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AVAILABLE NOW ON VOD!

VARIETOPIY’ALL recorded live at The Elysian Theatre

With special guests:

Mary Sohn

Tawny Newsome

Jana Schmieding

Sean & Sara Watkins

Andrew Daly

James Bladon

Matt Gourley

Mark McConville

Music by Jordan Katz

Original songs by Paul F. Tompkins & Jordan Katz

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Nickel Creek perform "Where the Long Line Leads" on Jimmy Kimmel Live, 3/22/23

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Wish I was as good at anything as Nickel Creek is at playing music.

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Song Review: Nickel Creek - “Where the Long Line Leads”

Despite Sara Watkins and Chris Thile’s inimitable vocals and the mandolin and bass that accompany Sean Watkins’ acoustic guitar, the similarities between “Where the Long Line Leads” and “Johnny 99” are unmissable.

Nickel Creek pretty obviously - intentionally or not - nicked Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska cut for single No. 3 from the forthcoming (March 24) Celebrants.

And then, they super-charged the melody.

We’re gonna have a big time/where the long line leads/we only have a short time/so make it a big one/and instead of the list you’ll be on the marquee, the band sings.

It rocks as much as unplugged music can - but a touch too much, as these musicians, who rarely struggle, seem to have difficulty keeping up with themselves.

Grade card: Nickel Creek - “Where the Long Line Leads” - B-

3/10/23

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Athenaeum Comic Art latest round of “Athenaeum Gives” offer for budding cartoonists closes soon

US-based independent comic art seller Athenaeum Comic Art is offering grants to new comic creators to help them develop their craft

US-based Athenaeum Comic Art is currently running its latest round of Athenaeum Gives, a project, open internationally, giving microgrants to cartoonists that are early in their careers. Applications must be made by 17th April 2023. Athenaeum Comic Art was started in 2021 by Sean Watkins, a lifetime comic book lover and original art collector. In his years of collecting, he noticed many…

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Nickel Creek’s first studio album in almost a decade is a joyous romp about reconnection and shredding mandolins.

Playlist:

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"AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS" Season One (2021) Episodes Ranking

Below is my ranking of the Season One episodes of the adventure series, "AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS". Based on Jules Verne's 1973 novel and created by Ashley Pharoah and Caleb Ranson, the series stars David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma and Leonie Benesch:

"AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS" SEASON ONE (2021) EPISODES RANKING

1. (1.03) "Episode 1.3" - Stuck on Yemen's west coast, gentleman traveler Phineas Fogg decides on a dangerous desert crossing with his valet Jean Passepartout, leaving news reporter and traveling companion Abigail Fortescue aka Fix in a place where even a fellow Englishwoman proves hostile. Lindsay Duncan and Faical Elkihel guest starred.

2. 1.05) "Episode 1.5" - Passepartout's knowledge of the Hong Kong colony proves useful when Fogg's finances are blocked by his London bank and Scotland Yard. Abigail's latest article threatens to humiliate Phileas at a party held in his honor at the Govenor's estate. Victoria Smurfit, Patrick Kennedy and Thomas Chaanhing guest starred.

3. (1.04) "Episode 1.4" - The traveling trio are stranded at a village in British India, where a wedding is about to take place and the groom, a deserter from the British Army has been arrested. Shivaani Ghai, Kiroshan Naidoo and Charlie Hamblett guest starred.

4. (1.07) "Episode 1.7" - While Fogg and his companions travel through the Rockies in a chartered stagecoah, he unwillingly lets famous lawman Bass Reeves and the latter's prisoner share the stagecoach, unaware the captive's cronies are in hot pursuit. John Light and Gary Beadle guest starred.

5. (1.08) "Episode 1.8" - In the season finale, Fogg's reunion with an old love, deadly dockside danger and red tape in New York City might spell failure for Fogg's "around the world" bet. Dolly Wells guest starred.

6. (1.01) "Episode 1.1" - In the series opener, Fogg is goaded by corrupt fellow Reform Club member Nyle Bellamy into a bet that he can circle the globe in just 80 days, despite never having been abroad before. He is accompanied by Passepartout and Abigail, who wants to record his journey. Their first major stop is Paris, where Fogg inadvertently foils an assassination attempt on the President of France, Adolphe Thiers, by rebels led by Passepartout's brother. Loic Djani, Richard Wilson and Masali Baduza guest starred.

7. (1.02) "Episode 1.2" - Fogg's self-respect is threatened by ridicule from Italian industrialist and widower Niccolo Moretti during a train journey to Brindisi, Italy; worrying Abigail and Passepartout before a disaster strikes. Giovanni Scifoni guest starred.

8. (1.06) "Episode 1.6" - Thanks to Bellamy's henchman Thomas Kneedling; Fogg, Abigail and Passepartout find themselves stranded on a desert island in the East China Sea. With the clock ticking, the trio must learn to forgive and work together to escape the island and resume their journey.

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Sean Watkins as off today, now a male stripper

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Chris Thile whispering in his bandmates' ears in Nickel Creek's music video for "Speak" (from the 2002 album This Side).

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Song Review: Nickel Creek - “Where the Long Line Leads” (“Kimmel”)

Overflowing with enthusiasm, Nickel Creek declared “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is “Where the Long Line Leads.”

Sara Watkins, Chris Thile and Sean Watkins performed the previously released third single from Celebrants on late-night television in the run up to the LP’s March 24 release. And though they were exuberant and then some, precision - particularly on the vocals - suffered for it.

Sara Watkins was a little hoarse - this was not just the usual, and terribly effective, breaking in her voice - while Thile and Sean Watkins had difficulty finding their sweet harmony spot.

The playing? Top-notch as always. But “Where the Long Line Leads” is one of those tracks whose vocal arrangement calls for strong singing in order to reach its potential.

Grade card: Nickel Creek - “Where the Long Line Leads” (“Kimmel”) - C

3/23/23

[justforbooks]

For the opening scene of Shaft – the 1971 film that helped inaugurate the “blaxploitation” genre and spawned an Oscar-winning song in Isaac Hayes’s call-and-response classic Theme from Shaft – the director Gordon Parks mapped out to the actor Richard Roundtree exactly what would happen.

Roundtree – playing the New York detective John Shaft who “won’t cop out when there’s danger all about” as the song puts it – was to stride out of the subway near Times Square, tracked by assorted cameras positioned opposite him and at high angles. “I want you to walk across 42nd Street,” Parks said. “And I want you to own it.”

Own it he did. In his beige turtleneck and brown leather trench coat, Roundtree swaggers and weaves through the hubbub, looking bemused at a demonstration going on around him (which was nothing to do with the film itself but a real-life protest by the Gay Activists Alliance) and improvising the moment when he raises his middle finger at an impatient cabbie. “I did own it,” he reflected. “Much better than I could ever have imagined.”

It was the first major screen appearance for Roundtree, who has died aged 81 of pancreatic cancer, and the one that defined him for the rest of his life. He was cast after a meeting with Parks, a former photojournalist, who showed him a magazine advertisement and said: “We’re kind of looking for a guy who looks like this.” Serendipitously, it was an ad featuring Roundtree himself.

In optioning Ernest Tidyman’s 1970 novel, in which Shaft is hired to rescue a gangster’s kidnapped daughter, MGM had considered making the characters white. But Parks defended the novel’s vision, including its acute awareness of Black culture. He wanted audiences “to see the Black guy winning”.

That single-mindedness paid off, saving the troubled studio from bankruptcy. “Ghetto kids were coming downtown to see their hero, Shaft, and here was a Black man on the screen they didn’t have to be ashamed of,” the director said in 1972. “We need movies about the history of our people, yes, but we need heroic fantasies about our people, too. We all need a little James Bond now and then.”

John Shaft was suave and uncompromising, free to dispense justice his own way, and cut from a snazzier cloth than the nobler roles for which African-American stars such as Sidney Poitier were known. In 2000, the critic Elvis Mitchell noted that Roundtree’s “on-screen relish, which was itself a kind of dynamism, connected to an audience hunger. And he held the screen like an aristocrat.” Mitchell compared him to Sean Connery, identifying “the same outsize wellspring of charm and virility, but with a leavening … sense of self-deprecation”.

He did many of his own stunts. “We could get close with our helicopter shots because you could see it really was Roundtree and not a stunt driver,” said Parks. “We spent 12 days on that chase, and wrecked four cars, two boats and a mock-up chopper.”

The actor returned for two sequels, Shaft’s Big Score! (1972), which was also directed by Parks, and Shaft in Africa (1973), which, regrettably, was not. After a brief Shaft TV series in the same year, which Roundtree described as “an ugly point in my long, illustrious career”, he was done with John Shaft. For now.

Born in New Rochelle, New York, to Kathryn (nee Watkins), a cook and housekeeper, and John Roundtree, a refuse collector and later church minister, Richard attended New Rochelle high school and won a football scholarship to Southern Illinois University. After working at Barneys department store, he modelled clothes and became one of the stars of the Ebony Fashion Fair, a touring spin-off of Ebony magazine. He then joined the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City and starred in its 1967 production of The Great White Hope.

Capitalising on the heat from Shaft, he joined Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner in the disaster movie Earthquake (1974), played the title character in Man Friday (1975) opposite Peter O’Toole as Robinson Crusoe, and appeared as a rakish carriage driver in the slavery-era TV drama Roots (1977).

In between TV series, including most recently Family Reunion on Netflix, he was in the action comedy City Heat (1984), set during the Depression and starring Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds, the gruesome serial-killer hit Seven (1995) alongside Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, the Disney comedy George of the Jungle (1997) and Rian Johnson’s witty neo-noir thriller Brick (2005).

Having declined various Shaft-related offers, he finally relented and appeared in John Singleton’s reboot, Shaft (2000), with Samuel L Jackson as his nephew. He returned for a misguided comic riff on the franchise, also called Shaft (2019), which revealed that Jackson’s character was in fact his son, and brought in a new generation in the form of a sensitive, gun-hating grandson.

“Everybody wanted to be you for a very long time,” Jackson told Roundtree in a 2019 interview with the Los Angeles Times. “You defined what cool was – you had the look, the walk, the attitude.”

Pigeonholed by the part in the 1970s, Roundtree finally made peace with it. “Sometimes it’s much easier to ride the horse in the direction that it’s going,” he said.

He was married and divorced twice, to Mary Jane Grant, then Karen Ciernia. He is survived by two daughters, Kelli and Nicole, from his first marriage, and two daughters, Tayler and Morgan, and a son, John, from his second.

🔔 Richard Arnold Roundtree, actor, born 9 July 1942; died 24 October 2023

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Fiona Apple with Sarah and Sean Watkins backstage at the New Yorker show in 2007

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Sean Watkins age 24

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shuffled playlist meme

tagged by @subrosa03 Thank you!

Rules: you can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to. Put your mp3 player, iTunes, Spotify, etc. on shuffle and list the first 10 songs and then tag 10 people. Rules: No Skipping!

Bridal Veil Falls - Chris Thile

World Turning - Fleetwood Mac

Let It Fall - Sean Watkins

Three to Get Ready - Dave Brubeck Quartet

Paper Boats - Darren Korb (Transistor OST)

Spark - Until the Ribbon Breaks

Scotch & Chocolate - Nickel Creek (hey, I stole that one lol)

La Femme D'argent - Air

Wildfire - Seafret

Our Lady of the Underground - Hadestown Broadway Cast

Hmmm...tagging @iamstartraveller776, @pajamasecrets, @leliesblou, @spocksings, @killjoyfabulous, and anybody else who wants to play :D

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The Anime Sickos present: Sicko Shock 2 - A Miniseries in Six Episodes.

EPISODE 4: DR. FIONA FIREWIRE

In the year 42069, humanity survives in the last livable place on Earth: the domed cyberpunk dystopia Sicko City. In Sicko City, all citizens are required to jack in to cyberspace every day to view and engage with content generated by “Posters,” mega-celebrities who live like gods. But beneath its shimmering surface, five forgotten people are about to make history...

Dr. Fiona Firewire is a professor. Her area of study, anthropology, is the laughingstock of Sicko University. Her brilliance is infectious and undeniable, but has suffered years of disrespect and obscurity. Sicko City works hard to bury its history, but what might happen if someone was dedicated enough to bring the truth to light?

STARRING Gwynn Fulcher as Dr. Fiona Firewire Zoe Lee as Defrag Clemens Megan Scharlau as Mysterious Woman Sean Rose as Dr. Reeve Overclock Andrew Sherman as Port Browser Edward Selvey IV as Dome Guard Josh Watkins as Todd Kill Tom Harrison as Tom Dylan Mullins as Jordi

Additional voices by Isa Harrison, Sara McHenry, Stevie Mattos, John Hasier, Lily Mae Randles, Rayne Klar, Vince White, Scott Blaha, Cory Wilmarth, Brandon Kirkman, Em Havery, Hobert Thompson, Marc Harrison, Josh McVety, John Keogh, Whitney Reynolds, Alice Kyra, and Sarah McClintock.

Episode 4 art is by KC Green.

Sicko Shock 2 is recorded where possible by Geramie Causley at Mystery Street Studios in Chicago Illinois.

Audio editing is by Eric Garneau.

Special thanks to Chelsea Harfoush, Aleks M, Tom and Sara McHenry, and Adam Goron.

Sicko Shock 2 was made possible by support from our Patrons. You can support Anime Sickos at patreon.com/animesickos

Sicko Shock 2 is written and directed by Tom Harrison.

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I can't draw for shit so my catalyst isn't art. Instead, have a nice list of sea shanties in hopes of attracting a Specter (the Unchained) of your own: THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN

Wellerman - Nathan Evans

Santiano - Santiano

Drunken Sailor - Irish Rovers

Bones in the Ocean - The Longest Johns

Barrett's Privateers - Stan Rogers

Keelhauled - Alestorm

Leave Her Johnny - Sean Dagher/Nils Brown/Michiel Schrey

Tyme Flies When You're Havin' Rum - Pirates For Sail

Over and Under - Colm McGuinness

Northwest Passage - Stan Rogers

Bound For South Australia - Fisherman's Friends

Randy Dandy Oh (metal ver.) - Jonathan Young feat. Caleb Hyles/annapantsu/RichaadEB/Colm McGuinness

John Kanaka - Fiddler's Green

Cape Cod Girls - The Captain's Beard

Santiana - Seth Staton Watkins