This is just too good not to share.  Amazing and yes that is an accordion.  Please be amused.
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-Koop

Today Coachella organizers announced the lineup for the 2009 3 day concert.  Held at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA the music and arts festival is scheduled for April 17 – 19th.  Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 9am with 3 day passes for $269.00 and single day ticakets for $99.00.  Plus if you [...]

I’m getting sick. I woke up yesterday and it felt like someone took a cheese grater to my throat. You know the feeling, you’ve had it before. It means that in 2 days your whole body will be so achy that you’ll be harnessed to your bed in the fetal position in pain. It’s the [...]

I was recently made aware of a video by my friend Margi, it’s called “The Hidden Cost of Cashmere”. This video is short and extremely effective, outlining all of the issues that hit the rest of the world, when we (consumers) demand something that doesn’t replenish by itself.
This video made me remember a longer more [...]

Starbucks announced today that starting tomorrow they will be cutting 6,700 jobs and closing 300 stores.  You know the economy is horrendous when Americans are no longer willing to pay $5 for cup of coffee.  Overpriced
caffeinated drinks is an American way!  Kidding.  
 
Revenue fell to $2.62 billion from $2.77 billion, while analysts had predicted revenue [...]

I’m going to start this post to post things that I love. No explanation needed and no apologies for loving it.
I’ll start with
MUSIC
**  The Balkan Beat Box **
http://www.myspace.com/balkanbeatbox

-Jessi

I know the film, MILK has been in theaters for a few months now but if you haven’t seen it you really should go now.  I finally got around to watching my screener of it and I was mesmerized.  Sean Penn plays Harvey Milk as this lost man in NYC who at the age of 40 [...]

“The Garden of Earthly Delights,” is a triptych painted between 1503-1504 by Netherlander Hieronymus Bosh. The three panels of the triptych are depictions of biblical and heretical scenes and illustrate the history of mankind according to Medieval Christian doctrine. Director and Choreographer Martha Clarke breathes life and spirit into the masterpiece, releasing the painting’s [...]

CNN just posted this article on the jobs which have been cut already this week and it’s Monday.  As a person who’s about to be unemployed this scared the living crap out of me.  Keep reading…..
Bloody Monday: More than 50,000 jobs lost
Six companies announce massive job cuts in a scary start to the week.

By Julianne Pepitone, [...]

This just posted from Yahoo! News:

Southwest triggers sales on late-winter fares
By DAVID KOENIG, AP Airlines Writer – Fri Jan 23, 5:14 pm ET

DALLAS – Major airlines moved Friday to match a fare sale started by Southwest Airlines Co., as the carriers worry about weak demand for travel during a recession.
Southwest said that through Monday it would sell seats to almost everywhere [...]