each time was a deeply moving experience.

freddie`s stage presence was nothing short of magnificent. the memory of his performance brings chills. when i think of brighton rock i am immediately transported wherever i am……..

“oh i do like to be beside the seaside……”

and regarding being cool……freddie was the cool one. i was just lucky to see the shows.

Library of Congress - w00t!

They said five business days for a reply. I have to find her now. If I found Shirley Bassey when I wasn’t looking I know I can find this woman.

(Oops, I forgot to tell alistair how cool he was for seeing Freddie Mercury play live. You’re soooo cool.)

These good people will have to keep you company until I get my answer.

http://nmaahc.si.edu/section/story_corps/view/36

What I noticed was that people in both communities who normally would’ve become professional singers/actors/politicians went into the ministry.

A key point! And with the diminishment of churches, most of those people end up wanting to be media/sports figures… and then where do they end up?

fadista is a portuguese last name which translates as “singer of sad songs”.

ironic?

http://www.lives-past.blogspot.com

the lecture went reasonably well, except that one chap wanted to usurp the podium to expound upon his own thesis, but funiily enough he helped remind me of a few points that i would have missed had he not spoken.

and boy would i love to have a band together to play on a few cold evenings and get the place rocking like the good old days.

and i saw freddie play many times as a teenager.

tie you mother down is still one fo my favorites…………

Since you brought up Sinatra I’ll show you who replaced Freddie Mercury a few months ago on my list of Singers I Can’t Get Enough Of.

IMHO this is the best My Way after Sinatra himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ytC3yYf8Es

She held up pretty well over the years too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqNcyFNMfLM

Public speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners. The art and science of public speaking, especially in a North American competitive environment, is also known as forensics. The word “forensic” is an adjective meaning “of public debate or argument.” The word is derived from the Latin forensis, meaning “of the forum.” The sense of the word “forensic” that means “pertaining to legal trials” dates from the 1600s (Oxford English Dictionary) and led to the use of the word “forensics” in reference to legal evidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_speaking

See also, The CSI Theory of History (reproduced from), which begins:

The role of the historian is to catalog and interpret events which have occurred in the past and to weave them into a meaningful narrative for people in the present. Typically we think of history as the broader story of a nation or of a people. But history is made up of minute interactions between individuals on an every-day scale. And it is these every-day interactions between people which forms the basis of police work.

As we are taught by countless television crime dramas like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, police try to solve criminal cases by looking for perpetrators who have the means, motive and opportunity to commit crime. What this means in a broader sense is that police investigators are a type of historian. They look at events in the past (crimes) and try to explain them in a meaningful way. We call the conclusions and meaning that they derive from their historical investigations “justice.” Justice is a genre of narrative or story-telling in which a person (or group) is victimized in a crime, and in which the person responsible is found and punished appropriately. If the plot points conform to this narrative within reasonable parameters, we say “Justice is served.” If not, then we worry about things like a “miscarriage of Justice.”

I am working on a lot of projects right now. One of the big ones, the real guiding ones, has to do with devotion. But it is devotion of the most difficult kind: devotion without an object. To not be devoted to a person or to a thing or to an ideal or even to God but to simply be devoted. Devotion without object. The point is to be able to access and cultivate those feelings of overwhelming love, joy and peace which one person inspired in me and to be able to give it equally to all people and all things and each moment. I know it can be done and I know that to settle for anything less would be a failure of the highest order.

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007...29/sell-all-your-demonic-possessions/