#Mo Kane

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#ShowsWeLove: Gaslit

Streaming on Starz via Amazon Prime, Gaslit retells the infamous Watergate scandal through fresh eyes, highlighting the overlooked personal costs and hidden casualties of the affair. Julia Roberts brilliantly portrays Martha Mitchell, the outspoken whistleblower who suffered greatly for speaking out, while Sean Penn brings a chilling intensity to the role of her husband, John Mitchell. Their…

[kanershuffle]

Mo Seider: “Experience wise, probably the coolest thing I’ve been a part of in hockey.”

Dylan Larkin: “One of the coolest nights of my career…We were there to play for Kaner.”

[eepersjeepers]

Blushing, covering my face, giggling, yelling, kicking my feet, losing my mind, falling head over heels, eating my hand-

[alexios]

they looks so good in these

[problematic-shipper19]

Detroit Red Wings 2024 Halloween Party

[yudgefudge]

footballer incorrect quotes

mo: i know we don't get along so I got you this bath bomb as a present sergio: sergio: this is a toaster

kylian: you're up to something aren't you? trent: you don't sound upset about that kylian: i'm not trent: ...but you still look mad at me kylian: trent: you're upset i didn't include you, aren't you? kylian: a little

marcus: CONFESS! anthony: what? marcus: I SAID CONFESS, MARTIAL!!! anthony: but- marcus: RIGHT NOW. anthony: OKAY. I LOVE YOU!!! marcus: anthony: marcus: so it wasn't you who stole my charger?

robbo: send dudes ibou: don't you mean send nudes robbo: no send men. i'm in a fight

jadon: marcus kissed you? anthony: *stares woefully out the window* jadon: and you said "thank you"????? anthony: *sighs*

harry: nice ass, sorry about the mental illness serge: thank you king robbo: if u ever feel safe please remember. i'm out there.

bernardo: were you a gifted child? jack: uh yah gifted with a big fat juicy dump truck badonkadonk bernardo: ...fascinating...

[luxnowell]

[cluedoenthusiast]

PLEASE HELP HIM!!!!

bonus:

[simpleman193]

Happy international men's day!!

I try watching this movie every year around this date, it speaks a lot about masculinity.

Also listening to some lynyrd skynyrd's simple man ain't bad either hehe.

[spaceny]

Kane (headcanons)

10+ HCS with @diabliqtie [aceitando]

i. kane é filho único e isso só contribuiu mais na sua personalidade imediatista. ele quer tudo na hora dele, do jeito que ele quer e se não acontecer vai fazer uma tempestade pra conseguir. isso com todos menos com eris, que é a única que coloca juízo na cabeça dele. mas ele tem bem personalidade de príncipe (da forma mais negativa possível, apesar dos pontos posivitos).

ii. apesar de rico, a linguagem de amor dele não tem a ver com presentes. na verdade ele só dá presente quando não se importa tanto com a pessoa, afinal, qualquer coisa cara basta. mas no geral ele gosta de atos de serviço. "posso ajudar com isso?" "vou arrumar aquilo." "quer que eu faça?" etc.

iii. foi adotado ainda quando era pirralho e talvez por ter alguns anos de infância vivendo num bueiro que era chamado de orfanato que ele não seja o típico rico insuportável. ele é meio príncipe? sim, mas só com outros ricos. jamais tratará um trabalhador de forma desonesta!! um rico com noção de classe, então claro que ele sempre tenta fazer o possível pra deixar o local de trabalho mais confortável.

iv. é fluente em 5 idiomas simplesmente porque a primeira namorada dele traiu ele marcando encontros com a língua natal dela... sério... eles em casa de boa e ela falando no telefone um idioma x e quando ele perguntava "ah, era minha mãe" e aí ele quis aprender o idioma pra se aproximar mais da sogra e quando descobriu... já tava com a galhada monstra. então ele sabe: coreano (pelas origens), inglês, francês, italiano (por conta do pai aditivo inglês-italiano) e mandarim. no fim veio a calhar porque todos as parcerias do banco do seu pai ficam pela europa mesmo, então... não foi atoa!

v. ele sempre foi atlético e na escola até fez parte do time de basquete, mas no último ano ele lesionou o ombro direito e por isso não consegue erguer o braço acima da cabeça. não é uma lesão que atrapalhe no dia a dia, mas vez ou outra ele se permite se entupir de remédio pra dor só pra conseguir deixar o caçula nos ombros.

vi. ele tem um corvo e o corvo FALA! eu juro. é igual esse vídeo (vale de curiosidade que o corvo tem uma voz parecida que do kane porque eles repetem a mesma tonalidade). então é possível encontrar ele na sacada, no jardim ou até no escritório dele conversando com o querido edgar (pegou? pegou???)

vii. imagino que ele tenha uma amizade muito forte e de longa data, provavelmente com o matteo? se me permitir- acho que seria engraçado ver a forma como a vida dos dois escalaram e no fim tão os dois adultos e um casando o outro.

viii. diferente da maioria dos meus chars, kane não é nenhum pouco tímido (ou sem noção igual o hanjae). ele na verdade é bem galã, muito charmoso e apesar de no início ter ficado meio receoso porque nunca tinha encontrado uma mulher tão impecável quanto a eris, ele ainda foi com toda pompa xavecar ela. e podemos dizer que deu certo, né?

ix. ele tem uma coleção de cds, e apesar de guardar a sete chaves, o(s) cd(s) favoritos dele são a coleção de love metal (do I ao III). e eu não duvido que ele tenha tocado alguma das músicas pra se declarar pra eris (ou até que uma tenha tocado no casamento deles).

x. em referência a curiosidade anterior: o kane sabe tocar piano (mais especificamente, órgão). falando assim ele até parece perfeito, né? poliglota, toca instrumento, já foi atleta... mas ele só tinha MUITO tempo de sobra e, bom, filhinho de papai, né?

[ausetkmt]

Allah supreme: how Pharoah Sanders found freedom and rebellion in Islam | Pharoah Sanders | The Guardian

The day the music died was 24 September 2022. On that Saturday, the legendary tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, a man who blew his horn “as if he was a dragon breathing fire”, passed on, at age 81. With his death came the end of a majestic era, a time of saxophone spirituality and musical mysticism that will probably never be surpassed or even replicated. Sanders, like so many of his generation, channeled spirit into song, drawing inspiration from a panoply of sacred sources.

For a while, younger hip-hop generations also found words and meaning in a similar kind of search, and the music –along with the quest – continued.

But jazz has changed and hip-hop has changed.

Never mind that only some of these artists adopted the faith itself. It was their notes and their tones that counted. Plaintive, modal, quarter-toned and chromatic, these aural landscapes of east and west and everything in between stretched the imaginations of both players and audiences. Inside the music, new alliances were forged between people and with all that was holy.

To some people, though, the music just seemed cacophonous and angry. White critics often didn’t understand. Even as astute a thinker as the English Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm wrote, in 1959, that jazz’s “flight into Mohammedanism or some other non-white culture” was a way to “sidestep” a rising avant-garde jazz that was seeking white acceptance. Describing the era, Hobsbawm explained that “the marvelous political awakening of all the oppressed and underprivileged in Roosevelt’s America put a new tone into the jazz musician’s instrument: open resentment”.

If all you heard during the long civil rights era was an endless blow of rage, you were missing out since you weren’t listening. The love was everywhere and all over the music. The piano player Ahmad Jamal told an interviewer: “I get my approach to life from the Holy Qur’an. I belong to the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. Our motto is, ‘Love for all; hatred for none.’” (Many of the jazz musicians of that era came to Islam through the Ahmadiyya movement, a religious revivalist movement that began in late 19th-century India. It was led by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, a charismatic reformer who believed he had received divine revelations that required him to promote the unity of all religions as manifest through Islam. Ahmadis came to the USA in the 1920s and found receptive audiences in African American communities.)

And it was a love supreme. I’ve argued elsewhere that Coltrane’s most famous song, A Love Supreme, has its own Islamic echoes (the chant “a love supreme” starts to sound a bit like “Allah supreme” after a while). Pharoah Sanders, who played with ’Trane starting in 1965, extended Coltrane’s legacy after his death in 1967.

Meanwhile, Sanders continued to build his own spiritually inflected, religious ecumenical style. His 1969 hypnotic track Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah meditates on the words “Prince of peace / Won’t you hear our pleas / And ring your bells of peace / Let loving never cease” for an enveloping and achingly beautiful 15 minutes. His classic The Creator Has a Master Plan had its own second coming when it was re-released in a trip-hop remix in the mid-90s. The Trance of Seven Colors, Pharoah’s work with the master Gnawa musician of Morocco Mahmoud Guinia is simply transcendent on an interstellar plane.

And it was a way of connecting to Africa. “The Christianity of the slave represented a movement away from Africa,” Amiri Baraka wrote in this classic text Blues People. “It was the beginning of Africa as ‘a foreign place’.” For the jazz musicians of this long and spiritual era, to reconnect with Africa was more than idle curiosity. It was a way of suturing back an essential part of you that had been forcibly torn from your collective body generations ago. By the mid-1950s and 1960s, African-themed events at nightclubs and restaurants in Brooklyn and Harlem abounded, with UN diplomats from newly independent African countries frequently dropping in. The jazz pianist and composer Randy Weston described the era: “Many of the African countries were just getting their independence. And the wonderful thing about being in New York, the United Nations is there. So I had an opportunity to meet many African diplomats. Many people from Kenya, from Nigeria, from Ghana, from Egypt, many parts of Africa. And I would always talk to them to try to understand a little more about the continent.”

Weston eventually relocated to Morocco for about five years and traveled throughout the African continent before returning to the USA in 1972. “I went on a spiritual trip back home,” he told DownBeat magazine in 1998, referring to Africa. “I wanted to hear where I came from, why I play like I play, why we play music like we do. We went to about 18 countries, and wherever we went we asked to experience the traditional music of the people. Hearing the traditional music was like hearing jazz and blues and the Black church all at the same time.”

Weston also joined forces with master Gnawa musicians in Morocco. (He was playing with them and learning from them before Sanders did the same.) Others, such as Alice Coltrane, were moving in more eastern directions while still others, like Sun Ra, lived in intergalactic space and called us all to move in with him.

The spiritual jazz movement continued, but it didn’t take long for it to be eclipsed by other trends, everything from commercially accessible fusion, launched by the likes of Miles Davis, to the less accessible avant-garde innovations of Cecil Taylor or Albert Ayler. By the 1990s, jazz was also firmly ensconced in the ivory tower, featuring at prestigious arts institutions such as Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center.

Still, the Islamic influence in American popular music never went away, though it did change addresses. Shifting from sound to word, Muslim references could now be found more in the new hip-hop than in the new jazz, even if hip-hop Islam was a yet more heterodox creed than the one found within the Ahmadiyya community. Foundational hip-hop artists including Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, and the Wu-Tang Clan were invoking the words and numbers of the Nation of Gods and Earths, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam.

Five Percenter language has permeated the pop cultural lexicon. For example, the “G” in “wassup, G?”is not “gangsta”, as many might think, but “God”. In this creed, Five Percenter men are considered Gods, and Five Percenter women are known as Earths. “Dropping science” is a term from the Five Percenters, as is the emphatic term “word”, a short form of “word is my bond”.

Scholars have written on the important influence of Five Percenters on early hip-hop. But there are also other, more mainline Muslim influences on the American scene. Five Percenter doctrine was foundational in hip-hop, but it operated as an esoteric language among the educated and enlightened. The way the language and numerology (with an emphasis on the number 7) operated was to signify kinship and belonging, which was particularly important in the early hip-hop years. But other Muslim rappers, often associated with Sunni Islam, performed their deen, their faith, more in line with the jazz tradition that preceded it, as a search for self.

Mos Def is hardly the only one who invokes this devotional search. A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip (Kamaal Fareed) is another. “Praise the Lord of the worlds that’s unseen / Respect me for that and let me do my thing,” we hear in the song Get a Hold. More recently, the Five Percenters, the Nation of Islam, and Sunni Islam (and more) tentatively unite to find a home in the lyrical power of Jay Electronica. “All I have in this world is my flag and my sword / I’m on the battlefield with the flag of my Lord,” rhymes Electronica in Fruit of the Spirit. “My shahada is my cantada / My heart chakra light up when I make sajda at fajr.”

While spiritual quests such as Jay Electronica’s aren’t as common in today’s hip-hop, the search hasn’t disappeared entirely. After all, the history of Black music shows us time and again how the journey seeking the divine produces such a profound musical experience.

And that’s what Pharoah Sanders leaves behind. His was an unyielding search for a way to transcend the secular ugliness of this world, and with his passing Sanders may have finally achieved that goal. Yet music – like all that is holy – never dies. And Pharoah’s saxophone will honk and shriek and envelop all our senses, reverberating to heaven and back, and maybe even beyond.

[spaceny]

@diabliqtie 🥺

Klimt + The Addams Family

[alexios]

kane: [was found as a baby in a crypt, no vallaslin, no connection to the dalish whatsoever, probably fantasy catholic]

kane, for some reason when talking about elgar'nan and ghilain'nain: OUR gods

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I have no words for his beauty....

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