Update plus some music and videos which make me laugh, when feeling bad

I will share a bit of music and some videos I have been wrapped up in lately. Please read ongoing updates on every day life here

My skin is doing fairly good, as long as I stay cool. Bicycle rides have made me very flushed lately, I guess due to the summer weather, so I stick with walks which are less strenuous. I speak to a couple of other rosaceans and we all seem to deal and struggle with the same things. When your skin flares and it's all in the dumps, you focus on getting through it and have this tunnel feeling, but once thing go a little bit better again, you feel how bored you can be and all the things you miss out on due to lifestyle restrictions. One wrote me; "what will happen if my rosacea stays for life? I will go mad. After rosacea I lost everything; health, money, social life, everything." But I know so many who struggle with this as well; how to live with rosacea? The better my skin is, the easier it is, but that seems an open door almost. 

Beautiful European ballet, from the late Pina Bausch with music from Balanescu (Aria) on anxiety and fear

   

I try to post both the direct youtube link to these videos, as well as upload the separate videos on here, as very often I am looking back at old posts only to find the original youtube video I enclosed no longer exists! Or was made private. And here is for something else: I challenge you to have a look at Patrick the wombat and keep a straight face :) Wouldn't it be a good one if you'd ask friends if they feel like taking over a guinea pig, the one your kid/niece/parent is tired of looking after, and then showing up with this :) I saw some wombats when I was in Australia, but never this big, awww. 

First I saw this very touching short French animation yesterday. It's about mental illness and schizophrenia. "91cm is not a long distance. But what if your hole world shifted 91cm? How will you face it?"

This video always makes me feel good and I must have already watched it a few dozen times :)
This is an Aussie band, they are very kitsch lol, but the clip, I can't stop smiling when I see the clip. They are from Melbourne and the clip is from 2012 but they shot it as if it is a 60's type of post war Soviet video and then promoted it as such. There were online discussions in Russia from music connoisseurs whether or not it was really a long lost soviet video or not  Some thought it was!! Others thought their accents don't sound Russian enough and fairly so. Anyway, love reading stuff related to the Great wars and love parody and silly dances, so this one is just for laughs and crazy surrealistic fun  The song itself starts after a propaganda build up of about 1 minute

   

This is a video where two guys do a dance routine called Popping. Always love watching it:

   

Also saw this great video from David on evolution, collective learning and the history of our planet:

   

I also watched at least a dozen times this great music video made by Sia

Such a nice song but also, what a great young dancer (Maddie Ziegler)! Sia is an Australian songwriter, who deals with an auto immune disease as well Graves disease), she has borderline, deals with depression and alcoholism and she writes poppy hits like Rihanna's Diamonds. But here she sings her own song and its about alcoholism. The girl dancing in it is 11, she comes from an American dance show called Dance Moms, I think she is magnifying. My youngest sister used to look just like that btw as a kid, the same blonde hair cut and also dancing and fooling around like that, its like going back in time. So this dance choreography is matched to the lyrics, the kid is home alone a lot, parents fighting, alcohol abuse, she fakes everything is ok and then has to live all by herself most of the time. "1,2,3 1,2,3 DRINK". This is 'art' to me too actually, although there will always be men who make scruffy comments about a pre-adolescent kid in a ballet costume of course. I find it so endearing, the girl, Maddie Ziegler, dancing the way she does, doing such an impressive adult like edgy choreography. Such emotions she put into it. Something that interested me a lot is that Sia chooses to not perform with her face to the camera often. Neither in interviews (although there are some where she does). I understood that it might have to do with the Graves disease ageing her prematurely, or maybe that she wants to keep the mystique up If I had to perform some day with my rosacea I would surely have copied her solution; here she performs the song live at Ellen's, with her face towards the wall. And below there I added two parody videos of Chandelier, or they are probably more tributes than parodies haha.

   

   

Eddie the Eagle

Another crazy video is from a British ski jumper called Eddie the Eagle. He was pretty bad at it and a pretty colorful character too (including dated glasses and funny faces). Always makes me laugh too.
Update, the original parody/tribute video of Eddie was removed from youtube unfortunately I now see, perhaps in light of the later movie that was recently made of him. Anyway, I found another good tribute and I will ensure I also upload the video itself so that whatever later happens on youtube, the video will also be still visible here. And also a trailer for the movie that they made out of his wonderful career.

   

   

   

 

Football bloopers

I also feel a bit better when I watch football (soccer for the Americans among us) penalties going wrong :) 

   

Wedding guest blooper

 

German delights

My dad and I used to have a big laugh whenever we watched typical German music, called Schlagers. It is dead serious for them, but a music genre that makes us laugh. Jolly, would be a word to describe it, colgate smiles, exuberantly happy and sleek. Delicious to watch for a little bit and very difficult for me to not smile when I watch this one for instance:

   

British humour

Little Britain is a British sketch/comedy program. Here are 2 examples:

   

  

   

   

   

And Eddie Izzard on Engelbert Humperdinck:

   

And then some more of this and that

   

      

   

   

   

   

   

Tous les Soleils

And there is a movie which I really liked, it is called Tous les Soleils and made after a book by the French author Philippe Claudel. It is both funny and touching. Deals about an Italian father of a kid living in France and his wife passed away and he is trying to rebuild his life. Has a crazy roommate (seriously funny, think Kramer from Seinfeld) and he sings in a choir. It is a sweet little movie with some good music. This song is in the movie, it is the Tarantelle