Ray Charles and Ray Charles

A lot has happened since I posted on my blog last, Obama has become our first Democratic president in 8 and also our first African-American president in our nations history, Elmo has two sets of parents and we're not really sure who is his real father and mother, but nothing since Wall-E has made me post.
Until now.
Well, Y'see, If you think that Ray Charles wrote the most annoying and un-syncopated song ever to inhabit in the earth "Fifty Nifty United States" well, he did. But this Ray Charles isn't the Ray Charles you think of and as you can tell from the song, not the good Ray Charles. No, the "Georgia on my mind", "What I say", or the "I can't stop lovin' you" Ray Charles, but the "Fifty nifty united states" and "Three's Company" (That's right, he and his band sang the Three's Company's theme song) Ray Charles. The way -and it's quite easy to do so- to tell the difference is the good Ray Charles is Ray Charles Robinson. The weird Ray Charles alternative is Ray Charles Offenburg. So please make sure that if you're talking to someone and they say that Ray Charles wrote "Fifty nifty united states", tell 'em that it is Ray Charles, but not the good one. So please do not get them confused.

Ray Charles Robinson

Charles Ray Offenberg

Which one is the more likable figure?

P.S.: Offy's real name isn't even Ray. It doesn't even work!

-Sam

WALL-E

Okay, let's face it, Wall-e is pretty much the greatest Disney-Pixar
movie ever made. Ratatouille, and Monsters inc. make this a hard bargain to carry, however; when the extremely obese captain of the Axum is the first one to walk; and it's a big heroic moment, you know you've got gold. But you half to start at the very base of this. So the humans decided to go on a 5 year cruse and this company called B 'n L which stands for Buy 'n Large is practically sponsoring there trip. There giving them all of there food (And it's all in a cup) and pretty much everything. And this team of robots called Wall-e said that they would clean up while they were gone.
700 years later, in 2700, the humans are still on there 5 year cruse, and there's only one Wall-e left. This is the Wall-e that you see on TV. All Wall-e knows about human life is a tape of Hello Dolly that he has. And that is kind of sad. And he has a pet who's a cockroach, and a whole bunch of Twinkies.
Then, Eve comes. Eve is some kind of high tech, robot from who knows where. When she comes down to earth, Wall-e is like, love at first sight. But the whole philosophy of the whole thing is in Hello Dolly they hold hands at the very end. And Wall-e is holding hands with himself, but someday, he wants to hold hands with somebody else. Then a bunch of other things happen, (Don't want to give the whole thing away) To make a long story short, There's a twist at the end.
I give this movie *****. Highly recomend it. Wall-e.

Chitara: Indian, Nepal, and Tibeten Cuisine

Now I knew a lot about India, because I'm a Nerd for history. I have gotten to know about Tibet because I live in a family who works for a current events company; and it's 2008, so the Olympics is in Beijing.
However, I know absolutely nothing about Nepal accept for the fact that is shares Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain that's above sea level in the world with, you know and guessed it, Tibet.

But the reason we went here was because both my dad's 42nd birthday and my grandpa's 66th birthday yesterday. We wanted to go somewhere cool. So we went to Chitara, a Himalayan restaurant. First, the salad came out. The Red Onion and the Lettuce were coated with a very good very clean, very un-describable dressing. I give that props. Then we got our food. I had ordered Talapia. I have very high expectations for fish. Did this meet those expectations: Yes! It did it was very very very good. It really rocked. It really was just blended together very well.

I give it ****.75/*****. I highly recomend it, Chitara. If you live in Madison WI, go there

Marvin Gaye: What's goin' on?

In 1971, when the U.S. was still fighting Vietnam, when riots still raged the streets, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated just 3 years earlier and segregation was still a big problem in the U.S., recording artist Marvin Gaye wanted to make a stand, so he came out with "What's Goin' On".

"What's Goin' On" Shocked the nation with songs that no recording artist had ever thought of, songs that talked about things that were actually happening in the world. "What's Goin' on" became an instant smash when it was first realest. And I think I know why.

The first song "What's Goin' on" starts out like this: Mother Mother, there are to many of you crying. Brother Brother Brother, there's far to many of you dieing. We've got to find a way, to bring some lovin' here today. Father Father, we don't need to escalate. War is not the answer, for only love can; concur hate. We've got to find a way, to bring some lovin' here today. Picket lines, and Picket signs, Don't punish me, with brutality, just talk to me, so you can see, Oh; What's goin' on, what's goin' on, what's goin' on.
This song is you guessed it, about Vietnam. But this was true for a lot of families. There were men being drafted into the Navy, Marines, Army, and Air Force. But Gaye couldn't take it any more; He was a pacifist. In the next song "What's Happening Brother" is also about Vietnam. Here are some of the lyrics: Hey baby, what yeah know good, I'm just gettin' back but you knew I would. War is here, when will it end? When will people start gettin' together again? Things are not gettin' better, like the newspaper said. What else is happenin' my friend. Besides, what'd I bring? Can't find no work can't find no job.
To find out the rest of the lyrics to both songs you'll half to buy or rent "What's Goin' On" yourself. But I gave both songs 5 stars on my iPod, and on my blog in which I have a name that only I, some yiddish folk, and some people in the national spelling bee can spell, I give it 5 stars too.

Al Green: Lay it down

The talented Al Green starts of the album singing the chorus, in a Al Green way. He starts of the album by doing this: Lay it down, lay it down, lay it down. The famous Al Green just came out with a new album. However, Al isn't your average recording artist; he was a sensation in the 70's and now, he's decided to come out with a new album. Throughout the chores of the song it changes from: Lay it down, lay it down to: Lay it down, let it go. The first song is a 4:30 (Exactly) beauty (And you guessed it, It's called "Lay it down"). The next song is called "Just For Me" and it goes a like this: Your love is just for me, for me, I know, it's just for me. The next song is "You've got the love I need" and it goes like this: You've got the Love I need, baby. You've got the love I need, baby. And so on and so forth. Then in the last song, it finally started to kick up. The song is called "Standin' in the rain" and it starts like this: I'm standin' in the rain, the cold hard cryin' rain.
My favorite part of this is when Al sings "The cold hard cryin' rain" Mrs Keith, where are you: descriptive writing! But I do highly recomend this album, **** of *****.
Sam

The Wiggles

So one day we were staring blankly at our television screen with the most passionate show on children's television on, the show: The Wiggles. With Jeffrey, Anthony, Greg and Murry, quickly this Quartet became the most lovable band of creepy guys from Australia. Before we actually looked up the names we had our nicknames for them: There's: The guy who has a really low voice, The forgettable one, Asian Dennis Kucinich, and the other one. When we were trying to figure out the names this was our debate:

Mom: Wait, so Jeffrey is the one who has a really low voice?

Me: No, Jeffrey is Asian Dennis Kucinich.

It went on like this, we eventually we had to go back to make the decision (Before we did that me and mom made a bet for 5$ that I was right and she was wrong and vice versa.) Then we decided that I was right. Mom still owes me 5$.

Ibberrgerblibbernis restaurant review #2 (Swagat Indian Cuisene)

This is a great restaurant, I definitely prefer it to any other Indian Restaurant in Madison Wisconsin. (I give it **** out of *****, so still above average.) The most recent dish that I had there is the Tandoori Shrimp. It's shrimp steaming out of the Tandoori oven, surprisingly (If ordered mild) not very hot. There are two different Tandoori Shrimp dishes. One has onions and a lemon on top, get that one. The other one has a spicy curry and I'm sure it's excellent, but personally; I wouldn't prefer it to the other Tandoori Shrimp. This restaurant could not be more pleasant. Really, the service is excellent, the people are just very very nice, In fact I think that their to nice, it seems like it can't be true but it really is. (If you go there you'll see what I mean). I recommend this restaurant highly.

Sincerely,

Sam