#Tom Rainey

[evilhorse]

I have a proposition for you gentlemen…

[musicollage]

Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House — Strong Place. 2013 : Intakt.

! enjoy the album ★ donate a coffee !

[hellocanticle]

Andrew Rathbun's "The Speed of Time"

SteepleChase Records 391950 I rarely write about jazz, mostly because it is a genre with which I am less familiar. I confess to a lack of knowledge (though I’m working on it) of jazz, especially of the last twenty years or so. And as a result I have some reluctance to write about jazz but when I first listened to this disc I found that the music spoke to this listener’s ears immediately and…

[soundgrammar]

Listen/purchase: Implicatures by Sam Weinberg Trio w/ Chris Lightcap & Tom Rainey

[dustedmagazine]

Ingrid Laubrock — The Last Quiet Place (Pyroclastic)

Photo by Nicki Chavoya

The Last Quiet Place by Ingrid Laubrock (Pyroclastic Records)

Experimental art music sextets rarely create quiet places, but at least they can muse on them. For her latest set of compositions, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock brings in both regular and new collaborators to help her respond to worries about mass extinction, the need for internal quiet and the lack of undamaged places in the world. The driving themes sound morbid, but The Last Quiet Place works more energetically than its title or topics might suggest.

The ensemble's strength lies in their flexibility. Laubrock and guitarist Brandon Seabrook have worked together enough that they have a natural partnership, enabling Seabrook here to frequently step out of his comfort zone. While his best work has often been abrasive and kinetic, on this album he plays more with texture and subtle changes, as just one element of a heavily integrated group. That connection remains important as the sextet slides between moods and even genres. At times they gravitate toward chamber music; a minute later they move into contemporary jazz. Hints of minimalism release into rock-influenced catharsis. Under Laubrock's direction, the whole thing coheres into a singular sort of meditation, the group doing anything except a scattershot approach. 

Laubrock focuses much of her composition on the strings, a reasonable choice given the presence of Tomeka Reid (cello), Michael Formanek (double bass), and Mazz Swift (violin). “Afterglow” provides a wonderful example of the way she passes the lead from her own sax to the other members of the act. The wind-to-string transition subtly recolors the song, and when Laubrock takes over again, the end of the piece has a formally satisfying feel after exploring a short range of hues in depth. 

“Grammy Season” marks an album highlight as each member trades roles. A longtime Laubrock collaborator, drummer Tom Rainey mixes the beats, frenetic at times and pounding as others, shaping the track as the other musicians come in and out. The piece suggests several trios coming in and out, with Rainey remaining constant. Seabrook gets to skitter a little more here, the structure of the song keeps everything on track, broken into defined segments that all build toward something before releasing into nervous and then resigned quietness, a sort of aftermath that follows frantic activity. 

We might not associate Grammy season (the time and not the track) with human destructiveness, but Laubrock's title speaks to the way we rush toward an empty nothingness. “The Last Quiet Place” offers moments of meditative repetition, but the larger work across the album mixes a warning into its playfulness. The sextet never sounds down, even while processing difficult topics. While we can all benefit from peaceful solitude, some kinds of noise remain beneficial to our well-being. 

Justin Cober-Lake

[diyeipetea]

Satoko Fujii: Hyaku One Hundred Dreams (Libra Records, 2022) Por Pachi Tapiz [Grabación de jazz]

Satoko Fujii: Hyaku One Hundred Dreams (Libra Records, 2022) Por Pachi Tapiz [Grabación de jazz]

Satoko Fujii: Hyaku One Hundred Dreams (Libra Records, 2022) Las celebraciones de la pianista Satoko Fujii siempre han sido memorables. El año en que cumplió 50 años, lo celebró publicando media docena de grabaciones. Al llegar a los 60 fueron doce: cada uno de los meses de ese año publicó un nuevo disco. En 2022 publica su grabación número 100 (hyaku en japonés), y con tal motivo publica Hyaku…

[thoregil]

2022-09-30 Brandon Lopez / Ingrid Laubrock / Tom Rainey - Fri resonans, Dokkhuset

2022-09-30 Brandon Lopez / Ingrid Laubrock / Tom Rainey – Fri resonans, Dokkhuset

[cerealbishh]

some pics of the outer range s2 cast hanging out(credit to chefseanvm, jmquinteros, christianjames_official, ybutterfly2, the.pbread, impoots, thetamarapodemski, and isa.arraiza on ig)

[littlerobbinphantomhive19]

Look. I have been a fan of this man for over 20 years. I have never, and I mean NEVER, let myself read fan fiction about him (smut or otherwise), only his characters, if that.

Definitely made me feel all high and mighty. Like, ‘Oh I don’t read fan fictions about the actor. I only read fan fictions about the characters because they aren’t real! I’m respecting the actor by not being gross!’

WELP. That ship has FUCKING SAILED.

For the past couple of months I’ve been watching nothing but Johnny Depp movies. Specifically PoTC1 and Secret Window on repeat. Thanks to 21 Jump Street (1987) I’ve been on a Tom Hanson kick. I found a lovely writer on tumblr, @fuck-i-burnt-the-tea (thank you I love your work), who writes fan fiction about Johnny Depp and two of his characters (Tom Hanson and Captain Jack Sparrow).

I thought ‘Well, reading just one about Johnny won’t hurt.’

Down the fucking rabbit hole I go and now I’m chained up at the bottom.

I’ve simped for this man for YEARS so don’t get me wrong, the brainrot is all well and good but I feel so scummy!

Is this rule for all actors? No. Only him.

Does that make me a hypocrite? Most likely.

Do I regret it? No, not particularly.

Do I still feel like garbage? Abso-fucking-lutely.

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

babygirls <3

[glamerousgirl4]

Yess Johnny depp I missed editing him 🥺 were a multi fp guys

[evilhorse]

Idiots! Stubborn idiots!

[21deppstreet]

Wonka Sam Gilbert Glen Sweeney what are you doing

+ some doodles of some guys who I don’t usually draw smiling cos they’re grumpy grumps or saddie sads

[hellocanticle]

Andrew Rathbun's "The Speed of Time"

SteepleChase Records 391950 I rarely write about jazz, mostly because it is a genre with which I am less familiar. I confess to a lack of knowledge (though I’m working on it) of jazz, especially of the last twenty years or so. And as a result I have some reluctance to write about jazz but when I first listened to this disc I found that the music spoke to this listener’s ears immediately and…

[1264doghouse]

Ma Rainey and the Georgia Band with “Georgia Tom” Dorsey, Library of Congress.

[crippleprophet]

Hey Mac! Do you have any crip books or resource recs for crip sex/sexuality?

Feel free to delete if you're uncomfortable answering :]

do i ever! i actually did an essay for my master’s in disability studies on the topic of disabled people’s access to sex so a lot of these are sources from that (feel free to dm me for my paper!) & others are things i’ve collected for leisure (hah)

i’m bolding my favorites and italicizing ones i haven’t read but have been recommended / have on my list; as with everything, having read a piece + recommending it is not an uncritical endorsement, & i have various contentions with all of these pieces ranging from minor nitpicking to outright disagreement.

feel free to send an ask or dm if you want my thoughts on a particular work or need help obtaining a pdf!

books

Sex and Disability ed. Robert McRuer & Anna Mollow

The Sexual Politics of Disability: Untold Desires by Tom Shakespeare, Kath Gillespie-Sells and Dominic Davies

Unbreaking Our Hearts: Cultures of Un/Desirability and the Transformative Potential of Queercrip Porn by Loree Erickson. York University, dissertation submitted 2015.

McRuer, R. 2006. Crip theory: Cultural signs of queerness and disability. New York: New York University Press.

Kinked and Crippled: Disabled BDSM Practitioners’ Experiences and Embodiments of Pain. Emma Sheppard. Edge Hill University, dissertation submitted 2017.

Love, Sex, and Disability: The Pleasures of Care by Sarah Smith Rainey

intellectually disabled people / people with learning difficulties’ right to sex

Hamilton, C. A. 2009. ‘Now I’d like to sleep with Rachael’ – researching sexuality support in a service agency group home. Disability & Society. 24(3), pp.303-315.

Hollomotz, A. 2008. ‘May we please have sex tonight?’ – people with learning difficulties pursuing privacy in residential group settings. British Journal of Learning Disabilities. 37, pp.91–97.

Vehmas, S. 2019. Persons with profound intellectual disability and their right to sex. Disability & Society. 34(4), pp.519-539.

Significance of the attitudes of police and care staff toward sex and people who have a learning disability by A. Bailey & D. Sines. Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care (1998), 2(3), pp.168-174.

sexual facilitation & making sex accessible

Bahner, J. 2016. Risky business? Organizing sexual facilitation in Swedish personal assistance services. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 18(2), pp.164-175.

Linda R. Mona (2003) Sexual Options for People with Disabilities, Women & Therapy, 26:3-4, pp.211-221.

No Pity Fucks Please: A critique of Scarlet Road’s campaign to improve disabled people’s access to paid sex services by Tova Rozengarten and Heather Brook. Outskirts vol. 34, 2016, pp.1-21.

Julia Bahner (2013) The power of discretion and the discretion of power: personal assistants and sexual facilitation in disability services, Vulnerable Groups & Inclusion, 4:1, 20673.

BDSM, paraphilias, & alternative sex

Goldberg, C. E. 2018. Fucking with Notions of Disability (In)Justice: Exploring BDSM, Sexuality, Consent, and Canadian Law

Hollomotz, A. 2013. Exploiting the Fifty Shades of Grey craze for the disability and sexual rights agenda. Disability & Society. 28(3), pp.418-422.

Reynolds, D. 2007. Disability and BDSM: Bob Flanagan and the case for sexual rights. Sexuality Research & Social Policy. 4(1), pp.40-52.

Tellier, S. 2017. Advancing the discourse: Disability and BDSM. Sex & Disability. 35, pp.485-493.

Sheppard, E. 2018. Using pain, living with pain. Feminist Review. 120, pp.54-69.

Tyburczy, J. 2014. Leather anatomy: Cripping homonormativity at International Mr. Leather. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 8(3), pp.275-293.

Sheppard, E 2019, 'Chronic Pain as Fluid, BDSM as Control' Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 2.

other articles

Finger, A. 1992. Forbidden Fruit

Fritsch, K., Heynen, R., Ross, A. N., and van der Meulen, E. 2016. Disability and sex work: developing affinities through decriminalization. Disability & Society. 31(1), pp.84-99.

McKenzie, J. 2012. Disabled people in rural South Africa talk about sexuality. Culture Health & Sexuality. pp.1-15.

Shakespeare, T. 2000. Disabled sexuality: Toward rights and recognition. Sexuality and Disability. 18(3), pp.159-166.

Shildrick, M. 2007. Contested pleasures: The sociopolitical economy of disability and sexuality. Sexuality Research & Social Policy. 4(1), pp.53-66.

Wentzell, E. 2006. Bad bedfellows: Disability sex rights and Viagra. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. 26(5), pp.370-377.

“‘Like, pissing yourself is not a particularly attractive quality, let’s be honest’: Learning to contain through youth, adulthood, disability and sexuality” by Kirsty Liddiard and Jenny Slater. Sexualities 2018, Vol. 21(3), pp.319–333.

non-academic texts

Andrew Gurza’s blog - andrewgurza dot com / blog

Disability After Dark podcast

A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability by A. Andrews

Cripping Up Sex with Eva

my cripsex tag, which i’ll add to this post, has other relevant content, & i welcome any additions from folks! all the best to you 💓