#jordan rickard

[irreplaceable-spark]

Trudeau, Travel, and “The Science” | #281

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent covid mandates - specifically on travel bans for those who choose not to get vaccinated - have arguable basis in science, logic, and precedent. Today Dr. Jordan B Peterson sits down with five experts investigating the matter from all angles, including Rupa Subramanya, one of few Canadian journalists who dared to report an alternative perspective on the now infamous trucker protest that took place in Ottawa. Shaun Rickard and Karl Harrison, represented by lawyer Sam Presvelos, are three proud Canadians currently entangled in a lawsuit with their own government over Trudeau’s travel bans on public transport. Bruce Pardy is a professor of law at Queen’s University and the executive director of Rights Probe.

[storyweaverofgondor]

Cats Footlight Production 2008

I do so love stumbling across a new non-replica of my favorite musical.

It apparently took place from January 27 to Febuary 11 2008 in Geelong (I think in Ausralia?) according to one of the above articles.

@whitmerule @cryptidvoidwritings @statisticalcats2

Cast and Production team list below the cut

PRODUCTION TEAM Producer Peter Wills Director Darylin Ramondo Musical Director John Shawcross Vocal Director Anita Barlow – Burman Choreographer Jordan Punsalang Costume Design Bevan Vahland Costumes created by Ferri Bond Make Up Design Penni Nash-Gilchrist Set Design Bevan Vahland Lighting Design Shane Haugh Stage & Technical Manager Robert McKenzie

CAST Admetus Olivia Taravillo Alonzo Glenn Murray Angelica Caitlin Mathieson Bombalurina Amy Lehpamer Bustopher Jones Lachy Joyce Cassandra Bree Moyes Coricopat Jordan Middelkoop Demeter Kethly Hemsworth Electra Jessica Nash Etcetra Zoe Marsh Exotica Jess Gomularz Grizabella Sophie Collins Gus The Theatre Cat Howard Dandy Jellylorum Jocelyn Mackay Jemima Emily Jacker Jennyanydots Gail Lee Mr. Mistoffelees Casey Chisholm Mungojerrie / Macavity Joel Cooper Munkustrap Mykel Jackson-Brown Old Deuteronomy Tim Edwards Plato David Greenwood Pouncival Caleb Vines Rumpleteazer Jennifer Stirk Rum Tum Tugger Tony Wasley Sillabub Nikki Lenaghan Skimbleshanks Ian Nash – Gilchrist Tantomile Farryn Burrill Victoria Purdey Rickard

[icedbatik]

One of these things ...

From Taylor's latest Survey Say, asking about favorite athletes:

Sidney Crosby: Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal

Marcus Pettersson: Christiano Ronaldo, Carlos Alcaraz (tennis)

Sam Poulin: Derek Jeter, Michael Jordan

Jansen Harkins: Kobe Bryant

Michael Bunting: Roger Federer

Radim Zohorna: Ronaldo, Federer, Nadal

Kris Letang: Michael Schumacher (Formula 1)

Jack St. Ivany: Kobe Bryant

Ryan Shea: Tom Brady, Rafael Nadal

Jonathan Gruden: Miguel Cabrera

Emil Bemstrom: Leo Messi

Valtteri Puustinen: Messi

Reilly Smith: Tiger Woods

Erik Karlsson: Roger Federer

John Ludvig: Steph Curry

Drew O'Connor: Eli Manning

Colin White: Tom Brady, Patty Mahomes

Rickard Rakell: Michael van Gerwen. He's a darts player, the best darts player that's ever played.

Magnus Hellberg: Zlatan Ibrahimovic (soccer)

Jake Guentzel: Tiger Woods, LeBron James. I just think what they've done is pretty remarkable. And I just look at what LeBron has done over his career, I think it's pretty unique. He reminds me of Sid. Him and Sid are kind of doing this together where they're aging like fine wine. Father Time is not really getting them. So it's pretty remarkable to watch.

Chad Ruhwedel: Kobe or Tiger

Tristan Jarry: LeBron, Michael Jordan, Kobe

Lars Eller: Hmmm ... I don't know.

Jesse Puljujarvi: Usain Bolt

Joona Koppanen: Usain Bolt

[starstruckhq]

TAKEN LIST UNDER READMORE:

Aaron Tveit

Anne Hathaway

Ariana Grande

Ashley Loren

Auston Matthews

Blake Lively

Brie Larson

Chris Wood

Daisy Edgar-Jones

Darren Criss

Dianna Agron

Dominik Mysterio

Eminem

Emma D'Arcy

Emily Bett Rickards

Gregg Sulkin

Hailee Steinfeld

Harry Styles

Jeremy Allen White

Jessica Chastain

Joe Anoa'i (Roman Reigns)

Joe Burrow

Joe Jonas

Jonathan Groff

Jordan Love

Kelsea Ballerini

Max Domi

Melissa Benoist

Niall Horan

Nicholas Galitzine

Nick Jonas

Oliver Stark

Olivia Cooke

Oscar Isaac

Paul Mescal

Phoebe Bridgers

Rafael Silva

Reneé Rapp

Ryan Reynolds

Sabrina Carpenter

Shawn Mendes

Sophia Bush

Sophie Turner

Stephen Curry

Sydney Sweeney

Taylor Swift

Taylor Zakhar Perez

Travis Kelce

Zendaya Coleman

muns: 22 || muses: 60

[bearcreekhq]

and we’re ready to start accepting new members!

But first, we’d like to go over a few changes and updates.

We’ve moved the town of Bearkcreek from the state of Connecticut to the state of Pennsylvania. It’s now located about 20 minutes south of Allentown, PA and about an hour north of Philadelphia. You can read all about the location on our about page.

Olivia Hudson is now Olivia Weston, so the Hudson family is now open and the new family info for the Westons can be found on the families page.

Cassie MacKenzie’s FC has changed to Katherine McNamara.

Charlotte Evans’s FC has changed to Blake Lively

Kurt Hummel’s FC has been changed to William Moseley

Bethany Hummel is now a full sibling and her FC is changed to Maia Mitchell. She’s also been aged up a couple of years to 28 years old and in the second spot of the Hummel family instead of the third/youngest. Also her self-owned business, Lizzie’s Place, no longer has a bakery as a part of it, it is only a diner.

Nina Dobrev,  Emily Bett Rickards, Jeremy Jordan, and Victoria Justice are now available FCs.

Any other adjustments to characters that are on a smaller scale can be found on their respective character posts, which have all been updated and re-posted to the main with their new graphics!

Additionally, we’ve been discussing making this group more on the chemistry-based side. That’s not to say that we won’t allow anyone to plot or anything, we just feel that going off of chemistry can work out for the best in terms of some of the more serious connections between characters. You're still welcome to have connections pages for your characters, we plan on still having them for our characters, especially since it can be an easy way to keep track of the connections that have been made.

With that said, our submit box is now open and we’d love to see some apps in our inbox! We would love to get at least a few new members/characters accepted before we get interactions started up again, so that way we can have a fun and active dash going. Also, we’re talking about having our first event soon, so keep an eye open for that to be announced!

Welcome back to Bearcreek!

[jrick21-blog]

eclipsed mix

[darkskiesrpg]

Most wanted?

For canon: Liz Forbes, Rebekah Mikaelson, Freya Mikaelson, Keelin Malraux, Katherine Pierce, Liv Parker, Josette Laughlin, Aurora de Martel, Cleo, Finch, Emma Tig, Lexi Branson, Nora Hildegard, Kai Parker, Kol Mikaelson, Elijah Mikaelson, Finn Mikaelson, Stefan Salvatore, Jeremy Gilbert, Marcel Gerard, Matt Donovan, Tyler Lockwood, Alaric Saltzman, Enzo St. John, Luke Parker, Dorian Willaims

For male fc: daniel ezra, jensen ackles, skeet ulrich, sam huesan, david boreanaz, austin butler, misha collins, shemar moore, matthew gray gubler, jeffery dean morgan, milo ventimiglia, dave franco, chris ( pine, hemsworth ), zefron, josh hutcherson, james macavoy, logan lerman, andrew lee potts, nicholas hoult, lucas till, tyler hoechiln, dylan o'brien, tyler posey, michael b jordan, keegan allen, kj apa, sprouse twins, noah cintineo, thomas doherty, ansel egort, mason gooding, grant gustin, tom holland, joe keery, alfred enoch, benjamin wadsworth, booboo stewart, brandon flynn, peter gadiot, milo manheim, and manny montana

For female fc: Zendaya Coleman, Logan Browning, Renee Rapp, Demet Ozdemir, Elizabeth Olsen, Caitlin Stasey, Teresa Palmer, Emily Bett Rickards, Alexandra Breckenridge, Kathryn Winnick, Alexa Demie, Antonia Gentry, Camila Mendes, Aubrey Plaza, and Zoey Deutch

[hollywoodbiz]

mw by members?

Sorry this reply is late, Nonnie! My inbox didn't show that there was something new. But here are some most wanted faces would be: Shawn Mendes, Josh Hutcherson, Pierce Brosnan, Nick Jonas, Mac Jones, Tua Tagovailoa, Jason Kelce, Stefon Diggs, Glen Powell, Daniel Sharman, Dylan O'Brien, Kit Harrington, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Evans Behling, Jesse Williams, Taylor Lautner, Paul Rudd, Zachary Levi, Joey King, Emily Bett Rickards, Samara Weaving, Maya Hawke, Maisie Williams, Natalie Dormer, Keke Palmer, Megan Pete, Alexa Demie, Halle Bailey and so many more!

[hollywoodfamerp]

AND WE’RE ALL JUST ENTERTAINERS…

WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD, ALISON! YOU’VE BEEN ACCEPTED AS NAOMI SCOTT!

PLEASE BE SURE TO DO THE FOLLOWING:

Send us your account within 24 hours.

Include your FCs full name in their blog bio.

Have the disclaimer that applies to you in your blog bio (found in our rules).

Be sure to have your ask box open.

Message the main to find out about any prior history

OPTIONAL: Message the main to be added into our OOC Blog

OPTIONAL: Create a profile for HFRP CONNECT!

NAME/PRONOUNS/AGE/TIMEZONE:

Alison, GMT, 26 

FC YOU WANT TO SWITCH:

Emily Bett Rickards 

FC NAME AND AGE YOU’RE SWITCHING TO:

Naomi Scott 

GENDER YOUR NEW FC IDENTIFIES WITH AND PRONOUNS:

Female

NEW FC OCCUPATION:

Actress 

WANTED CONNECTIONS:

Anyone she has worked with 

RULES PHRASE:

-

WHO ELSE DO YOU PLAY IN THE ROLEPLAY:

Lily James, Emily Bett Rickards, Lupita Nyong'o, Kelsea Ballerini and America Ferrera.

HAVE YOU WAITED A WEEK SINCE YOUR LAST PICK UP/SWITCH?

Yes

ARE YOU CURRENTLY ON HIATUS?

No

HAVE YOU MESSAGED THOSE YOU HAVE PLOTS WITH BEFORE THIS SWITCH?

Yes

OTHER:

She will be divorced from her husband, Jordan Spence .

LINKS:

Switching blogs. 

[ofstonehaven]

Mobile Muse List

Alyson Hastings: Matriarch of the Hastings clan; mother of seven. Owner of the Stone Haven Lodge. Married to the love of her life, Stuart -- a grumpy Englishman. (FC: Emma Thompson)

Nora Ann (Hastings) Harper: Second eldest of the Hastings children. Event Manager at her family's lodge and mother of three. Maaaay have a bit of a neurotic streak. (FC: Bryce Dallas Howard)

Sadie Jo Harper: The youngest of Colt and Nora's children. Also the only girl. Just entering into that 'teenage rebellion' phase. (FC: Danielle Rose Rusell)

Jordan Lisette Hastings: One half of a set of twins. Is currently helping her family out as she figures out this whole...adulting thing. MIGHT have brought a man home from Europe with her. (FC: Kat McNamara)

Savannah Paige Hastings: The youngest of the Hastings children. Works front desk at her family's lodge. (FC: Molly Quinn)

Ocean Breeze "Bree" West: Event Coordinator at the Stone Haven Lodge and Nora's second in command. Comes from an...interesting family and NO she is never telling you her full name is Ocean Breeze. (FC: Emily Brett Rickards)

Trace Adelaide Harper: Colt's cousin / surrogate little sister. Currently tending bar at Big Shotz in Nashville. (FC: Kristen Bell)

[sinceileftyoublog]

Boulevards Interview: Funky Gut Punches

Photo by Jordan Rickard

BY JORDAN MAINZER

“I wish I could Men In Black erase my shit so I could listen to it with fresh ears,” Jamil Rashad tells me over the phone from Raleigh, North Carolina. The garage funk artist who records as Boulevards is about to release Brother!, a four-track EP (with an accompanying 2-track single) via Normaltown Records, an imprint of New West. But the restless singer-songwriter’s coming back from recording even newer music, for a potential LP, and has to get in the mindset that in a couple weeks, he’s dropping something he recorded a while back, especially because it’s his most assured (recorded) music to date, all the while exploring new aesthetic and thematic territory.

Rashad finished writing the songs on Brother! early on during the pandemic and messaged various artists he admired to see whether they’d produce the record. Blake Rhein, of Durand Jones & The Indications, bit. Rashad had long admired them. “Durand Jones & The Indications was one of the first soul revival groups in the game,” he said. “They kind of paved the way for Black Pumas and the other cats on Colemine [Records].” It turned out to be the perfect fit for what Rashad was trying to do. “I wanted to do some soul shit but still stay focused to the garage-funk element of Boulevards,” he said, something immediately apparent from the warbling psychedelia of the guitars and strut of the drums from the opening and title track. “I’ve always been chasing my predecessors,” he continued, referring to not only the contemporaries that paved the way for him but classics he grew up listening to with his father, a radio DJ: George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, and Rick James. Rashad’s always been an avid indie rock and punk listener too, citing The Strokes’ Is This It and early Black Keys albums as just as formative.

You can hear Boulevards’ journey to this genre-averse point from listening to his discography. He released his debut LP on Brooklyn post-punk label Captured Tracks, bouncing around different labels and different styles (earlier this year, he released a collaborative track with “Bulletproof” synth popper La Roux) before finding a home on Normaltown. “I had to make those records in the past to make it to this point,” he said, citing New West’s increasing levels of genre diversity, from Caroline Rose’s pop-rock jamfest LONER to their recent Pylon box set, as a reason why he kept asking them to release his EP. When they said yes, he felt like they got it. “If you’re friends with [Normaltown co-founder] George [Fontaine, Jr.] on Facebook or Instagram, you’ll see how eclectic his tastes are. If anybody could get what I was trying to do, George gets it. It’s not like the Thundercats, the Leon Bridges, the Gary Clark Jr.s of the world,” he said. “This is Carolina soul shit.” As a bonus, Rashad was already friends with a couple New West signees: singer-songwriter Jaime Wyatt and American Aquarium’s BJ Barham, the latter of whom helped Rashad get sober from alcohol.

It’s certainly not lost on Rashad that, in his music community, he’s a Black singer-songwriter surrounded by many white ones, many of whom are his friends but don’t have to face the differences inherent in being Black in America. Some of these differences, he sings about, like on “Shook”, a song about being afraid of the police in Raleigh. But it’s the disparities in the music world that he hopes to directly reduce with Brother! “You have indie rock and the soul revival stuff and the psychedelic stuff, but you don’t have the straight garage funk records unless you see an old record on a Spotify playlist,” he laments, citing the dearth of existence and/or influence of old school, “Black small rare funk bands” as a reason for wanting to bring funk to the forefront. In a post-George Floyd protest world of white American racial reckoning, influencing everything from opinions on law enforcement to music listening habits, Rashad wants to tell his story, share his thoughts on the world, and dance while doing it.

Read the rest of my interview with Rashad below, and check out his live stream from the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro via NPR tomorrow night at 7 PM CST.

Since I Left You: It’s hard to point to a short EP as a turning point for many artists like this is for you. Why did you want to do just these four songs as opposed to a bigger project?

Jamil Rashad: I mean, I wanted to do a bigger project. That’s why we’re writing an LP right now. But for me, the writing never stops. I’m always writing. At first, I wasn’t even gonna do an EP here. I was gonna do singles and see how my fan base reacted. I wasn’t even gonna have a label. Every record, I always feel like it’s gonna be a turning point. You never know. I was thinking about this the other day. It’s almost like I’m starting fresh. These are songs I’ve been wanting to write--it’s just taken me time as an artist to get to this point to be able to zone in on the sound that I wanted. A 4-song EP is a little bit of the past and what’s to come with Boulevards, which I’m really stoked about.

SILY: You can tell that immediately from the title track, the first track on the EP. It’s got that psychedelic, garage element to the guitars, but it’s also really funky.

JR: I was tested a lot on this record, learning how the voice interacts with the microphone. Blake was pushing me to do it, which no producer has never done before. It’s turned out really dope. The goal was always to be the face of garage funk. Back in the day, my parents and your parents had the George Clinton records, Isaac Hayes, [Curtis Mayfield], they had all these different artists that were bringing the wave of funk. James Brown. You don’t really have that now. You have soul acts, R&B acts, indie rock acts, country acts, Americana acts, but you don’t have anyone that [brings] the funk shit. That’s what Boulevards is all about.

SILY: More than ever for you, these songs are political. Did you want the EP to be both a thematic and aesthetic turning point, or was that just a coincidence?

JR: It was both. Being 36 at this age, and looking at what’s going on in America, there are things you can’t ignore. I’m not a political expert, but maybe I should post what I’m feeling, what I’m seeing from white friends and Black friends and what’s going on with my community, and put it into these songs. I don’t think if a lot of this stuff didn’t happen with George Floyd, the pandemic, small businesses struggling, and people struggling, I would have been able to write these songs. I’m still gonna stay true to love and heartbreak, and self-growth, and trying to overcome obstacles and things of that nature. Those things I’m always gonna write about. But what was going on in the world definitely inspired and influenced those lines and crafting those songs. I’m not one to preach--you have a lot of these artists who have political records and preach. I wanted to make something about what I’ve experienced that people can still vibe and groove too.

SILY: Only “Shook” seems to be outwardly political. The rest of the songs are about Black life, but they’re really about your Black life.

JR: Of course. Me being a Black man and my struggles and things I’ve been through and seen other people go through. “Shook” is a song about being afraid of police. Being a Black man, every time I leave my house, I have to calculate every move that I make. It’s not like that for a lot of my white friends. That’s fine--that’s what America is. Well, actually, it’s not fine, it’s where America’s at. If I see Raleigh PD and am walking in a predominantly white neighborhood, are they gonna stop me? I live in this neighborhood I worked my ass off to be in. Are they gonna stop me because I don’t look the part and look like I’m up to something? So that’s what inspired “Shook”. Elijah McClain, just doing his thing, cops killing the brother. I didn’t want to do it in an overly preachy way, but at the same time, as America, we have to have uncomfortable conversations with each other. White on white America needs to show awareness with each other for things to actually change. 

“Brother!” is mostly about working. Working your ass off for somebody and nothing changes. [laughs] You’re putting in the hours and the time, you’re making money for somebody else who doesn’t give a shit about you. You’re trying to get the promotions, you’re putting on a face. I worked at Best Buy, you can imagine being a touring artist and then having to put on a blue shirt and dealing with customers over some TV or kitchen appliance shit. I’m obviously doing my job, but I’m not gonna get a promotion there or get an advancement there. It’s about being a Black man in the work force and making somebody else money. At the time, I wasn’t sober, too, so the bar was my only release. It was the only way I could cope with that. [At the same time,] being in the Black community and being in Raleigh, and seeing my father interact with other Black men and even white men, saying, “Brother so and so” [inspired the song.] That’s how we greet each other sometimes. It’s also talking to myself talking to a man out there.

SILY: Whether these songs are about your personal experiences growing up or problems you’re facing now, as serious as they are, you can dance to them.

JR: Curtis Mayfield was good for that. Funkadelic, even Marvin Gaye. That’s what I wanted to be able to accomplish. Funk hits people in the gut. You can still politically come from a serious perspective. 

SILY: Tell me about the video for “Luv n Pain”.

JR: It’s a simple, fun video. [Director] Patrick [Lincoln] pitched the idea. He wanted to have a day of Boulevards alone in his home, reflecting on being alone, reflecting on the things that have caused me personal heartbreak, without a partner. Getting ready in the morning, drinking coffee, wanting to share it with somebody but not having anybody to share it with.

Every video I’ve done up till this point, I’m always dancing. He wanted to slow things down, but still have it be Boulevards, stay true to me, have me dance in certain scenes but also have me reflecting, looking at the fire, up at the ceiling, things we do in our own homes. We [also] wanted to make something visually appealing and fun with bright colors. We didn’t really try to overthink it. Something simple that reflected Boulevards. When I’m at home, I’m always dancing.

SILY: You reference Gil Scott-Heron on “Shook” (“The revolution is now being televised.”) When was the first time you were aware of him?

JR: When I was a kid. My dad used to pick me and my sister up from track practice, and he worked at the radio station and was always getting these records. Gil Scott-Heron, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”, “Whitey on the Moon”, all these songs. He’s a poet. I started out as a poet before I became a rapper, MC, or funk artist. Every time I do spoken word on a record, it’s never written. The verses and hooks are, but here, I said to the engineer, play these couple bars and just let me talk. It just came out. It also came from watching peoples’ stories and thinking, “The revolution is being televised now.” We’re seeing the anger, the pain, people expressing their frustration with the system of racial inequality in America. Not just Black people, but white people and Latino too. [Before,] they didn’t want people to see what was going on in America. Now, people are seeing it and are looking and are more aware of it now.

SILY: What’s the story behind the album art?

JR: Sly Stone and Funkadelic, predecessors I grew up loving. That was influenced by a Sly Stone record. 60′s/70′s swag. I worked with a photographer in Raleigh named Jordan [Rickard]. I wanted to do something simple. I did it in my crib at my front porch. When I’m working on a record, I always have these vision boards. I always think about the colors, being a Black man, what’s gonna look good. I reached out to a stylist in L.A. who’s a good friend. I’ve always wanted to do a burnt orange background, and the sky blue represents Carolina blue because I’m a big Tar Heels fan. That color coordination blue and orange looks good together. 

SILY: Why are you also putting out a two-track single in addition to the 4-track EP?

JR: That was more the label, how we wanted to go about the campaign. Initially, “Luv n Pain” was the first single I wanted to release regardless. “Shook” would be too predictable. There were so many artists releasing protest songs. “Luv n Pain” is more the past and present of Boulevards. When we finished it in the studio, [I knew.]

[wild-yonder]

Gender Envy Hours!

brought to you by skinny white boys

[arutai]

Emily Bett Rickards by Jordan Patterson

[icedteaandoldlace]

I enjoy the fact that both Justin Walker and Vicki Jordan have appeared on The Flash.

[eloquence-of-felicities]

ARROW

“Hey, I was thinking a vintage movie night. A Jordan Peele marathon.”

Nice to know that Get Out and Us are timeless

[sassysophiabush]

[part four] I think that’s why @MountainFilm means so much to me. It is a place to SEE. To look into the very core of people and communities and issues and the planet. To stand before the fire and not look away. • It’s fitting that sweet friend @milckmusic graced the festival with her presence and her beautiful voice, and gave it the anthem: “I can’t keep quiet.” We cannot keep quiet. Here’s to the learning and the rising. Let’s dive in, together. #MountainFilm2019