Mr. Pickles
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It's a little overdue, IMO. Rhythms courtesy Astrud Giberto. Style via Debbie Gibson. Music by Casio. To call her the Polish Sade is selling her way short.
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mr. furley
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more about the Words with Friends blacklist, please
Mr. Pickles
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We live in a society with rules.'mr. furley said:
Mr. Pickles
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I know we all have our own personal stories about how we came to be touched by this eastern European angel of soft jazz, but I feel compelled to share mine here. It was almost 15 years ago to the day, the spring of 1996, and I was a wide-eyed college student who had just begun courting a comely lass of Serbian decent. After a month or so of gratuitous, perhaps clumsy, flirting in class, we started dating and quickly entered into the proverbial "mix-tape" (kids: ask your parents) phase of our budding relationship. One morning she arrived bearing a gift: a painstakingly assembled musical journey committed to magnetite-clad polyester film. The case featured cover art festooned with the brilliant, if charmingly trite, artistry of Van Gogh. Opening the tri-fold revealed a hand-written track list. On the 90 minute cassette was a healthy dose of lesser heard b-side 80s/90s alterna-pop including the likes of Alphaville, Duran Duran, The Cranberries, Concrete Blonde, Haircut 100, Nirvana, et al. Boy, this girl had me pegged. Given that she was the child of Belgrade transplants, there was the forced reverence for all things European requiring more obscure "local" favorites from the mother continent. A few were in French (which she purported to speak with some command), some in Serbo-Croatian, but for the most part those were forgettable ditties. However, included in that eclectic compendium was a
featuring the voice of what can only be explained as the apparent love-child of Celine Dion and Anita Baker. Or maybe it was a Gloria Estefan archetype imagined for a pending Krzysztof Kieślowski picture. Nevertheless, this siren had my rapt attention as if tapping into a heretofore unexplored instinctual verve. Who was she, why had I never heard this before, and how was she able to make syrupy schmaltz sound so stunningly acceptable?
featuring the voice of what can only be explained as the apparent love-child of Celine Dion and Anita Baker. Or maybe it was a Gloria Estefan archetype imagined for a pending Krzysztof Kieślowski picture. Nevertheless, this siren had my rapt attention as if tapping into a heretofore unexplored instinctual verve. Who was she, why had I never heard this before, and how was she able to make syrupy schmaltz sound so stunningly acceptable?
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mr. furley
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if the chess thread is to be believed i'd say we're on the brink of a complete breakdown of societyout with it
Osaurus
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I said it.
Mr. Pickles
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Harry Manback is a dirty cheater. How do I know this? I beat him by a smaller than usual margin in a couple of games.
mr. furley
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Encyclopedia Brown
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What is the phonetic spelling of her last name?
Trzetrzelewska
Trzetrzelewska
Mr. Pickles
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Encyclopedia Brown
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I get the last eight letters. They sound almost as they are spelled: zuh less ska.Those first five are tricky.
Shretz?
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Mr. Pickles
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Time and Tide was Basia's stunning debut album, released on August 21, 1987, on perhaps THE label of the 80s: Epic Records. Co-produced and mostly co-written by Basia and long time collaborator Danny White, it showcases considerable influences from Brazilian jazz. The album was certified platinum in 1989.
It has been argued, mostly by yours truly, that Celine Dion has spent the bulk of her career doing a poor Basia impression.
Here's the
, on Basia Radio with Mr. P.
It has been argued, mostly by yours truly, that Celine Dion has spent the bulk of her career doing a poor Basia impression.
Here's the
, on Basia Radio with Mr. P.
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