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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

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.

Join Vera Ramone King as she talks about new book " Poisoned Heart: I Married Dee Dee Ramone (The Ramones Years)" Vera was married to the legendary punk rocker and they were often referred to as "Punk Rocks Royal Couple". Vera and Dee Dee, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee and Grammy Award Winner of the Ramones were married from 1978 to 1995. Vera toured extensively with the Ramones living the punk era first hand.  Often regarded as the first punk-rock group ever, named one of Rolling Stone magazine's Top 50 Bands of All Time, with all members having been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Ramones are nothing if not legendary. Waking up the neighbors and setting the U.S. music scene on fire in the 1970s and through the '80s, The Ramones' story is tragic and raw, sentiments that could also describe the band's songwriter, bass player, and unsung genius, Dee Dee. A wild ride into the heart and soul of New York City, Poisoned Heart is Vera Ramones King's last testament to her former husband, who shocked the world when he died in 2002 of a drug overdose despite having been clean for years.  Dee Dee defined the punk-rock lifestyle. He was a rash, often violent heroin addict, and no one better understood his twisted mentality, or insanity, than faithful wife Vera. But Vera, herself a less destructive Nancy to Dee Dee's Sid also came to know the Dee Dee that music fans worldwide held near and dear: a generous, loving man who had a soft spot for bums, who grew up in the tough streets of Queens, who never stopped working, writing, and performing, who often treated his wife like a Punk Rock Princess, and whose greatest joy was the look on his fans' faces as he played them a song.

Sarah Clanton’s folk-rock-meets-speakeasy sound is a celebration of the unexpected. The classically trained singer-cellist-songwriter strums, bows, picks, and taps her instrument through heartbreak and vengeance on songs that grab you by the collar and refuse to let go. Her vocals can go from moonlit night to house on fire on a dime, with a tone that blends smoke with sunlight and lands somewhere between Nina Simone and Gillian Welch. 

After graduating from Furman University in 2007, the Nashville-based singer hit the road with artists like The David Mayfield Parade, Edwin McCain, and Richard Leigh, among others. Her hair-tossing, quirky, electric performances - an exercise in musical abandon - quickly became audience favorites.  A self-titled EP released in 2015 included “Tequila,” an original song co-written by Clanton, Tom Bettencourt, and Richard Leigh, which made the Nashville Songwriters Association International Top 40 in January 2016. 

Recently signed by Nashville newcomers Torque Entertainment, Clanton is busy working away on a debut album, co-writing with industry regulars, touring, and crafting a new incarnation of her honey-and-thunder sound.

Brian Ashley Jones is a soulful singer, acclaimed session guitarist, and versatile touring songwriter whose "Twang & Blues" guitar-driven tunes have found their way into film and television and have been recorded by many other performing artists. Originally from upstate South Carolina and a longtime resident of East Nashville, TN, Brian performs internationally at festivals, concert series, clubs, music education programs and music conferences. Jones' guitar chops and relentless touring earned him a nomination for Best American Roots Guitar Player in the Alternate Root's 2011 Reader's Choice Awards.

Born and raised in London, Simon landed a gig with a group called the Black Cat Bones. The drummer befriended the group's talented guitarist, Paul Kossoff, who in turn convinced Simon to leave the group with him and begin a new outfit with singer Paul Rodgers. Soon ex-John Mayall's Bluesbreakers bassist Andy Fraser signed on and Free was officially formed in 1968. Mixing blues with hard rock, the group would prove to be quite influential, especially on the strength of their classic Fire and Water, "All Right Now." When the band broke up, it didn't take Simon long to find another gig, joining Paul Rodgers in a new band, Bad Company. Joined by ex-King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell and ex-Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs, Bad Company was the first group signed to Led Zeppelin's record label, Swan Song. Their debut album, 1974's Bad Company, would go on to become one of hard rock's all-time classics, as it birthed such long-standing rock radio standards as "Can't Get Enough," "Ready for Love," and the title track, written by Paul and Simon himself.  Simon Kirke is the only member of Bad Company who’s been in every lineup of the band.In addition to his work with Free and Bad Company, Simon has “guested” on a long list of recordings by other artists including Wilson Pickett, Faces, Gov’t Mule, Jim Capaldi and Ron Wood, among countless others and he is often found drumming live on tour with acts like Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Ringo Starr & His All-Star Band. Simon just finished his latest solo record, "All Because of You," to be released on BMG Records in 2016. Presently, he is on-the-road for 2016 with Bad Company on their 2016 world tour with, The Eagles' Joe Walsh.

Please Kill Me is the first oral history of the most nihilist of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Danny Fields, Dee Dee and Joey Ramone, Malcom McLaren, Jim Carroll, and scores of other famous and infamous punk figures lend their voices to this definitive account of that outrageous, explosive era. From its origins in the twilight years of Andy Warhol’s New York reign to its last gasps as eighties corporate rock, the phenomenon known as punk is scrutinized, eulogized, and idealized by the people who were there and who made it happen.Legs McNeil was the Resident Punk at Punk Magazine, a senior editor at Spin, and currently contributes to Vice. His other works include The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Film Industry as well as Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose, which he co-edited with Gillian McCain. He currently lives in Schwenksville, PA. Gillian McCain is the co-editor (with Legs McNeil) of Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose, and is the author of two books of poetry, Tilt and Religion. A collaborative work called Descent of the Dolls will be published this year by Blazevox Books. Make sure to go to http://pleasekillme.com and subscribe to the newsletter ! Daily news and much More !

Frank Stefanko is a fine art photographer whose work graces the album covers of Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town and The River, Southside Johnny’s Hearts of Stonealbum cover, and Patti Smith’s The Arista Years1975 / 2000 box set cover. Frank’s photographs also appear in Bruce Springsteen’s Live 75/85, Greatest Hits, Tracks, and the Essential Bruce Springsteen. Mr.Stefanko is the author of the book Days of Hope and Dreams / an Intimate Portrait of Bruce Springsteen which has recently been released in the second edition. He is also the author of Patti Smith / American Artist which features beautiful images of a young emerging artist; Ms. Smith from 1970 to 1980. Frank’s work has toured in two museum shows: Bruce Springsteen, Troubadour of the Highway, which, at the time, broke attendance records at the Frederick Weisman Museum in Minneapolis, The Cranbrook Museum near Detroit, The Experience Music Project in Seattle, and The Newark Museum in New Jersey. In 2012, the Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock Photography show will tour The Columbus Museum, in Georgia, The Hunter Museum of American Art, in Tennessee, The Gibbes Museum of Art, in South Carolina, The Huntsville Museum of Art, in Alabama, and The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, in Mississippi. Mr. Stefanko is represented by The Morrison Hotel Gallery, in Soho, New York; the Govinda Gallery, in Washington, DC; the Fahey / Klein Gallery, in Los Angeles; and Snap Galleries Ltd. In London.Beyond Frank’s Rock photography, he has been assembling a portfolio of landscape photographs that feature places where the footprint of man has not yet touched.

JOHN ROSS BOWIE's play, "Four Chords And A Gun" is a world premiere production that captures the dramatic period of time when The Ramones recorded their fifth album, "End Of The Century," with infamous and legendary producer, Phil Spector.  Hearts were broken, guns were drawn, and a legend was born - so funny, sexy and tragic it has to be true.This year marks the 40th anniversary of The Ramone's 1976 debut album.

Directed by JESSICA HANNA (No Homo, Bachelorette), "Four Chords And A Gun" will begin previews July 2nd and officially open July 6th at the Bootleg Theater at 2220 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90057. The limited engagement will conclude July 31st .

The all-star cast will feature MATTHEW PATRICK DAVIS (Comedy Bang! Bang!, Greek), JOHNATHAN McCLAIN (Retired at 35, Mad Men) , MICHAEL DANIEL CASSADY (Love, Drunk History), JAMES PUMPHREY (Key & Peele, Arrested Development), ARDEN MYRIN (W/Bob and David, Madtv), and JOSH BRENER (Silicon Valley, The Internship).

BRIAN NITZKIN is producing. "Four Chords And A Gun" will have scenic design by DAVID OFFNER (Asterion); costume design by KERRY HENNESSEY (Gogol Project - Ovation nominee, Bedtime Stories); lighting design by BRANDON BARUCH (Wood Boy Dog Fish, Vieux Carre); and sound design by CRICKET MYERS (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo - Tony nominee, Stoneface).

‘Four Chords and a Gun’ Where: Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles

When: Shows are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 2pm.  , through July 31

Info: bootlegtheater.org

As drummer for Vanilla Fudge, Carmine Appice set the grooves for the groundbreaking band’s 1967 psychedelic debut, inadvertently inventing Stoner Rock in the process.  With Mark Stein’s mysterioso wash of Grand Guignol keyboard theatrics, Tim Bogert’s amazing and trippy bass runs, and guitarist Vince Martell’s era-happy soloing, Appice boomed like no other drummer in rock history. Vanilla Fudge went on to tour with Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and even had Led Zeppelin as an opening act.Post-Fudge, Bogert and Appice formed Cactus . Post-Cactus, the rhythm section found Grammy-winning Guitar Hero Jeff Beck to form the first supergroup: Beck, Bogert & Appice (BBA).One of the premier showmen in rock, Appice became known worldwide for his astonishing live performances, in addition to becoming a highly sought-after session drumme.In ’76, he joined Rod Stewart’s band, touring, recording and writing two of Stewart’s biggest hits, “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” and “Young Turks.” He left Stewart to record his first solo album, Rockers, and tour Japan and North America with an allstar band. . In the early ‘80s, he toured with OZZY Osborne ,Ted Nugent . In the mid ‘80s, he formed King Kobra. Carmine played on a Pink Floyd record "Momentary Lapse of Reason and formed Blue Murder with Whitesnake’s John Sykes and The Firm’s Tony Franklin. In the early ‘90s, he pounded away soul-style for The Edgar Winter Group.As an educator, Carmine was the first to legitimize rock drumming with his landmark book, The Realistic Rock Drum Method, selling over 400,000 copies (now in video format). . In appreciation for his universal appeal, Los Angeles was one of four cities that have had “Carmine Appice Day.” In ’91, he was forever immortalized via his induction in cement to the Hollywood’s Rock Walk (next to his idols, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich).