Ed Sheeran - Dive [Music Video]

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1. http://hichannel.hinet.net/live.do?id=53
2. I love you more than I imagine.
3. Love is simple.

Way back into love.

by Hugh Grant and Haley Bennett

I'll post the lyrics of the song, "way back into love", later when available.

"I'm Movin' On" - Rascal Flatts Official Music Video

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(Phillip White/Vincent Williams)
I've dealt with my ghosts and I've faced all my demons
Finally content with a past I regret
I've found you find strength in your moments of weakness
For once I'm at peace with myself
I have been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long
I'm movin' on

I've lived in this place and I know all the faces
Each one is different but they're always the same
They mean me no harm but it's time that I face it
They'll never allow me to change
But I never dreamed home would end up where I don't belong
I'm movin' on

Michael Jackson is dead.

Michael Joseph Jackson died at age 50 in Los Angeles on June 25, 2009. He spent a lifetime surprising people, in recent years largely because of a surreal personal life, lurid legal scandals, serial plastic surgeries and erratic public behavior that have turned him -- on his very best days -- into the butt of late-night talk-show jokes and tabloid headlines. But when his career began to take off nearly four decades ago as a member of the pop group the Jackson 5, fans and entertainment industry veterans recognized something else about the pint-size musical dynamo that was unusual: He was in possession of an outsize, mesmerizing talent.
The introduction to his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame entry seemed apt as a global audience followed reports of his hospitalization and then death:

"Michael Jackson is a singer, songwriter, dancer and celebrity icon with a vast catalog of hit records and countless awards to his credit. Beyond that, he has transfixed the world like few entertainers before or since. As a solo performer, he has enjoyed a level of superstardom previously known only to Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Frank Sinatra."


Article Source: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/michael_jackson/index.html


My comment:

Actually, I don't know Michael Jackson very well. I simply know that he is a disputed person that some people love him but some people dislike him. Also, he has some negative news such as child molestation though I have no idea weather it's true or not. However, I think the most important thing is that if he really is good at his profession-music.

Flea Goes Back To School

All Things Considered, September 27, 2008 - As a member of the multiplatinum rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea wouldn't seem to need higher education to further his career. But the bassist has just enrolled as a freshman at the University of Southern California's music program. For Flea, it's an opportunity to learn the academic side of music.

"I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction," Flea says. "All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good."

Like any other freshman music major, Flea is starting at the beginning with Bach's chorales and his four-part harmonies. It's a different world from that of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but Flea says it's useful anyway.

"Music is made up out of these building blocks," he says. "Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works — it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about."

As he takes these classes, Flea says, he sees what concepts his band has been using all along. But now, learning the basic formations of chord progression and harmonies, he's looking to expand himself as a composer and a musician.

This isn't Flea's first foray into music education. Eight years ago, he started the Silver Lake Music Conservatory. The nonprofit music school came about when Flea revisited his old school to find that its band rooms were abandoned for budgetary reasons. He said he was so crushed that he called his childhood friend and music teacher, Keith Barry, to start a program that now boasts 600 students.

"We want to give music education to any kid that wants it," Flea says.

Saturday night is the school's fourth annual school benefit, called the Hullabaloo, which features performances by jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove, vocalist Roberta Gambarini, members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Flea himself and the students.



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I Love You - Celine Dion And Faith Hill

An English song

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Travel with a twang

Extracted from Taipie Times

By John GeromeAP, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE Monday, Jan 28, 2008, Page 13

Drummer Kelly Bamberger, bass player Gary Branchaud and saxophonist John Heinrich perform at the Nashville International Airport's food court.PHOTO: APMembers of the audience dash off suddenly during his show. Others talk on cellphones, read novels or wolf down sandwiches.

John Bontempi takes it all in stride. He strums his guitar and sings another tune near the clanking baggage carousel at Nashville International Airport.

"It took all of history just to make you mine," he warbles from under a dark cowboy hat.
Bontempi is among the 90 or so professional musicians who perform at the airport in its push to add "local flavor," a break from the chain gift shops and restaurants in American airports from Miami, Florida, to Seattle, Washington.

"We're the best gig in town," proclaimed Cathy Holland, the airport's director of community affairs and customer service.

The musicians tend to agree, even if the audience is antsy and the overhead announcements - "The local time is 2:30pm" - get annoying.

"It's a lot of fun. You get a lot of different people coming through," says Bontempi, a singer-songwriter who plays all original material at his monthly two-hour airport shows. "I've had people on their cellphones walk by and say 'Hey, they even have music here - listen' and they hold up their cellphone." Nashville already has one of the busiest airports in the US for live music, but this month it will liven up even more with the opening of Tootsie's, an offshoot of the Tootsie's Orchid Lounge honky-tonk where Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson once swapped songs and cold beers.

Travelers listen to saxophone player John Heinrich.PHOTO: APNo one knows for certain, but Nashville International and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas probably have more live music than any other airport in the US, according to the trade group Airports Council International.

The cities share a rich musical heritage. Nashville's reputation as the capital of country music goes back to the start of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1920s. Austin's thriving independent music scene grew from country roots in the 1970s and is celebrated by thousands of music industry representatives and fans who flock to the annual South By Southwest Festival.
"The airport is the gateway. It's important that it reflect the culture and character of the city," said Jim Halbrook, spokesman for Austin's airport, where a variety of musical acts do 11 shows a week.

Other North American airports have live music on a more limited basis. During the holidays, Boston Logan International and Vancouver International had professional performers and local school choirs.

Lambert-St Louis International has musicians playing a few times a week. Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International in Florida has live entertainment during the fall and winter months.
In Nashville, the airport began offering music in the early 1990s as country music was hitting a growth spurt. Today, musicians of every stripe play its five stages most days of the week.

On the same afternoon Bontempi sang his country songs in baggage claim, a four-piece pop group called the Chessmen performed near the security gate. A handful of people sat at the bar, a few worked at laptops or watched ESPN. When the band broke into Jimmy Buffett's beach anthem Margaritaville, everyone clapped.

"It's a nice touch," remarked Julie Wyte from Alabama. "My husband has been in the military for 20 years and we've been to airports all over the world, and I don't think I've ever seen that before."

Airports across the nation are trying to mirror their cities. At Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport, travelers can play the slot machines. At San Francisco International, they can tour an aquarium. At Palm Beach International in Florida, they can practice their putting.

The airports, in effect, are marketing tools. "The citizens who use them feel at home, and the visitors coming in get a sense of the city without leaving the airport," said Eileen Denne, spokeswoman for Airports Council International.

Nashville's niche has long been its music. From the vintage concert posters on the walls to the guitars and banjos in glass cases, there's no mistaking the airport for any other.
With the opening of Tootsie's - actually, two of them, one in the public area and one in the secure area - travelers can get a feel for the gritty downtown dive where country singers past and present got their starts.

But while the new airport clubs have the same live music and decor as the original, don't expect the same rough edges, like beer-soaked floors and walls covered with graffiti and faded stars' portraits.

"You've got to get that with age. You get that with hard knocks," owner Steve Smith said.
Still, for singers and musicians like Bontempi, the airport remains a sweet gig. For one thing, it pays - US$32.50 per hour for the side musicians, US$65 per hour for the frontman. Not bad in a town so crammed with people trying to get discovered that they'll play for free.
And while the audience is far from rapt, they can be appreciative.

As Bontempi performed, a stocky guy with a beard walked by once, twice and a third time before finally setting down his bags and fixing his attention on the tiny stage.
The man, a 28-year-old welder from Sacramento, California, named Keith Branson, smiled and nodded with the music.

"At least now I can say I heard a country singer in Nashville," he said. This story has been viewed 442 times.