Best Albums Ever - Amy Winehouse: "Back To Black" 2006 - Soul:blue-eyed - SoulNeo - SoulRhythm - BluesJazz

"Back to Black is the second and final studio album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, released on 27 October 2006 by Island Records. Winehouse predominantly based the album on her tumultuous relationship with then-ex-boyfriend and future husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who temporarily left her to pursue his previous ex-girlfriend. Their short-lived separation spurred her to create an album that explores themes of guilt, grief, infidelity and heartbreak in a relationship. Influenced by the pop and soul music of 1960s girl groups, Winehouse collaborated with producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, along with Sharon Jones' band The Dap-Kings, to assist her on capturing the sounds from that time period while blending them with contemporary R&B and neo-soul music. Between 2005 and 2006, she recorded the album's songs with Remi at Instrumental Zoo Studios in Miami and then with Ronson and the Dap-Kings at Chung King Studios and Daptone Records in New York. Tom Elmhirst mixed the album at Metropolis Studios in London. Back to Black was acclaimed by music critics, who praised Winehouse's songwriting and emotive singing style as well as Remi and Ronson's production. The album spawned five singles: "Rehab", "You Know I'm No Good", "Back to Black", "Tears Dry on Their Own" and "Love Is a Losing Game". It has also been cited as being a key influence to the widespread popularity of British soul throughout the late 2000s, paving the musical landscape for artists such as Adele, Duffy, and Estelle....

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"Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter known for her deep, expressive contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul, rhythm and blues and jazz.  A member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra during her youth, Winehouse signed to Simon Fuller's 19 Management in 2002 and soon recorded a number of songs before signing a publishing deal with EMI. She also formed a working relationship with producer Salaam Remi through these record publishers. Winehouse's debut album, Frank, was released in 2003. Many of the album's songs were influenced by jazz and, apart from two covers, were co-written by Winehouse. Frank was a critical success in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. The song "Stronger Than Me" won her the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors....

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Best Albums Ever: Automatic For The People (25th Anniversary Edition) - alternative rock - college rock- folk - rockjangle - poppost-punk (early)

"Automatic for the People is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on October 5, 1992, by Warner Bros. Records. R.E.M. began production on the album while their previous album, Out of Time (1991), was still ascending top albums charts and achieving global success. Aided by string arrangements from John Paul Jones, Automatic for the People features ruminations on mortality, loss, mourning and nostalgia. 

Upon release, it received widespread acclaim from critics, reached number two on the US Billboard 200, and yielded six singles. Rolling Stone reviewer Paul Evans concluded of the album, "This is the members of R.E.M. delving deeper than ever; grown sadder and wiser, the Athens subversives reveal a darker vision that shimmers with new, complex beauty. Automatic for the People has sold more than 18 million copies worldwide....

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R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia. Liner notes from some of the band's albums list attorney Bertis Downs and manager Jefferson Holt as non-musical members. One of the first alternative rock bands, R.E.M. was noted for Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style; Stipe's distinctive vocal quality, unique stage presence, and obscure lyrics; Mills's melodic bass lines and backing vocals; and Berry's tight, economical drumming style. In the early 1990s, other alternative rock acts such as Nirvana and Pavement viewed R.E.M. as a pioneer of the genre. After Berry left the band in 1997, the band continued its career in the 2000s with mixed critical and commercial success. The band broke up amicably in 2011 with members devoting time to solo projects after having sold more than 85 million albums worldwide and becoming one of the world's best-selling music acts.

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Teologija - Свети Јован Лествичник : "ЛЕСТВИЦА" 01 - теологија - theology - théologie

Свети Јован Лествичник : ЛЕСТВИЦА

ЛЕСТВИЦА БОЖАНСТВЕНОГ УСХОЂЕЊА

Онима који желе да им имена буду уписана у књигу живота, ова књига са извесношћу показује најбољи пут ка циљу. Јер, уколико је проучимо, уверићемо се да са сигурношћу води оне који је следе, чувајући их од свих невоља које воде у пропаст.  Она нам представља једну лествицу која полази од земаљског и достиже до небеског, откривајући Бога који седи на њеном врху. Њу је, чини ми се, видео и Јаков који је савладао и превазишао страсти, у тренутку починка на свом подвижничком одру. Започнимо, дакле, молим вас, и ми за усрђем и вером усхођење по овој мисленој и небеској лествици, чији почетак сачињава одрицање од земаљскога, а крај

 - сам Бог љубави.

САДРЖАЈ :

Предговор

Увод

Поука I

О одрицању и одвајању од сујетног живота

Поука II

О беспристрашћу

Поука III

О туђиновању

Поука IV

О блаженој и незаборавној послушности

Поука V

О брижљивом и истинском покајању,

о животу светих осуђеника и о тамници

Поука VI

О сећању на смрт

Поука VII

О плачу који доноси радост

Поука VIII

О безгневљу и кротости

Поука IX

О злопамћењу

Поука X

О оговарању

Поука XI

О многоговорљивости и ћутању

Поука ХII

О лажи

Поука ХIII

О унинију

Поука XIV

О стомаку, рђавом господару кога ипак сви воле

Поука XV

О нeтљеној чедности и целомудрености,

које трулежни постижу трудом и знојем

Поука ХVI

О среброљубљу и о нестицању

Поука XVII

O неосетљивости, тј. умртвљењу душе

и смрти ума пре смрти тела

Поука XVIII

О сну, о молитви и саборном богослужењу

Поука XIX

О телесном бдењу и о томе како га треба упражњавати

Поука XX

О детињастој страшљивости

Поука XXI

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ЛЕСТВИЦА

ПРЕДГОВОР

О животу светог Јована Лествичника, писца Лествице, не зна се много. Обично се

узима да је рођен 525. године, вероватно у Цариграду, у побожној породици богатих и

знаменитих цариградских племића, светих Ксенофонта и Марије. Према ономе што о

њему пише монах Данило, свети Јован је дошао у Синајски манастир када је имао шес- наест година. Синајски манастир, од IX в. познат под именом свете Екатерине, саградио је византијски цар Јустинијан 527. године у северном подножју једног од главних синајских врхова, Џебел Мусе, на Синајском полуострву. Манастир је убрзо постао средиште духовног живота и стециште монаха из Египта и Палестине, па чак и из других, даљих земаља. Ту долази и свети Јован, и живи под руководством светог старца Мартирија све до старчеве смрти, пуних деветнаест година. Тада се повлачи у једну пећину у синајским врлетима, на месту званом Тола, где живи пуних четрдесет година у веома строгом подвигу, и то прво потпуно сам, а потом са учеником Мојсијем.Његови подвизи и светост почињу да привлаче људе, монахе, који долазе ради савета, утехе, исцељења. Изгледа да се после четрдесет година проведених у Толи вратио у манастир да настави са општежитељним подвигом, можда и на тражење браће. Тек, сигурно је да га братство Синајског манастира бира за игумана. Тај избор се догодио вероватно почетком 600. године, јер је с јесени те године сачувано једно писмо светог Григорија Великог, папе римског упућено светом Јовану као игуману синајском. Колико је свети Јован после тога провео на положају игумана није могуће утврдити, али се зна да га је за живота напустио, уступивши га рођеном брату, Георгију, и повукао се у своју испосницу у Толи, где је вероватно и умро. Ако је тачно предање да је умро у осамдесет трећој години старости, онда би година његове смрти могла бити 608. Свети Јован је био веома образован човек. То се види из његовог дела Лествице, у коме се може установити широко познавање не само светоотачке литературе и Светог Писма, него и класичне философије, па чак и извесних лаичких наука, као нпр. медицине или војне вештине. Тиме се потврђују речи његовог биографа да је био човек "са општим образовањем". Под општим (енциклопедијским) образовањем у то доба се подразумевало темељно познавање граматике, поетике, реторике, философије, математике и других дисциплина. Његово име било је познато широм културног света већ за време његовог живота, што недвосмислено доказује његова лична веза и преписка са римским папом, светим Григоријем Великим, као и многобројне везе са разним подвижницима и светитељима Блиског Истока. На основу података у самој Лествици, може се закључити да је он и путовао, и обилазио чувене центре, посебно у Египту, као што су Каноп, Филаки (Тамница) код Александрије и други. Колико је био цењен као духовник и посвећеник у божанске тајне, најбоље сведочи писмо светог Јована, игумана једнога другог синајског манастира, Раиту, удаљеног од манастира свете Екатерине око 30 км. Јован Раитски моли да му игуман синајски напише и пошаље једну књигу посвећену монашком животу, монашкој философији. Тако и настаје Лествица, или Рајска Лествица, главно дело светог Јована, по коме он и носи назив Лствичник. То је спис састављен из тридесет поука: као што је потребно да човек проживи тридесет година од свог рођења да би постао зрео - по мерилима онога доба - тако је и монаху потребно да прође тридесет ступњева у своме подвигу, да би достигао духовно савршенство. Идеја Лествице, тј. ступњевитог узрастања у духовном савршенству, узета је из познатог сна старозаветног праоца Јакова (Пост.28,12-13). Символички, Јаковљева лествица, која стоји на земљи а врхом дотиче небо, по којој се анђели Божији пењу и силазе, и на чијем се врху налази сам Господ - треба да означи човеков пут ка висинама божанског савршенства, везу између земље и неба, пут на коме човека прате анђели Божији и који има сасвим одређен циљ: самога Господа Бога. Монашки подвиг треба да буде пут којим се душа поступно ослобађа од земаљског и уздиже ка небеском. Отуда символички назив Лествица. Уз Лествицу, преподобни Јован Лествичник је, посебно за раитског игумана, написао спис под називом Поука пастиру, у коме се дају практични савети манастирском старешини (настојатељу) у погледу духовног руковођења братством. Осим тога, сматра се да је свети Јован написао и коментаре Јеванђеља по Матеју и Луки, као и известан број писама монасима. Међутим, ти коментари и писма су изгубљени. Изгубљено је и његово писмо светом Григорију Великом.

Лествицу, као и Поуку пастиру, уз преписку светог Јована са Јованом Раитским, и остале биографске списе о Лествичнику, превео сам са грчког оригинала објављеног у Мињовој Патрологији (РG. 88, 583-1248), поредећи уз то и најновије издање у Соrоnа Ратrium Sаlеsiаnа, Ser. Gr., VII/IX, 1941, као и грчко издање Софронија Еримита, Константинопољ, 1883. Приликом превођења сам имао у виду и извесне постојеће преводе, као: латински, руски, италијански. Да би се омогућило лакше сналажење, проверавање или цитирање према оригиналу, црним цифрама у загради обележио сам бројеве колумни у издању Миња.

Димитрије Богдановић

Београд, 1961.

The Movie, Lesson About Life 34 / "Santa Sangre" (Official 4K UHD Trailer) - Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky - horor - horror - надреализам - surréalisme - surrealism - авангарда - avant-garde

Santa Sangre (English: Holy Blood) is a 1989 avant-garde surreal horror film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and written by Jodorowsky along with Claudio Argento and Roberto Leoni. It stars Axel Jodorowsky, Adán Jodorowsky, Teo Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Thelma Tixou, and Guy Stockwell. An international co-production of Mexico and Italy, the film is set in Mexico, and tells the story of Fenix, a boy who grew up in a circus and his struggle with childhood trauma. It is signed on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time...

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"Fenix is a young man confined to a Mexican asylum where day after day doctors try to bring him out of his bewildered monkey-like mental state – his room is outfitted with a specifically tailored basket and a nine feet tall tree that he likes to sit in and he eats raw fish. From there we flash back to his childhood, a time where he grew up as a circus musician, who while living with his distant knife-throwing father Orgo and acrobat with a cult leader hobby mother Concha, finds only friends in both Aladdin and the clowns. Fenix’s young life starts to be thrown into turmoil over various major events: from watching his mother’s church bulldozed, to having a grandiose funeral for one of the circus’ elephants entailing a construction trash container sized coffin, to finally the dissolution of his parents’ marriage at the hands of Orgo’s affair with the circus’s tattooed-woman, and ending with the girl that he liked named Alma being taken away....

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Best Albums Ever: Peter Tosh: "Mystic Man" - reggae - ska - rocksteady - R&B - 1979

"Peter Tosh, OM (born Winston Hubert McIntosh; 19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987) was a Jamaican reggae musician. Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, he was one of the core members of the band the Wailers (1963–1976), after which he established himself as a successful solo artist and a promoter of Rastafari. He was murdered in 1987 during a home invasion....

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Having flirted with commercial acceptance on Bush Doctor, the former Wailers guitarist reasserted his cranky contrarian militancy on this album -- which is why he never reached the mega-stardom of his countryman Bob Marley. Unlike his old Wailers bandmate, Tosh had little interest in leavening his music's fiercely political bent, which effectively cemented his acquired-taste status (at least to American audiences). "Rumors of War" and "Fight On" explicitly address black majority rule in South Africa, a subject that few '70s artists even touched. Similarly, "Recruiting Soldiers" vows to physically round up enough fighters for the inevitable resistance, while "Jah She No" casts the poor's struggle to survive in stark, elemental terms ("Must righteous live in pain/And always look to shame?"). "Mystic Man" is a proud declaration of Tosh's lifestyle, which he pointedly contrasts against Western consumerist decadence (among other things, swearing off frankfurters, hamburgers, and any notions of drinking "pink, yellow, blue, green soda"). "Buk-in-hamm Palace is the biggest departure, building its outlaw theme of smoking marijuana in the Queen of England's home over a bubbling disco rhythm. It's easily the most accessible moment here, driven by Tosh's crack backup band of the time, Word, Sound & Power. There's no doubting Tosh's sincerity, though it sometimes founders in clichés and clunky lyric writing (like "Crystal Ball"'s coupling of "city" and "sh*tty"). From a strict songwriting viewpoint, Mystic Man isn't as distinctive as its predecessors, but a representative snapshot of Tosh's provocative artistry. "The Day the Dollar Die" is a roots classic, in which Tosh pleads his case for capitalism's demise over a shimmering pop-reggae groove -- proof he could craft compelling tunes to match his message.

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The Movie, Lesson About Life 33 - Сталкер aka Stalker 1979 - Andrey Tarkovsky - FULL MOVIE - science fiction - naučna fantastika - la science-fiction - philosophical - psychological - futuristic - drama

Stalker (Russian: Сталкер, IPA: [ˈstaɫkʲer]) is a 1979 Soviet science fiction art drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. The film combines elements of science fiction with dramatic philosophical and psychological themes. 

The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure known as the "Stalker" (Alexander Kaidanovsky), who takes his two clients—a melancholic writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) seeking inspiration, and a professor (Nikolai Grinko) seeking scientific discovery—to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the "Zone", where there supposedly exists a room which grants a person's innermost desires. 

Stalker was released on Goskino in May 1979. Upon release, the film garnered mixed reviews, but in subsequent years it has been recognized as a classic of world cinema, with the British Film Institute ranking it #29 on its list of the "50 Greatest Films of All Time".[6] The film sold over 4 million tickets, mostly in the Soviet Union, against a budget of 1 million Soviet rubles...

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Recently restored, Andrei Tarkovsky's science-fiction masterpiece is "as necessary to the cinema as Mozart to music" (Gavin Millar, The Listener). Three men — the Writer, the Professor, and the Stalker — travel from a post-apocalyptic landscape into "The Zone," an area which the government declared off limits after a mysterious extraterrestrial event rendered it supposedly uninhabitable. Guided by the severe, shaven Stalker, the men navigate a treacherous landscape of shifting, invisible "traps," industrial debris, and subterranean passages to the threshold of the mysterious, wish-fulfilling room at the Zone's centre, which reveals (and, perhaps, materializes) one's deepest desires. Tarkovsky rarely achieved such an intense rendering of spiritual quest: the Christ imagery and intimations of Dante, the voluptuous sense of ruin, decay, and imminent catastrophe, the painterly references to Bosch, Rembrandt, and Flemish art, and the temps morts of dripping water, billowing fog, and slow wind all combine to make Stalker one of his most beautiful and mesmerizing films.

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Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphys­ical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.

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Live Performance: Elvis Presley (1968) Comeback Special 50th Anniversary - Rock. Cllasic Rock. Country Rock. Blues. Soul. Gospel. R&B

 Elvis Presley 

(1968) 

Comeback Special 50th Anniversary

For his 1968 television special, Elvis Presley reunited with Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana, his first backing musicians, for a raw “sit-down” performance of his earliest and most favorite songs, including his very first single, “That’s All Right.” Though it did not feature in the original broadcast, you can experience every moment from the taping on ’68 Comeback Special: 50th Anniversary Edition, the new 5CD/2BD box set available November 30.

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Elvis Presley, in full Elvis Aaron Presley or Elvis Aron Presley (see Researcher’s Note), (born January 8, 1935, Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S.—died August 16, 1977, Memphis, Tennessee), American popular singer widely known as the “King of Rock and Roll” and one of rock music’s dominant performers from the mid-1950s until his death.

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