Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video was selected by the National Film Preservation Board as the first ever music video to be named to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The library selects films that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant after reviewing hundreds of titles nominated by the public and consulting with the National Film Preservation Board. As one of 25 films to be inducted for preservation, the John Landis directed Thriller video will join our nation’s treasures in the world’s largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings along with 1979 “The Muppet Movie” which was the first time Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy graced the big screen.
Twenty-five miles from home, girl
My feet are hurtin’ mighty bad
Now I’ve been walkin’ for three days
And two lonely nights
You know that I’m mighty bad
But I got a girl waitin’ for me
That’s gonna make this
trip worthwhile
You see, she’s got the kind
Of lovin’ and kissin’
Make a boy go stone wild
I got to keep on walkin’
Oh I got to walk on
Let me tell you, y’all
I’m so tired
But I just can’t lose my stride
I got fifteen miles to go now
And I can hear my baby
callin’ my name
It’s as if, as though
I’m standin’ at her front door
And I can hear that doggone thing
Now I’ll be so glad to see my baby
And hold her in my arms one more time
[ Find more Lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.org/8dCd ]
And when I kiss her lips
I turn backward flip
And I forget about these feet of mine
I got to keep on walkin’
Oh I got to walk on
Let me tell you, y’all
I’m so tired
But I just can’t lose my stride
Yeah I got to walk on
Let me tell you, y’all
Hope my feet don’t fail me now
I got five more miles to go
I got nine, eight, seven
Six, oh six
I got five more miles to go now
Over the hills just around the bend
Although my feet are tired
I can’t lose my stride
I got to get my baby back again
I got to keep on walkin’
I got to walk on
Let me tell y’all
I’m so tired now
But I just can’t lose my stride
Oh, I got to walk on
Let me tell you now
I’m so tired
But I just can’t lose my stride
I got to walk on
Wouldn’t you like to be the person everyone is talking about for a change? You know what I mean, “Yes You, The Hot One!” The one who enters into a room and, “BINGO” all eyes surround you. Have you ever wondered what makes the hot ones so attractive?
How did they develop their magnetic appeal? Is it just by the way they look? Is there a certain vibe? What makes them so SEXY? What do they have that most others don’t, but would like to get? Is there a secret or possibly a magic formula?
Sure! Looks do play a role when someone is classified as having the “It factor.” However, what works for one may not work for the other which could signify that beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.
But I believe there’s more to it than just looks. There are other elements that make a person stand out from the crowd. That if you want to be Hot & Sexy it takes work, but more than that it’s a true realization. It’s a realization that starts from within. And it starts with the connection of learning how to move and use your body. Finding Your Groove!
I believe there’s a sexy side to everyone yet you may have to dig a little to find it, but that’s okay, it’ll be a fun discovery.”
But the first step is to identify your unique qualities and characteristics that will help you to “Put Your Best Foot Forward.”
Did you know Movement & Dance is, “ The Original Body Language?” Not only does it have great physical fitness benefits, like helping you keep a nicely trim body, it also stimulates your brain for more creative and productive thinking power, it uplifts and refreshes your spirit as well.
Movement & Dance has a way of speaking and communicating with out saying a SINGLE word, it sends out signals that convey certain messages. The movement becomes your voice. It’s a lesson 101 that can help you create your own Uniqueness, Hotness, and Sexiness. It has transformational Groove Power. How?
The Von Trapp family were the Partridge Family of their day but without the annoying pastels and giant flowers randomly painted on walls. A string of silver-throated talents from old to young, this family did more to further my love of singing than any other early influence. I suspect I even subconsciously believed that the girl of my dreams would have dark lovely hair and would angelically sing and as she waited for me before dates about being sixteen going on seventeen and what not. Maybe that’s why I’ve found it particularly difficult to get over my last girlfriend who could easily gain entry into a Von Trapp family reunion, or could at least organize the event.
Singing was a part of my childhood for many years. I even sang the co-lead in a Presidents Day play in grade school. I was Lincoln. My hated childhood nemesis was George Washington. I always wished there had been an impromptu duel between us in that play, me singing about ending slavery with an Attack au Fer, he with a parry and a quip about the one dollar bill, the fight culminating with blurred steel and shouts of honesty vs. equality. Of course, I prevail in an ironic twist of my blade as Washington collapses beside his father’s felled cherry tree, red fruit tumbling out to the shocked parents below.
But soon my voice would be shattered by puberty and singing next to my mother in church, her eyes full of happiness, would lose its appeal in the paradigm of a my teenage years. The next years were sung like the plains of America, if mildly beatific, without range. But I did have one interesting solo just out of college where I sang David Lee Roth’s interpretation of “Just a Gigolo”, forced by a girl I was obliged to tip my hat to at a bar one evening. To say I dominated the audience with my Karaoke interpretation would not illustrate how Prince-like I used the mic and how somewhere in the distance, Ol’ Blue Eyes was golf clapping. The professional singers in the audience turned inwardly toward their drinks as the crowd cheered and women’s knees buckled.
If I’ve learned anything from the recording industry, it’s better to go out like Salena than like Michael. So I quit while I was ahead. Nothing for years. But then I met the girl. And I got to date her. A song for any season not just in voice but in heart, she gilded any harmony. She said I had a nice voice after a very brief a capalla, though I’m uncertain how much of this was uncomfortable pity to her professional ear. But my three-year old niece says she like to hear me sing. For her, I only sing crooner-style Christmas songs with lots of embellishment to help swing my audience of she, dinosaur and birdie. And she’s very forgiving considering I forget most of the lyrics and just repeat the one part I know two or three times. Sometimes she even dances.
It’s nice to sway an audience and though my girl is now gone, and though we never sang together, thoughts of remembering her through singing seems like a nice waste of time for me while driving to and from work each day. Maybe one day, if the universe shifts just far enough, she and I will meet up again on grassy hills above Salzburg to sing our duet. If not, I’ll just sit up there and try to enjoy the silence, save for the brushing sound of the wind.
After reviewing many news articles, thinking of popular events, and watching Barbara Walter’s top ten show on ABC last week, I have come up with my own top ten of the most fascinating people of 2009. This list, in my mind, was based on people who made an impact on others lives and who made people think, what is that person really like under the surface?
10. Lady Gaga
I agreed with Barabra Walters and I think that this women needs to start off my top ten list as well. I believe that she made a huge impact on the pop music scene in 2009. Her pop single “Poker Face” made huge waves on the radio and she is the first artist to have four number ones on one album, “Fame”. What I like about Lady Gaga as well is she is not afraid to take risks, with her out there outfits, performances, and her music. She likes to over look boundaries and when people see Lady Gaga they want to learn more about the women because of how she presents herself. She still has a huge future ahead of her and I strongly believe that her new album, “The Fame Monster” is even better than “Fame” and she has a great lead into being a pop culture icon.
9. Stephanie Meyer
This women deserves my number nine spot for her writing in the popular book series, Twilight. Twilight is the best selling book of 2008 and sold 85 million copies worldwide of the popular vampire novel series. Meyer, who was a mormon housewife turned best selling author, was ranked in the Forbes 100 most powerful celebrities as #26 and was awarded USA Today’s Author of the Year in 2008. Her books became one of the biggest box office smashes in 2009 with Twilight and her second novel The New Moon making in about 13.9 million on the opening week. Meyer got the idea for Twilight in a dream she had about a girl falling in love with a vampire. I bet Meyer is living in a dream world right now with all the success she has had with the popular book series and the fan base she has built up.
8. Elizabeth Edwards
This woman deserves my number eight spot because of all the grievances and media backlash her family has been through. She is the wife of John Edwards, who in the earlier part of the year revieled that he cheated on his wife with a woman named Rielle Hunter. Recently the media has reported that John Edwards is the father of one of Rielle Hunter’s children. Not only on top of the cheating accusations and confessions, Elizabeth is battling with breast cancer. In the spring she announced her breast cancer is back and in an incurable form. Elizabeth stuck with her husband and they currently are trying to figure out their problems in their home in North Carolina. I respect Elizabeth’s decisions to try to work out problems with her husband and to stick by his side. I believe she is a strong women for battling with breast cancer and then having to deal with the media and a broken heart. Elizabeth Edwards is a smart, strong women and many people should look up to her for her courage and strength.
7. Nadya Suleman
Nadya Suleman goes by many names: crazy, fame seeker, insane, but her most common one is “octomom”. In March 2009, Suleman gave birth to not one, not two, not even three, but EIGHT children. This caused a media stir and many people protested one women have so many children to feed and raise. On top of these eight children, Suleman also has six older children residing with her mom. Many people criticize Suleman for her homemaking ways and question if this woman has enough money and resources to take care of these 14 children. Suleman reportedly signed a contract with a reality television show that will start to air in the fall based off her hectic lifestyle. I picked Suleman as my number seven because of the public’s growing fascination with this women.
6. Taylor Swift
If you havent heard of this girl, I will guarantee you have heard of her number one song “Love Story”. God it’s played on the top 40 radio every other minute. Lets be real, Taylor Swift has it going on. She has a number one hit album Fearless, which has stayed on the billboard top 100 list for 11 consecutive weeks in a row. Love Story and You Belong With Me has blown up on the radio scene and not to mention she is dating hottie Taylor Lauder from Twilight. I picked Swift for number six because of her success on and off the stage. I believe how Swift handled the Kanye West explosion at the VMA’s was pure class and that she did not deserve that. I agree with Kanye a bit, Beyonce’s video was bomb, but Taylor deserved that award as much as Beyonce did. Another aspect that I like about Taylor Swift is that she writes her OWN songs. She can sing too, which is a huge perk in the music business these days(Miley take a hint from Swift). She has had so much success and she is not even 21 yet. Go Taylor and keep up the good work.
5. Ted Kennedy
I will never forget the quote one of my good friends said to me on the day of Ted Kennedy’s death, “Finally, three irish brothers in heaven together, knowing they did good things for their country.” Kennedy was an accomplished Senator from Massachuset. Kennedy is the fourth longest seat holder in Senate history serving 46 years in the democratic party. Known as the “Lion of the Senate” he has passed 300 bills and has fought on many issues including immigration, AIDS, civil rights, and education. His everlasting battle with cancer has brought the aspect of universal health care into the limelight and he fought for every single step of the way. I picked Senator Kennedy as my fifth choice because he shows to the American people that if you want it you fight for it. That’s exactly what Senator Kennedy did.
4. Susan Boyle
I remember the first time I was watching “Britain’s Got Talent” and Susan Boyle walked on the stage, I thought exactly what was going through Simon Cowell’s mind, “oh give me a break.” Than she opened her mouth. She now has a hit album out I Dreamed a Dream, which was the best-selling album of the decade with 701,000 copies sold in its first week. I picked Susan Boyle because I believe she proves a point to the world by not to judge a book by its cover. That is exactly what she did and she proved everybody wrong with her voice and her success. Congrats Susan you deserve this fame!
3. “Balloon Boy”
I remember turning on my television set and seeing an air craft floating around Colorado with a supposedly missing boy cramed in it. A couple of hours later, I learned that this whole drama was a hoax. Falcon Heene, the missing boy who was supposedly in the floating aircraft was found in his attic after his dad, Richard, yelled at him. The family did it for a publicity stunt and a chance to get another reality television spot after their stint in Wife Swap. Now the parents of Falcon are both expecting some jail time. I picked Falcon as my number three because it just goes to show you how much one family can control the media and people’s minds.
2. Michael Jackson
Only a few words can describe Michael Jackson: a legacy during his lifetime and after. He made a scene during his early years becoming the greatest pop icon with his smash hits, Thriller and Beat It. He kept on the media scene in his later life with not so positive accusations about his involvement with teenage boys. The sudden death of Michael Jackson in the summer caused a huge stir in the world. His death became the most popular story of 2009 and the after effects were shocking. A movie, “This Is It” became a box office smash, his music was widely recognized again, and it is reported that Michael Jackson made enough money to recover from his debt for his death. I picked Michael Jackson because I believe that he is a amazement in what he did in his lifetime and the effect he had on people when he passed. People loved him and will always.
1. Chesley ”Sully” Sullenberger
On January 15th, across the world nobody could stop talking about Sully and his heroic ways. Chesley Sullenberger safely landed a US Airline jet plane on the Hudson River and saved 155 people lives after striking geese and causing the engines to disable. He truly is an American hero and deserves a lot of recongintion for his quick ways and thinking. Many people’s lives could have been lost. Thankful for a smart pilot and a River, lives were saved and grievances were lost. Thanks Sully.
Michael Jackson’s FBI file was released today, detailing various aspects about the pop star’s life. The releasing of the file includes the FBI’s investigation into the singer’s child molestation allegations made against him by a 13 year-old boy in 1993 and the 2003 child molestation case he faced in Los Angeles, CA when another 13 year-old boy made similar allegations.
But the file didn’t reveal much that the public didn’t know already. The file included heavily redacted documents, photocopied tabloid articles and what would be considered the most sensational of the bunch, a plot to kill the singer and then president, George H.W. Bush.
“Frank Paul Jones had a history of threatening to kill the president and had been arrested numerous times outside the White House, according to investigatory reports. In rambling letters collected by the FBI, Jones claimed to be the son of John Gotti, demanded money and pledged to “commit mass murder at a Michael Jackson concert.” A Los Angeles federal judge sentenced him to two years in prison in 1993 for mailing threatening communications to Jackson.” (La Times)
But it seems like the FBI really didn’t do much, as local authorities did most of the heavy lifting. Yes, the FBI had to be involved with most of the cases because of the federal charges and alleged threats made against Mr. Jackson, but it seems like they let the local authorities handle all the work.
If you want a classy Christmas Number One, look no further than these guys.
I wasn’t going to write about this story but it’s still bubbling away and after reading a few articles and blogs I’ve been compelled to add my bit.
“He doesn’t deserve to be stuck in the middle of this fight. A campaign aimed at harming his chart position is unnecessary.” Simon Cowell
“He put his heart and soul into every single week of The X-Factor and I cannot bear to see him lose out to a mean campaign that has nothing to do with his efforts.” Cheryl Cole
“He’s just some kid with a career ahead. I’ve got nothing against that. But it would be kind of funny if Rage Against The Machine got it instead.” Sir Paul McCartney
Forgetting about the Facebook campaign, the choice of single to battle against the X-Factor machine, and whether it succeeds or not, the fact is the likes of Cowell and Cole seem to think that the X-Factor winner has a God-given right to go straight to a Christmas number one with their debut single. They don’t. There are no rules against a campaign trying to get a song to number one for whatever reason. If a campaign has enough backing then so be it. The motives for it may not be decent, but this sort of thing has been done before with little complaint (Mysterious Girl, anyone?).
Joe McElderry has done really well to win the over-sentimental national karaoke competition. He seems like a really nice lad with plenty of years ahead of him to get corrupted by life when it finally chews him up, spits him out and squishes him to the pavement like it does to everyone. But this Rage Against The Machine campaign isn’t directed at him. Some fans think it’s a form of mass-bullying – but the same thing would have happened if Stacey, Olly, Larry, Curly, Moe, or God help us, those disgusting Irish twins won the show. The X-Factor bigwigs should know how the charts work.
Cowell is pissed that there’s a fight for number one. Shouldn’t there ALWAYS be a fight for number one?! It’s no fun if there’s an obvious winner to anything in life. Cole is irked that Joe’s been working really hard for the past…three months during the live shows. That’s almost as much hard work as bands like Rage Against The Machine have had to put in, in their…18-year existence. Yes.
Whether you like the campaign or not is irrelevant to me. I haven’t joined the Facebook group, because I don’t really care about the campaign itself. The charts have been pointless for years. My granny could have been number one lately and I wouldn’t have known about it. Nope, I join more important Facebook groups such as ’A line has been crossed when Space Raiders are no longer 10p’, ‘Claudia Winkleman is crap‘ and ‘Girls, stop flicking your bean to Twilight and go make me a bacon sandwich‘.
So on Sunday afternoon when the radio will be playing utterly dire tracks from the likes of Tinchy Stryder and Well.I.Suck, I shall sit cross-legged next to the fire with my Santa hat on, raiding a selection box while listening to cassette-quality recordings of REAL Christmas classics such Earth Song, Stay Another Day and 2 Become 1.
20 Watts' Best of 2009 ranks Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster at #12
PREVIEW: VISIT Lady Gaga’s Website TOP TRACK: “Bad Romance”
Michael Jackson. David Bowie. Madonna. Kanye West. Critics and fans alike don’t typically utters the names of pop legends with moderation in mind. It’s a good thing that Lady Gaga doesn’t seem to know the meaning of the word. Last year’s The Fame may have put Gaga on the map, but this year’s follow-up The Fame Monster gave us more new material and reminded the musically-inclined populace yet again that mass-consumed songwriting can indeed be a venue for true talent.
If you really want to know why The Fame Monster is one of the best albums of the year, you hardly need to look further than the video for lead single “Bad Romance” for proof. Lady Gaga literally sets potential suitors ablaze with the over-the-top display that colors the majority of her work — but on The Fame Monster the material is all darker, and all more vindictive. Each song is either a biting critique or a forlorn lament, and Gaga’s voice bounces beautifully over the eclectic production throughout, from Darkchild, Fernando Garibay,RedOne, Ron Fair, and others.
We see an angrier side of Gaga on The Fame Monster — and perhaps a more broken, vulnerable side of her as well. Gaga’s heartbreak-torn vocals on songs like “Alejandro” or “Telephone” (featuring Beyonce) would have been out of place alongside the hedonistic abandon of “Poker Face” or “Just Dance,” but adhere thematically to every other song on the record. This makes The Fame Monster as much a concept album as its predecessor was, in no way a bad thing. In eight songs Lady Gaga’s shown us yet another side of fame and kept herself more than fresh. Let’s just hope she can keep it up.
Well, Kevin and Abe have already put together two excellent “best of”/”favorites” lists for 2009, both of which have made my end-of-the-year albums-to-buy list longer than it already was (this is always the time of the year where I go pretty hog-nutty on buying new music, given the proliferation of best-of recommendations and whatnot), so I decided to take a slightly different approach and put together a half-assed year-in-review playlist, something that attempts to capture the pop-cultural spirit of 2009. And any playlist with such a focus wouldn’t be complete without acknowledging that the world breathed one giant collective sigh of relief when news broke that the King of Pop had kicked the bucket. (Sorry, MJ fans.) For 40-odd years, the world couldn’t take their eyes off Michael Jackson, first because he was a super superstar, a child prodigy who channeled Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, James Brown, a young man who developed a mystique, sound, choreography, etc., that took pop music and dance to never-before-reached heights, and then because of the complete and utter trainwreck his life—and face—had become. In the first 20 years of his career, the world looked on because, yes, we were thrilled and we couldn’t believe what we were seeing. In the latter 20 years, the world looked on because we couldn’t look away, as much as we wanted to. On that note, let’s raise our guarded glasses. Here’s one of my MJ faves, ”Rock With You.” Rest in peace, Michael.
Fortunately for us, though, at the tail end of 2009, Tiger Woods entered the fray to take a lot of the heat off MJ, especially as news of MJ’s tendencies to remove his nose and to pee in a glass in front of his guests really started to capture the public’s imagination. Balloon Boy & Family and the Salahis made valiant efforts at garnering the spotlight, but eventually they were exposed for simply being pathetic attempts at shameless self-promotion. What we really needed was a good old-fashioned fall-from-grace story, one in which a lilly-white-clean world-class athlete and cultural icon is exposed for being nothing more than a cliche—a philandering horn-dog, PED-pumping, control freak—and Tiger delivered big time. To wit, the surprisingly catchy Tiger Woods Slow Jam is a must for any 2009 Year in Review playlist.
And isn’t that what 2009 is all about? We knew that mainstream news channels are to journalism as to what professional wrestling is to sports, but it seemed like news coverage treaded new, shaky ground this year in that tabloids, internet gossip sites, and the TMZs of the world were suddenly being treated like credible sources. Established public figures spent and are spending an incredible amount of resources and energy to protect their image and privacy, while every where we look there’s a new wanna-be reality star fabricating some outlandish stunt to attract attention. For what it’s worth, there’s no better artist and no better song that puts these sentiments to music than 2009 newcomer Lady Gaga and her single “Paparazzi.” (If you get a chance, check out this NPR story on Lady Gaga. Pretty interesting…)
Perhaps 2009 will be remembered as the Year of Exposure or, maybe, the Year of Being Exposed. As this recent article in the Washington Post points out, in an effort to stand beneath their own little piece of the spotlight, more and more indie bands are attempting to stand apart from the fracas of the Internet, the preponderance of bands on every corner of Brooklyn, and the white noise of mainstream media by simply doing what comes naturally: getting naked. As a parent, I’m not sure how I feel about my son eventually stumbling across a vidcap of Wayne Coyne’s rockwurst (which by the way is exposed at 4:54 of the this video [Nice penis, Wayne]), but I guess there are worse things he could discover on the ‘net. Here’s a suitable-for-viewing-at-work version of Matt and Kim’s “Lessons Learned.”
Plenty has been written about how iTunes/myspace/YouTube/[insert file-sharing app] has changed music-buying (or lack thereof) habits, and how the music industry has struggled to adapt to changes in consumers’ listening/buying/sharing/downloading habits, etc. Over the past year, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how I personally now go about engaging and sharing music, particularly in comparison to how I was first introduced to the great records of my youth. To summarize, I now purchase and download music from iTunes and occasionally buy a used CD (but only if it’s cheaper than the $9.99 iTunes price!), whereas I first encountered the songs of, for instance, Motown, Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis, and the Beatles by hanging out with my dad as a little kid while he spinned one classic record after another. Looking back, I now realize how cool and special an experience that was. And it wasn’t just about listening to the records; it was also about handling and flipping each record, dropping the needle, and studying the covers and reading the liner notes, and it was all a very tangible, almost ritualistic experience . Now that I’m a dad I think about how I’m going to share music with my boy. Will I dial up some mp3s on my laptop? Don’t be silly. Will I burn some tracks for him onto a CD-R? Of course not. What’s more likely, assuming I don’t show up on Uncle Abe’s doorstep asking to borrow The White Album on vinyl (and Abe, I’m starting to come around), is that my kid will show me how he’d like to engage music; chances are, it will take the form of dad jamming his boy’s cute little ass off on Rock Band (or some other video game), which is a type of pleasure our folks obviously couldn’t share with us. I’m not sure which type of experience is better—sharing a record or exchanging licks via Rock Band—but as a dad, and a good consumer, I want both options. I want every option. And for that reason, my final entry for my 2009 year-in-review playlist is “The Beatles Rock Band.” For a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse on the making-of, see this article from The New York Times Magazine.
Two exams left…The dreaded Statistics exam – admittedly, I put WAY more focus on the courses I was interested in, pulling an “A” in the Multiple Murder course, for example, and a decent mark in the Forensic Psychology course as well…Though Social Work will be my Master’s degree (and perhaps my eventual Ph.D). All of it is related, so knowledge is always worthwhile.
Anyway, the Stats final is Friday, then Philosophy on Saturday, which won’t be a problem at all. Stats – that’s my greatest challenge, and I’m going all out to pull off a pass. Fortunately, for my Masters program, they only look at my 4th year marks for admission, so by then, I’ll have a much better footing. After selling my car, moving to a foreign city and living in a student house with 19-year olds, it’s been one heck of an adjustment. The wonderful part is that I’m moving in with my girlfriend in the new year, so things will be so much more calm and stable at that time. We’re both going to finish our schooling in Brantford, then get the heck out of here, since we much prefer other cities to this one.
My MSW will be done in my hometown of Kitchener, so that will be great. I already have some great contacts in the field of social work, so my heart knows that this is all very worth it investment-wise. I’m so very proud of my girlfriend for returning to school as well!! Life is too short to settle for less than we desire!
With that said, ‘time to go nail the Stats exam. I’m studying with someone who has an amazing mark so far, so she’s going to help me master the review for the final. Once Stats is directly related to my field, I’ll ACE it.
P.S. – It’s almost Montreal time!! (Can I NOT mention New Years Eve in just one post?) ;o)
Do you ever look something up online and take so many strange turns that you end up reading up on a topic that has nothing even remotely to do with the original search? Me, ALL the time – it’s like wiki-ADD. The other day I started off wanting to know why Pluto (the dwarf planet, not the Disney dog) was demoted only three years ago.* Somehow, and I can’t for the life of me remember how, I’ve become an expert on where the phrase ‘mama-se, mama-sa, mama-makossa’ comes from. True story! Well, I say “expert”, I mean I now know as much as the person who wrote the Wikipedia entry.
You may have heard the phrase around the playground, it’s been used by a plethora of artists as varied as the Blood Hound Gang and Rihanna. I first heard it in Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Something” and have been trying to get it out of my head since that first listen years and years ago. I found out that Makossa is a musical style popular in West and Central Africa in which traditional African music is mixed with Jazz, Highlife and Soul. Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango popularized the sound with his hit, “Soul Makossa”, now known as a forerunner of disco.
The single was originally a B-side and released in 1972. David Mancuso, the New York based, self-proclaimed “musical host” used to spin records in his building at the very first, underground dance parties, known as The Loft. To this day, he refuses to call himself a DJ, but he is slowly being recognized as a major influence in the history of the DJ. Anyhoo, he got a hold of a copy and started playing it regularly at these underground, Loft parties. The song became high in demand but there were only a handful of copies, so it was sold out in a jiffy. The smart people at Atlantic licensed it and reproduced it en masse, but not before a couple dozen other bands had covered and released the song, trying to hitch a ride on its popular coattails. Moreover, artists have been using “mama-se, mama-sa” in some form or another ever since, and continue to do so.
The original Manu Dibango song is ridiculously catchy and so freakin’ funky it’s gonna makes you want to cut a rug, heck make that twelve rugs. It doesn’t take any stretch of the imagination to see why this song is known as a prime example of proto-disco.
Manu Dibango – Soul Makossa
Here are some songs that perpetuate the popularity of the phrase:
Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
A Tribe Called Quest – Rhythm (Devoted To The Art Of Moving Butts)
*In the unlikely event anyone was reading this hoping for an answer to the Pluto question: it wasn’t till 2006 that the term “planet” was first truly defined by the International Astronomical Union. Pluto only covers two out of three criteria that make a planet a planet and ever since it gets bullied by the other 8 proper planets. Poor, tiny Pluto.
I want to make one thing clear from the start: This is my hitlist. John, Josh, and Pierre had nothing to do with it, and I don’t want to sully their reputations or that of the blog as a whole in presenting it. You know what I think about music.
But the following is a list of eight music videos from the Aughts, loosely defined as “my favorites.” I was late to the music video party, not getting MTV until it stopped playing music videos.*
*I mean “getting” there in the sense that I did not have it as a channel on my television. I did understand what MTV was.
If you want to make the case that I don’t “get” music videos, go ahead.
Alien Ant Farm — “Smooth Criminal”
It’s kind of ridiculous that this was the first music video I really liked, especially considering I didn’t understand ANY of the allusions to Michael Jackson videos. Maybe that’s why I liked it: It seemed original and cool. And even though it lost its originality, it’s still cool.
Plus, I find this version of “Smooth Criminal” as a song better than MJ’s, as untenable as that seems.
Johnny Cash — “Hurt”
This would be my pick for the greatest video of the decade. And I know far too little about Johnny Cash to add anything else.
Seabear — “Arms”
There are two types of people in this world: People who find this video irreproachably cute, and people who are heartless. I briefly pushed for spring break in Reykjevk after seeing this, although, some of that had to do with the Icelandic financial crisis, too. (I owe a long overdue hat tip to Emily Collette Wilkinson at The Millions for introducing me to this video, this song, and this band.)
OutKast — “Hey Ya”
My reasons for liking “Hey Ya” are neither original nor enlightening. The video lives up to the song, which is probably the best of the decade, regardless of what John S or Pitchfork says.
Mute Math — “Typical”
Do you realize what is going on? It’s all backwards! Like, they had to learn to sing and play guitar and drums and all backwards! HOW IS YOUR MIND NOT EXPLODING???
Steriogram — “Walkie Talkie Man”
My affinity for this song was short-lived and driven mainly by a similar affinity for MVP Baseball 2004. Nevertheless, it’s hard to describe this video—which despite its use of yarn and not Legos, reminds me of Legos*—as anything except “really cool.”
*And I know the White Stripes did, in fact, use Legos in “Fell in Love with a Girl,” but I still prefer this video because I have a semblance of an idea of what is going on.
Beyonce ft. Shakira — “Beautiful Liar”
Do I really need to go into why this one makes the list? I can’t think of two other artists I would prefer to collaborate in a visual medium than these two. I also like to think that putting the two on the same team, as it were, raised both their games the same way Kobe and LeBron being on the Olympic team did for them.
The fact that they look weirdly alike and that the video itself falls well short of its potential—have you seen “Baby Boy” or “She Wolf”?—only means they should revisit the template sometime next decade.
Robin Sparkles — “Let’s Go to the Mall”
Because ‘80s nostalgia—or making fun of Canada—never get old.
The following companies have been sued by the company that has the rights to distribute shirts, posters, and other Michael Jackson memoribilia, Bravado International Group — They are allegedly selling bootlegged stuff in violation of the copyright. Here’s the list:
Jin Cha, OK Sportswear, EZ Sportswear, Chang Oh Kim, Chuck Kim, Eden Sports, Justin Ju, Sy Sports, Susan Lee, Susan Yoon, Lee’s Family Inc., Green T Corp, Kyung Sook Ma, Cesar Igiesias, Bling Bling Inc., Kauh Un Lee, Arthur Berman, Wacky Planet, Wackyplanet.com, Theplanetshops.com, David Ahoubian, D&T Distribution, Paris Fashions, Clothing Island, Clothingisland.com, Print Liberation, Jaime Dillion, Nick Paparone, Dr. Jay’s, Inc., Maggi Fashion Wholesale, Mansour Rokhsarzadeh, Azizi Afshin, Afshin Azzi, Bargain Wholesaler, Wholesaleclothing.com, TBwholesaler.com, Top Brands, Wholesaler, Ahmad Jamhour, Oz Communications, Crazytees.net, Otto Suarez, Olga Lyons, Shop Rumor, Anooshk Zakarian, Esther Lee, Keum Sportswear, Chang Song Lee, African American Dollar Store, Edna Clement Swan, Jack Leiberman, Progressiverags.com, Skreened, Daniel Chrstopher Fox, Shiekh, Shiekh Shoes, Incrediblegifts.com, Daniel Lassoff, Shaky City Blues, Mario Ontiveros, Main Collection, Main Sportswear, Su Young Cho, MB Sportswear, Choung Choe, Right Thang, Hyo Jang Yoon, Buy Me4rchant, Buymerchant.com, Craig Mentham, Steal Deal, Abraham Davood, Michael Davood, Ebby Davood, The Wild Side, The Wildside.com, Kingsley Syme, Kingley Symes, Setup Site, Harrington Outlets, ObamaTShirts.com, Sour Candy, Shoe Blanace International, Yak Shoe, Wholesale Situation, Jason Aref, Julio Aref, Watch Time, Aziz Ali, Unishow, Gary Chen, rena Chen, Amiline.com, Jian Zhu, Gravity Trading…. AND, Tony in Chong.
Smh, they stilllll making money off the man and he been gone for a minute…
There are as many definitions of cloud computing as people who venture them. Some include software as a service in the mix; others describe it strictly as the infrastructure portion of things. I subscribe to the one that is simplest as an end user and consumer: Cloud computing is any processing provided to me by a third party over the net. Period.
Why can I be so bold as to disregard all other definitions? Because cloud computing is neither a discipline nor a science, there is no regulation for it, no union for cloud workers, no nothing. Cloud computing is a concept and a buzzword in the full extent of its definition. Companies are already using it to show how fashionable and up to date they are and I’m sure soon men will use it in pick up lines to dazzle girls: “You know baby… I cloud a lot.”
I love the possibilities of the cloud and understand the skeptics that find issue with the security of their critical data. I would not confide in any web cloud service to handle my sensitive info just yet. For now I keep my skeletons in the closet and my dollars under the mattress, but these fears are part cultural barrier part sensible lack of faith in a new model that still needs adjustment: Did you ever read the terms and conditions for any of these services?
Some stuff I do in cloud city:
My blog is hosted at WordPress.com.
My blog’s e-mail is hosted at Google via Google Apps.
I use Google spreadsheets, documents and sites to collaborate with co-workers.
I backup non sensitive information in my online backup service (yes, in case you are wondering, there is porn among that)
Those are just a few. I do a lot more. I cloud baby.
I would like to play the divination game for a while and venture some changes I believe will happen in one of my favorite areas: Music.
Michael Jackson’s Thriller is the best selling album of all times. It sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. I’m sure those sales came in an array of formats: vinyl records, compact discs, cassette tapes and possibly more, but let’s just say, for the sake of argument that all those were CDs. That assumption results in 100M plastic cases, 100M booklets, 100M CDs, etc.
Think of all the effort, environmental strains and elevated costs for such a distribution model when all you need is a single copy in a server (purists are welcome to add all the mirroring they want, the overall idea remains) to be accessed by 100M people instead. Would Mohammad go to the mountain if the mountain had wheels?
Nowadays you pay for downloading the song and basically for the right to listen to the song as many times as you want. The important thing, however, is the latter, because coupling that with a song stored in the cloud, you will be able to listen to that song wherever you want: your home computer, your office computer, your car stereo with wireless connection, etc. The present model is online shopping; my bet is the next model will be online shopping plus cloud storage.
I admit I like buying a CD in a brick and mortar shop, but I believe it’s purely a cultural thing. If recording music was invented today surely the distribution model would not be imprinting it in a piece of material, packaging it and delivering it, would it?
There is a very powerful piece by Nicholas Carr describing the dumbness produced by having all music in the universe available at whim. I seriously recommend you read it. I happen to agree with Nicholas, but I’m afraid the music industry is re-shaping to be something radically different and there is nothing we can do about that.
How long until you can do a jam session online with you playing the guitar in Argentina and the drummer and bass player in Australia?
How long until a wave widget for collaborative songwriting is created?
Let’s cloud baby, let’s cloud like vapor.
Shuje
On my next post I will uncover Michael Bay’s secret alchemy technique for turning everything into crap. While you wait, post your comments below or mail them to shuje@holoom.com
1. Wanna Be Startin Somethin 6:03
2. Jam 5:39
3. They Dont Care About us 4:45
4. Human Nature 4:06
5. Smooth Criminal 4:17
6. The Way You Make Me Feel 4:59
7. Shake Your Body Down To The Ground 3:54
8. I Just Cant Stop Loving You 4:12
9. Thriller 5:57
10. Beat It 4:18
11. Black Or White 4:16
12. Earth Song 6:46
13. Billie Jean 4:54
14. Man In The Mirror 5:20
15. This Is It 3:37
16. This Is It Orchestra Version 4:55
Disc 02:
1. Shes Out Of My Life Demo 3:19
2. Wanna Be Startin Somethin Demo 5:43
3. Beat It Demo 2:05
4. Planet Earth Poem 3:15
I think going to give up the fight with my poor internet service tonight and post another “Favorite things” pic post quickly to be sure to make the “deadline” tonight (lol, so srs).
1660 – Composer Andre Campra was born.
1667 – Composer Michel Pignolet de Monteclair was born.
1879 – Composer Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty was born.
1961 – Gene Chandler’s “Duke of Earl” was released.
1976 – Tommy Bolin of Deep Purple died of a drug overdose at the age of 25.
1980 – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones made the announcement of their decision not to re-form Led Zeppelin in the wake of the death of drummer John “Bonzo” Bonham.
1987 – Metallica released the “Cliff ‘Em All” video collection.
1988 – Roy Orbison gave his final concert in Akron, OH. He died two days later.
1995 – Michael Jackson appeared with legendary mime Marcel Marceau at New York news conference promoting a Jackson special airing on HBO.
2001 – Gene Simmons’ book “Kiss and Make-Up” was released.
To introduce myself…Hi, Sesi ladies! I’m Jennifer, and I’ll be music blogging for you guys here at Sesi Magazine! So let’s get the music playing!
With the passing of the King of Pop, a influx of music stars have been dishing out their tributes to the music of Michael Jackson. It didn’t take long before R&B/Soul crooner, Maxwell would blanket his velvety vocals over a classic Michael cut in the form of 1982’s, “Lady In My Life”. He stepped up to the mic to perform the track at Wednesday night’s Grammy Nominations concerts, where the soul man himself racked up five Grammy noms, including one for Song of the Year for single, “Pretty Wings”.
Always the charmer, Maxwell, lushly executed the massive Thriller ballad, making it his own and making the ladies swoon in the process.
Michael Jackson, John Travolta, Tiger Wood Solange Magnano, Etc.
12/02/09
Dear reader:
Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) –, Solange Magnano, 37, died in a hospital after being transferred from a clinic where she underwent an elective surgery on her buttocks on Wednesday, the agency reported. Is there anyone famous I did not write about in my endless flow of newsletters over the years? It seems they all have something in common and that is a huge ignorance of the Cosmic Code’s impartial regulations. There is no way for me to recall any of these famous heads and their particular *crime but one thing is sure they all infringed the rules by omitting God’ signs and all have pay a very heavy price in the process.
Tiger Woods apologized for “transgressions” that let his family down — the same day a magazine alleged he had an affair. Again Tiger wood would rather be seen as a cheater only than a drunk too and the decoy is indeed working well. The stars don’t lie while Scorpio *sex / secret / police, the stars did their job Neptune *alcohol / emotion /deception, played also his vital part in the famous golfer’s drama and indeed alcohol was consumed or abused. But unless you possess Cosmic Consciousness you can only go from the *physical evidence. Yet, another very famous but unaware soul * Solange Magnano lost her life in the name of ignorance too and so many more are on the way. While the stars do not favors stars celebrities in the game of stupidity, you the reader, anywhere you are on this planet reading me, you may also be their next victim, have you thought of it? That will be true if you do not expand your own understanding of the Cosmic rules and oblige by the rules of the Divine.
Like so many celebrities and millions of other unlucky dead or alive souls, the decision to undergo surgery when she felt like *or imposed by the busy schedule of her physician, cost Solange her precious life. Her death could have been easily avoided, had she been lucky enough to consult me before making this decision. I would have INDEED strongly advised her to read Moon Power advices carefully on these days and counsel her NOT to go under the knife during a deadly Plutonic window, especially knowing that born in 1971, she inherited also a *nefarious dragon’s tail in Leo.
Leo rules children, fame, the stage, and the ego but with the dragon’s Tail in this sign LIFE itself can easily be snapped and its unlucky owner is seriously prone not only of a great dose of heartaches but heart problems even failure. But how do I know so much about ALL dragons by house and signs? Well, sad enough he touched me closely when my younger brother Vincent, who was born with such a dragon’s tail, lost his life accidentally during a Plutonic window at the tender age of 15 years old. Talk about hand on experiences… and for what sometime I ask myself? When this priceless wisdom is not appreciated or even worth $10 buck per month by some people enjoying and learning for years with me, unwilling to pay a little to reward me by joining my VIP list. Life, success, happiness, pure wisdom, predictions, valuable, funny entertainment including safety is indeed priceless and seems so cheap for some of these readers. I guess when I finally stop feeding greed I can only hope for their own sake to finally join others who rewarded my constant efforts to educate the world.
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Do you remember Selena Quintanilla-Perez? 1971-1995? Yes she was born like Solange the same year in 1971 with the same dragon’s Tail in Leo, and she died very young because of a dispute involving children. Well had she know my work too I would have counseled her to be extra cautious dealing with anything involving her kid’s group and chances are if I was to check at both departed souls, their *personal DRAGON DATES must have been dead on NEGATIVE on the day they met with their early deaths. Doing anything when you feel like or coming up with any excuses to ignore God’ sign is simply gambling with your own death. Yes indeed every single human beings, without exception should heed the stars before making any move and again YOU reader, you’ve got this God sent option at your service with my expertise and indeed, while you are not rich nor famous, you are certainly much more lucky than any and all celebrities in the world who never heard of my work and I.
Given the chance you have to know about my work, chances are any of these supremely wealthy people would own a copy of my book and Moon Power would be sitting next to their bed and consulted regularly every night for any and all of their busy schedules, future events, public performances or most of all, surgeries.
If you take the time to read some of my previous newsletters especially those titled “Rich and Famous but Ignorant” from http://newsletter.drturi.com/ or simply read “What is a Cult Leader or a Deceiving Neptunian?” from http://www.drturi.com/daily.php you may save yourself some serious troubles.
If they can afford hundreds of thousands of dollars for plastic surgery trust me they could also invest in my book or better my VIP cosmic Code newsletter because $10 per month is NOTHING to anyone really. $10 bucks to save thousands or your precious life, or anyone you care is WORTH spending and still, thousands of you reading each and every one of my FREE dragon newsletters will still find excuses to spend this $10 buck somewhere else. SHAME I say, for I have been working so hard for years trying to convince you that I own some serious divine keys here. You had ample time to check my work, especially when my predictions are blasted non-stop on every major public top websites such as Myspace, Twitter and Facebook with DATED predictions. Did you read the last one posted a couple of day ago?
Here you go again but will you make a note of it and let the future ONCE MORE prove me right?
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Now go to http://certifiedpsychics.com/?gclid=CJutiofitp4CFQQMDQodVCn5Cg and ask any of these certified psychics or those on these big websites to do what I do regularly and DEMAND them to post dated predictions such as the one above. Yes you must be joking Dr. Turi if you think any of these souls will take a chance with their *trade, names and integrity in public FOR FREE.
But when this prediction comes true *again, will you make your move and invest in YOU, YOUR future, YOUR life with them or me? OMG! A true Prophet is as rare as can be and even my challenges have not been met by anyone of the millions of others, *mediums, astrologers, psychics, spiritual professing their art to be the finest, the most accurate offered by an angel, a monk they visited in India or God himself. But where is the solid proof? And that’s the difference between me and anyone else in this trade.
While I had to stop collecting and posting the millions of emails of endorsements in my website a long time ago * http://www.drturi.com/tests.php the constant flow poring from all over the world never really stops… This is why it is so important when dealing with your fragile psyche to AVOID suffering a psychic *accident. Yes a bad performance could indeed like any cosmetic surgery SCAR you for the rest of your life and taking chances with these *gifted Sunday spiritualists, without checking their performances, education, predictions is as bad as Solange or Selena ignoring God’s rules and especially the signs above in the heavens.
Your physical body demands serious cautions before anything PHYSICAL is done to it. And so is your SPIRIT! The human *etheric / spiritual body is much more sensitive and vulnerable than its obvious physical envelop. Our infantile regulating science do not *yet perceive the spirit as a separate entity in itself and do not consider it as important with various spiritual treatments. This remark may not necessarily be accurate with a proficient educated advanced Hypnotherapist, psychotherapist a psychologist or a psychiatrist of course. Again all depend of the inherited UCI *Unique Celestial Identity allowing such deep perception.
“Knowledge is Power, ignorance is EVIL!” Period, you make a mistake you will have to pay for it! Because we don’t not have a FDA for psychics or a SSHF *Safe Spiritual Health Food organization yet in place, you are the sole responsible of your decision to undergo a safe MRIS * Magnetic Resonance Imaging of your Spirit.
Medical science is well aware of the limits of the physical human body and still tremendous errors are made daily. Within the realm of the spirit there are also powerful hidden forces at work that are unknown to the majority of spiritual violators and the victims. And this does bring about *errors of a humongous magnitude.
An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records by HealthGrades, the healthcare quality company.
Sad enough because this Neptunian profession is not accepted yet, as valuable by our moronic science thus I could not find any solid record but guess what? In the UK alone over FIVE millions people visit psychics a minimum of 3 times a year! Imagine that. But how many people do we have right here in the US doing the same thing? Certainly much more than five millions for sure thus I let you do the math reader and guess how many of these lost souls have been either deceived, abused or worse suffered a psychic accident. While ALL psychics I know are driven to really help you from the bottom of their heart and some are indeed fabulous, the mechanics behind the predictive *art and its manifestations are much more complex trust me. If I was the President of the non existent “SSHF *Safe Spiritual Health Food” I would make it the law for everyone of these savior psychic souls to master all about the creative forces of the subconscious, its interaction with the Supraconcious in time and space and its direct relationships with the Cosmic Code. I will also make it mandatory to learn all about Hypnotherapy and most of all of course Astropsychology. http://www.drturi.com/astroclass.php
And all they have to offer you is an unproven *gift and a sincere desire to help you and your future? You may as well allow your *dentist to remove a tooth with a hammer and a chisel after ingesting a shot of tequila or your *surgeon to use a chain saw to remove your appendix. Yes this may sound funny but without the proper education the dangers are very real and what is even worse is that these millions of people have NO clue and become the prime target for disaster. Again too many people from all walks of life have lost their lives or suffered scars that will never dissipate because they DID NOT KNOW that there is such a thing called “psychic accident”.
Now there is absolutely NO difference between a “psychic accident” and “religious poisoning” I may add. Do you really expect a child brought up with a fear of hell to grow up normally or slowly become psychotic, depressive even suicidal? What type of future or hopes this spiritual victim will have when he is assured daily that the end of the world is near? OMG there is no difference between an ignorant psychic wanting to make a few bucks on Sunday than you local Minister, be sure of that. Both are lost Neptunians and their victims totally ignorant of the steady hypnotic detrimental spiritual carving he endured since childhood. The same technique build terrorists, they are schooled very early to kill anyone who do not endorse their belief…
Young Victim of a Political / Religious System Humans are machine of habits that becomes robotically acting their stars and without education *Cosmic Consciousness the will *or the part of God stronger than the stars, CAN NOT be applied!
Some people may read my words critically and *assume I own a HUGE ego or again *assume this is a great sale technique to gain more clients or even think I am envious or what ever, when actually people I simply and honestly CARE about you, that’s all. The pile of work sitting on my desk can only assure me that not only I speak the truth but also many smart souls did not buy into Neptunians lies and investigated me thoughtfully before confiding their psyche with full trust to me. And that is the purpose of this newsletter to serve and protect as good as any cop would do on the battlefield. Every job demands responsibility and this *psychic field is badly understood but indeed a vital spiritual service that needs serious regulations.
The battered human spirit needs regeneration or DIE and anything spiritual even if it’s purely deceiving or poisoning is sad enough better than nothing at all. And this is why psychics and ministers alike are assured to make a living because as it stands now there is nothing else available to them. That would indeed change really fast if, with your help, I had the option to reach the mass and finally satisfy humankind’s desperate thirst for true wisdom. www.drturi.com/orders3.html
So far my pearls of truth are slowing catching up the attention of many people world wide and my obnly way of *recruiting more VIP’s and afford my television project is to keep writing more free newsletters. But my time is becoming more and more precious with so much I have to do and feeding the greedy majority of the readers unwilling to pay $10 a month for my priceless, unmatchable predictive gift is coming to an end. Much of the new VIP’s are coming from the good words and great endorsements my current VIP’s
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So, in honour of Janet performing on the Sunday show this week, it’s Michael Jackson week on the X Factor. Considering the MJ renaissance we had earlier this year, I think we all found ourselves experiencing Jacko overload, but hopefully it has been long enough now for us to hear all the songs again. After all, they are great songs.
But what will everyone do?? There are rumours flying around, but nothing has been substantiated yet. Will Danyl shake his booty again? Or will it be back to ballads for him? Will Stacey and Joe change it up, and prove they are more versatile? Will Olly finally pull off a big note, and have his X Factor moment?
The bookies seem to think it is a foregone conclusion that Stacey and Joe will be in the final… But will they? Or are the viewers starting to find them a bit dull, and – dare I say it – a bit Vegas. Sure, Joe has a fabulous voice, but can he do a current pop song, and sound relevant? And can Stacey veer off her current course, where she is on an express train to Celine Dion-ville?
Luckily for Dan-fans (or Fanyls as they are becoming known) Jacko week should suit him down to a tea. I hope he does something sexy, and edgy, and pulls out some more moves – but perhaps slightly less G-A-Y than last week! (I mean, his Relight My Fire performance was definitely fun, but might not appeal to everyone!)
And of course, the other rumour is that only one song will be MJ and the other will be personal choice. Which is when it gets really interesting, because you can see the songs that they really want to sing…
So, I promise to keep you all posted with song choices as they come to light. And in the meantime, enjoy JLS from Michael Jackson week last year, performing the only number that sticks in my mind from that week (apart from the carcrash that was Rachel’s Dirty Diana!) – The Way You Make Me Feel.
