((( THEY CALL THE WIND MARIA )))

Maria

Maria

They call the wind Maria

Away out here they got a name

For rain and wind and fire

The rain is Tess, the fire Joe,

And they call the wind Maria

Maria blows the stars around 

And sends the clouds a’flyin’

Maria makes the mountains sound

Like folks were up there dying

Maria

Maria

They call the wind Maria

Before I knew Maria’s name

And heard her wail and whinin’

I had a girl and she had me

And the sun was always shinin’

But then one day I left my girl

I left her far behind me

And now I’m lost, so gone and lost

Not even God can find me

Maria

Maria

They call the wind Maria

Out here they got a name for rain

For wind and fire only

But when you’re lost and all alone

There ain’t no word but lonely

And I’m a lost and lonely man

Without a star to guide me

Maria blow my love to me

I need my girl beside me

Maria

Maria

They call the wind Maria

Maria

Maria!

Blow my love to me

*New Karaoke Song

((( FRANKIE LAINE: RAWHIDE )))

Rollin', rollin', rollin'.

Rollin', rollin', rollin'.

Rollin', rollin', rollin'.

Rollin', rollin', rollin'.

Rawhide!

Hah! Hah! 

Keep rollin', rollin', rollin',

Though the streams are swollen,

Keep them dogies rollin', rawhide.

Through rain and wind and weather,

Hell bent for leather,

Wishin' my gal was by my side.

All the things I'm missin',

Good vittles, love, and kissin',

Are waiting at the end of my ride. 

Move 'em out, head 'em up,

Head 'em up, move 'em on.

Move 'em out, head 'em up:

Rawhide.

Cut 'em out, ride 'em in,

Ride 'em in, cut 'em out,

Cut 'em out, ride 'em in:

Rawhide!

Hah! Hah! 

Movin', movin', movin',

Though they're disapprovin',

Keep them dogies movin', rawhide.

Don't try to understand 'em,

Just rope an' throw an' brand 'em.

Soon we'll be living high and wide.

My heart's calculatin',

My true love will be waitin':

Waitin' at the end of my ride. 

Move 'em out, head 'em up,

Head 'em up, move 'em on.

Move 'em out, head 'em up:

Rawhide.

Cut 'em out, ride 'em in,

Ride 'em in, cut 'em out,

Cut 'em out, ride 'em in:

Rawhide! 

(Rollin', rollin', rollin'.)

(Rollin', rollin', rollin'.)

Hah!

(Rollin', rollin', rollin'.)

Hah!

(Rollin', rollin', rollin'.)

Rawhide.

Hah!

Rawhide! 

*New Karaoke Song

((( SWEET PEA )))

Oh, Sweet Pea

Come on and dance with me

Come on, come on, come on and dance with me

Oh, Sweet Pea

Won't you be my girl

Won't you, won't you, won't you be my girl

I went to a dance just the other night

I saw a girl there she was out of sight

I asked a friend of mine who she could be

He said that her friends just call her Sweet Pea

Oh, Sweet Pea

Come on and dance with me

Come on, come on, come on and dance with me

Oh, Sweet Pea

Won't you be my girl

Won't you, won't you, won't you be my girl

I walked on over and I asked her to dance

Thinkin' maybe later of

makin' romance

But every guy there was thinkin' like me

I had to stand in line

To get a dance with Sweet Pea

Oh, Sweet Pea

Come on and dance with me

Come on, come on, come on and dance with me

Oh, Sweet Pea

Won't you be my girl

Won't you, won't you, won't you be my girl

I finally got to whisper sweet words in her ear

Convinced her that we oughta get away from there

We took a little walk

I held her close to me

And underneath the stars I said to Sweet Pea

Oh, Sweet Pea I love you can't you see

Love you, love you, love you can't you see

Oh, Sweet Pea

Won't you be my girl

Won't you, won't you, won't you be my girl

*New Karaoke Song

((( DYNAMO: DEMON MAGIC? )))

"This book is really about proving to you that

nothing is impossible

It's about showing that whatever you want to achieve, you can make it happen"

~ from his book: Dynamo ~


MY COMMENT:

From this and other things in his book

he doesn't sound very demon possessed to me,

but what do I know, right?

((( THE UNIVERSE RESPONDS: DEATH SPEAKS!! )))

And, as if on cue,

the Universe responded to Obama's speech

ON OCTOBER 3RD 2013

by having a woman apparently go so insane with anger over this shutdown matter

that, with her young child in the car,

she drove through Capital Hill barricades in Washington DC

and was shot dead!!!

The Washington politicians were told to hide

and that's what they are apparently doing

hiding like the cowards they truly are!!!

IT USUALLY TAKES DEATH 

FOR THEM TO TAKE

THEIR POLITICAL DECISIONS SERIOUSLY

NOW maybe they will WAKE UP, 

put the government funding bill to a vote

AND REOPEN THE BLOODY AMERICAN GOVERNMENT!!!

THIS JACKASS REPUBLICAN 

WHITE SUPREMACISTS HOUSE SPEAKER BOEHNER

HAD BETTER BE MORE AFRAID OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

THAN HE IS OF RADICAL REPUBLICANS!!

IF OBAMA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR SHUTTING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT LIKE THIS

HE WOULD BE IMMEDIATELY IMPEACHED!!!!!

OF COURSE, THE RICH WHITE REPUBLICANS 

THINK THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING

MAY THAT MOTHER'S DEATH NOT BE IN VAIN!!

((( MESSAGE FROM MOTHER NATURE )))

A message for humanity

given to me by Mother Nature

over and over and over for the space of many years

while in deep trance states

It continues to grow stronger

I created this using 

the Xtranormal animation program

using one of their stock program voices

((( THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE )))

This is a very important video

Dr. Michio Kaku makes it clear at the end that the will of the people

is more powerful than the war plans of a war mongering government

I say the will of the people is more powerful than the Republicans

who have effectively KIDNAPPED the American government 

forcing the government to shutdown and demanding a 'ransom' or they will not reopen it!

It seems to me that these Republicans should be looked upon 

AS KIDNAPPERS AND TERRORISTS!!!

THEY SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND THROWN IN JAIL

FOR HOLDING THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT HOSTAGE

OF COURSE THE TERRORISTS AGAINST AMERICA

ARE HAPPY ABOUT THIS MATTER

YOU CAN BET THEY ARE!!!

ANY GOVERNMENT ACTION IN AMERICA

THAT GIVES THE TERRORISTS AGAINST AMERICA

REASON TO REJOICE IS MOST PROBABLY

((( CRIMINALLY WRONG!!! )))

((( AFFORDABLE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE )))

"It was 1969 when Senator Kennedy, recognizing the success of Medicare for senior citizens, first called for universal health care for all Americans. "We must begin to move now to establish a comprehensive national health insurance program, capable of bringing the same amount and high quality of health care to every man, woman, and child in the United States," Kennedy said at Boston University Medical Center on December 16, 1969.

Senator Kennedy has spent his public life fighting for comprehensive health care for all Americans. Over the decades, tens of millions have benefited from his sustained efforts."

http://tedkennedy.org/service/item/health_care


MY COMMENT:

Unless I am mistaken 

TODAY OCTOBER 1ST 2013

Will live as a day in history where the dream of Ted Kennedy was FINALLY REALIZED!!!

It took over 40 YEARS FOR THAT DREAM TO BE REALIZED!!!

WHAT IS AMAZING IS THAT IT TOOK A BLACK AMERICAN PRESIDENT

TO FINALLY GET IT DONE!!!!!

No matter how hard they tried, the whites couldn't do it!!

Whoah! That's something alright!!

The Republicans were so angry about it

they made certain the American government was shut down!!!!

I usually don't give a damn about the news, 

but today...I have made an exception

for there should be certain days when I do make an exception and watch the news

and TODAY is American history in the making!

According to what I have studied

the Democrats have been fighting a hell of a long time

for what American President Obama accomplished today

it is indeed a day that will be remembering in history

for American President Obama

and a day of infamy for the rich white American Republicans

THEY are the "bad guys" in this matter

and there's no getting around it!!!

((( STAR TRUCK VO 1 )))

Considering the next post I'd say it's time for Star Truck VO 1

Doing the voice over for Star Truck was quite an experience with the Xtranormal company. The first version was done with the stock program voices and did it ever sound stiff!!

Man, what a challenge for my voice to do all those voices. Sounding like a street-walking black ho was the worst. I guess it should hurt me the most, right? Serves me right for making Star Trek Uhura talk like that.

Since the Star Trek bridge was interracial I thought I would go all out and have silly fun with the concept.

This is only for the strong who can take it

If you go to church regularly do yourself a favor and don't watch this video, okay?

Hey, you were warned, right?

This video is dedicated to how disappointed I was to find that one of the original Enterprise bridge-crew is gay. Which one? Watch the video and take a wild guess

((( THE SERPO EXCHANGE PROGRAM )))

Well, it SEEMS

that while the government's OFFICIAL position

on advanced UFO aliens from other planets 

is there are none they know of

they have secretly been in contact with the UFO civilization

from whom the Roswell UFO crashes made history

( supposedly there were two UFO craft that collided in the Roswell area )

Apparently, the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind

was based on actual events!

THE SERPO EXCHANGE PROGRAM

Lies, cheating and trickery have obviously become

THE AMERICAN WAY!!!

If George Washington were alive

he'd probably be rallying the American people

to overthrow this corrupt government

((( PEACE OF MIND )))

Gratitude and appreciation opens the most wonderful doors of blessings the Universe has to offer. Those who are not grateful and appreciative end up scraping the bottom of the barrel of life overwhelmed with a burden of things to complain about. The more they complain the more they attract and manifest more reasons to complain. It's a vicious cycle that many are hopelessly stuck in and will probably never escape within their miserable lifetimes.

Oh well....

It took me a long while to finally realize that everyone has the right to ruin their lives if they so choose and it's none of my business if they choose to do so.

It took a hell of a lot of suffering before I learned that lesson and began to understand that a great portion of peace of mind comes from minding one's own business whenever possible.

You can be a great Buddha who has mastered yourself, but if you are then put in charge of a monastery and are responsible for monks who have not mastered themselves chances are your peace of mind will be continually sabotaged. It's rather impossible for the "enlightened" leader of a monastery to mind his own business when his monks get into trouble because they are not so very "enlightened". What the monks of the Buddha did was indeed the Buddha's business whether he liked it or not!

I remember reading a story of how one of The Buddha's monks was a homosexual and was seducing other monks. Oh man! Was the Buddha ever pissed off when he found out! Gave his "enlightened" peace of mind a real kick in the nuts alright!

((( PUT ON A HAPPY FACE )))

Gray skies are gonna clear up,

Put on a happy face;

Brush off the clouds and cheer up,

Put on a happy face.

Take off the gloomy mask of tragedy,

It's not your style;

You'll look so good that you'll be glad

Ya' decide to smile!

Pick out a pleasant outlook,

Stick out that noble chin;

Wipe off that "full of doubt" look,

Slap on a happy grin!

And spread sunshine all over the place,

Just put on a happy face!

Put on a happy face

Put on a happy face

And if you're feeling cross and bitterish

Don't sit and whine

Think of banana split and licorice

And you'll feel fine

I knew a girl so gloomy

She'd never laugh or sing

She wouldn't listen to me

Now she's a mean old thing

So spread sunshine all over the place

Just put on a happy face

So, put on a happy face

*New Karaoke Song

((( THE EXTINCTION OF HUMANITY )))

There is a very serious recurring problem with humanity

that just may very well lead to the extinction of the species

It has to do with unwittingly asking for problems

then bitching, moaning and complaining when the problems asked for manifest

I've seen this in my life, in the lives of others and in the ways of governments

IT IS A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM, PEOPLE!!!

If YOU don't fix this in your personal lives 

it will never get fixed in the world as a whole

There is a lot at stake here

I suggest you prepare

for sudden death at the hands of

An Enraged Mother Nature

It may happen at any moment!

((( ANTONIO SOLER )))

ANTONIO SOLER

December 3, 1729 - December 20, 1783

born in Olot, Gerona, Spain, composed during the Classical period

Antonio Francisco Javier Jose Soler was an eighteenth century Catalan composer, priest, monk, student, teacher, mathematician, inventor, and organist. His life was spent serving both the Catholic Church and music. He was a prolific composer with over 400 compositions credited to him by the time of his death at age 54. Soler spent most of his life at monasteries, particularly El Escorial, the magnificent royal palace, chapel, and monastery built by King Philip II outside of Madrid two centuries earlier.

Soler apparently came from a musical family. His brother, Mateu, played bassoon in the monastery of Las Descalzas Reales and then in the court of Carlos III, and finally in the Capilla Real. His musical training began at a very early age. In 1736, he became a student at the Benedictine monastery choir school at Montserrat where he learned organ and composition. Between 1752 and 1757, while in his early twenties, Soler studied with Domenico Scarlatti, the Italian composer who served the Spanish court of Ferdinand VI and Maria Barbara.

Prior to going to El Escorial, where he spent the rest of his life, Soler was the maestro de capilla at Lerida and was ordained subdeacon in 1752. Later that same year, he joined the Hieronymite order of monks at El Escorial monastery and professed to the order in 1753.

Soler performed many duties at El Escorial. In 1757, he became maestro de capilla. In addition, he performed as first organist, wrote much of the church music, and taught music. Perhaps his most prestigious student was the son of Carlos III, Don Gabriel de Bourbon. Soler taught the young Don Gabriel keyboard and many of the Soler's harpsichord sonatas were written for him.

It is difficult for most to grasp Soler's level of productivity, particularly in light of his many other duties and interests. His musical compositions included over 120 sonatas for harpsichord, six quintets for organ and strings, six double organ concertos, 10 masses, five requiems, 132 villancicos, and many other works. His most famous was a sonata for harpsichord entitled Fandango.

Soler also wrote a treatise on harmony, Llave de la Modulación (1762) whose concepts remain valid today. This treatise, however, caused considerable controversy and rebuke by some of his peers. These criticisms caused Soler such dismay that in 1765, he responded with a written retort, Satisfacción a los reparos precisos, which spanned 67 pages and was supported by such noted authorities as Morales, Palestrina, and Scarlatti. The controversy did not end until a final defense was provided in Jose Vila's Respuestra y dictamen in 1766.

He developed another treatise in 1771 that demonstrated his interest and skill in mathematics. This book was on Castilian and Catalan currency exchange and was published in honor of Carlos III. Soler was a man of other talents in addition to those mentioned. He invented a tuning box that was used to demonstrate differences between tones and semitones to Don Gabriel. He was also expert in organ design and construction. In 1776, he developed the specifications for an organ for the Malaga Cathedral. ~ Bruce Lundgren, Rovi

MY COMMENT:

The thing that inspires me most about Antonio Soler are the other things, besides music, that he did. I mean, the guy was a veritable Leonardo Da Vinci, for crying out loud! I'm surprised I've never heard of him before

((( SON OF BACH )))

March 8, 1714 - December 14, 1788

born in Weimar, Germany, composed during the Classical period

The second surviving son of J.S. Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel was the most innovative and idiosyncratic member of an extremely talented musical family. His music, unlike that of his father or that of the master he influenced, Haydn, did not define an era so much as reveal a deeply personal response to the musical conventions of his time.

C.P.E. Bach could play his father's technically demanding keyboard pieces at sight by the time he was seven. Also an exceptional student in areas other than music, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1731 to study law, then transferred to the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. He graduated in 1734, but remained in that backwater town giving keyboard lessons, involving himself in public concerts, and learning the composer's craft.

By 1740 Bach was in Berlin as harpsichordist to Frederick the Great of Prussia. Here he was first exposed to Italian opera seria, and its dramatic style infiltrated his instrumental music. Little of this was heard at court, where Bach accompanied the flutist-king in one reactionary concerto after another by Quantz. He made several attempts to find a new position, but the stress of the king's disfavor was partially relieved in 1756, when Frederick became distracted by the Seven Years' War and was frequently away from the court. Bach found a select audience for his remarkable and experimental series of keyboard works such as the so-called "Prussian" and "Württemberg" sonatas (composed in the early 1740s) and the Sonatas with Varied Repeats (1760).

Bach finally got himself released from Frederick's service in 1768 in order to succeed Telemann as cantor at the Johanneum in Hamburg, also serving as music director for the city's five major churches; he held this post until his death.

Stylistically distant from his father's rigorous polyphony, C.P.E. Bach was something of a proto-Romantic; he was the master of Empfindsamkeit, or "intimate expressiveness." The dark, dramatic, improvisation-like passages that appear in some of Mozart's and Haydn's works are due in part to his influence; his music in time became known all over Europe. His impulsive works for solo keyboard, which lurch into unexpected keys, change tempo and dynamics abruptly, and fly along with wide-ranging themes, are especially compelling. One account of Bach's after-dinner improvisations described the sweaty, glazed-eyed musician as "possessed," an adjective that would be applied to equally intense and idiosyncratic musicians in the Romantic age. Many of his symphonies are as audacious as his keyboard pieces.

In the area of chamber music, Bach pulled the keyboard out of its subsidiary Baroque role and made it a full partner with, or even leader of, the other instruments. Yet here he fashioned the music to the public's conservative expectations, as he did with his church music. He composed prolifically in many genres, and much of his work awaits public rediscovery.

Bach also produced an important account of performance practice in the second half of the eighteenth century, translated into English as Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments. ~ James Reel, Rovi


MY COMMENT:

No myths about this guy selling his soul
It's about time, right?