Separated at birth/William & Ms. Lennox

[Perplexed]

Any thoughts?
And, based on these, who's the butch one?...............

(I adore Ms. Lennox........a uniquely talented woman...)

[TheDZ]

Perplexed said:

Any thoughts?
And, based on these, who's the butch one?...............

(I adore Ms. Lennox........a uniquely talented woman...)

I agree, she's fierce and has Fab talent.

Similar skull and nose shapes, both red heads...( though they both look brunette here) Bill's been through the facial transmogrificator though....

If gazes could kill, I think she'd win the competition....and the talent show.

[Perplexed]

She projects a passion and a high degree of control and competance in both her vocalizations, and her stage persona. Fierce is a good word. Like the energy of two people living in one. I am not implying anything paranormal there, just saying she's commited to the moment, the material, and the music. She sells it, and she masters it. Voice has much dimension--although she has said in interviews, can be fragile when overworked. Well, I say, that's true for everyone, especially the rigeurs of singing New Wave Brit Second Invasion Techno Pop. Is all soul and blues, hard belting, and rangy. She wrote 'em, concieved, 'em, did music and lyrics at times, she made the vocals, and she put the voice and body (and costumes and make-up) behind it in a VERY sharp, slick (but not in a bad way) presentation. Diva? In every good sense of the word.

Now the hair--from what I was told, my friend Gibbs was desk clerk at her hotel (coincidence) and after they left, he told me she came downstairs every day in regular middle mousey brown, chesnut hair. And came home from the theatre with red hair.
She told him the last morning, "Its a rinse. I won't dye my hair. I put in, and wash it out every day. THIS is my real hair color--the brown....."

So, who knows.......that's show business..........

[TheDZ]

Perplexed said:

Like the energy of two people living in one. I am not implying anything paranormal there, just saying she's commited to the moment, the material, and the music.

Now Mr. Perplexed, you just said some thing I find VERY interesting.

I feel EXACTLY the same way about Annie and the real Paul McCartney....

I hear TWO voices at the same time when I listen to either one....I distinguish the imitiator ( Denny) from Paul by listening for the low and high component which actually combines into Pauls smooth midrange voice... Denny does not have this , he has the high part nailed but the lower part, the chest, is absent. ( Very Strange!) Paul's vocal mastery was in his abilty to make unbroken transitions in the registers. No goat singing , no cracking voice just wonderful smooth flowing sound. This dual component is responsible ( IMHO) for Paul's compelling vocals.

Annie compells me in the same way...

I dont' suppose you know what a nagual is....?

[Perplexed]

Annie has a top, a middle, a nice chest register. (Missionary Man, Sweet Dreams) and harmonizes with herself like a dream.

Paul didn't go nasal, or "goaty" as you say, braying or honking to get out the high notes. He just heard them in his head, put the right amount of support behind it, and made a matching sound as high as high "A".

"Here, There, and Everywhere", perfect head voice placement. Centered, supported, in tune, and legato! Legato! The boy could sing legato in the con forza, spinto, marcatissimo world of rock and roll. And then turn around and do a credible Little Richard with all the growl. I'm Lookin Thru You, She's A Woman, Kansas City.
Besame Mucho!

Eleanor Rigby is a masterpiece.

Nagual? Checking it out.....

[Perplexed]

I surmise that your use of "nagual" has a connection to things mentioned in this article:

www.think-aboutit.com/modules.php?name=
Content&pa=showpage&pid=126

INteresting, new. I am not acquainted so much with this. I have heard of Carlos Castenada, and heard mention of his connection to the movie "Altered States", and the music (lyrics) of the Eagles, and of course his books with desert images on the covers.

A thing to look into.

[Perplexed]

The said:

Now Mr. Perplexed, you just said some thing I find VERY interesting.

I dont' suppose you know what a nagual is....?

Hmmm: (QUOTE)

The 'hole' glyph alone is way, which as a Chol Mayan verb means 'sleep' and 'dream', and as a noun refers to the 'shaman', a transforming shape-changer known in most of Mesoamerica today by the Aztec derived term nagual. Extra-ordinary means for communicating with the beyond depend primarily upon the powers of the Mesoamerican shaman and include various divinatory techniques, prayer, libations, sacrifices, hallucinogens, trance and shape-changing. However, it is precisely through dreams during sleep that communicative ties are ordinarily realized across the portal linking this to the Otherworld (see e.g. Earle 1986:169). In fact, the Highland Quiche Mayans of Guatemala are said to refer to their ancestral shrines--loci for prayers and offerings that are conceptualized as portals interposed between this and the other world--as waribal 'sleeping places' (Schele 1992:137; Earle 1986:166), based on a word cognate to the way that glyphically names the 'hole/portal/void' in the language of the Classic Maya.


END QUOTE.

I think I'll just step over here to this little hallway and kinda, I dont know, let out a big scream, just kinda freak out for a second, you know, clear my lungs, take a load off, and just, you knoe, spaz out for second. Then I should be just fine?

Ok?

Ok!

Allright, 'scuze me!
(tiptoe tiptoe tiptoe tiptoe tiptoe, door creaks, shuts, silence, then)


AAAARRRRRGHRGHRGHRGHRGHRGHRGHAAARGHRGHRGHRGHRGH!

[abbey]

Perplexed said:

Any thoughts?
And, based on these, who's the butch one?...............

(I adore Ms. Lennox........a uniquely talented woman...)

Annie Lennox is a very talented lady. However as to your question: Who's the butch one? I'd have to say she looks more butch than Faul. From some photos we've seen of Faul he was the feminine one.

[Perplexed]

Sister said:

Annie Lennox is a very talented lady. However as to your question: Who's the butch one? I'd have to say she looks more butch than Faul. From some photos we've seen of Faul he was the feminine one.

Rock and Roll's most popular dance--the "Gender Twist."
Right, Chubby Checker?

"Let's twist again, like we did last summer......"

[PaulBearer]

Actually, are we sure Annie Lennox wasn't born a man? "She" looks rather mannish...

[Perplexed]

Paul said:

Actually, are we sure Annie Lennox wasn't born a man? "She" looks rather mannish...

NOt at all...she can project a LOT of femininity. Before becoming the Eurythmics I think she and Dave Stewart had an album out in, like, 1980, as "The Tourists". They had one song chart that I recall, a remake of "I Onnly Want to Be with You". The press material has Lennox in a variety of foxy looks, with , either long hair, or wigs. Totally ladylike.
She I think resented the obligatory "chick singer" look imposed on female vocalists; it was her was of distancing her persona fom that, I think, and also her self-expression, to do the red crew cut androgymous pixie with the flashing eyes.

But whatever. The girl can SING!