#fearlessnation

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[curetapwater]

Me: goddammit where can I find some gears

Squid: *is right there*

Me: NO IM SCARED

[luna-delia]

do you believe every word I say? Believe in me like if I were the faith you follow. I poses the power of mercy and no fear of retaliation, the strength behind the will and the purpose that carries you forward. Tell me do you believe every word I say? would you stand in the line of fire even if it meant you would get burned at the stake. Do you believe in me like I believe in you? sometimes all it takes is one. will you be the first to take that step?

Delia Luna

[hashtagfarrakhan]

Fearlessness in a world full of cowardice. #Farrakhan

[sayhoneysiren]

Capricorn❤️‍🩹🎱

• first things first, if a capricorn is judging you, you will know by the look on their face.

• usually minding their business and somehow has the most haters.🤔

• they don’t need approval. they are their own homes, their own pillars.

• naturally capricorns are loners. they won’t join a team if they know they’ll be put the background. they want to reign.

• if they do join forces with someone, they will make sure they are an expect at every subject. they refuse to lack in any category. they don’t want to be caught off guard not knowing something. and strive to be fully capable of holding their own.

• they seek to oversee situations and observe from the top. which is why their always climbing.

• they want to know that the actions they take are making them better. if not, then they question why they’re doing it and will stop if the reason is not satisfactory to them.

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• once others get beneath the shell of a capricorn, they become really amusing.

• capricorns have a goofy and witty sense of humor. typically, a sarcastic response to anything that annoys them.

• they are known to be more carefree as they grow older, becoming an adult that acts like a child.

• when they finally let loose, they are totally different and less intimidating.

• capricorns NEED a release and getaway from everyday life from time to time.

• they love parties, music, sex, alcohol, and drugs. they crave that euphoric state, as it separates them from the seriousness of life.

• in their daily lives, they can seem quiet, cool or mean to others. but most capricorns are going through war inside their heads. just give them time to go through there problems alone.

• and although they are stoic most of the time and look disinterested, they are very sweet individuals.

• with age comes more success for a capricorn. they are the type to still have goals as they grow older and still have the heart to chase their dreams.

• they achieve so many milestones in their lifetime.(if evolved) they use time to their benefit and take it seriously.

• capricorns age with such grace.♠️

• as they get older they become easier on themselves, lifting that weight that thought they needed to carry.

• many aged capricorns never loose their youth.

• capricorns are known to be excellent bullshit detectors. it may be hard to manipulate them because their calculating mind is always open, like a chess board.

• even with friends, capricorns tell the honest truth and sometimes it hurts. but they are so blunt because they want their friends to succeed.

• they are either social or anti social. communicating with others have to feel beneficial to them in some way.

• they hold a certain level of fearlessnes to them and do not respond well to stuck up people or injustice. and if someone tries to embarrass them or tease them, their horns come out. they speak their mind to anyone. (even authority)

• they never back down from a challenge. so if others think they will get away with murder, wait till it’s capricorns turn.

• they are patient and will wait as long as needed to get even. they wait for the right time to strike. when their opponent least expects it.🎲

•they are naturally put in the position of leadership due to their common sense and no nonsense attitude.

• wanna know how to easily spot a capricorn? by how well they’re put together. their fashion game is always on point.

• capricorns somehow seem to have it all together, even when below the surface they don’t. they walk around looking like the ceo of a successful company.

• their air of confidence is magnetizing. they are always busy trying new projects, which causes them to be stalked sometimes.(usually on social media) they attract an audience who can’t help but wonder what is going to happen next.

• they prefer to have schedules so that they can keep up with all the things they need to do.

• they stay polished. they are they type to be consistently working out and watching what they eat, keeping up with skincare routines, paying bills on time, etc.

• they like to be on top of things.

• unfortunately, this is another sign that suffers from the resting bitch face and is seen as arrogant but that is false.

• capricorns are good at being bad. especially in movies where they’re acting.

• they always play the perfect vampire or perfect villain. being naturally tempting, charming and eerie. they also love horror movies and side with bad guys.

• from a childhood they are into very dark, forbidden subjects. when you tell a capricorn that they shouldn’t, it’s basically propelling them further to that thing. this gets them into trouble a-lot but they can’t help but wonder💭

• driven by an emotional nature, they seek to be fulfilled not only physically but spiritually as well.

• most capricorns are addicted to music. whether they are just listeners, singers, writers, or musicians, they deeply feel understood through songs. capricorn artists make a darker kind of genre and style. they make songs that discuss deep topics.

• shyness is normal for capricorns. they dislike too much spotlight and would rather stay low key, no matter how beautiful or talented they are.

• it takes a while for capricorn to recharge and go back into the light but when it’s work time, they are consistent and when it’s rest time, nobody dare bother them or their life will be on the line.🎯

• they are comfortable enough to be still and don’t mind being in the background for a few. cause when they shine they outshine.⚡️

• even when capricorns have nothing, they maintain a regal nature. having the ability to visualize their dream selves and act it out as if they have it now.

• they hold themselves to certain standards and are always growing. most of the time they do not know what will happen, but they keep a brave spirit and carry on.

• they dislike too much stagnation. it’s hard for them to lay back when they have a kingdom to manage.

• wisdom is stored within’ them, guiding them up their mountains. no one understands how they do the things they do. how does the goat climb the mountain?

• capricorns take the limitations and rules, then challenge them.

• what others may not know is that capricorns live and breathe for their families. they’ll do anything for the ones they love. they get extremely protective and defensive if anyone is treating their loved ones wrong.

• capricorns wants a support system of people that genuinely care about them. they need people who are real and dependable, like they are. they do not want to be alone. they desire having others to lean on from time to time.

• when capricorns become successful, they shower their families with their riches as well. they want to share what they have and is at peace with knowing that everyone is taken care of.

• also, capricorns been running the game since their youth.

• when a capricorn child is free to express themselves, others will see that they have very strong personalities, like little bosses.

[boimlerkisser]

Anakin Skywalker. Is Brea's best friend. From childhood, even when they felt like no one in the galaxy understood them they always had each other. She loved him more than he ever knew. He loved so hard it tore him apart.

She survives the war, he doesn't. Not the same Anakin she held in her heart. She meets Luke, and Leia and she sees so much of him in them.

In a smile, a laugh, the look in their eyes when they're planning something, their fearlessnes, their cleverness. The playfulness they carry even when everything goes dark and she sees Anakin survived by them. She's not afraid to tell them about the friend she loved and lost, the father they deserve to remember, the one they'd never really know. They are him, and thats something that no one will ever take from them.

[hades-999]

Fun facts 😸

Davien

I don't know if anybody pointed that out, but in Puppeteer 2 Adrien copied the famous David statue's pose;

Creator; Michalangelo

It was created from 1501 to 1054

The statue symbolises Fearlessnes and Strengh

I don't know if it has any meaning or not, but because it's fun, here it is

[masterworkswar]

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[bavanisblog]

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[singridthird]

“For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessnes, the weight of that silence will choke us.” ⠀ ⠀ The illustration and quote above are from Audre Lorde’s essay The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.⠀ ⠀ When I first read this essay back in January, i didn’t think much of it but as time passes through the way of the world currently I find myself reading this essay on a weekly basis, reminding myself that this state of silence is serving no one. ⠀ We are all so afraid of defining ourself, our beliefs, our needs.⠀ Our inability to allow ourselves to be uncomfortable has plagued us for centuries. ⠀ ⠀ I’m tired of being afraid to speak out. Use your voice, your silence will not protect you. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #womenofillustration #womenwhodraw #justgirlproject #girlsmakingmagic #womenofcreation   #sadgirlsclub #gurlstalk feminismo #womenempowerment #women #audrelorde #endracism #queerart #queerillustrator #lgbtally #womenempowerment #intersectionalfeminism #girlgaze #feminineenergy #femaleillustrator #feminisme #feministasfuck #feministillustration #feministartist  #intersectionality #typography https://www.instagram.com/p/CBai4Eohm7j/?igshid=1760zmaqc9kop

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On the National Day of Prayer: Let us pray that our nation is on God’s side

close Video Study: 1 in 4 non-believers turn to prayer in crisis Father Jonathan Morris explains why on ‘Fox& Friends.SSSS Today is the National Day of Prayer. As a Christian, and a clergyman at that, every day is a daytime of devotion for me. But I am still grateful our nation deep-seateds aside a daylight for prayer. Prayer changes beings. Every day I pray, I know that it changes me and my life. Sometimes, I am even consecrated to realise change in others as I pray for them. For parties of sect, petition is an indispensable part of our relationship with God. All relations compel exchange, and petition is our chance to talk with God. In petition we share our hopes with God, and we listen for God’s hope for us. The Second Continental Congress established dates of prayer and fasting going back to the earliest years of our society. Many other national dates, including Thanksgiving, were set aside in the 1800 s. It was 1952 when the National Day of Prayer as we know it was enacted. Over these many years, our sentiment toward national prayer has changed. Primarily, there was a great deal of meeknes in the prayer. Sometimes beings fasted, going without food as a gesture of meeknes before God. The detail was to conform our nation to God’s will. If you read government address from the 1800 s, you’ll notes the fact that when presidents invoked God, they expressed hope that our person was on God’s side. They cried with humility. This is a far cry from the common assumption today that our person is always in the privilege, and that we must thereby was talking about confidence that God is on our area. Too often, we tell God what to do, instead of requesting God what we must do. The National Day of Prayer, at its excellent, offers all of us in this wonderful nation the gift of praying that we might be blessed by God’s wisdom and courage. The National Day of Prayer, at its best, offers all of us in this wonderful nation the offering of praying that we might be anointed by God’s wisdom and fortitude. We pray that we would ever know and do those circumstances God wills. This is not a epoch for using devotion to achieve whatever political aims we might wishing. It is rather a era for inviting God to guide our politics. My prayer as a Christian, is always to have the knowledge, concentration, and fearlessnes to be on God’s side. I’ll pray for right, agreement, and forgivenes for all. I’ll pray for freedom for all parties to prosper as the people God impelled them to be. I’ll pray for our nation to use those situations God has given us for the common good. I am a clergyman in the Episcopal Church, and The Book of Common Prayer is one of the precious of my religion. Today, I invite you to join me in mentioning these commands, from our prayer book, for our country. “Almighty God, who hast presented to us this good shore for our heritage: We humbly besought thee that we are able to ever prove ourselves a people mindful of thy regard and glad to do thy will. Anoint our moor with righteous industry, resound learn, and unadulterated styles. Save us from violence, schism, and confusion; from pride and pretension, and from every evil acces. Attack our immunities, and mode into one joined beings the multitudes introduced hither out of many kindreds and tongues. “Endue with the minds of the sense those to whom in thy List we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and serenity at home, and that, through observance to thy ordinance, we are able to evidence forth thy praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of succes, crowd our feelings with thankfulness, and in the day of hardship, suffer not our trust in thee to neglect; all which we query through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” Scott Gunn is an Episcopal priest and acts as executive director of Forward Movement. He is co-author of Faithful Debates: Inquiring the Way with Jesus. You can follow him on Twitter @scottagunn or speak his blog at www.sevenwholedays.org. Trending in Opinion On the National Day of Prayer: Cause us pray that our nation is on God’s place Read more: http :// www.foxnews.com/ ruling/ 2018/05/ 03/ on-national-day-prayer-let-us-pray-that-our-nation-is-on-gods-side.html http://dailybuzznetwork.com/index.php/2018/07/10/on-the-national-day-of-prayer-let-us-pray-that-our-nation-is-on-gods-side/

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A Cycling Legends Secret War Mission: Saving Italys Jews

Italy and bicycles–the first thing they bring to mind is likely the neo-realist masterpiece T he Bicycle Thieves , which will soon celebrate its 75 th commemoration. But there’s another story that’s even more powerful and all the more remarkable for being true-life: the tale of Gino Bartali, Italy’s wartime cycling champ and–unbeknownst to all but a few–secret agent for the Italian Resistance who saved hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust.

Gino Bartali was born in 1914, the son of a laborer and an embroiderer, in Ponte a Ema, a village along the Arno River a few miles outside Florence. When he passed 11, Bartali had to commute to school and bought a exploited bicycle to attain the trip. As he rode, he discovered an unique aptitude for cycling: He regularly blew past other riders, despite his poor gear.” At first, even I was astounded and humiliated by this uncovering ,” Bartali wrote in his memoirs. When he took a part-time task as a bicycle machinist in town, their capabilities was discerned by his boss, who persuasion Bartali’s willing mothers to let him haunt the athletic competitively. By the time he was 17, he had acquired his first race; he moved pro at 21, catching a motion of intense those who are interested in cycling among Italian sports fans who followed the endorses and their lives in the greatest of detail. In 1936, Bartali won the Giro d’Italia–Italy’s form of the Tour de France–and became a national hero. Even the pope became a bartalini , as his followers were called.

His victory wreaked him to the attention of Benito Mussolini, who had induced physical fitness and sports a centerpiece of his political program.” I don’t want a society of mandolin players ,” Il Duce famously quipped.” I want a population of soldiers .” Italians had claimed the heavyweight boxing championship, the World cup finals, and second place in the honour count at the Los Angeles Olympics. Now Mussolini craved a victory in the Tour de France–to prove the racial supremacy of the Italian parties. Bartali would represent his society at the 2,740 -mile race across the Pyrenees and Alps in 1938. In an epic recital in which he displayed what he viewed as critical to a cyclist’s success–a profound” ability for abiding “; at one point he began coughing up blood–Bartali wore the race-leader amber jersey through the streets of Paris to victory at the Parc des Princes velodrome.

With the prevail, Bartali grew “the worlds largest” celebrated athlete in Europe. The international press swarmed him. Triumphant Italians were expected to dedicate their victory to Il Duce, as boxer Primo Carnera had done. But Bartali was a devout Catholic–and the church was the only coerce strong enough to counter the Tyrants, “whos” militantly anti-religious. Bartali was an active member of Catholic Action, an association of laypeople with such powerful subsistence that Mussolini, who had shut down the YMCA and the Boy Scouts, could never seriously attack it.

Bartali refused to be used for Fascist publicity, and so thanked exclusively his fans for their carry and then laid his victory crown before a Madonna at the Notre-Dame-des-Victoires. The snub to Mussolini did not go unnoticed. Hopes for him to present Bartali with a medal were canceled, and newspapers were instructed to ignore his homecoming. One French writer was stupefied:” Not a cat at the develop depot. No unionized receipt. Good-for-nothing. I don’t understand .” And health risks of lonelines and exclusion was not the only one Bartali faced for his fearlessnes. The only other Italian to prevail the Tour, Ottavio Bottecchia, had also expressed out against the existing regime. He had died nine years earlier under strange events during a improve run.

The year 1938 was also a dark turning point for the Jews of Italy. Their home communities in Rome was the oldest in the world and Jews had been well-integrated into Italian civilization for centuries. But seeking to move closer to Nazi Germany, Mussolini played host to Hitler and passed anti-Semitic rules, banning Jews from particular professions, from academies, and depriving them of its most important privileges, such as the right to own property. Foreign-born Jews were stripped of their citizenship and placed in internment camps.

Although most Italian Jews were physically unharmed, the persecution resumed until the Allied invasion of Italy in the summer of 1943 toppled Mussolini and an truce was said. Within periods, however, German personnels dominated the north of the country and rehabilitated Il Duce, fractioning Italy in two as ferociou opposing continued. The threat grew horrendous as the Nazis took immediate action more deadly than the legalization of discrimination under Mussolini. The Germans and their Fascist friends embarked detaining Jews and mailing them east to death camps. On Oct. 16, 1943, even the Jews of Rome were rounded up.

This black event pushed another prominent anti-Fascist into action. The cardinal of Florence, Elia Angelo della Costa–who had pointedly refused to participate in revelries held for Hitler’s visit–summoned Bartali to the city’s storied Duomo. Della Costa, in collaboration with a local rabbi and the underground Jewish Desalem agency, was developing a network of hiding places in convents, monasteries, and other religion belongings, including the basilica of St. Francis at Assisi, where the bishop protected some 300 Jews was striving to escape the Nazis. The 71 -year-old cardinal was a spiritual mentor of Bartali’s and had presided over his marry and christened his son. Now he had a special assignment for him.

When Italy had declared battle on France and Britain three years earlier, Bartali had been drafted but saved front-line responsibility due to an irregular heartbeat. Instead, he was assigned to be a messenger for the military forces, a stroke of luck that allowed him to continue to use his bicycle and to race. Della Costa’s clandestine system was working to help Jews escape to safety in the south or into neutral countries. Crucial to its success was the ability to get forged identity papers and other untrue documents to the terrified refugees in hiding. As one of the only humen in Italy with a lawful excuse to motorcycle long distances and official granted permission to do so, Bartali would–Della Costa said–be the perfect courier. The cyclist agreed with the assignment.

Clad in his national race attire, Bartali concealed forged visas underneath his seat in his bicycle frame, often unbeknownst to his qualifying partners. He razzed thousands of miles from Rome to Venice to Genoa, extraditing his lifesaving black-market, often without satisfying its ultimate recipient. On his goes, Bartali was also able to obtain forward intelligence and coordinate its activities with smugglers working to move Jews across the border. At police checkpoints, those discussions unavoidably turned to cycling and Bartali would ask the guards not to touch his motorcycle, explaining that all the areas had been adjusted precise to maximize his accelerate. Had his merchandise been discovered, Bartali could have been executed on the spot.

In an even more dramatic subterfuge, Bartali would sometimes arrive in his national race colorings at the develop depot at Terantola, a major transit extent. Without fail, a large gang of supporters would notice the endorse and encircle him, distracting the police, who headed into the concoction to maintain order. In a well-coordinated action, underground partisans would simultaneously move Jews to a different train with lightning speed, casting them south to freedom instead of north to concentration camps. And Bartali not only gave the documentation and caused recreations. He once personally brought groupings of refugees to safety in the Swiss Alps by disguising them in a wagon behind his bicycle-under the pretense that it was an endurance-training proficiency.

Bartali too did his part in hiding his Jewish neighbours. When he was a young auto-mechanic in Florence, he had met a a Jewish lumber importer from Moldova appointed Giacomo Goldenberg, who was a friend of his cousin. After the passage of the anti-Jewish constitutions, Goldenberg had softly lived with their own families in a villa in the hills above Florence. The cousin had inspected him often and Bartali had on one occasion even raised Goldenberg’s son Giorgio a blue-blooded bicycle. Following the Nazi occupation, Bartali obscures Goldenberg and members of their families in an accommodation he owned in the city, soon moving them to a hidden basement where they sheltered until the liberation the next year.” He is not simply saved our lives but he saved the lives of hundreds of parties ,” recollected Giorgio Goldenberg.” He set his own life and his family’s in danger in order to do so .”

By 1944, with the Second World War raging, boasting happenings were largely canceled, and Bartali’s extend began to look suspicious. He was hauled in for inquisition at the notorious Villa Triste–the” House of Sorrow “– in Florence where Major Mario Carita, brutal head of Mussolini’s panicked Department of Special Business, tortured prisoners and extracted admissions to real or suspected violations( often with Neopolitan music playing on a piano ). Carita was persuasion Bartali was helping the Vatican in anti-Fascist pleasures despite his negations. By co-occurrence, one his questioners, Olesindo Salmi, had been his commanding officer during Bartali’s wartime service. Salmi was the cycling devotee who had allowed Bartali to razz a bicycle instead of a scooter to stay in condition. Now, the interrogator attested for the hostage:” He doesn’t lie ,” Salmi swore. Carita told Bartali go without further investigation.

After the struggle, an exhausted Bartali returned to competition. The” Iron Man of Tuscany” will continue to be prevail the Tour de France again in 1948, becoming the oldest guy to do so–dramatically surging ahead of the parcel at the Catholic pilgrimage town of Lourdes. His victory, passing during a period of dangerous civil strife in post-war Italy, united Italians and facilitated permeate somewhat a political powder keg.

Bartali rarely “was talkin about a” his task during the course of its struggle, sharing narratives with his son Andrea–but cuss him to secrecy. On reason, he would visit paints by Giotto at a monastery at Assisi, one of the focal points of the Underground, for a quiet instant of reflection.” Do good, but don’t talk about it ,” he told his son.” I don’t want to talk about it, or act like a hero. Heroes are those who died, who were injured, who invested numerous months in prison .” When Bartali died, his obituary mentioned the unifying effect of his Tour de France victory in 1948 and in passing his work with the partisans. It prepared no mention of his aid to his Jewish countrymen. His headstone does not even mention his athletic accomplishments.” He was very modest about it ,” noted another friend.” He maintained a profound sense that so many had suffered in much greater capacity than he had. He didn’t want to be in the spotlight or diminish the contributions of others .”

It was found that Bartali was responsible for saving 800 beings and that the network he was a part of rescued 9,000. In 2013, 14 times after his give, Bartali was given the honor of being named Righteous Among the Societies by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Israel. His son speaking at the ceremony.” I want to be remembered for my sport accomplishments ,” Andrea Bartali withdrew “his fathers” telling him.” Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their mind, in their middle, in their heart, in their thinker, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. I’m just a cyclist .”

This May, for the first time, the Giro d’Italia will start outside of Europe. The race will commence in Jerusalem and the first three theatres will be held throughout Israel before moving on to Italy. Bartali , no doubt, would have been proud that a race that defined his life and caused him the opportunity to save so many would bring its content of quietnes to the Holy sites that combined him and those he rescued.

At a epoch when so many in the world are growing on one another in indignation, Bartali’s actions deserve to be recognized.” Good is something you do , not something you talk about ,” he said.” Some medallions are pinned to your being , not to your case .”

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Introducing.....JAMIE LEE THURSTON

Country music fans on this side of the Atlantic have always reserved a very special place in their hearts for something as beautifully simple as a great country voice singing a great country song. That’s why I think so many are going to love Jamie Lee Thurston’s debut single, ‘Givin’ Up Breathin.’

Jamie Lee Thurston

The track, a co-write between Nashville based New Englander Thurston and George Teren (produced by Thurston and co-produced by Mike Purcell, who has also worked with Lynyrd Skynyrd, BR-549, and Waylon Jennings, amongst others), is that most quintessential of country songs: a story of heartache based on a true experience from the singer’s own life. Delivered in Thurston’s rich and bluesy baritone vocal style, he succeeds in sharing the pain of his loss by laying bare the depth of his love. The easy honesty of this revelation hints at Thurston being the kinda guy you could easily raise a beer or two with while trading stories of life’s ups and downs.

Indeed, if country songs could be classed as being about anything in particular, then it’s surely life’s ups and downs. And in that regard, not only has Thurston been there, done that, and worn the tee-shirt, he’s probably written some songs about it all, too! His talents secured Thurston a major record deal with Warner Bros. at one point in his career, but alas, as is so often the way in the music business, sometimes the business gets in the way of the music. And that’s exactly what happened. As changes were made within the corporate structure of the label, Thurston’s record – and all of the care, love, memories, and tears from which it was created – was temporarily sidelined, and eventually slipped right off the list of priorities for some of the new ‘suits’ at management level.

Front and centre is the place to be at any Jamie Lee show!

While those ‘suits’ may never have realised what they let slip through their fingers, Thurston never lost his fighting spirit. His natural sense of determination, inner-grit, and self-belief, has seen him stay strong throughout every storm he’s ever faced, coming out the other side not only stronger, but wiser too. In fact, he’s gone on to rack up some impressive career achievements when lesser spirits may well have folded.

All in all, Thurston can look back on a catalogue of nine albums, all of which demonstrate the scope of his creative talents, as seven were produced by himself, while he co-produced the aforementioned Warner Brothers album with Chuck Howard (who has also worked alongside Leann Rimes and Hank Williams Jnr), and a further collection was produced by Gregg Brown (who has also worked Travis Tritt and Tanya Tucker).

Attention to detail is a key factor in Jamie Lee’s songwriting.

Not only that, Thurston has celebrated cuts by Rodney Atkins (the Top 20 hit ’15 Minutes’), and Montgomery Gentry (‘I Ain’t Got It All That Bad’, which featured Hank Williams Jnr). He also had songs recorded by Trace Adkins and Chris Cagle, but the Adkins cut was the victim of a last-minute twist of fate and didn’t make the final album. Cagle, on the other hand, experienced some of music’s ups and downs himself by being dropped from his deal before the album with Thurston’s track could make it to stores.

It’s not just in the studio where Thurston shines, however. His boots have stepped into the spotlight and walked up to the mic on perhaps the most famous stage of them all, the Grand Ole Opry, on October 29th 2009. He has also opened for some of the most noteworthy country artists of all time, in Alabama, Charlie Daniels, and the Dixie Chicks. Plus, John Anderson, Mark Chesnutt, Travis Tritt, Jake Owen, Brad Paisley, and Jason Aldean. And that’s just a small sample of some the acts he’s shared a stage with. The latter two, of course, are still among the biggest names in American country and are familiar figures to Irish country fans following their appearances at the C2C festivals in recent years. As a writer, producer, and performer, Thurston is practically made of music. And that passion is ever present in the music he makes.

Jamie Lee on stage.

‘Givin’ Up Breathin’ is the first single to drop from Thurston’s forthcoming album, the thirteen track collection, ‘The Window’, scheduled for release early September in the States. And while ‘Givin’ Up Breathin’ is itself a song of love and loss in country’s most traditional sense, the album’s title track demonstrates another side to Thurston’s ability, that of a thoughtful and tender interpreter of song as he masterfully tells the story of a death-row inmate. With Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard, two of his most important influences, being no strangers to the territory of prison songs themselves in their time, it’s no surprise that Thurston’s own creative courage has seen him follow in their footsteps.

Fearlessnes and honesty in music and in songwriting tend to co-exist with fearlessness and honesty in life. In Thurston’s case this is certainly so. Alongside his music career, he’s also producing a documentary entitled, ‘Ghosts In His Eyes’, as part of a continuing drive to raise both awareness and funds for veterans who are dealing with P.T.S and T.B.I. If there’s any truth to the old saying that the measure of a man is shown most by what he’ll do for others, then this one fact tells you everything about what’s at the heart of Jamie Lee Thurston.

Oh, and he can write and sing one heck of a good country song into the bargain! That part is important, too!

Introducing…..JAMIE LEE THURSTON was originally published on HEM COUNTRY

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The Fifth Element at 20: gender-bending sci-fi or sexist room shambles?

Luc Bessons 1997 adventure boasted a wildly nonconformist reputation who repudiated gender descriptions, but also objectified women and are dependent upon a lot of men

Given that its supposed to be giving us fleeting, tantalising peeks of the nebulous future, Hollywood sci-fi is often surprisingly conservative. The new Alien movie boasts a lesbian couple among its gang of immigrants to another world, while there was plenty at the end of the debates over creators decision to give Sulu a male spouse in last years Star Trek: Beyond. And hitherto both these patterns are actually merely newsworthy because its so rare that we see anyone in space at all( surely in mainstream cinema) whos not heterosexual.

Star Wars fans hoping to see queer representation in the long-running tales have picked up on a few moments of intimacy between John Boyegas Finn and Oscar Isaacs Poe Dameron in The Force Awakens as evidence for a relationship. And theres little wrong with that, except that it does seem to be an example of extreme wishful thinking. But it might be worth noting that a full 20 years ago, Luc Bessons The Fifth Element gave us a hero so outrageously unconventional on both a gender issues and sexuality degree that it stirs Hollywoods current gentle tilt towards a most diverse depiction of humanitys future look pretty weak in comparison. In Ruby Rhod, playing with eye-bulging, thrusting virility by the young Chris Tucker, the frenetic sci-fi romp presented us with a hero of rare gay vigor, more than two decades before devotees sidestepped Marvel to give Captain America a boyfriend.

Decked out in extravagant Jean-Paul Gaultier attires, and spending most of the movie either squealing in high-camp fright at the seeing of aliens taking over an indulgence intergalactic cruise liner or luring fluttery-eyed cavity vixens into virtual orgasms simply by his presence, Rhod is a persona whose abandonment of gender criteria is so heightened that they seem to have arrived through a wormhole from its first year 3000, never mind 2263( The Fifth Elements ostensible time frame ). At one point Tucker chooses to be called Miss Ruby, and hitherto there is a definite indication of phallicism in that rock whiz surname. Furthermore, Rhod appears to be the very definition of red-blooded manlines. Is it any meditate that Prince was the pattern for the character, with Tucker simply banked once it became clear the purple one was not going to sign on the dotted way?

How ahead of his time was Besson here? Is Rhod the film-makers image of national societies so comfortable in its own skin that gender characters have slowly defrosted away, or simply a thought of the directors nutty, French comic book-inspired sci-fi bends, a progressive bone formed solely by manner happenstance? Does the talkshow multitudes apparent heterosexuality undermine the fearlessnes of the specific characteristics inclusion, or add to the sense that societies of the future might not really care who their heroes adoration , nor how they define themselves, added they rock a high-necked leopard-print jumpsuit like it was designed for them at a genetic rank?

The inclusion of Rhod is just Bessons only shocking call in The Fifth Element. We should not forget that the Frenchman too imparts us a female Christ figure in Milla Jovovichs title character described throughout as a supreme being and saviour. And yet theres an dispute to be made that these unorthodox reputations exclusively stand out so much precisely because Bessons space epic is otherwise so crushingly republican.

The real hero of The Fifth Element is Bruce Williss Korben Dallas, a blue-collar lily-white guy with members of the military background whos announced in to save “the worlds” from a monstrous pitch-black planet of flame and fatality, despite the fact that Jovovich has just been hyped up as the answer to all humanitys devotions. Its Dallas who rescues her after shes blown half to bits by Gary Oldmans scheming Zorg; Dallas who spots the other four constituents by digging them out of an foreigner singers stomach and Dallas who works out how to loose all five constituents to destroy the black whirling planet of doom just before it reaches the Earth. For good evaluate, he then gets to have sex with female room Jesus as the recognitions reel, instead in the form of 60 s James Bond.

Other aspects of The Fifth Element are far more problematic, from the movies depiction of wanton identikit cabin crew, cleavage-thrusting future McDonalds waitresses and Dallass invisible father, whos perpetually calling him up for a nag. It seems that this is a future predominantly inhabited by mindless seat bimbos and stereotypes of middle-aged females. It doesnt help that( apart from Jovovich) pretty much everybody in a position of power, from Tom Lister Jrs president to Brion James General Munroe, is a man.

But perhaps its unjust to judge Bessons film according to progressive mores in 2017. This is, after all, a movie that was reverie up by the film-maker as a comic book-obsessed girl, at a time when the queerest stuff about mainstream room movies was C3POs obvious close bond with R2-D2. It is the very definition of boys own cinema. Perhaps we should be content that in the virile, lissom organize of Rhod, the French director composed a hero so eccentrically kinky that their like will surely not be seen in big-budget Hollywood sci-fi for at least the next 20 years.

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