#Lynn Amos

[krispyweiss]

Amythyst Kiah at Natalie’s Grandview, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 23, 2024

Amythyst Kiah knows no boundaries of genre.

That’s how the singer/songwriter managed to work Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” into her Nov. 23 solo show at Natalie’s Grandview and turn it into a highlight of the 16-song, 90-minute performance.

“It’s funny how a post-punk song can double as a country song,” she said when she finished the number.

It was one of a few covers - including a haunting version of “In the Pines,” the traditional “Darling Cory” and Tori Amos’ “Sugar,” which Kiah credited with inspiring her to find a unique voice - the musician worked in to her listening-room performance on Charlie’s Stage while an ’80s tribute act pounded out Van Halen and Prince covers behind a soundproofed wall in Natalie’s’ larger concert hall.

Accompanying herself on acoustic guitar and banjo, introducing and explaining the songs’ origins and looking like the world’s-coolest bespectacled professor in checkered Vans, black pants, a muted-yellow jacket and top and a bolo tie, Kiah focused heavily on original songs from 2021’s Wary + Strange and the just-released Still + Bright - cuts such as “Play God and Destroy the World,” a co-write with Sadler Vaden, and “I Will Not Go Down,” which deal with the rampant hypocrisy of her youthful surroundings in a conservative Christian community that seemed to forget the importance of kindness. These songs shone in this sparse presentation, their nuances sparkling in a way that is muted under the LPs’ production and arrangements.

Possessing a deep and expressive singing voice, Kiah sung the “Hangover Blues” to fingerpicked guitar and “Cory” found her plucking the melody on the banjo. She bared her long-tortured, now-recovered soul on “Wild Turkey,” which recounts her mother’s suicide. And Kiah played the introspective folk singer on the lovesick melancholy of “Dead Stars.”

We were two stars that just burned out, she sung with a combination of resignation and acceptance.

Kiah closed the evening by inviting the mostly white audience to sing along on “Black Myself,” which she wrote and originally recorded for Songs of Our Native Daughters, a joint with Rhiannon Giddens, Allison Russell and Layla McCalla. After years of watching audiences not like herself be moved by the song, Kiah came to realize it’s no different than the impact “Coal Miner’s Daughter” has on her via shared humanity rather than shared experience.

She played the song.

She moved the audience.

And then, she was gone.

Grade card: Amythyst Kiah at Natalie’s Grandview - 11/23/24 - B+

11/24/24

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

For all my good omens fans :)

[biceratops7]

Y’ALL I JUST FOUND SOMETHING WILD:

I figured this out by pure accident because musically, I’m not a big fan of Tori Amos’s singing style (I’m sorry 🙁, besides the point though!), so I pulled up the original instead to put on my playlist.

And GUYS. I don’t think “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” is about them at the Ritz together in the 21st century, or at least not at first…

It’s about this.

“A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” originally came out in 1940 by Vera Lynn, one year before Crowley pulled the most romantic ass stunt Aziraphale had ever seen and, let’s be honest, the vibes uh… changed. I mean there was a reason the rumor of them being an item spread in hell around this time.

And that’s not all, the song was actually meant to be part of a musical, on the West End. The place where they made a fond memory together for the first time in nearly a hundred years, took care of each other, trusted each other. Hell, where Crowley and Aziraphale, both friends of the theatre in different ways, probably heard this song about causing the impossible and falling in love just a year prior for the first time.

Yah so I’ve FULLY drank my own koolaide and completely believe that they already associated this song with each other. Not only saw it as a fond reminder of that night in 1941, but the quiet, gentle reality they might have together someday. But they wouldn’t DARE say that out loud, wouldn’t be ridiculous enough to let themselves hope for it.

I think this was Aziraphale breaking the unspoken rules and acknowledging this thing they share. Him saying “I know, I see you. I hope so too.”

[sonshinegreene]

Creating your own audio book (Cover Reveal for Urban Punk audio book)

I’ve been working on Urban Punk recently, to publish it and release the audio book at the same time. I’ll admit, audio is still the most difficult part. Even if you believe you have a good audio setup, it’s probably not good enough. At least I know in my case, using the budget setup that I have, I’m not going to get perfect audio. I don’t have a professional microphone, at least not for…

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Out December 2023 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

❤️ Caught in a Bad Fauxmance by Elle Gonzalez Rose 🧡 Heartstopper #5 by Alice Oseman 💛 This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede 💚 All The Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows 💙 Vampires of Eden: Book One by Karla Nikole 💜 Not My Type by Joe Satoria ❤️ Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck 🧡 Eternal Embrace by Luna Lawson 💛 A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford 💙 Tomb of Heart and Shadow by Cara N. Delaney 💜 Through the Embers Volume 2 by Adriana Sargent 🌈 Lucero by Maya Motayne

❤️ The Poison Paradox by Hadley Field & Felix Green 🧡 Second Chances in New Port Stephen: A Novel by TJ Alexander 💛 Matrimonial Merriment by Nicky James 💚 Under the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Ramsden 💙 Every Beat of Her Heart by KC Richardson 💜 The Memories of Marlie Rose by Morgan Lee Miller ❤️ Playing with Matches by Georgia Beers 🧡 Always Only You by Chloe Liese 💛 Fire in the Sky by Radclyffe and Julie Cannon 💙 Nuclear Sunrise by Jo Carthage 💜 The Naked Dancer by Emme C. Taylor 🌈 Resurrections by Ada Hoffmann

❤️ Destiny’s Women by Morgan Elliott 🧡 Framed by Kate Merrill 💛 The Spoil of Beasts by Gregory Ashe 💚 Catered All the Way by Annabeth Albert 💙 A Cynic’s Christmas Conundrum by L.M. Bennett 💜 Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn ❤️ One Swipe Away by Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue 🧡 The Gentlemen’s Club by A.V. Shener 💛 A Death at the Dionysus Club by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold 💙 Secrets of the Soul by Holly Oliver 💜 Like They Do in the Movies by Nan Campbell 🌈 Limelight by Gun Brooke

❤️ Heart First by S.B. Barnes 🧡 Grave Consequences by Sandra Barret 💛 Haunted by Myth by Barbara Ann Wright 💚 Invisible by Anna Larner 💙 The Murders at Sugar Mill Farm by Ronica Black 💜 Coasting and Crashing by Ana Hartnett ❤️ Fairest by K.S. Trenten 🧡 A City of Abundant Opportunity by Howard Leonard 💛 The Dark Side of MIdnight by Erin Wade 💙 Mending Bones by Merlina Garance 💜 Transform by Connal Braginsky & Sean Ian O’Meidhir 🌈 The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill

❤️ TruLove by Nicole Pyland 🧡 Structural Support by Sloan Spencer 💛 Whiskey War by Stacy Lynn Miller 💚 Overkill by Lou Wilham 💙 Heart of Outcasts by Nicole Silver 💜 In the Shadow of Victory by J. E. Leak ❤️ Just Like Her by Fiona Zedde 🧡 Gingerbread: Claus For Christmas by Miski Harris 💛 Lies are Forever by C. Jean Downer 💙 The Boys in the Club by M.T. Pope 💜 Lasting Light (Metal & Magic) by Michelle Frost 🌈 Tell No Tales by Edie Montreux

❤️ Radio Silence by Alice Oseman 🧡 Even Though We're Adults Vol. 7 by Takako Shimura 💛 The Accidental Bite by Michelle St. Wolf 💚 Mated to the Demons by Taylor Schafer 💙 Someday Away by Sara Elisabeth 💜 Gatherdawn Luminia Duet Volume 1 by Lee Colgin ❤️ Curse of Dawn by Richard Amos 🧡 Healing the Twin by Nora Phoenix 💛 Ride Me by KD Ellis 💙 How to Bang a Vampire by Joe Satoria 💜 Cthulhu for Christmas by Meghan Maslow 🌈 Prestige by Toni Reeb

❤️ Don't Look Down by Jessica Ann 🧡 Winter and the Wolves by Chris Storm and Kinkaid Knight 💛 Hat Trick by Ajay Daniel 💚 Starborn Husbands: Return to the Pleiades by S. Legend 💙 Dead Serious Case #4 Professor Prometheus Plume by Vawn Cassidy 💜 Practice for Toby by Amy Bellows ❤️ The Siren's Song by Crista Crown 🧡 Hers to Hunt K.J. Devoir

[j3z463l]

Saw 3 (2006)

te amo lynn denlon tengo libre los martes por si te queres casar

[waywardvictorianconfessions]

She will not return with anything new because she has nothing left to beg, borrow or steal. She never really identified with any of the musical styles or aesthetics she’s adopted- the enchant sound was leftover classical inspo form her music school, Tori Amos/fiona Apple, and her fairy aesthetic was taken from her mothers costumes. The goth/punk/victorian aesthetic from Opheliac was stolen from Ophelia Rising and propped up by Vecona. Her industrial sound in that era was inspired by her boyfriends, Brendon Smalls and Billy Corgan. The traumatized, angry woman thing was ripped from Courtney Love, down to the styling and content of TAFWVG, taken straight from Courtney Loves book. FLAG and the musical obsession? Taken straight from Darren Lynn Bousman. Compare the FLAG hair and costume to the Painted Doll styling. Of course all she had left was alibaba drop shipped merch and AI art. She doesn’t have anything that’s hers. She can’t make anything new.

[swordbisexual]

Time for 5 songs/4 outfits, Vissenta edition! I think I was first tagged by @the-real-housewives-of-waterdeep a while back, and after seeing @misery-lake post her Miz ones yesterday I told myself I was gonna do the thing.

Durge Vissenta

[rosetea-artist]

So I've listened to multiple versions of "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" and each one has a very different vibe. I'm gonna list them down here, just because this has been in my head for a while:

Vera Lynn (the original 40s version): telling the girlfriends about the guy you met and swearing he's "the one"

Glenn Miller: two lovers reunite after the war

Nat King Cole: dreamy honeymoon

Frank Sinatra: bittersweet flashback after it didn't work out and you had to go separate ways

Bobby Darin/Michael Bublé: teenage love, going on a carnival date

Tori Amos (from Good Omens): wedding

I enjoy all of these but honestly my favorite ones are Miller, Sinatra, and Amos

Just wanted to put this here. It's a good song (I'm so lonely tho man)

[razorsadness]

At Least When You Cry Now, He Can't Even Hear You (Sad Girl Cento)

Is that why they call me a sullen girl—sullen girl? Boy I think you're confused, I'm not Persephone. I don't want to look, but I'm already hooked on jealousy. Can't forget the things you never said—and you've decided to love me for eternity. Sometimes I feel deceived, and I weep at your feet. My ever present suicide, my grief, my grief, my grief, my grief. My grief, I've wished on the lidded blue flames under your brow. Birds that scream for territory can learn to sing: dear God. Life ain't kind—I can feel it in my bones. Even when I was seventeen, prettiest mess you've ever seen, I'd a terrible broken heart. I wake up in the night, my stupid fuck, my blushing bride, I saw hips, I saw thighs wrapped around your feet, wrapped around like good little roses. You've done nothing so far but destroy my life. Breathless and torn, all drunk on my love, I want your warm but it will only make me colder when it's over. Foam can be dangerous with tape across my mouth. And it rains and rains—but it's calm under the waves, in the blue of my oblivion.

—Jessie Lynn McMains, from forget the fuck away from me (spring 2019)

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Source text: Fiona Apple - "Sullen Girl," "Love Ridden." Tori Amos - "Pandora's Aquarium," "Blood Roses." Liz Phair - "Jealousy," "Fuck and Run." Ani DiFranco - "Light of Some Kind," "Dilate." Mazzy Star - "Roseblood," "Into Dust." Hole - "Reasons to Be Beautiful," "She Walks On Me." Sinead O'Connor - "Tiny Grief Song," "You Cause as Much Sorrow." Beth Orton - "She Cries Your Name." PJ Harvey - "Angelene," "Long Snake Moan."

[palmiz]

Quando ti piace vincere facile e finisce "il buon senso".

Qualcuno si ribella.

Non è discriminare sia chiaro, argomento controverso e difficile, sempre sul filo di cosa sia lecito, adeguato, dovuto.

Solo uno dei tanti casi:

"Si rifiuta di giocare contro l’avversaria transgender: “Non giocherò mai contro un uomo”

Sabato la giocatrice di freccette inglese Deta Hedman ha preso posizione a favore delle donne ritirandosi dai quarti di finale del Denmark Open.

La 64enne ex numero 1 ha detto a un giornale tedesco che "non avrebbe giocato contro un uomo in una gara femminile".

Si è rifiutata di competere contro la giocatrice trans Noa-Lynn van Leuven, portando la partita alla sconfitta.

Hedman è stata una forte sostenitrice della necessità di mantenere gli sport femminili per le donne, evidenziando il vantaggio significativo che i maschi biologici hanno quando competono come donne.

In una lettera scritta in precedenza all'organizzazione Save Women's Sports ha affermato:

“Questo argomento causa molta angoscia nello sport che amo. Le persone possono essere chi vogliono nella vita, ma non credo che gli uomini nati biologicamente dovrebbero competere nello sport femminile.

[filmnoiress]

🔊 John Egan and Buck Cleven (individually and as a couple)

WELL i literally just realized the ask meme only asks for one song for each person and i've been answering with five this whole time...but i've thought too much about this whole list of an answer so

john egan:

daredevil - fiona apple if i were to make propaganda for this as a john/clegan song i would just have to print out the whole song. listen to it. you know.

i'm your man - leonard cohen

i wanna be yours - arctic monkeys

gloomy sunday - artie shaw feat. pauline byrne for his grieving widow era <3

and half life

gale cleven

bombshell blonde because i think i'm hilarious and he's a literal LITERAL bombshell blonde. and it wouldn't be a playlist by me if i didn't include some ridiculous pop songs

i won't back down - johnny cash he seems like a johnny cash kind of guy

farewell daddy blues - margot bingham because this is a gale cleven electra complex daddy issues TRUTHER *AND* boardwalk empire stan blog

babooshka - kate bush yes this song has nothing to do with buck but babooshka era buck <3

and i can't think of a fifth one

clegan:

we'll meet again - vera lynn and

it's been a long, long time by kitty kallen both of these for their reunion era and because the concept of wartime songs and clegan makes me weak

tori amos' cover of you belong to me because it has a nice close-enough vintage sound but the lyrics are kind of cutely possessive and territorial (bucky coded. fly the ocean in a silver plane see the jungle when it's wet with rain just remember til you're home again you belong to me)

i see you - phoebe bridgers. mr john "i don't feel anything" egan feels something when i see you (buck) now!!!! if you're a work of art i'm standing too close i can see the brushstrokes! i hate your mom (dad)

savior complex - phoebe bridgers yes i'm being one of those people who puts multiple phoebe bridgers songs on a playlist BUT bucky's a vampireeeeeeee he wants blood and you promised and gale's a bad liar with a savior complex! all the skeletons you hide show me yours and i'll show you mine!!!!

[queen-susans-revenge]

Persephone in Autumn

late Sept / Josh Ritter "Getting Ready to Get Down"

early Oct / Parker Millsap "Hades Pleads"

late Oct / Cults "Abducted"

early Nov / Saint Motel "Cold Cold Man"

late Nov / Sia "Hostage"

early Dec / Julian Moon "Pomegranate Seeds"

Winter Solstice: Dua Lipa "Be the One"

early Jan / Lucius "Turn It Around"

late Jan / Neko Case "Hold On, Hold On"

early Feb / Aimee Mann "This Is How It Goes"

late Feb/early Mar Alela Diane "White As Diamonds"

Spring Equinox: Tori Amos "Mother" Persephone in Spring

early April /Josh Ritter "To the Dogs or Whoever"

late April / Tom Petty "Mary Jane's Last Dance"

early May / Thomas Dolby "I Love You Goodbye"

late May / Freakwater, "Good for Nothing"

early June / Amanda Palmer, "Want It Back"

late June / Nanci Griffith, "Late Night Grande Hotel"

Summer Solstice: R.E.M. "Half a World Away"

early July / Bob Dylan "Simple Twist of Fate"

late July / Cowboy Junkies "To Live Is to Fly"

early August / Great Lake Swimmers "Palmistry"

late August / Shelby Lynne, Allison Moorer, "Not Dark Yet"

Fall Equinox: Tall Heights "Back to Autumn"

it's about cycles. It's about love, it's about loss, it's about endless leavetakings and homecomings. It's about addiction and abuse. It's about manic/depressive swings and seasonal affective disorder and also the joy of leaves changing color and crocuses blooming in the frost. It's about Her. Persephone in Autumn: "Songs for an Earth-daughter, abducted, not entirely unwillingly: but increasingly irritable in captivity" Persephone in Spring: "Songs for an Earth-daughter, irrepressible and freed, but already homesick"

[finethingswellworn]

I'm almost sure somebody's made a post like this before, so forgive me, but it's literally been all I can think about for days now and I have to tell someone so...

I was listening to A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square on loop the other day, first the Tori Amos version, then Vera Lynn's and I noticed, for the first time, that the Vera Lynn rendition has several verses which are missing in the one used in GO. And while it's probably just a stylistic choice to leave them out, I can't help thinking that the original lyrics of the last verse in particular would be so, so, so good at the end of S3.

Picture this: It's the final scene of S3. We see Crowley and Aziraphale walking slowly in their garden. Everything's pretty and green and washed in golden sunlight.

And then we see their cottage. There's a little gate, perhaps, and a garden path lined with plants up to the door. they enter the gate, bickering over something small and unimportant, the flowers for their garden, maybe. IDK. It doesn't matter. They can be holding hands during this, if you like. And, as the door closes behind them for the last time, we hear their song drowning out their little squabble with these lyrics:

When dawn came steaming up all gold and blue,

To interrupt our rendezvous,

I still remember how you smiled and said,

Is that a dream or was it true.

Our homeward step was just as light

As the tap dancing feet of Astaire,

And like an echo far away,

A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.

And there's a Nightingale singing in the background for good measure, of course.

[chocolatehideoutpirate]

I gotta look up to the sky and tell the lord I'm leaning on you and I just make edits for each child each person in family and friends that passed away and went to heaven to be angels watching over the world Jesus I'm leaning on you rest in peace to those in this second edit Gracie Perry Watson, Inez Clarke Briggs, Annie Kerr Aiken, Annie Oakley, Alice Liddell, Larisa Ratmanski, Mania Halef, Anne Frank, Eva Munzer, Nellie Gray Bundy Johnson, Colleen Marie Applegate, Connie Lynn Taylor, Emilie Marian Bromundt, Robert Ferdinand Bromundt, Julia Allison Wise, Kimberly Michelle Adaway, Jason Alexander Black, Shirley June Tolle, Emmett Till, Violet Geneva Setty Tolle, Nora Mae Setty Boldman, John Setty, Maude Abanade Cadwallader Setty, Yvonne Mary Cayeaux Devitt, Karen Ann Culp, Phyllis Rebecca Crowe, Stacie Lee Swofford,Devan Brooke Duniver, Mary Louise Lehman Carman, Grace Leona Lehman Krout, Clara Alverta Myers Lehman, Adam Henry Lehman,Anna Catherine Roby, Russell Thomas Roby, Ricardo David Arterberry, Linda Therese Jones Arterberry, Traytease Lanette Arterberry, Clarence Edward Moore Jr., Meagan Lindsey Bradley, Peachlyn Bradley, Finey Ynfante Mechell, Lucas Ynfante, Jane Mora Ynfante, Francis Ynfante, Katy Ynfante Martines, John K Ynfante, Rozell Lucas “RL” Ynfante, Yolanda Rosamond Lombardo, Serena Daniel Aiken Simons, Martin Laurence Amos, Polly Bixby, Rosalia Lombardo and more Angels

[ineffable-mess]

I've risen here to rant about the different versions of A nightingale sang in berkeley square.

Soundtrack version, not bad 6/10 not amazing but not horrible either. Sad though :(.

Vera Lynn (we'll meet agian) decent 7/10 very similar to above.

9/10 my favorite probably because it's the least sad, it's a lot more..happy I guess.

1/10 I hate it, the long held out parts aren't there and it just sounds strange.

"No nightingales" - a.j. Crowley

:(