A mandolin (Italian: mandolino) is a musical instrument in the lute family (plucked, or strummed). It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard (the top) comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single round or oval sound hole. A round or oval sound hole may be bordered with decorative rosettes or purfling.
Early mandolins had six double courses of gut strings, tuned similarly to lutes, and plucked with the fingertips. Modern mandolins—which originated in Naples, Italy in the late 18th century—commonly have four double courses (four pairs) of metal strings, which are plucked with a plectrum.
Many variants of the mandolin have existed. These include Milanese, Lombard, Brescian and other six-course types, as well as four-string (one string per course), twelve-string (three strings per course), and sixteen-string (four strings per course).
A mandolin typically has a hollow wooden body with a tailpiece that holds one end of the strings, a floating bridge, a neck with a flat (or slight radius) fretted fingerboard, a nut, and mechanical tuning machines to accommodate metal strings.
Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. Best known for his roles in American films, Bale has starred in both big budget Hollywood films and the smaller projects from independent producers and art houses.
Bale first caught the public eye at the age of 13, when he was cast in the starring role of Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987). He played an English boy who is separated from his parents and subsequently finds himself lost in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. He is also notable for his role as serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (2000), and for portraying Bruce Wayne/Batman in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and the upcoming finale The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
In 2010, Bale portrayed Dicky Eklund in the biopic The Fighter. He received critical acclaim for his role and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.
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World famous singer-songwriter Thomas Jacob is based in Los Angeles. He is a very successful man who has burned a lot of bridges. He lives and breathes music and very little else. When Thomas travels back to Denmark to record a new album with his regular producer, Molly Moe, his grown-up daughter, Julie, shows up with his 11 year-old grandson, Noa, whom Thomas has never met. Soon - and much against his will - Thomas is forced to take care of Noa. Against all odds the two of them slowly begin to connect through music. Then disaster strikes forcing Thomas to realize, that he now has to make a choice that will change his life forever.
Change can be scary.
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Summer vacation will never be the same for nine College students on their way to Lake Tahoe when they are derailed from their plans and land at 'Millie's Cherry Pie Inn and Diner' and the very 'normalcy' of both 'Lawrence' the Charming Patriarch of this group of "Outlanders" and his wife "Millie", and their grandson "Jim" prove to be chillingly threatening in their simplicity and rejection of all that is 'Modern'...Our nine enthusiastic young travelers are lulled into a false sense of security until they are forced to face the fact that the Devil sometimes wears a gray suit and smile, and that their only hope of survival is to stick together and escape the cloyingly sweet tentacles of terror and death woven by the seemingly benign inhabitants of this secret Clan.
Keywords: barbecue, betrayal, blood, blood-ritual, brainwashing, cannibal-cult, car-chase, clan, danger, dead
Who Will Survive...
What if you're invited to Diner and YOU are the main course?
Romeo and Juliette...with Cannibals!
What if you were invited to Dinner and it turns out YOU are the Main Course!
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Sharon, Lois & Bram are celebrating 25 years singing together! They're singing and dancing their favorite, most well-known, and well-loved songs on stage - live! In "25 Years of Skinnamarink", there are celebrity appearances, congratulations, commentary, and more! Sharon, Lois & Bram perform like they've never performed before on stage with special guests Denny Dougherty, Natalie MacMaster, The Canadian Brass, and more!
Keywords: skinnamarink
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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.
RIDE, RANGERS, RIDE! (original print media ad - all caps)
Straight into a hail of lead...to find range renegades---and romance!
Here she comes in candlelight
Setting like a full moon over
Summer eyes
Under colden light
Where the waters gone
And the water says
What water will be done
Down stream and out of town
Floating like a quick forced
Screams surrendering
And I called out her name
When the elevator came
But it's much to late
To be the same
Down down never come again
Overthrusted drivin rain
Down down all the way up
And she's running
Where the river takes her
Took your love into the street
Cover of the long tall grass
Of ecstacy
But hte cities got to be my love
And I don't know
Where the river takes you
I remember hollywood
Battery of lonesome girls
Who felt so good
And I swore on her name
When the elevator came
That the doors
Would close on blame
Here she comes in candle light
Setting like a full moon over
Summer eyes
Where the cold lime like
A water gun
And the water says
What water will be done
Takes a stream to centre street
Wandering like a quick forced
Screams surrendering
And I called out her name when
The elevator came
But it's much to late
To take the blame
He’s got a nice little life
He’s gonna live it but on
Friday nights he plays that mandolin
Painted red and he said
“It’s not the best I know but it’s mine”
I’m gonna make it last
Ohh, yeah
Oh oh, woah
People there can’t help but care
About the friendly music of a guy
Who’s getting by on their applause
He’s got a song that moves along
He’s got his local crowd tonight
At Angelina’s Family Bar and Grill
He’s got his heart on his sleeve
The songs he plays to live and breathe but
Who knows what goes through his mind
When he plays a song, it brings along
Everybody sayin’
Who’s that guy who plays the mandolin, mandolin
Oh yeah, mandolin
Got a car, got a scar like
Everyone has got a few but
Everybody loves that mandolin
Got his problems, bills to pay
Somehow that boy finds a way
Through paychecks and tip jars, yeah
He’s got his heart on his sleeve
The songs he plays to live and breathe but
Who knows what goes through his mind
When he plays a song, it brings along
Everybody sayin’
Who’s that guy who plays the mandolin, mandolin
Oh, he’s the kind of guy who never really wanted fame
His feet are planted firmly on the ground
He never wanted people to remember his name
He never wanted word to get around that he found heaven
on earth
He’s got his heart on his sleeve
The songs he plays to live and breathe but
Who knows what goes through his mind
When he plays a song, it brings along
Everybody sayin’
Who’s that guy who plays the mandolin
Oh, I’m the guy who plays the mandolin
Mandolin
Oh oh
Mandolin
Oh, mandolin, oh, mandolin
Waiting in the dark
All centuries passed down upon
Your smooth Venetian skin
Memories, oh, memories
Lay stains upon your heart
When lovers dance into the trance
You weaved by candlelight
Oh, I saw a sunrise like never before
As mandolin played I cried for more
Oh, mandolin, oh, mandolin
Waiting in the dark
Well, centuries passed down upon
Your smooth Venetian skin
Incessant sound, incessant sound
That stirs the young and pure
Incestuous I kiss my hand
And play the calling drum
The lover cried into the silk
Many years ago
Your voice laid comfort down upon
His European skin
Oh, I saw a sunrise like never before
As mandolin played I cried for more
Oh, I saw a sunrise like never before
As mandolin played I cried for more
Oh, I saw a sunrise like never before
As mandolin played, oh, I cried for more
Mandolin, oh, mandolin
Waiting in the dark
Oh, centuries passed down upon