The Thirteen Year Old, All Around Prodigy: Noah Gray-Cabey
If you watched season two of heroes, you’ll remember the quiet, high pitched voice of the character Micah Sanders, who is casted by Noah Gray-Cabey. Noah is a great actor, but he’s not just known for his hit role on the smash TV series Heroes. Noah also acted on My Wife and Kids, and was featured on Ripley’s Believe it or Not for his outstanding ability to fluently play the piano.
Noah was just four years old when he started playing the piano. His dad had his dis beliefs about whether a four year old was fit to play the piano, but soon, his opinion changed. Noah miraculously could play the piano, just by watching his father’s fingers move across the keyboard. Not only was Noah’s family amazed by this incredible talent, the rest of the world was too. Noah toured Jamaica when he was five years old, and a few months later, he was the youngest person ever to play at the Sydney Opera house. Not bad for a five year old, eh? Here’s a snippet of the Ripley’s Believe it or Not episode where Noah is featured.
Noah is now thirteen, and he’s still a great piano player, actor, and, well, he just enjoys the great life of being a kid! Here’s an interview he did just a few months ago.
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Another Nightmare
There I was, in an unfamiliar neighborhood again. This was completely unlike my neighborhood; there weren’t any trees, the houses were extremely tiny, and the front yards were made of cement. Just by looking at this place, I was frightened.
In this peculiar region, I felt the odd urge to help; I felt as if there was something I needed to do. I didn’t see anything living at all. What was I supposed to do? It was oddly warm, something not usual this time of year where I live, and I felt endangered. Lonely, I decided to walk up the streets to see if I could find someone.
Indeed, I did find people. I saw my friends, teachers, family, basically everyone I cared about. Sitting there, helplessly. They talked, completely unaware of their plain, cemented surroundings. Frightened, I began to run, and I promised myself I wouldn’t stop. What was happening?
Let me give you some background; everything’s okay with me and the people I’m associated with. So why was I thrown into such a scary place? Is this the future? It’s only a dream, right? But I have heard dreams come true.
I’ll keep you updated on my dreams. Thanks!
Sansa – A Revolution
Do you have an iPod? Do you think kind of poorly of it? You’re satisfied with it’s new, high technology, but you want more. You have pictures, TV shows, music, and movies on it, but you just don’t think it’s enough. You have a lot of space left, but you don’t think that it will be there for too long.
I was dealing with the same problem. The iPod was too popular for me. Other than that, people constantly complained about problems with it. I needed something new. I tried desperately for something that would match my needs. It took a while, but I finally found my answer. The Sansa Fuze.
The Sansa Fuze can hold four gigabytes of music, pictures, and video. You can record yourself and other people, also, to listen to friends and other people talk. Additionally, radio is an option, so you don’t have to take long to tune just to find a good station. Lastly, there is a place for a microchip to add more room. These chips cost $20-30, and can be found in your local Circuit City or Radioshack.
The Sansa Fuze
The Sansa is incredibly functional. It’s fast, efficient, and can hold more space than the average iPod Nano. Battery power lasts longer, and you can even run the device for moderately twenty minutes before it dies. Charging to full battery takes less than a half hour. Also, the device is tiny, which makes it easy to carry around in places. It even comes with a free case, which will help you keep it clean and scratchless.
The Sansa Fuze is highly functional, easy to use, and is even fun to use. If you’re not a huge fan of the iPod and you’re looking for a reasonable priced music player, the Sansa Fuze is right for you. You can purchase it at a Radioshack or a Circuit City.
Zachary Quinto
If you’re someone who loves to watch the smash TV series Heroes, you’ll recognize Zachary Quinto as the guy who plays the petrifying character “Sylar”. Quinto works hard to portray this frightening villian.
Now, Quinto is going to take on a new role in the movie Star Trek, portraying the young Mr. Spock. Is this going to be a hard transition from villian to hero? “Acting, I’ve almost always played a hero. On Heroes, I was excited to take on the role of a villian,” Quinto tells Heroes Magazine.
The Monday after the superbowl, you can see Zachary Quinto in action at 9:00 EST. But for right now, you may be intrested in seeing him as a hero, first.
Quinto, as I said before, will be taking on the role of the young Mr. Spock. I am extremely excited, seeing as my favorite director and producer, J. J. Abrams, will be directing this movie, too. Abrams is the executive producer on my other favorite show, Lost. Really, I’m excited to see the two work together.
Have you been anxious to see a Star Trek movie, but never got a chance? Now you can, completely changed into modern form. Also, if you want to see Quinto at his best, I reccommend you go and see this movie. It releases summer 2009, and I promise I will do a review.
As for now, prepare to adventure with heroes and villians the Monday after the superbowl.
Zachary Quinto as a scary Sylar.
27 – A Hard Age for Rock Stars
Can it be a coincidence that Jimi Hendrix, Janis Jopplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain all died when they were twenty-seven? It could be, but it seems weird. In case you didn’t know, Hendrix, Jopplin, Cobain and Morrison brought a new perspective to the music of their generation. So, logically speaking, they were all music revolutionaries that died at a young age. Maybe for two people it would be a coincidence, but for four people all in the same area of business to die at the same age, it seems a little weird.
All four of these people had something great in common: they drove people away from fads that weren’t great to follow, and they gave people an inspiration for change. Let’s take a look at each individual.
Janis Jopplin. Jopplin had an idea, and that idea made her successful. Jopplin conquered in the 1960’s, where segregation played a huge part in everything, including music. Ideally, African-American women would sing one way, and Caucasian women would sing another. But Janis Jopplin broke that racial barrier. Janis showed that you could sing however you wanted, act upon whatever choice you made, because it didn’t matter. People like different, and it felt okay to Janis to shoot for something out of the ordinary.
Jimi Hendrix. If most people listened to rock and roll in the sixties, they probably listened to The Beatles, Elvis Presley, or the Rolling Stones. These bands were casual, jingle type of people, which was popular back then. But Jimi Hendrix brought a punk, whiny type of guitar to his people, which changed the perspective on rock for etirnity.
Jim Morrison was the lead singer and song writer of the smash sixties band, The Doors. As I said before, musicians played “jingles” before Hendrix. But The Doors and Jim were bringing on a new type of music. Intelligent rock lyrics over a jazzy type line. Pretty soon, people were blaring The Doors just as they were Jimi Hendrix, knowing little as to both would die very soon…
Lastly, there was Kurt Cobain. Back then, rock musicians were the type that didn’t care; blasting guitars for an hour and a half shows were all that mattered to them. But Cobain brought a different perspective. With help of other hit Seattle bands (the Melvins, Green River, Mudhoney, etc.), he was able to get people to listen to a new wave of music: grunge was born.
As you can see, all of these incredible musicians had a way of altering the coarse of music. They took risks, made allies and enemies, just like any hero. These musicians are legends, and they are remembered. But one thing we will always remember: they died young heros.
