Jessica Ghawi was a sportscaster and blogger who went by the name Jessica Redfield. She was from Texas, and had moved to Colorado to pursue her dream of covering NHL teams. She had gone on vacation to Toronto last month, when the Toronto Mall Massacre began. She was able to get out safely. That time. She was not so lucky last night, when she decided to go to the midnight showing of "The Dark Night Rises" at the mall in Aurora, Colorado.
There was a scene during a shootout. At this point, a Medical school dropout named James Holmes threw tear gas bombs, and opened fire with an AK-47, killing 12, and wounding 59 others. Ghawi was one of the 12 who was killed. Her friend tried to help her, but had to run from the theatre, and call her mother, when he realized his efforts would be futile, and Holmes was still shooting.
Ghawi was a blogger just like I am, and what really bothers me are these things:
A) Military personnel were injured in this attack
B) Ghawi survived the Toronto Mall Shootings, until to be killed here.
C) A Republican congressmansaid the scene reminded him of scenes he had seen as when he served in Iraq.
And, most of all,
D) The fact that someone who just wanted to go to the movies, can be mowed down like sheep, just because some nut job wants to.
THE BEST OF JON LORD
Deep Purple's Jon Lord passed away this week at age 71. Here are some of his most memorable tracks. The band's most iconinc tune "Smoke On The Water", is not included because that song was more lead guitarist Richie Blackmore's tune.
Burn-The title song from their 1974 album may have been Lord's finest moment, as Lord had a classically-influenced keyboard break, that just knocks your socks off. An added bonus was that track was the first time many people ever heard the voice of a very young David Coverdale, 13 years before Tawny Kitaen straddled herself on his car in the Whitesnake video for "Here I Go Again".
Hush-The early years with Rod Evans on vocals, as Purple covered a Joe South tune for their first hit.
Highway Star-A fantastic keyboard break in the middle helps build the excitement, as the songs builds toward it's climax.
Perfect Strangers-The title track on the group's 1984 reunion album, showed the band had lost none of it's power. Lord drives the riff, that drives this song.
Spacetruckin'-The final track on "Machine Head", Lord helps bring the song (and the album) to a close with this gem.
The amazing thing about "Machine Head" is that it was written and recorded in just 15 days, so the band could go home for Christrmas.
There was a scene during a shootout. At this point, a Medical school dropout named James Holmes threw tear gas bombs, and opened fire with an AK-47, killing 12, and wounding 59 others. Ghawi was one of the 12 who was killed. Her friend tried to help her, but had to run from the theatre, and call her mother, when he realized his efforts would be futile, and Holmes was still shooting.
Ghawi was a blogger just like I am, and what really bothers me are these things:
A) Military personnel were injured in this attack
B) Ghawi survived the Toronto Mall Shootings, until to be killed here.
C) A Republican congressmansaid the scene reminded him of scenes he had seen as when he served in Iraq.
And, most of all,
D) The fact that someone who just wanted to go to the movies, can be mowed down like sheep, just because some nut job wants to.
THE BEST OF JON LORD
Deep Purple's Jon Lord passed away this week at age 71. Here are some of his most memorable tracks. The band's most iconinc tune "Smoke On The Water", is not included because that song was more lead guitarist Richie Blackmore's tune.
Burn-The title song from their 1974 album may have been Lord's finest moment, as Lord had a classically-influenced keyboard break, that just knocks your socks off. An added bonus was that track was the first time many people ever heard the voice of a very young David Coverdale, 13 years before Tawny Kitaen straddled herself on his car in the Whitesnake video for "Here I Go Again".
Hush-The early years with Rod Evans on vocals, as Purple covered a Joe South tune for their first hit.
Highway Star-A fantastic keyboard break in the middle helps build the excitement, as the songs builds toward it's climax.
Perfect Strangers-The title track on the group's 1984 reunion album, showed the band had lost none of it's power. Lord drives the riff, that drives this song.
Spacetruckin'-The final track on "Machine Head", Lord helps bring the song (and the album) to a close with this gem.
The amazing thing about "Machine Head" is that it was written and recorded in just 15 days, so the band could go home for Christrmas.
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