Dwight Yoakam – Suspicious Minds

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Kneeknee

Dwight Yoakam – Suspicious Minds

Dwight Yoakam - Suspicious Minds

Few entertainers have attained the iconic status of Dwight Yoakam. Perhaps that is because so few have consistently and repeatedly met the high standard of excellence delivered by the Kentucky native no matter what his endeavor. His name immediately conjures up compelling, provocative images: A pale cowboy hat with the brim pulled low; poured-on blue jeans; intricate, catchy melodies paired with poignant, brilliant lyrics that mesmerize with their indelible imprint. Then there’s Yoakam the actor, who seemingly melts into his roles, impressively standing toe-to-toe with some of the world’s top thespians: Jodie Foster, Tommy Lee Jones, Forest Whitaker, Nicholas Cage. Add to that Yoakam the entrepreneur and you have a singular talent without peer.

Yoakam’s latest Warner Bros. album, 3 Pears, exemplifies his ability to incorporate multiple, competing influences into a piece of cohesive art. It balances his country core with a fiercely independent embrace of rock, Americana, pop and soul. It blends Yoakam’s respect for his musical predecessors with the collaborative assistance of modern singer/songwriter Beck, who co-produced two tracks, and current rocker Kid Rock, who co-wrote the hooky opener, “Take Hold Of My Hand.” But most importantly, 3 Pears builds on his trademark edginess with a notable, growing positivity.

“The music just kind of dropped in, in that way,” Yoakam reflects. “Music is a bit of a mystery. Like all emotions are. And I think maybe it was something I needed to express and to share with the world at large, something positive when all of us are kind of carrying around this collective, emotional weight.”

Much has been made that the Kentucky-born, Ohio-raised Yoakam was too country for Nashville when he first sought out his musical fortune in the mid-80s, but the truth is his music has always been too unique, too ruggedly individualistic to fit neatly into any one box. Like the icons he so admires –Elvis, Merle, Buck– Yoakam is one of a kind. He has taken his influences and filtered them into his own potent blend of country and rock that honors his musical predecessors and yet creates something beautifully new. As Vanity Fair declared, “Yoakam strides the divide between rock’s lust and country’s lament.”

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Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Kneeknee

Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain

Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain

Willie Nelson was born on April 30, 1933, in Abbott, Texas. Nelson rose to prominence at the end of the 1960s and contributed to the “outlaw country” subgenre, which challenged the conservatism of Nashville. Nelson has written some of the most popular country songs of all time, including “Crazy” and “Pancho & Lefty.” He is also well known for his financial troubles and for his activism.

“If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he’s good or bad, I think you’re starting out in the wrong direction. I think we’re all good and we’re all bad.”

– Willie Nelson

Artist and Activist
Singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist Willie Nelson was born on April 30, 1933, in Abbott, Texas. During his extensive career, Willie Nelson has written more than 2,500 songs and has released close to 300 albums. He has won multiple awards, including countless Grammys, American Music Awards and Country Music Awards. In 2012 the Country Music Association honoured Nelson with an all-star tribute at the CMAs in Nashville. He is recognized worldwide as an American troubadour and icon, transcended musical genres and has remained relevant through five decades for his music, acting, and as the face of such social causes as Farm Aid, development of bio-diesel and the legalization of marijuana.
Early Life
The son of Myrle and Ira D. Nelson, Willie Nelson and his older sister Bobbie were raised by their paternal grandparents during The Great Depression. With their grandmother, Willie and Bobbie attended their town’s small Methodist church where they were first exposed to music. “The first music we learned was from the hymnbooks. Willie had such a beautiful voice,” his sister Bobbie told Texas Monthly in 2008. Both grandparents loved music and encouraged Willie and his sister to play. Nelson’s famous gospel song “Family Bible” reflects the influence of his musical beginnings. He sold the song for $50 to his guitar teacher.

Nelson got his first guitar at the early age of six and soon started writing his own songs. A few years later, he played his first professional gig with a local polka band. Nelson later joined Bud Fletcher and the Texans and played the local club circuit. Also in the group was his sister Bobbie, who played piano. She later married Bud Fletcher. One of his early inspirations was Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys—a group known for their upbeat country dance music, which included some elements of swing.

After graduating high school in 1950, Nelson went into the U.S. Air Force. He did not last long, however. Stationed in Lackland in San Antonio, Texas, Nelson had to leave the service because of back problems. He tried college, attending Baylor University for a time. To make ends meet, Nelson took on odd jobs, including selling encyclopaedias door to door. Read More: http://www.biography.com/people/willie-nelson-9421488

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Jessica Rabbit – Why don’t you do right

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Kneeknee

Jessica Rabbit – Why don’t you do right

Jessica Rabbit - Why don't you do right

Jessica Rabbit is Roger Rabbit‘s human Toon wife and the tritagonist in Touchstone’s 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In the book, she was an amoral, up-and-coming star and former comic character, over whom her estranged husband, comic strip star Roger Rabbit, obsessed. She is re-imagined in the film as a sultry, but moral cartoon singer at a Los Angeles supper club called the “Ink and Paint Club”. Here, she is one of several suspects in the framing of her husband, who is a famous cartoon star. She is voiced byKathleen Turner. Amy Irving was cast to sing Peggy Lee’s “Why Don’t You Do Right” for Jessica’s first scene in the movie.

Several attractive Toon females (specifically Betty Boop) apparently consider Jessica to be incredibly lucky to be married to Roger.

Jessica Rabbit is beautiful, passionate, sexy and glamourous. She is slender and fair-skinned. She has blue eyes, red pouty lips, purple eyelids, long red hair that covers her right eye, aqua earrings, long purple opera gloves, and shiny red pumps. She claims to Eddie Valiant, “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.” She adores her husband Roger, and claims she married him because he “makes her laugh.”

Jessica is first seen from behind the stage curtains at the Ink & Paint Club, singing “Why Don’t You Do Right?” After her show, followed byEddie Valiant, the Toon-hating detective, Marvin Acme, both ruler ofToontown and founder of the Acme Corporation, enters Jessica Rabbit’s dressing room and informs her that she sure absolutely, truly, and honestly murdered the audience one night, and he really means it. Then, he says that she was superb while Eddie tries to peer through the keyhole to see what’s going on, but he was thrown outside into a pile of trash by Bongo the tuxedoed gorrila. When he hears Jessica and Marvin talking through one of the nearby windows, he pulls up a box and peers through a gap in the curtains. Marvin insists Jessica to play pattycake with him on her bed, but Jessica replies that she has a headache. However, Marvin says that she promised, then convinces her to do it, and she agrees, but she tells him to take off his handbuzzer. While they play pattycake together, Eddie pulls out a camera and takes several pictures by order of R.K. Maroon, owner of Maroon Cartoons. Later, after Roger Rabbit, Jessica’s husband, crashes through the studio office window, leaving a rabbit-shaped hole in the glass and the blinds, and walks across the road at the Acme factory, crying his eyes out, he pulls out his wallet and looks at his photos of him and Jessica on their wedding day, their honeymoon on a beach, and hugging each other in a bar.
Read More: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Jessica_Rabbit

Young Indian Sisters Raped And Murdered

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Kneeknee

Young Indian Sisters Raped And Murdered

POLICE say three sisters aged between six and 11 were raped and murdered before their bodies were dumped down a well in western India.

The bodies of the three schoolgirls were found last week, two days after they went missing on February 14 from their home in the Bhandara district of Maharashtra state, police Superintendent Aarti Singh said.

“The bodies of the three young girls were found in a well, with their schoolbags and footwear,” Supt Singh said by phone from Nagpur, adding they were aged six, nine and 11.

“The post-mortem has confirmed that the girls were raped and then murdered.”

No arrests have been made but Supt Singh said four people had been detained for questioning and investigations were still under way.

Family members said the girls went to look for their mother who was out of the house and no one heard from them again.

The incident led to protests by villagers, Supt Singh said, echoing angry rallies in the capital New Delhi after the brutal gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a bus in December.

That incident sparked a nationwide debate about the treatment of women and girls and their safety in India.

News Source: http://www.news.com.au/world/young-indian-sisters-raped-and-murdered/story-fndir2ev-1226582321546

Nick Cave and the Bad (Twitter) Feed

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Kneeknee

Nick Cave and the Bad (Twitter) Feed

NOTORIOUSLY grouchy indie rocker Nick Cave has lived up to his reputation, giving fans a piece of his mind during a Twitter Q&A session.

Like a shotgun wielding outlaw from his AFI-winning Aussie western, The Proposition, Cave opened fire when answering questions about his new album.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have just released their 15th studio album, Push the Sky Away, to a mixed reception.

Cave made no secret of the fact he was dragged onto Twitter, kicking and screaming – probably by his agent – because he started by tweeting: “Whatever it is I’ve been roped into doing, I’m starting now” and described the process as “bulls***”.

Highlights of Nick Cave’s furious ‘bad feed’ include telling a fan he’d have ‘your wife for dinner’, and telling numerous Tweeps to “f*** off”.

Don’t feed the trolls, Nick. Just don’t.

Fans understandably asked, what had him so riled up?

“You have no f***ing idea. Morose? I’m just getting started.”

Other highlights from #AskNickCave:

“I’m hating this… beyond measure and I haven’t even started yet.”
“Lower your expectations.”
“This is bulls*** and you can join all the others that live in my attic.”
“Yawn….”

Oscar Pistorius Murder Charge

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Kneeknee

Oscar Pistorius Murder Charge

OSCAR Pistorius has already spent seven nights behind bars and will be hoping he is set free when his bail hearing re-opens tonight (Australian time).

Prosecutors believe the dual-amputee Olympic sprinter gunned down 29-year-old Reeva Steenkamp in cold blood at his luxurious home on Valentine’s Day, while Pistorius claimed he shot her thinking she was an intruder.

Here, we answer some of the key questions about what confronts Pistorius in his legal battle.

Why such a long bail hearing?

Pistorius’s case is being handled by the National Prosecuting Authority, the government agency that handles criminal cases in the country, with a team of prosecutors.

The police work with this agency, presenting evidence to the authority, which then decides whether there is sufficient evidence to go ahead with a prosecution.

Magistrate Desmond Nair has said he would, “for the purpose of this application, at this point in time, … consider this an offence listed under schedule 6”.

Given this, and the seriousness of the charge, Pistorius’s lawyers will have to prove exceptional circumstances if he is to be granted bail.

Lady Gaga in hospital for surgery

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Kneeknee

Lady Gaga in hospital for surgery

LADY Gaga is undergoing an operation.

The singer cancelled the final dates of her Born This Way tour after sustaining synovitis – a severe inflammation of joints – and a tear in her right hip.

It was suspected she might require surgery and the star has announced she is now in hospital.

“Going in for surgery now. Thank you so much for sending me love and support. I will be dreaming of you,” she wrote on Twitter.

Earlier this week the star hinted at the severe nature of her ailment. She posted a message on Twitter introducing her fans to her new friend ‘Emma’, along with a picture of her wheelchair.

Gaga cancelled the final 21 dates of her tour last week and told fans she was devastated to have to do so. She penned an emotional message to them on the social networking website in which she spoke about the chronic pain she’s been in.

“I’ve been hiding a show injury and chronic pain for sometime now, over the past month it has worsened,” she wrote.

“I’ve been praying it would heal. I hid it from my staff, I didn’t want to disappoint my amazing fans. However after last nights performance I could not walk and still can’t.

“Im devastated & sad. It will hopefully heal as soon as possible, I hate this. I hate this so much. I love you and Im sorry (sic).”

BUSTED. No Nanny it wasn’t me in your pot plants

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Kneeknee

BUSTED. No Nanny it wasn’t me in your pot plants

Busted Max

Hi, I’m Max.

I am a Mini Foxy Jack Russell cross. Even though I try to be good it’s pretty hard to hide the evidence when when your a light dog in a garden full of dark dirt.

Lucy for me I have these eyes.

Breed History:

Although the origins of the breed are English, the breed was developed in and is endemic to Australia. It is akin to the Toy Fox Terrier, a breed that developed along similar lines in the United States. Some Toy Fox Terrier owners can trace their dogs’ pedigrees to “Foiler”, the first Fox Terrier registered by the Kennel Club in Britain, circa 1875-6, and although to date no such credentials have turned up for Miniature Fox Terriers in Australia, the similarities between the two breeds support the idea that they had the same source, British fox terriers of the 19th Century. They are not alone in this; other related breeds include the Jack Russell Terrier, the Rat Terrier, and the Tenterfield Terrier. Miniature Fox Terriers most likely originated when smaller fox terrier types were crossed with Manchester Terriers, and, later, to other toy breeds such as the English Toy Terrier. Hunters were seeking a smaller, speedy fox terrier that could be used for hunting smaller pests such as rats and rabbits. Such dogs were brought to Australia by settlers; one MFCA breeder can trace the breeding of Mini Fox Terriers by her family back to the days of settlement. By the late 1800s, the breed type was clearly identifiable, where the Little Fox Terrier proved its worth against rabbits, rats, and snakes on Australian farms. The mortality rate of these little dogs must have been extremely high and it is a tribute to their hardiness that the breed survived. Miniature Fox Terriers demonstrated tenacity, endurance, and extreme loyalty to their owners; the dogs were routinely taken on the hunt, were sometimes used in search parties, and were used at Sydney’s North Head Quarantine Station as vermin exterminators.

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Ash Grunwald – Lady Luck

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Kneeknee

Ash Grunwald – Lady Luck

Ash Grunwald - Lady Luck

Ash Grunwald put together his first album, ‘Introducing Ash Grunwald’, leaning heavily on traditional blues but it was his second album ‘I Don’t Believe,’ released in April of 2004, that would change his state of play. It was his first album – of many to come – to graft technology onto the deeply rooted foliage of the Delta swamp.

On the back of his increasingly explosive and unique shows, he released a searing live album ‘Live At The Corner;’ “When I play live, it has that four on the floor, modern pulse that we get from electronic dance music,” he says. His next studio album in 2007, ‘Give Signs’, was even more adventurous, and he took his energetic live show to venues such as London’s renowned The Borderline and Shepherds Bush Empire, and opened for acts as diverse a James Brown, Bo Diddley, Keith Urban, Jack Johnson, Missy Higgins & Pete Muray.

In 2008, after collaborating at a song writing workshop with producer Countbounce (Urthboy, TZU), he and Grunwald teamed up to deliver an album of thumping beats and grooves mixed in with blues jams. The result, Fish Out Of Water, was a genre defying record. Although Grunwald had regularly placed beats in his music, it was often simply a mash-up of DIY electronic beats with his blues tracks placed on top. “I wanted to smash the two together really hard, so that you couldn’t tell which side started it first,” Countbounce says. “More of a soul hip-hop approach. The drums would be sampled. And the feel of a hip-hop rhythm section with his guitars on top.”

Mumford And Sons – I Will Wait

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Kneeknee

Mumford And Sons – I Will Wait

Mumford And Sons - I Will Wait

It was December 2010, and Mumford and Sons had been on the road since the previous summer: a glorious, eventful, yet relentless time. Standing somewhere between exhilarated and exhausted, the plan now was for the band’s four members to spend a few weeks apart, write, recuperate, and then reconvene in Nashville in the New Year, with the intention of trying out material for their second album.

The informality of the set-up in Tennessee perhaps helped to dispel any nerves they may have had about following up 2009’s Sigh No More — an album that had gone four times platinum in the UK, and twice platinum in the US. The band assembled in the front room of a house and set about sharing the songs they had been working on alone. “It was a coming together, a sharing of some stuff,” explains Lovett (keys, accordion, drums), “a pool of ideas that would come out of our time apart. So if there was nervousness, it wasn’t nervousness about the record, it was nervousness about how a couple of these new song ideas would go down. But we knew we were going to play music, and it wasn’t time to get into the nuts and bolts of it, it was more like we were starting another year from this point. And that felt very good. Very fresh, and natural.”

Out of that time in Nashville came a couple of songs for the new record — the gorgeous Lovers’ Eyes and Hopeless Wanderer. Then followed more touring, performances at the Grammys and the Brits, before the chance came in the summer to head into a studio in Bermondsey, south London. Here the band recorded the title song for the soundtrack to Wuthering Heights, as well as finding the footings for several of the new album’s songs: Babel, I Will Wait, Not With Haste, Broken Crown, Lover of the Light.

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