#ask chris sharkey

[urmom-richietozier1]

A single girl who works to ghostbusters rp accs 😔

[ask-chris-sharkey]

guys........where am i?

[ask-ghostbustersintern-sparkplug]

Hey, I may have caught a photo of the thing that took me....

And not the creepy girl I posted...

It was smt else....

Something creepier....

- @ask-chris-sharkey

Oh? Can you share? Any info on that place is useful, including the wierd shit that lives there.

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SOPHIE HIYA IS CHRIS HERE (@ask-chris-sharkey ) HOW ARE YOU????

HIHI OMG GOOD HBU

[ask-rinny-shivani]

Rin could you come to the lab?

I need someone to be there with me after what happened...

- @ask-chris-sharkey

Of course I'll come over! Do you want anything? Maybe snacks?

[ask-the-possessor-ghost]

HEYYY :3333

@ask-chris-sharkey IS HAVING AN ALL GHOST PIZZA PARTY :DDDD

WANNA COME???

- @ask-mini-stay-puff-marshmallows

-.-- . ... / .--. .-.. . .- ... . (YES PLEASE!!!!)

[ask-pukey-the-ghost]

HEYYY :3333

@ask-chris-sharkey IS HAVING AN ALL GHOST PIZZA PARTY :DDDD

WANNA COME???

- @ask-mini-stay-puff-marshmallows

YESSSSS OFC :D

[sharkeysnight]

3,11,23!

HI ty for asking sorry this is so late!!

3. three songs you were recently obsessed with

on i go - fiona apple

dionysus - chris thile

packt like sardines in a crushed tin box - radiohead

11. three favourite songs from movie or TV series soundtrack

oh i wish i had a good answer for this. using concert films is a copout i think but thats all ive got so:

sharkey's night - laurie anderson

coyote - joni mitchell

this must be the place - talking heads

23. three songs that never fail to get you pumped up

planetary (GO!) - my chemical romance

flippen (the flip) - punch brothers

rag and bone - the white stripes

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MY FAVORITE RECORDS OF 2021!

MY 20 FAVORITE RECORDS OF 2021

Ducks Ltd- Modern Fiction (Carpark)

Chime School- S/T (Slumberland)

Monnone Alone- Stay Foggy (Emotional Response)

The Chills- Scatterbrain (Fire)

Lucy Dacus- Home Video (Matador)

The Reds, Pinks & Purples- Uncommon Weather (Slumberland)

Civic- Future Forecast  (Flightless)

Florry- Big Fall (12XU)

Rachel Love- Picture in Mind (self released)

The Umbrellas- S/T (Slumberland)

Swansea Sound- Live from the Rum Puncheon (HHBTM)

Shoestrings- Expectations (Shelflife)

Dummy- Mandatory Enjoyment (Trouble in Mind)

The Catenary Wires- Birling Gap (Shelflife)

The Exbats- Now Where Were We (Goner)

Lou Barlow- Reason To Live (Joyful Noise)

Smoke Bellow- Open for Business (Trouble in Mind)

Massage- Still Life (Mt St. Mtn)

Divine Horsemen- Hot Rise of an Ice Cream Phoenix (In the Red)

Quivers- Golden Doubt (Ba Da Bing)

WAIT HERE’S 20 MORE (21-40)

Flowertown- Time Trials (Paisley Shirt)

Chris Brokaw- Puritan (12XU)

The Armoires- Incognito (Big Stir)

The Legal Matters- Chapter Three (Futureman)

Soursob- S/T (Hozac)

The Suncharms- Distant Lights (Sunday Records)

The Boys with the Perpetual Nervousness- Songs From Another Life (Bobo Integral)

John Sharkey III- Shoot Out The Camera (12XU)

Karen Peris- A Song Is Way Above the Lawn  (Bella Union)

Grand Drifter- Only Child (Subjangle)

Wavves- Hideaway (Fat Possum)

Boyracer- Assauged (Emotional Response)

The Black Watch- Here & There (Atom Records)

The Scientists- Negativity (In the Red)

Astral Brain- The Bewildered Mind (Shelflife)

Torres- Thirstier (Merge)

Painted Shrines- Heaven and Holy (Woodsist)

Sorrows- Love Too Late…the real album (Big Stir)

Beach Youth- Postcard (Shelflife)

Chubby & the Gang- The Mutt’s Nuts (PTFK)

  WAIT….HERE’S 25 MORE (41-65)

The Telephone Numbers- The Ballad of Doug (Meritorio)

Naked Raygun- Over the Overlords (Wax Trax)

Kevin Robertson- Sundown’s End (Futureman)

Goon Sax- Mirror II (Matador)

Dolph Chaney- This is Dolph Chaney (Big Stir)

The Brothers Steve- - Dose (Big Stir)

Guardian Singles- S/T (Trouble in Mind)

Matthew Sweet- Catspaw (Omnivore)

The Orange Peels- Celebrate the Moments Of Your Life (Minty Fresh) 

Mythical Motors- A Rare Look Ahead (self released)

The Swindon Lot- The Scariana Trench (Braxeling)

Corvair- S/T (Paper Walls/ WIAIWYA)

Kiwi Jr- Cooler Returns (Sub Pop)

Dinosaur Jr- Sweep it into Space (Jagjaguwar)

The Reflectors- Faster Action (Time for Action Records)

Eleventh Dream Day- Since Grazed (Thrill Jockey)

Damon & Naomi with Kurihara – A Sky Record (self released)

Scott Gagner- Bloodmoon (1977)

The Spires- Era Was (Artificial Light)

Ward White- The Tender Age (VF 14 Records)

The Gerunds- Hitsville, PA  (Uranium Rush)

David Christian & the Pinecone Orchestra- For Those We Met On the Way (Tapete)

Motorists- Surrounded (Bobo Integral) 

The Bevis Frond- Little Eden (Fire)

Teenage Fanclub- Endless Arcade (Merge)

  MY 10 FAVORITE COLLECTIONS

The Jazz Butcher- Dr Cholmondley Repents…  (Fire Records)

Tar- Tar Box (Chunklet)

The Dents- 1979-’80 Cincinnati (Hozac)

Monkey 101- Rust, Smuts and Heart Rot (Sister Raygun)

True West- Kaleidoscope of Shadows: The Story So Far  (Bring Out the Dead)

Trini Lopez- The Rare Reprise Singles (Omnivore)

The Palace Guard- All Night Long: An Anthology 1965-1967 (Omnivore)

Tangled Shoelaces Turn My Dial - The M Squared Recordings and more, 1981​-​84 (Chapter Music)

Linda Smith- Till Another Time: 1988-1996  (Captured Tracks)

Well Wishers- Spare Parts (self released)

  MY 10 FAVORITE REISSUES

Versus- Let’s Electrify! (Teenbeat)

Come- Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (Fire)

The Saints- The Most Primitive Band in the World (Radiation)

The Clean- Boodle, Boodle Boodle  and Tally Ho 7’ (both on Merge)

Lilys-  A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns (Frontier Records)

The Gun Club- Fire of Love and Miami (Blixa Sounds)

Adam Roth and his and of Men- Down the Shore, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Hozac)

Oh OK- The Complete Reissue (HHBTM)

Richard Hell & the Voidoids- Destiny Street (Omnivore)

Colin Blunstone- One Year (Sundazed)

 MY 10 FAVORITE EPs/singles

Ducks Ltd- Get Bleak (Carpark)

Tapes Waves- Bright (Emotional Response)

Jetstream Pony- Misplaced Words (Shelflife)

Massage- Lane Lines (Mt St Mtn)

Papercuts-Baxter’s Bliss (self released)

The Persian Leaps- Drone Etiquette (Land Ski records)

The Black Watch- The White EP (Atom)

The Resonars- “Gold to Blue” (Hypnotic Bridge)

Savak-  “Dealers” (digital single)

I Was a King- Twilight Anniversaries (self released)

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The First Principle Thinking : Building Blocks of True Knowledge

The First Principle is something that I use a lot in the product and design process. This can really help to drill down the problem and find out a unique creative solution.

First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative possibilities. Sometimes called ‘reasoning from first principles’, the idea is to break down complicated problems into basic elements and generate an original solution.

The first principles approach has been used by many great thinkers and inventors like inventor Johannes Gutenberg, John Boyd, the ancient philosopher Aristotle, Elon Musk, and more. Elon has used and using the philosophy of first principles thinking more effectively then anyone did. (I am the Big fan of Elon)

In 2002, Even before the sale of PayPal, Musk started reading about rocket technology and later that year, he started one of the most unthinkable and unimaginable rocket company called SpaceX. The purpose of SpaceX was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century. Wow.. A dareful effort.

When Musk originally looked into hiring another firm to send a rocket from Earth to Mars, he was quoted prices as high as $65 million. He also traveled to Russia to see if he could buy an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which could then be retrofitted for space flight. It was cheaper, but still in the $8 million to $20 million range.

This image is a Real image of SpaceX Falcon 9 launch.

“I tend to approach things from a physics framework,” Musk said in an interview. “Physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. So I said, okay, let’s look at the first principles. What is a rocket made of? Aerospace-grade aluminum alloys, plus some titanium, copper, and carbon fiber. Then I asked, what is the value of those materials on the commodity market? It turned out that the materials cost of a rocket was around two percent of the typical price. (From — “Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars,” Chris Anderson, Wired.)

Reasoning by first principles removes the impurity of assumptions and conventions. What remains is the essentials. In practice, you don’t have to simplify every problem down to the atomic level to get the benefits of first principles thinking.ou just need to go one or two levels deeper than most people. Different solutions present themselves at different layers of abstraction. In the above example, Elon hasn't chosen to buy mins for raw materials and process them to make useable, and then make rockets from them.

How to drive innovation using the First Principle Thinking

The First principles of thinking can be easy to describe, but quite difficult to practice. One of the primary obstacles to first principles thinking is our tendency to optimize form rather than function. The story of the suitcase provides a perfect example.

In ancient Rome, soldiers used leather messenger bags and satchels to carry food while riding across the countryside. At the same time, the Romans had many vehicles with wheels like chariots, carriages, and wagons. And yet, for thousands of years, nobody thought to combine the bag and the wheel. The first rolling suitcase wasn’t invented until 1970 when Bernard Sadow was hauling his luggage through an airport and saw a worker rolling a heavy machine on a wheeled skid.

Story from “Reinventing the Suitcase by Adding the Wheel,” Joe Sharkey, The New York Times

The First principles of thinking do not remove the need for continuous improvement, but it does alter the direction of improvement. The First principle thinking sets you on a different trajectory. ‘Five Why’ is also having a similar approach to drill down the problem statement.

Share what you think on the First Principle. Share your example and experience if you have using the First Principle.

[urmom-richietozier1]

I have killed off Chris sharkey......

She was stabbed in the middle of a forest.

2007 2nd of march 3:05pm - 2024 24th May 11:09am

Rip Chrissy Jane Sharkey 🕊

[ask-chris-sharkey]

Creepy ahhh trees....

I AM NOT GOING DOWN THERE NUH. UH

[chpinthestacks]

En Route to Dickinson House: Reykjavik

Poet Su Hwang was awarded a 2017 In The Stacks residency at Dickinson House, a space for writers and artists in East Flanders, Belgium. Over the next several weeks, she’ll share stories and photos from her time in residence.

There is luck and there is serendipity. In the minds of most people, I imagine there isn’t a real distinction between the two––just the latter a possible SAT word––but I think there’s quite a difference. Luck connotes a kind of blind randomness as if by some divine intervention, good fortune is bestowed upon an individual, like the joy of finding a twenty-dollar bill on the street. That’s why “dumb” usually precedes it. On the other hand, definition of serendipity is “an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.” In this sense, there’s a suggestion of free will; “aptitude,” after all indicates a modicum of skill or learning, and “discoveries” assume a kind of active engagement––a willing participant at the very least. I want to make this distinction clear, not to congratulate myself, but to acknowledge the confluence of people and experiences that have brought me here into the gifted space of this amazing journey. I’m truly grateful.

Last year I graduated from the MFA program at the University of Minnesota in Poetry without any clear direction (to many, a graduate degree in poetry is laughable, and rightly so––there’s no concrete or practical career in it), but knew I had to continue writing/editing my thesis into something remotely resembling a complete book and keep the general MFA-life momentum going as much and for as long as possible. I was one of three non-traditional students in my cohort of twelve transplants (meaning: over 40 years old) and knew all too well the pitfalls of going back to “normal” life––for me a certain creative death. It seemed like a foolish pipe dream to apply for this residency fellowship as an unpublished writer (past In the Stacks fellows include Matthea Harvey, Ander Monson, Erin Sharkey and Junauda Petrus, Ed Bok Lee, and Dickinson House’s inimitable host, Eireann Lorsung), but there was no fee to apply and Coffee House Press is headquartered in my adopted hometown of Minneapolis, so I figured what the hell, there was really nothing to lose.

The stars must have aligned when my application came across Chris Fischbach’s desk and the proposal for my second collection (a wild departure from my yet unpublished first collection) appeared like a good fit with the ethos of Dickinson House (which shares the namesake of one of my poetry heroes) as well as my insatiable wanderlust. Before coming to Belgium (the last time was in the summer of 1998 when I backpacked around Europe with three girlfriends), I wanted to use this rare opportunity to visit Reykjavik (take advantage of Iceland Air’s free layover deal) and see some friends in London. With an extremely tight budget, I reached out to Emily Strasser, a talented writer-friend who knew one person in Iceland, but in a country of about 300,000, one person is all you need to know apparently.

Magnus Sigurdsson is the brother-in-law of Emily’s former housemate and happened to be in Minneapolis the previous year for his doctoral studies in an exchange program. It only came to light after I contacted him that he’s in fact a poet with several collections under his belt, a much-respected translator, and an Emily Dickinson scholar who’s been working tirelessly to translate her work for the last three years. This is when the word serendipity came to mind––a desirable discovery by accident. True to famed Icelandic hospitality, Magnus offered me his modest but lovely apartment close to the city center while he stayed at his parents’ house a few blocks away.

When my redeye flight arrived at 6am, it was raining with super high winds, but the sky was awash in this bright bluegray sheen. It seemed otherworldly and soon realized I was in Iceland at the height of summer solstice! I was at what felt like the edge of the world on the longest day of the year––another serendipitous happenstance, totally unplanned. On that first night, I wandered the streets of Reykjavik well past midnight taking in the sights in a sort of daze. The streets were empty but for a few wandering tourists and the sky was still aglow in the same pale light from the morning. Time felt inconsequential––day was night, night was day. It was as if I was walking through a dream within a dream, as cheesy as that sounds (it was more likely extreme jetlag). I spent the rest of my waking hours poring over Magnus’s amazing poetry collection (he’s a real fan of American contemporary poetry) and discovered the beautiful book of Emily Dickinson’s work on scraps of paper and envelopes called “The Gorgeous Nothings,” among other seminal works. How fortuitous to have access to such a highly curated personal library before my In the Stacks residency! I had also just seen the latest Emily Dickinson movie called “The Quiet Passion” the day before leaving town, so suddenly her spirit was conjured all around me in a series of happy accidents. 

I knew I needed to talk to Magnus about his Dickinson scholarship as well as his own poetry. I treated him to a beer the next day and recorded portions of our hour-long conversation about what amounts to his obsession with this impossibly enigmatic poet and the many challenges of the translation process. During one of our other chats, he asked if I knew Minnesota-based poet Matt Rasmussen because he had started translating poems from “Black Aperture” for fun when he needed a break from Dickinson’s 1800+ poems because he’s a huge fan of the award-winning book. Matt and I had just participated in a reading three days before in Minneapolis. Sometimes the world gets really, really small because of poetry and again, serendipity came to mind.

I didn’t have a lot of time in Reykjavik but I made a new poetry friend and acquired more wisdom about Emily Dickinson in such a way that my residency at Dickinson House will undoubtedly be enriched in exciting and unexpected ways.

Thanks for reading this rambling inaugural post. Please tune in soon for more on my time “in the stacks” at Dickinson House and other moments of discovery and happy accidents!

Su Hwang received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota in May 2016 and was a 2016-17 recipient of the Loft Literary Center’s Minnesota Emerging Writer Grant. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she grew up in New York then moved to San Francisco before transplanting to the Twin Cities. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Drunken Boat, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, and Poets.org.

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Pick your 5 most best friends :3

not in order <3

@ask-lauren-marten

@ask-kimyunhee

@ask-chris-sharkey

i can’t believe im saying this but… @resident-paranormal-researcher

and @ask-melody-the-ghost

theres other people i was friends with before i died but… nevermind id rather not mention that

[ask-rinny-shivani]

Rin.....

It's Chrissy....

DID YOU STEAL MY PEPSI?!?!?!

ERM..!! ANYWAYS!!

Thats my cue to run as fast as I can

🏃🏃🏃

@ask-chris-sharkey

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USA: Brian Culbertson delivers his Valentine with "Love"

Contact: Rick Scott 310.306.0375

                  rick@greatscottpr.com

Brian Culbertson delivers his Valentine with “Love”

The jazz-R&B keyboardist drops his “Colors of Love” album on Valentine’s Day as preparations continue for a 50-city concert tour launchingMarch 30.

LOS ANGELES (14 February 2018): Contemporary jazz-R&B funkster Brian Culbertson has had love on his mind essentially since last Valentine’s Day. Inspired by the occasion of his twentieth wedding anniversary last fall, the keyboardist began writing thirteen new songs about a year ago dedicated to his wife, Michelle, which make up his “Colors of Love” album that was released on Wednesday, Valentine’s Day, by BCM Entertainment. Substituting the live band instrumentation customary of his recordings, Culbertson crafted an intimate set of ardent acoustic piano melodies using sensual synth grooves and textures. With the title track of his eighteenth album that he wrote, arranged and produced already in the Billboard Top 5, his attention is fixed on creating the highly-theatrical production he’ll take on the road for nearly three months beginning March 30 across the bridge from Philadelphia in Collingswood, New Jersey and concluding in Seattle on June 17.     

Culbertson showcases his proficiency as a multi-instrumentalist by playing virtually all the instruments heard on “Colors of Love” – piano, keyboards, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Hammond B3 organ, synth bass, drum programming, percussion and trumpet. The only supplementation came from guitaristIsaiah Sharkey along with an ethereal accordion passage from Peter White on the song “In A Dream.” Impassioned tracks like “I Want You,” “Love Transcended,” “Don’t Go,” “You’re Magic,” “Let’s Chill,” “Desire,” “In Your Embrace” and “The Look” employ caressing melodies and sultry rhythms to allure, soothe and seduce. Even more revealing and evocative is the ravishing piano poetry of “Through The Years,” “Michelle’s Theme” and “All My Heart,” poignant solo pieces that Culbertson uses effectively to tell wordless stories of romance and amorous contemplation.    

As he lovingly conceived the cozy collection depicting the many different “colors” of romantic love, Culbertson envisioned mounting an elaborate concert presentation utilizing video and lighting to present the cherished material in an immersive multimedia experience.

“I’m in the midst of creating a stunning-looking show, working closely with my lighting director and visual designer. We’re using a Visualizer to play each track to design and run the lighting and videos as if it was a live show right there on our computer screens. It enables us to dial in every little nuance of the music so that each video and light is precisely timed to the music. The detail is really amazing. I am loving the process of creating the production for the tour,” said Culbertson, who will begin ten days of production rehearsals in Nashville with his band in mid-March.

Culbertson’s Colors of Love Tour has already announced 66 shows in 50 cities with more soon to be added to the itinerary. The nationwide trek includes aJune 7 performance at Culbertson’s seventh annual Napa Valley Jazz Getaway, a five-day music, wine and lifestyle experience held in the heart of California Wine Country.

“The ‘Colors of Love’ show will be staged in three acts. The first and third acts will showcase the new album along with romance-themed selections from my catalogue. In fact, we’re going to be drawing heavily from my ‘It’s On Tonight’ album,” explained Culbertson. “We’re not planning to do any big horn section pieces during this tour like I’ve done in the past and did extensively during last year’s Funk! Tour, but the second act will be a slamming funk set guaranteed to get everyone up and dancing.”

Joining the keyboardist-pianist-trombone player on tour are drummer Chris Miskel, bassist Joewaun Scott, guitarist Tyrone Chase, keyboardist-vocalistEddie Miller, and Marqueal Jordan on saxophones, vocals and percussion.

“I asked Marqueal to bring his soprano sax for this tour. The sound fits the intimate ambience of the music we’re going to perform. It’s the first time in over a decade that I’ve used soprano sax in my live show,” said Culbertson, who describes the “Colors of Love” album as “textural ear candy cinematic in nature.”  

As Culbertson shares his anniversary and Valentine’s Day gift to his wife with the world on record and during the upcoming tour, expect the architect of 30Billboard No. 1 singles as an artist, producer and/or songwriter to add to that stat.

For more information, including concert dates, please visit www.BrianCulbertson.com.

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