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PRETENDERS DRUMMER MARTIN CHAMBERS REMEMBERS GUITARIST JAMES HONEYMAN-SCOTT
Valerie Simadis October 17, 2017
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Interview with The Pretenders' Drummer Martin Chambers on the early years of the band, their late guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and original bassist Pete Farndon.
James Honeyman-Scott was a founding member and original lead guitarist of the band The Pretenders. He was a multi-instrumentalist who was influenced by the likes of Ron Wood, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page. Like his idols, he became a musician who developed his own sound.
Sadly, Honeyman-Scott died in 1982 at the age of 25, from heart failure caused by cocaine intolerance. People often wonder why The Pretenders have carried on all these years after they lost Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon, but the answer is simple. The Pretenders are a "tribute band," according to their original drummer Martin Chambers and singer Chrissie Hynde.
I recently caught up with Pretenders drummer Martin Chambers in between gigs during the band's tour of the UK. Chambers is a founding member of the Pretenders, he joined the group in 1978. On the 35th anniversary of Honeyman-Scott's death, Chambers reflects on his early years with Jimmy in Herefordshire, their meeting with Queen's Roger Taylor, and Jimmy's incredible wit, as well as his untimely death.
James Honeyman-Scott
PKM: How old were you when you first met James Honeyman-Scott?
Martin: Fifteen years old. I used to go to Hereford to the music shop to buy drumsticks or whatever. And Jimmy worked in a music shop…well, he didn't work. He ran there after school in his short trousers and annoyed them enough to let him stay. That was Jimmy, even at that age. God knows how old he was. Ten probably. But he used to play the guitars in the back of the shop so when he heard a musician come into the shop, cause I was doing gigs by then, he would inundate my consciousness with questions. All enthusiastic and all he was doing was sitting at the back of the guitar shop playing all the guitars. It was this overwhelming young kid because at that age he was ten, I was fifteen. I'm five years older than him. I mean that's a lot older. So I was like this big kid to him. So, that's where I first encountered the tornado that was James Honeyman-Scott.
PKM: Did he leave an impression on you?
Martin: Yes he was a kid that, yeah I guess you can say he left an impression. He was certainly eager to learn.
PKM: You and Jimmy were in a band called Cheeks in 1974. Do you feel that Jimmy had that same charisma, that stage presence as he did in The Pretenders?
Martin: It was certainly arriving for him. He was just a tasty player, you know? He knew all the business about Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Pete Townshend and Jimmy Page. Those guitar players that were very accomplished. He kind of studied those corners. He was across the board and that's why I think he arrived at where he was as a guitar player. He found his place. There are many musicians in the world that have a great talent. And one of them is, as soon as you hear one note, then you hear the next note, you know who it is. And that's his style. He also was very aware of how guitars were put together. He was very aware of modern pedals, wah-wahs and all that. He became very innovative in that area and combined a couple of simple little pedals to get his own little wall of sound so he could be big, or he could play very tastefully, quietly. He was just an all-rounder and he was just embarking, really, on the serious side of his career.
PKM: In several interviews Jimmy said he had performed in youth clubs in Herefordshire. Did you go to any of these gigs, or hear about them?
Martin: No, man I was too Prog rock, man.
PKM: Jimmy was five years younger than you…that can feel like a massive age gap when you're in your twenties. Did you think of him as a little brother?
Martin: In 1973, I would have been about twenty-one, twenty-two when I joined up with Verden Allen (of Mott the Hoople) and we formed this band The Cheeks. Jimmy was in the band with us and, well no, by then a remarkable thing had taken place with Jimmy. In the time I had seen him in the early days when he was young, I didn't see him for maybe two years. I was working with Karakorum, my band, and I was traveling around the country in a Bedford ambulance. And suddenly I saw him and he was like taller than me, and his hair was as long as mine.
PKM: You thought "When did this happen?"
Martin: Yeah, this kind of blossoming of this um…well his mother would have called him a layabout. But this blossoming of the musician. And the face. And by face, I mean he had the wherewithal to actually find himself in a position. He could roadie for this band, but next thing you know, he was playing guitar in that band, because he was better than the guy he was working for. That was Jimmy's stepladder. He could work his way into things and he could use that charm…that big-eyed gooey little shit kind of look and get what he wanted. He could be quite manipulative, but never in any sort of terrible way. He was just charming, filthy dirty sense of humor and didn't stand for idiots at all. So once he got his little guitar collection coming on, he was definitely a force. By the time he was about 17, like a lot of these great guitar players, he was already a force to be reckoned with, and could hold his own with anyone.
PKM: I know before you crossed paths in the late seventies, Jimmy had mentioned that he was working as a gardener at some point?
Martin: This was before he came up to work with Chrissie Hynde and Pete Farndon and before that at the end of the Verden Allen band (Cheeks). We ended up doing very few gigs and living in a van together. It started off with five of us, then there were four, then there were three, and then Jimmy just had enough and he went home.
PKM: Everyone just bailed on you.
Martin: He had a band, you know, he had a couple of bands back then. But, yes, I think when Pete called him he was with a girlfriend and they were living together. He ambled around somebody's garden with a shovel over his shoulder. You know, I don't know if he did much, but he worked himself into another position. At that point living in a van didn't appeal to him, so he was happy having a bed every night, a good shag, and a bit of money coming in so he could go to the pub. So, yes, he was a gardener, all but in name.
PKM: By the late seventies, you crossed paths with Jimmy again in London. How did you find one another after all those years?
Martin: Well that's a killer question. Um…I got fed up because I had managed to play some demanding music and I learned a great deal from age 15 into my early 20s. I'd done quite a lot of gigs. At this point I was looking for something better than punk rock. Punk rock was great, attitude was a lot of it, but the music itself was not very challenging. You know, I could play thirteen eights, I could play different time signatures because I'd done the Prog rock thing. I had worked in a big dance orchestra just to do that and earn some money for the year. So by the time I got up to London and ended up living in a van, nothing was happening. I'd lived on everybody's couch in London, 17.85 million couches.
PKM: That's a lot of couches.
Martin: I had had enough of getting to the point where I'm malnourished and feeling like something's got to change. So I thought I need to get a car. I've got about four pence in my pocket, how can I do this? I thought, [I need a] car to get around to network to find out what was happening in the music world. So I thought, okay, go to the labor exchange, look on the wall, any job you could get that had a car. And the first job I saw that came with a car when I enquired was the British School of motoring. I never ever wanted to be a driving instructor, but that was the side issue. The main issue was 'I got me some wheels!' So when I had the wheels, I managed to find Jimmy and Pete because I was able to go back home to Hereford and find a friend of theirs. Jimmy was living in his house, so he gave me the address. So the following Monday evening I went over to the house and knocked on the door. Pat came to the door. Pat was the girl in that house that made tea, and she said, "No, they're out rehearsing."
So Jimmy was rehearsing with Pete and Gerry Mcilduff, the drummer they had, and Chrissie. There was no name for this band. They may have done a couple of gigs in Paris, that sort of thing. Gerry didn't really want to do it, so when Jimmy got my message, I was in. Funnily enough, in the whole of London, I had found a flat to live in that was no more than 400 yards from where Jimmy was living. So I had found the right place, I got the right car, I made the right connection, and my best buddy Jimmy, the little shit, was living down the road.
So we made contact. I don't know whether I used my kit or Gerry's kit, but I was a bit apprehensive about that. I went into this little dungeon of a room, and it's been well documented that Chrissie turned to the wall and started laughing to herself, because it all worked. In my belief, some of the classic bands had lots of guys that were from Liverpool, Dartford, Birmingham, Cardiff, and it's that invisible ability to just see what the next move that Jimmy will make. And I could just spot it. Pete was the same, and when we first played these awkward timing songs, we did something like the phone call, and bang! It was just 90 percent there.
PKM: Many of The Pretenders' songs, like you said, have odd timing. That's-
Martin: To conclude on that last bit. I found them.
PKM: Alright. Duly noted…
As you had said about The Pretenders' songs having odd timing, which is what makes them so original, Jimmy once said, "The fact is, I don't know where she (Chrissie) comes in with it. So I just bluff it and hope for the best." Do you think Jimmy's improvisation helped define his style as a guitarist?
Martin: Without question. Because he was very instinctive, he was very musical. Chrissie's originality, part of it was certainly from the fact that she wasn't musical. That's why I think if you want to learn to read the dots, read the music, that's great. I never wanted to. I can see a piece of music and know where I stop, and know the timing, and generally the mood of the piece by looking at music, but I don't want to read it. I believe when you know that route, you're tempted to run down that route. In my experience, the best drummers on the planet are drummers who don't know what they're doing. I mean, respect to Jimmy, this is the same talent. For me, it's far better to jump off the cliff, because if you're any good you will survive. Jimmy was like this too. He could busk over this [Martin hums the intro to 'Phone Call'], which for Chrissie was all she knew, it had an attack to it, that explained this kind of scary 'Phone Call' in a way. So she found that riff and it just happened to be 1234567-1! You know, it had a little jump in it, and that was a talent that Chrissie had. She didn't know it was 7/4; she hadn't a clue. It didn't matter to her. It doesn't matter. It's how it sounds to support a lyric.
PKM: I think that's impressive that Jimmy was able to improvise like that considering he never had guitar lessons.
Martin: Well, he was pretty much self-taught. But he was following me, because he could read me. I could read him reading me. That's Hereford. The boys from Hereford, Liverpool, London. You know, if you come from the same area, there's a way you can read somebody. Chrissie is very difficult to read, but Jimmy, he and I read one another like a book. And Pete was on that same page too. Chrissie was always consistent, which was very helpful in working out the stops in 'Tattooed Love Boys'. But because she was consistent, Pete and I had interpreted it and made it go with a nice pulse and Jimmy latched onto that.
PKM: And that's what makes the songs so original.
Martin: That's what made it The Pretenders.
PKM: Did Jimmy play any other instruments besides guitar and keyboard?
Martin: He played piano, he was taught piano, so he could play it well. He wasn't what you would call a tambourine player. He didn't shake anything or bang anything ever.
PKM: He didn't unleash his inner Mick Jagger then?
Martin: Well you know, any kind of stringed instrument he would be able to get a tune out of it, because he understood the tuning of the different instruments. He knew his way around the different keys and capos, and you know, the whole enchilada.
PKM: Jimmy and Chrissie were a songwriting team. Which song was it in your opinion that showcased Jimmy's songwriting ability?
Martin: The ability to encourage Chrissie in a melodic way. Jimmy loved melody. He loved the Beach Boys, he loved harmony. He managed to play with the Beach Boys a couple of times because he was charming. I introduced him to Carl Wilson in Rome.
PKM: Very cool!
Martin: Ah…that's a long story. But you know, I never saw Carl again. He disappeared off with Jimmy and I never saw him in Rome again. Gone! And Jimmy would be that kid in the music shop, full of questions, full of charm, full of those big gooey eyes that bring you "come hither" and listen to me, answer this, tell me your inside leg measurement. Ah, you know, all of this was Jimmy. He was so funny, so entertaining for people.
So anyway, he introduced melody, he encouraged Chrissie's melody. Even 'Brass in Pocket'. The intro, that just set Chrissie off in a slightly different area, and she loved it. She loves songwriting and loves the journey of songwriting. And I think the greatest part about the songwriting team, was that Jimmy was taking her off down a road that she wanted to go down. Learning, learning, learning, what can I do with this, how can we do that? Jimmy had all these little answers and all these parts that inspired her. She'd just strum something and sing a lyric, and he'd go "Oh right" and he'd do a little riff. And it worked really good.
Again back to that area of understanding sound, understanding the qualities that Chrissie had that she didn't even know herself. This is really important. This is a band. Not a bunch of people that get together because it's a business scheme with some hot shot manager. This is a complete amalgamation of characters, of love that we had for our music, for our individual instruments. And we lucked out and Chrissie had just done an album with (Chris) Spedding a year or two before with Chris Thomas producing, and she wanted Chris Thomas. We called Chris the fifth Pretender simply because he was part of that too, and took our music to another place. And it was just a full on learning curve, especially for Chrissie.
PKM: The cover of the first Pretenders album, taken by photographer Chalkie Davies, is an interesting one, to say the least. I can't help but think that Jimmy was up to something with that cheeky smirk on his face. Can you tell me the story behind that photograph?
Martin: Hmm, it's hazy because were imbibing a lot of gin and tonic. Pretty much any other alcoholic beverage with an occasional fruit-based drink for a lady. And then, of course, there was all the powders and the lipstick that went along with that. Chalkie had become a bit of a mate, he had become very close with Jimmy too. He had found the flat for Jimmy that Jimmy was living in. So basically, we knew Chalkie and he'd come on the road with us to certain places like the Blackpool photo shoot, so he was there to shoot the album cover. So we stood like this, we stood like that, for, you know, how long could we take that for as a band? Hm…three minutes? Chalkie was pretty quick, and that was basically done in one very short session. Maybe twenty minutes from the time we arrived to the time we sobered up and left. At one of those sessions Jimmy was so drunk he knocked over Chalkie's camera on the tripod. I don't know if it broke or not, but you know, that's…we were kind of a bit drunk in those days.
PKM: Just a tad.
I believe there was a certain remark that Jimmy said before the photograph was taken which explains why each of you had a completely different expression on your faces.
Martin: Well there were several expressions, and if he'd just passed wind, he may have said something like "Smell that fucker!"
PKM: And he did that before the photograph was taken?
Martin: Oh, he would do it during and after! But the great thing was Jimmy did love his toilet humor.
PKM: It's the Herefordian in him, isn't it?
Martin: Oh, I think it's scraping the bowl of the pan. He was a little bit devilish but by God, he could be filthy. I remember the pictures being taken, but it was a straightforward simple session, trying to get everybody looking fairly together.
PKM: Trying to get everyone to sober up, or at least look it.
Martin: Look like you're all a part of something!
Pretenders first album, Sire Records – Photo by Chalkie Davies
PKM: Getting into a more serious series of questions, when did it become apparent that Jimmy had a drug problem?
Martin: Well this is the funny thing- it never did.
PKM: What do you mean by that?
Martin: Well…okay, everybody and his dad and his dog were doing cocaine. I mean police officers, and sergeants and airline pilots…everybody was doing it! And okay "Don't take coke it's very very addictive!" Right, well, "I haven't had any for a week, and you know, I'm fine." So anyway, it was obvious with Pete (Farndon), but not with Jimmy particularly. Yes, we were doing more good-time drugs, but not "Oh I've got to go and lie down for a week," you know?
PKM: Right. So you didn't notice any changes in his behavior during that time?
Martin: No. I only noticed one or two times when he was under the weather. And one of those was a couple of days before I got married, and he just said he didn't feel well and he had to go home. That's the first and only time I can remember. We weren't really drugged up and stuff at that point.
PKM: So you thought nothing of it…
Martin: So no, and I didn't know if there were any problems with his heart or anything like that. He never mentioned anything. I don't know if he knew about it, I certainly didn't.
PKM: When looking at the coroner's report, Jimmy's death is ruled as 'cocaine intolerance' and it's often mentioned that he had a weak heart. Do you think he overdosed, or that his body just couldn't handle the drug?
Martin: There are lots of theories on that. I think when your heart stops, it's because it's just reached its last beat. And okay, maybe he was taking a bit more coke than normal because the doctors had told him don't drink. So maybe he compensated, that's possible, but at the end of the day, you know, he was a young man about to launch himself onto the world and was doing so. It's just one of those things. When your time's up, your time's up. Yes it was drugs of course that pushed it over the edge, but you wouldn't describe Jimmy as a real drug addict. If he put his mind to say, "Right, I'm not gonna take any drugs, I'm going to stop drinking, all I'm gonna do is write songs with people," he would have done that.
PKM: So you feel he had the willpower?
Martin: Oh big time. Big time willpower. And then, maybe not I'll have a little drink. But you know, he was in control of himself.
PKM: How did you find out that Jimmy had passed away?
Martin: I had gone to the office. We had seen Chrissie about Pete, and Jimmy was adamant that if Pete was in the band, he was leaving. Jimmy and Chrissie were a songwriting team, and for Jimmy to say something like that about Pete, it was very serious and that threatened the spine of the band. The reasons were very obvious. Pete didn't know he was a drug addict, and this is the problem with drugs. They take you into an area, it's not just that you're out of it, you don't fucking know the reality. You've lost reality.
Pete had to go on his journey and hopefully come back. And, who knows, if he had lived he probably would have been back in The Pretenders when he got straight. He was in a band with Topper Headon, who was in exactly the same position and just got sacked from the fucking Clash. They were putting this great band together and I thought, you got to let Pete do his band thing, man. So maybe he could have come back into the band.
Basically that's when I saw Jimmy when he came back from America. He just played with the Beach Boys, we saw Chrissie, we had the final chat about Pete, is there anything we can do about it, and made the phone call to manager Dave Hill.
The next day I think was possibly a Monday, and I think he died Wednesday morning…or is it Tuesday morning? Anyway, it was a very fast turnover and we'd arranged to go to the office, Chrissie, Jimmy and I. When I got to the office to meet Jimmy at about 9:30/10 in the morning, it was quite early. Within thirty seconds of me saying hello to our manager, the phone went, and Dave was talking to the girl that had found him. The girl that found him was living in a flat with her boyfriend and she was the girl who worked at Wessex Studios. I can't remember her name. She had called Dave and she said that she "thinks" that Jimmy is dead. So Dave was saying 'Have you called an ambulance?' So from that point on, there was a bit of a shimmer going on. And I just couldn't quite believe it. My car was parked outside the office on a double yellow line and Dave, the manager and I jumped into the nearest taxi and went to the address where he was in West London. We walked into the room…by then, there was an officer at the doorway and we explained what was going on. I walked into the room and Jimmy was there lying on a kind of sofa bed in the lounge. But he was dead.
PKM: What was Chrissie's reaction to his death?
Martin: I think she had to think on her feet pretty quick because for her that was the end of that. Chrissie is a very cut and dry kind of person when it comes to making a decision, if she's getting rid of a boyfriend, chop! It's over goodbye. So I think she went into overdrive and we finished the album that we kind of just almost started. Billy Bremner helped us out. He was a good friend of Jimmy's and of mine. He played in Rockpile..a fantastic, accomplished player. There were various people who helped us out, including Andrew Bodnar. So we put people together to get this album finished. Robbie (Mcintosh) came along after rehearsals and finished the album with us and Malcolm (Foster) on bass because he was a friend of Robbie's. So we finished this studio album.
We threw ourselves into work. There were a lot of discussions between Chrissie and I, but basically get the album finished. We'd found the band, by the time the album was finished we had the band and we went into rehearsals. She was also starting a family at this time, so there was an awful lot going on in Chrissie's life. And basically the effect on her was to, I think push her even more. You know, we'd got to this point where we were close to Madison Square Garden-type level, and it was all looking remarkably good apart from Pete, and then, you know, the unthinkable happened. One of the diamonds was stolen from the tiara.
PKM: After Jimmy's death, did you feel like "That's it, we're finished as a band"?
Martin: No. I was very strong on this. Even before Pete died, maybe at the end of '82 going into '83, we were rehearsing and I was very insistent that the band name remains cause Chrissie was thinking of dropping the name. I said no, no, no, Jimmy had spent his short life getting to a point where he could be that person in a band. Now that Jimmy's gone and subsequently very shortly after Pete had gone, to me it was just like "How can you possibly think of not continuing?" and that's why Chrissie called us not long after that a tribute band.
I take the humor of that because we were our own tribute band. It felt a bit like that, getting new guys where Jimmy was standing and Pete was standing, and they were wearing Pretenders T-shirts. How dare they wear Pretenders T-shirts? So there was a certain resentment and acceptance that this was the way we had to go forward. Robbie, Malcolm and Rupert Black on keyboard were very accomplished players and we made the best of 'Learning to Crawl'. We went out and we played Madison Square Garden.
PKM: At times, like you said, you must have felt resentful like "They aren't the original members, they don't have the right to be here…"
Martin: There was a lot of that and it's something you have to temper quite well, and it's part of the learning curve to try and realize that you won't see them again. Not in this lifetime.
PKM: When you're on the road these days, do you find yourself thinking of Jimmy and Pete, or are you in work mode? I remember you were telling me a story about Pete's guitar in a shop window.
Martin: We were in Glasgow and right opposite was a Hard Rock. I never go into Hard Rock cafes and I just felt the finger coming at me going 'come here'. I walked in there late at night, and there were all the guitars on the walls, and they said "Oh we've got a warehouse full of 'em." It's like oh great. Have you got Picassos in there as well, you twat?
Anyway I walked around and I thought "Maybe one of Jimmy's guitars could be in here." And suddenly there was the pink Hamer bass that was Pete Farndon's guitar. Right in front of me! You could have knocked me down with a feather. And it was just, I see he was just reaching out with his finger going "Come in here, look at the pink Hamer." It wasn't a great guitar, but we had a deal and they were free. Pete used to wear a jacket with that, I think. He wore a smart jacket like David Johansen's band the Staten Island Boys.
PKM: In interviews, Jimmy had named Eric Clapton and Ron Wood as his influences. Had he lived, do you think Jimmy would have been regarded as a rock 'n' roll legend?
Martin: He already was by Ronnie. I don't think he knew Eric very well, but I know he met Ronnie and become quite friendly with him. Ronnie is fantastic and has many similar qualities to Jimmy. I think they met and he was like a young cousin to him or something. Ronnie, well he's a beautiful touchy feely fella, so he could see this thing that I saw in the music shop in Herefordshire. Jimmy made friends real quick, great players would give him guitars and he was very proud of the fact that this Flying V was given to him to "Pete Townshend by Joe Walsh, and Pete Townshend gave it to me." That's all in the intro for The Pretenders film where he's dressed in a tutu behind the bar showing everybody his guitars. I mean everything right there tells you how English he was. His music, his guitars, his selection of drinking equipment, and with a tutu on! You know you ask somebody like Roderick Stewart, for example, what is the definitive English thing, I think it's we don't give a fuck about dressing up as women. We're perfectly happy in our testosterone-driven tight trousers to be able to slip on the little tutu now and again, and introduce himself to the world as "This is my fabulous drinking collection" you know, and he's wearing a fucking tutu!
PKM: So no fucks were given.
Martin: Yeah it doesn't matter because I'm in charge of myself and you're not! I am in charge of this. Thank you. Goodnight. Next. You know, that was the thing. Rod wore the makeup. Jimmy was into all that. The Faces and all that. That's the Ronnie that Jimmy loved.
PKM: If Jimmy had reached old age, do you feel that his name would be synonymous with all those other guitar greats?
Martin: Without a doubt. I mean he's still thought of in the most beautiful terms. In the most accolade-ict – there's a good word for you. Accolade-ict way I've ever known. And yet he had such a short time and two albums. That's it, you know, 25 years old.
PKM: Definition of that word, please.
Martin: Accolade, and he was addicted with accolades from other people. Accolade-ict.
PKM: It's been 35 years since Jimmy's passing. It's hard to believe he would have been sixty years old. Looking back, what is a fond memory you have of him?
Martin: He was a twat.
PKM: A twat? That's your fond memory?
Martin: He was the perfect twat to my Uncle Fou Fou (craziness). I mean we had arrived in cities, I remember arriving somewhere like Cincinnati. We'd done 'Concerts for the People of Kampuchea' so we'd met Roger Taylor and Brian May, and they were staying at a hotel. We went over and found out where Roger was, and we marched up to his room and demanded to be let in. I remember Roger being so overwhelmed by this Laurel and Hardy act that he was falling apart. He called Freddie and said "You've got to come down to my room. These two guys from The Pretenders are in here and I can't get a word in edgewise."
You know, absolutely brilliant. The humor, you know, and the ability to find the answer to whatever the problem was. Whether it be musical, personal or psychological. He was a good friend, a really good friend. And James Walbourne is very much in that mold. He's a good friend, as are Nick (Wilkinson) and Carwyn (Ellis). The band we have now are a fantastic tribute to all those attributions that you need to have a rolling ball going down a road, and nothing's going to stop it. I miss Jimmy, I miss the humor and the love and just seeing the old twat. Terrible. I never really got over it because I'm not allowed to. I'm playing in a band where Chrissie's at the front looking at the crowd. I'm not doing that, I'm looking at the band.
My vantage point is one where I see Chrissie in the middle, and to the right was Pete and to the left was Jimmy. So I saw three asses, one of which is still present. But the other two asses that are standing there, it's Jimmy and it's Pete. Because of the songs we play, because of the lyrics in certain songs, Jimmy would always look at me and mouth something to me, and I'd mouth back the answer. Those things still happen in my head and I'm not allowed to be free of that. It's not as much of a distraction or a heartache as it was of course, but in life, life is a bitch with hot chili on it. And it's difficult to take.
PKM: Are Jimmy and Pete interred in nearby Churches in Herefordshire?
Martin: Jimmy was buried in Lyde Church, and Pete is a little closer to me. We weren't invited to the funeral because of mistaken thoughts, and we never knew anything about it. He was cremated so his ashes were put…I don't know where. I suddenly found out six years ago that he had a headstone in Saint Peter's church with his name on it, on the same stone as a relation, and his name is there. The silly little thing about these pointers is the fact that I can now go and see Jimmy now and again and see Pete. It's like there's somewhere to go. This is part of the closure which you don't have when it happens that young and that sudden, so you don't have that closure ever. But at least there's somewhere to go to tell them both, very very succinctly, you're both twats!
"I was selling guitars for a living, for a shop in the Hereford. I did gardening too – that was great! And it was during that time – I was out in the garden, you see, digging away, and the radio was on. Nick Lowe came on with [sings] "and so it goes, so it goes," that number – Elvis Costello's "Red Shoes." And they had this big, jangly guitar sound, which is what I'd been wanting to get into for a long while. All of a sudden the radio's on and there's this huge guitar sound coming out, like sending out a big Rickenbacker 12-string or something. And I thought, "Ah, my time is here." So that's what happened. And then I hooked up with the Pretenders." – James Honeyman Scott
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Valerie Simadis
Valerie Simadis is a writer and artist who resides in New York. She studied English Literature at Queens College, and over the course of two years worked as an archivist for rock and roll photographer Bob Gruen. A lover of bygone eras, she is particularly interested in the culture and personalities of the 1960s.
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Thank you for the poignant interview with Martin Chambers which is the most honest and accurate I have seen through out the last 35 years. Finally someone willing to do the proper research and ask intelligent questions. Lovely, heartfelt and well done. Thank you.
October 20, 2017 Valerie Simadis Reply
You are most welcome! Thank you for taking the time to read it.
November 23, 2017 Graham Reply
Great interview.
November 28, 2017 Baz Reply
Really good interview. A lot of stuff in there that I never knew about Jimmy and Pete. Thank you.
December 28, 2017 NoOneYouKnow Reply
Thanks for this interview. Martin (and you) really bring to life the warmth, humor, and creativity of the band and his mates.
May 31, 2018 William Reply
Great interview, it's hard to find closure at the grave. It feels too late. Tell the people you care about you love them. If you have a drug alcohol problem please find a program. Some closure is better than none.
November 30, 2019 Andrew Russell Reply
Great interview. Martin Chambers is a class act. It must be hard to live with the ghosts of your friends for so long.
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The Electronic Grapevine
By Anne Stuart
It's not what you know, but whom you know - and whom they know, and whom their friends know, and who their friends' friends know. That's the idea behind the growing number of social-networking communities.
In many ways, these Web-based gathering places - such as LinkedIn and ReferNet - couldn't be more dissimilar. Some let you build an electronic address book and link it to similar lists set up by people you know and, by extension, to people they know; all of you can then search that large Web of contacts. Some allow you to create a private networking group that you can invite others to join; others only allow you to participate in existing discussion forums. There are sites that are strictly social, intended for fun or romance, while others are all business. Most are free, though a few charge fees for subscriptions, premium services, or software.
Still, all true networking sites share two basic principles:
They make introductions. They help you meet people you don't know through people you do, much as you might at a cocktail party. Or, they drop you into a network of people with a common affiliation or interest, much like joining an alumni association, trade or professional group, or local business club. Many networking sites - most notably, MeetUp - hold in-person gatherings in addition to connecting people online.
They rely on trust. Social-networking sites are not intended to let you link randomly with strangers worldwide. Instead, they focus on making connections based on your existing online and offline relationships - that is, getting people you know to link you to other people you might want to know.
While social networking sites are a 21st-century phenomenon, the underlying concept dates back to the 19th century. That's when Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi advanced the "six degrees of separation" theory, the idea that anyone on Earth can be connected to anyone else through a chain of six or fewer people. In the 1960s, Harvard social psychologist Stanley Milgram tested the idea in an experiment using chain letters that typically reached their intended targets after six transactions. In the 1980s and 1990s, the phrase came to denote a movie, a play, and an informal game that challenged players to link the actor Kevin Bacon to anybody else in Hollywood in - you guessed it - no more than six steps.
Today, social-networking sites allow you to find the expertise you need in just a few degrees -- or links -- from your own circle of contacts. For instance, let's say you need a contract Web designer with a specific set of skills, but you don't know anybody who fits the bill. You ask your friends, but it turns out they don't know personally know any Web designers, either. So you go out one or two more circles, asking your friends' friends and then their friends for a Web designer referral. Chances are that somewhere out in that extended network, somebody knows just the right person. And if that distant affiliation isn't as ideal as a first-hand referral, at least there's still a trusted trail back to the source of the recommendation.
Good theory, but does it work in practice? Absolutely, according to entrepreneurs who have used networking sites to find employees, identify sales leads, and connect with potential customers. LinkedIn - the best-known of the business sites, which claims to have 4,000 CEOs among its 250,000 registered users -- processes more than 1,000 referrals each month. Nobody knows how many result in real business, but as Konstantin Guericke, LinkedIn's co-founder and vice president notes, every referral starts as an interaction between two people who already know each other.
Sometimes those interactions come with highly beneficial side effects. That's how it worked for a Jason Diaz, a Philadelphia-based entrepreneur who was looking for a payroll-software expert. With his LinkedIn connections, he quickly found a candidate who not only came highly recommended by known sources, but introduced Diaz to a big-company CEO Diaz wouldn't have met otherwise.
Industry heavyweights clearly view social-networking as more than this year's fad. Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!, among others, have all launched or invested heavily in social-networking initiatives.
There are, of course, downsides. Some businesspeople steer clear of online networking because of concerns about compromising their own privacy - or that of their contacts - by revealing too much personal information. Others report that their e-mail spam levels jump markedly as soon as their contact information goes online. Another concern is a landscape still in flux. Forrester Research warns that users should expect some significant consolidation among major business- and social-networking sites over the next year or so.
For now, though, the benefits of being able to quickly access webs of valuable contacts outweigh those concerns for many users. The way they see it, such worries are a small trade-off for the chance to collapse six degrees of separation down to two. Or one. Or none.
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The Toisanese language is a Chinese dialect that has similarities to both Cantonese and Mandarin, though more Cantonese than Mandarin. Book online on our official site and get instant confirmation for your reservation at Yàn Cantonese Cuisine. Last name generator. E-mail Address. Jet Li, or Li Lianjie? It's not uncommon for people from the Chinese-speaking world to have two different names - a Chinese and a Western one. A list of submitted names in which the usage is Chinese. Traditional Cantonese Mooncakes. These pan-fried noodles are quickly becoming my life. Melody McCabe The new word for all I-want-my-baby's-name-to-be-different parents is 'palindrome appellation'. Cantonese romanization of CHEN. 's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. A Vietnamese last name, has chinese origins relating to that of Ng in Cantonese and Wu in Mandrin, all meaning corn the vegetable. 606 The UK's biggest football phone-in, broadcast on Saturdays, Sundays and midweek on BBC Radio 5 live. Watch Angel's Last Mission: Love Episode 01---02 English subbed, Chinese and Cantonese Watch Angel's Last Mission: Love Episode 01---02 Engsubtitle, Cantonese Dub, Chinesesubtitle the fastest episodes !. Note that depending on the Chinese characters used these names can have many other meanings besides those listed here. You also get BONUS Audio Lessons here at CantoneseClass101. Dinner Menu. Cantonese Spy is a language learning game that uses a one of a kind approach with taking in the Cantonese dialect. Explore the Canty family history for the English Origin. Each character's name, particularly their original Japanese name, is a pun on regular words, often the names of various foods. Back to Learn Cantonese. 張 (zoeng1) 陳 (can4) 李 (lei5) 王 (wong4) 梁 (loeng4) 周 (zau1) 鄭 (zeng6) 羅 (lo4) 黎 (lai4) 劉 (lau4). And if you've seen Hong Kong movies, you may remember scenes where working men purchased their lunches from dai pai dong and hunkered down to a scrumptious feast. It is the local language in current use within the province of Guangdong, China, official language in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, as well as in the Special Administrative Region of Macau, and used in many overseas Chinese communities. info All torrents Anime Applications Games Movies Music TV shows Other. Cantonese is one of the main languages in China and is widely spoken amongst Chinese diaspora. At Haimom, you will be able to search for Asian Baby Names sorted in an alphabetical order, uniqueness and popularity. Another description of the origin of the Fong/Fang family name is at Yutopian. , the last name Luo came from Xiong, which in turn came from Mie, and are all descendents of Zhuan Xu. Chinese Female Singers Last Name A. Cantonese (廣東話 Gwóng dōng wá) is a widely spoken Chinese language. You might just find that one of these great baby names has just the right blend of the exotic. With 九宮 (gau2 gung1), you've got something that's slightly better in terms of usability. At other times, the dialectal interchange can be hilarious, mischievous and not auspicious. It makes our dictionary English Cantonese real, as it is created by native speakers people, that uses language for every day. Chinese name meanings (yes we can do these names too). IP addresses are NOT logged in this forum so there's no point asking. This report is based on the 2005 study. The character. "old hundred surnames") and bǎixìng ( 百 姓 , lit. Change another server button if you can not watch. Learn your Chinese name with this list of English names and their Chinese translation. This is evidenced by the poems of the Tang dynasty; when you recite it in Cantonese, it has more rhymes than many other dialects. I pick up only a few words "If I have ten thousand years or just a few years" that part there alone makes me want to understand the whole song. On the busy Craigieburn line train home from the city last night, a young boy started crying. English to Cantonese or Cantonese to English translation services need to be highly accurate, done in time and at an affordable price. Anne: HM01 Sky Dash Allows the player to fly to places they've already been to. What is the origin of the name Canty?. Mandarin (Putonghua) is the official language in Mainland China and Taiwan. The best of the MICHELIN Experience in your inbox Stay on the top of the best restaurants, offers, lifestyle, and events recommended in our guide cities. It does exist in Cantonese, and several other south China dialects. until around 250 AD and hasn't changed much since then. 001% of the population. Cantonese Input Method using Visual Foxpro 9 SP2. My ancestry is Cantonese. Find, submit and requests pronunciations. A Site on Origin of Chinese Family Names (Surnames or Last Names) Origin of Chinese Names (Last Names or Surnames, 中國百家姓氏來源 HOW TO USE THIS WEB SITE : This web site is divided into 21 main sites as represented by the twenty one yellow buttons on the top of each page. He was a very well-known and talented Cantonese opera dramatist in Hong Kong. com - Learn Cantonese with Free Podcasts. The last family we'll touch on is called Wu, but it turns out this name isn't as popular among native speakers. TOP'S CHINA Szechuan, Hunan & Cantonese Style Restaurant. It softens a question and is a required component of normal questions. Since the written form of Mandarin and Cantonese are the same, unless he uses to use his English name, when he fills out forms, he uses the same Chinese characters, whether he pronouns his name in Mandarin or in Cantonese. Chinese Male boy Baby Names from China This is a collection of popular male boy baby names from China along with their meanings. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed. Dialects of Cantonese. Huey is a somewhat popular first name for males (#1030 out of 1220, Top 84%) and an even more popular surname for both adults and children (#3318 out of 150436, Top 2%). Curl is a name whose history on English soil dates back to the wave of migration that followed the Norman Conquest of England of 1066. It is spoken in southern China, especially in and around Hong Kong and Macau, and in Guangzhou Province. New Cantonese jobs added daily. * (bug 20239) MediaWiki:Imagemaxsize does not contain anymore a. 5000 years of Chinese heritage brings names that symbolize ancient treasures, virtue, and serenity. Their ranks in 1990 are shown by the side. Popular Chinese Female Singers. In addition, owing the the fact that the Chinese place their surname first and given name last, some people go by a last name that was originally their own or an ancestor's given name. Here are listed the top 10, top 100 common Chinese surnames based on the latest 2016 statistics with their number and distribution in China. Help us in creating the largest English-Cantonese dictionary online. Bilingual (Cantonese/English). 歡迎光臨Moreland市議會: Information about Moreland City Council in Cantonese. Cantonese is a language widely spoken in China and particularly in the province of Guangdong where it is recognized as the lingua franca. View Steven Leung, PMP'S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. As such, most people from Hong Kong and Chinese diaspora that emigrated prior to 1949 from Guangdong use the name Yim. May 31, 2016 · In a statement last week, Nintendo's Hong Kong office encouraged all Chinese Pokemon lovers, regardless of whether they spoke Cantonese or Mandarin, to adopt the global pronunciation of. Welcome to Dramafans. Amas is able to shirk as Percy will be bombarding as Keith ca. The table below shows native names for languages in their own scripts, or autoglottonyms. We estimate that there are at least 13900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0. A list of surnames in which the usage is Chinese (Cantonese). names without pronunciations are excluded from results * is a wildcard that will match zero or more letters in the pronunciation. For a country with this many people living there, Hong Kong is a surprisingly small country, only cover 427 square miles (1,110 square kilometers) of area, which ranks 183 rd in terms of area. A tone is a specific. 速成 (cuk1 sing4) is a slight improvement on the above, requiring that you only input the first and the last component keys. Jet Li, or Li Lianjie? It's not uncommon for people from the Chinese-speaking world to have two different names - a Chinese and a Western one. The most popular Chinese last names interpreted are a bit long as the environment that we grow up in is important. Chinese Male boy Baby Names from China This is a collection of popular male boy baby names from China along with their meanings. Say the second wife's last name backwards in cantonese Discussion in ' Heart of Greed - 溏心風暴 ' started by mbnz230 , Jun 6, 2007. I grew up eating Cantonese food and still prefer Cantonese food as my staple over other forms of cooking. Lunch Menu. This study examined the role of adaptation in the first year of middle school (Grade 6, age 11) to affiliation with gangs by the last year of middle school (Grade 8, age 13). It is also a language widely spoken in other Asian countries. Language names. And I have another friend who's last name is "Ngo" and he is Chinese. How do you write it? It's. Cantonese Last Names 張 (zoeng1). Chinese sounding surnames in the 1990 US census This list was created by eyeballing the last name frequency list from the 1990 US Census. I will argue that loanword phonology in Cantonese does not exist as a separate component of the grammar and that the differences between English language source forms and their Cantonese equivalents can be understood as the result of subjecting non-native inputs to the constraints that define well-formed Cantonese words. Home - Chinese Movies - New Chinese Movies - Upcoming Chinese Movies - Best Chinese Movies - Chinese Action Movies - A Database of Chinese Movies. Lau has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time. The yuen yong (mandarin ducks) is referring to the two different types of rice noodles used here and if you can't decide on hor fun or rice vermicelli then this. Here is an IPA pronunciation guide for all of the sounds in the Cantonese language. They changed their surname to Jiang; Xiao Zhen (萧桢) became Jiang Zhen (江桢) and he was the progenitor of the Xiao-Jiang family. Brice Valentin has 6 jobs listed on their profile. Perhaps that name comes from a Chinese person from Vietnam where Pham (范) is a common surname. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. Cantonese speakers might recognise the name for 茄汁 (ke 2 zap 1) ketchup as literally meaning "tomato sauce," the latter character being "sauce" and the former — short for 番茄 (faan 1 ke 2) — meaning "foreign eggplant," a. 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Ivanka Trump is closing her fashion company
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump made around $110 million in just one year — on top of their massive net worth.
IVANKA Trump's clothing and shoes company is reportedly folding.
The New York Post has reported that it will be shuttered "ASAP" and that staff have been informed that they're being laid off.
"It's just never recovered since she stepped away from the company," said an insider.
An Ivanka Trump jacket. Picture: Richard Gosling
Ms Trump, who serves as a senior adviser to her father US President Donald Trump, decided it didn't make sense to keep the company running if she's not returning.
"When we first started this brand, no one could have predicted the success that we would achieve," Ivanka Trump said in a statement.
"After 17 months in Washington, I do not know when or if I will ever return to the business, but I do know that my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work I am doing here in Washington, so making this decision now is the only fair outcome for my team and partners.
"I am beyond grateful for the work of our incredible team who has inspired so many women; each other and myself included. While we will not continue our mission together, I know that each of them will thrive in their next chapter."
The company copped criticism after Kellyanne Conway, Counsellor to the President, spruiked her line in an interview, which is against protocol.
Mr Trump also tweeted his support for the brand.
Saturday Night Live also lampooned the move in a hilarious skit.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and is republished here with permission
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When You Race With The Devil You Better Be Fast As Hell, Or Why I'm Curtailing Facebook
In order to model healthy behavior to my children, I need to have them see me engaging in healthy behavior first.
After over a decade of social media, I find it to not be healthy behavior.
Yes, it has several positive aspects. Sharing of information, keeping in contact with other human beings, and creating a social network you engage with in real life, also, but I'm finding those positives are outweighed by the negatives.
I see those people in real life if I engage in real life, anyway. I hear the news eventually, even if I'm trying not to, and whatever information I gain from social media seems to be drowned out by so much noise that it can hardly be called worthwhile.
Mostly, though, it creates a cocoon than envelopes me. And with my solitary nature, that's the last thing I need.
I want to work, and engage in a variety of activities, and discover new things. I don't seem to do any of that on social media.
And that's what my kids see. Me, hunched over a screen, squinting with a furrowed brow, usually agitated by something more than enjoying myself. Giving my attention to fools and strangers rather than them and my own work.
After my heart surgery, and finding out I now am experiencing the early stages of heart failure, time has become of the essence to me. Social media is a time killer. No matter how much time you have, it can consume it. And return nothing but the empty husks of your hours, days, and months.
I can't lead my children out of this labyrinth if I can't escape it myself.
May is a good time for this undertaking because there's so much to see and do here in Northern Illinois. It's been cold this year, but these few months are becoming so precious with each passing year. The winter seems to get longer and more fierce every year, and the real summer shorter.
My intention is to be more cold turley than ween myself off it. Facebook has to go first. And twitter has to be used only to promote whatever I'm working on. And the computer itself as a stereo, word processor, or email service.
I just need to pile up some work. Even if I'm just relaxing, doing nothing, it seems healthier than being fixated on a monitor where I'm just waiting for the next fight to break out.
I have friends who have gone first, and I see them, and I assume I'll continue to still see them, and maybe even have more to say when I do now.
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I started our year-long Tal Dorei campaign last May as Large Silent Friend, a Firbolg Druid who had been banished from his village as an adolescent for unwittingly smothering a miraculous creature he was bringing back to his village to show everyone. He followed the Blood Hunters Banlys and Trogg into the city of Tal Dorei having no idea what would happen next. My reasoning with this character was that he could be a fish out of water, sort of like a Crocodile Dundee, and present a counterpoint to everyone else's reaction to the city. This never manifested in our campaign at all.
My Tal Dorei character Large Silent Friend, as drawn by Lucian Kuranz, a fellow member of the 317 Art Collective
Our campaign ended this Tuesday after I took the Dungeon Master seat three months ago and drove it home with a fairly cliched storyline where Asmodeus used the vacuum of power inherent in the Tal Dorei system to reunite with his son Graz'zt, and manipulate the party into destroying anyone who could have stopped him, culminating in a final battle where the party decimated Vox Machina.
They made it fairly easy by snagging the Hand and Eye of Vecna, then all separately agreeing to deals that would have them killing off Asmodeus' only real competitor, the Mother of Ravens. The player who portrayed Pliz'skin, who was the one who took the Hand of Vecna at a black mass, then bargained with Iggwilv for the Eye, was a real joy to watch play, because he just bulled forward at every opportunity, and never asked or cared if anyone was going to follow. It was a damn lot of fun to watch someone play it that way, and really fit in perfectly to how I wanted to finish this campaign.
Which dovetails into my review of Tal Dorei. I start by saying I didn't read the sourcebook. It just wasn't very interesting, but I did assimilate the part about how the gods of Exandria had been banished. This story point led to what seems like the obvious end to any Tal Dorei campaign. Once any godlike entity anywhere in the Multiverse gets wind that there are no gods in Exandria, they are naturally going to want to fill that vacuum and seize power. When our original DM, the magnificent Travis Legge, allowed the campaign to veer into Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, then The Dungeon of the Mad Mage, the die was really cast. The gate to the Forgotten Realms was opened, and the party actually moved Trollskull Alley into The Cloudtop District of Tal Dorei, and opened Trollskull Manor, renaming it Trogskull Sporksbar, after two characters who had died in battle. For the second half of our campaign it could be said we were always in the Forgotten Realms.
And if you're in the Forgotten Realms, the gods, devils, and demons are NOT banished. Halaster Blackcloak found a way to open a portal and invite Graz'zt and Iggwilv through, and from that point on it was a ll a matter of corrupting the players for three months into doing their dirty work until they brought through the Lords of Hell, a convoy of Hellfire Engines, and legions of lower devils to take over the entirety of Exandria.
It is natural the final battle would be with Vox Machina, the previous heroes of Tal Dorei, who remained Chaotic Good for the most part, and played a prominent role early in the campaign, even lending the party their vestments. I haven't watched the Critical Role podcasts, but the Vox Machina had several tactical weaknesses in the composition of their party, not the least of which was some confusing multi-classing, and they after four rounds of combat really presented no resistance to our Planescape Tuesday's party.
I think they may have been more composed for entertainment than actual D and D playing.
One of my interesting takeaways is that even after having killed Vox Machina, a group of celestials playing a Stryper song in their bar at a battle of the bands, and having plunged the city into the iron fist of Asmodeus, the party didn't consider themselves evil at all.
I'll admit after one character foisted the Hand and Eye of Vecna there really wasn't any going back, and all they could have really done was confront and overwhelm him. Otherwise, they just had to go along and get along, which they did. It presented some real difficulties for me as a DM because I had four characters who were either leaning Neutral Good, or at most Neutral, and one character who was now literally the Hands of the Devil.
I also broke one of the cardinal rules of being a Game Manager and asked if I could play my own character, Large Silent Friend, as I really just wanted to join in the fun. They agreed. It wasn't as much of a burden as I would have thought. Mostly he just hung out and wild shaped so he could absorb tons of damage.
On a personal level, getting to sit in the Dungeon Master's seat right as I turned fifty was a bucket list item. The first week I was so overwhelmed and nervous all I could think to do was have have Halaster compel the party into an auditorium where they fought an identical party composed of simulacrums of themselves created by the lich Trobriand. This was a fun battle and allowed me to play them against them, so I learned a good deal about their abilities and weaknesses. The next week they went to Trobriand's Graveyard and tracked down Trobriand, played by Doobie Brothers singer, Michael McDonald, and almost managed to kill him aboard his prime creation, The Shockerstomper. I say almost because Trobriand cast a Meteor Storm at the end of the battle and killed everyone but Pliz'skin and Zox Clammersham, who brought them back with a Wish spell.
Shockerstomper, helmed by the Lich Michael McDonald, er, Trobriand, designed by Jack Mathews
I remember my first foray into Dungeons and Dragons took place at the height of the Satanic Panic, and we were banned from playing at school, then one by one, in the basements of our friend's houses. In the end all I had was the books, and no one to play with, until I came home one day and mother had burned the books.
I'd have to say waiting over thirty years to play again, then getting to Dungeon Master a campaign, was damn sweet.
Tal Dorei is fine. I'm not looking to bash it. The city is a totally solid place to base a campaign. But you'll probably end up somewhere else before it ends. Of course, that's almost always true in the Multiverse that is Dungeons and Dragons. Can't wait to sit in the DM seat again.
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I turned fifty last month, and was surprised with a trip to Mardi Gras by my partner.
Fifty was a surprise to me as I always expected to die from the same thing and at the same age that my mother did. I got open heart surgery instead, and survived. In a lot of ways that left me completely unprepared for everything that was to come after. I didn't expect any of it.
I had a very vain and selfish goal for my fiftieth birthday. I wanted to train hard in the gym and end up doing a naked pictorial on the street outside my apartment documenting being in the best shape of my life and generally just not giving much of a shit what anyone thought.
So, I set out last March training for that photo shoot. And I blew out my shoulder immediately. Followed by both elbows. Then I sprained my foot so badly I could barely walk.
But I trained through it all. I wanted to be like one of those guys in the commercials for fitness products who says "I'm fifty, and I'm in the best shape of my life." Yest nothing went right. It was the most agonizing training cycle in my entire life.
February came around, and every part of my body hurt, and the photo shoot never happened. Like almost everyone else who ever lived on planet Earth, I didn't get to stand in the middle of the street at fifty years old documenting how robust and powerful I was. Instead, I didn't achieve the results I dreamed of, and I took a selfie in my bathroom mirror.
Then I went to New Orleans and ate my way through the city with my partner and came home to the best friends a guy ever had.
I may not be in the best shape of my life, but I never had it so good. I have become the Dungeon Master for my Tuesday night Dungeons and Dragons group, and I am part of an art collective where I have two shows this month.
So, please indulge me in the sharing of a clearly self-centered photograph. Maybe I'll be back at 100 and do another one.
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Mermaid By Jenny Mathews
This is what's on my rolltop desk right now.
Zombie Logic Press Productions VHS Intro Animation
Growing up as a teen in the 80's the video store was a sacred place in my life. And the animations for a hundred different horror movie distribution companies still elicit a Pavlovian response from me. There's still a void in my life sometimes on Friday night when I feel this irresistable draw towards the video store, but there isn't one around.
Hearing of my longing for those days, and knowing I wanted nothing more in this life than an animation for my own production company, Zombie Logic Press, my workout partner and long-time friend Tim Stotz set out to work.
And today after our workout at the Y, instead of doing cardio, we decided to finish this...
Or rather, he decided to finish it while I sat there and drank a Candian Club on the rocks.
Well, I did help a little, by providing the sound effects. And now forever after I have my own animation for my production company. Now we just have to finish my movie Dead Drunk.
Buy The Blood Dark Sea By Dennis Gulling
What amazes me about the poems in this book is how elegantly they delve into some really dark subject matter, but are never once prurient, or mean-spirited. There's humanity to these observations of people in some pretty awful situations. But there's also a sense of humor and no judgement. These things happen. The Blood Dark Sea is the kind of book where you can be glad they are happening to someone else, and a poet with a keen eye and flair for the subject matter is there to report back, so to speak.
This illustration by Jenny Mathews is a pefect visual metaphor for the lives of the people described in the poems of The Blood Dark Sea, a book of noir poems.
The Blood Dark Sea By Dennis Gulling
Buy Iced Scream By Jesus Correa
I've decided to see my archival copies of the legendary Iced Cream by Jesus Correa and do a second printing, so this is absolutely your last chance to get a copy of the 1st printing of this highly sought after collectible.
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Cruising for Love
Author : Rosie Mae George
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Julia runs from an abusive boyfriend to work on a cruiser, where she meets guest Nassif, who's not who she thinks he is. Can their growing relationship survive the deceit? Can she trust him again?
When Julia escapes to work on a cruise ship from an abusive relationship and meets Nassif, a crown prince who has slipped quietly away from his usual royal glare and is incognito, their connection is instant.
Although Nassif is bound by duty to marry another and Julia is scarred by her past, they cannot break away from each other. When Nassif is forced to tell Julia the truth about who he is, her world falls apart. She trusted him with her life and her love. Can Nassif break from his royal confines to find true love? Can Julia forgive his deceit and allow herself to trust him again?
Standing in his study by his leather-topped, walnut desk, Prince Nassif looked at the photo in his hand, his dark eyes focussing carefully. He'd hoped that by now he would feel some kind of connection, but the beautiful young woman looking back at him from the photo still stirred nothing inside him. The fact she was as bound by duty to him as he was to her had set the tone for the start of their lives together. He wished the situation was different and he could continue his bachelor life, which suited him just fine. His heart was his and his alone. It was not for giving.
The air in the large wood-panelled room felt thick, even though the sun was shining through the slatted blinds, with a gentle aroma of ginger and vanilla filling the air from the diffusers. Nassif wanted to drop everything, run outside, and just enjoy the air, release himself of the royal burden he wore, for just a short while. For a moment, he imagined himself standing here, on this spot, in twenty or maybe thirty years' time, living his life following the tradition that had been passed down through his family's generations. How will I be, then?
For the last year, since his twenty-ninth birthday and the day Sohara had been chosen by the palace to be his bride, he had kept looking at her picture to see if he could muster some spark of feeling. She had been chosen from a small group of prospects for this position. Those who did the choosing were the palace officials along with his parents who, apparently, knew what a prince needed to be happy for the rest of his life. From that point, any female company, for him, was only allowed behind closed doors, not that he was particularly interested in spending time with anyone else. Like it or not, he was betrothed, and in his mind, fidelity mattered, even if he had not yet met her.
He looked again at the photo of the stunningly beautiful Sohara, with her long black corkscrew curls, her cinched waist, ample breasts and curvy hips. She was, quite simply, perfect to look at. Her intellect, of course, would be sufficient for a prospective queen. Sohara would be the image of perfection in social situations. She would circulate amongst guests with educated ease, making conversation on the arts, travel, even politics, when needed. Sohara would shine in the lavish ballroom, with its parquet floor, forty chandeliers and crimson walls decorated in gold leaf. She would beguile foreign dignitaries with stories of her home country, she would be the perfect hostess. Nassif had no doubt too that she would be the most attentive wife a man could aim to have.
He permitted himself a slight frown. With his thirtieth birthday looming, he was at a juncture in his life. It was the day he would marry his designated bride. In fact, everything about his life since he was twenty-two had been mapped out for him in the finest of details. His elder brother Khalid had seen to that.
Dragged back from Edinburgh University when his brother had decided that the throne was not for him, Nassif's life had changed dramatically from living relatively independently in Europe with just a small security detail to watch over him, to completely controlled. Not only did his life change dramatically, but his brother, who he'd loved dearly and looked up to, was effectively torn from it. From that point, Nassif became Crown Prince, heir to the throne of Andamaraia, and the Palace was taking no chances on a second abdication of duty.
Leaving Scotland so suddenly meant he was also forced to leave behind his girlfriend, Elle. He'd felt like his heart had been ripped from inside him, but it had been necessary to keep his emotions subdued.
In his mind, he saw her flowing blonde hair, her trim figure, the way her eyes shone when she laughed. These were thoughts he didn't usually allow to surface, and when they did, he squashed them quickly. He was a king-to-be, and displaying his feelings for others to see was unacceptable. The only way he could handle such a momentous loss in his life was to simply shut that side of his feelings down. Mentally, he sectioned Elle into a box in the back of his mind to allow him to go on.
His brother was no longer mentioned in any open conversation unless absolutely necessary. Nassif was forbidden to see or speak with him. At first, for a time, Nassif had been quietly furious with Khalid, not only for his absence in Nassif's life, having been banished by their parents, but for his part in ending the only relationship that had ever mattered to him.
Khalid had studied in London and then later toured Europe to taste the different cultures, but he'd bailed on his duty, choosing to stay in Europe with a woman he'd fallen for, hiding away from his royalty, as if it was his right to do so. In claiming his own freedom to live and love as he wished, Khalid had stripped Nassif of his. As the years progressed, though, Nassif had grown to understand the weight of the burden Khalid had struggled to bear and his anger had evolved slowly into a sense of sadness that he would never see his brother again. Sometimes, he wondered where Khalid was in the world. Was he sitting on a beach somewhere, or had he married his woman and was now in his garden with a wife and a brood of children running round, playing? It occurred to Nassif that he could be a brother-in-law or an uncle. There could be a whole side to his family that he didn't know.
His thoughts were interrupted when the door opened and his assistant Kareena, radiant in a vividly embroidered cerise sari, breezed into the study in her usual effervescent way.
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