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Little Jimmy Dickens – Big Things come in little packages
Big things come in small packages, how about little?
Born James Cecil Dickens, the old school singing sensation and renowned country-novelty singer Little Jimmy Dickens is perhaps one of the smaller yet brighter stars of Hollywood. At 4-feet-11, Dickens is small but despite his miniature frame he achieved huge success.
Dickens was a regular performer for the Grand Ole Opry for decades and has been considered as the face of novelty music. He performed and traveled around the world specifically to Vietnam soldiers in the 70s.
Dickens was born and raised in Bolt, West Virginia in a family of 13 children. Dickens began his music career in the 1930s while still studying at West Virginia University. He first performed at a local radio station. Shortly, he quit college to pursue his dream of becoming a country singer.
During the decade, Dickens traveled around the country performing in small clubs and local radio stations using the screen name “Jimmy the Kid.”
In 1948 came Dickens’ biggest break, he was performing on a radio station in Michigan when the late Roy Acuff, the prominent country music singer and promoter, heard and invited him to sing on the Grand Ole Opry – a weekly country music program that features the best country music singers of America.
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Corrosion of Conformity – From Hardcore Punk Band to Super Band
While Corrosion of Conformity (or “COC”) was formed in 1982, the band never really found its sound or correct lineup until nearly a decade later.
Originally founded as somewhat of a hardcore-punk band, COC released three albums in the 1980s and received a fair amount of critical acclaim for its ability to fuse together multiple sounds. Shortly after the release of 1987′s “Technocracy,” however, original bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dean and lead vocalist Simon Bob Sinister left the band, leaving the future of COC uncertain.
After a two-year hiatus, COC gave the band another shot with a trio of new members, including Pepper Keenan. When Keenan joined the band, he assumed the role of rhythm guitarist behind Woody Weatherman and backing vocals behind the newly recruited Karl Agell. Nevertheless, his influence on COC’s next record, “Blind,” already began to take the band in a different direction.
True to his southern roots, Keenan exerted a heavy dose of southern metal into “Blind,” particularly on the song Vote With a Bullet where he sang lead vocals. The song was COC’s biggest hit up to that point and influenced the band to hand the lead vocals role over to Keenan after Agell and bassist Phil Swisher left to form Leadfoot.
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Art and Entertainment : Disability and inclusion in the arts
Diversity and Inclusion how wonderful it would be if those two things went hand in hand. If they were simply how things are. In the past six years we have found we are one of the few groups actively working with and for the disabled artist and audience, as well as for the mixed ethnic and racial community. It has been a huge surprise in New York City to find we were the only company providing regularly interpreted work into American Sign Language (ASL). We have actively sought out artists and designers and advocated for their continued work, educated theater owners and renters, spoken on panels, written for papers hoping to be a leader at the forefront of a new reality in diverse and inclusive working conditions.
We want what we do to reflect the world around us in New York City. We want all casts to be as varied as the people we see on the street each day. And when the artists do a show they should be impacted and changed the show should be one that years later when many others have blended together in their brain, the one or more they did with us stick out because maybe they worked opposite a deaf or hard of hearing actor or designed a set even though they are in a wheelchair, or played a legendarily white role even though they are Hispanic or Black or simply that they played so frighteningly against type that they never thought they could do it.
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Music Band Placebo Interview at Projejt Revolution
I knew I was going to Projekt Revolution for my birthday. I had a goal to rock out and rock hard, but then came this thing. I found out I’d also be interviewing Placebo at Projekt Revolution in Camden, NJ. It started out as a phone interview but somehow by some miracle, I got to do a face to face interview. My birthday just got better. I’d been a Placebo fan for a few years and in fact, they happen to be one of my favourite bands. Happy Birthday to me!
Placebo, for those of you in the dark or on substances that don’t allow you to remember anything, is a three piece (Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Hewitt), British rock band that have been doing their thing internationally for a little over ten years. In 1996, their self-titled debut album brought the world a sound unlike any other sound out there at the time. It was raw, untamed and uncensored honesty about sex, drugs, love and life backed by grinding guitars, heavy basslines and solid beats. Their latest album, Meds, has brought the band full circle and back to that same honesty. This summer they joined the Projekt Revolution tour and alongside bands like HIM, Taking Back Sunday and My Chemical Romance (lets not forget the reason for the season Linkin Park), they have sufficiently unleashed a Revolution upon the people of North America. I got to spend some time in a very hot and humid Camden, NJ talking to bassist/guitarist Stefan Olsdal.
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Body Art : A brief history of body art
Body art has been around for centuries so the history of it is vast. Body art comes in many styles and is performed for many different reasons. It is popular in almost every region and culture just in different forms.
Body art can range from tattoos to body piercing to body modifications or henna applications. Each culture uses body art for their own purposes. The purposes of body art can be but are not limited to tribal identification, spiritual worship, systems of rank and status, rights of passage, wedding rituals and even in some cases as a medical practice.
Tattooing can arguably be traced back 12,000 years ago. An example was found on a mountain top between Italy and Austria. The body archeologists recovered was dated to be 5000 years old, male, and was found to have 60 tattoos from the waist down. Another archeologist by the name of Sergei Rudenko found mummified bodies during a dig in a region between China and Russia in the Altai mountains, these mummies were found to have tattoos and were dated back 24,000 years. Not only have male mummies been found but also female mummies. In Egypt a mummified woman was found to have tattos along her torso and lower abdomen among other parts of her body. This woman dates back to between 1994 B.C. and 2160 B.C. She is believed to be Amunet, an Egyptian priestess. The word Tattoo is believed to come from the Samoan language. The word Tatau means to mark or to strike twice. The earliest recorded use of the word tattoo was in 1769 in Captain James Cook’s diary that he kept during his voyage to Marquesas Island.
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Art History : A brief history of Native American art
Native American art is the art, artwork of American Indians. These peoples are also known as Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Amerindians of North America. I include both Canada and the United States of America. There are at least five hundred tribes in America. Each tribe’s style of doing artwork is unique to its tribe. There is no one style. However, there are similarities. The emphasis is on celebrating Amerindian culture and especially its relationship to the earth and nature. If I wrote on the artistic styles of every single tribe this would most likely not be an article. It would be a good sized book. I won’t be writing on non Native American painters such as Catlin and others who painted these peoples are their subjects.
The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 insists Native American artists to b e certified as Indians before they can claim they are creating authentic American Indian artwork. This goes for paintings, crafts including jewelry, weavings, other textiles etc. This is to guarantee when somebody purchases a work by somebody who states they are Amerindian, they truly are Amerindian.
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