have had floor seats for this part. It was so beautiful. This photo was taken during their last song and would have made a great shot if only I had a real camera. ::sigh:: I forgot what song they were playing in this photo. Maybe it was Lost. The crowd gets Coldplay to come back out for an encore. Which, I think, is standard and expected. I was certainly pleased, because there was one more favorite song that the band hadn't yet played . . . "Yellow." All in all, Coldplay delivered an amazing performance last night. I'm so thrilled I was able to go, it was a wonderful, memorable night with my daughter that I'll never forget. I can't wait to see them again on their next tour. http://theromanticlife.blogspot.com/2008/10/coldplay-concert-review.html

you can get dual citizenship & have 2 passports. but have no idea how that works

:P I could have started out with A Sloe Comfortable Screw Against the Wall :D

sex on the beach?

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee long reviews are da bomb :D and that review tips the 27th into a 2-pager on wiki

:)

you ought to be able to. I just would rather buy it from the uk because it'll be here quicker :D

October 28, 2008 - submitted by Juliana, United States of America Q. Hey oracle! So last night, I was watching SNL because Coldplay was going to perform. It was spectacular. however, at the end of Yellow, Chris said "barack obama", clearly showing his support. that's perfectly fine, but can he even vote in America, being as he is from Great Britain? The Oracle replies: I don't usually pass comment on politics/religion/personal life etc but this is a hot topic so figured I might as well join in! So, Juliana that may be true but don't forget he has children who are part of an Anglo-American family through his marriage... October 28, 2008 - submitted by Raymond, Canada Q. If Coldplay were hosting a party, which of the four band members would be: a) DJ? b) bartender? c) off in the corner caught up in an intellectual conversation? d) last man standing? The Oracle replies: Super question Raymond! a) Will b) Guy c) Chris d) Jonny October 28, 2008 - submitted by rohan, India Q. How can I get the new Prospekt's March cd without buying the Viva la Vida special edition ? The Oracle replies: I think a few people are a little confused. You don?t have to buy the album to get Prospekt?s March, you can buy it separately OR as part of a special edition of Viva la Vida as it says HERE. In fact, we also announced that you?ll be able to order it from this very website.

thanks for all the reviews again guys. its been a fab 45 minute read & paste. :D

cool :D tyvm yay! noelia caught up with Pete :D erm yes. you were miles away but still in the same timeframe. I was getting excited as I read and the show finished hours ago :o :D :kiss: thank you so much for the live updates, its so much fun that way so long as you're sharing, who cares how long it is. I already had to split last night's show into 2 wiki pages, and I'm expecting to have to do the same with this one :D is that like every American looks like George Clooney? :P

yay :D I know. its a very long hour!!

She hasn't so much as been to Africa on holiday. But British-born Catherine Machala Bennett could face deportation to Ghana after falling victim to a nightmarish case of identity fraud. It was bad enough when she learned that an illegal immigrant had been using a duplicate copy of her passport to live in this country. The real Mrs Bennett duly informed police about the scam and the imposter was jailed for fraud and told she would be sent back to her homeland on her release. Farcically, however, the woman refused to give her real name and was jailed under her illegally assumed one - and that was where Mrs Bennett's problems really began Months later, she had to undergo a criminal records check for a new job and was told to her horror that she was currently in prison for stealing her own identity. Now she has been told the only way of confirming she is the one and only Catherine Machala Bennett is to have her fingerprints checked - even though she has never committed a crime. 'It's been a complete nightmare,' she said. 'Not only could I end up losing my job because of this, but I've got visions of getting a knock on the door and being told I'm to be deported to Ghana. 'I've tried everything I can to clear my name, but as far as the authorities are concerned we are both the same person.' The real Mrs Bennett, who is 36 and lives in Oldham, first realised something was amiss last year when she was informed her medical records were being sent to a surgery in her new home town of Slough, in Berkshire. 'I told them they'd got it wrong and they sent me a copy of my passport, but with a black woman's photograph on it instead of me which had been used to register with.' Mrs Bennett - who was born in Stirling in Scotland - said a passport that she applied for nearly ten years ago failed to arrive so she was sent a replacement. And she now suspects the first one fell into the wrong hands. She informed police and the imposter was arrested, appearing in court earlier this year where she admitted possessing an improperly obtained identification document. The woman - a cleaner and mother-of-three - was jailed for 15 months and told she would be deported to her native Ghana on her release. However, she refused to give her real identity, meaning the conviction was recorded under Catherine Machala Bennett with her date of birth. The real Mrs Bennett was assured it wouldn't cause a problem, but when she applied for a job as a security guard, the compulsory check with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) saw her branded a convicted fraudster. She and her husband Peter, a lorry driver, have complained, but so far the only response is that she needs to go to a police station and have her fingerprints taken. 'I feel like I'm the one being treated like a criminal when really I'm a victim of crime,'she said. 'I've never had to give my fingerprints before and I feel it's a real invasion of my privacy. 'All I want to do is get my own identity back and get on with my life, but no-one can tell me how I can get out of this trap. 'Now I'm worried that the woman who stole my name will have committed benefit fraud or some other crime, which will make matters even worse.' Earlier this year the Daily Mail told how Amanda Hodgson was wrongly branded a drug-dealing alcoholic with convictions for assaulting three police officers when she was CRB checked for a job at the primary school her three children attend. The CRB says 99.98 per cent of checks are accurate and that requesting fingerprints was a last resort if other investigations failed. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080986/Womans-shock-sent-duplicate-passport--came-photograph-illegal-immigrant.html

A passenger on a French train had to be rescued by firemen after having his arm sucked down the on-board toilet. The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system. The high-speed TGV train had to stop for two hours while firemen cut through the train's pipework. The man was carried away by emergency services, with the toilet still attached to his arm. 'He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off,' said Benoit Gigou, a witness to the man's plight. The incident happened on Sunday evening, aboard a train travelling in western France from La Rochelle to Bordeaux. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1080995/Rail-passenger-gets-arm-sucked-board-toilet-trying-save-mobile-phone.html

agreed. its very peculiar

An eight-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a gun fair. Christopher Bizilj from Connecticut, lost control of the weapon while firing it when he attended the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the 375-acre Westfield Sportsman's Club in Massachusetts. The boy was with a certified instructor and 'was shooting the weapon down range when the force of the weapon made it travel up and back toward his head, where he suffered the injury,' police said. He was taken to hospital with serious head injuries. Though police said the incident was 'purely accidental,' a combined investigation of local police and the office of Hampden County District Attorney was underway. Asked to comment on the advisability of an eight-year-old shooting an automatic weapon which was originally designed for the Israeli military, a spokesman said, 'Once we have more information on what happened and how it happened, we'll be in a position to make public statements (on the incident).' Witnesses said the boy was conscious and lying on the ground at the shooting range with a wound to the right side of his head when police and emergency services arrived at the scene. After first aid was administered, Christopher was taken to the hospital accompanied by his father. Gun enthusiasts under the age of 16 were admitted free to the expo and free 22-calibre pistol and rifle shooting for adults and children was offered. Promotional material for the gun fair said it was 'all legal and fun' and stated that people were allowed to fire weapons at vehicles, pumpkins and other targets. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1080978/Boy-8-dies-accidentally-shooting-head-firing-Uzi-submachine-gun.html

Every year thousands of recently deceased people are buried not by their loved ones, but by their local council - often because they have no known family to make the arrangements. Who attends these funerals and how are they organised? As the plain wooden coffin holding Michael Disney's body is lowered slowly into an unmarked grave, the mourners who knew him are out-numbered by people there because they are paid to be. If he had any family, none of them turned up. The handful of friends hunched against a chill wind under a granite-grey autumn sky knew Michael from the streets or from prison. The rest are from the funeral directors or the council. The only sign of his grave in the small cemetery outside Exeter is now a mound of freshly-dug earth. Soon you will not be able to find it at all. Homeless and a heroin addict, Michael was found dead in a park in Exeter aged 30. With no known relatives, he became one of hundreds of people each year whose final resting place is a multiple grave paid for by the government. Ultimately, Michael's burial spot will hold four bodies. For many the grim scenario will resonate with echoes of the Beatles classic song Eleanor Rigby, about an elderly woman buried in a pauper's grave. Millionaire's death But that was more than 40 years ago. These days, with DNA databases and social networking, and Britain dubbed by some a "surveillance society", it seems hardly credible that someone could die with no-one to bury them. But there are still many people who end their lives in such circumstances. There are no figures for how many people are given so-called public health funerals, but a straw poll of local authorities suggests they run into the thousands. There are those, like Michael, whose desolate deaths are the tragic end to lives withered by addiction. Some are pushed to the fringes of society by mental illness; others simply outlive everyone they know. But according to Brenda Dickens, who oversees 300 public health funerals a year for Birmingham City Council, there is no such thing as a "typical case". Her office has carried out burials ranging from a foetus "that's been discarded in a public place, to someone who dies in their own home in luxurious surroundings and doesn't have any relatives and hasn't made a will". One council reported burying someone who turned out to be a multi-millionaire. There may be more ways than ever to stay in touch, but none of them are compulsory and many are superficial. If somebody chooses to become anonymous, then that's what happens," says Ms Dickens. "It is possible that we are referred a case with someone's name, but they may have three or four or five aliases. "And you may have your own name and date of birth and still have dropped out of society because there is no compunction on someone to register with their GP or claim their benefits." In one recent case in Exeter an elderly man lay undiscovered in his flat for three weeks. In August a man's body was found at a home in Lancashire after lying there for two years. His bills and council tax had been paid by direct debit. Without hard figures, it is impossible to tell whether there is an upward trend in these lonely deaths. But what is clear is that with the break-down of many traditional families and an aging population, more people than ever are living alone. Michael had not dropped as far from sight as some. While Michael was in prison, the Reverend Nick Martin, the prison chaplain who led the funeral, saw him every day. But that soon ended when he got out. Shortly after his release, the Rev Martin's wife saw Michael back on the streets, looking emaciated. She bought him pureed food normally eaten by the institutionalised elderly. Her small act of generosity touched Michael. "He said to my wife: 'In prison there is always someone you can talk to, you're a somebody. Out here, you're a nobody.'" Just weeks later, in a park behind Exeter Central station, children out playing among the neatly-kept lawns and colourful flowerbeds found Michael's dead body. Scars and tattoos It seems Michael was well-enough known for confirmation of his identity to be relatively simple. But that is not always the case. It can take months to name an unknown body, with a coroner stitching together an identity with anything from scars and tattoos, to prison records and a person's final steps. The City of London Coroner has kept hold of a corpse for a year. The Home Office says the problem of identifying bodies found without personal effects would unlikely be solved by the introduction of ID cards. But realistically, would someone in Michael's condition hold an ID card? Eventually, however, the investigation will end and it will fall to the local council to deal with the body. Under disease-control legislation, authorities are required to do no more than ensure a corpse is buried or cremated. In practice councils are less callous. According to the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management most will pay for a hearse, a casket and a professional mourner to lead the ceremony. For Michael, Exeter City Council also bought a simple wreath and placed an obituary in the local paper. It says each funeral costs about £2,800. If there are no other mourners, Ian Quance, a bereavement services manager for the council, often attends the funeral himself. It is a matter of pride that the occasion should be treated with dignity, he says. "I would like to think you can't tell the difference from a normal funeral. At the end of the day, we come into the world equal and we should go out equal. We should all have the same dignity." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7687190.stm

:cry: grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr the UK shop doesn't have it

awwww bless makes it much easier. only one door you need to hang outside then sure thing :kiss: :lol:

grrrrrrrrr stoopid browser crashed and I missed that bit

18:00 (i think, NY time) and on for another 20 mins

ewwwwwwwwww, messy girl :p

More piccies at this blog. http://agnescao.blogspot.com/2008/10/coldplay-light-show-awesome-show.html Love the green lasers :D