dashi365

On 2017-09-18 at 8:10 AM, Troy said:

@Cynique, I never thought you wrote that Bill was influenced by Rap, not did I write anything to imply.  That does not make sense.  I know you know Bill predates rap.  In fact I even wrote that you were probably right

 

I'm beginning to see that when one person (A) has a disagreement with more than one other person (B and C). The person A has difficulty distinguishing the options of B and C, and just lumps them all together.  The reasons for the disagreement are not nearly as relevant as the disagreement itself.  I'm not singling you out Cynique.  Del does this with me an Pioneer, and I see this in the broader society as well.  

 

Yeah, all the other social media platforms are designed for handheld devices. Facebook is really the only one that is also designed for people using laptops or desktop computers.  Consumers use held held devices predominantly.  Only content creators bother with laptops or desktop devices and these folks are decreasing in numbers...

 

@dashi365, I would encourage you to see the film.  It is a very nice treatment of the man.  Went I saw the film Bill Withers spoke after the showing.  He came across as a great guy.  I was just disappointed to learn that he beat his wife, and that the wife was not mentioned in the film.  That part of his life was erased as if it never existed, which I felt made the film worse because I realized it was an incomplete depiction of Withers.

Wow! Where was this screening? And I see what you mean about erasing the incident(s). And it does make me think immediately of Rihanna and Chris Brown, and how journalists and fans and anyone you can think of still being that's incident up almost daily. It makes it impossible for the perpetrator or the victim to move on. Maybe it would've been better if it was mentioned in the film, even if Bill didn't discuss it personally. Otherwise, you don't get a complete picture of the person, which (obviously), is the point of making a documentary. 

And @Del my heart smiles a bit every time I hear that commercial (even though I find Jennifer's voice a tad shriek-y ). 

On 2017-09-15 at 12:17 PM, Troy said:

Thanks for sharing that Dashi.  Did you see the documentary film about Bill's life?

 

You know Hyman ended her own life, right?

I plan to watch it this week! I'm a bit nervous. After reading all of this, I'm tempted to just maintain the mystery lol. But I've always found his story so relatable and personally inspiring. I'm most interested in how he got started and his music process, not the drama.

And I did read that about Hyman, although I know very little else about her. Very sad. She sounded so troubled.