#rick chapman

[ometochtli2rabbit]

13.0.12.6.9

wuk[7] MULUC/TOJ[water] - chicome[7] - ATL [water]

galactic tone: reflection/ mystic power

sun sign: OFFERING| shark/red/east

offer appreciation for all creation - MAYA

chicome[7] - ATL [water]

Centeotl | Xiuhtecuhtli

papalotl [butterfly]

lord of the night: Tlaloc

trecena[7]: Itzpapalotl

x: chicuacen[6] - hueitecuhuitl - NAHUA

"Give Horses Dress", Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty, Assiniboine (Stoney)/Sioux, 2006-07

today's symbols are water which is given as an offering, to baptize and purify. Here are some songs that feature the word GIVE:

Whitney Houston: You Give Good Love

Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up

Carly Simon: Can't Give It Up

Eurythmics: I Could Give You A Mirror

P!nk: Just Give Me A Reason

Sia: Never Give Up

FKA Twigs: Give Up

Green Day: Give Me Novacaine

Tracy Chapman: Just Give Me One Reason

Kylie Minogue: Give Me Just A Little More Time

Dead or Alive: Give It to Me

Suzi Quatro: If You Can't Give Me Love

Rick Astley: Never Gonna Give You Up

Demi Lovato: Give Your Heart A Break

Bon Jovi: You Give Love A Bad Name

Michael Stipe & Indigo Girls: I'll Give You My Skin

R.E.M.: What If We Give It Away?

Camila Cabello: Something's Gotta Give

U2: With or Without You

Supertramp: Give A Little Bit

Van Morrison: She Gives Me Religion

Sarah McLachlan: Don't Give Up On Us

Ziggy Marley: Give A Little Love

ZZ Top: Gimme All Your Lovin'

Chic: Give Me the Lovin'

The B-52s: Give Me Back My Man

Rod Stewart: Give Me Love

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away

Peter Gabriel ft. Kate Bush: Don't Give Up

The Judds: Give A Little Love

Hall & Oates: Give It Up (Old Habits)

Steve Miller Band: Give It Up

Gloria Estefan: Give It Up

Sade: Give It Up

Diana Ross: Give Up

Joe Cocker: Please Give Peace A Chance

New Order: Hurt

Ella Fitzgerald: Something's Gotta Give

Beastie Boys: Something's Got To Give

Rick James: Give It to Me Baby

Johnny Cash: Give My Love to Rose

The O'Jays: Give The People What They Want

Talking Heads: Give Me Back My Name

Michael Jackson: Give In to Me

Metallica: The Unforgiven

Depeche Mode: Insight

Chappell Roan: The Giver

Waylon Jennings: The Giver

Curtis Mayfield: Give Me Your Love

Madonna: Give It 2 Me & I Don't Give A

Madonna ft. M.I.A & Nicki Minaj: Give Me All Your Luvin'

David Bowie: I Can't Give Everything Away

John Lennon (Plastic Ono Band): Give Peace A Chance

The Beatles: You Never Give Me Your Money

George Harrison: Give Me Love (Happy B-Day, Jorge!!!)

[jt1674]

[endlessly-ranting-antheia]

I don’t usually recommend books on here (because I haven’t really been reading for fun since I started college) but if you like the Percy Jackson series then you should check out A Thousand Beginnings and Endings.

It is a retelling of Asian myths and legends and it is exactly what I’ve been looking for since I plowed through the Percy Jackson series and it’s various sequels in middle school and high school. It is basically a bunch of short stories each followed by an explanation of the myth that they are based on.

I have tried plenty of books based on Greek myths that people have recommended saying that if I liked the Percy Jackson series I would like those books, but so far they have mostly been disappointing for me largely due to the authors writing voice or weak character work. I am loving a thousand beginnings and endings because the authors of that book do not have that problem. The characters are well written and the myths are incorporated naturally into the stories. Each story is only a few pages long but they draw you in and make you want to see what myth they adapt next. The main things that remind me of the Percy Jackson series in a thousand beginnings and endings are the authors’ writing voices and the respect that they have for the myths and cultures they are writing about. It is truly a fun read and you all should definitely check it out if you haven’t already

[lovecharged]

happy birthday lucy ! 🥳🎉🎁 / @tkachukmatthew

this isn't the best, but it felt right to make an edit based around our fabulous new hockey players and (hint) of their drama.

dear miss lucy,

so, it's your birthday! the best day of the year! of course, i really, really, really hope you have the most wonderful birthday ever! you are the most incredible friend, roleplay partner and human being and i'm so lucky to have you in my life. i don't know if i always appreciate you the way i should, but i hope you know that at the very, very least. that i'm the luckiest to have met you, on this crazy hellsite and that crazy time that now gives us the ick. you also always try your absolute best to fulfill every insane shipping and plotting concept that my brain comes up with. i've never had that complete confidence to express my insane, whacky, and often downright ridiculous ideas before, but you've really given me that safe space to do just that and i'll always try and do the same for you, as it really is the least you deserve. getting to write four thousand ships (and counting) with you has genuinely been a dream come true. we have such similar visions and wants and we love the same faces and ships and absurd concepts and it really does feel like we were destined to write together. you're an insanely gifted writer, and you really should believe that. everyone who gets to write with you would be super lucky and i really hope you get to spread your amazing writing and characters through this community this year! not only that, but you are inspiring and it's the biggest privilege to get to call you my best friend. you are such a genuinely good, decent and remarkable person. your energy is so contagious and when you get excited about something, it'd be the biggest sin in the world not to get excited alongside of you. you're always such a incredible friend to me. you're patient, understanding and sweet and you make me laugh far more than i think you know. you've literally never failed to be there for me, even when i can be the most annoying person in the world. you're right there and i promise you, i really do recognise it. i hope that i'm even a percentage as good at being your friend as you are being mine. you deserve nothing but the best in the world and i really, really hope that your twenty seventh year on this wild planet is the best yet. (you'll still be stuck with me, so that's up for debate). love you very muchly, have the best birthday ever! lottie x

[2old2swiftie]

Just a note for the Gaylors and Bi-lors out there:

I'm really old-- like, I could easily be your mom, and for some, I could even be your grandma-- and I've consumed a lot of media. I'm Gen-X, so I remember the day MTV premiered. I remember when the internet was 2800 baud dial-up. Urban legends couldn't be debunked without a lot of time in a library, and if you missed an episode or a performance, you might never get to see it again.

We had the same "feelings" about some celebrities: our "gaydar" pinged loudly on some people and we knew in our guts they were LGBT, no matter how the media presented them.

Jodie Foster? I knew when she was in Candleshoe and Freaky Friday (the one BEFORE Lindsey Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis)

Rick Martin, soap opera hunk in the 90s? Livin' la Vida Loca in 1999? I called him as gay when I first saw him on General Hospital. He didn't come out until 2010.

George Michael. 1984 "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"? Same. No straight man wears stubble like that.

Tracy Chapman. Knew it.

I remember getting my first earful of Melissa Etheridge in 1988. I knew she was a lesbian the first time I heard her lyrics, but Melissa didn't decide to come out until 1993 with Yes, I Am.

[I lucked out on that one: My office mate in grad school was a glorious flaming fag from Leavenworth KS, Etheridge's hometown, and he came back from Christmas break in 1989 to tell me, "One of my lesbian friends showed me a videotape: it was her ex, Missy, appearing on The Tonight Show!! It was that rocker chick you've been obsessed with: Melissa Etheridge."]

You're not wrong. You're not crazy. You're not projecting.

What you see, over and over, is an issue that Taylor can't keep out of her art. She may never reveal it fully; she may never choose to come out. She may marry 🏈 and have 57 little tight ends.

But what you see is NOT a projection. You're not making it up.

[glassfirefly]

During this period [summer 1967] the band also recorded two Rick Wright compositions, ‘Remember a Day’ and ‘Paintbox’. Wright was still Syd’s closest kindred spirit in the band at this point and both songs are affectionate pastiches of Syd’s wistful writing style. ‘Remember a Day’ would eventually turn up on the Saucerful of Secrets album with Syd playing beautifully delicate slide guitar. — A Very Irregular Head (2010), Rob Chapman.

[staud]

soundtrack to ur life mixtape

tagged by @saritasoyyo whose mixtape is here!

a music tag game where u create a mixtape ft songs that could be in a movie about ur life :D

no pressure tags: @noneedtoamputate @mstiemountainhop @louise-iana @lamialamia @ackackh @blood-mocha-latte @fenhaerel anyone who wants to!!! :)

opening credits: i'll try anything once - julian casablancas

wake up scene: dreams fairytales fantasies - asap ferg

growing up scene: special by sza

first date scene: dirty dancer - orion sun

love scene: kiss me more - doja cat

fight with friend scene: sofia - clairo

heartbreak scene: ball w/o you - 21 savage

mental breakdown scene: street lights - kanye west

moving out: 20 something - sza

getting a job: los pollos hermanos - knucks

taking the train scene: right now - newjeans

average days scene: why - dominic fike

taking the train scene: hush - still woozy remix

deep thoughts scene: no one noticed by the marías

lesson learning scene: luther - kendrick lamar & sza

get back together scene: baby can i hold you - tracy chapman

party scene: devil in a new dress - kanye west & rick ross

happy dance scene: comfortable - lil wayne

homesick scene: i just called to say i love you - stevie wonder

long night alone scene: alone again (naturally) - gilbert o'sullivan

night driving scene: empire ants by the gorillaz

flashback scene: gondry by hyukoh, how to love - lil wayne

falling in love scene: garden (say it like dat) - sza

new beginnings: excuse me - asap rocky

closing credits: so it goes - mac miller

[thenetherlord]

All the Asexual and Aromantic characters I could find in books/media (so far!)

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet - Jen Ferguson

Demisexual representation by Lou, a half-Métis Indigenous Canadian teen.

Hazbin Hotel - Vivienne Medrano & Amazon Prime

AroAce representation by Alastor, a Louisiana Creole Overlord demon.

Heartstopper - Alice Oseman & Netflix

AroAce representation by Isaac Henderson, a British teen.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (+ other PJO series) - Rick Riordan

Asexual representation by Thalia Grace, an American Hunter of Artemis Lieutenant.

The Heroes of Olympus (+ Trials of Apollo) - Rick Riordan

AroAce representation by Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano, a Puerto Rican Hunter of Artemis and past Praetor of the Twelfth Legion.

Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo & Netflix

Asexual representation by Kaz Brekker, leader of The Crows.

Across a Field of Starlight - Blue Delliquanti

Asexual representation by Lu (right) and Fassen, (left) a pilot and ex-soldier, respectively.

Sherlock - Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat (BBC)

Asexual representation by Sherlock Holmes, a British detective.

Heartbreak High - Hannah Carroll Chapman & Netflix

Asexual representation by Ca$h, an Australian teen who is gay.

That's all I have for now, let me know if there's more characters I should add!

[mermaidinthecity]

I Love You’s

I love you, family. Dad, because you are my biggest fan, and I���ll never get tired of the way you smile when I pick up a guitar and play. Mom, for being my best friend and most trusted companion, even in times when you were my only friend. That was just fine. Austin, my little brother, for being so much more brave than I ever hope to be. My aunt, Alison, for being such a beautiful person. My aunts, uncles, cousins, and relatives (even the ones I didn’t know I had) for making Thanksgiving something someone should write a book about. I love my mom and dads’ friends who have been so unbelievably supportive (and so unbelievably loud at my shows).

I love my friends. Abigail, I love you because you are my best friend in the entire world. Can’t wait to room together when we’re 65 and wrinkly and living in Minnesota. I love Ally, Kelsey, Kathryn, Jeff, Clay and all my awesome friends in Hendersonville. Britany Maack for being my first friend, I miss you!

I love everyone who helped put this album together. Scott Borchetta for believing in me and actually DOING something about it. Shake and bake, Radioman. This is how we roll. Nathan Chapman because he is the most amazing red-headed freckle-faced little producer in the world and I love your beautiful wife Stephanie. Thanks Nathan for gracing me with your first album. Liz Rose, you are my songwriting soulmate, and one of my dearest friends. Robert Ellis Orrall, you Rock! Nick for breaking your drumsticks on my songs, Tim for playing on my session ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, and everyone else who played on the album because you are THAT GOOD. Chad, for your amazing mullet (and engineering skills).

I love my record label. Jack Purcell, for your Minnesota accent. Mandy McCormack, for humoring me in my mailbox obsession. Rick Barker, because I learned everything I Know about radio in… nevermind. HAHA. Bobby Young, thanks for taking us shopping. Whitney Sutton, you are so organized and I love you for it. JZ, because of that adorable laugh/nose thing you do. Erik Powell, for being cool and pretty much a genius. Larry Hughes, you rock! Jamice Jennings, for being the sweetest ever. Kelly Rich, you are the wizard of Marketing! Jayme Austin for adding so much spirit to the label. Sandi Spika Borchetta, for being creative/brilliant/beautiful and buying me pretty things to wear. Penny Lazo, you are a crazy rock star. Andrew Kautz, if I ever walk into the label and you’re not there, I will not know what to do with myself. Natalie Kilgore, for your amazing sense of humor. Ray Pronto, for putting this Big Machine in motionnn.

I love the people who helped me get here. Arthur Buenahora, thank you for signing a FOURTEEN year old to a full writers publishing deal. I will never forget that. In fact, I love everyone at Sony Publishing. Pat Garet and Suzy Dalton for letting my little ten-year-old self open up for you. Harry Warner, for being such a gentleman and having my back at BMI. Frank Bell for being so brutally honest about my music from the time I was like 12, and so supportive of my career NOW. Andrew Orth for 14 years of great photos!! Paula Erickson for being the most stylish publicist in the world. Jody Williams, for listening to my rants about high school, and being such a dear friend and musicologist. HHS for supporting me 100%. Bob Taylor and Bob Borbonus at Taylor Guitars for believing in me and making perfection in the form of guitars. Mike Milom for being a genius and the best lawyer ever. Sarah, Ed, and Jim at GAC for taking such a vested interest in me, and PUTTING ME ON TV! CMT you’re awesome! Trey Fanjoy, because you are such a visionary and for directing an amazing video. Pete Fisher you are amazing. Rod Essig, for believing in me from the beginning and being so passionate about what you do. I Love Tim McGraw for making such inspiring music. I love Faith Hill for being the most graceful woman in the world. I love you, Jack Ingram. If at any point in my life, ever ever amount to being HALF as cool as you, I will throw myself a party. I LOVE RADIO because I haven’t met one person I don’t consider a friend. I love all of my myspace friends for taking such an active roll in what I do, I will never forget how you all rallied for me from the beginning.

I love everyone who’s inspired me to write a song, whether you know if or not. I love anyone who has ever turned the volume up when my song comes on the radio, anyone who has bought this album. Anyone who can sing along to my songs when I play them live. Anyone who’s ever requested my song on the radio, or even remembered my name. If you ever see me in public, I want to meet you. I will thank you myself. You have let me into your life, and I will never be able to thank you enough for that. I love YOU, and I love God for putting you in my life.

Love love love

-T-

PS: To all the boys who thought they would be cool and break my heart, guess what? Here are 14 songs written about you. HA.

— Taylor Swift (2006)

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Women & Songs 4 2000 Adult Alternative / Singer-Songwriter / Pop / Adult Contemporary / Dance-Pop / R&B / Country-Pop

Me, sitting in a packed boardroom in the Canadian offices of Warner Elektra Atlantic in ~1997:

"OK, OK, hold on, hold on, wait..."

*closes eyes and lightly pinches bridge of nose with thumb and index finger*

"I just got this brilliant fuckin' idea."

*takes an enormous bong rip and then exhales while gathering thoughts*

"OK, so, y'know, like...people...they love women, right? But another thing that they also love is songs too, right? So, like...see if you can follow me here...what if, like, we took women, but then, like, what if we also took songs...and then, like, what if we somehow managed to...put them both together...?!? 🤔🤯"

*The CEO of the company takes the stubby cigar from his mouth and places it in his ashtray. He then removes his glasses, gently places them on the table, and rubs his eyes a few times as he carefully mulls over what I've just said. He then gets up out of his seat while a grin starts to form on his face, and proceeds to clap slowly, with each successive clap coming more quickly than the previous one, which then leads to a universal round of applause and standing ovation from everyone else in the room. The CEO then pulls me aside and says the following into my ear...*

"See, RV, this is why we're paying you the big bucks."

*He shakes my hand vigorously and then proceeds to give me a million dollars 😀*

---

Y'know, I've posted *a lot* about *a lot* of different compilations over the years, but the first installment in Canada's Women & Songs series is one that's probably going to stick with me until the day that I die; not because it presents a terrific encapsulation of the female singer-songwriter boom of the mid-to-late 90s—which it so totally does—but because of the plainly awful and absurdly low effort that went into both naming and packaging it. It's like, you'd think it was being put out by someone who had just decided to invest in a CD burner and then sell their own bootleg releases that'd been comprised of songs that they'd downloaded off of Napster or something; but no—this shit *actually* came from the greenbacked behemoth that was WARNER ELEKTRA ATLANTIC instead! And for whatever reason, the folks there *really* couldn't be bothered to spare a few more bucks or literally thirty seconds to come up with something that was even a little slightly better than Women & Songs and these atrocious album covers. It's really all just so ridiculous when you think about it, and because of that, it's also very unforgettable as well.

But anyhoo, just like its first volume, this fourth one from the series is really nothing short of excellent too, as it provides a fantastic and diverse array of female-led gems that had specifically been lighting up the Canadian charts in some capacity dating back to 1996. We've got superstar divas like Janet Jackson, Toni Braxton, Tina Turner, Madonna, and Whitney Houston; we've got the country-pop stylings of Faith Hill and LeAnn Rimes; we've got summer romcom staple "Breathless" by The Corrs, one of the single-greatest radio pop songs of the 90s in Natalie Imbruglia's version of "Torn"—believe it or not, she was actually, like, the fourth person to record and release that song—we've got Tracy Chapman, Veruca Salt's Nina Gordon on a well-translated adult alternative tip (anyone else remember "Volcano Girls"?), teen poppers All Saints, and we've also got Dido's "Here With Me," which was co-produced by none other than the great Rick Nowels, a guy whose own exploits have somewhat quietly managed to enrich the careers of so many other female pop stars too, from Stevie Nicks, to Belinda Carlisle, to Celine Dion, to Adele, to Alessia Cara, to Dua Lipa, to Lykke Li, to FKA Twigs, to Madonna, and Lana Del Rey 😯.

But because the Canadian music industry itself has a natural inclination to insularly market and promote a lot of the country's very own artists, there's also a showcase of some really talented women on here whose names you probably wouldn't recognize unless you were Canadian yourself; and that's a bit of a shame, because Pickering, Ontario's own Sarah Slean, for instance, really brings it with a beautifully woven and rich tapestry called "High," which first appeared on her independently released debut album, Blue Parade, in 1998. Trust me when I say this: if you really love all those singing-songwriting ladies of the 90s, like Fiona Apple, Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Paula Cole, Jewel, Tori Amos, etc., you're gonna wanna hear this Sarah Slean song as well, because while it's definitely in a similar vein to all of those women, it's also pretty uniquely wonderful too 👍.

And speaking of Sarahs, I usually don't go for classical crossover-type fare, but Sarah Brightman's rendition of Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" here is especially lovely. It's a highly effective combination of her own soprano, a lush arrangement of orchestral strings, and an unexpected infusion of a contemporarily cinematic trip hop-type of drum beat that really manages to satisfyingly bring the whole thing together. Awesome, and dare I say, (le) epic, stuff.

And I can't leave here without briefly marveling over Whitney Houston's "My Love Is Your Love" too, which Wyclef Jean and his frequent collaborator Jerry Duplessis lent their own subdued Fugees production style to back in 1999. Such a beautiful collaboration with that one, the likes of which I'm not sure that we've ever really heard anything similar to since. Maybe my favorite song on this entire album 😊.

So, in conclusion, women and songs are both great on their own, but once again, as the wea conglomerate has shown us, when you actually decide to combine 'em, it can really yield something special. And I know it's kind of a wild concept that might be a bit difficult to grasp at first, but I think if you give this thing a shot, you'll be able to hear a lot of the mid-90s-to-y2k greatness that came as a result of this purely abstract, out-of-the-box thinking. A bunch of quality music on here, and with some focus specifically put on Canada too, but just make sure to do yourself a favor and skip over the totally uninspired opening that is Madonna's cover of Don McLean's "American Pie," because that thing is BAD.

Highlights:

Faith Hill - "Breathe" The Corrs - "Breathless" Chantal Kreviazuk - "Before You" Janet Jackson - "Together Again" Natalie Imbruglia - "Torn" Tracy Chapman - "Telling Stories" All Saints - "Pure Shores" Toni Braxton - "You're Making Me High" Dido - "Here With Me" Nina Gordon - "Tonight and the Rest of My Life" LeAnn Rimes - "How Do I Live" Tara MacLean - "If I Fall" Whitney Houston - "My Love Is Your Love" Sarah Slean - "High" Sarah Brightman - "A Whiter Shade of Pale"

[sosweetsodead169]

Random Movies

Horror 80's #1

The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie 🇺🇸

1989

Directed by Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman

Desperate to raise money for the experimental surgery that could restore his blind fiancee’s eyesight, Toxie accepts a lucrative job with the evil multinational conglomerate Apocalypse Inc.

102 mins   More at IMDb TMDb

Mausoleum 🇺🇸

1983

Directed by Michael Dugan

By way of an unnatural urge during her Mother’s funeral, Susan enters her family’s mausoleum, which unleashes an evil presence to lurk inside of her.

97 mins   More at IMDb TMDb 

Fright Night Part 2 🇺🇸

1988

Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace

After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent’s apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it’s personal!

104 mins   More at IMDb TMDb 

Sodoma’s Ghost 🇮🇹

'Il fantasma di Sodoma'

1988

Directed by Lucio Fulci

The spirits of Nazis who were killed by bombs while having an orgy return 50 years later to terrorize a group of six teens who stumble upon the house of their death site.

84 mins   More at IMDb TMDb 

Halloween II 🇺🇸

1981

Directed by Rick Rosenthal

After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she’s been admitted for Myers’ attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.

92 mins   More at IMDb TMDb 

Silent Night, Deadly Night 🇺🇸

1984

Directed by Charles E. Sellier Jr.

Billy Chapman, who was traumatized by his parents’ Christmas Eve murder, then brutalized by sadistic orphanage nuns, grows up to dress as jolly St. Nick for a yuletide rampage to punish the naughty.

79 mins   More at IMDb TMDb

Black Roses 🇺🇸

1988

Directed by John Fasano

Teens in a small conservative town are turned into evil demons thanks to the music of the titular heavy metal band.

90 mins   More at IMDb TMDb 

Chopping Mall 🇺🇸

1986

Directed by Jim Wynorski

A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they can get out, the robot security system activates after a malfunction and goes on a killing spree. One by one the three bots try to rid the mall of the “intruders.” The only weapons the kids can use are the supplies in other stores, or if they can make it till morning when the mall opens back up.

77 mins   More at IMDb TMDb

Twilight Zone: The Movie 🇺🇸

1983

Directed by John Landis, Joe Dante Steven Spielberg George Miller

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the “Twilight Zone” TV series—“Kick the Can”, “It’s a Good Life” and “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”—and one original story, “Time Out.”

101 mins   More at IMDb TMDb 

Cujo 🇺🇸

1983

Directed by Lewis Teague

A friendly St. Bernard named “Cujo” contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

93 mins   More at IMDb TMDb 

[ometochtli2rabbit]

13.0.12.4.1

junlajun [11] IMIX/IMOX [crocodile] - kan[4] MUWAN

galactic tone: resolution/ dissonant structure

sun sign: crocodile/red/east

open to new beginnings - MAYA

mahtlactli-once[11] - CIPACTLI [crocodile]

Chalmecatecuhtli | Tonacatecuhtli

alo [scarlet macaw]

lord of the night: Chalchihuitlicue

trecena[11]: Patecatl

x: caxtolli-onei[18] - hueitozoztli - NAHUA

Today's Maya advice is to open to new beginnings, so here are some songs that feature the word OPEN:

Madonna: Open Your Heart

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Into the Great Wide Open

Bonnie Tyler: Open Your Eyes

Snow Patrol: Open Your Eyes

Yes: Open Your Eyes

Doobie Brothers: Open Your Eyes

The Hollies: Open Up Your Eyes

Taylor Swift: Eyes Open

Earth, Wind & Fire: Open Our Eyes

Rick Springfield: Open My Eyes

Anne Murray: You Are My Sunshine/ Open Your Heart

Randy Travis: Open the Eyes of My Heart

Buck Owens: Open Up Your Heart

Jackson Browne: I Am a Patriot

The Human League: Open Your Heart

No Doubt: Open the Gate

Squeeze: Trust Me to Open My Mouth

Santana: Open Invitation

Buddy Guy: I Got My Eyes on You

Tracy Chapman: Open Arms

Amy Grant: Open Arms

Black Moon: I Got Cha Opin

Journey: Open Arms

Mariah Carey: Open Arms

Vanessa Williams: Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly

Van Morrison: Open the Door (to Your Heart)

Chic: Open Up

Harry Nilsson: Open Your Window

The Commodores: Wide Open

The Chicks: Wide Open Spaces

Johnny Cash: Wide Open Road

Bob Dylan & the Band: Open the Door, Homer

Kool & the Gang: Open Sesame

Arlo Guthrie: Wake Up

Hall & Oates: Open All Night

Beastie Boys: Hey Ladies!

Diana Ross: Hope is an Open Window

Fleetwood Mac: Open the Door

Eddie Cochran: Open The Door

The Rolling Stones: Continental Drift

Queen: Keep Passing the Open Windows

Paul McCartney: Let 'Em In & We're Open Tonight

Living Colour: Open Letter to a Landlord

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Red Allen, Al Bowlly, Iona Brown, Nicolas Cage, Marshall Chapman, Katie Couric, Dave Cousins, Dustin Diamond, Millard Fillmore, Five for Fighting, Gerónimo Baqueiro Foster, Juan Gabriel, the Gibson Flying V guitar (1958), Leslie Grace, Erin Gray, Clara Haskil, Sammo Hung, Zora Neale Hurston, Irrfan Khan, Linda Kozlowski, Earl Lindo, Kenny Loggins, Rick Marotta, Mike McGear (McCartney), Butterfly McQueen, Ruth Negga, Wintley Phipps, Richard Podolor, Francis Poulenc, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jeremy Renner, John Rich, Bernadette Soubirous a.k.a. St. Bernadette of Lourdes, Kathy Valentine, guitarist Alan Lee Williams, Bernadette Soubirous, Rory Storm, and the great entertainer, Paul Dick better known as Paul Revere. The ride of Paul Revere & The Raiders began in 1958 as a rock’n’roll update on Spike Jones. Later Mark Lindsay joined and PR&TR morphed into a tight music act, pushing back on the British Invasion bands of 1964 with garage band energy. The Raiders kicked out hit after hit in multiple genres including bubblegum, country rock, hard rock, psychedelia, and soul/r’n’b, all with dazzling excellence. They cut the first definitive version of “Louie Louie” before leaving their Oregon base for Los Angeles, joining Terry Melcher (Byrds producer) to launch a prolific and innovative run of great records that still play today: “Just Like Me”, “Kicks” and (recently in the film ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD) “Good Thing,” “Hungry,” “Mr. Sun Mr. Moon,” etc. 

 

In 1965, Dick Clark expanded his television jukebox, hiring PR&TR to host three TV shows, the best known being “Where The Action Is.” Before The Monkees even twanged “Last Train to Clarksville,” PR&TR had already set the bar for TV bands, gluing pre-adolescent me to the tube with rock’n’roll comedy and ear candy—and there was eye candy for 1000s of girls screaming for front man Mark Lindsay. He is also a powerhouse vocalist, able to croon soft sensual pop ballads then flip to paint-peeling bluesy growls. 

 

The hits crested in 1971 with “Indian Reservation.” Then the band line-up shifted while Paul rode on with new back-up musicians. Over the years I’ve intersected with various Raiders (sidebar: One of my former drummers, Erik Nielsen, worked with the late Drake Levin, an under-sung guitar marvel). 

 

Fast forward to January 2008. I’d been touring with Davy Jones (Monkees) for many years, and we often shared bills with Paul and long-time Raiders Ron Foos, Doug Heath, and Danny Krause—“brothers of the road.” We were on a cruise ship, floating somewhere on the Caribbean, partaking in Paul’s 70th birthday bash. During the revelry I got into a deep discussion with Paul about stage antics and how he got his Vox organ to “rhythmically float” on TV (he wouldn’t tell me the trick). Two years later, we were in Pittsburgh PA shooting a PBS-TV special and Paul enlisted me to persuade Davy to sing “Steppin’ Stone” with The Raiders (Davy balked, saying he didn’t want to wear Raider clothes, but eventually caved in). Sadly, Paul passed in 2014, but I’m glad I had the chance to tell him in person the joy and musical instruction he showed me on record and on stage.

 

If I had to pick one PR&TR track, it’s "Too Much Talk.” It blew my mind when I was a kid—my 45 of it cracked but I kept pressing it with my fingers till the vinyl tissued (the fidelity on this clip is a tad distorted, but the visuals speak volumes)…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG30aN53GkY Meanwhile, heavenly HB PR and thank you for your years of spreading fun on screen and stage.

 

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[ill-try-to-do-book-reviews]

My 2025 Recap

Books Read:

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes

Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay

Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

American Rapture by CJ Leede

TOTAL: 23 (59% of books borrowed)

Books DNF'd

Neon Gods by Katee Robert

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

Haunted by Chuck Palahnuik

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

The Hunger by Alma Katsu

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite

Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

Gerald's Game by Stephen King

Near the Bone by Christina Henry

Maeve Fly by CJ Leede

TOTAL: 16 (41% of books borrowed)

Top Genres:

Horror (52%)

Thriller (21%)

Mythology (21%)

Suspense (17%)

Queer (17%)

Fantasy (13%)

Ratings by Percent:

14 reviews total

5/5: 5 (36%)

4.5/5: 4 (29%)

4/5: 2 (14%)

3.5/5: 2 (14%)

2.5/5: 1 (7%)

[n8eulchens-owlhaven]

Runde 2: Chapman

Die Zwillinge brachten Klassenkameraden aus der Schule mit und schauen einen Märchenfilm.

Rick Harmon: "Am besten hat mir in dem Märchenfilm die Wahrsagerin gefallen. Als ihre Kugel anfing zu leuchten, die Effekte sind wirklich klasse!" Vera: " Ja, die Effekte waren wirklich toll. Was meint ihr?" Jody: "Ich weiß nicht. Ich fand die sah aus wie eine Hexe. Richtig gruselig." Jeanette Carlson: "Die fandst du gruselig? Dann musst du mal einen richtigen Gruselfilm für Erwachsene anschauen, hihihi."

Am Abend:

Kathryn: "Komm schon Vera, ich hab dich den ganzen Tag mit deinen Freunden fernsehen lassen. Irgendwann musst du die Hausaufgaben machen. Ich helfe dir auch. Deine Schwester ist schon fertig."

Neal: "So meine kleine Maus, hier ist dein Fläschchen. Wenn du ausgetrunken hast, geht's ins Bettchen, Norma."

Kathryn: "Meine Herren? Ich weiß nicht, was Sie im Kinderzimmer meiner Töchter zu suchen haben. Es wird spät, die Mädchen wollen schlafen. Bitte gehen Sie."

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Lockwood and co/ mummy au that I’ll probably never write. Super rough and I just came up with it in five minutes and immediately had to share it one the hellsite.

Lockwood as Rick O’Connell, family dead so he joins the French foreign legion just to feel something

Lucy and George as adopted siblings of famed egyptologists

They have a skull

Quill Kipps as a rival Egyptologist

Lucy and George team up with Lockwood, who’s running essentially safaris for rich people, but they’re on a mission to find hamanaptra

Find it, wake up Imhotep

Shenanigans. Maybe holly is some kind of warrior/researcher/protector who is like really annoyed with these English people who woke up a mummy? Idk I don’t know her that well I’ve only seen the show.

Look, I mostly need the characters from l&co in the costumes from the 1999 classic film the mummy directed by Stephen Sommers. Cameron Chapman would Crush It as Rick O’Connell.