CLEAN DRINKING WATER FOR ALL
1 Fact: 1 billion people do not have clean drinking water. Where: Africa and India are most affected.
The threat: More people are lost in the world through this situation than war.
The solution: We can make a difference through UNICEF Tap Project. If you want to, please do.
True fact 2: For as little as $10, one person can have clean drinking water for a lifetime.
That’s like a beer at a Hollywood club with the tip. Amazing aye! Act. Bump this post on too. Let’s flow. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.25.10~
REFORMED HEROIN ADDICT HELEN BAYLOR, SINGS ALL OF ME, FOR CHRISTMAS 2010
“Mould me in your hands, into a vessel you can use”–song lyrics, the incomparable Helen Baylor
At this minute in Hollywood, a certain malpracticing ‘doctor’ has been accusing a certain A-Listed actress of being a non-reformed and current heroin addict, for his own try hard publicity. This woman has children. And he’s doing this at Christmas time. What a raping grinch!
This is what a real reformed heroin addict does look like. Drug addiction is a disease like any other that is nothing to be proud of or ashamed of either. It’s just something that some good people are or have been afflicted by. Many people in Hollywood, New York and Australia are afflicted by heroine addiction.
This real reformed heroine addict (above) is so beautiful on the inside. Her name is Helen Baylor and for our West Hollywood Christmas Special, Helen sings All of Me live, because in her life, she credits overcoming heroin dependancy on her faith in God. In this song she offers up her life as a broken gift, full of the good, the bad and the plain ugly facts of her life. So powerful! Ms. Baylor makes me bawl my face off when she sings. If you hear her life story, you’ll bawl your face off too. Yet Helen ‘aint ever graced a cover of a tabloid or a visible-to-all magazine. Why is that I wonder? She’s a total winner.
I love her. Stars don’t get more real than Helen Baylor this Christmas. Her story belongs in a future Hollywood film. Helen Baylor’s life is the freaking Christmas story. No one can deny Helen her Christmas story. If you tried, she’d sing you out of the ball park. Go lady! Sing the Christmas blues. Merry Christmas people, especially ya’ll in West Hollywood. This year we are celebrating grinch-freeness in our lives at Christmas.
We are celebrating living lives beyond lies and falsity too. 2011′s hot American goal. It’s actually a miracle many of us are even having a Christmas this year and that we are choosing to. Truly, it is. We overcame a lot this year in two years of the most hideous economy ever, where we still watched the greedy get greedier and act like spoiled children, more uglier to me than heroine addicts are, wanting more so blatantly. That stuff was sick! Average people perhaps like ourselves all got a bit thinner and came out on top this year, still smiling. Wow! How cool are all you people? You’re the best! Let’s keep at it then. Grinch-kicking has become my new sport. Join me in it, in making the world a sweeter place in 2011. Meanness, stingyness (the flipside of greed), let’s kick it to the curb when we see it, to win. Up!
Click on Helen’s picture above to see a winner shine drug free. Her gratitude is medicine. Can’t get enough of her spirit to celebrate living life to the fullest with healthy respect for the gift of life. Wow!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.22.10~
SILENT NIGHT IS THE no.1 CHRISTMAS CAROL OF THE UK
“With the dawn of redeeming grace. Glories stream from heaven afar”–Christmas, Hollywood 2010.
Silent Night tops the U.K’s Christmas carol poll this year.
Music licensing company PPL, have registered 1800 songs with a Christmas theme but the Austrian song, Silent Night is viewed as the best. ”Everyone from punk band The Dickies right through to Sinead O’Connor has recorded it, which exemplifies just how much it resonates with all different types of artists,” a PPL spokesperson said.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.21.10~
BOB DYLAN’S LYRICS SOLD AT SOTHEBY’S TO HEDGE FUND MANAGER FOR $422,500
Bob Dylan - the great songwriter of America – wrote anthems that have written American history.
It’s no surprise then that Mr Dylan’s handwritten lyrics for The Times They Are A-Changin‘ landed a whopping, $US422,500 at Sotheby’s in New York. Hedge-fund manager Adam Sender beat five other bidders for the folk-music artifact.
”Bob Dylan’s lyrics are not terribly rare,” said Selby Kiffer, senior vice-president and head of books and manuscripts at Sotheby’s.
”He has a tremendous output. However, to have lyrics of such a seminal song is unusual.”
And how exactly has a hedge fun manager got this kind of dosh to throw around on amazing works of art like this? A-ha! *jokes*
To all of us, who don’t have a lazy almost-half-a-mil stashed in the milk money jar to buy an original Bob Dylan penned masterpiece, here’s the lyrics to the song after the leap. Enjoy. Pure poetry.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.12.10~
WORLD PEACE, POLYNESIAN MUSIC – HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE by ADEAZE
To love our enemies is where true love begins
Peace is like a harmonious river that always flows over the rocks and hate-hurled boulders of the human frailties and short-sighted misunderstandings of history’s wars–Horiwood 2010′s for World Peace
Two brothers of New Zealand ask one question in song. That question is very pertinent for all leaders of the civilized world today who claim to know what Peace is, when dishing out Peace Awards on a global stage.
It is a question penned by the Isle of Man born and Australia raised Gibb brothers (of The Bee Gees) of the UK:
How deep is your love?
Here’s Adeaze of New Zealand with that question with their performance as sung by brothers 9z and Viiz Tupa’i of Otara - South Auckland, in The Supercity of New Zealand.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.28.10. Lyrics follow after the jump:~
CAFE AU LAIT FOR TWO AT THE POLYNESIAN SOUL CAFE – WEST HOLLYWOOD 11.28.10
Malo e lelei from California via Samoan-Kiwis in Hawaii singing the universally loved, ancient poetic psalm of King David of Israel. :)
Music from two brothers of the group, Adeaze.
Salamo e luasefulu ma le fitu
O le fuaiupu muamua
Ma le fuaiupu e sefulu ma le fa
The Lord is my light and my salvation
Whom shall I fear Lord
The Lord is the strength of my life
Whom shall I be afraid
Wait on the Lord
Be of good courage
And he shall strengthen your heart
Wait I say on the Lord, wait I say on the Lord
The Lord is my light and my salvation
Whom shall I fear Lord
VERSE 2
O le atua o lo’u malamalama
Ma lo’u fa’aolataga
O ai ou te fefe iai
O le atua o ia o le malosi
I lo’u olaga
O ai ou te fefe iai
Fa a ta li mo le atua
Ia fa ama losi
E fa amalosi lo’u agaga
Fa a ta li mo le atua
Fa a ta li mo le atua
Chorus
Whom shall I be afraid – till end
[Lyrics via sing365.Com]
~A singing birthday card for The Maori Rose of Sharon of Nga Puhi and Ngati Whatua Maori tribes, on her birthday, 2010. Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.28.10. Excuse distortion, Polynesian artists are still waiting on times to change, before we can truly rock it out in Hollywood in a culturally meaningful way. In the meantime, this is it! Enjoy.~
PRAY – JUSTIN BIEBER MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERE
He Waiata Karakia Mo Te Ao a Justin Bieber
Baruch atah adonai eloheinu melech ha’olam she’asah
nisim la’avoteinu bayamim haheim baz’man hazeh.
Click on image to watch JB’s world premiere of Pray Music Video.
“Wrote this song thinking of Michael Jackson‘s Man in the Mirror and we are donating a portion of the proceeds from every album sold to CHILDREN’s MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITALS.”
Justin Bieber premieres his new music video for the timely song, Pray. This performance from the American Music Awards recently here in California.
[Image: Candles of remembrance burning brightly at The Holy Trinity Anglican Church at Greymouth, New Zealand after a service remembering the 29 lost miners and providing solace for grieving precious families and friends of these lost lads. Photo Mark Mitchell].
Lyrics:
Ohh Ohh Ohh .. and I pray
I just cant sleep tonight
Knowing that things ain’t right
Its in the papers, its on the tv, its everywhere that I go
Children are crying
Soldiers are dying
Some people don’t have a home
But I know there’s sunshine behind that rain
I know there’s good times behind that pain, hey
Can you tell me how I can make a change
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I lose my appetite, knowing kids starve tonight
Am I a sinner, cause my dinner is still on my plate
Ooo I got a vision, to make a difference
And its starting today
Cause I know there’s sunshine behind that rain
I know there’s good times behind that pain, hey
Heaven tell me how I can make a change
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
For the broken-hearted
I pray for the life not started
I pray for all the ones not breathing
I pray for all the souls in need.
I pray. Can you give em one today.
I just cant sleep tonight
Can someone tell how to make a change?
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and I pray
I pray …
I close my eyes and pray
Baruch atah adonai eloheinu melech ha’olam asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu l’hadlik neir shel Chanukah.
[This image: Chanukah "Festival of Lights" ornaments and Christmas season lighting, Little Russia - West Hollywood California USA. Photographed 2 minutes ago from my place].
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.27.10~
VELVET REVOLVER, “FALL TO PIECES” LIVE IN HOUSTON, TEXAS 2005
“When the memories die, I’m waiting. And I find you – falling down”–Velvet Revolver.
You know when good rock bands need to emerge, when footage of a rock band live in concert in2005 is rating hot today like a leading rock bands recent concert. It denotes a trend that people want rock music that has lyrics with depth.
This is the case with Velvet Revolver and their Houston Texas concert footage that is being released on DVD. It’s U2 status hot news today within American borders. Exciting news for rock music proponents.
Heres Spin Magazine writers with the story: “While Scott Weiland has officially left Velvet Revolver to record and tour (or not tour) with his original moneymaking act, Stone Temple Pilots, and the remaining members of VR are currently auditioning singers, a new DVD that revisits the band’s heyday arrives Nov. 16. Watch a concert performance of “Fall to Pieces” below.
Live in Houston features a 2005 gig starring the band’s original lineup: Weiland, guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan, drummer Matt Sorum, and guitarist Dave Kushner. Besides Velvet Revolver hits like “Fall to Pieces” and “Slither,” the 78-minute set also includes versions of STP hits “Sex Type Thing” and “Crackerman,” and GNR staples “It’s So Easy” and “Used to Love Her.”
[Tee shirt art today as perhaps some fitting pop cultural commentary - Red Velvet lettering on White Cotton with Sequins, The Elvis Jesus collection, made in China - Horiwood.Com's own. As purchased from the hot retail stores in West Hollywood]
BROOKE FRASER MUSIC AND FLAGS ON A GOLD DUST RUNWAY – VICTORIA’S SECRET FASHION SHOW – PART IV
Models of the World appear as flags for Victoria Secret’s Annual runway show, New York 2010. The show had a gold dust trail runway this year for a bit of fun. Here’s the models and the show.
Flavia Oliveira gets her strut action on for Victoria’s Secret Runway Show 2010.
Model Anya wears the wings this year for Victoria’s Secret, America.
Russian model Karolina walks the gold dust catwalk for Victoria’s Secret in America.
Like the colors of Benetton, colorful fun in fashion as a metaphor of universality for all people. Hot!
~Music, Kiwi folk pop gospel princess, Brooke Fraser with Flags from her new album Flags. Check Brooke out. She’s the daughter of a fine rugby football player, Bernie Fraser. Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.11.10. Images via CBS News, Special edition~
POP ART – STAR SPANGLED BANNER, REBUEN PATERSON ART AND HOLLYWOOD MOVIE MARKETING
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
To listen to the best live version of the SSB, that’s found here:
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Lyrics: Star Spangled Banner.
Artwork: Burlesque movie poster, Hollywood movie marketing imagery, bus stop, Hollywood Blvd – Hollywood & Highland.
Artwork II: Reuben Patterson, artist – New Zealand. Artwork name: Lightning Strikes, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice, But It All Comes Down To You (2003): glitterdust on canvas (3 panels) total size 1014 x 3042mm.
Made in America and New Zealand. Pop Art.
Song words of SSB extra verse, follow after the leap:
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.7.10~
MILEY CYRUS SONG LYRICS WATCH – WHO OWNS MY HEART? LOVE OR ART?
Rock Mafia: “You know I want to believe that we’re a masterpiece, but sometimes its hard to tell in the dark. Who owns my heart? Is it Love. Or is it Art?”
Miley Cyrus asks this question of America and her music peers in the music game. Do we have love in our hearts? Or are we just aestheticism worshippers? Not a bad question to posit, in an age of facebook, twitter, myspace, google and mobile telephony culture of our digital age. A glossy photoshopped picture, or a stripped back ‘reality pic’ being the currency of our times. Music too. Words third.
The song, uses the words “creation,” “masterpiece” and “rock mafia.” And there’s the vibe of experimenting in her lyrics, like American pop or rock stars do at her age in their song lyrics. It’s the tradition of rock n’ roll. ‘Art’ is a word ‘Gaga’ has convinced the world she owns. ‘Masterpiece’ is Kanye West’s word, Gaga’s too. Creation, is a word Cyrus perhaps is owning. (more…)
CLOSER TO FINE
The darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable
And the lightness has a call that’s hard to hear.
Lyrics – Closer to Fine, Indigo Girls
~What beautiful lyrics, expressing a cry of a generation. More light needed. Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.27.10~
JODIE FOSTER ON STAYING A LOYAL FRIEND TO MEL GIBSON
Music: Dave Dobbyn with Loyal, a song written about his wife deparating from Dave in his rocker years, but with forgiveness, she later took him back. He’s a lucky man our Dave. This black and white retro video is done in one take. Loves. Loyal lyrics follow after Jodie Fosters words on loyalty below.
Words: Jodi Foster. Who says of bad boy Mel Gibson: “The second I met him [working on Maverick in 1994], I said, ‘I will love this man for the rest of my life… When you love a friend, you don’t abandon them when they’re struggling … But more importantly, he is and has been a true and loyal friend. I hope I can get him through this dark moment.”
Mel is like The Darkness in your stereo, but on repeat, however Jodie’s message of loyalty, totally lightens Mel up. What a friend. Loyalty always rocks.
POETRY FOR INDIA’S SLAIN – PURVA OF EARTHY MIND’S PICK
When the snow gets up your sari, think back on the price of freedom, and pose for the photograph, in the humor of the moment. This is global family today.
Image: Purva writes of her father… with grandmom in Kashmir, 27 years ago.
Purva of Earthy Mind writes in remembering women, this Independance Day for India the song lyrics of the song of this day in the land denoted by the Taj Mahal:
V A N D E M A T A R A M
Sujalam suphalam malayaja shitalam,
Shasyashyamalam Mataram!
Shubhra jyostna-pulakita yaminim,
Phullakusumita-drumadala shobhinim
Suhasinim sumadhura bhashinim,
Sukhadam varadam Mataram!
Trimshakotikantha-kalakala-ninada karale
Dvitrimshakoti bhujair dhrita-khara karavale
Abala kena ma eta bale!
Bahubaladharinim, namami tarinin,
Ripudalavarinim Mataram!
POSTWAR AMERICAN ART 1945 by R.E ANDERSON
In 1945, the men who were fortunate enough to return from serving in World War II, became heroes of recovery. Defenders of liberty.
These days, men (women and children) are caught up in a global economic war, so you don’t need to wear a military or marine uniform, to still be a soldier or a hero of this rebuilding effort in the world. You can be forgiven too, for feeling like you’re recovering from fighting for country in a war. The war is invisible, so perhaps it’s highly likely, that you have been.
This 1945 painting in oil by artist R.E Anderson speaks today. Courage and strength to serve one’s country. Let’s make America stronger.
[Painting, Aunt E's art collection archives]
As I write these words in a cafe in Hollywood, Journey‘s song Faithfully is being sung by Gregg Rolie, from Journey’s 1983 album Frontiers. Here’s the song for your entertainment. Lyrics follow after the jump. What a beautiful song. Have a great day. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 8.26.10~ (more…)
JUSTIN GASTON IS ALL ABOUT THE LEONARD COHEN KING DAVID SONG
JustinMGaston has been Leonard Cohen iPodding. He tweets Leonard’s timeless lyrics: ”Your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.”
Models with guitars! Always smart to tweet a songwriting great. Gaston has good taste in music.
In other news, Rupert Murdoch wants the new ‘short, snappy, stories’ format for making his media iPad friendly. Bro’s onto a winner with that concept. Nice idea.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 8.15.10~
NICKI MINAJ, YOUR LOVE LYRICS SING OF ACTION
No one can break a shawty situation down, like a black female rapper. That’s why we love Nicki Minaj here in America.
Love is an allusive thing in the fame game. But according to Nicki, love can be found in people of action. Not a bad philosophy.
In my [limited] observations of love, I have noticed that lust sits back and takes. Love does something always and gives.
Full fly girl lyrics follow from Minaj after the jump. She’s a fusion of Rihanna and Lil Kim with her sound and look, she hot. Moving from gimmicky, cartoonish presence, to developing a unique sound of her own. Progress and confidence looks good on Nicki Minaj.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 7.26.2010~
POP ICONOGRAPHY: BLUE SUEDE SHOES IN AMERICA
One for the economy: Just dance. That’s always how we roll… :)
“One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready… now…. You can do anything but don’t step on my blue suede shoes–Elvis Presley, American King of Rock N’ Roll.
[This one is for the House of Royal Heights]
[Song lyrics subtext: Money (Grow the Economy) + "The Show" (Entertain and Amuse) + Respect (Protect America's Liberty/ Borders) + Fashion & Mojo (Blue Suede Shoes = Expression of Sexy/Cool]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.22.2010~
HALF OF MY HEART BY JOHN MAYER IS GROOVY
Groovy music by John Mayer. Here’s his new single Half of My Heart.
Lyrics follow: (more…)
BEYONCE: SWEET DREAM LYRICS
At the summit of European entertainment’s greatest music awards show, that was broadcasted worldwide to ’532 million homes’ … (quite a substantial global platform for a message to be communicated from)… singer Beyonce Knowles peformed the song Sweet Dreams.. Go here to watch.
532 million homes worldwide saw Bee perform. Her lyrics (the message) follows:
BEYONCE IN NEW ORLEANS
She can back it up. Beyonce turns on the Sasha Fierce entertainment at the 2009 Essence Music Festival, Friday in New Orleans.
Again Beyonce shows why she’s every bit a star.
[wire image]
For Queen Bee’s lyrics for Ego.. read on: (more…)
FARRAH FAWCETT NEWS + 10 HOT HOLLYWOOD NEWS POSTS RIGHT NOW ON HORIWOOD.COM
The passing of Hollywood icon, Farrah Fawcett is on the lips of everyone in Hollywood and the great City of Angels today.
On the day of Farrah Fawcett’s death and passing, here’s what the headlines look like today in Hollywood, right now and right here on Horiwoood.Com
2. FARRAH FAWCETT TRIBUTES: THE CITY OF ANGELS MOURNS
3. FARRAH FAWCETT: AN ANGEL PASSES AWAY IN THE CITY OF ANGLES
4. TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN HAS A RECORD BREAKING BOX OFFICE WEDNESDAY
5. LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS WINS IM A CELEBRITY GET ME OUT OF HERE
6. OK! MAGAZINE SAY ROBERT PATTINSON TEMPTS KRISTEN STEWART TO BE WITH HIM IN NEW YORK
7. TWILIGHT WEDNESDAY: TWILIGHT & NEW MOON POSTS ON HORIWOOD.COM 6.24.09
8. CHELSEA HANDLER ON JON GOSSELIN’S NEW REALITY TV SHOW NAME
9. IS WILL I AM THE NEXT STEVIE WONDER OF AMERICA
Live your life to the fullest. Smile lots, give lots, be beautiful from the heart… and have Courage To Love and live always. Peace ya’ll.
11 HOT POSTS RIGHT NOW
Although Star Magazine claims that Brad Cooper and Jennifer Aniston are an item to sell their magazine, Brad Cooper continues to say, that they are just friends.
In Hollywood, here’s your ten + 1 hot entertainment and celebrity news posts scorching up viewers hits on Horiwood.Com right now. Enjoy!
HOT POST: STEPHEN MOYER OF TRUE BLOOD SINKS HIS FANGS INTO TWILIGHT’S ROBERT PATTINSON’S MOVIE AUDIENCES
1. ROBERT PATTINSON BLEEDS FOR REMEMBER ME
2. CLIMBING MUSIC’S STAR VINE AT #1: THE JONAS BROTHERS DEBUT THEIR NEW ALBUM
4. DEMI LOVATO HAS TOUGH LOVE FOR HER ESTRANGED DAD
5. THE OSCARS ADD 5 MORE FILMS TO THEIR BEST FILM CATEGORY
6. TWILIGHT’S BRAND EXPANDS INTO VAMPIRE COSMETICS: LIP VENOM V LIP GLOSS HITS THE MARKET
7. KELLY CLARKSON IS SHOCKED TOO AT MARIO LAVANDEIRA’S INABILITY TO TAKE A HIT
8. KATE GOSSELIN’S IN TOUCH SPANKING COVER OUTSELLS PEOPLE MAGAZINE
9. GUEST POST: NBC’S REPORT ON POLO MOLINA VS MARIO LAVANDEIRA + HORIWOOD’S COMMENTS
SHOUT TO THE LORD AS A HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS CAROL
Mountains bow down and the seas will roar at the sound of your name. I sing for joy at the work of your hands. Forever I’ll love you forever I’ll stand. Nothing compares to the promise I have in you.–song lyrics of Darlene Zschech.
It’s Christmas Time in Hollywood California. I don’t know why I’m so excited about Christmas this year, however it is exciting! In the festive spirit of Christmas, here’s Shout to the Lord a song that has sold around the world more than most pop star’s can claim selling a number 1 hit as sung by the cast of American Idol one year.
The song is written by Australian singer/ songwriter Darlene Zschech who started life as a child model doing Coppertone tanning lotion advertisements.
May you always know your great promise this Christmas. Merry Christmas from West Hollywood. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.21.10~
December 21, 2010 | Categories: America, AMERICAN IDOL, Awesome Aussies, David Cook, Gospel Music, Live Music Artists, Ryan Seacrest, Song Lyrics, West Hollywood | Tags: America, AMERICAN IDOL, Awesome Aussies, Darlene Zschech, David Cook, Gospel Music, Katherine McPhee, Live Music Artists, Pop Cultural Commentary, Ryan Seacrest, Song Lyrics, West Hollywood | 1 Comment »