#c. brown

[penaltybox-gossip]

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Widespread Panic - “C. Brown” (Live, June 25, 2023)

Looking at Widespread Panic in 2023, it’s obvious many years have gone by since the band’s formation. But listen to WSP ’23, and it’s almost as if time has stood still.

The craggy - and different - faces, grey hair and bald heads belie this, of course. But despite Father Time’s physical toll, that fucker hasn’t yet managed to mess with Panic’s musicianship and sound.

And so it was that the version of “C. Brown” the Panics played June 25 at Red Rocks sounded like in came from the very same band that’s been playing the song for nearly four decades now.

But the band - despite the same name - is different. Some of the players have changed and those who remain have gotten older. Yet Widespread Panic - from a strictly musical standpoint - continue to defy space and time and make music very similar to that they dreamed up when they were pups.

Good then. Good now.

Grade card: Widespread Panic - “C. Brown” (Live - 6/25/23) - B

12/26/23

[extraliga-related]

14 sec was all it took for the first goal of the season to fall.

[deathiscoldbatman]

Kite-Man how I write him: Very compassionate, would drop anything to help you in a heartbeat, aerodynamics expert who only wears the cheesiest and most embarrassing graphic t-shirts possible. Best uncle and about the only Rogue I write who is truly fluent in Morse Code. Also, gym rat. Cares about other people too much. Kind of has a thing for his best friend but they’re not acknowledging it because his niece only knows him as “Uncle Charlie” and everyone wants to keep it that way. Is chill with that. Will beat The Riddler with his bare hands.  Also Kite-Man how I write him: Doesn’t think ferrets are real. If you show him a picture of one he'll just assume you're playing a prank on him [like that time a Scottish museum attempted to convince people that haggis belonged to a mythical creature]. No matter what you say, you cannot convince him ferrets are actual animals. He and his best friend, Drury Walker, have literally 2 brain cells between them and on a good day they maybe have 1 each. Also a seagull stole his burger once and he’s literally never gotten over it. 

[theunderestimator-2]

Bryan Gregory, guitarist of The Cramps, photographed by C. Brown in Twisted magazine, 1978.

He passed away on this day in 2001, at the age of 49, and he damn sure played till it hurt.

(via).

[deathiscoldbatman]

Honestly, I haven’t even read the comics where Scarecrow and Kite-Man actually interact yet [although I was informed certain panels exist by someone on DCCRP who knows I ship Scarecrow/Kite-Man]. Brain just kind of went “You know what? These specific iterations of the characters have both lost children and I feel like they’d sympathize with each other” one day several months ago and then things spiraled in a very weird, “not quite friends with benefits, and also not quite friends, almost” sort of way. 

of note: With Charlie it was just CJ, because the War of Jokes and Riddles happened in some part in DCCRP, while my Scarecrow straight-up has 5 dead kids when taking the intricacies of fetal development into account. He doesn’t really talk about that for the garden variety of reasons, and some people know about Charlie’s deceased son...AKA the entire reason he became Kite-Man. 

[deathiscoldbatman]

My Charlie may be kind of oblivious sometimes, but honestly? His heart is full of love and that’s all that matters. He’s a Golden Retriever in a human body. How can you hate that?  ...Also he looks and sounds like Ryan Reynolds, I’d imagine that helps a little in some areas. Haha. And he’s banned from like 5 separate Wal-Marts because he kept replacing the stock photos in their picture frames with images of himself. 

[jmarksthespots]

[#CONVERSATION] #LapidusCenterPresents Slavery and Globalization in Arabia with Eve M. Troutt Powell and C. Brown Presented by @LapidusCenter  Thursday, March 30 | 6:30PM @schomburgcenter | 515 Malcolm X Blvd. New York, NY Admission: FREE Register  Matthew S. Hopper’s Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire, a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize, explores the history of the African diaspora in Arabia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book links the personal stories of Africans to the impersonal global commodity chains their labor enabled, demonstrating how the growing demand for workers created by a global demand—including from the United States—for Persian Gulf products led to the enslavement of Africans in eastern Arabia. Hopper, Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, will be in conversation with Eve M. Troutt Powell, C. Brown Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Empire. Lapidus Center Presents is brought to you by the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery.