The Living Room at Kolbotn, (Hulda and Arne Garborg's home)

Artist: Harriet Backer

Creation date: 1896

Throughout Harriet Backer's 50-year career, women's rights changed radically. Being a woman and an artist became accepted. Backer was talented and determined, inspiring a new generation of women and men in the Norwegian art world.

In Backer’s family, art and culture were part of how the children were raised. Her older sister Agathe was musically gifted and wanted to become a pianist. She had to go abroad to learn, and Harriet became her sister's traveling companion. This gave Harriet the opportunity to visit art museums and get to know the historical masters of the art world at a young age. Agathe eventually became a renowned composer and concert pianist, while Harriet became an important artist.

Backer showed an early talent and interest in art, but embarked on full-time studies rather late in life. In 1874, at 29 years, she decided to travel to Munich. The art community in Norway was small, so one had to go abroad.

The art academies in Europe were reserved for men in those days, but women could receive private tuition or attend "women's classes". During her years in Munich, Backer had several teachers. In 1878 she moved to Paris to continue her studies.

Being accepted for exhibition at the Salon in Paris was an important step on the path to becoming a professional artist. In 1880, Backer was accepted with the painting Solitude. Hundreds of artists exhibited at these exhibitions at the same time, and the paintings hung close together, from floor to ceiling. The jury thought Backer's painting was excellent, and she was honoured with a diploma, known as a Mention honorable.

In Munich, Backer learned to paint in a style characterised by a high level of detail and dark colours. We see this for example in Avskjeden (The Farewell), from 1878. When she came to Paris, she was greatly inspired by impressionism. In one of her best-known paintings, Blått interiør (Blue Interior), painted five years after Avskjeden, the transformation of her painting style is evident. Clear and pure colours dominate the composition. From this point on, the interaction between figure, interior and light effects became a theme that permeated Backer's paintings. How to create contrasts between the light indoors and outdoors? How are colours perceived in lamplight compared to daylight? She approached her subjects with these issues in mind.

Backer started her career with a desire to become a portrait painter. She painted many friends and acquaintances, and also received portrait commissions. But it is her interior scenes she has become best known for. She painted interiors from all walks of life – from farmhouses to bourgeois living rooms. For the most part, Backer's rooms are populated by women.

I think I serve the cause of women best by concentrating like a man – Harriet Backer

In 1888, Backer established herself in Norway, and from 1892 to 1910 ran a painting school in Kristiania. She became a popular teacher. Her openness to new ideas in both art and social development was appreciated. She sympathised with the women's movement, but did not actively participate in political work.

In the women's cause, Backer was recognised more for what she did than what she said – as a renowned artist she was an important role model. Together with friend and fellow artist Kitty Kielland, she was a pioneer who paved the way for women to have the opportunity to choose art as a career path.

About Harriet Backer:

Born 21 January 1845 in Holmestrand.

Lived in Paris in 1878–1888.

Started an art school in Kristiania in the 1890s. Backer’s students included Nikolai Astrup, Halfdan Egedius, Harald Sohlberg, Henrik Lund, Helga Ring Reusch, Astri Welhaven and Sara Fabricius (Cora Sandel).

Died 25 March 1932 in Oslo.

Important works:

Solitude (1878–1880)

Blått interiør (Blue Interior) (1883)

På blekevollen (Bleaching) (1886–1887)

Ved lampelys (By Lamplight) (1890)

Barnedåp i Tanum kirke (Baptism at Tanum Church) (1892)

Inngangskoner (Women in Church) (1892)

Interiør fra Uvdal stavkirke (Interior from Uvdal Stave Church) (1909)

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On 11 June 2022 the new National Museum opened in Oslo. This is the largest museum in the Nordics. The new museum now consists of the collections of the former National Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design.

The new museum has a permanent exhibition of about 6 500 objects. Design, arts and crafts, fine art as well as contemporary art will be exhibited alongside each other. As such, the permanent exhibition highlights interesting connections between different collections that previously have been on show at three different museums. Additionally, audiences will be able to see the most famous paintings by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, including The Scream (1893) and Madonna (1894).

The building was designed by Kleihues + Schuwerk Gesellschaft von Architekten, with emphasis on dignity and longevity over sensationalist architecture. Great care was given to achieve a balance with the museum’s surroundings and the existing monuments in the area, such as Oslo City Hall and Akershus Fortress.

The most eye-catching feature of the new museum is the large, illuminated exhibition hall on top of the building. It will be used for temporary exhibitions.

The rooftop terrace offers a unique view of the inner Oslo fjord. The square in front of the main entrance has become an urban meeting place, with benches and a café that invites you in to take a rest.

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Antoine Pesne hofdame

Born in Berlin, she was eleven years younger than her brother, and would have been seven years old when he made his abortive attempt to run away from home, after being humiliated by his father.

Both children were musically inclined, but for Anna formal musical instruction was only possible after the death of her music-hating father. Music was her secret consolation against his cruelty to her (he would often drag her across a room by the hair during his rages).

Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia (9 November 1723 – 30 March 1787) was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg and a Prussian princess, one of ten surviving children of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. Anna learned to play the harpsichord, flute, and violin, receiving her first lessons from her brother, which her more 'civilised' mother encouraged.

She was contemplated as a bride for the crown prince of Sweden along with her sister Louisa Ulrika, as her brother warned that Louisa Ulrika was perhaps too ambitious to be a good queen in a monarchy without power, as Sweden then was during the Age of Liberty. Her brother king Frederick said that Louisa Ulrika was "arrogant, temperamental and an intriguer", and that they should not let themselves be fooled by her friendliness towards them, while Amalia was mild and "more suitable"; it has been considered, that Fredrick's judgment was given because he believed Amalia would be easier to control as a Prussian agent than the more dominant Louisa Ulrika. But the Swedish representatives preferred Louisa Ulrika.

n 1743, Anna secretly married Baron Friedrich von der Trenck, a man whose adventures inspired works by literary greats such as Victor Hugo and Voltaire. When her brother, who had ascended to the throne in 1740, discovered she had married and was pregnant, he packed her off in a rage to Quedlinburg Abbey, a place where many aristocratic women were sent to give birth to children out of wedlock. Anna's marriage was annulled at the request of Friedrich II, and von der Trenck was imprisoned for ten years. However, Anna continued to correspond with him until her death.

Anna became the Abbess of Quedlinburg in 1755, making her a wealthy woman. She chose to spend most of her time in Berlin, where she devoted herself to music, and became known as a musical patron and composer. As a composer she achieved a modest amount of fame and is most known for her smaller chamber works and her opera, Erwin und Elimire. A quaint and tasteful setting of the libretto by Goethe.

In 1758, Anna began a serious study of musical theory and composition, engaging as her tutor Johann Philipp Kirnberger, a student of Johann Sebastian Bach. She composed chamber music, such as flute sonatas, and wrote music to Ramler's Passion cantata ("The Death of Jesus"); this was also her favorite piece. Only a few of her works have survived, and it is probable that she may have destroyed many of her compositions. After all, she did describe herself as being very "timorous and self-critical."

Anna was also a collector of old music, preserving over 600 volumes of works by notables such as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, George Philipp Telemann, and others. This act in itself was a significant contribution to Western culture. Her library was split between East Germany and West Germany after World War II, and still survives today in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (this collection should not be confused with the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, the former library of Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel).

Orpheus in the Underworld

Jacques Offenbach

Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) is an opéra bouffon (a form of operetta), or opéra féerie in its revised version, by Jacques Offenbach. The French text was written by Ludovic Halévy and later revised by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux.

The work, first performed in 1858, is said to be the first classical full-length operetta. Offenbach's earlier operettas were small-scale one-act works, since the law in France did not allow certain genres of full-length works. Orpheus was not only longer, but more musically adventurous than Offenbach's earlier pieces.

This also marked the first time that Offenbach used Greek mythology as a backdrop for one of his buffooneries. The operetta is an irreverent parody and scathing satire on Gluck and his Orfeo ed Euridice and culminates in the risqué Galop infernal ("Infernal Galop") that shocked some in the audience at the premiere. Other targets of satire, as would become typical in Offenbach's burlesques, are the stilted performances of classical drama at the Comédie-Française and the scandals in society and politics of the Second French Empire.

The "Infernal Galop" from Act II, Scene 2, is famous outside classical circles as the music for the "can-can" (to the extent that the tune is widely, but erroneously, called "can-can") . Saint-Saëns borrowed the Galop, slowed it to a crawl, and arranged it for the strings to represent the tortoise in The Carnival of the Animals.

Playbill from an 1874 revival

The first performance of the two-act, opéra bouffe version took place at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris on 21 October 1858 and ran for an initial 228 performances. It then returned to the stage a few weeks later, after the cast had had a rest. For the Vienna production of 1860, Carl Binder provided an overture that became famous, beginning with its bristling fanfare, followed by a tender love song, a dramatic passage, a complex waltz, and, finally, the renowned can-can music.

In America the work played in German at the Stadt Theatre, on Broadway, from March 1861.[4] It had its Czech premiere in 1864, under Adolf Čech.[5] It had a run of 76 performances at Her Majesty's Theatre, in London, beginning on 26 December 1865, in an adaptation by J. R. Planché.

A four-act version, designated as an opéra féerie, was first performed at the Théâtre de la Gaîté on 7 February 1874.[7] (This has proved less popular over time than the original two act version.)

Sadler's Wells opera presented an English version by Geoffrey Dunn beginning on 16 May 1960.[8] In the 1980s, English National Opera staged the opera freely translated into English by Snoo Wilson with David Pountney. The production was notable for its satirical portrayal of the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as the character Public Opinion. The first performance was at the Coliseum Theatre in London on 5 September 1985.The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performed the work in the 1990s.

Critical appreciation

In the eyes of Clément and Larousse the piece is une parodie grotesque et grossière (a coarse and grotesque parody), full of vulgar and indecent scenes that give off une odeur malsaine (an unhealthy odor). In the opinion of Piat, however, Offenbach's Orphée is, like most of his major operettas, a bijou (jewel) that only snobs will fail to appreciate. The piece was not immediately a hit, but critics' condemnation of it, particularly that of Jules Janin, who called it a "profanation of holy and glorious antiquity," only provided vital publicity, serving to heighten the public's curiosity to see the piece.

Description de l’œuvre

Orphée aux enfers est un opéra bouffe, une féerie à grand spectacle, brillante et pétillante.

Parodiant les anciennes versions lyriques du mythe d'Orphée, Offenbach se moque de l’hypocrisie et de la recherche du plaisir à tout prix de son époque, avec une impertinence et une causticité, qui choquèrent profondément, en leurs temps, une partie du public, bourgeois et populaire.

Ce fut le premier grand succès de Jacques Offenbach, et l’on trouve déjà ce qui explosera dans La Belle Hélène, La Vie parisienne ou encore La Périchole, ce mariage parfait du théâtre et de la musique, du sérieux et de la trivialité. Tout brille dans cet opéra, où tout est prétexte à chanson, la verve satirique de son livret autant que la qualité de sa partition musicale proprement jubilatoire.

Résumé

C’est une folie que cette histoire de couples en crise, d’Olympe en révolte, d’Enfers orgiaques où chacun ne pense qu’à son propre plaisir et tout le monde ne rêve que de fête, de séduction, d’amour et s’en donne à cœur joie.

Acte 1

Comme on le dit familièrement, « Il y a de l’eau dans le gaz » dans le couple d’Orphée (ténor), le violoniste et d’Eurydice (soprano). Le premier charme les autres nymphes tandis que la seconde flirte avec le berger Aristée (ténor), qui n’est autre que Pluton, le dieu des Enfers. Fort heureusement pour Orphée, Eurydice meurt. Mais c’est sans compter avec l’opinion publique (mezzo-soprano) qui enjoint Orphée de partir la rechercher au séjour des morts.

Acte 2

Sur l’Olympe, Une rébellion de dieux remet en cause l’autorité de Jupiter (baryton). Junon (mezzo-soprano), son épouse, lui fait une scène de ménage quand arrive Pluton, à qui Jupiter reproche son inconduite. Orphée et l’Opinion Publique viennent réclamer Eurydice. C’est alors que Jupiter, accompagné des dieux, décide, par curiosité, de descendre aux Enfers.

Acte 3

Aux enfers Eurydice s’ennuie malgré les distractions du bouffon Styx (baryton). La vigilance de ce dernier est trompée par Jupiter, transformé en mouche, qui parvient à approcher Eurydice et à la séduire.

Acte 4

Pendant ce temps là, Pluton organise une bacchanale et empêche Jupiter d’emmener Eurydice. Quand à Orphée, guidée par l’Opinion publique, il doit ramener Eurydice sur terre, mais Jupiter, jaloux et trompeur, élimine les deux prétendants et abandonne la nymphe à Bacchus.

- See more at: www.opera-online.com/items/works/orphee-aux-enfers-halevy...

Once again musically inspired title. Thanks Kris Kross.

Still working my way to the end of my 52 weeks, should have been done last weekend, oh well. Only 3 more to go!

For Musically Challenged. This weeks list chosen by Ninnianne.

The Creationist by Kerli

(49 of 52)

Tomorrow is HBCCT, hope to see you all come and play :-)

Musically challenged entry (Roxanee- The Police).

Strobist:

Vivitar 285 HV full power 7 o'clock with shoot through umbrella and 1/2 cto

Vivitar 285 HV 1/16 power 2 o'clock with 1/2 cto

Cactus triggers

Alright sir

Sure I'll have another one it's early

Three olives, shake it up, I like it dirty (dirty)

Tequila for my friend it makes her flirty (flirty)

Trust me

I'm the instigator of underwear

Showing up here and there uh oh (oh no)

I'm always on a mission from the get go

So what if it's only 1 o'clock in the afternoon

It's never too soon to send out all the invitations to the last night (of your life)

A good excuse to be a bad influence on you and you

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So, I had another idea for this song, but I'm cheating and using an oldie for this week's Musically Challenged list, but it's mostly b/c I'm just trying to promote y'all go over and give it a shot at playing. :)

HMAM, too!

I know, you're all thinking..WTF dude?!?!

So let me explain. A few months ago it was Housework Is Evils turn to pick the songs for the Musically Challenged group. She added a bonus song and basically dared anyone to do a photo for it. Thats when I came up with the idea for the Tub Photo. Well when she commented on the image she said: However, I believe I now have you pegged. You are sooo one of those people who cannot help but to take any dare, aren't you?

I could so have fun with that fact...*rubs hands together while grinning evilly*

Then a month later my Flickr friend insomniac was selling some Detroit T-Shirts he designed and asking if you buy one to please take a picture and post it. Thats where you got THIS & THIS image from.

Well I guess that T-Shirt idea got Housework Is Evils head spinning and she FM'd me and said she had a shirt she dared me to wear and post a photo of.

Now I am not someone that just does any stupid thing someone dares them to do. I weigh the risk vs. reward and decide if it's worth it. Not just for silly little photo dares but for everything in life. Thats just the way I am.

So I told her sure, WTH, how bad can it be....well, it's this bad. But really, I think it's pretty damn funny, and if you can't laugh at yourself, then you shouldn't laugh at all :-) And ya know what, for a 41 year old, those are some sweet abs....HA!!

So if you are rocking some sweet abs and you really want to show them off please contact Housework Is Evil and I am sure she will hook you up ;-)

Happy Low Key Lame Ass Thursday!

So my flights were cancelled due to a strike. So i wont be going on vacation this summer. This will make 2 years since i've seen my dad and asia hasn't seen him at all. I had so many plans for this trip and they all went down the toilet. So right now i'm just tryin to make the best of the fact that i am still getting up and going to work, because many people weren't even afforded that privilege this morning.

Also i'm sick of seeing my face so i will go a week without any face shots!

I hear a sound above

A sound above my head

The distant sound of thunder

Booming out on the moor

Blackbirds they flew ahead

Into the cooling towers

I packed my bags fast

Thinking of one of those hours

With you

Waiting for you

My god

It takes an ocean of trust

In the Kingdom of Rust

Doves-Kingdom of trust

As bunnybear... still musically inclined. Just have to find the right-sized instruments!

Explored

ha ha ha the jokes on me

I feel jealous and I feel mean

is she so nice that it makes up for her face there's no way

do you have to keep your eyes closed

do you have to keep the lights down low

oh I bet you wish you had a blindfold can't you see

you're leaving me for an ugly girl

Ugly Girl - Fleming & John

this might be a little shallow of me. but I told donnie that if he had to leave me or cheat on me, PLEASE let it be a prettier girl than me. then I wouldnt feel so bad.

I think all girls think this way. I think most guys do the same? feel free to discuss.

anyways. I am totally digging this rotating thing. thanks Anna thanks Ashley!

project 365: day 175

musically challenged

decluttr

poor little girl had to grow up quick

she ain't a child no more

her heart's still soft, but her skin got thick

she ain't a child no more

- Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, She Ain't a Child No More

It's funny the way growth works. Usually you don't realize when it's happening. But sometimes when you stop to take stock of your life, you realize just how far you've come. I didn't choose this growth, but I'm happy for it.

Tomorrow I get to spend the day with one of my best friends and have some quality girl time. I can't wait. There's no substitute to hanging out with her. ♥

Musically Challenged: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - She Ain't a Child No More

For the Musically Challenged group, from "15 Steps" by Radiohead.

And I was about 15 steps from a sheer drop when I took this picture.

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I can't control my fingers

I can't control my brain

Oh no, no, oh, oh oh

-The Ramones

All I can do when I hear this song is dance and move my head side to side when it goes:

ba, ba, ba, bamp, ba, ba, ba, bamp, i wanna be sedated

LOVE this song! But I don't like my teeth here. With or w/o the processing, bokeh teeth just didn't work today. :P

For Musically Challenged

This could almost meet three of the themes for Flickr for Fun Scavenge challenge, those being "me", "music" and "moving". Another instrument I'm sentimental about - it's the piano I learnt to play on and belonged to my mum. She gave it to me when she bought a baby grand.

This one's too late for the 52 Weeks of Pix 2013: "Anything music" competition too, but I'll put it in the pool anyway....

This construciton 'worker' looked a little too relaxed if you ask me... I guess like his sign reads, he was taking things SLOW!

Song: Relax (Don't Do It) - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

My first addition to the Musically Challenged Group

One weird title, one really rather good cover (on paper and musically).

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I ♥ Omaha! I do, I do!

Here is a little slice of our downtown, the view looking west from my dad's rooftop deck.

TOTW - The World Around Me

Musically Challenged - Joshua Radin, "Today"

310:365

For Musically Challenged

If I were a boy

I think I could understand

How it feels to love a girl

I swear I'd be a better man

I'd listen to her

Cause I know how it hurts

When you lose the one you wanted

Cause he's taking you for granted

And everything you had got destroyed

Waiting for me to come home, to come home.

~If I Were A Boy by Reba

Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017

Founded in 1993, the Krewe of Orpheus takes its name from the musically-inclined son of Zeus and Calliope. Founding members included Harry Connick, both the junior and senior.

In New Orleans, the krewe established themselves as a superkrewe with their first parade in 1994, which rolled with 700 riders. They were the first super Krewe to allow both male and female riders.

The Krewe's throws include a number of popular items including emblem beads, stuffed animals, signature beads, light-up Orpheus medallion beads, cups, three different types of doubloons, and 4-foot-long stuffed dragons.

They have a number of notable floats including the Dolly Trolley, the horse-drawn bus that was used in the opening of Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand, the Smoking Mary which is a six unit float that looks like a steam locomotive, a Trojan horse and the Orpheus Leviathan Float, which is a three unit, 139-foot float, and the first Carnival float to use extensive fiber optic lighting.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Fats Domino wass the honorary grand marshall for 2014. His eldest son, Antoine Domino III, rode in the parade and perform his 85 year old father's music.

In addition to Fats Domino, Quentin Tarantino reigned as the krewe's celebrity monarch.

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I don't care what you've done

I don't care who you've won

I know in the end you'll have your fun

But you can't have it here

And I won't let you steer

You know I don't want you in my mind

what a terrible thought

~Terrible Thought, by Poe

for Musically Challenged

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yesterday i posted a status that read:

"not sure why i thought there was change happening. same song and dance, apparently. one day i might excuse myself mid-song & walk away from the dance floor."

today there is still side-stepping happening, and i hate it that much more b/c it's another 'drop of water' added to the bucket.

thank you to everyone that wrote to me concerned. i heart you all.

Musically challenged

Nothing ever happens as demonstrated by 9 shots taken once an hour from noon to 8 pm. Shots taken from the garage, I was trying for it not to move at all so I could splice them all together nicely but that didn't quite work...there was obviously a bit of movement but heck if I know how that happened...there was a pedestrian walking by in one of these pictures but she wasn't in the right place in the frame to show up at the appropriate window, don't ask how the freakin' cat managed it...this was my first try at a piece for the musically challenged group. Kinda hoping I'll get better at this as I go along...but it was fun anyway!

Musically inclined students compete as SVC's "The Voice" continues.

This photo is much more than a simple entry for the Musically Challenged group. For the past six months Ethan has been fighting one of the most difficult battles of his life. Several things--injuries as a child, slightly malformed hips, possibly a body triangle in BJJ--conspired to put him in almost constant back pain. Life suddenly had to be drastically curtailed--karate, gymnastics, coaching, driving, fighting. Simple things, like picking up kids at church, or running out to the mailbox, had to stop.

Now, if you don't know Ethan, you have no idea difficult this was for him. Ethan is one of the most energetic, movement centered people I know. Ethan exists to challenge himself, and most of the time that means physically. Why walk into the water when you can jump off a cliff and do a full twisting front flip? Why stand around at the gas station when you can try to run up the wall? The last tournament he fought in before his back started bothering him he won the Super Fight, a 16 man tournament open to anybody. In the championship fight he literally smiled the entire time--he loved every minute of it. So for him to be so crippled was devastating.

Ethan took it all like a man. He didn't complain when there was nothing we could do to help him. He just quietly worked towards getting better...working hard at physical therapy, swimming lap after lap to strengthen his back. He went to karate class and sat in a chair while teaching. He would go to BJJ class and listen intently to the instructor, then quietly practice techniques in his mind since his body couldn't.

Praise God, Ethan is now better. Joshua (another brother of mine) will be testing for his black belt later this month, and Ethan will be able to fight him at the test--a rite of passage and a time of bonding. All because Ethan wouldn't back down.

This would be my ridiculously tall, musically inclined, chiptune loving, hilarious, super sweet, "i will follow you into the dark" playing, amazing boyfriend.

I love him very very much. He makes me so happy and feel so comfortable & safe.

happyyyyy five months, Trevor. I love you <3

High five ! =P

I got this sweet T-Shirt for my Birthday from my awesome Flickr friend Ubermummy. It came all the way from Jolly Old England, how cool is that!

Thank you very much Elana :-)

HBCCT

Musically Challegned

Robyn - Indestructible

Damn..Just realized I uploaded the wrong image..Crap

Bumped and replaced with the correct one.

For Musically Challenged

Atmosphere – “Saves The Day”

Album: God Loves Ugly

Lyrics: www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/Saves-the-Day-lyrics-Atmo...

Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd-JAAE7MPM

From the fifth floor, I schedule my meeting with the moon

Stress, let it go, so it don't completely consume.

When the vegetables fight back, and the grass starts to sting

I yell up to Heaven to get me the hell out of this dream

I fell out of my stream of self-consciousness

And I've got welts on my mind to signify all my accomplishments.

No matter whose math you use to count to ten,

Progress will never rest in the hand that has no head.

Bought my brain a cane and asked it to be my pimp

You know, to make sure I don't stuck up in my fuck-ups

A little over anxious I was to bust nuts,

And find the answers making love, out of a canvas full of touch-ups

I dipped my brush into the what, I've wept for

And wonder out loud as I can, how long I've slept for

I should rob a pet store, let the dogs wild

I should close all the schools just to make the kids smile

Seize the limit, let the sky be the moment

Put the key to the ignition I'ma ride these donuts

And when it breaks, lock the door, walk away

There won't be nothing else to talk about, nothing left to say

You will have to be a math geek to really appreciate this one.

Funny, on the day I made fun of Tara for some fancy words (ennui), I get nerdy with numbers.

Also, this can be considered a tribute to Kevin and Marcelle. Although this is a relatively simple shot, it is SOOC with on camera flash, if I did not know them, I would not have thought to figure out how to do it. Thanks guys!

"i'm looking for talented, nice people with whom to make/play indie pop music (girl group), swedish, twee, smiths-inspired, etc.).

"tight jeans, young but experienced, musically sharp.

"i'm tired of all of my bandmates/musician friends being bearded rocker types."

The saddest thing is you could be anything

That you could want

We could have been everything

But now we're not

Now it's not anything at all

The hardest part was getting this close to you

And giving up this dream i built with you

A fairytale that isn't coming true

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Musically Challenged: Wishes by Superchick (my week this time!)

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Image: The Royal Marine band perform to the large crowd during the Imjin Proms.

More than a thousand people enjoyed the first Imjin Proms on Saturday.

The concert and outdoor festival event raised money for three military service charity associations with entertainment ranging from a musically choreographed Spitfire display to children's activities.

"The weather's held off and it's been a fantastic evening, with a fantastic range of music, with parachutists, and airplanes, and it's all just been going very well from my point of view," said Simon Footer, the main event coordinator from the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.

Imjin Barracks, a Royal Air Force base that served for decades, has been home since 2010 to the event's other main host, NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps

Lt.Gen. Tim Evans, ARRC commander, welcomed the crowd with gratitude, wishing everyone a splendid evening, and thanking Aramark and other sponsors. The general envisioned the event more than a year ago to be a way for Imjin and other nearby military communities to share a memorable evening with Gloucestershire.

Sharing the experience of the Spitfire display brought many emotions to the diverse crowd. Presenter Peter Dickson said he was moved by the arial display, as that plane holds a special place in British hearts, answering a call in the 1940's with young pilots when "our backs were really against the wall, it delivered the effect we needed." Remembering them and the sacrifice of so many is important and one theme for the evening, he continued. The whole night has "surpassed expectation."

"I've painted many of them as a kid, but that's the first time I've ever seen one," said presenter Lewis Macleod, in a sincere moment backstage when he wasn't keeping the crowd laughing with his voice impressions between acts. "It was really beautiful."

The plane flew to classical music played by The Band of the Royal Air Force College, who also lit up the evening with a finale and fireworks around 10 pm. Other music included a pop-music cover set by the Adjutant Generals Corps' Band who got people up and dancing from their picnic blankets and chairs. The crowd also witnessed the precision of The Royal Marines Band and 19th Regimental Royal Artillery Pipes and Drums.

Children representing their school's talent, the Innsworth Military Wives Choir, and many others performed during the evening to the local crowd. The event succeeded in opening the gates of Imjin to the community and there is a hope to see more of these kinds of events in future.

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Liberty 1962

Reviewby Bruce Eder

Musically, in terms of being a James Bond score, Dr. No is the weakest of the soundtrack albums in the film series, with only Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme" marking out familiar territory. But as a piece of music and a pop culture artifact, Dr. No may be the most interesting album in the whole output of the James Bond series. A good portion of the most memorable music in the film, including "Kingston Calypso" (the "Three Blind Mice" theme from the opening of the film) and "Jump Up," constituted mainstream American (and European) audiences' introduction to the sounds of Byron Lee & the Dragonaires (who also appeared in the movie, performing "Jump Up"), who became one of the top Jamaican music acts in the world just a couple of years later; sharp-eyed viewers can catch a young white man dancing in that same scene, incidentally, who is none other than Chris Blackwell, the future founder of Island Records. Someday someone may sort out who actually played on tracks like "Twisting With James," with its heavy guitar sound and pop instrumental roots -- regardless of who it was, however, all of the music is still a pleasure to hear, not only on its own terms but for the cultural intersection that the Dr. No soundtrack represents. The movie, which was a significant success, marked one of the first penetrations of Jamaican music (albeit with a calypso beat) into the mainstream consciousness, and was of a piece with the burst in popularity for ska and reggae music in England. Of course, in the case of Dr. No, there were "distractions" as well, including the "James Bond Theme" music, Sean Connery's commanding screen presence, and Ursula Andress' physique in the movie. Despite being more exotic than any of the Bond soundtracks that followed, Dr. No has always sold steadily, based on having the original "James Bond Theme." The February 2003 remastered edition was limited to a major improvement in the analog-to-digital transfer, with a much closer, richer sound, and the addition of serious in-depth annotation. Composer Monty Norman reportedly would like to have seen more of his orchestral music on the album, but masters for any additional music from the film no longer exist.