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Tom Hiddleston's portrayal as Loki, Thor's mischievous and morally ambiguous brother has been a fan favorite within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With the huge number of fans he has, Disney+ has given Loki his own spinoff series. Tom Hiddleston is best known for his character Loki in Thor however, he has other talents as well. Some interesting facts about his life and work are included below.
Tom Hiddleston was raised by his father, a physicist James Hiddleston, and his casting director mother, Diana Hiddleston. Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London. Hiddleston is a member of a family that was scientific and he's always had an interest in the arts and enjoyed watching his mother perform. Although he studied acting in Eton College, he was given the nickname "Piddle" by his fellow students because of his surname.
Thor Star Tom Hiddleston got his start on stage.
Hiddleston was a student at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art after being heavily involved in theater at the college level. He spent a lengthy time in the theatre, before taking the leap to film, and it was there where he saw Thor director Kenneth Branagh. Although Hiddleston did not have any previous acting expertise, Branagh took him on to take his role as the main character of the Loki, the villain. Loki the character he's kept for more than 10 years.
Tom Hiddleston's original intention was to play Thor.
Hiddleston's most memorable role was Thor however, he also auditioned for the role. While he performed an audition for the role, sporting an afro and a muscle-bound body Director Kenneth Branagh ultimately decided to cast Tom Hiddleston as Loki because of his mischievous humor.
The actor Tom Hiddleston speaks several languages.
Hiddleston is a polyglot multilingual who is fluent in several tongues. In preparation for his part in Kong: Skull Island, He even took classes in Mandarin. In addition to being a skilled public speaker, he's also a skilled singer, having appeared in various productions as well as musicals.
Tom Hiddleston is a supporter of charitable causes.
Hiddleston is known for his charitable works as well as his acting career. He has been a vocal advocate for the cause of children and has contributed to organizations like WaterAid as well as The Prince's Trust, and Great Ormond Street Hospital through his capacity as an ambassador for UNICEF.
His love of dancing can be seen in his performance specifically in High-Rise. In the film, which asked for him to do the dance routine in a ballroom environment, he studied the tango and the waltz.
Tom Hiddleston is one of the most talented actors to ever play the role of the Bard.
Hiddleston has performed in numerous Shakespearean plays, demonstrating his vast experience in the theatre. He has appeared on stage in Othello playing Cassio in the play as Cassio, and Henry IV as Prince Hal and Prince Hal, both of which were performed at the London's Donmar Warehouse. When Hamlet was performed by the London's West End stage, he was the Prince Fortinbras.
When it involves performing, Tom Hiddleston doesn't just fit in front of a camera.
Hiddleston has voiced his character in several audio books, including The Testament of Loki, where he tells the story of his famous character, as well as The Night Manager the audiobook adaptation of a novel by John Le Carre. To The video game The Avengers, he lent his voice as well.
Hiddleston is fluent speaking French and Spanish in addition to his own native English. Hiddleston also has a bit of German in addition to Italian. Due to his proficiency in Spanish and Italian it was possible for him to use it in his role as Sir Thomas Sharpe in the 2015 film Crimson Peak. In the stage production of the Ibsen novel Enemy of the People, Hiddleston also sang in German.
Actor Tom Hiddleston is very charitable.
Over the time, Hiddleston has contributed to a number of worthy causes. He has worked as a Unicef UK ambassador, spreading the message of the organisation and soliciting donations for kids in dire need. He also visited refugee camps to bring attention to the plight of Syrian refugees as a volunteer with the International Medical Corps. In addition, he's been an ambassador for the World Food Programme, where He has pledged to do what he can to put an end the hunger that exists in the world.
Additionally, Tom Hiddleston is a promising DJ.
Hiddleston isn't only interested in acting. He's also an musician. He's played the role DJ at a range of functions like the Loki series' premiere celebration. The actor Tom Hiddleston revealed in an interview with Variety that he's been DJing for over a decade, and has played in a handful of venues in London. The DJ has described it as a "completely different way of expressing yourself" and a medium which allows an artist "creative freedom."
The fans have a love affair with Hiddleston so much because of his character portrayal as Loki and his character, that it's been featured in countless memes. Based on his now-famous "I am Loki" speech
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Q: Adding multiple records in a table by using FOR LOOP in PL/SQL This is the table I have created:
   CREATE TABLE Screening
  (
   screening_id NUMBER(6) PRIMARY KEY,
   CONSTRAINT check_screening_id CHECK(screening_id > 0),
   plan_id NUMBER(4) NOT NULL,
   theatre_id NUMBER(1) NOT NULL,
   screening_date DATE NOT NULL,
   screening_start_hh24 NUMBER(2) NOT NULL,
   CONSTRAINT check_start_hh24 CHECK(screening_start_hh24 BETWEEN 9 AND 22),
   screening_start_mm60 NUMBER(2) NOT NULL,
   CONSTRAINT check_start_mm60 CHECK(screening_start_mm60 BETWEEN 0 AND 59)
  );

Then I have created a sequence which I will use it to insert in the screening_id column of Screening table:
    CREATE SEQUENCE screening_seq
    START WITH 1
    INCREMENT BY 1
    NOCACHE
    NOCYCLE;

Then I have inserted 19 rows in Screening table:
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,1,3,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),9,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,1,3,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),11,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,1,3,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),13,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,1,2,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),13,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,1,3,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),15,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,1,3,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),17,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,2,1,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),9,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,2,1,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),12,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,2,1,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),15,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,2,2,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),9,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,2,2,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),15,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,3,4,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),9,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,3,4,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),12,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,3,4,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),15,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,3,4,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),18,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,4,1,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),18,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,4,2,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),18,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,4,3,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),19,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,4,4,TO_DATE('11/9/2017','DD/MM/YYYY'),21,0);

Now I have got the following assignment question:
On the first day (11/9/2017) (i.e. value of screening_date column), 19 records have already been added manually in the Screening table which has been demonstrated a while ago. Similarly, we also need to add the same 19 records on the second day (12/9/2017) (i.e. value of screening_date column). In other words, we keep repeating the process of inserting the same 19 records in the Screening table until 28th day (8/10/2017) (i.e. value of screening_date column). Therefore, for 28 days we need to insert a total of (28 X 19) = 532 records. However, instead of adding all the 532 records manually, we are looking to insert them by using a FOR LOOP in PL/SQL.
A hint has already been given:
DECLARE
first_date DATE := TO_DATE('11/09/2017','DD/MM/YYYY');
last_date  DATE := TO_DATE('08/10/2017','DD/MM/YYYY');
(no_of_days_var) NUMBER;

BEGIN

SELECT last_date - first_date
INTO no_of_days
FROM DUAL;

FOR j in 1.. no_of_days
LOOP

-- your 19 insert statements with screening_date being (your first date var) + j

END LOOP;
END;

I am just stuck and confused regarding what code to add in the FOR LOOP body. That is the only thing I need to get.
It would be really helpful, if the solution code in the FOR LOOP body is provided.

A: Don't use PL/SL loops, just run one simple INSERT ... SELECT ,
and replace "on the fly" some values (id and date) in the SELECT expressions list.
This is an example for the single one day only:
INSERT INTO Screening(
    screening_id, plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,
    screening_start_hh24, screening_start_mm60
)
SELECT screening_seq.NEXTVAL As screening_id,
       plan_id,
       theatre_id,
       date '2017-09-12' As screening_date,
       screening_start_hh24,
       screening_start_mm60
FROM Screening
where screening_date = date '2017-09-11'
;

This is an example for all 28 days (11th of september + 27 next days)
INSERT INTO Screening(
    screening_id, plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60
)
SELECT screening_seq.NEXTVAL As screening_id,
       s.plan_id,
       s.theatre_id,
       rows_generator.new_date As screening_date,
       s.screening_start_hh24,
       s.screening_start_mm60
FROM Screening s
CROSS JOIN (
    select date '2017-09-11' + level as new_date
    from dual
    connect by level <=  date '2017-10-08' - date '2017-09-11'
) rows_generator
where s.screening_date = date '2017-09-11'
;

PL/SQL version 1:
BEGIN
  FOR i IN  1 .. date '2017-10-08' - date '2017-09-12' + 1 LOOP
     INSERT INTO Screening(
            screening_id, plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,
            screening_start_hh24, screening_start_mm60
     )
     SELECT screening_seq.NEXTVAL As screening_id,
           plan_id,
           theatre_id,
           date '2017-09-12' + i As screening_date,
           screening_start_hh24,
           screening_start_mm60
     FROM Screening
     WHERE screening_date = date '2017-09-12' ;
  END LOOP;
END;
/

PL/SQL Version 2 using bulk collect and forall
DECLARE
   TYPE my_row_t IS TABLE OF Screening%rowtype;
   my_rows my_row_t;
BEGIN
   -- store rows in the collection
   SELECT *
   BULK COLLECT INTO my_rows
   FROM Screening
   WHERE screening_date = date '2017-09-12' ;

  FOR i IN  1 .. date '2017-10-08' - date '2017-09-12' + 1 LOOP

      -- update some values in the collection
      FOR j IN 1 .. my_rows.count LOOP
          my_rows( j ).screening_id := screening_seq.NEXTVAL;
          my_rows( j ).screening_date := date '2017-09-12' + j;
      END LOOP;

      -- insert rows from the collection to the table
      FORALL j IN 1 .. my_rows.count
      INSERT INTO Screening VALUES my_rows( j );

  END LOOP;
END;
/

A: By the way, I have solved the problem and it worked successfully. This is how I have approached it:
DECLARE
first_date DATE := TO_DATE('11/09/2017','DD/MM/YYYY');
last_date  DATE := TO_DATE('09/10/2017','DD/MM/YYYY');
no_of_days NUMBER;

BEGIN

SELECT last_date - first_date
INTO no_of_days
FROM DUAL;

FOR j in 1.. no_of_days
LOOP
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,1,3,first_date + j,9,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,1,3,first_date + j,11,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,1,3,first_date + j,13,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,1,2,first_date + j,13,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,1,3,first_date + j,15,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,1,3,first_date + j,17,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,2,1,first_date + j,9,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,2,1,first_date + j,12,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,2,1,first_date + j,15,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,2,2,first_date + j,9,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,2,2,first_date + j,15,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,3,4,first_date + j,9,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,3,4,first_date + j,12,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,3,4,first_date + j,15,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,3,4,first_date + j,18,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,4,1,first_date + j,18,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,4,2,first_date + j,18,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,4,3,first_date + j,19,0);
INSERT INTO Screening (screening_id,plan_id,theatre_id,screening_date,screening_start_hh24,screening_start_mm60)
VALUES (screening_seq.NEXTVAL,4,4,first_date + j,21,0);
END LOOP;

END;

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package myVFS;

import com.intellij.openapi.components.ProjectComponent;
import com.intellij.openapi.fileTypes.FileTypeManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.fileTypes.StdFileTypes;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.openapi.roots.ProjectRootManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.ui.Messages;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFile;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFileAdapter;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFileEvent;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFileManager;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

public class VfsSamplePlugin implements ProjectComponent {
    private final Project myProject;

    private static int ourJavaFilesCount;

    public VfsSamplePlugin(Project project) {
        myProject = project;
    }

    public void projectOpened() {
        ProjectRootManager projectRootManager = ProjectRootManager.getInstance(myProject);
        VirtualFile[] sourceRoots = projectRootManager.getContentSourceRoots();

        ourJavaFilesCount = 0;
         // Count the current number of Java files in the opened project.
        for (VirtualFile sourceRoot : sourceRoots) {
            countJavaFiles(sourceRoot);
        }
         // Add the Virtual File listener
        MyVfsListener vfsListener = new MyVfsListener();
        VirtualFileManager.getInstance().addVirtualFileListener(vfsListener, myProject);
    }

    public void projectClosed() {
    }

    public void initComponent() {
        // empty
    }

    public void disposeComponent() {
        // empty
    }

    @NotNull
    public String getComponentName() {
        return "VfsSample.VfsSamplePlugin";
    }
         // Increase or decrease the current number of Java files. Return true when a Java file has been added or removed from the opened project.
    private static boolean updateCount(VirtualFile file, int increase) {

        FileTypeManager fileTypeManager = FileTypeManager.getInstance();
        if (!fileTypeManager.isFileIgnored(file)
                && fileTypeManager.getFileTypeByFile(file) == StdFileTypes.JAVA) {
            ourJavaFilesCount += increase;
            return true;
            //System.out.println("ourJavaFilesCount = " + ourJavaFilesCount);
        }
        return false;
    }
         // Count current number of Java file in the project.
    private static void countJavaFiles(VirtualFile virtualFile) {
        VirtualFile[] children = virtualFile.getChildren();
        if (children == null) return;

        for (VirtualFile child : children) {
            updateCount(child, +1);
            countJavaFiles(child);
        }

    }

    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // MyVfsListener
    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    private static class MyVfsListener extends VirtualFileAdapter {
        public void fileCreated(VirtualFileEvent event) {
            if (updateCount(event.getFile(), +1)) {
                Messages.showMessageDialog("A new Java file added. Now " + String.valueOf(ourJavaFilesCount) +
                        " Java files in this project.", "Notification", Messages.getInformationIcon());
            }
        }

        public void fileDeleted(VirtualFileEvent event) {
            if (updateCount(event.getFile(), -1)) {
                Messages.showMessageDialog("A Java file deleted. Now " + String.valueOf(ourJavaFilesCount) +
                        " Java files in this project.", "Notification", Messages.getInformationIcon());
            }
        }
    }
}

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ARTICLES WEIRD WORLD A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THEY'VE HAD SEX WITH GHOSTS
A Whole Lot Of People Think They've Had Sex With Ghosts
Lydia Bugg
About 45 percent of the public believes in ghosts. Some smaller but significant percentage of the public believes they have fucked a ghost. I'm not kidding. A lot of people swear they've had ghost sex. So let's dive into the only kind of "ghost investigation" that really matters ...
1 More People Are Into It Than You Would Imagine -- Even Celebrities!
In 2016, Amanda Teague married the 300-year-old ghost of a Haitian pirate named John Robert Teague. An Englishwoman who goes by the name Amethyst Realm claims to have had sex with at least 20 ghosts. Sian Jameson says that she had a one-night stand with a ghost from the 1820s who looked hot in a painting. All three of these women describe the sex as the best they've ever had.
But why listen to regular people about their spooky sexual encounters when you could ask celebrities? Everyone wants to bang a famous person -- even ghosts, apparently! Anna Nicole Smith, Kesha, Bobby Brown, and Lucy Liu all claimed to have had sexual encounters with ghosts. Brown's story is probably the best, and he's shared it a lot, including on Larry King's show and 20/20, in one of the greatest interviews of all time. He describes it as such:
"I moved into this house. I bought this mansion in Georgia, so this was a really, really spooky place. But yeah, one time I woke up and yeah, a ghost. I was being mounted by a ghost."
He then specifies that he wasn't high, which is something he's obviously been asked before.
Robin Roberts then caps the interview with "Wow, you've had quite a life." This is something you say to someone who swam the English Channel, not someone who's gotten rowdy with the ethereal undead. I have a million follow-up questions for Bobby Brown, the most pressing being "Did you ask this ghost if Heaven exists while you were humping it?" Look, I know that it might ruin the mood, but I wouldn't know whether I'd get a second chance at it.
Related: 6 Reasons Famous Wars Were Even Worse Than You Imagined
2 There Are Plenty Of Items You Can Purchase To Summon Your Own Sex Ghost
If you're not a celebrity whom ghosts are tripping over themselves to have sex with, you'll probably have to summon your ghost fuckbuddy like a peasant. And this can get expensive. There's a huge price gap between summoning a regular ghost and summoning a ghost to have sex with. If you want to summon a ghost just to throw rocks through it and laugh at it or whatever, it will cost you as little as $2.99 on Amazon (for the Kindle edition of Ghosts And Their Summoning).
However, if a book about summoning mentions sex in the title, you're gonna have to go higher. For instance, Sexual Alchemy: Magical Intercourse With Spirits is $90, even though it has super mixed reviews.
To be fair, one of the one-star reviews -- headlined "Caveat emptor, Magus emptor! Buyer & Wizard beware!!" -- asserts that the book works too well. In a long diatribe that gives shout-outs to both God and Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 6, the reviewer writes that although the spell worked for him and he did lose his virginity to a ghost, he also ended up homeless and friendless, having to leave the city where the ritual was performed. That's probably a risk you run when the one-night stand you ghosted has the ability to ghost your ass for eternity.
A three-star review of the same book offers a similar warning: "This is well written and well put together. I will not fault it at all in those aspects. However, you will become obsessed/possessed/addicted."
Again, this is a three-star review that says "Oh yeah, it works, but you'll get addicted and it will probably kill you. THREE STARS for death by ghost dong."
The author of Sexual Alchemy, Donald Tyson, has several other books for sale on Amazon that involve various types of magic, including one that claims to allow you to "reliably and safely get in touch with the Old Ones and draw upon their power for spiritual and material advancement." Yeah, that one costs $10. So we see that the demand for communication with H.P. Lovecraft monsters is hot, but nowhere near as hot as the market for nailing some sweet poltergeist ass.
Related: The 7 Most Questionable 'Haunted' Items on eBay
3 There's More Paperwork Involved In Ghost Sex Than You Would Think
Since I want to summon a sex ghost on a budget, I decided to scour the internet for a frugal solution to my problem. Luckily, I found summoningsuccubus.com, which offers seven free lessons on summoning a succubus/incubus. Glowing user testimonials praise both the site and its owner Eric Vonroth: "At first I thought all of this succubus business is total B.S. Eric proved me wrong and I have him to thank for it." Says Fernando from Los Angeles: "Working with Erik has been both life changing and fun. Finding a spiritual connection with my Incubus Sam means the world to me." Awww. It's kind of sweet if you think about it for a second and then not one second longer.
Lesson 1 asks that you fill out a questionnaire called "Are You Sexual Spirit Material?" It really digs deep and gets to the core of your desire to have sex with a ghost, with questions like "What Type Of Sexual Spirit Do You Wish To Summon" and "For What Purpose Do You Wish To Summon a Sexual Spirit."
I was excited to see that summoning a succubus just to be friends with was an option, because I'm always looking for strong female friends. In the next section, I got to pick what characteristics are important to me in a spiritual lover. I chose funny, intelligent, and friendly, leaving off choices like aggressive, dominant, and powerful, because I don't want to be murdered by my sex ghost. The next section was a little confusing, as it asks "How long do I think it will take you to create first contact?"
How am I supposed to know how long Eric Vonroth thinks it will take me to create first contact? Is this question designed to test whether or not I'm psychic? All I could do was guess that if Eric Vonroth met me, he would think I was very smart and cool like everyone else does, and that it would probably only take me 1-4 weeks to contact a ghost that's into me. And that's good, because it then became very clear that summoning this ghost was going to be a process.
Hours in a week? Wow, summoning a sexual ghost sounds like a commitment. I was just looking for a little fun, and now this survey is talking about long-term relationships and hours per week. I'm starting to feel a lot of pressure here. Maybe it would be easier to just purchase a spirit that has been pre-summoned for me.
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4 You Can Buy A Sex Ghost On eBay
If, like me, you find the summoning ritual to be a bit overwhelming, but unlike me you have money, you can head on over to eBay and nab a pre-summoned sex ghost for $150. Just type in "succubus summon" and wade through a sea of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards until you eventually find it. eBay's variety of sex ghost listings even sometimes lists the ghost's turn-ons. For instance, the Hecate Moondrake Vampire Succucbus likes "green candles, mugwort, anise, and similar herbal offerings" to "ignite her fireworks."
The truly amazing thing about the succubi sold on eBay is how positive their sellers' ratings are. The seller of the Hecate Moondrake Vampire Succubus and the Inseparable Succubus Twins has 100 percent positive feedback from 951 ratings. Glowing reviews include "This little lady has kept me very busy, she likes me just fine!!!!! smiles," "Repeat customer v v highly recommended top seller more like this ebay pls AAA+," and "Amazing!!!! Heard his hooves right after I cut the tie!!! Loves to tell jokes." That last review is from a buyer who purchased something called a "pendent of a sensual male faun."
All I can think looking through the eBay reviews for this man who exclusively sells ghosts is this: How did every single buyer get exactly what they wanted from this product? The reviews aren't even mixed, they're all like "WOW my dick is just gone from all of this succubus sex. Will buy many more ghosts from this gentleman if I ever recover from all of the ghost orgasms I just had, A++++ thanks!"
5 Ghosts Just Aren't That Into Some People, Including Me!
One thing hammered home over and over again on every WordPress blog, Tumblr post, survey, and eBay listing I visited is that ghosts simply might not be that into you. This is usually framed as being entirely your fault. Either you didn't believe hard enough or you were afraid (which is a real turn-off for ghosts, apparently).
You would think spirit sex might be a good answer for lonely people who want to find a partner -- or in my case just someone to watch RuPaul's Drag Race with me and brush my hair. But in reality, it can turn out to be another plane of reality for you to be a loser in. I tried to summon a succubus using the letter method. This method instructs you to focus on what you want in a succubus, then write a letter with a list of what you're looking for. This is mine:
I did misspell the word "enemies," but I have a learning disability and figure my succubus should know that about me, so I left it in. You then add a little something from your body to the paper, whether it's blood, semen, or hair (hair is less potent). I used hair. After lighting a candle (I used a Bubbly Pomegranate from Yankee Candle to give my summoning that classic Christmas-y feel), you focus your intention and burn the letter in a bowl. Eventually, you're supposed to feel pressure on your chest, wind on your skin, soft touches, and mild-to-strong sexual arousal. I guess in my case, I would interpret that to the ghost being super horny for friendship.
Unfortunately, I felt none of these things. When my letter burned away, all I was left with was slightly less hair and the words "Give piggyback rides my ememies." I have to say that this felt pretty intentional, like somewhere a succubus was laughing at me. Then again, I did say that I wanted her to be funny, so who knows! Maybe it worked! Hahaha, just kidding. Ghosts hate me, it's fine.
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We're almost halfway through the NFL season, with some teams making deals at the deadline to try and save their season, and others already looking forward to next year's draft.
For gamblers, it's important to keep in mind each team's position when placing a bet. Not all one-win teams are equal, while sometimes pretenders can look like contenders thanks to a lucky streak of questionable opponents.
Our bets haven't been doing great so far this year, but I like to consider myself a second-half player.
Michael Reaves/Getty ImagesThe Dolphins are a beautiful mess.
The Texans are undeniably hot, having won four straight games, but none of their wins have been impressive. Houston's first three victories came over the Colts, Cowboys, and Bills, none by more than a touchdown. The Dolphins are a mess right now, but they have been playing well enough to keep it close.
Brett Carlsen/Getty ImagesPhiladelphia shows flashes of their Super Bowl run, but has yet to put it all together.
The Eagles almost looked like their Super Bowl selves last weekend before getting caught easing up on the gas too early. If they can't win in London, they will drop to an unfathomable 3-5 on the season. Thankfully for them, things in Jacksonville are so bad that Blake Bortles got benched for Cody Kessler last week.
Mike Ehrmann/Getty ImagesBaker Mayfield knows how to keep things close.
Four of Cleveland's seven games so far this year have gone to overtime. Two of their other three games were decided by four points are less. Say what you will about the Browns this year, but they can keep games close.
Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesThe Broncos are better than you think.
The Chiefs are on fire right now, but 10 points are simply too many to put up in a divisional game. The Broncos showed last week they can score in bunches, putting up 45 against the lowly Cardinals. If they can manage even half that, they have a good shot at covering.
Al Bello/Getty ImagesThe Jets look a year or two away from something that could be special.
The Jets lost badly to the Vikings last week, but the final score looked worse than the actual game. Chicago has shown an ability to light up underwhelming defences, but after averaging 39 points per game over their past three. It feels like the Bears are due to cool off a bit.
Kevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesIs Eli Manning almost done in New York?
This is the Giants' last game before their bye week, and it feels like there's too much on the line for them to lay another egg against a divisional opponent at home after getting routed by the Eagles just two weeks ago.
Michael Reaves/Getty ImagesMatt Stafford and the Detroit Lions have been surging in recent weeks.
The Lions have won two straight behind a newly discovered rushing attack and a defence that appears to be figuring itself out at the right moment. Seattle is still a mess. They just had the blessing of playing against the Raiders last week.
Julio Aguilar/Getty ImagesTampa Bay is still competing in a tough NFC South.
The Bengals have been prone to hot starts and disappointing finishes in recent years, and after getting exposed by the Chiefs last week, it feels like their collapse could be coming soon.
Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesJoe Flacco has been playing better even since he's gotten a bit of competition.
Had it not been for the unthinkable occurrence of Justin Tucker's missed extra point, there's a good chance we'd have spent much of the week looking at the Ravens as giant-slayers for their effort against the Saints last week. Trust that they bounce back here and Tucker never misses again.
Andy Lyons/Getty ImagesAndrew Luck may be back, but the Colts will need a few more players to step up before they can get back into the AFC playoff picture.
While I do my best to take the home dog every time, with Jon Gruden actively scrapping the Raiders and selling them for parts, it's tough to see Oakland getting up for this one.
Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesJosh Rosen is still figuring things out with the Cardinals.
These two teams just met three weeks ago in San Francisco, and the Cardinals won by 10. San Francisco has looked stronger in the games since then, but in a game between two bad teams, give me the one that won the first matchup and is playing at home.
Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ImagesAaron Donald is still a beast.
Much has been made about how this is the biggest spread Aaron Rodgers has ever faced in the NFL. For that reason, bettors have been eagerly backing the Packers in early markets. But this is another one of those lines that looks so high it feels like Vegas knows something we don't. If the Packers were 6-point dogs, I think I'd be all over them here, but something doesn't feel right.
Steven Ryan/Getty ImagesKirk Cousins seems to have steadied the ship in Minnesota after a disappointing start to the year.
The Vikings seem to have shaken off their rust to play much like the team the NFL expected them to be, rattling on three straight wins. Now they get a chance to prove it in primetime against a Saints team that hasn't lost since Week 1. New Orleans has been close to perfect, but they showed some cracks last week against Baltimore, and this week I think Kirk Cousins takes full advantage.
Andy Lyons/Getty ImagesDerek Anderson is just the latest quarterback disaster in Buffalo.
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Russia asked the FBI to investigate Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011, a source in US law enforcement told Reuters. The FBI had earlier reported on its website that an unnamed 'foreign government' had asked them for information.
The slain Boston marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who previously was designated as Suspect 1, was investigated in 2011 by the FBI upon a certain foreign state's request.
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The state, which was not identified in the statement on the FBI website, filed a request concerning Tsarnaev saying that he was a follower of radical Islam and was preparing to leave the US for a particular region to join "unspecified underground groups."
The FBI says they checked all the information possible, looking for "derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest," and checking the suspect's travel history, plans, and education history.
The Caucasus Emirate is a self-proclaimed virtual Islamist state entity which claims to span several provinces throughout southern Russia. It was officially announced in October 2007 by Doku Umarov, who became the first emir. Both the United States and Russia has designated the Caucasus Emirate as a terrorist organization.
In May 2011, the US put Umarov on its Rewards for Justice list, "offering "up to $5 million for information that leads to the location of this key terrorist leader," a joint statement of the presidents of the United States and Russia on cooperation in counter-terrorism read. In July 2011, the United Nations Security Council Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee added the Caucasus Emirate to the list of entities associated with Al-Qaeda
Tsarnaev and his family members were also interviewed by the FBI.
Upon analyzing the data, the FBI had found nothing suspicious at the time.
"The FBI did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign, and those results were provided to the foreign government in the summer of 2011. The FBI requested but did not receive more specific or additional information from the foreign government," the FBI statement says.
On Sunday, a statement on a website run by Russia's North Caucasus rebels disavowed any link to the Boston Marathon bombing.
"After the events in Boston, the US, information has been distributed in the press saying that one of the Tsarnaev brothers spent six months in Dagestan in 2012. On this basis, there are speculative assumptions that he may have been associated with the Mujahideen of the Caucasus Emirate, in particular with the Mujahideen of Dagestan," the statement by the Command of Mujahideen of Caucasus Emirate's Dagestan read.
Investigators work around the boat where Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev was found hiding after a massive manhunt, in the backyard of a Franklin Street home, in an aerial view April 20, 2013 in Watertown, Massachusetts
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The group stressed they "are not fighting against the United States of America," but rather are "at war with Russia." The group cited a February order by militant leader Doku Umarov prohibiting attacks on civilian populations. Despite the order, Umarov had previously claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport which killed 36 people a year prior. In March 2010, the militant leader further took credit for the Moscow Metro bombings which killed 40 people and injured more than 60 others.
The statement concluded by urging the media to "halt speculations and promotion of Russian propaganda," claiming the US government should investigate the involvement of Russian security services in the events.
Also on Sunday, Boston's police commissioner announced the Tsarnaev brothers had more explosives which authorities believe they intended to use.
"We feel that they had plans to use those explosives, possibly on soft targets," Commissioner Edward Davis said on Fox News Sunday.
Davis reiterated his confidence that the two individuals responsible for the bombing "are either dead or arrested at this point." He further said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger brother who was in "serious but stable condition" after suffering gunshot wounds to the leg and neck while being apprehended, was
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In September 1966, when James Marshall Hendrix arrived in London to record his debut album, fronting his own band, he was just two months shy of his 24th birthday. He had been playing professionally since 1962, when he and bassist Billy Cox had left the US Army, where they met, and moved to Nashville. While he was in Tennessee, Hendrix played on the Chitlin' Circuit, sometimes referred to as the urban theater circuit. These were venues in the South, the Eastern Seaboard, and the Midwest that featured African-American performers. Hendrix backed a number of soul singers during his time on the circuit, including Wilson Pickett and Sam Cooke.
Hendrix moved to Harlem in early 1964, where he auditioned for the Isley Brothers. This influential R&B group had been successful since the late '50s; he played on their two-sided single "Testify (Pts. 1 & 2)," and toured with the Isleys for much of the rest of the year. He also appeared on Don Covay's "Mercy Mercy" before moving on in October to join Little Richard's band. Hendrix played on Little Richard's cover of another Don Covay song, "I Don't Know What You Got but It's Got Me," but his stage antics took some attention from the great rocker, who let him go in July 1965. Hendrix returned to the Isley Brothers briefly and then left them to play with Curtis Knight & the Squires, adding to his recording résumé in both cases. He also played with soul music saxophonist King Curtis.
By 1966, Hendrix was tired of life as a backing musician on the R&B circuit and moved to Greenwich Village. At that time, he was using the stage name Jimmy James. He started playing at Cafe Wha?, and began a residency there fronting the house band as Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. The band included guitarist Randy Wolfe and bassist Randy Palmer. To differentiate them, Hendrix gave Palmer the name Randy Texas, after his home state, while Wolfe, hailing from California, became Randy California—the name he kept when he formed the band Spirit with his stepfather, drummer Ed Cassidy.
Hendrix quickly became the talk of the town, and other guitarists came into Cafe Wha? to see him play. Mike Bloomfield, who helped Dylan go electric, would say later, "He burned me to death." British rockers on tour in the United States, like Bryan "Chas" Chandler, bass player with the Animals, would stop by. In the summer of 1966, the Animals were about to split and Chandler was looking to get into managing and producing. Model Linda Keith, Keith Richards's girlfriend at the time, had told Chandler about Hendrix. Chandler was impressed and offered to manage and record him when the Animals finished their final tour. Chandler came back to the Village in September, and soon he and Hendrix were on a plane to London.
When they arrived in England, Chandler convinced Hendrix to change his first name to the more exotic-sounding "Jimi," and the two of them began auditioning musicians for a band. They selected Noel Redding on bass and "Mitch" Mitchell on drums to form the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Chandler arranged for Hendrix to sit in for a few songs with Cream at a gig at the Polytechnic of Central London. Cream is considered to be the world's first supergroup, and Hendrix was a fan of guitarist Eric Clapton. Hendrix guested with other bands and built a following, especially among guitarists, who were both impressed and intimidated.
Chandler brought the Experience into the studio in October 1966 to record "Hey Joe," which Hendrix had played in his Cafe Wha? sets. The song had already been covered by the Leaves, the Byrds, Love, and many others, but Hendrix's version became the definitive one. He played it in a less aggressive and more fluid style, based on folk singer Tim Rose's recording of the song. Noel Redding was a guitar player when he joined the group and had to use Chandler's bass for the session.
Although Hendrix followed the broad outlines of Rose's recording of "Hey Joe," he charts his own course for the song with the intro, where he plays a series of single notes against an open E string, then switches to a lower note interval, before being joined by Mitchell and Redding as he plays the final riff that leads into the song. While Hendrix is known for his innovative use of volume, distortion, and feedback, he plays "Hey Joe" with a clean tone.
His command of the fingerboard is apparent in every moment of the song, which Hendrix fills with intervals and hammer-on variations on its simple chord progression, expanding and developing the harmonic possibilities. The solo is brief, but tightly constructed, and combines single notes with intervals and chord fragments. Hendrix often played with a lot of speed and flash, but this solo unfolds easily, staying close to the melody while demonstrating how logically and thoughtfully he developed his solos.
In early November, the trio recorded "Stone Free," a Hendrix composition that became the B-side of his first single. Hendrix wanted to record a cover of "Killing Floor," but Chandler suggested that it would be better to start recording Hendrix's own tunes. "Hey Joe," backed with "Stone Free," hit the charts in late December and peaked at No.6. In January 1967, Hendrix recorded "Purple Haze," which reached No.3 on the UK charts when it was released in March. The Experience had already begun recording its first album, and Track Records released Are You Experienced on May 12, 1967. It remained in the UK album chart for 33 weeks, peaking at No.2.
In America, Hendrix was not gaining traction. Reprise Records, his US label, had released "Hey Joe," but it stiffed. Hendrix's breakthrough in his own country was his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival on June 18, 1967. Paul McCartney had encouraged the festival's organizers to book Hendrix, and his appearance there created a sensation. The Who had been on stage earlier that evening, and in his set he pulled out all the stops to outdo them. He played the guitar behind his back and with his teeth (tricks he had learned from guitarists on the Chitlin' Circuit) and turned his Marshall and Sound City amplifiers up full. At the close of the set, he lit his guitar on fire and smashed it on the stage.
Hendrix's big splash at Monterey led to a series of gigs on the West Coast, creating even more buzz around him. Reprise finally released Are You Experienced in the United States on August 23, 1967. At Hendrix's request, the label changed the cover to a brighter, more psychedelic one, with a photo of the Experience taken with a fish-eye lens. The photo emphasized Hendrix's unique sartorial style, which added his own flair to the Carnaby Street fashions that were the rage at that time.
The label also pulled some songs that were on the UK release of the album, substituting the three UK singles that had been released, "Hey Joe" and "Purple Haze," and "The Wind Cries Mary." Reprise also changed the sequence of the remaining songs on the album. For many years, that was the album Americans knew as Are You Experienced, and it's arguable that it's a stronger record because of those changes. The album reached No.5 on the Billboard 100 and stayed in the charts for 106 weeks.
"Purple Haze" opens the US version of Are You Experienced, and Americans hearing it for the first time in 1967 were introduced to music that was revolutionary, even by the standards set by the other classic rock albums released that same year. The song begins with Hendrix playing two notes, an A# and the same note an octave higher, against Redding's playing of the same pattern in E on the bass. Mitchell plays a series of snare hits and pumps the kick-drum pedal. The rhythm section continues as Hendrix plays a line on the low strings in Mixolydian mode, which he repeats and then resolves with the next two lines in a blues pentatonic scale.
I won't subject every tune on Are You Experienced to an outline of the music theory behind it, but the chord progression of "Purple Haze" does include an E7#9—now known as the Hendrix chord—and an A6, which were not typical chords used in rock at the time. Hendrix's musical sophistication extends to the solo, which combines jazz phrasings, blues riffs, and even Eastern scales. The solo's unusual tone comes from his use of an Octavia, a foot pedal that adds distortion and a higher or lower octave note to each note played.
The Experience had recorded its singles and a good deal of Are You Experienced at De Lane Lea and CBS Studios in London. After the success of the first two singles, Polydor, which distributed Track Records, gave Chandler a line of credit to use at Olympic Studios. Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones had recommended the studio to Chandler for its good acoustics and sophisticated recording equipment. There, Hendrix met and worked with Eddie Kramer, who would go on to engineer, mix, and master Hendrix's subsequent recordings. He remixed "Purple Haze," along with the recordings that would become part of Are You Experienced, playing a key role in putting Hendrix's musical vision on tape.
The flanging effect on the rhythm guitar on "Purple Haze," the effects on Hendrix's vocals, the placement of the strange spoken words in the background during the guitar solo, and the overall tone of the recording resulted from Kramer's talent in the studio and his eagerness to experiment. Hendrix and Chandler collaborated during recordings, and the producer was important in moving things in the right direction, but it was Kramer's expertise that tied things together.
Hendrix's solo on "Manic Depression" balances brutal, fast barrages of notes with clearly stated melodic passages, and mirrors the mix of emotions expressed in the lyrics, which describe the frustrations of some aspects of life and the release and relief provided by music. Listening to the song confirms how important the other two musicians in the Experience were in helping Hendrix achieve his ends. Mitch Mitchell's shots to the bell of the ride cymbal and his rolls on the snare and toms throughout help center and propel the music. Redding's bass shadows Hendrix's riffs during the song, but it has a softer edge that plays well against the sharpness of the guitar tone and fattens the sound of the track.
The 1967 UK release of Are You Experienced omits "The Wind Cries Mary," which Track Records released as a single just before it cut the LP loose. It's one of Hendrix's best songs, and its inclusion on the US version helps illustrate the full range of Hendrix's songwriting abilities. It also allows listeners to hear that Hendrix was a gifted lyricist. He had played several Dylan songs live, including "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?," and in a few months he would record a stunning version of "All Along the Watchtower." It's easy to hear Dylan's influence on the lyrics to "The Wind Cries Mary," but Hendrix had a unique poetic ear:
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
And the wind whispers "Mary"
The rhythm guitar playing shows how much Hendrix absorbed from R&B players like Curtis Mayfield—a great songwriter and an underrated guitarist. The chord progression is simple, but Hendrix's fills and arpeggios build upon it and develop it. His beautiful guitar solo is understated, taking the song's melody and adding new dimensions. Along with "May This Be Love," the second ballad on the American release, "The Wind Cries Mary" illustrates how sensitive a songwriter Hendrix could be; a romantic, without becoming mawkish. These two songs also prove him to be a strong and distinctive singer, a talent he downplayed.
"Fire" and "Foxey Lady" are full-out rockers, garage rock filtered through Hendrix's exceptional guitar abilities and R&B sensibilities. Other songs on Are You Experienced defy easy description. "I Don't Live Today" is built around a distorted riff that could vaguely be described as heavy metal, but the chord progressions at the song's opening and chorus are unlike anything else in rock. Hendrix's unique ear for chords and his use of complex harmonic combinations run through the album, but are particularly evident on "I Don't Live Today," "Are You Experienced?," and "Third Stone From the Sun."
Hendrix used feedback and other sonic experiments in ways that were deeper and more nuanced than other musicians of the time. He never employed these effects as novelties. Feedback served his ends in the same way unusual flights of sound and noise allowed jazz musicians like John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, or Charles Lloyd to go beyond tonality in order to evoke feelings of frustration, anger, or spiritual longing. When Hendrix played "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock in 1969, he used feedback and other effects, often created with the aid of the whammy bar on his guitar, to illustrate the tensions and violence created by the war in Vietnam, anti-war protests, and the civil rights movement.
Are You Experienced is now available on CD in both the UK and US track lineups, with songs originally deleted from the LPs now added to give a full measure of Hendrix's first recordings with the Experience. "Stone Free" is a prime example of the kind of heavy funk he would explore with the Band of Gypsies two years later. "Can You See Me" pays tribute to his R&B roots, and "Red House" exhibits his formidable command of the blues and his talent in bringing the music forward while staying true to its essence.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience released Axis: Bold as Love on December 1, 1967, and Reprise did not alter the song lineup on that album. It included the beautiful ballad "Little Wing," and one of Hendrix's strongest rock'n'roll tunes, "Spanish Castle Magic." The guitarist's jazz chops were in full display on "Up From the Skies," a song that so impressed jazz arranger Gil Evans that he was eager to work with Hendrix. Evans would record an album of Hendrix songs in 1974.
Hendrix brought in other musicians, including Steve Winwood of Traffic and Jack Casady of the Jefferson Airplane, to help out on Electric Ladyland, which he largely recorded in New York at the newly opened Record Plant. The chaotic nature of the sessions, along with Hendrix's perfectionism, led to Chas Chandler's departure as producer. Chandler left his managing duties with business partner Michael Jeffery. Noel Redding's commitments to a second band he had started, Fat Mattress, interfered with some of the recording schedule, and Hendrix himself ended up playing many of the bass parts. Reprise and Track released the album in October 1968.
Electric Ladyland displays the many sides of Hendrix's growing talents as songwriter, singer, and guitarist. The track that gives the album its title is a gorgeous example of sweet soul that pays tribute to Curtis Mayfield. "Voodoo Chile" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" demonstrate his love for the blues and his continuing ability to find new things to say in the genre. His cover of Earl King's "Come On" pays homage to his R&B roots, and "House Burning Down" announces his interest in addressing social issues.
The album's masterpiece is a Bob Dylan song. I could devote an entire essay to Hendrix's interpretation of "All Along the Watchtower," perhaps the most perfect four minutes of music ever committed to tape. The tone of the guitars, the way Hendrix uses Dave Mason's 12-string rhythm guitar playing (closely supervised by Hendrix) more as percussion than for the guitar chords, Hendrix's phrasing as he sings Dylan's lyrics and finds poetic nuances that even Dylan didn't quite nail in his recording of the tune on John Wesley Harding, and Mitch Mitchell's astonishing drum work all add up to a masterpiece of playing, arranging, and recording. Hendrix's solo unfolds in three distinct sections, each of them brilliant, and each contributing to a tightly constructed, carefully thought-out musical statement.
Hendrix spent time in the recording studio during the first six months of 1969, but by June, Redding had quit and the Experience was defunct. Hendrix experimented with other lineups, such as the six-piece group including Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell that played at Woodstock. Cox and Hendrix also recorded demos with drummer Buddy Miles, who had played with the Electric Flag.
Hendrix, Cox, and Miles appeared in two shows at the Fillmore East on December 31, 1969 and January 1, 1970. Capitol Records released Band of Gypsys, composed of recordings from the Fillmore shows, in March 1970. The music combined funk, R&B, and hard rock, and featured some of Hendrix's most concentrated and focused live playing. The effects he produced with a few pedals and a guitar proved that the recording studio was an important tool, but only an extension of Hendrix's extraordinary playing technique.
After he had completed Electric Ladyland, Hendrix was recording constantly with Billy Cox, Mitch Mitchell, and many other musicians. The Band of Gypsys lasted until late January 1970, and came to an end because Hendrix's exploitative manager, Michael Jeffery, sabotaged the group in order, he hoped, to reform the Experience. He also imposed a brutal touring schedule on Hendrix, in part to help Jeffery with his own badly managed finances, but also to help pay for the cost of Hendrix's studio time and the construction of Electric Lady Studios, which Hendrix and Jeffery co-owned.
Electric Lady Studios was built in Greenwich Village, NYC, to Hendrix's specifications with help from Eddie Kramer. Hendrix had made a few recordings at his new studio before he left for a short tour of Europe that commenced with a headline appearance at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 30, 1970. He played the remaining European shows, but was distracted because he was eager to get back to his new studio. Hendrix was also in talks with Chandler and others to find a way to extricate himself from Jeffery's management. On September 16, he jammed with Eric Burdon & War at Ronnie Scott's, in London. Two days later, Jimi Hendrix choked to death in his sleep after taking a large dose of barbiturates. The coroner's report said, ". . . there is no evidence as to intention to commit suicide."
Mitch Mitchell and Eddie Kramer assembled the first posthumous studio release by Jimi Hendrix, The Cry of Love, in 1971. Roughly half the album consists of mixes Hendrix had overseen before he died and the remaining tracks were mixed by Kramer. Hendrix had recorded extensively over the previous two years, and a flood of albums featuring these studio recordings have appeared since his death. First Rays of the New Rising Sun (1997) includes the ten tracks from The Cry of Love, augmented with selections that likely would have appeared on the two-LP set Hendrix was working toward.
The many posthumously released albums of Hendrix's live and studio recordings—too numerous to list here—illustrate his versatility and boundless facility as a guitarist, his eagerness to expand his songwriting into R&B, blues, and beyond, and his growing confidence as a singer. We can never be certain, though, what he might have intended the studio recordings to sound like in their finished form. Hendrix played compulsively, a guitar almost always in his hands. He recorded the same way, eager to get his ideas down on tape.
The three studio albums he completed, along with The Cry of Love and First Rays of the New Rising Sun, are the essential Hendrix. First Rays was the first collection to be released after the Hendrix family regained control of Hendrix's recorded legacy in 1995. All the studio collections that follow contain examples of his genius, but they often feel unfinished. Of the live albums, Band of Gypsys (1970), Live at Monterey (2007), and Live at Winterland (1987) stand out, and the many others are, to varying degrees, well worth hearing.
Jimi Hendrix was such a unique and visionary musician that even now, 50 years after his death, it's hard to fully explain him. His many biographies describe his affection for the blues and R&B, and David Henderson's 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky contains hints from Hendrix's father that his son probably heard the great jazz guitarist Charlie Christian when he was growing up. Part of Hendrix's skill came from constant playing. The guitar gave him respite from a childhood that was unhappy, even by the standards one might expect of an African American growing up in Seattle in the '40s and '50s.
But Hendrix's command of the guitar goes beyond practice and into the indefinable qualities that defy full explanation and lead to great art. His music contains elements of blues and jazz, but solos veer off to evoke other genres, including ragas from India and strains of Middle Eastern music. Hendrix seems to have absorbed and remembered everything he ever heard and used it to create the sounds coursing through his imagination. He went beyond the technology available to guitarists at the time, so far beyond that guitar electronics designers would soon invent pedals to recreate the sounds he made.
Great records expand the definition of what is possible in music. I can still remember how thrilling it was to play the debut albums by the Doors or Led Zeppelin, and to hear Rubber Soul, Revolver, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, and so many others for the first time. I still feel that thrill when I hear them now, but they don't sound as exotic and new as they did the first few times. Hendrix's records still do. Even after all these years, his music often sounds like something from another culture. Only a very few records, such as Miles Davis's Bitches Brew or Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, retain that strangeness, the feeling that there is still some secret contained in them that can't quite be revealed.
Jimi Hendrix died two months before he would have turned 28. He was a star for less than four years, but in that time he released three studio albums, a greatest hits collection, Smash Hits (1968), and a live album. He recorded countless additional hours of music. He influenced many guitarists, and his impact on other musicians went in some unexpected directions. Much of what George Clinton did with Funkadelic is hard to imagine without Hendrix; Prince certainly took some cues from him, and the first two Mahavishnu Orchestra albums are clearly part of a musical world Hendrix helped create. Even Miles Davis's masterful forays into "electric" music, In a Silent Way (1969) and Bitches Brew (1970), reflect something of Hendrix's musical imagination.
It's interesting to speculate on the directions Hendrix would have taken had he survived. It's also a waste of time. Enjoying the music he left us is enough.
. . . Joseph Taylor
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Cedarwood Parent Club does many exciting things on and for our campus. They are a key resource for our staff and students when the need arises. They are responsible for putting on several events throughout the year. In the fall, they host the Cedarwood Carnival. Our carnivals are very successful and always promise a good time for the whole family. Every December, they open Kris Kringle's Closet for our students to come shop for gifts for friends and family for the holidays. Muffins with Mom and Donuts with Dad are also events hosted by our Parent Club. This year they put on the first ever Pastries with Grandparents. This was a huge success and can't wait for next year's event! PTC is also in charge of operating our snack bar. We are able to purchase new technology for students to use with profits generated through the snack bar. PTC is crucial to the success of Cedarwood. They are always looking for volunteers. They hold several meetings throughout the year, so there is still time to get involved! Please see the list below of future meetings! We look forward to seeing you!
Intercultural Diversity Advisory Council (IDAC): The primary purpose of the Intercultural Diversity Advisory Council (IDAC), originally formed in 1988 as the Intercultural Advisory Council, is to assist in the formation and review of policies that assure non-discriminatory practices in all operational areas of the Clovis Unified School District. Its further mission is to assist in improving the cultural environment of the District.
3:30-4:30PM. The meeting dates are December 19th, March 5th and May7th. The meeting on March 5th is a Clovis Area meeting and will be at Clovis High School at 6:30PM.
The week of January 14th-18th, we will celebrate Multicultural Week. The week will include guest performers, multicultural games, as well as an author visit. Dorina Lazo-Gilmore will be visiting Cedarwood. You can read more about her HERE.


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At some point I'm sure I'll grow bored of being a North and South Norfolk Photographer, retire to a hermitage, never to pick up a camera again: but I can't see it being anytime soon!
My recent family shoot saw me in South Norfolk on a Saturday morning with a lovely family of three generations including 2 grandparents, 4 parents and 3 children. It was a session at a rural home surrounded by fields, driveways lined with trees shedding their leaves and countryside tracks. In short it was a great chance to find some fallen autumn leaves, explore the fields and try to saturate as much of the colours of this wonderful time of year into my photographs as I could.
It was morning, dare I say it, when children are usually more compliant and generally a bit happier compared to their own selves in the afternoon. There was a little bit of excess energy to burn whilst the older generation looked on, but thankfully it meant that the children had plenty of energy to at least return to a photogenic spot for another quick go at achieving the photographs that we were after when first attempts hadn't quite been a success.
It was a lovely session, even better to edit the images and see all the smiles.
If you'd like a stress free outdoor family portrait session get in touch, it's autumn one of the best times of year to do it!