#ryan lee crosby

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Ryan Lee Crosby at The Extended Play Sessions

Ryan Lee Crosby brought the blues to the fallout shelter

The Ryan Lee Crosby band at The Extended Play Sessions – Fallout Shelter in Norwood, MA. on July 21, 2023.The band features Ryan, Ilana Katz Katz, Grant Smith, and Jay Scheffler.Their ability to seamlessly blend guitar, violin, harmonica, and the evocative Calabash Gourd drum into a seamless and infectious sound is a testament to their exceptional talent and creative vision.Ryan Lee Crosby’s…

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Sidney Crosby: Shrinking (Apple TV+), Prison Break (Hulu)

Alex Nedeljkovic: The Art of Clear Thinking by Hasard Lee; Same as Ever by Morgan Housel (he’s listening to it as an audiobook and reading a physical copy at the same time); Born a Crime by Trevor Noah; The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo; American Sniper by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice; Red Notice by Bill Browder

Lars Eller: Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Billions (Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+)

Noel Acciari: Reacher (Amazon Prime Video), Mayor of Kingstown and Tulsa King (Paramount+), and “I’m watching Boardwalk Empire (HBO Max) with Steve Buscemi. That one, I’ve seen already twice through. I pick long series that I haven’t seen in a couple years, like last year I did a show called Power (Hulu). Then the year before, I rewatched Game of Thrones (HBO Max). All those long ones.”

Ryan Graves: American Kingpin by Nick Bilton - “it’s unbelievable”; Born to Run by Christopher McDougall; From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle; How I Built This podcast; and the Doctor’s Farmacy podcast.

Rickard Rakell: Mario Kart on Nintendo Switch - “I’m always Waluigi. Because it’s the best character… with the kart and the wheels, he’s the fastest one.”

Drew O’Connor: Entourage (HBO Max)

P.O Joseph: “Watch the Marvel movies, all of them. There’s like, 26. That’ll keep you busy during the week. You watch two a day, you’re not even going to get half of it done. I finished all of them. I did them in (chronological order versus order of release), so Captain Marvel is first, then Captain America.”

Marcus Pettersson: When We Were Kings podcast; and “I go through a lot of shows. I feel like there's a lot of different ones that catch my eye, but I like more sci-fi or fantasy. Like the new Lord of the Rings show, I watched… the new Game of Thrones, I've watched… and the old Game of Thrones, all of those. I watched a show early in the summer called Silo on Apple TV+. It's a really good one.”

pens recs for the bye week

[lands-of-fantasy]

Titular Women in Live-action Superhero Media

Cathy Lee Crosby as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (1975)

Lynda Carter as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (1975-79)

Helen Slater as Kara Zor-El / Linda Lee / Supergirl in Supergirl (1984)

Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-97)

Ashley Scott as Helena Kyle / Huntress, Dina Meyer as Barbara Gordon / Oracle, Rachel Skarsten as Dinah Redmond in Birds of Prey (2002-03)

Halle Berry as Patience Phillips / Catwoman in Catwoman (2004)

Jennifer Garner as Elektra Natchios in Elektra (2005)

Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor-El / Kara Danvers / Supergirl in Supergirl (2015-21)

Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter in Agent Carter (2015-16)

Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones in Jessica Jones (2015-19)

Gal Gadot as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (2017) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Olivia Holt as Tandy Bowen in Cloak & Dagger (2018-19)*

Evangeline Lily as Hope van Dyne / The Wasp in Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018) and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

Brie Larson as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel in Captain Marvel (2019)

Sophie Turner as Jean Grey / Phoenix in X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Ruby Rose as Kate Kane / Batwoman in Batwoman Season 1 (2019-20)

Margot Robbie as Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Helena Bertinelli / The Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Dinah Lance / Black Canary, Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya, Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain in Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

Margot Robbie as Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

Brec Bassinger as Courtney Whitmore / Stargirl in Stargirl (2020-22)

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch in WandaVision

Javicia Leslie as Ryan Wilder / Batwoman in Batwoman Season 2–3 (2021-22)

Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane in Superman & Lois (2021-)

Scarlett Johansson Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow in Black Widow (2021)

Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop in Hawkeye (2021-?)**

Kaci Walfall as Naomi McDuffie in Naomi (2022)

Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel in Ms. Marvel (2022-?)

Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022-?)

Letitia Wright as Shuri /Black Panther in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Brie Larson as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel in The Marvels (2023)

Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez in Echo (2024-?)*

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*While not directly reffered as such in their shows, "Dagger" and "Echo" are, respectively, Tandy's and Maya's codenames in the comics.

**This also goes for Kate and the "Hawkeye" codename, but in her case the show implies she will use it in the near future with the blessing of Clint Barton (the original Hawkeye, who also stars in the show).

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Player recommendations for the bye week

Courtesy of Michelle Crechiolo January 29, 2024

The Penguins began their annual bye week on Sunday, Jan. 28, which leads into the All-Star break. That means Pittsburgh won’t return to game action until Tuesday, Feb. 6, when they host the Winnipeg Jets at PPG Paints Arena.

A number of the players shared their recommendations for books, shows, and podcasts to help pass the time over the next week-plus until hockey is back, with some adding commentary to their picks. I tried including where you can stream the shows, but if you aren’t subscribed to the service I listed, I would do some research to see if it’s accessible elsewhere. Enjoy!

Sidney Crosby: Shrinking (Apple TV+), Prison Break (Hulu)

Alex Nedeljkovic: The Art of Clear Thinking by Hasard Lee; Same as Ever by Morgan Housel (he’s listening to it as an audiobook and reading a physical copy at the same time); Born a Crime by Trevor Noah; The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo; American Sniper by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice; Red Notice by Bill Browder

Lars Eller: Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Billions (Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+)

Noel Acciari: Reacher (Amazon Prime Video), Mayor of Kingstown and Tulsa King (Paramount+), and “I’m watching Boardwalk Empire (HBO Max) with Steve Buscemi. That one, I’ve seen already twice through. I pick long series that I haven’t seen in a couple years, like last year I did a show called Power (Hulu). Then the year before, I rewatched Game of Thrones (HBO Max). All those long ones.”

Ryan Graves: American Kingpin by Nick Bilton - “it’s unbelievable”; Born to Run by Christopher McDougall; From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle; How I Built This podcast; and the Doctor’s Farmacy podcast.

Rickard Rakell: Mario Kart on Nintendo Switch - “I’m always Waluigi. Because it’s the best character… with the kart and the wheels, he’s the fastest one.”

Drew O’Connor: Entourage (HBO Max)

P.O Joseph: “Watch the Marvel movies, all of them. There’s like, 26. That’ll keep you busy during the week. You watch two a day, you’re not even going to get half of it done. I finished all of them. I did them in (chronological order versus order of release), so Captain Marvel is first, then Captain America.”

Marcus Pettersson: When We Were Kings podcast; and “I go through a lot of shows. I feel like there's a lot of different ones that catch my eye, but I like more sci-fi or fantasy. Like the new Lord of the Rings show, I watched… the new Game of Thrones, I've watched… and the old Game of Thrones, all of those. I watched a show early in the summer called Silo on Apple TV+. It's a really good one.”

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new additions to the masterpost :)

hey all ~

along with the few panelist collections i soft-launched yesterday (🥹 thanks for enjoying them), there is some new content on the masterpost + secondary masterpost!

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panel shows

bring the noise — complete series sky 1 series hosted by ricky wilson with nicole scherzinger, tinie tempah, joel dommett, katherine ryan

the guessing game — complete series bbc radio scotland radio panel show where guests are asked a series of bizarre questions; hosted by clive anderson and guests include alex horne, susan calman, hal cruttenden, matthew crosby, cariad lloyd, etc.

it's your round — complete series radio panel show where each guests invents the round to be won. hosted by angus deayton and guests include miles jupp, sara pascoe, rebecca front, josie long, bridget christie, tim key, etc.

richard hammond's brain reaction — complete series science-based panel show hosted by richard hammond alongside victoria coren mitchell, johnny vegas and ria lina

misc. tv

archiveologists — complete series two episodes of mash aka diane morgan & joe wilkinson re-voice archive footage to give us a twisted comedy spin on british social history and institutions in short 'information' films

beauty & the beast: a pantomime for comic relief (2021) pandemic era virtual panto starring lily james, oliver chris, sian gibson, kiell smith-bynoe, miranda hart, michael sheen, lee mack, etc.

imagine... jo brand: no holds barred (2019) documentary about the legend herself, featuring interviews with peter capaldi, alan davies, victoria coren mitchell, etc.

show & tell — complete series e4 series celebrating comic storytelling. each episode sees three comedians bring something to 'show' to viewers. hosted by chris addison and guests include roisin conaty, elis james, joe wilkinson, joe lycett, diane morgan, james acaster, etc.

staged — complete series david tennant and michael sheen didn't win a bafta for this but they should have

the complete stand up to cancer celebrity episodes of the great british bake off (i will work on the sport relief episodes!)

twenty twelve — complete series bbc mockumentary series accompanying the 2012 olympics, starring hugh bonneville and jessica hynes

who do you think you are? — david tennant

misc. radio

alex horne presents the horne section — complete series 2011–2014 bbc radio 4 series

party's over — complete series bbc radio 4 sitcom starring miles jupp as a prime minister coping with life after leaving office

women talking about cars — complete series victoria coren mitchell hosts an exploration of what cars symbolise to women today, including freedom, power, refuge, novelty and familiarity; guests include olivia colman, claudia winkleman, jennifer saunders, etc.

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ps. icymi these are the masterpost additions from last week which are well worth checking out!

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My Original Characters

Here are all the original characters/ocs I have created for my stories on here – I’ll update this as I go along! They will be listed in chronological order of posting, from top to bottom.

Count as of 19th July 2024 - 30

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Name: Sofia Player: Tyson Barrie Fic: Make Me a Fool

Name: Ashley Miller Player: Dougie Hamilton Fic: Take a Chance

Name: Elizabeth/Lizzie Player: Tyson Barrie Fic: More Than Words

Name: Audrey James Player: Jeff Skinner Fic: Prove You Wrong

Name: Alyssa Morgan Player: Jamie Oleksiak Fic: I Swear To You

Name: Katerina Stewart Player: Cale Makar Fic: You Say I Am Loved

Name: Zoey Clark Player: Miro Heiskanen Fic: Easy to Say

Name: Juliet Player: Nico Hischier Fic: Walk in the Footsteps

Name: Chloe Duncan Player: Tyson Jost Fic: There a Chance (series)

Name: Malia Player: Brock Boeser Fic: afraid to know the answer

Name: Iris Davenport Player: Matthew Tkachuk Fic: I got the boy, she got the man

Name: Avery Carmichael Player: Chris Kreider Fic: Take me for what I am

Name: Joanna Player: Elias Pettersson Fic: Déjà-Brew

Name: Luna Player: Cale Makar Fic: you can’t blame a girl for trying

Name: Isabella Thornton Player: Anthony Beauvillier Fic: we’re lost and found

Name: Cameron Marlow Player: Jeff Skinner Fic: gotta trust how you feel inside

Name: Karla Nielsen Player: Frederik Andersen Fic: I’ll always guide you home

Name: Renée Moreau Player: Quinn Hughes Fic: I need your hands on me, sweet relief

Name: Gracelyn Davis Player: Jake Oettinger Fic: taking on the world together

Name: Mila Williams Player: Nico Hischier Fic: sometimes you just don’t know the answer

Name: Soren Player: Ryan Graves Fic: When the time is right

Name: Maeva Player: Sidney Crosby Fic: I’m still haunted by the memories

Name: Sera Player: Philipp Grubauer Fic: I never thought

Name: Kendra Lee Player: Frederik Andersen Fic: comes back to me, burning red

Name: Mollie Thomas Player: Tyson Jost Fic: summer days pass me by

Name: Rachel Summers Player: Nathan MacKinnon Fic: you’ve been sent to save me

Name: Gianna Player: Quinn Hughes Fic: I’ve got a secret, I’m telling everyone

Name: Nora Player: Nick Blankenburg Fic: how long I had to fight to be living my life

Name: Bailey Player: Matthew Tkachuk Fic: no hesitation, what are we waiting for?

Name: Dhara Nicholls Player: Matt Martin Fic: I can’t help it if I like it

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Who I write for!

Nhl

New Jersey Devils

Jack Hughes

Luke Hughes

Dawson Mercer

John Marino

Pittsburgh Penguins

Sidney Crosby

New York Islanders

Mat Barzal

Anders Lee

Buffalo Sabers

Tyson Jost

Owen Power

Devon Levi

Erik Johnson

Boston Bruins

Jeremy Swaymen

Johnny Beecher

Anaheim Ducks

Trevor Zegras

Jamie Drysdale

Mason McTavish

Colorado Avalanche

Nathan MacKinnon

Cale Makar

Miles Wood

Minnesota Wild

Matt Boldy

San Jose sharks

Thomas Bordeleau

Seattle Kraken

Jamie oleksiak

Carolina Hurricanes

Andrei Svechnikov

Brady Skjei

Sebastian Aho

Seth Jarvis

Martin Nečas

Florida Panthers

Matthew Tkachuk

Mackie Samoskevich

Columbus Blue Jackets

Kent Johnson

Nick Blankenburg

Adam Fantilli

Cole Sillinger

Vancouver Canucks

Quinn Hughes

Toronto Maple Leafs

Matthew knies

Edmonton Oilers

Leon Draisaitl

Montreal Canadians

Cole Caufield

Arber Xhekaj

Kirby Dach

Juraj Slafkovsky

LA Kings

Alex Turcotte

University Of Michigan

Rutger McGroarty

Luca Fantilli

Mark Estapa

Dylan Duke

Tyler Duke

Ethan Edwards

Jacob Truscott

Boston college

Will smith

Ryan Leonard

Formula 1

Lando Norris

Oscar Piastri

Charles Leclerc

Carlos Sainz

Lewis Hamilton

Mick Schumacher

Daniel Ricciardo

Max Verstappen

Alex Albon

Logan Sargeant

Lance Stroll

Liam Lawson

Sebastian Vettle

Jenson Button

Toto Wolff

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My corresponding Spotify Wrapped songs to my favorite hockey players from my top 100 year 3:

• 2 (Brendan Smith)- august by Taylor Swift

• 4 (Braden Schneider)- El Tango De Roxanne by Original Broadway Cast of Moulin Rouge! The Musical

• 6 (Erik Johnson)- my tears ricochet by Taylor Swift

• 7 (Jordan Eberle)- All I Wanted by Paramore

• 8 (Noah Dobson, Jacob Trouba)- ceilings by Lizzy McAlpine

• 10 (Vinni Littieri, Artemi Panarin)- The Archer by Taylor Swift

• 11 (Trevor Zegras)- You Don’t Go To Parties by 5 Seconds of Summer

• 13 (Mat Barzal, Kevin Hayes, Nico Hischier, Alexis Lafreniere)- Stick Season by Noah Kahan

• 15 (Cal Clutterbuck)- TEARS! by 5 Seconds of Summer

• 16 (Mitch Marner)- Evergreen (You Didn’t Deserve Me At All) by Omar Apollo

• 17 (Matt Martin, Tyson Jost)- Gilded Lily by Cults

• 19 (Matthew Tkachuk)- High by 5 Seconds of Summer

• 20 (Chris Kreider)- Graceland Too by Phoebe Bridgers

• 21 (Kyle Okposo)- The View Between Villages by Noah Kahan

• 22 (Cole Caufield, Kevin Fiala)- epiphany by Taylor Swift

• 24 (Scott Mayfield)- Waiting Room by Phoebe Bridgers

• 26 (Jimmy Vessey)- this is me trying by Taylor Swift

• 27 (Ryan McDonagh, Anders Lee)- Bleach by 5 Seconds of Summer

• 29 (Nathan MacKinnon, Leon Draisaitl, Marc-Andre Fluery, Brock Nelson)- Motion Sickness by Phoebe Bridgers

• 30 (Ilya Sorokin)- Out Of The Woods by Taylor Swift

• 31 (Igor Shesterkin)- Life On Mars? by David Bowie

• 36 (Mats Zuccarello)- I Know The End by Phoebe Bridgers

• 37 (Andrei Svechnikov)- Francesca by Hozier

• 40 (Semyon Varlamov)- Dial Drunk by Noah Kahan

• 43 (Quinn Hughes)- Twin Size Mattress by The Front Bottoms

• 53 (Casey Cizikas)- Starting Line by Luke Hemings

• 58 (Kris Letang)- Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift

• 63 (Brad Marchand)- No Shame by 5 Seconds of Summer

• 72 (Anthony Beauvillier)- Strange by Celeste

• 75 (Ryan Reaves)- Jet Black Heart by 5 Seconds of Summer

• 76 (Brady Skjei)- Heroes by David Bowie

• 79 (K’Andre Miller)- Blender by 5 Seconds of Summer

• 87 (Sidney Crosby)- English Love Affair by 5 Seconds of Summer

• 88 (David Pastrnak)- I Wish I Never Met You by Babygirl

• 89 (Pavel Buchnevich)- If It Makes You Happy by Michael Cera Palin

• 91 (Tyler Seguin, Vladimir Taresenko, John Tavares)- Everything I Didn’t Say by 5 Seconds of Summer

• 93 (Mika Zibanejad)- Stay Together For The Kids by Blink-182

See you next year 🫶🫶

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✧ ⁺ ⁺  a warm welcome to everyone! please make sure to follow everybody on the masterlist (or use the quick follow here) and have fun! we've missed you!

HEADS UP! due to the amount of applications there are two follows posts!

the mods have worked diligently over the past few days in order to welcome you all! despite this, we are only human and sometimes things do slip through cracks. if you notice we have missed anything or input any information incorrectly on any of our pages (relationships pages will be live later this evening!) then please do not hesitate to reach out to us to have things corrected!

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Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down - Ryan Lee Crosby from The Extended Play Sessions on Vimeo.

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TGIF: Roundup for November 4, 2022

I asked Karisa You to read her beautiful article: Bread for 100,000 Children: The Prayer Life of George Muller. My devotional exhortation to youth worship student leaders at FCBC Walnut was also featured this week: Three Lessons for Ministry Leaders to Guard Your Heart Against Pride.

SOLA is proud to co-sponsor the Pathways of Grace Conference, featuring Joni Eareckson Tada, to encourage and equip people from local churches who are currently involved or want to be involved in caring for others in their churches affected by disability.

Our monthly newsletter features our most popular resources. Read our latest edition and join for free. Check out my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group and TGIF Playlist on Spotify. You can reach me on Twitter and Instagram.

Enter to win this excellent book! This is week 2 of 2 for this giveaway. Read my review. Special thanks to IVP for sponsoring our giveaway, presented in partnership with my newsletters for @diveindigdeep and FCBC Walnut.

Articles From Around The Web

Abe Cho: Modulating the Key of the Gospel

“As Tim [Keller] put it, If they had to figure out how the gospel of Jesus Christ sounds in the key of psychology, we will need to figure out how the gospel of Jesus Christ sounds in the key of sociology.”

CHEN Jing: When the “Golden Age” Is Over: A Call for Missiological Reflection on China Missions of the Past Four Decades

“In the past God has sometimes allowed the church in some contexts to plunge to low points before new paradigms of ministry emerged. What has been happening in China the past several years could be a historic moment like that.”

Related: Learning About The Center for House Church Theology: An Interview with Clara Kim by Aaron Lee

SOLA is proud to co-sponsor the Pathways of Grace Conference, featuring Joni Eareckson Tada, to encourage and equip people from local churches who are currently involved or want to be involved in caring for others in their churches affected by disability.

Books, Podcasts, Music, And More

Acts29: Missional Lifestyle

Ryan Kwon on “what we might look like if discipleship and mission are not just independent departments of the church, but a holistically integrated apprenticeship toward the mission of God.”

TGC Gospelbound Podcast: Digital Life in the Slow Lane

Jay Kim joins Collin Hansen to discuss “comparison and contempt, love on the move, the design of social media, hate and hurt, chronological snobbery, and more.”

Related: Finding Faithfulness in the Digital Era: An Interview with Jay Y. Kim by Aaron Lee

Crossway Podcast: Growing as a Follower in a Culture Obsessed with Leadership

Richard Langer and Joanne Jung point out the prevalence of books, podcasts, and workshops on leadership and suggest that the contrasting idea of followership is where our focus should be.

Aaron Lee: Related Works

Book Reviews: Rembrandt is In the Wind by Russ Ramsey, Fanny Crosby (Children’s Book) by Laura Caputo-Wickham, The Illustrated Westminster Shorter Catechism by Andrew Green, Saško Nezamutdinov and Ben Preston, Church History by Simonetta Carr, The Book of Hebrews by Alabaster. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.

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Featured This Week On SOLA Network

Jonathan Holmes: Addressing the Struggles of Adoptees with the Father’s Love

“I know the journey of myself and many adoptees is ongoing as we seek to reclaim and reconnect with our cultural heritage and reconcile our narratives with what we know to be true of our loving, Heavenly Father.”

Related: Supporting Adoptees and Parents of Adoptees: An Interview with Jonathan Holmes by Aaron Lee

Aly Lee: Good News to the Sick: How Chronic Illness Has Helped Me See the Gospel in a New Way

“When Jesus died on the cross, his actual skin was pierced with nails. God chose for the story of salvation to be a story of intense physical pain.”

Aaron Lee: Three Lessons for Ministry Leaders to Guard Your Heart Against Pride

“The measure of a worship leader is not by outward appearances, but by inward affections.”

Karisa You: Bread for 100,000 Children: The Prayer Life of George Muller

How does one man care for ten thousand orphans and raise millions of dollars (in today’s currency) without asking for a single donation or ever going into debt? By taking God seriously on His word in Matthew 7:7—ask and it will be given to you.

TGIF: Roundup for October 28, 2022

Praying Before Meals like the Men of Gondor / Strategies for Preaching to the Polarized / Living Among Majesties: The Grandeur of the People of God / Embracing Spiritual Authority in the Face of Pastoral Failure

General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.

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Rob Noyes & Ryan Lee Crosby - Modal Improvisations on 34 Strings

Bandcamp Monday! 12-string guitarist extraordinaire Rob Noyes joins forces with chaturangi player Ryan Lee Crosby for some lengthy spontaneous creations, sometimes light and free-flowing, sometimes intense and heavy. I’m reminded of Ry Cooder and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt’s classic collab, Meeting By The River -- always a good thing. 

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Dust Volume 4, Number 9

The Long Hots

We enter the pumpkin latte season with a full slate of short reviews, covering both anticipated and overlooked releases from rock, pop, jazz, punk and unclassifiable genres. Contributors this time included Bill Meyer, Ethan Covey, Jennifer Kelly, Isaac Olson, Jonathan Shaw and Justin Cober-Lake.  

Baked – II (Exploding in Sound)

II by Baked

Baked, out of Brooklyn, belches a lava flow of viscous guitar sound over sweetly unassuming pop melodies. If J. Mascis ever wrote a song to impress the women of Look Blue Go Purple, if Beat Happening experimented with a whacked out set of fuzz pedals, it might sound a bit like this – in short, it’s fetching DIY pop with serious muscles under the anorak. When soft, vulnerable tune meets the bristling heft of feedback, there’s a palpable fizz, never more so than on “Hope You’re Happy,” sung by Isabella Mingione. “The Hartlett Anthem” does the same trick with Jeremy Aquilino singing tender hooks over the droning surf of dissonance like a sleepier Teenage Fanclub. This particular recording is Baked’s third, after 2014’s Debt and 2017’s Farnham but earns the “II” by being the second in Exploding in Sound’s Tape Club series. That’s undoubtedly why it’s so short, but brevity is tantalizing. These five songs leave you wanting more.

Jennifer Kelly

 Big Blood — Operate Spaceship Earth Properly (Feeding Tube Records)

Massachusetts-based Feeding Tube Records favors such a frantic release schedule that it’s easy to miss the consistently strange, often delightful albums they spit out. Earlier this summer, the label dropped Operate Spaceship Earth Properly, a fresh & freaky 45-minutes of scuzzy psychedelia from Big Blood. The Portland, ME duo of Colleen Kinsella and Caleb Mulkerin — joined here in some capacity by their daughter, Quinnisa — have been delivering properly furry trips since the 1990s, originally as founders of Cerberus Shoal. The spin this time involves a tip of the hat to authors such as Octavia Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin via a science fiction-inspired song cycle. Yet, concept aside, the songs have serious teeth, stomping forward in a heady slop of bullying riffs, martial drumming and Kinsella’s third-eye rants. It’s headphone music for the deep forest, a turned-on reality-strip far more properly psychedelic than the jammed-out noodling frequently paraded by those dressed in thrifted tie dyes. Listen at your own risk; be changed.  

Ethan Covey

  Manu Delago—Parasol Peak (One Little Indian)

Manu Delago, a classically trained percussion who specializes in the steel-drum-like instrument known as a hang, isn’t doing things the easy way. For this album and the accompanying film, he convened a chamber group of seven people and led them, instruments and all, on a mountaineering expedition in the albums (pity the cellist). These eight tracks were recorded outside, in all kinds of weather, using natural elements like sticks, rocks and trees for additional textures. The result is a rather lovely blend of percussion-dappled Reichian minimalism, augmented by the sounds of water, thunder and wind. The music works its way to the summit, beginning in the leafy, sun-warmed environs of “Parasol Woods,” where reedy, breathy clarinet and pensive trombone catch the light sparkling off intricate webs of tonal percussion. By “Ridge View,” sounds have turned chillier and more remote; flute and chimes are buffeted by gales of wind. A mournful, solitary whistle frames “Listening Glacier,” a trebly coating of ice on a grounding drone of cello, but there is exuberance and accordion wheezing triumph in “Parasol Peak.” Fingers and lips must be pretty frozen all round by this point, but a warm, pulsing joy emanates from this brass-y, syncopated reel. The question arises: why would anyone do such a difficult thing?  But the answer is right there in the accompanying video. Because it was beautiful, because it was hard and because it made a sound no other new chamber group could make, with woods, mountains, stones and  physical effort built right in.

Jennifer Kelly

 Ethers—Ethers (Trouble in Mind)

s/t by Ethers

Ethers spun out of the late Chicago drone-punk-garage outfit Heavy Times, pulling front man Bo Hansen and bassist Russell Calderwood into this new enterprise and adding Calderwood’s wife Mary McKane and drummer Matt Rolin. Along the way, Hansen et al seem to picked up a heightened appreciation for melody and hook (and percolating keyboards thanks to McKane). “It’s a Rip-Off” lurches and jitters on slashed guitar riffs and hard, straight up and down drumming, but there’s an undeniable lilt in its fuzzy tune, and “Emily” balances bluster and tenderness in equal parts. If Heavy Times drove a post-punk freight train through a long, shadowy tunnel, Ethers breaks out into sunshine on the other side of the mountain, the darkness in the music but not all of it. “Something” ends the disc on a high note, chiming guitar notes streaking like meteors down to a burnt-bare beat, an intoxicating smell of sleeping gas all around.

Jennifer Kelly

 Iron & Wine — Weed Garden (Sub Pop)

Sam Beam has somehow become a master of the EP. Last year's full-length Beast Epic from Iron & Wine received critical acclaim and a Grammy nomination, but it never really settled the way much of his earlier work had. Given that Weed Garden draws from that album's leftovers, the new EP could have been a quick toss-off to turn a few dollars on otherwise dead songs. Happily, though, Beam delivers a strong, quick set. Where he had traded in resignation, this one starts with an immediate rally, the call in “What Hurts Worse” to “become the lovers we need.” His awareness of brokenness becomes the grounds for a fragile restoration, his voice and the smooth production serving the message.

A few years old but until now unreleased, “Waves of Galveston” brings the necessary precision to a complicated situation, and the continuing Croce-like sound fits the mood perfectly. “Last of Your Rock 'n' Roll Heroes” brings a steady bounce to a series of impressions that eventually give way to the darkness. Closer “Talking to Fog” uses language to resist pending dissipation, offering gentleness among hardness and “reaching out” despite knowing safer options. Beam's writing relies on visuals until he makes blurry images come into focus, even if he maintains that “it's hard to find.” It's a strong statement from Beam, an album's worth of care in a little EP, again.

Justin Cober-Lake

  The Lavender Flu — Mow the Glass (In The Red)

Heavy Air, The Lavender Flu’s 2016 debut was a double album of feel-bad rock sent forth from the Pacific Northwest damp to soundtrack an endless bummer. Chris Gunn, formerly of The Hunches and Hospitals, assembled the album at home, on analog tape, building and reworking the tracks into one of the year’s most impressive collages of sound. The second time around, with Mow the Glass, the approach is different. Here, Gunn is backed by a proper band — brother Lucas Gunn, former Hunches drummer Ben Spencer and Eat Skull’s Scott Simmons. Those folks all lent a hand to Heavy Air, yet here they are in the same room, playing together to the buzz of warmed amps and a view of the sea. The album is trim and clear, focusing Gunn’s aesthetic without losing sight of the mindset that got him here in the first place. A couple of cuts from the first LP — “Demons in the Dark,” a cover of Townes Van Zandt’s “Like a Summer Thursday” — reappear with fresh coats of paint. “You Are Prey” begins tipsy and unraveling, with the band chasing a whip of stereo-panning guitar, before setting into a reverb-rich ballad. The mood is subtlety sunnier throughout, like a crack of light on the horizon viewed from the soak of a storm.  

Ethan Covey

  Long Hots — Monday Night Raw (Self-Released)

Monday Night Raw by Long Hots

You should listen to Trouble Anyway, the new LP by Rosali Middleman. Middleman is a talented songwriter, but part of what makes Trouble Anyway so listenable is its lush instrumentation, all-star band, and pristine production. Middleman is also a member of The Long Hots, and their debut tape, Monday Night Raw sounds, by contrast, like it was recorded on a Fisher-Price tape deck by a band with about three weeks of musical experience between them. It’s glorious. The members of Long Hots are rock and roll lifers, so Monday Night Raw’s amateurism is both affected and effective, and sure to satisfy anyone who thinks Here Are the Sonics!!! is too slick. Of particular note is the ten minute “Boogie Trance,” which delivers exactly what it promises, no more, and “Die Die Die,” the chorus of which goes, you guessed it, “Die, Die, Die, Die.”  

Isaac Olson

  Paul Lydon — Sjórinn Bak Viò Gler (Paul Lydon)

sjórinn bak við gler by Paul Lydon

When you’re on your own, labels don’t mean much. Paul Lydon is an American musician who has been based in Reykjavik, Iceland since the mid-1990s. His discography is small, and he’s never made the same record twice. He’s sung alone and with a partner, in English and Icelandic, and kept the accompaniment varied each time. On Sjórinn Bak Viò Gler there is no singing at all, but it’s the most lyrical music of his recording career. The album’s title translates as The Sea Behind, and given Iceland’s prevailing clime you might want to keep it that way until there’s a closed door behind it and you. Lydon’s touch on the instrument betrays close acquaintance, and it’s easy to imagine him spending hours playing and ruminating on what he’s played. It doesn’t fall easily into any genre; its stream-of-consciousness flow is too perambulating for pop, too elaborate for minimalism and it doesn’t fall easily into any classical form. So let’s not worry about what it isn’t, and instead appreciate its confidently open-ended melodies and comfortably solitary mood.

Bill Meyer          

 Thee Open Sex — White Horses (Sophomore Lounge)

THEE OPEN SEX "White Horses" by Thee Open Sex

Indiana might seem like an odd place to give birth to a combo committed to diving deep into Krautrock concepts but think again. You’ve got highways and flat land that doesn’t afford much of a view once you’re over the cornfields; what could be more practical than motoric music? The Open Sex makes music that’ll whittle away the road miles, and White Horses is cut precisely to get you 35 minutes closer to home. That’s how long guitarist John Dawson and drummer Tyler Damon bear down on a groove that’s more metronomic than equine. Three guests use their playing as a foundation for a wheeling superstructure of squelchy notes and spacey textures. This is white line meditation music; be sure to stay mindful of the weight of your foot upon the gas.

Bill Meyer

 Rob Noyes & Ryan Lee Crosby — Modal Improvisations on 34 Strings (Cabin Floor Esoterica)

[CFE#68] Modal Improvisations on 34 Strings by Rob Noyes & Ryan Lee Crosby

On record and in concert, 12-string guitarist Rob Noyes displays a clarity of intent that you don’t often see from an artist who is young and new. But not only does he keep his picking clean and lyrical through rustic rounds and mystery-laden excursions, he keeps his head in the presence of a very different guitarist. Ryan Lee Crosby plays chaturangui, a sort of hybrid veena / dobro guitar developed by Debashish Bhattacharya. The chaturangui is suited to the swoop and chime of Hindustani ragas, and that’s how Crosby plays it. Noyes embroiders the contours of his partner’s voluptuous lines and pushes back with pure-sound strumming. He manages to sound quite supportive and engaged without compromising the very different character of his playing. This short (not quite 28 minutes) tape is a typically atypical Cabin Floor Esoterica product; home-dubbed and hand-wrapped, a first edition has already gone out of print, but a second run is imminent.

Bill Meyer  

 Riesgo — Demo MMXVIII (Self-released)

Demo MMXVIII by RIESGO

It’s not often that you can claim a tape is both a throwback to and a continuation of a vital movement in punk, but listen to Riesgo’s new demo. You can hear both of those historical trajectories as soon as “Lobxs” kicks it. The bass’s rubbery warbling and the guitars’ razoring buzz recall the initial tones of Black Flag’s “Nervous Breakdown.” Then Carlos Ruiz starts singing, and the tape’s sound snaps into sharper focus. Chicago’s South Side, Latinx punks, thrashy attitude: Riesgo have picked up the baton from the excellent and underappreciated Sin Orden, who in turn had received it from the nigh-legendary Los Crudos. (Or, in a couple cases, band members just held onto the baton: Ruiz sings for Sin Orden, and Jose Casas played guitar for Los Crudos.) Razacore is alive and angry. That’s good news, and very timely. Given our current national moment — the current bullshit hating on Latino American identity and the reactionary responses to the violence in Chicago — this bolus of pissed off, politically fierce punk is precisely what’s needed. “Ahógate” is a standout track. The vocals and lead guitar are pretty unhinged, while the rest of the band hammers away at a compelling hardcore riff. It’ll sound great in a sweaty basement. Viva, Riesgo!

Jonathan Shaw

  Rocket 808 — Digital Billboards b/w Mystery Train (12XU)

Digital Billboards b/w Mystery Train by Rocket 808

Rocket 808 is the latest incarnation of the garage guitar phenomenon John Schooley, whom you might remember from the Revelators (or if not, enjoy this set of Billy Childish covers laid to tape in a record store in Columbia, MO in 1996). A frequent solo performer (his website is called John Schooley and his One Man Band), Schooley does it all on these two tracks. “Digital Billboards” overlays the cheerful cheesiness of a vintage drum machine with incandescent flares of whammy and deep reverbed guitar darkness. Surf rock, sure, but evil and skeletal and scary, with shades of Suicide in the wild ghostly automatism. Side two’s “Mystery Train” amps up the rockabilly, the drum machine cranked to the breaking point, the guitar arcing and spitting in turbulent bursts. Schooley sings on this one, steering classic blues lines around hard bends until they lift off the pavement. This sort of blues-referencing, early-rock-aware music always has an element of parody, but Rocket 808 seems less performance-art-ish than Bob Log III or Heavy Trash. It’s dark and dangerous, a heightened reality rather than a pose.

Jennifer Kelly

 Sam Weinberg — A/V/E (Anticausal)

A/V/E by Sam Weinberg

Sam Weinberg has contributed some raw sax to some harsh ensemble settings, particularly the duo W-2 and various gigs with Weasel Walter. But when he closes the door to his Brooklyn apartment, things get real. The sounds from outside his window and on his kitchen table prove equally valuable as he constructs a mutating environment out of inscrutable industry, passing traffic and critters, the mechanical parts of his horns and some vigorously scoured surfaces. This is the stuff of life, or at least Weinberg’s life. Layer upon layer of sonic activity coexists like the residents of a big old NY apartment building, close in proximity yet not particularly interested in each other.

Bill Meyer

[breezymichelle99]

Master List 📖

♡ Smut

Chris Kreider:

A hat trick for the captain ♡

Just Call Me Captain

Sweet Little lullabies

Frustrated ♡

K’andre Miller:

Kissing K’andre♡

Wet & Wild♡ 

I’m Sorry ♡

Pierre Luc Dubois:

2 AM♡

Jamie Oleksiak:

Undercovers♡

Party Foul♡

Just Hold Me, Please

Comfy Sweater ♡

Hey! I Think I Wanna Marry You

Dada I love You

Lace Pocket Square ♡

Tape Job ♡

Mr. Oleksiak Will See you Now. (NSFW moodboard)♡

Back To You♡

Nathan MacKinnon:

The First Hello

You Had Me From Hello (part 2 of The First Hello)

Mat Barzal:

Hate how much I love you ♡

I'm So fucking Sorry ♡

Anders Lee:

Forever My Girl ♡

Sidney Crosby:

Valentine's Day ♡

I’ll Take Care Of You ♡

Ryan Lindgren:

Jealous ♡

Aaron Judge:

All-Star♡

Tyler Glasnow:

Stronger With You

Daddy's Little Girl♡

Kiss Me More♡

Bucky Barnes:

Next Door Neighbors♡

Let Me Go 

Chris Evans:

How We Accidentally Violated Instagram’s Community guidelines♡

Andy Barber: 

Mr. Barber’s Assistant ♡

Rafe Cameron:

You Saved Me♡

Jack Reacher: 

Home ♡

Manny Montana:

A Dangerous Game To Play ♡ 

Boss Up, Mama ♡

Jake “Hangman” Seresin: 

You shouldn’t Kiss Me like This ♡

The Rest Of My Life ♡

Jax Teller:

Anything 4 U ♡

Lando Norris:

Pre-Race Nap ♡

Punch Heard ‘round The Paddock ♡

Wheel Work 🛞

Deliciously dripping in Jealousy ♡

Miami Magic ♡

Borrowed Luck ft. Charles Leclerc ♡

Vacation Sushi 🍣 Date ♡

Family Affair (p2 of Miami Magic) can also be read as stand alone

What happens in Vegas 💒💍 ♡

Always Yours ✍🏽 ♡

Home Movies 🎥 ♡

Viral soft launch

[allsmileswiththeisles]

2021-2022 Ranking NHL Captains by Hotness

It’s the eve of the new hockey season, which means it’s time for an updated list! New captains have been named, some have been stripped of their captaincy (#FreeEichel), and some have updated their looks.

Gabriel Landeskog (COL)

Roman Josi (NSH)

Nico Hischier (NJD)

Anders Lee (NYI)

Blake Wheeler (WPG)

Boone Jenner (CBJ)

Dylan Larkin (DET)

John Tavares (TOR)

Jonathan Toews (CHI)

Claude Giroux (PHI)

Ryan O’Rielly (STL)

Connor McDavid (EDM)

Patrice Bergeron (BOS)

Sidney Crosby (PIT)

Jamie Benn (DAL)

Bo Horvat (VAN)

Shea Weber (MTL)

Steven Stamkos (TBL)

Anze Kopitar (LAK)

Logan Couture (SJS)

Mark Stone (VGK)

Jared Spurgeon (MIN)

Jordan Staal (CAR)

Ryan Getzlaf (ANA)

Mark Giordano (SEA)

Aleksander Barkov (FLA)

Alex Ovechkin (WSH)

These are all ranked in my opinion and I hope this inspires others to make their own lists and I would love to see them!

Happy Hockey Season!