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Peter Criss es el primer álbum de estudio de Peter Criss, batería y vocalista de la banda de hard rock estadounidense Kiss.nota 1 Salió a la venta el 18 de septiembre de 1978 a través de Casablanca Records, al igual que los debuts en solitario de sus tres compañeros en el grupo: Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons y Paul Stanley. Antes de comenzar la grabación, el músico sufrió un accidente automovilístico que le impidió tocar la batería en algunas de las canciones, además tuvo problemas para encontrar un productor hasta la llegada de Vini Poncia. Peter Criss, a diferencia de los otros tres trabajos, se distanció del sonido de Kiss debido al interés del batería por explorar sus raíces musicales como el R&B y el soul, cuyo alejamiento del hard rock provocó que fuera el menos vendido de los cuatro. A pesar de la consecución de un disco de platino de la RIAA, fue el único que no alcanzó el top 40 del Billboard 200 y solo llegó al puesto 43. Respecto a su recepción crítica, recibió principalmente reseñas negativas y con el paso del tiempo, varias pubicaciones lo han situado como uno de los peores de la discografía de Kiss. Ace Frehley es un álbum de 1978 lanzado por el guitarrista líder de la banda de hard rock estadounidense Kiss. Es uno de cuatro álbumes solistas lanzados por los miembros de Kiss el 18 de septiembre de 1978. Los otros álbumes fueron lanzados por Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons y Peter Criss. La canción "New York Groove", compuesta por Russ Ballard, alcanzó el puesto #13 en las listas de éxitos estadounidenses, la posición más alta para Kiss desde "Beth" en 1976, incluida en el disco Destroyer, hasta la canción "I Was Made For Loving You", un año después (#11). El propio álbum alcanzó el lugar #26 en las listas estadounidenses, y el certificado de Platino el 28 de septiembre de 1978, cuando vendió 1 000 000 de copias.1 De los 4 álbumes en solitario de los miembros de Kiss, este fue el que obtuvo más popularidad entre sus fanáticos. Gene Simmons es el primer álbum de estudio de Gene Simmons, bajista y vocalista de la banda de hard rock estadounidense Kiss.nota 1 Salió a la venta el 18 de septiembre de 1978 a través de Casablanca Records, al igual que los debuts en solitario de sus tres compañeros en el grupo, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss y Paul Stanley. El músico, que realizó las labores de producción junto a Sean Delaney, grabó la mayoría de las pistas básicas en Reino Unido antes de regresar a los Estados Unidos, donde contó con la participación de Donna Summer, Joe Perry, Bob Seger, Rick Nielsen, Janis Ian o Cher, entre otros. Simmons decidió mostrar otras de sus facetas como artista y decidió tocar la guitarra en lugar del bajo, escribir canciones al estilo de The Beatles y versionar el tema principal de la película Pinocho (1940). El disco llegó hasta el puesto 21 del Billboard 200, mejor que los conseguidos por los trabajos de sus tres compañeros y al igual que estos, recibió una certificación de platino de la RIAA. Respecto a la opinión de la crítica, las reseñas obtenidas fueron divididas, aunque la mayoría coincidieron en criticar la interpretación de «When You Wish upon a Star». Paul Stanley es un álbum de estudio del guitarrista de la banda estadounidense Kiss, publicado en 1978. Es uno de los cuatro álbumes en solitario lanzados por los miembros de Kiss el 18 de septiembre de 1978, junto a los de Gene Simmons, Peter Criss y Ace Frehley. El álbum alcanzó el lugar #40 en las listas estadounidenses. Alcanzó el certificado de Platino el 2 de octubre de 1978, al vender un millón de copias.
Can't wait for you to get a taste of Miss Lizz Pichini today! She teaches full-time at Broadway Dance Center when she is not touring the country, performing, or traveling the world, teaching. Lizz has had the opportunity to serve as Associate Director and/or Choreographer to some of the industry's best! Lizz has the gift of wearing several hats, teaching, performing, assisting, directing and at the end of the day just like most of us, auditioning daily. The beauty is Lizz has evolved as we all have and openly discusses the importance of self care and acknowledging gratitude, fear, excitement; and all the other feels. Gear up for a conversation of acceptance filled with tips and similarities you may feel whether you are, were, or never even involved in the arts. Most recently, Lizz performed and served as Dance Captain, Associate Director and Choreographer, in Tony-nominee Denis Jones' production of Chicago! Around the country, Lizz has starred as Cassie in A Chorus Line, The-Girl-in-the-Green-Dress in Singin' in the Rain, played Tess in Crazy For You, Virtue in Anything Goes, Dawn in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Gertie Cummings in Oklahoma!, Ruth in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, West Side Story, On The Town, When You Wish, Beauty and the Beast and Sister Act. Follow Lizz: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lizzpicini Website: http://www.lizzpicini.com/ Follow your Host: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rumor_in_stpetersburg Join the Newsletter: https://conta.cc/2YJ878Z Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theluxuryofselfcare Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Ahnastasia Sponsors: Shop Beauty Counter: https://www.beautycounter.com/ahnastasiaalbert Dashing Diva Nails - FREE Shipping - https://dashingdiva.com/?rfsn=5414781.15e0e6 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theluxuryofselfcare/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theluxuryofselfcare/support
NYC-based performer and teacher Lizz Picini is on the podcast today!Conversation topics include:-Working through career heartbreak-Trusting in the journey-Learning to take time off-Masculine/Feminine energyConnect with us: @lizzpicini @samanthajoharvey @fullout_podcastwww.samanthajoharvey.comGUEST BIO:Lizz is so thankful to be living the dream, in NYC! Represented by CESD Talent Agency, she teaches full-time at Broadway Dance Center when she is not touring the country, performing, or traveling the world, teaching. Most recently, Lizz performed and served as Dance Captain, Associate Dir., and Associate Chor., in Tony-nominee Denis Jones’ production of Chicago! Around the country, Lizz has starred as Cassie in A Chorus Line, The-Girl-in-the-Green-Dress in Singin’ in the Rain, played Tess in Crazy For You, Virtue in Anything Goes, Dawn in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Gertie Cummings in Oklahoma!, Ruth in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, West Side Story, On The Town, When You Wish, Beauty and the Beast and Sister Act. She has had the opportunity to serve as Associate Dir.,/Chor. to some of the industry’s best.
Yes, your job as a dancer is to perform, but to get there, the first step is to attend an audition. Your audition is what constitutes whether or not you get work. Essentially part of your job is that audition. On this episode, with our guests Liz Picini and Elle-May Patterson, we talk about what happens during an audition. How early do you get to an audition? How do I prepare for an audition? What's going to make me stand out? How do I deal with the pressure of an audition and still show them I'm an awesome dancer? We touch on all these questions in this episode of Auditions: Part 2 of Beyond the Mirror. More About Our Speakers... Lizz Picini moved to New York City just one week after graduating from Towson University with a B.F.A. in Dance Performance. After completing the Broadway Dance Center Professional Semester she began actively training and working at Broadway Dance Center while assisting various choreographers. She now has the privilege of teaching at Broadway Dance Center. She is represented by Clear Talent Group in New York City and is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association. Lizz is thrilled to be playing the Girl-in- the-Green- Dress/Dance Captain/Associate Choreographer at The Wick Theatre’s upcoming production of Singin’ in the Rain. Additionally, some of Lizz’s favorite past roles include Tess in Crazy For You, Gertie Cummings/Dance Captain inOklahoma! and Dawn/Dance Captain in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, all at Merry-Go- Round Playhouse. Lizz also served as the Associate Choreographer, while playing the role of Ruth, in Ogunquit Playhouse’s Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Other performing credits include Disney’s world premiere musical When You Wish at Tuacahn Amphitheatre, Beauty and the Beast and Sister Actalso at Tuacahn Amphitheatre, On The Town at Merry-Go- Round Playhouse, and West Side Story at Ogunquit Playhouse. On the creative side, Lizz served as Associate Choreographer to Richard J. Hinds at Merry-Go- Round Playhouse’s 2017 season opener, Guys and Dolls, as well as Assistant Choreographer to Molly Smith (Dir.) and Parker Esse (Chor.) at Glimmerglass Opera House’s season opener, Oklahoma! Elle-May was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. She then went on to complete a BA (Hons) degree for Musical Theatre at Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore. For the last two years, Elle May has been living and working in New York City. Recent credits include Cabaret, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Anything Goes, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Elton John’s ‘Life Ball’ in Vienna, Austria, The MTV Video Music Awards, and a dancer with the Omaha Symphony Orchestra. She was recently the Assistant Choreographer to the renowned duo ‘The Squared Division’ for the first season of Asia’s Got Talent, and filmed Rachelle Rak’s new pilot series ‘The Collaborators’ in New York. Additionally, she played "Kylie" in the AFI Award winning film "The Black Balloon" and has appeared in several television commercials.
Relax, you won't hear That Song in this episode. You WILL hear discussion of its place in Disney history, the whole Big Disney Song phenomena including Under The Sea and When You Wish, a discussion of Fairy-Tale Time Dilation, and more! It's a goodun!
Today's Guest: Kristin Harmel, romance novelist, The Art of French Kissing. Novelist and University of Florida Gator Kristin Harmel (Photo: UF Communigator) Order from Amazon.com by clicking the book cover above Kristin Harmel’s new novel, her fourth, in fact, is titled The Art of French Kissing. It’s a sweet, surprisingly gentle story of a young boy-band publicist, who’s a woman from Orlando, whose life there collapses, and she goes to Paris to escape and maybe find herself again. It’s chick-lit for sure, but I enjoyed it. It also made me think more fondly of Paris than I had since the one time that my wife and I visited there back in ’88. Maybe we’ll get into that later. KRISTIN HARMEL audio excerpt: "the novels I write are very connected to sort of my own life, and I would say sort of the experiences that myself and my friends are going through right now. I’m 28, almost 29. I’m still sort of going through the struggles that you do sort of in your twenties and thirties of finding yourself and of sort of finding where you fit in the world and among others, the funny, little adventures that I get to go on and like I said, the bad dates." Kristin Harmel Website • Facebook • Twitter • Pinterest • Order The Art of French Kissing from Amazon.com BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: So tell us that you’re in some fabulous part of the country. KRISTIN HARMEL: I’m actually back home in Orlando, Florida right now. In the past week, we’ve been in Boston, New York, Atlanta, and now back in Orlando for launch parties. ANDELMAN: Oh, Orlando. Well, that’s okay. We’ll just pretend you’re in Monte Carlo or something. HARMEL: Exactly. Can I backtrack and revise that? I’m lying on a beach in Hawaii. ANDELMAN: C’mon, you’re in the fiction business. It’s all about theater of the mind. HARMEL: Exactly, my mistake. Sorry. ANDELMAN: You just released two books pretty simultaneously, The Art of French Kissing, and what I believe is a young adult novel, When You Wish. HARMEL: Yes, that’s correct. They’re both from different publishers, which I think accounts for the reason that they both came out around the same time. But, yes, When You Wish is my first novel for teenagers, basically for ages 12 and up, and it came out just a couple weeks ago. I’m really excited about that one, too. ANDELMAN: But tell the truth, Kristin, because everybody wants to know this. You actually outsource the writing of your books to India so you have time for fun stuff. HARMEL: I wish! I’m gonna have to start thinking about that. Thanks for the idea. ANDELMAN: I hear they do everything for less. HARMEL: There you go. Exactly. If I could do that or just find more hours in the day, I think we’d be all set. ANDELMAN: The Art of French Kissing, which is the book that I just finished reading, from what I’ve read, it seems to hug very close to certain details of your own life. That true? HARMEL: In some ways. It was basically inspired by the fact that I, myself, five years ago, went over to live in Paris sort of on a whim the same way that the main character of the novel does. And like the main character of my novel, I really didn’t speak much French when I went over, and I went over to live with a friend sort of at a time in my life when my own life was in a little bit of disarray. However, my path sort of parted from the main character of the novel when I went over there in that she actually had all these fabulous adventures of dealing with this crazy international rock star and whatever, and I would say my adventures were much more tame. So I had to use my imagination a little bit to create her world. ANDELMAN: Oh, I just feel so sad now. I was hoping to hear that you had to tamp down your own experiences to put them in the book. HARMEL: Well, I will have to say, a few of the things that poor Emma has to do in the book include hanging upside down from between a couple of buildings in Paris. So I’m happy that I didn’t have to do anything wacky like that, but I did have some crazy adventures. Paris is quite a place to go, I think, as a young person or goodness, as any person. I think it’s just such a wonderful city where you could just explore all sorts of different things. I did have quite a lot of adventures there, though. ANDELMAN: And I’m thinking anyone reading this book is gonna feel the way I did when it was over: “I gotta go to Paris.” But then I think back, and I can’t believe that I wrote down it was 1988. It has actually been 20 years. HARMEL: Oh, my. ANDELMAN: I wasn’t terribly impressed. The city is wonderful, but the people there, they kind of spoil it for you. HARMEL: I had always heard that before I went to Paris for the first time. I actually went to Paris for the first time the year before I lived there, and I had a great experience. But when I went back to live there for the summer, my experience was even better. And I think that maybe 20 or 30 years ago maybe Americans got a frostier reception from Parisians. I really just didn’t have any problems with it. I found people there to be very friendly. I think it’s just a different type of mentality. Probably the best way I can describe it is that I think that, in general, and this is a big generality, but in general, I think that French people tend to warm up to strangers a little more slowly, whereas in the United States, particularly in the South, I think that you meet someone in a store, and within 30 seconds, you feel like they’re your new best friend. Everyone’s very friendly, everyone’s talkative, everyone smiled. In France, in general, I think people tend to be a little bit wary of strangers but not in any sort of negative way. In a way, they’re a little bit more genuine like they want to get to know you as a person a little bit before they make a judgment about whether or not to be ultra-friendly to you. So I found that when I realized that about the culture and that when I realized that a reception that wasn’t warm wasn’t necessarily a cold reception, I think I really sort of understood where they were coming from, and I realized that they were not actually being unfriendly. ANDELMAN: I’m sorry. I’m going back to my notes here. I just want to be sure. Are we talking about Paris? HARMEL: Yes, we are. But see, you’re saying you haven’t been there in 20 years, and my experience of having been there more recently is that the people there actually were very kind. And I also think that one of the problems that Americans encounter is going over there and expecting every French person to be able to speak English, and that’s not always the case. But generally, in the big cities like Paris, especially in the retail industry or if you go out to a meal or whatever, generally they speak at least basic English. So I feel like, as an American, if you either make an effort to speak a few words of French or if you just say I’m so sorry, I don’t speak French, they’ll usually warm right up to you. I think that sometimes Americans get a negative reception when they just sort of assume that their language will be spoken. You know what I mean? ANDELMAN: I’m dying for you to ask me what happened to me in Paris. HARMEL: Oh, I’m so sorry I missed my cue. What happened to you in Paris? ANDELMAN: Alright, the only story that I will share because it’s your time and not mine. HARMEL: No, no, I would like to hear it. ANDELMAN: I’m dying to tell this. So I’m there with my wife. It’s like middle of the afternoon. We’re starving. We go into a café, a patisserie, I don’t know. It was a place where there were tables for dining, there was a bar. It was the middle of the afternoon. There was no one there, but staff was hanging out at the bar. We walked in, we’re dying of thirst and hunger, and we sit down and we’ll wait, and we wait, and we wait, and no one waits on us. No one comes over, and I finally get up, and I walk over, and I say, “Excuse me.” Maybe I even said, “Excuse moi, pardon.” I tried. I had my University of Florida college French. HARMEL: Go Gators. ANDELMAN: So you know it had to be good French. I asked for a menu. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we’ll bring it to you. So I go and sit down, and we wait and we wait and still there’s only us and the staff. HARMEL: Oh no. ANDELMAN: So we wait and we wait, and finally, someone else comes into the restaurant, and it’s a man with a full-sized standard poodle. And he goes over to the bar, and they immediately give him a drink, they give him a croissant, and then the poodle puts its paws up on the bar, and the poodle gets a bowl of water. And this was when I knew that my impression of the French to that point was not far off. They made a real good show of how little they cared for us American people. HARMEL: Oh goodness. ANDELMAN: This is in central Paris. We weren’t out in the boondocks. That’s why I keep asking are we sure we’re talking about Paris? HARMEL: That’s a terrible story. I’m so sorry that that sort of shaped your opinion of Paris. I will say that I have found that, it seems like it wouldn’t be that logical, but I found that, sort of in the more touristy areas of Paris, they do tend to turn their nose up to tourists a little bit more, which is sort of a strange contradiction. But I think there’s another thing about the French that, for me, took a little bit of getting used to because I’m very kind of rush, rush, rush from one thing to the next, and I think sometimes, particularly when it comes to eating or situations in restaurants, they just do things much more slowly. So they were probably having a little coffee break in back or something and thought oh, he can wait. ANDELMAN: Yes, I think that may have been it. Well, now the reason I asked you this is that… I saw the segment you did on “Good Morning America.” First of all, eight minutes on “Good Morning America” is amazing. But you’re being called on, I think, I guess, more and more to be that American expert on Paris and the French. How do you feel about that part? HARMEL: I love it. It sounds silly, but the summer that
Team Mousetalgia answers your email this week as we recover from the D23 Expo weekend. Topics include: places to find a drink at the resort; the best way to search the Mousetalgia archives; Haunted Mansion Holiday facts; the Disneyland Legacy Collection CD set discussed; CV Wood's Heritage Square; "When You Wish" - a Disney stage show currently performing in Utah; D23 - is the gold membership worth the cost; a listener reviews DCA's "Disney Calfornia Story Tour"; touring Disneyland through the eyes of a child; seeking out Haunted Mansion merchandise; and navigating Disneyland Resort during Halloweentime - is adding Mickey's Trick or Treat party to a vacation worth the extra ticket? Plus Disney tattoos - the Mousetalgia crew's dream ink!
Pod of Thunder - 113 - When You Wish upon a Star: Chris, Nick, and Andy break down the closing track from Gene's 1978 solo album. Somehow, Chris has never heard this song before.
Show Notes The last thing we need are more mothers. “Peter Pan” (1953) Disney http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046183/ “Musak” Stimulus Progression http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak_%28brand%29 “When You Wish Upon a Star” (1940) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_Wish_upon_a_Star “Flamenco Sketches” Miles Davis (1959) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamenco_Sketches “Oliver Twist” (1948) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040662/ “Intergalactic Space Crusaders” Arjen A. Lucassen's Star One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD0JuJr0a4I “How to See Multi-Dimensional Beings” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V3I2eD0gWc “The End” The Doors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_%28The_Doors_song%29 “Apocalypse Now” (1979) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/