2011年10月20日星期四

Janet Jackson Tops the Charts

Janet Jackson has the nations No. 1 album this week -- but justbarely. "The Velvet Rope" Rosetta Stone Spanish sold 202,000 copies for the week endingOctober 12, according to SoundScan, coming in 2,000 units ahead ofthe soundtrack to "Gang Related," the cop movie starring the lateTupac Shakur. Jacksons 202,000 debut was off considerably fromthat of her last album, 1993s "Janet," which sold 350,000 copiesits first week in stores. Part of the sluggishness may stem fromthe fact that Jacksons new single, "Got Til Its Gone" (featuringQ-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest), hasnt exactly caught fire at Top40 radio; it came in at No. 52 on the chart last week.Meanwhile, some of the fuel has gone out of last weeksclassic rock fire: Sales of the new Rosetta Stones and Bob Dylanalbums fell dramatically their second week in stores. And if youre not gonnalive that way, you lose, man. So my advice to all the cynics is to,if you dare, drop a psychedelic.Literally, dropping a psychedelic is a goodidea?I cant advocate it, because then Id be arrested. I can onlytell you what worked for me. Ill tell you this, it certainlyworked for me, growing up a Catholic boy on the South Side ofChicago and not Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 understanding the meaning of heaven and hell. Idsay, as William Blake said, if the doors of perception arecleansed, man will see things as they are: infinite. This is whatthe times, the Sixties were all about, among other things. Stoppingthe war, of course, and getting high and getting laid and havingone hell of a good time. And underneath it all was this drive totranscendence, and youre either going for it, or youre stuck inthe mud. And right now were all stuck in the mud, a lot of us arestuck in the mud.What is the most important thing that people can extractfrom the Doors experience? What should people know about Jim thatpeople dont know?Just to throw yourself away into your art and there is where youwill find yourself. Once you abandon yourself to whatever artyoure doing, thats where you find the new human being that isyou, and see that the Doors did that very thing and you can do thatvery thing. And the thing to know about Jim Morrison is that he wasnot the guy in the Oliver Stone movie. Hes not a crazy drunk, hesnot a weirdo. Yes, he died. Yes, he was excessive. But he Rosetta Stone Hindi was also-- this is what my book is going to tell you -- he was alsosensitive, artistic.

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