I like movies, music, people and books .. MAKE LOVE NOT WAR! Maak liefde niet oorlog! Faites la guerre d'amour pas ! Bilden Sie Krieg der Liebe nicht!Faccia la guerra di amore non! Faça a guerra do amor não! ¡Haga la guerra del amor no!
YOU! Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The BLUES ARE WHAT MAKES MY HEART BEAT! The Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States that stretches from Memphis, Tennessee in the north to Vicksburg, Mississippi in the south, the Mississippi River on the west to the Yazoo River on the east. Guitar and harmonica dominate the instruments used. The vocals range from introspective and soulful to passionate and fiery Delta blues music was first recorded in the late 1920s. The early recordings consist mostly of one person singing and playing an instrument, though the use of a band was more common during live performances. The recording of early Delta blues (as well as other genres) owes much to John Lomax, who criss-crossed the Southern US recording music played and sung by ordinary people. His recordings number in the thousands, and now reside in the Smithsonian Institution. "Delta blues" is a style as much as a geographical appellation: Skip James and Elmore James, who were not born in the Delta, were considered Delta blues musicians. Performers traveled throughout the Mississippi Delta Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee. Eventually, Delta blues spread out across the country, giving rise to a host of regional variations, including Chicago and Detroit blues. Scholars disagree as to whether there is a substantial, musicological difference between blues that originated in this region and in other parts of the country. The defining characteristic of Delta blues would seem to be instrumentation and an emphasis on rhythm; the basic harmonic structure is not substantially different from that of blues performed elsewhere. Because the Mississippi Delta was essentially feudal in the 1920s and earlier, and the plantation system was oppressive, there existed a subculture of blues artists who were refugees from that system. The Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm was an important influence on several blues musicians who were imprisoned there, and was referenced in songs such as Bukka White's 'Parchman Farm Blues' and Leadbelly's 'Midnight Special'. Thus Delta blues can refer to one of the first pop-music subcultures as well as to a performing style a
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Bukka White, Prince, Etta james, Beatles, fats waller,felix nancy sinatra, herb alpert, Fleetwood mac, Buckingham Nicks, Zappa, captian beefheart, , ella fitzgerald,, gun's and roses,, al green, barry white, joni mitchell, bobby vinton, buddy holly, carl perkins, bay City Rollers, Bowie, supremes, diana ross, chaka khan, aretha franklin, danny elfman, ludwig van, echo and the bunnymen, wanda jackson, jackson five, michael jackson, the stanley brothers,Lisa , Wendy Melvoin, , the carter family, charles mingus, Karla DeVito, Meatloaf, stevie wonder, the clash,the temptations, the ramones, Buckwheat Zydeco, Tammy Wynette, Ink Spots, Victoria Spivey,son house, peg leg howell, memphis minnie ,simmey dooly, peety wheatstraw,ed bell, hoagy carmichael, mark mothersbaugh,hell why not all of the Talking Heads jay z, , , modest mouse, charlie patton, bessie smith,walter smith,, ,blind willie johnson, robert johnson, , mahalia jackson, Elvis, Orbison, the rare Crumb recordings, Police, did I get Gatemouth? Miles davis, charlie parker, Billie Holiday, Nelly Furtado's first Lp, carpenters, abba, partridge family, lol....silicon teens, romeo void, boomtown rats, english beat, overwhelming colorfast, and on and on
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VICTORIA SPIVEY
*******Victoria Spivey was one of the more influential blues women simply because she was around long enough to influence legions of younger women and men who rediscovered blues music during the mid-'60s U.S. blues revival brought about by British blues bands as well as their American counterparts, like Paul Butterfield and Elvin Bishop. Spivey could do it all: she wrote songs, sang them well, and accompanied herself on piano and organ, and occasionally ukulele. Spivey began her recording career at age 19 and came from the same rough-and-tumble clubs in Houston and Dallas that produced Sippie Wallace. In 1918, she left home to work as a pianist at the -Lincoln Theater in Dallas. In the early 1920s, she played in gambling parlors, gay hangouts and whorehouses in Galveston and Houston with Blind Lemon Jefferson. Among Spivey's many influences was Ida Cox, herself a sassy blues woman, and taking her cue from Cox, Spivey wrote and recorded tunes like "TB Blues," "Dope Head Blues" and "Organ Grinder Blues" in the 1920s. Spivey's other influences included Robert Calvin, Sara Martin and Bessie Smith. Like so many other women blues singers who had their heyday in the 1920s and '30s, Spivey wasn't afraid to sing sexually suggestive lyrics, and this turned out to be a blessing nearly 40 years later in the sexual revolution of the 1960s and early '70s. She recorded her first song, "Black Snake Blues," for the Okeh label in 1926, and then worked as a songwriter at a music publishing company in St. Louis in the late 1920s. In the 1930s, Spivey recorded for the Victor, Vocalion, Decca and Okeh labels, and moved to New York City, working as a featured performer in a number of African-American musical revues, including the +"Hellzapoppin' Revue.'' In the 1930s, she recorded and spent time on the road with Louis Armstrong's various bands. By the 1950s, Spivey had left show business and sang only in church. But in forming her own Spivey Records label in 1962, she found new life in her old career. Her first release on her own label featured Bob Dylan as an accompanist. As the folk revival began to take hold in the early 1960s, Spivey found herself an in-demand performer on the folk-blues festival circuit. She also performed frequently in nightclubs around New York City. Unlike others from her generation, Spivey continued her recording career until well into the 1970s, performing at the ~Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival in 1973 with Roosevelt Sykes. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she had an influence on musicians as varied as Dylan, Sparky Rucker, Ralph Rush, Carrie Smith, Edith Johnson and Bonnie Raitt. Spivey's many albums for Spivey and other labels include the excellent Songs We Taught Your Mother (1962), which also includes contributions from Alberta Hunter and Lucille Hegamin, Idle Hours (1961), The Queen and Her Knights (1965) and The Victoria Spivey Recorded Legacy of the Blues (1970). In 1970, Spivey was awarded a "BMI Commendation of Excellence" from the music publishing organization for her long and outstanding contributions to many worlds of music. After entering Beekman Downtown Hospital with an internal hemorrhage, she died a short while later in 1976. Spivey is buried in Hempstead, N.Y. ~ Richard Skelly, All Music Guide
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here he is my deceased brother-in -law rest in peace Tommy Thomas. Check him out in Back to the Future 1 and 2...plus lots of other things.
I love books John Irving,Vonnegutt, ROB SHEFFIELD'S " LOVE IS A MIX TAPE" AND "THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY" The BEST BOOK " A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANEY" I read, and bleed for knowledge and I also love my sons PHILLIP:JOSEPH
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Patricia June Frances "NOUD" Hicks is my heroine (check me on the spelling folks) I love my baby girl , she has a few speacial effects: Cleidal Cranial Dysplasia which is genetic and Spina Bifida, she was born with one kidney, had a full cardiac arrest at 6 weeks and they used every life saving technique to bring her back to life up to and including a shoty of adrenilin straight to her heart, then at 6 months she had surgery to reimplant her uretor(spelling again) the tube from your kidney to your bladder. When she was 2 years old almost 3 she had surgery on her spinal cord after spend the summer of 19996 in the hospital 8 different times. Her cord was tethered or frayed at the bottom and they had to cut it off. Then is Dec. of 2003 she had a bladder augmentation surgery where they take part of your bowel cut it off and add it to your bladder. She has been catheterizing since she was 3 yrs old. We will go to Childrens Mercy Hospital In Kansas City Mo. Aug. 2nd to see if she needs rods on her spine due to scoliosis. This pic was took in May of 2005 2 years after her Dad died in a car accident, we went to California to meet her Dad's Mom for the first time, and just hang out in Burbank for awhile PJ loved the convertable Hertze rented to us, maybe just maybe I can get her one some day she has been through more than most people in a life time, I just gave you the tip of the iceberg and yet she keeps us all going , 12 years old 6 5 pounds under five feet and a tom boy to boot....Brandon is my hero:and my nephewBelow is my Dad 1936-2003 Boyd Oren Smith I miss you every single day dad.