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Khadra, Ahmed and Pinelli, Eric and Lacroix, M.Z. and Bousquet-Mélou, Alain and Hamdi, Hassan and Merlina, Georges and Guiresse, Maritxu and Hafidi, Mohamed Assessment of the genotoxicity of quinolone and fluoroquinolones contaminated soil with the Vicia faba micronucleus test. (2012) Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, vol. 76. pp. 187-192. ISSN 0147-6513
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The genotoxicity of quinolone and fluroquinolones was assessed using the micronucleus (MN) test on Viciafaba roots by direct contact exposure to a solid matrix. Plants were exposed to quinolones (nalidixic acid) and fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin) alone or mixed with artificially contaminatedsoils. Four different concentrations of each of these antibiotics were tested (0.01, 0.1, 1 and 10 mg/Kg) for nalidixic acid and (0.005, 0.05, 0.5 and 5 mg/Kg) for ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin. These antibiotics were also used in mixture. Exposure of Vicia faba plants to each antibiotic at the highest two concentrations showed significant MN induction. The lowest two concentrations had no significant genotoxic effect. The mixture of the three compounds induced a significant MN induction whatever the mixture tested, from 0.02 to 20 mg/Kg. The results indicated that a similar genotoxic effect was obtained with the mixture at 0.2 mg/Kg in comparison with each molecule alone at 5–10 mg/Kg. Data revealed a clear synergism of these molecules on Vicia faba genotoxicity.
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Irrlicht Engine
This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. (December 2008) |
Developer(s) | Nikolaus Gebhardt et al. |
Stable release | 1.8.1 / 16 December 2013 |
Written in | C++ |
Operating system | Cross-platform: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows CE |
Type | Application framework |
License | zlib |
Website | irrlicht |
Irrlicht (pronounced [ˈʔɪɐ̯lɪçt] in German) is an open source game engine written in C++. It is cross-platform, officially running on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Windows CE and due to its open nature ports to other systems are available, including FreeBSD, Xbox, PlayStation Portable,[1] Raspberry Pi, SymbianOS,[2] iPhone[3] and Google Native Client.[4]
Irrlicht is known for its small size and compatibility with new and older hardware alike, a shallow learning curve and a large friendly community.[5][unreliable source?] Unofficial bindings for many languages exist including .NET,[6] Java,[7] Perl,[8] Ruby,[9] Python,[10] FreeBASIC, Lua,[11] Delphi,[12][13] C++Builder,[14] AutoIt[15] and even Game Maker,[16] though most of them have been unmaintained for more than five years.
Irrlicht's development began in 2003 with only one developer, Nikolaus Gebhardt.[17] Only after the 1.0 release of Irrlicht in 2006 did the team grow to currently ten members, most of them being developers.[18]
"Irrlicht" is a common German term for a will-o'-the-wisp.
Irrlicht supports 3D rendering via OpenGL, DirectX 8 and 9, and internal software rasterizers. External renderers and windowing systems plug in through simple interfaces, giving rise to community-made SDL, iPhone and SymbianOS devices. The engine comes with a library of standard material renderers, allowing fallback materials where user hardware is unable to handle advanced techniques. New materials can be added to the engine at run-time, allowing users to write their own as required. In addition to legacy fixed-function pipeline materials, programmable Pixel and Vertex Shaders (1.1 to 3.0 and 4.0 using GLSL), ARB Fragment and Vertex Programs, HLSL, Cg and GLSL materials are supported.
Irrlicht supports many file formats. It will load and display 3ds Max files, Quake 2 MD2 Models, Wavefront .obj objects, Quake 3 .bsp maps, Milkshape3D objects, and DirectX .x files.[19] Additional format loaders have been written as external plugins. Lights, cameras and 3D objects are managed as a tree of 'Scene Nodes', arbitrary groupable entities linked together in a scene graph. These nodes are responsible for their own behaviour, but can also be managed by animators, each other, or manually by the user.
A large number of built-in node types exist and can be used together to make complex indoor and outdoor scenes. New nodes are trivial to make and can be added at runtime; many additional node types are available from the community. Node types packaged with Irrlicht include a terrain renderer and sky domes/boxes for outdoor rendering, BSPs for indoor rendering, bone based animated meshes, stencil shadows, billboards and particle systems, water surfaces and primitives.
A skinnable 2D GUI is available, supporting many controls and the ability for users to plug in their own (or community made) custom widgets at runtime. Irrlicht's internal event system provides mouse, keyboard, joystick and GUI events without having to rely on additional libraries.[20]
Filesystem access is abstracted allowing platform-independent file and folder access, and transparent access to files within ZIP archives. Other I/O features include an XML reader and writer, the ability to take screenshots, manipulate images and meshes and then save them in several different file formats.
Irrlicht's provides support for simple collision detection including mouse picking, but users are advised that this is not intended as a replacement for a full featured physics engine.
Engine extensions[edit]
Irrlicht was designed to be able to load and save the current scene to an XML file; this combined with the engine's open-source licensing model has attracted various programmers and developers to create world editors for Irrlicht to simplify the world-creation process. One such example is the irrEdit world editor, developed by Nikolaus Gebhardt and other members of the company Ambiera.[21] IrrEdit contains a radiosity lightmap generator and a scripting interface using Squirrel scripts.
Since Irrlicht does not support sound by itself, Ambiera has also developed irrKlang, a non-free, proprietary audio library with an API similar to Irrlicht.[22] Being developed by the same group, irrEdit supports the use of sounds in levels made by irrEdit for use with irrKlang-enabled compiled DLLs. Also among Ambiera's creations is irrXML, Irrlicht's XML parser.
Many physics libraries have had plugins and wrappers written for Irrlicht, including Nvidia PhysX, Bullet, and Open Dynamics Engine.
More extensions can be found in the Irrlicht forums and in the irrExt project, a side-project of Irrlicht for special purpose add-ons.
There are also some new technologies in forums such as Deferred shading or Shadow mapping. Many users contribute extensions such as Compute Shaders (OpenGL 4.3) and Tessellation Shaders (Shader Model 5.0).
Projects employing Irrlicht[edit]
- Amulet of tricolor, a 2D game
- Bolzplatz 2006 by Xenoage Software, a soccer game
- Eve, a robot simulator by the Biologically Inspired Robotics Group (BIRG) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
- Galactic Dream: Rage of War, a commercial space strategy game by Evolution Vault
- Gekkeiju Online, a gratuitous fantasy multi user role playing game
- H-Craft Championship, an open source SciFi racing game[23]
- Minetest, an open-world-game similar to Minecraft
- Octodad: Dadliest Catch, a comedic octopus simulator
- Sokoban Challenge, a 3D remake of the classic puzzle game Sokoban for Android
- SuperTuxKart (since version 0.7), a 3D kart racing game
See also[edit]
- ^ "LTE Game Engine". Ltestudios.com. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Irrlicht For S60". Sourceforge.net. 10 December 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Announcement about Irrlicht on iPhone". Irrlicht.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Irrlicht on Google Native Client". Irrlicht.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
- ^ "Irrlicht support forum". Irrlicht.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Irrlicht.Net Cross Platform Project Page". Sourceforge.net. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Jirr: Irrlicht for Java". Jirr.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Irrlicht for Perl". Search.cpan.org. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "IrrRuby". Irr.rubyforge.org. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Venom: Irrlicht wrapper for Python". Sourceforge.net. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "IrrLua, A Lua front end to Irrlicht". Irrlua.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Irrlicht 4 Delphi". Irrlicht.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "IrrPascal". Sourceforge.net. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "cppbIrrlicht". Komradstudios.altervista.org. 23 April 2009. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Au3irrlicht". Irrlicht3d.org. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "GMIrrlicht". Gmc.yoyogames.com. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Interview with the Irrlicht founder". Linuxdevcenter.com. 9 October 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Development team members". Irrlicht.sourceforge.net. 14 February 2006. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ Irrlicht features on Freashmeat
- ^ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/example005.html
- ^ "Official website of the irrEdit Scene editor". Ambiera.com. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ http://www.ambiera.com/irrklang/
- ^ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2015/02/sci-fi-racer-coded-with-irrlicht-got-open-sourced/
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Author's blog
- Irrlicht wiki at irrlicht3d.org
- Irrlicht at DevMaster.net
Further reading[edit]
- Irrlicht review at heise.de (paywalled)
- Using Irrlicht with Java at Bright Hub
- Irrlicht how-to in Linux Journal (April 2009)


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Clyde Otis
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Born | September 11, 1924 Prentiss, Mississippi |
Died | January 8, 2008 Englewood, New Jersey |
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Occupation(s) | Songwriter, producer |
Associated acts | Brook Benton, Dinah Washington, , Sarah Vaughan, Natalie Cole |
Clyde Otis (September 11, 1924 – January 8, 2008), born in Prentiss, Mississippi, was an American songwriter and producer best known for his collaboration with singer Brook Benton, and for being one of the first African-American A&R executive for a major label.[1]
According to the music licensing organization Broadcast Music Inc., Otis is credited as the writer or co-writer of almost 800 songs.[1]
Early career[edit]
After serving in the Marines during World War II, Otis moved to New York and inspired by fellow Marine Bobby Troup, best known for "Route 66", began writing songs. Otis' first success was Nat King Cole's recording of his song "That's All There Is to That", which reached the Billboard Top 20 in 1956.
A&R executive[edit]
On joining Mercury Records as director of A&R in 1958,[1] Otis began writing and producing material for Brook Benton. This collaboration led to "It's Just a Matter of Time", "Endlessly", "So Many Ways", "Kiddio" and the novelty song, "The Boll Weevil Song".
Otis also produced a number of duets between Benton and Dinah Washington, among them "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" and "A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love)"; he worked on Washington's solo efforts, as well, most notably the classic "What a Difference a Day Makes" and "This Bitter Earth".
Otis also produced hits for Sarah Vaughan ("Broken-Hearted Melody"), Timi Yuro ("Hurt") and The Diamonds ("The Stroll"), which he also co-wrote. In 1962 Otis produced 33 of Mercury's 51 chart hits.[2]
Clyde Otis Music Group[edit]
Upon leaving the label, he briefly worked at Liberty Records before founding his own publishing firm, the Clyde Otis Music Group, and moving into independent production. Relocating to Nashville, Tennessee, Otis produced sessions for country singers Charlie Rich and Sonny James. His songs have also been recorded by Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Mathis, and Patti Page.
Winner of a Grammy (1994) for producing Natalie Cole's "Take a Look",[3] Otis was given a Pioneer Award by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 2000.
Personal life[edit]
He lived in Englewood, New Jersey, for over 40 years, and died there on January 8, 2008. He was survived by his wife, Lourdes; two sons, Isidro and Clyde III; a daughter, AnaIza; and five grandchildren.[1]
- ^ a b c d Obituary from The New York Times
- ^ Clyde Otis biography "Founder Clyde Otis", Accessed May 6, 2011
- ^ Jaeger, Barbara. "REBUILDING A FOUNDATION", The Record (Bergen County), May 22, 1994. Accessed October 20, 2007. "Veteran songwriter, record producer, and music publisher Clyde Otis of Englewood, whose song "Take a Look" won a Grammy this year for best jazz vocal performance by Natalie Cole, has announced the reactivation of the Take a Look Foundation."
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WHO member states meeting in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday unanimously approved a new international treaty to combat the illegal tobacco trade, VOA News reports (11/12). "The Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products commits countries to establishing, as a central measure, a global tracking and tracing system to reduce the illicit trade of tobacco products," a WHO press release states (11/12). "I can think of no other undertaking that can make such a huge contribution to better health in every corner of the world. And that includes the health of young children and unborn babies," WHO Executive Director Margaret Chan said at the opening of the Fifth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), the U.N. News Centre reports. "Tobacco use is responsible for five million, or 12 percent, of all deaths of adults above the age of 30 globally each year -- equivalent to one death every six seconds -- noted a WHO mortality report released in March this year," the news service adds (11/12).
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The PRISMA experiment
Apers, Peter M.G. and Hertzberger, L.O. and Hulshof, Ben J.A. (1990) The PRISMA experiment. In: PRISMA Workshop on Parallel Database Systems, September 24-26, 1990, Noordwijk, The Netherlands (pp. pp. 181-192).
Abstract: | The design of a large database management system on top of an object-oriented platform which is implemented on a tightly coupled multiprocessor system requires a large number of design decisions. There exist no methodology to evaluate the consequences and compare the differences between them. Looking into experimental methodology in physics we find a lot of similarities and techniques we think that are useful to solve our problems. A discussion is presented in which way such experiments have to be set up and of the tools that are required. The status of the project and our experience up till now is presented. |
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"We're doing it every way you can do it. If we were a sex manual it'd be a best-seller."
—Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle discussing the rash of Mavericks turnovers this preseason, speaking to the Star Telegram (hat tip to SLAM).
The Mavericks are averaging 19.2 points per game this preseason. They are doing it with balance you'd prefer to see with scoring. The three ball-handling guards — OJ Mayo, Delonte West and Darren Collison — each have a dozen preseason turnovers. Shawn Marion has worked hard to best them all with 13. This is a trend to watch when the preseason starts.
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Instructional efficiency of the integration of graphic calculators in teaching and learning mathematics.Mohd Tajuddin, Nor'ain and Ahmad Tarmizi, Rohani and Konting, Mohd Majid and Wan Ali, Wan Zah (2009) Instructional efficiency of the integration of graphic calculators in teaching and learning mathematics. International Journal of Instruction, 2 (2). pp. 11-30. ISSN 1694-609X Full text not available from this repository. AbstractThis quasi-experimental study with non-equivalent control group post-test only design was conducted to investigate the effects of using graphing calculators in mathematics teaching and learning on Form Four Malaysian secondary school students' performance and their meta-cognitive awareness level. Graphing calculator strategy refers to the use of TI-83 Plus graphing calculator in teaching and learning of Straight Lines topic. The experimental group underwent learning using graphing calculator while the control group underwent learning using conventional instruction. Three instruments were used in this study namely, Straight Lines Achievement Test, Paas Mental Effort Rating Scale and Metacognitive Awareness Survey. The data were analysed using independent t-test and planned comparison test. The findings indicated that the graphing calculators' instruction enhanced students' performance and induced higher levels of metacognitive awareness among students. Less mental effort were invested during the learning and test phases and hence increased 3-dimensional instructional efficiency index in learning of Straight Lines topic. Hence it can be implied that integrating the use of graphing calculators in teaching and learning of mathematics was more efficient than the conventional instruction strategy. Eventhough some students experience difficulties in using graphing calculators initially during learning, they responded overwhelmingly that graphing calculators improves their understanding of the Straight Lines topic. Hence, the usage of the graphing calculator lends as an effective strategy in teaching and learning of mathematics.
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Law enforcement officers solved the question to the pending riddle—Where did Jason McVean go?—nine years after the fugitive and two partners reportedly stole a truck, shot and killed Cortez (Colo.) Police Officer Dale Claxton, and then vanished. Based upon witness accounts of the 1998 murder, it is believed McVean pulled the trigger.
His accomplices, apparent suicides, were later found.
But McVean's whereabouts remained a mystery, despite an extensive air, foot, and horseback search that lasted for weeks across rocky canyon terrain following Claxton's death. More than 500 officers from 54 police agencies across the West participated in the hunt, trekking across the Four Corners region where Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado come together.
Nine years later, McVean continued to elude the police. Until last week, when a Utah rancher tending his cattle discovered a partial jawbone. A dental record match confirmed that the remains belonged to McVean.
Sue Claxton, the wife of the slain officer, still resides in Cortez, Colo., today. Their 20-year-old son followed in his father's footsteps and recently joined the local police force.Cortez Police Chief Roy Lance told The Caspar Star-Tribune in Wyoming that while there is a sense of much needed closure to the case, questions still remain. "I think she's (Claxton) relieved, but we all would have liked to have a person to talk to so we'd get some answers," says Lance.
For while the riddle of what happened to McVean has been solved, none of the items recovered along with his remains—an AK-47, ammunition, five pipe bombs, four jugs of water, some food, and a first-aid kit—explains what the Colorado trio was planning nine years ago.
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Beyond the Black Festival '12
Monday 31 December 2012, 4:00pm—Tuesday 1 January 2013, 1:00am
Points of interest:
• Next 5 tickets sold at The Revolution in Upper Hutt receive a free Osmium album.
• Unreleased bands: Flesh D-Vice; Pervertor; Gunt; Fractured; Ream Fist.
• Public transport all night on the hour, between Welly and Trentham.
• Door sales $40, pre-sales from Dash and The Revolution $30.
• Wet Y-front and Wet Tee competitions – maybe you wanna help pour the water?
• First 50 patrons through the door get a $50 Ink Funk tattoo voucher.
Restriction: R18
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• Bikes and Bods: this was a promo stunt for BTB. It was a parade of cool V8s and massive motor bikes through Upper Hutt city, finishing with a popular vehicle display at The Mall. It was awesome fun and got a lot of attention!
• As you enter BTB 12 put your name in the "hat (may not actually be a hat)" to winner a double pass to Hell Hammer Smash Festival. https://www.facebook.com/events/324443024321338/?fref=ts
• I already have 2 dudes and one lady entered in the wet comps – message me, Jenimal, to enter on !!
• Free off street parking – just drive in the main entrance to Trentham Race Course.
• Flesh Hook Suspension display by the Skin Puppets from Wellington.
• Buy your BTB tee from Brutalitees now!! Check out the BTB or the Brutalitees website for more details. They are also running a stall at BTB so bring more than just ya bourbon/beer money.
• MC Rocka will be on stage between bands to give away prizes and information.
• The Zombie Go Go Girls will be there to further entertain you with a bit of cage dancing.
• Make sure you drink water in between ya bourbons/beers!!
• 31st Dec 2012, 4pm bands start, gates open at 3.30pm.
• This is an R18 show so please have your ID ready at entry.
• Fuelset unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances had to pull out.
To find out more:
Trentham Racecourse
Upper Hutt, New Zealand
Trentham Racecourse is set on 67 Hectares of manicured grounds and hosts around 12 race days annually. Other events including weddings, conferences and festivals are also held regularly with the views and location as spectacular as it was when first viewed in 1906.
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Web: | http://www.trentham.co.nz |


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4 16 Share TweetOld trick but still a goodie! To those who don't know this yet, here's a classic experiment for instant bulb setting!
Cover That Exposure Meter by ethermoon
The LC-A and LC-A+ are automatic. They depend on how the light enters over the exposure meter. Where's that? See that little knob of ISO setting you twist before you decide on under-or-overexposing? That little hole you see is the exposure or light meter. It is automatic, depending on the available light your LC-A gets on the environment.
Now here's the trick.
- Place it on ISO 25. (or 100 ISO if LC-A+). It has now the smallest hole.
- Place your finger to cover that little hole you see in front. Best yet, grab a black tape and stick it over the exposure meter in the front.
- Place your LC-A in a tripod (if you don't have one, place it in a flat surface).
- Press the shutter button; hold it steady as long as you like.
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LOVE STORY The breeze is in my hair. The moon is gleaming behind me. The love I feel is everlasting. Cadence of my soul. Show me your happiness Share, my love. Laugh with me Our destiny is mixed with pleasure. Our essence treasured. Come walk with me in the garden. Alive - Let's reach our ultimate…high. Smile, darling smile Kiss me with your eyes. Forever we are. Champagne we drink To toss our uniting. You feel my sylph A fulfilled spirit. This journey succumbs me. I am free for you to love. Embrace your ideas Let the breeze come in. Dance to the ecstasy. Release all your fears. Capture this time As our minds, intertwine. Laugh with me Inflection of my soul. Show me your happiness. Share, my love. A majestic dynasty Our empire In time Now! Here we stand You and I forever. No obstacles have formed. You are my one and only. Woman, smile Kiss me with your eyes. Forever we are. Thrive - Let's reach our ultimate…highs. This is our life... Together This is our existence... Forever Ardor love Justified by God Come walk with me in the garden As we write our love story. MY PHILOSOPHY Man is man. His skin is what makes difference. His upbringing differentiates. This is, he states, "God's way." DARK SUNSHINE - VSW _________________________________________| PENNED ON AUGUST 03, 2014!
Fighting mid the strong and bold, His eye and blade were keen; Marching like a thund'ring storm On foes of Faith, his queen. Now returned in victory Upon his mighty bay, Set he off to Langley Tow'r Her summons to obey. "John the Squire," the footman called, And held the oaken door; Faith, it seemed, had gleaming eyes Like never once before. "John! 'tis good to see thee hale," The queen exclaimed, and rose: Tales have sped to Langley's gates Of many broken bows." "God has saved me whole and well, By prayers, I ween, of thee; Tell me please, my lady Queen What service I may be." Saying thus, the squire bowed And doffed his burnished helm; Struck in awe by Faith, his love, The queen of Arthur's realm. "Gilbert saith," rehearsed the queen, "That deeds of thee are done Greater yet than those of Wat Or even Henry's son." Tears bedecked her youthful face, And glistened in the light; John the Squire, as she had hoped, Had done her favour right. "Nay!" the humble squire cried, "This word is not so true! How could I, the meanest squire, Perform the deeds they do?" "Hush!" It was a firm command; "I'll hear these lies no more; Kneel before me, Squire John, A knight shall leave the door." Down before the queen he knelt, He pledged his knighthood true; Swore her ev'ry small command With cheerful heart to do. From his side she drew his sword, She struck the accolade; "Thus the greatest knight," she said, "Is from a squire made." From her hand the sword did fall, It clashed upon a stone: "John, if battle claimed thy life, How could I be alone?" "God has prospered all my ways; My Queen, I praythee, cease! Soon these wars shall claim our foes, And Britain be in peace." Faith remained there by her throne, With light upon her hair; Not one maid of Camelot Was even half so fair. "God be with thee evermore," She bravely said at last; "Guard and keep thee from the foe Until the very last." John the Knight farewell did bid, And swiftly rode away: When the wars were hammered out, He'd be a king in May. For the Famous Art contest. Inspired by the painting "The Accolade" -1901 by Edmund Blair Leighton.
(W)- A real woman knows that the wages of sin is death so she is not concerned about the wages of a real man, because money comes and goes like day and night; but true love comes just every blue moon. A real woman isn't loud and doesn't have to be the center of attention. Money is a gold-diggers virtue, while patience is a real woman's virtue. A real woman is always wary of the image she displays to the world because she knows her children are watching her every move. A real woman's wisdom comes from the teachings of her elders and the experiences and hardships life brings. A real woman is the wings that help a broken man learn to fly again. When you become the object of a real woman's affection, winning is the only option. (O)- A real woman's main obligation is to better herself, before she attempts to become someone's better half. A real woman is very obliged with all that God has blessed her with. When a man takes a real woman for granted, she makes up her mind to put him away into oblivion. A real woman is use to jumping hurdles because overcoming obstacles in life keeps her on the right track. A real woman doesn't spend her time worrying if failure is around the corner, because she occupies her freedom chasing her dreams in her most comfortable running shoes. A real woman is a hopeless romantic ready to be wooed with an odyssey of love with a real man by her side. (M)- A real woman's presence is magnanimous and captures attention because of the poised and elegant stature of her classy nature. A real woman is like the magnet of ecstasy. All women don't attend college or hold prestigious employment, but for many being the Valedictorian of mothers everywhere is the major of their lives. A real woman respects the art of marriage and believes in monogamy. A real woman's life is the motion picture of sophistication. The mythology of a woman began within a man's ribs and ends in the beat of his heart. (A)- A real woman sticks to her man like glue and never abandons his side. A real woman has the ability to do anything a man can. A real woman has the power to fill the abyss of a man's pains with joy. A real woman prays with her other half because faith is the key of remaining on one accord. A real woman will amaze you with the way she adapts to changes in her ambiance. A real woman is the architect of her own destiny. (N) A real woman needs a man to understand and love her for everything she is and for everything she is not because a good support system is a leading factor in longevity within relationships. A real woman is the nexus between love and happiness. When you converse with a real woman you will realize that she is nimble with her every response. No man can ignore the nymph of a real woman, because it is in her D.N.A to be notable.
THE PERFECT WOMAN What does a perfect woman mean? Does it mean something that meets your standards? A standard measured by physical appearance or from within towards one's heart and soul? Perfect is just a label A label to define what you like in a woman A woman whom you want to be with for the rest of your life A life that will make you feel satisfied. What is a perfect woman for me? The perfect woman is a woman who is beautiful inside and out Not only in the sight of those around us But in the sight of GOD By: Ms.Melba Regina V.Sales ( a.k.a RIPPED HEART AND SOUL )
I have an addiction... It dont matter what time of day it is my addiction is there... Not always in the literall since... But it is always on my mind... I lay my head down to sleep at night thinking about you... I sleep dreaming about you... I wake up thinking about you... Your always on my mind... No matter what I do my addiction is always on my mind... Even if your not the last one I talk to before I lay my head down to sleep... I still lay my head down thinking of you... I just cant get enought of you... No matter what my addiction is there... My addiction has a name... Her name is Shelby Nestle... No matter how much we text or talk on the phone... Its never enough... I cant get enough of your beautiful eyes... I cant get enough of that beautiful smile... I cant get enough of kissing your soft lips... That feeling I get inside when our lips touch... Or holding you in my arms... This is a new addiction to me... Never have I been this addicted this quick... It scares the shyt outta me... But then I love it... You are my new addiction baby... You are my... My heroin... My ecstacy... My cocaine... You are my own personal drug... I cant imagine and addiction stronger... You are my addiction... I wouldnt even think about trying to break this addiction... I wouldnt go to rehab for this addiction... I like it to much... YOU ARE PERFECT JUST THE WAY YOU ARE
I love the Singer in an All Girl Band Loch David Crane, 1976 I dreamed about 'ya in your pixie shoes and watched 'ya stomp on all my blues; I dreamed about 'ya in your fishnet tights and how 'ya kept me up all night. I dreamed about 'ya next day too when my mind should'a been on school. I dreamed about 'ya in your leather skirt 'til my heart began to throb and hurt. I dreamed about 'ya at a biker dance, a third leg grew inside my pants. I dreamed about 'ya and what I'd do if I could go to bed with you--- But you don't know me an' I think it's true that I could never succeed with you. I may as well make other plans 'cause I love the singer in All Girl Band. My heart is locked in my rib cage prisoner of a new-wave age; the only way to set it free is if you will make love to me. I've seen the future-- it's black and blue from random violence, dancin' too; but that is where I'll have to stand 'cause I love the singer in All Girl Band.
She pets,feeds clothes and protects A mother human For i was weak and vulnerable She cares,comforts and consoles with a seraphic massage in sound and touch though i'm grown and strong Oh,the better half that completes every man always needed for wholeness either mother or wife, the woman;a real goddess
An honest smile and truthful eyes A road slinger who loves a surprise A worker who dreams of the world Needs the road and loves a whirl Understands my past and hers Comfortable with herself in showers Loves good vibes and the bad Appreciates the love and even the sad Wants more to life than bottom line Takes a random hint as a sign Embraces silence for it is rare Take a chance, perfect woman, if you dare
Men were given total dominion over all living things, and when they subdued their enemy: they were granted immortality! Beside every great warrior of old, there was a strong woman of humility, who gave him a victorious sword; and helped him change the course of history! Emperess Theodora was one of them to show adversity; when Noka's revolt broke out: she decided to stay, while her hushand, Justinian, fled the city; what an admirable act of feminity! Beside every great warrior of old, there seems to be a look of invincibility, a defying moment to obtain glory; and the cost for a golden crown is well-known! Be the warrior of modern times, treatened by fear and fragility, seek out the man you were destined to be; trust that woman who posseses internal beauty, and beside this warrior, her courage will guide you with dignity!
The soul of the virgin Our Virgin is so practical So critical she be She's always hard upon herself Her words come loose and free If she thinks that you have let her down She'll tell you this is so She's very clever with her hands And she really likes to know. She does her best in everything Meticulous is she She be one of the clever ones She's kind and she will be A boon to anyone who needs her She's so dependable She can't abide in ugliness Of any kind at all. She has a downer on herself She thinks she is not liked She analyzes everything She can look into your psyche She won't be fooled by anyone And she worries about her health Just to get to know this lady Is a valid source of wealth. 12 August 2013 2 1300hrs.
Her Face was perfection, Still see it everywhere The beauty in her eyes, Please forgive my stare Though to confess my love, Oh no, I wouldn't dare... So I'll just keep thinking of her, But it's just not fair Her Face won't go away, So engrained in my mind This girl was different, Unlike any other I'll ever find Oh how the two of us, How our lives could've aligned... So now, to everyone else, My heart is blind But she'll never know, Just what I would've done to be with her! That I'd gladly travel through time and space Just to appreciate her beauty, And wake next to Her Face Her Face comforts me, Holds me tight and dear Takes me to another world, A new frontier I'm dreaming where she loves me so much, That part is clear... But as I awake, Just shed another tear Her Face and her love, I won't ever forget Lust for her will remain, Lips will get wet I'll be reminded of her, At each days sunset... And I'll remember everything, From the first day we met But she'll never know, Just what I would've done to be with her! That I'd gladly travel through time and space Just to appreciate her beauty, And wake next to Her Face Her Face is the sunshine, A universal light With it's soul and it's passion, It was quite a sight Oh how just to see her, Brought me such delight... But here I am all alone now, Another late night Her Face will surely lift someone up, With unconditional love So what will come of me, Can I rise above? Without Her Face, I'm unsure thereof... Because see, out of my mind, to her, I'll never shove And she'll never know, Just what I would've done to be with her! That I'd gladly travel through time and space Just to appreciate her beauty, And wake next to Her Face Her Face, I see it every night, In my dreams Where everything will all align, Oh how it seems We're walking together... Hands together, Along the forests blue streams Her Face ignited feelings, Things I've never before felt Just got to play the hand, The cruel hand I was dealt I will always have my writing, To continue to dwell... On a lost love to whom one day, I would've knelt
WHALING SHIP CAPTAIN"S LOVER part 3 Now Jorgie met a new love He begged to make her wife First, they'd fetch her small boy to start a fresh new life. So East they went to Minot To find her cousin there But when they came to his big house His smile for them was spare. The cousin was not happy To relinquish that fine boy He said his wife would waste away Without her greatest joy And Jorgie, solemn, studied them The woman and the child & Wept with great compassion Her broken heart ran wild. Determined to do justice Twas no one she could blame Jorgie hugged the boy good bye Her soul in raging flame. She bid the woman love him And tell him she was aunt And with her newfound husband, John, Departed pale and gaunt. Now John, he was a good man Who worshiped his new wife They agreed to keep a secret About her former life And so away the years passed Son came after son Jorgie had a fresh life They built a solid home. Each month she mailed the letters To the 'cousin' in the west She parceled up the photos true siblings in their best But Sadness haunted Jorgie's eyes She tried to hide it well But her husband knew her--- She had him in her spell. So sad she was and so forlorn He needed to confide To someone who could help him to cheer his cherished bride. And so he told his sister His wife had longed to see From her past her loved ones--- Her own sweet family. So sister Lena planned a scheme— For Jorgie wild and free the gift would be a great surprise And John he did agree. They would take the children Aboard the westbound train Jump the train at Minot To see the boy again. Wait they must til autumn For Jorgie twas the best In May would be a newborn babe Nuzzling at her breast Then hit the plague of '17 Entire towns were dead— And in their midst was Jorgie-- With her newborn-- cold, in bed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: Jorgie : (pronounced Yor' gee) was a nickname Her name: Sena Jorgine Larsen My father's mother. The baby named Clara. My was nearly 4 when they died. His father, John Anderson—Jorgie's husband , never remarried. He lived to be in his 70's. His sister, my great aunt, Lena Anderson Hildebrandt, told me this story in 1971. PS THERE IS ANOTHER PART TO THIS IF ANYONE WANTS TO READ IT LET ME KNOW. I DON'T WANT TO BORE ANYONE TO DEATH! vat
When Mother Earth, Anu was young the gods gifted her sisters; Fair Brigid with the fiery hair, blonde Boann of the waters. Their bodies lay upon the globe intertwined in rainbows Brown skinned mountains, fiery skies, and blonde washed dawns to rouse. Adore the feminine in all her forms, or mountains rise and snowslides are born. Adore the feminine in all her forms. Most favored by the Northern gods was Brigid's aurora How the endless night was blessed so they all adored her. The jealous day of blonde Boann shook, from pale limb to limb, and water rose to wake Anu who writhed in earthen skin. Adore the feminine in all her forms, or mountains rise and snowslides are born. Adore the feminine in all her forms. The Northern lands of ice and snow so brightened by Brigid saw brittle glaciers break and fall avalanches begin. So to this day all North men pray to the goddesses three Earthen Anu, fiery Brigid and Boann's watery lea. Adore the feminine in all her forms, or mountains rise and snowslides are born. Adore the feminine in all her forms.
My woman wants to make me believe That other girls are bad and can deceive She wants to see me not talk to any She wants to see no text from angie Angie is just my friend She says that friendship must end. My woman wants to make me believe She is the only woman who live She wants to see me with no other Even those that call me brother She wants to see no girl visit She says my movements I should limit. My woman wants to make me believe That other people take much of my time That she should have all the time Always be there for her Give all attention to her She says I should always stick to her. My woman wants to make me believe Only from her love I should receive When she hear of another woman She falls sick And grows weak She says my love will kill her She says it is better that way. Chained in love Only her she say I should serve Chained in love Only her she say I should have Chained in love Only her she say should stay in my every nerve My woman wants to make me believe all this.
A red scarf ribbon around her neck It flows elegantly down her back She hit me like a blow in the dark Caressing the hump of her trademark She knows I'm watching her walk Without having to look back I wish she could stop so we could talk I'd say, 'How about a drink?' But there's so many of us to pick So she walks on without a squeak It's better this way, knowing my luck I'd probably stutter, and my mind go blank Some call out to her, but she's used to that bark Men are dogs and I'm a member of the pack I proved it today, I tried to hold back My feelings were too strong to fake In her disappearance from my obsession I awake And all the judgemental eyes I take The seductive temptress her birthmark Inspired by Lyric Man
Seems like I'm falling in love with Bat-Girl Don't ask me how this happened Women in costumes appeal to me Not long ago I hugged a woman in a cat costume Comic book dreams coming through once more Green Lantern, Magneto and the reat are competing with me for the love of a costumed woman I think that "love steeers the star" Fantasy women are sometimes easier to deal with than real ones
I want to write This time of that cold night when I heard my mother cry When I saw her lie Flat on her belly Her back bare and scaly Her eyes swollen Her right stolen By one she called husband. I saw the tears I saw her fears she sobbed between the whips she tightly bit her lips And tightened her hips to swallow the pain just for her stay. I want to write this time of that night that night without stars when I saw the scars On her back the scars stuck made a permanent mark on her back. I want to write I want to write This time of my mother write her as a victim tortured by male chauvinism. write her as a strong woman Who challenged the stress of a man Mama who raised us built us Made us. so rise mama and shine All will be fine Mama rise and shine All will be fine RISE MAMA AND SHINE. All will be fine.
In the night she comes, Freeing all the women from their pain. as she made their pain go numb she looked at the abusers with disdain I don't know how she does it How could a woman with her own pain Help other women with the same? Pashant is what they called her. Her arms were strong as steel. She was a true fighter as you can see she was very skilled I still don't know how she does it How could a woman with her own pain Help other women with the same? She didn't do this for attention That wasn't the type of person she was she did this for prevention Everynight this is what she does Oh, I don't know how she does it How could a woman with her own pain Help other women with the same? Her eyes were very daring, She didn't take any mess from anyone She had the beauty of a fairy She would not run I don't know how she does it How could a woman with her own pain Help other women with the same?
There was a girl, who felt as though there was no place for her in the world, And so she worked to discover a place in her thoughts, a place of sanctuary. And she worked and worked, but all that came was derision and abuse. And she found God. And worked for God with abandon, undaunted, unafraid. And the enemy saw her light and became afraid. And so he sent her souls to sap her confidence, and she writhed in torment. And she cried out to God, "Woman of old, I do not know you. But I need you. Save me now!" And the woman said, "When it is time, you will change the face of a generation. But for now, be still and know that I am Lord. The Lord who birthed you. The Lord who watches over her creation as a mother hen, always feeding not too much and not too little, but just right." And the woman became angry and said, "Though you slay me Satan, yet will I vanquish your lies, and praise the Divine for ever more." And she decided to study. This woman decided to study the words of a Word everlasting. To bring light to a generation, lost in the spoiled vanity of dissolution. And she met a woman. A hard woman to some, but to those who knew her, they knew of a softness sent down from Abraham to bring light to a people who were not her own. And the woman said to the woman, "You must study until your mind aches with pain of a generation, and then study some more. You must write, until your hands ache with the sorrow of the bitterness of women passed over for eons. AND THEN WRITE SOME MORE. But if you hold on, you will surpass all expectations and you will rise to give light to the world." And so the woman said to the woman, "I will study and I will write. And I will study and I will write. And when I cannot go one step further. I will write some more, until my hands shed the blood of Gethsemane. And from this blood, wounds of old between woman and man, woman and woman, man and creation shall be healed forever more." And so the woman wrote and read, she read and wrote. And finally she began to shed blood and lost 2 near and dear to her. And she cried out to the Lamb, "Son of my mother, what am I to do?" And the Lamb responded, "Woman, you have done well. But now just bow down and let my grace do the rest. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light and my grace endures forever." And so the woman learned mercy. And with mercy she shared her love with every soul she passed. Simple words of light she shared. To the fallen souls of a forlorn generation.
If you believe, that love is true , it will be waiting there for you, Then open wide your heart, inside there is love you've kept warm, Heart to heart, and woman to man, If you look at her from head to toe you will see, The woman you made her to be, She weathered the storm of envy The rain has caused her grief, Inside her heart, she believed the rain would end, She clung to that hope, but the world wanted more, She was abrased by it's greed, When you look into her eyes you will see, The tears form, and she will cry, She knows the beauty of the love inside, it will manifest, Then she will savor it's sweetness, She's been showered many times, She'll hear your voice hushed in the darkness, She'll remember speaking softly in your ear, She'll remember needing you close, Giving her love to you was her choice, Reach out and touch her hand, she'll need you to, She'll grip your's tightly to let you know she approves, Her pride will not stand in the way, Like two children at love you'll play, Her friendship was yours many days, Then you'll place, your arm around her shoulder, The many hours you shared in each others arms, Were countless, and then onward your arm falls to her waist, If she lets your love inside you will place, Your hand upon her head then the tears she's held inside you'll shed, when they subside you'll be as humble as the lamb, Your mouth will touch her mouth, You rescued her from the darkness, And from the evils of a greater sin, As love will know best, Your hand will explore her body, For your heart wants to know, That the jealousy of darkness has not, harmed what you intended to love, You'll kiss her breast with warm sweet kisses, Carnal knowledge will be warm, You'll touch where her love , and yours colide, As you enter her body which is the temple, Sacred for her man alone, your love will melt inside her, As woman and a man you'll become as one...
I am lucky and gifted I wonder if there will ever be a woman president I hear this chance calling my name I see the podium before me I want the vote of every American I feel like I could rule the world I touch the feeling of my victory I say any woman can do this I know how much pressure i will be under I dream I am the first woman president One day I will be that first woman president. Dedicated to: all the Women in the world that can Succeed Copyright ©2006 Jayne Dominique Miles
In this world we live in there's a lot of things that can't be explained A man and a woman who lives in different countries falling in love just the same Though he's never seen her and his photo was all she had glimpsed They can still feel each other and that's all that matters for these lovers named John and Jane REFRAIN Yes John and Jane, two ordinary people connected by feelings unexplained He couldn't resist her even if he knew he could never have her, his pretty Jane She's already married and that's why she's worried to have feelings for John Two star crossed lovers who'll never have each other yet inside they know that they're one He tries to accept it and like a man play the card that fate had dealt him But inside he suffers and wishes this life would be just a dream She knows how he's feeling, deep inside he is dying and it causes a tension in her She promised him one thing that as a friend she will always be there for him (REPEAT REFRAIN) Inside he's aching his whole body's shaking feeling the need for his Jane He knows that it's wrong to yearn for somebody who's not free like his Jane But he doesn't want another no other woman would make him feel like she does And in his pain he cries out for the Gods to turn him to dust (REPEAT REFRAIN) John and Jane will only be together in dreams ……..


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Derek Delboy Huppie:
March 15, 2013 at 2:45 am
I didn't even know there was a Holocaust 2.
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John Lennon
wanted to play the grasping, thieving creature Gollum in a 1960s Beatles
version of the Lord of the Rings, New Zealand movie director Peter Jackson
told Wellington's Evening Post newspaper. *** Many
things I command the Mirror to reveal… and to some I can show what they
desire to see.
But the Mirror will also show things unbidden, and those are often
stranger and more profitable than things we wish to behold. -Galadriel,
from THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING by J. R. R. Tolkien *** "I
say," said the young man to the older gent trying to hide at the back of
the booth at the White Pony pub, "you're Paul McCartney, aren't
you?" The
older gent, a hint of a twinkle in his eyes despite the accumulated years
hanging on his face, gave a look of panic at his name being spoken aloud.
As he introduced himself to the ex-Beatle, the younger man wasn't
sure if the fact that the pub didn't react to Mr, McCartney's name being
said brought to the elder man's face an expression of relief,
disappointment or both. "It's
okay," the younger man said quickly as he took a seat at the other side of
the table.
"I didn't know if you preferred stout or bitter," he said, as
he had a pint of each.
"With me, either will do, so I can take the other." Paul
McCartney considered the offering and went with the stout.
Half the pint was gone faster than a heartbeat, before he said to his
benefactor, "That was right kind of you, mate.
Don't get stood for too many rounds these days." "All
said, I can see why," said the younger man. "You're
right hard to find, you know.
Now don't worry," he quickly added, "I'm not after you on
behalf of any creditors or such.
I admit I've been looking for you, but I've no malice toward
you." "Have
to admit, if you had been after me, getting me defenses down with a pint was
a good way to trap me." "And
how many servers would actually do something that underhanded?" "You've
never been in debt, have you?" "All
the same," said the younger man, "that's not why I'm here." "Are
you an aging music fan, then?
Do you still remember the Beatles all these years later?" "Actually,
I'm here about that last movie you did-" Paul
held up his hand.
"If you say The Lord of the Rings, so help me mate, I'll
thrash you one!" "But
I liked it!" the younger man blurted out. The
surprise in Paul's face exploded.
"You're the first bloke who's told me that without fishing for
a compliment or a handout.
You're not, are you?" "No,
no I'm not.
I mean, to be honest, it wasn't a perfect film, but it was good." Paul
looked relaxed, really relaxed, for the first time after that bit of
information was aired.
"S'truth, I thought that damned thing would kill me in the
end." "If
it's all right, I'd like to talk to you about it." "What,
that horrible thing?
We did two other movies, you know." "Yes,
I saw both A Hard Day's Night and Help!," said the younger
man, "and they were both good films.
But the one I want to talk to you about is Lord of the Rings." Paul
gave a stern, cutting look into the other man's eyes.
"You're not from the press, are you?" "I
assure you, Mr. McCartney, that I am not here from any news organization.
Geoff Baker at NEMS would not have suggested I look for you here in
Dublin if he thought I was going to do some sleazy piece about the
Beatles' last film." Paul
kept looking him over sharply, never taking his eyes off of him even as he
drained the rest of the stout.
there anything I can do to prove my credentials?" the younger man asked
Paul. "Well,
you could stand me for a bottle of whiskey." *** It
was only when the bottle came within a hair's breadth of being dry that
Paul McCartney, late of the Beatles, began the Epic of the Ring. "I
remember the last weekend we were all happy with each other, August of
'67" he said.
"We'd gone to Bangor to stay with a holy man, the Mahareshi.
He was very patient, and the four of us were trying to get into what
he was saying.
I think George and John got the most out of it, and Ritchie and I
were following along a little behind, you see, like kids who were in danger
of being left a form back.
But I remember that weekend very well, because it was the last time
the four of us were able to just stay in one room without a lot of tension
between us. "It'd
been a long weekend, and when we came back Tuesday we were met at the
station by Brian.
Now Brian-" "Brian
Epstein?" asked the younger man. "Right,
yes. Brian
was compulsive about working, and for some time I think he was feeling very
out of sorts with the way we'd been doing things.
We didn't want to tour, we didn't know what we'd wanted, but
before we went off to Wales, I'd said something to him about The
Lord Of The Rings.
I don't really remember why, I think I was just talking about
things to think about.
I know Brian was discussing how we were under contract for a third
movie, and maybe it came up in that, or maybe it was just something I was
reading and I wanted to suggest a book to him. "So
while we're off getting enlightenment, something happened to Bri, and he
really got his focus with it.
I heard him say later he read it all in one sitting that Saturday,
and then actually went to Oxford to visit the author.
And after all that work he did, there he was at the platform, holding
signed letters of agreement for making the film." "Which,
supposedly, someone else signed, wasn't it?" asked the younger man. Paul
sighed as he helped himself to the last of the whiskey.
While his host secretly counted how many punt he had on him as Paul
signaled for another bottle, Paul continued, "I don't know all about
that. When
the whole thing came out about Tolkien's sons going on about their father
being daft that weekend Brian came round, after the poor man died, I mean, I
think they were trying to build up his legacy despite us.
Nasty thing, re-telling the story after the fact to make your side
look better, eh what?" "Didn't
mean to interrupt; you were saying about doing the film." "Well,
we didn't know what to say.
I mean, on the one hand we'd just finished our last album.
'Pepper' was a big accomplishment for us, and we didn't know
what we really wanted to do after that, and here's Brian with a film.
I just looked at him there at the station, and it was like the old
Brian again.
He hadn't looked so hale or focused in over a year, and the thought
of him being disappointed if we'd said no…I couldn't do that to him. "Now,
it took me a little convincing with other three after that.
John had done another film after Help! and he wasn't too
keen on it, and George didn't care much for them.
I'd heard George won't even be on the same side of the street if
there's a cinema there now, he's so against all films." "But
Ringo was up for it?" Paul
started another glass of scotch.
"Ritchie, now.
Won't even use the name 'Ringo' anymore, don't you know, last
I heard? Now,
he was game for it, so I didn't need to twist his arm as much.
But it was just seeing Brian having something to do, I used that in
talking about it, and that more than anything else kept us on it. "So
by September of that year, in '67, we started to really get into it. We
got together to look at ideas, figure out how we'd shoot it.
I think we were going into this thinking it'd be a lot easier than
it ended up, because when we'd done other movies it was just, 'Right,
show up here for a few hours, break for tea,' that sort of thing.
But this was something else." "How
so?" asked
the younger man, as he signaled the barman for another bitter. "Well,
for one, we'd agreed I'd be doing Frodo, but it was hard to decide just how
I'd be doing Frodo.
It's one thing to say, 'Okay, I'm a hobbit,' but how do you
film a regular bloke as a hobbit?
It was a technical question we didn't really have an answer for,
and maybe we should have taken that as a sign that things were against us.
But I think Brian was very into it, handling a lot of the business,
and John started to really get into the whole thing.
He'd been keen on doing Gollum, I think because it was the farthest
he could go from being a Beatle in public without having to knack someone
off. Though
you ask around, some say he should have gone to the Old Bailey for pushing
us to do the movie." "But
I thought you had to convince him," the younger man said. Paul
seemed to freeze in place for a few seconds.
"Right, well.
So we were all into doing this film, and we just got into it more and
more. It
seemed the harder it got, the more Brian tried to make it work, and the more
Brian put himself into it, the more we wanted it to work.
I wasn't about to let Brian down. "It
was at this time that Dick Lester and Marc Behm were working with us, and
they did a lot of good work getting the thing together.
I mean, a lot of Dick's directing notes were very helpful for
everyone who came later, but after six intense weeks of meetings he said,
'Right, I'm gone,' and we were without the man we'd trusted behind
the camera. "That
was the first of the big disagreements right there.
George wanted to pack it in, but John and I wanted to keep going.
Trouble was, John and I had different ideas about who to go with.
I wanted someone grand, like Dickie Attenborough, because I saw this
film like a big epic.
I think at times, we did get something like that, and I think when I
would say, 'You know, Dick Lester had this idea for this scene,' it held up
a bit there." "Yes,
especially in the battle scenes," said the young man. "But
of course, even though we were the Beatles we couldn't make the top shelf
people be willing to do this.
I think it was trying to get something like this done with all the
technical things and a real director at the same time.
I mean, if there'd been a serious director shown this, they'd
probably say, 'Well, isn't this for some hack from Hammer to do?' or
some such, and that'd be the last of it for them.
I suggested a few blokes for it, and I even tried to get behind the
camera meself for a bit, but there would be none of that.
So when my picks didn't come through, John's idea for someone a
little more edgy and artsy took hold." "And
that's how Ken Russell got the job." "Right,"
continued Paul.
"John remembered his stuff he did for the telly about Elgar and all
those artists for Monitor, and he was available then, so he came
right on. And
at the time, he was smashing when we met him.
Even George started paying attention more as Ken went off with it. "And
Ken really did add a lot of energy to the whole thing.
I'd ask a lot about what was going to go on, and Ken, he was right
there with all the answers.
And when it came time to getting everything else together, well, he
was sharp.
You want to know something?" "What's
that?" "Well,
I think Ken knew us better than we did ourselves.
That's why when it came time to do the film, he went with Malcolm
McDowell for the role of Aragorn.
I think it was his way of keeping us focused, by putting someone that
intense into the mix to balance out everything else." "Whatever
happened to him?" asked the younger man.
"He just disappeared after the movie came out." "He
was lucky," Paul said as he drained his glass.
He started another, and said, "He didn't have to live with it the
way we did.
It was a curse on us, like Gandalf had cast a big whammy on us all
for being in it." "You
mean Sauron, then?" "Sauron,
Gandalf, Nixon, Mao, whoever," Paul drained his glass quickly. "I
suppose you want to stop here-" the younger man started to say. "Ah
bloody 'ell, I've just started.
There were lots of things that happened then, and it's best you
hear my side of it.
Don't let them all color it for you." "Let
who all?" "The
other blokes from the studios.
They must have 'ad their own take on it, then." "I
hadn't spoken with anyone else," said the younger man, trying to stay
calm in the face of the seething bitterness he was seeing in Paul's face.
"As I said, I came straight here from NEMS." He
could watch Paul's sails start flapping a little looser when McCartney
realized that there wasn't another version of the film's history to
contend with.
Sorry, it's been a while for me.
Mustn't make your trip all the way here to Ireland so miserable.
Can tell by your accent, you're from Sydney, right?" "Wellington,
actually." "Ah,
right, yes.
Well, the film.
When we finally did shoot it, it was an incredible strain.
We were trying to do something really complicated, and at the same
time doing other things.
We'd jet to Spain and Ireland and Iceland for shooting, because Ken
wanted to use natural looking places that could pass for Middle Earth, and
there were a lot of things shot at Pinewood, right across from where the
Bond films were done.
And there was that effort to try and do music too.
I know John had a lot of ideas for all those songs, and I was trying
to do the score, and we were also doing tunes for an actual Beatles album
that we just couldn't get together.
We did a few singles we released, 'Hello Goodbye' and 'I Am the
Walrus,' and we'd work on them on the plane or train back to the city.
was madness, looking back on it.
I mean, just the sheer strain of this big movie we believed in that
just seemed like a challenge, a quest really, and it cost us like it did in
the film. I
mean, you must remember the stories 'bout
how John got into a fight with Peter Sellers over Eleanor Bron.
As though his marriage to Cyn wasn't in enough trouble to begin
with, to have the two of them end up together during the film.
I thought she made a great Arwen, by the way." "Yes,"
the younger man agreed, "but Sellers' approach to Saruman left me
cold." "Well,
some of it was off, like you said.
Mind you, I thought Roy Kinnear's Pippin was smashing, and both
Patrick McGoohan's Theoden and Shirley Eaton's Galadriel were tops, but
I myself wasn't too keen on what Roger Daltrey did as Legolas." "So
let me ask-" "No,"
Paul said with a sigh, "it's not true.
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were not any of the dark riders, so no
more of that, now." "Oh." "Right.
Well, as bad as the stuff that did get into the papers afterwards
were, what didn't get reported was what the strain of making the film did
to us. John
and I, I don't know if it was the roles we were in, and his letting Gollum
get the better of him, but it got nastier and grottier with every passing
day. By
the time we did that last scene, we were shooting it at the edge of this
actual volcano in Iceland, I thought he was going to push me in.
And considering what happened after when we showed the film, maybe he
should have." "I
thought some of what was said about the film in the press was very cruel." "I
think they were after us, the press.
We'd been so big so long, and here we were with a disaster bigger
than anything anyone'd seen before.
And it didn't help that there were a lot of people out there that
were all for letting us twist in the wind like that.
I think we might have disappointed a few people with the second
version of the film, and the bitterness in that just got to us." "You
mean the non-musical version," said the young man. "Right.
I mean, the first version we did which had the score I'd done,
because I wanted to try my hand at that again after that film I did, The
Family Way, the score John said a few nasty things about later.
Of course, at the time he didn't give me much mind as he was doing
lots of songs for the film, and I thought, 'Well, I do the score, he can
take a bit more of the songs on,' and he didn't complain then about
it." The
younger man just nodded, not knowing how to respond to the claim as he saw
the hardening in Paul's eyes. Paul
"Now, there were some good songs there, like 'Glass Onion,' and
'Sauron,' which was better than the original version.
He actually called it 'Sexy Sauron.'" "I
never imagined Sauron to be sexy." "Well,
he first played it to us in a demo, the lyrics were like, 'Sexy Sauron,
look what you've done, you've made a fool of everyone,' which was a
big departure from the words he did come up with finally.
And that song George did, 'The Quest,' was originally a lot more
Eastern. The
original idea he had for it, see, he called it 'The Inner Light,' and he
had these Indian instruments in mind, but because of trying to keep it in
Middle Earth he had to use these medieval pipes and strings.
I think the songs we did for the film, if it hadn't been for the
movie, might have been liked better by everyone." "So
when Russell re-released the film without any of your music, he thought he
was doing you a favor." Paul
was nearly spitting when as he replied, "That flaming bastard went behind
everyone's back to sneak in prints of the film around the world without
the music, and the fucking distributor were happy because it was an hour
shorter without the songs.
I was angry enough he'd taken the musical numbers out, but when I
heard he'd gone to this bloke in California who'd done television themes
to re-do the score, I was livid." "You
didn't care for the new score John Williams did, then?" "It
was bloody awful!
All these loud noises in all the spots, like he'd written it for
strings and cannons!" "And
it wasn't any better received," said the young man. "Well,
the critics hated the first film because we'd done something different
with our music and image and no one was ready for that one, and then they
hated the second one even more because they missed the music thinking we
couldn't do a straight film.
But by then it all got very nasty, because we were suing Russell for
redoing the film on us without our say so, while the producers were losing
so much money they tried to make it seem like it was our fault the whole
movie was a mess, and the whole experience with the film made us hate each
other badly.
Brian was spending a lot of time during and after that, taking
messages back and forth between us because we weren't on speaking terms
then. And
then when George released that solo album that was such a slap at us, that
was the end of the Beatles right there." "It
must have hurt that there were a lot of music critics that called 'Not
Guilty' a classic." "Well,"
said Paul, first with a shake of the head before he said, "truth to tell,
it was a good album.
But some of those songs he had, like 'Isn't It A Pity' and
'Piggies' and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps,' I took it personally.
John and I both did, but it since we didn't speak about this to
each other until the Eighties, we didn't know we both felt hurt by him." "So
after George's record, that made you stop recording together?" "We
were so caught up in the mess of it.
We put the producers in the dock for breach of agreement, and they
tried to sue us back claiming we'd done a bad job so we owed them.
And then the author sent his solicitors after us for doing the film,
and by then we were even filing suit against each other, first over film
profits because the studios said John got more than I did or I got more than
John, and at the end of eighteen months, it became clear that whoever got
the profits it certainly wasn't us.
A bloody sodding mess, all that." "It's
a shame that the Beatles had to break up over the movie," said the young
man. "I
think we might have only gotten another album out of us, maybe, if it
weren't for the lawsuits and bad blood.
We might have packed it all in without it, who knows?
By then John was sick of being a Beatle, so when he didn't have to
go to Abbey Road he went off to find himself without us.
I think he did well with that commune he founded in Mexico with
Eleanor; when I saw him there in '86, he was very happy.
It did him good, it agreed with him, good for his health and all." "But
you were especially bitter about George, then?" "Well,
it was a bit of a shock having George go off on us like that.
All this time he'd had these songs in him, and if he'd just asked
we'd have had them all on the records, but it was so painful, what he sang
at that time.
I think it might have been the rumor that set us off, that he'd had
such a good time recording with Eric Clapton and Brian Jones and Mitch
Mitchell that he was forming an actual group with them and touring, that
really set me off.
It was all rubbish, but with all the Rings mess, how was I to
see it as that?" "So
do you think it's George's solo career that kept the Beatles apart?"
asked the young man. "That
a little, but more so I think it's the Curse of the Ring.
I said I spoke to John in '86, when I went to Mexico to see him,
where he'd given up on it all, and he thought it might have been getting
involved in that whole Middle Earth thing that did us in.
Then again, people were blaming us being in that movie for Richard
Nixon getting elected in '68, and then again that for McGovern getting
elected in '72.
And poor Ritchie, he was never the same, morose and bitter right up
to the end.
Blamed the film for the cancer that he got and fought off five years
ago in '93, the same year of the second Korean war, which was also blamed
on the movie.
Japan going communist, the American banking meltdown, Russia inviting
the czar back, all of these disasters at the end of the century, someone
always blames us doing the Tolkien movie, but I think a lot of the folks
doing it they do so as a punch line."
Paul took a long draw from the whiskey glass and added,
"Maybe George going into the record business and buying EMI…now that
we could actually blame on the movie." "I
take it you don't talk much with George." "With
all them young girl-women he's releasing on the world on his label, like
Courtney and Shakira and Victoria and the Olsens, when's he got time for a
bitter ex-mate?
Not like he goes to Mexico to look for John.
I'd heard in the papers he didn't even go to Jamaica for
Brian's funeral last month.
Ah, Brian," Paul sighed, "at least he did well out of all of us.
All the business end, seeing to all four of our needs, even
George's until George ended business with NEMS, all while Brian was
involved in all those other groups of his like the Jokers' Wild and Black
Sabbath." There
was a long silence as Paul's focus started to sharpen on the man he'd
been conversing with. "So
tell me," Paul asked, "just what is it you want with the movie, anyhow?
You're not here to laugh at me for it, are ya?" "Actually,
I was curious.
I'd gone to NEMS as they still had rights to the film." "Damned
right. We
beat the studios and the Tolkiens in the end," said Paul as he raised his
"Vindicated that we were in the right all along, and all it cost us
was me career." "Well,
I did want to speak with you about that.
You see… I want to remake the movie." Paul's
hollow loud laugh chilled the young man. "Do
you, now? You
want to make a film of it, now?
After all I told you, how J. R. Fucking R. Tolkien killed the
Beatles, you want to risk that?" "I
think I can do it," the younger man said, bolder.
"I think the technology's a lot better than it was back then,
that I could get the film done right.
I'm still talking with both NEMS and the Tolkien estate, but the
family and the company both seem willing to entertain it." "So
what makes you come find me 'ere, eh?
A washed-up bitter old rock star whose reputation was smashed by a
bad movie?"
Paul took another drink and said, "Should have disappeared into
Mexico like John, I should." The
younger man moved in closer and said in a low voice, "I can't think of
anyone better to score the new version." Paul
stared at him with eyes wider than Gollum's. The
younger man continued, "Your music, the original score, you understood the
story well.
I could tell that, when I saw a copy of the original version of the
film back in New Zealand a few years ago.
There couldn't be anyone else to do it.
Most scores for films these days, it's just going down to the
record shop and putting someone else's music on the soundtrack.
No one really thinks about what's going on up on the screen, but
you did." Paul
still seemed shocked, but he did put down the whiskey glass.
"It's been so long," he finally said.
"When things were getting rough and me funds were tied in
litigation, I came here for holiday, and Ireland was so cheep I stayed.
It's been a while since I'd tried me hand at it." "Please,
Paul, I think you're the only one who's up to the job.
Don't let the past get in your way.
Let's take a bad film and make it better." Paul
gave his host a smile.
"You make a hell of pitch, Mr. Jackson." |
James Ryan isn't worried at all, really; he's just stocking up the bomb shelter out back because he "is in desperate need of a hobby".... His work has appeared online at both Rational Magic and Pyramid, and in print in Dragon, Lacunae, the Urbanite, The Dream Zone, the New York Times, and some of the better men's room walls across the state of New York. His wife Susan and son Jamie just nod and smile when he starts to rant, which, all said, makes things that much easier. |