#jennifer & kevin mccoy

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Meet the Competing Voice Actors!

After the preliminaries and days of deliberating, here are you VOICE ACTORS COMPETING! One will take home the spot of Tumblr's Favorite Voice Actor!

A note before they are introduced! If you would like to support any of them send in an ask or make propaganda, any propaganda you make and post yourself should have me tagged! As well using the tags #favevabracket or #favevabracket2023!

And a quick reminder about the two rules that will be staying active!

No harrassment, hate, or vitriol will be tolerated. We are here to celebrate the work of voice actors not tear each other down

This is all for fun! Do not take it super seriously!

Good luck to all of our competitors!

Kirby Morrow

Rob Paulsen

Robbie Daymond

Tiana Camacho

Alex Hirsch

Khoi Dao

Megumi Ogata

Ray Chase

Sungwon Cho

tara strong

Yuri Lowenthal

Alejandro Saab

Billy Kametz

Billy West

bryce papenbrook

Cree Summer

Grey DeLisle-Griffin

Kevin Conroy

Phil Lamar

Zach Aguilar

Zeno Robinson

AJ Michalka

Alex Brightman

Allegra Clark

Ashley Johnson

Christopher R. Sabat

Daws Butler

Eartha Kitt

Erika Harlacher-Stone

Frank Welker

J. Michael Tatum

Jack De Sena

Jason Griffith

JK Simmons

John DiMaggio

June Foray

Kristen Schaal

Mark Hamill

Richard Horvitz

Steve Blum

Tom Kenny

Wendie Malick

Aaron Dismuke

Aaron Paul

Aimee Carrero

Alison Brie

Ami Koshimizu

Angela Bassett

Ashley Ball

ashly burch

Avi Roque

Ayumu Murase

Ben Schwartz, baby!

BETH MAY

bill farmer

Bill Scott

brandon rogers

Caitlin Glass

Casey Kasem

Cassandra Lee Morris

Cecil Baldwin

Christine Cavanaugh

Clark Duke

Colleen Clinkenbeard

Daman Mills

Dan Castellaneta

Dan Provenmire

Dani Chambers

Dante Basco

Dave Fennoy

David Tennant

Deedee Magno Hall

Deven Mack

Doris Grau

Doug Boyd

Dylan Marron

Elizabeth Maxwell

EG Daily

Elijah Wood

Ellen McLain

Eric Vale

Erin Fitzgerald

Josey Montana McCoy

Greg Chun

Gu Jiangshan

Guilherme Briggs (brazilian)

Haley Tju

Harry Shearer

Haruka tomatsu

Helen Gould

Hynden Walch

Jack McBrayer

Jackson Publick

Jaime Lynn Marchi

Jason Griffith

Jason Liebrecht

jason marsden

Jennifer Hale

Jerry Jewell

Jim Cummings

Jim Ward

John Burgmeier

John Swasey

Johnny Yong Bosch

Julie Kavner

Justin Cook

Kaiji Tang

Katey Sagal

Kdin Jenzen

Keith David

Ken Sansom

Kent William

Kevin Brighting

Kevin R Free

Kieran Reagan

Kimberly Brooks

Kimiko glenn

Kyle Igneczi

Kyle McCarley

Laura Bailey

Lauren Tom

Leah Clark

Liam O’Brien

Lorenzo Music

Lucien Dodge

Lucille Bliss

Lydia Mackay

Lydia Nicholas

Maddie Blaustein

Mae Questel

Mae Whitman

Maggie Robertson

Mara Wilson

Mark Oliver

Matthew Mercer

Matthew Zahnzinger

Maurice LaMarche

Max Mittelman

Mel Blanc

Melissa Hutchinson

Michael Adamthwaite

Micheal Sinterniklaas

Mike Judge

Monical rial

Natsuki Hanae

Nicole Tompkins

Olivia Olson

Olivia Wilde

P.M. Seymour

Parker Simmons

Patricia Ja Lee

Patrick Pedraza

Paul Castro Jr

Paul Frees

Penny Parker

Pete Gustin ( i think thats how it's spelled)

Peter Cullen

Phil Harris

Phil Hartman

Ricco Fajardo

Roger Craig Smith

Roz Ryan

Sandra Oh

Sarah Miller-Crews

Sayaka Ohara

Scatman Crothers

Scott Adsit

Scott Mcneil

Stanley Tucci

Stephanie Beatriz

Stephen Merchant

Steve Whitmore

Tabitha st Germain

Takaya Kuroda

Tom Kane

Tress McNeil

Veronica Taylor

Vincent Tong

Will Arnett

Yasuo Yamada

Zach Callison

Bobbie Moyinhan

Josh Brener

Andrew Francis

Brent Millar

Sebastian Todd

Kestin Howard

Lizzy Hofe

Andy Cowley

Todd Haberkorn

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Russi Taylor

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Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

[chorusfm]

Full 2024 Oscar Winners

The full list of 2024 Oscar winners can be found below. 2024 OSCAR NOMINEES / WINNERS Best Picture “American Fiction” “Anatomy of a Fall” “Barbie” “The Holdovers” “Killers of the Flower Moon” “Maestro” WINNER: “Oppenheimer” “Past Lives” “Poor Things” “The Zone of Interest” Best Director Jonathan Glazer (“The Zone of Interest”) Yorgos Lanthimos (“Poor Things”) WINNER: Christopher Nolan (“Oppenheimer”) Justine Triet (“Anatomy of a Fall”) Martin Scorsese (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) Best Actress Annette Bening (“Nyad”) Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”) Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”) WINNER: Emma Stone (“Poor Things) Best Actor Bradley Cooper (“Maestro”) Colman Domingo (“Rustin”) Paul Giamatti (“The Holdovers”) WINNER: Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”) Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”) Best Supporting Actor Sterling K. Brown (“American Fiction”) Robert De Niro (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) WINNER: Robert Downey, Jr. (“Oppenheimer”) Ryan Gosling (“Barbie”) Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Things”) Best Supporting Actress Emily Blunt (“Oppenheimer”) Danielle Brooks (“The Color Purple”) America Ferrera (“Barbie”) Jodie Foster (“Nyad”) WINNER: Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”) Best International Feature Film “Io Capitano” (Matteo Garrone, Italy) “Society of the Snow” (J.A. Bayona, Spain) “The Teachers’ Lounge” (İlker Çatak, Germany) WINNER: “The Zone of Interest” (Jonathan Glazer, United Kingdom) “Perfect Days” (Wim Wenders, Japan) Best Cinematography WINNER: Hoyte van Hoytema (“Oppenheimer”) Ed Lachman (“El Conde”) Matthew Libatique (“Maestro”) Rodrigo Prieto (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) Robby Ryan (“Poor Things”) Best Adapted Screenplay Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig and (“Barbie”) Jonathan Glazer (“The Zone of Interest”) WINNER: Cord Jefferson (“American Fiction”) Tony McNamara (“Poor Things”) Christopher Nolan (“Oppenheimer) Best Original Screenplay Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik (“May December”) Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer (“Maestro”) WINNER: Arthur Harari and Justine Triet (“Anatomy of a Fall”) David Hemingson (“The Holdovers”) Celine Song (“Past Lives”) Best Animated Feature WINNER: “The Boy and the Heron,” Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki “Elemental,” Peter Sohn and Denise Ream “Nimona,” Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary “Robot Dreams,” Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé and Sandra Tapia Díaz “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal Best Visual Effects “The Creator” Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts and Neil Corbould WINNER: “Godzilla Minus One” Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams and Theo Bialek “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Alex Wuttke, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland and Neil Corbould “Napoleon” Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet, Simone Coco and Neil Corbould Best Editing “Anatomy of a Fall” Laurent Sénéchal “The Holdovers” Kevin Tent “Killers of the Flower Moon” Thelma Schoonmaker WINNER: “Oppenheimer” Jennifer Lame “Poor Things” Yorgos Mavropsaridis Best Production Design “Barbie” Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer “Killers of the Flower Moon” Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis “Napoleon” Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Elli Griff “Oppenheimer” Production Design: Ruth De Jong; Set Decoration: Claire Kaufman WINNER: “Poor Things” Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek Best Makeup and Hairstyling “Oppenheimer,” Luisa Abel, Jason Hamer, Jaime Leigh McIntosh, and Ahou Mofid WINNER: “Poor Things,” Mark Couler, Nadia Stacey, and Josh Weston “Maestro,” Kay Georgiou, Sian Grigg, Kazu Hiro, and Lori McCoy-Bell “Golda,” Karen Hartley and Suzi Battersby “Society… https://chorus.fm/news/full-2024-oscar-winners/

[thetalentedmrkashyap]

B-11 : Oscars 2024 - Predictions vs Reality

The 96th Academy Awards, a.k.a. The Oscars® took place today. The ceremony was filled with obvious wins. The best part was that this year’s Oscars telecast had zero incidents again (as the host Jimmy Kimmel points out in the end last year).

Amid all of this, here's a look at the predicted winners and the actual winners (in order of their presentations):-

Best Supporting Actress

Prediction: Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Reality: Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Best Animated Short Film

Prediction: War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko (Dave Mullins and Brad Booker)

Reality: War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko (Dave Mullins and Brad Booker)

Best Animated Feature Film

Prediction: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal)/The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki)

Reality: The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki)

Best Original Screenplay

Prediction: Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet and Arthur Harari)

Reality: Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet and Arthur Harari)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Prediction: American Fiction (Cord Jefferson; based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett)

Reality: American Fiction (Cord Jefferson; based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett)

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Prediction: Maestro (Kazu Hiro, Kay Georgiou, and Lori McCoy-Bell)

Reality: Poor Things (Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, and Josh Weston)

Best Production Design

Prediction: Barbie (Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer)/Poor Things (Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek)

Reality: Poor Things (Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek)

Best Costume Designing

Prediction: Barbie (Jacqueline Durran)/Poor Things (Holly Waddington)

Reality: Poor Things (Holly Waddington)

Best International Feature Film

Prediction: The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom - Jonathan Glazer)

Reality: The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom - Jonathan Glazer)

Best Supporting Actor

Prediction: Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)

Reality: Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)

Best Visual Effects

Prediction: Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi, and Tatsuji Nojima)

Reality: Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi, and Tatsuji Nojima)

Best Film Editing

Prediction: Oppenheimer (Jennifer Lame)

Reality: Oppenheimer (Jennifer Lame)

Best Documentary Short Film

Prediction: The Last Repair Shop (Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers)

Reality: The Last Repair Shop (Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers)

Best Documentary Feature Film

Prediction: 20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, and Raney Aronson-Rath)

Reality:  20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, and Raney Aronson-Rath)

Best Cinematography

Prediction: Oppenheimer (Hoyte van Hoytema)

Reality: Oppenheimer (Hoyte van Hoytema)

Best Live Action Short Film

Prediction: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Wes Anderson and Steven Rales)

Reality: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Wes Anderson and Steven Rales)

Best Sound

Prediction: Oppenheimer (Willie Burton, Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo, and Kevin O'Connell)

Reality: The Zone of Interest (arn Willers and Johnnie Burn)

Best Original Score

Prediction: Oppenheimer (Ludwig Göransson)

Reality: Oppenheimer (Ludwig Göransson)

Best Original Song

Prediction: "What Was I Made For?" (Barbie – Music and lyrics by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell)

Reality: "What Was I Made For?" (Barbie – Music and lyrics by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell)

Best Actor

Prediction: Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

Reality: Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

Best Director

Prediction: Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Reality: Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Best Actress

Prediction: Emma Stone (Poor Things)/Lily Gladstone (Killers of The Flower Moon)/Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of A Fall)

Reality: Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Best Picture

Prediction: Oppenheimer (Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan, producers)

Reality: Oppenheimer (Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan, producers)

Which categories met your expectations? Don’t forget to share them in the comments below.

[denimbex1986]

'...Whether they give some races more shape or offer multiple forks in the road to others, Oppenheimer should be able to prevail with a record or near-record number of wins. At the moment I’m predicting nine wins, which would tie it with 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for the most of all time...

BEST PICTURE

1. Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures) – BAFTA, CCA, GG, PGA, SAG Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, Producers...

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer (BAFTA, CCA, DGA, GG)...

BEST ACTOR

1. Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers (BAFTA, CCA, GG, SAG) 2. Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer (BAFTA, CCA, GG, SAG)...

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer (BAFTA, CCA, GG, SAG)...

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. American Fiction (BAFTA, CCA, USC) Written for the screen by Cord Jefferson 2. Barbie (BAFTA,* CCA,* GG) Written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach 3. Oppenheimer (BAFTA, CCA, GG, USC) Written for the screen by Christopher Nolan...

FILM EDITING

1. Oppenheimer (ACE, BAFTA, CCA) Jennifer Lame...

CINEMATOGRAPHY

1. Oppenheimer (ASC, BAFTA, CCA) Hoyte van Hoytema...

COSTUME DESIGN

1. Poor Things (BAFTA, CDG, CCA) Holly Waddington 2. Barbie (BAFTA, CDG, CCA) Jacqueline Durran 3. Oppenheimer (BAFTA, CDG) Ellen Mirojnick...

PRODUCTION DESIGN

1. Barbie (ADG, BAFTA, CCA, SDSA) Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer 2. Poor Things (ADG, BAFTA, CCA, SDSA) Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek 3. Oppenheimer (ADG, BAFTA, CCA, SDSA) Production Design: Ruth De Jong; Set Decoration: Claire Kaufman...

ORIGINAL SCORE

1. Oppenheimer (BAFTA, CCA, GG, HMMA, SCL) Ludwig Göransson...

SOUND

1. Oppenheimer (BAFTA, CAS, MPSE) Willie Burton, Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo and Kevin O’Connell...

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

1. Maestro (BAFTA, CCA, MUAH) Kazu Hiro, Kay Georgiou and Lori McCoy-Bell 2. Poor Things (BAFTA, CCA, MUAH) Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston 3. Golda (BAFTA, MUAH) Karen Hartley Thomas, Suzi Battersby and Ashra Kelly-Blue 4. Society of the Snow Ana López-Puigcerver, David Martí and Montse Ribé 5. Oppenheimer (BAFTA, CCA, MUAH) Luisa Abel...'

[etherizationthegame]

Unveiling The Past: Exploring Historic NFTs In The Digital Age

We are living in the era of Digital Currencies and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Today every possible document and artwork is available in the form of NFTs as a safe mode. These NFTs can be managed for centuries from now, and our future generations can take references from them. But the major question arises that when it all started, and which were the first Historical NFTs available to the human race online? Though it is not so easy to come to any conclusion, many NFT researchers and professionals have given their theories on it. In this informative, we will discuss those historic NFTs recorded in the past. Keep reading for more details on the topic. 

Historical NFTs

These are some of the historical NFTs that are researched and found by NFT researchers;

Quantum (May 02, 2014)

Quantum was the first ever NFT minted in history during the introductory level of the Blockchain system. It was minted by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, who were digital artists. Though, the NFT was not in trade for years until it was sold in June 2021 for 1 Million Dollars.

Eggs (July 27, 2014)

Bitcoin had a project named Namecoin in 2011. It was quite famous among people. In 2014 people decided to use profile images with their names as it could be done. And in the same year, Eggs were introduced as NFTs in the market. It was also known as PFPs and Twitter Eggs. 

Spells Of Genesis (March 11, 2015)

Spells of Genesis is a gaming asset NFT of Blockchain. It was launched in 2015 and was the first-ever trading card game on the Blockchain platform. EverdreamSoft launched FDCARD in the market as one of the very first NFTs.

Linagee Name Registrar (August 08, 2015)

Mason Keresty, who is an NFT archeologist, found Linagee Name Registrar in Oct 2022 as the oldest NFT recorded on the digital ledgers so far. Though it is not the oldest one as per the records, his genuine efforts were appreciated. It is also known as Ethereum Name Services (ENS) as it was launched just after the public launch of Ethereum cryptocurrency.

SaruTobi (May 06, 2016)

It can be considered one of the oldest NFT games registered online in history. SaruTobi was launched by a youngster Christian Moss who was an iOS developer. He launched it on the Apple App Store on Dec 19, 2014. He allowed players to collect a small amount of bitcoins as rewards in the game.

Rare Pepes (September 09, 2016)

These are the first ever collectible cards made available on the Blockchain platform by Satoshi Nakamoto which invented bitcoins. This card is also known as the Nakamoto card out of 1800 different cards available online.

PixelMap (November 16, 2016)

PixelMap was launched on the Ethereum Blockchain platform by Ken Erwin in Nov 2016. It is a decentralized artwork that can be purchased by anyone, and they can change the image used on the tile. It makes the artwork incomplete forever and leaves a chance for modifications.

Crypto Punks (June 23, 2017)

Crypto Punks are avatars available in 8 bits in the form of NFTs. These avatars are available as artwork and collectibles launched by two software developers named Matt Hall & John Watkinson. These are the most famous artworks available in the digital world in history.

Conclusion

Non-Fungible Tokens have been successful in history, and these tokens will be the future to channelize the digital world and to do safe and swift online trading. Blockchain games like Etherization provide players with true ownership of their in-game assets. NFTs are the most protected and secure ways to keep your art alive for ages while keeping it accessible for all. Although, many individuals are still unaware of such artworks and mechanisms that can help you earn a far better return on investment. The list of first-ever NFTs is not limited to the above-mentioned NFTs as many of them are not revealed yet. We may get to know them in the future. If you haven't checked them out yet, try them for yourself.

For more details visit etherization.org

[formisthemaskofspace]

Quantum Leap 3: Dark Star

Artist: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

Year: 2022

Hardware: 55’’ LG Transparent OLED 3x3 9EA

Each Quantum Leap: Primordial Star slowly loses its color over the course of its lifespan, finally producing a Dark Star. This token is a “memento mori,” an animated ghost of what was once living. After producing this token, Quantum Leap: Primordial Star is reborn in full color with a new central shape and palette, replicating and generating new tokens autonomously.

[nft-calmfaw]

Lawsuit Against Sotheby’s and Kevin McCoy Dismissed

The Alpha A New York federal judge dismissed the Canadian corporation Free Holdings Inc.’s lawsuit claiming ownership of the digital artwork Quantum on March 17, 2023. Created in 2014 by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Quantum is the first known NFT. It was auctioned for $1.47 million by Sotheby’s in June 2021. The judge, U.S. Magistrate Judge James L. Cott, noted that the litigation appeared to be an…

[wickedsick]

The first known NFT was sold by a man named Kevin McCoy. It was a video made by his wife, Jennifer, and sold to a man named Anil Dash for four dollars in May of 2014.

^this is Jennifer and Kevin.

We need to go back in time and kill the guy that invented NFTs

[blakegopnik]

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy Show How Business Makes Art Dance for Its Supper

THE WEEKLY PIC: I’m usually semi-allergic to any human movement that looks like High Dance, the way I’m semi-allergic to any Painting in Oils: Both can seem more invested in their art status than in any actual work they may do as art.

But I completely bought into the dancing dancer in a recent video called “Cleaner,” by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, that ran until Saturday at Postmasters gallery in New York. (I hate to break my rule about covering shows that are closed, but work on my Warhol book was still all-consuming until just now—hence my recent weeks of art-critical silence.)

The McCoy piece, shot using gorgeous high-tech video, shows a very dance-y modern dancer taking on the role of  office-cleaner in a stylish, post-industrial building in Brooklyn. As she washes the polished concrete and dusts the vintage factory lights, our dancer, slender and elastic in her every move, could also be on stage at Lincoln Center.  (That’s not meant as a compliment.) But in fact it’s her very dancerishness that gives this video impact:  The cultural commonplaces she inhabits let her stand for all artmakers, of every kind, in their relationship to our era’s unbridled and almost unquestioned capitalism. Mostly with our acquiescence, businesses expect the arts to defer to them, like a maid curtsying to her masters; the arts keep the culture sparkling and fresh-smelling, as money gets made all around them.  (My still from “Cleaner” is courtesy Postmasters.)

For a full survey of past Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.

[fanfics4all]

Characters I write for!

Masterlist

Characters with ❤️  are my favorite to write for! 

Arrow: 

Dinah Drake

Felicity Smoak ❤️

Laurel Lance

Oliver Queen

Roy Harper

Sara Lance

Thea Queen

Tommy Merlyn ❤️

and all the actors/actresses

Criminal Minds:

Aaron Hotchner

Derek Morgan

Emily Prentiss

Jennifer Jareau

Luke Alvez

Penelope Garcia

Spencer Reid ❤️

and all the actors/actresses

Fear the Walking Dead:

Alicia Clark

Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki

Jake Otto

Madison Clark

Nick Clark ❤️

Troy Otto ❤️

Victor Strand

and all the actors/actresses

Good Trouble:

Alice Kwan

Callie Adams-Foster

Davia

Dennis Cooper ❤️

Evan Speck ❤️

Gael Martinez ❤️

Jamie Hunter

Mariana Adams-Foster

Malika Williams

and all the actors/actresses

Harry Potter:

Bellatrix Lestrange ❤️

Bill Weasley

Cedric Diggory

Draco Malfoy ❤️

Fred Weasley ❤️

George Weasley ❤️

Ginny Weasley

Harry Potter

Hermione Granger

Luna Lovegood ❤️

Narcissa Malfoy

Neville Longbottom

Peter Pettigrew

Remus Lupin

Ron Weasley

Rubeus Hagrid

Seamus Finnigan

Severus Snape ❤️

Sirius Black

Tom Riddle/Voldemort ❤️

and all the actors/actresses

Riverdale:

Alice Cooper

Archie Andrew

Betty Cooper

Cheryl Blossom

Fangs Fogarty ❤️

Fred Andrews

FP Jones ❤️

Hermione Lodge

Hiram Lodge

Jason Blossom

Joaquin Desantos ❤️

Josie McCoy

Jughead Jones ❤️

Kevin Keller

Malachai ❤️

Penny Peabody

Polly Cooper

Reggie Mantle

Sweet Pea ❤️

Tom Keller

Toni Topaz

Veronica Lodge

and all the actors/actresses

The 100:

Bellamy Blake

Clarke Griffin

Emori

Finn Collins

Jasper Jordan ❤️

John Murphy ❤️

Lexa

Monty Green

Octavia Blake

Raven Reyes

Roan

and all the actors/actresses

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina:

Agatha

Ambrose Spellman ❤️

Caliban ❤️

Dorcas

Father Blackwood

Harvey Kinkle ❤️

Hilda Spellman

Lucifer Morningstar

Mary Wardwell/Madam Satan

Nicholas Scratch ❤️

Prudence Night

Rosalind Walker

Sabrina Spellman

Susie/Theo Putnam ❤️

Tommy Kinkle ❤️ 

Zelda Spellman

The Flash:

Barry Allen ❤️

Caitlin Snow

Cisco Ramon

Harrison Wells/Harry Wells

Leonard Snart ❤️

Nora West-Allen

Savitar ❤️

Wally West

The Fosters:

AJ Hensdale

Brandon Foster

Callie Adams-Foster

Emma Kurtzman

Jesus Adams-Fosters

Jude Adams-Foster ❤️

Lucy 'Lou' Chan ❤️

Mariana Adams-Foster

Mat Tan

Wyatt ❤️

The Walking Dead:

Aaron

Abraham Ford

Andra

Beth Greene ❤️

Carl Grimes ❤️

Carol Peletier

Daryl Dixon ❤️

Enid

Eugene Porter

Glenn Rhee ❤️

Jesus

Maggie Greene

Michonne

Negan ❤️

Rick Grimes

Rosita Espinosa

Sasha Williams

Shane Walsh

Tara Chambler

[andrearrrrr]

“Quantum,” 2014, a digital abstraction by Kevin and Jennifer McCoy, attached to an NFT, sold for $1.4 million last year at Sotheby’s.

Credit...Kevin Mccoy

https://www.mccoyspace.com/

[cregan-starks]

Some Useful Resources for Educating Yourself on the History, Society, and Politics in Latin America + the War on Drugs

ARTICLES:

1. VOX - https://www.vox.com/2016/5/8/18089368/war-on-drugs-marijuana-cocaine-heroin-meth

2. HISTORY - https://www.history.com/topics/crime/the-war-on-drugs

3. CATO Institute - https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/four-decades-counting-continued-failure-war-drugs

DOCUMENTARIES AND MOVIES:

1. https://tribecafilm.com/news/5-must-see-drug-cartel-movies-to-watch-before-sica

2. CRACK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbYdjyxDNtQ

3. THE HOUSE I LIVE IN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0atL1HSwi8

4. AMERICAN DRUG WAR: THE LAST WHITE HOPE https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1033467/

5. CARTEL LAND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5bpPfltOI

BOOKS, JOURNALS, ACADEMIC PAPERS:

1. “Politics of Latin America: The Power Game” (by Harry E. Vanden and Gary Prevost, Oxford University Press, 2001, fifth edition)

2. “Modern Latin America” (by Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith, James N. Green, Oxford University Press, 2010, seventh edition)

3. “Mexico Since 1980″ (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

4. “Democratization in Mexico” (by Chris Gilbreth and Gerardo Otero, Latin American Perspectives, 2001)

5. “Tracking the Origins of a State Terror Network: Operation Condor” (by J. Patrice McSherry, Latin American Perspectives, 2001)

6. “Trained to Torture? The Human Rights Effects of Military Training at the School of the Americas” (by Katherine E. McCoy, Latin American Perspectives, 2005)

7. “Operation Condor on Trial: Justice for Transnational Human Rights Crimes in South America” (by F. Lessa, Journal of Latin American Studies, 2018)

8. “Democratic Disequilibrium in Venezuela” (by Jennifer L. McCoy, William C. Smith, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 1995)

9. “Toward a New Phase of Guerrilla Warfare in Colombia? The Reconstitution of the FARC-EP in Perspective” (by D. Gutiérrez, Latin American Perspectives, 2020)

10. “Paramilitarism and Colombia’s low intensity democracy” (by William Aviles, JLAS, 2006)

11. “Drugs, Violence, and Development in Colombia: A Department-Level Analysis” (by Jennifer Holmes, Sheila Amin Gutierrez de Pinieres, Kevin M. Curtin, LAPS, 2006)

12. “The FARC’s Best Friend: U.S. Antidrug Policies and the Deepening of Colombia’s Civil War in the 1990′s” (by Mark Peceny, Michael Durnan, LAPS, 2006)

13. “Populism in Latin America” (by Carlos de la Torre, in “The Oxford Handbook of Populism”, Oxford University Press, 2017)

14. “Post-hegemonic regionalism, UNASUR, and the reconfiguration of regional cooperation in South America” (by José Briceño-Ruiz & Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2015)

Feel free to reblog and add your own resources. Laziness is a choice. Ignorance is a choice.

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Dust, Volume 7, Number 11

Walt McClements

We’re winding down for another year, looking forward to time off for the holidays and seeing friends and family in a semi-normal way.  Once again it’s dark at 4:30 p.m., and once again, it doesn’t matter all that much if you’ve got a fire going and some good music playing.  And so, we take stock of the albums that have caught our ears lately in another Dust.  Here are garage bands playing jazz standards, Dutch jazz duos evoking night skies, Berbers playing wedding music, a whole album full of ambient accordion music and the final recording from a 101-year-old Creole fiddle maestro, as well as lots of other unexpected stuff.  This month’s contributors include Jennifer Kelly, Andrew Forrell, Ian Masters, Bill Meyer, Bryon Hayes, Chris Liberato, Justin Cober-Lake and Jonathan Shaw.

Aeon Station — Observatory (Sub Pop)

You could definitely get old waiting for another Wrens album. Their second and third albums were famously separated by ten years in the wilderness, and even Meadowlands, the triumphant, long-awaited return is 16 years old now. The photo my husband took of Kevin Whelan tossing his bass in the air on that tour is yellowed and curling at the edges, and Charles Bissell has publicly stated that the Wrens will never record again as a band.  But at long last we have SOMETHING from former Wren Kevin Whelan, here supported by the rest of the band, that is Greg Whelan on guitar and Jerry McDonald on drums. Aeon Station is almost the Wrens, and if Observatory is missing the wistful ironies and clever observations that made Meadowlands heartbreaking, it’s got the big pop swells and irresistible choruses that made it exhilarating. To hear the steady bass pulse of “Fade” erupting into giddy overload is to relive the heady days of 2005, when these boys were exhausted but on top of the indie pop game. When the fragile uncertainties of “Queens” surge into drum-kicking, guitar-destroying exuberance, you can hear the way “Happy” picked listeners up out of the doldrums and headed for exultation. Sure, you’d maybe like a little more lyrical introspection, and the second half of the record is better than the first, but it’ll do for now.  Who knows? Maybe in another decade or two, there will be more.

Jennifer Kelly

Beach Fossils — The Other Side Of Life: Piano Ballads (Bayonet)

Beach Fossils front man Dustin Payseur reinterprets some of his indie tracks in jazz trio settings with former drummer Tommy Gardner (piano, sax, and bass) and Henry Kwapis on drums. The results are mixed. On one hand Gardner and Kwapis provide excellent if unstretched backing for Payseur’s croon, on the other the songs remain the same and one’s response may depend on your attitude to the original material. On its own The Other Side Of Life is a pleasant side trip down an imagined memory lane. Payseur is a decent singer and occasionally acute songwriter and Gardner shines but the leap from lo-fi indie to jazz trio is neither wide enough nor narrow enough to make this more than a well-made curio. Enjoyable but inessential.

Andrew Forell  

The Black Watch — Here and There (Atom)

The Black Watch’s John Andrew Frederick steeps his tunes in the psychedelic 1960s, laying a radiant jangle across fuzz-bombed but catchy melody. This 20th album for the last of LA’s Paisley’s underground is equal parts crunch and drift, with the hard lines of guitar strumming filled in with pastel drifts of vocal harmonies. “The Real You,” matches the droning sweetness of Ride with the winding, searching guitar soliloquies found in the Bevis Frond or Teenage Fanclub. Yet there’s also a new element, the lush string arrangements of Ben Eshbach which line the contours of “Now & Then,” with velvety ease. If you like your Nuggets-y guitar racket with a fair bit of craft and melody, this one’s for you.

Jennifer Kelly

Bremer/McCoy — Natten (Luaka Bop)

Natten (The Night) by Bremer McCoy

A Danish duo of pianist Morten McCoy and bassist Jonathan Bremer makes sparkling, evocative music poised somewhere between jazz, ambient electronics and new age in this nocturnal themed outing. “Natten” means night in Danish, and its namesake cut glitters with starlight in the piano and electric keyboards, while Bremer’s bass elicits velvety dark skies. “Mit Hierte” (“My Heart”) bobs and weaves with pensive syncopation, the startling clarity of keyboards set off a bass that swaggers, but subtly. The earthiness of bass contrasts sharply with synthesized sound washes; there’s a swing in these tunes, but also a meditative aura. These compositions balance nightclub-dwelling, martini-quaffing suavity with something clear and clean and natural, so that it’s hard to tell if it’s very late at night or very early in the morning.

Jennifer Kelly

Bruno Bavota — For Apartments: Songs & Loops (Temporary Residence Ltd.)

Italian composer Bruno Bavota is far from alone over the past couple years in finding himself staying home more often. While the notion of “accomplishing something” with our enforced extra time around the home quickly became both obnoxious and a meme, Bavota is also far from the only one to actually find himself producing work conditioned in some way by the lack of change in environs. The title of For Apartments: Songs & Loops might make it sound like a bit of a grab bag but there are actually two equally impressive but very distinct and demarcated albums here, with the six loops making for just under 40 minutes of synthesizer travelogue that feel a lot less constrained than the term “loop” might suggest, and the 13 songs sketching out slightly less than 29 minutes of calm, graceful solo piano complete with room tone. Maybe the best moment of the assembled For Apartments is the switch from the sixth loop to the first song, two totally distinct sound worlds briefly bumping up against each other, the heady excursions into (inner or outer) space of the former informing the patient space of the latter and vice versa. It’s very fine music to be stuck in an apartment with, however eager we might be to test it out in different contexts as well.

Ian Mathers 

Pedro Carneiro / Pedro Melo Alves — Bad Company (Clean Feed)

Bad Company by Pedro Carneiro | Pedro Melo Alves

Put aside your rock-rooted associations. Bad Company is named after a story by Yasuoka Shotaro which depicted the seductive lure of antisocial cruelty and the corrosive outcome of such flirtations. So, who is the bad influence here? Carneiro, who plays marimba, works mainly in contemporary classical music but maintains a sideline in improvisation. Alves is a drummer whose work in new jazz is often tinged with an awareness of classical form. They would appear to be made for each other, and the recorded evidence from this totally improvised encounter adds evidence to supposition. Alves’ playing is quick and precise and Carneiro more patient, which conveys a sense of sonic depth and contrasting, complementary motion. Form derives from the differences in tone and velocity; if Portugal ever puts its cultural budget behind this duo, it would be great to witness this music being enacted in acoustically apposite spaces around the world.

Bill Meyer  

Hocine Chaoui — Ouechesma (Outre National)

Ouechesma (Remastered Version) by Hocine Chaoui

Sometimes music comes at you unhindered by context. Take Ouechesma. If you don’t know the Chaoui language, you’re not going to know what Hocine Chaoui is singing, or why his surname matches the names of his ethnicity and language. Knowing that the Chaoui are a Berber community situated in mountainous eastern Algeria won’t really tell you anything about this music, and the sleeve doesn’t even tell you when the original cassette edition was issued. But here’s what you really need to know: it has a good beat, and if you can’t dance to it, you’re going to be awfully lonely if you attend one of the weddings where it gets played, because it’s very effective at motivating movement. It is pretty basic; a commanding chant of a vocal that alternates with an effects-dipped flute, and a galloping programmed beat that doesn’t waver for the whole song. Basic, and devastatingly effective.

Bill Meyer

Ted Curson — Pop Wine (Souffle Continu)

Pop Wine by Ted Curson

Souffle Continu is relentless in its mission to reissue quality Gallic-related jazz sides, and this time the theme is an American sideman in Paris. Wielding his horn on acclaimed recordings by the likes of Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor and Archie Shepp, with Pop Wine Ted Curson takes on the lead role; he’s got a trio of talented Frenchmen by his side. George Arvanitas handles the ivories, while Charles Saudrais rides the drumkit and Jacky Samson plays bass. On this 1971 studio recording, the quartet offer up five pieces, effortlessly working their way through a handful of styles ranging from funky fusion all the way to feisty free jazz. Each player is at the top of their game, meaning there’s no true hero here. Samson goes from laying down a groove on the title track to whipping his bow out for some string sawing on the fiery “L.S.D. Takes a Holiday.” On that latter piece, Arvanitis works his way up and down the keyboard. At times he's swift and supple and at others he demolishes the keys. Curson shows that he can be lyrical, such as on “Lonely One,” and he can frolic frantically (“Quartier Latin”). Saudrais keeps the former piece from being a maudlin affair with his jumpy rhythms, and even lets loose a rollicking solo on the speedy romp “Flip Top.” Pop Wine doesn’t necessarily have a pure varietal character, but such stylistic breadth allows for an intoxicating body and bouquet. This heady brew is the perfect tipple for many moods.

Bryon Hayes

Willie Durriseau — Creole House Dance 45 (Nouveau Electric)

Creole House Dance by Willie Durisseau

This exuberant single captures legendary fiddler Willie Durriseau as a spry centenarian, playing in a frictive, squalling, sprightly Creole style that disappeared before World War II. Louis Michot of the Lost Bayou Ramblers captures Durriseau in all his homespun glory, sawing away at zydeco dance tunes and blues rambles that haven’t been heard since most of us were born. Near the end of “Willie’s Zydeco,” here embellished with jovial accordion, Michot asks Willie about how he made his first fiddle out of a take-out box. “How’d you do it?” he says, “Because I want to make one.” “You’ll just have to watch the film,” says Durriseau, taking that and other secrets with him when he passed shortly after this record was made. Remarkable.

Jennifer Kelly

Wendy Eisenberg – Bent Ring (Dear Life)

Bent Ring by wendyeisenberg

Wendy Eisenberg doesn’t want you to look while they’re writing love songs. “It’s embarrassing enough for me” they sing, strumming unassumingly along. Periodically, a percussive swipe cuts across the track like a scythe attempting to end Eisenberg’s progress. Other times, a bell tone sounds at a line’s end, reinforcing a positive thought. Several times, in the middle of the track, the two sounds clash. “Little Love Songs” is from the experimental guitarist’s latest solo record, Bent Ring, which is the result of a self-dare: “to write an album of songs that don’t use guitar at all.” Instead, they employ a salvaged tenor banjo for a meditative and disarmingly complex collection about their art’s relationship to the world and themself. “We work very well together. I believe it’s true,” they sing, almost blissfully, during one of the final verses in which the bell chimes alone.

Chris Liberato

Equipment Pointed Ankh — Without Human Permission (Astral Editions/Sophomore Lounge)

Without Human Permission by Equipment Pointed Ankh

Without Human Permission feels like a message in a bottle, only the ink’s a bit smudged, so the communication is far from clear. Is it from the past? The LP has a Ralph Records c. 1978 vibe to it, quirky yet catchy. Is it from far away? The liner notes say these guys are from Louisville, but they drove to Rhode Island to make the record…who does that? The music is instrumental, but it doesn’t fall neatly into a genre, and the line-up of multiple synths, lots of guitars and some drums generates suspicion that this crew thought about who they wanted to play with before they thought about what instruments a band needs to have. And we haven’t even gotten to the Terry Riley’s piano meets your grandma’s organ’s rhythm box jam that melts into a psychedelic clarinet puddle yet. This record was made for those moments when your head needs scratching and your leg needs pulling, and if you don’t know what we’re talking about, well, we never said that we did, either, did we?

Bill Meyer

Hard Feelings — Hard Feelings (Domino)

On the closing track of Hard Feelings’ debut, Amy Douglas sings “I will bend time where I want it to go,” but she almost doesn’t have to; she and Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard have just spent 42 minutes doing pretty much that. Not only can the grooves and Douglas’s indelible performance at the center of Hard Feelings lead to the kind of dancefloor hypnosis where you’re not longer sure if it’s late at night, early in the morning, both, or neither, Goddard’s productions touch on many of the sounds and strengths of house, disco, techno et al, but they do so in a way that feels neither like an unnecessary ‘update’ not just a throwback for the sake of nostalgia. Those tracks alone would make Hard Feelings more than worth a listen, but Douglas’s Alison Moyet-goes-to-the-club vocals and sharp songwriting are more than just incidental to the impact of these songs — the duo has been describing the album as an “opera of sad bangers” and maybe the best testament to that is the way Hard Feelings can remind the listener that emotional intensity, even melodrama, is definitely not a bad thing when it’s also this (body)moving and this much fun.

Ian Mathers 

Joëlle Léandre / Pauline Oliveros / George Lewis — Play As You Go (Trost)

Play as you go by JOELLE LEANDRE / GEORGE LEWIS / PAULINE OLIVEROS

In 2014, Joëlle Léandre, Pauline Oliveros and George Lewis convened for one night at the Vs. Interpretation Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. It wasn’t really a first encounter; Léandre has decades of working acquaintance with both other musicians, and given the diligent scholarship that Oliveros and Lewis have applied to music, they can’t have been unaware of each other. But neither is it a meeting of an ensemble with an established dynamic. Rather, they bring their shared experiences with jazz, classical and free improvisation together on a common ground cleared by a shared commitment to listening and intuitive response. Whether they contribute instruments (double bass, accordion, trombone and computer), voice (Léandre), or electronic processing of collective sounds, they do so in ways that build a cohesive sound environment. The name of the festival seems especially applicable; each musician is all in, present in the moment rather than figuring out how to react to what they just heard.

Bill Meyer

Kiran Leonard — Trespass on Foot (Self-Released)

Trespass on Foot by Kiran Leonard

Trepass on Foot is really two records, the first a sprawling meditation made by the Manchester experimental songwriter all by himself, the second a series of shorter, more song-like collaborations with friends among the UK’s avant-garde. Both are worthy but require a real listening commitment; the two discs comprise nearly two hours of music, and several tracks, especially in the solo portion, are in the ten-plus minute range. “The Ship,” for instance, swells slowly, with tidal force, beginning in scratchy sampled recordings, guitar strums and ambient hum and reaching a near orchestral climax over its 15-plus minute duration. Loosely shaped and morose, it has some lovely intervals like the off-kilter song verse with slanting guitars, which sounds like a lost bit from Loren Conors, and the blinding beautiful surge of massed guitar and voice near the end. “Sights Past” is even longer and follows a similar trajectory, building slowly, taking a variety of guises and reaching a nearly unbearable intensity. You don’t always know where you are in these compositions or what’s coming next, but if you allow yourself to wander from room to room, you’ll see some gorgeous things.

The second part of Trespass on Foot is somewhat more readily accessible, divided into songs that are more conventional in length and structure. There is solace, too, in the support of other musicians, like the lovely harmonies that Jolliff Seville supplies in “Third Day of February,” or the plaintive clarinet (Margo Munro Kerr), bass clarinet (Hannah Hever) and cello (Francesca Ter-Berg) that thread through found-sampled “Untitled.” “Castell” turns into a meaty folksong with the addition of drums and a yearning, forthright melody; the violin—that’s Dan Bridgwood-Hill—and supporting vocals Isabel Thorn give it dizzying density and resonance.

Jennifer Kelly

Mandy, Indiana — ‘…’ (Fire Talk Records)

The debut EP from Manchester band Mandy, Indiana is a pulverizing explosion of industrial grind courtesy of Scott Fair and Liam Stewart; over this racket, Valentine Caulfield chants and hisses lyrics in her native French. “Bottle Episode” careens between Stewart’s metallic martial percussion and a defibrillated heartbeat as Caulfield chants with increasing urgency and a flanged guitar chord thrums. The sound is rough, close, full of tension with little release, before it all clanks to a halt. “Nike Of Samothrace” slows the formula and adds what maybe the death throes of a cello and a sheets of controlled feedback, while Caulfield sits to one side commenting on the maelstrom. “Alien 3” is a little more straight ahead but still sounds like SPK or Einstürzende Neubauten mugging techno in nightclub alley, so pretty damn good. 

Andrew Forell

Walt McClements — A Hole in the Fence (American Dreams)

A Hole In The Fence by Walt McClements

Walt McClements is not the first musician to make ambient/drone music primarily with an accordion (and in fact he happily acknowledges the influence of Pauline Oliveros among others), but one of the catch-22s of making music with a relatively rare lead instrument is that it’s not you’re often more likely to get closely compared to others using than instrument than (say) someone focusing on guitar or piano is. By any standards though, McClements’ A Hole in the Fence is more than just another richly textured, emotionally complex, sometimes sonically overwhelming album of accordion music. These 33 minutes sometimes feels more like movements of a single composition, one that takes in McClements’ theme of the various liminal spaces and secret worlds he’s moved through in his life (various music undergrounds, gay cruising scenes, even train hopping) and creating a work that in turn can evoke the foreboding, peace, hesitance, and joy we find passing through those gateways and finding our places past the literal or metaphorical fences in our way. That combination of love and exploration courses strongly through the sounds and drones of A Hole in the Fence, and the result would be noteworthy whatever instruments McClements used to get there.

Ian Mathers

McKain / Murray / Radichel / Suarez / Weeks — The Running of the Bulls (Radical Documents)

The Running of the Bulls by McKain / Murray / Radichel / Suarez / Weeks

The cassette’s title signals the attitude if not the content. No bovines were jostled in the making of this music, but the participants do pitch themselves into this free jazz fray with abandon. This quintet convenes improvising musicians from San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia, but the vibe brings to mind certain vintages of sound made in Chicago or Wuppertal. Saxophonists James McKain and Tom Weeks apply an array of techniques, but put them together and they impart the blammo wall-of-reeds sound of Mars Williams + Ken Vandermark + (occasionally) Peter Brötzmann. Drummers Leo Suarez and Kevin Murray have a similar tendency to meld, albeit into mass of discrete textures and densities. Bassist Jared Radichel navigates the shifting masses with aplomb, working hard enough in the lengthy group pieces that one does not begrudge him the option of sitting out when the paired instruments break out for briefer improvisations. Points added for the excellent cover art.

Bill Meyer

M(h)aol — Gender Studies (TULLE)

M(h)aol isn’t fucking around. A five-person post-punk outfit with Irish roots and members in Dublin, London and Bristol, the band thunders and rampages in gender-empowered fury. “Why don’t you study my gender/Tell me I’m no fun anymore/That I used to be quiet and pretty/And you liked the old me more,” snarls the singer in the title track before revealing, “Guess what, I like the new me more.” The lyrics are uncompromising, but not without humor (“No one ever talks to us…unless they want to fuck”), and the sound is hard and unyielding, with sawing bursts of rapid-slashed guitar and rickety architectures of snare and kick drum. In an odd bit of symmetry, the mostly female M(h)aol has connections with the all-male Girl (now Gilla) Band; Jamie Hyland is the voice on “Holding Hands with Jamie,” and the two bands share an affinity for noisy breaks and smart, unusual lyrics. However, M(h)aol draws its name not from the other gender but from the legendary Irish female warlord Gráinne Mhaol who faced off Elizabeth I with, supposedly, a dagger in her bodice. Yup, sounds about right. Good stuff.

Jennifer Kelly

Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile — Snark Horse (Pi Recordings)

Snark Horse [Box Set] by Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile

Drummer Gentile and pianist/synthesist Mitchell toil in a manner that transcends any of the idiomatic signposts of jazz. Their compositional style conjures up the energy of punk rock and the bleeding edge wizardry of experimental electronic music. The pair push limits and dive headlong into whatever challenge they set for themselves. For this gargantuan six-disc boxed set, the duo set up an experiment, constraining themselves to write compositions of only a single bar in length. They call the resultant body of work Snark Horse, but there’s nothing cynical about this music. To realize the project, they assembled a ten-person strong Snark Horkestra made up of some of the finest American instrumentalists. Alongside Gentile and Mitchell are Kim Cass on bass, Ben Gerstein on trombone, Jon Irabagon on reeds, Davy Lazar on horns, Mat Maneri on viola, Ava Mendoza on guitar, Matt Nelson on saxophones and Brandon Seabrook on guitar and banjo. The 70 compositions were putty in the Snark Horkestra’s hands, around which Mitchell and Gentile encouraged the crew to improvise. The two composers perform across the entire set of music, with others joining the fray in a variety of permutations across different pieces. There are moments when only one or two of the members jump in, but things get wild when the entire crew goes at it. One of the most immediately noticeable characteristics of these songs, which vary in length substantially, is the rhythmic complexity. Gentile’s drumming style is unique, as she plays around with time signatures and constructs intricate patterns of beats. Add Mitchell’s dextrous piano work and the music becomes a furious beast that just might be the jazz equivalent of math rock. When you thread in the adept contributions of the eight other players, the proceedings heat up quickly and the energy is downright enchanting. Even when the tempo slows to a crawl, the music has an infectious electricity. To add icing to this already elaborate cake, Mitchell has dispersed a series of abstract electronic works of his own devising across the set, which perhaps serve as markers for a listener to return to once their flagging stamina has been replenished. One imagines that listening to over 270 minutes of adventurous sounds in one sitting would test the mettle of even the sturdiest set of eardrums.

Bryon Hayes

Moonlove — May Never Happen (Concentric Circles)

May Never Happen by Moonlove

Moonlove isn’t the most motivated band to come out of greater Akron (see: Devo). But then, so little is known about the trio that we’re left only with what they tell us on 1985’s appropriately titled May Never Happen. On twangy jangler, “Cast Your Troubles and Dreams Away” (riyl: Bonny Doon), Jeff Curtis sings about his ambitions of sitting around and caring less. And when he finds himself behind a “Hearse On The Highway,” he doesn’t even consider taking to the passing lane. Instead, he downshifts and dwells hard on the absence of time over a charmingly degenerate blues shuffle (think: VU). Beth Erickson takes the wheel on “Blue Skies,” and continues on the same trip. “He lies in bed all day / wasting hours and hours away,” she sings with the kind of undynamic yet heartfelt lilt that makes you wonder what might’ve happened if they’d sent their tape K Records’ way instead of no one’s. Luckily, though, almost 40 years after the fact, a copy ended up in the hands of Jed Bindeman, whose Concentric Circles label has built its name on this kind of reissue (read: magical). Climb on in!

Chris Liberato

Jessica Pavone — Lull (Chaikin)

Lull by Jessica Pavone

Some composers write scores that test the physical limits of those who play them. Composer and violist Jessica Pavone does the opposite, considering what feels right to play and using that knowledge to center what’s asked of each musician. The results, however, are by no means limited; Lull is one of the most inclusive albums Pavone has ever made. It encompasses chamber music and improvisation, shifting between ultra-detailed improvisations featuring drummer Brian Chase and trumpeter Nate Wooley, and boldly colored, intricately layered string passages by an octet that includes Pavone. Ranging between spare turbulence and patiently evolving presence, the music uses changing textures to externalize nameless but palpable emotional states.

Bill Meyer   

Fredrik Rasten — Svevning (Insub)

Svevning by FREDRIK RASTEN

In this CD’s liner notes, guitarist Fredrik Rasten explains that the Norwegian word “svevning” has two meanings. One applies to the sort of effortless glide that birds achieve when they’re riding air currents, and the other refers to the beating effect obtained by sounding two sustained notes. Translated into math, the formula is 1 word = cause / effect = 38:15 + 38:55 minutes of hovering tone. Rasten operates in the same sonic galaxy as Cristian Alvear and Taku Sugimoto, which is to say that he explores acoustic phenomena with unemphatic precision. These two pieces employ the same method, which is for Rasten to repeat a figure with very slowly evolving changes on a guitar tuned in just intonation. The effects of plucked notes in proximity, approaching and transforming each other, is gently hypnotic. This could be your next sound meditation.

Bill Meyer

Steph Richards With Joshua White — Zephyr (Relative Pitch)

Zephyr by Steph Richards

Zephyr packs a lot of musical exploration into a small space. The album is divided into three suites, each of which uses an environment as a cue to examine relationships between musician and musician, artist and family, and sound and space. The five-part Sacred Sea uses trumpeter Steph Richards’ technique of playing with water as a method to ponder her suppositions about her then-unborn daughter’s perception of sound as well as the limits of instrumental capacity; Joshua White uses preparations to similarly transform the sound of his piano. Sequoia and Northern Lights are a bit less literal, but in both sequences, the duo press the limits of their instruments and techniques as they evade expectation.

Bill Meyer   

SiP / Prezzano — SiP / Prezzano (Moon Glyph)

SiP/Prezzano by SiP/Prezzano

The existence of this duo will validate your belief in destiny. Conversely, if Jimmy Lacy, who performs as SiP, and Pete Prezzano, who runs the Love All Day Label, had not gotten together, you might look up at the cosmos and ask, why not? They both live in Chicago, and each makes and/or distributes music that uses synthesizers to take the edge off of whatever life’s dealing with you. Their collaboration is pretty seamless, and the four tracks on this half hour long tape flow together effortlessly, which means that you’re likely to spend less time figuring out who did what than you are giving in to the temptation to let the mind drift wherever long, oscillating tones and ambling modal melodies might take you.

Bill Meyer

 Snotty Nose Rez Kids — Life After (Distorted Muse / Fontana North)

Life After by Snotty Nose Rez Kids

Indigenous Canadian hip-hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids were on a roll when the pandemic hit. As the quarantine era wore on, they kept getting attention (the placement of “Boujee Natives” on Resident Alien was perfect) but they struggled with recent and past trauma. Out of the crisis came Life After, the title referring not just to exiting lockdown, but to getting through any sort of hardship. The group still has its warrior side, and Yung Trybez and Young D sound as angry as ever, taking on various forms of oppression while addressing the particular struggles of First Nation peoples. They haven't lost their sense of humor, though. “Uncle Rico” references Napoleon Dynamite as it looks at both personal hubris and family mythology. “Oral tradition / I can barely spell,” makes for a fun moment while capturing the attitude of the album. All of the work, though, serves to work toward something better. Chill track “After Dark” closes the album with its real thesis: “I pray we at peace and not in pieces / And that we break the cycle for my nephews and my nieces.” Right now, we're all in life after disaster; but SNRK brings hope that we're headed toward the light after dark.

Justin Cober-Lake

Mai Sugimoto — Monologue (Asian Improv Records)

monologue by Mai Sugimoto

As titles go, Monologue is an unsparing self-assessment. For what else is a solo concert? But between a pandemic that’s made it hard for bands to get together, and an upsurge in anti-Asian violence, the time’s right for Sugimoto to put some points across. Sugimoto recorded this album alone except for an engineer, accompanying her alto sax and flute with some handy percussion. This combination of woodwinds and little instruments suggests that one local legacy on Sugimoto’s mind is the AACM’s. Like Roscoe Mitchell, she gives each idea the space it deserves, neither more nor less, and she feels no need to sugar a pungent attack. The titles assigned to this CD’s 14 tracks evoke vulnerability, spirituality and playfulness. But, compared to her previous recordings with her trio and the collective Hanami, there’s also a pithy toughness.

Bill Meyer

Tigers & Flies — Among Everything Else (Violette)

This is the stuff! Or at least at first blush it sounds a heck of a lot like it — the brassy, soul-influenced indie pop that bands like Orange Juice, The Jasmine Minks and The June Brides played, bridging the gap between post-punk and c-86. But unlike their predecessors, Tigers & Flies are only occasionally capable of playing with convincing passion, as they do, for example, on “In My Skin.” Here, drummer Arvin Johnson bashes his way into the chorus with a fist-pounding-the-table beat and the song unspools momentarily in response, via its bouncy syncopated guitar lines, before folding forward in frustration again. “Are you seeking enjoyment?/ Are you seeking a change?” wonders frontman Arthur Arnold. But his vague gripes also point to the bigger problem here: there isn’t much at stake in these songs and the music rarely makes up the difference. Lead single, “Half,” tries to twist itself into a more musically complex knot that it hopes will hold. “When you leave, half of me walks away too. / So don’t leave, because I need that half of me that is you,” Arnold sings, while trumpeter Matteo Fernades attempts to recall a leaving lover with a pair of confident bleats. Instead, all he gets is a synchronized, frolicking dance with the rhythm section. The bands they’re aping began as novices and played with a conviction that can’t be faked. On their debut, Tigers & Flies arrive in reverse: they’ve got the sound down, perhaps a little too well, but when it comes to selling the songs' emotion they’re only, as Arnold puts it, “pretty good at doing fine.”

Chris Liberato  

Unda Fluxit — Stone Ringing Sorrow (Ever/Never)

Stone Ringing Sorrows by Unda Fluxit

Unda Fluxit makes no attempt to find ease in its jangling, discordant melodies, which reverberate with haunted chaos in the space between experimental folk and noise music. The main creative force behind the band is Huma Aatifi, an Afghan native relocated to Boise, Idaho as a child, and her compositions bristle with jarring dislocation. “Chance of the Towel” clatters noisily with assaultive percussion as Aatifi croons lost lyrics about snow and circumstance, guitar notes crowding behind her like a migraine gathering for attack. “(sunset rain)” is more muted but still full of suffering, a yodeling vocal melody floating uneasily over thunks of hand drums and detuned strums of acoustic guitar. You could make a connection to Christine Carter’s abstracted guitar melodies or even to Karen Dalton’s blasted, desolate folk. Like them Aatifi doesn’t care about conventional prettiness. Like them, she achieves a strident kind of beauty in the clash of notes.

Jennifer Kelly

Uranium — Wormboiler (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

Wormboiler by Uranium

For a power electronics project, Uranium delivers some fairly formed songs on Wormboiler: see “We Deserve Death,” which sort of has verses and what feels like a refrain. “Sort of” and “feels like” are necessary qualifiers; the music on Wormboiler, provisionally legible as it may be, is fully tapped into the volatility and ugliness that have always been baselines for power electronics — just check out that record title. Still, interesting as the intermittent suggestions of song form are, Uranium is at its most effective when its chaos and appalling deformity are most grotesque. “Hate Thyself for the Callous World Cares Not” slithers and vibrates and jolts with bad feeling. Like some of the best power electronics, the music feels its way along, flowing and climaxing with weirdly livid energy. Which, as the project’s name implies, is toxic stuff. It’s all pretty nihilistic, building toward a final track called “The Glorious Void” that contains samples of symphonic music interpolated with an impossibly distorted horror-movie-Satan voice. The track flirts with goofiness for a bit, but soon it achieves an apotheosis of hostility, obliterating any trace of levity. Schopenhauer would dance to it.

Jonathan Shaw  

Vaulted — Left in Despair (Self-released)

Left In Despair by Vaulted

The songs on Vaulted’s new LP Left in Despair sound like a bad day in Boston: damp, cold and full of ornery ill intent. That makes some sense: Melville says Americans learned to “say ‘No!’ in thunder” up in Massachusetts. But instead of any gloomy New England-style austerity, Vaulted pour on the aggro hostility with a sort of excessive glee. The Boston band makes chugging, crunching hardcore, redolent with the burly filth of the death metal that sprouted from the trail of slime left in the wake of Suffocation’s Pierced from Within (1995). See especially tracks like “Lacerated” and “No Place to Mourn.” But make no mistake: Left in Despair is a hardcore record, at its best when it hits hardest. “Mote It Be” mostly moves with a mid-tempo truculence, doling out overdriven riffs that want to bruise. The downshift that occurs around the song’s third minute has a palpable threat attached to it — it’s that slight pause you make when you approach a dark corner at 3 am in Southie. Hunch your shoulders a little tighter, squint your eyes with a sharper “don’t-fuck-with-me” look, because who knows what’s coming. If you’re listening to Vaulted, it’ll probably be another thumping, thundering, three-minute hardcore tune. And heads-up, all you freaks for obsolete formats: you can cop a cassette version of Left in Despair from War Fever Recordings, the label run by Vaulted’s bass player Nicholas Wolf.

Jonathan Shaw

[brucesterling]

NFTs.  Invented to frustrate Tumblr

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/

by Anil Dash

(...)

The only thing we’d wanted to do was ensure that artists could make some money and have control over their work. Back in May 2014, I was paired up with the artist Kevin McCoy at Seven on Seven, an annual event in New York City designed to spark new ideas by connecting technologists and artists. I wasn’t sure which one I was supposed to be; McCoy and his wife, Jennifer, were already renowned for their collaborative digital art, and he was better at coding than I was.

At the time, I was working as a consultant to auction houses and media companies—a role that had me obsessively thinking about the provenance, ownership, distribution, and control of artworks. Seven on Seven was modeled after tech-industry hackathons, in which people stay up all night to create a working prototype that they then show to an audience. This was around the peak of Tumblr culture, when a raucous, wildly inspiring community of millions of artists and fans was sharing images and videos completely devoid of attribution, compensation, or context. As it turned out, some of the McCoys’ works were among those being widely “reblogged” by Tumblr users. And Kevin had been thinking a lot about the potential of the then-nascent blockchain—essentially an indelible ledger of digital transactions—to offer artists a way to support and protect their creations.

By the wee hours of the night, McCoy and I had hacked together a first version of a blockchain-backed means of asserting ownership over an original digital work. Exhausted and a little loopy, we gave our creation an ironic name: monetized graphics....

[magics-protector]

Characters I write for

Personal Favourites ~ Merlin (BBC), Tommy Shelby, Jim Moriarty, Ninth Doctor, Castiel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, General Hux, Cassian Andor, Bilbo Baggins, Eómer, Diaval, Captain Jack Sparrow, Caspian X, Eret (HTTYD), Rumplestilskin (OUAT), Krel Tarron, Wolverine

BBC Merlin ~ Gwaine, Leon, Percival, Elyan, Arthur, Lancelot, Gwen, Morgana

Peaky Blinders - Arthur Shelby, Ada Shelby, John Shelby, Alfie Solomons

Sherlock ~ Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Greg Lestrade, Molly Hooper, Eurus Holmes 

Doctor Who ~ Rose Tyler, Ten, Rory Williams, Amy Pond, Eleven, Clara Oswald, Twelve, Bill Pots, Thirteen, Simm!Master, Missy, Dhawan!Master, Jack Harkness 

Supernatural ~ Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, Jack Klein, Gabriel, Gadreel, Charlie, Anna, Micheal, Lucifer, Garth Fitzgerald IV, Kevin Tran, Balthazar, Benny Lafitte, Mick Davies 

NBC Hannibal ~ Hannibal Lector, Will Graham 

Criminal Minds ~ Doctor Spencer Reid, Aaron Hotchner, Penelope Garcia, Emily Prentiss, Jennifer Jareau

Prime’s The Boys ~ Billy Butcher, Hughie, Frenchie, Annie (Starlight), Queen Maeve *I will likely write for Jensen Ackles’ character in season three - if he’s not a dick*

Star Wars ~ *original* Han Solo, Lando, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker *prequels/clone wars* Qui-Gon Jinn, Padme, Rex, Ahsoka Tano *sequel* Kylo Ren, Poe Dameron, Finn, Rey *Others* Dyn Jarren

Good Omens ~ Crowley, Aziraphale, Newton Pulsifer 

Keanu Reeves Character’s ~ John Wick, Constantine, Neo, Ted Logan, Jack Traven

Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit ~ *LOTR* Aragorn, Legolas, Elrond, Boromir, Faramir, Eowyn, Arwen, Merry, Pippin, Frodo, Sam, Haldir, Galadriel *The Hobbit* Thorin, Dwalin, Bofur, Thranduil, Bard, Human!Smaug, Fili, Kili

Star Trek ~ Leonard “Bones” McCoy, Spock, James Kirk, Uhura, Chekov, Scotty, Khan 

Disney Characters ~ Gaston (Live Action), Flynn Rider, Tarzan, Thackery Binx (Hocus Pocus), Aladdin, Peter Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Will Turner (POTC)

How to Train Your Dragon ~ Astrid, Snotlout, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Hiccup Haddock 

Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts ~ *HP* Draco Malfoy, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Tonks, Snape, Bill Weasley, Fred, George *FBAWTFT* Newt Scamander, Tina Goldstein, Jacob Kowalski, Queenie Goldstein, Credence Barebone, Percival Graves, Theseus Scamander 

Once Upon a Time - Jefferson (The Mad Hatter), Killian Jones, Edward Hyde, Graham, August, Emma Swan,

Trollhunters/3Below ~ Jim Lake Jr, Claire, Aja Tarron, Steve Palchuk, Douxie 

The Umbrella Academy ~ Luther “One”, Klaus “Four”, Ben “Six”, Deigo “Two”, Allison “Three”, Vanya “Seven”, Five 

The Outsiders ~ Darry Curtis, Two-bit Matthews, Soda Pop Curtis, Dally Winston, Steve Randle, Johnny Cade, Ponyboy Curtis 

Gotham ~ Jervis Tetch, Jeremiah and Jerome Valeska, Jim Gordon, Bruce Wayne, Selene Kyle, Alfred Pennyworth

Marvel (Avengers + X Men) ~ Bucky Barnes, Loki, Skurge, Doctor Strange, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Quicksilver (Pietro and Peter), Scarlett Witch, Magneto, Everett Ross, Nightcrawler, Charles Xavier, Thor, Tony Stark, Mysterio, Yon-Rogg, Peter Parker

Miscellaneous ~, Balem Abrasax (Jupiter Ascending), Commodus (Gladiator), Charlie Sisters (The Sisters Brothers), Black Hat (Priest), Mori (OHSHC), Zuko (ATLA), Sokka (ATLA), Bigby Wolf (The Wolf Among Us), Connor (Detroit; Become Human), John Kennex (Almost Human), Kyoya (OHSHC), Natsu Dragneel (Fairy Tail), Gray Fullbuster (Fairy Tail), Gajeel Redfox (Fairy Tail), Clyde Logan (Logan Lucky),  Robotnik *Jimbotnik* (Sonic the Hedgehog), Billy Hargrove (Stranger Things), Hopper (Stranger Things), Lucian (Underworld), Vincent Sinclair (House of Wax), Brahms Heelshire (The Boy), Bakugo (My Hero Acadamia), Aizawa (My Hero Acadamia), Todoroki (My Hero Acadamia), Merlin (Kingsman), Agent Whiskey (Kingsman), Eggsy (Kingsman)

I am willing to add more if I get into more shows and stuff.

I can do AUs and stuff (I like soulmate AUs but really i’ll do any AU)