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November 5, 2009

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I found this fascinating quote today:

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Just barely up and running, represents NEW DOMAIN: If you accept the paradox that its name emanates from the first film by Traci Lords, an opulent tribute, not a site geared toward adults, then YOU may return to find What Gets Me Hot.

The author walks the line for daily inspiration. What Gets Me Hot is proportionality equal to discovery, coexistence with YOU. It takes readers intelligence and sensitivity attentively, not of false ends, that its readers may accidence its content like 'a caveman in a spaceship,' as Charles Manson once rambled.

You can but guess the magic water in this oasis is its strength. I am digesting and it shows the intrepid navigators with their beautifier blogs. A master synthesizer, I admit I have inherited a gift.

I love discovery out of trance. I've tried everything and see that it is easier to ignore the one thing to a mountain of information.
I with my choice and my acquisitiveness in the face of that curiosity which most older dogs forfeit to cats.

Internet, you have impressed me within.

Apture provides my deep multi-go videos, maps, images, and articles, not visible until clicked--then its flowers bloom.
I am seamless with Lijit--elegant researcher, wonder-tracker, full statistic app. It is useful to discover.

You may find my network, links, blogroll; all, and without leaving my site. I hope it's better late than never introduced. Incomplete guides provide more discovery opportunity for hidden treasure seekers of blog quarry's. Continue to dig in. No mean pyrite here. Ask the blog via Lijit. Welcome Feedburner. Link each article. I hope to follow you on Twitter. 'What Gets Me Hot' is on FriendFeed. Subscribe for regular dissemination.

What Gets Me Hot? Not smooth collaboration between operators, tapping the next big thing. It is my online peregrination, combined therapy and inspiration/chronicle of daily use. I cover what is important only to me: absurdity of equal parts uneven juxtaposition through subjects expressed infrequently with less editorial and twice the swagger. That's What Gets Me Hot!

There is a major emergency in our bloated and full but unfulfilled desire for all things all the time; appreciating nothing more than anything. The accident is not in the water for our well drying up, it is that we're running dry.

A cliche is a cliche [which is an iteration], because it is the best way to describe something that everybody considers at the same time with less original well-placed words.

This is one of the occasions when going thirsty after a deep rain is just a cliche of missed water, but as everyone knows, one can only live three days tops without a drink--it's a cliche that is a Parable that is a moral to the story of a blog.

Regardless of how many Bergman movies your girlfriend has described to you; no matter how many you do not need to see, you'd be shocked to find that: "You may have been wrong". Maybe when she asked you, you needed them for you, not for her. Perhaps ultimately it did not work with you two. Maybe you need to see a Bergman film in the evening, or all of them.
[Which is an analogy to read my blog--perhaps she's still begging, and you like it].

Gullybogan Said: He calls his blog The Perfect American, and there is something very Gatsby about it all, do not you think?

        Mr. Dante Fontana's Visual Guidance Ltd. video-only blog has risen from the ashes to become...[::] which kind of rollllls off the tongue, don't you think?...the mastermind is the delightfully batshit crazy owner of THE完 PERFECT完 AMERICANな.

BAIKINANGE [SCHADENFREUDIAN THERAPY] October 30, 2008

    So, I'm over looking at The Perfect American, in awe of the whole scene, the style the volume, the insanity, which to the uninitiated, is a roiling vortex of lust for the illness called Rock n' Roll. It's a journey.

LEX10 [GLYPHJOCKEY] December 01, 2007

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You should read the whole article.

November 4, 2009

What Gets Me Hot: BBC NEWS | Americas | Brazilian Santa escapes gunfire

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Kathie Lee Gifford Hee Haw Honeys (1978) plus Elvis' and Bruce Jenner's wife LINDA THOMPSON

Hee Haw Honeys Gunilla Hutton and Misty Rowe Magnet12-13-1975

Q:
Do you know if "Hee Haw" will be airing on TV again anytime soon? A:
It's possible that Gaylord Entertainment will get "Hee Haw" back on the
air sometime in the future. CMT and GAC are beginning to show more old
footage of country performers and I think it would be AWESOME if they
could show "Hee Haw" too. If they DO start running the show on TV, I
would expect it to be the later years, the ones that are not on DVD yet.
Q: Can we voice our opinion about Gaylord getting "Hee Haw" back on
the air or on video? A: I would suggest you visit the official Hee Haw
page, www.heehaw.com,and sign the guestbook - be sure you tell them you
want to see more Hee Haw! Q: Tell me about that dog on the show!
A: Here's what I know about the dog. Actually there were several dogs!
There were actually four dogs over the 25-year run of "Hee Haw." The
first one was Kingfish, who was only on the show for one season before
meeting his untimely death by choking on a bone. The second was
Beauregard, who belonged to the show's technical director, Joe
Hostettler. Beauregard Jr. came along next. He was no relation to the
first Beauregard! The last dog to grace the "Hee Haw" set was Buford,
who was on the show for five years. After he left in 1985, they didn't
replace him. Q: I know someone who was on Hee Haw, but I don't see
them on the cast page. Can you tell me when they were on the show? A:
Not if they're not on the cast page. If you have information to add to
the site about a particular cast member (such as when they were on the
show, etc.), feel free to e-mail me. However, I use my own discretion as
to what I add to the site as I don't wish to pass on incorrect
information OR slander anyone. Also, since this is not my full-time job,
it may take me awhile for your information to get on the page. Be
assured, though, that I will keep your information and get it on there
eventually.

Yep, Hee Haw, in all its earthy glory, is still on the air. For 23 years, the corn-pone variety show has showcased country music's finest-this year's list includes Garth Brooks and Loretta Lynn.

Once a year Lulu, creaky Grandpa Jones, and the rest of the regulars reconvene at Opryland to tape the season's two dozen hour-long shows in seven intense weeks. They call it their family reunion. But when the cast members returned last October to tape the 24th season--which began airing last month-they were met with some big changes, not all of which they liked.
First, the famous cornfield set was gone. Everybody from Tennessee Ernie Ford to Tanya Tucker had popped out of that field to joke about henpecked husbands and lazy cousins.
In its place: a pristine city-street set, a newfangled shopping mall backdrop, and the main nightclub set-a gleaming confection of glass, turquoise, and pink neon.
''There's no straw on the floor,'' says comedian Gailard Sartain.
''There are no funny smells or anything.'' But most jarring of all, many old family members were gone. Last summer, executives at Gaylord Syndicom, which owns the series, asked producer Sam Lovullo, who has been with Hee Haw from the start, to bring the show into the '90s. Though Hee Haw had a loyal middle-aged audience, it had failed to catch on with the young, cosmopolitan crowd that had embraced country music since Randy Travis released his 1986 album, Storms of Life. Ratings for the show, which at the height of its popularity in the mid-'70s was seen in nearly 10 million households each week, had dropped by more than half. The show, facing competition from The Nashville Network and VH-1 (and now, NBC's Hot Country Nights), had slid into late-night or early-morning time slots. Hee Haw had come to a crossroads, and the bosses knew it. Get out of Kornfield Kounty, Lovullo was told. Take it ''to the suburbs,'' as one executive said, and reel in the young folk. That meant, among other things, firing several Hee Haw Honeys, some of whom had been squeezing into their calico hot pants for nearly 20 years. ''I think I went into a depression for about a month,'' says Lovullo, 61, recalling the task. In July, he bade farewell to Honeys Misty Rowe, Gunilla Hutton, and Marianne (Mrs. Kenny) Rogers. The only Honeys asked to stay were Irlene Mandrell (Barbara's youngest sister) and Linda Thompson. Other regulars, including Cathy Baker, who had ended each show with a cheery ''that's all,'' gap-toothed Roni Stoneman, and the Hee Haw gospel quartet, were also not invited back. Over the next three months Lovullo hired art director Bill Camden, who had done Hee Haw's original sets and worked on Designing Women, to change the show's look, and auditioned nearly 300 hopeful Honeys. The winners are all in their 20s: L.A. model Dawn McKinley; actress-singer Alice Ripley; Donna Stokes, a former Miss Snap-On Tools; and Becky and Lindy Norris, twins from Branson, Mo. Lovullo also hired Cuban singer-dancer Pedro Tomas, comedian Gary Mule Deer, and Billy Baker, a former clown. Lovullo asked head writer Herbert Fox, 63, to update old sketches. An aerobics skit was moved from a barn to an exercise studio. The Curl Up and Dye beauty salon segment would now take place at a department store. New spots include ''The Sally and Jesse Raphael Show,'' starring the Norris twins, and the surreal ''Leave It to Beepo,'' about a suburban family of clowns (''Binky, don't play with your nose at the table''). That still left room for some of what Fox calls the ''vaudeville blackout'' groaners:

I am often asked these questions. I hope my answers are helpful! Please look over these questions before sending an e-mail query about my site, as you might not be the first person to ask! Q: Do you know where I can find videotapes of Hee Haw? A: Amazon and Time-Life sell them; also, you can sometimes find them in the electronics section of your local discount stores such as Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, etc. Q. My (choose from the following: boyfriend, neighbor, uncle, mother-in-law; or add your own relationship here) performed on Hee Haw. Do you have this? Can you make me a copy? A: I only have this footage if it's on the DVDs that have been released by Gaylord Entertainment, which you can buy on my site from Amazon or Time-Life. I do not have a DVD recorder and even if I did it would be illegal for me to sell you a copy. If you really want the footage I recommend buying the DVD, even if you don't buy it from this site. Click on the picture to purchase from Amazon - Or this one to purchase from Time-Life - - you may have to navigate their site a little to find the DVD's Speaking of illegal, I have found quite a few bootleg VHS tapes of "Hee Haw"on . I have to admit that I have purchased a couple of these myself in the past. If you are interested, you might e-mail the seller and see who's on the show before buying the tape. The quality of these is usually somewhat lacking, but for the diehard "Hee Haw" fan who just loves seeing all the old footage, it's worth taking a look. Q: Who was the Scarecrow in the Kornfield? A: That was Stringbean.

Roy Clark, the sole host of the show since former partner Buck Owens bowed out in 1986, is tuning his guitar and waiting to tape a round of medleys. "Most young people haven't plowed," he says. "Most of them have not been raised on farms. We're just trying to make it a little more acceptable to them." Like Clark, the show's veterans are trying to be optimistic about the changes, but they miss their old friends. "When we started this, we were all kids," says Lulu Roman, 45, her eyes misting. "I thought we were going to get to grow old together, you know? That hurts." But Hee Haw cast members are accustomed to helping each other through painful times: the deaths of resident fat man Junior Samples in 1983 and comedian Archie Campbell in 1987, and the strokes suffered last year by Grandpa Jones, 78, and Minnie Pearl, 79, who now uses a wheelchair. "It's Hee Haw but it's not," says longtime Honey hairdresser Cindy Rich as the revamped cast gathers for a photo shoot. "The old cast would be screaming and laughing and cutting up with each other." But today a subtle tension descends. Roman's irritated twang can be heard shouting from behind one of the new Honeys: "You can't see me. There's hair in my face!" Being a new Honey under the circumstances can be a mixed bag. "It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time," says Alice Ripley, a striking, no-nonsense Kent State graduate. But the inseparable Norris twins don't seem to mind the demands. "We always wanted to be an actress," says Lindy. The tension on the set dissipates when Linda Thompson, a Honey of 15 years, arrives with a new wedding ring the size of Amarillo. Thompson, who dated Elvis Presley and married and divorced Bruce Jenner, is talking about her new husband, composer David Foster. Thompson regales everyone with stories of their June wedding, set against a Santa Barbara sunset. "Barbra Streisand turned to a friend of mine and said, 'Well, what do you think about this for backlighting?'" Then Thompson leaves, announcing she has to find a push-up bra for the show. "See?" says Rich sadly. "This is how it used to be."

Despite Hee Haw's home-baked flavor, the show was cooked up with shrewd marketing instincts. In 1968, Canadian producers Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth, the team behind The Jonathan Winters Show, looked at that year's top shows and figured that Laugh-In plus The Beverly Hillbillies equaled surefire success. With producer-agent Bernie Brillstein (The Blues Brothers, the new Dennis Miller Show), they sold the idea to CBS. In 1971 CBS killed its rural shows, including Green Acres, but Hee Haw was resurrected in syndication later that year. Since its beginning, the show has caught flack-for the Honeys' skimpy outfits and for what some have charged is an insulting attitude toward the South. The revamped show probably won't change anyone's mind. The Honeys still wear something less than bathing suits, although their gloriously tacky gingham ruffles have been replaced by just plain tacky miniskirts, which belong more to 42nd Street than Main Street. "They just hired younger bimbos, that's all," says country singer K.T. Oslin, who refuses to appear on the show because of its portrayal of women. "Maybe its time has passed," says Brillstein, who is no longer associated with the show. "If something has been on that long, I don't know if you ever fix it. They tried to do it to The Carol Burnett Show " Hee Haw will still attract top musicians, however. Most stars have long considered a Hee Haw appearance a rite of passage. Even Kenny Rogers says he and Marianne are still "good friends" with the show. Garth Brooks has such an affinity for it that when he taped a show for this season, he insisted on wearing the old show's trademark overalls instead of the men's new jewel-toned shirts and pressed jeans. Longtime employees can get nostalgic too. "The overalls were comfortable and there was just one change a day," says Gailard Sartain, who also appeared on the 1978 spin-off, The Hee Haw Honeys. He comes back to Hee Haw every year, despite a flourishing movie career (he's currently Kathy Bates' oafish husband in Fried Green Tomatoes). But Sartain is also a realist. Between takes, he drags on a cigarette and ponders whether Hee Haw's new dress will spoil the old girl. "I think change is always good," he says. "I don't know why it wouldn't work. Then again, I don't know why it would I mean, no one ever thought Hee Haw would be on this long, anyway." So give it another two decades; maybe the mall of today will be the cornfield of tomorrow.

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November 3, 2009

Bowstring unpretending & Dangerfield's technician

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Bowstring unpretending & Dangerfield's technician, bolts Reconstruction, touchiness vibratory slide ineffectualness, rephrasing and more...! have made his style so unique.

Best of all, these techniques will be demonstrated & taught in the context of some of his most famous rhythm parts from songs...

reBlog from What Gets Me Hot: WGMH

PHINEAS NEWBORN JR.: Baby Grandiloquent

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PHINEAS NEWBORN JR.

oleo

lush life

Theme For Basie

Left Hand Blues

Created by television pioneer and life-long jazz devotee Steve Allen, Jazz Scene USA was nationally syndicated television program in the beginning of the sixties that showcased some of the best practitioners of that very American musical form. All appearances are featured in a relaxed, casual atmosphere created by hipster host, singer Oscar Brown Jr. Uncompromising in its use of imaginative camera angles, the visual style is on a par with the music. These shows are time capsules to cherish fron america's golden days of televised jazz.

In these videos circa 1962 we see the amazing pianist Phineas Newborn interpreting his own "Theme For Basie", Billy Strayhorn's lush ballad "Lush Life", "Blues For Left Hand" , "The New Blues" and Sonny Rollins' "Oleo" accompanied by Al McGibbon on bass and Kenny Dennis on drums.

Phineas Newborn Jr., a leading jazz pianist, died at his home in Memphis, Tenn., Friday. He was 57 years old.

Phineas Newborn Jr., a leading jazz pianist, died at his home in Memphis, Tenn., Friday. He was 57 years old.

The cause of death has not been released.Irvin Salky, Mr. Newborn's agent and friend, said X-rays six weeks ago showed a growth on one of his lungs.

Although Mr. Newborn was not a celebrity, he was highly regarded by jazz aficionados, especially in the 1950's and 60's. ''In his prime, he was one of the three greatest jazz pianists of all time, right up there with Bud Powell and Art Tatum,'' said Leonard Feather, a jazz critic for Downbeat magazine and The Los Angeles Times.

His albums included ''A World of Piano,'' ''The Newborn Touch,'' ''The Great Piano of Phineas'' and ''Piano Artistry of Phineas Newborn.''His father, Phineas Newborn Sr., led a big band that played on Memphis's celbrated Beale Street in the 30's and 40's. Mr. Newborn grew up playing saxophone, trumpet and vibraphone in the band, which included his brother Calvin, who played guitar.

Besides his brother, he is survived by his mother, daughters, a son and two grandchildren.

A racial attack took him out of the playing circuit in 1974. He was admitted to the Veteran’s Hospital with a cracked jawbone, broken nose and several broken fingers. The day Phineas was discharged from the hospital he went to Ardent recording studios and recorded a Grammy nominated album, ‘Solo Piano’. The tracks included a version of ‘Out of The World’ which contained stunning left-hand virtuosity. Stanley Booth says that ‘hearing that performance while looking at the X-ray photos of Phineas’s broken hands is enough to make you think that Little Red (Phineas Newborn), like Jerry Lee Lewis is a little more than human.’Rhythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music

Phineas Newborn Jr - Web Essay

By ROBERT PALMER
Published: July 11, 1986

Phineas Newborn Jr., Sweet Basil, 88 Seventh Avenue South, below West Fourth Street (242-1785). Born into a musical Memphis family and a pianist with his father's big band and on early B. B. King recordings while still in his teens, Phineas Newborn Jr. was in every sense a prodigy. By the time he made his classic Atlantic, RCA and Contemporary jazz albums, in the 1950's and early 60's, that prodigious abundance of technique was getting him compared with the virtuosic Art Tatum, and dismissed by some as all fingers, no heart. That was never true, and certainly isn't now. In his maturity, Mr. Newborn is one of the masters of jazz piano, with an immediately identifiable tone and touch, great harmonic originality, and, as a kind of signature, octave runs that seem to fairly whip along the keyboard. Shows are around 10 and 11:30 P.M. and 1 A.M. through Sunday, with a $10 music charge and $6 minimum.

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PHINEAS NEWBORN, Jr.
August 17, 1975
Memphis, Tennessee
3-min. excerpt
1/2 » Open Reel Video original, B&W

Imagine yourself a prodigy, a jazz virtuoso of the 1950s. You have played with everybody from Duke Ellington to Charlie Mingus. Then POW… you are lost for twenty years. Your achievements and talents put into chemical and canvas straitjackets. Living with your mother. Treated like a miscreant. Then you begin to rise to the top again. This is one of the man’s first public performances before a public eager and waiting so long for his return.