#Ross Flournoy

[fallloverfic]

The Ballad of Nimona Music Video 💥🤘 Nimona | Netflix After School

Written by Tori Ciampa

Sung by Katarina Gleicher

Music composed by Ross Flournoy

Mixed by Drew Fischer

Sound design by Marc Mellens

Netflix finally officially uploaded Teaser 2: Nimona off of the app! As a warning: this does kind of spoil the whole movie if you haven't seen it. Tumblr video version below the cut because I know tumblr sometimes does autoplay. It's also available on vimeo.

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

[mergerecords]

Apex Manor’s new album Heartbreak City is available everywhere now! Pick it up on LP, CD, or digital. https://smarturl.it/Apex-Heartbreak

“this album ranks with his best music to date, eloquent and uncompromising.” —AllMusic

[sonsofsweden]

Meet my dark sky dream pop sunset indie rock project -- straight outta Los Angeles, based here in Music City. Little Reader began almost surreptitiously as none of us had set out to start another band, but after Ross Flournoy (The Broken West, Apex Manor) and I wrote a few songs out in LA, where he lives, we spent the better part of 2015 into 2016 going back and forth to our home cities, writing and recording for the sheer fun of it. Some of you may have seen Sons of Sweden shows with Graham Bechler on drums and Mark Watrous on guitar, and since fun was the theme that was ultimately emerging, I asked them to come on board for Little Reader, Mark to produce, and Graham to play more drums. We had so much fun, we decided to make a full length record and today I want to give you 2 songs from the forthcoming LP just for being so awesome and hanging with me over the years.

xxo 

Kate

[songsofprotestpeacerevolution]

President Trump continues to use inflammatory language as many Americans protest the unlawful death of George Floyd and the unjust treatment of black Americans by our justice system. As the protests have grown, so has the intensity of the president’s rhetoric. He has gone so far as to make a shocking promise: to send active-duty members of the U.S. military to “dominate” protesters in cities throughout the country — with or without the consent of local mayors or state governors. On Monday, the president previewed his approach on the streets of Washington. He had 1,600 troops from around the country transported to the D.C. area, and placed them on alert, as an unnamed Pentagon official put it, “to ensure faster employment if necessary.” As part of the show of force that Trump demanded, military helicopters made low-level passes over peaceful protesters — a military tactic sometimes used to disperse enemy combatants — scattering debris and broken glass among the crowd. He also had a force, including members of the National Guard and federal officers, that used flash-bang grenades, pepper spray and, according to eyewitness accounts, rubber bullets to drive lawful protesters, as well as members of the media and clergy, away from the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church. All so he could hold a politically motivated photo op there with members of his team, including, inappropriately, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Looting and violence are unacceptable acts, and perpetrators should be arrested and duly tried under the law. But as Monday’s actions near the White House demonstrated, those committing such acts are largely on the margins of the vast majority of predominantly peaceful protests. While several past presidents have called on our armed services to provide additional aid to law enforcement in times of national crisis — among them Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson — these presidents used the military to protect the rights of Americans, not to violate them. As former leaders in the Defense Department — civilian and military, Republican, Democrat and independent — we all took an oath upon assuming office “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” as did the president and all members of the military, a fact that Gen. Milley pointed out in a recent memorandum to members of the armed forces. We are alarmed at how the president is betraying this oath by threatening to order members of the U.S. military to violate the rights of their fellow Americans. President Trump has given governors a stark choice: either end the protests that continue to demand equal justice under our laws, or expect that he will send active-duty military units into their states. While the Insurrection Act gives the president the legal authority to do so, this authority has been invoked only in the most extreme conditions when state or local authorities were overwhelmed and were unable to safeguard the rule of law. Historically, as Secretary Esper has pointed out, it has rightly been seen as a tool of last resort. Beyond being unnecessary, using our military to quell protests across the country would also be unwise. This is not the mission our armed forces signed up for: They signed up to fight our nation’s enemies and to secure — not infringe upon — the rights and freedoms of their fellow Americans. In addition, putting our servicemen and women in the middle of politically charged domestic unrest risks undermining the apolitical nature of the military that is so essential to our democracy. It also risks diminishing Americans’ trust in our military — and thus America’s security — for years to come. As defense leaders who share a deep commitment to the Constitution, to freedom and justice for all Americans, and to the extraordinary men and women who volunteer to serve and protect our nation, we call on the president to immediately end his plans to send active-duty military personnel into cities as agents of law enforcement, or to employ them or any another military or police forces in ways that undermine the constitutional rights of Americans. The members of our military are always ready to serve in our nation’s defense. But they must never be used to violate the rights of those they are sworn to protect.

89 former Defense officials: The military must never be used to violate constitutional rights

Leon E. Panetta, former defense secretary

Chuck Hagel, former defense secretary

Ashton B. Carter, former defense secretary

William S. Cohen, former defense secretary

Sasha Baker, former deputy chief of staff to the defense secretary

Donna Barbisch, retired major general in the U.S. Army

Jeremy Bash, chief of staff to the defense secretary

Jeffrey P. Bialos, former deputy under secretary of defense for industrial affairs

Susanna V. Blume, former deputy chief of staff to the deputy defense secretary

Ian Brzezinski, former deputy assistant defense secretary for Europe and NATO

Gabe Camarillo, former assistant secretary of the Air Force

Kurt M. Campbell, former deputy assistant defense secretary for Asia and the Pacific

Michael Carpenter, former deputy assistant defense secretary for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia

Rebecca Bill Chavez, former deputy assistant defense secretary for Western hemisphere affairs

Derek Chollet, former assistant defense secretary for international security affairs

Dan Christman, retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army and former assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

James Clapper, former under secretary of defense for intelligence and director of national intelligence

Eliot A. Cohen, former member of planning staff for the defense department and former member of the Defense Policy Board

Erin Conaton, former under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness

John Conger, former principal deputy under secretary of defense

Peter S. Cooke, retired major general of the U.S. Army Reserve

Richard Danzig, former secretary of the U.S. Navy

Janine Davidson, former under secretary of the U.S. Navy

Robert L. Deitz, former general counsel at the National Security Agency

Abraham M. Denmark, former deputy assistant defense secretary for East Asia

Michael B. Donley, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force

John W. Douglass, retired brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force and former assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy

Raymond F. DuBois, former acting under secretary of the U.S. Army

Eric Edelman, former under secretary of defense for policy

Eric Fanning, former secretary of the U.S. Army

Evelyn N. Farkas, former deputy assistant defense secretary for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia

Michèle A. Flournoy, former under secretary of defense for policy

Nelson M. Ford, former under secretary of the U.S. Army

Alice Friend, former principal director for African affairs in the office of the under defense secretary for policy

John A. Gans Jr., former speechwriter for the defense secretary

Sherri Goodman, former deputy under secretary of defense for environmental security

André Gudger, former deputy assistant defense secretary for manufacturing and industrial base policy

Robert Hale, former under secretary of defense and Defense Department comptroller

Michael V. Hayden, retired general in the U.S. Air Force and former director of the National Security Agency and CIA

Mark Hertling, retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army and former commanding general of U.S. Army Europe

Kathleen H. Hicks, former principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy

Deborah Lee James, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force

John P. Jumper, retired general of the U.S. Air Force and former chief of staff of the Air Force

Colin H. Kahl, former deputy assistant defense secretary for Middle East policy

Mara E. Karlin, former deputy assistant defense secretary for strategy and force development

Frank Kendall, former under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics

Susan Koch, former deputy assistant defense secretary for threat-reduction policy

Ken Krieg, former under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics

J. William Leonard, former deputy assistant defense secretary for security and information operations

Steven J. Lepper, retired major general of the U.S. Air Force

George Little, former Pentagon press secretary

William J. Lynn III, former deputy defense secretary

Ray Mabus, former secretary of the U.S. Navy and former governor of Mississippi

Kelly Magsamen, former principal deputy assistant defense secretary for Asian and Pacific security affairs

Carlos E. Martinez, retired brigadier general of the U.S. Air Force Reserve

Michael McCord, former under secretary of defense and Defense Department comptroller

Chris Mellon, former deputy assistant defense secretary for intelligence

James N. Miller, former under secretary of defense for policy

Edward T. Morehouse Jr., former principal deputy assistant defense secretary and former acting assistant defense secretary for operational energy plans and programs

Jamie Morin, former director of cost assessment and program evaluation at the Defense Department and former acting under secretary of the U.S. Air Force

Jennifer M. O’Connor, former general counsel of the Defense Department

Sean O’Keefe, former secretary of the U.S. Navy

Dave Oliver, former principal deputy under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics

Robert B. Pirie, former under secretary of the U.S. Navy

John Plumb, former acting deputy assistant defense secretary for space policy

Eric Rosenbach, former assistant defense secretary for homeland defense and global security

Deborah Rosenblum, former acting deputy assistant defense secretary for counternarcotics

Todd Rosenblum, acting assistant defense secretary for homeland defense and Americas’ security affairs

Tommy Ross, former deputy assistant defense secretary for security cooperation

Henry J. Schweiter, former deputy assistant defense secretary

David B. Shear, former assistant defense secretary for Asian and Pacific security affairs

Amy E. Searight, former deputy assistant defense secretary for South and Southeast Asia

Vikram J. Singh, former deputy assistant defense secretary for South and Southeast Asia

Julianne Smith, former deputy national security adviser to the vice president and former principal director for Europe and NATO policy

Paula Thornhill, retired brigadier general of the Air Force and former principal director for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs

Jim Townsend, former deputy assistant defense secretary for Europe and NATO policy

Sandy Vershbow, former assistant defense secretary for international security affairs

Michael Vickers, former under secretary of defense for intelligence

Celeste Wallander, former deputy assistant defense secretary for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia

Andrew Weber, former assistant defense secretary for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs

William F. Wechsler, former deputy assistant defense secretary for special operations and combating terrorism

Doug Wilson, former assistant defense secretary for public affairs

Anne A. Witkowsky, former deputy assistant defense secretary for stability and humanitarian affairs

Douglas Wise, former deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency

Daniel P. Woodward, retired brigadier general of the U.S. Air Force

Margaret H. Woodward, retired major general of the U.S. Air Force

Carl Woog, former deputy assistant to the defense secretary for communications

Robert O. Work, former deputy defense secretary

Dov S. Zakheim, former under secretary of defense and Defense Department comptroller

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/05/89-former-defense-officials-military-must-never-be-used-violate-constitutional-rights/

[sixtyfivehundredinvisiblebirds]

what I read in 2020

(but also caveat that I post these to help myself keep track & it’s very ok if you didn’t read anything this year)

On Earth, we’re briefly gorgeous- Ocean Vuong Mostly Dead Things- Kristen Arnett The Yellow House- Sarah M. Broom The Book of Delights- Ross Gay I Shimmer Sometimes, Too- Porsha Olayiwola Guillotine- Eduardo C. Corral White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia- Kiki Petrosino Field Music- Alexandria Hall Negroland: A Memoir- Margo Jefferson Some Are Always Hungry- Jihyun Yun Hard Child- Natalie Shapero In the Dream House- Carmen Maria Machado The Dutch House- Ann Patchett Parable of the Sower- Octavia Butler Musicophilia- Oliver Sacks The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Sherman Alexie Blood of the Air- Ama Codjoe Reconstructions- Bradley Trumpfheller Birthright- George Abraham Ugly/Sad- Cassandra de Abla The Visible Planets- Aly Pierce Paper Girls vol 1- Brian K. Vaughn/Cliff Chiang Here- Richard McGuire Red Cavalry- Isaac Babel (tran. Boris Dralyuk) Silences- Tillie Olsen (just the title essay) Exhalation- Ted Chiang Little Fires Everywhere- Celeste Ng Ninth Street Women- Mary Gabriel Odessa Stories- Isaac Babel (tran. Boris Dralyuk) Museum of Accidents- Rachel Zucker Landscape with Sex and Violence- Lynn Melnick Ugly/Sad- Cassandra de Alba Fierce Attachments- Vivian Gornick The Ministry of Utmost Happiness- Arundhati Roy The Pedestrians- Rachel Zucker Trick Mirror- Jia Tolentino Hard Damage- Aria Aber feeld- Jos Charles The Turner House- Angela Flournoy Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play- Anne Washburn To The Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf

[timeless-hollywood-classics]

Blondie (1938)

Blondie is a 1938 comedy film directed by Frank Strayer, based on the comic strip of the same name, created by Chic Young. The screenplay was written by Richard Flournoy. The plot involves the Bumsteads' fifth anniversary, Dagwood trying to get a raise, and Blondie trying to buy new furniture.

This was the first of 28 films based on the comic strip; Columbia Pictures produced them from 1938 to 1943, and popular demand brought them back in 1945. When the Blondie film series came to an end with Beware of Blondie in 1950, it was announced as being replaced with a series of Gasoline Alley movies. However, only two such films were made, Gasoline Alley (1951) and Corky of Gasoline Alley (1951). Columbia then reissued the Blondie features, beginning with the first film in the series.

Columbia used the series to showcase many of its contract players. Rita Hayworth was featured in Blondie on a Budget; Glenn Ford in Blondie Plays Cupid, Larry Parks and Janet Blair in Blondie Goes to College, Shemp Howard in Blondie Knows Best, and Adele Jergens in Blondie's Anniversary. Other roles were taken by Columbia contractees Doris Houck, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges, Ann Doran, Stanley Brown, Richard Fiske, Bud Jamison, Eddie Laughton, John Tyrrell, Alyn Lockwood, Jimmy Lloyd, Gay Nelson, and Ross Ford.

[lastchancevillagegreen]

In today’s post: 9 October 2019

Heartbreak Manor Apex Manor (Merge Records)

The second release from Apex Manor.  I’d been hesitant to pick this up because the first album (The Year of Magical Drinking released in 2011) was a solo affair in which Ross Flournoy played 90% of the music himself and for the follow-up he enlisted an actual band.  Reading that hype sticker suggesting “dreamy synth work reminiscent of The Cure” and seeing that album cover so reminiscent of bargain bin albums from the 70s, makes me wonder should I just put it on now and discover the secrets it holds, or should I wait a little longer?

[comm4000]

Glory Road: Not Always Glorious?

The 1966 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship was won by coach Don Haskins of Texas Western College with, for the first time in history – an all-black starting lineup. During a time of heightened racial tension and the Civil Rights Era, Haskins recruited seven African American basketball players to join his team: Bobby Joe Hill, Harry Flournoy, Nevil Shed, Orsten Artis, Willie Worsley, Willie Cager and David Lattin. The road to not only a successful sports victory but also a racial victory sounds glorious. The definition of the word glory is a state of absolute happiness, gratification and contentment. It can also be defined as praise bestowed by common consent. However, the desire for racial dominance, the power of looking and the realities of black body commodification paired with absolute hatred demonstrate that the road to glory was far from common consent.

The film begins with coach Haskins and assistant coach Moe Iba taking to the streets of New York seeking out new talent for the 1965-66’ basketball season. Both Haskins and Moe were white men dealing with white male faculty at Texas Western College. The first black player the film portrays is Bobby Joe Hill. Coach Haskins is immediately interested in recruiting Bobby but Hill replies with “Uh huh, you’ll sign me up. Like your token negro and bury me at the end of the bench…You gonna let a black player play from the get go?” (Bruckheimer & Gartner, 2006). Hill’s comment illustrates to its viewers that white male athletes dominated the courts while black male athletes were primarily benched and only played when unspoken rules applied – at the end of the game. Haskins replied, “I don’t see color. I see quick. I see skill and that is what you have, that is what I am putting on the court” (Bruckheimer & Gartner, 2006). Coach Haskin’s was operating from a place of open mindedness and perhaps cultural competency but his new African American players would not be welcomed with open arms. Many comments were made throughout the motion picture that reflect the dissent held by many white faculty and staff toward a majority black collegiate team. Even Texas Western basketball trainer Ross More claimed, “There are no coloreds playing division I basketball in the South. You are acting like negroes gonna be the future of basketball. Could you imagine that?” (Bruckheimer & Gartner, 2006).

Sports history has tended to focus on the physical prowess of black athletes compared to the framing of white athletes, who are portrayed as leaders with superior mental ability (Beamon & Messer, 2013, p. 8). As Haskins continued to pursue Hill and his soon to be teammates, a professional colleague fervently expressed to coach, “Son, you can’t win playing n****r ball. Sure, they can jump but they cannot lead. They can’t handle the pressure – don’t have enough intelligence” (Bruckheimer & Gartner, 2006). This physical prowess of black athletes not only meets at a crossroads of the male gaze and commodification of black bodies but it intentionally places black athletes in a mentally inferior position beneath white athletes. At a time when African Americans were standing in solidarity for equality, white masculinity was beginning to crumble. Quickly we witnessed black athletic dominance become a threat to white masculinity, which for decades asserted itself through sport (Oates, 2007, p. 78).

Glory Road contained several scenes in which we can observe how white masculinity was threatened. For example, coach Haskin’s wife Mary receives anonymous hate mail reading “You n****r lovers, you need to stop messin’ around with the way things supposed to be and playing that street ball” (Bruckheimer & Gartner, 2006). Watching this scene gives its audience an idea that white masculinity was becoming extremely insecure. Whites wanted things how they were supposed to be – with them dominating at the top of every realm of the social hierarchy. Now that black athletes were on the court, basketball was deemed as less than – as street ball. White masculinity combated the successes of blacks by attacking the mental ability and intelligence of black individuals both on and off the court. This combat became hateful and aggressive. “Sport is considered a prime venue for displaying masculinity and the associated cultural ideals such as aggression, muscularity, the suppression of fear, and intentional physical demonstrations of power and dominance” (Beamon & Messer, 2013, p. 4).

Off the court in the film, white attendees of a Texas Western basketball game chat among themselves in the bathroom proclaiming that “One thing is for sure. Can’t no five n*****s beat five white guys. They just black trash, they think they belong here” (Bruckheimer & Gartner, 2006). At a Texas Western away game, Black athlete Nevil Shed was viciously attacked and beaten by three white men in a roadside diner restroom. The blood on his face marks the lengths white masculinity was willing to go to in order to put blacks where “they belong.” It cuts to another scene of Haskins watching the news which displayed the ongoing Vietnam war. This war had African American heroes overseas protecting our freedoms while America simultaneously failed to protect black freedoms or even acknowledge them. The beating of Nevil Shed is not only the physical and metaphorical beating black athletes were forced to take but it reflects a deeper and much larger wound of the African American citizen experience.

Glory Road continued with its main theme of racial dominance but subtly shifted towards the power of looking. The power of looking is in who does the looking and who is being looked upon. In this case, like many accounts of white and black racial relations, white men are gazing upon black athletes. “In broadcasts of basketball, the gaze lingers most often of black bodies in motion, often accompanied by narratives celebrating the grace, power, and beauty of their movement” (Oates, 2007, p. 85). This is evident in the scene where Moe Iba is scouting out of state watching these star athletes play on the street. He exclaims, “These New York kids may be from the street but they sure can play, the guard plays like a giant and the forward runs like an animal. I’ve never seen anything like them” (Bruckheimer & Gartner, 2006). Although it is exciting and worth celebrating the integration of black athletes “at the same time, it creates a sadly familiar white fantasy in which black men are cast as primitives who are identified primarily with their bodies, while white men take their accustomed place at the top of the constructed hierarchy” (Oates, 2007, p. 86). There is also a comment made by an announcer during the championship game stating that “We have a real David versus Goliath matchup” which hints at another assumption that whites (players of the rival University of Kentucky) are in charge of taming and civilizing the savages (the all Black starting lineup of Texas Western) (Oates, 2007, p. 86).

“In an age when blacks are perceived as athletically dominant, especially in macho team sports like basketball, the looking enables and serves to reassert the white male power structure by positioning increasingly nonwhite athletic bodies as commodities, and encouraging fans to imagine themselves as potential possessors of these bodies” (Oates, 2007, p. 88). Announcers discuss black athlete Harry Flournoy as a “6’5 Indiana product that is one of the best” in the league. Without a doubt, the Miners, Harry Flournoy and his African American teammates in Glory Road succeeded by winning the 1966 Division I Championship and it was magnificent. However, the end of the film depicts closing captions about other teams, including head coach of Kentucky Adolph Rupp recruiting Black athletes too. Again, this is worthy of celebration because it was the beginning of other teams’ integration but it also marks the beginning of the commodification and labor of black athletic bodies serving as “higher purpose” for whites – to win. This depiction is problematic because it puts a tremendous amount of pressure on other African American boys, men and athletes that view “sports are a way out of the ghetto. That impoverished blacks in particular can use sports to move up the economic ladder and achieve success” (Beamon & Messer, 2013, p. 5). “While sport provides opportunity for success that for a long time was unavailable to many racial and ethnic groups, sport also serves to blind us to the continued impoverished state that many of these same groups experience” including less opportunity of coaching positions and ownership of team sports (Beamon & Messer, 2013, p. 7). “This is problematic for disadvantaged youth seeking to use sports as a means to escape the ghetto because education and career planning – more realistic paths to success – often become deemphasized in the process” (Beamon & Messer, 2013, p. 7). I personally believe that this Disney representation of Glory Road was lightly delivered. In other words, the experience of being any of the seven black athletes was a first just as Kye Allums was the first transgender athlete in NCAA women’s basketball – therefore Kye’s experience, as he mentioned was a lot more complicated than the media let on.

As a woman of color, it may appear that I may not have a whole lot in common with the 1966 Texas Western Miners. I was a dancer not a basketball player and I certainly have not been badly beaten for expressing my talents. Yet I engage with this topic and the film Glory Road because I know what it feels like to be classified as “other.” At one point in the film, white teammate Jerry Armstrong asks, “So I was wondering, do you guys wanna be called colored or black?” in which Harry responds, “Do I look like a load of laundry to you?” (Bruckheimer & Gartner, 2006). This also reminded me of our class discussion with Kye. Kye said he is not transgendered or colored as if something went wrong. We are not loads of laundry nor is there anything wrong with us. We are different but we are human. This topic is important to me because it demonstrates that “whiteness is privileged as the cultural norm, it goes unmarked or raceless, it is invisible and anyone not white is defined as the other and becomes “raced” (Butterworth, 2007, p. 231). It is time we stop becoming “othered” and start becoming one. This movie elicits sparks of social justice that reaffirm my passion for social movements and people no matter what they look like.

Glory was not bestowed to the 96’ Texas Western Miners by common consent. Glory was fought for. Glory bled on and off the court in front of white and black faces. Glory is still being fought for because for some reason “justice for all isn’t specific enough” (Stephens, Lynn, & Smith, 2014). But glory is destined. It does not come easily and it is not always wonderful – it takes a team believing in the same goal to travel down that road.

References

Beamon, K., & Messer, C. (2013). The enduring color line in U.S. athletics. New York, NY: Routledge.

Bruckheimer, J. (Producer), & Gartner, J. (Director. (2006). Glory Road [motion picture]. United States: Walt Disney Pictures.

Butterworth, M. (2007). Race in “the race”: Mark mcguire, sammy sosa and heroic constructions of whiteness. Critical Studies in Media Communication 24:3, 228-244. doi: 10.1080/07393180701520926 

Oates, T. P. (2007). The erotic gaze in the NFL draft. Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, 4:1, 74-90. doi: 10.1080/14791420601138351

Stephens, J. Lynn, L., & Smith, C. (2014). Glory [Recorded by John Legend and Common]. On Selma Soundtrack [digital download]. Def Jam and Collumbia.

[fallloverfic]

"The Ballad of Nimona"

Update: The last original song for the movie/promotional stuff is The Ballad of Nimona, currently available outside the Netflix app on YouTube and Vimeo.

Written by Tori Ciampa Sung by Katarina Gleicher Music composed by Ross Flournoy Mixed by Drew Fischer Sound design by Marc Mellens

It was originally only available officially in English on the Netflix app and called "Teaser 2: Nimona". It still isn't included on the official soundtrack or listed in the credits. Jessica Boudreaux's credits song One Two Punch was released about a week after the rest of the music as a single, and isn't included on the soundtrack, so it's possible The Ballad of Nimona will have the same treatment. A lot of movies get two "soundtracks" so to speak: a score (usually the orchestral stuff) and an album (usually any licensed music), so it's possible that although the score is out, we're going to get an actual album with the licensed music, One Two Punch, and The Ballad of Nimona.

And although One Two Punch is included in the credits, versus The Ballad of Nimona, That's Not My Name by The Ting Tings also isn't in the movie credits, likely because it was solely used for promotional purposes and didn't actually appear in the movie itself, like The Ballad of Nimona. There are also maybe at least two other songs I've heard in tiktok promos that I'm pretty sure aren't used in the actual film. If there's an album, it's possible That's Not My Name would also be on the album release. We might also just get two more singles like T-Rex and One Two Punch, and one for The Ballad of Nimona. Or we'll get an extended album or something, with everything.

Also if you haven't the movie and don't want to be spoiled, I would suggest not watching Teaser 2: Nimona/The Ballad of Nimona because it is very spoilery. Even the song lyrics are spoilery.

But anyway, I've included the lyrics below the cut.

You’ve got a taste for the rebellion

Your sidekick has arrived

I’m breaking walls and barriers

The institute and all their lies

You should be questioning everything

‘Cause what is it all for

They use you up

And spit you out

And leave your body on the floor

Be a hero, pierce the heart

Of anyone you may not like

May you be chosen

Be protected

By almighty Gloreth's light

There is no ever after

Hanging ‘round with someone quite like me

It ain’t that kind of kingdom

Kind of town

Ain’t that kind of story

(Chorus)

They only

See you one way

No matter how hard you try

Once they see

You as the villain

That’s what you are in their eyes (x2)

"You’re just a girl"

I’m not "a girl"

Oh wait, "gorilla?" Okay, sure

Some days I’m feeling frantic

hyper-manic

Can’t take this form no more

The name’s Nimona

I assure ya

There’s no winning, that’s their plan

Call me a "monster"

Fraudster

I’m no one’s "daughter"

I’m just the way I am

(Chorus)

They only

See you one way

No matter how hard you try

Once they see

You as the villain

That’s what you are in their eyes

We only go high

They only go low

Nimona and Boss going in for the K.O.

They fear the catastrophe is in the anarchy

Problems they’re causing are all systemically

Smash it, burn it, let’s wreck this place

Can’t help it if dude’s got a punchable face

Dragon or whale, whatever I choose

You ever seen a shark bust a move?

(Chorus)

They only

See you one way

No matter how hard you try

Once they see

You as the villain

That’s what you are in their eyes

(In their eyes)

[nationalbook]

See you at #AWP17!

The National Book Foundation is headed to Washington, D.C. for #AWP17 . Here are some of the National Book Award Winners, Finalists, Longlist and 5 Under 35 honorees who you can catch during the conference. We’ll see you there! 

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award Winner and Finalist

Mystery in the Writing Process: Discovery, Revelation, and Witholding for Writers and Their Readers

9:00AM-10:15AM

Featuring National Book Award Winner William Alexander and National Book Award Longlist author Kekla Magoon

A Lecture by Jacqueline Woodson, sponsored by The Poetry Foundation

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Winner & four time National Book Award Finalist Jacqueline Woodson

VIDA Voices & Views: Exclusive Interview with Joan Naviyuk Kane, Ada Limón, & Alicia Ostriker

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Ada Limón

The Art of the Novella: Publishers and Writers On Crafting the Beautifully In-Between

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring 5 under 35 Honoree Josh Weill

Asian-American Generations at Coffee House Press

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Karen Yamashita

Some of My Best Friends Are Octavia Butler and Ursula K. LeGuin: Genre Bias in the Creative Writing

1:30pm - 2:45pm 

Featuring 5 under 35 Honoree Asali Solomon

But Do You Have a Novel? How and Why Short Story Writers Transition into Novelists

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm 

Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Kirstin Valdez Quade 

Copyright Basics for the Digital Age

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Featuring two-time National Book Award Finalist James Gleick

Going for Gold: Five Novelists Rewrite the Sports Narrative

4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Tracy O'Neill

An Invitation to Poetic Discovery, Sponsored by Poets House

4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist & Longlist author Monica Youn

Friday, February 10, 2017

Viet Thanh Nguyen, National Book Award Finalist

Celebrating The Golden Shovel Anthology in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks

9:00AM-10:15AM

Featuring three time National Book Award Finalist Marilyn Nelson 

Strange Bedfellows: The Unholy Mingling of Politics and Art

9:00AM-10:15AM

Featuring National Book Award Longlist author Anthony Marra

Workshopping War: The Challenges of War Writing in the Classroom

10:30am - 11:45am 

 Featuring National Book Award Finalist Jayne Anne Phillips

Crafty: Four City University of New York MFA Graduates Read from Their Work

10:30am - 11:45am 

 Featuring National Book Award Winner and 5 Under 35 Honoree Phil Klay

Beyond Sex: The Poetics of Desire

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Tim Seibles

Coming of Age: The Blurry Lines between Adult & YA literature

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM 

 Featuring National Book Award Finalist Jason Reynolds

Raising Hell: Writing from the Extremes

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM 

 Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Tea Obreht

American Smooth: A Tribute to Rita Dove

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Winner Robin Coste Lewis and National Book Award Finalist Rita Dove 

The Interconnectedness of Poetry & Memoir

1:30pm - 2:45pm 

 Featuring National Book Award Finalist Tracy K. Smith

A Reading and Conversation with Alexander Chee and Valeria Luiselli, Sponsored by Coffee House Press and Kundiman

1:30pm - 2:45pm 

Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Valeria Luiselli and National Book Foundation Executive Director, Lisa Lucas

Going There: Writing the Complicated Truth in the World's Hot Spots

1:30pm - 2:45pm 

Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Brit Bennett 

A Tribute to Marie Ponsot

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist and Longlist author Kevin Young

Daddy's Little Girl, and Other Misfortunes in YA

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm 

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Laura Ruby

To Sing the Idea of All: Walt Whitman in DC

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm 

Featuring Literarian Award Winner and Cave Canem co-founder Cornelius Eady

A Conversation between Chimamanda Ngozi and Ta-Nehisi Coates

4:30pm - 5:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Winner Ta-Nehisi Coates

Distant Lands, Intimate Voices

4:30pm - 5:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Viet Thanh Nguyen

Saturday, February 11, 2017

Rita Dove, National Book Award Finalist

Poetry As Invocation

10:30am - 11:45am

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Ada Limón

Get in Formation: Form in YA Literature

10:30am - 11:45am

Featuring three time National Book Award Finalist Marilyn Nelson

Being the Change You Want to See: The New Literary Leadership

10:30am - 11:45am

Featuring National Book Foundation Executive Director Lisa Lucas

Immigrants / Children of Immigrants

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Finalist and Longlist author Monica Youn

21st Century Troubadours

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Rita Dove

Women Writers Get Gritty

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Jayne Anne Phillips

No Easy Readers: The Challenges of Writing for Children

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Winner William Alexander and National Book Award Longlist author Anne Ursu

The Ghosts of History

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist and 5 Under 35 Honoree Angela Flournoy

A Reading and Conversation with Aracelis Girmay, Tim Seibles, and Danez Smith.

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Tim Seibles

Socially Conscious Fiction

3:00pm - 4:15pm

Featuring National Book Award Longlist author Garth Greenwell

Going for Broke: Working Class Writers on Choosing a Career In The Arts

3:00pm - 4:15pm

Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Tiphanie Yanique 

Writing Across Cultures

3:00pm - 4:15pm

Featuring 5 under 35 Honoree Valeria Luiselli 

Conversation with Ross Gay & Tina Chang

3:00pm - 4:15pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Ross Gay

Poetry in the Age of the Drone

4:30pm - 5:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Solmaz Sharif

Reading with Rita Dove, Terrance Hayes & Ocean Vuong

8:30pm - 10:00pm

Featuring National Book Award Winner Rita Dove, and National Book Award Winner & Finalist Terrance Hayes

Reading with Colum McCann & Margot Livesly

8:30pm - 10:00pm 

 Featuring National Book Award Winner Colum McCann

[mergerecords]

Apex Manor's new single "Where My Mind Goes" is available at digital services now. Watch the lyric video and add the song to your digital library. https://smarturl.it/Apex-Heartbreak

The song is from the album Heartbreak City, out May 31.

Apex Manor on tour: May 02 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon * May 03 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall * May 04 Indianapolis, IN - The HI-FI * May 06 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom * May 07 Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe * May 30 Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Theater Jul 27 Carrboro, NC - MRG30 Festival

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Apex Manor released their first album in 2011 and are finally back with Heartbreak City.  And let me tell ya, it’s a rocker.  I get some Dinosaur Jr feels but I won’t lump the band (Ross Flournoy) as any sort of single sound, the full album is deep and demands your attention to every track.

Ross is currently touring with Strand of Oaks.

[theindyreview]

Album Review: Apex Manor - Heartbreak City

Album Review: @ApexManor - Heartbreak City LA indie rockers' first album in 8 years is filled with melancholy-soaked guitar fuzz goodness. @mergerecords #rock #indie #punk #Silverlake #ApexManor

It’s been eight long years since we last heard from Los Angeles band Apex Manor, and if one were to ask frontman Ross Flournoy what’s happened to him since then, their latest album Heartbreak City would be a clear answer. His latest collection is packed full of fuzzed-out rockers streaked with workingman’s melancholy, as well as some more delicate tracks for a somber golden hour.

The album takes…

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My Houzz: Dallas Cottage Expands Into a Live-Work Home (17 photos) https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/84097659/list/my-houzz-dallas-cottage-expands-into-a-live-work-home/

Real estate developer Mitch Lee never intended to live in what was initially a flip project, nor did he think it would become a live-work space. But then his business partner Ross Boorhem moved into the house. And after the real estate crash in 2009, Lee and his longtime partner, Randall Oxford, moved...

Angela Flournoy

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UT MARTIN NAMES LOCAL STUDENTS TO FALL SEMESTER CHANCELLOR’S HONOR ROLL

MARTIN, Tenn. — The outstanding academic achievements of undergraduate students at the University of Tennessee at Martin have been honored with publication of the Fall 2016 Chancellor’s Honor Rolls for the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, College of Business and Global Affairs, College of Education, Health, and Behavioral Sciences, College of Engineering and Natural Sciences and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. To be eligible for Chancellor’s Honor Roll recognition at UT Martin, a student must take at least 12 hours of credit (pass-fail courses are not included) and achieve a 3.2 (B) grade point average based on a 4.0 scale. Students can make the Chancellor’s Honor Roll with honors (3.2 through 3.49), high honors (3.5 through 3.79) or highest honors (3.8 through 4.0).

 ·         Beech Bluff – Connor J. Alley, Honors; Jillian E. Bland, High Honors.

 ·         Humboldt – Kristin P. Taylor, Highest Honors; Kayla E. Tinnon, High Honors; Keaton B. Wilson, High Honors.

 ·         Jackson – Jacob S. Barber, Honors; Julian G. Beard, Honors; Ericka L. Bingham, High Honors; Doris K. Bobbitt, Honors; Shemyra B. Braden, Honors; Jasmine D. Bradford, High Honors; Kayla D. Brockmeyer, Highest Honors; Michael J. Brown, Honors; Janisha S. Buntyn, Honors; Erica A. Burrow, Honors; Christopher D. Carmichael, Honors; Jessica B. Chandler, High Honors; Natasha A. Chatman, Highest Honors; Donchesa H. Chism, Honors; Cherquala Cole, Honors; Kelsey L. Collins, High Honors; James R. Conner, Highest Honors; Clay H. Coury, Honors; Mary K. Crabtree, Highest Honors; Keturah M. Cross, High Honors; Laura G. Crossett, High Honors; Elizabeth P. Cumpton, Honors; Caitlyn M. Davidson, Highest Honors; William T. Diamond, Highest Honors; James L. Dollahite, Honors; Donald J. Ducheny, Honors; Deontre K. Dugan, Honors; William R. Dunnavant, High Honors; Autumn P. Dupree, Highest Honors; Monica S. Eleby, Honors; John R. Englert, Highest Honors; Travis W. Estes, High Honors; Ciera E. Fielding, Highest Honors; Kyasia L. Flournoy, Honors; Cortney P. Friedrich, High Honors; Rachael D. Friedrich, Highest Honors; Amanda E. Fuller, High Honors; Megan D. Gamble, High Honors; Benjamin D. Greer, Honors; Lauren E. Hailey, Highest Honors; Matthew T. Harris, Honors; Blake D. Hazelwood, High Honors; Breanna J. Holt, High Honors; Olivia C. Kramer, Highest Honors; Victoria I. Lansdale, Highest Honors; Deshea M. Mays, Highest Honors;  Syed F. Mian, Highest Honors; Samantha A. Morgan, Highest Honors; Erika G. Murillo, Highest Honors; Trisdan C. Ragland, Highest Honors; Heath T. Ransom, Honors; Amber E. Rea, High Honors; Brittany L. Reynolds, Highest Honors; Alana B. Riley, Highest Honors; Anna E. Ross, High Honors; Mareb H. Saleh, Highest Honors; Nada N. Salloukh, High Honors; Kalen S. Sharp, Honors; Andrew W. Sims, Highest Honors; Cory A. Sparks, Honors; Kaleigh D. Strickland, High Honors; Michaela C. Strickland, Highest Honors; Skyler C. Thomas, High Honors; Alexis A. Thompson, Honors; Anna L. Tramel, Highest Honors; Josiah Given R. Trinidad, High Honors; Aliya S. Weaver, High Honors; Teona B. Williams, Honors; Mary-Caitlin Workman, High Honors.

 ·         Martin – Jesse Burks, Highest Honors; Katlyn M. Griffis, Highest Honors; Katelyn M. Odom, Highest Honors; Justin Reh, Highest Honors; Darius T. Taylor, Honors; Kathelene M. White, Highest Honors.

 ·         Medina – Logan J. Helton, High Honors.

 ·         Medon – Kylie B. Kuykendall, Highest Honors; Jasmina Lacy, Honors; Rebecca C. Reddinger, Highest Honors; Jordan E. Taylor, High Honors.

 ·         Mercer – Austin T. Robinson, Honors.

 ·         Newbern – Christian L. Miller, Highest Honors.

 ·         Oakfield – Justin P. Brister, Honors; Christian R. Cathey, Honors; Mikaela A. Miles, Highest Honors.

 ·         Pinson – Alyson M. Brown, Honors; Natalie N. Clayton, High Honors; Maranda McClanahan, High Honors.

 ·         Trezevant – Matthew G. Austin, Honors.

 UT Martin is a comprehensive public university that maintains an excellent reputation for its high-quality undergraduate programs, its beautiful campus and caring professors.