#post: ncec

[natgoodmans]

edit challenge → vs. @fontanaosnes​ ♦ round three ↳ FAVOURITE PARKS & REC COUPLE + BEN WYATT X LESLIE KNOPE 

We could just say screw it and do this thing for real. I miss you like crazy. I think about you all the time. I want to be with you. So let’s just say screw it. I know how I feel and I want to be with you.

[businessandbrews]

@garyvee just texted and asked “Why I should win”. He is flying someone out to New York to have coffee ☕️ with him. Basically, we post to Twitter using the hashtag #GaryVeeCoffee and say why we should win. I said because he is greatly responsible for the part where I gave up a traditional job, took a massive pay cut, and decided to go out on my own and make things happen. All because I saw a video of his. The truth is, it’s just because I want a cup of coffee with Gary. For anyone who doesn’t know Gary Vaynerchuck, I highly recommend all his content. It’s motivating, encouraging, and has a TON of good information. For those of you who do know him, you are well aware he thrives off a give, give, give, give, give, then ask principal. If you’re not familiar with this, I suggest his book 📖Jab Jab Jab, Right Hook. I’m just not sure how we could go about such a Twitter “contest” without a little selfishness. Don’t worry. When I win, I will take my copy of that book and ask him to sign it. The last part of his message was to have the best Tuesday of your life. #remarkscomplete #thatisall #carryon #army #navy #marines #usmc #coastguard #twitter #garyvaynerchuk #garyvee #newyork #veteranownedbusiness #veteranowned #smallbusiness #amazon #ebay #ncec #ecommercecenter #resellfulfillmentcenter #rfc #ncec (at Durham, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Q9U2qjlcF/?igshid=1dv7gppnsco06

[nicolekidmanwigfactory]

Future music historians will be like

“In the year 2016, wannabe auteur-musician Damien Chazelle disappointed music scholars when his love-letter to the city of Los Angeles, the movie-musical La La Land, opened and forever distorted what jazz was. Up until that point, jazz was seen as a purely American musical phenomenon with its roots in Black American culture. After the original song “City of Starts,” was unleashed on the public, white people, conforming to their historical role as the thieves of Black culture, assumed that this song was was “true jazz” (if ever such a concept existed) and derided anything sounding dissimilar as “not jazz” (NB: To maintain clarity of explanation, pre-2016 jazz will be referred to as “Black jazz” and post-2016 “jazz” as “Chazelle-style.”).

With the release of La La Land, there was a renewed, but limited, interest in Black jazz, which concerned the alt-Right staff of the Trump White House. In keeping with the administration’s policy of information distortion (”alternative facts”), record companies were forced under the amended Patriot Act, to recatalogue their old jazz recordings under the then (and still) obscure genre of “Ethnomusicological Data,” in an effort to better reflect “American values.” According to a diary recently discovered in the archives of the Library of Congress, the sound of the back-and-forth musical play of saxophones, trumpets, and other similar instruments “apparently carries the violence of the inner cities into living rooms of American suburbia, which make the Trump White House wary.” This diary is believed to have belonged to the director of the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) during the Trump presidency (unfortunately, most of the records of NEA were destroyed in the final days of the Trump Administration as troops from California stormed the capital, so it is unknown to whom in particular the diary belonged).

Records located in the library of the NEA’s successor agency, the American Cultural Enrichment Center (NCEC), demonstrate how Chazelle-style was then used to promote the alt-Right agenda of the de facto president, Steve Bannon. Following the musical model established by La La Land’s “City of Stars,” composers commissioned by the Trump Administration wrote nationalistic songs with words by lyricists personally hired by Bannon. The thinking at the time was that the lack of musical distinction notable in Chazelle-style made it easy for casual listeners to fall into a trance of sorts while they gradually absorbed the jingoistic message. Since the lyrics of Chazelle-style had a tendency to be unforgettable and make little sense, only the most attentive listeners could discern the true intent of the songs.

As Chazelle-style gained popularity, the renewed interest in Black jazz ended and over the succeeding decades, recordings of Black jazz became more difficult to procure. Since their cultural value had been diminished, nobody thought to keep and preserve them. As a result, the catalogues of Miles Davis and Charlie “Bird” Parker have been completely lost, while the few remaining recordings Louis Armstrong are of such a poor quality, it is feared that preservation efforts will destroy them. Sheet music written by Davis and Parker is known to exist in private collections, but nobody alive has the ability to perform it as Black jazz would require.  Meanwhile, “City of Stars” became the new American national anthem.”

[natgoodmans]

edit challenge → vs. @fontanaosnes​ ♦ round one ↳ FAVOURITE CHARACTER FROM AN AMERICAN IN PARIS + MILO DAVENPORT 

“I’m compelled from within, an instinctive hunger to make a contribution, a difference, a niche for myself.”