#Martha Spencer

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REVIEW: Martha Spencer "Out in La La Land"

REVIEW: Martha Spencer "Out in La La Land" @marthaalice_in_wonderland @musicmakerfdn @karpiediemmusic @chrisscruggsofficial @littlefiddle7 @americanahighways #americanahighways @eliselizcady #outinlalaland

Martha Spencer – Out in La La Land Martha Spencer’s new album Out in La La Land of scrumptious old timey music freshly delivered today was released by Music Maker Foundation and Karpie Diem Records.  It was produced by Martha Spencer with thanks to Mark Thornton, Jay Weaver and Chris Scruggs and all of the musicians (see list below) for their input on arrangements and sounds.  It was engineered,…

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‘La La Land’ by Martha Spencer

The opening track from her upcoming LP Out In La La Land. Out May 17 via Bandcamp.

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Leverage 3x4 - "The Scheherazade Job"

[wise-lizard-wizard]

I miss Officer Martha Allen. She was one of my favourite characters. I wish we could have seen more of her in Psych.

(Played by Patricia Idlette)

She and Shawn had such fun interactions.

She was only in two episodes (I honestly thought she was in more) but she really shone in those two episodes.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Leverage S03E04 The Scheherazade Job.

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[starbuck]

See, Ravenous is really fun because it is so perfect that I would never actually want the story to go any other way, but the characters are so fun and interesting that I also feel encouraged to make a bunch of AUs where different groups of characters survive the initial Colqhoun situation just to see what they do…

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Happy Mother's Day!

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TOP CHARACTER OF ALL TIME (bigcats-birds-and-books edition)

hi yes hello @asexualbookbird tagged me to do the TOP FAVE CHARACTERS thing. in the name of Gender Balance (with a pivot point of "N/A"), i have gone with seven (7) options for you all to vote on. choose wisely.

(no non-option option, if you don't know any of these people but still want to push a button, show laverne some love, i think she'll need it most and she's a fucking delight)(and then go check out NOTHING BUT THE RAIN, because it's SO GOOD)

i tag: @sixofravens-reads, @emoclone, @e-b-reads, and @pyr0clast, if you wanna play!! no pressure, as always

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Song Premiere: Martha Spencer “Sometimes”

Song Premiere: Martha Spencer “Sometimes” @americanahighways #newmusic2024 #sometimes #outinlalaland #americanahighways #folkmusic @marthaalice_in_wonderland @musicmakerfdn #karpediem @karpiediemmusic @masonpwinfree

Martha Spencer – “Sometimes” Americana Highways is hosting this premiere of Martha Spencer’s song, “Sometimes,” from her forthcoming album Out In La La Land, which will be released on May 17th, 2024 via Music Maker Foundation. The album was recorded at Mark Thornton’s Sidekick Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. “Sometimes” has all the ingredients to feed the appetites of classic country…

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REVEALED: Obamas WERE On Martha's Vineyard When Chef Mysteriously Drowned in their POND: 8 feet of water

In a turn of events, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, were indeed present on Martha’s Vineyard when their personal chef, Tafari Campbell, tragically drowned under mysterious circumstances. The Obamas, who own a massive house on the island, initially reported through their office that they were not at the residence when the incident occurred.

However, the narrative has since been changed, stating that while they were on the island, they were not at their residence at the time of Campbell’s unfortunate demise.

Campbell, 45, was discovered dead on Monday by divers after he went missing in the Edgartown Great Pond, Massachusetts. Campbell had been paddle boarding with another individual around 7:40 pm on Sunday. Eyewitnesses reported that he was dressed entirely in black and was not wearing a life preserver, a detail that has added to the mystery surrounding his death.

The DailyMail wrote:

Initially, the Obamas’ office said they were not home.

Their office clarified on Monday that they were on the island, just not at the residence when Campbell drowned.

The circumstances leading to Campbell’s death remain unclear, and an autopsy is expected to take place. As part of the investigation, a toxicology analysis will also be conducted, which is a standard procedure in drowning cases.

Campbell had a long-standing relationship with the Obama family. He served as a sous chef at the White House during the Obama administration and continued to work privately for the family after they left office.

Adding another layer to the mystery surrounding Campbell’s death is the fact that he had taken swimming lessons as recently as 2019. Reports have led to further speculation and questions about the circumstances of his death.

Campbell’s Instagram ‘Fitness’ highlight showed his dedication to maintaining his health, showcasing him swimming backstroke, freestyle swimming, logging a 40-minute swim workout on his Apple watch, and even bench pressing 315 pounds.

WATCH:

Campbell’s wife, Sherise, released a heartfelt statement on Instagram mourning the loss of her husband. She wrote, “My heart is broken. My life and our family’s life is forever changed. Please pray for me and our families as I deal with the loss of my husband.” The couple were parents to twin 19-year-old sons.

The staff at Edgartown Meat and Fish Market, where Campbell was a regular, also paid tribute to the chef, whom they remembered as a ‘wonderful guy’. “We saw him last week, he was such a nice and happy guy,” one staff member shared, adding that Campbell had been a customer for a few years and would often chat about what he was cooking.

Barack Obama's Chicago Man Country Friends:

November 17, 2007 Larry Bland shot and killed in his own home

December 24, 2007 Donald Young shot and killed execution style in his own apartment

December 26, 2007 Nate Spencer died in Chicago Hospital (AIDS)

November 14, 2011 Larry Sinclair, Obama's CHICAGO 1999 Bathhouse & cocaine prostitute involved in hit and run car incident

In 2008 Beau Biden & Joe Biden arranged to have Sinclair arrested for telling the Washington, DC National Press Club about his gay love affair and cocaine use with Senator Obama.

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JUMANJI AO3 SERIESES

EVERYTHING FOR JUMANJI

Alex "Seapilot" Vreeke

Martha "Ruby Roundhouse" Kaply

Spencer "Dr. Bravestone" Gilpin

(Any of the other characters don't have any requests written nor pending as for now, so I'm unable to have serieses for them as AO3 requires you to have at least one oneshot written to be able to add it to a series, and I can't promise serieses for characters who don't have requests pending/I have no ideas of my own for them)

For anyone who's concerned, THESE ARE NOT ONESHOT COLLECTIONS, they are made using AO3's "series" feature.

If you want to be informed about new fics for Jumanji or its individual characters, create an AO3 account and subscribe or bookmark any of those serieses listed above. There are buttons at the top right corner for those, or on top on mobile. I do not do Tumblr taglists anymore.

Also, if you're wondering, requests are ALWAYS open and you're welcome to leave one or multiple. Just remember to read my rules and pick a request type from this list.

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Leverage 3x4 - "The Scheherazade Job"

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Flashback on 60: Grateful Dead - Dick’s Picks Volume 21 (2001)

Editor’s note: The year 2025 marks the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s birth. This is the first Flashback on 60, a periodic feature in which Sound Bites revisits the band’s career.

Jerry Garcia was feeling very laid back when the Grateful Dead pulled into Virginia’s Richmond Coliseum Nov. 1, 1985, toward the end of its 20 Years So Far celebration.

His bandmates, too, were engaged in, and feeling the effects of, various celebratory enhancements, making for an inspired, sometimes sloppy, but always tightrope-without-a-net exciting, gig. An instant all-timer and long a Dead Head favorite, the show got the official-release treatment in 2001 as Dick’s Picks Volume 21 and 40 years after its fortuitous occurrence, the magic of this Grateful Dead concert continues to reverberate through the cosmos.

What transpired that night was a rare example of drugs doing the music more good than ill, though subsequent years would prove that not a wise formula for inspiration.

Opening with a ramshackle “Dancing in the Streets,” its original arrangement resurrected for this anniversary year, the Dead plowed through a relatively standard first set, with Garcia opting for “Cold Rain and Snow,” “Stagger Lee,” “Brown-Eyed Women,” et. al, while Bob Weir sang the blues (“Little Red Rooster”) and donned his cowboy hat on “Me and My Uncle” -> “Big River” and “Jack Straw.”

It’s solid and crackles as ’85 often did. But goddam, set No. 2 was an explosion despite Garcia wearing his softened heart on his red T-shirt sleeve with four ballads among his five selections, the lone rocker being the unfairly maligned “Keep Your Day Job” in the encore slot.

Following “Samson and Delilah,” Garcia dials things down on a tender, lilting “High Time.” Still feeling whatever he was feeling, he takes the band directly into “He’s Gone,” and its steal your face … and … smile, smile, smile … refrains elicit the expected roars from the audience before - as often occurred in ’85 - Weir follows with “Spoonful.”

“Comes a Time” - Garcia ballad No. 3 - is particularly weird as the final solo enters the stratosphere and seems headed for “Space” before coming back to Earth. A stellar example of making something of a potential train wreck.

Weir divides “Lost Sailor” and “Saint of Circumstance” with “Drums” and “Space” and the following “Gimme Some Lovin’,” an atonal duet between Phil Lesh and Brent Mydland, is the previously avoided train wreck. But then Garcia issues forth a shimmering rendition of “She Belongs to Me” - ballad No. 4 - and the Grateful Dead sound like purveyors of perfection. That is until a rickety “Gloria,” in which Weir messes with his bandmates, stopping the spelling of the titular name multiple times amid heaping helpings of sloppy shenanigans and sonic chaos.

In the end, 11/1/85, is licorice for licorice lovers. It does not represent the Dead at their best. It does, however, represent the Dead at their riskiest, Garcia at his most vulnerable and shows the chances - and the chemicals - taken adding more to the music than they subtracted.

It’s an adventure worth taking and one of Sound Bites’ favorites despite - more likely, because of - its flaws.

The album also includes four tracks from Sept. 2, 1980, in Rochester, N.Y., the most interesting being “Space” -> “Aiko Aiko” both for its rarity and for the latter having its loping, slow-moving feet still planted in the Godchaux era at the beginning of the Mydland years, when “Aiko” morphed into a stomper.

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