Don't forget- they're not just pushy and greedy. They can't write computer code either.>

They have an interesting pile of code linking everything together and combines in odd ways like you have found of their efforts,

if you need another circle for +google, I have one at https://plus.google.com/10327239878...

Mostly I use +google as a dumping ground for finding video links in the future, maybe not quite what they intended it to be used foryet it appears to work,

That reminds me that you reside in North Korea, as an English teacher. I have just found out this month that You Tube is apparently inundated by uploads of South Korean pop music (K-pop). So many of the teenagers in the Philippines like it so much that it's recorded in their cellphones. K-pop artists have held concerts here. So I decided to look it up in You Tube. I do not quite know what to make of it. South Koreans evidently like it, and I was shocked that so do quite a lot of North Americans. If I may ask, I would be guessing it's not popular at all in North Korea? What do you make of K-pop?

<we'll be braising a giant squid in fish sauce and washing it down with plenty of fish sauce wine.>

There are no foreign English teachers working in <North Korea>, it is a completely closed and homogeneous society.

In my opinion, <K-pop> is an abomination upon the earth. It simply rips off every single American pop-music creation of the last 50 years and re-presents it in the most simplified and soulless manner possible.

There is nothing "Korean" about it except for most of the lyrics are in Korean- although more and more English creeps in.

This is in direct contradistinction to "Bollywood" and "Bollyvideos" in which Indian pop music also borrows heavily from American sources- but mixes it with Indian culture. Indian dance, Indian dress, Indian instruments, and Indian music is combined with American pop music to make, arguably, the freshest pop music on the planet.

That said, jinx on your comment- I made the mistake of having an afternoon nap today after drinking 50 cups of coffee. I dreamed that North Korea had invaded South Korea. The good news was that foreign English teachers would not be killed. In fact they could keep their jobs. The bad news was we would have to work 18 hours a day instead of the current 12 hours a day I work in South Korea. Also, we would receive no money. Only some rice and a small communal apartment down by the industrial warehouses.

Oddly, despite the horror, I enjoyed life in this dream and upon waking, immediately became so nostalgic for it that I tried to fall back to sleep in order to dream the same dream.

You are so right about it not being intuitive though. I keep trying to join "circles" and I can't figure out how to do it. Do I have to be invited? The only links that come on the page seem to be for me to create circles, not join them.

How can I join your circle? Will you invite me?

<It simply rips off every single American pop-music creation of the last 50 years and re-presents it in the most simplified and soulless manner possible.>

That's true enough as far as I can see.

<This is in direct contradistinction to "Bollywood" and "Bollyvideos" in which Indian pop music also borrows heavily from American sources- but mixes it with Indian culture. Indian dance, Indian dress, Indian instruments, and Indian music is combined with American pop music to make, arguably, the freshest pop music on the planet.>

I downloaded every single <Wilco> record two weeks ago.

Astonishingly great band. I never knew they were from Chicago though.

And yes you are right, and I hadn't considered how heavy the Beatles influence was on <Wilco>.

Here is "Tomorrow Never Knows" for comparison purposes- now with Spanish subtitles in case <TD> or <chancho> forgot how to read English. Although they probably didn't:

Thank you for the TEN HOUR video!

Thanks for the "Shakin' Stevens" Christmas song.

Well Jess, they won't break my Christmas spirit! I have another Classic Christmas tune for you to enjoy anyway! ; P

Here's a great Christmas movie for you. Jess, I'm wishing you a very Merry Christmas this year!! ; )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz6G>...

That's a gorgeous song !