Big Sur is a sparsely populated region of the Central Coast of California where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. The name "Big Sur" is derived from the original Spanish-language "el sur grande", meaning "the big south", or from "el país grande del sur", "the big country of the south". The terrain offers stunning views, making Big Sur a popular tourist destination. Big Sur's Cone Peak is the highest coastal mountain in the contiguous 48 states, ascending nearly a mile (5,155 feet/1571 m) above sea level, only three miles (4.8 km) from the ocean.
Although Big Sur has no specific boundaries, many definitions of the area include the 90 miles (140 km) of coastline from the Carmel River south to the San Carpoforo Creek, and extend about 20 miles (32 km) inland to the eastern foothills of the Santa Lucias. Other sources limit the eastern border to the coastal flanks of these mountains, only three to 12 miles (19 km) inland. Another practical definition of the region is the segment of California State Route 1 between San Simeon and Carmel.
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination. Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a teenager recorded two dance-pop albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time, under MCA Records Canada.
Her first international album was the rock-influenced Jagged Little Pill, released in 1995. Jagged has sold more than 33 million units globally. Her following album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, was released in 1998 and was a success as well. Morissette took up producing duties for her subsequent albums, which include Under Rug Swept, So-Called Chaos and Flavors of Entanglement. Morissette has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide. Morissette is also known for her powerful and emotive mezzo-soprano voice.
Morissette acquired United States citizenship in 2005.
Morissette was born June 1, 1974 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Georgia Mary Ann (née Feuerstein), a teacher of Hungarian descent, and Alan Richard Morissette, a French-Canadian high school principal. She has a twin brother, Wade Morissette, (also a musician) who was born 12 minutes after her. Morissette was raised Catholic. She attended Glebe Collegiate Institute (Ottawa, Canada) for high school.
Stana Katic (English pronunciation: /ˈstɑːnə ˈkætɨk/; born April 26, 1978) is a Canadian film and television actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Detective Kate Beckett on ABC's Castle.
Katic was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, to a Serbian father and Croatian mother, who both immigrated from Yugoslavia. Her father is from Vrlika, and her mother is from the surrounding area of Sinj. Katic later moved with her family to Aurora, Illinois. She spent the following years moving back and forth between Canada and the United States. After graduating from West Aurora High School in 1996, she studied acting at Chicago's Goodman School of Drama. She has four brothers and one sister.
Katic played the character of Hana Gitelman in Heroes, Collette Stenger in 24 's season 5, and Jenny in the film Feast of Love starring Morgan Freeman. She also played Morgenstern in Frank Miller's film The Spirit, Corrine Veneau in the Bond movie Quantum of Solace (though she was originally up for the role of Strawberry Fields in the film), and Simone Renoir in the third installment of The Librarian franchise, The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice.
William Richard "Bill" Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American guitarist, composer and arranger.
One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more. He is known for using an array of effects to create unique sounds from his instrument.
Frisell was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but spent most of his youth in the Denver, Colorado area. He studied clarinet with Richard Joiner of the Denver Symphony Orchestra as a youth, graduated from Denver East High School, and went to the University of Northern Colorado to study music.
His original guitar teacher in the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area was Dale Bruning, with whom Frisell released the 2000 duo album Reunion. After graduating from Northern Colorado, where he studied with Johnny Smith, Frisell went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied with Jon Damian and Jim Hall.
Frisell's major break came when guitarist Pat Metheny was unable to make a recording session, and recommended Frisell to Paul Motian who was recording Psalm (1982) for ECM Records. Frisell became ECM's in-house guitar player, and worked on several albums, most notably Jan Garbarek's 1981 Paths, Prints. Frisell's first solo release was In Line featured solo guitar and duets with bassist Arild Andersen.
Benjamin "Ben" Gibbard (born August 11, 1976) is an American musician known as a member of several successful indie rock bands. He is the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, and is also known for his project ¡All-Time Quarterback! and his first band, Pinwheel.
Gibbard was born in Bremerton, Washington, where he spent his formative years, during the time of the grunge musical explosion in the early 1990s. He graduated from Olympic High School in 1994. Growing up he was influenced by Elliott Smith, Nirvana, The Stone Roses, Superchunk, Built to Spill, Teenage Fanclub, Pixies, Pavement, Daniel Johnston, Fugazi and Hall & Oates. He also cites Jack Kerouac as a major influence. He studied engineering at Western Washington University. He was raised Roman Catholic and referred to himself as "this indoctrinated Catholic even though I haven't been to church of my own volition in 10 or 15 years now." In a 2003 interview Gibbard stated that while he had previously been a vegan, he had recently become a pescetarian.
Do do do do do do do do do
Cashmere hills filled with evergreens
Flowin' from the clouds down to meet the sea
With the granite cliff
(Big Sur mount)
As a referee
Crimson sunsets and golden dawns
A mother deer with their newborn fawns
All under Big Sur skies
(Big Sur mount)
That's where I belong.
Big Sur I've got plans for you
Me and mine are going to
Add ourselves to your lengthy list of lovers
(Big Sur mount)
And live in canyons covered in springtime green
Wild birds and flowers to be heard and seen
And with my old guitar
I'll make up songs to sing.
Where bubbling springs from the mountainside
Join the Big Sur river to the oceanside
Where the kids can look for sea shells at low tide
Big Sur my astrology it says that I am made to be
Where the rugged mountain meets the water
And so while stars shine brightly from up above
The fog rolls in through a redwood grove
And to my dying fire I think I'll add a log.
From time to time I must go away
The thoughts of Big Sur won't let me stay
Away from Big Sur
Oh Big Sur
Highway One
Crystalline haunted sun
With the Pacific masculine crush
My little one enthralled by the redwoods
As I ride amongst monarchs and myths
Chorus:
Me and Anais and Henry and Jack Kerouac
Me and the Ohlone,the Esselen and Salinan
Me and Julia...Brautigan
All roads lead to Big Sur
All roads home to Big Sur
...celestial and frogs
Frits and cabins of logs
...we are barefoot and warm
Chorus:
Me and Anais and Henry and Jack Kerouac
Me and the Ohlone,the Esselen and Salinan
Me and Julia...Brautigan
All roads lead to Big Sur
All roads home to Big Sur
I am climbing on the bluffs
Beseeching God to answer us
Not much distracts from our...
...heartbeat by the forest
Chorus:
Me and Anais and Henry and Jack Kerouac
Me and the Ohlone,the Esselen and Salinan
Me and Julia...Brautigan
All roads home to Big Sur
Me and Mickey and...
Me and Lolly and Bill watching a red tail hawk
Me and...
All roads lead to Big Sur
Just let the disc play
This is a song to give you hope
I wouldn't have it any other way
This is a song to give you hope
When you say
Honey i'm afraid to sleep at night, sleep at night
Honey i'm afraid to sleep at night, sleep at night
Well, i wish i had my arms around you
This is a song to give hope
Just let this thing surround you
This is a song to give you hope
When you say
Honey i'm afraid to sleep at night, sleep at night
Honey i'm afraid to leave tonight, leave tonight
I said go, go on
Go, go on
I said i, i love you truly
So go, go on
And get jump on the finer things
This is a song to give hope
You never know what the past will bring you
This is a song to give you hope
When you say
Honey i'm afraid to sleep at night, sleep at night
Honey i'm afraid to leave tonight, leave tonight
I said go, go on
Go, go on
I said i, i love you truly
So go, go on
Forty miles south of monterey and the san lucia hills
The sunshine shone me to sleep, and i dreamt i was alive
I sang myself a song, it went, know what you know,
Stay when you stay, and go when you go
And i call it intuition, flowers bloom and hummingbirds fly
Yes, i call it intuition, it gets me by
Sailing on a silver ship out to the open
Lonely and realizing that our friendship's been broken
And the funny thing to me is how quickly it slips away
And leaves you thinking of the things that were never spoken
And you know loving me is not enough
And i know future is as future does
Sailing on a silver ship out to the open
Lonely and realizing that our friendship's been broken
And the funny thing to me is how quickly it slips away
And leaves you longing for the things that were never spoken
And you know loving me is not enough
i would like to say that i think “one day,
we will meet again, and things will be the same”
but it’s this life we live, so will you please forgive
my lack of faith, if i’m wrong go on and say so
we were all filled up with a youthful pride
and we took the ocean with us
but most get swallowed up in the tide
they say it’s all in our best interest
when i lose sight i will return to see the redwoods in big sur
and have my vision restored
sometimes things only rearrange
when we thing they have changed
are those who die just those reborn, or is it something more?
all that golden hair
you left yours everywhere
that’s what reminds me, but what reminds you?
don’t forget why you’re here
it’s just a name my dear
we were all filled up with a youthful glow
and we took the winter with us
but most end up buried under the snow
i pray our youthful glows will warm us
when i grow old i will return to wash my body down the creek
and have my soul reborn
So much for the city
Tell me that you'll dance to the end
Just tell me that you'll dance to the end
Hey, hey you're the monkees
People said you monkeyed around
But nobody's listening now
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Hangin' around, lettin' your old man down
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Baby baby please don't go
So much for the street lights
They're never gonna guide you home
No they're never gonna guide you home
Down at the steam boat show,
All the kids start spittin'
I guess it didn't live up to the billing.
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Hangin' around, lettin' your old man down
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Baby baby please don't go
So much for the city
Tell me that you'll dance to the end
Just tell me that you'll dance to the end
Hey, hey you're the monkees
People said you monkeyed around
But nobody's listening now
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Hangin' around, lettin' your old man down
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Baby baby please don't go
So much for the street lights
They're never gonna guide you home
No they're never gonna guide you home
Down at the steam boat show,
All the kids start spittin'
I guess it didn't live up to the billing.
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Hangin' around, lettin' your old man down
Just don't go back to Big Sur
So much for the city
Tell me that you'll dance to the end
Just tell me that you'll dance to the end
Hey, hey you're the monkees
People said you monkeyed around
But nobody's listening now
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Hangin' around, lettin' your old man down
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Baby baby please don't go
So much for the street lights
They're never gonna guide you home
No they're never gonna guide you home
Down at the steam boat show,
All the kids start spittin'
I guess it didn't live up to the billing.
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Hangin' around, lettin' your old man down
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Baby baby please don't go