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I'm finally done with my university studies like all I have to do is submit some journal entries and my final and that's it. Forever. I never have to do a master's degree ever again and you'll never make me.
#it was really cool doing an educational theater class since my university has an extremely well renowned theater program#i mean my university is renowned in everything but ESPECIALLY theater#I can't believe I'm totally done like what a massive weight#I'm not showing off or anything but my university is well known abroad#anyway I finally achieved my revenge against my ex because although I was slow by a whole decade#i did get it done and got it done in a year and at a school my ex could never get into#I'm still honestly surprised I was accepted here and I'm forever grateful#also I do feel like if i have kids they do have a solid school to fall on thanks to me#anyway my family is pressuring me to get a PhD but I'm not doing education ever again and going back to English and/or writing#doing English means I should apply to this university or the other one but for writing I'd need to leave#I'm kind of interested in the one at Belfast#but living abroad for writing would be hard as fuck esp with by then living in NYC for a decade
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In the Wings: Mastering the Moment Before Your Entrance
The spotlight beckons. The audience waits with bated breath. But before you step onto the stage and steal the show, there’s a crucial, often overlooked moment – the one right before your entrance. This brief period, according to the teachings of Constantin Stanislavski and his influential protégés, is a vital opportunity to prime yourself for peak performance.
Stanislavski’s Inner…
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#acting#Beats#broadway#character#class#comedy#improv#interactive#kids#Magic if#method#new york#nyc#school#story#technique#teens#theater#times square#workshop
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The Devil Wears Prada Headcanons
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(These are all based off of the movie versions of the characters so some things from canon in the book are not taken into consideration.)
- Andrea is 1000% a Billy Joel fan and collects records.
-Emily is not a natural redhead but actually dyes her hair.
-The way Andy met all of her friends including Nate was definitely through theater classes during college (all of those people are former theater kids, don’t try to change my mind.)
-Miranda enjoys scrapbooking as well as sketching and watercolors.
-Miranda cannot socialize in a non professional setting at al.
-Andy curses like a sailor.
-Miranda is absolutely disgusted by NYC pests (rats, cockroaches, etc.), Andy tries to find the cuteness in them.
-Andy plays up how good she is at sports but is downright awful.
-The only times Emily will ditch work is when Miranda is on vacation, she and Serena will go to lunch for hours.
-Miranda is not 100% how to properly use a microwave.
-Andy kept her cerulean sweater, even after what Miranda said about it.
-I personally headcanon both Miranda and Andrea from the movie as Jewish because in the book they are.
-Mirandas long buried British accent slightly reveals itself when yelling at someone. (Full yelling, not scolding)
-Miranda is 5’4 and Andy is 5’10! (Partially canon)
-Miranda has a a borderline photographic memory but pretends to forget important things just to be a bitch.
-Andy is definitely at least slightly terrified of Cassidy and Caroline.
-Andy is an ugly sleeper, Miranda sleeps like a sickly victorian child ready for the scarlet fever to take her.
#the devil wears prada#mirandy#devil wears prada#andy sachs#andrea sachs#andrea x miranda#tdwp#miranda x andrea#wlw ship#headcanon#headers#wlw shitpost#fanfiction#the devil wears prada book#tdwp book#anne hathaway#meryl streep#these are dumb sorry lmao
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I feel jealous of everyone that lives in NYC. Y'all get the opportunity to go to the Theater district see plays and musicals with stars most of will never get the chance to.
I really wish some streaming service would make a deal with some of play houses and/or Broadway Theaters to record their performances so those of us that will never have another way to see those performances will get a chance to watch them. I know it's not going to the same experience as seeing them done live.
But imagine how amazing it would be for, say, children or their grandparent that's lived in, say, Nebraska their whole life could watch Broadway version of the Lion King or see Wicked.
They did it with Hamilton on Disney plus. It gave me a chance I wouldn't of had way to see it. It was amazing!!
I just find it extremely sad that only certain number of people are allowed to enjoy these brilliance plays and musicals, basically solely on location and financially able.
For example the only play I've ever seen in my life was done by the theater class at my high school. I don't ever remember the play it's been so long.
As hard as it's to comprehend for some, many of us are either not financially fortunate to be able to go to such things or don't find interest in them until older or we live in area of the country where they don't have access to such things.
That's why recording the plays and musicals having them available on a streaming platform would be such a brilliant idea. If they didn't want to do it during a live performance, which makes sense. Do a performance just for the recording. Which I actually think is a better idea, they could get better camera angles, the cameras could move around more freely, they bother a live audience that way and it would be recorded better for the views who actually going be watching it at home. Let's be honest I doubt highly they'd lose ticket sales, I personally think it would do opposite. I think it would make people that could go see it more inclined to do so. To experience it live, to get be that close to brilliant actors, to know before hand if its good for their kids, etc...
I hate that we live in such an elitist society.
#have an idea#put plays and musicals from Broadway on streaming platform#so everyone could watch them#because not everyone has the opportunity to go to play or musical in a theater#a streaming platform could give that to everyone#nyc#broadway#theater district#plays#musicals
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Not that this is the only example, but just watched "Lady Bird" where a major part of the plot is if the protagonist will go to NYU or UC Davis. As somebody who doesn't live in the United States and there aren't any "private universities" here just wondering if state schools are so bad? Why do they have such bad reputations or maybe just I'm just thinking too much of American-made entertainment?
This is a great question, because it allows me to talk about a topic that I find endlessly fascinating: how the cultural politics of class intersect with higher education.
With regards to Lady Bird, I think the first thing to understand is that it's a highly autobiographical film: Greta Gerwig also grew up in Sacramento, her parents had the same jobs as Lady Bird's parents, and Greta was also a theater kid who ended up going to a prestigious private university in New York City because she wanted to have a career in the performing arts. So what we're getting is not necessarily a universal experience, but how Greta Gerwig herself felt when she was a teenager.
Second, state schools are not bad but their reputations are ...complicated. The land grant universities are generally reasonably well-resourced, they have good reputations, and they provide an extremely solid middle class credential that provides a major pathway for social and economic mobility in the United States.
However, there is usually a hierarchy within the state school systems between the flagship campus(es) which are usually nationally ranked research universities - U.C Berkeley, UCLA, Ann Arbor (UMichigan), University of Wisconsin-Madison, UMass Amherst, etc. - and the other campuses in the same system, which tend to be less selective, less nationally well-known, and more focused on teaching.
This sometimes leads to state schools having a reputation among middle-class to affluent families with college educations as being less "aspirational" compared to selective private universities. (This doesn't apply to the flagship campuses, because they are more selective and thus more similar to elite private universities in terms of their reputations.) Kids from those families still apply to (and attend) state schools in large numbers, but the term that's often used for them is "safety schools" - they're the schools you apply to in case you don't get into the highly selective private schools who take 10% or less of their applicants.
Third, NYU versus UC Davis is actually a slightly odd fit for the "state school" versus "private university" comparison. NYU is not actually that selective: it takes in 13% of applicants, which makes it about the 40th most selective college in the U.S. That's surprisingly low down the totem pole, given that the annual cost of attending NYU would be around $84,000 for Lady Bird. (NYU actually has to be less selective than other private universities, because it has a fairly small endowment compared to the selective private universities, and is thus more reliant on tuition dollars for revenue.)
However, Lady Bird's conflict isn't so much about academics generally - it's more specific than that. Remember that Lady Bird/Greta Gerwig is a theater kid who wants a career in the performing arts. If you narrow your focus from which is the best university overall to which university has the best Film Studies program, NYU is the second-best film school in the country, and because it's right in NYC there's a direct pipeline to one of the main hubs of the film and tv industry.
At the same time, Lady Bird probably should have done a bit more research about California's public university system. Because of the legacy of the California Master Plan, there is a robust transfer system within California's public universities that allows students who are really on the grind to move their way up, so that you can potentially start at the least selective community colleges and end up graduating from the most selective flagship UC campuses. So Lady Bird could have easily gone straight from UC Davis to UCLA (because while UCLA takes in only ~11% of applicants, making it more selective than NYU, it takes in about 24% of transfers), which is also one of the best film schools in the country with a direct pipeline to Hollywood, and it doesn't cost $84,000 a year.
(Ironically, Greta Gerwig herself didn't actually end up going to film school - she ended up going to Barnard which isn't particularly known for film, ended up going into English Lit because she was intending to be a playwright, before becoming a breakout actor in the indie film world, and then zig-zagging from there into directing and back into writing.)
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Hotd modern au
I got inspired by @sansaorgana she made me fall in love with this au 🥰
For warning, this was something quick I made on my phone so probably ain’t great. But enjoy 💚
We’ve agreed that the Targaryens are rich as fuck, i think it’s old money like the Kennedy’s. Visryes is a huge lawyer and Daemon gives me Wall Street investors or CEO vibes. And Alicent is stay at home mommy that loves her kids. Nrya is Sahm as well but she modeled some I think, not runway model thou.
Aegon is a pothead/frat boy obviously, he only parties at college. Not caring if he graduates or not, Vis probably pays the uni a shit ton of money. Every once in awhile he puts an effort for classes :) He dresses like a frat boy and a stoner had a baby. Slides 99.8% of the time, hoodies that have his frat house name Or university name on it. He owns one part of jeans and slacks(they stay at home 99%). Smells like cigarette smoke, small vanilla notes and whiskey. Knows he can get away with failing school, getting pulled over, screwing girls. He knows Alicent loves him bc he’s her first baby. He’s not dumb as people think he is. He loves his mama too but kinda takes advantage of it.
Aemond is a Harvard baby through and through! Most likely an English major, but he also gives me medical school vibes(personally for me). He puts school first, he knows not everyone can get into Harvard so he appreciates that he did. Ameond is the campus mysterious heartthrob. Girls and gays love him! He’s 6’5, blonde with shoulder length hair, wears leather and black clothing w/sliver rings. Little whore! Also he has his scar on his eye. Obviously dragons aren’t real for us. So Aemond and Luke didn’t fight each other over Vhgar. I’m thinking he lost it on accident, maybe Vis took him and Aegon knife throwing or one of the neighbors kids and him were playing with sticks or something. Personally the scar is what made fall in love with him. It’s him no matter what au it is. It shaped him to who he is as a person. He’s a huge mama’s boy! He don’t hide it either, he loves Alicent.
When he comes home from school for the summer and Christmas, he brings gifts for her and Heleana. Stuff he saw while he was out one Saturday, little trinkets, shoes, books. Anything that reminded him of his mom and sister. Also does this for his S/O, he’s just a sweet emo boy!
Heleana still loves her bugs and other creepy crawlers! We stan Helena the bug queen in this house 💚 she’s the quiet girl that is always reading a book, drawing in her sketch pad. Has earbuds in, but will take them out if anyone talks to her. Loves old English literature and plays. She loves NYC and broadway, she gives me NYU vibes. Definitely lives in NYC but goes upstate a lot bc of nature. Also I think she would be a witch or at least into paganism. Aemond is close to Salem, MA so he goes and gets her stuff from the shops. He has 6 tarot decks that he plans on taking home along with crystals and books he got for her. TSA workers hate Aemond bc he goes over the weight limit with his suitcases.
Alicent, my favorite mom! Okay so, Alicent was Vis’ sugar baby when she was 20ish. Went to school with Nrya and ended marrying her dad. But I don’t think they hate each other in this AU, probably not each other’s fans. I think Nrya and Harwin are together, probably met on a photo shoot set. Harwin was definitely a model or an actor in his day. Anyways! Alicent got pregnant with Aegon before the wedding, you could see her bump in her dress. Vis works 24:7 so Alicent got very close with Aegon as a baby. Aegon looks after her always has! She was very involved with school when the kids were little. PTA mom, sports mom, art/theater mom, she always supports her kids and their activities. Calls them each everyday to see what’s new, are you sick?, how’s the money looking? She used to feel insecure about being a young mom, but now she’s 43 and her kids are in college. She has so much free time now! Definitely the hot mom, also the cool mom(mean girls hey!). Alicent was meant to be a mother, she truly loves her kids and wants the best for them. She don’t give me toxic mother in law vibes
Nrya is the first child of Vis, so he is crazy over her. He’s still in Nrya’s lane, but he talks to the other kids moreish. Nrya became a model her junior year of college. Has been covers of vogue, vanity fair, a bunch of wedding mags. It’s how she met her husband, Harwin. They fell in love and had Jace, Luke, Joff, the twins. Definitely a boy mom but she loves being a mom.
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If anyone is interested in T and B's dating timeline, I have an update (NYC is a small city for theater kids and we're all in each other's business).
They haven't been together as long as people say, started dating in mid-2021 and they were both with other people before that. So when he brought her around the BTK cast it was still very early in their relationship — apparently didn't want to start with a long-distance, something like that. Moved in together shortly after he came back, though (which I find a little intense if you ask me, but good thing it worked for them).
Also heard some other things, but I have no idea how true the rest is.
Oh that makes sense! Share with the class 👀 on the other things you’ve heard
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Superjail Convict Headcanons, because Yes. (Part 1, I have so many)
Nicky
Italian
Used to be fluent in Italian as a child but didn't speak it as much as a teenager and mostly forgot it as an adult
Not a dog lover but really cared and loved that dog
Only child, but lived with his cousins, uncles, aunties, grandpa and his single mom
In his mid 30s
He was never IN the mafia but definitely some of his uncles and friends are in the mafia, who were mostly associates and soldiers. He was friends with almost every criminal in NYC (mostly because of his friends and uncles) and still keeps contact with them.
He was a scammer. Used to scam people by being a fake taxi driver and selling fake tickets. He got caught by an undercover cop when he was in the airport, picking up tourist
Always skipped and Didn't pay attention to his class. Definitely cheated in every exam and passed. Was able to graduate High School but never went to College
The arm tattoo is his girlfriend, from Cleveland
Ash Firin
Long lost half brother of Nicky (this Headcanon was from this tumblr user cobalt-punk? I think. Who said that Ash's dad looked similar to Nicky and I really liked that HC, so it stuck with me)
In his mid 20s
Pushed around a lot by his "friends” and forced him to join their crimes because of his speciality in fire
Was caught by Jailbot, after he accidentally burned down the hospital when petting the pony (during s3 ep10). Also he was in that hospital because his friends left him behind and he got beaten up by the guys who were chasing them
Didn't have any extended family to take care of him, after his dad abandoned him.
His love for fire started after the incident in the theater and got his fire powers when he was in superjail (probably because of the twins)
Had a lonely childhood, most of the kids bullied or were scared of him because of his appearance (after the incident in the theater).
Might have set a kid's hair on fire when he was in the orphanage
Lived in the orphanage until he was 18. Was never adopted
Gary Sedi
In his early 40s
Was a serial killer and a librarian (idk he gives me that vibe)
Had a good childhood, never bullied or abused but was super anti social and his only friend was Bird
Lived in a small town during childhood and early adulthood
I think his real voice is soothing and he's able to change the way his voice sounds, before his old warden cuts his tongue. Because i REFUSE to believe that's his real voice
Bird has been with him since he was a kid, given to his parents as a birthday gift
His weakness: When he doesn’t have his glasses on he can’t see shit
Definitely one of the healthiest and well kept inmates. Has his American Psycho routine
Back then, even if he had his tongue and vocal cords he was a very quiet man. He was friendly (maybe not sincere) to people and talked if needed
#superjail#superjail Headcanons#also sorry for the bad grammar or wording. I was rlly sleeping when writing it
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2022 Year In Review
This year once again I invited some friends and colleagues to reflect on 2022
JG Thirlwell
Composer
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2022 was a marathon year. I took on too much work, but somehow got through it. It challenged me.
I played some excellent shows in Woodstock, Los Angeles, Orlando and NYC.
Reconnected with Soft Cell at the Beacon. Reconnected with Sarah Lipstate.
Wrote a ton of new music for Archer and a Venture Bros movie.
Taught a class on film scoring at the New School.
I still woke up 5am in a panic on too many occasions.
And I saw some great concerts.It was difficult to whittle down this list but here are a lot of albums I enjoyed in 2022, in no particular order.
Tyondai Braxton Telekinesis (Nonesuch)
Zeal & Ardor Zeal & Ardor (MVKA)
Papangu Holoceno (Bandcamp)
Extra Life Secular Works Vol 2 (Bandcamp)
Carl Stone Wat Dong Moon Lek (Unseen Worlds) / Gall Tones (Unseen Worlds) / We Jazz Reworks Vol 2 (We Jazz Records)
Louis Cole Quality Over Opinion (Brainfeeder)
Ben Frost 1899 OST (Invada Records)
Loraine James Building Something Beautiful For Me (Phantom Limb)
Persher Man With The Magic Soap (Thrill Jockey)
Anna Meredith Bumps Per Minute (Moshi Moshi)
Sault Air (Forever Living Originals)
The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention (XL)
Shamblemaths Shamblemaths 2 (Apollon Prog)
Julia Wolfe Oxygen (Cantelope)
Heiner Schmitz’s Symprophonicum Sins & Blessings (Big Band Records)
Burial Antidawn EP / Streetlands EP (Hyperdub)
Gotho Mindbowling (Controcanti Produzioni)
Oliver Coates The Stranger OST
Gilla Band Most Normal (Rough Trade Records Ltd)
Blanck Mass Ted K OST (Sacred Bones)
Arcade Fire WE (Interscope)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down (Secretly)
Catarine Barbieri Spirit Exit (light-years)
Felicia Atkinson Image Language (Shelter Press)
Netherlands Kali Corvette (Three One G)
Kemper Norton estrenyon (Zona Watusa)
Elysian Fields Once Beautiful Twice Removed (Ojet)
Simon Hanes Hurricane Salad
Two Fingers Red Bass DJ Mix 22 (NoMark)
Backxwash His Happiness Shall Come…(Ugly Hag)
Bob Vylan The Price of Life (Ghost Theater)
John Elmquist’s Hard Art Groop Stars and Bells / Zero Rest Mass / Trip Up reissues (Bandcamp)
Dan Deacon Hustle OST (Netflix Music)
Bent Knee Frosting (TTTH)
Boris Heavy Rocks 2022 (Relapse)
Wet Leg Wet Leg (Domino)
Author and Punisher Kruller (Relapse)
Honorable mentions Hudson Mohawke Cry Sugar / Rival Consoles Now is / Haunted Horses The Worst Has Finally Happened / Sirom The Liquified Throne of Simplicity (Tak:Til)/ Meshuggah Immutable / Ani Klang Ani Klang / Pimpon Pozdrawiam (Pointless Geometry)
Shows
The Smile at Kings Theater
Julia Wolfe Steel Hammer Carnegie Hall
The Protomen LPR
Tristan Perich St Thomas ChurchSparks Town Hall
Anna Meredith Elsewhere
Lingua Ignota LPR
Royal Blood Terminal 5
Kraftwerk Radio City
Hiro Kone Pioneer Works
RATM / RTJ MSG
Matmos LPR
Rammstein MetLife Stadium
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Forest Hills Stadium
Melvins Irving Plaza
Roxy Music MSG
Sean Lennon Stone
Elysian Fields The Owl
The Comet Is Coming Bowery Ballroom
Child Abuse TV Eye
Fennesz Pioneer Works
Helm Elsewhere
Film / TV
The Stranger
All Quiet In The Western Front
Dont Worry Darling
Moonage Daydream
The Velvet Underground
Elvis
Men
Northman
Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent
White Lotus
Books
I read a ton of memoirs this year. Standouts were
Kid Congo Powers Some New Kind Of Kick
Danny Sugerman Wonderland Ave
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LISTENING
My favourite album of the year was the dayglo psychedelic joy of Panda Bear/ Sonic Boom’s Reset , with honourable mentions for the amazing Aethiopes by billy woods and
Alison Cotton’s beautiful The Portrait You Painted of Me.
Also, must mention the massive , varied and crucial Rental Yields compilations on Front and Follow /Gated Canal Community in aid of homeless charities in the UK.
GIGS
Didn’t get out much this year but live events I loved this year here in Brighton, UK included the blasted joy of deafkids at The Hope, the final gig of the mighty Slum of Legs at The Green Door Store, and playing alongside Alexander Tucker’s Microcorps and Opal X at The Wire’s 40th anniversary shows at The Rosehill as part of the reanimated Outer Church.
In terms of radio, as well as Elizabeth Alker’s essential breakfast and Unclassified shows on Radio 3 there were loads of great shows on the fantastic Repeater Radio ( many previously on the mighty Neon Hospice) including Afternoon Delight by Ix Tab and the best of Eastern Europe showcased on Slav to the Rhythm by Catherine and Iris.
READING
Apart from the works of nonconformist Cornish poet Jack Clemo and American novelist Pete Dexter ( Deadwood and Paris, Trout ), new discoveries were thin on the ground this year. I read and reread a lot of old favourites ( Ray Bradbury, Cormac McCarthy, Pat Barker , Elmore Leonard ) and finally fell in love with Jane Austen.
WATCHING
My film and TV viewing in 2022 was largely informed / enforced by my 5 year old daughter, and the essential texts we rewatched repeatedly were the lively and proactive Gaby’s Dollhouse, multi-species global explorers the Octonauts , surreal UK gem Sarah and Duck and of course, the inspirational Aussie masterpiece Bluey.
I did manage to catch a few films either new or new to me in 2022…
Wake in Fright ( 1971) : another Australian key text ( although less adorable than Bluey ).
The horrors of closed environments, toxic masculinity and continuous drinking.
Enys Men (2022) : Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s spooky and minimalistic follow-up to his incredible Bait (2019) , a wonderful drama of local economic realities and identities.
Would love to score one of his films but unfortunately he does an excellent job of this himself.
Stalker (1979) : As good as everyone said it would be.
EATING
Chorizo with honey
Chinese black fungus
DRINKING
Everything by Burning Sky brewery ( Sussex, UK)
CREATING
I managed to churn out two tape releases in 2022 in between all the watching, listening, eating, drinking etc.
Estrenyon was released on tape and download with the Barcelona label zonawatusa and was inspired by historical UFO sightings throughout Cornwall from 1888 to 2021.
Rife is the story of a Sussex Spring day and was released via Woodford Halse, who have released loads of great electronic and folky music by the likes of Xylitol and Sairie.
On top of that , our first volume of download-only pay-what-you-like winter tunes Montol Melodies is available on our bandcamp until the traditional English old ‘ twelfth night ‘ ( January 12 2023).
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2022 LIST
I’m terrible at lists like this, and usually don’t keep track towards such a year-end summary. Pardon the self-focus,
this is my year-in-review accounting, mostly just remembering to myself.
August in Vienna
Leah and I spent the month of August in Vienna, creating a public artwork, sound+image, called Fermata. I discovered the world of small-body, near century-old, German + Austrian guitars. I wrote the main melodic material one one of these tiny, wonderful instruments,. At one point we had 3 of them in the apartment down in
the MuseumQuartier. A whole new world of sound to explore. Side trips to Berlin and Prague.
(https://tonspur.at/soundworks/lee-ranaldo-leah-singer/?lang=en)
Exhibitions in Berlin and Eupen, Chile Media Arts Biennial, Covid Flowers online
Exhibitions of my Black Noise record print editions in Berlin, Lost Highway road drawings in Belgium, and watercolor covid-flowers online. In Chile Leah and I created an outdoor sound/art work, Do You Read Me?, in a field of trees surrounding an observatory above Santiago. Sounds were generated from signals collected from deep
space by another observatory in the Atacama desert. A sound displacement work.
Medicine Singers in Brasilia, Montreal, NYC
Had fruitful wanderings this year with Yonatan Gat, working with indigineous players from the USA, Brasil and Canada. Recording sessions in Montreal at fabulous Hotel2Tango studio, and in a splendid house set on the edge of the city in Brasilia, one of my favorite places. Happy to have been invited along for this most interesting ride.
Touring resumes
Mostly in Europe, mostly quite wonderful. After 2 years at home it felt good to stand up in front of audiences again. Lots of solo acoustic shows playing In Virus Times and singing songs, but also interesting collaborations with Yuri Landman; My Cat Is An Alien, Jean-Marc Montera and Sophie Gonthier, and a special ‘Velvets Suite’ with French legend Pascal Comelade in Banyoles, Spain. Also the beginnings of a new collaboration with Chicago guitarist Michael Vallera, in a great new space in NYC for experimental music, 411 Kent (aka Shift). Leah and I premiered the new version of our Contre Jour performance with suspended guitar and films, in A Coruna, Spain
and at the Three-Lobed Fest in Durham, North Carolina – which was an amazing three days of music. Also a short NorthEast tour with Jeff Parker in May.
London/Paris/Leah/ Catpower
My touring year ended with a month split between Europe and the UK. A friend-lent apartment in Paris as base, with shows and lectures in Nantes, and Brittany. Five shows in the UK, the most I’ve played in some time there, including a free-ranging set with the Pop Group’s Mark Stewart and an eclectic band. Wild night! Leah flew over to
celebrate her birthday, with CatPower at Royal Albert Hall (first time there for us both) recreating Bob Dylan’s legendary show there – both acoustic and electric sets – from 1966. What a great night, and our time together, in London, Paris and Brittany, was splendid.
Hurricane Transcriptions
This year I played solo keyboard shows for the first time ever – the solo-for-Fender-Rhodes performance of my Hurricane Sandy Transcriptions, first at Karma Gallery in NYC, accompanied by films from LA Artist Mungo Thomson, and also at a Xenakis celebration in Vienna and at the opening of my exhibition of Lost Highway
drawings, ‘The Road Is Like The River, Constantly Changing Yet Ever The Same’ – at IKOB Museum in Eupen, Belgium. (ikob.be)
Circuit des Yeux at Green-Wood Cemetery
I think my favorite gig of the year was Circuit des Yeux in Green-Wood Cemetery on a rainy night in June. The weather threatened the show all evening, which made this incredible performance – just Haley and Whitney Johnson (Matchess). Just a magical, powerful night.
Godard’s King Lear
In late August I committed to introduce Jean-Luc Godard’s King Lear, which I’d never seen, at TriBeCa’s Roxy Cinema, which has been doing terrific programs organized by Illyse Singer. I love Godard’s films, they are an important touchstone for me, and I took this as an opportunity to discover both the film and Shakespeare’s play;
my Shakespeare knowledge is terrible, so I boned up on the play. Four days before the screening, the great master died, which cast the whole night in a new light. The film has been described by Richard Brody of the NY’er as ‘one of the best films of all time’ – wow. Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, Norman Mailer, Julie Delpy, Leos Carax, and Godard himself center-stage and the plugged/unplugged oracle Professor Pluggy. What a film. As usual with a Godard film: what a sound mix!. See it in 35mm.
Broken Circle / Spiral Hill
I have had a long fascination with the work of Robert Smithson, since discovering the book of his writings in the 70s. In the early 80s on the first few SY tours, I ‘coaxed’ the band into visiting one of his 3 still existing artworks – Broken Circle/Spiral Hill – in the countryside of northern Holland. Back then it was like a treasure hunt trying to find it, in the dark, late on the way to Club Vera in Groningen. In 2020 I visited it for a third time w friend Carlos, in the week before the world shut down. It had been totally restored and ready for it’s moment – just at it’s 50-year mark. In 2022 the site-an old, long-unused quarry – was opened to the public for the first time in ages, across 8 weekends. This year I narrated a podcast for the Holt/Smithson Foundation and the Netherland’s Land Art Contemporary, about Smithson and the work, which went live in November. (brokencircle.nl)
Birdsong Project
I worked on this project, as both producer and performer, to raise money to benefit the Audobon Society for the preservation of avian habitats. Over 200 musicians contributed to this 20-LP set, as well as writers, poets and artists. Uplifting and surprising. (https://www.audubon.org/birdsong-project)
James Jackson Toth
In the early 2000s I produced an album – James and the Quiet – with Mr. Wooden Wand, who’s music I love. This year a group of friends organized a birthday tribute to James, with 33 of us recording versions of songs from his vast catalog. I recorded ‘Wired to the Sky’, a favorite from the album we made together, recorded in our Viennese apartment in August, which closes this Birthday Blues collection. (https://aquariumdrunkard.com/category/jamesjackson-toth/)
Some Music/Art/Books etc:
Lou Reed – Words + Music, 1971 RCA Demos
David Bowie – Divine Symmetry
Catherine Christer Hennix – Selected Early Keyboard Works
(https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/album/selected-early-keyboard-works)
Plus Instruments, Februari-April ’81 (first record I was ever on) on Domani Records, NYC.
In/Out/In, Sonic Youth. So cool to see this release welcomed so warmly!
Cecilia Vicuña, Tate Modern Turbine Hall
Venus of Willendorf, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna
Matisse: The Red Studio, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Claude Monet – Joan Mitchell, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Marco Fusinato, Desastres, Venice Biennale
Family Affair, a 20-minute short film included in the Criterion Collection edition of Josh & Benny Safdie’s 2009
Daddy Longlegs, outlining our two families intertwined involvement in the making of the film. The most glorious
home movie ever.
The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, Clinton Heylin. First of a 2-part bio of the (other) Bard,
making first use of all the new material out from Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Center archive.
Loved: Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep mini series. He’d used SY’s ‘Tunic’ in his original 1995 film, and we became friends and occasional collaborators. The new limited series mines the story anew, meta-mixing in his 1995 film and Louis Feuillade’s 1915 original, Les Vampires. The most contemporary piece of ‘television’ I’ve seen in ages, just wonderful, with fantastic cast including a spot-on stand-in portrayal by Vincent Macaigne as the director, Alicia Vikander as Irma Vep, and Lars Eidinger as Gottfried. Also Devon Ross, Carrie Brownstein, many other great performances. Loved it.
Still watching: Westworld, Handmaid’s Tale.
Hal Willner Memorial, St. Anne’s, April. Miss Hal all the time…
---LR, Winnipeg, December 2022
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Brian Chase
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Brian chose to write about one album that impacted him in 2022
This write-up is in no way meant to be a formal review - I don’t deem myself qualified for that task here - rather, this is meant to share personal enthusiasm and bring an album to light - like, "Have you heard this, it's really really amazing and inspiring and why isn't there more talking about it, and…" As a musician working within a greater community, I am acutely aware of the creative drive to continually uncover new modes, methodologies, practices etc. of expressing our chosen art form - each performance and each album serving as an instance of discovery and offering new perspectives on old conundrums. Whether the genre is rock, jazz, noise, free-improvisation, modern classical etc. the relationship of discourse and dialogue is still the same. At the forefront of this dialogue is John Zorn, as he has been for decades, and a major contribution to the conversation is the 2022 album Incerto - Existentialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Uncertainty Principle. Here, Zorn is the composer and the performing ensemble consists of some of Zorn's tightest in recent years: Brian Marsella on piano, Julian Lage on guitar, Jorge Roeder on bass and Ches Smith on drums. As Zorn says in the liner notes, "Incerto is about possibilities, probabilities, inevitabilities and improbabilities." Formal logic for musical structure is considerably expanded with these compositions and never before have I heard such new forms for improvisation. In these pieces, unexpected juxtapositions and superimpositions abound, as foremost examples of its many distinct features. The syntax of this music is beyond the scope of any previous way that I've conceived of music existing. Not only are harmonic and rhythmic conventions regularly reconstructed - often replaced with adjacent compliments and aggressive contradictions - but entire paradigms of improvisatory behavior are game as well. Shifts in genre/mood/tempo/texture/harmonic character/melodic personality place the improvisor in varying contexts - often in a short amount of time - and each context requires its own set of responses. The whole scope of musical history+trends+possibilities takes on a dynamic relational co-existence, in ways that I've never previously heard or thought possible - like when angular atonal lead lines enter on top of a serene ostinato, or impressionistic chords alternate between stillness and motion, or genre styles and idiomatic references collide, or gravelly density and noise build tension culminating into a placid release. Plus, so much of the composed material is really just so cool. Paramount to it all is the music’s immense depth of feeling. The moods on this album are evocative, romantic and ecstatic as much as they are revolutionary, kaleidoscopic and mystifying. As the music winds through its structural twists and turns, the key that holds it all together is sincerity of spirit - the performance of this music, as well as listening to it, is a literal experience. And within each singular track is the remarkable performance of the individual musicians themselves - each a respective master at the craft. Additionally, the album as a collective whole, being comprised of eleven very different tracks, functions as a macro-structure in itself which expands on the themes present in each individual track. So many new modes of music making are presented here - integrating them into current music making will take a while as more people discover its brilliance and begin to absorb the concepts and ideas it conveys. It is uniquely Zorn and there for us musicians to process and in turn produce that which is uniquely ours. Incerto is a gem in the conversation - we can listen and run with it how we like - but we have to hear it first.
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David T. Little
composer
www.davidtlittle.com
MUSIC (new, revisited, & in rotation)
Vile Creature – Glory! Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
Burning Witch – Crippled Lucifer
tryphème – Aluminia
Louis Cole – Quality Over Opinion
KANGA – You and I Will Never Die
DELANILA – Overloaded
Amyl & the Sniffers – Comfort To Me
Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
Graindelavoix & Björn Schmelzer – Josquin, the Undead: Laments, Deplorations & Dances of Death
Run The Jewels – 1, 2, 3, 4
The Cure – Disintegration, Wish, Show, Pornography
Tenderheart Bitches – High Kicks
George Walker – Piano Sonatas (Steven Beck)
Rammstein – Herzeleid, Mutter, Sehnsucht, Untitled (in heavy rotation after the MetLife Stadium show)
Living Colour – Vivid
Utah Phillips – We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years
Tom Morello – Hold The Line (track, feat. grandson)
ACRONYM – Oddities & Trifles: the Very Peculiar Instrumental Music of Giovanni Valentini
Late Stravinsky (various)
Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All At Once (ost)
Harrison Birtwistle – The Moth Requiem
Christopher Tin – The Lost Birds
Karim Sulayman, Apollo’s Fire – Songs of Orpheus
Hermann Nitsch – Symphony No. 9 “The Egyptian”
Jay Wadley – Swan Song (ost)
Herem – Pulsa diNura
Danny Elfman – Big Mess / Bigger. Messier. (Deluxe.)
Scott Walker – The Drift
FILMS & SERIES (new & rewatched)
Hellraiser (Clive Barker)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shin'ya Tsukamoto)
Private Life (Tamara Jenkins)
Double Take (Johan Grimonprez)
After Life (Ricky Gervais)
One Big Bag (Every Ocean Hughes)
The Village Detective (Bill Morrison)
Polia & Blastema (E. Elias Merhige)
Sibyl (William Kentridge)
The Copper Queen (Crystal Manich)
Wishes (Amy Jenkins)
The Once and Future Smash (Sophia Cacciola & Michael J. Epstein)
End Zone 2 (August Kane)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniels)
Russian Doll (multiple directors)
Piggy (short) (Carlota Pereda)
The Mitchells vs. The Machines (Michael Rianda & Jeff Rowe)
WHAT DID JACK DO? (David Lynch)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
The Green Knight (David Lowery)
The Northman (Robert Eggers)
Muriel’s Wedding (P.J. Hogan)
BoJack Horseman (multiple directors)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
BOOKS (some)
Body Horror - Anne Elizabeth Moore
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
a ghost in the throat - Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Cleanness – Garth Greenwell
A Saint from Texas – Edmund White
Out Loud – Mark Morris
The Gastronomical Me – M.F.K. Fisher
Agamemnon – Aeschylus (trans. Robert Fagles)
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Jonnine
HTRK
2022 good vibes - Hackedepicciotto tour photos such #couplegoals, kicking off the HTRK tour in Atlanta was exhilarating! Big hangs with my overseas buds Nathan Corbin and Yasmina Dexter, writing new songs with Nigel and keeping THE dream alive, my puppy Pali growing up into mumma’s good boy, instagram follows @the.holistic.psychologist (self healing) @cracked.bolos (cakes), DJ Sundae, Amir Shoat, ‘Crush’ by Richard Siken (borrow from Nigel) writing bonkers dreams down again, Jonathan Richmond lyrics, tik tok #stayathomegirlfriend, jamming with Brother May in London and playing cafe OTO, second season Euphoria, White Lotus, Heartbreak High, rewatching Curb, Julia Fox’s eye makeup tutorial, films The Weekend and 45 Years by director Andrew Haigh, Charlotte Rampling interviews, fam long drives with Conrad and Pali finding songs for NTS <3 <3 Conrad got me into the Kinks!
Some music i liked
Actress — Dummy Corporation (Ninja Tune)
Autumn Fair - Autumn Fair
DALE CORNISH — Traditional Music of South London (The Death Of Rave)
Delphine Dora — A Stream Of Consciousness II (for piano solo)
Coby Sey — Conduit (AD 93)
CS + Kreme — Orange (The Trilogy Tapes)
Harry Howard - Slight Pavilions
Various / Kashual Plastik — Field of Progress
Jonathan Richman - Jonathan Goes Country
Julia Reidy - World in World
Kitchen Cynics — Strange Acrobats
Liz Durette - A Christmas Gift To You
Malvern Brume — Body Traffic (MAL)
Taylor E. Burch — The Best of Taylor E. Burch (Downwards)
The Incredible String Band — Wee Tam and the Big Huge
The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Thomas Bush — Preludes
Warm Currency — Returns (Horn Of Plenty)
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Lawrence English
(Room 40 Records)
This year was the first time I had travelled internationally since 2019. The thing I realised I've truly missed is seeing people. The opportunity to share ideas, to be curious with others and to just be in the world was, well, magical. I think if anything the past few years has reminded me (us?) not to take things for granted…especially each other. This year was also the first time I returned to making solo electronic works. It had been about six years since I had completed Cruel Optimism and, if I am honest, I wasn’t sure if I still had an appetite for making solo electronic works. Approach however proved, to me at least, I can still derive great pleasure from working alone. Unexpectedly, I found the whole process of the album very satisfying, like it was new all over again, not something I always feel.
There’s been a tonne of great input into the system this year. Ergo Proxy totally got me thinking. I was late to the party, but it was a party I am glad I did make it to. Puce Mary made some tapes back in April, both of them were totally ace, filled with an acute sense of heaviness. I very much enjoyed Boy Harsher’s work this year too, outside my usual orbit in some ways, but they are really onto something of late. I caught up with my old and dear friend Kate Crawford, and had a chance to read over he excellent Atlas Of AI book, she is a tower of radiance. Annea Lockwood’s, work occupied a great deal of my thoughts this year, realising her Piano Transplants all at once was quite simply a delight. Adam Curtis’s TraumaZone left an indelible mark in more ways than one. I returned to Vancouver to photograph the crows that started off my homage to Masahisa Fukase, perhaps that tract of work is done? Oh and thanks to a dinner with Atsuo from Boris, and the encouragement of my small humans, we all started down the pathway of the epic saga of Gundam too. I missed that when I was younger, so it’s a long road to catch up on….but I started.
Oh and on a purely personal note I was able to commission a shikishi from Yoshihisa Tagami. Seriously, my 12 year old self was reborn when it arrived. The world is so much bigger, and smaller, than that little human could ever have imagined!
Love to you all and here’s hoping 2023 is full of curious surprises and wonder.
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John Tottenham
author
A LISTLESS LIST
Best Books:
Woodcutters
Concrete
Extinction|
Wittgenstein’s Nephew
Old Masters
Thomas Bernhard
A Father and his Fate
More Women than Men
Manservant and Maidservant
A Family and a Fortune
- Ivy Compton Burnett
Hawkwind: Days of the Underground
- Joe Banks
Best Songs:
Eunice Collins – At the Hotel
Gloria Barnes - Old Before My Time
Sonia Ross - Every Now and Then
Rozetta Johnson - A Woman’s Way
Debbie Taylor - I Don’t Wanna Leave You
Denise LaSalle - Trapped by a Thing Called Love
Barbara Stant - Unsatisfied Woman
Ann Alford - If It Ain’t One Thing
Big Martha - Your Magic Touch
Helene Smith - Sure Thing
Best Shows By Octogenarians And Nonagenarians:
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Zebulon, LA / Bob Dylan - Pantages, LA / Marshall Allen (Arkestra) - Zebulon, LA / Swamp Dogg - Teragram, LA / Doug Kershaw - Zebulon, LA / Sonny Green - Barnyard & La Louisianne, LA / Tommy McClain - Stowaway, LA
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Brian Carpenter
Composer / Ghost Train Orchestra
My favorite recordings of 2022, in no particular order…also the most frequently played albums on my long-running radio show Free Association on WZBC in Boston. As I'm writing this I'm reminded that a lot of great records came out of bands from South London this year, across genres.
The Comet is Coming - CODE
Caroline - caroline
Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
William Orbit - The Painter
Akusmi - Fleeting Future
Electric Youth, David Sylvian, et al - A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto - To the Moon and Back
Portico Quartet - Next Stop
The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
Zola Jesus - Into the Wild
Mary Lattimore and Paul Sukeena - West Kensington
Lucrecia Dalt - Ay!
Bjork - Fossora
Tindersticks - Stars at Noon Original Soundtrack
Kamikaze Palm Tree - The Hit
Bitchin Bajas - Bajascillators
Bill Callahan - YTILAER
Thurston Moore - Screen Time
Bill Orcutt - Music for Four Guitars
Horse Lords - Comradely Objects
Curha - Curha III
Sharon Van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Aldous Harding - Warm Chris
Weyes Blood - Hearts Aglow
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Oneida - Success
Brandon Seabrook - In the Swarm
Jacob Garchik - Assembly
Oren Ambarchi - Shebang
The Lord and Petra Haden - Devotional
Roedelius & Tim Story - 4 Hands
Brian Eno - Foreverandevernomore
Steve Reich - Runner
Moor Mother - Jazz Codes
Makaya McCraven - Dream Another
Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky
Danger Mouse and Black Thought - Identical Deaths
A Far Cry - The Blue Hour
Nils Frahm - Music for Animals
Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis
Kronos Quartet, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo, Rinde Eckert - My Lai
Attacca Quartet - Caroline Shaw: Evergreen
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DJ Food
Music:
Clocolan - Empathy Alpha LP (Redpan)
Brian Eno - The Lighthouse (Sonos HD)
King Gizzard &The Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum LP (Flightless)
Twilight Sequence - Trees in General: and the Larch 12" (Castles In Space)
WTCHCRFT - Drugs Here 12" (Balkan Vinyl)
Ghost Power - Ghost Power LP (Duophonic Super 45s)
Dexorcist - Night Watch 12" (Yellow Machines)
The Advisory Circle - Full Circle LP (Ghost Box)
Fenella - The Metallic Index (Fire Records)
S'Express & Daddy Squad - Music 4 The Mind (DL)
Podcasts:
The Bureau of Lost Culture
We Buy Records
Oh God, What Now?
Gigs / Events:
The Orb play U.F.Orb @ The Fox & Firkin, London
Staying in a restored Futuro House, Somerset
Fogfest @ Iklectik, London
Funki Porcini's Lasarium @ Iklectik, London
The Trunk Groovy Record Fayre @ Mildmay Club, London
Books / Comics:
99 Balls Pond Road - Jill Drower (Scrudge Books)
Radio Spaceman - Mike Mignola & Greg Hinkle (Dark Horse)
A-Z of Record Shop Bags - Jonny Trunk (Fuel)
Mud Sharks - Dave Barbarossa
Good Pop, Bad Pop - Jarvis Cocker (Vintage)
House Music - Andy Votel (The Modernist)
Defying Gravity - Jordan Mooney w. Cathi Unsworth
69 Exhibition Road - Dorothy Max Prior (Strange Attractor)
Judge Dredd - Mike McMahon (Apex Edition)
It's Lonely At The Centre Of The Universe - Zoe Thorogood (Image Comics)
The Black Locomotive - Rian Hughes (Picador)
Films:
Get Back (Disney+)
Who Killed The KLF? (Chris Atkins)
In The Court of the Crimson King (Toby Aimes)
#jg thirlwell#jonnine#playlist#HTRK#john tottenham#david t.little#foetus#steroid maximus#venture bros#xordox#archer#lee ranaldo#sonic youth#yeah yeah yeahs#brian chase#ghost train orchestra#brian carpenter#DJ Food#Lawrence English#room 40
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Your ask box is my kingdom, I am taking it over
But anyway I so badly want your thoughts on Jack and Davey in my college prof au please please please I know I haven't spoken about it on tumblr yet except from a little bit but I love your Javid so yeah
-has watched high school musical thank you very much
ok ok @roideny obvi this is your au but here are my Very Important thoughts bc i love them Very Much ugh. in love w them
David Jacobs-Kelly:
44 years old, born in ‘79
Undergrad: majored in English, minored in Creative Writing
Masters: Poetics and Theory AdvC- NYU
Doctorate: English and American Literature, thesis is over gender and sexuality in Shakespeare
he’s been Dr. Jacobs-Kelly for about seventeen years by the time the story takes place!
as a prof, he teaches a comp class, an honors comp (Critical Analysis and Writing), and some creative writing/poetry courses! he’s a very busy man.
he meets Race, Albert, and Finch because they’re students in his comp class!
when he’s not teaching, he’s really involved in the local queer scene. i feel like he’s a staple at drag brunches and pride celebrations; he’s not a huge club fan anymore but he still loves being Involved. growing up during the aids crisis is traumatizing at the least, and im sure he lost a few friends, so he stays up to date in the queer stuff to sort of honor them.
he marries jack in 2011 when gay marriage is legalized in new york!
he’s a huge shakespeare fan, as seen by his phd studies. he has a hamlet-inspired tattoo because he’s gay
tbh he probably has a cat named after shakespeare (they have two cats im calling it now. shakespeare and bryan, name courtesy of jack)
he and jack don’t have any kids, but he’s a loving fun uncle for Les and Sarah’s respective kids!
Jack Jacobs-Kelly:
45 years old, born in ‘78
Undergrad: Studio Art! but he dropped out after a semester <33
he just decided that college wasn’t for him. why pay money for something he doesn’t need?
he goes straight into a set design apprenticeship that medda helps him get! medda is his adoptive mom, so he’s been around queer spaces and theatre since he was around 15. he loves it, it’s his home
that being said he probably sells his own paintings and maybe does mural work on the side, he likes to keep busy and is invested in the art scene, and he meets davey when davey moves to New York for his masters! he’s the reason davey stays in NYC <33
he’s very eccentric, and very much doesn’t give a fuck. he’s a black queer man- the universe already nerfed him, so why worry about anything else? i can see him being the really go-with-the-flow husband to davey’s more tight-strung academic vibe. they really balance each other out
again, they don’t have kids, but i feel like this jack is very much For The Youths? i can see him volunteering a lot, working for organizations that help troubled kids get into the arts— i feel like it’s his passion project that makes him feel better when davey is busy at the university all day. in another life he’s a foster parent, but he and davey just don’t have the lifestyle to foster, so he focuses his energy elsewhere!
whenever davey “adopts” some freshmen he’s always on board. he really hits it off with Albert!
not as involved in the queer scene as davey, but his career is literally in musical theatre set design, so even if he’s not in the queer scene he’s In The Queer Scene
i don’t wanna talk about him losing medda but i can see him eventually inheriting the theater!
he loves his nieces and nephews! he’s a big family guy
Extra Thoughts:
jack and davey are a pair. they rarely go anywhere outside of work without each other, and they’re so, SO in love.
jack pretty regularly comes to see Davey while he’s at work; he’ll bring him lunch to office hours and pop in to watch him lecture from time to time.
davey attends the opening night of every show jack works on <33
their apartment is always a mess LMAO. davey has papers and books everywhere, there’s paint on the floor, brushes all over the place— it’s what happens when you cross a tired academic and an adhd creative. shit happens.
they actually stay pretty hip and on-trend? idk how it happens but jack is rlly good with youth culture and davey is on top of gay culture so like. yeah they work.
over summers and breaks, they travel a lot! not anything crazy expensive— they love international travel, but they’re also a big fan of road trips and rental cars!
they are my FAVORITES and i love them so much
#ugh el ily thank u for letting me contribute#jack kelly#davey jacobs#david jacobs#livesies#newsies musical#newsies#ask a jac !#elliot tag#prof davey au
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Musical Theater NYC
Drama schools exist to allow creative students cultivate their skills. If your kid are interested in Musical Theater NYC should need to enroll them in the best school. You need to do a little research to get the best academy. There are some reputed dances classes having very good group for drama. Shuffles NYC can be a great choice for you as they teach students to perform in theatrical music and dance shows. The lessons are designed to cater music learners of all age group.
#Musical Theater NYC#Kids Musical Theater classes#musical theater for nyc kids#Kids Musical Theater NYC#theater classes for nyc kids
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However many mutuals, 15 questions. Thanks @dodger-chan for tagging me, it was cool to learn about you!!
1. are you named after anyone?
My government name is just a name my mother thought was pretty, with the middle name being a family middle name. The name I go by currently (sometimes, anyway) is after a character in an indie movie.
2. when was the last time you cried?
Oh god, two days ago? I cry so much. I feel things super deeply and I cry very easily. It's something I've struggled with my entire life and have tried to keep heavily in check due to the whole "white woman tears" thing, but emotional regulation is not a strong suit of mine.
3. do you have kids?
I do not and I don’t think I will have any. I admire people who have them, and I actually like kids! I just don’t think I’m meant to be a parent. I think when I'm older and more financially stable, I'd like to foster teenagers.
4. do you use sarcasm a lot?
To some extent. I used to be a lot more sarcastic, but a well of tenderness has sprung up inside me and replaced it with sincerity. It makes me feel a hell of a lot better day to day.
5. what sports do you play/have you played?
I’ve done swimming and skating, and I did the standard sports in gym class. I’m decidedly not a sports person but I do think jocks are very hot, haha. The exercise I do currently is solo stuff (walking, running, weight lifting, yoga) or stuff that's technically exercise but more fun (dancing! zumba!).
6. what’s the first thing you notice about people?
Their posture and their hair, two things about myself that I am very fixated on so I zero in on them with others. And, of course, what they're wearing!
7. what’s your eye colour?
Blue-ish.
8. scary movies or happy endings?
I refuse to choose! They both have value and there’s room for both in my life! My favorite genre is horror comedy if you couldn’t tell.
9. any special talents?
I think people consider the writing and music thing special, but they're just essential parts of my being, so here are things I consider special: can cook a decent meal out of whatever is in my house. I am good at lip syncing. I can accurately guess the beat drop in basically any song.
10. where were you born?
NYC.
11. what are your hobbies?
Writing, reading, making music, theater, trivia, collaging, road trips, hiking, beach going in the summer.
12. do you have pets?
Not anymore :( I recently had to put my cat to sleep. I want a pet again in the future, and when I'm a bit more financially stable I definitely want a dog.
13. how tall are you?
5’3.5” (161.29 cm)
14. favourite subject at school?
English for the conventional stuff. But really, Chorus of any kind. I went to a performing arts high school and I loved that for four periods out of my school day, I got to sing.
15. dream job?
I'm not certain if I have a dream job! I kind of want to do a bit of everything. But right now, I'm working toward something I really like -- community outreach and guest experience at a cultural center, which may turn into event planning and hosting later on.
tagging @tony-buddenbrook @cchapsticck @laundrybiscuits @senorablack @campgender @r-o-s-e-f-i-r-e and whoever else wants to do it!
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Comedy 4 Kids Class Saturdays 10am Times Square NYC starts September 9, 2023
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@applebutterbomb I reblogged my initial post with more details, but I feel like that was geared towards people much into musical theater, so let me try to elaborate in a more accessible way:
Because Broadway musicals are extremely expensive to put on/attend, there's a limited number of them that can be created per year-- and an even smaller number that are good, and an even SMALLER number good enough to actually be remembered long-term. Imagine if Hollywood could only make, idk, 20 movies a year, and you had to actually go to Hollywood, California to see any of them (but you COULD buy a copy of their scripts, if you wanted.) This is basically what Broadway musicals are like.
Now: teens! Obviously, teens love movies. They do not all love the same movies, but most love many different genres of movies! There are even movies where it makes more sense than others that teens would like, that one would not necessarily label "teen movies." When you think of "teen movies" or "young adult novels," you think of very specific things,
With this in mind, we return to the previously discussed constraints of Broadway as a medium. It is very expensive to make Broadway musicals, and therefore, very high risk. And like movies, there's always been a dichotomy of enforcing the status quo vs challenging it. People tend to get into musicals one of two ways: there's a big show seen as so groundbreaking that non-Broadway ppl find out about it (think Hamilton mania circa early 2016), or their parents/school play introduced them to an album & they liked it. You can only get that groundbreaking musical impact once every 20 years or so. Tourists need an incentive to spend the money a visit to NYC takes, and an incentive to see a show when they visit, and an incentive to see YOUR show since they can probably only afford to see one. How do you make sure they want to see YOUR show?
Hey, you know who its really easy to market a status-quo enforcing work masquerading as rebellious to? Teens. You know who will get people to pay for an expensive trip to NYC and theater tickets, out of sheer annoying persistence? Teens. You know who is basically a bare-minimum two-for-one ticket sale, because their parents won't let them hangout by themselves on vacation? Teens. You know who has music and drama classes we can arrange whole FIELD TRIPS of ticket sales for?
You get it.
So like. Because of all this. In recent years. There's a trend of projects getting financed that perhaps might not have been if they did not contain elements which some very, very old very, very rich white guys think would Appeal To The Kids. They're not even BAD necessarily (although some are), they just don't have the enough meat on the bone to be instant classics-- and beyond the fact that for the price of tickets, if you aren't seeing an instant classic, you are getting ripped off...with so little QUANTITY, you NEED quality to make up for it, to keep people interested in the medium.
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Hypothetically: a Friends™️ sequel
So ik how the creators of Friends venomously refuse to have a sequel or reboot, but I think a prequel would be so much better.
Instead of a reboot, imagine an anthropology series where each characters gets 2 or 3 episodes about their early lives.
And the show ends with the Friends ending up in NYC/their apartments.
Monica
An early childhood episode where we see how Monica was always last and flawed compared to Ross. And the beginning of her body image issues.
Another episode where she goes to college and is finally an individual, not as Rachel’s best friend or Ross’ little sister or the bigger girl. But her own person
How she gets her first job or why her grandma gave her the apartment
A story dedicated to building up Monica, showing how she became this independent and strong women but also doesn’t shy away on all the emotional instability in her childhood that made her need to be strong
Ross
A scene where see young Ross first meet Rachel and develops a crush on her as kids
An episode where we see Ross like stereotypical girly or nerdy toys and be bullied for his interests, then his dad taking him to a museum to keep his interests alive
An episode where Ross has his batmitzvah
And episode where he meets Carol for the first time and they’re both so sexually repressed and inexperienced and how they’re better as friends not as a couple.
There’s a lot of criticism surrounding Ross, and I think early episodes could explore how these traits cemented, and how he was a bright young boy full of wonder, inquisitiveness and how the 80s/90s forced him to pick between himself and what was expected of him as a “man”
Joey
Early scenes where Joey is the nicest, most respectful little boy ever. Where he takes care of his mom, his Nona and loves his sisters.
An episode where the Tribbani house isn’t the warm and loving home anymore when the family realizes Joey Senior is cheating, and how it affects everyone even though no one talks about it. How Joey Sr isn’t home anymore and stays out late, and how he spends their money on hotels. And this is what makes Joey a flirt and a womanizer
An episode where Joey gives up football or baseball or some sport to try theater because the lead in the play is pretty or something. Then he falls in love with theater for the first time
Joey deserves to be more than the “dumb” friend or the “flirty” one. But a story that shows how he became the man he is through the most important things to him; his family, loyalty and his art.
Chandler
The first episode of course about his parents’ divorce. And how Chandler’s teachers kept asking his parents to meet about how their son, who is now distracted and disruptive, which is unlike him because he was so bright and top of his class
An episode where he runs away from home but comes back. Only for no one to notice he left in the first place
When he goes to college he feels alone because he’s the only one whose parents didn’t drop him off and then he meets Ross
Just when he feels like he’s coming into his own, his dad decides to change his pronouns and Chandler struggles to accept that his father was never in his life not because of their sexuality or life, but because they we just never there as a parent.
Rachel
Early episodes that show despite how perfect and popular Rachel was, her home life was violent and loud with a  dysfunctional family.
Episodes about her parents’ hatred and failing marriage
How her sisters and her all reflected their parents by being ruthlessly cruel and impatient to each other and too others
How she loved Monica’s and Ross’ house because they had a normal home.
How no matter how much admiration she gets, she needs more and starts being sexually active too early because of her home life.
How she became friends with Monica
If there were prequels, it wouldn’t be the Rachel we know and love. But an early version full of flaws and potential
Phoebe
She would have the saddest episodes, but I do think the first half of her 1st episode should be upbeat and happy like her.
Scenes about how she’s happiest with her grandma, because Ursula is nasty and her mom is always tired and sad.
Her first episode should end with her stepdad being arrested.
The school always calling her mom in to either pick up Ursula or how Phoebe has ADD and a learning disability where she can’t focus in class.
How she’s the “weird” girl in school and her sister only makes it worse.
Scenes that show how poor their family are and keep getting poorer. How Phoebe’s mom barely struggles to get by, but no matter what Phoebe is hopeful.
How she is the one to find her mother, and just ups and leaves.
An episode of how Phoebe ended up in NYC and she struggled to get by
How she makes friends with other homeless people, but some die and she is surrounded by death
An episode where she sees her sister, and Ursula leaves Phoebe to rot on the street. But Phoebe feels safer and happier with her friends
Where she meets a smelly cat
And learns to play guitar for the first time
And a scene where grandma and her reconnect after years of struggling
The series ends with her finally getting on her feet when she moves in with Monica
#monica geller#ross geller#rachel green#phoebe buffay#joey tribbiani#chandler bing#friends reboot#reboot friends#friends
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