A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated peoples with distinct political characteristics. Regardless of the physical geography, in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945, a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction.
Sometimes the word country is used to refer both to sovereign states and to other political entities, while other times it refers only to states. For example, the CIA World Factbook uses the word in its "Country name" field to refer to "a wide variety of dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabited islands, and other entities in addition to the traditional countries or independent states".
Shawn Randolph "Randy" Houser (born December 18, 1975) is an American country music artist. Signed to the Universal South Records label in 2008, he charted the single "Anything Goes" that year. This song, a Top 20 hit on the Billboard country singles charts, is the title track to his debut album Anything Goes, which has also produced his first Top 10 hit in "Boots On". Houser also co-wrote the singles "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" for Trace Adkins, "Back That Thing Up" for Justin Moore and "My Cowboy" for country-pop artist Jessie James.
Randy Houser was born in Lake, Mississippi. His father, a professional musician as well, performed at various local venues. Houser fronted his own band by age thirteen, and while attending East Central Community College in Decatur, Mississippi, he formed another band called 10 lb. Biscuit.
By 2002, Houser moved to Nashville, Tennessee to begin a songwriting career. One of his first cuts as a songwriter was "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk", which he co-wrote with Jamey Johnson and Dallas Davidson. This song was recorded by Trace Adkins on his 2005 album Songs About Me, and was a Top 5 single for him. After this song's success, Houser shifted his focus to performing, and started playing at local gigs in Nashville. He was briefly signed to MCA Nashville but did not release anything on the label.
Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista Nashville label. More than 50 of his singles have appeared on Billboard's list of the "Top 30 Country Songs". Of Jackson's entries, 35 were number-one hits, with 50 in the Top 10. He is the recipient of 2 Grammys, 16 CMA Awards, 17 ACM Awards and nominee of multiple other awards. Jackson is also a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2001.
Jackson was born to Joseph Eugene Jackson and Ruth Musick in Newnan, Georgia, and has four older siblings. Jackson is of English descent. As a youth, Jackson listened primarily to gospel music. Otherwise he was not a major music fan. However, a friend of his introduced him to the music of Gene Watson, John Anderson and Hank Williams Jr. Jackson attended the local Elm Street Elementary and Newnan High School, starting a band after high school. After a time, he and his wife of six years, Denise Jackson, moved from Newnan to Nashville where Jackson hoped to pursue music full-time.
Easton Corbin (born April 12, 1982) is an American country music singer. He signed to Mercury Records Nashville in 2009 and released his self-titled debut album in March 2010, featuring the two Number One hits "A Little More Country Than That" and "Roll With It", as well as the top 15 hit "I Can't Love You Back".
Easton Corbin is a native of Gilchrist County, Florida. He lived on his grandparents' farm following his parents' divorce, and was introduced to country music-themed television programs such as Hee Haw. After taking guitar lessons from session musician Pee Wee Melton at age fourteen, Corbin joined a band, which won an opening slot at a music festival, followed by opening slots for Janie Fricke and Mel McDaniel.
Corbin later attended the University of Florida's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and earned an agribusiness degree, before marrying his wife, Briann, on September 2, 2006. He and Briann then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, on October 14, 2006, where he worked at an Ace Hardware store and performed at writers' nights. A distant cousin, who is a professor of entertainment management, recommended Corbin to contacts in Nashville, Tennessee.
Iman Asante Shumpert (born June 26, 1990) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected by the Knicks with the 17th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft.
He was first-team all-state player at Oak Park and River Forest High School and was one of the nation's top 30 seniors. He helped Oak Park and River Forest High School to three conference titles and was named conference MVP as a junior and senior. He was rated No. 15 among the nation's senior players by Scout.com and No. 26 by Rivals.com. Before high school, Shumpert and fellow NBA player Evan Turner were teammates on the same 8th grade basketball team at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School in Oak Park, IL.
On October 18, 2007, he committed to play for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. During the 2008-09 NCAA men's basketball season, he was GT's fourth-leading scorer for the season, averaging 10.5 points per game and hitting 34.5 percent of his three-point attempts. During the 2009-10 season, Shumpert underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair a damaged meniscus in his right knee on Dec. 3, and missed six games. He ended up the season as GT's third leading scorer, with 10.0 ppg. He was also second in the ACC in steals.
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A corrupt business owner (Joe Adams) devises an ill-fated plan to change his financial fortune with one last score. His plan quickly unravels once he's forced to work with two former rivals (Fat Sammie, Temper Jones) to secure his new-found wealth.
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Pelle is in Texas with two other Danes when he's had enough of travel; he wants to go home. His friends drive on, and a waitress suggests he stay the night in her empty bedroom. Her flatmate Veronica walks him home by way of a party; they hit it off and spend two days having fun, mostly in her bed, calling each other "Milhouse" and "Lisa." He tells stories about Denmark and Søren, his quixotic best friend. Pelle and Veronica exchange numbers; after a fatal car crash, she decides she must go to Denmark immediately. Once there, she meets Pelle's family and Søren: her lack of Danish leads to misunderstandings. What is she doing there? Can feelings of connection migrate to others?
Keywords: airplane-trip, apostrophe-in-title, backpack, best-friend, breakfast, car-accident, cat, cell-phone, cigarette-smoking, coarse-language
Can A Muslim Man Love A Christian Woman
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Yesterday's Tomorrow is the story of three promising young and diverse adults, each with their own destiny who through extraordinary circumstances are left to die, as their lives collide and harmoniously come together in the summer of 2005 in Phoenix, Arizona. The first story "Over a Pair of Pants" follows the life of Liam. He is a young handsome charismatic white man in his mid twenties, with short blond hair and a great attitude. He comes from a loving family and in life he has everything going for him. He has never even been in a fight before until he finds himself immersed in a terrible conflict, a situation that can happen to anyone, a situation triggered when his pants are stolen from a laundry mat and the result of this mishap ultimately costs Liam his life. The second story "Too Beautiful" follows the life of Roxanne. She is simply drop dead gorgeous. She comes from Latin heritage, she is a nurse and she is also in her mid twenties. She lost her parents in a horrible car accident in which she blames herself, because of this she has turned to drugs and alcohol and because of jealous girls and intimidated guys she has no friends. She cleans up and meets the man of her dreams, but we the audience know he is an evil man, a murderer and when he turns on her, her life is reduced and taken through his evil wrath, until she meets Liam, the one, her love, their destiny. The third story "The Good Cop" follows the life of Mack. Mack is a great young black man. A thirty year old undercover cop, a good cop who seeks out the best in people and when not on the job and spending time with his fiancé, he trains, running every morning through the beautiful and serene valley of the sun preparing for the Boston Marathon in which to raise money for abused children. Mack is the one man who believes in Liam's innocence and as he tries to unravel the racial murder in which Liam is the only suspect, he finds himself in a desperate situation which ultimately saves Roxanne's life, but in doing so may cost him his own.
Keywords: drugs, love, murder, prison-rape, rehab
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Bandit and Cledus are two truck-driving southerners who accept a dare from big-shots Big and Little Enos to pick up a truckload of beer from Texas and return it to them within a specified amount of time. Picking it up is simple enough, but as they are leaving Texas, Bandit unwittingly picks up Carrie, a hitchhiking bride-to-be who just left her groom, Junior, at the altar. Junior, however, is the son of Sheriff Buford T. Justice. And when Buford and Junior discover what has happened, they go on a "high-speed pursuit" across the Southeast to catch the bandit.
Keywords: alabama, arkansas, arrest, basset-hound, blockbuster, bootlegging, breaking-the-fourth-wall, car-accident, car-chase, car-in-water
Time to take to the road, for a quiet little drive in the country...or not.
"What we have here is a total lack of respect for the law!"
It's Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason, in high gear and hot water!
Meet Bo Darville, aka, "The Bandit." Smokies (Cops) hate him. Guys dig him. And even girls can't get enough of him!
Big Enos: Twenty to one I break the son of a bitch this time.::Little Enos: Gimme five-hundred on the Bandit.
Buford T. Justice: Hey boy, where's Sheriff Branford?::Sheriff Branford: I AM Sheriff Branford.::Buford T. Justice: Ooo, Hee-Hee. For some reason or another, you sounded a little taller on radio, hee-hee.
Buford T. Justice: Give me a diablo sandwich, a Dr. Pepper, and make it quick, I'm in a god-damn hurry.
Buford T. Justice: [to his son] There's no way, *no* way that you came from *my* loins. Soon as I get home, first thing I'm gonna do is punch yo mamma in da mouth!
Buford T. Justice: [shouting at a trucker that has sheered a door off of Justice's patrol car] I saw that, you sombitch! You did that on purpose! You're going away till you're gray! I got the evidence!::Buford T. Justice: [speaks to Junior] Put the evidence in the car.::Junior: But Daddy...::Buford T. Justice: Put the *evidence* in the *car*!::[shouting to trucker again]::Buford T. Justice: I'm gonna barbeque yo' ass in molasses!
Bandit: Well, go girl, go!::Carrie: [She is driving] I'm goin' I'm goin! I got the metal to the petal and the thing to the floor!
Carrie: I think I just went 10-100.::Bandit: Well that's Better than 10-200.::Carrie: [a little flustered] Yes that's true.::[they both laugh]
Buford T. Justice: If you're gonna hang out in places like this, wear a badge on your didey
Alabama State Trooper: Did you see that? They went right through our roadblock!::Buford T. Justice: You som'bitches couldn't close an umbrella!
Bandit: [commenting on Carrie's legs] Well, Cowboys love fat calves.::Carrie: They're not fat!::Bandit: Well, they're bigger then mine.::Carrie: Do we really wanna talk about legs?::Bandit: Well, one of us does. Otherwise we...::Carrie: Smart ass.
You ask me how much I need you
You wonder if I'm worth giving all your trust
Every dream yet to be fulfilled
Every breaking secrets you've told
You wonder If I ever see another woman
If I ever looked at their backs or fronts
There's nothing to worry about
Cause babe, nothing's ever happened
Behind you or behind your eyes
And if one ever happened, you already know
That in a crowded room
In a world of strangers
In the shadow of the moon
In every dream of a different woman
Babe, I swear, I'll always find you
In careless warm hands,
Needy of someone to hold
I'll always find your tender touch
In all the hottest babes on TV
With a sad look on their faces
I'll always find your smile
Ain't no doubt, I'll always find you
No matter how far you are, I'll travel
No matter how deep you've gone
I'll dig until I reach the bottom
Don't care how long it takes
I've got all the times in the world
I made a promise, I'm sticking to it
For better or for worse, stormy or blue
I'll always find you, wherever you are
Whether in a crowded room
In a world of strangers
In the shadow of the moon
In every dream of a different woman
Babe, I swear, I'll always find you
In careless warm hands,
Needy of someone to hold
I'll always find your tender touch
In all the hottest babes on TV
With a sad look in their faces
I'll always find your smile
Ain't no doubt, I'll always find you
I set my life on the line
That I'll always make you smile
Give love and hope until you shine
Make your dreams come true
waking with a dream out of focus
wracking your brain for the details
accidently elbowing an ashtray
sifting through the real and the unreal
fast motion scenes under your eyelids
searching for the place and exact date
colored landscapes echoing vivid blue
and a brilliant red
colored landscapes echoing vivid blue
and a brilliant red
travel unrelated to faces
high on the rooftop over cowboys
colored landscapes echoing vivid blue
and a brilliant red
colored landscapes echoing vivid blue
and a brilliant red
Baby I don t know
What I think of us
Won t be here tomorrow
I get so mixed up
It's a shame that we're not living in the country
A place that I once seen before
In a book you ve always loved but never showed me
You know I never lost before
Baby I don t mind
Where I m going to
Love that asks for nothing
Love that we never knew
In the days when we were living in the city
It seemed that we were talking more
I can never love you like the way you love me
And these are things I can t ignore
You know I never lost before
We give it up to a world that was never true
It was always me and you
Baby I can tell
It's not coming back
Won t be here tomorrow
I know we'll be fine with that
In the days when we were living we were happy
The thing that we were waiting for
From a book you ve always loved but never showed me
These are things I can t ignore
You know I never lost before
You know I never lost before
You know I never wanted it more
You and I were two of a kind,
I hate to say it but we'll never relate...
You and I were two of a kind,
He's got a John Deere cap and a bad haircut
A face only a mama could love
But he's a heart worker, he comes home at night
He's got a wife and a dog, two kids and a half
He's a lifetime die-hard democrat
And he pays his bills, he's an honest man
He's validated, unadulterated country
He's got a bumper sticker on his new Dodge van
That says "follow me to the promised land"
He's tried and true, bleeds red, white and blue
He works six days a week for Saturday night
To hear the jukebox play the time of his life
But come Sunday morning, he sings "I Saw The Light"
He's flag waving, soul saving country
When I look at this man
I see a little bit of myself
That part of me that can't be nobody else
He's come and get it, unapologetic
Flag waving, soul saving
Validated, unadulterated
I know a place not far from here
Where lifes sweet perfume fills the air
And if you want I'll take you there
If you want I'll take you there
Into the light out of the dark
Where only love can heal your heart
And if you want I'll make a start
If you want I'll make a start
This place I say half hour away
Is that so far to go so near
And further on we'll find the time
And lose the discontent we feel, that we feel
I feel the time we've yet to reach
Is not yet within our own belief
But I feel sure that time'll come
If it goes on at all
Said if it goes on at all, whoa if it goes on at all
Hey, it goes on and on and on and on
I know a place not far from here
Where fresh cut grass will fill your hair
And if you want we'll lay a while there
If you want we'll lay a while there, yeah
Dunk
Booty
Damita Jo
Isn't that like a country name?
It is isn't it?
The Damita I don't think is country
But it's the Jo that's country
Which just happens to be my father's name
Well my mother is from the south so
Je suis passée à la télé
Je voulais faire chanteuse
Tous des vendus, tous des tarés
A part ma manageuse
J'voulais faire du rock'n roll
Mais elle m'a dit chérie
Le rock'n roll c'est pourri
Toi tu feras d'la country
Tous des tarés, tous des salauds
Sauf mon imprésarios
Tous des toqués, tous des menteurs
A part mon producteur
Un jour il m'a dit chérie
Ca suffit le français
Fais plutôt comme on te dit
Faut qu'tu chantes en anglais
All des tarés, all des suckers
But not my manager
Tous des crazy motherfucker
A part mon publisher
Puis y a eu quelques soucis
Au niveau production
Elle s'est effondrée l'industrie
Elle a touché le fond
Depuis ils m'ont dit vas-y
Faut faire du gospel
Ca marche plus la country
On en a des belles
Tous des toqués, tous des vauriens
A part mes musiciens
Tous des cocus, tous des fumistes
A part les journalistes
Written by Roger Murrah and Marcus Hummon
He's got a John Deere cap and a bad haircut
A face only a mama could love
But he's a heart worker, he comes home at night
He's got a wife and a dog, two kids and a half
He's a lifetime die-hard democrat
And he pays his bills, he's an honest man
He's validated, unadulterated country
He's got a bumper sticker on his new Dodge van
That says "follow me to the promised land"
He's tried and true, bleeds red, white and blue
He works six days a week for Saturday night
To hear the jukebox play the time of his life
But come Sunday morning, he sings "I Saw The Light"
He's flag waving, soul saving country
When I look at this man
I see a little bit of myself
That part of me that can't be nobody else
He's come and get it, unapologetic
Flag waving, soul saving
Validated, unadulterated
The man's country/stone country
A mirror image of a silver sky,
nests of pines and brandy wines, build this country to the sky
Do you remember now, the oblivion of youthful minds,
caught up in the fashions of their time...
Roll away,
I can see that clearly now, every time I look into this
mirror image of a silver sky,
nests of pines and brandy wine, build this country to the sky
What would they say?
God is here in this country by the sky
A mirror image of a silver sky,
nests of pines and brandy wines, build this country to the sky
Piecemeal of yesteryear,
a stained glass moment marking time,
with full intent on my 22 year old mind
Roll away,
I can see that clearly now,
every time I look into this mirror image of a silver sky,
nests of pines and brandy wine, build this country to the sky
What would they say?