richardmurray

OMELETO

My thoughts
I watched this... this is lovely this is lovely ... I will be blunt, the black community globally has a problem. It has been oppressed for hundreds of years and has gained a majority 
URL
https://youtu.be/ab8IUtHG1iA

Marvin Gaye 1983 Interview

paraphrases

One can't have hits if one isn't commercial

I won't have any credibility unless I am on top

People don't comprehend record artist like painters 

I am awfully afraid of getting there, looks like only one way from there

So if I have to do sex so they can listen to social topics 

Worst rock bottom moment in the last seven years when i tried to commit suicide by an overdose of cocaine

I was in love with my wife at my time, and I couldn't handle the rejection... I thought I was king of the world now I am prince

I never played with the other kids when I was little.

One can never be a fine artist if one hasn't lived and experienced life's negatives. 

I look upon the motown days as times I wouldn't pay a million dollars for but I also would pay a million dollars to have the experience again.

I would like to start with motown again but i would like to write the script different to be a little happier.

I hate those human feelings, I like the feelings of an artist

The last time Lou Rawls won one he gave me a smile, it gave me chills , I told my wife i would tackle him and grab the award

In music, disk jockeys, feel free to edit and tamper... in fact its the reason why I left motown and asked berry gordy to release me. my last album was tampered with horribly and .. is hwy i asked to be released. 

I'd rather never have a hit than for my music to be touched

It's taken about a few years, about 400 or so , for white america to come to the point where they feel rhythm and blues... or rhythm and pop , these categories kill me too, is acceptable

There was a time you couldn't bring a soul record into the home in white america

It all started in the rock and roll era when elvis and everybody was taken after chuck berry it slowly started to change

Basically it is a white artist doing the same thing a black artist is doing but it is acceptable when a white artist, with black artist it is raw

let's take reggae for instance, bob marley is very interesting, he has taken his roots music, but bob marley is intelligent enough, or was , god bless him and i love him, he took the roots music and was smart enough to incorporate some of the western music. 

And he took the rawness from it so it can be accepted by other nationalities.

After a while there will be no categories, music will be music

There are those who want to hold on to the last vestiges of their prejudices, meaning , a little thing, like winning an american music award and winning in all categories and then you watch the television the next day and who won the pop category dah dha dha dah and they will not show who won the soul category. we will not admit that. I am a rhythm and blues artist and soul artist and black singer, it doesn't take anything from my humanity

Marvin gaye won in the soul category, other artist take my work and can be announced as winners in their categories , why can't I be announced. That's not very nice

I want to say the ted turner news agency out of atlanta showed the r and b winners.I just thought i wanted to share that, good man.

Maybe a far right station in ohio. 
URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L63XR2hFgpg

IN AMENDMENT

Marvin Gaye stated his success with sexual healing was a sort of revenge. And it made me think about so many different types of artists who have said similar in my memory. Artists who came back to the top always speak of the people, whose names can't be mentioned or will not be mentioned, that basically knocked down or didn't support when they were down, and I wonder how to end that aspect of entertainment culture.
I am not ignorant, I comprehend the commonality, but I also realize, something in the USA keeps it alive. Is it the fiscal capitalism? the greed of people is so pure when one stops making money they are treated as if they never did. IS it the yes culture to success? People who can't  stand you are trained in USA culture to act like loving friends till they can finally kick you without penalty. I wonder.

IN AMENDMENT PART 2

In some ways he is right. Pop music, which is short for popular music, which at its roots means, music of the people, is the last label, cause modern music labeled pop contains hybrids of many musical styles, so that day is coming where the way in which music is advertised or approached will require a major linguistical shift.

IN AMENDMENT PART 3

Marvin Gaye said reaching the top only has one destination from there, going down, his transcendence is the only out. I wish it would had not been forced.

Octavia Tried To Tell Us XXIV: KINDRED Goes Hollywood

Some thoughts on making black male characters impotent in film and the use of black literature in film as an adaptation

In the discussion between Tananarive Due side Monica Coleman many excellent points were made but two I want to focus on.

First, I thought of Denzel Washington's career and the only three earliest films I can think where he wasn't married already or physically unable to fornicate <the bone collector> was the mighty quinn , mo better blues, plus devil in a blue dress. 
In devil in a blue dress he has various interest from various females, so the only normal for a male lead of a certain age. 
In mighty quinn, he desires a single mom whom he knew before the baby. 
And in Mo Better Blues he ignores the woman he has known for a while for a stylized woman but when he falls, he goes to the women waiting for him:) I know poor lauren bacall in Bright Leaf. Few women in my view matched patricia neal's "villainous" in this film
So I concur it is rare for black males in hollywood <white financed film> historically

Second, I thought on Tananarive Due's thoughts on adaptations. 
From Oscar Michaeux to Ousmane Sembene to Julie Dash many Black filmmakers are used to writing their own work to be filmed. and white filmmakers created a heritage of using white literature to make films that have black characters, ala Uncle Remus or Porgy and Bess. 
It is rarest for films to be adapted from black literature absent the black writer being the black director. 
Sequentially, a the goal by denzel to adapt all of august wilson's works into films, while a start, needs a greatr follow up of adaptions by black literary work from the 1800s.                                               

URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=178amUHLmRA&feature=emb_imp_woyt
IN AMENDMENT 
A great scene in 12 years a slave is when the white wife of fastbender the slaveowner demands lupita nyongo's slave be sold and fastbender says with a reality that the two panelist support as real, that patsy is his best earner, she can't go, but fastbender in his expression also shows, how his slave master would love to put his white wife out in the field after her demand, displaying from his vantage point she is merely one step from the enslaved.

prior post
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2182&type=status