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Born | Kesha Rose Sebert March 1, 1987 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Other names | Ke$ha |
Occupation | Singer, rapper, songwriter |
Years active | 2005–present |
Home town | Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Parents | Pebe Sebert |
Musical career | |
Genres | Synthpop |
Labels | RCA, Kemosabe |
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Kesha | |
Kesha at the premiere of Planes: Fire & Rescue at the El Capitan Theatre in July 2014 | |
Born | Kesha Rose Sebert March 1, 1987 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Other names | Ke$ha |
Occupation | Singer, rapper, songwriter |
Years active | 2005–present |
Home town | Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Parents | Pebe Sebert |
Musical career | |
Genres | Synthpop |
Labels | RCA, Kemosabe |
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Kesha Rose Sebert[1] (born March 1, 1987) (/ˈkɛʃə/) (formerly stylized as Ke$ha), is an American singer, rapper, and songwriter. In 2005, at age 18, Kesha was signed to producer Dr. Luke's record label, Kemosabe Entertainment, and publishing company. Although an active musician since then, singing background vocals and writing songs for other artists, her breakthrough came in early 2009 after appearing on rapper Flo Rida's number-one single, "Right Round", although she was uncredited. Her debut album, Animal, and her first extended play, Cannibal, were released in 2010. Kesha's music and image propelled her to immediate commercial success, with Animal debuting as the number-one album in the United States. She also achieved two number-one singles, "Tik Tok" and "We R Who We R", and a string of top ten hits from the album and its re-release. At the same time, she continued to write songs for other artists, including "Till the World Ends" for Britney Spears. Warrior, her second studio album, was released in December 2012, spawning Kesha's eighth top-ten hit with "Die Young". "Tik Tok" is among the best-selling digital singles in history, selling over 14 million units internationally.
Influenced by various genres and artists, Kesha primarily draws inspiration from music of the 1980s; Madonna, Queen, and Beck have been cited as instrumental to her artistry. After experimenting with country, pop rock, and electronic music, Kesha stuck with the latter. Her "talky" rap technique, yodeling, and excessive auto-tune have become her trademark, and all three have led to scrutiny regarding her vocal talent. Thematically, her music generally revolves around party antics and binge drinking, although some tracks have been noted as odes to individuality. Philanthropically, Kesha has been involved with animal rights and LGBT activism. Since her debut, Kesha has been nominated for over 40 awards, winning more than fifteen. Among these awards, she won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act in 2010 and several Billboard Awards. As of November 2013, she has reportedly sold over 35 million records (albums, tracks, and ringtones) in the United States and 57 million worldwide.[2][3]
Kesha was born in Los Angeles, California on March 1, 1987. Her mother, Patricia Rose "Pebe" Sebert, is a singer-songwriter who co-wrote the 1978 single "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You" with Hugh Moffatt for Joe Sun. Pebe, a single mother, struggled financially while supporting herself, Kesha, and Kesha's elder brother Lagan; they relied on welfare payments and food stamps to get by.[4] When Kesha was an infant, Pebe would often have to look after her onstage while performing.[5] Kesha says she has no knowledge of her father's identity.[4] However, a man named Bob Chamberlain who called himself her father approached Star Magazine in 2011 with pictures and letters, claiming them as proof that they had been in regular contact as father and daughter before she turned 19.[6] Her mother is of half German and half Hungarian descent (with her Hungarian side from Szentes).[citation needed] Kesha is also part Polish.[7]
Pebe moved the family to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1991 after securing a new publishing deal for her songwriting. Pebe frequently brought Kesha and her brothers along to recording studios and encouraged Kesha to sing when she noticed Kesha's vocal talent.[4] Kesha claimed that she did not fit in at school in the Brentwood suburb of Nashville, which she has called the "Bible Belt", explaining that her unconventional style (e.g., homemade purple velvet pants and purple hair) did not endear her to other students.[8] She played the trumpet and later the saxophone in the marching band in school, and described herself in an interview with NPR as being a diligent student.[9][10]
Kesha attended Franklin High School and Brentwood High School.[11] In addition to taking songwriting classes,[12] Kesha was also taught how to write songs by Pebe, and they would often write together when she returned home from high school.[4][10] Kesha began recording demos which Pebe would give to people she knew.[12] Kesha was also in a band with Lagan.[13][14] Kesha and Pebe co-wrote the song "Stephen" together when Kesha was 16, Kesha then tracked down David Gamson, a producer that she admired, from Scritti Politti who agreed to produce the song.[14] She dropped out of school at 17, after being convinced by Dr. Luke and Max Martin to return to Los Angeles to pursue a music career, and earned her GED after.[15] Around this time, Pebe answered an ad by reality series, The Simple Life, looking for an "eccentric" family to host Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.[16] The episode aired in 2005.[17] Luke and Martin had received one of Kesha's demos from Samantha Cox, senior director of writer/publisher relations at Broadcast Music Incorporated, and were impressed. Two of the demos were described in a cover story for Billboard, the first "a gorgeously sung, self-penned country ballad" and the second "a gobsmackingly awful trip-hop track" where Kesha raps ad lib for a minute when she runs out of lyrics near the end. Dr. Luke stated in an interview for the story that it was the latter track that caught his attention, saying "when you're listening to 100 CDs, that kind of bravado and chutzpah stand out."[18]
"I was so happy being broke. And I'm happy not being broke. It doesn't really affect me either way. I care about taking care of people that have taken care of me – that's important to me. But to be honest, I'm kind of repulsed by the gluttony and excesses of a lot of people in the limelight."[19]
In 2005, at 18, Kesha was signed to Dr. Luke's label, Kemosabe Entertainment, and his music publishing company, Prescription Songs.[18] Kesha later sang background vocals for Paris Hilton's single, "Nothing in This World".[16] Dr. Luke became preoccupied with other incoming projects, having enjoyed success writing and producing for pop star Kelly Clarkson's album, Breakaway. Kesha then signed with David Sonenberg's management company, DAS Communications Inc., in 2006, hardly interacting with Dr. Luke after that. DAS was tasked with obtaining a major label record deal for Kesha in a year's time in exchange for 20 percent of her music income, with her having the option of ending the relationship if they failed.[20] She worked with several writers and producers while at the company and ended up co-writing Australian pop group The Veronicas' single, "This Love" with producer Toby Gad.[18][21] While furthering her career in studio, Kesha earned her living as a waitress.[4] While struggling to get by, she began stylizing her name as Ke$ha', explaining the dollar sign as an ironic gesture.[19]
Kesha appeared in the video for her friend Katy Perry's single "I Kissed a Girl", and sang background vocals for the Dr. Luke-produced song, "Lace and Leather" by Britney Spears in 2008.[22] DAS soon attracted the attention of songwriter and A&R Kara DioGuardi, who wanted to sign Kesha to Warner Bros. Records. The deal fell through due to her existing contract with Dr. Luke's label. In September, she terminated her contract with DAS, reuniting with Dr. Luke.[18][20] Kesha gained exposure in the mainstream media in early 2009 after appearing on rapper Flo Rida's number one single, "Right Round".[23] The collaboration happened by accident; she had walked into a recording session for the song with Flo Rida and Dr. Luke.[24] Flo Rida wanted a female voice for the song; Dr. Luke then suggested Kesha for the part. Flo Rida liked the end result so much that they did two more tracks.[25] However, she is not credited for her feature on the United States release of "Right Round" and did not collect any money for the part.[18][23] She also refused to appear in the video, explaining to men's magazine Esquire that she wanted to make a name for herself on her own terms.[22]
After failing to negotiate with Lava Records and Atlantic Records in 2009, Kesha signed a multi-album deal with RCA Records through Dr. Luke's imprint.[18] Having spent the previous six years working on material for her debut album,[26] she began putting finishing touches to the album with Luke and Max Martin. For the album, she wrote 200 songs.[26] The album was executive produced by Luke, who produced the majority of the songs with Martin, and producers Benny Blanco and Ammo. The album is primarily of the electropop genre with beats and synths, marking a shift in sound for Luke from then on from his signature pop-rock productions.[27] Animal debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 when it was released in January 2010.[28] It was certified platinum in the United States and had sold two million albums worldwide by September.[29] The lead single of the album, "Tik Tok", broke the record in the United States for the highest single week sales, selling 610,000 digital downloads, the highest ever by a female artist since tracking began in 2003.[30] It spent nine weeks at number one and became the longest running number one by a female artist on her debut single since Debby Boone and "You Light Up My Life" in 1977.[31] As of 2013, "Tik Tok" has sold about 14 million copies,[32] becoming the second best-selling single in the digital history – being the most sold single in history by a female solo artist.[33][34] Subsequent singles from the album, "Blah Blah Blah", "Your Love Is My Drug" and "Take It Off" achieved similar commercial success each reaching the top ten in Australia, Canada, and the United States.[35] Kesha was also featured on two top ten singles by musician Taio Cruz and electro-pop duo 3OH!3.[36]
Kesha's deliberately unpolished aesthetic and juvenile stage persona,[13][37] which she described as her own personality "times ten", quickly made her a deeply polarizing figure.[13][37] Some of her critics found her output to be unsophisticated,[13] while others felt that she was manufactured and lacked credibility.[38][39][40] Kesha's former managers from DAS Communications Inc. filed a lawsuit later that month, seeking $14 million from Kesha and $12 million from Luke for commissions on her RCA Records deal, alleging that she had extended the deadline for them to get her a major record label contract and squeezed them out of her career under pressure from Dr. Luke.[20] Kesha launched her own lawsuit in October, citing the California-exclusive Talent Agencies Act and asking the California Labor Commissioner to declare her contract with DAS void because it had acted as an unlicensed talent agent while procuring work for her in California, where only licensed agents can do so.[41] The case was settled in 2012 before the release of her second album.[42] Kesha held a benefit concert on June 16, 2010 where all proceeds went to aid victims of the May 2010 Tennessee floods from her hometown Nashville.[43] She raised close to $70,000 from the event.[9] She was a supporting act on the summer North American leg of Rihanna's Last Girl on Earth Tour and was awarded Best New Act at the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards.[44][45]
In November 2010, Animal was re-released with a companion extended play, Cannibal.[46] The lead single taken from Cannibal, "We R Who We R" debuted at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.[47] With two number ones and four top ten hits, Kesha was named Hot 100 Artist of 2010 by Billboard, with "Tik Tok" topping the year-end chart.[48] The follow-up single from Cannibal, "Blow" charted in the top ten on the Hot 100. As of June 2011, she has accumulated almost 21 million digital single downloads in the United States alone.[49] In February 2011, Kesha embarked on her first headlining world tour, Get Sleazy.[50] The tour was expanded with a summer leg due to the first leg selling out and spanned three continents.[51] Kesha also co-wrote the song "Till the World Ends" for American popstar Britney Spears and she was featured on the remix of the song along with rapper Nicki Minaj. After meeting Kesha at the 2010 Grammy Awards and guesting at a number of her concerts, rock singer Alice Cooper asked her to write lyrics for and vocally perform as a devil character for their duet track, "What Baby Wants", on Cooper's album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare.[52]
Kesha was named rights group Humane Society of the United States's first global ambassador for animal rights, for which she is expected to bring attention to such practices as cosmetics testing on animals and shark finning.[53] She also appeared alongside rock singer Iggy Pop in a campaign for PETA, protesting the clubbing of baby seals in Canada and later wrote on behalf of the organization to fast food chain McDonald's over the conditions of their slaughterhouses.[54][55]
Kesha's second studio album, Warrior was released on November 30, 2012. She began writing for the album while on her own headlining tour in 2011. The album featured productions from her main collaborators Dr. Luke and Max Martin,[56] as well as a song by Wayne Coyne, the lead singer of the alternative band The Flaming Lips.[57] Coyne had reached out to Kesha for a collaboration after hearing that she was a fan of the band.[58] Besides working on Kesha's album, they recorded the song "2012 (You Must Be Upgraded)" for the band's album, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. To coincide with the release of the album, Kesha released an illustrated autobiography, My Crazy Beautiful Life through Touchstone Books in November 2012. The first single taken from Warrior was "Die Young".[59] The song debuted at number thirteen on Billboard Hot 100 and eventually peaked at number 2.[60][61] The song also charted across Europe and the Anglosphere and reached the top ten in Australia, Canada, and Belgium.[62] "C'Mon", the album's second single, underperformed commercially; only peaking at 27 on Billboard Hot 100 and ending her string of top ten hits on the chart. Despite this, "C'Mon" continued Kesha's streak of top ten hits (with nine) on the Mainstream Top 40 Pop Songs chart graphed by Billboard.[63][64] In March 2013, Kesha announced the Warrior Tour, which will support the album. The North American leg was co-headlined with rapper Pitbull.[65] Kesha's third single from Warrior, "Crazy Kids", was released in April 2013 and also under-performed, peaking at number 40 on the Hot 100, number 19 on Mainstream Top 40, yet did achieve massive success in South Korea and Belgium peaking at numbers 2, and 5 in those countries respectively. A TV series documentary, Kesha: My Crazy Beautiful Life began airing on MTV in April 2013.[66]
Following the underperformance of singles "C'Mon" and "Crazy Kids", much of the blame was placed on Kesha's longtime collaborator Dr. Luke. In September 2013, a Kesha fan set up a petition to "free" Kesha from Dr. Luke's management and accused Luke of "stunting" Kesha's creative growth as an artist.[67] The petition currently has over 10,000 signatures. Suspicion first aroused after the controversy involved with "Die Young", which was axed from several radio stations following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut on December 14, 2012.[68] She claimed she was "forced" to sing Die Young,[69] but later retracted the statement.[70] It was later revealed on My Crazy Beautiful Life that she had little creative control of Warrior, and was also stated that "Machine Gun Love", her favorite song that she had written, was omitted from the record against her wishes. Kesha had written over seventy songs that were intended for Warrior but Dr. Luke scrapped many of them.[71] The co-director of My Crazy Beautiful Life, Steven Greenstreet, tweeted a picture in November of front row fans at one of Kesha's concerts carrying banners labelled, "Fuck Dr. Luke." Kesha's mother Pebe blamed Dr. Luke for her lack of creative input and said that she hoped that Kesha would be dropped from RCA Records.[72][73] In July 2013, The Flaming Lips announced that they hoped to release a full-length collaborative album with Kesha, called Lipsha, although it was eventually cancelled in the winter of the same year.[74] Kesha sent a message to a fan expressing how it was out of her control and that she wanted to release the material, even for free, saying that she didn't care about the money.[75] On October 7, 2013, Kesha and Pitbull released a collaboration, "Timber", produced by Luke, which was an international commercial success and became Kesha's third number-one and her eleventh top 10 single on the Hot 100 chart.[76]
On January 3, 2014, Kesha checked into Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center, a rehab facility in Lemont, Illinois for eating disorder treatment-[77] Kesha's mother Pebe Sebert confirmed that the eating disorder Kesha was suffering with is bulimia nervosa and that she had been struggling with it ever since she was signed. She also asserted that Dr. Luke was partly the reason behind the development of Kesha's eating disorder, saying that he had told her to lose weight after he signed her and allegedly compared the shape of her body to a refrigerator, which caused Kesha's disorder to worsen.[78][79]
By March 6, 2014, after spending two months in rehab, Kesha had completed her treatment and is currently "working on tons of new music". She also chose to use her birth name in favor of her previous moniker, using a normal "s" instead of the symbol "$".[80] Kesha began appearing in ABC's Rising Star in the panel of experts including Brad Paisley and Ludacris.[81] On October 17, a song by Kesha titled "Lover" was uploaded to SoundCloud. It was produced by Spookey Ruben and Schpilkas.[82]
In October 2014, Kesha sued producer Dr. Luke for alleged sexual assault and battery, sexual harassment, gender violence, emotional abuse, and violation of California business practices over their 10 years of working together. She claimed that Dr. Luke repeatedly drugged her, with and without her consent, and that his abuse caused her eating disorder. Kesha asked the court to break her contract with Dr. Luke as well.[83] In response, Dr. Luke filed a countersuit against Kesha for defamation, accusing her, her mother, and her management of fabricating the abuse claims in order to break her contract with him.[84] In November, Dr. Luke asked the judge to dismiss Kesha's allegations of sexually abusing her.[85] In early December, Dr. Luke filed a defamation lawsuit against Kesha's lawyer, Mark Geragos, accusing him of implications that Luke had raped Lady Gaga. Gaga's team denied any such incident.[86] Later in December, Luke's defamation lawsuit took a new turn. His lawyers amended the official complaint which now included a handwritten birthday card from Kesha back in 2009. Luke's attorney claimed the card is several years after Kesha alleges he started abusing her. Other additions included several emails between Luke and Kesha's mother, where the latter wrote to him 'You are part of our family.'. Dr. Luke further accused Jack Rovner, president of Vector Management of "longstanding antipathy" towards him, alleging Rovner wants more money and control of Kesha's career.[87][88]
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Kesha is credited with a dance/pop/crunk fusion sound [89]
Kesha wrote or co-wrote every song on her first two albums and considers herself a songwriter primarily,[90] writing for artists including Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus.[56] She possesses a "strong, sneering vibrato",[37] with a distinct yodel-like quality to her voice;[91] she employs actual yodeling on the songs, "Tik Tok" and "Cannibal".[92][93] Having previously done country, pop rock, and electro,[94] she had a clear idea of the synthpop sound that she wanted for her debut album.[27] The genre was popular at the time, with many of her peers releasing similar output as well.[38] Both of her albums are of the genre with catchy hooks and synthesized productions recalling Nintendo-era video game music,[37][95][96] also incorporating elements from other genres.[95] "Party at a Rich Dude's House" and "C U Next Tuesday" have 1980s derived backing,[95][97] while "Stephen" begins with "Kansas-style vocal harmonies".[98] With the lyrics, "Oh my Nicolas Cage, you're so old / you're prehistoric/ you're like a dinosaur/ D-I-N-O-S-A-you are a dinosaur", "Dinosaur" follows a singing – rap verse formula[99] reminiscent of "Girlfriend" (2007) by Avril Lavigne and "Hollaback Girl" (2005) by Gwen Stefani;[100] the song uses the overt symbolism of dinosaurs, carnivory, and other primitive motifs to tell the story of an older man who preys on younger women.[101] According to Kesha, the song is based on true events.[101] While her vocals on Animal were heavily processed with auto-tune, often to produce rapid stuttering or over-pitch corrected vocal effects, leading to questions on vocal talent,[102] she expressed confidence in her abilities,[103] showing some of her vocal talent in the ballads "Animal" and "Hungover" on the album.
Kesha's second studio album Warrior used considerably less autotune, although it still showed in a number of songs. The album's piano and guitar-driven ballads such as "Love Into The Light", "Wonderland" and "Past Lives" display Kesha's vocal ability at its strongest. Kesha also uses a trademark talky "white-girl" rapping style with exaggerated discordant phrasing and enunciation.[37][94] Her vocal technique has led her to be credited as a rapper, a topic she disagreed with until fellow rappers André 3000, Wiz Khalifa, and Snoop Dogg endorsed her. On the subject, she said: "The first time someone called me a rapper, I started laughing. I was shocked, and thought it was hilarious. It's crazy and funny to me."[104] The New York Times said Kesha "threatens to become the most influential female rapper of the day, or at least the most popular. Pretending Kesha isn't a rapper is no longer feasible."[105] "Crazy Kids" and "C'Mon" took greater shifts into "party rap".[106] Most of her lyrics chronicle her relationships and partying; the lighthearted subject matter of the latter and her unfiltered language saw many critics criticizing her for releasing frivolous and crass music.[39] Jonah Weiner of Slate, however, stated that her jarring lyrics allowed her songs to become more memorable.[37] In "Blah Blah Blah" and "Boots & Boys", she objectifies men to poke fun at how male fronted rock bands and rappers can get away with objectifying women and not vice versa.[4][19] The title track to her debut, "Animal", is more aspirational and is intended to inspire people to embrace their individuality.[107] Much more experimental than Animal, her second album, Warrior, contains dubstep elements and explores erotic experiences Kesha encountered with ghosts on the song, "Supernatural".[108][109][110] Overall, Kesha said the theme of Warrior is magic.[111]
Critics praised Warrior for its rock music influences,[106][112] despite the album being deeply rooted in techno-pop.[113] Applauding the album's rock sound, Rolling Stone called the album Kesha's rock manifesto.[112][112] Rock icons The Flaming Lips, Iggy Pop, and Alice Cooper have collaborated with Kesha, endorsing her as a rock singer. Cooper told Billboard, "I immediately looked at her and went, 'This girl is not a pop diva. She's a rock singer.' She would much rather be the female Robert Plant than the next Britney Spears."[114] The A.V. Club noted that Warrior proved Kesha a capable vocalist and songwriter.[113] Kesha's longtime collaborator and producer, Dr. Luke, said working with the singer is "pure fun", acknowledging her proneness for finding good hooks despite her occasionally vapid lyricism.[112] In February 2012, VH1 placed Kesha in the 57th spot of the Top 100 Greatest Women in Music.[115] Kesha is a vegetarian and an ordained minister, having been ordained online.[116][117] She has performed legal commitment ceremonies for gay couples as well.[116]
Kesha's musical influences consist of hip hop, punk rock, glam rock, 1980s pop, dance music and classic country.[118] Her country influences of Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash come from her mother's country songwriting, while her older brother exposed her to hip-hop and punk bands, Fugazi, Dinosaur Jr. and the Beastie Boys.[25][119][120] She has additionally cited Beck, Queen, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Elton John, Aaron Neville, Britney Spears, Bob Dylan, The Damned, Velvet Underground, Blondie and graffiti artist Banksy as influences.[121][122][123][124] She credits her straightforward story-based lyrics to her love for the honest storytelling style of country music,[120] while the title track from her debut album was created with music from alternative rock bands Flaming Lips and Arcade Fire in mind.[14] She singled out the Beastie Boys as a major influence, telling Newsweek that she had always wanted to be like them and aspired to make "youthful, irreverent anthems" as well.[13] She called her debut album, Animal, an homage to the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill and credited the creation of the rap driven "Tik Tok" to her love for the Beastie Boys' rap music.[94][121] For her first headlining tour, Kesha wanted to emulate the stage theatrics of Iggy Pop's performances.[125] She listed Pop's The Idiot as well as Led Zeppelin and AC/DC as inspirations for her second studio album, Warrior, intended to feature 1970s rock inspired music.[56] Warrior, to this effect, includes a collaboration with Pop himself.
She draws inspiration from classic films as well. Her stage makeup is characterized by dramatic glitter makeup at her right eye, inspired by A Clockwork Orange.[126] The video for "Your Love is My Drug" features animated sequences inspired by the Beatles' film, Yellow Submarine,[127] while the Get Sleazy tour was described as having a "post-apocalyptic Mad Max vibe."[125]
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2013 | The Show with Vinny | Herself | "Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Mackie and Kesha" (Season 1, Episode 3) |
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I decided to group the choices by age rather than by education level or something similar for the sake of precision.
I'm just curious to see the period of peoples' lives that people enjoyed the more or found the most fulfilling.
I'm 18. I'd say that the best time of my life so far was in the 5 - 10 year old period (around the 8 - 10 mark, specifically) because hanging out with friends was a blast back then and school was something that I didn't take very seriously and didn't really have to, either.
...That's a really weird question. I dunno, cos there's good times, but there's never bin a time where I thought "Alright this is perfect, everything's awesome". There's ups and downs in every choice.
I'll say leaving highschool though, like 2006-2007. I had the most friends then, and hung out with em all the most often. Even though I was a loser nerd virgin who stayed in n played videogames all the time, I also went on drunk holidays and went to parties n met up n laughed around every week.
Oh and I'm 21.
I just turned 20 and I am in college right now. This is the best time of my life so far. So many new friends and opportunities. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
The 1920s-30s. I got shit done in that vague time period.
These are some weird poll options; but last two years of High School were great.
I'm a guy, so I don't have those.
BOOM, sexist joke!
Eleven to twelve. I had a Commodore Amiga, Commander Keen, mutual flirtation with an adorable girl, no responsibilities, and all the time in the world.
12 to present (I'm currently 26), or, as they shall be referred to in my autobiography, the masturbation years.
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@pyromagnestir said:My autobiography will just be CALLED the masturbation years.12 to present (I'm currently 26), or, as they shall be referred to in my autobiography, the masturbation years.
God damn it why didn't I think of that! Aw well... I'll just stick with the name I had originally picked, Why the Fuck Are You Reading This?
I'm 17 and I've really had my ups and downs; there hasn't been a consistently "good" time in my life. This is definitely the most exciting and high stakes time of my life though, and there are definitely potentially good times ahead of me. I guess I'll have to just wait and see at this point because life hasn't been terrific since I've turned 17 last February but it hasn't been bad necessarily either.
Well, when I was 7 my dad died, and when I was 13 I was ripped apart from everyone I loved to travel as a Missionaries Kid... I'm 22 now, and even though most of my time is split between a sucky job and a sucky university, I still feel like this is the best my life has ever been. Though I've got a feeling the future's going to better- by far.
I'm 21 and, well, I can't peg a time that was the best. Probably the last two years of high school.
I don't want to sound like I'm completely dissatisfied thus far, but I can't help but feel like the best times are yet to come. I'm only a junior but I'm ready for these classes and tests to be done so I can go get a good full time job. And a full time job I have had, with pay higher than minimum wage! And that period of time was gloriously free of worry about money or things I had to pay for or what! I remember walking into the Business office of my college like a boss and paying what I had to for the next semester. I just want to get to that point, where my worries do not deal with lack of time or money.
Hmm. Well, 17-18 I guess. The last year and a half of secondary school or so. I stopped being a douchey teenager, had a great core group of friends and school was easy enough that I could coast and enjoy myself.
Things are different now and while I greatly enjoy the independence of being at university, I'm gonna have to move home after I graduate and I'm worrying about the future which was something I didn't have to do at 17/18. Any time from now on when I'm living alone will probably take the crown off of 17/18. Man, I hate living with other people right now.
I guess I should clarify that I'm currently 20 years old.
High school has actually been the best period of my life so far. definitely the most memorable.
Only time I remember feeling happy was round the 5-10 age. It went down hill pretty quickly from there and has been bad since then.
I think for me it was 15-17. I had a lot of fun in that time when I had a lot of freedom and still relatively little pressure or responsibilities. By the time I was getting closer to 18 I became depressed and developed a lot of anxiety, which has mostly become worse since then.
I have a hard time really thinking of what I was like before I was 11 as me, but I guess 8-11 were pretty good, before that I had a lot of trouble with moving and being in a new city and changing schools, and seeing my dad a lot less.
I'm 22. I think that in the last couple months I have entered easily the best stage of my life so far. So your poll doesn't fit me very well, because I'm somewhere in between those options.
@nintendoeats: Yeah, thought 5 year periods would be just fine but it turns out that doesn't work for this. Still, the comments have been great to read. Kinda depressing though, seeing how I'm pretty much in the age range most people say was the best in their life and I'm absolutely hating it.
From 25 to 27, I lived with a girl I loved very deeply, and it was without a doubt the best days of my life. I still have dreams about getting together with that girl again.
23 to 28. Had a job I really loved doing, made good money and had low stress levels.
@FluxWaveZ: Hmm...just got to find your own way man. That's the only advice I can think of. Useful as it is.
Eeh, ya know what, life kinda sucks right now, I hate my job, my school, most of the people I'm around... Looking back, I'm glad I have that international expirence. I'm also pretty sure that once I'm done with school and can work full time, move out, be a god damn adult... I'm just going to preemptively say like, 29-34 are gonna be great.
The day I was born. I didn't yet understand what a disappointing existence this truly is.
The 2007-2011 were pretty special. Slept late every day, could go out partying whenever, lived with friends, played games for hours.
Now I work full-time as an accountant. Life is considerably less exciting and infinitely more stressful.
17-22, though the past few months of being 23 have been amazing as well. I'm in my 5th year of college currently (hoping to finish up this year) and I've met some really good friends, before and during my time as a Resident Assistant as well, and some of them I would consider closer to me than most of my own family.
The fact that I've been going to school without paying too much out of my own pocket (and without loans) is really something as well and I can't thank the people that are helping me enough.
I actually asked a girl out on my own, which was a huge weight off my shoulders even though she said no, but we're still great friends.
The RA job has really helped me out a lot as well, because I'm really introverted and I've really come a long way in getting to be better with people since I have to deal with them on a daily basis, and it amazes me to this day that I was actually hired for the job nearly 1.5 years ago.
Arguably the biggest thing to happen to me (at least recently) was about a class I need that I "failed" last semester. By failed I mean I still have an incomplete in it, and the professor for the class came up to me about it a few weeks ago, asking me if I planned to retake the class this coming semester, which I did. She said she could extend that incomplete to the end of next semester for me, which essentially wipes out all the bad grades I got in the class and start over with a clean slate. Having something like that doesn't happen often, and some people may never get that chance so for a professor to have that kind of faith in me is something special and I hope to do much better this coming semester.
I think I have been lucky enough to have a really good life overall. There are times that stand out above all others- the last few years of high school, my year abroad, pretty much any time before I turned 13...it was all pretty awesome, but I really can't pick one period to stand out.
I'm 18 now too. I'd say it was specifically 15-17 for me, cause that was a time when school didn't need to be taken seriously for my class and I and we just screwed around. Good times. I'd say the upcoming period where I'll have finished my exams is going to be pretty good.


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The myth of the American West was mostly invented long after the West itself had been settled, civilized and made fit for Disneyland. Movie Westerns are usually romantic fantasies with no connection to a real West that ever existed; we know that, but we like them anyway because the escapism is fun.
Sometimes, though, a Western comes along that pretends to be about the West as it really was: "The Wild Bunch," or "McCabe and Mrs. Miller," or "The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid."
"Bad Company" is a Western like that. I don't imagine it's any more realistic than a John Wayne movie -- none of the "real" Westerns are, actually -- but it has a nice, blunt, slice-of-life quality about it that grows on you. It's about a group of young Civil War draft-dodgers who leave the United States at St. Joseph, Mo., and vaguely drift Westward.
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While outlaws get the drop on our heroes, for example, their Falstaffian leader (David Huddleston) sits on his horse and judges the stick-up critically: "That's real good," he says to his men. "Real threatening." There's another scene where a bankrupt farmer offers his wife to the boys, for a consideration of $8. Here, the pathos and desperation of the situation are sabotaged by Benton and Newman's willingness to go for a laugh.
The movie's hero is Drew Dixon (Barry Brown), a straight arrow from a Methodist family in Ohio. They've already lost their oldest son in the Union Army, and they send their youngest West rather than have him conscripted. He gets as far as St. Joe and is robbed by a slick young con man (played by Jeff Bridges, of "The Last Picture Show"). They fight, make up, join forces and set out with four others on the trek through the Indian territories.
From here on, we half expect the movie will be about how the boys come of age on the frontier. They're small town boys, after all, not junior Indian scouts. There are a couple of good scenes along this line (the best is Bridges demonstrating, to his own growing distaste, how to skin a rabbit). But the boys seem to have been born with lots of prairie lore built right in, and they somehow outshoot and outfox the outlaws even when they have no logical right to.
The movie is built as a series of more-or-less self-contained episodes, and the episodes that work are worth the effort. But we get the feeling the movie doesn't know where it's headed and the last scene (one of those freeze-frames that's supposed to crystallize a significant moment for us) left me suspended in midair. If there were ever a movie that just plain stopped, instead of arriving at a conclusion, this is it. Still, there were some good moments along the trail.
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Climbing down the Swiss Alps, the Mercedes G500 4X42 bowed at the 2015 Geneva Auto Show.
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Though the festivities have truly yet to begin, a few images and details from the 2015 Geneva Auto Show are coming out from behind the curtain. First up: the Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman.
The big daddy of despot and celebrity rides will model its new suit when the Mercedes Pullman arrives arm-in-arm with a C-Class PHEV in Geneva next month.
Chinese luxury sedan consumers are the first to see Mercedes-Maybach in their showrooms, arriving in the form of the S600 and S400.
As a tyke growing up in South Bend, Indiana, my father and I would often stake out the lots behind the Studebaker factories with hopes of spotting the next generation Avanti or Lark. Too often all we spied were rows of Mercedes-Benz automobiles due to the fact that Studebaker was the U.S. distributor for the German brand up until shortly before the closure of their South Bend operations in 1963.
Yesterday it was announced that Mercedes-Benz was returning to South Bend to build the R-Class crossover at the AM General plant, producer of the military Humvee and the late GM Hummer. Mercedes-Benz once moved their headquarters from South Bend to New Jersey and soon to the South (Atlanta) and now R-Class production is moving from the South (Alabama) to South Bend. Got it? Read More >
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Those who love the AMG badge, yet aren't ready to take the plunge, now have the Mercedes GLE450 AMG to consider [Live photos now available – CA].
Mercedes loyalists, your X6 fighter has arrived [Live photos now available – CA].
Amid Dr. Z's proclamation that 2015 would be "the Year of the SUV," the Mercedes-Benz C350 Plug-In Hybrid was revealed prior to its official debut at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show [Live photos now available – CA].
The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show isn't just the place to see the latest and greatest in gadgets and 1,000-inch Ultra 5K curved-screen Omega Definition touchscreen televisions with Minority Report-style controls, but also where some of those things will wind up in the auto industry.
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Release your inner child and experience Discovery Center's fantastic exhibits — without the kids — from 6 to 10 p.m., Friday, Oct. 25, for "Spooky After Dark."
Break out those Halloween costumes and enjoy a night of Halloween fun. Carve a pumpkin, make some slime and enjoy "dead" science demonstrations given by deceased Nobel laureates you vaguely remember from school. Explore an outdoor park in the dark if you dare! You can even check out the museum's new temporary exhibit,
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Harrington is well outside the top 10 players who automatically qualify for Europe's team in three weeks. The PGA Championship offers the most world ranking points, and the Irishman would have to finish alone in second to have any chance of moving into the top 10.
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The Denius-Sams Gaming Academy will focus on training students to become game development team leaders. Warren Spector, a 30-year industry veteran known for work on "Ultima" and "System Shock," will guide the curriculum. He and Paul Sams, chief operating officer of Blizzard Entertainment, will serve as part-time instructors.
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David Cronenberg's film of Bruce Wagner's Hollywood satire-nightmare turns ludicrous situations into operatic tragedy.
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Marie writes: Not too long ago, Monaco's Oceanographic Museum held an exhibition combining contemporary art and science, in the shape of a huge installation by renowned Franco-Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, in addition to a selection of films, interviews and a ballet of Aurelia jellyfish.The sculpture was inspired by the sea, and reflects upon maritime catastrophes caused by Man. Huang Yong Ping chose the name "Wu Zei"because it represents far more than just a giant octopus. By naming his installation "Wu Zei," Huang added ambiguity to the work. 'Wu Zei' is Chinese for cuttlefish, but the ideogram 'Wu' is also the color black - while 'Zei' conveys the idea of spoiling, corrupting or betraying. Huang Yong Ping was playing with the double meaning of marine ink and black tide, and also on corruption and renewal. By drawing attention to the dangers facing the Mediterranean, the exhibition aimed to amaze the public, while raising their awareness and encouraging them to take action to protect the sea.
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Matt's titles include "What's Opera, Doc?," Season One of "Deadwood," Bob Fosse's "All That Jazz," Terrence Malick's "The New World" (surprise!), Terrence Davies' "The Long Day Closes" (my #1 film of 1992), Joel & Ethan Coen's "Raising Arizona" (a movie I like, but consider among their lesser efforts) and Albert and David Maysles' "Salesman." Click here to see the complete list and Matt's comments.
OK, I'm game. So, the challenge, as MZS sets it up, is not just to pick "favorites," but to choose pictures that will stand up to repeated viewing since nobody is going to get you (or vote you) off the island and "It is assumed that you'll have an indestructible DVD player with a solar-recharging power source, so let's not get bogged down in refrigerator logic, mm'kay?"
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this is the start of something BIG ... ... well, not really, rather medium size ... http://static.rcgroups.com/forums/im...ilies/wink.gif ... it has only 138" or 3.52 m wingspan. Earlier this year, I received a first half-kit of this latest model from Tom Martin`s design board which is now produced and marketed by aerosente. The 1-36 is the fourth in my row of TMRC/aerosente builds (1:5 1-23, Cherokee II, 1:4 1-23) and I still have much fun working with wood and building model sailplanes which are not everyday sights on the field. Originally, I had planned to start the build already in the Summer, but I had to take care within the family which took away quite some time for the hobby. As always, I am starting with the wings because I want them ready for the fuselage build - and I think it is boring to duplicate things http://static.rcgroups.com/forums/im...ilies/wink.gif The entire model will be covered with 1/64" ply which is a first for me but I think that it will be advantageous when it comes to the finish and it resembles more the metal sheet covering of the original. Tom made things a bit trickier this time as he selected the under-cambered S-7037 airfoil from Selig when glueing the ribs on the lower sheeting which I prefer in any case. I started out with cutting the wing sheetings from a 1.5 meter square ply sheet on the dining table but this did not proof to be practical and so I moved outside. The half span is some 7" longer than the standard supply length of 1.5 m which will be no problem: The remaining length will be added in small pieces which will not cause strength problems. The lower main spar is glued down now and I used the laser cut drag spar to define the correct position of the lower dive brake door. Further I applied some packaging foam sheet on the outside of the sheeting which will press the sheeting into the rib under-camber when tack glueing them with CA. Maybe this build might raise your interest and further the "woody building". Herbert |
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Oops, waiting for Herbert so I just loaded it up here: https://gliderworkshop.pinnaclecart....product&id=150 in the Plans Section.
Have fun Herbert!!! tm |
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Herbert, if you want a completely realistic finish, take a look at the stick-on Aluminium sheet here:
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I kept you waiting quite long for the next update. Travelling in the meantime and other commitments kept me away from the shop, but nevertheless I made some progress. A little this and that: wooden blocks at the root rib for the MPX wing retaining lock, a piece of tubing for the wing root pin, balsa strips at the trailing edge for an increased glueing surface for the top sheeting and, as it turned out, the "major issue" how to fix the servos in the ribs which then would allow their mounting and removal when the wing is finished. After some tinkering in and off the shop, I came up with a very simple solution: I reinforced the lower sheeting and drilled screw holes immediately beneath the servo flanges. The screws are inserted from the outside with the screw heads sticking out a bit as there is not enough room (at the aileron servos) to use flush flat headed screws. I am confident that this will not ruin the flight performance ... For the rear air brake servo side, I used a bracket which has access from the lower brake door. There I am now ready for the top sheeting. I shall use the "white-glue-iron-on-method" for the first time and had another lengthy phone call with my club fellow Michael www.m-ohlwein.de who has ample building experience and who told me a number of additional "how tos" ... But this will have to wait until after Christmas. In the meantime I wish all followers a Merry Christmas and a happy and successful New Year Herbert |
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Focus on JobsThe Focus on Jobs fair held at Goodwill's agency headquarters is just one of the many opportunities clients have to put their interviewing skills to work. We truly appreciate the area employers who participate.
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Goodwill Changing Channel on Analog TV DonationsDue to the declining demand for analog TVs and the rising costs to recycle them, Goodwill of WNY finds it necessary to adjust our policy on the acceptance and sale of older televisions and computer monitors.
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Hamburg Store Transformation!Goodwill's Hamburg store in the Town Hall Plaza is transformed to create an even better shopping experience!
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