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cfsvnkissed · 23 days

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˚⋆𓇼˚⊹ 𖦹 ⁺｡° alexa demie, cis woman, she/her ˚⋆𓇼˚⊹ 𖦹 ⁺｡° “ heads up ; if you her RIOT by THE SCARLET OPERA blaring, it’s most likely LOLA SANCHEZ BRADSHAW making their way down the shore ! they’re 33 years old and celebrate their birthday on 06/12 - i knew they were a/an GEMINI ! especially since they’re very INTUITIVE and CALCULATING. they are from MALIBU, CALIFORNIA, staying in SILVER SANDS and are currently working as a/an OWNER & MECHANIC @ HOT ROD AUTO SHOP, here at asbury park. They always did remind me of brightly colored acrylics rhythmically tapping on metal, upbeat music pouring out of the garage doors in the dying afternoon light, fruity drinks on warm evenings mixed with laughter.

STATISTICS

name: lola vitoria bradshaw nee sanchez

age: thirty3

dob: june 12th, 1990

sexuality: pansexual

occupation: owner & mechanic @ hot rod auto shop

martial status: married (to jaden bradshaw)

hometown: malibu, california

MISC.

mbti: entp - the debater

zodiac: gemini

lola's baby car: cherry red 1970 chevelle ss (because john wick had one and boy oh boy did girlie fall in love when she found one she could fix up)

pinterest: here!

BIOGRAPHY

Oh listen, Lola has never shied away from anything in her life. If you ask her what her childhood was like, she won't lie and tell you it was picturesque. She won't paint the perfect white picket fence, green grass and happy home that you see in all of the wholesome sitcoms. Oh no, her childhood was anything but.

Sometimes two people should just admit they find each other physically attractive and move on. It was fun while it lasted, shame there's nothing there, but c'est la vie, that's how it goes sometimes. Unfortunately for Lola, her parents decided they'd try and make their vague semblance of a relationship work after they found out her mom was pregnant with her.

So as to not keep any of you in suspense, it was no surprise that it didn't work. In fact it went down in flames rather spectacularly. Cheating, fights, broken windows, truly soap opera worthy. To their credit, they managed to simmer until Lola was in just entering high school . . . which meant that teen girl emotions mixed with her parents tumultuous split. Fun combo, eh?

Thankfully, she had someone looking out for her, because she sure as sh!t couldn't rely on either of her parents to with them so involved with their break up. Suddenly, Lola found herself trading Malibu's shores for Asbury Park’s coast in her sophomore year of high school. Her grandparents took her under their care and raised her in a loving home, something Lola hadn't had for awhile.

Not having to take care of herself for once was an adjustment, but one she took to in time. She flourished in high school, growing confident as she gathered all manner of friends in any and all social circles. With all of the glitter and bright colors that adorned her wardrobe, though, she found her niche and talent in mechanics. When she wasn't hanging out with friends or studying, she was greased up and elbows deep in some sort of junker her grandpa was restoring.

College was easy, in the sense she knew exactly what she was going after. With all the confidence of Elle Woods taking Harvard, Lola near dominated her mechanical engineering and auto mechanic courses, doing a double major in both. Her grandpa had always wanted to open a shop of his own, and easily enough that became her dream too.

After college Lola traveled for a bit, working wherever she landed so she could gain some experience before she went back to Asbury Park. When she did go back, she found a hole in the wall auto shop that'd been out of business for years . . . and bought it. Thus Hot Rod Auto was born, and Lola had done everything she can over the last 9 or so years to make it into a place that places quality over quantity, hence her insistence for keeping only a small staff on hand. They’ve become her found family, and she’ll easily fight for any of her employees.

Her husband, oh gosh her husband, he made her melt almost from the get go. She’s always had a hard time opening her heart up to people (easy time pretending to, but hard time truly doing so), but Jaden made it easy. Within seemingly no time at all Lola was head over heels for him, and as they say the rest is history. They’ve been married for awhile, and Lola couldn’t be happier. He’s the first person she wants to talk to, and the face she wakes up next to. Catch her turning into the human heart emoji around him.

Where her personality is concerned, she's always been unabashedly bold but in a somewhat casual way. She isn't afraid to speak her mind, and carries herself with a confident air. She's got a big brain and an equally big heart, loves her employees to death and would easily fight for any of them. She's always been more of a person to take care of others than accept the same treatment (#trauma response?), and will absolutely go toe to toe with anyone twice her size.

#tw cheating mention #asbury.intro

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hella-kitty6669 · 2 years

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Okay, I'm adding that to "The List"

Activities

High ropes

Axe throwing ✅️

SUP✅️

Rock climbing✅️

Camping (SandDunes)

Meowwolf ✅️

Lake Nighthorse Aqua Center, Durango

Ritualcravt✅️

Museum (Nature and science, art)

The Curtis ✅️

Coors tour

Travel

Iceland

Asbury Park, NJ✅️

Salem, MA

Breckenridge, CO✅️

Manitou Springs, CO✅️

Victor, CO (witchy BnB)

Morrison day - breakfast and dinosaurs / hike

Aspen / Vail ✅️

Estes park

Steamboat

NecronomiCon Providence (biannual/ 2024)

Telluride / Ouray

Food/Drink

Death & Co

Guard and Grace ✅️

Rocker Spirits✅️

Voodoo Donut✅️

Nobel Riot Chicken

Speakeasies (list located elsewhere)✅️ (partial check)

BlackSky✅️

DTL ✅️

Bacon ✅️

Mr. Donut ✅️

Buckhorn Exchange

Golden

Oddities shop ✅️

Spyderco ✅️

CSM museum ✅️

#jpop #the list #adding to the list #list #to do #fun things #personal #dear diary #checks on ones weve done #mine #love me ;)

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asburyparkhq · 24 days

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Welcome to Asbury Park, LOLA BRADSHAW. Please check in within 24 hours. Also, don't forget your Asbury cheat-sheet to help you settle in at the shore!

˚⋆𓇼˚⊹ 𖦹 ⁺｡° alexa demie, cis woman, she/her ˚⋆𓇼˚⊹ 𖦹 ⁺｡° “ heads up ; if you her RIOT by THE SCARLET OPERA blaring, it’s most likely LOLA BRADSHAW making their way down the shore ! they’re 33 years old and celebrate their birthday on 06/12 - i knew they were a/an GEMINI ! especially since they’re very INTUITIVE and CALCULATING. they are from MALIBU, CALIFORNIA, staying in SILVER SANDS and are currently working as a/an OWNER & MECHANIC @ HOT ROD AUTO SHOP, here at asbury park. They always did remind me of brightly colored acrylics rhythmically tapping on metal, upbeat music pouring out of the garage doors in the dying afternoon light, fruity drinks on warm evenings mixed with laughter. “ { patches, 25, she/her, cst }

#asbury.accepted

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brookstonalmanac · 1 year

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Events 6.20

451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory. 1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan. 1622 – The Battle of Höchst takes place during the Thirty Years' War. 1631 – The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Barbary slave traders. 1652 – Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater. 1756 – A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. 1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States. 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'. 1789 – Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath. 1791 – King Louis XVI, disguised as a valet, and the French royal family attempt to flee Paris during the French Revolution. 1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail. 1837 – King William IV dies, and is succeeded by his niece, Victoria. 1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph. 1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated. 1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state. 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother. 1895 – The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened. 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China. 1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return. 1921 – Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike. 1926 – The 28th International Eucharistic Congress begins in Chicago, with over 250,000 spectators attending the opening procession. 1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp. 1943 – The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days. 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Avro Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot". 1944 – World War II: During the Continuation War, the Soviet Union demands unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses. 1944 – The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space. 1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip. 1948 – The Deutsche Mark is introduced in Western Allied-occupied Germany. The Soviet Military Administration in Germany responded by imposing the Berlin Blockade four days later. 1956 – A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people. 1959 – A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35. 1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal). 1963 – Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington, D.C. and Moscow. 1964 – A Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in the Shengang District of Taiwan, killing 57 people. 1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex. 1973 – Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. 1973 – Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people on board. 1975 – The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters". 1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle during the Nicaraguan Revolution. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime. 1982 – The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide opens in Tel Aviv, despite attempts by the Turkish government to cancel it, as it included presentations on the Armenian genocide. 1982 – The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War. 1988 – Haitian President Leslie Manigat is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant general Henri Namphy. 1990 – Asteroid Eureka is discovered. 1990 – The 7.4 Mw  Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000. 1991 – The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin. 1994 – The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured. 2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida. 2019 – Iran's Air Defense Forces shoot down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions between the two countries.

#Events

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humansofap · 5 years

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I drive up Springwood Ave. to Ridge on a sunny September morning. The streets are virtually deserted and the empty lots and buildings look foreboding. I am on my way to meet Barsheen Ridout, a 57-year-old, long-time resident of Asbury Park who I befriended while taking street photos. He stopped me in front of the barbershop and asked me about my camera. We got to talking about photography and Asbury Park in general. When I told him about my project, he was suspicious, maybe even angry. His exact words were “What I want to know is why a little white girl gives a shit about the west side of Asbury Park and the people who live here!” I had prepared myself for a question like this, but was taken aback at how much I had upset him. I tried to explain how I felt that all stories need to be told and I wanted to help tell them. This seemed to assuage him a bit, and he begrudgingly agreed to meet with me to be interviewed.

I had asked him to pick a spot in Asbury Park that had the most meaning to him, and he told me to meet him at his childhood home on Ridge Ave., which is where I am headed now. I pull up to the house and Barsheen is waiting for me with a wistful look on his face. He tells me this house brings back so many memories. It was his aunt’s home and he lived with her on and off throughout the 60’s and 70’s. His life has not been easy but the times he spent in this house with his aunt were happy ones. Looking back, he realizes this home in Asbury Park was a safe haven for him.

“I lived here from when I was very little until I was 9. Both my parents were IV drug users. Dopers. My father was a pickpocket and my mother did anything he told her to do. It was in my blood, in my family’s blood. So my aunt was raising me. When I was 9, me and my sister decided to run away to go live with my parents in New York. We moved to Harlem and ended up living in 4 different places over 5 years. We were gypsies. Within the 5 years a lot of stuff happened. My father was in jail for shooting somebody. And then the same guy that killed my mother stabbed me. So my father was in the penitentiary and mother was dead and us kids had no one. So I came back to Asbury and my aunt’s house when I was 14.

I came back after the riots. Everything was so different. It was amazingly different. Sometimes I feel a little disconnected and connected to this place. It’s hard for me to say but every time I came back there was something new. It’s an interesting perspective because I wasn’t always here but I always came back.”

We decided to walk around a little so Barsheen can describe what the neighborhood looked like when he was growing up. There is an empty lot next to his aunt’s house that he tells me there used to be full of trees and the kids would call it “the woods” and play in it. He points out a house across the street and tells me it used to be a candy shop owned by Puerto Ricans. As he talks, I can see that the memories are transporting Barsheen to a different time and he gets more animated as he points out different buildings, recalling his old neighborhood.

“These all used to be older houses but they all got knocked down and built over. My aunt used to send me to the store around the corner. There used to be a gas station right here. Lake Ave. is a whole lot different than it was back then. The whole avenue was full of stores. That used to the be nun’s home and the catholic hall. There was a church on the other corner.”

We walk up Lake Ave. and it is hard to imagine the bustling neighborhood he is describing. Barsheen points to one of the very few businesses that are open.

“That liquor store been there forever, since I can remember. See there are 3 things you can count on in a poverty-stricken area. Liquor stores, churches, and laundromats. Those things will always be there in low income areas. That shit right there’s been killing us for a long time. Because you won’t find that in suburbs. You can’t walk to the liquor store in the suburbs, you gotta get in your car and drive there. But in every inner-city poverty stricken community, you can walk to numerous liquor stores. That fires me up. I used to frequent the store a whole lot in the 80’s. Now understanding the science of control and conditioning, about how the establishment that kills a community can stay in the same spot for the past 40 years makes me understand it a little more. None of it is owned by members of the community. Indians run the liquor store. In the 60’s Caucasians owned it. In the 80’s they took it over. Now I’m not talking about the owners. I’m talking about the condition of the institution. That they can come to a place like this and profit. The circumstances and situations.”

As he speaks, he raises his voice and is growing more and more upset. A man on a bicycle rides past us and stops to stare. Barsheen tells him “peace” and assures him we are fine, and he rides away slowly. We are standing in front of a non-descript building and I notice that Barsheen is looking up at the second floor.

“Up top here used to be a gambling club called the 54 House. From when I can remember till the late 80’s. I remember it when I was a kid, then I remember when I was old enough to go in it. We’d play cards, shoot dice, it was a social place for the community. Even in the 70’s when I was a teenager the block was alive. It was a construction town. There were a whole lot more people and whole lot more buildings. This was the construction man’s and the common man’s place to socialize. They had a charter from the city to have a social club.”

I am curious about what police presence was like at that time and whether they were ever shut down.

“They [54 House] did illegal activity, however the guy who ran it for years, who was called Rayfield, was partners with a guy called Artesia Moore. He [Moore] was an ex police officer and he married into a family that owned the Arking lounge. He worked for the gangsters. When his father in law passed away, Artesia’s wife gave him the racket for the town. So him and Rayfield ran it. This was left alone by the cops. They were left alone as long as no drugs were involved. I’m not sure what happened to it [54 House]. I left Asbury for a while and when I came back it just wasn’t there no more”

We decide move our conversation to Kula café, a block away. Big glass windows afford us a great view of Lake Ave. We are right down the block from 2nd Baptist church was where Barsheen was baptized. He tells me it was THE church back then. He tells me it’s where “all the uppity people went.”

He tells me that the café we are sitting in used to be a drug store. There used to be a bar across the street called the Turf Club in the 50’s and 60’s. It was home to many famous performers including the then up and coming Clarence Clemmons. He tells me that both sides of the street were full of bars and lounges. There was the Paramount Pool Hall. It used to be a movie theater until Barsheen’s cousin, Robin Hill bought it and turned it into a pool room. On the other side of the block was Cuba’s bar.

“My aunt Evelyn Smith, worked there, she was barmaid. The husband was Cuba and the wife was Mini. When the gangsters came down to Asbury and they would bring black folks with them, they would break the glasses afterward. [They didn’t want to keep glasses that black folks had drank out of] So my aunt would ask if she could take them home instead. So she had a whole collection of glasses.”

I am slightly taken about by this. I am trying to understand the demographics of the west side at that time. I ask if the neighborhood was mixed.

“In the 60’s a lot of Italians owned things, like all those stores we call bodegas now. The paramount was a black club, the turf club was black too. Cuba’s was not. It was the elite. The borderline was the railroad track and Asbury Ave. Past there you didn’t find too many black people in the 60’s. If you went to Cookman Ave., you knew you had to act right. You knew you were someplace special. You better act right in the white folk’s shit. Cuz the borderline was the goddamn tracks. Then the riots happened in the 70’s. After everything was burnt down, there was a portion of Lake Ave. that was left empty on both sides. It never got rebuilt. Recently they built a few homes on both sides. Maybe in the 90s. But it’s never been the same.”

Barsheen tells me that in the 90’s there were black-run businesses in Downtown Asbury Park, which are all gone now; a result of gentrification.

“They had Freeman’s bakery and a black woman ran it. Bond St. and Cookman, that whole side was run by black people. There was a deli on the corner, then a barber shop, then the Jamaican guy’s clothing store. Then they pushed him out by raising the rents and now he’s in Collingswood barely making a living. They pushed everybody out!”

I want to know what growing up in Asbury Park was like for him and how it affected him personally.

“This whole area right here was all lower income. This was all stores and above them were tenements. So when I came back in 79’ that’s when I was hustling. My whole crew was doing it. I would stand on this corner right here and I could see all the way down this block. I could see all the way to the bar and I could see everybody hanging out there. And I’d get butterflies all in my stomach. I was going to that corner, it was my destination. I was going to sell drugs; I knew it was dangerous. And I’ve never told anybody this but every time I did it I was so scared. A lot of my friends died or are in prison. Yeah a lot of them. My father and mother were both dopers. I sold drugs all my life, in and out of the penitentiary. Then I finally went through recovery and got clean and identified that it’s a disease. Part of it was hereditary.”

I wonder out loud if he feels like this is a continuing problem in Asbury Park.

“That’s a really complex topic. Parents passing it on might have a lot to do with it. There’s a documentary and the guy phrased it so well he said “We didn’t bring the guns here, we didn’t bring the drugs here, we didn’t invent no poverty, we didn’t invent racism. But you hold us guilty when we can’t rise above it.”

My oldest daughter for example, is an accomplished lawyer living in Voorhees in a beautiful home. She came from right here. Both her parents were drug users. She was raised in the same house in the same environment as my step son. He’s still bumping his head. So environment plays a part but it also doesn’t. If we had more resources dedicated to us, we would have a better chance to succeed. I’m not holding to the environment 100%. The cocaine epidemic of the 80’s destroyed us [the black community]. Every block had a crack house. Everybody in this community was smoking. It affected everything very badly. That effected the next generation. I’m a survivor of it. I know people in the penitentiary for life because of it. I have close friends who died because of it. My mother’s dead because of it. This isn’t something I read about, it’s something I’ve lived.

I’ve been pondering on your question you asked me the other day about how we feel about the gentrification. One: why would you want to be someplace where they don’t want you anyway? And two: if you don’t own anything in the community, the community ain’t yours. It’s who owns it who has the voices when they go to town meetings. There are very few black people that own houses. If you own something you have a voice. But most don’t own. If you don’t own it, it isn’t yours. You and I both know this. Change in constant. And sometimes change is good. Because at one time, in this town everybody knew everybody. Is it all bad? No. This place we’re sitting in is a good change. People died for me to have the right to vote. Medgar Evers died registering people to vote. But I don’t think my vote honestly makes a goddamn difference.”

I ask if he feels like he has emotionally detached himself from Asbury Park. He seems conflicted in that he says he won’t stay some place he feels like he is not wanted, but at the same time this is his home.

“I guess it’s a paradox. It’s hard to explain. No I haven’t [emotionally detached]. I have a son here who just had a son here. I have other family in this city too. I’m 57 years old. I haven’t survived anywhere else but in the hood. This is all I remember and know. This is my home.”

I ask him if he hopes his son stays and builds a life in Asbury Park. And he replies that he hopes he does not. Barsheen wants his son to see the bigger world, see beyond this town. He says he sees too many of the young people here get caught up in it. The ones that might fall victim to the environment. He believes that success means a lot of different things to different people. It has a lot to do with ambition.

“My son lives with his sister, in the same household. His sister is doing really well in school and already has college credits. My son is always with the boys, he’s a member of the Olds. He’s got a job. He gangster raps. He graduated by the skin of his teeth.”

I’m finding it interesting that the girls seem to be more motivated that the boys and I ask if he feels the same way. He says that he knows both men and women who he grew up with who have succeeded in life and built names for themselves in the community. But he admits that the women do tend to do better.

I ask him why he thinks that is. He gets very quiet, and the silence stretches across the table and engulfs us.

I am not leaving without an answer and I dare to ask again, “why?”

Barsheen’s eyes fill with tears and his voice shakes as he finally replies.

“Do you know that the black man is an endangered species in this country? They kill them when they want to. Trying to kill our hopes, our dreams, our spirit, our ambitions. And then when they can’t do that they put a bullet in our head. What you talking about WHY. You want to keep it for real? You asked me why? Why? That’s why.”

#asbury #asburypark #asbury park #asbury park nj #nj #gentrification #asbury park riots #asbury park west side #west side #other side of the tracks #asbury park history #nj history #segregation #poverty #race issues

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thepopculturearchivist · 4 years

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July 7, 1970

#1970 #asbury park #race riots #riots #ian paisley #student protests #national health insurance #vietnam war #vietnam #south vietnam

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moviesinfocus · 5 years

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Review: ASBURY PARK: RIOT, REDEMPTION, ROCK N ROLL

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A postcard of a seaside town, the cover of Bruce Springsteen’s debut album Greetings From Asbury Parkmight look like a tacky memento of a long forgotten summer holiday, but it is reminder of how the New Jersey town impacted the singer-songwriter, playing a major part in the laid-back sound of his debut release. Asbury Park was rich with gutsy bravado, a sonic melting pot…

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#asbury park: riot redemption rdemption rock n roll #bruce springsteen #music #southside johnny lyon #steven van zandt

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njhgc · 4 years

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Celebrating 50 years of Pride: LGBT life in New Jersey

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first LGBT Pride parade held in New York City, on June 28, 1970, one year after the Stonewall Riots that were precipitated by years of anti-gay persecution and harassment. (The Stonewall Inn pictured below in a National Archives photo.)

Organizers sought to end laws making it illegal for gay and lesbian Americans to congregate in bars, and end the subsequent police raids that resulted in arrests while also ending careers and families.

Over the following five decades, New Jerseyans came out to build new relationships with neighbors, co-workers, and family, and sought legislative means to end workplace and housing discrimination — while also living busy lives of their own.

During the aftermath of Stonewall, Gay Activist Alliance groups started in several states. The Gay Activist Alliance in Morris County (GAAMC) was founded in 1972 and headquartered at Morristown’s Unitarian Fellowship Church. GAAMC membership quickly grew from 25 to 100 by 1976, and by the late 1970s members were instrumental in confronting new and existing discriminatory laws, while also providing support services and social activities for residents.

More on the history of GAAMC and LGBT life in New Jersey after Stonewall here.

#LGBT #Pride 50th anniversary #Gay Activist Alliance in New Jersey #Stonewall Riots #Gay Helpline of New Jersey #Maddie's Mine Hill Tavern #Asbury Park Pride parade

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outoftowninac · 2 years

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MULLATO

1940

Mulatto is a play by Langston Hughes. It premiered on Broadway in 1935 moving theatres five times before closing with a run of 373 performances. Until Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun opened in 1959, the play held the record for the longest running Broadway production by an African-American.

The title refers to a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent.

The play takes place in the living room of a Plantation near Cedartown, Georgia.

Brooks Atkinson described it as:

a sobering sensation

One Philadelphia newspaper explained it as:

A melodrama of miscegenation in the South telling the story of a wealthy Southern planter who philanders with his housekeeper and sends his four Mulatto children North to be educated. The Yankee environment instills in them the spirit of equality, so that when they return to the plantation they antagonize their family and neighbors.

Advertisements promised:

a darling drama of sex life in the South.

Despite its Broadway success, the City of Brotherly Love had no love for Mulatto. It was banned not once, but twice when attempting to tour through the city. A third attempt at a production in February 1940 met with the same results.

The instigator of the original ban, Mayor S. David Wilson, claimed that the play would incite riots, despite the fact that not once during Mulatto’s 373 performances in New York, or its three month-run in Chicago, did it stir even the hint of a riot. “The show won’t go on,” declared the mayor, claiming Mulatto was “an outrageous affront to decency.” He was particularly aggrieved that the play dared to open during the Lenten season!

Mulatto producer Jack Linder assured the mayor and the press that “many changes had been made and the objectionable features had been removed. The author, however, was not consulted.

One critic wondered whether enough “soap and water has been applied to make it safe for Philadelphia consumption.” Wilson stuck to his decision and posted police at the entrances of the darkened theater.

Philadelphia wasn’t the only town deprived of Mulatto. Baltimore also banned the play, piggy-backing on Philadelphia’s censorship. Somewhat ironically, today Northern Baltimore contains a neighborhood known as Langston Hughes.

Mulatto found audiences elsewhere, as close as the Garden Pier Theatre in Atlantic City, the following August. Although Atlantic City (and New Jersey at large) was historically more liberal than its Liberty Bell neighbor, black beach-goers were still restricted to a strip of sand referred to as Chicken Bone Beach. Perhaps coincidentally, Hughes’ autobiography was published the same year (1940) that Mulatto played the pier. It was titled Big Sea.

The cast for this production included Miriam Battista, Stuart Beebe, Abbie Mitchell, Harry Hanlon, Edwin Forsberg, Hurst Amyx, and George Rathbone. In addition to Atlantic City, it also played Brooklyn’s Flatbush Theatre, where it was billed as a “SEXational drama.”

Ten years earlier, Hughes and Zora Neal Hurston collaborated on a play titled Mule Bone, with Hughes writing in Westfield NJ. The play was to be produced in Atlantic City, Asbury Park, Philadelphia, and other locations, but the authors had a falling out over copyright and it wasn’t staged until 1991.

Around 1929, Hughes’ mother Carrie, his stepfather and stepbrother, lived in Atlantic City. Hughes visited for holidays. Atlantic City was notably mentioned in Hughes’ 1922 poem “Brass Spittoons”:

Clean the spittoons, boy. Detroit, Chicago, Atlantic City, Palm Beach. Clean the spittoons.

Even more pointedly in 1947′s “Seashore Through Dark Glasses”:

Atlantic City

Beige sailors with large noses Binocular the Atlantic...

At Club Harlem it's eleven And seven cats go frantic. Two parties from Philadelphia Dignify the place And murmur.

Such Negroes disgrace the race!

On Artic Avenue Sea food joints Scent salty-colored Compass points.

Club Harlem was a nightclub at 32 Kentucky Avenue in Atlantic City. Founded in 1935, it was the city's premier club for black jazz performers. It closed for good in 1986 and was torn down after storm damage in 1992. It was one of the filming locations for the 1980 film Atlantic City. And let’s remember, too, that Harlem is an Americanization of Haarlem.

Hughes misspells Arctic Avenue, but the address is well known for being a property in the board game Monopoly. To be fair, Monopoly itself misspells Marven Gardens, which is a contraction of MARgate and VENtnor, the two towns that make up the island where Atlantic City sits.

After Wilson’s death of, the play’s producers attempted again to bring Mulatto to the Philadelphia stage. But Wilson’s successor invoked the earlier decision and debate continued. Wilson’s censorship stood. Langston Hughes’ Mulatto has yet to have its Philadelphia premiere. The closest it has come was a high school production in Chester PA, 20 miles from Philly, in 1970.

In 1947, there were international productions of the play in both Italy and Brazil.

In November 1950, a musicalization of the play titled The Barrier played on Broadway for just four performances. The brief run essentially tabled any discussion of the musical playing Atlantic City, Philadelphia - or any other city.

#Mulatto #Langston Hughes #Atlantic City #Garden Pier #Broadway #Broadway Play #Black HIstory #The Barrier #Theatre #Play #Philadelphia #banned #canceled

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Warped Tour, 2003

Dates:

June 19: Boise, ID

June 20: Bozeman, MT

June 22: Denver, CO

June 23: Wichita, KS

June 24: Bonner Springs, KS

June 25: Maryland Heights, MO

June 26: Cincinnati, OH

June 27: Noblesville, IN

June 28: Somerset, WI

June 29: Tinley Park, IL

July 2: Calgary, AB

July 4: Vancouver, BC

July 5: George, WA

July 6: St. Helens, OR

July 8: Pomona, CA

July 9: Ventura, CA

July 10: Chula Vista, CA

July 11: Long Beach, CA

July 12: San Francisco, CA

July 13: Marysville, CA

July 15: Peoria, AZ

July 18: Selma, TX

July 19: Dallas, TX

July 20: Houston, TX

July 23: Atlanta, GA

July 24: Orlando, FL

July 25: St. Petersburg, FL

July 26: Pompano Beach, FL

July 27: Jacksonville, FL

July 28: Charlotte, NC

July 29: Virginia Beach, VA

July 30: Bristow, VA

July 31: Brockton, MA

August 1: Montreal, QC

August 2: Barrie, ON

August 3: Pontiac, MI

August 4: Milwaukee, WI

August 5: Cleveland, OH

August 6: Burgettstown, PA

August 7: Darien, NY

August 8: Camden, NJ

August 9: New York, NY

August 10: Asbury Park, NJ

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Lineup:

AFI (Played 6/19-6/29 and 7/18-7/29)

Andrew W.K. (Played 6/19-7/31)

The Ataris

Dropkick Murphys

Glassjaw

Pennywise (Played 7/4-7/16 and 7/30-8/10)

Rancid

Simple Plan

The Starting Line (Played 7/18-8/10)

Sum 41 (Played 6/29 and 7/9-7/15)

Twiztid (Played 7/31)

Face to Face

Less Than Jake

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (Played 7/31-8/10)

Mest

Poison The Well

Suicide Machines

Taking Back Sunday (Played 8/8-8/10)

Talib Kweli (Played 7/5-7/13)

Thrice

The Used

The All-American Rejects (Played 7/23-8/10)

Atmosphere (Played 7/15-8/5)

Brand New (Played 7/23-8/10)

Damone (Played 6/19-6/28 and 7/2-7/6)

Ill Kid (Played 6/19-6/27)

Mad Caddies (Played 6/19-8/6)

One Man Army (Played 7/15-8/10)

Rufio (Played 6/28-7/16)

Slick Shoes

S.T.U.N.

Tsunami Bomb

The Unseen (Played 6/19-7/16)

Vendetta Red

Yellowcard (Played 7/18-8/10)

7th Standard

Anthym (Played 7/8)

Arkham (Played 6/19-6/23 and 7/4-7/16)

Arraya (Played 7/4-7/6)

ASG (Played 6/24-6/29, 7/18-7/23 and 8/7-8/10)

Authority Zero (Played 7/5-7/16)

Avenged Sevenfold (Played 6/19-7/16)

Avoid One Thing (Played 7/31-8/10)

Coheed and Cambria (Played 7/28-8/10)

Count the Stars (Played 7/28-8/10)

Destruction Made Simple

Drowning Adam (Played 7/13)

From Autumn to Ashes (Played 7/8-7/27)

Heavy Trevy (Played 7/10)

The Line (Played 7/9-7/13)

M-80 (Played 8/3-8/8)

Matchbook Romance (Played 6/19-8/2)

Motion City Soundtrack (Played 8/3-8/10)

New Transit Direction (Played 6/19-6/23)

Pepper (Played 7/15-8/10)

Places to Park (Played 7/24-8/6

Plain White T's (Played 7/8-7/27)

Rise Against (Played 6/19-6/29 and 7/28-8/8)

Story of the Year (Played 7/18-8/2 and 8/9-8/10)

Vaux

Western Waste

Audio Karate (Played 6/20-6/25)

Bowling for Soup

The Escape Engine (Played 8/1-8/10)

The Fags (Played 8/7)

Maxeen (Played 6/19-7/16)

Sloth (Played 6/19-6/27)

30 Day Warranty (Played 7/29)

5 Finger Discount (Played 7/28)

8th Wave (Played 6/24)

A Dying Race (Played 8/1)

The After Life Kids (Played 7/28)

Against the Sky (Played 6/21)

AGaNG (Played 6/21)

Alastor (Played 7/23)

Almost Cool (Played 8/6)

AnchondO (Played 6/25)

And Faster We Fall (Played 7/23)

Anti Anti (Played 8/8)

Army of Freshmen (Played 7/9)

Atomic Kick (Played 6/28)

The Awkward Picture (Played 8/1)

Bedrockers (Played 8/8)

The Better Half (Played 7/6)

Big Jim Slade (Played 7/23)

Blind Luck Music (Played 7/31)

Blueroot (Played 7/9)

BomberMan Awesome (Played 6/20)

The Brews (Played 6/25)

The Broadcast (Played 7/19)

Brownie Points (Played 7/24)

Calcutta (Played 7/9)

Caruso (Played 6/26)

Censored Youth (Played 7/16)

Chaser (Played 7/11)

The Clarity (Played 7/20)

Class of Zero (Played 7/11)

Common Effect (Played 7/30)

The Common Place (Played 6/28)

Concise (Played 7/25)

consicebloc (Played 7/25)

Crooked Edge (Played 7/25)

Day Two (Played 6/21)

Deagle (Played 8/10)

DKLIMB (Played 7/26)

Dogmatic (Played 7/10)

Donkey Punch (Played 8/3)

Down By One (Played 6/19)

Down in the Park (Played 7/27)

The Downs (Played 6/22)

Dual Peak (Played 8/1)

DV8 (Played 7/19)

EPD (Played 7/6)

The Erks (Played 7/8)

Ever Since Radio (Played 7/30)

Every Moment (Played 7/20)

Everydays Monday (Played 7/19)

The Failure (Played 7/2)

False Intent (Played 6/29)

Falsehood (Played 7/9)

Farewell to Twilight (Played 8/4)

Fist-15 (Played 6/19)

Flat Earth Society (Played 8/10)

Floored (Played 7/4)

Forfit (Played 7/10)

Fortitude (Played 7/24)

Four*Sixty*Five (Played 6/27)

Fourbanger (Played 7/15)

Fuller (Played 6/27)

The Gamblers (Played 8/2)

Gametime (Played 6/22)

The Getback (Played 7/26)

Gladyss Patches (Played 7/4)

Good in the Sack (Played 7/18)

GoOsEr (Played 7/13)

Haddonfield (Played 8/2)

Happy Campers (Played 7/10)

The Harp Project (Played 7/24)

Hello John (Played 7/15}

High School Football Heroes (Played 8/9)

Hindsight 20/20 (Played 7/29)

Hopesick (Played 7/27)

The Hot Flashez (Played 8/3)

The Interns (Played 8/5)

It Rains for Caleb (Played 7/24)

JC Auto (Played 6/20)

Jaded52 (Played 7/5)

Jem Crossland and the Hypertonics (Played 7/28)

Jennas Arrival (Played 7/15)

Jetstream Cowboy (Played 6/20)

Jhombi (Played 7/19)

Jumping Monks (Played 7/18)

JV Allstars (Played 6/24)

Kicked in the Head (Played 7/31)

The Know How (Played 8/1)

The Last Call (Played 8/7)

Late for Life (Played 7/26)

Locale A.M. (Played 7/6)

Lookingbackinflames (Played 7/2)

Lurch and Viscious Hick (Played 7/27)

Lynus (Played 7/13)

Lythic Blue (Played 7/4)

Madelines Demon (Played 8/7)

Mark Needs A Chick (Played 7/20)

Me (Played 7/4)

Mind Candy (Played 7/5)

Mind Driver (Played 7/8)

Montys Fan Club (Played 7/31)

Much the Same (Played 6/29)

MugShot (Played 8/2)

The Narcoleptics x5 (Played 8/5)

New Age Dropouts (Played 6/22)

Nimh (Played 6/21)

No Fair Fights (Played 6/22)

The Noviach (Played 8/8)

Oktober (Played 7/15)

On Side Red (Played 6/26)

Once Over (Played 7/12)

Onepointloss (Played 8/2)

Onset (Played 6/27)

Paper or Plastic (Played 7/6)

Parkridge (Played 6/25)

The Pits (Played 7/27)

Point Blank (Played 8/9)

Polaris (Played 7/11)

Pro-Izquierdo (Played 7/16)

Rayzing Sons (Played 7/8)

Red Skyline (Played 7/25)

Red Top Road (Played 7/12)

Ritter (Played 8/8)

Rivendale (Played 6/24)

Rocky Denis (Played 6/29)

The Ruminants (Played 7/10)

Rydia (Played 8/10)

Sadie Hawkins Rejects (Played 7/5)

Scallywagon (Played 6/26)

Second Before the Crash (Played 8/6)

Seven Day Delusion (Played 6/23)

Seven Degrees from Center (Played 6/27)

Shortfuse (Played 6/19)

Shortie (Played 7/13)

Silent Film Stars (Played 6/25)

Simplekill (Played 7/26)

Six Under Par (Played 7/18)

The Skantronics (Played 8/5)

Skracht Apple (Played 7/28)

SmallPaul (Played 7/12)

Snapback (Played 6/23)

Somerset (Played 6/28)

The Sore Thumbs (Played7/12)

South Day Bessie (Played 8/3)

The SpacePimps (Played 8/6)

Spectre (Played 7/30)

Split Fifty (Played 8/9)

Spoiler (Played 7/16)

Sprout (Played 8/10)

Start to Fetish (Played 7/29)

Stellar Frequency (Played 6/23)

Stinkaholic (Played 7/8)

Straight Outta Junior High (Played 6/24)

Straight Line (Played 7/5)

Struck Down (Played 6/20)

Style Over Substance (Played 7/23)

Subdue (Played 8/4)

The Swellers (Played 8/3)

Thatcher (Played 8/7)

This Island Earth (Played 8/6)

Three Day Threshold (Played 7/31)

Throw the Fight (Played 6/28)

The Ties That Bind (Played 7/20)

Tir Flame (Played 7/16)

The Tossers (Played 6/29)

Truth in Fiction (Played 8/4)

Undergo (Played 7/2)

Underhero (Played 6/26)

Upinatem (Played 6/19)

Upside (Played 6/23)

Urban Style (Played 7/30)

Vast Difference (Played 7/13)

Victory Flag (Played 8/5)

Vox Humana (Played 7/29)

Weak at Best (Played 7/2)

Wester (Played 7/11)

Westgate (Played 8/9)

The White Heat (Played 7/18)

White Knuckle Trip (Played 8/4)

Wide of the Mark (Played 8/7)

1208 (Played 7/10-7/16)

2 Cents

A Loss For Words (Played 7/24)

Anatomy of a Ghost (Played 6/19-7/6)

Anything But Joey (Played 6/24)

A.T.W. (Played 6/25-6/26 and 8/5-8/8

Beret (Played 6/19, 7/19, 7/26, 7/31 and 8/8-8/10)

Big D and the Kids Table (Played 7/18-8/9

Bob's Office (Played 7/10)

Boogie Naws (Played 7/30)

Break the Silence (Played 6/19-6/29)

Breaking Even (Played 8/6-8/10)

Cigar (Played 7/6-7/8)

The Code (Played 8/6)

Cold Fusion (Played 7/8, 7/10-7/11 and 7/15-7/16)

Commercial (Played 8/6-8/8)

End of the Line (Played 8/9-8/10)

Faceplant (Played 7/18-7/23)

False Prophits (Played 7/28-7/29)

Fear Nuttin Band (Played 7/31 and 8/9-8/10)

The Fight (Played 7/5-7/8 and 7/10-7/11)

Four Bill Stall (Played 7/15-7/16)

Gametime (Played 6/25)

The Getaway (Played 8/1-8/3)

The Heathens (Played 7/2-7/4)

The Holograms (Played 7/11)

Hurry Up Offense (Played 8/9-8/10)

I in Team (Played 7/2-7/4)

The Know How (Played 7/24-7/27 and 8/1)

Leon Milmore (Played 7/29)

Letter Kills

Level (Played 7/8-7/13)

Lightweight Holiday (Played 6/26 and 8/5)

Live on Release (Played 7/2-7/4)

The Lordz (Played 7/5-7/6)

Lylah (Played 7/16-7/19)

Mackenzie (Playd 8/1)

Meesh (Played 8/1-8/2)

Melee (Played 7/10-7/16)

Never Heard of It

Near Miss (Played 7/18-7/19)

Operatic (Played 7/10)

Pipedown (Played 7/13)

Punchline (Played 8/4-8/6

River City High (Played 7/28-7/31)

The Shocker (Played 7/5-7/13)

Skyline Victory (Played 8/6-8/10)

Spenser (Played 8/5)

Split Tail Delux (Played 7/11)

Stairwell (Played 7/4-7/9)

Switchblade Kittens (Played 7/5-7/11)

Ten Years From Now (Played 7/28-7/30)

Third Estate (Played 6/19-6/25 and 8/7)

Thought Riot (Played 7/12)

Throw Rag (Played 7/12-7/13)

Tijuana Gasso (Played 7/13)

Time Will Tell (Played 7/9, 7/11, 7/23-7/27, 7/30-7/31, 8/8 and 8/10)

The Toasters (Played 8/10)

Undergo (Played 7/4)

Virus Nine (Played 7/6)

Without Self (Played 7/4-7/6)

Bottom Line (Played 7/9-7/25)

Counterfit (Played 7/9-7/25)

Don't Look Down (Played 7/9-7/25)

Gametime (Played 7/11, 7/13, 7/18 and 7/20)

The Goodwill (Played 7/9-7/25)

Mightas Well (Played 7/24-7/25)

Over It (Played 7/9-7/25)

Park (Played 7/9-7/25)

Sonny (Played 7/10, 7/12, 7/15-7/16 and 7/19, 7/23)

Underoath (Played 7/18-7/25)

Vanguard (Played 7/9-7/16)

Bullet Train to Moscow (Played 7/15)

Last Action Zeros (Played 7/15)

No Gimmick (Played 7/15)

North Side Kings (Played 7/15)

Parkway Wretch (Played 7/15)

West End Crooks (Played 7/15)

Where Eagles Dare (Played 7/15)

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2020 RETROSPECTIVE / AMERICAN RIVER, A TRAPPIST CITY EXTENSION ANTHOLOGY

One of my stay-at-home projects for 2020, was making comprehensive, anthology-style mixes for artists that have been important in my life and musical growth over the last 5-10 years. I wanted to try to compile all or most of a musician’s songs (or simply all my favorites) during the months that I find myself listening to them the most. I followed some loose themes (seasonal, religion, life & death, light & darkness, times of day, states of mind, storytelling, moods) as to how to divide their career and body of work. WHEW!

After Typhoon in January, came Toms River, New Jersey’s Joe Michelini. The driving force at the heart of River City Extension and now American Trappist. I’m pretty sure I bought River City’s debut full-length The Unmistakeable Man at Twist & Shout Records in 2011, around the same time I was super into flannel-dude-folk, because I remember buying Gregory Alan Isakov and Frightened Rabbit (more on both of them as the year progresses haha) as well! Oh well. That album was a constant companion to me through some dark times in my mid 20′s. Then Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Anger made #2 on my very first albums of the year list in 2012! Fun fact, those two (pretty popular) albums are nowhere to be found on Spotify so the playlist linked down below is severely lacking. 2015′s Deliverance was their farewell album as a group, but they had already slimmed down (a la Typhoon’s Offerings slimming from 13 to 8) to five members. Deliverance practically dances with upbeat, complex folk-y jams, equal parts Elton John, Vampire Weekend, & Bright Eyes, tinged with east coast emo, a true songwriters album. I never got to see River City Extension live (pretty sure I missed a Marquis Theater show some time back in 2012 cuz I was trying to save $15 dammit) but their death bloomed into Michelini’s current project, American Trappist. The American Trappist mythology is dark & deep & very very fruitful. Michelini has released by my count five EPs and three full length albums as American Trappist, all containing threads to each other, bits & pieces of songs intertwining, reworked & reheard, echoing each other’s importance. Most of them have ended up on my end of the year favorites list. In 2016 I called his three EPs “Brooding electro-thump,” “humorous romantic jazz,” and “Powerfully positive with heartfelt enthusiasm.” and in 2018 I called Tentanda Via “Depressing & uplifting boardwalk rock&roll,” “a coming-of-age album full of deeper, wiser unravelings,” and a “mid 30′s rock opus full of songs about learning to live with yourself and learning how to make yourself better!’ WOW!

In the early stages of the COVID pandemic, Michelini had been teasing another new one from the goddamn Trappist and we were all feeling some sort of desperation. He posted on the Trappist Instagram about needing new shoelaces and being willing to trade a copy of the new record. Just like that I had a super exclusive, advance promo copy of The Gate in exchange for a brand new pair of bright red shoelaces!

You’ll be reading about The Gate on my 2020 favorites list (coming reeeeal soooon!), but it cements itself solidly in the Michelini catalog, points towards exciting new directions, and even threads back to the older stuff with “Moses (Revisited).” Goddamn I love this band!

My Michelini mix is currently loosely titled “American River, A Trappist City Extension”. The art is mostly made up of RCE & AT CD’s, but colors & logos were provided by cutting up beer labels from Lady Justice Brewing, an early Covid To-Go favorite! Tracklist for all five of my CDs follows. The Spotify link is just all the available songs combined as a lot of it’s not available on there. Search youtube for the rest.

Thanks to Joe Michelini and all the band members past & present of River City Extension & American Trappist!

LISTEN HERE

VOL. 1

introduction / ballad of oregon / ohio / point of surrender / no bibles / losing my grip / death wish / white blackmail / soot / nobody’s gonna get my soul / active recovery / other reasons / ...rides again / something’s gotta give / (i had thought about this in ) march / yer so bad (tom petty cover) / the gate / friends & family (cassette acoustic version) / fireworks (revisited) / letter to lainie...

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VOL. 2

glastonbury / jackie / getting even (live from asbury park yacht club) / the real thing / you only enter the graveyard / demon host (timber timbre cover) / other reasons (live from weathervane) / all night diner (live from weathervane) / no bibles (live from weathervane) / ohio (cassette acoustic version) / e.c.c.b. / man of conviction / welcome to pittsburgh / false prophet / nothing short of faithful / heaven (canadian goth-folk/noise rock edition / strange days / if you need me back in brooklyn / holy cross...

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VOL. 3

the unmistakable man / friends & family / fireworks / our new intelligence / don’t get in / other other reasons / leann / indian summer / something salty, something sweet / satan’s kingdom / too tired to drink / holy moses / i’ll have to say i love you in a song (jim croce cover) / q.c. / ...rides again (from quarantine) / independence day / the devil is real / getting even / ballad of oregon (cassette acoustic version) / waiting on a fix...

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VOL 4

nautical sabbatical / adrianne / down, down, down / you only enter the graveyard (last dance at the apocalypse prom) / there & back again / if i still own a bible / clever & quickness / elephant / mexico / sour in the rye / the worst kind / heaven / on the river toms / fear of nothing / unfresh dirtwolf / natural causes / all night diner / moses (revisited) / waiting for a fix (cassette acoustic version) / it’s no ha-ha-ha / everything west of home/brooklyn (reprise)...

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VOL. 5

the fall & the need to be free / golden tongue (thanatopsis) / today, i feel like i’m evolving / waiting in the airport / pleasure mtn / south for the winter / vanessa’s song or don’t let the sun go down on your anger / you only enter the graveyard (live from weathervane) / getting even (live from weathervane) / i’m not there / 21 days / standing outside a southern riot / i wouldn’t worry / spunk / slander / up in the air / after dark / the afterglow / nebraska (bruce springsteen cover cassette version)...

#river city extension #american trappist #joe michelini

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If you choose to believe that all of these protests and uprisings, to demand equality and government employ to do their job, is "New" - here's a breakdown:

- Antebellum Violence

Cincinnati Riots, 1829

Anti-Abolition Riots, 1834 (sound familiar?)

Cincinnati Race Riots, 1836

The Pennsylvania Hall Fire, 1838

Christina (Pennsylvania) Riot, 1851

- Civil War, Reconstruction, & Post-Reconstruction Era Violence

Detroit Race Riot, 1863

New York City Draft Riots, 1863

Memphis Riot, 1866

New Orleans Massacre, 1866

Pulaski Race Riot, 1868

Camilla Massacre, 1868

Opelousas Massacre, 1868

The Meridian Race Riot, 1871

Chicot County Race War, 1871

The Colfax Massacre, 1873

Clinton (Mississippi) Riot, 1875

Hamburg Massacre, 1876

Carroll County Courthouse Massacre, 1886

Thibodaux Massacre, 1887

New Orleans Dockworkers’ Riot, 1894-1895

Virden, Illinois Race Riot, 1898

Wilmington Race Riot, 1898

Newburg, New York Race Riot, 1899

- Race Riots, 1900-1960

Robert Charles Riot (New Orleans), 1900

New York City Race Riot, 1900

Atlanta Race Riot, 1906

Springfield, Illinois Race Riot, 1908

East St. Louis Race Riot, 1917

Chester, Pennsylvania Race Riot, 1917

Houston Mutiny and Race Riot, 1917

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Race Riot, 1918

Charleston (South Carolina) Riot, 1919

Washington, D.C. Riot, 1919

Chicago Race Riot, 1919

Knoxville Race Riot, 1919

Elaine, Arkansas Riot, 1919

Tulsa Race Riot, 1921

Rosewood Massacre, 1923

Harlem Race Riot, 1935

Beaumont Race Riot, 1943

Detroit Race Riot, 1943

Columbia Race Riot, 1946

- Urban Uprisings, 1960-2000

Cambridge, Maryland Riot, 1963

The Harlem Race Riot, 1964

Rochester Rebellion, 1964

Jersey City Uprising, 1964

Paterson, New Jersey Uprising, 1964

Elizabeth, New Jersey Uprising, 1964

Chicago (Dixmoor) Riots, 1964

Philadelphia Race Riot, 1964

Watts Rebellion (Los Angeles), 1965

Cleveland’s Hough Riots, 1966

Chicago, Illinois Uprising, 1966

The Dayton, Ohio Uprising, 1966

Hunter’s Point, San Francisco Uprising, 1966

The Nashville Race Riot, 1967

Newark Race Riot, 1967

Plainfield, New Jersey Riot, 1967

Detroit Race Riot, 1967

Flint, Michigan Riot, 1967

Tuscon Race Riot, 1967

Grand Rapids, Michigan Uprising, 1967

The King Assassination Riots, 1968

Hartford, Connecticut Riot, 1969

Asbury Park Race Riot, 1970

Camden, New Jersey Riots, 1969 and 1971

Miami (Liberty City) Riot, 1980

Crown Heights (Brooklyn) New York Riot, 1991

Rodney King Riot, 1992

West Las Vegas Riot, 1992

St. Petersburg, Florida Riot, 1996

- College Campus Violence

University of Georgia Desegregation Riot, 1961

Ole Miss Riot, 1962

Houston (Texas Southern University) Riot, 1967

Orangeburg Massacre, 1968

Jackson State Killings, 1970

- 21st Century Racial Violence

Cincinnati Riot, 2001

Oscar Grant Oakland Protests, 2009-2011

Ferguson Riot and Ferguson Unrest, 2014-2015

Baltimore Protests and Riots, 2015

Charleston Church Massacre, 2015

Milwaukee Riot, 2016

Charlotte Riot, 2016

Jackson State Killings, 1970

And in case you thought that slavery "just ended"- there were plenty of uprisings of both slaves AND Good white folk who saw it as being against God's will:

Revolts of the Enslaved:

New York City Slave Uprising, 1712

The Stono Rebellion, 1739

New York City Slave Conspiracy, 1741

Gabriel Prosser Revolt, 1800

Igbo Landing Mass Suicide, 1803

Andry’s Rebellion, 1811

Denmark Vesey Conspiracy, 1822

Nat Turner Revolt, 1831

Amistad Mutiny, 1839

Creole Case, 1841

Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation, 1842

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451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory. 1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan. 1622 – The Battle of Höchst takes place during the Thirty Years' War. 1631 – The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates. 1652 – Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater. 1756 – A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. 1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States. 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'. 1789 – Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath. 1791 – King Louis XVI, disguised as a valet, and the French royal family attempt to flee Paris during the French Revolution. 1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail. 1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne. 1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph. 1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated. 1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state. 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother. 1895 – The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened. 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China. 1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return. 1921 – Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike. 1926 – The 28th International Eucharistic Congress begins in Chicago, with over 250,000 spectators attending the opening procession. 1940 – World War II: The Soviet Union occupies the Romanian territories of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. 1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp. 1943 – The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days. 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Avro Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot". 1944 – Continuation War: The Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses. 1944 – The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space. 1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip. 1948 – The Deutsche Mark is introduced in Western Allied-occupied Germany. The Soviet Military Administration in Germany responded by imposing the Berlin Blockade four days later. 1956 – A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people. 1959 – A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35. 1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal). 1963 – Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington, D.C. and Moscow. 1964 – A Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in the Shengang District of Taiwan, killing 57 people. 1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex. 1973 – Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. 1973 – Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people on board. 1975 – The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters". 1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle during the Nicaraguan Revolution. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime. 1982 – The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide opens in Tel Aviv, despite attempts by the Turkish government to cancel it, as it included presentations on the Armenian genocide. 1982 – The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War. 1990 – Asteroid Eureka is discovered. 1990 – The 7.4 Mw  Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000. 1991 – The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin. 1994 – The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured. 2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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