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superforu · 4 years

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Biografi NOFX

Dibentuk di Berkeley, California, pada tahun 1983 dan pindah ke Los Angeles tidak lama setelah itu, NOFX menjauhi name besar dan paparan komersial selama karier mereka, merekam sejumlah collection panjang penuh yang mengesankan ditambah bermacam-macam EP dan singel. Band ini dimulai sebagai trio yang terdiri dari vokalis/bassis Fat (Mike Burkett), gitaris Eric Melvin, dan drummer Erik Sandin (assumed name Erik Ghint/Erik Shun). Sandin berhenti pada tahun 1985, dan tempatnya diambil oleh Scott Sellers; pada tahun yang sama, NOFX juga merekam dua 7 "EP untuk name Mystic, No FX dan Jadi Bagaimana Jika Kita Ada di Mystic? Penjual berhenti sesaat setelah itu dan digantikan oleh Scott Aldahl hanya dua minggu, di mana Sandin bergabung kembali dengan band ; vokalis Dave Allen juga bergabung pada tahun 1986, tetapi masa jabatannya secara tragis terpotong oleh kecelakaan mobil yang lethal. Dave Casillas bergabung sebagai gitaris kedua di akhir tahun, dimana jadwal tur NOFX telah menjadi jauh dan ketat. PMRC Can Suck on This dirilis pada mark Fat Wreck Chords milik Fat Mike pada tahun 1987. Casillas meninggalkan grup pada tahun 1989 dan digantikan oleh Steve Kidwiller untuk collection full-length pertama NOFX, S&M Airlines, yang dirilis pada mark punk legendaris Epitaph; band tetap ada sejak itu, meskipun merilis beberapa collection - seperti 1995 I Heard They Suck Live - dan EPs pada Fat Wreck Chords, yang secara bertahap tumbuh menjadi stabil utama seniman kebangkitan punk.

Album yang Meledak di Tahun 90

Setelah muncul pada 1990-a Ribbed dan 1991's Liberal Animation (yang sebenarnya direkam pada tahun 1988), Kidwiller meninggalkan band pada tahun 1991, dan Aaron Abeyta menjadi gitaris permanen kedua (dan juga trompet), mengadopsi julukan El Hefe. Terseret ke dalam sorotan utama oleh kesuksesan pertengahan tahun 90-a dari labelmates Bad Religion and the Offspring, NOFX dikompensasi dengan collection seperti White Trash tahun 1992, Two Heebs and Bean yang bahkan lebih dekat dengan ekstrem hostile to komersial, dicontohkan oleh White Trash yang menyertai. single, "If it's not too much trouble Play This Song on the Radio," yang memikat software engineer radio yang tidak waspada dengan melodi yang kencang, tetapi diakhiri dengan aliran customized organization individualized organization kotor. Lineup El Hefe-berlabuh terus berkembang dengan Punk 1994 di Drublic; sering dianggap sebagai band terbaik, collection ini akhirnya bersertifikat emas. Rilis pada Fat Wreck Chords berlanjut sepanjang 90-a, seperti halnya collection Epitaph full-length, seperti grungier tahun 1996, Heavy Petting Zoo yang kurang uptempo, punkier tahun 1997 So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes, dan 2000's Pump Up the Valuum and Bottles to tanah; collection terakhir mengikuti EP Fat Wreck Chords eksperimental berjudul The Decline, yang seluruhnya terdiri dari trek judul 18 menit. Selanjutnya adalah Surfer EP, yang memamerkan potongan ceroboh pilih pada musim semi 2001, dengan 500 salinan pertama pada vinil berwarna.

Pada tahun 2002, NOFX menyaring kaset dan sesi rekaman yang tak terhitung jumlahnya, akhirnya mengumpulkan 47 lagu untuk 45 atau 46 Lagu yang Tidak Cukup Baik untuk Diputar pada Rekor Kami Lainnya. "Pimps and Hookers," yang merupakan satu-satunya lagu baru di collection itu, direkam dalam satu hari. Belakangan tahun itu, BYO Records membuat band ini merilis collection NOFX/Rancid BYO Split Series, Vol. 3. Collection khusus ini memiliki Rancid yang mencakup enam trek NOFX sementara NOFX membalasnya dengan mengganti enam lagu Rancid. Empat lagu EP Regaining Unc bitterness keluar pada bulan Maret 2003 dan berperan sebagai secret untuk The War on Errorism May, dirilis di Fat Wreck dan dipenuhi dengan kritik politik. Mengingat sifat band yang blak-blakan dan kiri, tidak mengherankan ketika mereka meluncurkan Punk Voter, sebuah gerakan band-band punk yang berusaha secara politis memberdayakan kaum muda yang kehilangan hak pilih dan memilih George W. Hedge keluar dari kantor. Organisasi itu masih tetap beraksi, bahkan setelah terpilihnya kembali Bush tahun 2004.

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Kembali ke depan musik, NOFX berikutnya merilis EP Never Trust a Hippy pada bulan Maret 2006, Wolf-in-Wolves 'Dress satu bulan kemudian, dan collection live They've Actually Gotten Worse Live! tahun berikutnya. Collection studio ke-11 band ini, Coaster, tiba pada tahun 2009, dipasangkan dengan film dokumenter tur internasional 2008 band ini dalam bentuk seri jaringan Backstage Passport seri Fuse. Pada 2012, NOFX mempersembahkan satu set lagu yang lebih sadar diri di collection studio ke-12 mereka, berjudul Sendiri. Sejumlah single diikuti, dan dikumpulkan pada Stoke Extinguisher 2013, yang menampilkan lagu baru, serta B-side dari rilis 7 "tahun sebelumnya. Fat Mike menghabiskan sebagian besar tahun 2014 menulis lagu untuk musikal underground rock berjudul Home Street Home. Bersama dengan sisa-sisa NOFX, ia berkolaborasi dengan anggota Alkaline Trio, Dance Hall Crashers, The Living End, dan bahkan vokalis pemenang penghargaan Tony Lena Hall di soundtrack, yang tiba pada awal 2015 ketika sentuhan akhir diberikan pada produksi teater.

NOFX merilis autobiografi kutil-dan-semua The Hepatitis Bathtub dan Other Stories pada 2016, sementara juga mengumumkan perilisan collection studio ke-13 mereka, First Ditch Effort. Dirilis pada bulan Oktober, collection ini didahului oleh single bermata lebih keras "Six Years on Dope," yang mendokumentasikan masalah Fat Mike dengan penyalahgunaan zat dan pembersihan berikutnya. Pada tahun 2018, setelah mencari kontroversi untuk komentar yang dibuat tentang penembakan massal Las Vegas 2017, NOFX ditarik dari opening celebration dan membatalkan tur A.S. mereka. Collection live ketiga mereka, Ribbed: Live in a Dive, tiba Agustus itu.

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justreddz · 5 years

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I was tagged by @sailorshadzter :)

Rules: Answer 17 questions and tag 17 people who you want to know better.

Nickname: Just Red? Der? I hear people call me Blue but I fucking hate it

Zodiac Sign: Leo. And I was born in the year of the Tiger. So I’m a big cat person

Height: Oh, you know, just 6′3″

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor

Last thing I googled: Stannis Baratheon badass quotes

Song stuck in my head: In Too Deep by Sum 41 goddammit

Following: 229

Amount of followers: 131

Amount of sleep: Ahhhhhhhh fuck. 4 hours? 6 at most?

Lucky numbers: 17, 23

Dream Job: NASA Astronaut

Wearing: N7 Jacket, long sleeve shirt, pajamas, underwear duh

Favorite songs: Always on repeat. LISTEN, I’VE GOT A WHOLE PLAYLIST OF SONGS THAT I FUCKING LOVE AND I WILL NOT PRESS THE SKIP BUTTON ON A SINGLE ONE OF THEM BECAUSE I’VE GOT TASTE

Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind

54-46 That’s My Number/Ball and Chain - Sublime

Under Stars - Aurora

With a Smile - Eraserheads

If I Get High - Nothing But Thieves

Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked - Cage The Elephant

Better Together - Jack Johnson

Little Bit of Light - Strange Weather

Hallelujah - Bamboo

Reflections - Mad Caddies

Through the Valley - Shawn James & The Shapeshifters

Say It, Just Say It - The Mowgli’s

Dramophone - Caravan Palace

The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie - Colter Wall

Sunday Morning - Maroon 5

Kaleidoscope World - Francis M.

Game of Love - Michelle Branch

Sabor a Mi - El Chicano

Someday - Sugar Ray

Dancing in the Moonlight - Toploader

Instruments: That I play? Guitar, bass, and drums. That I like to hear? Mostly instruments that are most prominent in Ska and Bossa Nova songs like the trombone, saxophone, and trumpet. HIT IT!

Random Facts:

I died three separate times

I come from a city in the Philippines when translated, just literally means The City of Golden Friendship

Lowkey ship Jon and Margaery...

I really really love story-driven RPG games such as the Mass Effect Series, Dragon Age Series, Witcher Trilogy, SWTOR, KOTOR

In a project where I stitch the flag patches of the countries I’ve been to on the back of my denim jacket

Aesthetics: The sound of the leaves of a mango tree in a breeze during a sunny day, the smell of a book, the clacks and clinks of a keyboard, the feel of sunlight hitting your back in the morning

I tag @trinuviel @a-time-for-wolvess @savagearchitect @minitafan @riahchan @standbehindhousestark

#JustReddz #sailorshadzter #About me #Tag Game #Yep this is me #listen to my playlist

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imjustthemechanic · 6 years

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Natalie Jones and the Golden Ship

Part 1/? - A Meeting at the Palace Part 2/? - Curry Talk Part 3/? - Princess Sitamun Part 4/? - Not At Rest Part 5/? - Dead Men Tell no Tales Part 6/? - Sitamun Rises Again Part 7/? - The Curse of Madame Desrosiers Part 8/? - Sabotage at Guedelon Part 9/? - A Miracle Part 10/? - Desrosiers’ Elixir Part 11/? - Athens in October Part 12/? - The Man in Black Part 13/? - Mr. Neustadt Part 14/? - The Other Side of the Story Part 15/? - A Favour Part 16/? - A Knock on the Window Part 17/? - Sir Stephen and Buckeye Part 18/? - Books of Alchemy Part 19/? - The Answers Part 20/? - A Gift Left Behind Part 21/? - Santorini Part 22/? - What the Doves Found Part 23/? - A Thief in the Night Part 24/? - Healing Part 25/? - Newton’s Code

Newton’s journals are hard to read, but contain some intriguing clues.

Natasha passed her book to Sir Stephen. “Let me see yours,” she said.

They traded, and his was both different and similar – it seemed to contain what might have been mathematical equations or chemical formulae set aside on their own lines, but written in a combination of letters, numbers, and zodiacal symbols that meant very little.

“Okay,” said Nat. “The good news is, it’s not the Voynich manuscript.” That was a start.

“That’s… something, I guess,” said Sam, not sounding particularly impressed. “Why would he write it in code?”

“Because alchemists were witches and heretics and he didn’t want to be burned at the stake,” said Nat. “Now, the most likely solution is that it’s a simple letter substitution code. In English the easiest way to crack one of those is to assume that the most frequent letter is E and then work from there. It’s possible he just moved the whole alphabet some number of letters, so we’ll start by…”

“It’s not English,” said Jim, looking over Sir Stephen’s shoulder. “It’s Greek.”

Nat looked up sharply, and found that Jim himself looked as surprised by this pronouncement as she was. “How do you know?”

“I… just know,” he said, his mouth full. Nat did wonder if the food did him any good, or if he only ate because his cells were mimicking hunger. If the cells could use food to replenish themselves, wouldn’t they do so instead of quickly dying off?

Jim pointed at something on the page Sir Stephen was looking at. “Look how many of the words end in E-L,” he said. “Like there. You think that means anything?”

Nat took the book back. The place where Jim’s finger had come to rest said tiseltidikwel… if Nat assumed the EL’s were the ends of the words… she turned over a napkin and began to write on it. “Assume it’s Greek. A lot of Greek nouns end in O-S. If you swap O with E and A with I…” She played with the consonants for a moment, and then had a revelation. It was a simple letter substitution cipher, but it was based on phonology! “Exchange nonvoiced stops with nonvoiced,” she said, “voiced with voiced, and glides with glides… and you get kalos k’agathos, beautiful and good!” That was a fairly common phrase in classical Greek, which had often conflated goodness with beauty – as, for that matter, had alchemy.

She smiled at Jim. “How did you know?” she repeated.

He looked uncomfortable now. “I don’t know. It’s like when I knew where he’d been living, or knew about Star Trek. It’s just kind of there, in the background of my brain.”

It seemed that Neustadt had definitely imparted more knowledge to his creations than he thought – and it seemed to be almost unconscious knowledge, imparted unconsciously. Interesting. “All right,” said Nat. “So we write out the cipher, and then we’ll just have to translate it. If somebody else wants to work out the letters, I can read the Greek.”

The notebooks were slim, but since all the work had to be done by hand – deciphering the looping hand, then matching each of the letters with its cipher, and then translating – it was a very slow process. The group finished their breakfast, paid, and then moved on from café to café, ordering water and weak wines, or stopping in souvenir places for notebooks and pens to use. Slowly, they began to work out the first few pages.

The book Sir Stephen had first taken remained utterly indecipherable – the symbols used in the formulae were not in the same cipher as the other two. The one Nat had started with was full of cryptic statements, not unlike the one from the published writings about the balance of libra and the venom of scorpio. The smoke of the burning Tower blots out the Sun, hiding it from the Fool’s sight, said one line. Another read only by gold can gold be made, but purity is essential, said another – compared to the rest, that was downright lucid. Nat assumed it meant that the reactor needed a sample of gold to start with, like the elixir needed a sample of DNA, and that any contamination would affect the final result.

Yet a third noted that The Holy Dove is the principle, in Brother Aleksio’s keeping. Nat frowned, tapping her pen on top of her notebook.

“The Holy Dove,” she said. “That’s the monastery in Montenegro he told us about. I’m gonna guess the item Brother Aleksio was holding onto for him was a sample of the purest gold Newton knew about, to use as a template for the Philosopher’s Stone.” She looked up at Sharon. “Did Fury get back to you about that address in Australia?”

“Yeah,” said Sharon. “It’s a sheep ranch the size of Cornwall and one of the most sparsely-populated places on Earth outside of Antarctica.”

“That would make it a perfect place to build something like the Philosopher’s Stone,” Nat observed. “Someplace where if it goes wrong, not many people are around to get hurt.” Much like Rasputin working in Siberia. Certainly better than Daedalus starting the thing up in the middle of Atlantis. “Where’s that card he gave us? We were supposed to ask for Brother Luka?”

Sharon pulled it out and looked at it. “Yeah, Brother Luka.”

“What are you thinking?” asked Allen, as Nat tilted her head and stared at the bottomless Adriatic sky.

“I’m thinking…” she said, “that we should probably go to Kotor after all. At the very least, we can poke the bear trap and see if it closes. Brother Luka might be able to tell us what Newton wants with the Philosopher’s stone.”

“What would he seek, if not to make gold?” asked Sir Stephen.

“I don’t know,” said Nat. “Which is what worries me.” If you didn’t know what something was, it could be anything. “It would be good to know that all he wants is gold, because that means none of the worse possibilities are true.”

“What kind of possibilities?” Sharon asked warily.

“I don’t know,” Nat repeated. “That’s why they’re worse.”

Fury wasn’t able to get them a flight to Montenegro – there was no airline that flew from Santorini to Tivat. There were ferries, but those went to Athens or Crete. After a couple of hours of research, Sharon found a cargo boat that was willing to let them ride along to Budva, as long as they stayed out of the way of the crew and didn’t complain too much. To get to Fira’s harbor, they took a rather hair-raising ride down the incredibly steep – and sometimes very close to the cliffside – Santorini cable cars to get there.

“Look, they’ve got donkeys,” said Clint, pointing to a winding path below them. A train of the animals were taking people and goods down to the docks.

“That must be how they got stuff up and down before the cable cars,” Sharon observed.

“So why are we risking our necks on this thing when we could be riding donkeys?” asked Clint. The car bumped over one of the cable towers.

“I thought you said horses were bastards,” said Sam.

“I didn’t say that, Robin Hood said that,” Clint told him. “And horses are bastards, but donkeys are nice little beasts. We’ve got one on the farm. He’s a pet. His name is Barney, after my brother.”

“I bet your brother was flattered,” Sharon said with a smile.

Jim was leaning on the window, staring down at the scrubby cliffs. Nat touched his shoulder again. “How do you feel?” she asked. He’d been pretty quiet since the moment he’d given him the key to Newton’s cipher, as if lost in thought.

“Who’s the guy who had the sword dangling over his head?” asked Jim.

“Damocles,” Nat replied. She remembered it less from the myth and more from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

“Like that,” he said.

Over breakfast in the ship’s little mess hall the next morning, Jim contemplated his three flasks. They’d marked the open one with an elastic band so he would know it wasn’t quite full. The other two still had complete doses in them.

“It’s been five days,” he said. “That means I ought to take the first one, right?”

“That’s what she said,” Allen agreed.

“I wonder what would happen if I waited a day,” Jim said. “Would that help me last longer, or would I just start falling apart too fast for it to help me? And what happens with the one we used some of on Dr. Wilson’s bird?” He didn’t sound as if he begrudged this anymore, just resigned to his uncertain future. If they ever saw Desrosiers again, Nat thought, she would have an even harder time getting away.

Jim unscrewed the flask lid and sniffed the contents, as he might a bottle of brandy. There didn’t seem to be any smell to them, so he took a swig and promptly gagged.

“Oh, god, that’s foul!” he wheezed, as Allen whacked him on the back. “It’s like having a warm slug crawling down your throat!”

The unasked question hung in the air. Jim thought about it for a few moments, then took a deep breath and downed the rest of the flask, as fast as he could, without stopping to breathe. There were tears in the corners of his eyes by the time he was done, more from effort than from emotion.

“What’s it taste like?” asked Sam, curious.

“Like mud mixed with tobacco juice.” Jim wiped at his eyes, then grabbed the nearest cup – it happened to be Allen’s coffee – and downed that, too, followed by a bottle of sparkling water Nat handed to him. “I can still taste it,” he whimpered.

“Do you feel any better?” asked Nat.

“I can’t tell yet,” he said.

She didn’t bother to ask him if it were worth it. People went through much worse things in the name of staying alive: dialysis and surgery, amputations and chemotherapy. Compared to such medical procedures, swallowing slimy stuff that tasted bad was probably nothing at all.

“If it is any comfort,” said Sir Stephen, “Buckeye and myself dared each other to eat worse things than slugs.”

Jim eyed him with distaste. “Like what?” he asked, then held up a hand. “No, don’t. Don’t answer. The middle ages were disgusting and I don’t want to hear about it.”

“It was not so very bad,” Sir Stephen protested.

“Yes, it was,” said Nat. “People kept pigs in their dining rooms and threw the contents of their chamber pots into the street. Then there’s black death, smallpox, tuberculosis…”

“If Newton has made many of you,” Sir Stephen said, “then versions of yourself will have seen all these things change over the past several centuries. I envy you that.” He’d been thrown into the modern world with no preparation whatsoever.

“Yeah, I’m fine with not having seen it,” said Jim.

“Buckeye’s father always said that what did not kill a man made him stronger,” Sir Stephen told him.

“I don’t have a father,” Jim replied, giving a very clear signal that he wanted to end the conversation. However interested he might have been in the man earlier, he had clearly decided that he was not Sir James Buckeye, and didn’t want to try to be.

#fanfic #steve rogers #natasha romanov #bucky barnes #clint barton #sharon carter #sam wilson

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riotmusicview · 4 years

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Biografi NOFX

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Sandin berhenti pada tahun 1985, dan tempatnya diambil oleh Scott Sellers; pada tahun yang sama, NOFX juga merekam dua 7 "EP untuk name Mystic, No FX dan Jadi Bagaimana Jika Kita Ada di Mystic? Penjual berhenti sesaat setelah itu dan digantikan oleh Scott Aldahl hanya dua minggu, di mana Sandin bergabung kembali dengan band ; vokalis Dave Allen juga bergabung pada tahun 1986, tetapi masa jabatannya secara tragis terpotong oleh kecelakaan mobil yang lethal. Dave Casillas bergabung sebagai gitaris kedua di akhir tahun, dimana jadwal tur NOFX telah menjadi jauh dan ketat. PMRC Can Suck on This dirilis pada mark Fat Wreck Chords milik Fat Mike pada tahun 1987. Casillas meninggalkan grup pada tahun 1989 dan digantikan oleh Steve Kidwiller untuk collection full-length pertama NOFX, S&M Airlines, yang dirilis pada mark punk legendaris Epitaph; band tetap ada sejak itu, meskipun merilis beberapa collection - seperti 1995 I Heard They Suck Live - dan EPs pada Fat Wreck Chords, yang secara bertahap tumbuh menjadi stabil utama seniman kebangkitan punk.

Album yang Meledak di Tahun 90

Single, "If it's not too much trouble Play This Song on the Radio," yang memikat software engineer radio yang tidak waspada dengan melodi yang kencang, tetapi diakhiri dengan aliran customized organization individualized organization kotor. Lineup El Hefe-berlabuh terus berkembang dengan Punk 1994 di Drublic; sering dianggap sebagai band terbaik, collection ini akhirnya bersertifikat emas. Rilis pada Fat Wreck Chords berlanjut sepanjang 90-a, seperti halnya collection Epitaph full-length, seperti grungier tahun 1996, Heavy Petting Zoo yang kurang uptempo, punkier tahun 1997 So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes, dan 2000's Pump Up the Valuum and Bottles to tanah; collection terakhir mengikuti EP Fat Wreck Chords eksperimental berjudul The Decline, yang seluruhnya terdiri dari trek judul 18 menit. Selanjutnya adalah Surfer EP, yang memamerkan potongan ceroboh pilih pada musim semi 2001, dengan 500 salinan pertama pada vinil berwarna.

Pada tahun 2002, NOFX menambah wawasan tentang musik mereka danmenyaring kaset dan sesi rekaman yang tak terhitung jumlahnya, akhirnya mengumpulkan 47 lagu untuk 45 atau 46 Lagu yang Tidak Cukup Baik untuk Diputar pada Rekor Kami Lainnya. "Pimps and Hookers," yang merupakan satu-satunya lagu baru di collection itu, direkam dalam satu hari. Belakangan tahun itu, BYO Records membuat band ini merilis collection NOFX/Rancid BYO Split Series, Vol. 3. Collection khusus ini memiliki Rancid yang mencakup enam trek NOFX sementara NOFX membalasnya dengan mengganti enam lagu Rancid. Empat lagu EP Regaining Unc bitterness keluar pada bulan Maret 2003 dan berperan sebagai secret untuk The War on Errorism May, dirilis di Fat Wreck dan dipenuhi dengan kritik politik. Mengingat sifat band yang blak-blakan dan kiri, tidak mengherankan ketika mereka meluncurkan Punk Voter, sebuah gerakan band-band punk yang berusaha secara politis memberdayakan kaum muda yang kehilangan hak pilih dan memilih George W. Hedge keluar dari kantor. Organisasi itu masih tetap beraksi, bahkan setelah terpilihnya kembali Bush tahun 2004.

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wrestlingisanime · 5 years

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My Wrestle Kingdom 13 Mental Preparations

This Friday, I'm going to try to stay up and watch Wrestle Kingdom…this will be like the 3rd time I attempt to do this. Ever year around this time, I tell myself, "I'm finally going to start to get into watching New Japan regularly, starting with Wrestle Kingdom!" but it always falls through.

It's mainly the time difference that kills it for me. Even back when I didn't have a job and would regularly stay up until 6 AM, I couldn't sit still enough to watch the entirety of the show. I remember the first time I did this, I was doing laundry while watching some people dressed up like Doraemon dancing on stage or something. That's the only thing I remember about that show.

Last year, I tried to stay up to watch it, but I had to go to work the next day, so I eventually went to bed. I remember waking up at 5 AM, getting ready for work and thinking, "I wonder who won between Jericho and Omega," and then finding out the show was still going on as I drove to work. I ended up downloading the show and watching Omega vs Jericho while waiting at the DMV to renew my license…

Anyway, this year, I'm going to actually do it! I'm going to stay up and pay attention to the show! I have my New Japan World subscription ready. The show starts on a Friday, so I don't have to worry about getting up early for work the next day. I even plan on taking a nap Friday evening in an attempt to combat any sleepiness I might encounter staying up to some crazy hour!

Now, I will admit, I really don't follow New Japan that closely at all. I'm familiar with some of the names…Omega, Okada, Naito, Kota Ibushi, Tama Tonga… but I've never really watched their matches in full. I don't know much about any of the storylines going in. But, I think that it's important to broaden my knowledge and expand my horizons into the Japanese pro wrestling world, especially in my quest to compare wrestling and anime. I mean, Japanese wrestling is as close to live action anime as it gets, right?!

So…I'm just going to ramble about the NJPW stuff I'm KIND OF familiar with in an attempt to prep myself for watching Wrestle Kingdom 13. So let's get started.

PRE-SHOW NO.1 CONTENDER GAUNTLET MATCH FOR NEVER OPENWEIGHT 6-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Ryusuke Taguchi vs Yuji Nagat, Jeff Cobb & David Finlay vs Hirooki Goto, Beretta & Chuckie T vs Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs Hangman Page, Yujiro Takahashi & Marty Scurll

When I first looked at a match-up graphic of this match, I had no idea why there were so many people in a tag team match. I was confused about who was teaming with who, but I think I've figured it out.

I recognize a few names on this list, and I'm just going to detail what little I know about these wrestlers.

I've heard the name "Taguchi" said in a sexy Irish accent before…So this is the Ryusuke Taguchi that used to be buddies with Finn Balor/Prince Devitt. I don't know much more than that.

David Finlay sounds like he'd be the son of Fit Finlay…which apparently is the case! I don't know much about any of the Finlays except Fit was in one of the N64 AKI wrestling games.

Jeff Cobb, aka, the monster Mantza Cueto! I've seen him wrestle live as Matanza at the Impact/Lucha Underground show on Wrestlemania weekend last year. He's pretty freakin' good.

Chuckie T, I can only assume is that Chuck Taylor dude who was always the star of those Chikara videos I used to watch all the time, with him squealing like a little girl and yelling at children.

Marty Scurll is that "Villain" dude with the umbrella. He was a very popular wrestling cosplay at A-Kon last year. Lots of dudes with masks and umbrellas.

Hangman Page apparently killed Joey Ryan with a telephone and was haunted by cowboy boots. His original Bullet Club shirt was also a major inspiration for my Doki Doki Wrestling Club shirts, specifically Sayori's for obvious reasons…

Minoru Suzuki. I always hear how freakin' badass this dude is. Looking forward to see him wreck people.

I've heard some other names before, like Toru Yano, Yuji Nagata, and Davey Boy Smith…but I honestly don't know much about them. Hopefully that'll change soon!

As for the "NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship" …well, I recently learned that the NEVER Openweight Championship is a title that isn't restricted by weight class. When I first looked at this card, I was very confused as how a 3-man team could compete to be a contender for a single title…but Wikipedia just now tells me that there is indeed a separate NEVER Tag Team Championship. That makes sense!

I still don't know what "NEVER" means. Apparently it's "New Blood," "Evolution," "Valiantly," "Eternal," and "Radical." Yeah, a bunch of random English words put together to form a nonsense acronym. Sounds pretty Japanese for sure. Reminds me of the notorious B.L.O.O.D.M.O.S.E.S. organization…

1ST MATCH 60 MINUTES LIMIT NEVER OPENWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

Kota Ibushi vs Will Ospreay

I really hope this match isn't an hour long, but…

So, of course I'm familiar with Kota Ibushi! He's Kenny's Golden Lover and he's done a bunch of crazy cool DDT matches. I think he was also in the WWE Cruiserweight Classic. And he starred in a kaiju movie that I really want to watch.

I only know Will Ospreay from that anime-as-hell match he had with Ricochet a few years ago that Vader got really mad about (R.I.P.).

Anyway, they both seem like amazing wrestlers, so sounds like it'll be a sick match…even if it somehow does last an hour.

2ND MATCH 60 MINUTES LIMIT IWGP Jr. TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado vs Roppongi 3K vs BUSHI & Shingo Takagi

Why can't these tag matches just have 2 teams!!!

I honestly don't know much about any of these people. I've heard the name "Roppongi 3K" before, and it's a cool sounding name, so that's cool. I also probably get "BUSHI" and Kota Ibushi confused sometimes.

Oh, and I guess I need to finally look up what "IWGP" stands for. Okay, so apparently it stands for "International Wrestling Grand Prix" which is the governing body of NJPW…what. I don't know what that means. I have never heard a human utter the words "International Wrestling Grand Prix" before…huh, weird. I'd rather they just call it the NJPW championship, but I guess there's a legacy there that they want to preserve, so that's fair. Also, weird title names seem to go hand-in-hand with Japanese wrestling anyway.

3RD MATCH 60 MINUTES LIMIT BRITISH HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

Tomoiro Ishii vs Zack Sabre Jr.

I did not know that New Japan had a British Heavyweight Championship.

Like many Japanese wrestlers, I've heard the name Tomohiro Ishii mentioned in podcasts a lot, but I can't envision a specific person or match in my head. Sorry. :(

I don't know if I've seen Zack Sabre Jr. wrestle, either. I know he was in the WWE Cruiswerweight Classic, but that's it.

They're probably both really good, though, and very deserving of whatever this Japanese British championship is.

4TH MATCH 60 MINUTES LIMIT IWGP TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Tanga Loa & Tama Tonga vs Sanada & EVIL vs The Young Bucks

Seriously, do they just not have 2v2 tag matches in Japan?

I'm very familiar with Tama Tonga. He's that Bullet Club dude that used to have face paint that reminded me of the box art to Knights of the Old Republic 2. Much like I haven't played any KOTOR game, I don't think I've ever watched Tama Tonga actually wrestle. I know that he's done some goofy stuff on Twitter recently. Also, he's got a cool name that's fun to say: "Tama Tonga."

Speaking of cool names, who doesn't like the name "EVIL"? That name..it's just…so freaking good. I keep hoping there's an association with that one Sponge Bob episode, but probably not.

Also, the Young Bucks…yeah they're very popular, but, again, I don't think I've ever seen them wrestle. I just know that they superkick people a lot, they have streamers on their pants, and they're very good at selling merch.

5TH MATCH 60 MINUTES LIMIT IWGP US HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

Cody vs Juice Robinson

Obviously, I know who Cody is. He was that dude who used to be Stardust! …man, Stardust was cool. Stardust is literally THE reason I started watching wrestling again. It was a bummer to hear that Cody didn't like doing the character. He was so good at it, though.

I recently learned that Juice Robinson used to be CJ Parker in NXT. That was pretty mindblowing, because CJ Parker was one of the standout characters for me back when I first watched NXT. Apparently he's a good wrestler, too, so cool.

Also, I'm almost tempted to ask why there's an IWGP US Championship…but I guess "I" in IWGP stands for "International." …but why isn't the British title the IWGP British Championship??? Looking that up now…oh, so the British Championship is actually the RPW British Heavyweight Championship owned by Revolution Pro Wrestling. Huh.

6TH MATCH 60 MINUTES LIMIT IWGP Jr. HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

KUSHIDA vs Taiji Ishimori

I remember a long time ago, I watched some clips from an older (then recent) Wrestle Kingdom that featured a team called the Time Splitters, which I thought was cool because I like the video game TimeSplitters: Future Perfect. But also, I guess this was a time traveler wrestling gimmick, and that's cool, and I liked hearing the ring announcer go "TIIIIIIIME SPLTITERRRRRRRSSSSS." But that's not even it! They had a freakin' Back to the Future Delorean entrance. And then there was one that had a dude dressed as Doc Brown…and apparently that guy was Taguchi. Huh, weird.

So, I guess KUSHIDA was one of the Time Splitters, so that's cool. I don't if he's still a time traveler or not. I hope he is.

As for Taiji Ishimori, he's the new "Bone Soldier," and I don't really know much about that, other than Captain New Japan used to be the Bone Soldier and everyone hated that one for some reason, but they like this new one. And Ishimori might be going to WWE? I don't know!

Oh, I just realized that all these matches have a 60 minute time limit…

7TH MATCH 60 MINUTES LIMIT SPECIAL SINGLE MATCH

Kazuchika Okada vs Jay White

Of course I'm familiar with Okada. He's the Rainmaker! And then he turned into that guy with the balloons…I dunno, but he's in Yakuza 6, so that's cool!

Jay White is apparently the new leader of the Bullet Club. I used to think he was always part of the Bullet Club because I remember seeing Jay White Bullet Club shirts a while back…but apparently he wasn't actually in the Bullet Club until recently? I don't know! I just know that people used to call him "Knife Pervert" and I thought that was funny, so I used it in Doki Doki Wrestling Club.

8TH MATCH 60 MINUTES LIMIT IWGP INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP NO DQ MATCH

Chris Jericho vs Testuya Naito

Chris Jericho is a guy who wears a scarf and dresses like a mime or something. I don't know.

I always thought Naito was cool. I like "Tranquilo" and the eyeball thing he does. There's also that super cute Naito teddy bear plush that I would really like to have one day. I once bought a Naito keychain from an anime con artist alley booth. Yeah, I like Naito, and apparently so does everyone else…except Chris Jericho, I guess.

9TH MATCH 60 MINUTES LIMIT IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

Kenny Omega vs Hiroshi Tanahashi

I first heard of Kenny Omega when people were sharing that clip of a grown dude wrestling a 9-year-old Japanese girl. I also learned that he was a huge nerd and spoke fluent Japanese. From my limited perspective, he didn't seem to blow up in popularity until he debuted as "The Cleaner" in the Bullet Club. Now he's like the most popular non-WWE wrestler in the world. I wasn't ever a super huge fan of Kenny, but he DID put Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon on his Top 10 video games list last year, so he's cool in my book. I wish he played fighting games other than Street Fighter, though…

As for Tanahashi, I remember on like my second attempt to stay up and watch Wrestle Kingdom, people kept saying that Tanahashi was the "John Cena of Japan." I'm assuming that's still true to this day. Honesty, that's all I know about Tanahashi, lol.

So, I assume Tanahashi is going to win and Kenny will finally have his rematch against a grown up Haruka!

And that's it!! That's all I know about Wrestle Kingdom 13. Hopefully I'll finally start to get into NJPW following this Wrestle Kingdom, because I honestly think Japanese puroresu knowledge is absolutely necessary in my campaign to prove that wrestling…is anime.

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34 Countries, 20,000 Kilometers, One Bicycle: An Interview with Barista Gavyn Stroh

34 Countries, 20,000 Kilometers, One Bicycle: An Interview with Barista Gavyn Stroh by Michael

We love hearing from our readers, especially if they’re passing through one of the cities our blogging team is based (Louisville, San Francisco, and Istanbul). It was in the latter we met up with Canadian barista Gavyn Stroh, sharing a pour-over at Coffee Department in Balat. Istanbul is one of the world’s great travel hubs, so it’s not uncommon to meet visiting coffee professionals. But what made our visit with Gavyn exceptional was his mode of transportation. Turkey is one of 34 countries Gavyn cycled through over the last 12 months. We’ve been following his journey since that delicious naturally-processed El Salvador we shared, and we’ve been taken by its breath-taking panoramas, ever-increasing tan lines, and of course, the many cups of coffee along the way. Now that his journey is coming to a close we caught up with him to learn about coffee on the open road.

How did you decide to leave your native Canada and travel the world by bicycle?

In February of 2016 I was in the midst of the final semester of my Bachelor’s degree. Procrastination led me to YouTube where I stumbled upon a set of videos made by a Bulgarian-Canadian man named Iohan that chronicles his journey from the Arctic Ocean to Ushuaia at the southern tip of South America. I really latched onto the idea of travelling at a human pace and travelling in a way that isn’t carbon emission intensive. I graduated in the spring of 2016 then used the following year and four months to save up money and plan the trip. This trip is something of a transition period for me. After spending the better part of five years in Winnipeg for work and school, I was missing being in proximity to my family in Squamish, British Columbia. Two weeks before leaving on this trip my parents helped me move my things back to BC, now I can get a fresh start when I return back home to Canada.

Tell us about your background in the coffee industry.

I got my foot in the door of the coffee industry when my university opened up a cafe in their brand new library building. I worked there for the first three months of 2015 before I found my way into another start-up. One of my professors was one of five owners in the process of building out a new cafe in Winnipeg’s downtown core. Before Fools & Horses’ opening in May of 2015, I secured part-time employment in addition to part-time work in a practicum/co-op capacity. I spent half my time behind the bar making coffee, and the other half of my time helping the business set up a compost program, waste tracking, and carbon emissions accounting.

Do you ever miss working bar while on the open road?

Absolutely. Two main reasons stick out to me. One, I miss the routine. Being on the road doesn’t really let you settle into a groove in the same way. Two, I miss the people. My coworkers and my regulars! There’s something truly unique about the relationships that form between coworkers and between employee and customer. I miss that continuity of relationship – while on the road you’re barely able to scratch the surface before you’re in a new place with new people. In the cafe you see people daily, they’re part of your life, and you’re part of theirs. Over time you actually get to know these people, and some of them reciprocate and get to know you too.

It seems you do a pretty thorough cafe crawl in every city you visit. What cafes have been highlights?

I do my best! I would likely go to more if I wasn’t constrained by my caffeine tolerance, or my budget! I would have not found half of these shops if it weren’t for Ales and Radic of European Coffee Trip and their efforts in the greater European coffee community.

Naturally different cafes stand out for different reasons. I was starstruck by the opportunity to visit Tim Wendelboe in Oslo (even got the chance to chat with him before he had to run off to the airport). Gardelli Specialty Coffee in Forli was another cafe that I have admired from afar for some time and was able to incorporate into the route of my trip.

Mame in Zurich and Dabov Specialty Coffee in Sofia stand out for really great service. I’ve seen my own preferences shift from just finding really good coffee in a pretty space to prioritizing the service experience. Making good coffee is easy, offering really good service while juggling a half dozen other things behind the bar, is not.

It has been really interesting to visit all these European cafes and contrast the experiences with those I’ve had in Canada. One very notable difference I’ve noticed has been the European trend of table service vs. the north american culture of calling out drinks from the bar. Not that one is better than the other, just different.

Do you tour with any brewing gear? What’s your coffee routine look like when you’re out in the countryside?

I’m not sure I would’ve been able to make it this far or this long if I didn’t have coffee with me! And, after working in coffee for three years I was vehemently against subjecting myself to gas station coffee, or worse yet, instant coffee. I am touring with an Aeropress, a Porlex mini handgrinder, a 2000g pocket scale, and a 0.8L stovetop kettle.

I have spent over 80 nights camped out on the side of the road on my way to the next major destination while on this trip. The coffee routine starts in the afternoon before I make my coffee by ensuring I have enough water to last me through the night and into the morning. Water becomes a really interesting brewing variable when you never have the same water source. I’ve used water from gas stations, mosques, cemeteries, mountain springs, and, when desperate, lake water with purifications tablets mixed in.

I’ll make my first cup after having a bite to eat for breakfast. I’ve had as many as seven different whole bean options to choose from while on this trip. I’m not terribly good at impulse control when I see a coffee I think I might enjoy! I’ll drink my first cup while double checking my route plan for the day and I usually make a second cup after finishing packing up my tent and loading up my bike for another day in the saddle. I have bag mounted to my handlebars that fits my Keep Cup perfectly, so I’m able to enjoy that second coffee while pedaling those first few kilometers of the day.

I may actually be the only touring cyclist out there with two brewing devices and two coffee grinders. When I passed through Istanbul in December I picked up a cezve/ibrik made by Soy and a grinder made by Hon. It’s been cool to play around with a new brewing device – despite the fact that it adds an extra pound or so to my packed weight.

A grand bicycle tour seems so romantic, but I’m sure there’s been some hard days along the way. Any close calls stick out to you?

My threshold for what makes a close call or what makes for a hard day has changed a little over time. Back at the beginning of the trip I was scared off the narrow secondary highway to Paris by close passing cars and trucks. In Bulgaria I became unsettlingly comfortable with two cars charging down the two-lane highways with me in the oncoming lane.

I did have a pretty close call in Montenegro, but that was mostly my own fault. I was descending down the twenty-six hairpin corners that led back to Kotor when the Austrian couple driving in front of me braked to let a car coming the opposite direction come up the hill. I locked up both brakes before careening into the back of their SUV. I managed to come to a stop as I was nearly in-line with the passenger side window, and inches from tumbling off the road entirely.

I had a second notable close call on my first attempt at cycling a century (100mi/161km) in one day. I was coming down a hill into Bodrum when a car door flung open. I was fortunately able do throw the bike to the left and avoid being sent flying over the handlebars!

Rain days are always hard. They’re bound to happen eventually, so you often just have to push through them. I had a really bad rain day on the final day of three on the way from Fethiye to Antalya. My shoes and socks and gloves were all soaked through and I managed to get a flat tire in the middle of the downpour. On my first day cycling from Pisa to Rome in mid-November I encountered much more rain than I had expected. I found myself caught on a highway as the rain started – unable to put on my rain gear before getting wet. The rest of the day alternated between 1.5 hours of rain, to 1.5 hours of no rain. After I had found a suitable spot for camping overnight on the side of the road, the skies opened up for another bout of rain. Not wanting to try to set up my tent and get the inside completely soaked, I stood there in my wet shoes with my arms at my side and I waited for the rain to pass over, or at least let up enough for me to set up my tent.

I’m sure you’re tired of being asked this by now, but how many kilometers have you logged? Countries passed through?

I don’t get tired of people asking how far I’ve travelled. I always get a bit of a laugh from the reactions of the people who ask! I have cycled 19,422 kilometers over the last 11.5 months! I’m currently in Glasgow, but will be flying home from London in three weeks. Three weeks should be plenty of time to push myself over the 20,000 kilometer mark – that’s halfway around the world at the equator.

This trip has allowed me to visit 34 countries! The United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Italy, Vatican City, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Ireland.

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