THE WORLD'S SHORTEST FAIRY TALE


Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl 'Will you marry me?' The girl
said, 'NO!' And the guy lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles and went fishing and hunting and smoked good weed and played golf a lot and drank beer and scotch and left the toilet seat up and farted whenever he wanted.

THE END

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25 Funniest Country Music Song Titles

1. Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth Cause I'm Kissing You Good-bye.

2. I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself or Go Bowling.

3. If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You.

4. I Sold A Car To A Guy Who Stole My Girl,
But It Don't Run So We're Even.

5. Mama Get A Hammer (There's A Fly On Daddy's Head).

6. If The Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me.

7. She's Actin' Single and I'm Drinkin' Doubles.

8. How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away.

9. I Keep Forgettin' I Forgot About You.

10. I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well.

11. I Still Miss You Baby, But My Aim's Gettin' Better.

12. I Wouldn't Take Her To A Dog Fight, Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win.

13. I'll Marry You Tomorrow, But Let's Honeymoon Tonight.

14. I'm So Miserable Without You; It's Like Having You Here.

15. I've Got Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Back Cryin' Over You.

16. If I Had Shot You When I Wanted To, I'd Be Out By Now.

17. My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love You.

18. My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend and I Sure Do Miss Him.

19. Please Bypass My Heart.

20. She Got The Ring and I Got The Finger.

21. You Done Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat.

22. You're the Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly.

23. Her Teeth Were Stained, But Her Heart Was Pure.

24. She's Looking Better After Every Beer.

25. I Ain't Never Gone To Bed With An Ugly Woman,
But I Sure Woke Up With a Few.

Song For America
What a weird looking album cover I thought as I gazed at this massive John Brown statue gracing the cover. I slipped the album out of its cover and even the LP looked strange.

Kirshner Records? Was this the same guy who gave us the Monkees and the Archies? Was this the record label of the promoter who started off the career of singers and songwriters including Bobby Darin, Neil Diamond, Carole King? Kirshner Records, did this character produce as well as host his own syndicated weekly rock-concert program called Don Kirshner's "Rock Concert"? With its long-form live performances, as compared to canned, often lip-synced performances that were the staple of earlier TV shows?

Many consider it the predecessor to MTV.

Either this album was going to be great, or Char would have to stop my convulsions of laughter from the studio.

"Kansas" itself is a toponym derived from the Kansa tribe, whose name is widely believed to mean "People of the South Wind." Kansas was and still is a great progressive rock band who in their heyday became a popular arena rock group in the 1970s.

Living within Kansas -The Early Years


The debut album, Kansas (see album art above) was released in March 1974, showcased Kansas' signature mix of guitars, keyboards, vocals, and violin style their sound bore the marks of late-1960s, early 1970s progressive rock, such as Genesis and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

Personal included
Phil Ehart - drums
Dave Hope - bass, vocals
Kerry Livgren - organ, guitar, piano, rhythm guitar, keyboard, vocals, Moog synthesizer
Robbie Steinhardt - violin, vocals, harmony vocals
Steve Walsh - organ, piano, conga, keyboard, vocals, harmony vocals
Rich Williams - guitar



"Song for America" is the second album by Kansas, released in 1975 . Endless touring had given Kansas a small following of loyal fans, some of whom would follow the group from one show to another known as Wheatheads (cute). Despite the minor success of their debut album and Song For America, they were still struggling.

Song for America did little to change that, it is regarded by many as their most progressive work. Like the first album, the writing duties were divided between Kerry Livgren and the former members of White Clover, most notably vocalist / keyboardist Steve Walsh.

Musically, Song for America contains six lengthy tracks full of wailing guitars, violin and generous portions of organ and Mellotron. Lyrically, Kansas had begun to take a dark turn. Walsh’s songs reflected life on the street, drug dealing and a run-in with the Devil. Livgren’s world included a haunting ghost story , a Hymn to the Atman, plus the album’s sweeping title track, which is regarded by violinist Robby Steinhardt as the band’s signature tune.

Song for America personal

Phil Ehart - drums
Dave Hope - bass
Kerry Livgren - guitar, keyboard
Robby Steinhardt - violin, vocals
Steve Walsh - keyboard, vocals
Rich Williams - guitar




“ I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid, It's a strong name, very universal and immediate. It had a lot of visual potential and was open to all sorts of interpretations. ”
—Freddie Mercury

Recently while you've been traveling the blogosphere you may have noticed from time to time a google ad, for the NEW Queen album. Now in the music world especially FM AOR radio, Queen are giants. Freddie Mercury was the ultimate front man. So how can you replace a legend.

Quietly!

Now if you missing the news, lets turn back the clock to March 20th 2008 when Queen announced the release of a NEW album scheduled for September( which WAS just a few weeks back).

Since the beginning of Queen, and having placing them in heavy rotation as a FM Rock cornerstone at quite a few stations across the US, I think Freddie is smiling from above at what has transpired.

Now don't get me wrong NO ONE can replace FREDDIE. But as Queen has stated numerous times, This is Queen + Paul Rodgers. Paul Rogers is an accomplised bluesy lead singer with countless success behind him. Remember Free or Bad Company. I think the band is just trying to carry on the best it can. The remaining members are still vibrant artists who still have something to give in return.

So for the Queen Fans World Wide Lets Rock/Queen - Made in Heaven (Stereo)



Made in Heaven was the last album recorded and produced by Queen in 1995 using songs recorded earlier by Mercury. Plus new recordings by the remaining members of the Band.

As of 2005, according to The Guinness Book of World Records, Queen albums have spent a total of 1,322 weeks or twenty-seven years on the United Kingdom album charts; more time than any other musical act including The Beatles and Elvis Presley.

Also in 2005, Queen moved into third place on the list of acts with the most aggregate time spent on the British record charts.

In January 2008, Brian May confirmed that a European tour is planned to start in September 2008.

Queen + Paul Rodgers released a studio album, titled The Cosmos Rocks, on 12 September 2008 in the EU. On 28 October 2008 the Album will be released in the USA.




You've Got To Reach

One thing I loved about concert management and my career, was the chance to discover music weeks even months before anyone else. The Rise of the Eagles, Bad Company, Poco, Souther - Hillman - Furay Band and Orleans,

Orleans is best known for "Dance With Me", Still the One and "Love Takes Time".

Formed in Woodstock, New York by guitarist/songwriter John Hall, additional members in 1972 included Wells Kelly and Larry Hoppen. In late 1972 Larry’s younger brother Lance was added on bass. Drummer Jerry Marotta joined, also in 73 completing the quintet.

Orleans found its core audience in the clubs and college circuit of the Northeast US.

Quoting Rolling Stone magazine from 1972 Orleans is "the best unrecorded band in America".

Their constant touring lead to a recording contract with ABC Dunhill Records and the release of the debut album in 1973.

But it was not until early 1975 when Chuck Plotkin,then head of A&R for Asylum Records heard Orleans and later produced their Asylum LP, that Orleans achieved their first hit"Let There Be Music" in early 1975. Receiving a promotional copy of their first LP, we put "Let There Be Music in heavy Rotation (it peaked at #55 on Billboards charts).

Almost immediatly they followed-up that single with "Dance With Me" which landed right smack dab in the middle of the mainstream of American pop music.
"Dance With Me" cast the band in a more "soft-rock" light and landed them for a time on tour with Melissa Manchester.

Earthy, R & B, Country-Rock in the vein of The Eagles, The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, Jackson Browne and Poco.



The release of "Reach" brought them back to their roots. Plus the smash hit "Still the One" cemented Orleans' relationship with the American public.
While the single was climbing the charts a major cross-country tour with label-mate Jackson Browne was started.

However, within a year (1976) stress within the band prompted guitarist/songwriter Hall to leave the band in search of a solo career.

Orleans reunited without John Hall in 1979, producing the #11 hit "Love Takes Time". Also continuing to tour with the likes of Stephen Stills and Chicago.

"Still the One" was used by the ABC television network as the theme song for their 1977 promotional campaign.

Collectively, Orleans' hits have been aired over 8 million times.

Wells Kelly's untimely death in 1984 while on tour with Meat Loaf was the catalyst for a reunion of Hall and the Hoppen brothers.

Two tours of Japan, an appearance at Woodstock'94, opening the "Can’t Stop Rockin'" Tour (Fleetwood Mac, REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar) in 1995 were Orleans' highlights in the 1990s.

Approaching their 35th anniversary, Orleans continues to play live and record. Their latest studio album, Dancin’ in the Moonlight, was released in late 2005.

The current lineup includes Lance and Larry Hoppen, youngest brother Lane Hoppen on keyboards, Dennis "Fly" Amero (replacing John Hall) on guitar and, on drums, Charlie Morgan (best known for his 14-year stint with Elton John).

During his 2006 bid for a US Congressional seat, Hall appeared with the group on rare occasions.

On November 7, 2006 Hall was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives from the state of New York.

A popular myth suggests that the band posed nude for the cover of the Waking and Dreaming album. In fact, they were wearing jeans but the photo was cropped above their waists

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Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes. It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by HBO. It aired for six seasons between 1997 and 2003.

Oz is the nickname for the Oswald State Correctional Facility, formerly Oswald State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison (level 4) of undisclosed location. Many of the plot arcs are set in Emerald City ("Em City"), an experimental unit of the prison in which the unit manager attempts to emphasize rehabilitation and learning responsibility during incarceration. Emerald City is an extremely controlled environment where there are a controlled number of members of each racial and social group.

The large ensemble cast includes Rita Moreno, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Betty Buckley, Kathryn Erbe, Christopher Meloni, Lee Tergesen, B. D. Wong, J. K. Simmons, Dean Winters, Kirk Acevedo, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Harold Perrineau Jr., Erik King, David Zayas, Lauren Vélez, and Edie Falco.



Oz is primarily narrated by Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau), former drug dealer and ex-crackhead. Now confined to a wheelchair, he appears in surreal segments and introductions that usually relate to an overall theme of the episode, setting up scenes, introducing characters, or adding epilogues. When necessary — usually when a character is introduced — Hill appears as an omniscient narrator. Used as a literary tool of the writers, he narrates the details of characters' lives, their prison number, their crimes, and their sentences. Hill appears as a recurring character within the show's story lines until the sixth season, in which narration by various deceased characters was added to the narration by Hill.

These narrations by Hill break the fourth wall, in that Hill addresses the camera (and thus the audience) directly, out of the fictional context of the scene. Hill also appears in scenes where he interacts with other characters in the story (in which he does not address the camera). Only once in the series did Hill appear to address another character with one of his narrations: in the Season 3 episode "Unnatural Disasters", the character Adebisi turns on a computer and sees Hill—dressed as a pharaoh—speaking to him. (This unusual sight is discounted by Adebisi as a drug-induced hallucination, and he never speaks of it again.)

Augustus Hill's narration over the course of the series is similar in purpose and execution to those of the Greek chorus in ancient theater. Hill's narration provides plot exposition, as well as commenting upon the events of the stories. The narration thus provides the audience a clearer understanding of the narrative's moral and thematic standpoints.





Oz's initial starring cast included 14 actors. Four of these were credited as "Starring": Ernie Hudson as Warden Leo Glynn, Terry Kinney as Emerald City Unit Manager Tim McManus, Harold Perrineau as inmate and narrator Augustus Hill, and Eamonn Walker as new inmate and devout Muslim Kareem Sa?d. Credited as "Also Starring" were: Edie Falco as correctional officer Diane Wittlesey, Rita Moreno as prison counselor Sister Peter Marie Reimondo, Kirk Acevedo as Latino inmate Miguel Alvarez, Leon Robinson as inmate Jefferson Keane, J.K. Simmons as inmate and Aryan Brotherhood leader Vernon Schillinger, Tony Musante as inmate and Mafia boss Nino Schibetta, Lee Tergesen as new inmate Tobias Beecher, Sean Whitesell as cannibalistic inmate Donald Groves, Dean Winters as manipulative Irish inmate Ryan O'Reily, and B.D. Wong as the prison chaplain Father Ray Mukada. During the first season Robinson and Whitesell departed with the execution of their characters, and Musante's character was murdered.

Season two saw recurring guest stars Lauren Vélez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and George Morfogen join the main cast. Vélez played prison doctor Gloria Nathan, Akinnuoye-Agbaje played inmate and Homeboys gang leader Simon Adebisi, and Morfogen played long-term inmate Bob Rebadow. Acevedo, Moreno, Simmons, Tergesen and Winters also joined Hudson, Kinney, Perrineau and Walker as the top-billed cast members.

In season three the following recurring guests were added to the main cast: Kathryn Erbe as death-row inmate Shirley Bellinger, Luis Guzman as inmate and Latino gang leader Raoul "El Cid" Hernandez, Mark Margolis as inmate and Mafia boss Antonio Nappa, and Christopher Meloni as Beecher's love interest Chris Keller. Akinnuoye-Agbaje was added to the show's top-billing. Falco left at the end of the season, and Margolis departed with the murder of his character.

Season four featured 10 "Starring" and 14 "Also Starring" cast members throughout the season. New additions to the cast were: ?eljko Ivanek as the cunning Governor James Devlin, Betty Buckley as Ryan O'Reilly's mother and Emerald City music teacher Suzanne Fitzgerald, Anthony Chisholm as Hill's mentor and stepfather Burr Redding, Rick Fox as basketball champion Jackson Vahue, David Johansen as Jewish inmate Eli Zabitz, Brian F. O'Byrne as provisional IRA terrorist Padraig Connolly, Luke Perry as new inmate and minister Jeremiah Cloutier, and Scott William Winters as Ryan O'Reilly's brain-damaged brother Cyril O'Reilly.



Main article: List of Oz episodes

Oz took advantage of the freedoms of premium cable to show material that would have been too extreme for traditional American broadcast television, e.g., coarse language, drug use, violence, male frontal nudity, homosexuality, male rape, as well as ethnic and religious conflicts. In Australia Oz was screened on the free-to-air channel SBS. This was also the case in Israel, where Oz was displayed on the free-to-air commercial Channel 2, in Italy where it was aired on the free-to-air Italia 1, in the United Kingdom where Channel 4 aired the show late at night, in Ireland on TG4 where it was shown at 11pm, and in Brazil, where it was aired by the SBT Network Corporation, also late at night. In The Netherlands, Oz aired on the commercial Channel RTL 5 and in Sweden and Norway, Oz aired on the commercial channels TV3 and ZTV late at night, and in Finland, on the free-to-air channel Nelonen (TV4). In Canada, Oz aired on the Showcase Channel at 10pm EST. In Denmark, Oz appeared late night on the non-commercial public service channel DR1. In Spain the show aired on Canal+, a premium channel. In Estonia, as well as Croatia, the show was aired late at night on public non-commercial state-owned channels, ETV and HRT, respectively. In Bosnia and Herzegovina it was aired on the federal TV station called FTV. In Portugal Oz aired late at night on SIC Radical, one of the SIC channels in the cable network. In France the show aired on a commercial cable channel 'Serie Club', also late at night. In Turkey, Oz was aired on Cine5, DiziMax also aired the re-runs. In Serbia, Oz was aired on RTV BK Telecom. In Panama, Oz was aired on RPC Channel 4 in a latetime hour. In India, reruns of Oz are aired on Zee Cafe in the late night slot (11 pm IST), albeit with some scenes deleted and adult language "muted" out. In Malaysia, Oz aired late at night on ntv7, while the censored version aired during the day. OZ was broadcast (uncensored) in Canada on the cable channel Showcase.

The program's seasonal length (eight episodes in Seasons 1, 2, 3, 5, 6; sixteen episodes in Season 4) is an example of a trend for cable network programming to feature shorter seasons than American free-to-air channels, which typically feature sixteen to twenty-two episodes per season.