El Conejo Metal

[from El Tribuno.com.ar, Dec. 31, 2010]

Comienza el año del conejo metal

Según los expertos del área de las predicciones, el que se inicia será un año mucho más tranquilo que el 2010.

En el Horóscopo Chino el 2011 es el año del Conejo de Metal y, de acuerdo a los expertos en el arte de pronosticar el futuro, será mucho más tranquilo que el 2010, año del Tigre de Metal, que comenzó el 14 de febrero de 2010 y extenderá sus garras hasta el 2 de febrero del 2011.

No fue un año sencillo para Argentina ni para el mundo. Pasó de todo: terremotos, tsunamis, accidentes, incendios y toda clase de cambios intensos a nivel general y personal. “Pero la tranquilidad que aflorará en 2011 tras “la tormenta” es sólo parte de un cambio mayor, ya que la idea es prepararse para lo grande: el 2012”, declaró el ancestrólogo, tarotista, maestro de Reiki y profesor Pedro Engel.

Sobre los sucesos que aquejaron al mundo y al país en 2010, el año del Tigre, el experto explicó que “en su piel, el Tigre lleva las rayas amarillas y negras que simbolizan las contradicciones de la vida, que tiene cosas buenas y cosas difíciles.Hay que aprender a aceptar la energía de la vida con lo bello y lo triste, y vivirla con sabiduría”.

A las puertas del año del Conejo, el profesor dijo sobre la situación del país que “el Tigre sorprende siempre hasta el último día. Pero después del 2 de febrero de 2011 debemos tener en cuenta que el Conejo es un signo especial para gobernar con diplomacia y suavidad.

Es de esperar que las cosas se calmen y sea un año más pacífico que el que estamos terminando. Los años del Conejo son a menudo financieramente buenos y se va en busca de lo tradicional, algo exagerado en lo conservador y rígido en sus aspectos morales.

Según el Horóscopo Chino, el 2011 será un año plácido, hogareño”. Para los salteños en el 2011 La astróloga y tarotista salteña Silvina Benegas Quiroz dio un panorama de lo que les deparará a los salteños el nuevo año.“El 2011 es un año de preparación para lo que viene, donde las cosas salen a la luz en el campo espiritual, material y emocional”.

“En lo emocional se recomienda poner prioridades que no ponían hasta el momento (descansar más, tratar de meditar sobre las cosas que se van a hacer, no actuar rápidamente sobre ellas, pensar lo que uno va a pedir y trabajar en ese deseo). Este año será de preparación para lo que vendrá y van a tener éxito las personas que trabajen en lo espiritual y emocional. El Calendario Maya está escrito hasta el 2012, o sea que hay una finalización de ciclos y eras”, declaró.

Agregó que “todo lo que no sirve es malo, es falso y tiende a desaparecer; habrá momentos de esperada justicia. Todo eso es lo que vamos a empezar a ver en el 2011, todas las cosas ocurren con mayor rapidez, todo se ve, algo pasa y enseguida se sabe, sale a la luz, entonces hay que actuar bien, con conciencia y permitirse el disfrutar, que es muy importante, vivir con más serenidad y prepararse espiritualmente”.

Aconsejó que “es el momento de hacer mucha meditación y relajación. Les aconsejo que hagan yoga y que cuiden la alimentación, que es fundamental. También recomiendo tomar conciencia de que el tiempo es aquí y ahora, no hacer grandes proyectos para lejos, para mañana. Somos capaces de lograr las cosas que queremos y deseamos. Concientizarnos en mejorar, en escuchar, en buscar la paz interior para lograr un mundo mejor entre todos”.

¡Feliz 2011!

¡Brindo porque el 2011 despliegue una magia especial

en la vida de tod@s mis amigos

para que los ilumine para alcanzar sus deseos

en un clima general de paz y fraternidad!

¡Muchas felicidades!

THE NEW YEAR'S EVE PLAYLIST

10 songs to help you to ring in the New Year!

"Body Movin' " by Beastie Boys

"Baptism" by Crystal Castles

"Alors on danse" by Stromae

"Barbra Streisand" by Duck Sauce

"Blame It" by Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain

"Time To Pretend" by MGMT

"Let's Go Crazy" by Prince

"I Gotta Feeling" by Black Eyed Peas

"Raise Your Glass" by P!nk

"Shine" by Freemasons feat. Luther Vandross

All songs available @ iTunes.

Diego Rivera

"Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste."

— Diego Rivera

Mexican Artist/Muralist

1886 - 1957

People talk of taste as if it was real.  It is an illusion of judgement.  Every work of art, every poem, and every story has value.  When people begin to label art as good or bad, they are creating false categories that are based on artificial judgements.  What the majority label as good today may be considered bad tomorrow.  You may like something or not like something which in itself is okay.  Liking or disliking reveals something about you.  There is nothing inherently bad or good within the work of art itself.  The sense of good or bad is in the eyes of the beholder.  Any judgement made about a work of art is actually a judgement of the person who made the statement.

While there may only be one person today who likes your art, it does not make the art bad.  Two hundred years from now the majority of people may consider it a masterpiece.  Taste is fickle and useless.

The Flower Carrier

Diego Rivera, the great Mexican Muralist,  painted a number of murals in the United States during the 1930's.  Edsel Ford hired him to paint a mural at the Detroit Institute of Arts which is still on view today.  John Rockefeller commissioned him to paint a mural in New York.  Since Rivera was a communist, he included a portrait of Lenin in the mural.  When Rockefeller demanded that he remove the portrait from the mural, Rivera refused.  Rockefeller had the mural destroyed.  In the 1930's, a portrait of Lenin was unacceptable to the American public taste.  A work of art was destroyed because the subject matter was unacceptable.  Three hundred years from now, most people probably will never had heard of Lenin and nobody will be offended.  Remember public taste is fickle and arbitrary.

Dec. 30: Jazz clarinetist and bandleaderArtie Shaw died on this date in 2004…

… he was 94 years-old when he passed away.

Born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky in New York City, Shaw grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. Shaw began learning the saxophone when he was 13 years old, and by the age of 16, he switched to the clarinet and left home to tour with a band.

Returning to New York, he became a session musician through the early 1930s. From 1925 until 1936, Shaw performed with many bands and orchestras, including those of Johnny Caverello and Austin Wylie. In 1929 and 1930 he played with Irving Aaronson's Commanders, where he was exposed to symphonic music, which he would later incorporate in his arrangements.

Shaw first gained critical acclaim with his "Interlude in B-flat" at a swing concert at the Imperial Theater in New York in 1935.

During the swing era, his big band was popular with hits like "Begin the Beguine," "Stardus," "Back Bay Shuffle,” "Moonglow,” "Rosalie" and "Frenesi.” He was an innovator in the big band idiom, using unusual instrumentation; "Interlude in B-flat,” where he was backed with only a rhythm section and a string quartet, was one of the earliest examples of what would be later dubbed third stream.

In addition to hiring Buddy Rich, he signed Billie Holiday as his band's vocalist in 1938, becoming the first white bandleader to hire a full-time black female singer to tour the segregated Southern US. However, after recording "Any Old Time" she left the band due to hostility from audiences in the South, as well as from music company executives who wanted a more "mainstream" singer.

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His band became enormously successful, and his playing was eventually recognized as equal to that of Benny Goodman: longtime Duke Ellington clarinetist Barney Bigard cited Shaw as his favorite clarinet player. In response to Goodman's nickname, the "King of Swing,” Shaw's fans dubbed him the "King of the Clarinet."

Shaw prized innovation and exploration in music more highly than popular success and formulaic dance music, despite a string of hits which sold more than 100 million records. He fused jazz with classical music by adding strings to his arrangements, experimented with bebop, and formed "chamber jazz" groups that utilized such novel sounds as harpsichords or Afro-Cuban music.

The long series of musical groups Shaw formed included such talents as vocalists Billie Holiday, Helen Forrest and, Mel Tormé; drummers Buddy Rich and Dave Tough, guitarists Barney Kessel, Jimmy Raney, and Tal Farlow and trombonist-arranger Ray Conniff, among countless others.

He composed the morose "Nightmare,” with its Hassidic nuances, for his personal theme, rather than more approachable songs. In a televised interview of the 1970s, Shaw derided the often "asinine" songs that bands were compelled to play night after night. In 1994, he told Frank Prial of The New York Times, "I thought that because I was Artie Shaw I could do what I wanted, but all they wanted was 'Begin the Beguine.' "





Artie Shaw & Lana Turner

A self-proclaimed "very difficult man," Shaw was married eight times. Two of his wives were Lana Turner and Ava Gardner.









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R.I.P. Bobby Farrell (of Boney M.)

Boney M.'s front-man, Bobby Farrell has passed away at the age of 61 in St.Petersburg, Russia. The group was currently on tour and Farrell even performed the evening prior to his death despite displaying signs of shortness of breath. Boney M. had not released an album of new material since 1985's "Eye Dance", yet the disco-era band had remained popular with their back catalogue of songs such as "Rasputin", "Rivers of Babylon", "Daddy Cool" and the Christmas themed "Mary's Boy Child/Oh, My Lord".

www.boneym.net

All songs available @ iTunes.

Martin Luther King Jr.

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.  He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'"

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

American Civil Rights Leader/Preacher/Author

1929 - 1968

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

One of those games we play is:  "Where were you when . . ."  On April 4, 1968, I was a nineteen year old college student at Goshen College in Indiana.  Two months earlier I had the privilege of marching with Dr. King at a Vietnam War protest march in Washington D.C. The murder of Dr. King on my birthday in 1968 impacted me both emotionally and spiritually.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For the past twenty years I have been sharing this quote by Dr. King in my speeches on leadership.  I believe that work is spiritual in nature.  The work we do helps to cleanse our souls and free our spirits.  Many people see work as a negative condition.  They hate Mondays and grumble about having to go to work.  Many people wish they did not have to work.  But if you have ever lost a job and sat idle for a few months, you appreciate the value of work in your life.

As creative leaders we have a special opportunity to share the fruit of our labor with others. Most of my life I have dreamed of being able to give up my bill-paying job and write full time.  Fortunately, this never happened.  I think I am a better person for having the discipline to get up an hour earlier than everyone and writing before going to work.  Sometimes what we wish for is not in our best interests.  The bill-paying work and the creative work are both important and both have helped to make me a better person.

Be proud of the work you do.  Celebrate the work you do.  Be happy with the gifts you have been given.

TOP 50 SONGS OF 2010 (#25-#1) AS VOTED BY YOU

Here is part two (#25-#1) of the Best Songs of 2010 as voted by you, the followers of the New "hit" Man. Look for the New "hit" Man's personal Best of 2010 list coming next week and check out the awesome intro below.

 

#24. "Bloodbuzz Ohio" by The National

#23. "Not Afraid" by Eminem
#22. "Dancing On My Own" by Robyn

#21. "Only Girl (In The World)" by Rihanna

#20. "What's My Name?" by Rihanna feat. Drake

#19. "Runaway" by Kanye West & Pusha T

#18. "I Can Change" by LCD Soundsystem

#17. "The High Road" by Broken Bells

#16. "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz

#15. "Telephone" by Lady Gaga & Beyoncé

#14. "OMG" by Usher feat. will.i.am

#13. "We Used To Wait" by Arcade Fire

#12. "Tighten Up" by The Black Keys

#11. "Ready To Start" by Arcade Fire

#10. "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum

#9. "Hey, Soul Sister" by Train

#8. "California Gurls" by Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg

#7. "Airplanes" by B.o.B. feat. Hayley Williams

#6. "Dog Days Are Over" by Florence + The Machine

#5. "Little Lion Man" by Mumford & Sons

#4. "Just The Way You Are" by Bruno Mars

#3. "Raise Your Glass" by P!nk

#2. "F#*k You" by Cee Lo Green

#1. "Love The Way You Lie" by Eminem feat. Rihanna

All songs available @ iTunes.

learning to speak Spanish

Gary Kinghorn emailed today with good online pointers for learning to speak Spanish.

A Spanish language video series from PBS: watch the first episode on YouTube here or plug this URL into your browser: mms://media.scctv.net/annenberg/Destinos_01.wmv. Change the 01 to 02, 03, etc. There are 52 episodes.

Download free audio lessons in iTunes called Coffee Break Spanish (beg. - int.) and Show Time Spanish (int. - adv.). More details here."

United States of Pop 2010 (Don't Stop The Pop) by DJ Earworm

http://djearworm.com

DJ Earworm is a DJ/mash-up artist based out of San Francisco, CA. He annually mashes up the Top 25 Songs of the year. Below is his take of Billboard's Top 25 Songs of 2010. 

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J. C. Penny

James Cash Penny

founder of J. C. Penny

"I am grateful for all of my problems.  After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come.  I grew in all my difficulties."

— James Cash Penny

American Businessman 

1875 - 1971

What problems are you grateful for?  We all face challenges in our lives and we sometimes let these challenges affect us emotionally and psychologically.  We need to learn to be thankful for the gifts hidden within the problems.  Every problem we face has something to teach us, something to give us.  Creative leaders face problems and challenges in their personal and financial lives like everyone else.  The difference is that we have been given the gift of creativity.  Don't just use your gift for your art.  Use it to solve the problems in your life.

James Cash Penny, age 27

In 1898 at the age of 23 James Cash Penny went to work for a small chain of retail stores.  Four years later, he was offered a third ownership in one store for which he paid $2,000 dollars.  In 1907, he bought and owned three stores.  By 1912 he owned 34 stores.  In 1913 at the age of 38, he incorporated his business under the name of J. C. Penny.  By 1929 the company had 1,400 stores.  The stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression left James Cash Penny in financial ruin.  He borrowed against the cash value of his life insurance policies to pay the payroll in his stores.  The financial setbacks took a toll on his health and he checked himself into a sanitarium.  He later recovered emotionally and financially and spent the rest of his life involved in charitable works.

What challenges are you facing today?  What changes can you make in your life that will help you solve these problems?  The problems we face are gifts that can make us stronger and better artists and writers.  Be thankful that you have an opportunity to learn and grow into a better person.

Dec. 28: The only real surfer in the band, The Beach Boys Dennis Wilson died on this date in 1983 ...

... he was 39 years-old when he passed away.

Dennis Carl Wilson was a founding member and the drummer of The Beach Boys along with brothers Brian and Carl and cousin Mike Love. He was a member of the group until his death in 1983.

In contrast to the other members of the group, Dennis seldom sang backup vocals at live performances, though he did so in the studio. His prominence in the group increased as their careers went on, sometimes singing lead, and as a writer towards and into the 1970s.

Born in Inglewood, California, Dennis was the second oldest of the three Wilson brothers. Their mother, Audree, forced Brian to include Dennis in the earliest lineup of the Beach Boys to keep him occupied and out of trouble.

 The Beach Boys formed in August 1961 under the guidance of father Murry Wilson, meeting immediate success. Though the Beach Boys were named for and developed an image based on the California surfing culture, Dennis was the only real surfer in the band.

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Though his lead vocals on the early Beach Boys recordings were rare, ("Little Girl (You're My Miss America)" and "This Car of Mine" as well as the bridge verse on "Girls On The Beach") he sang lead on "Do You Wanna Dance?" in February 1965. Later that year on Beach Boys' Party!, Dennis sang a rendition of The Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away." He accompanied himself on guitar, and like the other Beach Boys, became a multi-instrumentalist. His piano playing in particular was showcased on his Pacific Ocean Blue album.

 

Dennis became fascinated by Manson and his followers. The "Manson Family" lived with Wilson for a period of time afterwards, at his expense.

In 1971, Dennis Wilson starred alongside James Taylor and Warren Oates in the critically acclaimed film Two-Lane Blacktop as "The Mechanic."

In December 1970, Dennis released his first piece of solo material, a little-known single released under the name "Dennis Wilson & Rumbo," and released his debut solo album Pacific Ocean Blue in 1977. His collaborators on the album included Daryl Dragon of the Captain & Tennille.

The album peaked at #96 in the US and sold around 300,000 copies, matching that year's Beach Boys album Love You.

Pacific Ocean Blue's follow-up, Bambu, began production in the year 1978 at Brother Studios in Santa Monica with the collaboration of then Beach Boys keyboardist and Dennis's close friend Carli Muñoz as songwriter and producer.

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During the three-year recording hiatus following Holland, Dennis's voice deteriorated markedly. By then his onstage antics (including streaking) occasionally disrupted the Beach Boys' live shows.

On December 28, 1983, shortly after his 39th birthday, Wilson drowned at Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles after drinking all day and diving in the afternoon to recover items he had thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht back in 1980.

On January 4, 1984 he was buried at sea off the California coast by the U.S. Coast Guard. His song Farewell My Friend was played at the funeral.

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Joseph Conrad

"I don't like work — no man does — but I like what is in work: the chance to find yourself."

— Joseph Conrad

Polish Novelist

1857 - 1924

Unlike Conrad, I do like to work.  I find that if I don't work I become bored and more tired than when I work.  Although, I do from time to time find myself procrastinating, particularly with creative work.  The creative side of me doesn't want to sit down and do the work.  But I strongly agree with the second half of the quote.  Work does give me a chance to explore who I am as an artist and writer.  Work helps me to understand myself better and to appreciate my talents and gifts.  Work also challenges me and pushes me to go farther than I thought possible.

I believe we ought to celebrate work.  All work is honorable if approached with the right attitude.  Housework and housekeeping is very important work.  So is child-rearing.  Raising and educating the next generation is probably the most important work of all.  I am in awe of people who are knowledgeable about the work they do.  When I meet a sales clerk in a store who knows his product, I compliment him.  I love to listen to the sales pitch of great sales people.  Sometimes I buy and sometimes I don't, but I enjoy the ride.  I celebrate people who work their hands — carpenters, farmers, mechanics.  I am not good with my hands because I am too slow.  Some people have the gift for gab.  I have heard some fantastic speakers in my life.  Work for me is both an art and a skill.

The work that creative leaders do should also be celebrated.  Sometimes people don't understand the creative process and so they don't appreciate the working habits of artists and writers.  Painting, sculpting and writing are not 9 to 5 jobs.  You may work for an hour here and an hour there, but your mind is always working both consciously and unconsciously.  In fact, the unconscious work for a creative leader is probably the most important work and the most difficult.  So celebrate and appreciate the work you do.

TOP 50 SONGS OF 2010 (#50-#26) AS VOTED BY YOU

Here is part one (#50-#26) of the BEST MUSIC of 2010 as voted by you, the followers of the New "hit" Man. Look for part two coming on Thursday.

#50. “Barbra Streisand” – Duck Sauce

#49. “Wavin’ Flag” – K’naan 
#48. “Terrible Love” – The National

#47. “Stereo Love” – Edward Maya 
#46. “Howlin’ For You” – The Black Keys

#45. “If I Had You” – Adam Lambert
#44. “Whip My Hair” – Willow

#43. “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love” – Usher
#42. “Your Love Is My Drug” – Ke$ha 
#41. “Firework” – Katy Perry

#40. “Rude Boy” – Rihanna 

#39. “Mine” – Taylor Swift

#38. “Club Can’t Handle Me” – Flo Rida

#37. “Sprawl II” – Arcade Fire

#36. “Teenage Dream” – Katy Perry

#35. “Laredo” – Band of Horses

#34. “Just a Dream” – Nelly

#33. “O.N.E.” – Yeasayer

#32. “Break Your Heart” – Taio Cruz

#31. “Animal” – Neon Trees 

#30. “I Like It” – Enrique Iglesias 

#29. “Window Seat” – Erykah Badu

#28. “Stylo” – Gorillaz feat. Bobby Womack

#27. “The Time (Dirty Bit)” – B.E.P.

#26. “The Suburbs” – Arcade Fire

All songs available @ iTunes.

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