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"Some of Dirty Projectors’ records were a little bit impenetrable, because Dave Longstreth obviously had some really crazy concepts. A whole record was about Don Henley. Then they moved into stuff that was still really innovative, but a lot easier to understand and enjoy, even if it had very eccentric meters and rhythms and melodies. I collaborated with Dirty Projectors on a couple songs for a charity record, and at our performance at Radio City Music Hall, I met Annie Clark [of St. Vincent], who I was a big fan of already. Then we crossed paths again at a show Björk did with Dirty Projectors at Housing Works [Bookstore in New York]. The Housing Works crew saw Annie and I enjoying the show, and they approached us about doing something together. The idea was that we would do it at the bookstore, which never happened. We certainly donated money to them, but by the time we did an album and tour together, it became a bigger thing than something we could do at Housing Works."

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Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Jul 31, 2021

How awesome is this scrapbook page from author Teddy Jones about West Texas!?! Check it out on my blog, and learn about her women's fiction novel MAKING IT HOME. Enter the giveaway to win a set of all three novels in her Jackson's Pond, Texas-the Series or a copy of her short stories/literary fiction novel Nowhere Near and a $25 Bookshop.org gift card!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2021/07/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-making-it.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
In this third novel in the Jackson’s Pond, Texas series, fifty-five-year-old Melanie Jackson Banks encounters racism, intolerance, and violence both in her family’s distant past and in current day Jackson’s Pond. She leads family and community efforts to create reconciliation for past wrongs and also to demonstrate strength and defiance in the face of vandalism, cross-burning, domestic violence, threats to Jackson Ranch’s operation, and kidnapping. In the midst of this stormy period, she finds allies in her mother’s long-time companion, Robert Stanley; her mother, Willa Jackson; her daughter Claire Havlicek; and many others.

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Dean (6925 KP) rated The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) in Movies

Jun 17, 2021 (Updated Jun 17, 2021)

The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)

2021 | Action, Comedy, Crime

6.8

(13 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Cast chemistry between the leads (1 more)

Very funny at times

Very silly thin plot (1 more)

Not as good as the first film

Not AAA rated but still fun

Back again for more blood, bullets and OTT action. Thankfully with quite a lot of the humor as well from the first film.
The plot is rather silly but it doesn't get much attention other than to serve up plenty of scenes with the lead trio going all guns blazing and with plenty of quick fire gags. Definitely not a film to be taken seriously.
We have a whistle-stop tour all around Italy as they take on many bad guys trying to bring Europe to its knees.
A bigger cast and bigger action scenes but ultimately its not quite got the fun of the original. That worked better with Reynolds and Jackson playing off each other. With a 3rd main character this time, it has a different dynamic.
Still with plenty of laughs and one you'll enjoy if you liked the first film.

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Marc Riley recommended Marquee Moon by Television in Music (curated)

Marquee Moon by Television

1977 | Rock

9.0

(4 Ratings)

Album Favorite

"I often say there's a fight going on for best debut album ever, it might be The Velvet Underground & Nico or it might be Marquee Moon… there's a constant scuffle going on. Marquee Moon is a masterpiece. To come out with that album at that time with punk kicking off… It was cerebral and virtuoso, largely everything that punk wasn't. I remember I went to see them doing the tour when it came to the Free Trade Hall, and they were just another one of those bands who were fully formed when punk happened. If you hear 'Little Johnny Jewel' – there's nothing like that song that comes from anywhere else. I went to see them when they opened for Patti Smith at the Academy and I spent most of the night just watching Lloyd's guitar work. He is one of the greatest guitarists ever; and he's a guitar teacher now in New York. It's just a remarkable album, filmic. This came out when I was 16 and I was a roadie for The Fall in 1977."

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Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Oct 24, 2020

Sneak a peek at every book in the MEMOIRS OF H.H. LOMAX Series (Western Historical Fiction) by Preston Lewis Author on my blog, and enter the GIVEAWAY to win a signed copy of First Herd to Abilene and/or North to Alaska by the author.

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2020/10/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-north-to.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS OF NORTH TO ALASKA:
WEALTH AND FAME IN THE WILD WEST ARE WHAT LOMAX SEEKS . . . HIS OWN BAD LUCK IS WHAT STANDS IN HIS WAY.

Swindled out of a mining fortune in Colorado and blamed for an ensuing murder, H. H. Lomax two decades later must finally face up to his past in Skagway, Alaska. Along the way, he encounters legendary madam Mattie Silks, suffragist Susan B. Anthony, novelist Jack London, and a talking dog.

To survive his previous missteps and avoid a prison sentence for theft, Lomax must outshoot infamous Western conman Soapy Smith, outwit an unrelenting Wells Fargo investigator, and outrun Shotgun Jake Townsend, the greatest frontier assassin who never was.

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Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Jan 27, 2021

Sneak a peek at the political thriller novel OPERATION NAVAJO by Anita Dickason, Author on my blog as well as all the books in the Tracker series. (Also check out the fantastic book trailer.) Be sure to enter the GIVEAWAY to win all four books in the Tracker series!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2021/01/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-operation.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
"Whoever controls the flow of the money supply, irrespective of whether it's fiat or gold currency is the one to fear."

The imminent launch of the Feds gold-backed currency triggers more than fierce protests when a note is dropped into Federal Reserve Chairman Frank Littleton's coat pocket. The cryptic message is a warning someone plans to assassinate him. A new Tracker agent and financial crimes expert joins forces with an undercover Interpol agent to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the Federal Reserve. The case turns deadly when the agents become the target for an assassin's bullet. Stalked by a killer, can they survive to stop the assassination and prevent a global financial cataclysm?