Boris Johnson's infamous 'ping pong' speech at the London 2012 Hand-Over party after the end of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.For the really funny bits, fast-forward to 2.20.Boris- you are a true legend! [ More Detail ]
Is Boris Johnson just a harmless clown? Is he casually racist? Why is he always apologising (to Liverpool, Portsmouth, Papua New Guinea, Jeremy Paxman, Black People)? It doesn't matter - the key thing is that he just isn't fit to be mayor of london. Foundations by Kate Nash seemed the perfect backdrop to a situation we all wanted to avoid. Did you see Ken Livingstone's losing speech? He was so gracious, so committed to London. It demonstrated all that Boris lacks. However, as Ken said, our City is paramount. I hope beyond hope that things work out. I hope that David Cameron's minders run things well and keep BJ from gaffing his way to disaster. We can't turn back the clock; let's just cross our fingers and hope our City and its people will be ok. [ More Detail ]
Video for the first single "Think I Wanna Die" off of the new SSLYBY album Pershing, out April 8th on Polyvinyl Record Co. The video was directed by Grammy nominated director Israel Anthem and features the girls from the band Eisley.Check out the band at www.myspace.com/boris [ More Detail ]
JAIME GUEVARA, 18/MAYO/07: "Boris Vian para mi fue ante todo un cantautor, aunque para otras personas sea simplemente un literato. El fue una persona de múltiple obrar, hizo Literatura, Poesía, jazz. Él era trompetista, pianista, además comentarista de jazz y blues; y como si eso fuera poco hasta era ingeniero de puentes. Poca cosa. Y de yapa era cantautor. Él escribió una canción que fue prohibida, prohibidísima, de difundirse en los medios de comunicación; y él, sancionado con la privación de sus derechos de ciudadanía durante un tiempo. Esa canción es 'El Desertor'. Yo me he hecho una atrevida adaptación al español." [ More Detail ]
Al Jazeera's Stephen Cole talks to a man with one of the toughest jobs in politics - the Serbian president - about the future of Kosovo, finding indicted war crimes suspects, joining the EU and the battle to maintain peace in the Balkans. [ More Detail ]
BORIS DLUGOSCH presents BOOOM! "KEEP PUSHIN'". Classic house track from 1996 that still gets occasional club play today.-----------BRINGING 4GOTTEN TRAXXX BACK TO THE MASSES! We're posting audio versions of long-forgotten music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s for your listening pleasure. We tend to focus on songs or versions that either have no existing video or one that is not posted on YouTube, and/or are out-of-print, rare and difficult to find. WE PROVIDE THIS SERVICE FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE ONLY, any copying, reproducing or downloading is strictly prohibited. We do not trade or sell mp3s, so don't even ask. All of the items pictured come from private collections, and they are not for sale.Our purpose is to highlight songs that have been unjustly ignored over time, to reunite fans of these long-lost artists, and to hopefully generate enough renewed interest in these past classics to inspire the music industry to offer these songs for sale as legal downloads or reissue these them as compilations.ENJOY AND REMINISCE! [ More Detail ]
Arnold Schwarznegger was waiting to speak at the 2007 Conservative Party Conference via video link. Watching Boris Johnson speak before him, he commented "This guy is fumbling all over the place". Unfortunately for Boris, it was recorded. [ More Detail ]
Song: BorisArtist: The MelvinsAlbum: Bullhead(c) 1991 Melvins/BonerThe legend of the Melvins stretches over two decades and traces back to the beginnings of grunge and influencing many bands of the genre (although they were far from grunge in many ways). The Melvins run the gamut on genres playing anything from hardcore punk to adding ambient noise. With a revolving door of bassists, the band at its core is King Buzzo (Buzz Osbourne) and Dale Crover. This amazing track from the Bullhead album gave some headway into drone doom and even gave the Japanese genre-bending band Boris their name.The Melvins will continue blowing our minds and influencing the next up and coming generations of bands...raise your glasses and prepare to be wowed. [ More Detail ]
Boris has announced that's he's going to stand for the Conservative nomination to face Ken Livingstone in the fight for Mayor of London. He gave his first TV interview to 18DoughtyStreet.com, Britain's first internet-based political TV station based in Doughty Street where Boris used to have his office whilst Editor of the Spectator Magazine. [ More Detail ]
Boris Christoff (Bulgarian: Борис Христов) (May 18, 1914, Plovdiv, Bulgaria -- June 28, 1993, Rome, Italy) was a Bulgarian opera s Boris Christoff (Bulgarian: Борис Христов) (May 18, 1914, Plovdiv, Bulgaria -- June 28, 1993, Rome, Italy) was a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the greatest basses of the 20th century.Използвани са кадри от BTVChristoff demonstrated early his singing talent and sang as a boy at the choir of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia. In the late 1930s he graduated in law and started on a career as a magistrate. He, however, continued singing in his spare time in the Gusla Chorus in Sofia, achieving an enormous success as the chorus soloist in 1940. Thanks to a government grant, Christoff left in May 1942 for Italy where he was tutored for two years in the core Italian bass repertoire by Riccardo Stracciari.After several guest appearances and recitals in Austria in 1944 and 1945, Christoff returned to Italy in December 1945. He made his operatic debut as Colline in "La Boheme" at Reggio Calabria on March 12, 1946. The following years Christoff appeared in a number of roles at Milan's La Scala, Venice's La Fenice, the Rome Opera, Covent Garden in London, the opera theatres in Naples, Barcelona, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, etc.In 1950 he was invited to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York but was refused entry into the USA as a result of the McCarran Immigration Act, which banned citizens of the Soviet bloc countries from entering the country---the role was instead filled by the young Italian basso, Cesare Siepi. After the restrictions were loosened, Christoff made an operatic debut in the United States in 1956 at the San Francisco Opera. He refused any further invitations to the Metropolitan and never appeared there. After a brief absence from the scene due to brain tumour surgery in 1964, Christoff resumed his career in 1965, though at a much slower pace. In 1967 he was allowed to return to Bulgaria for the first time since 1945, for the funeral of his mother.In the 1970s Christoff on-stage performances were all but frequent. He brought his career to an end with a final concert at the Accademia di Bulgaria in Rome on June 22, 1986. He died in Rome in 1993 but his body was returned to Sofia's Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, where he was given a state funeral.With his matchless stage presence and strong dramatic temperament, Christoff emerged as a worthy heir to the grand tradition of Slavonic basses. He sang mostly in Verdi and the Russian repertoire, although he also proved to be a refined performer of vocal chamber music. Among his most famous roles were those of Tsar Boris (Mussorgsky - "Boris Godunov"), Philipp II (Verdi - "Don Carlo"), Mephistopheles (Gounod - "Faust" &Boito - "Mephistopheles"), Ivan Susanin (Glinka - "La vita per lo zar"), Zaccaria (Verdi - "Nabucco"), Tsar Ivan (Rimsky-Korsakov - "Ivan Le Teribile"), Dosifei (Mussorgsky - "Khovanshchina"), Gomez da Silva (Verdi - "Ernani"), Fiesco (Verdi - "Simon Boccanegra"), Attila (Verdi - "Attila"), Padre Guardiano (Verdi - "La forza del destino"), Galitzky and Kontchak (Borodin - "Prince Igor") and others. Boris Christoff made standards in most roles that sang on stage. He also has an enormous discography - studio recordings of 8 operas ("Don Carlo" and "Boris Godunov" twice each) and numerous live recordings (radio or stage performances). He was much admired as song singer and he recorded more 200 Russian songs by Mussorgsky (all his 63 songs - no one did this before), Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka, Borodin, Cui, Balakirev as well as traditional songs. Most of these songs are with piano accompaniment and are among the best of all his recordings.A grand performer on stage, Christoff had difficult off-stage relations with fellow singers and producers, which sometimes grew into public scandals. In 1955 he fell out with Maria Callas during the performances of Medea at the Rome Opera and in 1961 his contract with La Scala was terminated after an open conflict with fellow Bulgarian Nicolai Ghiaurov whom Christoff blamed for collaborating with the Bulgarian communist regime [ More Detail ]
Monsieur le PrésidentJe vous fais une lettreQue vous lirez peut-êtreSi vous avez le tempsJe viens de recevoirMes papiers militairesPour partir à la guerreAvant mercredi soirMonsieur le PrésidentJe ne veux pas la faireJe ne suis pas sur terrePour tuer des pauvres gensC'est pas pour vous fâcherIl faut que je vous diseMa décision est priseJe m'en vais déserterDepuis que je suis néJ'ai vu mourir mon pèreJ'ai vu partir mes frèresEt pleurer mes enfantsMa mère a tant souffertElle est dedans sa tombeEt se moque des bombesEt se moque des versQuand j'étais prisonnierOn m'a volé ma femmeOn m'a volé mon âmeEt tout mon cher passéDemain de bon matinJe fermerai ma porteAu nez des années mortesJ'irai sur les cheminsJe mendierai ma vieSur les routes de FranceDe Bretagne en ProvenceEt je dirai aux gens:Refusez d'obéirRefusez de la faireN'allez pas à la guerreRefusez de partirS'il faut donner son sangAllez donner le vôtreVous êtes bon apôtreMonsieur le PrésidentSi vous me poursuivezPrévenez vos gendarmesQue je n'aurai pas d'armesEt qu'ils pourront tirer [ More Detail ]