![]() It’s been 40 years since Depeche Mode formed. They’re not the hummable, soft-spoken electro-pop songs of his band instead, they’re an extension of his most recent solo release, 2015’s MG, which also displayed a less commercially accessible side of the musician. The recordings are gritty and stark, fuzzy yet cutting. Out Friday, the Depeche Mode musician and singer’s new solo EP, The Third Chimpanzee, collects five instrumental compositions named for primates - mandrills, capuchins, and vervets among them - all bound by the primitive spirit he evoked with his resynthesized vocals. The track reminded me a bit of the sound of howling.” So he titled the composition “Howler” and decided that monkey business suits him well. I went down to Costa Rica a bit during normal times, and we often hear the howler down there. “It just reminded me of a different kind of primate. ![]() ![]() “It wasn’t quite human anymore,” he tells Rolling Stone on a mid-December call from his home in sunny Santa Barbara, California. ![]() ![]() The original vocal was “an almost yelling blues kind of line,” he says, but it had started to seem “human -like.” Martin Gore was recently tweaking his voice electronically - “resynthesizing it,” to use his words - for an avant-garde piece when he realized that it now sounded animalistic. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord and women who rebuff at carrying the title. ![]() All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. You can read this before Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī potent and electrifying critique of today’s feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism Today’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot written by Mikki Kendall which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Roland is descended from the legendary Arthur Eld (think King Arthur), who was the greatest protector of the Tower and the first king of a unified Mid-World. The Gunslingers were once the highest authority in all of Mid-World, the planet on which the physical manifestation of the Tower is located. Roland is the last of the gunslingers, an order of peacekeepers tasked with protecting reality and, therefore, the Tower. It can only truly be accessed in Mid-World, the place Roland and Walter Padick are from. The Tower takes different forms on different worlds. Walter’s goal in the movie is to destroy the Tower, bring about the apocalypse, and rule over whatever is left. Why is this Tower so important? Well, without it the multiverse would crumble and all that would be left is chaos. We don’t meet any such Guardians in the movie. ![]() ![]() The twelve portals are protected by hulking magical Guardians. It is held up by six beams, which contain two portals at each end. The Tower is six hundred floors high and can only be accessed from one of an infinite number of worlds. The Dark Tower is the center of all worlds, created by Gan, the King universe’s version of God. ![]() ![]() ![]() The alien appears similar to a two-headed ostrich with a single eye on each head. Suddenly, he is confronted by an alien Puppeteer, Nessus. ![]() ![]() We follow the human Louis Wu as he hops around the world via transport booths on his 200th birthday. This race sells us the secret of hyperdrive propulsion, resulting in the extermination of two-thirds of the Kzin warriors and the confiscation of two of their planets.įour hundred years later, the peace still reigns. Humanity would have been exterminated if not for a timely visit by another alien race, the Outsiders. The Kzin are bloodthirsty carnivores that look somewhat like large bipedal tigers. The book opens with four pages of panels depicting the human-Kzin space wars. This planet is in the form of a gigantic ring which goes entirely around its sun. ![]() If you have never read the novel, it deals with a ‘planet’ that has been geo-engineered by an ancient civilization using the entire resources of a solar system. The graphic novel covers the first half of the original book, and can be thought of like a visual ‘Cliffs Notes’ of Ringworld. All of the major plot points of Ringworld are depicted, although sometimes quite briefly. It arrives as a 5×7 soft cover version and can be read in an evening. This is a young adult black and white graphic novel or manga style edition of Larry Niven’s classic Ringworld. Title: Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One ![]() ![]() ![]() Searching for Sappho is the exciting tale of the rediscovery of Sappho’s poetry and of the woman and world they reveal.Īn admirably clear and compact introduction. ![]() ![]() Nonetheless, although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of the ancient women they celebrate has never been told for a general audience. Sappho was the daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother, a lover of women, and one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. The poems of Sappho reveal a remarkable woman who lived on the Greek island of Lesbos during the vibrant age of the birth of western science, art, and philosophy. As recently as 2014, yet another discovery of a missing poem created a media stir around the world. But within the last century, dozens of new pieces of her poetry have been found written on crumbling papyrus or carved on broken pottery buried in the sands of Egypt. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius that they captured the imagination of readers through the ages. An exploration of the fascinating poetry, life, and world of Sappho, including a complete translation of all her poems.įor more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho-the first woman writer in literary history-were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() a book which has the excitement of a thriller with the benefit of being factual. And it's a great story!? (Jim Tresner 33 Grand Cross, Book Review Editor, The Scottish Rite Journal), ". This is real-life (as opposed to ?reality?) Freemasonry. Even those who know a lot about it will benefit from the broad and generous perspective that the founder of "Gnosis Magazine" brings to it.", The Masonic Myth finally sets the record straight about the Freemasons,revealing that the truth is far more compelling than the stories., Kinney does a great job of sharing a whole lot of never-before-seen inside stuff in an easilyunderstood way., '. And it's a great story!? (Jim Tresner 33° Grand Cross, Book Review Editor, The Scottish Rite Journal), Kinney's book, "Masonic Myth," delves into the mysterious history of the Freemasons and carefully dispels rumors and misconceptions about the brotherhood., Kinney does a great job of sharing a whole lot of never-before-seen inside stuff in an easily understood way., "This should be the first book anyone reads about Freemasonry. ![]() ![]() ![]() A group of forsaken people who are under a curse want to return home. Finnikin of the Rock reads like a fairytale and it does come across as one. Besides that, there isn’t that much action. It is not for the light of heart so avoid it if you aren’t a fan of dark fantasy. Even though I knew this was a dark and grim fantasy novel, actually reading it is a different experience. ![]() That is probably because I’ve read about 300 novels since then. This is my second time reading this novel and I will be honest I did not remember much. Trevanion is the leader of the first guards and with their power, the people of Lumatere can finally return home and challenge the false king and hold him accountable for his harrowing actions. As they plot to break out of the prison, the weight of Lumatere is upon their soldiers. In the mines, Finnikin is reunited with his father Trevanion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was like standing behind an artist and watching the canvas be filled in or watching as a sculpture is slowly taking shape. The slow unwinding of the tale allows the characters and the readers to have many discoveries as details come to light. My thoughts: This is a story to fall into and savor. ![]() Darcie Little Badger draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to weave another unforgettable tale of monsters, magic, and family. And there are some who will kill to keep them apart.Ī Snake Falls to Earth is a breathtaking work of Indigenous futurism. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli’s best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven’t been in centuries. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. ![]() He’s found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Like all cottonmouths, he’s been cast from home. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. She’s always felt there was something more out there. Publisher summary: Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. The hard copy and audio will be on shelves on 11/23/21. Availability: The digital version releases on 11/9/21. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beautifully rendered and rippling with family dysfunction, secrets, deaths, drunks, and old resentments, Shonda Buchanan's memoir is an inspiring story that explores her family's legacy of being African Americans with American Indian roots and how they dealt with not just society's ostracization but the consequences of this dual inheritance.īuchanan was raised as a Black woman, who grew up hearing cherished stories of her multi-racial heritage, while simultaneously suffering from everything she (and the rest of her family) didn't know. Register for this webinar here: After registration, a link will be sent to you with login information.īlack Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Alice Walker's The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony-only, this isn't fiction. Join us for a riveting exploration of her memoir, Black Indian, with author Shonda Buchanan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to "never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is. ![]() This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. KISS’s Paul Stanley and Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider both made very transphobic remarks on Twitter over the weekend. " works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware."- The New York Times Description Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. ![]() |