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The Congress singing broadway songs at karaoke:

Adams: On My Own from Les Mis cuz he’s basic AF

Franklin: To Be Alone With You from Ben Franklin In Paris cuz he’s iconic

Jefferson: So Much Better from Legally Blonde cuz I just feel like he’d slay it

Dickinson: Poor Unfortunate Souls from The Little Mermaid cuz hello? He actually means it.

Rutledge: Be Prepared from The Lion King cuz Duh.

Hancock: One Last Time from Hamilton cuz he’s giving George Washington from Hamilton vibes the whole time.

Hopkins: I Am Not Dead Yet from Spamalot cuz he’s goofy af.

Lee: The Lees of Old Virginia because ummm obvs.

Thomson: Chip On My Shoulder from Legally Blonde cuz I’m just getting that Emmett vibe from him.

Wilson: With You from Ghost cuz he’s a depressed lad.

McKean: Betrayed from The Producers cuz I’m just feeling it from him.

Hall: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever cuz that’s like totally his song and y’all fucking know it cuz I said so cuz he’s baby girl.

Read: Dance With You from The Prom cuz he’s gay for Wilson.

Rodney: I Dreamed a Dream from Les Mis cuz he’s dying.

Chase: Super Sea Star Savior from SpongeBob cuz he’s literally the real life Patrick Star.

Sherman: Brotherhood of Man from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying cuz I feel like he’d slay that number.

Bartlett: Maybe from Annie cuz I know he wants to get the fuck outta Congress.

Hewes: No Reason from Beetlejuice cuz he’s purple like Delia.

Morris: abstains, courteously from singing.

Witherspoon: I Don’t Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar for obvious reasons.

Livingston: Something Was Missing from Annie cuz he has that voice to sing it.

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157: The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band // "Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward."

"Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward." The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band 2001, Constellation (Bandcamp)

22 years ago Montreal’s other iconic prodigiously-membered post-rock band released their second LP. It’s not easy keeping all of these pro-Zion-but-not-Zionists straight, so I’ve helpfully listed and ranked each of the musicians who have passed through this constantly shifting collective from first to least-first. Let’s go!

Members of A/The/e Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Ranked

1. Mike Garson - piano 2. Annie Clark - guitar, keyboards, backing vocals 3. Brian Teasley- percussion 4. Daniel Hart - violin 5. Szabolcs Szczur – accordion 6. Davey 'Crabsticks' Trotter – Mellotron 7. Timothy Matthews – mbira 8. Buffi Jacobs – cello 9. Bach Norwood – piano, keyboards, backing vocals 10. Harriet Ballance - triangle, backing vocals 11. Japhy Ryder – floristry 12. Stuart "Peebs" Peebles – piccolo 13. Chandler Petrino – natural horn, oboe 14. Jared Pechonis – theremin 15. Toby Halbrooks - theremin 16. Corn Mo - backing vocals 17. Patrick Hewitt – theremin 18. Darin Hieb – trumpet, backing vocals 19. Rachel Woolf – flute 20. Mark Beardsworth – claviola 21. Allen Halas – percussion 22. Edwin Mendoza – viola 23. Todd Beaupré – vibraslap 24. Thaddeus Ford – trumpet 25. Paul Deemer – trombone, trumpet 26. Mike St.Clair – trombone, synth effects 27. Josh Guyer – trombone, spoons 28. Chris Curiel – trumpet 29. Heather Test – French horn 30. Victoria Arellano – classical harp 31. Sean Redman – violin, mandolin 32. Kelly Test – percussion 33. Mike Mordecai – percussion 34. Jason Garner – drums 35. Audrey Easley – flute, piccolo, EWI 36. Rick G. Nelson – viola 37. Nick Groesch – piano, keyboards 38. Keith Hendricks – percussion 39. Evan Hisey – keyboards 40. Dylan Silvers – guitar 41. Daniel Hart – violin 42. John Lamonica – percussion 43. Marcus Lopez – percussion 44. Matt Bricker – trumpet, synth effects 45. Taylor Young – percussion 46. Joe Butcher – steel drum 47. Evan Jacobs – piano, keyboards 48. Todd Berridge – viola 49. Nick Earl – guitar 50. Evan Weiss – trumpet 51. Jay Jennings – trumpet 52. Tamara Brown – violin 53. Merritt Lota – steel drums 54. Daniel Huffman – guitar 55. Timothy Blowers – harp 56. Anthony Richards – steel drums 57. Louis Schwadron – French horn 58. Andrew Tinker – French horn 59. Nick Wlodarczyk  – trombone 60. Paul Gaughran – flute 61. Isabelo Cruz – French horn 62. Bryan Wakeland – drums 63. Hayley McCarthy – viola 64. Dave Dusters – percussion, backing vocals 65. Billy Mills-Curran – flute 66. Logan Keese – trumpet 67. Ricky Rasura – classical harp 68. Tonya Hewitt – banjo 69. Daniel Poorman – slide whistle 70. Andy Parkerson – clarinet 71. Joseph Singleton – viola 72. Jenelle Valencia – violin 73. James Reimer – trombone 74. Regina Chellew – guitar, trumpet, backing vocals 75. Ryan Fitzgerald – guitar, backing vocals 76. Cory Helms – guitar, backing vocals 77. Jessica Jordan – backing vocals 78. Jenny Kirtland – backing vocals 79. Kristin Hardin – backing vocals 80. Elizabeth Evans – backing vocals 81. Neil Smith – backing vocals 82. Julie Doyle – backing vocals 83. Christine Bolon – backing vocals 84. Natalie Young – backing vocals 85. Constance Dolph – backing vocals 86. Elizabeth Brown – backing vocals 87. Apotsala Wilson – backing vocals 88. Jennie Kelley – backing vocals 89. Roy Thomas Ivy – backing vocals 90. Jamey Welch – backing vocals 91. Ethan Voelkers – backing vocals 92. Mark Pirro - bass 93. Frank Benjaminsen – backing vocals 94. Stephanie Dolph – backing vocals 95. Jennifer Jobe – backing vocals 96. Mike Elio – backing vocals 97. Kelly Repka – backing vocals 98. Jason Rees – backing vocals 99. Jeneffa Soldatic – backing vocals 100. Michael Turner – backing vocals 101. Don Congeler – backing vocals 102. Michael Musick – backing vocals 103. Melissa Crutchfield – backing vocals 104. Sandra Powers Giasson – backing vocals 105. Paul Hillery – backing vocals 106. Stephen Dix – backing vocals 107. Jessica Berridge – backing vocals 108. Melisma MacDonald – backing vocals 109. Ross Cink - backing vocals 110. Lucy Williams - choreography 111. Josh David Jordan – backing vocals 112. Brad Butler – backing vocals 113. Jason Rees – backing vocals 114. Andrew Aldenenotti – backing vocals 115. Getting hit by a bus wearing a flowing white robe 116. Tim DeLaughter - vocals, guitar, piano

Hold on. I’ve just received word that these musicians are actually members of some other band? Apologies for the confusion!

157/365

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10 fandoms, 10 characters, 10 tags

Finally, a tag game I'm going to absolutely ace, pun intended!!

tagged by: @queerofthedagger (and I think @schitthappens, a while ago)

rules: List ten of your fandoms and your favorite character from each!

BBC Merlin — Merlin

Schitt's Creek — Alexis Rose

The Locked Tomb Series — Palamedes Sextus

Star Trek — Spock

House MD — James Wilson

Star Wars — Obi-Wan Kenobi

Mob Psycho 100 — Mob

The Sandman — Dream of the Endless

Leverage — Eliot Spencer

ATLA — Toph Beifong

tagging: @unconventionalcat @st4rm41d @blackandwhiteandrose @vanillahigh00 @januarium @paintedpigeon1 @zaharya @schweetheart @thewildmother @sspaz1000 (do my SC friends even have 10 fandoms? time to find out :P)

More yelling about my choices under the cut, which isn't required but I'm psychologically compelled to do it:

Merlin — I almost put Gwaine, but the thing about Merlin is... he's so kind despite his loneliness. He's so brave despite his grief. And his devotion to Arthur is beautiful, even when it's also heartbreaking. I love how much he cries, but also how much he cries and kicks ass anyway, which is something fic writers seem to miss a lot of the time. He's emotional but he's also very capable.

Alexis — haha, surprise!!! I love D/P as a ship so goddamn much, but Alexis' character growth is fucking unparalleled. Annie Murphy's acting choices are phenomenal — just watch KCFH to see how much of Alexis' persona was carefully manufactured as character-building, not Annie's actual mannerisms. And to go from a vapid socialite to a boss-ass businesswoman who is nonetheless very fashion-forward and still, at times, incredibly silly? I love that. I love her. More women like her on TV, please.

Palamedes — Another hard choice between him and Gideon, but my brain is locked in Sixth House mode right now. I relate way too much to Pal, and I also love him. A certified nerd who's deeply compassionate. His deep love for Camilla and his protectiveness over her, which is kind of hilarious considering his noodle arms and her terrifying competence. The fact that he looked at the Ninth House and decided they were friend material, when they didn't know it themselves and were actively hostile to the entire idea. He worked out the secret to Lyctorhood before anybody else did, and decided it just wasn't for him, thanks? Because he didn't want to do that to Cam? And (spoilers for later books!!!!) the way he's so fucking badass that he and Cam worked out another way that even Jod hadn't figured out??? Goddamn. Just call me Archivist Juno Zeta, because that nerd boy is my SON.

Spock — TOS most specifically. I hardly need to explain my love for maybe THE most iconic Star Trek character of all time, but I will anyway. Autistic and gay icon, hilarious dry wit, shining devotion to his captain. (If you're noticing a pattern with my favorite characters, no you aren't.) Science-y boy who doesn't fit in anywhere, but has people who love him. Also I love his banter with Bones.

Wilson — He's a bit like Aziraphale, where he's just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing. His relationship with House is so fucked up but at the same time he's a doormat to everybody and House lets him be MEAN and that's actually really important? Ppl look at their relationship on the surface and don't get it because they think Wilson is so kind and sweet and he is but he's also kind of a dick. Idk I just contracted COVID so I'm suspecting the rest of this post is going to start making less and less sense.

Obi-Wan Kenobi — I'm a sucker for characters like him. Kind and compassionate and selfless, but also hilariously sarcastic sometimes. Licherally the perfect Jedi, and loves Anakin so much but couldn't be everything he needed in the end. I blame the war tbh. I also love reading books from his perspective because releasing your feelings into the Force is some excellent mindfulness shit that we could all use some more practice in.

Mob — Mob is awesome because he's already the most powerful psychic. Like, that's never a question. The question is what will trigger him using his powers, what emotions he's feeling, and his own moral questions about obliterating other people with his super-powerful psychic abilities. And I think that's awesome! He's a lot like Merlin, really. Compassionate and really doesn't want to wipe the floor with you, but he will if he's forced into it.

Dream — hehe he's just so angsty all the time and I love that. Plus, galaxy eyes. I read the comics a looooong time ago, but I just bought one of the new collections and I'm gonna re-read them all.

Eliot — Okay Eliot is just. He's so. His thing about "I only use violence as an appropriate response" followed by immediately decking Sterling kinda sums him up. I love that he's so grumpy and "hostile" to the team but it's literally all bark and no bite because physically he would never, ever hurt them. But he will absolutely show up and beat the shit out of anyone else threatening them. Tiny angry man with fabulous hair. My beloved.

Toph — Yeeaaaaaaaaaaaa! I don't really need to explain why Toph rocks, but I love that she's a tiny feral gremlin girl. Like, a VERY angry ten-year-old who's out here inventing forms of earthbending that have never been seen before. She rocks, pun intended. And I refuse to believe she would become a cop. That chaos demon of a girl??? Nooooo

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DOCUMENTARY / JOY DIVISION [2007]

Il quattro giugno del 1976, dopo un concerto dei Sex Pistols alla Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall, quattro giovani della Manchester post-industriale formano quella che diventerà una delle band più influenti di sempre, i Joy Division. Attraverso interviste ai membri viventi della band (oggi New Order), il film racconta la storia del gruppo attraverso una serie di materiale inedito dei concerti, fotografie personali, film d'epoca e registrazioni ritrovate. Diretto dal regista Grant Lee, il film possiede un’incredibile forza magnetica, grazie ai racconti di Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook e Stephen Morris, e contributi da parte di Genesis P. Orridge dei Throbbing Gristle, Tony Wilson, proprietario della leggendaria Factory Records, Peter Saville, celebre graphic artist dell’etichetta, il fotografo e filmaker Anton Corbijn, la giornalista belga Annik Honoré e molti altri. ‘Joy Division’ è lo spaccato di un periodo e una scena irripetibile, e ricostruisce una fase di grande cambiamento sociale, politico e urbano nell’Inghilterra di fine anni ‘70. Racconta la storia di quattro ragazzi di periferia, capaci di superare le barriere economiche e culturali, segnando per sempre la storia della musica mondiale. Film magnifico, band unica - buona visione.

On June 4 1976, four young men from post-industrial Manchester, England went to see a Sex Pistols show at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall. Inspried by the gig, they formed what was to become one of the world’s most influential bands, Joy Division. Featuring the unprecedented participation of all the surviving band members (now known as New Order), ‘Joy Division’ examines the band’s story as depicted through never-before-seen live performance footage, personal photos, period films and newly discovered audiotapes. From director Grant Gee, this film has an incredibly magnetic force, with poignant narratives from Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris, as well as accounts from Throbbing Gristle musician Genesis P. Orridge, late legendary Factory Records owner Tony Wilson, iconic Factory Records graphic artist Peter Saville, photographer/filmmaker Anton Corbijn, Belgian journalist Annik Honoré and others. ‘Joy Division’ is a fresh visual account of a unique time and place, chronicling a time of great social, political and urban change in England, in the late 70s. It tells the untold story of four common guys, who transcended economic and cultural barriers to produce an enduring musical legacy. Amazing movie, unique band - enjoy.

‘Well I could call out when the going gets tough / The things that we’ve learnt are no longer enough / No language, just sound, that’s all we need know / To synchronise love to the beat of the show.’ - Transmission [1979]

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A Women’s History of City Lights: Interview with Nancy J. Peters

We'll be celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 102nd birthday on March 24, and what better way to remember his legacy AND to mark Women’s History Month, than to honor Nancy J. Peters, Lawrence’s business partner, friend, and longtime comrade at City Lights Books. While Ferlinghetti certainly deserves all of the accolades he’s received, the fact of the matter is there would literally be no City Lights without Nancy Peters. Beyond shepherding City Lights through various fiscal crises and providing the steady anchor that allowed Ferlinghetti to travel the world as a poet and activist, Nancy's vision as an editor and acumen as a publisher were a vital key to the success and longevity of City Lights Publishers.

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City Lights: How did you come to know what City Lights was? How did you meet Lawrence Ferlinghetti?

Nancy Peters: In Greece in the early 1960s, I became friends with Nanos Valaoritis and Marie Wilson who were at the center of an international bohemian/surrealist community. They had a large home which was always full of traveling writers and artists whom they made welcome. The Beat writers were among their guests, and City Lights was frequently talked about as a place everyone would meet up someday. I met Philip Lamantia there and in 1965 he introduced me to Lawrence in Paris at one of Jean-Jacque Lebel’s anarcho-surrealist festivals of free expression.  Before a riotous crowd Lawrence gave a show-stopping rendition of his “Lord’s Prayer.” I was impressed by his powerful stage presence. Later that year, when Philip and I were living in Andalusia, Lawrence wrote Philip, asking for a selection of poems for a Pocket Poets Series volume. We corresponded some while we were putting the book together, but I didn’t see him again until 1971 when I moved to San Francisco.

I’d been working as an executive-trainee librarian at the Library of Congress in the fall of 1968. In April, Martin Luther King was assassinated and the impassioned protests that ensued left Washington neighborhoods in ruins. There was shockingly little assistance to residents from the government and my part of the city was under military surveillance, helicopters hovering over my apartment through the night. A Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam took place in Washington the following year. Over 750,000 people peacefully demonstrated. In a small way, I was involved in the planning and, during the protests, my apartment was crammed with fellow activists.

The Library of Congress was an amazing, fascinating place with compatible co-workers from all over the world—thousands of book people all in one place. However, the mission of the Library is to serve Congress, and the institution was a huge conservative bureaucracy serving a conservative and ineffective Congress as I saw it. I believed that if I stayed there I would have little contact with actual books or opportunities for civic activism.

So I moved to San Francisco, where Philip was living and urging me to come, and spent an enormous amount of time at City Lights while I was job hunting. It seemed like paradise, such a stimulating atmosphere where people could sit down to read, share ideas, and have conversations about books, politics, art. One day in early 1971 when I was walking down the street in North Beach, Lawrence hailed me and asked if I would like to help him with a bibliography of Allen Ginsberg’s writings.  After just a brief meeting at the publishing office, Lawrence went to Europe and his editorial assistant Jan Herman suddenly decided to move to Germany. Jan showed me how all the editorial work was done in the office, told me Lawrence “wouldn’t mind,” and so I found myself beginning an exciting new career in publishing.

 What was your experience taking over as executive director and co-owner in 1984?

The store back then employed seven people: six men at the bookstore and one (me) at the publishing branch. So “executive director” is far too grand a title. City Lights was a small, failing organization by 1982. The store was not founded to make profits for the owners and it never did make a profit. Breaking even was the goal. But every year the losses mounted and there came a time when there were very few books left on the shelves. No one had seen a customer venture downstairs to the lower part of the store for many months.  

At the time, Lawrence was immensely popular and in great demand as a performer and a speaker, so he was traveling much of the time, visiting foreign colleagues, living abroad, finding new writers to translate. At this low point in the store’s history Lawrence told me in a frustrated moment that if I’d like to own City Lights, he would give it to me outright if I would run the business, freeing him to do all the other things he wanted to do. I declined, but told him I would be honored to be his partner. Theft was seriously addressed, and a protracted payment plan was agreed to by Book People, the East Bay employee-owned distributors who extended us credit for a generous period. Savvy booksellers Richard Berman and Paul Yamazaki headed the re-stocking plan. The three of us would go every week to Book People and Lou Swift Distributors to collect enough books to sell the following week. As time went on, everybody at the store consulted book catalogs and took on the responsibility for buying subject sections. I envisioned a participatory structure. If not a co-op, I wanted a bookstore where all the staff had responsibilities and power.

Why the decision not to have multiple bookstore locations around SF?

At one time we seriously considered additional locations. We explored sites in San Francisco’s Mission district and visited city officials in San Jose to talk about a second store there. But our resources were limited, and we were concerned about the time and money that would be required to create a sister store that would embody the same spirit and ethic as the original. During my time as director, the evolving challenges from chain stores and especially Amazon made beginning a new store a very risky enterprise. In retrospect, so many independents were closing that we decided to invest in our present, iconic location. In retrospect I think it was a good decision after watching attempts by other stores fail to duplicate their success elsewhere.

How has North Beach changed, how has it stayed the same? With the exodus of Big Tech and falling rents, how do you think that will affect North Beach and San Francisco in general in the future? Will there be “a rebirth of wonder”?

North Beach when I came to SF was a small bohemian village, where neighbors shared meals on their flat rooftops watching the sun set over the Bay. My rent was $125 a month, cheap even then. City Lights and the Discovery Bookstore (used books) next door to Vesuvio were key places to spend an evening. Two large Italian grocers delivered (no charge) bags of groceries up four flights of stairs to my apartment. The neighborhood was full of inexpensive Basque, Italian, and Chinese restaurants, and many cafes, many of which seemed unchanged since the 19th century. Change happens, and City Lights is well prepared for the future. It’s never easy to predict how things will develop, but the feeling of a lovely Mediterranean town persists, with the wooden buildings painted pastel colors, and the shimmering sea light on misty days. I feel certain that the light of City Lights will prevail for a long time to come.

 Do you feel that your gender had any impact on your experience during your 23 years as director? Do you have any comments about women in bookselling or publishing in general?

Gender always has an impact. The Beat movement was certainly male focused. Even though the undaunted Diane di Prima was recognized, she was never enthusiastically supported by the inner nucleus of Beat poets. It was a long time before the Beat women came into their own. From the start, Lawrence, who insisted he wasn’t a Beat, had eclectic tastes and was open to women’s poetry. He admired Marianne Moore and Edna St. Vincent Millay as much as he did T.S. Eliot, Jacques Prévert, and Allen Ginsberg. In the Pocket Poets Series, he’d published di Prima and, very early in the series, both Marie Ponsot and Denise Levertov.

Women’s rights and opportunities are always vulnerable and cyclic. The Women’s Movement of the 1970s was very powerful and widespread, its impact on women’s lives enormous. At City Lights we hired more women; we published more women. There have always been outstanding women in publishing and bookselling, and during that time increasingly more women writers were published, reviewed, and were given accolades and awards. Women opened general bookstores and women’s bookstores, founded feminist and lesbian presses. It was a thrilling development, to see so many marginalized writers, and not just women, finding established publishers or creating their own presses. Together they created a larger, much more diverse national literature.

I’ve had the pleasure of working with many talented women at the bookstore. And in the publishing branch: Stella Levy, Kim McCloud, and Patricia Fujii. Gail Chiarello collected and edited our bestselling Bukowski stories. Annie Janowitz proposed the timely Unamerican Activities, and Amy Scholder brought us classics by Karen Finley, Rebecca Brown, and others. I’m happy to say that Amy Scholder is again working with City Lights as an editor.

When did you meet the now current publisher and executive director Elaine Katzenberger? What was her position at the bookstore? When did you know that she was the right person to take over as director?

Ah, Elaine, the woman who can do everything! Elaine began at the bookstore sales counter, then reorganized files and the store accounts, and very soon excelled as a book buyer. She had a great feeling for good writing, so I asked her to become an editor and she immediately began adding excellent books to City Lights’ list. She’s smart, witty, multitalented, and politically astute. We are very lucky to have her at the helm.

What is your understanding or vision of what of City Lights is and what it could be? How has Lawrence’s passing impacted this?

Lawrence’s democratic inclusiveness made him the best-selling poet in the U.S. His moral principles, his courage and resilience are a model to be emulated. He conceived City Lights as an educational institution that would open minds to explore and relate to the world through books. “One guy told me he’d got the equivalent of a Ph. D just sitting in the basement reading all our great books,” he often reminded us.

His “literary gathering place” was to be a fulcrum of San Francisco cultural experience, where our bookselling and publishing could amplify the voices of diverse experiences, connect with other creative communities, and serve as a center of dissent and, at the same time, a force for creating a better society.

Lawrence’s vision will continue to be our guiding light. An optimistic realist, he believed that City Lights would long endure as the co-creation of all the dedicated people who work here and make it what it is.

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so you’re trying to understand sophia and i’s jatp universe

@localspacelesbian​​ and I never intended for this to get so out of hand, but then it did, so here we are. We’ve got a few wips going, so I figured it was about time to get around to one of these.

it’s okay if you’re lost, because so are we! here’s a little guide to help you out (:

CHARACTERS:

The Lacrosse Team:

Spencer Montgomery-Wright: Our pride and joy. He’s on the lacrosse team, and can be seen being bewildered with Nick when the guys show up during ‘Bright’. Some have referred to him as the guy who is called ‘Letterman Jacket Guy’ on IMDb - these people are wrong. Letterman Jacket Guy is a white blonde guy. Spencer is black. He’s in the design program at their school and designs costumes for all the ballets. 

He and Nick have been best friends since they were little, and have exchanged stuffed animals (Nick gave Spencer a stuffed penguin named Texas, and Spencer returned the favor with a stuffed elephant named Oklahoma). They’re total astronomy dorks (Spencer calls Nick ‘Tor’ after Copernicus, and Nick calls Spencer ‘Cass’ after Cassini). They’re also in love, but they’re still working through that. 

Connor Nesbitt: The aforementioned ‘Letterman Jacket Guy’. He’s the captain of the lacrosse team, the very definition of a himbo. He’s in the cinematic arts program, but, like, really likes history.

Nick Danforth-Evans: Pretty self-explanatory, but the Danforth-Evans theory is canon in the SACU (Sophia and Adalie Cinematic Universe).

Chris McMillan: Chris is a sweetheart. He’s in the theater program but wants to be a farmer and raise sheep when he grows up. He just really likes farm animals, okay?

Barry O’Hara: A good dude! He’s in the dance program, and his Special Interest is linguistics and communication.

Rasheed Bakir: Rasheed!! He’s a bit of a running joke in our work, as he constantly hurts his legs and feet. He’s been known to ride in Connor’s car with a broken ankle hanging out the window. It’s fine. He’s in the theater program, hates Shakespeare more than anything, and is dating Ari Price.

Ari Price: Just a lil visual arts program kid. Constantly so worried about Rasheed. The Ultimate mom friend; his backpack is the equivalent of Alex’s fanny pack, and he makes a very good soup when one of the guys is sick.

Leo Montgomery: He’s Spencer’s cousin! Very buff and a little bit scary but is a whole teddy bear. He’s in the music program, and is so tired of watching Nick and Spencer pine. He’s a science nerd, except for biology. Fuck biology. All his homies hate biology.

Percy Mayer: We love Percy so much. He’s a Ballet Boy, and he’s fake dating a girl in ballet named Constance Hansen. He’s probably aro, but is still a little confused about that.

Oren Summers: Oren is a freshman in the visual arts program. Kind of just one of those nice guys you meet in school who are just cool to be around.

Grayson Radcliffe: Grayson plays the french horn in the music program, and is in our token heterosexual relationship with Jennifer Brickaday.

Dirty Candi

Kayla Lavelle: Y’all know Kayla. We named her ‘Lavelle’ because we went with a color based system and, yk, lavender.

Jennifer Brickaday: Yellow Candi! Dating Grayson, and we just don’t deserve her. Brickaday is a reference to the yellow brick road.

Andrea Turkis: Miss Turquoise Candi! Probably our favorite candi - she’s a lesbian and just gives the best hugs. (Turkis means turquoise in several languages.)

Velma Williams: Orange Candi! Straight up the coolest person alive. She’s aro, and helps Percy sort out his sexuality. Just really likes dinosaurs, you know? (Williams is for William of Orange)

Mary Brooks: Not a member of Dirty Candi, but their manager. Totally not in love with Julie what are you talking about that’s bananas (Mary - marron (brown) and Brooks is just a slightly less on-the-nose version of Brown).

Those Done Dirty:

Flynn Chadwick: Chat means cat in french, but we wanted Chadwick because it sounded neat.

Willie Greenwood: He just gives us green vibes I don’t know what to tell you

The Families:

The Danforth-Evans Family: Nick, Ryan, and Chad are a given. Nick also has a little sister named Phoebe Danforth-Evans. Phoebe is a gymnast and general rascal.

The Montgomery-Wright Family: Buckle up, y’all. Spencer has seven pets. - Laura Montgomery: Mom #1. Very chill, but very protective. - Francesca ‘Franny’ Wright: Mom #2. Just the sweetest, but is willing to cause harm to a bitch if necessary. - Dog: Herbert Fitzhoover (the light of all of our lives) - Cats: Tongs, Spoon, and Spatula. They’re just like old gay men. No further comment. - Bird: Chicken the parakeet. Spencer found him at the airport and just... brought him home. - Roomba: BoBo. Very Good Boy. - Kinda Penguin: Texas (a lesbian icon, married to Oklahoma)

The Chadwick Family:  - Dad: Nico Chadwick. Just, like, a really good dad. Living the life. - Older Brother: Andrew Chadwick. Absolute nerd, away at university, drinks his respecting women juice every day. - Younger Sisters: Rachel & Eliza Chadwick. Twins - they love tormenting Flynn. - Cat: Snoopy. The love of my life.

The Wilson Family:  - Cat: Peanut!! love him

The Mercer Family: - Alex’s Younger Sister: Annabelle ‘Annie’ Mercer. Deaf, has a bright pink hearing aid. Wants to be just like her big brother (is already halfway there, being that she is wildly queer).

RUNNING AND INSIDE JOKES:

Octoslashers III: Octoslashers shows up as some form of media in every fic we write. Every single one.

Twister: Alex is a GOD at Twister, and there’s no debating this.

Rasheed’s Leg: Rasheed breaks his leg, foot, or ankle somehow in every fic. He’s trying.

The Caleb Chew-Out: Let’s just say I’m making it my mission to write a scene into every fic of ours where a character yells at Caleb, and everyone is going to get their turn. 

Oklahomas: Oklahoma and Texas are soulmates in every universe. 

questions? let me know! i’ll add the answers (:

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freddie gibbs

hop along

vulfpeck

annie mac

sean buckley

the dryes

robbie jude

nghtmre

broken social scene

gojira

blind guardian

Courtney love

children of bodom

misery falls

dissection

as I lay dying

no body count

maleviolent creation

carnifex

tori Amos

the growlers

angelcorpse

piglet

at the gates

necrophobic

monstrosity

Royal blood

thrice

stone sour

Chris Cornell

I prevail

ORVNGE

backyard babies

baest

belzebubs

beneath the massacre

bewitcher

black crown initiate

bleed from within

blood incantation

body count

bombus

bonded

black cross

borknagar

buckcherry

caliban

coroner

dark fortress

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dark tranquility

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death alley

deathrite

deez nuts

deicide

demons & wizards

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dr living dead!

dream evil

entombed a.d.

eskimo callboy

ether coven

finntroll

firespawn

four seconds ago

fozzy

frozen soul

gemini syndrome

glassjaw

gost

grave

grave pleasures

hank von hell

havok

heaven shall burn

hideous divinity

horisont

iced earth

ignite

imperial triumphant

implore

insomnium

jeff loomis

jon schaffer's purgatory

krisiun

lacuna coil

like a storm

lorna shore

lucifer

mad sin

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man with a mission

marduk

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mass worship

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nasty

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omnium gatherum

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painted wives

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radio moscow

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red death

rogers

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stitched up heart

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svart crown

swallow the sun

the alligator wine

the haunted

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the offering

the picturebooks

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tronos

turisas

ultha

unanimated

vampire

vildhjarta

vitriol

voivod

warrel dane

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wolf

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9electric

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angel dust

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armageddon

awaken the empire

barren earth

black temple

blessed by a broken heart

bloodbath

celtic frost

ceremonial oath

chaosbreed

cronian

crowbar

cryptopsy

daath

darkest hour

dead soul

death wolf

demolition hammer

despised icon

devian

devil sold his soul

diecast

earth crisis

enabler

evocation

extol

ghosts of the sun

eyes of eden

fear my thoughts

flowing tears

fu manchu

girl on fire

god forbid

gorguts

grand supreme blood court

hang the bastard

heart of a coward

hellhammer

high on fire

himsa

i am heresy

impaled

in this moment

ingested

insidious disease

into eternity

the flood

intronaut

ion dissonance

jag panzer

jasta

death won't hold

dread engine

karyn crisis' gospel of the witches

denzel curry

goody grace

father john misty

atimera

chase atlantic

vonne

rhye

saib.

starset

nothing more

converge

trivium

dying fetus

tom's story

body count

zeal & ardor

power trip

leprous

the contortionist

lunatic soul

soen

ne obliviscartis

the word alive

pallbearer

code orange

immolation

tye Trujillo

stone temple pilots

him

the Dillinger escape plan

decapitated

10 years

frenzal rhomb

afi

gone is gone

Royal thunder

bell witch

reynols

enslaved

blackfield

fredo santana

underøath

black anvil

black widow

kda

black witchery

the xcerts

black tongue

the faim

petrol girls

joan Jett and the blackhearts

flea

trophy eyes

bicep live

meat loaf

royal republic

Scott sapp

vesperteen

Whitney Houston

black marble

slash

la dispute

Roseanne Barr

kölsch

lord belial

the quill

testament

eleventh hour

arch enemy

destruction

solitude aeturnus

damnocracy

biohazard

rock star supernova

elderbrook

lou reed

contraband

l.a. guns

vixen

pride & glory

slash's snakepit

Alice in chains

the cult

another animal

ugly kid joe

against all will

puddle of mudd

shadow child

superheavy

Mick Jagger

joss stone

Damian Marley

brides of destruction

amen

tinted windows

Hanson

sepultura

the cardigans

melvins

ulver

type o negative

tenacious d

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paal nilssen-love's brazil funk improv

silencer

shining

Rob halford

Maria brink

lizzy hale

women of Rock

yuto miyazawa

Aidan fisher

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dead cross

machine head

ben harper & the innocent criminals

ray lamontagne

george clinton & parliament funkadelic

snarky puppy

kasey chambers

st. paul & the broken bones

nahko and medicine for the people

tommy emanuel

colin hay

arlo guthrie

keb' mo'

tex perkins

richard clapton

russell morris

kurt vile & the violators

vintage trouble

the black sorrows

the california honeydrops

trevor hall

i'm with her

larkin poe

irish mythen

elephant sessions

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Members of the Film & TV Music community, made up of composers, songwriters, music editors, music supervisors, studio executives and more, are contributing their talents to SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES: A CELEBRATION FOR THE FILM & TV MUSIC COMMUNITY, an online benefit event for MusiCares® COVID-19 Relief Fund. This specially produced program debuts June 25th, 2020, at noon pacific on YouTube, and will honor the talented people whose scores and songs transport, inspire, uplift and entertain us by creating the "soundtrack of our lives." The fun, delightful and heartfelt hour-long special will feature leading and iconic singers, composers, songwriters, actors, celebrity guests and others while celebrating glorious Film & TV Music moments with heart and humor. Donations to MusiCares® COVID-19 Relief Fund will be encouraged throughout the show.

"Thousands of music professionals and creators are struggling during this pandemic and remain in desperate need of assistance," says Debbie Carroll, Vice President Health and Human Services MusiCares®. "The continued support from the music community during these turbulent times has been heartwarming and inspiring. The power of music unites us all and gives us hope for better days ahead."

Over 75 film and television composers and songwriters, "From A to Z, Abels to Zimmer," will appear in this program. Collectively, this prestigious group has been nominated for 273 Grammys (with 87 wins), 216 Emmys (with 51 wins) and 136 Oscars (with 34 wins).

Confirmed performers and special guests include Sting, Catherine O'Hara, Ming-Na Wen, Patti LuPone, William Shatner, Elisabeth Moss, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Marla Gibbs, Jane Levy, Mandy Moore, Richard Kind, Alex Newell, Zachary Levi, Paul Reubens, Kiernan Shipka, Harvey Fierstein, Ginnifer Goodwin, Anika Noni Rose, Kasi Lemmons, Ted Danson, Auli'i Cravalho, Darren Criss, Drew Carey, Ray Romano, Holly Hunter, Reba McEntire, Bob Saget, Ken Page, Lucy Lawless, Mary Steenburgen, Dave Coulier, Kevin Smith, Peter Gallagher, Naomi Scott, Annie Potts, Clive Davis, Jodi Benson, Harvey Mason Jr., Susan Egan, Paige O'Hara, John Stamos, Andra Day and Rita Wilson.

Composers and songwriters participating include Michael Abels, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Angelo Badalamenti, Glen Ballard, Lesley Barber, Nathan Barr, Tyler Bates, Jeff Beal, Marco Beltrami, Alan Bergman, Terence Blanchard, Jongnic Bontemps, Kathryn Bostic, Kris Bowers, Jon Brion, Nicholas Britell, Bruce Broughton, BT, Carter Burwell, Sean Callery, Joshuah Brian Campbell, Lisa Coleman, John Debney, Tan Dun, Fil Eisler, Danny Elfman, Charles Fox, Germaine Franco, Harry Gregson-Williams, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Alex Heffes, Joe Hisaishi, James Newton Howard, Justin Hurwitz, Ashley Irwin, Mark Isham, Steve Jablonsky, Amanda Jones, Laura Karpman, Christopher Lennertz, Joe LoDuca, Robert Lopez, Mark Mancina, Gabriel Mann, Clint Mansell, Dennis McCarthy, Bear McCreary, Alan Menken, Bruce Miller, John Murphy, Starr Parodi, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Daniel Pemberton, Michael Penn, Heitor Pereira, Rachel Portman, Mike Post, A. R. Rahman, Tim Rice, Lolita Ritmanis, Dan Romer, Anna Rose, Jeff Russo, Arturo Sandoval, Lalo Schifrin, Marc Shaiman, Teddy Shapiro, Richard M. Sherman, David Shire, Rob Simonsen, Mark Snow, Tamar-kali, Dara Taylor, Pinar Toprak, Brian Tyler, Nick Urata, Benjamin Wallfisch, Diane Warren, Mervyn Warren, Paul Williams, Austin Wintory, Alan Zachary, Geoff Zanelli, Marcelo Zarvos, David Zippel and Hans Zimmer.

Some highlights of the special include:

Members of the Film & TV Music community deliver heartfelt messages of hope, solidarity & encouragement.

"Musicians!" - a humorous musical tribute to the Film & TV Music community featuring Zachary Levi, Patti LuPone, Alex Newell, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Peter Gallagher and Harvey Fierstein.

Tony Award winner and Disney Legend Anika Noni Rose highlights the history of African American composers, songwriters and artists who have contributed to the Film & TV Music industry through the years.

Performers Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara, Paul Reubens and Ken Pagereunite to perform a song from the film The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Eight-time Academy Award winning composer Alan Menken performs his timeless song, "A Whole New World," alongside his daughter Anna Rose, introduced by Aladdin (2019) stars Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott.

Stars from beloved animated features step out from behind the microphone to lend their voices to inspirational messages, featuring Irene Bedard, Jodi Benson, Auli'i Cravalho, Holly Hunter, Mandy Moore, Susan Egan, Ginnifer Goodwin, Linda Larkin, Paige O'Hara, Annie Potts, Anika Noni Rose and Ming-Na Wen.

John Stamos hosts "Name That TV Tune!" with celebrity panelists including Elisabeth Moss, Drew Carey, Ray Romano, Eve Plumb, Reba McEntire, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, Marla Gibbs, Lucy Lawless and Kevin Smith competing to identify famous TV themes.

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist actor Jane Levy invites us into the dreamworld of her Extraordinary Soundtrack Playlist.

Various performers, including members of the original cast of La La Land, sing a parody version of "Another Day of Sun."

William Shatner explores how different scores can give the same film a different meaning as an exasperated director, played by Richard Kind, leads a composer in multiple directions for a short film starring Kiernan Shipkaand Christian Coppola.

Songwriter Paul Williams performs his classic song "The Rainbow Connection," from The Muppet Movie, joined by various special guests from the Film & TV Music community.

Tony- and Emmy-winner and seven-time Oscar® nominee Marc Shaimanperforms an original song tribute to end title sequences.

MusiCares® COVID-19 Relief Fund was created by MusiCares® to provide support to the music community during the pandemic crisis. The music industry has been essentially shut down with the cancellation of music performances, events, festivals, conferences and the many other live events that are the cornerstone of the shared music experience. Since the fund's establishment in March, over 14,000 clients have been served, with many more still needing help.

Show co-creator Peter Rotter says: "When the pandemic tragically hit our world and began to shut down our film music community, I felt that something needed to be done to help those who were in need of support and care. Through MusiCares® we have found the charitable vehicle that can come alongside our hurting musical family.

"Music has always played a role in history; reflecting both the subtle and monumental moments of our lives through its unique DNA. Music connects each of us, acting as a common thread of unification, opening the hearts of all people.

"Regardless of the color of one's skin, status or station in life, music powerfully breaks through boundaries as its message permeates deep within us; healing our human frailties and condition at our cores. Music is transformative and personal. It powerfully underscores our lives."

"Music has always helped transport, uplift and inspire us through wars, economic hardships, health crises and societal upheavals," says show co-creator, Richard Kraft. "When COVID-19 hit, it threatened the lives and livelihood of much of our Film & TV Music community. So, we decided to create an online special that both celebrates the soundtrack of our lives and benefits, via MusiCares®, the artists who create it."

Starting June 25th at noon pacific, watch the video on Youtube via Rolling Stone, Variety & GRAMMY's channels, as well as on www.soundtracklives.com. Donate at soundtracklives.com now!

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Al Green

Albert Leornes Greene (born April 13, 1946), often known as The Reverend Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer; he is best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including "Take Me to the River", "Tired of Being Alone", "I'm Still in Love with You", "Love and Happiness", and his signature song, "Let's Stay Together". After an incident in which his girlfriend committed suicide, Green became an ordained pastor and turned to gospel music. He later returned to secular music.

Green was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. He was referred to on the museum's site as being "one of the most gifted purveyors of soul music". He has also been referred to as "The Last of the Great Soul Singers". Green is the winner of 11 Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also received the BMI Icon award and is a Kennedy Center Honors recipient. He was included in the Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, ranking at No. 65, as well as its list of the 100 Greatest Singers, at No. 14.

Early life

Albert Leornes Greene was born on April 13, 1946, in Forrest City, Arkansas. The sixth of ten children born to Cora Lee and Robert G. Greene, Jr., a sharecropper, Al began performing with his brothers in a group called the Greene Brothers at around the age of ten. The Greene family relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the late 1950s. Al was kicked out of the family home while in his teens, after his devoutly religious father caught him listening to Jackie Wilson. He then lived with a prostitute, began hustling, and indulged in recreational drugs.

"I also listened to Mahalia Jackson, all the great gospel singers. But the most important music to me was those hip-shakin’ boys: Wilson Pickett and Elvis Presley. I just loved Elvis Presley. Whatever he got, I went out and bought."

In high school, Al formed a vocal group called Al Greene & the Creations. Two of the group's members, Curtis Rodgers and Palmer James, formed an independent label called Hot Line Music Journal. In 1968, having changed their name to Al Greene & the Soul Mates, they recorded the song "Back Up Train", releasing it on Hot Line Music. The song was a hit on the R&B charts and peaked at Number 46 in the Cash Box Top 100. However, the group's subsequent follow-ups failed to chart, as did their debut album Back Up Train. While performing with the Soul Mates, Green came into contact with Memphis record producer Willie Mitchell, who hired him in 1969 to be a vocalist for a Texas show with Mitchell's band. Following the performance, Mitchell asked Green to sign with his Hi Records label.

Career

Early success

Having noted that Green had been trying to sing like Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett, and James Brown, Mitchell became his vocal mentor, coaching him into finding his own voice. Before releasing his first album with Hi, Green removed the final "e" from his name. Subsequently, he released Green Is Blues (1969), which was a moderate success. His follow-up album, Al Green Gets Next to You (1971), featured the hit R&B cover of the Temptations' "I Can't Get Next to You", recorded in a slow blues-oriented version. The album also featured his first significant hit, "Tired of Being Alone", which sold a million copies and was certified gold, becoming the first of eight gold singles Green would release between 1971 and 1974.

Green's next album, Let's Stay Together (January 1972), solidified his place in soul music. The title track was his biggest hit to date, reaching number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts. The album became his first to be certified gold. His follow-up, I'm Still in Love with You (October 1972) went platinum with the help of the singles "Look What You Done for Me" and the title track, both of which went to the top ten on the Hot 100. His next album, Call Me (April 1973) produced three top ten singles: "You Ought to Be with Me", "Call Me (Come Back Home)", and "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)". In addition to these hit singles, Green also had radio hits with songs such as "Love and Happiness", his cover of the Bee Gees' "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart", "Simply Beautiful", "What a Wonderful Thing Love Is", and "Take Me to the River", later covered successfully by new wave band Talking Heads and blues artist Syl Johnson.

Green's album Livin' for You (December 1973) was certified gold. He continued to record successful R&B hits in the next several years including "Livin' for You", "Sha-La-La (Makes Me Happy)" from his album Al Green Explores Your Mind, "Let's Get Married", "L-O-V-E (Love)" and "Full of Fire".

By the time Green released the album, The Belle Album in 1977, however, Green's record sales had plummeted, partially due to Green's own personal issues during this time and his desire to become a minister. His last Hi Records album, Truth n' Time, was released in 1978 and failed to become a success.

Gospel recordings

Continuing to record R&B, Green saw his sales start to slip and drew mixed reviews from critics. In 1979, he injured himself falling off the stage while performing in Cincinnati and took this as a message from God. He then concentrated his energies towards pastoring his church and gospel music.

From 1981 to 1989 Green recorded a series of gospel albums.While still under contract with Hi Records, Green released the 1980 album, The Lord Will Make a Way, his first of six albums on the Christian label Myrrh Records. The title song from the album would later win Green his first of eight Grammy Awards in the Best Soul Gospel Performance category. In 1982, Green co-starred with Patti LaBelle in the Broadway play, "Your Arms Too Short to Box with God". In 1984, director Robert Mugge released a documentary film, Gospel According to Al Green, including interviews about his life and footage from his church. In 1985, he reunited with Willie Mitchell along with Angelo Earl for He Is the Light, his first album for A&M Records. His 1987 follow-up, Soul Survivor, featured the minor hit, "Everything's Gonna Be Alright", which reached number 22 on the Billboard R&B chart, his first top 40 R&B hit since "I Feel Good" in 1978.

Return to secular music

Green returned to secular music in 1988 recording "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" with Annie Lennox. Featured on the soundtrack to the movie, Scrooged, the song became Green's first top 10 pop hit since 1974. Green had a hit in 1989 with "The Message is Love" with producer Arthur Baker. Two years later, he recorded the theme song to the short-lived show Good Sports. In 1993, he signed with RCA and with Baker again as producer, released the album, Don't Look Back. Green received his ninth Grammy award for his collaboration with Lyle Lovett for their duet of "Funny How Time Slips Away". Green's 1995 album, Your Heart's In Good Hands, was released around the time that Green was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The one single released from the album, "Keep On Pushing Love", was described as "invoking the original, sparse sound of his [Green's] early classics."

In 2000, Green released his autobiography, Take Me to the River. Two years later, he earned the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and recorded a hit R&B duet with Ann Nesby on the song, "Put It On Paper". Green again reunited with Willie Mitchell in 2003 for the album, I Can't Stop. A year later, Green re-recorded his previous song, "Simply Beautiful", with Queen Latifah on the latter's album, The Dana Owens Album. In 2005, Green and Mitchell collaborated on Everything's OK.

Green's 2008 album, Lay It Down, was produced by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and James Poyser. It became his first album to reach the top ten since the early 1970s. The album featured a minor R&B hit with the ballad, "Stay with Me (By the Sea)", featuring John Legend and also featuring duets with Anthony Hamilton and Corinne Bailey Rae. During an interview for promotion of the album, Green admitted that he would have liked to duet with Marvin Gaye: "In those days, people didn't sing together like they do now."

In 2009, Green recorded "People Get Ready" with Heather Headley on the album, Oh Happy Day: An All-Star Music Celebration. In 2010, Green performed "Let's Stay Together" on Later... with Jools Holland. On September 13, 2018, Al Green released his first new recording in almost over ten years, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," most famously recorded by Freddy Fender in 1975. It was produced by Matt Ross-Spang and is part of Amazon Music's new "Produced By" series.

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Al Green among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

Personal life

On October 18, 1974, Green's girlfriend, Mary Woodson, assaulted him and then committed suicide at his Memphis home. Although she was already married with three children, Woodson became upset when Green refused to marry her. She doused him with a pot of boiling grits as he was preparing for bed in the bathroom, causing second-degree burns on his back, stomach, and arms which required skin grafts. Shortly after, Woodson fatally shot herself with his .38 handgun. Police found an apparent suicide note inside Woodson's purse that declared her intentions and her reasons. A few days prior, Green had sent Woodson to convalesce at the home of his friend after she had taken a handful of sleeping pills and slit her wrists. Green cited this incident as a wake-up call to change his life.

Days after Green was released from Baptist Memorial Hospital Memphis, where he was treated for his burns, he was reportedly held hostage at gunpoint by his cousin who demanded that he owed her money. Green refused to press charges.

In 1976, Green established the Full Gospel Tabernacle church in Memphis. Green resides and preaches in Memphis, near Graceland. He is a member of the Prince Hall Masons, the African-American wing of Freemasonry, at the Thirty-Third Degree.

In September 2013, Green's sister Maxine Green was reported missing from her assisted living home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. According to her daughter Lasha, Green has not reached out to the family about his sister. As of March 2020, she is still missing.

Marriages and children

On June 15, 1977, Green married his first wife Shirley Green (née Kyles) in Memphis. Originally from Chicago, she was one of his backing vocalists and an employee at his church. Together they have three daughters. Shirley first filed for divorce in 1978 on the ground of cruelty and irreconcilable differences. She filed again in 1981, charging that Green had subjected her to domestic violence throughout their marriage. Green accused her of cruel and inhuman treatment in a countercomplaint. In a sworn deposition in 1982 as part of her divorce filing, Shirley testified that in 1978 while five months pregnant, Green beat her with a boot for refusing to have sex. The assault resulted in head wounds, one of which required stitches. After the incident she filed for divorce, but they reconciled. According to Shirley, they separated several times when the beatings became "too frequent and too severe." Initially, Green denied beating his wife, but under oath in 1982 he admitted to striking her. Their divorce was finalized in February 1983. Green agreed to pay her $432,800 in alimony and child support. In 1995, the story of Nicole Brown Simpson inspired Shirley to go public with the abuse she endured in order to help other victims.

Green has six children: two sons, Al Green, Jr. and Trevor; four daughters, Alva Lei, Rubi Renee, Kora Kishe (with Shirley Green), and Kala.

Green was reportedly remarried by the 1990s.

Assault charges

Green's former secretary, Linda Wills, filed a $25,000 civil suit against him in 1974. Wills charged that Green beat her and shoved her through a glass door in his Memphis office after a dispute about how much back pay she was entitled to for her duties. The civil suit was dropped because of "conflicting testimony," but in 1975 they settled a $100,000 lawsuit for assault and battery charges.

In 1977, Green and his former organ player Larry Robinson were arrested for assault on Memorial Day in Irving, Texas. According to Robinson, Green and his bodyguards jumped him when he confronted Green about owed money from previous gigs. They both posted bond on a misdemeanor charge.

In 1978, Green was charged with assault and battery for allegedly beating Lovie Smith unconscious with a tree limb. The charges were dismissed after Smith, who had moved, did not receive a subpoena and therefore missed the court date.

Discography

Awards and honors

Green has been nominated for 21 Grammy Awards, winning 11, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Two of his songs, "Let's Stay Together" and "Take Me To the River" have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Green was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. In 2004, he was inducted into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame. That same year, he was inducted into The Songwriters Hall of Fame. Also in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 65 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. He was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 BET Awards on June 24, 2009.

On August 26, 2004, Green was honored as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI Urban Awards. He joined a list of previous Icon honorees that included R&B legends James Brown, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Bo Diddley.

In 2009, Al Green was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.

Green was recognized on December 7, 2014, as a Kennedy Center Honors recipient.

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Unbroken Windows: How New York Gentrified Itself On Screen by Jason Bailey

It was 1972, and Lewis Rudin had a problem—specifically, a Johnny Carson problem. Rudin, a real estate developer and committed New Yorker, had founded the Association for a Better New York (ABNY), an organization dedicated to cleaning up the city’s image (and thus, its attractiveness to corporate clients) via aggressive campaigning and spit-shine marketing; the organization was, for example, instrumental in the development of the iconic I ❤ NY campaign.

But all the good work ABNY was doing, Rudin fumed to the organization’s executive director Mary Holloway, felt like pushing Sisyphus’ boulder when he switched on NBC late at night: “How can we change the image of New York when Johnny Carson's opening monologue every night is about people getting mugged in Central Park?”

As reported by Miriam Greenberg in her book Branding New York: How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World, Rudin went to the trouble of meeting with network heads, imploring them to pressure personalities like Carson to lighten up on the “New York City is a crime-ridden cesspool” jokes. In 1973, Mayor John Lindsay himself called network executives and even some comedians to a City Hall meeting where he made a similar plea. This was in stark contrast to the usual modus operandi of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting, which prided itself on avoiding censorship or editorial interference in the making of motion pictures in the city—indeed, several of the grimmest, grimiest portraits of life in New York (Death Wish, Panic in Needle Park, Little Murders, The French Connection) were borne of this period. But people had to go out to see those. Johnny Carson came into their living room every night to tell them what a shithole New York was.

Rudin and Lindsay’s efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. Johnny Carson continued to roast the city—especially after escaping it when The Tonight Show relocated to Burbank, California in 1972—and prime-time comedies like All in the Family, Taxi, and Welcome Back, Kotter mined similar veins of urban unrest. Meanwhile, gritty crime series from Kojak to Cagney & Lacey to The Equalizer presented a similar picture of the city—dirty, grimy, and dangerous—to that of films like Taxi Driver, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Warriors, and Fort Apache, The Bronx.

But in the 1990s, that all changed. And there’s a compelling case to be made that the change began with Jerry Seinfeld.

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If we talk about Jerry Seinfeld, of course, we have to talk about Woody Allen, and not just their obvious similarities (roots in stand-up comedy, neurotic Jewish New Yorker persona, tabloid mainstay). In the 1970s and 1980s, while most New York movies were dwelling in the horrors and shortcomings of the city, Allen insulated himself in his upper-class Upper East Side neighborhood and made movies about people who were mostly untouched by crime, homelessness, and graffiti. In films like Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Crimes and Misdemeanors, Allen’s characters sip wine and trade hard truths and pointed witticisms at the city’s finest restaurants, parties, and apartments as the city burns around them; in Manhattan (which, by its own opening monologue admission, romances the city “all out of proportion”) he even edited out a joke about muggings from a Central Park carriage ride sequence, so as not to spoil the delicate mood. Allen’s New York was “not another world,” Martin Scorsese once said. “It’s another planet.”

That vision of New York—upper-crust, erudite, sophisticated—wasn’t entirely absent from the big and small screen in the ‘70s and ‘80s, thanks to films like An Unmarried Woman and Kramer Vs. Kramer, and such TV shows as Diff’rent Strokes and The Cosby Show. But Allen’s films, and even more so Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron’s Allen-esque When Harry Met Sally (a far bigger commercial success than any of Woody’s work), created a vision of comfortable, upscale, wise-cracking New York living that would reach a mass audience via Seinfeld, which debuted in 1989.

The first two brief seasons of Seinfeld (or, as it was originally titled, The Seinfeld Chronicles) struggled in the ratings, but it slowly built an audience and climbed in the Nielsens, and by season five (1993-1994) it was one of the top five shows on the air, anchoring NBC’s “Must See TV” line-up of Thursday night sitcoms. In September 1994, it was joined on Thursdays by another comedy, in which urbane New York pals joked, dated, and shared the horrors of city living. Friends, however, was a rating smash right away, and not only because of its killer schedule placement. It sanded away the rougher edges of Seinfeld; its characters were more likable (or, at least, intended to be), and its humor was less spiky. It ran even longer than Seinfeld, ten seasons, every one of them in the top ten, all but one in the top five.

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Even as these New York comedies—and others that followed, like Mad About You, Caroline in the City, and The Single Guy—were topping the ratings, the face of the city was changing. “Don’t forget to in the late ’80s, you came off of a couple of financial crises, some bad times,” explains agent Chris Fry, of Elegran Real Estate. ”It was a little bit more affordable, things were dropping. And I think the shows that you’re talking about definitely had a positive effect on what people perceived New York City to be.”

Crime was on the decline across the country, but especially in New York City, a drop that began under Mayor David Dinkins and continued under Rudy Giuliani. The latter, in coordination with NYPD commissioner William Bratton, instituted an aggressive policy of enforcing so-called “quality of life” crimes like graffiti, turnstile-jumping, and panhandling; this philosophy, modeled on James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling’s controversial “broken windows” theory, held that if these comparatively minor yet highly visible crimes were eradicated, the city would look clean and controlled, and thus psychologically discourage a lawlessness that would result in fewer serious offenses like murder, rape, and theft.

This vision of the city was certainly reflected in NBC’s Thursday night lineup. The early ‘90s comedies found fodder in the minor inconveniences of city life, but rarely trod into the seediness and crime that defined such earlier sitcoms as Night Court and Barney Miller. Paul and Jamie Buchman’s apartment wasn’t burglarized; none of the Friends were mugged in Central Park. When a blackout hit New York City in the summer of 1977, there were over one thousand fires, over 1500 damaged and/or looted stores, and nearly four thousand arrests. When a blackout hit NBC’s Thursday night New York City in the fall of 1994, Chandler Bing got trapped in an ATM vestibule with a supermodel.

If these sitcoms were the television reflection of the “broken windows” theory, their creators had a much easier time cleaning up New York City—in part because they weren’t shooting in it. Much like the films set in New York City before Mayor Lindsay established the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting, all of these series were shot on soundstages and backlots in California, with the exception of the occasional second-unit exterior establishing shot. So they took place in New York City, but the version of New York City they presented was highly fictionalized. Just as Paul and Jamie, Jerry and the gang, and the Central Perk crew were funnier and sharper than real New Yorkers (and lived in apartments far beyond their means), the New York they lived in was squeakier and clearer.

“I love Friends,” says Sire Leo Lamar-Becker, who was inspired by the shows of the ‘90s to leave California and move to New York, where he currently works in the fashion industry. “But Friends was so sterile. It didn’t feel real. And what Sex and the City offered was, I felt, a more nuanced portrayal of the city.”

Like the New York movies from the late 1960s onward, Sex and the City had the advantage of authenticity: It was shot entirely in New York, the exteriors and the sets (constructed and filmed at Silvercup Studios) and everything in between. “If you’re familiar with this series, and the movies, the city is integral to it,” explains tour guide Lou Matthews. “They've called it, like the fifth girl is the city. It's really crucial.” As a guide for the “Sex and the City Hotspots Tour,” which On Location Tours has conducted since 2001, Matthews has seen, firsthand, the psychological effect of that particular show.

“I've definitely met girls in their twenties, or maybe they’re still in college, on the tour who are saying, ‘Yeah, I fell in love with Sex in the City and New York City because of Sex in the City. And like, I’m already trying to figure out how I can get a job here.’ And then I’ve definitely met a few where the reason they moved here was because of Sex in the City, like they wanted the life that Carrie has. And here they are.”

The life they found was, in most cases, not exactly what these shows promised. “As someone who has lived here for 10 years,” laughs Lamar-Becker, “sure, there are some things that are unrealistic—like, Carrie being able to afford all her shoes. That’s unrealistic. But the feeling of the city is always captured well.”

And that indefinable but unmistakable quality, that feeling of the city, is what’s shifted most over the past quarter-century or so – through Seinfeld and Friends and Sex and the City into 30 Rock and Gossip Girl and Girls, through When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail to The Devil Wears Prada, Trainwreck, and even The Avengers. Some of that shift in public perception is merely a reflection of reality, of filmmakers and show-runners pointing their cameras at the city and capturing the gentrified, yuppified, Disney-fied mutation it’s become.

But some of that is also life imitating art. Every day, Lou Matthews’s tour bus is filled with people like Sire Leo Lamar-Becker, members of a generation of viewers whose impressions of New York were formed not by Taxi Driver and Kojak, but by the Sex and the City films and Netflix binges of Friends. They watched those shows and memorized those movies, and then migrated to New York City like so many immigrants before them. Their predecessors flocked to Ellis Island, lured by promises of a new world. These settlers came to the Magnolia Bakery, seeking not so much a new world as a better one, full of enviable careers, witty friends, and all the cosmos they could drink.

Lewis Rudin would have been proud.

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[tasksweekly]

[TASK 155: VANUATU]

In celebration of July 30th being Ni-Vanuatu Independence Day, here’s a masterlist below compiled of over 200+ Ni-Vanuatu faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

F:

Vanessa Quai (1988) Ni-Vanuatu / Fijian - singer.

Marie Wawa (?) Ni-Vanuatu - actress.

Linette Yowayin (?) Ni-Vanuatu - actress.

Dadwa Mungau (?) Ni-Vanuatu - actress.

F - Athletes:

Mary-Estelle Mahuk (1966) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Olivette Bice (1968) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Andrea Garae (1973) Ni-Vanuatu - middle-distance runner.

Anolyn Lulu (1979) Ni-Vanuatu - table tennis player.

Henriette Iatika (1985) Ni-Vanuatu - volleyball player.

Elis Lapenmal (1987) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Janice Alatoa (1988) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Miller Pata (1988) Ni-Vanuatu - volleyball player.

Katura Marae (1989) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Priscila Tommy (1991) Ni-Vanuatu - table tennis player.

Jeanine Alatoa (1992) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Fredrica Manses (1992) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Sylvie Gideon (1993) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Vanissa Wilson (1993) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Selina Solman (1994) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Melissa Wakeret (1995) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Junane Ishmael (1995) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Brenda Anis (1996) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Jesta Toka (1997) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Eva Boe (1997) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Julie-Rose Nasse (1998) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Eliona Taiwia (1998) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Friana Kwevira (1998) Ni-Vanuatu - paralympic javelin thrower.

Elmah Ajivi (1998) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Paulieana Manwo (1998) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Emilia Taravaki (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Vaina Bong (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Tisha Ronny (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Melissa Bani (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Keren Coulon (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Dorolyn Samson (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Lily Nihambat (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Jane Alatoa (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Delphine Kalmet (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Lilian Sawon (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Melinda Fred (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Leiwia Tangarase (2000) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Shania Siri (2000) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Leimata Simon (2000) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Vanessa Kiletia / Vanessa Keletia (2000) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Hannah Taiwia (2000) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Ruth Tate / Cloe Ruth Tate (2000) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Cynthia Ngwele (2001) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Annie Gere / Annie Rose Gere (2001) N-Vanuatu - footballer.

Rita Solomon (2001) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Nettie Kalsau (2001) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Celestine Kalopong (2002) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Amelia Retty (2002) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Monica Melteviel (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Johnita Willie (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Nadine Kileteir (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Rina Batick (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Priscilla Charley (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Daina Kalopong (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Jasmin Takaro (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Noela Bokokoto (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Clemontine Senis (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Louisa Kalpram (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Dilisa Yeoyer (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Melody Tate (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

M:

Robert Van Lierop (1939) Ni-Vanuatu / African-American - filmmaker, writer, photographer, and activist.

Gilles Barbier (1965) Ni-Vanuatu - contemporary artist.

Lingai Kowia (?) Ni-Vanuatu - actor.

Albi Nangia (?) Ni-Vanuatu - actor.

Mikum Tainakou (?) Ni-Vanuatu - actor.

Charlie Kahla (?) Ni-Vanuatu - actor.

DJ DX RecordZ (?) Ni-Vanuatu - DJ.

Hoobz (?) Ni-Vanuatu, I-Kiribati, Solomon Islander, Fijian - singer.

George Kalran (?) Ni-Vanuatu - singer.

DJ Zinox (?) Ni-Vanuatu, I-Kiribati, Fijian - singer and DJ.

Georges Kalrang (?) Ni-Vanuatu - singer.

M - Athletes:

Francois Latil (1938) Ni-Vanuatu - archer.

Nigel Morrison (1955) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

James Iahuat (1959) Ni-Vanuatu - boxer.

Mal Meninga (1960) Ni-Vanuatu - rugby player.

Jerry Jeremiah (1963) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Laurence Jack (1968) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Percy Avock (1968) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Ancel Nalau (1968) Ni-Vanuatu - middle-distance runner.

Lencie Fred (1968) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Saby Natonga (1970) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Baptiste Firiam (1971) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Simon Lauru (1972) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Tawai Keiruan (1972) Ni-Vanuatu - long-distance runner.

Bruce George (1972) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Fletcher Wamilee (1972) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Ken Nagas (1973) Ni-Vanuatu - rugby player.

Tavakalo Kailes (1973) Ni-Vanuatu - middle-distance runner.

Gorden Tallis (1973) Ni-Vanuatu / Torres Strait Islander - rugby player.

Damian Smith (1975) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Etienne Mermer (1977) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Seimata Chilia (1978) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Robert Tom (1978) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Moise Poida (1978) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

David Chilia (1978) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Richard Iwai (1979) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Joshua Tui Tapasei (1979) Ni-Vanuatu / Tuvaluan - footballer.

Rhys Wesser (1979) Ni-Vanuatu / Unspecified Aboriginal Australian - rugby player.

Abraham Kepsin (1980) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Jean Nako Naprapol (1980) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Alphonse Qorig (1981) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Samson Obed (1981) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Fedy Vava (1982) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Moses Kamut (1982) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Derek Malas (1983) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Chikau Mansale (1983) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Jean Robert Yelou (1983) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Roger Waiwai (1983) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Seule Soromon (1984) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Ernest Bong (1984) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Fenedy Masauvakalo (1984) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Alphonse Bongnaim (1985) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Rexley Tarivuti (1985) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Geoffrey Gete (1986) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Aby John (1986) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Roger Joe (1986) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

François Sakama (1987) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Nazario Fiakaifonu (1988) Ni-Vanuatu - judoka.

Paul Young (1988) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Arnold Sorina (1988) Ni-Vanuatu - middle-distance runner.

Joseph Namariau (1988) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Andrew Mansale (1988) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Jharal Yow Yeh (1989) Ni-Vanuatu, Samoan, Maranganji, Chinese, Possibly Other - rugby player. 

Simpson Obed (1989) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Alehana Mara (1989) Ni-Vanuatu / Tokelauan - rugby player.

Samuel Kaloros (1989) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Trevor Langa (1989) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Daniel Natou (1989) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Travis Waddell (1989) Ni-Vanuatu, Torres Strait Islander / Unspecified Aboriginal Australian - rugby player.

Robert Tasso (1989) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Kensi Tangis (1990) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Worford Kalworai (1990) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Ignace Iamak (1990) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Rodney Serveux (1990) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Kenny Tari (1990) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Roddy Lenga (1990) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Silas Namatak (1990) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Michel Kaltak (1990) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Justin O’Neill (1991) Ni-Vanuatu / Unspecified - rugby player.

Don Mansale (1991) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Jelany Chilia (1991) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Patrick Matautaava (1991) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Jaxies Samuel (1991) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Niko Unavalu (1991) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

John Alick (1991) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Luigi Teilemb (1992) Ni-Vanuatu - rower.

Bernard Daniel (1992) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Lucien Hinge (1992) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Joe Mahit (1992) Ni-Vanuatu - judoka.

Dominique Fred (1992) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Jacques Wanemut (1992) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Zac Santo (1993) Ni-Vanuatu / Unspecified Aboriginal Australian - rugby player.

Brian Kaltak (1993) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Jackson Tasso (1993) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Yoshua Shing (1993) Ni-Vanuatu - table tennis player.

Bill Nicholls (1993) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Kevin Shem (1993) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Elkington Molivakarua (1993) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Caleb Binge (1993) Ni-Vanuatu / Unspecified Indigenous Australian - rugby player.

Nemani Roqara (1993) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Zica Manuhi / Zika Manuhi / Sika Manuhi (1993) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Joshua Rasu (1994) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Mitch Cooper (1994) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Callum Blake (1994) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Jais Malsarani (1994) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Abraham Roqara (1994) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Kaloran Firiam (1994) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Ronald Tari (1994) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Jean Kaltak (1994) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Apolinaire Stephen (1995) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Seiloni Iaruel (1995) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Daniel Philimon (1995) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Barry Mansale (1995) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Raoul Coulon (1995) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Nalin Nipiko (1995) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Michel Coulon (1995) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Lionel Warawara (1995) Ni-Vanuatu - boxer.

Remy Kalsrap (1996) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Jacky Ruben (1996) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Alex Saniel (1996) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Tony Kaltak (1996) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Gordshem Dona / Goshen Dona / Godshen Dona / Gordshem Donna / Goshen Donna / Godshen Donna (1996 or 1997) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Clement Tommy (1997) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Bong Kalo (1997) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Womel Brandy Mento (1997) Ni-Vanuatu - sprinter.

Dick Taiwia (1997) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Claude Aru (1997) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Jason Thomas (1997) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Gilmour Kaltongga (1997) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Jayson Timatua (1998) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Selwyn Vatu (1998) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Joseph Iaruel (1998) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Jonathan Spokeyjack (1998) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Williamsing Nalisa (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Azariah Soromon (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Wesley Viraliliu (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Ronaldo Wilkins (1999) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Jamal Vira (?) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Alwyn Job (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

Zechariah Shem (?) Ni-Vanuatu - cricketer.

Robert Calvo (?) Ni-Vanuatu - footballer.

[murdoch-histories]

Ye-haw, saddle up partners, we be going to the wild wild west today with Buffalo Bill (Nicholas Campbell).

William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody is a icon of the Wild West, but he has roots in Canada. Born February 26, 1846 in Le Claire, Iowa. He lived in Fort Leavenworth during the Civil War and his father was against slavery. After his father died, Buffalo Bill worked on the railroad and in 1860, moved to California in the Holcomb Valley Gold Rush. Before he reached California, he met and was hired by the Pony Express. When the American Civil War started, he was refused from the army due to his age, so as soon as he was able, he enlisted for the Union Army. In the army, he became a Chief of Scouts and awarded the Medal of Honour.

It was after the American Civil War that he got his nickname “Buffalo Bill” because of a brag that he had killed 4282 buffalo in 18 months. in 1869, his friend Ned Buntline published Buffalo Bill’s Wild West which turned into a play and toured around the States. The play toured for many years, including tours overseas in Europe.

By the turn of the century, he was the best known celebrity world wide and when he died on january 10, 1917, he was mourned deeply by many figures such as King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Woodrow Wilson.

- Metis military leader Gabriel Dumont was part of his show, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and the Congress of Rough Riders of the World, along with Annie Oakley, Frank Butler, Lilian Smith and many other minority races such as Turks, Arbs and Mongols.  

- Buffalo Bill was friends with Thomas Edison