Alexander Nevermind

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Family and The Family

The Family is a band formed by Prince, and one of the first signed to his record label, Paisley Park Records. The band reformed as fDeluxe in 2009.

Members

(St. Paul)

Susannah Melvoin

Miko Weaver

Jellybean Johnson

Eric Leeds

Jerome Benton

History

The band's origins started with the disintegration of The Time in 1984. Lead singer Morris Day had left the band to pursue a solo career and guitarist Jesse Johnson became the de facto band leader. Prince suggested restructuring the band with new member Paul Peterson to head the group, but Johnson opposed. However, like Day, Johnson soon left the band to pursue his own solo career.

A few of The Time's newer members followed Johnson to join his backing band (called Jesse Johnson's Revue).

As the band had served as an outlet for Prince to release more music, he wanted to continue this avenue, inviting the remaining members of The Time, Jellybean Johnson, Jerome Benton, and Paul Peterson, to his home and presented them with his new project. 

They agreed to become a new band called The Family, with Peterson renamed "St. Paul" as the new frontman and bassist. Johnson and Benton reprised their familiar roles from The Time. To the mix, Prince added Susannah Melvoin, the twin sister of Revolution guitarist Wendy Melvoin, as a backing singer and keyboardist. The fifth member was Eric Leeds, the brother of Prince's tour manager Alan Leeds, who provided saxophone and flute. Guitarist Miko Weaver is credited in the album's booklet because he was to be a session player and tour musician band supporter, but was never officially part of the band.

Much like The Time, the band's material was composed nearly entirely by Prince, with the exception of "River Run Dry," which was written by Revolution drummer Bobby Z. Prince wrote and performed all the other tracks and simply overdubbed Peterson's and Melvoin's vocals and added saxophone and flute by Leeds. On several tracks Prince's vocals can be clearly heard. Some of the original demos have surfaced as bootlegs and circulate among fans with Prince's original lead vocals, as well as two outtakes: the instrumental "Feline" and the pop song "Miss Understood". As on other associates' albums, Prince falsely gave credit to the various band members for writing credits, though he kept his name on "Nothing Compares 2 U". 

The tracks were all recorded in a few weeks' span at the end of the year 1984 after Prince had finished sessions for Around the World in a Day, and just before he started to record music for Sheila E.'s album Romance 1600 and his own album Parade.

"You need me, Michael. 

I want to take care of you now."

―Connie Corleone

Gangster Glam

{b-side of gett off}
Boy, we gettin' ready to get funkier than a sack 'o grandaddies

1,2,1,2,3

Roll it ((gett off))

Gangster ((gett off))
(gangster) ((gett off))
Yeah, summertime
Gangster ((gett off))
(get on up and jam)

Well as I g-e-double t-o-f-f
Ganster glam in the house
And I must confess, see
That this is the shit p serve
And a new power soul for those who would ever try to rock the
Npg, for those who are wondering, a family is born
And God bless us cause we're funky
Everything we do is on a positive tip
And got a message for a sucker with lip
Tell 'em rosie

(let a woman be a woman and man be a man)

Yeah, you tell 'em, baby
And as I put the mmm in man
I'm kickin' the gangster glam

Gangster
Gangster
Gangster glam
(gangster)
Kickin' the gangster glam
Gangster
Gangster
Gangster glam
(get on up and jam)

Well as I g-e-double t-o-f-f
Ganster glam in the house (house) (gangster)
The style we're sportin'
The ladies and the fellas, hmmm
Godfather iii meets barbarella (barbarella, barbarella, ...)
Hmmm, you can believe, a gangster never thinks twice

((gangster))
((gangster glam))
What ya say fellas?
((gangster))
((get on up and jam))
Roll it

Gangster
Gangster
Gangster glam
(summertime and I'm rollin')
(get on up and jam)
(send the shout out)

((power 2 the people of mpls))
(send the shout out) ((power 2 the people of mpls))
((power 2 the people of mpls))
((power 2 the people of mpls))

What's my bmw definition:
The black man's wish
All the heads of the family
Would fall and would drop this
And the fact that we're funky
Will keep the jeeps boomin' for the hip-hop junkies

((everybody grab a body, pump it like you want somebody))

(get-get-get-get-get-get on up and jam)

I'm kickin' the gangster glam

((everybody grab a body, pump it like you want somebody))

And see you lipsyncher suckers
Listen, we don't go for that
And you can believe
We're bringin' the live performance back gangster
So don't you come to the concert tonite
Cause was in your home wishin' you had came right
Hmmm clockin' the jizz
Gettin' bizz
Playin strip pool with vanessa
Sweatin' in my typhoon (get-get-get-get-get-get on up and jam)
Gangster
Yeah, that's my 'do, fool

(get-get-get-get-get-get on up and jam) ((get off)) gangster
Glam
Summertime and (unroll it)
(get-get-get-get-get-get on up and jam) gangster ((gett off))
Yeah
(get-get-get-get-get-get on up and jam) ((gett off)) gangster
Glam

Groovin' to the gangster glam
With the fellas (gangster)
The dream of tequila yella
Clockin' all the jizz (get on up and jam)

Gangster
I love you
Gangster
I love you too (I love you too)

Gangster glam
Yeah
((get on up and jam))

(if you think u're funky)
Are you funky?
(then come on and ride the donkey)
Then ride it

Gangster
((gangster glam))

((everybody grab a body, pump it like you want somebody))

(get-get-get-get-get-get on up and jam)

(how much money u got? )
Gangster grands

Gangster
Groovin' to the gangster glam

Gangster
Gangster glam
Groovin' to the gangster glam
(gangster)

I like 'em proud

Groovin' to the gangster
Groove-groove-groovin' to the
Groovin' to the gangster
Groove-groove-groovin' to the
Groovin' to the gangster
Groove-groove-groovin' to the
(get on up and jam)

Gangster
Groovin' to the gangster glam

(get on up and jam)

N ((n))
P ((p))
G ((g))
Who turn the mother out? ((who turn the mother out? ))

N (gangster) ((n))
P ((p))
G ((g))
Who turn the mother out? ((who turn the mother out? ))

Gangster
(jam)

What we gonna do when we wanna get funky?
Call me crazy
What we gonna do when we wanna get funky?
Call me crazy
What we gonna do when we wanna get funky? (jam) gangster (jam)
Call me crazy
What we gonna do when we wanna get funky? (jam)
(get on up and jam)

What we gonna do when we wanna get funky?
What we gonna do when we wanna get funky?

((gangster))
((gangster glam))
((gangster))
((get on up and jam))
Groovin' to the gangster glam

((gangster glam))
((gangster))
((get on up and jam))
Groovin' to the gangster glam
Gangster
Gett off
G-g-gett off

2016 Recording of #NothingCompares2U, featuring fDeluxe (aka The Family). 
The Family, aka fDeluxe, was the first to release this Prince penned song in 1985, ahead of Sinead O'Connor's popular version.
In this re-recording, the original string arrangement by the late Clare Fischer is at the forefront, featuring members of Mpls' STRINGenius (who have recorded on Prince's last 3 records).
www.fdeluxe.com

So, Wakanda is Basically Uganda... How Interesting...

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/Uganda.html

Franklin Lakes temple makes gift of Torah for Ugandan Jews

FRANKLIN LAKES — In the basement of Temple Emanuel of North Jersey on Sunday morning, three visitors from Uganda beamed as Rabbi Joseph Prouser presented them a gift for the little-known Abayudaya Jewish community: a Torah scroll wrapped in embroidered fabric.

Yoash Mayende, 29, of the Ugandan town of Namutumba rested the Torah against his right shoulder as everyone rose and sang the Hebrew song “Etz Chayim Hi,” which translates as “the Torah is the tree of life.”

Shoshanna Nambi, 27, and Sarah Nabaggala, 24, both of Nabugoye Hill, sang along and posed for photos.

“I’m just so happy that one of our communities got a Torah,” Nabaggala said afterward. “It is beautiful.”

The three, who have spent their summer traveling and working at Jewish camps in the United States, come from a community of Jews in Uganda who have been practicing the religion for nearly 100 years, said Harriet Bograd, president of the non-profit organization Kulanu.

The 21-year-old, volunteer-based Kulanu — whose name means “all of us” in Hebrew — works with more than 30 isolated and emerging Jewish communities around the world.

Several of the communities Kulanu works with in El Salvador, Spain, India, Portugal and the southwestern United States are likely descendants of “lost” Jews — lost as a result of 15th-century forced conversions to Christianity, and also the Assyrian defeat of 10 northern Israelite tribes in the eighth century B.C.E.

But there are also communities, like the Abayudaya, who have begun practicing more recently, and on their own.

In 1919, Christian missionaries gave a Bible to a Ugandan local governor named Semei Kakungulu, Bograd said. Kakungulu focused on studying the Old Testament, and began observing all of Moses’ commandments.

In later decades, a community of practicing Jews emerged, and they learned modern rituals from American, European and Israeli Jewish visitors, Bograd said. In the 1970s, the Abayudaya were outlawed amid the anti-Semitic violence of then-President Idi Amin, who openly praised Hitler and vilified Israel. Human rights organizations estimate that his regime murdered hundreds of thousands of his perceived opponents, including religious and political leaders.

The Abayudaya Jewish community was decimated, but has since rebounded and grown to about 2,000, mainly in the Mbale region in eastern Uganda, Bograd said.

Now, Jews, Christians and Muslims live in peace in their villages, the three Ugandan visitors said in interviews. Though there can be disagreements — when one person might shout at another that he is going to hell — violence is not part of them, and children from all three religions attend school together, Nambi said.

Kulanu first visited the Abayudaya in 1995, and has since worked with the community on such programs as micro-credit small business loans, water and sanitation projects, and women’s empowerment. In 2002, the group helped arrange for a rabbinical court to affirm the Judaism of hundreds of Abayudaya through conversion ceremonies.

Bograd said Abayudaya write Jewish symbols on their homes, and have used sugarcane poles to build chuppahs — wedding canopies — that children can nibble on after marriage ceremonies.

Nambi, who travels around her country conducting cervical cancer screenings as part of RAIN-Uganda, said the opportunity to connect with other Jews has been deeply meaningful for her. “How good and lovely is it for brethren to dwell together in peace,” she said, translating the Hebrew song “Hinei Ma Tov” she sang earlier.

Without Torah scrolls, the Abayudaya have for years been using a printed version known as a chumash, Mayende said.

The temple’s president, Susan Bograd Yudin, said it has about 21 scrolls, and only three are needed at a time. “The Torah doesn’t belong in a closet, we have so many,” she said.

The three Ugandans return home this week, and Mayende will be delivering the donated scroll to the village of Nasenyi — just in time for Yom Kippur.

Mayende said he’s a bit worried about the logistics of getting the Torah back to Uganda, but plans on speaking with airport personnel and bringing the scroll on the plane as a carry-on.

“I know I’ll get it home,” he said.

Email: villeneuve@northjersey.com

Zionist Congress: The Uganda Proposal

(August 26, 1903)

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When Theodor Herzl began his quest to establish a homeland for the Jewish people, he sought out the support of the great powers to help achieve his goal. In 1903, Herzl turned to Great Britain and met with Joseph Chamberlain, the British colonial secretary and others high ranking officials who agreed in principle to Jewish settlement in East Africa.

At the Sixth Zionist Congress at Basel on August 26, 1903, Herzl proposed the British Uganda Program as a temporary refuge for Jews in Russia in immediate danger. By a vote of 295-178 it was decided to send an expedition ("investigatory commission") to examine the territory proposed. Three days later the British government released an official document allocating a "Jewish territory" in East Africa "on conditions which will enable members to observe their national customs." 

Declaration of the British Government allocating a “Jewish Territory” in East Africa (August 29, 1903)

While Herzl made it clear that this program would not affect the ultimate aim of Zionism, a Jewish entity in the Land of Israel, the proposal aroused a storm at the Congress and nearly led to a split in the Zionist movement. The Jewish Territorialist Organization (ITO) was formed as a result of the unification of various groups who had supported Herzl's Uganda proposals during the period 1903-1905. 

The Uganda Program was finally rejected by the Zionist movement at the Seventh Zionist Congress in 1905, but Nahum Syrkin and Israel Zangwillcalled an alternative conference to continue the plan of the Uganda scheme. 

The fortunes of the territorialist movement depended to no small degree on the seriousness of anti-Semitism on the one hand and the failure of the political dimension of Zionist activity on the other. So, for example, the movement's ranks swelled somewhat following the pogroms in 1905, but declined considerably after the securing of the Balfour Declaration. 

Zangwill became the movement's undisputed leader. After the rejection of the Uganda scheme on the grounds of impracticability by the British, Zangwill turned his attention to settlement in Canada and Australia. But opposition from local residents led him to abandon the scheme. Expeditions were sent to Mesopotamia (Iraq), Cyrenaica (Libya) and Angola but little came of these expeditions. 

A project that had some concrete success was the Galveston scheme which contemplated the settlement of Jews in the American Southwest, in particular in Texas. The project received the assistance of Jacob Schiff, the American Jewish banker, and some 9,300 Jews arrived in that area between 1907-1914, through the Emigration Bureau of the Territorialist organization. 

With the publication of the Balfour Declaration, the ITO faced a severe crisis since many of its members came to the conclusion that Eretz-Israel was not so utopian after all. The organization's failure was due to its inability to secure a definite project, and its lack of sensitivity toward the historic and traditional sentiments of Jewish identity. 

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Sources: Die Welt, (August 29, 1903) from The Pedagogic Center, The Department for Jewish Zionist Education, The Jewish Agency for Israel, (c) 1992-2004, Director: Dr. Motti Friedman, Webmaster: Esther Carciente.

God is in The TV

"This is verifiable. 

People have been telling us about this for thousands of years. 
The Tibetans have been telling us about this. 
The Mesopotamians have been telling us about this. 

And why has it been made ‘occult’?

Because: Coca-Cola have got the secret.

What you do is you create a sigil.

Coca-Cola is a sigil. 

The McDonalds “M” is a sigil.

These people are basically turning the world into themselves, using sigils.

And if we don’t reverse that process, and turn the world into us using sigils, we’re going to be living in fucking McDonalds.

But McDonalds have no more power than us, apart from the fact – like what Doug [Rushkoff] said earlier – they’ve got some money.

Fuck it; who cares?

At the top levels of this stuff, no one’s using money anyway."

The Bardic Tradition of Magick

The Spear-Shaker, the Golem of Avon, he who shakes his spear of truth in the face of ignorance, is known universally as 

"The Bard."

Shakes-Spear is written as rhythmic verse, in Iambic Pentameter;

It is chanted, or entoned, like a mass or Gregorian prayers.

That which is chanted, must also be enchanted.

Like Logopolitan mathematics.

DOCTOR: 

As a matter of fact, they don't use computers, they use word of mouth. 

ADRIC: 

Is that another expression? 

DOCTOR: 

No. 

ADRIC: 

They speak it? 

DOCTOR: 

Mutter. Entone. 

ADRIC:

 Entone the computations? 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. 

ADRIC: 

Why? 

DOCTOR: 

[Pause] 

I've wondered that myself....

 I never quite had the nerve to ask them...

 "The connection of speech and reason is the organizing principle of Plato's dialogues and of all the literature based on them, through St. Augustine to the Italian Renaissance. The theater of Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Schiller represents a continuation of this tradition in a slightly different form. 

We must also recall that the classical poetry of Homer, Dante, and Chaucer was meant to be spoken or sung aloud."

" In the Book of Genesis, Adam creates language under the direct tutelage of God by giving names to animals and other objects."

"The destruction of reason with deconstruction thus revealed as a slyly disguised form of destruction , the next question is to determine what is to be destroyed. Derrida wants the destruction of reason, the deconstruction of the logos, which he identifies as the central point of the Judeo-Christian philosophical tradition. That tradition is what the deconstructionists are attacking when they rail against "western metaphysics." Derrida is anti-western because he regards the line of development from Socrates and Plato through Gottfried Leibniz as "ethnocentric" and racist. When he attacks "metaphysics," he means human reason itself. 

Derrida writes: "The 'rationality' -but perhaps that word should be abandoned for reasons that will appear at the end of this sentence-which governs a writing is thus enlarged and radicalized , no longer issues from a logos. Further, it inaugurates the destruction, not the demolition but the de-sedimentation, the de-construction, of all the significations that have their source in that of the logos . Particularly the signification of truth. All the metaphysical determinations of truth, and even the one beyond metaphysical onto-theology that Heidegger reminds us of, are more or less immediately inseparable from the instance of the logos, or of a reason thought within the lineage of the logos, in whatever sense it is understood: in the pre-Socratic or the philosophical sense, in the sense of God ' s infinite understanding or in the anthropological sense, in the pre-Hegelian or the post-Hegelian sense" (OfGrammatology, pp . 1 0- 1 1 ) . 

And again: "This absolute logos was an infinite creative subjectivity in medieval theology: The intelligible face of the sign remains turned toward the word and the face of God" (OfGrammatology, p. 13). 

How then can reason and the logos be destroyed? 

Heidegger had already given the example of attempt this by mystifying the concepts having to do with language: ''Thinking collects language into simple speaking . Language is therefore the language of being , just as the clouds are the clouds of the heavens . In speaking , thinking plows simple furrows into language . These furrows are even simpler than those plowed with slow steps by the farmer. " 'The death of civilization of the book' For Derrida, using a terminology that is borrowed from the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure , language is at first the realm of "sign" and "signified . " "The difference between sign and signifier belongs in a profound and implicit way to the totality of the great epoch covered by the history of metaphysics, and in a more explicit and more systematically articulated way to the narrower epoch of Christian creationism and infinitism when these appropriate the resources of Greek conceptuality. This appurtenance is essential and irreducible; one cannot retain . . . the scientific truth . . . without also bringing with it all its metaphysico-theological roots" (Of Grammatology, p. 13). 

In other words, Platonic Christianity is the basis for modem science, and that is the enemy Derrida seeks to liquidate by destroying language. The scientific tradition "begins its era in the form of Platonism, it ends in infinitist metaphysics . " (Here Derrida is probably targeting Georg Cantor and the transfinite numbers.) Derrida is fully conscious that the exhaustion of language will bring with it nothing less than the "death of speech" and the "death of the civilization of the book" (Of Grammatology, p . 8). 

Again following his Nazi guru Heidegger, Derrida focuses his destructive attention on the "metaphysics of presence" as this relates to language . The "presence" amounts to a solid grounding for certain knowledge, for the certitude that something exists . Derrida is at pains to point out that "presence" of this kind is required as a pre-condition for the conceptual apparatus of western philosophy from the time of the Greeks on down: "It could be shown that all names related to fundamentals, to principles, or to the center have always designated an invariable presence-eidos [action], arche [principle or first cause], telos [purpose], energeia, ousia (essence, existence, substance, subject), aletheia, [truth] transcendentality, consciousness, God, man, and so forth" ("Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," pp. 279-280). In language, "the metaphysics of presence" is equated with a "transcendental signified" or "ultimate referent," which would function as the ultimate guarantee of meaning.

We see that for Derrida, all western languages are "metaphysical," since their key words and concepts are permeated by Christian Platonism. They are also metaphysical, he thinks, because the only way to be sure of the meaning of "Send over a pizza," presupposes the Christian Platonic foundations of the whole civilization. Derrida therefore sets out to destroy Platonism by destroying language, while hoping to destroy the civilization along with both. Reason and speech Derrida asserts that the western languages are "logocentric," that they are based on reason in this way. Logos can mean reason, but also lawfulness or ordering principle, but also word, discourse, argument, and speech. "With this logos," says Derrida, "the original and essential link to the phone [sound] has never been broken." In other words, human reason and human speech are inextricably bound up together. The connection of speech and reason is the organizing principle of Plato's dialogues and of all the literature based on them, through St. Augustine to the Italian Renaissance. The theater of Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Schiller represents a continuation of this tradition in a slightly different form. We must also recall that the classical poetry of Homer, Dante, and Chaucer was meant to be spoken or sung aloud.

 If "the scar on the paper," were to replace all this, colossal cultural damage would of course be the result. Western language is therefore not only logocentric, but also phonocentric: that is to say, western language recognizes the primacy of the spoken language over the written language. 

"The system of language associated with phoneticalphabetic writing is that within which logocentric metaphysics, determining the sense of being as presence, has been produced" (OfGrammatology, p. 43). 

Derrida obviously cannot deny that spoken language "came first." He also cannot escape the fact that while the spoken word (parole) is a sign, the written word (mot) is the sign of a sign. He tries to go back to a mythical form of writing in general that might have existed before Socrates and Plato came on the scene, calling this arche-ecriture , (arch-writing) but this is plainly nothing but a crude deus ex machina hauled in to substantiate a thesis that has nothing going for it. 

In the Book of Genesis, Adam creates language under the direct tutelage of God by giving names to animals and other objects. But Derrida is hell-bent on reducing everything to writing and texts as the only sense data the individual gets from the world. Black marks on white paper In order to attack the logos and reason through the spoken word, Derrida sets against them his notion of writing: l' ecriture . Derrida explains that what he means by writing is "a text already! written, black on white" (Dissemination , p. 203). That means a text already written, black on white. Black marks on white paper, plus excruciating attention to spaces, numbers, margins, paragraphs, typefaces, colophons, copyright notices, plus patterns, groups, repetitions of all of the above and so on in endless fetishism. Since it is probably clear by now that Derrida, posing as the destroyer of western metaphysics, is only spinning out very bad metaphysics in the process, we can feel free to say that Derrida attempts to establish the ontological priority of writing over language and speech. Nothing in the way of proof is offered in favor of this absurd idea: The argument proceeds through a "we say" and ends by lamely hinting that the computer revolution will also help reduce all spoken words to black marks on the page: 

"The entire field covered by the cybernetic program will be the field of writing" (Of Grammatology, p. 9).

Judy - "There is but One Woman in the World - One Woman, with ManyFaces"

Vanity 6

Apollonia 6

 "Well now, I'm not gonna talk about Judy. 

In fact, we're not gonna talk about Judy at all, we're gonna keep her out of it."

"There is only one woman in the world. 

One woman, with many faces."

Satan,

The Last Temptation of Christ

Appollonia - The "Other" Wife of Michael Corleone

She is named for the Sun.

Lilith - Adam's Ex-Wife.

Lilith was a perfect angel, created by God to serve as a mate for Adam, the first man.

However, Lilith refused to submit to The Man sexually and take the bottom, submissive position to this lower being - and to be fair, why should she?

So she ran off and left him, and became the cursed harlot and fallen angel, the Queen of Hell.

So God created for Adam a new wife, to be his equal and opposite in all things...

After Carlo is questioned by Michael on his involvement in setting up Sonny's murder and confesses he was contacted by Barzini, caporegime Peter Clemenza kills him with a garrote wire. 

Michael is confronted by Connie, who accuses him of having her husband killed. He denies killing Carlo when questioned by Kay, an answer she accepts. 

As Kay watches warily, Michael receives his capos, who address him as the new Don Corleone. 

"Who Do You Think That Is, There...?

Who do you think that is, there...?

Illegitimate children have no claim on inheritance - especially since Prince has a living daughter and an ex-wife.

So, who do you think that is, there...?

Who do you think that is, there...?

Who do you think that is, there...?

Who do you think that is, there...?

Who do you think that is, there...?