The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.
The instrument is played by compressing or expanding the bellows whilst pressing buttons or keys, causing valves, called pallets, to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called reeds, that vibrate to produce sound inside the body.
This instrument is sometimes considered a one-man-band, as it needs no accompanying instrument. The performer normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the right-hand manual, and the accompaniment, consisting of bass and pre-set chord buttons, on the left-hand manual.
The accordion is often used in folk music in Europe, North America and South America and in some countries, such as in Brazil, it is also commonly used in mainstream pop music. In Europe and North-America, it is often associated with busking. Some popular music acts also make use of the instrument. Additionally, the accordion is sometimes used in both solo and orchestra performances of classical music.
Miley Ray Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus; November 23, 1992) is an American actress and pop singer-songwriter. She achieved wide fame for her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana.
Cyrus recorded music for the soundtracks, Hannah Montana (2006) and Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus (2007), released by Walt Disney Records. With the success of the Hannah Montana franchise she established herself as a teen idol. In 2007, Cyrus signed to Hollywood Records to pursue a solo career. She embarked upon the Best of Both Worlds Tour the same year, in which she performed as both herself and in character as Hannah Montana. The tour was eventually turned into a high-grossing concert film titled Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008). In July 2008, Cyrus released her first solo album, Breakout (2008), which was commercially successful.
She began her foray into film by providing the voice of "Penny" in the animated film Bolt (2008). Cyrus earned a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for her performance of Bolt's theme song, "I Thought I Lost You". She also reprised her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009). The Hannah Montana: The Movie' soundtrack introduced her to new audiences within country and adult contemporary markets.
Nikola Peković (Montenegrin: Никола Пековић; pronounced [nǐkɔ̝la pê̞ːkɔ̝vitɕ]; born January 3, 1986) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player. He plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. Peković is 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) tall and he plays the center position.
Peković began playing basketball with KK Junior from Podgorica. From there, he went to Belgrade to play for KK Atlas in 2003, and he played for them until 2005, when he moved to KK Partizan. With Partizan, he won three Serbian League championships (2006, 2007, 2008), two Adriatic League championships (2007, 2008), and the Serbian Cup in 2008. He was named the MVP of the Adriatic League Final Four in 2008. The same year Pekovic earned an All-Euroleague Second Team selection for leading Partizan to the competition's quaterfinals.
In the summer of 2008, Peković joined the Greek League club Panathinaikos. He signed a 3 year contract worth €4.5 million euros net income. He averaged 13 points and 3.8 rebounds per game, in just over 18 minutes per contest, helping Panathinaikos win the 2008–09 Euroleague title. Pekovic consequently established himself as one of Europe's elite centers, being voted to the All-Euroleague First Team.
Cory Pesaturo is an American musician from Cumberland, Rhode Island. Pesaturo is an accordion player, who also plays the piano, clarinet, and saxophone. He began playing at the age of nine, and in 2002, became the youngest person to win the National Accordion Championship. He most recently won the 2011 Primus Ikaalinen World Championship, broadcast on National TV, and was the first American contestant. Additionally, Pesaturo won the Coupe Mondiale World Digital Accordion Championship in Auckland, New Zealand, and became the first American to win a World Accordion Championship since Peter Soave 25 years ago. In June 2009, he won the Leavenworth International Championship, and International Jazz Championship. Pesaturo performed in 5 different continents during 2009; some countries included Canada, Italy, New Zealand, Tunisia and Japan. Cory is one of only three accordionists in history to win a World Championship on both acoustic and electronic accordion, and is the only person to also win a world championship(s) in jazz.
Daniel Dumile (pronounced /ˈduːmɨleɪ/ DOO-mə-lay; born January 9, 1971) is a hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably MF Doom, often stylized as MF DOOM, where the "MF" stands for metal face, but metal fingers when using his producing name. He has appeared in several collaborative projects such as Danger Doom (with Danger Mouse) and Madvillain (with Madlib).
Dumile was born on January 9, 1971, in London, England, the son of a Trinidadian mother and Zimbabwean father. He then moved with his family to New York and was raised in the city of Long Beach, New York on Long Island.
As Zev Love X, he formed the group KMD in 1988 with his younger brother DJ Subroc and another MC called Rodan. When Rodan left the group, Zev found another MC to replace Rodan named Onyx the Birthstone Kid.A&R rep Dante Ross learned of KMD through the hip hop group 3rd Bass, and signed the group to Elektra Records.
Dumile and KMD's recorded debut came on 3rd Bass's song "The Gas Face" from The Cactus Album, followed in 1991 with KMD's album Mr. Hood, which became a minor hit through its singles "Peachfuzz", "Who Me?" and heavy video play on cable TV's Yo! MTV Raps and Rap City.
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"A movement between the tranquility" The "Wie das Gefäß läuft es aus (It's empty like the vessel)" is a ceremony for meditation to enter into Toa or Nirvana. This film/video was inspired by the 4th chapter - "The Tao is an empty vessel; ..." of Toa Te Ching (by Lau-tzu). In this work, the culture of Eastern Asia will be interpreted newly in multimedia contents and in digital expression through immersed image and sound. Generally, a purpose of vessel put in something and it should be emptied itself. But if it is already fulled by something, it is not worth any more. It should be become every moment newly, otherwise some of the inside of vessel will be spoiled. Also, a man be born again every moment through this ceremony. When he is reached for a tranquil heart through the process, he will be recognized himself and attained Nirvana. The theme is "A movement between the tranquility". The sound expresses the movement between the tranquility. Also, the image shows the tranquility in the movement. Finally, it shows the process of attaining the Toa (Nirvana) through the medium between the sound and image.
Keywords: experimental-film, experimental-music, video-art
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Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.
Keywords: abduction, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, adopted-daughter, baseball, based-on-novel, bayou, cemetery, child-abduction, confederate-army, confederate-soldier
No one can escape the sins of the past.
[first Lines]::Dave Robicheaux: My name's Dave Robicheaux. I'm an alcoholic. Sometimes I'm tempted to have a drink. But I never do.
Dave Robicheaux: You don't want to go back out there. In fact, you don't want to go anywhere near this bus station again. From now on, you better treat this place like it is downtown Baghdad, because I will blow your god damned head off if you don't find a god damned line of honest god damned work.
Sam 'Hogman' Patin: A Blue Jay don't sit on a Mocking Bird's nest. The Mocking Bird will whoop the Blue Jay's ass every time.
Elrod Sykes: Ya ever see the lights in the cypress trees at night?::Dave Robicheaux: That's swamp gas. It'll ignite and all that across the water. It's like ball lightning.::Elrod Sykes: No sir, that's not what it is. It's these guys that are wounded by the lake. They have lanterns coming from some of the ambulances. A lot of the soldiers had maggots on there wounds. It's the only reason they lived. It's 'cause the maggots ate out the infection.::Dave Robicheaux: You been drunk a long time, Elrod. Pretty soon all the trees and alligators will be talking to you.::Elrod Sykes: Yeah... I wasn't drunk. This guy... a General... was standing on a crutch right by the water when he said to me, 'You and your friend, the Law Man, must repel them'.::Dave Robicheaux: I think you're delusional. You might wanna think about goin' to uh A-A meeting with me one time.::Elrod Sykes: Maybe I was a little drunk.
Dave Robicheaux: In the ancient world, people placed heavy stones on the graves of the dead so their souls would not wander and inflict the living. I always thought this was simply the practice of superstitious and primitive people. But I was about to learn that the dead can hover on the edge of our vision with the density and luminosity of mist, and their claim on the earth can be as legitimate and tenacious as our own.
Dave Robicheaux: Did you know Cherry LeBlanc, a little white girl about nineteen years old?::Old Woman: She work here, ain't she?::Dave Robicheaux: You know if she had a boyfriend Tawn?::Old Woman: If that's what you wanna call it. She in the business.::Dave Robicheaux: Mr. Prejean involved?::Old Woman: Ask him.::Dave Robicheaux: I don't think he was. Otherwise he wouldn't be tellin' me all these things.::Old Woman: She a sad girl. I told her, 'A pretty white girl like you could have anything you want'. When that girl dress up, she look just like a movie star.::Dave Robicheaux: Who was her pimp?::Old Woman: I don't know nothin' else, me. She wasn't about to give the name of some rich white man to a old black woman.::Dave Robicheaux: What rich white man?::Old Woman: Some rich white man, maybe, get her out the business of sellin' jellyroll. She said that just before somebody done them awful things to that girl.
Dave Robicheaux: Lou Girard always called at night. I have picked him out of the gutters from New Orleans to Lake Charles, held him when he had the shakes, and driven him to A-A meetings more times than I can remember. And he had done the same for me.
Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: What's goin' on Dave?::Dave Robicheaux: I'm investigatin' a murder Julie.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: No kiddin'. Still worried about me Dave?::Dave Robicheaux: Hell yeah. How many guys would burn down their own father's nightclub with their own father still in it?::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: You gotta forgive me if I get a little upset by these kinds of attitudes Dave. I come home to this shit hole. I'm a prominent man in the entertainment business. I talk on the phone, everyday to people in California you read about in Entertainment Weekly. They oughta have 'Welcome Back Balboni' Day. Instead, I get treated like sewer gas by you. You understand what I'm sayin' Dave. It hurts me. Sit down while I take a whiz. Cholo. Where's your hospitality? Get the man a soft drink.
Dave Robicheaux: Your meter's runnin' Julie. I wanna talk about that murdered girl we found south of town.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: Which girl is that?::Dave Robicheaux: Cherry LeBlanc.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: I guess I ain't heard about it.::Dave Robicheaux: You don't read the newspapers.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: I been busy.::Dave Robicheaux: Uhm hm. I can see that.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: We used to be friends Dave. I even maybe did you a favor once. I'm gonna line it out for you and for any locals that wanna get the wax out their ears. Louisiana is flat ass broke. New Orleans is a mortuary. The bottom of a toilet's got more appeal than this shit hole on the bayou. So they better wake up to the fact that we're droppin' close to 40 million dollars in Iberia Parish. They don't like the name 'Balboni' around here? We'll move the whole fuckin' movie over to Mississippi. See how that floats with all those coonass jack-offs in the Chamber of Commerce.::Dave Robicheaux: You in the movie business now.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: Yeah. I'm producin' 'White Doves' with Michael Goldman. Whatcha think about that?::Dave Robicheaux: I'm sure everybody wishes you success, Julie.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: I'm a do a baseball movie next. You wanna part in it?
Dave Robicheaux: Mr. Sykes. You've been drivin' drunk and you come to a cop's house to buy more booze. Why don't you hand those keys to Miss Drummond before you hit the road.::Elrod Sykes: Hehe hehe. Where's that beer at?::Kelly Drummond: You're a good man.::Dave Robicheaux: Yaw'll need to be real careful.::Kelly Drummond: Elrod's a shitbird, but I love him.
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Set in present day New York City, "Happy Hour" is a literate and often funny story of love and how to receive it. Tulley, a once-promising literary star now biding his time as an advertising copy editor, moves from cynicism to acceptance as he secretly hopes to write a great novel only to learn that his life of booze will end all too soon. Levine, his best friend and Natalie, the woman who might have saved him, suffer the pain of Tulley's anger and rejection.
A love story, straight up with a twist.
Levine: I don't suppose she has a sister.::Tulley: Three brothers.::Levine: I can't catch a break. What's her mother like?
Dr. Pitcoff: My star... my most promising... God! How did you grow so old?::Tulley: Day by day. Day by day...
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A sheriff (Thornton) begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although he is homophobic, his investigation causes him to be rejected by others, forcing him to seek help from the people he once despised.
Keywords: crooked-official, deep-south, election-campaign, gay-interest, hit-in-the-crotch, murder-investigation, neo-noir, new-orleans-louisiana, police-detective, transsexual
A small town sheriff. A big city murderer.
Sheriff Darl Hardwick: I'm beginnin' to think I liked you a lot better when you used to smoke all that reefer and we'd fuck in your Pinto.
Plot
In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program despite pressure from an establishment fearful of industrial unrest and red activity. Meanwhile Nelson Rockefeller gets the foyer of his company headquarters decorated and an Italian countess sells paintings for Mussolini.
Keywords: 1930s, actor, actress, anti-communist, art, artist, bare-breasts, based-on-play, based-on-true-story, beaver
Art is never dangerous -- unless it tells the truth.
Gray Mathers: Get in the car! Now!::Countess LaGrange: Perhaps you've mistaken me for a spaniel.
John Houseman: As the producer, I can fire anybody I want, and I am fucking fired!
John Houseman: I've always said the play would be better on a bare stage.::Orson Welles: Actually, Hallie said that.::John Houseman: No, I said it first.::Orson Welles: No you didn't.::John Houseman: Yes I did.::Orson Welles: No, you didn't!::John Houseman: Yes, I did!::Orson Welles: No, you DIDN'T!::John Houseman: Yes, I BLOODY WELL DID!::Orson Welles: Oh, *fine*, Jack! You win, you've got the biggest creative dick, okay?::John Houseman: Thank you.
Marc: I am faithful to the ideals of the party.::Orson Welles: I am faithful to the party of ideas.::John Houseman: You are faithful to the idea of a party.
Diego Rivera: You're a piece of work. A Jewish fascist!::Margherita Sarfatti: And you, a wealthy communist!
Bertolt Brecht: But where are the artists? Artists are the worst whores of all!
Security Guard: Mr Rivera, Mr Rockefeller has told us to give you your comission check. Your services are no longer required.
Tommy Crickshaw: If you guys are going to kill my joke at least kill it right.
Congressman Starnes: You are quoting from this Marlowe. Is he a Communist?::Hallie Flanagan: I am very sorry. I was quoting from Christopher Marlowe.::Congressman Starnes: Tell us who Marlowe is, so we can get the proper reference, because that is all we want to do.::Hallie Flanagan: Put in the record that he was the greatest dramatist in the period immediately preceding Shakespeare.
Orson Welles: No one should be afraid of an idea!
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Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of circus entertainers and immediately falls in love with one of the stars, Giulietta. But while his affection for Giulietta and admiration for the performers gives him a new lease on life, Giulietta's father, the leader of the troupe, opposes the relationship and is determined to keep them apart. Meanwhile, Frac and Giulietta discover a gang of children who are held prisoner by a criminal leader who forces them to do his bidding, and they devise a plan to win the kids their freedom.
Keywords: child-labor, children, circus, circus-performer, cirque-du-soleil, contortionist, exploitation, father-daughter-relationship, flower-vendor, independent-film
If you have no voice: Scream. If you have no legs: Run. If you have no hope: Invent. What if anything were possible?
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Thanksgiving, 1976, San Francisco's Winterland: the Band performs its last concert after 16 years on the road. Some numbers they do alone, some songs include guest artists from Ronnie Hawkins (their first boss, when they were the Hawks) to Bob Dylan (their last, when as his backup and as a solo group, they came into their own). Scorsese's camera explores the interactions onstage in the making of music. Offstage, he interviews the Band's five members, focusing on the nature of life on the road. The friendships, the harmonies, the hijinks, and the wear and tear add up to a last waltz.
Keywords: 1970s, band, concert-film, farewell, final-concert, guitar, interview, live-in-concert-recording, microphone, musical-guest
It Started as a Concert. It Became a Celebration. [original theatrical]
It Started as a Concert. It Became a Celebration. Now it's a Legend. [theatrical re-release]
[Speaking about Ronnie Hawkins]::Himself: He called me up, and I said, "Sure I'd like a job. What does it mean? What do I do?" And he said, "Well, son, you won't make much money, but you'll get more pussy than Frank Sinatra."
Neil Young: [walking on stage] Hey, Rob, thanks for letting me do this.::Robbie Robertson: Shit! Are you kidding?
[singing]::Eric Clapton: Further on up the road / Someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me / Further on up the road / Someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me / Further on up the road / Baby, just you wait and see.
[while performing his guitar solo, his guitar strap comes undone]::Eric Clapton: Hold on.
Richard Manuel: [describing how The Band got its name] Well, we were The Hawks.::Robbie Robertson: And everything was fine, we were sailing along, and all of a sudden, one day The Hawks meant something else altogether.::Richard Manuel: And it was right in the middle of that whole psychedelia. Chocolate Subway, Marshmallow Overcoat. Those kind of names, you know?::Robbie Robertson: When we were working with Bob Dylan and we moved to Woodstock, everybody referred to us as the band. He called us the band, our friends called us the band, our neighbors called us the band.::Richard Manuel: We started out with The Crackers. We tried to call ourselves The Honkies. Everybody kind of backed off from that. It was too straight. So we decided just to call ourselves The Band.
Himself - Drums: New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into it. You just go in the first time and you get your ass kicked and you take off. As soon as it heals up, you come back and you try it again. Eventually, you fall right in love with it.
He's almost
part of a different side of life
rudely inspected
silent, fragile in himself.
He's just another fool
with his simple mind
who's not used
just to act like anyone
he's heaping up all this useless stuff
instead of working.
He enjoys living
means living in another world
quite unusual
but in keeping with himself.
He's just another fool
with his simple mind
who's not used
just to act like anyone
he's heaping up all this useless stuff
instead of working.
He's creating
strange appliances he invents
all the people
are just wondering.
When he's all alone
and he locked the door
something new
something strange
is happening there
you never would believe
that he could conceive
humankinds dream.
And so he's living
just in keeping with himself
he knows that one day