#Linzy

[dazzlingkai]

FIESTAR — You're pitiful (2024)

[kohappink]

[idolsgeneration]

[maybe-specs]

Frothing at the mouth

[thedaveandkimmershow]

The moment was at the door to her room. At least that's how I remember it. We're standing in the hall, she's just inside her room playing us a song.

She's got her acoustic guitar in hand and she's playing us a song on that guitar, she's singing us a song over that guitar, she's performing a song for us that she wrote.

That she wrote.

If such things were possible, this would be like discovering someone you've known their whole life has a superpower, a straight-up superpower. Like they can fly or lift cars or become invisible.

Or they can write songs. 

They can craft lyrics and melody over guitar or piano into something that moves you. That absolutely moves you.

We were gobsmacked. Not proud. Not joyful. Not impressed.

More like looking at your spouse and going

Did you know she could do this???

Seriously. We did not.

She is a musician, of course. An accomplished vocalist. A lyricist. A talent who can craft songs to order. A live performer who can handle a full plate and then some of technical logistical complexity on the fly in real-time and still manage to vibe perfectly with bandmates. An arranger orchestrator. A producer with vision and game. A creative technician with full command of digital sound mixing who can fill a club with beats, a radio with pop, a stage with soundscape. A person who wields her craft with astonishing technical and emotional precision.

She's a writer. A Creative with a capital C. And Dream Patrol is the canvas on which she creates with impressionistic style, deep subterranean emotion, bright hues of vitality and life, unexpected moments that are intensely small and ones that jump out at you with full-throated abandon.

Dream Patrol is an adventure, if you will, as much as it's performance. With roots in the practice of raw imagination we used to indulge before bedtime when she was a child, Dream Patrol is now a public exercise of raw imagination from center stage with a production crew in the wings.

So yeah.

Absolutely Linzy continues to surprise us. The missus 'n I are still befuddled by where all this came from back in early 2011 when Linzy was thirteen playing us her first song at the door of her bedroom and Dream Patrol was somehow a dream somewhere in the mists of her future. A future that unveils itself in a few days.

We're excited, of course. We can't wait to see what she's conjuring into the midst of the local music scene. And we're still looking at each other going

Did you know she could do this???

We did not.

But we're getting our first peek this Thursday at the High Dive. There's some room left so now's a good time to pull the trigger on tickets.

See you there. 

☺️

[bkandtheunderstanding]

This is the second DIY music video that BK made, starring his friend and real artist, Helena Linzy as Elle Artista. BK and Elle co-wrote the storyboard, and then BK filmed, with some help on shots of Tim and he playing, the entire thing on a Canon Rebel T6 camera, which does not have an autofocus option for filming like newer Canon model cameras tend to have. "I Don’t Wanna Die!" appears on the second of three DIY albums, Basal Keystones. This music video was filmed primarily in three cities: Watauga, Stephenville, and Fort Worth, Texas.

[carrieisscary]

Viral 2016

[modelsof-color]

Li Linzi by Huang Jin Feng for Elle China Magazine February 2023

[nicecurves]

[sadokyuban]

sketchbook stuff

[idolsgeneration]

[upright70s]

[thedaveandkimmershow]

It was our own Collison-Ris "That Thing You Do" moment.

We'd only got back from California late, late Saturday night nearly Sunday super early morning. We'd chosen to catch up with work needing to be done around the house after a lazy, lazy morning and, as we worked our way to evening, Kimmer decided to set up a badminton court in our backyard. Unfortunately we didn't have birdies, so we used a small whiffle ball that wound up in the neighbor's yard.

Twice.

So then we tried a sort of beanie baseball that also wound up in the neighbor's yard.

The trick to getting these objects back into our yard, by the way, is a long metal pole to guide our wayward, alternative birdies near the fence... and then a fishing net to scoop them up.

Our badminton efforts ended when one of our racket handles separated... so we switched to tossing a frisbee back 'n forth over the badminton net until the frisbee wound up in the neighbor's yard.

Nope.

Actually the frisbee didn't quite make it into the neighbor's yard. It landed squarely on the roof of our converted shack.

BAM.

Now, about five minutes before that, my phone receives this text:

TURN ON 1077 NIK AND LUKE ARE TALKING ABOUT MIDNIGHT HIGH

Of course we're well into our frisbee tossing, just then, so Linzy does not get an immediate reply. A few minutes later, then, she dials me up.

7:10PM.

Now she's in my ear excitedly telling me to turn on the radio to 107.7 The End. Of course we don't have a radio so we fire up the KNDD-FM website where Nik & Luke from the band Midnight High are being interviewed that very moment. Midnight High... the band for whom Linzy handles keys and harmonies at their live shows: the Sunset Tavern in April, the Bite of Seattle a little over a week ago, and the upcoming album release show on August 19 at the Tractor Tavern.

Linzy's excitedly telling me to turn on the radio because Nik & Luke are not only being interviewed; are not only showing off cuts from their upcoming album; they're also sharing some of their favorite music.

Their favorite music?

Yup. Music from the bands with whom they're performing in August and music by any member of Midnight High with their own project. Which means...

Linzy's project.

Dream Patrol.

So now we're all glued to 107.7 as the interview continues with Nik & Luke, interspersed with their favorite music.

Around 740, the host of the show mentions how Luke's handed over a list of more bands but that there might not be enough time to get them on the radio. So then we're all thinking Dream Patrol won't be played after all.

BOOOOOOOOO.

It's still cool to hear Midnight High on the air, though. At least that good thing happened. ❤️❤️❤️

So we're going through these few minutes of good wishes for Midnight High... while feeling bummed for Linzy and Dream Patrol when, out of the blue, Linzy texts us that Nik just told her she's pressed the interviewer to fit Dream Patrol into the show.

Dang.

Now we're super glued to the radio. Waiting...

Waiting...

They're in break right now and we're nearing the end of the hour so I'm thinking Dream Patrol's getting played coming out of the break.

But no. Midnight High gets it's fourth cut from the album before the final station promo. Which is when I hit record on my phone.

We're all on pins and needles at this point 'cause this has got to be it.

Because it's about.

To go.

Down.

You can hear what happened next on the YouTube clip above. What happened in our home and at Linzy's apartment, though, was something like this...

Well, maybe not exactly like that... but you get the idea. It's the moment, the exact moment a composer, a musician, realizes they're getting airplay for the first time. They all kind of lose it like school children, regardless of music genre, because it's on the radio. Because it's theirs. Because it's real.

And it's happening to them.

It's an amazing feeling, that moment. And we only felt it as life-long fans from the sidelines.

About forty-five minutes later, Linzy puts a reaction video up on her dreampatrol TikTok account.

Yeah.

She went nuts.

Plus, a good friend who lives in her building, another musician, came up afterward to kick her energy to the next level and celebrate what just happened.

What...

Just happened.

Because Linzy's music just got played on the radio for the first time.

😁😁😁

[broadway-unhinged]

carrie: the musical - 1988

[seasonalberries]

One more time for old times sake