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pollyna · 3 years

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Fem!verse: ace!Mickirk+ Enterprise crew edition.

• Jim full name is James Tiberia Kirk. James because George said so before he died and Tiberia because people seriously have sense of humor. She hates when people calls her with her full name and loves Jim, because Jim fits her better than anything. The only person who can call her James is Leo;

• Leo goes for Leonora Horatia Mccoy, because every single Mccoy needs to have Horatio before the surname. It's the law. Everyone calls her Leo or Nora but in the middle of a shuttle ride Jim Kirk decided she was going to be Bones and that's that;

• Leo's the best dancer of all Georgia and she ends breaking everyone heart between the steps. She met Jocelyn on the dance floor and they are sixteen, marries at 20, becomes parents at 23, divorced by 26. They kiss one last time when they are 24 and half and then they fight, fight, fight, while Leo drowns herself into work and Jocelyn in Clay's bed;

• Jim was born in space but lives all her life in Iowa with Frank and Sam, util Sam leaves them when she's 11 and he's 16. Tarsus IV is just a year later;

• Leo is 6'5 ft tall where Jim is 6' (5'9 Jim, don't bullshit yoursel). Leo hates her hair longer than ten centimeter and loves all the kind of undercuts- she actually learned to cut them herself during med school because if she didn't have time to sleep she surely didn't have time to go to the hairdressers-, where Jim always have them long and longer, forgetting her hair tie in every single room of the Academy and then on the ship, on planets and one memorable time even in a volcano;

• when they met Bones was 26, recently divorced and it was almost six month since the last time she saw her baby girl, while Jim was 22 and just met the floor of a bar;

• Leo loves Joanna. She loves her little girl and would do anything for her. But she didn't really want her at the beginning, she did it mostly because Jocelyn wanted to a baby and her mom always seemed sad when she tought about her not having a children;

• Leo comes out in the middle of a study session because a guy from her xenomed course invited her for dinner and dessert and honest to God with people are always thinking about sex. Jim looks at her for a long moment before asking for something more (first year);

• Jim comes out while she is drunk because how could she not. She says, holding her hand out, as if she was counting to not forget how many words she has to pronounce: I'm non binary, biromantic and asexual. What's your prognosis doctor? Leo orders another round of drinks and sleeps in Jim bed, holding her tight against her chest that night. The next morning she asks Jim what pronouns prefers. (she/they; secone year);

• they start dating almost at the end of their third year, after the most intense friendship both of them ever had. It's not like one of them says to the other we're together, they just kiss once before class and then the same night before going to bed and every other day from that moment on. Theoretically they have two different dorm with different roommates but they sleep in the same single bed for months. Sometimes in Leo's dormitory, sometime in Jim's;

• Leo finishes her (second) PhD during the second years and Jim is awestruck with how clever her best friend is and she gets a thank you at the end of the thesis because I wouldn't even got very far without you. It's almost a love confession;

[• Pike always looks out for them and a part of him looks at Jim and see George, almost twenty years before. He rembers how they used to spend hours in the simulator because George wanted to teach him how to fly every single ship he could find and Christopher used to follow him around. He wasn't in love with him but he could be easily been the case if it wasn't for Winona. (bi!Christopher Pike; one-side!Chris/George (was it really one-side?); George/Winona; dadmiral)];

• they end up on the Enterprise because of Nero and now she is Captain James Tiberia Kirk and her girlfriend is the CMO of a boat she hates half of the time, but she couldn't be happy anywhere else;

• between Leo and Spock is not love at the first sight and not even at the second, or a thousand, sight. It's not love at all but their frenemies relationship is the most awsome thing in her life after Joanna&Jim. Spock needs a hand but he doesn't know how to ask for it and then Geoffrey M'Benga arrives with all their knowledge on Vulcans and stuff just falls in the right place. He tells her he's trans and wants to transition but Vulcan is still not the most open place about it so he would like to be helped. Leo can tell him no;

[• Geoffrey M'Benga is 32 years old, non-binary and use they/them as pronouns. Everyone calls them GF. People really freaks out when they have to meet them because they never know who are going to meet. With him it comes Christine Chapel, the queen of lesbians and with her all the best of Starfleet Medical are together];

• Spock and Nyota become a couple when Jim/Leo are fighting and then a trouple when Gaila gets a post on the Enterprise. Leo is still angry and honestly she could care less of everyone and their lives (Nyota is bi, Gaila aromantic, Spock kisses them with his fingers and with his mouth and it's one of the best thing of the day);

• they are fighting because Jim is reackless and Leo would like to not see her in the infermery every other week and, on the last planet they visit, the prime minister flirted with her and Jim almost let herself be kissed. She doesn't know with whom begin more pissed, herself for believing they could last or herself, again, for believing they could fail so easly;

• they both miss Chehkov's freak out on the bridge because he looks at Hikaru and oh yeah, but then he looks at Leo and he got the crush for her but then there's the alien with three genders and the one after that that as none. They all make Chehkov hot hot hot. And he is 18 and wants answers and to try everything at least once. Okay, maybe it's better if he doesn't say a word about the crush he has for Dr. McCoy but for the rest;

• it takes two weeks to find the way to solve this particular fight because talking is so difficult when you never had to.

Probably will be more.

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theasteriae-arc · 3 years

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try to break my muse’s heart in a single sentence ( always accepting! ) / @diabolicaltendencies said:

❝ Get out. ❞ ( for KATE & JIM )

“What?” Kate just stares at him, too stunned to move. Sure, they’ve fought before, and things have got heated, but he’s never spoken to her like that, ordered her out like she’s just one of his lackeys instead of the woman who’s been by his side since the beginning ( albeit with a bit of a break in the middle ). She’s shared his bed, is the mother of his child, and she’s just about to snap back and tell him, he can’t talk to her like she means nothing to him, when she realises, the shock of suddenly finding out about Xan seems to be what’s driven him to do it, and very sensibly, she shuts her mouth again.

She reaches for him instead, and a look of hurt flashes across her face when he pulls away.

“James, please.”

“Go, Kate. Just- go. Get out.” His voice is steady, but he can’t—won’t—look at her. He won’t physically wrestle her from the room, she trusts him that far, but this is a good way to make her turn for the door herself. She doesn’t, though. Not yet, at least. She drops her hand, retrieves her wine glass from the table. It’s almost empty. She drains it and tops it up from the bottle, a clear show of I’m not going anywhere.

“Not until you let me explain.”

“I think you’ve said quite enough.”

Jim is still glaring stubbornly at the opposite wall, so he can’t see the reproach in her eyes. Beautiful green eyes, like sea glass, that he had always admired. They’re swimming like the ocean now, filling up with tears.

“I haven’t. You’ve twisted this completely out of- It was never about you.”

“Clearly it is, though. Otherwise you wouldn’t have gone to Richard over me.”

“I didn’t go to Dickie. He was just- He was there when you weren’t. Maybe if you’d bothered coming back for the funeral, I’d have told you instead.”

Kate knows instantly that this was the wrong thing to say; the twins hate being treated as extensions of one another, interchangeable. Jim’s expression closes up even more. She curses.

“Jaysus, no, that’s not what I- Christ. I’m making a right pig’s ear of this, aren’t I? Look.” She tries one more time to explain things, skirting around the kiss and everything that came after as best she can. “All I meant was, I didn’t go looking for him, to tell him about her. He showed up, back where yous used to live, and told me about your da. I was passing. I helped him clean the house out. We spent a couple of days working on it, and while we did, we talked. It all came out then.”

For the first time, his dark eyes flick over to her. “Oh yes,” he says, quietly cutting. “I’m sure the two of you did a lot of talking.”

Kate flinches like she’s been slapped. Takes a step back. “Actually,” she says stiffly, with as much dignity as she can muster, fingers flying up to fiddle with the gold crucifix she always wears around her neck. “We did. We talked about a lot of things. Growing up, your da, the kid. But we talked about you most of all. How much we both missed you and—”

“—Must’ve been a lot,” Jim says coldly. “Well, now you’ve explained, you can go.” He stands forward, and instinctively, she backs up until they are stood on either side of the kitchen threshold. And black eyes now fixed unwaveringly upon hers, he shuts the door in her face.

“James.” She tries the handle, but he holds it firm. She beats on the wood with her fists. “James, don’t do this, don’t you dare do this!”

On the other side, where she cannot see him, his face is stony, and when he speaks to her, the last time he speaks to her that night, his voice is just as hard, just as unmoveable. “Go, Katie. Leave. You did it once before. Now it’s time to do it again.”

ft. @strangerinourmidst

#diabolicaltendencies #( i. message )#kate. | muse #always a woman. | main #( iv. a love that burns hot enough to last | kate & jim )#( iv. you fit me better than my favourite sweater | kate & richard )

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annoyedfanfiction · 5 years

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Jim Kirk x fem!reader (16) Beyond, ft Jim and Spock’s epic lack of communication with each other and their girlfriends

“Romulan!” Edison growled, as you caught up to him in the vents. “Half, actually.” You dodged the punch he threw, and launched yourself at him, knocking him to the ground and sending the Abronath tumbling. He scrambled to his feet with a roar, snatching it up and bolting down another intersecting vent. Jim sprinted up behind you and took off after Edison as you hauled yourself to your feet. “You won the war, Edison,” Jim was insisting, as you reached them both in the chamber. “You gave us peace.” “Romulans walk freely among you, while your precious Federation couldn’t even find time to save its own soldiers. We lost our souls, but found purpose! A means to bring the galaxy back to the struggle that made humanity strong!” Edison leered, grin dark, then looked to you, as Jim opened his comm. “I think you underestimate humanity,” Jim snapped back, not moving his phaser from its lock on Edison. “And what does your Romulan girlfriend say to that?” Edison snarled. “I fought for humanity. Lost millions in the Xindi, and the Romulan wars!” He swiped at you again, catching you around the throat and dragging you to him. “And for what? So that this abomination could walk among us?” He waved the Abronath in front of you, and you snatched for it, clasping one hand around it and pulling. He tightened his other hand around your throat, and Jim’s phaser lowered as you obscured his shot to Krall, pinned tight to the man’s chest. “For the Federation to sit me in a Captain’s chair and fraternise with the enemy? To taint our blood like this?” He lifted you towards Jim, trying to shake your grip from the Abronath. “We change!” Jim insisted, keeping his voice level. “We have to. Or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles!” “So instead you invite them into your home?” Edison snarled. The siren began, and he swung both you and the Abronath into Jim, knocking you both to the floor in a tangle of limbs. You were first to your feet, pulling Jim after you as you followed Edison up the ladder. The anti gravity chamber activated, and you jetted yourself into Edison’s floating figure, slamming him against the wall. He flipped you, slamming his fist into your face in quick succession. Jim tackled him off you, warring with him for the Abronath, until Edison slammed it against the glass wall and you all fell.

“Jim!” You dangled dangerously from the metal framework that had held the glass together, twisting to try and see him. “You lost!” You could hear Jim shouting as they stabilised themselves on the white tower below. “No way you can make it back there! Give up!” “Don’t underestimate pure, unadulterated rage, Jim,” you murmured, tugging yourself up onto the bar. “What, like you did?” Edison snarled, still determinedly moving away from Jim on the tower. “I read your ship log, Captain James T Kirk! At least I know what I am! I am a soldier!” You followed his eyes, and drew your gaze to the glass still floating in mid air. “He’s going to use the slipstream!” You slammed the comm open, not caring what line you got onto. “Edison’s going to use the slipstream!” “Who the hell are you?” an unfamiliar voice answered. ”Ambassador (Y/N) (L/N) of the Enterprise,” you snapped. “I’m telling you, if you don’t get this information to Montgomery Scott right now, every single person on this entire starbase is going to be killed.” “Peace is not what I was born into.” Edison jettisoned himself off the tower, forcing himself gracefully into the slipstream. Jim opened his comm. “Don’t!” You yelled, but your voice was lost as Jim launched himself after Edison. Edison rolled into the chamber, and you caught him by the throat, forcing him backwards. He swung the Abronath forward, catching you directly in the temple, and you staggered back, dimly watching him launch himself into the chamber as you tipped off the edge.

“(Y/N)!” Jim soared passed you in the slipstream as you fell. “Get Edison!” you insisted, twisting yourself in the air just in time to catch onto the edge of the tower. You could see Jim and Edison fighting in the chamber above you as you hung precariously there, fingers biting raw as you tried to haul yourself up again. You slipped, and fell. “Ambassador, open your eyes,” Spock’s calm voice insisted. You cracked them a tiny bit, still stinging from the wind rush of your fall. “This is a very Tholian looking ship, just saying,” you commented, eventually. Bones huffed. “If you’re well enough to make smart comments, you’re well enough to get up here and help me,” he commanded, brusquely. “Spock! Get back to what you were doing, we have an idiot to save.”

“What would I do without you, Spock?” Jim asked, still flat on his back on the floor of Krall’s repurposed ship. “Die, probably,” Bones reflected, calmly, as Spock just raised an eyebrow. “I think you can safely relieve yourself of the “probably”, Len,” you laughed, feeling relief release your chest. “This is at least the third time you and Spock have brought him back from the brink of death. If we’re counting less public instances, you’re well into the hundreds.” “(Y/N),” Jim breathed, happily, making no move off the floor. “Self-sacrificial bastard,” you answered, joining him on the floor, your head resting on his stomach. “You were ready to do the exact same thing.”

“Where’s (Y/N)? She was here earlier,” Jim asked, eventually, looking around at the room full of his friends and crew. “Actually, Uhura and Chapel have disappeared as well.” “Those three could take down the world together, Jim,” Bones assured him, handing him another drink. “I wouldn’t worry too much about it.” Jim hummed noncommittally, still scanning the room as he took a sip of his drink. He spotted the three girls over in the corner, and sent you a warm smile. You smiled back at him, he thought, but he was soon swept off in to the crowd of his crew. “There are a lot of rules.” Somehow he wound up in front of Jaylah, smiling happily as she took the Academy acceptance form. “But that doesn’t mean you should follow them all.” Spock gave him a disapproving look, but everyone else laughed, leaving Jaylah to look perplexed at the enigma of the best crew in StarFleet. The discussion splintered into small groups, and she slipped away, over to where you were sulking by the wall, Nyota and Christine engaged in conversation not too far away.

“Congratulations, Jay.” You gestured to the letter. “You deserve it. You’ll keep in touch, right? Let us all know how you’re doing? Pike’ll have you through before the new ship is done, I bet.” “That will only be two years,” Jaylah replied, frowning. “Less if Montgomery Scotty can get his way. This says three years.” “Yeah, but Jim and Spock both did it in two, and Chekov and I got one and a half for ‘exceptional circumstances’,” you shrugged, smiling at her. “I reckon you’re pretty exceptional yourself, Jay.” She smiled. “You are unhappy,” she said, eventually sobering. “You have not spoken to James T all night.” “I’ll recover,” you sighed, forcing your smile to stay, “So will he. C’mon, I’ve seen you holding your liquor over there, but no one’s had the decency to offer you something that actually tastes nice. You’ve got a bit of a sweet tooth, right? We’ll get you a nice cocktail.”

“Bones,” Jim complained, urgently, pulling McCoy aside as you all disembarked the shuttle from Yorktown, the Enterprise-A’s quickly developing form clearly visible in the distant shipyards. Sulu passed them, Demora balanced on his left hip, his right hand in his husband’s. On their far side, you and Chapel made your way off, adamantly not looking at Jim and his CMO. “What?” McCoy asked, taking in the seriousness on Jim’s face with a raised eyebrow. Uhura and Spock passed, deep in conversation. “Why aren’t you bothering (Y/N)?” “Because she’s not bothering me!” he answered, huffily. “That’s what I’m saying. I think she’s angry with me.” “You think?” Suddenly Nyota had reappeared, a reluctant Spock at her side. “I was mad at Spock for planning to leave and he told me he was going to.” “Wait what?” Jim quizzed, blankly. “Leaving?” “I believe Nyota is referring to your application for the position of Vice Admiral,” Spock clarified, calmly. “Damn right I’m referring to that,” Nyota snapped, stepping forward and pressing a finger into his chest. “She’s heartbroken! What, were you planning for her to just wake up in the Captain’s quarters one day and be told she’d been reassigned crew quarters by the new Captain?” “No!” Jim protested, jerking away. “I would never have–no!”

“Then what, Jim?” Nyota dropped her hand, and all the anger disappeared from her face. “Because as far as I can see, you applied to get off that ship and uproot your home without even telling her, let alone considering her. So, if you weren’t planning to throw your three year relationship out the window, what were you planning?” Jim opened his mouth to answer, but found no words. Uhura shook her head, turning away, before spinning back, dark eyes sad. “You remember when she took shore leave when we stopped off at Betazed? To visit Tixa and her family?” Of course he remembered. You’d used a video link one evening to contact him and the new petty officer misinterpreted it as an official signal and put it up on the bridge screen. As if nothing was strange, you’d greeted Jim and the whole bridge crew while balancing Altrena, now seven, on your lap. Twelve year old Lixa was positively thrilled to see Bones, asking him how his “med lab” was going, and explaining that she was going to be a doctor like him when she finished school, because she had wanted to be an ambassador but she thought Altrena would be better at that. It had only been a month before Krall. “Tixa sourced a singing Janaran charm for her while she was there. A different version of the crystals we were given after Maidara, they come with a vial of water from the Janaran falls, and they sing when the two are connected. She was saving it for your birthday, figured it might make a day you hated so much a little less terrible.”

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jaceyourself · 5 years

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End of Year Wrap-Up 24/12/2018

Happy Merry to all you readers!

I’ve had a great year but all us music fans have had an even better one! Streaming services mean that now more than ever we can experience the musical output from all corners of the globe (though overwhelmingly the English-speaking parts of it) to understand different points of view, learn of the goings on in other parts of the world and most importantly indulge ourselves in a bit of a boogie. All the moods, genres and feels you could think of are out there, so over the holiday period perhaps try and listen to something new. Who knows it might break the tension with that younger/older relative round the xmas table when you find they also happen to like k-pop/jazz-funk/grindcore or at the very least you can bicker about the tragedy of the current album charts (Greatest Showman: 21 weeks!). To aid you in your quest for knowledge/excitement/small-talk I have spent almost 30 minutes curating a best-of for both albums and singles in the year of 2018.

(NB even with my album-a-day policy, there’s no way I can get through everything I want to within the 365, so if your fave appears ignored, let it be known that I probably haven’t heard it yet. The full list of everything I’ve listened to this year is at the bottom)

So in no particular order:

Albums

Jinx Lennon- Grow A Pair!!!

The Beths- Future Me Hates Me

The Pistol Annies- Interstate Gospel

Travis Scott- ASTROWORLD

Mount Eerie- Now Only

Cardi B- Invasion of Privacy

The 1975- A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

The Aces- When My Heart Felt Volcanic

Singles

Confidence Man- Out The Window

Cardi B- I Like It

Janelle Monae ft. Grimes- Pynk

Lori McKenna- People Get Old

SOPHIE- Immaterial

Marie Davidson- Work It

Car Seat Headrest- Stop Smoking (We Love You)

BLACKPINK- AS IF IT’S YOUR LAST

The 1975- It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)

https://open.spotify.com/user/jaceyourself/playlist/1kFex3QLVv0l3cCqjVC6dT?si=_GqTJXrOSoSXYaMC9ra_lg

Have a great festive period and I’ll see you in 2019 :D

2018 Albums what I listened to

Floating Points- Reflections – Mojave Desert

James Elkington- Wintres Woma

Miguel- War & Leisure

Ride- Weather Diaries

Sidney Gish- No Dogs Allowed

Emperor X- The Orlando Sentinel, Oversleepers International

Broken Social Scene- Hug of Thunder

MC5- Kick Out The Jams (Live)

Public Service Broadcasting- Every Valley

JJ Doom- Key to the Kuffs

HAIM- Something To Tell You

Camila Cabello- Camila

Sheer Mag- Need To Feel Your Love

Taylor Swift- reputation

Shabazz Palaces- Quazarz vs The Jealous Machines

This Is The Kit- Moonshine Freeze

Japanese Breakfast- Soft Sounds From Another Planet

Tune-Yards- I can feel you creep into my private life

Jupiter & Okwess- Kin Sonic

Various Artists- The Passion Of Charlie Parker

Waxahatchee- Out In The Storm, Great Thunder

Offa Rex- The Queen Of Hearts

Dizzee Rascal- Raskit

Alvvays- Antisocialites

Childhood- Universal High

Marmozets- Knowing What You Know Now

Declan McKenna- What Do You Think About the Car?

Paul Heaton- Crooked Calypso

Lana Del Rey- Lust For Life

Charles Lloyd New Quartet- Passin’ Thru (Live)

Rip Rig & Panic- Circa Rip Rig + Panic

Avey Tare- Eucalyptus

Justin Timberlake- Man Of The Woods

Rio Mira- Marimba del Pacifico

Oddisee- The Iceberg

Aimee Mann- Mental Illness

Katie Von Schleicher- Shitty Hits

Arcade Fire- Everything Now

Girl Ray- Earl Grey

Ezra Furman- Transangelic Exodus

Randy Newman- Dark Matter

Dead Cross- Dead Cross

Chronixx- Chronology

Mondo Cozmo- Plastic Soul

Kesha- Rainbow

Lal & Mike Waterson- Bright Phoebus

Steve Reich- Pulse / Quartet

Orchestra Baobab- Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng

Ratboy- SCUM

Prince- Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999, Purple Rain, Parade, Sign ‘O’ The Times

Stanley Cowell- No Illusions

Oneohtrix Point Never- Good Time Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Downtown Boys- Cost Of Living

Screaming Females- All At Once

Rob Luft- Riser

Sibusile Xaba- Open Letter To Adoniah

Jen Cloher- Jen Cloher

Everything Everything- Fever Dream

Grizzly Bear- Painted Ruins

Bob’s Burgers- The Bob’s Burgers Music Album

Superorganism- Superorganism

Maren Morris- HERO

Courtney Marie Andrews- Honest Life, May Your Kindness Remain

Stefflon Don- Real Ting Mixtape

Ghostpoet- Dark Days + Canapés

Young Fathers- White Men Are Black Men Too, Cocoa Sugar

Queens Of The Stone Age- Songs For The Deaf

Thurst- Cut to the Chafe

John Moreland- Big Bad Luv

Aruan Ortiz- Cub(an)ism [Piano Solo]

Mount Eerie- Now Only

The War On Drugs- A Deeper Understanding

Various Artists- Pop Makossa

Liane Carroll- The Right to Love

Fickle Friends- You Are Someone Else

Nadine Shah- Holiday Destination

Various Artists- Howsla

George Ezra- Staying at Tamara’s

The Doors- The Doors

Filthy Friends- Invitation

Susanne Sundfør- Music For People In Trouble

LCD Soundsystem- LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver, American Dream

Mogwai- Every Country’s Sun

Kacey Musgraves- Golden Hour

The National- High Violet, Sleep Well Beast

The Klezmatics- Wonder Wheel

Hercules & Love Affair- Omnion

Mount Kimbie- Love What Survives

The Aces- When My Heart Felt Volcanic

Matthew Bourne- Isotach

Finished- Cum Inside Me Bro

Forced Into Femininity- I’m Making Progress

Heron Oblivion- Heron Oblivion

Hamell On Trial- TACKLE BOX

Confidence Man- Confident Music For Confident People

Swet Shop Boys- Cashmere

Princess Nokia- 1992 Deluxe, A Girl Cried Red

Steely Dan- The Royal Scam, Aja

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard- Nonagon Infinity

Sparks- Hippopotamus

J. Cole- KOD

Fat Tony- Macgregor Park

L’Orange and Jeremiah Jae- The Night Took Us In Like Family

Little Simz- Stillness In Wonderland

Lady Leshurr- Queen’s Speech

RAY BLK- Durt

Brand New- Science Fiction

Janelle Monae- Dirty Computer

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever- Talk Tight

Fred Thomas- Changer

Myra Davies- Sirens

Laraaji- Sun Gong

The Killers- Wonderful Wonderful

Descendents- Milo Goes To College

Frank Turner- Be More Kind

The Horrors- V

Moses Sumney- Aromanticism

Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People…, AM, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Oxbow- Thin Black Duke

Dee Byrne’s Entropi- Moment Frozen

Mike Stern- Trip

The Vampires- The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke

Gogol Bordello- Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, Super Taranta!, Seekers And Finders

Umphrey’s McGee- Zonkey

Hard Working Americans- We’re All in This Together

Courtney Barnett- Tell Me How You Really Feel

Jllin- Black Origami

Various Artists- Rough Guide to the Music of West Africa

Wolf Alice- Visions Of A Life

The Young’uns- Strangers

Fever Ray- Fever Ray, Plunge

CHVRCHES- Love Is Dead

Oumou Sangaré- Oumou, Mogoya

Charlotte Gainsbourg- Rest

Daniel Avery- Song For Alpha

Daphni- Joli Mai

Kanye West- ye

Cécile McLorin Salvant- Dreams and Daggers

Trio Da Kali, Kronos Quartet- Ladilikan

Kelela- Take Me Apart

Bob Dylan- The Times.., Another.., Bringing.., Highway.., Blond.., John.., Nashville.., New.., Blood..

Lily Allen- Alright(,) Still, It’s Not Me(,) It’s You, Sheezus, No Shame

Fanfare Ciocarlia- 20

Wolf Parade- Cry Cry Cry

SOPHIE- OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES

Zara McFarlane- Arise

St. Vincent- MASSEDUCTION

Margo Price- All American Made

Bebe Rexha- Expectations

Motörhead- Under Cöver

Orchestre Les Mangelepa- Last Band Standing

Drake- Scorpion

Various Artists- Gentle Giants: The Songs Of Don Williams

Noga Erez- Off The Radar

Baxter Dury- Prince of Tears

John Maus- Screen Memories

Lankum- Between the Earth and Sky

Shamir- Revelations

Years & Years- Palo Santo

Converge- The Dusk In Us

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino- Canzoniere

Fred Hersch- Open Book

A. Savage- Thawing Dawn

Big Thief- Capacity

Kelly Clarkson- Meaning Of Life

Dirty Projectors- Lamp Lit Prose

Robt Sarazin Blake- Recitative

Shed Seven- Instant Pleasures

Spinning Coin- Permo

Call Super- Arpo

Laura Perrudin- Poisons & antidotes

Ellen Andrea Wang- Blank Out

Lori McKenna- The Tree

Wu-Tang Clan- Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Lee Ronaldo- Electric Trim

Deer Tick- Vol. 2

The Paranoid Style- Underworld U.S.A.

Youssou N’Dour- Set, Joko- From Village To Town, Nothing’s In Vain, Seeni Valeurs

Gaika- BASIC VOLUME

Kasai Allstars- Around Felicite

Carly Rae Jepsen- Emotion

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds- Who Built The Moon?

Anna Ternheim- All the Way to Rio

U2- Songs of Experience

Mônica Vasconcelos- The São Paulo Tapes

Travis Scott- ASTROWORLD

Nabihah Iqbal- Weighing of the Heart

Van Morrison- Versatile

Jim James- Tribute to 2

Criolo- Espiral de Ilusão

Maciej Obara Quartet- Unloved

N.E.R.D- NO ONE EVER REALLY DIES

The Beths- Future Me Hates Me

Maryam Saleh- Lekhfa

Naomi Bedford- Songs My Ruiner Gave to Me

Jens Lekman- Night Over Kortedala

The Spirit of the Beehive- pleasure suck

Tom Rogerson- Finding Shore

Paul Jacobs- Pictures(,) Movies and Apartments

Ariana Grande- sweetener

Rina Sawayama- RINA

Marcel Khalife- Andalusia of Love

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BASICS.

Given / Birth Name : Barbara Kathleen Gordon Nickname / Preferred Name : Barbara/Babs Alias(es) : Oracle ( formerly Batgirl ) Birthdate / Age : September 23, 1990 / 27 years old Place of Birth : Gotham City Current Location : Gotham City Gender Identity : Cisfemale Sexual / Romantic Orientation : Bisexual/Biromantic Ethnicity / Race / Cultural Heritage: Biracial ( Mexican and Irish ) Marital Status : Single Occupation : Information Broker / Librarian Religious Beliefs : Protestant

CHARACTERISTICS.

Height : 1.65cm ( 5'5 ft ) Weight : 121 lbs Body Type / Build : Athletic. Barbara had never stopped working out even after losing her leg function. Her years of martial arts training and gymnastics shaped her body. Eye Color : Brown Hair Color / Texture : It’s a color between brown and auburn. Long and wavy. Recognizable Features / Scars : No one would really see Barbara’s battle scar unless she gets naked in front of you and let you trace her body with your hands but the most prominent scar she had was the gunshot scar caused by Joker below her navel area. Speech Patterns / Accent : Neutral American in Fruity to Smoky tone. Barbara speaks with eloquently, words well thought and with conviction but in a pleasant way. Languages Spoken : English and Spanish mainly but had learned other language too that she was pretty decent at. Powers / Skills / Abilities : Genius Level Intelligence, skilled in hand-to-hand combat even after she is bound in her wheelchair and expert in using weapons. Currently, she uses escrima sticks when the situation for her to use it rises. She was trained in martial arts and did gymnastics when she was younger. Overall Health : She is in her peak physical condition despite having restricted mobility. She could lift weight and throw punches and what not. Her physical strength is way above average but she couldn’t say the same with her mental health. The event where she was paralyzed had cause her some insomnia and PTSD.

RELATIONSHIPS.

Order of Birth : First born Number of Siblings : One Father’s Status + Relationship : Jim Gordon is the GCPD Commissioner who was very close to her. She had kept her Batgirl identity from him although being good at his job as a detective, he had figure it out. As of the moment, Jim thought she was done with crime-fighting and didn’t know she was behind Oracle. Mother’s Status + Relationship : Barbara Eileen had been estrange from her for years. When things got rough, she had left them and for that, Barbara couldn’t really bring herself to trust her. Sibling Status + Relationship : James Gordon Jr. or JJ. had a very complicated relationship. Though he had cared for him, he was always closed off and his socio-pathological behavior had cause for them to drift farther away since he made several attempts to kill her. Loyalty / Affiliation : Batman, Inc, Birds of Prey and not an official member of Justice League but works with them mainly through Bruce Wayne

PERSONALITY.

MBTI : ESTJ - The Executive Hobbies : Hacking, data gathering and analysis, having a long milk or bubble bath Bad Habits : Not sleeping and drinking way too much coffee Three Positive Traits : Discerning, Luminary, Resilient Three Negative Traits : Stubborn, Ill-Tempered, Stern Moral Alignment : Chaotic Good

ASSOCIATIONS.

One Song : Elastic Heart - Sia One Quote / Piece of Art : Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth One Fear : His dad getting hurt and having her civilian identity revealed One Strength : Everything that made her Oracle One Object : Batgirl utility belt One Place : Gotham City Watchtower One Food : Dumpling One Scent : Cucumber Melon One Lucky Charm : Her Harvard University varsity jacket

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British Library Temple Works, South Bank building

British Library Temple Works Building, South Bank Leeds Development, CEG Property News

British Library Temple Works Building, Leeds

14 July 2021

Location: Temple District, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Major step closer to British Library site at Temple Works in Leeds

photo © Harry Archer

British Library Temple Works Building, South Bank Leeds

The British Library’s ambitions for a major new public-facing centre for audiences and users in the north of England will take a significant step forward next week when senior councillors in Leeds are asked to back plans to inject up to £5m of funding into the project.

The funding would be used to protect and stabilise Temple Works, a Grade I listed building in Leeds’s South Bank area that the British Library is looking to develop in partnership with Leeds City Council and developer CEG.

The stabilisation work is urgently needed both to protect the iconic building, which is on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register, and to enable detailed investigatory work to assess the viability of transforming it into a new home for the British Library in Leeds.

A meeting of the council’s executive board taking place next Wednesday, July 21, will discuss plans for the necessary funding to be drawn down from the £25m committed by the Government to support the British Library project as part of the West Yorkshire devolution deal.

A report from council officers to members recommending the step says the British Library centre represents a cultural and heritage-led proposal of international significance that would act as a catalyst for wider regeneration delivering new jobs and homes. The report also says the project would bolster the city’s inclusive growth ambitions by providing improved access to learning and research opportunities while at the same time boosting Leeds’s already thriving innovation ecosystem.

Subject to executive board approval, a request will be made for the release of up to £5m by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, which is administrating the overall £25m sum allocated to the British Library project.

Developer CEG has managed an investment of almost £4m since the building’s acquisition in 2018 and as a result now has a greater depth of knowledge about the structure and its challenges than ever before. Under the terms of the proposed funding draw-down, CEG would oversee the work to ensure that the structure of the 1840s building, in the Temple area, is ready to be fully restored for its long term use.

image courtesy of CEG

Having collaborated on the project for the past two years, CEG, the British Library and Leeds City Council would also enter into a formal three-way partnership to explore the costs and practicalities of the full development of the site, and of the Library operating from Temple Works on a permanent and sustainable basis.

The British Library’s ambitions for the north of England involve establishing a physical presence in Leeds city centre that enables it to open up its collections to audiences in the city and across the region as never before. Since 2019, the Library has worked with local partners and communities to develop a growing programme of cultural events and learning activities in Leeds, ranging from spectacular exhibits at Leeds Light Night, to digital events exploring the fight for women’s rights, to cookbook-themed workshops with young asylum seekers.

The range of services to be offered at Temple Works is currently under development, and is expected to include exhibitions, cultural events, schools programming, business support services and access to research collections, attracting audiences ranging from community groups to tourists.

The current plans for Temple Works and Leeds build upon a much longer-term British Library presence in the region, in the form of the Library’s major site at Boston Spa, near Wetherby, which opened in 1961 and is home to more than three-quarters of the Library’s collection of 170 million items. The Boston Spa site is itself undergoing major expansion and refurbishment works, and the unrivalled collections, resources and staff based there would power the public-facing presence that is envisaged at Temple Works.

The British Library’s Chief Executive, Roly Keating said: “We have major ambitions to expand and enrich our offering to audiences across the north of England, and we are excited to have reached this key milestone in exploring the possibilities of Temple Works, both as an iconic location in its own right, and as a potential future home for the Library in Leeds. Working in close partnership with CEG and Leeds City Council, and in parallel with our transformation of our existing site at Boston Spa, the funding for this crucial next phase of this development will enable us to safeguard the historic fabric of the Temple Works mill, while exploring fully the scope and scale of the site’s future as part of the British Library.”

Councillor James Lewis, leader of Leeds City Council, said: “These plans for Temple Works reflect both a sense of pride in Leeds’s past and a real determination to forge a future that benefits people in all our local communities. Temple Works is a jewel in Leeds’s heritage crown and the prospect of seeing it start a new chapter as the home of the British Library in the North is hugely exciting. The centre envisioned by the Library, CEG and ourselves would be a major cultural asset and would help drive regeneration, not just in the Temple area but across the whole of the South Bank and beyond. It would also strengthen Leeds’s presence on the national and international stage, which has already been boosted in recent times by projects such as the UK Infrastructure Bank, the arrival of Channel 4 and the new Leeds-based hub being planned by the Bank of England.”

David Hodgson, head of strategic development at CEG, said: “This part of the city, which has historically been the cradle of the industrial revolution, is the key focus for commerce in the city. Temple District offers a new way of living and working, with Temple Works as the cultural and innovation centrepiece. We are excited about today’s announcement as Temple Works continues to play a vital role in Leeds’ future economic and social well-being.”

Duncan Wilson, Historic England’s Chief Executive said: “Temple Works is one of the great monuments of the Industrial Revolution. Built by John Marshall as a rare, single-storey flax spinning mill, it soon gained a legendary reputation in Leeds thanks to its striking Egyptian design which refers back to Egypt’s important flax industry in the ancient world. It has been on our Heritage at Risk Register for some time and we are excited by these early plans to bring it back to life as a cultural hub for Leeds. We hope to be able to offer future financial support for works to repair this extraordinary site and remain committed to working with partners to secure its future.”

British Library Temple Works Team

Temple Works Development Team

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s greatest research libraries. It provides world class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive research collection. The Library’s collection has developed over 250 years and exceeds 170 million separate items representing every age of written civilisation and includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound recordings in all written and spoken languages. Up to 10 million people visit the British Library website – www.bl.uk – every year where they can view up to 4 million digitised collection items and over 40 million pages.

Leeds City Council, as the economic development regeneration agency for Leeds, is working with CEG to facilitate the restoration in line with the city’s ambitions. The council is a principal grant funder, local planning authority and local highways authority for the scheme, and is also an adjoining landowner of eight acres of land at Temple Works.

CEG began in 1989 as Commercial Estates Group. Now known as CEG, their experience covers office and residential, to retail, industrial and mixed-use sectors, working closely with local authorities, landowners, tenants, stakeholders and communities. CEG manages an extensive UK-wide portfolio of more than 5 million sq ft of commercial space which is home to more than 520 thriving businesses. CEG are also bringing forward exciting new residential, commercial and mixed-use development on an 8,500-acre land portfolio.

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Frequency Measuring Test Success Does Not Require Sophisticated Equipment

In April 12, ARRL will conduct the Frequency Measuring Test (FMT), a tradition that dates back to 1931. In that era, prospective participants were promised “a pleasant and profitable experience” and advised that taking part in the FMT would be a form of insurance against out-of-band operation “and the unpleasant consequences that follow.” Official Observers and Official Relay Stations were required to participate in the FMT or offer a darn good excuse. W1MK — the predecessor to W1AW — was one of a dozen or so transmitting stations. The 80- and 40-meter frequencies were confirmed through an arrangement with the US Department of Commerce Radio Division.

Accurate frequency measurement — at least to the degree that radio amateurs rarely worry about operating outside of an amateur allocation — now is almost a given. But today’s FMT leaders are able to accurately measure beyond the number of decimal places (out to 5) a typical transceiver will display. FMT announcements may conjure visions of a vast array of sophisticated laboratory equipment. However, while some of the most successful stations did have laboratory-grade gear, others got quite close with far less hardware.

FMTs take place in April and November. The November 2018 FMT results are available on the ARRL website. The actual frequencies were 3,598,726.31 kHz on 80, and 7,064,327.23 on 40.

Tom Wilheit, WX4TW, one of those measuring the 80- and 40-meter frequencies of transmitting station K5CM on November 8 to within 1 Hz or less, reported using an Elecraft KX3 transceiver and Spectrum Lab audio spectrum analysis software. Others used a similar approach. James Keeth, AF9A, reported using an “openHPSDR Mercury receiver, a 10 MHz OCXO reference calibrated against CHU and WWV, and WSJT-X frequency mode for measurements.”

Jim Michener, K9JM, depended on his Elecraft K3 and tuning forks to get within 1 Hz of the mark on both bands. Grady Harper, AJ4YA, got extremely close by zero-beating the signal on his K3 and adjusting the measured frequency “to correct for errors in my tuner.”

“This is my first try with this type of adjustment,” Harper said. “The fractional part of the Hz is based on length of time between beats. I guessed at this part.”

If you’ve never entered an FMT before, Connie Marshall, K5CM, offers informationon his website on how to measure the frequency of a carrier. Articles in QST also have covered this topic.

The April 2019 FMT will get under way at 0200 – 0225 UTC on April 12. The 40-meter frequency will be in the vicinity of 7065 kHz, and the 80-meter frequency will be in the vicinity of 3599 kHz. Details are on page 94 of April QST.

Source:ARRL

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This week, CHIKARA announced half of the first round matches for this year’s King of Trios tournament! See below for an update on all three nights.

King of Trios 2017, Night 1 - September 1st, 2017 - Birmingham, England

1. King of Trios Opening Round Match: House Rot (Hallowicked, Frightmare & Kobald) vs. House Bodyslam! ( Michael Fynne, Vasyl, & Emeritus)

2. King of Trios Opening Round Match: House Strong Style ( Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate, & Trent Seven) vs. House Whitewolf (A-Kid, Adam Chase, & Zayas)

3. King of Trios Opening Round Match: House Sport (James Mason, Mal Sanders, & Danny Boy Collins) vs. Casa Dorada (Juan Francisco de Coronado, Sonny Defarge, & Cornelius Crummels)

4. King of Trios Opening Round Match: House SENDAI Girls (Meiko Satomura, DASH Chisako, & Cassandra Miyagi) vs. House Xyberhawx ( Sylverhawk, Razerhawk, & Nytehawk)

Plus: Four Additional Opening Round Matches! Ft.

House Calamari: Chris Brookes, Kid Lykos, & ELIJAH

House Throwback: Dasher Hatfield, Mark Angelosetti, & Simon Grimm

House Furies: Fire Ant, Solo Darling, & Travis Huckabee

House Attack: Deputy Damian Dunne, Jim Obstruction, & Lee Obstruction

House Fight Club: Millie Mckenzie, Kyle Fletcher, & Omari

House Seven Seas: Merlok, Hermit Crab, & Cajun Crawdad

House Bike Cops: Officer Warren Barksdale, Jasper Tippins, & Donald Kluger

House Revival: Jody Fleisch, Jonny Storm, & Johnny Moss

King of Trios 2017, Night 2 - September 2nd, 2017 - Birmingham, England

1. King of Trios Quarter-Final Round Match #1

2. King of Trios Quarter-Final Round Match #2

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My Favorite Album #212 - #BeatlesMonth Wall Street Journal's Allan Kozinn on how 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' broke the Beatles in America and the anatomy of an iconic hit

Beatles scholar, author, Wall Street Journal music critic and co-host of Beatles podcast 'Things We Said Today' Allan Kozinn joins me to tell the behind-the-scenes story of 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' - why hadn't the Beatles cracked America prior to this song? How did a teenage girl and a radio DJ force the Beatles record label to rush release the song? How did the JFK assassination set the stage for Americans embrace of aspirational British pop?

Plus we break down the song piece by piece to show how the Fab Four constructed a perfect single which was just as groundbreaking and sophisticated as their later work - from the lyrics to the harmonies, the guitar parts and their first use of four-track overdubbing, the sexual undertones in the music and how it marked the apex and the climax of their 'Wooo' period.

If you enjoyed this episode, pick up a copy of Allan's book Got That Something! How the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” Changed Everything.

Listen in the player above or download the episode by clicking here.

Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts here or in other podcasting apps by searching ‘My Favorite Album’ or copying/pasting our RSS feed -http://myfavoritealbum.libsyn.com/rss My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a different songwriter or musician discussing their favorite album of all time - their history with it, the making of the album, individual songs and the album’s influence on their own music. Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist and photographer from Sydney, Australia who has worked in the music industry since 2007. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the feature film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins, in addition to many commercials and music videos.

If you’ve got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at [email protected].

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Slate’s Jack Hamilton on Stevie Wonder ‘Innervisions’ (1973) 171. Showrunner Blake Masters on Drive-By Truckers ‘The Dirty South’ (2004) 170. Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes) on on their new album ‘We’re All Gonna Die’, loving LA and the albums that inspire him 169. Sadler Vaden on The Rolling Stones ‘Goats Head Soup’ (1973) 168. Guy Clark biographer Tamara Saviano on ‘Dublin Blues’, Guy’s songwriting process and his musical legacy 167. What does Trump mean for music? 166. A Tribute to Sir George Martin, The Fifth Beatle with Davey Lane and Brett Wolfie 165. John Oates on Joni Mitchell ‘Blue’ (1971) 164. Jimmy Vivino on the birth of the Max Weinberg 7, his relationship with Conan O’Brien, country music and the future of rock’n’roll 163. DJ Alix Brown on Transformer (1972) by Lou Reed 162. Taylor Locke on Doolittle (1989) by the Pixies, the album that inspired 90s alt-rock 161. Harts on Around the World in a Day (1985) by Prince and jamming with Prince at Paisley Park 160. Mark McKinnon (The Circus) on Kristofferson and programming the President’s iPod 159. Alan Brough on A Walk Across the Rooftops (1984) by The Blue Nile 158. Peter Cooper on Pretty Close to the Truth (1994) and why we need Americana music 157. Will Colvin (Hedge Fund) on One of the Boys by Katy Perry (2008) 156. Julia Jacklin on Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple (2005) 155. Japanese Wallpaper on Currents by Tame Impala (2015) 154. Montaigne on her album Glorious Heights (2016) and its inspirations 153. Alex Lahey on Hot Fuss by the Killers (2004) 152. Jack Moffitt (The Preatures) on Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin (1975) 151. Mike Bloom on Axis Bold As Love by Jimi Hendrix (1968) 150. Hey Geronimo on Drowning in the Fountain of Youth by Dan Kelly (2006) 149. Mickey Raphael on Teatro by Willie Nelson (1998) 148. Jack Ladder on Suicide by Suicide 147. Rusty Anderson on Hot Rats by Frank Zappa 146. Kenny Aronoff on The Beatles 145. 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Kristian Bush, Lee Brice, Corb Lund and Tim Byron 113. Sam Outlaw on Pieces of the Sky by Emmylou Harris 112. Jason Isbell on Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones 111. Ash Naylor (Even) on Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin 110. Burke Reid (Gerling) on Dirty by Sonic Youth 109. Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos) on Kind of Blue by Miles Davis 108. Lindsay ‘The Doctor’ McDougall (Frenzal Rhomb) on Curses! by Future of the Left 107. Julien Barbagallo (Tame Impala) on Chrominance Decoder by April March 106. Melody Pool on Blue by Joni Mitchell 105. Rusty Hopkinson (You Am I) on ‘Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era’ 104. Jeff Greenstein on A Quick One (Happy Jack) by The Who 103. Dave Cobb on Revolver by the Beatles 102. Justin Melkmann (World War IX) on Coney Island Baby by Lou Reed 101. Kacey Musgraves on John Prine by John Prine 100. Does the album have a future? 99. Corb Lund on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins 98. 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Missing Canadian Music Week 2020 because of COVID-19 was a giant bummer. We’ve been fortunate to be at a lot of shows and do interviews and take photos and make memories over the last six years or so, and we’re thankful for that. So, in this edition of my live music memories, I’ve got three Canadian Music Week (CMW) shows that stand out for their own reasons.

Over the years we’ve been to big shows, packed with people and little showcases with a dozen fans and industry insiders looking to find the next big thing. We’ve seen pop, rock, country, hip-hop, folk, punk, and more from Canada, the US, Brazil, the UK, Australia, and all sorts of other places that are not Toronto. And we’ve loved it.

The experience is hectic and takes scheduling gymnastics, but it’s always worth it and we hope that 2021 brings some of that back to us.

Today, I’ve picked a show from 2015, 2016, and 2017. That wasn’t on purpose – those three shows/sets just stand out for me, so that’s what’s on the list.

Honourable mentions include Lindsay Ell, JJ Shiplett, The Used, Judah & the Lion, Matt & Kim, SATE / Julien Taylor Band / Bleeker / Poor Young Things, Aussie BBQ Showcases, and more.

Let’s go!

Scott Weiland

The Mod Club, May 7, 2015

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Scott Weiland being gone is still sad. Rock and roll misses him. But, I remember the night we saw him at The Mod Club at Canadian Music Week and it was great.

Leading up to the show there was a lot of talk about Weiland’s state as a performer and as a person. There was the show in Texas that had some real down moments and that had us wondering what we were going to get when Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts hit the stage in Toronto.

AND THEN THEY WERE AWESOME!

Scott Weiland was a hell of a performer throughout his career and we got to see it live that night in 2015. He strutted and was theatrical and sang. The place was packed. We got classic Stone Temple Pilot hits like Vasoline and Big Bang Baby.

I couldn’t have asked for anything more.

And then we got to meet him.

It was a wild, fun, exciting night that included my chance to meet a star for a photo and a smile.

I’d do it all over again tomorrow!

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Meghan Patrick

The Phoenix Concert Theatre, May 3, 2016

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Meghan Patrick played as part of the Boots & Hearts showcase at CMW 2016 and owned the stage in a big way. We’d seen her before at Boots with The Stone Sparrows, I’d seen her in small songwriter circles, and just one before we saw her in the back room at the Supermarket playing a showcase that would lead to some great things for her.

At the May 2016 show, Meghan had the chance to play songs from her debut album, Grace & Grit that just been released a week before, and the crowd got into it just as much as she and the band were into it.

The stand out moment came when she played Bow Chicka Wow Wow, which had been released as a single earlier in the year. The crowd knew it. They loved it. Everyone got in with singing and dancing and stomping and energy. It was wonderful.

We’ve seen Meghan live a bunch in the years since that show but it is great to look back on her emergence as a Canadian country music star on her way to Female Artist of the Year trophies and finding the #1 spot on the charts!

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James Barker Band & Friends

Boots & Bourbon Saloon, April 21, 2017

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At Canadian Music Week 2017, James Barker Band took over Boots and Bourbon for their Juno award-winning Game On EP release party and it was one of the hottest tickets of the entire week. Even our media passes didn’t secure us a spot in the venue, and we ended up getting in the door as the music was getting started with Dani Strong.

The place was packed with fans and other artists (Jess Moskaluke, Washboard Union, Leah Daniels, Kris Barclay, Ben Hudson, Karli June, Vanessa Marie Carter) who came to see the show. Everyone was all-in on the Canadian country music party with JBB and friends.

The ‘and friends’ in this show matters for this memory because the whole thing was great. Dani Strong kicked things off to a big early crowd with songs and laughs and the crowd loved it all (including her Maple Leafs t-shirt). The Reklaws (pre-HUGE radio and industry breakthrough) were next and showed us a step forward we were very happy to see. Dan Davidson took the middle slot and was a ball of energy that we’ve seen on stages big and small more than once since then. Andrew Hyatt was next and put on the kind of show that left him dripping with sweat and the fans in a frenzy waiting for the headliners.

And then the James Barker Band hit the stage and everyone got what they came for.

The boys played tracks from their new (at the time) EP, they were entertaining and fired up. They knew this was special. We knew they were breaking through to another level. And all of that has stood up in the three years since then with more success and star power and songs from the band.

Chills had just gone to radio three weeks before the show and would go on to be the band’s first #1 (followed by Keep It Simple in 2019). Lawn Chair Lazy and Just Sayin’ were already favourite and had charted well, and it was great to see these rising stars getting brighter and brighter in front of our eyes.

This was a good night and a good show.

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yellin’ at songs, week thirty-nine

Opinions on the songs which debuted on the billboard charts 4 october 1997, 6 october 2007, and 7 october 2017

10.4.1997

24) "The One I Gave My Heart To," by Aaliyah

I agree, '90s R&B. It IS sad when people you love hurt you. I used to think it was good when people you loved made you feel sad, but I've been listening to your arguments for the last few months, and you know what? You're right. People you love should make you feel good! Took a while, but I'm finally coming around to your side.

28) "Criminal," by Fiona Apple

So I'm on vacation from work, and I've been taking this time off to not think about anything and just sorta stare blankly at whatever the screen has to offer, so this is not a song for my current mental state. There's so much to unpack with this song, and I'm just not yet acclimated to thinking about what this song has to offer. I need to get back on that critical thinking horse, but I've been lazy the last couple days, aand like you know how difficult it is to concentrate on anything? Y'all givin' me shit like "I've got to make a play to make my lover stay, so what would an angel say? The devil wants to know," and I gotta try to frame it in some context or another, and meanwhile the Link to the Past rando tournament is right there. I can just turn that back on at any moment. Shit, dude. I'm sorry, Fiona Apple. I'm trying. You caught me at a bad time, but this is still probably the best song I've heard in a hot minute, so you've got that going for ya!

84) "Last Night's Letter," by K-Ci & JoJo

THANK YOU, 1997. This is how the list should've been ordered. Groove these '90s R&B slo jamz up the middle so I can make jokewords and get some practice thinking, THEN throw something with lyrical depth and whatnot at me. This song says "I'll love you always" before we even hit the first chorus. Follow Aaliyah up with this, then give me the country song that's gonna follow, THEN I'll be ready to say something substantive about Fiona Apple. Fiona Apple was a thing, right? Like, she would've pretty much been '97 Lena Dunham? Or would she have been a Woke Twitter Hero? I don't know, and it's too late to ever find out because the list has moved on to a song where two men with nice voices sing about passion and devotion. "I wrote this letter last night." Do you think they wrote "I wrote this letter" in the actual letter? Do you think they repeated the chorus in the actual letter? I hope so!

87) "Valentine," by Martina McBride & Jim Brickman

Imagine going to a hoedown, turning on the local country radio station, and hearing this. I mean, maybe this was a solid play for adult contemporary radio, I dunno who Jim Brickman is but I dobut he goes hard too often, but Tay Tay's "Red" was a #2 country single. It would follow that country would listen to anything Martina McBride, but like just... Every single bro country dude was weaned on songs like this. This was what country music sounded like before "i respect the flag AND the party" bullshit. I've made this point before, but it's worth noting, pop/country? That's a genre with a bizarre evolutionary line!

91) "Please," by The Kinleys

you could tell me these white girls are either sisters or two girls named kinley that happened to meet one day, and i would believe it. this is a song that would've been good enough to make the top 20 back when i only had like ten weeks of '97 to sift through, i would've said "yeah this is basic but it's not 'my baby daddy,'" but it's october and we've listened to so many other things and i've already forgotten what this was. country? sure. country. good job, country girls who probably named their kids Carson and Mackenzie.

95) "Go Away," by Lorrie Morgan

If you are using tumblr, your opinion of Marilyn Monroe has gone through three stages: 1) Marilyn Monroe is the epitome of glamour 2) Marilyn Monroe was basically Paris Hilton, like what did she do even? 3) HELL YEAH, MARILYN MONROE WAS PARIS HILTON. SHE WAS HOT AS HELL AND FUCKED ALL THE TIME. GOALS. This is the hottest country girl jam 1997 has provided, but it opens with some Marilyn Monroe cosplay, and this song is a hot jam in a way where it's like "hell yeah, I'd listen to this again!" and not "let's start a music discussion club to delve into the deeper meanings of this song. When she asks, 'Go away and wait a minute,' what does she mean?" so let's just goof on the video!

10.6.2007

53) "Do it Well," Jennifer Lopez

I heard the annoying Timbalandy intro and thought for sure 2007 was hitting us with more of that Kara DioGuardi. Nope! Ryan Tedder! Still a shitty Timbaland ripoff, that Latin pop jam J. Lo released a few months (and ten years) ago was way more in her wheelhouse than this, but I misidentified the bad songwriter who'd been tasked with wasting these three minutes of my life. Ryan Tedder's been doing things for ten years. I am so glad I'm an unexceptional white man, because it means life will never stop presenting me with opportunities regardless of whether or not I deserve them.

73) "1973," James Blunt

The fact that this song actually debuted at #73 makes me so happy. You have no idea. Like, this song is what you would expect the follow-up to "You're Beautiful" to be, James Blunt is trying desperately to show he has some edge and is also a Deep Thinker who doesn't look at girls and think about whether or not he thinks they're hot, he now tries to figure out a year in which she could have been beautiful. "Girl, you're so hot, you remind me of the year before I was born." Swoon. Such a serious artist, this one. Also: did you guys know three people are credited songwriters on "You're Beautiful?" Also also: there's a song called "2005" which is pretty much about "You're Beautiful?" Oh, James Blunt. I am prepared to fall down this YouTube hole someday, but not today. I have to figure out who Playaz Circle is.

91) "Duffle Bag Boy," Playaz Circle ft./Lil Wayne

Oh, 2 Chainz! That's who this is! Well, here I am, forgetting 2 Chainz existed as an entity before he was 2 Chainz and omitting him from the Decade Dance Club! Anyway, this is a song that presages Lil Wayne's extremely good decision to rebrand as a rock god, and it's, y'know, it's fine. It's an acceptable 2007 rap song, much like "Good Drank" was an acceptable 2017 rap song about half a year ago. I accept that this was ever in my life, and I will move on once I feel this paragraph appears large enough that someone could conceivably mistake this for in-depth analysis. What a large paragraph I wrote with no actual content! We have done good work.

94) "Freaky Gurl," Gucci Mane

Gucci Mane is another of the 35-member Decade Dance Club, and with songs like this, there's no shortage of reasons we've kept him around for so long! The way he only uses one flow so you don't get confused and think you're listening to multiple rappers. Intricate rhymes like in the third verse, where he ends six consecutive lines with "girl." And the way each verse only has eight bars so he can go back to the chorus is so polite, it knows why we came to the song and doesn't wanna screw around or seem indulgent with all those fancy A A A A A A rhyme schemes! Gucci Mane: ten years of greatness. Truly, something whose endurance I understand.

95) "Famous in a Small Town," Miranda Lambert

Miranda Lambert is one of my favorite country artists. I also get squicked out when millionaires sing lines like "Who needs their faces in a magazine?" You are incredibly famous! You don't get to sing this song! You are famous in several big cities! Don't sing songs revelling in mediocrity when you, yourself, are special! Like, Gucci Mane is awful, but at least he doesn't fuck around about the fact he owns a Hummer. He's not like "Don't worry if you can't afford a Hummer, life's not all about glamour!" he's saying, "Hell yeah, I got a Hummer. I fuck inside this big ol' car. You should get a Hummer. They're rad." Gucci Mane is a truth-teller, and we should respect that.

99) "Can't Help but Wait," Trey Songz

so like did they record one person clapping their hands and use that for every single '07 r&b song, or did they record hand claps every time they banged one of these out. i hope they made new hand clap noises for every song, it would make each song feel a little more personal, but i think all the studios just like shared the same hand clapping noise. i wonder whose hands they were that made this noise. this song is boring. why did anyone listen to this. they made this song a thousand times in 1997. seems like a waste of the handclaps.

7 October 2017

2) "rockstar," by Post Malone ft./21 Savage

"i cannot contain lyrical abilities of going so hard." what. why. why. who is this... i'm listening to this and wishing i was listening to a nickelback song. this is how fucking dire this song is. like legitimately. this song bites from nickelback, then has the audacity, the muthafuckin AUDACITY to say, "i can tell you're a lazy-ass aritst." preacher, heal thyself.

66) "Too Much to Ask," by Niall Horan

Niall Horan is a nice boy making nice songs and this is going to be another week where 2017 gives me absolutely nothing to work with, isn't it. I mean, I guess it's fine that Niall Horan is a person making John Mayer songs in a world where garbage like Post Malone rules the day, but why does he have to be John Mayer? Can't we do better than John Mayer? Is this really all we have to look forward to on the weeks that divas are not accompanied by an army of brass instruments, is maybe we're cool with Lorde but mostly the hope someone will sound like John Mayer instead of Calvin Harris? 2017, what ya doin'.

67) "Curve," by Gucci Mane ft./The Weeknd

No, sir, Gucci Mane has not lost a step in the last ten years! He's actually improved: this song is two and a half minutes long. Like, we're minimizing time loss, here. I know nothing good will happen. On some level, Gucci Mane knows he's not creating great, lasting art. Just talk about your dick for two and a half minutes and let me go back about my day.

85) "DNA," by BTS

My favorite was the one with the silver hair with the haunted voice because I think The Goth One is unexplored territory for boy bands and I'm glad that BTS has decided to be pioneers. I'm into this! It's dumb, loud pop music, but after so many months of dumb quiet pop music, I think it's high time we just let some young men dance their hearts out and sing about whatever grand emotion they're singing about, probably love, I don't know, I'm actually not ready to let go of this being a Kendrick cover. This is fun! Pop music should sound like Coke tastes, not how Coke makes you feel. This is a sugary little treat, and I'm glad that I was able to listen to it.

92) "Homemade Dynamite," by Lorde ft./Khalid, Post Malone & SZA

I like the original. I liked Melodrama because it sounded like its own thing, and this just sounds like something I could've gotten from any of the EDM bros. Khalid and Post Malone add their usual nothing, and with SZA, it's the same thing, I'd much rather listen to her on her own thing than her on someone else's thing. I dunno. I think y'all should've listened to this song before they felt like they had to ruin it with Post Malone. Lorde's great! I wish I could figure out why the general public rejected her but embraced Khalid!

Who won the week?

1997 because it had the only song I liked.

Current standings: 1997: 14 2007: 12 2017: 13 Next week: Elton John remakes “Candle in the Wind” for some reason, we insist on summoning old Tay Tay to the phone, and oh goddamnit 2017′s gonna give us Macklemore come on 2017 get it together

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GRAPS AND CLAPS DOES PROGRESS

Hello everyone and welcome to the story of Show 66 of the #100showyear which took me on a monster 4 hour journey via Leeds to Progress Wrestling in jolly old Camden Town for their last show before the big one of the year at Ally Pally. So this was a case of putting the final pieces into the jigsaw before the hype train leaves the station, lets see what went down.

One thing to point out using Virgin East Coast trains is the big difference from its West Coast rivals is that they have put plug sockets next to each set of seats, which for anyone knows who dont have a table seat can be an arse to charge your phone which is soon dwindling down to 5%. Also posher seats with more padding for my ever expanding arse - all this travelling and sitting down does nothing for my svelt figure - Hey Fatty Bum Bum!!

Arriving in London, it was straight to the usual Premier Inn at Euston at a cost of £82 for the night, you know what you are getting with a Premier Inn - if its good enough for Lenny Henry its good enough for me. One downfall though was the lack of bedding on the sofa bed, which meant our Geoff was to take up his usual 3/4s of the bed and me clinging on for dear life staring into the abyss of the carpeted floor. As stated by a few wrestlers on twitter - Why do hotels never stick plug sockets on your bedside table to charge your mobile? Never got it myself why this is the case 😕

All checked in, it was straight to the ballroom as the first bout of the afternoon was at 330pm. Getting in i have noticed that Progress have stopped putting wristbands on the seats, not sure why but im sure someone will know? It felt a quieter crowd than usual due to the transport issues getting into the capital but soon filled up once the action began.

Pre show action began with Never Say Die vs The debuting Aussie Open in a really good opener and could have easily been on the main card. The Aussies who have become instant favourites since arriving to the UK took most of the action on NSD, impressing with flying cutters, piledrivers and other high octane offence - sadly no Awful Waffle from Mark Davies to finish the match as they were soon overhauled by NSD who picked the win up in around 10 minutes. Good stuff and would like to see Aussie Open again in Progress as they could be a great addition to a growing division.

First main match was Strangler Davis fresh from disposing of long time partner - Rob Lynch vs Connor Mills in an ok opener mainly to get over the noose wielding Strangler as a force to be reckoned with. Davis is very much submission based showing off shades of 1980s World of Sport arm whips and headscissors, Mills tried his best but succoumbed to the strangle for the tapout in about 7 minutes. 1-2 NOOSE!!!! Your Winner James Davis 👍 🖒.

Interview time with Flash Morgan Webster and Progress Odd Couple - Jimmy Havoc and Mark Haskins with added Townsend The Tree bought by Progress Management for Flash (Daylight Shrubbery if you ask me). Very funny segment this which set up a tag match at the end of the night with Travis Banks and Resident Scowler - Pete Dunne interjecting themselves. So it was made Haskins & Havoc vs Dunne & Banks in a Dysfunctional Tag Team Match HOLLA HOLLA MY FRIENDS!

Womens No.1 Contendership match up next with Jinny vs Dahlia Black for the right to face Toni Storm at Ally Pally. Very physical match here with Jinny taking the early advantage on her slightly taller opponent but as time wore on Dahlia gained the advantage and picked up the win on Jinny to face Toni Storm in a New Zealand vs Australia battle, but as we shall see later on Dahlia picked up an injury suffered at the hands of Pete Dunne in the main event. This writer likes both Storm and Black, but ive been a long time Toni Storm fan so would like to see her come out as champion at Ally Pally.

Next 2 matches were to decide the stipulations for the tag title match at Ally Pally between CCK and British Strong Style. 1st up was Kid Lykos vs Tyler Bate in a very good match more playing up to the junior heavyweight style of wrestling - a cry of “Small Lads Wrestling” was heard from the Progress which riled a visibly pissed off Tyler. I know Tyler is supposed to be apart of the main heel faction in Progress but i cant help but feel he looks very reluctant to be as dastardly as his bearded cohort Trent Seven and Pete Dunne, i smell Tyler going out on his own sometime here 😤.

Finish of the match came when Trent Seven came to interfere using the old distraction finish to put Lykos off his game enough for Tyler Bate to pick up the win. Stipulation time and after much humour about a possible Punjabi Prison Match and a trip for Jim, Jon and Glen to the nearest B & Q, it was settled on a normal tag match as BSS’s stipulation to piss off the Progress throng to a chorus of boos my mate Shauna would be proud of.

Chris Brookes vs Trent Seven then took place to decide the next stipulation in another good match but with Trent getting a taste of his own medicine with Lykos this time helping his mate Brookes to perform a Sick Fucking Tag Move to get the win and the choice of stipulation was you ask - A Ladder Match which should be a fantastic spectacle to see, but hopefully better ladders have been hired unlike the last time during SDS Vs The Riots.

Break done it was time for FSU vs The Grizzled Young Vets (sounds like a 6 part drama on ITV Sunday Night at 8pm, think Heartbeat but with a Scouser and a Wet Dog), that said Drake and Gibson are a welcome addition to the tag leagues and provide a great threat to the face teams out there (if CCK win at Ally Pally i can see a match up between the 2 teams) FSU are in a state of flux where they are not diminished if they lose as they are popular enough to overcome it, plus as well Eddie Dennis and Mark Andrews are accomplished singles wrestlers in their own right.

But with that said they couldnt put away the GYV’s who picked up the win with the elevated lung blower in a really good tag match and a great way to start the second half.

Next up was a clash of technical styles which was maybe my only downpoint as it featured seasoned British star Doug Williams vs my beating stick - Timothy Thatcher. Now i know i get plenty of stick for my non love of Thatcher from close wrestling friends of mine, but it is an opinion i will stick with - that is even though he is a good technical wrestler, he can suck the atmosphere out of an audience just like that - ive seen him 5 times now live and even though i have given him a chance u just dont think i will see the fascination with him.

The match was ok but i saw a far superior Doug Williams match the other week vs PCWs Philip Michael in Blackpool. Thatcher picked up the submission win over a valiant Doug and moves onto the 3 way at Ally Pally vs Matt Riddle and Walter which should be as hard hitting as they come as long as they turn it into a slugfest it will be magical.

Main event time with Haskins and Havoc vs Banks and Dunne but was mainly played up as a 2 on 1 with Dunne refusing to co-operate with Travis Banks and instead taking a spot on the announcing booth proceeding to boot Progress Flag Waver - Callum Leslie in the balls. Haskins and Havoc took advantage of the numbers game early on and worked well as a unit and not showing much dissent but it would soon end as a mix up between the two cost them dearly and Travis Banks hit the Slice of Heaven but before he could go for the pin Dunne ran to the ring and smashed Banks to leave Haskins prone for the 1-2-3.

Whilst Banks was down injured, BSS took advantage and beat down Banks and the incoming CCK, Dunne also proceeded to drag Dahlia Black onto the stage and hit her with a Sledgehammer to a chorus of boooooooooosssss to make the heel squad look strong going into Ally Pally in 2 weeks.

Beer prices - £4.90 for Camden Pale as ever it was passable.

Graps done it was time to hit the bright lights of Camden, but first it was Maccy D’s for a £1.99 big mac and fries whilst witnessing some 5 ft 5 roidhead planning to smack a nerd (your typical night in London i guess). But if this was a one on one match, imagine being done over like my mate Ben who faced Five Guys and got shafted for £19.90 all for a Burger, Fries and a Shake - Tory Britain strikes again 😮.

Pubs visited included Brewdog Camden for a £2.75 half pint of Orange Ale which was alright but i wouldnt pay for a full pint of it.

The Black Heart for a pint of £5.80 Fruity Cream Ale from Weird Beard, a discussion about what 6 matches i would stick on a promotion if i ran one in Rochdale Town Hall came out with a decent card in our dreams. As long as their is a hot buffet and a raffle im sure punters will be happy enough 😍.

The Worlds End produced shouty shouty RAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH music and a £5.50 pint of Lowenbrau pffft. It was then off to more cheaper climbs of The Ice Wharf Wetherspoons which was packed to the rafters with people getting down to the sounds of despacito. A pint of IPA was had here and was very nice at a cost of around £4, i recommend the Peanut Butter Stout Can our Geoff had which was lovely and sweet for £2.99.

Last call was to The Prince Arthur pub for a £5 pint of cask ale (daylight robbery especially for Cask ale) - Decentish pub but very pricey for my Northern liking. A cheeky whisky and coke in the hotel bar for £4.10 was had to send me off to bed for a what was a great nights kip 😴😴😴😴😴😴.

Overall a good setup show for Ally Pally, nothing outstanding but nothing bad. Would i say it was worth the 4 hour trip and the cost of it - probably not but still good times were had. I am just hoping now at Ally Pally that Travis Banks and CCK win their respective matches as it is the natural finish to the storyline with them but we just have to wait and see.

Next review will be Lucha Forever from tomorrow night in Manchester, till then its a goodbye from me but make sure you spread the word of #grapsandclaps amongst the Twitter Universe. As i guess you all seem to enjoy these tales of British Wrestling Travelling.

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Hyperallergic: Yoko Ono’s Music of the ’70s is Back

If the decade of the1960s was a period in which many bands helped expand rock’s expressive language, the following decade, at least in the United States, was dominated by singer-songwriters voicing personal takes on life and love, and on a range of social and political issues, too.

Reaching beyond familiar be-my-baby, my-baby-left-me clichés to plumb more complex emotional depths, singer-songwriters of the 1970s were legion: Laura Nyro, Janis Ian, Carole King, Carly Simon, Roberta Flack, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, John Denver, Jim Croce, Todd Rundgren, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen…

…and Yoko Ono.

Yoko Ono record-album covers: “Fly,” 1971; “Approximately Infinite Universe,” 1973; and “Feeling The Space,” 1973 (cover photos, left to right: John Lennon, © Yoko Ono; © Bob Gruen; collage photos © Bob Gruen)

Yes, Yoko, who in the early 1970s composed and recorded a series of albums whose technical innovations, narrative themes, and emotional temperatures were as wide-ranging as those of many of her chart-topping peers. Now, these stylistically diverse Ono albums, including Fly (1971), Approximately Infinite Universe (1973), and Feeling the Space (1973), have been jointly re-released by Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music. They constitute the second batch of newly re-mastered Ono albums from past decades that have been jointly issued by these two U.S.-based labels since late last year. Over the next few years, they will continue re-releasing all of the albums Ono made through the mid-1980s as vinyl LPs, compact discs, and digital downloads.

For their joint re-releases of Yoko Ono’s albums, the record companies Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music have created new vinyl-LP and CD labels inspired by Ono’s book, “Grapefruit,” 1964; they recall the fruit-decorated labels of Apple Records, the company that originally issued these recordings (photos courtesy of Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music)

Ono, who was already well known on New York’s avant-garde art and music scene, married John Lennon in Gibraltar in March 1969. In December of the following year, they issued their first solo albums, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band. Then, in early 1971, they began producing Fly at a studio they had set up at their home near London around the same time Lennon started recording the tracks that would become Imagine, his second solo album after the Beatles’ break-up in early 1970.

Lennon and Ono regarded JL/POB and YO/POB as companion musical statements reflecting the fruitful exchange of aesthetic, musical, and other ideas they had enjoyed since the beginning of their romantic relationship and creative collaboration, although it would take years for critics (of rock music and, later, visual art) to appreciate the varied and profound ways in which these two artists from dramatically different social, intellectual, and cultural backgrounds had influenced each other’s thinking.

Lennon’s pun-loving humor and penchant for soul-baring introspection (in such songs as “Help!,” “Nowhere Man,” “Mother,” and “God”) blended remarkably well with the distinctive strain of idealism and self-containment expressed in Ono conceptual, often instruction-based art. Meanwhile, the Japanese-born artist, who had studied music composition at Sarah Lawrence College in the 1950s before moving to Manhattan to pursue her career as an artist, was a quick study once Lennon introduced her to rock’n’roll and the workings of the modern recording studio.

Reflecting his state of mind following the Beatles’ break-up (during which period the Lennons took part in the Los Angeles-based psychologist Arthur Janov’s primal-scream therapy), Lennon’s first solo album featured spare arrangements, stripped-down lyrics, and raw emotion.

But already in the late 1960s, Ono had begun using screams, yelps, wails, grunts, and bursts of guttural sounds in performances set against the improvisational accompaniment of an ensemble such as Ornette Coleman’s free-jazz quartet. She brought those orgasmic screams, squeals, gasps, and whispers to the making of YO/POB, which opened with a searing barn burner, “Why,” and included the multilayered sound collages “Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City” and “Paper Shoes.”

On Fly, a double-record set, Ono brought experimental sounds and textures to both familiar song forms and more unconventional compositions. The album erupts with “Midsummer New York,” a straight-ahead rocker, then bumps up against “Mindtrain,” a long, funk-rock romp in which Ono’s sputtering, multi-tracked vocals ride the wave of a throbbing, driving beat.

Apple Records advertisement for Yoko Ono’s single, “Mindtrain,” from the album “Fly,” 1971 (photo in poster by Iain Macmillian; photo of poster courtesy of Yoko Ono)

The album features guitarists Lennon and Eric Clapton, bassist Klaus Voorman, and drummer Ringo Starr on “Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow),” in which Ono warbles and shrieks a portion of the song’s title against a slashing rhythm section. One of the singles from the album was the ethereal ballad “Mrs. Lennon,” with its unfolding of yearning minor chords rising gently from Lennon’s piano. Fly’s arrangements often feature mood-setting, layered percussion, including such instruments as claves and the tabla in songs like “O’Wind (Body is the Scar of Your Mind).”

Elsewhere, Ono uses tape delay and vocal overdubs to create fluttering, polyrhythmic passages in such sound-collage compositions as “Airmale” and “You.” Fly’s title piece served as the soundtrack of Ono’s 1970 film of the same name, in which the camera follows a fly crawling over the surface of a reposing, naked woman’s body; the artist vocalizes in imitation of the insect’s erratic buzz. The album’s sound is also distinguished by original musical instruments created by Joe Jones (1934-1993), Ono’s friend and colleague in the avant-garde Fluxus artists’ group of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Poster that came with the album “Fly,” 1971 (photos in poster © Raeanne Rubinstein; photo of poster courtesy of Yoko Ono)

If, on YO/POB and Fly, Ono most demonstrably fused rock and avant-garde music, on Approximately Infinite Universe (1973), another double-record set, she explored rock and Western pop-song genres — blues, ballads, Latin beat, folk, and more. As with the varied song stylings of such 1960s bands as the Kinks and, yes, the Beatles (notably on the 1968 White Album), or of a 1970s soloist like Todd Rundgren, the tracks featured on Ono’s AIU range from the sultry-brooding “Death of Samantha” to the funky “What Did I Do?,” the bluesy “Is Winter Here to Stay?,” and “I Have a Woman Inside My Soul,” a molasses drop of melancholic reverie wrapped in a coating of smoky soul.

Several of Ono’s songs on AIU tell stories — women’s stories, either from an introspective, first-person point of view, or from that of an attentive observer — including its explosive title number, in which she sings:

In this approximately infinite universe, I know a girl who’s in constant hell. No love or pill could keep her cool, ’Cause there’s a thousand holes in her heart.

“Sometimes a song will begin with the words,” Ono told me in an interview at her home in Manhattan late last year. More recently, during a chat on the occasion of the artist’s 84th birthday a few months ago, I asked her about the characters whose slice-of-life images she paints in her songs. She said, “Their emotions are very real. They’re all of us, really, like the girl who walks across the lake in ‘Walking on Thin Ice’ [1981]. She senses that it’s dangerous but she takes a chance. When I made those records, I paid close attention to how I sung certain words, because they’re key to how a story is told and to how a listener understands.” Ono then softly sang, “I know a girl who’s in constant hell,” tapping her knee on “girl” and “hell.”

Original logo by Yoko Ono for the “Approximately Infinite Universe” album, 1973 (photo courtesy of Yoko Ono)

Sean Ono Lennon, Ono’s son with John Lennon, has served in recent years as the music director of the Plastic Ono Band. In a telephone interview, he observed, “Yoko can pack a lot into a lyric. The phrase ‘approximately infinite universe,’ for example. What does that mean? The universe is infinitely large, so how can it be ‘approximately’ infinite? Here it helps set up a contrast between the vastness of someone’s potential experience in life and the more limited, painful situation of the woman who’s the subject of the song.”

Ono continued her exploration of women’s experiences on Feeling the Space. Unabashedly feminist in outlook, it mixed humor, humanism, history and politics in another trove of stylistically varied songs.

On FTS, Ono examines a young woman contemplating her awareness of life and the flow of time in the wistful “Growing Pain.” “Run, Run, Run” offers a soulful recollection by a nerdy young woman who was so drowsily absorbed in “feeling the air” and “feeling the space” around her that she “tumbled on roots, stumbled on stones, lost my marbles,” and stepped on her glasses.

FTS also features “Woman Power,” Ono’s stirring feminist anthem, and “Men, Men, Men,” a jazzy-bluesy number that teases, “I want you clever but not too clever” and “I like you to shut up but know when to say yes.” One of the album’s most unusual numbers surely must be “Woman of Salem,” in which Ono recalls the fate of a woman sentenced to death in the colonial-Massachusetts witch trials of the late 1600s.

Billboard for the “Approximately Infinite Universe” album at the Whisky a Go Go night club, Los Angeles, 1973 (photo courtesy of Yoko Ono)

“These albums of the 1970s were very well recorded,” Sean Ono Lennon told me. He and several collaborators worked together to produce and engineer the re-releases. “In making new digital masters from the original analog tapes,” he explained, “we heard how good their sound quality was. Everybody was working at their peak in those days — my mom as she explored new song styles, the best session musicians of the time, and the engineers who were working with what was then pre-digital, state-of-the-art recording equipment.”

Today, reminders of the 1970s’ musical legacy abound. Carole King’s life story has become a hit Broadway musical. Singers keep revisiting the great singer-songwriters’ tunes, as the veteran Broadway performer Jessica Molaskey does in her soon-to-be-released album, Portraits of Joni (Ghostlight Records), which dives deeply into Joni Mitchell’s oeuvre.

Since the 1980s, various musicians have dipped into Ono’s big songbook, too. Among them: the B-52s, whose new wave sound owed a lot to the spirit of Ono’s 1970s avant-rock; Boy George, who covered “Death of Samantha” on his 2013 album, This Is What I Do; and numerous alternative-rock bands. Of special interest: Galaxie 500’s version of “Listen, the Snow Is Falling” (1990) and Of Montreal’s take on “I Felt Like Smashing My Face Through A Clear Glass Window” (1999).

In a recent interview, Justin Vivian Bond, the gender-fluid singer known for one of the cabaret stage’s most unusual and compelling repertoires, recalled being introduced to Ono’s music through her 1981 album Season of Glass. Bond said, “As a student of performance, studying theater and voice, I was interested in discovering artists who combined raw emotion with their vocal technique and I have always felt that Yoko’s music offers a perfect combination of emotion, intellect, and artistry.”

Bond has performed such Ono songs as “What a Bastard the World Is,” “Walking on Thin Ice,” and “Every Man, Every Woman” (a reworking of “Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him,” from John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1980 Double Fantasy album). Of “What a Bastard…,” from Approximately Infinite Universe, with its conflicted emotions and sexual politics, Bond said, “As a transgender feminist, I have always felt that song to be tremendously compelling.”

I asked Bond what else might help explain the durability of Ono’s sound. The singer stated, “Of course, there is no one, in my opinion, whose music is better to dance to.”

Fly (1971), Approximately Infinite Universe (1973), and Feeling the Space (1973) are available from Amazon and other online retailers.

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Stink of dishonesty spreads a long way and extensive over sports landscape

There is not anything unexpected approximately the ridiculous or cheating. Each is ways more predictable than something better.

Perhaps it’s us. Perhaps we don’t deserve higher. Why else would Tv’s voices forget about conspicuous truths to feed us thick slices of bad baloney? Or is Television to be heard, no longer watched?

For years we watched as Robinson Cano didn’t trouble to run to first base. We watched him end a base short or out in the beginning or 2d when he must’ve been safe. However what couldn’t be overlooked turned into broadly disregarded, as though we didn’t recognize or see better.

But when Cano would hit a -run single, Sure’ announcers gushed that he’s the real deal. The Yankees and their enthusiasts were blessed to have him!

Such selective observations now belong to SNY’s Mets group, which with the aid of now must trust we can’t see that Yoenis Cespedes, past swinging for domestic runs, is a $one hundred ten million celeb who performs as though he isn’t allowed to get his college clothes dirty.

Remaining season, Mets SNY announcers — except on one, late-season occasion — ignored, excused or presented susceptible defenses for why Cespedes doesn’t run to first — a profession habit that made him expendable to a few groups long before Ultimate year’s harm.

This season, beginning together with his first at-bat, baloney changed into served. Gary Cohen said Cespedes appears “more potent and faster.” quicker? Has Cohen seen him run? Do inform.

In that sport, Cespedes twice, with outs — once with the rating 0-0 — hit excessive flies to deep left-middle. Each has been stuck, However, did Cespedes bother to run? Cohen, Ron Darling, and Keith Hernandez didn’t say. SNY only confirmed Cespedes handing his batting equipment to first base teach Tom Goodwin. The conditioned suspicion turned into Cespedes did his preferred jog-and-watch.

Darling brought that Cespedes “knows when to show it on,” a well-mannered manner to mention he wants to peer if he has to bother.

Cespedes, we’re reminded, has a notable arm. He does, But that he regularly is in no hurry to reach balls hit in the hole, minimizes his possibilities to position it to first-rate use.

Ultimate yr, while at the disabled listing with an awful leg — SNY’s trio always disregarded the reality it turned into injured sliding into second when had he started jogging sooner, he might have reached 2nd, status — Cespedes played a round of golf, which brought about a serving of a jumbo baloney sandwich.

Trendy manager Sandy Alderson admitted it made for “an awful optic” — every other way of announcing it looked bad — However delivered he had no hassle with it. It seemed horrific as it changed into horrific, and no intelligent fan would agree with Alderson didn’t thoughts Cespedes playing golfing whilst he changed into too disabled to swing a bat … then jog.

Thursday, with Cohen and Darling, Hernandez again hit us with a Cespedes lard-gusher: “I’m telling you, I’m so thrilled that he re-signed — and that I’m positive the 2 of you will concur — we’ll get a risk to look at him play for years. He’s only a delight to watch.” Yeah, he’s Joe DiMaggio!

Through the first three games of the neighborhood teams’ season — the Yankees’ first two games on the Rays, and the Mets’ opener — 5 replay challenges were made on bang-bang plays, four at the beginning, one at home.

In all cases, the Sure and SNY commentators plus A.J. Pierzynski, who worked Wednesday’s Yankee’s recreation on FOX sports activities 1, considered the more than one freeze-frame replays they saw, then reached an end as to whether or not the call would stand.

And in each case, they were wrong. no longer due to the fact they have been incorrect — who is aware of if they had been? — However due to the fact replay challenges of such plays, designed to “get it right” are regularly not anything more or higher than soliciting 2d-guess evaluations.

That using replay on such near performs — a common However definitely unintentional use — creates not on time choices of calls that for one hundred years had been understood to be plenty exact sufficient, and in reality nothing to create a populist cry for “instant” replay critiques.

Keeping The yank Recreation’s Aggressive Spirit Alive: Element II Of A III Element Series

sports activities AND ITS Aggressive SPIRIT

“The energy of the human will to compete and the force to excel beyond the frame’s everyday competencies is maximum fantastically verified inside the arena of Game.” —Aimee Mullins

This is part two of a three-Part Series. In Component one; we explored us’s Competitive nature and its love of sports, now we’re going to take a look at of we’s preferred sports activities, boxing, and baseball. Component two examines boxing and its illustrious history, Element three will study baseball.

Boxing

Boxing becomes now not always referred to as through that name. Throughout the Greek and Roman instances, it was known as “Pugilism.” It truly is why nowadays you may pay attention many boxing analysts check with fighters as pugilists. A pugilist turned into sincerely a person who could use his fists to combat. Those pugilists had the splendid strength and dynamic power that they used to either triumph over or be conquered. Usually, they would wrap strips of leather-based

round their fists and hands, or even have gloves with spikes to deliver deadly blows to their warring parties. For the reason that historic pugilists did not have to get entry to shielding headgear because the modern boxers of nowadays wear, the head, eyes, and ears were exposed to their opponent’s killing blows. Among the twelfth and seventeenth centuries, there had been documented fist-combating sports activities all through the cities and provinces of Italy. In the course of the early 18th century the game of “Pugilism” have become recognized in England as bare-knuckle boxing, from time to time referred to as “prizefighting.” In bare-knuckle boxing, the professional pugilist did now not put on gloves. Focusing his interest on his green opponent’s eyes, he could percent all of his weight at the back of an effective punch to undermine his vision. any other susceptible area, which he centered, become the mouth because there wasn’t

Focusing his interest on his green opponent’s eyes, he could percent all of his weight at the back of an effective punch to undermine his vision. any other susceptible area, which he centered, become the mouth because there wasn’t something to maintain the lips or tongue from being broken. So even though Both opponents had been experienced pugilists, their naked knuckles might sooner or later begin to harm increasingly more as the in shape progressed. This minimized the force at the back of their punches, which in the long run determined the winner. A while with a view to inflicting harm pugilists could use “grimy tricks” inclusive of grabbing the hair, biting, putting or grabbing below the waist or eye gouging. They certainly were taken into consideration These processes as part of the sport.

the first bare-knuckle in shape in England passed off on January 6, 1681. James Figg became the primary naked knuckle boxing champion of tremendous Britain until he retired in 1730 and become known to have never lost a combat. Pugilism, higher referred to as boxing, had its origins in England, and English and Irish colonists brought it to the new Global.

But, “Pugilism” finally won popularity and recognize with the inclusion of the Marquis of Queensbury policies. These policies first published in 1867 outdated the Revised London Prize Ring rules of 1853. It was hooked up under the sponsorship of John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry and turned into named after him. It turned into a hard and fast of regulations which have become the basis of current boxing, calling for the use of gloves, the ten-2nd rely for a knockout, the slicing of suits into rounds, and if a man need to be placing on the ropes in a helpless position along with his ft off the ground, he changed into to be taken into consideration down.

There’s no sporting event in The USA which creates so much attention as a “prize combat.” At some point of the antebellum period, boxing matches became popular a number of the slaves of the South. One such slave by the call of Tom Molineaux become able to gain his freedom for $500 which he had earned in a boxing fit.

The Irish passion for boxing and athletics had their best embodiment in John L. Sullivan, an American prizefighter who changed into the Last naked-knuckles heavyweight champion. He fought below the London Prize Ring regulations, protecting his identity limitless times. In 1882, Sullivan challenged the national champion, Paddy Ryan, in Mississippi. He knocked him out in 9 rounds, accordingly, incomes the identity of global Heavyweight Champion. This powerful pugilist might unleash his fury towards one challenger after any other at some point of Europe and The united states. Then in 1889, he competed against Jake Kilrain who lasted seventy-5 rounds, making it the cease of his naked knuckles pugilist fights. In 1892, he competed against Jim Corbett, this time the use of gloves underneath the Queensberry guidelines for boxing, and became knocked out by him after 21 rounds. The “terrific John L.”, also called the “Boston Sturdy Boy” retired from the hoop in 1896. It was in New Orleans that Sullivan met his defeat on the palms of Jim Corbett, a scientific prize fighter who educated at the fitness center of San Francisco’s Olympic Membership.

the first “sanctioning body” to rule over the game became the countrywide Boxing Association (NBA) in 1927. Those sanctioning our bodies rated opponents and organized bouts Among Champions and the maximum praiseworthy challengers, fascinated by a study commission fee genuinely. Presently there are three “identified” sanctioning our bodies that rule the sector of boxing inclusive of; the WBC, IBF, and the WBA. These are the simplest bodies whose titlists are mentioned worldwide as “champions.”

The maximum profitable generation of boxing commenced in the 1920’s whilst promoters like Tex Rickard made the game first rate for spectators of all lessons and Both sexes. Tex drove the well-known lightweight championship bout Between Joe Gans and Oscar “Struggling with” Nelson in 1906. In January of 1909, he also promoted a featherweight fight in Goldfield Among Abe Attell and Freddie Weeks. Then there was the historical “fight of the Century” Between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in Reno Nevada on July four, 1910, the victory of a Negro Worlds Champion.

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