“One of these mornings, you’re gonna rise up singing. Then you spread your wings and fly to the sky.”–George Gershwin. About four years ago, a little girl from the UK with a good set of pipes, sung for Simon Cowell in a then unproven TV talent contest, called The X Factor. Her name was Leona [...]
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YOU’RE GONNA RISE UP SINGING by LEONA LEWIS
Posted: June 23, 2010 in Leona Lewis, Simon CowellTags: Leona Lewis, Live Music Artists, Simon Cowell
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THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – MON 6.21.2010
Posted: June 22, 2010 in Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Shout Outs, Katie Holmes, Think Green, Tom CruiseTags: Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Shout Outs, Katie Holmes, Think Green, Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes keep it chill in their denim. Here’s how you voted your top ten entertainment and celebrity news posts. 8,9 are the odds to beat. Enjoy! 1. About Horiwood–>Poem for a Tree by Hone Tuwhare 2. Bryant spirit as cheerleaders and players of L.A 3. Lakers fans still love Liza Morales [...]
MILEY CYRUS ON FLIP THE CUE CARD
Posted: June 22, 2010 in Canada, Miley CyrusTags: Canada, Jonathan Toews, Miley Cyrus
Here’s Ms. Can’t be Tamed with hockey star Jonathan Towes as she introduces Drake in Canada. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 6.22.2010~
HOT IS
Posted: June 22, 2010 in Think GreenTags: Beaut Books, Emile Kanim, Juliet B. Schor, Think Green
Plentitude the book, by emerging author and poet, Emile Kanim. Eco-friendly types, put this book on the radar, for a July 2012 book launch. The book has 12 chapters. The 11th chapter, is the best. Plentitude is not to be confused with the existing book, Plenitude by Juliet B. Schor–about wealth creation, that on a good day, manages [...]
EACH MOMENT
Posted: June 22, 2010 in Love, Maori, OperaTags: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Jazz, Love, Maori, Opera
…. is like Summertime. She said: “How long does it take, if it’s only a matter of time?” He said: “You are held in the palms of another. Each moment, live your life.” She said: “Thank you dear. Each moment, I have loved.” Inspiring. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California, USA. 6.21.2010~
As the summer solstice occurred at Stonehenge, a celebration was had. This image of a Crystal Bowersox look-a-like reaching with joy, is a groovy image. The festival, which dates back thousands of years, celebrates the longest day of the year, when the sun is at its maximum elevation. Daylight is such a gift. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, [...]
UZBEK NEEDS OUR LOVE
Posted: June 22, 2010 in Human Rights, Love, RefugeesTags: Cyndi Lauper, Human Rights, Humanitarian Angels on Horiwood.Com, Live Music Artists, Love, Refugees, Uzbek
80,000 Uzbek refugees need our love. This report from the NY Times touched my heart tonight. “KARASU, Uzbekistan — “I have three children — 9, 7 and 4 years old — and they are just in shock,” a woman named Ursanoy Mamadaliyeva said on Monday. “My youngest said to me, ‘Mama, if we return to Kyrgyzstan, [...]
:) [Image courtesy of Pout] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 6.21.2010~
L.A LAKERS PARADE IS THE HOT TICKET TODAY IN DOWNTOWN L.A
Posted: June 22, 2010 in basketball, LA Lakers, SportsTags: basketball, LA Lakers, Pop Culture Commentary, Sports, Sports Horiwood
Insane joy, for the L.A Lakers as the peoples team were celebrated by all at Figueroa Street, in Downtown L.A. Wild. L.A has the best basketball team in the U.S.A. Woot! ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 6.21.2010~
–is this baby elephant at Portland Zoo taking a bath. [Image, courtesy of LA Times] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 6.21.2010~
HOLSTER BRA: LADY GAGA DOES ROLLING STONE
Posted: June 22, 2010 in Lady Gaga, Magazine Covers, WarTags: Lady Gaga, Magazine Covers, Pop Culture Commentary, War
It is what it is. Gaga for Rolling Stone. Cheeky. Do you think Stefani Germanotta is a bit war addicted? ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 6.21.2010~
PLENTITUDE: THE BOOK
Posted: June 22, 2010 in America, Leadership, Literary, Think Green, World News, World PeaceTags: America, Aunt Elvira, Eckart Tolle, Emile Kanim, Leadership, Lebanon, Literary, Think Green, World News, World Peace, Writers
Emile Kanim has started his book. Conceptual construction of it has begun. Rather gorgeous, it is called Plentitude. The book’s structure, resembles that of a tree that brings forth fruit in season. For decades, it has been the author’s dream, for this book to see the light of day. Plentitude posits, that the world is [...]
HUMOR: AN ANTI-NUCLEAR WEAPONS TEE SHIRT FOR QUEEN NOOR
Posted: June 22, 2010 in Humor, Jordan, Leadership, Politics, West Hollywood, World PeaceTags: Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Humor, Jordan, Leadership, Lisa Najeeb Halaby, Politics, Pop Culture Commentary, West Hollywood, World Peace
I saw this tee shirt in a shop window in West Hollywood. Immediately I thought of Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan and her non-proliferation stance of nuclear weapons campaign with her endorsement of Countdown to Zero, a documentary film. When you think about it, the seven nations who possess nuclear weapons, are all (largely) led by [...]
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN 6.20.2010
Posted: June 22, 2010 in Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Top 10, Peter FacinelliTags: Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Top 10, Peter Facinelli, Twilight. New Moon. Breaking Dawn. Eclipse
Peter Facinelli of Twilight Eclipse is a bit of baseball fan. Hollywood, entertainment news for Sunday 6.20.2010 is as follows: 1. Vanessa Bryant takes it to the hoop for basketball in LA 2. Angelina Jolie creates word pictures of Love 3. Q’orianka Kilcher for Twilgiht Eclipse is too hot 4. Trilogy – Miley Cyrus will wake up [...]
Reports the Associated Press, ”A woman gestures at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 20, 2010. Twin car bombs exploded Sunday near a major square in Baghdad, killing several people and wounding dozens in the latest attack targeting a high-profile area in the capital. 33 lives were taken in the [...]
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY 2010
Posted: June 21, 2010 in America, Grace, KindnessTags: A MillionThank Yous, America, Bobby Mac, Emile Kanim, Fathers of America, Grace, Hot Chocloate: African American News on Horiwood.Com, Israel Houghton, Kindness, Live Music Artists, Papa Elie, Teddy Kennedy
~A father is both a protector and a wise, trusted friend. When your dreams appear sunk beyond all recognition, a dad has the power to breathe Peace into your spirit and restore and heal your dreams.~ Happy father’s day. Special thanks to Papa Elie, Bob in America. Dad. More recently Uncle Emile whose example as a good brother, fathers me. [...]
MILEY CYRUS for DAVID LETTERMAN
Posted: June 20, 2010 in David Letterman, Miley CyrusTags: David Letterman, Live Music Artists, Miley Cyrus
Can’t be Tamed. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 6.20.2010~
Thought for today–crude oil, the Earth’s milk, is yellow to black. It is found in reservoirs deep beneath what the human eye can see. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 6.20.2010~
TAYLOR LAUTNER for GQ on MAKING A MOVIE
Posted: June 20, 2010 in Casting, Movie News, Taylor LautnerTags: Casting, Movie News, Taylor Lautner, Twilight. New Moon. Breaking Dawn. Eclipse
Says Taylor Lautner to GQ Magazine about his approach to making movies: ““If I start thinking, Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well? I’m not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie…I can’t get caught up in that.”–Quote from M. Noble via GQ. There’s [...]
GORGEOUS
Posted: June 20, 2010 in America, Fashion, Leadership, Life, Matthew BryanTags: America, Aunt Elvira, Fashion, Leadership, Life, Matthew Bryan
He said: Isn’t it a beautiful day? She said: Gorgeous… Today is a Gorgeous day. The way she said it, could have defined the new season’s fashion palate of Vogue Magazine as she uttered a single word. Needless to say her sexy vocabulary can make a grown man cry. Hot, classy, wordsmith Minx. :) [Music: [...]
ALBERTINE HEARTED IS BROOKE FRASER for RWANDA
Posted: June 20, 2010 in Brooke Fraser, Music Industry News, Music Videos, RwandaTags: Brooke Fraser, Charity Spotlight, Humanitarian Angels on Horiwood.Com, Music Industry News, Music Videos, Rwanda
Beloved, “now, that I have held you in my own arms, I can not let go, til you are”–Brooke Fraser –She has World Vision~ “But I carry you in me, in the dust on, the dust on, the dust on, the dust on, the dust on my feet.” ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 6.20.2010~
She’s a riot. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 6.19.2010~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – SAT 6.19.2010
Posted: June 20, 2010 in Dance, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Top 10Tags: Carmela, Dance, Entertainment News, Hollywood After Dark, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Top 10
Funny is Aunt Elvira‘s nurse, Carmela, dancing at The Happing Ending bar in Hollywood with a Bud Lite in hand, before a burger, on the way home at In N Out Burger last night in L.A. Sorry East Coast, but our burgers are the best in America. Needless to say, Carmela did Aunt Elvira’s dancing feet proud, [...]
ANGELINA JOLIE’S ITINERARY IN ECUADOR
Posted: June 20, 2010 in Angelina Jolie, Leadership, RefugeesTags: Angelina Jolie, Colombia, Ecuador, Leadership, Refugees
This one for the conscientious reader on Horiwood.Com, who specifically asked what Angelina Jolie‘s itinerary was in Ecuador as a part of World Refugee Day awareness. This from the Huff Po: “QUITO, Ecuador — Angelina Jolie has journeyed across rutted jungle roads to a village on Ecuador’s border with Colombia to highlight the abuses suffered [...]
About a year ago, Michael Jackson passed away. He was dubbed the King of Pop, the third most famous person on the planet, after The Queen of England and The Pope. American media have begun to remember this man, who amongst many things was also a father. Here’s the first cover image via Cover Awards. [...]
SENATOR ROBERT ADLEY CALLS FOR A STATE WIDE DAY OF PRAYER FOR GULF OIL CRISES
Posted: June 20, 2010 in America, iPray, Leadership, Think GreenTags: America, iPray, Leadership, oil, Sen. Robert Adley, Think Green
Pipes like spaghetti are found everywhere near Louisiana, in an effort to pump out oil from estuaries of this state. The oil crises weighs heavily upon the hearts and minds of all of those living in the US regions near the gulf of Mexico. A statewide Day of Prayer has been called in Louisiana as [...]
ART: UNTITLED LITERARY SPAGHETTI by VALESKA SOARES
Posted: June 20, 2010 in America, Art, artist, LiteraryTags: America, Art, Art Galleries, artist, Italo Calvino, Literary, Valeska Soares
This one for all three-year-olds on telephones talking to their grandmas. And lovers of contemporary modern conceptual art alike. :) [Image snapped by Horiwood.Com at LACMA] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 6.19.2010~
CAMERON DIAZ ON BEING A BACHELORETTE AND KIDS
Posted: June 20, 2010 in Cameron Diaz, Family Vs Fame, ParentingTags: Cameron Diaz, Family Vs Fame, Parenting
Interesting. Cameron Diaz is one of L.A’s much loved bachelorettes. Here’s what she has to say about the concept of having kids: “Having children changes your life drastically, and I really love my life,” she says. “Children aren’t the only things that bring you gratification and happiness, and it’s easier to give life than to [...]
POETRY: LOVING KINDNESS
Posted: June 20, 2010 in Kindness, Piano, PoetryTags: Andre Watts, Kindness, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Piano, Poetry
Beloved, because your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. –Psalm 63 v 3. [Music: from the iPod named Avalon 1443, The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor "Quasi una fantasia", op. 27, No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven, or known as the Moonlight Sonata (Mondscheinsonate in German--1801). It is [...]
