Historically, women were not allowed to perform opera so the women's parts were always performed by pre-pubescent boys. It may be that traditional opera training limits the curriculum for boys to women's parts until they are older. He might also consider some martial arts training to balance his vocal training, though.:)

Blind guitarist should hook up with Bill Clements, the one-handed bass player. (Warning: extreme talent)

Damn, UT. Think of all the things you could be doing with the other hand. :mg:

With that hand? Like what? Crushing a can? :lol:

But damn cool playing

I don't understand. What's he plucking the strings with?

His (only) left hand.

He could probably fit a pick to the prostethis, but that wouldn't be as cool.

But what about when he has a fingering that requires his pinky to go down? Is his pinky always plucking and it just looks like it's pressing down on the strings?

When you push down or "fret" the string fast and hard enough, it will ring the string a little without having to pluck it. It's known as "hammering on". This guy has a bandanna around the top of the neck so the strings don't vibrate unless he's doing that. So he can turn up and get the most out of the hammer on.

My fingers are tired just from watching that. Leet shredding skills. If he could figure out a way to get a little more attack on the notes, he'd be better than 90% of all bassists, and with only half the arms. He's still better than most. Kinda makes me feel like a dolt for not practicing.

I just saw the blind guitarist


:eek:

I have a hard time with some of that stuff playing with my eyes open and my hand where it's "supposed" to be. I *still* suck at sweep picking. Damn. Back to the woodshed.

BTW, why do blind guitarists play with their hands upside down?

I was wondering that for awhile, then I was wondering why everybody else doesn't? :bass:

I can't see either video from work, but I am aware of an amazing blind guitarist, Jeff Healy (he's rather well known in fact, not the least of reasons being his appearance in "Roadhouse", the Patrick Swazey barfight movie). He plays with the axe flat on his lap, plucking with one hand and fretting with the other. It is a much more traditionally percussive sort of technique, akin to hammering-on ala Stanley Jordan, but with plucking thrown in as well.

Talent pisses me off. People who have it piss me off even more. :lol:

A quick tour of Paris
 

fasten your seatbelts and place your tray table in the upright and locked position
Hang a left at the Louvre

some pigeons may have been harmed in the making of this film:eek:

Damn, that was stupid and dangerous and juvenile and sooooo cooooool.:D

Outstanding!

*clap clap clap*

Fucking cool.

I would love to see that same run done by a pro rally driver.

or a pro F1 driver with a better car ,

Though it looks like need for speed with traffic ,
WAAAAAAAY COOL !!!!


I would SOOOOO Love to do this !!!!

Incidentally, it seems that the director <a href="http://www.chasecam.com/rendezvous/automobilereview.html">admitted to being the driver</a>, and it wasn't really a Ferrari, but <a href="http://www.geocities.com/oflint/index.html">his own Mercedes</a>, though with Ferrari sounds dubbed over. (You can tell the soundtrack is edited together if you listen carefully.) Also, here's an interesting <a href="http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2005/Rendezvous.shtml">analysis of speed</a>.

Thanks for the links, Ken! An interesting story...

I didn't watch this through to the end, but I saw enough of it to know that it is the same film that my brother in law brought home from the library back in the early 80's on a 16mm film. At the end, the driver gets out of the car and goes up to meet a girl (apparently, that was tossed in to give the appearance that there had been a reason for the hot ass driving through Paree, and end the film with a little giggle). Did that occur in the linked version?

yes

Leprechaun apparition in Alabama

I guess the Virgin Mary was busy elsewhere.

Yeah, on ebay. :D

Titanic 2. How cool is this? ;)

That's weird...... our government actually trying to track down an illegal alien.:eyebrow:

Funny Honda Element commercial.

Paris vid==way cool. :thumbsup:

Here are a few links of other vehicular mayhem. Warning. They're fascinating to watch and all, but heavy. People die. Or if not die, then are maimed. Or at least soil themselves. But I think some die. I practically soiled myself watching.

Crash Compilation #1

Crash Compilation #2

Crash Compilation #3 (warning: Crazy Frog0

Crash Compilation #4 (same warning)

Actually, there are tons of these videos. zomg.

my favorite of all of em was in the 4th compilation (i hate that frog though), where the bicyclist tried to push the other one over. They both fell, and then one of the bystanders pwned the pusher.

Anyone who stands along the side of the road during a rally is just asking to be killed.

Oh somewhere i saw a crash compilation video with a guy ona dirtbike flying up a ramp, at the apogee of his flight he kicks his legs back, tucks them in again and lands inside his van which was parked next to his landing ramp. You see the van lurch forward a bit.

I can't remember which of the 8 trillion video sites it was on.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/121835/what_can_go_wrong/

HA! I'm brilliant! I bookmarked it. the guy w/ the dirtbike is the third crash. There are some intense ones.

safe for work
 

the dangers of changing tires....
beep beep!!

ouch

see ya

"All-time greatest on-air proposal"

(audio nsfw)

:rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

It gets funnier as you go through. And no one gets hurt!

NSFW Language/profanity
 

The Spirit of Truth
Perform a search on youtube for "the Spirit of Truth". Cut that bitch off.....BIOTCH

SonfoV says Legend of Zelda We Are The Champions ROCKS!

Surely there is something in Leviticus that prohibits this.

The irony of the song chosen by the Chosen People struck me only in retrospect.

Politically incorrect 50/60 year old cartoons. :D

Okay...that was insane. And great.

Baghdad ER

Darth Juggle

You would have to kill me

Something kinda' hot about that cute redhead all covered with Pepsi... I need help.

who remembers potato cannons?

ahh, no regrets for my youth.

Remembers? I have one. :D

eepybird, funny as hell!

I want to see the video of one of those idiots in the church parking lot spike one and have it launch *back at* him.

The Incredible Machine! Rube Goldberg would be proud.

Wow, theat was amazing. When I was in college one of my techers gave us an assignment the first day of class to build a "golfball machine" where balls numbered one through six had to be set loose simultaneously and arrive at the other end of the machine in a new order, something like 3,1,6,5,2,4.
The machine had to reset itself so it could go a second time without any adjustments. He gave us two days to be finished.

After we had our designs figured out and built, it still took hours of finessing to get the things to work every time.

I bet that video represents months of work. Really astounding too, the use of everyday objects, books as ramps, etc.

I'd like to see the discovery channel program on that one. Obviously the person who built it doesn't have access to the cellar.

who remembers potato cannons?

We used to make Tennis ball cannons , we had to stop when we got the bright Idea of sorking a tennis ball in Karoseen over nite " It will look SOOOO F'n COOL flying thru the air !!!"
It did untill it rolled under that parked car :eek:

Oh yeah! TRACERS gotta love it.

At my father in law's ashes scattering service we gave him a 21 gun potato cannon salute. After the first few my wife felt the novelty had worn thin...

I thought it was glorious.

21 gun potato cannon salute

You should have made a 7 shooter and had friends help you reload !!!

fucking ESTES model rockets!

Why didn't I have access to black powder???

I am so into these as soon as the inchling is old enough. We're in farm country now, this is where I grew up:

That was soooo cool!