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This week I'm joined by YouTuber and TikToker George Alexander, to discuss "Wish World".George Alexander:www.youtube.com/@georgealexander3110www.tiktok.com/@thegeorgealexanderwww.instagram.com/thegeorgealexander/x.com/ThatFinalBoyAbout Time:www.linktree.com/abouttimecast

Today we meet Hanshi George Alexander. I love history and meeting new people, so this interview was a perfect fit. Hanshi Alexander had more stories than could fit into 25 minutes. (Keep an eye open for our "outtakes" episode.) He is knowledgeable, funny and motivational. Listen and you'll be a fan. (Thanks so much Hanshi.) This is the part where I remind you that you can scroll down just a bit and click the support the show link. Thanks in advance.Support the showThanks so much for listening and sharing the podcast with friends. Reach us all over the web. Facebook and twitter are simply wildcatdojo. However, insta is wildcatdojo conversations. (There's a story there.)On YouTube (where we are now airing some of our older episodes - complete with a slideshow that I tweak constantly) https://www.youtube.com/@wildcatdojo9869/podcastsAnd for our webpage, where you can also find all the episodes and see some info about the dojo: http://wildcatdojo.com/025-6/podcast.html . And of course, we love it when you support our sponsor Honor Athletics. Here is their link:https://honor-athletics.com/Thank you for listening.

fWotD Episode 2760: The Importance of Being Earnest Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Sunday, 24 November 2024 is The Importance of Being Earnest.The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde, the last of his four drawing-room plays, following Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893) and An Ideal Husband (1895). First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy depicting the tangled affairs of two young men about town who lead double lives to evade unwanted social obligations, both assuming the name Ernest while wooing the two young women of their affections. The play, celebrated for its wit and repartee, parodies contemporary dramatic norms, gently satirises late Victorian manners, and introduces – in addition to the two pairs of young lovers – the formidable Lady Bracknell, the fussy governess Miss Prism and the benign and scholarly Canon Chasuble. Contemporary reviews in Britain and overseas praised the play's humour, although some critics had reservations about its lack of social messages.The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde's career but was followed within weeks by his downfall. The Marquess of Queensberry, whose son Lord Alfred Douglas was Wilde's lover, unsuccessfully schemed to throw a bouquet of rotten vegetables at the playwright at the end of the performance. This feud led to a series of legal trials from March to May 1895 which resulted in Wilde's conviction and imprisonment for homosexual acts. Despite the play's early success, Wilde's disgrace caused it to be closed in May after 86 performances. After his release from prison in 1897 he published the play from exile in Paris, but he wrote no more comic or dramatic works.From the early 20th century onwards the play has been revived frequently in English-speaking countries and elsewhere. After the first production, which featured George Alexander, Allan Aynesworth and Irene Vanbrugh among others, many actors have been associated with the play, including Mabel Terry-Lewis, John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Margaret Rutherford, Martin Jarvis, Nigel Havers and Judi Dench. The role of the redoubtable Lady Bracknell has sometimes been played by men. The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted for radio from the 1920s onwards and for television since the 1930s, filmed for the cinema on three occasions (directed by Anthony Asquith in 1952, Kurt Baker in 1992 and Oliver Parker in 2002) and turned into operas and musicals.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:30 UTC on Sunday, 24 November 2024.For the full current version of the article, see The Importance of Being Earnest on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm long-form Patrick.

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In the 840th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway is joined by Kyle Anderson and Connor Richards at Level 9 in Las Vegas and talk about the latest from the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and about the highly-entertaining Hustler Casino Live (HCL) 'Legends of the Felt' live-streamed cash game. Highlights include a cooler flop between the NBA's Jimmy Butler and Brazilian footballer Neymar Jr., professional streamer Richard Tyler Blevins (AKA Ninja) slow-rolling boxer Ryan Garcia, and an insane hand involving Neymar Jr. and Alan Keating that saw more than $300K change hands after the river was run out an astounding eight times! You have to believe it to see it. Meanwhile, the WSOP rolled on by crowning a plethora of bracelet winnings including Chris "Big Huni" Hunichen, who not only won the $100K High Roller but went on to nearly take down the $250K Super High Roller in a week most players can only dream of. Speaking of that SHR, Santhosh Suvarna defeated Ben Tollerene to take down that tournament for $5,415,152 and his second gold bracelet. Other bracelet winners discussed include Chris Vitch, Maksim Pisarenko, Frank Funaro, and Yuri Dzivielevski, among others. Plus, get your $25K Fantasy update, gear up for the WSOP $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship, and hear the hosts make their picks for a $20 last longer in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship! A new PokerNews Podcast will drop twice weekly during the 2024 WSOP every Tuesday and Friday at 8a PT / 11a ET / 4p UK time. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you do not miss an episode! Time Stamps *Time | Topic* 00:21 | Hustler Casino Live (HCL) Legends of the Felt 02:48 | Jimmy Butler vs. Neymar Jr. in big hand 09:18 | Ninja slowrolls Ryan Garcia 13:06 | Is Ryan Garcia headed to the UFC? 16:30 | Alan Keating & Neymar Jr. run the river eight times! 25:30 | Who would you like to see on the next stream? 27:43 | Chris “Big Huni” Hunichen claims first bracelet 30:05 | Winner interview w/ Chris Hunichen 30:30 | Santhosh Suvarna wins $250K Super High Roller for $5,415,152 35:51 | Winner interview w/ Santhosh Suvarna 36:45 | Chris Vitch captures third bracelet 37:09 | Maksim Pisarenko wins $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship 37:45 | Pedro Neves wins WSOP Monster Stack for $1.1 million 39:21 | Erlend Melsom wins Event #49: $3,000 NLH Freezeout  39:46 | George Alexander's dream comes true in $10,000 Razz Championship 40:44 | Peter Park wins Event #51: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty for $240,724 41:07 | Patrick Moulder claims $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw bracelet 42:35 | Frank Funaro wins 2nd bracelet in Event #57: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty 44:00 | Brazil's Yuri Dzivielevski wins $3,000 9-Game Mix for 5th gold bracelet 44:35 | Khang Pham wins Seniors Championship for $677k 45:28 | $25K Fantasy Update 47:23 | $50,000 Poker Players Championship last longer bet 50:10 | The WSOP PokerNews $600 Deepstacks Championship has arrived!

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (A Trivial Comedy for Serious People) 오스카 와일드 「진지함의 중요성」 (진지한 사람들을 위한 사소한 코미디) 이미지: 1895년 런던 초연 당시 무대 위의 앨런 에인즈워스(Allan Aynesworth), 이블린 밀라드(Evelyn Millard), 아이린 반브루흐(Irene Vanbrugh), 조지 알렉산더(George Alexander).

This week Rob is joined by Aaron McLean, Joe and Aveley manager Danny Scopes to look back at the twists and turns from the final day in the National League and National League South. Luke reviews the North with Dickie and Boston United Stats Christian James Plus we hear from Josh Rees of Dagenham, Laurent Tolaj of Aldershot, Chelmsford Adam Drew and George Alexander and Chippenham manager Gary Horgan. Plus a look ahead to the playoffs Subscribe via all good podcasting platforms Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Rob is joined by Aaron McLean, Joe and Aveley manager Danny Scopes to look back at the twists and turns from the final day in the National League and National League South.Luke reviews the North with Dickie and Boston United Stats Christian James Plus we hear from Josh Rees of Dagenham, Laurent Tolaj of Aldershot, Chelmsford Adam Drew and George Alexander and Chippenham manager Gary Horgan.Plus a look ahead to the playoffsSubscribe via all good podcasting platforms Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 171 looks at "Hey Jude", the White Album, and the career of the Beatles from August 1967 through November 1968. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a fifty-seven-minute bonus episode available, on "I Love You" by People!. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Errata Not really an error, but at one point I refer to Ornette Coleman as a saxophonist. While he was, he plays trumpet on the track that is excerpted after that. Resources No Mixcloud this week due to the number of songs by the Beatles. I have read literally dozens of books on the Beatles, and used bits of information from many of them. All my Beatles episodes refer to: The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn, All The Songs: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Release by Jean-Michel Guesdon, And The Band Begins To Play: The Definitive Guide To The Songs of The Beatles by Steve Lambley, The Beatles By Ear by Kevin Moore, Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald, and The Beatles Anthology. For this episode, I also referred to Last Interview by David Sheff, a longform interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono from shortly before Lennon's death; Many Years From Now by Barry Miles, an authorised biography of Paul McCartney; and Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey. This time I also used Steve Turner's The Beatles: The Stories Behind the Songs 1967-1970. I referred to Philip Norman's biographies of John Lennon, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney, to Graeme Thomson's biography of George Harrison, Take a Sad Song by James Campion, Yoko Ono: An Artful Life by Donald Brackett, Those Were the Days 2.0 by Stephan Granados, and Sound Pictures by Kenneth Womack. Sadly the only way to get the single mix of “Hey Jude” is on this ludicrously-expensive out-of-print box set, but a remixed stereo mix is easily available on the new reissue of the 1967-70 compilation. The original mixes of the White Album are also, shockingly, out of print, but this 2018 remix is available for the moment. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before I start, a quick note -- this episode deals, among other topics, with child abandonment, spousal neglect, suicide attempts, miscarriage, rape accusations, and heroin addiction. If any of those topics are likely to upset you, you might want to check the transcript rather than listening to this episode. It also, for once, contains a short excerpt of an expletive, but given that that expletive in that context has been regularly played on daytime radio without complaint for over fifty years, I suspect it can be excused. The use of mantra meditation is something that exists across religions, and which appears to have been independently invented multiple times, in multiple cultures. In the Western culture to which most of my listeners belong, it is now best known as an aspect of what is known as "mindfulness", a secularised version of Buddhism which aims to provide adherents with the benefits of the teachings of the Buddha but without the cosmology to which they are attached. But it turns up in almost every religious tradition I know of in one form or another. The idea of mantra meditation is a very simple one, and one that even has some basis in science. There is a mathematical principle in neurology and information science called the free energy principle which says our brains are wired to try to minimise how surprised we are --  our brain is constantly making predictions about the world, and then looking at the results from our senses to see if they match. If they do, that's great, and the brain will happily move on to its next prediction. If they don't, the brain has to update its model of the world to match the new information, make new predictions, and see if those new predictions are a better match. Every person has a different mental model of the world, and none of them match reality, but every brain tries to get as close as possible. This updating of the model to match the new information is called "thinking", and it uses up energy, and our bodies and brains have evolved to conserve energy as much as possible. This means that for many people, most of the time, thinking is unpleasant, and indeed much of the time that people have spent thinking, they've been thinking about how to stop themselves having to do it at all, and when they have managed to stop thinking, however briefly, they've experienced great bliss. Many more or less effective technologies have been created to bring about a more minimal-energy state, including alcohol, heroin, and barbituates, but many of these have unwanted side-effects, such as death, which people also tend to want to avoid, and so people have often turned to another technology. It turns out that for many people, they can avoid thinking by simply thinking about something that is utterly predictable. If they minimise the amount of sensory input, and concentrate on something that they can predict exactly, eventually they can turn off their mind, relax, and float downstream, without dying. One easy way to do this is to close your eyes, so you can't see anything, make your breath as regular as possible, and then concentrate on a sound that repeats over and over.  If you repeat a single phrase or word a few hundred times, that regular repetition eventually causes your mind to stop having to keep track of the world, and experience a peace that is, by all accounts, unlike any other experience. What word or phrase that is can depend very much on the tradition. In Transcendental Meditation, each person has their own individual phrase. In the Catholicism in which George Harrison and Paul McCartney were raised, popular phrases for this are "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner" or "Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen." In some branches of Buddhism, a popular mantra is "_NAMU MYŌHŌ RENGE KYŌ_". In the Hinduism to which George Harrison later converted, you can use "Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare", "Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya" or "Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha". Those last two start with the syllable "Om", and indeed some people prefer to just use that syllable, repeating a single syllable over and over again until they reach a state of transcendence. [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hey Jude" ("na na na na na na na")] We don't know much about how the Beatles first discovered Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, except that it was thanks to Pattie Boyd, George Harrison's then-wife. Unfortunately, her memory of how she first became involved in the Maharishi's Spiritual Regeneration Movement, as described in her autobiography, doesn't fully line up with other known facts. She talks about reading about the Maharishi in the paper with her friend Marie-Lise while George was away on tour, but she also places the date that this happened in February 1967, several months after the Beatles had stopped touring forever. We'll be seeing a lot more of these timing discrepancies as this story progresses, and people's memories increasingly don't match the events that happened to them. Either way, it's clear that Pattie became involved in the Spiritual Regeneration Movement a good length of time before her husband did. She got him to go along with her to one of the Maharishi's lectures, after she had already been converted to the practice of Transcendental Meditation, and they brought along John, Paul, and their partners (Ringo's wife Maureen had just given birth, so they didn't come). As we heard back in episode one hundred and fifty, that lecture was impressive enough that the group, plus their wives and girlfriends (with the exception of Maureen Starkey) and Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, all went on a meditation retreat with the Maharishi at a holiday camp in Bangor, and it was there that they learned that Brian Epstein had been found dead. The death of the man who had guided the group's career could not have come at a worse time for the band's stability.  The group had only recorded one song in the preceding two months -- Paul's "Your Mother Should Know" -- and had basically been running on fumes since completing recording of Sgt Pepper many months earlier. John's drug intake had increased to the point that he was barely functional -- although with the enthusiasm of the newly converted he had decided to swear off LSD at the Maharishi's urging -- and his marriage was falling apart. Similarly, Paul McCartney's relationship with Jane Asher was in a bad state, though both men were trying to repair their damaged relationships, while both George and Ringo were having doubts about the band that had made them famous. In George's case, he was feeling marginalised by John and Paul, his songs ignored or paid cursory attention, and there was less for him to do on the records as the group moved away from making guitar-based rock and roll music into the stranger areas of psychedelia. And Ringo, whose main memory of the recording of Sgt Pepper was of learning to play chess while the others went through the extensive overdubs that characterised that album, was starting to feel like his playing was deteriorating, and that as the only non-writer in the band he was on the outside to an extent. On top of that, the group were in the middle of a major plan to restructure their business. As part of their contract renegotiations with EMI at the beginning of 1967, it had been agreed that they would receive two million pounds -- roughly fifteen million pounds in today's money -- in unpaid royalties as a lump sum. If that had been paid to them as individuals, or through the company they owned, the Beatles Ltd, they would have had to pay the full top rate of tax on it, which as George had complained the previous year was over ninety-five percent. (In fact, he'd been slightly exaggerating the generosity of the UK tax system to the rich, as at that point the top rate of income tax was somewhere around ninety-seven and a half percent). But happily for them, a couple of years earlier the UK had restructured its tax laws and introduced a corporation tax, which meant that the profits of corporations were no longer taxed at the same high rate as income. So a new company had been set up, The Beatles & Co, and all the group's non-songwriting income was paid into the company. Each Beatle owned five percent of the company, and the other eighty percent was owned by a new partnership, a corporation that was soon renamed Apple Corps -- a name inspired by a painting that McCartney had liked by the artist Rene Magritte. In the early stages of Apple, it was very entangled with Nems, the company that was owned by Brian and Clive Epstein, and which was in the process of being sold to Robert Stigwood, though that sale fell through after Brian's death. The first part of Apple, Apple Publishing, had been set up in the summer of 1967, and was run by Terry Doran, a friend of Epstein's who ran a motor dealership -- most of the Apple divisions would be run by friends of the group rather than by people with experience in the industries in question. As Apple was set up during the point that Stigwood was getting involved with NEMS, Apple Publishing's initial offices were in the same building with, and shared staff with, two publishing companies that Stigwood owned, Dratleaf Music, who published Cream's songs, and Abigail Music, the Bee Gees' publishers. And indeed the first two songs published by Apple were copyrights that were gifted to the company by Stigwood -- "Listen to the Sky", a B-side by an obscure band called Sands: [Excerpt: Sands, "Listen to the Sky"] And "Outside Woman Blues", an arrangement by Eric Clapton of an old blues song by Blind Joe Reynolds, which Cream had copyrighted separately and released on Disraeli Gears: [Excerpt: Cream, "Outside Woman Blues"] But Apple soon started signing outside songwriters -- once Mike Berry, a member of Apple Publishing's staff, had sat McCartney down and explained to him what music publishing actually was, something he had never actually understood even though he'd been a songwriter for five years. Those songwriters, given that this was 1967, were often also performers, and as Apple Records had not yet been set up, Apple would try to arrange recording contracts for them with other labels. They started with a group called Focal Point, who got signed by badgering Paul McCartney to listen to their songs until he gave them Doran's phone number to shut them up: [Excerpt: Focal Point, "Sycamore Sid"] But the big early hope for Apple Publishing was a songwriter called George Alexander. Alexander's birth name had been Alexander Young, and he was the brother of George Young, who was a member of the Australian beat group The Easybeats, who'd had a hit with "Friday on My Mind": [Excerpt: The Easybeats, "Friday on My Mind"] His younger brothers Malcolm and Angus would go on to have a few hits themselves, but AC/DC wouldn't be formed for another five years. Terry Doran thought that Alexander should be a member of a band, because bands were more popular than solo artists at the time, and so he was placed with three former members of Tony Rivers and the Castaways, a Beach Boys soundalike group that had had some minor success. John Lennon suggested that the group be named Grapefruit, after a book he was reading by a conceptual artist of his acquaintance named Yoko Ono, and as Doran was making arrangements with Terry Melcher for a reciprocal publishing deal by which Melcher's American company would publish Apple songs in the US while Apple published songs from Melcher's company in the UK, it made sense for Melcher to also produce Grapefruit's first single, "Dear Delilah": [Excerpt: Grapefruit, "Dear Delilah"] That made number twenty-one in the UK when it came out in early 1968, on the back of publicity about Grapefruit's connection with the Beatles, but future singles by the band were much less successful, and like several other acts involved with Apple, they found that they were more hampered by the Beatles connection than helped. A few other people were signed to Apple Publishing early on, of whom the most notable was Jackie Lomax. Lomax had been a member of a minor Merseybeat group, the Undertakers, and after they had split up, he'd been signed by Brian Epstein with a new group, the Lomax Alliance, who had released one single, "Try as You May": [Excerpt: The Lomax Alliance, "Try As You May"] After Epstein's death, Lomax had plans to join another band, being formed by another Merseybeat musician, Chris Curtis, the former drummer of the Searchers. But after going to the Beatles to talk with them about them helping the new group financially, Lomax was persuaded by John Lennon to go solo instead. He may later have regretted that decision, as by early 1968 the people that Curtis had recruited for his new band had ditched him and were making a name for themselves as Deep Purple. Lomax recorded one solo single with funding from Stigwood, a cover version of a song by an obscure singer-songwriter, Jake Holmes, "Genuine Imitation Life": [Excerpt: Jackie Lomax, "Genuine Imitation Life"] But he was also signed to Apple Publishing as a songwriter. The Beatles had only just started laying out plans for Apple when Epstein died, and other than the publishing company one of the few things they'd agreed on was that they were going to have a film company, which was to be run by Denis O'Dell, who had been an associate producer on A Hard Day's Night and on How I Won The War, the Richard Lester film Lennon had recently starred in. A few days after Epstein's death, they had a meeting, in which they agreed that the band needed to move forward quickly if they were going to recover from Epstein's death. They had originally been planning on going to India with the Maharishi to study meditation, but they decided to put that off until the new year, and to press forward with a film project Paul had been talking about, to be titled Magical Mystery Tour. And so, on the fifth of September 1967, they went back into the recording studio and started work on a song of John's that was earmarked for the film, "I am the Walrus": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] Magical Mystery Tour, the film, has a mixed reputation which we will talk about shortly, but one defence that Paul McCartney has always made of it is that it's the only place where you can see the Beatles performing "I am the Walrus". While the song was eventually relegated to a B-side, it's possibly the finest B-side of the Beatles' career, and one of the best tracks the group ever made. As with many of Lennon's songs from this period, the song was a collage of many different elements pulled from his environment and surroundings, and turned into something that was rather more than the sum of its parts. For its musical inspiration, Lennon pulled from, of all things, a police siren going past his house. (For those who are unfamiliar with what old British police sirens sounded like, as opposed to the ones in use for most of my lifetime or in other countries, here's a recording of one): [Excerpt: British police siren ca 1968] That inspired Lennon to write a snatch of lyric to go with the sound of the siren, starting "Mister city policeman sitting pretty". He had two other song fragments, one about sitting in the garden, and one about sitting on a cornflake, and he told Hunter Davies, who was doing interviews for his authorised biography of the group, “I don't know how it will all end up. Perhaps they'll turn out to be different parts of the same song.” But the final element that made these three disparate sections into a song was a letter that came from Stephen Bayley, a pupil at Lennon's old school Quarry Bank, who told him that the teachers at the school -- who Lennon always thought of as having suppressed his creativity -- were now analysing Beatles lyrics in their lessons. Lennon decided to come up with some nonsense that they couldn't analyse -- though as nonsensical as the finished song is, there's an underlying anger to a lot of it that possibly comes from Lennon thinking of his school experiences. And so Lennon asked his old schoolfriend Pete Shotton to remind him of a disgusting playground chant that kids used to sing in schools in the North West of England (and which they still sang with very minor variations at my own school decades later -- childhood folklore has a remarkably long life). That rhyme went: Yellow matter custard, green snot pie All mixed up with a dead dog's eye Slap it on a butty, nice and thick, And drink it down with a cup of cold sick Lennon combined some parts of this with half-remembered fragments of Lewis Carrol's The Walrus and the Carpenter, and with some punning references to things that were going on in his own life and those of his friends -- though it's difficult to know exactly which of the stories attached to some of the more incomprehensible bits of the lyrics are accurate. The story that the line "I am the eggman" is about a sexual proclivity of Eric Burdon of the Animals seems plausible, while the contention by some that the phrase "semolina pilchard" is a reference to Sgt Pilcher, the corrupt policeman who had arrested three of the Rolling Stones, and would later arrest Lennon, on drugs charges, seems less likely. The track is a masterpiece of production, but the release of the basic take on Anthology 2 in 1996 showed that the underlying performance, before George Martin worked his magic with the overdubs, is still a remarkable piece of work: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus (Anthology 2 version)"] But Martin's arrangement and production turned the track from a merely very good track into a masterpiece. The string arrangement, very much in the same mould as that for "Strawberry Fields Forever" but giving a very different effect with its harsh cello glissandi, is the kind of thing one expects from Martin, but there's also the chanting of the Mike Sammes Singers, who were more normally booked for sessions like Englebert Humperdinck's "The Last Waltz": [Excerpt: Engelbert Humperdinck, "The Last Waltz"] But here were instead asked to imitate the sound of the strings, make grunting noises, and generally go very far out of their normal comfort zone: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] But the most fascinating piece of production in the entire track is an idea that seems to have been inspired by people like John Cage -- a live feed of a radio being tuned was played into the mono mix from about the halfway point, and whatever was on the radio at the time was captured: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] This is also why for many decades it was impossible to have a true stereo mix of the track -- the radio part was mixed directly into the mono mix, and it wasn't until the 1990s that someone thought to track down a copy of the original radio broadcasts and recreate the process. In one of those bits of synchronicity that happen more often than you would think when you're creating aleatory art, and which are why that kind of process can be so appealing, one bit of dialogue from the broadcast of King Lear that was on the radio as the mixing was happening was *perfectly* timed: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] After completing work on the basic track for "I am the Walrus", the group worked on two more songs for the film, George's "Blue Jay Way" and a group-composed twelve-bar blues instrumental called "Flying", before starting production. Magical Mystery Tour, as an idea, was inspired in equal parts by Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, the collective of people we talked about in the episode on the Grateful Dead who travelled across the US extolling the virtues of psychedelic drugs, and by mystery tours, a British working-class tradition that has rather fallen out of fashion in the intervening decades. A mystery tour would generally be put on by a coach-hire company, and would be a day trip to an unannounced location -- though the location would in fact be very predictable, and would be a seaside town within a couple of hours' drive of its starting point. In the case of the ones the Beatles remembered from their own childhoods, this would be to a coastal town in Lancashire or Wales, like Blackpool, Rhyl, or Prestatyn. A coachload of people would pay to be driven to this random location, get very drunk and have a singsong on the bus, and spend a day wherever they were taken. McCartney's plan was simple -- they would gather a group of passengers and replicate this experience over the course of several days, and film whatever went on, but intersperse that with more planned out sketches and musical numbers. For this reason, along with the Beatles and their associates, the cast included some actors found through Spotlight and some of the group's favourite performers, like the comedian Nat Jackley (whose comedy sequence directed by John was cut from the final film) and the surrealist poet/singer/comedian Ivor Cutler: [Excerpt: Ivor Cutler, "I'm Going in a Field"] The film also featured an appearance by a new band who would go on to have great success over the next year, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. They had recorded their first single in Abbey Road at the same time as the Beatles were recording Revolver, but rather than being progressive psychedelic rock, it had been a remake of a 1920s novelty song: [Excerpt: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, "My Brother Makes the Noises For the Talkies"] Their performance in Magical Mystery Tour was very different though -- they played a fifties rock pastiche written by band leaders Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes while a stripper took off her clothes. While several other musical sequences were recorded for the film, including one by the band Traffic and one by Cutler, other than the Beatles tracks only the Bonzos' song made it into the finished film: [Excerpt: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, "Death Cab for Cutie"] That song, thirty years later, would give its name to a prominent American alternative rock band. Incidentally the same night that Magical Mystery Tour was first broadcast was also the night that the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band first appeared on a TV show, Do Not Adjust Your Set, which featured three future members of the Monty Python troupe -- Eric Idle, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones. Over the years the careers of the Bonzos, the Pythons, and the Beatles would become increasingly intertwined, with George Harrison in particular striking up strong friendships and working relationships with Bonzos Neil Innes and "Legs" Larry Smith. The filming of Magical Mystery Tour went about as well as one might expect from a film made by four directors, none of whom had any previous filmmaking experience, and none of whom had any business knowledge. The Beatles were used to just turning up and having things magically done for them by other people, and had no real idea of the infrastructure challenges that making a film, even a low-budget one, actually presents, and ended up causing a great deal of stress to almost everyone involved. The completed film was shown on TV on Boxing Day 1967 to general confusion and bemusement. It didn't help that it was originally broadcast in black and white, and so for example the scene showing shifting landscapes (outtake footage from Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, tinted various psychedelic colours) over the "Flying" music, just looked like grey fuzz. But also, it just wasn't what people were expecting from a Beatles film. This was a ramshackle, plotless, thing more inspired by Andy Warhol's underground films than by the kind of thing the group had previously appeared in, and it was being presented as Christmas entertainment for all the family. And to be honest, it's not even a particularly good example of underground filmmaking -- though it looks like a masterpiece when placed next to something like the Bee Gees' similar effort, Cucumber Castle. But there are enough interesting sequences in there for the project not to be a complete failure -- and the deleted scenes on the DVD release, including the performances by Cutler and Traffic, and the fact that the film was edited down from ten hours to fifty-two minutes, makes one wonder if there's a better film that could be constructed from the original footage. Either way, the reaction to the film was so bad that McCartney actually appeared on David Frost's TV show the next day to defend it and, essentially, apologise. While they were editing the film, the group were also continuing to work in the studio, including on two new McCartney songs, "The Fool on the Hill", which was included in Magical Mystery Tour, and "Hello Goodbye", which wasn't included on the film's soundtrack but was released as the next single, with "I Am the Walrus" as the B-side: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hello Goodbye"] Incidentally, in the UK the soundtrack to Magical Mystery Tour was released as a double-EP rather than as an album (in the US, the group's recent singles and B-sides were added to turn it into a full-length album, which is how it's now generally available). "I Am the Walrus" was on the double-EP as well as being on the single's B-side, and the double-EP got to number two on the singles charts, meaning "I am the Walrus" was on the records at number one and number two at the same time. Before it became obvious that the film, if not the soundtrack, was a disaster, the group held a launch party on the twenty-first of December, 1967. The band members went along in fancy dress, as did many of the cast and crew -- the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performed at the party. Mike Love and Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys also turned up at the party, and apparently at one point jammed with the Bonzos, and according to some, but not all, reports, a couple of the Beatles joined in as well. Love and Johnston had both just met the Maharishi for the first time a couple of days earlier, and Love had been as impressed as the Beatles were, and it may have been at this party that the group mentioned to Love that they would soon be going on a retreat in India with the guru -- a retreat that was normally meant for training TM instructors, but this time seemed to be more about getting celebrities involved. Love would also end up going with them. That party was also the first time that Cynthia Lennon had an inkling that John might not be as faithful to her as she previously supposed. John had always "joked" about being attracted to George Harrison's wife, Patti, but this time he got a little more blatant about his attraction than he ever had previously, to the point that he made Cynthia cry, and Cynthia's friend, the pop star Lulu, decided to give Lennon a very public dressing-down for his cruelty to his wife, a dressing-down that must have been a sight to behold, as Lennon was dressed as a Teddy boy while Lulu was in a Shirley Temple costume. It's a sign of how bad the Lennons' marriage was at this point that this was the second time in a two-month period where Cynthia had ended up crying because of John at a film launch party and been comforted by a female pop star. In October, Cilla Black had held a party to celebrate the belated release of John's film How I Won the War, and during the party Georgie Fame had come up to Black and said, confused, "Cynthia Lennon is hiding in your wardrobe". Black went and had a look, and Cynthia explained to her “I'm waiting to see how long it is before John misses me and comes looking for me.” Black's response had been “You'd better face it, kid—he's never gonna come.” Also at the Magical Mystery Tour party was Lennon's father, now known as Freddie Lennon, and his new nineteen-year-old fiancee. While Hunter Davis had been researching the Beatles' biography, he'd come across some evidence that the version of Freddie's attitude towards John that his mother's side of the family had always told him -- that Freddie had been a cruel and uncaring husband who had not actually wanted to be around his son -- might not be the whole of the truth, and that the mother who he had thought of as saintly might also have had some part to play in their marriage breaking down and Freddie not seeing his son for twenty years. The two had made some tentative attempts at reconciliation, and indeed Freddie would even come and live with John for a while, though within a couple of years the younger Lennon's heart would fully harden against his father again. Of course, the things that John always resented his father for were pretty much exactly the kind of things that Lennon himself was about to do. It was around this time as well that Derek Taylor gave the Beatles copies of the debut album by a young singer/songwriter named Harry Nilsson. Nilsson will be getting his own episode down the line, but not for a couple of years at my current rates, so it's worth bringing that up here, because that album became a favourite of all the Beatles, and would have a huge influence on their songwriting for the next couple of years, and because one song on the album, "1941", must have resonated particularly deeply with Lennon right at this moment -- an autobiographical song by Nilsson about how his father had left him and his mother when he was a small boy, and about his own fear that, as his first marriage broke down, he was repeating the pattern with his stepson Scott: [Excerpt: Nilsson, "1941"] The other major event of December 1967, rather overshadowed by the Magical Mystery Tour disaster the next day, was that on Christmas Day Paul McCartney and Jane Asher announced their engagement. A few days later, George Harrison flew to India. After John and Paul had had their outside film projects -- John starring in How I Won The War and Paul doing the soundtrack for The Family Way -- the other two Beatles more or less simultaneously did their own side project films, and again one acted while the other did a soundtrack. Both of these projects were in the rather odd subgenre of psychedelic shambolic comedy film that sprang up in the mid sixties, a subgenre that produced a lot of fascinating films, though rather fewer good ones. Indeed, both of them were in the subsubgenre of shambolic psychedelic *sex* comedies. In Ringo's case, he had a small role in the film Candy, which was based on the novel we mentioned in the last episode, co-written by Terry Southern, which was in itself a loose modern rewriting of Voltaire's Candide. Unfortunately, like such other classics of this subgenre as Anthony Newley's Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, Candy has dated *extremely* badly, and unless you find repeated scenes of sexual assault and rape, ethnic stereotypes, and jokes about deformity and disfigurement to be an absolute laugh riot, it's not a film that's worth seeking out, and Starr's part in it is not a major one. Harrison's film was of the same basic genre -- a film called Wonderwall about a mad scientist who discovers a way to see through the walls of his apartment, and gets to see a photographer taking sexy photographs of a young woman named Penny Lane, played by Jane Birkin: [Excerpt: Some Wonderwall film dialogue ripped from the Blu-Ray] Wonderwall would, of course, later inspire the title of a song by Oasis, and that's what the film is now best known for, but it's a less-unwatchable film than Candy, and while still problematic it's less so. Which is something. Harrison had been the Beatle with least involvement in Magical Mystery Tour -- McCartney had been the de facto director, Starr had been the lead character and the only one with much in the way of any acting to do, and Lennon had written the film's standout scene and its best song, and had done a little voiceover narration. Harrison, by contrast, barely has anything to do in the film apart from the one song he contributed, "Blue Jay Way", and he said of the project “I had no idea what was happening and maybe I didn't pay enough attention because my problem, basically, was that I was in another world, I didn't really belong; I was just an appendage.” He'd expressed his discomfort to his friend Joe Massot, who was about to make his first feature film. Massot had got to know Harrison during the making of his previous film, Reflections on Love, a mostly-silent short which had starred Harrison's sister-in-law Jenny Boyd, and which had been photographed by Robert Freeman, who had been the photographer for the Beatles' album covers from With the Beatles through Rubber Soul, and who had taken most of the photos that Klaus Voorman incorporated into the cover of Revolver (and whose professional association with the Beatles seemed to come to an end around the same time he discovered that Lennon had been having an affair with his wife). Massot asked Harrison to write the music for the film, and told Harrison he would have complete free rein to make whatever music he wanted, so long as it fit the timing of the film, and so Harrison decided to create a mixture of Western rock music and the Indian music he loved. Harrison started recording the music at the tail end of 1967, with sessions with several London-based Indian musicians and John Barham, an orchestrator who had worked with Ravi Shankar on Shankar's collaborations with Western musicians, including the Alice in Wonderland soundtrack we talked about in the "All You Need is Love" episode. For the Western music, he used the Remo Four, a Merseybeat group who had been on the scene even before the Beatles, and which contained a couple of classmates of Paul McCartney, but who had mostly acted as backing musicians for other artists. They'd backed Johnny Sandon, the former singer with the Searchers, on a couple of singles, before becoming the backing band for Tommy Quickly, a NEMS artist who was unsuccessful despite starting his career with a Lennon/McCartney song, "Tip of My Tongue": [Excerpt: Tommy Quickly, "Tip of My Tongue"] The Remo Four would later, after a lineup change, become Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, who would become one-hit wonders in the seventies, and during the Wonderwall sessions they recorded a song that went unreleased at the time, and which would later go on to be rerecorded by Ashton, Gardner, and Dyke. "In the First Place" also features Harrison on backing vocals and possibly guitar, and was not submitted for the film because Harrison didn't believe that Massot wanted any vocal tracks, but the recording was later discovered and used in a revised director's cut of the film in the nineties: [Excerpt: The Remo Four, "In the First Place"] But for the most part the Remo Four were performing instrumentals written by Harrison. They weren't the only Western musicians performing on the sessions though -- Peter Tork of the Monkees dropped by these sessions and recorded several short banjo solos, which were used in the film soundtrack but not in the soundtrack album (presumably because Tork was contracted to another label): [Excerpt: Peter Tork, "Wonderwall banjo solo"] Another musician who was under contract to another label was Eric Clapton, who at the time was playing with The Cream, and who vaguely knew Harrison and so joined in for the track "Ski-ing", playing lead guitar under the cunning, impenetrable, pseudonym "Eddie Clayton", with Harrison on sitar, Starr on drums, and session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan on bass: [Excerpt: George Harrison, "Ski-ing"] But the bulk of the album was recorded in EMI's studios in the city that is now known as Mumbai but at the time was called Bombay. The studio facilities in India had up to that point only had a mono tape recorder, and Bhaskar Menon, one of the top executives at EMI's Indian division and later the head of EMI music worldwide, personally brought the first stereo tape recorder to the studio to aid in Harrison's recording. The music was all composed by Harrison and performed by the Indian musicians, and while Harrison was composing in an Indian mode, the musicians were apparently fascinated by how Western it sounded to them: [Excerpt: George Harrison, "Microbes"] While he was there, Harrison also got the instrumentalists to record another instrumental track, which wasn't to be used for the film: [Excerpt: George Harrison, "The Inner Light (instrumental)"] That track would, instead, become part of what was to be Harrison's first composition to make a side of a Beatles single. After John and George had appeared on the David Frost show talking about the Maharishi, in September 1967, George had met a lecturer in Sanskrit named Juan Mascaró, who wrote to Harrison enclosing a book he'd compiled of translations of religious texts, telling him he'd admired "Within You Without You" and thought it would be interesting if Harrison set something from the Tao Te Ching to music. He suggested a text that, in his translation, read: "Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth Without looking out of my window I can know the ways of heaven For the farther one travels, the less one knows The sage, therefore Arrives without travelling Sees all without looking Does all without doing" Harrison took that text almost verbatim, though he created a second verse by repeating the first few lines with "you" replacing "I" -- concerned that listeners might think he was just talking about himself, and wouldn't realise it was a more general statement -- and he removed the "the sage, therefore" and turned the last few lines into imperative commands rather than declarative statements: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "The Inner Light"] The song has come in for some criticism over the years as being a little Orientalist, because in critics' eyes it combines Chinese philosophy with Indian music, as if all these things are equally "Eastern" and so all the same really. On the other hand there's a good argument that an English songwriter taking a piece of writing written in Chinese and translated into English by a Spanish man and setting it to music inspired by Indian musical modes is a wonderful example of cultural cross-pollination. As someone who's neither Chinese nor Indian I wouldn't want to take a stance on it, but clearly the other Beatles were impressed by it -- they put it out as the B-side to their next single, even though the only Beatles on it are Harrison and McCartney, with the latter adding a small amount of harmony vocal: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "The Inner Light"] And it wasn't because the group were out of material. They were planning on going to Rishikesh to study with the Maharishi, and wanted to get a single out for release while they were away, and so in one week they completed the vocal overdubs on "The Inner Light" and recorded three other songs, two by John and one by Paul. All three of the group's songwriters brought in songs that were among their best. John's first contribution was a song whose lyrics he later described as possibly the best he ever wrote, "Across the Universe". He said the lyrics were “purely inspirational and were given to me as boom! I don't own it, you know; it came through like that … Such an extraordinary meter and I can never repeat it! It's not a matter of craftsmanship, it wrote itself. It drove me out of bed. I didn't want to write it … It's like being possessed, like a psychic or a medium.” But while Lennon liked the song, he was never happy with the recording of it. They tried all sorts of things to get the sound he heard in his head, including bringing in some fans who were hanging around outside to sing backing vocals. He said of the track "I was singing out of tune and instead of getting a decent choir, we got fans from outside, Apple Scruffs or whatever you call them. They came in and were singing all off-key. Nobody was interested in doing the tune originally.” [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Across the Universe"] The "jai guru deva" chorus there is the first reference to the teachings of the Maharishi in one of the Beatles' records -- Guru Dev was the Maharishi's teacher, and the phrase "Jai guru dev" is a Sanskrit one which I've seen variously translated as "victory to the great teacher", and "hail to the greatness within you". Lennon would say shortly before his death “The Beatles didn't make a good record out of it. I think subconsciously sometimes we – I say ‘we' though I think Paul did it more than the rest of us – Paul would sort of subconsciously try and destroy a great song … Usually we'd spend hours doing little detailed cleaning-ups of Paul's songs, when it came to mine, especially if it was a great song like ‘Strawberry Fields' or ‘Across The Universe', somehow this atmosphere of looseness and casualness and experimentation would creep in … It was a _lousy_ track of a great song and I was so disappointed by it …The guitars are out of tune and I'm singing out of tune because I'm psychologically destroyed and nobody's supporting me or helping me with it, and the song was never done properly.” Of course, this is only Lennon's perception, and it's one that the other participants would disagree with. George Martin, in particular, was always rather hurt by the implication that Lennon's songs had less attention paid to them, and he would always say that the problem was that Lennon in the studio would always say "yes, that's great", and only later complain that it hadn't been what he wanted. No doubt McCartney did put in more effort on his own songs than on Lennon's -- everyone has a bias towards their own work, and McCartney's only human -- but personally I suspect that a lot of the problem comes down to the two men having very different personalities. McCartney had very strong ideas about his own work and would drive the others insane with his nitpicky attention to detail. Lennon had similarly strong ideas, but didn't have the attention span to put the time and effort in to force his vision on others, and didn't have the technical knowledge to express his ideas in words they'd understand. He expected Martin and the other Beatles to work miracles, and they did -- but not the miracles he would have worked. That track was, rather than being chosen for the next single, given to Spike Milligan, who happened to be visiting the studio and was putting together an album for the environmental charity the World Wildlife Fund. The album was titled "No One's Gonna Change Our World": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Across the Universe"] That track is historic in another way -- it would be the last time that George Harrison would play sitar on a Beatles record, and it effectively marks the end of the period of psychedelia and Indian influence that had started with "Norwegian Wood" three years earlier, and which many fans consider their most creative period. Indeed, shortly after the recording, Harrison would give up the sitar altogether and stop playing it. He loved sitar music as much as he ever had, and he still thought that Indian classical music spoke to him in ways he couldn't express, and he continued to be friends with Ravi Shankar for the rest of his life, and would only become more interested in Indian religious thought. But as he spent time with Shankar he realised he would never be as good on the sitar as he hoped. He said later "I thought, 'Well, maybe I'm better off being a pop singer-guitar-player-songwriter – whatever-I'm-supposed-to-be' because I've seen a thousand sitar-players in India who are twice as better as I'll ever be. And only one of them Ravi thought was going to be a good player." We don't have a precise date for when it happened -- I suspect it was in June 1968, so a few months after the "Across the Universe" recording -- but Shankar told Harrison that rather than try to become a master of a music that he hadn't encountered until his twenties, perhaps he should be making the music that was his own background. And as Harrison put it "I realised that was riding my bike down a street in Liverpool and hearing 'Heartbreak Hotel' coming out of someone's house.": [Excerpt: Elvis Presley, "Heartbreak Hotel"] In early 1968 a lot of people seemed to be thinking along the same lines, as if Christmas 1967 had been the flick of a switch and instead of whimsy and ornamentation, the thing to do was to make music that was influenced by early rock and roll. In the US the Band and Bob Dylan were making music that was consciously shorn of all studio experimentation, while in the UK there was a revival of fifties rock and roll. In April 1968 both "Peggy Sue" and "Rock Around the Clock" reentered the top forty in the UK, and the Who were regularly including "Summertime Blues" in their sets. Fifties nostalgia, which would make occasional comebacks for at least the next forty years, was in its first height, and so it's not surprising that Paul McCartney's song, "Lady Madonna", which became the A-side of the next single, has more than a little of the fifties about it. Of course, the track isn't *completely* fifties in its origins -- one of the inspirations for the track seems to have been the Rolling Stones' then-recent hit "Let's Spend The Night Together": [Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "Let's Spend the Night Together"] But the main source for the song's music -- and for the sound of the finished record -- seems to have been Johnny Parker's piano part on Humphrey Lyttleton's "Bad Penny Blues", a hit single engineered by Joe Meek in the fifties: [Excerpt: Humphrey Lyttleton, "Bad Penny Blues"] That song seems to have been on the group's mind for a while, as a working title for "With a Little Help From My Friends" had at one point been "Bad Finger Blues" -- a title that would later give the name to a band on Apple. McCartney took Parker's piano part as his inspiration, and as he later put it “‘Lady Madonna' was me sitting down at the piano trying to write a bluesy boogie-woogie thing. I got my left hand doing an arpeggio thing with the chord, an ascending boogie-woogie left hand, then a descending right hand. I always liked that, the  juxtaposition of a line going down meeting a line going up." [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Lady Madonna"] That idea, incidentally, is an interesting reversal of what McCartney had done on "Hello, Goodbye", where the bass line goes down while the guitar moves up -- the two lines moving away from each other: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hello Goodbye"] Though that isn't to say there's no descending bass in "Lady Madonna" -- the bridge has a wonderful sequence where the bass just *keeps* *descending*: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Lady Madonna"] Lyrically, McCartney was inspired by a photo in National Geographic of a woman in Malaysia, captioned “Mountain Madonna: with one child at her breast and another laughing into her face, sees her quality of life threatened.” But as he put it “The people I was brought up amongst were often Catholic; there are lots of Catholics in Liverpool because of the Irish connection and they are often religious. When they have a baby I think they see a big connection between themselves and the Virgin Mary with her baby. So the original concept was the Virgin Mary but it quickly became symbolic of every woman; the Madonna image but as applied to ordinary working class woman. It's really a tribute to the mother figure, it's a tribute to women.” Musically though, the song was more a tribute to the fifties -- while the inspiration had been a skiffle hit by Humphrey Lyttleton, as soon as McCartney started playing it he'd thought of Fats Domino, and the lyric reflects that to an extent -- just as Domino's "Blue Monday" details the days of the week for a weary working man who only gets to enjoy himself on Saturday night, "Lady Madonna"'s lyrics similarly look at the work a mother has to do every day -- though as McCartney later noted  "I was writing the words out to learn it for an American TV show and I realised I missed out Saturday ... So I figured it must have been a real night out." The vocal was very much McCartney doing a Domino impression -- something that wasn't lost on Fats, who cut his own version of the track later that year: [Excerpt: Fats Domino, "Lady Madonna"] The group were so productive at this point, right before the journey to India, that they actually cut another song *while they were making a video for "Lady Madonna"*. They were booked into Abbey Road to film themselves performing the song so it could be played on Top of the Pops while they were away, but instead they decided to use the time to cut a new song -- John had a partially-written song, "Hey Bullfrog", which was roughly the same tempo as "Lady Madonna", so they could finish that up and then re-edit the footage to match the record. The song was quickly finished and became "Hey Bulldog": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hey Bulldog"] One of Lennon's best songs from this period, "Hey Bulldog" was oddly chosen only to go on the soundtrack of Yellow Submarine. Either the band didn't think much of it because it had come so easily, or it was just assigned to the film because they were planning on being away for several months and didn't have any other projects they were working on. The extent of the group's contribution to the film was minimal – they were not very hands-on, and the film, which was mostly done as an attempt to provide a third feature film for their United Artists contract without them having to do any work, was made by the team that had done the Beatles cartoon on American TV. There's some evidence that they had a small amount of input in the early story stages, but in general they saw the cartoon as an irrelevance to them -- the only things they contributed were the four songs "All Together Now", "It's All Too Much", "Hey Bulldog" and "Only a Northern Song", and a brief filmed appearance for the very end of the film, recorded in January: [Excerpt: Yellow Submarine film end] McCartney also took part in yet another session in early February 1968, one produced by Peter Asher, his fiancee's brother, and former singer with Peter and Gordon. Asher had given up on being a pop star and was trying to get into the business side of music, and he was starting out as a producer, producing a single by Paul Jones, the former lead singer of Manfred Mann. The A-side of the single, "And the Sun Will Shine", was written by the Bee Gees, the band that Robert Stigwood was managing: [Excerpt: Paul Jones, "And the Sun Will Shine"] While the B-side was an original by Jones, "The Dog Presides": [Excerpt: Paul Jones, "The Dog Presides"] Those tracks featured two former members of the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and Paul Samwell-Smith, on guitar and bass, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Asher asked McCartney to play drums on both sides of the single, saying later "I always thought he was a great, underrated drummer." McCartney was impressed by Asher's production, and asked him to get involved with the new Apple Records label that would be set up when the group returned from India. Asher eventually became head of A&R for the label. And even before "Lady Madonna" was mixed, the Beatles were off to India. Mal Evans, their roadie, went ahead with all their luggage on the fourteenth of February, so he could sort out transport for them on the other end, and then John and George followed on the fifteenth, with their wives Pattie and Cynthia and Pattie's sister Jenny (John and Cynthia's son Julian had been left with his grandmother while they went -- normally Cynthia wouldn't abandon Julian for an extended period of time, but she saw the trip as a way to repair their strained marriage). Paul and Ringo followed four days later, with Ringo's wife Maureen and Paul's fiancee Jane Asher. The retreat in Rishikesh was to become something of a celebrity affair. Along with the Beatles came their friend the singer-songwriter Donovan, and Donovan's friend and songwriting partner, whose name I'm not going to say here because it's a slur for Romani people, but will be known to any Donovan fans. Donovan at this point was also going through changes. Like the Beatles, he was largely turning away from drug use and towards meditation, and had recently written his hit single "There is a Mountain" based around a saying from Zen Buddhism: [Excerpt: Donovan, "There is a Mountain"] That was from his double-album A Gift From a Flower to a Garden, which had come out in December 1967. But also like John and Paul he was in the middle of the breakdown of a long-term relationship, and while he would remain with his then-partner until 1970, and even have another child with her, he was secretly in love with another woman. In fact he was secretly in love with two other women. One of them, Brian Jones' ex-girlfriend Linda, had moved to LA, become the partner of the singer Gram Parsons, and had appeared in the documentary You Are What You Eat with the Band and Tiny Tim. She had fallen out of touch with Donovan, though she would later become his wife. Incidentally, she had a son to Brian Jones who had been abandoned by his rock-star father -- the son's name is Julian. The other woman with whom Donovan was in love was Jenny Boyd, the sister of George Harrison's wife Pattie.  Jenny at the time was in a relationship with Alexis Mardas, a TV repairman and huckster who presented himself as an electronics genius to the Beatles, who nicknamed him Magic Alex, and so she was unavailable, but Donovan had written a song about her, released as a single just before they all went to Rishikesh: [Excerpt: Donovan, "Jennifer Juniper"] Donovan considered himself and George Harrison to be on similar spiritual paths and called Harrison his "spirit-brother", though Donovan was more interested in Buddhism, which Harrison considered a corruption of the more ancient Hinduism, and Harrison encouraged Donovan to read Autobiography of a Yogi. It's perhaps worth noting that Donovan's father had a different take on the subject though, saying "You're not going to study meditation in India, son, you're following that wee lassie Jenny" Donovan and his friend weren't the only other celebrities to come to Rishikesh. The actor Mia Farrow, who had just been through a painful divorce from Frank Sinatra, and had just made Rosemary's Baby, a horror film directed by Roman Polanski with exteriors shot at the Dakota building in New York, arrived with her sister Prudence. Also on the trip was Paul Horn, a jazz saxophonist who had played with many of the greats of jazz, not least of them Duke Ellington, whose Sweet Thursday Horn had played alto sax on: [Excerpt: Duke Ellington, "Zweet Zursday"] Horn was another musician who had been inspired to investigate Indian spirituality and music simultaneously, and the previous year he had recorded an album, "In India," of adaptations of ragas, with Ravi Shankar and Alauddin Khan: [Excerpt: Paul Horn, "Raga Vibhas"] Horn would go on to become one of the pioneers of what would later be termed "New Age" music, combining jazz with music from various non-Western traditions. Horn had also worked as a session musician, and one of the tracks he'd played on was "I Know There's an Answer" from the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Know There's an Answer"] Mike Love, who co-wrote that track and is one of the lead singers on it, was also in Rishikesh. While as we'll see not all of the celebrities on the trip would remain practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, Love would be profoundly affected by the trip, and remains a vocal proponent of TM to this day. Indeed, his whole band at the time were heavily into TM. While Love was in India, the other Beach Boys were working on the Friends album without him -- Love only appears on four tracks on that album -- and one of the tracks they recorded in his absence was titled "Transcendental Meditation": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Transcendental Meditation"] But the trip would affect Love's songwriting, as it would affect all of the musicians there. One of the few songs on the Friends album on which Love appears is "Anna Lee, the Healer", a song which is lyrically inspired by the trip in the most literal sense, as it's about a masseuse Love met in Rishikesh: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Anna Lee, the Healer"] The musicians in the group all influenced and inspired each other as is likely to happen in such circumstances. Sometimes, it would be a matter of trivial joking, as when the Beatles decided to perform an off-the-cuff song about Guru Dev, and did it in the Beach Boys style: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Spiritual Regeneration"] And that turned partway through into a celebration of Love for his birthday: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Spiritual Regeneration"] Decades later, Love would return the favour, writing a song about Harrison and their time together in Rishikesh. Like Donovan, Love seems to have considered Harrison his "spiritual brother", and he titled the song "Pisces Brothers": [Excerpt: Mike Love, "Pisces Brothers"] The musicians on the trip were also often making suggestions to each other about songs that would become famous for them. The musicians had all brought acoustic guitars, apart obviously from Ringo, who got a set of tabla drums when George ordered some Indian instruments to be delivered. George got a sitar, as at this point he hadn't quite given up on the instrument, and he gave Donovan a tamboura. Donovan started playing a melody on the tamboura, which is normally a drone instrument, inspired by the Scottish folk music he had grown up with, and that became his "Hurdy-Gurdy Man": [Excerpt: Donovan, "Hurdy Gurdy Man"] Harrison actually helped him with the song, writing a final verse inspired by the Maharishi's teachings, but in the studio Donovan's producer Mickie Most told him to cut the verse because the song was overlong, which apparently annoyed Harrison. Donovan includes that verse in his live performances of the song though -- usually while doing a fairly terrible impersonation of Harrison: [Excerpt: Donovan, "Hurdy Gurdy Man (live)"] And similarly, while McCartney was working on a song pastiching Chuck Berry and the Beach Boys, but singing about the USSR rather than the USA, Love suggested to him that for a middle-eight he might want to sing about the girls in the various Soviet regions: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Back in the USSR"] As all the guitarists on the retreat only had acoustic instruments, they were very keen to improve their acoustic playing, and they turned to Donovan, who unlike the rest of them was primarily an acoustic player, and one from a folk background. Donovan taught them the rudiments of Travis picking, the guitar style we talked about way back in the episodes on the Everly Brothers, as well as some of the tunings that had been introduced to British folk music by Davey Graham, giving them a basic grounding in the principles of English folk-baroque guitar, a style that had developed over the previous few years. Donovan has said in his autobiography that Lennon picked the technique up quickly (and that Harrison had already learned Travis picking from Chet Atkins records) but that McCartney didn't have the application to learn the style, though he picked up bits. That seems very unlike anything else I've read anywhere about Lennon and McCartney -- no-one has ever accused Lennon of having a surfeit of application -- and reading Donovan's book he seems to dislike McCartney and like Lennon and Harrison, so possibly that enters into it. But also, it may just be that Lennon was more receptive to Donovan's style at the time. According to McCartney, even before going to Rishikesh Lennon had been in a vaguely folk-music and country mode, and the small number of tapes he'd brought with him to Rishikesh included Buddy Holly, Dylan, and the progressive folk band The Incredible String Band, whose music would be a big influence on both Lennon and McCartney for the next year: [Excerpt: The Incredible String Band, "First Girl I Loved"] According to McCartney Lennon also brought "a tape the singer Jake Thackray had done for him... He was one of the people we bumped into at Abbey Road. John liked his stuff, which he'd heard on television. Lots of wordplay and very suggestive, so very much up John's alley. I was fascinated by his unusual guitar style. John did ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun' as a Jake Thackray thing at one point, as I recall.” Thackray was a British chansonnier, who sang sweetly poignant but also often filthy songs about Yorkshire life, and his humour in particular will have appealed to Lennon. There's a story of Lennon meeting Thackray in Abbey Road and singing the whole of Thackray's song "The Statues", about two drunk men fighting a male statue to defend the honour of a female statue, to him: [Excerpt: Jake Thackray, "The Statues"] Given this was the music that Lennon was listening to, it's unsurprising that he was more receptive to Donovan's lessons, and the new guitar style he learned allowed him to expand his songwriting, at precisely the same time he was largely clean of drugs for the first time in several years, and he started writing some of the best songs he would ever write, often using these new styles: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Julia"] That song is about Lennon's dead mother -- the first time he ever addressed her directly in a song, though  it would be far from the last -- but it's also about someone else. That phrase "Ocean child" is a direct translation of the Japanese name "Yoko". We've talked about Yoko Ono a bit in recent episodes, and even briefly in a previous Beatles episode, but it's here that she really enters the story of the Beatles. Unfortunately, exactly *how* her relationship with John Lennon, which was to become one of the great legendary love stories in rock and roll history, actually started is the subject of some debate. Both of them were married when they first got together, and there have also been suggestions that Ono was more interested in McCartney than in Lennon at first -- suggestions which everyone involved has denied, and those denials have the ring of truth about them, but if that was the case it would also explain some of Lennon's more perplexing behaviour over the next year. By all accounts there was a certain amount of finessing of the story th

This weeks episode of sounds from within is cashin in on the heat of the UK this week!From Rare groove to Hip Hop to House,we have you covered this week!Maceo and The macks to the Jackson Sisters,from Ice Cube to Slick Rick,Tyrone Bronson to Midnight Star and from my hot tip this week,George Alexander to Four Tet,its was a trip on this weeks Sounds From Within!Tune into new broadcasts of Sounds From Within, LIVE, Wednesday from 4- 6 PM EST / 9 - 11 PM GMTFor more info visit: https://thefaceradio.com/sounds-from-within///Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

George Alexander is a German expert and one of the top professional speakers and trainers on the subject of Characterology, Personality, and Ego worldwide today. He has dedicated his life to helping people find their strengths and talents and to become more successful in their personal and business lives. George has given seminars, and talks, and has done consulting since 2003 in more than 16 countries. Also, he helped people worldwide to become cancer free, because he was able to heal himself of the disease. Connect with George:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifecoach_george_wake/LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-alexander-wake-00a849105/Website:hippsuccess.com

He's scored two in two and now he looks ahead to facing his former side at the weekend, we catch up with former Millwall man George Alexander ahead of our double-header against the Lions. A big thank you as always to Graeme Martin (@MrDogstand on twitter) for our fantastic opening and closing track!

El western es sin duda uno de los géneros que más películas debe haber dado al cine. Las historias de rencillas entre vecinos, lucha de poderes, problemas familiares, peleas por conseguir un espacio propio y por supuesto el respeto de la comunidad son temas tan vigentes hoy en día, como lo eran en la California del siglo dieciocho. Las películas del Oeste tuvieron su época de mayor esplendor en la década de los años sesenta y setenta. Los productores pronto descubrieron la importancia de la música y de las canciones que aparecían en los títulos de créditos, que llegaron a ser una publicidad añadida para la película y compositores como Dimitri Tiomkin y cantantes como Frankie Laine eran requeridos para escribir y cantar las canciones en las películas del género. Hemos reunido un buen puñado de temas inmortales como los escritos para películas como “SOLO ANTE EL PELIGRO”, “RIO BRAVO”, “EL ARBOL DEL AHORCADO”, DUELO DE TITANES”, “LOS HIJOS DE KATIE ELDER”, “LA LEYENDA DE LA CIUDAD SIN NOMBRE”, “ALASKA, TIERRA DE ORO”, “HACIA LOS GRANDES HORIZONTES”, “RIO SIN RETORNO”, “JOHNNY GUITAR” y muchos otros que firman compositores como Dimitri Tiomkin, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Lionel Newman, Maurice Jarre, Max Steiner o Victor Young. Luego vendría Ennio Morricone que daría otro balón de oxígeno al género, pero ese es otro tema que ya hemos tratado en un programa específico para “El western de Ennio Morricone”. Espero os guste la selección que hemos preparado que terminará con Jill Ireland despidiendo la playlist cantando “Hello and goodbye” que escribió Elmer Bernstein para la película “SUCEDIÓ ENTRE LAS DOCE Y LAS TRES”. 00h 00’00” Yellow rose of Texas – Paul Newman 00h 00’54” Presentación 00h 02’46” Cabecera 00h 03’21” Nevada Smith – Merle Kilgore 00h 06’24” Man without a star – Frankie Laine 00h 08’20” On a bicycle build for joy – B. J. Thomas 00h 11’24” Ballad of the Alamo – Marty Robbins 00h 15’00” Do not forsake me – Frankie Laine 00h 17’39” Duel in the sun – Larry Douglas 00h 19’37” Gotta get my somebody to love – Martha Tilton 00h 22’35” Green leaves of Summer – The Brothers Four 00h 25’25” Gunfight at O.K. Corral – Frankie Laine 00h 28’53” My rifle, my pony and me – Dean Martin 00h 31’33” Rio Bravo – Dean Martin 00h 34’30” The 3.10 to Yuma – Frankie Laine 00h 36’52” The last train from Gun Hill – Kitty White 00h 38’40” Thee I love – Pat Boone 00h 41’34” A man gets to thinkin’ – Charlie Rich 00h 43’27” A man with true grit – Glen Campbell 00h 45’53” The sons of Katie Elder – Johnny Cash 00h 48’22” Love in the country – The Limelighters 00h 50’13” They call the wind Maria – Harve Presnell 00h 53’46” Wand’rin star – Lee Marvin 00h 58’12” Davy Crockett – Fess Parker 01h 00’22” Rio Conchos – Johnny Desmond 01h 02’49” Where you go I will follow – The Bill Brown singers 01h 05’39” Wild rovers – Sheb Wooley 01h 09’07” The wind, the wind – Dean Martin 01h 11’49” The good times are coming – Mama Cass 01h 15’01” Blazing saddles – Frankie Laine 01h 16’50” North to Alaska – Johnny Horton 01h 19’35” Stagecoach to Cheyenne – Wayne Newton 01h 22’15” The man form Laramie – Al Martino 01h 24’35” Down to the meadow – Marilyn Monroe 01h 26’57” River of no return – Robert Mitchum 01h 28’53” One silver dollar – Marilyn Monroe 01h 30’53” Saddle the wind – Julie London 01h 32’15” The hanging three – Marty Robbbins 01h 35’04” And the moon grew brighter – Kirk Douglas 01h 37’43” Cat Ballou – Nat King Cole & Stubby Kaye 01h 40’24” Five cards stud – Dean Martin 01h 42’27” Marmalade, molasses and honey – Andy Williams 01h 46’09” The searchers – Sons of Pioneers 01h 48’45” El Dorado – George Alexander & The Mellowmen 01h 51’24” Old turkey buzzard – José Feliciano 01h 54’06” The ballad of three amigos – Steve Martin, Chey Chase & Martin Short 01h 56’34” The singing bush – Randy Newman 01h 59’15” Song of the wagon master – Sons of the Pioneers 02h 02’10” The lonely man – Tenesse Ernie Ford 02h 04’19” Johnny Guitar – Peggy Lee 02h 07’15” Hello and goodbye – Jill Ireland

A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812

In this Episode, Cray interviews George Alexander, an artist who started drawing his favorite cartoon characters at a young age. George highlights the challenges of transitioning to a new environment and finding one's place in it. It also shows how unexpected circumstances can shape one's path in life, and discusses his journey to becoming an artist.While George is a citizen of the Muskogee Creek Nation, he doesn't necessarily gravitate towards his ancestral heritage in his art. The conversation touches on the importance of mentorship and how it can shape one's career and life.

Join Yutaka & @George Alexander as they give you their recommendations for the perfect horror movies to watch around the Holidays ! Don't forget rate the podcast :D If you would like to support us, you can join our Patreon: patreon.com/TheHorrorHourTV Follow us us over on twitter and instagram: @TheHorrorHourTV You can also get your official 'The Horror Merch' : https://www.redbubble.com/people/thehorrorhour/shop Our Links: https://linktr.ee/TheHorrorHour --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-horror-hour/support

Welcome to The Horror Hour. Today's podcast episode, we're talking about the best twists in horror films. What plot twists left us gagged. Of course, this episode is very spoiler heavy. Join Liam, Yutaka, George Alexander and ZZAVID for some funny reactions to their favorite twists in horror. Zzavid's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9SJfPaQpqMfhpA6876p-og George's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GeorgeAlexander3110 If you would like to support the podcast, you can join our patreon: patreon.com/TheHorrorHourTV Follow us us over on twitter and instagram: @TheHorrorHourTV You can also get your official 'The Horror Merch' : https://www.redbubble.com/people/thehorrorhour/shop Our Links: https://linktr.ee/TheHorrorHour --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-horror-hour/support

Our guest this week is George Alexander, an Alabama native, HBCU and Ivy League graduate, NAACP Image Award nominated producer and founder of Galex Media, a TV and video production company. George has the receipts from executive producing Coca-Cola and ESSENCE series, If Not For My Girls, starring former Destiny's Child member and Greenleaf star LeToya Luckett but the beautiful video tributes for the ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Oscars Luncheon to name a few. George gives BLK ON THE SCENE the playbook about how he went from an established corporate banker to a successful multi-hyphenate creative by utilizing his business skills to leverage his new passion for story-telling. He talks about doing everything from driving trucks to cleaning toilets on production sets on weekends in the early days of his creative pursuits which filled him with such joy that it made going back to work on Monday more enjoyable. Get ready to truly be inspired by George's trajectory, determination, and joy in living a life with purpose and intention to tell the most authentic stories about our culture. George Alexander - https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-alexander-4609512/ Books by George Alexander: Why We Make Movies - https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Make-Movies-Filmmakers/dp/0767911814 Queens: Portraits of Black Women and Their Fabulous Hair - https://www.amazon.com/Queens-Portraits-Black-Women-Fabulous/dp/038551462X American Race with Charles Barkley - https://www.tntdrama.com/shows/american-race Please remember to subscribe, leave a rating and follow us on Linkedin and Instagram @BLKONTHESCENE.

Join us as we chat with Hanshi George Alexander, a 10th Dan Shorinji Ryu JuJitsu Master and an inductee into the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame in 1991. Currently he is the president of both International Shorinji-Ryu Jujitsu and Shorin Ryu Karate Kobudo Federation. Hanshi Alexander began training in Judo and Jujitsu in 1960, and later in Shorin Ryu Karate in 1964 while serving in the United States Marine Corps. His Marine Corps assignments enabled him to travel to mainland Japan, Okinawa and Southeast Asia. Since then he has become a uniquely qualified, popular instructor with international teaching credentials and experience and has traveled widely to spread the teachings of the martial arts. Hanshi Alexander earned a Baccalaureate Degree in Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University in 1979 and did graduate work in Asian history under Dr. Tsung I. Dow. Later, he received his Ph.D. degree from Pacific Western University in political science. He has competed in Karate, Kendo and Judo tournaments and was a USA Karate Champion, National AAU Karate Champion and World Karate Champion. Hanshi Alexander has written several books on the martial arts including Okinawa Island of Karate, Bubishi Martial Art Spirit, Shorin Ryu Karate Training Manual, and Warrior Jujitsu. Additionally, he has made over thirty instructional videos on the martial arts and is the editor of Fighting Spirit magazine. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

@ofuskieofuskie.comlinktr.ee/ofuskieUpcoming shows!May 28 - Native Treasures Show in Santa FeJuly 1 - Farrell Fischoff Gallery in Santa FeEnd of August - Indian Art Market Secret upcoming shows in December 2022 and January 2023The scene:We are in the Alexander Contemporary studio in downtown Santa Fe where Ofuskie operates - as of 3 days ago.  This is his dream studio and it has all just fallen into place perfectly. He is expertly situated downtown near the Santa Fe Plaza. When I walked in, he was on the phone sourcing furniture for this new studio gallery. He is curating this environment and his life in the shape of his dreams. Join us in the new studio for a lively conversation on coming up and learning how to promote yourself in the art world.Highlights:+ From the Muscogee Creek Tribe+ Began canvas painting at the Institute of American Indian Arts+ Origin: Tulsa Oklahoma+ $500 buys a lot of 30 packs of beer (when you're living in a dorm)+ Don't ask him for a tattoo - he's retired :)+ Mentored by artist Tony Abeyta  tonyabeyta.com  @alpha_beta_tone+ Massive upcoming shows - top secret - follow Ofuskie to know where to be+ Galleries treating artists fairly, carefully signing agreements+ Doing business with galleries outside of New Mexico and Oklahoma+ Helping other artists keep more of their $ in their own pocket+ Typical artist/gallery split is 50/50+ Alexander Contemporary split will be 60/40+ Reinvesting profits back into the artist and big show promotion+ Curation is an art form in and of itself+ “We all are worthy to our own slice of pie”+ Being a native artist and living where you can get the most legs up+ Being part of an artist community that won't let you fail+ Artists rising together - helping each other up+ Being raised by 5 sisters+ When people tell you you will succeed, you do+ The 8 billion/4 million/3 thousand/3 hundred/1 hand Rule+ Life opportunities are everywhere if you stay open to them+ Seeing things as they are - not good or bad+ Not bringing the past or future into the present+ No one else knows the shoes you walk in+ Being your own worst self-critique+ Artists are given gifts so that they may share them with others+ Astronauts are a metaphor for humanity+ “I will never paint another dead Indian”+ Strategizing financial resources+ Life choices+ Good friends babysit you on shrooms+ Thank you Erin Currier @erincurrierfineart for connecting us :)+ Shoutout to Ofuskie's girlfriend Sheyenne @sheyenne.sky+ Shoutout to Ofuskie's friend Wes @shooting4balance+ We become powerful through the help of our community+ I would never recognize my younger selfA taste:“The main mission of the [Alexander Contemporary] gallery is to be artist-led. I want artists to have fair treatment within the gallery business. My galleries have always treated me great, but […] one of my friends ended up signing a contract where if he sells anything in the state of New Mexico, he has to give 50% to the gallery, even if the gallery isn't involved at all.”Favorite saying:“Life is a rollercoaster and there's only one direction that you can go.”Support the show

Join Gary and his team , talking with George Alexander now at Bromley, Phil Clarke letting us know all about the new Lions Trust, Sean Daley giving us an insight in to the up and coming Community Day, plus so much more.

Join Gary and his team , talking with George Alexander now at Bromley, Phil Clarke letting us know all about the new Lions Trust, Sean Daley giving us an insight in to the up and coming Community Day, plus so much more.

In this episode Jim looks at the life of Scottish doctor and physician George Gibson in his attempts to fix a broken heart.   Like, Share and Comment to help spread the good times! For all updates on new episodes, follow me on Twitter here: @PodcastTale.

Join Okie Podcast as i had the absolute pleasure of catching up with George Alexander. George is an Indigenous Artist and Designer and has been up to a lot ever since graduating from the institute of American indian arts. George talks about how he was led towards art, going to institute of american Indian arts, going to italy, finding who he is, stocks, and just life.

This week on the pod we sit down with @georgealexanderthe2nd and dive deep into what indigenous identity means, especially in the new age. This episode will have your brain spinning and your lungs laughing. Prepare your finest tap water for Sunday Feb. 28 at 3pm CST because you're not going wanna miss out! —— George Alexander is an artist who's captivating style of painting has created a sense of thought-provoking artwork. The imagery that is used, comes from his ideas and how he views the world as it he wishes it to be. Often his work is seen with astronauts and animals. After he graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a BFA in 2015, George pursued a master's in fine arts at the Studio Art College (SACI) International in Florence, Italy. With that experience, he gained sight on how another part of the world lives. This gave him deep perspectives on other cultures and made him appreciate his own culture even more. He graduated in 2019. His artwork is currently seen at Rain Maker Gallery in Bristol UK, King Galleries in Santa Fe New Mexico and Accaventi quattro Home Gallery in Prato,Italy. —- As always, your Indigenous sisters love you

What's the deal with Seinfeld? On this week's TV. Watch. Repeat., The Dipp's Allison Piwowarski and Kate Ward tell you just that, as they look back at the 1989 pilot of NBC's Seinfeld. Find out where the idea for Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David's series started, why it was never meant to be about nothing, and the very famous actors who almost played roles made famous by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, George Alexander, and Michael Richards. Plus: Seinfeld storylines that never made the cut.

George Alexander (1894-1973) was born in Co Tyrone, Ireland, back in the 19th century. (His distinct localised accent may be a struggle for some listeners!). One day, as a mischievous and worldly young man, George made a plan with half a dozen other young lads to interrupt and disturb a series of gospel meetings being held in a barn near his home by evangelists J. McCullough and T. Braidner. But God intervened in George's scheme. His companions never showed up, The post George Alexander – How God Saved Me (20 min) first appeared on Gospel Hall Audio.

Well hello, good evening and ... [checks notes David Frost style] welcome to this first edition of the Real Millwall Fan Show of the 2019-20 season. Now if you'd have asked me my feelings about our beloved Lions a few weeks ago, I'd have into a semi-meltdown, wailing that we were shipping out players and were looking like playing Lottery Larry as first choice goalkeeper.But now? I am much more optimistic, the signings of Matt Smith, Conor Mahoney and Frank Fielding in goal having raised my spirits as we enter the traditional Millwall pre-season phase of trips to Canvey Island, the Medway towns and the maximum security HMP Vilamoura complex on the Algarve.I hope you enjoy this early season show, recorded via the miracle of Skype and hosted by Aaron sat in an MOT garage located somewhere in West London. Big thank yous too to my usual co-hosts Harry ‘F1' Warren and Michael ‘Club Shop' Avery. Advance welcome to a new voice who will emerge over the weeks ahead in Mike Hayden. I hope you enjoy the show, the conversation spark notes are copied below just because I thought you might like it.Arrivederci Millwall ...Nick@CBL_MagazineThe gloves are off' – Millwall's Neil Harris on opening up after safety securedMay 9, 2019 John Kelly'The message I put out loud and clear was a message to the fan base, really, to say, I'm not stupid, I know it needs to change.'Hellos and goodbyes- there's a sudden sense of positivity around The Den (it feels good) - an influx of quality?Hello Matt Smith / Connor Mahoney / Frank Fielding / Alex Pearce (perm) / Tom Bradshaw (we've barely seen him)Welcome back - Jiri Skalak? Millwall manager issues challenge to Jiri SkalakMay 23, 2019 John KellyWINGER had a difficult first season with Millwall after moving from BrightonWill the new signings / returns take off the creative burden from Jed Wallace?Welcome back Sean Hutchinson - will he be like having a new player?Welcome back Murray WallaceGutted - James Brown injured for four monthsCrucial season for Ben Thompson - the big time is callingPossible - WHO'S THE DADI? Millwall agree £750,000 transfer with Reading for Jon Dadi BodvarssonGoodbyee, goodbyee wipe a tear baby dear etc etc ...Goodbye 2018-19 season - survival achieved - 21st position - just one win during April (2-0 v WBA) BUT ... we survivedFormer Lions striker praises Neil Harris for keeping Millwall in the ChampionshipMay 16, 2019 StaffFORMER Millwall striker Gary Alexander admitted that Championship survival should always been recognised as a successful season for the club.Goodbye Steve Morison 336 apps 92 goals over three spells 2009-19Goodbye Lee Gregory 238 apps 77 goals 2015-19 - gone to Stoke, but no slo-mo video ...Goodbye Jordan Archer (?)Goodbye Ryan Tunnicliffe (Luton)Goodbye Conor McLaughlin (Sunderland)Good bye David Martin - (his dream move is to be West Ham's third choice keeper)Goodbye Sid Nelson (Tranmere)Goodbye Tom King (Newport)Goodbye Ben Marshall Norwich but this time it's forever ...The strange on /off Bartosz Bialkowski transfer storyThe Fred soap opera - is going or is he staying?Hope for the future - 'Some of them are certainly going to be good enough' – Neil Harris on Millwall's next crop of youngstersBilly Mitchell , George Alexander, Reuben Duncan, Tyler Burey, who signed from AFC Wimbledon, Sam Skeffington , Junior Tiensia and Harry RansomMillwall's pre season friendlies:Concord... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well hello, good evening and ... [checks notes David Frost style] welcome to this first edition of the Real Millwall Fan Show of the 2019-20 season. Now if you’d have asked me my feelings about our beloved Lions a few weeks ago, I’d have into a semi-meltdown, wailing that we were shipping out players and were looking like playing Lottery Larry as first choice goalkeeper.But now? I am much more optimistic, the signings of Matt Smith, Conor Mahoney and Frank Fielding in goal having raised my spirits as we enter the traditional Millwall pre-season phase of trips to Canvey Island, the Medway towns and the maximum security HMP Vilamoura complex on the Algarve.I hope you enjoy this early season show, recorded via the miracle of Skype and hosted by Aaron sat in an MOT garage located somewhere in West London. Big thank yous too to my usual co-hosts Harry ‘F1’ Warren and Michael ‘Club Shop’ Avery. Advance welcome to a new voice who will emerge over the weeks ahead in Mike Hayden. I hope you enjoy the show, the conversation spark notes are copied below just because I thought you might like it.Arrivederci Millwall ...Nick@CBL_MagazineThe gloves are off' – Millwall's Neil Harris on opening up after safety securedMay 9, 2019 John Kelly'The message I put out loud and clear was a message to the fan base, really, to say, I’m not stupid, I know it needs to change.'Hellos and goodbyes- there’s a sudden sense of positivity around The Den (it feels good) - an influx of quality?Hello Matt Smith / Connor Mahoney / Frank Fielding / Alex Pearce (perm) / Tom Bradshaw (we’ve barely seen him)Welcome back - Jiri Skalak? Millwall manager issues challenge to Jiri SkalakMay 23, 2019 John KellyWINGER had a difficult first season with Millwall after moving from BrightonWill the new signings / returns take off the creative burden from Jed Wallace?Welcome back Sean Hutchinson - will he be like having a new player?Welcome back Murray WallaceGutted - James Brown injured for four monthsCrucial season for Ben Thompson - the big time is callingPossible - WHO'S THE DADI? Millwall agree £750,000 transfer with Reading for Jon Dadi BodvarssonGoodbyee, goodbyee wipe a tear baby dear etc etc ...Goodbye 2018-19 season - survival achieved - 21st position - just one win during April (2-0 v WBA) BUT ... we survivedFormer Lions striker praises Neil Harris for keeping Millwall in the ChampionshipMay 16, 2019 StaffFORMER Millwall striker Gary Alexander admitted that Championship survival should always been recognised as a successful season for the club.Goodbye Steve Morison 336 apps 92 goals over three spells 2009-19Goodbye Lee Gregory 238 apps 77 goals 2015-19 - gone to Stoke, but no slo-mo video ...Goodbye Jordan Archer (?)Goodbye Ryan Tunnicliffe (Luton)Goodbye Conor McLaughlin (Sunderland)Good bye David Martin - (his dream move is to be West Ham’s third choice keeper)Goodbye Sid Nelson (Tranmere)Goodbye Tom King (Newport)Goodbye Ben Marshall Norwich but this time it’s forever ...The strange on /off Bartosz Bialkowski transfer storyThe Fred soap opera - is going or is he staying?Hope for the future - 'Some of them are certainly going to be good enough' – Neil Harris on Millwall's next crop of youngstersBilly Mitchell , George Alexander, Reuben Duncan, Tyler Burey, who signed from AFC Wimbledon, Sam Skeffington , Junior Tiensia and Harry RansomMillwall’s pre season friendlies:Concord... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

THRIVE es una operadora de espacios de oficinas flexibles y ''coworking'' que busca crear una plataforma para albergar nuevos negocios y contribuir con el crecimiento y el desarrollo del sector empresarial dominicano. Te invitamos a escuchar la entrevista que le hicimos al fundador de este nuevo proyecto inmobiliario y de servicios.

THRIVE es una operadora de espacios de oficinas flexibles y ''coworking'' que busca crear una plataforma para albergar nuevos negocios y contribuir con el crecimiento y el desarrollo del sector empresarial dominicano. Te invitamos a escuchar la entrevista que le hicimos al fundador de este nuevo proyecto inmobiliario y de servicios.

THRIVE es una operadora de espacios de oficinas flexibles y ''coworking'' que busca crear una plataforma para albergar nuevos negocios y contribuir con el crecimiento y el desarrollo del sector empresarial dominicano. Te invitamos a escuchar la entrevista que le hicimos al fundador de este nuevo proyecto inmobiliario y de servicios.

THRIVE es una operadora de espacios de oficinas flexibles y ''coworking'' que busca crear una plataforma para albergar nuevos negocios y contribuir con el crecimiento y el desarrollo del sector empresarial dominicano. Te invitamos a escuchar la entrevista que le hicimos al fundador de este nuevo proyecto inmobiliario y de servicios.

This week on MIA Radio, we present our second chat with Doctor Lee Coleman. In the first interview in this series, we discussed Lee’s career, his views as a critical psychiatrist and his 1984 book Reign of Error. For this second interview, we focus on psychiatry in the courtroom and why the psychiatric expert witness role may be failing both the individual on trial and society at large. We also focus on Chapter 3 of Reign of Error: The Insanity Defence, Storytelling on the Witness Stand. In this episode we discuss: What led Lee to his involvement in the courtroom as a psychiatrist testifying as to the reliability of psychiatric testimony itself. How both psychiatrists and psychologists have been given a role by society to judge both the current mental state of an individual on trial and also the potential future behaviour of that individual. How important it is to address the three dimensions of past, present and future when looking at psychological testimony. The role of psychiatry in the trial of Patty Hearst, when required to provide evidence that she has been brainwashed and therefore was incompetent to stand trial. How Lee and a colleague, George Alexander, came to arrange a press conference to address the issue of the reliability of psychiatric or psychological testimony. How speaking out in this way ultimately led to many years of opposition not only by psychiatry but also by attorneys on both sides of the debate. The legal definition of the term ‘insanity’ and the context in which it is used. How if someone is found legally insane, the punishment may be far worse and the incarceration far longer than if that person were found guilty. The details surrounding the trial of Dr. Geza De Kaplany, who committed a gruesome murder but came to be represented at trial as having multiple personalities and being mentally disordered. The inconsistency often found in both the defense and prosecution in the courtroom when it comes to subjective assessments of the mental state of an individual. That it is crucial that people band together to share information and to actively demonstrate and have conferences and influence legislators because we can’t rely on media channels and we can’t rely on professional bodies. Relevant Links: Doctor Lee Coleman The Reign of Error YouTube - Competent to Stand Trial?- A Psychiatric Farce YouTube - Society Doesn't Need Protection from the "mentally ill" The Trial of Patty Hearst Geza De Kaplany To get in touch, email us at podcasts@madinamerica.com

Clark County Medical Society’s Alexandra P. Sliver (Executive Director) discusses challenges facing the Clark County medical profession along with CCMS’s upcoming Winged Hearts Awards. The awards annually recognize the important contributions that medical professionals make to keep their community healthy. Established in 2013 by former CCMS President Dr. George Alexander, the award has three categories: […]

Clark County Medical Society’s Alexandra P. Sliver (Executive Director) discusses challenges facing the Clark County medical profession along with CCMS’s upcoming Winged Hearts Awards. The awards annually recognize the important contributions that medical professionals make to keep their community healthy. Established in 2013 by former CCMS President Dr. George Alexander, the award has three categories: […]

Sterlin talks with Mvskoke (Creek) painter, George Alexander. George talks about his journey as an artist, overcoming tragedy, and finding his artistic voice. 

George Alexander McGuire was born on March 26, 1866 at Sweets, Antigua, in the Caribbean West Indies. As a child, he studied in local grammar schools on the island, then continued on at the Antiguan branch of Mico College for teachers and eventually at the Moravian Miskey Seminary in the Danish West Indies. McGuire pastored a Moravian congregation at Frederikstad, St. Croix, but when he came to the United States in 1894, he chose to be confirmed in the Protestant Episcopal Church. At the beginning of his career, McGuire led small mostly black Episcopal churches in Cincinnati, Richmond, Virginia and Philadelphia. From 1905 to 1909, McGuire served as Archdeacon for Colored Work in Arkansas where he passionately worked to increase the number of missions from one to nine. While involved with the Arkansas Diocese, McGuire wrote a crucial addendum to a book entitled, “The Crucial Race Question OR Where and How Shall the Color Line Be Drawn?” in it, McGuire revealed publicly for the first time, not only his eloquent and learned style, but also the pride of race that characterized his life and the way in which he taught. McGuire reflected that the Episcopal’s record of dealing with race issues left much to be desired and that the affairs of segregation within the sect were so bad, that publicly, both Black Methodists and Baptists openly would refer to them as a “black body with a white head”. McGuire's experience in the Episcopal Church had been tainted with incidents of discrimination against himself and fellow black clergy. He severed his ties with the Church and decided that only in a denomination of Blacks with a Black administration would equality and spiritual freedom be attained. Stating: “The white churches in America had drawn a circle to exclude people of color. Our vision is to draw a wider circle that will include all people.” At its inception the African Orthodox Church took strides to establish ecclesiastical and spiritual freedom for Blacks and people of color.

This week's episode is with Hanshi George Alexander, Shorin Ryu practitioner and president of the International Shorin Ryu Karate Kobudo Federation. His martial arts history dates back to 1964 and he's been very active ever since. Along the way, he's trained with some amazing people and racked up a long list of ranks held in different styles. He shared a lot of wonderful stories and I thoroughly enjoyed talking to him. Hanshi Alexander represents the "old school" of martial arts well and is truly passionate about sharing his knowledge and experience.

Dschungel, 20:30 Uhr, schwüle Hitze und kein kühlendes Gewitter in Sicht... Nur zwei der Brüllaffen schaffen es mit großer Anstrengung auf die schattige Couch. Gemeinsam geben beide ihr bestes um die Hörerschaft wieder mit möglichst abwechslungsreichen Themen zu unterhalten. Nebenbei haben sich Konna und sprity dann auch noch einige Gäste eingeladen, denn auf der Couch war dieses Mal ja genug Platz: An dieser Stelle daher ein großes Dankeschön an Sir Toby, Mr. Pommeroy, Mr. Winterbottom und Admiral von Schneider. Skål!

Dschungel, 20:30 Uhr, schwüle Hitze und kein kühlendes Gewitter in Sicht... Nur zwei der Brüllaffen schaffen es mit großer Anstrengung auf die schattige Couch. Gemeinsam geben beide ihr bestes um die Hörerschaft wieder mit möglichst abwechslungsreichen Themen zu unterhalten. Nebenbei haben sich Konna und sprity dann auch noch einige Gäste eingeladen, denn auf der Couch war dieses Mal ja genug Platz: An dieser Stelle daher ein großes Dankeschön an Sir Toby, Mr. Pommeroy, Mr. Winterbottom und Admiral von Schneider. Skål!

Yorta Yorta painter, sculptor and activist, Lin Onus developed a distinctive visual language from a combination of traditional and contemporary Aboriginal imagery. Lin Onus was unjustly expelled from school on racist grounds at the age of 14, yet later attended university. He worked as a mechanic and spray painter, before managing his father's boomerang workshop in Melbourne. A self-taught artist, Onus forged a brilliant career and held exhibitions throughout the world. Onus's political commitment was inherent in his work. His Scottish mother was a member of the Communist Party, while his Aboriginal father, Bill, and uncle Eric were leading lights in the Aboriginal rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. After a visit to Maningrida in 1986, Onus began his long and close association with the late Djinang artist, Djiwut 'Jack' Wunuwun and other central Arnhem Land artists, including John Bulunbulun. Onus then developed his signature style of incorporating photorealism with Indigenous imagery. It is a virtuoso effect, in which the landscape is overlaid with traditional Indigenous iconography, reflecting his strong ties with his father's community at Cummergunja Mission, on the Murray River. Onus's works from this period often have a riddling, Magritte-like quality. A memorable motif in his work is the breaking up of a seamless surface into jigsaw puzzle pieces – a metaphor for the sense of dislocation he felt, caught between black and white, urban and rural, worlds. In Onus's sculptures, irony, wit and whimsy are the predominant features. 'Fruit bats', 1991, is made up of a flock of fibreglass sculptures of bats decorated with rarrk (crosshatching), hanging on a Hills Hoist clothes line. Beneath this icon of Australian suburbia are wooden discs with flower-like motifs, representing the bat droppings. In this powerful installation, the sacred and the mundane combine. The work was inspired by Murrungun-Djinang imagery, which Onus was given permission to use. In 'Fruit bats', the artist shows a head-on collision between two contrasting sets of values, and throws in a few inversions of his own. The backyard – suburban Australia's haven of privacy – becomes spooked by the formidable presence of these noisy animals. The pre-colonial bats seem to have taken over and reclaimed their place, in a story worthy of Alfred Hitchcock. George Alexander in 'Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004 © Art Gallery of New South Wales