Movie Monday: Battle of the Vid Apps

As I progress through my Ph.D., I keep my 📱iPhone📱 on ✈️Airplane Mode📳 more frequently, so I don’t 📴call, text or use wifi.

• D is for: DISPO * Dissertation * hopeful Doctor🎓
• D DON’Ts are for: Disturbances * Distractions🚫

While I ✨concentrate, I still play background 👂🏽noise, but I don’t always rely on my online📻 🎧music or 🎬videos. Sometimes I also stray away from my own played-out 💽collection…

My DVDs🎥 and digital videos📹 to the rescue! 👌🏽

During my study sessions📚 or school road 🚘trips or any foreseeable 🚀flights, I’d prefer to play a movie straight from my phone without needing an online signal, like some video application programs promise.

Not all of them have worked 🔇offline, though…

M-GO (e.g., 💃🏻Selena🎤)

• Pros: can play online
• Cons: loads⏳ and returns to 🏡home🏠 screen without playing at all offline 👎

 Vimeo (e.g., Everything Before Us)

• Pros: sometimes plays online and offline
• Cons: load delays or no-plays from some computer browsers (I have 🌎Internet🌎 🌏Explorer, Mozilla🔥 🐺Firefox, Google Chrome, 🍎Apple🍏 Safari) and phone☎️ app 😁

Amazon Instant Video (e.g., 👙Toned Up)

• Pros: always plays = 😅happy camper⛺️ (hey, maybe I even can watch while camping without wireless connection!)
• Cons: none whatsoever … Sharp, beautiful motion pictures on the screen every single time ~ no loading shown!  👏🏽

After several attempts for the first two apps, I’m still not satisfied with them. Fortunately, Amazon‘s app has consistently come to not disappoint! 👊🏽

Throwback Thursday: ¡Feliz Cumplé Selena!

🎈Happy🎁 🎂Birthday🍰 to the late and great Selena ~ the sweet and soulful Tejano 🎼songstress🎤 who was 👼slain💐 20 years ago.

Throwback Thursday: My H.S. 💃Spanish🎋 📗textbook📖 cover, in which I sketched my favorite Latinas ~ including 🎼Selena🎤 (bottom right)

I visited her shrine when it was new and again recently, plus have the 💽film📺 about her life saved on my 📳iPhone 6+📲 ~ so I watched it again on my latest 🎬Movie Day🎥

• One thing that I caught this time that I didn’t observe the first few times I watched it several years ago was a scene portraying the young 🎸Selena y los Dinos’🎹 struggle in Harlingen ~ the last city where I lived when I taught en el Valle!

J-Lo as ♫Selena♪

            ♥Selena♥ Candle Vigil & Montage                          

                  

        

Soul Saturday: ¡Viva Selena!

Honoring Selena almost 20 years since her death (following my initial visit shortly after this shrine was built)

The end of this ♣March♣ marks two decades since our ☼Mother Earth☼ lost the late great ♥Selena Quintanilla-Pérez♥ …

Selena‘s spirit graces the shores of Corpus Christi, Texas

Yet this †legend† lives on as she leads her ✌legacy✌ through her ♪song♫!

Selena Immortalized

Her eternal beauty and sweet ♫voice♪ plus warm ♥heart♥ have gone immortal …

Selena, although short-lived on Earth, made her mark in ♪music♫ history

Selena‘s iconic style has inspired:

• dark lip color to accentuate smile ~ *besos*
• white crop tops for bare midriffs
• denim vests or leather motos for layered looks
• high-waist jeans and spandex to appear slim and trim
• halter dresses to show off shoulders

Selena‘s single, ♪I Could Fall in Love♫, among other soulful tracks, drew countless crowds to fall in ♥love♥ with her as she reigns from †Heaven†

¡Siempre Selena! ~ Selena always will hold a special place in our ♥hearts♥ ~ she definitely is ♪A Million to 1♫

R.I.P., Selena (April 16, 1971-March 31, 1995)

Musical Monday: Flying South

During my 12-hour round road trip to and from S-TX …

My ♪jams♫ kept me company,

Before I added these ♪tracks♪ to my latest ♫playlist♫, I actually liked the ♪songs♫ before I found out who some of the ♫artists♪ were ~ yet now like them more! Selena‘s Bidi Bidi Bom Bom with the original sample hyped me up as I drove down to Corpus Christi + I had to blast my fave tune of the moment, Kelly Clarkson‘s ♥Heartbeat♥ Song!

Along with one of my †CHRISTmas† gifts to my Dad!

I feel like I can relate to G-Dub as a child who greatly admires my dad, a fellow veteran

Plus, I dug the perks of my Shell Fuel Rewards!

Syncing up my plastic to my membership account provides more perks!

Who doesn’t like $aving 20-cents per gallon of gas?