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oreosmilkshakes · 3 years

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Mine; Part 2

Summary: A continuation of the first one. Pairing: The Winter Soldier!Bucky Barnes x Reader Word Count: 1.9K Warnings: Mention of torture A/N: Well, as requested, here is part 2! Enjoy and comment on how it is! Edited and checked by @thebestdecoder ED/N: Apologies for any mistakes made in editing, RedBull doesn’t work on me anymore. Taglist: @tastingcevans @missingartist96 @generationallyfluid @paniniirae @felicityofbakerstreet @roguesthetic @igothroughphasesalot

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When the team came to be, Strike Team, led by Rumlow, had them surrounded with guns pointing at them. In no time, they cuffed Steve, Sam, and Natasha and threw them in the back of an armored truck.

“It was him,” Steve began, eyes on the cuffs. He felt a massive sense of guilt especially since finding out Bucky was alive and that he didn’t bother to find him after his fall. “He looked right at me like he didn’t even know me. Instead, he looked right at Y/N,” Steve was still in disbelief that Y/N’s soulmate was Bucky. Sam looked up at Steve. “How is that even possible? It was like 70 years ago? What’s worse is that that killing machine is Y/N’s soulmate,” Steve squeezed his eyes shut, choosing to avoid answering the second question. “Zola. Bucky’s whole unit was captured in ‘43. Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall. They must have found him and--,” Natasha shook her head slightly, weak from her untreated wound. “None of that’s your fault, Steve,”

Steve sighed lowly. “Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky,” Natasha leaned back. “None of it is your fault, Steve. Even losing Y/N. I just hoped she did manage to escape from..from Bucky,” She was weakening and Sam took notice fast. He turned to the two soldiers. “We need to get a doctor here. If we don’t put pressure on that wound, she’s gonna bleed out here in the truck,” The first soldier ignited his stun rod, Sam leaned back a little. What he didn’t expect was for said soldier to attack the second, knocking him out effectively. Maria sighed, removing the helmet. “Ah, that thing was squeezing my brain,” The team was surprised to find an ally among the Strike Team. Time to make their big escape.

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Slowly, Y/N came to be. However, it only came in short bursts. The first time she came to be shortly, bright light penetrated her eyes. She couldn’t see well, only blur filled her vision and in no time, she passed out again. The second time Y/N came to be, it was dark and the air smells stale. She tried to move but she couldn’t. She gave up and drifted back into the darkness. The third time Y/N came to be, she was fully conscious now. Her eyes fluttered open, accustoming her eyes to the dimly lit room. It seems like she was held hostage in an abandoned building but Y/N didn’t know for sure. The only giveaways were the newspaper-covered windows and the fact that the room she was in looked like a bedroom. Her eyes focused on the silhouette and almost instantly, fear sprouted in her chest. Y/N tugged hard on the binds, panting softly as she tried to get her hands and feet out of the bonds.

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The Soldier turned to Y/N, his movements silent and intimidating as he moved closer to the woman. His metal hand reached out to touch Y/N’s cheek. He could not bring his soulmate back to HYDRA or else they would kill her. He knows HYDRA was ruthless in this sort of thing. So, to protect his soulmate, he took her to a safe place.

Y/N whimpered, scooting backwards until her back hit the wall. She shuddered when she felt the cool metal touch her cheek.

“Stop..get away from me,” Y/N begged quietly. All her training as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent was failing, the terror growing in her was overwhelming. The Soldier could easily kill her with a flick of his wrist if she wasn’t his soulmate, of course.

“When I first saw colours, I never imagined my soulmate to look as gorgeous as you,” The Soldier’s voice was low, his metal thumb stroked her delicate cheekbone.

“Don’t touch me,” Y/N attempted to sound strong, moving her face away from The Soldier’s touch. A low growl escaped the assassin’s lips, a metal hand gripped Y/N’s face lightly. “You are mine, doll. You belong to me because you are my soulmate. Even if you don’t like it, I don’t care. You will learn to love me,” The Soldier leaned in, the tip of his nose brushed against Y/N’s. The agent gulped, avoiding eye contact with the monster.

A soft beeping caught Y/N’s attention. It came from The Soldier. The assassin growled, annoyed by the sudden interruption but he had work to do. Without saying another word, The Soldier left, leaving Y/N all alone in the abandoned building.

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Turns out, Fury was alive and on a long journey to a full recovery. It was apparently better for S.H.I.E.L.D. to believe that he was dead so HYDRA could work at a full scale and risk exposure.

Natasha was patched up and the team was gathered around a table for a briefing. Fury picked up a photo of Alexander Pierce, looking at it with his one eye. “This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize. He said peace wasn’t an achievement, it was a responsibility,” Fury threw the photo on the table, leaning forward. “See, it’s stuff like this that gives me trust issues,” Natasha sighed softly. “We have to stop the launch and find Y/N,”

Fury sighed. “I don’t think the Council’s accepting my calls anymore and as for Y/N, we will find her. It’s only a matter of time until we do so,” The director opened a case, revealing three chips.

“What’s that?” Sam looked down at it. “Once the helicarriers reach 3,000 feet, they’ll triangulate with Insight satellites, becoming fully weaponized,” Maria turned the laptop around. “We need to breach those carriers and replace their targeting blades with our own,” Fury added.

“One or two won’t cut it. We need to link all three carriers for this work because if even one of those ships remain operational, a whole lot of people are gonna die,” Maria sighed softly.

“We have to assume everyone aboard those carriers is HYDRA. We have to get past them, insert these server blades. And maybe, just maybe we can salvage what’s left-,” “We’re not salvaging anything,” Steve cut off.

“We’re not just taking down the carriers, Nick. We’re taking down S.H.I.E.L.D. ,” “S.H.I.E.L.D. had nothing to do with this,” Fury fought.

“You gave me this mission. This is how it ends. S.H.I.E.L.D.’s been compromised. You said so yourself. HYDRA grew right under your nose and nobody noticed. And we still have no way of knowing how to locate Y/N. For all we know, she’s either dead or taken by Bucky,” Steve heaved out a heavy sigh of anger. “Why do you think we’re meeting in this cave? I noticed,”

“How many paid the price before you did?” Steve growled lowly.

Fury looked down and sighed. “Look, I didn’t know about Barnes,” “Even if you had, would you have told me? Or would you have compartmentalized that too? S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA, it all goes,” Fury sighed, deciding it was best to give in. He leaned back on his seat, eye on Steve. “Well, it looks like you’re giving the orders now, Captain. As for Y/N, Hill and I will work on that. We still have some tricks up our sleeves,” Fury nodded to Hill.

Steve looked at Sam and Natasha, nodding. “Then we’ll suit up,”

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The Soldier stood on the edge of the building, mind fuzzy and hand twitching. HYDRA electrocuted him, giving him another mind wipe. But this time, it wasn’t easy for a clean wipe. The Soldier had begun his resistance a long time ago. His cerulean eyes took in the colored view of the city. That was something those scientists could never wipe or know and that is The Soldier’s discovery of his soulmate.

The Soldier disappeared from the roof, making his way into the abandoned building. Y/N gulped, eyes widening as she heard heavy footsteps getting closer and closer. She worked her hands quickly, dragging a sharp edge of a broken wood against the rope. She silently cheered when the rope snapped free. The footsteps were close now and Y/N kept her hands to her back.

The Soldier stepped into the room, towering over her seated form. Y/N gripped onto her little weapon, glaring up at The Soldier. He approached her, eyes dark and expression was even darker. “What do you wa--,” Y/N was cut off with a metal arm gripping her arm. The Soldier pulled the agent to her feet, pinning her against the wall. His dark eyes examined Y/N’s features. He needed comfort after what HYDRA did to him again. The torture never stops. It never does. If The Soldier showed signs of disobedience, he’ll get shocked. Any signs The Soldier showed to HYDRA that was related to him being disobedient would get him punished.

The Soldier sought comfort in his soulmate, his nose brushed against the exposed skin on Y/N’s neck. ‘No, this wasn’t supposed to happen!’ Y/N mentally scolded herself. The Soldier felt warm though. But nothing about him smelled good. The Soldier smelled like smoke and gunpowder. Nevertheless, Y/N leaned into The Soldier’s shoulder. ‘What are you doing? You’re free, he’s vulnerable, attack him and run!’ Y/N’s mind reminded her. Shit, it was right. “I’m sorry,” Y/N whispered. She gathered all her strength and shoved The Soldier off her, the assassin grunted in shock as Y/N made a run for it. “Блядь! (Fuck!),” The Soldier growled, immediately taking off to chase the woman. Y/N looked over her shoulder, eyes widening as the gap between them was closing and it was closing really fast. Y/N turned a corner, almost slipping. She had to find a way out fast. The Soldier was fast on her tail.

Y/N has never felt so much fear in her life. Not even when the Earth was invaded by the Chitauris. She dug into her sleeve, slipping out a small metal ball, and threw it at The Soldier. A bright flash and a deep groan indicated that the assassin was disabled. For now. The route down to the first floor was blocked and it seems like the only way is up. So up did Y/N went. “Soulmate!” The Winter Soldier roared in anger, his thunderous voice echoed throughout the stairwell.

Y/N’s hairs stood on end, looking down to see that The Soldier was climbing up the stairs twice as fast as her. “No, no!”Y/N cried out, trying to reach the upper levels of the building as fast as she could because The Winter Soldier was just a level below her. The frantic woman burst through the roof door, looking over her shoulder. However, when she looked to the front, it was too late. Y/N skidded to a halt, missing the edge of the roof and slipped. She screamed in fear, her hand grabbing the ledge.

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The building was old, almost crumbling down. The edge of concrete Y/N held broke under her weight, the woman screamed in terror, flailing her arms to try and reach something to save her from the freefall.

Was this the end for Y/N?

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invisibleanonymousmonsters · 6 years

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Heritage - Part 3

Description: Steve Rogers wakes up in the 21st century to learn that he missed more than he could ever realize.

Pairing: Steve Rogers & Y/N [Platonic]; Bucky x Reader … eventually

Word Count: 2,703

Previously On...

Y/N was speed-walking through the halls of SHIELD. She'd got the call from Nat in the middle of the night.

Nick Fury was dead.

She didn't get many details. Nat was short on the phone.

Y/N was on her way to Secretary Pierce's office. She knew Steve was there talking to him.

But Y/N came to a halt when she saw someone walking in her direction.

"Sharon?" Y/N gaped at the woman who immediately looked guilty. "I thought you were in London. When did you get back to DC?"

"I'm sorry, Y/N. I was undercover. You know the rules." Sharon struggled to make eye contact.

Then Y/N narrowed her eyes, slowly putting it together. "You were there when Fury was hit at Steve's apartment. You're the cute nurse next door."  

Sharon didn't say anything.  

"God damn it, Sharon! We're family! You couldn't tell me that you were assigned to watch Steve?!" 

Sharon was Y/N's cousin. Well... second cousin, technically. Peggy was Sharon's great aunt. Sharon was a few years older than Y/N and convinced her to join SHIELD after she did.  

"I didn't want you to have to keep it a secret from him. You know I would've been compromised." Sharon urged.  

"Who ordered this? Pierce?" Y/N sighed, rubbing her face.  

Sharon frowned and looked at the ground. "Fury did." Then she studied Y/N's face carefully. "He didn't ask you for obvious reasons."

Before Y/N could say anything else, Steve was walking out of Pierce's office. He glared at Sharon. She took that as her cue to disappear down the hallway. Her family relation to Y/N would be a discussion for another time.  

Steve walked to Y/N, but glared after Sharon.  

"So you heard?" He finally asked Y/N.  

"I came as soon as I did. You okay?" She asked gently.  

He nodded.

Y/N's eyes flickered around them. "Something's not right, Steve. This doesn't add up." Her voice was barely a whisper. She knew his superhearing could pick it up. But she needed to make sure no one else heard.

Suddenly she saw Rumlow walking toward them with a couple other STRIKE members. He eyed the two of them.

"Meet me tonight. I'm doing some digging." She muttered before gripping his arm and walking past Rumlow.

Steve pushed the elevator button and was joined by Rumlow.

"So you and Agent Ainsley, huh?" Rumlow stated with a little bitterness.

Steve's jaw clenched at the comment. He'd seen the way Rumlow looked at Y/N. His interest in her was rather obvious. Steve didn't appreciate his lingering gazes or how his eyes focused on certain parts of her body. He assumed Y/N wasn't oblivious to it either, but she was too focused and professional to ever bring it up.

"We're friends," Steve replied curtly, making it obvious he didn't want to talk about it further.

But suddenly Steve's senses caught on to something. He started looking around the elevator as more and more people piled in. Something wasn't right.

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Y/N was hacking into a computer system at SHIELD when she heard the alarm go off. She brought up the video footage to see that they were locking down the bridge and a quinjet was going up.

"Steve..." She muttered in quiet panic when she saw the video of him racing down the bridge on his motorcycle.

Y/N saved the files she was hacking on her hard drive and jumped up. She had to find Natasha immediately. More importantly, she had to get out of SHIELD. They were on the hunt for Captain America now and she wanted no part of it.

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THE NEXT DAY

Steve was staring into the floor of the van as his hands were cuffed together.

“It was him.” Steve muttered. “He looked right at me. He didn’t even know me.”

“How is that even possible?” Sam questioned. “It was like 70 years ago.”

“Zola.” Steve explained darkly. “Bucky’s whole unit was captured in ’43. Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall.” His eyes finally met Sam’s as he came to a realization. “They must have found him.”

“None of that’s your fault, Steve.” Nat managed to urge as she continued losing blood.

“Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky.”

Sam looked over at Nat’s bleeding. “We need to get a doctor here. We don’t put pressure on that wound, she’s gonna bleed out right here in the - ” He was cut off by one of the agents in the riot control suits as they surged some electricity into their baton.

But to everyone’s surprise, she knocked out her comrade with it instead. A third guard took off her helmet at the same time as the first.

“Y/N?” Steve’s eyes widened.

“Ugh. That thing was squeezing my brain.” Agent Hill groaned as she took off her helmet too.

“Don’t look so surprised, Steve.” Y/N said. “You really think you were on your own?”

Nat smirked, but they could still tell she was in a lot of pain.

Then Maria eyed Sam.

“Who’s this guy?”

“He’s a friend.” Steve stated firmly.

Steve watched as Y/N’s face lit up. “A friend? Hi, I’m Agent Ainsley.” She shoved her hand forward to shake. Then she realized that Sam was still handcuffed. “Oh, right.” With one pull of her hands, she broke the metal.

Sam’s eyes widened. “Did - Did you just break those with your barehands?”

She cringed at her exposure. “Yep. It appears so.”

“Sam, this is my granddaughter, Y/N.” Steve nudged. But everyone could tell he was still jolted by the realization that his best friend was alive.

“Granddaughter?” Maria and Sam said in unison.

“We can explain later. We’re about to hit our jump point.” Y/N announced as she used keys to unlock Steve’s high-powered cuffs.

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Y/N watched Steve carefully as Maria and Fury explained the situation with the hellicarriers. She didn’t see Bucky herself, but she heard enough in the van to understand what had happened. Steve was doing a good job at hiding it, but Y/N could see that he was struggling.

It wasn’t until after his outburst with Fury that Y/N found him standing on the bridge outside, staring out into nothing.

“I’m sorry… about Bucky.” Y/N said quietly as she stood beside him.

“I let him fall and I never even looked for his body.” Steve mumbled.

“Don’t go down that road, Steve. You’re not going to find anything good. There was no way you could’ve known. You can’t blame yourself.”

“I …I can’t help but think about how different things could’ve gone if I found him. He would’ve been alive. Maybe…maybe I wouldn’t have gone under.”

“Yeah. Yeah, things could be very different, Steve. But you’ll make yourself crazy getting lost in all the what-ifs. You can’t change the past. It’s about time you accepted the present.”

Steve nodded, knowing she was right. He still found it amazing how wise Y/N was for her age. Wasn’t the grandpa supposed to be the one giving all the advice?

He finally turned away from the view and looked at Y/N before sighing. “I can’t talk you out of going with us, can I?”

“Nope.” Y/N smiled.

“That thing in the car. I didn’t realize… You never said my serum effected you and Grant.” Steve looked a little guilty, like he had turned the two of them into some kind of freaks.

“We’re not as strong as you.” Y/N shrugged like it was no big deal. “But I can definitely do more than the average man.”

Steve nodded his head slowly. “I told your dad and Peggy I’d keep you safe.”

“Steve, you’ve been with SHIELD for a couple of years. This has been my life. Peggy help build it. And now Hydra is trying to ruin everything it stood for. I can’t let that happen…and you know it. I can handle myself. You know that too.”

“I had a feeling your going to say that.” Steve sighed. “Be careful.”

Then they saw Sam walking towards them. Y/N decided to give them a moment alone while she went to change into her stealth gear.

Sam looked over his shoulder at Y/N’s retreating figure.

“Granddaughter, huh?”

“Don’t even think about it.” Steve warned.

“Right.” Sam nodded and cleared his throat.

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Y/N was racing out of SHIELD’s hangar and onto the platform.

“Sharon’s rallying the loyalists. That speech of yours really did the trick.” Y/N joked. “Guess I should’ve paid attention in my public speaking class.” Then she saw the fleet of quintets appearing in front of her. “I’m getting you two air support.” She screamed into her comms and she continued sprinting.

“Roger that.” Steve replied.

“Hey, Cap… How do we know the good guys from the bad?” Y/N heard Sam ask.

“If they’re shooting at you, they’re bad.”

Y/N chuckled at his response.

“Be careful, Y/N.” Steve told her through the comms.

“Yes, grandpa.” She teased just as she started getting shot at. But she easily dodged their bullets, serpentining and doing an aerial flip when she got closer to confuse their aim.

She shot at the people who she once called comrades. Everything had been a lie. Her greatest enemy had been hiding right next to her, disguising themselves as friends. But she couldn’t think about that now. It was kill or be killed; save the world or let it fall into to hands of Hydra.

Y/N saw SHIELD loyalist pilots walking onto the platform. They were the only air support Steve and Sam could get. Y/N made sure to shoot down any Hydra agents that were aiming their weapons at them.

Suddenly a grenade launcher was shot, destroying a quinjet and killing a few pilots.

That’s when Y/N saw him appearing out of the smoke.

“Bucky,” Y/N whispered. “Everyone get to the jets!” She yelled the order to the pilots.

“Cap, he’s here.” She stated into her comms.

“Y/N, stay away from him. He’ll kill you.” Steve barked.

Just as he said it, Bucky turned his attention to Y/N.

“Ugh… not an option.” Y/N started walking backwards, but shooting bullet after bullet at Bucky. A part of her was purposely aiming wrong. Y/N couldn’t kill him. Bucky was Steve’s best friend. He was everything to him. Y/N couldn’t take that away from him. There was still a chance that Bucky could be saved.

Y/N skimmed his thigh with a bullet. But that didn’t even slow him down.

“Y/N, run!” Steve yelled.

She turned off her comms. There was no way she was going to win a fight against a brainwashed weapon, no matter how strong of a fighter she was. She didn’t want Steve listening to her die.

Bucky still calmly marched to her. Why didn’t he just shoot her?

Y/N had backed into a quinjet.

“Bucky,” Her voice was gentle and calm. “This isn’t you. I like to think you’re in there somewhere.” She said slowly. “Please, Bucky. Don’t make me kill you.”

He blinked rapidly at her when she kept saying his name. Then it seemed like he had caught something in her eyes.

Their stand-off was interrupted when a Hydra agent shot Y/N in her right shoulder. She cried out in pain and gripped her shoulder as blood started pouring out. She felt the warmth of it on her left hand.

To Y/N’s shock, Bucky whipped around and fired his gun at the agent, landing a bullet in the middle of their forehead.

Y/N watched him with shocked andl wide eyes.

Bucky stared at her, his eyes flickering over her body as if he were looking for other injuries beside her shoulder. His eyes looked frantic and torn. Then his face changed and Y/N knew someone was saying something to him in his earpiece.

Y/N was breathing heavily as she clutched her injury. She was completely at his mercy.

With one final look, Bucky ran away and jumped onto a quinjet, shooting the pilot and then ripping them out of the cockpit to replace them.

Y/N’s eyes flickered as she tried to process what had just happened. The Winter Soldier had saved her life and then spared her. She smirked: Bucky was still in there.

Groaning in pain, Y/N moved to one of the final quintets that was left in tact.

Other Hydra agents had grabbed quinjets and it was now her job to shoot them down before they could get to Sam and Steve. Y/N was one of SHIELD’s finest pilots. She twisted and turned with a grace that other’s envied. The Hydra pilots didn’t have a chance.

But when Y/N finally shot down the final airborne Hydra agent, she relaxed against her seat. Y/N had been running on adrenaline that she hadn’t realized how much blood she’d lost from her wound. The bullet was still lodged into her shoulder, making it impossible for her to stop the bleeding or put pressure on it.

Suddenly Y/N’s vision was getting blurry and her grip on the steering loosened. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she could hardly hear the panicked alarms of the quintet losing altitude. It started spinning out of control.

Y/N blacked out before her jet crashed into the Potomac River.

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Y/N somehow heard the soft breathing of someone next to him over the sound of the Trouble Man soundtrack playing.

She winced as her eyes opened. The hospital light burned her eyes and she was instantly met with a raging migraine. She glanced over to see Steve sleeping in the bed next to her. He looked worse than she expected she did. He had stitches on his face and more tiny cuts than she could count.

“You trying to brainwash the poor man, Sam?” Her voice was dry and raspy.

Sam, who was sitting in a chair between their two hospital beds, jolted in his seat at the sound of Y/N’s voice.

“Oh, thank god.” Sam sighed. “Cap would’ve killed me if you died.”

“Don’t worry.” Y/N practically groaned in pain as she tried to sit up. Sam rushed over to her to help. “I’m very much alive. But wishing I wasn’t with how much pain I’m feeling right now.”

“Let me call the nurse to get you some pain medication.” Sam panicked.

“Don’t bother. My metabolism will burn it off before it does me any good.” Y/N said.

Sam squinted in confusion.

Y/N smirked at him. “One of the side effects from being related to Captain America.”

“I…I didn’t realize… how much it affected you too.” Sam stuttered.

“I’m not as enhanced as he is,” She pointed in Steve’s direction. “But it’s enough to still be advantage in the field.”

Then her eyes saddened at the sight of Steve all beat up.

“Sam, what happened?” He explained everything she missed while she had been shooting down Hydra jets left and right, said they succeeded and the hellicarriers were now sitting at the bottom of the Potomac River. Fury and Natasha had thankfully saw Y/N’s quintet spiraling out of control and were able to scoop her out of the aircraft before her unconscious body could drown in the river.

“He pulled him out of the river.” Sam said darkly.

Y/N didn’t need for him to clarify who.

“He’s still in there, Sam.” She whispered. Then she continued to tell him what had occurred between her and the deadly Winter Solider.

“Why didn’t he kill me?” Y/N thought aloud in a whisper.

“Maybe he knew somehow.” Sam shrugged. “Knew that you were his family.”

Y/N sighed and rubbed her face. “Did they find him?”

Sam shook his head. “I just hope Hydra didn’t get him back.”

But there conversation was interrupted by Steve stirring slightly.

“On your left.” He managed to mumble. Y/N looked at Sam, who was smirking. “What the fuck does that mean?”

“Inside joke.”

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Part 4

Sooooo I called this a min-series, but I think I’ve lost control and it’s gonna be way longer. LMAO

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vsplusonline · 4 years

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NYC paramedic haunted by COVID-19 toll: 'You hear the cries

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NYC paramedic haunted by COVID-19 toll: 'You hear the cries

NEW YORK — Elizabeth Bonilla pulled her ambulance up to a set of Bronx row houses. Another ambulance and a fire truck were already there, their flashing lights painting the dark streets an eerie shade of orange. Neighbors gathered on their stoops to watch. Some were sipping wine.

“We gotta gown up,” she said as she climbed out of the vehicle. This call was a suspected COVID-19 case, which meant she needed gloves, masks and a full-body, plastic smock.

An empty gurney waited by the front steps while four EMS workers, Bonilla included, rushed upstairs.

About 45 minutes later, three medics emerged. Bonilla, a 43-year-old Fire Department paramedic, followed five minutes after that. She walked slowly, an oxygen tank in the bag on her back.

“This one is hard,” she said. “Real hard.”

The coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 8,900 people in New York City, plus as many as 3,900 more whose deaths were never confirmed by a lab test.

At its peak, emergency calls nearly doubled from their usual average. Call volume has dropped in recent days in a sign that the crisis could be easing. Still, the FDNY’s 4,000 emergency medical workers are straining to keep up.

“I don’t think that anyone was prepared for this,” Bonilla said.

To get a sense of the challenges paramedics like Bonilla face, The Associated Press followed her through the first half of her 16-hour double shift Wednesday.

3:30 p.m.

Bonilla arrives early for her 3 p.m. start time, but the crew using her ambulance was running late. A call at the end of their shift had kept them out longer than scheduled — a standard occurrence in recent weeks.

When the vehicle finally arrives, Bonilla pulls it around to the front of FDNY EMS Station 3, located in the South Bronx’s Castle Hill neighbourhood.

She loads her personal supplies in through the driver’s side door. She stashes a clear plastic bag filled with sanitizing supplies and hangs up her pink stethoscope.

Her thermos, holding a home brewed ginger-lemon tea, gets dropped into a cup holder. The hot beverage — along with regular prayer — helps keep her calm.

She pulls wipes from the plastic bag and begins to disinfect. She rubs down her seat, the steering wheel and the rest of the drivers’ station, then moves onto the passenger side. She finishes by sterilizing the treatment area in back.

Bonilla’s neon-pink tools make her easy to spot — pink scissors, pink keys, pink tape on her walkie talkie and hand sanitizer.

She also has three bright braids each dedicated to a cancer-stricken family member. A green and orange one for her mother, who has leukemia and skin cancer, a blue one for her father, who has prostate cancer, and a pink one for her aunt with breast cancer.

“Hair is life,” she said. “And when you’re a cancer patient you lose your hair, and for a mental thing, it kind of makes me feel like I have them with me.”

She hasn’t seen her mother or father in two months — she can’t because of her exposure to the virus and their high-risk status. She’s been trying to help manage their lives remotely with her sparse downtime.

“I’m a single parent,” the mother of sons aged 22 and 16 said. “I’m handling things at home, and I’m being a parent to my parents, and then I’m coming into work and I’m taking care of people, and then I do it all over again every day. I think taking care of others is my calling. It has to be.”

4:45 p.m.

Nearly two hours into their shift, Bonilla and her partner have yet to be pinged by dispatchers — an unthinkable lull as recently as a week ago.

They had been making between 5-7 calls each shift and often working two shifts per day, doing their best to aid patients even as they ran low on N95 facemasks and oxygen tanks.

Social distancing measures have slowed the virus’ spread, and that’s eased the demand for paramedics’ services. Bonilla is certain the calm will be short lived, fearing another surge in COVID-19 cases when New Yorkers begin returning to work.

“It’s the eye of the storm,” she said.

The first call finally comes around 4:50, and five minutes later, Bonilla parks the ambulance in front of an apartment building. She jumps out of the truck, puts on gloves and a mask, grabs the necessary equipment and rushes in. Minutes later, she emerges wheeling a patient who is alert but hooked up to a breathing aid.

They pull into a nearby emergency room 30 minutes later and pass off the patient to doctors and nurses waiting in full protective gear — gloves, face shields and floor-length gowns. Bonilla brings the empty gurney back to the ambulance, sprays it with disinfectant and loads back up.

6:55 p.m.

A backlog of ambulances builds in the ER bay while Bonilla’s unit finishes paperwork, and when they get their next call, they realize they’ve been completely blocked in. Dispatchers eventually give the call to another EMS team.

A few minutes later they’re back on the road, rushing to a different scene.

They arrive at a house and find a family in disarray. A shouting match breaks out on the front porch, a disagreement between family members over whether the patient should risk virus exposure by going to the hospital.

Bonilla calls for police assistance, and two officers cordon off an angry, middle-aged man while Bonilla evaluates his step-son in the ambulance.

Twenty minutes later, Bonilla’s vehicle takes off with the patient still in the back. The step-father alternates crying and shouting as they pull away.

9:15 p.m.

After delivering the patient to the hospital, Bonilla and her partner return to the station for a snack. She rushes out of the building moments later, a box of donuts and a half-finished coffee in hand, and says they’ve received an urgent call that took her a short distance to the row house, just down the street from the Whitestone Bridge, which connects the Bronx and Queens.

Bonilla loaded the oxygen tank and an empty gurney back onto her ambulance.

She walks around the rig, out of sight from the neighbours. She pulls down her face mask, reaches for a paper towel and wipes tears from her eyes.

“You can’t do nothing,” she says.

Slowly, she removes her gown, gloves and mask. She walks back around to the driver’s door, grabs a Lysol bottle in her plastic bag and douses herself head to toe.

A family member emerges from the house, a young man about the same age as Bonilla’s oldest. He sits on the stoop, hands on his face, and sobs.

Bonilla takes a sip from her thermos and keeps her gaze straight ahead.

10:55 p.m.

Bonilla has been sleeping with the lights on and playing gospel music through the night. Anything to shake the replays from her head from calls like the last one.

“You hear the cries,” she said. “You just hear and you see everything all over again.”

She’s back at the station now, getting a brief break. She’s set to punch back in at 11 and start another 8-hour run, covering an overnight shift for a co-worker who needed the night off to rest and tend to family.

“I’m just drained right now,” she said. “I’m emotionally drained and physically drained and definitely mentally drained.”

She changes the subject to prayer, explains how her faith keeps her going. Her family, too.

And then there are the pandemic victims, new ones every day, that she knows are relying on her expertise and support.

“The moment we walk through the door, the families, it’s almost like they’ve seen God,” Bonilla said. “They are looking for help immediately. They have this sense of relief, and then they go ahead and pass all responsibility on you.

“You want to make sure you’re strong for them.”

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The OSG Report Week 2

Special shoutout to the OSG!

Philly -3 at Tampa (44) Tampa’s defense is not very good. They beat New Orleans mainly on offense and The Saints lack of defense. The Eagles offense should certainly feast. Nelson Agholor is a fine mid range play thought not a must play. Ajayi will come recommended purely on strength or lack there of from Tampa’s defense. But since joining Philly the volume isn’t there. I do have interest in the Philly defense✅ as well. I’m backing on Fitzpatrick and the offense to regress heavily especially if Desean Jackson is out. I do not believe Fitzpatrick will have the same success this week vs a stingy defense. However I believe he is a better QB than advertised and certainly better than Winston who is not a guaranteed lock to start after the suspension. For this reason you can take a shot in tournaments on Fitz. He has never had a WR like Mike Evans and Deshaun Jackson who is in the concussion protocol. So for a leverage play vs a defense that may gain traction I have no problem with a Fitz-Evans stack. Chiefs at -4.5 Steelers (53) KC Chiefs did certainly look good in week 1 and was on the positive side of the matchup with the Chargers. A first year QB on the road is never a recommendation of mine. Not that Pittsburgh’s defense is stellar. But he will certainly throw the ball down field. ✅You can certainly take some shots on Tyreek Hill✅as he and Mahomes seem to have a good connection going. Kareem Hunt and Hill are the best guesses as Mahomes and Kelce have yet to connect and TEs vs Pittsburgh has never been the best target from a fantasy perspective. Pittsburgh is going to be a popular stack and for reason. ✅ Conner did not disappoint. This is what they do. Whether Bell, DeAngelo Williams, or James Conner, they run their offense. And KC is going to be a defense we pick on all season. Hence the 53 over. This will be a pattern until further notice. Ben at home. Conner. And based on WR/CB rankings Antonio Brown has the best matchup on the board this week at home. Please do yourself a favor and fire up this stack ✅✅. If you do make multiple lineups do not be afraid to pivot To JuJu Smith-Schuster ✅as the entire secondary for KC is bad. Indy at Washington-5.5 (46) Andrew Luck returned and was thrown right back into “carry the team” mode. While Eric Ebron did catch the TD, Jack Doyle did receive an almost team high 10 targets and is the go to guy. Hilton saw 11 targets and only converted 5 and one score. Washington will try to slow the game down a bit and now you take a dome team on the road. I don’t have much interest here. However Jack Doyle ✅should be in your player pool this week and every week moving forward. Despite the market share and production his price NEVER increases. Fire him up. On the other side, Jordan Reed✅ will also be the play here against one of the worst defenses in the NFL. Alex Smith of course mainly threw to his backs in Chris Thompson and Reed. But the outside WR core is very mediocre and carry low price tags however. A decent line and TD catch can pay off. Jamison Crowder is the best candidate. I don’t believe I will chase the GOAT Peterson as we saw his ceiling and now his price increased. However Washington could ride him to keep the place down. But my exposure will be limited to Reed and maybe ✅Thompson being a WR in a RB spot. Small chance of a TD reception. And a running TD. If you can guess the positive side of Washington and it’s receiving core this is a low owned value stack to target✅. I also have interest in the Washington defense this week. ✅ Carolina at -5 Atlanta (44) Back to the Panthers. Back to Cam. I never get him right. Play him bust. Fade him, success. He gets a matchup in a dome without his starting TE. I do believe we go back to him and McCaffrey stack ✅and ride it out. If there is one thing in DFS is if you get the same team in a decent matchup play it again after it fails. The Falcons LB Deion Jones hit the IR so covering C-Mac will now be a challenge. He was decent last week but will be better this week in the dome. Funchess will have a tough WR/CB matchup and is always in play to catch a random TD from Newton but we will have better options in this price range. On the other side. Julio. Julio. Julio. ✅✅Did we know that he has busted this team for 300 yards. I usually avoid division rivals but Julio’s track record vs Carolina cannot be avoided. And after 19 targets Atlanta’s bum O coordinator may have finally gotten the memo. Just feed him. He is an excellent pivot off of what will be a heavily owned Antonio Brown. But if you want to be heavy on the field PLAY THEM BOTH✅✅. You may not need to stack him with Matt Ryan but if Julio goes for 300 yards Ryan could throw for 400. Also look to Tevin Coleman✅ if D. Freeman is ruled out. Almost a must play with his value price if this is the scenario. He averages 19 touches a game with Freeman out of the lineup. LA Chargers-7.5 vs Buffalo Bills (43) Phillip Rivers was very impressive week 1 and gets an even better matchup. Everything on paper says play the ✅Rivers-Allen stack again, and please pay Melvin Gordon ✅. This is a very bad Bills team and will be a target as long as Buffalo is not at home (which they are this week) and the weather is bad (which it isn’t this week). The only thing the matchup will not tell you is that this is a West coast team traveling east for a 1PM eastern start. Beyond that this is one of the best matchups on the board for an offense. Do not play anything from the Buffalo Bills. Houston -2 @ Tennessee If you were as crazy as me to play Watson and Hopkins vs New England then you may as well okay him here as well. Hopkins represents the 6th best WR/CB matchup and for the price it’s hard to target Hopkins as oppose to the others. Which does mean he will get lower ownership. I’m not sure when I’ll get excited to play the Tennessee Titans. They have to play Indy (which they will do twice) before I personally will consider the Titans. Corey Davis ✅can be considered as a cheap WR option to fit in the big name and big prices of some studs this week. Miami at NY Jets-3 (44) Quincy Enunwa can be added to your player pool. Everything else on both offenses can be a wait and see approach until further notice. Cleveland at New Orleans -8.5 (50) Back to finally good stuff. Jarvis Landry was a target monster last week as expected. The weather slowed this team down. But they are playing in the best environment on the board. It is a road game and I was high on Tyrod Taylor. While he did not smash he did do well/decent. At his price range and the dome Tyrod Taylor✅is an excellent play Sunday. Landry ✅is viable in a stack with him and so is Josh Gordon✅who is expected to see a larger snap count. Carlos Hyde got most early work, and Duke Johnson got the pass and third down work. Either back is risky, and I understand it, but there is a little better clear cut value elsewhere. On the other side of the game if you do believe the Browns will not show up, or is forced into any amount of turnovers, the Saints defense could be a viable tournament play. But offensively this will be a place to target. Brees to Michael Thomas once again ✅and despite it being on “limited” touches for a RB Alvin Kamara ✅✅is always a must play in the dome. Though he is not a ground and pound back they work him into the offense to get maximum efficiency out of those touches. And the Browns will not stop him here. Arizona at LA Rams -13. (46) The Cardinals are road dogs by 13. Pass Anytime a team at home are heavy favorites, you start with the defense and the RB in Todd Gurley✅✅ and stack him with the Rams defense ✅✅. Gurley is an excellent tournament play because so many players (including me) will try to pair Conner and Kamara like last week. Detroit at SF -5.5 (47.5) Here is one of the higher totals for an under 50 game that is possible to go over 50. SF struggled to hold the slot last week and Stafford ✅alone without the stack is viable in tournaments. But stacking I would take shots on all 3. Golladay, Tate And Marvin Jones. ✅ Jimmy G ✅is back in play as he had a tough matchup vs a good secondary. This is not the case this week. He can paired with Kittle at TE✅ but I’m still not sure which WR will emerge as his favorite. I was willing to take a chance on Goodwin✅in a tough matchup so I’m obligated to repeat that process vs a worst matchup. New England +2 at JAX (45) So many players will want to pay down at TE as there is value which makes ✅✅Gronk once again a great tournament play. He’s priced like a second tier WR and is the best option for the best QB in the league. James White ✅could be in for heavy work if Rex Burkhead is ruled out. These days concussion protocols are rarely cleared after just one week. It is a late start in the afternoon and utilize late swaps ✅✅so it is worth monitoring. I played Chris Hogan as oppose to Dorset last week but I do not typically play WR vs Jacksonville. I will probably stick to Gronk and White but maybe not pay up for Brady this week as it is a tough defense. New England did defeat the Jags in the playoffs but did not steam roll them. Also the New England defense ✅is an excellent play. I will want to see what the New England defense is about before I target them heavily in fantasy. No jags players for me. Oakland at Denver (-6) 45 Three words for Oakland. Play Jared Cook✅. He’s a value TE and is another good spot. Gruden knows matchups. On the Denver side. Case Keenum✅was last year and is officially playable at his price week in and week out until he faces a tough defense and secondary. Sanders and Thomas ✅are excellent stacks with Keenum as well.

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stevenvenn · 6 years

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Steven's Nifty 50 of 2017 - Albums #50 - #41

It's that time again and I'm not disappointing you. Here are my favourite albums of 2017 starting with albums 50 - 41 (of 50). These are in no particular order just how I saw them relating to each other. Doing a true countdown would be too nerve-wracking. You can listen to my favourite cuts from each of the albums on Spotify and watch them on YouTube (links below). You can also read my thoughts on the albums below the links broken into 5 posts counting down by 10s. Enjoy and feel free to comment.

Spotify playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/user/stevenvenn/playlist/7qSpcgdwXuoLtIStRQeRto?si=09LiErQ9QwCONq0XEfG91Q

Youtube playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqUMf7mP_mnMOmDl94VCPIJPFliPf62a5

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41. Four Tet - New Energy (Text Records)

Kieran Hebden is back in 2017 with another beautiful collection of rich samples, zen beats, and incredible melodies that make this album, on his own Text Records label, a startling release. Incorporating small sounds of birds, countryside, and other natural sounds Hebden makes this more of a meditative headphone listen than an upbeat groover (but then that's what we've come to expect from Hebden this many albums in). There's something of the gentle grace of Boards of Canada and the 90s ambient of Aphex Twin in the retro electronics and economy of well-constructed layers. The dulcimer on "Two Thousand and Seventeen," steel drums on "Lush," and kalimba on "You Are Loved" as textural examples carry us along on their magical long loops as dreamy, marshmallow-y, and tiny synth stabs throb and dissipate over top of low tempo percussion samples. The looped melodies often create a rhythm all on their own in a lot of the songs. The meditation album session wraps up with the pulsating zen bumper "Planet" incorporating temple bells, spacey moog, and Japanese string samples. Nothing especially new here but there is a simplicity and organic quality that Hebden has really carved out over his career. This has helped him maintain his status of one of the best in electronic music.

42. Bonobo - Migration (Ninja Tune)

Another artist Simon Green has, like Four Tet, been exploring the confluence of soothing organic sounds, acoustic instrumentals, and world music with a infectious glitchy rhythm that crosses into low-key jazz textures at times. Here we have kalimba, harps, and other African instruments crashing into soft meditative synth pads. This might the most "easy listening" album by Green in his discography (not meant as a slight). The use of smooth singers like Rhye's Mike Milosh make Migration a truly chilled out affair and one of the most tranquil and relaxing listens yet.

43. Indian Wells - Cascades (Friends of Friends)

Italian producer Pietro Iannuzzi returns with a meditative collection of intricate and clean-sounding techno complete with beeps, blips, and bounces that all flow together beautifully like a dreamy electronic river. The sounds are all very colourful and bright and deliver a hypnotic and mesmerizing quality overall. There's a certain feeling of travel through music here as if by train, boat, or plane in sped up montage expressing the look of a well worn and stamped passport. Also you can't help think of the natural world of sights and sounds with song titles like "Alps" and "Forest Hills." There is a sound akin to Pantha Du Prince and other electronic producers who take you on a journey both within a song and over the course of an album and Iannuzzi's is no exception. The title track "Cascades" and the album as a whole embodies that impression of flowing falls, sounds continuing to rush by as you sit beside and get carried along by rapid beats and sounds.

44. Bing & Ruth - No Home of the Mind (4AD)

The project of composer and producer David Moore No Home of the Mind is his first on the exclusive label home for all things arty on a grand scale, 4AD. It's a dreamy and melancholy release of repeated piano notes that move along with the rhythm of a train on songs like "How It Sped." There's an emotional quality to Moore's playing that recalls other composers who cross over into the ambient and electronic genres like Max Richter and Brian Eno. Alongside all the thought-provoking and mesmerizing piano drones and repetitive phrases are various textures provided by synths and samples. What Moore's newest release also resembles too me at times is the soundtrack work of Michael Nyman. Indeed a lot of No Home of the Mind feels very cinematic.

45. High Plains - Cinderland (Kranky)

No year end check-in would be complete without a release by Scott Morgan (aka Loscil) who has released some of my favourite minimal electronic albums over the years. Following on the heels of his excellent release Monument Builders as Loscil, Morgan teams up with classically trained cellist Mark Bridges as High Plains for an album inspired by a small town in the Wyoming mountains. This a very wintry and melancholic affair with incredible depth from both collaborators with Morgan effectively laying the musical groundwork for Bridges' solemn and isolated cello sound. There's a bit of a modern twist on chamber music here that feels like a bleak winter scene from a prairie noir. At the same time there's a touch of Tangerine Dream to the pulsating electronic beds by Morgan that can't help but create images of open nocturnal spaces and thrilling mystery in the listener's mind.

46. Slow Meadow - Costero (Hammock Music)

Matt Kidd and his moving chamber ensemble and sound project return with a sophomore album of inventive, soaring, and melancholy compositions. There's a feeling of recalling past memories forever clad in amber with a patina of sadness. This pensive quality pervades the whole album but it's not so much sorrowful as accepting of memories as just the sometimes darker side of life broken up by moments of grace and sunlight. There's a really intimate quality to Kidd's compositions that describes a lot of emotion and depth just below the minimal musical surface.

47. Sarah Davachi - All My Circles Run (Students of Decay)

Vancouver-based ultra-minimal drone composer Sarah Davachi's albums always sound more like feeling you get walking around an art gallery looking at Mark Rothko paintings than following any kind of distinct rhythm. Many of the compositions here are in fact beatless and made of minimal mesmerizing drones for strings, piano, organ, and voice. In a similar way to Rothko, the simplicity is deceiving at first but if you spend time with his work you can see a lot of emotion and depth unfolding after prolonged exposure. Musically Davachi is Rothko's compositional kin. The seemingly isolated and lunar soundscape of "For Voice" takes its cues from haunting classical vocal pieces like Ligeti's "Lux Aeterna" best known as the music used to set the mood of the moonscape portion of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The very minute variances in the drones here lend Davachi's pieces a feeling of nordic temperature and desolation as well with the glacially paced tonal whispers reverberating in the listener's mind long after the song has ended. There's a real sense of the importance of the smallest of variation having incredible impact.

48. Ryuichi Sakamoto - async (Milan)

The Japanese composer musical artist has been creating stunning works for 40 years or more and after a battle with cancer years ago he has released his first solo work in 8 years after being busy with other sound projects and working on the soundtrack to The Revenant. async is a literal soundscape to float within comprised mostly of soaring background retro synths, field recordings, spoken word, and occasional appearances by Sakamoto's solemn and haunting piano. The inspiration for this release was creating a soundtrack for an imaginary Tarkovsky film. You can really feel how Sakamoto interpreted the pace and experimentation of the Russian film master. There are art sound experiments that are very cinematic like the excellent "disintegration", "walker" and "full moon" that sound like art installations. The title track is a captivating piece that wouldn't be out of place as an experimental dance piece full of chilling percussive attacks on instruments. Sakamoto has always pushed the boundaries of music as a "visual art" and the moods and impressions that async provides are incredible.

49. Hotel Neon - Context (Fluid Audio)

The Philadelphia-based trio have created here an incredible sea of sonic texture that you immediately immerse yourself in and float. All the song titles are reflective of either the times they seem to have been made perhaps (early am) or perhaps reflect Hotel Neon's desire to describe the feeling and headspace you would be in at those times, either dreaming, in hypnogogic states, or walking in the early hours of a cold morning with streetlight radiating and filling up the streets with soft orange light. There are no beats to Context just various realms of foggy and dense sound to step into.

50. Federico Durand - La Niña Junco (12K)

Hailing from Argentina Federico Durand set a very strict limit for his wonderful sophomore collection of songs that speak of the small objects in life and our memory of those precious moments that the objects take us to. There's a nostalgic sentiment to the weathered and dusty keepsakes from our younger times that make us smile when we consider them. So it is with Durand's improvised compositions here. The album was recorded in just one take, over a series of two days, using only Durand's aged and well worn Crumar Performer synthesizer and some loop pedals. The economy of instruments mirrors the economy of sounds but despite the feeling of "small" there is a lot of emotion and reflection to the songs on La Niña Junco. The melodies and pulses are minimal but the effect is intriguing. I feel like he's a bit of an Alexander Calder of electronic music here, creating simple but beautiful mobiles of fragile pieces, not of twisted bits of wire, but of quiet simple notes. Like Calder the motion of the parts is tranquil and effortless but incredibly reflective and beautiful. So much from so little.

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KDHX, “Music from the Hills, 18 June 2017 (Songs My Father Almost Taught Me)

I remember my father bringing home Joel Grey’s “Songs My Father Taught Me.” It and Jan Peerce’s “Kol Nidre” were my main (and, frankly, negligible) exposures to Jewish music. Dad would listen to Peerce as he ended his Yom Kippur fast; I don’t remember him/us returning to Grey. We didn’t sing songs at our very ecumenical seders.

Still, it seems fitting to have done a show of Jewish music on Father’s Day as the first of a three-week fill-in on “Music from the Hills.” And it is equally fitting that I approach it as part of the folk music tradition which led to my real exposure to Klezmer music.

I was committed to not succumbing to the siren songs of Sephardic music which have dominated the last several Jewish music shows I’ve done in this time slot. Sephardic music is wonderfully “Oriental”--Middle Eastern, Ottoman, Balkan--in line with my general predilection that the farther south and eastern one goes in Eastern European music the better.

But here I wanted to play with the efforts of Europeans to recreate the culture the Nazis destroyed along with the American revival that I gladly got caught up with (Klezmatics, Brave Old World in the first generation; clever smart-asses (my people) like Isle of Klezbos and Yid Vicious) with some archival recordings of Jews in America making music from the 1910s to 1950s.

I mostly succeeded though I did wrap up the show with Terkisher and Araber dances, but both owe some lineage to Naftule Brandwein, the King of Jewish Music in New York in the 1910s and 1920s. That is, they are meant to evoke the Middle East, rather than are from there.I am drawn to the musical jokes--Sandy Weltman playing with the local bluegrass band the Lonesome Pines and playing banjo and harmonica on a Brandwein tune; TV music from “Gomer Pyle, USMC” for guest appearances by Molly Picon; the band names-- and the juxtapositions. The Klezmatics and Transkapela using trumpet in complementary ways.

So it was fun and a good start to this run.

Here’s the playlist:

04:01PM-04:07PM (6:05) Itzhak Perlman with Brave Old World “Reb Itzhik's Nign” from In the Fiddler's House on RCA Victor

04:08PM-04:11PM (2:56) Khevrisa “C minor: Freylakhs” from European Klezmer Music (2000) on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (http://www.folkways.si.edu)

04:11PM-04:14PM (2:43) Belf's Rumysnki Orkester “Mayofus (How Beautiful)” from Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World on Yazoo

04:14PM-04:19PM (4:43) Emil Bruh & his Ensemble “Schaju Ugliebt Meine Achzig Juren” from Jewish Melodies (1956) on Dana

04:20PM-04:27PM (6:50) Budowitz “Kiev: Josefs Tish Nign>Margulis Sher>Dawids Sher” from Budowitz: Live on Golden Horn Records (http://www.goldenhorn.com)

04:28PM-04:31PM (3:00) Kapela Brodow “Mazur Zydowski” from Muzikaim (2014) on Dwojka

04:31PM-04:33PM (2:24) Transkapela “Hora De La Saveni” from Over The Village (2007) on Ferment

04:33PM-04:38PM (5:05) Veretski Pass “The Street: Bottler's Gallop>Polka Szarpana” from Poyln, A Gilgul (feat. Joel Rubin) on Golden Horn Records (http://www.goldenhorn.com)

04:41PM-04:44PM (2:53) Nikitov “Reyzele” from Amulet on Chamsa Records

04:44PM-04:47PM (3:34) Machaya Klezmer Band “Yidl Mit'n Fidl” from What a Machay! on self04:47PM-

04:52PM (5:15) Yid Vicious “Never Mind the Cossacks (Sher Medley)” from Klez, Kez, Goy Mit Fez (1998) on Uvulittle Records

04:52PM-04:56PM (4:05) Isle of Klezbos “When Gomer Met Molly (Live)” from Live From Brooklyn (2014) on Rhythm Media Records

04:56PM-04:59PM (2:16) Metropolitan Klezmer/Isle of Klezbos “Humphrey Bulgar” from Mosaic Persuasion (2000) on Rhythm Media Records

05:01PM-05:06PM (4:53) Klezmatics “NY Psycho Freylekhs” from Rhythm + Jews on Piranha

05:06PM-05:13PM (6:40) Transkapela “The Bride's Waltz” from Over The Village (2007) on Ferment

05:13PM-05:18PM (5:06) Sandy Weltman “Kishiniever Bulgar” from The Klezmer Nuthouse (2002) on Wildstone AudioLocal

05:20PM-05:25PM (5:00) Khevrisa “Old Moldavian Klezmer Suite In E: Terkisher Gebet” from European Klezmer Music(2000) on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (http://www.folkways.si.edu)

05:25PM-05:31PM (5:36) Yid Vicious “Terk in Amerike” from Forverts! on Uvulittle Records

05:31PM-05:35PM (3:45) Kapela Brodow “Turecki” from Muzikaim (2014) on Dwojka

05:35PM-05:40PM (5:33) Sandy Weltman “Terkishe yale v'yove tantz” from Klezmer Nuthouse on Wildstone Audio

05:42PM-05:47PM (4:51) Metropolitan Klezmer/Isle of Klezbos “Araber Tants” from Mosaic Persuasion (2000) on Rhythm Media Records

05:47PM-05:50PM (2:48) The Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Palesteena” from Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World on Yazoo

05:50PM-05:55PM (4:45) Klezmatics “Araber Tants” from Rhythm + Jews on Piranha

05:55PM-05:58PM (3:44) Michael Alpert & Julian Kytasty “Night Songs” from Night Songs from a Neighboring Village(2014) on Oriente Musik

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