ROAR - TV SERIES - a MUST SEE - oh... HEATH IS MISSED

Heath Ledger as Connor in Roar

I am watching the tv series Roar that was made available on DVD in the year of 2006. I only discovered it through Heath Ledger lover-of-his-work-and-person...jopicca. I am sorry, Johanna, I don't know how to describe you....if you have a description that better suits you, please let me know and I'll edit this paragraph!

Here is the video of

that brought me to Heath in Roar . . .

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Uploaded by jopicca
Johanna's Heath Ledger channel at youtube

I was watching the Tash episode and at the end I was simply immersed in the beauty of the scene with Heath's Connor and Vera Farmiga's Caitlin. Heath is so Heath in this scene. You just fall in love with him. Again...if you already love him. He was so very young . Just 18 years old. (Birth April 4, 1979.)

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At 5:40 - to the end - is just soul-breath-taking.
Get ready . . .
Part 4 of the 4 uploads of Tash on youtube
Uploaded by lostwithoutme

The ending is so elevating and yet deeply moving all at the same time.

The Loreena McKennitt Music

The music wasn't credited at the end, as happens in movies. So I did a google search and found it was Loreena McKennitt. Now, I know, Johanna. I understand the power of this music that you introduced to me. This music is what you put on your lovely Roar and Heath tribute youtube video, posted November 25, 2009 (top video of this post). Now, I understand even more. I was telling someone yesterday about your video, Johanna, and the music that made your video so special for me. I hadn't heard Loreena McKennitt on the other Roar episodes that I am progressing through. Then, the ending of the Tash episode. nn...n...nnnn...just delicious for the soul.

The more I learn of Heath and see his work ~ I am just so in awe. So truly sad he is no longer here to enjoy as a fellow human being. What a gift. Such a willing soul to show us his soul. You can see the depth of Heath, but it is more subtle in Roar. They were so fortunate to have Heath star in Roar. Every time I begin an episode, I wait for it....

Heath Ledger

as the first name shown on screen.

For some reason, it is a nice feeling to see his name there, upfront - knowing he was just starting out on his acting path. It must have been so cool for him.

And what I just love, more than other works of his, that I have so enjoyed him in, is that the Roar directors' gave us such tight shots on Heath's face. Just brilliant and so right to do.

And why not?

A face worth a series all by itself.

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Episode 1 -the Pilot of Roar - 1 of 4 parts uploaded on youtube
Uploaded by prissson

Original USA air dates:

Episode 1
July 14, 1997
Roar pilot

Episode 2
July 21, 1997
Projector

Episode 3
July 28, 1997
The Chosen

Episode 4
August 4, 1997
Banshee

Episode 5
August 11, 1997
Doyle's Solution

Episode 6
August 18, 1997
Red Boot

Episode 7
August 25, 1997
The Spear of Destiny

Episode 8
September 1, 1997
The Eternal

USA's Fox stopped airing Roar (a modest fan site)

• While the original airing of the show ~ North America did not broadcast all of the episodes, when syndicated to Australia, Canada and the UK, all episodes were aired.
• Roar: The Complete Series was released on DVD on September 19, 2006. The 3-disc set includes all thirteen episodes, even those which were never aired in the United States.

It is amazing that US TV is so stupid, so often.

Episodes 9 through 13

9...Tash
10..Traps
11..Daybreak
12..The Cage

13..Sweet Bridget (DVD must refer to this as Sweet Bright)
May 28, 2000

Heath Ledger as Connor in Roar

Roar
Connor's inner circle of Roar friends and family

Heath from the Bruce Weber photo series for "Vanity Fair" 2000
See all 15 beautiful photos of Heath from
Vanity Fair

UPDATE:
Thanks to Johanna for the correct information about the above picture and for helping me with my proofreading. McKennitt is the correct spelling.
I hope I caught all my misspellings of Loreena's last name.

Favorite shows of mine over time have all been canceled and picked up by another country or channel.
Due South
by duesouthvideos

I'll Fly Away

I'll Fly Away at imdb

I'll Fly Away - Cast, Trivia, Awards

I digress.

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Loreena McKennitt singing Full Circle
The song used at the end of the Tash episode
Uploaded by Cyrkus

Full Circle - Lyrics

Loreena McKennitt

Stars were falling deep in the darkness

as prayers rose softly, petals at dawn

And as I listened, your voice seemed so clear

so calmly you were calling your god

Somewhere the sun rose, o'er dunes in the desert

such was the stillness, I ne'er felt before

Was this the question, pulling, pulling, pulling you

in your heart, in your soul, did you find rest there?

Elsewhere a snowfall, the first in the winter

covered the ground as the bells filled the air

You in your robes sang, calling, calling, calling him

in your heart, in your soul, did you find peace there?

Links about Loreena McKennitt - Music used in Roar
Loreena
Loreena - small things

Roar is an American television show that originally aired on the Fox network in the summer of 1997. In the year AD 400, a young Irish man, Conor (played by Heath Ledger), sets out to rid his land of the invading Romans, but in order to accomplish it, he must unite the Celtic clans.

Roar on wikipedia.org
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Tribute to Roar - Song: Dust in The Wind by Kansas
Uploaded by prissson
Double click the videos and go to youtube to view in bigger screen of 640 X 505.

You can buy Roar here for Region 1 for the USA. It is worth the $29.99.

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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: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus


From the Support site for The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus:

IMPORTANT! International Dr. Parnassus Fan Brainstorming Chat Saturday, 12/5/09

Tuesday, December 01st, 2009 | Author: Administrator

There will be an important Dr. Parnassus fan brainstorming chat in our chatroom this Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 10 a.m. Los Angeles Time and 6:00 p.m. London Time. Even if Dr. Parnassus has played in your country, please, it is important that you attend this chat if you can. You can find the time in your country that the chat will take place here at the WORLD CLOCK. We have tried to choose a time that will work for as many countries as possible.

Please be there, you won’t be sorry. There’s much to be shared with you about the film and what’s what with it.

CLICK HERE FOR OUR CHAT ROOM

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By clicking on the post title, it will take you to a wonderful article about the making of King Rat - a video about saving the whales which was conceived and created by Heath.

My Youtube Channel:
www.youtube.com/user/ilovemylifesblog

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GENOCIDE IS NOT OKAY

USE YOUR VOICE
TO CALL UPON OUR LEADERS
TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT
ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS VERY WRONG

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whilewewaitsudan.blogspot.com

www.henryjacksonsociety.org/stories

or, Start a Petition

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IT'S MAY - ROBERT SCHUMANN'S ART SONG ~ PAUL WARREN ALLEN CONDUCTOR ~ NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE CHOIR

MEMORIES WORTH REMEMBERING

Music is my Refuge
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It's May ~ Robert Schumannn's Art Song ~ Paul Warren Allen, Conductor ~ North Central College
Uploaded by me

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This text is from my Youtube sidebar:

This recording was done in the spring of 1968 in Naperville, Illinois, outside of Chicago at North Central College. Three years later the college eliminated the music department.

The women come in for the second Schumann Art Song which follows this song. The second song is Where'er My Tears Are Falling, followed with The Rose and The Lily.

I will be uploading more songs from this long playing (LP) record.

If you were a member of this choir, would you be willing to contact me? I would like to hear from you. If you have a song from the album that you would like posted here at Youtube, please let me know. You can leave a Channel Comment here:
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or in the upper right corner of my individual video page, find the logo for an envelope and click on it, in order to send me a private message. It is found between "ilovemylifesblog" and "Sign In" or "Sign Out" (whichever is relevant).

Also, you may leave a comment below or email me here at my blog by clicking View My Complete Profile under the text on my sidebar of the About Me section.

I have talked to Maestro Paul Warren Allen's daughter. I sent a letter to him in January 2010 and she called me. He is 96 years old. And later, I received a note that he heard the youtube video. I have since posted another video - The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee - which I may eventually repost to correct the size. Until then, the link.

The second upload is up.

Here is an excerpt from Naperville Chorus...
In the 1960's Dr. Paul Warren Allen of the North Central College Music Department melded the vocal talents of students, college personnel, and community members into a forerunner of the Naperville Chorus. The NCC-Community Chorus flourished and performed contemporary and traditional choral works until 1971, when financial cutbacks at the college eliminated the Music Department.

Photos, except for ten (4 of children, 4 of birds and 2 of woods' scenes), are from my yard in Rhode Island, nearby where I live on Aquidneck Island and photos of flowers I took at the National Botanical Gardens in Washington, D.C (where I have lobbied four times for Darfur, in addition to several times in the US RI Senators and Representative offices in Rhode Island).

One of my blog posts regarding Darfur:

PROVIDENCE OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY ON BEHALF OF DARFUR AND SPEAKING TO CHINA:
ilovemylifebrothersandsisters.blogspot.com/2007/10

The video portion within the Youtube video is from the movie "The Four Feathers". The actors are Heath Ledger and Kate Hudson.
Other youtube videos of mine featuring The Four Feathers...
HEATH LEDGER ~ THE FOUR FEATHERS ~ TRIBUTE TO FRIENDSHIP, COURAGE AND INTEGRITY ~ BROKEN ARROW

and
HEATH LOVE ~ For the FirstTime ~ Lover's Such As I
(this one is only viewable OUTside the USA)

The picture of me included in the video on my parents' lawn is the day I graduated from college at Huntington College ~ after I transferred from North Central College mid-way through my junior (third) year. Going to Huntington College is what eventually led me to live in New England the whole of my adult life. I love it here.


I am a bit tired as the Youtube video and me were up all night...not uncommon for me, while creating youtube videos...so no sympathy needed .

I just went through boxes of memorabilia I have kept over my lifetime...what a ball! I found some very interesting things. No one should have this much fun. Or maybe, everyone should.

I did find a bonanza....when I was a freshman I got mono in the spring of 1968. And many of the NCC choir members - 39 - signed a "get well" card to me before going on choir tour. And I still have it! The back of the LP album says there are 60 members and I count 61 in the picture on the back of the album (which matches the one in the 1968 yearbook/Spectrum).

I have many terrific pictures from the NCC 1967 music camp of students, Prof Allen and *Prof Izzo, also of **Prof Marian Schapp, and other music people and experiences. And I have a specially typed note to me from Paul Warren Allen asking me to sing in his Swedish Chorus in Chicago,*a personal note in a "get well" card which is precious from Bernard Izzo - a vocal NCC prof and Chicago opera singer, along with **many handwritten notes from Marian Schapp - my piano professor - from when I transferred from NCC to HC near my home in Indiana midway through my junior year.

So special and heart-warming for me.

A special picture of Conductor Paul Warren Allen by the pool at music camp before the freshman year started, standing beside a bathing-trunks-wearing svelte Professor/Chicago Opera Singer, Bernard Izzo. Do I dare post it on my blog?

Hmmm, so tempting....

This student, Paul K. Ferington, conducted while at North Central College for Prof Allen.
Paul is pictured here in this article.

Also pictured in the second picture here. and at Buffalo News ~ Niagara County
now married to Karen

North Central College Choir 1967-68

I am the fifth person from the right in the front row.
Karen is behind me, the sixth person from the right in the second row.
Click on the picture and it will enlarge.

A click on this post's title will take you to North Central College's website and specifically the alumni page.

North Central College Choir ~ Year 1968 ~ Members

38 of 61 members' names were retrieved from a "Get Well" card to me in spring of 1968

By cross referencing my 1970 yearbook which has a list of choir members (though there are some obvious mistakes found when I cross referenced the list with the same yearbook's indexed names in the back of the book), I came up with a list for the 1968 choir as follows:

Choir member list is still incomplete, however.

Laurie Batha

Marsha Benton

Dan Berger

‘Nita Bohnsack

Pat Bruns

Bob Buckley

Cathi Bertram

Mindy Cody

Larry Cooper

Joan Crosby

Sara Ebert

Joe Enich

Paul K. Ferington

Jackson Ferch

Geof. Geither or Guiter

Sandra Kay Hammel

Dennis Huff

Jim Knol

Karen Kosloske

Virginia Marek

Linda Mootz

Al Murphy

Nancy Myers

Lois Newcomb

Verilyn Potthoff

Sandra Schaeffer

Lydia Schmidt, piano accompanist in the video above

Sue Schwen

Barb Shiffler

Bob Stevens

Oliver J. Taylor

Julie Tunison

Sue Wayo

Lois Wedell

Doug Wilkie

Marlene Yenerich

Cindy Young

Eildert Zwart

UPDATE November 6, Friday, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. USA EST

Kim, the North Central College archivist, has tracked down the 1968 Choir Christmas Program's inside and emailed it to me this evening:

and also Kim sent the 1969 Choir Personnel list:

Click on the images to enlarge.

"Big Thanks" to Kim!

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See what was happening in 1968 the year this music was recorded.

Here are some of the things that happened:

* April 4 Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots erupt in major American cities for several days afterward.


* April 11 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968.


* April 20 Pierre Elliott Trudeau becomes Canada's 15th Prime Minister.


* April 20 English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood Speech.


* April 23 President Mobutu releases captured mercenaries in the Congo.


* April 23 Surgeons at the Hôpital de la Pitié, Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant, on Clovis Roblain.


* April 23 The United Methodist Church is created by the union of the former Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren churches.


* April 23 Thirty Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university (see main article Columbia University protests of 1968).


* April 29 The musical Hair officially opens on Broadway.


* June 5 U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies from his injuries the next day.


* June 8 James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.


* July 1 The Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.


* July 1 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty opens for signature.


* July 4 Yachtsman Alec Rose, 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sails into Portsmouth, England after his 354-day round-the-world trip.


* July 17 Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d'état.

I HAD A BALL TONIGHT IN MY LITTLE HOMETOWN

CELEBRATE LIFE WHERE YOU FIND IT

Kinobe singing
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Kinobe & Soul Beat Africa ~ a musical ensemble from Uganda
perform Butiko
Uploaded by kinobeherbert

As I say in my About Me section on my sidebar: I love my life and I love where I live. And I am passionate about my passions.

I live in Rhode Island. And I love music and dance. And tonight in my little town in the Common Fence Point section I went to a concert that was fantastic.

I love this kind of music from the start. And this band is very talented on their instruments, which include Ugandan instruments.

And they are cute, too.

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Kinobe & Soul Beat Africa ~ a musical ensemble from Uganda
perform Malijja
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Kinobe & Soul Beat Africa ~ a musical ensemble from Uganda
perform Lusejjera
Uploaded by kinobeherbert

Thanks to Tom Perrotti, musical director of Common Fence Music who puts the entire concert schedule together and presents us with this little gem of an experience every year. It is ten minutes away. You can bring a picnic basket of food and wine. Many bring tablecloths and candles. It is a very unpretentious place... just a room with folding metal chairs placed at long tables, a little stage and darkness. Volunteers help set up and break it down.

Tonight was an off-and-on rainy night, and I am quite certain that weather kept some people home. Too bad, for two reasons: 1) this band deserved a full house and 2) those who let the weather keep them from venturing out missed a really outstanding evening of grrreat rhythm and music.

From the first song's beginning I was mesmerized. I just closed my eyes and let the music enter my body and spirit. Within in two songs I left my seat for the back of the room and danced with one other person there. Until the end when about 20 people joined us.

I just can't stay seated when music makes me want to move.

The members of the band signed my CD. They head for a concert in Montreal, Canada tomorrow. Then off to Maine's Unity College. Here is their website: www.kinobemusic.com And here is their channel on Youtube: Kinobe Herbert

Tonight, was just
so
much
fun!!

And so simple....right here in my little town.

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About Uganda

Pictures of Uganda

More pictures of Uganda

Uganda in Pictures from the BBC - Uganda's Changing Climate

March to raise awareness of conflicts in Northern Uganda, Sudan and Congo to be held in Regina

Source: www.leaderpost.com

By Leader Post Staff

October 24, 2009

REGINA — Students from Notre Dame College in Wilcox and other Regina volunteers will take part in a peaceful march Saturday morning in downtown Regina to raise awareness of the conflicts in Northern Uganda, Sudan and the Congo.

“We want to bring awareness to the fact the conflict has shifted into the eastern Congo and raise funds for northern Uganda for a Gulu Cultural Centre that the GuluWalk Foundation is going to be building,’’ said organizer Joshua Campbell, who spent a year teaching in Uganda in 2006.

“Now that there is more peace and stability in the region, they can actually get involved in building centres for sports, and arts and help the youth out there.’’

Campbell said meeting former child soldiers and hearing their stories is probably the thing that impacted him most and motivated him to continue participating in the GuluWalk, He participated in his first walk in Calgary in 2005.

For more than 22 years, the people of northern Uganda have endured a war between the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army and the government of Uganda.

Nearly two million people have been forced into displacement camps that lack even the most basic of services, and tens of thousands of children have been abducted and forced to fight as soldiers or act as rebel wives and sex slaves, according to information released by the walk organizers.

Peace negotiations currently being hosted by the government of South Sudan have brought new hope to achieve an end to the war. However, a significant investment is needed to help facilitate the return of displaced citizens to their homes of origin.

The GuluWalk in Regina, which starts at 10:30 a.m. at the Victoria Park cenotaph, is one of 98 taking place in 15 countries around the world.

Participants are also encouraged to lobby the federal and provincial governments to increase financial aid and diplomatic resources to support the peace process.

www.Regina Leader Post

Click my post's title to go to African News links

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KNOWING YOU ARE LOVED

Imagine a world where we are unblocked enough to give and receive love without the pretense that so often is present. A world that has enough people around each of us that we could thoroughly trust with our vulnerabilities. I want to live in that world. And I would settle for just one somebody that I could be all that I am without boundaries. All I ever wanted has been to be understood.

I love life. I love music. I love dancing. Music is a spiritual experience for me. Dancing frees me. And life has its moments of fire and passion that just lights me up.

The best song presentations are when a singer has a moment with the song that is undeniably real and raw. This is one of those times. I saw Winonna sing this on Oprah after talking about feeling left out in her own family, all while her mother and sister sat there. And although the sound quality in this Youtube isn't the best, it is still worth listening.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=3CpWkYc1ZsA
I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS sung by Wynonna Judd

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Call 1-800-GENOCIDE
Ask your U.S. Senators to support SADA for Darfur

Call President Bush and Tell Him to Stop Saying Futile Statements
about the genocide on the Darfuri people.
Tell him to go to Darfur and Chad to see the Refugee Camps
and report back
along with doing some action that makes a difference.

His number is 202-456-1111

There is no excuse for being lame regarding GENOCIDE.

Go to
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and become proactive.
That is the only way the genocide is going to stop.
GENOCIDE STOPS WITH US - YOU AND ME!

Your "Leaders" certainly haven't stopped genocide,
so let's stop relying on them to lead on this issue
NOT STOPPING GENOCIDE defines us as human beings that don't care.

NOTE: The picture above was taken at the Botanical Gardens in Washington, D.C. when I was there for the national STAND conference at the end of September. STAND is the organization of college and high school students who are standing up to end genocide.
www.standnow.org