Alison Goldfrapp, from the British band Goldfrapp (the other member of the duo is Will Gregory), could be the perfect woman. I just said it. Skeptical? Judge for yourself: looks, personality (sorry, PERSONALITY), style, voice- and you might sense part of these from Goldfrapp’s hits, among them “Black Cherry” or “Strict Machine” or “Number 1“, the latter from their very succesful most recent album, Supernature.
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Dining “Acasa”, in the Big Apple
Andy (see the comments section to this post on ‘Csikszereda musings’) draws my attention to this very interesting review in the NYT, of the Romanian restaurant “Acasa”, from Queens, New York.
→ Read more MRIs and sex drive. And the science of love
Since I was just mentioning nudity and inspiration, let’s go a step further and talk without inhibition about science and sex. This is very serious research. And it is one of the most read BMJ article of all times (if you want to be a scientist and desire popularity with the media as well, you might consider this field of research- well, you could also post personal nude photos on your website/weblog, though that might lead to somewhat of a negative attention…).
→ Read more Nude inspiration (with an application to Romania)
Since our Romanian mass-media (well, the ‘education’ department from Gandul) are launching a great moral offensive against nudity (public or academic nudity, to be exact), here’s some interesting material on nudity and (great) inspiration.
→ Read more Song of the day: Astor Piazzola’s Libertango
What happens if you combine the musical genius of Astor Piazzola (“El Gran Ástor” needs no further introduction: a legend is a legend!) and the superhuman interpreting skills of, perhaps (with certainty, as far as I am concerned), the current best cello player in the world, Yo-Yo Ma (an amazing artist I saw twice performing in the famous Concertgebouw, in Amsterdam, artist about whom I’ll talk much more with another occasion)?
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