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Date Posted: 06:05:22 02/09/06 Thu
Author: a light
Subject: grammy
Doesn't Remind Me didn't win, but here's Chris on the red carpet
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Re: grammy -- a light, 06:08:13 02/09/06 Thu [1]
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Re: grammy -- tg, 08:16:08 02/09/06 Thu [1]
Oh very nice. Yeah I saw those on wireimage, but not the ones with Vicky.
The grammy show was good last night, I really liked watching it and it wasn't all hip hop. Kayne only won one (I think)which is good because he thinks he's Jesus. There were alot of good acts last night including Paul McCartney who has never won a grammy. Ofcourse U2 won a bunch of times I think they're grammy favourites.
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Re: chris -- rdtwo, 08:34:40 02/09/06 Thu [1]
mr. cc looks a bit skinny.
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Re: grammy -- tg, 08:44:58 02/09/06 Thu [1]
"mr. cc looks a bit skinny."
Yeah, he looks anorexic!
J/K ;-)
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Re: grammy -- lump, 08:58:21 02/09/06 Thu [1]
I turned them on for a bit and Paul McCartney was on. My son scrunches up his nose and says "who's that?" Paul McCartney. Who? Paul McCartney - one of the Beatles. "That guy was one of the Beatles?" So no - the kids don't get it. But you know, the guy is in his 60s and can still rock out and looks as if he enjoys it. Kudos to Paul.
Now Chris - why oh why would you cover up those pretty eyes with those awful sunglasses? Vicky is very pretty. How many Grammies does Chris have (or oops I mean Susan lol)? They got Best Hard Rock song for Black Hole Sun, right? I can't remember what else.
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Re: grammy -- tg, 09:19:25 02/09/06 Thu [1]
I think they won for Best Hard Rock performance or something. He has 2 anyway.
His wife is very pretty and she looks sweet, I have never seen a pic of her without sunglasses.
Did you see the tribute to New Orleans at the end with a bunch of musicians from there like Dr.John?
Damon Albarn from Gorrilaz is hot!
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Re: grammy -- tg, 09:38:31 02/09/06 Thu [1]
Oh and Sly and The Family Stone was good, only Sly couldn't stick around. He left the stage almost immediately, but his big white mohawk was enough to make it memorable.
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Re: grammy -- lump, 09:46:45 02/09/06 Thu [1]
No - I missed alot of it helping my son study about the 13 colonies and slave codes!
I wish I would have though - does Dr. John have a song clean enough for the grammies? LOL! They should have had Kermit Ruffins! :) I missed Sly too. :(
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Re: grammy -- tg, 09:57:45 02/09/06 Thu [1]
They sang The Midnight Hour because that's a Wilson Pickett song and he's a native of NO and I think the first one was an old/historic New Orleans song.
Bruce Springsteen, The Edge and Elvis Costello joined them.
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Re: grammy -- 23, 09:59:19 02/09/06 Thu [1]
Slave codes? What does that mean?
I watched this really interesting show last night on PBS that traced the geneological lineages of a lot of prominent African Americans (Oprah, Chris Tucker, Whoopi and a bunch of others). They first delved into the available historical records and then did DNA tests.
It was really interesting, and also really depressing. All the historical records eventually hit dead ends where they went from being listed as individuals to being listed as property, and often nameless.
The genetic tests were really interesting, too. All the people tested had some amount of mixed heritage - Quincy Jones was 1/3 European and most of the rest sub-Saharan African. Oprah was 8% Native American. Chris Tucker was 10% Native American.
The point of the show (and the research behind it) was to help bring a sense of history to a people who have had little. To have the ability to trace one's descendants furhter back than the Civil War. I thought it was a really cool idea.
Actually made me want to get that genetic test done. I've always assumed I was just of middle European ancestry (1/4 French, 1/2 German and 1/4 Luxembourg), but I really wonder if there aren't some other bits and pieces mixed in there.
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Re: grammy -- tg, 10:10:02 02/09/06 Thu [1]
Oprah did have an episode about that and she was able to find which tribe she was a descendent from in Africa. It was really exciting for her, I remember.
I forgot what I watched the other night, but every Jew is related to only 4 woman.
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Re: grammy -- carson1, 15:54:25 02/13/06 Mon [1]
Yeah, we watched that, too. It was called "African Lives" and hosted by John Gates. It was incredible!
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Re: grammy -- lump, 10:24:41 02/09/06 Thu [1]
23: Slave codes is just a fancy name for the unwritten way that the plantation owners conducted their slaves. Like a code of conduct towards and for slaves.
It is sad how little African Americans can find about their heritage. Another black history subject that absolutely fascinates me is the freed slaves in Louisiana. Feast of All Saints is a great fiction account of what life was like for them, but there's real history to it too. That's why when people were saying "F New Orleans - don't rebuild" I was screaming that we'd loose all that history. Really interesting - there were so many real dynamic characters in that time!
Genetics and family history is always interesting! I'm 1/2 English, 1/4 Austrian and 1/4 Hungarian. The Hungarians (beet farmers) bought tickets to ride over in the Titanic (probably on the lower deck with the rest of the poor people) but were turned away as the Titanic was full. Luckily, they went down to France and caught another boat over. I think the fate part of stories like that is so interesting. If they'd have got on that boat - which they probably really wanted to - the world would be missing 4 generations already of that family!
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Re: grammy -- stillreign, 10:34:19 02/09/06 Thu [1]
I missed most of the show because I didn't want to miss lost.
I did see the first hour or so. The U2 and Mary J. Blidge match-up was not so thrilling to me. I actually think she's got a nice voice, but the woman couldn't rock if you sent her to school for it. Oh well.
I did like the little bit of Alicia Keys singing with Stevie Wonder. She kept calling him Mr. Wonder it was so cute.
I wish I could have seen Sly, cause they are one of my all time favorite bands since childhood.
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Slave codes;
Basically just a bunch of laws that dehumanized groups of people so it was ok to them take advantage of them. They weren't human they were live stock. And were not Christian.
Most blacks are not purely of African decent at this point, but that started in days of slavery. It's ok to sneak in and rape the live stock from time to time.
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Re: grammy -- stillreign, 10:41:32 02/09/06 Thu [1]
Looks like someone put on a fancy suit again, looks pretty nice to me though.
I think CC list his baby weight. j/k.
I bet I know who did that suit.
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Re: grammy -- lump, 10:39:20 02/09/06 Thu [1]
And when the livestock got out it was ok to keep a woman and your children seperate from your true marraige and seperate her from her friends and family because you keep a roof over her head and give her hand-me-downs from your real family. That's the history I think is interesting - horrible, but interesting. I'm telling you guys, read Feast of all Saints. It's a great story of how things are sickly wrong sometimes but we just go with what we're expected to do - and sometimes we don't have the power to move against the flow.
Stilly - I'm pretty disappointed in the content on slavery in my son's history book. They did a better job of teaching us about that 20 years ago when I lived in CHARLOTTE, NC - and racism still burns down there (unlike here). Maybe they're taming it down for this generation? I don't get it because we have a fair balance of races at our school.
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Re: grammy -- 23, 10:46:39 02/09/06 Thu [1]
lump - I think the fact that we're in dubya's 2nd term has a lot to do with our educational standards.
One of the things I thought most interesting from that show was a Last Will that was found from the host of the show's ancestor's owner. He freed half his slaves upon his death, and stated the other half could be freed upon his wife's death. So basically, he was recognizing that slavery was wrong and hurt the people he had purchased, but that it wasn't wrong enough to inconvenience his life by freeing them while he (and his wife) were still alive. I can't imagine what kinds of lies these people had to tell themselves to justify their behavior.
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Re: grammy -- stillreign, 10:47:28 02/09/06 Thu [1]
I haven't read "Feast of all Saints" in over 20 years. I read the first three Anne Rice novels when they came out. I have re-read Interview but not Feast of all Saints or Cry to Heaven. Sill in my opinion those were the BEST three books the woman would ever write.
That's sad about the schoolbooks these days. At least your son is lucky to have you help him discover more.
When I was a kid my mom bought me a set of encyclopedias on Black History 20+ volumes. I still have them. Maybe I will find a kid to pass them onto some day.
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Re: grammy -- tg, 10:57:35 02/09/06 Thu [1]
Hey, we have some American black history in Canada too. The underground tunnel which led runaway slaves to safe haven in Canada. Alot of the blacks in Nova Scotia are the descendents of slaves that travelled through that tunnel.
Didn't Thomas Jefferson have an affair with a slave and they had a child together? The family had to do some DNA testing recently, because some of the mixed descendents of that affair wanted to be buried in the family's cemetary plot.
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Re: grammy -- lump, 11:23:04 02/09/06 Thu [1]
Stilly - thanks! If my house were on fire and they no longer printed that book - I'd rush back in just to grab it. Anne recently said though that all her books have been a search for God and Jesus and have led up to her new book on the life of child Jesus. I have to read it. I'll let you know if it goes along with her 'best.'
TG - Yeah - I think that happened alot. Lookup The Myrtles on the net - I think it's www.themyrtles.com. It's a 'haunted' plantation where the overseer was porking his favorite slave and she then killed the entire family with a poison cake - only to be hung afterwards. I believe that most black people now have some European genes because they were so mixed.
Think about it. If you owned LL Cool J, wouldn't you climb aboard every now and then? LOL! Sorry - I know that was just wrong, but damn he looked great in that Last Holiday movie! :) They weren't looked upon as mothers and wives, husbands and fathers, they were looked at like property.
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Re: grammy -- noslave, 09:54:29 02/10/06 Fri [1]
"Kayne only won one (I think)which is good because he thinks he's Jesus."
I read that wrong and it really made me laugh: "Kayne won one (I think)which is good because he thinks he's Jesus."
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Re: grammy -- tg, 10:16:57 02/10/06 Fri [1]
Actually what you thought I wrote is funny.
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Re: grammy -- rdtwo, 10:44:16 02/10/06 Fri [1]
i think soundgarden's grammy's are for black
hole sun and spoonman. so cornell is the only
one entitled to those grammy's because he wrote
both of those songs? i think jeff ament came up
with the song title for spoonman. and yes tg, he looks
a bit too skinny. haha =)
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Re: grammy -- rdtwo, 10:50:03 02/10/06 Fri [1]
i think soundgarden's grammy's are for black
hole sun and spoonman. so cornell is the only
one entitled to those grammy's because he wrote
both of those songs? i think jeff ament came up
with the song title for spoonman. and yes tg, he looks
a bit too skinny. haha =)
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Re: grammy -- tg, 10:53:04 02/10/06 Fri [1]
This link was posted at ASforum. It's an interview with Chris and Vicky on the red carpet.
copy and paste
http://audioslave1.tk/
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Re: grammy -- tg, 11:01:13 02/10/06 Fri [1]
One of the awards was for Best hard Rock Performance and I think it was for Spoonman, but everyone in SG got a grammy.(2)
I think they give out songwriting awards, but it didn't fall into that category.
http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/images/grammys2.jpg
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Re: grammy -- lakemnitz, 22:59:51 02/13/06 Mon [1]
Personally I like what Trent Reznor had to say about the grammys:
The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.
I think that about sums it up....I mean really Green Day Boulevard of Broken Dreams....come on and the other ridiculous crap that was on there. I watched it for about five seconds and turned the channel. It has nothing to do with creativity and talent and has everything to do with what sells....
By the way I thought Chris looked hot in those pictures. The tux makes him look skinny.
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