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A fangirl's encounter with rockstar!Klaine, from her point of view as posted on her tumblr. I'm going to write another version of this scene from the perspective of Kurt and Blaine, so expect that soon-ish. Unbeta'd, PG-13?
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So, um, yeah. I live in New York and my parents own a restaurant (I'm not going to say the name, but you can ask me off-anon if you really want to know idk you might?). Sometimes I do deliveries for them. I was doing my last delivery of the night earlier, listening to Penny Dreadful on the way there, of course. I mean seriously, this is me, I always listen to them. I ended up outside a pretty nice apartment building, but it wasn't like suspiciously nice or anything, so I didn't really think about it. Anyway, I waited outside for the customer to come out, and then he did.
And I almost fainted.
He was wearing some sweatpants and like a white henley, and his hair was super curly and messy and he definitely hadn't shaved and it was kind of the most absurdly sexy I've ever seen him, which is PRETTY HARD TO DO.
I think he could see that I was practically catatonic because he was just like "uh, excuse me? Are you from [my parents restaurant]?" And I couldn't talk so I just kind of held up the bag and smiled and nodded. And he reached for it but then I heard someone yelling something behind him, and I was just thinking "no, it can't be, can it?"
And of course it was KURT HUMMEL HIMSELF and he was like "Seriously, B, you forgot your wallet" (HE CALLS HIM B I JUST CAN'T) and Blaine took it and he looked kind of embarrassed but he just thanked Kurt and smiled. Then there was this ~look between them, and I'm going to have to take a moment to pause the story and explain it.
You know how we always talk about when they're giving each other hearteyes and when they're having eyesex? Well, this look was basically hearteyesex. Like, they didn't just look like they were giving each other flowers in their minds, and they also didn't look like they were fucking each other's brains out in their minds either. They basically looked like they were having sweet, passionate, lovemaking-type sex in their minds.
That was when I really noticed that Kurt was also wearing sweatpants (I know, I'm shocked, too) and a Penny Dreadful hoodie that was zipped up but it really looked like he wasn't wearing a shirt under it and his hair was also really messy (and yes, he was also absurdly sexy) and I kind of put it all together and was like oh, they definitely had sex earlier. Obviously I know they're together, but seeing them like that made me realize exactly what that means, if that makes any sense. Like, they actually are a happy couple and so in love and we're not just imagining it, and they probably do cute things for each other all the time and walk around holding hands and have amazing sex, and it's all real and I'm so much happier for them now than I was before, and considering just how happy I was for them before…
Anyway, by that point they'd figured out that I was a fan and Kurt said something like "So I take it you know who we are?" and I nodded and introduced myself and told them that their music changed my life (they were so flattered by that, it was adorable) and I can't remember exactly what else I said, it was kind of a blur.
Then I remembered that I was supposed to be giving them their dinner (and I'm so glad people can't read minds, because I definitely thought about how this might have been the dinner break in a marathon sex session and then felt so creepy about it), so I did, and they gave me a huge tip and signed a napkin for me after they looked around to see if there was anything else they could use (those dorks omg).
Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, Blaine asked if I was going to their next concert in NYC and I said I was, so he told me that they would try to get me a backstage pass so that I could "get proper autographs" and pictures with them in "real clothes" on the condition that the pictures I took with them (yes, I did take pictures with them) would not be posted on the internet and that I wouldn't give out their address. Of course I agreed and I nearly fainted again and they left and their hands were brushing together and they gave each other that hearteyesex look again and it was just the cutest. Then when they were gone, I flailed a little.
So in conclusion I met Kurt and Blaine and they were really nice and awesome and SO HOT and now I'm afraid I'll wake up and realize it was all a dream.
Now if you'll excuse me, I haven't thrown myself on my bed and done kickyfeet yet, so I have to do that now.


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So, big life update: Last weekend, I accepted an offer from ESPN to start and run a TrueHoop website about the Brooklyn Nets, the surprisingly awesome basketball team that just moved here during the off-season. With a lot of help from some wonderfully talented people, I'll be building, curating, writing and editing this brand new website, to hopefully create a personal, interesting look at why you should give a fuck about this team.
I wasn't going to take it at first, but everything sort of flipped upside-down in a frantic 72-hour period in which I consulted a ton of my media friends and even placed a call to my favorite journalism professor, whom I hadn't spoken to in nearly two years, to get his ear. Without being specific, I potentially had another terrific job offer from another dedicated online media enterprise as a staff writer, which involved an entirely different line of work and would've had me giving up more or less all of the regular freelancing I've accrued thus far in order to work out of their office. Given the team, salary and pedigree, I assumed I was going to take that automatically if the offer came through, but after some gentle prodding I began to think about the ESPN job as a chance to do something much grander and satisfying, inasmuch as I'm getting to use the name and access of the world's most recognizable sports conglomerate to create the type of sports website that I'd like to read, and that hopefully other people will like to read too. It's going to be a lot of work to get this up and running, which was part of my initial worrying, but I eventually realized that I shouldn't bet against myself if other, experienced people seem confident enough in my ability to get it done. Rise to the challenge lest you get complacent with where you are or something like that, right?
I've been back in New York for about two months, and it's been a much better experience than the last time I was around. For most of 2011 I was terribly unemployed and mostly broke, dipping deeper and deeper into my savings and grinding it out for a job offer that never really came; my last weeks were spent in a roach-infested room, firing off dozens of emails and job applications and charging groceries to my mom's credit card while waiting for the opportunity to cancel my flight back to Chicago. That didn't happen.
I was — and am — beyond all expected luck to have had the safety net of being able to move back to Chicago to live with a parent who was still invested in seeing me through this writing thing instead of pushing me down a more conventional path; it's still something that I'm not really capable of analyzing or appreciating beyond some facile recognition of "privilege," which is technically true but feels like it goes much deeper. It's exactly like what people say about comparing good parents to winning the lottery, because you did nothing to deserve it. It was one of the things that kept me going when my job prospects seemed a lot shittier: "Things could obviously be so much worse, so quit your bitching and do what you have to do in order to get it together." (This after I allowed myself to spend a day in bed, pajama-clad, reading Game of Thrones; after that, it was all business.)
I got officially hired by the Wall Street Journal the day I unpacked all of my suitcases in my adolescent bedroom. I was brought back by MTV a month and a half later to do writing for their Splash Page website, and in a jaw-dropping moment of synchronicity, was asked by BlackBook on the same day to become their night blogger, a position that I held in varying capacities for a few months. I could go into all of the little things and unexpected coincidences that had to happen for all of this work to align, but I'd be here for a while. Work with other places like The Classical and Forbes Travel Guide and BULLETT came as the months went on and my connections with out-of-town media people deepened in ways that had never happened when I was actually in New York. After appraising how much I was making I decided fairly quickly that I was more than happy living at home to save up in order to come back, and made plans in the summer to finally get it together by the fall. I found my roommates, found an apartment, signed a lease, had another going away party where I played "Alex Chilton" on the jukebox a few times, and shipped out at the beginning of October, just shy of a year spent back in Chicago.
Which sort of brings me to today, and whatever might happen with this new website. I'm going to excerpt a big chunk of something Mike Barthel wrote last week that's been stuck in my head (if you're reading this you've probably already read that, but bear with it):
If a new website (or other online tool) fails to attract a large audience, it's considered a failure, and is abandoned by its backers, who have moved on in search of something more profitable. And it it does attract an audience, then it becomes official, a place where people come to do serious business, and you are expected to do the same. Your actions there are no longer considered experimental or "virtual" but are instead inseparable from your actions anywhere else. They become an expression of your core identity.
The result is the awful kind of congenial politeness you find in offices with low-to-moderate morale, or neighborhood newsletters. Just as you don't talk about your personal problems at work, you studiously erase any stray lines of personality on these serious-business sites. You post a headline with a link; you say how excited you are to be in a city; you share some small annoyance during your day. You don't do anything confusing, or playful, or expressive. No weird shit. Keep it light. Everyone's watching.
The monetization of online space is a big part of this, of course, but the web's fundamental openness, generally a good thing, is also to blame. You could do these things on a closed e-mail list, or a private Tumblr, or a rigidly friends-locked Facebook account - though not really, and ultimately everyone will want to know why they can't friend you on the big new social thing - or you could go anonymous or pseudonymous - but then of course if you're too good at it someone will want to "unmask" (fun term there!) you and you might as well have posted under your real name. Unless you take extraordinarily elaborate precautions, these actions are still tethered to a stable, professional identity you've developed, and if they get out into the wild could complicate the image you've spent years making hireable.
I'm under no illusion that I'll be able to keep tweeting excessively inane nonsense as time goes on and my responsibility to ESPN becomes larger. (You should see my Twitter when it was private and no one followed me; just a steady stream of 3 AM drunken koans about trying to find the nearest taco cart.) But an explicit part of why they approached me is because they wanted a writer who could bring more of a voice to this untapped territory of a team with no real history, and synthesize something fascinating out of the micro and macro things that make people love sports. Something halfway between The Classical and The Wall Street Journal, nicely enough, with a hat tip to Edith Zimmerman's Hairpin and Will Leitch's Deadspin as examples of how a site can grow around its editor's personality. (Wildly aspirational, I know, but that's what's up!) It's going to be a learning effort, figuring out how to infuse a website with my philosophy without losing sight of the larger effort, which is to cover this team for this entity. Again, it's a task I'm pretty excited to tackle while hopefully learning from the pitfalls of websites past.
I mean, here's the deal: Tons of people in my generation are over-educated, under-worked, wracked with insufferable, unsolvable existential angst unconsciously heaped upon us by every previous generation; we were raised by our baby boomer parents to expect the world, but universally derided by everyone for reaching adult age and Thought Catalog-ing our way through the reality of hitting double-digit debt to become another jobless English major. I'd get it, too, if I didn't live in New York and caught an episode of Girls. The result is that it's really hard to me to imagine some life track that follows along a typical path of work, marriage, children, suburban living, etc., because I'm only sort of sure of how everything is working out now. And so it seems almost necessary to take a slightly bigger, unknown risk regarding something that could pay off wonderfully or fail miserably, because it's not like anyone really has job security, anyways. I'm hoping that you, dear reader, who has sort of followed along my little hero's quest for the last few years, through good and bad, can sort of see what I'm getting at, and why it has to go down like this. I'm hoping you'll follow along a little longer, at least to see how this website is going to go down. Updates soon.


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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will put Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson on Revis Island. According to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, cornerback Darrelle Revis is expected to shadow Johnson all over the field "almost exclusively."
That means a return of Revis Island. Head coach Greg Schiano was criticized earlier in the season for using zone coverage instead of man-to-man. Revis plans on being physical with Johnson.
"My thought was always just to be physical with (big receivers)," Revis said, via the Buccaneers' official website. "They're big guys. I feel no receiver wants to get jammed or pressed at the line, so just be physical with those guys and match what they bring to the table."
Revis is embracing the challenge as well.
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Theen Maar Movie Review & Rating: 3.25/50
Theen Maar Movie Review & Theen Maar Movie Rating: 3.25/5
Cast: Pavan Kalyan, Trisha, Kriti Kharbanda, Paresh Rawal, Sonu Sood, Tanikella, Koyalagundla Harish and others
Music: Mani Sharma
Cinematography : Jaynan Vincent
Story, Dialogues, screenplay: Trivikram Srinivas
Producer: Ganesh Babu
Direction: Jayanth C. Paranjee
Banner: Parameswara Arts
Pavan Kalyan is back after his debacle 'Komaram Puli' and he has teamed up with his favorite Trivikram Srinivas (with dialogues and screenplay) who is also recovering from his debacle 'Khaleja'. That helped director Jayante Pranje a lot. Let us see how they have fared in this.
Teen Maar is one of the most awaited films of this year and why not? There is no need to say what Pavan Kalyan is capable of and how great his star power is. He had his tough times but he was not down and out at any instance in his career. Pavan Kalyan always rocked when he did films in comedy and romance genre. So, Theen Maar has far more reasons to raise the expectations level. Here's the review…
This is a remake of Bollywood hit Love Aaj Kal and the Hindi movie title itself says what this movie is about. It is about Love… then and now. Everything has changed with time and human emotions too.
Love is not an exception. How love and lovers used to be three
decades ago? How they have changed with time. Arjun Palvoy (Pavan
Kalyan) and Vasumathi (Kriti Karbhanda) played the love pair of eighties and Michael Velayudham (Pavan) and Meera (Trisha) are the
love pair of current times. Arjun has to face the wrath of customs
and has to convince parents who feel that love is a crime. Michael has to overcome his confusion and realize his true love towards Meera. That sums up the story.
When said as two different stories, Theen Maar doesn't seem like an interesting film. But when those two stories are clubbed together it turned out to be an engaging and entertaining fare. Thanks to the director that he didn't include many characters and too much melodrama to make this film suitable for our masses. He has stuck to the core material of the original and the rest was done by Pavan Kalyan and Trivikram.
Teen Maar starts off on a dull note. Technical errors like 'spot dubbing' to Michael's character marred the proceedings. When things seemed so gloomy and when the film's graph is going down at a rocket speed, then entered Arjun Palvoy's character.And from then on the movie went to the next level and it was a total fun with few hiccups in the middle. Climax is the heart of the movie and that is where Theen Maar scores brownie points.
Pavan Kalyan fans are sure going to have ablast with this movie. Families and youngsters have lots of elements to feel it worth a watch. We have to wait and see how masses likes this.
Pawan Kalyan has given an energetic performance and he scores the brownie points with his timing of dialogues. He looks stylish in the modern role but should have been careful in choice of costumes in flashback episode.
Trisha looks good after putting on some extra pounds of flesh. She is cute as usual and fills the glamour and emotional quotient wherever required.
Kriti Kharbanda looks like a doll but then she should have been more versatile with her expressions. The innocence is there in her eyes but it is not done with conviction. Overall, she did a decent job.
Paresh Rawal was brief, Sonu Sood looks elegant, Donna looks sizzling hot, Ali brought few smiles, Koyalagundla Harish and Arundhati Aravind made their presence felt. Tanikella, MS Narayana, Kasi Viswanath, Mukesh Rishi, Pragathi filled the screen at necessary scenes.
Dialogues by Trivikram are an asset. His subtle changes in the screenplay are superb. Trivikram gave his midas touch to this film especially towards the finale. Mani Sharma's music is another bonus. Almost all the songs are good on screen. J. Vincent's cinematography is good. Editing is fine. Only major problem is with the sound mixing during the first thirty minutes. Spot dubbing has not been done in a proper way. They should have safely shunned it for a better quality.
Production values are rich. Direction by Jayanth is smooth. He didn't do anything silly and stuck to the basics. He has once again proved that he can handle the remake films well.
Highlights (Plus Points):
- Pavan Kalyan performance
- Trivikram dialogues
- Music
- Pavan- Trisha liplock sequences
- Songs, background score
- Trisha's glamour
- Locations
- Cinematography and emotional sequences
- Second half, especially the last 30 minutes
Drawbacks (Minus Points):
- Spot dubbing errors
- Flashback episode missed natural appeal
- Few screenplay hiccups in the second hour
After a long time, Pawan Kalyan was seen in full spirits and seemed to enjoy his role and characterization. The film comes across with an ideology clash between the current generation and the generation that has gone by when it comes to essence of relationships. While the intention is noble, this may not be a recipe for the mass or commercial audience (B, C centers).
As such, this is a movie which appeals the class and urban (A center) audience. Also, with good technical and production values coupled with few nice songs, the film has a feel good factor and turns out to be a smooth breezy entertainer. Pawan Kalyan fans might get reminded of his 'Khushi' days. The film will connect well with those who haven't watched the original in Hindi (Love Aaj Kal).
Overall, this comes across as a cool treat in the summer heat packed with the right dose of comedy, sentiment, romance and above all, dialogues. At the box office, this has strong chances of scoring success.
Pawan Kalyan has broken the rule this time and performed something out of the box (esp with lip locks). Trisha looked hottest in best way possible with ample thigh shows and deeper necks. She came out with full dose glamour.
The first half suffers little ups and downs while last 30 minutes stood as highlight with gripping.
Final Word:
Theen Maar lives up to its tag line 'celebration of love'. This is the best film of Pavan Kalyan post Kushi. Even better than Jalsa content wise. Pavan has a winner on hands. Holidays and family crowds should lap it up.


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Lamb Stew with New Potatoes
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- Calcium: 77mg
- Calories: 542
- Calories from fat: 41%
- Carbohydrate: 15g
- Cholesterol: 133mg
- Fat: 25g
- Fiber: 2g
- Iron: 5mg
- Protein: 43mg
- Saturated fat: 8g
- Sodium: 719mg
- 3 pounds lamb-stew meat, cut into 2-inch chunks
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 3 to 6 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 carrots, peeled and cut into ½-inch-thick slices
- 3 medium onions, sliced
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 750-milliliter bottle full-bodied red wine, such as Côtes du Rhône
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 strips fresh lemon peel
- Cucumber Yogurt
- New Potatoes with Olives
- Preheat oven to 350° F. Pat the lamb dry with paper towels and place in a large bowl. In a shallow bowl, combine the flour, oregano, salt, and pepper. Sprinkle the flour mixture evenly over the lamb and toss well. Heat 3 tablespoons of oil in a heavy casserole over medium heat. Brown the lamb in batches, adding more oil as needed. When all the lamb is browned, remove it and set aside. Add the carrots, onions, and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables start to caramelize, about 10 minutes. Return the lamb to the casserole. Add the wine, bay leaves, and lemon peel. Bring to a simmer, cover, and place on bottom rack of oven. Cook until the lamb is very tender, about 2 hours. Serve with Cucumber Yogurt and New Potatoes with Olives.
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- MAIN INGREDIENT: Lamb
- OCCASION: Winter
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Pathetic, what you need is to return the look and feel back to Visual Studio 2010.
I'm new to VS2012, but it gives a "special touch" if you will. Congrats, nice!
I'm using Express version of VS12 and wish this was available for it as the available Light and Dark themes are so bad, that it makes using VS12 a horrible experience. VS10 is a much, much better IDE in this respect. Why did MS ruin the visual theme, and then give no option to change the appearance? I love VS10, and don't even want to use VS12 as it is so completely horrendous! What the deuce? What were they thinking? It's supposed to be Visual Studio!, but everything visually about it is terrible!! It's hard to even tell the what the icons specify....
The editor is very helpful. The fact that the VS2012 UI was changed so much and so poorly with such limited built in control reflects badly on MSFT and the VS team.
Does what it says on the tin. It really helps to reduce the ugliness of VS 2012. Next is to fix the ALL CAPS shouting, round off the square edges, redesign a curved icon, and we will be getting a lot closer to VS 2010 :-)
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Not available for Express. I find the Light and Dark themes hard to bear and I would like some customization.
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|From Elvis in Memphis
|Studio album by Elvis Presley
|June 1969
|January–February 1969 at American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee
|Soul, country, rhythm and blues, pop
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|Chips Moman, Felton Jarvis
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From Elvis in Memphis is the ninth studio album by American rock and roll singer Elvis Presley and was released on RCA Victor. It was recorded at American Sound Studio in Memphis in January and February 1969 under the direction of producer Chips Moman and backed by its house band, informally known as "The Memphis Boys". Following the success of Presley's 1968 Christmas television special and its soundtrack, the album marked Presley's return to non-soundtrack albums after the completion of his film contract with Paramount Pictures.
The singer's entourage convinced him to leave the RCA studios and record this album at American Sound, a new Memphis studio in the midst of a hit-producing streak. On this recording, Moman and his arrangers decided to change Presley's pop sound (aimed at an established audience) to a new style which might refresh his image. They worked to blend his early country, rhythm and blues and gospel influences with soul music, which had become popular in Memphis. The album's arrangements have a Memphis soul-inspired emphasis on rhythm, relying less on strings, brass and woodwinds.
From Elvis in Memphis was released in June 1969 to favorable reviews. The album peaked at number 13 on the Billboard 200, number two on the country charts and number one in the United Kingdom, and its single "In the Ghetto" reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1970, and was ranked number 190 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
After Presley's 1960 return from military service his manager, Tom Parker, shifted the focus of the singer's career from live music and albums to films and soundtracks.[2] In March 1961, he performed what would become his last live concert for the next eight years: a benefit for the construction of the USS Arizona Memorial at Boch Arena in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.[3] During the first half of the 1960s, three of Presley's soundtrack albums reached number one on the pop charts and a number of his most popular songs were from his films (including 1961's "Can't Help Falling in Love" and 1962's "Return to Sender".[4]
After 1964, Parker decided that Presley should only record soundtrack albums. He viewed the films and soundtracks as complementary, with each helping to promote the other.[5] As it turned out, the commercial success of Presley's films and soundtracks steadily diminished[4] and the singer was increasingly disappointed with the quality of his work.[2] From 1964 to 1968, Presley had just one top-ten hit: "Crying in the Chapel" (1965), a gospel number recorded in 1960. Only one LP of new material by Presley was issued: the gospel album How Great Thou Art (1967), which won him his first Grammy Award in the Best Sacred Performance category.[4]
In 1968, Colonel Parker arranged a deal with NBC for a Christmas television special starring Presley in front of a live audience. Parker originally planned to have Presley sing Christmas carols only, but producer Steve Binder convinced the singer to perform songs from his original repertoire. The high ratings received by the special and the success of its attendant LP re-established Presley's popularity.[6] During the making of the special, Presley said to Binder: "I'll never sing another song that I don't believe in, I'm never going to make another movie that I don't believe in."[7] As part of his decision to refocus on music rather than film, Presley decided to record a new album.[6]
The singer left his usual musicians and studios (Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California and RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee), recording the new material in Memphis.[8] After the special he approached Scotty Moore and D. J. Fontana, his previous Sun Studios backing players who appeared on the television show. Presley asked Moore about using Music City Recorders in Nashville, but that suggestion never came to fruition.[9]
During a January 1969 meeting at Graceland Presley told his usual producer, Felton Jarvis, that he did not want to record his next album at RCA Studios. His friends, DJ George Klein and Marty Lacker, suggested that he use American Sound Studio, an up-and-coming studio with which Lacker was involved.[9] RCA then contacted producer Chips Moman, head of American Sound. Moman was willing to work with Presley, and postponed a session with Neil Diamond after being asked to produce the sessions with Felton Jarvis as second producer.[10] It was agreed that Presley's recordings would take ten days and cost $25,000.[11] He would be backed by the studio's house band, the 827 Thomas Street Band (informally known as "The Memphis Boys"),[12] composed of Reggie Young on guitar, Tommy Cogbill and Mike Leech on bass, Gene Chrisman on drums, Bobby Wood on piano and Bobby Emmons on organ.[13]
Although RCA Records oversaw their company policy to record only on their own studios, the label sent their personnel out to American Sound.[14] Recording began on February 13, 1969, when Presley arrived at the studio nursing a cold.[15] In addition to his entourage, he was accompanied by Hill & Range publisher Freddy Bienstock; Colonel Parker's assistant Tom Diskin, and Felton Jarvis, executive Harry Jenkins and engineer Al Pachucki representing RCA Records. With Pachucki on the board, American Sound engineer Ed Kollis joined the musicians on harmonica.[16] The session, which produced recordings of "Long Black Limousine", "Wearin' That Loved On Look" and several non-album songs, continued until 5:00 am.[17] After the first day's recording Moman and his colleagues expressed discomfort with the size of Presley's entourage, and the singer was accompanied by fewer people for the remaining sessions.[10]
The next day Presley recorded "I'm Moving On" and "Gentle on My Mind", leaving the studio while working on the latter to rest his throat.[18] The following night, he did not appear; his cold had become worse,[17] and on January 15 and 16 the house band recorded backing tracks for subsequent sessions. Presley returned on January 20, recording "In the Ghetto" in 23 takes and finishing the vocal track of "Gentle on My Mind". On January 22, he recorded Eddy Arnold's "I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)" and the non-album single "Suspicious Minds".[19] Presley then took a break from recording for a vacation trip to Aspen, Colorado to celebrate his daughter Lisa Marie's first birthday.[18]
During the singer's absence Moman was approached by Bienstock, who was concerned about possible future disputes concerning the songs' publication. Moman and Presley had decided not to record Hill & Range compositions, instead using songs by American Sound writers. Bienstock, particularly interested in the non-album "Suspicious Minds" and "Mama Liked the Roses", warned that Moman would have to surrender the publishing rights to release the songs. In response, Moman told Bienstock to take all the recordings and leave the studio.[20] RCA vice-president Harry Jenkins interceded, siding with Moman and ordering Bienstock to stay away from the studio and let Presley work with the staff.[10] Meanwhile, Tom Diskin informed Presley about the publishing issues. Presley supported Moman, assuring Diskin that he and the producer would handle the session work. Diskin contacted Tom Parker, who told him to return to California.[21] Moman retained the publishing rights, and the sessions were scheduled to resume several weeks later.[22]
Presley returned on February 17, recording "True Love Travels on a Gravel Road" and "Power of My Love", Eddy Arnold's "After Loving You" and "Do You Know Who I Am?" the following day.[23] On February 19 the singer devoted most of the session to the non-album single "Kentucky Rain", one of the few Hill & Range songs used on the American Sound recordings. Presley followed with a recording of "Only The Strong Survive", a hit for Jerry Butler the previous year, which took twenty-nine takes.[24] On February 20, he recorded Johnny Tillotson's "It Keeps Right on a Hurtin'" in three takes and "Any Day Now" in six.[25] Presley's final session was on February 22, when he recorded vocal overdubs for "True Love Travels on a Gravel Road" and "Power of My Love" and vocals for several non-album cuts.[26] The following month, Mike Leech and Green Spreen began work on the string and horn overdubs to finish the album;[27] several brass overdubs were recorded by The Memphis Horns.[28]
Moving away from the usual Presley pop recordings aimed at an established audience, Moman (a developer of the Stax Records sound), incorporated a Memphis sound integrating soul, country, gospel and rural and electric blues.[29] Many arrangements lean heavily on the rhythm section, with lesser contributions from strings, brass and woodwinds.[30] Arrangers Green Spreen and Mike Leech changed Presley's image on the tracks with the addition of violas, cellos and French horns. The arrangers intended to blend the tracks for a distinctive sound; the strings are used in counterpoint, rising when the track fades and vice versa.[31] The violas play the same lines as the French horns, with cello used for darker tones. Syncopation was incorporated by bowing.[27]
The twelve tracks on the album were selected from thirty-one which were recorded in the American Sound sessions.[34] The first song, "Wearin' That Loved On Look" features an electric-bass lead for the first time in a Presley recording. The second is "Only the Strong Survive", with Presley backed by bass and drums. He plays piano on the third track, the country song "I Hold You in My Heart ('Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)".[35] Presley's voice is roughened by a cold on the fourth song, the country-rhythm-and-blues "Long Black Limousine"[27] featuring a trumpet solo.[30] The fifth song, Johnny Tillotson's traditional country-western "It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin'", was arranged to sound more like Memphis soul. Side one ends with a version of Hank Snow's country-western "I'm Moving On" with a strong bass line and driving rhythm.[30]
Side two begins with Florence Kaye and Bernie Baum's "Power of My Love".[36] The song has a bluesy sound, with Presley backed by a brass section, drums and electric guitar and organ.[30] The lyrics include double entendres, with groans by backing female singers emphasizing sexuality.[36] A cover of John Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind" follows Glen Campbell's 1967 Grammy-winning, string-laden arrangement. The next song, Eddy Arnold's 1962 hit "After Loving You", is arranged in a 12/8 tempo rhythm-and-blues style. Dallas Frazier's "True Love Travels on a Gravel Road" and Chuck Jackson's 1962 hit, "Any Day Now", follow.[37]
The twelfth and final song of the album, selected as a single, is Mac Davis' "In The Ghetto".[37] The song was chosen by Billy Strange, who had previously picked material for other Presley sessions.[38] The protest song denounces the consequences of poverty, with compassion for inner-city youth. Because of "In the Ghetto"'s lyrics, controversial for its time, Presley originally did not plan to record the song because he thought it might alienate fans. After Moman said he might give the song to Rosey Grier, Presley's friends Joe Esposito and George Klein (initially opposed to "In the Ghetto"), convinced the singer to record it.[39]
The album cover is a still from the "Trouble"-"Guitar Man" production number of NBC's Elvis special. Presley is featured with a red electric guitar, wearing a black leather suit with a red scarf around his neck, with silhouettes of guitar players at the back of the set.[40][41] From Elvis in Memphis became one of American Sound Studio's best-known productions, with Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis;[42] both albums reflected similar times and musical trends on the Memphis scene.[29]
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The single "In the Ghetto" was released on April 15, with 300,000 copies shipped by RCA. In its second week after release it entered the charts, where it remained for thirteen weeks (reaching number three on June 14).[27] Selling a million copies in the United States, the single reached number two on the British Singles chart.[43] However, its success triggered a confrontation between RCA and American Sound. During the sessions Presley's usual producer, Felton Jarvis, grew increasingly worried about losing control of Presley and his recordings.[26] During its first two weeks on the chart, "In the Ghetto"'s production was credited to Felton Jarvis. Lacker then called Billboard and had them correct the producer credit to Chips Moman. During the fourth week, Tom Parker asked Billboard to remove the production credit from the song's entry entirely (arguing that Presley's records did not traditionally list a producer credit).[27]
When the album was due for release Parker arranged a deal with Kirk Kerkorian, owner of the Las Vegas International Hotel. Presley signed to play the newly-built, 2,000-seat showroom for four weeks (two shows per night, with Mondays off) for $400,000. His initial Las Vegas show attracted an audience of 101,500, setting a new Vegas performance record. [44]
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From Elvis in Memphis was released in June 1969. The album topped the UK Albums Chart and reached number thirteen on the Billboard 200,[51] ranking number seventeen on Billboard's Top Country albums of 1969.[52] By January 28, 1970, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America after selling over 500,000 copies.[53]
On July 12, 1969 Presley was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone, with the album receiving the lead review:[54] "The ... album (was) great ... Flatly and unequivocally the equal of anything (Presley) has ever done", praising the "evident passion which (Presley) has invested in this music" and saying, "(he) is trying, and trying very hard, to please us. he needs to have our attention ... It is his involvement after all which comes as the surprise."[45] Billboard also published a positive review: "(Presley) never sounded better, and the choice of material is perfect".[46] High Fidelity wrote, "Elvis has been through a number of stages, and his latest is the best".[47]
From Elvis in Memphis was also praised in later reviews. In 2009 Rolling Stone gave the album four-and-a-half stars out of five, describing it as "extraordinary". The magazine attributed the sessions' success to Presley's "newfound maturity and soulfulness" and Moman's "warm, distinctly Southern musical backing".[55] Allmusic gave it five stars out of five, as an "Allmusic album pick". Critic Bruce Eder said that with 1956's Elvis Presley, From Elvis in Memphis was the singer's "greatest album". Eder called it "one of the greatest white soul albums (and one of the greatest soul albums) ever cut" and said that Presley had been "rejuvenated artistically (while) he's supported by the best playing and backup singing of his entire recording history."[48]
PopMatters gave the album nine points out of ten, describing it as "some of the best music Elvis Presley ever made".[49] Sputnik Music gave the album five points out of five, saying it "rivaled" Presley's early recordings in "terms of historical importance and innovation" and was "downright essential, for any Elvis fan and for any music fan".[50]
In 2000 RCA released a remastered compact disc of From Elvis in Memphis, including six bonus tracks (released as A- or B-sides) recorded with the album. The reissue received five stars out of five from Rolling Stone.[56] "Don't Cry Daddy" and "Kentucky Rain" were minor hits in 1970, but "Suspicious Minds" became one of Presley's signature songs and was the final chart-topper of his career.[57] In 2003, the album was number 190 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[58] In 2009, Sony Music Entertainment issued a Legacy RCA Edition of the album for its 40th anniversary:[59] two discs (From Elvis In Memphis and the studio disk of From Memphis To Vegas/From Vegas To Memphis), four outtakes and ten tracks originally released as monaural singles (including "Suspicious Minds" and "Kentucky Rain").[60]
Track listings[edit]
Original release[edit]
|Side one
|Recording date
|"Wearin' That Loved On Look"
|Dallas Frazier, A.L. Owens
|January 13, 1969
|"Only the Strong Survive"
|Jerry Butler, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff
|February 19, 1969
|"I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)"
|Eddy Arnold, Thomas Dilbeck, Vaughan Horton
|January 22, 1969
|"Long Black Limousine"
|Bobby George, Vern Stovall
|January 13, 1969
|"It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'"
|Johnny Tillotson
|February 20, 1969
|"I'm Movin' On"
|Hank Snow
|January 14, 1969
|Side two
|Recording date
|"Power of My Love"
|Bernie Baum, Bill Giant, Florence Kaye
|February 18, 1969
|"Gentle on My Mind"
|John Hartford
|January 14, 1969
|"After Loving You"
|Janet Lantz, Eddie Miller
|February 18, 1969
|"True Love Travels on a Gravel Road"
|Dallas Frazier, A.L. Owens
|February 17, 1969
|"Any Day Now"
|Burt Bacharach, Bob Hilliard
|February 20, 1969
|"In the Ghetto"
|Mac Davis
|January 20, 1969
1998 CD reissue[edit]
|Track 1-12 were from the original release
|Recording date
|"The Fair Is Moving On"
|Guy Fletcher, Doug Flett
|February 21, 1969
|"Suspicious Minds"
|Mark James
|January 22, 1969
|"You'll Think of Me"
|Mort Shuman
|January 14, 1969
|"Don't Cry Daddy"
|Mac Davis
|January 15, 1969
|"Kentucky Rain"
|Eddie Rabbitt, Dick Heard
|February 19, 1969
|"Mama Liked the Roses"
|John Christopher
|January 15, 1969
2009 CD reissue[edit]
|Australian Albums Chart[61]
|Canadian Top 50 Albums[62]
|French Top Albums[63]
|German Albums Chart[64]
|Netherlands Top 100 Albums[65]
|Norwegian Top 40 Albums[66]
|UK Albums Chart[67]
|US Billboard 200[68]
|US Country Albums[68]
|Belgium (Wallonia) 100 Albums[69]
|US Top Pop Catalog Albums[70]
|Preceded by
Stand Up by Jethro Tull
|UK Albums Chart number-one album
30 August 1969 – 6 September 1969
|Succeeded by
Stand Up by Jethro Tull
Release history[edit]
|North America
|June 1969
|RCA Victor
|stereo LP
|Stereo 8
|United Kingdom
|June 1969
|RCA Victor
|stereo LP
|North America
|December 1970
|RCA Victor
|Quadraphonic 8-track
|May 16, 2000
|RCA Records
|07863 67932 2
|Worldwide reissue
|July 28, 2009
|RCA Records/Legacy Recordings
|double CD
|88697 51497 2
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"Winning the Future," the Newt Gingrich-allied Super PAC, has posted a YouTube version of its 28-minute documentary on Mitt Romney's tenure as a venture capitalist, dubbed, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town." See it here:
The Washington Post's Factchecker blog has a thorough analysis of the video — and awards Gingrich a rating of four Pinnochios for the effort:
Romney may have opened the door to this kind of attack with his suspect job-creation claims, but that is no excuse for this highly misleading portrayal of Romney's years at Bain Capital. Only one of the four case studies directly involves Romney and his decision-making, while at least two are completely off point.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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January 12th, 2012
10:11 pm
It could be 10 minutes long and do the job of exposing.
January 12th, 2012
10:20 pm
"See it here" says the Democrat huckster.
January 12th, 2012
10:21 pm
The election cycle is to the media what Christmas is to retailers. It doesn't do much for the rest of us though.
January 12th, 2012
10:24 pm
x2 patrick
January 12th, 2012
10:28 pm
The Ron Paul movie on Newt is much better. "Serial Hypocrisy". See it on you tube.
January 12th, 2012
10:32 pm
Mitt Romney is the face of the 1%. He has shown his true colors.
He represents the 400 riches americans. And has vowed to cut their taxes.
He DOES NOT represent the 150 million poor people. And he will raise their taxes.
Republicans be careful what you wish for.
January 12th, 2012
10:38 pm
Do you not realize that our entire political process is in the same genre as pro wrasslin? It is a theatrical performance. The politicians are the wrasslers -"Gorgeous" Mitt, "Stone Cold" Newton vs. "The Rock" Barack…
January 12th, 2012
11:00 pm
patrick r. cleburne
January 12th, 2012
10:38 pm
"The Rock" Barack"
You have to do better on this one. Obama could not hold the Rocks jock strap and the Rock would talk him under the table.
January 12th, 2012
11:16 pm
Interesting. Do you have a link for that Ted?
January 12th, 2012
11:35 pm
'Winning the Future', a concept Nut Getrich can forget about entirely.
January 12th, 2012
11:42 pm
Newt Gingrich has attended the SFO Bohemian Grove, look it up.
January 12th, 2012
11:57 pm
Some will be genuinely surprised when Obama wins re-election this year.
The GOP are acting like Democrats in days of old, eating their own and doing their opponents work for them.
January 13th, 2012
12:54 am
B. Thenet…you got it. All you have to do to a republican is let them be. They will destroy themselves from within. Crabs in a barrel and have conned some of the 99% into believing they are going to look out for them. Now in this case no one will nor should be suprised when President Obama gets to do another four years. Once again as I have before in other blogs, welcomed the repubs to spell out what the President has done to make you hate him so much. Here are your choices…
A) He's too intelligent and makes republican colleagues look stupid.
B) I'll be honest, I just can't stand a black man sitting in that office.
"Who ya wit??" Obama 2012!!!
January 13th, 2012
1:22 am
The repubs are horrified because getrich is exposing the true nature of unbridled, unregulated vulture capitalism in a way the 'Occupy' movement could only hope to. This is the party that says you are an immoral, no account, slacker, dead beat if you can;t pay your mortgage. They 'reformed' the bankruptcy laws to make it damn near impossible for a working man to declare bankruptcy when they have lost their job and accumulated astronomical credit card debt to simply survive. Yet romney is being defended and his vulture tactics praised by the republicans; this man who raided companies, cashed them out, gave golden parachutes to the executives, then renounced the pensions and other benefits due the blue collar workers, leaving then with nothing, or else sticking us with the tab for their pensions, through the government backed pension insurance fund. This epitomizes the republican mind set: let the middle class, working class pay the debts and call them free loaders when they protest, and praise the rich for being "good capitalists, good Americans" when they scam us into assuming their debts.
January 13th, 2012
1:46 am
Auntie Christ You said it so well.Yes the buzzards are circleing.
January 13th, 2012
3:05 am
This video is a heat-seeking missile aimed at especially rural folks in the south to expose the fraud that Romney is, and it will take its toll on him.
Romney is not a true conservative. He will say and do anything to get ahead in the polls. In Mass., he boasted about not being too conservative like some of the "other" Republicans. He bragged about being a moderate Republican, but now he is claiming to be a staunch conservative.
Newtie is doing a heck of a job. At a certain point, most of the South will see Romney for the RINO that he is and also never forget that "for tens of millions of Americans, the suffering began when Mitt Romney came to town."
He also contradicts himself and then when challenged by a reporter, he gets testy. Watch the funny flopper. Nominate him and the media will have fun:
January 13th, 2012
3:12 am
I hope that Obama remembers whow his friends were when he starts his second term and that there are good positions for Perry (Palin With a Penis) and Newt the Baggage Man in his cabinet or in the White House or perhaps in some other nice cushy administration role. Here we have a male nitwit who never had a chance from the day he declared, and a petulant, angry bomb thrower not happy that he lost the cat bird seat so quickly after his Fannie Mae shenanigans came to light in Iowa and is not getting his way. Another 4 years of Obama will be a disaster, but ego and hubris need attention and nurturing, and Perry and Newt are just nurturing guys. When this is all over an Obama is back for 4 more years, we will be able to think so fondly of Newt and Rick and St. Santorum, and how they helped to make it possible.
January 13th, 2012
4:06 am
Great video, Newt! You just saved the Obama campaign at least ten million in advertising!
Well over a year ago I predicted that the religious bigots and crazy people who long ago hijacked the "the party of Abraham Lincoln" would never nominate Mormon Mitt Romney. "David Duke will be named head of the NAACP before that ever happens" I speculated at the time. It appears that I might be forced to eat a healthy dish of crow on the occasion of Mitt's victory in the New Hampshire Primary on Tuesday night. This is not to imply that the half-witted "base" of that party are happy about what happened on Tuesday . Anything but. Let me put it to you this way: The Republicans just got the news that they're pregnant and they're trying to fall in love as rapidly as possible.
Assuming he will be the 2012 nominee, Romney has a few hurdles to overcome. Let's face some uncomfortable facts here, campers. Even his own people can't stand him. He doesn't come off as the most sincere guy – and that's being generous. In fact he's the most superficial candidate who ever sought the office. He reminds some people of the host of some lame, 1970's game show. He's not likely to inspire "the base" to show up at the polls en masse. Not only is his religion a hindrance, but there's also the fact that this former governor of "Taxachusetts" is seen by these knuckleheads as the worst kind of bleeding heart liberal. Isn't that a hoot? And you wonder why I get such a kick out of politics.
Tom Degan
January 13th, 2012
5:00 am
There is ONLY one BIG DOG in this fight for freedom and liberty!
Wake up Sheeple, your All American Father Son Dream Ticket is ready!
January 13th, 2012
6:36 am
In some ways I appreciate Mitt Romney. Many of those "workers" who lost their jobs needed to be let go. The group of 7 or 8 woman (mostly white and in their early 30s) I see in the parking deck who take smoke breaks every 2 hours have no ideal how unproductive they are. They feel that they are part of the protected class who think that they are entitled to a job and are supposed to keep it whether they perform or not.
January 13th, 2012
6:39 am
@BitterEXdemocrakkk – Okay, okay; but what if I don't want to return to the 19th century?
January 13th, 2012
6:55 am
Romney is awful; Newt is just as bad. Newt flip-flops, too: This woman, that woman? And he is just as much of a user and elitist.
January 13th, 2012
7:27 am
not sure what you mean there Ol'timer…did you take your gingko biloba today? Ron Paul defends the Constitution and the Founding Fathers, prior TO the 19th Century. duh.
January 13th, 2012
7:54 am
There was a piece on NPR this morning about a 'conservative' gathering to determine the candidate who is 'most conservative' that the 'conservatives' can rally round.
There are not enough voter left in this country concerned with who is 'most conservative'
Those remaining voters who do consider themselves 'conservative' are too dense to ferret out a candidate who shares whatever views fit that mold.
The ground identifying just what 'conservative' means has shifted under the 'leaders' feet while they were busy raking in the lobbying money.
By the way, anyone who has been watching has heard the clown car candidates bellowing 'I am most conservative' for months. Notice that it hasn't been generating any votes?
January 13th, 2012
7:54 am
Mr. Gingrich has a record of duplicity & deceit that defies belief. Claims by his cronies are just more water under the bridge.
January 13th, 2012
7:58 am
Will the electorate be voting for something or against something?
Problem with Paul is he is attempting to do a white knight with a lot of mud on his boots where he perpetuated the issues he seeks to fix.
His son returned 16% of his office budget; if only the father had done something similar, like not earmarking all those spending bills he voted against.
Paul is the political equivalent of Jimmy Swaggart, leading a flock from the Sodom and Gomorrah where he was running the brothel…
January 13th, 2012
8:39 am
Listen, the truth of the matter is, Newt couldn't win the governor's office here in Georgia. We all know that. He's a twice divorced loser who's lied about his divorce, lied about his finances, lied about campaign contributions and has taken millions from Fannie & Freddie–two intsitutions who got us in the housing crisis in the first place. As a congressman he destroyed thousands of jobs in Georiga when he helped destroy Eastern Airlines. It was so bad, the GOP knew he couldn't get re-elected in the south Atlanta area, so they carved him another district in west Georgia. He's hot tempered and ill-suited to be President. That's why he doesn't have ONE sitting congressman or senator supporting him. Do us all a favor, Newt, get out of the race and keep your mouth shut.
January 13th, 2012
10:36 am
Not only that Garth, but he also exhibits European, anti-American, secular anti-Judeo Christian behavior. His behavior is that of recent European socialist Prime Ministers who attempt to govern by a culture of personality at the same time moonlighting as a worldly playboy.
January 13th, 2012
11:09 am
Mehlman which would you say has cost the employer most? Smoking breaks or cell phone use? just asking.
January 13th, 2012
11:19 am
double @ 11:09 am:
I would guess smoking due to loss in productivity and increased insurance premiums.
January 13th, 2012
11:51 am
[...] not venture capitalism. A so-called Super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich produced a 28-minute video titled "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" about a company in South Carolina — the [...]