#Feist band

[limonadecandy]

every single time I hear this track I remember that Peaches, Feist, M.I.A. and Justine Frischmann shared an apartment together in London from 2000 to 2001. during their stay there, Justine put the finishing touches on Elastica's "The Menace", M.I.A. wrote Galang, and Peaches came up with the instrumental of this song

[alchemylive]

rediscovering my favorite music from like middle school/early high school i was kinda onto something

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Temeraire by Naomi Novik (2006-2016)

DESCRIPTION

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride mighty fighting dragons, bred for size or speed. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes the precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future – and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France’s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte’s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire. 

 Capt. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring most a unusual cargo–an incalculably valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation’s history.

 Thrust into England’s Aerial Corps, Laurence and Temeraire undergo rigorous training while staving off French forces intent on breaching British soil. But the pair has more than France to contend with when China learns that an imperial dragon intended for Napoleon–Temeraire himself– has fallen into British hands. The emperor summons the new pilot and his dragon to the Far East, a long voyage fraught with peril and intrigue. From England’s shores to China’s palaces, from the Silk Road’s outer limits to the embattled borders of Prussia and Poland, Laurence and Temeraire must defend their partnership and their country from powerful adversaries around the globe. But can they succeed against the massed forces of Bonaparte’s implacable army?

Wayside School by Louis Sachar (1978-2020)

There was a terrible mistake. Wayside School was supposed to have been built with thirty classrooms all next to each other in a row. Instead, it was built with the thirty classrooms all on top of each other - thirty stories high! That may be why all kinds of strange stuff happens at Wayside School. Especially, on the thirteenth floor. It is a school full of unusual characters too. Mrs Gorf the meanest teacher in the world. Terrible Todd who always gets sent home early. John who can only read upside down.

Modern Faerie Tales by Holly Black (2002-2007)

Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she drifts from place to place with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces them back to Kaye's childhood home. But Kaye's life takes another turn when she stumbles upon an injured faerie knight in the woods. Kaye has always been able to see faeries where others could not, and she chooses to save the strange young man instead of leaving him to die. 

But this fateful choice will have more dire consequences than she could ever predict, as Kaye soon finds herself the unwilling pawn in an ancient and violent power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms--a struggle that could very well mean her death.

The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist (1982-1986)

My name is Pug. I was once an orphaned kitchen boy, with no family and no prospects, but I am destined to become a master magician...

War is coming to the Kingdom of the Isles from another world, bringing with it chaos and destruction. Pug yearns to train as a warrior and fight for his kingdom alongside his foster-brother, Tomas, but instead he is forced to follow a different path: a path that will lead him right into the heart of the enemy. And one that will change the course of the war - and two worlds - forever.

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (2009-2011)

It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet. 

 Aleksandar Ferdinand, prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battle-torn Stormwalker and a loyal crew of men. 

 Deryn Sharp is a commoner, a girl disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered. 

 With the Great War brewing, Alek's and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way...taking them both aboard the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure. One that will change both their lives forever.

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede (1985-1993)

Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart - and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon - and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for.

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (2020-present)

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.

In an attempt to prove himself a true brujo and gain his family’s acceptance, Yadriel decides to summon his cousin’s ghost and help him cross to the afterlife.

But things get complicated when he accidentally summons the ghost of his high school’s resident bad boy, Julian Diaz – and Julian won't go into death quietly.

The two boys must work together if Yadriel is to move forward with his plan.

But the more time Yadriel and Julian spend together, the harder it is to let each other go.

The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi (2003-2004)

After finding a mysterious, handmade field guide in the attic of the ramshackle old mansion they've just moved into, Jared; his twin brother, Simon; and their older sister, Mallory, discover that there's a magical and maybe dangerous world existing parallel to our own--the world of faerie. 

The Grace children want to share their story, but the faeries will do everything possible to stop them...

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (2012-2015)

Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.

Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs, the captain of the Queen's Guard. While they begin to uncover a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect the secret behind her musical gift--a secret so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life.

The Queen's Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (1996-2022)

Gen can steal anything—at least that's the boast he's made in wineshops across the capital city, and this bragging has landed him in the king's prison. His chances of escape look slim—even for someone of his talents. When he is invited to join a quest to steal an object straight out of a legend, he's hardly in a position to refuse.

[motherofqups]

Read the prequel here.

Hozier - As It Was

Bat for Lashes - Sleep Alone

Circa Survive - Discount on Psychic Readings

The Dresden Dolls - Backstabber

Robert Delong - Don't Wait Up

The National - Cherry Tree (Remastered)

Breton - Got Well Soon

Depeche Mode - Suffer Well

Crystal Castles, Robert Smith - Not In Love

Violents, Monica Martin - How It Left

Violents, Monica Martin - Unraveling

Feist - The Bad in Each Other

Florence + the Machine - King

Charli xcx - B2b

Local Natives - When Am I Gonna Lose You?

Florence + the Machine - June

Big Thief - Not

The 1975 - Somebody Else

Band of Horses - Casual Party

Florence + the Machine - Big God

Kimbra - Teen Heat

James Blake - Can't Believe the Way We Flow

Gotye - Hearts a Mess

Postmodern Jukebox - Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye cover)

Björk - Hyperballad

Eisley - A Sight to Behold

Ida Maria - Oh My God

BANKS - Gemini Feed

Bat for Lashes - A Wall

Florence + the Machine - Free

Amanda Palmer, Brendan Maclean - Laura (Bat for Lashes cover)

James Blake - Lullaby for My Insomniac

Perfume Genius - Run Me Through

Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels/Broken

Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man

Hozier - Francesca

The National, Bon Iver - Weird Goodbyes

The National - This Is the Last Time

Kishi Bashi - Summer of '42

Charli xcx - Guess

St. Vincent - Cheerleader

Violents, Monica Martin - Second Class

Glass Animals - Heat Waves

San Fermin - Sonsick

Hozier - Shrike

The National - About Today

The Arcadian Wild - Liar

Brighton - Forest First

Hooverphonic - Ginger

Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked

Eisley - Combinations

Florence + the Machine - What Kind of Man?

Charli xcx - Talk talk

Devault, Izzy Camina, Manila Killa - HEAVEN'S GATES (remix)

Ghost - Kiss the Go-Goat

Unique Salonga - Jules

Vance Joy - Mess Is Mine

Novo Amor - Emigrate

Hozier - Cherry Wine (Live)

Florence + the Machine - Ship to Wreck

Hozier - Butchered Tongue

Welles - Lovesong (the Cure cover)

Hozier - Someone New

Amanda Palmer - Astronaut

Florence + the Machine - Queen of Peace

Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You

Hozier - Take Me to Church

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Charli xcx - 365

Sir Chloe - Too Close

Band of Horses - Infinite Arms

Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Better

Sleeping At Last - Saturn

Sleeping At Last - Venus

Chappel Roan - Good Luck, Babe!

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

Florence + the Machine - Cosmic Love

Florence + the Machine - Mother

Djo - End of Beginning

Billie Eilish - when the party's over

[electricswamp]

9. A song that makes you happy

15. A song that is a cover by another artist

29. A song that you remember from your childhood

9: an old feist song that brings up a very specific memory of me being in art school with a great group of friends at a house party drunk and singing & dancing in the living room. it was a very happy time

15: this is a newer duo/band and im really into their sound. this cover i've listened to so many times. its such a longingly sweet song and its one that i put in my bf's playlist so it reminds me of him. the original is by a group called the "female species"

15: bonus cover: chromatics is probably my favorite band. i think ruth radelet is incredible and johnny jewel is a genius. i got to see them live before they split and they performed this song and it blew everyone away. half way through this guy yells out "you sound so fucking good" and like normally that would annoy me that he broke the moment but we were all like "YEAH! this sounds so fucking incredible".

29: i grew up south louisiana so a lot of music i was surrounded by was zydeco and 90s country. mary chapin carpenter is an artist that who fuses both and this song was very much a staple in cajun country.

thanks for asks. i could do this all day.

[ararmyligod]

“The world was on fire, and no one could save me but you.”

╰┈➤ A playlist inspired by the fanfic “Wicked” by @adonis-koo​.

i. landfill - daughter ii. nicest thing - kate nash iii. helium - sia iv. carry you - ruelle feat. fleurie v. war of hearts - ruelle vi. seven devils - florence + the machine vii. red dust - james vincent mcmorrow viii. still - daughter ix. fire in the water - feist x. never let me go - florence + the machine xi. my love - l.a band (originally by sia) xii. heart - sleeping at last xiii. wicked game - james vincent mcmorrow (originally by chris isaak)

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[clockwrkcabaret]

They Scream

WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves.

The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady Attercop and Emmett Davenport. Our theme music is made especially for us by Kyle O’Door.

This episode aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 05.19.24.

New episodes air on Mad Wasp Radio on Sundays @ 12pm GMT! Listen at www.madwaspradio.com or via TuneIn radio app!

Playlist:

Over The Rhine – Don’t Wait For Tom

Professor Gall – The Unknown Artist

Circus Contraption – Drunkard’s Dream

Pretty Balanced – Simon’s Sleeping

Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys – Jolene

Jolie Holland – The Devil’s Sake

Patsy Cline – I Fall To Pieces (feat. The Jordanaires)

Willie Nelson – If You’ve Got The Money I’ve Got the Time

Johnny Cash – Get Rhythm

The Little Willies – I Gotta Get Drunk

k.d. Lang – Big Big Love

Asylum Street Spankers – I Don’t Wanna

The Two Man Gentlemen Band – I Like to Party with Girls

Pokey LaFarge – Actin’ a Fool

DeVotchKa – We’re Leaving

Shilpa Ray – Charm School For Damaged Boys

Grinderman – Go Tell The Woman

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Heart Attack and Vine

My Brightest Diamond – Black Sheep

Feist – Sealion

CocoRosie – Smoke ‘Em Out (feat. ANOHNI)

The Blue Hour – Cornflake Girl

Man Man – Dig Deep

The Constellations – Step Right Up

Check out this episode!

[underthecitysky]

Hi, underthecitysky! 6, 9, 20, 24, 26, 27 and 30 for the music asks, please <3 Thanks!

Thank you @tavolgisvist ! ❤️🙏

Much like Paul being asked the “This or That” questions for the Brooklyn Museum instagram, I can’t always choose one thing lol

6:A song that makes you want to dance

I’ll Take You There - the Staple Singers

9:A song that makes you happy

Sing the Changes - Paul McCartney. I started a good vibes playlist for my dad with that song.

The Dog Days are Over - Florence and the Machine

1 2 3 4 - Feist

A zillion more

20:A song that has many meanings to you

Imagine was a big, meaningful one for me as a kid and has had so many different associations at different times in my life.

24. A song by a band you wish were still together

I mean.. look at them

26:A song that makes you want to fall in love

Both Hands by Ani DiFranco makes me want to fall in love with Ani DiFranco specifically

27:A song that breaks your heart

I previously answered Beautiful Boy (John Lennon) but I’ll take this opportunity to add:

The End - The Beatles (joy, gratitude & utter heartbreak. I’ve cried real tears)

I know (I Know) - John Lennon cause if You Know (You Know)

30:A song that reminds you of yourself

That’s such a good question. Who am I, even? lol

Are there any bangers out there about angsty, over thinkers??

This reminds me of my teenage self at least! :)

Music Asks

[piss-bottle-heart-emoticon]

ok so i saw that u want music recs but i have no idea about your music taste so. here's a random assortment. gimme ur thoughts on em and i can send more. maybe.

Ok so my fav one was bitch

Rebzyyx is w I'm ver familiar w his music

Idkhow is a very awesome band 🔥

The devil went down to georgia was my second favorite

All in all you have rly good music taste and id love to hear more

I listen to all genres btw

[dragonwriter142]

@fujitsubos tagged me to write out my url with song titles so here we go

Dead Man's Hand by Lord Huron

Ready to Run by The [Dixie] Chicks

Anna Begins by The Counting Crows

Geronimo by Thank You Scientist

Orbit by Good Kid

No Lullaby by SIÁMES

Welcome to the Internet cover by FamilyJules (original by Bo Burnham)

Runner [The] by FOALS

If You Wanna by The Vaccines

This Time Around by Hanson

Everything's Alright by Ginger Root

Reminiscing by Little River Band

1[234] by Feist

4[2] by Coldplay

2am by FOALS

R was kinda tough for me!

Thanks for tagging me! ❤️

I tag

@villainouslaughs and @pikachu-potter

[pandoramsbox]

Sci-Fi Saturday: Deluge

Week 11:

Film(s): Deluge (Dir. Felix E. Feist, 1933, USA)

Viewing Format: Blu-Ray: Kino Lorber

Date Watched: August 6, 2021

Rationale for Inclusion:

Not all disaster movies fall under the genre of science fiction or speculative fiction. What causes the disaster and/or its results are what determines the classification.

Deluge (Dir. Felix E. Feist, 1933, USA) came to my attention either from browsing the Wikipedia list of 1930s sci-fi films or Kino Lorber's website. The film was regarded as lost for decades, but promised apocalyptic natural disasters and the survivors needing to rebuild society. We had yet to encounter the post-apocalyptic subgenre on our survey and figured it would be interesting to compare to later examples. Plus, neither my partner nor I had known Deluge existed, much less seen it, prior to this survey.

Reactions:

As one would hope with a disaster movie, Deluge has respectable special effects for its era. Stop motion, models and superimpositions render the epic storm, eclipse, earthquakes and tsunamis that absolutely wreck the world. No explanation is provided for the extreme weather and geographical upsets, in part because it comes on so quickly no one can gather sufficient data to form a hypothesis, and in part because it does not matter to the overall narrative. The natural disasters are just set up for a post-apocalyptic survival narrative.

Despite its spectacular opening, Deluge goes downhill as a film rapidly. The cinematography and acting are just okay. The concerns of survival in the new wrecked landscape become the main focus, and in the process the film ends up treating some gross attitudes about gender as matters of nature not socialization. Some amount of sexism is bound to be present in most films, even if it's implicit systematic context that doesn't even register to the target audience, but Deluge had examples that deeply bothered me and my partner.

Typical of post-apocalyptic narratives, a gang of roving rapist men assemble and become a threat to other survivors, including the newly formed town the protagonists end up in. Do the townspeople band together, kill the rapists, and then post their corpses with expository signs around the borders of their new community as a warning to others? No, because the film does not treat these men as outliers and societal threats beyond reform, but the expected result of men not being constrained by law or social pressure.

The newly formed community takes for granted that they cannot stop men from devolving to rapists, so instead of direct action against the rapists, the men who have assumed leadership roles decide that every woman must be married to a man. I do not know if the logic is that rapists supposedly do not rape women that belong to a man, or that wives cannot be raped by anyone, or that the husbands will defend against the rapists as necessary. However, their logic boils down to the only way to protect women from feral men is to have them become subjugated by civilized men; it's not to eliminate the threat or hold people who break community expectations accountable for their actions, but affirm the same position held by the rapists that women are commodities and resources, and treat them as they would storehouses of grain.

As repugnant as I find Deluge being explicit in its belief that Patriarchal values are unquestionable, universal laws, it is hard to truly find fault with the survivors clinging to what bits of the world they knew that remain. For all protagonist Martin Webster (Sidney Blackmer) has to say about rebuilding society better than it was, he and the other civilized men hope to rebuild society along the same lines as prior to the apocalypse. It's why Patriarchy and monogamy are clung to so tightly by the main characters. Yes, Martin and his wife Helen (Lois Wilson) could build a polycule with the new romantic interests they met when they thought the other was dead, but no one involved can see the viability or appeal in it. Frankly, if anyone suggested it they would view that person as morally on par with the roving rapists. Humans, after all, are creatures of habit despite existence being nothing but change.

As someone who finds Patriarchy limiting and damaging, and generally is not a fan of disaster movies, Deluge is not a film that I enjoyed. It's an interesting case study, but it failed to spark positive impressions or a desire to watch it again.

[taramaclaywasaterf]

What are your thoughts on the song The Other Man

Someone giving me an excuse to talk about Sloan??? Oh my fucking god anon, I’m in love with you, please marry me. Congratulations this is what has officially gotten me to post for the first time in like a year🫡😭

The other man is the Dumbfuck Lesbian Anthem fr fr… ok not really lmao but it was MY anthem during my late teens/early 20s when I was a raging dumbfuck asshole chasing women I definitely shouldn’t have been with. 

“You know he's not the one for you but that's no fault of mine. He knows that I'm a friend of yours but doesn't know I've crossed the line. I know you've got a man in the picture but it hasn't stopped me yet…”

I mean… come on lol. You can’t tell me a lesbian cover of this song wouldn’t be an absolute fucking banger.

For a, like, feminist analysis of the song…look, I’ll fully admit to being a giant hypocrite and super biased because I love Sloan and have hung out with all the guys before/after shows for the past 10 or so years I’ve been seeing them live. I’ve been listening to them since I was like 11. I fucking love this stupid band. I have a lot of good memories associated with them. One of my best friends who passed away loved the band too, so they’re just really special to me. 

That said, is the song misogynist? Yeah, women aren’t, like, objects for men to fight over. Men acting like they’re the victims of their own actions are gross. It’s about the time in 2002 when Chris was dating the singer Leslie Feist at the same time she was dating another guy named Andrew from a different band and how pretty much everyone except Andrew knew about it.

It also talks about how Leslie didn’t know there were rumors (“He's going to find out that the rumours are true, though they are still unbeknownst to you. He'll find out, so I'll tell you because, you gotta find out before he does.”) which is something he seems…proud of? Idk, I’ve never liked that part of the song. Well, the part of the song is fun to sing lol, but I never liked those lyrics because it just feels like a man flexing his power over a woman, getting off on her not knowing everyone knows her secret. It’s gross.

Chris has never been creepy or weird or misogynistic to me or anyone I know in the years I’ve known him, and he’s had multiple opportunities to take advantage of my friends and I, especially at the shows I go to alone. BUT, if anything comes out about him, I’ll believe the victim. I don’t care how well I know a man, I’ll always believe a woman first and foremost and I never allow myself to like/trust a man enough to believe he’s above being a piece of shit. 

If you have more Sloan questions let me know lol I will yap about this band all fucking day if you let me

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Dragonkeeper Chronicles by Donita K. Paul (2004-2008)

When Kale, a slave girl, finds a dragon egg, she is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. But on her way to The Hall, where she was to be trained, Kale runs into danger. Rescued by a small band of Paladin's servants, Kale is turned from her destination. 

Feeling afraid and unprepared, Kale embarks on a perilous quest to find the meech dragon egg stolen by the foul Wizard Risto. But their journey is threatened when a key member of the party is captured, leaving the remaining companions to find the Wizard Fenworth, attempt an impossible rescue, and recover the egg--whose true value they have not begun to suspect.

Clocktaur War by T. Kingfisher (2017-2018)

A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It's not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T. Kingfisher's new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), thrown together in an attempt to unravel the secret of the Clockwork Boys, mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom that promise ruin to the Dowager's city.

If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but that requires a long journey through enemy territory, directly into the capital. It also requires them to refrain from killing each other along the way At turns darkly comic and touching, Clockwork Boys puts together a broken group of people trying to make the most of the rest of their lives as they drive forward on their suicide mission.

The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon (1988-1989)

Paksenarrion — Paks for short — is somebody special. She knows it, even if nobody else does yet. No way will she follow her father's orders to marry the pig farmer down the road. She's off to join the army, even if it means she can never see her family again.

And so her adventure begins... the adventure that transforms her into a hero remembered in songs, chosen by the gods to restore a lost ruler to his throne.

Here is her tale as she lived it.

Paks is trained as a mercenary, blooded, and introduced to the life of a soldier . . . and to the followers of Gird, the soldier's god.

Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica by James A. Owen (2006-2016)

An unusual murder brings together three strangers, John, Jack, and Charles, on a rainy night in London during the first World War. An eccentric little man called Bert tells them that they are now the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica -- an atlas of all the lands that have ever existed in myth and legend, fable and fairy tale. These lands, Bert claims, can be traveled to in his ship the Indigo Dragon, one of only seven vessels that is able to cross the Frontier between worlds into the Archipelago of Dreams.

Pursued by strange and terrifying creatures, the companions flee London aboard the Dragonship. Traveling to the very realm of the imagination itself, they must learn to overcome their fears and trust in one another if they are to defeat the dark forces that threaten the destiny of two worlds. And in the process, they will share a great adventure filled with clues that lead readers to the surprise revelation of the legendary storytellers these men will one day become.

Dragon Jousters by Mercedes Lackey (2003-2006)

The first book in this thrilling new series introduces us to a young slave who dreams of becoming a jouster-one of the few warriors who can actually ride a flying dragon. And so, in secret, he begins to raise his own dragon...

Frontier Magic by Patricia C. Wrede (2009-2012)

Eff was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother, Lan, is the seventh son of a seventh son. This means he's supposed to possess amazing talent -- and she's supposed to bring only bad things to her family and her town. Undeterred, her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beasts of the wild.

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan (2017)

The Borderlands aren’t like anywhere else. Don’t try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border ― unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. (Ballpoint pens are okay.) There are elves, harpies, and ― best of all as far as Elliot is concerned ― mermaids.  "Serene," said Serene. "My full name is Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle." Elliot? Who’s Elliot? Elliot is thirteen years old. He’s smart and just a tiny bit obnoxious. Sometimes more than a tiny bit. When his class goes on a field trip and he can see a wall that no one else can see, he is given the chance to go to school in the Borderlands. It turns out that on the other side of the wall, classes involve a lot more weaponry and fitness training and fewer mermaids than he expected. On the other hand, there’s Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle, an elven warrior who is more beautiful than anyone Elliot has ever seen, and then there’s her human friend Luke: sunny, blond, and annoyingly likeable. There are lots of interesting books. There’s even the chance Elliot might be able to change the world. In Other Lands is the exhilarating new book from beloved and bestselling author Sarah Rees Brennan. It’s a novel about surviving four years in the most unusual of schools, about friendship, falling in love, diplomacy, and finding your own place in the world ― even if it means giving up your phone.

Iron Butterfly by Chanda Hahn (2012-2014)

Imprisoned, starved and left with no memories, Thalia awakens to find herself at the mercy of an evil cult known as the Septori. Their leader has chosen Thalia as the test subject for a torture device of untold power, designed to change and twist her into something that is neither human nor Denai.

Escaping, Thalia finds an unwilling warrior to protect her and an unlikely Denai to befriend her. After finding a home at the Citadel as a servant, Thalia’s worst nightmare comes to life and she begins to show signs of power. Scared and unable to control her gifts, she tries to hide her past to fit in among the Denai. But the Septori want their latest test subject back and will stop at nothing to retrieve her, dead or alive.

Old Magic by Marianna Curley (2000)

Jarrod Thornton is mesmerizing, but Kate Warren doesn’t know why.

Jarrod is the clumsy new boy at school that Kate can’t take her eyes off, and it’s not just because he has amazing eyes, but because she senses something different about him, and when he inadvertently blows up the classroom, she knows exactly what it is. He has powers like her, except he doesn’t know it and Kate sets out to show him. On their journey of discovery Kate learns Jarrod has an ancient curse on his family that will keep hurting his little brother and parents if they don’t do something to remove it.

Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist (1988)

Successful screenwriter Phil Hastings decides to move his family from sunny California to a ramshackle farmhouse in New York State. The idea is to take some time out, relax and pick up the threads of his career as a novelist. Good plan, bad choice. The place they choose is surrounded by ancient woodland. The house they choose is the centrepoint of a centuries-old evil intent on making its presence felt to intruders.

[singeratlarge]

Chris Andrews SONG OF THE WEEK: “Only a Fool” https://timchrisandrews.bandcamp.com/track/only-a-fool —Chris put a feisty vocal on this punchy song with a word-playing romantic message. “I say this is perfect pop music song-crafting,” says singer-songwriter and recording artist Johnny J. Blair. On a cosmic jukebox it would play next to Cliff Richard, Leo Sayer, and Steve Winwood. If this is your introduction to Chris Andrews, he’s a British singer-songwriter and recording artist whose songs have been covered by Roger Daltrey, David Essex, and Davy Jones (Monkees). Under the name Tim Andrews he was a champion of late 60s psychedelic pop and (later), as Kris Ryder, he released New Wave synthpop sides in the 80s. Chris was also part of the seminal freakbeat band Fleur de Lys. This is a sample of Chris’s current material…

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[imopeningup]

i'm wishing on a star....to one day be apart of a leslie feist cover band that only plays songs from let it die :,,,)

[beardedmrbean]

I sent this one to you before, but i dreamed about this song last night. Don't remember the context but i recall watching the actual band sing it rather than it just playing as a soundtrack.

https://youtu.be/u3NE6UuaLiY

And this one i dreamed about 4 days ago, i think in my dream i was taking a walk and this played like a soundtrack. It stuck in my head in waking until i listened to it and i don't know how i managed to remember what song it was since it was one of the French ones and there's only a few of those i know by heart. But damn it's catchy.

https://youtu.be/fWbDZUBuCbo

Not a brag or anything, but I'd managed to have all of their albums and grooved to them for a few years before "one week" dropped, had never heard of them no clue what their sound was but I saw the song title "Be My Yoko Ono" and I knew I had to buy the album,

Glad Steven Page got his act together, hope you got a laugh out of the video I sent over that this triggered a memory of.

And #2

Gwyneth Paltrow's kid is making some strange music............

Nice of her to use the French version of her name for songs she's doing in French though.

This girl would get on well with Feist and Kate Bush if they need a guy to round out the sound Peter Gabriel may be available.

it's nice and relaxing, very artsy.