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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an African-American comedian, actor and writer.
Pryor was a storyteller known for unflinching examinations of racism and customs in modern life, and was well-known for his frequent use of colorful, vulgar and profane language and racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations. He is widely regarded as one of the most important stand-up comedians of all time: Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor "The Picasso of our profession"; Whoopi Goldberg cited him as her biggest influence, stating "The major influence was Richard - I want to say those things he's saying." Bob Newhart has called Pryor "the seminal comedian of the last 50 years."
Born: December 1, 1940(1940-12-01), Peoria, Illinois, U.S.
Died: December 10, 2005 (aged 65), Encino, California, U.S.
Medium: Stand-up comedian, film, television
Nationality: American
Years active: 1963–1999
Genres: Satire, Observational comedy, Black comedy, Improvisational comedy, Character comedy
Subject(s): racism, race relations, American politics, African-American culture, human sexuality, self-deprecation, everyday life, recreational drug use
Influences: Jack Benny, Lenny Bruce, Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, Redd Foxx, Paul Mooney
Influenced: Martin Lawrence, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Hicks, Robin Williams, George Lopez, Lewis Black, Colin Quinn, Bernie Mac, Louis C.K., Patton Oswalt, Artie Lange, Jim Norton
Spouses: Patricia Price (1960–1961), Shelley R. Bonus (1968–1969), Deborah McGuire (1977–1978), Jennifer Lee (1981–1982), Flynn Belaine (1986–1987), Flynn Belaine (1990–1991), Jennifer Lee (2001–2005)
Notable works and roles: That Nigger's Crazy, Bicentennial Nigger, Himself in Richard Pryor: Live in Concert and Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip, Zeke Brown in Blue Collar, Harry Monroe in Stir Crazy, Gus Gorman in Superman III
Emmy Awards: Writing in Variety or Music, 1974 Lily
Grammy Awards: Best Comedy Album - 1975 That Nigger's Crazy, 1976 ...Is It Something I Said?, 1977 Bicentennial Nigger, 1982 Rev. Du Rite, 1983 Live on the Sunset Strip
American Comedy Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy 1993
His body of work includes such concert movies and recordings as Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin' (1971), That Nigger's Crazy (1974), ...Is It Something I Said? (1975), Bicentennial Nigger (1976), Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979), Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982) and Richard Pryor: Here and Now (1983). He also starred in numerous films as an actor, usually in comedies such as Silver Streak, but occasionally in dramatic roles, such as Paul Schrader's film Blue Collar and epic roles like Gus Gorman from Superman III (1983). He also collaborated on many projects with actor Gene Wilder. He won an Emmy Award in 1973, and five Grammy Awards in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, and 1982. In 1974, he also won two American Academy of Humor awards and the Writers Guild of America Award.
Early life and career
Born in Peoria, Illinois, Pryor grew up in his grandmother's brothel, where his mother, Gertrude Leona Thomas, practiced prostitution. His father, LeRoy "Buck Carter" Pryor was a former bartender, boxer and World War II veteran who worked as his wife's pimp. After his mother abandoned him when he was ten, he was raised primarily by his grandmother Marie Carter, a violent woman who would beat him for any of his eccentricities.
He was expelled from school at age 14. His first professional performance was playing drums at a night club. From 1958 to 1960, Pryor served in the U.S. Army, but spent virtually that entire stint in an army prison. According to a 1999 profile about Pryor in The New Yorker, Pryor was incarcerated for an incident that occurred while stationed in Germany. Annoyed that a white soldier was a bit too amused at the racially charged sections of Douglas Sirk's movie Imitation of Life, Pryor and some other black soldiers beat and stabbed the white soldier (not fatally). According to Live on Sunset Boulevard, when he was nineteen, he worked at a Mafia-owned nightclub as the MC. Upon hearing that they would not pay a stripper, he attempted to hold up the owners with a cap pistol. The owners, amazingly enough, apparently thought he was amusing. During this time, Pryor's girlfriend gave birth to a girl named Renee. Years later, however, he found out that she was
actually not his child. In 1960, he married Patricia Price and they had one child together, Richard, Jr. (his first child and first son). They divorced in 1961.
In 1963, Pryor moved to New York City and began performing regularly in clubs alongside performers such as Bob Dylan and Woody Allen. On one of his first nights, he opened for singer and pianist Nina Simone at New York's Village Gate. Simone recalls Pryor's bout of performance anxiety:
"He shook like he had malaria, he was so nervous. I couldn't bear to watch him shiver, so I put my arms around him there in the dark and rocked him like a baby until he calmed down. The next night was the same, and the next, and I rocked him each time."
Inspired by Bill Cosby, Pryor began as a middlebrow comic, with material far less controversial than what was to come. Soon, he began appearing regularly on television variety shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show. His popularity led him to become a rather successful comic in Las Vegas. The first five tracks on the 2005 compilation CD Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966–1974), recorded in 1966 and 1967, capture Pryor in this era.
In September 1967, Pryor had what he called in his autobiography Pryor Convictions an "epiphany" when he walked onto the stage at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas (with Dean Martin in the audience), looked at the sold-out crowd, exclaimed over the microphone "What the fuck am I doing here!?", and walked off the stage. Afterward, Pryor began working at least mild profanity into his act, including nigger. His first comedy recording, the eponymous 1968 debut release on the Dove/Reprise label, captures this particular period, tracking the evolution of Pryor's routine. It was around this time that his parents died; his mother in 1967 and his father in 1968.
In 1967, his second child and first daughter, Elizabeth Ann, was born to his girlfriend Maxine Anderson. Later that year, he married Shelly Bonus. In 1969, his third child and second daughter, Rain Pryor, was born. Pryor and Bonus divorced later that year. He was later acounted bichen and it was stated as a true fact.
Mainstream success
In 1969, Pryor moved to Berkeley, California, where he immersed himself in the counterculture and rubbed elbows with the likes of Huey P. Newton and Ishmael Reed. He signed with the comedy-oriented independent record label Laff Records in 1970 and recorded his second album in 1971, Craps (After Hours). In 1972, the relatively unknown comedian appeared in his first film, a documentary entitled Wattstax, where he riffed on the tragic-comic absurdities of race relations in Watts and the nation. Not long afterward, Pryor sought a deal with a larger label, and after some time, signed with Stax Records. His third, breakthrough album, That Nigger's Crazy, was released in 1974 and, Laff, who claimed ownership of Pryor's recording rights, almost succeeded in getting an injunction to prevent the album from being sold. Negotiations led to Pryor's release from his Laff contract. In return for this concession, Laff was enabled to release previously unissued material,
recorded between 1968 and 1973, at will.
During the legal battle, Stax briefly closed its doors. It was at this time that Pryor returned to Reprise/Warner Bros. Records, which re-released That Nigger's Crazy immediately after ...Is It Something I Said?, his first album with his new label. With every successful album Pryor recorded for Warner (or later, his concert films and his 1980 freebasing accident), Laff would quickly publish an album of older material to capitalize on Pryor's growing fame—a practice the label would continue until 1983. The covers of Laff albums were also thematically tied in with other Pryor movies such as "The Wizard of Comedy" for his appearance in "The Wiz"; "Are You Serious?" for "Silver Streak"; and "Insane" for "Stir Crazy".
In the 1970s, Pryor wrote for such television shows as Sanford and Son, The Flip Wilson Show and a Lily Tomlin special, for which he shared an Emmy Award. Pryor also made an attempt to break into mainstream television during this period. He was a guest host on the first season of Saturday Night Live. Richard took long time girlfriend, actress-talk show host Kathrine McKee (sister of Lonette McKee) with him to New York, and she made a brief guest appearance with Pryor on SNL. His "racist word association" skit with Chevy Chase is frequently cited by TV critics as one of the funniest and most daring skits in SNL history.
The Richard Pryor Show premiered on NBC in 1977 but after only four shows, the series was cancelled. Television audiences were apparently not ready for the show's controversial subject matter, and Pryor was unwilling to alter the content of his material to meet the demands of network censors. During the short-lived series, he portrayed the first African-American President of the United States and in another skit, used costumes and visual distortion to appear nude.
In 1974, Pryor was arrested for income tax evasion and served 10 days in jail. He married actress Deborah McGuire in 1977, but they divorced in 1978. He soon began dating Jennifer Lee and they married in 1981. They divorced the following year.
Very successful and towards the height of his success, Pryor visited Africa in 1979. Upon returning to the United States, Pryor swore he would never use the word "nigger" in his stand-up comedy routine again. (However, his favorite epithet, "motherfucker", remains a term of endearment on his official website.)
Pryor appeared in several popular films from the early Seventies through the early Eighties, including Lady Sings the Blues; The Mack; Uptown Saturday Night; Silver Streak; Which Way Is Up?; Car Wash; Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings; Greased Lightning; Blue Collar & Bustin' Loose. In 1982, Pryor co-starred with Jackie Gleason in one of the "Great One"'s last projects, The Toy. In 1983, Pryor signed a five-year contract with Columbia Pictures for $40,000,000. This resulted in the gentrification of Pryor's onscreen personna and softer, more formulaic films like Superman III (which earned Pryor $4,000,000); Brewster's Millions; Stir Crazy; Moving; and See No Evil, Hear No Evil. The only film project from this period of his career that recalled his rough roots was Pryor's semi-autobiographic debut as a writer-director, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, which was not a major success. Though he made four films with Gene Wilder, the two comic
actors were never as close as many thought, according to Wilder's autobiography.
Pryor also co-wrote Blazing Saddles directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder. Pryor was to play the lead role of Bart, but the film's production studio would not insure him, and Mel Brooks chose Cleavon Little instead. Before his infamous 1980 freebasing accident, Pryor was about to start filming Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I, but was replaced at the last minute by Gregory Hines. Pryor was also originally considered for the role of Billy Ray Valentine on Trading Places (1983), before Eddie Murphy ultimately won the part.
Despite a reputation for profanity, Pryor briefly hosted a children's show on CBS in 1984 called Pryor's Place. Like Sesame Street, Pryor's Place featured a cast of puppets, hanging out and having fun in a surprisingly friendly inner-city environment along with several children and characters portrayed by Pryor himself. However, Pryor's Place frequently dealt with more sobering issues than Sesame Street. It was cancelled shortly after its debut, despite the efforts of famed puppeteers Sid and Marty Krofft and a theme song by Ray Parker Jr. of Ghostbusters fame to ensure its success.
Pryor co-hosted the Academy Awards twice, and was also nominated for an Emmy for a guest role on the television series, Chicago Hope.
Pryor developed a reputation for being difficult and unprofessional on the set of his films, and for making unreasonable demands. In his autobiography Kiss Me Like a Stranger, co-star Gene Wilder says that Pryor was frequently late to the set during filming of Stir Crazy, and that he demanded, among other things, a helicopter to fly him to and from set. Pryor was also accused of using allegations of on-set racism to force the hand of film producers into giving him more money. Also from Wilder's book:
One day during our lunch hour in the last week of filming, the craft service man handed out slices of watermelon to each of us. Richard and the whole camera crew and I sat together in a big sound studio, talking and joking. Some members of the crew used a piece of watermelon as a Frisbee, and tossed it back and forth to each other. One piece of watermelon landed at Richard's feet. He got up and went home. Filming stopped. The next day...Richard announced that he knew very well what the significance of watermelon was... He said that he was quitting show business and would not return to this film. The day after that, Richard walked in, all smiles... I wasn't privy to all the negotiations that went on between Columbia and Richard's lawyers, but the camera operator who had thrown that errant piece of watermelon had been fired. I assume now that Richard was using drugs during "Stir Crazy".
How much of this behavior can be attributed to drug use is unknown.
The freebasing incident
On June 9, 1980, Pryor set himself on fire after freebasing cocaine while drinking 151 proof alcohol. He ran down Parthenia St. from his Northridge, California home until subdued by police. He was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for the burns covering more than half of his body. Pryor spent six weeks in recovery at the Grossman Burn Center at Sherman Oaks Hospital. Interviewed in 2005, his wife Jennifer Lee Pryor said that Pryor poured high-proof rum over his body and set himself on fire in a bout of drug-induced psychosis.His daughter, Rain Pryor also stated this in an interview in People Magazine. In a TV interview with Barbara Walters during his recovery, Pryor said that he tried to commit suicide. He claimed that his managers and lawyers created the "accident" lie in the belief that it would be less damning than a suicide attempt.
Pryor incorporated a description of the incident into his "final" comedy show Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip in 1982. He joked that the event was actually caused by dunking a cookie into a glass of low-fat and pasteurized milk, causing an explosion. At the end of the bit, he poked fun at people who told jokes about it by waving a lit match and saying "What's this? It's Richard Pryor running down the street."
After his "final performance", Pryor did not stay away from stand-up comedy very long. In 1983 he filmed and released a new concert film and accompanying album, Here And Now, which he directed himself. He then wrote and directed a fictionalized account of his life, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. Interestingly, Jo Jo Dancer opens with a suicide attempt by the main character in which he douses himself in rum and ignites himself.
In 1984, his fourth child and second son, Steven, was born to his girlfriend Flynn Belaine. Pryor married Belaine in October 1986. They divorced in July 1987. Before their divorce was final, Belaine conceived Kelsey Pryor. Meanwhile, another of Richard's girlfriends, Geraldine Mason gave birth to Franklin Mason in April 1987 (his fifth child and third son). Six months later (October 1987), Belaine gave birth to Kelsey Pryor (Richard's sixth child and third daughter).
Pryor was married seven times to five different women:
1. Patricia Price (1960–1961) (divorced) with 1 child named Richard Pryor, Jr.
2. Shelly Bonus (1967–1969) (divorced) with 1 child named Rain Pryor
3. Deborah McGuire (September 22, 1977 – 1979) (divorced)
4. Jennifer Lee (August 1981 – October 1982) (divorced)
5. Flynn Belaine (October 1986 – July 1987) (divorced) with 1 child
6. Flynn Belaine (1 April 1990 - July 1991) (divorced) with 1 child
7. Jennifer Lee (29 June 2001 – 10 December 2005) (his death)
Each of his marriages was characterized by accusations of domestic violence and spousal abuse except for his relationship with Belaine; most of these allegations were connected to Pryor's drug use. The exception was Patricia Price who was married to Pryor before his rise to stardom. Deborah McGuire accused him of shooting her car with a .357 Magnum, but later dropped the charges (even though this was mentioned during one of Pryor's stand-up routines, Live in Concert). Lee accused him of beating and attempting to strangle her during their first marriage, and did not share his home after they remarried. During his relationship with Pam Grier, Pryor proposed to Deborah McGuire (1977).
He had seven children: Renee, Richard Jr., Elizabeth, Rain, Steven, Franklin and Kelsey.
Later life
In 1998, Pryor became the first performer to win the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. According to Former Kennedy Center President Lawrence J. Wilker:
"Richard Pryor was selected as the first recipient of the new Mark Twain Prize because as a stand-up comic, writer, and actor, he struck a chord, and a nerve, with America, forcing it to look at large social questions of race and the more tragicomic aspects of the human condition. Though uncompromising in his wit, Pryor, like Twain, projects a generosity of spirit that unites us. They were both trenchant social critics who spoke the truth, however outrageous."
In 2000, Rhino Records remastered all of Pryor's Reprise and WB albums for inclusion in the box set ...And It's Deep Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968–1992).
In 2001, he remarried Jennifer Lee, who also had become his manager.
In 2002 a television documentary documented Pryor's life and career. Broadcast in the UK as part of the Channel 4 series Kings of Black Comedy, it was produced, directed and narrated by David Upshal. It featured rare clips from Pryor's 1960s stand-up appearances and movies such as Silver Streak, Blue Collar, Stir Crazy and Richard Pryor Live In Concert. Contributors included Whoopi Goldberg, Dave Chappelle, Lily Tomlin, George Carlin, Joan Rivers, Ice-T, Paul Mooney and the show tracked down the two cops who rescued Pryor from his "freebasing incident", former managers and even school friends from Pryor's home town of Peoria, Illinois. In the US the show went out as part of the Heroes Of Black Comedy series on Comedy Central, narrated by Don Cheadle.
In 2002, Pryor and his wife/manager Jennifer Lee Pryor, won the legal rights to all of the Laff material; which amounted to almost 40 hours of reel-to-reel analog tape. After going through the tapes and getting Richard's blessing, Jennifer Lee Pryor gave Rhino Records access to the Laff tapes in 2004. These tapes, including the entire Craps album, form the basis of the double-CD release Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966–1974).
In 2003, a television documentary, Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!, came out. It consisted of archival footage of Pryor's performances and testimonials from fellow comedians such as Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Wanda Sykes and Denis Leary of the influence Pryor had on comedy.
In 2004, Pryor was voted #1 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. In a 2005 British poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, Pryor was voted the 10th greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
His final performance was at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California.
In his later years, Richard Pryor used a wheelchair due to multiple sclerosis (M.S., which he said stood for "More Shit"). In late-2004, his sister claimed that Pryor lost his voice. However, on January 9, 2005, Pryor's wife, Jennifer Lee, rebutted this statement in a post on Pryor's official website, citing Richard as saying: "Sick of hearing this shit about me not talking... not true... good days, bad days... but I still am a talkin' motherfucker!"
Pryor was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. The animal rights organization PETA gives out an award in Pryor's name to people who have done outstanding work to alleviate animal suffering. Mr. Pryor was active in animal rights and was deeply concerned about the plight of elephants in circuses and zoos.
Richard Pryor's star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame covered with flowers, beer bottles, fan letters etc.
On December 10, 2005, Pryor died of cardiac arrest in Encino, California. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital at 7:58 a.m. PST. Pryor died just 9 days after his 65th birthday. He was brought to the hospital after his wife's attempts to resuscitate him failed. His wife Jennifer was quoted as saying, "At the end, there was a smile on his face." He was cremated and his ashes were given to friends and family.
Remembrance and legacy
On December 19, 2005, BET aired a Pryor special. It included commentary from fellow comedians, as well as insight into Pryor's upbringing. A feature film about Pryor is currently in development. It was written by Pryor and his wife, but no actor as of this date has been chosen to portray Pryor.
The conductor of the Emory University Orchestra is named after him.
Pryor has been voted the 'Number 1 Greatest Stand Up Comedian of All Time' in numerous polls worldwide.
An image of Pryor can be seen on the Rage Against The Machine music video for their Soul Sonic Force cover of "Renegades of Funk".
There is a street just west of the downtown Peoria area named in his honor, a decision that was met with much controversy.
-Richard Pryor (Dove/Reprise, 1968)
-Craps (After Hours) (Laff Records, 1971, reissued 1993 by Loose Cannon/Island)
-That Nigger's Crazy, (Partee/Stax, 1974, reissued 1975 by Reprise)
-...Is It Something I Said?, (Reprise, 1975, reissued 1991 on CD by Warner Archives)
-L.A. Jail, (Tiger Lily, 1976)
-Bicentennial Nigger, (Reprise, 1976)
-Are You Serious???, (Laff, 1977)
-Who Me? I'm Not Him, (Laff, 1977)
-Black Ben The Blacksmith, (Laff, 1978)
-The Wizard Of Comedy, (Laff, 1978)
-Wanted: Live in Concert (2-LP set), (Warner Bros. Records, 1978)
-Outrageous, (Laff, 1979)
-Insane, (Laff, 1980)
-Holy Smoke!, (Laff, 1980)
-Rev. Du Rite, (Laff, 1981)
-Live On The Sunset Strip (Warner Bros. Records, 1982)
-Richard Pryor Live! (picture disc), (Phoenix/Audiofidelity, 1982)
-Supernigger, (Laff. 1983)
-Here And Now, (Warner Bros. Records, 1983)
-Pryor Goes Foxx Hunting, (Laff. 1973)
Split LP with Redd Foxx, containing previously released tracks from Craps (After Hours)
-Down And Dirty, (Laff. 1975)
Split LP with Redd Foxx, containing previously released tracks from Craps (After Hours)
-Richard Pryor Meets... Richard & Willie And... The SLA!!, (Laff. 1976)
Split LP with black ventriloquist act Richard And Willie, containing previously released tracks from Craps (After Hours)
-Richard Pryor's Greatest Hits, (Warner Bros. Records, 1977)
Contains tracks from Craps (After Hours), That Nigger's Crazy, and ...Is It Something I Said?, plus a previously unreleased track from 1975, "Ali".
-Blackjack, (Laff. 1983)
Repackaged and retitled reissue of Craps (After Hours).
-Show Biz, (Laff. 1983)
Repackaged and retitled reissue of Black Ben The Blacksmith.
-Richard Pryor Live!, (Laff. 1983)
Repackaged reissue of the Phoenix/Audiofidelity picture disc from 1982. The album lists two tracks ("Vegas" and "Negro") that only appear on the picture disc, despite the fact that they are listed on the disc label of the Laff release.
-...And It's Deep Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968–1992) (9-CD box set) (Warner Bros. Records/Rhino, 2000)
Box set collection of Richard Pryor, That Nigger's Crazy, ...Is It Something I Said? (with "Ali" from Richard Pryor's Greatest Hits appended as a bonus track), Bicentennial Nigger, Wanted/Richard Pryor Comedy Video - Live In Concert (on 2 CDs), Live On The Sunset Strip, Here And Now (with a previously unreleased 1983 interview appended as a bonus track), and That African-American Is Still Crazy: Good Shit From The Vaults (an entire disc of previously unissued material from 1973 to 1992 exclusive to the box).
-The Anthology (1968–1992) (2-CD set) (Warner Bros. Records/Rhino], 2002 in music/2002)
Highlights culled from the albums collected in the ...And It's Deep Too! box set.
-Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966–1974) (2-CD set) (Warner Bros. Records/Rhino], 2005 in music/2005)
Pryor-authorized compilation of material released on Laff, including the entire Craps (After Hours) album.
The Busy Body (1967)
Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales (1968)
Wild in the Streets (1968)
Black Brigade (1970)
The Phynx (1970)
You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat (1971)
Dynamite Chicken (1972)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
The Mack (1973)
Wattstax (1973)
Hit! (1973)
Some Call It Loving (1973)
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
The Lion Roars Again (1975)
Adios Amigo (1976)
Car Wash (1976)
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
Silver Streak (1976)
Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Greased Lightning (1977)
Blue Collar (1978)
The Wiz (1978)
California Suite (1978)
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
The Muppet Movie (1979) (cameo)
Wholly Moses (1980)
In God We Tru$t (1980)
Stir Crazy (1980)
Bustin' Loose (1981)
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)
Some Kind of Hero (1982)
The Toy (1982)
Superman III (1983)
Richard Pryor: Here and Now (1983)
Motown 25 (1983)
Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin' (1985)
Brewster's Millions (1985)
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)
Critical Condition (1987)
Moving (1988)
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
Harlem Nights (1989)
The Three Muscatels (1991)
Another You (1991)
A Century of Cinema (1994)
Mad Dog Time (1996)
Lost Highway (1997)
Bitter Jester (2003)
I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$@!! (2003)
Richard Pryor: The Funniest Man Dead Or Alive (2005, BET Special)
Richard Pryor Quotes - Comedy Quotes, Comedian Quotes, Funny Quotes, Funny Quote
From Wikiquote
Richard Pryor (1 December 1940 - 10 December 2005) was an American actor, writer, and comedian.
Let me tell you what really happened... Every night before I go to bed, I have milk and cookies. One night I mixed some low-fat milk and some
pasteurized, then I dipped my cookie in and the shit blew up.
At the start of a routine about his freebasing accident. Live At The Sunset Strip (1982) - Richard Pryor Quote
I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!
On trying to find his roots. Live At The Sunset Strip (1982) - Richard Pryor Quote
I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
The Toy (1982) - Richard Pryor Quote
Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.
"The time of his life" - The Guardian (7 June 2004) - Richard Pryor Quote
I'd like to die like my father died... My father died fucking. My father was 57 when he died. The woman was 18. My father came and went at the
same time.
"The time of his life" - The Guardian (7 June 2004) - Richard Pryor Quote
You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary...
When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really
get scared in bed.
"The time of his life" - The Guardian (7 June 2004) - Richard Pryor Quote
Sick of hearing this shit about me not talking... not true... good days, bad days... but I still am a talkin motherfucker!
Post on his official website rebutting reports he had lost his voice. - Richard Pryor Quote
Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the
color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life. - Richard Pryor Quote
Post on US civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it. - Richard Pryor Quote
My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too. - Richard Pryor Quote
Bitch was so fine I'd suck her daddy's dick. - Richard Pryor Quote
Everyone carries around his own monsters. - Richard Pryor Quote
Freebase? What's free about it? - Richard Pryor Quote
Fuckin' is good for you, Jack. Gettin' some pussy beats having a war. - Richard Pryor Quote
How's my mama? How's your mama? I will slap you in the mouth with my dick. - Richard Pryor Quote
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying 'til I get it right. - Richard Pryor Quote
I couldn't stop. I put the pipe down. It jumped back in my hand. - Richard Pryor Quote
I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst... In other words, I had a life. - Richard Pryor Quote
I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that. - Richard Pryor Quote
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic." - Richard Pryor Quote
I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes — though I'm gonna be on for an hour. - Richard Pryor Quote
I'm not addicted to cocaine... I just like the way it smells. - Richard Pryor Quote
It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused. - Richard Pryor Quote
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. - Richard Pryor Quote
The man would box so good it'd make your dick hard! - Richard Pryor Quote
There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at. - Richard Pryor Quote
There's nothing worse than being an aging young person. - Richard Pryor Quote
To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, "Don't worry, in three months you'll know." So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up... Your muscles trick you; they did me. - Richard Pryor Quote
When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude. - Richard Pryor Quote
You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues. - Richard Pryor Quote
Here and Now
When the show don't be funny, I take my dick out and piss. This is called The Garden Row. - Richard Pryor Quote
It's easy to love somebody. Shit, sit with them a little bit and talk to them a while. - Richard Pryor Quote
Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people." - Richard Pryor Quote
How do you 'accidentally' shoot a nigga in the chest six times? 'Well, my gun fell and just went crazy!' - Richard Pryor Quote
On Race
When I hear 'yee-haw!', that scare the shit outta me. Cuz I know what come next. Y'all remember? Y'all's ancestors used to hang us for kicks? ..Muthafuckin on the weekend (hot!! couldn't get no pussy..)? ..'Let's go down to the jail, get a couple of them black ones and just string 'em up. ..yeehaww..' ..When I hear that, shit crawl all up and down my neck. - Richard Pryor Quote
Slaves built all this shit down here.. Or carried the shit that built it.. (on New Orleans) - Richard Pryor Quote
It used to be Rhodesia, before they killed all them white muthafuckas. - Richard Pryor Quote
I know how white people feel in America now, relaxed. (upon traveling to Zimbabwe) Because when I hear the police siren, I knew they wasn't comin' after me. - Richard Pryor Quote
I don't understand what goes on some times, right, cuz here we are in this theater, we gettin along just fine. We go outside and the shit change. - Richard Pryor Quote
That's insanity. We must be good all the time. - Richard Pryor Quote
White people go; Why you guys hold your things(penis)? Cause you done took every thing else motherfucka! - Richard Pryor Quote
On South Africa
2 million white people, 22 million blacks.. They can't hang. - Richard Pryor Quote
Only thing is, like, America helps them muthafuckas. Like sending them bombs, and napalm and shit. ..Help them bomb black people and shit. Fuck that. - Richard Pryor Quote
On Reagan
I went to the White House, met the president... We in trouble. - Richard Pryor Quote
Muthafucka looked at me like I owed him money. - Richard Pryor Quote
See, he'd been to the University of UCLA (sic). He hadn't been down to the U of Miss of Alabama. Cuz they got white folks down there that scare white folks. They have to keep them motherfuckers on a leash. Muthufuckin in a basement and shit. - Richard Pryor Quote
As Mudbone
I had one girlfriend, she had one of them "recto-mies." You know, that's where they scoop the pussy out and leave the box it came in. We got along just fine. She didn't want nothin' from me, and I sure didn't want nothin' from her. - Richard Pryor Quote
They fucked around, started negotiating with those white people, they lost ALL that shit.. And what they didn't lose negotiating, they {white people} just kicked their ass on out of.. - Richard Pryor Quote
On Alcohol
I had to stop drinkin', cuz I got tired of waking in my car driving ninety. - Richard Pryor Quote
I couldn't stop drinkin' until the bartender said, "WE GOT NO MORE FUCKING LIQUOR! Now take your ass home, pal." - Richard Pryor Quote
What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth? - Richard Pryor Quote
And it's the people you meet after you been drunk, that remember shit you don't remember: "Hey Rich, don't you remember that time we went out, we got fucked up, and you stuck your arm up that elephant's ass? Don't you remember that? Elephant tightened his ass up and went walking down the street with you? Don't you remember that? Man, you looked like a turd with a hat on." - Richard Pryor Quote
LOOK AT THIS MAN!!! I CAN CATCH MY HAND!!! - Richard Pryor Quote
On Drugs
They call it an epidemic now. That means white folks are doing it. - Richard Pryor Quote
Y'all remember? Y'all used to drive through our neighborhoods and shit and go, "Oh, look at that. Isn't that terrible. Then you'd get home, right, and your 14 year old'd be fucked up, and you'd go, "OH MY GOD! IT'S AN EPIDEMIC!" - Richard Pryor Quote
Maybe next time you see black people in trouble, you'll help. - Richard Pryor Quote
See, I had some drugs and shit right now, I wouldn't give a fuck. But I'd come off stage, and I still wouldn't give a fuck. Then, by the time you're 50, a lotta 'no-givin-a-fuck', you missed part your life. - Richard Pryor Quote
I started off, snorting little tiny pinches, said I know I ain't gonna get hooked, not on no coke, you can't get hooked, my friends been snorting 15 years, they ain't hooked. - Richard Pryor Quote
(on coke) "Somebody told me you put it on your dick, you could fuck all night. Shouldn't have told me that - my dick had a jones, $600 a day just to get my dick hard." - Richard Pryor Quote
Being sober, and being off drugs, too, it's a strange feeling. And I get real scared when I'm out here sometimes. I get real nervous about it. I wanna fuckin' run! You know, I look out there, I say, "SHIT! IT'S SCARY!" And I say, "Fuck it. Go through it. Just feel the experience. Just fuck it." 'Cause if I had some drugs and shit now, I wouldn't give a fuck. But then I'd come off stage, I still wouldn't give a fuck. Then, by the time you're fifty, after a lot of not giving a fuck, you miss part of your life. They'll say, What happened to your life? "I didn't give a fuck." - Richard Pryor Quote
"i'm not addicted to coke, i just love the way it smells" - Richard Pryor Quote
On Women
"If you want some pussy, you'll talk all that shit with them. ..'Hey, yeah,, sure,, the cosmos.. sure..' - Richard Pryor Quote
Quotes of others about Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor is the greatest stand-up who ever lived. He opened the biggest door and turned the light on in the room. - Roseanne Barr Quote
It is impossible to exaggerate the greatness of Richard Pryor. [He] is truly an incandescent star, and we are lucky to bask in his glow. - Richard Belzer Quote
Some people are born wearing an iron shoe. They're the ones who kick doors down and enter the places that before them have been untouched even by light. Theirs is always a mission filled with loneliness and broken bones. Richard Pryor is one of the bravest of them. - Jim Carrey Quote
He's the kind of comedian that everyone calls him by his first name — like they know him. Richard! - Dave Chappelle Quote
Richard is the consummate comic/jazz artist, and no one will ever touch his genius. - Chevy Chase Quote
You changed the world... for everyone in it. - Mos Def Quote
There are some people who impact your life forever. Richard Pryor is such a person. It is un-defining to call him a comedian, for he seemed to transcend comedy when he spoke to us. - Morgan Freeman Quote
What would life be like without Richard Pryor and Mudbone? Dull, baby, very dull. There will never be another Richard Pryor. He is, and always has been, the funniest man alive. - Whoopi Goldberg Quote
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, 'Ain't that the truth!' Richard Pryor is the truth machine. He has taken black street humor to its highest universal level. - Quincy Jones Quote
His star shines fiercely in the universe of art, with a truth and intensity unlike any other. - Kris Kristofferson Quote
It sounds cliché to say that he opened the doors for all of us, but it's true... He did for comedy what politicians do for movements. He passed a law that said it was OK to tell it like it is. - Martin Lawrence Quote
Pryor peels back the last layer of his battle-scarred skin to reveal the wretched demons that make him the true King of Comedy, and the rest of us just pretenders to the throne. - Denis Leary Quote
At one moment you want to rescue him and save him and the next moment you know he's going to do the same for you. - Jennifer Lee Quote
To fully appreciate the power of Richard Pryor as a stand-up comedian, you had to follow him at the Comedy Store. I did once, and I'm lucky to be alive. - David Letterman Quote
I love Richard Pryor. He is a comic genius and a great human being. As he's explored the depths and heights, he's found a laugh around every corner. - David Lynch Quote
Richard Pryor is the King. He always will be. - Bernie Mac Quote
Richard Pryor is truly one of the great artists of our time. His comic genius and influence remain unparalleled. - Eddie Murphy Quote
You are my friend, my pal, my domino partner, and the funniest motherfucker in the world today. - Willie Nelson Quote
Richard Pryor is the greatest comedian of all time. - Chris Rock Quote
Richard Pryor is to comedy what Gretzky is to hockey, what Ali is to Boxing. He is The Beatles of comedy. - Paul Rodriguez Quote
Richard was our King Solomon. He truly created the kingdom of Niggerdom. - Mitzi Shore, owner of the Comedy Store Quote
He doesn't fall into the [categories] of comedians we have, like prop comic, black comic, Jewish comic, white comic... he doesn't even get comic. He's just funny! - Jon Stewart Quote
A gifted, raging, soaring, plummeting, deeply human man with the tender boy inside — the greatest pioneering comic artist of the last three generations. - Lily Tomlin Quote
Richard had that thing where he could make you laugh so hard and then all of a sudden he'd break your heart. - Robert Townsend Quote
There are many different kinds of comedians... the observational humorist, the impressionist, the character creator, the physical comedian, the self-depreciator, and the dirty-joke teller. What made Richard Pryor so brilliant is he was able to incorporate all these styles at once. - Damon Wayans Quote
Richard Pryor is an alchemist who can turn the darkest pain into the deepest comedy. [He] doesn't go for the jugular — he goes straight for the aorta. - Robin Williams Quote
The one true master of stand up. - Bill Hicks Quote
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It's not every day a guy hustling for tips is responsible for collecting fees for the government. At least not until this month.
A dispute between the airport board and taxi regulators is forcing cabdrivers picking up fares at Lindbergh Field to request an extra 50 cents from their customers.
But passengers are skeptical, as the fee doesn't show on the taxi meters because of the dispute.
Cabbies have to point to a window sticker provided by the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority and ask for the money — or swallow the fee themselves.
"The customer looks at it and says 'Why? I'll pay the meter fare,' " said Alfredo Hueso of USA Cabs, who doesn't oppose the fee but is angry about the way it has been introduced. "You don't want to get into an argument over 50 cents."
Airport officials proposed the surcharge early this year as a way to help pay for maintaining the grounds and monitoring the taxis and other commercial vehicles at Lindbergh Field.
But taxi rates are regulated by the Metropolitan Transit System, which has refused to allow cabbies to add the 50-cent charge to meters without permission from San Diego City Hall.
The airport operators said they tried for months to get the transit board to allow the meters to be changed, but confronted with delay after delay they imposed the surcharge themselves last month.
The fees, part of a package of charges that went into effect Aug. 1, are expected to generate $300,000 in new revenue this year.
"We did contact MTS ahead of time," said Jim Myhers, manager of ground transportation at Lindbergh Field. "They basically passed that inquiry on to the city."
The transit system insists the surcharge is more than a fare increase. Even though the board is responsible for establishing cab fares, officials say the fee must be approved by the San Diego City Council.
"The airport's request is considered a major policy change," said John Scott, the transit agency's taxicab administration manager. "When we receive those, it's up to council to address that and either approve or deny it."
Scott said that after letters bounced back and forth between the two public agencies for months, the dispute has been referred to the City Attorney's Office.
"When they came to us, we said that's completely outside our policy," Scott said. "Another entity could say 'add this to the rate, add that to the rate.' So we referred it to the city."
Independent cabdriver James Qargha said he and other drivers have pleaded with airport and transit officials to add the surcharge to the meters because passengers simply do not understand being asked for extra money.
"People are coming home tired from Europe. People are coming home tired from Washington," Qargha said. "Then I have to explain to them about the 50 cents and it's creating a lot of problems.
"They ask why didn't you add it to the meter?"
San Diego transportation officials declined to discuss the impasse, referring questions to the Mayor's Office. The Mayor's Office did not respond to questions about the dispute.
Jim Desmond, the San Marcos mayor who serves on the Airport Authority board, defended the surcharge but said they need a better way to get the money.
"I don't think there's any dispute the fee should be collected," Desmond said. "But we need to come up with a mutually acceptable mechanism to collect the fare other than pointing to a decal."

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I used african violets for this. My Mom loved them and had them growing around my family home. My Mom has been gone for many years (tears in my eyes), but my Dad still has them all around too. I can't grow them (sad), but I love them!
Lovely symmetry in this one Deborah & the colour is very nice. What sort of flowers did you use? Thanks.
Thanks Barb...glad you enjoyed it. :)))
Beautiful, Deborah! I like the velvety feel to the blue (my fave colour) petals. :-)


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NEW YORK, April 25 (UPI) -- Six people have been arrested in New York for the alleged sale of fake Nike sneakers adorned with U.S. President Barack Obama's image, authorities say.
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said Friday's arrest of six knockoff product dealers on charges of counterfeiting and trademark infringement came after investigators found the fake Obama shoes in storage bins, the New York Daily News said.
"It's frankly just disrespectful to have the president of the United States depicted on this sneaker," Hynes said of the discovered products. "Just absolutely disgraceful."
State and city authorities have been working together in a yearlong sting operation to uncover counterfeit merchandise. More than 100,000 pieces of the fake items were recovered as a result of the lengthy investigation, authorities said.
While presidents can give permission for their likenesses to be used in products, Obama did not give the suspects permission to place his image on the sneakers.
The Daily News said if the unidentified suspects are convicted on all charges, they could each face up to four years in prison.


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A medical marijuana card is no excuse for a kid in trouble with the law to smoke pot.
That's the idea behind a ruling in San Francisco, where a state appeals court on Monday upheld a judge's order to ban a teenager from smoking marijuana, even though he had a medical cannabis card to use the drug for migraine headaches.
Daryl Moret was 19 when he was arrested for carrying a loaded handgun that police found had been stolen the year before. He could have been jailed for up to three years but he pleaded no contest in exchange for probation. The lighter sentence came with a catch -- Moret had to agree to put down the pipe and clean up his act.
The boy had potential, Superior Court Judge Peter Foor believed, and said at Moret's 2008 sentencing hearing that "smoking dope isn't going to help any of this," the Chronicle reported.
Moret appealed the ruling, saying it violated his rights as a medical marijuana patient under Prop 215. In the ruling in San Francisco on Monday, the court said the ruling stands because the defendant could choose to reject the conditions of the sentence and accept the the alternative -- jail time.


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Soup and mush. This is what Center for American Progress fellow Matthew Yglesias is eating these days as the result of getting his wisdom teeth yanked. Big FishbowlDC fan WaPo's Ezra Klein explained on Twitter over the weekend how miraculous it was that his friend was still writing despite getting teeth pulled. He called him the "ironman of blogging."
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it reminds me of worm tamer from grinderman 2.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 14 October 2011 01:09 (six years ago) Permalink
this is where cave laid the groundwork for the grinderman project, no?
― front-man for British post-punk turned pop chart-topper's, Scritti Polliti (sic), Friday, 14 October 2011 09:26 (six years ago) Permalink
yeah, i've now read the sound/vibe for grinderman goes back as far as cave's early band (the birthday-party, iirc?). i wasn't a fan years ago, when i heard that stuff. maybe it's time for another try, since i love grinderman 2 so much.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 14 October 2011 12:17 (six years ago) Permalink
― The nIce Age (S-), Friday, 27 April 2012 03:36 (five years ago) Permalink
bring back the handlebar mustache tho
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 April 2012 03:38 (five years ago) Permalink
"Well of Misery", Electric Ballroom, 1984 - billed as Nick Cave & The Cavemen
fkn great performance
lol@ spanish subtitles
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 06:09 (five years ago) Permalink
one more
St Huck, Barcelona 1984
melt ur face
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 06:18 (five years ago) Permalink
He was fantastic once.
― Pacific Rinko (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 9 June 2012 11:41 (five years ago) Permalink
I'm sure I've wondered out loud here about this, but the de facto breakup of Grinderman and the return of the Dirty Three makes me wonder about the state of the current Bad Seeds. There's been boilerplate murmurings of a new album, but nothing concrete. Been four years.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 June 2012 13:19 (five years ago) Permalink
its all a bit weird
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 14:41 (five years ago) Permalink
4 years? But Grinderman 2 came out in 2010. Seems like it had run its course and now he's figuring out the next phase of his career.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 9 June 2012 17:35 (five years ago) Permalink
4 years since "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!" the last Bad Seeds album, which is not Grinderman (different sound, line-up, name, etc.).
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 June 2012 18:57 (five years ago) Permalink
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Saturday, 9 June 2012 21:30 (five years ago) Permalink
Nick's all "I started working with Rasputin when?"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 August 2012 16:15 (five years ago) Permalink
Cave looks a lot less bald there than last time I saw him. Perhaps he shaved off the stache and stuck it on his head?
― Position Position, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:03 (five years ago) Permalink
Hell yeah:
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:05 (four years ago) Permalink
Went to the final tour rehearsal for the new album last night, at a leisure centre ballroom in Hove … and good God the new songs were boring, apart from Jubilee Street or whatever it's called. Not a single melody between them.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Saturday, 9 February 2013 12:45 (four years ago) Permalink
There has been some anticipation of the album on this thread. But yes, it's looking like a boring one.
― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 9 February 2013 20:43 (four years ago) Permalink
Wow: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/02/nick-cave-interview-jack-barron-rocks-backpages
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 July 2014 16:30 (three years ago) Permalink
Is that a Guardian page that links to the Barron interview on Rock's Back Pages, or someone talking about it, or a new interview with Barron about it?
― boney tassel (sic), Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:38 (three years ago) Permalink
Click on it, maybe you'll see.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:50 (three years ago) Permalink
― boney tassel (sic), Thursday, 10 July 2014 23:50 (three years ago) Permalink
great interview! (seriously)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 July 2014 00:21 (three years ago) Permalink
incidentally the current tour is fucking ferocious and amazing, saw him in SF the other night and it was maybe the best I've seen him out of five or so tours
― akm, Friday, 11 July 2014 00:55 (three years ago) Permalink
So what was the "secret project"?The Good Son?
― nostormo, Friday, 11 July 2014 08:37 (three years ago) Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 July 2014 13:43 (three years ago) Permalink
And The Ass Saw The Angel, I'd guess.
― Rabona not glue (aldo), Friday, 11 July 2014 13:45 (three years ago) Permalink
"Johnny Suede"?
A great interview.
And yeah they've really been on fire this tour, the Mpls gig was probably one the best shows I've ever seen.
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 11 July 2014 13:45 (three years ago) Permalink
And The Ass Saw The Angel, I'd guess
Can't be that as it's referred to in the article.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Friday, 11 July 2014 14:04 (three years ago) Permalink
Think it probably was just rehab, as Josh in Chicago says. See the first couple of paragraphs here, for example:
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:09 (three years ago) Permalink
Here's a more recent interview/article, from last week's NY Times Sunday Magazine, in case you missed it:
I was pretty surprised at the ILM reaction to the last album. I thought it was fantastic, and nothing at all like Boatman's Call/NMSWP (neither of which I ever really feel like listening to, aside from a few Boatman tracks) which it was compared to. I wonder though how much of it was due to listening to poor digital streams/files on poor headphones/computer speakers, as I do think it's a more subtle album that might be difficult to appreciate if you can't hear what's going on.
― early rejecter, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:20 (three years ago) Permalink
Once I listened to the whole of Push the Sky Away I loved it, and it's probably the record I've listened to most in the past year. I was disappointed by We No Who U R, as a single, initially, because it did sound like it was supposed to be a Boatman's Call/NMSWP-type song, and a really dull one at that. But as you say, the album's a completely different record - not really built around that kind of songwriting - and even We No Who U R fits perfectly on it.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:31 (three years ago) Permalink
Actually yeah now that you mention it I was a bit skeptical when I first heard the single too.
Very much looking forward to 20,000 Days in any case.
― early rejecter, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:54 (three years ago) Permalink
i love how the endless choruses of 'the mercy seat' vary subtly so that you can never sing along
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:37 (three years ago) Permalink
the bad seeds are just ungodly awesome on this new tour, was probably top 5 shows ever for me
i love push the sky away, so much space and really cool low-key groove based record
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:18 (three years ago) Permalink
the last bad seeds show i saw (15 years ago) is top 5 ever for me so i am hyped for tonight. what's the current setlist look like?
― adam, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:55 (three years ago) Permalink
Lots of stuff from the new record, plus one song from most of the other records
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:58 (three years ago) Permalink
awesome, thanks. i look forward to hearing the live arrangements of these new songs
― adam, Monday, 21 July 2014 21:10 (three years ago) Permalink
"Jubilee Street" in particular is different and awesome
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 21 July 2014 21:12 (three years ago) Permalink
the periodic eruptions into swansian double-percussionist industrial maelstroms were really something.
i think it's kind of a shame that he writes pretty good piano ballads b/c they are still the least interesting thing that he does. those aside they maintained an impressive level of intensity across the sparser new stuff (like higgs boson blues or jubilee street), the early harsh stuff, and the "pop" stuff (a la red right hand). best show i've seen since sade for sure, and not entirely dissimilar.
― adam, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 18:32 (three years ago) Permalink
and i liked "into my arms" shit too, don't get me wrong, but i was embarrassed for the people of new orleans when they started like fucking waving their arms and clapping in vague rhythm. ugly scene.
― adam, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 18:34 (three years ago) Permalink
Cave and band taped an episode for the Austin City Limits tv show
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 19:28 (three years ago) Permalink
I fought the movie all the way, as I find Cave increasingly pompous and occasionally silly, but it works, mostly.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 00:17 (three years ago) Permalink
I absolutely loathe Cave and find him a ridiculous son of a doctor, so will struggle with this movie.
― xelab, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 00:22 (three years ago) Permalink
Is this out yet? I liked the trailer.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 01:34 (three years ago) Permalink
Even if you didn't like his material, the shear mass of his body of work makes him an undeniable classic.
While the Cave-penned screenplays for both "The Proposition" and "Lawless" are benefited greatly by tremendous performances from the cast, he seems to have a pretty solid grip on that form as well.
Additionally, the soundtrack for "The Proposition" by Cave and Warren Ellis is nearly another character in the movie.
― bodacious ignoramus, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 02:15 (three years ago) Permalink
Film has run for 3-4 weeks in NYC.
I do like The Proposition a lot, whereas I have not paid the music much heed since The Boatman's Call.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 03:07 (three years ago) Permalink
his recent stretch of albums is a lot better than the immediate post-boatman era.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 03:13 (three years ago) Permalink
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 04:03 (three years ago) Permalink


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Although the former Massachusetts governor is still leading the pack in the important early voting state, a fellow Republican and former Baptist preacher is closing in from behind, benefiting from votersâ dilemma with Mormonism.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabeeâs rise in Iowa has been fueled by evangelical Christians attracted to his conservative views and openness about the role of faith in his life. ...
"Enough cliches about faith. Mitt's Mormonism matters"
and, " A Mormon in the White House? 10 Things Every American Should Know About Mitt Romney"
Rudi's faith matters also,
It matters if a Presidential candidate belongs to a cult that is out of sync with American ideals.
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Prevention Research Center receives $1.4 million mindfulness research grant
Lee Carpenter, Penn State News: Grant from the Institute on Education Sciences focuses on teaching adolescents mindfulness practices.
Teaching adolescents mindfulness practices that may strengthen their attention, executive function and emotion regulation skills, and in turn improve their academic and social functioning is the focus of a new grant received by the Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at Penn State. Mark Greenberg, Edna Peterson Bennett Endowed Chair in Prevention Research and professor of human development and psychology, is the principal investigator.
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If you see school children running through the scenic hills of the Nandi region wearing University of Manitoba gear the next time you're in Kenya, here's how it all came about.
The Bisons track and field team, on the request of the university's Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, have donated $2,000 worth of track equipment to primary and secondary school athletes in the South Nandi District of Kenya.
"We want to help any kids involved in track and field and one of the major goals of this group is to keep these kids in school," Bisons track coach Claude Berube said yesterday. "Part of their agreement is a commitment to (stay) in school."
This relationship all came about through Dr. Maritim Songok, who is in Winnipeg to research projects to help slow the development of HIV/AIDS in Kenya.
School administrators in the Nandi area asked Songok to inquire about the donation of sports equipment this past spring, to help curb children from leaving school by giving them an athletic reason to stay with their education.
Songok obliged and with the help Berube (and Greg Gunter of Sport Manitoba), the equipment started to pour in.
While track suits, running supplies, and T-shirts were included in the first shipment Songok brought back to Kenya in October (with a few transport headaches thrown in), the real need was footwear.
"The No. 1 thing is lack of shoes," Songok said. "The conditions are terrible. They often train without any shoes, they just can afford it. It's really a problem in terms of continuing with their training."
Berube said if there's one thing his athletes have a lot of, it's shoes, as old pairs just kind of pile up over the course of a season.
"Shoes we would throw out, they'll gladly take," Berube said. "We're not sending them shoes with holes in them. A lot of our distance athletes will go through three or four pairs a year, so there is still a lot of tread on them."
Berube said the next initiative will hopefully involve cellphones.
The phones will be used to communicate with each other and with athletes in Manitoba via text messaging, as the Kenyan athletes are in remote areas of the country and do not have access to basic communication devices.
With some of the equipment already in place, Berube and Songok hope to see the Kenyan athletes come together and train as a group. Right now, the plan is to have a group of 14 runners get together for "training camps" three times a year -- to properly work on techniques and learn from each other.
Future plans for this Manitoba-Kenya relationship could include exchange programs, to give local track athletes a chance to train in the hills of the African country, and bring Kenyan athletes to the U of M as students.
Berube would love to see that happen -- especially for his cross country program.
"Kenyan athletes, the distance runners, have a reputation of being world class," he said.


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In the novel they use some words with what they describe for excample Iason, elithe and other Tanagura citysens. *Humanoid*
"A humanoid is a hybrid term formed from Latin humanus "human" and the Greek -oeides expressing likeness.
The term was coined in 1918 to refer to fossils considered close to human but not strictly human, including species now classified as Homo such as the Neanderthals.
The term more generally refers to any being whose body structure resembles that of a human, including upright stance and bipedalism. This includes anthropomorphic creatures in mythology as well as humanoid robots, especially in the context of science fiction and fantasy fiction" Humanoid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Androids are a staple of science fiction. Authors have used the term android in more diverse ways than robot or cyborg. In some fictional works, the difference between a robot and android is only their appearance, with androids being made to look like humans on the outside but with robot-like internal mechanics. In other stories, authors have used the word "android" to mean a wholly organic, yet artificial, creation. Other fictional depictions of androids fall somewhere in between." Android - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"A cyborg is a cybernetic organism (i.e., an organism that has both artificial and natural systems). The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space...... The cyborg is often seen today merely as an organism that has enhanced abilities due to technology but this perhaps oversimplifies the category of feedback.
Fictional cyborgs are portrayed as a synthesis of organic and synthetic parts, and frequently pose the question of difference between human and machine as one concerned with morality, free will, and empathy. Fictional cyborgs may be represented as visibly mechanical or as almost indistinguishable from humans " Cyborg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Artificial is something which is not natural. Its original sense, related to artifact and artifice, refers to a product of human endeavor; a more English but gendered synonym is man-made, a non-gendered one is human-made. It is also used to mean "false", a substitute for the real thing, as in artificial turf or artificial sweetener." Artificial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Castration (also referred to as: gelding, spaying, neutering, fixing, orchiectomy, oophorectomy, and orchidectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testes or a female loses the functions of the ovaries. The term is more commonly applied to males. Castration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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Swedish People Dance During Lunch Hour
I love stories about Europeans having way more fun than us fuddy duddy Americans with our sticks up our asses and party-pooper mentalities. Therefore, upon reading that people in Sweden like to spend their lunch breaks bumping and grinding at a public gathering called Lunch Beat, I couldn't help but shake my first in the air at their blatant disregard for productivity.
"It is absolutely fantastic!" exclaimed Asa Andersson, 33, who broke away from her job at a coffee shop to bust some moves last week. "It is the first time I'm here, I'm totally happy and ecstatic, totally covered in sweat and I'm full of energy. It does not get any better than this."
Uh, hello? Ever hear of using a lunch hour to catch up on work or reread the employee manual? Dancing — psshaw! Last time I checked having a lust for life doesn't pay the bills.
Lest you think it's all fun and games at these impromptu danceathons, they do have Tyler Durden approved rules.
"The first rule of Lunch Beat is that you have to dance," [organizer Daniel Odelstad] said while checking prepaid tickets at the door. "If you don't want to dance during your lunch hour, then you should eat your lunch somewhere else."
On second glance, I kinda like this alternative lunch idea. But cutting a rug is too ordinary. How about skydiving, or street racing, or bank robbing? Now that's a lunch hour!
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Elmwood School supports the development of the whole child and offers diverse extracurricular opportunities to meet the specific needs and interests of our students. Below is a list of the school clubs and special activities which may be of interest to your child.
- Family Science Nights
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IT remained a secret for almost 75 years – but now a school in Woodstock has glimpsed the past through a forgotten time capsule.
Staff and students at the school had no idea of the haul of hidden mementoes stashed away in its walls.
Builders helping to renovate the Marlborough School discovered the 1939 treasure trove hidden behind a plaque at its front entrance commemorating the school's opening .
It pays tribute to members of the community, including the then Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, who helped raise money for the Shipton Road building.
Assistant school librarian Joanne Onions said: "It contains all sorts of things from when the school was first built.
"We are very pleased and are planning on doing an open day later this year when we will ask people to bring in their school memories, so it will be great for that as well."
The collection includes maps, drawings and designs of the school when it was in the planning stages, as well as coins and posters for fundraising events.
Inside the glass time capsule, which had a top made of metal that had partly rusted away, there was also literature from a fundraiser held in August 1938 at Blenheim Palace, hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough.
Mrs Onions added: "It's a piece of Woodstock history, with accounts of how the funding for the school was raised." Experts from the Oxfordshire Museum, in Woodstock, are currently trying to identify some of the coins, she added.
They are also trying to establish the origin of a small badge, shaped as the Star of David, with "AC Centenary" written on it.
Headteacher Julie Fenn, pictured, said: "We were really pleased to find the time capsule and now we are planning to make our own one as well, with things from this period."
Builders were working on a new facade for the school's front entrance when they discovered the cache.
Mrs Fenn said the plaque would now be obscured, but it would bring the design of the building in line with newer ones in the school.
She said: "Unfortunately we could not remove the plaque, but schools must move on.
"We plan to make a new plaque and to also feature a framed picture of the old one in our main reception area.
The school is really pleased with the improvements.
"We are excited about our open day later this year and look forward to looking back at the school's history."
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Hollywood Now: Chris Pine, Rachel Weisz & Ari Graynor, Plus So Many Babies!By Gerri Miller
New flicks with celebs in interfaith relationships and from interfaith backgrounds, plus their baby news!Go To Pop Culture
I grew up in the suburbs of North West London. My parents are Reform Jews and although we're not very religious we are very Jewish. We had family dinners every Friday night for Shabbat, Sabbath, a circle of close Jewish friends, and I belonged to Jewish youth groups and went on holidays to Israel. As a result of all of this and much, much more, I have a very strong Jewish identity.
So when I went away to university and fell in love with Dan, who isn't Jewish, it never occurred to me that I would end up marrying him!
As we got closer I began to panic. I thought to myself, "he cannot be the one because he isn't Jewish." I ended the relationship...a few times.
When we were 26, Dan and I got back together. We both knew that it was the religious differences that had broken us up, so we decided that this time we were going to do everything we could to tackle the issue. Dan understood how important it was to me to have a Jewish home and raise a Jewish family, and that this was the only way we could be together. We agreed that he wouldn't convert, but together we would lead a Jewish life. He would learn about Judaism and participate in Shabbat and various festivals so that together we could raise a Jewish family and have a Jewish home, just as I had grown up in. I appreciated these were all difficult decisions for Dan, and that it was a huge decision for him to intermarry, as well.
In a way, we had to start planning our wedding and our future together even before we were engaged, as we felt it was essential that we resolve the religious issues in order to take the relationship further.
We studied books together and Dan learned about all the Jewish festivals. We went to synagogue together and to Shabbat dinners at my parents' house. I discussed with him all the things that made me, and my home, Jewish--everything from religious school on Sundays as a child, having a mezuzah on the door (a narrow case attached to the doorposts containing a parchment on which is written the daily prayer, the Sh'ma), to eating bagels with smoked salmon!
We had to discuss issues that most other young couples wouldn't even have yet contemplated--the religious education of our future children, circumcision (if we were to have a son) and even our own burials.
Compared to some interfaith couples we have been very lucky. Dan grew up without a strong religious identity and so the decision to live as a Jew was easier for him. Also, and most importantly, we had all of our parents' support, something that we realize was vital. Our parents agreed that our happiness was more important than religious differences, and they said they would be happy if we were happy. Also, we had each been raised with similar non-religious morals and values, such as the importance of family. I think both Dan and his parents could identify with the aspects of Judaism that valued family and home. They feel that it is important for a child to have a correct moral upbringing and that this can be found in many religious beliefs, including Judaism. All of our parents are very excited at the prospect of grandchildren!
We worked so hard to resolve all the questions of how we could be together and felt so positive about our decision. The more we studied, the more we felt "we can do this." The closer we got, the more in love we realised we were.
On January 4, 2003, whilst on holiday in Cape Town, Dan proposed... and I said yes!
After my father went to speak to our rabbi about our situation, I realised that we would not be able to be married in a synagogue or by a rabbi. This was very hard because as a couple we had decided to have a Jewish home and raise Jewish children, but it seemed we couldn't have a Jewish wedding. I had lived all my life as a Jew and now, on the most important day of my life, I wanted some Jewish elements in my wedding.
I didn't feel we had support from my parents' synagogue--they simply wanted to persuade Dan to convert. In fact, I found that the Jewish community in England is still very closed minded about interfaith marriage. I felt like I was the only one from my synagogue to "marry out" and that I was most unwelcome there.
My grandmother was also very disapproving. Although she liked Dan, she didn't want us to marry, and I found it very hard to disappoint her.
In my social circle my friends have all married Jews, and I was the first not to. On many occasions during the planning of the wedding I had the feeling that I was the only Jewish person ever to marry a non-Jew.
Eventually, on the advice of some friends, we turned to The Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St. Johns Wood, London. There we felt welcome and supported. Dan was not pressured to convert and we felt understood. We became members of the synagogue and we talked to Rabbi Solomon and Rabbi Goldstein about our relationship and our decisions for the future.
It felt wonderful to finally have some understanding, and through the community we met another interfaith couple that had recently married who gave us lots of advice on how to have a Jewish element on our wedding day.
Together with Rabbi Goldstein we discussed ways to include elements from the traditional Jewish wedding ceremony that had meaning for us both. We had a bedeken, a tradition where the groom officially identifies his bride before the ceremony, and our chuppah, the wedding canopy under which the bride and groom stand, had four poles decorated with flowers as is traditional, but no canopy over the top. At the end of the ceremony Dan broke the glass--the tradition where the groom stamps on a glass, which is to remind us of sadness even at times of joy. We even had an aufruf, where traditionally the groom is called up to do a reading on the Sabbath before the wedding day, and Dan and I read together in our synagogue in front of our community, our family and friends.
On December 14, 2003, Dan and I were married. After a civil ceremony in which we were legally married, Rabbi Aaron Goldstein blessed us in front of all our guests.
On our order of ceremony card we wrote:
We have sought to include Jewish customs and traditions into our marriage. Ancient customs add special meaning because of the history and tradition they represent and they provide us with a link to the past and a hand in shaping the future we will be sharing.
The build-up to my wedding day was filled with mixed emotions, but the day itself was perfect. Perfect for us. It was the happiest day of my life, and even my grandma agreed it was a beautiful wedding!


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A rundown of our four favourite music videos without the music
At It's Nice That we spend more time on the internet than we do with our friends, lovers or parents combined. So it's only right that we start selecting the best fruit that the internet-tree has borne and handing it to you in manageable, well-written doses. At the moment the craze is music videos without the music, something that as yet is proving its staying power and is still hilarious.
Even though most of the videos are made by a guy called Mario Wienerroither who has an incredibly popular YouTube channel, can you imagine groups of teenagers in basements following his lead and making perfect sound effects and then laying them into GarageBand over a video to become overnight internet superstars? That's how I like to imagine they're made. Although, hands up everyone who genuinely thought the Miley one was real first time around? Thought so.
David Bowie and Mick Jagger: Dancing in the Street
This video is pretty much the reason we're doing this feature. Adam Buxton tweeted this gem last week and it's been played over a million times since! Now if I know maths like I think I do, then chances are you've probably seen it, but if not then there's still time to watch Mick and David prance around a spooky warehouse and burp in each others' faces. Seriously, this video is weird enough with sound, but without it's a whole different ball-game. Best bit? Bowie falling through the sky doing a ninja-like scream.
OK GO: Here it Goes Again
This is a great one! And timely too as music video emperors OK GO have just released their latest heart-stoppingly labour-intensive music video. Here it Goes Again will remain one of their most career-defining and impressive as the sheer sight of seeing four grown men perform an intricate choreographed dance on treadmills will not cease to disappoint even the harshest of critics. Without sound? It's even better. The guys are making groans like tennis players and the boring whirring of the treadmills themselves kind of dampens the excitement somewhat. This is what music videos without music are made for, taking something exciting and nuanced and making it really practical and dull.
Miley Cyrus: We Can't Stop
There she is! Where Miley Cyrus can't stop writhing around naked in a pool, we can't stop watching this hilarious game changer of a near-silent music video. Unlike the others which are just plain comical, this one is actually just really disgusting. Made back in September 2013 by the lads over at College Humour, this was the face that launched a thousand ships. Or the really uncomfortable video that inspired about 29,538 likes. Either way, this was one of the first, and in my opinion it remains the most toe-curlingly awkward best.
Jamiroquai: Virtual Insanity
The best bit about this video is how it reminds you how great the actual video is! Remember when they did that behind-the-scenes film about the guys who dragged those walls around while JK moonwalked around on some heavily-polished lino? Well anyway, knowing how long this video took to make and the sheer man power it took before CGI and all that came along makes it even funnier edited without music. Like writing on park benches or drawing moustaches on celebrities in magazines, there's nothing quite like defacing something of beauty. Long may this fad continue, it's nowhere near unfunny yet.
- Mikey Please takes us behind the scenes, and the backlash, of the Bake Off trailer
- From New York to Springfield, it's Best of the Web
- Taschen releases two volumes of National Geographic's best photographs from the past 125 years
- Simon Landrein takes Dan Croll down the rabbit hole in his animated video for Tokyo
- Thomas Duffield on photographing his dad's hidden heroin addiction
- Parker Day's lurid colours and grotesque characters elevate identity and fantasy (NSFW)
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