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get everyone stoned.:028:
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A great recipe from my 'sis'.
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LOL!
How do some people get when they can't have what they want?
Prison
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Quadrophenia
Hotel California
Damn The Torpedoes
Name your favorite musicals
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Tell us your choice.
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ask you - Won’t you please join our band? The instrument choices you have are: the kazoo, the cowbell, or the tamborine. Which will you choose?
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't like him. Could never understand why Dean Martin bothered with him, Dean was the talent, not Jerry.
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The European leg of the 2008 KTGC tour is set to include the following countries:
Austria/Belgium/Bulgaria/Croatia/CzechRepublic/Denmark/Finland/France/Germany/Greece/
Hungary/Holland/Italy/Luxembourg/Norway/Poland/Portuga/Russia/Serbia/Spain/Sweden/
Switzerland/Turkey/United Kingdom/Ireland
At the request of promoters, actual dates/cities will be announced in batches.
Ticket presales will be organised through our sister site at www.markknopfler.com. The first of the presales for shows in Holland will begin on Sept 5th until Sept 7th. Presale tickets will only be available to VIP members. There is no cost for VIP membership but you will need an account in order to participate in this presale. If you don’t already have an account, go to www.markknopfler.com and sign up today. Then, to ensure you have a smooth and speedy checkout, we suggest setting up your Express Checkout information before the day of the sale.
The first dates to be offered are:
30/03/08 - Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam. Presale starts 5th Sept, 7 pm CEST
Further info re-dates will be announced as they are released so be sure to check in regularly to mknews and markknopfler.com
31/03/08 - Ahoy, Rotterdam. Presale starts 5th Sept, 7 pm CEST
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Complexity … Patti Scialfa used family life as inspiration.
OF ALL the subjects Patti Scialfa might consider probing on her third album, you would think her marriage would be low on the list.
For one thing, fans have been scouring her songs for Bruce Springsteen-related subtext since she released her first solo record, Rumble Doll, in 1993 - tiresome for an artist who has had much to say about her own eventful life. And few would expect the public dissection of a relationship from the happily married wife of a rock god.
But Play It as It Lays, a weary, emotion-rich record, to be released on Saturday, is pointedly about Scialfa's 16-year marriage to Springsteen. And she does not shrink from saying so.
"My records always deal with a question I have that I don't know how to answer," she says in the living room of the couple's 1720s farmhouse in New Jersey. "The question this time was about the conflicts and the complexities in a long-term relationship, the real things that go on.
"Everybody knows what the good stuff is in a long-term relationship, and so for me it was more compelling and interesting to go into the areas where the conflicts are," she says. "I find those things fascinating to write about; complexities, the darker stuff, the things that are under the rug, in the back room and in the cellar. It was a little scary, I have to say."
What comes through on the record, though, is not callowness but boldness, a determination to get right her many roles: Scialfa, 54, is the mother of the couple's three teenagers as well as a solo artist and a member of the E Street and the Seeger Sessions bands. The most discernible theme is a sense of domestic ennui. "It's easy to dull down a bit, to knee-jerk into cliches, when you're raising a family," Scialfa says, commenting on the opening song, Looking for Elvis, which is about personal reinvention.
Scialfa took 11 years between her first two albums, Rumble Doll (produced by Mike Campbell) and 23rd Street Lullaby in 2004, because of obligations with her family and with the E Street Band, and she regrets not touring to support Rumble Doll. ("I saw that I had three kids in diapers. It was a huge transition - and I derailed myself," she says.) The making of Play It as It Lays, which Scialfa will tour next year, was put on hold because of scheduling with the Seeger Sessions Band.
She recorded the album at home; her backup band, the Whack Brothers, consisted of the co-producer Steve Jordan (percussion, acoustic guitar), Willie Weeks (bass), Nils Lofgren (guitars, pedal steel guitar, dobro), Cliff Carter (keyboards) and Springsteen (Hammond B3 organ, acoustic guitars, electric guitar, harmonica).
Jordan's presence grounded her, she says. "Steve I've known since I was 19. I needed to be surrounded by people who gave me my autonomy, do you know? Who reflected back my own path. That was important."
That quest for autonomy is understandable. Scialfa is still subject to cries of "Bruuuuuce!" when she takes the stage, and she often crosses paths with fans who want to assign Springsteen a larger role in her music. "People say: 'Oh, did he write that? It sounds like something he wrote,"' she says.
Forging an identity apart from Springsteen's can be an uphill battle, as any number of New Jersey rock artists pelted by requests for his songs have discovered. Scialfa had a final word of advice for them: "Just say no."
Play It As It Lays is released on Saturday
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DALLAS — Police said Tuesday they aren't pursuing charges against a homeowner who shot and killed a former member of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians who tried kicking in his door in the middle of the night.
The case will be turned over to a grand jury that will decide whether the homeowner will face charges. Dallas police Sgt. Larry Lewis said the shooting appears to fall under state law permitting deadly force as self-defense.
Jeffrey Carter Albrecht, 34, was inebriated Monday when the wife of his girlfriend's neighbor began screaming around 4 a.m. that someone was breaking in, police said. After telling Albrecht to get away, the husband fired his handgun through the door and shot Albrecht in the head, police said. Albrecht had been fighting with his girlfriend.
"He yelled several verbal warnings, 'I'll shoot! I'll shoot!'," Lewis said. "From what we gather, he fired near the top of the door, hoping he would scare the person away."
The homeowner, whose identity wasn't released, was not arrested.
The shooting came two days after the enactment of a new state law, nicknamed the "Castle Doctrine," that gives Texans a stronger legal right to defend themselves with deadly force in their homes, cars and workplaces.
The bill, backed by the National Rifle Association, states that a person has no duty to retreat from an intruder before using deadly force. Lewis said he read over the Castle Doctrine on Tuesday, but said the homeowner appeared to be protected under another deadly force law already on the books.
Under Chapter 9 of the state penal code, a person can protect their property with deadly force to "prevent the other's imminent commission ... of criminal mischief during the nighttime."
"I think (the shooting) falls most under Chapter 9," Lewis said.
Jerry Dowling, a criminal justice professor at Sam Houston State University who has studied Castle Doctrine, agreed.
"I suspect this won't get very far," he said.
Albrecht, who went by his middle name, had been a keyboard player for the New Bohemians since 1999, according to the band's Web site. He also played keyboard and guitar and sang for Sorta, named in 2006 as the best local music act by the Dallas Observer.
Albrecht played several times with Brickell's husband, Paul Simon. He also played with Texas musician Charlie Sexton, a renowned guitarist.
"We are all completely devastated by the news of Carter's death, and obviously still quite in shock," Brandon Aly, drummer for New Bohemians, wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
Danny Balis, Albrecht's roommate and fellow member of the Dallas rock band Sorta, said the shooter lived next door to Albrecht's girlfriend. Albrecht had been fighting with his girlfriend, authorities said.
His death stunned friends and those who knew him in the North Texas music community. The idea of him banging on a door in the middle of the night seems out of character for a man known to be friendly and quiet, friends said.
"He is not a violent person," said Carrie Garcia, Sorta's manager. "He is cool as a cucumber, shy, always wanted to make a joke in a situation that may be a little tense."
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NEW YORK -- Jerry Lewis dropped an anti-gay slur _ the same one that got Isaiah Washington of "Grey's Anatomy" in trouble _ during the 18th hour of his annual Labor Day Telethon.
The 81-year-old showman _ prowling about the stage during the live telecast Monday in Las Vegas _ was goofing around and dodging his cameraman, then went into a ramble about imaginary family members.
In this photo released by the Muscular Dystrophy Association, overcome with emotion, Jerry Lewis ends his 42nd Annual Labor Day Telethon with a record-setting $63.7 million in donations and pledges Monday, Sept. 3, 2007, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Muscular Dystrophy Association) (AP) "Oh, your family has come to see you," he said, speaking to the camera and gesturing toward thin air.
"You remember Bart, your older son," he said, and motioning toward another unseen character, "Jesse, the illiterate f-----.
"No," Lewis said, quickly stopping himself before continuing.
Monday's monologue prompted a critical statement Tuesday from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
Neil Giuliano, GLAAD president, called Lewis' use of the term "simply unacceptable."
"It also feeds a climate of hatred and intolerance that contributes to putting our community in harm's way," Giuliano said.
A spokeswoman for Lewis referred calls to the Lewis' office at Jerry Lewis Films, based in Las Vegas. A publicist at the office did not immediately respond Tuesday to a phone message by The Associated Press.
Lewis' telethon, in its 42nd year, set a new record by raising $63.7 million to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association, topping last year's event by $3 million.
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The Beatles' second film, 1965's "Help!," will be released in a double-DVD edition Oct. 30 via Apple Corps Ltd and EMI Music. The movie was released in DVD in 1997 and again in 2000, but has been off the market ever since due to rights issues.In "Help!," drummer Ringo Starr comes into possession of a cursed ring, which he cannot remove, prompting adventures in London, the Austrian Alps and the Bahamas.
The first disc of "Help!" boasts a digitally restored version of the film plus a new 5.1 audio soundtrack, with songs like "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away," "Ticket To Ride," "The Night Before," "Another Girl" and "You're Going To Lose That Girl."
Disc two offers a 30-minute documentary about the making of the movie, a missing scene, a featurette on the restoration process, interviews with cast and crew, three theatrical trailers and vintage radio advertisements.
"Help!" will also be available in a boxed set with a reproduction of director Richard Lester's original script and a 60-page book with rare photos and production notes.
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Aerosmith plans to hit the studio on Nov. 1 to begin recording its next album -- and that's about the only concrete detail guitarist Joe Perry has about it right now."I'm not sure who the producer is gonna be or what (studio) we're gonna do it in," Perry tells Billboard.com. "We may use a few different producers. I don't know. All I know is that the heart and soul of the thing is us getting in the studio and seeing what comes out."
Perry did say that the band was "excited Rick Rubin is now in the so-called captain's chair at Sony; his heart's in the right place when it comes to rock'n'roll." Rubin, according to Perry, will be involved with the album in some capacity, even if not necessarily as a hands-on producer. "It's not just about the music; it's about the feel, and he's one of the few that really gets it," Perry explains.
The guitarist says there's already some material around for the album, including songs that Aerosmith was working on in 2006 but was put aside when it ran out of time to finish an album, opting instead to stick two new songs on the "Devil's Got a New Disguise: The Very Best of Aerosmith" collection.
"I always have bits and pieces. Steven (Tyler) always has bits and pieces. It's just a matter of getting together and rehearsing the stuff," Perry says. "I'd like to have songs that the band can play live and have them sound great and not need to have a bunch of overdubs and all that, even though we will do that after the fact. But that's the icing on the cake. The cake is good songs, and that's what we're gonna be shooting for."
Nothing that "I don't think we've ever delivered a record on time since the first one," Perry says he'd like to see the new Aerosmith project "ready to go in March."
Besides the album, Aerosmith is also working closely with the makers of "Guitar Hero IV," which will be dedicated to the Boston group's music. "I don't know much about the technical part of it," Perry says, "but artistically we're working hand in hand."
Aerosmith will perform at the Fashion Rocks concert Thursday (Sept. 6) in New York before the group kicks off a nine-day tour two days later in Clarkston, Mich. Aerosmith may also play some shows before the end of the year, "depending on how things go in the studio," says Perry.
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After a two-year hiatus from the road, The Wallflowers are coming out of the shadows to play a handful of intimate club shows on the East Coast next month.
The roots-rockers will start Oct. 18 in Washington, DC, and then head for Glenside, PA; Atlantic City, NJ; Somerville, MA; and New York City. Details are listed below.
Concertgoers can score a limited number of pre-sale tickets to select shows at The Wallflowers' fan-community website.
The band's fifth set, "Rebel, Sweetheart," surfaced in 2005 and reached No. 40 on The Billboard 200. Known for taking at least a couple of years between albums, the group has not yet said when it might release a follow-up.
Meanwhile, band vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Jakob Dylan recorded a few solo tracks last year, including "Stardust Universe," which was featured on an episode of CBS-TV's "Jericho," and "Whispering Pines," which is included on The Band tribute album "Endless Highway." Dylan also joined Dhani Harrison on the tune "Gimme Some Truth" for the recently released CD "Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur."
The Wallflowers broke out in 1996 with "Bringing Down the Horse," which spawned the radio hit "6th Avenue Heartache" and the Grammy-winning "One Headlight."
[Note: The following tour dates have been provided by artist and/or tour sources, who verify its accuracy as of the publication time of this story. Changes may occur before tickets go on sale. Check with official artist websites, ticketing sources and venues for late updates.]
October 2007
18 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
19 - Glenside, PA - Keswick Theatre
20 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Music Box
21 - Somerville, MA - Somerville Theatre
22 - New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
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Singer Jon Bon Jovi formed a special supergroup to celebrate Labor Day, comprising of Billy Joel on piano, Jimmy Buffett on guitar and Paul McCartney and Pink Floyd's Roger Waters on vocals.
The impromptu performance took place a party Bon Jovi threw on Sunday night at his Long Island, New York home.
The rock legends performed Bon Jovi and Beatles tunes, along with many of Joel's own songs.
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^ A few of us gals from here saw Tom Jones in Vegas in 2004. Great show!
Bad Company - Bad Company
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Tuesday: Sunny and windy. High 73F. Winds WNW at 20 to 30 mph.
Tuesday night: Partly cloudy skies early will give way to cloudy skies late. Low 54F. Winds NNW at 15 to 25 mph.
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Lemon Custard from Baskin Robbins
Vanilla
Strawberry
3 favorite souvenirs that you own
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Biker Boyz with Laurence Fishbourne who also starred in..
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down his cheeks.
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I wish that damn orange tree would just grow oranges on the other side of the fence, sheesh.
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That we have a new mail carrier!!!!!
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I know I said it before, but I really wonder how Linda next door lives with Frank, lol. What a spaz.
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Lazlow, you sound like my daughter's boyfriend, Ranch Dressing with a calzone, that's just not right, lol.
I like watching Dancing With The Stars, lol.
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Strange Days with Michael Wincott who also starred in..