Ok, this is not crazy funny, but it works with the song I’m listening to now lol Why don’t peter appreciate his wife more? I bet Brian (the family dog… but you knew that already) knows what to do with that.
Over the last few days, Susan Boyle was in the news and on the internet taking people by surprise. But what I would like to know is what happened to the guy who did the same thing well over a year ago on the same show Britain’s Got Talent?
Before I go into that, I think this guy right here got me to thinking that I need to go to the Opera as soon as I can because I really felt the tears. Its not a surprise that Opera and music from Wolfgang Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven stimulates the brain more than… well Beyonce, Lil Wayne, and Kelly Clarkson.
Makes you think (well if your listening to just popular music and such, maybe you can’t think at all lol) about what most of us listens to and just how good it really is. Since art and music is generally a reflection of society, what does this say about society? LOL
Well, it looks like he is currently on tour with Elizabeth Marvelly (who is that???) and does have an album out (not recent). I may just get this album and review it from a standpoint of a guy who has no clue as to what opera should sound like lol
Paul Potts was born in Bristol on the 13th of October 1970, one of four children to a bus driver father and a mother who worked in a local supermarket. An ordinary schoolboy who later claimed he had been bullied as a child, his jobs on leaving school were also at a supermarket (stacking shelves), and at the time he entered Britain’s Got Talent he was working for the Bridgend branch of the Carphone Warehouse, a mobile phone retailer. In 1999 he had his first taste of television when he appeared on the Michael Barrymore show My Kind of Music and won enough money to enable him to travel to Italy and take singing lessons at a summer school. He sang with the Bath Opera, a local amateur company, and performed the roles of Don Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and the Herald in Turandot. He also toured Italy and sang with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, all of which caused some controversy on the Britain’s Got Talent show, which was supposed to be for undiscovered talent, but Potts‘ response to this was that he had never been paid for any of the performances — he had personally paid for all his training and even the Italian tour was part of the course.
Even that is inspiring. I am not for keep trying without really analysing how you can actually succeed, but this guy really believed in himself and his dream and he did it.
As Diddy would say, Lock In to your dream. Lock it in.
I am a entrepreneur. I take the good and bad from that. The good is the creative, the bad is the time it takes to bring your creation to life. With that said, I like what this guy is doing. He is turning nothing into something. He is turning what some would consider a crime into artwork (and maybe sales later down the road).
And yes, as an artist myself (all those years in Architecture school, doing multimedia designs and photography effected me) I just LOVE how he walks around with that black frame to show us what he sees.
Make no mistake, graffiti is literally a crime due the fact that you are helping to destroy someone elses property, but there is some art and history to it and the idea that this guy took what happened and turns it into a higher form of art is amazing to me. I want all the kiddies (and adults too) to understand one thing about all of this: inspiration is all around you. While your down and out and in the process of picking yourself back up, make sure to look around. Maybe you will find a new idea too.
If you can vote, then go and do it. Don’t give up and don’t tell yourself that your one vote doesn’t count. As a person who has a very active political family, I have to say you vote counts whether the person you voted for wins or not, IT COUNTS.
I have more to say about this and other things in the future with this blog. I think that being grown and sexy isn’t just knowing the latest fashions and tech but also knowing how to be a professional and being responsible and political. Almost nobody likes politics, but you better know it, understand it, and get involved with it.
When all of this voting stuff becomes unfashionable, remember this: Closed Mouths Don’t Get Fed.
Being Grown and Sexy means being fashionable, professional and responsible. Ladies and gentleman, LETS GET IT!!!