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[equallyshaw]

blindsided, quinn hughes x singer au !

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little backstory, so unnamed singer and quinn got married when they were both 19 after being together for 3 years, right before he left for vancouver. singer is a wellknown and very popular singer/songwriter who has graced the stage of almost every award show and movie premiere possible. the two met in toronto before the hughes moved to michigan, and before she moved back home to Nashville. She then moved to Chicago to be closer to him when he went to umich. right before he was about to leave for a full year in vancouver, the two eloped and up until summer 2022 were together. after four years (seven years altogether) of bliss and pain, the singer is hitting back at quinn's letter to her through her new song.

. ────── ･

Were you on the other line or driving in your car?

Were you hiding upstairs or playing your guitar?

Was there nothing ever wrong, 'cause you were always right?

Tell me, were you blindsided or were you just blind?

. ────── ･

in quinn's letter to me after we divorced, explained that he had not known when we had lost eachother. he hadn't known that i was feeling that way or that the conversations i had tried to have were from a deep and hurt part of me. he said he never knew that i was feeling this way, and i know why. quinn had not been there two years after we married, like i had for him. i went to all the games, even when i really wanted to say 'fuck you' and leave canada and go home. yet, i stayed. thats it. i stayed, even when it broke me beyond anything i had ever felt before.

. ────── ･

And now you're saying that you're lost, and that's lost on me

Years of sitting across from me in therapy

I know the truth is hard to hear, but it wasn't hard to find

Baby, were you blindsided or were you just blind?

. ────── ･

i remember sitting across from him in 2021, right after we had landed in vancouver for the upcoming season, and would not look at me. he wouldn't respond to me the way he had always. his eyes used to twinkled with wonder and amazement every time he responded or looked at me. i knew then that something was wrong, and that he was slipping from my fingers. i was losing him, and i didn't know how long i had been before that. and now he's saying he doesn't know when he lost 'us'. oh babe, i can show you the picture i took the moment we settled in for the night. i remember the moment i suggested therapy, and you looked at me as if i had two heads. that simple comment turned into a fight that left me in tears. which conveniently, was right before the toronto film festival and left me sleeping on the couch. but we will come back to that. i remember sitting in our first therapy session, and somehow someway everything was my fault. then the therapist gave me a chance to speak to him, and for once able to get everything off my chest that had been weighing on it for months. he looked as if he had just gotten beaten up by nathan mackinnon or ryan reaves, anybody at that point. it looked as if he was in disbelief, that somebdoy he 'loved' dearly would say. though, i never said anything hateful, just stuff i had noticed over time. but he did not want to hear that, he didn't. so afterwards he continued to be the old 'perfect' quinn that he was, he did make an effort for a few months before crushingly being eliminated from the 2022 playoffs. we flew back home to michigan, where our new lake house awaited with jack. though, as soon as i stepped into a surprise birthday party for me, ellen could tell that i wanted to be anywhere but there. she saw the nervous faces and nervous ticks clear as day. so as soon as i caught a breathe upstairs, she followed. i told her that i couldn't do it anymore, and that i was leaving her son. she held me as i sobbed, not knowing if i was going to actually leave him or not. to her and jim, i loved quinn and he loved me. though, that was far from the truth. she thought i was just saying it like i had did the summer before.

i left the next day, around 6 am when jack was waking up. he saw the suitcases i had by the door as i was loading them into a uber. jack walked outside with a coffee mug in hand, sipping and watching before i noticed him. "shit!" i seethed, holding a hand to my chest. jack had rolled the last suitcase out for me, and we looked at one another before speaking. "you'll be back." jack said and i shook my head. "no, i wont jack. he doe-doesn't love me anymore." she said and he shook his head. "the way he talks about you says something else." jack said so dead set on keeping me here. "no he doesn't. he doesn't even talk to me jack. hasn't for months. you wanna know why i haven't released a song in how long? because i don't leave the house, i don't hang out with people, i don't do anything because ive been trying to be the perfect wife for him in hopes that'd he say something or thank me. but the only way he thanked me was sleeping with a friend from nashville in our penthouse, that i brought." i said before handing the bag to the uber driver, and slipped in the sleek audi. as we drove off, i saw the shocked jack hughes stand there. he hadn't known.

. ────── ･

I'd go write a song and you'd go for a walk

We had to get drunk to ever really talk

I told you what I needed, didn't have to read my mind

. ────── ･

feburary of 2022, i had begun writing my previous album "just a few thoughts" about some feelings i had been having recently, and wrote songs in a way that could be a million different things. when i wrote the first song, i smiled and quickly went to go find him hoping he was in our room so i could put it by him. that was how it had always been, i write a song he listens. but i couldn't find him, and he told me that night that he went out for a drive to brocks. two days later, he left again. and then as i continued to write the album that month, he kept leaving. to god know's where to. i smiled through it, i smiled through the tears that i had whenver he was around. i smiled through the tears when we were with his teammates. i smiled through the lonely nights in bed, when he was and was not there. when i brought it up around april, once he had not made the playoffs, he screamed at me. telling me that he just didn't want to hear my music anymore. it had felt as if the world was breaking beneath me and that my heart was going with it. the very first time we met, and laid eyes on one another we had been at a music festival in toronto, where i was performing some of my songs at the time. that was one of the things he adored about me, was my music and the way i could write and harmonize. and do the 'singing thing i do' he always called it.

prior to that, it seemed as though everytime i wanted to talk, we had to get drunk. and then when we'd get drunk we'd fight and yell and then wakeup as strangers. then we'd go to bed strangers on and on, until he wanted to be lovey dovey to have sex. and so everytime we'd 'talk' he wouldn't listen to me. he would continue on with his day or night, and just blow me off. it just so happened that one time, brock and his girlfriend had come over one time during it, and were shocked to find us at this state. they had believed that we were the shit, that we just oozed love and adoration for one another. but we know that to be far from the truth.

. ────── ･

And now you're saying that you're lost, and that's lost on me

I never wanted to leave the house, I didn't want a family

I know the truth is hard to hear, but it wasn't hard to find

Baby, were you blindsided or were you just blind?

. ────── ･

in the letter that he had written to me after i filed for a divorce and a restraining order, had left me confused. he told me he had no idea where it went wrong, but that he was now lost because he didn't have me. i remember sobbing at that line, because he had made it seem like it was all my fault like he did in therapy. he just repeated that statement over and over. it seemed as though now, that i was his whole world. that i took up every part of it, the good and bad.

he didn't understand why i did not want children at our two year mark being married, and sixth year being together. you wanna know why? because i never left that damn penthouse, i never left it - rarely for games and team activities. i never left because i wanted to do everything in my power to make it seem like we had a great home life and one that was filled with equality and adoration. yet, as you know now it was far from it.

the day that our divorce was finalized, we both appreared in an ann arbor court to do so. i read a letter aloud for his family and mine to hear. once i was finished, i looked up at quinn and saw the heartbreaking blank stare he had given me for two years. one that was empty and cold. hard to hear, huh? i then looked over towards his family, and saw similar ones and tears falling from ellen's face. what quinn had told her was one side, and partially incorrect. she could see the genuiness and confidence i posessed. she knew.

i sniffled back my tears, and gave a sullen frown to my divorce who embraced me quickly afterwards. i took one last look at the hughes family on the way out, all of them trying to come with terms of my shocking and heartbreaking letter. was quinn really blindsided? nah. he knew all along, but was just blind.

. ────── ･

Like that one time in 2020, before that big show, we had a big fight

I slept on the couch and then the next night you put on your suit

I put on a smile and sang about how it's okay to cry, dying inside

. ────── ･

it was winter of 2020, and i had somehow begged and successfully gotten quinn to come see me perform in toronto at the toronto film festival for one night only show, promoting a single i did for a movie. i had somehow gotten him to take a few days off, in december before christmas. as soon as we had landed, we hurried to the hotel so i could get a early night but that was not meant to be. i ended up sleeping on the couch that night, and the following one he put on a nice suit and i put on a pretty dress. we posed for pictures backstage and on the red carpet for the event, smiling through tears once more. and at the end of my set, i gave a heartfelt thanks to him. i looked backstage to where he said he'd be all night, and had hoped he had returned from god knows where, but when i looked back i didn't see him. he was at the bar, talking to two random people. and had been all night. i sang the very last song, from the movie, about how it was okay to to cry while going through hard times. the crowd not realizing that i was going through the hardest time in my life, and that song represented me and not those damn movie character's it was supposed to be. i remember swallowing back my tears, smiled at the crowd and waved goodbye.

that night we flew home in a private jet, fighting once more becuase he wasn't there the whole time. he didn't understand what it meant to be there for me when i needed and wanted him the most. he was never there. even when i paid for all the flights and hotels. he never got on the plane to see me in europe while i was on tour in summer of 2021. he was in nashville with his brothers and friends, at some music festival. that was a turning point in our marriage for me, i remember (drunkingly) texting ellen and not my mom, at about 2 am denmark time and 8 pm her time. i told her that i couldn't do it anymore. and that i was at my wit's end with this marriage and that i had planned to leave him once i got back. the morning came and i checked my phone to see ellen's text messages and facetimes, from the time i sent the text. i realized i hadn't sent them to my mom but 'mom # 2'. i sighed, biting my lips and texitng her that everything was okay. and that i wasn't leaving. she'd tell him, i just knew it.

. ────── ･

it's been now a year since i filed for divorce, its been now 2 months since i met my now boyfriend, and 2 days since i announced to the world i had new music coming out. i felt like i was going to throw up posting those ill-fated photos that were legally mine now, as i awaited for the response. i heard from people in vancouver that quinn was livid but he had not say or control over me. not anymore atleast. he could be livid and cry like a baby in the penthouse i left him after we divorced. they told me he felt blindsided once more, yet he knew all along this would be happening. that i would get my voice back, and voice what i had been throught the past almost four years now. he had no control over me, and nobody does for that matter.

now as i settle in for the night with my boyfriend josh, who just so happens to play for the san jose sharks i held him a little harder tonight like i normally do. constantly in fear of him leaving or becoming distant. even a year and a half later of not living together and now being divorced for a year, that fear still lingers. but, i had found somebody who was all and completely mine.

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[lauraepartain]

Rest in peace, Patrick Haggerty, it was a blessing to have met you. Haggerty was a country singer and queer activist, whose 1973 album Lavender Country is widely considered to be the first openly queer country album ever made. I originally became hip to Patrick through his 2016 StoryCorps short called “The Saint of Dry Creek”, a Sundance Film Festival selection that tells the story of being young and gay in rural america, and his father, a dairy farmer, who impressed upon him the beauty in being true to yourself.

“‘Look, everybody knows I’m a dairy farmer. This is who I am.’ And he looked me square in the eye. And then he said, ‘Now, how bout you? When you’re a full-grown man, who are you gonna go out with at night?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know.’ And he said, ‘I think you do know. Now, I’m gonna tell you something today, and you might not know what to think of it now, but you’re gonna remember when you’re an adult. Don’t sneak. Because if you sneak, it means you think you’re doing the wrong thing. And if you run around spending your whole life thinking that you’re doing the wrong thing, then you’ll ruin your immortal soul.’  And out of all the things a father in 1959 could have told his gay son, my father tells me to be proud of myself and not sneak. My reaction at the time was to get out in the hay field and pretend like I was as much of a man as I could be. And I remember flipping 50-pound bales three feet up into the air going, ”I’m not a queer. What’s he talking about?” But he knew where I was headed. And he, he knew that humiliating me and making me feel bad about it in any way was the wrong thing to do. I had the patron saint of dads for sissies, and no, I didn’t know at the time, but I know it now.” - Patrick Haggerty/Lavender Country

Patrick boldly made music that I know not only touched the lives of many of us, but provided a sense of comfort, confidence, and the power of feeling seen to his queer audience. He spent his life doing the opposite of sneaking, and left us with his art and spirit. 

Taken at the OG Basement in Nashville years back after his show there.

[dollsahoy]

A new film called “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story,” premiering at both the Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Film Festival, turns that template on its head. Its subject — a riveting, visionary R&B performer and Black, trans woman who got her start in Nashville, then took the Toronto scene by storm in the 1960s, before completely falling off the radar — had not only been located. She’d actually weighed in on the proper approach to telling her story. So the filmmakers felt the weight of her wishes, but no longer had her around to help. Ultimately, they had to figure out how to do justice to a thoroughly self-directed performer who’d rarely been seen for who she was during her lifetime.

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[ourpickwickclub]

If he’s going to OK I think he might stop in for Grace West and maybe introduce her. My guess is he might head back to Nashville for the film festival and the premiere of the Sawyer Brown documentary. I read that they’re filming a Country Christmas special at the beginning of the week with Wynnona as the host. It’s a long shot, but it would be cool if he participated, and it would fit into a whirlwind week schedule, especially if he heads back to Nashville.

There’s a video of him from tonight saying that he had just wrapped up a “hell week” of work in Nashville and that the Orlando show was his last show of the year (except for his NYE show.) It’s possible he’ll attend, but the way he talked made it sound like this show tonight was the final thing on his schedule.

— M

[desirepathzine]

Is SAVED! by Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter a Christian album?

Yes? Sort of?

Hayter's musical career seems to always fling her at the foot of God. Her previous work as Lingua Ignota protrays God like a horrifying eldritch god of vengeance conjured by some ritual on All Bitches Die, a gleaming and gilded Catholic executioner on CALIGULA, and folkloric legend of the Pennsylvania landscape on SINNER GET READY. In 2022, Hayter announced she was retiring the Lingua Ignota moniker, and the associated back catalog, citing the emotional and physical pain of this powerful music, and the toll it was taking to write it, record it, and tour it.

As a vocalist and a performer, I have cannot fathom how Hayter completed even one of these Lingua Ignota shows. Her voice is a multi-faceted instrument of destruction, soaring high, screaming in pain, perfectly cracking with authentic imperfection, and I cannot imagine preforming the musically complicated and emotionally taxing music of Lingua to enraptured crowds watching your every move. I just missed my chance to see her while she was promoting SINNER GET READY (I mixed up the dates on my calendar and was ready to go the day after she had departed Nashville). While I was blissfully ignorant of missing the show, Hayter was haphazardly getting ordained in a hotel outside of Nashville in preparation for her next project.

In October of 2023, a few months after the very last Lingua Ignota shows in London, Kristin reintroduced herself to the world with that new title obtained in Tennessee, and released SAVED! as Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter.

Some of the tracks might be familiar tunes, for a variety of reasons. There are several old school hymns that I recognized from my Baptist upbringing. But Hayter had started performing some of this material while promoting Sinner Get Ready, and at a self-styled tent revival service at the first inaugural Perpetual Flame Festival, which marked the end of Lingua performances in the States.

Per Hayter, SAVED! was borne of a genuine attempt to find salvation through old time religion. Whether it 'worked' is up for debate, both in the album's narrative and in Hayter's demure and vague interview answers about her salvation. She built a doomsday cult bunker in the basement of her home, as featured on the album's cover and where the majority of the visuals for the record were filmed. She fasted before recording, blasted clips of revival sermons, and engaged in glossolalia, aka speaking in tongues, as part of the record.

It's much more stripped back than any of the expansive and grand Lingua instrumentation, mostly just Hayter and her prepared piano that was also used in previous touring, the inner strings of the instrument laden with chains and various other doodads that clang and whirr when she plays the keys. The lushly layered vocals are used sparingly. Perhaps most interestingly (and that's high praise on an album that regularly utilizes speaking in tongues), Kristin and longtime producer Seth Manchester recorded on tape, and proceeded to intentionally sabotage these physical recordings, stomping and smashing them, creating imperfections to further give these pieces a time, a place, and an irreplaceable atmosphere.

All of this makes SAVED! feel like a tape you found in the woods of a long passed tent revival, full of charismatic performances, blissfully imperfect voices, songs running into one another as the spirit moves, and maybe a snake handler or two. There are showstopping pieces like IDUMEA (the only track to feature synth) and I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS, manic interludes of well-known hymns (PRECIOUS LORD TAKE MY HAND, NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD OF JESUS), interlaced with spine tingling interjections of tape damage and glossolalia.

Hayter's original works pair well with the much older hymns and traditionals. Album opener I'M GETTING OUT WHILE I CAN sets the tone perfectly, a march towards that imagined tent, inspired by the jovial piousness of the Louvin Brothers, as is ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL.

I WILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU is perhaps the closest a portrayal of the mission statement of the album: a bedridden narrator is beset by demons, that spill blood and inflict sickness, but finds release and freedom in celestial salvation. It's some of my favorite writing from Hayter on the album and maybe the strongest vocal performance as well, a technical feat. It never allows itself to become too beautiful, the song is always on the edge of complete oblivion from the keening feedback that appears throughout. It sounds like your ears ringing after an explosion. journey. MAY THIS COMFORT AND PROTECT YOU is a wailing prayer of protection, but it is external towards the listener as opposed to the internal reflection of its sibling songs. It functions almost as a benediction to the sanest part of the album.

But easily my favorite track on this album is THE POOR WAYFARING STRANGER, a traditional song that Hayter had been performing in her piano sets on tour. It is dark, moody, and she sings the third and fourth verses that are not heard as often but contain some of the most stunning lyricism.

So how does it end, this strange and beautiful tent revival in the woods? The closing track is the hymn HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING? Hayter's piano is unbound, all objects removed from the strings, her voice is in a comfy key that doesn't put her into theatrical strain, surely within the album's narrative all has ended well. But partially through the song's length, Hayter speaking in tongue rises, more manic and guttural than anywhere else on the record, and it is her alone, no archival sound, no crowd noise. Just her. Even after the song sweetly finishes, she is screaming, crying, voice rising and falling. At one point she chokes, coughs, inhales deeply, and falls right back into her trance. The tongues continue for roughly two minutes after any music has stopped.

It's a shocking, beautiful, and captivating finale to an album of interesting choices, one that sticks with the listener. I sat in silence for I don't know how long upon hearing it for the first time. Kristin had performed SINGING on tour as well, a light and airy hymn amidst the fire and brimstone conjured in either of her two sets on any given SINNER GET READY date. Her ability to transform it into a haunting album closer is incredible (the same can be said for NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD OF JESUS, which she sang a capella over the recording of Jimmy Swaggart's infamous apology sermon during those same shows).

It's an insane album, full of fascinating production choices, performed to perfection. But such wild choices on the heels of such acclaimed work can polarize an audience. Lingua Ignota was always an uncategorizable project. Black metal and harsh industrial fans gravitated in particular towards All Bitches Die and CALIGULA, while recently Lingua's name will occasionally be tossed in with Ethel Cain, fans seeing similarities between Cain's screaming pain on Ptolomea and the rural gothicism of SINNER GET READY. Indeed, Anthony Fantano of theneedledrop, perhaps the most famous music critic on YouTube, gave his audience a heads up towards Hayter's music when he awarded SINNER GET READY an extremely rare 10/10, exposing the album to legions of folks who otherwise would have missed it. To many artists, this would be a sign to stay the path, follow a proven formula, keep chasing an angle that is clearly connecting with people. But I have a deep respect for Hayter's commitment to healing, to finding peace, and pursuing something that is still fascinating without being as taxing to her physical and mental health.

SAVED! is so unlike those other records, it's a bold move. But it's on purpose. This music is not directly tied to the worst events of Hayter's life, that she chronicled so unwaveringly in her previous work, admittedly to her personal and physical detriment. And she also comments often on SAVED! being maybe a transitory project, a sound and character that may not stick around for long, but was cathartic for her to release and work on. It was her first album that she recorded with some stability, living peacefully in New England, spending time with her horse.

Not everyone who enjoyed Lingua has jumped over to following the Reverend. A friend of mine who enjoyed SINNER GET READY said that SAVED! just falls close enough to what actually was used in their church's worship services to the point where it was mildly triggering for them, more than the death and destruction of previous Lingua entries. Which brings me to my original question: Is SAVED! a Christian album? It is earnestly sung (by an ordained minister nonetheless, although Hayter is quick to mention that she did it on a laptop and it took like eight minutes). Of course it is far too horrifying to play for the congregation of any given Christian church.

I like that there isn't a clear answer to these questions. Like the album's conclusion, there's no correct way to feel about it, no correct meaning to infer, just what you bring to the table. And even if it isn't a journey you take repeatedly, it is one worth taking at least once. Look into Kristin's Rorschach test and maybe you'll see something you love, or something that horrifies you. There is only one way to find out.

[gone2soon-rip]

SHELLEY DUVALL (1949-Died July 9th 2024,at 75.Diabetes).Duvall's breakthrough role was in Altman's Nashville (1975). Her leading role in Altman's drama 3 Women (1977) won her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She followed up with a supporting role in Woody Allen's satirical romantic comedy Annie Hall, and hosted Saturday Night Live, both in 1977. She became famous for her leading roles across the 1980s, such as Olive Oyl in Altman's live-action feature version of Popeye, and Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's horror film The Shining, both in 1980.Shelley Duvall - Wikipedia

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Percy Hynes White, Seth Issac Johnson, Kerrice Brooks, Maisy Stella, Aubrey Plaza, Megan Park, Maddie Ziegler, Carter Trozzolo and Maria Dizzia at the premiere of My Old Ass at the Sundance Film Festival 2024

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“New York glitter-punk outfit The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black began life as a near-death experience. Shortly before forming the band in 1990, front woman Kembra Pfahler was strangled in a brutal mugging and almost died. While recovering, battered and zonked on painkillers, she watched the 1975 horror movie Trilogy of Terror on television. The film stars Karen Black, the quirky cross-eyed actress whose wildly erratic career encompasses everything from some of the key American films of the 1970s (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Nashville, Day of the Locust) to mainstream Hollywood schmaltz (Airport 1975) to obscure straight-to-VHS exploitation / horror dreck. In Trilogy's best-known segment, Black is stalked by and eventually possessed by a cursed malevolent Zuni fetish doll which has come to life. [SPOILER ALERT] It concludes with a final jolting image of the now-crazed and murderous, knife-wielding Black grinning blank-eyed and maniacal to the camera to reveal a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth identical to the Zuni doll’s … In her traumatized state, that savage and disturbing image -- combined with almost dying -- made a powerful impression on Pfahler. Inspired, she would blacken out her teeth, conceal her natural fine-featured beauty under cadaverous make-up and take to the stage clad in little more than a pair of thigh boots and a coat of body paint. Pfahler’s look can suggest a character from a John Waters film given an “ugly make-over”: think of Divine as the acid-scarred Dawn Davenport in Female Trouble (1974), an image which seems to anticipate TVHKB’s twisted glamour. Like Divine before her, Pfahler shaves off her eyebrows and shaves back her hairline to accommodate her extreme eye make-up. “I want to be both very beautiful and very repulsive,” Pfahler would explain to The Toronto Star in 1994.”

/ From my own blog post “The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black at Meltdown Festival 10 August 2012” /

Born on this day 62 years ago (4 August 1961): California girl-turned-NYC provocative performance artist, Cinema of Transgression actress and Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black voodoo-dolly singer Kembra Pfahler. Photo of Pfahler by me!

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It’s the American Dream by way of a dirt road, and the documentary will premiere on Sun., Oct. 1 at the Nashville Film Festival at the Franklin Theatre in Franklin, TN. For tickets to the event and to the Nashville Film Festival, visit nashvillefilmfestival.org/2023-festival.

Following the film’s premiere, Sawyer Brown Band will perform live on the Franklin Theatre stage and be joined by several surprise guests.

Anyone think B will go to premier of Sawyer Brown documentary Oct 1?

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Holidays 6.29

Holidays

Bonus Hole Day

Chronic Migraine Awareness Day

Coriander Day (French Republic)

Day of Partisans and Underground Resistance (Russia)

Day of the Telephone Operator (Brazil)

Engineer’s Day (Ecuador)

Eva Day (UK)

FLASCO Day (Florida)

Flower and Camera Day

Gadsen Purchase Ratification Day

Gioco Del Ponte (Pisa, Italy)

Herb Harvesting Day (East Anglica, UK)

Homosexual Pride Day

Hug Holiday

Internal Autonomy Day (French Polynesia)

International Danube Day

International Day of the Tropics

International Mud Day

International Fisherman’s Day

International Sharing Day

International Transgender Youth Day

Interstate Highway Day

iPhone Day

Leroy Experiment 629 Day (Lilo & Stitch)

MIA Azatamartik Remembrance Day (Armenia)

Missing in North Texas Day

National AMHP Day (UK)

National Amnesia Awareness Day (UK)

National Camera Day

National Darts Day

National Dieselbilly Day

National Family Day (Indonesia)

National Fred Day

National Gordon Day

National Guy Day

National Nash Day

National Paddy Day (Nepal)

National Sports Day (Fiji)

National Statistics Day (India)

Remote Control Day

Sacrament of the Silicon Host

Shipbuilder Day (Russia)

629 Day

Smith & Wesson 629 Day

Smosh Appreciation Day

Veterans Day (Netherlands)

World Industrial Design Day

World Music Designation Day

World Scleroderma Awareness Day

Yellow Cock’s Comb Day

Youth Day (Russia)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Bacon Burnt End Day

Gnocchi Day (Argentina)

Meatballs Day

National Almond Buttercrunch Day

Waffle Iron Day

Independence & Related Days

Autonomy Day (French Polynesia)

Central Province Day (Solomon Islands; 1981)

Seychelles (from UK, 1976)

Tahiti (Annexed by France; 1880)

5th & Last Saturday in June

Armed Forces Day (UK) [Last Saturday]

Bartender and Mixologist Day [Last Saturday]

Day of Inventors & Rationalizers (Russia) [Last Saturday]

Great American Picnic Day [Last Saturday]

International Handstand Day [Last Saturday]

International Scoliosis Awareness Day [Last Saturday]

National Celebrate Your Marriage Day [Last Saturday]

National Cornhole Day [Last Saturday]

National Haskap Berry Day [Last Saturday]

Vegan Pizza Day [Last Saturday]

Veteranendag (Veteran’s Day; Netherlands) [Last Saturday]

World Bike Naked Day [Last Saturday]

World Day Against Pet Abandonment [Last Saturday]

World Sand Dune Day [Last Saturday]

Festivals Beginning June 29, 2024

Adirondack Wine and Food Festival (Lake George, New York) [thru 6.30]

Blues, Brews and Food Truck Festival (New Glarus, Wisconsin)

CHUM Rhubarb Festival (Duluth, Minnesota)

Festival d’Avignon (Avignon, France) [thru 7.21]

Haro Wine Festival (Haro, Spain)

IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival (Pernik, Bulgaria) [thru 7.6]

Kingston Fire Association's Beerfest (Kingston, New Hampshire)

Midsummer Fantasy Renaissance Faire (Ansonia, Connecticut) [thru 7.14]

MuslimFest (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada)

National Cherry Festival (Traverse City, Michigan) [thru 7.6]

Oxbow Music Festival (Johnson, Vermont)

Peace, Love, BBQ … and Pizza! (Plains, Georgia)

Peterborough Musicfest (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada)

Playtime (Paris, France) [thru 7.1]

Raspberry Festival (Middlefield, Connecticut)

Reggae Love Festival (Manassas, Virginia)

Roskilde Festival (Roskilde, Denmark) [thru 7.6]

Santa Barbara Wine + Food Festival (Santa Barbara, California)

Show-Me Gourd Society Art Festival: Gourd Tales (Lebanon, Missouri) [thru 6.30]

South Berwick Strawberry Festival (South Berwick, Maine)

Supanova Pop Culture Expo (Perth, Australia) [thru 6.30]

Tour de France (thru 7.21)

Whiskies of the World (Nashville, Tennessee)

Zoobilee! Feast with the Beasts (Providence, Rhode Island)

Feast Days

Albuquerque (Positivist; Saint)

Allan Houser (Artology)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Writerism)

Appreciate Herbs Day (Pastafarian)

Bawming the Thorn (Appleton, England; Everyday Wicca)

Bobby London (Artology)

Brian Herbert (Writerism)

Cassius of Narni (Christian; Saint)

David B. Mattingly (Artology)

Elizabeth Claire Chapel Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Emma (Christian; Saint & Widow)

Feast Day in Honor of Papa Legba (Voodoo; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (a.k.a. ... 

Day of the Christian Martyr (Voice of the Martyrs)

Doukhobor Peace Day (Canada)

Haro Wine Festival (Haro, La Rioja)

La Festa di San Pietro e Paolo (Rome, Italy)

L-Imnarja (Malta)

Miracle of the Moose (Russian Orthodox)

Ratcatcher’s Day (Hamelin, Germany)

Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul

Funeral of Kostroma Celebration (East Slavic Fertility Goddess)

Hemma (Christian; Saint)

Knitting Day (Pastafarian)

The Koala (Muppetism)

Michael Whelan (Artology)

Oharai (Grand Purification Festival; Shinto)

Peter the Apostle (Christian; Saint)

Pietro Paolo Troisi (Artology)

Salome and Judith (Christian; Saints)

Solstitium II (Pagan)

Wicked Fairies Summer Debate (Shamanism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s the day Santa judges everyone to be naughty or nice.)

Premieres

Aesop’s Fable … The Mosquito (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1945)

Bachelor Party (Film; 1984)

Bad Moms (Film; 2016)

Banty Raids (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Colony, by Philip K. Dick (Short Story; 1953)

Coming to America (Film; 1988)

Conan the Destroyer (Film; 1984)

Daily Telegraph (London UK Daily Newspaper; 1855)

Dancing in the Street, recorded by David Bowie and Mick Jagger (Song; 19985)

Days of Thunder (Film; 1990)

Donald’s Crime (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Do You Love Me, recorded by The Contours (Song; 1962)

Extraordinary Attorney Woo (TV Series; 2022)

Feedback, by Rush (Album; 2004)

Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher (Play; 1613)

The King and I (Film; 1956)

Kiss Kiss, by Roald Dahl (Short Stories; 1959)

Le Escape Goat (The Inspector Cartoon; 1967)

The Leftovers (TV Series; 2014)

Life Among the Savages, by Shirley Jackson (Memoir; 1953)

The Living Daylights (James Bond Film, UK; 1987) [#15]

The Looking Glass War, by John le Carré (Novel; 1965) [George Smiley #4]

Magic Mike (Film; 2012)

Meatballs (Film; 1979)

Moonraker (James Bond Film, US; 1979) [#11]

Northwoods (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Day; 1931)

Ratatouille (Animated Pixar Film; 2007)

Running with Scissors, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 1999)

See the World (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1934)

See Ya Later Gladiator (WB LT Cartoon; 1968)

A Self-Made Mongrel (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1945)

Sherlock Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1976)

The Spy in the Ointment, by Donald E. Westlake (Novel; 1966)

Strong to the Finich (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1934)

Ted (Film; 2012)

Tomorrow We Diet! (Disney Cartoon; 1951)

Trap Happy (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1946)

War of the Worlds (Film; 2005)

Who Killed Cock Robin? (Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1935)

Today’s Name Days

Gero, Paul, Peter (Austria)

Kamen, Pavel, Petar, Petra, Petrana (Bulgaria)

Pavao, Petar (Croatia)

Pavel, Petr (Czech Republic)

Paulus, Petrus (Denmark)

Peedo, Peedu, Peep, Peet, Peeter (Estonia)

Peetu, Pekka, Pekko, Petja, Petra, Petri, Petrus, Petteri, Pietari (Finland)

Paul, Pierre (France)

Gero, Paul, Peter (Germany)

Pavlos, Petros (Greece)

Pál, Péter (Hungary)

Paolo, Pietro (Italy)

Pauls, Pāvils, Pēteris (Latvia)

Benita, Gedrimė, Mantigirdas, Petras, Povilas (Lithuania)

Per, Peter, Petter (Norway)

Benedykta, Benita, Dalebor, Paweł, Piotr (Poland)

Pavel, Petru (România)

Pavol, Peter, Petra (Slovakia)

Emma, Pablo, Pedro (Spain)

Peter, Petra, Petrus (Sweden)

Paul, Peter (Ukraine)

Emma, Emmett, Heaven, Parnell, Parnella, Pedro, Pete, Peter, Pierce, Pierre, Salome (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 181 of 2024; 185 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 26 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Geng-Wu), Day 24 (Jia-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 23 Sivan 5784

Islamic: 22 Dhu al-Hijjah 1445

J Cal: 1 Red; Oneday [1 of 30]

Julian: 16 June 2024

Moon: 42%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 12 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Albuquerque]

Runic Half Month: Feoh (Wealth) [Day 6 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 10 of 94)

Week: 4th Full Week of June)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 9 of 31)

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Holidays 3.7

Holidays

Alexander Graham Bell Day

Arbor Day (California)

Be Heard Day

Bird Day (California)

Bloody Sunday Anniversary Day (Selma, Alabama)

Chamorro Heritage Day (Guam)

Cybercombine Day (Prudentianopolis)

Doronicum Day (French Republic)

Equal Pay Day (Gleicher Bezahlungstag; Germany)

Finnmarkslopet Dog Sled Race (Finland)

First Planting Festival (Elder Scrolls)

Get Grandma To Write Down Her Meatloaf Recipe Day

Hamilton Lavity Stoutt Day (British Virgin Islands)

International Brick Maker Day

International Day of the Anti-Fascist Woman

International Women’s Day (Angola, Tajikistan)

INTERPOL International Day of Remembrance for Fallen Officers

Jose Abad Day (Philippines)

Liberation of Sulaymaniyah (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Mahasivarathri Day (Sri Lanka)

Maritime Day (Slovenia)

Masaryk Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)

Maslenitsa (Russia)

National Ben Day

National Carol Day

National Cooper Day

National Day of Lesbian Visibility (Argentina)

National Heroes and Benefactors Day (Belize)

National Sauna Day (Japan)

National Sharon Day

National Slam the Scam Day

National Teresa Day

Neil Diamond Day (Las Vegas)

Nones of March (Ancient Rome)

Plant Power Day (UK)

Say Hello Day

Suez Canal Day

Teacher’s Day (Albania)

Texas Energy Day (Texas)

307 Day

Transport and Telecommunication Workers Day (Turkmenistan)

World Oneness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cereal Day

National Crown Roast of Pork Day

National Flapjack Day

Punsch Roll Day (Sweden)

1st Thursday in March

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

Nametag Day [Thursday of Name Week]

National Hospitalist Day [1st Thursday]

National Vending Day [1st Thursday]

White Ribbon Day (Massachusetts) [1st Thursday]

World Book Day (Ireland, UK) [1st Thursday]

Independence & Related Days

Aleutian Islands (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Sulaymaniyah Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Festivals Beginning March 7, 2024

Antikmässan (Stockholm, Sweden) [thru 3. 10]

Brazilian Beer Festival (Blumeneau, Brazil) [thru 3.9]

Cincinnati International Wine Festival (Cincinnati, Ohio) [thru 3.9]

Crufts Dog Show (Birmingham, England) [thru 3. 10]

Eastern Bison Association Winter Conference (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) [thru 3.9]

Fulton Oysterfest (Fulton, Texas) [thru 3.10]

Limassol Carnival (Limassol, Cyprus) [thru 3. 17]

National Coffee Association Convention (Nashville, Tennessee) [thru 3.9]

New England Brew Summit (Portland, Maine)

Red, White & Snow (Park City, Utah) [thru 3.9]

Sustainable Wine Dinner Series (Los Angeles, California)

The WhiskyX (Miami, Florida)

Feast Days

Ardo (Christian; Saint)

Barbara Eden Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Billy (Muppetism)

Boris Kustodiev (Artology)

Contradiction Day (No It’s Not!; Pastafarian)

The Devil Is God Reversed Day (Everyday Wicca)

Drausius (a.k.a. Drausin; Christian; Saint)

Empodocles (Positivist; Saint)

Edward Landseer (Artology)

Esterwine (Christian; Saint)

Festival for Vedovus (God of the Dead & Volcanic Movements; Ancient Rome)

Impeachment of March Goblins (Shamanism)

José Olallo (Christian; Saint)

Junoalia (Old Roman Festival to Juno)

Leonid Feodorov (Russian Greek Catholic Church)

March Storms and Blasting Rods Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Milton Avery (Artology)

Paul the Simple (Christian; Saint)

Perpetua and Felicity (Christian; Saints & Martyrs)

Piet Mondrian (Artology)

Psyche’s Day (Pagan)

Pierre-Henri Dorie, Siméon-François Berneux (Christian; part of The Korean Martyrs)

Theophylact (Christian; Saint)

Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Treachery Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Tuan Reincarnation Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 11 of 60)

Premieres

Alice the Collegiate (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk (Novel; 1951)

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Foxes (Film; 1980)

The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood (Novel; 1969)

Erlkönig, by Franz Schubert (Lied; 1821)

From Genesis to Revelation, by Genesis (Album; 1969)

The Golden Eggs (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Film; 2014)

Grateful Gus (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1958)

Highlander (Film; 1986)

The Home Guard (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

The Long Goodbye (Film; 1973)

Mame (Film; 1974)

Mickey’s Grand Opera (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Mirror (Russian Film; 1975)

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Film; 2008)

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Animated Film; 2014)

My Beautiful Launderette (Film; 1986)

The Nude Who Never, by Ted Mark (Novel; 1965)

The Old Mill Pond (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1936)

Olive’s Sweepstake Ticket (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1941)

Our Lady of the Flowers, by Jean Genet (Novel; 1943)

Page Miss Glory (WB MM Cartoon; 1936)

Pistol Packin’ Woodpecker (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1960)

Post Office, by Charles Bukowski (Novel; 1971)

A Room with a View (Film; 1986)

Royal Cat Nap (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1958)

Sailor Moon (Japanese Anime Series; 1992)

The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series; 1973)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost (Poem; 1923)

Taboo (Adult Film; 1980)

Things Ain’t What They Used To Be, recorded by Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra (Song; 1941)

Way Out West, by Sonny Rollins (Album; 1957)

Young Americans, by David Bowie (Album; 1975)

Today’s Name Days

Felicitas, Perpetua, Reinhard (Austria)

Bogoljub, Felicita, Perpetua, Teofil (Croatia)

Tomáš (Czech Republic)

Perpetua (Denmark)

Ralf, Raul, Rolf, Rudolf, Ruudi, Ruut (Estonia)

Taika, Tarja, Taru (Finland)

Félicie, Félicité, Nathan (France)

Felicitas, Felizitas, Perpet, Reinhard, Volker (Germany)

Evgenios (Greece)

Tamás (Hungary)

Quintilio, Tommaso (Italy)

Ella, Elmira (Latvia)

Felicita, Galmantė, Rimtautas, Tomas (Lithuania)

Are, Arild (Norway)

Felicja, Nadmir, Paweł, Polikarp, Tomasz (Poland)

Efrem (Romania)

Tomáš (Slovakia)

Felicidad, Perpetua (Spain)

Camilla, Ottilia (Sweden)

Davon, Devan, Deven, Devin, Devon, Devonta, Devonte, Devyn, Dewey, Lothar, Luther (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 67 of 2024; 299 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 10 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 19 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 27 (Geng-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 27 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 26 Sha’ban 1445

J Cal: 7 Green; Sevenday [7 of 30]

Julian: 23 February 2024

Moon: 10%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 11 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Thucydides]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 78 of 89)

Week: 1st Week of March

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 18 of 30)

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Shelley Alexis Duvall (July 7, 1949 – July 11, 2024) was an American actress. Known for her collaborations with Robert Altman and for playing eccentric characters, she was the recipient of several accolades including nominations for a British Academy Film Award and two Primetime Emmys.

Born in Texas, Duvall was discovered by director Robert Altman, who was impressed with her upbeat presence and cast her in the black comedy film Brewster McCloud (1970). Despite her hesitance towards becoming an actress, she continued to work with him, appearing in McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Thieves Like Us (1974).

Duvall's breakthrough role was in Altman's Nashville (1975), and her leading role in his drama 3 Women (1977) won her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She followed this with a supporting role in Woody Allen's satirical romantic comedy Annie Hall and hosted Saturday Night Live (both 1977). She became famous for her leading roles across the 1980s, such as Olive Oyl in Altman's live-action feature version of Popeye and Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's horror film The Shining (both 1980).

Through the 1980s, Duvall appeared in Terry Gilliam's fantasy film Time Bandits (1981), the short comedy horror film Frankenweenie (1984), and the comedy Roxanne (1987). She ventured into producing television programming aimed at children and youth in the latter half of the 1980s, creating and hosting the programs Faerie Tale Theatre (1982–1987) and Nightmare Classics (1989), and earning Primetime Emmy Award nominations for creating and hosting Tall Tales & Legends (1985–1987) and Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories (1992–1994).

Across the 1990s, Duvall acted sporadically, playing supporting roles in Steven Soderbergh's thriller The Underneath (1995) and Jane Campion's drama The Portrait of a Lady (1996). After Manna from Heaven (2002), she left acting until returning for her final role in the horror film The Forest Hills (2023). Her mental health in the interim was covered by various media, briefly turning her private life public.

In 1990, she played Little Bo Peep in Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme. In 1992, Think Entertainment joined the newly formed Universal Family Entertainment to create Duvall's fourth Showtime original series, Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories, which featured animated adaptations of children's storybooks with celebrity narrators and garnered her a second Emmy nomination. Duvall produced a fifth series for Showtime, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, before selling Think Entertainment in 1993 and retiring as a producer. She subsequently appeared as the vain, over-friendly, but harmless Countess Gemini — sister to the calculating Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich) — in Jane Campion's 1996 adaptation of the Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady. A year later, she played a beatific nun in the comedy film Changing Habits and a besotted, murderous, ostrich-farm owner in Guy Maddin's fourth feature Twilight of the Ice Nymphs. The same year, she played Chris Cooper's character's gullible wife who yearns for a better life in Horton Foote's made-for-television film, Alone.

Duvall continued to make film and television appearances throughout the late-1990s. In 1998, she played Mrs. Jackson in the comedy Home Fries and Gabby in the direct-to-video children's film Casper Meets Wendy. Near the end of the decade, she returned to the horror genre with a minor role in Tale of the Mummy (1998), co-starring Christopher Lee and Gerard Butler, and The 4th Floor (1999), co-starring Juliette Lewis. In the 2000s, Duvall accepted minor roles, including as the mother of Matthew Lawrence's character in the horror-comedy Boltneck (2000) and as Haylie Duff's aunt in the independent family film Dreams in the Attic, which was sold to the Disney Channel but was never released. Following a small role in the 2002 independent film Manna from Heaven, Duvall took an extended hiatus from acting and public life.

After a 20-year absence, it was announced in October 2022 that Duvall would be returning to acting in The Forest Hills, an independent horror-thriller film directed and written by Scott Goldberg and co-starring Edward Furlong, Chiko Mendez, and Dee Wallace. The film, about a man (Mendez) tormented by nightmarish visions after receiving head trauma in the Catskill Mountains, was given an official trailer the following month.

Duvall married artist Bernard Sampson in 1970, but their marriage disintegrated as Duvall's acting career accelerated, leading to their divorce in 1974. While she was shooting Annie Hall in New York in 1976, Duvall met singer-songwriter Paul Simon. The couple began a relationship and lived together for two years. Their relationship ended when Duvall introduced Simon to her friend, actress Carrie Fisher; Fisher took up with Simon.[53] In the late 1970s, Duvall dated musician Ringo Starr.

Duvall was in a relationship with musician and former Breakfast Club lead vocalist Dan Gilroy from 1989 through the remainder of her life. The pair began their relationship while co-starring in the Disney Channel show Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme, which was also produced by Duvall. She had no children.

On July 11, 2024, aged 75, Duvall died in her sleep at home in Blanco, Texas, due to complications of diabetes