#Joey Alexander

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Joey Alexander "I can't make you love me" LIVE at Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris, France) 2024

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Joey Alexander - Angel Eyes

Chris' Jazz Cafe

Joey Alexander, piano/mellotron Kris Funn, bass Jonathan Barber, drums

A beautiful performance. Joey Alexander is very musically imaginative.

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Joey Alexander “Continuance”

Mack Avenue Records, 2023 Na swoim siódmym autorskim albumie, pianista Joey Alexander prezentuje się w towarzystwie swojego stałego, koncertowego tria. Gościem specjalnym sesji nagraniowej był nominowany do Grammy trębacz, Theo Croker. OUR REVIEW IS AVAIABLE IN ENGLISH Joey Alexander, podobnie do poprzedniego albumu, sięga przede wszystkim po własne kompozycje – jest ich w programie płyty…

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Joey Alexander and Joe Barna and the Sketches of Influence at Proctors in Schenectady July 2023

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New vampire chronicle!

The cast of NY by Night are getting together while waiting to film Season 3 and are filming a new vampire story with Alexander Ward as the storyteller! There will be bonus content on their Patreon, called Project Ghostlight, to reward the loyal fans who have waited so long. Ghostlight is named after the light kept on in theatres to keep the ghosts company when no-one else is there.

Joey Rassool, Aabria Iyengar, Mayanna Berrin, Xander Jeanneret, Gina DeVivo and Luis Carazo are all slated to play in this new series!

Project Ghostlight on Instagram

Project Ghostlight on Patreon

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4th Annual Academy Museum Gala 📸

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Reds @ Euro 2024 😊

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You beautiful man🤧❤️

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Things I Will be Obnoxious About: Project Ghostlight

Hi all!  Remember a few years ago (or maybe you don’t; maybe you’re new or maybe you have retrograde amnesia) when I spent a healthy while banging on about a Vampire: The Masquerade live-play series called ‘New York by Night’?

Yeah, I still love that show, but unfortunately for me and for the team that made it, the real world very much happened, and they weren’t able to continue the series as they had planned.  That show is now on a more-or-less indefinite hiatus.  From what I’ve gathered, the will is very much there in both the cast and crew to return to do season 3 (and fingers crossed, maybe more!), but not only are schedules hard to wrangle for four busy players, but the show was initially budgeted to have the first three seasons filmed over the course of a month, something which didn’t happen.  So now spinning it up would necessarily require an increase in funding first just to get it off the ground again.  So, yes, complications.  Unfortunate, unavoidable complications.

Oh, and by the way, how did I know about that tidbit about funding?

I learned it from the very first large drop from ‘Project Ghostlight’.  This is a now-forming new Vampire chronicle (a long-form game for folks who aren’t as up on the terminology specific to this series of TTRPGs) that formed when the cast of season 1 (my beloved) desperately wanted to keep playing together, but didn’t have a venue or the time to do so without making it a more formal thing than a get-together at someone’s house once a month.  Named after the single light always left burning in a theatre when all other lights are out and the building is empty between performances, Ghostlight is four people who ended up being close friends just wanting to keep hanging out and making spooky things together.  And they are bringing in friends!

We don’t know about setting, characters, or much of anything yet, as everything is still early days, but the cast and crew are currently as follows:

Alexander Ward – Storyteller (that’s GM to those folks in the D&D world)

Joey Rassool – Director and Producer (and hopefully also sometimes player??  I thought he was one of the big breakouts of season 1 NYbN, and was hugely impressed with his playstyle)

Aabria Iyengar - Player

Mayanna Berrin – Player

Xander Jeanneret – Player

Gina DeVivo – Player

Luis Carazo – Player

For those in the TTRPG space, I don’t need to tell you that cast is stacked, and it’s stacked with veterans of both NYbN and its predecessor LA by Night.  These are the announced players so far, and it’s not clear (maybe not even to them) if they’ll bring in guests or keep to this main cast, but no matter what this is the sort of cast and crew that made me sit up and notice.  This is a cast and crew made of some of my favorite people in the TTRPG scene, and clearly people selected for their ability to really lean into the terrible choices and darker tone of VtM. 

And even before they’ve fully spooled their new chronicle up, we’re getting treats over on their Patreon.  The first, which I have already watched through several times and makes me so very happy, is essentially a postmortem of season 1 (and a little 2) of New York by Night by all four players, moderated by season 2 player (and Ghostlight player) Xander Jeanneret.  They clearly love the show and their characters, and clearly want to get back to it, but there also seems to be a not-unwarranted concern that season 3 simply might never happen. 

So this panel gives us a LOT of information about their characters, motivations, plans, and behind the scenes peeks at how the players were going about the game in season 1.  There are spoilers for a lot of stuff I had sort of suspected, and plenty of stuff I hadn’t, which was thrilling.  I was definitely wrong about certain character motivations!  What fun!  It’s an hour and a half long, and such a lovely look at how these four met, became friends, made a lightning-in-a-bottle season of a TTRPG show, and never lost the itch to play again.  It’s an immensely satisfying and somewhat bittersweet revisit of one of my favorite TTRPG projects.  It’s so wonderful to see all four of them together again, and how well Xander meshes with the group. 

So, yes, this is a warning that I’m going to very likely be obnoxious about this show once it goes up. This is also encouragement for those of you who enjoyed NYbN, Vampire: the Masquerade, spooks, goth shit, or even just TTRPGs and you’re interested in a new system, to throw a little bit of love toward the Patreon, and if you can’t do that, to stay tuned for Ghostlight and get hyped with me.

And maybe, if you haven’t, to check out New York by Night in the meantime. It may be on indefinite hiaitus, but it’s really fun. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I fully intend to rewatch season 1 of New York by Night with the information I now have about all the characters.  I’m excited to see if I catch nuances I missed the first time through.

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72/366 days of joey potter 4x10- self reliance

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They are so cute full header and pfp

alexander guys why is he joey graceffa dog…

okay all done sorry jsutbneeded to get a first post out so I didn’t stress abt making a cool one 😭🙏🏻 click for better quality

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261: Joey Alexander

The Third Story Podcast

I really enjoyed this podcast, Leo Sidren asks really interesting questions.

The podcast was recorded just in advance of the release of Joey Alexander's new album--his seventh!--Continuance. Four of the songs feature Theo Croker playing trumpet. Alexander rather matter-of-factly remarks that Croker "posesses the mystic," which seems very apt. Two of the songs on the album are covers, the Methodist hymn, "Great Is Thy Faithfulness," and "I Can't Make You Love Me" written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin.

Joey Alexander is twenty now and you can see he shaves whiskers. Something I was very curious about was what rendition of "I Can't Make You Love Me" he heard. I wondered if he heard Bonnie Raitt's 1991 version with Bruce Hornsby's beautiful piano?

It turns out it was Bonnie Raitt he heard. And he said that when he first heard it he new one day he wanted to do the song too. He also talked about listening to singers more of late. Luther Vandross "A House Is Not a Home" was one song he mentioned and Burt Bacharach's songbook.

I was delighted to hear Joey Alexander talk. He's brilliant and has so many ideas. I am happy he's in the world now and hope he lives long and prospers.

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I wrote something about #NewYorkByNight and HIV/AIDS memory! I’d be honored if you read and shared it. The short take away is this: no media produced under the period of the AIDS crisis (which is still ongoing for many) can remove itself from the politics and grammar of the crisis. For vampire media, this is especially true. See what I make of that for Vampire: The Masquerade and NYBN here:

This essay is part of a larger collection of essays on actual play, which I encourage you to read here:

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The cast of season 1 of NY by Night (the Mini Vanarchs) sit down with Xander Jeanneret to discuss... memories and plans so far unfulfilled. 😈

This is just a teaser. More will be found on their Patreon on Jan. 10.

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Joey the bodyguard? 💪🏽

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