Holly Stephey talks to Cylon George ," Spiritual Living For Busy People"

09/14/16 • 83 min

Cylon George decribes his blog as a way to help busy people thrive in their spiritual lives so they can live with more joy, peace, purpose, and meaning. He is a spiritual chaplain, musician, devoted husband, and busy dad of six. He love's listening to people’s stories and helping them gain perspective on life’s opportunities and challenges. In his own life, the serenity prayer helps him when he find's himself worrying about things he has no control over. It reminds him to let go of his worry. It reminds him that he can experience greater spiritual fulfillment by taking responsibility for his own thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and feelings. It reminds him to constantly seek wisdom. He Describes his life as the following; I was born in the twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. I moved to the United States in 2000 to attend Hartwick College where I earned degrees in Music Performance (piano) and Computer Science. In 2012, I earned a Master’s degree in Theology from St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry. I am blessed to be married to my wife, Laura. We have six beautiful, energetic children. We live in Albany, New York. I enjoy running, reading, writing, and music (both listening and creating) Link to Blog..http://www.spirituallivingforbusypeople.com/about God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. ~ Serenity Prayer

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David Godlis ,New Book photographs, Rock & Roll, Punk 'History is Made at Night'

David Godlis couldn’t believe it the night that Robert Frank walked into CBGB.“I was hanging out around the door and I thought, oh my god, that’s Robert Frank,” he says. “For me, that was the biggest thing that could happen, because I had studied photography and he was one of my idols.”Godlis says that from the moment he walked into CBGB, which was soon after he arrived in New York, he started thinking about doing a photo book. His inspiration was Brassai’s black-and-white photographs of Paris’s nightlife in the 1930s. “I thought, this place is so crazy and so cool, I should be taking pictures here, even though I’m a street photographer who shoots with natural light during the day. I wondered if I could be a street photographer shooting by natural light at night.”More than 35 years later, his book about CBGB, History Is Made at Night: Photographs 1976-1979, is finally here. Godlis showed the work to publishers over the years, but no one was interested in the grainy images, shot with long exposures instead of flash. “Punk photography was all flash, and this wasn’t,” he says. “And it wasn’t really a music book either, so they didn’t know what to do with it.”In the new book’s introduction, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch notes that night people are different from those who prefer the clarity of day. “At night the edges lose definition,” he writes. “In the city every corner or recess, doorway or alley becomes mysterious, alive with a constantly shifting variety of possibilities. One must be ready for them. Living at night requires imagination. In NYC in 1976 it was necessary just for survival. ”Godlis survived to tell the tale . One day something is old news and the next it’s legend. Sometimes success means waiting long enough to be on the right side of history.

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Steve Conte "International Cover-Up" New Music!

“In some ways, Steve Conte is the quintessential rock and roll musician. He lives in New York City , has played with everyone from the New York Dolls to the late Willy DeVille, released his own work, and is an unabashed admirer of rock and roll in all its many forms and genres. The latter fact is made completely obvious by the choice of material on his latest CD, International Cover Up. As a 13 year old live performer, Steve Conte looked to The Rolling Stones, The J. Geils Band, Black Oak Arkansas, The Beatles & Jimi Hendrix for both musical inspiration and how to give “good show”. Cut to 2016 – Conte releases his “COVERS” album featuring many of the songs he & his band have played on tour – and captures that LIVE spirit in the recordings! The album features songs written and/or recorded by Eddie Cochran, Willy/Mink DeVille, Tom Waits/Ramones, John Lennon, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac and Jason And The Scorchers – all delivered in pure Conte-style. In addition to playing original songs from his studio albums on tour, Steve would always add a few well-chosen covers. Conte says: “This album contains some of my favorite songs to play live; road-tested in Europe with my band, The Crazy Truth International. I kept the album production sparse to showcase the band’s live energy. All songs were recorded live, in a few takes. Most guitar solos were played live. ”INTERNATIONAL COVER-UP was largely recorded at Labtones Studio in Dordrecht, The Netherlands by Wilco Minderhoud & Jasper van Dorp. It features 6 studio recordings with Conte’s European version of The Crazy Truth – plus a pair of solo acoustic tracks recorded in New York City; one in his own Manhattan studio, The Joint NYC and the other recorded live on renowned record producer, Steve Lillywhite’s program for East Village Radio, The Lillywhite Sessions.