jeff buckley singing hallelujah, live circa 1996.
i remember staying with my friend gary in phoenix, AZ and he playing me buckley's version of this leonard cohen classic, and i thought to myself, this person sounds like they are no long of this earth. apparently i was right.
Jeffrey Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. After a decade as guitarist-for-hire in Los Angeles, Buckley gained popularity in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material.
Over the following two years, the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. In 1996, they stopped touring and made sporadic attempts to record his second album in New York with Tom Verlaine as producer. In 1997, Buckley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work on the album, to be titled My Sweetheart the Drunk, recording many four-track demos while also playing weekly solo shows at a local venue. While awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during a spontaneous evening swim--fully clothed--in the Mississippi River, when he was caught in the wake of a passing boat. His body was found on June 4, 1997.
Since his death, there have been many posthumous releases of his material, including Leonard Cohen's song, "Hallelujah." he attained his first #1 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs in March 2008 and reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart at Christmas 2008. Buckley and his work remain popular and are regularly featured in 'greatest' lists in the music press.
4/24/10
THE TEA LADIES OF SUDAN
THE TEA LADIES OF SUDAN, despite the current harsh times, continue a rich history of soothing tea, storytelling & lore....
By Jeffrey Fleishman
The tea ladies come before the sun, lighting fires, shaking jars, spooning sugar. They hum and sing, lost women marked with tribal symbols, far from home. They sit and wait, kettles hissing in ember and ash, the great day beginning, rolling off the Nile like a damp, smothering cloth.
Wet, smooth and swift, her hands dart from jar to sifter, stoking the fire, the silver kettle blackening. Life has gone by selling tea to friends and strangers on a patch of sidewalk barely wider than her lap. This city turned hard and the man she married ended up no good, but her voice is pretty, like a hymn drifting down from a high wire, soothing the men in white turbans who sip from slender glasses.
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By Jeffrey Fleishman
The tea ladies come before the sun, lighting fires, shaking jars, spooning sugar. They hum and sing, lost women marked with tribal symbols, far from home. They sit and wait, kettles hissing in ember and ash, the great day beginning, rolling off the Nile like a damp, smothering cloth.
Wet, smooth and swift, her hands dart from jar to sifter, stoking the fire, the silver kettle blackening. Life has gone by selling tea to friends and strangers on a patch of sidewalk barely wider than her lap. This city turned hard and the man she married ended up no good, but her voice is pretty, like a hymn drifting down from a high wire, soothing the men in white turbans who sip from slender glasses.
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4/23/10
$EX ARTISTE!
$ex artiste has created some amazing images for the
420~ CANNABIS AS ART exhibition.
here's a pics he took of me in front of his two artworks~
SUKEENA THE POT SMOKING CAT ~ Acrylic and powdered holographic, 2009, and
BAREFOOT RODDY VON SEDENECK~ 2'-4" x 1' 10"~ Acrylic and powdered holographic glitter work~ 2009.
come check them out- wednesday thru saturday~ 1-7pm
www.antebellum.us.ms
THE KUSH BOA
my neighbor flavie webster amused me today by modeling
THE KUSH BOA~ a one-of-a-kind design by antebellum artist~
$EX ARTISTE.
this handmade piece is created with long fluffed green yarn and feather scarf interwoven with faux Marijuana leaves. This scarf was created to appear as a living, clustered Marijuana plant, available @ antebellum gallery~ 420~ CANNABIS AS ART exhibition thru may 7th.
4/22/10
4/21/10
EVEN MORE OPENING NIGHT PICS ~ 420~ CANNABIS AS ART~ MUTHA FUKAS!
for those unlucky few that missed this historic,
( this could very well be the last year of the prohibition era)
opening, here are some pics from opening night~420~
these photos courtesy~ RIK LAWRENCE
CHECK OUT THE EXHIBIT THRU MAY 7TH
www.antebellum.us.ms
420~OPENING NIGHT!
well the holiday for the, "opiated masses" finally came... and it didn't disappoint!
opening night @ antebellum's- 420~CANNABIS AS ART exhibition was whimsical & magical.
everyone was in such a good mood, except perhaps for me...
curating can be a real strain, and very stressful. the combination of artists & potheads makes for a very mañana attitude, if you know what i mean...... never-the-less, fun was held by all, including an exhausted gallery owner.
here are the first batch of pics taken by antebellum's official photographer~ BOOTS BRYANT-
420~ CANNABIAS AS ART exhibition is now open~ wednesday thru saturdays, 1-7pm, thru may 7th.. come check out the art, it's guaranteed to give you a "buzz."
www.antebellum.us.ms
opening night @ antebellum's- 420~CANNABIS AS ART exhibition was whimsical & magical.
everyone was in such a good mood, except perhaps for me...
curating can be a real strain, and very stressful. the combination of artists & potheads makes for a very mañana attitude, if you know what i mean...... never-the-less, fun was held by all, including an exhausted gallery owner.
here are the first batch of pics taken by antebellum's official photographer~ BOOTS BRYANT-
420~ CANNABIAS AS ART exhibition is now open~ wednesday thru saturdays, 1-7pm, thru may 7th.. come check out the art, it's guaranteed to give you a "buzz."
www.antebellum.us.ms
