Review: A Beginning, A Detour, An Open Ending by Tina Dico

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There are only a few new artists as prolific and consistently impressive as Tina Dico (spelled Tina Dickow in her native Denmark). A Beginning, A Detour, An Open Ending is proof that a true artist does not have to fit in an album-project pattern to fulfill their artistic endeavor. This is not your run-of-the-mill album, it’s a trilogy of EP’s recorded at different times while Dico was promoting and touring for her Count To Ten album. 

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Mad props to Iceland…

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2469332728_4101920cfdI couldn’t have said it better. From TruthDig.com:

“Hats off to the Scandinavians, who continue to make the world’s progressives green with envy. Even as Iceland faces economic catastrophe, the volcanic island nation has made history by naming the world’s first (for the most part) openly gay national leader. Johanna Sigurdardottir will become prime minister. (The New York Daily News says Norway briefly had an openly gay man as prime minister.)

The family-values types can just relax. Sigurdardottir has been married to her female companion for seven years.”

Is Iceland Scandinavia, though?

Lily Allen is a “Fag Hag”

It’s Not Me, It’s You is on the review stand. The album’s not bad at all and it follows in suit of Alright, Still. The songs are fresh and cockney-accented, even if she is posh. This track is a b-side that maybe on some of the album editions across the world. I think it should have been a single not just because of the subject matter, but also because’s it’s a banging morning song with a wandering chorus.

The View clashes over Sarah Palin

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I am just laying back watching all the conservatives, whether here or there, squirm at this new progressive world. Why are we still talking about human rights violators like Sarah Palin. Elisabeth Hasselbeck claims that she was a great governor of the state of Alaska? Really, then why is Alaska the most corrupt state in the US? Why is she still whining. Stop being a media hag and go hunt a moose. People talk of her daughter’s pregnancy because she rambles on about conservative values and this came as a shock to all. Maybe, it’s freezing there now and she needs to warm things up.

Album Alert: A Different Me by Keyshia Cole

51lffozry2l_ss500_Album: A Different Me

Artist: Keyshia Cole

Released: A couple of days ago.

Singles: “Playa Cardz Right” and “You Complete Me”

Sound: Sultry soul with an attitude.

Listening Time: While making love.

Highlights: “You Complete Me” and “Brand New”

Loft965 Rating: B

Several new species found in Colombia…

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Ten new amphibian species have been found in the westernmost part of Colombia bordering Panama. This area is consdiered a safe have for amphibian living. These new discoveries of species keep popping a couple of times a year and it is always the usual suspects: the Amazon forest, The indonesian archipelago or Madagascar. So, maybe they should just have expeditions in these area and tally all the “new” species they found, some of which pre-date the human. Click for more picture:

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Video: “Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)” by Lady GaGa

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This was the standout track of the album on first listen. Good thing it got the singles treatment, even when it is meant for Australia and New Zealand alone. This will probably work it’s way up to be a single favorite. It sure is better than “Poker Face” and is very sing-along and summer-ready.