#Chris Morton

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FILE UNDER: RECORD ADS, UK PUNK, 70s PUNK, POSTER DESIGN, POSTER ART, STIFF RECORDS, NEW ROSE, ETC...

PIC(S) INFO: Resolution at 2156×2880 -- Spotlight on poster art for THE DAMNED's first 7 inch on Stiff Records, "New Rose" (c/w "Help," a cover by THE BEATLES, of all bands), released in the UK on October 22, 1976. Poster design by Chris Morton.

MINI-OVERVIEW: ""New Rose" was released on 22 October 1976 on the independent Stiff Records and was Stiff’s first hit, so successful that they had to partner a major label to distribute it. The job of producing the sleeve went to Chris Morton who was working part time as Art Director in Stiff's art department.

CHRIS MORTON: ”I left Art School, I was always influenced be the Situationists, I always loved music and tried to got freelance straight away. I took some designs to London and met United Artists and Andrew Lauder who liked what I was doing, I also had just had something published in "ZigZag" magazine by Pete Frame, I was working on something for Andrew and the George Hatcher Band and they were playing at the Roundhouse supporting the Doctor Feelgood and there I met Jake Riviera, who I had met briefly through Andrew Lauder where he used space in Andrews office, he said he was setting up a record label like the old independent ones in America where you sold records out of tieback of a truck,and he asked me to do some designs, which he liked, and that's how I got started."

-- IDENTITY OF PUNK, "The Damned, "New Rose" Buy 6 design by Chris Morton, published May, c. 2014

Sources: www.freedomhasnobounds.com/tag/east-side-club, Christie's, & https://identityofpunk.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/the-damned-new-rose-buy-6-design-by-chris-morton/

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Friday Funnies!

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mr. morton appreciation post 💖

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The Bear, Season One (2022)

Directed by Christopher Storer & Joanna Calo

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In 1903, the mutant Eugene Victor Tooms killed his first known set of five people, eating their livers, and then went into hibernation for the next thirty years. ("Squeeze", X-Files, TV)

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The Zionist Organization of America thanks and commends New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu for issuing an executive order this week that makes his state the 37th U.S. state to officially combat the anti-Jewish and anti-Israel BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) Movement.

Sununu’s executive order notes:

“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no executive branch agency may adopt any investment policy that would have the effect of requiring or inducing any person to boycott Israel.

“Executive branch entities will be restricted from investing in companies found to be engaged in a boycott of Israel.

“No executive branch agency shall contract with a company that has been determined to be boycotting Israel.” And:

“Any executive branch agency that enters a contract shall make the contracting party aware that the agency will not tolerate any boycotting of Israel.”

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said in a statement: “We are grateful that Gov. Sununu took this important action. We encourage America’s remaining governors to follow suit. However: While executive orders are very helpful as long as they remain in existence, a subsequent governor can vacate them. This is why it is vitally important that America’s state legislatures also must introduce and pass legislation that prohibits anti-Israel boycotts, divestments and sanctions. BDS is merely a thinly veiled form of Jew-hatred.”

Klein added: “We urge all Americans who are supportive of Israel and who oppose Jew-hatred to reach out to their governors and state lawmakers to encourage them to issue anti-BDS executive orders and to introduce and pass anti-BDS laws.”

Gov. Sununu noted in a tweet that “NH & Israel have experienced decades of successful exchange of commerce, culture, technology, & tourism. NH will not tolerate anti-semitism, & we are taking significant steps at the state level to prohibit discriminatory boycotts of Israel in state procurement and investments.”

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The Bear (Season 2)

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2023

The Bear (Season 2, 2023, USA)

Creator: Christopher Storer

Directors: Christopher Storer, Joanna Calo & Ramy Youssef

Mini-review:

Wow, The Bear has done it again. This was one sublime season of television. Every single thing about it is spectacular, from the directing and the writing to the acting and the editing. This show has managed to craft its own visual and oral language, and it feels pretty much revolutionary. I think every single episode left me at least a bit breathless, and even very breathless at some points. We're only two seasons in, but it's obvious that this is already one of the best shows all time, so do yourself a favor and watch it, if you haven't already.

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Christian Carey's year in review

2023 was pretty much an awful year for our world —climate disaster moves ever more quickly, violence abounds and US politics are a disaster. I would not write a thank you card to the universe for many of my own experiences during the year either. However, I am grateful for the extraordinary music I participated in, heard and wrote about: it was a great solace. A few highlights are below:

I composed three new pieces: Solemn Tollings, for microtonal trumpet and trombone, Just Like You for singing violist, and Cracking Linear Elamite for solo guitar. The latter premiered in December at Loft 393 in Tribeca, played by Dan Lippel.

In addition to editing Sequenza 21 and contributing to Dusted, I authored several reviews and a research article for the British journal Tempo. The article was on my research in narratology as a feature of Elliott Carter’s music, which I have been exploring and publishing on since writing my Ph.D. dissertation. It was great for this particular research, of character-types and interactions in the Fifth String Quartet, to finally see the light of day.

After a half-century of banged up and often unreliable used pianos, my wife Kay got me a new Baldwin grand piano for my 50th birthday. Since it has arrived, I have practically lived in it.

Post-pandemic and post-cancer, I began to dip my toe into attending live events. I went to the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, which was a mixed bag. As compensation, the Boston Symphony performances that weekend were excellent. I attended a great concert at the New York Philharmonic in November and another in December. For many years, Kay and I have made a holiday tradition of seeing the Tallis Scholars at St. Mary the Virgin Church in midtown. It was wonderful to return there. The Tallis Scholars’ performance was splendid, featuring a mass by Clemens non Papa.

After the Tallis concert, Kay was in Nashville, where her parents live, for two weeks, spending time with her brother Tom and sister-in-law Aymara, who were visiting from Qatar (Tom teaches at the Carnegie Mellon University campus there and Aymara is a yoga instructor), and celebrating Christmas with her parents. Here in New Jersey, it was just me and the felines, who were (mostly) well-behaved. To keep the holiday blues at bay, I went all out, decorating a natural tree and the house. I played every carol in the hymnal, and enjoyed old holiday standbys: Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, and Mel Torme’s Christmas albums.

There was much excellent recorded music released this year, and I will not attempt to document it all. Here are twelve records, in no particular order, that I expect will stay with me and be played often in coming years.

2023 Favorite Recordings

Yo La Tengo —  This Stupid World (Matador)

Hilary Hahn —  Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for Violin Solo, op. 27 (DG)

Morton Feldman —  Violin and String Quartet (Another Timbre)

Natural Information Society —  Since Time is Gravity (Eremite)

Leah Bertucci —  Of Shadow and Substance (Self— released)

Juliet Fraser —  What of Words and What of Song (Neos)

Laura Strickling and Daniel Schlosberg —  40@40 (Bright Shiny Things)

Emily Hindricks, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, and Cristian Macelaru perform Liza Lim —  Annunciation Triptych (Kairos)

Bozzini Quartet and Konus Quartett play Jürg Frey​ —  Continuit​é, fragilit​é​, r​é​sonance (elsewhere)

Matana Roberts —  Coin Coin Chapter Five (Constellation)

Chris Forsyth — Solar Motel (self— released)

John Luther Adams —  Darkness and Scattered Light (Cold Blue)

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THE GOOD WIFE 1x14 HI

CHRIS NOTH as PETER FLORRICK and JOE MORTON as DANIEL GOLDEN

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⚾️ Pitcher Portraits ⚾️

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Fancast for a Broadway version of The First Wives Club

Brenda Cushman. Idina Menzel.

Elise Eliot. Annaleigh Ashford.

Annie Paradis. Sutton Foster

Gunilla Garson Goldberg. Bonnie Langford.

Shelly Stewart. Emily Osment.

Morton Cushman. Adam Sandler.

Aaron Paradis. Patrick Wilson.

Leslie Rosen. Amanda Seyfried.

Bill Atchison. Cheyenne Jackson.

Phoebe LaVelle. Sophia Anne Caruso.

Catherine MacDuggan. Diane Keaton.

Cynthia Swann. Stephanie J Block

Chris Paradis. Olivia Holt.

Carmine Morelli. Mandy Patinkin.

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the morning after (first night together vs. wedding night)

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October 3, 1971: Diron Talbert and Chris Hanburger sack Craig Morton for a 7-yard loss in the first quarter of the NFL week 3 game between the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. The Redskins beat the Cowboys 20-16. Washington's points were scored on a first quarter, 57-yard run by Charlie Harraway, a 2nd quarter, 50-yard touchdown pass from Billy Kilmer to Roy Jefferson and 2 second half field goals by kicker Curt Knight.

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This MP is calling for support for students that reach 18

This MP is calling for support for students that reach 18

Over the last year one of our local MPs has raised a similar question on several occasions. She is clearly keen to support students that are relying on railway provision and that they become 18 during their educational year. As one of the Ministers explained back in February this year in a reference to the first of the railway questions “In 2019 we introduced the 16-17 Saver effectively extending…