Thursday, June 30, 2011

Summer Song #6... Corcovado




Quiet nights of quiet stars quiet chords
 from my guitar
floating on the silence that surrounds us.

Quiet thoughts & quiet dreams quiet walks by quiet streams
& a window that looks out on the mountains &

 the sea,
 oh how lovely

This is where I want to be here with you

 so close to me
until the final flicker of life's ember.

I who was lost & lonely believing life was only
a bitter tragic joke, I have found with you,
the meaning of existence, oh my love

Antonio Carlos Jobim
1962

CINCINNATI WATERFRONT (from Newport, KY) September 1848

Scroll with vigor.

Perfection

"It's not the load that breaks you down,
 it's the way you carry it."


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25 Years Ago In Gay History... Bowers V Hardwick

"Bowers was not correct when it was decided, & it is not correct today. It ought not to remain binding precedent. Bowers v. Hardwick should be & now is overruled."

Justice Kennedy in Lawrence v. Texas




One of the most significant of of all legal decisions having to do with gay rights is the infamous Bowers v. Hardwick:

Michael Hardwick was a bartender in a gay bar in Atlanta, Georgia who was targeted by a police officer for harassment. In 1982, an unknowing house guest let the officer let into Hardwick’s home. The officer went to the bedroom where Hardwick was engaged in oral sex with his partner. The men were arrested on the charge of sodomy. Charges were later dropped, but Hardwick brought the case forward with the purpose of having the sodomy law declared unconstitutional.

Bowers was a response to a particularly insulting police action & repeal advocates had hoped that the case would put an end to sodomy laws in the United States when it reached the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, the 5-4 decision found that nothing in the Constitution "would extend a fundamental right to homosexuals to engage in acts of consensual sodomy."

Justice Lewis Powell was the swing vote in the decision, switching from supporting invalidating all sodomy laws to denying homosexuals any right of privacy. In October of 1990, 3 years after his retirement, Powell told a group of New York University Law students, "I think I probably made a mistake in that one." He told the National Law Journal, "That case was not a major case, & one of the reasons I voted the way I did was the case was a frivolous case" brought "just to see what the court would do" on the subject. A more callous opinion is hard to imagine.

The case was overturned 17 years later by Lawrence & Garner v. State of Texas.

Albums I Love

The Rolling Stones
Jump Back: The Best of the Rolling Stones 1971-1993

CD info:
  • Date of release: August 24, 2004
  • Has songs from every album from 1971's Sticky Fingers to 1989's Steel Wheels
  • Track listing:
    • Start Me Up
    • Brown Sugar
    • Harlem Shuffle
    • It's Only Rock and Roll
    • Mixed Emotions
    • Angie
    • Tumbling Dice
    • Fool to Cry
    • Rock and a Hard Place
    • Hot Stuff
    • Miss You
    • Emotional Rescue(ext. edition)
    • Respectable
    • Beast of Burden
    • Waiting on a Friend
    • Bitch
    • Undercover of the Night
    • Wild Horses 

Bridges to Babylon













CD info:
  • Date of release: 1997
  • Followed the 1994/1995 Voodoo Lounge tour and Stripped album
  • Track listings:
    • Flip the Switch
    • Anybody Seen My Baby?
    • Low Down
    • Already Over Me
    • Gunface
    • You Don't Have to Mean It
    • Out of Control
    • Saint of Me
    • Might as Well Get Juiced
    • Always Suffering
    • Too Tight
    • Thief in the Night(Keith Richards on vocals)
    • How Can I Stop(Keith Richards on vocals)
Hot Rocks













CD info:
  • Date of release: late 1971
  • Has all their early stuff, from 1964-1971
  • Track listing:
    • Gimme Shelter
    • (I Can't Get No)Satisfaction
    • Time is on My Side
    • Play with Fire
    • Heart of Stone
    • As Tears Go By
    • Get Off My Cloud
    • Mother's Little Helper
    • 19th Nervous Breakdown
    • Paint It, Black
    • Under My Thumb
    • Ruby Tuesday
    • Let's Spend the Night Together
    • Jumping Jack Flash
    • Street Fighting Man
    • Sympathy for the Devil
    • Honky Tonk Women
    • Midnight Rambler
    • You Can't Always Get What You Want
    • Brown Sugar
    • Wild Horses


Forty Licks










CD info:
  • Date of release: Sept. 30, 2002
  • Has 2 CD's
  • Disc 1:
    • Street Fighting Man
    • Gimme Shelter
    • (I Can't Get No)Satisfaction
    • The Last Time
    • Jumping Jack Flash
    • You Can't Always Get What You Want
    • 19th Nervous Breakdown
    • Under My Thumb
    • Not Fade Away
    • Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby? Standing in the Shadows
    • Sympathy for the Devil
    • Mother's Little Helper
    • She's a Rainbow
    • Get Off My Cloud
    • Wild Horses
    • Ruby Tuesday
    • Paint It, Black
    • Honky Tonk Women
    • It's All Over Now
    • Let's Spend the Night Together
  • Disc 2:
    • Start Me Up
    • Brown Sugar
    • Miss You
    • Beast of Burden
    • You Got Me Rocking
    • Don't Stop
    • Happy
    • Angie
    • Shattered
    • Fool to Cry
    • Love is Strong
    • Mixed Emotions
    • Keys to your Love
    • Anybody Seen My Baby?
    • Tumbling Dice
    • Undercover of the Night
    • Emotional Rescue
    • It's Only Rock and Roll
    • Losing My Touch
The Beatles
1














CD info:
  • Date of Release: Nov. 13, 2000
  • Compilation CD
  • Has virtually every song from 1962-1970
  • Good CD to choose if you want to start listening to the Beatles
  • Track listing:
    • Love Me Do
    • From Me to You
    • She Loves You
    • I Want to Hold Your Hand
    • Can't Buy Me Love
    • A Hard Day's Night
    • I Feel Fine
    • Eight Days a Week
    • Ticket to Ride
    • Help!
    • Yesterday
    • Day Tripper
    • We Can Work It Out
    • Paperback Writer
    • Yellow Submarine
    • Eleanor Rigby
    • Penny Lane
    • All You Need is Love
    • Lady Madonna
    • Hey Jude
    • Get Back
    • The Ballad of John and Yoko
    • Something(George Harrison)
    • Come Together
    • Let It Be
    • The Long and Winding Road
Abbey Road












CD info
  • Date of release: April 1969
  • This is considered to be the greatest Beatles album of all time
  • In the picture, Paul is the only one barefoot
  • Track listing:
    • Side 1
      • Come Together
      • Maxwell's Silver Hammer
      • Something
      • Oh!Darling
      • Octopus's Garden
      • I Want You(She's So Heavy)
    • Side 2
      • Here Comes the Sun
      • Because
      • You Never Give Me Your Money
      • Sun King
      • Mean Mr. Mustard
      • Polythene Pam
      • She Came in through the Bathroom Window
      • Golden Slumbers
      • Carry That Weight
      • The End
      • Her Majesty
Paul McCartney
Band on the Run












CD info:
  • Date of release: 1973
  • Made when he was with the band Wings
  • Track listing:
    • Band on the Run
    • Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Four
    • Jet
    • Bluebird
    • Mrs. Vanderbilt
    • Let Me Roll It
    • Mamunia
    • No Words
    • Helen Wheels
    • Picasso's Last Words 
Aerosmith
Devil's Got a New Disguise













CD info:
  • Date of release: Oct. 17, 2006
  • Compilation CD
  • Track listing:
    • Dream On
    • Mama Kin
    • Sweet Emotion
    • Back in the Saddle
    • Last Child
    • Walk This Way (Run-DMC version)
    • Dude(Looks like a Lady)
    • Rag Doll
    • Love in an Elevator
    • Janie's Got a Gun
    • What It Takes
    • Crazy
    • Livin on the Edge
    • Cryin'
    • I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
    • Jaded
    • Sedona Sunrise
    • Devil's Got a New Disguise 
Big Ones













CD info:
  • Date of release: Nov. 1, 1994
  • Compilation CD
  • Track listing:
    • Walk on Water
    • Love in an Elevator
    • Rag Doll
    • What It Takes 
    • Dude(Looks like a Lady)
    • Janie's Got a Gun
    • Cryin'
    • Amazing
    • Blind Man
    • Deuces Are Wild
    • Crazy
    • Eat the Rich
    • Angel
    • Livin' on the Edge
O, Yeah!













CD info:
  • Date of release: 2002
  • Double disc compilation CD
  • Track Listing:
    • Disc 1:
      • Mama Kin
      • Dream On
      • Same Old song and Dance
      • Seasons of Wither
      • Walk This Way
      • Big Tench Inch Record
      • Sweet Emotion
      • Last Child
      • Back in the Saddle
      • Draw the Line
      • Dude(Looks like a Lady)
      • Angel
      • Rag Doll
      • Janie's Got a Gun
      • Love in an Elevator
      • What It Takes
    • Disc 2:
      • The Other Side
      • Livin on the Edge
      • Cryin'
      • Amazing
      • Deuces Are Wild
      • Crazy
      • Fallin in Love(Is Hard on the Knees)
      • Pink
      • I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
      • Jaded
      • Just Push Play
      • Walk This Way(Run-DMC version)
      • Girls of Summer
      • Lay It Down
      • Come Together
      • Theme from Spider-Man
      • Toys in the Attic
Foreigner
No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner













CD info:
  • Date of release: July 15, 2008
  • Basically a compilation CD
  • Track listing:
    • Feels Like the First Time
    • Long, Long Way from Home
    • Cold as Ice
    • Headknocker
    • Starrider
    • Double Vision
    • Blue Morning, Blue Day
    • Hot Blooded
    • Dirty White Boy
    • Head Games
    • Women
    • Night Life
    • Break It Up
    • Juke Box Hero
    • Urgent
    • Waiting for a Girl Like You
    • I Want to Know What Love Is
    • Down on Love
    • Reaction to Action
    • That Was Yesterday
    • Say You Will
    • I Don't Want to Live Without You
    • Can't Wait
    • Tooth and Nail
    • Heart Turns to Stone
    • Lowdown and Dirty
    • I'll Fight for You
    • Until the End of Time
Agent Provocateur













CD info:
  • Date of release: 1984
  • Foreigner is an American/British band for those who may not know
  • First and only #1 album in the UK
  • Track Listing:
    • I Want to Know What Love Is
    • Tooth and Nail
    • That Was Yesterday
    • Growing Up the Hard Way
    • Reaction to Action
    • Stranger in My Own House
    • A Love in Vain
    • Down on Love
    • Two Different Worlds
    • She's Too Tough
Shakira
Oral Fixation, vol. II













CD info:
  • Date of release: Nov. 28, 2005
  • The cover was changed in some countries due to the fact it shows a good deal of her bare body
  • Track listing:
    • How Do You Do
    • Illegal
    • Hips Don't Lie
    • Animal City
    • Don't Bother
    • The Day and the Time
    • Dreams for Plans
    • Hey You
    • Your Embrace
    • Costume Makes the Clown
    • Timor 
She Wolf













CD info:
  • Date of release: October 9, 2009
  • Track listing:
    • She Wolf
    • Did It Again
    • Long Time
    • Why Wait
    • Good Stuff
    • Men in this Town
    • Gypsy
    • Spy
    • Mon Amour
    • Lo Hecho Esta Hecho
    • Anos Luz
    • Loba
Laundry Service













CD info:
  • Date of release: Nov. 13, 2001
  • Her first bilingual album
  • Track listing:
    • Objection(Tango)
    • Underneath Your Clothes
    • Wherever, Whenever
    • Rules
    • The One
    • Ready for the Good Times
    • Fool
    • Te Dejo Madrid
    • Poem to a Horse
    • Que Me Quedes Tu
    • Eyes Like Yours (Ojos Asi)
    • Suerte(Wherever, Whenever)
    • Te Aviso, Te Anuncio(Tango) 
Enrique Iglesias
Greatest Hits













CD info:
  • Date of release: Nov. 11, 2008
  • 2 new songs were added onto this album, Away and Takin' Back My Love
  • Track listing:
    • Bailamos
    • Away
    • Takin' Back My Love
    • Hero
    • Be With You
    • Rhythm Divine
    • Do You Know(the Ping Pong song)
    • Tired of Being Sorry
    • Escape
    • Could I Have This Kiss Forever
    • Not in Love
    • Don't Turn Off the Lights
    • Love to See You Cry
    • Maybe
    • Addicted
    • Somebody's Me
    • Can You Hear Me
    • Miss You
    • Push 
Euphoria













CD info:
  • Date of release: July 5, 2010
  • Consists of songs in both English and Spanish
  • Track listing:
    • I Like It
    • Heartbeat
    • Cuando Me Enamoro
    • One Day at a Time
    • Dirty Dancer
    • Why Not Me?
    • No Me Digas Que No
    • Ayer
    • Dile Que
    • Tu y Yo
    • Heartbreaker
    • Coming Home
    • Everything's Gonna Be Alright

Reba McEntire
Greatest Hits vol. III













CD info:
  • Date of Release: 2001
  • Includes 10 of her songs from the 1990s
  • For the week of Nov. 10, 2001, it hit #1 on the Billboard Country charts and #19 on the Billboard 200
  • Track listing:
    • I'm a Survivor
    • Forever Love
    • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
    • And Still
    • If You See Him/If You See Her
    • The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia
    • Fallin' Out of Love
    • The Heart Won't Lie
    • Take It Back
    • She Thinks His Name was John
    • The Fear of Being Alone
    • Why Haven't I Heard from You
    • One Honest Heart
    • Myself Without You
    • Sweet Music Man
Tim McGraw
Greatest Hits













CD info:
  • Date of Release: Nov. 21, 2000
  • #4 on Billobard Country charts
  • Track listing
    • Indian Outlaw
    • Don't Take the Girl
    • She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart
    • I Like It, I Love It
    • Just to See You Smile
    • It's Your Love
    • Where the Green Grass Grows
    • For a Little While
    • Please Remember Me
    • Something Like That
    • My Best Friend
    • Maybe We Should Sleep on It
    • Down on the Farm
    • My Next Thirty Years
    • Let's Make Love


Live Like You Were Dying


CD info:
  • Date of release: August 24, 2004
  • #1 on Billboard 200
  • Track listing:
    • How Bad Do You Want It
    • My Old Friend
    • Can't Tell Me Nothing
    • Old New Town
    • Live Like You Were Dying
    • Drugs or Jesus
    • Back When
    • Something's Broken
    • Open Season on My Heart
    • Everybody Hates Me
    • Walk Like a Man
    • Blank Sheet of Paper
    • Just Be Your Tear
    • Do Yuo Want Fries with That
    • Kill Myself
    • We Carry On

Our Best For P3KMABA 2011

WISH OUR LUCK FOR TOMORROW UNTIL 2 WEEKS !!!
FOR OUR FIRST EVENT !!!
FOR OUR TEAM !!!
FOR MY FAMILY 'TENAGA PEMBERANI" !!!
GIVING MY BEST !!!!