Small Talk: Out of Genoa

[Cupid Stunt]

No April Fools ...

it's National Burrito Day!

[peacheslatour]

24 minutes ago, Cupid Stunt said:

No April Fools ...

it's National Burrito Day!

Wow! Mine are never that fancy.

[bannana]

Remember Bronski Beat? I just discovered Orville Peck's version of Small Town Boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjbosSgeHk8

Here's the also fantastic original.

Bronski Beat Snall Town Boy

 

[bannana]

I want to introduce you to the best radio station ever.

https://ckua.com/

They have been around forever and I just love everything about this station; the hosts are incredible and the playlists are always delightful. Check it out, I think you will find something you like.

Holger Petersen has hosted a blues show on this station for 50 years!

I personally love listening to Traffic Jams hosted by Lisa Wilton. I also love the Celtic Show hosted by Andy Donnelly.

This is a donor supported radio station.

 

 

[Cupid Stunt]

The Ladies of Good Friday 

Billie Eilish - when the party's over (Live From The Grammys)

 

Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World

 

Jessi Colter - Maybe You Should've Been Listening

 

Petula Clark - Downtown

 

Donna Summer ~ MacArthur Park 1978 Stringapella Version

 

Robyn with Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat

 

Marni Nixon sings "Marietta's Lied" - Live, 1966

 

Natalia Lafourcade - Tú sí sabes quererme (en manos de Los Macorinos)

 

Tammy Wynette - I Don't Wanna Play House

 

Goldfrapp - Ooh La La

 

Victoria Spivey - How Do You Do It That Way

 

JANE POWELL - Too Late Now  - Royal Wedding 1951

 

Etta James - Damn Your Eyes

 

Delta Goodrem - Believe Again

 

DOE - Take Me Back

 

Vicki Lawrence - The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia

 

Lorde - Green Light

 

Emmylou Harris - "Pancho and Lefty"

 

Pooja Goswami Pavan and Avirodh Sharma - Hindustani Classical Music and Dance Festival

 

Freya Ridings - Castles

 

Bananarama - I Heard A Rumour

 

 Zero 7 & Sophie Barker - " In The Waiting Line "

 

Nicki Minaj - Super Bass

 

Blondie - Call Me

 

SZA - Broken Clocks

 

The Andrews Sisters - In The Mood

 

Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much

 

Helen Forrest - Deep Purple

 

RAYE x Rudimental - Regardless

 

Adele - When We Were Young (Live at The Church Studios)

 

Fleetwood Mac (Stevie Nicks) - Silver Springs (Ballad Version) - 1976

 

[peacheslatour]

Cupid, have you seen The Dance? The Fleetwood Mac concert video? The way Stevie looks at Lindsey. Damn.

[Cupid Stunt]

I had the opportunity to interview Fleetwood Mac and the members individually, and must say as the years went by the personalities got larger as the rooms got smaller. 

 

[peacheslatour]

12 hours ago, Cupid Stunt said:

I had the opportunity to interview Fleetwood Mac and the members individually, and must say as the years went by the personalities got larger as the rooms got smaller. 

 

Do tell!

[Cupid Stunt]

1 hour ago, peacheslatour said:

Do tell!

It's nothing that hasn't been heard before.

The Physicians' Desk Reference of pharmaceuticals, alcohol abuse, too much money, too many sycophants and former lovers/spouses, ever-inflating self-interest and sexual insecurity, musical talent at the top of its game, press releases, glowing - and not so glowing - music reviews, agents, lawyers, managers, producers, record company officiants ... It's a lot of ego to field for an interview.

Edited April 3, 2021 by Cupid Stunt

[peacheslatour]

4 minutes ago, Cupid Stunt said:

It's nothing that hasn't been heard before.

The Physicians' Desk Reference of pharmaceuticals, alcohol abuse, too much money, too many sycophants and former lovers/spouses, ever-inflating self-interest and sexual insecurity, musical talent at the top of its game, press releases, glowing - and not so glowing - music reviews, agents, lawyers, managers, producers, record company officiants ... It's a lot of ego to field for an interview.

I bet.

[OhioSongbird]

Oooooh......if only those scarves could talk.....

[peacheslatour]

15 minutes ago, OhioSongbird said:

Oooooh......if only those scarves could talk.....

Yeah, I wouldn't want to hear from Steven Tyler's scarves. I shy away from graphic descriptions of venereal diseases.

[Cupid Stunt]

Black Saturday, we wait.

Can't Find My Way Home - Rachael Price

 

Charli XCX - Break The Rules

 

Allison Limerick - Where Love Lives

 

Mariah Carey - We Belong Together

 

Freemasons feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Heartbreak

 

Bonnie Raitt - Angel from Montgomery

 

Lorde - Royals

 

Santigold - God From The Machine

 

Rosalia - 'Di Mi Nombre'

 

Duffy - Warwick Avenue

 

St. Vincent - "Huey Newton"

 

Janelle Monáe, feat. Erykah Badu - Q.U.E.E.N.

 

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U

 

Olivia Newton John - Xanadu

 

Faithless - God Is a DJ

 

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

 

M.I.A. - Borders

 

Lianne La Havas - Can't Fight

 

Doris Day - A Sentimental Journey

 

Concha Buika - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

 

Nadia Ali - Rapture

 

Becky G,, feat. Bad Bunny - Mayores

 

Mon Laferte - Amárrame

 

Edited April 3, 2021 by Cupid Stunt

[Cupid Stunt]

 

[Cupid Stunt]

The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. -- Matthew 28:5-6

[Cupid Stunt]

Happy Birthday, Peaches!

[OhioSongbird]

Yes!  Happy Birthday, peaches!

I shall raise a glass or three in your honor....

 

Happy Easter everybody!

[Snaporaz]

Yes, it's @peacheslatour's birthday!  Perhaps you heard of her.  Have an eggs-traordinary day!  (Sorry, I had to do that for the Easter Punny. 🐰🐣🐇)  Happy birthday, and best wishes always! 💓  I hope your year goes a little something like this:

 

 

Edited April 4, 2021 by Snaporaz

[peacheslatour]

D'aww thanks youse guys! My birthday has fallen on Easter quite a few times in my life. It's better than having a Christmas b-day though.

Happy Easter, don't skimp on the chocolate!

[OhioSongbird]

I was born on Easter Sunday...March 25, 1951.  Easter hasn't/won't fall on 3/25 again until 2035.  So it's never happened to me.  It's been the 24th-26th lots of times but not the 25th. 

I always count Easter as my 'second birthday'. 

[peacheslatour]

10 minutes ago, OhioSongbird said:

I was born on Easter Sunday...March 25, 1951.  Easter hasn't/won't fall on 3/25 again until 2035.  So it's never happened to me.  It's been the 24th-26th lots of times but not the 25th. 

I always count Easter as my 'second birthday'. 

When I was a kid, I always got ear infections in the spring. I've spent many birthdays and Easters in bed, sick.

[boes]

Happy Birthday, Peacheslatour!!  

[peacheslatour]

20 minutes ago, boes said:

Happy Birthday, Peacheslatour!!  

Thank you, love!

[Capricasix]

HBD Peaches! My younger son’s birthday is on Tuesday, so it has fallen on Easter before. Easter was quite early in 2005, the year he was born - it fell on the last Sunday in March. 

[peacheslatour]

2 minutes ago, Capricasix said:

HBD Peaches! My younger son’s birthday is on Tuesday, so it has fallen on Easter before. Easter was quite early in 2005, the year he was born - it fell on the last Sunday in March. 

Thank you! My son's birthday is the eighth but I don't think it's ever fallen on Easter. Happy spring!

 

  

[SweePea59]

9 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

My birthday has fallen on Easter quite a few times in my life. It's better than having a Christmas b-day though.

When I was six or seven I had an Easter bday and I got toys (Liddle Kiddles) in my Easter basket. Best Easter ever! I also had an Easter bday in my twenties and threw one helluva bash.

6 hours ago, OhioSongbird said:

I was born on Easter Sunday...March 25, 1951.  Easter hasn't/won't fall on 3/25 again until 2035.  So it's never happened to me.  It's been the 24th-26th lots of times but not the 25th. 

I always count Easter as my 'second birthday'. 

I just checked, I'm not having another Easter bday again. Oh well.

I was born on a Holy Thursday, so I always secretly think of Holy Thursday as my birthday, too.

oh, Peaches...

[jewel21]

Happy birthday, Peaches!

[peacheslatour]

Thank you for the swell birthday wishes, you guys are the best!

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When I was six or seven I had an Easter bday and I got toys (Liddle Kiddles) in my Easter basket. Best Easter ever! I also had an Easter bday in my twenties and threw one helluva bash.

OMG! Liddle Kiddles! I was crazy about them when I was a kid. When I was in my thirties my mom started working a the doll museum in the next town over, she began buying me vintage Kiddles, the same ones I used to have as a kid. I now have almost every one of the ones I used to have. I also collect Petite Princess furniture. I have set up a "mansion" for them both on a glass case.

[Cupid Stunt]

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English

 

Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey - History Repeating

 

The Faint - "The Geeks Were Right"

 

Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You

 

Hole - Malibu

 

The KLF - Justified & Ancient

 

Elizabeth Cotten  ,  Shake Sugaree

 

Kylie Minogue - Magic (Matias Segnini Extended Mix)

 

Grover Washington Jr. feat. Bill Withers - Just The Two of Us

 

Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye

 

Alison Krauss and Union Station - Baby, now that I've found you

 

Lake Street Dive - Mistakes

 

Fenton Robinson - "Somebody Loan Me A Dime" (1974)

 

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

 

The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You

 

John Lee Hooker - Serves Me Right To Suffer

 

Kesha - Shadow

 

THE TING TINGS - "Wrong Club"

 

Jerry Garcia - Sugaree

 

KONGOS - Come with Me Now

 

Louis Armstrong - Lazy River

 

Screaming Females - Hopeless

 

Etta Moten - Chasing Shadows (1935)

 

Azealia Banks - 1991

[SweePea59]

7 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

OMG! Liddle Kiddles! I was crazy about them when I was a kid. When I was in my thirties my mom started working a the doll museum in the next town over, she began buying me vintage Kiddles, the same ones I used to have as a kid. I now have almost every one of the ones I used to have. I also collect Petite Princess furniture. I have set up a "mansion" for them both on a glass case.

Can I come over and play? haha I am greeeeeeen with envy.

[peacheslatour]

4 hours ago, SweePea59 said:

Can I come over and play? haha I am greeeeeeen with envy.

Come on over! We'll have popcorn and orange juice with seltzer in it. (That's what my BFF and I used to have when we played Kiddles). BTW, they're not that expensive on Ebay.

Edited April 6, 2021 by peacheslatour

[SweePea59]

Don't tempt me!

 

[Cupid Stunt]

Tom Jobim - Wave - 1967

 

Martina McBride - This One's For The Girls

 

Sigrid - Sucker Punch

 

Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro

 

M.I.A. x The Partysquad x KENZO - Y.A.L.A.

 

The Beatles - Ed Sullivan Show

 

Wolf Alice - "Moaning Lisa Smile"

 

Kenzo World -- Margaret Qualley, dancer

 

It's Little Richard (1964) - UK TV Special

 

Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown - 1980

 

Eric B & Rakim - Don't Sweat The Technique

 

Broadway Melody of 1936 - Eleanor Powell last scene

 

Simply Red - Holding Back The Years

 

George Benson - "This Masquerade"

 

The Avalanches - 'Frontier Psychiatrist'

 

John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom

 

Kelly Rowland (Freemasons Radio Edit) · Work

 

The Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter 23 (Disco Version)

 

Joni Mitchell - The Magdalene Laundries (Live Toronto 1994) --- Irish government to apologize over mother-and-baby homes

 

Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man

Jimi Hendrix & Band of Gypsy's - Who Knows (Live)

 

Miranda Lambert - Kerosene

 

Paulinho Nogueira & Toquinho ‎– Toquinho Paulinho Nogueira

 

Nikka Costa - Push & Pull

[Cupid Stunt]

Otis Redding on dance show, Ready, Steady, Go!

 

France Gall - Laisse tomber les filles 1964

 

Yerba Buena - Guajira (I Love U 2 Much)

 

Ballet de Lorraine - In the upper room

 

Anastacia - One Day In Your Life

 

The Boswell Sisters - Shout, sister, shout (1931)

 

The Interrupters - "Take Back The Power"

 

Avicii vs Lenny Kravitz - Superlove

 

Prince - Creep (Coachella) soundboard & audience footage version

 

Katy Perry - This Is How We Do

 

Funkadelic - (Not Just) Knee Deep

 

Bananarama - Venus

 

Missy Elliott - Throw It Back

 

Spice Girls - Too Much

 

Bob Marley - Kay̲a̲

 

Jain - Come

 

Lizzo - Boys

 

Joan Blondell - Remember my Forgotten Man

 

The Donnas - Fall Behind Me

 

Natalie Imbruglia - Scars

 

Wynonna Judd Covers Billie Eilish "Everything I Wanted"

[Cupid Stunt]

Foo Fighters "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" Saint Paul,Mn 8/22/15

 

Van Halen - Panama

 

Chuck Berry -  It Wasn't Me

 

Christina Aguilera - Infatuation

 

AUDREY HEPBURN original voice track - 'Wouldn't it be Loverly'

 

Kylie Minogue - Magic

 

Sugar Hill Gang - 'Rappers Delight'/Chic - 'Good Times'

 

Dottie West -  A Lesson In Leavin'

 

JIMI HENDRIX - Live at Fillmore East (1968)

 

Aaliyah - Rock the Boat

 

Adina Howard - Freak Like Me

 

Usher - Yeah!

 

Lisa Stansfield & Barry White - All Around the World

 

Martha Argerich - CHOPIN Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor op. 58

 

The Hollies - Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)

 

JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ - Teardrop

 

BB King & Bobby Blue Bland - The Thrill is Gone - 1977

 

Surogat

 

Ludovico Einaudi - In a Time Lapse

 

Groove Armada - Inside My Mind (Blue Skies)

 

Rodrigo y Gabriela - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

 

LEE ANN WOMACK - "I HOPE YOU DANCE"

 

Los Lonely Boys - Oye Mamacita

 

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris - After the Gold Rush

 

Corona - The Rhythm of the Night

 

The Temptations - I Wish it Would Rain

[Cupid Stunt]

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Finest Hour

 

Lou Reed - Sweet Jane (live 1973)

 

ROSALÍA & RAÜL REFREE - PRIMAVERA SOUND 2017 (Betevé)

 

Muriel Anderson - Summer Morning Rain

 

The Beatles - 1964 - Beatles For Sale

 

The Stone Roses - Fools Gold

 

M.I.A. - Bring The Noize (Matangi Street Edition)

 

Cyd Charisse - Frankie & Johnny/1956 - Meet Me in Las Vegas

 

Norah Jones - Don't Know Why

 

Hinech Yafa - LIGHT IN BABYLON

 

Romeo Void - Never Say Never

 

Ruben Jordan - "Lanza celestial"

 

Rihanna, ft. Mikky Ekko - Stay (Live on SNL)

 

Stereo MC's - Connected

 

Ashley McBryde - Martha Divine

 

TRIANA PURA - DE FIESTA CON TRIANA PURA

 

Daft Punk ft. Julian Casablancas - Instant Crush

 

Tove Lo - sadder badder cooler - ASL by Sunshine Kitty and Alex Justina Miles

 

Massive Attack - Protection

 

Major Lazer, feat. Nyla & Fuse ODG - Light it Up Remix

 

Martha Argerich - Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 / Bach Gavottes / Scarlatti K141

 

Isley Brothers - Fight The Power/Soul Train Line Dance

 

MEG MYERS - The Underground

 

The Prodigy - Voodoo People

 

Big Country - Live At Reading Hexagon 1986

 

Run DMC - It's Like That (Like At Montreux 2001)

 

Avicii - Wake Me Up

 

Miranda Lambert - Tequila Does

 

 

 

 

Trouble is so easy to find. Hello Patron.

Edited April 9, 2021 by Cupid Stunt

[Cupid Stunt]

 

 

DMX, Rapper Who Blended Menace With Emotional Sincerity, Dead at 50

Earl Simmons, the rapper better known as DMX, died on Friday at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, one week after suffering a heart attack. He was 50 years old.

“We are deeply saddened to announce today that our loved one, DMX, birth name of Earl Simmons, passed away at 50 years old at White Plains Hospital with his family by his side after being placed on life support for the past few days,” his family said in a statement. “Earl was a warrior who fought till the very end. He loved his family with all of his heart and we cherish the times we spent with him. Earl’s music inspired countless fans across the world and his iconic legacy will live on forever. We appreciate all of the love and support during this incredibly difficult time. Please respect our privacy as we grieve the loss of our brother, father, uncle and the man the world knew as DMX. We will share information about his memorial service once details are finalized.”

On Friday, April 2nd, Simmons was rushed to the hospital and by Saturday morning, the rapper’s lawyer, Murray Richman, confirmed that he was in a coma and on life support in the hospital’s critical care unit. “Last night, Earl ‘DMX’ Simmons was rushed to the hospital after collapsing at home,” a rep for the rapper said in a statement on Saturday. “At this time, he remains in ICU in critical condition.”

The rapper — whose brain was reportedly deprived of oxygen for 30 minutes following the medical emergency — remained in a vegetative state while family, friends and fans gathered outside White Plains Hospital for a prayer vigil. Following a battery of brain function tests, the rapper was taken off life support Friday.

DMX’s two-decade-plus career was beset by legal troubles, tabloid headlines, and struggles with drug addiction. But he was also one of the most successful hardcore rappers to ever cross over on a mainstream stage — an artist with a huge cultural impact and influence that extended well beyond his core audience, and a powerful artistic style of passionate urgency.

His arrival in the mid-Nineties coincided with hip-hop’s emergence as a commercialized global phenomenon; DMX provided a grimy counter-narrative to the glossy big-budget sheen of the era’s most popular rap. He also revitalized the Def Jam label, inadvertently provided a blueprint for Jay-Z’s own popular breakthrough, and developed a career as a charismatic film star in movies like Belly, Romeo Must Die, and Exit Wounds. Yet DMX is best remembered today for his gripping music, which matched his aggressive machismo with an emotional sincerity that resonated around the world.

Although his persona fit a familiar hip-hop archetype — DMX was a muscular street rapper who sold rugged credibility with an aggressive edge — his approach to rapping was a radical departure from other stylists at the time. His voice rose and fell with a preacher’s cadence; the tone of his vocals bleeding raw at the surface. His verses were punctuated with growls and barks, yet his art was far too earnest for these elements to scan as gimmickry. The gravelly texture and loose rhythms of his rapping — he often seemed less interested in riding the groove than in confidently forcing it to follow his lead — gave the songs an urgent, unrehearsed feeling.

“Tupac [Shakur] was gone [and] there was a void,” Kendrick Lamar told Complex in 2012. “Something was missing in the game and he came through to fill that.” When DMX first hit mainstream America, it had been two years since Shakur’s death, and his success was propelled by an urgent longing in the collective psyche. But as Marcus Reeves argued in his 2008 book Somebody Scream!, DMX took his own path, shifting from “the sociopolitical to the spiritual.”

Christian themes permeated his work much more openly than in Shakur’s. (“People believe you can only catch the Holy Ghost in church,” DMX told Vibe in 1998. “I get it onstage.”) But what gave his art its most potent energy was how he believably and accessibly reconciled strength with vulnerability. As he told MTV’s Carson Daly on Total Request Live in 1999, “The toughest guys have the biggest hearts. But you gotta be like that to protect the heart. Because the heart is soft. You gotta be a tough guy to keep it safe.”

Earl Simmons (“My alias,” as he once told Vibe) was born December 18th, 1970, in Mount Vernon, New York, the only child of Arnett Simmons and Joe Barker. Arnett was 19; Earl was her second child. Earl’s father, an artist who’d attended high school with Arnett, was soon out of the picture. Arnett moved the family to Yonkers, New York, where he endured a deeply troubled childhood: Beset by poverty and abuse, he was in and out of group homes and, eventually, jail. “I never had many friends in Yonkers,” he once told MTV News while visiting his hometown. “I never had many friends, period.” He struggled with drugs and became a stick-up kid.

“I robbed n*****,” DMX told Rolling Stone in a 2000 cover story. “I’m not ashamed of that. That’s my s***. Robbery. I’m not a hustler. I’ve tried it. That’s not me. I’d rather do the stick-up s***. But what got me over was, I had a rep in Yonkers. N***** knew DMX would get ya. And I’d be straight-up robbin’ n*****, no mask or nothin’. Half of my weapon was my face. I’d just walk up to n***** and be like, ‘Yo, lemme get that.’ I wasn’t the biggest n**** in the world. I couldn’t beat everybody, but dawg, my rep superseded me.”

In the mid-1980s, he beatboxed for Brooklyn rapper Ready Ron before writing his own personal, therapeutic verses. Although DMX received a co-sign from The Source’s Unsigned Hype column in 1991 (as DMX the Great), he struggled at first to gain much success; a deal with Columbia subsidiary Ruffhouse led to a failed 1992 single (“Born Loser”) and a similarly unsuccessful follow-up (1995’s “Make a Move”).

After leaving Ruffhouse, DMX became the primary cause of Irving “Irv Gotti” Domingo Lorenzo Jr., a newly appointed Def Jam A&R who’d obtained his position by helping to arrange Jay-Z’s deal with the label. “This guy comes into my office saying, ‘The only way n***** is going to dance again is like this,‘” Russell Simmons told Vibe in 2008. “And he started bouncing. Because that was the vibe DMX and Ja Rule had.”

“First meeting I ever had, I was like, ‘We gotta sign DMX,’ and they laughed at me,” Gotti told Complex in 2015. “Jay and Dame [Dash] did not believe in DMX. I said, ‘If you look in the hood, there’s less n***** like you, and more n***** like him.'” Gotti’s enthusiasm came in part from the rapper’s new single, “Get at Me Dog,” which originally had been a freestyle made for a DJ Clue tape and also featured the Lox. Then-Def Jam exec Julie Greenwald told Vibe in 2008, “Gotti plays me ‘Get at Me Dog,’ and is like, ‘It’s going to sell 5 million.’ I’m like, ‘Irv, you’re out of your mind.'” Ultimately, Gotti convinced top execs Lyor Cohen, Kevin Liles, and Damon Dash to come up to Yonkers and let DMX freestyle for them. DMX performed with his jaw wired shut, the result of a fight with “10 guys,” according to Vibe‘s 1998 profile of the rapper. Def Jam signed him soon thereafter.

The 1998 video for “Get at Me Dog” got no MTV play after DMX refused to allow it to be censored. Yet the song became a rallying cry for hip-hop’s axis of gritty realism. In an era of flashy chains and profligate spending, DMX was an Everyman. “You can’t take money with you to heaven, baby,” he once told The Source. “Only love.” By the end of 1998, DMX’s debut album, It’s Dark and Hell is Hot, had gone four times platinum — 1 million shy of Gotti’s promise, but enough to convince Def Jam’s suits of Gotti’s vision. “Jay looked and seen what I did with X and was like, ‘H*** s***, that s*** worked,'” Gotti told Complex.

“Def Jam Recordings and the extended Def Jam family of artists, executives and employees are deeply and profoundly saddened by the loss of our brother Earl ‘DMX’ Simmons,” the label said in a statement. “DMX was a brilliant artist and an inspiration to millions around the world. His message of triumph over struggle, his search for the light out of darkness, his pursuit of truth and grace brought us closer to our own humanity. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and all those who loved him and were touched by him. DMX was nothing less than a giant. His legend will live on forever.”

“Earl Simmons was a wonderful, caring father, and a sensitive, thoughtful man,” former Def Jam head Lyor Cohen said in a statement. “Unfortunately, Dark Man X took over and ran amok, tormented and struggling to find the light…. DMX gave me the inspiration to keep going at Def Jam when rap became soft and silly.”

DMX’s first five albums, including 1998’s Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood and 1999’s … And Then There Was X, all debuted at Number One on the Billboard charts, and his sixth — 2006’s Year Of the Dog … Again — missed the Number One spot by a few hundred copies. His work crossed over beyond hardcore hip-hop fans, and DMX noticed, telling Spin magazine in 2000: “I will never compromise my work. What I say, I mean. … But sometimes you have to speak to people who you don’t necessarily think are your audience, just because they like you.” His team successfully marketed his work across demographics; for 1999’s “What’s My Name?,” the video transplanted X’s world to a set based upon Lenny Kravitz’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way?” video.

His career slowed in the mid-2000s, with his substance abuse issues often blamed as the cause (although he suggested in 2012 that Jay-Z, with whom he’d long had a rivalry and who’d become head of Def Jam, had intentionally withheld the rapper’s material from the public). Since that time, DMX appeared on reality television — a format that seemed especially friendly to his confessional pathos — and had frequent public struggles with the law, including arrests for identity theft, animal cruelty, and impersonating a federal agent. Yet nearly two decades on, his music remains a major influence in hip-hop to both underground rappers and superstars. “That’s the first album that got me writing,” Kendrick Lamar told Complex of DMX’s debut. “I wrote my first lyrics to that album actually, [at] about 13, 14. I just got inspired and started writing, so that will always be one of my favorite albums.”

However, the past five years of DMX’s life were plagued by more legal issues and drug use: In 2017, the rapper was arrested on tax-fraud charges and accused of withholding $1.7 million from the IRS. While awaiting trial, the rapper again relapsed and was sent to a drug-rehabilitation center. He ultimately pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to one year in prison. Following his release from prison in 2019, and a triumphant return to the stage at the Masters of Ceremony event at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, DMX embarked on a tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot. Months later, however, DMX canceled a slate of concerts in order to return to rehab.

“In his ongoing commitment to putting family and sobriety first, DMX has checked himself into a rehab facility,” a rep for DMX wrote on his Instagram in October 2019. “He apologizes for his canceled shows and thanks his fans for their continued support.” In July 2020, DMX re-emerged to face off in a Verzuz battle against Snoop Dogg. It would mark his final public performance.

Long after his death, DMX will be remembered for blazing new paths and remaining defiantly himself. “I’m definitely a free spirit,” he once told MTV. “I could go with no direction. Just go. I’ll find what I find. I’ll end up where I end up. I’ll end up there. And there is never a bad place, because you always learn something from it. … I like to just go with the wind.”

-- David Drake

[Cupid Stunt]

Anita Baker - No One In The World

 

CARMEN by Antonio Gades & Carlos Saura | Teatro Real de Madrid | ANTONIO GADES COMPANY

 

Michaela de Prince & Francoise Llorente - Las Llamas de Paris PDD

 

Kasabian - Processed Beats

 

Son House - Grinnin in Your Face

 

Morgan Wade - The Night

 

Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license

 

Larry Carlton - For Love Alone

 

Marvin Gaye "What's Going On / What's Happening Brother"

 

Judy Garland - "The Man That Got Away"

 

Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence

 

Miles Davis- Night Music with David Sanborn

 

Santana - Jungle Strut

 

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Warm-up Set

 

THE WHO - Eminence Front

 

David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb Live in Pompeii 2016

 

Tito Puente - Oye Como Va

 

Har Mar Superstar - The Lowertown Line

 

Basement Jaxx - U Don't Know Me

 

Jack White - Ball and Biscuit/Don’t Hurt Yourself/Jesus Is Coming Soon (Live on SNL)

 

Goldfrapp - Number 1

 

The Commitments - Destination Anywhere

 

Jimmy Page/Eric Clapton/Jeff Beck - ARMS - London 9/20/1983

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Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general and human rights activist, dead at 93

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who helped shape U.S. civil rights law during the Johnson administration but went on to travel the globe to fight human rights abuses by his own country as he saw them, has died at age 93.

Clark, one of the architects of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1968, died on Friday, family member Sharon Welch said, according to media outlets including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

In a lengthy career of representing unpopular causes, Clark defended or gave advice to Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, Liberian political figure Charles Taylor and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. Domestically he was active for conservative politician Lyndon LaRouche, Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and antiwar activist the Reverend Philip Berrigan. In the 1990s, he helped found the leftist International Action Center in New York, which drew attention in 1999 for street protests condemning the U.S.-led NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

In an interview with Reuters in July 2001 as he was preparing to give Milosevic legal advice on charges filed by a U.N. international war crimes tribunal, Clark discussed his commitment to human rights. “For 30 years I’ve supported the idea and worked for the creation of an international criminal court that has universal jurisdiction and is independent of all political influence and that has the power to prosecute the high and the mighty as well as the weak and the defeated,” Clark said. “Equality is the mother of justice. If there is no equality in law, there is no justice.”

Cuba’s president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, lamented Clark’s death on Twitter on Saturday. “He was an honest and supportive man that stood by our side during crucial battles and denounced the great injustices committed by his country worldwide,” Diaz-Canel wrote. “#Cuba pays him grateful tribute.”

Hanan Ashrawi, a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee, wrote on Twitter that Clark “was an indefatigable defender of Palestinian & human rights, a lawyer who knew & pursued genuine justice & the rights of the oppressed.” Clark was an advocate for Soviet and Syrian Jews, but outraged many Jews over other clients. He defended a Nazi prison camp guard fighting extradition, and the Palestine Liberation Organization in a lawsuit over the slaying of a cruise ship passenger by hijackers.

The United Nations recognized Clark’s work in 2008 by naming him one of the winners of its prestigious prize in the field of human rights. Others who have received the prize include former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and South African leader Nelson Mandela.

Clark was born in Dallas into a prominent Texas family on Dec. 18, 1927. His father, Tom Clark, was named U.S. attorney general by President Harry Truman in 1945 and then to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1949. Ramsey Clark served in the Marine Corps in 1945-46, making the rank of corporal, attended the University of Texas and the University of Chicago and then practiced law in Dallas. He joined the Justice Department under Democratic President John Kennedy in 1961 and served in top posts until Democratic President Lyndon Johnson nominated him as attorney general in 1967. His father retired from the Supreme Court to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest.

In the years after government service, Clark raised eyebrows many times by befriending some of the declared enemies of the United States, including Gaddafi, Saddam and Milosevic. Clark, in response to a 1986 U.S. military attack on Libya which Washington had accused of terrorism, visited the North African country. At the outbreak of the 1991 Gulf War, Clark defied the U.S.-led coalition to visit Saddam in Baghdad. He returned to Iraq several times over the years to condemn U.N. sanctions that were depriving Iraqi children of food and medicine. He joined Saddam’s defense team when the former Iraqi president went on trial for war crimes and even lectured the judge on how to conduct a fair trial.

In the Milosevic case and in the case of a Rwandan militiaman he represented on war crimes charges, Clark argued that the international tribunals established by the United Nations were illegal because there was no provision for them in the U.N. Charter.

As a top Justice Department official, Clark engaged himself in civil rights. Among his many tasks were surveying Southern school districts desegregating under court order in 1963 and supervising the federal presence at the University of Mississippi following the admission of James Meredith as the school’s first black student.

Clark also helped draft and direct passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 containing the first federal open housing law.

In an ironic twist considering his later activist role, Clark as attorney general oversaw the prosecution during the Vietnam War of an antiwar group known as the “Boston Five” for helping draft resisters. Four of the five, including famed pediatrician Benjamin Spock and Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin, were convicted. “We won the case, that was the worst part,” he said years later.

There were usually two to three dozen active cases on Clark’s legal calendar, and about 100 more in the background. Capital punishment cases were a staple. “We talk about civil liberties,” he said. “We have the largest prison population per capita on Earth. The world’s greatest jailer is the freest country on Earth?”

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Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand (Live Knebworth 1979)

 

Alessia Cara - Here

 

John Lee Hooker - The Healer

 

Mr. Probz - Waves

 

Patti Smith Because The Night LIVE (1978)

 

Cher- MegaMix 2005 (Official Almighty Club Mix)

 

Elaine Paige - Memory' / Cats

 

FKA twigs - cellophane

 

Lykke Li - No Rest For The Wicked

 

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (2008 Remaster)

 

Angie Stone - Wish I Didn't Miss You

 

Elle King, Miranda Lambert - Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)

 

METRIC - "Black Sheep" - Live at The Funhouse

 

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live in Sweden 1969

 

Cuba Feliz - Lagrimas Negras

 

Lady Gaga - Free Woman

 

George Benson - "Affirmation"

 

Muriel Anderson "Bells For Marcel"

 

George Michael - Killer/Papa Was A Rolling Stone

 

Eleanor Powell - Fascinating Rhythm/ Lady Be Good (MGM 1942)

 

Gabrielle - Out Of Reach

 

Outkast - Ms. Jackson

 

Inva Mula - A. Vivaldi: Sposa, son disprezzata

 

The Mar-Keys - Morning After

[peacheslatour]

Robert Plant always wanted to be in The Lord of the Rings.

And now he is.

  

 

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Mother Maybelle's Carter Scratch Documentary

 

Chaka Khan Live at Roxy (1981)

 

Lilly Wood & The Prick and Robin Schulz - Prayer In C

 

Eminem - Beautiful  ***Seven Dirty Words Warning***

 

Humble Pie - For Your Love

 

Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins - I'll See You in My Dreams and Imagine

 

Jane Powell & Fred Astaire - "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life?"

 

Orbital - Halcyon On and On

Tangos de Graná - Silvia del Lolo - Granada

 

Romeo Void - A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporay Thing ) 1984

 

Calvin Harris, ft. HAIM - Pray to God

 

Normani - Motivation - Hamilton Evans Choreography

 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street

 

Ciara ft. Missy Elliott - Work

 

Maria Callas Live: Bizet's Carmen Habanera, Hamburg 1962

 

Stevie Ray Vaughan - 1983  Dallas, Texas.

 

A Band Called Death - Before There Was Punk

 

ABBA ~ The Visitors (Crackin' Up) 1981 Disco Purrfection Version

 

Alan Jackson - Don't Rock The Jukebox

 

Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train a Comin'

 

DAFT PUNK - Get Lucky

 

The Psychedelic Furs - Wrong Train

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John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman - "My One and Only Love"

 

Bobbi Humphrey - Harlem River Drive

 

A Taste Of Honey - Rescue Me

 

VAN MORRISON - ESSEN 4.APRIL 1982

 

Asturias de Albeniz por Los Giménez

 

Major Lazer - Hold The Line

 

The Cult - 'Rain'

 

Jaco Pastorius - Donna Lee -- This Bass Solo Changed Popular Music

 

Freya Ridings - Ultraviolet (Live At St Pancras Old Church)

 

Dinah Shore - Laughing On The Outside

 

Cypress Hill - Insane in the brain - Live @ AlRumbo Festival 2015

 

Happy Mondays - Step On

 

Def Leppard - Hysteria

 

Jerry Reed - Don't Think Twice It's Allright

 

Joni Mitchell - "Blue"

 

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

 

Al Jarreau – You Don't See Me

 

Timbaland, ft. Nelly Furtado, Soshy - Morning After Dark

 

The Highwaymen - (Ghost) Riders In the Sky

 

Kitty Wells - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels

 

ROSALÍA & Travis Scott - TKN

 

Seal & Adamski - Killer

 

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York

 

Game Over by PES

 

The The - Uncertain Smile

 

Garbage & Screaming Females - Because The Night

 

Madonna - Hung Up

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Undated photo issued Monday April 12, 2021, by West Mercia Police, showing the world's biggest rabbit, Darius, who has been stolen from it's home in Worcestershire, police have said. West Mercia Police are appealing for information after the 129 centimeters (4 feet, 3 inches) long Continental Giant rabbit named Darius was taken from its enclosure in the garden of the property in Stoulton, England, overnight on Saturday. (West Mercia Police via AP)

Bunny snatched: Record-holding giant rabbit stolen in UK

Edited April 13, 2021 by Cupid Stunt

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Flamenco at 5:15

 

Ella Fitzgerald - Angel Eyes

 

John Prine - Lake Marie

 

Dua Lipa - Break My Heart

 

Squeeze - Heaven Knows

 

Purl - Pixar SparkShorts

 

Arlo Guthrie - City Of New Orleans

 

Foo Fighters - Everlong

 

Patrice Rushen - Remind Me

 

Fleetwood Mac - Gold Dust Woman (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood, 1981, with Bob Welch)

 

Camila Cabello - My Oh My

 

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough

 

Paco de Lucía & Al Di Meola - Mediterranean Sundance

 

Al Jarreau – You Don't See Me ☆ Live at Montreux • 1993

 

Katy Perry, Tiësto, Aitana - Resilient

 

Fun.: ft. Janelle Monáe - We Are Young

 

Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Live On MTV Unplugged Unedited)

 

Ray Charles and Willie Nelson - Seven Spanish Angels

 

Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand - No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)

 

Prince - Montreux Jazz Festival 2009 - Show 1

 

Prince Montreux Jazz Festival 2009 - Show 2

 

Leadbelly - Black Betty

 

Ram Jam - Black Betty

 

Edited April 14, 2021 by Cupid Stunt

[Cupid Stunt]

Mr. Stunt, Thing's 1&2 and I got our first Covid-19 shots this afternoon at Walgreens, with half of Mr. Stunt's employees. We all walked across the street and had dinner at a Vietnamese food truck to celebrate! The truck closed early because we ate all the food.

 

[peacheslatour]

3 minutes ago, Cupid Stunt said:

Mr. Stunt, Thing's 1&2 and I got our first Covid-19 shots this afternoon at Walgreens, with half of Mr. Stunt's employees. We all walked across the street and had dinner at a Vietnamese food truck to celebrate! The truck closed early because we ate all the food.

 

Hurrah!

🤘

[Snaporaz]

Pennsylvania just opened eligibility to my age group yesterday!  It wasn't supposed to be until April 19th, but the governor pushed it up a few days. There are about ten places I can go within 7 miles of my house (5 of those places within 2 miles), but getting an appointment is a bit of a challenge.  But I keep plugging away!

How were MM and BJ kissing today?  If Y&R tapes ~6 weeks in advance, and you aren't considered fully vaccinated until two weeks after your second dose, they would have to have started their shots back in January.  I'm not being snarky here, but are actors considered essential workers in California?

[boes]

4 hours ago, Cupid Stunt said:

Mr. Stunt, Thing's 1&2 and I got our first Covid-19 shots this afternoon at Walgreens, with half of Mr. Stunt's employees. We all walked across the street and had dinner at a Vietnamese food truck to celebrate! The truck closed early because we ate all the food.

 

Wow!  Your Walgreens has much higher capacity than ours do in the Bay Area.  None of our have more than 2 people giving the shots at one time and another person to monitor the 15 minute wait times post shot.  

It's great you all found one that could handle that many people.  Only the Coliseum in Oakland and the Moscone Center in SF up here are set up for that capacity.

You must be so happy to have that first shot behind you!

[Cupid Stunt]

7 hours ago, boes said:

Wow!  Your Walgreens has much higher capacity than ours do in the Bay Area.  None of our have more than 2 people giving the shots at one time and another person to monitor the 15 minute wait times post shot.  

It's great you all found one that could handle that many people.  Only the Coliseum in Oakland and the Moscone Center in SF up here are set up for that capacity.

You must be so happy to have that first shot behind you!

Patti Labelle Praise Dancin'!

I had a vaccination appointment at my regular clinic for June 23. I cancelled it last night. There's been so much death and illness worldwide, the opportunity to be vaccinated is a light at the end of a very dark journey. I gladly stopped cleaning the oven when I got the call to group up.

The shots party was organized within a few hours by an HR employee of Mr. Stunt's. She personally took on the coordinating Covid-19 insurance disbursements/shot appointments for employees. The Walgreens runs an occasional Covid-19 shot drive up in a parking lot next to their store. The store got an excess of vaccines than they could store and contacted HR Lady to invite people to line up. A school bus hire, round up volunteers, and we were in line for our jabs and making appointments for the 2nd shot. Mr. Stunt invited the bus driver join us for a shot and dinner.

It was a good Wednesday in Los Angeles.

 

12 hours ago, Snaporaz said:

Pennsylvania just opened eligibility to my age group yesterday!  It wasn't supposed to be until April 19th, but the governor pushed it up a few days. There are about ten places I can go within 7 miles of my house (5 of those places within 2 miles), but getting an appointment is a bit of a challenge.  But I keep plugging away!

How were MM and BJ kissing today? If Y&R tapes ~6 weeks in advance, and you aren't considered fully vaccinated until two weeks after your second dose, they would have to have started their shots back in January.  I'm not being snarky here, but are actors considered essential workers in California?

Keeping Preverts in my prayers for local vaccinations.

I can't speak to their circumstances for the Y&R producers to allow it, but many actors and musicians have been able to get fully vaccinated and cast/employees are regularly tested by the production companies -- Which has a had a major impact on production budgets and the quality of Shows.

Essential workers? It depends on who you talk to. In SoCal the TV/Movie/Music/Pot Dispensary business are the engines that drive the state economy.

Edited April 15, 2021 by Cupid Stunt