From: John Book (johnbook9_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 2004-10-10 20:04:20
It could have been Howard Dean, who when asked what
kind of music he liked, he said "I love the Fugees,
including John Forte." Had he said "I love the
Wu-Tang, even Buddha Monk and Pop Da Brown Hornet",
then I would've been like Mya and said "wo".
p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
www.john-book.com
www.musicforamerica.org
--- Steve <scatanzaro4_at_cox.net> wrote:
> yah yah, you’re tired of george bush and his
> connections buyin him that
> Harvard mba, the honorable discharge, the baseball
> team, and the
> presidency. you want the realness, right?
>
> then look to john kerry, the first true hip hop
> candidate… I mean, he
> did tell mtv that hip hop was his favorite music,
> remember? (“ya better
> listen to hip hop, ya heard” or words to that
> effect?)
>
> you’re skeptical? take a lesson, son. john kerry
> doesn’t just LISTEN to
> hip hop… he LIVES it.
>
> while puffy, snoop dogg, fity cent and the rest had
> to make their
> millions slinging samples and rhymes, kerry did it
> in true hip hop
> stylee;
>
> he gives new meaning to the term:: BIG PIMPIN’ ::
>
> from today’s NY Times…
>
> In winter, he goes helicopter skiing while staying
> at his wife's Idaho
> retreat, a 15th-century farmhouse transported from
> England and
> reassembled on the banks of the Big Wood River in
> Sun Valley. In summer,
> he windsurfs and sails off the coast of Nantucket,
> where she has another
> home. The couple have an 18th-century town house in
> Boston where the
> kitchen is two stories high. There is a 23-room town
> house in
> Washington, an 88-acre Pittsburgh area estate, a
> private Gulfstream jet
> and a personal staff of six, including caretakers
> and a cook.
> If Mr. Kerry is elected, he and his wife will be the
> richest couple ever
> to live in the White House, said Kevin Phillips, a
> political commentator
> and the author of "Wealth and Democracy.''
> Even adjusting for inflation, their net worth far
> surpasses that of such
> wealthy predecessors as John F. Kennedy and his
> wife. In an election
> driven in large part by the candidates'
> personalities, that
> extraordinary wealth and the air of privilege Mr.
> Kerry seems to carry
> with him have often been a stumbling block,
> exacerbating the perception
> that he is an aloof man whose elite tastes separate
> him from the
> concerns of ordinary people.
> Mr. Kerry and his wife are also cursed with the kind
> of good taste that
> suggests old money. On the walls of their Boston and
> Washington town
> houses hang a collection of Dutch and Flemish still
> lifes mostly from
> the 17th century, so precious that the insurance
> company asks that the
> artwork not be photographed. Visitors comment on the
> restrained
> stylishness of the couple's homes, at least two of
> which were decorated
> by Mark Hampton, the New York designer who counted
> Jacqueline Kennedy
> Onassis, Estée Lauder and Pamela Harriman among his
> clients.
> After college, Mr. Kerry continued to orbit a world
> of unusual
> privilege, thanks in part to his first wife, Julia
> Thorne, who came from
> a very wealthy family with Colonial origins. When
> the couple divorced in
> 1988, Mr. Kerry went through some lean years,
> relying on his government
> salary as he shuttled back and forth from Washington
> to Boston, where he
> was busy helping to raise two young daughters. This
> was the time later
> dubbed his "gypsy period" by his second wife - when
> he sometimes lacked
> a place to live in one city or another, and had to
> rely on friends or
> supporters for help. But all that came to a decisive
> end in May 1995,
> when he married Teresa Heinz.
> About 100 close friends and relatives attended the
> ceremony, which took
> place during a chilly spring afternoon on the lawn
> outside her Nantucket
> home. Afterward, the wedding party took over a
> highly regarded island
> restaurant, the Chanticleer Inn, where every place
> setting was decorated
> with a tiny bottle of Heinz ketchup. At one point,
> the bride's son,
> Chris Heinz, teasingly daubed Mr. Kerry on the
> forehead with ketchup, to
> welcome him into the family and its tomato-based
> fortune, recalled Mr.
> Sanders, one of the guests. Later, the guests danced
> to a band called -
> inauspiciously, perhaps - the French Millionaires.
> Mr. Kerry's life changed at that point, and not just
> because the
> marriage made him happier. The couple bought and
> renovated a five-story
> 18th-century town house on Louisburg Square in
> Beacon Hill, giving the
> senator a permanent home in his home state at last.
> He also gained a
> Washington home, Ms. Heinz Kerry's 23-room town
> house in Georgetown, and
> the two vacation homes in Idaho and Nantucket.
>
>
>
>
>
> Seen from the outside, those houses are not
> especially ostentatious. The
> Sun Valley house, for instance, at the end of a
> 100-yard driveway about
> a mile north of town, is smaller than many of its
> neighbors, and
> rendered invisible from the road by landscaping. The
> Nantucket house is
> set on a small lot, with a screened-in porch, and a
> green and white
> loveseat swing on the front lawn.
> It is the neighbors who are unusual. In Idaho, the
> billionaire financier
> George Soros lives next door. Just across the river
> is Steve Wynn, the
> billionaire Las Vegas casino executive; also nearby
> are the actor Tom
> Hanks and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California.
> The Nantucket house
> is on Brant Point, an area so sought after that a
> vacant lot there sold
> last year for $8 million after the house on it
> burned down, said Dalton
> Frazier, an island real estate agent.
> Mr. Kerry and his wife also have at least eight
> cars, including three
> sport utility vehicles at the Idaho house. He also
> has a Harley-Davidson
> motorcycle.
> Another area where Ms. Heinz Kerry's wealth has left
> a visible imprint
> is sports. Mr. Kerry had always been an outdoorsman
> and a superb athlete
> who went skiing, biking and boating whenever he
> could.
> "Now he carries those on in more places," Cameron
> Kerry said.
> The senator owns two bicycles made by Serotta,
> including an Otrott
> model, which usually sells for about $8,000. In
> summer, he goes
> windsurfing and kite-boarding off the coast of
> Nantucket. He has had a
> number of boats over the years, but about three
> years ago he bought a
> more opulent one: a 42-foot Little Harbor powerboat,
> purchased for about
> $500,000. The boat has sleeping berths for two, and
> Mr. Kerry mostly
> uses it to cruise along the Massachusetts coast, or
> to ride with friends
> out to Nantucket.
> It is on the water, Mr. Kerry's friends and
> relatives all say, that he
> is most at ease. Seven or eight years ago, Mr.
> Sanders recalled, Mr.
> Kerry invited him to Cape Cod, where the two men got
> into Mr. Kerry's
> boat to ride out to Nantucket. As the boat reached
> open water, Mr. Kerry
> took the throttle up to full speed. Flicking on the
> boat's stereo
> system, he shouted, "Check it out!" and a broad grin
> lit up his face.
> The music blasting from the speakers was Wagner's
> "The Ride of the
> Valkyries," the same sequence played by Robert
> Duvall's character in the
> Vietnam movie "Apocalypse Now."
>
> Last month, Mr. Kerry visited his old windsurfing
> pal John Chao, founder
>
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