#Morris Pert

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[mychameleondays]

Talk Talk: It’s My Life

top: EMI 32 239-6, 1984 (Club Edition)

2nd: Parlophone 0190295792619, 2017

3rd: Parlophone 0190295195328, 2020 (coloured vinyl)

Originally released: February 1984

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𝐎𝐂: 𝐀𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐓𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫

— “All time ever does is pass and all I ever do is remember.”

— “May Death be proud to take us! Let us live, since we must die! Die with memories, not dreams!”

— Aika is currently raging in a snowy valley in Demons Run, not knowing that two children will save her life.

— In Planting Camellias, Aika is caught off guard by this Time Mage she has been searching for decades.

Name: Aika (???) Tolliver

Alias(es): Ains, Sarkany, The Blade(she hates this one), The Forgotten, The Widow

Age(s): 34-35(in Planting Camellias), 36-37(in Demons Run)

Gender/Pronouns: Gender Fluid, she/her, he/him

Species: Half-Human, Half-Devil

Affinity: Time Magic, Necromancy

Birthday: October 15th

Zodiac: Libra

Height: 175 cm(woman), 190 cm(man)

Blood Type: AB

Family: Alicia † (Mother), Faven † (Father), Sordello † (Father), Thorfinn † (Brother), Evan/Ivan (Son), Holly (Daughter), Holly † (Ex-Wife), Arthur (Ex-Husband), Julius (Lover), Raymond (Uncle), Lydia (Aunt), Styrmir (Future Son), Anastasia (Future Daughter)

Other Relations: Morris (Ex-Lover), More To Be Revealed

— 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐬

Demons Run (NSFW)

Demons Run (SFW)

Planting Camellias

— 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞

Pale-skinned woman with long, black, wavy hair with undertones of violet. Her eyes are lavender and has a pert nose and pink lips. She often wears black leather gloves that limit her mana, a white blouse and black, high waisted pants, both with gold buttons. Some days she wears a crimson half-cloak with a steel pauldron. From the shoulder plate, hangs an upside down cross connected by a gold thread in reference to the martyrdom of Peter the Apostle. At her waist, hangs a long sword, once wielded by her father, Sordello.

In her teens, she had a strong desire to be a man so she would be respected more. A nearly unachievable desire turned to despair and she manifested transformation magic which allowed her to turn into a male version of herself. She called herself “Ains” in this form and used male pronouns. Ains was 6 feet 3 inches and had short curly hair and wide shoulders. Aika’s strength was much more visible in the form of muscles when she was Ains.

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— 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲

She is kind and reserved with those who she respects and is close with, but cold and standoffish with most other people. She will put up masks for the sake of politeness but it’s rarely ever genuine. She lies very easily to get what she wants but she finds it difficult to lie to those she likes. In battle, she is often described as a maniac when faced against many. They say that as a battle drags on, she cannot hide the sadism on her face. Even when faced against an enemy stronger or smarter than her, she is relentless and persistent to the point of recklessness to overpower her opponent.

She is known for out of box thinking and her ability to use her vast knowledge in any given situation. Her greatest asset is her ability to spot potential. Due to this, she is often motherly to those she takes under her wing. This side of her helped her build a successful company/guild that she still runs to this day.

Her love is as deep as her hatred. No matter how many times love has hurt her, she never stopped even if it’s difficult to verbally express it. As of right now in Demons Run, Aika loves her two children Evan and Holly, and her lover, Julius.

— 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

Aika was found by her two Fathers, Faven and Sordello in the giant demon skull in Hage, between the legs of her dead mother. She was born slightly premature from a coffin birth. They buried the woman and took her pocket watch as a keepsake for Aika to have. They named her “Aika” which means “time” because of the watch, and as a reminder that the passage of time has both ends and beginnings. They took her home to Alicia, their lover and Aika’s mom to be, and adopted her despite Alicia’s hesitation. She conducted a blood adoption ritual that made Aika their own daughter, changing her appearance from a brunette with pink eyes to dark hair with lavender eyes, her appearance taking after each of her three parents.

They raised her preciously like their own for three years and Alicia gave birth to Aika’s brother, Thorfinn. He had dark hair like her and bright blue eyes. Aika loved her brother to death. While she was barely showing signs of magic, Finn was spewing lightning magic since the day he was born, hence the reason why he was named after the god of thunder. When Finn was three and Aika was six, they were playing in the backyard and Finn accidentally struck Aika’s back with lightning. She died but was resuscitated again by a smaller zap of electricity. She has a scar on her back till this day and the only scar she hasn’t healed despite her ability to do so, as a reminder of her brother.

Throughout Aika’s childhood, everyone were confused as to what her magic was. When she was in a bad mood, plants and little animals around her died, and in a good mood, they flourished. Aika was terrified of her own magic sometimes when it killed fauna so she learned to withdraw her magic so much due an irrational fear to the point where she was slightly sick all the time because of the lack of mana coursing through her.

Instead of using magic, she focused on using her own strength and talents. Her father Sordello was a blacksmith and a swordsman. He taught her everything he knew. Her other father Faven, was an artist: a painter, musician and a writer. Her mother Alicia was the smart one. In Aika’s eyes, she seemed to know about everything. Aika wanted to be all of them and she was. They taught their children all that they needed in life and more.

Around the time when Aika was fifteen and didn’t have a grimoire yet, the whole Tolliver family was traveling through the neutral zone when a pack of bandits attacked them. Her fathers and her brother fought them but they were trapped. Alicia forced Aika to run away while they all withered away to dust by an Ash Magic User.

Aika despaired and manifested her grimoire and something else as she blacked out. When she woke up, everyone were seemingly gone. Aika assumed she somehow killed them. She gathered her family’s ashes and marched to Spade Kingdom. She couldn’t believe how life can be taken so easily, she was still in shock, so she went to the Spade Kingdom War College and proved her worth so she could study Necromancy and bring her family back.

She learned quickly that she couldn’t but she was too far into forbidden magic to stop so she didn’t. She paid her way through college by fighting in underground fighting rings using her freakish strength and studied medicine and forbidden magic. She also dated Morris, a blind boy from the Diamond Kingdom. In her final year of college, she begins to show interest in divinity so as her final project, she conducts a ritual called “Imago Dei.” Directly translated, it means “The Image of God.” In the ritual, Morris and Aika bear the Image of God. They find that God doesn’t appear in one vision, rather it’s a concept, a feeling, a reflection of oneself and everyone all at once.

They of course go insane after everything was said and done but they do recover mentally. Physically, Aika stayed blind for a year. During this time, she found out that Morris was just using her and leaves him. She went to the Heart Kingdom to study Mana Zone under the High Priestess of Undine because of her blindness. She later comes to discover that she has a weak form of clairvoyance as a residue from the ritual she performed.

After Aika recovers her sight, she leaves the Four Suits Continent Aika left the Spade kingdom after she graduated from Spade Nation War College at 21 years old and worked as a necromancer at a funeral home in a country past the Spade Kingdom! She used to help the dead move on peacefully, exorcise any poltergeists, conduct autopsies, keep company for any ghosts at the adjacent cemetery and comfort the living. It’s a job that comes with a lot of responsibilities and she certainly didn’t get paid enough for it.

She then moved on to another country to work as an independent mercenary then worked as a mercenary knight for the royal family of that country. Aika then met and fell in love with the crown princess but their love was forbidden because of the difference in status and obviously, for being homos. But they eloped because it wasn’t forbidden by law and they had a happy few months before the kingdom fell and she couldn’t protect the princess. She died. The princess’s name was Holly.

After the death of the princess, at 24 years old, Aika began to lust for power. She spent 3 years in peace, forgetting what suffering and helplessness was truly like. She couldn’t save her family because she couldn’t figure out what her magic was. And she couldn’t save the love of her life because she was complacent. Even if she was strong, someone will be stronger than her. So she raced for the peak, to be the strongest of the strong. And she also wanted to find someone who had Time Magic just like her.

She found Evan after the fall of the kingdom. Aika wasn’t sure of his species, but he had devil horns and showed signs of being experimented on so she used her own blood to stabilize his condition and took him under her wing as her adopted son. Evan Tolliver wasn’t only a protégé, but also the witness and the biographer of Aika’s life. He saw both her brutality and compassion. Her losses and victories. Life and Death. The Beginning and End of Worlds. He is definitely the person who knows and understands her the most and is content to stay in her shadow.

Because of Aika’s use and overuse of forbidden magic, she has curse where her mere presence causes people’s emotions to turn very negative, almost like insanity. Another curse of hers is that she cannot sleep. She has given up part of her humanity for better control and power of forbidden magic so while she can sleep, she will be stuck in a nightmare world for 8 hours so she simply doesn’t sleep. The only people that can be around her for long periods of time are other dark magic users, 100% non-humans and people who have affinity with her magic.

It’s implied so far in Demons Run but for the next 10 or so years of her life, she fought war after war for whomever that will take her. Revolutions and invasions. Reconnaissance and strategy. Amidst all the wars, she also grew a greater understanding of magic. She wrote a few books on her observations and discoveries.

Because people coveted Aika’s Time Magic, she made a deal with a Faerie named Arthur. In exchange for her first born, Aika’s magic would be erased from the world’s memory. Aika soon gave birth to Holly, a child between herself and Arthur while they were briefly married for contractural purposes, and the deal was sealed. Aika gets to see Holly few times a week but mostly on weekends.

Aika was infamous for her terrifying recklessness. She would continue fighting even after she had been brutalized. She fought with both her arms chopped off. She even fought after being decapitated. The enemy was too shocked at her for moving even after her head flew off so they were killed instantly at her hand. The reason why she is alive after all these fatal incidents is because her stats raise by 500% when she is near death. The perfect buff for a necromantic warrior.

While out there, she made a guild out of all the people who followed her. It was a company that dipped its toes in every industry and when she was settling into business rather than war, Aika slowly started coming back to Clover Kingdom.

There she met the Wizard King and he often commissioned her to help and advise him. Year or two later, they found that the Wizard King’s younger brother was Faven, Aika’s father. There, she had also came to find out that Julius’s magic was Time Magic. They were keeping it under wraps for tactical advantage but the Wizard King revealed it to her. From there, Julius and Aika’s story in Demons Run begins.

[xpoken]

Le rappeur s'est marié en 1995 alors qu'il purgeait sa peine en prison

Avec l'actrice Keisha Morris, le jeune homme s'est rencontré quelques mois avant la prison.  Mais le couple s'est séparé la même année, ayant réussi à maintenir des relations amicales.

La vie personnelle de Tupac Shakur est composée de nombreux romans.  Énumérer la plupart d'entre eux n'a pas de sens en raison de leur frivolité et de leur caractère éphémère.  La rumeur dit que même Madonna était dans une relation amoureuse avec le rappeur.

L'étoile du rappeur s'est évanouie en septembre 1996.  L'artiste et chanteur est mort à Las Vegas, où il est arrivé dans une BMW noire en compagnie du patron du label Suge Knight.  Tupac Shakur est arrivé à Las Vegas pour soutenir Mike Tyson, qui s'est disputé avec Bruce Seldon.

Tyson a gagné.  De bonne humeur, le rappeur et Knight se sont rendus dans l'une des boîtes de nuit.  Mais sur le chemin, la voiture a été abattue.  Knight a été blessé par des éclats d'obus et Tupac a été touché par 5 balles.

À l'hôpital après l'opération, l'artiste a repris ses esprits et a même essayé de se lever plusieurs fois, mais le corps de Tupac n'a pas pu supporter la grande perte de sang.  Le chanteur est tombé dans le coma, il a été branché à un respirateur.  La mort de Shakur est survenue le 13 septembre.  Le chanteur est mort sans avoir repris connaissance.  Le corps du musicien a été incinéré.  Les clients et auteurs présumés du meurtre étaient des représentants du groupe East Coast.

En mémoire de son fils, Afeni a créé un fonds pour soutenir les jeunes artistes talentueux.  En 2012, une action sans précédent a eu lieu au festival Coachella : un hologramme recréé à partir de la photo de Shakur a été joué avec les artistes Snoop Dogg et Dr.  Dre frappe Hail Mary et 2 Americaz Most Wanted.

[brusiocostante]

Peter Gabriel - Lay Your Hands On Me

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Renee by Talk Talk from the album It’s my Life.

[mitjalovse]

Morris Pert moved within different soundscapes, but I think he felt closest to progressive rock. That's probably the reason you can locate him on many solo records by the members of such bands, including Anthony Phillips. The latter was a part of early Genesis, yet then he abandoned them, though he carried on with his own development of their sort of rock on his consequent efforts. However, one of them, 1984, remains an outlier in his discography, because the LP contains him and his collaborators trying to work with the synthesizer. Unsurprisingly, the entire disc resembles something Genesis would have done during the 80's, had they decided to stay in the progressive rock genre. Actually, the platter keeps reminding me occasionally of a completely instrumental record by Rick Wakeman.

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[893thecurrent]

Albums by Minnesota artists including Nur-D, iLLism, Sarah Morris, Mae Simpson (above), Venus DeMars, MaLLy, the Bad Man, Kiss the Tiger, Desdamona, Humbird, Pert Near Sandstone, the Okee Dokee Brothers, Superior Siren, and Mary Bue are among 93 new titles added last month to Hennepin County Library’s MNspin streaming program, free to library users.

A two-night virtual festival, streaming via the Hook & Ladder Theater and Lounge, is planned for Jan. 21 and 28 to celebrate the new season of the program, which launched in 2017 as a way to help the library keep its local music offerings up to date.

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Elvis Costello And The Attractions: Punch The Clock

F-Beat ZL25464/XXLP 19/ZL 70026

Released: August 5, 1983

[nedison]

So Glad To See You Here - Wings feat. the Rockestra (1979)

You know I couldn’t resist a Macca track to herald my return to the Tumblrstage. Here with the ROCKESTRA backing Wings. 

Featuring all your NEDiSON faves:

Paul McCartney - vocals, bass, piano

Linda McCartney - keyboards, backing vocals

Denny Laine - electric guitar

Laurence Juber - electric guitar

Steve Holley - drums

David Gilmour - electric guitar

Pete Townshend - electric guitar

Hank Marvin - electric guitar

Tony Ashton - keyboards

Gary Brooker - piano

Bruce Thomas - bass

Ronnie Lane - bass

John Paul Jones - bass, piano

John Bonham - drums

Kenney Jones - drums

Ray Cooper - percussion

Tony Carr - percussion

Morris Pert - percussion

Howie Casey - horns

Tony Dorsey - horns

Steve Howard - horns

Thaddeus Richard - horns

Speedy Acquaye - percussion

Happy to be back on the egg, folks.

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Para mí, sólo Mike... sin The Mechanics

Recién llegó a mis manos el nuevo álbum de Mike and the Mechanics ("Out of the Blue", 2019), y como casi todos los discos que escucho por primera vez, ya sea de músicos que conozco o de perfectos desconocidos, lo abordé sin mediar ninguna referencia previa, excepto que se trata, en efecto, de Mike and the Mechanics (para los despistados, ésta es la banda formada y liderada por el bajista y guitarrista Mike Rutherford, uno de los miembros fundadores de Genesis).

Decía que escuché el nuevo de M&TM con cero información previa, y fue hasta que oí los temas más familiares cuando me di cuenta que se trataba de una especie de álbum recopilatorio de sus "mejores éxitos" junto con tres temas nuevos.

Ok, sé que eso no habla muy bien de la sensibilidad de mi oído ni de mis habilidades evocativas, ni, por decirlo en pocas palabras, de mi maltrecha memoria, pero en mi descarga debo decir que el grupo Mike and the Mechanics no produce el ideal de la música que puede llegar a apasionarme. No soy muy aficionado al estilo de la banda ni antes ni ahora, y su más reciente álbum no ha hecho más que confirmar mi escaso interés en ellos.

Eso sin embargo, me puso en perspectiva algunas cosas. La primera es un poco para clarificar: Mike and the Mechanics no es para nada un mal grupo. Sus canciones son por lo general bellas, bien hechas, estupendamente arregladas, cantadas con gran modulación, en fin, que hacen música con mucha sensatez. Lo que a mi gusto les hace falta es una buena dosis de precipicio, de abismo, una raspadita que les quite su pulcro brillo, su excesivo pulimentado. Una caminadita por el lado salvaje, pues, como diría el buen Lou Reed.

Lo que me lleva al segundo aspecto de mi razonamiento: Mike Rutherford es un extraordinario músico, que dadas las circunstancias, ha tenido un impresionante éxito aparte de Genesis. Más que Steve Hackett, por ejemplo, quien sigue picando piedra en el género progresivo y hace discos sensacionales, pero restringidos al mercado de los porrompomperos. Más que Peter Gabriel, quien en los ochenta y noventa vivió una burbuja de gloria alucinante, pero que ha regresado a ser referencia para sólo un nicho muy definido de la masa. Y casi diría que más que Phil Collins, aunque Phil es un caso aparte de triunfo comercial y fama que pocos pueden igualar (que me guste o no me guste, es otra cosa).

Cuando me planteaba lo anterior, casi de inmediato me vino a la mente la entrevista que le hicieron en el muy buen documental de la BBC del 2014 ("Genesis: Together and Apart" se llama) donde le cuestionan precisamente sobre su carrera en solitario, y Mike, simple y pragmático como me imagino que es, decía que para ser solista se necesita cantar (es decir, cantar bien), cosa que él sencillamente no podía hacer con una voz apenas "decente". También mencionaba: "Si compones una buena canción, necesitas una gran voz, y esa gran voz no soy yo". Así que mejor formó Mike and the Mechanics para que una "gran voz" cantara sus composiciones, y de esa forma encontrar el éxito por un camino menos espinoso (esto último no lo dijo Mike por supuesto, son suposiciones mías).

No sé bien, pero debe haber una sutil diferencia (bueno, quizá no muy sutil) en la mente de Mike Rutherford entre ser una estrella solista o liderar una banda exitosa. Tiene que ver, supongo, con el ego. Ser identificado en los medios y entre los fans por tu nombre solo, debe significar más que ser una referencia como el líder de un grupo. En fin, de eso ni para qué hablar. Allá Mike y sus vericuetos mentales.

Lo que a mí me queda claro es que persiguiendo su proyecto personal para consolidarse como un buen hacedor de éxitos, Mike Rutherford hizo el intento con dos álbums solistas allá por el principio de los años ochenta. Dos álbums de una carrera en solitario que nunca más pretendería, pero que en perspectiva, me parecen bastante mejores que cualquier disco de Mike and the Mechanics, incluyendo todos sus venerados hits (y en uno de esos discos solistas de los ochenta, el segundo para ser exacto, utiliza su apenas "decente" voz con resultados más que decentes).

Su primer álbum, "Smallcreep's Day" (1980), es una finísima obra progresiva, una joya escondida que Mike realizó en el ínterin de la agenda del Genesis de aquella época. Su música es realmente agraciada, elegante, pulcra y vehementemente arreglada, elaborada y ejecutada, en la que Rutherford recibió ayuda de grandes músicos como el ex guitarista de Genesis Anthony Phillips, el baterista Simon Phillips, el percusionista Morris Pert, y el que luego sería vocalista de Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Noel McCalla. "Smallcreep's Day" nos remite de alguna manera a la música que Genesis producía cuando ya era sólo un trío ("...And Then There Were Three...", 1978), pero también al Genesis del virtuoso "Wind & Wuthering" (1976) por ejemplo.

En su segundo, que lleva por nombre "Acting Very Strange" (1982), Rutherford se olvida de todo el rollo progresivo y se pone al día en su expresión musical. Entra en la ola ochentera rockanroleando sabroso, haciendo un new wave exquisito y hasta medio tecnificando su sonido. "Acting Very Strange" es un disco de su época, brillante, atrevido a su manera, y con una fila de invitados (otra vez) extraordinaria, donde destaca la participación en tres tracks del baterista de The Police Stewart Copeland, o del tecladista de Brand X, J. Peter Robinson. Este disco es el único donde Rutherford agarra el toro por los cuernos y arremete con su voz "decente" que le queda bien a la mayor parte de sus temas, y sólo se nota un tanto insuficiente en la buena balada, "Hideaway", porque Mike, es cierto, no tiene la fineza necesaria tan sofisticados géneros.

Hablando claro: los únicos dos discos solistas de Mike Rutherford no son precisamente obras maestras de la música, pero son álbums poderosos, ejemplares en su estilo, distinguidos, y maravillosamente elaborados. Ambos le dan un repaso a cualquiera de los realizados por Mike and The Mechanics, sólo que es un hecho que tuvieron muy escasa respuesta comercial, lo que quizá es la clave para la abdicación de Mike a sus sueños solistas y su acercamiento al nicho mucho más confortable -y comercialmente más redituable- de Mike and The Mechanics.

¿Es esto una triste historia, una crónica de apocamiento musical? Bueno, podría ser dada la calidad final producida, aunque alcanzar el éxito de una u otra manera probablemente sea un argumento suficiente para cualquiera que así se lo plantee. Alguno quizá diga pues sí, pero... ¿a qué precio? Bueno, no exageremos. A final de cuentas tal vez todo quede, como suele suceder, en una simple cuestión de gustos ¿no es cierto?