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@jonmartinweek Day 5: Body Horror

It is Polite to Knock

The knocking was the worst part. Being trapped, afraid, alone, all of that was bad. The pain was bad. The worms were bad. The monster outside of his apartment was bad. But the knocking was the worst.

Knock, knock, knock.

It is polite to knock .

'Can we talk?' Jon said. His voice was hoarse. Raspy from disuse. It had been days.

The knocking stopped. That was good. Very good. It was all Jon had wanted when he spoke, but he hadn't expected it. He'd shouted and screamed at the door for hours, and that hadn't made the knocking stop.

'I guess that depends... what would you like to talk about?' Martin Blackwood asked from the other side.

Continue reading on Ao3!

Jon, an archival assistant at the Magnus Institute, is trapped in his flat by Martin Blackwood, a man possessed by a hive of flesh-eating worms.

Check the content warnings on this one if you are disturbed by canon-typical Corruption content.

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The Whiskey Charmers "On The Run" - Print Review in Lust for Life Magazine (Leading Dutch National Music Mag) - 12/17/22

The Whiskey Charmers “On The Run” – Print Review in Lust for Life Magazine (Leading Dutch National Music Mag) – 12/17/22

(Translated from Dutch) Singer/guitarist Carrie Shepard and guitarist Lawrence Daversa hail from Detroit and together form The Whiskey Charmers, a duo that draws inspiration from the alternative country variant. Music that leans heavily on indie pop, but which still has an unmistakable country feeling. Carrie and  Lawrence have already released three albums, but On The Run is my first…

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Ashton Nyte to support Wayne Hussey on 30 date “Salad Daze” European Tour

It has just been confirmed that Ashton Nyte (The Awakening) will be supporting Wayne Hussey (The Mission) on the European dates of the Salad Daze Tour. Nyte will be joining Hussey on over 30 shows from 3 Sep to 16 Oct on a tour which celebrates the release of Hussey’s autobiography “Salad Daze” out now via Omnibus Press.

Nyte first performed with Hussey in South Africa in 2015 and then supported The Mission for 17 shows across Europe in 2016 with his gothic rock act The Awakening. The Salad Daze Tour will see both artists performing solo in a more intimate setting. “It will be absolutely wonderful touring with Wayne again! The Mission were a significant influence on the genesis of The Awakening and Wayne has remained an inspiration in my artistic life. I am also blessed to call him a friend” says Ashton Nyte.

Wayne Hussey adds,”I met Ashton and that beautiful baritone voice of his a few years back and we have since remained friends and supporters of each other’s work. Of course we both also continue to be heavily involved with Michael Ciravolo’s ‘Beauty In Chaos’ project. So it is with huge pleasure I can confirm that Ashton will be supporting me on the mainland Europe (except Greece & Sweden) leg of my ‘Salad Daze’ tour. It’ll be great to have him along for the ride. Bring your driving license, Ashton, you can share the driving, there’s an awful lot of it.”

Both Nyte and Hussey were recent collaborators on Michael Ciravolo’s “Beauty In Chaos” project, which also features members of The Cure, Ministry, Cheap Trick and many others. “The entire experience has been magical. I wrote and sang 3 of my favorite songs with Michael and also sang backing vocals for Robin Zander, Wayne Hussey and Rolan Bolan. Life is certainly full of surprises” adds Nyte.

The Awakening has just released a music video for the song “About You” off the new album “Chasm”, with plans for 2 more videos before the end of the year. https://youtu.be/jDWnGItGxuI“I’ll certainly be singing songs from the new Awakening album, as well as some essential tracks and a few solo works too. I am a big fan of the more intimate acoustic shows and look forward to sharing this experience with friends and fans across Europe” says Nyte.

www.themissionuk.com/wp/tour

www.theawakening.com/tour

Wayne Hussey Salad Daze Tour 2019 with special guest Ashton Nyte

3 SEP – KULTURFABRIK – KREFELD, GERMANY

4 SEP – MTC – COLOGNE, GERMANY

5 SEP – MUK – GIESSEN, GERMANY

7 SEP – SING SING – PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

8 SEP – OLD MONASTRY – WROCLAW, POLAND

9 SEP – POGLOS – WARSAW, POLAND

11 SEP – BINUU – BERLIN, GERMANY

12 SEP – MUZ – HANNOVER, GERMANY

13 SEP – KULTUURKELLER – FULDA, GERMANY

14 SEP – MONKEY’S MUSIC CLUB – HAMBURG, GERMANY

15 SEP – MOVIE – BIELEFELD, GERMANY

17 SEP – VICTORIE – ALKMAAR, NETHERLANDS

18 SEP – PAARD – DEN HAAG, NETHERLANDS

19 SEP – LIMBURG THEATRE – HEERLEN, NETHERLANDS

20 SEP – JK2470 – RETIE – BELGIUM

21 SEP – ENTREPOT – ARLON, BELGIUM

22 SEP – B53 – EERNEGEM, BELGIUM

23 SEP – GARAGE CLUB – SAARBRUCKEN, GERMANY

24 SEP – KOHI – KARLSRUHE, GERMANY

26 SEP – LE BUS PALLADIUM – PARIS, FRANCE

27 SEP – CABARET VAUBAN – BREST, FRANCE

28 SEP – THE JOKER’S CLUB – ANGERS, FRANCE

29 SEP – VENUE TBC – BORDEAUX, FRANCE

30 SEP – SECRET PLACE – MONTPELLIER, FRANCE

1 OCT – LA NAU – BARCELONA, SPAIN

2 OCT – TONELADOS – VALENCIA, SPAIN

3 OCT – STAGESOUND – MADRID, SPAIN

5 OCT – RCA CLUB – LISBON, PORTUGAL

6 OCT – HARD CLUB – PORTO, PORTUGAL

8 OCT – LE ROCK ‘N EAT – LYON, FRANCE

9 OCT – LIGERIA – MILANO, ITALY

10 OCT – FREAKOUT – BOLOGNA, ITALY

11 OCT – CARACOL – PISA, ITALY

13 OCT – ROBOT – BUDAPEST, HUNGARY

15 OCT – CHELSEA – VIENNA, AUSTRIA

16 OCT – DER CULT – NUREMBERG , GERMANY

Ashton Nyte to support Wayne Hussey on 30 date “Salad Daze” European Tour was originally published on RockRevolt Mag

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What Is Mariah Carey’s Real Age? We Investigate on Her 48th (or 47th?) Birthday

Is Mariah Carey turning 47 or 48 today? We try to get to the bottom of it. (GIF: Yahoo Celebrity)

Champagne wishes to Mariah Carey on her birthday — only she doesn’t celebrate. “I don’t have a birthday,” she said in an interview last year. “I was just dropped here. It was a fairyland experience.” The star, who has described herself as “eternally 12 years old,” previously explained that her plan is to remain “oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it’s just like, Why? Why do that?”

The diva’s elusiveness about her big day only adds to the mystery surrounding it. Yes, mystery. One of the Internet’s most enduring burning questions is whether Mariah Carey was born on March 27, 1969 or 1970? And people have opinions on the matter, which you can read in revision notes on Mariah’s Wikipedia page and on fan forums. As we started digging into it, we found info pointing to both years, making it easy to understand why the Lambily — Mariah’s fans — have been debating it so heavily.

Not even Mariah Carey’s Wikipedia page has the answer. (Screenshot: Wikipedia)

From what we can decipher, when the “Elusive Chanteuse,” who graduated from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, NY, in 1987, launched her career (her self-entitled album came out in June 1990), press material must have indicated she was born in 1970, because that is what the New York Times — and other outlets — noted at the time. In an interview on Video Soul soon after her record came out, she said as much. Mariah told Donnie Simpson she was 20 when the record came out and 19 when she recorded it. (Though the fact that she stumbled over her response, seen here at the 2:37 mark, only fuels conspiracy theories.)

However, by January 1991, other reputable outlets like People magazine and the Los Angeles Times were going with a 1969 birth year. (The latter of which used it in a headline: “Mariah Carey Doing OK at 21,” so they were pretty confident they were correct.) Even her hometown paper, Newsday, referred to her as 21 in an article that ran on March 19 of that year, and they had obtained a copy of her senior yearbook and interviewed the vice principal at her school. (Fun fact: Some of Mariah’s likes in 1987 included Corvettes and “guidos.”)

Here’s school girl Mariah as a freshman at Harborfields High School in 1984. (Photo: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library)

Mariah has fueled the debate herself by avoiding dropping a specific number. At a 2005 party celebrating the release party of the Emancipation of Mimi — and her 35th (or 36th) birthday —  she didn’t utter her actual age, instead telling reporters, “It’s the anniversary of my 12th birthday.” And at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, someone asked her about how she was feeling about turning 40 earlier that year (going with the 1969 birth year). She implied the reporter was incorrect, saying, “Read my bio again. We can’t allow these lies to spread! Don’t say the F-word around me. It’s just a number but I don’t see why women should have to conform to what is expected of a 40-year-old — whatever that is.”

If you really dig into Mariah Birthday Gate (and we went down that rabbit hole), there is a statement purportedly from a People magazine spokesperson floating around the Internet “verifying” that the star is a 1969 baby in response to fans inquiries about the conflicting info. “We have a copy of Ms. Carey’s driver’s license, which lists her birthday as March 27, 1969. Furthermore, we spoke with the administrators at the high school she attended who confirmed that Ms. Carey’s birthday is March 27, 1969, as did her management when we made our initial interview,” a magazine publicist supposedly said, according to NNDB.com. We were unable to find such a statement on People‘s website, not that it didn’t exist (it could have been in print because they didn’t have website in the early ’90s), and the publicity team for the magazine tells Yahoo “it doesn’t sound familiar at all.” (Despite this, the mag has steadily reported that she was born in 1969 through the years — from here to here.)

There were other things supporting the 1969 theory. One is as simple as her high school graduation date. At the end of the 1987 school year, she’d have pretty much just turned 17 if she was born in 1970, and she’s never said she skipped a grade. In fact, in her 1999 Homecoming special, in which she returned to her alma mater for a concert, made it clear she wasn’t a great student — and her teachers and superintendent verified that. It seems unlikely she’d have graduated a year early.

Mariah — in her senior year at Harborfields in 1987 — did not look young for her grade. However, if she was really born in 1970, she would have turned 17 two months before graduation. (Photo: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library)

Then there is the matter of the Library of Congress’s Copyright Catalog. If Mariah wasn’t born in 1969, how come her early songs, including “Vision of Love”, which was on her eponymous album, were filed as “Carey, Mariah, 1969-“?

(Screenshot: Library of Congress’s Copyright Catalog)

Also, both Mariah and her director pal, Brett Ratner, have said that they are “born a day apart” — it’s one of the things that makes their bond so strong. His birthday? March 28, 1969. (See 2:25 mark.)

Not so convincing? This photo of Mariah’s “passport” that is all over the web. While it lists her birthday as March 27, 1969, there is nothing we found that leads us to think it’s real. (As in, we haven’t seen it on any reputable sites.)

But there are things that point to Mariah making her grand entrance into the world in 1970 as well. For one, and a good one at that, her mom said — clear as day during a 1999 Oprah interview — that Mariah was born in 1970. (See 2:25 mark.)

Let’s talk about the copies of her 5-year-old twins Monroe and Moroccan’s birth certificates. If they are real — and we guess they are because TMZ’s site TooFab posted them — they have her birthday as 1970. Would Mariah go so far as to falsify legal documents?

And the big bios out there on the superstar — including Mariah Carey Revisited: The Unauthorized Biography by Chris Nickson — list her birth year as 1970. Could they all be wrong?

A page from “Mariah Carey Revisited: The Unauthorized Biography” by Chris Nickson. (Screenshot: Google Books)

We have to admit, our own search to verify her actual birth was frustratingly fruitless — and we can only imagine that Mariah is smiling over it.

We reached out to Mimi’s publicist, who, after our second message, replied to say she was “not sure off hand, sorry!”

We called her high school to try to get her records. That information is “archived” and even if it wasn’t they’d be “unable to give out,” according to the principal’s assistant.

We contacted her former principal, the one who happily appeared in “Homecoming” — and is still a school administrator — but he apparently didn’t want to talk about her this time around because he didn’t get back to us.

We reached out to some of her biographers, who didn’t have anything to add beyond what they wrote in the books years ago.

We requested our own copies of Mariah’s twins birth certificate from the Los Angeles County Registrar — as several fans speculated that the ones on the Internet are fake. It takes “several weeks” to process, so we are holding out for that.

We tried to obtain Mariah’s birth certificate from the Huntington, N.Y. town clerk, but were shot down: “According to NYS Public Health Law, birth certificates can only be given to the party named on the certificate, the party’s parents or documents providing the proper documentation fulfilled by court order,” we were told.

We reached out to the New York State DMV to get a copy of her driving record (including her birthdate), but getting the info for a story “is not a federally-permissible purpose to access personal information held within DMV records.”

We even tweeted her — and used butterflies to get her attention. Nada.

@MariahCarey ????????????What year were you born? Hoping these cute ???????????? inspire you to answer.

— Suzy Byrne (@SuzyByrne) March 22, 2017

We weren’t exaggerating about going down the rabbit hole. The biggest question we have though is why would she lie about her age to begin with? Especially because in 1988 — one year out of high school — she began a relationship with Tommy Mottola, the married record exec, 20 years her senior, who launched her career (and became her first husband). You would think they’d want to pad her age — instead of erase a year from it—  as she was still a teenager. Now that she’s in her late 40s it could make sense to shave off a year (so she’s not that much older than her younger beau Bryan Tanaka), but why do it at 19 or 20?

But let’s be honest, Mariah doesn’t always make sense. This is a woman who wears evening gowns — and shoes — in the bathtub. She works out wearing this. She grocery shops in this. She meets the Head of the United Nations in this. She attends bar mitzvahs in this. Sometimes her thought process seems to be … off-line.

(GIF: Youtube)

It seems likely the explanation is “Mariah Math.” In 2014, she was asked by Out magazine about “Vision of Love” turning 25 years old and she said, “First of all, don’t round up. If you’re going to round, round down!” She continued, “I don’t count years, but I definitely rebuke them — I have anniversaries, not birthdays, because I celebrate life, darling.”

So whether she’s 47 or 48, you can bet Mariah is somewhere celebrating life today. And she should be. However old she is, she still fabulous, dahling.

Read more from Yahoo Celebrity:

Happy 73rd Birthday, Diana Ross!

Sophie Simmons Calls Katey Sagal ‘Low’ for Revealing Dad Gene’s Affair

Val Kilmer’s Twitter Feed Is a Hidden Gem of Bizarre, Star-Studded Stories

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So guess who just gave themselves a genuine nightmare from a fic she wrote!!!

@jonmartinweek Day 5: Body Horror

The knocking was the worst part. Being trapped, afraid, alone, all of that was bad. The pain was bad. The worms were bad. The monster outside of his apartment was bad. But the knocking was the worst.

Knock, knock, knock.

It is polite to knock .

'Can we talk?' Jon said. His voice was hoarse. Raspy from disuse. It had been days.

The knocking stopped. That was good. Very good. It was all Jon had wanted when he spoke, but he hadn't expected it. He'd shouted and screamed at the door for hours, and that hadn't made the knocking stop.

'I guess that depends... what would you like to talk about?' Martin Blackwood asked from the other side.

Continue reading on Ao3!

Jon, an archival assistant at the Magnus Institute, is trapped in his flat by Martin Blackwood, a man possessed by a hive of flesh-eating worms.

Check the content warnings on this one if you are disturbed by canon-typical Corruption content.