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adelleandlaura4ever · 1 year ago

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Lovely Day !

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When I wake up in the morning, love

And the sunlight hurts my eyes

And something without warning, love

Bears heavy on my mind

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

When the day that lies ahead of me

Seems impossible to face

When someone else instead of me

Always seems to know the way

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

When the day that lies ahead of me

Seems impossible to face

And when someone else instead of me

Always seems to know the way

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

Songwriters: Bill Withers / Clarence Kermit Mcdonald / Skip Scarborough

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Laura,

My days are always Lovely,

with you in my life!

They are full of love and adventure,

Happiness and fun!

All it takes is the look in Your eyes

and the love in your heart.

I love you deeply, Laura ❤️❤️❤️

@dreamiingofher

@adelleandlaura4ever

#adelle&laura #Youtube

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nicht-ganz-allein-sunny · 16 days ago

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"Ein Pferd! Ein Pferd! Mein Königreich für ein Pferd!"

Shakespeares RICHARD III ist vor allem eins: Komplex. Trotz eines zweiseitigen Personenverzeichnisses, in dem alle irgendwie gleich heißen, und einem ersten Akt der zur Hälfte aus einer "Was bisher geschah"-Exposition besteht, lohnt es sich vor Besuch des Stückes den Text mit seinen zig Charakteren, die alle irgendwie miteinander verwandt sind, querzulesen, oder sich zumindest die kurze Zusammenfassung mit Playmobil-Figuren auf YouTube anzuschauen.

Zeitlich setzen wir direkt nach Shakespeares Dreiteiler Henry VI ein. Der dort titelgebende Henry ist nunmehr tot und aktuell regiert der kränkelnde Edward IV das Land. Unser Protagonist Richard, Lord von Gloucester, beginnt das Stück damit, dem Publikum zur erzählen wie missgestaltet er ist, wie sehr er den aktuellen Frieden hasst und wie Böse er eigentlich sein möchte. Richard selbst will eigentlich viel lieber selbst König sein und metzelt sich deshalb in den Akten 1 bis 3 fröhlich einmal quer durch die eigene und die angeheiratete Familie und den restlichen Königshof von England. Doch kaum hat er die Königskrone durch eine Mischung aus Intrigen, Verleumdung und Mord errungen, bahnt sich ein neuer Krieg an, in dem Richard die Herrschaft streitig gemacht werden soll. Auch den Gefolgsleuten von Richard fällt schnell auf: Die Wände haben Ohren und es ist leicht einem irren Tyrannenkönig und seinen Machenschaften zum Opfer zu fallen und wem sein Leben lieb ist, der sollte besser die Beine in die Hand nehmen. Am Ende stirbt Richard, allein und hintergangen, halb wahnsinnig und verfolgt von den Geistern seiner Toten, in der Schlacht und der nächste König besteigt den Thron von England.

Am Schauspiel Leipzig inszeniert Enrico Lübbe Shakespeares Schurkenstück RICHARD III seit der Spielzeit 24/25 ohne viel Kürzungen in der vielschichtigen Handlung und mit einer ganzen Menge an visueller Erzählkraft.

Der von Anne Cathrin Buhtz verkörperte Richard betritt die Bühne zu Beginn der Vorstellung aus dem Publikum heraus zu sanfter Jazz-Musik, leicht tänzelnd, wie ein Spaßmacher, der augenzwinkernd sagen will "Hey. Ich bin doch einer von euch". Auch nachdem sich der Vorhang gehoben hat und das verschachtelte Bühnenbild, welches mit seinen vergitterten Abteilen an ein typisches DDR-Kellerabteil oder auch an einen Schlachthof erinnert, enthüllt wird, wendet sich Richard immer wieder direkt an uns als Publikum, um uns mit leicht säuselnden Worten zu seinen Komplizen machen.

Wir verfolgen Richards Komplott gebannt von unseren Plätzen und fühlen uns durch die Einbindung irgendwie mitverantwortlich für sein Handeln. Ein großer Sympathisant wird aus dem Lord von Gloucester dabei während des ganzen Abends nicht, der zwar körperlich nicht übermäßig brutal daherkommt, charakterlich aber ziemlicher Widerling ist. Trotzdem kommt man nicht umher ihm den tattrigen König Edward IV, der wie ein dementes Gemüse durch den Thronsaal schlurft, oder dessen beiden minderbemittelten Söhnen, die später im Tower von London sterben werden, bei der Herrscherwahl vorzuziehen.

Nach und nach fallen Richards Gegner seinem Henkerspruch zum Opfer. Begonnen wird mit seinem Bruder Clarence, der im Tower durch zwei Mörder mit Moralbedenken, die sich trotz ihrer McDonalds-Tüte und ihren an die Bullyparade erinnernden Kostümen absurd gut in den Abend einfügen, in einer Badewanne ertränkt wird. Nach dem Tod von Edward IV geht es dann den Verwandten der Königin, die mit ihrer opulenten, elisabethanisch-angehauchten Ausstattung stark im Kontrast zu Richards Buissness-Casual-Sippe stehen, an die Halskrause. Die Tötungen erfolgen dabei immer abseits der Bühne, angedeutet durch kurze Standbilder oder gedämpfte Pistolenschüsse. Um so brutaler wirkt es dann, als Richard den in einen schwarzen Plastikbeutel, in dem ihm der Kopf des von ihm zum Verräter erklärten Lord Hastings überreicht wird, einmal mit voller Wucht über die Bühne schmeißt.

Der Rest von Richards Gefolgschaft scheint das nicht so problematisch zu sehen: Er ist ja eigentlich ein Guter! Wer wäre besser für die Krone geeignet? Schaut, er hat sogar zwei Mönche dabei und betet! Kein anderer sollte König sein! Aber warum einer der Mönche eigentlich einen McDonalds-Becher dabei?

Nach der Pause sehen wir uns dem großen, grauen Brandschutzvorhang gegenüber und wie zu Beginn der Vorstellung erhebt sich auch diesmal ein Charakter aus der Mitte des Publikums: Queen Margaret, die Witwe des verstorbenen Königs Henry VI, die nun zusammen mit der Witwe von Edward IV, Lady Anne (die Richard aus Versehen geheiratet hat, weil sie ihn sexuell charmant fand) und Richards Mutter, der Herzogin von York, gegen Gott und die Welt wettert und dabei alles und jeden mit Flüchen und Verwüstungen belegt.

Der gerade gekrönte Richard kommt dazu und könnte davon nicht weniger beeindruckt sein: Es steht Krieg an und die Hälfte seiner Gefolgschaft scheint zum Meutern bereit oder ist bereits vor Skrupel geflohen. Was bietet sich da also mehr an als eine Allianz? Und während Richard Königin Elisabeth noch den Vorschlag unterbreitet er könne ja ihre Tochter heiraten (seine Frau Anne ist gerade zufällig nebenbei gestorben), um die Tatsache das er den Rest ihrer Verwandtschaft und ihre Söhne kurzerhand einen Kopf kürzer gemacht hat wieder aufzubessern, schleift Lord Catsby, den geflohenen Buckingham durch eine Seitentür des Saals auf die Bühne.

Buckingham wendet sich flehend an seinen König, den er bis zum Mord am Prinzenpaar im Tower doch ohne Widerrede unterstützt hat, und während wir darauf warten, dass er zum Sterben hinter die Bühne geschickt wird, beugt sich Richard, Augenkontakt zum Publikum haltend, zu ihm und bricht ihm mit einem lauten KNACK das Genick. Eine akustische Schockwelle in Form von erschrockenem nach Luft schnappen rollt durch den Saal, während sich Richard wieder der Kriegsplanung zuwendet und hinter der Bühne verschwindet. Für uns war das der erster Tote des Abends, dessen Ende wir als aktive Zuschauer erlebten - für ihn nur ein weiterer Toter auf dem langen, blutigen Lebensweg.

An dieser Stelle hebt sich der Vorhang erneut und statt der rotierenden Gitterabteile finden wir uns nun einem leeren Platz, der in Sprühnebel getaucht wird, gegenüber. Richard steht in dessen Mitte, in angedeuteter Schlachtrüstung in Form einer Kettenhaube, und hält hektisch, wie ein gehetztes Tier seinen letzten großen Monolog, während er sich, nicht wie zum Angriff, sondern zur Verteidigung, an sein Schwert klammert. Er steht dabei allein, in das nebelige Licht getaucht, auf der Bühne - denn alle die ihm einst folgten, haben ihn verlassen oder sind durch seine brutalen Ränke umgekommen. Fast schon poetisch wirkt es da, das die Bühne mit schwarzen Leichensäcken gesäumt ist. (Und natürlich von Buckingham, der immer noch tot am Rand liegt). Immer wilder und wahnsinniger wird Richard, verfolgt von den Geistern der Verstorbenen, die im Lichtspiel hinter der vergitterten Rückwand hier und da zum Vorschein kommen. Energisch und panisch wirft der König sein Schwert durch den Raum - bis ihn schlussendlich die Kraft verlässt und er schwach und ermüdet in den schwarzen Leichenberg am Bühnenrand zusammenbricht.

Eine Gestalt betritt die Bühne: Lord Stanley, der Richards Mordlust an den eigenen Reihen gerade so entging. Zu seinem Sakko trägt er eine kleine, unauffällig Halskrause, die ihn für das Zuschauerauge bereits seit einiger Zeit als Abtrünniger im Heer von Richard enttarnt hat. Kurz überprüft er, ob der Tyrann tatsächlich tot sei und verlässt die Bühne dann mit schnellen Schritten, fast als wolle er sagen: Gott sei Dank sind wir den endlich los.

Was dieses Stück von vielen anderen Shakespeare Adaptionen abgrenzt, die ich bisher gesehen habe, ist definitiv der optische Detailreichtum. Sei es der wilde Eber, das Wappentier Richards, den man angekettet zwischen den Gitterabteilen der Bühne erspähen kann, die im Originaltext vorkommenden, hier aber sonst gestrichenen Erdbeeren die sich Richard aus einem Kuchen herauspickt, die sich im Laufe des Stücks übers Bühnenbild verteilenden Leichensäcke oder das großartige Kostümdesign, welches bei genauerem Hinblicken seine ganz eigene Geschichte erzählt. Wie ein Wimmelbild in Bewegtform kommt der Abend daher und lässt einen immer wieder begeistert etwas Neues entdecken. Auch die Tatsache, das im Pausenraum an mehreren Stellen Familienstammbäume zum Stück aushingen, die dem interessierten Zuschauer die historischen Gegebenheiten rund um das Stück näherbringen konnten, rechne ich dem Schauspiel Leipzig hier hoch an.

Die deutsche Übersetzung von Thomas Brasch (Leipziger Fassung von Marion Tiedke) ist klassisch-harmonisch, aber nicht übertrieben geschwollen, und fügt sich so hervorragend in das Gesamtkonzept des Abends ein. Leider muss ich auch hier wieder sagen: Einige wirklich gute Passagen gingen einfach im Eifer des Gefechts unter und konnten ihre Wirkung nicht völlig entfalten - aber das lässt sich bei einem derartige überladenen Stück auch nur schwerlich vermeiden. Als große Hilfe kamen einem hier tatsächlich die englischen Übertitel zugute, von denen ich gerade bei Shakespeare-Adaptionen immer ein großer Fan bin.

Performancetechnisch war der Abend durch die Bank weg brilliant. Anne Cathrin Buhtz spielte Richard wie eine Schauspielerin, die einen Tyrann spielt, an dem ein Schauspieler verloren gegangen ist. Eine geniale Umsetzung, mit genau der richtigen Menge an hinter großen Gesten verstecken Irrsinn, die mir immer besser gefällt, je mehr ich darüber nachdenke.

Queen Margaret war durch Larissa Aimée Breidbach, zumindest nach meinem Empfinden, überraschend jung besetzt. Nachdem ich in der ersten Hälfte des Stücks noch nicht ganz wusste, was ich davon halten soll, hat ihr Auftritt mich im zweiten Teil komplett von der Interpretation überzeugt und war definitiv ein Highlight des Abends. Eine junge Frau, nein eine junge Königin, die alles verloren hat, was ihr Leben ihr noch zu bieten hätte, verbittert und wutentbrannt über alles und jeden, die mit Verwüstungen um sich spuckt wie Galle. Großartig. Verständlich. Bejubelnswert.

Die Rolle des Buckingham wirkte bei Christopher Müller so, als wäre sie ihm auf den Leib geschrieben und Tilo Krügel gab für eine kurze Szene einen fantastischen dementes Gemüse Edward IV ab. Auch die gesamten Doppel- und Dreifachbesetzungen der kleineren Parts waren durch die unverwechselbaren Kostüme, die schnellen Rollenwechsel und die variierende Darbietung so genial gelöst, sodass wir am Ende wirklich überrascht davon waren wie wenige Leute da eigentlich insgesamt tatsächlich auf der Bühne standen.

RICHARD III ist im großen Ganzen ein wahnsinnig wirkungsvoller Abend, der mir dank seiner Liebe zum Detail und der wortwörtlich atemberaubenden Performance immer noch nicht aus dem Kopf gehen will und der sich sowohl für Kenner des Textes als auch für komplette Newcomer lohnt.

#diese Review wird ihnen präsentiert von: SCHACHTELSÄTZEN #Und meinem Drang direkt Morgen die Review zu RIII von Plauen/Zwickau zu schreiben #sunnys theater review #deutsches zeug #german stuff #schauspiel leipzig #Shakespeare #Richard III

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lboogie1906 · 2 months ago

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Clarence Darnell Gilyard Jr. (December 24, 1955 – November 28, 2022) was a university professor, actor, and author. He appeared in film, television, and stage productions.

He was known for his roles in Matlock, the Left Behind movie trilogy, Walker, Texas Ranger; Theo, Die Hard; and Top Gun.

He was born into a military family in Moses Lake, Washington, the son of Barbara and Clarence Darnell Gilyard Sr., an Air Force officer. His family was from New Orleans, but he grew up on Air Force bases in Hawaii, Texas, and Florida.

He spent a year as an Air Force Academy cadet before leaving the service to attend Sterling College. He played football and became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He received a tennis scholarship and he attended California State University, Long Beach, majoring in acting. He completed his BA at CSU Dominguez Hills. He returned to school, receiving an MFA in theatre performance at Southern Methodist University.

He made guest appearances on Diff’rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, 227, Simon & Simon, and Riptide. He was cast in the final season of CHiPs as Officer Benjamin Webster. He co-starred in The Duck Factory. He appeared in a commercial for McDonald’s.

His movie was as an F-14 Tomcat radar intercept officer, LT. (JG) Marcus “Sundown” Williams, in Top Gun. He was a military man in The Karate Kid Part II. He appeared in Die Hard as Theo. He appeared as Reverend Bruce Barnes in Left Behind: The Movie and its sequel, Left Behind II: Tribulation Force. He appeared in A Matter of Faith.

He performed the role of Hoak Colburn onstage at the University of New Mexico’s Popejoy Hall in the Neil Simon Festival’s Driving Miss Daisy.

In the 2018 edition of the football video game Madden NFL, he plays high school coach Devin Wade in the “Longshot” section of the game. He reprised his role as criminal gang member Theo from Die Hard, in a commercial for Advance Auto Parts’ DieHard brand of car batteries.

He was an associate professor in the College of Fine Arts – Department of Theatre at UNLV.

He married Catherine Dutko, he married Elena Castillo (2001). He had six children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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mynoisycollectionstarlight · 2 months ago

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℗ 1977 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

Guitar: Danny Kortchmar

Drums, Percussion: Russell Kunkel

Keyboards: Dr. Clarence McDonald

Bass: Leland Sklar

Producer: Peter Asher

Mastering Engineer: Doug Sax

Recording Engineer: Val Garay

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cksmart-world · 5 months ago

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SMART BOMB

The Completely Unnecessary News Analysis

By Christopher Smart

September 4, 2024

THE MOOCH: MELANIA WANTS KAMALA TO WIN

Nobody wants Kamala Harris to win the November election more than Melania Trump, the wife of Donald J. Trump and former first lady. That according to Anthony Scaramucci, aka “The Mooch,” who served as Trump's White House director of communications for 11 days. Melania hates her husband and is not keen on four more years in the White House, he told Alex Marquardt on CNN’s The Situation Room. “I judge hatred of Donald Trump by the Melania standard,” Scaramucci said. Melania has been absent from Trump’s campaign events and his criminal and civil trials. During the Iowa caucuses, Trump critics posted “Melania Missing” posters with the caption: “Have you seen this woman? Where is our First Lady? Why is Donald Trump hiding her? We miss her. Please call 561-832-2600 if found.” During Trump's hush-money trial earlier this year, porn star Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) testified that she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, one year after he married Melania. On “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” comedian Martin Short sympathized with the former first lady. “When she entered into this marriage, she had a certain expectation,” he said, “that the average life expectancy for an American male is 76.3 years old."

TIME ONCE AGAIN TO TAKE OUR LAND BACK — FROM OURSELVES

This could be it. After suing the United States time and again to take control of federal tracts, Utah may now have a chance to get control of our land. We're not screwing around this time, we're going straight to the U.S. Supreme Court to get control of 18 million acres of “unappropriated” land overseen by the BLM. This could be great 'cause then we could drill and mine and graze where we want without a bunch of bureaucrats insisting on all kinds of environmental studies. And screw the backpackers. Our god-given lands could be put to good use. Imagine McDonald's and Taco Bell at Arches. Those lands could be making us taxes. Some people say the state of Utah will spend millions and millions of dollars — again — tilting at windmills. It's true that the state does get 50 percent of revenues from extractive industries on BLM land. But that's not the point. This is a battle of ideology: Government closest to the people is best — except when Salt Lake City wants to do one those crazy things like keeping McMansions out of historic neighborhoods or when voters pass an initiative aimed at doing away with gerrymandering. We have a duty to our rightwing power brokers to grandstand for freedom from ourselves. And it won't be over till Clarence Thomas sings Bizet's “Toreador.”

SPENCER AND THE WAFFLE HOUSE

For years Spencer wouldn't eat waffles. No sir, he insisted on pancakes. His Uncle Gary taught him that pancakes are good. True, pancakes can be boring but boring is, in the end, less than it's cracked up to be — and no one is offended. Pancakes, that's the ticket. But then something came over Spencer and one day when no one was looking he snuck off to Waffle House and ordered a classic waffle with butter and syrup. Ordinarily ordering a waffle in secret isn't that big of a deal in Utah, unless you get caught. But Spencer snuck off to Waffle House again and again. He really started to waffle — people wondered if it's because this is an election year. Then one day Spencer just came out and ordered a sickeningly sweet chocolate chip waffle. Next he got a trans bathroom waffle; and then it was a DEI waffle. Before you knew it, he had — wait for it — a Donald waffle. People were perplexed that Spencer could waffle so much. He was once a nice farm boy who was into pancakes. And then one day, Spencer found himself at the hallowed Arlington Cemetery waffling with Donald over the graves of fallen soldiers, grinning like a skunk eating garlic waffles with two thumbs up. Some waffles are just sickening. They may seem good at the time but that doesn't mean they'll go down so well.

Post script — That's a wrap for another week of anxiety here at Smart Bomb where we keep track of the realignment of college football so you don't have to. Listen to this Wilson, the PAC 12 is now the PAC 2. The Big 12 now has 16 teams. The Big 10 has 18 teams, including USC and UCLA. Two other west coast teams, Cal and Stanford, are now in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). What's it all about? M-O-N-E-Y. Each team in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) — 16 teams — and Big 10 will earn $21 million in TV revenue this season. Each Big 12 team, including Utah and BYU, will make $31.7 million in TV revenue. Washington Post columnist George Will put it this way: “Big-time college football has shucked off the accumulated hypocrisies that have encrusted it and now stands before us with an agreeable lack of pretense: It is an unembarrassable money machine, nothing more.” Will Leitch of New York Magazine had this observation: “[I]n the long term, when you pattern yourself after the NFL... when you jettison the traditions and orthodoxies that made people fall in love with the sport in the first place, you stop being college football: You simply become Minor League NFL. And no one cares about minor league anything.”

Well Wilson, you and they guys in the band don't know a helluva lot about football. Sure, you went to the games in college but you just sat up in the bleachers smoking weed. That said, you've got to have something up your sleeve to celebrate the pigskin season that is upon us. So, wake up the band and take us on outa here:

Backfield in motion, yeah I'm gonna have to penalize you Backfield in motion, baby You know that's against the rules

Offside and holdin', yeah You ought a be ashamed of yourself baby Offsides and holdin', yeah

Holdin' on to someone else And I caught you with Backfield in motion, yeah I'm gonna have to penalize you Backfield in motion, baby You know that's against the rules

First down you start cheatin' on me

Second down, I was too blind to see

Third down, you know I love you so

Fourth down, baby I got to let you go 'Cause I caught you with your Backfield in motion, yeah I'm gonna have to penalize you Backfield in motion, baby You know that's against the rules

(Backfield In Motion — Melvin Hardin and Timothy McPherson)

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krispyweiss · 10 months ago

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Book Review: “Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story” by the Blind Boys of Alabama with Preston Lauterbach

The complete and unvarnished story of the Blind Boys of Alabama is finally told in “Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story.”

The resulting 320 pages contain the fullest accounting of the poorly documented Blind Boys the world is likely to ever get, rectifying a fate befalling many black American artists. “Spirit” fills in all the gaps in membership, the lean years and the Blind Boys’ 1980s renaissance and other facts that even long-time followers would’ve been unlikely to know about before diving in to the book.

Written by the band with “The Chitlin’ Circuit” author Preston Lauterbach, “Spirit of the Century” covers the Blind Boys’ 1939 beginnings as the Happy Land Jubilee Singers at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Deaf and Blind through to the present day. Along the way, the gaping holes in the group’s story are plugged with solid research, plenty of archival and contemporary interviews and strong writing.

The Happy Lands, as Lauterbach refers to the early group, turned professional in 1944, leaving behind one Jimmy Carter, who was too young to hit the road, but would come back in the 1980s after a two-decade stint with the Blind Boys of Mississippi to form a “holy trinity” with co-founders George Scott and Clarence Fountain. Carter ultimately became the group’s third leader, after Velma Traylor and Fountain. He retained that title until his 2023 retirement and the passing of the reins to Rickie McKinnie.

In a move described as akin to Mick Jagger leaving the Rolling Stones to join the Beatles, Fountain decamped the Alabama Blind Boys in 1969 and temporarily hooked up with the hard-drinking Blind Boys of Mississippi. It was here Fountain and Carter first reconnected before the former, who had girlfriends scattered around the country and six children he denied in his will, eventually moved on to a star-crossed solo career that found him touring with horny conjoined twins and participating in a stolen-car ring with a con-man manager before rejoining his original group in the 1970s.

Fountain’s life, Lauterbach writes, was “a maze of complications that make Sophocles seem like Dr. Seuss.”

Carter eventually transferred from the Mississippi to the Alabama Blind Boys and, after the band starred in 1983’s “The Gospel at Colonus,” found mainstream success as the musical “made the Blind Boys of Alabama white-people famous.”

This led to working relationships with Lou Reed, Ben Harper, Peter Gabriel and others. The Blind Boys of Alabama picked up Grammy awards and sung for presidents but never lost their taste for their beloved “Mack Donald’s,” where they stopped on the way to perform for George W. Bush.

“So we go into the White House with a guy named Jimmy Carter and all the rest holding McDonald’s bags,” BBA’s manager is quoted as saying in the book.

Lauterbach told the story just in time. Carter, the last surviving original member of the group, is 92 and retired and while the Blind Boys of Alabama plan to continue on indefinitely, their original era is over. That’s all the more reason to give thanks to Lauterbach for uncovering one of music’s most-important sagas and for “Spirit of the Century,” easily the most-informative music biography of the past decade.

Grade card: “Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story” by the Blind Boys of Alabama with Preston Lauterbach - A

4/29/24

#the blind boys of alabama #spirit of the century: our own story #preston lauterbach #the blind boys of mississippi #mick jagger #the rolling stones #the beatles #ben harper #lou reed #peter gabriel #the gospel at colonus

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adelleandlaura4ever · 11 months ago

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Lovely Day!!

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When I wake up in the morning, love

And the sunlight hurts my eyes

And something without warning, love

Bears heavy on my mind

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

When the day that lies ahead of me

Seems impossible to face

When someone else instead of me

Always seems to know the way

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

When the day that lies ahead of me

Seems impossible to face

And when someone else instead of me

Always seems to know the way

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

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(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

Songwriters: Bill Withers / Clarence Kermit Mcdonald / Skip Scarborough

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Laura,

My days are always Lovely,

with you in my life!

They are full of love and adventure,

Happiness and fun!

All it takes is the look in Your eyes

and the love in your heart.

I love you deeply, Laura ❤️❤️❤️

@dreamiingofher

@adelleandlaura4ever

#adelleandlaura #Youtube

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theyoungturks · 2 years ago

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adelleandlaura4ever · 2 years ago

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Lovely Day!!

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When I wake up in the morning, love

And the sunlight hurts my eyes

And something without warning, love

Bears heavy on my mind

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

When the day that lies ahead of me

Seems impossible to face

When someone else instead of me

Always seems to know the way

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

When the day that lies ahead of me

Seems impossible to face

And when someone else instead of me

Always seems to know the way

Then I look at you

And the world's alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)

Songwriters: Bill Withers / Clarence Kermit Mcdonald / Skip Scarborough

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Laura,

My days are always Lovely,

with you in my life!

They are full of love and adventure,

Happiness and fun!

All it takes is the look in Your eyes

and the love in your heart.

I love you deeply, Laura ❤️❤️❤️

@adelleandlaura4ever

@dreamiingofher

#Youtube

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Yes. Teflon Don has to go. Project 2025 is basically 1930's Germany. This man idolized Adolf Hitler and echoes his sentiments. In fact, Trump's name appears over 300 in Project 2025, and we won't have a DOJ anymore. Every field of government will be replaced by MAGA loyalists. This was drawn up by Trump, JD Vance, and Trump Loyalists.

If you're a woman, LGBTQIA, an immigrant, a Native American, or a POC, then you don't exist. America was founded on religious freedom, and illegal immigration, if you think about it. If you're a White Nationalist Christian-aka a white supremacist-and a biologically born cis gender male, then you have the right to vote. If you're a woman, you don't, The right to have access to abortion and have access to contraception and reproductive care has already been taken, thanks to Trump filling the Supreme Court with Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Cohen Barrett, Clarence Thomas (he was there since the Bush Administration, if anyone remembers the whole Anita Hill case), and has now been left to the states. Now, there's states that have a total ban or near total bans for abortions and access to reproductive care. If that's not scary enough, it gets better. The 19th Amendment will cease to exist. For POC, it's back to Jim Crowe laws. We're already seeing several versions of this in several states, but they are calling it voter suppression, which is scary enough.

Basically, Project 2025 is The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and Brave New World, all combined into one 900+ document.

So, do you want a convicted felon who is running to AVOID going to prison or do you want a former prosecutor/DA who worked at McDonald's when she was attending college, who PUT people like the convicted felon in PRISON?

Vote for Kamala, vote blue down the ballot.

The Harris campaign released a statement full of Taylor Swift references after Donald Trump declared he hates her:

''Mr. Not-at-all Fine has spent this week working through his feelings, whining about his Champagne Problems, and spending exactly none of his time addressing the issues facing the American people. His rambling, yelling, and constant conspiracy theories have many asking if The Man is ''too emotional'' to be president. Call It What You Want, but it's Nothing New for the Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. […] Voters know All Too Well how dangerous Trump and his Project 2025 agenda will be if he wins. This November, we can make sure this is The Last Time we have to deal with his End Game of jacking up taxes on the middle class and ripping away American's freedoms.''

(September 15, 2024)

#kamala harris #vote kamala #kamala for president #kamala 2024 #harris walz 2024 #vote harris #harris for president #election #president #vote blue #vote democrat #election 2024 #american politics #2024 presidential election #vote harris walz #madame president

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yasbxxgie · 6 years ago

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Z.Z. Hill That Ain't The Way You Make Love Keep On Lovin' You (United Artists / Hill, 1975) (arrang. McKinley Jackson) (bass: Gordon Edwards, guitar: Ray Parker, Jr., keyboards: Clarence McDonald, percussion: Ollie Brown, & synthesizer: Clark Spangler) (prod. Lamont Dozier) (vocals: Dennis Perry, Edna Wright, Julia Tillman, Michael Gray, Shirley Jones, & Tyron Hunter) (writ. McKinley Jackson & Reginald Dozier)

Lately, I don't know Where you're coming from Now you're acting strange I tell the world You seem to change (What's wrong with you, now mama? Tell me What's wrong with you, girl?).

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Dangerous Paradise (Two Against Death) (1930) William A. Wellman

August 2nd 2020

#dangerous paradise #two against death #1930 #william a. wellman #nancy carroll #richard arlen #warner oland #gustav von seyffertitz #francis mcdonald #clarence wilson #dorothea wolbert #george kotsonaros #willie fung #pre-code

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To the best of my recollection:

The important cases here are the Slaughter-House Cases from 1873, which held that the privileges and immunities clause only protected "federal" citizenship rights, as distinct from "state" citizenship rights, and thus gave states much more license to discriminate among their citizens, since they weren't bound by the Bill of Rights or similar constitutional provisions (which was consistent with Supreme Court decisions from across the 19th century, starting with Barron v Baltimore in 1833). Incorporation, the process of creating a body of decisions that did indeed hold the states to be bound by the individual protections enumerated in the Constitution, starts in 1925 with Gitlow v New York, which requires states to protect freedom of speech, and remains incomplete.

The Slaughter-House cases are a funny animal, because they're a case about zoning and the right of states to create monopolies--specifically, the state of Louisiana passed a law to force slaughterhouses near New Orleans to be moved further away from the city, and to centralize their operations, because New Orleans was having problems with contaminated drinking water and cholera outbreaks. Other states and cities had done similar things around the same time, but the city's butchers sued, and six cases made it to the Supreme Court, where they were consolidated into one. The argument of the plaintiffs was that this was an unfair limit n the right of butchers to practice their trade, and that their rights as United States citizens under the due process, privileges and immunities, and equal protection clauses were being infringed. The Supreme Court held that this was nonsense--not because Louisiana had a legitimate interest in protecting the health of the people of New Orleans, but because the Reconstruction Amendments were basically only meant to end slavery and protect former freed slaves, and interpreting the privileges and immunities clause according to its plain meaning would mean the Court had overly-broad license to strike down state laws that infringed on the rights of their citizens. It's kind of a weird argument--"this amendment, as we read it, might force us to act to protect citizens' rights, and we don't want to do that, so we're going to read it in another, narrower way."

And all of this in a case where I think the appropriate response is "in fact your rights as citizens are not being infringed, because (as Hugo Black pointed out), there's no constitutional right which protects against a state establishing a monopoly, or zoning rules." Which is what they seemed to think anyway! Notably the problems with this decision were not lost on the dissenting justices: Field said it reduced the P&I clause to "a vain and idle enactment," Bradley said that even under the majority's reading, the "rights of citizens of the United States" should be interpreted much more broadly, and Swayne pointed out that Miller's reading of what the Reconstruction Amendments had been "meant" to do was flagrantly incorrect--these amendments had been ratified only eight years earlier! It was quite possible to walk over to the U.S. Capitol and talk to the people who had been involved in their passage through Congress.

And yet the Slaughter-House cases have never been formally overturned--even though now most major constitutional rights have been incorporated against the states, this is largely using other bits of the constitution, like the due process clause. Notably, Clarence Thomas (in the extremely rare W for him) has occasionally talked in his opinions about how rights formerly incorporated through, say, the due process clause should be re-incorporated through the P&I clause--although one of these was a concurring opinion in McDonald v Chicago, which is based on DC v Heller, which involves a flagrant misreading of the right the 2nd amendment actually creates, so unfortunately even here things are a bit of a mess.

could you elaborate on that bit about the 14th amendment, if you don't mind?

So I heard this from @necarion so he can probably fill in more details.

But my understanding is that after the US Civil War, Congress wanted to do a bunch of stuff to protect civil rights and kill off Jim Crow racism style laws. And the explicit purpose of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were to say that Congress could make those laws.

So the fourteenth amendment says

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ... The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

And then the fifteenth says

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude— Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

And these are really explicit claims that Congress can protect civil rights and voting rights by passing laws.

But the Supreme Court was much more racist and southern conservative than Congress was. So when Congress actually passed those laws, the Supreme Court said they were overreaches and exceeded Congress's power under the Constitution. Despite them passing actual amendments to say "we have the power to pass these laws."

In the process, SCOTUS basically read the Privileges and Immunities Clause out of the Constitution entirely. Which is why in the 1960s the incorporation had to work through "substantive due process", which is another example "good policy through kinda bullshit reasoning". But they wouldn't have needed to do it that way if they hadn't sworn up and down that the actual clause intended to have that effect meant nothing.

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