On December 7, 2014, Bruno Mars was chosen to honor Sting at the Kennedy Center Honors.
He prepared a special medley of "So Lonely" (from The Police, 1978) direct to "Message in a Bottle" (1979). Sting was visibly moved in the audience, and after the show declared that Bruno captured the essence of the songs better than many people who have ever played them.
Leonard Nimoy performing “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" from his 1968 album 'Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy' on the short lived variety show Malibu U, 1967.
On Su*cide and the Beauty They Never Told You About
I’m not here to give you the usual talk about suicide. Not the guilt trip, not the shame, not the hollow slogans. I’m here to tell you the truth.
Su*cide robs you of the most powerful part of being human: the comeback.
The taste of victory after years of defeat. The light that only makes sense once you've known darkness. The version of yourself forged in hell and risen from the ash. Not in spite of your suffering, but because of it.
That’s the quiet dichotomy of existence: the great only comes through the terrible. Contrast is the cost of beauty. And it is so beautiful on the other side.
When you’re in the pit, you think you’re alone. You’re not. Some of us have been there. Curled up in shame, drowning in regret, believing it’s over.
It wasn’t.
We didn’t die. And now we carry something the world desperately needs: PROOF. Proof that you can lose everything. Your career, your honor, your brothers, even your will to live, and still return. Changed. Sharper. Wiser. With a voice that can reach into the abyss and pull someone else out.
You don’t see it now, but one day your scars will speak louder than someone else's shame. One day, your story will be the thing that convinces someone else not to pull the trigger.
Especially if you've made mistakes. Especially if it was your fault. It is still possible to come back.
And when you do? You'll realize the ones who seemed to live pampered, struggle free lives weren’t lucky. YOU WERE.
Because you trained in the abyss. And you came back with fire in your soul that nobody can easily ignore.
Bamburgh Castle is more than 1,400 years old, and it looks ready for war.
Before England existed, this place was already a seat of kings and a symbol of who controlled the North Sea coast.
Today, we build glass boxes that can't last one lifetime.
This original medieval-style dance piece is in G minor, with a chord progression that alternates between Gm and Cm, incorporating variations like Gm6 and Cm6 for that hypnotic flow.
‘Every man is searching for the place he belongs…’
The late great RICHARD BURTON in reflective mood, post-Taylor divorce, off the booze, being interviewed in his home town of Pontrhydyfen in 1977.
Happy Birthday, Andy Garcia
The first film I saw him in was The Untouchables (1987), and what an entrance. It almost went another way: De Palma wanted Garcia as the villain, Nitti. Andy refused and pushed to work with Sean Connery… He won over DePalma and got his wish.
Tolkien did not write this quote in any of his books. It’s a cheap knockoff from the movie of what he actually wrote in The Two Towers:
"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."