p.s.

--- On Thu, 4/2/09, John French <mosshead7@yahoo.com> wrote: ...      p.s. in 2003 THIRTY THOUSAND people showed-up for the Rusted Root show at Hartwood Acres = (Yeah, there was an article in the paper the next day titled "Rusted Root Draws Big Crowd") = Well, they will be playing again this September 2009 to promote their first studio album since 2002 = Yeah, Judge Max Baer, chairman of the Allegheny Music Trust, at that time,personally told me backstage that he knew RR would be the biggest show ever there and he had been trying to get them for four years = The album comes out May 5th 2009 and some crowd Favs already (from seeing live shows from east coast to west and in in the middle states) are Dance in the Middle, Suspicious Minds, Drivin', Garbage Man = which you can hear on my myspace www.myspace.com/mosshead7 = I had dinner w/ Michael Glabicki a couple weeks ago and, really, the dude is in prime form and already workin' on the next set of songs = I'll be sending a copy of Rebel as Poet: Rimbaud and Jim Morrison by Wallace Fowlie w/ copies of hand written notes to me from Wallace Fowlie (he wrote for me after I visited him at his home) to Glabicki's solo manager = no other than Bill Siddons = manager of the world famous Doors = I got to meet in L.A. at the L.A. HOB while I was staying at Chateau Marmont

Rebel as Poet: Rimbaud and Jim Morrison by Wallace Fowlie = Entertainment Weekly Book Review

I'll get to the online Entertainment Weekly Book Review in a second here.

This book that I have in our library has a personalized inscription inside by Wallace Fowlie that reads: "For John Alan Conte`, Jr., our frienship begun here - March 13 1996 Wallace Fowlie"



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Book Review
Rimbaud And Jim Morrison: The Rebel As Poet
Wallace Fowlie

By D.A. Ball
''Dear Wallace Fowlie...thanks for doing the Rimbaud translation...I am a rock singer and your book travels around with me.'' The 1968 note was signed Jim Morrison, but French literature professor Fowlie had no idea who that was. Like all good teachers, Fowlie asked his students and began applying his expertise to what they taught him. Twenty-six years later, the result is this lucid exploration of common ground between French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud and rock poet Morrison: the myths surrounding each, the forces that drove their astonishingly brief careers, and their electrically terse word-pictures. Rimbaud And Jim Morrison: The Rebel As Poet is good old-fashioned scholarly criticism that illuminates the poetry instead of ego-lighting the critic. Some will find it densely academic. But Morrison reportedly once said, ''Let's just say I was testing the boundaries of reality,'' and Fowlie, now a Duke professor emeritus, is that rare academician who can truly help us savor what Jim Morrison meant. A-

in no particular order My Top 25 All Time Films

--- On Wed, 3/25/09, John French wrote: From: John French Subject: in no particular order My Top 25 All Time Films To: kkauff@pointpark.edu Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 7:04 PM The Godfather http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/ The Godfather II www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562 Apocalypse Now www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/ Stand By Me www.imdb.com/title/tt0092005 Dangerous Liasons www.imdb.com/title/tt0094947 Seven www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/ E.T. www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866 Immortal Beloved www.imdb.com/title/tt0110116/ White Christmas www.imdb.com/title/tt0047673 Rocky www.imdb.com/title/tt0075148 Rushmore www.imdb.com/title/tt0128445 Iron Man www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746 What's Eating Gilbert Grape www.imdb.com/title/tt0108550/combined Casablanca www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583 Animal House www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975 Leolo www.imdb.com/title/tt0104782 Pineapple Express www.imdb.com/title/tt0910936 Silence of the Lambs www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926 What's New Pussy Cat www.imdb.com/title/tt0059903 Who Are You Polly Maggoo (Qui Etes-Vous Polly Maggoo?) www.imdb.com/title/tt0060879 8 1/2 www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801 The Birds www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869 Star Wars www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759 The Outsiders www.imdb.com/title/tt0086066 Rebel Without a Cause www.imdb.com/title/tt0048545 Best of Organic Cinematic Roses, John Alan Conte Jr.

Retro Enjoli commercial ...

Retro Enjoli commercial Classic commercial from the 70's.
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P.S. I found this comment on You Tube under the Retro Enjoli commercial, well, enjoyable!

Comment on You Tube:
...and now 30 years later lets hear the end of the song...

I can pay all the bills

Work hard like a dog

Will never retire

Cause YOU LOST YOUR JOB!

I'm a suuuucker.....that is me!

FOX TV: Women Who Bring Home the Bacon, Fry It Up In a Pan = And Never Ever Let You Forget You're a Man ...

My Megyn Kelly

Lis Wiehl and Megyn Kelly




Liz Claman

Jamie Colby

Jill Dobson

Rebecca Diamond

Molly Line

Nicole Petallides

Cheryl Casone

Shannon Bream

Martha MacCallum

(in for the insatiable Juliet Huddy w/ Mike)

Elizabeth Hasselbeck

(oh, c'mon, we all know she should just be on FOX - but she is that one voice of reason on the View)

Jane Skinner

Courtney Friel

Alisyn Camerota

Jenna Lee

Alexis Glick and Jenna Lee w/ Charles Money Bags

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"She's a Beauty" = NBC's Today Show's Maria Menounos

NBC's Today Show's Maria Menounos

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Paris 2009: Worshiping the Leg ...

On The Street: Paris Worships the leg. By Bill Cunningham

On the Street A Show of Legs in Paris

The look in Paris on the thousands of women gathered for the recent designer shows was all about legs and their coverings.



Is Paris cooler or hotter than New York?

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Response to Me from Harvard Economist Jeffrey Miron

--- On Tue, 3/24/09, Jeffrey Miron <miron@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: From: Jeffrey Miron <miron@fas.harvard.edu> Subject: RE: Harvard's Jeffrey Miron on CNN's AM w/ Kiran Chetry About Legalizing All Drugs To: John French Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 11:23 AM Many thanks for the plug! jeff From: John French [] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:55 AM To: am@cnn.com; miron@fas.harvard.edu; MarcLamontHill@temple.edu Cc: heydave@cbsnews.com; today@nbc.com; squawk@cnbc.com; snl@nbc.com; friends@foxnews.com; redeye@foxnews.com; readers@forbes.com; feedback@foxbusiness.com; feedback@wsjournalreport.com; scoop@huffingtonpost.com; Mr. Dippy; newsbreaks@newyorker.com; letters@latimes.com; letters@nypost.com; letters@nytimes.com; letters@reason.com; letters@relix.com; letters@rollingstone.com; Le Gun; larryking@cnn.com; 360@cnn.com; hannity@foxnews.com; oreilly@foxnews.com; ontherecord@foxnews.com; fns@foxnews.com; foxreport@foxnews.com; comments@foxnews.com; showbiztonight@cnn.com; evening@cbsnews.com; couricandco@cbs.com Subject: Jeffrey Miron on CNN's AM w/ Kiran Chetry About Legalizing All Drugs Hi Kiran: Your interview with Jeffrey Miron was very enlightening. It's not everyday a rockstar Harvard economist talks about why we need to legalize all drugs and, moreover, on an international platform such as CNN's AM. Of course, I agree with Jeffrey Miron's points in regards to reducing demand for illegal drugs and suppliers by making drugs legal. Yes, this would also reduce the horrid violence of the underground - as drugs being illegal puts it in the underground world like alcohol in prohibition - and all their problems are solved with guns and violence as opposed to lawyers and marketing. However, Jeffrey Miron and you didn't even get into how legalizing drugs would eliminate the big waste of tax payor dollars as we would no longer have to fund the "war on drugs" and all the court costs and prison costs of punishing people for doing, possessing and selling drugs (and then all the problems that come with it being illegal and underground like turf wars, kidnappings, drive by shootings, etc.). I applaud your progressiveness --- giving Mr. Miron an international platform and I hope that your colleagues --- and I hope that more of your colleagues of the new everyday media give Mr. Miron and his thought provoking arguments a similar platform. Best of the Roses, John French mystrawhat.com http://theneweverydaymedia.blogspot.com/

"The Fempire" - an Entourage of Their Own ...

Movie writers who are best friends: from left, Lorene Scafaria, Diablo Cody, Dana Fox and Liz Meriwether with, from left in front, Ronja and Luca

You can find them at work in their Laurel Canyon homes in their pajamas, or sitting next to one another at laptop-friendly restaurants. To see them gathered amid the dinosaur topiary around Ms. Fox’s swimming pool with their dogs (they all have dogs) is to see four distinct styles of glamour that bear little resemblance to traditional images of behind-the-scenes talent. Whenever one of them has a movie opening, they all rent a white limousine and go from theater to theater to watch the first audiences react.

“We’re usually drunk by the third theater,” Ms. Cody said. “It’s super porno and tacky, and we love doing it.”

It sounds like fun and games — the boozy, all-woman answer to those close-knit gangs of Hollywood boy-men captured on screen in “Entourage” and embodied by the real-life Apatown, the industry moniker for filmmaker Judd Apatow’s coterie of actors and screenwriters including Paul Rudd, Jason Segel and Seth Rogen. But these women also work hard: Ms. Cody, Ms. Fox and Ms. Scafaria can command seven figures to write a movie that makes it into theaters with big stars. Ms. Meriwether (the others call her “the freshman”) is on her way to joining them. That’s no small achievement when you consider that among the screenwriters who are in steady demand for major projects, only about 20 are women. Don’t even try to credit their bankability to their looks.

“The way they live their lives was a good example of how to work and live as a female screenwriter in L.A.,” said Ms. Meriwether, 27, who moved to Laurel Canyon last fall. “Movies have always been written by groups of people, and it goes along well with the writing process to have people to bounce things off of.”

To read the full NY Times article and how these four Hollywood screenwriter stars called "The Fempire" practice Wicca in their Laurel Canyon homes, click on any of the words in this sentence.

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a Juliet Huddy to Love Me

--- On Fri, 3/20/09, John French <> wrote:
From: John French mosshead7@yahoo.com
Subject: a Juliet Huddy to love me
To: friends@foxnews.com
Cc: comments@foxnews.com, "Juliet Huddy" , am@cnn.com, robin&company@cnn.com, heydave@cbsnews.com, today@nbc.com, squawk@cnbc.com, hannity@foxnews.com, redeye@foxnews.com, ontherecord@foxnews.com, oreilly@foxnews.com, foxreport@foxnews.com, fns@foxnews.com, martha@foxnews.com
Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 8:18 AM


I've been up and down the river
Up and down town Manhattan
Walkin' the East side and West side
Coast to coast dancin' in the middle
What I'd like the most these days
Is for a Juliet Huddy just to love me

'Been down plenty of blouses
'Been up many of those skirts
Walkin' along beaches & city streets
Coast to coast dancin' in the middle
What I'd like the most these days
Is for a Juliet Huddy just to love me

(written 8:00 a.m. March 20, 2009)

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p.s. what do you say, Juliet, will you love me a little?
p.s.s. seeing you on the Fox & Friends set w/ Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy has me so confused and conflicted now with my decision of the #1 Hottest of the Top 75 Women of the New Everyday Media 2009 = You know, you're one of the main reasons I started doing all of this---

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On Fri, 3/20/09, John French <> wrote:
From: John French
Subject: There is a God!!!
To: friends@foxnews.com
Cc: comments@foxnews.com
Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 8:02 AM


Wow, Juliet Huddy on Fox & Friends again = There is a God!!!


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Yahoo! News Story - Nation's worst oil spill hits 20-year mark

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I still don't buy gas at Exxon and I won't even buy a bottle of water or a pack of gum in their stores. They are scum.

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Phone Art Series (IX): Church

Photo: John French Sunday March 22, 2009

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Phone Art Series (VIII): Thinking of You

Photo by John French / Wine Press Saturday, March 21, 2009

Thinking of You ...

Photo by John French / Wine Press Saturday, March 21, 2009

Thinking of You Too ...

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Michelle Obama Plants Organic Vegtable Garden at White House

Michelle Obama starts White House vegetable garden
20 Mar 2009 Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - First Lady Michelle Obama broke ground on a new White House vegetable garden on Friday, digging a plot on the mansion's south lawn to help provide her children and visitors with fresh, healthy food.

Obama, who has made a point of reaching out to the local Washington community since her husband's inauguration, gathered about two dozen local school school children to dig up the patch, which will be the first vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt planted a "victory garden" during World War Two.

"I want to make sure that our family, as well as the staff and all the people who come to the White House and eat our food, get access to really fresh vegetables and fruits," Obama said.

"What I found with my girls, who are 10 and seven, is that they like vegetables more if they taste good."

She said they were also going to have a beehive -- an idea that did not thrill daughters Sasha and Malia.

"My kids aren't very excited about the beehive," she said. "But we're going to try to make our own honey here."

The garden, which will be organic, will be planted later in the spring and will include berries and mint in addition to vegetables. It is being started as the country faces an epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

Sam Kass, an assistant chef, said the White House hoped to have a year-round garden and planned to share some of the produce with a local soup kitchen.

Spinach, peas, fennel and squash would all feature in the garden, he said. The garden will produce up to as many as 55 different fruits and vegetables.

The garden was hailed as a victory by Kitchen Gardeners International, an organization of gardeners who promote home-grown food, which attracted some 100,000 people to sign its online petition asking the Obamas to plant a vegetable garden at the White House.

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"Live With Me" ... The Rolling Stones w/ Christina Aguilera

Live With Me- Rolling Stones feat. Christina Aguilera (FULL) Just for the record, I didn't write this - but, yeah, I share some of the same enthusiasm. This is the FULL video of the awesome performance!!! OMG!!! Another live performance from Christina!!! It's so amazing how the Rolling Stones and Christina rock the whole thing up!!!
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