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FireOpal

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  1. His hair! So lustrous, so... dayum.
  2. Where my Doors people at? Consider contributing to the Kickstarter campaign for a documentary on the real person Jim Morrison, featuring interviews with Morrison family members and pre-Doors friends: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zmachine/before-the-end-jim-morrison-comes-of-age
  3. What made me happy today: news of an Alan Partridge movie, and an accompanying photo of Steve Coogan in a powder-blue leisure suit such as I haven't seen since childhood. Why don't men dress like this anymore? The world would be a happier place, for certain. What made me sad today: said movie is not being released in the U.S., as far as I could determine. Sob.
  4. I wonder if Tiny Tim was a wardrobe (and hair) influence? Thank you, Jessica!!
  5. No excuse, sir! Florida is a peninsula, surrounded by ocean and virtually brimming with bays, lakes, swamps and canals. Yet do we complain about the heat and humidity? Yes, without ceasing. Actually, we are having English-type weather lately: and the rain it raineth all day.
  6. Oh I like Dingle Berries - that's cheerful. Off the toppa my head: Flotsam & Jetsam. I don't think I've spelled that right. No matter.
  7. LOL. Hedy Lamar was (like Jimmy) a brainy beauty - she developed a signal technology used in wireless communications today. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hedy-lamarr-not-just-a-pr
  8. Yes, maybe it is like a dualistic dynamic - robust/frail, extrovert/introvert, fair/dark. Light and shade.
  9. I thought the Brits were a tough breed - what's this about the U.K. government issuing a "level 3" health warning because the temperature has reached 30C/86F?! 86 degrees is pleasant!
  10. Best thread ever, no? There's something strangely magnetic about the two of them together.
  11. Many thanks, Kenog! You're a gentleman/lady and a scholar. Omygodness, that 2010 article is outstanding. Never knew this bit: One day in 1964 he walked into EMI studios in Abbey Road and found he was making incidental music for the Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night. "I turned up and, lo and behold, there was George Martin," he recalls, "and I recognised the music and realised what it was." He ended up contributing background guitar to Ringo's Theme, the instrumental of the song This Boy that accompanies a morose Ringo Starr as he wanders off by the River Thames.
  12. P.S. Oh wow, JP shops at Whole Foods! He really has got on the health trip then.
  13. The sweet little lambkins... hey, I thought JP said his parents didn't go to church. Wonder how/why he ended up in the choir.
  14. This stonking great crop circle near Silbury Hill: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2013/silburyhill/silburyhill2013a.html
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    Tennis

    You guys make fun of the British commentators for calling Andy Murray by his first name, but routinely refer to women players by their first names! Just sayin'. My fellow Americans: this is the first year I can remember that a broadcast network did not carry the Wimbledon final - instead it was on the cable network ESPN. Don't know if that is a sign of tennis' declining popularity or what.
  16. Thinking about next week's mini-vacation. Everything else has been suckage.
  17. FireOpal

    Tennis

    Maybe he's allergic to grass?
  18. FireOpal

    Tennis

    Adios, Nadal! Andele, Federer!! Where my Fed-heads at...
  19. FireOpal

    Tennis

    Thank you for making the important distinction "the first male winner since Perry" - I wish the television commentators were as acurate. They always say, "the British have not had a champion since 1936" - Virginia Wade must feel quite invisible. P.S. Why do you guys all put "Andy's" name in quotes? P.S.S. I must respectfully disagree with you about Jim Courier. Have you ever heard him baiting sweet Tracy Austin during the U.S. Open coverage? The man isn't well in the head.
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    Robert's Hair

    Isn't it frustrating? And he probably didn't even have to work at it. He wasn't standing in front of a mirror for 90 minutes with a curling iron and smoothing serum. The unfairness!
  21. Anxss, where are these pics from, I mean what was the occasion? And dang, his hair is really long! Rock on, Jimmy
  22. Lost another great one. Criteria Recording Studios founder Mack Emerman dies By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press MIAMI -- Mack Emerman, the founder of Criteria Recording Studios where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and the Bee Gees made some of their most famous records, has died after a long illness. He was 89. His daughter Bebe Emerman said Tuesday that her father died of complications from pneumonia at the Miami Jewish Home for the Aged, where he had lived since his health began failing in 2004. The Criteria studio, which he opened in 1959 in North Miami, has been operated by the Hit Factory since 1999. Some 250 gold or platinum singles and albums were recorded at Criteria, which became known as Atlantic Records South when Emerman formed an alliance with producer Tom Dowd. The records include "Layla" by Clapton's group Derek and the Dominoes, James Brown's "I Feel Good," "Eat A Peach" by The Allman Brothers Band and parts of huge 1970s hits such as "Saturday Night Fever" by the Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" and "Hotel California" by the Eagles. Things went downhill for Emerman in the 1980s. His daughter said he continued buying equipment and expanding studios at Criteria even as the music industry hit a slump. Emerman eventually sold Criteria to a local investor in 1988 and three years later he was forced out. Bebe Emermen said her father suffered from depression for years afterwards. "Eventually, however, he recovered and began recording again, on a small scale," she said in an email. Maxwell Louis Emerman was born in 1923 in Erie, Pa., and later began playing the jazz trumpet while attending Duke University. With his wife and two daughters, he came to South Florida in 1953 to work in his father's candy business in Hialeah, but his daughter said he began recording live jazz and then set up a studio in his garage, running cables into the family living room where the musicians performed. "The same family station wagon he used to haul saltwater taffy for his father by day was packed with audio gear at night as he moved from club to club, perfecting his recording technique," said Bebe Emerman. He built Criteria with a loan from his father and opened it in 1959 as Miami's first world-class recording studio. Other musicians who recorded there over the years included Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, Gloria Estefan, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Lenny Kravitz, Lynyrd Skynyrd and R.E.M. Emerman his survived by daughters Bebe Emerman, of Pasadena, Calif., and Julie Goldman of Miami, as well as two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
  23. That was such a cool gesture for Jim's birthday - you don't often see that sort of thing anymore {at least I don't]. Still kinda reeling from the Ray news.
  24. Yes, very sad to say it is true. Official Doors Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedoors He and his wife Dorothy had one of the most durable & happy marriages in rock 'n roll - almost 46 years! Ray was an amazing musician and a great raconteur. R.I.P., RayMan
  25. Terribly shocked. What a loss. Oh man, no words.
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