Electric guitar to improve classical music?

What does "virtuosity" look like? Can only classical musicians like Itzhak Perlman evince it?

Guitarist forgot he was human, replaced orchestra

(Davie504) Can I play these impossible guitar riffs on bass?

D4vd, who killed 14-y.-o. Celeste Rivas?

No arrest...Has D4vd been cleared in mysterious murder/death investigation?

(Law&Crime Network) Oct. 6, 2025: Law&Crime Sidebar with Jesse Weber. Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber and retired detective commander Will Svilar delve into the ongoing investigation into [molested runaway from Lake Elsinore, SoCal] 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s death.

Celeste's ex-b/f speaks out, drops bombshell on disappearance | TMZ Live

• Was this a "Romantic Homicide" like D4vd sings?

Celeste visited family months after disappearing, video shows | Banfield

Her dismembered body was found in a car registered to singer David Anthony Burke, who goes by "D4VD" [d*ck for venereal disease?]. With no arrests made and new details coming out every day, the mystery has only deepened [as if police were trying to convict him in the press before pressing charges of their own. Or is D4vd protected by the Hollywood Illuminati, avoiding court altogether?]

How Elvis Presley 'destroyed' his enemy

What is stronger, expressing anger and irritation or forgiving and showing forbearance?

Q: What is the best way to destroy an enemy? A: Make that person a friend.

• Most of us imagine that an "enemy" is someone we hate when, in fact, it more applies to anyone who hates us. Though they hate and attack, we need not give tit for tat. We can be like the sandalwood tree, which sprinkles perfume even on the axe that lays it low: Positive Response: How to Meet Evil with Good

The King as Fat Happy Budai

The act of metta ("lovingkindness") is what is best translated as "friendliness." Imagine the whole universe and every being in it as a friend on whom kindness is bestowed. There is no adversary. There are only friends and supporters. The Buddha said this is how some Gods (brahmas) abide, steeped in thoughts/feelings of boundless lovingkindness (agape, universal friendliness, unbounded love, and compassionate connection).

Who was the great entertainer Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n Roll, to commit such a public act of love and compassion? Would Johnny Cash, who had a great deal of love and acceptance of the most marginalized members of our society, approve? "Folsom Prison Blues" suggests he would.

• Elvis Presley: The Untold Legacy; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Incest: Trump molested daughter Ivanka?

Mental decline of molested Justin Bieber

After many Black lovers, will JB start dating white guys?

I'm not gay. Diddy says I'm real "talented." Ha! I got a future is the music business with him!

We went hog wild, huh, Justin(a)? - Yes, Daddy, I mean Puff Daddy. - Yah, you my Boy toy!

The brutal mental decline of Justin Bieber

That MGK's got a lot of talent, huh?

(Tell Us More) April 23, 2025: Justin Bieber was broken by the music industry as a teen coming to Hollywood and Hollywood coming on to him, but despite now having a beautiful wife and kid, he hasn't escaped his demons -- or what he sold in exchange for fame and riches.

Now, the Justin Bieber, the envy of millions, looks like a very rough version of SNL's Pete Davidson, of Kim Kardashian fame, rubbing it in Kanye West's face, who bounced right back with a KK of his own making in Bianca Censori (who has had many fashion transformations before and after Kanye). The Beebs has a beautiful wife and beautiful memories of Selena Gomez, but his downhill slide is hard to watch, even with schadenfreude. What a screw up. But that's what happens with ACES and SA, molestation and drugs abuse as a maladaptive way to cope.

Hollywood LOVES our children: Lindsay Lohan, Drew Barrymore, Shirley

Temple, Brooke Shields...Escaping Hollywood Hell, barely surviving

How did it all get so ugly, Beebs? - Drugs. - Just drugs? - Diddy's diddling, too.

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• 11:59 - Hollywood almost ended Justin's life
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Cali burns: Mt. Baldy Zen Center at risk

Leonard Cohen was a Zen monk on Mt. Baldy

While the Line Fire continues to burn over 28,000 acres on Monday night in the San Bernardino Mountains, the Bridge Fire has scorched more than 34,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest.

• The Mount Baldy Zen Center (mbzc.org)
• What's the Mount Baldy Zen Center?
• Wellness Retreat | THE LIFTS @ MT BALDY (mtbaldyresort.com)

Tadasana Yoga Retreat on Mt. Baldy

The Bridge Fire was first reported at 2:00 pm Sunday at East Fork Road near Glendora Mountain Road [in the San Gabriel Mountains].

Within a few hours, the brush fire erupted to about 800 acres, Angeles National Forest officials reported.

By Tuesday evening, CAL FIRE reported the flames had blackened more than 34,240 acres. On Sunday night, mandatory evacuation orders were issued north of [the City of] Azusa in the East Fork communities of Camp Williams Resort and the River Community. More: Bridge Fire California, Mt. Baldy, Angeles National Forest (vvdailypress.com)

• Fire explodes: 47,904 acres burn on Mount Baldy, Wrightwood, evacuation orders issued
• Latest news: Police issue evacuation order for Mt. Baldy (aka Mt. San Antonio)
• Ski Area Management (SAM): Wildfires threaten Mountain High, Mt. Baldy, and others across the West
• Line Fire in San Bernardino County: Sheriff provides new details on arrest of white arson suspect (ABC7 Los Angeles)
• SoCal fires grow, Cali Gov. Newsom declares emergency, structures destroyed: Airport Fire in OC, Line Fire near Highland, Bridge Fire in Azusa
• Airport Fire in Orange County's Trabuco Canyon area spreads to more than 23,000 acres, homes destroyed near Lake Elsinore
• KTLA 5, Los Angeles, 9/12/24; Victor Ville Daily Press, 9/11/24; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

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Lisa, I want to learn Zen in Japan from an old master, so I'm going to need some "ha sos" and "chop chops," you know, some Japanese lessons. Think you can help me with that? Hai? 

Lisa, I'm already practicing with a friend.

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Latin Broadway icon Chita Rivera dies (video)

Meriam Bouarrouj, Michelle Acevedo, Raul A. Reyes, Nicole Acevedo, NBC News; Crystal Quintero, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(NBC News) Legendary Broadway performer Chita Rivera, star of “West Side Story,” “Chicago,” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman” has died, according to her representative Merle Frimark.

She was 91. In a career defined both by longevity and excellence, she created and performed iconic roles on stage — thrilling audiences, wowing critics, and inspiring generations of Latino performers.

In a statement to NBC News, Rivera's daughter, Lisa Mordente, said her mother died today (1/30/24) in New York "after a brief illness."

“She was one of the few performers who put their stamp on Broadway in virtually every decade,” said performance historian Brian Herrera of Princeton University. “She was a treasure of the American theater.” More

Chita Rivera, legendary Broadway singer and actor, dies at 91

(CBS News) Jan. 30, 2024: Broadway icon Chita Rivera has died at age 91, her daughter said in a statement provided to CBS News. Rivera, best known for her role as "Anita" [later made even more famous by Rita Moreno] in the original 1957 Broadway cast of West Side Story, received a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre in 2018. CBS News' Mo Rocca recalls Rivera's legacy.

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Protesters attack Mona Lisa with soup

The NY Post, 1/28/24; DW; Seth Auberon, Crystal Q., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What are you smirking at, B*tch? - Nothing, you see? Now my wry smile has gone away.

• What were they thinking?! Climate activists throw soup at the [bulletproof glass shied in front of the] 'Mona Lisa' (Smithsonian via MSN)

Protesters hurl soup at Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in Paris museum

(New York Post) A pair of female climate change activists hurled bright orange pumpkin soup at the Mona Lisa on Sunday at the Louvre (pronounced \lew'vrhh/) Museum in Paris as onlookers gasped, shocking new video shows.

Due to the Mandella Effect, she's different now.

“What is more important,” the crazed activists shouted in French, “art or the right to have a healthy and sustainable food system?”

The two caring females (young and old, of two very different generations) are members of the activist group called Riposte Alimetaire, or “Food Response,” which issued a statement saying the stunt was meant to highlight the need to protect the environment.

• Activists splatter 'Mona Lisa' with soup in Louvre (MSN)

Activists throw soup at Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa in Paris | DW News

(DW News) Jan. 28, 2024: Leonardo Da Vinci's world-famous painting "The Mona Lisa" has been attacked. Two climate change protesters threw soup at the priceless artwork, which is protected by thick bulletproof glass in Paris' Louvre Museum. The attackers then called for the reforms to the French agricultural system. #Paris #MonaLisa #Louvre

We want the original back!

“Two activists from the environmental movement ‘Riposte Alimentaire’ sprayed pumpkin soup on the armored glass protecting the Mona Lisa, this Sunday, January 28, 2024, around 10:00 am,” the museum said in a statement, according to CNN.

“The Louvre’s security staff immediately intervened.” [The world famous painting was not hurt in the slightest nor, apparently, was it meant to be. It's safe and well protected.]

• Read more at: nypost.com/2024/01/28/news/pr...  #monalisa #louvre #paris

Why would anyone hate SSSniperWolf?

Spill, 11/16/24; Bela, Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

YouTube's biggest react creator loses it, commits crime on livestream (SSSniperWolf)

(Spill) The jacksfilms versus SSSniperWolf saga has taken a dark turn, escalating from virtual feud to real-world criminality.

Is she really a wolf, or is it just an act?

The public is outraged, causing thousands of fans to unsubscribe amid the backlash. A petition to deplatform the creator Wolfie has almost reached its goal.

And past drama resurfaces, revealing SSSniperWolf’s questionable behavior. When a feud verges on dangerous grounds, what point is it too far? Let’s unravel the feud gone wrong.

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US Youth Poet Laureate Salome Agbaroji

The Prose Bowl: A Night of Spoken Word with Get Lit | LAist; Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

I was the first U.S. Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman in 2017 at the White House

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I may not be Amanda Gorman, but I rock.

WHAT HAPPENED? Some high school students each got up to perform a spoken word piece with varying degrees of impact and facility with the language. One jock even tried to rhyme and express emotion all with a lot of support from the friendly crowd, a full house of the sold out event. Then it was time and Salome stepped up to wow the crowd. It was like seeing an old soul, a student from Los Angeles studying at Harvard. She's a natural, trained in her youth at Get Lit. Then she began to sing and rap, for the first time she says, as part of her presentation, laughing, and telling stories between pieces of such complexity and depth that it's a wonder the other poets could remain in their seats. But this is not about comparison. Salome got the live DJ to provide a backbeat and she belted it out. Then, too soon, it was over. She was approachable after the show, giving hugs and conversing. We asked what she was studying in at Harvard. She replied that everyone at Harvard begins with a general education before choosing a major. She had ideas for a future in social justice but was open to all she was studying. One couldn't help but feel she was an "old soul" come to the planet for some greatness. And often when she was performing her pieces without artifice or bombast, it really was like being on a platform in the akasha at a Federation of Worlds gathering (UN style) and hearing a visionary. We couldn't tell her that, but she might have happy to hear it. She has her feet firmly on the ground. What will she accomplish? salomeagbaroji.com

The Prose Bowl: A Night of Spoken Word with Get Lit

It’s a celebration of Los Angeles poetry at LAist with Get LitL: Words Ignite! Get Lit youth poets, standout local artists, and a nationally-renowned featured poet (National Youth Poet Laureate Salome Agbaroji) will get together for a night of spoken word performance hosted by Get Lit’s Mason Granger (he/him).

Come early to enjoy snacks, sips, a DJ set from Austin Antoine, and tons of cool people to connect with in the name of poetry. Drinks, music, and treats from Cinnabon start at 6:00 pm, and the show kicks off at 7:00 pm.

The featured poet this time is U.S. Youth Poet Laureate Salome Agbaroji. This program may contain some mature language or themes.

• Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, 7:00-8:15 PM
• The Crawford (KPCC's broadcasting center)
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ABOUT MASON GRANGER Mason Granger is the deputy director at Get Lit. Originally from Philadelphia by way of Willingboro, NJ, Mason is a poet with 19+ years of professional experience on stage, and in classrooms across 49 states and six countries as part of the performance poetry trio, The Mayhem Poets. In 2014, he created SlamFind, a digital platform to connect fans of poetry videos with the poets and live poetry venues where these videos are born. Connecting the poetry community to itself and the rest of the world continues to be the foundation of his work to this day. Between 2016-2018, Mason was the official videographer for Poetry Slam Inc., producing several iconic poetry videos that continue to garner millions of views across multiple platforms. In the spirit of his mission of always keeping the "live" in "live poetry," he also hosted the weekly PoetNY open mic at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC from 2017-2019 while also serving as executive director of Bowery Arts & Science through 2019. Now as a Los Angeles resident in his fourth year with Get Lit, Mason continues to pursue creative projects while helping to shape the future of spoken word poetry education in the state of California and beyond.

I was born in Nigeria, Africa, now in the US.

ABOUT SALOME AGBAROJI Salome Agbaroji is a Nigerian-American poet that has written and/or performed spoken word poetry for the Golden Globes Pre-Show, NFL Rams Halftime Show, an Opening Act on Rupi Kaur's World Tour, the likes of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors, Mrs. Tina Lawson, and many more. This year, she is an ambassador for Vans’ global grand campaign.

Salome was a YoungArts winner in Spoken Word and has been honored by the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, among many others. She has been published in NPR's KCRW, Noema Magazine, the Harvard Technology Review, and more.

Salome currently attends Harvard University, studying government and political science. Her focuses outside of poetry are civic engagement and advocacy about issues such as racism towards minority communities, immigrant stories, injustices in the international community, and more.

ABOUT GLPs The Get Lit Players (GLPs) are award-winning performance troupe of youth poets. They’ve performed at the United Nations, Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, and White House — to name only a few.

Every year they perform live for over 50,000 of their peers, and their videos have been watched online over 300 million times. Each of the Get Lit Players will spend the next year honing their skills and enjoying exciting and unique workshops, paid performance, and networking opportunities, and a lifetime of support from Get Lit’s community.

ABOUT GET LIT Los Angeles-based nonprofit GET LIT ignites student engagement, literacy, and young voices around the globe using the power of spoken word, technology, and community.

• The Prose Bowl: A Night of Spoken Word with Get Lit | LAist

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Gwyneth Paltrow in court: ski crash trial

Today; Inside Edition, 3/21/23; Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Gwyneth is naked 'n starving at 50, eating boiled bones to survive. Eating disorders by Goop.

Gwyneth Paltrow faces lawsuit over ski crash

(TODAY) March 21, 2023. Gwyneth Paltrow is expected to take the stand in a Utah courthouse, defending herself against accusations of severely injuring a doctor in a 2016 ski accident. NBC’s Kaylee Hartung reports for TODAY. #skiing #celebrity #lawsuit

Gwyneth Paltrow appears in court over ski crash

(Inside Edition) March 21, 2023. Hollywood actor and infamous "conscious uncoupling" divorcee from the singer of Coldplay Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in court with security by her side for a ski collision [she caused] at a resort.

She is facing Dr. Terry Sanderson, a 76-year-old retired optometrist, who claims she plowed into him on a ski slope, leaving him with four broken ribs and permanent brain damage (PBI).

[He was suing for $3.1 million but was forced by the judge to lower that amount to $300,000 as the limit in this case.] The collision happened in February 2016 on a beginner's ski trail at a ritzy resort in Park City, Utah.

During opening statements, Ms. Paltrow's lawyer says Dr. Sanderson was the one who crashed into her. [Gwynnie is countersuing Dr. Sanderson for $1, yes, one US dollar, oh, plus all legal fees.]

Child molestation: Whitney Webb (Russ Brand)

Swinging with power couples in the Democrat party became boring, so we got into kids.

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THIS GOES DEEPER THAN WE KNEW: Whitney Webb exposes untold secrets

I'm not a lesbian witch. I'm bi.

(Russell Brand) Jan. 29, 2023. #power #epstein #corruption Whitney Webb appeared on Russell Brand's podcast to discuss the Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking case (along with co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell and royal child molesters Prince Andrew, Pres. Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton), deep state power, and corruption at the highest levels.

Whitney Webb’s revelations have brought new details to the infamous Epstein case. Find Whitney Webb's work at unlimitedhangout.com.

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(@timontide6404) I'm delighted that Whitney Webb and her work are finally getting mainstream (indy media) attention and support. She's brilliant and her work is absolutely essential to understanding our actual history and what our evil elites are up to.