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Tierra Whack Celebrates Debut Album’s Release at Webster Hall on Friday Night

Tierra Whack – Webster Hall – March 15, 2024

Philadelphia rap queen Tierra Whack has been getting the party started worldwide with her infectious rhymes for several years now. (It’s probably only a matter of time before she graces the multipurpose-room stage on Abbott Elementary to battle Tariq Temple at a F.A.D.E. showcase.) Whack channels creativity and visual aspirations into her poetic lyrics and the videos that accompany them. From the Grammy-nominated video for “Mumbo Jumbo” to the recent Alex Da Corte–directed “27 Club,” her flair for fashion exudes further joy and pop, as witnessed on World Wide Whack, her debut full-length. She celebrated its release Friday night at a sold-out Webster Hall.   

With a large inflatable of the World Wide Whack avatar occupying a third of the stage, the rapper appeared adorned in her silver clown suit mirroring the attire from her album’s aesthetics. Opening with track one from her latest, “Mood Swing” appropriately began with  “I’ve been trying new things.” Throughout the show, the crowd indulged in a call-and-response, which warm-up DJ Kill Sing kicked off with a cry of  “worldwide” and requested the “Whack” reply. The admittedly nervous singer would cover the majority of the new songs, from the bounce-inducing “Ms Behave” to the melancholic “Two Night,” Her confidence building thanks to the supportive crowd, Whack effortlessly weaved among rap, pop, and R&B with her new material. On lead-single “Chanel Pit,” music box melodies danced amongst the spits of cultural references, like Vin Diesel and Resident Evil. Closer “27 Club” grooved to more R&B vibes for a downtempo, contemplative swan song, enrapturing the front row. 

Tierra Whack didn’t leave her stans without a trip down memory lane, including fan favorites like the bop “Pretty Ugly” and “Fuck Off,” which elicited raised middle fingers across the room. Everybody on the floor happily sang, “He likes my diamonds and pearls,” along with “Hungry Hippo.”  For the first time live, Whack performed her section of Lil Yachty’s “T.D.” before calling it a night. Despite the house lights turning on and exit music playing, everyone stayed put, chanting, “World Wide Whack,” leaving the stage crew unsure if they should halt operations. DJ Kill Sing indicated it might not be the end to this unforgettable night, as a wigless Whack returned to confess she was already shedding her costume. The crowd-manifested encore had the Philly native run off “Peppers and Onions” atop the barricade, before dropping to the floor amid her rabid admirers. —Sharlene Chiu | @Shar0ck

Photos courtesy of Edwina Hay | thisisnotaphotograph.com

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canadian nationals made me want to fucking die thank god that nightmare is over

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MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE EXHIBITION

What a time to be a Transformers fan!  With the Rise of the Beasts movie to hit cinemas in two months, it seems promotional events are happening right, left and centre. Wednesday night saw the VIP Opening Night for the Transformers: More than Meets the Eye art exhibition at King’s Comics. Promotional Blurb: Radio Velvet, Kings Comics and Hasbro, a global branded entertainment leader, are pleased…

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THE DANGER OF THE HOPEFUL SIGIL

FEELINGS – Nancy (Kennedy McMann) and Ace (Alex Saxon) share a sweet moment while working together to find a way to break the curse. Meanwhile, Carson (Scott Wolf) and Jean (guest star Erica Cerra (“Supernatural,” “The 100”) continue growing closer, but a recent conversation leaves him with an unsettled feeling. Lastly, Jesse (guest star Geraldine Chiu “Snowpiercer”) and Birdie (guest star Alison Thornton “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce”) devise a plan to teach the school bully a lesson.  Jem Garrard directed the episode written by Celine Geiger & Lauren Glover (#403).  Original airdate 6/14/2023.  

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Nancy Drew Season 4 Trailer Part 1

There’s a lot to unpack in this 30 second whirlwind so I’m planning to do a series of posts. I will do my best to tie every scene back to BTS content, but everything is still speculation and unconfirmed. It’s going to get spoilery so bow out if you want to remain blissfully ignorant - which absolutely has its advantages: Riley’s a fan.

We start with Birdie and Jesse holding hands and calling Nancy for help from the woods! Kennedy confirmed they are a couple (the cutest!). I love that for them (and us).

Birdie (from the 2x13 Moonstone Island episode) is in Eps 3 and 12, so it’s one of those two. Geraldine Chiu (Jesse) posted from on-set during each of those episode’s filming, so she is in the same two episodes. Ep. 3 is shaping up to be epic (more in a later post), and 12 is set in spring (with a beach scene they had to film in the snow). If Birdie & Jessie’s relationship is established in Ep. 3 maybe this is 12, but we’ll have to wait and see!

Next we have Nancy with her trusty flashlight even when she’s dressed fancy - classic Nancy Drew!

What is she spying? ZOMBIES OF COURSE!

They’re in old timey clothes, and presumably they’re the corpses from the graves that were dug up (or they rose on their own!). The big season long mystery is dealing with the sins of the town’s past - just love the mix of humor and horror.

Our first glimpse of the crew! Now what episode is this? I think it’s Episode 1. Nick, Nancy, and Bess are dressed up - we saw BTS photos of Maddison with that purple dress in her trailer, and Tunji in the pink shirt, both from mid-July when they were most likely filming Ep. 1.

(First photo courtesy of @nancydrewfashionblog on IG)

We also saw Maddison’s story during the filming of episode 1 heading into the creepy woods in a cart with Tunji, Alex, and a blond woman that we now know is Megan Munro. She’s only listed in episode 1 on IMDB. She’s credited as “Young Actress” so not clear what her part is - I think this could be her. As she’s not recurring I don’t think she’s the new police chief (I’d love a woman in that role though), or a serious love interest for Ace or Nick. She may be a short term LI for Ace or Nick, or maybe she’s an as yet uncredited actress. Still a mystery!

Ace’s hair is LONG - this is how he looked when he showed up to set. They trimmed it later - it’s noticeably shorter by Episode 3 (keeping in the tradition of Ace’s ever changing hair). Also he’s not dressed up, which makes sense as he wasn’t in that BTS photo, and Nancy’s probably keeping her distance. Still manifesting Ace in a suit in S4…

If you are wondering why George is absent, Leah didn’t arrive to set for the first part of filming of Episode 1 - she was still filming another project. So George must be working or studying or otherwise occupied.

Ending here for now, look for my next post with an in-depth look at the next part of the trailer. Would love to hear your thoughts, predictions, stuff I missed or got wrong, etc. in the tags or comments!

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4x03 episode description: “the danger of the hopeful sigil” *spoilers*

FEELINGS – Nancy (Kennedy McMann) and Ace (Alex Saxon) share a sweet moment while working together to find a way to break the curse. Meanwhile, Carson (Scott Wolf) and Jean (guest star Erica Cerra (“Supernatural,” “The 100”) continue growing closer, but a recent conversation leaves him with an unsettled feeling. Lastly, Jesse (guest star Geraldine Chiu “Snowpiercer”) and Birdie (guest star Alison Thornton “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce”) devise a plan to teach the school bully a lesson.  

Jem Garrard directed the episode written by Celine Geiger & Lauren Glover. 

Airs 6/14/2023.  

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Diane Chiu & Sascha Rajasalu for Jason Wu s/s 2024 rtw Creative Director Jason Wu Fashion Editor/Stylist Alex Harrington Makeup Artist Diane Kendal Hair Stylist Jimmy Paul Casting Director Cicek Yusuf Photographer Armando Grillo Newest Cool

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does ms kittles prench class play alex chiu in mario world

YES. THE FIC EVEN HAS A REFERENCE TO THAT

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do you have any resources or specific artists that you learned to draw from? asking as a user who wants to improve drawing, but doesn't know where to look :]

ahah well i went to art school, so saying i learned to draw just by looking at other people's work would be a lie. However! There's a bunch of folks i take inspiration from and whose work i've studied, so I can share those!

Grace Liu

Vero

Christine Liu

Cassey Kuo

Tristan Y

ZiggyZagz

Gaby Epstein

Alaine

Alex Chiu

Valerie Garnace

Danny Araya

There's waaaay more, but these are ones I keep going back to for inspiration whenever I feel unsatisfied with my art.

I also really recommend the book "Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators" by Michael D. Mattesi! Michael Hampton's "Figure Drawing: Design and Invention" is also really good for a more schematic understanding of how bodies work.

And the @/etheringtonbrothers twitter page also consistently posts tips and advice for drawing a wide variety of different things, and they're really good! And they often feature tips from other artists too, so it's a good way to find more resources.

I hope these help and good luck!! :>

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Newsweek Magazine: Arctic Monkeys Change Direction Yet Again on 'The Car'

Written by David Chiu, 24/10/2022

When Arctic Monkeys released their sixth studio album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, in 2018, it was viewed as a dramatic left turn for the British band primarily known for their guitar-charged indie rock and the distinct lyrics of frontman Alex Turner. For that record, the British quartet incorporated ornate psychedelic and lounge-pop influences that leaned toward Burt Bacharach and the Beach Boys, with the piano becoming more prominent than the guitar. Yet, those noticeable shifts didn't appear to alienate the band's diehard fans when Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino became the band's sixth consecutive number one album in the U.K.

After that stylistic detour, fans might have expected Arctic Monkeys—Turner, drummer Matt Helders, bassist Nick O'Malley and guitarist Jamie Cook—to return to the earlier brash rock for their next album. But the band from Sheffield remains determined to evolve and defy expectations, as indicated by The Car, released October 21 via Domino Records. It's a continuation of the trippy and elegant after-hours vibe mined on Tranquility Base, although the music—featuring strings and horns this time—sounds more loose, atmospheric and expansive.

"I think there's this idea of when starting a new record [is the] 'we're-not-gonna-make-it-anything-like-the-last-one,'" the pensive Turner tells Newsweek. "But what I realize more often than not is they all seem to bleed into each other. It's only now when I've got this one under the microscope, I realized how much of that is true. I was probably trying to get away from things we've done on that last record. But I think there's still some of that kind of hanging over here into [The Car], but hopefully not to the extent where it isn't also reaching some new places that we haven't been before as well."

A listen to The Car (produced by longtime collaborator James Ford) immediately draws comparisons to the music of such artists as David Bowie (somewhere between his Young Americans and Station to Station albums), Serge Gainsbourg, Nick Cave and Scott Walker as well as '70s R&B and glam—and yet it still sounds like Arctic Monkeys. "I find it a bit more difficult than I have in the past to draw a line between records of other artists and this thing," Turner says. "I could probably pencil in a few. Perhaps the things I've sort of absorbed for a relatively long period of time now just influenced the process but in a more subtle way than having a discussion saying, 'Let's try and do a song like this' or something. It feels a little more unspoken now. Perhaps I'm just still too close to it in the moment."

Unlike Tranquility Base, whose theme centered on a futuristic hotel on the moon, The Car doesn't primarily focus on a particular subject running through the songs' enigmatic lyrics. "I think there is a theme or feel that runs through this whole record, but I don't think it's exclusive to the words," Turner explains. "It's almost easier to latch on to a theme if I take the words out of it for a minute and focus on what the feel of everything else is doing. I think that the lyrics are sometimes subscribing to that feel. And if there is a theme that runs through it, it's more along those lines than it is about XYZ, if that makes any sense at all."

"The first thing I wrote through it was this instrumental section at the beginning of the album," he continues. "Everything that came after that was written after that. It felt like it has a relationship with what was being evoked in that instrumental section. I wouldn't be leaning into the idea of it's just another 10 songs that aren't connected in any way. But at the same time, I don't think I can pin down a theme, not in a succinct sentence anyway."

The first single released off The Car, "There'd Better Be a Mirrorball," carries an air of melancholy amid the gorgeous strings and prominent piano lines, as Turner sings wistfully: "So if you want to walk me to the car you ought to know I have a heavy heart, so can we please be absolutely sure that there's a mirror ball."

"Obviously, you're describing the lead-up to some sort of goodbye line," Turner says, "and suddenly a mirrorball drops into the middle of that situation, which somehow doesn't seem totally incongruous in my mind. Perhaps on some level, the mirrorball is kind of synonymous with the closing of the show or something like that. But I think what I was imagining is carrying someone's suitcase to the car and then the lighting suddenly changes and the mirrorball drops in the middle of that situation. It's like, 'What's going on there?'I think it does feel like there are a few goodbyes here and there."

Introduced by beautiful acoustic guitar picking, the lyrical setting of "Mr. Schwartz" seems to take place at a movie shoot, which seems appropriate given the cinematic feeling of the song and the album. "There is a feeling of that behind-the-scenes of the production," Turner says. "That idea is not exclusive to or contained within just that song....It feels like there is something going on in the background of all these songs, like sort of a production: There's someone with a clipboard somewhere and somebody's up a ladder not too far from where these things are going on. The character of Mr. Schwartz was something that kind of did present itself to me in very real life, but sort of has been allowed to become a character in a song, I suppose."

The sweeping "Body Paint," the latest single, may be the most brash song of the collection. There are moments of electric guitar bursting through the lush orchestrations, while Turner's vocalizing echoes Bowie's '70s soul boy phase. It opens with a line Steely Dan or Prefab Sprout could have written: "For a master of deception and subterfuge you've made yourself quite the bed to lie in." Explains Turner: "It definitely does get pretty sparkly in the guitar toward the end of that. It's loud...more than I had expected it from the sketches of that song that we had before. I had it down for something that was gentle at the beginning. But during the session, there was something that was more lively that wanted to come out there at the end. I think that songs always continue to reveal themselves even sometimes after they've been recorded. We played the version of that on stage for the first time the other day, and it definitely seemed like it's still got somewhere to go. It's becoming a more exaggerated version of itself."

The Car marks another maturation and evolution in Arctic Monkeys' sound. Its release falls on the 20th anniversary of the band's formation. The hype surrounding Arctic Monkeys' arrival in the post-Britpop era has since become the stuff of legend: their early recordings were burned on CDs and given away at their shows, which prompted fans to upload them online. After signing with indie label Domino, Arctic Monkeys released 2006's Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, which hit number one in the U.K. and became that country's biggest-selling debut. Since then, it has been hit albums, touring and festival appearances for the band. On his end, Turner has been engaged with a side project, the Last Shadow Puppets, whose elaborate sounds may have been a prelude to the music of Tranquility Base and The Car.

"It was the summer of 2002 when we first got all the way through the same song at the same time together," he recalls. "We still are friends like we were before it started, and still trusting each other and our instincts in the same way. " The fact that Arctic Monkeys never made the same album twice most likely contributed to their longevity and friendship. It's been a progression that was more natural than calculated.

"When I cast my mind back to 20 years ago," says Turner, "there's always been something inherently uncooperative. I don't know if that somehow has translated to each time we've been faced with the task of making something new. There's something about not wanting to kind of cooperate with our perception of what we think that should be. I suppose you can arrive at the idea that if one record was successful, the next one should try and emulate or bark up the same tree as that one was. We're not having the board meeting where we're kind of discussing that out loud to that extent. The whole thing in the first place was done on a hunch, on an instinct, and I think that's something we're just still paying attention to, that same instinct all the way along. That's the through line."

Arctic Monkeys will be touring the U.K., Ireland, North America and South America the rest of this year and into 2023. Having branched out on their last two records, it wouldn't be surprising if their next record tackled another genre, perhaps hip-hop or ambient music. Turner says. "Yeah, why not? I'd have to give it some more thought. When I think about my perception of the way people make dance music, I am interested in that approach to it. I'm not saying that it's something I want to do, but I'm interested in watching somebody do it or something for an afternoon."

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Real Estate Bring New Music Home to a Sold-Out Webster Hall

Real Estate – Webster Hall – April 18, 2024

New Jersey natives Martin Courtney and Alex Bleeker have been producing upbeat, jangly melodies as Real Estate for more than a decade. Known for their breezy lamentations on suburbia, the band contributed original songs for the 2019 rom-com Plus One starring Jack Quaid and Maya Erskine. Their latest release, Daniel, continues their canon of cheery tunes with a country tinge, as it was recorded at the famed RCA Studio A  in Nashville, Tenn. The suburban ennui transfers to a perfect soundtrack for a cross-country road trip.

Longtime fans were delighted to have their local boys back as the quintet hit a sold-out Webster Hall on Thursday night for a homecoming show, playing largely from the recent record. They opened with its lead track, “Somebody New.” Real Estate played older favorites “Green Aisles” and “Saturday” early but newer songs from Daniel garnered equal applause. There’s a playfulness that adds to the band’s charm, like the life-size Danny Devito cutout manning the merch booth and their cheeky way of honoring famous Daniels. (Before putting out Daniel, they had been highlighting famous Daniels beginning in December with Daniel Radcliffe and this month with Anthony Daniels.) 

Adding to the whimsy, Bleeker requested the disco ball be activated for “Haunted World,” and despite a delayed start, it cast a glitter across the room. Admittedly a New Jersey band, Courtney confirmed that “Talking Backwards” was their only song recorded in Manhattan and hoped to record more in the future. The set sped along quickly as everyone was having a great time and soon “Darling” was declared the last song. But it wasn’t a surprise when Real Estate returned for an encore with Bleeker’s throbbing basslines on “Friday” and his lead vocals on “Victoria.”  They capped off the show with fan-favorite “It's Real,” ushering folks into the late night with an extra bounce in their step.  —Sharlene Chiu | @Shar0ck

Photos courtesy of Savannah Lauren | @savannahlaurenphoto

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Mason/Dipper Pines is an autistic bi trans boy with anxiety, his twin sister Mabel Pines is an autistic pan trans girl with adhd, the 2 are very close and swapped deadnames when they both came out as trans

Their grunkle Stan Pines is a bicurious trans autistic man who uses he/him pronouns, and Stan's brother Ford is an aspec nb transmasc gay who uses they/he pronouns! Ford is with Fiddleford McGuckett, a gay autistic trans man who uses he/they/it pronouns

Dipper looks up to Wendy Cordouroy, a sapphic trans girl who uses she/they pronouns. Wendy is exes with Robbie Valentine, a straight trans man who uses rot/he/xe/they pronouns !!

Mabel's best friends are Candy Chiu, an nb transfem lesbian with autism, she uses she/they pronouns , and Grenda, an autistic lesbian with adhd who uses they/she pronouns

Soos Ramirez is an nb unlabeled dude who uses he/they pronouns, he's autistic and has adhd, his special interest is video games!! , his girlfriend Melody is an autistic trans sapphic with adhd who uses she/they

Gideon gleeful is trans boy, autistic, he/✨ pronouns, Pacifica Northwest is an autistic trans lesbian who uses she/her/they pronouns and has a crush on Mabel

Giffany is an autistic pansexual webcoric trans girl with bpd, she uses she/💗/💌 pronouns !!

Bill Cipher is an agender aro xenoboy who uses it/chaos/he pronouns

hey! so alex hirsch has heavily implied that wendy is bi/mspec, are you cool w that being added here?

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