#khalif smith

[firstchurchmesa]

Rev. Dr. Khalif Smith preaches "Do Justice" based on Micah 6:6-8  during 9 am Worship on Sunday May 28th, 2023.

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Donate at https://app.sharefaith.com/app/giving/firs6957441Watch the full Worship Service at Livestream.com/FirstChurchMesa

[firstfullmoon]

claire schwartz (poetry editor at jewish currents) shared info about a virtual gathering of poets to raise medical aid to help palestine tomorrow (oct 18th) at 5pm PT / 8pm ET / 2am CET (register here). other poets present include danez smith, george abraham (author of the ars poetica in which every pronoun is a Free Palestine poem), solmaz sharif, lena khalif tuffaha (author of the running orders poem), wendy xu, summer farah (author of the PORTRAIT OF ME AS BREAD BAKING IN JERUSALEM poem)

[beardedmrbean]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A well-known west Philadelphia activist who acknowledged having helped overturn a police car during 2020 protests following the death of George Floyd has been sentenced to a year in prison.

Anthony Smith was sentenced Tuesday following a guilty plea in June to a federal charge of obstructing law enforcement during a civil disorder, which included aiding and abetting an arson, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Smith acknowledged having helped others flip a vacant Philadelphia police car over outside City Hall on May 31, 2020. After someone fired a road flare into the vehicle, sending it up in flames, Smith then threw a piece of paper into the blaze, prosecutors said.

U.S. District Judge Juan Sánchez heard emotional pleas in a packed courtroom from family, friends and ex-students of the former social studies teacher who asked him not to send Smith to prison. Sánchez praised them for coming to court and lauded Smith's community work and “passion for advocacy” but said such leadership “comes with a heavy price.”

“You failed, in that regard, all of us," he said. "Your influence was used in a negative way and impacted public safety.”

Smith told Sánchez his actions were “immature and emotional,” and that he acted as a follower that day.

Smith was sentenced to a year and a day in prison as well as two years of probation, less than the 30 months or more prosecutors had recommended, citing sentencing guidelines, and far less than terms meted out to two co-defendants, the Inquirer reported.

Defense attorney Paul Hetznecker pointed out that his client had spent three years on house arrest and the felony conviction bars him from teaching for 10 years. He said justice “is not served” by incarcerating Smith, calling his actions “a bad moment in his life against a lifetime of altruism.”

Another defendant, Khalif Miller, was sentenced in April to 61 months in prison and Carlos Matchett to 46 months. Two other defendants who pleaded guilty to setting fire to cars during the demonstration were sentenced to shorter terms: Ayoub Tabri to 364 days and Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal to 2½ years.

[astrologieez]

Influential/Talented Black Men and Masculine Nonbinary People of the Sun Signs

Aries:

- Keegan-Michael Key (March 22)

- Brian Tyree Henry (March 31)

- Booker T. Washington (April 5)

- Pharrell Williams (April 5)

- Sterling K. Brown (April 5)

- Montero “Lil Nas X” Hill (April 9)

- Tyler Mitchell (April 12)

- Martin Lawrence (April 16)

- Aliaune “Akon” Thiam (April 16)

- Chancelor “Chance the Rapper” Bennett (April 16)

Taurus:

- Frederick “August Wilson” Kittel, Jr. (April 27)

- Edward “Duke” Ellington (April 29)

- Shameik Moore (May 4)

- Stevland “Stevie Wonder” Morris (May 13)

- Malcolm X (May 19)

- Trevor “Busta Rhymes” Smith Jr. (May 20)

Gemini:

- Ryan Coogler (May 23)

- Steve Lacy (May 23)

- André “3000” Benjamin (May 27)

- Cameron Boyce (May 28)

- Aaron McGruder (May 29)

- Morgan Freeman (June 1)

- Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7)

- Khalif “Swae Lee” Brown (June 7)

- O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson (June 15)

- Tupac “Makaveli” Shakur (June 16)

- James Weldon Johnson (June 17)

- Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (June 17)

Cancer:

- Donald Faison (June 22)

- Ricardo “6lack” Valentine (June 24)

- Paul Lawrence Dunbar (June 27)

- Mike Tyson (June 30)

- Thurgood Marshall (July 2)

- Vince Staples (July 2)

- Alex R. Hibbert (July 4)

- Jaden Smith (July 8)

- Chiwetel Ejiofor (July 10)

Leo:

- Marlon Wayans (July 23)

- Korey Wise (July 26)

- Laurence Fishburne (July 30)

- Terry Crews (July 30)

- Wesley Snipes (July 31)

- Symere “Lil Uzi Vert” Woods (July 31)

- Artis “Coolio” Ivey Jr. (August 1)

- James Baldwin (August 2)

- Louis Armstrong (August 4)

- Barack Obama (August 4)

- Alex Haley (August 11)

- Lakeith Stanfield (August 12)

- Anthony Anderson (August 15)

- Ermias “Nipsey Hussle” Asghedom (August 15)

- Usian Bolt (August 21)

Virgo:

- David “Dave” Chapelle (August 24)

- Lewis Latimer (September 4)

- Richard Wright (September 4)

- Idris Elba (September 6)

- Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges (September 11)

- Festus “Claude” McKay (September 15)

- Christopher “Brent Faiyaz” Wood (September 19)

- Billy Porter (September 21)

- Ray Charles Robinson (September 23)

- Anthony Mackie (September 23)

Libra:

- Will Smith (September 25)

- Donald “Childish Gambino” Glover (September 26)

- Benjamin “Ben” King (September 28)

- Ta-Nehisi Coates (September 30)

- Nat Turner (October 2)

- Rakim “A$AP Rocky” Mayers (October 3)

- Amiri Baraka (October 7)

- Nick Cannon (October 8)

- Jharrel Jerome (October 9)

- Caleb McLaughlin (October 13)

- Usher Raymond IV (October 14)

- Andre Johnson (October 16)

- Tarell Alvin McCraney (October 17)

- Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus Jr. (October 20)

- Asante Blackk (October 20)

- Shéyaa “21 Savage” Abraham-Jospeh (October 22)

Scorpio:

- Ashton Sanders (October 24)

- Craig Robinson (October 25)

- Dallas Young (October 25)

- Frank Ocean (October 28)

- Cornell “Nelly” Haynes, Jr. (November 2)

- Colin Kaepernick (November 3)

- Earl “E-40” Stevens (November 15)

- Bobby Ray “B.o.B.” Simmons Jr. (November 15)

- Michael “Mike” Epps (November 18)

Sagittarius:

- DeRon Horton (November 25)

- Jimi Hendrix (November 27)

- Donald Cheadle Jr. (November 29)

- Chadwick Boseman (November 29)

- Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter (December 4)

- Jamie Foxx (December 13)

- Samuel L. Jackson (December 21)

Capricorn:

- Devonté “Blood Orange” Hynes (December 23)

- Cabell “Cab” Calloway III (December 25)

- Jaleel White (December 27)

- Denzel Washington (December 28)

- John Legend (December 28)

- Miles Brown (December 28)

- André Holland (December 28)

- John Singleton (January 6)

- Marcus Scribner (January 7)

- Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15)

- James Earl Jones (January 17)

- Muhammad Ali (January 17)

- Shawn Wayans (January 19)

Aquarius:

- Jermaine “J.” Cole (January 28)

- Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi (January 30)

- Jack “Jackie” Robinson (January 31)

- Langston Hughes (February 1)

- Antwon “Big Boi” Patton (February 1)

- Robert “Bob” Marley (February 6)

- Brandon “Anderson .Paak” Anderson (February 8)

- Trevante Rhodes (February 10)

- Khalid Robinson (February 11)

- Frederick Douglass (February 14)

- LeVar Burton (February 16)

- Mahershala Ali (February 16)

- Michael Jordan (February 17)

- Andre “Dr. Dre” Young (February 18)

Pisces:

- William “Smokey” Robinson, Jr. (February 19)

- Trevor Noah (February 20)

- Jordan Peele (February 21)

- Tituss Burgess (February 21)

- W.E.B. Du Bois (February 23)

- Ralph Ellison (March 1)

- Demetrius Harmon (March 1)

- Robert “Bobby” McFerrin, Jr. (March 11)

- Lonnie “Common” Lynn (March 13)

- Quincy Jones (March 14)

- Wardell “Steph” Curry (March 14)

- John Adegboyega (March 17)

- Shelton “Spike” Lee (March 20)

[dear-indies]

Hi there! I was wondering if you can suggest any alternative fcs for keiynan lonsdale? Thank you so much

Elliot Knight (1990) Nigerian. 

Ty Ogunkoya (1990) Nigerian.

John Boyega (1992) Nigerian.

MNEK / Uzoechi Osisioma Emenike (1994) Igbo Nigerian - gay. 

also:

Mykki Blanco (1986) African-American Jewish / Unknown - gay - has HIV. 

Alfred Enoch (1988) Afro-Barbadian / English. 

Evan Ross (1988) African-American / German, Norwegian, distant Danish.

Brandon Mychal Smith (1989) African-American.

Eka Darville (1989) Afro-Jamaican, some European.

Le1f / Khalif Diouf (1989) Senegalese - gay.

Titus Makin Jr. (1989) African-American.

Cakes da killa / Rashard Bradshaw (1990) African-American - gay. 

Jacob Anderson (1990) Afro-Caribbean, English.

Rome Flynn (1991) Afro-Cuban.

Mandy Sekiguchi (1991) Nigerian / Japanese.

Jacob Artist (1992) African-American / Polish. 

Tyler James Williams (1992) African-American.

Stephan James (1993) Afro-Jamaican.

Jordan Fisher (1994) English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Cambodian, Tahitian, African-American, Cherokee, Sioux.

Algee Smith (1994) African-American.

Justice Smith (1995) African-American / Italian, French-Canadian.

Gabriel Darku (1995) Black Canadian. 

Taylor Bennett (1996) African-American - bisexual. 

-C

[bathtubmadonna]

“I know what it means to break apart. I observed it in my mother, in myself, in many women. The process of fragmentation in a woman’s body interests me very much from the narrative point of view. It means telling the story of a present-day female I that suddenly perceives itself disintegrating, it loses the sense of time, it’s no longer in order, it feels like a vortex of debris, a whirlwind of thoughts-words. It stops abruptly and starts again from a new equilibrium, which–note–isn’t necessarily more advanced than the preceding or even more stable. It serves only to say: now I’m here and I feel like this.”

“Mother, I have pasts inside me I did not bury properly. Some nights, your daughter tears herself apart yet heals in the morning.”

"Hi Mom and Dad, it’s me, Christine. It’s the name you gave me. It’s a good one. Dad, this is more for Mom. Hey, Mom, did you feel emotional the first time that you drove in Sacramento? I did and I wanted to tell you, but we weren’t really talking when it happened. All those bends I’ve known my whole life, and stores, and the whole thing. But I wanted to tell you I love you. Thank you, I’m… thank you."

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Motherhood / things that remind me of my mom

1. Ruth Orkin (American photographer and filmmaker) 1921 - 1985

2. Elena Ferrante, Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey

Mother and Daughter Waiting at Penn Station, New York, ca. 1948

3. "The Exorcist"

4. Marcel Khalife, Mother

5. x

6. Ijeoma Umebinyuo

7. I Know it's Over - The Smiths

9. Hereditary (2018) dir. Ari Aster

8. Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

10. Come Down - Sylvan Esso

11. Class of 2013 - Mitski

12 & 13. Ladybird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig

[berniesrevolution]

The building loomed over the intersection like an apparition. Though hollowed out and lifeless, the shell of the former A.O. Smith Milwaukee Works headquarters on N. 27th Street and W. Hopkins was still magnificent. But the grand two story brick structure, wide as half a city block and featuring the odd boarded up window, felt like a tombstone. “Here lies the dream of the Great Migration,” it read.

“The 53206,” as the area is commonly called, and the predominantly black neighborhoods surrounding it currently have the highest rate of incarcerated black men in the country. Deindustrialization, wealth inequality, unemployment, and historical patterns of discrimination and police terrorism have created a toxic mix for Wisconsin’s 359,000 black residents.

Yet, few outsiders seem to realize that Milwaukee is substantially black. And many of its black residents, who make up 40 percent of the city, have been simmering in their frustrations for decades. Those frustrations came to a head in 2016, after police killed 23-year-old Sylville Smith, when residents set fire to Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood. But there may be an additional form of resistance bubbling under the surface of Milwaukee’s famed breweries and steadily gentrifying neighborhoods.

A common narrative about the November 2016 election is that a wave of white backlash thrust Donald Trump to the White House and that white Obama voters “flipped” to Trump. This may have been true on a small scale, but Obama-Trump voters did not make a significant difference. White people of all genders and classes voted for Trump at about the same rates as they voted for Romney, McCain, and George W. Bush, and both white and Republican voter turnout stayed fairly steady between 2012 and 2016. More significant was the critical mass of Democrats who defected from the party or didn’t vote at all in the battleground states the Democratic Party needed most. The rate of this decline among Democrats in key swing states was larger than the increase of Republicans who brought Trump to victory. And in some states, the drop was unprecedented.

While the Democratic Party argues about whether and how to win back the vanishingly small number of white Obama-Trump voters, the uncomfortable fact remains that black voter turnout in 2016 was down in over half the country. In Wisconsin, the decline in black voter turnout between 2012 and 2016 was 86,830 votes. Hillary Clinton lost the state by a mere 22,748 votes. If Clinton won over more of the black Democrats who voted in 2012 in just three states—Wisconsin, Florida, and Michigan—she would have won the election.

So why didn’t black voters turn out for Clinton? Even accounting for the thousands of potential voters who were likely harmed by Wisconsin’s incessant suppression tactics, studies show that voter suppression was among the least important factors affecting black turnout in Wisconsin.

In search of some answers, I trekked to Milwaukee last fall to talk to some of the city’s black residents about why they stayed home.

When newly-elected Alderman Khalif Rainey parked his car a couple of blocks from the Sherman Park neighborhood in August 2016, he was met with a stranger’s warning. “Don’t go over there. It’s about to go down tonight.” On August 13, 2016, the historically black, middle class community was in flames, from police cars, to an auto parts store, to the BP gas station that had been a match point for prior protests. This north side Milwaukee neighborhood, which Khalif knew and loved since childhood, burned before his eyes.

Just a few hours after police officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown killed Sylville Smith, the neighborhood was burning. The arson wasn’t just the climax of mourning for Sylville’s death. It was also about the police killings of Dontre Hamilton and Derek Williams, whose deaths were still a recent memory. It was about the folks who were out of work and with few legitimate employment options, and the decades of legalized police terrorism that wracked residents since the earliest years of black migrants seeking refuge in Milwaukee from the Jim Crow South.

In the early 1970s, black people from the corners of rural southern towns could find a relatively fresh start in Milwaukee. Despite the city’s notorious housing segregation, black residents were hired in manufacturing jobs with nothing more than a high school diploma. The city’s culture of anti-black police violence could be mitigated some by its economic opportunities, which ranked among the best in the country for black people.

But the jobs left and the police presence remained. The union labor, pensions, and benefits offered by manufacturing employers gave way to insecure, contractual service work or, in many cases, nothing at all. A 2017 report from the Center of Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), a “think-and-do-tank” based in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, notes that black people in Wisconsin experience “extreme” economic and social inequality far exceeding national rates. In 2015, blacks in Wisconsin were nearly three times more likely to be unemployed than whites. Thirty-one percent of black people in Wisconsin are in poverty, six times the white poverty rate. The black household income is half that of whites in the state, giving it the second highest black-white income gap after Minnesota.

These figures are even starker for black men in the state’s largest city. “No metro area has witnessed a more precipitous erosion in the labor market for black males over the past 40 years than has Milwaukee,” according to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor Marc Levine in his analysis of U.S. Census data. “[A]nd in no other large metro area is the contemporary black male employment crisis more acute than in Milwaukee.” In 1970, 85% of black men in their prime working years of 25-54 were employed. This was above the national average. But by 2010, amid the Great Recession, that employment rate dipped to 52.7%.

This was the lowest level of employment for black males in their prime working years in any metropolitan area in the country.

At the break of dawn, at a news conference following the Sherman Park uprising, Alderman Khalif Rainey diverted from the usual talking points about the ills of violent protest and instead issued a searing indictment of Milwaukee’s failure to address racial inequities:

“This entire community has sat back and witnessed how Milwaukee, Wisconsin has become the worst place to live for African Americans in the entire country. Now this is the warning cry. Do we continue with the inequities, the injustice, the under-education that creates these byproducts that we see this evening?”

With increasing passion, the Alderman professed that “the black people of Milwaukee are tired. They’re tired of living under this oppression. This is their existence. This is their life. This is the life of their children. There’s racial problems here in Wisconsin that have to be rectified. Rectify this immediately.”

Alderman Rainey speaks with the same clarity and fervor over a year later when I meet him to discuss the rebellion, and similar rebellions that took place in Milwaukee and other black, urban centers 50 years prior in the midst of parallel economic and racial conditions. The walls of his wood-paneled office are lined with plaques and notable achievements, including a framed media clipping from TIME magazine highlighting his protest statement.

I asked him what the Sherman Park uprising could have meant for the typically Democratic stronghold and a presidential election that was set to transpire just a few months later. Here, too, the young politician’s response was unconventional: “I felt that there was no one that really spoke—they were speaking to [us] on a superficial level about what was going on.”

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[randomlyrandoms]

Celebrity Deaths 2018

JANUARY Jon Paul Steuer - Jan. 1 (TV Actor) Robert Mann - Jan. 1 (Violinist) Rick Hall - Jan. 2 (Music Producer) Thomas Monson - Jan. 2 (Religous Leader) Bruce Halle - Jan. 4 (Entrepreneur) John Young - Jan. 5 (Astronaut) Jerry Van Dyke - Jan. 5 (TV Show)  *Dick Van Dyke's Brother* Donnelly Rhodes - Jan. 8 (TV Actor) Doreen Tracey - Jan. 10 (TV Actor) Eddie Clarke - Jan. 10 (Guitarist) Jessica Falkholt - Jan. 11 (TV Actress) Keith Jackson - Jan. 12 (Sportscaster) Bobby Zarin - Jan. 13 (Reality Star) Dolores O'Riordan - Jan. 15 (Rock Singer) Peter Wyngarde - Jan. 15 (TV Actor) Bradford Dillman - Jan. 16 (Movie Actor) Jo Jo White - Jan. 16 (Basketball Player) Jessica Falkholt - Jan. 17 (TV Actress) Dorothy Malone - Jan. 19 (Movie Actress) Fredo Santana - Jan. 19 (Rapper) Olivia Cole - Jan. 19 (TV Actress) Dorothy Malone - Jan. 19 (Movie Actress) Paul Bocuse - Jan. 20 (Chef) Jim Rodford - Jan. 20 (Musician) Bob Smith - Jan. 20 (Activist) Connie Sawyer - Jan. 21 (TV Actress) Ursula K. Leguin - Jan. 22 (Children's Author) Hugh Masekela - Jan. 23 (Composer) Joel Taylor - Jan. 23 (Meteorologist) Nicanor Parra - Jan. 23 (Poet) Lari White - Jan. 23 (Country Singer) Mark E. Smith - Jan. 24 (Punk Singer) Warren Miller - Jan. 24 (Director) Ingvar Kamprad - Jan. 27 (Entrepreneur) **Mark Salling - Jan. 30 (TV Actor) Louis Zorich - Jan. 30 (TV Actor) Ann Gillis - Jan. 31 (Movie Actress) Rasual Butler - Jan. 31 (Basketball Player) Leah LaBelle - Jan. 31 (Pop Singer)

FEBRUAY Dennis Edwards - Feb. 1 (Rock Singer) John Mahoney - Feb. 4 (TV Actor) Khalif Smith - Feb. 5 (Youtuber Star) Mickey Jones - Feb. 7 (TV Actor) Ebony Reigns - Feb. 8 (Reggae Singer) John Gavin - Feb. 9 (Movie Actor) Reg E. Cathey - Feb. 9 (TV Actor) Jóhann Jóhannsson - Feb. 9 (Composer) Vic Damone - Feb. 11 (Pop Singer) Jan Maxwell - Feb. 11 (TV Actress) Daryle Singletary - Feb. 12 (Country Singer) Marty Allen - Feb. 12 (Comedian) Morgan Tsvangirai - Feb. 14 (Politician) Billy Graham - Feb. 21 (Religious Leader) Emma Chambers - Feb. 21 (TV Actress) Nanette Fabray - Feb. 22 (TV Actress) Ensa Cosby - Feb. 23 (Family Member) *Bill Cosby's Daugher* Bud Luckey - Feb. 24 (Cartoonist) Sridevi Kapoor - Feb. 24 (Movie Actress) Rogelio Guerra - Feb. 28 (Soap Opera Actor)

MARCH David Ogden Stiers- March 3 (TV Actor) Roger Bannister - March 3 (Runner) Hubert de Givenchy - March 10 (Fashion Designer) Ken Dodd - March 11 (Comedian) Craig Mack - March 12 (Rapper) Nokie Edwards - March 12 (Guitarist) Stephen Hawking - March 14 (Physicist) Jim Bowen - March 14 (Game Show Host) Ed Charles - March 15 (Baseball Player)   Tom Benson - March 15 (Entrepreneur) Tripp Halstead -March 15 (Blogger) Dushon Monique Brown - March 13 (TV Actress) Mike MacDonald - March 17 (Comedian) Charles Lazarus - March 22 (Entrepreneur) Fergus Anckorn - March 22 (War Hero) Morgana King - March 22 - (Movie Actress) Dushon Monique Brown - March 23 (TV Actress) Stéphane Audran - March 27 (Movie Actress) Rusty Staub - March 29 (Baseball Player) Bill Maynard - March 30 (Comedian)

APRIL Steven Bochco - April 1 (TV Producer) Winnie Madikizela-Mandela - April 2 (Politician) Susan Anspach - April 2 (Movie Actress) Ray Wilkins - April 4 (Soccer Coach) Eric Bristow - April 5 (Darts Player) Tim O'Connor - April 5 (TV Actor) Cecil Taylor - April 5 (Pianist) Jonathan Pitre - April 6 (Activist) Chuck McCann - April 8 (TV Actor) Art Bell - April 13 (Radio Host) R. Lee Ermey - April 15 (TV Actor) Pamela Gidley - April 16 (Movie Actress) Hal Greer - April 16 (Basketball Player) Harry Anderson - April 16 (TV Actor) Barbara Bush - April 17 (Political Wife) Dale Winton - April 18 (TV Show Host) Avicii - April 20 (DJ) **Verne Troyer - April 21 (Movie Actor) Bob Dorough - April 23 (Jazz Singer) Johnny Bennett - April 25 (TV Show Host) Kristin Nelson - April 27 (TV Actress) Judith Leiber - April 28 (Fashion Designer) Lil Lonnie - April 29 (Rapper) Robert Mandan - April 29 (Soap Opera Actor)

MAY Scott Hutchison - May 10 (Guitarist) Hubert de Givenchy - May 10 (Fashion Designer) Margot Kidder - May 13 (Movie Actress) Doug Ford - May 14 (Golfer) Tom Wolfe - May 14 (Journalist) Hugh Dane - May 16 (TV Actor) Joseph Campanella - May 16 (TV Actor) Young King Dave - May 17 (Instagram Star) Stephanie Adams - May 18 (Model) Robert Indiana - May 19 (Pop Artist) Clint Walker - May 21 (Movie Actor) Nara Almeida - Nay 21 (Fashion Designer) Allyn Ann McLerie - May 21 (Dancer) Philip Roth - May 22 (Novelist) Elizabeth Sung - May 22 (TV Actress) John Bain - May 24 (Youtube Star) Blake Painter - May 24 (Reality Star) Jerry Maren - May 24 (Movie Actor) Blake Painter - May 25 (Reality Star) Cornelia Frances - May 28 (TV Actress)

JUNE Sophia Gall - June 1 (Instagram Star) Georgann Johnson - June 4 (TV Actress) Dwight Clark - June 4 (Football Player) **Kate Spade - June 5 (Fashion Designer) Alan O'Neill - June 6 (TV Actor) Peter Stringfellow - June 7 (Entrepreneur) Anthony Bourdain - June 8 (Chef) Jackson Odell - June 8 (Movie Actor) Eunice Gayson - June 8 (Movie Actress) Neal Boyd - June 10 (Opera Singer) D.J. Fontana - June 13 (Drummer) Matt Murphy - June 15 (Guitarist) Leslie Grantham - June 15 (Soap Opera Actor) Xxxtentacion - June 18 (Rapper) Big Van Vader - June 18 (Wrestler)   Sophie Gradon - June 20 (Reality Star) Charles Krauthammer - June 21 (Journalist) Vinnie Paul - June 22 (Drummer) The Random Toon Show - June 24 (Youtube Star) Richard Harrison - June 25 (Reality Star) Harlan Ellison - June 27 (Novelist) Steve Soto - June 27 (Musician) **Joe Jackson - June 27 (Talent Manager) *Michael Jackson's Father* Emily Hayward - June 28 (Youtube Star) Derrick O'Connor - June 29 (Theatre Actor) Steve Ditko - June 29 (Cartoonist) Smoke Dawg - June 30 (Rapper)

JULY Alan Longmuir - July 2 (Bassist) Richard Swift - July 3 (Music Producer) Ed Schultz - July 5 (Radio Host) Claude Lanzmann - July 5 (Director) Alan Longmuir - July 7 (Bassist) Tab Hunter - July 8 (Movie Actor) Jorge Valenzuela - July 8 (World Music Singer) Annabelle Neilson - July 12 (Reality Star) Roger Perry - July 12 (TV Actor) Ray Emery - July 15 (Hockey Player) Jon Schnepp - July 19 (Director) Elmarie Wendel - July 21 (TV Actress) Oliver Dragojevic - July 28 (Rock Singer) Arielis Paulino - July 29 (TikTok Star) Nikolai Volkoff - July 29 (Wrestler)

AUGUST Rick Genest - August 1 (Tattoo Artist) C. Struggs - August 3 (Rapper) *Charlotte Rae - August 5 (TV Actress) Barry Chuckle - August 5 (Comedian) Stan Mikita - August 7 (Hockey Player) Jill Janus - August 14 (Metal Singer) **Aretha Franklin - August 16 (Soul Singer) Atal Bihari Vajpayee - August 16 (Politician) Kofi Annan - August 18 (Politician) Craig Zadan - August 20 (Film Producer) **Stefan Karl Stefansson - August 21 (TV Actor) Barbara Harris - August 21 (Movie Actress) Ed King - August 22 (Rock Singer) Robin Leach - August 24 (TV Show Host) John McCain - August 25 (Politician) Neil Simon - August 26 (Playwright) Vanessa Marquez - August 30 (TV Actress)

SEPTEMBER Bill Daily - Sept. 4 (TV Actor) Burt Reynolds - Sept. 6 (Movie Actor) **Mac Miller - Sept. 7 (Rapper) Kim Porter - Sept. 11 (Movie Actress) Rachid Taha - Sept. 12 (Rock Singer) Marin Mazzie - Sept. 13 (Stage Actress) Denis Norden - Sept. 19 (Radio Host) Al Matthews - Sept. 22 (Movie Actor) Chas Hodges - Sept. 22 (Rock Singer) Gary Kurtz - Sept. 23 (Film Producer) PeeWeeToms - Sept. 28 (Youtube Star) Kim Larsen - Sept. 30 (Rock Singer)

OCTOBER Charles Aznavour - Oct. 1 (Pop Singer) Geoff Emerick - Oct. 2 (Sound Desinger) Will Vinton - Oct. 4 (Film Producer) Audrey Wells - Oct. 4 (Screen Writer) Hamiet Bluiett - Oct. 4 (Saxophonist) **Scott Wilson - Oct. 6 (Movie Actor) Peggy McCay - Oct. 7 (Soap Opera Actress) Paul Allen - Oct. 15 (Entrepreneur) Dennis Hof - Oct. 16 (Entrepreneur) Oli Herbert - Oct. 17 (Guitarist) James Karen - Oct. 23 (Movie Actor) Ntozake Shange - Oct. 27 (Poet) James Karen - Oct. 28 (Movie Actor) Jin Yong - Oct. 30 (Novelist) Willie McCovey - Oct. 31 (Baseball Player)

NOVEMBER Roy Hargrove - Nov. 2 (Trumpet Player) Sondra Locke - Nov. 3 (Movie Actress) **Stan Lee - Nov. 12 (Comic Book Author) David Pearson - Nov. 12 (Race Car Driver) Katherine MacGregor - Nov. 13 (TV Actress) Kim Porter - Nov. 15 (Model) Roy Clark - Nov. 15 (TV Show Host) Devin Lima - Nov. 21 (Pop Singer) Nicolas Roeg - Nov. 23 (Director) Ricky Jay - Nov. 24 (TV Actor) Stephen Hillenburg - Nov. 26 (Director) Bernardo Bertolucci - Nov. 26 (Director) *George H.W. Bush - Nov. 30 (US President)

DECEMBER Ken Berry - Dec. 1 (TV Actor) Geoff Murphy - Dec. 3 (Director) Philip Bosco - Dec. 3 (Stage Actor) Pete Shelley - Dec. 6 (Punk Singer) Nancy Wilson - Dec. 13 (Jazz Singer) **Penny Marshall - Dec. 17 (Director) Donald Moffat - Dec. 20 (Movie Actor)

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Junior Ice Dance 2022-23 season

Anita Straub/Andreas Straub (AUT): RD: Carmen Goett- La Llorona; John Powell- Assassin's Tango; Embrujo Mestizo Music- El Vito FD: Grease (coaches: Veronika Musilova, Pavel Laurencik, choreo: ?)

Catharina Guedes Tibau/Cayden Oliver Dawson (BRA): RD: Fermin Spanish Guitar- Spanish Waltz; Juan Jose Mosalini- Bordoneo Y 900 FD: Bill Medley, Jennifer Warnes - The Time of My Life; Otis Redding- These Arms of Mine; The Contours- Do You Love Me (coaches: Carol Lane, Juris Razgulajevs, Marc-André Servant; choreo: Juris Razgulajevs, Marc-André Servant)

Nadiia Bashynska/Peter Beaumont (CAN): RD: FD: Red Violin soundtrack - John Corigliano; Jules Massenet- Elegie

Chaima Ben Khelifa/Everest Zhu (CAN): RD: Cirque du Soleil- Ardor Oris; Taalbi Brothers- Aroul FD: Chae Bo Hoon, Jeong Gwng Hyun, Nau Lee (Karl Hugo)- Stop Crying Your Heart Out (coaches: Shawn Winter, Elise Hamel, Francois-Xavier Ouellette choreo: Mylene Lamoureux, Francois-Xavier Ouellette, Charlie White)

Marianne Hubert/William Oddson (CAN): RD: Ostros Aires and Pepe Romero- Perro Viejo and Farrucas FD: Cody Fry- Photograph (coach: Tyler Myles; choreo: Tyler Myles and Mylene Girard)

Dana Sabatini-Speciale/Buelow (CAN): RD: Milva and The Tango Group- La Cumparsita; FD: Greatest Showman - Tightrope, A Million Dreams (coach: Mitch Islam, choreo: Mitch Islam, Kelly Johnson)

Layla Veillon/Alexander Brandys (CAN): RD: Johannes Linstead- Sangre Del Toro; Per Storby- The Swan Crash Concert: Still Life- The Blood FD: Dear Evan Hansen- You Will Be Found (coaches: Scott Moir, Alma Moir; choreo: Sheri Moir, Cara Moir)

Hailey Yu/Brendan Giang (CAN): RD: Gotan Project- Epoca; King Chronic vs Barrio Populaire- Tango Tanssimaan FD: Craid Pruess- Punjabi Wedding Song; Raj Ghatak- Love's Never Easy; Ganesh (coaches and choreo: Megan Wing, Aaron Lowe)

Xinyi Liu/Tianyi Liu (CHN): RD: Otros Aires; Jesse Cook- Flamenco FD: Christina Aguilera- Say Something (coaches: Guiyu Huang, Ting Li, Linshu Song; choreo: Pascal Denis, Linshu Song)

Natalie Blaasova/Filip Blaas (CZE): RD: Tango Jointz, Bellma Cespedes- Tango D'Amor FD: Michael Jackson (coach/choreo: Karolina Prochazkova)

Katerina Mrazkova/Daniel Mrazek (CZE): RD: Forever Tango, Eduardo Rovirra- A Evaristo Carriego; Pascual Marquina Narro, Andre Rieu- Espana Cani FD: Man in the Iron Mask (coaches: Matteo Zanni, Barbora Reznickova; choreo: Matteo Zanni)

Izabella Sukhovskaya/Trevor Sebastian Malkasaari (EST): RD: FD: (coaches: Julia Semjonova, Valdis Mintals)

Celina Fradji/Jean-Hans Forneaux (FRA): RD: Tango for 3 arr Hugo Chouinard- Gringo Nr. 1 FD: Dead Can Dance- Agape; Rajna- Epidauros; Bachar Mar-Khalife- Ya Nas (coaches: Karine Arribert, Mahil Chantelauze; choreo: ?)

Lou Koch/Ivan Melnyk (FRA): RD: Misia- Do Retorno I; Bajofondo and Mala Rodriguez- El Anden FD: Swan Lake (coaches and choreo: Karine Arribert-Narce, Mahil Chantelauze)

Ambre Perrier Gianesini/Samuel Blanc Klaperman (FRA): RD: Forever Tango- A Evaristo Carriego; Taalbi Brothers Music- Uccen FD: Arctic Monkeys- Do I Wanna Know?; Hooverphonic- Mad About You; Jet- Are You Gonna Be My Girl (coaches: Marien De La Asuncion, Olivier Shoenfelder, Muriel Zazoui, Emi Hirai; choreo: Marien De La Asuncion and Olivier Shoenfelder

Seclet Monchot/Chardain (FRA): RD: Piazzolla - Oblivion; Maria Mezcle- Maestros FD: Queen's Gambit (coach and choreo: Fabian Bourzat

Phebe Bekker/James Hernandez (GBR): RD: Roni Benise- The Duel, Tango de Besame, Concerto de Espana FD: Four Seasons (coaches: Nicholas Buckland, Penny Coomes, Zhanna Palagina choreo: Penny Coomes, Nicholas Buckland, Chellie Fig)

Sophia Bushell/Alex Lapsky (GBR): RD: Bellma Cespedes- Tango D'Amor; Taalbi Brothers- Uccen FD: Greatest Showman- The Greatest Show, Never Enough, This is Me (coaches: Phillip Poole, Karen Quinn; choreo: Phillip Poole)

Slatter/Ongay-Perez (GBR): RD: Gotan Project- El Capitalismo Foraneo; Roni Benise- Malaguena FD: Nick Glennie-Smith- Heart of a King (coach: Philippa Towler-Green)

Laura Hegarty/Kevin Hegarty (IRL): RD: Mala Rumba- Sombrero Blanco (Mask of Zorro); John Powell- Assassin's Tango (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) FD: Sarah Brightman- Harem (coaches: ?)

Elizabeth Tkachenko/Alexei Kiliakov (ISR): RD: Argon Bregovic- Ausencia, Presidente FD: Woodkid- Run Boy Run, Guns for Hire (coaches: Alexei Kiliakov, Elena Novak; choreo: Elena Novak, Alexei Kiliakov, Jimmie Manners)

Nao Kida/Masaya Morita (JPN): RD: Jaime Wilensky, Andres Linetzky, Ernesto Toca- Sentimientos; Juan Carlos Caceres, Romeo Music- Tango FD: Steve Jablonsky- Red Notice; Theodore Shapiro, Craig Wedren, Ivy Levon- Who Can You Trust; Ryan Shore- Rogue (coach/choreo: Cathy Reed)

Hannah Lim/Ye Quan (KOR): RD: Primavera Portena- Milonga FD: Saint-Saēns- Danse Macabre (coaches: Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer, Benjamin Brisebois, Pascal Denis, Josée Piché; choreo: Romain Haguenauer(RD), Marie-France Dubreuil(FD)

Milla O'Brien/Laurin Wiederkehr (SUI): RD: Chi Chi- Alice's Tango; Didulia- Flamenco FD: Sanjay Leela Bhansali- Nagada Sang Dhol; Alka Yagnik- Ringa Ringa; Panjabi MC- Mundian to Bach Ke (all arr. Maxime Rodriguez) (coaches: Cornelia Leroy, Alisa Agafonova)

Elliana Peal/Ethan Peal (USA): RD: Otro Aires- Otro Noches En La Viruta; Gypsy Kings- Bamboleo FD: Halo (coach/choreo: Robert Peal)

Vanessa Pham/Jonathan Rogers (USA): RD: Jerzy Petersburski- To Ostatnia Niedziela; Taalbi Brothers- Uccen FD: Scheherazade (coach: Roman Zaretsky, choreo: Igor Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo, Roman Zaretsky)

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"Eyes Wide Open" Rev. Khalif Smith, April 23rd, 2023

Rev. Khalif Smith preaches "Eyes Wide Open" based on Luke 24: 13-35 during 9 am Worship on Sunday April 23rd, 2023. 

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Donate at https://app.sharefaith.com/app/giving/firs6957441 

 Watch the full Worship Service at Livestream.com/FirstChurchMesa

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Congrats To The Grammys For Finally Getting Their Rock & Metal Category Figured Out

Following a pretty up-and-down rollercoaster ride the past few years, the Recording Academy has seemingly gotten their stuff together when it comes to their rock and metal categories.

After dealing with an embarrassing year last year where Avenged Sevenfold publically called out the prestigious institution for their lack of support to the metal community, apparently, someone at the Academy was paying attention as this year’s nominees might be one of their best in quite some time. 

For Best Metal Performance, the Grammys see a lot of new faces including Between The Buried And Me, Deafheaven, High On Fire and Trivium as well as scene staples Underoath (Underoath were previously nominated back in 2006 for Best Short Form Music Video).

As for Best Rock Performance, previous nominees like Arctic Monkeys, Cris Cornell (rest in peace) and Halestorm are accompanied by the likes of Greta Van Fleet and, surprisingly and well-deserved, FEVER 333.

Another fantastic nomination comes in the Best Rock Song category. Sandwiched between well-known household names like Ghost, Twenty One Pilots, and St. Vincent is Bring Me The Horizon and, for the second time, Greta Van Fleet. 

All in all, as much as we bash on award shows for their lack of support towards our hard rock and metal community, this year the Grammys got it right. Were there other artists that deserved a nomination? Of course there were. But considering how things have been in the past (Leonard Cohen Best Rock Performance 2018, Beyonce Best Rock Performance nominee 2017, Tenacious D Best Metal Performance 2015, etc.), we’ll take it.        

To check out the full list of nominees to prepare you for the 61st annual Grammy Awards which will take place on Sunday, February 10th, be sure to look below.

Best Rock Performance

“Four Out Of Five” —Arctic Monkeys “When Bad Does Good” — Chris Cornell “Made An America” — The Fever 333 “Highway Tune” — Greta Van Fleet “Uncomfortable” — Halestorm

Best Metal Performance

“Condemned To The Gallows “— Between The Buried And Me “Honeycomb” — Deafheaven “Electric Messiah” — High On Fire “Betrayer” — Trivium “On My Teeth” — Underoath

Best Rock Song

“Black Smoke Rising” — Jacob Thomas Kiszka, Joshua Michael Kiszka, Samuel Francis Kiszka & Daniel Robert Wagner, songwriters (Greta Van Fleet) “Jumpsuit” — Tyler Joseph, songwriter (Twenty One Pilots) “MANTRA” — Jordan Fish, Matthew Kean, Lee Malia, Matthew Nicholls & Oliver Sykes, songwriters (Bring Me The Horizon) “Masseduction” — Jack Antonoff & Annie Clark, songwriters (St. Vincent) “Rats” — Tom Dalgety & A Ghoul Writer, songwriters (Ghost)

Best Rock Album

Rainier Fog — Alice In Chains M A N I A — Fall Out Boy Prequelle — Ghost From The Fires — Greta Van Fleet Pacific Daydream — Weezer

Record Of The Year

“I Like It” — Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin “The Joke” — Brandi Carlile “This Is America” — Childish Gambino “God’s Plan” — Drake “Shallow” — Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper “All The Stars” — Kendrick Lamar & SZA “Rockstar” — Post Malone Featuring 21 Savage “The Middle” — Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey

Album Of The Year

Invasion Of Privacy — Cardi B By The Way, I Forgive You — Brandi Carlile Scorpion — Drake H.E.R. — H.E.R. Beerbongs & Bentleys — Post Malone Dirty Computer — Janelle Monáe Golden Hour — Kacey Musgraves Black Panther: The Album, Music From And Inspired By (Various Artists)

Song Of The Year

“All The Stars” — Kendrick Duckworth, Solána Rowe, Al Shuckburgh, Mark Spears & Anthony Tiffith, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar & SZA) “Boo’d Up” — Larrance Dopson, Joelle James, Ella Mai & Dijon McFarlane, songwriters (Ella Mai) “God’s Plan” — Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake) “In My Blood” — Teddy Geiger, Scott Harris, Shawn Mendes & Geoffrey Warburton, songwriters (Shawn Mendes) “The Joke” — Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth, songwriters (Brandi Carlile) “The Middle” — Sarah Aarons, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Marcus Lomax, Kyle Trewartha, Michael Trewartha & Anton Zaslavski, songwriters (Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey) “Shallow” — Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) “This Is America” — Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson, songwriters (Childish Gambino)

Best New Artist

Chloe x Halle Luke Combs Greta Van Fleet H.E.R. Dua Lipa Margo Price Bebe Rexha Jorja Smith

Best Pop Solo Performance

“Colors” — Beck “Havana (Live)” — Camila Cabello “God Is A Woman” — Ariana Grande “Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?)” — Lady Gaga “Better Now” — Post Malone

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

“Fall In Line” — Christina Aguilera Featuring Demi Lovato “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” — Backstreet Boys “‘S Wonderful” — Tony Bennett & Diana Krall “Shallow” — Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper “Girls I Like You” — Maroon 5 Featuring Cardi B “Say Something” — Justin Timberlake Featuring Chris Stapleton “The Middle” — Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Love Is Here To Stay —Tony Bennett & Diana Krall My Way — Willie Nelson Nat “King” Cole & Me — Gregory Porter Standards (DELUXE) — Seal THE MUSIC…THE MEM’RIES…THE MAGIC! —Barbra Streisand

Best Pop Vocal Album

Camila — Camila Cabello Meaning Of Life — Kelly Clarkson Sweetener — Ariana Grande Shawn Mendes — Shawn Mendes Beautiful Trauma — P!nk Reputation — Taylor Swift

Best Alternative Music Album

Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino —Arctic Monkeys Colors — Beck Utopia — Björk American Utopia — David Byrne Masseduction — St. Vincent

Best Rap Performance

“Be Careful” — Cardi B “Nice For What” — Drake “King’s Dead” — Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake “Bubblin” — Anderson .Paak “Sicko Mode” — Travis Scott, Drake, Big Hawk & Swae Lee

Best Rap/Sung Performance

“Like I Do” — Christina Aguilera Featuring Goldlink “Pretty Little Fears” — 6LACK Featuring J. Cole “This Is America” — Childish Gambino “All The Stars” — Kendrick Lamar & SZA “Rockstar” — Post Malone Featuring 21 Savage

Best Rap Song

“God’s Plan” — Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake) “King’s Dead” — Kendrick Duckworth, Samuel Gloade, James Litherland, Johnny McKinzie, Mark Spears, Travis Walton, Nayvadius Wilburn & Michael Williams II, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake) “Lucky You” — R. Fraser, G. Lucas, M. Mathers, M. Samuels & J. Sweet, songwriters (Eminem Featuring Joyner Lucas) “Sicko Mode” — Khalif Brown, Rogét Chahayed, BryTavious Chambers, Mike Dean, Mirsad Dervic, Kevin Gomringer, Tim Gomringer, Aubrey Graham, John Edward Hawkins, Chauncey Hollis, Jacques Webster, Ozan Yildirim & Cydel Young, songwriters (Travis Scott, Drake, Big Hawk & Swae Lee) “Win” — K. Duckworth, A. Hernandez, J. McKinzie, M. Samuels & C. Thompson, songwriters (Jay Rock)

Best Rap Album

Invasion Of Privacy — Cardi B Swimming — Mac Miller Victory Lap — Nipsey Hussle Daytona — Pusha T Astroworld — Travis Scott

Best Music Video:

“APES***” — The Carters, Ricky Saiz, video director; Mélodie Buchris, Natan Schottenfels & Erinn Williams, video producers “This Is America” — Childish Gambino, Hiro Murai, video director; Ibra Ake, Jason Cole & Fam Rothstein, video producers “I’m Not Racist” Joyner Lucas & Ben Proulx, video directors; Joyner Lucas, video producer “Pynk” —  Janelle Monáe, Emma Westenberg, video director; Justin Benoliel & Whitney Jackson, video producers “Mumbo Jumbo” — Tierra Whack Marco Prestini, video director; Sara Nassim, video producer

Best Music Film:

“Life in 12 Bars”— Eric Clapton, Lili Fini Zanuck, video director; John Battsek, Scooter Weintraub, Larry Yelen & Lili Fini Zanuck, video producers “Whitney” — (Whitney Houston), Kevin Macdonald, video director; Jonathan Chinn, Simon Chinn & Lisa Erspamer, video producers “Quincy” — Quincy Jones Alan Hicks & Rashida Jones, video directors; Paula DuPré Pesmen, video producer “Itzhak”— Itzhak Perlman, Alison Chernick, video director; Alison Chernick, video producer “The King” — (Elvis Presley), Eugene Jarecki, video director; Christopher Frierson, Georgina Hill, David Kuhn & Christopher St. John, video producers

[pogoselvaggioblog]

THE GARDEN - Kiss My Super Bowl Ring epitaph records (2020)

https://www.instagram.com/cabezahablante/?hl=it

Hola chicos!

Potrei iniziare a scrivere "ai tempi del Coronavirus.." o attaccare con un pippone simpatico ma didattico sull'importanza della musica durante la quarantena, ma Cabeza in quarantena vive da sociopatico stile psychonazi e ascolta solo hardcore punk o stoner rock per dimenticare questo periodo di merda dove confondiamo la solidarietà con il conformismo.

A rincuorarmi in questi giorni ci ha pensato l'ultimo album dei The Garden (cazzo, meno male). "Cazzo chi?"

Come "cazzo chi?" non conoscete i The Garden? beh problemi vostri vi dirò soltanto che sono una band californiana formata dai gemelli Wyatt e Fletcher Shears e che partiti dal punk hardcore un po' naif sono giunti ad un mix di stili e generi unico e soltanto "loro" che gli stessi chiamano Vada Vada Music.

Però vi prego scopriteveli da soli, piano piano e ve ne innamorerete. Per me rappresentano l'iconoclastia al fare il cazzo che si vuole puntando solo ad essere se stessi anche se in un mare di "costruzioni" o travestimenti.

Ma giungiamo al punto; uscito a marzo Kiss My Super Bowl Ring, per i tipi della Epitaph (che ormai producevano soltanto punk per gli hipster) è un bellissimo disco come non ne uscivano da un po' da un gruppetto di ventenni.

Peccato non abbiano aggiunto il singolo "Thy Mission" (uscito a fine 2019) che era ormai il mio inno all'essere come si è fottendosene di tutti, insieme al sempre visionario Mac DeMarco. Minchia non li perdonerò mai per questa mancanza perchè il disco inizia subito alla grande con "Clench To Stay Awake", una ballad post-grunge che poi diventa un selvaggio pezzo hardcore alla Bad Brains in acido da sushi! Subito la batteria di Fletcher spara una violenza punk rimanendo di un glam da rave party post anni 2010's (nella mia testa si dice duemiladiecis). Ma il pezzo che mi rapisce subito è "A Struggle"! Minchia! Inizia come uno screamo, poi l'aggancio alla Franz Ferdinand, e cazzo poi mi fanno scoppiare il cervello con tastiere vaporwave, basso new wave ma nemmeno il tempo di riprendermi che a cannone parte un simil-ritornello nurave come se i Klaxons degli esordi avessero conosciuto il postcore (mamma mia a scriverlo mi sta scoppiando la testa! che pezzone!). I testi poi fra il vago alla Michael Stipe e una tristezza cinica ma consapevolezza di un Robert Smith. Già urlavo al capolavoro ma poi ripenso alla mancanza di "Thy Mission" e torno in me stesso.

Se in questo disco era chiaro un uso maggiore delle chitarre, un altra influenza che già era presente nei lavori precedenti ma qui forse arriva più forte è il drum'n'bass dei novanta. E così "Sneaky Devil" sembra un pezzo di Goldie pulito dalle parlate rap inglesi, per urli post-punk nichilisti e anche un po' industrial. Non voglio scomodare Throbbing Gristle che poi mi picchiate (P-Orridge RIP).

Quarto pezzo è la title-track (fa figo sempre scrivere questa parola); un inno a fottersene tanto come si dice dalle mie parti se non ti sta bene mi puoi sempre succhiare la minch... ehm... il mio anello del Superbolw volevo dire. "A Fool's Expedition" sembra (al limite della denuncia) "Zombies" dei Cranberries, violenta, acida, piena di delusione che ci porta in un mondo dove le canzonette da hipster tutte pulite e fighette ci stanno in culo e partono flauti e tastiere da Neofolk ariano in chiave 2020. Mi stavo per suicidare quando la orecchiabilissima "AMPM Truck" con quella chitarrina seducente e quel basso pieno e cavernoso mi fanno quasi provare un piacere da punto G del cervello; e pensare che il pezzo racconta di un incidente che ha avuto Wyatt mentre stava guidando stanco di notte. Fletcher oltre alla batteria ed ai campionamenti pensa anche a queste chitarre malinconiche ma molto glam. Insomma mi sento un po' buttato di qua e di là con sti ragazzini. Ma Cabeza sa ascoltare con assoluta oggettivita e torna in se come un Jushin Thunder Liger e resisto dal riascoltarmi il pezzo per passare a quello successivo. "Hit Eject" inizia come un pezzo degli Auterche per poi divenire una "Firestarter" simil-rappeggiante; i campionamenti vapor sono la ciliegina sulla torta. Questa musica "spazzatura riciclata" dal duo di Orange County è impressionante; sembra che fagocitino generi e le assimilino come faccio io con le tortillas! Pezzo solido e un po' a ritorno alle origini, "The King Of Cutting Corners" è una gangstapunk song, con quella voce profonda di Wyatt e le chitarre da pulp fiction; un naif-punk alla primo disco dei Cure con inserimenti di rumorini, effettini presi e prodotti dalle menti dei due gemelli pazzi.

"Lurkin'" con le basi grime e quella chitarra dark subito mi rapisce, creando un aria di contaminazione molto cool. Forse non il pezzo potente come gli altri per la collaborazione di Khalif Jones (che non conosco ma sembra un Dizzee Rascal con il mal di gola). In "Lowrider Slug" non so se il riff di chitarra sia rubato a qualche produzione grunge o post-punk ma funziona con la voce di un disilluso Wyatt, come dei Nirvana infarciti di grime-noise e cacofonie urlanti. A chiudere "Please, Fuck Off" che già dice tutto; penso che a cantare qui sia Fletcher (ogni tanto li confondo, ma sarà la tequila), è un pezzo technopunk, con le aperture da ballad anfetaminica me la immagino dal vivo ad un rave party con luci soffuse. Forse non l'avrei messa come ultimo pezzo perchè dopo un disco così solido, veriegato e "pieno" forse un pezzo che ti faceva tornare a respirare per lasciarti positivamente ci stava (o forse ormai sono un vecchio del cazzo), ma i The Garden decidono di chiudere con un imperativo: FUCK YOU!

In conclusione Kiss My Super Bowl Ring è un bellissimo disco non un capolavoro, forse con quell'istant-classic (anche questa parola l'ho sempre voluta scrivere) di "Thy Mission" inspiegabilmente non inserita nell'album, minchia avrebbe spaccato! Però non possiamo non ascoltare e dare importanza a questo lavoro. E' originale, studiato, mai banale, quando dici "so dove andranno a parare" se ne escono con tastiere ambient-vaporwave che provocano mind blowing! Spero che ai sottovalutati ma eternamente borghesi upperclass The Garden arrivino i riconoscimenti che si meritano perchè come non succede più il loro suono ha fatto GAVETTA (ah minchia!) come non si fa più! senza i lavori precedenti non avrebbero evoluto questo sound "fluido", a volte indecifrabile ma personalissimo.

Cabeza Hablante

[gocurrentcom]

Photographer fatally shot after party

Photographer fatally shot after party

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Police Department is investigating a deadly shooting after a party. Police said it happened around 1:30 a.m. Saturday near West Fond Du Lac Avenue and West Ridge Court. A 32-year-old photographer was at a Sweet 16 birthday party when someone approached him after he left and shot him. Alderman Khalif Rainey identified him as Robb Smith. “I have learned that Mr. Smith was…

[junker-town]

The final 4 quarterbacks in the NFL playoffs, ranked

Jimmy Garoppolo and Patrick Mahomes are looking to lead their teams to Super Bowl 54.

Patrick Mahomes comes first. Then who?

Picking the top quarterback remaining in the 2020 NFL playoffs is easy. Patrick Mahomes is the reigning MVP. Last week, he threw three touchdown passes in less than four minutes of game time (and five touchdowns total) to turn a 24-0 deficit into a 51-31 victory over the Texans.

After that, things get dicey. The playoffs are loaded with passing talent, but Mahomes may be the only sure thing if you’re looking for a 300+ yard performance in the conference championship games.

Aaron Rodgers has led the Packers to 14 wins this year, though he has done so while turning some of his responsibilities over to a proficient Green Bay running game and a better-than-usual defense. Ryan Tannehill, who finished 2019 with the league’s top passer rating, has just 160 passing yards in two playoff wins combined. Jimmy Garoppolo proved he can be a consistent positive passing force for the best team in the NFC, but when his head coach wanted to put away the Vikings, Kyle Shanahan specifically took the ball out of his quarterback’s hands.

The result is a tangled mass of good and occasionally great passers, all of whom are capable of pushing their teams to an NFL title. Let’s break down this race.

1. Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs

Mahomes’ greatness in Kansas City boils down to three things:

a) the ability to avoid pressure in the pocket and extend plays long enough for even the stoutest coverage to break down,

b) an innate connection with his game-breaking wide receivers and tight end, who know exactly where to find holes downfield once Mahomes is forced to go off script, and

c) a cannon arm that can hit tiny targets in the pocket, on the run, or even while he’s in the process of being tackled.

Mahomes knows just exactly how to bring linebackers and defensive backs out of coverage and toward the line of scrimmage. He’s capable of taking a patch of open field in front of him and turning it into a first down — like he did with a game-high 53 rushing yards last week. But if you slide up to cut off those scrambles, he’s usually just waiting to create a big play in the void you’ve left behind. Here’s what he did last postseason:

#SomethingSmart I said it during the game but out of structure, Mahomes is playing chess while others are playing checkers. He wants Kelce but holds the ball and widens to get linebacker Anthony Walker to commit before getting rid of the ball. pic.twitter.com/4VWEUcch5r

— Kent Swanson (@kent_swanson) January 15, 2019

Though his attempt to defend his MVP award was derailed by a midseason knee injury and Lamar Jackson’s brilliance, Mahomes remained a top tier — and somehow under-the-radar — quarterback in 2019. He ranked among the league’s top five passers in interception rate, yards (and adjusted yards) per pass, and SIS’s passing points earned despite taking a step backward in most counting stats following his breakthrough 2018.

His deep ball accuracy was actually better this fall than it was in that MVP season. He improved that number from a 42.7 percent completion rate to 48.6 percent (counting playoffs) in 2019. That was on full display in the Divisional Round when he torched the Texans with five such throws.

Mahomes’ ability to do just about everything well makes him a nightmare to defend. He can torch you at the line of scrimmage or effortlessly flick it deep. That makes him a slam-dunk choice for the No. 1 spot.

2. Aaron Rodgers, Packers

Rodgers hasn’t been his typically superhuman self in 2019. The Packers went 13-3 in the regular season and stand at the doorstep of a Super Bowl anyway.

That’s not to suggest Rodgers was a bad quarterback by any means. Saddled with a receiving corps that featured Davante Adams at the top of the depth chart and a range of unheralded targets behind him (Allen Lazard, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Geronimo Allison, and Jake Kumerow foremost among them), he still managed to throw for 250 yards per game while leading the league in interception rate.

The combination of Aaron Jones and a defense that’s stepped up to make big plays in clutch moments has limited the amount of moments where Rodgers has had to put his team on the back and make a play that seems to defy the laws of physics. At 36 years old and coming off a season when his scrambling abilities were diminished, it may be fair to wonder whether the two-time MVP can find that extra gear to devastate opponents in the postseason.

Even so, the team is in good hands should the Packers’ playoff hopes rest on Rodgers’ ability to find Adams downfield. Green Bay rode the Seahawks’ steadfast refusal to double-cover Adams in the Divisional Round. That win saw the Pro Bowl wideout haul in eight catches for 160 yards, two touchdowns, and one pivotal third-down conversion late in the game.

Aaron Rodgers. Bad man. #GoPackGo #NFLPlayoffs : #SEAvsGB on FOX : NFL app // Yahoo Sports app Watch free on mobile: https://t.co/8lgzlFahDc pic.twitter.com/IRGGyOJ3v7

— NFL (@NFL) January 13, 2020

Rodgers didn’t have to be a superhero against the Seahawks — he just had to be smart enough to carve up Seattle’s porous pass defense. He’ll face a much tougher challenge against the 49ers’ second-ranked unit in the NFC title game. That could necessitate the return of Rodgers prime to figure out Richard Sherman and the San Francisco secondary.

3. Ryan Tannehill, Titans

Tannehill has been relatively quiet this postseason. Early leads have meant he’s been able to win by handing the ball off to Derrick Henry roughly twice as often as he’s thrown passes.

That, along with an occasionally solid but often underwhelming Dolphins career, has some Titans fans concerned in advance of their biggest game of the year. There are still bright spots, however.

More than 10 percent of his passes in the playoffs have ended in touchdowns. With top choice A.J. Brown blanketed by double coverage throughout the postseason, he’s turned to players like Anthony Firkser and Kalif Raymond.

Ryan Tannehill throws his second touchdown pass in as many attempts as Khalif Raymond gets behind the defense and hauls in the diving catch. #Titans lead 14-0 #TENvsBAL pic.twitter.com/wC2IOFiH7f

— Titans Film Room (@titansfilmroom) January 12, 2020

While his most memorable touchdown of the season so far was the result of a heroic effort (and butt-planting) from Jonnu Smith, it was Tannehill’s mastery of the moment that made that happen. The veteran quarterback stepped back to create space in the face of a blitz and, realizing it was third down, took a chance downfield.

Tannehill put this pass where only his tight end could get it. That trust was rewarded by an absolutely bonkers play from Smith.

JONNU SMITH. A one-handed grab to put the @Titans ahead! #Titans #NFLPlayoffs @EasyMoney_81 : #TENvsBAL on CBS : NFL app // Yahoo Sports app Watch free on mobile: https://t.co/81PYwJcw9t pic.twitter.com/tNgiSLK5Vh

— NFL (@NFL) January 12, 2020

In October, Tannehill took over Tennessee’s starting quarterback role from Marcus Mariota. In the process, he led the league in yards per pass (9.6) while completing more than 70 percent of his throws. His 117.5 passer rating was the best the league’s seen over a full season since 2013 and fourth-best since 1970.

He did this despite getting sacked on roughly one out of every 10 dropbacks. He did this while turning second-rounder Brown into a rookie of the year candidate atop a mostly overlooked receiving corps and without starting tight end Delanie Walker, who played in just seven games due to injury.

That was all extremely impressive. He’s going to have to tap into that version of Tannehill at some point if he’s going to lead the Titans to their first Super Bowl win, though.

4. Jimmy Garoppolo, 49ers

Garoppolo finished the season with an efficient 8.4 yards per pass, a 102 passer rating, and four fourth-quarter comebacks (tied for the league lead). The fact he came in last in this ranking is a testament to the other quarterbacks remaining in this year’s playoff field.

The former Patriot has demonstrated he’s gifted passer who can not only spot opportunities, but also slip the ball into rapidly closing windows. There are major questions to unpack about his ability to identify coverage and throw the ball downfield in clutch situations, however.

Garoppolo’s breakthrough has been marred by ugly interceptions. Five of his 14 picks this year have been the result of linebackers dropping back into the defensive backfield to snipe away a pass that never got to its intended target.

The 49ers’ gameplan has been to bring Garoppolo along fairly slowly with a steady diet of short, relatively easy throws. His completed passes went for an average of 12.1 yards per reception, which ranked sixth in the NFL. However, his average throw traveled only 6.3 yards past the line of scrimmage — 40th among qualified passers! If opponents can find a way to keep his targets (namely loosed bull George Kittle) from rumbling for massive gains after the catch, it could mean Garoppolo will have to hit some deep balls.

There’s hope there. Garoppolo only threw 32 passes than traveled 20+ yards — fewer than any quarterback who threw at least 300 times except Drew Brees. He also turned 19 of those passes into big gain completions to compile a sterling 59.4 percent completion rate on deep balls. No other qualified passer in the NFL even cracked the 50 percent barrier.

It wasn’t always pretty — and sometimes it took some significant adjustments from his wideouts — but it worked.

Garoppolo has already torched the Packers once before, throwing for 253 yards and a pair of touchdowns in a 37-8 win back in November. He even got to show off his ability to place a ball downfield to a wide open Kittle to make all Green Bay’s defensive nightmares come true at once.

A similar performance in the NFC title game would prove his Niners don’t have to rely on their running game to win the conference. And it would tell the world his slot at No. 4 was way too low.

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Titans 28, Ravens 12 : Crash Landing - The Ravens start slow & never recover as they get ambushed @ home & are once again 1 & done for the 2nd year in a row. Lamar Jackson's pass bounces off TE Mark Andrews hands & is picked off by S Kevin Byard on the Ravens first possession & Tennesee scores 8 plays later as QB Ryan Tannehill hits TE Jonnu Smith on a juggling 12 yard TD pass to make it 7-0 in the 1st. After the Ravens turn it over on downs, Tannehill hits WR Khalif Raymond on a 45 yard TD pass 1 play later to make it 14-0, but Justin Tucker hits FG's of 49 & 22 yards to make it 14-6 @ the half. RB Derrick Henry tosses a 3-yard TD pass to WR Corey Davis in the 3rd & Tannehill runs it in from 1-yard out to make it 28-6. Jackson hits TE Hayden Hurst on a 12 yard TD pass w/ 11:04 left in the game but it was too late. Baltimore's season ends brutally, despite such an amazing regular season, but the future is still very bright. Bal (14-3) Ten (11-7) @ K.C. GO RAVENS!! #PermanentlyScarred #TheWestWingLA #TLA @thewestwingla @theleagueam https://www.instagram.com/p/B7U2pqDDVlPgnZeuAzFWowILNmYHs9ooB_dlJc0/?igshid=180td16tcs7oy