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Music
I love lots of stuff...Escapist Papers is a great band from NYC whom you can hear on MySpace...Also on MySpace is Pink Martini (China Forbes)...just fab...pure genius...Graziano Romani and Dirk Hamilton whom I performed with in Italy...exceptional singers, songwriters, and people...please check them out here on MySpace, Also check out Rahj, he IS Hip Hop at its best...BUY HIS CD!!!! Then there's Lucy Wainwright Roche, quite a heritage...very fresh...you need to check out all these guys here on MySpace, THE place to be...watch World Music Beat on Link TV...Rachid Taha is the Algerian Springsteen...I adore Hector Buitrago...Vicente Amigo is brilliant...Chello is a Latin Artist who is great fun...so much wonderful stuff out there that is way, way beyond American Mainstream Radio, people! I just discovered a great guitarist/singer named Anne McCue on a Live 6 Web site for Variax guitars. I grew up with music all around me 24/7...Gershwin, Puccini, Chopin, Mozart, Verdi, Cole Porter, Gilbert and Sullivan, Rogers and Hart and Hammerstein, Sammy Davis Jr., The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Motown, The Chambers Brothers, John Sebastian, Dylan, Louis Armstrong, Miriam Makeba, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, Anthony Newley, Sergio Mendez and The Brazil 66, Neil Young, Tom Jones, Joni Mitchell, Elton John, Barbara Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, Carly Simon, Crosby Stills and Nash, Dion, Donavan, Herb Alpert, The 5th Dimension, The Stones, Segovia, Billie Holliday, Jimi Hendrix, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Bird and Trane and Diz, Miles Davis, Buddy Rich, Hank Williams, Judy Collins, Judy Garland, Aretha, Stevie Wonder, Edgar and Johnny Winter, George Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, Led Zepplin, Laura Nyro, Patsy Cline, Simon and Garfunkel, Carole King, James Taylor, The Moody Blues, Traffic, King Crimson, Blood Sweat and Tears, later on...Gil Scott-Heron, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Pete Townshend, The Police, Todd Rundgren, Al Green, Barry White, Ottis Redding, Marvin Gaye, The Diamonds (Joel Kraus), Frankie Lymon, Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke, The Clash, Bob Marley, k.d. lang, Annie Lennox, The Cars, Hall and Oats, Billy Joel, Garland Jeffreys, Southside Johnny, James Brown, Ray Charles, Odetta, Bruce Springsteen (The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle up to The River period), Cleo Lane, Nina Simone, Van Morrison (1985, Beacon Theater, NYC, "Summertime in England" was a truly a religious experience!), Muddy Waters, World Party, Willie Nelson, Shona Laing, Randy Newman, Fleetwood Mac (early with Peter Green especially), Spencer Davis, The Yardbirds, Steve Marriot, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Wanda Jackson, Joe Jackson, Warren Zevon, Prince, Tears For Fears, Blondie, Patti Smith, Graham Parker, Ronnie Dawson, The Skeletons, The Morrells, Jonathan Richmond, Michael Jackson, Dwight Yoakam, Buck Owens, Carl Perkins, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper, Suzanne Vega, The Motors, Roy Orbison, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Desire, Jules Shear, Charlton Pettus, and I am sure that I am leaving out a lot of greats...there will be more as I think of them. I am always loyal to the other Alumni of Bleecker Street...Mark Johnson, Jack Hardy, Steve Forbert, John Macandoe, David Massengil, Bernie Shanahan, Jonathan Kalb, Jon Paris, Josie Kuhn, Frank Christian, Nancy Lee Baxter, Willie Nile, Tom Pacheco, Stevie Cochran, The Roches, Elliot Simon, Lucy Kaplanski, Rod MacDonald and Tom Intondi. You all taught me so very well.
Movies
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." (Julius Caesar)
Flobots - "Handlebars"
CAROLYNE MAS My 3 promo videos from 1979...They made me pin the hat to my head..."Stillsane" "Quote Goodbye Quote" and "Never Two Without Three."
CAROLYNE MAS "Go Ahead and Cry Now," The Bathurst Theatre, Toronto 12/15/79
CAROLYNE MAS "Due Relief," The Markthalle Theater, Hamburg, Germany 1/21/1981
Also from the same show in Hamburg, "Midnight Confessions." I spent years trying to get Mercury Records to let me record this version. It was a real show-stopper for us, but they couldn't have cared less.
The Ghost an Mrs. Muir, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Groundhog Day, Planes Trains and Automobiles, The Haunting (1963), A Thousand Clowns, The Resurrection of the Champ, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Carnival of Souls (1962), Falling in Love, Love the Hard Way, White Christmas, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Coconuts, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bananas, Deconstructing Henry, Shopgirl, Grand Canyon, I'm Losing You, Lord of War, Adaptation, Peggy Sue Got Married, Somewhere in Time, The Weather Man, One Night at McCool's, Heavy, Cinema Paradiso, A Thousand Clowns, Hud, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Finnegan Begin Again, The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom, Philadelphia, Fallen, Falling Down, Forbidden Palnet, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds (1953), Invaders From Mars (1953), Back to the Future, Being Human, Threads, Games, Funny Games, House of Games, Chaplin, Bagdad Cafe, Zucker Baby, The Shawshank Redemption, The Ruling Class, Lorenzo's Oil, Miracle Mile, Eat the Rich, Unfaithful, The Money Pit, Love and Death on Long Island, Flirting, The Last Laugh, The Night of the Hunter...and so many more!
Television
No Reservations, Bizarre Foods, Sex and the City, when it was on HBO. Great writers and actors on that show. Sarah Silverman, Chris Rock, George Carlin, and any other great comics who appear on cable. I love to laugh! I discovered Everybody Hates Chris on a plane flight, and bought the DVDs. Hillarious! Older favorites include (not in chronological order) Law and Order (the original, although the spin-offs are quite good), Northern Exposure, M.A.S.H., ER, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, The Cosby Show, The Prisoner, Seinfeld, Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone (originals), The Time Tunnel, The Outer Limits (originals), One Step Beyond, The Waltons, Red Skelton, The Smothers Brothers, Twelve O'Clock High, Dr. Kildare, Perry Mason (original), Star Trek (original), Columbo (original), I Love Lucy. Anyone my age remember "What in the World"?
Books
The End of America; The Beauty Myth; Handbook for the New Paradigm' The Shock Doctrine; The Giving Tree; Moby Dick; Great Expectations; The Mysterious Stranger; Needful Things; The Dead Zone; Alice in Wonderland; A Drinking Life; Don Quixote; The Sun Also Rises; Horton Hatches an Egg; The Diary of Anne Frank; In Cold Blood; Innocent Merriment...too many to list.
Heroes
...the thinkers, the shakers, the movers, the originals...Lillian Hellman, Kate Hepburn, and George Sands for challenging the role of women in society. Dian Fossey and Mother Theresa for their compassion and sacrifice. Those who risk their lives helping the needy all around the world. Those who care for the sick, the homeless, the orphaned, the poor, and with their love elevate their existance. Those who love the unloved. Those who respect the earth and the animals who roam it. Those who question everything and dare to live. The true artist who thrusts his/her heart up to into the light for us to examine. My Aunt Ana, who recently passed away. She was 94. Ana, my dear and wise Ana, you died living. Her last words to me were, "Don't stop." She was listening to me play the piano in her room. I will never forget this.
Who I'd like to meet: My musician friends who have passed away...Ivan, Bobby, Steve, Bill, Big Danny, Jeff, Tom...I'd like to meet you all for a meal and tell you how much you have meant to me...I miss you Faris, you can bring the wine... John Lennon, Bob Marley, David Icke, Gore Vidal, Einstein, Robert Downey, Jr., Michael Tsarion, Joni Mitchell, Pete Townshend, my Dad who passed in 2002...I'd love for him to be able to hold his grandson just once...and I miss him.
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
Thank oyu for your lovely comment on my picture. I am not sure why it turned out all blurry like that, probably the quality of the camera (being cheap). Thank you for the compliments. You are appreciated Carolyne :)
Hi.. I met a new MySpace friend today.. Her name is Dianna Paul. She is a singer/songwriter and she blessed me with a video she did called "The Rose".. It's a Bitter/sweet song about young love, the war and how they sometimes produce conflicting plans. I want to share it with you. I promise you will like it!
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