#Chris Ballard record

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New Edinburgh spreadsheet. I made a bunch of changes for a variety of reasons, including, I learned that I'll have other opportunities to get the Guy Williams, Greg Larsen, and Sara Pascoe shows, so I replaced them with people I won't. Harriet Kemsley and Chris Cantrill are streaming on NextUp so I replaced them too. The goal here is to maximize volume of shows seen so I can have the broadest possible picture of what they all are. That is definitely the best way to consume art, right? That's what you're supposed to do, with art?

(There are exceptions, I've heard the Nish Kumar and Mark Watson and Sarah Keyworth and Tom Ballard shows before because they've recorded early versions in various places, but I like them enough to be willing to pay to be in a room with those people and hear it again.)

I was also pleased to see NextUp are also filming Amy Gledhill, Catherine Bohart, and Milo Edwards, as they were on my list as well, but didn't get onto my schedule for whatever reason (in Gledhill's case, because she arrives after I leave). And some other people. NextUp isn't filming as much this year as they did last year, unless they end up announcing a lot more. I watched 21 NextUp streams from Edinburgh 2023, and there were a whole lot that I didn't watch. So far, they've only announced 18 from 2024. I might just watch all of them this year. Or most of them. I'll give Tony Law a miss. Not sure I could sit through a whole hour of Jessie Cave. Not a big fan of Daliso Chaponda either. But I'll probably watch the rest.

Before, I had two issues of booking no time between shows, because they were in the same building and I hadn't factored in the separate rooms, so I thought they were in the same venue and one couldn't run into the other. I've solved one of those problems by replacing Guy Williams with Mat Ewins, which I think was good, because Mat Ewins is one of those comedians I keep reading is very very good, but I watched his TV special and didn't get much out of it, I don't think he translates well to recordings. You have to be in the room for it, so I guess I'll take this rare opportunity to be in a room with him and see what that's like. I still have the issue of Kiri Pritchard-McLean running into Sophie Duker. They're both shows that I really want to see, and neither fits into the schedule anywhere else, so my current plan is to just sit at the back of both rooms and hope those rooms are near each other so I can get from one to the other. Worst comes to worst I guess I miss Sophie's show and it is likely to get filmed at some point, probably. But hopefully it's fine. Constantly checking the time as I get anxious that this show will run too long and I'll miss the next one - that's the best way to consume art, right?

I think the rest of it's okay, though. For every other situation where there's half an hour or less time than that between the end of one show and the start of the next, they're either in the same venue, or in venues that are a fairly short walk apart. That hopefully leaves room for even if one venue runs a bit behind or a show runs long, though I guess I'll see how well that actually works out. I'm aware of the possibility that I might miss some stuff. I am currently mentally preparing myself for the possibility that I might miss some stuff. It is possible that the fact that I have been creating this trip in my mind for four years, and actively planning this specific one for a year, is putting too much pressure on the situation. It is fine, I know it's not the end of the world if things go wrong. That probably actually is the best way to consume art. Which is a shame, because out of all things I've claimed in this post about my mentality toward Edinburgh, that's the only one where I'm lying.

I added some music things at the end of a couple of nights. The last time I was at a festival like this - a really big one that goes all over the place - was Celtic Colours, a Celtic folk festival (mainly music, but they also had cultural events and stuff, I think my mother learned to make a quilt, my dad and I were just there for the music) in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. I've been there a couple of times, the last time I went was in 2019, it was fucking amazing, one of the best weeks of my life. We saw a bunch of incredible concerts for which we'd carefully planned and bought tickets, but my dad and I talked after the festival, and found that for both of us, if we were pressed to pick our top favourite memory from the week, it was a night spent at the Red Shoe Pub in Mabu, Cape Breton. It was a pub that has live Celtic music all the time, not just during the festival, we just showed up there on a couple of nights, and got to have some food while listening to local people who'd brought their own instruments and used the pub's piano, and it was like nothing we have at home, it was so much fun.

I saw that there's a pub in Edinburgh that advertises live Celtic music throughout the Fringe Festival but also just has live Celtic music all year-round, doesn't require booking tickets or anything, thought it might be fun, so I left a couple of nights open to just go to that pub, in case that also turns out to be a surprise highlight. There's every chance that it'll turn out to be so overcrowded I can't even get in and/or not enjoyable at all, but that's fine, if that turns out to be the case then going back to the Air B&B and getting some extra sleep probably won't be the worst thing I could do.

I put music in brown and comedy in yellow. I think that's about the balance I want. Couple of music things because I can't be a lifelong Celtic music fan who goes to Celticland for the first time and doesn't see music. Mainly comedy. Probably not enough time for, you know, the activities of daily living.

I think that might actually be the final version of the spreadsheet. It has a few more people I don't know well on it than the previous versions, all people I've looked up and think look good and had some reason for booking them, but figured I should take a few more chances as that's what you do at festivals. I might have overbooked. But I'd rather overbook than underbook. I have all that plus I got ridiculously lucky with what's playing in London while I'm there - Daniel Kitson, Brynley Stent, Desiree Burch, and a Nish Kumar WIP, obviously, because otherwise I wouldn't be booked to see Nish Kumar enough times. It's not like I've heard enough versions of Nish Kumar yet (I'll be honest: I've already heard a lot of versions of Nish Kumar's current material, and I'm nowhere near sick of it, he may have written a perfect stand-up show).

I've sorted out my itinerary for London, too. And the couple of Scottish Highland days in between London and Edinburgh. Got my British cash. I think I have everything. I'm leaving in nine days. Still doesn't feel like a real thing. I've spent so much time going all over Edinburgh and London and Fort William and Mallaig in Google Earth street view, but it feels like I'm playing the Sims. It's not a real place.

[thatrickmcginnis]

We define celebrity by who we consider famous and interesting: for me early in my career John Cale (like John Waters and J.G. Ballard) was a celebrity, especially in my circle of friends and acquaintances. He had, after all, been one of the founding members of the Velvet Underground, and even if you ignored his career in avant garde music before then, or his work as a musician and producer afterward, that made him a very big deal. Cale arrived in Toronto in early 1987 for a gig at the Diamond Club, between records and with a very intimidating reputation for indifferent, even hostile encounters with the press that nearly rivaled that of his old bandmate, Lou Reed.

It was probably appropriate that my handful of portraits of John Cale, shot for Nerve magazine, should have been taken from a low angle, to underscore his uncompromising image (or at least my own rather abject approach to him as a photographer). To be frank, though, this was a simple function of my inexperience, and my new camera - a Mamiya C330 medium format camera, a beast of a TLR with a waist level viewfinder that meant my lens was always at least a couple of feet below my subject's face if they were standing. I had barely owned the camera for a month or two and so far my only working method was to hold it in one hand while my other hand held a flash off to the side. The flash and camera would be juggled awkwardly while I tried to focus and compose; when I wrote about this shoot on my old blog, I said that this made me "light stand, tripod and photographer, all in one."

Poverty - and cheapness, let's be honest - meant that I only shot one roll of John Cale and his guitarist, Chris Spedding, alone and together. I might also have been afraid to impose on Cale for longer than he seemed willing to tolerate me. As such my portraits are just variations on the same pose and background, shot with the hope that at least one would be composed and focused correctly. My ambitions were very basic back at the beginning of my career as a photographer. But I also managed to shoot two whole rolls of the concert later that night; I hadn't yet come to dislike concert photography yet, and achieving something like the legendary live pics I'd seen for years in various rock mags was still an ambition I felt it reasonable to achieve.

[beardedmrbean]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Democratic mayor of San Francisco is pushing a pair of controversial public safety proposals on the March 5 ballot, including one that would require single adults on welfare be screened and treated for illegal drug addiction or else lose cash assistance.

Mayor London Breed also supports a ballot measure that would grant police more crime-fighting powers, such as the use of drones and surveillance cameras. In November, she'll face cranky voters in a competitive reelection bid.

San Francisco is in a struggle to redefine itself after the pandemic left it in economic tatters and highlighted its longstanding problems with homelessness, drugs and property crime. Opponents say both ballot measures are wildly out of step with San Francisco's support for privacy and civil liberties and will only hurt the marginalized communities the city prides itself on helping.

But Breed, the first Black woman to lead San Francisco, said at a January campaign stop that residents from poorer, Black and immigrant neighborhoods are pleading for more police, and recovery advocates are demanding change as more than 800 people died of accidental overdose last year — a record fueled by the abundance of cheap and potent fentanyl.

“They said San Francisco makes it too easy for people to access and to use drugs on the streets of the city and we need to do something a lot more aggressive,” Breed said at Footprint, an athletic apparel and shoe store that has been repeatedly burglarized.

While Breed's name isn't on the presidential primary ballots going out now — San Francisco uses a method where residents rank mayoral candidates by preference a single time in November — the two measures she's pushing are. They serve as an opening salvo for her reelection campaign as she faces off against fellow moderates who say her approach to the city's problems has been weak.

Violent crimes are low in San Francisco, but the city has long struggled with quality-of-life crimes.

Breed said rates of retail theft and auto smash-ins have declined recently, thanks in large part to strategic operations by city police. Similarly, police have stepped up enforcement of drug laws, including by issuing citations to people using drugs in public as a way to disrupt the behavior and an opportunity to persuade the person cited to seek help.

But she said San Francisco needs to do more.

If approved by voters, Proposition F would offer another way to compel treatment, by allowing the city to screen single adults on local welfare for substance abuse. People found to be abusing illegal drugs would be required to enroll in treatment if they want to receive cash assistance from the city, which maxes out at just over $700 a month.

Opponents say coercion doesn't work and homelessness may increase if the measure passes. Drug addicts are not criminals, they say, and there are not enough treatment beds and counseling services as it is.

A crackdown on drugs is reminiscent of the failed war on drugs that disproportionately harmed Black families, said Chris Ballard, co-executive director of Coleman Advocates, which pushes for improvements for Black and Latino youth in San Francisco.

“There are more ethical ways to address the issue aside from punitive measures, and that’s the proper way to take care of a community, to show true support,” he said.

Yet Trent Rhorer, executive director of the San Francisco Human Services Agency, which provides cash assistance and employment services to low-income residents without dependent children, said the current situation is in conflict with the agency's mission: to improve lives.

“To give someone who’s addicted to fentanyl $700 a month, I don’t think it helps improve their lives,” he said. “In fact, I think it does the opposite.”

Compelling treatment has become more acceptable in Democratic California, despite angst over the potential loss of civil liberties, as visible signs of homelessness and mental illness, fentanyl addiction, and unsafe street behavior surge.

Last year, several counties rolled out an alternative mental health court created by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, former mayor of San Francisco, to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia and related disorders into care, and in March voters will take up a statewide mental health proposition that some say will increase involuntary treatment.

Rhorer said the welfare program for single adults — which serves about 9,000 people per year — already asks applicants about substance abuse, with about 20% self-reporting an issue. A data check with the Department of Public Health revealed that almost one-third of recipients have been diagnosed with a substance use disorder, he said.

The ballot measure would replace that question with a more rigorous screening test that would be verified by an addiction specialist. If substance abuse is found, Rhorer said, the specialist and applicant would agree on treatment options that include residential care, a 12-step program, individual counseling and replacement medication.

There is no requirement that the person be sober, only that they make good-faith efforts to attend their program, with the hope that “at one point a light bulb will go off,” Rhorer said.

The measure calls for the city to pay the rent of those accepted into the program for 30 days or longer to avoid eviction. About 30% of the people who fatally overdosed in 2023 were homeless, and more were living in subsidized city housing.

Besides authorizing drones, cameras and other modern technologies, Proposition E would reduce paperwork so police have more time to patrol. It would also allow police to pursue more suspects by vehicle, and not just in cases of a violent felony or immediate threat to public safety — a policy store owner Michael Hsu learned of the hard way.

Hsu has had his Footprint store broken into multiple times since he took over in 2020, most recently on Jan. 1. Police arrived as the suspects were leaving but could not pursue them because no lives were at risk. Hsu, who lost about $20,000 in merchandise and damage, called that discouraging.

“You’re sending the wrong message to these criminals,” he said.

[jules-has-notes]

The Sing-Off, s.4 ep.7 — Finale

And then there were three. But in the spirit of the holiday season, the show brought back all ten groups for one last hurrah. Most of this episode feels more like an old school variety show than a competition, but the individual performances from the three finalists are all excellent.

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Group opener

It can be easy in the modern world to discount the impact that art has on people's lives. But in times of difficulty, we often turn to music for comfort and inspiration. If this version of Michael Jackson's classic anthem doesn't stir something inside you, I don't know what else to say.

Details:

title: Man in the Mirror

original performer: Michael Jackson

written by: Glen Ballard & Siedah Garrett

arranged by: The Sing-Off arrangers

air date: 23 December 2013

My favorite bits:

the gradual layering and building of complexity throughout the arrangement

featuring a few more soloists than previous opening numbers

the eliminated groups entering the upper stage-side boxes and from the audience aisles just in time for the big key change

alternating Emoni's gorgeous riffs and Austin's high "woo"s over the full chorus

ending the season as it began, with everyone together, and a well deserved standing ovation

Trivia:

Austin from Home Free was sick in the final days of the competition, and ended up whistling his vocal parts during rehearsals to preserve his singing voice for filming.

VoicePlay recorded their own version of this song eight years later, which ended up being their send-off video for J.None.

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Order of performances

Nick Lachey & Jewel — "It Had To Be You"

AcoUstiKats — "Jingle Bell Rock" bumper

Ten & Shawn Stockman — "Joyful, Joyful" from Sister Act 2

Street Corner Renaissance — "White Christmas" bumper

The Filharmonic — "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" bumper

Pentatonix — "I Need Your Love" by Calvin Harris, feat. Ellie Goulding

Calle Sol — "Feliz Navidad" bumper

Home Free — "I Want Crazy" by Hunter Hayes

98 Degrees — "I'll Be Home For Christmas" by Bing Crosby

Princeton Footnotes — "Deck the Halls" bumper

Vocal Rush & Ben Folds — "Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy" by David Bowie & Bing Crosby

Element — "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" bumper

VoicePlay — "Jingle Bells" bumper

Ten — "Love On Top" by Beyoncé

Home Free & Jewel — "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from Meet Me In St. Louis

a cappella 101 tutorial

five eliminated groups with Pat Benetar & Neil Giraldo — "We Belong"

Vocal Rush — "Roar" by Katy Perry

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VoicePlay performance

[h/t to voiceplay_randomnness on IG for archiving this clip]

Give these guys forty seconds and a chance to riff on a classic song, and they'll give you three different musical genres that will all have you grooving in your seat.

Details:

title: Jingle Bells (commercial bumper)

original song: traditional American carol, first published as "The One Horse Open Sleigh" (1857)

written by: James Lord Pierpont

arranged by: VoicePlay

air date: 23 December 2013

My favorite bits:

staying true to their name by playing with the beats and harmonies

their outfits — The wardrobe department clearly had so much fun dressing them for every episode, and this is no exception.

Trivia:

VoicePlay have never recorded a traditional version of this song, but they've done two mashups that include it – "Bollywood Jingle Bells" on their 2012 holiday album "Peppermint Winter", and "Mission: Jingle Bells" as a promotional tie-in for the home media release of "Mission Impossible: Fallout" in 2018.

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A Cappella 101 segment

Nick and the other judges may have poked fun at Ben for his vocabulary, but music does have a lot of specific technical terminology and jargon. (Props to Chris Rupp for actually offering one serious answer among the jokes.) A little wordplay never hurt anybody, though.

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Tour announcement

I couldn't find a clip from the broadcast episode, but this promo video seems pretty legitimate.

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Group performance

If there was one consistent theme for the whole season, it could be expressed by one line from this song: "We belong together." Dozens of talented singers coming together to create beautiful harmonies and rhythms are sure to brighten someone's day. This performance certainly puts a smile on my face.

Details:

title: We Belong

original performer: Pat Benetar

written by: David Eric Lowen & Dan Navarro

arranged by: The Sing-Off arrangers

air date: 23 December 2013

My favorite bits:

all five groups starting with traditional a cappella phonations that replicate instrumental sounds

building to a powerful backing chorus

the percussive stomping and clapping in the final section

everybody leaning in for hugs at the end

Trivia:

VoicePlay were a little starstruck performing with one of the biggest pop stars of their childhoods.

Several of the competitors joked on social media during the broadcast about Neil Giraldo bringing an instrument into an explicitly a cappella show.

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And the winner is…

Congratulations, Home Free!

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With VoicePlay mostly being in the boxes or in the middle of big groups for this episode, we didn't get a great look at their full outfits, which is a shame. Luckily, they uploaded a bunch of backstage photos to their Facebook page.

VoicePlay's stalwart sound guy Paul and his mom were in the audience for the finale.

Vocal Rush's videographer shot some wandering videos of the post-finale party with competitors and crew members, as well as some friends and family. VoicePlay can be seen mostly in the background of the second video.

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Chris Cornell grew up in Seattle, but described his neighborhood as "very white. Urban but not really urban, suburban but not really suburbia. It was lower-middle-class white." It was a place where he was introduced to drugs and alcohol early on.

"We were all selling drugs by the time we were 12, or doing them," he told Rolling Stone in 1994. "Pot or pills or anything that was easily available. My neighbors to the south had two boys who were probably in their late teens when I was about 11, and they were just huge into drugs. I remember walking by the basement window one time, and this one dude was shooting something at me from a syringe out the window. I don't even know what it was, but it was shooting 15 feet, and I'm walking by, trying to dodge this thing. Those were the kind of people who lived near me." He had said he also started drinking at that age.

The child of two alcoholics, his parents divorced when he was a teenager, after which he and his siblings adopted their mother's maiden name, Cornell, as their surrname.

Cornell attended Catholic school and after being kicked out of eighth grade (twice), he was sent to a vocational school, which he attended only briefly, bringing an end to his formal education.

"It was mainly for degenerate young people," said Cornell, who was the youngest of six (aka the "Bobby Brady," he once quipped), two brothers and three sisters. "It was the last ditch for kids that couldn't go anywhere else. The concept for me was entirely wrong because it was sort of learn at your own pace, do your own thing, and my own thing was not school. So I'd go there and not do anything at all. It was just a waste of time." (He would later start a foundation to help troubled kids in 2012, although it's unclear where the money is going, as his wife was put in charge of it).

Before becoming a successful musician, Cornell worked as a busboy, a dishwasher, a fish monger at a seafood wholesaler, and a sous-chef at a Ballard seafood restaurant.

The drug thing stuck with Cornell - or should we say surrounded him. His roommate Andy Wood, of the band Mother Love Bone, died of a heroin overdose in 1990, inspiring Cornell's band/album Temple of the Dog. He struggled himself in the 90s and early aughts, seeking treatment for addiction in 2002. (He told the Mirror in 2012 it was "mostly alcohol - from my late teens until my late 30s.")

As for his decision to go to rehab, he told Launch in 2007, "I really had to come to the conclusion, the sort of humbling conclusion that, guess what, I'm no different than anybody else, I've got to sort of ask for help - not something I ever did, ever. And then part two of that is, like, accept it when it comes and, you know, believe what people tell me. And trusting in what I have been told, and then seeing that work."

In 2015, while promoting his final solo album, Higher Truth, he talked about how his sobriety helped his music but noted he was still trying to "kind of figure out who the substance-free guy is."

"If i think about the evolution of my life as it appears in songs for example, Higher Truth is a great example of a record I wouldn't have been able to write, and part of that is in essence because there was a period of time there where I didn't expect to be here," he told Rolling Stone Australia. "And now not only do I expect to be here, and I'm not going anywhere, but I've had the last 12 years of my life being free of susbtances to kind of figure out who the substance-free guy is, because he's a different guy. Just by brain chemistry, it can't be avoided. I'm not the same, I don't think the same, I don't react the same. And my outlook isn't necessarily the same. My creative endeavors aren't necessarily the same. And one of the great things about that is it enabled me to kind of keep going artistically and find new places and shine the light into new corners where I hadn't really gone before. And that feels really good."

Shortly after getting out of rehab, in 2004, he met Vicky Karayiannis, a Greek Paris-based publicist, who also had a brother named Nicholas, a.k.a. DJ Nick Blast, who worked as an executive at a NY restaurant (leaving wife Susan Silvers).They got married and talent manager Jeff Kwatinetz was Cornell's best man, and Brittany Murphy, who was engaged to Kwatinetz at the time, was the maid of honor.

Genealogy:

Chris's father, Edward F. "Ed" Boyle, is a pharmacist from Everett, Washington. Chris's mother, Karen Ruth Cornell, is an accountant from Seattle, Washington. His ancestry is Norweigan, Irish (emphasis on the Irish because he looks VERY Irish to me), English, Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh, German, French, and remote Manx and Swiss-German. His parents were married by a Catholic priest in 1957.

In an interview on Howard Stern's show, circa 2007, Chris appeared to state that his mother is Jewish. This is not accurate.

Chris's patrilineal grandfather was Edward John Boyle (the son of Dennis Peter Boyle and Anna Louisa "Louise" Zahler). Edward was born in Washington. Dennis was born in Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Scotland to Irish emigrants, Terrence/Terrance Boyle, of County Silgo, and Mary McVey. Louisa was the daughter of German emigrants, Michael Zahler, of Trier, Rhine (now Rhineland-Palatinate), and Ann Katarina/Catherine Stenger, of Dillishausen, Lamerdingen, Bavaria.

Chris's paternal grandmother was Anona Ruth Olson/Olsen (the daughter of Eivin/Ivan Olaus Olsen, later Olsen, and of Carrie Lorena Jones/McGuire). Anona was born in California. Eivin was a Norweigan emigrant, from Stavanger, Rogaland, and was the son of Ole Olsen Blaasenberg, later Vaaland, and of Andrine Tonnesdatter Bjuland.

Chris's maternal grandfather was Ralph Trivett Cornell (the son of Julian Trivett Cornell and Emily Keillor Emmerson). Ralph was born in Rothesay, Novia Scotia, Canada. Julian was the son of Robert/Ralph Filmore Trivett Cornell, whose parents were Irish, and of Anne/Annie Eudora Maxon/Maxim. Emily was the daughter of Henry Robert Emmerson and Emily Charlotte Record. Chris's great-great-grandfather Henry was a lawyer, businessperson, politician, and philanthropist, who as a member of the Liberal Party, was Premier of New Brunswick, from October 29, 1897 to August 31, 1900, among other duties.

Chris's maternal grandmother was Marion/Marian M. MacNutt (the daughter of James Frederick MacNutt and Clarabell/Claribel Josephine Hubbell). Marion was born in Washington. James was a Canadian emigrant, from Darmley, Prince Edward Island, and was the son of George Beairsto MacNutt and Annie McGougan Rodd. Clarabell was born in Wisconsin, the daughter of Fred Keaton Hubbell and Annetta Alta Remer.

Chris's matrilineal ancestry can be traced back to his fourth great-grandmother, Elisabeth Hoffmann, who was born circa 1821, in Hesse, Germany.

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Article about Marshmallow Coast in Flagpole, 8 December 2004

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transcript:

Friday, December 10 Marshmallow Coast, Foxy Rock-It Nuçi’s Space

‘Andy Gonzales has been a steadily participating member of the Athens music community for at least the past five years; as a member of Music Tapes and Of Montreal he contributed strong melodic songcraft and instrumental versatility. It’s with Marshmallow Coast, however, that Gonzales has established himself as more than just a session player or backing band member. The Colorado native has captained this particular ship since the mid ‘90s, with local record company Kindercore releasing two Marshmallow Coast albums (the 1999 sophomore album Seniors & Juniors and 2000's Marshmallow Coasting). Gonzales’ earlier albums showed a lot of promise, with songs that flirted with psychedelic accoutrements but never lost sight of a to-the-point melody.

In November of 2003, Gonzales released Antistar, the fifth Marshmallow Coast album, on the Texas-based label Misra. His strongest work to date, Antistar is a solid yet airy collection of piano- and guitar-pop tunes that veer away from the rock trappings of earlier albums. There's a direct line connecting Marshmallow Coast and Burt Bacharach, and Gonzales is tapping it for all it’s worth.

Tonight’s show at Nuçi’s Space is part of the resource center's “Holiday Hooplah,” which is turning out to be a musical review of sorts; also performing tonight is Foxy Rock-It, a conglomerate band of local scene regulars. Mary Sigalas, Jenny Culler, Amy Bramblett, Brett Huckabee, Ballard Lesemann and Joel Byron will perform songs of their own, as well as providing accompaniment for local songwriters JoJo Glidewell, Jamie Cook, Neal Fountain and Wilma Pittard. “It’s sort of a winter stew,” says Sigalas. All proceeds from tonight’s 8 p.m. show go to the fund Nuçi’s Space uses to help promote mental health in the music community. [Chris Hassiotis]

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Ironic (2015 Remaster) Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Maverick Records Ironic (2015 Remaster) · Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill ℗ 1995, 2015 Maverick Records Vocals: Alanis Morissette Guitar: Basil Fung Unknown: Chris Bellman Mixer: Christopher Fogel Mixer: Francis Buckley String Arranger: Glen Ballard Audio Recording Engineer: Glen Ballard Guitar: Glen Ballard Producer: Glen Ballard Bass Guitar: Lance Morrison Organ: Michael Thompson Unknown: Rich Weingard Drums: Rob Ladd String Arranger: Suzie Katayama Audio Recording Engineer: Ted Blaisdell Unknown: Victor McCoy Writer: Alanis Morissette Writer: Glen Ballard Auto-generated by YouTube. via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adu-EfJbuBs

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A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Bob Ladouceur: Jim Caviezel Terry Eidson: Michael Chiklis Bev Ladouceur: Laura Dern Mickey Ryan: Clancy Brown Cam Colvin: Ser’Darius Blain T.K. Kelly: Stephan James Tayshon Lanear: Jessie T. Usher Danny Ladouceur: Matthew Daddario Chris Ryan: Alexander Ludwig Beaser: Joe Massingill Arturo: Matthew Frias Jamal: LaJessie Smith Rick Salinas: Richard Kohnke Manny Gonzales: Chase Boltin Michael Ladouceur: Gavin Casalegno Oklahoma Scout #1: Les Miles Oklahoma Scout #2: Jesse Moore T-Gram: Adella Gautier Landrin Kelly: Terence Rosemore Cam’s Mom: Deneen Tyler Laurie: Anna Margaret Stanford Recruiter: James DuMont Mike Blasquez: David DeSantos Announcer #1: John Neisler Analyst: Damon Lipari Cam’s Cousin: Mike Bleed Coach #1: J.D. Evermore Older Veteran: Michael Fletcher Hallway Doctor: Kristofer Gordon Long Beach Poly Coach: Armando Leduc Buster Matthews: Marlon Favorite Frail Veteran: Sam Malone Himself: Maurice Jones Drew Doctor: Liann Pattison Jenny Ladouceur: Teri Wyble Mailman: Tom Bubrig Local Sportscaster: Al Vicente Nina: Payton Bourgeois Young Assistant Coach: Anthony Michael Frederick Paraplegic: Christopher Berry Nurse Ballard: Sharon Landry Lamarco: Renell Gibbs Security Guard (Larry): Mike Kimmel Coach #2: Jim Klock Coach #3: Terry Dale Parks Nurse Adams: Sandra Taylor Luis: Nathaniel Brown Senior #1: Zac Waggener Senior #2: Deric Augustine Player #1: Skyler Green Player #2: Henry Frost Guy: Dane Rhodes Minister: Robert Diago DoQui Announcer #2: Judd Lormand Sophomore: Hawn Tran Hip Sports Reporter: Billy Slaughter Reporter: Ricky Wayne Basketball Kid #1: Craig Tate Basketball Kid #2: Jaren Mitchell Nurse: Donna DuPlantier Soloist #1: Ashtin Fortner Soloist #2: Lanika R. Revader Emotional Player: Jonah Calderini Announcer #3: Evan Cleaver Referee: Douglas Griffin Small Boy (uncredited): Cannon Bosarge Miss New York – Football Beauty Contest Contestant (uncredited): Amanda Balen Film Crew: Director: Thomas Carter Writer: Scott Marshall Smith Novel: Neil Hayes Producer: David Zelon Makeup Artist: Melanie Deforrest Stunt Double: Joshua Moody Digital Intermediate Colorist: Doug Delaney Movie Reviews: Reno: > Taste the defeat, and once again inspire to rise back to the glory. Inspired by the real story of a high school American-football coach and his team’s participation in the 2004 season. The fall and rise of one of the most consistent team, especially after holding a record for the longest winning streak, what happens when it was broken unexpectedly? Do the players lose the confidence, coach be clueless, parents go crazy and media annoys them, is what neatly this film narrated. It looked nice to me and I had a good time, but it was too long and not inspiring as the other sports film based on the true events. From the director of ‘Coach Carter’, another decent sports film. I am not disappointed because I was not expecting to be a masterpiece, though not bad for once viewing. All the actors were good, especially it is Jim Caviezel’s one of the major roles and he was amazing. American-football was always been an Americas sport, so I never interested in it except watching films based on them for inspiration. Especially after ‘Conccusion’, my interest on them dropped further. Whatever I said is not a reason to skip the film. As a film, it did the right thing to portray the real life achievers on the screen to boost the young sports persons. Only to me it was just an above average, but for many others, it is one of the best sports film of the year. Forget the American-football, what I liked was, achievements are good for our progress and make a career, but sometimes there’s much more than making records in the games. So it’s a good moral lesson film than a fine entertaining film. I won’t recommend it, but definitely not a waste of time. 6.5/10

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The updated but probably out of date list

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Anthony Richardson letter changes nothing for #Colts! Chris Ballard - genius at survival! Four ways Ballard must change!

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Excellent Bugle episode this week, episode 4311. I’d wondered for the last couple of days why it hadn’t come out, because they’re usually recorded around Saturday and released on Mondays. This one came out on Wednesday, and as soon as I started listening to it, of course I understood why. They presumably waited a couple of extra days to record to see if more news would unfold in the Trump situation, so they wouldn’t have to talk about something that people knew nothing about.

I guess it’s also worth taking a bit of time to plan your wording instead of responding to that incident immediately after it happens. Find a way to say both “Obviously you shouldn’t assassinate people” and “We still hate that guy though”, strike the balance in a way that won’t have the Daily Mail announcing WOKE SOCIALIST COMEDIANS SUPPORT POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED MURDER AND JACK BLACK WON’T MAKE MUSIC WITH THEM ANYMORE. I think they did a pretty good job of avoiding that, though Andy might have toed the line a little when he read out a list of victims of successful assassinations who deserved to die less than Trump did. I enjoyed that list.

Anyway, I was pleased when the episode appeared in my podcast app this morning, and even more pleased when I clicked and saw the lineup. Andy Zaltzman, Tom Ballard, Chris Addison. Tom Ballard hasn’t been on The Bulge in a while so it was nice to have him back – he was there in person, as he’s doing WIPs in London right now. Which I know because I’ve been checking the London comedy venues for stuff to see while I’m there, and learned that I could see a Tom Ballard WIP if I were there just a few days earlier. But it’s all right that I’ll miss it, since I’m seeing him in Edinburgh. I think his current WIPs are less about working out the show in general, as he did have it finished, but more about translating the Australian politics-focused material to Britain for an Edinburgh run/British tour. I’m really looking forward to seeing the show.

So I was pleased to hear from Tom Ballard on The Bugle again, but I have to say, the only small downside to this fantastic episode is that Tom Ballard didn’t actually get all that much of a look-in. And that’s not due to any weaknesses in what he had, it’s because he was on with Chris Addison, and the other guests always get pushed to the side of the edit when they’re on with Chris Addison, and rightly so.

I’ve said before that Chris Addison is an amazing Bugle guest because he doesn’t do stand-up anymore. The Bugle isn’t a fully improvised podcast; Andy and the guests turn up with prepared material on topical subjects and then present it and react to each other’s stuff. But most of the time, the comedians are writing for lots of different things at once, and put down a few bullet points worth of ideas for stuff to say on The Bugle. If one of those ideas is deemed good enough to make their stand-up show, they’ll polish it up for that. The version they take to The Bugle is their rough draft.

But not Chris Addison. He doesn’t have a stand-up show to be the final version, or other areas to spread out his ideas. He’s writing multiple finished, polished stand-up monologues for each topic they discuss. He’s throwing all his gold at The Bugle, because he doesn’t have to save any for anywhere else. Andy and other Bugle guests have stopped more than once during his episodes to admire his work/admonish him for making everyone else look bad. One time when Nish Kumar did this after one of Addison’s routines, Chris Addison explained that he just comes across this way because The Bugle is the only opportunity he’s had to write new comedy material in over ten years, and he misses it and enjoys that chance. Which made me say, how many other talents are being wasted out there because Andy Zaltzman didn’t work with them in the early 2000s and put them on the Bugle 15-20 years later? How many brilliant comedians don’t write stand-up material anymore, but are just itching for a chance to do it again, if only an old friend would invite him on a podcast?

That’s what Chris Addison does normally, and this latest episode was no exception. If anything, I think he was on stronger form than usual. He had multiple monologues across the episode that were formatted like a proper, fully-formed stand-up routine. He had tags on tags, of the sort that most comedians only develop after months of WIPs where they think of one or two more words at a time. One of his monologues had a callback to something from a previous monologue. Oh my God, Chris, just fucking book some stand-up gigs again. You can still write your sitcoms and whatever else you’re doing.

So that was great, once again. But that isn’t actually the reason I wanted to write this post. The reason I’m writing this post is to call attention to this exchange, from fairly early into the episode:

Andy Zaltzman: I’d like the Republican Party to become a serious political organization again. That’s right up there with my absolute top pipe dreams, along with eternal peace; guilt-free foie gras; a functioning rail network; compulsory lanyards for all – everywhere, all the time, so we don’t have to remember anyone’s name; a ceasefire in the culture wars – and an equitable and lasting ceasefire, not just one that bumps all the problems down the road, [cough] Versailles; competent top-level administration that safeguards the future of Test cricket for at least the next 4,000 years; and having a head like an orange. Those are my top pipe dreams. Chris Addison: [laughs] That’s a very, very good – very in-joke.

That is an excerpt from Bugle episode 4311, released on July 16 but recorded on July 15, 2024. Now I would like to draw your attention to an excerpt from a questionnaire that sketch comedy duo Zaltzman and Oliver filled out about their 2004 Edinburgh Festival show, published on BBC.co.uk on July 28, 2004:

If the Edinburgh fairy could grant your wish, what would your wish for? AZ: A head like an orange. JO: A head like an orange.

Here’s the important thing about those two quotes: I have carefully combed through the entire individual and combined back catalogues of Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver, and I am pretty confident that those are the only two references ever made to having a head like an orange. This includes within the two sources – I have quoted the entire relevant passage both times, there is no context around it to explain what the hell they’re talking about. They made this joke one time in 2004, I read that questionnaire ages ago and wondered what they were talking about, and now they’d done it again, nearly exactly 20 years later. Like, within two weeks of being exactly twenty years later. And they will not tell us what they mean.

Now, it is possible that I’m just forgetting something here. The fact that Chris Addison recognized the joke in 2024, and that it apparently originated in 2004, makes me wonder if it could have been from The Department, the radio show that Andy Zaltzman, John Oliver, and Chris Addison wrote and starred in together in 2004-2006. I’ve heard every episode of that show a few times each and I don’t remember anything about a head like an orange, but it was pretty dense writing so I could have missed it.

The other possibility is that this is something from Political Animal, the stand-up night that Zaltzman and Oliver ran in London/in Edinburgh during the festival, starting 2003. They’d host it and other comedians would come on to do exclusively political stand-up material, and I know Chris Addison was one of the people who performed there a lot in the early days (Andy, you need to re-start Political Animal in 2024, just so you can make Chris Addison do a set). Some of this got recorded for BBC Radio 4 as well, and there were a lot of weird Zaltzman and Oliver sketches that appeared in the radio show in between the guests, and someone having and/or wanting a head like an orange seems like the sort of thing that could have happened in one of those sketches. I don’t remember it happening, but it’s been a while since I’ve heard that show, so it could have been in there. Even if it never appeared on the radio show, my best guess for the origin of the Orange Mystery is that it was some inside joke from their many Political Animal live shows that didn’t get recorded.

I really want to know this now. I wanted to know before, that 2004 questionnaire is one of my favourite of the weird like Zaltzman and Oliver historical relics. But I want to know even more now that it’s been referenced for only the second ever that I can remember, twenty years later, and we have confirmation that Chris Addison knows what it means. But he’s not telling. And neither is Andy.

I mean, they didn’t tell us, there. Didn’t say they’d never tell. I do pay The Bugle approximately $28/month – by far my most expensive monthly direct debit (well over twice the amount that I pay every month for any other one thing, besides, you know, rent and bills), even though I keep telling myself I need to be careful with money and should probably cancel that one because I can’t quite afford it, but I’ve taken so much free entertainment from Andy Zaltzman that it feels like the least I owe him.

The point is that because I pay this much money, I am a premium subscriber who can access their monthly show in which Andy answers questions submitted by premium subscribers. I just recently wrote a post about how I tend to be horrifically embarrassed by the thought of interacting with comedians I like, normally I’d never do this. But I’m thinking I might, in this case. It’s a reasonable question, isn’t it? Why does Andy Zaltzman want a head like an orange? I might send that in. Interacting with famous comedians does feel slightly more justified if I've paid for the privilege.

It originated way too early to be a Trump joke, no one was talking about his orange head in 2004. I keep trying to picture a head like an orange, in the hopes that that that will jog my memory of some other time when that image has been in my head, perhaps due to some other reference that I’d heard Zaltzman and Oliver make to it but had since forgotten. But every time I think of it, all I can picture is the curious orange from This Morning with Richard Not Judy, and that’s not it. I have never heard Zaltzman and/or Oliver reference Lee and/or Herring, I can’t imagine they’d start with this. My only other vague guess is maybe a joke about the colour of Andy’s hair? But why?

@lastweeksshirttonight @nyomkitten @bimwi, any of the Tumblr Buglers recognize this? Can any of you read this post and say, "How on Earth is Meerkats forgetting the very obvious [old Bugle episode in which they clearly explain their in-joke about a head like an orange, which I am somehow the only idiot who can't remember]?" Because if none of you tell me that's the case, then I'm emailing Andy Zaltzman to ask. Well, I'm emailing Producer Chris, and I'll just have to hope he puts the question to Andy.

Although I recently heard someone else get the opportunity to put just one question to a comedian, and they went with "Fuck marry kill - Rob Beckett, Ricky Gervais, Daniel Kitson", and it did make me think that is the perfect use of an opportunity to ask a comedian one question, and that should be the only question asked by any fan who's ever in such a situation again. Sorry to betray that by asking about a head like an orange instead. Andy Zaltzman and Daniel Kitson sharing a stage/radio studio has delivered some of the most awkward, social chemistry-free energy I've ever heard, so I'm sure he'd have a fun answer to that question too. He might have to let Ricky Gervais live just so he could avoid a marriage or sexual situation in which someone made him do a Marvin Gaye impression in the middle of it.

Edit: Okay, I've been informed that apparently there is an old joke about a man wishing for a head like an orange from a genie? I'd never heard it before but a guy I knew from England told me it was quite well known (and showed me a link to an American site, so apparently they had it there). I had never heard of this. Am I the only person who'd never heard of this? It hadn't occurred to me that Andy Zaltzzman would be referencing a joke he hadn't invented.

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Listed: Michael Beach

Since 2008, singer-songwriter Michael Beach has been busy banging out guitar and piano numbers in the bummer rock traditions of greats like Neil Young, Come and The Wipers. That is, when he’s not doing things like concocting skronky kraut jams with Pete Warden (his old bandmate in Shovels) as Brain Drugs, performing in friends’ bands (such as Thigh Master and David Nance), or backing up Israeli cult hero, Charlie Megira. Last year, the California native, currently living in Melbourne, Australia, linked up with Goner Records for both a new LP, Dream Violence, and a reissue of 2017’s Gravity/Repulsion, which Dusted’s Chris Liberato called “a mini-LP about tough times which just might help you to endure some of your own.” He’s got a new solo EP coming in September on Goner/Poison City and a seven-inch with Warden as Drain Brugs following it later in 2022. Below, Beach shares a list of some recent favorites.

Flower-Corsano Duo — The Halcyon

The Halcyon by Flower-Corsano Duo

I was so enamored with The Four Aims, the last LP by Mick Flower and Chris Corsano, that I listened to this one with a bit of trepidation. But just like the last one, this record seems to defy categorization — frenetic yet trance-inducing, expansive yet seemingly static, somehow both macro and micro. Just great. This is what life sounds like to me.

Jowe Head — Swell Maps 1972-1980

A recent hardback bio of the band from founding member Jowe Head. Swell Maps have always been a favorite, but this book made me love them more. It’s a no-frills description of the history of the band — a total embrace of DIY aesthetic, and the best parts of punk. Thanks to Brian Turner for the heads up!

Harold Budd — Pavilion of Dreams

Harold Budd came up in a recent recording I did with Lloyd Swanton of The Necks. I had listened to the Budd/Eno record The Pearl but hadn’t heard this. Somehow this record manages to be shockingly beautiful without ever crossing a line into cheesiness. It’s a totally focused and committed aesthetic.

Ignatz & De Stervende Honden — Teenage Boys

My friend Jake turned me onto this record when we were south of Sydney on tour last year. A perfect soundtrack to mornings on tour with friends on a balcony overlooking the Pacific, on the legendary Ultra Eczema Label.

Exek — Advertise Here

Exek has been on a tear for the last few years here in Melbourne with a pretty flawless run of records. Their latest record, Advertise Here, hit the sweet spot for me. They’ve grown into their aesthetic with a steady excellence.

J.G. Ballard — RE/Search #8/9

A recently reissued collection of interviews, quotes, fiction and nonfiction shorts of Ballard’s, compiled by the legendary San Francisco publisher V. Vale. My two wildest friends always clamored on about how good of a zine RE/Search was, so when these reissues came out, I grabbed one and it didn’t disappoint. What a great thing to find more to love about an artist I already held in such high regard. Thanks, Lulu’s, for stocking them!

Mess Esque — Dream #12

Dream #12 by Mess Esque, Mick Turner, McKisko

I played a show with Mick Turner and Jim White (two musicians I’ve admired for a long time) last year, and Mick told me about making a record during COVID lockdowns with a musician from Brisbane he’d never met. His collaboration with Helen Franzmann as Mess Esque is astounding both on record and live. Another killer release from Joe Alexander’s label, Private Eyes. Swoon.

Charles Mingus — The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

I had an all-nighter with a friend last weekend and put this record on for the first time in a long time. It seemed to suit the late night extremely well, but it’s a masterpiece at any time of day. Goddamn. Thanks to Superior Viaduct for the reissue!

Robinson Jeffers — Such Counsels You Gave To Me

One of the last collections of poetry from one of my favorite poets, gifted to me by my wonderful partner Sarah for my birthday. I’m eternally grateful to my friend Utrillo for turning me onto him (and a million other greats). If Whitman was an East Coast American full of hope for the newly settled/stolen continent, then Jeffers is his much darker counterpart, marooned on the cliffs of Big Sur after 200 years of manifest destiny and societal decay. Timeless and foreboding, even when written in the 1930s.

Richard and Linda Thompson — I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

My bandmate Bonnie sent me this record last year, and it was definitely my most listened to of the year. So good to find a new musical obsession!

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My favourite moments from Funimation Con 2020 - day one

Finding out that Justin Briner has been smack talking all the others in the MHA OJ 2 esports tournament and constantly asking if they've been practicing

Caitlin Glass' story about being on Baccano with J Michael Tatum and both of them having to shake their hands really aggressively to make it sound like they were on a cobblestone road

Right Stuf making the preposterous claim that there's at least $3 worth of merch in their warehouse at one time (don't lie to us... we know it's 5)

The tour guide spending his time messing around on a forklift, squeaking rubber duckies and showing us the jar of the Ashes of Problem Customers, as well as yeeting a collector's set with a glass in it from the top of the warehouse to show how good their packaging is

"I'm so mad I just sizzled myself"

"If I don't make a sound when I'm blinking, am I really blinking"

A trailer for Chainsaw Man on the Shonen Jump panel that just said "chainsaw" over and over again for a minute or two

Christopher Sabat claiming that he got the part of All Might because the director gave him a piece of her hair in the corridor and told him to eat it

"She's brilliant at casting... because she cast me, pretty brilliant am I right"

Justin Briner's vigilante name being "The Big Bad Brian" (for God knows what reason)

Chris' answer to what other MHA character he'd voice if he had to choose a different one - "I'd like to be Bakugo but I don't really want to scrape blood off my vocal chords"

"I had a bad time at my own panel"

J: "I ask him what I want for lunch" C: "He's actually broadcasting from a shed in my back garden"

Justin's quirk apparently being that he can boost nearby Wi-Fi signals by 1000% but he has to make old modem dialup noises for it to work (which he demonstrated wonderfully)...

...And Chris' being that he can whistle at the right pitch to summon koalas and his breath smells like eucalyptus

Jad Saxton telling Tia Ballard, without laughing, that in this episode Nene was going to meet "a couple types of ghostypoos"

Tyson Rinehart introducing us to his home recording booth with "come along my children, let me tell thee a tale... a tale of anime"

"THIS IS- BLEHHHHH"

Ian Sinclair complaining that it's hard to record because "everyone loves to mow their lawn at 10am"

Emily Neves enjoying being the mirror version of Aoi because it let her be a Mean Girl for a bit

Apparently if Aoi found Akane on a dating app she would say "3 points" and swipe left

Aaron Dismuke describing Natsuhiko as a 'middle school wannabe chad' (accurate)

"Mitsuba's too pure for this world... it works out because he's not in it anymore... I shouldn't have said that-"

His summary of the story of the Wendigo being "Don't eat people. That's bad. And this will happen in case the 'that's bad' wasn't enough"

Tia's new nickname for Nene being "Nene Legs-Totally-Don't-Look-Like-Daikons Yashiro... periodt"

Finding out that Justin's scared of the deep sea too (I'm not alone!) and Megumi Ogata's yorishiro would be the smiles of her fans (I died of wholesomeness... her favourite characters are the Mokke too)

Megumi also thinking that all her roles (including Itona, Nagito and Naegi) would make good Mysteries

Luci Christian choosing Momo's quirk as most useful during quarantine because "I have two kids in the other room trying to be quiet, if I could pull a trampoline out of my body that would be great"

Christopher Wehkamp's favourite Aizawa line being "uuuuuuuugh"

One of FLOW's members having a greenscreen background and another saying "one of us has wandered off to the Amazon river"

Vibing to Colors before logging off for the night because it was nearly 11 by that point

Can't wait for day two to start later!!

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The truth always comes out. That's a lesson Anna Kolcheck (Bar Paly) is about to learn on NCIS: Los Angeles this season.

In the latest episode, "A Fait Accompli," her boyfriend, Special Agent Callen (Chris O'Donnell) heads to see her — to propose! — where he thinks she's part of a Rebuild U.S. group helping a town devastated by wildfires. But upon arriving at the motel, he finds out there's no one staying there.

"I don't know who's been lying to you, man, but ain't nobody been up here to help us rebuild," the motel clerk tells him.

So where has Anna been all this time? And why hasn't she told Callen the truth? We have a few theories.

The Katya factor

Remember Anna's cellmate, Katya (Eve Harlow), who turned out to be a Russian spy? Season 12 hasn't revisited it yet, so chances are Anna's wrapped up in something involving it. After all, her record was wiped completely clean so interested parties, including AUSA Allan Williams (Alimi Ballard), could keep an eye on her in hopes that "the subject," Katya, would make contact with her.

As for why she hasn't told Callen, it could be compartmentalized. Maybe he doesn't have the clearance for it. Maybe she's trying to protect him. What we do know is executive producer Frank Military called that "a huge complication" in April 2020 and teased, "Anna and Callen will be in jeopardy next year."

It seems likely this is what's going to happen next.

Another case

But given her government work in the past, we can't rule out her working on another case for NCIS or another agency, one she's not allowed to divulge to Callen. Could it even be tied to the one involving the Russians captured with the plane in the premiere when one tried to deflect? Daniela Ruah did tell TV Insider that would be continued.

Something from Anna or Callen's past

Let's be realistic: There is a very long list of past enemies for both who could come up again. Maybe she's wrapped up in something involving one and trying to protect her boyfriend.

Hetty's mission

We know very little about what Hetty (Linda Hunt) is up to, other than she appears to be in the middle of a war zone any time she videos in. Did she pull Anna in to aid her?

Whatever Anna's up to, we have to wonder: Will Callen still propose this season?

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Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing (Parts 1 and 2) (1937) featuring Gene Krupa on Drums Louis Prima from: "Sing, Sing, Sing" (10'' 78rpm | Sides A and B)

Swing | Big Band | Jazz

JukehostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Benny Goodman: Bandleader / Clarinet

Trumpets: Harry James Ziggy Elman Chris Griffin Trombones: Red Ballard Murray McEachern Tenor Saxophones: Art Rollini Vido Musso Alto Saxophones: Hymie Schertzer George Koenig Piano: Jess Stacy Guitar: Allan Reuss Bass: Harry Goodman Drums: Gene Krupa

Arranged by Jimmy Mundy

Recorded: in Hollywood, California USA on July 6, 1937