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Re-Jena’d

2011-09-29T04:48:34-06:00

2012, will mark the 5th year - since the Jena March of 2007. It was prophesied that it would take five[5] years for the wounds to be of such nature, that many in the thick of it, “Could stand to be around ALL of the operatives, who were in Jena in September 2007. Even the March of 300, contained facets that bruised horribly some of the mainstays, on both sides of the fray. I entered the Jena Movement after Mychal Bell was, originally convicted. The next day, the boy’s parent were requested to meet me 37 miles away from Jena. They were asked to write down what they each wanted as the outcome for their son. The two had Mychal young,unmarried and at that time; not a couple. Fate had brought them to this point.

The father was commuting from Dallas. In the interim, before Sept 20th, the fuller story of how Mychal had got to this point was brought to my attention. Including the white-girl Mychal was dating, who was related to Judge Mauffray. The teenagers temper. The football star. The fact, that he was living with a white-guy, because his Moma, wouldn’t allow it to go on in her house. Hence, trouble in the making. IT THE FOOTBALL STAR, GETS BESIDE HIMSELF, HE WOULD HAVE TO PUT IN CHECK.

No one ever knew about the white-pentecostal Pastor’s daughter; who was witnessing to one of the “football players”,of which the player became one of the 6; was verbally haranged for being under “that tree”, with “that” guy.

So, that; we think it imperative to Commemorate the March of 2007 in Jena, Louisiana in 2012.
On Midnight Sept 19, 2012, when the clock strikes 12am, the remembering will begin. The World is Invited.

The Nationalist~[Crosstar] fixed it in Court, for us so that “permits” and “insurance” are an obsolete nuisance. Sort of like “poll taxes”.

Crosstar, the newspaper website logged the day to day during the final battle in an Alexandria, La., federal courtroom.

More Candidate Coverage

2011-08-23T13:20:44-06:00

I would like to see Democrat candidate for State Treasurer Connie Moran interviewed.

I would also like to see more coverage and maybe interviews of the Reform Party and Independent candidates for Governor - Myself (Bobby Kearan) and Will Oatis. The previous joint coverage was just a summary from our websites without any clarification.

I hope that we can see some real coverage of Alternative Candidates in Alternative Press.

30 years later old cassette gives songwriter second chance at dream

2011-08-14T21:00:07-06:00

It all started with a cassette — a random, disjointed collection of songs bootlegged from second- and third-generation cassettes, 45s and LPs, recorded in makeshift and quasi-respectable studios from the late 1970s through the 1980s. A relatively unknown songwriter named Jimmy Phillips wrote most of the songs, with a few collaborations and a couple of covers. From 1985 to 1989, Jimmy was a staff songwriter at the Combine Music Group in Nashville, an idiosyncratic publishing company with a stable of writers that included Chris Gantry and Kris Kristofferson.

Combine’s publisher, Bob Beckham, had a simple philosophy: “The most important thing for a song is the lyric. I look for a lyric that is fresh, expressive, precise, simple and original. Artists like Dylan were already popular as writer-artists, but in Nashville it was still a new idea, and I did it out of desperation.” Jimmy’s lyrics resonated for Beckham (he literally got into Combine through the back door), and the incorrigible publisher gave him a shot. Jimmy ended up writing songs for Kathy Mattea and Randy Travis.
In 1988, Jimmy released a solo album, They Don’t Make the Blues Like They Used To (Dangling Carrot). Peter Guralnick author of Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (1994) wrote the liner notes: “I’ve never heard anyone quite like Jimmy Phillips before. Oh, certainly there are comparisons to be made, but they’re all going to fall short — because Jimmy Phillips is an original. His originality comes through in his songs; it is present in the warm confidentiality of his voice; it leaps out at you in the precise turns of phrase and sometimes startling imagery that animates his lyrics, in his vivid sense of time and place.

At the close of the 1980s Combine was sold. Jimmy Phillips found himself homeless, without a commercial track record or a mentor. Jimmy left Nashville in the fall of 1989 and moved to Oxford, Mississippi, his habitual refuge. For the next three years, he played music, pure and simple, detached from the music business. He journeyed to Telluride, Colorado, in 1999. He thought he had found the cul-de-sac of his soul. He lived in a house 10,000 feet above sea level. He ruminated, communed with the elk, caught and released cutthroat trout. He became a mountain man, a ski bum, a recluse, a reincarnated songwriter. But after nine years, two mysterious forces intervened: the Great Recession and the bootleg.
Jimmy Phillips discovered that his music had a secret life. Someone had exhumed the songs he buried twenty years ago. Twenty- and thirtysomethings — a generation he underestimated — had redeemed him, exonerated him, validated him. Someone sent him the bootleg copied from the cassette onto CD. It was sonic blasphemy, but it resonated in the post-Dead era. The bootleg became the soundtrack for aluminum afternoons. His distorted, disembodied voice appeared at an Aspen woman’s Manhattan wedding, explaining why a good woman is hard to find. His lyrics graced The New York Times Magazine food section, where included in a bestselling book, and exalting the virtues of fried chicken.
The universe dealt him a new hand. Jimmy returned to Oxford and got back in the game. Two veterans of the local music scene, bassist Ben Johnson (a bootleg victim) and guitarist Patrick McClary, sought the opportunity to play with the voice from the bootleg. Each a talented musician with a career they sought to play with the songwriter who wrote the songs they grew up on.

Leland, Mississippi native Ben Johnson was the bass player for Mayhem String Band, the irrepressible outlaw bluegrass quintet. Formed in Oxford in 2005, the band toured extensively, injecting Cajun two-steps, Irish jigs and Mississippi blues into a bluegrass template. Mayhem (May All Your Hangovers End Miraculously) released two well-received CDs, Rapscallions and Ne’erdowells (2007) and Land Pirates (2009). The boys parted ways in 2010, but the mayhem still reverberates.
Singer-songwriter Patrick McClary was the lead guitarist for the Oxford-based southern rock band Daybreakdown. Formed in 2003, Daybreakdown became one of the top touring acts from Mississippi; the band released two impressive CDs, Make Me Wiser (2004) and Shine Like Rust (2007). Patrick also fronts his own band, the Minor Adjustments. The group released The January Sessions in 2010, a soulful collection of well-written, understated songs, and is working on its sophomore album.
On August 16, 2011 Jimmy Phillips & the Ruminators will begin recording an album at Tweed Recording in Oxford, Mississippi. 23 years after leaving the music business a songwriter gets a chance to have his music and himself redeemed by the faith of other musicians who loved his music.

http://www.indiegogo.com/Jimmy-Phillips-The-Ruminators

Actors, Actors, Directors, Stage hands, Needed!

2011-06-10T08:02:56-06:00

Need actors and actresses 18+ to audition for positive and inspirational plays, monologues, etc. Plays focus on Self-Esteem, Christianity, and African Americans in U.S. society. All ethnicities needed. Also, I need experienced stage hands for lighting, costumes, makeup, etc. I’m going far and I’m willing to take you with me—the spotlight is big enough for us to shine together. Casting call will be in early July. If hired for a part, you may receive a small stipend. Everything will be discussed and agreed upon in writing.

SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY!!!
For more information, reply to this posting and visit my site at http://www.evward.info.

Obama releases birth certificate

2011-04-27T08:28:06-06:00

This morning, the president released his much ballyhooed birth certificate that everybody in the right wing wanted to see. Personally, I don’t think he should have shown it. Even with its release now, no matter how much Obama appeases them, I still think the vitriol hurled at the president since his term began will continue with the vengence that it does. World Net Daily verifying Obama’s birth certificate a couple of years ago or so should’ve been the end of it (despite their own editor believing otherwise). Now let’s see what the right comes up with this time to lower their standards to defeat him.

Hall of Fame Songwriters Pick Mississippito Look for Songwriters for the National Songwriting Festival.

2011-04-20T16:34:32-06:00

[Oxford, MS] Often the person singing a hit song is not the person who wrote the song. Just ask Dickie Lee and Buzz Cason. These members of the Songwriters Hall of Fame are responsible for No. 1 hits for artists such as George Jones, Reba McEntire, Kenny Rogers, Gloria Estefan, and George Strait. Cason holds the distinction of being the only songwriter with credits for working with The Beatles, Pearl Jam, and U2, and he helped to launch the career of Jimmy Buffett. Lee and Cason are on tour sharing their music and looking for songwriters to join them at the National Songwriting Festival.

Lee and Cason will be looking for songwriters in the Mid-South with a performance at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center in Oxford, MS, on April 26, 2011, from 7-9pm. “The tour is coming to Oxford because the organizers felt this region has a vibrant music scene with musicians creating original music in all genres,” shared Wayne Andrews, Director of the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council which is hosting the event. The evening will feature information about the National Songwriting Festival and a songwriter’s showcase featuring Lee and Cason.

“We are fortunate to host this event” added Andrews, “as it showcases the attention this region is generating in the music industry. Also Dickie Lee and Buzz Cason are generously donating all the proceeds from the performance to the Arts Council.” Tickets to the Hall of Fame Songwriters Showcase are $10 and may be ordered online at the Arts Council’s website, oxfordarts.com, or by phone at 662-236-6429. The Powerhouse is the perfect space for the event as it is being renovated by the Arts Council for use by local artists as a performance space.

Opening Us Up Wider-Dear Lord!!-Obama.

2008-04-02T16:30:46-06:00

So, the campaign is attempting to divert the real issue. Who is the best choice for America?! FOR AMERICA!? Just as the whole world is watching this election, they have watched America drop the ball in New Orleans; AND NOW THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY is waiting to see this democracy, not do what it is SUPPOSED to do. Can America elect a Black man?! Well, here is the opportunity to be the land of liberty.

To go to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine & numerous other places and attempt to bring “Democracy” and not be able to vote by the people, for the people to elect a president, - - - again; in 2008 would be a prelude to anarchist upheaval. Will the courts adjudicate the Presidency again? Imagine that, a court ordered presidency.

Will, Obama abdicate as Gore did; for the sake of the Democratic Republic!
Oh, America the beautiful, where are you!?

Jackson Square Shopping Center

2010-06-15T17:45:39-06:00

I don’t know if this board is dead or not, but I wanted to try to get the word out that the old Jackson Square Shopping Center on Terry Road in South Jackson is under several million dollar renovations and we’re currently marketing the shopping center to traditional and non-traditional retailers. When completed, the shopping center will be very very beautiful with the parking lot lined with palm trees. The center’s owners First Boise Investments has a history of renovating abandoned/depressed shopping centers all over the country and turning them around. Their latest project was in Birmingham, the shopping center was found in the same shape as Jackson Square and now has been renovated, turned around and is now 100% leased. With Downtown under redevelopment, various projects in West Jackson, lets see if we can bring South Jackson up to that same level. Come on Jackson, help get the word out about Jackson Square Outlet Mall and lets help South Jackson in the process. For more info, http://www.jacksonsquareoutletmall.com

Kenneth Johnson
Jackson Square Outlet Mall
601-850-3505

or Tera Ealey 601-372-7157
Jackson Square Leasing
2460 Terry Rd
South Wing, St R (beside PHAT Church, BingoRama)

We are seaking traditional and non-traditional retailers, spaces ranging from 910 sq ft to 80,000 sq ft.

Fox News’ “50 State Southern Strategy”

2010-08-05T08:52:03-06:00

Interesting piece out by Joan Walsh of Salon that points to similarities in Fox News sensationalism about race issues and the Southern Strategy of Nixon and ilk. (As Donna would no doubt point out, Reagan, Atwater, Barbour, etc.)

Here’s the link: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/politics/2010/07/25/fox_news_southern_strategy/index.html

The most important point is this: Fox News has, sadly, become the purveyor of a 50-state “Southern strategy,” the plan perfected by Richard Nixon to use race to scare Southern Democrats into becoming Republicans by insisting the other party wasn’t merely trying to fight racism, but give blacks advantages over whites (Fox News boss Roger Ailes, of course, famously worked for Nixon). Now Fox is using the election of our first black president to scare (mainly older) white people in all 50 states that, again, the Democratic Party is run by corrupt black people trying to give blacks advantages over whites (MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow laid out this history last week).

Thoughts?

Old Capitol Green update

2010-08-21T20:27:34-06:00

It looks like construction of this long-awaited project is finally in sight. A two-story, 800 space parking garage with residential and commercial space above it will begin around the end of the year. Source.

I’m really happy to see this finally happen. Even though it will be a two-decade process to build out, Jackson is about to be transformed in a very big way. Imagine this, Farish Street and the proposed Riverwalk all happening at the same time. A Jackson hater’s worst nightmare!