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ryuuseirune · 2 months

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002- lest :^)

How I feel about this character:

homosexually! Lest is my primary blorbo... my beloved. I will never stop thinking about him. He’s cute, sweet, and a little bit silly, which makes him the perfect whump target lmfao. Make that ray of sunshine suffer!!!

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Dylas, Leon, Doug, Arthur, Kiel, Vishnal, Ethelberd, Forte, Bado, Barrett, Volkanon, and Porcoline.

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

Lest & Venti - self-explanatory. I have a real soft spot for our dragon BFF.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

he deserves more attention and appreciation in the rf4 fandom!! Everyone is a Frey main and I understand why people prefer her over Lest, but sometimes I wish people would give my little guy a chance too :( it's why I focus on commissioning/drawing him the most. I need to recruit people to the Lest agenda

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

gay marriage option wish we knew more of his backstory and that the guys would flirt with him more 😔

my OTP:

do I even need to say it? Dylas/Lest

my cross-over ship:

within the RF franchise, i think Lest/Ares or Lest/Raguna would be hot. otherwise, maybe he would look good with Aira from Ensemble Stars since they both have that feminine twinkish vibe? idk i haven't thought about this one much

a headcanon fact:

oh man it depends. I like to think of him as a gay trans man, but I also like to hc him as a he/him transmasc butch lesbian. i feel like all of my interpretations of him kind of exist at once so i will give multiple "facts" for each one :)

in situations where he's trans and he likes guys, i think he's a bit more subdued/reserved. he feels more societal pressure to fit in with the bachelors because of all the little comments that they make about liking girls. otoh i see him acting more like Frey if he's a butch lesbian – brash, earnest, and not afraid to speak his mind. he chills with both the guys and the gals at sleepovers and he doesn't care what people think!!

when both Lest and Frey are present in an AU, i like to think of them as siblings. sometimes i see them as fraternal twins, sometimes Frey is Lest’s younger yet more experienced sister. either way they have a pretty close bond! frey teases him a lot but he never complains bc he knows it's all in good jest and it takes a lot to piss him off. they joke about being bodyswapped at birth and team up to bully doug.

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my-chemical-rot · 5 years

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updated as of April 12th, 2024

Currently Reading

Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (rereading for my IB exam)

Started Reading/On Pause For Now

Animorphs #9 by KA Applegate

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

The Odyssey by Homer

Misery by Stephen King

The Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Intimacy by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula by Bram Stoker

It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Yeast: the Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation by Jamil Zainasheff and Chris White

Reading List

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Electra by Euripides

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg

Transgender Liberation: a Movement Whose Time Has Come by Leslie Feinberg

Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Feminism is for Everybody by Bell Hooks

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by Bell Hooks

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Daisy Miller by Henry James

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Children of the Corn by Stephen King

Cujo by Stephen King

Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Chicken with Plums by Marjan Sartrapi

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

The Last Man by Mary W. Shelley

Electra by Sophocles

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Perfume: the Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

None Of This Rocks by Joe Trohman

Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Boy With The Thorn In His Side by Pete Wentz

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Armadillo Prophecy by Zerocalcare

#Italicized = I have a paper copy; underlined = pdf or audiobook; bold = I have to read it for school this year

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vimesbootstheory · 4 years

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hoorah, I finished the final book from the 41-50 range so I’m posting two of these today. here are some thoughts on books 41-50, as I continue to read along with the overdue podcast.

1. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

2. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

3. You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers

4. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

5. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

6. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

7. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

8. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens -- In terms of pure enjoyment, this would have ranked higher, but I've been shamed into putting it slightly lower. It's a morally simplistic, rushed, psychologically unrealistic story but dammit I do not care! I loved this. It's genuinely so funny, I laughed throughout. Also, I love a redemption arc, and this is one of THE ultimate redemption stories. I think one of the themes I'm noting while pursuing this reading project is that I'm embracing happy endings big-time. Also, love the anti-capitalist themes. It's insane how people are still throwing around "overpopulation" in classist arguments when Dickens already murdered that argument back in 1840-something.

9. Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell -- Oh, the aesthetic, though! This made me want to dive into Ozark noir in a big way. I loved Ree Dolly, she's very much My Type of female character, I love scrappy women surviving poverty and being a lil butch about it and cramming an assload of determinator vibes into a tiny package. Her unreservedly affectionate friendship with Gail made me smile many times. The language was compelling without being distracting; a random favourite quirk is how it uses adjectives & verbs as nouns in reference to environmental features, e.g. referring to (I believe) melting snow as "melt". The brutality of it was great, it tread a very fine line for me where brutality against a female character can very easily veer into misogynistic and far too difficult to witness, but in this story the way it was depicted (combined with the fact that Ree is brutalized by women, not men) made it empowering to see her live through something horrific and survive. The gruesome details of, e.g. the fact that she shit herself while being beaten, and the tactile sensations when she was pulling [spoiler] up through the water, and the hunting of squirrels, that got me all snips-n-snails-n-puppy-dog-tails enthusiastic.

10. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

11. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

12. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

13. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

14. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

15. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

16. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines

17. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

18. Dracula by Bram Stoker -- It's been months since I read this book (I forgot to write down my impressions at the time) but I think I can still properly attest to my opinion of it. I was expecting a much simpler story, and I was expecting it to be more laden with cliches, which would not have been the book's fault at all since it would have been the birthplace of all those cliches, but it would have been boring to read. Instead, Dracula ended up being a totally solid read, and it's given me a thorough understanding of what makes it iconic gothic literature. It does kinda feel like multiple books smushed together, in particular the first section at Dracula's castle feels so separate from everything else (and, I will say, it was my favourite part of the book... always a bummer when enjoyment peaks early). I really liked the two female leads and their friendship, though I'm not a fan of what happens to Lucy and how little it seems to affect her best friend. Anyway, solid read, spooky in a lovely familiar way, I liked it and I get why it's beloved.

19. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway -- This was an oddly comfy book to read, for me, which might not have been what was intended but that's OK. It's very short and light on plot and you can definitely see all the conflict coming -- like, if you're not going to bring the fish on board, and you're in the ocean, of course shark are going to show up? I don't fish but is that not something you have to account for regularly? I enjoyed all his reflections on DiMaggio and his bone spurs, and the wistful, one-sided communication between him and the fish he regrets pursuing even as the pursuit continues. Also, the relationship between the old man and the boy is really heartwarming, and I love that the town he lives in is ultimately so supportive, I don't know why but I assumed that they would treat the old man poorly. Reminded me of all the most grounded bits of Life of Pi, in a good way.

20. A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

21. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

22. World War Z by Max Brooks

23. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut -- So, I'm very annoyed with myself about this one, because I forgot that I had not written up a blurb about Cat's Cradle until months after I finished it, and so much as happened since then (I finished it in 2019, at time of writing we are over two months into the 2020 covid-19 pandemic) that I legitimately had to google Cat's Cradle to remind myself what the plot was. So I definitely am not going to remember minutiae that impacted my opinion one way or the other. I remember it feeling very surreal, and the post-apocalyptic ending is very sudden. It has a lot of novel ideas and some approaches to philosophy that make me feel a bit too young (or just the wrong generation, more accurately) to really Get It. It was certainly novel, though, and passably fun. I'm so annoyed 'cause I'm sure I had Thoughts at the time but they're just gone.

24. Eddie and the Cruisers by P.F. Kluge

25. The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr & E.B. White

26. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

27. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

28. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw -- I love a story about class conflict, with a URL like “vimesbootstheory” how could it be otherwise. This did not gel with me as much as it should, though, simply because it took too long for me to figure out what the play was trying to say, essentially whether it was condemning Eliza or Higgins. Probably due to its many adaptations, I had been expecting Eliza and Higgins to get together in the end, so I was very arresteddevelopmentgoodforher.jpg about the actual conclusion to the story. That bit at the very end where Higgins is all, nah I heard what she said but she’s totally going to do my chores anyway, she’s just putting on a front... blegh. Fuck Higgins, fuck everything about that character, and fuck him for making phonetics look bad. That’s another thing, ooh. When I first started reading this I was anticipating much more time spent on the process of teaching Eliza how to “speak properly”. I was under the mistaken impression that “the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain” was from Pygmalion, rather than My Fair Lady. And not gonna lie, I was a little excited to see this kind of proto-speech language pathology (though not pathological, since there is nothing pathologically wrong with having an accent suggestive of a lower class background) process play out in play form. Hell, I’d have taken any form of actual phonetics discussion. I was pretty disappointed when that whole process was completely skipped over, to be honest. Felt like a cop-out.

29. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

30. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe -- Let's be honest, it's weird that this is even on this list. Why not a collected works of Poe's poems, or a selection of his stories? No? Just the one poem? Uh, OK. Look, it's a good poem. Love the metre, love the rhyming. Love the idea of this guy who knows perfectly well that the bird only ever says "nevermore" but he keeps asking it questions to which "nevermore" is a hurtful and/or infuriating answer. That's all I got.

31. Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers -- I group this one together in my head with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, as they are both children's books that were adapted by superior films and honestly, if you have a choice between the movie and the book, I would recommend the movie. This is also spoiled a bit by Travers' legacy of being a grumpy guss, even though her enemy was Disney and we're all learning these days that "ugh fuck Disney" is a valid take. Mary Poppins is better than Oz in that it has more book-exclusive content so there's more novelty to it than just reading a novelization of the movie, but worse in that Poppins, like her creator, is a grumpy guss. Her vanity was also really irritating to read about, like why do we have to condemn women for liking their own appearance?

32. Dune by Frank Herbert

33. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum

34. Tiny Alice by Edward Albee

35. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

36. Medea by Euripides

37. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

38. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

39. The War of The Worlds by HG Wells

40. Don't Go Back to School by Kio Stark

41. The Awakening by Kate Chopin -- I compared this to Persuasion while reading it, since it's another old-timey romance where not a lot happens and the prose is pretty boring. Edna is more likeable than Anne, however, and the lengths she goes to claim the sort of agency that I take for granted every day is a pleasant surprise at times. Love that she had the balls to just fuckin move out and she doesn't suffer any violence from her husband as a result. Love how she's just like, I'm discovering independence and the first thing I wanna do is stay up past my bed time in this hammock outside. It felt like Edna aspired to... my life, basically? Which was validating, in a way. But then she kills herself, and kind of undercuts that whole thing. Seriously, what an abrupt and weird ending, I actually looked up a plot summary afterwards because I was so thrown when I got to the end, that it was actually the end. Didn't entirely understand what had happened to Robert, or that she had committed suicide until I clarified it with some external sources. By that point I was pretty bored, though, so that's partly just me letting details escape me through inattention.

42. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

43. The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

44. The Stand by Stephen King

45. Grendel by John Gardner

46. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

47. Persuasion by Jane Austen

48. Beowulf by Unknown

49. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

50. Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James -- I was not looking forward to writing this little reaction blurb because once I got over my reader's block about 1/6th of the way in, reading fifty shades wasn't the worst reading experience? Like don't get me wrong, it was bad, but it was bad in an entertaining way. And I don't think it's accurate to say that I didn't have any interest in knowing what was going to happen next? So I was pretty worried that the dread fifty shades would end up embarrassingly high up this list, at least higher than The Stand (the other contender for Book It Took Me The Longest To Read Because Anger). Thankfully, in these little blurbs I've taken care to note things I found valuable about even the books I did not care much for, and nope, Fifty Shades really does belong at the bottom. I think its most grievous overarching issue is the gap between author intent and what's actually on the page. If this were actually a narrative about a sheltered young woman escaping a relationship with an abuser who confuses abuse with an interest in BDSM, that would accomplish partial forgiveness. But it isn't, so it doesn't. I've already mentioned this in another post but I can't get over this -- why does Anastasia not know anything about technology in the 2010s? Why did she wait so long to get a computer and an email address? Also, if I never read the phrasing "all [noun] and [noun]" as a descriptor again it will be too soon.

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sfjazz · 7 years

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Burt Bacharach Photos & Review - The Bay Bridged

http://thebaybridged.com/2017/06/13/photos-review-burt-bacharach-quips-wonder-still/

Photos + Review: Burt Bacharach quips, “You wonder why I am still doing this.”

By Carla Bova|June 13, 2017

With the first piano key he struck, legendary composer Burt Bacharach brought his San Francisco audience to a sweeter time through his musical message – what the world needs now is love.

He played a resounding retrospective showcasing his boundless catalog of classics from a golden era of music that he revolutionized.

Right up to the last chord, Bacharach had the crowd swaying, singing, and smiling as attendees recognized hit after hit from his parade of songs that never went out of style. He made sure everyone left smiling by inviting all to join an irresistible singalong to his beloved “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head.”

“Let’s sing one song together,” Bacharach said. “The audience and me and the band.”

Considered one of the most renowned and accomplished living composers, Bacharach’s career spans six decades that are marked by 66 US Top 40 hits, six No. 1 songs, eight Grammy awards, and three Academy Awards.

Bacharach’s impact on music history is undeniable. A pioneer of creative standards, his compositions are credited as helping define popular music dating back to the late 1950’s. He claims hits in a breadth of styles, from rock and soul to Broadway shows and Hollywood films. He has influenced artists across genres, with his works recorded by hundreds of singers from Perry Como and Gene Pitney to Barbra Streisand and Diana Krall. Over the years, he maintained global appeal to generations of fans.

The 89-year-old songwriter, conductor, arranger, producer frequently broke from playing the piano during his June 7 show at Davies Symphony Hall, and stood center stage in front of his grand instrument. He leaned casually against it while chatting with the audience.

“I love this hall,” he said. “It is one of the greatest halls I’ve ever played in so I am glad to be back.”

Between songs, he spoke of memories including his mother’s influence, getting a divorce in Las Vegas, appearing on the Tonight Show with James Brown, and touring with actress/singer Marlene Dietrich. He was her music director from 1958 to 1961. Prior to that he worked as piano accompanist for many singers includingPaula Stewart. They were married from 1953 to 1958.

“I guess you guys wonder why I am still doing this,” Bacharach said. “I don’t play golf. ...What grounds me is to make music, to continue to write music, to continue to play music, and to continue to perform for people like you. If I could make you feel a bit better, lift a bit of the heaviness off you, then I feel very happy.”

Bacharach performed with a seven-member band and three singers. Still, he played piano the entire show, sang some of his own hits, and through sharp conducting displayed how he earned his reputation as a perfectionist.

At the end of every piece, he stood from his piano bench. He spoke or sang the last few words of each song, guiding the singers to end on the note he wanted, at the tempo he wanted. With a flick of his hand, he likewise guided the musicians to end on point.

Bacharach is considered a visionary whose music is often described as having unconventional time signatures, unusual chord progressions, atypical instruments, catchy melodies, and combinations of jazz, pop, Brazilian.

He told the crowd he loved jazz and sited his major influences as bebop legendsCharlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. “Dizzy Gillespie was my hero,” he said.

By some accounts, Bacharach wrote about 500 compositions. His charting songs are too many to name and too many to play in a two-hour show. He tried though, by including two jam-packed medleys. “We are going to do a lot of music for you,” he said. “Some old, some not so old.”

The first medley was a group of hit songs and a nod to two of Bacharach’s longtime collaborators.

“Many of these songs have lyrics written by the brilliant Hal David,” he said. Bacharach and David met when both worked at New York’s famed Brill Building, known as the site where some of the greatest American songs were crafted. The two men first collaborated in 1957, writing "The Story of My Life" which was recorded by Marty Robbins.

“This is the very first record we did with Dionne Warwick,” he said, to start off the medley. The band then played “Don’t Make Me Over.” The song reached No. 21 in 1962. It was the first of 20 Top 40 hits that Bacharach and David would write and produce for Warwick over the next 10 years.

The medley continued with “Walk On By,” “This Guy’s In Love With You,” “I Say A Little Prayer,” “Trains and Boats and Planes,” “Do You Know the Way To San Jose,” “Wishin’ and Hopin’,” and “(There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me.”

The latter was sung masterfully by John Pagano and accompanied by big horns. This Bacharach/David song was recorded by three different artists in the ‘60s alone and was made popular again in 1983 by the British synth pop band Naked Eyes with a cover version that reached No. 8.

The second medley featured a slew of hits and award-winning songs that Bacharach wrote for movies. He reportedly began scoring films after meeting his second wife, actress Angie Dickinson. They were married from 1965 to 1980.

“Motion pictures, film, cinema has been good fortune for me. Here’s some of the music I’ve done for them,” he said.

He returned to his piano and sang “The Look of Love” which he wrote for the soundtrack of the 1967 film Casino Royale. It was originally performed by Dusty Springfield.

The medley continued with snippets of “The April Fools,” “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” “Making Love” (a hit for Roberta Flack in 1982), “Wives and Lovers” (a hit for Jack Jones in 1963), and “Alfie” which won a Grammy award for Best Instrumental Arrangement in 1967.

There was only time for a verse or two, but people jumped to their feet for “What’s New Pussycat?,” the No. 3 title track hit for Tom Jones in 1965. Then came a small taste of “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head,” written for the 1969 filmButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The No. 1 hit and film score earned Bacharach two Oscars and a Grammy award.

The audience grew sentimental as Bacharach played “Arthur’s Theme (The Best That You Can Do)” from the 1981 film Arthur, which he also scored. Sung byChristopher Cross, the song was yet another No. 1 hit and won an Oscar for Best Song.

“Arthur’s Theme” is also notable as the start of Bacharach’s relationship with lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, who became his third wife from 1982 to 1991. The pair collaborated on many hits played that evening including “That’s What Friends Are For,” the 1985 No.1 Grammy-winning hit sung by Dionne Warwick and Friends, and the 1986 No. 1 R&B duet “On My Own” sung by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald.

“Some I like better. Some I like less, but they are mine,” Bacharach said of his songs.

Other highlights of the show included singer Josie James’ rendition of “Anyone Who Had a Heart” (originally sung by Warwick in 1963) which Bacharach called spectacular. And singer Donna Taylor’s striking version of “(They Long To Be) Close To You” with sparse accompaniment by Bacharach on the piano. The Carpenters’ version of this track hit No. 1 in 1970. Also notable, Pagano’s “I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself,” which earned a hug from the composer.

“This is a very, very old song I wrote years ago with Bob Hilliard, ‘Mexican Divorce,’” Bacharach said, when introducing the 1961 track. “It was recorded bythe Drifters.”

“There were three ways to get a divorce that I knew of. The standard way was to go to court with expensive lawyers. Another way was to go to Las Vegas and establish residency for six weeks. That’s how I got my first divorce. Then there was a Mexican divorce. It was long before anyone had an idea to build a … wall.”

He continued, “We thought it was going to be a hit but we lost the South. They didn’t want to play anything that had divorce in it.”

Oliver Bacharach came out to play keyboard on a few songs including “Make It Easy On Yourself.” Bacharach praised his son as a gifted keyboardist who took to the instrument naturally.

“I got a push from my mother and look where it got me,” Bacharach said. He recalled that his mother forced him to take piano lessons. Though he fiercely hated the lessons, he continued playing. “I did not want to disappoint my mother.”

Bacharach married his fourth wife Jane Hansen in 1993. He has seen countless tributes, accolades, and compilations, as well as a resurgence throughout the '90s and beyond. Some noteworthy examples include a 1996 appearance with Noel Gallagher of Oasis; cameo appearances in three Austin Powers movies; several appearances on American Idol; and a 1998 collaboration with Elvis Costello on the Grammy-winning single “I Still Have That Other Girl.” In 2005 he released the Grammy-winning album At This Time, which had contributions by Dr. Dre, Chris Botti, Rufus Wainwright, and Costello and was the first record to feature lyrics written by Bacharach.

The San Francisco show started to wrap up with “Any Day Now,” then the encore “That’s What Friends Are For.” Bacharach asked the audience to join him in singing “Rain Drops Keep Fallin' On My Head.” As the song played, he blew a kiss, signed a fan’s album, fist bumped his three singers, hugged his son, and waved goodnight. He walked off as the memorable melody concluded. Another precise ending, conducted Bacharach style.

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jaygilbert-blog · 7 years

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Coffee Talk with [Jonathan Daniel]

Q: Describe what you do

I would co-opt the line from Arthur here ("I race cars, fondle women, but I have weekends off and I am my own boss) but it's pretty un-pc. I have two roles 1. To try to encourage and inspire my artists to come up with magic songs 2. To figure out a strategy to get those magic songs through the wilderness. If I have the magic songs, my job is easy and if I don't, it's impossible.

Q: What are a few of your favorite industry moments?

A couple of key moments for how I chose a life in music were:

Seeing the Clash at the Temple Beautiful in San Francisco 1978

Walking into the Starwood in 1979 and seeing Nikki SIXX standing against the bar and thinking "I wanna be that guy"

On my first radio promotion tour with Primitive Radio Gods, sitting in a days inn motel with Chris after judging a slurped drinking contest and wondering what we were doing with our lives and turning on the tv to see Letterman singing his song. That was a very surreal moment.

Probably my favorite moment as a manager was watching Fall Out Boy on their first headline arena tour and thinking about how they had persevered through all the van tours playing in front of no one but the bartender like the little engine that could.

Q: If you were to make a playlist of the songs that are part of your DNA, the comfort food that you keep coming back to, that never fail to move and inspire you, what would those tracks be?

Man, that is too daunting a task so I've made a current playlist of our artists instead.

Death of a bachelor-panic at the disco Liability-Lorde Helium-Sia Feels Like Summer-Weezer Play that Song-Train The Kids Aren't Alright-Fall Out Boy Record Store-Butch Walker Don't Speak For Me (True)-Andrew McMahon in the wilderness Giants-Matt Nathanson Shine-Lolo Lights Down Low-Max One of Us-New Politics Golden-Travie McCoy Stay Young, Get Stoned-white sea Dangerous-Big Data Ms Jackson-Party Pupils Dearly Beloved-Kiesza

Q: Are there any artists that never really made it, that came across your desk, that you wish people could hear and embrace.

Making it is a relative term. Anyone that makes a good living as an artist has made it in my opinion but I wish more people listened to Butch Walker.

Q: Who was you mentor?

Not sure if I had a mentor but Kim Fowley taught me how to play the game and Chris Parry (Fiction records) taught me how to win it.

Q: What’s the best part of your job?

The rush when one of our artists sends me a magic song. It's how imagine incredible drugs might be.

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jaygilbert22 · 7 years

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Coffee Talk with [Jonathan Daniel]

Describe what you do:

Q: What are a few of your favorite industry moments?

A couple of key moments for how I chose a life in music were:

Seeing the Clash at the Temple Beautiful in San Francisco 1978

Walking into the Starwood in 1979 and seeing Nikki SIXX standing against the bar and thinking "I wanna be that guy"

Q: If you were to make a playlist of the songs that are part of your DNA, the comfort food that you keep coming back to, that never fail to move and inspire you, what would those tracks be?

Man, that is too daunting a task so I've made a current playlist of our artists instead.

Q: Are there any artists that never really made it, that came across your desk, that you wish people could hear and embrace.

Making it is a relative term. Anyone that makes a good living as an artist has made it in my opinion but I wish more people listened to Butch Walker.

Q: Who was you mentor? Why?

Not sure if I had a mentor but Kim Fowley taught me how to play the game and Chris Parry (Fiction records) taught me how to win it.

Q: What’s the best part of your job?

The rush when one of our artists sends me a magic song. It's how imagine incredible drugs might be.

[Check out the incredible talent at Crush Music.]

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