Turkish Delight - Eurovision 2008

Turkey may have issues with the European Union but Turkey has participated in Eurovision since 1975.

Turkey Eurovision 2008

Mor Ve Otesi ~ Deli

English Lyrics: Crazy/insane

my soul's owner is being searched
did I fall in the right place?
perpetrator of the passion is resisting
it got angry and became smaller
it is resisting
Bring me up, don't make me cry
where is your love which you are proud of
Bring me up, don't make me cry
don't detain me with fake dreams
it's (my soul's owner) being searched
one part of me is sane the other one is insane
my four directions are sane; one part is is insane
everybody is sane, only me insane
only me insane

Next Stop, Croatia

Its true I don't get off the Island much. How's that for an excuse to indulge in my once secret passion for Eurovision? Hop on the Eurovision bus for a virtual tour of Europe. I hope you enjoyed visiting Iceland. Next stop, Croatia.

Croatia Eurovision 2008

Romanca ~ Kraljevi Ulice & 75 Cent

Lyrics in English: Romance
Music and Lyrics Miran Hadži Veljković
Score Tomislav Modrić

SEE MY FRIEND, I REMEMBER EVERYTHING
AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT BETWEEN THIS SONG
AND A MILLION OTHERS
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE

Life erases our tracks
It lets weird devils into that good night
Every day is bathed in cold sun
And memories are almost faded out

If you asked me I would only know one thing
Colours exist only in this rhyme
Night and day are the remains of some line
They will disappear when our songs fade

Play tonight that romance
Quietly to make me fall ill
The sadness when a nightingale dies
When the soul with the body divorces

Play tonight that romance
Slowly so that everyone hears
Let the guitars play again
'Cos I haven't heard them for a long time

THEY TELL ME TODAY
THAT I'M IN THE DUMPS
I'M TECHNOLOGY WASTE
LIKE THE MONKEY UP ON A BRANCH
BUT I WAS THE FIRST THE INTERNET
IN THE WORLD
SAILING ON SHIPS WITH MY MUSIC
I CONNECTED THE PLANET

Globalize Your Consciousness

Feeling a bit provincial? Can’t get off the Island? Globalize your consciousness with Eurovision. Europe’s Pop Music contest has been bringing fame to groups like Sweden’s Abba since 1956. Every year countries across Europe select a song and in May the contest is judged by call-in votes. This year’s final competition will be held in Belgrade.

Iceland Eurovision 2008

Euroband ~ This is My Life

Link to: Eurovision

New Works at Waterworks Gallery

Matthew Gray Palmer - abstracted sculpture

Caroline James ~ mixed media paintings
May 3 - 25, 2008

Wood Sketch III ~ Matthew Gray Palmer

Hours: Wednesday ~ Saturday, 10.00 to 5.30 and Sunday 11.00 to 4.00
Waterworks Gallery - 315 spring st

Margaret Longley Award Recipient

Margaret Longley

Margaret Longley of San Juan Island has been awarded the Kathryn W Davis Projects for Peace Award. Margaret, a filmmaker who worked in the Iraqi war zone on the academy award-nominated film, "Iraq in Fragments," will be creating a film on the disenfranchisement of the homeless with her project, "Homelessness and Voting in a Democracy."

Link to article: sanjuanislander.com

New Washington State Vessel Regulations

New 2008 Washington State Vessel Regulations
For Southern Resident Killer Whales
Effective June 12th 2008

DO NOT APPROACH by any means w/in 100 yards of a
Southern Resident Killer Whale
DO NOT cause a vessel or other object to approach w/in
100 yards of a Southern Resident Killer Whale
DO NOT INTERCEPT a Southern Resident Killer Whale
DISENGAGE a vessel that is w/in 100 yards of a
Southern Resident Killer Whale
DO NOT feed a Southern Resident Killer Whale

Week 4: Marine Naturalist Training

Cindy giving instruction on the assemblage of Stinky Bill

At the Whale Museum again for the 4th week of Marine Naturalist Training Cindy went over the differences between toothed whales like Orcas and baleen whales like Stinky Bill the Museum's resident Gray Whale. Nope, we don't keep Stinky Bill in a big tub upstairs in the Museum. Unfortunately Stinky Bill met with an untimely death in his youth. What we have are his bones, which were spread out on the floor for us to put together.

After a lunch break we met again over at the High School where Kari Koski told us about Soundwatch, the Museum program that actively protects whales and other Marine life by educating boaters. Mary Knackstedt gave an overview of the San Juan Marine Resources Committee and Marine protected Areas in San Juan County.

Black Oystercatchers ~ Tony Angell

from Marine Birds and Mammels of Puget Sound

Then a bird who had mystically transformed himself into a man named David Drummond flew into the room. He flitted about feeding our astonished little beaks bits of philosophical wisdom. He showed us pictures of birds and he talked about how adaptable we are recommending that we go outside and just be. I took this to heart as I spend altogether too much time indoors at my computer and the adaptations that result may in fact not be how I truly wish to evolve. He recommended books including: Sacred Balance by David Suzuki, Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder and The Future of Life by E.O. Wilson.