The Bulls have cooled of the Heat
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MessageTo My Son Bryson I love you lil homie! from your first day to my last I will be on a mission to be the best father I can be, I mite mess up on the way cuz I’m only human but I promise I will always be there for you u no matter what!
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference,
ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will and selfishness—all of
them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my
part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature
of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is
my brother (not in the physical sense, but as a fellow-creature similarly
endowed with reason and a share of the divine); therefore none of those
things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is
degrading.” Marcus Aurelius
This Sunday February 13, 2011 the stage is set for the music industries biggest night. The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards. Who do you think will when Best New Artist?
BEST NEW ARTIST NOMINEES
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence + The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Esperanza Spalding
Who do think will walk away with the most awards?
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Awards GRAMMY 53rd music Justin Bieber Drake Florence + The Machine Mumford & Sons Esperanza Spalding
As I’ve gotten older what I look for in a woman has changed dramatically. At one point in time in life I looked and dated small to medium size ladies not for any particular reason its jut what I preferred. Over the years I have, however, improved and expanded my personal definition of what I find attractive. It’s also no secret that by and large we live in a superficial society, which might explain our complex with weight issues. While I cannot speak for society, long story short, I personally did not date bigger women in the past. I actually proactively pursued and dated smaller women, usually petite ones who happened to be endowed round about the chest region or around and about their posterior area or both.
It’s not that I didn’t find bigger women attractive, I did. To me, attractive is attractive, and there definitely isn’t a weight qualification. But, for whatever reason, either I was too immature, insecure, both or beyond to approach and date these women. That is, until recently. On a mature level, I like to think I finally reached a point in my life where I’m secure enough in self to approach and date women that I’m genuinely attracted to instead of disqualifying them based on preconceived and admittedly, fairly baseless criteria, such as weight.
Ever since my transition, I have also strongly encouraged all males everywhere to take heed and follow suit. If you’re not looking into this, you’re missing out my friends.
As a side note, I use to think that saying “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” was BS but given that Pretty Model Types usually don’t cook or don’t know how to cook, which is of course not their fault, because they don’t eat, I am seriously re-evaluating my stance on that quote after having a few home cooked, full course meals presented to me.
Fellas, have you made this transition or plan to in the future? If not, are you curious? Why or why not? I’m not sure if it’s the same level of attraction for women towards big men but feel free to offer your opinions on one or both sides of the subject. I mean there was a study that found Overweight Men Last Longer in Bed, so I guess there’s that.
Lena Horne beautiful, an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer. Even in her eighties, the legendary Lena Horne has a quality of timelessness about her. Elegant and wise, she personifies both the glamour of Hollywood and the reality of a lifetime spent battling racial and social injustice. Pushed by an ambitious mother into the chorus line of the Cotton Club when she was sixteen, and maneuvered into a film career by the N.A.A.C.P., she was the first African American signed to a long-term studio contract. In her rise beyond Hollywood’s racial stereotypes of maids, butlers, and African natives, she achieved true stardom on the silver screen, and became a catalyst for change even beyond the glittery fringes of studio life.
Born in Brooklyn in 1917, Lena Horne became one of the most popular African American performers of the 1940s and 1950s. At the age of sixteen she was hired as a dancer in the chorus of Harlem’s famous Cotton Club. There she was introduced to the growing community of jazz performers, including Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, and Duke Ellington. She also met Harold Arlen, who would write her biggest hit, “Stormy Weather.” For the next five years she performed in New York nightclubs, on Broadway, and touring with the Charlie Barnet Orchestra. Singing with Barnet’s primarily white swing band, Horne was one of the first black women to successfully work on both sides of the color line. Within a few years, Horne moved to Hollywood, where she played small parts in the movies. At this time, most black actors were kept from more serious roles, and though she was beginning to achieve a high level of notoriety, the color barrier was still strong. “In every other film I just sang a song or two; the scenes could be cut out when they were sent to local distributors in the South. Unfortunately, I didn’t get much of a chance to act,” she said. “CABIN IN THE SKY and STORMY WEATHER were the only movies in which I played a character who was involved in the plot.” Her elegant style and powerful voice were unlike any that had come before, and both the public and the executives in the entertainment industry began to take note. By the mid-’40s, Horne was the highest paid black actor in the country. Her renditions of “Deed I Do” and “As Long as I Live,” and Cole Porter’s “Just One Of Those Things” became instant classics. For the thousands of black soldiers abroad during World War II, Horne was the premier pin-up girl. Much like her good friend Paul Robeson, Horne’s great fame could not prevent the wheels of the anti-Communist machine from bearing down on her. Her civil rights activism and friendship with Robeson and others marked her as a Communist sympathizer. Like many politically active artists of the time, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to perform on television or in the movies. For seven years the attacks on her person and political beliefs continued. During this time, however, Horne worked as a singer, appearing in nightclubs and making some of her best recordings. LENA HORNE AT THE WALDORF ASTORIA, recorded in 1957, is still considered to be one of her best. Though the conservative atmosphere of the 1950s took their toll on Horne, by the 1960s she had returned to the public eye and was again a major cultural figure. In 1963, she participated in the march on Washington and performed at rallies throughout the country for the National Council for Negro Women. She followed that with a decade of international touring, recording, and acting on both television and the silver screen. Horne had found in her growing audience a renewed sense of purpose. All of this came crashing down when her father, son and husband died in a period of twelve months during the early 1970s. Horne retreated almost completely from public life. It was not until 1981 that she fully returned, making a triumphant comeback with a one-person show on Broadway. LENA HORNE: THE LADY AND HER MUSIC chronicled Horne’s early life and almost fifty years in show business. It ran for fourteen months and became the standard by which one-woman shows are judged. Throughout the past twenty years, Horne’s performances have been rare yet welcome occurrences. Much has changed since the 16-year old who was Lena Horne danced her first tentative steps across the stage of the Cotton Club. Through myriad triumphs and challenges, she paved the way to stardom for countless others in the entertainment industry. Her continued musical, theatrical, and political efforts grew with the times and met each new decade with courage and grace. But, if one thing hasn’t changed, it’s Horne’s ability to break our hearts with her shimmering resonant voice, singing songs like “Black Coffee” and “Stormy Weather.”
Coltrane, John 1926–67, American jazz musician, born in Hamlet, N.C. He began playing tenor saxophone as an adolescent. Coltrane worked with numerous big bands before emerging in the mid-1950s as a major stylist while playing as a sideman with Miles Davis. Originally influenced by Lester Young, Coltrane displayed in his playing a dazzling technical brilliance combined with ardent emotion and eventually a kind of mysticism. His style, which was at once sonorous and spare, was influenced by the rhythms and tonal structure of African and Asian music. Coltrane made a number of influential recordings, among them the modal-jazz classics My Favorite Things (1961) and A Love Supreme (1964), and the later exemplars of free jazz, Ascension andInterstellar Space, his final album. From the late 1950s until his death he was considered the outstanding tenor and soprano saxophonist of the jazz avant-garde, and his music continues to be a strong source of inspiration to jazz and pop musician
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