#Nov 2017 Drama CD

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Drama CD: Nov. 2017

More Nov. 2017 Releases: R18 Drama CD | Character Single CD 

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Please note that unless specified, the purchase link will be for Animate International.

If the Drama CD is not available: You can contact Animate International & request the series that you’re interested in. I will post an Alternative purchase link.

Bonus: ♚ = CD | ♝ = Ill. Card | ♞ = SS/Booklet | ♜ = Bromide  | ♟ = Other  

Bonus + *F = Full Vol. (must purchase all target items, may or may not be in the same order, to receive the bonus) Bonus + *S = Simultaneous (must purchase target items in the same order to receive the bonus)

Please note: Bonuses are offered only as stocks last. I post the bonus listed in the Drama CD’s official site & Animate’s JP site. If you have any questions about any bonus offered, please make sure to contact Animate International to verify about it.

Release date: 11.01.17

うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪ HEAVEN SKY エピソードCD

Title: Uta no ☆ Prince-sama ♪ HEAVEN SKY Episode CD Purchase ♟

Release date: 11.08.17

THE MARBLE LITTLES(マーブルリトルズ)ドラマCD第4巻 紳士の夢と半熟探偵物語 ～ダリオ編～

Title: THE MARBLE LITTLES Drama CD Vol. 4 Shinshi no Yume to Hanjuku Tantei Monogatari - Dario Purchase ♟

THE MARBLE LITTLES(マーブルリトルズ)ドラマCD第5巻 紳士の夢と入学前夜のから騒ぎ ～エルバート編～

Title: THE MARBLE LITTLES Drama CD Vol. 5 Shinshi no Yume to Nyuugaku Zenya no Kara Sawagi - Erubato Purchase ♟

Release date: 11.10.17

××なカレとのお付き合いからプロポーズまでを辿るCD 「いろいろあったね。」 ～アート系苦学生 河原大和の場合～(CV.村上喜紀)

Title: XX na Kare to no Otsukiai kara Propose made wo Tadoru CD "Iroiro Atta ne." -Art-kei Kugakusei Kawahara Yamato no Baai- (CV: Yoshiki Murakami) Purchase ♚ | Alternative: (Amiami)

Release date: 11.15.17

アイドルにサンドされるCD √HAPPY+SUGAR=SAND 2nd 環&宙 (CV.岡本信彦・梶裕貴)

Title: Idol ni Sand Sareru CD √HAPPY+SUGAR=SAND 2nd Kan & Chuu (CV: Nobuhiko Okamoto; Yuuki Kaji) Purchase ♚ | ♟*F

カレらと24時間で真実を暴くCD クリミナーレ!R Vol.2 ルチア&カラ (CV.近藤隆・下野紘)

Title: Criminale! R Vol. 2 Lucia & Chara (CV: Takashi Kondo; Shimono Hiro)  Purchase ♚ |♟*F

剣が君 百夜綴り ドラマCD2巻

Title: Ken ga Kimi: Momoyo Tsuzuri Drama CD Vol. 2 Purchase ♝*F | ♟ 

超密着!取り憑かれCD 幽幻ロマンチカ 破天荒 第零の謎 トイレの花男さん ハナヲ (CV.緑川光)

Title: Chou Micchaku! Toritsukare CD "Yuugen Romantica Hatenkou" Vol.0 Toilet no Hanao-san Hanawo (CV: Hikaru Midorikawa) Purchase | Alternative: (AmiAmi)

Release date: 11.22.17

Corpse†Heart 5th Night ネス (CV.石川界人)

Title: Corpse†Heart 5th Night - Ness (CV: Ishikawa Kaito) Purchase ♚*F | ♟*F

DIABOLIK LOVERS Para-Selene Vol.8 無神アズサ (CV.岸尾だいすけ)

Title: DIABOLIK LOVERS Para-Selene Vol. 8 Mukami Asuza (CV: Daisuke Kishio) Purchase ♚ | ♟*F

DIABOLIK LOVERS ドS吸血CD VERSUSIV Vol.2 シュウVSルキ (CV.鳥海浩輔・櫻井孝宏)

Title: DIABOLIK LOVERS D/s Vampire CDs: VERSUSIV Vol.2 Shu VS Ruki (CV: Kousuke Toriumi & Takahiro Sakurai) Purchase ♚ | ♟*F

オネェパラダイス ミュージシャン 沙々羅木ロキ(CV.柿原徹也)

Title: Onee Paradise Shoujo Musician Sasaragi Roki (CV: Kakihara Tetsuya)  Purchase ♟*F

キミのハートにKISSを届けるCD IDOL OF STARLIGHT KISS 2 Vol.2 シャイ&キラ (CV.豊永利行・大河元気)

Title: Kimi no Heart ni KISS wo Todokeru IDOL OF STARLIGHT KISS 2 Vol.2 Shy & Kira (CV: Toyonaga Toshiyuki, Genki Ookawa) Purchase ♚*F | ♟*F

ピタゴラス スペクタクルツアー シアター Vol.2 STARGAZER Z act.エル&キラ&アルト

Title: Pythagoras Spectacle Tour Vol.2 STARGAZER Z act. L & Kira & Aruto Purchase (Theater | Live) ♚*F | ♟*S

終極のDOLLS 第5巻 ダリウス (CV.木村良平)

Title: Shuukyoku no DOLLS Vol. 5 Darius (CV: Ryouhei Kimura) Purchase ♚*F | ♟*F

Release date: 11.24.17

双子の魔法使いリコとグリ ソロシリーズ シュタイン「Special Blend」

Title: Futago no Mahoutsukai Lico to Gli: Solo Series - Stein: Special Belend Purchase ♜

Release date: 11.29.17

おとどけカレシ Vol.5 陽向遥 (CV.蒼井翔太)

Title: Otodoke Kareshi Vol. 5 Hinata Haruka (CV: Shouta Aoi ) Purchase ♚ | ♟*F

俺様レジデンス ―西園寺三兄弟― Vol.2 西園寺藍(CV.八代拓)

Title: Ore-sama Residence -Saoinji San Kyoudai- Vol. 2 Saionji Ran (CV: Taku Yashiro) Purchase ♚ | ♟*F

���奇伝愛 永恋詩 ～四ノ巻 桐生・寿～ (CV.立花慎之介、前野智昭)

Title: Waki Denai: Eiren Uta Vol. 4 Kiryuu & Kotobuki (CV: Tachibana Shinnosuke, Maeno Tomoaki) Purchase ♚ | ♟*F

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HYPNOSIS MICROPHONE 4TH INTERNATIONAL POLL (DECEMBER 2020) Part 1: Consumption

Thank you for your participation! These are the final results for the 4th Hypnosis Microphone International Poll. After months of work on this, we have estimates for general fandom opinions. Do you agree or disagree with the general opinions? Please let us know!

The results were held back from original posting as we were waiting to post for a month before the 2nd DRB finals (which is on Doppo’s Birthday this year.) My deepest apologies for how long this took to get out. We will be releasing these results with a section per day, with the end of these results showing the Japanese side.

Click the READ MORE to view the results.

PREFACE

The data collection for this poll received 902 votes to give us an indication of the demographic of those who consume Hypnosis Mic. This poll was open to English speakers, and thus, results may be considerably Euro/American-centric. The word ‘international’ has been used to refer to how fans are from many places around the world, but the poll may also refer to this group as ‘English-speaking’ etc. The Japanese poll had a smaller respondent pool with 400.

This poll received the most activity through Twitter, given that the series is most active on that platform. The poll was also posted on Tumblr, Facebook and the HypMic wiki. Commentary has been given on sections of the poll. These results will be available in full on from this account. The Japanese poll results shall follow about a week with comparison to this poll.

The poll was conducted from December 2020 to January 2021. This poll is UNOFFICIAL and none of the composers of this poll have any relation to King Records whatsoever. 

This will be split into MULTIPLE posts due to the amount of data and limitations of tumblr.

PART 1: THE CONSUMPTION OF HYPNOSIS MIC

This section examines what percentage of HypMic's English fanbase consumes certain media.

How long have you been into Hypnosis Mic?

Before the project began -  Sep 2017: 3.7%

Since Pre-Battle Season 1 - Oct 2017 - Feb 2018: 7%

Since Battle Season 1 - Mar 2018 - Dec 2018: 19.4%

Since Post-Battle Season 1 - Jan 2019 - Nov 2019: 29.6%

Since Pre-Battle Season 2 - Dec 2019 - Dec 2020: 40.3%

NOTABLE DATES

Release of Enter the Hypnosis Microphone: April 2019

Announcement of Dotsuitare Honpo & Bad Ass Temple: September 2019

Announcement of the start of the 2nd DRB: December 2020

From this group of people, only 293 people, or 32.5% of respondents were around during the 1st Battle Season.

Looking at those who were around during the battle season 88.4% did not vote at all, while 11.6% did vote.

At the time of the 1st DRB, voting was only possible by buying CDs and certain merchandise, unlike the additions of the 2nd DRB where you could purchase a ticket to the lives.

How many of the HypMic drama tracks have you listened to?

Buster Bros!!! Generation Dramas: 69.7%

BAYSIDE M.T.C Dramas: 70.3%

Fling Posse -F.P.S.M- Dramas: 74.2%

Matenro -Aural Medicine- Dramas: 70.3%

B.B vs M.T.C Dramas: 63.7%

F.P vs M Dramas: 71.8%

The Champion Dramas: 63.1%

Enter the Hypnosis Microphone Dramas: 61%

Aikata Back Again: 64.7%

The Heart’s Conviction Can’t Be Broken: 62.6%

Helter Skelter: 61%

All in the same boat: 60.9%

The Loneliness, Tears, and Hope of a Puppet: 67.5%

Chaser from the Past: 60.9%

Guidebook Dramas: 31.7%

Manga Bonus Dramas: 27.6%

Have not listened to the dramas: 2.1%

How much of the HypMic manga have you read?

SOME of B.B vs M.T.C: 34.7%

ALL of B.B vs M.T.C: 45.8%

SOME of F.P vs M: 31.3%

ALL of F.P vs M: 52.4%

SOME of TDD: 32.6%

ALL of TDD: 53.3%

SOME of D.H & B.A.T: 64.2%

Have not read the manga: 10.5%

Thus, all together:

SOME/ALL of B.B vs M.T.C: 80.5%

SOME/ALL of F.P vs M: 83.7%

SOME/ALL of TDD: 85.9%

At the time of the poll, BB vs MTC, FP vs M and the TDD manga had completed, while DH vs BAT was incomplete. BB vs MTC +, FP vs M+ and Dawn of Divisions were announced during the poll’s conduction.

How much of other HypMic of other HypMic content have you explored?

Track 1: 69.7%

Track 2: 70.3%

Track 3: 74.2%

Niconama: 70.3%

HPNM Youtube: 63.7%

HypMic concerts: 71.8%

1st Spotify Radio (1-6 episodes): 63.1%

1st Spotify Radio (7-18 episodes): 61%

1st Spotify Radio (19+ episodes): 64.7%

NOTES

This question also asked about those who have watched the anime, but as respondents ticked multiple options of how much they had seen, these results were unable to be posted.

Track 2 & Track 3 were playing during COVID which may account for the lower numbers of viewers. Niconama streams have also been discontinued and have now been replaced by the HPNM Youtube streams.

What HypMic official merchandise have you bought? This does not include magazines that contain manga chapters or interviews.

Trading/blind goods: 29.3%

Paper goods: 11.3%

Plush goods:  35.1%

Apparel: 10.4%

Accessories or cosmetics: 4.3%

Stageplay specific goods: 2.7%

(Collab) Food:  2%

Magazine with HypMic content: 8.5%

Manga (any edition): 13.7%

HypMic Guidebook: 16.7%

Non-battle CD: 13.6

Battle Season CD: 7.4%

Subscribed to HYPSTER: 9.8%

48.3% of respondents have not bought a piece of HypMic official merchandise.

Most bought goods: Plush goods (35.1%), trading/blind goods (26.4%), the official guidebook (16.7%)

Least bought goods: Items from food collabs (2%), stageplay specific goods (2.7%), and accessories and cosmetics (4.3%)

These last are understandable as most food can’t be shipped internationally, as well as cosmetics like the perfume that contain alcohol.

Only 9.8% of respondents have a HYPSTER subscription.

Do you play Alternative Rap Battle (ARB)? It is fine if translations are used?

PLAY / DO NOT PLAY: 72.3% / 27.7%

READ ALL STORIES: 37.3%

READ EVENT STORIES: 14.7%

READ MAIN STORIES: 7.9%

DON’T READ STORIES: 40.1%

Since HypMic is not translated into other languages, how does this affect your consumption of the material?

Don’t understand Japanese & don’t use translations: 2.9%

Don’t understand Japanese so I use translations: 52.7%

Understand some Japanese but I use translations: 36.5%

Understand some Japanese & don’t use translations: 8%

With these numbers, we can see that:

55.6% of respondents know some degree of Japanese. This poll did not ask to quantify how much Japanese was known by fans. 44.4% do not know Japanese.

89.2% of respondents use translations. 

To the 2.9% of people who don’t use translations and don’t understand a thing that’s happening, please respond. Are you okay?

How familiar are you with Japanese hip-hop, the genre of HypMic?

Regularly listens to J hip-hop: 22.8%

Regularly listens to Western hip-hop but not J hip-hop: 12%

Regularly listens to Japanese music but not J hip-hop: 54.5%

Do not listen to Japanese music or hip-hop: 10.7%

With numbers, we can see that:

34.8% of respondents listen to either Japanese or Western hip-hop. 65.2% of respondents do not listen to hip-hop.

These numbers seem to match up with the later results that show that 79% of respondents do not listen to J hip-hop artists outside of HypMic and 69% of respondents do not listen to/could list Western hip-hop artists at all.

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To see the next part showing the demographics of the International fandom, please follow us to the next post.

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Where to find Tim Key’s writing  on the internet

Instagram

Love the pando poems but they’re in the books. His daily series in the run up to the Dec 2019 election is great and is only on Instagram. I reread it all a little while ago (with some googling to remember what was going on each day to work out what each one was about) and the final one was even more depressing now considering everything that’s happened in the last couple of years.

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tim-key

Other The Guardian writing:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/aug/06/tall-stories-performers-on-their-wildest-edinburgh-moments

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/dec/07/i-got-obsessed-with-chris-tarrant-so-i-painted-him-comics-on-why-they-make-art

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/mar/11/on-my-radar-tim-key-cultural-highlights

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/jun/29/tim-key-the-funniest-thing

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/18/the-50-funniest-comedy-films-chosen-comedians-stewart-lee-sarah-millican-david-baddiel

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/mar/14/five-tips-to-being-a-better-poet-by-tim-key

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/may/06/twitter-top-feeds-celebrity-tweeters

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2011/feb/13/seven-days-with-tim-key

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2010/dec/26/quiz-of-the-year-2010 [with Alex and Mark]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/06/tim-key-reviews-this-weeks-singles

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/dec/21/tim-key-top-10-bite-sized-books

The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/author/tim-key (19 Sept 2013 is first one)

Earlier columns not listed on that page (there might be more but if so I couldn’t find them):

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tim-key-daniel-kitson-knows-what-he-wants-and-he-ll-physically-smash-my-hands-to-pieces-to-get-it-8811319.html (12 Sept 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tim-key-i-ve-got-a-part-in-a-play-is-there-time-to-go-to-drama-school-or-hone-a-special-voice-8796228.html (5 Sept 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tim-key-for-my-10th-birthday-i-saw-little-and-large-in-concert-it-blew-my-mind-8789507.html (29 Aug 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tim-key-i-had-bought-provisions-for-my-stay-in-the-lakes-sausages-and-hula-hoops-8770909.html (16 Aug 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tim-key-if-i-ever-die-be-sure-to-scatter-my-ashes-around-the-edinburgh-fringe-8754340.html (9 Aug 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/imagine-trying-to-do-your-job-with-alan-partridge-glaring-at-you-tim-key-on-being-alpha-papa-s-sidekick-simon-8742438.html (6 August 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tim-key-i-ve-never-been-a-big-festival-goer-at-15-i-was-more-likely-to-help-varnish-a-boat-8738222.html (1 Aug 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tim-key-changing-tyres-isn-t-my-forte-i-m-not-a-man-in-that-sense-i-can-t-change-anything-8728136.html (23 July 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tim-key-i-captained-my-school-football-team-in-1992-so-i-m-no-stranger-to-the-big-stage-8697266.html (10 July 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tim-key-i-ve-framed-cd-sleeves-playing-cards-crisp-packets-even-my-oyster-card-8685653.html?amp (3 July 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/tim-key-the-doctor-prised-me-from-my-nest-and-we-waddled-to-the-heath-for-boules-8675356.html (26 June 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/tim-key-i-used-to-love-cricket-with-my-dad-he-was-an-adult-so-he-could-hit-the-ball-for-miles-8646198.html (6 June 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/tim-key-staffordshire-is-as-good-a-place-as-any-to-scream-the-words-oh-my-god-no-stop-8636833.html (30 May 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/tim-key-if-you-don-t-have-to-tranquilise-an-animal-to-get-it-into-your-zoo-it-shouldn-t-come-in-8627558.html (22 May 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/tim-key-we-couldn-t-call-mountain-rescue-or-justifiably-perish-so-we-pressed-on-8617992.html (15 May 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/tim-key-we-d-acquired-the-reindeer-head-from-a-finnish-military-man-called-snoopy-8607807.html (9 May 2013)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/tim-key-if-you-re-revamping-a-magazine-you-d-better-make-it-a4-or-it-ain-t-happening-8599828.html (1 May 2013)

Other The Independent writing:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/cultural-life-tim-key-comedian-8226809.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/clearing/my-student-days-six-musicians-actors-and-comedians-fondly-reminisce-9666657.html?amp

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/imagine-trying-to-do-your-job-with-alan-partridge-glaring-at-you-tim-key-on-being-alpha-papa-s-sidekick-simon-8742438.html

iNews: https://inews.co.uk/author/tim-key

Huffington Post: 

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/tim-key

Time Out:

https://www.timeout.com/london/comedy/tim-keys-love-poem-to-london

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/tim-key-on-why-this-year-will-be-great-for-live-comedy-021221

https://www.timeout.com/london/comedy/tim-keys-top-10-stand-up-comedians

https://www.timeout.com/london/comedy/tim-key-introduces-a-poem-you-can-personalise

https://www.timeout.com/london/comedy/tim-keys-poems-in-pictures

We Need Answers blogs / NMW:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/comedy/2010/02/tim-keys-new-opponent-no-more.shtml

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/comedy/no-more-women

Vice:

25 Poems, 3 Recipes and 32 Other Suggestions (An Inventory). Snippet: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dpjema/tim-key-has-had-an-idea-for-a-film

https://www.vice.com/en/article/znyng4/literary-v15n2 (this one doesn’t really count tbh)

Random Other:

An Ode to Pubs: https://beavertownbrewery.co.uk/blogs/news/an-ode-to-pubs-by-tim-key

[stephaniemarlowftw]

ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF ANNOUNCES LIVE AT MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL

Arriving January 14th via Southern Lord on CD/DL formats; LP to be released via Southern Lord in North America on May 13th, 2022 (via Pomperipossa Records in Europe). // Listen to "The Truth, The Glow, The Fall (Live).

Photo Credit: Gianluca Grasselli

Anybody who has witnessed a live performance of Anna von Hausswolff and band can attest to the extraordinary and commanding nature of the experience. The distinctive music, as captured across five full-length albums, comes to life, shifting from hypnotic and mantra-like moods to thunderous drama, dissonance and cacophony. The musicians master playful dynamics and wield immense power. Following the release of her solo pipe organ album All Thoughts Fly and an accompanying sell-out European tour (Nov/Dec 2021), this January, Southern Lord are releasing Anna von Hausswolff, Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (2018). Across six pieces, Anna von Hausswolff performs sensational renditions of fan-favorites from the two beloved albums; The Miraculous and Dead Magic, with the backing of a full band including additional vocals from her sister / cinematographer Maria von Hausswolff (full credits can be found below).

Watch (+ share) the visualizer for Anna Von Hausswolff's "The Truth, The Glow, The Fall (Live) on YouTube.

The infamous Montreux Jazz Festival is one of the largest annual jazz festivals, now operating for over 50 years. About the experience Anna von Hausswolff remarks:

"In the beginning of 2013 I was texting back and forth with my friend Albin Oskarsson. He wanted me to come and play at a jazz festival that he was living nearby, it was Montreux Jazz Festival. At that point I was still quite unknown outside Sweden and regardless of my friend's many attempts to contact the festival they never returned to him with an offer. I gave up the idea, he did not. Later that same year he unexpectedly died and a few years later, in 2017, an email popped up in my inbox, it was a request to open for Nick Cave and the bad seeds at the Montreux jazz festival. The tragedy that Albin was still not around to share the excitement with me gave me sorrow.

But, through the magic of music comfort came. The show was an emotional turmoil of ecstasy and grief, shared with an incredible audience and atmosphere. And, eventually, I could see his face in the venue, floating above all others, smiling and waving towards me.  I’m so happy to have been given this moment  and I’m beyond grateful to Montreux Jazz Festival, John Harris and Mathieu Jaton who so beautifully recorded this special concert that I will keep close to my heart forever and ever."

Live at Montreux Jazz Festival was mixed on the “Queen Neve” desk, previously owned by Queen (thus the name ) and situated at the Mountain Studios in the casino of Montreux, now ­located at Svenska Grammofonstudion, Gothenburg - further capturing the magic.

PRE-ORDER LIVE AT MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL VIA BANDCAMP, SOUTHERN LORD STORE, SOUTHERN LORD EUROPE STORE & THE LP VIA POMPERIPOSSA RECORDS.

Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (2018) track list:

1. The Truth, The Glow, The Fall (live)

2. Pomperipossa (live)

3. The Mysterious Vanishing Of Electra (live)

4. Ugly And Vengeful (live)

5. Kållans återuppståndelse (live)

6. Come Wander With Me Deliverance (live)

Recorded at Montreux Jazz Festival in 2018, in Auditorium Stravinsky.

Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (2018), cover art:

Performed by : Anna von Hausswolff – vocals, organ, acoustic guitar, octatrack Maria von Hausswolff – vocals Filip Leyman – synth, percussion Ulrik Ording – drums Karl Vento – electric guitar Joel Fabiansson – electric guitar David Sabel – bass Justin Grealy – sound engineer   Mixed by Filip Leyman and Anna von Hausswolff Mastered by Hans Olsson Brookes Illustrations by Zezeah / Zeynep Kis   Sleeve design by Magnus Andersson and Anna von Hausswolff Special thanks to Montreux Jazz Festival, John Harris and Mathieu Jaton

[bangdreaming]

Roselia and Poppin’ Party CDs

Here’s a brief rundown with all the current info we have for PoPiPa’s 8th single and Roselia’s 4th single! When the cover to both are released and the first songs announced, we will make a more official info post!

Poppin’ Party - 8th Single

Release Date: Dec 13th

Songs:

Title to be Decided (Will be Christmas themed)

B.O.F. (Written by Daigo Naito)

Kimi ni Moratta Mono (Full)

Instrumentals of each

Will come with a Limited Edition with BanG Dream 4th ☆ LIVE Miracle PARTY 2017! footage

First Press Editions will include a Future Card Buddy Fight PR Card at random

Roselia - 4th Single

Release Date: Nov 29th

Songs

ONENESS

Determination Symphony

Instrumentals for each

Voice Drama

Will come with a Limited Edition with Roselia 1st Live Rosenlied Additional Concert Live Footage

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Why Taylor Swift's '1989' Is Her Best Album: Critic's Take 

by Richard S. He  November 09, 2017, 11:40 am EST 

In celebration of Taylor Swift's singular pop catalog in the days leading up to the release of her sixth LP, Reputation, this Friday (Nov. 10), Billboard asked five writers to argue for one of her five studio albums as her best. Here, Richard S. He makes the case for 2014's 1989, Swift's fifth album, and her most successful pop crossover to date.

By Taylor Swift's fifth album, her coming-of-age stories had already been told. When you're in your mid-twenties, once you've survived first love and heartbreak, all you're left with is yourself. 1989 captures the feeling of having grown into your adult self, when all that's left to do is announce it to the world.

With her singles from 2012's Red, Taylor Swift had already made the unequivocal leap to pop radio. But two years later, with 1989, Swift set out to record her "first documented, official pop album" -- and that distinction made all the difference. The essence of Swift's songwriting, her effortless ability to vocalize the listener's intimate emotions, is still intact. But 1989 pushes everything further: Using fewer words, Swift embraces more adventurous melodies, moods, production.

Country music is about storytelling, but being a pop star means embodying the art through your image, videos, and everything you stand for. So even without any overt country songs, 1989 is the definitive Taylor Swift album. If Red was the turning point of her career, 1989 is the culmination.

"Welcome to New York," the album's opening track, reaches past Taylor's earliest role models (Carly Simon, James Taylor, Shania Twain) to Bruce Springsteen. On 1984's Born in the U.S.A., The Boss -- another lifelong singer-songwriter -- moved past traditional guitar-rock, embracing pop without compromise. "Welcome to New York," like "Born in the U.S.A.," opens its album with unapologetically glossy synths, the sound of a clean break from the past.

And like Born in the U.S.A., 1989 had seven singles (counting Target-exclusive bonus track and fan favorite "New Romantics"), each of which couldn't be more different from the last. Six were collaborations with modern pop maestro Max Martin, who's worked with every star imaginable. But Swift is one of the rare few who's a confident enough songwriter to push him to new heights.

"Shake It Off" hides its genius in plain sight. Every second is an individual, overlapping hook -- vocal melodies, horns, drum rhythms -- all amounting to one giant earworm. It's an astonishingly complex composition, a puzzle where you can't imagine all the pieces fitting, until they suddenly fall into place. Using only three chords, Swift takes us on a journey from anxiety ("Got nothing in my brain! That's what people say!") to self-acceptance. It's life as a pop song: the constant stream of hooks can seem overwhelming, until you learn to embrace the chaos.

But "Bad Blood" turns the tables -- you don't have to shake it off. It’s both diss track and affectionate parody, where the joke is how closely it resembles a Katy Perry song, down to Taylor’s spot-on Katy imitation in the verses. And if you thought Taylor-pop was totally serious, there's "Blank Space." In the video, her first of several collaborations with director Joseph Kahn, Swift embraces her media image -- the hysterical maneater, who breaks up with boyfriends to write songs about them. She mocks herself, as well as the gossip industry for perpetuating her image and us for buying into it, only to reveal the ultimate truth: we all live for drama. “Blank Space” is one of the best songs ever written about pop, a master class in fame as performance art -- and the foundation for each of Reputation’s four singles so far.

Fourth single “Style” showcases Swift’s songwriting at its purest. She snarls her way through brooding verses -- a midnight drive on a dark road -- until suddenly, the song blooms into a glorious, sun-drenched, hair-blowing-in-the-wind chorus. With the simplest major/minor shift, she evokes worlds of emotion. And in an era where traditional pop bridges have, in fact, gone out of style, Swift digs further into them. “Take me home!” she belts. Is it meant to be optimistic or terrifying? Three years later, we still don’t know. The song's lost highway never ends.

These aren’t pure love songs, like “You Belong with Me” or “Love Story." They’re just as much about the messy, internal feelings around relationships. “Wildest Dreams” is Swift at her fatalist best, foreseeing the end of a romance before it even begins. On “Out of the Woods," a chaotic, Jack Antonoff-shepherded pop symphony worthy of Brian Wilson, she narrates a love that was doomed from the start -- and learns to regret nothing, even the near-death experience ("Remember when you hit the brakes too soon/ 20 stitches in a hospital room?") that brought about the relationship's end. It all culminates in the Imogen Heap collaboration “Clean”: the Taylor ballad to end all Taylor ballads, in which she finally lets loose the tears she’s been holding back the entire album, and forges a new beginning.

With 1989, Taylor Swift moved beyond love songs. The album spoke to a generation of millennials living through uncertain times, looking for stability as young adults. Taylor’s songs offer no easy answers, but endless emotional generosity.

True blockbuster albums only come along a few times a decade. They’re not just about hit singles -- they redefine the cultural zeitgeist. 1989 wasn’t driven by nostalgia, but channeled the spirit of the late ‘80s to breathe new life into 2014 pop. Taylor’s cited influences -- Madonna, Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel – didn’t just chase trends, they were auteurs. They made pop music at the highest level, which felt completely unexpected yet instantly familiar at the same time.

1989’s had an unusually long cultural afterlife. It grew so big it broke her previous ritual: a new album in October/November every two years. She was just 24 when 1989came out -- now she’s 27, and Reputation comes out this Friday. Like Michael Jackson following Thriller with Bad, the stakes seem impossibly high. But regardless of how Reputation’s received, we're still talking about its predecessor, living through its songs. Empty hype and marketing are soon forgotten. You can’t manufacture the kind of attention Taylor Swift commands -- you can only earn it.

The LP became Taylor's third straight to sell over a million copies in its opening frame -- a near-impossibility in the post-CD era -- notching the best first-week numbers by any artist since Eminem over a decade earlier. In total, the set spawned three Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits and was eventually certified 6x Platinum, making 1989 the kind of commercial behemoth that served as its own throwback to the late-'80s pop period Swift had tried so hard to evoke. But in 2014, her fans already knew she was an all-timer. 1989 just confirmed it for everyone else.

ts1989fanatic 1989% AGREE with this article.

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Child with the blues, or, “Eve’s Bayou” turns 20

I honestly didn’t realize that the movie was this old already. Explains why I’ve seen a couple of different retrospectives of it this week.

It really is one of my favorite films of all time (if that’s quite the right word to use for a film that ends in a weirdly dark place). I have it on a positively ancient DVD, and also the soundtrack CD somewhere. (And again: it’s 20 years old, people.)

All of the performances in it are amazing.  

It’s a lovely, somewhat depressing, spectacular directing debut by Kasi Lemmons.

Interesting the different artistic and social place we’re in now. Even allowing that it was a period film at the time -- it takes place in the 1960s -- I’m not sure you could shoot the event that spins the family out of control. I think people would simply not be willing to accept it shown on screen.

The trailer is ... odd. Despite the fact that everything you see in it actually occurs on screen, once you get past the first 30 seconds or so, it somehow makes it look like a different movie than it is. And yet, everything in it is from the film.

20 Years Later, Eve’s Bayou Is Still a Stunning Portrait of Black American Life By Angelica Jade Bastién (vulture.com)

I don’t quite remember the first summer I went to Loreauville, Louisiana. But I distinctly recall the emotions of returning to those acres of land, where my great-grandfather built a home we’ve called our own for 100 years — awe and glory, love and hope, and a twinge of melancholy. These same emotions take hold whenever I watch Eve’s Bayou, the debut of writer-director Kasi Lemmons, which premiered 20 years ago this month and uses rural Louisiana as the setting of its spellbinding tale about a young black girl’s adolescence. Perhaps that’s why it’s the only film my mother and I agree on. Its luxurious textures, melancholy mood, and the Creole that passes the lips of the black characters remind us both, in unique ways, of Loreauville.

The film operates deftly on multiple levels: It’s a stunning coming-of-age tale (an exceedingly rare example of one that privileges the experience of young black girls); an honest, hyperspecific portrait of black life in rural Louisiana; and one of the greatest writer-director debuts in American cinematic history....

HAUNTING MAGIC: ON "EVE'S BAYOU," 20 YEARS LATER by Seongyong Cho (rogerebert.com)

The opening scene of “Eve’s Bayou” is one of the most captivating opening lines I have ever encountered: “Memory is the selection of images, some elusive, others printed indelibly on the brain. The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old.” As we wonder about what happened during that summer in question, the movie immerses us into the small, vivid world of its young heroine who is trying to process what has been swirling inside her good but inherently problematic family. “Eve’s Bayou” is a haunting drama of love, hate, guilt and sorrow, and is surprisingly more complex and powerful than expected. It freely drifts around emotional realism and magic realism via its distinctive Southern atmosphere...

20th Anniversary Special: Cast Of 'Eve's Bayou' Talks About Film's Lasting Legacy Ashley Terrell (essence.com) Nov, 07, 2017 

Christened “the best film of 1997” by the late film critic Roger Ebert, Eve’s Bayou continues to leave a spell-bounding mark on audiences on its 20-year anniversary.

The film, written and directed by Kasi Lemmons in her directorial debut —and executive produced by Samuel L. Jackson— tells a story about the Batistes, an affluent Creole family in Louisiana. After a party, main character, Eve witnesses her father having sex with a family friend causing a ripple effect of a turbulent summer leading to tragedy.

Starring Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Meagan Good, Jake Smollett and Diahann Carroll, the film received accolades including nominations for the 1998 NAACP Image Awards....

'Eve's Bayou' and 'One Night Stand’ Took Big Risks in 1997  Jason Bailey (vice.com) Nov 15 2017, 1:24pm

“The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old.” Those are the first words spoken in Eve’s Bayou, and as opening lines go, you could do a helluva lot worse. This evocative memory drama was directed by first-time filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, who was best known as an actor, primarily for her supporting role as Clarice Starling’s academy roommate in The Silence Of The Lambs. The movie was selected by Roger Ebert as the single best film of 1997, which is quite a compliment considering the competition.

The ten-year-old of that opening line is Eve (Jurnee Smollett, in a performance of uncommon skill for an actor of any age). She is a quintessential middle child: Her little brother, Poe (Jake Smollett, her real brother), is mommy’s baby, and older sister Cisely (Meagan Good) is daddy’s girl. Said daddy is Louis (Samuel L. Jackson), “the best colored doctor in all Louisiana.” Sometimes Eve goes with him on house calls, and observes lonely young wives purring pleas like, “Could you give me something for the pain?” Early in the film, Eve accidentally spies her father in an intimate moment with a family friend (Lisa Nicole Carson). Eve’s upset by what she sees, but Cisely is particularly livid, for reasons that will become clear....

The perfectly selected end-credits song was performed by Erykah Badu.

(NOTE: For the official corporate approved version, you’ll need to go to the Erykah Badu topic version at Youtube itself at this link; for some reason, they disabled the Tumblr embed for this song shortly after this piece was first posted. For a non-approved version that may disappear at any second, see below.)

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BigBang Merch I Own Arranged by Release Date.

This isn’t a complete list of items. Many items didn’t make it here because I have no idea to which date or promotion cycle they belong. These are the main items in my collection only.

2006 Aug to Nov - BigBang First, Second and Third Singles [X]

2006 Dec - BigBang First Album: Volume 1 [x]

2007 Feb - BigBang First Concert CD: The Real  [x]

2007 March - BigBang First Concert DVD: Since 2007 [x]

2007 Aug -  BigBang First Mini Album: Always [X]

2007 Nov - BigBang Second Mini Album: Hot Issue [x]

Seungri - BigBang x BSX Limited Edition Hoodie -  [X]

BigBang x BSX Hoodie - [X]

2008 Jan - BigBang For the World [x]

2008 Feb - BigBang Second Concert CD: The Great [X]

2008 March - BigBang Second Concert DVD: The Great [x]

2008 Aug - BigBang Third Mini Album: Stand Up [x]

2008 Oct - BigBang First Japan Album: Number 1 (Cd/DVD) [x]

2008 Nov - BigBang Second Album: Remember [X]

2009 March - BigBang 2008 Global Warning Tour DVD Green [x]

Seungri Strong Baby Full Story Photobook [X]

2009 April - BigBang 2009 Concert Big Show CD: [X]

2009 Sep - Seungri - Why did you come to my House [x]

2009 June - BigBang Japanese Single: My Heaven [x]

2009 July - BigBang Japanese Single: Gara Gara Go! [x]

2009 July - BigBang 2009 Concert Big Show DVD: [x]

2009 Aug - G-Dragon Heartbreaker original version [x]

2009 Nov - BigBang Japan Single: Koe Wo Kikasete Cd/DVD [X]

2010 Mar - G-Dragon Shine a Light CD: [x]

2010 Apr - G-Dragon Shine a Light DVD Japanese version: [X]

2010 June - BigBang Japan : Tell me Goodbye Cd/DVD [x]

2010 June - BigBang 2010 Concert Big Show CD: [x]

2010 Aug - BigBang 2010 Concert Big Show DVD: [X]

2010 BigShow Facemask - Seungri [x]

2010 Bangs Cartoon Book [x]

2010 Electric Love Tour Photobook (Japan) [X]

2010 Seungri n T.o.P. movie Nineteen [x]

Seungri n T.o.P. movie Nineteen Publicity - Japan [X]

2010 Aug - BigBang Japan Single: Beautiful Hangover  [X]

2011 Jan - Seungri VVIP CD silver version [x] [o]

Seungri VVIP Key Necklace Silver version [x]

2011 Feb - BigBang Mini Album: Tonight [X]

2011 Feb - GDnTop First Album Japanese version [X]

2011 Mar - Seungri VVIP V World DVD [x] [o]

2011 Mar - GDnTop Play with GD & TOP - Japanese Version [X]

2011 April - Official Lightstick version 3 [x]

2011 April - BigBang Mini Album: Tonight Special Edition [x]

2011 May - BigBang Japan Album: BigBang 2 (Blue +Black) [X]

2011 May - BigBang 2011 Concert Big Show Making DVD: [X]

2011 May - BigBang The Ultimate International Best [x]

2011 June - BigBang 2011 Concert Big Show CD: [X]

2011 June - BigBang 2011 Concert Big Show DVD: [x]

2011 Official Desk Calendar [x]

2011 Big Show Paper Toys (Medium): [x]

2011 BigBang X Uniqlo Collab Hoodie (Blue) [x]

2011 BigBang X Uniqlo Collab Hoodie (Black) [x]

2011 BigBang X Uniqlo Collab Hoodie (Gray) [x]

2011 BigBang Star Collection Card Vol 1 [X]

2011 Seungri Tonight Music Video Making Film  [x]

2011 Seungri Face T-Shirt [x]

2011 BigBang Star Collection Card Special Edition [X]

2011 Jul - GDnTop First Album Repackage version [x]

Seungri Dazed Korea Magazine [x]

2011 Dec - The Best of BigBang Japanese version [x]

2012 Feb - BigBang Mini Album: Alive metal case Seungri: [x][o]

2012 June - Extraordinary 20’s Photobook Korea version [X]

Vogue Magazine (BigBang in the Boxing Ring) [x]

2012 June - BigBang Mini: Alive Spec.Ed.- Still Alive Seungri: [x]

2012 Aug - BigBang 2012 Concert Alive Making Collection: [X]

Alive Tour Official T-shirt Black [x]

Alive Tour Official Hoodie Sweatshirt Black [x]

Alive Tour Japan Dome Vip privilege Watch [X]

Alive Tour Phone Accessory [x]

Alive Tour Goods Notebook set [x]

Alive Tour Goods Necklace Seungri version [x]

Seungri BigBang Mini Notebook  [x]

2012 Nov - G-Dragon One Of A Kind Bronze & Gold versions [x]

G-Dragon One of a Kind Knee Socks [x]

G-Dragon One of a Kind Choco Pies [x]

G-Dragon One of A Kind Strap for BigBang Lightstick [x]

G-Dragon One of A Kind Ring set (Gold) [x]

G-Dragon One of A Kind Fan Picket [x]

G-Dragon Ring Notebook [x]

G-Dragon Leather Tattoo Wristband (white) [X]

2012 Dec  -BigBang Special Final in Dome Memorial [x]

2013 Jan - BigBang 2012 Concert Alive CD: [x]

2013 Jan - BigBang 2012 Concert Alive Tour in Seoul DVD [x]

2013 Feb - BigBang Best Music Video Collection Korea [x]

2013 Mar - Daesung Japanese Album D’scover CD only [X]

2013 Mar - Seungri Kindaichi Case Files Movie [X]

2013 May - BigBang 2013 Concert Alive Galaxy Tour CD: [x]

BigBang 2013 Season’s Greeting Calendar [x]

Seungri BigBang Alive Tour Cable Winder  [X]

2013 Jul - BigBang 2012 Concert Alive World Tour DVD: [x]

2013 Jul - BigBang 2012 Concert Alive Final in Seoul DVD [X]

2013 Jul - BigBang Best Music Video Making Collect. Korea: [x]

2013 Aug - Seungri Let’s Talk About Love Red & Orange [x]

Seungri Let’s Talk About Love Tote Bag [X]

Seungri Let’s Talk About Love Pouch [x]

Seungri Let’s Talk About Love Artwork [x]

Seungri Let’s Talk About Love Aroma Lamp [x]

Seungri 2013 Record Footprints Photobook [x]

2013 Sept - G-Dragon COUP D’ETAT red version [x]

2013 Oct - Seungri Lets Talk About Love Japn Cd/DVD [o][x]

Seungri Esquire Magazine [x]

Seungri Magazine Clippings - Cross Magazine [X]

Seungri Magazine Clippings - Cooking/Recipes [x]

Seungri Magazine Clippings - Vanity Mix [X]

Seungri Magazine Clippings - Various [x]

Seungri Magazine Clippings - ?? from Japan [x]

Seungri Magazine Clippings - Mini [X]

2013 Nov - G-Dragon COUP D’ETAT Japan CD/DVD [x]

2013 Nov - T.o.p The Commitment Special Photobook [x]

2013 Dec - G-Dragon COUP D’ETAT collection Korea version [x]

2013 Dec - T.o.p Special Edition Doom Dada Korea [x]

2014 Jan - Official Lightstick version 4 [X]

2014 Feb - GD 2013 World Tour OoaK Final Seoul (Taiwan) [X]

2014 Mar - BigBang 2013-2014 Japan Dome Tour DVD  [X]

2014 Mar - T.o.p Doom Dada CD/DVD Japan [X]

BigBang 2014 Stamps + Postcard Set - Korea [x] [o]

BigBang Swarovksi Vip Crown Hairband [x]

BigBang x Krunk Stuffed Bear - Japan [x]

BigBang X Krunk Clear Folder - Seungri [X]

BIGBANG Gel Ink Pens [x]

BigBang Book Binding Notebook [x]

2014 April - From Top - Korea Limited Special Ed [x]

2014 May - BigBang 2014 +a in Seoul Concert CD: [X]

BIGBANG +α OFFICIAL MUFFLER [x]

BIGBANG +α SILK BRACELET [X]

BIGBANG +a Fan Picket - Seungri [x]

BigBang 2014 Season’s Greeting Calendar [x][o]

Seungri Polaroid from Japan Calendar 2014 [x]

BigBang X Lawson Goods - Tote Bag [X]

BIGBANG YG Bears: Seungri + G-Dragon [X]

2014 June - Taeyang Second Album Rise Deluxe Edition [x]

2014 Jul - Daesung 2nd Japanese Album D’slove cd + dvd [x]

2014 Jul - BigBang 2014 +a Concert Seoul DVD Korea  [x]

2014 Sept - Seungri Japan Drama Yubikoi Kimi ni Okuru - [x]

2014 Nov - Best of BigBang 2006-2014 3cd + 2 dvd Japan [X]

BigBang X Krunk Toy Collection [O] [X] [o] [x] [o] [x]

BigBang x Krunk Tumbler [x]

BigBang 2014 Puzzle Frame [x]

BigBang Lucky Box (2014) [x]

2014 Dec - GD x Taeyang - Good Boy [x]

2015 Feb - BigBang 2014 Japan Event Fantastic Babys DVD [X]

2015 Mar - BigBang 2015 Welcoming Collection DVD Japan

Seungri [X]

Taeyang [o]

2015 Mar - BigBang 2014-2015 Japan Dome Tour X - DVD [x]

2014 ‘X’ Tour in Japan Vip privilege necklace [x]

2014 ‘X’ Tour in Japan Official Hoodie [X]

2014 ‘X’ Tour in Japan Krunk Bear Hand Mirror [x]

Seungri - BigBang 2014 Tour X Eye Mask  [x]

Seungri - Dome Tour Merch oversize card [x]

2015  May - BigBang Made Series: M (Black & White) [X]

2015 June - BigBang Made Series: A (Black & White) [X]

2015  July - BigBang Made Series: D (Black & White) [X]

BigBang 2015 July Vogue [x]

2015  Aug - BigBang Made Series: E (Black & White) [X]

BigBang 2015 August GQ [x]

BigBang “MADE” Diffuser - Seungri [X]

BigBang “MADE” Reversible Jacket [x]

BigBang “Made” Notebook [X]

BigBang “Made” Soap Set [x]

BigBang “Made” Eco Bag (China Tour Merch) [x]

BigBang “MADE” Scarf - (China Tour Merch) [x]

BigBang “Made” Art Toy USB - Seungri [X]

BigBang Art Toy by Eric So - T.o.P [x]

BigBang Art Toy by Eric So - Seungri [X] [O]

BigBang Art Toy by Eric So - Daesung [x]

BigBang Art Toy by Eric So - Taeyang [X]

BigBang Art Toy by Eric So - G-Dragon [x]

2015 Nov -  MADE in Japan Vip Seat Bracelet [X]

2016 Feb - MADE Series - (Deluxe Edition)(Jpn vers) [x]

BB World Tour MADE in Seoul (Jpn vers) [X]

BB World Tour MADE in Japan (Deluxe) [x]

2016 Mar - BB Welcoming Collection (Japan/Korea) [X]

BB MADE Tour Final in Seoul Photobook [x]

BB MADE Tour Final in Seoul Chocolate [x]

BB Times Magazine- Vol 11[x]

2016 Jun - BB MADE Tour Final in Seoul Live CD [X]

2016 Jul - BB 10 Movie Program Photobook [x]

BB World Tour Made in Japan Final (Deluxe) [X]

2016 Aug - BB 10th anniversary light stick (Japan) [x]

BigBang Flash Strap - (Japan) T.o.p. vers. [x]

BigBang10 - Exhibition A to Z Lmt. Ed. Box [X]

BigBang 10 - Coloring Book [x]

BigBang 10 - Poscard Set Type 1 [x]

2016 Sep - Dazed Korea 100 x BigBang (Seungri) [x]

2016 Oct - BigBang 10 The Collection: A - Z Photobook [X]

2016 Nov - BigBang10  The Movie DVD (Korea) [x]

2016 Dec - BigBang MADE The Full Album 

Daesung [x]

Seungri [x]

Group [x]

BigBang x Nongfu Spring Tea (GD) [x]

2017 Feb - BigBang MADE (Jpn Deluxe Edition) [X]

2017 Mar - BigBang Welcoming Collection (Japan) [x]

2017 Apr - Daesung - D-Day (cd+dvd) (Japan) [x]

2017 May - BigBang10 Concert 0 t0 10 Final Seoul [X]

2017 Aug - Taeyang White Night Album (Red Version) [x]

[raidomere]

🍃 TSUKIPRO Releases Summary (2012 - Present)

aka how many organs are you ready to sell this year

A summary of all of TSUKIPRO’s releases (includes only releases under the product code “TKPR” (for TSUKIPRO releases) and “TKUT” (TSUKIUTA. releases). Below the cut, so prepare yourselves. Also, I did not include different versions of CD that are more or less similar in major content (eg. regular edition vs limited editions). If I missed anything, feel free to tell me!

2012 - 2013 significant releases/events:

- TKUT debut - TKUT 1st Season CDs for Dec to May representatives (male and female), Jun to Nov representatives (male only) - TKUT Drama CDs (male only) - Duet CDs (Dec/Feb #1)

2014 significant releases/events:

- continuation and completion of TKUT duet CD releases (male only) - continuation and completion of TKUT Drama CDs (male only) - released first TKUT unit CDs (male only) - first ever TKUT live event - John debuts as singer (he’s initially listed as under the “TSUKIUTA. Series”, hence)

2015 significant releases/events:

- TKUT 1st Season CDs for Jun to Nov representatives (female only): completed all 1st Season CDs - released first TKUT unit CDs (male only) - started and completed all 12 TKUT 3rd Season CDs (male only) - completed all 6 TKUT drama CD volumes (male only) - ALIVE Series start: Side S and Side G Series completed - SolidS debut (currently under SQ Series) - first ever TKPR live event - Glico collaboration series - singing managers

2016 significant releases/events:

- the tsukiuta monopoly has ended TSUKIANI airs - TKUT stage plays (1st & Yumemigusa) - curry song!! - TKUT best albums - SolidS Drama CD series start - ALIVE Series units officially debut under TSUKIPRO after passing their auditions - ALIVE Drama CD series start - Kachofugetsu series start and completed - TKUT 2nd Solo Series start and completed (female only) - Magical Symphonia CDs: Bis Jr., Stein, Lise, Dia debut - QUELL debut - TKUT Valentine live event (females only) - TKPR Nakano Live - PROANI announced at TSUKIPRO winter event - Algeki debut

2017 significant releases/events (as of 9 Jan 2017):

- TKUT 3rd stage play (SchooRevo) + Yumemigusa & LunaLive DVDs - Algeki selection units CD release - X Lied Series (ALIVE, SQ) - Hyouri Series (SQ) - continuation of drama CD releases for SQ - unit CD releases for ALIVE - Glico Drama CD release

[sinful-liesel]

[59 min 26 sec] Butler Is Vampire

Release Date: 2017.11.30

CV: Kurobee

Label: Mousouya

Type: R18 Doujin CD

Synopsis↴

Your butler has served your family for several years. You have fallen into love for him since years ago. This night, he is at your side with no other personnel in your mansion. You think this is a golden opportunity to tell your feelings to him...

*Sample Voice + Purchase link @ source*

DJ/DL = Doujin/Download. Not all of them offer a sample voice so be careful. Always check tags and reviews before purchasing. Please note: I’m posting the release date for the DLsite EN site.

[travoltacustom]

HYPNOSIS MICROPHONE 4TH INTERNATIONAL POLL (DECEMBER 2020) Part 7: Japanese Consumption

Thank you for your participation! These are the final results for the 4th Hypnosis Microphone International Poll. After months of work on this, we have estimates for general fandom opinions. Do you agree or disagree with the general opinions? Please let us know!

The results were held back from original posting as we were waiting to post for a month before the 2nd DRB finals (which is on Doppo’s Birthday this year.) So my deepest apologies for how long this took to get out. We will be releasing these results with a section per day, with the end of these results showing the Japanese side.

Click the READ MORE to view the results.

PREFACE

The data collection for this poll received 902 votes to give us an indication of the demographic of those who consume Hypnosis Mic. This poll was open to English speakers, and thus, results may be considerably Euro/American-centric. The word ‘international’ has been used to refer to how fans are from many places around the world, but the poll may also refer to this group as ‘English-speaking’ etc. The Japanese poll had a smaller respondent pool with 400.

This poll received the most activity through Twitter, given that the series is most active on that platform. The poll was also posted on Tumblr, Facebook and the HypMic wiki. Commentary has been given on sections of the poll. These results will be available in full on from this account. The Japanese poll results shall follow about a week with comparison to this poll.The poll was conducted from December 2020 to January 2021. This poll is UNOFFICIAL and none of the composers of this poll have any relation to King Records whatsoever.

This will be split into MULTIPLE posts due to the amount of data and limitations of tumblr.

PART 7: Japanese Consumption Comparison

This section compares the percentage of HypMic’s English fanbase against the Japanese fanbase in how they consume certain media.

Before the project began - Sep 2017: INTL: 3.7% | JP: 2.5%

Since Pre-Battle Season 1 - Oct 2017 - Feb 2018: INTL: 7% | JP 9.5%

Since Battle Season 1 - Mar 2018 - Dec 2018: INTL: 19.4% | JP: 28%

Since Post-Battle Season 1 - Jan 2019 - Nov 2019: INTL: 29.6% | JP: 36.8%

Since Pre-Battle Season 2 - Dec 2019 - Dec 2020: INTL: 40.3% | JP: 23%

NOTABLE DATES

Release of Enter the Hypnosis Microphone: April 2019

Announcement of Dotsuitare Honpo & Bad Ass Temple: September 2019

Announcement of the start of the 2nd DRB: December 2020

From this group of people, only 264 people, or 66%% of respondents were around during the 1st Battle Season.

Looking at those who were around during the battle season (70%) did not vote at all, while (30%) did vote.

To compare, 293 out of 902 International respondents were around during the 1st Battle Season. 88.4% did not vote at all, while 11.6% did vote.

At the time of the 1st DRB, voting was only possible by buying CDs and certain merchandise, unlike the additions of the 2nd DRB where you could purchase a ticket to the lives. Additionally, it is much easier for JP fans to buy the CDs as HypMic is from Japan.

How many of the HypMic drama tracks have you listened to?

Buster Bros!!! Generation Dramas: INTL: 69.7% | JP: 85.3%

BAYSIDE M.T.C Dramas: INTL: 70.3% | JP: 86.3%

Fling Posse -F.P.S.M- Dramas: INTL: 74.2% | JP: 85.5%

Matenro -Aural Medicine- Dramas: INTL: 70.3% | JP: 87.5%

B.B vs M.T.C Dramas: INTL: 63.7% | JP: 82.5%

F.P vs M Dramas: INTL: 71.8% | JP: 86.3%

The Champion Dramas: INTL: 63.1% | JP: 78%

Enter the Hypnosis Microphone Dramas: INTL: 61% | JP: 74.3%

Aikata Back Again: INTL: 64.7% | JP: 85.8%

The Heart’s Conviction Can’t Be Broken: INTL: 62.6% | JP: 84.3%

Helter Skelter: INTL: 61% | JP: 78.8%

All in the same boat: INTL: 60.9% | JP: 81.3%

The Loneliness, Tears, and Hope of a Puppet: INTL: 67.5% | JP: 80.3%

Chaser from the Past: INTL: 60.9% | JP: 78.8%

Guidebook Dramas: INTL: 31.7% | JP: 74%

Manga Bonus Dramas: INTL: 27.6% | JP: 51.7%

Have not listened to the dramas: INTL: 2.1% | JP: N/A

OBSERVATIONS

As not everyone knows that most dramatracks are readily available on the wiki and finding translations themselves are difficult, it is inevitable that INTL viewership is significantly lower than JP viewership.

All JP respondents have listened to at least one dramatrack. Given that only 2.1% of INTL respondents have not listened to at least one dramatrack, it may be possible that those who have not listened to the dramatracks are in a very small minority.

INTL fans seemed to not have been as interested in DH and BAT’s introduction tracks, while JP fans showed similar numbers for DH and BAT’s introductions to the Main 4 Divisions introductions.

The least listened to tracks that are not considered bonuses (Guidebook + Manga) are:

International: All in the Same Boat (60.9%), Chaser from the Past (60.9%), Enter the Hypnosis Microphone Dramas (61%), Helter Skelter (61%), and The Heart’s Conviction Can’t Be Broken (62.6%)

Japanese: Enter the Hypnosis Microphone Dramas (74.3%), The Champion (78%), Helter Skelter (78.8%), Chaser from the Past (78.8%), and The Loneliness... of a Puppet (80.3%)

How much of the HypMic manga have you read?

SOME of B.B vs M.T.C: INTL: 34.7% | JP: 25%

ALL of B.B vs M.T.C: INTL: 45.8% | JP: 39.5%

SOME of F.P vs M: INTL: 31.3% | JP: 23.8%

ALL of F.P vs M: INTL: 52.4% | JP: 44%

SOME of TDD: INTL: 32.6% | JP: 24.8%

ALL of TDD: INTL: 53.3% | JP: 49%

SOME of D.H & B.A.T: INTL: 64.2% | JP: 64.8%

Have not read the manga: INTL: 10.5% | JP: 13.5%

Thus, all together:

SOME/ALL B.B vs M.T.C: 72.5%

SOME/ALL F.P vs M: 75.75%

SOME/ALL TDD: 79.85%

SOME/ALL D.H & B.A.T: 64.5%

At the time of the poll, BB vs MTC, FP vs M and the TDD manga had completed, while DH vs BAT was incomplete. BB vs MTC +, FP vs M+ and Dawn of Divisions were announced during the poll’s conduction.

OBSERVATIONS

This is the one of the few categories where International HypMic fans consume content more than Japanese HypMic fans.

How much of other HypMic of other HypMic content have you explored?

Track 1: INTL: 69.7% | JP: 30.8%

Track 2: INTL: 70.3% | JP: 25.5%

Track 3: INTL: 74.2% | JP: 33.3%

Niconama: INTL: 70.3% | JP: 52.5%

HPNM Youtube: INTL: 63.7% | JP: 58%

HypMic concerts: INTL: 71.8% | JP: 53.5%

NOTES:

This question also asked about those who have watched the anime, but as respondents ticked multiple options of how much they had seen, these results were unable to be posted. The same happened with the question on Spotify Radio episodes.

Track 2 & Track 3 were playing during COVID which may account for the lower numbers of viewers. Niconama streams have also been discontinued and have now been replaced by the HPNM Youtube streams.

This is the one of the few categories where International HypMic fans consume content more than Japanese HypMic fans.

What HypMic official merchandise have you bought? This does not include magazines that contain manga chapters or interviews.

Trading/blind goods: INTL: 29.3% | JP: 53.3%

Paper goods: INTL: 11.3% | JP: 32.5%

Plush goods: INTL: 35.1% | JP: 51.2%

Apparel: INTL: 10.4% | JP: 44.3%

Accessories or cosmetics: INTL: 4.3% | JP: 29.8%

Stageplay specific goods: INTL: 2.7% | JP: 27.8%

(Collab) Food: INTL: 2% | JP: 22%

Magazine with HypMic content: INTL: 8.5% | JP: 54.5%

Manga (any edition): INTL: 13.7% | JP: 72.8%

HypMic Guidebook: INTL: 16.7% | JP: 78%

Non-battle CD: INTL: 13.6 | JP: 61.3%

Battle Season CD: INTL: 7.4% | JP: 39%

Subscribed to HYPSTER: INTL: 9.8% | JP: 54.5%

Compared to the 48.3% of INTL fans that haven’t bought a piece of HypMic official merchandise, only 6.8% of HypMic fans haven’t bought merch.

Most bought goods: Guidebook (78%), Manga (72.8%), Non-battle CD (61.3%)

Least bought goods: Items from food collabs (22%), stageplay specific goods (29.8%), and accessories and cosmetics (29.8%)

Do you play Alternative Rap Battle (ARB)?

PLAY / DO NOT PLAY: 89.1% / 11%

READ ALL STORIES: 48.7%

READ EVENT STORIES: 10.8%

READ MAIN STORIES: 12.5%

DON’T READ STORIES: 28.1%

How familiar are you with Japanese hip-hop, the genre of HypMic?

Regularly listens to J hip-hop: INTL: 22.88% | JP: 54.3%

Regularly listens to Western hip-hop but not J hip-hop: INTL: 12% | JP: 5.5%

Regularly listens to Japanese music but not J hip-hop: INTL: 54.5% | JP: 32%

Do not listen to Japanese music or hip-hop: INTL: 10.7% | JP: 8.3%

With numbers, we can see that:

34.8% of International respondents listen to either Japanese or Western hip-hop. 65.2% of International respondents do not listen to hip-hop.

These numbers seem to match up with the later results that show that 79% of respondents to not listen to J hip-hop artists outside of HypMic and 69% of respondents do not listen to/could list Western hip-hop artists at all.

59.7% of Japanese respondents listen to either Japanese or Western hip-hop. 40.3% of Japanese respondents do not listen to hip-hop.

From these results, we can see that there is most likely accounts of piracy due to the high numbers of International fans that have seen the stage play or read the manga in comparison to Japanese fans.

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[djemerald]

My ‘sweetest’ Favorite 2018

今までの、CD（カセット〜MDに録音）→iTunes→レコード→Bandcamp、という流れから、今年は正式にSpotifyに加入。 かける時間もお金もどんどん短縮されて、過去最高のスピードで世界中の音楽が聴けるようになった。

これから大事なのは、「何」を「どうやって」選ぶか。 選択肢が増えることは、決して悪いことじゃない。 その中で、自分の感性や価値観をしっかり持つことが、より大切な時代へ。

ありがとう、グッドバイ2018年。 2019年は、見たことのない景色をもっと見る。

*順不同
 *今年リリース以外のものも多くあります 
*Vanessa Paradisは常時アイコンなのではぶきます

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- My ‘sweetest’ Favorite 2018 -

▽▼▽ ALBUM / LP / EP  ▽▼▽ D. Tiffany - Blue Dream［Pacific Rhythm］ Avalon Emerson - Whities 013［Whities］ MHYSA - Fantasii［Halcyon Veil］ Vazz / Hugh Small Submerged Vessels And Other Stories / Piano Music (2014 - 2016)［STROOM 〰］ Will Long - Long Trax 2［Smalltown Supersound］ Tessela / Lanark Artefax - Blue 01［Whities］ Ex-Terrestrial - Urth Born［Pacific Rhythm］ Solitary Dancer - In The Name Of The Mother［Optimo Trax］ Forte - Away［Øen Records］ Cloudface - Super You［Mood Hut］ Toyin Agbetu presents Shades Of Black - Deepest Shades EP［Frame Of Mind］ Allenheimer - Fivefiles EP［Unfiled］ Grouper - Grid Of Points［Kranky］ Soft Fit / Aquatic Language  - Dream Plants［Ville Nouvelle］ ruru - Far Out［-］ Steven Julien - Bloodline［Apron Records］ Stimulator Jones - Exotic Worlds and Masterful Treasures［Stones Throw Records］ Elaine Kibaro - Fajrann［Emotional Rescue］ Jason Kolàr - Modified Perspectives［STROOM 〰］ Zwartjes - Tapes 1［Trunk Records］ Jan Jelinek - PrimeTime［Faitiche］ The Marías - Superclean Vol. II［Superclean Records］ Brian Eno - Apollo［Virgin］ MJ Lallo - Take Me With You［Séance Centre］ Ian William Craig - A Turn Of Breath［Recital］ YAMAAN - NN EP［Math.Beat Records］ Fairground Attraction - Ay Fond Kiss［RCA］ Pilar Zeta - Moments of Reality［Ultramajic］ Yoshiharu Takeda - Aspiration［-］ Thundercat - Final Fight / Bowzer's Ballad［Brainfeeder］ Wim Mertens - Struggle For Pleasure［Tiger Bay］ Lomboy - Warped Caress［Cracki Records］ Alessandro Alessandroni - Romance And Drama［Transversales Disques］ mejiwahn - Lúil Ó Fadó［-］ cero - POLY LIFE MULTI SOUL［Kakubarhythm］ Jan Van den Broeke  - 11000 Dreams［STROOM 〰］ Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack From Twin Peaks［Warner Bros. Records］ 吐痙唾舐汰伽藍沙箱 - 溶け出したガラス箱［Pony Canyon］ 森高千里 - 見て［Warner Bros. Records］ Gentle Forest Jazz Band - GFJB［Warner Music Japan］

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Aske LP - HINDI Blair Sound Design - Overheated Danvers - Aye Ata Dresvn - Millions of Trees Ego Ella May - Table For One gayphextwin - stable Im Part Viking - Peach Plum Pear Out 2 - Dancing Roza Terenzi - Yeh Yeh Yeh Starchild & The New Romantic - Can I Come Over? Riff Cohen - À paris 2-BMW - Don't Tell Me (How Love Should Feel) Yoshinori Hayashi - Square Sun 宇多田ヒカル - 嫉妬されるべき人生 サカナクション - 夜の踊り子 小袋成彬 feat.宇多田ヒカル - Lonely One 水曜日のカンパネラ - 見ざる聞かざる言わざる 清水ミチコ - 相合傘 椎名林檎と宮本浩次 - 獣ゆく細道 電気グルーヴ - ノイ ノイ ノイ (先日のみちのくグルメツアーの件、御予算の都合上、ソフトボール大会とさせていただきますmix) 矢野顕子 - Tong Poo Nulbarich - VOICE Ravi Shankar - Love Montage Park Lane Primary School - The Remarkable Earth Making Machine The London Studio Group - Main Theme 1st Variation Luboš Fišer - And The Last Jaime Mendoza-Nava - The Brotherhood of Satan (End Titles) Michel Fugain - Tu Viens, On S'en Va La-Bas Karine - J'ai Vu Partir Pat Prilly & Jean-Jacques Perrey - Indicatif Spatial Pierre Henry - Eblouissement De La Reine Carl Orff - Fabulettes Jackpine Savage (Bruce Haack) - Abracadabra Piero Umiliani - Iniziazione Di Una Giovane Strega United Future Organization Feat. Claudia E.H. - Moondance (Moon Chant) Tom Waits - Little Trip to Heaven 細野晴臣 - Honey Moon Snail Mail - Pristine Scavenger Hunt - Name Harmonia - Deluxe (Immer Wieder) Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - Meditations Arthur Verocai Feat. Azymuth - Bis The Langley Schools Music Project - Space Oddity The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack Yaffle feat. June Fermie - Breathe Sen Morimoto - Cannonball Park Jiha - Accumulation Of Time Alaskan Tapes (ft. Chantal)  - Waiting Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Im Rauch Josiah Steinbrick - (Vibraphone, Marimbaphone, Malleted Wood, Two Synthesizers) Arp - Reading A Wave Hue Honey - Rosewood Sam Gendel and Sam Wilkes - THEEM AND VARIATIONS Fit Of Body - Untitled '12 James Vickery(feat. Blue Lab Beats) - High Like 細野晴臣 - 薔薇と野獣（new ver.） Good Fuck - Secret Meetings Jeff Phelps (ft. Antoinette Marie Pugh) - Don’t Fall Apart On Me Riccardo Schirò - Mediterranea Julia Bloop - I Gotta Get Outta This Place Bruton Music Flexi - Steens Dilemma SUN ARAW - “Mizu Youkan" from ARU NO OTOKO DENSETSU (2018) by FOODMAN Daisuke Tanabe - Cat Steps DJ Ciderman - You're Losing Me

▽▼▽ MIX ▽▼▽ Dream~cycles / 'a hotel called Dream.' Red Light Radio. 30.11.18 Dream~cycles / Morning~Gardening With Jenn and guest Davy Kehoe #6 DDR 14.01.18 Dream~cycles / Morning~Gardening With Jenn #4 DDR 17.09.17 Dream~cycles / Morning~Gardening With Jenn 3 #3 DDR 13.05.17 Dream~cycles / Morning ~ Gardening With Jenn #1 DDR 26.02.17 Dream~cycles / Emerald Isle/Glass City mix ~ #27 Inner Space CiTR 101.9 Dream~cycles / Doorways of Dwapara Tome to the Weather Machine / Tome to the Weather Machine Podcast 041 Laila Sakini / Live on NTS Radio - Oct 18 James Broadcast / Trish's Toys & Techniques Birthday Tape James Broadcast / Trish's Toys & Techniques Birthday Tape Part 2 I•HATE•THIS•FILM / Mix for Last Resort I•HATE•THIS•FILM / U-matic sounds Disco Ma Non Troppo / Deep Bath #4: I•HATE•THIS•FILM Sanctuary / LIFE CLASSICS W/ PHARAOHS RECORDS Resident Advisor / EM Records - RA Label of the month Dekmantel / Powder at Dekmantel Festival 2018 MAD LOVE RECORDS / DJ サモハンキンポー (DJ Sammo Hung Kam-bo) - Spring Dreamers Mix White Lily Records / Gikyo Nakamura - Mix for TypicalFriday South of North / South of North 10 w/ Vio DJ & Marathon Man @ Red Light Radio -Mirage- / 88.7.22 Lux / Lux at Silent Green The Trilogy Tapes / TTT NTS 28.06.18 with CS + Kreme Rinse FM / The Menendez Brothers with Anna Wall - 19th July 2018 Wax'o Paradiso / Live on Red Light Radio - July 2018 Lobster Theremin / LT Podcast 054 // Romy Mats CYK TOKYO RADIO / CYK TOKYO RADIO 002 / DJ No Guarantee Adriana / Adriana - Red Light Radio 26.06.18 Elias Mazian / Elias Mazian Presents Private Hearts #22 (14.06.18, Red Light Radio) Lobster Theremin / LT Podcast 053 // Norwell Resident Advisor / RA.630 Yoshinori Hayashi Steven Julien / NTS Apron Show - 20th June 2018 PORTAGE GARAGE SOUNDS / PGS MIX 006 - WHODAT Happy Slull / AIR MIX 016: Andy Payback "Street Soul Lovers mix" Adam Oko / An Introduction to Hal McGee Yuto Takei / Red Light Radio Yuto Takei Vol.01 08/11/2017 Resident Advisor / RA Live - 22.04.18 - Palms Trax at Brilliant Corners Ninja Tune / Solid Steel Radio Show 4/5/2018 Hour 1 - Sassy J Resident Advisor / RA.621 Grouper c- / Kazumichi Komatsu - Walking To 'The Orichalcum' JD Twitch (Optimo) / Optimo (Espacio) - NTS - 10/04/2018 Rainbow Disco Club / RDC 018 - KAORU INOUE Rainbow Disco Club / RDC 019 - Sassy J Dimensions Festival / DIM106 - Sassy J (Live 2017) LIFE FORCE / Life Force Radio Observatory #47 with pAradice Adam Oko / NTS Show with Brandon Hocura - 18/03/2018 Tryphème / LYL radio ～ Dame de Cœur by Tryphème ( 20.03.18 ) Hybride Sentimento / Tomoyuki Fujii - Jardin d’hiver (Rendez-vous at the conservatory) Going Good Records / GGHQ Mix #39 : Scott Johnson Gailey (You're Me / Vancouver)- 'When You Have To Get Up' Tryphème / Voyage : The story of a celestial attraction Tryphème / Réflexions : Sometimes Dreams Can Trick You Crack Magazine / Music by Jóhann Jóhannsson – Mixed by Dave Howell (130701 / FatCat Records) Tryphème / Tryphème ～ NTS Radioshow KASRA V / Kasra V 12th February (NTS) East Room / DIGITAL RADIO SHOW #004 SMOKE MACHINE / UN #56 Asyl Cahier RedlightRecords Amsterdam / January Jams 2018 ( Guestmix - Suzanne Kraft ) voodoohop / Voodoocast 018 - Show Kati X-Kalay / Silver Lake Podcast 002 | Doppelate - "The Good, the Bad, and the Sea Monkey" Vic Crezée / Whatever Forever #031 Major Problems / mix for LYL Beats In Space / BIS Radio Show #891 with Palmbomen II Brownswood / Alex Patchwork's Worldwide Awards 2015 Mix Hamon Radio / #28 tomii meme w/ Hamon Radio @Nakameguro Lounge, Tokyo SUBMARINE RECORDS / SUBMARINE RECORDS SUBMARINE LOUNGE MIX BY NOGAWA Moichi Kuwahara Pirate Radio / Weekly mix すべて on Mixcloud Kenichi Aono / Monthly mix すべて on Mixcloud TOKYO TANGENTS WITH MASAAKI HARA / Japanese Abstract Beats TOKYO TANGENTS WITH MASAAKI HARA / Japanese Ambient

▽▼▽ DJ / LIVE ▽▼▽ MOODMAN @夢幻［Nov 10］ Tim Hecker + the Konoyo Ensemble @ＷＷＷ［Oct 2］ 白石隆之 on “Friday Lounge” @ Cafe Apres-midi［Sep 21］ OGRE YOU ASSHOLE @LIQUIDROOM［Jul 14］ Will Long on “Friday Lounge” @ Cafe Apres-midi［Apl 20］ YAMAAN、H.TAKAHASHI、Hegira Moya Ambient Session @dublab.jp［Apl 4］ ELLEH on”Synthesmic” @ BULLET’S［Mar 29］


 xxx DJ Emerald

[kairuy]

DIVERSITY IN SEATTLE THEATRE, NOV/DEC 2017

One last look at the year.

1. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, UW Drama, Lynn Nottage, dir. Timothy Bond. Race-specific and casted accordingly.

2. The Government Inspector, Seattle Shakespeare, Jeffry Hatcher/Nikolai Gogol, dir. Allison Narver. Diversely-cast. This was totally hysterical.

3. Blood Makes Noise (reading), Pork Filled Productions, Kuan Foo, dir. May Nguyen Lee. Diversely-cast.

4. Dawn of the She-Devil of the China Seas (reading), Pork Filled Productions, Roger Tang, dir. Linnea Ingalls.

5. She is Fierce, solo works by female-identifying visual and performing artists, curated by Linnea Ingalls and Cessa Betancourt (I think). Diverse.

6. The Nance, Artswest, Douglas Carter Beane, dir. Mathew Wright. Pretty white, except for Jasmine Jean Sim.

7. Ballad of the White Tiger, NCTC Pipeline, Keiko Green, dir. MJ Sieber. Race-specific, that is, half-Asian. This is deliberate. I note, not for the first time, that Josh Kenji is so ridiculously good-looking it’s almost distracting.

8. It Will Be Now, Wyrd Sisters, Meghan Dolbey and Meme Garcia, dir. Wiley Basho Gorn. Two solo works. There aren’t words for how beautiful this was.

9. The Seagull (filmed), Satirikon Theatre, Anton Chekhov, dir. Yury Butusov. Pretty white. Well, Russians.

10. Every 28 Hours (reading), The Hansberry Project/CD Forum for Arts and Ideas, dir. Valerie Curtis Newton. This is a series of something like 100 one-minute plays about race. Most of the cast is black.

11. Secret and Impossible League of the Noösphere and the Baltimore Plot, Live Girls!, Darian Lindle, dir. Meghan Arnette. Non-race-specific, mostly white. I loved this but I could not for the life of me remember the title, which made it really difficult to recommend it to other people. I think many people had this problem.

12. Monstrosity, UW Drama, Lucy Thurber, dir. Samie Spring Detzer. Diversely-cast. I think, because this is a student production, there is also some gender-swapping, but I can’t be sure. This was wild and electric and totally insane.

13. A Christmas Carol, ACT, Gregory Falls, dir. Emily Penick. This is always diversely-cast, but this is the first time I can recall that a black actor was cast as Scrooge. They always cast two actors as Scrooge, so they had to double-up the casting for Young Scrooge and Even Younger Scrooge, which always works out anyway because you need a lot of young and child actors. Having a Black Scrooge totally pivots that early scene when Scrooge berates his quivering, shivering, overworked and verbally abused sole employee, Bob Cratchit.

14. The Christians (reading), Thalia’s Umbrella, Lucas Hnath, dir. Kathryn Stewart. Diversely-cast.

15. The Humans, Seattle Rep, Stephen Karam, dir. Joe Mantello. As far as I can tell, non-race-specific. Mostly white. One actor wasn’t white. Otherwise it was really white.

16. Buzzfeed IRL, The Horse in Motion, multiple artists and disciplines, diverse.

17. Wonderful Life, 14/48 Projects, dir. Shawn Belyea (plus assistant directors). Diversely-cast. I’ve never seen this before, but the concept is that NOBODY knows who is in the cast except for the directors. Each performer rehearses with the directors alone. They can only tell one person. When it’s their cue, they stand up from wherever they are sitting in the audience, speak their first words, and then join everyone else onstage. It’s amazing.

18. The Flight Before Christmas, SPT, Maggie Lee, dir. Amy Poisson. Diversely-cast.

19. Christmastown, SPT, Wayne Rawley, dir. Kelly Kitchens. I mean, it could be more diversely cast, but then it IS Pilar O’Connell playing the femme fatale in full glory, so I let this one slide.

20. Howl’s Moving Castle, Book-It, Myra Platt (script) and Justin Huertas (music & lyrics), dir. Myra Platt with movement work from Table Flip. Holy shit holy shit holy shit I mean seriously SARA. PORKALOB. Also the cast was diverse as fuck and amazing as hell and I cried and also Michael Feldman is hot like whoa.

21. Artswest Holiday Cast Party, Artswest, Mathew Wright. This was part of a series with each night a different pair of performers coming in to sing a few Christmas carols and talk about themselves and since this was Justin Huertas and Ben Gonio, I totally had to check it out.

22. Ham for the Holidays, ACT, Peggy Platt and Lisa Koch. They have a comedy duo called Dos Fallopia and every year they have a show with about eight skits. It’s pretty white. But funny.

23. Snowflakes, Sandbox Radio/ACT. This is an ongoing radio-style podcast that’s recorded live, with music and sound effects made by actual humans and short plays and works written by various writers. Mostly white.

[polixy]

What to do this weekend in LA Critics Picks: Nov 24 - 30, 2017

What to do this weekend in LA Critics Picks: Nov 24 - 30, 2017; Los Angeles Times entertainment, arts and culture critics choose the week's most noteworthy openings, new releases, ongoing events and places to go in and around Southern California. A captivating animated film and and a gritty social drama are on the big screen and a few holiday favorites return to ...; Google Alert - site:graphics.latime...; https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://graphics.latimes.com/picksheet-critics-picks-nov-24-30-2017/&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjAxOGRmOGVjNTgzMDUyMWY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHoF90HR1_U1T24dYwkZlt-bvG_Dg; ; November 23, 2017 at 02:58PM

[junker-town]

Will Texas and Texas A&M play again? The post-breakup tracker

Realignment broke up one of college football's greatest hate-relationships, but the two won't stop eying each other. Let's keep track as they work their way to meeting up again. Last updated Oct. 26.

Texas and Texas A&M. It's a relationship that goes way back, but after an ugly conference realignment breakup, the two just can't seem to get back on the same page.

Here's a timeline of their trials and tribulations since splitting apart.

Oct. 25, 2017

The governor wants to get involved.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: "My next goal as governor is to reunite the Texas-Texas A&M rivalry. Hook 'em Horns."

— Brian Davis (@BDavisAAS) October 25, 2017

THE HEAT SCALE, rating the flirtatious energy between Texas and A&M: 2, because the governor isn’t in charge here. Just because an ex-couple’s parents badly want them to get back together doesn’t mean the kids will go along with it.

July 17, 2017

Texas' new head coach is on board!

Tom Herman on scheduling: "We don't play a rival at home ever. I don't know why we can't play A&M as our marquee non-conference opponent."

— Brian Davis (@BDavisAAS) July 18, 2017

THE HEAT SCALE: 4. Texas' old head coach was also on board, and look where that got us.

June 28, 2017

"Their AD (DeLoss Dodds) at the time came out and said we will never play Texas A&M again, and they worked along with Baylor and the conference to have no one in the (Big 12) schedule us," former A&M AD Greg Byrne said. "There were other forces at work to make sure we didn't play."

THE HEAT SCALE: 4. That story has a bunch of disheartening stuff on this rivalry and Kansas-Missouri, but that particular quote is at least hot.

June 16, 2017

"Me, personally? I think over the course of time that's going to happen," A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin said when asked, while also talking about how well he knows new Horns coach Tom Herman. "With our move to the SEC, scheduling has become a real issue."

THE HEAT SCALE: 3. Sumlin's been predicting a reunion for years now, not that we don't appreciate him doing so.

June 10, 2016

"They're trying to work something out right now where we're going to play the Aggies," Charlie Strong said at an event. A Texas spokesman said no specifics have been discussed, but we didn't even hear any of the words in this second sentence.

THE HEAT SCALE: 8. Do it.Texas and Texas A&M. It's a relationship that goes way back, but after an ugly conference realignment breakup, the two just can't seem to get back on the same page.

April 14, 2016

A&M athletic director Scott Woodward, via DailyTrib.com in Texas:

Will the Aggies play the University of Texas in football again?

"We have to really assess what is our best path to winning the (Southeastern Conference) West," Woodward said. "I don't foresee anything happening in the near future. There are a lot of opinions well above my pay grade. Rivalries, I think, are healthy for the game.

"It'll be something we'll consider," he added. "It'll be a discussion I'll have to have. I have no objection to it. It's something that has to work for us and for folks."

HEAT SCALE: 5.

March 19, 2016

The two nearly played again in March Madness, but Texas had to go and lose to Northern Iowa on a buzzer beater. Aggies everywhere were torn between laughing at rivals and lamenting the chance to square off, but the likely A&M starting QB had the definitive opinion:

lol http://pic.twitter.com/S95xNzXEfi

— Jake Hubenak (@hubenak_j) March 19, 2016

HEAT SCALE: Unchanged. Laughing at your fallen rival is standard human behavior.

September 30, 2015

Texas A&M regent Tony Buzbee in a Facebook post, via the Austin American-Statesman:

I am going to advocate that the Aggies play Texas again in the near future. Because of our brutal SEC West schedule [...], the Aggies need some cupcake games to rest and heal. In my view, Texas is just as weak if not weaker than the non-conference games we play, so we may as well play them.

HEAT SCALE: 5. Buzbee is, as he mentions, only one regent, and regents aren't athletic directors, but eating pastries is often an enjoyable date activity.

June 18, 2015

Texas A&M chancellor John Sharp is quoted as saying this in response to Texas selling beer at games now:

A&M chancellor Sharp on alcohol at events: "Our athletic program has not reached the point where we require the numbing effects of alcohol."

— Gabe Bock (@GabeBock) June 18, 2015

HEAT SCALE: 3. These rivals can neither imbibe nor abstain without thinking of each other, but we already knew that.

May 8, 2015

A&M chancellor John Sharp took swipes at the Longhorn Network and Texas' recent on-field struggles in an interview.

We're hopeful that sometime in the future there will be a bowl game that we're able to play in, you know, if [Texas] gets there. But the great thing about playing us is that you can get on real TV if you play us.

HEAT SCALE: 2. Sharp ended with "of course I'm just joking about all of this." Stick to your guns, John!

April 16, 2015

When asked about renewing the rivalry, Strong joked that he wasn't pushing too hard for it yet because he wanted to win some games first. Specifically, he said "I don't know if I want to go walking into College Station right now."

That has caught on at A&M, including with incoming five-star defensive tackle Daylon Mack, who signed with the Aggies over Texas.

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— THEE MACK TRUCK (@DaylonMack) April 16, 2015

HEAT SCALE: 7. Twitter banter's usually a 2, but that shirt's a 5 by itself.

April 14, 2015

Oh my:

Texas' Charlie Strong and Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin both in the last week expressed to ESPN.com a desire to resume playing the longstanding rivalry after a three-year hiatus that coincided with the Aggies leaving the Big 12 and joining the SEC in 2012.

HEAT SCALE: 8.

July 23, 2014

Texas coach Charlie Strong on playing Texas A&M: “You would like to see us play each other"

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) July 23, 2014

HEAT SCALE: 7. We're cookin' now.

May 27, 2014

Texas A&M’s Kevin Sumlin on future games w/Texas: “Eventually I think it will happen"

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) May 27, 2014

HEAT SCALE: 6.

May 26, 2014

Texas and Texas A&M are playing again! In baseball. Postseason baseball, meaning they had no choice.

HEAT SCALE: 3. Baseball.

April 25, 2014

UT AD Steve Patterson told us ``unless there is a compelling reason,'' the football series between Texas and Texas A&M is dead.

— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) April 25, 2014

HEAT SCALE: 2. There's no reason in love.

April 1, 2014

Texas AD Steve Patterson: Playing A&M "not at the top of my list."

HEAT SCALE: 3. /Patterson throws Strong into a cold shower

March 7, 2014

New Texas head coach Charlie Strong, sharing his thoughts on resuming the rivalry: "I'd love to play it."

HEAT SCALE: 11. Whoa, take it easy, Charlie. You can't come on so strong, that's just going to creep them out

Nov. 20, 2013

A&M president Loftin: "There's no reason why we shouldn't play each other, if we want to. I think (Texas) will at some point in time feel like it's the right thing to do as well, and we'll get there."

HEAT SCALE: 7.

Nov. 6, 2013

After Texas hires Steve Patterson as AD, Texas A&M senior associate AD Jason Cook says the Aggies are not looking to renew the annual rivalry: "We hope to play them again in a BCS bowl or Playoff game at some point."

HEAT SCALE: 3. "I mean, if we run into 'em at a bar or something and they wanna hook up, we're totally down. But we ain't looking for a long-term thing. Just wanna keep it casual, ya know?"

Sept. 11, 2013

Texas A&M DB Toney Hurd Jr. takes to Twitter, proclaiming, "Texas A&M is the university of Texas." Then-Longhorns head coach Mack Brown responds to the media: "We are the university in this state, regardless of what some kid tweets."

HEAT SCALE: 2. They just can't let each other go, but man, it's getting nasty.

May 31, 2013

Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin: "It's not relevant to us anymore, that's the whole point. It's not an important issue."

HEAT SCALE: 3. "Who? Yeah, I think I remember someone by that name."

April 1, 2013

OH MAN THEY'RE GETTING BACK TOGETHER.

HEAT SCALE: 0. Wait. Awww dammit, April Fools' got us again.

March 18, 2013

Texas AD Dodds: "They're the ones that decided not to play us. We get to decide when we play again. I think that's fair."

HEAT SCALE: 6. It's not gonna be that easy, baby.

Jan. 29, 2013

Texas State Rep. Ryan Guillen proposes law forcing A&M and Texas to play.

HEAT SCALE: 0. Will you two give it a rest and get back together already. You're all each other talks about, and we're tired of seeing you like this. Jeez.

Nov. 19, 2012

Texas DE Alex Okafor, in the buildup to the Longhorns' new year-end game against TCU: "I feel sorry for A&M. We still have a big-time game on Thanksgiving. They're missing out."

HEAT SCALE: 8. "OH. OH OK YOU FOUND SOMEONE NEW? WELL WE FOUND SOMEONE NEW TOO AND WE'RE DOING JUST FINE." /Texas quickly puts its arm around the first school it can find, which happens to be TCU

May 30, 2012

Texas A&M and LSU agree to become annual end-of-season rivals.

HEAT SCALE: 6. A&M is moving on with its new life in a new place, but one has to think it's hoping Texas will notice the Aggies' sexy new companion.

Nov. 25, 2011

In the final scheduled meeting, Texas defeats A&M, 27-25, on a game-winning field goal as time expires.

HEAT SCALE: 10. Texas just came over to get that last box of t-shirts and CDs, and of course it turned into a raucous night of love-making, just like the old times. A&M was pretty mad when the Longhorns left an upper-decker before running out laughing, though.

Oct. 15, 2011

Texas AD DeLoss Dodds: "What we have right now is a full schedule."

HEAT SCALE: 1. "I can't on Friday. Saturday's no good, either. Neither is next week. Or next month."

Sept. 26, 2011

Someone creates a "Keep the Texas vs. Texas A&M Rivalry Game Tradition Alive - Drama Free" Facebook page. It garnered only 89 likes and, as we all know, didn't get the pair back together.

HEAT SCALE: 1. This isn't really a spark between the 'Horns and Ags. It's a desperate plea from their friends to give it another shot.

Sadness scale: 10. :-(

Aug. 29, 2011

Report surfaces Texas A&M is set to announce its departure from the Big 12.

HEAT SCALE: 1. It has been a long road together, but after one last big fight over A&M wanting its own space, the Longhorns and Aggies agree that they just don't have anything in common anymore, and it's best to go their separate ways.

Any more?

We'll update this as more of these arrive over time (and they certainly will). Did we miss any from the past?

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