Quick little meal: pork cube steak, twice-cooked potato, and wilted winter greens with onions, vinegar, a little cayenne for kick and some cranberries for sweetness.
To ight's #operationstonecoldfox dinner: pumpkin soup ( #vegetarian and so yummy) with pear-celery salad and bread and butter. #meatless and #healthy and #delicious
It’s always a sad moment when a band you love breaks up; especially if (like me) many of the bands you love manage to break up before you get a chance to see them perform live. That being said, many good things can come out of band breakups—which brings me to this installment of Music You Need to Hear.
It’s always a sad moment when a band you love breaks up; especially if (like me) many of the bands you love manage to break up before you get a chance to see them perform live. That being said, many good things can come out of band breakups—which brings me to this installment of Music You Need to Hear.
Scott Moffatt, formerly of The Moffatts, has gratis rank in my mind as a musician, singer, and songwriter whose work I will always keep an open mind to; I am pretty much always ready to appreciate. It is fortunate for me that his upcoming single, “Whenever Not Ever,” is basically delightful—it saves me mental acrobatics trying to appreciate it.
Scheduled for release on May 31, 2015, I will say that this song—and likely the EP that will follow, which I’ve not yet heard—has a place in most peoples’ rotation. “Whenever Not Ever” represents a culmination of various sounds; something very tricky to do well. A riot of color and glittery sound, it’s very, very different from a lot of the softer, looser acoustic songs that Scott has written in recent years.
Fast-paced, bouncing and complex, this is precisely the kind of song I should never listen to while driving (glorious as it would be), because I would be guaranteed to get myself pulled over for speeding. Or someone in a car on the road with me would be convinced from my wild driver’s-seat-dancing that I was having a seizure.
The track is poppy and bright—sonic reds and blues and yellows, layers and layers of punchy, pop-rock sound infused with dance-able electronic influences. If I had to come up with a gripe about it at all, it’s entirely personal; I’m a fiend for lyrics, and there are moments when the song is so fast that I can’t quite keep up enough to know exactly what the lyrics are. However, considering the fact that it has the feel of a song strongly focused on a particular atmosphere, that’s not such a problem. I’m sure after my usual fifty or so compulsive listens to a song I like, I will have the words all clear in my head anyway.
This is definitely a song that just about anyone following me needs to hear; I know some of you folks are strictly hard rock and metal lovers, but anyone who has even a remotely pop sensibility in their taste is going to really enjoy this song. It will be available on Amazon and iTunes—and you can bet your last penny that I for one will be buying it. I will also provide links.
In the meantime, check out Scott’s Facebook and Twitter, or head over to his official site for more details, and you can also check out his other material on YouTube. And if you’re a particularly awesome person who enjoys supporting indie music (and really, if you’re not, why are we even friends?), consider contributing to his Indiegogo campaign.
Edit June 3, 2015: The link is available! You can download “Whenever Not Ever” on iTunes here. ALSO, there’s a pretty damn fantastic video for it on YouTube here.
Full Disclosure (in accordance with the FTC’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising”): Scott Moffatt provided me with a link to listen to the single in order to review the song--for which, much thanks.
Michael! Out of the chief’s office? Jesus - alright - this is - we can fix this. How much have you made, who have you sold it to, and how many murders are you allowed to commit in California? Is it… eight?
I feel like a bad person because I know this was a comedic take and all and I couldn’t catch the joke because my brain froze at: “Daniel Vincent Gordh dressed as Freddie Mercury, is this like the ultimate wet dream?”
… I feel so bad.
Maybe I should re-watch it over and over until I actually manage to remember the words they are saying. .__.
I saw that cracked re-posted my old article about terrifying archaeological discoveries and figured that was probably where the influx of new folks came from.
I sadly don’t post with any real consistency on here, but you’re welcome to peruse at your leisure. Thank you for coming by and following me! Most of my posts are dedicated to my obsession with music, so be prepared for lots and lots of words about why you should listen to this, that, or the other band, group, or individual.
As most of you are aware, every so often I take a break fromthe busy schedule of beating up my keyboard for money to come on here and tell you about music you need to hear. I’m not very good at consistency, so it’s been a while since my last posting—but I’m excited enough about the act that I’m talking about today that I set aside paid work for a bit to gush to all of you about how much you NEED this song and this group in your life.
The song in question? Goodbye Baby by Like Strangers. You need this song. The beautiful thing is that you don’t even have to take my word for it. Follow this link, listen to the song, and revel in the delicious glory before you download it.
The crows she feeds obviously have their own little lives. They go about their business, and they spot *pretty thing* or /unique thing/ in question. What gets me is that the *first* thing on their minds as recipient of this thing is the little girl that feeds them.
They spot a thing, and immediately must think, “that nice girl with delicious foodstuffs must have this to show my gratitude.”
PAYPAL IS TRYING TO SLIP THE RUG UNDER US. Or they may have said this and just no one read about it or noticed/knew.
OKAY SO BEFORE YOU SEND ANY MONEY FOR THAT AWESOME COMMISSION YOU WANT TO BUY FROM THAT AWESOME ARTIST. PLEASE STOP AND READ THIS.
Paypal changed the look of how you will fill out information and send money. Thus, you need to be super careful. Don’t go all willy nilly through and be like “Yeah yeah yeah send” you need to stop when you see this screen right away.
Before you proceed, you will first notice one major thing: your address is showing. What you need to do if you are ordering a DIGITAL WORK (aka, it is being sent to you via the interwebz) is you need to click on your address and there around be a drop down menu of 3 (or more) options:
No address needed
Your Current Address
+ Add a new shipping address
Be sure to select “No address needed”, it is very important that you do. If you leave your address in there, Paypal will assume that you are to receive a physical package. A physical package which needs proof that exists physically. Paypal will want the artist to provide shipping labels and tracking info on said package. This is bad, very, very bad. Artists can get in trouble if they cannot provide these things.
Please, if an artist asks to send you back your money so that you can send it again correctly, do not be offended. You are paying them to do your commission, how can they do your commission with no money?
Reblog this, send this around, if you want to make a proper tutorial go ahead, I hope this was clear enough as it is.
Since you are black and proud, I will test you with this question: How does a woman carry a child in her stomach for 9 months, go through all the pain, hold it in her arms, and end up calling it Laquisha?
Laquisha is a French variant of the Swahili name “Lakiesha" which means "favorite”. In addition, the name is also a French variant from the original Latin ”Leticia” which means gay, delighted, or joyful and is the name of an old Roman Goddess, Laetitia. I’m not only black and proud, I’m also a former linguistics student, avid reader of mythology, and Tumblr. Your tests mean nothing to me. So to answer your question, how does she end up naming her daughter after a Goddess? Pretty pridefully I’d hope, our women are Goddesses.
So many names that people consider “ghetto” are very meaningful in other cultures, so when people reduce these names to “ghetto” they display their own ignorance.
LOL you guys really are idiots if you think even half the people I see naming their kids shit like that know where the name comes from or what it actually means.
Well because I interact with people in real life. Someone tells me they’ve named their kid something like that and I say something like “Oh that’s a pretty name! What made you choose that?” and the most common answer I get back is “I just thought it was pretty” or “It’s my moms name” or something equally valid but having absolutely nothing to do with the meaning of the name or it’s origin.
So based off your few experiences with people giving their children unique names you now know that everyone who gives their child a name doesn’t know what it means? How unique must a name be for the meaning to be required knowledge? Do you think people naming their children Robert know what it means? Or is it not important because it’s a common name?
I never claimed to know about everyone. I said less than half the people who name their kids something like that will actually know what the name means. I personally don’t care what people name their kids, I just think it’s funny when people try to act like there’s some grandiose cultural reason for doing something when most of the people doing it have no idea it has any significance.
Well, that’s because OP answered Anon with such condescension like “All black people are aware of this origin for the name so obviously we name or babies after goddesses and we do it proudly.” I’m simply using the less than half statement as a turn of phrase. I definitely don’t have actual numbers, obviously.
you realize that the Op was being attacked tho right? Like the only reason they had to give such a thorough and seemingly condescending answer is because they were getting hate mail for being proud to be black. Going after names from black culture is classic antiblack racism. The op was experiencing racism yet is supposed to respond humbly?
Well that’s just stupid, no one deserves hate mail for being proud of their race. No matter what that race is. It’s just interesting that there seems to be this desire to make your race seem the best and brightest and anyone who disagrees is automatically a racist. There’s a difference between pride and arrogance, is all I’m saying.
Let’s say that they had given a more simple answer? What happens after that? More hatemail about how they don’t know what they’re talking about, more attacks on them having pride in themselves, more racial remarks. They HAD to be thorough so that their answer carried validity. OP never said that black people are better, they said they’re proud to be black. If that makes you feel like they’re trying to be superior maybe you should take some time to think about why that is.
"Well that’s just stupid, no one deserves hate mail for being proud of their race. No matter what that race is. It’s just interesting that
there seems to be this desire to make your race seem the best and
brightest and anyone who disagrees is automatically a racist. There’s a difference between pride and arrogance, is all I’m saying.”
Take a look at what they said. A racist acted arrogant over a “black name”, but its the black people who are “arrogant” for responding in a way that mirrors the asker’s rather condescending tone. It was never about the name, it was about a black person getting too “uppity” for their liking, hence it was time to take them down a peg. People always get offended at black people who don’t view themselves in a negative light in comparison to other groups, especially if they don’t make an effort to dull themselves when dealing with racism. We’re supposed to challenge overt racism in a way that is generic enough that everyone else (but us) benefits and the racists feel comfortable, but we aren’t supposed to challenge the feelings of inferiority that racism is supposed to impose on US specifically.
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