#Alaska native music

[sir-arlieosaurus-lung-struggler]

im confused about things like fans of K-Pop who only speak english & dont really understand what their listening to w/out english translation in front of them-

I get it now lol this shit catchy & i understand like less than Jinkaat words lol (subtitles recommend)

Update: his name on youtube is Air Jaz listen to him now 🔫

Ixsixán (i love you), Gunalchéesh (thank you), Eeshàan (I FINNALY KNOW HOW TO FUCKING SPELL IT DEAR FUCKING GOD, it basically means "oh you poor thing"), Jinkaat (Ten), Yéil (Raven), Ch'aak (Eagle)

[alisandralake]

I wrote a song about missing and murdered Indigenous women, alcoholism, and violence in our communities. It’s called “Black Sand”.

[atlaculture]

Do you know of any specific resources on the musical instruments that might be present in the Avatar world? Especially from the water tribe(s)?

I'll probably elaborate on Air Nomad, Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation instruments in later posts, but I can go over some possible Water Tribe instruments right now.

Char's Analysis of Possible Water Tribe Instruments is fantastic!

Some notable instruments from Inuit, Inupiat, and Yupik peoples:

Kelutviaq / Qelutviaq - Yupik single-string lute

Tautirut - Canadian Inuit Fiddle

Qilaut / Qilaat / Cauyaq - A handheld frame drum used by Inuit, Inupiat, and Yupik peoples across that Arctic. It is played with a stick called a qatuk. It's made of caribou skin and wood.

Drawing on the Siberian influences in the Northern Water Tribe, we have...

Mouth Harp / Jaw Harp - A small instrument that's held in the mouth and played through tapping and plucking. Its origins are from Northern Siberia, but it's also played by some Inuit peoples.

Chukchi Flute - A three-piped flute of the Chukchi people.

There's also Mongolian, Central Asian, First Nation, and Alaska Native instruments, if you're willing to expand beyond Arctic music:

Mongolian Instruments

Central Asian Instruments

Khakas Instruments

Indigenous music of North America - Wikipedia

Like what I’m doing? Tips always appreciated, never expected. ^_^

[lericekrispie]

Back on that Native Dakota Cole propaganda grind

Dakota Cole being Native is so important to me. This silly little headcannon brings me so much joy, to see the character do so many things that are so so Native coded and to have a story that feels inherently Native. I don't get a lot of representation in mainstream media. A lot of the time you have to search for it yourself. In this essay I will-

Native Coding Evidence in Cannon-

Dakota, the name by itself is a fairly Native name.

Alaska (Dakota's aunt) is also a very Native name.

Dakota's real name, Damascus, originally sounded very French to me. French would point to Native, because Native people often traded with French fur traders up north (of the united states) and into Canada. With the French, sometimes there was intermarriage, whether in violence or in peace. However, with some research into the name it comes from the Bible, and the direct meaning from google is "A sack full of blood, the similitude of burning."

Alaska's struggle with addiction (a common symptom of generational trauma from the Native genocide)

Playing a drum to calm down! Drums are a very Native thing.

He has that weird thing with bears? Native ways teach more by doing then showing so learning from wildlife seems to be a way his Grandma mentor would try to teach him, and Bears is a very Native associated animal.

How Dakota fits a Native Narrative-

Having a warrior spirit. Dakota Cole has very strong morals, and undoubtedly a fighting spirit. From the way he fights, from his strength, to his honor and respect for life.

He's disconnected from his family, yet makes strong connections with others. A lot of natives separated from their culture because of assimilation and genocide often yearn for families they know love them but cannot reach, for a culture they know should be there but cannot access. Being away from that but knowing something is missing is extremely painful. You yearn for a community, and a need for a strong community is in Native blood. Dakota makes strong meaningful connections, mimicking what he is missing.

Dakota Native Headcannons-

The first time he sees a powwow he cries (he's just like me fr fr)

His mentor is Native, and lives on his Rez. That's how he found him the first time around, he was on the road, and the only place he knew of that could possibly take him in was an obscure town Aunt Alaska had mentioned once or twice of growing up in. He goes there hoping to find more family, instead he finds his Teacher (Mentor).

(Teacher is from the Eagle clan if you care)

He wakes up in the morning, and sit in the sunrise, and smudges like he was taught by his Mentor.

During the ten-month break he got really close with the community on the Rez, he would often help however he could with his superpowers.

He listens to Native Rap when he works out and Native flute music to calm down.

He connects to Vyncent a lot about tribes and traditons bc that's what Vyncent had in Fauna.

During the ten-month break he learns to powwow dance.

He spouts off old Native teachings like a parrot of what his mentor has told him, sounds really mature, and Vyncent and Will are like... "that was really smart Dakota." And he's like. Idk what it means my Mentor just told me that lmao then he keeps being silly

He get's his hair cut during the ten-month break into a mowhawk :)

(when he wants to grow it out he just buzz cuts it to even it out and he looks slay af with a buzzed head)

When he gets older he's going to get almost full body Native tattoos.

He incorporates beading into his superhero fit

Dakota's Native name is Miskomin-Makoons (Raspberry- Cub)

The Damascus' are from the Bear clan.

"The Bear Clan members were the strong and steady police and legal guardians. Bear Clan members spent a lot of time patrolling the land surrounding the village, and in so doing, they learned which roots, bark, and plants could be used for medicines to treat the ailments of their people."

Dakota's Warrior title is 'Bleeding Heart Warrior'

I'm sure I'll remember more stuff later and I'll kick myself but for now this is what I have. any JRWI Natives want to add feel free to give ur headcannons :)

[spanishskulduggery]

As a native English speaker myself, who wants to learn Spanish as a secondary language, do you have any recommendations regarding Spanish- singing music artists or Spanish songs? I’ll take anything from folk rhymes to an entire pop album! Also: thank you so much for all the knowledge you provide! I hope you’re doing excellent! 💗✨

I'm not particularly up on music these days so I'll have to ask for followers

The artists I know of are Shakira, Juanes, Alaska, Lucero, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Maná, and Los Prisioneros

...And a whole lot of Disney youtube songs with the lyrics in Spanish for me personally

I need to look through my playlists because I have more songs collected than actual artists but I don't know them all off the top of my head

Followers?

[lserver362reviews]

What a show, what a journey, what a town! I started watching Northern Exposure during the week between starting the job of my dreams and leaving a really bad workplace (one that I was desperate to go to because I was fleeing a REALLY bad workplace) in March of 2022. I finished the series tonight, the eve of my departure for my adventure from Twin Peaks to Cicely. I have followed along with the Northern OverExposure Podcast (catch me on their episode on Season 6 Episode 4 The Letter) over this year plus and have had a wonderful time live tweeting my thoughts and interacting with Northern Exposure fans and the hosts of that show, Charles and Lee. I've lost track of how many people have responded to me watching the show, irl, with, "Oh I loved that show!!" My parents (My dad said, "you don't remember when we watched that?" and I had to remind him I wasn't alive yet), my boss (who "stopped watching when Joel left"-spoiler!), my coworkers (and their siblings), my friends (who are accompanying me to the Informal Moosefest this weekend in Roslyn). I've also been able to share the show with my loved ones (showing it to my step-sisters in Montreal and showing it to my sister- the episode where Maggie turns 30 (season 4 episode 1)-a month before my sister turned 30). The Thanksgiving episode (season 4 episode 8) will be a yearly rewatch for me and my family now (my aunt was willing to watch it twice this past year). This show is never ever predictable, but always self reflective, and incredibly quirky (dream sequences or a gimmick abound). The characters are beautiful and the storylines range from profound to bonkers. The representation for Native people, gay people, hypochondriacs, strong women, hip girlies, manic pixie dream boys, and wise, as well as unwise, adults, was crucial for the time it aired on TV (maybe not all of those archetypes really needed the representation but once I started thinking about this ensemble cast I couldn't stop). I will always love the Zydeco style theme for something set so far away from the home of that music, but that's what the show is about. Finding joy in a place that maybe isn't your home. I haven't even gotten to my ideal man, love of my life, absolute smart cute sweetie boy himself, Chris Stevens. I was already a John Corbett fan but his monologues as Chris sent me over the moon. Where can I get me one of those? And if I'm getting into character specifics I also need to mention Ruth-Anne and Ed's relationship. Ed interacting with anybody (whether on a spiritual plane (One Who Waits) or a physical person (Shelly)), is a great time, but him and Ruth-Anne just have such a beautiful connection. I'm looking forward to dancing on Ruth-Anne's grave this weekend. Also I loved Mike Monroe (sue me, HE'S A LAWYER!). This show did so much with what seemed like so little. It's a straight forward premise, as it's known to Spanish speakers, "Doctor en Alaska", but what unfolded to me was much much bigger. I can't say too much about the short comings of season 6, but I never hated it. Characters acted a little more strange than usual and things felt different, maybe sometimes a little stale, but it's still the same town. It's funny to me how a fictional place, so far away, can remind me of my own hometown and state. There really is something universal in the particular. I have loved (mostly) every minute of watching this show (Maurice took the longest to grow on me) and shouting my reaction to it into the void only to have others respond (thoughtfully and with enthusiasm). It's really indicative of where I'm at in my life and I feel incredibly lucky. So thank you, everyone involved in the making of Northern Exposure, the Northern OverExposure Podcast, and anyone who lets this town into their heart. You'll find me, and many others, there. Happy Moosefest everyone, antlers up! <3

[whitetrashwarriorprincess]

Townes Van Zandt

Steve Earle described him as the greatest songwriter who ever lived, and his influence was felt by many other artists, including Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett. Bob Dylan refers to this Texas native as his favorite songwriter. He wrote hundreds of haunting songs that have been widely recorded, perhaps most notably “Pancho and Lefty” which was a number one hit for Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard in 1983.

Since his death, Van Zandt’s legend has grown exponentially. With two biographies and a documentary released in the last decade, his legend will continue to grow as new generations have access to his music — because more than a handful of Townes’s songs are incontestably great.

"In America when I play, I’m a folksinger — just me and my guitar. And when they’re recorded in America they’re usually recorded country, like Willie and Emmylou. In Europe they’re usually rock. They’re turned into rock or grunge. But they don’t fit into a category. I don’t write for anyone. It’s between me and the spirits. And the people on Earth. Every recording ever of mine, a cover, I’ve loved. Well, a person or a band, whatever they may be, takes a song of mine, learns it and does it their way: I mean you can’t fault that. There’s Eskimos around the campfire in Alaska passing around the guitar and maybe one of them will play “Pancho and Lefty” or something, and that’s what I’m supposed to be doing."

[wernerherzogs]

ALSO since i'm already talking, here are my final thoughts on td: night country if anyone still cares lmao. @highcampandmisdemeanors my apologies, this is basically a copy paste of what i wrote to you bc i'm lazy :D spoilers ahead:

- overall I liked s4 quite a lot, but I think s1 references hurt it as they made no sense in that place, and had only created plotholes (what were annie and the tsalal guy doing in that rv van if the TD universe taught us those dolls/etc. are associated with child abuse!!! why the writings/symbols on the walls!!!), what did fiona shaw's character know about the spiral and why didn't navarro question her immediately, etc. there was a disconnect between what we've been taught that imagery meant, and what was actually going down in that show. and the time is a flat circle quote just felt cheap. :/

- i always love magical realism/complex ontology of a world that goes beyond observable phenomena (y'all know how i love twin peaks), so i didn't mind that, and nic p dabbled in it himself (even though he always had a safe umbrella of a 'realism' to provide a possible explanation for that - rust's past in s1, characters approaching death in s2, wayne's sickness in s3), so whoever says those themes didn't fit the TD universe is wrong

- having said that, the execution of that wasn't great - the sound design was too overwhelming most of the time, hitting you over the head with the whispery noises and chants in a native language, and the way the apparitions spoke was sooo cringe 😭 it also kind of felt like the creators weren't sure till the very end if they actually wanted to Commit to them or not, although i think it ultimately works in show's favour - maybe navarro did simply inherit whatever her mother and sister had, and it's just a mental health issue (which is how nic p would have left things off as well lmao)

- ultimately what i loved the most about this season were the things that pretty much had nothing to do with the TD universe, namely the relationships!!!! whatever navarro and danvers had going on was super compelling, so was danvers' relationship with prior and her daughter, or navarro's with her sister and fiona shaw's character, and obviously prior's with his father, and so on

- basically, maybe this show actually shouldn't have been a TD show at all, but i did enjoy it overall, and i liked the ultimate explanation behind the mystery, i thought that fit the TD 'verse quite well!, especially the s3 finale. the acting was GREAT on all fronts, so was the arctic setting. the only nod to s1 i would've left was rust's dad thing, i thought that was cool, and i disagree that it retcons anything in s1, having freshly rewatched it (sure the agents say at some point that no one had seen rust's dad in 30 years lmao but who is 'no one'. cops? authorities? girl this is alaska <3 and rust might have used a trip excuse just as an alibi, sure, but so what?)

- music supervising/soundtrack choices were mostly tragic, i'm sorry to say. ): t bone burnett no one can get on your level

- bad cgi animals in shows must End

[apilgrimpassingby]

Queen Abigail's Daily Routine

If anyone's not familiar with her, she's one of my fictional characters - the founding queen of the Kingdom of Anchorage and Kodiak, an Orthodox kingdom in southwest Alaska ruled by a Native American dynasty. This is her daily routine; I've been planning something like this for a while and decided to do it today.

5:45-6:00: Wake up, get dressed by her maid (this is an example of the kind of thing she wears) and say her morning prayers.

6:00-6:15: Attend the First Hour. This is performed by her father-confessor Fr. Philip Hansen, and anyone else willing to get up at that time is allowed to attend.

6:15-6:45: Shower and get dressed again afterwards.

6:45-7:00: Do some reading, watching or listening to music. Her favourites in those categories are respectively the Church Fathers (especially St. Athanasius), Avatar: The Last Airbender (her favourite show as a child, sped up to fit a 20-minute episode into 15 minutes), and 1970s rock (her energising music)

7:00-7:30: Breakfast, usually consisting of eggs, bacon, coffee and potatoes, with the eggs and bacon replaced with toast and fruit during fasts. This is held with the rest of the court, and while not formal "office hours" are a good time to talk to her in person.

7:30-8:30: Meeting with the cabinet to formally discuss policy and give them assignments for the day.

8:30-12:30: Office hours, spent either meeting with various people or responding to letters; which people and letters get through or are sent to other departments is the judgement of her secretaries, as well as how much time people get.

12:30-13:00: Lunch, consisting of a cup of tea, a bowl of soup, and some sandwiches. This is always eaten on her own, as a chance for quiet and a break.

13:00-18:00: Back to office hours.

18:00-19:00: Dinner. A social occasion as much as a meal, lasting as long as it does in order to give people the chance to talk to each other. The food here consists of a soup made of wild game, wild rice and other wild food (the wild game is removed on fast days), grilled and smoked fish (this option is, again, absent on fast days), bannock, bread rolls, salad and desserts made from wild berries.

19:00-19:15: Attend Povecheriye, held by Fr. Philip. Everyone at court is expected to attend this at least once a week.

19:15-22:00: Evening free time. In spring, this is spent shooting waterfowl, and in summer fishing from the lakes and rivers. In autumn and winter, there is a dedicated hunting day once a week, and this time is usually spent relaxing in some other way.

22:00-22:15: Say her evening prayers, get undressed by her maid and go to bed.

Tagging @roses-red-and-pink (who drew Abigail in her hunting dress) and @rebelnurse (who helped me design her hunting rifle for if you like this.

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 8.25

Holidays

American Oil Discovery Day (Pennsylvania)

Apocynum Day (French Republic)

Aromatic Visibility Day

Australian South Sea Islander Recognition Day (Australia)

Battle Of Blair Mountain Anniversary Day

Clio Asteroid Day

English Channel Swim Day

Gene Simmons Day

Great American Duck Day

The Great Moon Hoax Day

Healthy Lifestyle Day

Honorable Artillery Company Day (UK)

International Day of the Hairstylist

International Redhead Day

Kiss and Make Up Day

Lake Sevan Day (Armenia)

Liberation of Paris Day (Paris, France)

National Don't Utter a Word Day

National Park Service Founders Day

National Poetry Day (New Zealand)

National Second-Hand Wardrobe Day

National Tech-Voc Day (Philippines)

Nils Lofgren Day

Pops Staples Day (Chicago, Illinois)

Private Eye Day

Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day

Second-Hand Wardrobe Day

Soldier's Day (Brazil)

Songun (North Korea)

South Sea Islander Recognition Day (Australia)

Tim Burton Day

Wizard of Oz Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Feast of the Green Corn

Instant Ramen Day (Japan)

National Banana Split Day

National Lamington Day

National Whiskey Sour Day

Independence & Related Days

Belarus (from USSR, 1991)

Constitution Day (Paraguay)

Iloilo City Charter Day (Philippines)

New Orleans (Founded; 1718)

Parva Domus Magna Quies (Declared; 1878) [unrecognized]

Uruguay (from Brazil, 1825)

4th & Last Sunday in August

Burning Man begins (Nevada) [8.27 thru 9.4]

Family Day (Tennessee) [Last Sunday]

Go Topless Day [ website ] [Sunday nearest 26th] (Also 8.24)

International Bereaved Father’s Day [Last Sunday]

Miner’s Day (USSR) [Last Sunday]

National Faith HIV/AIDS Awareness Day [Last Sunday]

National Fantasy Football Draft Day [Last Sunday]

Notting Hill Carnival begins (UK) [Sunday before Last Monday]

Plague Sunday (Gloucestershire, UK) [Last Sunday]

Pony Express Day [Last Sunday]

Sacrifice Our Wants For Other’s Needs Sunday [Sunday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

Seven For Sunday [Every Sunday]

Social Justice Sunday [Last Sunday]

Soothing Sunday [4th Sunday of Each Month]

Spud Sunday [4th Sunday of Each Month]

Souper Sunday [Last Sunday of Each Month]

Sultry Sunday [Last Sunday of Each Month]

Sundae Sunday [Every Sunday]

Sunday Funday [Every Sunday]

World Kitchen Garden Day [4th Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 25 (4th Full Week of August)

Be Kind to Humankind Week (thru 8.31)

Brake Safety Week (thru 8.31)

Contact Lens Health Week [4th Week]

National Composites Week [Last Week]

World Water Week (thru 8.29)

Festivals Beginning August 25, 2024

Bloemencorso Blankenberge (Blankenberge, Belgium)

Burning Man (Black Rock City, Nevada) [thru 9.2]

California Restaurant Show (Los Angeles, California) [thru 8.27]

Coffee Fest Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) [thru 8.27]

Detroit Bourbon & Blues Festival (Detroit, Michigan)

Georgia VegFest (Atlanta, Georgia)

Notting Hill Carnival (London, United Kingdom) [thru 8.26]

Nutty Pie Contest, at the Alaska State Fair (Palmer, Alaska)

Peach Festival (Grafton, Illinois)

Sharq Taronalari International Music Festival (Samarkand, Uzbekistan) [thru 8.30]

Taste of Huntington Beach (Huntington Beach, California)

Terptown Throwdown (Boston, Massachusetts)

Feast Days

Æbbe of Coldingham (Christian; Saint)

Aredius (Christian; Saint)

Bret Harte (Writerism)

Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (Artology)

Conté (Positivist; Saint)

Daniel Hulet (Artology)

Discovery of the Runes (Norse)

Dorothea Tanning (Artology)

Duke (Price Charming’s Horse; Muppetism)

Ebba (a.k.a. Tabbs; Christian; Saint)

Frederick Forsyth (Writerism)

Ganesh Chaturthi (a.k.a. Vinayaka Chaturthi; India)

Genesius of Arles (Christian; Saint)

Genesius of Rome (Christian; Saint)

Ginés de la Jara (a.k.a. Genesius of Cartagena; Christian; Saint)

George Stubbs (Artology)

Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (Artology)

Gregory of Utrecht (Christian; Saint)

Heliogabalus Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Horus Nativity (Ancient Egypt)

Ian Falconer (Artology)

Jacob Maris (Artology)

Joan Antide-Thouret (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Joseph of Calasanz (Christian; Saint)

Leonard Bernstein (Humanism)

Louis IX of France (Christian; Saint)

Ludovicus Baba (Christian; Blessed)

Ludovicus Sasada (Christian; Blessed)

Luis Sotelo (Christian; Blessed)

Maelrubha (Celtic Book of Days)

Martin Amis (Writerism)

Mary Michaela Desmaisieres (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Menas of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Michael Kaluta (Artology)

Miguel de Carvalho (Christian; Blessed)

Opiconsivia (Roman festival to Ops, goddess of fertility & abundance)

Patricia of Naples (Christian; Saint)

Pedro Vásquez, Blessed (Christian; Saint)

Rumpleskunkskin’s Bride Escapes to Heerwigoland (Fairy Celebration; Shamanism)

Thomas de Cantilupe (a.k.a. of Hereford; Christian; Saint)

Walt Kelly (Artology)

Whiskey Sour Day (Pastafarian)

Hindu Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Krishna Janmashtami (a.k.a. Krishnashtami, Janmashtami, or Gokulashtami)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [34 of 53]

Premieres

Advance and Be Mechanized (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1967)

And Justice For All, by Metallica (Album; 1988)

Barnacle Bill (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1930)

Beerfest (Film; 2006)

Bertie the Brain (Video Game; 1950)

Born to Run, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1975)

Boston, by Boston (Album; 1976)

Bring It On (Film; 2000)

Carrotblanca (WB LT Cartoon; 1995)

Cheese Chasers (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)

Desperado (Film; 1995)

Electric Ladyland Studio (Recording Studio; 1970)

The Golden West (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

Graceland, by Paul Simon (Album; 1986)

Grand Uproar (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow (Novel; 1975)

Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers (WB TV Cartoon; 1992)

Laughable Loves, by Milan Kundera (Short Stories; 1969)

Leap!, a.k.a. Ballerina (Animated Film; 2017)

Madame Bovary (Film; 1949)

Miracle on 34th Street, by Valentine Davies (Novel; 1947)

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, by Lauryn Hill (Album; 1998)

Mutt ’n’ Bones (Phantasies Cartoon; 1944)

My So-Called Life (TV Series; 1994)

The Pink Tail Fly (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1965)

The Pique Poquette of Paris (The Inspector Cartoon; 1966)

Raw! Raw! Rooster! (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)

Samurai!, by Saburo Sakai (Autobiography; 1957)

Solid Ivory (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1947)

Swing Shift Cinderella (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1945)

The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo (Children’s Book; 2003)

The Thief and the Cobbler (Animated Film; 1995)

The Wizard of Oz (Film; 1939)

Wrecking Ball, by Miley Cyrus (Song; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Elvira, Josef, Ludwig, Patricia (Austria)

Grgur, Josip, Ljudevit (Croatia)

Radim (Czech Republic)

Ludvig (Denmark)

Tauno, Tunne (Estonia)

Loviisa (Finland)

Louis (France)

Ebba, Elvira, Ludwig (Germany)

Bartholomeos, Titos (Greece)

Lajos, Patrícia (Hungary)

Ludovico, Luigi (Italy)

Ivonna, Ludis, Ludvigs (Latvia)

Liucija, Liudas, Liudvikas, Mangailas, Mangailė (Lithuania)

Louise, Lovise, Ludvig (Norway)

Gaudencjusz, Gaudenty, Grzegorz, Ludwik, Luiza, Michał, Sieciesław (Poland)

Ľudovít (Slovakia)

Ginés, José, Luis, Patricia (Spain)

Louise, Lovisa (Sweden)

Dorcas, Lanard, Lennie, Lenny, Leonard, Leonardo, Tabatha, Tabitha (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 238 of 2024; 128 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of Week 34 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 23 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 22 (Xin-You)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 21 Av 5784

Islamic: 19 Safar 1446

J Cal: 28 Purple; Sevenday [28 of 30]

Julian: 12 August 2024

Moon: 58%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 13 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Conté]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 67 of 94)

Week: 4th Full Week of August

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 4 of 32)

[dustedmagazine]

Bizhiki — Unbound (Jagjaguwar)

Just under 50,000 people or about 1% of Wisconsin’s people are native American, a relatively small percentage compared to Western states like Alaska and South Dakota. However, there’s a vibrant native American culture in the Badger State nonetheless, with tribes celebrating traditional music, dance, food and storytelling at pow wows held throughout the state. Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings of Bizhiki came out of that tradition, as did his adopted brother Rainey (though in the neighboring state of Minnesota). For this project, the two of them have connected with another rural Wisconsin musical tradition, the dreamy, expansive vocal pop of Bon Iver and its offshoots. Justin Vernon guests on one of Unbound’s songs, while his frequent collaborator Sean Carey is a full-fledged member of the group.

Bizhiki’s music combines traditional native American chant with an indie electronic palette of sounds. It’s a blend that might easily fail to gel, and yet it works fairly consistently. The best cuts put the Native American elements in the foreground. The least effective slip into generic chillwave territories, a slightly more exotic version of Washed Out. It’s hard to argue with the exultant drumming and trance-inducing vocals of “Rez News,” for instance, but “She’s All We Have,” while earnest in its ecological message, sounds too much like standard-issue electronic pop. “Nashke!” gets the balance best, beginning in whispery indie guitars and vocals and building to an ecstatic, keening climax. A cool Western-style verse — Carey, evidently — blossoms into echoing group chants, and the two sides meet, not seamlessly exactly, but in collaboration.

You can definitely make out Justin Vernon’s unearthly falsetto in “Gigawaabamin (Come Through)” though the liner notes are at pains to credit Native singer Mike Sullivan as “featured artist.” Here, a dance beat thunders, a jazz bass slithers, a indie rock chorus croons in mega-pop style, but the part that hits you hardest is the vibrating, trilling, old-time chant. You could think of Bizhiki as indie pop with a secret sauce, but it’s more than that. The Native American bits are the transcendent ones. They’re a doorway into another tradition, strange, compelling and beautiful.  

Jennifer Kelly

[prettymvgic]

my muses ; this is temporary until i figure out how to make things mobile friendly !

FEMALES : poppy : age unknown, pixie, currently captive by a vampire - madelaine petsch. kiana murphy : 22, college student, waitress - samantha logan. kimberly vaughn : 24, 1990's - young!julia roberts. olivia harrington: 22, college student - grace van dien. robyn bailey : 29, model & influencer - laura harrier. sidney prescott : 17-22, scream 1-3 - neve campbell. samantha palmer : 18-23, hs student/college student - katherine langford. marianne parker : 55, ranger wife - diane lane. katherine foster : 42, conwoman - anne hathaway. andrea "annie" bennett : 41, inn owner & keeper, starting over - bethany joy lenz. mercedes hart: 27, influencer & industry plant, upcoming musical artist - ryan destiny. bristol harper : 35, online jewelry store owner, mother to two - hilary duff. evangelina constance : 48, owner of a cult - carla gugino. allison barnes : 38, former nurse now surviving the apocalypse - lauren cohen. lacey thomas : 18-20, college student - nicole wallace. seline castillo : 33, owner of flattop bar & grill, more info upon request - vanessa hudgens. cassandra foxx : better known in her world as ALASKA, 30, sugar baby/escort, more info upon request - vanessa hudgens. marzia vadala : 34, italian, jewelry store owner - phoebe tonkin. gianna ortiz : 34, spanish, receptionist for a corportation - ana de armas. mariana ruiz : 19-22, spanish, hs or college student - alexa demie. holland st. clair : 25, model trying to get her debut, trans-female - hunter schafer. angeline swanson : 23, pornstar - sabrina carpenter. first last : 40, prosecutor - kerry washington.

MALES : marshall "the judge" owens : 49, apocalyptic cult member - andrew lincoln. jude mitchell : 34, lives in an apartment in nyc, struggling artist - andrew garfield. david bascom : 26, 1950's, closeted homosexual - harry styles. casey theriot : 27, nomad. - tom holland. pak dae-hyun : 23, idol struggling with fame - junkook. patrick galloway : 29, blackballed actor starting over - nicholas galitzine. choi minho, 25, establishing actor, mostly indie films waiting for his break - kim jiwoong ( aki. ) hak su-jin : 31, book store / cafe manager in seoul - woo do-hwan. kai kahinu : 19, younger brother to zane, new zealand native, maori - matthew sato. wihan chen : 24, indie musician - first kanaphan puitrakul. ( tashi. ) felix maynard : 30, owner of tart & thyme restaurant, chef - will poulter. caskey dallas : 18-23, outcast, more info upon request - cole sprouse. robin sallow : 28, manager of off beat records, more info upon request - thomas doherty. jesse dylan : 18-30 ( 1985 - 1997 ), teen/convict, more info upon request - dacre montgomery. dean maddox : 22, college student, more info upon request - hero fiennes tiffin. simon parker : 29, lead singer & guitar player of killin' time, more info upon request - joe keery. maverick reed : 26, fisherman's son - rudy pankow. hwan van : 26, mechanic - cha eun-woo choi daehyun : 20, idol, au!fae - felix lee. trevor elliot : 24, college, indie musician, au!fame - felix mallard. kim hanuel : 26, ceo- yeo jin-goo. andrew baker : 19, homeless. - brandon flynn. casper cromwell : forever 20, ghostboy haunting a house. - louis patridge.

THEYS : zane kahinu, 22, older sibling to kai, new zealand native, maori - zoe terakes.

[officialelliottprescott]

Brother Bear is a 2003 American animated musical fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 44th Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker (in their feature directorial debuts) and produced by Chuck Williams, from a screenplay written by Tab Murphy, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton, and the writing team of Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman. The film stars the voices of Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Jason Raize, and D.B. Sweeney. Brother Bear follows an Alaska native boy named Kenai as he pursues a bear and kills it, but the Spirits, incensed by this unnecessary death, change Kenai into a bear himself as punishment.[3] In order to be human again, Kenai must travel to a mountain where the Northern lights touch the earth.

The film was the third and final Disney animated feature produced primarily by the Feature Animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida; the studio was shut down in March 2004, not long after the release of this film in favor of computer animated features. The film, which was released in the United States on November 1, 2003, received mixed to negative reviews from critics and received a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 76th Academy Awards, losing to Pixar's Finding Nemo. The film grossed $250 million against a $46 million budget. A direct-to-video sequel, Brother Bear 2, was released on August 29, 2006.

In a post-ice age Alaska, the local tribes believe all creatures are created through the Great Spirits, who are said to appear in the form of an aurora. A trio of brothers, Kenai, the youngest; Denahi, the middle; and Sitka, the eldest, return to their tribe in order for Kenai to receive his totem, necklaces in the shapes of different animals. The particular animals they represent symbolize what they must achieve to call themselves men. Unlike Sitka, who gained the eagle of guidance, and Denahi, who gained the wolf of wisdom, Kenai receives the bear of love. He objects to his totem, stating that bears are thieves, and believes his point is made a fact when a brown bear steals their basket of salmon. Kenai and his brothers pursue the bear, but a fight ends on top of a glacier, during which Sitka gives his life to save his brothers by dislodging the glacier, although the bear survives the fall. After Sitka's funeral, an enraged Kenai blames the bear for Sitka's death. He hunts down and chases the bear up onto a rocky cliff, fighting and eventually slaying it. The Spirits, represented by Sitka's spirit in the form of a bald eagle, arrive and transform Kenai into a bear after the dead bear's body evaporates and joins them. Denahi arrives and, falsely believing that Kenai was killed by the bear from earlier, vows to avenge Kenai by hunting it down.

[BRO DID YOU REALLY JUST SEND ME THE FUCKING WIKIPEDIA PAGE 😭😭😭]

[lady-lycany]

The Faoladh where all along what I connected to being a werewolf. Now I definitely can say where I come from...

First of all, the sounds of celtic music. My mom feels strangely connected to Ireland too and listened to a ton of celtic music when I was a child. So I thought, that this was why I felt also a deeper connection to it. But It goes way deeper than I thought. Also my desire to protect (other and myself), and to only hunt when necessary. The thing with the Otherworld: In the book I wanted to write, I always forced myself into thinking that it has to happen in America (Alaska - Juneau because, big forests around) to be exact and so I also tried to force myself into the music of native americans. It just never felt right, even tho I felt or still feel very connected to their culture and beliefs. I always kept it in the back of my mind tho, to put it somewhere in Ireland, Scotland or England. I always listened to Celtic music while working on the story and this type of music makes me instantly shift into my werewolf form. No matter if it's 'Faun' (extremely the case!), 'Celtic Woman', 'Cara Dillon', Oonagh (even tho they mostly do songs in the elvish language, the style can be very similar and they also have a song together with celtic woman), or just random instrumental playlists.... All the pictures I've collected over the years of werewolves.... Why I had the desire that I must watch the movie Wolfwalkers in english even tho I could've watched it in german...

Oh also they way Faoladh's live! Apparently their homes were build into hills. This is also a thing I wanted to put into my story! similar looking like the houses the hobbits from lotr lived in. not exactly like it but similar. and the ones who didn't live in hills, build their homes underground so that the roofs where covered with grass- what basically made them to little hills lol

Aaaah... There's just so much sh!t adding up in my brain.

Man I wish I would've read more about it way earlier. But hey, figuring stuff out can take longer sometimes. But eventually you'll get your answers. and that's what just happened to me

[blair-clark]

Blog post # 1

My name is Bailey Olson, I go by she/her pronouns! I’m an Air Force brat for all my life, born in Alaska, moved to Tennessee, Germany, Las Vegas, Texas, now Washington for college all on my own now.

I absolutely lovvvveeee reading, my most favorite books are Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, and The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is one of my favorites as well. I’ve always been the biggest reader when I was younger, Percy Jackson were my first ever novel I raved over, but when I read the whole series, one and two, I got so bored with other books, so my mom bought my 9 year old self the english translated editions of The Iliad and Odyssey, I’m also really big with Mythology! Greek, Roman, Native American, Egyptian, Norse!

I love music!! Always listening, especially "old school", I have several records of ABBA, one even from the 80's! Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Queen, Blondie, The Cramps. My family calls me an old soul, but I love Taylor Swift, The Marias, Lorde, Billie Eilish, Automatic.

Along with reading, I’ve always been a writer, more creative with stories of adventure, mystery, magic, and not so much of school essay writing but all the way throughout school, I was apart of the school Newspaper, I’ve done my own research papers on topics that interest me, the evolution of the solar system and space, hated how long that one was, The story of the female pirate, Jeanne de Clisson, a female pirate who raided French ships and slaughtered the men, leaving one alive to report back to the French King, who executed her husband. All long lost writings locked away in my middle school account. I’m very fond of Google Docs.

I have 4 pets at home, 2 Boston Terriers, 1 Weiner dog, but most importantly my cat Luna.

Excited for your class, Dr. Black!

[brookston]

Holidays 9.10

Holidays

Alexandra Asteroid Day

Alpaca Day

Amerindian Heritage Day (Guyana)

Blame It On the Large Hadron Collider Day

Children’s Day (Honduras)

Crayfish Day (French Republic)

Dia del Nino (Children’s Day; Honduras)

Festival of the Poets (Japan)

Godsall Day (Day of Rest in Southern Outer Tibet)

Grandparents’ & Family Caregivers’ Day (Florida)

Harvest Home Nibbling Contest (Gremlins)

Heritage Open Days begin (UK)

International Creepy Boston Dynamics Robotic Horse Day

International Gynaecological Awareness Day

International Make-Up Day

National Acid Attack Awareness Day (Nepal)

National American Indian/Alaska Native Hope for Life Day

National Anti-Junk Light Day

National Day (Gibraltar)

National Mamablogger Day (Netherlands)

National Sewerage Day (Japan)

National Stick a Fork Up Your Nose Day

910 Day

Old-Timers Day

Pandora Asteroid Day

Puyallup Fair begins (Washington)

St. George’s Caye Day (Belize)

Scape-Goat Day

Sew Be It Day (a.k.a. Sewing Machine Day)

Shower of Fish Day

Stop Junk Light Day

Swap Ideas Day

Take Goofy Pictures Day

Teacher's Day (China)

Top Up Day

White Balloon Day

World Suicide Prevention Day (UN)

X-Files Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Buy a Regular Drink Day

Caramel Cheesecake Day

International Canned Cocktail Day

International Port Day

International Vegan Butterbeeer Day

National Hot Dog Day [also 3.30 & mid-July]

National TV Dinner Day

Independence & Related Days

Gibraltar National Day (Referendum of 1967)

Juclandia (Declared; 2001) [unrecognized]

Schwanensee (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]

2nd Tuesday in September

Firearm Suicide Prevention Day [2nd Tuesday]

National Ants on a Log Day [2nd Tuesday]

Table Tennis Tuesday [2nd Tuesday of Each Month]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tomato Tuesday [2nd Tuesday of Each Month]

Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 10 (2nd Full Week of September)

National Suicide Prevention Week (thru 9.16) [Week of 9.10]

Festivals Beginning September 10, 2024

Harvest Music Festival (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada) [thru 9.15]

Husker Harvest Days (Grand Island, Nebraska) [thru 9.12]

National Heirloom Exposition (Ventura, California) [thru 9.12]

Patrick County Agricultural Fair (Stuart, Virginia) [thru 9.14]

Potato Bowl USA (Grand Forks, North Dakota) [thru 9.14]

Feast Days

Albatross Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Alexander Crummell (Episcopal Church)

Aubert (Christian; Saint)

Beryl Cook (Artology)

Beaverinne (Muppetism)

Carl Van Doren (Writerism)

Chico Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Chuseok (Korean Harvest Festival) [15th Day of 8th Lunar Moon]

Edmund James Peck (Anglican Church of Canada)

Finian of Moville (a.k.a. Winin; Christian; Saint)

Ganesh Chaturthi (Hinduism)

Georgia Douglas Johnson (Writerism)

Harvest Home Nibbling Contest (Gremlins; Shamanism)

Incense to Bring Clarity of Mind Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Israel Abramofsky (Artology)

Karma Puja (Jharkhand, India)

Lope de Vega (Positivist; Saint)

Lorenzo Homar (Artology)

Marian Keyes (Writerism)

Marianne von Werefkin (Artology)

Mary Oliver (Writerism)

Media Aestas VIII (Pagan)

Nemesianus, Felix, Lucius, another Felix, Litteus, Polianus, Victor, Jader, and Dativus, Bishops and their companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Nicholas of Tolentino (Christian; Saint)

Pulcheria (Christian; Saint)

Salvius, Bishop of Albi (Christian; Saint)

Theodard of Maastricht (Christian; Saint)

Thomas Tsugi, Charles Spinola, and Great Martyrs of Nagasaki (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fatal Day (Pagan) [18 of 24]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [23 of 30]

Premieres

Blue of Noon, by Georges Bataille (Novel; 1935)

Bullwinkle Takes the Wheel or The Bum Steer (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 212; 1963)

Brand New Day (a.k.a. Bran New Day; Film; 2010)

Buddha, Vol. 1: Kapilavastu, by Osamu Tezuka (Graphic Novel; 1972)

Cracked Ice (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Dollars and Sense (Money Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1994)

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (TV Series; 1990)

Gunsmoke (TV Show; 1955)

Hellraiser (Film; 1987)

It’s Garry Shandling’s Show (TV Series’ 1986)

Good Old Boys, by Randy Newman (Album; 1974)

The Joy Luck Club (Film; 1993)

King Neptune (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

The Lone Ranger (Animated Filmation TV Series; 1966)

My Little Pony (Animated TV Series; 2010)

Nightmare Alley,by William Lindsay Gresham (Novel; 1946)

The Orville (TV Series; 2017)

Our Song, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2007)

Pluto’s Fledgling (Disney Cartoon; 1948)

The Saint’s Getaway, by Leslie Charteris (Novel; 1933) [Saint #10]

Scooby-Doo! And the Spooky Scarecrow (WB Animated Film; 2013)

Smells Like Teen Spirit, by Nirvana (Song; 1991)

Southern Rhythm (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)

The Spirit of Seventy Sex (Adult Film; 1976)

Symphony No. 2, by Karl Amadeus Hartmann (Single Movement Symphony; 1950)

Test for Echo, by Rush (Album; 1996)

Thunderstruck, by AC/DC (Song; 1990)

The Tick (Animated TV Series; 1994)

Topsy Turvy or Emit Yvrut Yspot (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 211; 1963)

True Romance (Film; 1993)

2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke (Novel; 1968)

Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talking’ About Him?) (Documentary Film; 2010)

The X-Files (TV Series; 1993)

You’re Too Careless with Your Kisses! (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

Today’s Name Days

Carlo, Diethard, Isabella, Nikolaus (Austria)

Izabela, Nikola, Sebastijan (Croatia)

Irma (Czech Republic)

Buchardt (Denmark)

Lembe, Lembi, Lemme, Lemmi (Estonia)

Kaleva, Kalevi (Finland)

Inès (France)

Carlo, Diethard, Isabella, Niels (Germany)

Ersatz, Erastos, Kilmentini, Klimis, Minodora, Mitrodora, Nymfodora, Poulcgeria (Greece)

Hunor, Nikolett (Hungary)

Nicola (Italy)

Albertīne, Jausma (Latvia)

Girmintė, Konstancija, Kostė, Mikalojus, Tautgirdas (Lithuania)

Tor, Tord (Norway)

Aldona, Łukasz, Mikołaj, Mścibor, Pulcheria (Poland)

Oleg (Slovakia)

Nicolás (Spain)

Tord, Turid (Sweden)

Anabel, Annabel, Annabella, Annabelle, Arnie, Arnold, Arnolda, Arnoldo, Porter, Pulcheria (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 254 of 2024; 112 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of Week 37 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 8 (Ding-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 7 Elul 5784

Islamic: 6 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 14 Gold; Sevenday [14 of 30]

Julian: 28 August 2024

Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter

Positivist: 2 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Guillem de Castro]

Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 83 of 94)

Week: 2nd Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 20 of 32)