Elvis Presley Suspicious Minds

ELVIS “Rockin IT”

SUSPICIOUS MINDS

My FAVORITE ELVIS SONG EVER

“DAM HE WAS A HANDSOME SON of a BITCH” !!!

THE LIP !!

BLOW Us a KISS !!!!

ELVISThe Early Days

The BADASS COOKBOOK

ELVIS FRIED CHICKEN RECIPE

Sinatra Sings “One For My Baby”

FRANK & HIS SALOON SONGS

. . .

ONE FOR MY BABY

Performed at RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL

I Was at THIS SHOW

IT Was The FIRST NIGHT of a 5 NIGHT ENGAGEMENT

and I HAD TICKETS For Both The 1st and 5th NIGHTS

NOTHING LIKE IT

IT’S Said That FRANK was SINGING of Very LATE NIGHTS at One of His

FAVORITE SPOTS PJ CLRKE’S when he was SING THIS SONG

“ONE FOR MY BABY”

And One For The Road

Copyright photo by Daniel Zwicke

FRANK SINATRA with LAUREN BACALL at PJ CLARKE’S

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

RECIPE For SINATRA SUNDAY SAUCE

George Michael “You Are Loved & Missed by Millions”

REST in PEACE Dear GEORGE

Dear GEORGE

YOU WILL BE GREATLY MISSED

FREEDOM

A POP MASTERPIECE From GEORGE MICHAEL

There’s a moment in George Michael’s music video for “Freedom! ’90” where director David Fincher’s camera zooms in on a leather jacket hanging in a closet. It’s the piece Michael sported proudly three years earlier in the music video for “Faith” — the item that helped Michael reinvent himself from the squeaky-clean teen idol in Wham! into a bad-ass sex god of the 1980s. But with “Freedom! ’90,” Michael sought to overhaul his image once again. And a few moments later, that leather jacket spontaneously combusts; ditto the “Faith” video’s Wurlitzer jukebox and his Gretsch guitar. Goodbye to all that.

“They were horrified,” Michael recalled of his label Sony’s reaction, in an MTVinterview in 2004. “Why would you burn something that made Sony $150 million dollars? But I quite enjoyed it.”

It might be hard to imagine now, but when George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90” music video was released in 1990, it was nothing short of revolutionary. Its creator, who was embroiled in a dispute with his label, Sony, over his refusal to heavily promote his album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, chose not to star in his own music video. Instead, he scored a cast of lip-synching supermodels — Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, plus a crew of male models — who vamped gorgeously in a dark and dingy space. And for a Grammy-winning artist who was shaped into a global pop star thanks to MTV, Michael was slyly flipping off the network that helped make him a star.

“George was thumbing his nose at MTV with the video,” producer Simon Straker told EW in 1991.

THE GIRLS of FREEDOM

Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patiz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford

But once it hit airwaves, “Freedom! ’90” went into heavy rotation on the cable channel, scored five MTV Video Music Awards nominations (it won zero), became one of the most memorable videos of the last two-and-a-half decades, and served as a rallying anthem for the LGBT movement. It was such a classic, in fact, that Michael himself tried to recapture some of that supermodel magic for his 1992 single “Too Funky.”

“One of my better ideas was getting five gorgeous supermodels [miming to the song] that people still want to look at today,” Michael said in an interview at the time, according to the biography Careless Whispers. “If you’re going to say to your record company, ‘Look, I’m not going to be in this video,’ I’d say that’s a fairly good consolation prize really, you know, those five gorgeous babes.”

While Michael chose not to get in front the camera, he was heavily involved in its creative execution. The inspiration for supermodel stars came after Michael saw a portrait of the women shot by Peter Lindbergh for the January 1990 cover of British Vogue. And he hired director David Fincher, who’d had success helming Madonna’s “Express Yourself” video, and top stylist Camilla Nickerson. The team holed up on a London soundstage for several days. “They were long days,” Turlington told Harper’s Bazaar. “I don’t recall any specific direction from David Fincher. He was focused on the lighting I recall. George was there the whole time and very involved.”

As Nickerson told Allure in a definitive history of the video, “It was epic. It had a grandeur and a Blade Runner feel.”

Michael was friendly with his model cast prior to shooting, but they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into upon arriving on set. Evangelista reportedly had to be convinced to participate. And Michael had sent his stars music to learn just days before production began. Turlington recalled to Bazaar that each model largely shot her parts separately. And the scenes were somewhat uncomfortable. “I do remember feeling a little bit like, ‘Oh, why did I get stuck in the tub? I want the big glamour-puss hair. I want to be wearing the heels or blowing cool smoke rings, like Tatjana,” Crawford told Allure. “But if you were working with good people, you just did what they asked.”

Off-camera, however, the vibe on-set was jovial among cast and crew. “We’d drink red wine and sing songs in the evening because it kind of went on late,” hair stylist Guido told Allure. “And George was just like one of the gang, in the trailers, hanging out.”

“Freedom! ’90” would go on to become one of Michael’s signature songs — he performed it at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics — and the video remains a defining moment in MTV’s history. As for Michael bidding farewell to his past as an ’80s pop icon and embracing an uncertain future at the dawn of a new decade, he felt vindicated: “I thought that was a wonderful way to get rid of the image, really… I felt that way,” he told MTV in 2004. “I wanted to get rid of that. I felt like I’d cornered myself again.”

The SUPER MODELS of the FREEDOM VIDEO

The Most BEAUTIFUL GROUP of MOMEN Ever Assembled

on GEOREGE MICHAELS “FREEDOM” Video

A Young GEORGE MICHAEL

The WHAM DAYS

GOD BLESS YOU GEORGE

George Michael and Linda Evangelista on the set of FREEDOM

Madonna Carpool Karaoke

MADONNA

Carpool Karaoke

VOGUE

BORDERLINE

“KEEP PUSING MY LOVE OVER”

OVER THE BORDERLINE

The Phrase “Back Into The Wind Cold” is Coined

HOW COLD IS IT ?

Dam it’s Cold out!

“IT’S BACK INTO THE WIND COLD,” Daniel Zwicke said as he walk back home to his Greenwich Village apartment on Thursday afternoon December 15, 2016 . The temperature outside on the Island of Manhattan was 23 degrees. Yes it was cold, but with Winds gusting at 40 MPH it was quite bone-chilling-cold with the real feel temperature at a freezing 6 degrees with The Wind Chill Factor calculated in. It was Fucking Cold Out, or best-selling cookbook author coined the phrase for the first time in recorded history, it was “Back into the Wind Cold,” for that’s literally what Daniel said he did as he walked down Minetta Street as the blistering cold wind blew in his face. Daniel says that it was so cold with the strong winds blowing into his face that just as he had done since walking to school as a young boy in East Rutherford New Jersey, he simply turned his back into the wind to help keep his un-protected face a bit warmer against the freezing cold wind on that December day in the year 2016 .

Daniel was all bundled up with a pair of Levis jeans, a T-Shirt, a long sleeve Tee over that with another shirt over that and a very thick and warm wool cardigan shawl sweater over that. Daniel had his Barbour Jacket covering those 4 Layers, a scarf around his neck with a wool knit cap and gloves, along with a pair of Chuck Taylor Converse Sneakers. Yes Daniel was all bundled up and ready for the bitter cold, yet one thing he was missing. Something to cover his face. Well he was in pretty good shape and not that cold at all, all except that after walking 7 blocks from the cafe at the Marlton Hotel, Daniel’s face started getting cold. So cold that as he walked the final two blocks to his house, Daniel just had to put his back into the wind to help things along.

This our friends is a story of the way that fair city New York can sometimes be Back into the Wind Cold.

BRYANT PARK

NEW YORK CITY

A BACK INTO THE WIND DAY

ROCKEFELLER CENTER CHRISTMAS TREE

CHRISTMAS TIME

NEW YORK

Guess What ?

IT’S BACK INTO THE WIND COLD

CHRISTMAS TIME in NEW YORK

Caffe Reggio New York

Caffe Reggio is a New York City coffeehouse first opened in 1927 at 119 Macdougal Street in the heart of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

Italian cappuccino was introduced in America by the founder of Caffe Reggio, Domenico Parisi, in the early 1920s.^[1] Inside the cafe, against the back wall, there is still the original espresso machine, made in 1902, that Domenico Parisi bought with his savings when he opened the cafe in 1927.

The Caffe Reggio has been featured in many movies, including The Godfather Part II, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, The Kremlin Letter, Shaft, Serpico, The Next Man, In Good Company, Inside Llewyn Davis and others. Many celebrities have been spotted or photographed in this location. In 1959, presidential hopeful John F. Kennedy made a speech outside the coffee shop. In 2010, the cafe was honored with a Village Award^[2] by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation for its status as a beloved and essential part of the neighborhood.

Caffe Reggio has a bench from a palazzo of the Florentine Medici family of Renaissance fame. The bench is not roped-off and guests can sit on it and admire a painting from an artist of the school of Caravaggio.

All photos by Daniel Bellino Zwicke

BACCHUS by CARAVAGGIO

Not in Caffe Reggio

SUNDAY SAUCE

is GREENWICH VILLAGE ITALIAN

SUNDAY SAUCE is AVAILABLE in Paperback on AMAZON.com .. Click

Bourbon Old Fashion Cocktail

An Old Fashion and New Orleans. Two things I Love dearly. And drinking Old Fashions in New Orleans and Bourbon Old Fashions to be more specific is a favorite pastime of mine, especially at such fine Bars as Napoleon House, The Long Bar at Tujague’s, or at Arnaud’s and Galatoire’s.

The first thing i order from my waiter at my beloved Galatoire’s is a Bourbon Old Fashion. They make them perfectly here, muddling an Orange Slice with sugar, Maraschino Cherry, Soda, and Angostora Bitters before filling the glass with Ice and adding my Bourbon. The waiter brings my Old Fashion and I’m in Heaven. I’m at Galatoire’s in New Orleans. It’s one of my favorite restaurants in the World. I have my drink, sitting in the main dining room looking the menu over. “Oh Bliss.”

What to have for lunch. Shall I get a Gumbo, Raw Oysters, or Oysters Rockefeller to start? Decisions, Decisions! And my main Course? Trout Almondine, Shrimp Clemenceau, or Filet Mignon topped with Fried Oysters and Hollandaise. Think I’ll go for a Cup of Gumbo, followed by the Oysters Rockefellor, and Trout Almondine for my main. They should go with my Bourbon Old Fashion quite nicely.

What, “No Wine with Your Meal,” you ask. knowing what a Wine freak I am.

“No, not in New Orleans my friends.” I do not drink Wine in the Cresent City. It’s all pretty much Cocktails when I’m down there, maybe a Beer or two, but no Wine what-so-ever in New Orleans for me. Hey it’s the way to go in New Orleans. That’s what you do down there, Cocktails are preferred throughout the meal over Wine. And that’s fine by me. It just seems to go better. My Bourbon Old Fashion and all the fine Creole Cuisine. I Love it.

So, if you’re ever down there, in that wonderful city on the Mississippi, New Orleans, go to Galatoire’s, Antoine’s, Arnauds’s. Order yourself a nice Lunch or Dinner, and don’t forget to get a couple Bourbon Old Fashions to go with your meal. It’s a match made in Heaven, Creole Food and an Old Fashion in New Orleans, Louisiana. “Do it.”

by Daniel Bellino Zwicke

Beast of Burden The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, & Keith Richards … The ROLLING STONES

Watch This Video for one of The STONES Best Live Performances ever .. Unfortunately the image quality isn’t very good, but Luckily the sound is .. There used to be a better quality video up on Youtube of this particular performance but for whatever reason it was taken down … This video is of a Stones Concert in Texas 1978 around the time of the release of SOME GIRLS, one of The ROLLING STONES Best Albums of All-Time with such great songs as this Beast of Burden, Some Girls, Miss You, When The Whip Comes Down, Shattered, and The Girl with The Far Away Eyes …

So even though the video quality isn’t that great, you can still enjoy watching this great performance by The World’s Greatest Rock Band of All-Time, The ROLLING STONES …

Check out MICK jumping all around and dancing up a storm as only Mick can do. And if you’re a big guitar fan, check out Keith & Ronnie on their Dueling Les Paul’s (Gibson Les Paul Guitars).

MICK & THE BOYS

Here’s another fine rendition of BEAST of BURDEN by The ROLLING STONES Live 1981

Trump Fried Chicken

“It’S FINGER LICKIN GOOD”

President Elect DONALD TRUMP

Loves KENTUCK FIRED CHICKEN

DONALD TRUMP with a Bucket of KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN

“It’s Finger Lickin Good” !!!

They Say President Elect DONALD J. TRUMP just LOVE FAST FOOD

JUST LIKE BILL

BILL CLINTON THAT IS !!!

SECRET KFC KENTUCK FRIED CHICKEN RECIPE

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Picasso

Pablo Picasso

South of France

1960s

My favorite PICASSO Painting of all …

TWO PEASANTS SLEEPING

WOMEN at The SPRING 1922

TWO WOMEN RUNNING on THE BEACH

At The MOULIN GALETTE

1900

Ay THE LAPIN AGILE

MOTHER with CHILD

Picasso Self Portrait

The Ragu Bolognese Cookbook

SECRET RECIPE

by Danny Bolognese

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NEW YORK and The WORLD

Elvis Presley Suspicious Minds

Sinatra Sings “One For My Baby”

George Michael “You Are Loved & Missed by Millions”

Madonna Carpool Karaoke

The Phrase “Back Into The Wind Cold” is Coined