Arroe Collins Like It's Live

Pulsing with humor and heart, “VAMOOSE: STORIES” is a collection of fast-paced short stories featuring women who take center stage as the stars of their own lives and the drivers of their own destinies. Written by the acclaimed author – it’s part literary fiction, part queer celebration, part darkly comic exploration of women’s lives, the book is about loss, reinvention, and the unexpected freedoms found in letting go and women on the brink of change. It’s filled with crackling humor and surprising loves.

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Spiritually speaking are we somehow connected to turtles? Are they endlessly sharing messages and we've chosen to look a different way?

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Ways of Listening is a love letter to music, a sharp analysis of our current cultural reality, and a joyful celebration of the artists who keep creating against all odds.  How has the internet changed the way we listen to, and love, the music that shapes our lives? Award-winning musician Rollie Pemberton (Cadence Weapon) interrogates our current musical landscape.  Music occupies a curious place in modern life, somehow omnipresent and disposable at the same time. Computers have democratized song creation. There is more music being produced now than at any point in human history and streaming platforms are the ultimate distribution model for this vast bounty.    But streaming relies on an algorithmic discovery system that guides the user’s choices and encourages them to listen passively to the company’s curation, while also dissuading the listener from searching for music and developing their own taste. Streamers offer meagre royalties to artists on their platforms, largely devaluing music in the public sphere. And social media companies have taught a whole generation of young listeners to perceive music as merely background noise for content.    This all adds up to a bleak landscape for the true fan, but there’s another way. Pemberton delves deep into his own music discovery process to present a gentle reminder of another path for the contemporary music lover. He explores the obsession with the “mysterious artist” archetype, studies Charli xcx’s groundbreaking Brat album rollout, assesses the magic of demo recordings, breaks down the Kendrick Lamar - Drake beef, and examines AI’s struggle to understand Italo disco’s strange balance of classic and cringe.  

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I’m always asking questions.  The fun begins when you start researching for answers. Such as…   When is it ok to not only listen to the voices in our head but act upon them?  Plus…where are people really getting their news and how accurate is it?    I’m Arroe…  I am a daily writer.  A silent wolf.  I stand on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen study then activate.  I call it The Daily Mess.  A chronological walk through an everyday world.  Yes, it’s my morning writing.  As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people tend to throw it to the side and deal with it later.  When a subject arrives, I dig in.  It’s still keeping a journal!  By doing the research the picture becomes clearer.  This is the Daily Mess…    

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The film traces the turbulent, transcendent life of Gregg Allman: from a childhood ruptured by his father's murder to the soulful emergence that reshaped American music. Through archival recordings, candid interviews, and electric performances, we witness Gregg's musical awakening amid the blues he worshipped, the creation of the Allman Brothers Band with his brother, Duane, that would birth Southern Rock, and the grief that followed Duane's fatal motorcycle crash.THE MUSIC OF MY SOUL explores Gregg's lifelong battle with addiction, his seven marriages (including his high-profile union with Cher), and the late-life sobriety that allowed him to reckon with his past. Featuring never-before-seen interviews, the film examines not just the artist's private wounds but the wider American psyche - race, loss, longing, and reinvention - during Gregg's lifetime. Musicians (such as Jackson Browne), friends, and family illuminate how an integrated band in the segregated South challenged boundaries while forging a sound that was both raw and redemptive. Director James Keach is a Grammy and Golden Globe-winning filmmaker whose past credits include numerous music-centric films such as WALK THE LINE, GLEN CAMPBELL: I'LL BE ME, and LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE.Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJT3aUjPHv4 

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Part memoir by the daughter of the iconic comedian Richard Pryor, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the N-word, this hybrid book peels back the curtain on the life of Pryor and exposes the complex history and legacy of the most perplexing word in the American lexicon, a word he helped popularize.When a white student quoted a line from Blazing Saddles, blurting out the N-word in the middle of class, Professor Elizabeth Pryor froze. In that moment, she was shockingly confronted with not only the most notorious slur in the United States, but the line quoted by the student was one her father - the iconic comedian Richard Pryor - had written.The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. After the incident in her classroom, Professor Pryor dove into her research to better understand the history of the word, and processed it with her students, eventually emerging as a leading scholar on the n-word as witnessed in her popular Ted Talk, "Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word."The more she learned, the more Elizabeth's own memories of the N-word rose to the surface. Growing up the Black and Jewish biracial daughter of a groundbreaking Black comedian - navigating the world her Jewish mother showed her and the Hollywood her father shared - meant the word was part of the most painful, but also tender moments of her life. Her reckoning with this word meant a reckoning with memories of her father, who skyrocketed to fame in the 1970's, making the n-word a hallmark of his act.SOMETHING WE SAID: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me is a hybrid: part memoir of the daughter of a legendary comedian, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the n-word, seamlessly braided together. Elizabeth not only peels back the curtain on life with Richard Pryor, a comedian Jerry Seinfeld has called the "Picasso of our profession," but also our country's legacy of racism and Black resilience.

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Alexa can't get a weather forecast right.  What are other ways to predict future storms.  Plus bad bosses holding down jobs others turned out.  Who is right.  The bad boss or the smart sideline could be boss but they don't want the negative weight.  

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I’m always asking questions.  The fun begins when you start researching for answers. Such as…   What’s the difference between winging it or telling a lie?  Plus…is there something in the big book that tells the tale of a big national political leader verbally attacking a well respected man of religion?    I’m Arroe…  I am a daily writer.  A silent wolf.  I stand on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen study then activate.  I call it The Daily Mess.  A chronological walk through an everyday world.  Yes, it’s my morning writing.  As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people tend to throw it to the side and deal with it later.  When a subject arrives, I dig in.  It’s still keeping a journal!  By doing the research the picture becomes clearer.  This is the Daily Mess…

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-Missed Opportunity- I love sharing conversations.  Hosting requires show prep.  My podcasting platforms feature thousands of guests.  What you don’t have access to are the missed opportunities. The show prep was completed.  The conversation didn’t happen.  I keep all my notes! Paths will cross again.  Let me explain Missed Opportunity.  It’s my questions and statements without their answers.  I’m leaving open enough space at the end of each question hoping they’ll download the talk and insert their answers.Missed Opportunity is a lost piece of history.  Like a message in a bottle tossed out to sea. I hope to locate a destination…
  This week we’re putting focus on my missed opportunity with film makers Justin Len Missed Opportunity.  A lost piece of history.  You know the questions.  Let’s locate the reactions.  The door is always open.  If you are or know Justin Len please reach out to me at [email protected] that’s [email protected] Be brilliant!

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We all think we are the real deal at work. We are it! The thing! Top dog. Best of the best greater than the Goat. What would happen if you could hire yourself? What if you had to work with you?

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