Posted by xntube contributor On December - 3 - 2008
Snowball is a Medium Sulphur Crested Eleanora Cockatoo that dances to the Back Street Boys and other songs that he rates as having a “very good beat.” He came to Bird Lovers Only Rescue Service, Inc. (a 501c3 not for profit bird rescue and sanctuary) in August 2007 and continues to make us laugh with his fancy footwork. We are currently raising funds to build a bird habitat for Snowball and other birds like him. Please visit us at http://www.birdloversonly.org to receive Snowball DVDs, shirts, and other items in return for your donations. Thank you so very much for your generous support of our cause!
Please also visit our blog http://www.birdloversonly.blogspot.com for up to date research information on Snowball’s cognitive music studies.
Posted by xntube contributor On December - 3 - 2008
UPDATED(2/13)This is possibly the most disturbing thing I’ve seen on the Interweb. I’m sorry for inflicting this upon all of you.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Always consult a mushroom field guide before consuming wild mushrooms. Eating random wild mushrooms may result in various side effects, including DEATH.
The mushroom featured in this video is Amanita Muscaria, a psychedelic but otherwise non-deadly mushroom (it might, however, make you nauseous). Thanks to the hundreds of mushroom experts that have commented. I am in your debt.
After a rigorous session of super-sleuthing, I was able to find out more about this guy. It seems that he is a performance artist from Japan that goes by the name of ‘wotaken.’ Here’s his home page: http://katura.is.land.to/index.html
Posted by xntube contributor On December - 3 - 2008
Dear,Mr.Ola Brunkert.
I thank you for your great drums.
I love your technique.
forever.
MADRID, Spain (AP) — A former drummer for the Swedish pop band ABBA was found dead with cuts to his neck in the garden of his house on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Police said Monday an autopsy showed it was an accident.
A neighbor found the body of 62-year-old Ola Brunkert on Sunday evening at his house in a coastal area outside the eastern town of Arta, a Civil Guard spokesman told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
He said an autopsy was carried out and confirmed initial investigations. “It was an accident,” he said.
The spokesman said Brunkert hit his head against a glass door in his dining room, shattering the glass and cutting himself in the neck. He managed to wrap a towel around his neck and left the house to seek help, but collapsed in the garden.
Brunkert lived in the coastal apartment complex of Betlem in the municipality of Arta, in the eastern part of Mallorca.
Brunkert had lived in Arta for around 20 years. His wife, Inger. died less than a year ago, an Arta municipal official told the AP. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to discuss the case.
ABBA band member Benny Anderson told Swedish daily Expressen he was sad to hear of the drummer’s death. “It is tragic,” he said.
Band member Bjorn Ulvaeus added that Brunkert had been “one of the best.”
“I remember him as a good friend when we worked together in the mid-1970s. He was a very creative musician who contributed a lot when we toured together and worked in the studio,” Ulvaeus told Expressen.
According to ABBA’s official Web site, Brunkert and bass player Rutger Gunnarsson were the only musicians to appear on all ABBA albums.
Brunkert first played with ABBA on the group’s first single, “People Need Love,” and toured with the band in 1977, 1979 and 1980.
He had been a jazz drummer and a member of the blues band Slim’s Blues Gang, before joining pop group Science Poption in the mid-1960s.
ABBA, with the four regular members Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Ulvaeus and Andersson, was one of the world’s most successful bands, with album sales of more than 370 million. The group has not performed together since 1982, but continues to sell nearly 3 million records a year.
