First, from the Bad Astromomy Blog, a little more "holy crap!" for your life:The full size image is a whopping 7227 x 3847 pixels! Warning: you'll lose an hour of your life gaping at it.That, duh, is Saturn, taken by the ever-amazing Cassini spacecraft. It's actually 75 different exposures stitched together, and was taken on August 12, just a little over a day after Saturnian equinox, when the ...
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www.lanier2.imeem.comLuther Vandross was one of the most successful R&B artists of the 1980s and '90s. Not only did he score a series of multi-million-selling albums containing chart-topping hit singles and perform in sold-out tours in the U.S. and around the world, but he also took charge of his music creatively, writing or co-writing most of his songs and arranging and producing his records. ...
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I was going to post a different Christmas song today but with the new MOG and all, I figured something fun and upbeat would be better than something slow.Today's track is one of my favorites from Luther Vandross's Christmas album This Is Christmas. It's called "The Mistletoe Jam (Everybody Kiss Somebody)" and it's a fun Christmas track for grown ups. Enjoy!
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Interesting how a playlist finds just the right song when you need to hear it. Missing my dad this holiday season - he passed unexpectedly New Year's Day 2005 and hard to believe its been almost 2 years.Dance With My Father Again just played and brought me to tears....happy ones mostly since the last time I saw him was Oct 2005 and we WERE dancing at my niece's sweet 16 party. Hearing the...
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It's nights like this that I realize how much I will miss Luther Vandross. Sitting in the dark, listening to Superstar, every note he sings... there's this feeling I get, when I REALLY connect with a song, like the notes are being played inside of me. It's weird (I think it might be a heart condition from all the smoking), but Superstar does that to me every time. And it's a beautiful song. I'm...
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The 80's soulster gets the electro-synth treatment. Filters abundant!DOWNLOAD: Luther Vandross 'Never Too Much (ODahls K-love remix)'
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We were on our way to Las Vegas from California when my mom played Luther V. pretty much the whole way there, all four hours long!
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So Amazing - An All-Star Tribute To Luther Vandross (2005)When vocalist Luther Vandross passed away in 2005, R&B/soul music lost one of its leading lights. On SO AMAZING, many of Vandross's friends and admirers pay tribute to the beloved singer with stirring renditions of his best-known songs. Artists that influenced Vandross (Patti LaBelle, Aretha Franklin) and were influenced by him (John Leg...
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Forever For Always For Luther (2004)Through over a quarter-century of pouring his heart into the most tender of love songs, of stirring the most passionate of fires in women everywhere, Luther Vandross has become synonymous with smooth soul. Therefore, it's not surprising that his songs would translate readily to the smoothest of jazz interpretations. On 2004's FOREVER, FOR ALWAYS, FOR LUTHER, ...
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Just visualize for a moment that your cultural idol has passed away. Today: David Antrobus on Gun Club frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Chris Osmond appreciates the varied career of David Byrne, Courtney Young pens a letter to Michael Jackson and Diepiriye Kuku on the death of Luther Vandross.Edited by Justin Dimos and Produced by Sarah Zupko Death, the dirt nap, the longest blink, pushing up the d...
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