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celtfather · 2 years ago

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Celtic Women Trip to Dingle #629

Are you in need of a trip to Dingle? Listen to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #629.

One Street Over, The Carroll Sisters, Spoil The Dance, Ellen Gibling, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Scottish Fish, Kinnfolk, Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira, Anne McCaffrey, Tania Opland and Mike Freeman, The Breath, Clare Cunningham, The Haar, Logical Fleadh

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0:02 - Intro: Rubie of Dryad Tea and the band Pandora Celtica

0:09 - One Street Over "Ocean Set" from Beyond the Gate Katie Enders: Fiddle

7:05 - WELCOME

9:15 - The Carroll Sisters "Sean Quinn's/Beeswing" from Daybreak Emilie and Nora Carroll: fiddle

12:56 - Spoil The Dance "The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow" from Returning Home Gaynor Brook: vocals

17:12 - Ellen Gibling "Wendel's Wedding / An Seanduine Dóite" from The Bend in the Light Ellen Gibling: harp

22:49 - Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh "A Single Thread" from Ar Uair Bhig An Lae - The Small Hours Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh: vocals, flute, whistle

26:13 - FEEDBACK

32:41 - Scottish Fish "Trip to Dingle" from Upscale Ava Montesi (fiddle), Caroline Dressler (fiddle), Giulia Haible (cello, piano), Julia Homa (fiddle, piano), and Maggie MacPhail (fiddle, piano)

37:26 - Kinnfolk "A Mhic Iain 'ic Sheumais" from The Knotted Circle Julie Kinn: vocals, bodhran Pronunciation A Mhic Iain 'ic Sheumais: a mickh kain ic scha - mus

41:36 - Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira "Across the Western Ocean" from All It Brings Jocelyn Pettit: fiddle; Ellen Gira: cello

45:26 - THANKS

47:14 - Anne McCaffrey, Tania Opland and Mike Freeman “Golden Egg of Faranth I" from The Masterharper of Pern Tania Opland: vocals

48:04 - The Breath "Let The Cards Fall (Acoustic)" from Only Stories (Let the Cards Fall Revisited) Ríoghnach Connolly: vocals,

52:58 - Clare Cunningham "Angel of the Emerald Isle" from Dear Ireland Clare Cunningham: vocals, guitar

56:09 - The Haar "The Emigrant's Farewell " from The Haar Molly Donnery: vocals

1:02:56 - CLOSING

1:04:11 - Logical Fleadh "Called Home" from Acoustic Mixes (10 - Track Acoustic Re - Mix) Emily Albright (fiddle, vocals) Dana Joras (flutes, whistles, vocals)

1:07:37 - Ashley Davis “The Blackest Crow” from Night Travels

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Just wanted to send a belated thank - you for the Mother’s Day spin. Such a nice thing to highlight the women in Celtic music. The strong presence of women - especially instrumentalists - in traditional music is one of the things I really appreciate about the field. Cheers,"

Ann Peck McBride emailed: "I first heard the podcast about 13 years ago! And it's taken me all this time to become a Patreon member. Sorry, Marc!

I'm embarrassed to say I listen to your podcast while I'm doing housework. (It's a treat I give myself so that I'll actually do the housework) I am always surprised at the wonderful new Celtic artists you play.

I first listened to you because I needed to hear all the Celtic music I could. I listen now, partly for that reason, and partly because for the last few years, I have co - hosted a Celtic Music Hour program in Salem Oregon, on KMUZ. As my friend (and I think yours) Steve Behrens said, "We've fallen down the rabbit hole of Celtic music!" And here in the Pacific Northwest, we have a LOT of Celtic musicians... Thanks"

Debra Roche emailed a photo: "Hello, Mark, I recently played your St Patrick's Day 2023 podcast from SiriusXM and loved it!

Many years ago (1985 - 1991)I had opened The Celtic Cottage & Roche's of Ireland in Davenport, & Bettendorf, IA which brought me to do an Irish show at St Ambrose University for their college radio show.

How much fun that time in my life was! Whenever you give back to your community it is just the best when your family roots are connected! As my father's parents where from County Limerick Ireland. Glin & New Castle West.

Hope you're well and thank you for your music podcast!”

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Christopher Patrick of Salem, MA emailed a couple photos: "Hello Mark!

I can’t tell you how happy I am to have discovered the ‘Irish & Celtic Music Podcast!’ But I’m gonna try, all the same!

You see, in my childhood, my 5 siblings and I would get loaded up into our family station wagon every Saturday morning by our mother. She would then proceed to drive us all into Boston for our weekly Irish Step Dancing lessons. Our rides both in and back were spent listening to Boston’s AM’s radio show, ‘The Irish Hour,' and later, ‘The Irish Hit Parade,’ (still on the air to this day!)

So, those jigs and reels were ingrained in us in our step dancing, and the other traditional music was from our rides there and home. My mother soon landed us an agent, and we, the six kids, danced all around the Greater Boston area.

So, it is no real big surprise that these days, I play in an Irish Music Band with my family. Comprised of myself, my brother, two sisters, and brother - in - law, we perform under the name of ‘FitzBlarney,’ based in Salem, Massachusetts.

I’ve attached a coupla’ photos for you, too - one of the six of us in our 1970s step - dancing attire, and one from this past St. Patrick’s Day, where FitzBlarney played out at The Witches Brew pub in Salem.

The music you play means a lot to me, so, I recently became a patron. Just out of appreciation! Thanks again, and ‘Sláinte!’

P.S. I would love to one day get on your podcast! That’d be so cool!"

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saintmeghanmarkle · 2 years ago

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Blast from the past: When Meghan was scarfed by u/Mickleborough

Blast from the past: When Meghan was scarfed Digging up old Smeghan stories for fun and trying to put fresh slants to them. Here we’re discussing the famous scarfing incident of 2018.This is a short (25 seconds) YouTube video of Prince William and Meghan, together with other members of the Royal Family, attending the Christmas Day service at Sandringham. In this clip, it looks like Meghan’s wanting to have a word with Prince Willliam, but he can’t talk because he’s taking a very long time to adjust his scarf. (Here’s a longer clip (2.30 minutes, scarfing starts at 1.20 minutes) which shows that Prince William took an inordinate amount of time arrranging it.)Here’s a photo of scarfing:‘I want to have your baby… Did I just say that out loud?’The interpretations of William’s action ranges from snub - didn’t want to speak to Meghan at all - to trying to avoid drama (from a body language expert - which makes no sense to me).Clap back!There was also the inevitable clap back: Cosmopolitan archived / unarchived, written by a chief sugar who’s been impolite about the late Queen, so is a moo. (Add to list of other clap backs by / on behalf of sensitive Flower in an earlier thread.)AfterwordThat definition of ’scarfed’ has made it to the Urban Dictionary. (Be warned: there are many other, cruder meanings.)It’ll stay on the net, Meghan.NoteThe other members of the Royal Family are wearing Christmassy colours: red, green, white. Even purple - the colour of William’s scarf - is linked with Jesus. Only Meghan is dressed in black, like a carrion crow. And displaying cleavage. In winter. post link: https://ift.tt/OoqKZ4P author: Mickleborough submitted: July 01, 2023 at 09:32PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

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beckonsosweetly · 5 years ago

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Event Starter | @haemoneiron

It had been a little while, hadn’t it? Maria’s had a lot on her mind since they last spoke, back when neither of them were in control of their own bodies, when neither of them had control of their own secrets.

Maria... was still conflicted over it all. Her anger mellowed, though it was almost entirely directed at herself in the first place anyway. She wanted to find solace in spending time with Faris, but...

...but that hasn’t been easy to deal with either. Maybe it was everything finally getting to her, or maybe it was watching her cat play with the adorable DevoLine plush Maria got her, but she was feeling particularly in need of company. Any company. And feeling like she needed to make amends.

TO: Crow FROM: Maria

[—>]: Crow. [—>]: Are you free? [—>]: I’d like to talk. But I cannot leave my cat alone right now. [—>]: Stop by, please?

Sending those texts was perhaps the most difficult thing she’s done in a while, but... she felt them necessary. She wasn’t happy with how things were right now.

#haemoneiron #thread: Crow 09 #EV: Cupid Shuffle

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sunseekerdeluxe · 2 years ago

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Tunesday 11

Also heard this week:

Archon Angel - II Black Mountain - Future Sounds Black Mountain - In the Future Blood Star - First Sighting Conjure One - Extraordinary Ways Desolate Realm - Legions Downfall of Gaia - Silhouettes of Disgust Grave Pleasures - Plagueboys Iron & Wine - Woman King Isole - Anesidora Lord - Live at Progpower USA XVII Lord - A Personal Journey: Revisited Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vibrations The New Pornographers - Continue as a Guest Raider - Trial by Chaos Revolution Saints - Eagle Flight Saga - Marathon Scorpions - Lonesome Crow Slumbering Sun - The Ever-Living Fire Terminal - R.A.T.S. These Beasts - Cares, Wills, Wants Varga - Prototype VoidCeremony - Threads of Unknowing Winger - In the Heart of the Young Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos Wode - Wode

Backlog: 164 albums | 1,863 songs | 7:09:52:27 total time

#tunesday #depeche mode #tom waits #goatsnake #iron & wine #richard thompson #paradise lost #ad infinitum #omnium gatherum #the jesus and mary chain

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soranihimawari · 5 years ago

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The Taste of Rain

When I say the second years at Karasuno are squad goals, I wasn’t expecting to like them this much.

Ennoshita has a crush on a fellow classmate, Kawa-san [y/n-chan], but due to the VBC gaining popularity, he has Kazuhito act as his second.

friends to lovers at Karasuno High. 2nd Year Crows are a blessing.

When the final bell rang to signal the end of classes for the day, I swiftly gathered my belongings into my bag which I slung over my shoulder. A few more months were left until graduation. In the past three years alone, I have managed to somehow keep my grades within the top percentage of my school. High school wasn’t supposed to be easy, supposedly some would say it might be the best time of my life.

Unfortunately, whomever said that clearly wasn’t talking about me. All these thoughts circulated my head as I stood up to leave the classroom for the day. My classmates, Rina and Akari, were already in the hallway making plans for the weekend checking on their social calendars that were littered with daily reminders for varying sport club matches.

“Let’s go to the cat cafe on Saturday Rina!” Akari suggested. She was always willing to take a break at the beginning of the school week claiming that if she didn’t, we’d regret studying for so long. According to her, we needed to take breaks to give our brains time to unwind and relax for a day or two.

“Can’t do Saturday. The volleyball club has a match. Why don’t we go to the game instead?” Rina asks. Rina had grown to be close to Akari since elementary school. Childhood friends like them were deemed inseperable since the age of seven. However, Rina had always been supportive of a majority of the sports clubs (via taking inventory of club equipment) while Akari was mainly focused on cheering for its members with the other family members of the players.

“Terrific! Sounds like a plan. Besides, we can always go to the cat cafe some other day after class.”

“So, we get to hear you cheer for us, right?” one of the club members approached the pair with a smile across his face.

“Of course Tanaka,” Rina claps her hands together returning his grin. “I had to remind Akari, but y’know we’ll both be there.”

I was a few feet away from the three of them in the emptying hallway. I adjusted my bag on my shoulder before ducking in between them and ushering out a hurried, “Excuse me.” I rounded the corridor to begin my decent downward to the school courtyard.

“Oh, sorry Kawa-san!” I heard Akari’s voice traverse toward me. I smile weakly at the trio. It wasn’t often that Tanaka was caught not chasing any other female student than Shizumi-san, but the majority of the other girls in our year value his (and by association, Nishinoya’s) commitment to complimentating how well nature graces her presence. It might seem as though I am bitter by never even coming close to this sensation, but truth be told, I had my eyes set on a different classmate altogether.

I was already on the first floor of the school switching out my school shoes for the black combat boots I typically wear those since they matched the majority of my non-uniform wardrobe.

“Kawa-san?”

I perked my head up to where I heard my name being called. I saw Kazuhito approach me with a shy smile.

“Yo,” I greeted. I finished tying my boots before I stood back up. “You alright?”

“Oh! Yeah, I’m fine,” Kazuhito began. “Here.”

He hands me a small note folded into a diamond. I noticed firstly the handwriting wasn’t his--it was Ennoshita’s, I chewed the inside of my cheek in feign surprise.

“Ah.”

“Ennoshita wanted to give it to you himself, but he was meeting the others in the gym for practice.”

“Then can you do me a favor Kazuhito?”

I return the unopened envelope to him. He blinked momentarily before taking the note back.

“What do you want me to tell Ennoshita? You know how he feels about you,Kawa.”

I pinch the bridge of my nose taking a deep breath trying to come up with a viable reason until I blurted out the following, running a hand through my hair.

“He is enough.”

“Mmm,” Kazuhito hummed. “I’ll tell him. Oh and Kawa-san, I finally see why my friend likes you so much.”

I gave him a curt nod right after I shut the door of my locker remnants of the blush made at his comment.

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[15:42]

from Kazuhito

to Ennoshita

Chikara, Kawa-san wanted me to remind you of something.

[16:09]

from Ennoshita

to Kazuhito

why do you have the note i wrote?

[16:11]

-incoming call from Kazuhito Narita-

“He is enough.”

The call ended as soon as Kazuhito realized his phone dialed his teammate purposefully by accident. A knowing grin forming on the wing spiker’s face as she walked away from him toward the route leading toward the cafe close to her neighborhood.

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��For the final time, the answer to the last part of the equation was to use a log!” Ennoshita grumbled looking over his algebra-2 quiz sheet. The score was still high enough to qualify as passing, but considering he was the head of the study group among his fellow second years,it irked him to get such a simple question wrong. The boys were hanging out at the Tanaka-siblings house once again (an invitation was extended toward me after the results of the last game allowed the team to successfully advance to the next stage of the qualifiers).

“And it’s a shame that the one with perfect marks on that quiz is the same one noticing you did your order of operations wrong,” I barked. I held up my quiz sheet with the 100% tally to his embarrassed face.

“I-what?! No way,” Ennoshita replied. He was about to retaliate before he compares his work with mine. “No freaking way.”

I shook my head to let out an exasperated sigh. “I told you so, Chikara.”

“You’re lucky I like you, Kawa.”

“And here I thought Kazuhito did.”

“Don’t drag me into this,” Kazuhito says putting up his hands to claim his innocence.

“Kawa-san is scary,” Tanaka whispers loud enough for the others to hear.

“They both are,” Noya replied hearing the two of us squabble.

“It’s not that hard to believe Ennoshita confessed first though,” Kinoshita states. “Is it?”

“EH!?”

“Fine,” I said breaking out into a short-lived giggle. Upon hearing my laughter, the room fell quiet. “Just don’t come crying to me if you forget how to solve maths problem. C’mon, we have more pressing subjects to get to.”

“Alright. What’s next quiz master?” Ennoshita slip of the tongue caused him to blush a deep shade of scarlet; he was strict in tutoring his fellow teammates, but it takes no less than twenty seconds for me to process what the nickname meant.

“International modern lit,” I reply switching notebooks.

Saeko came in with a tray of snacks as we each began our work. That is until Ennoshita baits me into reciting “TheTaste of Rain” by Kerosau to which I clear my throat with a teasing smile.

“The Taste of Rain, by Jack Kerosau,” I begin, eyes closed as I imagine the words of the poem lifting off the pages scattered around.

American Haiku by Jack Kerouac

The taste of rain – Why kneel?

The bottom of my shoes are clean from walking in the rain.

Snap your finger stop the world – rain falls harder.

After the shower among the drenched roses the bird thrashing in the bath.

Early morning gentle rain, two big bumblebees Humming at their work

Birds singing in the dark —Rainy dawn.

The rain has filled the birdbath Again, almost

Useless, useless, the heavy rain Driving into the sea.

The little worm lowers itself from the roof By a self shat thread

Nightfall, boy smashing dandelions with a stick.

frozen in the birdbath A leaf

In my medicine cabinet the winter fly has died of old age

Missing a kick at the icebox door It closed anyway.

I conclude reading this poem aloud and was about to ask my study group a question, but instead I feel a pair of lips press against my cheek. I blink in my confusion, but when I clear my throat, I noticed I choose to stay quiet, bringing my hand up to my face which now is flushed in embarrassment.

“You don’t taste of rain,” his voice says briefly avoiding my gaze. It’s such a simple thing, a kiss on the cheek? Child’s play, but game on ennoshita.

“He’s not wrong,” Kazuhito says, picking up one of the snacks on the table.

—19:07—

You thank your hosts for allowing you to come study at their place. Saeko mentioned you’re welcome anytime. Tanaka and Noya had agreed that if they needed help with their school work, they were going to find you first and ask you because you are alot more patient than Ennoshita (he still home the ruler though if you’re not available).

“Of course boys, you know where to find me,” I said before thanking them again.

Narita and Kazuhiro had left a little earlier than I did, yet I think it was because ennoshita and the others asked them to. I don’t know why I have this feeling, but the anxiety soon leaves when I hear yelling behind me. I stop and turn around to see Enno run down the block toward me, arms flailing, making me laugh a little.

“Kawa-San! Wait up!” He catches up to me quite quicker than I had imagined. Did he get faster? Athletic clubs are scary sometimes. He brushes past me when I step to the side so he can stop properly.

“Woah there Enno. Slow down!”

“I did,” he tells me, walking back toward me.

“Calm yourself first, mmk? Then you can walk me home.”

I slipped my hand in his giving it a reaffirming squeeze right before I stood up on my toes to kiss his cheek. This year is gonna be great...

#ennoshita imagine #kawa-san is my [y/n] san #karasuno 2nd years #actual haiku is here at the end of the story.

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littlecajunlady · 7 years ago

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Critical Role Episode 50: Best Laid Plans

50!! I finally made it to episode 50! But as it turns out, I’d seen nearly the whole episode already so very few scenes were actually new for me. It’s a great episode though so it was fun to watch it again, especially in the right order and not by clicking random timestamps.

0:30 – New intro 19:15 – Game starts 21:20 - Grog apologizes to Pike for accidentally stabbing her 26:20 – Grog's nat 20 constitution saving throw against Craven Edge 29:08 – Travis's roll should've been at disadvantage, rolls a 1 30:00 – Grog falls in the snow, dead 34:50 – Scanlan inspires Pike who is using revivify on Grog, ritual begins 36:05 - Vex gives Grog some ale, Vax asks for the Raven Queen's help, Scanlan gives him a potion 41:15 - Percy talks to Craven Edge, Percy's smoke returns 42:15 – Grog starts to choke Scanlan, then he wakes up & realizes what he's doing at 43:10 44:35 – They check to be sure it's Grog then tell him he died & try to get him to give up the sword 48:40 - Vax asks who knew about sword, keep trying to convince Grog to give it up 53:05 – Grog tells Pike he wants the sword to use against Kevdak & she finally gets him to relent 1:00:15 - Scanlan inspires Pike ♪ (My Sharona), Pike casts greater restoration on the sword 1:02:30 - Pike breaks the thread linking Grog to the sword 1:03:15 – Matt "Grog, that fucking blade ate your soul" , Keyleth puts sword in pocket dimension 1:05:00 – Grog joke "There was a dagger that came with it" , Pike gives Grog back the gauntlets and he gives Pike boots of levitation, they decide to take a long rest 1:09:00 – Keyleth cures the old age effect on Vax, Percy and Vex work on the broom together 1:12:05 – Just a cute little Perc'ahlia moment ♥ “This was actually agreeable” 1:12:40 – Travis gets full Craven Edge card, Grog checks that his warhammer can't talk back (Pike fails stealth check, they run from a basilisk and make it back to the Frostweald) 1:21:30 – Break starts 1:35:50 - Break ends (They plan on how to attack Kevdak for a while and camp outside Westerrun) 2:00:00 – Reginald, the farmer they met, is dead and strung up like a scarecrow 2:04:15 – Pike casts speak with dead on Reginald and asks him questions 2:07:40 – Scanlan asks Reginald what he wants them to tell his daughter 2:14:00 – Scanlan gives Pike a letter to read after he dies, she reads it right after he leaves (The black dragon passes, they do some more planning) 2:24:08 – Scanlan impersonates undead Grog, Vax comes up with Scanlan looking like Grog's dad instead 2:28:05 – Travis can't remember Grog's dad's name (Keyleth makes the trench, they plan for Scanlan to make an illusion of Strongjaw's head instead, invisible Scanlan walks into town and their mission begins at 2:42:12) 2:52:30 – Vax gives Vex a wet willy, Taliesin and Marisha keep doing crow caws 2:53:10 – Scanlan casts thunderwave and loses invisibility, has to flee 2:59:05 – Scanlan finds Dr. Dranzel and Kaylie in a temple 2:59:50 – Game ends

#critical role #timestamps #cr 50 #critical role spoilers #critical role episode 50 #critical role best laid plans #best laid plans

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bittermedecine · 7 years ago

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Part A - Works and Awards

There was a lot of work Clem Martini. Although, there were many works too that Olivier Martini worked together with Olivier. There were limited details on the work of Olivier Martini. In addition, there is a wide range to playwriting work to plays and books he wrote. Also some dates weren’t found for some play written titles and they are old titles before his other famous books or famous written pieces.

Clem Martini Books:

- ( 1995 ) Something Like a Drug: An Unauthorized Oral History of Theatresports

- ( 1998 ) The Field

- ( 2000 ) Turnaround

- ( 2004 – 2006 ) The Crow Chronicles

- ( 2004 ) The Mob

- ( 2005 ) The Plague

- ( 2006 ) The Judgement

- ( 2007 ) Four by Four by Four

- ( 2010 ) Too Late

- ( 2010 ) Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness

- ( 2012 ) Martini with a Twist: 5 Plays

- ( 2013 ) One Hundred Stories for One Hundred Years

- ( 2015 ) Upside Down: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Illness

- ( 2017 ) The Unravelling: How our caregiving safety net came unstrung and we were left grasping at threads, struggling to plait a new one

- ( 2018 ) The Comedian

Clem Martini Books about Playwriting:

- ( 2006 ) The Blunt Playwright: An Introduction to Playwriting

- ( 2009 ) The Playwright: What the First dramatists have to say to contemporary playwrights

- ( 2014 ) The Ancient Comedians: and what they have to say to contemporary playwrights

Clem Martini Writing – For Stage:

- Control

- The Invention of Music

- Mouse

- The Field

- Swimmers

- Tag

- The Mermaids Three Wisdoms (Adapted )

- Making Friends Influencing People

- ( 1988 ) The Color of Coal

- ( 1989 ) The Life History of The African

- ( 1990 ) Nobody of Consequence

- ( 1995 ) Exit Othello

- ( 1997 ) Selling Mr. Rushdie

- ( 1997 ) Borrow Me

- ( 1999 ) Turnaround ( co-written with Cheryl Foggo )

- ( 1999 ) Illegal Entry

- ( 2000 ) A three martini lunch

- ( 2004 ) The Replacement

- ( 2005 ) Afterlife

- ( 2005 ) The Field Mouse Collection

- ( 2005 ) The Secret Life of the Octopus

- ( 2008 ) Conversations with My Neighbour’s Pitbull

- ( 2008 ) House of Glass

- ( 2008 ) Up on The Roof

- ( 2010 ) Bitter Medicine

- ( 2012 ) Martini with a Twist

- ( 2012 ) The Devil We Know ( co-written with Cheryl Foggo )

- ( 2013 ) Jeopardy

- ( 2017 ) What Brought Us Here ( opera written with composer Arthur Bachman )

Clem Martini Awards:

- ( 2015 ) ATB Healing Through the Arts Award

- ( 2014 ) Pierre Berton House, Writer-In-Residence, Writers' Trust of Canada

- ( 2013 ) Faculty Association Community Service Award

- ( 2012 ) University of Calgary Common Reading Program Selection, "Bitter Medicine"

- ( 2011 ) Calgary Book Award for "Bitter Medicine"

- ( 2011 ) Short listed, Alberta's Favorite Book Award for "Bitter Medicine"

- ( 2006 ) Short listed, smiThe Red Maple Award for Children's Literature for "The Plague"

- ( 2005 ) Killam Fellowship recipient, research to develop a text on playwriting

- ( 2005 ) Short listed, The Red Maple Award for Children's Literature for "The Mob"

- ( 2005 ) Short listed, The Willow Award for Children's Literature for "The Mob"

- ( 2005 ) Award of excellence, Writers Guild of Alberta 2005, Killam Foundation resident fellow

- ( 2005 ) Nomination for the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children for "The Mob"

- ( 2003 ) Television and Screen Institute for Screenwriters, Writing for Young People Award, "The Sitter"

- ( 2003 ) Short listed for The Betty Mitchell Award for Best New Play, "The Replacement"

- ( 2002 ) Award of excellence, Writers Guild of Alberta 2002, A Three Martini Lunch

- ( 2001 ) Short listed for the Governor Generals Literary Award, "A Three Martini Lunch"

- ( 2001 ) Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award, "A Three Martini Lunch"

- ( 2001 ) Festival of Ten, Winner, SUNY Brockport University, NY, "Guppies"

- ( 2000 ) Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award, "Illegal Entry"

- ( 2000 ) University of Calgary Songwriting Competition, "Take Me There"

- ( 2000 ) Award of excellence, Writers Guild of Alberta 2000, for Illegal Entry

- ( 1999 ) Praxis Screenwriting Competition Award Winner, "Before Christmas and After"

- ( 1995 ) Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award, "Nobody of Consequence"

Olivier Martini Works:

- His artwork like sketches, painting, and prints displayed at the Mario McGrath Gallery

- Published in Alberta Views Magazine

- His art work was included in the Canadian Mental Health’s Copernicus Project

Olivier Martini awards:

- Calgary Book Award-winning Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness

- ( 2010 ) Won, City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize

- ( 2011 ) Won, Alberta Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year

- ( 2011 ) Finalist, Alberta Readers’ Choice Award

- ( 2011 ) Finalist, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction

- ( 2012 ) Chosen, University of Calgary Common Reading Program

Link to sources:

Awards. (2018, May 02). Retrieved August 2, 2018, from http://www.freehand-books.com/about/awards

The City of Calgary Announces Shortlist Authors for W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. (2018, April 09). Calgary

Retrieved August 1, 2018, from https://newsroom.calgary.ca/the-city-of-calgary-announces-shortlist-authors-for-wo-mitchell-book-prize-2018/

Martini, C. (2015). Awards, Launches & Productions. Retrieved August 1, 2018, from http://people.ucalgary.ca/~martini/awards-launches-productions.html

#Work #Awards #Danielle Diores #Part A #Clem Martini #Olivier Martini

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My Attendance Is Bad, But My Intentions Are Good

A/N: My last piece is for day 2 of @glaiveweek! Permission to write my Kingsglaive babies having a happy time. Written in Crowe’s POV, because. My girl. Deserved. Better. :) Inspired by the entire team dynamic in Brooklyn Nine Nine (I want to explain this further but gosh I think it merits a different post) and governed by most of my headcanons with these cuties (again, to be explained probablyyyy on a separate post), so please expect lots of crack, shenanigans, a truckload of pop culture references, etc.

Ahhh and tagging some folks again: @eternallydaydreaming2015 @hypaalicious @louisvuittontrashbags @cupnoodle-queen @theyearofdiamonddogs @nifwrites @themissimmortal

Nyx Ulric 3:02 AM Glaives, we have a situation.

Crowe was still awake in the comfort of her bed when she caught Nyx’s message in the Glaive group chat—one that Tredd renamed lil fuckaz for the heck of it earlier—and she followed the trail of messages that popped in her phone screen.

Nyx Ulric 3:02 AM I know you guys won’t believe this but

Nyx Ulric 3:02 AM Check the captain’s calendar

Nyx Ulric 3:02 AM and get this: he’s free tomorrow

Nyx Ulric 3:02 AM AND HE’S NEVER FREE

Nyx Ulric 3:02 AM And then I remembered

Nyx Ulric 3:02 AM WHY OF COURSE

Luche Lazarus 3:03 AM yes nyx we know it’s the captain’s bday tomorrow

Crowe smiled at Nyx’s overeager message thread; knowing Nyx, she immediately assumed her good lad of a friend was somewhere in downtown Insomnia, drinking his stress away. Also, she didn’t expect Luche to be awake at this hour. In any case, something about this conversation confused her. Apart from Nyx’s rowdy chat etiquette—which she was fairly used to—what bugged Crowe was her memory of things: she clearly remembered getting partied out a couple of nights back thanks to Drautos’s birthday party hosted by no less than the Glaive’s personally-dubbed veteran party animal, Clarus Amicitia.

There was a brief minute of pause in the group chat commotion, and then:

Nyx Ulric 3:03 AM Nobody asked you Luche stfu

Nyx Ulric 3:03 AM Anyway. As I was saying.

Nyx Ulric 3:03 AM Yes, it’s the captain’s birthday tomorrow

Luche Lazarus 3:04 AM i’m willing to bet my ass you’re planning an outrageous surprise party

Nyx Ulric 3:04 AM You can bet your pasty ass i will and WE SHALL DO IT

Before Crowe could even chime in, Pelna already butted in the conversation, and started wrecking his own havoc:

Pelna Khara 3:05 AM count me the fuck in

Pelna Khara 3:05 AM i’ll buy the cake

Pelna Khara 3:05 AM clarus didn’t let me buy the book cake last Year :(

Pelna Khara 3:05 AM *boob

Pelna Khara 3:05 AM ***boobs

Pelna Khara 3:06 AM had to correct that so y’all know the cake was shaped as a pair of boobs not just one

Of course, where there was trouble, Crowe already thought that Tredd was close by, raring to add to this steaming pile of shenanigans.

And when Crowe saw his name pop into her screen, she grinned. When it came to her personal assessment of her friends, Crowe was always right.

Tredd Furia 3:06 AM lmao

Tredd Furia 3:06 AM i’ll go buy the booze my fam

Tredd Furia 3:06 AM also is it just me or nyx is using punctuation marks or am i just 2 high

Nyx Ulric 3:07 AM Fuck you Tredd

Nyx Ulric 3:07 AM I was trying to drive a point

Pelna Khara 3:07 AM nah tredd just too high i can secondhand smoke your joint even from here

Tredd Furia 3:07 AM fuck u pelna :) :) :)

Nyx Ulric 3:07 AM Anyway thanks guys, we’ll do this in briefing room A

Luche Lazarus 3:08 AM i didn’t agree to the alcohol losers but whatever

Nyx Ulric 3:09 AM u scared daddy’s gonna dish out some disciplinary action, leader? ;)

Luche Lazarus 3:09 AM fuck u

Axis Arra 3:10 AM i can’t believe tredd woke me up for this shit

Nyx Ulric 3:10 AM And Crowe, I know you’re awake I can see your tiny bubble just lurking in this convo

Pelna Khara 3:11 AM wow axis just responded to a group chat conversation

Pelna Khara 3:11 AM blessed be the stars

Tredd Furia 3:11 AM this surprise party’s gonna be litttttt af

Nyx Ulric 3:12 AM hi there axis you and sonitus take care of the food

Axis Arra 3:13 AM ok

While the conversation rolled along, Crowe still had this nagging feeling that the entire arrangement was too… odd. Luche easily joining this nonsense was already out of the ordinary, but Axis—quiet and soft-spoken Axis Arra—replying to this mess and just agreed to help organize this shitstorm? Crowe had seen her friends do strange things, but this one weirdly made her queasy. Not to mention, they have been acting rather funny around her these past couple of days. She stared at her phone screen, trying to rake her thoughts on that last party. She was definitely sure that party happened. She could still taste the acrid smoke from that sordid bar, and she could still remember hooking up with that heavily tattooed man whose name was the only thing that she lost in her nebulous memory.

Just when Crowe was about to protest for a clarification, another message arrived from Nyx:

Nyx Ulric 3:15 AM btw where tf is Libertus at

Luche Lazarus 3:15 AM Poor Libertus Ostium, he is missing action

Luche Lazarus 3:15 AM So now I’m facing Nyx Ulric with his own faction

Pelna Khara 3:16 AM he’s very attractive in the north, Lucians like his chances

Tredd Furia 3:16 AM he’s not very forthcoming on any particular chances

Nyx Ulric 3:17 AM Gdi you all have been making hamilton references for a MONTH

Nyx Ulric 3:17 AM Can we get back to the task at hand please

Crowe sighed in exasperation as she scrolled away to more chunks of messages. Before the chat group could spiral into a new brand of trouble and out of its original topic, she finally managed to type her response:

Crowe Altius 3:18 AM libertus ran an errand with the crown prince’s advisor glasses boy

Crowe Altius 3:18 AM anyway

Nyx Ulric 3:19 AM THERE’S OUR FAVORITE MAGE

Pelna Khara 3:19 AM hi crowe moon of our lives

Tredd Furia 3:19 AM our khaleesi is here

Crowe Altius 3:18 AM you guys are fucking idiots

Crowe Altius 3:18 AM ANYWAY wasn’t the captain’s birthday three days ago???

Crowe Altius 3:18 AM pelna you even posted photos on your instagram acct

Crowe Altius 3:18 AM With the caption “today the Big D was born let us rejoice”

Crowe sat up on her bed and waited for a reply, but she later realized that she just unleashed a treasure trove of disaster with her last statement:

Pelna Khara 3:19 AM hey u gotta love that caption

Tredd Furia 3:19 AM and u gotta love the Big D

Nyx Ulric 3:20 AM i know luche does ;)

Luche Lazarus 3:20 AM haha very funny nyx

Tredd Furia 3:22 AM hahahahahahaha nyx gdi i choked on my fucking beer

Pelna Khara 3:22 AM that was some mighty fine dish that got served

Luche Lazarus 3:22 AM u sure u didn’t choke on some big d tredd :)

Tredd Furia 3:22 AM nope. but hey luche

Tredd Furia 3:22 AM ur ass is grass

Tredd Furia 3:22 AM and imma mow it

Axis Arra 3:23 AM eyyyy

Nyx Ulric 3:23 AM LMAO OK SEXUAL TENSION ASIDE

Nyx Ulric 3:23 AM Relax you guys

Nyx Ulric 3:23 AM I know we all love our big captain drautos so much

Crowe Altius 3:24 CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE ANSWER MY FUCKING QUESTION YOU BAGS OF HELPLESS DICKS

Pelna Khara 3:24 AM as you wish khaleesi forgive our brethren

Pelna Khara 3:24 AM to answer your question: yes, but that party was from the higher ups

Pelna Khara 3:24 AM his actual birthday is tomorrow

Pelna Khara 3:24 AM crowe my sun and stars trust me on this

Luche Lazarus 3:25 AM i can confirm pelna’s statements

Tredd Furia 3:25 AM same

Axis Arra 3:25 AM ^^^

Sonitus Bellum 3:25 AM hi

Nyx Ulric 3:25 AM i confirm pelna’s statements as well

As well? Nyx hated attaching that in any phrase, Crowe remembered, for reasons beyond her. Despite the group’s typical rascally response, Crowe still felt skeptical about the whole affair. With reservation, she decided to give her overthinking head a rest and get along with their shady plan.

She quickly thumbed another message:

Crowe Altius 3:28 AM fine whatever

Crowe Altius 3:28 AM count me in

Crowe Altius 3:28 AM anything i need to do nyx?

She chewed on her lip, praying to the gods that she won’t be assigned with something out of her comfort zone, so she added:

Crowe Altius 3:28 AM and by anything, i mean anything except talking to the other commanding officers and anyone from the lucian council pls

Crowe particularly had a severe dislike talking with her other superiors, specifically Cor, Clarus, and even King Regis himself, after saying something completely inappropriate at a Kingsglaive gala two years prior. After that embarrassment, she sealed everyone outside of her Glaive circle for self-preservation.

The sudden inactivity in the chat group made Crowe want to throw another message for good measure, until Luche broke the momentary radio silence:

Luche Lazarus 3:33 AM more booze

Crowe Altius 3:34 AM right

Nyx Ulric 3:35 AM You’re the best, thanks

Nyx Ulric 3:35 AM Let’s all meet tomorrow at 2pm sharp

Nyx Ulric 3:36 AM I’ll try to stall the captain to give us time for prep

Crowe sank back to her sheets and turned off her phone so she could finally get some decent shut eye without the distraction from the Glaive chat group. She stared at the ceiling, trying to quell the unusual excitement that bubbled up in her chest, until it was brutally ambushed by a feeling that often creeped up on her whenever she started to enjoy any form of happiness.

On occasions such as these, Crowe wondered how celebrating birthdays would feel like. It was not as if she wanted to keep her birthday from everyone else—she just never knew what her actual birth date was. Having brought up as an orphan, she had figured that birthdays were only afforded to people living with their biological parents. Or people with legitimate paperwork. She had neither the luxury of those things. Sometimes, she would look at herself in the mirror, study her face, and scrutinize her chocolate brown hair, her brown eyes, and the angular structure of her cheekbones. Crowe thought that maybe, this was how her mother would have looked like, or her father...

Crowe groaned in disdain. She didn’t need the pity party at this ungodly time. She pulled the sheets over her head as she promptly derailed the depressing train of thought, pressed her eyes shut, and forced herself to sleep.

Crowe did as she was told and brought additional liquor with her on her way to the Kingsglaive HQ. She was pretty certain that alcoholic drinks were prohibited around the Citadel premises, but no one seemed to have caught her, so she just casually marched on toward the hallway. She rounded into a corner, where she saw Nyx standing by the doorway leading to the briefing room, holding his phone close to his ear.

When he saw Crowe approaching, he tucked his phone in his jacket. Nyx nervously beamed, “Hey there!”

Crowe raised an eyebrow out of suspicion. “What are you doing outside? Where are the others?”

Nyx answered, “Well, actually, they’re on their way but Captain Drautos is already coming in any minute—“

“Weren’t you supposed to be the one to keep him occupied?” Crowe asked, narrowing her eyes at Nyx. She had a bad feeling about this.

Nyx held her by the shoulders. “Yes, but change of plans. Look, can you please help holding off on the Captain for a while—“

Crowe instantly shrugged his hands off. “Nope.”

“Please?”

“Not interested.”

“With a cherry on top?”

“Gods, Nyx—you had one job.”

“Alright, fine,” Nyx ceased making any further effort, raising both his hands in casual surrender.

That was surprisingly easy, Crowe thought. If anything, Nyx was persistent, but this...

She let it slide. Crowe rolled her eyes and sauntered past Nyx. She opened the door and—

“Surprise!”

The confetti exploded from the party poppers in myriad of colors, together with the booming voices of the rest of the Glaives. The entire open space of the briefing room was filled with familiar faces—Libertus, Pelna, and Tredd each had a Li’l Malbuddy balloon in their hands, while Axis, Sonitus, and Luche carried a Li’l Malbuddy plush toy. The walls were decorated with scarlet-colored streamers and rows of gold letter balloons.

It took a while for Crowe to register that the balloons spelled a Happy Birthday Crowe! which totally did not make sense to her at all.

“Wait, what’s going on? I thought—guys, is this a fucking prank?” She bewilderedly trailed off. She was about to lash out until she saw Captain Drautos walking towards her, which even added more confusion to this entire event. “Captain?”

Drautos shook his head and addressed the Glaives. “You fools, I told you she wouldn’t get it if I didn’t give this to her first,” he casually smacked Nyx at the back of the head. They all burst out laughing. “Anyway, it’s because of this—“

The captain handed a brown envelope to Crowe, which she flipped open. Inside was a record, a file with her full name and her… birthdate.

Crowe gasped and croaked out the words in disbelief. “Wait, today’s… my birthday?”

“We found your records with Clarus’s help,” Drautos explained. “I regret ever mentioning it to Nyx as soon as I found out—the word spread like wildfire among your peers. It was a surprise that you didn’t find it out, with Nyx being a loudmouthed idiot. Anyway, the Glaives thought of throwing you a surprise party since you’ve never celebrated your birthday with us before—or uh, I’m sorry, I mean, it’s not that you didn’t want—“

“It’s fine, sir,” Crowe stared at the file she was holding. There it was, written in permanent ink: full details of her birthplace and birthdate. It didn’t disclose any info on her biological parents, but Crowe couldn’t care less. She read and reread, helplessly trying to wrap her head around all of this, until all she could say was: “Thank you. Really, guys, thank you—but wait. That thing in the chat was…”

“That was actually Nyx about to spill the beans with his drunken little mouth,” Pelna admitted, stepping closer with the Li’l Malbuddy balloon hovering above his head. The rest of the Glaives followed, gathering around Crowe. Pelna continued, “I was with him so I had to punch him right in the mouth for being dumb. We had a different chat group specifically for Operation Crowe. We humbly thank the gods that Luche was just smooth enough to save that conversation and we all had to improvise to throw you off the scent.”

“Well, someone had to keep you guys in check so you’re welcome,” Luche smugly added. “And by the way, you gotta thank the crown prince’s advisor for this merch. He tipped us off on where to find these.” Luche, Axis, and Sonitus rewarded Crowe with the Li’l Malbuddy plushies.

“You guys were… all together in this?” Crowe asked, and strangely enough, she was genuinely touched by the idea that everyone joined for this effort. She wanted to squeeze everyone into a hug and beat them all up for giving her feelings.

“Of course—everything for our little sister,” Nyx grinned, slinging an arm around Crowe’s shoulders.

“Don’t make me claw your eyes out,” Crowe said, elbowing him on his side that Nyx winced in pain.

“Whatever. Happy birthday, munchkin,” Nyx hugged Crowe. With the thought finally sinking in, tears of utmost happiness began to threaten her eyes. She wanted to punch herself in the face for wanting to cry.

Crowe looked curiously at Nyx, still controlling herself with her happy tears. “So is this why you guys have been acting weird for the past days?”

“See, I told you guys she’ll notice,” Libertus remarked. “Now, give her the damn cake before she starts crying!”

“I’m not crying! There’s just, I don’t know, a rock in my eye...” Crowe sniffed, and the rest of the crew laughed.

Libertus playfully shoved Nyx away from Crowe and wrapped her into a big bear hug. “Happy birthday, Crowe.”

“Thank you guys so much,” Crowe said with a teary-eyed smile on her face.

Roaring fits of laughter bellowed around the room when Pelna finally brought out a ghastly dick-shaped cake with a candle sitting at its tip.

Tredd announced, “So I know Pelna promised a boob cake, but Luche wanted the D—“

“It was the only cake available, asshat—“ Luche interrupted with a sneer. Everyone was still laughing at the atrocity of the confection in front of them.

“Sorry Luche, the D’s not for you,” Pelna teased. “Give this one a blow, baby girl.”

“Oh my god, I hate all of you!” Crowe laughed and cried. When it came to the business of brewing the finest hilarity and crazy antics, Crowe couldn’t trust anyone else aside from her comrades.

Everyone joined in and sang her an equally cheery and drunken happy birthday. And on occasions like these, Crowe found it difficult to permit herself to relish the happiness. But in the company of the people Crowe now considered as family, she finally did—and there was no place in Eos that she would rather be.

#glaiveweek #kingsglaive #final fantasy xv #ffxv #crowe altius #my writing

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alexi-of-carthanas · 8 years ago

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PTSD in fiction

This isn’t a guide so much as a collection of links that I hope are useful. While I have a trauma history, at the least, a friend asked me for advice writing characters with PTSD and I wasn’t sure so ran off to find links.

Bad tropes:

http://abnormaldiversity.blogspot.com/2009/06/abusedtraumatized-characters-in-fiction.html

Some reviews of books with characters who have PTSD, which might be helpful, and a discussion with an author:

http://disabilityinkidlit.com/2016/11/18/review-our-chemical-hearts-by-krystal-sutherland/

http://disabilityinkidlit.com/2015/11/01/review-the-unbecoming-and-evolution-of-mara-dyer-by-michelle-hodkin/

http://disabilityinkidlit.com/2016/03/26/interview-with-leigh-bardugo-about-six-of-crows/ A four-part series on PTSD in fiction:

https://www.tor.com/2009/08/28/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-fiction-part-1/

https://www.tor.com/2009/08/31/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-fiction-part-2/ https://www.tor.com/2009/09/29/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-fiction-part-3/ https://www.tor.com/2009/12/11/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-fiction-part-4/ Disability representation: Do it right (Or the case of John Watson's disappearing PTSD)

https://thecaffeinatedautistic.wordpress.com/2016/07/26/disability-representation-do-it-right-or-the-case-of-john-watsons-disappearing-ptsd/

A three-part essay on post-traumatic stress disorder: understanding it, having it, writing it:

http://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/615730.html?thread=9430834&style=light

#PTSD #writing PTSD #post traumatic stress disorder #Writing #mental health #Writing reference #Disability representation #Disability

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Alun Wyn Jones: Wales captain prepares for World Cup farewell

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Alun Wyn Jones: Wales captain prepares for World Cup farewell

Alun Wyn Jones is the world’s joint second-highest capped player with Italy’s Sergio Parisse

2019 Rugby World Cup bronze final Venue:Tokyo Stadium, Tokyo Date: Friday, 1 NovemberTime:09:00 GMT Coverage:Full commentary on BBC Radio Wales, Radio Cymru, BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, plus live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app

Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones says he is preparing to bid farewell to the World Cup when he leads his side out against New Zealand in the bronze match.

Jones will finish his fourth global tournament where he has become the new Wales cap holder.

At 34, he says it is unlikely he will be involved on this stage again.

“I think I am one of the players Warren talks about who isn’t going to have another World Cup,” said Jones.

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“From a selfish point of view, I will acknowledge that and that’s probably why this one meant so much.”

Jones wins his 143rd cap on Friday with his 134 Wales internationals supplemented by nine Tests for the British and Irish Lions.

The Ospreys lock has surpassed Sergio Parisse to move to second in the all-time caps list and is chasing only Richie McCaw’s world record of 148.

It will also be his 21st World Cup match, one shy of the competition record of 22 shared by Jason Leonard and McCaw.

Jones has always placed more store on the team than individual accolades and will have proved a pivotal figure in helping Wales overcome the disappointment of not reaching the World Cup final.

The bronze match takes place only five days after the South Africa semi-final defeat but Jones was never going to rest from this game.

“I’ve started it [this journey], so I’m going to finish it,” said Jones.

“Everyone has got a few niggles. There are a few guys who are unfortunately injured and can’t be selected.

“Everyone was champing at the bit to play in this one, to finish it off, because it’s the last one we have.”

Jones says Wales must try to recover from their failure to reach a first final as they bid to beat New Zealand for the first time since 1953.

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“The show goes on, doesn’t it?” said Jones.

“It’s not the show we wanted but we’ve got to move on.

“We’ve had threads of chat about the history and wanting to be the first team to get to the final.

“We haven’t done that but have an opportunity to come up against an All Blacks team that we are still looking for a win against; I certainly am.

“I am proud of the group as a whole.

“To be so close, that’s why it’s a difficult thing to get over. Everyone’s committed to this cause and this is where we find ourselves.

“This game on Friday is right in the sights. It’s the one that paves our exit out of the tournament. Hopefully we can go out in the best possible manner.”

‘Created expectations’

The match also represents Warren Gatland’s final game in charge and Jones is the only member of the squad who was involved in his first match in February 2008.

“He’s created expectation that’s gone through the roof in the past 12 years over his tenure,” said Jones.

“He is fiercely loyal, not only to players but to the country and the job. When the pressure has come on, he has stuck to his guns.

“When you talk about change, he has been reluctant to do that at times, and it has paid off. He’s had the Midas touch at times.

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Warren Gatland ahead of his final match in charge of Wales

“I am fortunate to be involved in his tenure. He is one of, if not the most successful northern hemisphere coaches ever.

“A World Cup final appearance has eluded us and that would have been the jewel in the crown.

“But it’s a far cry from where we were in 2007 to where we are now – one quarter-final, two semi-finals, three Grand Slams and a further Six Nations Championship.

“Those markers speak volumes rather than one individual performance.”

‘Change on the horizon’

Gatland has also talked about ensuring he is leaving the future in good hands with fellow New Zealander Wayne Pivac taking over.

“He’s always had one eye on that,” said Jones.

“It’s a credit to him as a person that he wants to give the next regime the best chance possible.

“It also puts the pressure on. That expectation is always going to be there. I can see him wanting to pave the way and someone to carry on from the foundations he’s set.

“There is change on the horizon. Change is something people are either fearful of or excited about.

“There’s going to be a large number of boys involved in that. The age profile and experience is something, as a coaching set-up coming in, you’re going to be licking your lips over.

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“They will have people out of the blocks and with international experience already.”

Jones will also look to be a part of that. He has 18 months on his contract with the Welsh Rugby Union and Ospreys that take him through until the summer of 2021.

He refused to be drawn into whether he will target the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa that year. That is for another time.

So while his World Cup chapter might be coming to an end, he hopes his international career will still be going strong.

“When you’re in this position, you want to do it for as long as possible,” said Jones. “I’ve got a bit longer yet.”

#farewell #World

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852recordstores · 6 years ago

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Sheryl Crow Threads 2LP 2019

Double vinyl LP pressing. Nine-time GRAMMY Award-winner Sheryl Crow’s forthcoming album of collaborations, THREADS, has been announced as an August 30 2019 release on The Valory Music Co. Unveiling the cover art and full tracklist across social platforms, she premiered “Still The Good Old Days” featuring Joe Walsh (watch by clicking HERE) and performed the song on The Graham Norton Show during a run of dates in Europe. Crow shared, “’Still The Good Old Days’ totally captures what Joe and I believe about getting older…that life is still fun no matter what stage of life you are at, and that living isn’t just for the young.”

Other advance tracks already setting the pace for this diverse collection include “Redemption Day” featuring Johnny Cash, “Live Wire” featuring Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples and “Prove You Wrong” featuring Stevie Nicks and Maren Morris.

Further elaborating on the project, Crow reflected, “I became inspired to record an album of musical experiences with the legacy artists who inspired me to want to be a great songwriter, musician, and producer. It is a celebration with them, and a tribute to them. Just as importantly, I wanted to work with younger artists on this record, who I believe will pick up the torch and continue to light the way for humanity with their stories and their songs for many years to come. Their music inspires me every day.”

Prove You Wrong Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks, Maren Morris - 03:56 Live Wire - Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Mavis Staples - 05:09 Tell Me When It's Over - Sheryl Crow, Chris Stapleton - 04:58 Story of Everything - Sheryl Crow, Chuck D, Andra Day, Gary Clark Jr. - 06:25 Beware of Darkness - Sheryl Crow, Eric Clapton, Sting, Brandi Carlile - 03:39 Redemption Day - Sheryl Crow, Johnny Cash - 4:48 Cross Creek Road - Sheryl Crow, Lukas Nelson - 04:47 Everything Is Broken - Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell - 04:35 The Worst - Sheryl Crow, Keith Richards - 02:41 Lonely Alone - Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson - 04:40 Border Lord - Sheryl Crow, Kris Kristofferson - 04:47 Still the Good Old Days - Sheryl Crow, Joe Walsh - 05:20 Wouldn't Want to Be Like You - Sheryl Crow, St. Vincent - 03:37 Don't - Sheryl Crow, Lucius - 04:08 Nobody's Perfect - Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris - 04:47 Flying Blind - Sheryl Crow, James Taylor - 03:43 For the Sake of Love - Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill - 03:35

Release Date: 30 Aug 2019

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thereviewsarein · 6 years ago

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Sheryl Crow, Threads Album Review

Threads is the last album of Sheryl Crow‘s illustrious career. And over 17 tracks, the nine-time Grammy winner shows us that she’s still amazing and there’s a good reason we’ve been waiting for this record to be released.

26 years after the release of her debut album (the 7-times RIAA Platinum) Tuesday Night Music Club, Sheryl Crow has evolved and embraced new opportunities and sounds on Threads.…

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Live Blog: Riot Fest 2017

Riot Fest 2017 Douglas Park; Chicago, IL [September 15-17] by Joe Hemmerling on 09-27-2017 Looking back a year on from my Riot Fest 2016 coverage, I can marvel at my own naivety. Languishing in the jaws of the presidential election cycle, I (and many like me) thought this was as bad as it could get. Trump’s ascent to the top of his party — fueled by a complex cocktail of white nationalism, working-class rage, misogyny, and partisan inertia — had exposed some hard truths about this country that many of us didn’t want to face, but we were coming up on the finish line. November wasn’t too far around the corner, and when the dust settled, we were confident that we’d have a president who, while not universally beloved (even among her own constituents), would at least restore a semblance of sanity to federal politics. But we all know how that turned out. This year’s festival roster responded to the direness of our present political situation in a variety of ways. Ministry’s Al Jourgensen answered with fury and exhortations to violent resistance, Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz and Pedro Erazo with calls for unity among people of good will — hell, even the happy-go-lucky Tim Kinsella of Cap’n Jazz let slip the nihilistic observation that his privileges are paid for by the murders of people all over the world. The enormity of Trump’s presidency threatens to make punk rock’s defiant posturing look hollow and inconsequential. Yet it was a challenge many of the performers were willing to meet head on, even if some of the boldest, most transgressive, and genuinely punk performances of the Fest came from outside the white male-dominated sphere of punk rock. But before we get too far into that, let’s take care of some administrative items: * Despite last year being the biggest yet for the festival, Riot Fest scaled back for 2017, cutting out its Denver fest and paring back its lineup to 91 acts. This may, in part, be due to recent death of fest founder, Sean McKeough (May he riot in peace). * While I feel for Denver missing out, the smaller lineup was a boon. Bands got longer sets, and it made it easier and more worthwhile to cut out in the middle of a set if there were overlapping acts you wanted to watch. * This being our third year attending the festival (“our” being my wife and I), we tried to take in a little more of the nonmusical aspects, getting some yummy street tacos from Tica’s and witnessing the death-defying high wire acrobatics of Circus Una. * Security was friendly, but, like, maybe too friendly. The guards felt around my wife’s bust for that switchblade and set of brass knuckles she stores in her bra (lucky for us she stowed them back in the glove compartment). But, honestly, they could have strip-searched me and put three fingers up my asshole because (most importantly)… * FREE BEER WAS BACK IN THE PRESS TENT. The courteous festival staff kept the wheels of journalism thoroughly lubricated with all the Dos Equis and Heineken we could get down our gullets. --- The Essentials Saul Williams (Photo: Amanda Athon) Genre-bending rapper and father of slam poetry, Saul Williams began his set Friday with an improvised spoken word rendition of “Coded Language,” all those lengthy clauses beginning with and punctuated by the legalistic conjunction “whereas,” culminating in a litany of radicals, artists, and martyrs. But while the framework of his jeremiad was familiar, its contents were targeted specifically at us. “A riot is not a festival,” he chided. “A riot is a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd.” And to drive his point home further: “Your punk rock isn’t that punk rock if it doesn’t make fascists explode.” It took a moment for me to realize that the stage behind him was bare of equipment and that no band would be joining him. This drew hostility from some in the crowd, at least one member of which repeatedly shouted, “We came to hear music!” as he trudged off in the direction of the main stages. Williams was undaunted, taking aim at targets as large as the Catholic Church and Silicon Valley and as small as the Trump-supporting members of his audience. He attacked the gender binary, the digital revolution, and the sharing economy using the “Hack into…” lyrical framework of “Colton as Cotton,” before launching into an a capella rendition of “Black Stacey.” It was probably the gutsiest performance I’ve seen in my life, standing on that stage all alone and putting to lie the late capitalist notion that we can spend our way to a revolution, to call each member of the audience to account for their part in the oppressive structures that weigh us all down (albeit not equally). Unlike the Prophets Of Rage, who on Sunday asked their audience if they were ready to have a good time, Williams was there to educate, not to entertain. Next to him, even the most radical declarations of resistance seemed like kids’ stuff. Cute Riot Fest audience members (Photo: Amanda Athon) Friday’s other highlight was industrial metal pioneers Ministry. Uncle Al was eager to tell his audience how happy he was to be home, joking, “You all know I’m from here. Some of you have probably ripped me off on cab fare.” They played a relentless, career-spanning set, including a brand new song from their forthcoming album, “Antifa,” celebrating the anarchist resistance network. Watching masked dancers parade around the stage waving red and black flags filled me with a curious sense of unease. The uncritical acceptance of vigilante justice that I see coming from certain corners of the left is alarming for a variety of reasons that I don’t have the space for here, but suffice to say that I personally regard Antifa’s rise to prominence as, at best, a risky development for political discourse in America. Jourgenson’s embrace of the controversial group is hardly surprising, given his outspoken leftwing politics and heavy metal’s enshrinement of ideological, as well as sonic, extremity. In fact, a Ministry show seems like exactly the place where buttoned-up lefties can crow over fascists chowing down on a knuckle sandwich. I guess I just never thought we’d reach a point where the kinds of things that get shouted out at a heavy metal concert were being considered as a blueprint for political strategy. My political hand-wringing aside, Ministry was on fire. Jorgenson’s voice is as caustic as ever, and his band remains a finely honed engine of destruction. In lieu of footage from the stage, the band fed surreal psychedelic imagery into the screens: distorted pictures of nude women bleeding into news coverage, music video footage, and internet memes. They ripped through mid- and late-career highlights like “Senor Peligro” and “Bad Blood,” but aside from opening their set with “Psalm 69,” they saved most of their classics for a whirlwind four-song finale of “N.W.O.,” “Just One Fix,” “Thieves,” and “So What.” Peaches (Photo: Amanda Athon) If Saul and Al had to split ownership of Friday between them, Saturday belonged entirely to Peaches. The Canadian provocateur delivered a riotous and confrontational set of explicit sexuality and gender-fuckery. She opened with her ode to female ejaculation, “Rub,” wearing an absurdly bulky pink fur-suit and anatomically detailed vagina hat. During her second song “Vaginaplasty,” her backup dancers sauntered out in enormous vaginal headgear, while the artist herself stripped down to a flesh-colored leotard to which giant purple nipples and a fuzzy pink merkin had been affixed. By her third song, she was over the photo-pit rail and into the audience, and by the end of the fourth, her leotard was down around her waist. There were no fucks given. When Peaches needed to switch costumes, she turned her back and stepped out of whatever she was wearing right in front of the audience. Her dancers shed more and more clothing as the show went on, until by the end they were topless in a latticework of fetish-gear and undulating against the singer in simulated sex acts. Peaches performed a good chunk of the time in nothing but her skivvies and flesh-colored nipple-covers. It was, by turns, hilarious, titillating, and unnerving (like, should we be seeing this? Is this LEGAL?). Despite the lack of explicit political commentary, Peaches’ defiant ribaldry felt like an act of resistance, an expression of female power and self-determination. And it was some of the most fun I had the whole weekend. High-Wire acrobats (Photo: Amanda Athon) Still, despite the stiff competition, my absolute favorite set of the fest belongs to Chicago’s own Cap’n Jazz. This marks the seminal Midwestern emo group’s second reunion since their dissolution in 1995. Reunions as a whole tend to reek of cash-grabbery, and usually they don’t improve in quality upon repetition, but Sunday’s performance was as pure and unique a concert-going experience as I’ve ever been part of. Frontman Tim Kinsella may have crossed the threshold into his forties, but he remains a childlike presence, hurling his body across the stage, turning sloppy backwards somersaults, and generally jackassing around with the audience. His ebullience was infectious and his seeming disregard for his own safety and the integrity of the performance created an electric tension. Kinsella made a game between songs of requesting the return of a tambourine that he’d tossed out into the audience, and then throwing it immediately back into the crowd. During their cover of “Take on Me,” he hurled his mic over the photopit rail, but somehow managed to recover it just in time for the big final chorus, just like he miraculously recovered his sunglasses, lost early on in a crowd-surfing excursion. His bandmates played the grownups, with drummer Mike occasionally bristling over his brother’s showboating. They kept the grooves going when Tim’s shenanigans came between him and his singing duties, like during closer “Que Suerte!” when Tim stuffed the mic down his pants, threaded it through the bottom of his jeans, only to stick it back down once more and thread it down the other leg (he needed help from the security team to get it out his second pant leg). But if all of this sounds like the music took a backseat to the antics, you can put that right out of your head. The band was in peak form, hitting all the lurching starts and stops, tempo and signature shifts like clockwork, and all the while, they looked like they were having the time of their lives. Third Kinsella brother and American Football alum Nate stood in for Davey von Bohlen on guitar and brought a fan’s enthusiasm to the proceedings. Their set covered almost everything from their sole album Burritos, Inspiration Point… aside from “Bluegrassish,” “Flashpoint: Catheter,” and “Precious,” and they filled the rest of the set out with favorites like “Ooh I Do Love You” and “Forget Who Are.” --- Let-downs Bad Brains (Photo: Amanda Athon) This is uncomfortable for me to say, so I’m just going to blurt it out. X and Bad Brains were pretty boring live. I know. I KNOW. These guys are legends. They’ve been doing this for four decades now. They have nothing to prove. They’re up there in the years, and at least in H.R.’s case have health concerns. Not everyone can be Iggy Pop, who’s pushing a thousand and still writhing around on the floor like a teenager. They still sounded great, but there wasn’t a lot of energy in their sets. Saturday night’s penultimate act At the Drive-In had the opposite problem. Cedric Bixler-Zavala still tosses the mic around and launches himself off the drumkit with no apparent care about whether he’ll come down on his feet, but the volume they were playing at really muddied their sound and overwhelmed Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s precise guitarwork. It was still enjoyable to hear my favorite cuts off Relationship of Command, from which their set drew heavily, but years of being baited by ATDI’s reputation as a live band set my expectations at a level they couldn’t quite reach. Plus, no “Transatlantic Foe”? Come on, guys… --- Honorable Mentions Liars (Photo: Amanda Athon) I’ve drifted away from Liars’ recorded output over the years, but there’s no question these guys can still bring it live. Angus Andrew stalked onto the stage in a white wedding dress, his long lace veil billowing in the wind. Standing before a small podium, he fiddled with dials that hellishly distorted his vocals during the bouncier electronic numbers like “Mess on a Mission” and “House Clouds,” as well as on more harrowing fare like “Scarecrow on a Killer Slant.” The Buzzcocks made a good showing for old-head punk rock. Their hit-laden set (anyone with a copy of Singles Going Steady could do a reasonable job keeping score at home) was brisk and tuneful, and their chemistry forty-plus years in the making shined through at every turn, particularly on spacier numbers like “Why Can’t I Touch It?” Finally Nine Inch Nails brought Friday to a close with a riveting headlining performance. The fog-machines were going into overdrive throughout the set, such that the stage was constantly cloaked in billowing smoke like the steaming maw of hell. Reznor was intense, if a little aloof as he careened throughout his discography, lightly dusting his set with hits like “The Hand that Feeds,” “Closer,” and “Head Like a Hole.” Buzzcocks (Photo: Amanda Athon) Gogol Bordello (Photo: Amanda Athon) Gogol Bordello brought their brand of feel-good bedlam to the fest on Saturday and convinced me that I need to revisit Transcontinental Hustle. I was left pretty cold by the album when it came out back in 2010, but goddamn if every cut they played off it didn’t bring the house down, particularly “We Comin’ Rougher (Immigraniada),” which has taken on a pointed significance in the era of Trump. Following Dinosaur Jr.’s sublime album playthrough of You’re Living All Over Me, I crashed the angry party that Prophets Of Rage were throwing on Sunday night long enough to hear them drop a pair of RATM covers (“Testify” and “Take the Power Back”) amid some original songs from their hot-off-the-presses eponymous debut. But it was the siren song of M.I.A. that ultimately seduced me. The British emcee was in fine form, if surprisingly mute on politics. She knocked out hit after hit for her eager crowd, while a mesmerizing light show engulfed the stage. At the risk of losing all my punk cred, after that kind of spectacle, Jawbreaker just couldn’t hold my interest. Beyond one or two songs of Dear You, I’d never quite managed to find my way into them, but the die-hards in the front row seemed to be getting everything they wanted out of them, so that’s all that matters, right? --- And that, in a nutshell, was Riot Fest 2017. There’s a ton I missed out on, including Shabazz Palaces, Wu Tang Clan performing 36 Chambers, Built to Spill’s play-through of Keep It Like a Secret, and festival mainstays Gwar and Andrew W.K., but some of the sets I was able to take in this year numbered among the most powerful and exhilarating festival experiences I’ve ever witnessed. As the situation in the outside world grows more dire, we continue to look to art for solace, and there was plenty of that to be found. But the bravest artists offered something we needed more: a kick in the ass to get back out there and try to change something, however small and however futile that might appear. http://j.mp/2fSiPUP

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