AND I HAVE FOUND BOTH FREEDOM AND SAFETY IN MY MADNESS, THE FREEDON OF LONELINESS AND THE SAFETY FROM BEING UNDERSTOOD, FOR THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND US ENSLAVE SOMETHING IN US, BUT LET ME NOT BE TO PROUD OF MY SAFETY, EVEN A THIEF IN A JAIL IS SAFE FROM ANOTHER THIEF!::Gibran 1918
When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell even then thou callest to me across the unbridgeable gulf, "My companion, my comrade," and I call back to thee, "My comrade, my companion" -- for I would not have thee see my Hell. The flame would burn thy eyesight and the smoke would crowd thy nostrils. And I love my Hell too well to have thee visit it. I would be in Hell alone.Khalil Gibran:1918
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Armen Ra is an Armenian artist and performer born in Tehran Iran. Raised by a concert pianist mother, and aunt a renowned opera singer and Ikebana master, it was no surprise that Armen flourished, not only as one of New York’s leading aesthetes, but also as a self-taught master of the theremin . By combining both the visual and aural aspects of his craft, Armen Ra has developed an art form that is truly his own and is something quite amazing to behold.
Fusing Armenian folk music with modern instrumentation, along with melodic lounge standard’s and classical arias.His unique and elegant recitals transport the listener to a time and place of beauty, emotional healing, and of course sacred glamour.___________________________________________________________________
His debut Theremin performance was with his friend and ispiration Antony, and the Johnsons at Knitting Factory NYC...and the rest as they say is HERstory!________________
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The United Nations,Wiener Konzerthaus Mozartsaal Vienna,Disney Concert Hall,WIGSTOCK! The MTV VMA’S w/Madonna...CBGB’s, Knitting Factory, La Mama,etc, Joe’s Pub,Boulder Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center,The Gershwin Hotel,BB Kings, Dietch Projects, and every dive and pool table in between!
Featured on and appeared in: CNN, HBO, MTV,VH1, VOGUE, NY TIMES, NY POST, VILLAGE VOICE, ROLLING STONE, AMICA,GLAMOUR,and so on...(yawn, rolls eyes)
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"Am I scaring you?" he asked the crowd, which had been lulled into such a trance they weren’t even cruising each other. It was spooky and fabulous— Michael Musto
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"If we are to achieve a rich culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place." -Margaret Mead What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
-- Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher
"If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole." -- Joan Borysenko
I LOVE YOU GLAD TO SEEE U STILLL GORGEOUS YA SELF WOW SO MANY YEARS YES DEFENETLY WE WILL KEEP IN TOUCH !I WAS LOOKING AT YA VIDS WOW THATS SO BEAUTYFULLL YA MUSIC I WAS SURPRISED SINCE I HAVENT SEEN U IN SO LONG DIDINT KNOW WUT TALENT YES WILL KEEP IN TOUCH
“We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." It's about letting God's light shine through us. It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright. We're letting our own light shine.”
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious." — Marshal Ferdinand Foch
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. ~James Matthew Barrie, What Every Woman Knows, about charm
“"Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.” John Fairchild Hope your weeek is Beautiful my friend... ~*~ XO ~*~ Christina
