JACK JOHNSON

Jack Hody Johnson was born in May 18, 1975 near Haleiwa, on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Musican, singer, songwriter and surfer. His success started in 2001 with his debut album Brushfire Fairytales. His music is best described as acoustic/soft rock.

Jack Johnson son of one of the most famous surfers in the island, Jeff Johnson, naturally started surfing at a young age, having practically learned to surf at the same time qe leraned to walk, the man has grown up on his board. At the age 9, he won a surf even and scored a sponsorship with Quiksilver and who seemed to be the start of a professional route. Jack started surfing the universally revered Pipeline at the age 10. By 17, he made the finals at the Pipe trials, becoming the youngest person ever to be at th most prestigious surfing event: Pipeline Masters. Unfortunately, Jack suffered a near death experience at age 17 after crashing his body into the reef during the Pipeline Masters.

After his accident, while recovering, he get interested in filmmaking and soon became a surf film director, photographer, producer and score composer. He recived a praise for his surf cinema ducumentary, Thicker Than Water (1999) wich won the Surfer Magazine Poll award for best film of the year.

Jack Johnson also began writing songs during his college years, having played the guitar since 14 and being brought up with influences such as Nick Drake, Ben Harper, the Beatles, Bob Marley, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and A Tribe Called Quest.

One day, inpiration arrived and Jack ended the day recodring "Rodeo Clowns", it became the first single from the album. His four-track demo caught Ben Haprer's ; J.P Plunier, who worked with Jack on his debut album Brushfire Fairytales. Since then he hasn't stop.

Personally I think that the best album is "In Between Dreams". In this album is the song Sitting, waiting, wishing. That is one of the most beautiful song ever :)

Nowadays he has 4 albums :

- Brushfire Fairytales (2001)

-On & On (2003)

- In Between Dreams (2005)

-Sleep Through The Static (2008)

--> this is a Pipeline

Marina Porcel :)

hawaii by brenleutgeb

Here is some information about the history of hawaii because is a place that i like very much. i wish i go some day.

Hawaii's history in story and legend is ancient and proud, dating back at least a thousand years before American colonies became a nation in 1776. It is highly unlikely that the exact date when Polynesian people first set foot on these previously uninhabited islands will ever be known, nor much details about events occurring between that date and the first contact with Europeans.
The Hawaiians were a people without writing, who preserved their history in chants and legends. Much of the early history has disappeared with the death of the kahunas and other learned men whose function it was to pass on this knowledge, by means of chants and legends, to succeeding generations.
Modern Hawaiian history begins on January 20, 1778, when Captain James Cook's expedition made its first contact with the Hawaiian people on the islands of Kauai and Niihau. Captain Cook was not the first man to "discover" the Hawaiian Islands. He was the first known European to arrive.
The language of Hawaii and archaeological discoveries indicate that Hawaii was settled by two distinct waves of Polynesian migration. Cook himself knew that the original Polynesian discoverers had come from the South Pacific hundreds of years before his time. First, from the Marquesas, came a settlement as early as 600 or 700 AD, and then from the Society Islands, another migration about 1100 AD. Lacking instruments of navigation or charts or any kind, the Polynesians sailed into vast oceans. They staked their knowledge of the sky and its stars, the sea and its currents, the flight of birds and many other natural signs. They were superior seamen of their time.


brenleutgeb :D

History of Snowboarding

Hi!!! I hope you are having a good holiday. I go to Catedral everyday to snowboarding and I have fun with my frineds. I think that Snowboard is one of the best sports so I'm going to tell you the history of this Sport.

Snowboarding was invented only about 35 years ago. In 1963 a man named Tom Sims made a snowboard out of plywood. He was in eighth grade and he did this in his shop class. He called it a ski board. He later formed a company that makes many snowboards.
Another snowboard inventor is Sherman Poppen. In 1965 Poppen designed a snowboard called a snurfer. To make it Sherman had bolted two skis together. He attached a rope to help the rider keep his balance and steer.
In 1979 Jake Burton Carpenter started making snowboards out of fiberglass. He also added bindings to help control the board easier. In the 1980's they started adding steel edges to the sides of the snowboard. They also invented bindings with high backs to help control when snowboarding on hard packed snow.
Snowboarding becomes more popular every year. At first a lot of ski resorts would not let snowboarders use their slopes. Now there are only a few that won't let snowboarders in. In 1996 there were about two million snowboarders. By the year 2000 there will be about 4 million people who snowboard and I think that now there are more than 4 million.

If you have the opportunity, please try it... is very fun!

Bye!

the beatles (the best :P)

the beatles :)

The beatles

The Beatles (1960-1970), were an English musical group from Liverpool, and are usually regarded as the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful popular music artists in history.The innovative music and style of John Lennon (1940–1980), Paul McCartney (1942—), George Harrison (1943–2001), and Ringo Starr (1940—) helped to define the 1960s.The Beatles were the best-selling popular musical act of the 20th century. In the United Kingdom alone, they released more than 40 different singles and albums.The Beatles' impact extended well beyond their music. Their clothes, hairstyles, and statements made them trend-setters from the 1960s to this day.The Beatles appeared in several films, most of which were very well received.
I like very much this band beacause is very funny and they've written beatifulls songs like "let it be" , "something" , "yesterday" and more..

A little bit of Fito's life- Free post- by nacho

Rodolfo "Fito" Páez Ávalos, was born in March 13, 1963 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province. He is an popular Argentine rock and roll pianist, lyricist, Spanish language singer and film director.

He formed "Staff", his first band when he was 13. In 1977, he played in "El Banquete" with Rubén Goldín and Jorge Llonch. He began to appear solo in pubs the following year.

Straight out of high school, he began touring with several bands and soon after that he produced his first solo album, "Del '63", which was released in 1984. The disc won him critical acclaim as a songwriter and helped lead to future projects, including a 1985 album, "Giros".

The demo of that album earned him the praise of Luis Alberto Spinetta, as well as a partnership -- Paez's next album, 1986's "La La La" was a duet with Spinetta. The duo supported that album with a tour that reached all the way to Santiago, Chile. The same year, he participated in the Thousand Days of Democracy festival with Spinetta, Juan Carlos Baglietto, Silvina Garré and Antonio Tarragó Ros.

His 1987 recording, "Ciudad de Pobres Corazones", marked a dark turn for his work. It was dedicated to the memory of his aunt and grandmother, who were murdered in Rosario. The album was made with anger, but it was also more rhythmic and showed greater songwriting depth than his previous recordings.

After serveral albums like "Ey!", which was released in 1988 and "Tercer Mundo"(1990), "El Amor Después del Amor" in 1992 marked the pinnacle of his commercial success. The album sold more than 750,000 copies and when Paez toured to support it, he found himself playing to sold-out shows for 40,000 people. Shortly after its release, he played a benefit concert for UNICEF which raised more than $420,000.

The follow-up, "Circo Beat", had impossibly high expectations and though it had several hit songs, including "Mariposa Tecknicolor" and "Tema de Piluso," as well as a companion album, "Circo Beat Brazil", which featured Brazilian remixes of its hits, it only sold around 350,000 copies.

Several other projects were completed in the late '90s, including a live album, "Euforia" and 1998's "Sabina & Paez: Enemigos Intimos", with Joaquín Sabina. The year 1999 brought another balanced, superbly produced album, "Abre". He also took home two Grammys at the first annual Latin Grammy Award in fall 2000.

Paez' 2003 album "Naturaleza sangre" marks a return to his musical past, featuring appearances from Charly García, Luis Alberto Spinetta and Brazilian artist Rita Lee on the previously unreleased version of "Ojos Rojos".

The album "El Mundo Cabe en una Canción" won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Solo Vocal Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2007.

In 2007 he released his newest album called "Rodolfo", he recorded it at home with nothing else that his voice and his piano.

He also has directed film productions such as "Vidas privadas"(2001), "¿De quién es el portaligas?"(2007)


By Nacho

Post Nº 4: Free post

The search for the source of the Nile.
The Nile River has always been the most famous and the less comprised one of Africa. The Egyptian civilization had bloomed at its shore, but the river itself was always a mystery to them. Where was its source? And why did it overflow every year? According to the legend, there was a mountain range called “The Mountains of the moon” that fed the Nile with water. Actually, the Nile is divided in two branches, the western one, the White Nile, was a mystery. In the middle of the nineteenth century, some explorers followed the White Nile (from north to south) through a great swamp, called As-Sudd (barrier). A little bit southern, some missioners heard rumors about an inner see that flowed into the White Nile.
These stories fascinated the explorers Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke. Together they traveled to the interior from Zanzibar to study the Lake Tanganyika in 1856. On his way back, Speke went up north and saw “a lake so bright that you couldn’t see the other shore and so long, that no one knows its length”. It was the Ukerewe Lake, the second largest fresh water lake.
Sure that he had found the source of the Nile, John Speke called him Lake Victoria (after the Queen). But Burton did not believe him and they both went back to England, being big enemies.
Speke went back to Africa in 1860, together with James Grant. They traveled throughout the western coast of Lake Victoria and found a cascade in the north edge. There Speke wrote his phrase: “the old Father Nile doubtlessly begins in Victoria”.
They continued to the north, followed the river where they could and arrived to Juba, in Sudan (the point up to where the Nile had been tracked from north to south).
Burton never accepted the claims of Speke and both decided to present their arguments in a public debate in 1864. But the day of the debate Speke died in a hunting-trip accident. He was right, Lake Victoria is the source of the White Nile, but this wasn’t proved until 1877, when the British general Charles George Gordon outlined the map of the river.

John Hanning Speke.

Richard Francis Burton.

Routes taken by the expeditions of Burton and Speke (1857-1858) and Speke and Grant (1863).

-->If you are interested in the subject, watch the film “Mountains of the moon” (“Montañas de la luna”)

Marco