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Of all the songs that you will listen to
on this truly luminous TLB Prime Network blog
none is as flamboyant and true
as Patti Smith's People Have The Power
- number 88 on the playlist above -  👩 (so sorry, Patty!) ⧬
for it truly fleshes out and embodies
all that being *unruly* truly should be  and what "barbarism LP style"
is aaaaaaaall about!  (There's only some 80 tunes that jump to mind before yours...?!?)  (UPDATE: blocked on copyright grounds!!!  Scroll down to the bottom of the playlist - for the vevo!) Viva A Revolução! #PEACEFULREVOLT A Revolução... Luminous Style!
;-)


I was dreaming in my dreaming of an aspect bright and fair

And then my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near

In the form of shining valleys
where the pure air recognized

And my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry -
That the people have the power to redeem the work of fools

Upon the meek the graces shower
it's decreed
the people rule.

The people have the power
 people have the power

The people have the power
people have the power.

Vengeful aspects became suspect and bending low as if to hear

And the armies ceased advancing because the people had their ear.
And the shepherds and the soldiers lay beneath the stars

Exchanging visions and laying arms to waste in the dust

In the form of shining valleys where the pure air recognized

And my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry -

The people have the power
people have the power

The people have the power
 people have the power.
(...)
The power to dream
to rule
to wrestle the world from fools

It's decreed
the people rule
it's decreed
the people rule.
Listen: I believe
everything we dream can come to pass
through our union

We can tun the world around
we can turn the earths revolution.
We have the power
the people have the power

The people have the power
the people have the power.
The power to dream
to rule
to wrestle us from fools

It's decreed the people rule. It is decreed the people rule!
We have the power
we have the power

The people have the power
we have the power.

Read more: PATTY SMITH - PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER LYRICS
Copied from MetroLyrics.com  Edited by Luminous - because it badly needed to be! 




Awaken The Tiger Within Yourselves!
É Sempre Por O Melhor
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Some foulmouths (endowed with forked tongues, most probably - but that's another story - and dilemma) have dared say that husky-voiced newcomer Lana Del Rey fumbled or outright dropped the ball when she performed live on SNL recently (er, it has to be live - it's SNL; which stands for Saturday Night Live, for you non-Americans. Lucky you.)

She didn't look that nervous - as much as she looked like a new Dalida or a new Juice Newton.

She didn't sound that terrible - as much as she sounded like a new Kate Bush, a new Nena.

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A gifted boy child who was hampered in his progress; an angelic face that was, most likely, the target of jealousy from many other parties that he encountered through his formative period and onwards... A tragic case of unfulfilled potential - or, at least, untapped to its fullest. This is what André Mathieu has been described as - and most of it is undeniably true. Most of it hits a personal chord with so many of us, too...





While it is true that his works remain, and that his genius is recognized enough, now, so that his name is renowned and better known presently than it was when he was an adult composer struggling to shed his image of "one-time child genius" which equated, basically, to being described as a lucky brat that never really paid his dues... Even if it is true that a famed-enough concert hall bears his name (in my old hometown of Laval) and that everyone has, therefore, heard his name at one time or another - nothing can erase the fact that when he needed it the most, be it fame, recognition or quite simply a helping hand, he did not get it. And for that the entire artistic community in his old stomping grounds can be forever bitterly ashamed as they are totally responsible.




Some, like that illustrious radio-host with the remarkable laughter and recognizable white beard (or vice-versa) or past loves, who knew him and therefore know all the facts, have said that André Mathieu became such a tragic story due to his own "inhibition of action" - that he tried, but could not make a truly progressive move towards full realization of his tremendous potential. Others, more idealistic or simply fatalistic, see in all this just a sign that, ultimately, IT WASN'T MEANT TO BE... André was not, after all, Amadeus - at best, other composers have said, he was their Gershwin. Which is already a lot and should have been recognized much sooner than that - while André Mathieu still lived.





Ultimately, perhaps one could see here confirmation of my own theory - my theory of names. Everyone named alike shares a similar fate, is either equally miserable or equally fortunate in life. Just in that grimy town of Montreal alone, where Andrés abound, we can see a pattern developing with the tragic stories of several rebel hearts such as André "Dédé" Fortin of Les Colocs fame (a totally different kind of musician) as well as the iconic Frère André and frequent visitor André The Giant (although, to be fair and honest, both were originally named differently - to their own detriment, they adopted the name André for two completely different reasons as well - and along with that came the heartache associated with it. But those are other stories, for other blogs... Mathieu shall suffice for the tragic quota this time out - agreed?)





André Mathieu is now hailed as the Child Prodigy of Québec - as the movie based upon his life story is entitled "L'Enfant Prodige" indeed.

Truth is, his detractors, whether they are around to say it or not, would still dub it the "Privileged Child" - as in the child that was born to a composer who molded him in his image very early on, surrounded him with the appropriate toys for the objective that was set (a piano and musical sheets instead of Tonka trucks and action figures) and proceeded, with draconian discipline, to make the boy's life a living hell from the tender age of five years-old...
Despite all that, he grew up to become a rather brutal, rough-around-the-edges, anything-but-mild-mannered misfit of a musician; truly paradoxically. He was prone to drink too much and womanize - not at all what he needed to be in order to be acclaimed and proclaimed as the genius composer that he was supposed to be.
Me, I see a lot of Tchaikovsky in him too; thankfully without certain particular traits... Rebellious, rampageous and even obnoxious at times, the boisterous André was doomed to be ostracized from the very get-go...
And he didn't even have to lose his boyhood looks in order to be set on that devastating path either...




Rest in Peace, André Mathieu
May you play your melancholic music in a place of Light, not of darkness...

Until the Day of Reckoning
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After Eddy Grant... Eddie Murray... LUCIANO... several NFL support players (and wrestling fans could even say, also, Ahmed Johnson, Mr. Hughes and Mark Henry...! And "R-Truth"...!) here comes...

Labels: Luminous pundit moi, music, YouTube

Only a luminous barbarian would link these two up - in the way that follows, too... surely?  READ ON...


Samantha Fox wants to wed her longtime girlfriend,  ladylove and paramour Myra Stratton -  and it has to evoke the doomed marriage of one  Sharon Tate and Roman the Fearless Vampire Killer  - for some reason ?!?

Okay - maybe I am extrapolating just a tiny wee bit here - but still the facts are that they want to do it IN THE COLD WEATHER (not that - THAT they've done all over the place, all over the globe, in every climate and season, I am sure!)

Aye - they dream of a SIBERIAN WEDDING...



That bit of odd news immediately made me think of the famous final scene of 1967's Fearless Vampire Killers movie - in which Sharon Tate, the damsel seemingly rescued by the (very) flawed hero portrayed by the film's director himself (Roman Polanski) reveals to be a bloodsucker too, in the snowy night while they flee purportedly to safety; and that is when she BITES HIM...!

Samantha only has the blondness of her hair that compares with Sharon - and Myra is no Vampira. But still... Siberian nuptials - what else does it evoke but THAT...?!?




(What makes it all the more eerie and spooky, all the while resonant with significance too, is that this became a very doomed marriage in real life too; she was the most famous victim of the sickening Manson Family murders and her blood was shed while she was pregnant. The woman who did crazed Charles Manson's bidding on that horrible night of 1969 showed no mercy - and actually felt proud to have killed both mother and son, effectively aborting the child in the most horrendous way imaginable. And that monstrous chap, Manson, lives to this day... But that is another story.)



Back to the 1967 classic FVK film then; although the movie ends there, one can imagine what happens next: once bitten by the vampiress, the virus spreads like wildfire through his system and he turns on his mentor (so brillantly played by Jack MacGowran) and certainly slays him without mercy too. Then, after turning on his best friend for this bloody bloodsucking harlot, he becomes just like her - a fierce bloodsucker without scruples (not a harlot!)




And, as the off-screen voice concludes at the end of the epic film, with a beautifully striking (as it is mysteriously mindnumbing too) snowy mountain backdrop, the couple of night creatures will spread that nefarious "disease" throughout Europe...




That sort of wedding night that you want to have, ladies? Go right ahead then - I'll skip the bachelorette party, I think! ⧬⧬


NOTA BENE:
As it is, the saddest of anniversaries was TWO DAYS AGO: on the ninth of August... It marked 40 years that Sharon Tate's and her unborn baby's gruesome deaths occurred. And a mere 48 hours later, I notice this rather trivial bit of news (nowadays, it is) about Fox and her Myra - and it makes me think of FVK instead... and the Lady Tate.

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Great songstress Nazanin Afshin-Jam - click here to see her page on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - is incomparable in so many ways... She is a beautiful soul.

For her efforts in helping save Nazanin Fatehi, Nazanin Afshin-Jam was awarded the “hero for human rights award” from Youth For Human Rights International ...

She has done much more than save her namesake from an oppressive society, too; she has championed the cause far and beyond her call of duty, so to speak - to the detriment of her career, some will say. You don't see singers devote themselves to justice like this - anywhere. But she has done it  - and continues to do it. It is so admirable. It is such a selfless act, verily.

She must be very popular amongst islamic circles too... hmm?  ⼥ More power to you Nazanin!

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I predict...!
That MJ will be making a comeback
(in London or some other European town - it is always better than any Arab country, even though it is likely the only place in the world where his weirdness is overlooked in favor of pure enjoyment of his music - but I am digressing...!)

And so, if he is making a comeback
I sure as hell will freeze over
can use his music too...!

You KNOW I'm bad, anyway...
You know, you know...!
You know it, I know...!

Whatever...!

I'm bad at busting up ghosts,
that is for damn sure!

...

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Her real name is Lisa Marie Varon - and, up until the January 17th, 2009 edition of SMACKDOWN, she had been at the employ of Titan Sports for the better part of the last two decades I do believe (sorry if it ages thee, Lisa Marie!)

She saw it all - and beat them all. Although she also "put over" the likes of scrawny'n'bitchy Trish Stratus, fitness models who had no real business wrestling in the first place (that would describe former WCW pretty face Torrie Wilson to a... well, T, assuredly!) and other Michelle-McCool-type-of-chicks who prove to be nothing more than FADS, more often than not, especially AFTER some of them have posed nude for Playboy; but I am digressing again!

One can only be crestfallen to learn that Victoria is retiring already. She was tougher than the late, great Sherri Martel, meaner than the late, great Nancy Elizabeth Toffoloni Daus (WCW's "Woman" of Horsemen fame) and a much greater in-ring performer than Sable aka Rena Mero aka Mrs. Brock Lesnar... Lisa Marie, as Victoria, had her place in wrestling much moreso than even an Elizabeth Ann Hulette ever did; because she COMPETED and is a natural athlete, not just a cheerleader of sorts. Amazingly, WCW passed an opportunity to hire her early on - while the same WCW hired "Miss Elizabeth" based upon her WWF/WWE tenure and notoriety, Wendy Barlow to portray Ric Flair's French maid "Fifi" and the execrable Debra based upon... the fact that she was married to a Horseman, really! Incredible...

Victoria, with cronie Steven Richards by her side, had a tremendously good run as Women's Champion - a run during which she proved without a shadow of a doubt that she was head and shoulders above the usual chosen champions (Stratus, Candice Michelle, Maria, Sable, Madusa Miceli aka "Alundra Blayze" - sheesh, Ashley Massaro, Lita, Chyna/Joanie Laurer, maybe even Miss Mona/Holly Molly, Mickie James, Wendi Richter and even, assuredly, the overrated Glamazon, Beth Phoenix...) and that newcomers had to rely on treachery to be able to compete with her - such as Brie Bella's swapping places with her identical twin sister Nikki in order to get by a singles match with the HBIC - the Black Widow - the Vicious Vixen herself... Victoria! No "glamazon" amalgamation/abomination can compare to THAT...!
(Side note of very funny proportions: when you google up "glamazon" you stand greater chances of finding this rather than this! *LOL*)

Whereas someone like Miss Hancock/Stacy Keibler (also a retired-too-early star) has great LEGS, Victoria/Lisa Marie Baron was and remains the female total package - from top to bottom, as amply evidenced by these shots right here:

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LES REGRETS

"J'ai perdu mon allégresse
sur des bateaux de conquête
J'ai perdu par leur vitesse
quelque chose que, dans mon coeur, je regrette"
"Je voudrais que tout revienne
alors que tout est passé..."


FOULE SENTIMENTALE

More lyrics:  Il se dégage
De ces cartons d'emballage
Des gens lavés, hors d'usage
Et tristes et sans aucun avantage
On nous inflige
Des désirs qui nous affligent
On nous prend faut pas déconner dès qu'on est né
Pour des cons alors qu'on est Des
Foule sentimentale
On a soif d'idéal
Attirée par les étoiles, les voiles
Que des choses pas commerciales
Foule sentimentale
Il faut voir comme on nous parle
Comme on nous parle
On nous Claudia Schieffer
On nous Paul-Loup Sulitzer
Oh le mal qu'on peut nous faire
Et qui ravagea la moukère
Du ciel dévale
Un désir qui nous emballe
Pour demain nos enfants pâles
Un mieux, un rêve, un cheval



SOUS LES JUPES DES FILLES

Commentaire externe no.2:
Savoir parler aussi bien de ces terribles choses qui empoisonnent nos existences.
Quel talent ! Quelle élégance !
Merci Alain Souchon.
Salut les filles; vous avez de beaux yeux ; )

PUTAIN ÇA PENCHE

This version of "Alain Souchon - Putain ça penche"
is the very punchy Junios Caldera Remix!

Commentaire externe: Oh la la la vie en rose
Le rose qu'on nous propose
D'avoir des quantités de chose
Qui donnent envie d'autre chose
Aie on nous fait croire
Que le bonheur c'est d'avoir
De l'avoir plein nos armoires
Dérisions de nous dérisoires car



Me, I'm still awed that Souchon got the classy
Inès de la Fressange,
renowned French model of uber-elegance level,
to participate in the videoclip
of a song that mocks the fashion business!
(She is the one who is dressing Souchon in the video -
she is a good actress too - wow, du talent pour tout, quoi!)
My opinion of Mme. de la Fressange is through the roof now -
maybe she really is "un (fress) ange", eh? ;) Et quand à Alain, lui - il ne vaut rien - comme il le dit si bien!  *RIRES*  En fait... il vaut bien plus que l'autre Alain (Bashung)  et des myriades d'autres artistes... SOUCHON:  TOP MEC! 

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