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richfieldbranch · 4 years

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Mike’s Picks - Week of April 6th

Hello again to all our Richfield Library Patrons. We’re back this week with more suggestions to keep you busy while you're stuck at home. All library programs, outreach, and meeting rooms have been canceled until at least May, so hang in there! The books are all available through Hoopla or Overdrive, you can click the title to access it’s listing, or find all our materials at https://akronlibrary.org/browse/digital. As always, I miss you, and please send me an email to let me know how you're doing, or if there's anything I can do for you.

Mike Daly, Adult Services Librarian

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Crafts:

For all you Richfield Crafters out there missing your monthly crafting fix, I have attached a couple of timely links to help you pass the time during the great quarantine.

Do-it-yourself Covid Masks

The first link was posted by the U. S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams. It's very simple and doesn't require sewing. You can find the video at:

https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/coronavirus-local-impact/surgeon-general-heres-how-you-can-make-a-cloth-mask-today-in-just-a-few-easy-steps/

NPR also explains how they should be worn, and offers some different options for making them (including one where you just cut up an old t-shirt, no sewing or stapling or anything):

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/03/826996154/coronavirus-faqs-is-a-homemade-mask-effective-and-whats-the-best-way-to-wear-one

This one is what my wife used to make our family's masks. It does require a sewing machine, but the results were quite professional and easy to wear. There are hundreds of online tutorials if you do an internet search for “making Covid masks”. This one is from USA Today:

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/04/04/coronavirus-face-mask-tips-how-make-fabric-instructions/2945209001/

And finally, Joann Fabric has provided this pattern that does not require elastic or string, but instead has fabric straps:

https://www.joann.com/on/demandware.static/-/Library-Sites-LibraryJoAnnShared/default/dw4148ae36/static/landingpage/assets/MaskInstructions_V2.pdf

Easter Pom-Pom Craft

Here's a couple of simple craft for all ages. They're really easy and the end products are very cute. All you need are scissors, rubber bands, old fabric, and some yarn. For bunnies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DYHOSpL50

and for chicks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz0o-dBhAKA

There are many more available on You Tube.

Books:

Non-Fiction

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough

McCullough tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory, at the time a wilderness northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. His main focus is on the founding and growth of Marietta, Ohio. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the

prohibition of slavery. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Manasseh Cutler, Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam, Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. A must read for anyone interested in Ohio history.

Code Name: Lise, the True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis

This book was an exciting read. I had never heard of Odette Sansom or the women of the SOE. In 1942 Odette Sansom, a French woman married to and English man, decides to follow in her war hero father’s footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. Five failed attempts and one plane crash later, she finally lands in occupied France to begin her mission. It is here that she meets her commanding officer Captain Peter Churchill. Loftis paints a portrait of true courage, patriotism, and love—of two incredibly heroic people who endured unimaginable horrors. He weaves together the touching romance between Odette and Peter and the thrilling cat and mouse game between them and a wily Gestapo agent.

Fiction:

This week I've been rereading some of my favorite books. The titles listed below are an eclectic mix, so everyone should find something to like. They are also long which will help you kill some time while stuck at home.

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

This was my favorite book in high school. Lose yourself in the adventures of Frodo and Gandolf in their epic battle of good versus evil. All three titles, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King are available for down as Ebook or audio on the library website.

The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Although not as well known as Great Expectations or Oliver Twist, this Dickens classic is my favorite. A serial romp through Victorian England, this book is in turns funny, sad, and touching. Don't give up because the 19th Century language is unfamiliar. You will be rewarded if you persevere.

The Ebook is available through Project Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/967/967-h/967-h.htm

and the audio book is available at LibriVox:

https://librivox.org/the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-by/

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The first and best of Follett's historical novels about the fictional English city of Kingsbridge, it's an Oprah Book Club choice as well. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known, of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect, and of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena. The book tells of the struggle that will turn church against state and brother against brother. The book, as well as the two sequels, A World Without End and A Column of Fire, are available for download as Ebook or Eaudio on the library website.

And finally.................

Monday April 9th is

Fresh Tomato Day

“A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.” E. Lockhart

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” Miles Kington

“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” Lewis Grizzard

Tuesday April 7h is

National Beer Day

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Benjamin Franklin

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.” Abraham Lincoln

“Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.” Ray Bradbury

Wednesday April 8th is

International Feng Shui Day

“You don't have to believe in Feng Shui for it to work. I just know it brings me money.” Donald Trump

“I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes” David James

“My view on Feng Shui: don’t put your bed in front of the door because you won’t get in.” Jonas Eriksson

Thursday April 9th is

National Gin and Tonic Day

“The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen’s lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.” Winston Churchill

“Of all the gin joints, in all the world she walks into mine.” Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca

“I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.” Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher

Friday April 10th is

Global Work from Home Day (Very Appropriate!)

“All happiness depends on courage and work.” Honore de Balzac

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” Leo Tolstoy

Saturday April 11th is

National Pet Day

“Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.” Amy Sedaris

“Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.” James Cromwell

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.” John Grogan

More to come next week!

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delkios · 6 years

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Better a Shot in the Gut (DC TV)

I’ve read fics where Mick gets hurt, read fics where Len gets hurt. Not so much when it’s Lisa, though, and you all know how much I love how all three are with each other.

Title: Better a Shot in the Gut Fandom: DC TV Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 1418 Characters: Mick, Len, Lisa Summary: The worst part about being criminals were the times Lisa got caught in it. Mick was considering going to bed out of boredom when his door was, literally, kicked in. He was on his feet, pulling out the gun he kept under the couch cushion when he recognized the intruder as Len. He was carrying Lisa, gangly limbs curled in until she was tiny ball, whimpering in pain. Her pajama leg was soaked through with blood. "What the fuck?" Mick dropped his gun. It bounced off the couch and onto the floor. Belatedly he was glad he hadn't switched off the safety. As Len moved around the couch to gently place his sister on it, Mick dashed into the kitchen where he had one of two large medical kits stashed.

When Mick got back, Len was leaning a little awkwardly with Lisa's head cushioned on one of his thighs while he had a hand pressing on what Mick presumed to be the wound. Lisa was awake, eyes wet and wide with fear and pain. Both of her hands were tangled in Len's shirt. Mick put the scissors to the bottom of Lisa's pant leg and told her, "I'll get you a new pair tomorrow." He snipped up, just enough to get at the wound: a bullet hole a couple inches above Lisa's knee. For a moment all Mick saw was red but then Lisa whimpered and Len whispered something soothing to her. With a deep breath, Mick shook the fury from his head and reached in the kit for a section of belt he kept in there for moments like this. Seeing it, Len leaned back and took Lisa's hands into his. Mick folded the belt in half and then held it out for Lisa to bite down on. He took the time to brush some hair from her face before pulling back to focus on her leg. "You're doing great, baby girl. Scream and cry all you want. Pass out if you gotta. We'll take care of you." Mick didn't really remember the process, body working on automatic and, for the first time, Mick was glad for all his experience patching up Len and himself. Otherwise his hands would've been shaking until he was useless at the idea of his partner's little sister getting hurt badly enough Len panicked and brought her to Mick instead of dealing with it himself. By the time he'd finished up with the stitches, disinfecting and bandaging the area, Lisa was pale and sweaty, still holding Len's hands like a lifeline. Mick reached up to cup her cheek but stopped when he saw the blood on his hands. He leaned back and patted her other leg instead. "You did good. You're okay now, Lise. You're going to be okay." She offered Mick a weak smile when he pulled the belt from her mouth. He bent to pick up the bullet he'd let drop to the floor, then went to wash his hands. He wrote down some things on a piece of paper to repair the door- Mick had more than enough to fix it at least temporarily but Len needed something to distract himself or he'd be fussing over Lisa all night, keeping her from sleep. When he got back to the couch, Len was running a hand through Lisa's hair, his breathing still a little uneven and unable to tear his eyes away from Lisa's sallow complexion. Mick lightly slapped the list to Len's chest. "Need stuff for the door. I'll keep an eye on her." For a moment Len just stared at him, not actually seeing Mick there. Eventually he took the list and nodded, making a detour to the kitchen when Mick reminded him to wash up first. Then he made his way to the door, pausing to look over Lisa one last time before he left. When Len finally realized the store would be closed and he didn't have anything to break in with, he'd be pissed but Mick was certain at least he'd be more clearheaded. The moment the door closed, Lisa burst into tears. Mick clutched her hand in one of his while the other stroked her hair. "It's okay, baby girl. Just let it out." Her free hand scrabbled along Mick's shoulders until he leaned down, wrapping his arms around the sobbing girl. She clung to him, soaking his shirt in snot and tears until all she could do was tremble. Lisa's grip loosened and Mick pulled back slowly. Her eyes were puffy and red and she looked so, so much younger than thirteen. "Am I gonna skate again?" She asked. Mick had never heard her sound so tiny and fragile in the years he'd known her. He hated it. He wanted to burn down the city just to make sure no one hurt her like that again. His hand twitched for his lighter but he gripped the couch cushion instead. "Your season's over," Mick told her because there wasn't a point lying about something like this. "But if you take care of that wound, you should be doing your axle-piston-somersaults by next year." She laughed despite herself, wet and thick. "Only one of those is a thing." "And I'm sure you're gonna be quizing me on 'em while you heal up." Mick picked up the painkillers and glass of water he'd set out earlier, handing them both to Lisa. He helped hold her up slightly as she drank. "You think you can go to sleep?" "I guess." She held onto Mick's arm. "Will you stay with me until I do?" "Sure, brat." He patted her hand and shifted until he was leaning comfortably against the couch. "Rest up, alright? Tomorrow you get to have your big brother catering to your every need, so you best get the most out of that." She laughed again, her arm looped lightly around Mick's neck. "Thanks, Mick." "No problem, Lise." It didn't take long for her to fall asleep though long enough that Len should've been back by now. Mick carefully extracted himself from Lisa's hold and crept to his front door. He peeked out, wondering if he should go looking for Len when he saw his partner curled up in a corner next to the door, faint street light glistening on his cheeks. "Aw, Lenny..." "It's my fault," Len said, his voice choked as Mick crouched down before him. "They shot her because of me." "Who did? Who shot her?" He shook his head. "I don't know. I didn't see." "Then how do you know it was 'cause of you?" Len lifted his eyes up, as if just realizing Mick was there. "What do you mean?" Mick huffed. It was most certainly the shock of his baby sister getting shot that rattled Len right out of his brain. "There's two people in your family that someone would wanna shoot. Or get collateral." Clarity began to seep into Len's eyes again. "You think it was something Lewis did?" "Maybe. Unless you can think who you pissed off enough to go after your sister. He ain't as careful as you." Abruptly Len stood up, murder in his eyes. Mick stood too and grabbed Len's face an instant before Len could move away. Then Mick kissed him, tender and soft, like they'd never kissed before. "Don't," he said against Len's lips. "Not tonight. Lisa's gonna feel better if she sees you in the morning. And you're gonna be too busy worrying about her to think straight. Wait until tomorrow night, at least, after Lisa goes to sleep again, before you start chasing leads." He kissed Len again. "And when you find out who did it, you're bringing me with you." Len sighed, sagging slightly in Mick's hands. "Yeah, partner. Okay." The adrenaline had worn off, Len was swaying slightly on his feet. Mick put a hand to his shoulder, pulling him back toward the door. "C'mon. Let's go back inside." Len frowned, "But what about the list-" "'S nothing," Mick said, "I got plenty to work with already. Just wanted to give you something to do." Len huffed in laughter, leaning against Mick until the other man was supporting most of his weight. Len was practically melted against Mick, exhaustion evident in every line of his body. "Love you, Mick." Len said into his shoulder. Mick was sure Len hadn't realized he said it and hearing those words from him from the first time made Mick's heart seize momentarily. He held Len tighter and placed a kiss just behind his ear. "Love you, too."

#fic 2018 #dccoldwave #mick rory #leonard snart #lisa snart #dc tv

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bestreasonstowriterecordreviews · 6 years

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✰ BEST REASONS TO WRITE FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS IN 2017 ✰

✰✰✰✰✰ 5th ANNIVERSARY ✰✰✰✰✰

It’s time to feast from the grapevine of 2017 with 103 (+ 171 more) of the…

✰ BEST REASONS TO WRITE FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS IN 2017 ✰

(all long playing records unless otherwise noted; also, this list was created with links to every item, but the links aren’t appearing, so you’ll have to direct your web browser searches the old fashioned way)

✰✰ TAIWAN HOUSING PROJECT Veblen Death Mask (Kill Rock Stars) ✰✰

✰ HAND & LEG Hand & Leg (Black Gladiator)

✰ MARCIA BASSETT & SAMARA LUBELSKI Live NYC (Feeding Tube)

✰ CHROMASTHETIC Gold Sound cassette (Time Release)

✰ ANTIETAM Intimations of Immortality (Motorific)

✰ girlSperm gSp (Thrilling Living)

✰ CHUCK JOHNSON Balsams (VDSQ)

✰ RODENTICIDE Rodenticide (Self Sabotage)

✰ ANGIE Shyness (Rice Is Nice/DERO Arcade, Australia)

✰ BLOODY SHOW Let America Pay cassette (Superdreamer)

✰ MICHAEL BEACH Gravity/Repulsion (Spectacular Commodity)

✰ ANTHONY PASQUAROSA Abbandonato Da Dio Nazione (VDSQ)

✰ ALBERT DEMUTH Corporate Rights 7″ (self-released)

✰ MOUNTAIN MOVERS Mountain Movers (Trouble In Mind)

✰ X-POP Alphabet Cereal ep cassette (Chemical Imbalance., Australia)

✰ DANA Dana (Heel Turn)

✰ GOSPEL OF MARS Gospel Of Mars (Amish)

✰ PRIVATE SORROW Fake Lions (Mystery Plane, U.K.)

✰ JUDY & THE JERKS 3 Songs cassette (Earth Girl) & Alive At The Skatepark cassette (Earth Girl)

✰ PIERRE & BASTIEN Musique Grecque (sdz, France)

✰ XETAS The Tower (12XU)

✰ JAIMIE BRANCH Fly Or Die (International Anthem Recording Company)

✰ STEFAN CHRISTENSEN Shake Off The Village (C/Site Recordings) & Open Day 7″(I Dischi Del Barone, Sweden)

✰ LISE BARKAS & LISA KAÜFFERT Lo Becat cd-r (Soleis Bleus, France)

✰ USA/MEXICO Laredo (12XU)

✰ PREGNANCY Urgency (Emotional Response)

✰ FULLY GLAZED Full Glazed cassette (The Loki Label)

✰ DARK TEA Dark Tea cassette (self-released) & Bright Flame (bandcamp DL)

✰ SYLVIA COURVOISIER & MARY HALVORSON Crop Circles (Relative Pitch)

✰ KAY ODYSSEY What’s A Woman To Do? (Little Bit)

✰ THE DOLL/STEFAN NEVILLE 1974 8″ lathe (stabbies etc, NZ)

✰ CLARINETTE The Now Of Then (Feeding Tube)

✰ ERIK KRAMER A House, Floating In The Middle Of A Lake cassette (Anthropocene Recordings)

✰ AKI ONDA/TASHI DORJI/CHE CHEN ‘HAZ-,BINS cassette (Black Pollen Press)

✰ KATE CARR The Story Surrounds Us cassette (The Helen Scarsdale Agency) & From A Wind Turbine To Vultures (And Back) cassette (Flaming Pines, U.K.)

✰ BLACK TRUMPETS Blue Blew It cassette (Ikuisuus, Finland)

✰ SUSPIRIANS Ti Bon Ange (Super Secret Records)

✰ YEAR OF BIRDS White Death To Power Alan (Odd Box, U.K.) & Stanhill Wonder 7″ (Third Uncle)

✰ DAVID WEST with TEARDROPS Cherry On Willow (Tough Love, U.K.)

✰ WILLIAM PARKER QUARTETS Meditation/Resurrection double cd (AUM Fidelity)

✰ the CAVEMEN Banned In B.C. 7″ (Weirdly)

✰ MICHAEL FOSTER & BEN BENNETT In It cassette (Astral Spirits)

✰ PLATES OF CAKE Let’s Not Deprive Each Other cassette (Unblinking Ear)

✰ ZAÏMPH Transverse Presence cassette (No Rent)

✰ WURLD SERIES Air Goofy cassette (Melted Ice Cream, New Zealand)

✰ HEADROOM Head In The Clouds (Trouble In Mind)

✰ LORDS OF THYME The Future Of Things Past (Feeding Tube/Shagrat, U.K.)

✰ SEX TIDE Possession Sessions (Feeding Tube)

✰ MARAUDEUR Maraudeur (bruit direct disques, France)

✰ LES FILLES DE ILLIGHADAD Eghass Malan (Sahel Sounds)

✰ BRANDY Laugh Track cassette (self-released)

✰ LEILA BORDREUIL & ZACH ROWDEN Hollow cassette (No Rent)

✰ RAYS Rays (Trouble In Mind)

✰ ANDY REPTOID & THE HUMANOIDS Refridgerator 7″ (Total Punk) & Kill The Comma 7″(Emotional Response) & Pee-Pee EP (Goodbye Boozy, Italy)

✰ GUN SHY Gun Shy cassette (Cheat Prick)

✰ MARK EITZEL Hey Mr. Ferryman (Merge)

✰ E42. A8 Niobium cassette (Tanuki, Belgium)

✰ BLAU BLAU Kiss Kiss (bandcamp DL)

✰ THE COWBOY The Cowboy (Fashionable Idiots)

✰ MARCELO DOS REIS & EVE RISSER Timeless cd (JACC, Portugal)

✰ LIZ DURETTE Four Improvisations On Electric Piano (Ehse)

✰ MIDNIGHT MINES Since My Baby Left Me cassette & We Are The Primitives Of A New Era cassette (both The Loki Label)

✰ JENNY & JADE Day Release 12″ lathe ep (stabbies etc, NZ)

✰ FEMME Chroma (bruit direct disques, France)

✰ PRIVATE ANARCHY Private Anarchy cassette (Round Bale Recordings)

✰ ERIC ARN Orphic Resonance (Feeding Tube)

✰ PILL Aggressive Advertising cassette (Dull Tools)

✰ GAMARDAH FUNGUS Fairytales cd (Flaming Pines, U.K.)

✰ JON COLLIN Water And Rock Music, Volume I cd-r & The Nature (both Early Music, U.K. )

✰ Killed By Meth #2: Rust Belt Rockers comp (It’s Trash!)

✰ the TERMINALS Antiseptic (Ba Da Bing)

✰ SOURDURE Mantras triple cassette (Standard in-Fi, France)

✰ The Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne double cd (Scissor Tail)

✰ GLEN SCHENAU Addressing The Scar cassette (Tropical Cancer, Australia)

EKIN FIL Inflame: Original Soundtrack cassette & Ghosts Inside (both The Helen Scarsdale Agency)

✰ TARA CLERKIN Hello (Stolen Body Records, U.K.)

✰ LEE KONITZ Frescalalto cd (impulse!, France)

✰ the STROPPIES The Stroppies cassette & It’s A Hit 7″ (Hobbies Galore, Australia)

✰ DELPHINE DORA & MOCKE Le Corps Défendant (Okraïna, Belgium)

✰ QUIN GALAVIS The Battery Line (Super Secret Records)

✰ HOUSE AND LAND House And Land (Thrill Jockey)

✰ C.I.A. DEBUTANTE We Will Play For Spirits cassette (sdz, France)

✰ AILBHE NIC OIREACHTAIGH Oreing (Fort Evil Fruit, Ireland)

✰ the BISCUITS Albatross 7″ (Ilk Ither, New Zealand)

✰ SYLVIA MONNIER Stock Shot & Addictive Sling cassette (Sacred Phrases)

✰ the GOLDEN BOYS Better Than Good Times (12XU)

✰ PALACE LIDO Concrete cassette (Czaszka Records, U.K.)

✰ MARK FEEHAN M.F. II (Richie Records)

✰ OBNOX Murder Radio (ever/never) & Niggative Approach (12XU)

✰ ALEXANDER Alexander (self-released) & ROB NOYES/ALEXANDER split 7″ (C/Site Recordings)

✰ TRIO 3: ANDREW CYRILLE/REGGIE WORKMAN/OLIVER LAKE Visiting Texture cd (Intakt, Switzerland)

✰ BARON SATURDAY Concrete Poetry cassette (Mystery Plane, U.K.)

✰ NINA HARKER Nina Harker cassette (Le Syndicat Des Scorpions, France)

✰ DAVID NANCE Do The Negative Boogie (Ba Da Bing)

GOLDEN PELICANS Disciples Of Blood (Goner)

ÆTHER JAG Amaranthine Stretch cassette (No Rent)

GAD WHIP In A Room (ever/never)

YANNICK DAUBY Magicien Rouch cassette (Tanuki, Belgium)

MAX LODERBAUER & JACEK SIENKIEWICZ End cd (Recognition, Poland)

VÁR By Ghost And Tape (Home Normal, Japan)

ANGELICA SANCHEZ TRIO Float The Edge cd (Clean Feed, Portugal)

LECH NIENARTOWICZ Nici cassette (Dinzu Artefacts)

EKMAN & OWEN Ekman & Owen 7″ (Goodbye Boozy, Italy)

POU Dimonis (Metadona, Spain)

HANS CHEW Open Sea (At The Helm)

DALIA RAUDONIKYTÉ WITH Solitarius cd (New Focus Recordings)

GŪTARA KYŌ Gütara Kyō 10″ (Slovenly/Mondo Mongo)

TUCKER THEODORE Lady Hope cassette (Antiquated Future)

MIA SCHOEN Golden Hour (Albert’s Basement, Australia)

THE STRANGER The Void (bandcamp dl)

LAKES Silver Thorns 12″ EP (Paradise Daily, Australia)

Horrendous New Wave comp (Lumpy)

CHRIS FORSYTH & THE SOLAR MOTEL BAND Dreaming The Non-Dream (No Quarter)

TASHI DORJI & DAVID GRUBBA Fixed Entrance Derivatives cassette (Sky Lantern)

SAMUEL TRUITT Thorns cassette (Melters)

HELTA SKELTA Nightclubbin’ 7″ (Deranged, British Columbia, Canada)

UV-TV Glass (Deranged, British Columbia, Canada) & Go Away 7″ (Emotional Response

HASH REDACTOR Demo Tape 2017 (self-released bandcamp DL)

LEE NOBLE The Hell You Come In cassette (No Kings)

PRETTY PRETTY Demo II cassette (Superdreamer)

AGUSTÍ MARTÍNEZ/EDUARD ALTABA/QUICU SAMSÓ On The Nature Of Will (Discordian bandcamp DL, Spain)

the TRENDEES We Are Sonic Art (Melted Ice Cream, NZ/Albert’s Basement, Australia)

GREG ASHLEY Pictures of Saint Paul Street (Trouble In Mind)

DAVE REMPIS Solo cd (Aerophonic)

TIN FOIL Tin Foil (Almost Ready)

HACO Qoosui cd (Room40, Australia)

PETER LEWIS Just Like Jack (Shagrat, U.K./Hookah)

PROSTITUTES Live At Cookout (TRAM Planet)

ANTENES Shifting Zones 12″ (Silent Season, Canada)

LOFT Three Settlements Four Ways 12″ (Wisdom Teeth, U.K.) & Turn My Built Dances (The Astral Plane)

NEUTRALS Promotional Cassette 2 cassette (Neutrals)

JOE MORRIS/BRAD BARRETT/ERIC STILLWELL Value (Glacial Erratic bandcamp DL)

DARLINGCHEMICALIA Off Blonde (self-released bandcamp DL)

WV WHITE House Of The Spiritual Athletes (Anyway)

CHAVEZ Cockfighters 12″ (Matador)

RYAN GARBES Living Ether cassette (Post-Materialization Music, Russia)

TRAMPOLINE TEAM Drug Culture 7″ (Space Taker Sounds/Pelican Pow Wow) & Trampoline Team/Mama split 7″ (Giveaway)

LAURA BAIRD I Wish I Were A Sparrow (Ba Da Bing)

MAREIKE SAUER The Tension and the Body of the Woman of Mystery cd (Karl Schmidt Verlag, Germany)

FNU CLONE Binary Or Die (Total Punk)

DAN MELCHIOR Road Not Driving (ever/never)

$UN $KELETONS GET IT UP YERS TRIO R.I.P. Music & Absolutely Fucked In & Rust Belt UK cd-rs (Double Dot Dash!?, U.K.)

VIOLENCE CREEPS Ease The Seed Bag 7″ (Drunken Sailor, U.K.) & The Gift Of Music + Singles cassette (Total Punk) & Northwest Tour Tape 2017 (self-released)

ERIC COPELAND Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect (L.I.E.S.)

WIREHEADS Lightning Ears (Tenth Court, Australia)

DANIEL LEVIN Living (Smeraldina-Rima, Belgium)

the COWBOYS Vol. 4 (Drunken Sailor, U.K.)

IRENE KEPL SololoS cd (Fou, France) & Superstring Theory bandcamp download (SoundOut, Australia)

VIDEO DUCT Small Pets And Kitchenettes cassette (Maple Death, Italy)

SCUPPER Some Gauls (Blue Cheese Toothpaste)

MOSQUITOES Mosquitoes one sided 12″ (self-released, U.K.)

BLUE CHEMISE Influence On Dusk (Gravity Ventilator, Australia) & “The Music Lesson”/”Watcher At The Window” 7″ (I Dischi Del Barone, Sweden)

CONTRIBUTORS Contributors (Monofonus Press)

NICOLE MITCHELL Awakening II: Emerging Worlds cd (FPE)

KALEIDOSCOPE Volume 3 (Feel It Records)

Ladyfest Boston 2017 cassette comp (Ladyfest)

BRIDGET HAYDEN Incantations From Yin Valley cassette (Fort Evil Fruit, Ireland)

MIKE COOPER Raft (Room40, Australia)

MAZOZMA Heavy Death Head (Feeding Tube)

SUSS CUNTS Suss Cunts 7″ ep (Emotional Response) & “Newby” (Suss Cunts bandcamp DL)

MATT JENCIK Weird Times (Hands In The Dark)

somesurprises serious dreams cassette (Eiderdown Records)

CIGGIE WITCH Mad Music (Lost & Lonesome, Australia)

SUN VALLEY Black Canyons (bandcamp DL)

MORDECAI Abstract Recipe (Richie Records)

JANTAR Panisperna (MIE Music, U.K.)

SARAH DAVACHI All My Circles Run (Students Of Decay)

KÜKEN Küken (Drunken Sailor, U.K.)

ULAAN PASSERINE The Landscape of Memory (Worstward)

MY TEENAGE STRIDE Living In The Straight World cassette (Unblinking Ear)

SLOW TONGUED BEAUTY The Absolution Of Royalty cassettes (No Rent)

DAVID FIRST Same Animal, Different Cages Vol. 3: Civil War Songs (for Solo Harmonica) (Fabrica)

REBEKAH HELLER Metafagote (New Focus Recordings)

DIANETICS Booked Learned 7″ (Weirdly) & And Psycho Horse cassette (Gut Freak)

SPARROW STEEPLE Steeple Two (Richie Records) & A Aardvark (ever/never)

WEATHER WEAPON II (self-released bandcamp DL)

KRISTY & THE KRAKS Snakes On The Phone 7″ (Fettkakao, Austria)

STEPHAN CRUMP/INGRID LAUBROCK/CORY SMYTHE Planktonic Finales cd (Intakt, Switzerland)

NAG “Motorcycle Blue” + 2 7″ (Third Uncle/Chunklet) & False Anxiety 7″ (Total Punk) & No Flag + 2 7″ (Space Taker Sounds)

ROSS MANNING Reflex In Waves (Room40, Australia) &

Both Sides of the Cocoon cassette (Chemical Imbalance., Australia)

DANIEL LEVIN QUARTET Live At Firehouse 12 cd (Firehouse 12)

RAKTA Oculto Pelos Seres 7" (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos, U.K.)

MARBLED EYE EP II 7" (Melters/Digital Regress)

RIK & THE PIGS Blue Jean Queen 7″ (Feel It) & A Child’s Gator (Total Punk)

US WEEKLY US Weekly (Night Moves)

KEN IKEDA + DAVID TOOP Skin Tones cd (Home Normal, Japan)

L$D FUNDRAISER Drones On Lap Steel (self-released, NZ) + like, 30 others

MDOU MOCTAR Sousoume Tamachek (Sahel Sounds)

CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA Mirage (Room40, Australia)

the DREAM SYNDICATE How Did I Find Myself Here? (Anti-)

DAY CREEPER A Mirror To The Fire (Heel Turn/Superdreamer)

LITTLE MAZARN Little Mazarn (Self Sabotage)

BAUS Secret Bathroom Recordings (self-released bandcamp DL)

MARK CONE Now Showing (Neck Chop)

LÉONIE RISJETERRE Tresseterre cd (Soleils Bleus, France)

ENDLESS BOOGIE Vibe Killer (No Quarter)

MCHY I PORØSTY Hypnagogic Polish Music For Teenage Mutants cd (Recognition, Poland)

DAG Benefits Of Solitude (Bedroom Suck, Australia)

ANGEL DUST Excavatum cassette (Dinzu Artefacts)

MAXIMUM ERNST with DANIEL CARTER Maximum Ernst cd (ever/never)

BALLISTER: REMPIS/LONGBERG-HOLM/NILSEN-LOVE Slag cd (Aerophonic)

RABBIT U.S. Rabbit U.S. lathe 7″ (Third Uncle)

INSTITUTE Subordination (Sacred Bones)

RUBBER MATE Cha Boi 7″ (Total Punk) & Tour Tape MMXVII cassette (self-released)

MARY LATTIMORE Collected Pieces cassette (Ghostly International)

VERY MENTAL (Total Punk)

UNITED WATERS The Narrows (Drawing Room)TYSHAWN SOREY Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings)

A GIANT DOG Toy (Merge)

DREAM WEAPON RITUAL The Uncanny Little Sparrows (Boring Machines, Italy)

SMALL WORLD EXPERIENCE Soft Knocks (Tenth Court, Australia)

DIRTY & HIS FISTS Dirty & HIs Fists 7″ (Feel It)

ABBY LEE TEE Hebert’s Archive cassette (Dinzu Artefacts)

BLANK STATEMENTS Signs Are Rampant cassette (Hobbies Galore, New Zealand)

NOTS“Cruel Friend"/"Violence" 7″ (Goner) & Live At Goner Records (Goner)

LEA BERTUCCI All That Is Solid Melts Into Air cassette (NNA Tapes)

SICK THOUGHTS Songs About People You Hate (Neck Chop)

MOHLAO Landforms (Silent Season, Canada)

ISOTOPE SOAP Piñata Chaos 12" (Levande Begravd Records, Sweden) & The WOW! Signal EP 7" (Levande Begravd Records, Sweden)

JIM HAYNES Tiny Portraits 3″ cd-r (Flaming Pines, U.K.)

ISS (Endless Pussyfooting) (Erste Theke Tonträger, Germany)

PREENING Beeters 7″ (Digital Regress)

MIKE MAJKOWSKI Days And Other Days cassette (Astral Spirits)

RANGERS Texas Rock Bottom cd (Doom Trip)

KNOWSO Look At The Chart (Neck Chop)

CIRCUIT DES YEUX Reaching For Indigo (Drag City)

WHIT DICKEY/MAT MANERI/MATTHEW SHIPP Vessel In Orbit cd (Aum Fidelity)

SWEET APPLE Sing The Night In Sorrow (Tee Pee)

LEDA ‎Gitarrmusik III-X (Förlag För Fri Musik, Sweden)

TROPICAL TRASH Decisions' Empty Nest 7″ ep (Sophomore Lounge) & A Dent In The Forever Can cassette (The Loki Label)

GUILHEM LACOUX La Traversée double cassette (Standard in-Fi, France)

IAN WILLIAM CRAIG Slow Vessels 12″ ep (130701, U.K.)

MOZART Nasty 7″ep (Iron Lung)

TREASURE HUNT with DENNIS WARREN’S FULL METAL REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE Space Jam cassette (Moon Glyph)

CENTURY PALM Meet You (Deranged, British Columbia, Canada)

GATE Highway Ghosts (self-released, New Zealand)

the FEELIES In Between (Bar None)

SCHIZOS Fuck Iggy Pop 7″ (Neck Chop)

VIOLENT QUAND ON AIME Violent Quand On Ame 7″ (Le Syndicat des Scorpions, France)

HONEY New Moody Judy (Wharf Cat)

ANXIETY Wild Life 7″ (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos, U.K.)

EARTH GIRL HELEN BROWN Mercury & Mars & Saturn cassettes (all Empty Cellar)

the BLINDS The Blinds cassette (Hobbies Galore, Australia)

FRENCH VANILLA French Vanilla cassette (Danger Collective)

HEAVY METAL LP 2 (Static Age Musik, Germany) & LP 3 (Harbinger Sound, U.K.)

fEEDTIME Gas (In The Red)

REESE McHENRY w/ SPIDER BAGS Bad Girl (Sophomore Lounge)

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Dell Technologies and Westworld’s Jeffrey Wright Tackle Clarke’s Third Law in Y&R Ads

It’s not magic. It’s science.

That’s the familiar spirit of a new campaign from Dell Technologies—the company’s first major advertising rollout since forming via the merger of Dell and EMC last fall.

Westworld actor Jeffrey Wright plays spokesman in a series of ads emphasizing the corporation’s computing contributions to a range of industries. Y&R created the campaign, and Academy Award winner Tom Hooper directs.

In the 1:00 centerpiece, Wright editorializes to the camera during a school play. “Magic is pretty amazing,” he says. “It can transform a frog into a prince. And sadness into happily ever after.” But kids’ stuff quickly gives way to big, dramatic business declarations, as Wright rattles off a list of ways Dell is changing familiar objects—jet planes, milk cows, hospital beds—into futuristic information systems.

His pitch comes complete with dazzling sci-fi light effects, and bovine satellite linkups. “It’s not the simple wave of a wand,” he says. “It’s people and technology working together to transform impossible into reality.”

“Magic can’t make digital transformation happen, but we can,” he concludes. “Let’s make it real.”

That tagline anchors a handful of smaller, narrower :30 spots, zooming in on Dell’s partnerships with other companies—GE for aerospace diagnostics, Columbia Sportswear for cloud services, Chitale Dairy for internet-connected cows—as Wright offers more detail on the workings and purpose of each, before delivering the same promise.

At its heart, it’s a rah-rah twist on Arthur C. Clarke’s third law—that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. That adage is fast becoming a cliché among tech companies desperate to make their opaque offerings digestible—even emotionally compelling—to the luddite masses. Apple, for example, has distilled that same basic concept into its own tagline, “Practically Magic,” if perhaps executed it with more immediacy.

The new Dell campaign is certainly carefully crafted, and in some ways beautifully presented—meticulously written, deftly staged and well acted, with plenty of eye candy mixed in, with certain elements, like VFX company Framestore’s projection mapping, achieved using Dell technology.

A behind-the-scenes video benefits, though, from being a little less stiff, and less willfully dramatic—Wright explains more conversationally why the idea matters, and why consumers might care about Dell. In that moment it’s hard to shake the impression that the marketer, in its rush to make its sales pitch seem larger than life, might have forgotten to make it feel human.

In fact, the casual bootstrap kicker, “Let’s make it real,” apparently meant to draw audiences into the mission, may end up muddying the message, and the target. Dell, no longer just a personal computing and hardware company, is trying to reintroduce itself to consumers, but also pitching its suite of cloud and IT software services to businesses—and doing both at the same time is a tall order.

To be fair, it doesn’t help Dell’s case that some elements of its argument are well-known at this point. GE emphasizes its networked industrial machinery in its own advertising (connected, self-diagnosing jet engines are not news at this point). It’s also run its own series on “Unimpossible Missions,” proving its technology in fresh ways. Companies like Cisco, meanwhile, have for years been running advertising celebrating the delightful successes and wild possibilities of rapidly advancing information systems—a dynamic Dell arguably itself captured better in its past “Future Ready” campaign.

The biggest problem with its new message, though, in the end, may be that it doesn’t know whether to embrace the wonder that its technology facilitates—or reduce that sense of magic to nuts and bolts.

CREDITS Dell Technologies Chief Marketing Officer – Jeremy Burton SVP Global Brand and Creative – Liz Matthews Director Brand Strategy and Advertising – Rachael Henke Brand Strategy and Advertising – Valerie Daubert

Y&R Global Executive Creative Director – Christian Carl Global Creative Director – Thomas Shim Copywriter, Creative Director – Justin Ebert Executive Producer – Bobby Jacques Content Producer – Nicole Lederman Sr Business Manager- Maggie Diaz President, Global Technology & Business Practice – Joe Rivas Account Director- Heather Hosey Group Account Director – Rachel Krouse Account Executive- George Rainaldi Strategic Planning Director – Jenna Rounds

Production Company: Smuggler Director: Tom Hooper Co Founder: Brian Carmody Executive Producer: Shannon Jones DP: Justin Brown Line Producer: Alex Lisee

Edit House: Rock Paper Scissors Editor (It’s Not Magic): Adam Pertofsky Editor (GE, Columbia, Chitale): Ted Guard Executive Producer: Eve Kornblum Producer: Jenny Greenfield

VFX: Framestore NY Dez Macleod-Veilleux – Executive Producer Maura Hurley – Senior Producer David Mellor – Creative Director Gigi Ng – Senior Flame Artist / VFX Supervisor Georgios Cherouvim – Senior CG Lead Dan Soloman – Senior Designer Karch Coom – Senior Compositor Callum McKeveny – Concept Designer / Senior Matte Painter

Color: Company 3 Colorist: Tim Masick

Sound: Sound Lounge Mixer/Sound Designer – Tom Jucarone

Projection Mapping: Go 2 Productions

Music: duotone audio group Executive Producer: Ross Hopman Creative Director: Jack Livesey Producer: Gio Lobato

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