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Artist: Rory Block: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Blues Folk     Rory Block's discography:      The Lady and Mr. Johnson    Year: 2006    Tracks: 13      Best Blues and Originals    Year: 2006    Tracks: 20      From the Dust    Year: 2005    Tracks: 14      Best Blues and Originals Vol.2    Year: 1997    Tracks: 23      Tornado    Year: 1996    Tracks: 11      Women in (E)motion    Year: 1995    Tracks: 20      Angel of Mercy    Year: 1994    Tracks: 9      I've Got a Rock in My Sock    Year: 1986    Tracks: 9      Big Road Blues    Year:     Tracks: 24 Aurora "Rory" Block has staked her title to be peerless of America's crest acoustic blues women, an interpreter of the great Delta blues singers, a coast guitarist equivalence excellence, and too a gifted songbird on her own bill. Born and raised in Manhattan by a family that had bohemian leanings, she fatigued her formative years hanging out with musicians care Peter Rowan, John Sebastian, and Geoff Muldaur, world Health Organization hung out in her father's sandal shop, ahead picking up the guitar at the age of decade. Her record debut came iI long metre later, climb her father on The Elektra String Band Project, a construct album. She met guitarist Stefan Grossman, world Health Organization, like her, was in love with the megrims. The pair would often jaunt to the Bronx to call Reverend Gary Davis, one of the superlative living bluesmen. At the raw age of 15 Block left domicile, hitting the road in true '60s fashion and travel through the South, where she learned her blues swop at the feet of Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt, her superlative influence, earlier ending up in Berkeley. It was on that point that she developed her slideway proficiency (she uses a socket rick as her slide), merely she didn't record until 1975, when she released I'm in Love (a compilation of sooner corporeal, The Early Tapes 1975-1976, appeared by and by). After two records for Chrysalis, she recorded the instructional How to Play Blues Guitar for Grossman's Kicking Mule label, and by and by stirred to then-fledgling Rounder, with whom she enjoyed an ongoing relationship. She toured always, often playing as many as 250 dates in a yr, which unbroken her aside from her fellowship -- she'd married and begun having children in the early '70s -- simply highly-developed her reputation as a solid, vibrant unrecorded performer, and one of the c. H. Best players of old rural area blues in America. In 1987 the best of Block's Rounder cuts were compiled on Best Blues & Originals, which, as it aforesaid, featured her interpretations of blues classics and some of her own material. Two of the tracks, released as singles in Belgium and Holland, became gold record hits. In summation to her regular albums, Block made a series of instructional records and videos, as well as a children's record, Colour Me Wild. Although she had been playing for a long clock time, the plaudit didn't truly start until 1992, when she won a NAIRD Award for Ain't I a Woman, a feat perennial in 1994 and 1997. In 1996 she began fetching W.C. Handy Awards, first for Best Traditional Album (When a Woman Gets the Blues), and in 1997 and 1998 for Best Traditional Blues Female Artist. In 1997 she was elected to the CAMA Hall of Fame, and in 1999 she received even another Handy Award, for Best Acoustic Blues Album (Confessions of a Blues Singer). Embarrass continued to enlistment, although non as heavily as in before times, and she's often accompanied by her big word Jordan Block, wHO too plays on her albums. She remained busy in the early part of the 2000s, releasing sise albums, including a live transcription. 2005's From the Dust john Drew raving critical reviews, as did 2006's The Lady and Mr. Johnson, an album that sees Block taking on prime songs of her musical fighter, idol, and biggest influence, Robert Johnson.

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Freshman Orientation

OK, it's official: I no longer care around 18 year olds. Freshman Orientation is the concluding hyperkenetic, highly-sexed, foul-mouthed, gender-bending, college caper I'll watch. At this point I've simply eaten too much American Pie.


When Clay (Sam Huntington) arrives at a large commonwealth university, his only goal is to score a dumb blonde. At the same clip, Amanda (Kaitlin Doubleday), the sorority girl of his dreams, is challenged by her sorority sisters to date a gay military personnel and then dump him (to mystify revenge on the evil male of the species). Clay fain pretends to be gay just so he bathroom spend more time with her, just now he has to figure out "how to be gay." Amanda's Jewish friend Jessica (an specially foul-mouthed Heather Matarazzo) is similarly challenged to date and dump a Muslim. Off to the side, Clay's raw roommate Matt (Mike Erwin), a closeted gay teen, is easy coming to terms with himself patch simultaneously falling in erotic love with Matt. And Matt's high-school girlfriend Majorie (Marla Sokoloff) as well shows up as a newly self-identified lesbian.


Writer-director Ryan Shiraki, wHO also crafted the merry campus pic Poster Boy, tries to have it both slipway, debunking every gay stereotype around patch simultaneous request the audience to joke at all the stereotypes he presents. A jovial and lesbian poetry slam is scarcely one venue where we get to laugh at the angry dykes world Health Organization keep crossover the concealment. Mix-ups, screw-ups, and gross-outs abound. I can't remember another picture show that features not unmatchable but deuce vomit scenes within the first 10 minutes.


And speaking of emetic, an grownup permanent scholar known about campus as the "Very Drunk Chick" (Rachel Dratch) steps in and knocked out, bringing a few chuckles but not much else. More in effect in a cameo is John Goodman as the local mirthful bar proprietor. He's senior and wiser and tries to give Clay good advice, merely not until after he takes him on a clich�d queer shopping spree.


The movie's only real moments come when Clay smokes a bowl in the library with his story professor (Sherrie Marina), a woman world Health Organization has seen plenty of teenagers come and go and wHO understands that college is the place where everyone experiments with new identities in order to be anything other than what they fear they're bound to become.


Cut from that moment to an on-campus rumble between disenfranchised lesbians wearing "Pussy Power" T-shirts storming the fraternity schematic in search of social justice. As Clay's roommate Matt puts it succinctly, "Even Felicity didn't take it this bad." Indeed.

Freshman Orientation sabbatum on the shelf for a few years under the even worse title of Home of Phobia. No matter what you call it, it's still a nonaged effort, more notable for the cameo performances than for the main story.


Aka Home of Phobia.




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Journey to the Center of the Earth - movie review

Eric Brevig's Journey to the Center of the Earth would play peachy at a drive-in, if drive-ins
still existed.



Characters wave tape measures at the screen for no intellect other than to make an audience
bob and weave. Goofy Brendan Fraser spits toothpaste in our general focus. Fanged
fish leap into our practical laps. When a yo-yo springs from Josh Hutcherson's hands,
we jump in our seats.



It's recommended you journey to a theatre with 3-D capabilities if you're taking
the family to see Journey. Though available everywhere in the standard, routine,
two-dimensional presentation (read: mat as a board and about as interesting), J
ourney makes splendid use of modern 3-D technology and actually harkens back to campy
science fiction of the 1950s.



Geologist Trevor Anderson (Fraser) and his nephew Sean (Hutcherson) postdate clues
left in a tattered written matter of Jules Verne's novel Journey to the Center of the Earth that
they hope will lead them to Sean's missing father, Max (Jean Michael Pare). Their
mission transports them to Iceland, where adorable mount climber Hannah (Anita
Briem) pilots them to a volcanic pipe that carries them... well, you've read the
title, so you get the idea.



Journey makes about as much sense as a National Treasure film and moves as rapidly. For a
film that joyfully apes Steven Spielberg -- with rampaging dinosaurs, hurtling mine
cars, and a distracting father-son complex -- Journey actually equals this summer's India
na Jones sequel on the assembly descent of escalating dangers.



The spanking calamity is obvious, sure, but surprisingly effective. On normal screens,
though, Journey will lose its added visual dimension (pun intended), and subtract
most of its fun.



It's awfully wet down there.

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'It's just like blood on tape'

DENNIS WILSON - Pacific Blue & Bambu (The Caribou Sessions) Rating *****
DENNIS WILSON was the Beach Boy who was actually a beach boy.

He surfed, chased girls, lived fast and died young.

On December 28, 1983, just after his 39th birthday, he drowned, drunk and
lonely. A few days later, he was buried at sea.

He once said: "I don’t know why everybody doesn’t live at the beach, on
the ocean.

"It makes no sense to me hanging around the dirty city. That’s why I
always loved and was proud to be a Beach Boy. I always loved the image. On
the beach, you can live in bliss."

The middle of the three Wilsons — Brian being the older and Carl the younger —
Dennis was the wild, good-looking one.

His voice was rougher and deeper than his brothers, his musical talents less
obvious.

He was the drummer, the babe magnet, the group’s Mr Popular who, as the story
goes, urged Brian to start writing songs about surfing.

He may have taken a back seat to begin with but by 1968 he had emerged as the
most important composer in The Beach Boys after Brian.
Real Beach Boy ... Dennis
At the same time, he began living an increasingly rackety existence. He
married five times (including twice to Karen Lamm), got to know cult maniac
Charles Manson, and had an increasing dependence on booze and chemicals.

But despite his brother’s more obvious genius, it was Dennis who produced the
first solo album by a Beach Boy, composed at his favourite instrument, the
piano.

Pacific Ocean Blue, released in 1977, remains one of the greatest achievements
by any Wilson — and we’re talking competition that includes landmarks such
as Pet Sounds and SMiLE.

It begins with the mighty swells of River Song and ebbs and flows through the
stomp of What’s Wrong, the sublime Moonshine, the affectionate Thoughts Of
You, the tear-stained Farewell My Friend and the epic End Of The Show.

In the end, it was Dennis’s only released album, the strands of his follow-up,
Bambu, never fully realised as an album.

Mighty

Pacific Ocean Blue has been out of print for years and has passed into
mythical status, a true lost classic, hunted down by collectors, treasured
by the few who got to know its infinite pleasures.

Now, finally, the album gets the affectionately-produced reissue/remaster
treatment it deserves.

Over two CDs, we get the original album and a slew of unreleased material
including all the songs intended for Bambu.

One of Dennis’s greatest unfinished songs was Holy Man, which he left as a
serene instrumental.

With new lyrics by his best friend and songwriting partner Gregg Jakobson and
vocals by Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins set to the original track, the
reborn Holy Man is presented here as a fitting, touching and beautifully
sung tribute to Dennis.

For a SFTW exclusive, I talked to Taylor — who feels a special bond with
Dennis as they’re both drummers who sing and write — and Gregg, who fondly
remembers his soulmate:
TAYLOR ON DENNISHow come you got to record the vocal track?
It goes back eight or nine years. An old girlfriend of mine’s father was one
of Dennis’s best friends as well as his writing partner (Gregg).
When did you first hear Pacific Ocean Blue?
When I was a kid, I knew Surfin’ USA, Good Vibrations, God Only Knows, the key
Beach Boys tracks. Then, when I met Gregg, he played me Pacific Ocean Blue.
I loved it. It was so raw and soulful. There’s no bulls**t on it. It’s
straight from the gut, just blood on tape.
Did you get your own copy?
It was pretty impossible to get hold of but I have three vinyl copies. I gave
one to Roger Taylor (Queen drummer), who I’ve got to know pretty good after
a couple of years of me stalking him!
So when did you get to sing on Holy Man?
Gregg called me and said: "We’re doing it! We’re doing it! We got the funding
and everything’s on. I want you to check out putting some vocals on this
unfinished song that was really important to Dennis."
Pacific Ocean Blue ... Dennis WilsonWhy didn’t Dennis sing on it?
I guess they tried some lyrics and didn’t like ’em. There was a Dennis vocal
track but he erased it, just said "I’m gonna f***ing erase it!"
He was a big dude and you didn’t f*** with Dennis.
How did you feel about taking his place?
I was a little nervous. I was like "Who the f*** am I to do it?"
This stuff is pretty sacred. I didn’t want to p*** on his Picasso.
How did you feel when you heard your version played back?
Whenever I do a vocal for something, I run fast from the studio and I don’t
want to hear it for a couple of days. I’m constantly telling the engineers
I’m not a singer "so don’t look at me like that". But
I’ve had a great reaction to it from friends and muso people.
Has fellow Foo Fighter Dave Grohl heard it?
He loved it, thought it was totally beautiful, but I don’t think he’s ever
heard Pacific Ocean Blue. It’s hard to sit him down to actually listen to
something. He’s as busy as f***, always got something going on with his
family and all that stuff.
Do you feel an affinity with Dennis?
I do. He’s a drummer. He grew up on the beach and Gregg always said that we
had somewhat similar voices, kinda rough, not exactly Pavarotti, a bit
scratchy.
What do you think of the song?
Well, Dennis’s piano was great. You can hear his instrumental version if you
don’t wanna hear this bonehead on there. (Big laugh.) I love Dennis so much
and I love Pacific Ocean Blue. I love the legend of him.
What sort of man do you think he was?
I think he was terribly insecure ’cos he had these two brothers. One of ’em,
Carl, had the voice of an angel and the other, Brian, is a mad genius. But
Dennis was the only one who surfed — he was the real Beach Boy.
So he was their spiritual leader?
In a way, yeah. Everyone knows what a cop their dad was and he was really hard
on Dennis, who was considered the unmusical dumb one. With all due respect —
because they all had their moments — Dennis did the best stuff. There’s no
question.
What about his songs for The Beach Boys?
His first major song was called Little Bird which is on Friends. It’s
beautiful and I love his voice. It’s ragged and got more ragged through the
years. Some people think he got punched in the throat at a bar. I dunno,
maybe it was just drinking and drugs or whatever, but it’s almost got a Tom
Waits feel.
Which songs on Pacific Ocean do you like?
I like End Of The Show. I like the ballads. The one that breaks my heart is
Thoughts Of You.
Thanks for talking to me about it.
I’m so glad you love that album. We’ll start our own fan club, man!

GREGG ON DENNIS
How did you know Dennis?
It was ’63 or ’64. I went to Honolulu with Bruce Johnston (who became a Beach
boy) and Terry Melcher (musician son of screen star Doris Day) ’cos I worked
with them.

They were opening for The Beach Boys and Dennis and I hit it off right away.
He, like me, isn’t one to sit around very long drinking Mai Tai cocktails.
We would go off surfing or riding motorcycles or chasing girls.
Best friend ... Gregg JakobsonWhat sort of person was he?
He was always gregarious and treated everyone the same. It didn’t matter if
you were the Queen or some homeless person.
When did you start working with him?
We carried our relationship back to the mainland and the working together
evolved. Dennis would sit at a piano, start having ideas and he would ask me
for a line or a bar.
Why did it take Dennis longer than his brothers to get recognition?
He was the bad boy, the kid who set the lot on fire next door. He was always
chasing girls and playing with cars but he was also like a sponge. His big
brother Brian was a musical genius and Dennis had the same DNA.

It just took a little bit longer to develop. Einstein didn’t talk until he was
four and then he probably came out with whole sentences about quantum
physics. First it was "that’s just Dennis" so nobody
listened, but then people said "well, wait a minute, what was that?"
It’s so sad he died so young.
Nowadays, people say: "God, what would have happened if he’d lived all
these years?" He was just scratching the surface and, like brother
Brian, he played the studio like an instrument.

I can’t imagine, with all the electronics and digital stuff available, where
he would have taken it. It would have been amazing.
What was it like working on Pacific Ocean Blue?
I was honoured. He was in a very progressive, very productive mood all
through. There was a lot of stuff cut then that is coming out now on the
Bambu part. Only after that did things go down hill.

Holy Man is a stunning piece.




It really killed us that we couldn’t come up with a lyric for it. Thirty years
later, the lyric did manifest itself and then Taylor (Hawkins) came in and
knocked it out of the park.

Then we sent it to Brian May and Roger Taylor and they really added some
horsepower to it. Wait till you hear the London version. I just know that
somewhere Dennis is looking down and smiling on this.
What went wrong after Pacific Ocean Blue?
There was trouble with The Beach Boys and, don’t forget, more than anything,
he loved being a Beach Boy. Also there were problems with Karen, his wife. A
lot of things happened at the same time which sent him on a downward spiral.
It was very sad to see.
Did your relationship with him deteriorate?
We remained buddies but it was harder and harder to be around him. It’s hard
to watch somebody you love slowly destroying themselves. To fight the
demons, I guess he was anaesthetising himself with alcohol or whatever came
down the street.
Where were you when he died?
I was in Laguna Beach, about 50 miles down the coast from Los Angeles. Some
friends called and said: "Have you heard?" and I said: "No."
I was sad but I wasn’t surprised. Even Dennis said: "I live fast
and I’m gonna die young. I play hard and I work hard, don’t bother me."
That was his attitude.

Rustie Lee joining EastEnders cast

Celebrity chef Rustie Lee is set to join the cast of 'EastEnders', as Gus Smith's feisty aunt.
According to the show's official website, the 54-year-old will play a character called Opal for two episodes, which will be screened in April.
Lee said: "I'm absolutely over the moon to think I'm going to be in the Square. I can't wait."
Actor Mo George, who plays Lee's on-screen nephew Gus, will be leaving the show soon.

R. Kelly judge threatens to issue arrest warrant

Reporter Jim DeRogatis was no-show at hearing





CHICAGO -- The judge in the R. Kelly child pornography trial is threatening to issue a warrant for the arrest of a Chicago Sun-Times reporter.
Reporter Jim DeRogatis got hold of the sex tape at the heart of the case in 2002. He didn't appear for a morning hearing regarding his testimony at Kelly's trial.
An angry Judge Vincent Gaughan told a Sun-Times attorney he'd give him 15 minutes to find something in Illinois law that gives DeRogotis the right to defy an order to appear in court.
Gaughan has rejected arguments that the reporter's actions should be privileged under the First Amendment and that he shouldn't have to appear.
Prosecutors rested their case Monday, and jurors have the day off.
The singer has pleaded not guilty.

John Lennon's ex-girlfriend reveals photos

John Lennon's former girlfriend May Pang has released a collection of intimate snaps of the late Beatle.
Pang began an 18-month fling with Lennon in 1973, during a separation from his wife Yoko Ono.
After keeping the personal pictures under wraps for 35 years, Pang is sharing her photos of life with the "real John Lennon", along with a collection of his private sketches, in her new book 'Instamatic Karma'.
Talking about the pictures Pang said: "They were literally in a shoebox under my bed. A friend of mine said, 'You've got to get this out. People have got to see the John that you saw.'"
She added: "So this is an intimate portrait of our lives together. You're seeing him through my eyes."