Danyl Johnson, the 27-year-old teacher hit the show X Factor last Saturday and now the internet. The X Factor is a British television music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. It is said to be the British counterpart for American Idol. Since his first performance on the show (he performed the famous Beatles’ classic “With a Little Help from My Friends”), the item “Danyl Johnson video” became one of the hottest searched items. And the name Danyl Johnson became famous. On Monday, the official clip on YouTube had registered about 600,000 views since the weekend. Twenty-four hours later, the count had doubled to almost 1.2 million.
In the days since his performance, the British press has been reporting exhaustively on Johnson's personal history, just as it did following Boyle's appearance on "Britain's Got Talent" in April. The 27-year-old is a schoolteacher from Reading, England, who has fallen short in other attempts to make it big as a singer. According to The Daily Mirror, he has been in two boy bands, Upfrunt and Streetlevel, but neither of them ever caught on. The paper also reported that Johnson performed on television with a rock band called Empty Spaces and has auditioned for "X Factor" three times.
Apparently this time the judges were highly impressed and virtually blown away with his superb performance., Cheryl Cole said he is a natural performer and I would take you in my category any day and Simon Cowell gave a standing ovation and said “That was single-handedly the best first audition I have ever heard, He could be one of the best contestants we’ve ever had.” Undoubtedly these are pretty highly comments.
Danyl Johnson quickly shot to frontrunner status, raising questions about whether he'd become the next incarnation of Scottish chanteuse Susan Boyle. Certainly Danyl won the hearts of many audiences and largely recognized as a Susan Boyle-like YouTube sensation, while some people may take a negative opinion towards this. Some people hold the view that he only did the theatrics to take attention away from the fact that his voice wasn't that good. Here is a comment after one of the related posts, Danyl definitely has a powerful voice, but he definitely didn't hit every note. There have been lots of people on "Idol" who would have done just as well with that song. BTW, maybe the writer could have bothered mentioning this was a cover of Joe Cocker's version of the song. (to the author: if somehow you have problem towards this, please leave me a message, I will remove it first time )
Anyway, every person has his preferences.
What’s your opinion? Take a look at the video.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Michael Beasley enter rehab
Former Wildcat stand-out and Miami Heat forward Michael Beasley has reportedly checked himself into a rehab facility. According to Yahoo! Sports reporter Adrian Wojnarowski, Beasley checked into a rehabilitation hospital in Houston. Wojnarowski said the Heat encouraged Beasley to go to the facility to “address possible substance and psychological issues.”
Several disturbing posts had been made on Beasley’s Twitter page over the past days, and could have stemmed from a photo that he posted of himself and his new tattoo. The issue with the photo is the small plastic bag in the background, which many people speculated contained marijuana. His Twitter page was shut down on Saturday night.
The photo is not the only thing you can find in the twitter. According to a cached version of his deleted Twitter profile, Beasley tweeted late Friday: "Feelin like it's not worth livin!!!!!!! I'm done." Four hours later he said: "not feelin this at all!!!!!" It seems that Michael is getting through a depression period. And I hope the rehab can help him to get out of it.
This wouldn’t be Beasley’s first run-in with the drug. He was fined $50,000 last summer at a rookie camp with for being in a room where marijuana was found. Former KU stars Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur were also in the room with him.
While I care about the matter, I talk about it, just because he is a member of my favorite team, not that I am judging him. what if Michael did smoke marijuana, lots of people do, especially NBA players, I don’t think it is a big deal anyway neither did Beasley has any serious substance abuse problems. Under a certain pressure people may well do that.
Several disturbing posts had been made on Beasley’s Twitter page over the past days, and could have stemmed from a photo that he posted of himself and his new tattoo. The issue with the photo is the small plastic bag in the background, which many people speculated contained marijuana. His Twitter page was shut down on Saturday night.
The photo is not the only thing you can find in the twitter. According to a cached version of his deleted Twitter profile, Beasley tweeted late Friday: "Feelin like it's not worth livin!!!!!!! I'm done." Four hours later he said: "not feelin this at all!!!!!" It seems that Michael is getting through a depression period. And I hope the rehab can help him to get out of it.
This wouldn’t be Beasley’s first run-in with the drug. He was fined $50,000 last summer at a rookie camp with for being in a room where marijuana was found. Former KU stars Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur were also in the room with him.
While I care about the matter, I talk about it, just because he is a member of my favorite team, not that I am judging him. what if Michael did smoke marijuana, lots of people do, especially NBA players, I don’t think it is a big deal anyway neither did Beasley has any serious substance abuse problems. Under a certain pressure people may well do that.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Come from the Dead Poet Society
It’s so much good about the movie. I have watched the movie for many times, it brings out my tear every time. The moment Neil commit the suicide, the moment Mr. Keating’s leaving and Todd and other classmate stand at the desk and cry out “captain, my captain”, they can really kill me.
Mr. Keating is a feature of instructor, in my opinion, few teachers or parents could deserve the name of instructor, like the other teachers in the school, they follow to the old manner of teaching, they to some extent compel their own sense of worth to the students, and they just cannot understand all the things that the students pursue.
When it comes to the parents, things gets more complicated, it is said that parents are the last people in the world to be blamed. And I have to say, children is the last people in the world to be based on. Parents keep basing on their children to live their own dream. It is terribly unfair for the children, a human must have his own choice of what kind of life he is gonna live and what kind of person he wanna be. Parents consider Children as the last of their life, want them to achieve what themselves can’t do, ignoring if that is what their children pursue for, it is absolutely wrong. Children is a separate entity, they have their own world.
The movie tells mostly about teaching and I felt a lot about this part, but I think the relationships between parents and children are also couldn’t be ignored, because they affect every single person around us. And the movie performs really well in depicting these kinds of relationships.
Mr. Keating is a feature of instructor, in my opinion, few teachers or parents could deserve the name of instructor, like the other teachers in the school, they follow to the old manner of teaching, they to some extent compel their own sense of worth to the students, and they just cannot understand all the things that the students pursue.
When it comes to the parents, things gets more complicated, it is said that parents are the last people in the world to be blamed. And I have to say, children is the last people in the world to be based on. Parents keep basing on their children to live their own dream. It is terribly unfair for the children, a human must have his own choice of what kind of life he is gonna live and what kind of person he wanna be. Parents consider Children as the last of their life, want them to achieve what themselves can’t do, ignoring if that is what their children pursue for, it is absolutely wrong. Children is a separate entity, they have their own world.
The movie tells mostly about teaching and I felt a lot about this part, but I think the relationships between parents and children are also couldn’t be ignored, because they affect every single person around us. And the movie performs really well in depicting these kinds of relationships.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Cash for Clunker ending
Long expected and high commented, the program cash for clunker is popular among all Americans since last month when it began. It was originally planned to end on November 1, while as it is reported, the program will soon welcomed its ending on the coming Monday, August 24. The US Transportation Department has announced that the program, officially called Car Allowance Rebate System, has nearly exhausted $3 billion in financing and they have no other choice but to end it.
The car dealers have been having a hard time getting refund of the government. They had in all applied for $1.9billon in rebates and there are still unclaimed transactions while just a few dealers have had the refund. The government pointed that there are lots of paper work to do with the applications and there have not been extraordinary delays, while there is doubt that if all the money is put aside for the program. The first $1 billion allocated to the program had run out after less than two weeks. As we know, the process of the program is not smooth at all. It was already being contested due to the clunky bureaucracy, and I am not very optimistic towards the fund.
Finally, although the program would end before we expected, and only run for a couple of weeks, it do contribute to the car industry, General Motors is enjoying a recent sales uptick and is advancing funds to its dealers who is nervous about not receiving the government rebates. Meanwhile, Chrysler had announced it would increase its production.
The car dealers have been having a hard time getting refund of the government. They had in all applied for $1.9billon in rebates and there are still unclaimed transactions while just a few dealers have had the refund. The government pointed that there are lots of paper work to do with the applications and there have not been extraordinary delays, while there is doubt that if all the money is put aside for the program. The first $1 billion allocated to the program had run out after less than two weeks. As we know, the process of the program is not smooth at all. It was already being contested due to the clunky bureaucracy, and I am not very optimistic towards the fund.
Finally, although the program would end before we expected, and only run for a couple of weeks, it do contribute to the car industry, General Motors is enjoying a recent sales uptick and is advancing funds to its dealers who is nervous about not receiving the government rebates. Meanwhile, Chrysler had announced it would increase its production.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Megan wants a Millionaire canceled
Megan Wants a Millionaire is a reality television show on VH1 in which Megan Hauserman has seventeen wealthy single men compete for her love. She stated that she wants to become a “Trophy Wife” in a show and then VH1 asks for single men with a net worth of over $1,000,000 to join the new show Megan wants a Millionaire and Megan may choose a lover between them. For me, this kind of show would never interest me, and I don’t like Megan anyway, I think she ruins the rep of blonde by doing such a thing. While, the show is hung up now and the reason is quiet ironic, one of the contestants Ryan Alexander Jenkins, was suspected in murdering his wife. (Now he is fighting for Megan to be his wife, isn’t it ironic!!)
It is reported that h Jenkins was missing since he report his wife, a swim model Jasmine Fiore, missing. Last weekend, jasmine’s dead body is found inside a suitcase that had been tossed into a trash dumpster. And apparently she was strangled to death, which means someone murdered her. As her husband, Jenkins was suspect and his missing right after her missing make things worse.
Now the matter is that Jenkins may very soon find himself in the jail instead of on the TV. And Megan, work hard, blonde!
It is reported that h Jenkins was missing since he report his wife, a swim model Jasmine Fiore, missing. Last weekend, jasmine’s dead body is found inside a suitcase that had been tossed into a trash dumpster. And apparently she was strangled to death, which means someone murdered her. As her husband, Jenkins was suspect and his missing right after her missing make things worse.
Now the matter is that Jenkins may very soon find himself in the jail instead of on the TV. And Megan, work hard, blonde!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
It is said that G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is better than Transformer, one and two add up.
Exactly, not that I am saying Transformer suck, I like the film anyway, while G.I Joe just exceeds that. I didn’t expect so much for the movie, but what present to me now is a movie of precise temple, smart suspense and of cause, all kinds of thrilling visual stimulation.
From the point of Scene Type, G.I Joe is much richer than Transformer. At the very beginning, the army got attack and a Vertical battle came. Then the white ghost and the Baroness sneak on the base of G.I. Joe and begin a Cs war. Then the car racing in Paris and finally the under water duel in camp of the Anti-side.
The four scenes are very classical in the movie. They combine real weapon and inventions of science fiction while it goes really smoothly.
At the same time, the movie perfuses all the characters with rich spirit, they are no longer just battle machines, they are all with stories.
The follow is the plot of the movie.
The film opens in France, in 1641. The Scotsman Klan McCullen has been accused of selling weaponry to both the Scots and French. Rather than being executed for treason, the jury brands his face with a white-hot mask in order to humiliate him. In the near future, weapons expert James McCullen (Christopher Eccleston) has created a nanotechnology-based weapon capable of destroying an entire city. His company MARS sells four warheads to NATO, and the U.S. Army is tasked with delivering the warheads. Duke (Channing Tatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans) are delivering the warheads when they are ambushed by the Baroness (Sienna Miller), who Duke recognized to be his ex-fiancee Ana Lewis. Duke and Ripcord are rescued by Scarlett (Rachel Nichols), Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and Heavy Duty (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). They take the warheads to The Pit, G.I. Joe's command center in North Africa, and upon arriving rendezvous with General Hawk (Dennis Quaid), the head of the G.I. Joe Team. Hawk takes command of the war-heads and excuses Duke and Ripcord, only to be convinced to have them join his group after Duke reveals that he knows the Baroness.
McCullen is revealed to be using the same nanotechnology to build an army of soldiers with the aid of the Doctor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), planning on using the warheads to bring panic and bring about a new world order. Using a tracking device, McCullen locates the G.I. Joe base and sends Storm Shadow (Lee Byung-hun) and the Baroness to retrieve the warheads with assistance from Zartan (Arnold Vosloo), inflicting casualties on several G.I. Joe soldiers. After a fight, Storm Shadow and the Baroness retrieve the warheads and take them to Baron DeCobray, the Baroness's husband, for him to weaponize and use them to destroy the Eiffel Tower to serve as a showing of the warhead's destructive power. Making their way to Paris, the Joes pursue them through the streets but are unsuccessful in stopping them from launching the missile. Duke manages to hit the kill switch, but in doing so he is captured and taken to McCullen's base under the Arctic.
G.I. Joe locates the secret base and fly there as McCullen loads three missiles with nano-mite warheads. After Snake Eyes takes out one, Ripcord pursues the remaining missiles in a prototype Night Raven jet while Scarlett and her group infiltrate the base. While Scarlett and Snake Eyes attempt to shut down the Arctic base, with Heavy Duty leading an attack on Cobra's forces, Duke learns that the Doctor is Rex Lewis, Ana's brother believed to have been killed on a mission led by Duke four years ago. He was trapped in a bunker with Doctor Mindbender (Kevin O'Connor), disfigured in the blast which everyone presumed had killed him. The Baroness tries to free Duke but the Doctor reveals he has implanted her with nano-mites which has put her under his control for the past four years, admitting his amazement that she is resisting the programming. Attempting to kill Duke, McCullen ends up being facially burned as he flees with Rex to an escape vessel. Duke and the Baroness pursue him while the Joes fall back when Rex activated the base's self destruct sequence.
Rex then heals McCullen's burned face with nano-mites, encasing it in silver as he christens McCullen "Destro" and assumes the identity of Cobra Commander before they are captured by G.I. Joe soon after. On board the supercarrier USS Flagg, Baroness is placed in protective custody until they can remove the nano-mites from her body. Meanwhile, Zartan, having been earlier operated on by Rex, infiltrates the White House during the missile crisis and assumes the identity of the President of the United States.
Exactly, not that I am saying Transformer suck, I like the film anyway, while G.I Joe just exceeds that. I didn’t expect so much for the movie, but what present to me now is a movie of precise temple, smart suspense and of cause, all kinds of thrilling visual stimulation.
From the point of Scene Type, G.I Joe is much richer than Transformer. At the very beginning, the army got attack and a Vertical battle came. Then the white ghost and the Baroness sneak on the base of G.I. Joe and begin a Cs war. Then the car racing in Paris and finally the under water duel in camp of the Anti-side.
The four scenes are very classical in the movie. They combine real weapon and inventions of science fiction while it goes really smoothly.
At the same time, the movie perfuses all the characters with rich spirit, they are no longer just battle machines, they are all with stories.
The follow is the plot of the movie.
The film opens in France, in 1641. The Scotsman Klan McCullen has been accused of selling weaponry to both the Scots and French. Rather than being executed for treason, the jury brands his face with a white-hot mask in order to humiliate him. In the near future, weapons expert James McCullen (Christopher Eccleston) has created a nanotechnology-based weapon capable of destroying an entire city. His company MARS sells four warheads to NATO, and the U.S. Army is tasked with delivering the warheads. Duke (Channing Tatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans) are delivering the warheads when they are ambushed by the Baroness (Sienna Miller), who Duke recognized to be his ex-fiancee Ana Lewis. Duke and Ripcord are rescued by Scarlett (Rachel Nichols), Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and Heavy Duty (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). They take the warheads to The Pit, G.I. Joe's command center in North Africa, and upon arriving rendezvous with General Hawk (Dennis Quaid), the head of the G.I. Joe Team. Hawk takes command of the war-heads and excuses Duke and Ripcord, only to be convinced to have them join his group after Duke reveals that he knows the Baroness.
McCullen is revealed to be using the same nanotechnology to build an army of soldiers with the aid of the Doctor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), planning on using the warheads to bring panic and bring about a new world order. Using a tracking device, McCullen locates the G.I. Joe base and sends Storm Shadow (Lee Byung-hun) and the Baroness to retrieve the warheads with assistance from Zartan (Arnold Vosloo), inflicting casualties on several G.I. Joe soldiers. After a fight, Storm Shadow and the Baroness retrieve the warheads and take them to Baron DeCobray, the Baroness's husband, for him to weaponize and use them to destroy the Eiffel Tower to serve as a showing of the warhead's destructive power. Making their way to Paris, the Joes pursue them through the streets but are unsuccessful in stopping them from launching the missile. Duke manages to hit the kill switch, but in doing so he is captured and taken to McCullen's base under the Arctic.
G.I. Joe locates the secret base and fly there as McCullen loads three missiles with nano-mite warheads. After Snake Eyes takes out one, Ripcord pursues the remaining missiles in a prototype Night Raven jet while Scarlett and her group infiltrate the base. While Scarlett and Snake Eyes attempt to shut down the Arctic base, with Heavy Duty leading an attack on Cobra's forces, Duke learns that the Doctor is Rex Lewis, Ana's brother believed to have been killed on a mission led by Duke four years ago. He was trapped in a bunker with Doctor Mindbender (Kevin O'Connor), disfigured in the blast which everyone presumed had killed him. The Baroness tries to free Duke but the Doctor reveals he has implanted her with nano-mites which has put her under his control for the past four years, admitting his amazement that she is resisting the programming. Attempting to kill Duke, McCullen ends up being facially burned as he flees with Rex to an escape vessel. Duke and the Baroness pursue him while the Joes fall back when Rex activated the base's self destruct sequence.
Rex then heals McCullen's burned face with nano-mites, encasing it in silver as he christens McCullen "Destro" and assumes the identity of Cobra Commander before they are captured by G.I. Joe soon after. On board the supercarrier USS Flagg, Baroness is placed in protective custody until they can remove the nano-mites from her body. Meanwhile, Zartan, having been earlier operated on by Rex, infiltrates the White House during the missile crisis and assumes the identity of the President of the United States.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart and Kari Ann Peniche threesome
Last week, Rebecca Gayheart has just passed her 38 birthday and this week she found her unique way into the internet again, together with her husband, Eric Dane and the former Miss Teen USA Kari Ann Peniche. The three are found together in the same tape, naked. It is recognized that it is a threesome sex tape, while the rep of Eric and Rebecca argued that it is no more than a naked film for it didn’t film any sex.
It is reported that the tape came out as part of an official investigation into Peniche’s alleged sex-for-hire business. And the one who leaked it is still on the air.
This is not the first time for Rebecca to be engaged in a scandal, in June, photos were leaked that she and another women naked in the bathtub back in 2003.
I guess these people they never could learn a lesson, with another person they should know that the tape would be leaked someday.
And when the person happened to be Peniche, Beauty-queen-turned-Hollywood-madam Peniche, who was crowned Miss Teen USA in 2002 but was Stripped of her crown for posing for playboy. This lady, she never is an easy kind.
Now on the internet is a censored version, and it’s saying that a smoky film is on the way, anyway, not yet close file for the whole thing.
It is reported that the tape came out as part of an official investigation into Peniche’s alleged sex-for-hire business. And the one who leaked it is still on the air.
This is not the first time for Rebecca to be engaged in a scandal, in June, photos were leaked that she and another women naked in the bathtub back in 2003.
I guess these people they never could learn a lesson, with another person they should know that the tape would be leaked someday.
And when the person happened to be Peniche, Beauty-queen-turned-Hollywood-madam Peniche, who was crowned Miss Teen USA in 2002 but was Stripped of her crown for posing for playboy. This lady, she never is an easy kind.
Now on the internet is a censored version, and it’s saying that a smoky film is on the way, anyway, not yet close file for the whole thing.
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