#mary spender

[music-interpretation-review]

Weekly Music Review Poll

Sultans of Swing is quite possibly the most well-known song by Dire Straights, and is known for an "inescapable hook" and its breezy finger-picking style. The song's title was inspired by a Dixieland jazz band that played on the street corner in London, amusing Dire Straights's lead singer with their disheveled look that didn't match their name.

Contestant videos under the cut:

[ishanay]

Just Aria

[kisestizene]

na ide, is tök rég posztoltam már utoljára... :(

szoktam mondani, hogy az utóbbi években nagyon (nagyon-nagyon) ritkán találok olyan (számomra) új zenét, ami igazán tetszik. na, pl. Mary Spender a ritka találatok egyike.

egy másik, sokkal poprockosabb szám, de ennek valahogy annyira kurvajó a hangszerelése (valami jó fülessel, vagy széles dinamikájú hangszórókkal hallgatva), a sok apró kis részlettel, finomsággal, hogy elsőre hallgatás után még vagy 5x meg kellett hallgatnom.

a harmadik meg egy "régebbi" szám, aminek meg a feszes ritmusa, a huzása, a zenei poénjai jönnek be.

bónusz, hogy még tök érdekes 20. századi zenetörténeti videókat is szokott csinálni. és a kurva életbe, egyszerű beszéd közben is olyan szexi hangja van ennek a nőnek! :)

[audio-luddite]

Mary Spender.

I have noted her before and praised her voice and musicianship. One thing I said was she should be hired to do narration of documentaries and voice overs. Her speaking voice is that good. She is more interesting than many people who do that in the UK for the BBC.

I did a loop of her stuff performing and it was very good. She did a tour of Northern England for her new Album (available in CD and LP). Poor thing lost money on that.

One thing I found was this thing she did about a Fleetwood Mac Song. This is wonderful. Watch it please.

If you did not notice she sang and spoke and played through the whole thing without missing a beat. Literally no beat was missed. She quotes philosophy and music history as well as the back story of the song. She could make a career of things just like this I think. Though as an artist it would be rather limiting.

The Rumours Album came out in the late 70s. I was around and bought it soon after it came out. Yes I and everyone else knew how their personal lives were in turmoil and this was a album of everyone breaking up. Christine McVie was breaking up with the Bass player, Stevie NIcks was breaking up with Lindsay Buckingham etc. Fleetwood was getting a divorce and had done a fling with Stevie. Love lost, betrayal, pain and drug induced confusion. They had a lot of material.

To hear a young person do such a good review of the story and the song is wonderful. For her to even care about the story impressed me. Mary is literally half my age. This album was old when she was born. But Art is Art. That is the key thing. As an Artist she creates her work, but appreciates the work of others too.

Oh and to give you the whole experience go through the comments under the video on You Tube.

[bristolkidsband]

🎶🔥👍🔥This Just Makes Me Angry by Mary Spender

[favemusiclessons]

How To Sing and Play Guitar At The Same Time

I have to keep working on it...

00:00 - A Topic Close to My Heart 02:05 - My Tips 03:58 - Drop Drop Slow Tears Drop 08:26 - Looping 09:49 - The Highway Series 11:40 - Song Outro

[morerogue]

Why DREAMS is a Perfect Song

The song, and the story about the song, combined.

[zombifiedyoutubers]

subject: Mary Spender

zombification: jul.23.2006

characteristics: the 21st century musician

for more information: www.youtube.com/MarySpender

[toddlohenry]

Seven Nation Army

[haggishlyhagging]

“Miriam Kramnick (1978) is one of the few commentators on Wollstonecraft who outlines the nature of the ridicule she was subjected to and the significance of this form of sexual harassment. Wollstonecraft was the recipient of 'barely printable insults', states Kramnick. ‘Her own contemporaries called her a shameless wanton, a "hyena in petticoats", a "philosophizing serpent" or wrote jibing epigrams in the Anti-Jacobin Review, like

For Mary verily would wear the breeches

God help poor silly men for such usurping b…..s

Twentieth-century readers have called her an archetypal castrating female, "God's angry woman", a man hater whose feminist crusade was inspired by nothing more than a hopeless, incurable affliction — penis envy’ (ibid., p. 7).

Even feminists have been careful about associating with her and: ‘The name "Wollstonecraft", once considered synonymous with the destruction of all sacred virtues, disowned by the feminist movement as it marched for votes or pressed for admission to universities, became an obscure reference indeed’ (ibid., p. 8). When women sought to convince men that they were honourable, respectable, and deserving of equal representation in the institutions men had created for themselves, there was little room for Wollstonecraft, who had challenged those institutions and who had gained a ‘reputation.’

Like many of the reviews of Aphra Behn, some of the reviews of Wollstonecraft's work and life, on her death, were vicious. Her work should be read, declared the Historical Magazine (1799), ‘with disgust by any female who has any pretensions to delicacy; with detestation by everyone attached to the interests of religion and morality, and with indignation by anyone who might feel any regard for the unhappy woman, whose frailties should have been buried in oblivion’ (vol. I, p. 34). This was about as far as critics could go in the pre-Freudian days, but once he had made his priceless contribution, the attack on women who did not conform to the precepts dictated by men assumed a new and greater ferocity.

‘Mary Wollstonecraft was an extreme neurotic of a compulsive type,' argue Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia Farnham (1959) in Modern Woman: The Lost Sex. Out of her illness arose the ideology of feminism, which was to express the feelings of so many women in years to come. Unconsciously ... Mary and the feminists wanted ... to turn on men and injure them.... Underneath her aggressive writings, Mary was a masochist like her mother, as indeed all the leading feminist theorists were in fact.... By behaving as she did Mary indicated.... that she was unconsciously seeking to deprive the male of his power, to castrate him. It came out in her round scolding of men. The feminists have ever since symbolically slain their fathers by verbally consigning all men to perdition as monsters' (pp. 159-61). Really?

With the framework formulated by Freud, it again became easy to ridicule and harass women who developed any analysis of patriarchy, to dismiss them without having to refute their ideas. The scientific dogma took over from the religious dogma which had been seriously discredited (by women like Wollstonecraft) and both these male-decreed belief systems have been used ruthlessly against individual women and against women collectively. In her own day Mary Wollstonecraft was maligned for her moral sickness; with the advent of Freud it was her mental sickness. The principle is the same and it was a principle that Wollstonecraft herself identified and discredited - the principle that if women do not cheerfully confine themselves to the place to which men have relegated them, then there is something wrong with the women rather than the place they are expected to occupy. Mary Wollstonecraft understood that women would continue to be perceived as abnormal while the limited experience of men was treated as the sum total of human experience. One of her main protests was that men did not know how the world looked to women and, while they insisted that it looked no different from the way it looked to men, women were without space to discuss, share and confirm their feelings and ideas. And in this, Wollstonecraft is one of a long line of women who have come to understand the significance of male power to name the world and to say what is and what is not important, valuable, and ‘logical’.”

-Dale Spender, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them

[hws-phili]

According to Mary H. Fee, one of the first American teachers sent to the Philippines, Filipinos do not understand Santa Clause, or the Christmas tree lol.

The early years of American rule, relationship between Philippines and America is rocky. I imagine Phili, resigned to his massive disadvantage in strength, would resort to "sneaky" ways to get even with America.

In the old days, Filipino Christmas traditions follow the Spanish traditions. They give gifts on the feast of the 3 kings on January 6.

In the Spanish colonial period, Phili's only interaction outside of Asia and Mexico was with Europeans. Filipinos were often shocked by how different Americans are. One example is that Americans were big spenders. And later on, they replaced the local money, and the shiny new coins look like treasures. To Phili, it seemed like America is the richest person he had ever met.

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[colonna-durruti]

La lezione dello storico alla piazza – Barbero: “Sindrome da invasione come nel 1914: evitiamo il suicidio dell’Europa”

Intervento di Alessandro Barbero alla manifestazione di Roma contro il riarmo del 5 aprile 2025, testo raccolto da Angelica Tranelli.

A noi storici spesso chiedono: ma l’epoca nostra che stiamo vivendo a quale periodo del passato assomiglia? Ecco, io purtroppo negli ultimi tempi comincio ad avere sempre più l’impressione che l’epoca nostra assomigli paurosamente agli anni che hanno preceduto lo scoppio della Prima guerra mondiale nel 1914.

Allora l’Europa usciva da un lungo periodo di pace. Se uno non guarda alle guerre nei Balcani e alle guerre coloniali in cui tutti i Paesi europei si erano imbarcati, perfino noi italiani (in Etiopia e Libia), effettivamente l’Europa usciva da un lungo periodo di pace. Anche adesso usciamo da un lungo periodo di pace, quasi. Anche adesso – se dimentichiamo i Balcani, se dimentichiamo la Jugoslavia, se dimentichiamo il bombardamento di Belgrado, se dimentichiamo le guerre coloniali che ci sono anche oggi – i grandi Paesi dell’Occidente non si sono più fatti la guerra da tanti anni.

E allora come mai nel 1914 l’Europa è precipitata nella guerra più spaventosa di tutti i tempi? Il guaio è che, se uno va a vedere da vicino com’era quel mondo che assomigliava molto a quello nostro di oggi, non è così strano che siano precipitati in una guerra spaventosa.

Intanto in quei lunghi anni di pace parlavano continuamente di guerra, della “prossima guerra”. C’era un genere letterario, oggi dimenticato, che all’inizio del secolo faceva furore: gli storici della letteratura lo chiamano “letteratura dell’invasione” o “della prossima guerra”. In tutti i Paesi, non solo dell’Europa, ma del mondo, uscivano romanzi che raccontavano come “il nostro Paese presto sarà invaso da un feroce nemico’’. Questi romanzi si pubblicavano in una quantità enorme di copie, tutti li leggevano e raccontavano tutti la stessa storia: “Il nostro Paese è debole, siamo circondati da nemici cattivissimi, dobbiamo riarmarci perché non siamo abbastanza sicuri”. E l’opinione pubblica intossicata, sentendo parlare continuamente “della prossima guerra” e dei “malvagi nemici che ci minacciano”, ha cominciato a chiedere sicurezza, armamenti e alleanze.

Una risposta dei governi alla fine dell’Ottocento è stata: “Beh, allora cerchiamo degli alleati”, nell’illusione che da soli si sia in pericolo e, se invece si hanno alleati, si sia più sicuri. Peccato che le alleanze producano anche effetti inaspettati, perché i Paesi che rimangono esclusi da queste alleanze – all’epoca era la Germania – cominciano a dirsi: “Queste alleanze le stanno facendo contro di noi, siamo minacciati”. Poi le alleanze faranno sì che, alla prima scintilla che esplode nei Balcani, tutti questi Paesi siano costretti a entrare in guerra, uno dopo l’altro, perché sono vincolati dalle alleanze. E poi l’opinione pubblica chiede il riarmo: certo, se stiamo per essere invasi! Il riarmo è pazzesco: negli ultimi cinque anni prima dello scoppio della Prima guerra mondiale, le potenze europee – compresa l’Italia, che era l’ultima delle potenze europee, ma si considerava tale anche lei – aumentano le spese militari del 50% in media, di nuovo nell’illusione di “essere più sicuri”. Solo che questa faccenda dell’illusione della sicurezza è proprio un paradosso. Perché? È più facile capirlo raccontando nel concreto. L’Inghilterra ha la più potente flotta del mondo, domina i mari e si sente sicura. La Germania si sente minacciata, soffocata dalla potenza dell’Inghilterra, decide di armarsi, di costruire anche lei una grande flotta. L’Inghilterra così improvvisamente non si sente più sicura e perciò investe per aumentare ancora gli armamenti. I tedeschi vedono che gli inglesi investono ancora per rafforzare la flotta e sono costretti a spendere sempre di più. L’unico risultato è che in entrambi i Paesi si diffonde il nervosismo, la sensazione di insicurezza, la sensazione che l’altro è il nemico. Sul continente invece la Germania è sicura e tranquilla, ha il più potente esercito del mondo. Chi non è sicuro è il suo vicino: la Francia. I francesi pensano: “Dobbiamo riarmarci per essere più sicuri”. All’epoca c’era il servizio militare obbligatorio, c’era dappertutto e durava moltissimo (oggi ne sentiamo parlare come di una cosa che magari andrebbe quasi reintrodotta, dopo che – grazie al cielo – ce ne eravamo liberati). I francesi però pensano che non duri abbastanza, così nel 1913 decidono di allungarlo da 2 a 3 anni. I tedeschi allora si dicono: “Dobbiamo rafforzarci anche noi, perché presto non saremo più i più forti. Dobbiamo rafforzarci o, visto che per il momento i più forti siamo ancora noi, forse allora è meglio farla, questa guerra, finché siamo in tempo”. I libri che parlano della “prossima guerra”, a quel punto, non sono più solo romanzi: cominciano a uscire i libri dei generali che parlano della “prossima guerra”. Ai primi di giugno del 1914 il comandante dell’esercito tedesco Von Moltke dichiara: “Ora siamo pronti. E prima è, meglio è”.

Ecco, io ogni tanto mi dico: “Ma no, non è vero che la nostra epoca assomiglia tanto a quella, ci sono tante differenze”. Però credo che dipenderà essenzialmente da noi fare in modo che davvero questa nostra epoca non assomigli troppo a quella che ha preceduto il suicidio dell’Europa nel 1914.

[houseofbrat]

Personally, I don't know how the W&C look at themselves in the mirror every day. Those pics of the Duke of Kent--at 90!!!--doing what they SHOULD be doing on the heels of the announcement of C&C's North American tour really hit me hard. For heaven's sake, William, put on a frigging tux and attend BAFTA, you lazy bugger. Alert. You're their patron and I don't think it ridiculous to take ONE NIGHT out of your life to acknowledge that. Also, I am convinced that the KP coms team reads this blog because the pushback on their own stupidity regarding Catherine's wardrobe was swift. Nothing like saying, hey, she's been the icon for the British fashion industry for the last ten years, but we don't like the shade she's getting for trotting around with ridiculously expensive handbags, so she's going to take her 3000-pound handbag and go home (and put it on the shelf with the rest of her stupidly-expensive handbags). So there! Two days later... Oops, we didn't really mean that!

It wouldn't be so bad if the marry band of apologists for Will & Kate's lazy, ingratiating behavior weren't making excuses for them left and right.

The "past royal presidents" were Anne, Philip, and Dickie Mountbatten. All three have or had significant royal careers. Philip used to travel a lot for the WWF, accompanying QEII, and other things. Anne still travels for Save the Children and for the Foreign Office. Dickie Mountbatten had retired from the military when he became president of what is now BAFTA, but he also was president of the United World Colleges organization, which is where Leonor attended.

What is William doing with all his free time? Oh, yes. Vacation! He was on vacation five weeks ago, so it's time for another week off!

In the Caribbean!

Yeah, LCC has a really long tweet and only what's shown above is relevant. Will & Kate & kids are heading to Mustique for half-term, according to Lady Colin Campbell.

Yeah, the irony of critiquing Meghan for heading up to Vancouver & back from California when the Waleses are heading to Mustique, which is part of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines!

It's about a nine-hour trip one way to Mustique. Who really is the big spender on a carbon footprint when it only takes three hours to fly from Los Angeles, CA, to Vancouver, BC?

Am I really supposed to believe that Will & Kate & kids are flying commercial all the way to Mustique and back? It's three times the length of flying from from LA to Vancouver. We know they fly private, regardless of whether it's Pippa's husband's jet or their own rented jet.

But hey, we're not going to get proof of life by Will or Kate until they come back and do an engagement somewhere. After they've spent a week "restoring" themselves in the Caribbean.

Somehow Kate is going to keep wearing her funeral wear when she comes back and does ONE engagement per week. If she can work harder, it might be two. Maybe. I'm not going to hold my breath.

I can't wait to see how long Kate can go without a handbag at her engagements. Will she have a handbag next time even if it's a "recycle," or will she go without to avoid more discussion of how many she has? It's going to be interesting either way. The fact that she has not appeared with a new one in the last couple of weeks means KP knows the heat is on. In these times of economic turmoil, it's not a good look to be known as The UK's Marie Antoinette! If she didn't want to be known as that, then she would have to work more. But therein lies the problem, the Rich Party Girl aversion to work.

Or BIG BLUE. She wore BIG BLUE when she visited a prison back in September 2023, but she couldn't wear it this week? Why? I'm really back to Kate had to wear that ring for the past thirteen years due to her husband's mommy issues, and she's not wearing it much in the future anymore because she wants to do her jewelry her way.

Still no announcement that Kate or William is going to be issuing royal warrants anytime soon. No announcement of an application period opening up for them this spring yet.

I am so not surprised.

[audio-luddite]

The many levels of musical success.

There are the people that show up on red carpets and make fortunes with their music. Then there are others. One two three levels down. Some make a living, others barely survive, but most have to wait tables if they want to pursue their art.

I ran across a very talented musician on Youtube. She did a thing about vinyl. She is both a musician, and philosopher, and has an amazing voice. I mean she could make a living doing narration of documentaries and such. She did an essay on vinyl records which I loved. Insightful, clever, and way better explanation than I could do of what is special about flat plastic.

Mary Spender.

I hope she builds a successful career, damn she deserves it. She is a great musician. Worked hard for it. Far more than that girl from California making millions from her bedroom with her brother.

I love her speaking voice.

I played the Album she held up on this video on Apple Music. I am still working on it. There are a few really good songs. It is well recorded.

She has done a few excellent cover songs. She makes little money on those.

[newsfmember]

Hello🙃! have been an observer for a while but new to this side of the community - down to chat if interested (about anything and everything snz related or not, DMs open / ask whatever😎)

(M, mid 20s, only into F, minors DNI)

Wavs are tagged as #mywavs — love hearing feedback on them :)

get to know me below the line

Get to know me better!

Found these online and thought I’d try to give the community some more insight into who I am given I’m quite new here!! Mostly non-sneezy, but if anyone has good sneeze prompts send my way!!

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Questions

1. What do you do for work?

2. What playlists do you have on your phone?

3. Guilty pleasures?

4. Something you regret.

5. Celebrity crush?

6. How many languages do you know?

7. Make a confession.

8. What’s your favorite book?

9. What was your childhood dream job?

10. Do you have any pets?

11. How many siblings do you have? Are you oldest, middle, or youngest?

12. How tall are you?

13. What’s something you’re insecure about?

14. Embarrassing memory?

15. What’s the most expensive thing you’ve ever bought?

16. Have you ever had a one night stand?

17. A song that evokes a good memory?

18. A song that evokes a bad memory?

19. Do you prefer phone calls, facetime, or texting?

20. What’s a controversial opinion you have?

21. Do you believe in second chances?

22. 3 things you love about yourself.

23. What is something you are sure you’d NEVER do?

24. How different is your actual adult self from how you pictured it when you were little?

25. Have you ever met a celebrity?

26. Free Pass! (Ask whatever question you want to know that’s not on the list)

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Answers

1. I’m in investment banking (yes finance I know lol).

2. I have a ton but pretty much only listen to 2 these days. One is my alternative / rock ish playlist and the other is my EDM playlist. I LOVE music though (play guitar and enjoy making edm music for fun) and am always down to talk tunes lol.

3. Secretly being infatuated by women in my life sneezing… of course lol

4. Honestly my major in college (majored in business but didn’t think it was one bit interesting unfortunately)

5. Well way too many to pick one (also side note always like imagining celebrity sneezes given how in the spotlight they are / feel like this gives way to good embarrassing / loss of control content ahhh 😂) but to name a few -> Kelsey Asbille, Lilly Collins, Margaret Qualley (side note, interesting that the first that come to mind here are all like dark-toned / brunette, all of my girlfriends have been blond)

6. I speak 3 languages! English / French fluently, and Arabic semi-fluently (minored in Arabic in college, long story haha)

7. Confession: Id be lying if I said i haven’t imagined essentially every girl I’ve ever been attracted to sneezing in my arms… sorry!!! (Not 🫣)

8. Favorite book is the sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

9. Cosmologist for sure. Still love anything space / universe related, find it so crazy / interesting

10. Don’t have any pets in my apartment, but yes I have a dog and two cats at my parent’s house

11. Im the oldest of two - have a younger sister ~2 years younger than me

12. ALMOST 6 ft. Lol no but actually 5’11.

13. Honestly a pretty comfortable in my own skin type of person. My sneezing around people kind of feels like a cop out answer but I’d have to say that one — I’m shy about it and have a (usually impenetrable … but not always…) mental block

14. ^ having to stifle sneezes next to a *very* cute classmate / project partner in college when a mystery illness was going around the extended friend group. Ended up not being sick but in the moment was like “pls don’t be grossed out I stg I’m good lol” after haha

15. Not a huge spender but probably one of my multiple guitars that wasn’t gifted to me

16. Indeed I have .. 😶

17. I want you by Chris Lake — heard that pretty much every tailgate in college which were some of the best days of the year

18. Cool and calm by sticky fingers — reminds me of a breakup (long time ago / over it … but still will always be tainted. Great song though I love that band 😂)

19. Phone calls / FaceTime I guess if I’m close enough to someone? I find like flirty / hinge style shallow texting to get quite boring especially with people I don’t know well / don’t know me well lol. Chatting about snz stuff here with new friends is a different story obviously (again somewhat new here and I’m loving it).

20. Not sure how controversial this is (but it might be idk let me know I guess 😂) but I genuinely believe that many, not all, physical and mental problems can be solved by eating / sleeping well and exercising. Certainly has been the case for me but know everyone’s different

21. I do. Think you have to be careful about handing them out with no thought, but I definitely believe in them / have been given them before myself!

22. Hmmm I’m kind definitely not one to talk about myself in an overbearing way, but I guess 1) my eyes 👀 haha my whole family has the same greenish / yellowish / hazel eyes with little dark spots scattered about and I’ve found that people tend to find them quite cool. 2) I’ve always been a (calculated) risk taker / never really afraid to fail which I attribute to getting good at languages / guitar. 3) I think I’m funny … with the right audience lol

23. Go on one of those deep sea commercial submarine explorations. Not trying to dive thousands of feet in a crammed metal box to look out of the window at a pitch black / endless ocean just to implode at the bottom. Anyway I’d go skydiving though 😂

24. Honestly not that different aside from the job I’m currently in. Feel like my physical / personality traits have remained pretty unchanged

25. Eh none to really shout about. A few smaller djs who I like but that’s about it.

26. Ask whatever here (snz related or not!!) and ill answer to the best of my abilities. Really enjoying interacting with all of you so far🙃!!

[sirfrogsworth]

Someone recommended Aurora a while back and I have been enjoying her music ever since. She kind of feels like the anti-Grimes. She has a very weird energy but it's cute and fun rather than disconcerting and problematic.

I also like how she sings the word "woolves."

A lot of singers from other countries end up sounding like they have an American Standard accent. (There are various reasons for this and it is actually very interesting. I think Mary Spender did a video on it.) But Aurora's accent is still very present in her singing and I like that.