A day version and a night version too, with music from some guy named Beethoven, who I think may have a big future in the music biz. Timelapse movie: The Alps — part I from Michael Rissi on Vimeo. Timelapse movie: The Alps — part II (night) from Michael Rissi on Vimeo.
Archive for November, 2009
Beauty will save the world: 2 timelapse videos of the beautiful Swiss Alps
Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tiger Woods: Something tells us that fire hydrant and an innocent tree didn’t jump out in front of Tigerman’s SUV
Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The little wreck involving Tiger Woods, who pulled out of his driveway in the middle of the night and rammed a fire hydrant and an innocent tree that was minding its own tree business, is as bizarre as it is baffling. Something tells us he didn’t leave home in the middle of the night to [...]
“Morning Has Broken”: Start your Monday with a beautiful hymn from one of the great pop/rock/folk artists (Cat Stevens)
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A beautiful rendition of the old hymn “Morning Has Broken” from the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens: In the photo: Cat Stevens then, Cat Stevens the Muslim now
“Precious”: An intense and powerful movie that was bound to stir things up (Movies We Love Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
< I went and saw the intense and controversial movie “Precious” this weekend and found it to be even more intense and powerful than I anticipated based on all the ink that’s been spilled about it already. It’s a film that depicts life in the raw, depicting the seemingly unsurmountable struggles of a 16 year [...]
Welcome to all you latter-day Trippin’ Billy Preston fans (We feelin’ the love, yaw)
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As Goldie McKay used to say, “Lord have mercy on my soul.” How gratifyin’ and satisfactionizing is it to introduce people to the gifts and graces and talents of one of the most underrated showmen rock and roll ever saw, yaw. And of course we’re talkin’ ’bout the late and the great Billy Preston, who [...]
Trippin’ Billy Preston & Eric Clapton are here to rock your lunch hour
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, ladies and germs, need we remind you that we here at Jitterbuggingforjesus.com are having a trippin’ Billy Thanksgiving Weekend Hop featuring the late and the great singer, musician and showman Billy Preston, a genuine legend of gospel, blues and rock known as the “The Fifth Beatle”? Last night we gave you two videos–one featuring [...]
We know it’s only rock and roll, but me and David Brooks like it (and it’s educational to-boot)
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Our favorite conservative pundit David Brooks sings the hosannas of rock music and especially the rock music of Springsteen in his New York Times column. “Rock, when done right, is jolting and exhilirating.” We here at Jitterbugger don’t have to tell our regular readers that we find rock jolting and exhiliarating–and spiritual. Of course, a [...]
Yearning for peace in the jungle of the mind: A poetic mid-morningtime reflection & more from Sri Chinmoy
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< Poems and stuff by Sri Chinmoy, spiritual writer, poet and musician who defines spirituality as our “conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known.” The morning sun Surrounds us With its cosmic Embrace The Soulful Morning smile [...]
A most famous prayer still attributed to a most famous theologian (Serenity Prayer of Reinhold Niebuhr)
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One of the most famous of all prayers, the so-called “Serenity Prayer,” will remain attributed to one of the four or five giants among 20th century theologians, Reinhold Niebuhr. Nobody gets out of seminary without heavy doses of Niebuhr’s theology and his political and social philosophy too. He was one of the most influential thinkers [...]
Your Friday Night Special: Billy Preston & Jitterbugger gonna rock you one more time (Twice, actually, with Mike McDonald and that Mick Jagger guy)
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, as promised, Ladies and Germs, we’re having a Trippin’ Billy Preston Thanksgiving Hop Weekend, tonight featuring a two-fer. Yes, save your jukebox money tonight, because you’re getting two videos of one of the greatest of great rock musicians and showmen, Billy Preston, who was famously known as “the Fifth Beatle” because of his being [...]
