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7
Sep 11

Jimmy Kimmel pays tearful tribute to his Uncle Frank

Anthony Jones – Celebrity News Service Reporter

Los Angeles, CA, United States (Celebrity News Service) – Jimmy Kimmel had a rare tearful moment during his late-night show on early Wednesday when he paid tribute to his Uncle Frank, who appeared on his show for years and died last month.

Frank Potenza, who served as security on the show and for plenty of humorous moments, died on August 20th at the age of 77. Kimmel revealed he had a “few different kinds of cancers.

“Listen, I’m gonna try to do this without crying, but I’m probably gonna fail,” Kimmel said. “But just turn away or something, because it’s embarrassing. It really is.”

Kimmel joked about how strange it was that he’s now considered the “late” Uncle Frank when he was never ever late for anything, showing up sometimes 12 hours early for show tapings or flights.

He also joked that Uncle Frank had planned to live until 103, if only to “stick them for another 25 years of pension checks.”

Kimmel’s past guests and friends, like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and fellow comedians, like Kathy Griffin and Jeffrey Ross, showed the host plenty of support during his vulnerable moment.

“Attended the sweetest, funniest, most moving memorial for my late pal ‘Uncle Frank’ on the JKL set. Good job @JimmyKimmel,” Griffin tweeted.

“My condolences @jimmykimmel. I loved Uncle Frank and was blessed to know him,” Johnson said. “Stay strong brother.”

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21
Apr 11

The Meditation of Sitar

The Meditation of Sitar

For me, its got to be the drone. That familiar note, heard so many ways, but yet somehow always the same. Whether its the chanting of the Buddhist monks in the high mountains of Tibet, or the drone of the Aboriginal Didjeridu proclaiming its voice into the Australian outback, or the mesmerizing sound of the sitar, its all somehow the same and connected. Its something primal, recognizable, something that beckons to our core, the indescribable feeling of ultimate peaceful Zen.

The Sitar is the perfect example of this Universal note. As I listen to Ravi Shankar begin his performance, he begins with this droning sound, the sympathetic note that so defines this beautiful Indian music. He is accompanied during this concert with a Sur Bahar player, which is a deeper bass version of the Sitar, and a Tampura player providing the sympathetic drone. Also joining them are two tabla players.

After establishing the drone, we are lead on a journey as the Sitar notes play along, like a butterfly carelessly flittering in the wind. The notes just seem to naturally fall into place, and the bends add a sense of emotion and feeling. Like the Sitar is telling its sad tale of suffering and hardship. It is truly an instrument with a voice. At a seemingly non-redetermined moment, the tabla begin to add a rhythmic sense to the music. The beat is not what you might think of as steady and predictable. Instead, its full of twists and turns like you are traveling sometimes quickly and sometimes at great clip through the hot streets of Calcutta. The sitar swells and subsides with the mood of the tabla, all the musicians somehow completely connected in a web of the perfect tonal meditative moment, yet each exploring his or her own path of musical exploration; it is truly improvisational music, and I’m sure no two performances are quite the same.

I am filled with a feeling of peace, as the sound of this strange yet somehow familiar music allowed my mind to fill with images of mythical creatures, beautiful and strange lands, and wonderful and mysterious people. I begin to think of that Universal sound again. I can almost hear a didjeridoo player up there and realize he is fitting in just nicely. My Tibetan monks join in. Now we have a Global jam!

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23
Sep 10

Pants On The Ground Ringtone

Most of us can remember the first time we heard one of our favorite (or not so favorite) songs coming from someone’s pocket or purse and realized it was their cell phone alerting them to an incoming call or text. Many see that moment as the moment peace and quiet died: the moment digital devices went too far. The rest of us recognized it as a sign that technology was finally allowing music the presence in our lives we had always desired it to have. Music conveys emotions in ways words can only dream of.

When I found out that calls from friends no longer had to be announced by some cheesy MIDI tune, I was so excited that I was willing to pay to use songs I already owned as ringtones. It didn’t hit me that I was getting ripped off until I started realizing that the ringtones I was buying were not even songs that I genuinely loved, but simply the best stuff available. Even now I shudder at the thought of some of the over-played radio hits I used back then. Ok, I thought, so technology is pretty amazing; surely there is some way around this, some way to use the songs I love and have already paid for. So I talked to some of my more technologically inclined friends and discovered that there are a few ways to do it yourself. However, the process was somewhat complicated and time-consuming, and we lost interest after a few songs.

Nowadays, there is a much larger selection of songs available as ringtones, as well as a multitude of make-your-own-ringtone websites, but until recently most of the above cost money, even if you owned the song from which you were creating a ringtone. iTunes’ ringtone creation program for the iPhone is probably the worst, because it requires you to purchase the song from iTunes AND to pay for its conversion into a ringtone. However, the other day I was surfing the Web and randomly came across this site called Mad Ringtones.

Not only is the use of this site free, but the control it gives you over the creation of your ringtones is unlike anything I have ever seen. Not only can you decide the length of your ringtone clip, but you can choose to cut entire portions of the song out, allowing you to make your own comical remixes of songs, skip annoying verses, whatever. And the speed is amazing. Literally, in a few minutes you can turn any sound file into a ringtone that works on virtually any phone.

You can even use YouTube videos! After discovering this site I have regained my original excitement over custom ringtones. http://www.madringtones.org —check it out. And here’s “Pants On The Ground Ringtone” download link!

Markus Merk
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