❧❧❧ Whatever you can do or dream, you can BEGIN IT. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe ❧❧❧
❧❧❧ You were born whole, not broken. Sandra Hammel ❧❧❧
Johanna has done it again. She has created a tribute for Heath Ledger that is "other worldly". This is the time of year when Heath left this earthly existence and many of us think of that day in January when he slipped into the sleep of sleeps.... ........................................................................
........................................................................ By jopicca Himmlisch ~ Heavenly Hervorragend ~ Superb
This is best watched at youtube where you can enlarge the screen and also watch it in 1080 p. To do that just double click on the video.
Heath Andrew Ledger April 4, 1979 to January 22, 2008
imdb Bio can be found by clicking the post title
I feel Johanna is so talented and offers Heath and his fans such wonderful tributes.
HEATH LEDGER ❧❧ TONIGHT WILL BE FINE ❧❧ TEDDY THOMPSON
I am still not happy with my newest upload to youtube. You can never know how it will compress and show up on youtube, so I have some glitches that I have tried to resolve, but so far they haven't resolved. And now I don't want to lose the viewer count that I have. But, having lived with me my whole life, I know me. I won't quit trying. But in the meantime, I post the text here that is at youtube, then I post the embed for now at the large size and the small size. Eventually I will delete the large size here because it doesn't fit the blog.
EDIT to original post❧
The videos on this particular post are not public at Youtube, but unlisted. I believe I have resolved one of the glitches. The public video at Youtube, still has the glitch, but it also has a prominent placement on the day and week listings under "Heath Ledger" and a respectable viewer count.
Teddy Thompson sings Leonard Cohen's song
❧ Tonight Will Be Fine ❧
Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past. We swore to each other then that our love would surely last. You kept right on loving, I went on a fast, now I am too thin and your love is too vast.
But I know from your eyes and I know from your smile that tonight will be fine, will be fine, will be fine, will be fine for a while.
I choose the rooms that I live in with care, the windows are small and the walls almost bare, there's only one bed and there's only one prayer; I listen all night for your step on the stair.
But I know from your eyes and I know from your smile that tonight will be fine, will be fine, will be fine, will be fine for a while.
Oh sometimes I see her undressing for me, she's the soft naked lady love meant her to be and she's moving her body so brave and so free. If I've got to remember that's a fine memory.
And I know from her eyes and I know from her smile that tonight will be fine, will be fine, will be fine, will be fine for a while.
❧ Support the artists ❧
❧ Movies in Tribute ❧
Roar
The Patriot
Brokeback Mountain
Candy
The Four Feathers
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Order
Movie quotes from
Casanova
The Order
Charlie Rose interview
Two Hands interview
Candy Press Conference Berlin
I’ve learned a lot in a very short time.In the end the only secret people keep is immortality. from the script of The Order (aka The Sineater)
In the end the only thing that will matter is how we treated one another. Sandra Hammel
Text at Youtube ❧
Brokeback Mountain is banned from USA viewers for me.Therefore, I captured images from the movie to be able to include it in the tribute.Please, support musicians Leonard Cohen and Teddy Thompson.
I want to thank all the creative and hard working people who presented us with these wonderful movies, the TV series of Roar, the stories, the scripts, as well as the wonderful interviews with Heath.I didn’t include all of my favorite scenes in this one tribute and certainly not all my favorite interviews. Impossible in a short video. However, it wasthoroughly rewarding to work on this labor of admiration and love. And it amuses me each time I watch this and it comes the place where Heath is in the interview where he is trying to avoid answering questions about his personal love life.(2:17 – 2:24)
Roar ❧ If you like looking at Heath Ledger, this is a must see because the camera is on his face just the way it should be – up close.A blog post about Roar ❧TV series must see
On January 9th, Southern Sudan will hold its independence referendum.Both North and South are preparing for war, leaving civilians at grave risk of major human rights violations.
I commend your administration for being engaged, but I hope you can do much more to help support peace in Southern Sudan and Darfur.I'm supporting you to do all you can to help avert a terrible conflict there.
Specifically, I hope you can do more in three areas:
1. Peacemaking: Intensify our support for the North/South peace process and dispatch a senior diplomat to revitalize the Darfur peace effort.
2. Protection: Focus the post-referendum UN peacekeeping mission on civilian protection, particularly in border areas where civilians are most vulnerable to conflict and rights violations.
3. Pressure:You have said there will be benefits for peace and consequences for war.These should be big enough to get the attention of the Sudanese or they won't matter.
........................................................................ This is nothing special as I didn't spend much time making the video. Just something I shot today and wanted to share.
It is a private video at Youtube, so no one can see it there. I just posted it here.
UDATE November 16, 9:30 a.m. Johanna, a friend I met at youtube, has informed me by her comment below that this video is notviewable here. Therefore, I learned my first thing for today.
If you want to see it (unless I decide to make it public one day), then you have to become a "youtube official friend" and I then can make it available to you. I apologize for this inconvenience. I just didn't think this video merited youtube, as it is a humble presentation of mine.
Try this link private~ it may also allow you to see it - would someone let me know, if indeed it works?
46 people came here between approximately 11:30 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. last night and obviously couldn't see the video. And I won't know how many since 3:00 a.m. have come here until tonight at 3:00 a.m.
I added pictures of Heath from Brokeback Mountain. One of my youtube videos is available to the whole world, but restricted from the USA due to my use of Brokeback Mountain clips. (And I love that video...a shame.) So, here I used photos that I retrieved online. Disappointed that the great flash of a smile from Heath as Ennis Del Mar isn't clear. But I love Heath's smile in that photo. Uploaded by ilovemylifesblog ~ November 15, 2009
All videography and photography I took today, November 15, 2009. Pictured in Rhode Island is Aquidneck Island's Sachuest Beach and Wildlife Refuge where I love to go for my heart and soul to commune with the universe. Map Quest for this area. The photo at the end was taken this afternoon on a gray day of leaves in my yard from my Japanese red maple tree that stands at my front door.
As I said, I love to go to Sachuest Wildlife Refuge in Middletown, Rhode Island, which is ten minutes from my home. I usually take my cameras. Tonight I only took my Kodak Share camera. It isn't a great camera and mainly is for still photos, however it can be used for movies. The zoom is jerky though which means it is useless pretty much for anything other than panning. And for some reason unknown to me it alternates between clarity and fuzzy focus on the video quality.
The video and photos do not really show what it was like there tonight. There was a mist rising, more than the typical energy in the waves and the accompanying sound was bold ~ the feeling of standing "in it" with it all encompassing me was other worldly. The tide was coming in and I stood a few feet from the inmost waves splashing on the rocks. It was heavenly.
The last couple of times I have gone to Sachuest, including tonight, I have taken my recorded music, my headphones and sing along with myself. Tonight, darkness came by 5:00 p.m., while I sang facing the waves of Sachuest on the Atlantic Ocean. I had a wonderful, vibrant time. At one point, I heard something sneeze and figured it had to be a deer. Do deer sneeze? Because I was a little bit afraid, I moved to the opposite side of the refuge's building and continued to sing. When a car was driving up the hill it stopped and in the headlights beaming across the refuge field, I saw the silhouette of a deer looking my way straightaway. When I drove down the hill, I stopped by the deer I saw, actually there were three there and later on the road home two more.
I sang a couple of my favorite songs: Go 'Way from My Window written by John Jacob Niles, a blues song and Peace Will Come a song from the 1960s written by Melanie Safka. Both of the songs I have written additional parts for. I love these songs.
Here on this video is the last song that I ended the nighttime singing . . . a song that I bought at itunes as a karaoke. The song is I Don't Want to Talk About It, but I changed the words to be sung about Heath Ledger. I originally heard this song sung by Rod Stewart. But it has gotten difficult at Youtube to know what songs will be allowed, so my solution has been to buy songs as karaoke once I fall for a song.
I'm working on my confidence to sing solo in public, so it is good practice to sing by the ocean. Others have subways and streets to do their singing. I sing at Sachuest. We have no subways and Newport doesn't allow singing in the parks and on the streets.
A couple of weeks ago, I was singing at the end of the day at the same spot. The sunset was simply stunning. Just glorious! My camera's battery was dead, so I could only soak it in my feelings. That night I went to get in the car to leave and I turned to see the sunset one last time. It had changed again and got even more beautiful, so I walked back to watch some more and sing. When I turned to walk to my car for the second time, a couple was standing at their car. The man with his hand leaning on the car looking my way. The woman at the passenger door also looking my way. They had been listening to me sing (There's a Chance) Peace Will Come. The man gave me a thumbs up. It was a great feeling to know that they paused to listen before they got into their car to drive away and go home. Especially, since I am shy about singing in public and here I didn't know anyone was listening. I was just enjoying singing.
My lyrics to I Don't Want to Talk About It
Can you tell by my face
I’m aching inside for so long,
And the stars in the sky don’t mean nothin’ to you,
they’re a mirror.
I don’t want to think about it ~
how my heart is breaking
since your leaving that winter’s night
If I stay, won’t you listen to my heart?
If I stand here alone,
will the shadow hide the colors of my heart;
Blue for the tears,
black for the night’s fears.
The stars in the sky don’t mean nothin’ to you,
they’re a mirror.
I don’t want to talk about it,
how it breaks my heart.
If I livehere
just a little bit longer,
If I stay, won’t you listen
for my heart?
Oh, my heart.
Can't you tell by my eyes
I been aching inside for so long
And the stars in the sky don’t mean nothin’ to you,
they’re a mirror.
I don’t want to think about it, how my heart is broken,
How you left your mark on my heart,
If I stay here, won’t you listenfor my heart,
whoa, my heart?
Oh, I miss you, please,
feel my heart.
Oh, my heart.
Can you tell by my face
I’m aching inside for so long,
And the stars in the sky don’t mean nothin’ to you,
they’re a mirror.
I don’t want to think about it how my heart is breaking,
Since your leaving that winter’s night
If I stay, won’t you listen to my heart?
If I stand here alone,
will the shadow hide the colors of my heart;
Blue for the tears,
black for the night’s fears.
The stars in the sky don’t mean nothin’ to you,
they’re a mirror.
I don’t want to talk about it,
how it breaks my heart.
If I livehere
just a little bit longer,
If I stay, won’t you listen
for my heart?
Oh, my heart.
UPDATE to this POST
November 16, 2009
12:40 a.m.
........................................................................ ........................................................................ I received this message at youtube today:
Not sure if you saw the first one, but this has more photos, and it has captions so you know what you are looking at. If you are interested in where Heath grew up, you'll enjoy this video of the stunning city of Perth!
WATCH FULL SCREEN IN HQ! Included Heath's favorite beaches, The city where Heath's parents live and he last visited, Perth landmarks, Parks, Gardens, Cafe Strip, Fremantle, Australia Day Fireworks. The captions will tell you what you are looking at.
Help us get "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus" in our local theatres in the USA. It is our last chance to see Heath on screen in a new film. Don't let us be left out. Go to this link to Demand It
Lyrics Thanks for all you've done I've missed you for so long I can't believe you're gone You still live in me I feel you in the wind You guide me constantly
I've never knew what it was to be alone, no Cause you were always there for me You were always there waiting And I'll come home and I miss your face so Smiling down on me I close my eyes to see
And I know, you're a part of me And it's your song that sets me free I sing it while I feel I can't hold on I sing tonight cause it comforts me
I carry the things that remind me of you In loving memory of The one that was so true Your were as kind as you could be And even though you're gone You still mean the world to me
I've never knew what it was to be alone, no Cause you were always there for me You were always there waiting But now I come home and it's not the same, no It feels empty and alone I can't believe you're gone
And I know, you're a part of me And it's your song that sets me free I sing it while I feel I can't hold on I sing tonight cause it comforts me
I'm glad he set you free from sorrow I'll still love you more tomorrow And you will be here with me still
And what you did you did with feeling And You always found the meaning And you always will...
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.............................................. Heath Ledger - Smiles Another upload by jopicca
Matilda Rose Ledger Matilda's Song Uploaded by AshleeRBradley Text from poster's Youtube page sidebar: This is a tribute to Heath Ledger & the two great loves of his life, Michelle & especially Matilda Rose. Heath asked his friend Ben Harper to write this song as a lullaby for his beautiful Matilda. It's called Happy Ever After In Your Eyes "Happy Everafter In Your Eyes"
The morning sunrise spread her wings While the moon hung in the sky Held the sea in your hands And happy everafter in your eyes
Couldn't leave you to go to heaven I carry you in my smile For the first time my true reflection i see Happy everafter in your eyes
Every star in the night Promises the dawn I will be there if you fall To ever so heavily rest upon
All that i can give you Is forever yours to keep Wake up every day with a dream And happyever after in your eyes
The body of Heath Ledger was cremated in Australia on Saturday and his remains were laid to rest.
Michelle Williams read Shakespeare at the service and some of Ledger's favorite songs were played, including the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun.
After the service, mourners gathered at a beach side restaurant and many, including Williams, went fully clothed into the ocean as they watched the sunset.
Although I believe Heath didn't kill himself intentionally, I find some of the words in this song ~ Vincent ~ cause me to think of Heath. All I have is my feelings from my reading various things about Heath. I can believe that he was shy as I read and I can believe he was in despair over his break-up with Michelle and not being able to see his beloved daughter, Matilda Rose Ledger near the end of his life. It is too bad that he had too many conflicting prescribed medications that were lethal. When we are young and going through the loss of love in our lives, we don't always think clearly.
look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul. Shadows on the hills sketch the trees and the daffodils
catch the breeze and the winter chills
in colors on the snowy linen land. And now I understand what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity how you tried to set them free. They would not listen they did not know how
perhaps they'll listen now.
Starry, starry night flaming flowers that brightly blaze
swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Colors changing hue morning fields of amber grain weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand. And now I understand what you tried to say to me how you suffered for your sanity how you tried to set them free. perhaps they'll listen now.
For they could not love you but still your love was true and when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night. You took your life as lovers often do;
But I could have told you Vincent this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
Starry, starry night portraits hung in empty halls
frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can't forget. Like the stranger that you've met
the ragged men in ragged clothes
the silver thorn of bloody rose lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.
And now I think I know what you tried to say to me how you suffered for your sanity how you tried to set them free. They would not listen they're not list'ning still perhaps they never will.
I haven't seen all of Heath Ledgers films but of those I have seen my favorite is The Four Feathers... and Brokeback Mountain and A Knights Tale are my next favorites. I love the special features on the dvds, especially those on A Knights Tale. I have many more to see.
Harry's Journey from The Four Feathers Text from the Youtube page's sidebar: Heath Ledger as Harry Faversham in "The Four Feathers" is remarkable, and this video is a tribute to the soul-searching, fear-facing, courageous journey Harry took into the Sudan to find himself and his inner-strength.
His "return to himself" is a line in Return To Innocence - a song by Enigma, which is used with this video . Uploaded by MrsLauraLedger
I have been recommending The Four Feathers to friends, strangers and my doctor. I loaned my copy out today to someone who has been having a hard time finding it to rent. In my state you can get dvds from any library in the state for free. Once I passionately love a movie I buy it at amazon.com Even if I can record them from TV, I want the dvds because of the special features. Love the special features.
The Four Feathers - One of many Special Features - Part 1 Text from this Youtube: The special features of The Four Feathers are awesome. Shekhar Kapur has done a tremendous job directing this movie. A lot of wisdom is contained in this film and these clips give a pretty good indication of the sheer depth of it. Uploaded by springrose147
The Four Feathers - One of many Special Features - Part 2 Text from this Youtube: A lot of wisdom is contained in 'The Four Feathers... Shekhar Kapur beautifully explains some of the deeper meanings... Uploaded by springrose147
The Four Feathers - One of many Special Features - Part 3 Text from this Youtube: The special features of The Four Feathers are awesome. Shekhar Kapur has done a tremendous job directing this movie. A lot of wisdom is contained in this film and these clips give a pretty good indication of the sheer depth of it. Uploaded by springrose147
...................................................... Music video montage with pics from The Four Feathers movie and song Mea Culpa by Enigma Uploaded by martinmoviecompany
...................................................... Heath Ledger Parts of 60 Minutes (Australia) 2001 interview Tara Brown interviews Heath Ledger. Uploaded by springrose147
Charlie Rose with Heath Ledger in In Memoriam on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 7 minutes. I posted the hour long interview on Charlie Rose with Ang Lee and Heath Ledger regarding the film Brokeback Mountain on my previous post. This post's video takes portions of the hour long interview as a memoriam to Heath.
When Day is Done by British singer-songwriter Nick Drake. Heath wanted to make a movie about Nick Drake, who died in 1974 at the age of 26. He developed a posthumous cult following. During the productions of The Dark Knight, Heath had created a music video based on one of Drake's songs, Black Eyed Dog
Drake suffered from depression, insomnia and Drake died from an overdose of amitriptyline, an anti-depressant. This information was taken from the current cover story of Vanity Fair (August 2009), page 134, first column.
I am not sure if this video is the one Heath did. In the comments at Youtube PlasticPunkDoll says that this is basically it, except adds this comment: "The ending is different because Heath ends up drowning himself in a bathtub. They've only shown it publicly twice, so this is the best you'll get right now."
Lyrics
A black eyed dog he called at my door The black eyed dog he called for more A black eyed dog he knew my name A black eyed dog he knew my name A black eyed dog A black eyed dog.
I'm growing old and I wanna go home I'm growiing old and I don't wanna know I'm growing old and I wanna go home.
A black eyed dog he called at my door A black eyed dog he called for more
Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his acoustic, melodic, autumnal songs. His primary instrument was the guitar, though he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, and saxophone. Although he failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, Drake's work has grown steadily in stature, to the extent that he now ranks among the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years.[2][3][4]
Drake signed to Island Records when he was 20 years old and released his debut album, Five Leaves Left, in 1969. By 1972, he had recorded two more albums—Bryter Layter and Pink Moon. None of the albums sold more than 5,000 copies on their initial release.[5] His reluctance to perform live or be interviewed further contributed to his lack of commercial success. Despite this, he was able to gather a loyal group of fans who would champion his music. One such person was his manager, Joe Boyd, who had a clause put into his own contract with Island Records that ensured Drake's records would never go out of print.
Drake suffered from depression and insomnia throughout his life, and these topics were often reflected in his lyrics. Upon completion of his third album, 1972's Pink Moon, he withdrew from both live performance and recording, retreating to his parents' home in rural Warwickshire. On 25 November 1974, Drake died from an overdose of amitriptyline, a prescribed antidepressant; he was 26 years old.
Place to Be Lyrics When I was younger, younger than before I never saw the truth hanging from the door And now I'm older see it face to face And now I'm older gotta get up clean the place.
And I was green, greener than the hill Where the flowers grew and the sun shone still Now I'm darker than the deepest sea Just hand me down, give me a place to be.
And I was strong, strong in the sun I thought I'd see when day is done Now I'm weaker than the palest blue Oh, so weak in this need for you.
..................................................... Heath Ledger - Rare behind the scenes video Text from youtube page sidebar: Rare videos and pictures from behind the scenes of the music videos Heath directed as well as footage of Heath fooling around, surfing, talking to camera and playing in the pool with Matilda. A beautiful video. Uploaded by RememberingHeath
............................................ Tribute to Heath Ledger Music: Hallelujah by brilliant Aussie artist, Vince Jones Uploaded by springrose147
Heath Ledger, then 21, in an outtake from the cover-story shoot for the August 2000 issue. Heath Ledger, photographed exclusively for Vanity Fair by Bruce Weber in 2000, on the Prague set of A Knight’s Tale.
In August 2000, Vanity Fair featured a rising young star on its cover: Heath Ledger. Bruce Weber’s photographs captured the looks, character, and promise that the actor’s co-workers and friends described in the accompanying cover story. Ledger fulfilled that promise before his untimely death, in January 2008. Here, a selection of images from Weber’s shoot, both published and unpublished. Related: “We’re Havin’ a Heath Wave,” by Kevin Sessums.
Photograph credit: Bruce Weber
Heath Ledger Interviewed by Charlie Rose about Brokeback Mountain ............................................
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An hour conversation with Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee and actor Heath Ledger about their film Brokeback Mountain. The film is an adaptation of Annie Proulx' critically acclaimed short story.
Photograph credit: Bruce Weber
“I don’t have a method to my madness,” Ledger told Kevin Sessums. “For me, acting is more about self-exploration.”
Photograph credit: Bruce Weber
Ledger told Sessums, “When anything is blocking my head or there’s worry in my life, I just—whoosh—go sit on Mars or something and look back here at Earth.… You don’t see the fear. You don’t see the pain. You don’t see the movie industry. You don’t see this interview. You don’t see thought. It’s just one solid speck. Then nothing really matters. It just doesn’t.”
Photograph credit: Bruce Weber
“When Heath smiles, it’s Errol Flynn,” said A Knight’s Tale director Brian Helgeland. “Once every 50 years a guy like that comes along.” Photograph credit: Bruce Weber
Heath is the cover story for Vanity Fair's month of August 2009 The article is worth a read - it is titled:
THE LAST OF HEATH
With an exclusive look at Heath Ledger’s final months, Peter Biskind learns how the actor’s passion inspired Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell to rescue his last movie. Web special: Bruce Weber’s photos of Heath from the August 2000 issue. P 82
Other blogs, sites have good summaries on the article:
I love my life. I love where I live. And I am passionate about my passions. I love to dance. Necessary to live: music, piano, singing, writing, acting, painting.
I have been fighting for and supporting the arts all my adult life. Since 2004, I have been working with other activists to end the Darfur genocide.
I have traveled to Europe many times since my early twenties. Places I have been: many USA states including Hawaii, Montreal, Canada, Barbados, France, Spain, Luxembourg, England, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Germany - and have wonderful memories.
My last trip was in May - June 2013 to Spain.
I would like to travel to Europe and Kyoto, Japan.
I love the southwest where I have visited Hopi, Navajo, Zia and San Idlefonso potters.
Life is exciting and I intend to live it full-out to the end.
B.S. and M.M., both in music
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