Music - "Route 66"

Nathaniel Adams Cole born in Montgomery, Alabama. He grew in Chicago and there he started to receive the Jazz influence by some friends, the same friends that he a few years later started to sing together in the trio called The King Cole Trio. Cole was the responsible to popularize a lot of music like “Mona Lisa” in 1950 and ”Unforgettable” in 1951.

Bobby Troup wrote the song “Route 66” and he was the original singer of this song. A lot of different singer re-recorder this song in some different styles. In 1942 this song was recorded by The King Cole Trio, making it a popular song in this year. Nat King Cole was the piano player in the trio and a few years later, in 1947, he recorded the “Route 66”as a solo singer.

The Route 66 is a very popular and historic route in the USA responsible to connect Chicago to Los Angeles. Maybe this road is the most famous road in the country and because this it is possible to find a lot of different things related to the road, like some music of different groups, movies and series for TV. I heard about this road in a song that I don’t remember the name, and after I saw this route in a movie where the characters just want to take their motorcycles and rode in this road enjoying the life. In Brazil, I saw a documentary, where a guy rent a Corvette and crossed this route filming the nature, the things around the route and the typical places that he found in his travel.

References

Song Facts (2014). Route 66 by Nat King Cole. Retrieved from http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2247

Song Places. Route 66. Retrieved from http://www.songplaces.com/Route_66/Route_66_Oklahoma

Dragon Ball Z and GT

In the last week I spoke about the cartoon Dragon Ball the first of three series of Dragon Ball Saga. After Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama created a new story to Goku and his friends, this new Saga was called Dragon Ball Z. In this new story, Goku and his friends faced a lot of different enemies, between them some of the most popular characters like Vegeta, Frieza, Cell and Majin Bu. This is the most popular Saga of the Dragon Ball story, where it is possible to find the most important and famous characters and the most exciting stories of the Saga. Dragon Ball Z had almost 300 episodes and was written in 1989 until 1996, being transmitted for a lot of different countries around the world. 

Related with the big success of the Saga Z of Dragon Ball, Akira developed a few movies with parallel stories that help to explain the main story of the cartoon or just gave for the fans another stories involving the principal characters in some big fights against new and strongest enemies. After the Saga Z of Dragon Ball, without Akira in the command, it was created the Saga Gt of Dragon Ball but this Saga did not make the same success of the Saga Z and lost the credibility with the fans.    

Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball is a cartoon created in 1986 by Akira Toriyama and his employees. This cartoon made a big success since it was created and passed in a lot of different countries. Dragon Ball told the history of a little child called Goku born in Vegeta planet. Goku is a Sayajin, one race that lived in the Vegeta planet and was exterminated by Freeza, a bad guy who conquest planets and made the population his slaves. When his planet was destroyed, Goku was throw for a distant planet called Earth and in this new planet he was created by a men who found that little boy in a spaceship and took him, going with the little Goku to his house. The old man that found Goku was Gohan, that created Goku like his son and gave for him one ball with four stars, this ball was a Dragon Ball and with six more like that, it is possible to call a big dragon who performs three wishes. After the dead of Gohan, the young Goku find a girl called Buma who was looking for the seven Dragon Balls and with Goku they stared to looking for other balls and in this mission, they found a lot of different enemies that like them, want the seven spheres to made them wishes real. 

Sugar cane and the alcohol

Sugar cane is one of the most important cultures produced in Brazil. This culture was introduced in the end of the 16-century in Brazil and started to be produced in the north west of the country, going down later for different places with better conditions for the cultivation. The sugar cane culture have a important place in Brazil and in the last years this place become more important than ever because the need of new types of fuel, called renewable fuels. The search for others types of fuel become a important issue in the world because the main form of fuel used in the present, the petroleum, is ending and with this it is really important to find another type of fuel that can be sustainable and renewable. The alcohol extracted by the sugar cane is one form of fuel very helpful and can be produced by the humans, and this production is made in the factories of cane process. This factories are responsible to process the sugar cane and in the end of this process, have the alcohol that can be used in a lot of different forms of vehicles and others devices. In Brazil, the state of Sao Paulo is one of the most important producers of sugar cane and one of the biggest producers of alcohol too, producing yet a lot of other products derivatives of sugar cane. In the quest of find new types of energy, each country have your own way to do this new font, like in the USA, they used the corn to extract the alcohol to use in different things, but this process is more expensive that the extraction of the sugar cane. It is really important find new forms of fuel to replace the traditional petroleum because it is a kind of fuel that has your days counted and the end with sure.