#japhy

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one thing about jack kerouac is he likes his men dominant.

[romaroy]

Justin Kirk filmography: I'll Be Seein' Ya (2022)

[surrealisticduvet]

rayjaphy dharmabums are so torksmith. if you think about it

[schnaideranton]

Restaurant "Reserved" Sign. Clock showing reservation time.

[japhgura]

The human urge to assume everyone secretly hates U

A fine drop indeed😌🍷

[chthonicgodling]

daemon pause because PHEW it’s an Elysium kiddo birthday today, June 17, for— WHOMST????? ooooopsies one of our accidentally ignored kiddos, Jesse and Laphi’s middle daughter Annette! Today she’s 12!

[Posing first with her owl-themed siblings - oldest sister Lenore, L, and younger sister Faye, R, then Fjöer zooming in the back ; then next with her parents and whole family including Sæunn!…… while owl shaped of course 🫶

I’ve drawn her maybe like six times total ever in twelve real time years 😅 truly This Kiddo Birthday tracking project is SOLELY so I can consistently create art for these OC kids that we keep generating and,, promptly forgetting all about teehee

So! the Japhi girlies (Lenore, Annette, and Faye; + Fjöer and Sæ, each Loki’s kids but from… Laphi and Jesse respectively lmaooo) are so neglected in my brain that I have nooo idea what Annette’s dealio is or her like, personality or anything at all. her last canon moments were running around with Raz and Rane as a toddler, they’re all in the same age bracket. Spunky like her sisters???? Her nickname should be Annie imho!??? she ,,,belongs to Fenixe so idk about any of these decisions

BUT she, like her big sister Lenore and her dad Laphi, can also transform back and forth into a screech owl and hence the second drawing, Jesse posing with HIS PILE OF OWLS, one of which is his husband and the other two are aforementioned girlies and. Faye and Sæ and Fjöer are just happy to be here

Jesse noooooo don’t put your tiny owl daughter into The Birthday Cone nnnnoooo

these came out so much cuter than I expected them to so enjoy!!! There’s ANOTHER equally as obscure Elysium kiddo bday coming up this week and then back to wrapping up my daemon zone sketching!!’ … also Sorry I’m trapped within this brush rn please cope xoxo

everyone here except Fjöer and Sæ belongs to the hiatus’d @fenixethekid !!

[pyrophille]

japhie

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Pyres — Yun (Hypaethral)

Photo by Sam Carcasole

Should sludge metal be hummable? Want some melody mixed in with the magma? Bands have asked similar questions about tempering sludge’s usually relentless ugliness — see especially YOB’s incendiary Our Raw Heart (2018). But Mike Scheidt, YOB’s frontman and creative force, is a past master of metal textures, and the singular source for that record’s surfeit of sentiment is intrinsic to Scheidt’s very body. Pyres, on the other hand, is a Toronto band offering here its second LP in 13 or so years of infrequent activity. As no less an authority than Japhy Ryder (and Dogberry, too) has told us, “Comparisons are odious.” But Pyres is swinging for the fences on Yun, urging listeners to open up to big riffs and even bigger feels. And the opening strains of the LP’s longest cut “A Depth Charge in a Dead Sea” closely evoke YOB’s “Beauty in Falling Leaves.” It’s provoking, at the very least. But is there substance beyond the provocation?

To be fair, there’s just about as much grunge in Pyres’ sound as there is sludge, and grunge’s relations to melody are much less fraught. Still, Pyres’ playing is at its most exciting when the band is channeling Alice in Chains at their most scabrous, as opposed to the later Soundgarden’s tuneful turns. See “Granular Flow,” which commences with a cosmic groove orbiting “Superunknown” (and meh…) before it bottoms out into tougher, nastier riffage that gestures toward the blues. More significant is the feeling tone pervading those sorta bluesy passages. Pyres just sounds like they’re having a better time when the music slows down a beat and struts.

Still, there’s more than a sniff of the progressive to the proceedings on Yun, edging several songs toward qualities referred to with words like “technique” and “composed.” The desire to prettify sludge is prevalent (see records by big bands in the subgenre, like Torche and Helms Alee, if you must) but strange. This reviewer prefers sludge that focuses its intent on the ugly in the music: Noothgrush, Iron Monkey, more recently the mighty Primitive Man. On occasion, Pyres achieves an effectively unpleasant intensity; check out the closing minute of “Nova Cruciatus” or the mournful second half of “Old Dogs.” Sometimes new tricks just aren’t necessary.

 Jonathan Shaw

[mystacoceti]

[...] when [Henry Morley, Japhy Ryder and I] got out into country with no more houses and anything I began to yearn for a good old hot breakfast and suddenly after we'd gone over a little creek bridge we saw a merry little lodge by the side of the road under tremendous juniper trees with smoke boiling out of the chimney and neon signs outside and a sign in the window advertising pancakes and hot coffee. 'Let's go in there, by God we need a man's breakfast if we're gonna climb al day.' Nobody complained about my idea and we went in, and sat at booths, and a nice woman took our orders with that cheery loquaciousness of people in the backcountry. 'Well you boys goin huntin this mornin?' 'No'm,' said Japhy, 'just climbing Matterhorn.' 'Matterhorn, why I wouldn't do that if somebody paid me a thousand dollars!' Meanwhile I went out to the log johns out back and washed from water in the tap which was delightfully cold and made my face tingle, then I drank some of it and it was like cool liquid ice in my stomach and sat there real nice, and I had more. Shaggy dogs were barking in the golden red sunlight slanting down from hundred-foot branches of the firs and ponderosas. I could see snowcapped mountains glittering in the distance. One of them was Matterhorn. I went in and the pancakes were ready, hot and steaming, and poured syrup over my three pats of butter and cut them up and slurped hot coffee and ate. So did Henry and Japhy – for once no conversation. Then we washed it all down with that incomparable cold water as hunters came in in hunting boots with wool shirts but no giddy drunk hunters but serious hunters ready to go out there after breakfast. There was a bar adjoining but nobody cared about alcohol this morning.

from Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac

[romaroy]

Justin Kirk singing in "I'll Be Seein' Ya" (2022)

[mywifeleftme]

157: The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band // "Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward."

"Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward." The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band 2001, Constellation (Bandcamp)

22 years ago Montreal’s other iconic prodigiously-membered post-rock band released their second LP. It’s not easy keeping all of these pro-Zion-but-not-Zionists straight, so I’ve helpfully listed and ranked each of the musicians who have passed through this constantly shifting collective from first to least-first. Let’s go!

Members of A/The/e Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Ranked

1. Mike Garson - piano 2. Annie Clark - guitar, keyboards, backing vocals 3. Brian Teasley- percussion 4. Daniel Hart - violin 5. Szabolcs Szczur – accordion 6. Davey 'Crabsticks' Trotter – Mellotron 7. Timothy Matthews – mbira 8. Buffi Jacobs – cello 9. Bach Norwood – piano, keyboards, backing vocals 10. Harriet Ballance - triangle, backing vocals 11. Japhy Ryder – floristry 12. Stuart "Peebs" Peebles – piccolo 13. Chandler Petrino – natural horn, oboe 14. Jared Pechonis – theremin 15. Toby Halbrooks - theremin 16. Corn Mo - backing vocals 17. Patrick Hewitt – theremin 18. Darin Hieb – trumpet, backing vocals 19. Rachel Woolf – flute 20. Mark Beardsworth – claviola 21. Allen Halas – percussion 22. Edwin Mendoza – viola 23. Todd Beaupré – vibraslap 24. Thaddeus Ford – trumpet 25. Paul Deemer – trombone, trumpet 26. Mike St.Clair – trombone, synth effects 27. Josh Guyer – trombone, spoons 28. Chris Curiel – trumpet 29. Heather Test – French horn 30. Victoria Arellano – classical harp 31. Sean Redman – violin, mandolin 32. Kelly Test – percussion 33. Mike Mordecai – percussion 34. Jason Garner – drums 35. Audrey Easley – flute, piccolo, EWI 36. Rick G. Nelson – viola 37. Nick Groesch – piano, keyboards 38. Keith Hendricks – percussion 39. Evan Hisey – keyboards 40. Dylan Silvers – guitar 41. Daniel Hart – violin 42. John Lamonica – percussion 43. Marcus Lopez – percussion 44. Matt Bricker – trumpet, synth effects 45. Taylor Young – percussion 46. Joe Butcher – steel drum 47. Evan Jacobs – piano, keyboards 48. Todd Berridge – viola 49. Nick Earl – guitar 50. Evan Weiss – trumpet 51. Jay Jennings – trumpet 52. Tamara Brown – violin 53. Merritt Lota – steel drums 54. Daniel Huffman – guitar 55. Timothy Blowers – harp 56. Anthony Richards – steel drums 57. Louis Schwadron – French horn 58. Andrew Tinker – French horn 59. Nick Wlodarczyk  – trombone 60. Paul Gaughran – flute 61. Isabelo Cruz – French horn 62. Bryan Wakeland – drums 63. Hayley McCarthy – viola 64. Dave Dusters – percussion, backing vocals 65. Billy Mills-Curran – flute 66. Logan Keese – trumpet 67. Ricky Rasura – classical harp 68. Tonya Hewitt – banjo 69. Daniel Poorman – slide whistle 70. Andy Parkerson – clarinet 71. Joseph Singleton – viola 72. Jenelle Valencia – violin 73. James Reimer – trombone 74. Regina Chellew – guitar, trumpet, backing vocals 75. Ryan Fitzgerald – guitar, backing vocals 76. Cory Helms – guitar, backing vocals 77. Jessica Jordan – backing vocals 78. Jenny Kirtland – backing vocals 79. Kristin Hardin – backing vocals 80. Elizabeth Evans – backing vocals 81. Neil Smith – backing vocals 82. Julie Doyle – backing vocals 83. Christine Bolon – backing vocals 84. Natalie Young – backing vocals 85. Constance Dolph – backing vocals 86. Elizabeth Brown – backing vocals 87. Apotsala Wilson – backing vocals 88. Jennie Kelley – backing vocals 89. Roy Thomas Ivy – backing vocals 90. Jamey Welch – backing vocals 91. Ethan Voelkers – backing vocals 92. Mark Pirro - bass 93. Frank Benjaminsen – backing vocals 94. Stephanie Dolph – backing vocals 95. Jennifer Jobe – backing vocals 96. Mike Elio – backing vocals 97. Kelly Repka – backing vocals 98. Jason Rees – backing vocals 99. Jeneffa Soldatic – backing vocals 100. Michael Turner – backing vocals 101. Don Congeler – backing vocals 102. Michael Musick – backing vocals 103. Melissa Crutchfield – backing vocals 104. Sandra Powers Giasson – backing vocals 105. Paul Hillery – backing vocals 106. Stephen Dix – backing vocals 107. Jessica Berridge – backing vocals 108. Melisma MacDonald – backing vocals 109. Ross Cink - backing vocals 110. Lucy Williams - choreography 111. Josh David Jordan – backing vocals 112. Brad Butler – backing vocals 113. Jason Rees – backing vocals 114. Andrew Aldenenotti – backing vocals 115. Getting hit by a bus wearing a flowing white robe 116. Tim DeLaughter - vocals, guitar, piano

Hold on. I’ve just received word that these musicians are actually members of some other band? Apologies for the confusion!

157/365

[japhgura]

Jsyk I got your ask and wrote like 5 K about the Kensei-Mashiro-Tousen dynamic (with bonus Weiss and Hachi!) in a manic fit yesterday I just need to edit/refine it and do my laundry before I can post

Ynsjeiggjsnsir I didn't realize it was my birthday djjejd i'm VERY excited

Currently in my own pipeline are:

- Tama Coloured (base colours are on, but I need to finish the surrounding area and wittle dwagon)

- Curse Wound Snippet - aka Shūhei going 'Maegawa Holy FUCK' as he kicks in the door and they argue for a while

- Self indulgent Maegawa story all about her working with a 'you can try and get your Zanpakutō to talk to you by putting yourself in a life threatening situation'-academy kid heavily featuring Muramasa and also past Kensei, showcasing some of her past shortly after receiving the very very bad injury

- A lil itty bit all about the 69 tattoos

- Some sketches of Squad 9 Tech Support (Did you try turning it on and off again?)

- Yeehaw Crusaders Jotaro Sheet

- JoJo Fix-It

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"...to me a mountain is a buddha. think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there being perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence, and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin." Japhy got out the tea, chinese tea, and sprinkled some in the tin pot, and had the fire going meanwhile...and pretty soon the water was boiling and he poured it out steaming into the tin pot and we had cups of tea with our tin cups...

"remember that book i told you about the first sip (of tea) is joy and the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy." — Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

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By Robert M Massimi. ( Broadway Bob).Published about 5 hours ago • 3 min read



Robert M Massimi

Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center is a modern piece with very good acting. The direction by Jack O'Brien is at a slow pace for most of the one hour and forty five minutes. Although this show should have had an intermission, the play for the most part locks in tightly.

Staying mostly to the original story, Mark O'Rowe adds a different take with the modern and it seems to work well for the most part. The costumes by Jess Goldstein blend with the script. In the modern, many costume designs are very overt, here, they are neither garish nor boring. Goldstein gives us more interesting than anything else. Japhy Weideman's lighting draws a wider swath in that we get big sides and broad overheads. The lighting in this play draw the back-beat of movement that is before us and is well done.

Ibsen has always questioned many things in his writing style. Here, Pastor Manders (Billy Crudup) and Helena Alving (Lily Rabe) banter about God, society and the people who live in it. Ms. Alving is a slow boil here; at first we don't know why, her language at the beginning is tepid, until...

The pastor is eager to do please. He is charismatic and faithful to the Dogma of The Word of God. He is also informative to the ways of the world. As he builds his orphanage, his concern is more how it looks on its face than the good that it will do for children. He also would rather avoid conflict than face it head on; he goes along to get along in society. What is popular and less confrontational is where the pastor sets his focus.

The dialogue between the pastor and Helena can be tense at times. This maybe due to sexual tension; tension with the social status of both. Watching these two great actors interact makes "Ghosts" in of itself worth the price of admission. Regina (Ella Beatty) and Oswald (Levon Hawke) too are very deft in how they interact. The daughter of an embattled Engstrand (Hamish Linklater), she accepts her maid duties more because of her crush on Oswald. Regina is constantly torn between leaving the Norwegian estate and dedicating her life towards the family.

In one setting, director O'Brien is limited in how the actors move about, and yet they all move and speak systematically, with great charisma. It is the preciseness with the entire play that makes it work so well. Each character has a secret, secrets that will be exposed as the play goes on. The way that Ibsen and the direction lets each one out slowly and at the right time makes this classic timeless.

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As the Broadway spring season gets underway, next up is Dorian Grey and Glengary Glenn Ross. Shortly after these two shows will be Boop and Smash. The steady flow from there will all meet the Tony deadline for best play/musical. The two shows that are really crimping the pocket books of audiences are: Othello and Goodnight, and Good Luck. Tickets for these two shows are through the roof! Othello is rumored to be charging &1,000. a ticket, and the seats are in the middle of the orchestra, not even close to the stage! It is rumored that the mezzanine seats are going for $500. and up! This is for a show that I thought was awful. While "Goodnight" is not as bad, it is still very costly. Rear mezzanine seats are going for $250. Orchestra seating can be as high as $750 per ticket.

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Robert M Massimi. ( Broadway Bob).

I have been writing on theater since 1982. A graduate from Manhattan College B.S. A member of Alpha Sigma Lambda, which recognizes excellence in both English and Science. I have produced 14 shows on and off Broadway. I've seen over700 shows

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