#the punk singer 2013

[gothmusiclatinamerica]

"¡Que zombies!" by Santiago, Chile-based post-punk, deathrock, and batcave act UltraStigma off of their 2013 album Memorias fúnebres

#batcave #deathrock #post punk #deathrock revival #UltraStigma #¡Que zombies! #Memorias fúnebres #music #first share #female singer #male singer too #two singers #Chilean #South American #Chilean deathrock #South American deathrock #2013 #Bandcamp

[mcforwhatiam]

Kathleen Hanna and Ad-Rock at The Punk Singer Premiere in NYC, November 2013

📸 Astrid Stawiarz

#beastie boys #ad-rock #adam horovitz #kathleen hanna #posted on insta #the punk singer #2013 #reblogged this set ages ago but these are better quality and photographer credited

[quartztwst]

r there any miku figures you would assign to octa 🗣️🗣️

I JUST WATCHED A VIDEO OF SOMEONE RANKING ALL THE MIKU NENDOROIDS SO I KINDA NOW WHAT IM DOING

so first miku nendoroids

JADE LEECH IS 2013 SNOW MIKU NENDOROID

i think the clothes are really cozy and warm and the buns are super cute

there is no full size one because I think this is based off her 3d model?? but it’s very cute

FLOYD LEECH IS MIKU ABSOLUTE HMO EDITION NENDOROID

i found the long sleeves cute AND SHE HAS DRUMS

AZUL ASHENGROTTO IS MIKU WITH YOU 2021 NENDOROID

idk why but I found the hat to be cute and i like her hair

HER FULL FIGURE IS DAZZLING THOUGH her nendoroid really waters it down a bit 😭😭😭

okay to the real figures though…

Jade is LAM Rock Singer Miku

I STILL WONT EVER GET OVER PUNK JADE IDKK the figure is real nice though

Floyd is JAPAN TOUR 2023 Miku Thunderbolt vers

AT FIRST GLANCE, IT’S HARD TO UNDERSTAND THE FIGURE’S POSITION AND BACKGROUND but when you keep looking at it, it’s easy. IT’S LIKE FLOYD I SWEAR.

Azul is Deep Sea Girl Miku figure

ITS A PRETTY FIGURE FOR ME AND ALSO ITS IN THE SEA (azul doesn’t like the sea very much tho)

or this one can be Azul’s bc I THINK IT’S GORGEOOUSS

#azul ashengrotto #jade leech #floyd leech

[poppletonink]

The Watchlist: Feminist Films

His Girl Friday (1940)

The Color Purple (1985)

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Erin Brockovich (2000)

Miss Congeniality (2000)

Legally Blonde (2001)

Frida (2002)

Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Persepolis (2007)

Brave (2012)

The Punk Singer (2013)

Suffragette (2015)

He Named Me Malala (2015)

Hidden Figures (2016)

Moana (2016)

Battle Of The Sexes (2017)

Wonder Woman (2017)

Little Women (2019)

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019)

Miss Americana (2020)

Enola Holmes (2020)

Moxie (2021)

She Said (2022)

Barbie (2023)

#feminism #feminist films #feminism is for everybody #feminist #intersectional feminism #feminist theory #feminist film list #film list #film recommendation #films #movie #movie list #movie rec list #movie recommendation #movie recs #film recommendations #punk rock feminism #riot girl #riot ghoul #riot grrrl #feminist fiction #women's history #women's rights #women #suffragette

[punkrockhistory]

In memory of Lewis Allan Reed, American musician, guitarist, singer and main songwriter of the proto punk / rock band The Velvet Underground, passed away today in 2013 at the age of 71.

#punk #punkrock #protopunk #loureed #thevelvetunderground #history #punkrockhistory #otd

[silliest-dude]

I'm not sure if this is what you were looking for, or how 101 I should get with this (please forgive me in advance if this is stuff you already know), but some things that make me absolutely feral about Peterick are:

*Patrick originally auditioned to be the band's drummer, but after hearing Patrick sing for the first time, Pete immediately shut that idea down and made him the singer. Patrick sees himself as a composer before anything else, and he only sings because Pete saw his talent, and needed someone to help share his words.

* Patrick suffered from intense stage fright early on, and so Pete gave him a knit hat (the one you see on the "Take This To Your Grave" cover) to wear as a security blanket, and cover his eyes; As we all know, hats have been a part of Patrick's stage wardrobe ever since! Patrick's stage fright is also the reason why Pete does most of the talking onstage. Patrick has said both of them have qualities the other lacks, and so they essentially make up one person in the group.

* And let's not forget their whole writing dynamic! Since "Take This To Your Grave", Pete basically gives his diary entries to Patrick in the form of poetry, full of all his pain and joy, and Patrick is in charge of turning those words into music. Essentially, they're always writing for each other!

* Naturally, more than a few of the lyrics Pete writes are about Patrick himself. Most of it is conjecture, of course, as Pete rarely says exactly who his words are about, but two of the times Pete has broken that rule, has been to say that he had Patrick in mind: "What A Catch, Donnie", which he wrote to remind Patrick how incredible he is (this was their last single before they went on indefinite hiatus, which makes me cry all the time!), and the line "I am half-doomed, and you're semi-sweet" from "Disloyal Order Of Water Buffaloes" (On Genius, Pete said "This can be anyone you feel that close to. Sometimes it's a girl, but honestly sometimes it was Patrick")

* There were two times in the band's history, where their future was uncertain: When they went on hiatus after "Folie A Deux," due to infighting, and the Pandemic, when everyone was in lockdown and Pete wasn't sure if he wanted to return to the studio. After "Folie", Patrick made a solo album called Soul Punk, but was heartbroken when it didn't sell well, and fans just kept comparing it to FOB. Pete reached out to him after an incredibly painful blog post he wrote then later took down, and said "You know what you need? You need your band", which is what brought about their glorious surprise return in 2013, and the album "Save Rock and Roll". Patrick returned the favor almost a decade later, when COVID made Pete afraid to leave his house. Patrick knew that if he was excited about writing new music, Pete would be too, and so he started working on what would be "So Much (For) Stardust". Patrick was right, and they started writing together again, for their first album in 4 years. The rest, as they say, is history...

I could honestly go on forever, but these two are living proof soul mates exist, and I will never stop being emotional about them!

holy SHIT I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU FOR THIS. anon if you end up seeing this PLEASE feel free to dm me and go into more depth/add anything/rant because this is fucking incredible and i cant repay you for this

#kobra answers asks

[warmglowofsurvival]

MTV Artist To Watch: twenty | one | pilots

Posted 1/28/13 6:00 am EST by Rachel Brodsky

Meet MTV's Artist To Watch, Twenty One Pilots.

Meet twenty | one | pilots: masters of the piano-back flip.

We have so many questions for Columbus' twenty | one | pilots. First, why the breaks in their name? Why all the masks? If they had to classify themselves as a single genre, what would it be? These are the first of many questions that surface regarding the multifaceted, multi-genred duo -- between drummer Josh Dun and lead singer Tyler Joseph, the pair manage to create a sound that is neither here, nor there, not rock and not pop, DEFINITELY kinda hip-hop, but also twenty | one tries at everything else on the spectrum. Feeling confused yet? Not to worry -- TOP's quirky brand of pop-meets-hip-hop-meets-rock-meets-hardcore may sound complex, but it only takes one live viewing to know that all those loose ends are immediately tightened up once TOP hit the stage.

Old friends from high school, the guys got their start by self-releasing two full-length albums and built a major Midwest following with a subsequent deluge of energetic shows (the guys have been known to backflip off pianos mid-show, and that certainly doesn't hurt visibility). Now signed to Fueled By Ramen (also home to Paramore!), TOP have since released a Three Songs EP and now a third full-length album, Vessel.

Produced by Greg Wells (who also worked with Adele), Vessel features punchy, hard-hitting, melodic ditties like "Holding On To You" and "Guns For Hands" (which you can download here!), tracks that channel Matt & Kim's cheer-punk attitude, the Beastie Boys' shouting hip-hop vocals, and Eminem's fast-talking nasal bark. You can even hear a little Ben Folds Five in TOP's piano-infused beats (before the vocals kick in, obvs), while Vessel's "Migraine" kicks off with a vocoded ELO vibe.

Now one of MTV's Artists To Watch for 2013, the rock-rap-tronica duo (See? We tried to classify them) recently performed at MTV's "Artist To Watch" showcase, where they rolled out a teeming set of pop-core anthems, onstage gymnastics, ‘90s R&B covers, and Blue Man-esque side-by-side drumming.

In addition to preparing to become the biggest band in the world, twenty | one | pilots are currently touring the U.S. through February -- catch them before they hit Japan and South Korea in March! There might even be some backflips in it for you.

+ Watch twenty | one | pilots perform "Car Radio" and "Guns For Hands" live at NYC's Highline Ballroom, and check out more of MTV's 2013 Artists To Watch.

#twenty one pilots #twentyonepilots #josh dun #joshua dun #tyler joseph #2013 #jan #january #jan 28 #january 28 #jan 2013 #january ‘13 #jan ‘13 #january 2013 #mtv #mtv artist to watch #artist to watch #interview #text

[bala5]

Grace Jones

Grace Beverly Jones (born 19 May 1948??) is a model, singer and actress. Born in Jamaica, she and her family moved to Syracuse, New York, when she was a teenager. Jones began her modeling career in New York state, then in Paris, working for fashion houses such as Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, and appearing on the covers of Elle and Vogue. She notably worked with photographers such as Jean-Paul Goude, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer, and became known for her distinctive androgynous appearance and bold features.

Her grandfather, John Williams, was also a musician and played with Nat King Cole. Her father, Bishop Robert Winston Jones, moved the family to CNY and founded the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ in Syracuse. Jones' brother is megachurch preacher Bishop Noel Jones, who starred on the 2013 reality show Preachers of LA.

Through her relationship with longtime collaborator Jean-Paul Goude, Jones has one son, Paulo. From Paulo, Jones has one granddaughter.

Jones attended Central High School in Syracuse. She claims she doesn't know how old she is. Although some sources say she was born in 1948, Jones says she graduated early from Central High School in Syracuse in 1967; she was around 15 years old, ahead of most of her peers due to more rigorous education at an early age in Jamaica. She also studied theater at Onondaga Community College.

Beginning in 1977, Jones embarked on a music career, securing a record deal with Island Records and initially becoming a high-profile figure of New York City's Studio 54-centered disco scene. In the early 1980s, she moved toward a new wave style that drew on reggae, funk, post-punk, and pop music, frequently collaborating with both the graphic designer Jean-Paul Goude and the musical duo Sly & Robbie. She scored Top 40 entries on the UK Singles Chart with "Private Life", "Pull Up to the Bumper", "I've Seen That Face Before", and "Slave to the Rhythm". In 1982, she released the music video collection A One Man Show, directed by Goude, which earned her a nomination for Best Video Album at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards. Her most popular albums include Warm Leatherette (1980), Nightclubbing (1981), and Slave to the Rhythm (1985).

As an actress, Jones appeared in several indie films prior to landing her first mainstream appearance as Zula in the fantasy-action film Conan the Destroyer (1984) alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sarah Douglas, and subsequently appeared in the James Bond movie A View to a Kill (1985) as May Day, and starred as a vampire in Vamp (1986); all of which earned her nominations for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1992, Jones acted in the Eddie Murphy film Boomerang, and contributed to the soundtrack. She also appeared alongside Tim Curry in the 2001 film Wolf Girl.

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Scottish actor Richard Madden born June 18th 1986 in Elderslie.

Richard was raised by his mother, Pat, a classroom assistant and his father, Richard, who worked for the fire service. He also has two sisters, Cara and Lauren.

His parents were “hippies”, he says, and their house was pretty open, with friends always piling in for big vegetarian meals. Madden spent a lot of time outside, in the woods behind their house. He has several injuries: he shows me where he shot his dad’s old air pistol and blew off part of his finger, then managed to wreck the same finger when he nailed a wooden plank to his skateboard, then crashed it, so apart from the Hippie parents it was much like most of our own days as bairns.

Despite growing up wanting to be an actor, Richard was very shy during his childhood. To overcome this, at age 11, he joined Paisley Arts Centre’s youth theatre program. In 1999 he was given the lead role as Sebastian Simpkins in BBC1’s children’s TV comedy series Barmy Aunt Boomerang, that’s him aged 12 in the first pic with co-star Toyah Wilcox.. By 2000, he’d made his feature film debut in the Iain Banks adaptation, Complicity.

After high school he was accepted to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland and in 2007, he graduated.

Less than two years later, Richard had a recurring role as Dean McKenzie on the 2009 BBC series Hope Springs. Soon after, he landed the role of Ripley in the 2010 movie Chatroom, a film about a group of teenagers who encourage each other’s bad behaviours after meeting online. In the same year, Richard played punk band Theatre of Hate singer Kirk Brandon in Worried About the Boy, a TV film about the life of British singer-songwriter Boy George.

In 2011 Richard landed his breakthrough role as Robb Stark in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones. Also in 2011, he played gay paramedic Ashley Greenwick on the short-lived British comedy-drama Sirens. During hiatus from filming Game of Thrones in 2013, Richard was cast to star as Prince Charming in the 2015 Disney film Cinderella.

Richard won his first Screen Actors Guild award in 2014 for the Discovery Channel mini-series, Klondike. He played Bill Haskell, one of two adventurers who travel to Yukon, Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush in the 1890s. He further enhanced his reputation as a good actor when he appeared in the BBC drama Bodyguard in 2018, the following year he played Lieutenant Joseph Blake in the film 2017 and was Elton John’s manager/lover in the biop of the star Rocketman.

In January 2019 Madden won  a prestigious Golden Globe for his role as war veteran David Budd in the BBC show Bodyguard. He also appeared in the 2019 war movie 1917.

We last saw Richard in the movie,  Eternals, which was okay, but nothing great, he is one of several actors being touted as the next James Bond,

James is currently in the Amazon Prime series Citadel, I've watched the first three episodes and am not really impressed with it,I think he does pull of the American accent well, but I noticed there have been people saying he doesn't pull it off, Madden revealed he spoke in the accent for two years straight to prepare for the series. The show has been earmarked for a second series. Richard is set to appear in the feature film Killer Heat next.

In July 2019, Madden received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. When asked about his personal life during a New York Times interview following speculation about his relationships and sexuality, Madden stated: “I just keep my personal life personal.”

Madden was recently named one of ‘Scotland’s Sexiest Men'  following a new study that identifies the most attractive features for men, he has competition though,  also in the running are Bathgate’s David Tennant  and Glasgow’s James McAvoy,

#scotland #scottish #actor #television #cinema #happy birhtday

[souryogurt64]

hello mrs souryogurt i'm thoroughly enjoying your blog today. idk, going through and reading all this interesting stuff about sampling is cool. 👍

Not related to sampling but related to the general convo happening and something I referenced lol—

One of the things that first dialed me in to the fact that Pete’s book was supposed to have a double meaning was the usage of the word “negroes” in it twice. I read it in 2013 and I was only like 14 and was a short-term, casual FOB fan so I wasn’t aware he was biracial. A couple other times he references specifically black people were really noticeable in the prose. 

It really caught me off guard because I figured he wouldn’t just be throwing that word around for no reason, and along with the Freudian stuff being clearly strange kind of kept me reading the book over and over and trying to figure it out. 

One of the times is referencing Charley Pride:  (This is from the dissertation)

There are many more of these little metaphors throughout Gray, and each of them have special meanings. Wentz’s self-insert mentions— in extra-special parentheses— that his girlfriend decided that if he were a book, he’d be “(The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music, 1970, featuring… Charley Pride, ‘the first Negroe Country star’);” Pete Wentz is biracial, with Jamaican heritage, and became more or less the face of the white-dominated genre of pop-punk and emo rock. 

But there’s another one too:

(This is from the book)

“I drop a quarter in the jukebox, summon the ghosts of ducktailed rockabilly cats and tousled-haired teen idols, sweet-voiced doo-wop singers and yelping young Negroes with wild pompadours. They were the kings of their era, the Imperials and the Belmonts, the Diamonds and the Del-Vikings. They were the savages of the decade, pounding the piano, and thumping the upright bass. Pulling pints of whiskey from their back pockets. Groping girls. Having wild times.”

I did talk about the Charley Pride thing obviously but not the Diamonds/Del Vikings one, there was a LOT I could not get into in the dissertation because of the sheer magnitude of it and I only noticed the Diamonds/Del-Vikings thing when it was essentially finished and didn’t know how to work it back in, which was probably a failure on my part haha. I also was struggling to parse out the exact specifics with the Belmonts and Imperials but it’s a similar gist I think

But anyway, the Del-Vikings were known for being a successfully mixed-race doo-wop group when that was really rare cause it was the 50s, and by contrast the Diamonds were super racist and met at a literal minstrel show, and performed a lot of covers by black artists who were being exploited by-and-large by the music industry which is what tangentially connects this back to the conversation happening on yogurt.edu currently 

Anyway for anyone who has not read my 40 page dissertation about Pete’s book no one but me likes (can’t blame you if you haven’t), I argue it has a secret double meaning as satire but is also meant to be partially authentic and he passed it off as bad on purpose to hide the double meaning and a lot of factual elements of the book. So like it could be interpreted as either a mockery /satire of the main character which is supposed to be like how people view him and “emo” guys / rock stars in general, or authentic and genuine and serious depending on how you look at it.

SO ANYWAY, I feel like by including that word twice and also invoking these two wistful and idolizing images of very different types of 50s acts, it’s playing into that double meaning thing by sort of ambiguously casting the narrator as someone who is biracial/black and is pointing out black people he sees because he is biracial/black, or someone who is not that and is not a good person. 

But on the 5D chess level the entire book operates on where the only people who would be able to recognize the entire subtext are either incredibly dedicated to figuring it out or are incredibly knowledgeable about rock music 

There were a lot of other references to bands and some other stuff that I felt like were probably saying something (Lynyrd Skynyrd in particular had some stuff to do with like death and planes and dying young) but I felt like some of it was kind of going over my head a bit and it was already 40 pages haha 

The amount of effort and skill that went into pulling this book off is truly mind boggling to me and I do strongly feel the interpretation I had of the Diamonds/Del-Vikings thing was intentional, but I didn’t want to write it badly and come across as insensitive or offensive, which may have been another failure on my part especially since it would have been awkward to put back in to the finished essay anyway 

[gothmusiclatinamerica]

"Baile Fatal" by Santiago, Chile-based post-punk, deathrock, and batcave act UltraStigma off of their 2013 album Memorias fúnebres

#post punk #deathrock #batcave #alt #UltraStigma #Baile Fatal #Memorias fúnebres #music #Chilean #South American #2013 #female singer #and a male singer #one of each #two singers #Santiago Chile #2010s goth #Chilean goth #Chilean deathrock #Bandcamp

[mcforwhatiam]

Ad-Rock and Mike D at The Punk Singer Premiere in NYC, November 2013

📸 Astrid Stawiarz

#beastie boys #ad-rock #mike d #2013 #the punk singer #posted on insta

[shakecup]

2013 tumblr punk retrospective contribute if you can think of anything. fidlar, wavves, AJJ, ummm....the front bottoms....ty segall...the oh sees...the black lips's early stuff...mustn't forget the unicorns...and what was the one band that started on here that was kinda twee, pleasant synth stuff and it was a cartoon band and the singer was a bear wearing overalls and the other one was a little mouse.

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2003 - Number 1 - Birgitta - "Open Your Heart"

It's probably no surprise at this point that my number one for 2003 comes from Iceland - and it's their actual Eurovision entry. Birgitta Haukdal Brynjarsdóttir won Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2003 with over twice the televote numbers of second place. Given the wide variety of songs that were in the Icelandic national final, maybe it's a surprise that the winner was a conventional upbeat pop track rather than punk or bossa nova. But there is a reason that Birgitta won, beyond the song being utterly Eurovision perfect.

For three years, she'd been the lead singer with Icelandic band Írafár. They were formed in 1998 when Birgitta was 19 - a bit of a late start when compared to the careers of many Icelandic singers in the 1990s. She and the band made up for lost time by becoming one of the best known Icelandic pop acts within Iceland in the early 2000s. Their first album Allt Sem Ég Sé (All That I See) went platinum and by 2003 they were familiar faces on TV and in the Icelandic charts. To have the lead singer of that band on Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins was a bit of a coup, and perhaps it was expected that she would win.

That expectation was firmed up with the song. The Icelandic version, Segðu Allt mer (Tell Me Everything) easily won and, as is tradition for Iceland, got translated into English for Eurovision. The running order for Eurovision was determined by random lot in 2003, but this was one of those occasions when exactly the right song got picked. Iceland and Open Your Heart opened the show.

It's majestic pop. Nothing particularly unusual in the lyrics or construction of the song. It's got a huge key change after the bridge, it's got orchestral strings whipping up an emotional high leading into and throughout the choruses, it's got a singer in Birgitta who can not only deliver the power vocal it needs, but has a personality and stage presence filled with so much sunshine, it's almost necessary to watch her and her white trouser suit through sunglasses.

Those choruses are packed with every anthemic musical trick Birgitta and her co-writer Hallgrímur Óskarsson could think of. It's not only a sing-along, it's a heart-lifter and smile-bringer that truly set the stage for 2003 and one of the best contests in years. Of course going on first probably brought down Iceland's score, even though that meant they got to be shown last in the reversed recap. Iceland finished in a tie for 8th with Spain, but like Romania's entry, the song has lived on in Eurovision fan's memories ever since. Every time I listened to this in the bracket I was left with such a surge of joy and contentment it had to win even though it was up against many of the best Eurovision songs of the decade and a supercharged national final.

2003 was not Birgitta's first try at going for Eurovision. She'd had one previous go in 2001 - but let's just say that one is best forgotten. Subsequently she had another three attempts in 2006 (finishing 4th) as well as 2008 and 2013 (on both occasions making the final, but not reaching the superfinal).

To finish, here's a song from her band Írafár released in 2002, prior to her Eurovision appearance and from their first album. Here is Ég sjálf (Myself), showing some of the same compositional tricks used in Open Your Heart a year later.

#Youtube #esc #esc 2003 #eurovision #eurovision song contest #riga #riga 2003 #national finals #Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2003 #Iceland #Birgitta Haukdal Brynjarsdóttir #Írafár #Hallgrímur Óskarsson

[mywifeleftme]

231: The Pogues // If I Should Fall from Grace with God

If I Should Fall from Grace with God The Pogues 1988, Stiff

Take my hand, and dry your tears babe Take my hand, forget your fears babe There’s no pain, there’s no more sorrow They’re all gone, gone in the years babe

Ah Shane, another man surely claimed by the number one cause of death in Ireland: Irishness. Sometimes it felt like you had to take your finger and fish around in his horrible mouth for all the poetry you’d been told was in there, but if you kept at it you’d always pull out some slurred gem eventually. Like a lot of men of my genre, to me the Pogues personified down-but-not-out romance, the sort of music for cavorting and resisting but also for sliding your heavy boots along some dusted wood floor, with your hands around a woman’s waist and your exhausted nose in her good-smelling hair. They made masculine music, certainly, but in that manner that admits tears and tenderness among men, the way enough beer can blur the stiff boundary between straight dudes and whiskey can burn right through it by the end of a night. And they made smart music too, cognizant of history, ever on the side of the common person, but with a maniac zest for bloody myths and black-humoured political sloganeering.

MacGowan loved doomed poets like Federico Garcia Lorca and Brendan Behan, and it seemed that in his understanding there was no separating the doom from the poetry. Certainly he was avid in his commitment to both. In his lyrics and in his stage presence, he presented the figure of a tattered, drunken tramp, whose low state gives him vision, reckless freedom, and the right to broad sentimentality. It’s a pose that’s existed about as long as literature itself has, and there’s plenty of Irish and English folk songs that lean into the trope—what MacGowan, via his punk roots, brings to the table is that he sounds like that character when he sings. It’s moving when a ruinous drunk opens their gob and a high pure “Danny Boy” voice emerges. But with MacGowan, you feel like you’re right there in the bar or the prison cell or the ghostly pirate ship where the action is happening.

Of course, the Pogues were always more than just Shane, and it’s not unlikely he’d be a very obscure figure today if he hadn’t joined forces with such a formidable crew of instrumentalists. Though I’m partial to the MacGowan-dominated Rum Sodomy & the Lash, their most successful record, If I Should Fall from Grace with God, is the moment the band and their brilliant frontman achieved equilibrium. Many of the album’s finest songs are co-writes between MacGowan and banjo player Jem Finer, while new additions (and actual Irishmen) Terry Woods and Philip Chevron (himself passed away in 2013) each contribute moving originals. The band is every bit as put-together as Shane is not, but the record finds them as always shifting gracefully between hellraising punk, rare old dewy folk, and honest-to-God Christmas music without once seeming out of their element. On the better than respectable (though less than classic) albums that followed, they would effectively take up the slack left by their decreasingly functional singer. Even when Shane was often little more than a reeking stage prop, they remained a force in concert.

I own the first three Pogues records (and the Poguetry in Motion EP), and prior to today I hadn’t decided which I would write about. But when I heard the news, I knew immediately it would be Grace’s “The Broad Majestic Shannon” that would be the song to make me weep; and that decided it. Lesser known than the similarly swinging “Fairytale of New York,” but no less special to my heart, it tells in plain speech of the pain and relief in time’s passing. As MacGowan told it, “Shannon” is “a song about an Irishman returning to his hometown in County Tipperary after many years of living in London, and finding that everything about the place he grew up in has changed or disappeared.” He remembers a last drink with friends and a lover, a pensive moment sat at a crossroads where he took the place in a final time before pushing off. Sometime later, he returns to a wall where that crossroads once stood and stands by it a while, pushing around some old rubbish with his foot before shaking his head wryly at himself for being so sentimental about it. Threading those two moments in time there’s the chorus I quoted at the top of this piece, this rich, tender, accepting thing. On the first pass through, it could be the speaker comforting his loved ones on the eve of his departure; on the second, it seems the memory of his own words gently chides and comforts him. “The Broad Majestic Shannon” makes the iron, inescapable fact that all people and things must pass away sound like a blessing, and that coming to accept this fact is the requirement that makes truly living possible. Poets tend to be denied the benefits of their own insights, but they say even in his ruin Shane was content with his lot. He loved and was loved. And now he’s gone where there are no tears or cops or dentists, and we have our time together before we go too.

231/365

#shane macgowan #the pogues #celtic rock #folk punk #'80s music #fairytale of new york #broad majestic shannon #tribute #music review #vinyl record #dentistry #whiskey

[heavenboy09]

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You

The Iconic & Handsome Guatemalan 🇬🇹 American Actor In Cinema Today 🎥

Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada was born on March 9, 1979, in Guatemala City to a Guatemalan mother, María Eugenia Estrada Nicolle, and a Cuban father, Óscar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano, a pulmonologist. He has an older sister, climate scientist Nicole, and a younger brother, journalist Mike.

He is an American actor. Recognized for his versatility, he has been credited with breaking stereotypes about Latino characters in Hollywood. He was named the best actor of his generation by Vanity Fair in 2017 and one of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century by The New York Times in 2020. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2016, he featured on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Born in Guatemala, Isaac moved with his family to the US while an infant. As a teenager, he joined a punk band, acted in plays and made his film debut in a minor role. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Isaac was a character actor in films for much of the 2000s. His first major role was that of Joseph in the biblical drama The Nativity Story (2006), and he won an AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying political leader José Ramos-Horta in the Australian film Balibo (2009). After gaining recognition for playing supporting parts in Robin Hood (2010) and Drive (2011), Isaac had his breakthrough with the eponymous role of a singer in the musical drama Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination.

Isaac's career progressed with leading roles in the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014), the thriller Ex Machina (2015) and the superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). He became a global star with the role of Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019). Isaac starred in the historical drama Operation Finale (2018)—which marked his first venture into production—the science fiction films Annihilation (2018) and Dune (2021), the crime drama The Card Counter (2021) and the animated superhero film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).

On television, Isaac was the lead in three miniseries: Show Me a Hero (2015), in which his portrayal of Nick Wasicsko won him a Golden Globe Award, Scenes from a Marriage (2021), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Moon Knight (2022). His stage work includes title roles in Romeo and Juliet (2007), Hamlet (2017) and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (2023).

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