#Melissa Kahn

[glitteraddams]

Spencer Hastings x Black!Fem Reader

୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆ Equestrian Camp ˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆

Horse riding was never on your radar, but with summer stretching out ahead, you weren’t about to waste it. You were hanging out in Emily’s room, snacking on the chocolate chip cookies Pam had baked, when you sighed, “I have no idea what I’m going to do this summer.” Emily and Maya exchanged a look before Emily spoke up. “How about this camp my friend Spencer is going to?”

You were less than thrilled. You had a history with the Hastings—Spencer’s unwavering stare and Melissa’s snickering had left a bad taste in your mouth. You had assumed Spencer was either racist or had some personal issue with you. Whenever you confronted her, she’d either look away or blush, further fueling your assumptions. Maya nudged your elbow, urging you to go. “It might be fun,” she said with a hopeful grin.

So, you agreed, deciding to give it a shot.

When you walked into the barn, the first person you saw was Melissa Hastings. You fought the urge to roll your eyes as she looked up, surprised to see you. “Oh, Spencer is going to love this,” she said with a smirk. You raised an eyebrow but kept your mouth shut. You were planning to stay at the camp for a few months, and you didn’t want to start any drama right away.

Then, the cutest horse trotted over to you, its curious eyes fixed on you. Spencer dashed after it, calling out, “Pistachio!”

You couldn’t help but laugh. “The horse’s name is Pistachio?”

Spencer nodded, catching her breath. “Yep, and he’s supposed to be your horse.”

Later, you caught up with your friend Imani, and things were going well until Spencer walked in to grab her textbooks. Despite the semester not starting yet, she was engrossed in her reading material. As she left, she gave Imani a frosty look, which didn’t go unnoticed by you. You called her out on it, but Spencer just smacked her lips and mumbled something dismissive. It was clear she didn’t care about you at the moment.

Over the next few days, Spencer started ignoring you. Feeling guilty about the confrontation, you decided to make amends. You knew Spencer loved coffee, so you began leaving a cup by her desk every morning. But despite your efforts, the cup remained untouched.

One night, with most of the girls at Noel Kahn’s party, it was just you and Spencer in the cabin. Imani was supposed to stay and keep you company, but she suggested you take advantage of the situation to talk to Spencer. You knew it would be tough for Spencer to forgive you, but you had to try.

You waited until the right moment. After a shower, you returned to the room wrapped in a towel. As you moved about, the towel slipped from your grasp and fell to the floor. You noticed Spencer’s gaze follow the movement, her eyes lingering on you.

You let her take in the view for a moment before calling her name. “Spencer?”

“Huh?” she replied, her voice a mix of surprise and curiosity.

You quickly put on your shirt and walked over to her. She stared at you, her expression a mix of confusion and intrigue. You climbed onto the bed, positioning yourself above her, feeling the tension crackle in the air. Her delicate fingers brushed over your thighs, a soft touch that made your heart race. You leaned in close, your lips almost brushing her ear as you whispered, “Am I forgiven?”

In that moment, her eyes softened, and you could sense that the barriers between you were starting to come down.

[laylakeating]

hiii! my dash is literally dead all the time and i'm looking to follow more active gifmakers. do you have any blogs you can recommend??

hellooo melissa !!! honestly my dash is little dead too but that might be bc i am usually active when most people are asleep lmaooooooo HOWEVER i am always happy to rec wonderful amazing gifmakers !!

@bakerolivia @james-beaufort @milesgmorales @layla-keating @cherylblossom

@emziess @jakeperalta @kayascodelorio @madeline-kahn @radicaloptimisms

@nataliescatorccio @oliviairodrigo @oliviabaker @useragarfield @narliee

@claudiajessies @clary-jace @mikewheeler @deadpoets @henwilsons

@clubglee @kahhorri @frodo-baggins @leotanaka @miwtual

[celiawrites14]

OC Names

Criminal Minds

Spencer Reid's love interest - Alyssa Jackson (oc, no relation to anybody on the show)

Aaron Hotchner's love interest - Olivia Rossi (Dave's daughter)

Luke Alvez's love interest - Sarah Reid (Spencer's twin sister)

Bridgerton

Colin Bridgerton's love interest - Audrey Lilyington (cousins to Kate's family)

Anthony Bridgerton's love interest - Polly Fetherington (Penelope's older sister)

Benedict Bridgerton's love interest - Caroline Abernathy (Lucy's older sister)

Grey's Anatomy/Station 19

Andrew DeLuca's love interest - Lindsey Webber (Richard's daughter)

Mark Sloan's love interest - Grace Shepherd (Derek and Amelia's sister)

Alex Karev's love interest - Haley O'Malley (George's sister)

Jack Gibson's love interest - Ashley Sloan (Mark's Sister)

MCU

Peter Parker - Taylor Rogers (Steve's sister)

Bucky Barnes' love interest - Lauren Stark (Tony's sister)

Steve Rogers' love interest - Rebecca Barnes (Bucky's sister)

Thor - Alex Maximoff (Pietro and Wanda's sister)

One Tree Hill

Lucas Scott's love interest - Madison James (Hailey's sister)

Nathan Scott's love interest - Anna Sawyer (Payton's sister)

Q's love interest - Natalie Scott (Nathan's full sister, Lucas' half sister)

Outer Banks

JJ Maybank's love interest - Lily Routledge (John B's sister)

John B. Routledge's love interest - Melissa Jane Maybank (MJ) (JJ's sister)

Rafe Cameron's love interest - Cassie Roberts (progue!reader)

Supernatural

Dean Winchester's love interest - Samantha Singer (Bobby's daughter)

Sam Winchester's love interest - Stephanie Bradbury (Charlie's sistere)

John Winchester's love interest - Meghan Harvell (Wililam Harvell's sister, Jo's aunt)

Shameless

Lip Gallagher's love interest - Alison Milkovich (Mickey and Mandy's sister)

Pretty Little Liars

Jason DiLaurentis' love interest - Andy Rivers (Caleb's sister)

Mike Montgomery's love interest - Emma Hastings (Spencer's sister)

Noel Kahn's love interest - Kate DiLaurentis (Alison and Jason's sister)

Caleb Rivers' love interest - Brooke Montgomery (Aria and Mike's sister)

[mastcrmiind]

starter call for all my muses post event / hiatus. capping each muse at 2-3 each !! i will try get them out over the next week or two !!

atticus lincoln | aware bash de poitiers | unaware for now bonnie bennett | aware cleo sertori | aware donna sheridan | unaware edmund bridgerton | aware enola holmes | unaware georgiana darcy | aware ginny miller | unaware helen parr | aware henrietta beckford | aware izzie stevens | unaware jo laughlin | aware kevin pearson | aware laurent da revin | aware lexie grey | aware lola fleming narcisse | aware lydia | aware lydia bennet | aware melissa glaser | unaware noel kahn | aware penelope park | aware rebekah mikaelson | aware rhiannon highgrove | unaware riley biers | aware simon basset | aware victoria hughes | aware

[lgbtqreads]

hi! i’m looking for some nonbinary/trans books. preferably middle grade, maybe younger YA. queer joy is a bonus!

You got it! There are all MG, with asterisks signifying books coming later in the year:

Trans Boys:

Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar

The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean

Dear Mothman by Robin Gow

The Other Boy by M.G. Hennessey

Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff

Trans Girls:

Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker

Joy, to the World by Lisa Bunker and Kai Shappley

Melissa by Alex Gino

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith (Graphic Novel)

The Ojja-Wojja by Magdalene Visaggio (text) and Jenn St-Onge (illustration) (Graphic Novel)

Nonbinary MCs:

*Deephaven by Ethan M. Aldridge

Moonflower by Kacen Callender

Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino

*Green by Alex Gino

*The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan

Skating on Mars by Caroline Huntoon

*Elle Campbell Saves Their Saturday by Ben Kahn

Both Can Be True by Jules Machias (Genderfluid)

The One Who Loves You Most by medina – A

Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth LaPensée and K.C. Oster (Graphic Novel)

Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee

Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith

The Beautiful Something Else by Ash Van Otterloo

Spin With Me by Ami Polonsky

Jude Saves the World by Ronnie Riley

Ana on the Edge by A.J. Sass

Ellen Outside the Lines by AJ Sass

Camp QUILTBAG by Nicole Melleby and AJ Sass

The Fabulous Zeb Watson! by Kevin Sylvester and Basil Sylvester

The Best Liars in Riverview by Lin Thompson

The House that Whispers by Lin Thompson (Amz)

*The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans

There is also very significant nonbinary representation in Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff, Twelfth by Janet Key, and A Touch of Ruckus by Ash Van Otterloo.

In younger YA, there's not a ton, but I'd definitely give a shout to the genderqueer paranormal Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve, and I think the trans girl graphic novel romance Cheer Up! could work too!

(If you want all these links on one page, and/or to track ones coming up even further in the future, here's the MG page: https://lgbtqreads.com/middle-grade/)

[allamericansbitch]

Hi everyone! Here’s the newest addition to my Creator Shoutout Series (january 8 - january 15)! For info about the series, I explained it in the first post here, but generally, it’s to show appreciate to editors and their creations that i love from the past week. To track this series or look at previous shoutouts, please check out the tag on my blog *creatorshoutouts. Have a great week everyone!

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[cressida-jayoungr]

Coeli's Picks: Black, part 1

One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

The Millionairess (1960) / Sophia Loren as Epifania Paregara

"I'm not familiar with The Millionairess, but this dress on Sophia Loren is great."

Clue (1985) / Madeleine Kahn as Mrs. White

"This is a fun one because it goes from a demure little widow-appropriate outfit (with jacket and veiled hat) [left] to an all-out evening look [right]."

Blazing Saddles (1974) / Madeleine Kahn as Lili von Shtupp

"I'd also suggest Kahn as Lili von Shtupp in Blazing Saddles for her costume in the "I'm Tired" number, but that's much more lingerie than dress..."

The Devil Wears Prada (2006) / various

"There are several chic black dresses in The Devil Wears Prada, unsurprisingly."

Beetlejuice (1988) / Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz

The Addams Family (1991) / Anjelica Houston as Morticia Addams

Spy (2015) / Melissa McCarthy as Susan Cooper

"If you haven't seen this movie, you must. It's wonderful."

Atomic Blonde (2017) / Charlize Theron as Lorraine Broughton

"She's in this outfit for a decent chunk of the movie, IIRC, but sometimes with the coat closed and a gray scarf. She wears the same coat (I think) and boots and perhaps top with actual pants for the infamously brutal staircase fight. "

[bloodhive]

abbott elementary episode where no one knows barbara and melissa are married until they get a divorce. they walk into the teacher's lounge and melissa's like, "i'm so glad my divorce finally went through," and barbara's like, "me too hallelujah praise the lord," and jacob's like, "wait did you guys have, like, a double divorce. like a double wedding but with div—" (he's cut off by melissa hitting him with a glare that would make genghis kahn piss himself)

[sixtyfivehundredinvisiblebirds]

what I read in 2022

2022 We Ride Upon Sticks- Quan Barry How to Not Be Afraid of Everything- Jane Wong Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories- Hilma Wolitzer The Rabbit Hutch- Tess Gunty The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams- Jonathan Ned Katz AND Lesbian Love- Eve Adams (in same volume) Thistlefoot- GennaRose Nethercott Bluest Nude- Ama Codjoe The Master Letters- Lucy Brock-Broido (reread) Family Lexicon- Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Jenny McPhee) The Whole Story- Ali Smith The Rupture Tense- Jenny Xie Bad Rabbi: And other strange but true stories from the Yiddish press- Eddie Portnoy A Tale for the Time Being- Ruth Ozeki Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands- Kate Beaton Wandering Stars- Sholem Aleichem (tr. Aliza Shevrin)   Moldy Strawberries- Caio Fernando Abreu (tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato) Sarahland- Sam Cohen Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency- Chen Chen Elephant- Soren Stockman Craft in the Real World- Matthew Salesses Life of the Garment- Deborah Gorlin Olio- Tyehimba Jess In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen- Devin Kelly The Wild Fox of Yemen- Threa Almontaser Song- Brigit Pegeen Kelly Qorbanot- Alisha Kaplan w/ art by Tobi Kahn Gold that Frames the Mirror- Brandon Melendez Foreign Bodies- Kimiko Hahn A Little Devil in America- Hanif Abdurraqib Muscle Memory- Kyle Carrero Lopez not without small joys- Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah Too Bright To See & Alma- Linda Gregg Borne- Jeff VanderMeer Harvard Square- André Aciman What We Talk About When We Talk About Fat- Aubrey Gordon The City We Became- N.K. Jemison Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints- Joan Acocella Vladimir-Julia May Jonas Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch- Rivka Galchen Lessons in Being Tender-Headed- Janae Johnson Against Heaven- Kemi Alabi How The Word Is Passed- Clint Smith Earth Room- Rachel Mannheimer True Biz- Sara Nović Motherhood- Sheila Heti The Fire Next Time- James Baldwin Diary of a lonely girl or the battle against free love- Miriam Karpilove tr. Jessica Kirzane Mezzanine- Matthew Olzmann Customs- Solmaz Sharif Edge of House- Dzvinia Orlowsky Only as the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems- Dorianne Laux DMZ Colony- Don Mee Choi Stay Safe- Emma Hine Spring Tides- Jacques Poulin, trn. Shira Fleishman (reread) No One Is Talking About This- Patricia Lockwood Unaccompanied- Javier Zamora Where I Was From- Joan Didion Air Raid- Polina Barskova tr. Valtzina Mort Dispatch- Cam Awkward-Rich Bury It- sam sax A Cruelty Special to Our Species- Emily Jungmin Yoon Homie- Danez Smith Dreaming of You- Melissa Lozada-Oliva

[lateralcast]

Lateral Highlight:

The 90-day break-up

Sabrina Cruz, Melissa Fernandes and Taha Kahn from 'Answer in Progress' discussion a question about a long-term, long-distance uncoupling.

[marleyrose]

I posted 8,305 times in 2022

21 posts created (0%)

8,284 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 7,515 of my posts in 2022

Only 10% of my posts had no tags

#taylor swift - 983 posts

#movie - 866 posts

#stranger things - 456 posts

#harry styles - 445 posts

#glee - 374 posts

#euphoria - 344 posts

#words - 186 posts

#disney - 172 posts

#heartstopper - 160 posts

#gilmore girls - 145 posts

Longest Tag: 99 characters

#why are all of fabiola's love interests random side characters that i couldn't give a shit about!!!

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I’M REALLY PISSED OFF THAT WE NEVER GOT EVERMORE LONG POND STUDIO SESSIONS.......................I DESERVE TO HEAR TIS THE DAMN SEASON LIVE, HELLO??

1 note - Posted April 18, 2022

#4

idk if anyone looks at tumblr themes anymore but i changed mine and i like ittttttt

1 note - Posted November 13, 2022

#3

controversial gilmore girls tier list perhaps

1 note - Posted November 13, 2022

#2

i used to be like “ugh fuck daylight savings” but now i’m just excited that it won’t be pitch black when i take my dog out for her last walk of the day around this neighborhood that i’m still not used to. 

2 notes - Posted March 12, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

melissa benoist on the set of hbo’s girls on the bus 1x01

15 notes - Posted October 4, 2022

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[jaggedwolf]

pll rewatch 2x22

The episode with all the dads (Tom doesn’t count) and Rosewood’s yearly father-daughter dances that we’ll never hear about again. Are the mothers and sons glad to escape this nonsense, I wonder.

Hanna and Emily discuss Maya, while turning Hanna's bedside lamp off and on. We’re still discussing this in terms of wow is this a breakup instead of huh runaway teen, dangers abound.

Melissa is terrible in this car scene with Spencer. She confesses to sending Ali angry texts because Ali flirted with Ian (that was a 14/15 year old to your 20/21, insane to be threatened by that and not concerned) and then she goes on about how Ian totally didn’t kill Ali

Regardless of what sins Ian did or did not commit on Labor Day night, he did very much assault and try to kill Spencer in the church! No commentary about that huh Melissa. 

Should we have a running Worst Older Sibling in Rosewood award. Got to give Aria this much, she’ll never win that award. 

Ella asks Aria to keep secret her meeting with Ezria and it’s so gross. 

As a friend said, Ezria is not what Aria deserves but it is very much what Byron and Ella deserve for the way they treat Aria.

When I watched this show in high school I don’t think I cared or even noticed how often Byron and Ella are unaligned and refusing to communicate but on this rewatch I am regularly deranged by their behaviour

Ashley offers to take Hanna to the father-daughter dance, which Hanna accepts. Very cute of them, but of course this cannot happen. 

Spencer desperately does not want Melissa to be A and in return she has Melissa saying hey our dad is sketchy for sure

In my notes I’ve written “Peter sucks but Nolan North”. It’s true. I have a soft spot for Peter out of all the bad dads because he is the funnest bad dad, like how Noel Kahn is funnest bad teenage dude, but also because I’m like aw, Nathan Drake is here.

Ashley & Wilden have their secret meeting....in the middle of Main street? Morons. You live in a suburb, go meet in an empty parking lot.

Mike went to therapy and became the most well-adjusted Montgomery, at least for now. This teenage boy does not deserve his family being this silly. 

Pam is doing a charity run in Texas and I remember that, oh yeah, Pam runs. Fields are probably the most athletic of the families. I don’t think we ever hear of Veronica or Melissa playing any sports.

Wayne tried to run away in high school and I have many questions. Did he have a bad boy phase? I like that Emily only learns this when it’s relevant, unlike Hanna’s familiarity with Ashley’s teenage difficulties. 

Spencer ransacks her dad’s desk for clues, finding one before Melissa shows up. 

When Spencer storms past Melissa to leave her dad’s office, the camera moves with Melissa’s turn but also downwards to include two photographs on Peter’s desk — teenage Spencer in a field hockey uniformed, the frame saying Happy Father’s Day, and a black-and-white photo of two little girls that are clearly meant to be Spencer and Melissa. Great touch.

Wayne gets an army bonus to his charisma check when he and Emily talk to the bus station worker who simply wants to eat lunch, not answer questions. The way this guy is talking implies he hasn’t been asked about Maya before, so what the hell are Rosewood PD doing?

Emily was even truthful with the cops about what Maya’s proclaimed plans were. 

Hanna tosses her phone into the sudsy sink rather than risk Ashley handing it over to Wilden. 

Hanna commits so much wastage in this kitchen, it always makes me wince, but Ashley, my friend, you could’ve grabbed that phone out as soon as Hanna stormed off, those few seconds still leave you with a chance of the phone surviving.

Emily and Wayne meet outside the father-daughter dance, Emily in a red dress and Wayne in a dress uniform. They are very sweet here, as they usually are.

Wayne is getting deployed back to Afghanistan and I get  distracted wondering about US military deployment schedules in 2011. Okay, Wayne was last on an eight-month deployment, returning in late September 2010. We’re in March 2011 now. He’s been stateside for at most six months. 

This doesn’t appear as strange as I initially thought — in early 2011, the US is involved in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The deployment-to-dwell time ratios were not great.

...I hope Wayne Fields is doing okay with all this...unfortunately I suspect all members of the Fields family have similar coping strategies...

Hanna shows up to the dance to tell the girls Ashley is digging too much into A shit, Mona comes up with a questionable plan, and Hanna lingers after in a sea of fathers and daughters to give us another great shot. 

We have the usual themes for Byron and Aria. Byron is gross about Aria being his little girl forever, Aria is still mad at him for not endorsing her relationship with a grown man, yada yada

But IIRC he’s under the impression that Aria is dating Holden and hasn’t talked to Ezra since she got grounded, so he must be so ??? at Aria being mad at him. 

Aria lies to Ashley and I continue to be confused about the police documents Mona showed Hanna and Ashley discovered. 

In the previous episode, the show frames it as evidence Ashley slept with Wilden to get Hanna out of shoplifting charges. Here, it is a mere police report that Aria can claim she photoshopped, a very bad lie Ashley doesn’t believe for a second.

Spencer finds a folder of photos of Ali and yells at her dad once about the $15k, to which Peter finally confesses that he hired a PI to investigate Ali’s disappearance, because he was scared someone he cared about was involved. 

Spencer probes further, Peter says the someone was Melissa, given the angry texts

Oh, and Peter learned that someone (read: A) stole his gun, so the cops are here.

Melissa runs off to Philly, not before offering her condo as a refuge to Spencer. I know you’re hard up on options here Spence, but don’t take her up on that.

Ella & Ashley discuss the girls’ fear and lies, as Ella once more expounds her belief that the best thing to do is nothing.

The liars head over to Brookhaven, finding a block where every store is closed, only for Aria to put on the red coat and get mistaken for Vivian Darkbloom. I’ll have more to say on that later, but for now, have a convincing shot of Aria in that coat.

The A tag this week is A retrieving the Rosewood Observer, which declares Maya as officially Missing.

[celiawrites14]

the one with the cast

here's the cast:

Selena Gomez as Lily Grey (the liar)

Drew Van Acker as Jason DiLaurentis (the hottie)

Patrick Dempsey as Mark Grey (the surgeon)

Ashley Benson as Hanna Marin (the best friend)

Brant Daugherty as Noel Kahn (the jock)

Troian Bellisario as Spencer Hastings (the rationalist)

Shay Mitchell as Emily Fields (the sensible)

Lucy Hale as Aria Montgomery (the wistful)

Andrew Garfield as Justin Grey (the brother)

Sasha Pieterse as Alison DiLaurentis (the immortal)

Tyler Blackburn as Caleb Rivers (the nerd)

Keegan Allen as Toby Cavanaugh (the loyalist)

Ian Harding as Ezra Fitz (the teacher)

Janel Parish as Mona Vanderwaal (the genius)

Tammin Sursok as Jenna Marshall (the blind)

Cody Christianson as Mike Montgomery

Bianca Lawson as Maya St. Germaine

Lindsey Shaw as Paige McCullers

Torrey Devitto as Melissa Hastings

Everybody else is casted as themselves!

Additionally, the age gap between the girls and Jason, Melissa, Ian, and Garrett is four years, rather than six (because - gross).

[sa7abnews]

Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’ is, at 65, a shape-shifting album that transcends time and genre

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Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’ is, at 65, a shape-shifting album that transcends time and genre

From Lana Del Rey, John Legend and Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar to the members of Radiohead and guitar legends Carlos Santana, Duane Allman and Jerry Garcia, the number of musicians who have cited Miles Davis and his landmark 1959 release, “Kind of Blue,” as prime inspirations grows larger by the year. “It’s a pioneering album that was a turning point in jazz and it’s also a great bridge to classical and world music,” said pianist and Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer Anthony Davis. “I’m not a hardcore jazz fan, but I love ‘Kind of Blue’,” said Melissa Etheridge. “Discussing Miles makes you feel like a dime-store novelist talking about Shakespeare,” Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood said in a 2001 San Diego Union-Tribune interview. “We’ve taken and stolen from him shamelessly, not just musically, but in terms of his attitude of moving things forward.” American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis (1926-1991), sits with his instrument during a studio recording session, October 1959. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images/TNS)  Such sentiments come as no surprise to trumpet dynamo and San Diego Symphony jazz curator Gilbert Castellanos, who on Aug. 17 will lead “Miles Davis: Kind of Blue — In Concert” at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. Featuring a talent-packed sextet that includes saxophonist Joel Frahm, pianist Donald Vega and drummer Willie Jones III, it will be the sequel to Castellanos’ sold-out 2018 “Kind of Blue” tribute concert at Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall. “Experiencing ‘Kind of Blue’ is like floating on a cloud in the best dream ever, except that it’s real,” said Castellanos, a veteran local trumpeter and founder of the Young Lions Jazz Conservatory. “You don’t have to be a jazz fan, or know anything about jazz, to love ‘Kind of Blue.’ Anyone can listen to it and really enjoy it. That is why Miles Davis is heavily responsible for turning a lot of people on to jazz.” A lot, indeed. Pink Floyd to Q-Tip Since its release on Aug. 15, 1959, “Kind of Blue” has become the best-selling jazz album of all time — and the most widely acclaimed — embraced equally by jazz and non-jazz artists alike. Both Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen and A Tribe Called Quest co-founder Q-Tip have called the album “the bible” for music. Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright cited “Kind of Blue” as a prime influence on the structure and tone of parts of Floyd’s classic 1973 album, “Dark Side of the Moon.” Former Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia was such a big fan that he and mandolinist David Grisman recorded three versions of “Kind of Blue’s” sublime opening number, “So What,” for their joint 1998 album — also titled “So What” — which was released three years after Garcia’s death. Featuring Davis with a peerless lineup of saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian “Cannonball” Adderly, bassist Paul Chambers, drummer Jimmy Cobb and alternating pianists Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, “Kind of Blue” is like nothing else in jazz, then or now. The album was instrumental in encouraging Coltrane to explore increasingly daring new sonic vistas for the remainder of his career. Clocking it at 46 minutes, “Kind of Blue” works equally well as the sole focus for contemplative listening, a plush aural cushion for a lunch or dinner — foreground or background — and just about anything in between. “The beauty of ‘Kind of Blue’ is that it is this incredible doorway and invitation for anyone to come in and explore this music. But even if you don’t go any further, you will still have a wonderful experience,” said jazz scholar Ashley Kahn, the author of the best-selling 2000 book, “Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece.” Kahn has also written two books about saxophone giant Coltrane, one of the key players on “Kind of Blue.” The New Jersey-based Kahn is quick to cite the album as a definitive masterpiece. “It features an unbelievable, once-in-a-lifetime aggregation of such immortal players and such distinctive songs.” he said. “Every time they touched their instruments to solo on ‘Kind of Blue,’ what resulted was timeless. The album transcended its time and its genre.” Recorded in just nine hours on March 2 and April 22, 1959, “Kind of Blue” boasts five indelible songs that, to this day, are performed by jazz ensembles around the world — “So What,” “Freddie Freeloader,” “Blue in Green,” “All Blues” and “Flamenco Sketches.” It is an album on which nuance, beauty and impeccably calibrated group improvisations trump the high-octane virtuosity and velocity that came to the fore with the bebop revolution that dominated jazz from the early 1940s to at least the mid-1950s. Gorgeous, unhurried melodies abound on “Kind of Blue,” which does not have a single up-tempo song. Conventional chord sequences and harmonies are put aside in favor of a modal approach that — much like the ragas that are foundational in the classical music of India — focus on scales, or modes, specifically the eight notes that go from one octave to the next. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis teaches a course at UC San Diego that focuses on the five most pivotal jazz albums released in 1959, including Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue.” (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)  ‘Incredibly lyrical’ Davis was introduced to the concept by noted composer and musical theorist George Russell, who spent much of the 1950s quietly exploring the possibilities of a modal jazz approach. It was a game-changing innovation that other artists had delved into. But they had done so only briefly and tentatively, let alone on an epic, game-changing album like “Kind of Blue.” “When you go this way, you can go on forever,” Davis told music critic Nat Hentoff in 1958. “You don’t have to worry about (chord) changes, and you can do more with time (signatures). It becomes a challenge to see how melodically inventive you are. … I think a movement in jazz is beginning, away from the conventional string of chords and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variations. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.” Those infinite possibilities provided a launching pad for “Kind of Blue.” But rather than meander here, there and everywhere, the album is a marvel of seemingly opposite musical values: precision and fluidity; focus and surprise; risk and a shared sense of purpose. Accordingly, much of “Kind of Blue” was created spontaneously as it was being recorded, with Davis providing only bare sketches and ideas of what he wanted his musicians to do. Almost all the selections on the “Kind of Blue” are first-take recordings, the better to achieve Davis’ goal of having his band members focus on the deeply felt emotions of the songs rather than over-thinking them. “It was primarily a one-take which reflects ‘the first thought is the best thought’ aesthetic that comes out of jazz but is really a classic Miles-ian thing,” said author Kahn. “There’s a perfect storm quality to the album: Miles in his prime with a great, once-in-a-lifetime band; first-rate audio engineers; a terrific record label, Columbia, that treated all musicians in all genres equally well and launched ‘Lind of Blue’ into the world. Within two to three years, it was already the best-selling album in jazz, and — a few years after that — was influencing everyone from (pioneering minimalist composer La Monte Young to the Allman Brothers and, of course, many, many jazz artists.” Had author Aldous Huxley’s 1954 book not been titled “The Doors of Perception,” it might have made a good subtitle for what remains to this day Davis’ most widely embraced and acclaimed recording. “The modal music on ‘Kind of Blue’ opened up a whole world of engagement,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer Anthony Davis. An accomplished jazz pianist, he teaches a course at UC San Diego that focuses on “Kind of Blue” and four other standout jazz albums released in 1959. He is not related to Miles Davis, who died in 1991 at the age of 65. ” ‘Kind of Blue’ not only looks beyond diatonic harmonies,” Anthony Davis said, “but also to world music and to classical music, especially the compositions of Debussy and Ravel, who were a major influence on the album. Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand provided some of the inspiration for ‘All Blues’ on ‘Kind of Blue.’ “Plus, the album is incredibly lyrical. Miles’ playing is just so pristine and the solos are so memorable. So is the contrast between the playing of Coltrane and Cannonball, and Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, whose solos I transcribed a lot when I was a student at Yale. The cyclical 10-bar structure on ‘Blue in Green’ is very innovative. And the album is incredibly lyrical and speaks in a very clear way.” That clarity and lyricism also had a profound influence on 1970’s “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,” one of the most beloved songs by The Allman Brothers Band. Its graceful, spiraling melodies, uncluttered rhythms and deeply felt solos owe a major debt to “Kind of Blue,” as guitarist Duane Allman acknowledged at the time to Rolling Stone writer Robert Palmer. “You know, that kind of playing comes from Miles and Coltrane, and particularly ‘Kind Of Blue’,” Allman said. “I’ve listened to that album so many times that for the past couple of years, I haven’t hardly listened to anything else.” For trumpeter Castellanos, hearing “Kind of Blue” for the first time as an eighth-grade student in Fresno was life-changing. “It was so inspiring and it really knocked my socks off!” he recalled. “I remember going home from school that day and trying to figure out how Miles got that muted sound, I had the same trumpet mute, but couldn’t figure out what he was doing make it sound so warm and beautiful. “The trumpeters I’d been listening to then, like Freddie Hubbard and Maynard Ferguson, were all about playing fast and loud. And then, with ‘Kind of Blue,’ I heard the exact opposite of that. Miles’ playing had the quality of a human voice whispering to you. That changed my whole approach to the trumpet, and that was the hardest thing to learn. Even at the age I am now, in my early 50s, it’s difficult to make the trumpet sound so warm and pretty.” Given how familiar many Davis fans are with literally every note on “Kind of Blue,” including all the solos, performing it here live on stage raises intriguing questions. Will Castellanos and his band mates reverently play the music, note for note, at their Aug. 17 Shell concert? (The first half will feature other selections from Davis’ expansive repertoire.) Will they take liberties to extend the album in real time, using the recorded version as a launching pad? Or will they combine both approaches in a way that is respectful of “Kind of Blue,” but not beholden to it? Or is it a sacrilege to change the music in any way? “It is absolutely not a sacrilege if we don’t play it note for note,” Castellanos replied. “Of course, we will play the melodies absolutely like they are on the album, with a frontline of two saxophones and trumpet. But what I’m really looking forward to is how these phenomenal musicians approach ‘Kind of Blue’ from their own perspectives as they improvise over the beautiful melodies. “I have four copies of the album including a rare, original first-pressing in mono. For me, ‘Kind of Blue’ could be the soundtrack to anyone’s life.” Singing Miles Davis’ praises Many musicians have happily cited Miles Davis as a major inspiration in interviews over the years with the San Diego Union-Tribune. Here are some of their comments. David Bowie: “Miles genuinely did more than anyone to create what avenues you can dare to walk in music. He made extraordinary breakthroughs.” Lenny Kravitz: “People talk about what’s new in music, and about taking it really far out. And I’m like: ‘Man, I haven’t heard anybody take it further out than Miles, and that was years ago.’ “ Keyboard legend Chick Corea: “The best lesson Miles gave all of us was his total artistic integrity. Anything he wanted to do, musically, and give to an audience, he would not water it down one inch. He wouldn’t let pressures from the world around him change anything he was doing. And he changed the world.” Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron: “In every kind of creative musical endeavor, you want to be fearless. And that’s what Miles instilled in me — the fact that you can be as fearless as you’re able to be. I’ve been directly inspired and influenced by him.” Bass great Dave Holland: “Having the chance to play with Miles was like getting a call from Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong. He was always his own person, and not afraid to take a stand when he wanted to. He would always take a new path and see where it would take him. Miles was always developing and making it new, every night.” Singer-songwriter David Gray: “Miles was a brilliant catalyst who grew music around him, and he was so sophisticated and ahead of his time. He created this space where strange but beautiful flowers bloomed. And as a band leader, he’s one of the greats of the 20th century. He expanded the world of music countless times, and now we take it all for granted.”

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In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world’s greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers… a magical guitar pick housed in a rock-and-roll museum some 300 miles away. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: JB: Jack Black KG: Kyle Gass Lee: JR Reed Dio: Ronnie James Dio Open Mic Host: Paul F. Tompkins Lil’ JB: Troy Gentile Security Guard: Ned Bellamy Security Guard: Fred Armisen Car Chase Cop / Gang Leader: Kirk Ward Truck Stop Waitress: Amy Poehler The Stranger: Tim Robbins Satan: Dave Grohl Guitar Center Guy: Ben Stiller Girl: Lara Everly Girl: Brittany Eldridge Girl: Melissa-Anne Davenport Gang Member: John Ennis Gang Member: V.J. Foster Gang Member: Jay Johnston Drunk Frat Dude: Colin Hanks Al’s Bar Waitress: Stephanie Erb Gorgeous Woman: Amy Adams Tattooed Biker: Milos Milicevic Ecstatic Woman: Molly Bryant Poopy Guy: Michael Rivkin Stand Up Comic: Gregg Turkington Exploding Head Guy: Patrick M. Walsh Fainting Woman: Bevin Kaye KG’s Mother: Evie Peck Young KG: Mason Knight Bully: Erik Walker Betty Black: Cynthia Ettinger Billy Black: Andrew Lewis Caldwell Tarot Card Reader: Laura Milligan Frat Boy #1 (uncredited): Jason Segel Bud Black (uncredited): Meat Loaf Sasquatch (uncredited): John C. Reilly Film Crew: Casting: Jeanne McCarthy Executive Producer: Georgia Kacandes Songs: Jack Black Stunts: Jack Gill Executive Producer: Ben Stiller Original Music Composer: John King Makeup Designer: Barney Burman Second Unit Director of Photography: Paul Hughen Supervising Sound Editor: Elmo Weber Stunt Double: Cole S. McKay Visual Effects Supervisor: David D. Johnson Casting: Juel Bestrop Executive Producer: Cale Boyter Stunts: Mic Rodgers Songs: Kyle Gass Writer: Liam Lynch Producer: Stuart Cornfeld Editor: David Rennie Executive Producer: Toby Emmerich Executive In Charge Of Production: Erik Holmberg Second Assistant Director: Heather Grierson Production Design: Martin Whist Sound Effects Editor: Derek Vanderhorst Director of Photography: Robert Brinkmann Executive Producer: Richard Brener Original Music Composer: Andrew Gross Second Unit Director: Rick Avery Supervising Sound Editor: David Bach First Assistant Director: Milos Milicevic Stunts: Doug Coleman Stunts: Tim Trella Stunt Driver: Angelique Midthunder Art Department Coordinator: Mike Piccirillo Stunts: Robert Chapin Set Decoration: Don Diers Costume Designer: Dayna Pink Stunts: Terry Jackson Stunt Double: John Ashker Special Effects Makeup Artist: Toni G Stunts: Tom Elliott Special Effects Makeup Artist: Justin Stafford Special Effects Makeup Artist: Mike Smithson Stunt Double: Rick Miller Stunts: Larry Rippenkroeger Stunts: Sean Graham Art Direction: Maria Baker Stunts: Ian Quinn Script Supervisor: Pamela Alch Stunts: Brian Machleit Sound Effects Editor: Clayton Weber Still Photographer: Zade Rosenthal Stunts: Frank Torres Aerial Director of Photography: David B. Nowell Hair Department Head: Linda D. Flowers Key Hair Stylist: Merribelle Anderson Makeup Artist: Ralis Kahn Hairstylist: Yeşim “Shimmy” Osman Sound Effects Editor: Marc Glassman Visual Effects: Brent M. Bowen Camera Operator: Michael FitzMaurice Sound Effects Editor: Orada Jusatayanond Costume Supervisor: Hope Slepak Stunts: Dean Bailey Stunts: Eliza Coleman Makeup Department Head: Kate Shorter Stunt Coordinator: Scotty Richards Production Supervisor: Ralph Bertelle First Assistant Camera: Thomas Vandermillen Stunt Coordinator: Brian Avery Visual Effects: John Coats Stunts: Kevin Abercrombie Special Effects Makeup Artist: Scott Stoddard Stunts: Joni Avery Stunt Driver: Ed McDermott II Special Effects Makeup Artist: Michael Marino Second Second Assistant Director: Velvet Andrews-Smith Steadicam Operator: Jon Myers Stunt Driver: Jody Hart Stunts: Roger Richman Second Second Assistant Director: Ivan Kraljević Stunts: Danny Wynands Stunts: Jeff Brockton Stunt Double: Tad Griffith Stunts: Buck McDancer Special Effects Coordinator: Andy Weder Stunt...

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the one with the introductions / cast

Selena Gomez as Lily Grey (the liar)

Drew Van Acker as Jason DiLaurentis (the hottie)

Patrick Dempsey as Mark Grey (the surgeon) 

Ashley Benson as Hanna Marin (the best friend)

Brant Daugherty as Noel Kahn (the jock)

Troian Bellisario as Spencer Hastings (the rationalist)

Shay Mitchell as Emily Fields (the sensible)

Lucy Hale as Aria Montgomery (the wistful)

Sasha Pieterse as Alison DiLaurentis (the immortal)

Tyler Blackburn as Caleb Rivers (the nerd)

Keegan Allen as Toby Cavanaugh (the loyalist)

Ian Harding as Ezra Fitz (the teacher)

Janel Parish as Mona Vanderwaal (the genius)

Tammin Sursok as Jenna Marshall (the blind)

Cody Christianson as Mike Montgomery 

Bianca Lawson as Maya St. Germaine

Lindsey Shaw as Paige McCullers 

Torrey Devitto as Melissa Hastings

Everybody else is casted as themselves!

Additionally, the age gap between the girls and Jason, Melissa, Ian, and Garrett is four years, rather than six (because - gross).