#audrey dyke moment

[jake-marshall]

hello friend i have a question. do you have any tips for writing Gina's dialogue?

ohohoho well yes as a matter of fact I do!

To be honest, I'd say that writing Gina wasn't insanely difficult for me simply because prior to playing TGAA, I already consistently read a lot of historical fiction, a fair amount of which was set in Edwardian/Victorian England. So even if the books didn't have characters with Cockney accents as primary characters, there was enough slang and atmosphere and factoids that I absorbed that made it easy for me to write in Gina's voice.

So, that being said, my biggest tip is to read/watch more historical fiction set in the same time frame of TGAA and do so as a writer and not a reader/viewer. Openly set out to absorb the different mannerisms and speaking patterns of the working class characters vs the nobles.

The Sixth Victim by Tessa Harris (Jack the Ripper-centric what-if; there are 2 books following it that make up a trilogy but I didn't care for them as much as the first book, although they're still beneficial in terms of picking up slang/style/patterns) and the Below Stairs series by Jennifer Ashley (I've read the first two books; the second book even introduces a very Gina-like character named Tess) are some books that helped me a lot when I was writing my Gina POV fics (Hale and Hearty, the monster that is Truth or Dairy, and House Rules).

If you're more of an auditory person, this sounds silly but movies with Cockney-speaking characters go a long way in really getting the accent to sink in. I know they're considered caricatures, but Bert in Mary Poppins (Dick van Dyke) and Eliza in My Fair Lady (Audrey Hepburn) are both characters I could clearly draw up in my mind and "hear" as I wrote Gina, too. It helped me a lot with consistency. Both movies ^ are fairly long though, but you could probably look up clips of the songs or various scenes to get an idea.

I would also add that, although a Cockney accent is often lent to more comedic roles (Skulkins), when I wrote Gina, I didn't write in her POV to try and be "funny" or silly with the slang, even though she has some very amusing lines and trains of thoughts in my fics. For her, it's very normal everyday dialogue, not things she's saying to get a zinger in.

As for Gina herself, her characterization, I feel doesn't necessarily say what she truly feels, only what she feels in that immediate moment. (In Truth or Dairy, even, after she says something that offends Ashley, she says that's not what she really meant, and he responds by saying that seems to be a tendency with people from her background, saying things they then claim they don't really mean.) I don't want to say she's emotionally immature, exactly, just that she hasn't ever really been respected or given the opportunity to be honest since she's looked down on (as of the first game), but Ryuu and Susato, Iris and Sholmes finally give her that chance so as of the second game, we see her start to be less defensive and confrontational. So, I think post-TGAA2, she wouldn't be as "tsundere", and somewhat more open/accepting of friendship/connections, and that would carry over into her being less thoughtless with her words - even if those words still are mostly Cockney-accented, lol.

Thanks for the ask, I hope this helps!

[rainydawgradioblog]

Rainy Dawg Radio's Favorite Covers

GRACE YANG

Remi Wolf's cover of “Pink + White” by Frank Ocean

Frank Ocean's Blonde is such an important part of my life. It soundtracked my high school years. Blonde is so precious to me and I hold covers to high standards. (Anyone traumatized by Car Seat Headrest’s “Ivy” raise ur hands! Jk. It's okay at best.)  Blonde is a very hard album to cover as it's perfect as it is already. The stakes are so high. If you're covering Frank Ocean you better put your whole soul and body into it. 

Fear not, Remi Wolf brings new light into a modern classic. Remi's voice is full of energy and power. Her style and charisma is undeniable. 

One of my favorite features of Remi Wolf's cover that I think songs post 2020 severely lack is the powerhouse belting section in the last quarter of the song. Remi has the range!!!! Not many popstars can say that…MY DEAR MY DEAR MY DEAR ITS ALL DOWNHILL FROM HEREEEEEEE! 

REMI WOLF ON TOP 💋🐋

DJ EMI

“Hybrid Moments” by Misfits, covered by Helvetia

“Hybrid Moments” is a model Misfits song. Released in 1985 off the album Static Age, Hybrid Moments didn’t need a cover. It's catchy and simple, with the shallow horror of the Misfits. But, since one was made, I’m glad it was done by Helvetia. A  tangy, plucked guitar introduces the version instead of the thumping tom drums. It’s an unlikely mix, both versions are competing with each other: the muted, whiny vocals are inverse to Glenn Danzig’s dark belting, the slight reverb contrasts the heavy distortion, the slower BPM to the higher, etcetera, etcetera. Go listen for yourself. 

Soph

The Chicks’ cover of “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac 

Everything about this cover is incredible. The harmonies, the mandolin, the bass, the slide guitar. It brings me back to when I was really young and my parents would play this song in the car. I never appreciated the cover that much then, but now I listen to it at least once a day. I don’t consider myself a country fan because I like it at times but I can only take so much at once. However, the country twang in this cover is truly so immaculate. It makes me want to ride a horse through random fields in Tennessee (Hannah Montana style), and you’ll never catch me wanting to do that any other day. I also adore the original song by Fleetwood Mac because who doesn’t love Stevie Nicks. The simplicity of the original really underscores her vocal and lyrical ability, but nothing will hit quite as hard as The Chicks’ version. 

AUDREY

“Peepin’ Tom” by Courtney Barnett, originally by Kurt Vile

Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile collabed on their joint album Lotta Sea Lice in 2017, where the two artists took turns hopping on each other’s tracks. “Peepin’ Tom” was originally “Peeping Tomboy” written by Vile and released in 2011. Six years later, Barnett’s vocal performance adds a necessary layer of queer nuance. Lyrics like: “I came across some girl / And I admired her / I was a peeping tom / More than it seems” resonate deeply with the dyke listener. Once a tale of boyish perversion, now more closely resembling the childhood longing of a closet case. For best results: listen whilst on a camping trip with your first love.

Zola

“Across the Universe” by Fiona Apple

Originally created for the soundtrack of Pleasantville, Fiona Apple took the Beatle’s classic, and made it much dreamier. Keeping most of the same instrumental, she retains the same lyrics. It might be one of my favorite songs of all time. Fiona’s melodic voice paired with John Lennon's lyrics create the perfect song for long moody walks in the rain, while you contemplate lifes choices. A top pick of mine for late night drives, or crying in bed, or even background music while studying. Something about it just makes me reminisce on my youth, as it feels like it should be played in the background while a much younger version of myself frolics. It provides a wonderful contrast to the chaos of everyday life. In my eyes, Fiona Apple can do no wrong, but this cover further solidifies it. Bonus points for creating a version that wasnt produced by one of my least favroite humans, Phil Spector!

Sean K

Björk - “Venus As A Boy” (Kali Uchis Cover for Like A Version) 

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Live on Like A Version, Kali Uchis does the impossible and performs a flawless cover of Björk’s “Venus As A Boy”. Even in the shadow of the iconic original track, Kali’s reimagined version manages to hold its own and sound even more ethereal. Kali captures the essence of Björk's playful vocals while adding her own signature inflections. On stage, Kali shines alongside her accompanying band. The clear musical chemistry between her and the band makes for a highly engaging performance that you will want to watch again and again. To this day, Kali’s performance continues to blow my mind and makes me hope more artists will take on the challenge of covering Björk.

tide2004

“Map Ref. 41°N 9°W” My Bloody Valentine, originally by Wire

One of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands, covered by another one of my favorite bands. My Bloody Valentine changed the whole landscape of the song and I really like what they did with it. The sound and production remind me of Loveless. This was put out in 1996 on a Wire tribute album Whore: Tribute to Wire. It was also their last release until their 2013 album MBV. Awesome way to go out in my opinion. 

Gemma

Denzel Curry’s cover of “Bulls on Parade” by Rage Against the Machine 

I don’t listen to a lot of covers. Most of the time, in my opinion, the original artist is able to capture the emotions of a song far better than those who try to recreate it. For me, this song is a great exception. Curry’s vocal performance has a fullness and power to it that fully draws you into the song, whether you are jamming in your room or just grocery shopping. His gravely intense delivery and rapping ability work greatly to the song’s benefit, and the guitar is downtuned with a fuzz effect, making for a more sludge-y and aggressive sound overall. I can honestly say I would much rather listen to his version rather than the original, despite how iconic of a song it is.

k-murph

“fake plastic trees” - phoebe bridgers, arlo parks 

the love of my life, otherwise known as phoebe bridgers, has produced an insane amount of fantastic covers. her covers of “friday i’m in love,” “day after tomorrow,” “it’ll all work out,” and “you missed my heart” are just a small selection of genuinely incredible picks. however, nothing quite comes close to the deep love i have for this cover of radiohead’s “fake plastic trees.” it can be found most accesibly on youtube or soundcloud, and between phoebe’s voice and arlo parks on the piano, it’s an absolutely masterful take on the already fantastic song from an objectively iconic band. phoebe’s vocals are smooth and times powerful (petition for phoebe to PLEASEEEE belt more often. the roughly 5 seconds we get on this track is not enough), making the journey through the song a perfect course of emotions. i think that this song is so fitting for phoebe’s style, and the piano backing track takes the song in a different direction that is so beautiful and sonically satisfying. the original “fake plastic trees” is a work of art, and the fact that this cover captures and reimagines its essence so beautifully is truly impressive.

Sofia 

“Kangaroo” by This Mortal Coil (originally by Big Star), off It’ll End In Tears

One of the rare occasions that I think a cover is way better than the original…

I think that the Big Star version of this song is just okay – the cover, on the other hand, is (as put by user kateybereny in the comments under the YouTube video) “achingly beautiful”. The desperation in the singer’s voice in the cover is what makes it so much more affecting than the original, especially in the last few lines of the song, where she repeats “Oh, I want you / Oh, I want you”. The guitar (and maybe cello?) in the intro makes my stomach sink every time I hear this song. Awesome song for having a crush on someone. This song meant so much to me last spring quarter, so I think the nostalgia factor definitely contributes a lot to this being my choice (Honorable mention: “Superstar” by Sonic Youth). 

Ben

“I knew that he was gonna sound great singing and it’s so… I don’t know… there’s really not too many words for it” 

Those are words from Fiona Apple herself, said of Elvis Costello’s cover of “I Know.”  Performed at the “Decades Rock Live” event, a now defunct concert series put on by VH1, Costello was offered the song after Apple covered his song “I Want You.” What intimacy is lost via Costello’s live performance is made up for by his searching delivery, one that is offered support in more robust instrumentation. Though I remain partial to Apple’s version, the song’s bridge is improved upon by Costello, its lurching staccato chords swelling as he pleads “Baby, I can’t help you out/while he’s still around.” What I love most about the cover is that — where Apple seems resigned to her fate as simply an option to her married suitor — the strife in Costello’s voice suggests that he remains desperately in denial. I also love the giddy jumps Fiona Apple does after running on stage to hug Costello at the conclusion of his performance. 

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[bongaboi]

2021 Grammy Awards: The List.

New age

Best New Age Album

More Guitar Stories – Jim "Kimo" West

Songs from the Bardo – Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith

Periphery – Priya Darshini

Form//Less – Superposition

Meditations – Cory Wong & Jon Batiste

Jazz

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

"All Blues" – Chick Corea, soloist

"Guinnevere" – Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah, soloist

"Pachamama" – Regina Carter, soloist

"Tomorrow is the Question" – Julian Lage, soloist

"Celia" – Gerald Clayton, soloist

"Moe Honk" – Joshua Redman, soloist

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Secrets are the Best Stories – Kurt Elling featuring Danilo Pérez

ONA – Thana Alexa

Modern Ancestors – Carmen Lundy

Holy Room: Live at Alte Oper – Somi With Frankfurt Radio Big Band

What's the Hurry – Kenny Washington

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Trilogy 2 – Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade

on the tender spot of every calloused moment – Ambrose Akinmusire

Waiting Game – Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science

Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard – Gerald Clayton

RoundAgain – Redman Mehldau McBride Blade

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Data Lords – Maria Schneider Orchestra

Dialogues on Race – Gregg August

Monk'estra Plays John Beasley – John Beasley

The Intangible Between – Orrin Evans and The Captain Black Big Band

Songs You Like a Lot – John Hollenbeck with Theo Bleckmann, Kate McGarry, Gary Versace and The Frankfurt Radio Big Band

Best Latin Jazz Album

Four Questions – Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

Tradiciones – Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra

City of Dreams – Chico Pinheiro

Viento y Tiempo - Live at Blue Note Tokyo – Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Aymée Nuviola

Trane's Delight – Poncho Sanchez

Gospel/contemporary Christian music

Best Gospel Performance/Song

"Movin' On"

Darryl L. Howell, Jonathan Caleb McReynolds, Kortney Jamaal Pollard & Terrell Demetrius Wilson, songwriters (Jonathan McReynolds & Mali Music)

"Wonderful is Your Name"

Melvin Crispell III, songwriter (Melvin Crispell III)

"Release (Live)"

David Frazier, songwriter (Ricky Dillard featuring Tiff Joy)

"Come Together"

Lashawn Daniels, Rodney Jerkins, Lecrae Moore & Jazz Nixon, songwriters (Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins Presents: The Good News)

"Won't Let Go"

Travis Greene, songwriter (Travis Greene)

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

"There Was Jesus"

Casey Beathard, Jonathan Smith & Zach Williams, songwriters (Zach Williams & Dolly Parton)

"The Blessing (Live)"

Chris Brown, Cody Carnes, Kari Jobe Carnes & Steven Furtick, songwriters (Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes & Elevation Worship)

"Sunday Morning"

Denisia Andrews, Jones Terrence Antonio, Saint Bodhi, Brittany Coney, Kirk Franklin, Lasanna Harris, Shama Joseph, Stuart Lowery, Lecrae Moore & Nathanael Saint-Fleur, songwriters (Lecrae featuring Kirk Franklin)

"Holy Water"

Andrew Bergthold, Ed Cash, Franni Cash, Martin Cash & Scott Cash, songwriters (We the Kingdom)

"Famous For (I Believe)"

Chuck Butler, Krissy Nordhoff, Jordan Sapp, Alexis Slifer & Tauren Wells, songwriters (Tauren Wells featuring Jenn Johnson)

Best Gospel Album

Gospel According to PJ – PJ Morton

2econd Wind: ReadY – Anthony Brown & group therAPy

My Tribute – Myron Butler

Choirmaster – Ricky Dillard

Kierra – Kierra Sheard

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Jesus Is King – Kanye West

Run to The Father – Cody Carnes

All of My Best Friends – Hillsong Young & Free

Holy Water – We the Kingdom

Citizen of Heaven – Tauren Wells

Best Roots Gospel Album

Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album) – Fisk Jubilee Singers

Beautiful Day – Mark Bishop

20/20 – The Crabb Family

What Christmas Really Means – The Erwins

Something Beautiful – Ernie Haase & Signature Sound

Latin

Best Latin Pop Album or Urban Album

YHLQMDLG – Bad Bunny

Por Primera Vez – Camilo

Mesa Para Dos – Kany García

Pausa – Ricky Martin

3:33 – Debi Nova

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album

La Conquista del Espacio – Fito Páez

Aura – Bajofondo

MONSTRUO – Cami

Sobrevolando – Cultura Profética

Miss Colombia – Lido Pimienta

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)

Un Canto por México, Vol. 1 – Natalia Lafourcade

Hecho en México – Alejandro Fernández

La Serenata – Lupita Infante

Bailando Sones y Huampangos con Mariachi Sol De Mexico De Jose Hernandez – Mariachi Sol De Mexico De Jose Hernandez

Ayayay! – Christian Nodal

Best Tropical Latin Album

40 – Grupo Niche

Mi Tumbao – José Alberto "El Ruiseñor"

Infinito – Edwin Bonilla

Sigo Cantando al Amor (Deluxe) – Jorge Celedon & Sergio Luis

Memorias de Navidad – Víctor Manuelle

American roots

Best American Roots Performance

"I Remember Everything" – John Prine

"Colors" – Black Pumas

"Deep in Love" – Bonny Light Horseman

"Short and Sweet" – Brittany Howard

"I'll Be Gone" – Norah Jones & Mavis Staples

Best American Roots Song

"I Remember Everything"

Pat McLaughlin & John Prine, songwriters (John Prine)

"Cabin"

Laura Rogers & Lydia Rogers, songwriters (The Secret Sisters)

"Ceiling to the Floor"

Sierra Hull & Kai Welch, songwriters (Sierra Hull)

"Hometown"

Sarah Jarosz, songwriter (Sarah Jarosz)

"Man Without a Soul"

Tom Overby & Lucinda Williams, songwriters (Lucinda Williams)

Best Americana Album

World on the Ground – Sarah Jarosz

Old Flowers – Courtney Marie Andrews

Terms of Surrender – Hiss Golden Messenger

El Dorado – Marcus King

Good Souls Better Angels – Lucinda Williams

Best Bluegrass Album

Home – Billy Strings

Man on Fire – Danny Barnes

To Live in Two Worlds, Vol. 1 – Thomm Jutz

North Carolina Songbook – Steep Canyon Rangers

The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1 – Various Artists

Best Traditional Blues Album

Rawer than Raw – Bobby Rush

All My Dues are Paid – Frank Bey

You Make Me Feel – Don Bryant

That's What I Heard – Robert Cray Band

Cypress Grove – Jimmy "Duck" Holmes

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? – Fantastic Negrito

Live at the Paramount – Ruthie Foster Big Band

The Juice – G. Love

Blackbirds – Bettye LaVette

Up and Rolling – North Mississippi Allstars

Best Folk Album

All the Good Times – Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman

Thanks for the Dance – Leonard Cohen

Song for Our Daughter – Laura Marling

Saturn Return – The Secret Sisters

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Atmosphere – New Orleans Nightcrawlers

My Relatives 'nikso' Kowaiks – Black Lodge Singers

Cameron Dupuy and The Cajun Troubadours – Cameron Dupuy And The Cajun Troubadours

Lovely Sunrise – Nā Wai ʽEhā

A Tribute to Al Berard – Sweet Cecilia

Reggae

Best Reggae Album

Got to Be Tough – Toots and the Maytals

Upside Down 2020 – Buju Banton

Higher Place – Skip Marley

It All Comes Black to Love – Maxi Priest

One World – The Wailers

Global music

Best Global Music Album

Twice as Tall – Burna Boy

Fu Chronicles – Antibalas

Agora – Bebel Gilberto

Love Letters – Anoushka Shankar

Amadjar – Tinariwen

Children's

Best Children's Album

All the Ladies – Joanie Leeds

Be a Pain: An Album for Young (and Old) Leaders – Alastair Moock And Friends

I'm an Optimist – Dog On Fleas

Songs for Singin' – The Okee Dokee Brothers

Wild Life – Justin Roberts

Spoken word

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling)

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth – Rachel Maddow

Acid for the Children – A Memoir – Flea

Alex Trebek – The Answer Is... – Ken Jennings

Catch and Kill – Ronan Farrow

Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) – Meryl Streep and Full Cast

Comedy

Best Comedy Album

Black Mitzvah – Tiffany Haddish

I Love Everything – Patton Oswalt

The Pale Tourist – Jim Gaffigan

Paper Tiger – Bill Burr

23 Hours to Kill – Jerry Seinfeld

Musical theater

Best Musical Theater Album

Jagged Little Pill – Kathryn Gallagher, Celia Rose Gooding, Lauren Patten & Elizabeth Stanley, principal soloists; Neal Avron, Pete Ganbarg, Tom Kitt, Michael Parker, Craig Rosen & Vivek J. Tiwary, producers (Glen Ballard & Alanis Morissette, lyricists) (Original Broadway Cast)

Amélie – Audrey Brisson, Chris Jared, Caolan McCarthy & Jez Unwin, principal soloists; Michael Fentiman, Sean Patrick Flahaven, Barnaby Race & Nathan Tysen, producers; Nathan Tysen, lyricist; Daniel Messe, composer & lyricist (Original London Cast)

American Utopia on Broadway – David Byrne, principal soloist; David Byrne, producer (David Byrne, composer & lyricist) (Original Cast)

Little Shop of Horrors – Tammy Blanchard, Jonathan Groff & Tom Alan Robbins, principal soloists; Will Van Dyke, Michael Mayer, Alan Menken & Frank Wolf, producers (Alan Menken, composer; Howard Ashman, lyricist) (The New Off-Broadway Cast)

The Prince of Egypt – Christine Allado, Luke Brady, Alexia Khadime & Liam Tamne, principal soloists; Dominick Amendum & Stephen Schwartz, producers; Stephen Schwartz, composer & lyricist (Original Cast)

Soft Power – Francis Jue, Austin Ku, Alyse Alan Louis & Conrad Ricamora, principal soloists; Matt Stine, producer; David Henry Hwang, lyricist; Jeanine Tesori, composer & lyricist (Original Cast)

Music for visual media

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Jojo Rabbit – Various artists

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Various artists

Bill & Ted Face the Music – Various artists

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga – Various artists

Frozen II – Various artists

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir, composer

Ad Astra – Max Richter, composer

Becoming – Kamasi Washington, composer

1917 – Thomas Newman, composer

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – John Williams, composer

Best Song Written for Visual Media

"No Time to Die" (from No Time to Die)

Billie Eilish O'Connell and Finneas O'Connell (Billie Eilish)

"Beautiful Ghosts" (from Cats)

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Taylor Swift (Taylor Swift)

"Carried Me with You" (from Onward)

Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth and Tim Hanseroth (Brandi Carlile)

"Into the Unknown" (from Frozen II)

Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Idina Menzel featuring AURORA)

"Stand Up" (from Harriet)

Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo (Cynthia Erivo)

Composing/Arranging

Best Instrumental Composition

"Sputnik"

Maria Schneider, composer (Maria Schneider)

"Baby Jack"

Arturo O'Farrill, composer (Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra)

"Be Water II"

Christian Sands, composer (Christian Sands)

"Plumfield"

Alexandre Desplat, composer (Alexandre Desplat)

"Strata"

Remy Le Boeuf, composer (Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly Of Shadows featuring Anna Webber & Eric Miller)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

"Donna Lee"

John Beasley, arranger (John Beasley)

"Bathroom Dance"

Hildur Guðnadóttir, arranger (Hildur Guðnadóttir)

"Honeymooners"

Remy Le Boeuf, arranger (Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly Of Shadows)

"Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Alvin Chea & Jarrett Johnson, arrangers (Jarrett Johnson Featuring Alvin Chea)

"Uranus: The Magician"

Jeremy Levy, arranger (Jeremy Levy Jazz Orchestra)

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

"He Won't Hold You"

Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier featuring Rapsody)

"Asas Fechadas"

John Beasley & Maria Mendes, arrangers (Maria Mendes Featuring John Beasley & Orkest Metropole)

"Desert Song"

Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick & Amanda Taylor, arrangers (Säje)

"From This Place"

Alan Broadbent & Pat Metheny, arrangers (Pat Metheny featuring Meshell Ndegeocello)

"Slow Burn"

Talia Billig, Nic Hard & Becca Stevens, arrangers (Becca Stevens featuring Jacob Collier, Mark Lettieri, Justin Stanton, Jordan Perlson, Nic Hard, Keita Ogawa, Marcelo Woloski & Nate Werth)

Package

Best Recording Package

Vols. 11 & 12

Doug Cunningham & Jason Noto, art directors (Desert Sessions)

Everyday Life

Pilar Zeta, art director (Coldplay)

Funeral

Kyle Goen, art director (Lil Wayne)

Healer

Julian Gross & Hannah Hooper, art directors (Grouplove)

On Circles

Jordan Butcher, art director (Caspian)

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Ode to Joy

Lawrence Azerrad & Jeff Tweedy, art directors (Wilco)

Flaming Pie (Collector's Edition)

Linn Wie Andersen, Simon Earith, Paul McCartney & James Musgrave, art directors (Paul McCartney)

Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991

Lisa Glines & Doran Tyson, art directors (Grateful Dead)

Mode

Jeff Schulz, art director (Depeche Mode)

The Story of Ghostly International

Michael Cina & Molly Smith, art directors (Various Artists)

Notes

Best Album Notes

Dead Man's Pop

Bob Mehr, album notes writer (The Replacements)

At The Minstrel Show: Minstrel Routines From The Studio, 1894-1926

Tim Brooks, album notes writer (Various Artists)

The Bakersfield Sound: Country Music Capital Of The West, 1940-1974

Scott B. Bomar, album notes writer (Various Artists)

The Missing Link: How Gus Haenschen Got Us From Joplin To Jazz And Shaped The Music Business

Colin Hancock, album notes writer (Various Artists)

Out Of A Clear Blue Sky

David Sager, album notes writer (Nat Brusiloff)

Historical

Best Historical Album

It's Such a Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers

Lee Lodyga & Cheryl Pawelski, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Mister Rogers)

Celebrated, 1895–1896

Meagan Hennessey & Richard Martin, compilation producers; Richard Martin, mastering engineer (Unique Quartette)

Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936–1943)

Zev Feldman, Will Friedwald & George Klabin, compilation producers; Matthew Lutthans, mastering engineer (Nat King Cole)

1999 Super Deluxe Edition

Michael Howe, compilation producer; Bernie Grundman, mastering engineer (Prince)

Souvenir

Carolyn Agger, compilation producer; Miles Showell, mastering engineer (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark)

Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions

Béla Fleck, compilation producer; Richard Dodd, mastering engineer (Béla Fleck)

Production, non-classical

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Hyperspace

Drew Brown, Andrew Coleman, Shawn Everett, Serban Ghenea, David Greenbaum, Jaycen Joshua, Beck Hansen & Mike Larson, engineers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer (Beck)

Black Hole Rainbow

Shawn Everett & Ivan Wayman, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Devon Gilfillian)

Expectations

Gary Paczosa & Mike Robinson, engineers; Paul Blakemore, mastering engineer (Katie Pruitt)

Jaime

Shawn Everett, engineer; Shawn Everett, mastering engineer (Brittany Howard)

25 Trips

Shani Gandhi & Gary Paczosa, engineers; Adam Grover, mastering engineer (Sierra Hull)

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Andrew Watt

"Break My Heart" (Dua Lipa)

"Me and My Guitar" (A Boogie wit da Hoodie)

"Midnight Sky" (Miley Cyrus)

"Old Me" (5 Seconds of Summer)

"Ordinary Man" (Ozzy Osbourne featuring Elton John)

"Take What You Want" (Post Malone featuring Ozzy Osbourne & Travis Scott)

"Under The Graveyard" (Ozzy Osbourne)

Jack Antonoff

"August" (Taylor Swift)

Gaslighter (The Chicks)

"Holy Terrain" (FKA Twigs featuring Future)

"Mirrorball" (Taylor Swift)

"This Is Me Trying" (Taylor Swift)

"Together" (Sia)

Dan Auerbach

Cypress Grove (Jimmy "Duck" Holmes)

El Dorado (Marcus King)

Is Thomas Callaway (CeeLo Green)

Singing for My Supper (Early James)

Solid Gold Sounds (Kendell Marvel)

Years (John Anderson)

Dave Cobb

"Backbone" (Kaleo)

The Balladeer (Lori McKenna)

Boneshaker (Airbourne)

Down Home Christmas (Oak Ridge Boys)

The Highwomen (The Highwomen)

"I Remember Everything" (John Prine)

Reunions (Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit)

"The Spark" (William Prince)

"You're Still the One" (Teddy Swims)

Flying Lotus

It Is What It Is (Thundercat)

Best Remixed Recording

"Roses (Imanbek Remix)"

Imanbek Zeikenov, remixer (SAINt JHN)

"Do You Ever (RAC Mix)"

RAC, remixer (Phil Good)

"Imaginary Friends (Morgan Page Remix)"

Morgan Page, remixer (Deadmau5)

"Praying for You (Louie Vega Main Remix)"

Louie Vega, remixer (Jasper Street Co.)

"Young & Alive (Bazzi vs. Haywyre Remix)"

Haywyre, remixer (Bazzi)

Production, immersive audio

Best Immersive Audio Album

The judging for this category was postponed.

Production, classical

Best Engineered Album, Classical

"Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, 'Babi Yar'"

David Frost & Charlie Post, engineers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

"Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua"

Bernd Gottinger, engineer (JoAnn Falletta, James K. Bass, Adam Luebke, UCLA Chamber Singers, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus)

"Gershwin: Porgy and Bess"

David Frost & John Kerswell, engineers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer (David Robertson, Eric Owens, Angel Blue, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)

"Hynes: Fields"

Kyle Pyke, engineer; Jesse Lewis & Kyle Pyke, mastering engineers (Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion)

"Ives: Complete Symphonies"

Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, engineers; Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, mastering engineers (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Producer of the Year, Classical

David Frost

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9 (Jonathan Biss)

Gershwin: Porgy And Bess (David Robertson, Eric Owens, Angel Blue, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)

Gluck: Orphée & Eurydice (Harry Bicket, Dmitry Korchak, Andriana Chuchman, Lauren Snouffer, Lyric Opera Of Chicago Orchestra & Chorus)

Holst: The Planets; The Perfect Fool (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Muhly: Marnie (Robert Spano, Isabel Leonard, Christopher Maltman, Denyce Graves, Iestyn Davies, Janis Kelly, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)

Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 845, D. 894, D. 958, D. 960 (Shai Wosner)

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, 'Babi Yar' (Riccardo Muti, Alexey Tikhomirov, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)

Blanton Alspaugh

Aspects Of America - Pulitzer Edition (Carlos Kalmar & Oregon Symphony)

Blessed Art Thou Among Women (Peter Jermihov, Katya Lukianov & PaTRAM Institute Singers)

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9; Copland: Billy The Kid (Gianandrea Noseda & National Symphony Orchestra)

Glass: The Fall Of The House Of Usher (Joseph Li, Nicholas Nestorak, Madison Leonard, Jonas Hacker, Ben Edquist, Matthew Adam Fleisher & Wolf Trap Opera)

Kahane: Emergency Shelter Intake Form (Alicia Hall Moran, Gabriel Kahane, Carlos Kalmar & Oregon Symphony)

Kastalsky: Requiem (Leonard Slatkin, Steven Fox, Benedict Sheehan, Charles Bruffy, Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, The Saint Tikhon Choir, Kansas City Chorale & Orchestra Of St. Luke's)

Massenet: Thaïs (Andrew Davis, Joshua Hopkins, Andrew Staples, Erin Wall, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir & Toronto Symphony Orchestra)

Smyth: The Prison (Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, James Blachly & Experiential Orchestra)

Woolf, L.P.: Fire And Flood (Julian Wachner, Matt Haimovitz & Choir Of Trinity Wall Street)

Jesse Lewis

Gunn: The Ascendant (Roomful Of Teeth)

Harrison, M.: Just Constellations (Roomful Of Teeth)

Her Own Wings (Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival)

Hynes: Fields (Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion)

Lang, D.: Love Fail (Beth Willer & Lorelei Ensemble)

Mazzoli: Proving Up (Christopher Rountree, Opera Omaha & International Contemporary Ensemble)

Sharlat: Spare The Rod! (NOW Ensemble)

Soul House (Hub New Music)

Wherein Lies The Good (The Westerlies)

Dmitry Lipay

Adams, J.: Must The Devil Have All The Good Tunes? (Yuja Wang, Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Cipullo: The Parting (Alastair Willis, Laura Strickling, Catherine Cook, Michael Mayes & Music Of Remembrance)

Ives: Complete Symphonies (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

LA Phil 100 - The Los Angeles Philharmonic Centennial Birthday Gala (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Langgaard: Prelude To Antichrist; Strauss: An Alpine Symphony (Thomas Dausgaard & Seattle Symphony Orchestra)

Nielsen: Symphony No. 1 & Symphony No. 2, 'The Four Temperaments' (Thomas Dausgaard & Seattle Symphony)

Elaine Martone

Bound For The Promised Land (Robert M. Franklin, Steven Darsey, Jessye Norman & Taylor Branch)

Dawn (Shachar Israel)

Gandolfi, Prior & Oliverio: Orchestral Works (Robert Spano & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)

Singing In The Dead Of Night (Eighth Blackbird)

Whitacre: The Sacred Veil (Eric Whitacre, Grant Gershon & Los Angeles Master Chorale)

Classical

Best Orchestral Performance

"Ives: Complete Symphonies"

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)

"Aspects of America - Pulitzer Edition"

Carlos Kalmar, conductor (Oregon Symphony)

"Concurrence"

Daníel Bjarnason, conductor (Iceland Symphony Orchestra)

"Copland: Symphony No. 3"

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

"Lutosławski: Symphonies No. 2 & 3"

Hannu Lintu, conductor (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra)

Best Opera Recording

"Gershwin: Porgy and Bess"

David Robertson, conductor; Angel Blue & Eric Owens; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

"Dello Joio: The Trial at Rouen"

Gil Rose, conductor; Heather Buck & Stephen Powell; Gil Rose, producer (Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Odyssey Opera Chorus)

"Floyd, C: Prince of Players"

William Boggs, conductor; Keith Phares & Kate Royal; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Florentine Opera Chorus)

"Handel: Agrippina"

Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor; Joyce DiDonato; Daniel Zalay, producer (Il Pomo D'Oro)

"Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg"

Donald Runnicles, conductor; David Butt Philip & Elena Tsallagova; Peter Ghirardini & Erwin Stürzer, producers (Orchestra Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin; Chorus Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin)

Best Choral Performance

"Danielpour: The Passion of Yessuah"

JoAnn Falletta, conductor; James K. Bass & Adam Luebke, chorus masters (James K. Bass, J'Nai Bridges, Timothy Fallon, Kenneth Overton, Hila Plitmann & Matthew Worth; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus & UCLA Chamber Singers)

"Carthage"

Donald Nally, conductor (The Crossing)

"Kastalski: Requiem"

Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Charles Bruffy, Steven Fox & Benedict Sheehan, chorus masters (Joseph Charles Beutel & Anna Dennis; Orchestra Of St. Luke's; Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, Kansas City Chorale & The Saint Tikhon Choir)

"Moravec: Sanctuary Road"

Kent Tritle, conductor (Joshua Blue, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Dashon Burton, Malcolm J. Merriweather & Laquita Mitchell; Oratorio Society Of New York Orchestra; Oratorio Society Of New York Chorus)

"Once Upon a Time"

Matthew Guard, conductor (Sarah Walker; Skylark Vocal Ensemble)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

"Contemporary Voices" – Pacifica Quartet

"Healing Modes" – Brooklyn Rider

"Hearne, T,: Place" – Ted Hearne, Steven Bradshaw, Sophia Byrd, Josephine Lee, Isaiah Robinson, Sol Ruiz, Ayanna Woods & Place Orchestra

"Hynes: Fields" – Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion

"The Schumann Quartets" – Dover Quartet

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

"Theofanidis: Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra"

Richard O'Neill; David Alan Miller, conductor (Albany Symphony)

"Adés: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra"

Kirill Gerstein; Thomas Adès, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)

"Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas"

Igor Levit

"Bohemian Tales"

Augustin Hadelich; Jakub Hrůša, conductor (Charles Owen; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks)

"Destination Rachmaninov - Arrival"

Daniil Trifonov; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

"Smyth: The Prison"

Sarah Brailey & Dashon Burton; James Blachly, conductor (Experiential Chorus; Experiential Orchestra)

"American Composers at Play - William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, John Musto"

Stephen Powell (Attacca Quartet, William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, John Musto, Charles Neidich & Jason Vieaux)

"Clairières - Songs by Lili & Nadia Boulanger"

Nicholas Phan; Myra Huang, accompanist

"Farinelli"

Cecilia Bartoli; Giovanni Antonini, conductor (Il Giardino Armonico)

"A Lad's Love"

Brian Giebler; Steven McGhee, accompanist (Katie Hyun, Michael Katz, Jessica Meyer, Reginald Mobley & Ben Russell)

Best Classical Compendium

"Thomas, M.T.: From the Diary of Anne Frank & Meditations on Rilke"

Isabel Leonard; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Jack Vad, producer

"Adès Conducts Adès"

Mark Stone & Christianne Stotijn; Thomas Adès, conductor; Nick Squire, producer

"Saariaho: Graal Théâtre; Circle Map, Neiges, Vers Toi Qui Es Si Loin"

Clément Mao-Takacs, conductor; Hans Kipfer, producer

"Serebrier: Symphonic Bach Variations; Laments and Hallelujahs; Flute Concerto"

José Serebrier, conductor; Jens Braun, producer

"Woolf, L.P.: Fire and Blood"

Matt Haimovitz; Julian Wachner, conductor; Blanton Alspaugh, producer

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

"Rouse: Symphony No. 5"

Christopher Rouse, composer (Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)

"Adès: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra"

Thomas Adès, composer (Kirill Gerstein, Thomas Adès & Boston Symphony Orchestra)

"Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua"

Richard Danielpour, composer (JoAnn Falletta, James K. Bass, Adam Luebke, UCLA Chamber Singers, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus)

"Floyd, C.: Prince of Players"

Carlisle Floyd, composer (William Boggs, Kate Royal, Keith Phares, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra)

"Hearne, T.: Place"

Ted Hearne, composer (Ted Hearne, Steven Bradshaw, Sophia Byrd, Josephine Lee, Isaiah Robinson, Sol Ruiz, Ayanna Woods & Place Orchestra)

Music video/film

Best Music Video

"Brown Skin Girl" – Beyoncé, Saint Jhn & Wizkid Featuring Blue Ivy Carter

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Jenn Nkiru, video directors; Lauren Baker, Astrid Edwards, Nathan Scherrer & Erinn Williams, video producers

"Life Is Good" – Future Featuring Drake

Julien Christian Lutz, video director; Harv Glazer, video producer

"Lockdown" – Anderson .Paak

Dave Meyers, video director; Nathan Scherrer, video producer

"Adore You" – Harry Styles

Dave Meyers, video director; Nathan Scherrer, video producer

"Goliath" – Woodkid

Yoann Lemoine, video director; Horace de Gunzbourg, video producer

Best Music Film

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice – Linda Ronstadt

Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, video directors; Michele Farinola & James Keach, video producers

Beastie Boys Story – Beastie Boys

Spike Jonze, video director; Amanda Adelson, Jason Baum & Spike Jonze, video producers

Black Is King – Beyoncé

Emmanuel Adjei, Blitz Bazawule, Beyoncé Knowles Carter & Kwasi Fordjour, video directors; Lauren Baker, Akin Omotoso, Nathan Scherrer, Jeremy Sullivan & Erinn Williams, video producers

We Are Freestyle Love Supreme – Freestyle Love Supreme

Andrew Fried, video director; Andrew Fried, Jill Furman, Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sarina Roma, Jenny Steingart & Jon Steingart, video producers

That Little Ol' Band From Texas – ZZ Top

Sam Dunn, video director; Scot McFadyen, video producer

[silverlake-archive]

Old Hollywood Ask Meme

Jean Harlow: Do you have a garden? If so, what kind of plants do you have?

Humphrey Bogart: Do you travel a lot? Where have you been?

Myrna Loy: Do you like going to parties?

Spencer Tracy: What time do you wake up?

Grace Kelly: What do you do when you're bored?

Jimmy Stewart: Do you have a good sense of humor?

Veronica Lake: List some random facts about your physical appearance.

Gary Cooper: Do you talk a lot?

Jean Arthur: Do you have any siblings?

Clark Gable: Are you an introvert or an extrovert? A bit of both? Something else entirely?

Barbara Stanwyck: What are your hobbies?

Cary Grant: Do you have any pets? Have you ever had any?

Gene Tierney: What are three things you like about yourself?

Bing Crosby: Can you sing or play a musical instrument? Would you like to?

Katharine Hepburn: Who do you admire? Why?

Fred Astaire: What are your favorite sports?

Ginger Rogers: Is there anything you've said that you'd like to take back?

Gregory Peck: What is your dream job?

Audrey Hepburn: What are your favorite quotes?

Donald O'Connor: What is your favorite ice cream/sorbet flavor? Carole Lombard: What makes you laugh?

William Powell: Describe your hairstyle.

Bette Davis: Do you hold grudges?

Frank Sinatra: What countries would you like to visit?

Lauren Bacall: Do you like to read? If so, what are your favorite books?

James Cagney: What would you call your autobiography?

Rita Hayworth: What is your middle name?

Peter Lorre: How many languages do you speak?

Irene Dunne: What does your neutral face look like?

Lucille Ball: What are some of your favorite jokes?

Jack Lemmon: What is/was your favorite subject in school?

Marilyn Monroe: Do you like your name? Why or why not?

Gene Kelly: What color are your eyes?

Greta Garbo: Do you get sick easily or a lot?

Joel McCrea: Describe your laugh.

Debbie Reynolds: What are you afraid of?

Dick Powell: Are you a night owl or a morning person?

Elizabeth Taylor: What is your religion?

S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall: What was the best year of your life so far?

Joan Bennett: Do you worry much about your appearance?

Robert Taylor: Describe your family.

Eleanor Powell: Describe your bedroom and post a picture if you want.

Gracie Allen: What is your shoe size?

Montgomery Clift: How tall are you?

Lana Turner: What are you allergic to anything?

Paul Henreid: Are you a coffee person or a tea person?

Hedy Lamarr: As a child, did you have one article of clothing that you absolutely loved (like wouldn't take it off type of thing)? What was it?

Claude Rains: Do you wear makeup on a daily basis?

Cyd Charisse: If you had to describe yourself in only a few lines, what would you say?

Peter Lawford: What are your pet peeves?

Vera-Ellen: Who are you jealous of?

Buster Keaton: Are you easily offended?

Bob Hope: Do you have any dietary restrictions (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, Kosher, etc.)?

Charlie Chaplin: What kind of people get on your nerves?

Ruby Keeler: What are your gender and preferred set of pronouns?

Tyrone Power: Do you have any stuffed animals? What kind of animals are they? What are their names?

Joan Blondell: Are you at all nostalgic or sentimental?

Ronald Colman: Do you know any songs/poems/passages from novels or stories by heart? What are they?

Ingrid Bergman: Are you good at doing impressions of people?

Mickey Rooney: What book are you reading at the moment?

Judy Garland: Do you believe in an Afterlife?

Groucho Marx: Do you tend to be sarcastic/ironic?

Jeanette MacDonald: Do you prefer warm or cold weather?

Harpo Marx: Do you talk a lot? Too much?

Joan Crawford: Write a poem describing one or many of these three things: your eyebrows, a baked potato, a yellow tie-dye sock.

Chico Marx: Can you change your voice/fake accents?

Mary Martin: Can you cook/bake at all?

Zeppo Marx: Do you think you're funny?

Mary Tyler Moore: What are your parents' first names?

Edward G. Robinson: Draw a self portrait.

Doris Day: Who do you miss?

Dick Van Dyke: Can you sew/knit/crochet/etc.?

Janet Leigh: What are some things that you feel guilty being happy about?

Basil Rathbone: What is one belief/conviction you'll never give up?

[saqqho]

A List Of All Lesbian Allies

Happy lesbian visibility day! In honour of this momentous occasion I’ve compiled a list of every lesbian ally. This is not disputable.

1. Sophie Kerman. Sophie Kerman told me my drag name was good and recommended a lesbian French show for me and the other gays to watch.

2. My Best Friend. She is straight but she is an ally because she wished our groupchat a happy lesbian visibility day and liked my lesbian scissor art.

3.  All snakes, snails, frogs, toads, and crows. Self-explanatory.

4. Strange Æons’ long furby. His mother is lesbian.

5. Trixie Mattel. She says she likes lesbians more than gay men because we are better fans.

6. Alaska Thunderfuck. She wrote a song called Vagina.

7. Audrey Mills. I’m not sure if she’s gay or bi but she writes absolute bops and is so underrated it’s obnoxious.

8. Every bi, pan, or queer woman because all Sapphics are Sapphics and that is indisputable. 

9. Nail artists who don’t ask questions.

10. The moon. Because duh.

11. Cello Girl, Pink-Haired Girl, Braids Girl and Yellow-Shoes Girl. I never found out if any of you were gay but I loved you from afar.

12. The rain. 

13. All scissors.

14. All mothers who are slightly too enthusiastic but mean well.

15. Lisa Cimorelli. I know she is an ally because I thought she was gay or bi for the longest time and if someone sets off my gaydar even if they aren’t gay that is PEAK ally.

16. Any tiktok artist who draws tiktok lesbians profile pictures.

17. Macks Max. He remained my friend even after I told him I was gay in a rather inopportune time.

18. Benjamin Bollinger Danielson. The father figure I never had. For legal reasons that is a joke.

19. Almut Engelhardt. I would die for her. She drinks a lot of tea.

20. Obama. He gave us rights.

21. The other Obamas. They also gave us rights.

22. Any woman who has ever played a spy in any movie or tv show.

23. Planned Parenthood.

24. Westboro Baptist Church. To piss them off.

25. Any woman who rides a motorcycle but not in a republican way.

26. Bohdi Small. For writing Bean Week.

27. This one guy I met at a music thing who organised pride 2019 and kept the protesters away.

28. David B Young.

29. Kris Flom. She used to have the same haircut as one of my lesbian friends.

30. Any and all earring suppliers.

31. Aurora. She’s probably gay but if she’s not she’s the world’s best ally.

That is all. Enjoy the rest of your “SEE DYKE” day. We all dissapear tomorrow, back to Lesbos until next year when we re-apparate again. Goodbye. 

[pixie-skull]

AU Disney Heroines # 1: Feelings at First Pride Parades

MINOR UPDATE ON JUNE 22ND, ADDED GIFS AND NOT GOING TO ALWAYS. XD ALSO ITALIZED IS ADDED.

Before I go, yes I am going to attempt to make this open to anyone, but this creator wants more LGBTQ+ AUs, so this one just if you and x character went and the character's thoughts. Please share your thoughts if this good or not in my ask box? :D Here are the rules too.

Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs): Snow would a bit overwhelmed, but hold your hand or shoulder the whole time, yet be excited about the floats commenting on the outfits and colors. Funny enough she brought the Seven dwarfs too, so she had a group to go to encase, it was her first Pride. (yet yes bring friends, going alone is a lot and @myhollie1911 thought of you when writing Snow’s part, plus Aurora)

Cinderella (Cinderella): Cindy would have made you and her cute patches and other tiny things and hide it from her step-mother because she would worry they be torn apart.

Aurora (Sleeping Beauty): Inspired by the splattered of her gown (you told about her it), she asked her aunts (I headcanon the Faries as a polyamorous relationship and her aunt like figures XP ) to make her Pride outfit have a similar effect and loves to show off to you shyly.

Jessica Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit): Outside people somewhat flirting to her, you two had a blast. You even saw her mood boost at the asexual* float and she buys herself an ace flag, which she wore as a cape.  (*=Many headcanon Jessica Rabbit as ace)

Ariel (The Little Mermaid): Ariel asks you and even strangers what the flags used mean and how to apply to them, but everyone can tell in a good place, not in a “you are just your sexuality and/or gender”. Funny enough she goes on a ramble on what her underwater kingdom events similar to Pride are like. Her sisters even came to support her. :D (Again can not stress how important it is to not go to alone, you be overwhelmed, but if want to, all the power to you. :D)

Belle (Beauty and the Beast): Belle is excited about the historical aspects and compares how far the LGBTQ+ Community got. You encourage her to see other parts of the parade too, but it is so adorable how she reads all these plaques, gather zines, and listen to a guest speaker. The friends from the castle and Lefou with his boyfriend had so much fun. 

Jasmine (Aladdin): Jasmine trusts you to show you around and if does have questions, is both comfortable and excited to be the one to ask. You find it so cute when the animal floats come how she telling she wants all the cats shown.

Pocahontas (Pocahontas): Similar to Snow White is quite at first, but unlike her, Pocahontas excited to see be part of the events, like she would rush to impulsively to floats where people brought their pets and ask if can pet them. She does stay quite though, however it is because she loves seeing the color of the flags in the wind.

Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre Dame): As a performer and enjoys to be part of the show and finds as many activities to do. She is even happy to see Jolly and Hugo being a cute dogs couple. So much when won a raffle for open mic she speaks about how in her experience religion has been supportive of the LGBTQ+ Community, after all, “Aren’t we Children of God”.

Megara (Heracles): Meg may seem distant about the idea, but she teases “like Ancient Greece, anything Gay Pride-related tends to be for the men”. However, she goes and has fun, even warms up to being more vocal in her pride. ( @sailorzelda94)

Mulan (Mulan): You are shocked Mulan never gone to Pride, but at other peer events always show interest in the Parades. Her friends' joke she should be a Drag King and named Ping, but drag is something she has mixed feelings. However, you both go and her friends all have fun and even though have significant others or girlfriends*, the men want to show support for their fellow war buddies. (*=Mulan II)

Jane Porter (Tarzan): Jane always seems too busy if helping her father’s study, her own work/art, or a combo. Finally being free you take her and she is dazed in awe and wonder the whole time. She jokes “is it called Pride for like a jungle there so much life here”. She does not do anything too dress-up for the event, but you know she comfortable with who she is, and everyone once in a while you kiss her to show much she means to you.

Kida (Atlantis: The Lost Empire): Kida so excited and even wears what looks like a 70′s biker and you can not help love how enthusiastic for the bikers. She does not fulfill the stereotypical image of someone in such attire, but she just loves the community aspect of Pride events. Even asks you questions of how she can introduce it to her family/kingdom.

Audrey (Atlantis: The Lost Empire): Audrey goes in a causal “butch” outfit and her demi jacket is adorned with all the cute little LGBTQ+ buttons you get her and she finds, but at Pride, she sees so many, she jokes she buys a second demi jacket and only for pride, only she goes does that.

Helga (Atlantis: The Lost Empire): Very quiet about it, but has a tiny smirk the whole time as she waves her rainbow flag when floats go by. She does sometimes act a bit aggressive when someone by accident hits on you, she punched an old man in the upper jaw. (thought of @mccoppinscrapyard)

Nani (Lilo and Stich): Nani has a lot of fun and even feels she kinda loosen up, even though Lilo and Stich are both acting up a few times, you help relax them, so she can have a day to herself. She does tease “now I understand why Lilo does not like loud noises, it is a lot here, even for me” * and you hug her, with the other two hugging her to calm her down. Stich even acts as a good makeshift guide dog. (*=I and many headcanon Lilo as on the autism spectrum.)

Tiana (The Princess and the Frog): Tiana does not mind the parade, but kinda wished she had a booth where she can sell food and cool beverages on this hot day. Luckily though again she has fun and brought Lottie and her significant other, so a makeshift double date. You do enjoy Lottie helps make the event more fun.

Charlotte or Lottie (The Princess and the Frog): As stated before, having a blast and loves the double date. She can not get enough of the scene and “sings” to the songs playing, even if clearly not remembering the words. She is aware of pink triangles history, but she a pink princess, she has to get all the pink. Luckily she even spoiled you, Tiana, and Tiana’s significant other.

Rapunzel (Tangled): Rapunzel was so shy in leaving her “tower” or room, but you reassured her you be there and no one going to judge because it is a fun place of community and celebration. She ends up going, but of course, being the artist she is, she painted both her (with help of the mirror) and your face in the colors of your respected flag. Even after Pride she wanted to go and joked “what if I got a super short haircut and dye it?” and you smiled, which she took as a yes, but kissed you unexpectedly, and you held her in your arms.

Merida (Brave): Funny enough she wanted to see the following then leave; The Bear Float, Dykes on Bikes, and find something to get her parents. Luckily she enjoyed more and more, but you could tell she wants you to remember those top things, and luckily she got them and more. Merida, not the most public affectionate person, but tiny moments like holding your hand you enjoyed.

Anna (Frozen): Unlike Merida, Anna is an affectionate bunny rabbit, plus wanted to see as much she could and even brought her camera and took plenty of photos. Her sister and friends were thankful you keep her anchored because of her hype.

Elsa (Frozen): Elsa was shy because she still feels freshly out and not sure if she wants people to prejudge her for something she can not help but be. Luckily she warmed up (ha ha puns) and even danced on the way home with Anna, both saying how much they appreciate having the other in their life.

Moana (Moana): Moana and her friend Maui had fun at mainly the floats, with him letting her sit on his shoulders. Even when eating the two have fun interactions with strangers, one both enjoyed to hand-wrestle with and dubbed him as “Mr. Shiny”.

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So how was that? :D I am actually glad to do something for Pride Month, so I hope to this for the other fandoms and their AUs, yet in the meantime, please share what you think, suggestions for other AUs, feedback on this, and HAPPY PRIDE! =D P.s. I am not sure if I keep all listed, so please be aware some AUs I struggle to think up stuff.

[descendantofthesparrow]

The daughter of the honorable thief- Harry Hook x Reader- part 1

 Harry Hook x Daughter of Robin Hood!Reader

warning: offensive slurs

key

 h/c- hair color

 e/c- eye color

 h/l- hair length

 s/c- skin color

 y/n- your name

clothing reference:

harrys auradon look for this part

your gear for this part(when Harry can see you properly)

your hair (length and color doesn't matter its just a reference)

___________________________________

-Harry Hook POV-

It’s been 2 weeks since I've left the Isle to come to boradon, and it's …so so, most people here don’t think my friends and I belong a *cough* Audrey and Chad *cough* so they kept trying to get us in trouble. Like trying to get us to fight them, as it’s a threat that if we get into a fight we’ll get sent back. Weirdly enough, Peter Pan’s son, David, and the next gen Darling kids seemed to not care who was my dad, HELL! Even Wendy herself had decided to ignore my last name and basically adopt me. I’m not kidding! She sends me fucking cookies and shit!!! She invited me for brunch!!!

(and now we return to our regularly scheduled program)

Grabbing my math book and stuffing it in my bag, I sighed to myself and closed my locker, heading out to class.

‘never thought I’d be going to math class, hell on the isle I couldn’t count! I-‘

My thoughts were interrupted as I was slammed into the lockers beside me, turning I glared at the banes of my existence.

The descendants of the lost boys, five of the group of 10 grinning at me with malicious intent

“hey Hook!”

Glaring at them I tried to walk away, breathing deeply as to keep my temper in check.

“come on! we wanna play a game!” Calvin, the son of slightly, grabbed my flannel and threw me to the floor, my head smacking on the floor and black started to edge in my vision, my hearing also beginning to fade out.

‘godamit I can't fight back’

But they didn’t care, they simply just started to beat down on me, hitting my ribs and one kicking my face, pain exploded everywhere.

‘someone, make it stop, please!’

“HA HA! Come on get up Hook! I thought you were tougher than your dad! HAHA!”

“HEY, GET AWAY FROM HIM”

“SHIT ITS-“

The only thing I heard was skin hitting skin, and the yelps of the lost boys. Soon five sets of footsteps ran off and I felt a hand press to my cheek, I softly hissed in pain, and the new person yelled for somebody to get another person. I felt someone pick me up, then I passed out.

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I could see a light behind my eyelids, moaning in pain as I felt the bruising on my face and ribs, soon I heard someone shuffling over to me

“Mr. Hook? Are you awake?” groaning and nodding my head I slowly opened my eyes, a woman with auburn hair in a bun, wearing a school nurse uniform, stood by the bed, staring at him with worry in her eyes.

“Mr. Hook? Are you feeling alright?” nodding my head I sat up and rubbed my head, feeling a bump at the back of my head.

“what happened?”

“you were apparently assaulted by some of the lost boys and Ms. Loxley brought you here after fending them off.”

I furrowed my brows and asked her who Ms. Loxley was “Ms. Loxley is (y/n) Loxley, daughter of Robin Hood”

I nodded and asked if I could leave the nurses office.

“in a minute, I just need to give you an examination and some medication and then your free to go, oh also your excused from classes for the rest of the week.”

I placed my feet on the ground and stood as she shuffled around the medical room grabbing medication and other stuff

“okay this is for your head and this is for everything else, take both once a day”

“aye, by the way, were is Loxley? I want to…um”

The nurse smiled and informed me that she was at the archery range “do you know where that is Mr. Hook?”

“uh no”

“okay one second”

She walked to the door and looked out and gestured for someone to come

“Mr. De’vil? Can you lead Mr. Hook to the archery range? He would like to see Ms. Loxley”

Carlos looked at me for a second a glint of fear in his eyes before it disappeared after seeing my bruises.

“uh yeah sure come on Harry”

I grabbed my bag that was resting on a nearby chair and followed Carlos (and dude) out the medical room and walked silently behind him, keeping my gaze in front of me, seeing Carlos glancing at me in concern.

He bit his lip before gaining the courage to talk to me, “so what happened? Why were you in the medical room?”

I raised an eyebrow at him before answering “Calvin and his cronies decided I was an easy target cuz of that stupid “vks cant fight” rule” Carlos Hummed in agreement “yeah Jay hates that rule too, he says it deprives him of the honor of kicking the dudes who insult the VKS asses”

That’s when dude decided to speak “yeah mal hates it too, she has almost snapped many times, but Ben holds her back” I blinked in surprise, I honestly forgot the dog could talk.

“I forgot yer dog could talk.” Carlos snickered, “yeah that surprises people still, it’s really funny when dude does it randomly”

I hummed and saw the archery range, I sped up a little, Carlos keeping up. “ya know, ever since you got to Auradon, you have gotten a lot less scary” I rolled my eyes, I know why.

“Maybe it’s because I can't do anything, I used to be able to do on the isle hmm~?” I pointed out, slightly glaring at the son of Cruella.

“yeah I guess” he mumbled, curling back slightly under my glare. I rolled my eyes (I seem to be doing that a lot) and turned my sight back to the archery range where I saw a female figure walking across the field, carefully aiming at each target, and hitting them with absolute precision.

“whoa” the three of us breathed, never seen anything like that before. She took notice of us staring and made her way towards us, doing her hood to reveal her face, smooth (s/c),(plump/thin) cherry lips, athletic body, (h/l) (h/c) hair messy and framing her face perfectly, those piercing (e/c) eyes staring at me once again, that’s when I realized, this was the girl I saw the day I came!

‘dang she’s actually really pretty’

“hello,” she grinned “what brings you three down here?” I don’t waste any time, “are ye the one who thrashed the lost boys?” a proud glint came to her eyes and she confirmed that yes, she was the one who saved me.

“oh well.. um... I…” dammit why was it so hard to say thanks! She giggled and waved me off “you’re welcome Harry! Are you alright by the way?”

“uh yeah, the nurse gave me painkillers and stuff”

“that’s good”

Carlos stood awkwardly before picking up dude, announcing that he was going to head to his dorm.

“see ya Carlos!”

“see ya (y/n)”

Harry only waved and turned back to you.

As Carlos left the two of you talked and Harry walked with you as you retrieved your arrows, soon you both heard the dreaded sound of other people, Chad and his ‘‘friends” walked around the edge of the range, laughing obnoxiously to themselves.

Chad looked around, saw you and Harry and turned to his “friends” and gestured to the two of you, the boys grinned maliciously and headed towards you.

“hey look” both you and Harry groaned, turning to look at the son of Cinderella, “it’s the dyke and the fag!”

Harry gritted his teeth, and your glare became deadly. You facepalmed at the use of the slurs, Chad was so narrow-minded.

“go away Chad!” he smirked “no I don’t think I will~”

Harry mumbled to you “why’d he call ye a dyke?”

“I've dated a few girls in my life so he decided I was lesbian cuz I haven’t dated a boy”

“ah” “Why'd he call you a fag?”

“im a pirate, it's kinda the stereotype that goes with it”

“got ya”

“you two fags done talking?”

Harry was really close to punching Chad, but he couldn’t cuz of that stupid rule. You glanced at Harry  knowing he couldn’t do anything, but you could, drawing three arrows you lined them up and glanced at chad, he froze like deer in headlights, knowing your skill, his “friends” started giggling

“come on girly!”

“yeah we all know archery is a man's sport”

“Yeah, I bet you can't even draw the string!”

Keeping your breath calm you spoke in a deadly voice, shocking Harry.

“you all have three seconds to leave and stop bothering us before I do something you'll regret”

“hahaha is she serious!”

“one”

“id love to see this!”

“two”

“shoot shoot!”

“three”

Drawing the string back you aimed at Chad, releasing the arrows pierced Chad's shirt and pants and pinned him to a nearby tree, Causing his “friends” to shut up, never having seen something like that before.

Harry jaw dropped open ‘holy crap shes good!’ you smirked and drew another arrow, the group reeling back in fear

“I warned you~” you sang,”now leave! And take charming there with you” the idiots nodded, unpinned Chad and bolted for the school.

You and Harry stood there for a moments before bursting out laughing

“that” Harry gasped “was amazing!”

You giggled and retrieved your arrows “thanks!! That was really fun!”

*briiidng*

Hearing the bell ring, you packed up and started to make your way to your dorm “hey! Were ye going?”

“my dorm, the bell rung, my free periods over so I gotta get to class, you should get going as well”

“Oh okay” waving to harry you exited the range before Harry called after you “(y/n)!” turning to harry you saw his face flush, “um,…thank you”

You grinned at him “you’re welcome Harry”

The two of you went your own way, Harry to his dorm to rest, you to your dorm to put your gear away.

Only one thought rested in your minds

‘why is she so kind to someone like me?’

‘who knew the son of Hook could be so handsome’

 --end of part 1-- if part 2 is wanted, please comment or message me.

@lunarwitch6 @holythingdragonpaper sorry this took so long

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Closer, May 20

Cover: The Lucille Ball Nobody Knew -- her granddaughter Kate tells all 

Page 1: Contents, What I’ve Learned -- Grace Kelly, Joke of the Week -- Bob Newhart 

Page 2: The Big Picture -- Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in 1947 

Page 4: Jacqueline Kennedy personal treasures up for sale 

Page 5: How fans are helping Alex Trebek battle cancer, Charlize Theron -- therapy helped me be a better mom 

Page 6: Fran Drescher is busier than ever 

Page 7: Hellos & Goodbyes 

Page 8: Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day at the Today show -- Carson Daly and son Jackson, Savannah Guthrie and daughter Vale, Craig Melvin and son Delano, Dylan Dreyer and son Calvin, Cookie Monster 

Page 10: Picture Perfect -- Whoopi Goldberg and Angela Bassett and Debra Messing, Paul Rudd and James Corden, Susan Lucci

Page 12: Ben Affleck and son Samuel, Janelle Monae

Page 13: The Cool Kids Vicki Lawrence and Leslie Jordan and guest star Lynne Marie Stewart, Sutton Foster 

Page 14: Busy Philipps and Geena Davis, Kenan Thompson and Chrissy Teigen and Jeff Foxworthy, Kelly Clarkson 

Page 16: Freddie Prinze -- the groundreaking Latino comic’s star shined brightly but flamed out quickly 

Page 18: Cover Story -- Lucille Ball’s granddaughter Kate Luckinbill-Conner -- Why I loved Lucy 

Page 22: Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft -- inside their unlikely love story 

Page 24: Kathy Ireland on Elizabeth Taylor -- We were like family 

Page 27: Spot the Difference -- Duchess Kate Middleton and Prince Harry 

Page 29: Horoscopes -- Taurus Pierce Brosnan 

Page 30: Entertainment -- George Clooney on Catch-22, In the Spotlight -- Ernie Hudson 

Page 32: Movies -- Anne Hathaway on The Hustle

Page 33: Music -- Sting on My Songs 

Page 34: Television 

Page 36: Great Escape -- Joanne Gaines loves Manhattan 

Page 40: 5 tips to help you stay young -- Dick Van Dyke 

Page 42: Whatever Happened to the Cast of Moonlighting -- Bruce Willis, Cybill Shepherd, Curtis Armstrong, Allyce Beasley 

Page 43: It Happened This Week 

Page 44: Eric Roberts on overcoming tragedy and finding true love 

Page 48: Candid Cameraman -- photographer Martin Mills captured celebs in their most casual moments -- Bette Davis, Groucho Marx and Edie Adams, Elizabeth Montgomery, Dean Martin 

Page 49: Jamie Lee Curtis, Sonny & Cher, Charlton Heston, John Wayne, Lucille Ball and Joe Namath 

Page 50: Al Roker opens up about the invaluable lessons he’s learned from his special-needs teenage son 

Page 52: Princess Charlotte’s fairy-tale birthday 

Page 54: The Style of Julianne Moore 

Page 56: Beauty -- fragrances -- Julia Roberts 

Page 58: Audrey Hepburn -- her life in pictures 

Page 60: Flashback -- Checker prints worn by Jane Fonda in 1995 and Emma Thompson now, boating beauties Myrna Loy in 1925 and Rachel McCord now, Ursula of The Little Mermaid in 1989 and Katy Perry now, berets on Lauren Bacall in 1945 and Tyra Banks now 

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Évènements du 4 au 10 mars

Il y a la journée internationale des droits des femmes le 8 mars ! Tu trouveras forcément une marche ou des évènements près de chez toi, même si ce n'est pas spécifiquement lesbien.

N’oublie pas, en ce moment il y a Colette et La Favorite au cinéma ! (Olivia Colman a d’ailleurs gagné l’Oscar de la meilleure actrice pour La Favorite)

Paris

Vendredi 8 mars à 19h : Afterwork cosy Women-only (Les soirées de mademoiselle Audrey) à l'hôtel Bel Ami

Vendredi 8 mars à 20h : La Meuf Night d'En avant toute(s) au 3W Kafé

Vendredi 8 mars à 21h30 : La Lesbienne Invisible de Marine Baousson à La Nouvelle Seine

Samedi 9 mars à 18h : Concert des Gamme'elles à La Ressourcerie

Samedi 9 mars à 18h : Soirée carnaval au Bar'Ouf

Dimanche 10 mars à 16h : L’association des Ami-es de Violette and Co vous invite à son Assemblée générale

Reims

Samedi 9 mars à 15h : Action santé prévention cancer du sein au local d'Exaequo

Samedi 9 mars à 21h : Soirée Nanas au local d'Exaequo

Orléans

Vendredi 8 mars à 19h30 : Vita & Virginia (avant-première) au cinéma Les Carmes

Lyon

Le festival de cinéma queer Écrans Mixtes a lieu du 6 au 14 mars. Je ne liste que les films lesbiens de cette semaine, mais tu peux retrouver l'intégralité du programme sur leur site. Sont suivis d'une astérisque les films que j'ai vu et que je recommande :)

Vendredi 8 mars à 9h : Droits des femmes et handicap au centre LGBTI

Vendredi 8 mars à 14h30 : Table-ronde : Femmes, handicaps, accès aux droits et aux soins au centre LGBTI

Vendredi 8 mars à 20h : Vita & Virginia (avant-première) au cinéma Comœdia

Samedi 9 mars à 15h : Dykes, Camera, Action!* à la bibliothèque du 1er

Samedi 9 mars à 11h : Ciné-brunch Seventeen (film plus bi que lesbien...) au Goethe Institut

Samedi 9 mars à 17h : Game Girls* au cinéma Lumière Bellecour

Samedi 9 mars à 19h : Eva + Candela au cinéma Lumière Bellecour

Dimanche 10 mars à 18h30 : Les Bostoniennes au cinéma Comœdia

Valence

Vendredi 8 mars à 20h30 : Monsieur Shirley de Shirley Souagnon au Cinéma Théâtre Apollo

Balma (c'est près de Toulouse)

Samedi 9 mars à 20h30 : Monsieur Shirley de Shirley Souagnon à l'auditorium municipal

Nice

Du 4 au 8 mars : Collecte de produits d'hygiène féminine au Centre LGBT

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my first show back in the wlur studio last week felt great and i even managed an instagram post! tune into wlur at 8pm today as we do it again or catch up with last week's show below!

no love for ned on wlur – june 18th, 2021 from 8-10pm

artist // track // album // label waxahatchee // under a rock // ivy tripp // merge sara renberg // will you still want me // butch spring cassette // antiquated future quivers // gutters of love // golden doubt // ba da bing! liz phair // spanish doors // soberish // chrysalis the cocker spaniels // culture war // the cocker spaniels are still alive, and so are you // evil island fortress shrapnel // orpheum protocol // alasitas // tenth court dqe // timber // the queen of mean // dark beloved cloud two white cranes // we grew up // for when the future rolls around- selected songs, 2012-2017 cassette // antiquated future teke::teke // barbara // shirushi // kill rock stars * uv-tv // distant lullaby // always something // papercup pardoner // i wanna get high to the music // came down different // bar/none * rider // deep rivers // rider // (self-released) talking heads // the girls want to be with the girls // more songs about buildings and food // sire blue cactus // blue as the day // stranger again // sleepy cat * bill orcutt // the sun and its horizon // odds against tomorrow // palilalia mess esque // listen the snow is falling // dream #12 // bedroom suck steven r. smith // spires // in the spires // cold moon seval // maybe it's too late // i know you // 482 music jessica ackerley // much gratitude to you, for you // morning/mourning // cacophonous revival rodrigo amado, joe mcphee, kent kessler and chris corsano // resist // let the free be men // trost josephine davies and satori // duhkha: pervasive dissatisfaction // how can we wake? // whirlwind matthew e. white and lonnie holley // broken mirror (a selfie reflection)/composition 9 // broken mirror: a selfie reflection // spacebomb * dyke and the blazers // my sisters' and my brothers' day is comin' // i got a message- hollywood, 1968-1970 // craft raw poetic and damu the fudgemunk // head on // moment of change // redefinition audrey nuna featuring saba // top again // a liquid breakfast // arista * mia joy // heaven forbid // spirit tamer // fire talk tape waves // invisible lines // bright // emotional response bobby would // walk away // world wide world // low company raw honey // all of this time // riverbed // life like río arga // piscinas y lagos // piscinas y lagos // caballito alex little and the suspicious minds // across the city // waiting to get paid // light organ *

* denotes music on wlur’s playlist

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• A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy. – Abhishek Bachchan • A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life. – Jean Ingelow • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. – Robert Frost • A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. – Erma Bombeck • All I want for my birthday is another birthday. – Ian Dury • All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheese making class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I’m into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I’d love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef. – Jesse McCartney • All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. – George Harrison • And for the city’s birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston’s great epic – the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most. • Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. – Phylicia Rashad • At 50, don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday. – H. H. Asquith • At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can’t say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake. – Goran Ivanisevic • Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. – Christina Rossetti • Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. – Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear… But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend. – Martial • Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then? – James Kenneth Stephen • Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. – Walter Lord • Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. – Sammy Hagar • Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor. – Isaac Watts • Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, “ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.” One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again. – Dorothy L. Sayers • Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end. – Richard Bach • For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. – Steven Wright • For my birthday this year, my girlfriends – who knew I’d just inherited my dad’s turntable – gave me a carton of albums like “Blue Kentucky Girl,” by Emmylou Harris, and “Off the Wall,” by Michael Jackson. It’s all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can’t have a music collection without Prince’s “Purple Rain” – it just can’t be done! – Connie Britton • From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye. – William Butler Yeats • Happy birthday greetings and warmest wishes, too May today, tomorrow, everyday Be truly happy for you. – Margaret Brown • I binge when I’m happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I’m at a birthday party. – Kirstie Alley • I crashed my boyfriend’s birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn’t invite me and so I showed up. – Isla Fisher • I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. – Diane von Furstenberg • I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo. – Bindi Irwin • I love photography. My boyfriend’s got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. – Sarah Sutton • I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over. – Kristin Armstrong • I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‘Happy Birthday.’ – Steven Wright • I was fired by ‘America’s Next Top Model’ on my birthday. – Paulina Porizkova • If I have the power to post ‘Happy Birthday’ on someone’s Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I’m a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It’s fun. – Rebecca Mader • If there’s one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy’s reserve. – Bindi Irwin • If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. – David Horowitz • I’m a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory. – Sloane Crosley • In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. – Annette Funicello • In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn’t have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. – Robert Breault • It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you would do. And once again we wish you All joyous things and more A day that’s filled with happiness And memories to store. Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so. So have a day of pleasure Do things that make you smile For ………….. you are treasured Today and all the while. – Janet Horne • It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. – Ellen Glasgow • It’s odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You’ll have a nice time, then two years later you’ll be like, ‘There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?’ – David Sedaris • Mattresses! Beautiful! Let’s go buy a couple of mattresses. Give ’em to people for their birthday. – Lawrence Tierney • May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday – Rob Jackson • Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. – Robert – Staughton Lynd • My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife. – Stephanie Cutter • My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young. – Paulina Porizkova • Nicole will come up in conversations where it’s in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday. – O. J. Simpson • On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles. – Mary Antin • Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. – Jean Paul • Pleas’d look forward, pleas’d to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. – Alexander Pope • Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same. – Audrey Hepburn • The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet. – Robert Orben • The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once. – Herbert V. Prochnow • The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. – Seneca the Younger • The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. – Samuel Johnson • The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. – Matthew Sweet • The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it’s time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. – James Rollins • The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday. – Paris Hilton • Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so. – Janet Horne • There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. – Lewis Carroll • There is still no cure for the common birthday. – John Glenn

• We didn’t have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic. – Lance Burton • Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we’ve grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it’s not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing. – Jerry Seinfeld • We’re sending you best wishes And hope your day goes well And that you’ll find some memories With stories you can tell Of how you had a marvelous time And those around you too With fun and lots of laughter And all this just for you.. Have a Very Happy Birthday – Janet Horne • When I was little I thought, isn’t it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it’s July 4th. – Gloria Stuart • When I was young and it was someone’s birthday, I didn’t have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom’s camera and make a movie parody for whoever’s birthday it was. When I’d show it them, they’d die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling. – David Henrie • With a recent birthday, I’ve been acting now for twenty years. – Thayer David • You’re birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar….. Yung No Mo – Dana Rosemary Scallon [clickbank-storefront-bestselling]

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• A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy. – Abhishek Bachchan • A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life. – Jean Ingelow • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. – Robert Frost • A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. – Erma Bombeck • All I want for my birthday is another birthday. – Ian Dury • All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheese making class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I’m into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I’d love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef. – Jesse McCartney • All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. – George Harrison • And for the city’s birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston’s great epic – the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most. • Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. – Phylicia Rashad • At 50, don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday. – H. H. Asquith • At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can’t say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake. – Goran Ivanisevic • Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. – Christina Rossetti • Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. – Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear… But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend. – Martial • Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then? – James Kenneth Stephen • Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. – Walter Lord • Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. – Sammy Hagar • Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor. – Isaac Watts • Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, “ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.” One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again. – Dorothy L. Sayers • Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end. – Richard Bach • For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. – Steven Wright • For my birthday this year, my girlfriends – who knew I’d just inherited my dad’s turntable – gave me a carton of albums like “Blue Kentucky Girl,” by Emmylou Harris, and “Off the Wall,” by Michael Jackson. It’s all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can’t have a music collection without Prince’s “Purple Rain” – it just can’t be done! – Connie Britton • From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye. – William Butler Yeats • Happy birthday greetings and warmest wishes, too May today, tomorrow, everyday Be truly happy for you. – Margaret Brown • I binge when I’m happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I’m at a birthday party. – Kirstie Alley • I crashed my boyfriend’s birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn’t invite me and so I showed up. – Isla Fisher • I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. – Diane von Furstenberg • I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo. – Bindi Irwin • I love photography. My boyfriend’s got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. – Sarah Sutton • I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over. – Kristin Armstrong • I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‘Happy Birthday.’ – Steven Wright • I was fired by ‘America’s Next Top Model’ on my birthday. – Paulina Porizkova • If I have the power to post ‘Happy Birthday’ on someone’s Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I’m a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It’s fun. – Rebecca Mader • If there’s one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy’s reserve. – Bindi Irwin • If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. – David Horowitz • I’m a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory. – Sloane Crosley • In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. – Annette Funicello • In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn’t have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. – Robert Breault • It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you would do. And once again we wish you All joyous things and more A day that’s filled with happiness And memories to store. Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so. So have a day of pleasure Do things that make you smile For ………….. you are treasured Today and all the while. – Janet Horne • It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. – Ellen Glasgow • It’s odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You’ll have a nice time, then two years later you’ll be like, ‘There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?’ – David Sedaris • Mattresses! Beautiful! Let’s go buy a couple of mattresses. Give ’em to people for their birthday. – Lawrence Tierney • May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday – Rob Jackson • Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. – Robert – Staughton Lynd • My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife. – Stephanie Cutter • My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young. – Paulina Porizkova • Nicole will come up in conversations where it’s in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday. – O. J. Simpson • On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles. – Mary Antin • Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. – Jean Paul • Pleas’d look forward, pleas’d to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. – Alexander Pope • Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same. – Audrey Hepburn • The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet. – Robert Orben • The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once. – Herbert V. Prochnow • The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. – Seneca the Younger • The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. – Samuel Johnson • The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. – Matthew Sweet • The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it’s time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. – James Rollins • The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday. – Paris Hilton • Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so. – Janet Horne • There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. – Lewis Carroll • There is still no cure for the common birthday. – John Glenn

• We didn’t have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic. – Lance Burton • Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we’ve grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it’s not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing. – Jerry Seinfeld • We’re sending you best wishes And hope your day goes well And that you’ll find some memories With stories you can tell Of how you had a marvelous time And those around you too With fun and lots of laughter And all this just for you.. Have a Very Happy Birthday – Janet Horne • When I was little I thought, isn’t it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it’s July 4th. – Gloria Stuart • When I was young and it was someone’s birthday, I didn’t have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom’s camera and make a movie parody for whoever’s birthday it was. When I’d show it them, they’d die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling. – David Henrie • With a recent birthday, I’ve been acting now for twenty years. – Thayer David • You’re birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar….. Yung No Mo – Dana Rosemary Scallon [clickbank-storefront-bestselling]

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Hollywood Actor meme

(As Veronica loves old movies!)

Send me an Old Hollywood actor

Jean Harlow: Do you have a garden? If so, what kind of plants do you have?

Humphrey Bogart: Do you travel a lot? Where have you been?

Myrna Loy: Do you like going to parties?

Spencer Tracy: What time do you wake up?

Grace Kelly: What do you do when you're bored?

Jimmy Stewart: Do you have a good sense of humor?

Veronica Lake: List some random facts about your physical appearance.

Gary Cooper: Do you talk a lot?

Clark Gable: Are you an introvert or an extrovert? A bit of both? Something else entirely?

Barbara Stanwyck: What are your hobbies?

Cary Grant: Do you have any pets? Have you ever had any?

Gene Tierney: What are three things you like about yourself?

Bing Crosby: Can you sing or play a musical instrument? Would you like to?

Katharine Hepburn: Who do you admire? Why?

Fred Astaire: What are your favorite sports?

Ginger Rogers: Is there anything you've said that you'd like to take back?

Gregory Peck: What is your dream job?

Audrey Hepburn: What are your favorite quotes?

Donald O'Connor: What is your favorite ice cream/sorbet flavor?

Carole Lombard: What makes you laugh?

William Powell: Describe your hairstyle.

Bette Davis: Do you hold grudges?

Frank Sinatra: What countries would you like to visit?

Lauren Bacall: Do you like to read? If so, what are your favorite books?

James Cagney: What would you call your autobiography?

Rita Hayworth: What is your middle name?

Peter Lorre: How many languages do you speak?

Irene Dunne: What does your neutral face look like?

Henry Fonda: If you could do anything for anyone, what would you do?

Lucille Ball: What are some of your favorite jokes?

Jack Lemmon: What is/was your favorite subject in school?

Marilyn Monroe: Do you like your name? Why or why not?

Gene Kelly: What color are your eyes?

Greta Garbo: Do you get sick easily or a lot?

Joel McCrea: Describe your laugh.

Debbie Reynolds: What are you afraid of?

Dick Powell: Are you a night owl or a morning person?

Elizabeth Taylor: What is your religion?

S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall: What was the best year of your life so far?

Joan Bennett: Do you worry much about your appearance?

Robert Taylor: Describe your family.

Eleanor Powell: Describe your bedroom and post a picture if you want.

George Burns: List some random facts about yourself in general.

Lana Turner: What are you allergic to anything?

Paul Henreid: Are you a coffee person or a tea person?

Hedy Lamarr: As a child, did you have one article of clothing that you absolutely loved (like wouldn't take it off type of thing)? What was it?

Claude Rains: Do you wear makeup on a daily basis?

Cyd Charisse: If you had to describe yourself in only a few lines, what would you say?

Peter Lawford: What are your pet peeves?

Vera-Ellen: Who are you jealous of?

Buster Keaton: Are you easily offended?

Bob Hope: Do you have any dietary restrictions (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, Kosher, etc.)?

Charlie Chaplin: What kind of people get on your nerves?

Tyrone Power: Do you have any stuffed animals? What kind of animals are they? What are their names?

Joan Blondell: Are you at all nostalgic or sentimental?

Ronald Colman: Do you know any songs/poems/passages from novels or stories by heart? What are they?

Ingrid Bergman: Are you good at doing impressions of people?

Mickey Rooney: What book are you reading at the moment?

Judy Garland: Do you believe in an Afterlife?

Groucho Marx: Do you tend to be sarcastic/ironic?

Jeanette MacDonald: Do you prefer warm or cold weather?

Harpo Marx: Do you talk a lot? Too much?

Chico Marx: Can you change your voice/fake accents?

Mary Martin: Can you cook/bake at all?

Zeppo Marx: Do you think you're funny?

Doris Day: Who do you miss?

Dick Van Dyke: Can you sew/knit/crochet/etc.?

Janet Leigh: What are some things that you feel guilty being happy about?

Basil Rathbone: What is one belief/conviction you'll never give up?

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Mary Tyler Moore's 7 Best Musical Moments

Mary Tyler Moore's 7 Best Musical Moments

Mary Tyler Moore died last week at the age of 80 and was memorialized around the world as no less than a comedic and feminist icon for her work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. But she was never recognized for what she really set out to do in show business: dancing and singing. “To this day, beneath the exterior of a successful actor beats the heart of a failed dancer,” she told Entertainment Tonight in 2004. She began her career as the dancing elf Happy Hotpoint in 1950s commercials for home appliance company Hotpoint. From there, she became an actress and turned out to be a monster comedic and dramatic talent. Despite her seven Emmys, one Tony (for a dramatic role in Whose Life Is It Anyway?), and one Oscar nomination (for Ordinary People), she kept trying to return to her musical roots. Here, look back at some of the best moments from Moore’s musical career — she may not have won awards for it, but she always looked overjoyed to be doing it.

The Dick Van Dyke Show, 1962

As Rob and Laura Petrie, Van Dyke and Moore had legendary on-screen chemistry that changed the way marriage was portrayed on TV. (They had separate beds, but watching them interact left no doubt they had sex.) That chemistry extended to the musical numbers that they, believe it or not, seamlessly integrated into storylines on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Moore’s first star turn. (Laura was a former dancer and Rob was a comedy writer, so, sure. Plus you didn’t really care why they were singing and dancing once they started.) “We thought we were the best dance team since [Fred] Astaire and [Ginger] Rogers,” Van Dyke said in an interview with Charlie Rose while remembering his co-star.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElAvv8Mdup8

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1966

The Broadway musical adaptation of Audrey Hepburn’s classic film role seemed like a dream vehicle for Moore’s transition to life after Van Dyke. But the stage version failed to do what the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s did so masterfully: balance the lightness and darkness of its source material, Truman Capote’s short story about a single woman in New York City forced to rely on her feminine wiles to get by. Amid loads of hype, producer David Merrick decided to shut down the production after four dismal preview performances, he said in a statement, “rather than subject the drama critics and the public to an excruciatingly boring evening.” Luckily, some vindication was on the way for Moore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_xwdZljrOM

Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1967

Moore was a natural choice for a big-screen musical. In Thoroughly Modern Millie, she played the naïve best friend to Julie Andrews as the title character, a 1920s flapper — incidentally, trying to make it on her own in the big city. The film — an adaptation of a stage musical — was a hit, and Moore got admiring reviews for her acting, singing, and dancing. Alas, it would be her only hit during her attempt at movie stardom in the years immediately following Van Dyke.

Change of Habit, 1969

This notorious flop — famous for being Elvis’s last film — features Moore as a nun who falls in love with a doctor (played by the King) while they work together to help a poor neighborhood. There’s also music, of course! Moore didn’t get to sing or dance, but she did get to play a part in some cheesy music-video-like segments in which Elvis breaks out into song. Ridiculous movie premise aside, Elvis sounds perfect, and they both look luminous.

Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman, 1969

Van Dyke had plans to headline a variety special for CBS, the network that had aired The Dick Van Dyke Show, and he used it to give his former co-star a career boost. He invited her to perform in the special with him — highlighting their song and dance chemistry — and let her steal the show. It worked. Soon afterwards, CBS offered Moore her own sitcom. That deal resulted in her history-making Mary Tyler Moore Show, which ran from 1970-77.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3oVwT9Gb7E

Mary’s Incredible Dream, 1976

During the run of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Moore used her newfound clout to land a variety special of her own on CBS. But instead of making a straightforward special like Van Dyke’s in the previous decade, Moore and her production company, MTM Enterprises, instead made a psychedelic musical-fantasy that aimed to do no less than tell the history of the world in an hour. It included Moore as an angel floating around religious symbols and singing “Morning Has Broken,” Ben Vereen as a green devil and a rewritten version of Jerome Kern’s “She Didn’t Say Yes” that told of the Biblical fall of Eve. Moore was thrilled with the result, showing pre-screening tapes to all of her friends so much that her Mary Tyler Moore co-star, Betty White, teased, “It’s a shame you don’t put it on TV, instead of showing it door to door.” When it finally was on TV, however, critics eviscerated it, with the New York Times calling it “a landmark in TV vulgarity.” Luckily, Moore had the final year of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to return to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW1aHokES3k>

Mary/The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, 1978

After The Mary Tyler Moore Show ended, Moore tried to build on that momentum to finally have a musical-variety series of her own, Mary, with a cast that included Michael Keaton, David Letterman and Swoosie Kurtz (all of whom are in the clip above). But ratings were dismal, and it was pulled after just three episodes. Later the same season, it returned in a retooled format, The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, and the conceit was clever: She played the star of a variety show, and we watched both her off-screen life — with a young Michael Keaton as her studio page, Kenneth — and portions of the show within the show. The 30 Rock approach (yes, Keaton was the original Kenneth the page!) was meant to lure viewers into the variety format with Moore in the familiar sitcom setting. However, this version lasted only 11 episodes. That said, don’t fret too much for Moore: she would be nominated for an Oscar just three years later, and would be remembered as one of the greatest comedic actresses of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-T11erq_kI

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong is the author of the 2013 book Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic.

Source: Billboard

http://tunecollective.com/2017/01/29/mary-tyler-moores-7-best-musical-moments/