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[starzgaze]

ginheart react lng ang mssg k.

[senorboombastic]

This One Song… FACS on Slogan

Tell you what – we love hearing from artists when things go right. We equally love hearing from artists when things go dreadfully wrong. A song that was a piece of piss, written in 20 minutes? Or years in the making and a bastard to write? Whether it’s a song that came together through great duress or one that was smashed out in a short amount of time, we’re getting the lowdown from some of our…

[haferove-kralisko]

Súpis slov valašských za ledeň:

aldamáš - hostina

marasť - blato, bordel

błažení - radosť

zmrak - sůmrak

vjetrch - větr

micák - králík

šantala - dyž chodíš pomály, tož sa šanceš, tož si šantala

chubolení - sněžení

gryf - dyž neco umíš, tož máš gryf

štabarc - rachot

podaruněk - dar

róchanec - rana

grunt - statek

košár - ohrada pro ovce

maglaja - popleta

krdél - mnogo nečého

dřevěnica - chalúpka z drva

baranina - maso z barana, hlúposť

seč - vysekaná paseka

pofňura - hlupačisko, nezbeda, ufrflanec

obtúlať sa - objímať sa

dědina - vesnica

toťkaj - tu, tadyk, onehdá, vtedy

chasa - mládežníci, čeládka

kalaba - ostuda!

šumno - čistučko, pěkňučko, hezučko

mrava - slušnosť

kmasoň - złodějisko

zmok - dračisko

raška - ptačisko čermák, bílá fazola

vonica - kytica, kvjetina

[dustedmagazine]

FACS — Wish Defense (Trouble in Mind)

FACS lurches and spasms, finding an irregular way forward amid clanging, pick-clawed bass notes and guitar harmonics that ping against the void. Words come in bursts, then subside into quiet, a hollowed out, discontinuous poetry. This is the Chicago punk band’s sixth full-length album and first since original guitarist Jonathan von Herik returned to play bass, replacing erstwhile bass player Aliana Kalaba, and it is desolate, powerful stuff.

It begins in clanking dissonance as von Herik lays in slithering menace while drummer Noah Leger’s beat alternatingly bunches and elongates, like a slinky coiling down the stares. Brian Case, as always, finds space in the echo-laced mix, letting the white space between phrases stretch to abyss-like lacunae. “Love…this weapon is absolute…the safety of custom…and history…you can’t refuse.” Periodically the guitar turns lighter and more lyrical, providing a lift in the music that’s like light streaming in through the skylight of a dark place. But overall, the vibe is dank and glowering, alienated and inscrutable.

There is often quite a lot of negative space in FACS’ impacted, complicated grooves, but “Ordinary Voices” starts uncharacteristically in a blurring firehose of tone. Guitar notes bleed into each other in radiating bursts, while sticks on cymbals slur and slash in continual agitation. The song resolves, as FACS cuts often do, in a slouching ritual beat, the drums making a slow heartbeat rhythm, bum-ba-dum, bum-ba-dum. The music pulses and seethes, finding a doom-y propulsion.  

Case says that Wish Defense is concerned with the duality of man—the disconnect between the way we are and the way we’re perceived—and the title track puts this thesis forward most directly. “Enter the mirror / Double walker / An intimate / Wish defense / Is it real? / You beside me / The detail / Terrifying / Abject self / Your grief / A public / Performance,” he chants, against a lumbering riff that pulls up short, like the light just turned to red. And then, more agitatedly, he shouts, “I’m not here” and “Are you real?” repeatedly, in a frenzy of existential inquiry. Musically, too, the song butts and rears against invisible constraints; it’s not comfortable with itself. No, this is a desperate dance self-preservation, limned in bass and guitar and drums, boxy like the Ex or certain iterations of the band E.

You may have heard that FACS was the last band to record with Steve Albini, and this album captures their prickly agitation with remarkable clarity. After Albini passed away, between recording sessions, they finished with John Congleton, and if there’s a difference between the sound and aura of the two sets of tracks, I, personally, am unable to hear it.  

What I do hear, however, is a precise and focused form of musical anarchy, an assault that is tightly disciplined but unfettered by guardrails. FACS has been a monster band for a while. Wish Defense may be their best so far.

Jennifer Kelly

[rfsnyder]

A.Ali Daher / Kalabas artist /

[thenightling]

Happy 25th anniversary Halloweentown! This year is full of anniversaries. Hocus Pocus turned thirty. Nightmare before Christmas turns thirty.

Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree animated movie turned thirty. Neil Gaiman's The Sandman turns thirty-five. Beetlejuice turned thirty-five. And today the movie Halloweentown turns twenty-five-years-old. Feel old yet? Halloweentown (not connected to Nightmare before Christmas) struck while the iron was hot, just one month after the first Harry Potter book was published in the US. Halloweentown was a relatively low budget made for TV movie for The Disney Channel (and now available both on DVD and on Disney+.) The plot was about a young girl named Marnie who is about to turn thirteen. Marnie's mother wants her to be "Normal." But her grandmother, Aggie, has other things in mind. Marie is actually from a line of semi-immortal (long lived) witches. And if she does not start using her powers at age thirteen, they will atrophy and disappear and she will remain mortal. Even back in 1998 I was disgusted in Marnie's mother. Imagine if you went to an alien planet where the life expectancy is only about thirty years but your mother decides its best you be like those aliens so she keeps you from learning you came from Earth and eating Earth food so that you will only live thirty years "like everyone else on this planet." To me that's what Marnie's mother was like. She was deliberately crippling her daughter. Or worse, imagine if you went to a planet where no one can walk. You can. But your mother wants you to be like everyone else so she's perfectly happy to saw your legs off. That's how Marnie's mother felt to me in regard to trying to strip her of her (for her) natural abilities. It's not over-analysis. This is the basic premise. Anyway, it turns out Aggie (the grandmother, who was played by the late Debbie Reynolds) is from a pocket dimension of entities we associate with Halloween. Monsters, creatures of Nightmare, ghosts, zombies, skeletons, etc. This dimension is called Halloweentown.

Marnie and her other siblings follow Aggie to Halloweentown where they foil the machinations of Voldemort... I mean Kalabar. There's even a scene in one of the Halloweentown movies where they spot magical broom sticks for sale very similar to the scene in the first Harry Potter story. In the scene Marnie is intrigued by the latest model (which is a bit more high tech looking than a nimbus 2000, by the way). This was three-years before the first Harry Potter movie but only one month after the first book was published in the US. Marnie embraces her magick and her mother begrudgingly allows Aggie to train her in the use of her powers. The movie was a surprise hit for The Disney channel and spawned three sequels. Halloweentown 2: Kalabar's revenge which featured Peter Wingfield (Methos in Highlander the Series). Marnie's mother annoyed me in the second movie too, because when someone is shown Marnie's room he's disappointed with how mundane it is and Marnie mentions that her mother insists her room be "normal" and she not have her Halloween-y or magical stuff in her bedroom. They tone the mother down and make her more likable in the third and fourth film but they really never had that woman grow and yet we were not supposed to hate her. This dominating, personality-repressing, and abusive behavior was treated like it was perfectly acceptable. Halloweentown 3 AKA Halloweentown High. This was an odd one. Marnie becomes guardian for some exchange students from Halloweentown who want to attend human school in our world (now that our world knows Halloweentown exists) but modern day monster hunters want to fan the flames of bigotry and hate and keep humans and monsters separate.

Halloweentown 4 AKA Return to Halloweentown. Marnie (who has been recast) attends university in Halloweentown where the boy she has a crush on is revealed to be a depowered family member of Kalabar but a good guy. I really was not comfortable with the idea of the entire family being stripped of their powers because they were releated to a creep but ...okay... Also Marnie learns that Grandma Aggie technically should be the Queen of Halloweentown but relinquished her title and a magical amulet that lets her dominate the wills of others, because she believes in the importance of free will. For all their flaws I still enjoy these movies. I almost think these films were first intended to be live-action tie-ins to Nightmare before Christmas but Disney decided they didn't want to deal with Tim Burton and just didn't reference any of his characters even though the concept of a Halloweentown in another world where everyday is Halloween was literally created by Tim Burton in his long-form poem that became the movie Nightmare before Christmas. Anyway, Happy 25th anniversary Halloweentown!

[garipbiryolcu55]

Ne mutlu güzellikle birlikte direnenlere. Kalaba- lığın gürültüsüne uymayı değil, kalbinin sesini dinlemeyi marifet sayanlara. Kalbinde güzelliklere, samimiyete, inceliğe herdaim zarif bir köşe ayıranlara…

[screamingforyears]

IN_A_MINUTE:

AN INDIE EXPRESS… // “DARE ME” is the second single from @beachfossilsnyc’s forthcoming LP titled ‘Bunny’ (6/2 @bayonetrecords) & it finds Dustin Payseur’s Brooklyn-based project waxing upon “conflict, friendship, & the intoxication of new love… willing to let yourself be stupid, vulnerable, pissed off & forgiving” over a tidy 2 ½ mins of guitar-driven DreamPop. @chainofflowersband are here w/ “THE WALL,” the second single from their forthcoming sophomore LP titled ‘Never Ending Space’ (5/26 @_a_l_t_e_r_) & it finds the London by way of Cardiff based outfit sounding wholly “reunited & rejuvenated” across 4+ mins of first_waving, sultrily shimmered & The Horrors-esque PostPunk… that sax tho!! “KEYS DOWN IF YOU STAY” (@firetalkrecs) is a new standalone single from @band_cola & it finds Montreal-based trio of former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals/guitar) & Ben Stidworthy (bass) alongside US Girls drummer Evan Cartwright bringing their drowsily deadpanned & meticulously minimal brand of post_punking BummerPop. @wearefacs are here w/ “CONSTELLATION,” the final single in the run-up to their forthcoming EP titled ‘Still Life In Decay’ (4/7 @troubleinmindrecords) & it finds the Chicago-based trio of Alianna Kalaba (bass), Noah Leger (drums) & Brian Case (guitar/vocals) bringing a terse bout of rangy & nervously taut ArtRawk. “LITTLE DOGS” is the final single in the run-up to @mudhoney_’s forthcoming LP titled ‘Plastic Eternity’ (4/7 @subpop) & it finds the Seattle-based quartet of vocalist Mark Arm, guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison & drummer Dan Peter paying homage to undersized hounds (& maybe The Stooges) over 3 mins of playfully goofed AltRawk.

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LISTEN TO THESE CRUNCHY TUNES DOWN BELOW...

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[pazaryerigundem]

DBB kardan kapanan 129 kilometrelik yolu ulaşıma açtı

https://pazaryerigundem.com/haber/206374/dbb-kardan-kapanan-129-kilometrelik-yolu-ulasima-acti/ -

DBB kardan kapanan 129 kilometrelik yolu ulaşıma açtı

Diyarbakır Büyükşehir Belediyesi(DBB), Kulp ve Hani ilçelerinde kar nedeniyle kapanan kırsal mahallelerdeki 129 kilometrelik yolu yoğun çalışmalar sonucu ulaşıma açtı.

DİYARBAKIR (İGFA) – Diyarbakır Büyükşehir Belediyesi Yol Bakım ve Altyapı Koordinasyon Dairesi Başkanlığı, kentin yüksek kesimlerinde etkili olan kar yağışı nedeniyle çalışmalarını sürdürüyor.

Kırsal Mahalli Hizmetler Şube Müdürlüğü ekipleri, Kulp ilçesine bağlı Alaca Mahallesi’nde 3 kilometre, Hani ilçesine bağlı Kaledibi Topçular Mahallesi’nde 26 kilometre, Yukarı Turalı Mahallesi’nde 43 kilometre, Çukur Mahallesi’nde 12 kilometre, Kuyular Mahallesi’nde 12 kilometre, Kalaba Gürbulak Mezrası yolunda 10 kilometre, Ekşin’de 23 kilometre olmak üzere toplamda 129 kilometrelik yolu ulaşıma açtı. 

Ekipler, kar yağışı nedeniyle ulaşımda aksaklıklar yaşanmaması amacıyla çalışmalarını sürdürüyor.

[huhu-miss]

Namata ko gikan og nap and ngit ngit na. So medyo wala ko kasabot sa time. Naalala nako na sunday naman diay, so ang after sa sunday kay monday na. Abi nako og kadlawon na sa lunes. Wala pa ko kalaba, and wala pa ko kahimo og mga acad-related na task. Ginahuman pa nako og scroll and print sa mga memorable na tweets and threads nako sa akong private na account. Actually mahuman ko man ni tung sabado pero nag putol2x man gud ko.

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Video: FACS Shares Tense and Probing "You Future"

New Video: FACS Shares Tense and Probing "You Future" @wearefacs @trouble_in_mind @another__side__

Chicago-based post-punk outfit and JOVM mainstays FACS‘ sixth studio album Wish Defense is slated for a February 7, 2025 release on CD, cassette, black vinyl and a limited white vinyl variant while supplies last [pre-order] through Trouble In Mind Records.  The album marks the return of original band member Jonathan Van Herik, who replaces longtime bassist Alianna Kalaba. Van Herik’s return to…

[haferove-kralisko]

valašské slovo pro dnešní deň:

kalaba

ostuda!

[dustedmagazine]

FACS — Still Life in Decay (Trouble In Mind)

Photo by Evan Jenkins

Still Life In Decay by FACS

FACS is a band with space in its roar. Its drummer Noah Leger pursues complicated, off-kilter rhythms with thunderous certainty, thwacking oddly placed accents so that they reverberate in your soft cavities. Its bass player, Alianna Kalaba, here in her last outing with FACS, roils magma flows of dissonance from her instrument, nosing out of the mix like a monstrous deep sea creature whose vibrations can be felt from very far away. And its singer and guitarist Brian Case, too, chants obscure but weighted poetry about alienation, broken love, rejection and dehumanization in spattered, syncopated patterns, whose lines break abruptly and non-intuitively to fit the irregular shape of the riff. The band is loud and powerful, but even at its most agitated, there is emptiness between the notes, pockets of stillness and a gaping separation between clear trebly guitar arcs and the ultra-low frequencies of bass and drums.

“When You Say,” for instance, slinks in on a stuttering syncopation of gut-shocked drums, the blast furnace heat of distorted bass rising up from the floorboards. To this, Case adds a glittering sparkle of guitar notes, high clear, harmonic notes that cut through the din; they drop like shards of glass into a roiling cauldron of magma. The sung lines follow the side-stepping pattern of drums, terse phrases strung in bunches, then abruptly separated by pauses.

In some of the songs, the guitar sound is so clear and bright and unconflicted that the notes take on a percussive gamelan-ish tone, ringing out over the buzz and hum. “Slogan” is like this. “Still Life,” too, layers liquid lyrical guitar chords over its clamped cymbal chug.

FACS has a desolate, blasted air, complicated but punch drunk, a murmur at the end of struggle. The long, mesmerizing “Still Life,” unwinds in exhaustion, its zinging guitars the only point of color in a monotone, greyscale landscape.  Case mutters wearily about modern life’s wastelands, in incantations of “Simulate emotion.” And yet, though the song disassociates, it also engrosses. You are drawn into this desperate scenario and somehow wish to stay. There are moments of clarity and contemplation in the tumult, and a kind of solace in the racket.

Jennifer Kelly

[altinbilgiler]

Keçiören'de Serviks Kanseri Farkındalık Aktifliği

Keçiören Belediyesi tarafından Serviks Kanseri Farkındalık Ayı kapsamında serviks kanseri farkındalığını artırmak ve tedbire çalışmalarını desteklemek emeliyle bilgilendirme aktifliği düzenlendi. Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Gülhane Tıp Fakültesi öğretim üyeleri ve beraberindeki heyet, Kalaba Kent Meydanı’nda vatandaşlara serviks kanseri, risk faktörlerini, belirtilerini ve korunma yollarını…

[sunzambian]

Market yourselves before seeking ECL endorsement, Changala advises opposition leaders

…says Harry Kalaba, the Citizens First leader has gone out of the way selling himself, advises other opposition leaders to go out of Lusaka to campaign and make themselves popular By BARNABAS ZULUBREBNER Changala has observed that some opposition political party leaders are seeking endorsements from former President Edgar Lungu to prope up their chances of winning the 2026 general election…

[phgamezone]

Maglaro na sa Pusoy Dos at Maranasan ang Panalo!

Sa dinamikong mundo ng online gaming, ang Pusoy Dos, isang minamahal na Filipino card game, ay nakahanap ng kapana-panabik na bagong tahanan sa Gamezone. Ang pangunahing online platform na ito ay nag-aalok sa mga mahilig sa card game ng walang kapantay na karanasan, pinagsasama ang kasiyahan ng estratehikong paglalaro at ang kaginhawaan ng digital na access. Kahit ikaw ay isang beteranong manlalaro o baguhan sa laro, ang Gamezone ay nagbibigay ng perpektong arena upang mag-enjoy, makipagkumpitensya, at potensyal na manalo sa klasikong Filipino pastime na ito.

Bakit Piliin ang Gamezone para sa Pusoy Dos?

Ang Gamezone ay natatangi bilang pangunahing platform para sa mga mahilig sa Pusoy Dos dahil sa ilang kapana-panabik na dahilan:

Accessibility: Wala na ang mga araw kung kailan kailangan mo ng pisikal na baraha at grupo ng mga kaibigan sa isang lugar para mag-enjoy sa Pusoy Dos. Dinadala ng Gamezone ang laro sa iyong mga daliri, na nagbibigay-daan sa iyo na maglaro anumang oras, saanman. 

Masigla na Komunidad: Ang Gamezone ay may aktibo at iba't ibang player base mula sa buong Pilipinas at higit pa. Ang maunlad na komunidad na ito ay nagtitiyak na palagi kang makakahanap ng mga kalaban, kahit na naghahanap ka ng casual na laro o matinding kumpetisyon.

Maramihang Game Modes: Mula sa mabilis na mga laban para sa mga may limitadong oras hanggang sa mahabang mga tournament para sa mga tunay na mapagkumpitensya, ang Gamezone ay nag-aalok ng iba't ibang paraan upang ma-enjoy ang Pusoy Dos. 

Mga Gantimpala at Bonus: Upang magdagdag ng karagdagang excitement, ang Gamezone ay madalas nag-aalok ng mga bonus at gantimpala. 

User-Friendly Interface: Ang platform ng Gamezone ay idinisenyo na may mga user sa isip. Ang intuitive na interface nito ay nagpapadali para sa mga manlalaro ng lahat ng antas ng teknolohiya na mag-navigate at mag-enjoy sa laro nang walang abala.

Pag-unawa sa Pusoy Dos

Para sa mga bago sa laro o nagnanais na pagbutihin ang kanilang mga kasanayan, narito ang isang mabilis na pangkalahatang-ideya ng mga pangunahing bahagi ng Pusoy Dos:

Layunin: Ang pangunahing layunin ay maging unang manlalaro na maubos ang lahat ng iyong mga baraha. Ang simpleng layunin na ito ay nagtatago ng estratehikong lalim ng laro, dahil kailangang maingat na planuhin ng mga manlalaro ang kanilang mga kilos at hulaan ang mga aksyon ng kanilang mga kalaban.

Ranggo ng mga Baraha: Ang Pusoy Dos ay may natatanging sistema ng ranggo:

Ang 2 ang pinakamataas na ranggo ng baraha, sinusundan ng mga Aces, Kings, Queens, at pababa hanggang sa 3, na siyang pinakamababa.

Sa mga kaso kung saan ang mga baraha ng parehong ranggo ay nilaro, ang hierarkiya ng suit ay isinasaalang-alang: Diamonds (pinakamalakas) > Hearts > Spades > Clubs (pinakamahina).

Kombinasyon ng Kamay: Ang mga manlalaro ay maaaring magtapon ng mga baraha sa iba't ibang kombinasyon, kabilang ang mga singles, pairs, three of a kind, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kind, straight flushes, at royal flushes.

Mga Estratehiya para sa Tagumpay

Bagama't ang swerte ay may papel sa Pusoy Dos, ang mga sanay na manlalaro ay maaaring makabuluhang mapabuti ang kanilang mga pagkakataon na manalo. Narito ang ilang mga estratehiya na dapat isaalang-alang:

Pamahalaan ang Iyong Mataas na mga Baraha: Dahil ang 2s at Aces ang pinakamataas na mga baraha, gamitin ang mga ito nang matalino. Maaari silang maging malakas na lead cards o makatulong sa iyo sa mahigpit na mga sitwasyon.

Bigyang-pansin ang mga Barahang Nailaro Na: Ang pagsubaybay sa mga barahang nailaro na ay makakatulong sa iyo na matantya ang lakas ng iyong kamay kumpara sa iyong mga kalaban.

Kontrolin ang Daloy ng Laro: Kung mayroon kang malakas na kamay, subukang itakda ang ritmo sa pamamagitan ng pag-lead ng mataas na mga baraha o malakas na mga kombinasyon.

Mag-bluff nang Estratehiko: Minsan, ang paglaro ng mas mababang mga baraha nang maaga ay maaaring magpababa ng tingin ng iyong mga kalaban sa iyong kamay.

Obserbahan ang Iyong mga Kalaban: Bigyang-pansin kung paano naglalaro ang iyong mga kalaban. Sila ba ay agresibo o konserbatibo? Iakma ang iyong estratehiya nang naaayon.

Sumali sa Rebolusyon ng Pusoy Dos

Kahit ikaw ay matagal nang tagahanga ng Pusoy Dos o isang curious na baguhan, ang Gamezone ay nag-aalok ng perpektong platform upang sumisid sa kapana-panabik na card game na ito. Sa user-friendly nitong interface, aktibong komunidad, at hanay ng mga feature, ang Gamezone ay itinatatag ang sarili bilang pangunahing destinasyon para sa Pusoy Dos online.

Huwag palagpasin ang pagkakataon na maglaro, mag-enjoy, at manalo sa Pusoy Dos. Sumali sa libu-libong mga manlalaro na nakakaranas na ng kasiyahan ng klasikong Filipino game na ito sa Gamezone. Hamunin ang iyong sarili, makipag-ugnayan sa kapwa mga mahilig, at ilubog ang iyong sarili sa estratehikong lalim ng Pusoy Dos ngayon!