#Byrd gang

[alazarrr]

Max Biggavelli…

[livingthelifebased]

Jim Jones : How To Tie A Tie

* essential life tip 

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Courtney: Take a right here. Oscar: Absolutely not. Courtney: C’mon! I have an idea. Oscar: Getting arrested for kidnapping is a terrible idea. [Oscar rolled his eyes as Courtney grinned and raised her hand threateningly; snorting, he threw the indicator on and pulled over with acquiescence, lest she get any ideas and grab the steering wheel herself] … Courtney: Is Levi ready? Nadia: For? Courtney: Camping. Nadia: He’s not going. Courtney: Oh-.. we’ve already booked a spot for him. Nadia: Hm. Courtney: It’d be easier if he were out of your hair for a week though-.. right? [Nadia squinted at the slightly unkempt woman before her; she was clearly mistaken in her previous assumptions that Courtney was a simple, feebleminded housewife] Nadia: Don’t take me for a fool. Courtney: Alright, what’s it gonna be then? Nadia: LEVI! Nadia: Do you want to go camping with these.. people? Levi: I thought you said-… Nadia: Do. You. Want. To. Go? … Nadia: That was quick-.. you won’t bring any bad habits back, will you? Levi: I’ll try not to. Nadia: I’ll miss you, sweetheart. [Levi clenched his bag tightly and ignored his mother’s outstretched arms, knowing full well they’d remain firmly plastered to her waist were there not a car full of Finch’s right next to them] Levi: Hey-.. scootch over, losers. Ava: Hi, Levi’s mommy! [Levi shut the door before Nadia could respond, catching naught but a glimpse of her upturned nose as Oscar sped off]

[newplaces2drown]

Guru and Donald Byrd

[swizziee]

Guru - Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 Ad. (1993)

[thelongstrangedrivehome2]

the nineteenth of october twenty twenty-three

T. Rex - Bang a Gong

Tom Waits - Strange Weather

David Bowie - Under Pressure (Live 2004)

John Lennon - Imagine

Gang of Four - What We All Want

Cher - Like a Rolling Stone

Lady gaga - Babylon

Dar Williams - Highway Patrolman

Thelma Houston - Piano Man

The Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What To Do With My Life

CSS - Rat is Dead

Lou Reed - I'm Waiting For The Man

Sleater-Kinney - Get Up

Neil Young - This land Is Your Land

Stevie Wonder - You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

The Dead Weather - New Pony

Space Waltz - Out On The Streets

Neko Case - People Got A Lotta Nerve

Robyn Hitchcock - Madonna Of The Wasps

The Byrds - Positively Fourth Street

David Bowie - Rock 'n' roll Suicide

Against Me! - True Trans Rebel Soul

Curtis Mayfield - Readings in Astrology

Hole - Jennifer's Body

The Hollies - Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress

The Clash - The Card Cheat

Gorillaz - Dirty Harry

Suzi Quatro - Your Mama Won't Like Me

The Cramps - Primitive

[gerogerigaogaigar]

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis

The sprawling funk/soul explorations of Curtis Mayfield display a masterful talent for bombastic arrangements and biting political commentary. The calls for unity are par for the course when it comes to 70s funk, but rather than the both sides-ism of Sly And The Family Stone, Mayfield would like to remind us that we're all gonna fucking die if we don't work together. As for the music, the lush horns, frenetic percussion, frequent harp parts, and aspects of psychedelia make for an incredibly unique album, especially for it's time.

The Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

Gram Parsons wanted country rock to be a thing so bad. He was willing to completely overhaul half the personnel of his band and tank their careers just so he could have his country album. Sweetheart Of The Rodeo has been severely vindicated by history considering how big of a genre country rock wound up being in the 70s and all the conservatives who got mad that long haired hippies were ruining their music can suck it. The album consists almost entirely of covers including artists like The Louvin Brothers, Merle Haggard, and Woody Guthrie. It feels very authentic. Acoustic guitar, fiddle, pedal steel, and honky tonk piano abound as Parsons croons over some decidedly non hippie country songs. It's clear they're being a little cheeky when they do The Louvin Brothers' song The Christian Life after all.

Gang Of Four - Entertainment!

What's better than angular, funky, post punk? Angular, funk, Communist post punk obviously! Frustrations about commodity fetishism make up like half of this albums lyrical content. But beyond just the politics the music is also revolutionary. The jittery guitars are matched by punchy drums and staccato singing. It's disorienting, it's angry, it's hugely influential. Come join the proletariat dance party.

Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

This album is completely feral. Half the songs are about people dying horrifically and there's a seventeen minute jam describing an orgy. No joke for real content warning ⚠️ this album features a very stark and realistic portrayal of how trans people were treated back in the 60s. We have to talk about Lady Godiva's Operation. It's a song about a transgender woman dying in the operating table due to a botched lobotomy. It's brutal and has always been one of the only songs that really scares me. The song's attitude is intensely sympathetic to it's subject, the only hint of Lady Godiva's trans status is one line were a doctor misgenders her and the fact that she was going in for a lobotomy at all (by the 60s they were mainly reserved for gay men and trans women). The humanity of the character in the first half of the song versus the indifference of the doctors in the latter half is an incredibly succinct condemnation of how society treated queer people at the time. ⚠️ Ok content warning over y'all can open your eyes again. Putting the subject matter aside White Light/White Heat is musically unhinged. The guitars are so scrungy and fuzzed out that it can be hard to understand what's going on. Songs like Here She Comes Now and the title track are basically 50s rock and roll with the most fucked up guitars imaginable. The Gift, Lady Godiva's Operation, and Sister Ray are weird droning things with mostly spoken word lyrics. And the guitar solos on Sister Ray are beyond punk and more like noise rock or even just noise. This album is not for everyone, hell it might not be for anyone, but I really like it. I have a soft spot for weird anomalies.

Mary J. Blige - What's The 411?

I'm usually pretty harsh on lengthy 90s R&B fuck jams, but this album is really good at being that thing. 92 was probably the exact time for a funky Hip hop influenced R&B album to be really good by my standards specifically. The beats, produced by Puff Daddy, are very reminiscent of late 80s style hip hop and the vocals are spaced out, very echoey. They combine nicely to create an effect where the vocals encompass you while the beats hit you in the face. A lot of the songs structure are more focused on layering vocals to create a sound more similar to P-Funk than soul, it stops the longer tracks from being boring since they need the four to five minutes length to explore those layers.

Kacey Musgraves - The Golden Hour

Unbelievably boring. I don't care at all about this album. Did you know that Weird Al also has a song called Velvet Elvis? It's basically the exact same song but it's a joke and it came out in the 80s.

[icannotgetoverbirds]

WHAT

Whyd no one tell me alligator Gars scientific name is Atrocious Spatula

[alazarrr]

Rest Well Stack Bundles.

[pixeldolly]

The Survivors, part 3

☢️Zuleika Izadi (by @nappe-plays-the-sims)

She may seem creepy and death-obsessed, but Zuleika is secretly a romantic at heart who hasn't given up on finding her soulmate, despite the...less than ideal circumstances she finds herself in.

She enjoys gardening and botany and is an uncanny knack for making plants grow even in contaminated soil. According to her, she once got her hands on a Laganaphyllis Simnovorii seedling and had it growing in a pot on the rooftop of her condo. As you do.

☢️Toni Byrd (Sim & bio by @goatskickin )

Toni Byrd has two rules for life: don’t fall asleep in a bathtub, and no tequila shots after midnight.

She isn’t sweet, but she sure is funny. She also hasn’t bought new clothes or had a real job since 2014. She’s your town’s laziest bike courier/”artist”. Truly, her life hasn't changed that much since the apocalypse.

She’s a filthy Sagittarius (bi) who is into crust punks (Stink) who don’t work (Unemployed). 

She’s also a moderator on a cryptid forum (unattracted to werewolves) - not that you asked, but she’ll tell you all about it.

☢️Marcella Sutter (Sim and original bio by @lilith-sims )

Marcella never felt ugly a day in her life although a lot of girls called her names and harassed all the way through high-school she was always able to make them swallow their own poison.

She’s a lot of fun and likes to flirt with everyone. She gets along with all kinds of people and loves travelling more than anything.

She's been drifting since the zombies attacked, but after one too many close calls, she decided to put down roots in a proper community.

☢️Miloni Bianchi (Sim & concept by @goatskickin )

Miloni has always been tinkering with something, although she was never formally trained as a mechanic - she just picked up a toolbox one day and started learning by doing. She got pretty good at it, too, although there have been one or two...accidents. Occupational hazard, as they say.

For some reason, kids love her (the cool robot arm helps!) although Miloni stubbornly claims the feeling isn't mutual. Her prickly personality has not endeared her to other survivors, but after losing an eye to a gang of raiders, she's ready to admit that safety is found in numbers. Safety, and maybe some food, too - because she is a terrible cook.

[howlsofbloodhounds]

Is there any version of Nightmare across the fandom that you like? Or ones that you think are interesting? [Im a nightmare fan :D. But mostly, particular fanon Nightmare versions. i have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the original Nightmare.]

I don’t care enough about nightmare or most fanon depictions to seek out content of him, but I do like signanothername’s version, as well as the Creature (i forgot what the users name was, the one where nm is very small and treats the gang like pets or toys, is kinda childish).

There’s also byrd’s version, can’t remember the username rn but from the little I have read about, that version is very interesting.

But tbh gang I prefer more canonish depictions of nightmare because fanon just isn’t interesting to me and feels very sanitized most of the time. Most people want him to just be misunderstood and that’s it, but this often comes at the cost of making him “good actually and everyone else is wrong” or “Dream was secretly bad or just mislead and naive” or just plain boring to me.

Not to mention I feel it again overlooks and ignores an opportunity to address or portray things like labor trafficking/modern day slavery, abuse, trauma, etc, because it feels like the fandom just wants everyone to like everyone and get along always and forever and everyone can be redeemed. Which is fine of course, just not for me.

Same way people think people going through the same types of abuse will all become codependent and empathic and love eachother and understand eachother so much even though the environment they’re in actively doesn’t foster that environment and it feels like another trope of the “perfect victim” where everyone is all so empathic and kind and understanding and they all hate their abuser together and trust eachother and will never harm or hurt eachother ever.

Even when their environment does not allow or foster that. Everyone just reacting and responding the exact same way to the same trauma and abuse and horror just feels very unrealistic and boring ig im tryna say as I go completely off topic.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

From Baltimore to Palestine: resist police occupation!

By Colby Byrd

Whether it be in Palestine or Baltimore, state-sponsored thugs run loose, harassing oppressed communities, protected and armed by the wealthiest sponsors of imperialism, colonialism, and white supremacy. The Baltimore police are no stranger to these sponsors. Read its history, and you’ll see how from the beginning to now, all BPD has been is a front for white supremacy run by all levels of government in the United States, be it local, state, or federal. Likewise, the Israeli Occupation Forces trace their history back to the murderous gangs and militias of Zionist settlers.

[mad-doodle-disease]

//notice: timmy riddle is now called doyle n. trouble. silly silly. in alio mundo, cerebra tua pingunt aquam

morning came all too quick for the yott escapees. prester was pleasantly surprised by the fact his head was actually placed on a pillow and not the cold hard floor. finally allowing himself to sleep really helped prester's general... aggression issues. not completely, he still was the brutal witch hunter, but sleep did help with any exhaustion/stress induced extra aggression he developed. he looked over at winston, curled up like a cat a couple feet away from him. his processors generally being sluggish due to just waking up and his muscle memory involving cats almost got him to reach out and run his hand over winston's spine. almost. almoooost.

after doyle and winston woke up as well, they all took the time to loot the theater for all it's worth. doyle found a discarded gag pouch, too, which combined with his toony nature would mean the small gang of mostly cogs would finally have access to hammerspace. they then gathered their thoughts, and decided to visit toontown central's playground for a much needed soak in the pond there. every one of them were their own degree of grungy, they could all benefit from some water being splashed on them.

after a short (and somewhat more creepy due to the corpses being much more visible in the broad daylight) walk to the playground, the gang immediately walked into the water. according to prester, it was much more "efficient" to wash both their bodies and their clothes at the same time, even if that meant theyd have to walk in sopping wet cloth later. doyle just chalked it up to him not wanting to even briefly appear exposed to potential threats, though. he did find it kinda unfair though, as winston obviously had much less that would potentially weigh them down later, just having a necktie. and, even then, winston was just sitting on a dock, barely dipping their blocky feet into the water. it was a bit confusing at first, but doyle eventually came to the conclusion that winston was apprehensive about dipping their incredibly exposed mechanical innards into water. prester looked over at them, before reaching a hand out.

prester virgil: your tie. bestow it upon me, muttonhead.

winston, a bit confused, unhooked their tie and handed it to prester. he then dipped the tie in the water, swirling around a bit to get whatever grime and dirt that built up on it over time, before using it as a rag to scrub over winston's endoskeleton. they leaned into the touch, enjoying the feeling of even the slightest hints of affection after so long. doyle looked on like he knew what they were.

winston byrd: tha-a-ank yo-you... prester virgil: i am merely doing this as to enlighten you on how you may find yourself doing this hereafter. i shalt not do this again, so please pay heed to my actions. winston byrd: oh i-i-i'm p-paying h-paying heed-eed-eed, HA HA. HA. doyle n. trouble: well, aren't you two chummy now? did something happen last night i was too busy catching up on my beauty sleep to notice? winston byrd: i-i put a pillow un-under his head! prester virgil: nothing happened of any sort you are thinking of, swine! i just woke up feeling... extra charitable this morrow.

doyle squinted at prester as he moved up to scrub the underside of winston's head, a smug grin forming on his snout.

doyle n. trouble: oh, i knew it. the brute with a secret heart of gold... and here i thought it might take a bit longer for you to open up! HA! all it took you was some "cat nap"! prester virgil: i can assure you, you know NOTHING of my brutish actions. if you knew what i did to that HOODED MUTTONHEAD back many moons ago, you would know that any "gold" in my heart is nothing but pyrite! fool's gold! winston byrd: i-i think i ate pyrite once i-in the dungeon! doyle n. trouble: yeah, yeah. yet here you are, handling them like an ANTIQ-

doyle suddenly went still, his face running pale and his eyes widened like globes.

prester virgil: well, by pure legal technicality, they ARE an antique!

doyle stayed silent, their smile immediately wiped from their face as they slowly turned to face the back left segment of the playground, at the seemingly abandoned schoolhouse. he stared at the cellar door, just BARELY propped open with... SOMETHING held between the door and its base.

doyle n. trouble: ...something is wrong...

the two cogs stayed quiet, prester wringing out the tie and hooking it back onto winston's neck. doyle squinted at whatever was propping up the celler door. once he recognized it, the pig began to yell.

doyle n. trouble: THAT'S A GUN! THAT'S A GUN! RUN! RUN!

the yott gang ran for the abandoned gag shop, shielding themselves from the bullets that never got fired at them.

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[mannytoodope]

Keith Edward Elam (July 17, 1961– April 19, 2010), better known by his stage name Guru, an acronym for(Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal), was a rapper, actor, and producer. He was a member of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr with DJ Premier. He began his career under Kiethy E but later changed it to Guru when Gang Starr was formed. The Boston native has been listed on various top MC lists. In 1993, he released the first series of four solo albums while still a member of Gang Starr. He worked with multiple artists, including jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd, N’Davenort, French rapper MC Solar, and other jazz and r& b artists. Guru was an excellent lyricist, and he was both street and socially conscious. His rap cadence paired perfectly with DJ Premier’s flawless DJ skills. Guru Shbewn is one of hip-hop’s best and my favorite  MCs.