#Chris McCabe

[rbolick]

Books On Books Collection - Martín Gubbins

Books On Books Collection – Martín Gubbins

Alfabeto (2017) Alfabeto (2017) Martín Gubbins Hardback. 180 x 180 mm. 60 pages. Acquired from Naranja Publicaciones, 28 July 2022. Photos: Books On Books Collection. Each letter of the Spanish alphabet is printed in sans serif across a full page to create a grid-like or plaid-like pattern. All letters are printed once in black on white paper and twice in white on black paper; with sheets…

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#Chris McCabe #Karl Kempton #Martín Gubbins #Philip Davenport #Raffaella della Olga #Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich #Sharon Forss #Sharon Werner #Victoria Bean

[servants-hall]

Miss Scarlet and The Duke, Season 4 | Victorian Headlines: True or False?

#miss scarlet and the duke #msatd spoilers #msatd interviews #msatd s4 #basil sinclaire #oliver chris #kate phillips #stuart martin #cathy belton #evan mccabe #tim chipping #paul bazely #felix scott #simon ludders #rachael new #Youtube

[1634archive]

OTTAWA, CANADA - FEBRUARY 10: Auston Matthews #34 of the Toronto Maple Leafs celebrates his first period goal against the Ottawa Senators with Jake McCabe #22 and Mitchell Marner #16 at Canadian Tire Centre on February 10, 2024 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Chris Tanouye/Freestyle Photography/Getty Images)

#2024 #02.10.24 #chris tanouye #celly #senators #mccabe

[genevieveetguy]

How am I supposed to get experience when you won't give me a shot?

Boston Strangler, Matt Ruskin (2023)

#Matt Ruskin #Keira Knightley #Carrie Coon #Chris Cooper #Alessandro Nivola #Rory Cochrane #David Dastmalchian #Peter Gerety #Robert John Burke #Ryan Winkles #Morgan Spector #Michael Malvesti #Aurora McLaughlin #Ben Kutchins #Paul Leonard Morgan #Anne McCabe #2023

[galaxyofgeek]

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (with Eddie McCabe)

Video game adaptations are a sordid state of affairs but some recent entries have been raising the bar in the TV world, can our favorite palette-swapped plumbers do it for movies? Episode #141   Find Eddie Here – https://linktr.ee/Theeddiemccabe    

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#2023 #Animated Movies #Anya Taylor-Joy #Artists #Bowser #Charles Martinet #Charlie Day #Chris Pratt #DK #Donkey Kong #eddie McCabe #Film #Film Podcast #Funny #illumination #Jack Black #Kamek #Luigi #Mario #ModKuraika #Movie #Nintendo #Podcast #Princess Peach #Review #The Super Mario Bros. Movie #Toad #Yupfrank

[el-im]

i love enterprise so much and am at all hours of the day being so bizzare about it and the first time i watched it i despised m*lcolm r*ed and the second time i was like. ok he is not that bad and even gradually came to appreciate him as a character but every time i see someone out there fixating on him i am like. fascinating. 

#its like. i watched chinatown and mccabe and mrs miller cause they're chris' favorite movies and after was like. i dont believe these are #favorite movie material #that's how i feel abt him #he's enjoyable at BEST but he doesnt really have enough writing/screentime for the fixation some people seem to have on him. frankly #i do believe people are projecting. copious amounts #this has been. a post. #DOMINIC ON THE OTHER HAND #has taken me completely by surprise. #the first few shuttlepod eps i watched i was all mooneyes over connor trinneer but he grew ever-more repulsive and uninteresting and dom #meanwhile #endeared himself to me. though i did think at first he took himself too seriously #i just liked listening to them talk about books/colonization of mars. dom (perhaps unsurprisingly) to me comes off as more intelligent and #interesting than the guy from walla walla -_- #anyway. #hi. goodmorning all

[mitjalovse]

Martin Glover's name can be found on a variety of platters and one does ask oneself – which one of these might be the work the most people are most definitely familiar with? Personally, I would say Urban Hymns by the Verve is the most famous work he's associated with. True, he didn't produce all the tracks there, yet those he did gave the group a taste of success that eluded them for so long. The tune on the link became their biggest chart success and the group also did something they probably didn't intend – they showed a way forward for Britpop. You can already hear the strains Coldplay shall develop on their own, while several other groups will take the balladry into the soundtracks for medical soap operas. However, the original still has a power we cannot deny.

#Youtube #the verve #urban hymns #the drugs don't work #richard ashcroft #nick mccabe #simon tong #simon jones #peter salisbury #chris potter #youth #martin glover #90's music #britpop

[undying-love]

Beatles biographers saying totally normal things about John and Paul: A compilation

"‘John always used to say,’ Yoko told me at one point, ‘that no one ever hurt him the way Paul hurt him.’ The words suggested a far deeper emotional attachment between the two than the world ever suspected - they were like those of a spurned lover." -Philip Norman

"No matter how much he loved Yoko, the Gibraltar ceremony seems like something close to an on-the-rebound reaction to the loss of his first great love, Paul McCartney." -Chris Salewicz

"Almost in each other’s face, John and Paul quickly gained an unusual closeness, little or nothing hidden. Paul noticed that ‘John had beautiful hands." -Mark Lewisohn

"With Yoko present, Paul McCartney’s reign as Lennon’s princess was doomed.” -Peter McCabe

"John's in love with Yoko," Paul confessed to a reporter from the 'Evening Standard', "and he's no longer in love with the three of us." But for all intents and purposes, he might as well have been talking about himself." -Bob Spitz

'I thought Paul's was rubbish,' opined Lennon, saying that he preferred George's All Things Must Pass. McCartney studied the article with the morbid fascination of a jilted lover receiving a kiss-off letter. -Howard Sounes

“Lennon could have abandoned the (US) immigration case and returned to Britain, and possibly even to McCartney, but that would have meant accepting that his relationship with Ono was over.”-Peter Dooget

"Theirs was a volatile relationship right up to the end, and was fraught with emotional summits and valleys. While the connection between them was strictly heterosexual, it was deep, passionate, and highly explosive." -Geoffrey Giuliano

"John was insecure, and when he saw Paul he wanted to look cool. He gave up all his friends for Paul. Aunt Mimi recalled that John jumped around the kitchen when he told her about his new friend. She sarcastically said to John that they were like ‘chalk and cheese’ meaning how different they were. And John would start hurling himself around the room shouting ‘Chalk and Cheese!'’ smiling and laughing. He was fucking in love with him, he adored him. She understood he found the partner of his life.“ -Thomas Rhodes

“The last week in August, Paul McCartney returned to Liverpool, tanned and noticeably slimmer. In addition to starting school, he came back to begin a relationship he seemed destined for: hooking up with John Lennon." -Bob spitz

“Seeing Lennon focus on Ono rather than him [Paul] was as devastating as it would have been for Cynthia Lennon to witness the couple making love.” -Peter Dogget

#mclennon #insane #They all had to have known something #after all they were in contact with a lot of people from the inner circle #they just dont want to outright say it #this cant be a coincidence

[take-the-hidden-paths]

Hidden Paths 2024 - Prompts (Set 1)

Hello Tolkien fans!

It's the 14th somewhere and I have a very busy schedule tomorrow, so here, have your first set of prompts a little bit early...

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Thematic Prompt: Hauntings

Character Based Prompt: Threshold Guardians

Setting Based Prompt: The Perilous Realm

Text Prompt:

“Sometimes I think all this

Is a waste of time and effort:

For all words disguise what

We truly wish to say.

How then can we use

Our foolish fond words,

Beloved and enchanted words,

Wild words which run away with us?

Hold up the mirror to our thoughts,

Breathe on it, wipe it clean:

Let us begin again.”

From 'Cornish Words' by Donald R. Rawe, trans. Tim Saunders.  Collected in Poems From the Edge of Extinction, ed. Chris McCabe.

The original Cornish is below:

“Nepprys y brederaf oll hemma

Yu sculva termyn ha gwyth:

Rak geryow oll a guth pandra

Ny a vyn leverel yn wyr.

Fatel ytho yllyn-ny gul defnyth

A'gan geryow fol ha whek,

Geryow kerys ha nygromansek,

Geryow gothyk, nep a bon a ves genen-ny?

Syns avan an gweder dh'agan tybyans

'Wheth warnodho, segh-ef glan;

Gesyn dhyn-ny dalleth arta.”

Visual Prompt:

[Image ID: The Van Gogh painting, 'Olive Trees In A Mountainous Landscape.'  There are gnarled green and brown olive trees in the foreground; behind is a mountain range and sky in navy blue, with a cream and yellow cloud above. /.End ID]

Audio Prompt: Crosby, Stills and Nash - Guinnevere

Wildcard Prompt: Museums are perfect for inspiration!  I've linked to the National Museums Scotland online collections, but feel free to use another museum (online or local to you) to search for an object or story that speaks to your muses.

#tolkien #hidden paths #fandom event #tolkien fandom event #prompts

[manfrommars2049]

Sanctuary by Chris Tulloch McCabe via ImaginaryMonuments

#ImaginaryMonuments #rajahbeaubeau

[1634archive]

OTTAWA, CANADA - FEBRUARY 10: Auston Matthews #34 of the Toronto Maple Leafs celebrates his first period goal against the Ottawa Senators with Jake McCabe #22 and Mitchell Marner #16 at Canadian Tire Centre on February 10, 2024 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Chris Tanouye/Freestyle Photography/Getty Images)

#2024 #02.10.24 #chris tanouye #celly #gloves #fave #senators #mccabe

[hellomystraightlacedfriend]

Jessica Drew/Lindsay McCabe - Roommates, Partners, 'Gal Pals,' Etc.

Spider-Woman (1978)

Writer: Mark Gruenwald/Penciller: Carmine Infantino

Writer: Michael Fleisher/Penciller: Frank Springer

Writer: Chris Claremont/Penciller: Steve Leialoha

Writer: Ann Nocenti/Penciller: Brian Postman

Uncanny X-Men

Writer: Chris Claremont/Penciller: John Romita Jr.

Wolverine (1988)

Writer: Chris Claremont/Penciller: John Buscema, Barry Kitson

Spider-Woman (2020)

Writer: Karla Pacheco/Penciller: Pere Pérez

#jessica drew #spider woman #lindsay mccabe #marvel comics #marvel 616 #my post #compilation #through the years

[greensparty]

Stuff I'm Looking Forward To in March

Wow, somehow it's already month 3 of 2024. In addition to Daylight Savings Time (March 10 - Spring ahead), Ramadan (March 10-April 9), St. Patrick's Day (March 17), first day of Spring (March 19), Palm Sunday (March 24), Holi (March 25), Good Friday (March 29), and Easter (March 31) here is what's on my radar this month:

Movies:

Dune: Part Two

Denis Villeneuve has become one of the great visual stylists of recent years thanks to films like Arrival and Blade Runner 2049. I named his film Dune Part One, one of my Best Movies of 2021. How good Part One really was depends on Part Two, which drops 3/1.

Knox Goes Away

Michael Keaton has always been a tremendous actor and now he's back in the director's chair for the second time with a starring role about a contract killer who has a form of dementia and he attempts to connect with his estranged son. Oh and Al Pacino co-stars! Opens 3/15.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 

A Ghostbusters sequel is a tall order. Jason Reitman's 2021 sequel Ghostbusters Afterlife actually had its moments and it had a lot to say about living up to a legacy, in the film it's the grandchildren of Egon, but it could also be Jason Reitman about the fear and honor of continuing a film series that his dad Ivan began. The new sequel is directed by Gil Kenan, who co-wrote this with Jason. The fact that original Ghostbuster cast members are back gives me hope. Sequel drops 3/22.

Music:

Sheer Mag Playing Favorites

I was lucky enough to see Philly rockers Sheer Mag at House of Blues in May 2022. After two solid albums, they are finally back with their third, dropping on 3/1. (Review to come)

Liam Gallagher & John Squire Liam Gallagher John Squire

Former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher's solo career has been a mixed back, but his album As You Were was one of my Best Albums of the 2010s. As shown in the 2019 documentary Liam Gallagher: As It Was, he doesn't need to play music for money or fame, he has plenty. He plays because he loves music. Now he's doing a new album with John Squire, former guitarist for The Stone Roses. Sounds like a serious meeting of musical minds! Album drops 3/1.

The Black Crowes Happiness Bastards

The first new studio album from The Black Crowes since 2009 is cause for celebration. After a bitter break-up in 2015, the brothers Chris and Rich Robinson announced they were reuniting in 2019. In early 2020, I caught an acoustic live show from Brothers of a Feather (my last concert before the pandemic lockdowns) and since that show, The Black Crowes have had some reunion tours (NOTE: by reunion - I mean Chris and Rich, not the original lineup). They've released some anniversary albums, but this marks the group's first studio album in 15 years. Looking forward to it when it drops on 3/15.

The Dandy Warhols Rockmaker

I've always loved Portlandia's The Dandy Warhols. Through this blog, I've had the pleasure of interviewing lead Dandy Courtney Taylor-Taylor and keyboardist / bassist Zia McCabe, the band's 2019 Boston concert, and their excellent 2019 album Why You So Crazy. Now the band is back with a new album dropping on 3/15! (Review to come)

Film Festivals:

Boston Underground Film Festival

Boston's fun genre film festival for horror, fantasy and bizarre is back. I've had the pleasure of covering this fest from 2016 to 2019 and returning last year. The fest returns to The Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, MA) from 3/20 to 3/24!

Conventions:

Northeast Comic Con

I've had a blast covering the Northeast Comic Con for years now (read my coverage here) and the Spring 2024 edition returns with guests like Kevin Chapman (who I worked with on Monument Ave), a Growing Pains reunion of Tracey Gold, Jeremy Miller and Julie McCullough, The Go-Go's drummer Gina Schock and more! Convention is at the Boxborough Regency (Boxborough, MA) from 3/8-3/10. (Coverage to come).

Awards Season:

The awards season for the best of 2023 continues on with the Razzie Awards, actually the Worst of 2023 (3/9) and the Academy Awards (3/10).

In a Category all its own...

Shamrock shakes!!!

#stuff i'm looking forward to #dune part two #denis villeneuve #knox goes away #michael keaton #ghostbusters: frozen empire #gil kenan #sheer mag #liam gallagher and john squire #liam gallagher #john squire #the black crowes #the dandy warhols #boston underground film festival #northeast comic con #shamrock shakes #film geek #music nerd #film festivals #conventions

[ebookporn]

Taking poetry off the page

Publishers could get much more creative in how they present their authors’ words.

by Chris McCabe

Are you a lover of visual poetry and just don’t know it yet? From childhood encounters with Lewis Carroll’s "The Mouse’s Tale" through to the influence of the concrete poetry movement on design (would the Yves Saint-Laurent logo have been invented without the inventions of the Brazilian concrete poets of the 1950s? – I doubt it), visual poetry is in the air all around us. More than that, it’s also increasingly incorporated into architecture and printed on buildings, and with a new exhibition called "Poetry & Architecture" just opened at Hay Castle, there’s no better time for publishers to embrace this genre-shattering form. 

I have a theory that visual poetry’s natural home is anywhere but its own habitat; like lichen, the form thrives on a symbiotic relationship with other forms. It doesn’t have its own section in bookshops but you’ll trace its spoor through the poetry, art, design and fiction shelves. It’s too fluid to settle in one place. When I co-edited The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century (Hayward Publishing, 2015) the aim was to create a source book for the genre that artists, poets and publishers could take the seeds from and re-wild in other places. The New Concrete includes poems projected onto churches, printed onto buildings, even created from computer viruses. We live in a radical age for text, being the first generation to touch words on a screen, lift them, and place them somewhere else. We are pioneers of these new possibilities and visual poetry is at the fore of this seismic change, adding lustre to other forms of writing and illuminating physical spaces; turning walkers into readers and readers into viewers.

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#poets #poetry #book publishing #book marketing #authors #writers #artists

[mitjalovse]

Some unintentionally great finales served as both a recapitulation and a recognition of their musical players. Urban Hymns by The Verve sort of fit in this category. While the collecton presented the band with the level of success that eluded them before, the group broke yet again, though they did return eventually for another dissolution. Then again, the LP remains a fascinating glimpse into the state of Britpop at the time. I'm not the only who considers the disc to be a requiem for the movement despite the fact many groups continued to work here. However, I do agree with some people's assertion the platter points us towards all the Travises, Coldplays and Keanes there, because The Verve's perfect finale gave many a sonic roadmap.

#The Verve #urban hymns #neon wilderness #richard ashcroft #nick mccabe #simon tong #simon jones #peter salisbury #chris potter #90's music #britpop

[diceriadelluntore]

Storia Di Musica #225 - The Verve, Urban Hymns, 1997

Nel videoclip della loro canzone più famosa, un successo mondiale, un ragazzo smilzo e magro cammina in strada guardando dritto davanti a sè: ha l’aria un po’ arrabbiata, i capelli, arruffati, grandi occhi magnetici e una bocca dalle grandi labbra. Sembra un sosia di Mick Jagger. Questa somiglianza fu fatta notare spesso a Richard Ashcroft, sin dagli inizi degli anni ‘90 quando a Wigan mise su la prima band. Insieme a lui il chitarrista Nick McCabe, il bassista Simon Jones e il batterista Peter Salisbury. Si nominano Verve, iniziano ispirandosi al suono magico e misterioso dei My Bloody Valentine di Kevin Shields a cui aggiungono un po’ di psichedelia, frutto di un intenso a quasi “programmatico” utilizzo di droghe, su cui inizieranno a nascere decine di leggende. I primi singoli All In The Mind, She’s A Superstar, Gravity Grace nel 1992 sono il preludio di A Storm In Heaven, che è pubblicato nel 1993 con l’aiuto del produttore John Leckie, figura centrale del britpop. La critica è entusiasta, soprattutto degli incroci tra le chitarra di McCabe e la voce di Ashcroft, le vendita non decollano ma nell’anno dell’uscita suonano spalla dei Black Crowes e degli Smashing Pumpkins, e l’anno successivo una loro incendiaria esibizione al Festival di Lollapalloza. La band viene accusata di possesso di droga e di aver sfasciato alcune camere di albergo negli Stati Uniti, secondo una delle leggende di cui sopra dopo una notte di droghe lisergiche, e vive momenti di tensione. Iniziano a registrare un nuovo disco, con un nuovo produttore, Owen Morris, che aveva già lavorato con gli Oasis. Ashcroft è già una sorta di leggenda almeno tra le altre band britpop, tanto che nello storico (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? il chitarrista e compositore degli Oasis, Noel Gallagher, gli dedica la stupenda Cast No Shadow. A Norther Soul (gioco di parole che prende spunto da una canzone dei Beatles, Only A Northern Song), è decisamente più rock, e contiene le prime, stupende canzoni dal suono Verve: This Is Music, On Your Own e il primo, grande capolavoro, History, producono solo un successo discreto. Tanto che Ashcroft, tra il deluso e il rammaricato, scioglie la band. Passano tre mesi, e il capriccioso Richard la riforma, solo che stavolta non richiama il fido McCabe a cui preferisce un vecchio amico di scuola, Simon Tong, dopo che aveva tentato anche di far suonare con lui l’ex chitarrista dei Suede Bernand Butler, che però va via dopo pochi giorni. Le session per il nuovo disco non decollano, tanto che è lo stesso Ashcroft e tornare sui suoi passi richiamando McCabe, in una nuova formazione a 5 con la doppia chitarra che sarà una delle chiavi per la svolta nel suono della band, che nel frattempo dopo una diffida della famosa omonima casa discografica del jazz cambiano nome in The Verve. La band lavora a pieno ritmo e nel 1997 esce Urban Hymns, co-prodotto da Martin Glover, conosciuto nell’ambiente musicale con Youth (che firma anche alcuni brani) e da Chris Potter, trascinato dalla canzone il cui videoclip è stato il punto di partenza per questa storia: Bittersweet Symphony esordisce al secondo posto nella classifica dei singoli, divenendo una delle canzoni del decennio, del britpop e ancora oggi è famosissima: il meraviglioso muro sonoro degli archi che struttura il brano lo rende irresistibile, attirando anche l’attenzione dell’ex manager dei Rolling Stones, Allen Klein, che nota una certa somiglianza di un certo passaggio con quello usato da Jagger e compagni per The Last Time. Ne nasce una diatriba giuridica dove i Verve sostengono di non aver mai trovato risposta alla loro richiesta di concessione del sampling, ma vengono condannati al pagamento di diritti d’autore e alla presenza dei nomi di Mick Jagger e Keith Richards tra gli autori del brano (tra l'altro dopo qualche anno Jagger e Richards rinunciarono sia alle royalties sia alla presenza dei loro nomi come autori del brano). Il disco è coeso, profondamente lirico, McCabe sfoggia tutte le sue idee (per esempio nella splendida Catching The Butterfly) e per quelle scelte musicali azzeccate i singoli sono uno più bello dell’altro: Sonnett, meravigliosa, l’autobiografica The Drugs Don’t Work scritta da Ashcroft sulla sua dipendenza, Lucky Man, dal lirismo più spiccato, insieme ad altri piccoli gioielli come The Rolling People, che sa di grunge, Neon Wilderness, dall’andamento ondeggiante e sognante, la solennità di One Day ne fanno un disco capolavoro, uno dei pilastri del britpop, album dell’anno per il Melody Maker nel 1997, primo come miglior band e miglior band ai Brit Awards dell’anno successivo, e rimane in classifica 124 settimane in Gran Bretagna. Dopo un inizio tour da tutto esaurito in mezza Europa, e alcune date spettacolari negli Stati Uniti, McCabe, il cui rapporto con Ashcroft è sempre stato contraddittorio, abbandona definitivamente i Verve, che di lì a poco si sciolgono. I tira e molla continueranno per anni, con una reunion nel 2007 e l’album Forth, con la band riunita tranne Simon Tong che suonava con Damon Albarn nel progetto The Good, the Bad & the Queen. Rimane un disco essenziale del periodo, e che ascoltato a distanza di anni rimane ancora molto convincente, esprimendo al meglio il sound e le capacità di una band dalle grandissime risorse musicali ma dilaniata da caratteri piuttosto incompatibili.

#the verve #urban hyms #1997 #recensione