#Marvin Mandel

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Maryland Governor DILFs

Martin O'Malley, Spiro Agnew, Blair Lee III, J. Millard Tawes, Harry Hughes, Harry Nice, William Preston Lane Jr., Marvin Mandel, Theodore McKeldin, Herbert J. O'Connor, Larry Hogan, Bob Ehrlich, Parris Glendening, William Donald Schaefer

[vintagepipemen]

Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel about to light up, early 1970s. 

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AI CULTURE: THE MOST IMPORTANT FIGURES IN THE AI HISTORY I #4 I WALLY FEURZEIG

Wallace "Wally" Feurzeig was a computer scientist and co-inventor, along with Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon, of the Logo programming language. He was a well-known researcher in artificial intelligence (AI).

He earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a bachelor's degree in Science from the University of Chicago, as well as a master's degree in Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Before joining Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN), he worked at the Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. BBN, in the early '60s, had become a significant center for computer research and innovative applications.

In 1962, Wally Feurzeig joined BBN and worked in the field of artificial intelligence in its early stages, becoming one of the first organizations dedicated to AI. He collaborated with prominent researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) such as Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, who were regular consultants to BBN in the early '60s.

Wally's initial goal was to enhance the intellectual capabilities of existing teaching systems. This led to the development of the first "intelligent" computer-assisted instruction (CAI) system called MENTOR, which used production rules to support problem-solving interactions in medical diagnosis and other decision-making domains.

In 1965, Wally organized BBN's Department of Educational Technology to promote the development of computer methods to improve learning and teaching. His focus shifted to the analysis of programming languages as educational environments. This shift was partly due to recent technological advancements, such as the invention of computer time-sharing and the development of the first "conversational" high-level programming language.

Wally's team at BBN competed with MIT to implement computer time-sharing, with BBN achieving the first successful demonstration in 1964. Time-sharing allowed the economic use of distributed remote terminals and opened up possibilities for interactive computer use in schools.

Wally played a crucial role in the development of TELCOMP, an interactive high-level programming language. TELCOMP, a dialect of JOSS, was introduced to children as a tool for teaching mathematics in elementary and secondary schools. The use of interactive computing with a high-level interpretive language proved to be highly motivating for students.

Wally collaborated with researchers such as Daniel Bobrow, Richard Grant, and Cynthia Solomon at BBN, along with consultant Seymour Papert from MIT. The idea of a programming language designed specifically for children emerged from this collaboration, leading to the creation of Logo in 1967.

Logo represented a new method to support formal thinking and develop problem-solving skills. The development of Logo was influenced by three areas of research: artificial intelligence, developmental psychology, and mathematical logic. Logo, initially a "dialect" of LISP, a programming language for AI developed by John McCarthy in 1958, was presented in 1967.

Wally Feurzeig's life and work included significant contributions to the field of computer science and education. He passed away in 2013 at the age of 85.

TIMELINE

1927: Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, to parents Mandel and Pauline Feurzeig.

1962: Joins to BOLT ( Beranek, and Newman (BBN))

1964: Participates with BBN in the first successful demonstration of computer time-sharing.

1965: Organizes the Department of Educational Technology at BBN and, with the support of the U.S. Office of Education, explores the use of TELCOMP in schools.

1966: Scientists Seymour Papert, Wallace Feurzeig, and Daniel Bobrow meet to discuss methods of teaching children to use computers.

1967: Logo is introduced.

2013: Dies at the age of 85.

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[ad_1] Marilyn Bergman, who along with her husband, Alan Bergman, gave the arena memorable lyrics about “misty watercolor reminiscences” and “the windmills of your thoughts” and received 3 Academy Awards, died on Saturday at her house in Los Angeles. She was once 93. A spokesman, Ken Sunshine, mentioned the purpose was once breathing failure.The Bergmans’ lyrics, set to melodies by way of composers like Marvin Hamlisch and Michel Legrand, weren't far and wide, however it occasionally gave the impression that approach. For a few years their phrases had been additionally heard each week over the hole credit to hit tv presentations like “Maude,” “Just right Occasions” and “Alice.”The Bergmans and Mr. Hamlisch received the 1974 best-song Academy Award for “The Method We Have been,” from the Robert Redford-Barbra Streisand romance of the similar title. (The album of that film’s rating additionally received the Bergmans their most effective Grammy Award.) Their different best-song winner, “The Windmills of Your Thoughts” (“Spherical, like a circle in a spiral/Like a wheel inside of a wheel”), was once written with Mr. Legrand for the 1968 movie “The Thomas Crown Affair.” Their 3rd Oscar was once for the rating of Ms. Streisand’s 1983 movie “Yentl,” additionally written with Mr. Legrand.Except the Oscar winners, their different in style songs integrated the identify observe of Frank Sinatra’s album “Great ’n’ Simple,” written with the songwriter Lew Spence; the poignant ballad “What Are You Doing the Remainder of Your Lifestyles,” from the 1969 film “The Satisfied Finishing,” with track by way of Mr. Legrand; and “The place Do You Get started?,” written with Johnny Mandel and coated by way of artists like Tony Bennett, Michael Feinstein and Ms. Streisand.Ms. Streisand launched an album of the Bergmans’ songs, “What Issues Maximum,” in 2011. The compilation “Sinatra Sings Alan & Marilyn Bergman” was once launched in 2019.Tv was once a vital a part of the Bergmans’ careers as smartly. They received 3 Emmy Awards: for the rating of the 1976 TV film “Sybil,” written with Leonard Rosenman; the track “Extraordinary Miracles,” written with Mr. Hamlisch and carried out by way of Ms. Streisand in a 1995 live performance particular; and “A Price tag to Dream,” some other Hamlisch collaboration, written for the American Movie Institute’s 1998 particular “100 Years … 100 Motion pictures.”However their lyrics had been almost definitely heard way more ceaselessly by way of audience of in style late-Twentieth-century tv collection. They wrote the phrases to the bouncy theme songs for the hit sitcoms “Maude,” “Alice” and “Just right Occasions,” in addition to the subjects for the nostalgic comedy collection “Brooklyn Bridge” and the drama collection “Within the Warmth of the Night time.” Their hit “You Don’t Carry Me Flora,” excellent referred to as a duet by way of Neil Diamond (who wrote the track) and Ms. Streisand, was once in the beginning written for Norman Lear’s short-lived collection “All That Glitters.” Early in her occupation, Ms. Bergman was once one in all reasonably few ladies within the songwriting industry. In a 2007 interview with NPR, she recalled attending conferences of the efficiency rights group ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) at which the one ladies “can be me and a large number of the widows of songwriters who had been representing their husbands’ estates.” She was once the primary girl to function president of ASCAP, a place she held from 1994 to 2009.Marilyn Katz was once born on Nov. 10, 1928, in the similar Brooklyn sanatorium the place Alan Bergman were born 4 years previous. The daughter of Edith (Arkin) and Albert Katz, she attended the Prime Faculty of Song and Artwork in Big apple, now LaGuardia Prime Faculty of Song & Artwork and Acting Arts.A faculty buddy presented her to an uncle, Bob Russell, who wrote the lyrics to the Duke Ellington hit “Don’t Get Round A lot Anymore” and would later write the lyrics to “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother.

” Marilyn continuously went to his house after college to play piano for him as he wrote.By the point she had earned a bachelor’s level in psychology and English from New York College, she had put aside concepts of a track occupation and deliberate to turn into a psychologist. However a fateful twist of fate despatched her again to the humanities.In 1956 she fell down a flight of stairs and broke her shoulder. In quest of assist right through her recuperation, she flew to Los Angeles to stick with her folks, who had moved there. So had Mr. Russell, and when she appeared him up he steered that she do a little songwriting herself. Not able to play the piano as a result of her harm, she recalled a few years later, she may now not compose and so made up our minds to write down lyrics as a substitute.Running beneath the title Marilyn Keith, she took a role with Mr. Spence, who additionally labored with Alan Bergman. Mr. Spence presented the 2, and their musical partnership started instantly. They had been married two years later.Requested in 2010 at the tv program “CBS Information Sunday Morning” how she and Mr. Bergman controlled to paintings in combination whilst staying married, she mentioned: “The best way porcupines make love. Moderately.”Ms. Bergman’s husband survives her, as do their daughter, Julie Bergman, and a granddaughter.In a 2002 interview with American Songwriter mag, Ms. Bergman outlined the variation between an newbie and professional songwriter as “the facility to rewrite” and “to not have fallen so in love with what you may have written that you'll’t discover a higher approach.”The Bergmans had been inducted within the Songwriters Corridor of Status in 1980 and collectively gained a Trustees Award from the Nationwide Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 2013.Despite the fact that excellent recognized for his or her film and tv paintings, the Bergmans did take a look at writing for the Broadway degree, despite the fact that they didn't have a lot good fortune. “One thing Extra!,” starring Barbara Prepare dinner and Arthur Hill, for which they wrote the lyrics and Sammy Fain wrote the track, lasted lower than two weeks in 1964. They fared higher, however now not by way of a lot, in 1978 with “Ballroom,” an adaptation of the 1975 TV film “Queen of the Stardust Ballroom” with track by way of Billy Goldenberg. Regardless of being produced and directed by way of Michael Bennett, whose earlier Broadway display were the monster hit “A Refrain Line,” “Ballroom” closed after 3 months.“Our reviews within the theater and movie,” Ms. Bergman instructed The New York Occasions in 1982, “have proven us that the 2 require completely other types of writing.” And flicks had been at all times the couple’s old flame.“We discovered we should be extra summary when writing for movie,” she mentioned, “as a result of movie in point of fact speaks extra to the preconscious a part of the mind, the a part of us that goals.” [ad_2] #Marilyn #Bergman #OscarWinning #Songwriting #Duo #Dies

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[leetlebluetiefling]

Wow, I love mandel

[espectrofilia]

“Point Blank” (1967)

Directed by: John Boorman

Country: USA

Length: 92 min. 

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Michael Strong, John Vernon

Cinematographer: Philip H. Lathrop

Editor: Henry Berman

Music by: Johnny Mandel

Mal Reese: Well, Cinderella, I was beginning to think you'd never come for your shoe.

[cecilspeaks]

167 - Echo

Spring reveals nature’s secret That death is reversible. Welcome to Night Vale.

The worst part is not the tall plumes of smoke. Nor the destroyed cars and buildings, nor the armed desert cult marching through the streets. It is the silence. The absence of sirens echoing across the valley. The absence of help. the absence of hope that help will happen. And now the absence even of screams.

The clan of passengers of Delta flight 18713 prowls the streets of our town, seeking those who hide, those who resist. They know there are few of us left who have not been subsumed by their leader’s commands. And those of us who do remain will be captured and eventually killed. They must know I am here, hiding, talking, resisting. They must see our radio antenna, our station sign, hear our broadcasts.

The pilot knows who I am, delights in having inhabited my mind a couple weeks go to speak his foul truth. He holds out some hope that he can re-enter my brain, squeeze it tight with his calm convincing voice. I remain alive because the pilot wants me in my job. Wants me on his side.

I hope for solution. I hope my own voice empowers those who are still free to rise up, to fight back, but so far – nothing. I no longer hope to find Amelia Anna Alfaro who was always the best at everything and who disappeared eight years ago to loo for Delta flight 18713. I no longer hope that Amelia Anna Alfaro will be found or that she will save us because she is found. She will not save us.

Amelia stands at the top step of the Night Vale City Hall. Behind her is the multi-headed, single-bodied entity that is City Council. Amelia and the City Council are both fully under the control of the pilot. Amelia Anna Alfaro found the missing passengers of flight 18713, and then was enjoined by the pilot to join them.

When the pilot makes contact with your brain, he does not speak to you at first. He does not begin with a plea, with a mission, with a request or command. He first forces you to hear the lives of his passengers, innocents who boarded Delta flight 18713 from Detroit to Albany on June 15, 2012. You hear a mother calming her child, you hear giggling teenage boys, you hear middle-aged men telling each other the same stories they have told each other for years on end. You hear about vacations and jobs and families and favorite books and unrealized dreams, you hear it all until you accept the mundane comfort and intimacy of community, until you are lulled into a willingness to hear anything – and then you hear the pilot. And you hear his message. The words of his message are about nature’s beauty. The words express loving respect that all nature is beautiful. But the message is not the words. It’s what’s encoded within them, the message is that all who are not beautiful are an affront to nature.

His power of unspoken oration, of invisible influence, allows his hatred to metastasize, to become an active assault rather than an idle grumble. It is difficult to stop his voice from entering your head. Nearly impossible. I am not able to do it on my own. Carlos sits with me still in my studio. When I talk to Carlos, I do not hear the voice of the pilot nor his passengers. Charles Rainier, the former warden of the Night Vale Asylum, went fishing to keep his mind clear. Tamika Flynn has taken to listening to the audio book of Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling novel “Station 11”, which is narrated by Night Vale’s own Lee Marvin who, by the way, turns 32 next month. Happy early birthday, Lee, if you can hear me.

I have found that Carlos calms me, centers me, silences the echoes of 100 different people, 100 different thoughts in my head, none of which are my own. If you know what centers you, do that immediately.

The streets are quiet, Night Vale. I hope some of you can hear me. I hope some of you are staying out of sight, out of reach. If you can, come together, find each other. Perhaps we can overpower these invaders of our peace, but the pilot hides from any potential counterattack, and if we can’t stop him, can’t cut out the brain of his insurgency… I believe our hopes are lost. Our end is near.

The last hope I had stands on the top step of City Hall rallying her mindless clan on a ruthless scouring of our city. Amelia Anna Alfaro was always the best at everything, and the pilot knows that. It is why he chose her as his chief strategist, his general, his right hand.

They will push beyond Night Vale soon. To Red Mesa and Pine Cliff, and to the rest of the state, and beyond.

More people are brought to City Hall as I speak, and Amelia flanked by Doug Biondi delivers their sentence, their punishment for resistance. Their fate for lacking beauty in the eyes of a truly hateful man. Their sentence is to be tied together and held in the rock garden lining the outer lawn of City Hall. Once every person in Night Vale has been gathered in one place, the pilot will make one last attempt to overtake our minds as a group, to grow his army tenfold. He may succeed with some and the remainder – will be executed.

The pilot believes in his own specific definition of beauty. He believes those who fail to be good enough specimens of nature, of humanity, must be removed from the genetic pool. Every few hours, another group of prisoners crouches before Amelia, and another group receives immediate conviction.

As Amelia stands in judgment before the most recently indicted, she pauses. One of the captured is standing in defiance. In response to this rebellious act, Doug Biondi, still wearing his asylum-issued coveralls, raises a handmade curved blade, but Amelia stops him. The one standing is Yvette Alfaro. It is Amelia’s mother. She begs Amelia to recognize her own family and to have mercy. But Amelia’s eyes show no hint of relenting. Yvette tells Amelia she always loved her, was always proud of her, but that her motherly pride was sometimes a selfish price. “You were a story I wrote for myself to tell my friends,” Yvette says contritely. “I did not let you tell your own story. I should have been proud of you for what you achieved, for yourself. Happy for your happiness. But I saw you as a way to better me. I’m sorry, Amelia,” Yvette tells her only child, and then hands Amelia a note. “Please read this. It’s all I ask that you do for your mother. Read what I wrote,” Yvette says. Without even glancing at the paper, Amelia crumples it into a ball, her face reddens, and her eyes blacken, as she pushes her mother back down to her knees. With a nod of Amelia’s head, the brainwashed and ever growing clan of flight 18713 ties up the new prisoners and pushes them into the rock garden, until every remaining person in town has been drawn together for the pilot. And the last who resist his voice will be destroyed. A rotten harvest to be composted for a more promising crop.

If you can hear my voice, you are one of the last left. We cannot see the pilot, but he can see us, and it is not long until his minions are here with me, or there with you, Night Vale. We are the last to be reaped, the last to be gathered.

They stalk outside my studio now! Climbing the walls, smashing in windows, knocking down doors. I-I can hear them in the hallways behind me. Carlos is barring the door to the studio, but I know it will not hold! Carlos, do as you promised and run! I will stay focused, I will keep my head safe, I will take us all To the weather!

[“The Stolen Century” by Ellen Beizer: http://ellenclairebeizer.com]

I am captured, Night Vale. So is Carlos. I can’t see where they took him, so I keep my eyes closed and imagine Carlos’ face.  I keep talking to this image of Carlos to protect my thoughts from the pilot’s voice. The ragged, empty-minded clan of flight 18713 pushes me into a larger group of captives. I still do not see Carlos, but I see the violent hungry faces of those under the pilot’s control. I see two teenage boys who are secretly mad for each other. I see a middle-aged man who either went to New Orleans or heard about New Orleans so much that he might as well have gone. I see the people who inhabited my mind. Whose voices were used to hypnotize me, to lay the psychological groundwork for the pilot. And I hear them. I hear their voices coming from their mouths, live, in real time. But I hear them in my head too! Separate from their bodies. And I think of Carlos again, trying to stop the echoes, [very quietly] return to silence and clarity.

They lead our group. I with my head down, eyes closed, quietly conversing with an imaginary Carlos, to the steps of City Hall. To the feet of the ruthless Amelia Anna Alfaro. Ohh, [quietly] but she’s not ruthless. She is compromised. I do not know how to convince her of this, if her own mother could not. Even still immediately we are denounced as resistors and tied up with the other uncooperative prisoners, wriggling uselessly in their bindings along the rock garden. The last of those who refused to join the 18713 have been gathered together. Amelia knows she has quickly and thoroughly sorted out entire town into the recruited and the renounced. She was always the best at everything.

At this moment, the pilot emerges from the front doors of City Hall. Amelia and the rest of the 18713 look on him with awe. And it occurs to me they have never seen him in person. Only heard his voice. The enormity of his legend is evidence in the gaping maw and sparkling dark eyes of Amelia Anna Alfaro. The pilot does not visibly speak, yet I can hear him in my head. Each of us can her a personalized appeal from him in our minds.

[deep creepy voice] “Cecillll,” he says to me. “You have a beautiful voice. Think of how much beauty we can share together. Think of your voice, carried miles through the air like dandelion seeds. Spreading our message of nature’s true beauty to everyone in the desert. To everyone beyonddd the desert. You are chosennn Cecillllll. Beeeeeee. My. Voiccccce.”

I think of Carlos’ face. I say aloud to my imagined Carlos: the first time you called me, I knew you liked me. Even though you avoided my flirting. I thought you were trying to be professional, Carlos, playing ignorant, but you weren’t. you were shy. You didn’t know how to ask. And I knew I loved you.

My mind remains clear as I talk, but I see several of the remainders sturgling to ignore the pilot’s voice permeating their every thought. A few lose the fight and join his clan. He is too far from me, too far from any o the rest of us to reach him, to subdue him, to kill him, to get back my mind, to get back my town, to get back my Carlos.

When the pilot’s final pleas and patience expire, he walks down the paved path and stands next to Amelia Anna Alfaro. Then he says, for the first time using his mouth: “None of them are beautiful! None of them are nature! None of them can live!” Amelia stares at him like a star struck fan in the presence of a Hollywood celebrity. Doug Biondi, next to her, holds up his crooked blade. The angel of death wears electric blue coveralls, and the 18713 raise their weapons too, glaring at the last of us tied up a the rock garden. I search in vain for Carlos one last time, battling the sick truth that we are born and we will die alone. And Amelia Anna Alfaro raises her hand. Inside her hand is a ball of paper. Seeming confused about how it got there, she unfurls it. Smoothing out the wrinkles with her fingers, she examines the paper. There is a long silence. “Should I do it or what? Amelia?” Doug Biondi asks, anxious to get to the killing part. I now see what Amelia sees. I cannot read what is written on the paper, but I know what is there. They’re words from her mother, written in code. In a puzzle. The one place Amelia’s mind can hide from the voices, from the voice of the pilot, is in puzzles. Amelia says: “It is my responsibility to destroy that which is not beautiful. Give me the blade, Doug.” Doug, reluctantly, does so. Still staring at the paper, she pulls the blade behind her shoulder and says: “You come from nowhere, and that is where you shall return.” She splashes the blade into the pilot’s throat. I see his hands clutch at his neck. I see Doug Biondi lunge for Amelia, to protect his beloved leader, but as his arms crash down onto her shoulders, he relents. Doug’s mind is free now too.

I see the pilot convulse one final time. I see the emancipated Amelia run toward her mother. Other members of the 18713 surrounding us drop their weapons, their eyes vacant and lips white. The rush of mental agency is blinding them, staggering them. One of them cuts the ropes from my hands. I help free the others, one by one, still searching for Carlos and then – I find him. He is in the very back, the last of the last of Night Vale. Those who are free are running or embracing or helping those who are still bound or drunk with confusion, and on the ground where Amelia stood moments before, I find the wrinkled note from mother to daughter. It is a series of numbers, not words. I show it to Carlos. “A cryptogram puzzle,” he says. “I love those.” I ask him if he can solve it. He screws up his face. “We should get out of here first,” he says. “Please,” I say. He looks at it for a couple of minutes, until finally he says: “It’s a basic alphanumeric code. It reads: Amelia, I am proud of you, no. matter. what.”

Carlos and I hold each other through the town. Passing two teenage boys dressed in scraps of airplane upholstery, gripping tightly each other’s faces. We help a lost toddler find his parents. We clear broken glass from streets. We walk home.

We shade our eyes from the setting sunset, which kindles through a hilltop cliff. We talk nonstop about today, about tomorrow, about yesterday, about every possible moment, just talking and talking, because we almost lost our talk forever. We do not hear the returning echo of sirens across the valley. We do not hear anything but ourselves.

Stay tuned. Next. For a silence that is all your own.

Good night, Night Vale … Good night.  

Today’s proverb: Did you know the Germans have 31 different words for beer? Well they don’t, that’s wrong, you’re wrong

[jefferyryanlong]

FEEL with DJ Jeff Long - December 11, 2019

‘twas then he felt alone and wished that he’d gone straight

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LEISURE - On My Mind

Dumbo Gets Mad - Makes You Fly

A Certain Ratio - Houses In Motion

Hot Chip - Hungry Child

Mark Ronson Feat. Lykke Li - Late Night Feelings 

LION BABE - Sexy Please

Quantic - Motivic Retrograde

KAYTRANADA, VanJess - DYSFUNCTIONAL

Little Simz - 101 FM

Ariana Grande & Victoria Monét - MONOPOLY 

Pure Bathing Culture - Devotion

The Drums - Blip of Joy

Grace Ives - Icing on the Cake

J-E-T-S, Machinedrum, Jimmy Edgar Feat. Tkay Maidza - REAL TRUTH

Little Boots, Cyril Hahn - Infrared

Tame Impala - Borderline

Amber Mark - Mixer

Anderson .Paak, Smokey Robinson - Make It Better

Local Natives - Megaton Mile

Kelsey Lu - Due West

FKA twigs - Cellophane

James Blake - Mulholland

Buzzy Lee, Tommy Mandel - Sundown Queen

Still Woozy - Lava

Noname - Song 32

Eric Cardona - Two Moons

Cautious Clay - SIDEWINDER

Divino Niño - Maria

Gus Dapperton - World Class Cinema

Porridge Radio - Give / Take

Free Love - Pushing Too Hard

Yeasayer - Fluttering In The Floodlights

Free Love - Playing as Punks

Weyes Blood - Everyday

Hope Tala - Lovestained

Bedouine - Echo Park

Allah-Las - Raspberry Jam

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - In the Capital

GRMLN - Half Moon Bay

Blue Material - Cosmic Thunder

Tangerine - Chains

Middle Kids - Beliefs and Prayers

Cage The Elephant - Social Cues

Better Oblivion Community Center - Little Trouble

Cate le Bon - Home To You

Halo Maud - Des Bras - Andy Votel Remix

Kelsey Lu - I'm Not In Love

Barrie - Saturated

Marvin Gaye - Where Are We Going? - Alternate Mix 2

Kevin Morby - OMG Rock n Roll

Keel Her - No Control

Mac DeMarco - All Of Our Yesterdays

Arlo Parks - Cola

Lily Allen - What You Waiting For? - Popcaan Remix

Georgia - About Work The Dancefloor

SOAK - Knock Me Off My Feet

Claude Fontaine - I'll Play the Fool

Aldous Harding - Weight of the Planets

Sky Ferreira - Downhill Lullaby

Halo Maud - Du pouvoir/power

Hatchie - Stay With Me

Robyn - Between The Lines - Louie Vega Remix

Marie Davidson - Work It - Soulwax Remix

De Lux - Rebel Yell

Beck - Saw Lightning

The Raconteurs - Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)

The Black Keys - Eagle Birds

Courtney Barnett - Everybody Here Hates You

Bleached - Shitty Ballet

Durand Jones & The Indications - Don’t You Know

The Head and the Heart - Honeybee

The National - Light Years

[frankterranella]

Here’s to the artists who write the words

Lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman

Writing lyrics is an under-appreciated art form. It gets little respect because anyone can fit words to music to give us mundane lyrics like we saw in the early days of rock and roll. Remember this Elvis hit:

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog

Cryin' all the time

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog

Cryin' all the time

Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit

And you ain't no friend of mine

Another example is this early song by the Beatles:

Oh, yeah, I'll tell you something

I think you'll understand

When I'll say that something

I wanna hold your hand

Thankfully, the Beatles went on to become quite competent lyric writers as is clear from Paul McCartney's new book of his lyrics.

Artistic lyric writing is not just about writing words. It’s about writing poetry that sits comfortably atop musical notes. Fortunately, we have seen several such lyric artists over the last century whose words could stand alone as art. These include Oscar Hammerstein, Dorothy Fields, Stephen Sondheim and the lyric-writing duo Betty Comden and Adolph Green. All of these lyricists were known primarily for their work on Broadway.

But there was another expert lyric-writing duo who wrote primarily for the movies and television (although they also wrote lyrics for several hit songs). That is the husband-and-wife team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman. They put beautiful words to the music of composers like Michel Legrand, Marvin Hamlisch and Johnny Mandel.

A good example of the Bergmans’ artistry is the lyric they wrote to Marvin Hamlisch’s tune for the theme song to the film, The Way We Were:

Memories light the corners of my mind

Misty water-colored memories of the way we were

Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind

Smiles we gave to one another for the way we were

Can it be that it was all so simple then

Or has time rewritten every line

If we had the chance to do it all again

Tell me, would we?

Could we?

Memories may be beautiful and yet

What's too painful to remember

We simply choose to forget

So it's the laughter we will remember

Whenever we remember

The way we were

The way we were

That is pure poetry and is representative of the quality of lyrics that Alan and Marilyn Bergman produced for many decades. I call attention to the work of the Bergmans because Marilyn Bergman died a few days ago at the age of 93. Her husband survives.

Ms. Bergman began her career as a pianist and attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. But after she broke her shoulder falling down a flight of stairs, she spent some time unable to play the piano. While she recuperated, she tried her hand at writing lyrics and found that she liked it. She met Alan Bergman, who also loved writing lyrics, and the two were married. The two soon found work as a lyricist team, the married version of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who wrote lyrics to Broadway shows such as “On the Town” and “Peter Pan.”

But unlike Comden and Green, the Bergmans had no success on Broadway. So they turned their attention to Hollywood. There they teamed up with Michel Legrand who was composing music for the 1968 film, The Thomas Crown Affair. They wrote “The Windmills of Your Mind” to Legrand’s music and the song won them their first Oscar. After that, they were in constant demand.

There was another Oscar in 1974 for “The Way We Were.” Over the course of their career they wrote great film songs like “Papa Can You Hear Me,” “The Summer Knows” and “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life.” And they also wrote beautiful lyrics to pop songs like: “How Do You Keep the Music Playing,” “I Believe in Love,” and “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers.”

They even wrote the lyrics to one of my favorite Christmas songs. Several years before Mariah Carey had her hit song, the Bergmans put these lyrics to “A Christmas Love Song” by Johnny Mandel:

All I want for Christmas is you

You're the gift that made my dreams all come true

All I need for Christmas is here

Finding every sweet surprise wrapped up in your eyes

Waiting there for me underneath the tree

We'll spend the day exchanging kisses

Smile and say what a Christmas this is

Long before the snowflakes appear

Without bells or mistletoe

Or the tinsel's silver glow

You just look at me and oh Christmas is here

Mariah knew a good lyric when she saw it. And the Bergmans wrote the best.

[juliemandel]

Marvin Rosen, long-time host of Classical Discoveries, says "I hope you will join me this Tuesday morning, August 10, 2021 from 7am till 10am for Classical Discoveries. Here is a list of some of the works and composers to be presented: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra (2007) by American composer, Lee Actor (1952- ) Divertimenti In Italia (String Quartet No. 6) (2012) by American composer, Curt Cacioppo (1951- ) Concertino for alto saxophone and orchestra by Brazilian composer, Radames Gnattali (1906-1988) Moods for violin, viola and cello (2010) by American composer, Julie Mandel, Utopia Symphony for chorus and orchestra (2005) by Russian composer, Vladimir Martynov (1946- ) Plus music by: Priscilla Alden Beach, Betsy Jolas, Max Nagl, Cristina Spinei and others if time allows.

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[kadebronson]

kadebronson’s LGBT book list

hey guys! so i get a decent amount of questions about if the books i talk about have any representation in them (specifically i get trc a lot which for good reasons) and i know i ship boy do i ship but i do try and read as many books as i can with actual representation so i’m gonna comply a list (a working list for now) with some good books

those bolded are faves

a flash of hex by jes battis - this is part of a series and i never got around to reading the rest because i picked it up at a used book store it features gay, bi, and trans characters it was a seriously fun sci-fi book

the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay by michael chabon - listen this book is already a classic and for good reason it’s simply amazing and has everything you could hope for two jewish cousins hopping on the comic book bandwagon one obsessed with magic and trying to be a magician and one who falls in love with a solider it’s gonna make you cry but it’s so good

the family fang by kevin wilson - imagine a wes anderson movie as a book this is basically it annie’s story of coming to terms with her sexuality is heart warming

honor among punks by guy davis and gary reed - PLEASE READ THIS this is one of my fave books of all time it’s a graphic novel set in london in the 80′s if the industrial revolution never happened jack the ripper is running rampant and a bisexual female sherlock holmes (i’m sorry sharon holmes) is on the case! also did i mention she’s a punk? with a badass mohawk? also features a trans woman character but i don’t wanna spoil that part

the parasol protectorate and it’s varying spinoffs by gail carriger - if you follow me, you know how obsessed i am with this series it is my entire life and i absolutely adore everything about it the first book in the main series, soulless, starts off a bit slow but after that it’s totally worth it it’s a steampunk sci-fi/fantasy fusion set in victorian london where werewolves, vampires, humans, and some other creatures live in harmony (sort of) and basically everyone is queer i mean everyone the main character is bi demi and two of her closest friends are a gay vampire and a lesbian inventor

blind items by matthew rettenmund - about a history buff who falls for a tv star who has to stay in the closet for his career great if you love pop culture references a lot very sweet not as heartbreaking as it sounds

p.s. your cat is dead by james kirkwood - based on a play doesn’t focus too much on the characters sexuality but for 1972 it’s pretty boss

the egyptologist by arthur phillips - my mom sent me this one once in a care package because it was about egyptian history and had a gay character because obviously that’s my whole personality it doesn’t focus that much on his sexuality like at all and the book is alright but i figured i’d include it

221 baker streets - there’s only two stories in this anthology that count but they’re both worth it another sherlock holmes one the two stories are wildly different one is of sherlock and john in the 60′s and they’re a part of the factory in new york and the other one they’re teenage girls solving mysteires in their boarding school

ghost hunter series by victoria laurie - ok so gil is sometimes the stereotypical gay bff and it drives me crazy but this whole series is cheesy as hell but i adore it so it’s making it on the list it’s exactly what you think based on the title they’re ghost hunters and that’s about it (plus some romance troubles for both m.j. and gil)

the raven cycle by maggie stiefvater - ok as said before most of the questions i get is about this series YES ronan is gay and adam is bi are these words ever said? no is it annoying? sure but the series is really good and worth it ask me to sum it up? yeah i still can’t do that but you can check my tag and try to figure it out

lumberjanes by noelle stevenson and grace ellis - girls solving supernatural mysteries at summer camp could you ask for anything more? mal and molly are absolutely adorable

giant days by john allison - another graphic novel all the characters are absolutely amazing and it is fucking hilarious we don’t get into daisy’s sexuality until a couple issues in but it’s still fun

station eleven by emily st. john mandel - ok i know i keep saying this but we don’t even find out about clark’s sexuality until the end BUUUUUUT this book is so good i rec it to everyone it’s about a pretty simple disease wiping out most of humanity and then follows the survivors 

the foxhole court series by nora sakavic - another tumblr fave you probably know about this thanks to me as well it’s definitely not for everyone it can be extremely violent but i love it so it’s on here

the captive prince trilogy by c.s. pacat - i’m not gonna say anything about this it’s my guilty pleasure ok

nimona by noelle stevenson - noelle’s lesser known graphic novel! it’s adorable but also very bittersweet nimona becomes the side kick to villain lord ballister blackheart who is hellbent on destroying his nemesis, and jilted not-quite-lover,  sir ambrosius goldenloin

aristole and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire saenz - another one you probably know :)

every heart a doorway by seanan mcguire - PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE read this book because guess what? my url is from this book! meet kade bronson my sweet child he’s a trans man and the main character nancy is asexual it’s about people at a boarding school to help them recover from falling through magical doors and living in magical worlds so like rehab for alice after coming back thru the looking glass

rainbow boys trilogy by alex sanchez - alright this trilogy is from the late 90′s so you gotta take a lot of it with a grain of salt but it really good for what it is just about three boys (two gay, one bi) and trying to navigate through high school, coming out, life after graduation, etc.

marine biolgy by gail carriger - it’s my girl again! this is the first story she’s wrote that’s set in present day it’s about alex, a werewolf, who’s starting to fall for marvin, a merman it’s just a short story so i don’t wanna give it all away but there’s a full length book coming soon i’m excited for that!

a charm of magpies trilogy by k.j. charles - ok i still have one more left in the trilogy to read but i adore this series! it’s a little risque ok but it’s about magicians and has some crazy mysteries and i’ve been really enjoying it

alright that’s the list for now i only quickly went through my book journals but i may think of others as time goes on!

[spacechild-glitchypix]

Love is Blind: Google Translate Edition

So, essentially, I decided to be a huge fucking comic and put Love is Blind from Falsettos into Google Translate (just Love Is Blind though, no Tight-Knit Family here. Fuck Marvin) through multiple languages (Japanese, Yiddish, Punjabi and Lao before translating it back to English) and get the outcome

It was glorious Enjoy

P.S Yes, I did translate it with the names. I didn’t change it because it’s funnier if I leave it unedited

[Mandal] Sit down, my dear I heard that there was a problem with you I'm sure you do not bully or hate Take the burden of your feet down

[Tirina] Thank you very much

[Mandal] Are you happy or sad?

[Tirina] Well, I -

[Mandal] This is an inappropriate answer Do not tell the weather and tell the truth Marvin's wife should rest

[Tirina] Love is not sex This is what my husband said to me Marvin, You've seen Him for many years. I call myself to tell my fears Do you act just a strange thing?

[Mug (talk)] No

(Sang) My favorite animal husbandry You will get my understanding Your pain is a priority Develop your unread stories Break break now Your baby bonus Keep your head in your hands

[Tirina] I am the one who makes me happy This is when I get everything Determine the data My dad is married to me. I was married ... Then Marvin left the job Sit me on the bed He told me I love you What I need to do or guess I have it

[Mandal] What is it?

[Trina / malwyn] Syphilis

[Tirina] He said

[Mandal] Best

[Tirina] I have it

[Mandal] Yes

[Trina / malwyn] Syphilis

[Tirina] This is true

[Mandal] Best

[Tirina] I have dirty things It seems like it often forgets it

[Marvin] Maybe Darling, that's right

[Tirina] Maybe Darling, that's right

[Tirina] I might be ill

[Mandal] You are a good girl

[Tirina] And it's easy to soften

[Mandal] Little girl, she may be ill

[Tirina] He tried to be unhappy with us She explains that I have explained

[Trina / malwyn] Hepatitis

[Tirina] Things to do

[Marvin, Jason, Wazjar] Hepatitis Hepatitis Hepatitis

[Mandal] Love makes blind people Love can tell everyone's story Destruction of love It works in millions of ways

[Tirina] So, I left the house out of work I take care of my people They were flooded in despair, they used to absorb their beds. They took their hair and they died. One says

[Mandal] Yes

[Jason] You are wearing clothes

[Mandal] What is it?

[Tirina] He said

[Mandal] Yes

[Jason] Dad is not me

[Mandal] Best

[Tirina] He was packed with my suit Have Kenny and save "Can You Be My Valentine?

[Marvin (visit)] Will You Be My Valentine?

[Tirina] It will be hard to believe it

[Mandal] You're a little girl

[Tirina] I'm a girl in my Steve

[4 people] A stubborn girl

[Mandal] Do not share your hands

[Tirina] I miss him, he's missing Please do not cry. However, kissing the father is. Boy

[All] Small, small, small, small

[Mandel and Trena] Love makes blind people Love can tell everyone's story Destruction of love It works in millions of ways

[All] Love makes blind people Love can tell everyone's story Destruction of love It works in millions of ways

[Marvin] Love is crazy Love is frequent Love joke Love is a good ending Once you get it After what you find, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never Please try again [more] Love

Love

Love

Love Love is like a bad history All names will be renamed To love love without love

Love [All] Love makes blind people

[Mandal] My name is correct I deal with my husband I think he is very worried But I am still I never married Work, work is my passion Or is it Alibis?

[Marvin] Yes, probably

[Mandal] Yes, I do not like to talk about it

I think it's interesting I think they are poor In this session, They are new

[All] His name is Mandel

[Guest] Oh oh

[Mandal] Back to the last Friday I accept that I thank you

[mrjeremydylan]

My Favorite Album #227 - Elizabeth Cook on Neil Young ‘Zuma’ (1975)

Sharp of tongue and deep of soul, one of Nashville’s most compelling singer-songwriters joins me to talk about an underrated Neil Young and Crazy Horse classic, ‘Zuma’.

We talk about how Elizabeth discovered the album on a road trip, the elusive concision of Young’s lyrics, how this record defines a certain version of his sound, how the album documents the end of Neil Young’s creative grieving over guitarist Danny Whitten, how Elizabeth wants to steer her future recordings in a Neil-ward direction and what it was like to be a witness to the taping of the ‘Heart of Gold’ concert film.

Listen in the player above or download the episode by clicking here.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it’s influenced them. Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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(via Elton John-Sleeping With The Past 1989 CD Used Like New $12.99) Sleeping with the Past is the 22nd studio album by the English singer-songwriter Elton John, released on 29 April 1989. It is his best-selling album in Denmark (where it was recorded) and is dedicated to his longtime writing partner Bernie Taupin. The album features his first solo number-one single, “Sacrifice“, in his home country of the UK, which helped the album also hit number one there, his first since 1974’s Elton John’s Greatest Hits. John and Taupin meant for the songs to reflect the style of 1960s R&B icons such as Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding and Sam Cooke, whom they admired. It also became his first platinum album in the UK since 1983. In the US it was certified gold in October 1989 and platinum in April 1990 by the RIAA. Guy Babylon made his debut on this album and would continue to play keyboards with John for the next 20 years, while Fred Mandel left the band shortly after. John went into rehabilitation in 1990.