No matter how many times I listen to this song, it still melts me every single damn time.
Summer 78 (Instrumental).mp3
Thursday, April 9, 2009
To add the warmth
Summer 78 (Instrumental).mp3
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Celebrate Today...
It's Buddha's Birthday! But only in Japan!!
Apparently Buddha's Birthday is ALWAYS celebrated on April 8th in Japan, but that isn't true for the rest of the world, so we get to celebrate multiple times throughout each year!
The official holiday for Buddha's Birthday in China and Korea is on May 2nd and it's usually celebrated throughout the whole week... And in India, they usually celebrate the whole month! So Happy Buddha's Bday month!!
In Japan, the festivities are based around flowers and the Japanese pour a prepared beverage over Buddha covered in flowers, like bathing a newborn baby.
In Korea, the people fill the temples with Lotus Lanterns for the entire month! The lanterns usually flow into the streets and temples provide the visitors with free meals.
In India, the birth of Buddha is usually celebrated the entire month in the Buddhist calendar. They tend to keep their celebrations more calm and serene, the very nature of Buddha.
So pick your country, or pick them all, and let the festivities begin in whichever way you choose. We can all learn a little something from Buddha, if not a lot... get to know yourself and live a happy, peaceful life.
-lauren//milkmouth
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Death...*_*
In light of our latest obsession , Six Feet Under, which EVERYONE should get into, I thought it appropriate to post this list of neat things you did not know about death that I read today on Discovermagazine.com...Check it and tell us which are your favorite!
1 The practice of burying the dead may date back 350,000 years, as evidenced by a 45-foot-deep pit in Atapuerca, Spain, filled with the fossils of 27 hominids of the species Homo heidelbergensis, a possible ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans.
2 Never say die: There are at least 200 euphemisms for death, including "to be in Abraham's bosom," "just add maggots," and "sleep with the Tribbles" (a Star Trek favorite).
3 No American has died of old age since 1951.
4 That was the year the government eliminated that classification on death certificates.
5 The trigger of death, in all cases, is lack of oxygen. Its decline may prompt muscle spasms, or the "agonal phase," from the Greek word agon, or contest.
6 Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. Ruptured cells become food for living bacteria in the gut, which release enough noxious gas to bloat the body and force the eyes to bulge outward.
7 So much for recycling: Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid—formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol—into the soil each year. Cremation pumps dioxins, hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into the air.
8 Alternatively . . . A Swedish company, Promessa, will freeze-dry your body in liquid nitrogen, pulverize it with high-frequency vibrations, and seal the resulting powder in a cornstarch coffin. They claim this "ecological burial" will decompose in 6 to 12 months.
9 Zoroastrians in India leave out the bodies of the dead to be consumed by vultures.
10 The vultures are now dying off after eating cattle carcasses dosed with diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory used to relieve fever in livestock.
11 Queen Victoria insisted on being buried with the bathrobe of her long-dead husband, Prince Albert, and a plaster cast of his hand.
12 If this doesn't work, we're trying in vitro! In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and parade them around the village in a ceremony called famadihana. The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied. The old shroud is given to a newly married, childless couple to cover the connubial bed.
13 During a railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies unearthed so many mummies that they used them as fuel for locomotives.
14 Well, yeah, there's a slight chance this could backfire: English philosopher Francis Bacon, a founder of the scientific method, died in 1626 of pneumonia after stuffing a chicken with snow to see if cold would preserve it.
15 For organs to form during embryonic development, some cells must commit suicide. Without such programmed cell death, we would all be born with webbed feet, like ducks.
16 Waiting to exhale: In 1907 a Massachusetts doctor conducted an experiment with a specially designed deathbed and reported that the human body lost 21 grams upon dying. This has been widely held as fact ever since. It's not.
17 Buried alive: In 19th-century Europe there was so much anecdotal evidence that living people were mistakenly declared dead that cadavers were laid out in "hospitals for the dead" while attendants awaited signs of putrefaction.
18 Eighty percent of people in the United States die in a hospital.
19 If you can't make it here . . . More people commit suicide in New York City than are murdered.
20 It is estimated that 100 billion people have died since humans began.
-tiana
[article by: LeeAundra Temescu From the September 2006 issue, published online September 1, 2006]
Reach for the Stars...
Just like this hand-shaped nebula!How incredible is this image? It was just captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
and I can't stop staring at it!
The shape of the nebula formed due to the pulsar's extremely rapid rotation and it's "fingers" seem to be giving off tons of energy, maybe even to the gas cloud it's reaching for.
Man, outer space is so incredibly beautiful and just plain badass!
-lauren//milkmouth
[facts and photo acquired by www.nationalgeographic.com]
Sandwich Art
Another incredible meal...Crusty french bread, spicy grain mustard, Lauren's homemade garlic mayo, turkey, cheese, and farmers market tomatoes, spinach, onions, and avocado.
Seriously, one of the most incredible sandwiches ever; it will make your mouth and body go wild. And so fun to make as well!
Hope I got someone salivating.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Make Us Feel That
A fucking beautiful day with so many reasons to feel good...
03 BLACKALICIOUS - MAKE YOU FEEL THA 1.mp3
leche y amor
tiana
Best Feel, Purest Form
It definitely looks strange, but it's made out of roasted cocoa pods and plantain skin ashes, which are mixed with palm oil and water.
This blend makes a delicate, chunky soap that foams up with the smallest amount. We paid $1 for a sample, which we shared, and it lasted for about 3 months!
African Black Soap can be used from head to toe, but we both think it's best used as a facial soap.
It's known to clear up blemishes and acne, relieve itchy skin and scalp, and completely rejuvenates the skin. It's even been known to help with fine lines and aging!
Apparently there are plenty of sites to buy this soap on, however we get it from www.pureessencebodycare.com/blacksoap.html
You can also check your local farmer's markets to see what kind of all natural soaps are available in your area. Find one you love? Tell us about it!! milkmouthit@gmail.com
Warning: After you wash your skin with this soap, you will not be able to stop touching it!!
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