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forthegothicheroine · 5 years ago

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Dear Purimgifts Author

I, uh, I nominated a lot of stuff this year. That’s good, right? It means you get more options! I’d be equally happy with one three-part story or three one-part stories, I’m just dying to see what you come up with!

The Path (Game)

I watched a Let’s Play of this game years ago, and still can’t get it out of my head. Tell me what’s going on overall, or just focus in on one of the girls and tell me her story. I’d rather not get too sexual with this one, but if you want to do a little creepy romance with one of the older girls and her wolf (the piano wolf or the motorcycle wolf in particular) go for it. I’ll take a happy ending or a sad ending here, either one would fit. And if you want to make any of the girls Jewish, feel free to go there...

Spinning Silver

This book was a revelation to me. An actual practicing Jewish heroine! Clearly explained economics! Creepy fairies! Heroine/villain romance! Anything focusing on Miryem is good here, be it romantic and/or sexual with her fairy king, or simply a day in the life of being a clever moneylender. And does she continue her job with other mythical creatures?

Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance

Trite as it may be, I’m a sucker for heroine/villain/hero love triangles, and this ballet gave me exactly what I wanted. So, tell me about Aurora! Tell me about her love for Leo and/or Caradoc, her fear and desperation in captivity, or her adjustment to life as a vampire! This is one where I’d be happy to see things get sexy (non or dubcon is okay where Caradoc is concerned) but please don’t feel obligated to go there.

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

I was just reflecting on how much I love this movie, and thinking about how cool Francesca’s role is- she’s the ingenue, sure, but she also gets to argue with the villain and hold to her own philosophical beliefs. You can give me more of those scenes, or tell me more about her love/hate dynamic with Prince Prospero. And what if the religion she felt so strongly about had been Judaism? How would that change the story in an alternate universe?

The Frisco Kid

I love this movie. I love Avram and Tommy’s friendship- they’re just so sweet together! I’d love to see more of them, be it gen friendship or slash. And if you haven’t seen the movie, please take this as encouragement to do so. Young Gene Wilder and young Harrison Ford! It’s great!

Dracula- Bram Stoker

Dracula is my favorite novel and Mina Harker is my favorite character, so I’d love to see something about her and/or Lucy. This could be a missing episode during the plot of the book, an episode after, or an alternate canon divergence universe. I’m not too keen on the ‘Mina is Dracula’s reincarnated wife and/or Jonathan is evil’ trope, but otherwise I’m open to any sort of wackiness (or seriousness!) If you’re looking for a way to fit Jewish culture into this prompt, tell me what happens when Jewish symbols are used against vampires. Do they work? What’s the theology and/or metaphysics behind what works?

The Addams Family (1991)

I’ve long headcanoned the Addams family (or at the very least Morticia) as Jewish, and I’d love to see that in fanfic form! Or, if you don’t feel like writing that, I’ll take a slice of life with Morticia and/or Wednesday. Wednesday’s summer camp rebellion was important to me as a child, and Morticia is who I long to be as an adult, after all!

Arthurian Mythology

Welcome to my current fixation. I got some lovely fic about Ragnelle last Purimgifts, and I’m always up for more, or somthing that explores Morgan (as either friend or foe or both) or Guinevere (as conflicted lover or faithful wife) or Vivian/Nimue (as hero or villain.) How did the ladies of Camelot survive- or not- Mordred’s coup? If you want to do something Jewish, tell me how things work in Camelot. We know there are Saracen knights- are there Jewish ones? Did Camelot approach a progressive place in its own fumbling ahistorical way?

Darkest Dungeon

There are lots of female characters to choose from here! My fave is the Graverobber, but they’re all great. Tell me a funny thing that happened in one of your games, or ship a lady with a partner of your choice (het or femslash are both fine), keep it restricted to the main game or bring in stuff from the Crimson Court or The Color of Madness. Or even tell me a story about the Countess!

Twin Peaks

Look, I’ll come out and say it- I think the female characters were done dirty by the sequel and book materials, especially Audrey and Donna. I’d like to think something positive could have happened to them in another universe (I’m neutral on Audrey/Dale, but having her forever pine after him after having been raped by his doppleganger and giving birth to a soulless child and married to a man she hates and confined to an asylum was a special kind of cruelty.) So I’ll take fix fic, or if you just don’t want to touch that area at all, something nice happening to Donna, Audrey, Shelley or even Laura’s ghost during seasons 1 or 2 would be really nice.

Fallout: New Vegas

My Courier is female, so I’ll happily take fem!Courier fic, but I’d also enjoy something about Cass, Veronica or Lily. I’d also love to think of my Courier as Jewish, and generally ship her with Boone, but any of these details are totally optional. I just love this world- the characters, the dialogue, the complex political relationships- and I love getting to spend time there in fic. Do something scary with our heroine(s) up against the Legion or do something fluffy about singing folksongs in the desert, I’ll love it either way!

English and Scottish Popular Ballads- Francis James Child

I’ll honestly take anything with this. I love folk music, and I’d love to hear any of the ballads expanded on. (Young Lord Hugh is, uh, probably not the easiest choice, but if you want to tell me how the Jewish villainess was actually framed, be my guest.) There are so many intriguing women in these songs, just pick your favorite heroine or villainess and go for it!

Kushiel’s Legacy

I love every Night Court worldbuilding story I read! I’d love to know about your favorite house, whether it’s one we’ve seen in action or not- what the hell do they do in Alyssum? What’s it like for a Valerian adept who likes her job but doesn’t have Phaedre’s extreme masochism? If you want to take on a bigger challenge, my biggest complaint about this series is that I really, really don’t like how they did the Jewish characters. If you think you could write out a scenario with Jews in the world of Kushiel who aren’t either merged with Christians or poor lost souls just waiting for the light of Elua, please give it a try!

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voodoochili · 5 years ago

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My Favorite Songs of 2019

2019 was a fantastic year for music, but then again every year is. We as listeners have been blessed with abundance, and tasked with the delightful work of sifting through freshwater to find gold. This year, the most reliably golden genres were West African pop and West Coast Rap. Go figure.

The following represents my favorite 100 songs of the year. My only rules: 1) one song per lead artist (a lucky few earned multiple placements through the “featured artist” loophole).

Below are the write-ups (everyone’s favorite part) and stay tuned for my albums list, coming next week. Don’t forget to scroll all the way down for a Spotify playlist of the full list!

25. Desperate Journalist - “Satellite” - A sweeping, emotional rock song by a veteran rock band that can uncork one of these in their sleep. What makes this one special? The dynamic changes in the pre-chorus, the soaring guitar solo, and the passionate performance from lead singer Jo Bevan.

24. Jacques Greene - “Stars” - A brilliant bit of ambient techno that evokes the seminal electronic classic “Little Fluffy Clouds,” by The Orb. Instead of desert clouds, the anonymous female narrator describes a pastoral dream about the night skies of her youth. A transporting piece of music that should’ve been twice as long--five minutes is a cruelly short lifespan for this kind of bliss.

23. Rosalía - “Con Altura” ft. J Balvin - After the brilliant and singular El Mal Querer demonstrated Rosalía’s singular talent, “Con Altura” announced her intentions for worldwide domination. Created with frequent Rosalía collaborator El Guincho and chameleonic superstar J Balvin, “Con Altura” contains two of the year’s most insidious hooks--the soft-spoken call-and-response chorus, and Rosalía’s snake-charming bridge, the strongest indication yet that global stardom won’t stop the Catalonian chanteuse from pushing music forward.

22. Faye Webster - “Room Temperature” – 2019’s answer to “Swingin’ Party,” the Replacements’ great anthem for introverts, the introductory track on Webster’s Atlanta Millionaire’s Club album drifts along with Hawaiian-flavored pedal steel and a palpable sense of regret, as the 21-year-old singer longs to escape her perfectly comfortable surroundings. 21. Yhung T.O. - “Lately” ft. Lil Sheik - Easy, breezy, beautiful Bay Area rap, carried by T.O.’s dulcet tones and Sheik’s unrepentant dirtbaggery. The beat by Armani Depaul is one of my favorite retro-facing rap beats in a while, complete with smooth digital strings and security-pad synths. 20. The New Pornographers - “You’ll Need a New Backseat Driver” - Every five years or so, A.C. Newman writes a melody so strong that it requires Neko Case’s ultra-powerful alto to properly do it justice. This year, that song is “You’ll Need a New Backseat Driver,” which strives for, and nearly approaches, the heights of previous Pornos stunners like “The Laws Have Changed” and “Champions of Red Wine.”

19. Floating Points - “LesAlpx” - Surrounded by outré synth experiments and beatless soundscapes on Crush, the first Floating Points album since 2015, “LesAlpx” is Sam Shepherd’s gift to club-goers everywhere. It’s a lean and mean house track, foregrounding propulsive percussion and rubbery bass, but it’s also deeply cerebral, creating a sense of foreboding urgency with detuned synths and ambient sine waves. 18. Daphni - “Sizzling” ft. Paradise - Built around a sample of Paradise’s seminal single “Sizzlin’ Hot,” Dan Snaith’s “Sizzling” extends the best moments of the classic post-disco smash to create five minutes of pure euphoria. The song starts in media res, with the groove in full form, and peaks at the end, when Snaith finally allows Paradise’s June Ventzos to finish her thought atop jubilant trumpets. 17. J Hus - “Must Be” - The latest genre-blending collaboration between J Hus and genius producer JAE5 proves that no man is safe from Hus’s dazzling logic, as he stacks syllogism after syllogism over an irresistible, afropop-flavored groove: “If it walk like an opp/Talk like an opp/Smell like an opp/Then it must be.” 16. Vampire Weekend - “Jerusalem, New York, Berlin” - Ever indulging his literary ambitions, Ezra Koenig uses the final track on Father Of The Bride to examine his Jewish identity, and to reckon with a world that hasn’t made sense since World War I. The prettiest melody on an album dripping with pretty melodies, “Jerusalem, New York, Berlin” packs enough symbolism into three minutes to inspire a seminar at Koenig’s Ivy League alma mater. Supported by yearning, spritely piano, Koenig ends the song with a poignant plea for peace, within reason: “So let them win the battle/But don't let them restart/That genocidal feeling/That beats in every heart.” 15. Great Grandpa - “Bloom” - The highlight from Great Grandpa’s outstanding Four Of Arrows album, “Bloom” is two songs in one. Part one brings punchy acoustic guitar that recalls ‘90s adult alternative (think Matchbox 20) and prime-era Saddle Creek (think Rilo Kiley) in equal measure. The second par tcompletes the song’s emotional arc, slowing down for a hypnotic wordless chorus, backed by weeping violins,. The key line here: “Please say I’m young enough to change.” 14. Spellling - “Real Fun” – Gleefully dramatic and overflowing with evil-sounding synths, “Real Fun” synthesizes Neneh Cherry, Bauhaus, and Cabaret into something that sounds like a villain’s theme in an animated musical that hasn’t been written yet. 13. Earthgang - “Proud Of U” ft. Young Thug – There’s no straight man to ground this ATL trio, as all three emcees lean into their vocal eccentricities while expressing their thanks to the women in their lives atop a mutating, guitar-driven beat. 12. Stella Donnelly - “Tricks” – In which the young heroine attempts to rid herself of a particularly toxic ex, who isn’t just misogynist, but a potential white supremacist sympathizer (her subject’s “Southern Cross Tattoo” is like an Aussie version of the MAGA hat). Heavy stuff, but Donnelly delivers everything with a grin, as if she’s wondering in real time why the hell she ever bothered with this jamoke. 11. Jenny Lewis - “On The Line” - The title track and emotional climax of Jenny Lewis’ latest album, “On The Line” boasts one of the finest vocal performances in her long career, sweetly assassinating her cheating ex-lover with a lilting melody and wry smile.

10. Lucinda Chua - “Whatever It Takes” – Lucinda Chua makes languid art pop in the tradition of fka twigs, but I prefer her understated longing to twigs herself. Her main instrument is the cello, but this track foregoes that sound almost entirely, opting instead for resonant Wurlitzer keys and multi-layered vocal harmonies, and shunting traditional song structure aside in favor of one enigmatic verse, repeating at odd intervals throughout: “Wait/The demons I carry are fake/I will fight our fire, too late.” 9. ShooterGang Kony - “Charlie” – The year’s most cold-blooded mob banger starts with the line “fuck the police and your mama if you ask me” and only escalates from there. Rhyming without affect over hiccuping bass, Kony mercilessly ethers cops, R&B singers, and women named Ashley before threatening to shoot you with a gun that sounds like Fozzy Bear. 8. KEY! - “Miami Too Much” – My favorite Atlanta rap song of the year gets its power from its hilariously specific central conceit, with KEY’s impassioned vocal selling the bit: “If you seen that ass, you'd make a song too.” How often must someone visit Dade County before it becomes an irreconcilable difference in an otherwise healthy relationship? 7. Raphael Saadiq - “Something Keeps Calling” ft. Rob Bacon - Named after his older brother, Raphael Saddiq’s towering Jimmy Lee album examines the personal cost of the crack epidemic, and the outsized role addiction plays in the lives of the destitute. “Something Keeps Calling” is the album’s crushing centerpiece, painting substances as at once a seductive lover and a heavy burden, one that overrides all common sense and decency: “My friends say I can never pull it together/Well they might be right, at least tonight/My kids say I'll never come home again/And I know they're right, at least tonight.” The song climaxes with Rob Bacon’s wailing guitar solo, which tries in vain to reach out to those beyond hope. 6. Bad Bunny & J Balvin - “La Canción” - Nestled in the middle of Balvin and Bunny’s summer smash OASIS, “La Canción” takes a break from the party to dwell on the inherent emptiness of their hedonistic lifestyle, as a mournful trumpet echoes the Reggaetoneros’ longing for meaningful connection amidst their chaotic lives. 5. Polo G - “Pop Out” ft. Lil TJay – Only Polo G would interrupt his own robbery to examine the sociological causes of his behavior: “We come from poverty, man, we ain't have a thing.” But on the rest of “Pop Out,” Polo leans into the dark side of his persona, before 2019’s most unlikely guest verse assassin Lil TJay brings the pathos: “If I showed you all my charges, you won't look at me the same.” In contrast to how effortless the two rappers sound atop the dramatic piano loop, listening to Lil Baby and Gunna wheeze through the remix hammers home the high degree of difficulty of such nimble melodics. It’s a testament to how fast rap music moves these days that Polo and TJay can make last year’s It Duo sound like geezers. 4. Octo Octa - “I Need You” – It starts as an intoxicatingly minimal expression of dancefloor lust, but halfway through, “I Need You” morphs into a sincere and moving tribute to everybody who helped Octo Octa become the woman she is today. It’s a moving moment tucked within an epic club track that works equally well as build-up or comedown.

3. Purple Mountains - “All My Happiness Is Gone” - It’s hard to find the words for this one, a matter-of-fact documentation of a man slowly losing his will to live--which became heartbreakingly clear when David Berman committed suicide in August. But because it’s Berman, “All My Happiness Is Gone” is packed with genius-level wordplay and devastating observations, and enough gallows humor to truly emphasize the gravity of his situation: “Friends are warmer than gold when you're old/And keeping them is harder than you might suppose//Lately, I tend to make strangers wherever I go/Some of them were once people I was happy to know.” I’ll keep going: “Ten thousand afternoons ago/All my happiness just overflowed/That was life at first and goal to go.” And one more: “Where nothing's wrong and no one's asking/But the fear's so strong it leaves you gasping/No way to last out here like this for long.”

2. Big Thief - “Not” - A torrid, slow-burning rocker, “Not” showcases lead singer-songwriter Adrienne Lenker’s skill with oblique imagery and wild-eyed intensity. Lenker rattles off a long list of poetic observations, trying to get to the heart of something (everything?) without ever finding a satisfactory answer, as the music morphs from a controlled simmer to a cacophonous freakout. “Not” climaxes with a riotous guitar solo from Lenker herself, one that reaches towards the cosmos and echoes her frayed vocal. As always with Big Thief, though, the song soars in the smallest moments, like when guitarist Buck Meek enters with plainspoken backing vocals, and at the beginning of the second verse when the guitars drop out and Lenker’s voice stands alone.

1. Burna Boy - “Anybody” - Sometimes the best song of the year is the one that makes you feel the best, and no song this year made me feel better than “Anybody.” “Anybody” is both inviting and aloof, urgent and relaxing. Riding an irresistible groove defined by syncopated keys, driving percussion, and an eager-to-please saxophone, Burna Boy slides between Pidgin English and Yoruba chasing a feeling that resonates beyond the capabilities of language. It’s a song about demanding and receiving respect, dripping with the contagious confidence of an African Giant. And for three minutes, you’ll feel like a giant too.

THE REST: 26. DaBaby - “Intro” 27. Perfume Genius - “Eye On The Wall” 28. Yves Jarvis - “To Say That Is Easy” 29. Doja Cat - “Cyber Sex” 30. Mannequin Pussy - “Drunk II” 31. Better Oblivion Community Center - “Dylan Thomas” 32. Shoreline Mafia - “Wings” 33. Kehlani - “Footsteps” ft. Musiq Soulchild 34. Obangjayar - “Frens” 35. Ariana Grande - “NASA” 36. Mustard ft. Roddy Ricch - “Ballin” 37. Baby Keem - “ORANGE SODA” 38. Jessie Ware - “Adore You” 39. 03 Greedo x Kenny Beats - “Disco Shit” ft. Freddie Gibbs 40. Martha - “Love Keeps Kicking” 41. Lucki - “More Than Ever” 42. Park Hye-Jin - “Call Me” 43. DaVido - “Disturbance” ft. Peruzzi 44. The Japanese House - “Worms” 45. Spencer Radcliffe - “Here Comes The Snow” 46. Dawn Richard - “Dreams And Converse” 47. ALLBLACK & Offset Jim - “Fees” ft. Capolow 48. David Kilgour - “Smoke You Right Out Of Here” 49. Sandro Perri - “Wrong About The Rain” 50. Nilüfer Yanya - “In Your Head” 51. Julia Jacklin - “Don’t Know How To Keep Loving You” 52. Miraa May - “Angles” ft. JME 53. (Sandy) Alex G - “Gretel” 54. Kelsey Lu - “Due West” 55. glass beach - “classic j dies and goes to hell, pt. 1” 56. Peggy Gou - “Starry Night” 57. Cate Le Bon - “Home To You” 58. Busy Signal - “Balloon” 59. NLE Choppa - “Shotta Flow” 60. Dee Watkins - “Hell Raiser” 61. Ari Lennox - “I Been” 62. The National - “Not In Kansas” 63. Shordie Shordie - “Both Sides” ft. Shoreline Mafia 64. Alex Lahey - “Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself” 65. Angel Olsen - “New Love Cassette” 66. Young Dolph - “Tric Or Treat” 67. Koffee - “Throne” 68. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - “Half Manne, Half Cocaine” 69. Noname - “Song 32” 70. Anthony Naples - “A.I.R.” 71. Samthing Soweto - “Omama Bomthandazo (feat Makhafula Vilakazi)” 72. KAYTRANADA - “10%” ft. Kali Uchis 73. Moodymann - “Got Me Coming Back Right Now” 74. Drakeo The Ruler - “Let’s Go” ft. 03 Greedo 75. Teejayx6 - “Dark Web” 76. Cass McCombs - “I Followed The River South to What” 77. Gunna - “Idk Why” 78. Sharon Van Etten - “You Shadow” 79. Tresor - “Sondela” ft. Msaki 80. E-40 - “Chase The Money” ft. Quavo, Roddy Ricch, ScHoolboy Q & A$AP Ferg 81. Spielbergs - “Running All The Way Home” 82. 24kGoldn - “Valentino” 83. Quelle Chris - “Box of Wheaties” 84. Emily King - “Go Back” 85. AzChike - “Yadda Mean” ft. Keak Da Sneak 86. Club Night - “Path” 87. Zeelooperz - “Easter Sunday” ft. Earl Sweatshirt 88. Kim Gordon - “Murdered Out” 89. YS - “Bompton” (Remix) ft. 1TakeJay & OhGeesy 90. Future - “Never Stop” 91. Lowly - “baglaens” 92. SAULT - “Masterpiece” 93. Earl Sweatshirt - “TISK TISK/COOKIES” 94. Fireboy DML - “Energy” 95. Rio Da Young OG & Lil E - “Buy The Block” 96. Sacred Paws - “Write This Down” 97. Wilco - “Everyone Hides” 98. Black Belt Eagle Scout - “Real Lovin” 99. Sleepy Hallow - “Breakin Bad (Okay)” ft. Sheff G 100. Aimee Leigh & Baby Billy - “Misbehavin’ (1989)”

Here’s a Spotify playlist of the full list:

#burna boy #big thief #purple mountains #octo octa #polo g #bad bunny #j balvin #raphael saadiq #jenny lewis #shootergang kony #key!#lucinda chua #stella donnelly #earthgang

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alexbandfan · 6 years ago

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Alex apareceu atuando nas seguintes séries e filmes:

Puppet Master (1990)

Doctor Mordrid (1992)

O Super Controle Remoto (1993)

Fish without a Bicycle as Jag

Coyote Ugly Bar (tocou Wherever you will go)

CSI NY 5th season (2009) as Trey Fager

Alex apareceu nos seguintes programas de TV:

FOX 11 News LA (TV Series) - Guest- Episode dated 21 June 2016

Flex & Shanice (TV Series) - It's My Party... (2014)

Extra (TV Series) - Episode dated 20 August 2013

Showbiz Tonight (TV Series)

Bachelor Pad (TV Series) - Episode #1.1 (2010)

The Dome 54 (TV Series) - Performer (2010)

MTV Video Music Brasil 2004 (TV Movie)

Top of the Pops (TV Series) - Episode dated 16 July 2004

95.8 Capital FM's Party in the Park for the Prince's Trust 2004 (TV Movie)

Top of the Pops Saturday (TV Series documentary) - Episode dated 8 May 2004

TRL Italy (TV Series) Episode #5.1 (2003) and Episode #4.1 (2002)

MTV Europe Music Awards 2002 (TV Special)

Smash Hits Poll Winners Party 2002 (TV Special)

Party in the Park 2002 (TV Special)

Summer Music Mania 2002 (TV Movie)

Total Request Live (TV Series)

Music in High Places (TV Series documentary)

Suas músicas aparecem na trilha sonora dos seguintes filmes:

Daredevil / Demolidor – For you

Kate and Leopold –

Love, Actually/Simplesmente amor – Wherever you will go

Ah... O Amor! – Wherever you will go

Sweet Home Alabama – Keep your hands to yourself

The final season – Coming Home

Bratz – Doesn’t get better than this

O Cachorro Bombeiro – Our lives

Doll Graveyard (dirigido por Charles Band) – The Truth

Jogada de Verão – Sweet Summer

Fish without a Bicycle – Take Hold of me

Suas músicas aparecem na trilha sonora das seguintes séries:

The Vampire Diaries – Only One

Melrose Place – Only One

As telefonistas – Take me back

One Hit Wonderland – Wherever you will go

Quem quer ser um milionário? – Wherever you will go

Arquivo Morto – Wherever you will go

Star Trek ( prequel 2001) – Wherever you will go

Cold Case (by CBS TV, end of the episode: Frank’s Best) – Wherever you will go

Smallville: As Aventuras do Superboy (episódio: Metamorphosis, 1a temporada) – Wherever you will go

Bela, a Feia – In your heart I’m home

Alex Band e The Calling ganharam os seguintes prêmios:

NRJ Music Award (International Duo/Group of the Year) - 2004

BDS Certified Spin Awards - 500 000 Spins for Wherever you will go - 2003

Teen Choice Awards 2002 Categoria: Melhor música de Rock, Wherever You Will Go Data: 4 de Agosto de 2002 Localidade: Los Angeles, CA MTV Europe Music Awards 2002 Categoria: Melhor Banda revelação Data: 14 de Novembro de 2002 Localidade: Barcelona, Espanha Smash Hits Awards 2002 Categoria: Melhor banda de Rock Data: 24 de Novembro de 2002 Localidade: Londres NRJ Music Awards 2003 Categoria: Melhor Grupo Internacional Data: 18 de Janeiro de 2003 Localidade: Cannes, França

Alex Band e The Calling foram indicados para os seguintes prêmios:

Teen Choice Awards for Breakout artist - 2002

Teen Choice Awards for Love Song: Wherever you will go - 2002

Billboard Music Awards for Hot 100 singles duo/group of the year - 2002

Billboard Music Awards for New pop artist of the year - 2002

Billboard Music Awards for Top 40 Track of the year for Wherever you will go - 2002

APRA Music Awards for Most performed foreign work for Wherever you will go - 2003

Programas de TV:

A música Our Lives:

- foi usada pelo programa Clubhouse,

- na cerimônia de encerramento dos jogos olímpicos de verão de 2004

- na abertura do 78th annual Academy Awards

- e no trailer do Oscar de 2006.

A música Wherever you will go apareceu nos seguintes programas de TV:

“Idol” da Noruega

The X Factor (x3)

Slovensko hladá SuperStar

New Zealand Idol

Deutschland sucht den Superstar

Idol

Idool 2003

A música Adrienne apareceu no programa:

Idols

Sobre a música “Why don’t you and I”:

Alex Band também gravou um single com o lendário guitarrista Carlos Santana, "Why Don't You and I", que foi escrita por Chad Kroeger (Nickelback). Contudo, Chad foi vetadora (pela própria gravadora) de participar do single, pois isso poderia comprometer a repercussão do lançamento do álbum da banda The Long Road. Foi Chad quem recomendou Alex Band como substituto para a regravação do single, que, como previsto, fez muito sucesso na voz do vocalista do The Calling.

- Essa música foi gravada em dueto com Santana, em duas versões: uma com a voz de Chad e outra com a de Alex. - O clipe foi filmado com Alex e não com Chad.

Gravação do DVD Live in Brazil: Na turnê pelo Brasil,em 2008, foi anunciada a gravação de um DVD ao vivo. Além de várias músicas inéditas da carreira solo, Alex Band tocou os maiores sucessos do The Calling. Uma parte do show foi gravado no dia 24 de Junho de 2008, no HSBC Brasil, em São Paulo, e em outras cidades como Santos/SP, Juiz de Fora/MG e Brasília/DF e foi lançado em DVD no ano de 2009.

Sobre a música “Please”:

"...I grew up with a Jewish Father who didn't practice and a Christian Mother whose only tie to Jesus was celebrating Christmas. Needless to say I had to find my own religion. And in this song I'm asking God what that should be...what should I believe? In a world so full of different religions and so many people fighting over whose belief is the correct one, it frustrates me to think that they all really boil down to the same thing."

Curiosidades sobre as músicas e álbuns de Alex

A convite de Jay Leno, a voz de Alex foi usada no programa 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno'.

A capa do álbum Camino Palmero representa as plataformas 5 e 6 da estação ferroviária Santa Maria Novella, de Florença, na Itália.

Todas as músicas de Camino Palmero foram escritas por Alex e Aaron Kamin, exceto Stigmatized, que teve co-autoria de Eric Bazilian.

Todas as músicas do álbum Two foram escritas por Alex e Aaron Kamin.

'Coming Home’, foi composta por Band e o cantor Mitch Allan para a trilha sonora do filme 'The Final Season’ (2007)

‘Doesn’t get better than this’ foi escrita e produzida por Alex e Daniel Damico para o filme Bratz. A música foi lançada pela gravadora Geffen em 31 de julho de 2007.

Seu EP (para dar um gostinho de suas novas músicas aos fãs) foi lançado em maio de 2008.

O lançamento do disco We’ve all been there foi realizado no dia 29 de Junho de 2010.

O clipe de Only One foi gravado em sua própria casa.

A música Hold on to you foi feita em homenagem a Jennifer Sky.

Jennifer Sky participou do clipe de Anything.

Kristin Blanford participou dos clipes: Tonight e Euphoria.

O castelo de Giove, que pertencia à família de Alex, aparece no filme “Herança Maldita” (1995).

'Tonight’ (lançada em 15 de fevereiro de 2010) foi a música-tema da Copa do mundo de 2011.

A música Could it be any harder expressa alguns dos sentimentos do Alex em relação à partida de sua mãe para a Alemanha.

Alguns números sobre as músicas de Alex

Wherever you will go atingiu o 1o lugar da Billboard Hot AC e Adult Top 40 por 23 semanas, além de ter chegado ao 5o lugar no ranking da HOT 100 charts, tornando-se um hit internacional.

Depois do sucesso de Wherever you will go, a revista Billboard nomeou-a a canção número 1 dos anos 2000 e a terceira música no ranking Adult Pop Song of All Time.

O álbum Camino Palmero atingiu o 36o lugar no ranking de vendas da Billboard (Billboard 200). Ele vendeu mais de 5 milhões de cópias pelo mundo e ganhou disco de ouro nos EUA, ceritificado pela RIAA.

Camino Palmero também ganhou disco de ouro no Canadá em novembro de 2002, depois de vender mais de 50 000 unidades.

Ganhou disco de platina no Brasil, certificado pela ABPD.

O álbum recebeu ainda mais discos de ouro e platina em mais de 40 países pelo mundo todo, todos certificados por instituições de renome.

O álbum chegou ao 12o lugar de rankings de músicas do Reino Unido, 16o na Itália e 1o no México, ganhando um disco de Diamante e 3 de Platina.

Adrienne, Our Lives e Could it be any harder chegaram a aparecer bem no ranking AC top 40.

O álbum Two ficou em primeiro lugar de vendas e músicas mais tocadas no Reino Unido, Japão, Brasil e Canadá.

Ele chegou ao lugar 54 no Top 200 da Billboard e, no Reino Unido, atingiu o 9o lugar.

‘Our Lives’ ficou em 34o lugar no Top 40 da Billboard.

‘Anything’ ficou em 23o lugar no Adult Top 40.

O álbum Two atingiu uma marca de 1 milhão e meio de vendas no mundo. Ganhou disco de ouro no Brasil certificado pela Pró-Música Brasil e disco de prata no Reino Unido, certificado pela BPI.

Os respectivos números de vendas do CD Two no Brasil e no Reino Unido foram: 50 000 e 60 000.

Only One foi anunciada como single oficial do Brasil.

‘Why don’t you and I’ conseguiu o 3o lugar no ranking Top 40 da Billboard, 8o no Top 100 e 5o no ranking Adult Pop Charts, também da Billboard.

‘Why don’t you and I’ foi nomeada, ainda, a 5a música mais tocada da década e conseguiu o vigésimo lugar no ranking Adult Pop Song Of All Time, da Billboard. Ela atingiu, ainda, o 1o lugar no ranking da AC e participou também vários Top 10 hits.

A versão de Why don’t you and I de Alex, aparece em dois álbuns de Carlos Santana: Ceremony: remixes & rarities e Ultimate Santana.

The Calling teve 7 músicas famosas em primeiro lugar nas rádios ao redor do mundo e vendeu mais de 20 milhões de álbuns.

Alex foi convidado a cantar/participar da música "Donde Quiera Que Vayas Yo Iré", que é uma versão em espanhol de sua famosa música Wherever you will go. O convite foi feito pela atriz Gabriela Spanic. Essa versão foi lançada em formato digital em 28 de outubro de 2016.

Datas de lançamentos de seus álbuns

Camino Palmero (2001)

Two (2004)

Alex Band EP (25 de abril de 2008 - 1a versão vendida pelo site oficial, com 4 músicas + Coming Home)

Alex Band EP (maio de 2008 - edição dos EUA e junho de 2008 edição do Brasil)

We’ve all been there (29 de junho de 2010 - AMB/EMI)

After the Storm EP (22 de maio de 2012 - Killer Tracks)

Last FM, Jovem Pan FM Santos, Fanfic, Wikipedia, Imbd, Imdb2, Imdb3,

Wikipedia sobre Alex Band, Wikipedia sobre The Calling,

Wikipedia sobre Camino Palmero, Wikipedia sobre Two, Imdb4

another source here, here, here, Radio Swiss pop, this blog, this blog as well

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Gnome Stew Notables – Lucian Kahn

Welcome to the next installment of our Gnome Spotlight: Notables series. The notables series is a look at game developers in the gaming industry doing good work. The series will focus on game creators from underrepresented populations primarily, and each entry will be a short bio and interview. We’ve currently got a group of authors and guest authors interviewing game creators and hope to bring you many more entries in the series as it continues on. If you’ve got a suggestion for someone we should be doing a notables article on, send us a note at [email protected]. – Head Gnome John

Meet Lucian

Lucian Kahn

Lucian Kahn is the designer of the tabletop RPGs Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy and Grandma’s Drinking Song, and project manager for the upcoming anthology You & I: Roleplaying Games for Two. He is obscurely famous as singer and guitarist for the now-defunct transgender, Jewish, klezmer-punk comedy band Schmekel. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his cat, Beastie. Follow him at @oh_theogony on twitter.

@oh_theogony on twitter

Dead Friend on Drivethrurpg

Talking With Lucian

1) Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work.

Flamboyant absurdism with surprising moments of dire seriousness? Myself and my work.

2) What project are you most proud of?

Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy. ( />product/234653/Dead-Friend-A-Game-of-Necromancy) It’s a two-player tabletop rpg in the structure of a magical ritual, using Tarot cards to randomize story prompts. You play a pair of friends, one living and one dead. The living ceremonially evokes the dead to battle out unresolved issues from their friendship. I’ve found that this game generates fascinating ghost stories ranging from spooky humor to emotional horror – I’ve seen secretly gay medieval nuns, politically disenfranchised Martians, you name it. Players also tell me they get a kick out of the occult aesthetic.

3) What are you working on now?

I’ve just started playtesting Grandma’s Drinking Song, a verse-writing, song-singing rpg based on my matriarchal Jewish family’s stories of bootlegging liquor in the Bronx during Prohibition. I’ve also been project-managing an anthology of two-player rpgs called You & I: Roleplaying Games for Two, which will feature games by at least 13 different designers. I also just sent along a module to John Harness’ An Exquisite Game, a collaborative science fiction project inspired by surrealist art.

4) What designers and games are some of your influences?

I’m still reeling from the experience of playing the Romantic composer Robert Schumann in a LARP called Deranged by Maria and Jeppe Bergmann Hamming. That game has had a huge impact on Grandma’s Drinking Song. I’ve also recently drawn inspiration from Fall of Magic, Shooting the Moon, The Quiet Year, Bluebeard’s Bride, and Before the Storm. Also my friend Sharang Biswas’ bizarre one-player game Verdure about witchcraft and making salad.

5) What mechanics do you like best in games?

Rituals and ceremonies, open-ended story prompts, physical objects that affect both control flow and atmosphere, real-time character development, spontaneous creation of art, poetry, and music.

6) What themes do you like to emphasize in your game work?

Memory and unreliable narration, religion, emotional conflict, moral ambiguity.

7) How would you describe your game design style?

Surreal in content but accessible in mechanics. I want my players to enjoy a strange, immersive experience without needing to learn too many rules ahead of time.

I want my players to enjoy a strange, immersive experience without needing to learn too many rules ahead of time.

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8) How does queerness fit into your games? Transness?

The true answer to this is quite bleak. A few years ago, another trans friend of mine died of suicide, and I went into a depression during which the only social activity I could get excited about was a campaign of Dungeons & Dragons with complete strangers. I was playing a 356 year old dwarf bard hag named Briney Hilda with magical bagpipes who hit on every young male elf, including the minion of the vampire Strahd. This creepy yet goofy surrealism was the only thing that helped me endure my friend’s death and the resulting upheaval in my queer circles, which are repeatedly shaken by suicide. It’s not a coincidence that I eventually made a funny friendship game about ghosts. Morbid humor is vital to my resilience.

9) What one thing would you change in gaming?

I think all artistic subcultures eventually gravitate toward generating cliques and pockets of hero-worship, so game design is not special in this regard, but I would like to see the hobby focus less on creating new canons of form based on emulating the work of two or three designers, and more on continuing to stretch stylistic boundaries.

Thanks for joining us for this entry in the notables series. You can find more in the series here: and please feel free to drop us any suggestions for people we should interview at [email protected].

Gnome Stew Notables – Lucian Kahn published first on https://supergalaxyrom.tumblr.com

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swipestream · 6 years ago

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Gnome Stew Notables – Lucian Kahn

Meet Lucian

Lucian Kahn

@oh_theogony on twitter

Dead Friend on Drivethrurpg

Talking With Lucian

1) Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work.

Flamboyant absurdism with surprising moments of dire seriousness? Myself and my work.

2) What project are you most proud of?

3) What are you working on now?

4) What designers and games are some of your influences?

5) What mechanics do you like best in games?

Rituals and ceremonies, open-ended story prompts, physical objects that affect both control flow and atmosphere, real-time character development, spontaneous creation of art, poetry, and music.

6) What themes do you like to emphasize in your game work?

Memory and unreliable narration, religion, emotional conflict, moral ambiguity.

7) How would you describe your game design style?

Surreal in content but accessible in mechanics. I want my players to enjoy a strange, immersive experience without needing to learn too many rules ahead of time.

I want my players to enjoy a strange, immersive experience without needing to learn too many rules ahead of time.

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8) How does queerness fit into your games? Transness?

9) What one thing would you change in gaming?

Thanks for joining us for this entry in the notables series. You can find more in the series here: and please feel free to drop us any suggestions for people we should interview at [email protected].

Gnome Stew Notables – Lucian Kahn published first on https://medium.com/@ReloadedPCGames

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kayawagner · 6 years ago

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Gnome Stew Notables – Lucian Kahn

Meet Lucian

Lucian Kahn

@oh_theogony on twitter

Dead Friend on Drivethrurpg

Talking With Lucian

1) Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work.

Flamboyant absurdism with surprising moments of dire seriousness? Myself and my work.

2) What project are you most proud of?

3) What are you working on now?

4) What designers and games are some of your influences?

5) What mechanics do you like best in games?

Rituals and ceremonies, open-ended story prompts, physical objects that affect both control flow and atmosphere, real-time character development, spontaneous creation of art, poetry, and music.

6) What themes do you like to emphasize in your game work?

Memory and unreliable narration, religion, emotional conflict, moral ambiguity.

7) How would you describe your game design style?

Surreal in content but accessible in mechanics. I want my players to enjoy a strange, immersive experience without needing to learn too many rules ahead of time.

I want my players to enjoy a strange, immersive experience without needing to learn too many rules ahead of time.

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Tweet4

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8) How does queerness fit into your games? Transness?

9) What one thing would you change in gaming?

Thanks for joining us for this entry in the notables series. You can find more in the series here: and please feel free to drop us any suggestions for people we should interview at [email protected].

Gnome Stew Notables – Lucian Kahn published first on https://supergalaxyrom.tumblr.com

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