July 31, 2008

"Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans!" - Chuck Berry, "Johnny B. Good" and the meanspeed conjecture: Meanspeed-Carlton Analysis

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Top 9 greatest of all time, listed in order of descending speed


Top 9 greatest of all time, listed in order of descending speed


Top 9 greatest of all time, listed in order of choice of greatness by the Rolling Stone Magazine

The #7 song of all-time on Rolling Stones list called The 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time is called Johnny B. Goode by the artists Chuck Berry.

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary

calibration trials=10
beats per trial=420
mean time per trial=2 minutes 30.16 seconds
mean speed/objective tempo=167.8 beats per minute
average beat=358 milliseconds per beat.

There is an article written by the Rolling Stone about the song and its appearance at #7 on the list, found at http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595852/johnny_b_goode.


Ian Schneider
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July 31, 2008

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July 30, 2008

Macca & Wings - BAND ON THE RUN - "If we ever get out of here" to "we never can be found" - Does determinism rule as loneliness turns to victory?












Wikipedia.org offers information at
URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_on_the_Run_%28song%29



"'Band on the Run' is the title song from Paul McCartney and Wings' acclaimed Band on the Run album, one of McCartney's most ambitious and best-loved songs. It is comprised of a three-part structure that revolves around the themes of escape and liberation.




The song features prominently on every McCartney/Wings best-of compilation and in McCartney's live shows. The song was considered the best evidence that McCartney's muse had not deserted him after The Beatles.


George Harrison had contributed the line in the middle section "If we ever get out of here."



A part of the middle section would later be sampled by Tone Lōc on his 1989 track "Cutting Rhythms", but had to be removed as permission was not given.



Eve Of Summer remixed it in 2007, for their album '7'."


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Ian Andrew Schneider
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July 30, 2008

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July 27, 2008

Archetype song of Comfort at the Universal Speed of Orgasm: GREY STREET - Dave Matthews Band - Tempo Graphics and more



The most comfortable speed of all according to the meanspeed music theory is so comfortable that for nineteen years I called it simply "natural." Natural in the parlance of our times has taken on that one meaning too many, perhaps because the Green revolution has all Good people wanting to do things naturally. So after much thought, I changed the name of the emotion that one is predictably likely to find if a song has an average velocity between approximately 98-105 beats per minute as "comfort."


You can take a look at the songs on the list we give give you this page at this link or by using "GRAPHS" --> "BPM LIST" on the drop-down screen above.


One might point out, "Sir, I see a large number of songs in this territory that are about *un*comfortable things! Surely you overgeneralize!" To which I reply that first, of course there are exceptions, I call them tempo ironies, and they make the point of proving the rule by sticking out as unusual. Second, it is an axiom that someone *Else's* pain is always bearable. We all know this is true.
Take a look again at the songs that do not "fit" as being songs of comfort, being natural, being contented: they are about someone else. Another Day In Paradise is in this range and it is about poverty, homelessness and racism? Not Phil Collins' homelessness!
Nowhere is this better seen in what I have called for years the MARVIN GAYE EFFECT. In his songs Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) and What's Goin' On, Marvin signs about the horrors of everything from nuclear waste to moronic and death and mental injury-causing Vietnam [War]. However, these two songs are about his brother's enlistment, and both were originally recorded as "upbeat" songs for an all female quartet with whom Marvin was working at the time of the war draft. Listen to either of these songs without the words, and they sound like songs of comfort and contentment. Marvin himself compared it the Martin Luther King approach to racism as opposed to Malcolm X's James Brown-like in-your-face approach. Moral leaders can face the no-win Gandhi end, which is why most are too cowardly to be moral leaders. Both men were killed for simply trying to be the 'black leaders' so called 'whites' are always ranting about. The song about martin Luther King's horrible death that is best known is by the Irish singer Bono: Pride (In The Name Of Love), of course, not being Bono's assassination, at the speed range of 98-105, natural or comfortable. In Dave Matthews song of comfort called GREY STREET, there is a girl who has an emptiness inside her. Inside her. See what I mean? Hear it? According to German scientists circa 2005, this same tempo is the same tempo of orgasmic spasms which occur in the genital and rectal areas of both men and women, same spasms being the ONLY element of sex where there is a predictable speed. Heartbeat, blood pressure, breath rate: nothing to do with sex and predictability.
Only 70 million studies had to be made in order for all the scientists to agree: sure, the autonomic nervous system in general speeds up in the force of sexual attraction and action, no speed of the heart, breath, lung or any other organ of the individual of either gender is predictable in regard to sex.






Except, as Masters & Johnson hypothesized, and were validated. The Germanic studies a few years ago that truly put an axiomatic speed on rate of orgasmic spasm were the readings of 21st century anal probes. Masters & Johnson were validated, but there rate of "approximately 800 milliseconds per spasm" (75 spasms per minute), the rate was fixed by contemporary measurement standards at 600 milliseconds, or 100 spasms per minute, diminishing until after about 7 or 8 to stopping, and in the good old days, a cigarette.

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July 27, 2008
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July 25, 2008

HEART OF THE MATTER - Don Henley's 20th Century Pop Classic is an Archetype Renewal Song with its programmed 88.1 bpm speed

One of the most well-known songs of renewal in the late 20th Century was the song HEART OF THE MATTER by former Eagles lead singer and drummer Mr. Donald "Don" Henley.


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Heart of the Matter is recorded on top of a drum machine which is playing at almost exactly 88 beats per minute.


The meanspeed music conjecture has asserted that songs in the tempo range of 85-89 beats per minute have a strong tendency to emote renewal, forgiveness and homecoming. Such patterns are vividly seen on the tempo graphs I have synthesized and presented here with the the drama of the actors
John McCook
(1987-present)
and Jennifer Gareis
(2006-present) , making the point for me better than I write and FAR better than I photograph!
In renewing their lives on the world's most popular television drama, CBS's THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, Donna and Eric got down to the heart of the matter and then got in bed legally as man and wife. The issue in the story line is that Eric's heart is 65-70 years old and Donna's is 35-40 years old, a possible cause of Eric's heart giving out after a Viagra-induced sex marathon. He still lays in fictional real time in that same Los Angeles hospital at which thank-God-at-least-she's-still-alive Elizabeth Taylor always visits people.


No, there is nothing funny about a man in a coma. Not even when that coma is inspired by the rabidly creative yet macho character Eric Forrester. However, this most interesting couple is fictional. I feature musical examples in tempo maps, graphs, abstract visuals: whatever group you are in call the same [meanspeed graphs] different names. A "graph" implies an pictoral aspect whereas a "chart" does not necessarily connote a 'visual'. A chart can be Text Only - a graph implies a picture. Another example in which The Bold and the Beautiful was used on graphs to show the tempo line of an archetypal song of lust was for the late Robert Palmer's ADDICTED TO LOVE, a pure song of lust written by Palmer in a dream. In that song, Eric's then wife Stephanie Forrester, played by the actress Stephanie Douglas Forrester (Susan Flannery), is forgiving and accepts that her rugged yet creative husband must move on with a new woman, her care turns to her family in general as she emotes graceful forgiveness - she can only accept that the lust between these characters played Gareis and McCook are smoldering in bed with the heat of the passion of Forrester Creations, the fictional Ralph Lauren in the B & B and the utility of Viagra®, a pill made by Pfizer®.
For you TiVo and DVR users out there, though I know you would want to watch the commercials religiously every day, CBS's drama is only 1/2 hour and is the only television program to be broadcast (not filmed) live by satellite throughout the world in general. No, my data base does not have amongst its song very many from Brazil, but, you do what you can, and this show is popular in Brazil, it is popular in Ireland! In trying to explain the meanspeed ideas, that certain tempo ranges imply corresponding emotive characteristics where predictive elements can be quite high, using internationally known fictional characters is more useful than talking about my in-laws.
In the meanspeed scale, the range of range 77-78 beats per minute strongly implies 'bittersweetness'. √60 x 10, or 'the square root of 60 seconds *divided* by ten' is equivalent numerically, with the decimal place moved over to the right 2 places, to the amount of time of each beat - i.e., while 75 beats per minute requires 800 milliseconds in between beats and is highly predictive of songs of grace and poise, songs at 80 beats per minute require only 750 milliseconds per beat and are highly predictive of loneliness and discontent. 77.5 eats per minute ironically requires 774 milliseconds per beat. This the *mean* speed, that which is numerically identical as both speed and space is not intuitive. The only speed where the numbers do not move are 77.45966692414834... beats per minute which requires exactly .7745966692414834... seconds per beat.
The emotions which I translate by music tempo are universal and thus I try to translate the language and culture barrier. I am a trained lawyer, though, not a trained international music pop music research person and cannot conduct experiments around the world using 15,000 songs in German, 15,000 in French and so on. I leave that for someone else! Insofar as at least the half of you reading this who are not American, though most of you speak English, I believe it is sometimes best to comprehend, understand or feel the emotive qualities I call mean-emotions using a dramatic analogies, here, the international language of love of music, love of sex, and love of television (not necessarily in that order)!
I believe that with most "process X in the brain is controlled by a timing pathway" and "the fMRI showed that people had quicker healing time in the hospital with the use of music" studies lack the narrow but essential area I study: the ACTUAL SPEED of such 'relaxing music'. What is relaxing music to me is not for *you* - which in turn is not for the next person and so on. The 10s of thousands of studies that promote 'soft relaxing music' do not tell you th etempo of their music, and even when they do, a study sample of 10 rather than 10 thousand is used, and while the experiments are closed, deductive and valid, they remain largely useless. In order to actually USE any such "music is a healer" study we need to establish that my speed is not your speed, which the German scientists essentially provided the groundwork for in the late 1800s.
In the meanspeed conjecture we look to specificity. It is one thing for Professor X to assert that "anesthesia was reduced by 25 % when soft, relaxing music was played during the operation" and another assertion that "when songs chosen by the patient which had *tempi of under 76 beats per minute* reduced anesthesia by 25 %" or "song at every speed which the patient *herself *considered relaxing reduced anesthesia by 25 %" or "anesthesia was reduced by 25 % when music considered by the *surgeon* was played during the operation" and so on.
If there is one thing we can all agree on it is that music taste is as varied as people's faces. My relaxing is getting my mind to slow down to about 37 beats per minute using a metronome and a song in my head I have, in my aural imagination, literally brought down to that speed. That is, when I am nervous and want to calm myself. Ian Bush, one of the first people who ever asked me about improving his sports performance by setting a mental tempo did it - in California - and went on to set new records. When everyone else was nervously chattering before the race, he would go into the corner and play 2 Genesis/Phil Collins songs, both between 92-97 bpm, I believe they were "In The Air Tonight" and "Dodo/Lurker." In fact. "In The Air Tonight" was used by Jimmy Johnson as a psyche song when he was a football coach, and Ray Lewis used it for decades as a football player.
Putting speed into words is violently difficult. I discovered this pattern TWENTY years ago to the week and when I stumbled on it I thought it was an established fact that I had discovered backwards. So said, I knew if it was undiscovered I would spend up to my last breath trying to explain the benefits of autochronicity - controlling one's own mental speed. The term "autochronicity" was coined by Dr. Lawrence Silverman and until Dr. Silverman agreed with my findings I had no graphics of any kind, which was 8 years after I discovered the patterns in the first place. The great doctor bought me Excel 5.0, and I still use that program to synthesize the graphs for Meanspeed Music Education in general.
A message to the "he's doing this to sell the graphics" critics: I saw the meanspeed conjecture with my eyes on a legal pad with has a page for each major metronome click, as per back in the Analogue days: 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 63, 66, 69, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120, 126, 132, 138, 144, 152, 160 [and the rest of the 'standards' ], and after calibrating approximately 300 songs crudely matching a red light on a Seiko metronome. I was a 25 year old law student who was trying to make some sense of practicing piano in my down time from reading Supreme Court cases.

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ERIC FORRESTER

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Eric Forrester Sr.

John McCook as Eric Forrester (2007)
The Bold and the Beautiful
Portrayed by John McCook
(1987-present)
First appearance Episode 1
March 23, 1987
Profile
Gender Male
Date of birth 1936
Occupation Owner & CEO of Forrester Creations
Residence The Forrester Mansion 369 Willow Hill Rd., Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, Los Angeles, California

Eric Forrester Sr. is a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Eric has been played by John McCook since the show's beginning in 1987. He made brief guest appearances on The Young and the Restless in 1995, 1996, 2005 and 2008.

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[edit] Character biography

Eric and Stephanie Douglas Forrester (Susan Flannery) are co-founders of the Los Angeles-based fashion house Forrester Creations. They have three living children: KristenTracy Lindsey Melchior), Thorne (Winsor Harmon), and Felicia (Lesli Kay). Stephanie initially hid the truth from Eric about a fourth child, Angela, being alive. Angela was born microcephalic2001 that Ridge (Ronn Moss), who Eric believed to be his son, was fathered by Massimo Marone. Eric also has two children, Rick (Kyle Lowder) and Bridget (Ashley Jones), from his marriage to Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang). He has a brother named John who was never seen on the show, but John's ex-wife Maggie (Barbara Crampton) and their daughter Jessica (Maitland Ward) formerly lived in L.A. Eric deliberately attempted to run down Deacon Sharpe (Sean Kanan) on the road after learning of his engagement to Bridget (then played by Jennifer Finnigan). Years later, he shot Deacon after finding Bridget in his bed. He is also guilty of, for over forty years, hiding Stephanie's trust document, which named her as sole owner of Forrester creations. Upon learning of her husband's deception, Stephanie took over the company, but soon re-hired Eric as head designer. ( and remained comatose. She was kept a secret to spare Eric the pain who believed she had died at birth. At some point in time, Angela had died due to her condition, and the woman they knew as "Angela"--con artist Deveny Dixon (Judith Borne)--and Angela's doctor Todd Powell were soon exposed for extorting money from Stephanie for Angela's care. It was revealed in

[edit] Stephanie Douglas

No matter what happens, no matter what affair Eric has, he and Stephanie always end up together. They first met in college, Eric was with Beth Logan, but when Stephanie became pregnant with her oldest son Ridge Eric left Beth and married Stephanie in 1958, little did he and even Stephanie know that the baby she was carrying was really the child of Massimo Marone. Stephanie gave birth to Ridge and later more: Thorne, Kristen, Felicia and Angela (all Eric's children). In 1988, Eric asked Stephanie to grant him a divorce as he wanted to be with Beth Logan, Stephanie reluctantly agreed but hired an old friend to hire Stephen Logan for a job in Paris, which separated Eric and Beth with him remaining with Stephanie. Eric suspected Stephanie of cheating on him as she always made visits, Stephanie was forced to tell Eric that their daughter Angela did not really die in childbirth but was microcephalic, she said she didn't tell Eric as she didn't want him to suffer.

In 1990, Eric, who had been consoling a heart broken Brooke after Ridge left her, fell in love with Brooke and engaged in an affair with her, when Stephanie finally discovered, she refused Eric a divorce. However Stephanie finally allowed it after Brooke gave birth to their son Rick Forrester was born. Eric and Stephanie grew closer when she lost her memory due to a stroke but even when she regained it she still pretended she had lost it, but Eric still remained with Brooke.

Massimo Marone returned and tried to have his way with Stephanie (who by this time had remarried Eric) but when Ridge had an accident and needed blood, Eric was not a match, Stephanie now knew that Massimo was the biological father of Ridge, leaving Eric devastated, Stephanie and Eric later reunited after Taylor's "death". After Stephanie faked her heart attack, Eric divorced her in favor of Brooke Forrester but Stephanie then found documents in the safe that gave her complete control over all of Forrester Creations. Stephanie discovered that Eric knew all along and fired him from Forrester Creations, but later re hired him, giving him an office in the basement. Felicia returned and informed her parents that the cancer had returned, she asked for Stephanie and Eric to marry, they agreed they would and would divorce after her death but they stayed together and now Eric is disgusted in Stephanie for her part in Brooke's rape, but now she is trying to make amends and Eric has even got Forrester Creations back but has been having an affair with Donna Logan, he is torn between the two but is being pushed towards Donna due to Stephanie's actions.

Eric has quite a lot of grand children: Alexandria Forrester (Thorne & Darla), Dominick "Dino" Damiano (Felicia & Dante), Zende Forrester Dominguez (Kristen & Antonio), Nicole Marone (Bridget and Nick; stillborn).

[edit] Affair with Brooke Logan

After Caroline and Ridge got together, Brooke Logan was left heart broken, so her mother Beth Logan asked Eric to look after her which he did happily. One time, Thorne discovered of Stephanie's meddling in the past and discovered that she had offered Stephan Logan a job in Paris to divert Beth (Eric's first love) away from Eric, Eric was disgusted by Stephanie's behaviour. Eric tired of his wife's controlling antics and then turned to Brooke for support, during a dinner date, they poured their feelings out for each other and shared a passionate kiss, Eric went back home where he told Stephanie that he wanted a divorce. Eric and Brooke later ended up in bed together at Big Bear, Thorne eventually discovered the affair and told Stephanie. Brooke eventually found out that she was pregnant, with Eric's child but was heart broken when she heard that he was going to make another go at his marriage with Stephanie. Eric soon learned that Brooke had left for Paris and was thinking about having an abortion as she was pregnant, he got there just in time to stop the operation and their love was stronger than ever, with Eric soon proposing and Brooke accepting. Stephanie agreed to the divorce, soon after Brooke gave birth to Eric Forrester Jr. Ridge tried to tempt Brooke to go back to him but her love for Eric was too strong and she and Eric soon married. Stephanie later suffered a stroke and lost her memory for a while and pretended she still did to have Eric all to herself, Brooke became frustrated and neglected by Eric and ended up sleeping with Ridge on the lab floor and told Eric that she was in love with Ridge. Eric told her that if she stayed with him for two months than he would give her a divorce, (as he thought Ridge would tire of waiting) Eric saved baby Eric's life and Ridge didn't want to break up their family unit, but soon after Eric and his younger wife divorced.

There was more confusion later when Brooke fell pregnant again, and the paternity of the child was uncertain as Brooke had slept with Eric, was it Eric? Or Ridge? A DNA test was taken, however scheming Sheila Carter (Eric's lover) switched Eric's blood with Ridge's blood and the results showed that Ridge was the father but it was later realised that Eric was the father of baby Bridget.

In 2005, after divorcing Stephanie, Eric returned to his true love, Brooke Forrester. Eric and Brooke were keen to marry and married very soon after his divorce in one way to stop Bridget from thinking that Brooke would go with Nick, together, Eric and Brooke became the CEO's of FC, Eric and Brooke fired Stephanie, then Stephanie discovered the trust and Eric and Brooke were fired by Stephanie but then re-hired as designers and given a basement office, they schemed to strip Stephanie of FC but failed, soon after Eric and Brooke decided on a speedy divorce.

[edit] Sheila Carter

Sheila met Eric when he was at his weakest, his emotions flying about after he lost the woman he loved. Sheila realised how damaged Eric's marriage to Brooke was when she babysat for Eric Jr. Sheila lusted after Eric and he finally gave in while in a vulnerable state. Eric pondered the idea of remarrying Brooke, as there was a chance of a reconciling if Brooke's child was his. Sheila couldn't risk Brooke taking Eric back and switched Eric's blood with Ridge's in the DNA test. The results showed that Ridge was the father of Bridget and Eric was left at his lowest. He proposed to Sheila and she accepted. With Eric's family disliking her and Lauren Fenmore coming to LA in an attempt to reveal Sheila's criminal past, things weren't so easy and she even had a nightmare in which Lauren exposed her for who she really was. However, she did marry Eric and became Mrs. Sheila Forrester. Later, after Sheila lied to him about being pregnant, Eric wanted a divorce. Lauren told Dr. James Warwick (Ian Buchanan) and the Forresters of Sheila's crooked past in Genoa City. After holding James hostage in her basement, Sheila arranged for a meeting at the Forrester mansion, with Stephanie, Eric, Ridge, Brooke, Lauren and James present. Sneaking past the cops, who mistook Jessica for their perpetrator, Sheila held Lauren, James and the Forresters at gun point, threatening to kill all of them as a final revenge. She intended to shoot Stephanie but after the others stepped in front of her (including Brooke, who hated Stephanie), Sheila had a change of heart and swallowed a bottle of poison. Sheila survived and was admitted to an institution for the criminally insane, where Eric finally got her to sign the divorce papers.

[edit] Relationship with Lauren Fenmore

Lauren Fenmore and Eric started having a relashionship when she moved to LA, however Lauren felt guilty as Stephanie and Eric planned to re marry so Lauren, out of guilt ended their relashionship. However Sally Spectra discovered the fling and then slipped a picture of Lauren and Eric in bed together in the bible at the wedding after the wedding was called off, Lauren and Eric then flew back to LA but the plane crashed on the way and they were taken in by a crazy maniac called Rush, he was eventually killed, then Lauren and Eric returned to LA but their fling soon died out.

[edit] Affair with Donna Logan

Eric started to cheat on Stephanie when he learned that she was behind the rape of his ex-wife Brooke Logan, Eric felt partially responsible for Stephanie's part in the rape, Donna Logan (the ex-fiancée of his son, Thorne) assured Eric that it wasn't his fault, and they soon became close. Donna stayed at the Forrester mansion one night and swam in the pool naked, after a long discussion, she and Eric kissed passionately, Eric later shed some thought for his marriage and asked Donna to leave, when Eric later went to bed, he found Donna next to him, and they slept together. Donna later encouraged Eric to go to Nick and try to get his company back from Nick, when she ecompanied him to Forrester Creations, Nick agreed to sell back the company to him if he divorced Stephanie, Eric was reluctant, but Donna convinced him to sign the papers and reminded him of Stephanie's bad treatment of him and how he could start afresh. Donna and Eric were later caught in the act by Thorne who fumed at Donna, Eric was still adamant that he was staying with Donna. Stephanie has since returned and has shown her remorse for her actions, but Eric is torn between who he loves, his wife or his mistress. After Stephanie said sorry to Brooke, she went to Forrester Creations and talked to Eric about their marriage, she realised that his new suit and new hair style meaant that Eric was having an affair. Eric claimed that his lover made him feel great and useful, Stephanie suspected Jackie Marone who had constantly tried to steal Eric away, but then Donna stepped into the room to inform Eric about his catalogue, Stephanie asked her to leave, but Eric asked her to stay and took her into his arms, Stephanie soon realised who the secret mistress was. Despite Stephanie's brazen attempts to sabotage his relationship, (she is aided and abetted in this by Thorne and Felicia) Eric means to make it work with Donna. Stephanie convinced Thorne and Felicia to lock Donna, wearing the showstopper gown, in a steam room at Forrester. Despite the worn look, Donna still had Eric's support; and comforted her after Jake Maclaine, who was now working at Forrester, rescued her. Moments later, Stephanie was shot. Stephanie blackmailed Donna into leaving Eric in exchange for her not telling the police about Storm shooting her. Despite Donna agreeing she continued her affair with Eric, pretending that they had broken up with Eric returning to his wife. Stephanie found out of the lie and after persuasion from Katie, did not tell the police Storm had shot her. She promised to stand by Eric's decision to be with Donna as long as he spends their anniversary with her and the family. This Eric chose to do, and Stephanie indeed kept her word. When their divorce is finalized, Eric and Donna will marry. Although Donna has been tormented by pranks by Pam Douglas, his former sister in-law, he is adamant that he will marry Donna; and even Stephanie has told Pam to not exacerbate the situation. On May 2nd, Stephanie and Eric signed the divorce papers, and that next day, Eric and Donna would marry in the Forrester house. However, Eric got nervous and had major doubts over marrying Donna and began feeling much remorse and reconnecting with Stephanie. Stephanie did her best to implicitly prevent Eric marrying Donna, but it was not enough and Donna and Eric exchanged vows on May 9th. Will their marriage last?

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Donna Forrester

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Donna Forrester

Jennifer Gareis as Donna Forrester (2007)
The Bold and the Beautiful
Portrayed by Carrie Mitchum
(1987-1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2001)
Jennifer Gareis
(2006-present)
First appearance Episode 6
March 30, 1987
Created by William J. Bell
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Gender Female
Date of birth 1969
Occupation Model at Forrester Creations
Residence The Forrester Mansion 369 Willow Hill Rd., Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, Los Angeles, California

Donna Forrester (née Logan) is a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. The character was played by Carrie Mitchum on a contract basis from 1987 to 19911994, 1995, 1996 and 2001. As of July 20, 2006, the character has been played by Jennifer Gareis on contract status. and made guest appearances in

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Donna was concerned about her younger sister Katie (then played by Nancy Sloan, now Heather Tom), who had low self esteem due to excessive acne, and convinced Donna's classmate, Rocco Carner (Bryan Genesse), to date her. Rocco was attracted to Donna, but she was already involved with Mark Mallory (Michael Phillip) and was residing with him. When Donna realised Mark wasn't right for her, she kicked him out of her life, but she and Rocco were never able to make a go of their relationship. Donna was hired to model for Tommy Bayland (Tim Choate), who referred her to agent Nick Preston, who convinced Donna to pose nude for a magazine in Europe. Bill Spencer saw the photos and published them in a USStephen (Robert Pine), who worked for Bill's company, back to Los Angeles from Paris, but Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery) opposed that idea. After a failed relationship with Thorne Forrester (then played by Jeff Trachta), Donna left Los Angeles for San Francisco, and returned for special occasions. magazine, leading Donna to join forces with Nick and Rocco to take nude pictures of Bill to publish in his own magazines. Donna eventually confessed to what she did to Bill and asked Bill to transfer her father

Donna returned to LA in 2006, and immediately began trying to persuade her sister BrookeKatherine Kelly Lang) (who had now married Nick, played by Jack Wagner) to take RidgeRonn Moss) back, reminding her of how long she had fought to keep him. When Donna was unsuccessful in convincing her sister to return to Ridge, she went after him herself. This eventually failed, when she realized that Brooke and Ridge would always be connected. ( (

She allied herself with Nick, especially after witnessing an argument between Stephanie and Nick's mother, Jackie (Lesley-Anne Down) which ended with her going over the balcony and into the hospital in a coma. In fact, Donna was the one who told Nick that his mother's injuries were no accident, thus leading to Nick ordering Stephanie to give up Forrester Creations or go to jail. She worked with Nick who had appointed her his new head model and face of the company.

Donna is also allying with Jackie to convince forbidden lovers Rick (Kyle Lowder) and PhoebeMacKenzie Mauzy) to continue to see each other, knowing that the union could potentially drive a wedge between Ridge and Brooke, driving Brooke back to Nick. (

One night, Donna, after thinking that Brooke had arrived home, left for the airport, unknowingly leaving her nephew and niece, R.J. and Hope, all alone in the house, prompting Stephanie to call Child Protective Services, who eventually took the children away from Brooke and placed them temporarily in Ridge's custody. Donna swore revenge on Stephanie, and began to see Thorne Forrester (Winsor Harmon). She seemed to love Thorne, but she saw her relationship with him as a way to get even with Stephanie for all the abuse inflicted on the Logan family over the years. However, recently returned Katie, overheard Donna tell Jackie the real reason why she was marrying Thorne, mainly to get revenge on Stephanie. Katie told Thorne the truth, and that caused him to stop the wedding and furiously broke off the engagement. Donna is furious with Katie now, and has disowned her as a sister.

Donna has since begun an affair with Eric Forrester. With her help and encouragement, Eric persuaded Nick to sell his company back; Nick agreed, but on the condition that Eric divorce Stephanie, a condition to which Eric agreed. Donna's relationship with Eric has earned her the wrath of not just Eric's family (son Thorne and daughter Felicia in particular), but also Jackie Marone, whom she sees as competition for Eric's affections, which has caused friction in their friendship, and also her sister Katie.

Eric, after a lot of thought, had chosen Donna over Stephanie, mainly due to her part in Brooke's rape; but also because he truly loved her. During Forrester's first fashion since Eric returned to the head of the fashion house, she was slated to wear the showstopper gown, but Felicia and Thorne, egged on by their mother, locked her in the steam room at Forrester, allowing Stephanie to steal the moment in the sun. Jake Maclaine, who had recently returned to Forrester, heard her cries and rescued her, then her family comforted her, as they awaited to confront Stephanie for her treacherous actions. Moments later, Stephanie was shot by an unknown assailant. Donna was behind her brother, Storm, especially when it was discovered that he had shot Stephanie, and not her father. Stephanie used Storm's freedom as blackmail to try to break up Eric and Donna, but it failed. Stephanie, persuaded by Katie, finally relented and didn't charge Storm with her shooting. Stephanie insisted that Eric attend their anniversary party, and whatever choice he made, even if he chooses Donna, she would respect his decision.

However, Donna has an even more dangerous enemy to face, namely that of Pamela Douglas, Stephanie's unhinged younger sister, who had despised Donna from the first moment that she had met her. She had her Doberman Pinscher, named Tiny, shred one of her thongs, and sicced him on her, chasing her out into the courtyard. The night of Eric and Stephanie's party, Pam threatened Donna with being killed if she dared to try to become Mrs. Eric Forrester.

Donna and Pam became mortal enemies, as the crazy Ms. Douglas insisted that Stephanie would retain Eric as her husband; and as such, began to play nasty pranks on Donna, such as tampering with her whitening strips; shampoo; a tanning booth, etc. This rattled Donna, and she confronted Pam, who only found it all too funny. Donna was saddened, when she discovered that Pam had switched one of Eric's viagra pills with a sedative. Then, Donna had been tormented by Tiny, Pam's Doberman Pinscher, so she fed the dog Pam's lemon bars. However, Tiny met his untimely end because of this (he actually died of an enlarged heart, so the Lemon bars didn't have any connection to Tiny's death), and this not only irritated Pam, but has inflamed the heated feud between her and Donna. In May 2008, Donna married Eric despite Eric having cold feet and reigniting his feelings for Stephanie.

Newlywed Donna now has two new worries -- Eric's children want to force her out of Forrester Creations, and it has come to light that at the age of 16, Donna became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy, whom she gave up for adoption. The child was given the name Marcus Walton. Having reached adulthood, Marcus recently arrived in Los Angeles to track down the "Donna Logan" listed on his birth certificate.





These are some other songs that have an average velocity within one beat per minute of the Henley contemporary classic:

Get Up, Stand Up Bob Marley 87.8
(How Do I Get You) Alone Todd Rundgren 87.8
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye 87.8
Love Will Come To You Indigo Girls 87.8
All My Sorrows Lindsy Buckingham 87.9
Getting Closer Billy Joel 87.9
Parents Just Don't Understand DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince 87.9
So Close Yet So Far Away Daryl Hall and John Oates
Live-Late Night With David Letterman
87.9
This Must Be The Place Shawn Colvin 87.9
Backstreets Bruce Springsteen 88.0
Can't Find My Way Home Blind Faith 88.0
Darling Be Home Soon Joe Cocker 88.0
The Doo Bop Song Miles Davis 88.0
Good Enough Sarah McLaughlin 88.0
Hold Back The Dawn Robbie Robertson 88.0
It All Depends Eric Clapton 88.0
Stay By Me Annie Lennox 88.0
Tonight Def Leppard 88.0
We May Never Pass This Way Again Seals & Crofts 88.0
Backstreets Bruce Springsteen 88.1
Crystal Ship The Doors 88.1
Five To One The Doors 88.1
Heart Of The Matter Don Henley 88.1
Many Rivers to Cross UB40 88.1
New Love Michael Bolton 88.1
Sweet City Woman Stampeders 88.1
Summer Breeze Seals & Crofts 88.1
What King Of Man Would I Be Chicago 88.1
Your Smiling Face James Taylor
Live-Live
88.1
Counting Out Time Genesis 88.2
Forty Thousand Headmen Traffic 88.2
Let Em In Paul McCartney 88.2
Back Off Boogaloo Ringo Starr 88.3
Something's Happening Peter Frampton
88.3
Walk Out In The Rain Eric Clapton 88.3
Blinded By Rainbows Rolling Stones 88.4







Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title="Heart Of The Matter"
performer=Don Henley
mean speed/objective tempo=88.1 beats per minute
average beat=681 milliseconds
mean emotion according to the meanspeed music conjecture=Renewal




Ian Andrew Schneider
July 25, 2008

(re-edited and portions added July 26, 2008)


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