#lake louise 2022

[ticiie]

later that night

characters: Gino Caviezel, Justin Murisier, Marco Odermatt, Loïc Meillard, Mauro Caviezel (mentioned)

pairing: Marco Odermatt/Gino Caviezel, Justin Murisier/Mauro Caviezel (implied)

length: 617 words

author's note: due to the recent events in Lake Louise, I had to get this out in order to hopefully comfort my mutuals and myself a little. All the best to Mauro Caviezel.

The lobby is barely lit when they return, only the small lamps that stand on the coffee tables around the open spaced floor cast their warm light across the walls. Therefor Gino at first doesn’t take notice of the huddled figures lying on the sofas close to the window. Justin reaches them first and nudges Marco’s shoulder. He wakes up immediately, the pattern of the pillow printed to his cheek, hair standing up in every direction.

“How is he? Did you see him?”, Marco asks.

Gino doesn’t answer, instead he wraps his arms around Marco’s middle who quickly returns the hug. Up until now, Gino hadn’t allowed himself to cry. But when Marco places a kiss to the top of his head and runs his hand soothingly across Gino’s back, he can feel his walls tumbling down. The corners of his eyes start to burn. He doesn’t want the others to see so he buries his face in Marco’s chest, taking in the comforting scent of oranges and laundry detergent.

“It’s okay. I’ve got you.” Marco’s voice is hardly more than a whisper, stained by his own fight against the tears. Meanwhile Justin is talking to Loïc about what happened after the helicopter had left.

“They did a couple of tests on him and they wouldn’t let us see him. Then only Gino was allowed in his room because he’s family. I don’t know who he bribed but they eventually let me in the room as well. Mauro was conscious the whole time, the doctor said that’s a good sign. He doesn’t remember crashing though. They’ll take him back home on Monday for further examinations.”

With a sigh, he lets himself fall onto the sofa. Loïc sits next to him and Gino untangles himself from Marcos embrace but keeps one arm around his waist. He needs Marco’s steadiness or the waves might crash over him, pull him under where hope is lost and Mauro is damned to never fully recover again.

“Why were you sleeping down here anyways?”, Justin eventually asks, one hand fidgeting with the quilling of the pillow. Loïc and Marco exchange a look. “We were waiting for you. We figured you’d tell us more than Hannes and we didn’t dare to ask Vitus, he seems quite shaken still.”

None of them says anything for a while. The only noise that fills the lobby is the steady ticking of the grandfather clock that thrones in the corner next to the reception. Outside, the night lays calm. The snow and wind from earlier today have stopped, a thin blanket of fresh snow covers the tables and chairs on the terrace, glittering in the light that’s shining down from the upper floors. Gino sits down on the edge of the coffee table. The exhaustion that hits him comes without any warning; he feels as if the day had lasted at least a year. The images of Mauro’s motion less body flood his mind, of how he had stood up but staggered, with blood streaming down his face. Gino flinches at the memory and Marco kneels down in front of him. He places his hands on Gino’s cheeks and forces him gently to look at him. Gino’s eyes are glazed with tears.

“He’s going to be fine”, Marco whispers and Gino clenches his jaw but nods.

“Can we-“ Justin starts but breaks off. The others look at him and Justin blushes a little when he starts talking again. “I don’t want to be alone right now. Can we bunk together?” Loïc giggles and they all agree. It’s the least Marco and Loïc can do for the two men that are probably the most important people in Mauro’s life.

[haireyes]

Favourite new watches of the year!

[brokehorrorfan]

Speak No Evil will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 19 via Universal. Produced by Blumhouse, the 2024 psychological horror-thriller will first be available on Digital tomorrow, October 1.

James Watkins (Eden Lake, The Woman in Black) writes and directs, based on the 2022 Danish film of the same name. James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi, Alix West Lefler, Dan Hough, and Scoot McNairy star.

Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by writer-director James Wakins

Nuclear Families featurette

A Horrifying Crescendo featurette

The Farmhouse of Horrors featurette

After befriending a British couple with a mute son, Americans Ben and Louise accept an unusual invitation to bring their daughter for a weekend at an idyllic country estate. Yet when they discover their hosts are hiding sinister motives, Ben and Louise fear their family may be pawns in a disturbing plot.

Pre-order Speak No Evil.

[natures-moments]

Devil's Thumb trail view, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada (Summer 2022)

[claygoestothemovies]

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

After the most aggressive marketing campaign since the Crusades, SPEAK NO EVIL is finally here. More importantly, we never have to see the trailer ever again. As its own thing, it’s actually pretty fun! As a remake of SPEAK NO EVIL (2022), it fails epically.

The story follows Ben (Scoot McNairy), Louise (Mackenzie Davis), and their daughter Agnes (Alix West Lefler) as they go to visit some new friends they recently met while vacationing in Italy. After moving to London and having some marital difficulties, going to the county for a long weekend seems like just what they need, even if they barely know the people they’ll be visiting. Upon arriving, things become increasingly uncomfortable as their hosts display behavior that is, shall we say, a bit out of the norm.

As the villainous hosts, James McAvoy and Aisling Franciosi are nearly pitch perfect. McAvoy in particular seems to be having a blast with the material, and is far more sinister than the campy performance the marketing suggested, thankfully. Davis and McNairy do as well as they can in their straight man roles, and I wish I could have seen them dig to the depths that were asked of the performers in the original, but that’s not the movie we got. I was, however, impressed by the child actors! Dan Hough’s Art and Lefler’s Agnes were surprisingly nuanced for people their age.

The original SPEAK NO EVIL was one of my favorite horror films of 2022, and one of the bleakest movie watching experiences I’ve ever had (complimentary), so with America’s track record of diluting foreign horror when we do the inevitable remake, I was nervous to say the least. The experience of watching this remake was fascinating and maddening all at the same time. On one hand, I was really enjoying myself, even though I was fully prepared to aggressively hate it. On the other hand, when the film did the generic thing that I had been expecting ever since the project was announced, I was furious. James Watkins, director of EDEN LAKE, doing a neutered and defanged version of SPEAK NO EVIL was not exactly on my bingo card for the year.

If you aren’t familiar with the Danish original, you’ll more than likely really enjoy this. It doesn’t reinvent the horror movie wheel, and is about fifteen minutes too long, but it’s largely inoffensive. If you are familiar with the original version, you’ll probably want to walk out of the theater about two-thirds of the way through. Will I ever understand why we felt the need to do an American remake of a film only two years old that’s largely in English already? Absolutely not. Did it do exactly what I was afraid of it doing? One hundred percent. I don’t think it succeeds as a remake, and fundamentally misunderstands the material, but ultimately, the films are doing very different things, and I have to give it props for trying to distinguish itself, if nothing else. It’s worth a rental at least for McAvoy’s performance alone, but unlike the vacationers, maybe choose to sit this one out.

3.5/5

[burlveneer-music]

My WVUD playlist, 1/11/2024

(Filling in on Java Time)

Vic Mars - The Obelisk Belbury Poly - The Path Peter Gabriel - Road to Joy (Bright-Side Mix) David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out Fire) David Bowie - Loving the Alien (Single Remix) -M- & Gail Ann Dorsey - Space Oddity Metropolitan Jazz Octet - Changes (feat. Paul Marinaro) Filharmonie Brno, Dennis Russell Davies, Angélique Kidjo & Christian Schmitt - Philip Glass, Symphony No. 12 "Lodger": IV. Boys Keep Swinging Imany - Take Me to Church Dolly Parton - Wrecking Ball (feat. Miley Cyrus) Trevor Horn - Personal Jesus (feat. Iggy Pop & Lambrini Girls) Juliana Hatfield - Can't Get It Out of My Head Michele Thomas - Can't Find My Way Home Sleaford Mods - West End Girls The Fusion Syndicate - The Bottle (feat. Bootsy Collins, Brian Jackson, Carmine Appice & Fernando Perdomo) The Feelies - Sweet Jane The Gold Needles - Village Green Preservation Society Simple Minds - Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel (Live From Paisley Abbey) ABC - Poison Arrow (Live) Joni Mitchell - Help Me (feat. Celisse) (Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 7/24/2022) Brendan Perry - Sarabande (Live at The ICA) Scott Walker - Big Louise April Wine - Electric Jewels April Wine - Tonite Is a Wonderful Time to Fall In Love (Live) April Wine - Roller (Live 1982) Crack the Sky - Lady in the Lake Ana Frango Elétrico - Boy of Stranger Things

[fearsmagazine]

SPEAK NO EVIL | Trailer #2 & Poster

When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.

From Blumhouse, the producer of The Black Phone, Get Out and The Invisible Man, comes an intense suspense thriller for our modern age, starring BAFTA award-winner James McAvoy (Split, Glass) in a riveting performance as the charismatic, alpha-male estate owner whose untrammeled hospitality masks an unspeakable darkness.

Speak No Evil stars Mackenzie Davis (Terminator: Dark Fate, Halt and Catch Fire) and SAG award-winner Scoot McNairy (Argo, A Quiet Place Part II) as American couple Louise and Ben Dalton, who, along with their 11-year-old daughter Agnes (Alix West Lefler; The Good Nurse, Riverdale), accept the weekend-holiday invitation of Paddy (McAvoy), his wife Ciara (Aisling Franciosi; Game of Thrones, The Fall) and their furtive, mute son Ant (newcomer Dan Hough).

Written for the screen and directed by James Watkins, the writer-director of Eden Lake and the award-winning gothic ghost story The Woman in Black, Speak No Evil is based on the screenplay of the 2022 Danish horror sensation Gæsterne, written by Christian Tafdrup and Mads Tafdrup. That film earned 11 Danish Film Awards nominations, the Danish equivalent of the Oscars.

Speak No Evil is produced by Jason Blum (Five Nights at Freddy’s, M3GAN) for Blumhouse and by Paul Ritchie (McMafia, The Ipcress File) and is executive produced by Beatriz Sequeira for Blumhouse, Jacob Jarek and Christian Tafdrup.

SPEAK NO EVIL – in theaters September 13th, 2024.

[cyarskj1899]

Rage Against the Machine's lost Calgary recording sessions

For 10 days in the spring of 1992, the almost-unknown band came to Calgary to begin work on their first, eponymous album

Oct 05, 2022  •  October 5, 2022  •  6 minute read

It was April 29, 1992. Los Angeles was burning.

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However, the band that would go on to channel the rage of the L.A. Riots into a career as one of the biggest rock acts of the 1990s wasn’t even there for it. The four members of Rage Against the Machine were in Alberta, on the shores of Lake Louise, when they first heard the news.

Ronnie Champagne remembers the moment well.

“They’re on a pay phone in front of the Chateau and (lead singer) Zack (de la Rocha) is talking to his roommate. And his roommate is screaming, ‘They’re burning the mother—- down!’” said Champagne.

“And Zack’s looking at us, and I see the look in his eyes, and I know what that look is. That’s terror.”

The irony is not lost on Champagne.

“That thing that they were fighting — fight the power, fight the man — they weren’t even there in the riots because they were there with me, up here in Calgary.”

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Calgary fans were looking forward to hearing the band play live at the Saddledome in March 2023 — a concert that had twice been postponed since 2020. But this week the band cancelled the remainder of their 2022-23 tour as de la Rocha is dealing with a serious leg injury sustained three months ago.

It’s a sure bet most fans don’t know about the band’s early connection to this city.

For 10 days in the spring of 1992, a then almost-unknown Rage Against the Machine (hereafter referred to just as Rage) came to Calgary to begin work on their first, eponymous album.

Champagne had been tapped by the band’s record label Epic as a possible producer. While based in Los Angeles in the late 1980s, he’d found success as a producer and engineer with bands like Alice in Chains and Jane’s Addiction.

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“He called me up and said, ‘Where the f— are you? I’ve got this band. I don’t know what the hell it is. I don’t know what to do with it. Are you interested in hearing it?’

“I said, ‘Yeah, Fed Ex me up a cassette.’ ”

Champagne said he listened to the tape and right away he knew exactly what it was.

“The first thing I listened to was the words, and I said, OK, this is going to strike a chord with a lot of people, just because it’s truth,” said Champagne.

He also knew how he wanted to produce the record.

“The most important thing was staying true to its street feel,” said Champagne. “Because it sounded to me like hard electric protest songs. Like Woodie Guthrie with Marshall stacks. And I totally bought that instantly.”

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Since Champagne couldn’t fly down to L.A., the record label flew the band to Calgary.

Danny Patton, the owner of Airwaves Recording Studios, was tapped to help engineer the sessions.

“I remember the day they got here — or was it the day after? — they were all on the phone talking to their parents because there was a big earthquake that day,” said Patton.

He set them up in his studio, which was then located on 16th Avenue and 14th Street N.W. Like Champagne, Patton was also struck by Rage’s unique sound.

“I said, ‘It’s like Led Zeppelin with a rap singer.’ Back in the ’90s when that came out, nobody was doing that.”

He said at the time, he was a bit skeptical the rap-rock mashup with a heavy dose of swearing would even fly. “About a year later, boy was I wrong,” said Patton.

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Champagne had been listening to that cassette he’d received in the mail, making notes before the band arrived. As a producer, he wanted to capture the energy of their live sound and make it work on a recording. For him, that meant stripping down the sound a bit.

“There was a lot of stuff that was a little too progressive, because I believe Tom was coming out of a prog rock band at that time,” said Champagne. “It was really brainiac math. And I was like, you know, just simplify it so the words are hitting home. Take anything that would be superfluous and just chop it out.”

When the band arrived, Champagne recalls going over the arrangement of every track on what would become their 10-song debut album.

“It was everyone sitting in a circle,” he said. “It was as much discussion as playing. We probably worked on a song or two a day. Not full days or crazy hours — probably six-hour days.”

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After nearly 30 years, memories have faded a bit. While Champagne recalls recording all 10 songs that ended up on the first album at the 16th Avenue sessions, Patton said they only laid down three or four songs on master tapes which, he says, are long gone. He thinks the band may have taken those with them. But he still has a copy recorded on digital audio tape in his collection.

From his seat in the control room, Patton saw a band that was all business.

“I remember they were really straight,” he said. “Nobody was drinking or doing drugs. They seemed pretty normal.”

For Patton, the band’s guitarist, Tom Morello, really stood out.

“I always remember how the guitar player would kind of not want you to see what he was doing. If people were looking at him he’d turn around so you couldn’t see, because he had these pretty wild sounds.”

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In 2015, Morello would make the 40th spot on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.

Patton doesn’t remember Morello having many effects pedals to get his sound.

“I think he just had a unique way of playing guitar that nobody had really heard of before,” he said.

Champagne remembers de la Rocha’s raw power in the studio. “He doesn’t just sing, he commands the stage. He takes over.”

After those 10 days in the studio, Rage left town, and that was pretty much the end of Champagne’s work on the album.

In the end, the record label went with another Canadian producer, Garth Richardson, whose credits include Mother’s Milk by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and Alice Cooper’s Constrictor.

But how does Champagne feel about that?

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“That’s just business baby,” he said. “I’ve done whole records and by accident somebody left my name off. That’s happened to almost everyone I know. It’s no big thing. The people I work with — they know.”

The album, ultimately recorded at the legendary Sound City Studios, was released in November 1992, and it went all the way to No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.

Champagne said the intention of the Calgary sessions was not to cut the album, but rather to prepare for recording.

“They sounded good and everything but it was never intended to be a released product,” he said. “It was more of a working situation, like you would do in a rehearsal studio.”

Patton said when he finally did hear the completed album, it wasn’t all that different than the tracks they had laid down. Many of Champagne’s suggestions and arrangements — that stripped down raw sound — were on the final cut.

“I didn’t really hear anything any different,” said Patton. “So I thought, jeez, we actually probably could’ve done that record. But whatever.”

brthomas@postmedia.com Twitter: @brodie_thomas

[fromthedust]

Louise LeBourgeois (painter working in Chicago)

Bright Nocturne #545 - oil on panel - 2015

Right Here Right Now #649 - oil on panel - 2021

It Comes Together It Falls Apart #660 - oil on panel - 2022

Blue of the Morning #645 - oil on panel - 2021

“I am a painter, writer, and open water swimmer. The flux, heft, and ever-changing moods of Lake Michigan inspire my paintings. I use the simple elements of sky, horizon, and water to explore the boundless possibilities of emotional temperature.

As a swimmer, I am mesmerized by the play of light just above and below the surface of deep water. I aim for that luminosity in my paintings. Using both opaque color and transparent glazes, I build up layers of paint. I sand between each layer, slightly abrading the surface and eliminating evidence of brushstrokes. The repeated action of accumulation then subtraction of color creates the illusion of depth.”

https://www.louiselebourgeois.com/

[vandroid-helsing]

Best of 2022

as always, this is stuff I loved in 2022, not necessarily stuff that came out in 2022 (in fact, it's mostly not!). and there'll be a more detailed post on Patreon.

BOOKS & COMICS

Squire, Sara Alfageeh & Nadia Shammas

The Argonautika, Apollonius of Rhodes trans. Peter Green

Scout Is Not A Band Kid, Jade Armstrong

Bestiary Dark, Marianne Boruch

Antigonick, Anne Carson/Sophocles

Flint and Mirror, John Crowley

Devil House, John Darnielle

Universal Harvester, John Darnielle

Vita Nostra, Marina Dyachenko

The Hatch, Joe Fletcher

Averno, Louise Glück

Job: A New Verse Translation, Edward L. Greenstein

The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett

Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert 

Iliad, Homer trans. Caroline Alexander 

Skin Folk, Nalo Hopkinson

Uzumaki, Junji Ito

Moon Witch, Spider King, Marlon James 

Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah

Ulysses, James Joyce

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carré

A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine

Salt Fat Acid Heat, Samin Nosrat

The Bull from the Sea, Mary Renault

The Persian Boy, Mary Renault 

Normal People, Sally Rooney

Grief Sequence, Prageeta Sharma

A Frog in the Fall, Linnea Sterte 

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

A Secret Vice, JRR Tolkien ed. Dimitra Fimi

MOVIES

Loser, Urzila Carlson

Everything Everywhere All At Once, Daniels 

Saint Maud, Rose Glass

Promare, Hiroyuki Imaishi

My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki

Withnail & I, Bruce Robinson

Jenny Slate: Stage Fright, Gillian Robinson

Demon Slayer, Haruo Sotozaki

Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky

Sk8 the Infinity, Hiroko Utumi

Barbarella, Roger Vadim

MUSIC

The Dream, alt-J

Renaissance, Beyoncé 

Hounds of Love, Kate Bush

“Lakes of Canada,” The Innocence Mission

The Loneliest Time, Carly Rae Jepsen

Dance Fever, Florence + the Machine

Mashrou' Leila, just like, in general

“Children of Light II”, Meg Myers

Leak 04-13, Jai Paul

Scheherazade, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Rostam & Sohrab, Loris Tjeknavorian

MISCELLANEOUS

Getting an agent

Homemade baba ghanoush 

Seeing Drawfee live

Attending Tristan und Isolde

The work of Salman Toor

Guesting on The Spouter-inn

[whatisalife]

📍Banff National Park, Lake Louise (Sep 2022) 🇨🇦

By Phong Dinh

Instagram: @phongsphotos 

[lilolilyrae]

Songs & poetry I currently know by heart

Thought it might be fun to start a list of these :) just cause... And because if I don't go through these from time to time, I'll unlearn them again, and I tend to forget half of these even exist, so... List :D

Vaguely in the order I learned them:

Songs:

Amy McDonald - Pretty Face

Halsey - New Americana

Don McLean - American Pie (though I keep messing up the 3. & 4th stanza adsfg)

Coldplay - Viva la Vida (and I can more or less do it on the piano but like. the vocal melody? xD)

Taylor Swift - The Lakes

King Princess - 1950 (... probably need to re-learn hL of that)

Hole in the bottom of the sea (my parents taught me on vacation two years ago or so? Hilarious)

Måneskin - Zitti e Buoni

Jax - Victoria's Secret (2022)

Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) (Dec'22)

Poetry:

Madelline - Dopamine (french version) (Jun'23)

Jericho (Jul'23)

Theodor Fontane - John Maynard (leider nur noch halbwegs :( also ich kriegs hin aber nur mit viel überlegen lol xD dang it, I used to know this one!)

John McCrae - In Flanders Fields (I'm 99% certain I learned that one bc it was mentioned in some fanfic but I can't for the life of me remember which fic or even which fandom adsfg)

Update 03/23: Caitlyn Seida - Hope Is Not A Bird, Emily, It's A Sewer Rat Update

04/23: Mary Elizabeth Frye - Do not stand at my grave and qeep

04/23: Emily Dickinson - Hope is the Thing with Feathers

Piano:

PotC melody (right hand properly, left hand not rly at all)

LotR (pretty much all of them one finger style, but part of the elves theme I can do with both hands properly)

Good Omens theme (right hand)

Also every song I know the melody of I can pretty much do one finger style by ear... Reminds me I used to know a couple songs by Eisblume and LaFee by heart that are no longer on the above list, o.o (I can still do the melody, but not the words)

... to be taken with a grain of salt though, I've not had access to a piano for a few months now, and while I'm sure I can still do PotC, I'm not certain I've learned the other two by heart enough for them to stick that long without practice

Learning:

Ursula K. Le Guin - Hymn to Time (I can do the first two stanzas now) - update 04/23: three stanzas!

Sappho - On What is Best (haven't really started yet but I have the tab open)

Irish Eyes (Jun'23)

Aaaand the probably largest category of them all:

Shit I've unlearned :((

LaFee - Ring Frei

Eisblume - Louise

Eisblume - Eisblumen

Taylor Swift - Love Story

Amy Macdonald - Spark

Amy Macdonald - This is the Life

ABBA - Mamma Mia

ABBA - Honey Honey

Lena - Satellite

Das verdammte Gedicht mit midestens zehn Strophen das wir in der Schule hatten auswendig lernen müssen, mit einem angeklagten der noch was erledigen muss und sein Kumpel bleibt als Pfand zurück oä?? Weiß nicht mal mehr den Namen (edit: die Bürgschaft)

Idk whether it counts as poetry or what but I used to be able to do large parts of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and Midsummer Night's dream, plus other plays (though usually just the parts I played in drama club)

[perspicacious-dragon-of-welkin]

Summit of Lake Louise, AB, Canada

2022-12-30

[noloveforned]

no love for ned is back on the holiday train after ten years! tune into wlur at 8pm tonight for four hours of holiday hits. we'll be rebroadcasting the 2012 holiday show at 8pm followed by two hours of new holiday hits at 10pm. if you miss it tonight, don't fear as they'll both re-air (in reverse order) next friday!

last week was the annual 'best of twenty year ago' show. over the course of four hours we heard from over sixty different records released in 2002. if you enjoyed the show, you can also check out the previous six retrospective shows spotlighting 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996 and 1995.

no love for ned on wlur – december 9th, 2022 from 8pm-midnight

artist // track // album // label evil wiener // koo koo // evil wiener presents billy sugarfix's lost gumdrop kingdom // smith level tullycraft // twee // beat surf fun // magic marker dressy bessy // there's a girl // sound go round // kindercore luna // lovedust // romantica // jetset spoon // the way we get by // kill the moonlight // merge the guild league // jet set... go! // private transport // matinée the national splits // afternoon was tight // the national splits // kittridge dear nora // on to september // the new year ep // magic marker darren hanlon // hiccups // hello stranger // candle belle and sebastian // scooby driver // storytelling // matador bikeride // fakin' amnesia // morning macumba // hidden agenda masters of the hemisphere // anything, anything // protest a dark anniversary // kindercore the sinking ships // out of key harmony // out of key harmony // darla track star // feet first // lion destroyed the whole world // better looking esg // it’s not me // step off // soul jazz yo la tengo // nuclear war (version two) // nuclear war ep // matador the blow // jet ski accidents // bonus album // k ugly casanova // things i don't remember // sharpen your teeth // sub pop vermont // ballad of larry bird // calling albany // kindercore matt pond pa // measure three // the green fury // polyvinyl azure ray // the new year // burn and shiver // warm electronic aarktica // nostalgia = distortion // or you could just go through your whole life and be happy anyway (bliss out, volume eighteen) // darla sigur rós // vaka // ( ) // mca múm // green green grass of tunnel // finally we are no one // fat cat the notwist // one with the freaks // neon golden // domino family fodder // tender words // tender words ep // dark beloved cloud flin flon // chicoutimi // chicoutimi ep // teenbeat the capricorns // the new sound // in the zone // paroxysm the apples in stereo // rainfall // velocity of sound // spinart the flaming lips // fight test // yoshimi battles the pink robots // warner bros. of montreal // jennifer louise // aldhils arboretum // kindercore jason anderson // astronaut, astronaut! // something/everything! // k sleater-kinney // oh! // one beat // kill rock stars rhett miller // this is what i do // the instigator // elektra guided by voices // back to the lake // universal truths and cycles // matador elvis costello // forty-five // when i was cruel // island brendan benson // you're quiet // lapalco // startime the arrogants // the distance between us // nobody's cool ep // shelflife cinerama // careless // torino // manifesto saturday looks good to me // diary // love will find you // whistletap acid house kings // sunday morning // mondays are like tuesdays and tuesdays are like wednesdays // labrador the brunettes // holding hands, feeding ducks // holding hands, feeding ducks // lil' chief mirah // cold cold water // advisory committee // k destroyer // this night // this night // merge june panic // see(ing) double // baby’s breadth // secretly canadian doleful lions // surfside motel // out like a lamb // parasol unbunny // swans are fainting // black strawberries // two-ton santa julie doiron // all their broken hearts // heart and crime // jagjaguwar jeffrey lewis // the chelsea hotel oral sex song // the last time i did acid i went insane // rough trade little wings // look at what the light did now // light green leaves // k lambchop // the daily growl // is a woman // merge beck // guess i'm doing fine // sea change // dgc johnny cash // hurt // american iv: the man comes around // american richard buckner // born into giving it up // impasse // overcoat songs: ohia // blue factory flame // didn’t it rain // secretly canadian the mendoza line // the triple bill of shame // lost in revelry // misra okkervil river // westfall // don't fall in love with everyone you see // jagjaguwar the mountain goats // the best ever death metal band in denton // all hail west texas // emperor jones dqe // i'm your girl // i'm your girl // dark beloved cloud swearing at motorists // this flag signals goodbye // this flag signals goodbye // secretly canadian low // in the drugs // trust // kranky

[brookston]

Holidays 7.11

Holidays

Advice to the Lovelorn Day

All American Pet Photo Day

Bandoneon Day (Argentina)

Bean Day (French Republic)

Beh Deinkhlan (Meghalaya, India)

Bowdler's Day

Celebration of the Golden Spurs (Flanders)

Convenience Store Day

Day of the Bandoneón (Argentina)

Day of the Forest Fire Fighter (Mexico)

Day of the Five Billion (1987)

Drummer Appreciation Day

Duel Day

Eleventh Night (Bonfire Night; Northern Ireland)

Flemish Community Day (Belgium)

Hecate Asteroid Day

International EcoBrick Day

International Essential Oils Day

International Rhyming Day

International Richard Cheese Day

Ker Puja (Tripura, India)

Maritime Day (China)

Naadam (Mongolia)

National All American Pet Photo Day

National Cheer Up the Lonely Day

National Culture and Senior Citizens Day (Kiribati)

National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Genocide by Ukrainian Nationalists on Citizens of the Second Republic of Poland (Poland)

National Essential Oils Day

National Journalist Day (Chile)

National Maritime Day (China)

National Polyphenol Day

National Recovery Day

National 7-Eleven Day

National Swimming Pool Day

National Tree Day (Mexico)

Orangeman’s Day (Canada)

Reading Guilt Day

Relisha Rudd Remembrance Day (DC)

Robert the Bruce Day (Scotland)

711 Day

Srebrenica Memorial Day (UK)

Straw Free Day (Colorado)

Swimming Pool Day

To Kill A Mockingbird Day

The 12th Planet, by Zecharia Sitchin (Conspiracy Book; 1976)

World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day

World Fringe Day

World Independent Living Day

World Massage Day

World Population Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Blueberry Muffin Day

Free Slurpee Day (7-11 Stores)

Hot Dog Night (Luverne, Minnesota)

International Raw Food Day

Make Your Own Sundae Day

National Mojito Day

National Rainier Cherry Day

National State Fair Food Day

Ramen Day (Japan)

Vegetarian Food Day

World Chocolate Day (Russia)

Independence & Related Days

Mongolia (from China, 1921)

Polarveinn (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

2nd Thursday in July

Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo begins (Vernal, Utah) [2nd Thursday thru Saturday]

National Tree Day [2nd Thursday]

Oregon Trail Days begin (Geris, Nebraska) [2nd Thursday thru Sunday]

Oxegen Festival begins (Ireland) [2nd Thursday there Sunday]

Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]

Turkey Rama begins (McMinnville, Oregon) [2nd Thursday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 11 (2nd Week of July)

Jim Thorpe Native American Games (thru 7.19)

National Parenting Gifted Children Week (thru 7.13) [3rd Weekend]

Festivals Beginning July 11, 2024

Big Stone County Fair (Clinton, Minnesota) [thru 7.14]

Capital Fringe (Washington, DC) [thru 7.21]

Corn Fest (Midland, Michigan) [thru 7.14]

CRAVE! Food & Drink Celebration (Spokane Valley, Washington) [thru 7.13]

Delta Chicken Festival (Delta, Ohio) [thru 7.13]

Dine Downtown San Jose Restaurant Week (San Jose, California) [thru 7.21]

Elsie Dairy Festival (Elsie, Michigan) [thru 7.13]

Gunnison Cattlemen's Days (Gunnison, Colorado) [thru 7.13]

Hot Dog Nite (Luverne, Minnesota)

Japan Expo (Paris, France) [thru 7.14]

King County Fair (Enumclaw, Washington) [thru 7.14]

Montana Governor's Cup Walleye Tournament (Fort Peck Lake, Montana) [thru 7.13]

NOS Alive (Lisbon, Portugal) [thru 7.13]

Ortigueira International Festival of the Celtic World (Ortigueira, Spain) [thru 7.14]

Pohoda Festival (Trenčín, Slovakia) [thru 7.13]

Pula Film Festival (Pula, Croatia) [thru 7.18]

Salute! A Festival of Wine & Food (Lawrence, Kansas) [thru 7.13]

Schubertiade Vorarlberg (Hohenems, Austria) [thru 7.14]

Slugburger Festival (Corinth, Mississippi) [thru 7.13]

South Carolina Festival of Discovery (Greenwood, South Carolina) [thru 7.13]

South Carolina Peach Festival Gaffney, South Carolina) [thru 7.20]

Toledo Cheese Days (Toledo, Washington) [thru 7.14]

Winnipeg Folk Festival (Winnipeg, Canada) [thru 7.14]

Yaga Gathering (Valkininkai, Lithuania) [thru 7.15]

Feast Days

Benedict of Nursia (Christian; Saint)

Bobbie Louise Hawkins (Writerism)

Boris Grigoriev (Artology)

Drostan of Dalcongaile (Christian; Saint)

E. B. White (Writerism)

Feast of Min (Ancient Egyptian harvest & fertility festival)

Feast of Theano (patron of vegetarianism)

Guru Rinpoche Day (Bhutan)

Hidulphus (a.k.a. Hidulf; Christian; Saint)

H. M. Brock (Artology)

Imamat Day (Nizari Ismaili Shiʿi Muslims)

James, Bishop of Nisibis (Christian; Saint)

James McNeill Whistler (Artology)

John of Bergamo (Christian; Saint)

Kronia (Festival honoring Kronos (Father Time) and Rhea (Mother Earth); Ancient Greece; Everyday Wicca)

Marie Lu (Writerism)

Martin Wong (Artology)

Millennial Fairy Olympics, Day 6 (Shamanism)

Molly Darton (Muppetism)

Naadam begins (Three Games of Men Festival; Mongolia) [thru 7.15]

Next Generation Captain (Muppetism)

Olga of Kiev (Christian; Saint & Widow)

Pancho Villa Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Pius I, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Roy Krenkel (Artology)

Solstitium VII (Pagan)

St. Stephen of Hungary (Positivist; Saint)

Tinne (Celtic Book of Days)

World Population Day (Pastafarian)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Alice’s Medicine Show (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Alphas (TV Series; 2011)

Bats in the Belfry (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1960)

Beechwood 4-5789, by The Marvelettes (Song; 1962)

Boyhood (Film; 2014)

Bringing Home the Bacon (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

Child Psykolojiky (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1941)

Contact (Film; 1997)

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Film; 2014)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Animated Film; 2001)

Fleetwood Mac, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1975)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (US Film; 2007) [#5]

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Film; 2008)

Honky Tonk Women, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1969)

Jesus Christ Superstar (Musical Play; 1971) [1st Stage Performance]

The Joke, by Milan Kundera (Novel; 1967)

The Kraken Wakes, by John Wyndham (Novel; 1953)

Little Cheeser (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1936)

Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa (Novel; 1939)

My Bodyguard (Film; 1980)

The Newlywed Game (Game Show; 1967)

Orange Is the New Black (TV Series; 2013)

Ordinary People, by Judith Guest (Novel; 1976)

Porky’s Pet (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)

School for Scoundrels (Film; 1960)

Shall We Dance? (Film; 1997)

Sharknado (Film; 2013)

Snowpiercer (Film; 2014)

Sorry Not Sorry, by Demi Lovato (Song; 2014)

Space Oddity, by David Bowie (Song; 1969)

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (Novel; 1960)

Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh (Novel; 1993)

Wild Over You (WB LT Cartoon; 1953)

Today’s Name Days

Benedikt, Olga, Oliver (Austria)

Oleg, Olga (Bulgariaa)

Benedikt, Dobroslav, Olga (Croatia)

Olga (Czech Republic)

Josva (Denmark)

Asko, Askur (Estonia)

Eleonoora, Elli, Nelli, Noora (Finland)

Benoît, Olga, Yolande (France)

Benedikt (Germany)

Evfemia, Evfimia, Olga (Greece)

Lili, Nóra (Hungary)

Benedetto, Emanuele, Fabrizio, Olga (Italy)

Leonora, Lore, Svens, Varaidotis (Latvia)

Kipras, Kiprijonas, Pijus, Šarūnė, Vilmantas (Lithuania)

Kjell, Kjetil (Norway)

Benedykt, Cyprian, Kalina, Kallina, Kir, Olga, Pelagia, Pelagiusz, Pius, Placyd, Sawin, Wyszesława (Poland)

Eufimia (Romania)

Milota (Slovakia)

Benito, Olga (Spain)

Eleonora, Ellinor (Sweden)

Lusia, Olha, Olusia, Olia (Ukraine)

Alvia, Helga, Livia, Olga, Olive, Ollie, Oliver, Olivia, Quentin, Quincy, Quinn, Quintina, Quinton (USA)

Benoît, Alenka, Olga, Olya (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 193 of 2024; 173 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of Week 28 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 5 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 6 (Bing-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 5 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 4 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 13 Red; Fryday [13 of 30]

Julian: 28 June 2024

Moon: 29%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 24 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Stephen of Hungary]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 22 of 94)

Week: 2nd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 21 of 31)

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Holidays 7.11

Holidays

Advice to the Lovelorn Day

All American Pet Photo Day

Bandoneon Day (Argentina)

Bean Day (French Republic)

Beh Deinkhlan (Meghalaya, India)

Bowdler's Day

Celebration of the Golden Spurs (Flanders)

Convenience Store Day

Day of the Bandoneón (Argentina)

Day of the Forest Fire Fighter (Mexico)

Day of the Five Billion (1987)

Drummer Appreciation Day

Duel Day

Eleventh Night (Bonfire Night; Northern Ireland)

Flemish Community Day (Belgium)

Hecate Asteroid Day

International EcoBrick Day

International Essential Oils Day

International Rhyming Day

International Richard Cheese Day

Ker Puja (Tripura, India)

Maritime Day (China)

Naadam (Mongolia)

National All American Pet Photo Day

National Cheer Up the Lonely Day

National Culture and Senior Citizens Day (Kiribati)

National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Genocide by Ukrainian Nationalists on Citizens of the Second Republic of Poland (Poland)

National Essential Oils Day

National Journalist Day (Chile)

National Maritime Day (China)

National Polyphenol Day

National Recovery Day

National 7-Eleven Day

National Swimming Pool Day

National Tree Day (Mexico)

Orangeman’s Day (Canada)

Reading Guilt Day

Relisha Rudd Remembrance Day (DC)

Robert the Bruce Day (Scotland)

711 Day

Srebrenica Memorial Day (UK)

Straw Free Day (Colorado)

Swimming Pool Day

To Kill A Mockingbird Day

The 12th Planet, by Zecharia Sitchin (Conspiracy Book; 1976)

World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day

World Fringe Day

World Independent Living Day

World Massage Day

World Population Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Blueberry Muffin Day

Free Slurpee Day (7-11 Stores)

Hot Dog Night (Luverne, Minnesota)

International Raw Food Day

Make Your Own Sundae Day

National Mojito Day

National Rainier Cherry Day

National State Fair Food Day

Ramen Day (Japan)

Vegetarian Food Day

World Chocolate Day (Russia)

Independence & Related Days

Mongolia (from China, 1921)

Polarveinn (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

2nd Thursday in July

Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo begins (Vernal, Utah) [2nd Thursday thru Saturday]

National Tree Day [2nd Thursday]

Oregon Trail Days begin (Geris, Nebraska) [2nd Thursday thru Sunday]

Oxegen Festival begins (Ireland) [2nd Thursday there Sunday]

Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]

Turkey Rama begins (McMinnville, Oregon) [2nd Thursday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 11 (2nd Week of July)

Jim Thorpe Native American Games (thru 7.19)

National Parenting Gifted Children Week (thru 7.13) [3rd Weekend]

Festivals Beginning July 11, 2024

Big Stone County Fair (Clinton, Minnesota) [thru 7.14]

Capital Fringe (Washington, DC) [thru 7.21]

Corn Fest (Midland, Michigan) [thru 7.14]

CRAVE! Food & Drink Celebration (Spokane Valley, Washington) [thru 7.13]

Delta Chicken Festival (Delta, Ohio) [thru 7.13]

Dine Downtown San Jose Restaurant Week (San Jose, California) [thru 7.21]

Elsie Dairy Festival (Elsie, Michigan) [thru 7.13]

Gunnison Cattlemen's Days (Gunnison, Colorado) [thru 7.13]

Hot Dog Nite (Luverne, Minnesota)

Japan Expo (Paris, France) [thru 7.14]

King County Fair (Enumclaw, Washington) [thru 7.14]

Montana Governor's Cup Walleye Tournament (Fort Peck Lake, Montana) [thru 7.13]

NOS Alive (Lisbon, Portugal) [thru 7.13]

Ortigueira International Festival of the Celtic World (Ortigueira, Spain) [thru 7.14]

Pohoda Festival (Trenčín, Slovakia) [thru 7.13]

Pula Film Festival (Pula, Croatia) [thru 7.18]

Salute! A Festival of Wine & Food (Lawrence, Kansas) [thru 7.13]

Schubertiade Vorarlberg (Hohenems, Austria) [thru 7.14]

Slugburger Festival (Corinth, Mississippi) [thru 7.13]

South Carolina Festival of Discovery (Greenwood, South Carolina) [thru 7.13]

South Carolina Peach Festival Gaffney, South Carolina) [thru 7.20]

Toledo Cheese Days (Toledo, Washington) [thru 7.14]

Winnipeg Folk Festival (Winnipeg, Canada) [thru 7.14]

Yaga Gathering (Valkininkai, Lithuania) [thru 7.15]

Feast Days

Benedict of Nursia (Christian; Saint)

Bobbie Louise Hawkins (Writerism)

Boris Grigoriev (Artology)

Drostan of Dalcongaile (Christian; Saint)

E. B. White (Writerism)

Feast of Min (Ancient Egyptian harvest & fertility festival)

Feast of Theano (patron of vegetarianism)

Guru Rinpoche Day (Bhutan)

Hidulphus (a.k.a. Hidulf; Christian; Saint)

H. M. Brock (Artology)

Imamat Day (Nizari Ismaili Shiʿi Muslims)

James, Bishop of Nisibis (Christian; Saint)

James McNeill Whistler (Artology)

John of Bergamo (Christian; Saint)

Kronia (Festival honoring Kronos (Father Time) and Rhea (Mother Earth); Ancient Greece; Everyday Wicca)

Marie Lu (Writerism)

Martin Wong (Artology)

Millennial Fairy Olympics, Day 6 (Shamanism)

Molly Darton (Muppetism)

Naadam begins (Three Games of Men Festival; Mongolia) [thru 7.15]

Next Generation Captain (Muppetism)

Olga of Kiev (Christian; Saint & Widow)

Pancho Villa Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Pius I, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Roy Krenkel (Artology)

Solstitium VII (Pagan)

St. Stephen of Hungary (Positivist; Saint)

Tinne (Celtic Book of Days)

World Population Day (Pastafarian)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Alice’s Medicine Show (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Alphas (TV Series; 2011)

Bats in the Belfry (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1960)

Beechwood 4-5789, by The Marvelettes (Song; 1962)

Boyhood (Film; 2014)

Bringing Home the Bacon (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

Child Psykolojiky (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1941)

Contact (Film; 1997)

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Film; 2014)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Animated Film; 2001)

Fleetwood Mac, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1975)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (US Film; 2007) [#5]

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Film; 2008)

Honky Tonk Women, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1969)

Jesus Christ Superstar (Musical Play; 1971) [1st Stage Performance]

The Joke, by Milan Kundera (Novel; 1967)

The Kraken Wakes, by John Wyndham (Novel; 1953)

Little Cheeser (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1936)

Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa (Novel; 1939)

My Bodyguard (Film; 1980)

The Newlywed Game (Game Show; 1967)

Orange Is the New Black (TV Series; 2013)

Ordinary People, by Judith Guest (Novel; 1976)

Porky’s Pet (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)

School for Scoundrels (Film; 1960)

Shall We Dance? (Film; 1997)

Sharknado (Film; 2013)

Snowpiercer (Film; 2014)

Sorry Not Sorry, by Demi Lovato (Song; 2014)

Space Oddity, by David Bowie (Song; 1969)

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (Novel; 1960)

Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh (Novel; 1993)

Wild Over You (WB LT Cartoon; 1953)

Today’s Name Days

Benedikt, Olga, Oliver (Austria)

Oleg, Olga (Bulgariaa)

Benedikt, Dobroslav, Olga (Croatia)

Olga (Czech Republic)

Josva (Denmark)

Asko, Askur (Estonia)

Eleonoora, Elli, Nelli, Noora (Finland)

Benoît, Olga, Yolande (France)

Benedikt (Germany)

Evfemia, Evfimia, Olga (Greece)

Lili, Nóra (Hungary)

Benedetto, Emanuele, Fabrizio, Olga (Italy)

Leonora, Lore, Svens, Varaidotis (Latvia)

Kipras, Kiprijonas, Pijus, Šarūnė, Vilmantas (Lithuania)

Kjell, Kjetil (Norway)

Benedykt, Cyprian, Kalina, Kallina, Kir, Olga, Pelagia, Pelagiusz, Pius, Placyd, Sawin, Wyszesława (Poland)

Eufimia (Romania)

Milota (Slovakia)

Benito, Olga (Spain)

Eleonora, Ellinor (Sweden)

Lusia, Olha, Olusia, Olia (Ukraine)

Alvia, Helga, Livia, Olga, Olive, Ollie, Oliver, Olivia, Quentin, Quincy, Quinn, Quintina, Quinton (USA)

Benoît, Alenka, Olga, Olya (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 193 of 2024; 173 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of Week 28 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 5 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 6 (Bing-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 5 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 4 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 13 Red; Fryday [13 of 30]

Julian: 28 June 2024

Moon: 29%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 24 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Stephen of Hungary]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 22 of 94)

Week: 2nd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 21 of 31)