A Tale Of Two Taylors

Taylors
Lautner & Swift

Taylor Swift teamed with her former boyfriend Taylor Lautner on her latest video for her unreleased track I Can See You off of her Speak Now (Taylor's Version) re-recorded album. 

WOW! That's a lot to take in all at once now isn't it???

Thus let's just christen today A Tale Of Two Taylors and have a Kiki.

PS the Taylor know as Swift is the one with her back to us in the photo.

Get the full 411 at the CNN article below -

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/09/entertainment/taylor-swift-taylor-lautner/index.html  

What We Need Is Here

Lisa Reagan, former member of the Washington National Opera, has made another unexpected career turn with What We Need Is Here, to be released on August 25 by Stillpoint Records. The new album, which offers ten classic poems by noted authors, including Yeats, Frost, Keats, Wordsworth, and Shakespeare, is set to original music she composed for the project. Lisa worked with Tony-award winning and Grammy-nominated producer/orchestrator Jamshied Sharifi, who had similar involvement in her previous release Shunia, a collaboration with fellow former National Opera alumna Suzanne Jackson. The song “Sa Re Sa Sa” from that album was the Silver Winner in the World Fusion Music category at the 2021 COVR Visionary Awards. To date, Lisa has recorded seven albums.

 

She titled the new album after a line from “The Wild Geese” by Wendell Berry, for which she received special permission directly from the poet. Lyric excerpt below:

 

And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here

 

Lisa describes What We Need Is Here as a “project of the heart,” recalling, “I started with how the poem made me feel. It was like creating a painting that ‘looked’ how the poem felt. I wanted to set a mood, creating a tonal palette for the words. I was so fortunate to be able to hand my songs to Jamshied for the orchestral arrangements and production. He is not only a brilliant musician, but he also felt the same obligation that I did to honor the poets and their muses.”

 

Beyond the digital realm, the album will be available as a vinyl LP the cover art for which was provided by celebrated portrait artist Paul Wyse whose work is part of both the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian and the Canadian House of Commons collections. His subjects have ranged from Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin to Billy Joel and Harry Connick Jr. to author Toni Morrison.  It’s worth noting that Wyse is also a musician who, as a classical pianist, has appeared with such greats as Michael Tilson-Thomas, Vladimir Feltsman and Gloria Estefan.

 

Lisa Reagan, accompanied by a 14-piece ensemble under the direction of Jamshied Sharifi, will preview the album live in concert in her hometown on Thursday, July 20th. The by-invitation performance, followed by a reception for Lisa and the musicians will take place at the newly restored and refurbished Freede Little Theatre, built in 1937, as part of the Oklahoma City Civic Center.

A native of Oklahoma City, Lisa Reagan has been recording and performing from an early age. She earned a master’s degree in Opera and Vocal Performance from the University of Maryland and joined the Washington National Opera thereafter. She has shared stages with some of the greatest voices of our time, including Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and Renée Fleming. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Salzburg Music Festival, and the White House, among hundreds of other venues around the globe. Although Lisa had been recording since she was 16, the untimely passing of her sister triggered feelings that led to a creative outpouring, resulting in her first album of original songs. After spending two decades with the Washington National Opera, she has focused on her own music. Last spring, Lisa taught master classes for opera singers at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy and will be doing so again this year. Her original composition “A l’infini” was heard on Bravo’s reality series Project Runway.

More information about Lisa Reagan and What We Need Is Here: https://lisareagan.com 

Freaky Friday

She's Here To Suck Your Blood
Bella Thorne

Look it's Vampire Bella Thorne, and she's a bloody mess! I came across this rather random and unusual image of Ms. Thorne as a vamp doused with blood in a theater while, what else? Surfing the WWW.

Being as that I love vampires, needless to say I was quite taken with Vampire Bella and how completely "freaky" and off the wall the whole thing was. 

Thus I thought Oh, I can post something freaky on Friday here on Entertain Me. Guess what, I have and I did! LOL

For whatever reason Bella went full throttle bloodsucker for the camera Il for one, am one happy Vampire, did I just let my darkest secret out of the coffin? Maybe...

Bella on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/bellathorne/?hl=en  

Michael's Musings

Pucker Up Here I Am!!!
Michael Shinafelt

Another 4th Of July weekend has come and gone, I basically celebrated by sitting home and watching my new flat screen high def TV. Just the way I like the 4th firework and stray bullet free.

Onward we march to another day, week and month!

As if anyone with any sense didn't know an animated film about a Teenage Kraken would flop, duh

Nosferatu/Ellen Degeneres things you can't unsee

Thou shalt not covet another man's chicken tenders

Old is when the guy installing your new flat screen doesn't know of the Batman TV series 

Having a Bible verse in your bio does not make you a good person

If the new Indian Jones movie had been called The Dildo Of Destiny I would so be there!

Only watched the first and last episode of HBO's The Idol, they were basically the same episode

When I'm with you I can not, not dance 

Woman Crush of the Week - P!nk who is currently on her Trustfall Tour she and her music are amazing!!!

So we can ban straight bachelorette parties in gay bars now???

Forgiveness is not denial

Do I look younger now that we've been turned back 50 years?

Cate Blanchett's Lesbian Vibe would be a great name for a band

Color me impressed about something 

Impress me here -

https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/MShinafelt   

Hump Day & Chill

Margot Robbie

Did you know it's Barbie's world and we just live in it? Well it seems that way of late as everywhere you turn there she is in your face!

Not that that/s a bad thing so she might as well take over as our Hump Day & Chill this week it seems like the thing to do no?

Personally I can't wait until July 21st! 

BTW Margot Robbie is killing it in all those Barbie fashions it's like she always in character, Kudos to the stylists behind them, truly amazing!!!

So let's Hump Day & Chill and party like Barbie, woot! 

Barbie Movie on the WWW -

https://www.barbie-themovie.com/

Happy July 4th!

Celebrating the 4th Of July with Christopher Reeve as Superman. He was truly perfect in the role that made him a star and will always be the only Superman to me.

Be careful out there and enjoy your day! 

Superman the Movie on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1978_film)

Monday Motivation

These are words to live by, trust me wake up every day and think of this quote every time anything negative enters your mind. It defuses it immediately.

Now get out there and rock your day like a hurricane and bend it like Zendaya Minions!!! 

Zendaya on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/zendaya/?hl=en