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

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 ;-)

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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!

I was in the BCS area in early June from the Jersey Shore looking for a place to buy as I was moving back to the area after 35 years. I stoped by the College Station Cemetery to visit the gravesite of my academic advisor during my undergrad and grad years in the College of Engineering. I came across Colonel Joe T. Haneyâs gravestone which is nearby and noticed that someone had left their âCorps Brassâ upon it.

An alumnus of the FTAB observed the FB post of the picture of Colonel Haneyâs headstone with the Corps Brass and texted me that heâd get me an FTAB Lyre to leave at the site the next time I was in the cemetery. I knew that it probably wasnât going to happen. And surpriseâ¦

I was planning on visiting a couple of other College Station cemeteries today for photography and historical purposes. While I didnât have any FTAB brass to leave with Colonel Haney, I did have the band lyre trumpet music holder Iâve had since I was in fourth grade. I also had my sole copy of the âEmergency Laminated Aggie War Hymnâ first chair trumpet part.

Upon arriving at the cemetery, I did the best I could with the rag and brush I keep in my trunk to clean off the headstone and I left behind âThe Aggie War Hymnâ and the band lyre music holder.

Colonel Haney was always so very nice to me during my 7 years at A&M. He was an incredible gentleman. His marker is in a really good place and is shaded by some trees. The location is, âLR/017/002â which, if you drive in the front gate is at the rear of the cemetery near the back gate. Have some paper towels and a bottle of water to clean it.

I found this âobitâ online written by his family:

Director Emeritus of the Fighting Texas Aggie Band, Colonel Joe T. Haney, passed from this earth into life eternal on March 9, 2016. He was born to Clyde Theodore and Vista Mae Mahan Haney in Colorado City, Texas on August 19, 1927, and was destined to become a musician. His paternal grandfather organized and played in community bands in Clyde and Baird, Texas; his father and aunt sang duets on the radio; and his mother was a piano teacher. When Joe was two, his father died a tragic death in a pipeline explosion. Needing a more lucrative job to raise her adored only child Vista Mae moved from West Texas to Marlin where she became a bookkeeper, taught Sunday school, and also wrote children's plays for the Presbyterian nursery school. She gave him piano lessons, but the call of the neighborhood boys to play football and tennis was his preference. His love for sports was developed in high school where he won the district and regional championships in tennis and was punter and kicker on the football team. His love for sports existed his entire life and as an adult golf, hunting and fishing became his avocation.

At the age of ten, Joe began private trombone lessons from the school band director, Carl Cochran. From the moment he picked up the trombone, his mother never again had to goad him to practice. After one year of private lessons be was selected for the Marlin High School Band. Fortunately in his school days he was not forced to choose between football and band. His band director recognized his talent for music and realized Joe might have made a wrong choice had he been given one.

In 1944, as a sixteen year old graduate of Marlin High School, Joe entered Texas A&M and the Texas Aggie Band, knowing that the minute he became eighteen he would be drafted, as was the fate of every physically and mentally fit young man during World War II. After basic training he was sent to radio operators school in Fort Monmuth , New Jersey. From there he was shipped to Inchon, Korea. On a weekend pass to Seoul he went to the Red Cross building where he had been told he could get a hot shower and hear the Army Band. At intermission he went back stage to find the officer in charge and luckily was given an audition on the spot. The music to his ears that night was that the trombonist was being transferred and that a jeep would be waiting for him with transfer orders on Monday morning at 6:00 A.M. For the next fourteen months he played in the 282nd AGF Band and received instructions in theory and composition from its director. This was where he received his call to use his God given talent to pursue music as a profession. Since Texas A&M did not have a music school, when he was discharged, he applied to SMU and in 1950 graduated with a B.A. degree in Music and received his Master's in Music in1954 from Sam Houston.

When he graduated from SMU he knew that he was well educated as a performer, but did not want to travel with a band. The situation he was looking for was in Hemphill, the only small town in Texas that had never had a school band and wanted to begin one. When he was offered the job he took it. His organizational skills were honed in this school which had no band hall, no instruments, no music, no uniforms and only a few students who were interested in being in a band. His recruiting tactics included suiting up and working out with the football team and riding his horse down many country lanes to visit with parents of interested students. In the spring of 1951 the Hemphill High School Band composed of fifty-five students, played its first concert and every student was fully equipped including uniforms and a band hall.

In the fall of 1951, Joe moved to Calvert, Texas, where he was well rewarded by a band of conscientious students who earned first division ratings in both concert and sight-reading his second year there. This was the year that a friend from Calvert, who lived in Ft. Worth, introduced him to a TCU coed from Lufkin, Mary Logan. They were married in the summer of '53 and lived in Calvert until 1955 when he was hired as junior high school band director in the Wharton School System.

As fate would have it, The Mexia High School band job became available, and having competed in the same UIL district during his Marlin High School years, he knew that this had been a very good "band town" though the band had slipped from its former glory. When Superintendent Alton Bowen offered the position to Joe he accepted, and once again he inherited a building job. The Black Cat Band earned two first divisions at the UIL contest in the spring of '57 and won its first Sweepstakes the following year. Joe and Mary had many opportunities to move to larger cities but the band had once again become the "pride and joy" of the school and community and they loved the living there.

A new and exciting adventure began in 1972, when Lt. Col. E. V. Adams invited Joe to become the Associate Director of the Texas Aggie Band. With the assurance that he would become the director the following year when Col. Adams retired, they moved to Aggieland. This move offered the challenge not with building a band program, but with maintaining the deep-seated traditions and still integrate new music and new marching innovations. Several years later an administrator at Texas A&M who had once been in the Aggie Band wrote: "We were fearful that a suitable replacement could not be found when Col. Adams retired. To the delight of the A&M Student body, parents of students, alumni, and football fans in general, the Aggie Band has not only prospered under Col. Haney's leadership, but has indeed enhanced its public image almost beyond belief."

Sensing the need of the many musically talented Aggies who did not wish to be in the Corps of Cadets, Col. Haney organized the Texas A & M University Symphonic Band in 1973 and reorganized the Aggieland Orchestra, which he had played in as a "fish".

During the sixteen years under Col. Haney's direction the Aggie Band performed at all home football games and most out of town games, eight bowl games, all home basketball games, marched in the inaugural parade of President George H.W. Bush, and performed at the inaugural ceremonies of several Texas Governors.

His professional memberships include TBA, TMEA. Phi Beta Mu, and ASCAP.

He is listed in the 4th edition of ASCAP Biographical Dictionary. He has composed many musical publications including "Noble Men of Kyle." His arrangement of "The Spirit of Aggieland" has been performed by the Aggie Band at all football games since 1968. He was given the BMI Music in Sports award in 1986, a lifetime membership in The National Association of Military Marching Bands in 1988, was honored to be chosen as the recipient of the Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Staff Administration in 1989. After his retirement he was presented "The Sudler Trophy honoring the close relationship and outstanding contributions of Intercollegiate Marching Bands to the American way of life", by the John Philip Sousa Foundation, 2001. A ceremony unveiled a permanent plaque on the Aggie Band Drill Field, which officially named it the Joe T. Haney Drill Field. In November 2014, The 12th Man Kick Off Team named him and Dr. Koldus Legends at a scholarship banquet in their honor.

Joe was a lifelong Presbyterian serving as a deacon in Calvert, a deacon and elder in both Mexia and First Presbyterian Church in Bryan, where his Memorial service will be held on Monday, March 14, 2016 at 2:00 P.M. A private burial will precede the service in the College Station City Cemetery. Visitation will be at Hillier Funeral Home of Bryan on Sunday, March 13, 2016 from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M.

To be revered by students and colleagues is the greatest accomplishment of any teacher, and Joe was blessed to still have contact with many students dating from the early 1950s through 1989. From the first day he met his students, he let them know what he expected of them and only their best was good enough. He has been rewarded through the years with many letters from former students, both High School and TAMU, who have thanked him for the self-discipline, direction, and goal-setting principals he taught them and a life long love for music.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Mary, two cousins, Sue Kirkpatrick and her husband Donovan of College Station, Dr. Edward Scheiblich of Columbia, S.C.; one niece, Laurie Logan Hudson, her husband Ken of Sachse, Tx. ; three great nieces, Jessica Hemann, Elizabeth Hemann, and Lisa Hemann; one nephew, Stephen Logan and wife Donna of Carrollton, Texas, and their son, Sean and wife Kyra Logan, and daughter Melissa and her husband Robert O'Neil; plus two great grandnephews & one great grandniece.

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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

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Glade® Candle - Hard Rock Cafe, Yonge Street, Toronto

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*****

"...Lyrically, 'Who'll Stop the Rain' breaks into three verses, with a historical, recent past, and present tense approach. All three verses allude to a sense of unending malaise, pondered by 'good men through the ages', 'new deals wrapped in golden chains', and the Woodstock generation. The malaise is not defined, but appears to allude to a sense that man's problems have to be dealt with by those who wish to fix them, and no ancient philosophers, money promising government nor Flower Power generation can merely push them off by thought, money nor communal love. The song's universal topical appeal made it unusual in the time of its release and gives it a quality that helps it maintain its popularity 40 years later.

Musically, in contrast to the 1950s-Rock inspired 'Travelin' Band', 'Who'll Stop the Rain' has more of an acoustic, folk-rock feel to it. Like many folk-rock songs, it starts off with a ringing acoustic guitar riff, though the backing throughout has more of a roots rock sound than that heard on more standard folk-rock recordings. Interpreting the song in its time period (1970),and the resigned but somewhat angry feeling of the song, many see 'Who'll Stop the Rain' as a thinly-veiled protest against the Vietnam War, with the final verse lyrics and its references to music, large crowds, rain, and crowds trying to keep warm, being about the band's experience at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969. There is also a line during the song's second verse about 'five-year plans and new deals wrapped in golden chains' that may indicate a general cynicism altogether about politicians. For his part, when asked by Rolling Stone about the meaning of the song's lyrics, John Fogerty was quoted as saying;

'Certainly, I was talking about Washington when I wrote the song, but I remember bringing the master version of the song home and playing it. My son Josh was four years old at the time, and after he heard it, he said, 'Daddy stop the rain.' And my wife and I looked at each other and said, 'Well, not quite.'

In 2007 during a concert he said the following about the song:

Well this next song has a bit of a fable surrounding it. A lot of folks seem to think I sang this song at Woodstock way back when. No. I was at Woodstock 1969… I think. It was a nice event. I’m a California kid. I went up there and saw a whole bunch of really nice young people. Hairy. Colorful. It started to rain, and got really muddy, and then (yelling) half a million people took their clothes off!!! (Normal voice again) Boomer generation making its presence known I guess. Anyway then I went home and wrote this song." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who'll_Stop_the_Rain_(song)

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.

Upload for 9.3.10.

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....

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

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

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

************

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 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

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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

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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

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.

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.

French rock musician Matthieu Chedid (who has the stage name of -M-) playing with Lamomali at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris (Dec 2017). This is from the second of two gigs at this venue, which was also the last night of the tour.

Last summer, I photographed Lamomali at WOMAD and loved them musically and photographically.

Fortunately, my pics were a hit with -M-. 😎

I asked nicely if I could photograph the final two gigs of their tour (at a 20,000 capacity arena) and received permission. Woo-Hoo!

Lamomali is a single album collaboration (rather than a band), between -M-, Toumani and Siddiki Diabaté and Fatoumata Diawara.

You can see videos of songs from the album at these links:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7q5CXiwsME

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0fKM2XMgpE

You can buy the album here: www.amazon.co.uk/LAMOMALI-Lamomali/dp/B01LTIBMLM/

You can see my Lamomali pics here: Lamomali

"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."

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Atmosphere – “Saves The Day”

Album: God Loves Ugly

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

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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!

This Gooski's review from Pittsburgh Trib is pretty accurate...

"Friday, December 13, 2002

3117 Brereton St., Polish Hill

(412) 681-1658

Atmosphere: Unpretentious Polish Hill neighborhood dive and secret underground music mecca for local rock aficionados. It's a long, narrow barroom, with comfortable booths and a backroom with a pool table, pinball machine, dart board and a stage. Dark maroon patterned rugs cover the walls, giving the back room a cozy, friendly best-friend's-basement kind of feel.

Party People: Equal parts mohawks and hard hats, balding and shaved heads, babushkas and black turtlenecks, locals and hipsters. One of the few dives in town that's a neighborhood corner bar catering to locals and a place for the young and musically adventurous to hang out. Bands come to be seen, and to see other bands. It's a very friendly, open-minded crowd, without the kind of competitive posturing that often is part of the local music scene.

Tunes: The best jukebox in the world. Period. No Top 40 flavors of the month. Only the essentials - first-wave punk (Clash, Iggy Pop, Ramones), current garage-stomp (Strokes, White Stripes), the cream of '80s Brit-rock (Smiths, Cure), rockabilly, indie rock, forgotten underground legends and primo local releases. There are live local bands Friday and Saturday nights - almost always something good, too."

I flew into Pittsburgh on Thursday 8/7/2008 to pick up Matt from the pre-college architecture program at CMU. We left for Nantucket on Saturday 8/9.

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

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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

You've got some growing up to do

Wishes by Superchick

project 365: day 290

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.

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.

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Day 334 Year 3 Thank you for all the kind words of support on my earlier shot today

I do so appreciate your kindness and concern.

TOTW : juxtaposed

Musically Challenged

Great Waves by Dirty Three featuring Chan Marshall

One of my favourite performers to photograph, Fatoumata Diawara. She is an absolute joy...musically and photographically.

This is from her gig with Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca at this year's WOMAD Festival.

I first saw Fatou on stage at WOMAD in 2009, when she was a backing singer to Oumou Sangare. She really stood out because of her smile and her personality.

You can see more of my shots of her, here: Fatoumata Diawara

You can see my WOMAD 2014 shots here: WOMAD 2014

You can see my WOMAD 2013 shots here: WOMAD 2013

You can see my WOMAD 2012 shots here: WOMAD 2012

You can see my WOMAD 2011 shots here: WOMAD 2011

You can see my WOMAD 2010 shots here: WOMAD 2010

You can see my WOMAD 2009 shots here: WOMAD 2009

My thanks are due to Giles Cooper of Borkowski PR for arranging my photo pass.