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krispyweiss · 5 months

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Sound Bites Presents: the 2023 Live Music Year in Review

The year 2023 will go down in history as the year Sound Bites finally started seeing live music at something resembling a pre-pandemic clip.

In addition to attending Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco, the blog - often accompanied by the long-suffering Mrs. Sound Bites - caught a slew of gigs by musicians he’d seen a couple of dozen times and many others for the first time. And as the years combine, Sound Bites realizes that soon he will be seeing more acts that are younger than him, rather than older.

But not yet. So here, then, is Sound Bites’ 2023 Live Music Year in Review presented in order from favorite to least-favorite gigs; all were in backward Oiho, unless otherwise indicated.

Los Lobos (22) at Midland Theatre, Newark, July 14 - Fifty years into their career, Los Lobos are still on any given night, the best live band in America. Review here.

Billy Strings (3) at Andrew J. Brady Music Center, Cincinnati, March 16 - Think rock-’n’-roll-bluegrass show. Review here.

Hawktail (1) at Holland Theatre, Bellefontaine, Jan. 21 - Hawktail is a genre as much as it is a musical group. Review here.

Rhiannon Giddens (3) with ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Southern Theatre, Columbus, Jan. 19 - After 110 minutes and two sets, Giddens and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra were out of songs. They’d given enough. Review here.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (2) at Rose Music Center at the Heights, Huber Heights, May 3 - Slightly less than flawless. Review here.

Tommy Emmanuel (3) with Jorma Kaukonen (6) at Southern Theatre, Columbus, Ohio, July 13 - “Damn, Tommy, I had to smoke a cigarette after that last song,” opener Kaukonen said at one point. He wasn’t the only one. Review here.

Eilen Jewell (1) at Natalie’s Grandview, Columbus, Sept. 10 - While Jewell makes good records, the self-described Queen of the Minor Key is at her best on stage. Review here.

Mighty Poplar (1) at Stuart’s Opera House, Nelsonville, Sept. 17 - They come from non-traditional places. But when they come together as Mighty Poplar, members of Watchhouse, Punch Brothers and Leftover Salmon embrace bluegrass tradition head on. Review here.

Los Lobos (23) at Hoover Auditorium, Lakeside, July 15 - Los Lobos treated the gated community of Lakeside to a swell, 1950s-themed dance party and the nearly 2,000 people who attended the gig responded in turn. Review here.

Darrell Scott (4) at King Arts Complex, Nicholson Auditorium, Columbus, May 13 - With a rare combination of musicianship and showmanship, coupled with a versatile voice that moves effortlessly from falsetto to baritone, Scott is a master solo tactician. Review here.

Blind Boys of Alabama (3) at Mershon Auditorium, Columbus, Nov. 15 - The voices change, but the Blind Boys of Alabama endure. And though the group that kicked off its tour in Columbus, Ohio, was different, one thing was the same: You always leave a Blind Boys show feeling better than you did upon arrival. Review here.

Lyle Lovett (6) and Leo Kottke (6) at Midland Theatre, Newark, Oct. 28, 2023 - Opposites attract for an engaging evening in Conversation and Song. Review here.

Yasmin Williams (1) Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, March 28 - Williams is the reason why the term see a concert - rather than hear a concert - remains in use. Review here.

Lyle Lovett (5) and His Large Band at Rose Music Center at the Heights, Huber Heights, July 26 - Lovett and his multi-genre band played comedic soul, ballroom balladry, blues, gospel and virtually every other style of American music as ragtime, Dixieland, bluegrass and more popped up across the band’s many improvisational interludes. Review here.

Dead & Company (13) at Rouff (Pronounced “Deer Creek”) Music Center, Noblesville, Ind., June 27 - The last - & best - Dead & Company show Sound Bites saw. Review here.

Toward the FUN(ds): A Concert Benefitting Camp Winnarainbow at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, Calif., Sept. 28 - Seeing how they all were in town for separate appearances at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Steve Earle, Rickie Lee Jones, Peter Rowan and John Craigie got together and donated some time to a guitar (and mandolin) pull to benefit Wavy Gravy’s Camp Winnarainbow. John Popper popped in, too. Review here.

Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart (2) at Midland Theatre, Newark, March 30 - This was music of flat picking, clipped chords, bowed bass and blazing solos. Everyone was in top form. Review here.

Jackson Browne (5) at Palace Theatre, Columbus, June 3 - Someone wanting to hear the records in a concert hall might say Browne is losing his edge. Someone out for the without-a-net experience might revel in the not-set-in-stone nature that led to myriad surprises. Review here.

Roger McGuinn (3) at Midland Theatre, Newark, Aug. 22 - There’s no need for McGuinn to write a book. His Songs and Stories With … tour is his autobiography. And hearing the man speak and sing about his incredible life and career is much more enjoyable than reading about it anyway. Review here.

Loudon Wainwright III (1) at Natalie’s Grandview, Grandview Heights, May 10 - With his shock of unkempt, white hair and his shirt collar askew, Wainwright resembled a mad lecturer as he spanned his vast songbook. Review here.

FERD (1) at Rambling House, Columbus, Nov. 11 - If you don’t know FERD, you don’t know modern, old-time music. Review here.

Hot Tuna (11) at Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch, Pomeroy, April 22 - To the people facing the stage, it was music. But to the men on stage, it was the continuation of a conversation that’s been running 60 years now. Review here.

Weyes Blood (1) at Newport Music Hall, Columbus, Aug. 30 - With a knockout-gorgeous voice, a knack for writing what she calls “sad-ass” songs and a penchant for arrangements that harken to Pet Sounds-period Beach Boys and Mind Games-era John Lennon, Blood is, indeed, mellow. But she has a stage presence. Review here.

Tedeschi Trucks Band (12) at Palace Theatre, Columbus, March 21 - Comparing Tedeschi Trucks Band to other groups is unfair to other groups. Comparing Tedeschi Trucks Band to Tedeschi Trucks Band is similarly unfair to Tedeschi Trucks Band. Review here.

Dead & Company (12) at Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, June 13 - Not only did Company men outnumber Dead men on Dead & Company’s Final Tour, they also dominated the music. Review here.

Joan Osborne (4) at Memorial Hall OTR, Cincinnati, Nov. 18 - Joan Osborne the singer remains the centerpiece of everything Osborne the artist has to offer. Review here.

Tim O’Brien and Jan Fabricius (2) at Natalie’s Grandview, Columbus April 20 - Playing as a duo, O’Brien and Fabricius sounded like your uncle and aunt might if they entertained the family sitting around the campfire outside the cabin. Review here.

Tony Hagood Quartet (1) at Natalie’s Grandview, Columbus, Dec. 14 - Vince Guaraldi is long dead. But the Music of Vince Guaraldi is alive and swinging thanks in part to the Tony Hagood Quartet. Review here.

Southern Culture on the Skids (3) at Rumba Cafe, Columbus, Oct. 9 - Combining a love of rockabilly, surf music and straight rock ‘n’ roll with equal parts irreverence and earnestness, Southern Culture on the Skids is the rare band that can make such antics as inviting fans on stage to dance and toss fried chicken into the audience and delivering a no-jokes musicality entirely congruent. Review here.

Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers (11) at People’s Bank Theatre, Marietta, Sept. 14 - Hornsby and the band played a concert imbued with “strange stylistic pacing,” as Bruuuuuce put it. As it unfolded, the gig traversed peaks and valleys. Review here.

Steep Canyon Rangers (9) at Murphy Theatre, Wilmington, July 22 - Poor sound and rebuilding notwithstanding, the Rangers tapped into some of the old magic. Review here.

Buddy Guy (2) Christone “Kingfish” Ingram (1) and Ally Venable (1) at Rose Music Center at the Heights, Huber Heights, June 25 - Guy’s June 25 gig in a two-thirds-full Rose Music Center at the Heights was a torch passing of sorts as his 75-minute performance wrapped with the bluesman jamming alongside a pair of 24-year-old acolytes, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Ally Venable, who opened the evening with sets of 60 and 45 minutes, respectively. Review here.

Tim Heidecker & the Very Good Band (1) at Kemba Live!, Columbus , Aug. 14 - Comedian Tim Heidecker is a serious musician, a better musician than comic, in fact. Review here.

The String Cheese Incident (3) at Rose Music Center at the Heights, Huber Heights, Sept. 20 - With a night off from the Outlaw Music Festival, the veteran Colorado band rolled in to Southwest Ohio and proceeded to “expand a little bit.” Review here.

Chicago (14) at Rose Music Center at the Heights, Huber Heights, May 6 - Chicago has become a cover band. Review here.

12/27/23

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adamwatchesmovies · 10 months

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The Last Mimzy (2007)

I’ll give The Last Mimzy a mild recommendation, but only for young viewers. It contains tried-and-true elements that are sure to delight kids. It also features noticeably weak performances and a plot with some serious logical issues.

In the distant future, an ecological disaster has destroyed the world. Humanity's genetic code has become corrupted by pollutants. A desperate scientist has been sending probes to the past to obtain untainted genetic material and save the future. When Noah (Chris O’Neil) and Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) Wilder discover a stuffed rabbit, they have no idea “Mimzy” is much more than a toy. Soon, it causes them to develop genius-level intelligence, telekinesis, and telepathic abilities. Their parents aren’t the only ones who notice the changes in their behaviour.

When one actor is bad in a movie, it’s on them. In this case, both the kids are unconvincing but they’re kids. That’s fine. The young’ns in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone were rough around the edges once in a while too. The issue goes beyond them, however. Even the adults have at least one or two bad line deliveries. At that point, you don’t blame them; you blame the director. Robert Shaye is primarily known for his work as a producer and it shows.

There are many scenes where this movie gets its “kids befriend an alien/robot” plot right. Everyone freaks out at least once when they realize what the kids can powers Mimzy has granted them. Even Noah is taken aback when things get really crazy. Some adults, like Noah’s science teacher Mr. White (Rainn Wilson) is filled with a mixture of excitement and apprehension. These genuine reactions allow you to get immersed in the story. Perhaps enough to ignore some of the stuff that doesn’t make much sense.

When you think about it, the future scientist’s plan is terrible. It’s no wonder none of the drones have returned to the future with the information they need because Mimzy can’t talk. It can’t tell anyone what it needs. It can’t even move! All it can do is sit there and hope someone discovers it. Then, if all the stars align and it's a February 29th, they will also somehow figure out what it wants. If you can buy that this was the best way to restore humanity, then you can buy the very friendly and easy-going FBI agent (Michael Clarke Duncan) and the scene where the kids steal a car and go on an hours-long drive no trouble. I don't know why the climax had to be set so far away.

Ultimately, The Last Mimzy is a pale version of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. There is value in this gentle, family-friendly feature even with its numerous unpolished elements and overcomplicated story but my recommendation is more of an "if it's playing on TV or your kids point it out to you, then yes you should let them watch it" than a "seek it out". (September 18, 2020)

#the last mimzy #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #robert shaye #bruce joel rubin #joely richardson #timothy hutton #michael clarke duncan #rainn wilson #kathryn hahn #chris o'neil #rhiannon leigh wryn #2007 movies #2007 films

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rosemariecawkwell · 10 months

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Review: Don't Disturb The Dragon, by Rhiannon Findlay & Sian Roberts

Imprint: PuffinPublished: 22/06/2023ISBN: 9780241562314Length: 32 pagesDimensions: 251mm x 4mm x 251mmWeight: 200gPrice: £7.99 Summary Somewhere near, a huge beast lies,with giant claws and great big eyes . . .DO NOT DISTURB THE DRAGON! Oh no – the Princess’s little brother has gone missing! Can YOU help her find him? A brilliantly interactive rhyming read-aloud adventure before bedtime from…

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#Book review #children&039;s books #Don&039;t DIsturb The Dragon!#Kaleidoscope Tours #new books #Picture book #Rhiannon Findlay #Sian ROberts

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firstfullmoon · 6 days

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here. have a poem for every day of the week. it’ll be okay I love you

monday by alex dimitrov

watching you talk on the phone, I consider the empty space around atoms— by rhiannon mcgavin

on wednesday they came on the news by robert wood lynn

thursday by james longenbach

a photograph by james schuyler

love and the deli counter by jill mcdonough

when you have forgotten sunday: the love story by gwendolyn brooks

#w #poetry #poetry compilation

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femftbllvr · 1 year

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#wales women #ceri holland #rhiannon roberts

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eesirachs · 1 month

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For a school assignment, I'm assembling an anthology around the theme of queer divinity and desire, but I'm having a hard time finding a fitting essay/article (no access to real academic catalogues :/ ), do you know of any essays around this theme?

below are essays, and then books, on queer theory (in which 'queer' has a different connotation than in regular speech) in the hebrew bible/ancient near east. if there is a particular prophet you want more of, or a particular topic (ištar, or penetration, or appetites), or if you want a pdf of anything, please let me know.

essays: Boer, Roland. “Too Many Dicks at the Writing Desk, or How to Organize a Prophetic Sausage-Fest.” TS 16, no. 1 (2010b): 95–108. Boer, Roland. “Yahweh as Top: A Lost Targum.” In Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible, edited by Ken Stone, 75–105. JSOTSup 334. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 2001. Boyarin, Daniel. “Are There Any Jews in ‘The History of Sexuality’?” Journal of the History of Sexuality 5, no. 3 (1995): 333–55. Clines, David J. A. “He-Prophets: Masculinity as a Problem for the Hebrew Prophets and Their Interpreters.” In Sense and Sensitivity: Essays on Reading the Bible in Memory of Robert Carroll, edited by Robert P. Carroll, Alastair G. Hunter, and Philip R. Davies, 311–27. JSOTSup 348. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. Graybill, Rhiannon. “Yahweh as Maternal Vampire in Second Isaiah: Reading from Violence to Fluid Possibility with Luce Irigaray.” Journal of feminist studies in religion 33, no. 1 (2017): 9–25. Haddox, Susan E. “Engaging Images in the Prophets: Feminist Scholarship on the Book of the Twelve.” In Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect. 1. Biblical Books, edited by Susanne Scholz, 170–91. RRBS 5. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013. Koch, Timothy R. “Cruising as Methodology: Homoeroticism and the Scriptures.” In Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible, edited by Ken Stone, 169–80. JSOTSup 334. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 2001. Tigay, Jeffrey. “‘ Heavy of Mouth’ and ‘Heavy of Tongue’: On Moses’ Speech Difficulty.” BASOR, no. 231 (October 1978): 57–67.

books: Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Bauer-Levesque, Angela. Gender in the Book of Jeremiah: A Feminist-Literary Reading. SiBL 5. New York: P. Lang, 1999. Black, Fiona C., and Jennifer L. Koosed, eds. Reading with Feeling : Affect Theory and the Bible. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2019. Brenner, Athalya. The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and “Sexuality” in the Hebrew Bible. BIS 26. Leiden: Brill, 1997. Camp, Claudia V. Wise, Strange, and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible. JSOTSup 320. Gender, Culture, Theory 9. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. Chapman, Cynthia R. The Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite-Assyrian Encounter. HSM 62. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2004. Creangă, Ovidiu, ed. Men and Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond. BMW 33. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010. Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard. God’s Phallus: And Other Problems for Men and Monotheism. Boston: Beacon, 1995. Huber, Lynn R., and Rhiannon Graybill, eds. The Bible, Gender, and Sexuality : Critical Readings. London, UK ; T&T Clark, 2021. Guest, Deryn. When Deborah Met Jael: Lesbian Biblical Hermeneutics. London: SCM, 2005. Graybill, Rhiannon, Meredith Minister, and Beatrice J. W. Lawrence, eds. Rape Culture and Religious Studies : Critical and Pedagogical Engagements. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019. Graybill, Rhiannon. Are We Not Men? : Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets. New York, NY: Oxford University Press USA, 2016. Halperin, David J. Seeking Ezekiel: Text and Psychology. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. Jennings, Theodore W. Jacob’s Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of Ancient Israel. New York: Continuum, 2005. Macwilliam, Stuart. Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible. BibleWorld. Sheffield and Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2011. Maier, Christl. Daughter Zion, Mother Zion: Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2008. Mills, Mary E. Alterity, Pain, and Suffering in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. LHB/OTS 479. New York: T. & T. Clark, 2007. Stökl, Jonathan, and Corrine L. Carvalho. Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East. AIL 15. Atlanta, GA: SBL, 2013. Stone, Ken. Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective. Queering Theology Series. London: T & T Clark International, 2004. Weems, Renita J. Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets. OBT. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1995.

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bokearns · 2 years

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#Ceri Holland #Rhiannon Roberts #lfcw #lfc women #liverpool women #liverpool wfc #conti cup #woso #woso community

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tani-b-art · 2 months

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“This ain’t a Country album. This is a “Beyoncé” album.”

I understand why she said this! Because the way it seems she created a completely new genre with ‘Cowboy Carter’! The Country is there (and all the elements) and there’s some Blues, Folk, Soul, Zydeco, Bluegrass, a lil Rock, Gospel and Opera and then some (all genres with Black (Black) American origins). Almost like she opened a new sonic portal while helping to reclaim the genre made by Black Americans.

First off — the album cover art. She pays homage to a long-standing Black American Southern tradition of Houston rodeo and rodeo queens. Carrying our country’s flag…the imagery is signifying to her being a Black American woman. Who she is.

The album cover alone set the tone for what she presented with act ii. [and the photographer is Blair Caldwell, a fellow Black Texan, who has such an eye for capturing beauty. all his photographs are visually pleasing].

[Even the promo - the track list design is a nod & historical reference to Black American culture via The Chitlin Circuit promotional posters. I love it. Made my little graphic art heart smile. The nostalgia of it.]

From the opening track title and lyrics and later on within other songs, she wove her ancestral claiming to America with so much pride. Pride for our country and our flag that we absolutely should have.

Then to have Ms. Linda Martell, the trailblazing Black pioneer & legend in the genre who broke many barriers, be a part of this album was so reverent. (Especially her spoken word throughout that spoke to the way that she and Beyoncé have had to navigate this music industry. When their presence wasn’t well-received, in the very genre we created, they set out to move in a “non-traditional” way). They themselves are the embodiment of unconventional. Ms. Martell rightfully receiving her flowers at the golden age of 82 is harmonious!

Every part of act ii has made people research and discover. The same way act i did. Gotta love a good educational experience through music. (btw—the mention of Zydeco had me hyped).

Having Rhiannon Giddens on instrumentation (along with other background Black musicians and I’m sure Black vocalists) and sharing this musical journey with Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy, Reyna Roberts, Willie Jones and Shaboozey — other young Black women and Black men in the genre…all of this Black fellowship made me so happy.

Just sooo much honoring throughout it all. Lots of love poured into it.

Everything is resonate. Connecting. With purpose.

Her voice, her musicality, the note choices, the lyrics, the song titles and the spelling of them, the arrangements.

It’s fun and beautiful.

It sounds amazing.

A beautiful tribute to her roots.

Bravo Beyoncé!

#Beyoncé #Cowboy Carter #Linda Martell #Tanner Adell #Brittney Spencer #Tiera Kennedy #Reyna Roberts #Willie Jones #Shaboozey #Blair Caldwell #Black music #Black culture #Black American culture #Black American music #country music #go stream Cowboy Carter #go buy Cowboy Carter #and go stream and buy all the artists she featured

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