That's actually why. It's New York, man. Sirens. So we moved from there, from South Central to Granada Hills, which was a suburb of the San Fernando Valley, which was primarily
So it's monitoring and making sure further that not only is it connected to more than 155 devices, but those devices are spinning really, really fast. have sirens going off when the frequencies went too high.
Others, a slight mattress shift under some invisible weight at my back. A siren croons its lullaby from the sea of passing headlights. Her name has erected a glass cathedral around me.
the farmers and buy another three then you get five cucumbers two of them and three of them are going to follow the sire because you're most likely going to use the old one and anyway you get the drift don't you need to make aent so you know what you have plus when you at the market and you look at that let's say that hero
By the time the last train passes through the station, some have already settled in for the night. Even without an air raid siren, like Larissa and her daughter Nastia. Nastia just participated in a dance competition. Now they are getting ready for bed.
Well, I just, I find it really hard. I find the sirens really hard. Everybody I know-- there's a lot of people that I know have been laid off.
Well, let's walk through it. He can sound powerful sirens, he can launch entire fleets of rocket ships to conquer other worlds, he can make two huge robots appear, and apparently one not-so-huge robot.
It all came from here. Police and sirens, guns are on parade right here. You never touch my love.
That evening, they were in the armored white stretch limo in the middle of the nine vehicle motorcade with the motorcycle outriders and the sirens and the flashing lights, zooming down 125th Street towards the Columbia campus at 60 miles an hour with the whole of Harlem out on the sidewalk watching the low profile operation ghost almost imperceptibly by.
So in the story of the Sirens, it's a story of temptation. Remember the Sirens have this beautiful music, very physically appealing.
And not just think about vague aims without a plan for how you could bring them about in real life. But the sirens are going off, are the horns are blaring being hey, that's a resolution here.
What do I care? does a little siren thing and this audience which had been sitting there like an ice sculpture for an hour and 45 minutes goes ape.
These are all sped up 16 times. These are all subsonic. Sounds like a police siren or something. Nobody has any idea what this could be. There's a whole giant library of these at NOAA.
couldn't even conceive it -- but they did. And notice the Siren of Chrome, or the model, who is in the car, she has a dress with complimentary color in custom Somali leopard.
And I think it took -- I have it listed in the book -- over a hundred skins to, to create that. The other thing that is amusing in this time in the 1950s Sirens of Chrome were not all on the auto show floor. Television was a very, very big thing. And Dinah Shore who is the singer you see
business. And then below it are the starlets. All the Sirens of Chrome maybe you don't know their names, but they worked very hard to bring glamour and information to the, to the auto show. Apex of Excess, 1940 to 1960, we continue with very unusual cars like James Bond car.
And I'm just going to apologize. I think there's a siren in the background. So hopefully, that will pass quickly.
Then when we heard the siren went off, then we all jumped-- my brother, sister, and everyone jump, right?
and this is 1930s screen siren Hedy Lamarr, who was known in her day as the most beautiful woman in the world.
to be able to resist the Sirens when he hears the Siren call.
Your bullets and your guns, you know we paid for it all. We should have listened when the sirens rung.
the DVR is calling its siren song to me, I can always manage to finish an existing sentence.
Well, here's the story from "The Odyssey" that I love. It's the story of the Sirens. So in the story of the Sirens, it's a story of temptation.
It's the story of the Sirens. So in the story of the Sirens, it's a story of temptation. It's a story of leadership and of joy.
So in the story of the Sirens, it's a story of temptation. But he wants the benefit of the Siren song.
The train doors open, their ghost-bright mouths a calling. I'll go anywhere the sirens can't find me." This next poem is borrowed from a Japanese form called the zuihitsu.
And now we come to the present what happens at auto shows. We now have divas that become Sirens of Chrome, and here is Celine Dion doing a -- for the celebrity black tie evening, singing for Chrysler.
our lives. But yes. Every single motor show probably has a Siren of Chrome standing beside it. And the reason is the same all over, and that is the cars are hot, they're great, they're historical or just loved by someone, but they can't talk.
They said, Sire , we have the most wonderful garment that we can create for you, of a magical fabric of unsurpassed beauty.
And they said, Sire , we have brought to you this wonderful, incredible garment.
Where will you go, Sire ?
And the blacksmith said, Sire , I make my own tools.
Now, the sirens are these magical creatures who sing this song that any sailor hears and will decide to crash his ship onto the shore of the sirens' island and dies.
I need to hear birds and trees instead of ambulances and sirens.
Sorry. There are sirens going on.
So it's monitoring and making sure further that not only is it connected to more than 155 devices, but those devices are spinning really, really fast. So let's imagine that even though the sirens are blaring, you say, hey, wait a second, these things are spinning.
But in your case, we didn't think that was necessary, because it would look too conspicuous." The inconspicuous nine vehicle motorcade rolled towards Manhattan with motorcycle sirens blaring and lights flashing, attracting no attention at all.
he was going by the island of the sirens why because he knew he was going to kind
We didn't have anything and these people were coming with siren cars, bodyguards.
know, that distinctive police siren, and so my friend and I looked at each other, and then we start bolting off in different directions. He runs in one direction, and I run in the
Today, I'm going to take you through Sirens of Chrome. You have the book in your hand and Sirens of Chrome -- that's the name that I give to people, the models, that work the auto shows.
And I'm going to begin with a fashion and Renee if you are come out here. This is Renee. Renee is not just a model Renee is a Sirens of Chrome. Renee it a model but she has been a product specialist for the auto show floor all around the country for five years working for Nissan.
But we're going to go to the combustible years between 1920 and 1940 and this picture from 1938 is one of the first documented pictures of women, Sirens of Chrome, who are literally talking about an engine. They're performing a skit demonstrating the workings of the Chevrolet engine. And if you could, in the -- if you could just
It's very small, it's very cramped. I'm 5'9", but it sure is a cute little car. And they were able to get all of these lovely sirens to come in the car. Also what's happening in the Apex of Excess is in the middle you see a, an ad that appeared in Life magazine called Fashion on Parade. And what was happening in automotive design
singers who represented cars. And here are other famous people who are Sirens of Chrome. There is Cary Grant at the BMW i7. Gorgeous Cary Grant.
night. Five times here the air raid sirens sounded during the night and again this morning. There have been
So I was explaining, I can hear ambulance sirens and I feel like they're all for me.
So I go out on stage to play this-- it's the collaborated song "Battle Sirens," which is on this new record, but we wrote it some years ago.
And then suddenly, you heard this screaming siren.
It's tense in those neighborhoods. So still to this day, the sound of sirens freak me out. I look for someplace to hide because-- Is that why we had to drag you out of the green room here?