Posted on Quora, not by Meghan's Mole - but Sarah. Hollywierd is no longer playing their game. His new kid is in the same age bracket as their "alleged" first.
What do you ALL think? Anyone notice there are NEVER any car seats in the cars she drives?! In California, it is mandatory!!
David Foster and Katharine McPhee attend the Elton John AIDS Foundation's 32nd Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party on March 10, 2024 in West Hollywood, California.
The reason that Sailor Pluto is the Senshi of Time and "daughter of chronos" relates to how the Time Gates came to exist.
The planet Pluto was originally one of the planet-sized moons orbiting around Saturn, and due to Saturn's magical affinity with death and decay (and by extension entropy as time passes) they used Pluto as a site for forging powerful weapons and experimental artifacts. The Silence Glaive was originally forged on Pluto while it orbited around Saturn.
The Time Gates were created as an accident when the mage-scientists were attempting to create something else, and everyone was iffy about having something that dangerous in the middle of the Solar System but didn't have a way to safely destroy it, either. The Queen before Queen Serenity used the Ginzuisho to put Pluto in orbit at the far edge of the Solar System so that the Time Gates destabilizing wouldn't have horrible casualties, and set Sailor Pluto to guard the gates against time travel abuse with a few guards in Charon Castle. Pluto was never formally inhabited any more than Antartica or the international Space station is today, though.
Pluto's remnant connection to Saturn and their shared affinity for death, decay, entropy and senescence (old age) are why their magic and myths seem to overlap. Pluto's Dead Scream spell is technically watered-down Silence magic, for instance.
Danny ‘Kootch’ Kortchmar, Jim Keltner, George, Paul Stallworth, and David Foster, 1975.
“[O]ne afternoon the phone rang and a familiar voice said, ‘Hullo, David, this is old Harrison here. I was chatting with Jim Keltner, and he says you play all right.’
It was George Harrison.
I was struck mute for a moment, but I quickly found my voice. ‘Keltner says I play all right, does he?’ ‘Won’t you come down?’ He said. He was very casual about it, but I was a nervous wreck. I kept thinking, I’m talking to George Harrison. He was one of the Beatles. This can’t be happening. I’m just a kid from Victoria.
I went down to the studio and met Harrison, and he was mellow and very friendly, as if he were just a normal guy, not a demigod. He wasn’t very talkative, however, so I didn’t get any great stories out of him, but I know he liked my work, because a few weeks later he flew me to London to help with thew arrangements on two albums, Extra Texture and 33 1/3, which were released in 1975 and 1976, respectively. I wrote several string arrangements for both of then, and I worked hard, but neither album was the hit we’d hoped for.
Maybe I was part of the reason; I don’t know. […] I began by asking him [Paul McCartney, in the ‘80s] about George Harrison, since I’d worked with him and knew him a little.
‘What do you want to know about George?’ Paul said. ‘He was an amazing songwriter, wasn’t he? I mean, “Something” is truly one of the greatest songs of all time.’
Paul flashed a sly grin. ‘Well, I suppose everybody’s got one in ‘em.’
I thought he was kidding, and maybe he was. Then again, maybe he wasn’t — maybe the press had got it wrong from the start: Maybe the rub wasn’t John and Paul, as everyone assumed, but George and Paul. I could have dug a little, and asked him to explain further, but I’m not sure I wanted to know.” - David Foster, Hitman: Forty Years Making Music, Topping Charts, & Winning Grammys (2008) (x)
Justin Paul, Mia Criss, Darren Criss, Sukari Jones, Benj Pasek, Diane Warren & David Foster at the Apple Original Films 'Spirited' sing-a-long event at Tramp Stamp Granny's, Jan 11, 2023 (Photo by Stewart Cook/Shutterstock)
I once knew a spaniel called Bix. He was named after 1920s jazz soloist Bix Beiderbecke but he was a bastard and a terrorist. Have a nice day :)
I assume the spaniel was the terrorist and not the jazz musician. But you never know!
My handle is named after a song (Bix) by the band Airplay on their first and only studio album. Airplay was a collaboration between David Foster and Jay Graydon, early in their careers as studio musicians and producers. Their catalogues are very impressive—they played on and produced some huge hits, especially in the 70s and 80s in the genres of Yacht Rock, West Coast pop, r&b, pop, and rock. Foster is also known for his several high-profile marriages.
Bix the song is about a rule breaker who is involved in some illicit activities. I recall hearing on a podcast—probably an interview with Graydon—that it was inspired by a drug PSA film in the 1950s. The lyrics are more of a cautionary tale rather than glamorizing Bix’s actions. But honestly, the lyrics don’t really relate to me at all! I just think that the music is catchy, and it always puts a smile on my face. It is more of a deep cut from the album rather than a hit single. Airplay didn’t record another album or tour, but Foster, Graydon, and their other collaborators continued making music for decades to come.
Vox Satanae - Episode #572: Yule 2023, 13th-21st Centuries - Week of December 25, 2023
Vox Satanae – Episode #572
Yule 2023, 13th-21st Centuries
This week we hear anonymous and traditional works and works by Nicolas Gombert, Jean Titelouze, Arcangelo Corelli, Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, Alexander Kastalsky, Arthur Honegger, Heinrich Kaminski, Leroy Anderson, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Agustín Barrios, John Rutter, Harold Darke, Mel Tormé, and David Foster.
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