NENA - Wimsheim, Germany
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
So ist mein Leben, im Deutschland So this is my life, in Germany
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Tokio Hotel: Adored by Hair-Loving Fans, Inspired by Nena
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
It’s a cold, rainy Saturday in New Jersey, and hundreds of hoodie-clad teenyboppers are scrunched shoulder to shoulder in the Meadlowlands parking lot, screaming for Tokio Hotel. “Bill, I want to comb your hair!” shrieks a teen girl in the front row as the band — fronted by glammed-out singer Bill Kaulitz, 18, and his [...]
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Because my blogging hasn't been vapid enough today, an iTunes meme
impudent strumpet (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
Open up iTunes, if you have it (if not, improvise), and answer the following questions: How many total songs? 3207 songs, 41.2 days (I think the timing is wrong), 14.97 gigs Sort by song title - first and last Abandoned Masquerade - Diana Krall 99 Luftballons - Nena Sort by time - shortest and longest Shortest: Silence by Klaatu (really just the sound of a mouse getting caught in a mousetrap): 4 seconds...
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Lost in the ’80s: Nena
Popdose (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
German New Wave combo Nena secured their place in rock history with the one-hit wonderdom of “99 Luftballons” in 1984, but I’ve always been a bit of a sucker for the equally catchy follow-up, “Just A Dream” (download) (an English-language remake of a German hit titled “Nur Geträumt”). With its Blondie ambitions and playground [...]
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Baaoon Mama... Baaoon!
Law and Motherhood (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
99 dreams I have had In every one a red balloon It's all over and I'm standin' pretty In this dust that was a city If I could find a souvenir Just to prove the world was here And here is a red balloon I think of you and let it go -- 99 Red Balloons Nena Whenever I hear this song I think back to my youth, and get a sense of freedom and joy, an overwhelming desire to spin. That desire popped, much like...
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Video blog: Blue Sky Gazing
Up in Alaska (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
Date: April 18 and 19 Mileage: 48 and 13.7 April mileage: 437.6 Temperature: 34 and 29 So instead of typing about my weekend, I thought I'd make another video blog. This one also didn't turn out the way I imagined it. I strapped my "helmet cam" way too high, so all of the cycling shots are basically blue sky and treetops. But I sprinkled some clips in because they help break up the blathering (don't...
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Miliband’s 99 red balloons
Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Spotted at Harton Nook yesterday You can tell when Arsenal are playing away! South Shields MP and Foreign Secretary David Miliband was spotted at Harton Nook yesterday handing out 99 red balloons to locals, no doubt as part of the election campaign. I hope there were no over inflated Labour claims on the balloons, or little “gunner” [...]
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Random Friday #18
Leesa's Stories (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
Connections I was watching a YouTube video the other day, and although I rarely click their suggested videos, there was one by David Sedaris that looked interesting. Well, that led to one by Amy Sedaris, and then I wanted to see if the two were married, so I went on Google with Amy's name, and came up with an IMDB page for Amy, and the first movie on her list, Puberty: The Movie , where she plays the...
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Rumor Has It . . .
Little Miss Attila (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
that we were actually at war with our good friends the Germans in the mid-20th Century. Anyone know for sure? But if that were the case, we couldn't be allies with them now. Very confusing....
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Teddy's Retirement
Hammered (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
The Mail have an interesting story today entitled What happened in the world the year Teddy Sheringham scored his first professional goal for Millwall? In football Liverpool won the league, Southampton were runners-up and Chelsea and Newcastle were in Division Two. Liverpool also won the European Cup by beating Roma on penalties in Rome (Bruce Grobbelaar's famous "wobbly knees" display). West
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Come, Armageddon, Come
Her Bad Mother (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
I didn't realize, when Nena's '99 Red Balloons' first hit the radio, that it was about a nuclear accident. I thought that it was just about balloons. I was pretty young. But it wasn't long before the subject was something that my friends and I discussed at length, titillated and alarmed (it's about bombs? BOMBS!), as we huddled around the tetherball pole in the schoolyard (OMG THAT COULD HAPPEN,
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Nena: 99 Red Balloons
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
1983 music video by Nena, singing about an accidental nuclear war caused by a misinterpreted radar signal that misidentified balloons floating in the sky.
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One-Hit Wonders
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
Somebody made a list of the 50 Greatest One-Hit Wonders . Los Del Rio - Macarena (1996) Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby (1990) Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out? (2000) Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy (1991) Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen (1982) Joan Osbourne - One Of Us (1995) Nena - 99 Luftballons (1984) The Knack - My Sharona (1979) Meredith Brooks - Bitch (1997) Survivor - Eye of the Tiger (1982)...
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Weekend Genius Challenge #16 Winner!
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 01/22/2008
No one got a perfect score on Weekend Genius Challenge #16, but the first one to get 11 out of the 12 “ninety-nine” songs was Jake! So congratulations, Jake, we’ll be contacting you via email. Click here if you'd like to try your hand at the challenge, or jump ahead for the answers: #6 was the [...]
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When Amis went nuclear
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
His controversial work on Islamist terrorism is not the first time he's tackled a geopolitical threat head-on
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