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theatredirectors · 4 years

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268 Directors and the end of the blog

This post marks the end of the Ask a Director experiment. I’m so grateful to all who have contributed, supported and engaged with it over the past six and a half years.

This blog was started at a time when I felt incredibly alone in the directing field. I had always been taught that a director operates solo, that it was a lonely career and above all, it was based on scarcity. This was a style of working and living that didn't fit for me. I wanted to talk to other directors about their practice and thoughts about the field, both national and international. This blog was started as a way to connect, to uplift other directors and to create a conversation about the changing field and practices.

It's surpassed all of these goals and brought me more joy than I can name.

I'm now at a moment where my practice and advocacy are taking different and exciting paths and it's time for me to put this site to bed. I remain committed to uplifting other directors, to talking about the practice, to flattening hierarchies, to opening doors for new ways of working, and leading rehearsal rooms, companies, and classrooms away from silos and vacuums. Featuring these 268 different directors was just the beginning.

I encourage you all to hire them (and others), advocate for them (and others) and choose to work in a system that values connection and generosity.

Abhishek Majumdar

Adam Fitzgerald

Alice Stanley

Aliza Shane

Amanda McRaven

Amy Corcoran

Amy Jephta

Anisa George

Ana Margineau

Andrew Scoville

Anna Stromberg

Anne Cecelia Haney

Ariel Francoeur

Arpita Mukherjee

Ashley Hollingshead

Ashley Marinaccio

Andrew Neisler

Beng Oh

Ben Randle

Ben Stockman

Benjamin Kamine

Beth Lopes

Bo Powell

Bogdan Georgescu

Bonnie Gabel

Brandon Ivie

Brandon Woolf

Brian Hashimoto

Cait Robinson

Caitlin Ryan O’Connell

Caitlin Sullivan

Catie Davis

Cara Phipps

Carol Ann Tan

Carsen Joenk

Chari Arespacochaga

Cheryl Faraone

Chloe Treat

Christin Eve Cato

Christine Zagrobelny

Christopher Diercksen

Colette Robert

Colleen Hughes

Cyndy Marion

Dado Gyure

Dan Rothenberg

Daniel Irizarry

Danielle Ozymandias

Danny Sharon

Dara Malina

David Charles

Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li

Derek Spencer

Donald Brenner

Doug Oliphant

Eamon Boylan

Elena Araoz

Emily Lyons

Emma Miller

Eric Kildow

Eric Wallach

Eric Powell Holm

Estefania Fadul

Evelina Stampa

Evren Odcikin

Evi Stamatiou

Francesca Montanile Lyons

Gabriel Vega Weissman

Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte

Graham Schmidt

Gregg Wiggans

Hannah Ryan

Hannah Wolf

Heather Bagnall

Horia Suru

Ilana Becker

Ilana Ransom Toeplitz

Illana Stein

Ioanna Katsarou

Ioli Andreadi

Irina Abraham Chigiryov

Iris Sowlat

Isaac Klein

J Paul Nicholas

Jack Tamburri

Jaclyn Biskup

Jacob Basri

Jake Beckhard

Jaki Bradley

Jamie Watkins

Javier Molina

Jay Stern

Jay Stull

Jenna Rossman

Jenna Worsham

Jennifer Chambers

Jenny Bennett

Jenny Reed

Jeremy Bloom

Jeremy Pickard

Jerrell Henderson

Jess Hutchinson

Jess Shoemaker

Jesse Jou

Jessi D Hill

Jessica Burr

Jessica Holt

Jillian Carucci

Joanne Zipay

Jo Cattell

John Michael Diresta

John Kurzynowski

Joe Hedel

Jonathan Munoz-Proulx

Jose Zayas

Josh Kelley

Josh Sobel

Joshua Kahan Brody

Joshua William Gelb

Julia Sears

Justin Schlabach

Kareem Fahmy

Karen Christina Jones

Kate Bergstrom

Kate Hopkins

Kate Jopson

Kate Moore Heaney

Katherine M. Carter

Katherine Wilkinson

Kathy Gail MacGowan

Katie Chidester

Kendall Cornell

Kendra Augustin

Kholoud Sawaf

Kimberly Faith Hickmann

Kim Weild

KJ Sanchez

Knud Adams

Kristin Marting

Kristin McCarthy Parker

Kristin Skye Hoffman

Kristy Chambrelli

Kristy Dodson

KT Shorb

Kyle Metzger

Kylie M. Brown

Larissa Fasthorse

Larissa Lury

Laura Brandel

Laura Steinroeder

Lauren Hlubny

Lauren Keating

Lavina Jadhwani

Jenn Haltman

Leta Tremblay

Lila Rachel Becker

Lillian Meredith

Lily Riopelle

Lindsey Hope Pearlman

Lisa Rothe

Lisa Sanaye Dring

Liz Thaler

Lori Wolter Hudson

Lucie Tiberghien

Luke Comer

Luke Tudball

Lyndsay Burch

Lynn Lammers

Mallory Catlett

Manon Manavit

Margarett Perry

Maridee Slater

Marina Bergenstock

Marti Lyons

Martin Jago

Matt Cosper

Matt Ritchey

Max Hunter

Megan Sandberg-Zakian

Megan Weaver

Meghan Finn

Melissa Crespo

Melody Erfani

Michael Alvarez

Michael T. Williams

Michaela Escarcega

Michelle Tattenbaum

Mimi Barcomi

Miranda Haymon

Molly Beach Murphy

Molly Clifford

Molly Noble

Morgan Gould

Morgan Green

Murielle Borst-Tarrant

Nana Dakin

Natalie Novacek

Neal Kowalsky

Nell Bang-Jensen

Nick Benacerraf

Noa Egozi

Norah Elges

Normandy Sherwood

Olivia Lilley

Orly Noa Rabinyan

Oscar Mendoza

Pablo Paz

Padraic Lillis

Patrick Walsh

Pete Danelski

Pirronne Yousefzadeh

Portia Krieger

Rachel Karp

Rachel Wohlander

Randolph Curtis Rand

Raz Golden

Rebecca Cunningham

Rebecca Martinez

Rebecca Wear

Renee Phillippi

Renee Yeong

Rich Brown

Rick St. Peter

Robert Schneider

Ryan Anthony Nicotra

Sammi Cannold

Sammy Zeisel

Sanaz Ghajar

Sara Holdren

Sara Lyons

Sara Rademacher

Sarah Elizabeth Wansley

Sarah Hughes

Sarah M. Chichester

Sarah Rose Leonard

Sash Bischoff

Scarlett Kim

Seonjae Kim

Seth Pyatt

Sharifa Elkady

Shaun Patrick Tubbs

Sherri Eden Barber

Simon Hanukai

Sophia Watt

Suchan Vodoor

Stephen Cedars

Steven Kopp

Steven Wilson

Talya Klein

Tana Siros

Tara Ahmadinejad

Tara Cioletti

Tara Elliott

Tatiana Pandiani

Taylor Reynolds

TerryandtheCuz

Tommy Schoffler

Tracy Bersley

Trevor Biship

Tyler Mercer

Wednesday Sue Derrico

Will Dagger

Will Davis

Will Detlefsen

Will Steinberger

Yojiro Ichikawa

Yoni Oppenheim

Zi Alikhan

Zoya Kachardurian

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ao3feed-style · 4 years

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Love Across Land And Sea

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2UoAWWQ

by Lil_A_Writes

Twilight was a princess, she wasn't proud and was desperate to escape from her parents and Step-Sister, so she decided she would become a Pirate while they were recruiting.

Pirates (in this fic) : Ladies who explore the world, help people, find treasure and be VERY gay in the process.

Relationship Guide: Eventual (currently pinning) Creek Married Timmy/Jimmy Engaged then Married Style Dating Tyde Dating to Engaged Bunny

Name Guide (who's who): Twilight - Tweek Crystal - Craig Rebecca - Mr Tweek Curtis - Mrs Tweek Erica - Eric Kendra - Kenny Lottie - Leopold (Butters) Tiana - Token Claudia - Clyde Janet - Jimmy Tammy - Timmy Kylie - Kyle Stella - Stan Katie - Kevin Scarlet - Scott

GENDERBEND AND PLEASE READ THE TAGS

Words: 3512, Chapters: 3/15, Language: English

Fandoms: South Park

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F

Characters: Eric Cartman, Tweek Tweak, Craig Tucker, Tweek Tweak's Parents, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick, Leopold "Butters" Stotch, Token Black, Clyde Donovan, Timmy Burch, Jimmy Valmer, Kevin Stoley, Scott Tenorman

Relationships: Craig Tucker/Tweek Tweak, Kyle Broflovski/Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick/Leopold "Butters" Stotch, Token Black/Clyde Donovan, Timmy Burch/Jimmy Valmer

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Royalty, Alternate Universe - Pirates, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Genderswap, Genderbending, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Eric Cartman Being Eric Cartman, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Non-Consensual Drug Use, References to Canon, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, soft lesbians, Love at First Sight, Falling In Love, Friendship, Strangers to Lovers, Literal Sleeping Together, Weddings, Marriage Proposal, Character Descriptions

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2UoAWWQ

#stan x kyle #kyle x stan #south park style #south park #fan fiction #ao3feed

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ao3feed-creek · 4 years

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Love Across Land And Sea

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2WXo4IO

by Lil_A_Writes

Twilight was a princess, she wasn't proud and was desperate to escape from her parents and Step-Sister, so she decided she would become a Pirate while they were recruiting.

Pirates (in this fic) : Ladies who explore the world, help people, find treasure and be VERY gay in the process.

Relationship Guide: Eventual (currently pinning) Creek Married Timmy/Jimmy Engaged then Married Style Dating Tyde Dating to Engaged Bunny

GENDERBEND AND PLEASE READ THE TAGS

Words: 1970, Chapters: 2/15, Language: English

Fandoms: South Park

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F

Relationships: Craig Tucker/Tweek Tweak, Kyle Broflovski/Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick/Leopold "Butters" Stotch, Token Black/Clyde Donovan, Timmy Burch/Jimmy Valmer

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2WXo4IO

#Tweek x Craig #Craig x Tweek #IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic

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allthecanadianpolitics · 6 years

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List of all Ontario NDP candidates in the Ontario election!

Hey Ontario! There is an election coming up on June 7th, 2018. According to the polls, the only party who has enough momentum to beat the Ontario PC’s run by Doug Ford is the Ontario NDP (in polls they’re either tied, in 1st place or in 2nd place in the polls). Doug Ford has no platform and has pledged to cut billions of dollars (which is going to lead to cuts to healthcare, education, etc) and he opposes things like a $15/hour minimum wage. I know people want change and are sick of the Liberals, but he’s not a good leader.

The Ontario NDP also have a really good election platform. So check it out:

https://www.ontariondp.ca/platform

So I’ve compiled a list of every electoral district/riding with a link to what NDP candidate is running. Each candidate name links to a short biography of the candidate, and a link to their website where you can follow them on social media, donate or volunteer with their campaign.

If you do not know your riding/electoral district, use this tool to find out:

https://www.elections.on.ca/en/voting-in-ontario/electoral-districts.html

I’ve listed all ridings/electoral districts in alphabetical order.

Please share this widely.

There are 124 ridings in the election, so this post is long, so the rest of this post will be under a ‘read more’ button.

Ajax: Monique Hughes

Algoma—Manitoulin: Michael Mantha

Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill: Katrina Sale

Barrie—Innisfil: Pekka Reinio

Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte: Dan Janssen

Bay of Quinte: Joanne Belanger

Beaches—East York: Rima Berns-McGown

Brampton Centre: Sara Singh

Brampton East: Gurratan Singh

Brampton North: Kevin Yarde

Brampton South: Paramjit Gill

Brampton West: Jagroop Singh

Brantford—Brant: Alex Felsky

Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound: Karen Gventer

Burlington: Andrew Drummond

Cambridge: Marjorie Knight

Carleton: Courtney Potter

Chatham-Kent—Leamington: Jordan McGrail

Davenport: Marit Stiles

Don Valley East: Khalid Ahmed

Don Valley North: Akil Sadikali

Don Valley West: Amara Possian

Dufferin—Caledon: Andrea Mullarkey

Durham: Joel Usher

Eglinton—Lawrence: Robyn Vilde

Elgin—Middlesex—London: Amanda Stratton

Essex: Taras Natyshak

Etobicoke Centre: Erica Kelly

Etobicoke—Lakeshore: Phil Trotter

Etobicoke North: Mahamud Amin

Flamborough—Glanbrook: Melissa McGlashan

Glengarry—Prescott—Russell: Bonnie Jean-Louis

Guelph: Agnieszka Mlynarz

Haldimand—Norfolk: Danielle Du Sablon

Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock: Zac Miller

Hamilton Centre: Andrea Horwath

Hamilton East—Stoney Creek: Paul Miller

Hamilton Mountain: Monique Taylor

Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas: Sandy Shaw

Hastings—Lennox and Addington: Nate Smelle

Humber River—Black Creek: Tom Rakocevic

Huron—Bruce: Jan Johnstone

Kanata—Carleton: John Hansen

Kenora—Rainy River: Glen Archer

Kiiwetinoong: Sol Mamakwa

King—Vaughan: Andrea Beal

Kingston and the Islands: Ian Arthur

Kitchener Centre: Laura Mae Lindo

Kitchener—Conestoga: Kelly Dick

Kitchener South—Hespeler: Fitzroy Vanderpool

Lambton—Kent—Middlesex: Todd Case

Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston: Ramsey Hart

Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes: Michelle Taylor

London—Fanshawe: Teresa Armstrong

London North Centre: Terence Kernaghan

London West: Peggy Sattler

Markham—Stouffville: Kingsley Kwok

Markham—Thornhill: Cindy Hackelberg

Markham—Unionville: Sylvie David

Milton: Brendan Smyth

Mississauga Centre: Laura Kaminker

Mississauga East—Cooksville: Tom Takacs

Mississauga—Erin Mills: Farina Hassan

Mississauga—Lakeshore: Boris Rosolak

Mississauga—Malton: Nikki Clarke

Mississauga—Streetsville: Jacqueline Gujarati

Mushkegowuk—James Bay: Guy Bourgouin

Nepean: Zaff Ansari

Newmarket—Aurora: Melissa Williams

Niagara Centre: Jeff Burch

Niagara Falls: Wayne Gates

Niagara West: Curtis Fric

Nickel Belt: France Gélinas

Nipissing: Henri Giroux

Northumberland—Peterborough South: Jana Papuckoski

Oakville: Lesley Sprague

Oakville North—Burlington: Saima Zaidi

Orléans: Barbara Zarboni

Oshawa: Jennifer French

Ottawa Centre: Joel Harden

Ottawa South: Eleanor Fast

Ottawa—Vanier: Lyra Evans

Ottawa West—Nepean: Chandra Pasma

Oxford: Tara King

Parkdale—High Park: Bhutila Karpoche

Parry Sound—Muskoka: Erin Horvath

Perth—Wellington: Michael O’Brien

Peterborough—Kawartha: Sean Conway

Pickering—Uxbridge: Nerissa Cariño

Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke: Ethel LaValley

Richmond Hill: Marco Coletta

St. Catharines: Jennie Stevens

Sarnia—Lambton: Kathy Alexander

Sault Ste. Marie: Michele McCleave-Kennedy

Scarborough—Agincourt: Tasleem Riaz

Scarborough Centre: Zeyd Bismilla

Scarborough—Guildwood: Tom Packwood

Scarborough North: Dwayne Morgan

Scarborough—Rouge Park: Felicia Samuel

Scarborough Southwest: Doly Begum

Simcoe—Grey: David Matthews

Simcoe North: Elizabeth Van Houtte Spadina—Fort York: Chris Glover

Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry: Marc Benoit

Sudbury: Jamie West

Thornhill: Ezra Tanen

Thunder Bay—Atikokan: Judith Monteith-Farrell

Thunder Bay—Superior North: Lise Vaugeois

Timiskaming—Cochrane: John Vanthof

Timmins: Gilles Bisson

Toronto Centre: Suze Morrison

Toronto—Danforth: Peter Tabuns

Toronto—St. Paul's: Jill Andrew

University—Rosedale: Jessica Bell

Vaughan—Woodbridge: Sandra Lozano

Waterloo: Catherine Fife

Wellington—Halton Hills: Diane Ballantyne

Whitby: Niki Lundquist

Willowdale: Saman Tabasinejad

Windsor—Tecumseh: Percy Hatfield

Windsor West: Lisa Gretzky York Centre: Andrea Vásquez Jiménez

York—Simcoe: Dave Szollosy

York South—Weston: Faisal Hassan

#ontario election #Ontario NDP #Toronto #Canada #cdnpoli #canadian politics #canadian #canadian news

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melaninpoppinprepster · 7 years

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Is it Fall yet? by shawneegrant featuring diamond home decor

MANGO brown top, $13 / Lee denim skinny jeans, $79 / Jessica Simpson suede ankle boots / Alexandra de Curtis leather hand bag, $855 / Ted Baker pink jewelry / Tory Burch bracelet / Ted Baker rose jewelry, $63 / Diamond home decor

#polyvore #fashion #style #MANGO #Lee #Jessica Simpson #Alexandra de Curtis #Ted Baker #Tory Burch #clothing

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adventuretime · 7 years

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Another Adventure Time Emmy Win!

That’s right! The 7th win, with 13 nominations over its lifetime, Adventure Time is the winner of the Outstanding Short Form Animated Program 2017.

Congratulations to Pen! Congratulations to all! (Full credits below).

Photographs: at the 2017 Emmy Creative Arts ceremony, September 10, 2017: Creator Pendleton Ward and Mom Bettie (above), Supervising Producer Kelly Crews and Bettie Ward

Winner Adventure Time: Islands Part 4: "Imaginary Resources" Cartoon Network/Cartoon Network Studios

Pendleton Ward: Executive Producer/Story by/Written by Fred Seibert: Executive Producer Adam Muto: Executive Producer/Story by Rob Sorcher: Executive Producer Brian A. Miller: Executive Producer Jennifer Pelphrey: Executive Producer Curtis Lelash: Executive Producer Kelly Crews: Supervising Producer Graham Falk: Written by Kent Osbourne: Story by Jack Pendarvis: Story by Ashly Burch: Story by Elizabeth Ito: Supervising Director Lindsey Pollard: Animation Director Cheolhui Han: Animation Director Michael Lyman: Timer Ken Bruce: Timer Maureen Mlynarczyk: Timer

This just in, more photos of the night, courtesy Kelly Crews.

Creator Pen Ward on stage accepting the Emmy.

Kelly Crews and Supervising Director Elizabeth Ito.

Supervising Producer Kelly Crews.

#Adventure Time #Emmys #2017 #win!#cartoons #animation #hangoverblog #chblog

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1264doghouse · 9 months

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Courtney Johnson, Sam Bush & Curtis Burch of New Grass Revival.

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keithdcourtney · 6 years

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What is Newgrass? A Primer on the Popular, Modern Wave of Bluegrass

Bluegrass has come a far way from it’s roots. It’s joined forces with rock, jazz, and world music – and created a new generation of amazing musicians playing this exciting new mashup: Newgrass.

AKA “New Acoustic”, or “Modern bluegrass”.

Odds are you’ve heard it and loved it, even if you didn’t know what it was called ; )

What is Newgrass?

Traditional bluegrass music sticks close to traditions. Instrumentation, song selection, playing styles – they’re all based in a long and storied bluegrass tradition. Specifically, in the playing and person of Bill Monroe.

In the 1970s, though, several new bands began pointing the way to a more liberal interpretation of bluegrass. One of those bands was “New Grass Revival”, including members Sam Bush, Courtney Johnson, Ebo Walker, Curtis Burch, Butch Robins, John Cowan, Béla Fleck and Pat Flynn.

New Grass Revival took bluegrass to a new level in a number of ways. First of all, they looked different. Instead of a traditional approach, they looked more like a crossover from the hippie movement.

More importantly, this new interpretation of bluegrass incorporated new sounds and new instruments in four key ways:

Songs might be pulled from other genres like rock or pop.

Arrangements included jazzier progressions and chord voicings.

New instruments were incorporated, like drums, dobro, and electric guitar.

Performances were more akin to jam-band style performances than the neat’n’tidy bluegrass formulas of the past.

A Brief History of Newgrass

By the late 80’s and early 90’s, Newgrass music was going mainstream. In 1991, Alison Krauss won best Bluegrass Album Grammy for “I’ve Got That Old Feeling”.

In 1988, Béla Fleck earned a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Recording (Vocal or Instrumental) for his album “Drive”. And in 1990, Béla Fleck earned another Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for his song, “The Sinister Minister”, which has gone on to be a staple of Fleck’s performance for almost 3 decades. And, of course, many other Newgrass musicians were gaining notoriety along the way, as well.

A cultural turning point was, perhaps, reached with the popularity of the soundtrack to “O Brother Where Art Thou” in 2000. For many people that had never been exposed to bluegrass before, the Soggy Bottom Boys handling of songs like “Man of Constant Sorrow” and “Down to the River to Pray” instantly won them over. Of course, the Soggy Bottom Boys was a fictional band in the movie – but the film recordings were performed byf many of the great newgrass players like Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, and others.

Today, we see Newgrass artists commanding packed shows and busy touring schedules. People like: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Alison Krauss and Union Station, and The Infamous Stringdusters.

And the field keeps growing. New artists like: Chris Thile, Jordan Tice, and Trampled by Turtles are consistently breaking new ground.

For a quick way to listen to some of these artists, check out the last.fm station for Newgrass.

Players to Hear

There’s no shortage of great Newgrass players. Here are a few highlights. (And, of course, if you a favorite Newgrass artist, be sure to mention them in the comments below!)

New Grass Revival

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

Alison Krauss and Union Station

Punch Brothers

Yonder Mountain String Band

The Infamous Stringdusters

Nickelcreek

Jordan Tice

Chris Thile

Sarah Watkins

Trampled by Turtles

Old Crow Medicine Show

And many, many more…

More Reading:

Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of material out there on this genre, despite it’s popularity. A couple links, though, that will provide some more detail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Acoustic_Music

https://www.last.fm/tag/newgrass/artists?page=1

http://newgrassfestivals.yolasite.com/what-is-newgrass.php

Before You Go:

This is the song that first personally captivated me with the potential of Newgrass. I can still remember that moment in the pro audio section of Sam Ash in Northridge. Hearing this song being played to test a speaker system and thinking, “What? How is this even possible?”. I was floored.

It’s Newgrass through and through – a classical song, performed by an electric bluegrass band, in complete jamband style.

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones rocking “Hoedown”..

Have some favorite Newgrass players or bands? Add them in the comments below!

The post What is Newgrass? A Primer on the Popular, Modern Wave of Bluegrass appeared first on The Guitar Journal.

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batboyblog · 7 years

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My very gay reading list

So I’m a book hoarder, and I have MANY unread books (gay!) waiting for me to get around to them so here they are, feel free to tell me if you’ve read something on it, and if you liked it

Flesh and Bone by William Alton

Spellbound by Marcus Atley

If We Shadows by D.E. Atwood

Guyliner by J. Leigh Bailey

Queeroes by Steven Bereznai

Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block

I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block

Children of the Knight by Michael J. Bowler

Every Nine Seconds by Joseph Brockton

Debbie Harry Sings in French by Meagan Brothers

Weird Girl and What's His Name by Meagan Brothers

The Manny Files by Christian Burch

Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World by Janet E. Cameron

The Lavender Menace: Tales of Queer Villainy! by Tom Cardamone

Dragon Slayer by Isabella Carter

Repeating History: The Eye of Ra by Dakota Chase

Potluck by A.J. Colher

Boy Robot by Simon Curtis

Zhukov's Dogs by Amanda Cyr

My Side Of The Story by Will Davis

A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R.W. Day

Ghost Songs by Andrew Demcak

You and Me and Him by Kris Dinnison

Birdy Flynn by Helen Donohoe

Seidman by James Erich

Dreams by James Erich

The Ghost of Buxton Manor by Jonathan L. Ferrara

This is Not a Love Story by Suki Fleet

Willful Machines by Tim Floreen

Always Leaving by Gene Gant

Falling From The Sky by Nikki Godwin

Whatever.: or how junior year became totally f$@ked by S.J. Goslee

Three Truths and a Lie by Brent Hartinger

Rapture Practice: A True Story About Growing Up Gay in an Evangelical Family by Aaron Hartzler

Pukawiss The Outcast by Jay Jordan Hawke

Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim

The Other Boy by M.G. Hennessey

Cupid Painted Blind by Marcus Herzig

Bi-Normal by M.G. Higgins

Freaks and Revelations by Davida Wills Hurwin

Exile by Caleb James

Finding Our Way Series Collection by Jayson James

Gilded Cage by Vic James

Reasons to Love a Nerd Like Me by Becky Jerams

Another Kind of Cowboy by Susan Juby

Martyr by A.R. Kahler

The Dead Will Rise First by Logan Kain

Ómorphi by C. Kennedy

Coins in the Coffee Cup by Ambriehl Khalil

The Red Sun Rises by Victoria Kinnaird

Love Drugged by James Klise

A Destiny of Dragons by T.J. Klune

Read Between the Lines by Jo Knowles

The Sidekicks by Will Kostakis

Andy Squared by Jennifer Lavoie

Collide by J.R. Lenk

Draw the Line by Laurent Linn

True Letters from a Fictional Life by Kenneth Logan

The Star Host by F.T. Lukens

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things by Martina McAtee

One Boy's Shadow by Ross A. McCoubrey

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

Bottled Up Secret by Brian McNamara

Stranger in the Wizard's Tower by Deric McNish

The Straight Road to Kylie by Nico Medina

Diary of a Teenage Taxidermist by K.A. Merikan

Cut Both Ways by Carrie Mesrobian

It Looks Like This by Rafi Mittlefehldt

Normal? by Stephen J. Mulrooney

Subject to Change by Karen Nesbitt

Exiled to Iowa. Send Help. And Couture by Chris O'Guinn

Blood Moon by M.J. O'Shea

Away We Go by Emil Ostrovski

I Hate Summer by H.T. Pantu

Thanks a Lot, John LeClair by Johanna Parkhurst

Thinking Straight by Robin Reardon

Chulito by Charles Rice-González

Gemini Bites by P.E. Ryan

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

Private Display of Affection by Winter Sandberg

A Man's Man by Genta Sebastian

Timekeeper by Tara Sim

Oswin by Timm Spire

Maps by Nash Summers

Nowhere Near You by Leah Thomas

Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey

The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson

Encounter by Perie Wolford

Money Boy by Paul Yee

Sometimes We Tell the Truth by Kim Zarins

Miguel's Secret Journal by A.V. Zeppa

again, let me know if you’ve read any of these and let me know what I should read! :) thanks!

#gay books #books #read list #book list #books im reading

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scottwinters714 · 4 years

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New Post has been published on https://startrek.everythingonlinenow.com/odin-makes-star-trek-tos-and-tng-phasers-with-the-new-anycubic-mega-x-printer/

Odin Makes: Star Trek TOS and TNG phasers with the new Anycubic Mega X Printer

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The AnyCubic Mega X is available here: http://bit.ly/anycubic-mega-x I also have a code for a $30 USD off coupon: ACMEGAX Please note the printer estimated delivery is March 20th

I use my new 3D printer to make phasers from Star Trek the original series and Star Trek the Next Generation.

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SUMMARY A father and son go hunting in the mountains. Before they can begin hunting, which the son does not want to do anyway, they are killed by flying jellyfish-like creatures, which penetrate their skin with needle-tipped tentacles.

Some time later, four teenagers, Tom, Greg, Beth and Sandy, hike in the same area, ignoring the warnings of local truck stop owner Joe Taylor (Jack Palance). A group of Cub Scouts is also in the area; their leader (Larry Storch) is also killed by the alien creatures, while his troop runs into an unidentified humanoid and flee.

The teenagers set up camp at a lake, but after a few hours, Tom and Beth disappear. Sandy and Greg go looking for them and discover their bodies in an abandoned shack. They drive away in their van, while being attacked by one of the jellyfish which tries to get through the car’s windshield. After they get rid of it, they arrive at the truck stop. Greg tries to get help from the locals, but they do not believe him, except for Fred ‘Sarge’ Dobbs (Martin Landau), who is a mentally ill veteran. Meanwhile, Sandy encounters the humanoid and flees into the woods, where Joe Taylor finds and returns her to Greg.

While they discuss the situation, the sheriff arrives, but Sarge shoots him and begins to become more paranoid. Greg and Sandy leave with Taylor, who reveals he has been attacked by the humanoid before and secretly keeps the flying jellyfish as trophies. They search for the shack and once there, Taylor goes inside to only find the bodies of Tom, Beth and the cub scout leader. They discuss waiting for the creature when Taylor is attacked by another “jellyfish”. The young people run once again, leaving him behind as ordered. They stop a police car and get into the back seat, but find Sarge driving. He abducts them, believing them to be aliens. Greg plays along, telling the deranged man that an invasion force is on the way, thus distracting him enough to toss him aside, run away with Sandy and jump from a bridge.

They make it to a house where they find new clothing and try to relax. In the night, Sandy wakes up and goes looking for Greg, only to discover that he has been killed by the alien, who is still in the room. She flees to the basement and the creature is about to get her when Taylor arrives and saves her. On the way to the shack, he tells her about the creature: it is a tall extraterrestrial (Kevin Peter Hall) who hunts humans for sport to keep as trophies, using the living creatures as living weapons against its prey.

They wait at the shack to ambush the hunter with dynamite when Sarge shows up, almost spoiling their plan. He and Taylor fight, and Sandy is about to hit Sarge from behind when the alien arrives and kills Sarge. Taylor then shoots the creature, with little to no effect. Realizing the last chance of success, he lures it to the shack, which is then blown up by Sandy. She alone survives the horrible night.

DEVELOPMENT It was Satan’s Cheerleaders (1977) co-producer Mike McFarland who came up with the idea for Without Warning (originally titled Alien Encounter, and also released as It Came… Without Warning), Clark’s 1980 sci-fi/horror effort. In a theme later picked up by Predator, Without Warning’s bubbleheaded alien comes to Earth on what amounts to a hunting expedition. After the script spent years floating around Hollywood, Clark reworked it and helped get it into production.

“McFarland hired two teams of writers to flesh out his idea, and besides myself I had another writer, Curtis Burch, come in to help revise the script when I took over,” Clark recalls; neither he nor Burch, who served as an associate producer and the film’s editor, wound up taking credit for their rewrites. “Originally, the alien hunted with a bow and arrow. I wanted it to be a little more unusual than a weapon we could have here on Earth, so I came up with the flesh eating creatures that the alien flips like a Frisbee at its victims.”

BEHIND THE SCENES/ PRODUCTION Shot in California during December. Without Warning was filmed almost exclusively at night, which Clark feels “adds tremendously to a film’s atmosphere,” but also caused its share of problems. “At night it would get down to the low 30s. That’s cold for Southern California. The entire crew wore ski masks, and with the dark and the masks, I couldn’t tell one crew member from another. My cinematographer was Dean Cundey and let’s see, this was my seventh picture. When I wanted to talk to Dean Cundey, I would have to go up to each of them and say, ‘Dean? Are you Dean?’”

“This picture was made for $150,000, including $75,000 for Palance and Landau,” he reveals. “That left me with 75 grand to shoot the picture, edit, do the post production and everything else. So when I agreed to do it under those circumstances, I realized I had to make it in three weeks.

BEHIND THE SCENES/INTERVIEWS Besides offering the obligatory don’t go-near-the-woods warning, the forceful appearances of Palance and Landau serve notice that Without Warning isn’t just going to be a movie about kids in peril. Throughout, there’s a running tension between the young and old characters, and the film ends up being at least as much about the craggy old dudes as the naive, attractive youths. This young-vs.-old dynamic is brought home in a long and impressive scene fairly early in the movie, when two of the kids stumble into a country bar in their retreat from the alien’s flying weapons, finding not only Landau and Palance inside, but also such cinema vets as Sue Ane Langdon, Neville (Eaten Alive) Brand and Old Hollywood star Ralph (Food of the Gods) Meeker in his final role.

“I had used Jack Palance in a previous picture, Angels’ Brigade (1979) and I’d used Ralph Meeker before and worked with Neville on, I guess, two pictures previous to this,” recalls Clark. “I always like collaborating with professional people like them whenever I have a chance. The more experienced an actor is, the less you have to direct him, and I’m able to work quicker because they know what I’m trying to do. My experience with performers of that caliber is that they’re eager to help the director, and very, very good to work with.”

Brand had a not-unfounded reputation as a boozer and brawler, but according to Clark, by the time the two shared a set, Brand’s problems had ameliorated. “He was an absolute sweetheart to deal with,” Clark recalls. “You know, he was the second most decorated hero, behind Audie Murphy, of WWII. He’d had some really tough times, and he’d talk about the fact that he’d had problems drinking and what have you. But when I worked with him for the first time, in 1977, he was completely sober. In fact, in the scene in the bar in Without Warning, he said, ‘Greydon, I’ll do anything you want, but you know I can’t drink.’ And I said, ‘Neville, I never have alcohol on the set. This beer is apple juice with a little bit of spritz water in it to make it foam.’

“So he was wonderful. He was a terrific guy, and always on top of his game. Again, the experienced actors know that they have a job to do. They’ve done it many, many times, and they come prepared, and it’s easier for everybody on the set.”

Landau returns the compliment. “Greydon Clark knew right where we were going with that story before we ever started shooting,” the actor says. “Now, Jack and I might have taken things off in some unexpected directions, what with our tendency to ham it up, but we always had that anchorage that we could rely on.”

Landau and Palance, the two principal veterans in Without Warning’s cast, were hardly nursing-home geezers. Palance was barely past 60, and Landau had yet to turn 50. But careers age in Hollywood with unnatural speed, and at the time the picture was made, both found themselves down a few rungs from the place they had once stood on fame’s endless ladder.

“Yeah, I was one of those washed-up has-beens who found himself mired in a mess of low-budget horror movies and foreign-market exploitations for a long while there,” Palance told us, five years before his 1996 death. “Me and Martin Landau and Cameron Mitchell and Neville Brand and Ralph Meeker, and good old Larry Storch, in the case of Without Warning. But I loved the experience. Maybe not so much at the time, grateful though I was just to keep on working, but certainly in the bigger perspective of having a showy, aggressive role that somebody might notice and appreciate.

“The only direction for us from Without Warning was straight up!” he added with a chuckle. “But us old mavericks, Landau and me and the boys, knew the job was dangerous when we took it-acting, I mean, trying to get away with being movie stars in a land where talent is a disposable commodity—and a hot temper, like I used to have in the early days, was pure damned career suicide.”

Clark has similar praise for Landau whose Dobbs is ultimately revealed to be a shell-shocked wacko who believes the alien has somehow taken over the kids’ bodies, à la Invasion of the Body Snatchers—and the actor returns it. “Greydon Clark is a godsend,” says Landau. “He believed in me—not just in me, I mean, but in a lot of us aging near-burnouts who’d had our day in the fickle major leagues and he offered roles that were neither demeaning, like I’d seen happen to Lon Chaney Jr. with some of those low-budget guys, nor otherwise false. Just working actor stuff, meaty bits of business that allowed us to slice the ham as thick as we wanted. In fact, Francis Coppola told me that he had sought me out for Tucker [1988] in light of that over-the-top stuff I had done for Greydon Clark. It served notice that I still had the chops.”

“I’d like to tip my hat to Marty Landau,” Clark says. “We were on a very, very short schedule, so some days we had to work really long hours. When you’re at a location you only have for a single day, a 12-hour shoot is a short one. We had some 16-, 18-, even 20-hour days.

“This was the first film I’d done with him, and that night, when we were finishing with him, I had to say, ‘Marty, you’re scheduled to come back in about six hours. It’s relatively short, and I can have you out in a couple of hours, but because of scheduling problems, I need you in first thing. You know that I’m supposed to give you a 12-hour turnaround, according to the Screen Actors Guild, but I don’t have the budget to pay you the penalty that’s required by the guild.’ And Marty said, “No problem, Greydon. I’ll just come in and sign in at the regular time.’ ”

Clark pauses. “This is a guy who’d been around. I believe he told me his first film was North by Northwest (1959), Hitchcock’s film, and of course he’d done two or three television series. Again, I’ve been so lucky in my career that all the ‘name’ actors I’ve directed have been just remarkable, and very cooperative and helpful. I know Neville Brand and Palance had a reputation for being difficult, but I found just the opposite to be true. The picture I did with Jack before Without Warning, Angel’s Brigade, had a lot of very, very young people in it, inexperienced people, and he would work with them and rehearse with them, and showed a great deal of patience.”

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Seven-foot actor Kevin Peter Hall, who made a career of performing in monster suits, tallied his second film appearance as the barely glimpsed human-hunter. “McFarland had already contacted Rick Baker about creating the alien, and Rick had somehow found Kevin,” the director explains. Baker’s involvement ended when Clark took over the production, with Baker protégé and future Oscar-winner Greg Cannom ultimately responsible for the creature and its gruesome handiwork.

“As a producer/director, you’re responsible for everything, really, and I always like to blame somebody else if it doesn’t work and take the credit if it does,” he says with another laugh. “So I don’t want to use the word ‘created,’ but I came up with the idea for the little Frisbee creatures, in the scripting stage. The original concept was that the alien had come here and was hunting with a bow and arrow. That didn’t do it for me, so I was kicking around ideas of what I could do. I wanted to have a live creature that it hunted with, almost like sending dogs out, except that it would be a flying thing that he threw. So I started sketching one day what they might look like, and then I brought in my effects people, and we created this little guy with teeth, and hair around it, and tentacles and so forth, and I believe it works pretty well.”

RELEASE/DISTRIBUTION Selling the film to a distributor seemed easy at first, but quickly became complicated. “I made a U.S. distribution deal with American International Pictures (AIP) and within a few weeks of finalizing the deal, Filmways purchased AIP and announced they were not going to distribute any more of those AIP exploitation pictures,” Clark said. A potentially lucrative sale to cable-TV and to CBS, which premiered Without Warning on its Late Movie, depended on the film’s theatrical exposure. “I had to threaten them with a lawsuit to get Without Warning distributed,” Clark said. “They gave it a minimal release across the United States and the picture, much to their surprise, was well-received and did substantial box-office.” In some territories, the film was released as It Came Without Warning. Clark sees it differently. “Without Warning was released around the world in the spring of 1980 and received positive critical response and strong box-office,” he says.

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CAST/CREW Without Warning (1980) Directed by Greydon Clark Produced by Greydon Clark Tarah Nutter as Sandy Christopher S. Nelson as Greg Jack Palance as Joe Taylor Martin Landau as Fred ‘Sarge’ Dobbs Neville Brand as Leo Ralph Meeker as Dave Cameron Mitchell as Hunter Darby Hinton as Randy David Caruso as Tom Lynn Thell as Beth Sue Ane Langdon as Aggie Larry Storch as Cub Scout Leader Kevin Peter Hall as The Alien

Cinematography Dean Cundey

Makeup Department Greg Cannom … special makeup Alistair Mitchell … makeup artist

Music by Dan Wyman

CREDITS/REFERENCES/SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY Fangoria#150 Fangoria#271

Without Warning (1980) Retrospective SUMMARY A father and son go hunting in the mountains. Before they can begin hunting, which the son does not want to do anyway, they are killed by flying jellyfish-like creatures, which penetrate their skin with needle-tipped tentacles.

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WOW! What a week it’s been for World Wrestling Entertainment. The end to the draft as night two takes place on RAW, the debut of WWE Backstage on Fox Sports 1, another very solid NXT and a new leader at the top of Friday Night Smackdown on FOX.

If you look at the hierarchy of what the WWE is these days, it’s clearly Smackdown has top priority, with RAW and NXT following respectively. But honestly, this week, the show that stood out to be is clearly NXT. No BS is a perfect slogan for them as week in and week out, they are delivering at top notch caliber. The best “wrestling” of the week is done on Wednesday and clearly, the most energy is there as well.

We will get to the specifics on each show, but what left me shaking my head the most this week was how much lack of common sense there is on Monday Night RAW. For the second straight week, I just didn’t get IT. Sure, the wrestling and the effort was fine, but why we delivered the show we got to watch just didn’t have a continuity sense to me. I’d love to know what you thought!

As for Smackdown, another solid show with an awesome Miz TV that really gets the Bayley heel turn over! More action off the top is a plus and it will be interesting to see what new executive director Bruce Prichard brings to the table moving forward.

For a “preview” first effort for WWE Backstage, count me as one who enjoyed it. Clearly, Renee Young is the star that FOX is betting on (for good reason). She’s really good, especially at being that being a traffic cop that can change topics on a dime. Booker T, Christian and Paige added good “company” talk, but if the rumors of CM Punk coming aboard are true, that would truly be the foil that would make this a must-see TV show. Love the look back at classic matches and the look at “breaking news” with Bruce Prichard and the RAW/Smackdown trade. If it’s truly a show that goes backstage, it has to be a little critical and give me something I can’t get elsewhere. Fingers crossed!

One last thought before we get to the shows – I’ll be happy when Crown Jewel is over! It’s a great card with little build since it’s stuck right in the middle of two PPV’s (Hell in a Cell & Survivor Series), but it’s a card that will be LIVE at 1pm on Halloween Day. Not exactly the prime viewing spot for a card that’s better than some WrestleMania’s and one that the WWE is getting a boatload of money from the Prince to put on. I’m sure most will be watching on delay on the WWE Network after a bit of trick or treating. It would be better served though to have those high profile, mainstream matches with Brock Lesnar vs. Cain Velasquez and Tyson Fury vs. Braun Strowman at big 4 PPV like Survivor Series or WrestleMania instead of a quick build. But, money talks!

RAW

Becky Lynch defeated Charlotte – RAW gets #1 draft pick for the night

Andrade defeated Ali

RAW Tag Team Title Match: The Viking Raiders defeated Champions Bobby Roode & Dolph Ziggler

Aleister Black defeated Eric Young

Ricochet defeated Shelton Benjamin

Buddy Murphy defeated Cedric Alexander

Non-Title Match: Champions The Kabuki Warriors defeated Natalya & Lacey Evans

Draft – Night 2 Results

Drafted to RAW Seth Rollins Charlotte Flair Andrade and Zelina Vega The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) – WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles defended on both shows Rusev Aleister Black Cedric Alexander Humberto Carillo Erick Rowan Buddy Murphy Jinder Mahal R-Truth Samoa Joe Akira Tozawa Shelton Benjamin Rey Mysterio Titus O’Neil Liv Morgan

Drafted to Smackdown Brock Lesnar The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E., and Xavier Woods) Daniel Bryan Bayley Shinsuke Nakamura (w/Sami Zayn) Ali Bobby Roode and Dolph Ziggler Carmella The Miz King Corbin Shorty Gable Elias

What we loved:

JOIN THE CHAMPS. The #VikingRaiders @Erik_WWE & @Ivar_WWE are your NEW #RAW #TagTeamChampions! pic.twitter.com/qssrTQn2ub

— WWE (@WWE) October 15, 2019

The Viking Raiders are new RAW Tag Champs! – Well deserved by TVR. Awesome match where all four guys looked good. Crowd was really into it and they loved the result! There’s something to get behind and go forward with this one. Either a rematch with Bobby Roode & Dolph Ziggler or taking on all-comers, the Raiders will do well if given enough time in the top spot in the RAW tag team division.

Quality in-ring wrestling: Ricochet vs. Shelton Benjamin. Aleister Black vs. Eric Young. Buddy Murphy vs. Cedric Alexander. Give me those type of matches every week. Sure, they’re not part of any feuds, just quality matches made to show off the talent. With a bit more effort, they could be woven into storylines to get my emotional investment.

What we hated:

The main event was the main event why? – Why exactly would Natalya pick Lacey Evans, after a month’s long feud and Evans being drafted to Smackdown, as her tag team partner in a match with the Kabuki Warriors? Why are they getting the match in the first place? Why is it the main event? It all made no sense to me. It was like Paul Heyman just needed something to fill up the time.

The Draft – same as night 1 on Smackdown. No emotion. No reaction from the superstars being drafted. It was just rolled out there to do it. Clearly, Smackdown is getting the high-profile talent with Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns, Daniel Bryan, Bayley, Sasha Banks, The Fiend and The New Day amongst those going blue. That’s OK. FOX is paying a billion dollars for it.

Hey Lucy, can you explain this to me? – If The Fiend is going to Smackdown, why is there no explanation as to why Seth Rollins is burning the Firefly Fun House down? I get that they will face each other at Crown Jewel, but I thought rosters were supposed to be exclusive moving forward? So are we getting vignettes from Rollins and Bray Wyatt to come on each other’s show without any face-to-face? I’m just confused by it all. NXT

RESULTS:

Tommaso Ciampa defeated Angel Garza

Imperium defeated Burch & Lorcan

Io Shirai defeated Kayden Carter

North American Title #1 Contender’s Match: Dominik Dijakovic vs. Keith Lee – no contest

Matt Riddle defeated Bronson Reed

Tegan Nox defeated Taynara

Killian Dain defeated Boa (submission)

Damian Priest defeated Pete Dunne

The. Greatest. Sports. Entertainer. Of. All. Time. Daddy’s Home

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— BLACKHEART (@NXTCiampa) October 17, 2019

What we loved:

No BS – Week after week, NXT delivers with non-sense, quality. The build for Ciampa vs. The Undisputed ERA is going to be red hot! Kicking off the show with that was the right move. Add in a few squash matches to make Io Shirai, Matt Riddle and the returning Tegan Nox look strong is smart.

The main event – A little surprised that Damian Priest goes over here, but it wasn’t at the expense of Pete Dunne. Both men can walk away in a positive direction.

"Next week, my future will be my past."@FinnBalor is #WWENXT.

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— WWE (@WWE) October 17, 2019

Finn Balor – “My future will be my past.” Best promo he’s done in quite some time. From the heart, talking about mistakes & missteps and how he’ll make it right. Well done Demon!

Looking ahead: Kushida could be out for a month after reaggravating his wrist injury. We could surely see a rematch with WALTER down the line.

Velveteen Dream being put out might add a little twist into the North American Title Picture now that champion Roderick Strong’s attempt to not face Dominik Dijakovic and Keith Lee has backfired into a triple threat match. A very heelish move by Strong that gets the desired result for Lee and Dijakovic.

Smackdown

RESULTS

IC Title Match: Roman Reigns defeated Champion Shinsuke Nakamura by DQ when King Corbin interferes / Daniel Bryan saves Reigns

Shorty Gable defeated Curtis Axel (submission)

The New Day & Heavy Machinery defeated The Revival, Dolph Ziggler, & Robert Roode

Smackdown Women’s #1 Contenders Match: Nikki Cross won 6-pack challenge over Dana Brooke, Sonya Deville, Mandy Rose, Carmella & Lacey Evans

Braun Strowman defeated Drew Gulak

Daniel Bryan & Roman Reigns defeated King Corbin & Shinsuke Nakamura

It's every woman for herself in a #SixPackChallenge on #SmackDown!@CarmellaWWE @DanaBrookeWWE @NikkiCrossWWE @SonyaDevilleWWE@WWE_MandyRose @LaceyEvansWWE pic.twitter.com/VAWRxYT2CT

— WWE (@WWE) October 19, 2019

What we loved:

Getting right to it – Starting the show right off with an I-C Title Match between champions Shinsuke Nakamura and Roman Reigns instead of a long-winded in-ring promo is a step in the right direction. Action over words!

Miz TV with Bayley (and Sasha Banks) – One of the best segments of the night. Not rushed. No fluff. And at times, a bit off the cuff with The Miz getting to the bottom of Bayley’s heel turn. Well done, including the shot at Brock Lesnar, “a champ that doesn’t talk” that I hope they use down the line.

Squash matches – The continued use of squash matches to make talent look good. Braun Strowman, not that he needs it, and Shorty Gable both get strong wins in a short amount of time. Gets the point across and moves the story forward.

What we hated:

Why is Daniel Bryan a face now? – Just like Bayley, we need to told a reason why Bryan has turned from the top heel on Smackdown to a babyface. Sure, we get that he wanted to help Reigns at first after being attacked by Harper and Rowan, but that’s now done and he’s sill helping him. Explanation please guys!

No Alexa Bliss – Sure, not showcasing her in the 6-pack challenge #1 contender’s match is ok since you want to prop up others (Brooke, Deville, etc.) that don’t normally get the TV time, but how about using her on commentary to balance out Bayley & Sasha Banks? Just a bit to show she’s still part of the scene. Miss Bliss is a star that needs to be recognized.

Kofi Kingston – another week and no real emotion from the former WWE Champ about his 10-second loss to Lesnar. One line about the power of positivity with Heavy Machinery doesn’t cut it for me. Give me cutting edge interview with Corey Graves to do it. Maybe integrate with Graves’ new podcast?

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