http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=aed_1319228825 Items in channel 'marypoppinsonheroin' Tue, 21 May 2013 23:47:28 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=aed_1319228825 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:21:52 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bb6_1369140862 marypoppinsonheroin Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died. He was 74. Manzarek died Monday in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family, said publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald. She said the musician's manager, Tom Vitorino, confirmed Manzarek died after being stricken with bile duct cancer. The Doors' original lineup, which also included drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robbie Krieger, was only together for a few years and they only made six studio albums. But the band has retained a large and obsessive following decades after Morrison's death, in 1971. The Doors have sold more than 100 million records and songs such as "Light My Fire" and "Riders On the Storm" are still "classic" rock favorites. For Doors admirers, the band symbolized the darker side of the Los Angeles lifestyle, what happened to the city after the sun went down and the Beach Boys fans headed home. Next to Morrison, Manzarek was the most distinctive-looking band member, his glasses and wavy blond hair making him resemble a young English professor more than a rock star, a contrast to Morrison's Dionysian glamour - his sensuous mouth and long, dark hair. Musically, Manzarek's spidery organ on "Light My Fire" is one of the most instantly recognizable sounds in rock history. But he seemed up to finding the right touch for a wide range of songs - the sleepy, lounge-style keyboards on "Riders On the Storm"; the liquid strains for "The Crystal Ship"; the barrelhouse romps on "Roadhouse Blues." The Doors always considered themselves "more" than a rock band and Manzarek, Densmore and Krieger often managed a flowing rapport that blended rock, blues and jazz behind Morrison's self-consciously poetic lyrics. "There was no keyboard player on the planet more appropriate to support Jim Morrison's words," Densmore said in a statement. "Ray, I felt totally in sync with you musically. It was like we were of one mind, holding down the foundation for Robby and Jim to float on top of. I will miss my musical brother." The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Their records have been reissued frequently and the band was the subject of a 1991 Oliver Stone movie, "The Doors," starring Val Kilmer as Morrison and Kyle MacLachlan as Manzarek, who complained that the film stereotyped Morrison as a hopeless drunk and also omitted calmer, more humorous times. The Doors' fame has hardly faded even though they're one of the few groups not to allow their music to be used for commercials, a source of great tension among surviving members. Manzarek and Krieger reportedly supported licensing the songs, and Densmore has resisted. The group also feuded when Krieger and Manzarek formed a new group, Doors of the 21st Century. Densmore objected, and Krieger and Manzarek performed under various names. Other Doors albums included "The Soft Parade," ''Waiting for the Sun" and their last record with Morrison, "L.A. Woman." Manzarek briefly tried to hold the band together on the albums "Other Voices" and "Full Circle," neither of which had critical or commercial success. He played in other bands over the years, working with X and Iggy Pop among others. He also wrote a memoir, "Light My Fire," and a novel, "The Poet In Exile," in which he imagines receiving messages from a Morrison-like artist who had supposedly died. Born and raised in Chicago, Manzarek studied piano as a child and briefly considered a career in basketball. After graduating from DePauw University, he headed west to study film at UCLA. A few months after graduation, he and Morrison met in 1965 on Venice Beach in California. As Manzarek would often recall, Morrison read him some lyrics - Let's swim to the moon/Let's climb through the tide/Penetrate the evening that the/City sleeps to hide" - that became the start of "Moonlight Drive." "I'd never heard lyrics to a rock song like that before," Manzarek told Billboard in 1967. "We talked a while before we decided to get a group together and make a million dollars." By 1966, they had been joined by Krieger and Densmore and were a sensation live, especially during the theatrical, Oedipal epic, "The End." They were the house band at the famed Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles before being signed by Elektra Records and releasing a self-titled album in 1967, one of the most talked-about debuts in rock history. "Well, to me, my God, for anybody who was there it means it was a fantastic time," Manzarek told The Republican in Massachusetts during an interview last year. "We thought we could actually change the world - to make it a more Christian, Islamic, Judaic Buddhist, Hindu, loving world. We thought we could. The children of the '50s post-war generation were actually in love with life and had opened the doors of perception. And we were in love with being alive and wanted to spread that love around the planet and make peace, love and harmony prevail upon earth, while getting stoned, dancing madly and having as much sex as you could possibly have." Manzarek is survived by his wife, Dorothy; his son Pablo and two brothers, Rick and James. Funeral arrangements are pending. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/05/20/founding-member-doors-dies-at-74-publicist-says/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bb6_1369140862 marypoppinsonheroin Ray Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies at 74, Ray Manzarek, the doors, Sat, 11 May 2013 23:29:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=52f_1368329247 marypoppinsonheroin May be a repost. But still funny the 2nd time around! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=52f_1368329247 marypoppinsonheroin Edde Izzard Talks About Dinosaurs And Jesus edde izzard, dinosaurs, jesus Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:50:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ee_1367034210 marypoppinsonheroin George Jones was the real fuckin deal. One of the old school country greats. Got to love the guy. He was pulled over on his lawn mower for drunk driving! How rock n roll is that?! Such a talent. RIP George _______________________________________________________________ Singer George Jones, whose 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' is regarded by many as the greatest country song ever recorded, charted dozens of hits over a long career marked by struggles with alcohol and drugs, broken marriages and, finally, redemption. By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times April 27, 2013 Three decades ago, an east Texas singer named George Jones took on an impossibly melodramatic, shamelessly sentimental song about a man who desperately clutched at lost love until his dying breath. His 1980 recording of "He Stopped Loving Her Today" became one of the most revered songs in country music history. Singers Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard were known for the poetically crafted lyrics of their country standards. But Jones' anguish-drenched vocals elevated "He Stopped Loving Her Today" above its soap-opera lyrics in polls of the greatest country music songs. oFrom 1955 to 2005, Jones put 167 records on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart - a history-making 143 of them in the top 40 - and won two Grammy Awards . Along the way, he won admirers as diverse as Frank Sinatra, James Taylor and the Who's Pete Townshend. Jones, 81, died Friday in Nashville, a little more than a week after being hospitalized for a fever and irregular blood pressure, ending a long, tumultuous life that frequently outstripped the songs he sang in terms of sheer drama. "The world has lost the greatest country singer of all time. Amen," Merle Haggard said Friday in a statement. Vince Gill, whose 20 Grammy Awards make him the most lauded male country singer ever, said, "There aren't words in our language to describe the depth of his greatness. I'll miss my kind and generous friend." In George Jones, glorious musical achievement lived side by side with personal heartbreak. Frustration, failure, disappointment and loss gave way later in life to personal and artistic redemption in recent decades. That Jones continued touring and recording until this month astonished and delighted fans who had seen him struggle with alcohol and drug abuse , multiple marriages and divorces, lawsuits over his erratic behavior, and brushes with death in motor vehicle accidents. His life became the stuff of country legend: Following a drinking binge during which his wife took his car keys so he couldn't drive, Jones famously commandeered a motorized lawn mower and drove himself to the nearest liquor store. "Hopefully will remember me for my music and forgive me of the things I did that let 'em down," Jones said in 2006. He also understood he wouldn't be absolved of everything: "There are some things you just can't make up to people," he said of the many performances he missed over the years because of his struggles with alcohol and drugs, which led to the nickname "No Show Jones" that followed him for many years in the 1970s and '80s. Yet, along the way, he continued to deliver hit after hit from 1955, when he first scored with "Why Baby Why," through his final appearance on the pop chart 50 years later as a guest of Waylon Jennings' son Shooter Jennings on "4th of July." PHOTOS: Celebrities react to the death of George Jones "In country music, George Jones set the standard long ago," the late Johnny Cash once said. "No one has compared to him yet." Or, as the now-departed Waylon Jennings famously remarked, "If we could all sound like we wanted to, we would all sound like George Jones." "George Jones was the ultimate voice of country music," said Robert Hilburn, The Times' former pop music critic. "He was someone whose pure and traditional tone represented to country music singing what Hank Williams represented to country songwriting. When people talk about country music being the white man's blues, they can explain their point by simply playing a George Jones song." George Glenn Jones was born Sept. 12, 1931, and grew up in Saratoga, a small, dusty town northeast of Houston in the Big Thicket region of Texas. He was the eighth child of George Washington Jones, a pipe fitter and shipyard worker who played guitar, and, Clara Jones, a church pianist. The modest household was dominated by the sounds of gospel and country music - and the abusive rages of the young singer's father, who turned to alcohol to drown his pain when Jones' sister died from a fever. "We were our Daddy's loved ones when he was sober, his prisoners when he was drunk," the singer wrote in his 1996 autobiography, "I Lived to Tell the Tale." As an 11-year-old, Jones made his first money as a singer when he played guitar and warbled Eddy Arnold songs for coins in front of a local church. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ee_1367034210 marypoppinsonheroin George Jones dies at 81 George Jones, Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:37:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=697_1366978934 marypoppinsonheroin I find this story vary ironic and believe this is a gay issue. I mean look at this Omar Borkan Al Gala guy. It's clear Saudi Arabia is insecure over their own sexuality. ________________________________________________________________ It's a good problem to have, but it's still a problem for three men who have reportedly been deported from Saudi Arabia for being "too handsome." The men were visiting Saudi Arabia from the United Arab Emirates to attend the annual Jenadrivah Heritage & Cultural Festival in Riyadh. They were apparently minding their own business when members of Saudi Arabia's religious police entered the pavilion and forcibly removed them from the festival. Their offense? They were considered "too handsome" to stay for fear that women would find them irresistible, according to the Arabic-language newspaper Elaph . "A festival official said the three Emiratis were taken out on the grounds they are too handsome and that the Commission members feared female visitors could fall for them," Elaph reported this week, as quoted on the website Arabian Business . The Emirati men were subsequently deported to Abu Dhabi. In Saudi Arabia women are largely prohibited from interacting with unrelated males. After the incident, the U.A.E. released an official statement indicating that the religious police may have been on high alert because of the unplanned (and, we assume, unnerving) presence of an unnamed female artist, reported the Telegraph . It's unclear whether the men were evicted in relation to that incident, however. http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/17/saudi-arabia-deported-men-for-being-too-handsome/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=697_1366978934 marypoppinsonheroin Saudi Arabia Reportedly Deports Men for Being 'Too Handsome' saudi arabia, Gay, Omar Borkan Al Gala, gay Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:32:39 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=765_1365193145 marypoppinsonheroin For all you ELO music fan's Jeff Lynne rerecorded Mr Blue Sky. I'm curious but can anybody hear a difference in the recordings? Take the challenge. What version do you like better. The 1977 or the 2012 version? B: The Original Mr Blue Sky: (1977) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjPqsDU0j2I As a recording engineer, fan, or just music lover this is exciting. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=765_1365193145 marypoppinsonheroin Jeff Lynne's Rerecording of Mr Blue Sky which one is better. original or new? ELO, Jeff Lynne, Mix, Rerecord, Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:57:49 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=966_1360032350 marypoppinsonheroin REPOST: This is a classic and still worth watching again. and for those who haven't seen it enjoy. This lady was trying to buy crack while wearing a wire and the police had a camera set up in the back of her car. When the crack dealer goes to check her for a wire she starts speeding away but he holds on to the side of the car at speeds of 60 mph. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=966_1360032350 marypoppinsonheroin Crack dealer goes for ride. Debbie, crack, wire, Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:45:33 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=37b_1358688966 marypoppinsonheroin Probably a repost, but this is one of my favorite scenes from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" .. it always makes me laugh when I see it. On a side note: Dr. Bumquist played by Michael Jeter (August 26, 1952 - March 30, 2003) He also played Mr noodle on Sesame Street. This goes out to all my LL stoner friends. enjoy http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=37b_1358688966 marypoppinsonheroin Dr l Ron Bumquist from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Michael Jeter, Las Vegas, Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:48:16 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=776_1358444712 marypoppinsonheroin LGIERS, ALGERIA The hostage situation in an Algerian natural gas complex appeared to reach a dangerous crescendo Thursday, with Islamic militants claiming that Algerian helicopter attacks left 35 hostages and 15 captors dead, according to the Associated Press. Islamists with the Masked Brigade, who have been speaking through a Mauritanian news outlet, said according to the AP that seven hostages were still alive Thursday, including three Belgians, two Americans, a Briton and a Japanese citizen. There was no official confirmation from U.S. or other governments involved on the emerging details. The British Foreign Office did confirm that they were aware of an "ongoing military operation." France also confirmed an attack was under way. Meanwhile, an unarmed American Predator drone arrived over the vast energy complex late Thursday afternoon local time, giving the U.S. its first independent look at the situation, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports. A spokesman for the Masked Brigade said according to the AP that the Algerians opened fire as the militants tried to leave the gas plant with their hostages a day after seizing the installation deep in the desert. The information came from the Nouakchott Information Agency, which has often carried reports from al Qaeda-linked extremist groups in North Africa. A diplomatic source confirmed to CBS News that the Algerian military had a plan to retake the facility and that there had been casualties among both the terrorists and hostages, including multiple deaths. A British security source, citing a contact close to the scene, told CBS News "that the Algerians were firing from helicopters at anything that moved," but could not confirm any deaths. The militant spokesman said the leader of the kidnappers, Abou El Baraa, was among those killed. He said the militants would blow up the remaining hostages if the Algeria army approached. A State Department source told CBS News the kidnappers were armed with AK-47 assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, and that some had suicide vests. The Algerian government did not immediately comment on the situation, but both Japanese and British authorities confirmed to the AP that they had been told by the Algerians there was an ongoing operation to free the hostages. The militants originally said they had seized 41 foreigners, including Americans, Britons, French, Japanese, Romanians, Malaysians, Irish and Norwegians, among others. Meanwhile, multiple sources reported the earlier escape of some hostages, but details differed. An employee at the facility, partly operated by BP, told CBS News that 26 Algerians and four foreigners, including one American, had escaped, citing a briefing from BP officials. Two Britons and one French hostage accounted for the other foreigners. Algeria's news agency, citing local police, also said four foreign hostages were freed in the operation. An Algerian security official had told the Associated Press that around 20 foreign hostages had escaped. Those reports were also unconfirmed by government officials. Separately, Ireland said an Irish hostage had made contact with his family and was safe and free. The Masked Brigade was formed by Moktar Belmoktar, a one-eyed Algerian who recently declared he was leaving the terror network's Algerian branch, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, to create his own group. He said at the time he would still maintain ties with the central organization based in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Earlier on Thursday, the Al-Jazeera television network spoke via telephone to three purported hostages, and to a man identifying himself as Baraa, the commander reportedly killed in subsequent attack. "Yesterday, the Algerian army deliberately opened fire and they injured some of the hostages from Japan and South Korea," Baraa told Al-Jazeera. "If the army withdrew from the area, lifted this siege, and abandoned their obstinate approach, this can open the door for negotiations with governments of the hostages' countries." A man identifying himself as a Japanese hostage told the network that he and a Norwegian hostage had been wounded by sniper fire. Two others, who identified themselves as a Briton and an Irish national, said they had communicated to their respective embassies that the situation was "deteriorating," and urged the Algerian military to pull back from the confrontation and stop engaging the kidnappers. The Irishman said the "message does not seem to be getting through," warning that the incoming fire from Algerian troops was continuing, "up until recently, about 10 minutes ago, they were still firing into the camp." The complex is jointly operated by BP, Norway's Statoil and the Algerian Sonatrach company. A Japanese company, JGC Corp, provides services for the facility as well. The Algerian government said some 20 militants hit the gas complex at Ain Amenas, 800 miles south of Algiers, the third largest in the country, early Wednesday morning and occupied it, taking hostages. They were then surrounded by the Algerian military and a tense standoff ensued. The militants had said the gas plant attack came in retaliation for Algeria allowing France to use its airspace to attack al Qaeda-linked rebel groups in neighboring Mali. CBS News: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57564419/militants-35-hostages-dead-in-algerian-copter-attack/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=776_1358444712 marypoppinsonheroin Militants: 35 hostages dead in Algerian copter attack Islam, kidnap, hostages, religion, Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:37:03 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=283_1358443697 marypoppinsonheroin The Algerian news agency reported Thursday that as many as 45 hostages, including Americans, had escaped from a natural gas complex a day after Islamic militants seized the installation in retaliation for French airstrikes against Islamist rebels in neighboring Mali . The Algerian report said 30 Algerians and 15 foreigners had fled the compound Thursday. The report could not be independently confirmed. The Associated Press, quoting an unnamed Algerian official, said 20 foreigners, including Americans, had escaped. Conflicting reports suggested that hostages and kidnappers may have been killed by Algerian soldiers when they attempted to leave the complex. Media reports said a Mauritanian news organization quoted a militant spokesman as saying gunfire from helicopters killed 35 foreigners and 15 kidnappers, including the group's leader. If either scenario if true -- no details are yet known -- it would mark a stunning twist in a drama that has raised fears of a long siege and highlighted the dangerous Islamist extremism stretching from Mali across the mountains and lawless deserts of North Africa. ] The militants had reportedly threatened to blow up the gas facility at In Amenas near the Libyan border if government commandos attempted to free the hostages. France 24 television reported that a male captive said in a telephone interview that attackers forced some hostages to strap on belts laden with explosives. It could not be confirmed if the man was a hostage. Hundreds of Algerian soldiers ringed the Sahara Desert compound and helicopters skimmed above. Algerian officials had earlier said they would not negotiate with the militants, who reportedly had asked for safe passage into Libya. Captives being held are believed to be from the U.S., France, Japan, Norway and other countries. Reports on Wednesday suggested that as many as 41 foreigners were being held by an Al Qaeda -linked group calling itself the Signed-in-Blood Battalion. The ordeal has shown the volatility of a region bristling with gunrunners, smugglers and a visceral strain of Islamic ideology. Militant groups, including Algeria's Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), have been deadly at home but now present a widening danger in North Africa, including in Tunisia and Libya, where Islamic extremists have gained a foothold since the uprisings of the Arab Spring . The natural gas complex at In Amenas, which supplies Europe and Turkey, is a joint venture operated by BP ; Statoil, a Norwegian firm; and Sonatrach, the Algerian national oil company From The LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-20-foreign-hostages-escape-islamist-captors-in-algeria-20130117,0,7004240.story http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=283_1358443697 marypoppinsonheroin Algeria hostages reportedly escape captors; some may have been slain Islamic, hostages, slain , Militants, Algeria, bad, Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:33:01 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=42d_1358379077 marypoppinsonheroin one of the bests http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=42d_1358379077 marypoppinsonheroin Warren Zevon, mohammed's radio zevon, Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:35:03 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=25d_1358112772 marypoppinsonheroin Ugandans are the hardest drinking Africans in the motherland, both in terms of per capita consumption and the hooch they choose to chug. Waregi, or "war gin," is what they call the local moonshine, and it makes the harshest Appalachian rotgut taste like freaking Bailey's. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=25d_1358112772 marypoppinsonheroin Africa's Moonshine Epidemic Africa, moonshine, drunk, Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:50:25 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c83_1355338132 marypoppinsonheroin . http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c83_1355338132 marypoppinsonheroin John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) John Lennon,