Archive for October, 2008
Move Over Monday - Janis Joplin
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Could there have been a more outrageous woman personality that spoke the 70’s as soon as she hit the first note in a song?
You say that it’s over baby, Lord,
You say that it’s over now,
But still you hang around me, come on,
Won’t you move over.
It was a time for poet’s and her and Jim Morrison set the tone for scenes upon scenes for the psychedelic rock movement, their raunchy and rebellious behavior was one that the teen scene flocked to. Imagine the fantasy of The Poet in Exile
No matter what lyrics Janis sang she bent the throttle on them, reaching into the gravely under tones and the seedier side of life, we lived vicariously through her as we traveled down that Highway with her & Bobby McGee.
Not only did the song take us on a journey across the country, but Joplins short career gave us some all time greats. Her last recording was Mercedes Benz an astounding throaty sound that Janis was known for. There was a song written for Janis by Nick Gravenites, she was supposed to record the lyrics the evening she passed away, it appears on Buried Alive in the Blues (+ Bonus DVD)
It is well worth checking out, our imagination can run wild, thinking of how the Babe of Blues would have performed this song.
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Sunday’s Sexy Lady - Marilyn Monroe
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Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. - Marilyn Monroe
One of THE sexiest woman ever, has been gone now over 46 years, and she is still idolized and fantasized about. There have been many debates on what size dress Marilyn wore, and in all honesty to me, that is defamation of who she was..she was beautiful and talented and I heard that Groucho Marx had something quite intersting to say about her when men met her..
It’s stated across the internet she was either a size 12, 14 or 16, who the hell cares..and if she was any of those, at the common size of our celebrities that eat cotton balls soaked in orange juice to be the size 0’s and 1’s that they are
It would take 12 Calista’s, Courtneys or Jessica’s to make up one Marilyn.
Beaming in beauty, Marilyn’s eyes tell a sultry story… from her love affairs with Joe DiMaggio, JFK & Peter Lawford, she was a beauty that captured many in her time. Ironically enough, even the young teens of today know her name, she captivated young guys & grown men back than, and now.. I wonder if there are any that will ever be able to fill her shoes.
Ladies Week or is it Man’s Week?
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It’s Ladies Week or Man’s Week, depends how you look at it, I’ll be featuring some of the “ladies” this week in my pencil sketches…
I have focused on drawing many of my favorite guitarist, musicians and what not. I figured it’s time to honor some requests, and if you have some, please feel free to let me know.
Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart - banned together as sisters are, they have been one of the only constants in Heart’s career, but don’t sisters do that most of the time.
Heart rose to fame in the 1970’s when we were sporting bell bottoms, beads and bongs as we that grew up than played Hippie. Oh.. gotta check out: Hippie Shop, if you like the psychedelic era of the 70’s, it’s a must to put on your shopping list. I wonder how far Joe - from Crotchety Old Man Yells at Cars lives from there?
Sisters…it’s a powerful thing, it’s a band, it’s a club, it’s a loyalty…as the Lakota Sioux say… Mitakuye Oyasin - all my relations. A must read Lakota Woman
All three of us are entirely different, as you guessed by now, if you are a faithful reader, I am the “flower child” a whoops, I am told, but a good whoops. Sisters have a unique bond between them, most of the time. It’s sad when sisterhood breaks for reasons that are unexplainable, in my life though, no matter how much they make you want to pull your hair out, they are there during the times in your life when you need them.
Friends are sisters too, I have one in particular who is smart, sensative and I can’t even tell you how strong, October is Breast Awareness Month, and her story is here..I’ll let ya read that one on your own, I don’t want to smear one of the Wilson Girls eye makeup….
I am Woman, Hear me Roar!
Thanks to Carol at She-Lives for requesting these two sultry looking stars from the seventies!
Bringing People Together
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I sit in amazement how the “information highway” brings people into our lives, I recently got an email from someone looking for of all things a picture of House of Texas Music - In Austin, Texas to add to a Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute Video of - I’m Crying.
Funny thing is, my husband wanted to take the picture outside of Ray’s Hennig’s store of the Marquee, and I wondered why, well, I suppose a greater power was at work and Stevie knew Connie had been searching for a picture of Ray’s place for quite some time.
Connie contacted me again for another project she is working on and she will be featuring some of my sketches. She asked if I had any of Reese Wynans - I did not, so I whipped this up to send to her as well as some others. Connie has some wonderful Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute Video’s and has given me some fantastic pictures that I have never seen of many of my favorite’s.
If you are a fan - these video’s are a must see, there’s several with interviews and pictures that she cherishes. There is little information out there about Reese Wynans that I could find, he added something to the already great Double Trouble, they were blazing and a strong threesome, and with Reese’s energetic and solid keyboard playing Double Trouble continued to thrive and create music that will be coursing through blue’s lover’s ears, minds & souls for years to come!
Digging a Grave
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How do you become associated to people’s work online in cyber space, the blogosphere or online marketing?
Through Social Networking by connecting with a variety of people and making friends through various networks. But yet, the rules and regulations seem to change daily, or do not apply for the small & medium fish in the sea as they do for the whales.
On-Line social networking activity has come to the forefront in the last year, connecting people of similar interests as well as completely different niches, beliefs and opinions.
With the millions of blogs and websites that now grace our online world, can we possibly keep up with all the reading material that is at our fingertips from our friends in our networks? Sometimes we may over look a feed that comes through and miss something we really like.
Many social networking sites offer a way to “shout” out what you are doing, or give you a simple thumbs up button to pass along to your friends to let them know you are interested in a specific piece of online material. Why is it now, with these functions being in place, that it’s the little guys that suffer, get banned and get booted from the system, to loose what they have worked so hard to acquire. Enveloping their time in getting their reputations back?
It is people that drive the social networking sites, but who is it that deems they are not worthy to be able to submit what they feel is a good cause? If we have a good cause and want to get the word out, with the functions in place to be used, why are so many suffering from a ban of the material they feel is legit?
How can the small and medium fish get the word out there for someone to take notice, social networking was developed for this very purpose. Who is rewarded on the social networking sites? Who get’s the notoriety? How do they get it? Why is it that so many of the same people are the one’s that are always on the top and don’t get banned?
Many questions from a fairly new blogger….I am sure I am not alone
