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[berandomness]

I bought some matches today that marketed themselves as eco friendly, and they aren't exactly lying, but it is still a plastic based product, so it's not exactly green imo. I wasn't aware they were plastic when I bought them, based on the packaging it looked like it was some sort of compressed paper product. Either way, I'm a mix of dissapointment and surprise, with the ever growing conviction that humanity is going to hurt itself very badly in its confusion of sorting out the climate change mess. I'm really struggling to accept that anything involved with the plastic industry, which is heavily reliant on the oil industry, will ever be good for the planet. But I don't make the big descisions.

[thedeadman-2023]

Wake up

Wake up

time to workout!!!

[i-am-aprl]

Exactly 21 years ago, Rachel Corrie, 23-year-old American peace activist and hero from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in southern Gaza, while undertaking nonviolent direct action to protect the home of a Palestinian family from demolition.

On March 16, 2003, Corrie stood in front of a Palestinian home in hopes of stopping a bulldozer operated by Israeli forces from flattening the home in the Rafah refugee camp.

Israeli forces operating the 60-tonne D9 bulldozer built by Caterpillar Inc continued moving toward Corrie as she stood her ground, running her over and leaving her crushed.

There were many witnesses, including fellow American activist Greg Schnabel, would tell the media Rachel had been wearing an orange fluorescent jacket and was “clearly” visible to the bulldozer driver, as well as to Israeli forces in a nearby tank.

Twenty minutes after the bulldozer backed away, Corrie was pronounced dead.

Corrie’s peace work in Gaza took place against the backdrop of the Second Intifada (Palestinian uprising), which started in September 2000 and lasted until February 2005.

After Corrie’s death, some of her writings were collected by her family and published under the title Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie.

One piece contained in the collection was from an email she had written her mother from Rafah on February 27, 2003 – just weeks before her death.

Corrie wrote: “Just want to write to my mom and tell her that I’m witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide and I’m really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature. This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don’t think it’s an extremist thing to do anymore.”

[felidthing]

WASHINGTON: Support needed for solidarity encampment april 30th

if youre in the olympia area or can get there, the evergreen state college's gaza solidarity encampment is having a rally at 11am, april 30th. the police have threatened to sweep multiple times, but the camp has negotiated for extensions. the next extension was made for 24 hours, approximately 5pm, april 30th.

the camp's main demand is for the school to divest from boeing and caterpillar inc., companies that profit from war on palestine and do direct harm. the cooper point journal (evergreen's student paper) has been reporting on the encampment and theyre who i trust most on info about this.

website: cooperpointjournal.com

instagram: @/yourcpj

please show up to the evergreen state college red square (address: Red Square, Olympia, WA 98505 || 2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW, Olympia, WA 98505) and support the encampment, support their demands, show support for palestine.

[dustedmagazine]

Tsunami — Loud Is As (Numero Group)

Tsunami rolled over the 1990s like the natural phenomenon it was named for, swamping conventions about what punk should sound like, who should make it, how it should be delivered to its audience and what subjects it should tackle. Coming out of a DC hardcore scene defined by an angular, aggressive hyper male sound, Tsunami was half-female, dauntingly intelligent, haunted by melody and smothered in fuzz.  A new box set from Numero documents the band’s eight year run, including three full albums, 11 singles and some unreleased four-track demos. An exhaustively researched history by Joe Gross comes illustrated with contemporary photography, concert flyers, backstage passes and album art. Four pre-eminent female music critics—Jen Pelly, Evelyn McDonnell, Gina Arnold and Ann Powers—offer personal reflections on individual Tsunami albums.  It is a gloriously complete retrospective. If you’re not cherry picking favorites and reliving memories from the first time around, expect to be overwhelmed. It will require some time to get a handle on this.

It began in Arlington, Virginia, at a punk house called Positive Force, where Jenny Toomey and John Pamer first met in 1990, and shortly after that, encountered Kristin Thompson. Toomey’s college band, Geek, was winding down, and she had started her own label, Simple Machines. A last hurrah, summer tour for Geek, supporting Superchunk and Seaweed, threw her into contact with Andrew Webster, soon to be Tsunami’s bass player. The band came together after their return. Toomey and Thompson played guitar, with Toomey singing, and Pamer sat in on drums.  

Things moved quickly after that. A nine-song cassette called Cow’s Arcade came out early in 1991, followed by the Headringer 7” later in the spring. In August of that year, Tsunami toured with Velocity Girl and played at the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington, alongside Beat Happening, Bikini Kill and Fugazi, still less than a year into their run as a band. It was about this time that they wrote and recorded “Genius of Crack,” still one of Tsunami’s best known tunes and a wonderfully noisy but languid meditation on alienation. “We're so slack, we come off like geniuses on crack,” Toomey belts against a beautiful roar of feedback-addled guitar tone.

A spate of singles and compilation tracks took Tsunami through 1992, and in 1993, the first LP, Deep End appeared. That full-length takes up the entirety of LP 1 in this five-album set. Side one ends with the furious drone and churn of “460,” whose explosive energy and shimmering textures cross the Replacements with, oh, I don’t know, Bailter Space. That same year, 1993, Tsunami toured with Superchunk, opened for PJ Harvey once or twice, and got invited to play at the Primus/Alice in Chains/Dinosaur Jr. headed Lollapalooza.

Heart’s Tremolo, in 1994, interspersed lyrical intervals with blaring guitar mayhem, very much in the loud-quiet way of the mid-1990s. Songs like “Fast Food Medicine” simmer disconsolately before they flare to life, and the song “Fits and Starts” begins its brief life as a folk song, full of squeaky string slides and earnest poetry. “Quietnova” is the album’s opener and a statement of purpose; the most dangerous stuff isn’t always the loudest.

The third LP encompasses the 1995 singles/B-sides/compilation tracks compendium World Tour and Other Destinations. It includes another version of “Genius of Crack,” the wonderfully noisy “Kickball Babe,” Tsunami’s surprisingly sensitive (and only holiday offering) “Could Have Been Christmas” and their full-throated Minutemen cover “Courage,” among others. A Brilliant Mistake, from 1997, expands the instrumentation further, with jazz-leaning bass and Luther “Trip” Grey’s intricate and unhinged drumming (check out the opening to “David Foster Wallace”).

This review, of course, can’t describe any more than a fraction of what Tsunami puts on offer here. The set includes 62 songs, more than three and a half hours of music, in-depth history and analysis and loads of imagery. Tsunami may have roared into the culture like a tidal wave—and retreated almost as quickly — but this expansive box set reminds us (or perhaps informs us in the first place) of what made them special.  

Jennifer Kelly

[haggishlyhagging]

Jan - Jun 2023 Reading List:

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Dear Ijeawele, or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. We Should All Be Feminists. New York: Vintage Books, 2014.

Bartky, Sandra Lee. Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Bittel, Carla. Mary Putnam Jacobi & The Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women. Perennial Library, n.d.

Brownmiller, Susan. Femininity. New York: Open Road Media, 2013.

Chesler, Phyllis. Women and Madness. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2018.

Christ, Carol P., and Judith Plaskow. Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979.

Daly, Mary. The Church and the Second Sex. New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1975.

Davis, Elizabeth Gould. The First Sex. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971.

Doyle, Sady. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers. Brooklyn: Melville House Publishing, 2019.

Dworkin, Andrea. Intercourse. New York: Basic Books, 2007.

Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1978.

Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1970.

Gowrinathan, Nimmi. Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021.

Hawthorne, Susan. In Defence of Separatism. Mission Beach: Spinifex Press, 2019.

Jeffreys, Sheila. Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution. Spinifex Press, 1990.

Jeffreys, Sheila. The Spinster and Her Enemies. Chicago: Spinifex Press, 1997.

Johnson, Sonia. Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation. Freedom: Crossing Press, 1987.

Johnson, Sonia. Wildfire Igniting the She/volution. Albuquerque: Wildfire Books, 1989.

Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Patriarchy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Love Your Enemy? The Debate between Heterosexual Feminism and Political Lesbianism. London: Onlywomen Press, Ltd., 1981.

Miles, Rosalind. Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.

Reed, Evelyn. Woman’s Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1975.

Sjöö, Monica, and Barbara Mor. The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering The Religion of the Earth. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2013.

Smith, Joan. Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists. London: Riverrun, 2019.

Solanas, Valerie. SCUM Manifesto: With an Introduction by Vivian Gornick. London: Olympia Press, 1971.

Spender, Dale. Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them. London: Ark Paperbacks, 1983.

Srinivasan, Amia. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Stone, Merlin. When God Was a Woman. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

Ussher, Jane. Women’s Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness? Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.

West, Lindy. The Witches are Coming. New York: Hachette Books, 2019.

[yuzukahibiscus]

Special Blu-ray BOX REI YUZUKA

The Special Blu-ray BOX series delves into the many angles of the Top Star’s charms and character. A special A4 package with 1 Blu-ray disc, 1 CD and 10 photo cards in this deluxe version!

Quatre Reves Online Renewal 1st Anniversary Campaign“Yuzuka Rei Mini Standee” Collection!

For people who pre-order a "Special Blu-ray BOX REI YUZUKA” on Quatre Reves Online, they will be get a Quatre Reves Limited Novelty “Yuzuka Rei Mini Standee”. So please take the opportunity to use Quatre Reves Online. "Campaign period: July 14 2023 - September 21, 23:59PM JST For Quatre Reves stores, we will present the novelty depending on the first-come-first-serve basis. We do not accept pre-ordrers. The campaign will end after the novelty are all distributed.

DISC1 — Blu-ray Original Recorded Video and Selected Stage Digests

Special MV A cover of “♪READY STEADY GO”, the song released in 2004 by L’arc~en~Ciel, the popular band running at the top of the Japanese rock scene. Please look forward to this “new Yuzuka Rei” that will sing this accelerating rock tune.

Kawamoto Alexander / Choreographer As a backstage dancer for many famous artists such as Momoiro Clover Z, Watanabe Naomi, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and Fujii Kaze, he has performed live, on TV, and in music videos. He is expanding his activities as a choreographer in the Fujii Kaze "Matsuri" MV. Appeared as Mr. Pinky in the 2022 musical "Hairspray". Also active as a model and talent.

Yamanaka Yuki/MV Director Affiliated to amana inc. in 2015 and has been involved in the production of numerous commercials as a production manager. Started working as a director in 2018, producing videos in a wide range of genres, mainly commercials and music videos. Mainly specializes in creating stylish images of dance and fashion. Affiliated to isai inc. in 2022.

Making video The making video documents closely on the [song] recording, still photoshoot and the MV recording. It will be full of Yuzuka Rei’s OFF-side charms in her natural state.

Stage history digest A stylish depiction of Yuzuka’s stage scenes. Don't miss the dance scene collection of the new edited version selected by herself! Video digests of “Boys Over Flowers”, "Haikara-san ga Tooru", "DANCE OLYMPIA", "Cool Beast!!", “MAYERLING”, “A Battlefield for the Two of Us” and others.

DISC2 CD Music Selection —— A special CD with 20 live songs in past performances

2014 Flower Troupe Bow Hall Performance “Nocturne – Memories of a Faraway Summer Day” – Memories of Summer

2018 Flower Troupe National Tour Performance “Melancolique Gigolo –A Dangerous Successor–“ – Daniel’s theme

2018 Flower Troupe National Tour Performance “Exciter!!2018” – Exciter (rep.)

2019 Flower Troupe Akasaka ACT Theatre Performance “Boys Over Flowers” – theme song

2020 Flower Troupe Tokyo International Forum Performance “DANCE OLYMPIA" –Welcome to 2020–“ – DANCE DANCE DANCE

2020 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “Haikara-san ga Tooru” – Taisho Romance Song

2020 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “Haikara-san ga Tooru” – My Haikara-san

2021 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “Augustus – The Illustrious One–" Prayer ‒ O gods of the seven hills"

2021 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “Augustus – The Illustrious One–" The Courage You Gave Me

2021 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “Cool Beast!!” – Cool Beast theme song

2021 Flower Troupe National Tour Performance “Sorrowful Cordoba” – “Sorrowful Cordoba”

2021 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “Genroku Baroque Rock” – Flowers of Edo

2021 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “Genroku Baroque Rock” – Fireworks are glittering, glittering

2021 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “The Fascination –Flower Troupe 100th Anniversary and to the Future Beyond–“ – The Fascination theme song

2022 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “Years of Pilgrimage ~ The Wandering Soul of Franz Liszt” – Franz Liszt Idol

2022 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “Years of Pilgrimage ~ The Wandering Soul of Franz Liszt” Days of Pilgrimage (Dreams of Love)

2022 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “Fashionable Empire” – Welcome to Fashionable Empire

2022 Flower Troupe National Tour Performance “Love Burns in Firenze” – Elegy of Love

2023 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “MAYERLING” – Ephemeral Love

2023 Flower Troupe Grand Theatre Performance “ENCHANTEMENT – A Luxurious Perfume” – Enchantement theme song

Special Bonus —— With 10 A4-size Original Photo Cards!

Genki Ito / Photocard Photographer Graduated from Nihon University College of Art in 2008. After working at a studio, he became an independent cameraman in 2014. Joined symphonic in 2016. Active in a wide range of fields, including advertising, fashion, and music. In music, he has taken many jacket photos for LiSA, Masaki Suda, Hinatazaka46, and others.

[rabbitcruiser]

Spirit of America 9/11 Memorial, Cashmere, WA (No. 4)

Wherever you were on Sept. 11, 2001, Americans from coast to coast were affected by the terrorist attacks unleashed on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, even if they had no personal connection.

That’s why John Jackson — a Tenino metal worker, U.S. Army veteran and owner of Jackson Field Welding Services, Inc. — was confused and frustrated when, after years of working with Washington state officials to get a 9/11 memorial placed on the Capitol campus in Olympia, he was suddenly told the memorial had no significance to the state in 2011.

Eventually, the memorial found a home in Cashmere in Central Washington in 2015.

The bronze statue features a firefighter, a military service member, a flight attendant and an office worker standing around the footprint of the Twin Towers, joined in hands facing outwards in a semi circle, signaling a missing person.

“To complete the memorial, you actually have to join in and hold hands,” Jackson said. “I wanted to be able to say it represented every single human being on the planet. If you feel like you’re not represented, then you can stand there.”   

Back in November 2001, Jackson created the Spirit of America Memorial Foundation to build a memorial.

[...]

Located at Riverside Park in Cashmere, the memorial was officially dedicated in 2015 and stands there permanently. Aside from the bronze statues, the memorial includes the pieces of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Twin Tower statues, a Flight 93 memorial and reflection benches.

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[purplegirltournament]

Round 2 Polls

links tba

every matchup was randomized

Tecna (Winx) vs Nyx (Hades)

Starfire (Teen Titans) vs Plum Puddin (Strawberry Shortcake)

Lava (Arknights) vs Catrine DeMew (Monster High)

Bunny (Powerpuff Girls) vs Hibiscus (Arknights)

Kagami Hiiragi (Lucky Star) vs Maya Fey (Ace Attorney)

MARI (Omori) vs Imogen Temult (Critical Role)

Kyoka Jiro (My Hero Academia) vs Sailor Saturn/Hotaru Tomoe (Sailor Moon)

Kitty Cheshire (Ever After High) vs Mandy (Totally Spies)

Dot The Disguise Gal (Club Penguin) vs Susie (Deltarune)

Yuri (Doki Doki Literature Club) vs Sombra / Olivia Colomar (Overwatch)

Nagi Usui (Neo: The World Ends With You) vs Nadia Satrinava (The Arcana Mystic Romance)

Spectra Vondergeist (Monster High) vs Demon Queen Lilith (Guardian Tales)

Stephanie Brown/Spoiler (DC Comics) vs Yukari Yakumo (Touhou Project)

Viveca (Barbie and the Three Musketeers) vs Tokiko Shigure (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative)

Onpu Segawa (Ojamajo Doremi) vs Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Entrapta (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) vs Wheezy (Dragon Tales)

Rarity (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) vs Mother of Ants (Cultist Simulator)

Penny (Papas Freezeria) vs Yzma (Emperors New Groove)

Queen Eclipsa (Star vs. the Forces of Evil) vs Ender Dragon (Minecraft)

Cornelia Li Britannia (Code Geass) vs P.I.X.A.L. (Lego Ninjago)

Unit 01 (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs Patchouli Knowledge (Touhou)

Tsukasa Hiiragi (Lucky Star) vs Nikora (Mermaid Melody)

Petrichor (Saga) vs Vera Nair (identity V)

Glimmer (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) vs Clawdeen Wolf (Monster High)

Violet Baudelaire (A Series Of Unfortunate Events) vs Shinobu Kocho (Demon Slayer)

Damona (Yokai Watch) vs Vidia (Disney Fairies)

Olympia (Pokemon) vs Daisy Duck (Disney)

Nautica (Transformers) vs Eva Beatrice (Umineko: When the Seagulls Cry)

Willa (Barbie Mariposa) vs Cala Maria (Cuphead)

Anabel (Pokemon) vs Maleficient (Sleeping Beauty)

Kyoko Kirigiri (Danganronpa) vs Spider Queen (Lego Monkie Kid)

Gaz (Invader Zim) vs Yuzuki Yukari (Vocaloid)

Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) vs Zoe (Monster Prom)

Hat Kid (A Hat In Time) vs River Styxx (Monster High)

Cure Macaron / Yukari Kotozume (Kira Kira Precure A La Mode) vs Yoruichi Shihoin (Bleach)

The Purple One (Sleepless Domain) vs Grimora (Inscryption)

Angelica (Rugrats) vs Zakuro Fujiwara (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Sheena Fujibayashi (Tales of Symphonia) vs Alinua (Aurora)

Lumpy Space Princess (Adventure Time) vs Anthy Himemiya (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Hay Lin (W.I.T.C.H) vs Leela (Futurama)

Dismayed Hunter (Sky: Children of the Light) vs Elissabat (Monster High)

Rem (Death Note) vs Kipo Oak (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts)

Abigail (Stardew Valley) vs Pacifica Northwest (Gravity Falls)

Yumi Yoshimura (Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi) vs Daphne Blake (Scooby Doo Mystery Inc.)

Maid Marian (Robin Hood) vs Vivian (Paper Mario)

Bianca (The Rescuers) vs Shadow Striker (Transformers)

Granny (Looney Tunes) vs Cure Coral (Tropical Rouge Precure)

Rose Lalonde (Homestuck) vs Eridan Ampora (Homestuck) vs Luz Noceda (Owl House)

[olympiaent]

Olympia Entertainment.

⇢ ˗ˏˋ D E T A I L S

• Name: 올림피아 엔터테인먼트 (Olympia Entertainment)

• Type: Public

• Industry: Music and Entertainment.

• Genres: K-Pop, J-Pop, C-Pop, Rock, Pop, Dance, Electro-pop and R&B

• Foundation: May 7, 2006

• Headquarters: South Korea

• Service Area: Worldwide

⇢ ˗ˏˋ A U T H O R I T I E S

• Shin Na Myeong (Founder)

• Kim Jun Min (CEO)

⇢ ˗ˏˋ M O T T O

The Creators of a New Entertainment World.

⇢ ˗ˏˋ L O C A T I O N S

• South Korea: Dogok-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul

• United States: Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

⇢ ˗ˏˋ P A R T N E R S

• Genie Music

• OE MUSIC JAPAN

• Avex

• YinYueTai

• Kakao Inc.

⇢ ˗ˏˋ S U B S I D I A R I E S

• OE MUSIC JAPAN (2009)

• OLYMPIA ENTERTAINMENT JAPAN (2009)

• GRIK HOUSE (2009)

• OE Visual Company (2009)

• Olympia Picture (2011)

• OE Artist Training Academy (2012)

• GRIK Dancing Academy (2012)

• Olympia Entertainment USA (2015)

⇢ ˗ˏˋ P R O P E R T I E S

• GRIK Dancing Studios.

• Olympia Art Household.

• OE Music & Entertainment Museum of Arts.

⇢ ˗ˏˋ A R T I S T S

GROUPS.

— inVAGANT

— Elytte

— VOYAGER

— LURIS

— novaHIVI

— Midmane

— regenése

SOLOISTS.

— Vante

— Jun

— Raven

— Izumi

— Wonu

— Hyunhee

— Daein

— Hana

— JK

— Lucy

— Lana

— Jieun

— Olympia Entertainment Co., Ltd. KOREA. WARNING : All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized Duplication & Rent is Prohibited.

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