“Oh great, another hater” I hear you saying. And I know I’m just about to get into some gripes I’ve had with the newest episodes but let me assure you that I am not.
So in good faith, I’ll list some of the positives that I took away from the episodes:

1. Ncuti Gatwa is an electric Doctor and I absolutely love his energy and personality.
2. Millie Gibson is also an incredible companion and the chemistry between the Doctor and Ruby Sunday wouldn’t be the same without Millie.
3. I loved the campiness and silliness of these episodes. Just over the top fourth wall breaking madness and I’m here for that. I’m usually not a fan of fourth wall breaks in shows anymore (just because of overuse in Deadpool and other shows) but I surprisingly very much go enjoyed it.

Now. On with the gripes.
My main concerns lie in the writing of the episodes. Now, Doctor Who is no stranger to some weaker episodes and I know that. And I honestly kept trying to give these episodes the benefit of the doubt. But something was just… lacking. And for a while I didn’t know what.
But I think what these 2 episodes lacked was depth. It’s a blanket buzzword but I think it does capture what went wrong here.
In Space Babies we begin with an interesting concept. Babies in Space all alone and there’s a monster (made of their own snot) hiding on board. Okay, simple, silly, straightforward. But what happened here was that beyond the premise there was nothing interesting happening. And it wasn’t the twist that the bogeyman was made of bogies.
For me, I think the best Doctor Who episodes resonate best when they poke at real world issues. Like allegories. And that’s why I particularly liked the episode Oxygen, because it’s a poke at late stage Capitalism and the dystopian effects of that.
With Space Babies, there wasn’t any moral dilemmas being questioned, no classic speeches (not every episode needs one but for the first episode it could have used it). Just a lacked the certain Doctor Who style. The reason for the babies leaving is left unanswered for half the episode and when it does get answered it’s a 1 minute explanation of “government recession” and then that’s it. The crew left the station because it got shut down, but had to keep the baby factory alive. Why did it have to be in space?
Also throughout the episode I kept feeling like the actions of Ruby and the Doctor were purely reactionary and at times it felt like Ruby was just a stand in for the the audience as we floated through the story with little to no affect on the story.
BUT THEN, The Devil’s Chord. A mysterious chord summons a music god/demon/entity. Love it.
But man, even this episode it just lacked any depth. With Doctor Who there’s a thing they do where they have these clever explanations for fantasy things to be scientific. And I was really hoping that there would be a moment as to why music had such a profound impact on human beings and why exactly a chord could summon an entity.
But no. Instead we get a bunch of reactionary scenes where the Maestro (who I absolutely loved btw) do some shenanigans with Ruby and the Doctor either reacting to or running away.
And man! When the Doctor was trying to find the chord to put the Maestro back I was so expecting some clever Doctor cleverness (with maybe some of 12’s rock bravado) to find an “inverse”. And there’s a moment when 15 says “but I have lived, and I have loved. And I can only smile like this because I have lost so much. I have experienced everything. Every single thing. And if that’s where music comes from…” and plays a note. I so wanted the notes to “The Doctor’s Theme” from series 1 to be played. I know that wouldn’t make sense, and I probably should have been 15’s but EVEN THAT wasn’t played. It was just some random notes.
And when the Beatles (who had zero affect on the story which annoyed me) found the final note, it again, was nonsensical and nothing. I thought it would be somewhat interesting like maybe the chord to send the Maestro back was a Beatles song. Nope! It’s just a weird chord!
It lacks the Doctor Who charm of having these forces of science be the villains. I understand that Maestro is like a god, but I would’ve been vastly more interested if Maestro had some other power other than killing people who played music or whatever. I think back to the movie Yesterday and think how that concept could have been a cool Doctor Who episode. Like a Fires of Pompeii but for the Beatles. Or something. And I liked the Aeolian tones thing, but it felt like it wasn’t expanded upon enough. I wish it was because it was something about music that isn’t widely known but is unique and quite ominous. Stuff like that though should’ve been more prevalent in the episode. Use music science to create an interesting episode.
And again, the depth just isn’t there. The conflict and stakes are so shallow and it isn’t giving Ncuti and Millie chances to shine as interesting and dynamic characters.
I feel like right now the show is watered down. Like Disney got a hold of the scripts and cut out anything interesting. It’s got all the basic building blocks of Doctor Who, it just isn’t as compelling as its previous seasons.
But that snow thing? That’s cool, I’ll concede to that. So I will hold out hope for this incarnation and I’m excited to see where things take us.

The double (or de facto triple if you're outside the UK!) premiere of Season 1 is already a bold new way to launch a series of doctor who. It's a streaming first show now, and mechanical elements like the way it's released were inevitably going to change with that. But watching the episodes themselves, I suddenly realised that all of that stuff is a drop in the ocean compared to the sweeping stylistic changes that the show has very rapidly undergone. So if you'll permit my pretentiousness, I think we've entered the age of postmodern Doctor Who; and things will never be the same again.
Sidenote: I'm not really going to make any comments on the quality of the storytelling/plot/dialogue of episodes or how much myself or anyone else might or might not have enjoyed them - I don't think it's really relevant to a discussion of style like this.
Space Babies and The Devil's Chord have reasonably standard doctor who premises when you look at them in a single line - "Doctor Who and Companion go to a Space Station run by intelligent babies" and "Doctor Who meets the Beatles and faces off against an enemy who wants to destroy music" could easily fit into any series of the show from the last 61 years. However, the way they're presented is so wildly different to how they would've been done in the past. Postmodernism is defined by a move away from literalism, from purely depictive or functional art, and an indulgence in superfluous flair and visual/narrative panache.
Space Babies is the least avant-garde of the two episodes, but it has a vibrancy to its design, to its direction, to its characters that I don't think I'd ever seen in doctor who until now. Everything has been dialled up to eleven - even the TARDIS lands dramatically! Twice! Compare the austerity of the design of space stations/spaceships in The End of the World, 42, Into The Dalek, and The Tsurunga Conundrum to the boldness of design in this episode. The script contains stylistic departures from what we're used to too - speeches/monologues are kept short, and replaced by dialogues, even in key moments of exposition. There's an indulgence in using backstory to set up emotional points, and the emotions are far more outward and sincere than they were for previous doctors - especially after such a short time into their run. Nothing is kept restrained - this is Total Who, for everything from visual design to how the tardis lands to the comedic elements. And when the big season arc teaser descends, it's not downplayed like in past "first episodes". No more random bits of graffiti. Instead, it's shouted loud and clear, with an immediate emotional reaction from Ruby. Space Babies takes a very standard setup and premise that's been done half dozen times in doctor who before, and takes it in a vibrant new direction. But this is only the beginning.
The Devil's Chord could have been one of the most boring episodes of Doctor Who ever. Doctor Who meets the Beatles and learns that without their music the universe is destroyed, Another tedious bit of celebrity historical hagiography. What we get is so incredibly far from that - a bold, innovative, avant-garde, exciting story about music, humanity, and damn good fashion sense. The fourth wall is shattered in the first few minutes and remains demolished for the rest of the episode. What would've once been played as a cute little meta joke about theme music is a major plot point emphasising the power of the Maestro. Maetsro is a tremendously bold choice for a villain - and is written like no other in Doctor Who before. The show's had its fair share of cosmic entities, but Maestro takes it to another level. The direction of The Devil's Chord is like nothing else ever seen before in Doctor Who - sharp, indulgent, emotional, and extremely high quality. We've had some fantastically well-directed episodes of DW before but none of them have such a strong sense of style as this. The substance isn't lost either, but I feel that where those two elements would've once been separate they're now inextricably linked. Style and Substance are the same thing in this new post-modern Doctor Who.
What impresses me about this bold direction for the show is how...unexpected it is in today's TV landscape. Comparable sci-fi dramas on streaming and TV at the moment all follow the same kind of very literal, depictive, direct way of storytelling - not that that's inherently bad, but it's become something of a standard style. NuWho has until now been quite reactive to the rest of the media landscape, but this is proactive. There's no attempt to downplay the wackiness that doctor who can uniquely represent, instead it's promoted. For the first time in a very long time, there's nothing else on TV like it. Stylistically, The Devil's Chord seems to have more in common with Poor Things than it has with the last 20 years of Doctor Who. It's an astonishingly unexpected direction for the show to take and I'm just glad there's actually an attempt to take some real risks with it, after the last few series of very paint-by-numbers Doctor Who (looking at you Revolution of the Daleks).
Unfortunately, I don't think it'll be for everyone - more so among the fandom than the general audience. That's the nature of such a radical change in style like this. I don't think there's anything wrong with not liking something because of its style either; not everything is everyone's cup of tea. If you've got on board with doctor who because of the way things have been done for the last 10 years especially, and this is definitively Not That, I can hardly blame you for not being so keen on it. There's not really an easy answer to people feeling the show has left them behind a bit. I imagine some people who'd fallen in love with doctor who because of how it was in the 80s weren't desperately keen on Rose given it was the complete opposite in so many ways. But I have to applaud them for at least trying to change the show, actually going out there and doing something new for not just sticking with what they already know.
So that's my pretentious ramblings. I'm not really sure of what opinion to have on whether it's the right choice or not, but thank god a choice has been made and the show isn't stuck in "not quite a prestige drama" limbo any more. One thing is for certain - Doctor Who has changed forever, just like it did in 2005. There is no going back from an episode like The Devil's Chord just like how there was no going back from Rose. And the best news is that there's going to be a whole new audience worldwide watching doctor who for the first time. And in my book, more people being able to watch and enjoy doctor who is always good.

INVERSE:
"For generations of science fiction and fantasy aficionados, saying the name Harlan Ellison is like uttering a dark spell. Ellison’s writing — primarily in short story format — is fantastic and provocative, but his reputation for contentiousness was equally potent, often overshadowing the art itself. And for younger genre fans, the name Harlan Ellison might not mean anything at all. If you’re into science fiction and fantasy and came of age in the new millennium (and his 2014 Simpsons cameo went over your head), there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Ellison.
“There was a time when he was one of the hottest speakers on college campuses anywhere, and now, he’s fallen between the cracks,” J. Michael Straczynski tells Inverse. “It was really important for me to introduce people to Harlan’s work again. A lot of his work just hasn’t been available for the past 10 or 20 years.”
Following Ellison’s death in 2018, Straczynski — comic book writing legend and creator of Babylon 5 — set out to reboot the legacy of the most energetic, and perhaps misunderstood, figure in all of speculative fiction. But this mission isn’t an attempt to sanitize or censor Ellison. Instead, with the release of a new book Greatest Hits (edited by Straczynski, with introductions from Neil Gaiman and Cassandra Khaw), Ellison’s specific brand of fantasy has re-emerged from those cracks, zombie warts and all.
[...]
Harlan Ellison wrote Star Trek’s seminal time-travel tragedy, the 1967 episode “The City on the Edge of Forever.” For almost six decades, this single story has often been cited as the best episode of Star Trek, ever, and its legacy continues to be relevant to the canon today — Michelle Yeoh’s upcoming Section 31 movie is a direct result of her character, Philippa Georgiou, stepping through the Guardian of Forever, a time portal originally introduced in Ellison’s episode.
Ellison infamously hated the aired version of the episode. While at least one entire book has been written about this kerfuffle, Ellison’s frustration basically comes down to a rowdy, and utterly divergent rewrite, which he said compromised his artistic integrity. Ellison felt steamrolled by Gene Roddenberry, which was ironic because just one year prior he’d formed “The Committee” — a select group of massive science fiction authors, including Frank Herbert, A.E. van Vogt, and others — with the express purpose of making sure Star Trek remained on the air.
“What Star Trek really did was popularize science fiction in ways that hadn’t been done before,” Straczynski says. “It brought a new language in the vernacular to the popular culture. It galvanized the space program. There will never be another Star Trek any more than there’ll be another Beatles, and their place in the culture cannot be overestimated. The downside of that is that it codified a certain kind of storytelling in ways that limit other opportunities.”
Ellison clearly saw the rise of big franchises like Star Trek and Star Wars as a double-edged sword for the larger world of speculative fiction. Yes, it made SF more mainstream, but it was also reductive. So he went on the attack. In the humorous and raunchy story “How’s the Nightlife on Cissalda?” (1977), Ellison, still annoyed by his Star Trek experience, depicted a fictionalized version of William Shatner unsuccessfully trying to seduce an alien creature.
[...]
When it came to Trek, Harlan Ellison liked to bite the hand that fed him.
“He could dine off of ‘I wrote for Star Trek’ for quite some time,” Straczynski says. “He was able to parlay that to success in many respects, even though he hated the process.”
While his anger over being rewritten explains some of his animosity with Star Trek — and its fans — why was Ellison so anti Star Wars? As someone from the print world of science fiction who had tried to start a more progressive, literary trend in the genre, Ellison almost certainly saw the gee-whiz swashbuckling brand of Star Wars’ heroism as inherently regressive, more reminiscent of the conservative era of SF publishing in the ’30s and ’40s, than anything from what was then the modern era of speculative fiction.
“I think he just saw a lot of sloppiness going on [with Star Wars],” Straczynski says. “Harlan was fairly rigorous in his writing, and there was just so much there that didn’t make sense.”
Ellison was hardly a voice in the wilderness on this topic: His friend and colleague Ursula K. Le Guin also trashed Star Wars in 1978, writing, “What is nostalgia doing in a science fiction movie?”
Because of his acerbic and often petty put-downs, Ellison behaved in public more like a bratty rock star than a writer. In a 1977 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction, he even referred to himself as “the antichrist of science fiction.” In 1982, in the introduction for Ellison’s book Stalking the Nightmare, Stephen King acknowledged that not everyone was down with Ellison’s brand of iconoclasm but defended his artistic idealism, writing, “People who are afraid don’t like people who are brave.”
Because he cared about human rights (and the often tramped-on rights of writers), Ellison didn’t make things easy on himself. As Straczynski writes in his introduction to Greatest Hits, it was “exhausting” to be Harlan Ellison.
But then, after 2006, following a surreal acceptance speech at the Hugo Awards, something unexpected happened: Harlan Ellison, publicly, appeared to repent for some of his bad behavior. He was no longer giving terse and angry interviews. He was apologizing. He allowed a documentarian to chronicle his life. He even lightened up on Trekkies. In 2014, with the full cooperation of the Star Trek licensing division, IDW Comics published Star Trek: Harlan Ellison’s City on the Edge of Forever, a five-part miniseries that presented Ellison’s original award-winning teleplay as an episode of the classic Trek. In the letters pages, Ellison even walked back long-held assertions about how his script was misinterpreted, admitting, among other things, that despite decades of complaining about other writers not knowing the difference between “runes” and “ruins,” it turns out no such confusion ever existed."
[...]"
Ryan Britt (Inverse)
Full article (Long Read):
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/harlan-ellison-greatest-hits-j-michael-straczynski-interview-star-trek-star-wars

This is from Dave Cohen's email blast. The last one got quite a lot of upvotes, so I'm posing another.
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I Have A Dream
I once did a joke for Not Going Out in which somebody was really impressed with Lee for making the case so passionately for I Have A Dream and it turned out he was referring to the Abba song.
I do have a dream and it still has a heck of a way to go but I’m starting to flesh it out.
Imagine for a moment, fellow comedy writers, a world in which, apart from this fortnightly newsletter, there is a place you can go, online or off, to meet with like-minded comedy people to write, produce, perform your own work in collaboration.
You might be very good at coming up with funny characters, how would you like to spend a session working, in an actual room, with a group of people who are really good at developing sketches?
You may be great at writing gags, imagine having an audio show to take them to that may well end up using them?
Or - as is more likely whatever stage you’re at in the profession - witnessing the process in real time of throwing ideas around, turning them into gags, and seeing them rejected in favour of jokes that you are convinced aren’t as funny as your own.
Imagine feeling like you’re a stranger to all of this, but then you get the chance to watch a show coming together, from the point at which a bunch of writers work up funny ideas, through to a producer working with their scripts and then spending a day with a bunch of actors, and to see the finished product performed in front of an audience.
This physical process, this human process, seems at odds with how our lives have changed in recent years. And how far removed from the direction we appear to be heading, where all the excitement and billions of American research dollars are taking us, a world where all our personal interactions are online, and most of our daily conversations are with machines.
Of course the internet has changed forever the way we go about our working lives, smartphones changed it more and AI will again.
I’m still convinced that I’ve yet to see a better way of training comedy writers than the one I was lucky enough to be a part of in the 1980s.
All I’m doing is taking the stuff I spoke about in my last newsletter, my own experience of radio when I was starting out, and imagining a world in which you would get similar chances to those I had. (Me and Ged Parsons, and Simon Blackwell, and Georgia Pritchett, and John O’Farrell and Jimmy Mulville and James Cary and Andy Hamilton and so on…)
How would this system work?
Five years ago, even two, it would have seemed about as likely as India launching a rocket to the moon.
But now, how hard would it be for us – you and me - to launch a topical audio radio show? How difficult is it to put together a series of sketches on YouTube? The answer to those questions is that I have been looking into both of these possibilities in recent times. And if it’s feasible for a technophobe like me to even consider it as an option, for the rest of the universe it must be a doddle.
Last time I mentioned I was looking to develop The Training Ground. Meanwhile Dan Sweryt of this parish came up with a much better name – Beyond The Script.
There's so much out there - competitions, advice, books from people like me and James - to help you become better writers. But a place for you to find out what happens to that writing when it becomes what it should be, the first step in the process? There's not a lot.
And then, to do it well. That’s the tricky bit of course.
This is where I start to imagine budgets. Not TV industry, bank-breaking budgets, but support from people who would massively benefit from this training – Sky, BBC Comedy, Channel 4 and many others.
This is the kind of thing they used to do but can’t afford to any more. Might they help contribute towards something like this?
Or could we set it up as a Kickstarter?
Since Covid I’ve become a big fan of the podcasting world. It wasn’t a great leap. As a kid I was an avid listener of BBC Radio. My obsession started with hearing The Beatles and Motown on Radio One and carried on through I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again to John Peel and the Hitch Hiker’s Guide until I ended up making the stuff and it was a dream come true.
The podcasting “space” as it’s now called has expanded and will continue as long as people enjoy listening. The big companies are currently all about “podcast theatre” like it’s some extraordinary 21stcentury breakthrough and not the latest version of The Archers (b 1951).
One of my favourite podcasters – brocasters? - is Cal Newport, an American Maths Professor who also happens to be a brilliant and drily amusing productivity communicator. His new book came out in March and he spent the last month touring the country appearing on the biggest big name brocasts to tout it.
In a recent show of his own he talked about the time he spent on the podcast interview circuit in LA. He talked about how he had driven past a great enormous movie studio, the kind of place that dominated the world of entertainment in the 20th century.
He’d been on his way to a little warehouse on a Hollywood industrial estate to record his interview. These are the shows, he pointed out, that are competing with international movies and TV for our attention. It’s half a dozen people with a lighting rig and a basic studio set up. They don’t need the massive infrastructure that the old movies provided.
This is the future of audio and TV production.
I’m not saying Beyond The Script is going to take over the world of comedy and show the way forward for ensuring once again that the UK becomes the world number one training ground for comedy.
Then again, why not? I said at the start that it was a dream. And okay, I’m not planning on swimming down the waterfall at Colwith Force and flying to the Talbot Hotel in Skelwith, which was a dream I had the other night while staying in the Lake District.
That first one though… what do you think? I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on it, even if they’re telling me that I’m a megalomaniacal idiot who should quit dreaming and go out and get a proper job.
Drop me a line with your thoughts.
Better still, come and join me at this month’s Patreon Masterclass, next Thursday 25 at 7pm BST. Email me if you want to take part. I want – no, I require your input. [dave@davecohen.org.uk](mailto:dave@davecohen.org.uk)

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Here is an essay I wrote talking about why Neal Brennan is my comedy hero:
I've also included a playlist to vibe to and cues of when to play which song! - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwgZMs3_0OQlPKgaNHT5xCzmEVFuTodLx&si=8OyI9pNl_arhnUwi
Episode Dave and Neal… but really Neal.
Upon Meeting.
I met Dave Chapelle in 2016. It was the year of the Trump Election. I was in my late 20s and a little know failed television writer preparing for my very first public — failed attempt at marriage.
I had never met Dave before. I don’t particularly remember wishing to meet Dave, but I knew that on the day I met him, it was important.
I had met a lot of comedic giants at that point. I met Jaleel White ( one of the greatest clowns this generation has seen) earlier that year, whom I had loved since I was 4. I met Julia Louis Dreyfus years prior. (Shout out to women in comedy)
Ironically both of whom gave me the same advice when I asked them how to get into comedy; a question which they both replied, “I don’t know, get a dog, and a camera and do something.” If you ask me, I did not miss opportunity to display my comedic wit by hinting in both cases, that the obviously implication was beastiality porn.
I had been tested and primed. I knew exactly how to convince a legend that I too had the potential of becoming a legend. Still, Dave, on his way to becoming a Mark Twain Prize winning comedian and poet, was the only one whom I would genuinely attribute to saving my life.
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A Whole Thing.
My first “boyfriend” was an 18 year old ex-con, conveniently provided to me by my evangelical step-father and pastor and his associate pastor, both of whom lived under the presumption that certain type of support might keep me at the very least from becoming a lesbian (this churches’ greatest fear apparently) I genuinely do wish I had been born a lesbian as this perverse type of conversion therapy really fucked me up and can be attributed to my being institutionalized twice if not thrice. Also, had I not been molested this introduction would be a lot shorter. The experience however, taught me a lot.
The first is that if you decide to put a bunch a grown men in a room with young girls and blossoming bodies, and no supervision, someone is going to get molested. In this case that someone was me. I was getting molested.
The second thing that I learned was that if you put a version of black excellence on television, even a perverse one, those men can become little boys even for a moment, paralyzed by awe… they might even stop molesting little girls.
That perverse image didn’t come from Tyler Perry. Sadly, Madea and her loosely veiled threats were not enough. Their perception was, a nigga in a dress wasn’t gonna keep me from nobody.
But maybe one Nigga, in a braided wig, in white patent leather boots kicking a white couch screaming at the top of his lungs “Fuck yo Couch” and declaring in song “I want to piss on you!” could potentially do the trick.
Play Cold Blooded by Rick James
The Thing
That was the thing though. Long Sunday afternoons, huddled in a living room in South Central Los Angeles, watching those Chapelle Show DVDs, sales that would go on to make that man in a wig, not a dress, incredibly rich, were the only afternoons I remember my small body, mind, and spirit getting a real break.
So for this, my meeting with again, future Mark Twain Prize winning comedian and poet went something like this.
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I was working in a 3rd wave tech institution, also known as a coffee shop, in Santa Monica, my hometown, where many celebrities had visited and lived. The one I appreciate most was Rawle D. Lewis who played “J.R.” from the film Cool Runnings. Feel the Rhythm, feel the rhyme… you know — bob sled time.
Still, Dave was rare. He wasn’t even from LA. He had retreated to the middle of Ohio, where no one could find him, talk to him, or even send him fan mail. That was Dave.
So when Dave had arrived to LA, dropped into my coffee shop and paid for coffee at my register, my celeb protocols kicked in overtime. Take the card, run it, don’t look at the numbers, say nothing. Thank him for coming to our shop, hand over the card. Then I took a chance. I looked him dead in his eye, and said in the deepest voice I could possibly muster, “You know, you’re my comedy hero, right? And It’s an honor to meet you.”
That was it. He graciously thanked me for saying so, told me that it was very nice, grabbed his coffee and left.
It was the most beautiful moment of my celebrity dealing life.
And I’ve done a lot celebrity dealing in my life.
Once I met Danny Trejo [is he related to Jesus Trejo ???] as a 13 year old and I couldn’t help but hug him and sob because I only knew him as “Uncle Machete” from Spy Kids.
What Dave didn’t know was that I wasn’t thanking him for his brilliant standup work, his advocacy for those who had no voice, his honest critiques of Black America, or white America’s omission of our accomplishments through his countless inquiries that came in fives, twos, and a rare but perfect spontaneous 6 count tag (which could only qualify as worship). I was thanking him for the moments alone with my thoughts after being a serving church goer as a young teenager on Sunday Mornings, then an underpaid, underaged prostitute on Sunday evenings. Neither of these jobs I took on by choice, but they were the ones I got. And I’m a workaholic. That’s been the case, since I was 4. I’m what they call a semi retired child actress. It’s what I call myself.
I was thanking him for the smoke breaks really.
***
Sunday Mornings.
In 2023 on Sunday Morning, I was going to run an experiment. I was going to find out if this ugly white man who opened his DMs to me was really where he said he was, because I didn’t believe him.
I want to make a confession. I have a lot of experience with ugly white men in mid life crisis. More than I would care to admit to. The thing I can tell you about white men in mid life crisis is that they lie. They are all liars. It’s why reparations hasn’t honestly been paid out, it’s why at the time of writing this, I’m not married and I don’t have any kids, and it’s why in no uncertain terms I was institutionalized on multiple occasions. White men in mid life crisis, sexual assault and domestic violence…none of which have causality merely correlation, that being me. I like data on me as the common denominator.
On this Sunday Morning I was hunting for one man, and his honest confession that on Sunday Mornings he goes to Canter’s Deli and gets sweets. I wouldn’t go to Canters, I’m not a stalker and I’m not cool enough for the Kibbutz Room. I can’t stalk people, I don’t have a car, I don’t drive and I don’t believe in it —driving not stalking. I whole heartedly believe in stalking if not for research purposes. Additionally I have always been polite to famous people. But this famous man owed me an explanation, or rather I owed him a debt of gratitude, and I wasn’t sure how I was going pay him back, but I think it has something to do with what you’re reading right now.
I went to Colfax across from Canter’s Deli, for their veggie breakfast burrito. I’m not a vegetarian, but people who eat pork can’t tell me what to do, and that includes myself. I got my food, sat out front and began my stake out. I spotted no white Teslas driven by white men in mid life crisis. Not one. I had synced his tour schedule to my menstrual cycle, I had listened to every podcast he’d ever recorded —- Where the fuck was Neal Brennan?
Play Heard ‘Em Say Kanye West Featuring Adam Levine
There was no one, not nobody just no one. And so it was true. He was liar just like every other white man in mid life crisis in the world. Like my naughty mullato piece of shit Choctaw fuck of a grandfather.
He was, old, white and and now he was a liar too! The one white guy I would have trusted in Hollywood was in fact no longer trustworthy.
And I was now a stalker.
So I walked away. I furiously swore to myself that I would never be embarrassed like this again. A promise I would break within a year. I walked to where I was staying in LA, at the time. I crossed Beverly, and there turning onto Fairfax towards Canter’s Deli, was Brennan, in a white Tesla with a woman on his passenger side, (she looked British) and although I was disappointed, (Far be it from me to be a liar too, the idea of starting an affair with another man in mid life crisis was tremendously exciting), I was relieved. I was right. He was honest.
I was vindicated. I had vitriol, I had motion and now I had all of the information I needed to thank this man. It didn’t matter who the woman had been, there was at least one honest white man in the world.
***
Meeting Neal
Upon meeting, Neal was not impressed with myself. Mainly because, I had come to learn, Neal made habit of making himself seem unimpressive. He may have had a problem with dissolution of responsibility. It’s why I perceive that Lorne Michaels is commensurately irritated with him for not petitioning for a job as head writer, a job he’s long been over qualified for, and why he and Dave split the writing credit on Chapelle show 50/50, no disagreements— respectfully. I discovered this information about his recurring dream about Michaels’ anger toward him for no apparent reason and his hiphop writer’s covenant with Chapelle starting as far back as 1999, during what I like to call spring fling with Neal Brennan 2023. Stalking— I mean research mode.
Fun fact ironically, ’99 was the year I met another comedic Icon Bill Cosby. I really knocked it out of the park with him, even at the tender age of 9. I plagiarized Lauryn Hill lyrics, couldn’t hit the high note on a Minnie Ripperton song I had no business knowing the words to, some might even say I turned Kids Say the Darnedest things into an adolescent episode of Jerry Springer. Cosby said that. It was Cosby. Like I said, knock out.
I had met Brennan after stalking— I mean researching his former podcast co-host Moshe Kasher from club to club for weeks in hopes that he would actually introduce me to his older (code white man in mid life crisis) brother, whom I had not understood was engaged to be married for quite some time. Gorgeous girl!
I did run into see Chris De’lia —- big surprise.
But I was doing my best to meet a good man to be my husband. Not De’lia. I was a good girl, and knew how to cook, vegan even and I was kind of pretty and I can kiss — I’ve heard.
If I met another brilliant comedian in the process of husband hunting, what more could I do but add the moment to my Rolodex of awkward interactions.
***
The Comedy Store
I first saw Neal perform stand-up live at the Comedy Store on a line up with Kasher. Other comedians included, Justin Martindale (who outed me as queer in front of the entire room) Bobby Lee (whom had flashed me and the room his pubes. Sadly, I cannot confirm if the carpet matched the drapes because I didn’t linger. Also, please remember I was partaking in the fine art of husbandry no time to stop and take notes), Ali Wong (no notes, only awe), and Pauly Shore (Another one of my heroes, and much more good-looking in person if you can believe it. Also the owner of the club.) Caroline Rhea was there too. She is the fairy godmother of comedy if you ask me. If you ask she’s still a witch. Still awesome!
Finally came Brennan. He was taller in person —on stage. He was also very fair skinned. I more observed than watched him.
He went on to tell of series of jokes, one that failed very badly. To which I had reached out to him on Instagram about at 8:59pm on Thursday, one minute shy of booty call hours. I was on good behavior. To which he replied much to my chagrin 2 hours later. It was a very scary 24 hours following.
Why was the famous man in my DMs? Why was he responding to me—I’m ugly!!! What does he want from me? But in truth he had merely responded to my message. It was a firm and quick debate. Nothing notable. And after running into each other at the club for approximately two or three weeks after the messages began, I finally mustered the courage to speak to him in person.
Play Perfect Angel by Minnie Ripperton
It was at the Comedy Store, A Wednesday I believe. He was at the end of the legendary hallway with Fahim Anwar, who was facing me, and Neal’s back to me.
Fahim had scurried off- rebuffed I pretend— while I acted like I was working on bits but really catch my breath.
How did I get a crush on Neal Brennan? Fuck that shit!
I closed my tab in the back part of the bar, where I was interacting with my favorite Comedy Store waitress. I gathered all of my strength, and made my way through the long hallway. Anwar had gone now into the OR and Neal leaning against a wall near the exit. I walked up to him on my way out. In balance. I said in the softest voice I’d ever heard myself speak in, barely audible.
“ Excuse me.” I don’t speak in soft voices for anyone. Ask any one of my partners past, present, and future. I do not have a soft voice.
He looked up, from his phone. He looked tired. With the kind of exhaustion of a man who should be retiring soon, but won’t stop working because he has the right to work. He would always rather be right over happy he would say. He was slumped against the wall looking at his phone.
“Yes.” He responded.
***
Black Mouth
I’m going to say something about Neal’s mouth and I don’t want any rebuttal, because I’m right about this. Neal has a black mouth. He’s wearing the exact same facial hair as Prince, whom I presume left it to him in his will shortly after his first meeting with Brennan and Chapelle. As Neal is a white man. I don’t believe anyone will make concessions for otherwise. Yet still he has a black mouth. Prince in his generosity and wisdom knew that this newly applied facial covering would help with the whole being a white but really a black man. He’s got a nice mouth.
“Yes” he responded. Just as softly.
“You’re amazing, as always.” Was all I could manage to get out.
Whether or not I could process it at at the time, I wasn’t simply talking to a comedy giant or a good looking man, or a drug addict depending on who you asked. I was talking to my other comedy hero. My other hero. The other reason I have to thank for the end of a long—- long series of internal deaths at the hands of people who otherwise didn’t know how and didn’t really want to care for me. Perhaps even more so now due to his over all body of work.
“Oh, thank you.” He responded. Dry, simple and straightforward. I brushed him on the hand. Smiled gently, then walked away, into the night. Take that Julia Roberts.
That wouldn’t be the only time I would speak with Neal. The second time, he would stand up straight, have Owen Smith the television writer and comedian with him, and would reveal to me that his eyes were the green, because I was looking straight into them and would not be fooled. Also he’s taller than 5’10” I’m sure of it. He encourage me “Keep going!"
Adore By Prince
A Pilot of Explanations and a Joke About the N word.
***
Have you ever heard of auteurist or art cinema: Tarentino, Ingmar Bergman, Spike Lee? How about auteurist television? Slightly more complex idea to expound upon due to the differences in the way that the studio system and the television system work. But I’ll try.
Here’s how I understand the studio system. It used to be that production, distribution and exhibition were processes owned by the same company. Imagine I’m Disney and I own a studio, and some theaters and I am also in charge of who is allowed to show the picture in their theatre. That’s called a vertical monopoly. It was illegal for some time, was busted up during the 40’s I think, then reinstated for complicated reasons that may or may not involve The Catholic Church.
But in the 50’s because of the bust of the studio monopolies this beautiful invention comes to save my company’s skin. There’s a new invention called “Television”. It's like Netflix but more random, and fewer choices. And listen to this kids, it’s free and you have to watch it at home with your family.
As a studio this opens up a new revenue stream for me. That would be making money through selling ad space.
Fast forward years later there is now cable television, premium channels and all sorts of wonderful new ways to create and enjoy programing. New markets and demographics to match.
WOOO HOO HOO!
The sky is the limit.
That was the case for Dave and Neal. They were ready to to get a piece of that pie, but not before a pit stop at the theaters. In a revised studio system.
Half Baked was a film written by Dave and Neal. They were friends in comedy for many years at this point and Dave had a great idea about a weed movie and asked Neal to write it with him. Neal tells the story better than I ever could. How Universal met with Dave he promised he was making a weed movie with someone they had never heard of— little did he know they had met with Neal Brennan a few days prior about another project. To which Dave initiated contact and told Neal “If Universal calls, tell em’ we’re making a weed movie.” I wish that Dan Soder were here to do his Chappell impression, but sadly we are not well acquainted yet. Neal did in fact inform Universal that they were writing a weed movie and that it would be ready in “30 days time.” They wrote the film in one night.
This weed movie would be distributed under Paramount. This is all fine, these are great names in show business. The joke that Neal always tells is It opened against Titanic. My research tells me that Titanic had been open for a month according to IMDB. It might have premiered at the same time, but box for Baked was open a month later.
The film was released during the tentpole era of movie releases. A time when studios had EXPLOSIVE amounts of money in their marketing budget, and 8 million dollars extra was available for Half Baked. There is no indication that anyone producing that show expected the movie to be super successful. I don’t think it was malicious. It was economics. The editor allegedly alleges that our beloved creators were just two “R-words” that turned out not to be. Again, Neal tells the story better.
This was perceived as a failure in the time it was released by Brennan, but upon further inquiry it was an auteurist success. The film is personal despite the way it was messed with by the producers. At times you can feel the would be creators of Chapelle Show sparking their creativity. Dave’s inventiveness, and Neal’s cut throat integrity in story structure alone is there in essence, despite the perceived fumble on the part of the studio.
And while a cult following from Half Baked found its way to the Chappelle Show, so did an intriguing storying telling style. Guerrilla filming, fast thinking, edgy, incredibly crass in all of the right ways. Sketch comedy revived. Vine, Lebron James… I’m Rick James Bitch…. That sort of thing.
This requirement for grit from impossible circumstances birthed the style of Chapelle Show.
The Pilot.
Half Baked gets it’s flowers now because
1.) We know who made it. Dave and Neal the creators of the Chapelle Show and
2.) We now know how difficult it was to make….
And
3.) It’s pretty fuckin’ funny.
But in a beautiful way if the studio had just let Brennan and Chapelle loose with a camera and 8 million dollars… The plot of Bowfinger is what I believe would be as close to what the experience would have been. Don’t ask to intern for them, just watch Bowfinger. And the movie would have been a lot better…. “Gotcha Suckahs” is in fact an incredible catch phrase.
The Chapelle Show was supposed to be like Playboy After Dark but just Dave. I don’t know what Playboy After dark Is cause I’m too little, but it sound sultry. Chapelle Show however, took on the structural contributions of Dick Ebersol and cranked it up to 10,000 and, and blacker, than black ought to be black… I’m aspiration-ally roasting.
This is when I would like to press the importance of the Chapelle Show as demonstrated through two sketches. The opening sketch, displays what happens when auteurist television is done right. The Clayton Bigsby Sketch for example engages with the important cultural phenomenon "cancel culture” long before its time.
The pilot opens with this Mitsubishi parody commercial. In this parody they make fun of a popular car commercial where a white woman is the center of an epic adventure in the passenger side of a Mitsubishi (ugliest model they made if you ask me but I digress). The woman is then replaced by Chapelle with a beautiful black woman, who is no longer pop locking to Moby, but pop locking and dropping it to Cool Mo Deep. I don’t know… I’m 33.
Bold arrival to basically dare advertisers to sponsor you. “We’re gonna replace your girls and change the music.” Toyota might more efficient. From the beginning Brennan and Chapelle knew that they had an audience. And they knew advertisers, Comedy Central executives, premium cable execs, anyone who watches TV like a score board would be watching … I don’t think they would be counting on former film majors over analyzing their show for a piece of content again, I digress.
Nowhere Man The Beatles
The “Clayton Bigsby” sketch is by and large the most famous and expansive Chapelle show sketch in the lexicon. This sketch tackles issues of race, self hatred, and influence in all about 10 minutes.
It depicts a white surpremacist who is blind and black. He doesn’t know he is black due to the fact that he is blind. He is one of the worlds most renowned leaders of the Ku Klux Klan. It’s based off of an experience that Chapelle’s grandfather had in the 60’s as a blind black man — albeit very light skinned. He would be harassed by members of the black community as if he were a white man on the day of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.
The “Clayton Bigsby” sketch has the basic story structure of any script. Clayton is introduced, we learn more about him. He goes to a clan rally. His true identity as a black man is revealed at the time of the rally. Everyone freaks out. Comedy madness issues. It’s basic, the good kind.
The thing that makes the sketch so magical is what happens in the editing bay. The end of the sketch Brennan’s playing a white surpremacists and his head explodes at the revelation that Clayton Bigsby is black and not white. “Show us your face!” I don’t know what he was expecting…. I guess a white man in mid life crisis — I don’t know—- so anyway. The blood from his pasty skull erupts and splashes onto a book. A book entitled “ Nigger Stain” It’s a brilliant punch. It implicates that the real “nigger stain” in this case is the blood of the white surpremacists.
Why do I bring this up? Because Brennan would later leverage the exact same joke premise in a joke in his first hour long special Women and black dudes. Brennan is a famous joke thief, but he’s so good at it, that nobody calls him on it, and his pitches are so divine that no one can get angry. I’m kidding.
I will say that Brennan has leveraged at least three of my pitches in the past year and a half, and I don’t say anything because I expect an ice cream date in Montreal at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. And an introduction to Jimmy Carr, who might be my cousin.
A Fine Trade.
Brennan takes the same premise and layers it into the N-word bit. This joke describes how he, a white man (Brennan) has an “N-word pass.” In this case he, the white man is the Clayton Bigsby of his black group but far less influential. He is of course more careful than Bigsby with his use of the N-word, and in the sketch he masterful only says the “Nigga” or “ Nigger” word as a specific character in the context of story. He never outright uses it or calls anyone but his own self the word. He not only paints himself as the oppressor but the oppressed. At the end of the joke, he is cornered by black men who are not happy with his use of the word. He is seemingly accepted after introducing himself as “Neal, Jamal’s friend." but then in a turn he is called a “Nigger” note not “Nigga” but hard ER and his iPhone is appropriately stolen by the black men.
Rightfully so.
Brennan makes himself the “Nigger” of the joke. He has subtly leveraged comedy and literary articulation to trade skins with his black friends in story form. It’s an interesting thought, no?
So When Dave left the show, when the pressure was too much for him, and he went to Africa and went on Oprah, and went and took care of himself and his family and his soul. I know now looking back at the work that Neal’s heart was broken because if he could, if it were possibly he would have traded souls with Dave, even for just a moment of peace— And why not, Dave is the most talented comedian on the planet. Someone that gifted should never be that stressed out about anything. I know that Neal wanted to do all he could if not more.
Play Mirror by Kendrick Lamar
3 Mics, Blocks, Westside Comedy and Crazy Good mmmmhhmmmhmmmhmmhmm
I wasn’t available for the Champs podcast. But when I went back and listened, I can tell you that the “JB Smooth” episode was the funniest thing I had ever heard in my life, and if you can’t tell the difference between Neal and Moshe’s voices, you’re racist.
I wasn’t really around for “How Neal Feel” either. I do know that an episode where Neal said he didn’t find thick women attractive caused me to drop 65 pounds in an uncommonly short amount of time. I’m still too heavy, but I’m sensitive. And I can say irrefutably that Bianca Sia has one of the sexiest voices I’ve heard in a long time and should be doing more radio.
3 Mics was beautiful shot at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about it at first. But when I watched it I understood that this man was redirecting his path in life toward the axis it is on now with discretionary confession, one powerful aspect a person can take from catholicism I imagine. Again I am not catholic.
There was of course Blocks, shot at the Belasco Theatre in Downtown LA, my favorite theatre to work in. Blocks was certainly a love note, probably to the love of Neal’s life Dave. Or maybe his Forever Lady. I don’t know much about the traipse and travails of the rich and famous. But it has now inspired his popular podcast now. LFG Reddit community.
But knowing that this man suffered so much for reasons unknown is what I think gives him his appeal with his audience.
I went to the “Brand New Neal” Tour. I met Brennan-ites like myself. Got the intro on that the “sun (being) the cops for white people” joke. Laughed with black men and women at that joke. I was in the most diverse crowd I had ever been in, in a theatre, my life. People from all walks of life really love Brennan. And this is something that cannot be forgotten.
I started attending Westside Comedy Theatre shortly after the DMs started. I didn’t know what it all meant, I just know that I like the mother fucker and I wanted know how tall he was!
I should have known it would get me suckered into spending more money on comedy than I could afford, and becoming a pretty good early comedian in my own right.
But it was at Westside I noticed things about Neal, Private things I won’t mention here. Special quirks he has, and ways that we were similar. I was being welcomed into a community and it seemed really healthy and pure and lovely.
I attended the Crazy Good special taping at the Fonda. It was a hectic night. I tried to warm up the line in hopes of getting picked up as an opener. Some day my love. We all walked in, many of us wearing all black. I kind of got into a fight. But It allowed me to move and sit with the Netflix people. I remember that I didn’t like seeing Neal so tired, ( I attended second taping) I had grown attached. I wanted him to be healthy. And well rested and well fed. He was grumpy, but well practiced. I liked his hair though. It was looked Fallon tight. And I knew that it would all be worth it. I ended up giving him a standing ovation. I was maybe one of 6 who stood. I think everyone else was drunk. And my pepper spray got confiscated. Not cool Brennan.
When Dave’s latest special was released. A month later (much like the Titanic) It answered a lot of questions for me. What the distance between two lovers really creates. A diverging conversation of view points and criticisms. Speculation from the reddit community that Dave and Neal are no longer close. My heavy admission that none of that is anyone’s business. But I did want it to be known, at least to myself, that as one legend might sunset, the other might emerge. And maybe even the sunsetting legend might be resolving the conflict in his own work for the purpose of releasing a new revelation. Brennan is a GOAT. If we try to deny him or drop him into some false comparison as opposed to asses him in his own right we miss the benefit of having him in our lives as an artist. We don’t need to know the whole deal about all the lives of the comics we love in order to love the comics for their comedy.
Play Are You Even Real - James Blake.
Neal and Dave were the co creators of one of the greatest television shows of all time. They were “the loves of each other’s lives” and I still think they are.
They both still keep a majestic hold over a generation of writers who still want to know when the Chapelle was coming back and when Dave is coming back from Africa.
I hate to be the bearer of sad news. I don’t think it will. Dave is back from Africa thought.Still, I will always ask under my breath where is Neal’s Twain Prize? While lauding Dave as a voice of a generation I have so many question. I will never work in a coffee shop in LA again, nor will I ever send a direct message to a celebrity at 8:59pm. Both are fair too exposing to my complexed PTSD. Traumaaaaaaa. But at I write this at 2am. Edit it at 8:23am. I wish to reclaim the voices of my teen years and express my sincerest gratitude to Mr. Neal Brennan and Mr. Dave Chapelle.
To Neal directly, I would like apologize for trying to meet you at Canter’s Deli on a Sunday, but the uncomfortable truth is I’m a native Angelino and you’re a transplant, we’re gonna have beef forever over turf and territory. But we are both Irish, You 100%, me just a dash. We’ll come to reconciliation eventually. If not for the children.
You’ve opened up my world to what my writing could be, and whether you want to believe it or not OG, you and Dave are my heroes. You helped me laugh when there wasn’t anything to laugh about and you’ve helped me learn when I thought my time was out. From those horrid Sunday afternoons, to this wonderful day 5 days away from the release of your best special to date.
You are an installment in this medium. I will iterate what I wrote in an email to you only a few weeks after our first awkward encounter.
“You are 100% in your league… And I think you understand this but I want you to know that everybody is seeing it. You are on your way to becoming one of the greatest black comedians of all time. … You [have] moved you into a league that you were always called to be in with freedom and joy and a security that you deserve. You deserve this. Take this in. Keep going! My heart skips a beat when I think of all of the success that is coming into your life today due to your courage and persistence. I’m so inspired and grateful to have witnessed it in my lifetime. You inspire me so much— We all got to take a little bit from you every day in every way.”
One day when we are both comedy legends, and I get off the stage at the store opening up for you on a Tuesday, and you fist bump me, I hope you will say “you stuck the landing, you little bitch.
All my love, Forever a Fan. - B
Play Post to Be - Omarion, Chris Brown, Jhene Aiko

Here is an Essay I wrote talking about why Neal Brennan is my Comedy hero:
I've also included a playlist to vibe to and cues of when to play which song! - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwgZMs3_0OQlPKgaNHT5xCzmEVFuTodLx&si=8OyI9pNl_arhnUwi
Episode Dave and Neal… but really Neal.
Upon Meeting.
I met Dave Chapelle in 2016. It was the year of the Trump Election. I was in my late 20s and a little know failed television writer preparing for my very first public — failed attempt at marriage.
I had never met Dave before. I don’t particularly remember wishing to meet Dave, but I knew that on the day I met him, it was important.
I had met a lot of comedic giants at that point. I met Jaleel White ( one of the greatest clowns this generation has seen) earlier that year, whom I had loved since I was 4. I met Julia Louis Dreyfus years prior. (Shout out to women in comedy)
Ironically both of whom gave me the same advice when I asked them how to get into comedy; a question which they both replied, “I don’t know, get a dog, and a camera and do something.” If you ask me, I did not miss opportunity to display my comedic wit by hinting in both cases, that the obviously implication was beastiality porn.
I had been tested and primed. I knew exactly how to convince a legend that I too had the potential of becoming a legend. Still, Dave, on his way to becoming a Mark Twain Prize winning comedian and poet, was the only one whom I would genuinely attribute to saving my life.
***
A Whole Thing.
My first “boyfriend” was an 18 year old ex-con, conveniently provided to me by my evangelical step-father and pastor and his associate pastor, both of whom lived under the presumption that certain type of support might keep me at the very least from becoming a lesbian (this churches’ greatest fear apparently) I genuinely do wish I had been born a lesbian as this perverse type of conversion therapy really fucked me up and can be attributed to my being institutionalized twice if not thrice. Also, had I not been molested this introduction would be a lot shorter. The experience however, taught me a lot.
The first is that if you decide to put a bunch a grown men in a room with young girls and blossoming bodies, and no supervision, someone is going to get molested. In this case that someone was me. I was getting molested.
The second thing that I learned was that if you put a version of black excellence on television, even a perverse one, those men can become little boys even for a moment, paralyzed by awe… they might even stop molesting little girls.
That perverse image didn’t come from Tyler Perry. Sadly, Madea and her loosely veiled threats were not enough. Their perception was, a nigga in a dress wasn’t gonna keep me from nobody.
But maybe one Nigga, in a braided wig, in white patent leather boots kicking a white couch screaming at the top of his lungs “Fuck yo Couch” and declaring in song “I want to piss on you!” could potentially do the trick.
Play Cold Blooded by Rick James
The Thing
That was the thing though. Long Sunday afternoons, huddled in a living room in South Central Los Angeles, watching those Chapelle Show DVDs, sales that would go on to make that man in a wig, not a dress, incredibly rich, were the only afternoons I remember my small body, mind, and spirit getting a real break.
So for this, my meeting with again, future Mark Twain Prize winning comedian and poet went something like this.
***
I was working in a 3rd wave tech institution, also known as a coffee shop, in Santa Monica, my hometown, where many celebrities had visited and lived. The one I appreciate most was Rawle D. Lewis who played “J.R.” from the film Cool Runnings. Feel the Rhythm, feel the rhyme… you know — bob sled time.
Still, Dave was rare. He wasn’t even from LA. He had retreated to the middle of Ohio, where no one could find him, talk to him, or even send him fan mail. That was Dave.
So when Dave had arrived to LA, dropped into my coffee shop and paid for coffee at my register, my celeb protocols kicked in overtime. Take the card, run it, don’t look at the numbers, say nothing. Thank him for coming to our shop, hand over the card. Then I took a chance. I looked him dead in his eye, and said in the deepest voice I could possibly muster, “You know, you’re my comedy hero, right? And It’s an honor to meet you.”
That was it. He graciously thanked me for saying so, told me that it was very nice, grabbed his coffee and left.
It was the most beautiful moment of my celebrity dealing life.
And I’ve done a lot celebrity dealing in my life.
Once I met Danny Trejo [is he related to Jesus Trejo ???] as a 13 year old and I couldn’t help but hug him and sob because I only knew him as “Uncle Machete” from Spy Kids.
What Dave didn’t know was that I wasn’t thanking him for his brilliant standup work, his advocacy for those who had no voice, his honest critiques of Black America, or white America’s omission of our accomplishments through his countless inquiries that came in fives, twos, and a rare but perfect spontaneous 6 count tag (which could only qualify as worship). I was thanking him for the moments alone with my thoughts after being a serving church goer as a young teenager on Sunday Mornings, then an underpaid, underaged prostitute on Sunday evenings. Neither of these jobs I took on by choice, but they were the ones I got. And I’m a workaholic. That’s been the case, since I was 4. I’m what they call a semi retired child actress. It’s what I call myself.
I was thanking him for the smoke breaks really.
***
Sunday Mornings.
In 2023 on Sunday Morning, I was going to run an experiment. I was going to find out if this ugly white man who opened his DMs to me was really where he said he was, because I didn’t believe him.
I want to make a confession. I have a lot of experience with ugly white men in mid life crisis. More than I would care to admit to. The thing I can tell you about white men in mid life crisis is that they lie. They are all liars. It’s why reparations hasn’t honestly been paid out, it’s why at the time of writing this, I’m not married and I don’t have any kids, and it’s why in no uncertain terms I was institutionalized on multiple occasions. White men in mid life crisis, sexual assault and domestic violence…none of which have causality merely correlation, that being me. I like data on me as the common denominator.
On this Sunday Morning I was hunting for one man, and his honest confession that on Sunday Mornings he goes to Canter’s Deli and gets sweets. I wouldn’t go to Canters, I’m not a stalker and I’m not cool enough for the Kibbutz Room. I can’t stalk people, I don’t have a car, I don’t drive and I don’t believe in it —driving not stalking. I whole heartedly believe in stalking if not for research purposes. Additionally I have always been polite to famous people. But this famous man owed me an explanation, or rather I owed him a debt of gratitude, and I wasn’t sure how I was going pay him back, but I think it has something to do with what you’re reading right now.
I went to Colfax across from Canter’s Deli, for their veggie breakfast burrito. I’m not a vegetarian, but people who eat pork can’t tell me what to do, and that includes myself. I got my food, sat out front and began my stake out. I spotted no white Teslas driven by white men in mid life crisis. Not one. I had synced his tour schedule to my menstrual cycle, I had listened to every podcast he’d ever recorded —- Where the fuck was Neal Brennan?
Play Heard ‘Em Say Kanye West Featuring Adam Levine
There was no one, not nobody just no one. And so it was true. He was liar just like every other white man in mid life crisis in the world. Like my naughty mullato piece of shit Choctaw fuck of a grandfather.
He was, old, white and and now he was a liar too! The one white guy I would have trusted in Hollywood was in fact no longer trustworthy.
And I was now a stalker.
So I walked away. I furiously swore to myself that I would never be embarrassed like this again. A promise I would break within a year. I walked to where I was staying in LA, at the time. I crossed Beverly, and there turning onto Fairfax towards Canter’s Deli, was Brennan, in a white Tesla with a woman on his passenger side, (she looked British) and although I was disappointed, (Far be it from me to be a liar too, the idea of starting an affair with another man in mid life crisis was tremendously exciting), I was relieved. I was right. He was honest.
I was vindicated. I had vitriol, I had motion and now I had all of the information I needed to thank this man. It didn’t matter who the woman had been, there was at least one honest white man in the world.
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Meeting Neal
Upon meeting, Neal was not impressed with myself. Mainly because, I had come to learn, Neal made habit of making himself seem unimpressive. He may have had a problem with dissolution of responsibility. It’s why I perceive that Lorne Michaels is commensurately irritated with him for not petitioning for a job as head writer, a job he’s long been over qualified for, and why he and Dave split the writing credit on Chapelle show 50/50, no disagreements— respectfully. I discovered this information about his recurring dream about Michaels’ anger toward him for no apparent reason and his hiphop writer’s covenant with Chapelle starting as far back as 1999, during what I like to call spring fling with Neal Brennan 2023. Stalking— I mean research mode.
Fun fact ironically, ’99 was the year I met another comedic Icon Bill Cosby. I really knocked it out of the park with him, even at the tender age of 9. I plagiarized Lauryn Hill lyrics, couldn’t hit the high note on a Minnie Ripperton song I had no business knowing the words to, some might even say I turned Kids Say the Darnedest things into an adolescent episode of Jerry Springer. Cosby said that. It was Cosby. Like I said, knock out.
I had met Brennan after stalking— I mean researching his former podcast co-host Moshe Kasher from club to club for weeks in hopes that he would actually introduce me to his older (code white man in mid life crisis) brother, whom I had not understood was engaged to be married for quite some time. Gorgeous girl!
I did run into see Chris De’lia —- big surprise.
But I was doing my best to meet a good man to be my husband. Not De’lia. I was a good girl, and knew how to cook, vegan even and I was kind of pretty and I can kiss — I’ve heard.
If I met another brilliant comedian in the process of husband hunting, what more could I do but add the moment to my Rolodex of awkward interactions.
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The Comedy Store
I first saw Neal perform stand-up live at the Comedy Store on a line up with Kasher. Other comedians included, Justin Martindale (who outed me as queer in front of the entire room) Bobby Lee (whom had flashed me and the room his pubes. Sadly, I cannot confirm if the carpet matched the drapes because I didn’t linger. Also, please remember I was partaking in the fine art of husbandry no time to stop and take notes), Ali Wong (no notes, only awe), and Pauly Shore (Another one of my heroes, and much more good-looking in person if you can believe it. Also the owner of the club.) Caroline Rhea was there too. She is the fairy godmother of comedy if you ask me. If you ask she’s still a witch. Still awesome!
Finally came Brennan. He was taller in person —on stage. He was also very fair skinned. I more observed than watched him.
He went on to tell of series of jokes, one that failed very badly. To which I had reached out to him on Instagram about at 8:59pm on Thursday, one minute shy of booty call hours. I was on good behavior. To which he replied much to my chagrin 2 hours later. It was a very scary 24 hours following.
Why was the famous man in my DMs? Why was he responding to me—I’m ugly!!! What does he want from me? But in truth he had merely responded to my message. It was a firm and quick debate. Nothing notable. And after running into each other at the club for approximately two or three weeks after the messages began, I finally mustered the courage to speak to him in person.
Play Perfect Angel by Minnie Ripperton
It was at the Comedy Store, A Wednesday I believe. He was at the end of the legendary hallway with Fahim Anwar, who was facing me, and Neal’s back to me.
Fahim had scurried off- rebuffed I pretend— while I acted like I was working on bits but really catch my breath.
How did I get a crush on Neal Brennan? Fuck that shit!
I closed my tab in the back part of the bar, where I was interacting with my favorite Comedy Store waitress. I gathered all of my strength, and made my way through the long hallway. Anwar had gone now into the OR and Neal leaning against a wall near the exit. I walked up to him on my way out. In balance. I said in the softest voice I’d ever heard myself speak in, barely audible.
“ Excuse me.” I don’t speak in soft voices for anyone. Ask any one of my partners past, present, and future. I do not have a soft voice.
He looked up, from his phone. He looked tired. With the kind of exhaustion of a man who should be retiring soon, but won’t stop working because he has the right to work. He would always rather be right over happy he would say. He was slumped against the wall looking at his phone.
“Yes.” He responded.
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Black Mouth
I’m going to say something about Neal’s mouth and I don’t want any rebuttal, because I’m right about this. Neal has a black mouth. He’s wearing the exact same facial hair as Prince, whom I presume left it to him in his will shortly after his first meeting with Brennan and Chapelle. As Neal is a white man. I don’t believe anyone will make concessions for otherwise. Yet still he has a black mouth. Prince in his generosity and wisdom knew that this newly applied facial covering would help with the whole being a white but really a black man. He’s got a nice mouth.
“Yes” he responded. Just as softly.
“You’re amazing, as always.” Was all I could manage to get out.
Whether or not I could process it at at the time, I wasn’t simply talking to a comedy giant or a good looking man, or a drug addict depending on who you asked. I was talking to my other comedy hero. My other hero. The other reason I have to thank for the end of a long—- long series of internal deaths at the hands of people who otherwise didn’t know how and didn’t really want to care for me. Perhaps even more so now due to his over all body of work.
“Oh, thank you.” He responded. Dry, simple and straightforward. I brushed him on the hand. Smiled gently, then walked away, into the night. Take that Julia Roberts.
That wouldn’t be the only time I would speak with Neal. The second time, he would stand up straight, have Owen Smith the television writer and comedian with him, and would reveal to me that his eyes were the green, because I was looking straight into them and would not be fooled. Also he’s taller than 5’10” I’m sure of it. He encourage me “Keep going!"
Adore By Prince
A Pilot of Explanations and a Joke About the N word.
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Have you ever heard of auteurist or art cinema: Tarentino, Ingmar Bergman, Spike Lee? How about auteurist television? Slightly more complex idea to expound upon due to the differences in the way that the studio system and the television system work. But I’ll try.
Here’s how I understand the studio system. It used to be that production, distribution and exhibition were processes owned by the same company. Imagine I’m Disney and I own a studio, and some theaters and I am also in charge of who is allowed to show the picture in their theatre. That’s called a vertical monopoly. It was illegal for some time, was busted up during the 40’s I think, then reinstated for complicated reasons that may or may not involve The Catholic Church.
But in the 50’s because of the bust of the studio monopolies this beautiful invention comes to save my company’s skin. There’s a new invention called “Television”. It's like Netflix but more random, and fewer choices. And listen to this kids, it’s free and you have to watch it at home with your family.
As a studio this opens up a new revenue stream for me. That would be making money through selling ad space.
Fast forward years later there is now cable television, premium channels and all sorts of wonderful new ways to create and enjoy programing. New markets and demographics to match.
WOOO HOO HOO!
The sky is the limit.
That was the case for Dave and Neal. They were ready to to get a piece of that pie, but not before a pit stop at the theaters. In a revised studio system.
Half Baked was a film written by Dave and Neal. They were friends in comedy for many years at this point and Dave had a great idea about a weed movie and asked Neal to write it with him. Neal tells the story better than I ever could. How Universal met with Dave he promised he was making a weed movie with someone they had never heard of— little did he know they had met with Neal Brennan a few days prior about another project. To which Dave initiated contact and told Neal “If Universal calls, tell em’ we’re making a weed movie.” I wish that Dan Soder were here to do his Chappell impression, but sadly we are not well acquainted yet. Neal did in fact inform Universal that they were writing a weed movie and that it would be ready in “30 days time.” They wrote the film in one night.
This weed movie would be distributed under Paramount. This is all fine, these are great names in show business. The joke that Neal always tells is It opened against Titanic. My research tells me that Titanic had been open for a month according to IMDB. It might have premiered at the same time, but box for Baked was open a month later.
The film was released during the tentpole era of movie releases. A time when studios had EXPLOSIVE amounts of money in their marketing budget, and 8 million dollars extra was available for Half Baked. There is no indication that anyone producing that show expected the movie to be super successful. I don’t think it was malicious. It was economics. The editor allegedly alleges that our beloved creators were just two “R-words” that turned out not to be. Again, Neal tells the story better.
This was perceived as a failure in the time it was released by Brennan, but upon further inquiry it was an auteurist success. The film is personal despite the way it was messed with by the producers. At times you can feel the would be creators of Chapelle Show sparking their creativity. Dave’s inventiveness, and Neal’s cut throat integrity in story structure alone is there in essence, despite the perceived fumble on the part of the studio.
And while a cult following from Half Baked found its way to the Chappelle Show, so did an intriguing storying telling style. Guerrilla filming, fast thinking, edgy, incredibly crass in all of the right ways. Sketch comedy revived. Vine, Lebron James… I’m Rick James Bitch…. That sort of thing.
This requirement for grit from impossible circumstances birthed the style of Chapelle Show.
The Pilot.
Half Baked gets it’s flowers now because
1.) We know who made it. Dave and Neal the creators of the Chapelle Show and
2.) We now know how difficult it was to make….
And
3.) It’s pretty fuckin’ funny.
But in a beautiful way if the studio had just let Brennan and Chapelle loose with a camera and 8 million dollars… The plot of Bowfinger is what I believe would be as close to what the experience would have been. Don’t ask to intern for them, just watch Bowfinger. And the movie would have been a lot better…. “Gotcha Suckahs” is in fact an incredible catch phrase.
The Chapelle Show was supposed to be like Playboy After Dark but just Dave. I don’t know what Playboy After dark Is cause I’m too little, but it sound sultry. Chapelle Show however, took on the structural contributions of Dick Ebersol and cranked it up to 10,000 and, and blacker, than black ought to be black… I’m aspiration-ally roasting.
This is when I would like to press the importance of the Chapelle Show as demonstrated through two sketches. The opening sketch, displays what happens when auteurist television is done right. The Clayton Bigsby Sketch for example engages with the important cultural phenomenon "cancel culture” long before its time.
The pilot opens with this Mitsubishi parody commercial. In this parody they make fun of a popular car commercial where a white woman is the center of an epic adventure in the passenger side of a Mitsubishi (ugliest model they made if you ask me but I digress). The woman is then replaced by Chapelle with a beautiful black woman, who is no longer pop locking to Moby, but pop locking and dropping it to Cool Mo Deep. I don’t know… I’m 33.
Bold arrival to basically dare advertisers to sponsor you. “We’re gonna replace your girls and change the music.” Toyota might more efficient. From the beginning Brennan and Chapelle knew that they had an audience. And they knew advertisers, Comedy Central executives, premium cable execs, anyone who watches TV like a score board would be watching … I don’t think they would be counting on former film majors over analyzing their show for a piece of content again, I digress.
Nowhere Man The Beatles
The “Clayton Bigsby” sketch is by and large the most famous and expansive Chapelle show sketch in the lexicon. This sketch tackles issues of race, self hatred, and influence in all about 10 minutes.
It depicts a white surpremacist who is blind and black. He doesn’t know he is black due to the fact that he is blind. He is one of the worlds most renowned leaders of the Ku Klux Klan. It’s based off of an experience that Chapelle’s grandfather had in the 60’s as a blind black man — albeit very light skinned. He would be harassed by members of the black community as if he were a white man on the day of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.
The “Clayton Bigsby” sketch has the basic story structure of any script. Clayton is introduced, we learn more about him. He goes to a clan rally. His true identity as a black man is revealed at the time of the rally. Everyone freaks out. Comedy madness issues. It’s basic, the good kind.
The thing that makes the sketch so magical is what happens in the editing bay. The end of the sketch Brennan’s playing a white surpremacists and his head explodes at the revelation that Clayton Bigsby is black and not white. “Show us your face!” I don’t know what he was expecting…. I guess a white man in mid life crisis — I don’t know—- so anyway. The blood from his pasty skull erupts and splashes onto a book. A book entitled “ Nigger Stain” It’s a brilliant punch. It implicates that the real “nigger stain” in this case is the blood of the white surpremacists.
Why do I bring this up? Because Brennan would later leverage the exact same joke premise in a joke in his first hour long special Women and black dudes. Brennan is a famous joke thief, but he’s so good at it, that nobody calls him on it, and his pitches are so divine that no one can get angry. I’m kidding.
I will say that Brennan has leveraged at least three of my pitches in the past year and a half, and I don’t say anything because I expect an ice cream date in Montreal at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. And an introduction to Jimmy Carr, who might be my cousin.
A Fine Trade.
Brennan takes the same premise and layers it into the N-word bit. This joke describes how he, a white man (Brennan) has an “N-word pass.” In this case he, the white man is the Clayton Bigsby of his black group but far less influential. He is of course more careful than Bigsby with his use of the N-word, and in the sketch he masterful only says the “Nigga” or “ Nigger” word as a specific character in the context of story. He never outright uses it or calls anyone but his own self the word. He not only paints himself as the oppressor but the oppressed. At the end of the joke, he is cornered by black men who are not happy with his use of the word. He is seemingly accepted after introducing himself as “Neal, Jamal’s friend." but then in a turn he is called a “Nigger” note not “Nigga” but hard ER and his iPhone is appropriately stolen by the black men.
Rightfully so.
Brennan makes himself the “Nigger” of the joke. He has subtly leveraged comedy and literary articulation to trade skins with his black friends in story form. It’s an interesting thought, no?
So When Dave left the show, when the pressure was too much for him, and he went to Africa and went on Oprah, and went and took care of himself and his family and his soul. I know now looking back at the work that Neal’s heart was broken because if he could, if it were possibly he would have traded souls with Dave, even for just a moment of peace— And why not, Dave is the most talented comedian on the planet. Someone that gifted should never be that stressed out about anything. I know that Neal wanted to do all he could if not more.
Play Mirror by Kendrick Lamar
3 Mics, Blocks, Westside Comedy and Crazy Good mmmmhhmmmhmmmhmmhmm
I wasn’t available for the Champs podcast. But when I went back and listened, I can tell you that the “JB Smooth” episode was the funniest thing I had ever heard in my life, and if you can’t tell the difference between Neal and Moshe’s voices, you’re racist.
I wasn’t really around for “How Neal Feel” either. I do know that an episode where Neal said he didn’t find thick women attractive caused me to drop 65 pounds in an uncommonly short amount of time. I’m still too heavy, but I’m sensitive. And I can say irrefutably that Bianca Sia has one of the sexiest voices I’ve heard in a long time and should be doing more radio.
3 Mics was beautiful shot at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about it at first. But when I watched it I understood that this man was redirecting his path in life toward the axis it is on now with discretionary confession, one powerful aspect a person can take from catholicism I imagine. Again I am not catholic.
There was of course Blocks, shot at the Belasco Theatre in Downtown LA, my favorite theatre to work in. Blocks was certainly a love note, probably to the love of Neal’s life Dave. Or maybe his Forever Lady. I don’t know much about the traipse and travails of the rich and famous. But it has now inspired his popular podcast now. LFG Reddit community.
But knowing that this man suffered so much for reasons unknown is what I think gives him his appeal with his audience.
I went to the “Brand New Neal” Tour. I met Brennan-ites like myself. Got the intro on that the “sun (being) the cops for white people” joke. Laughed with black men and women at that joke. I was in the most diverse crowd I had ever been in, in a theatre, my life. People from all walks of life really love Brennan. And this is something that cannot be forgotten.
I started attending Westside Comedy Theatre shortly after the DMs started. I didn’t know what it all meant, I just know that I like the mother fucker and I wanted know how tall he was!
I should have known it would get me suckered into spending more money on comedy than I could afford, and becoming a pretty good early comedian in my own right.
But it was at Westside I noticed things about Neal, Private things I won’t mention here. Special quirks he has, and ways that we were similar. I was being welcomed into a community and it seemed really healthy and pure and lovely.
I attended the Crazy Good special taping at the Fonda. It was a hectic night. I tried to warm up the line in hopes of getting picked up as an opener. Some day my love. We all walked in, many of us wearing all black. I kind of got into a fight. But It allowed me to move and sit with the Netflix people. I remember that I didn’t like seeing Neal so tired, ( I attended second taping) I had grown attached. I wanted him to be healthy. And well rested and well fed. He was grumpy, but well practiced. I liked his hair though. It was looked Fallon tight. And I knew that it would all be worth it. I ended up giving him a standing ovation. I was maybe one of 6 who stood. I think everyone else was drunk. And my pepper spray got confiscated. Not cool Brennan.
When Dave’s latest special was released. A month later (much like the Titanic) It answered a lot of questions for me. What the distance between two lovers really creates. A diverging conversation of view points and criticisms. Speculation from the reddit community that Dave and Neal are no longer close. My heavy admission that none of that is anyone’s business. But I did want it to be known, at least to myself, that as one legend might sunset, the other might emerge. And maybe even the sunsetting legend might be resolving the conflict in his own work for the purpose of releasing a new revelation. Brennan is a GOAT. If we try to deny him or drop him into some false comparison as opposed to asses him in his own right we miss the benefit of having him in our lives as an artist. We don’t need to know the whole deal about all the lives of the comics we love in order to love the comics for their comedy.
Play Are You Even Real - James Blake.
Neal and Dave were the co creators of one of the greatest television shows of all time. They were “the loves of each other’s lives” and I still think they are.
They both still keep a majestic hold over a generation of writers who still want to know when the Chapelle was coming back and when Dave is coming back from Africa.
I hate to be the bearer of sad news. I don’t think it will. Dave is back from Africa thought.Still, I will always ask under my breath where is Neal’s Twain Prize? While lauding Dave as a voice of a generation I have so many question. I will never work in a coffee shop in LA again, nor will I ever send a direct message to a celebrity at 8:59pm. Both are fair too exposing to my complexed PTSD. Traumaaaaaaa. But at I write this at 2am. Edit it at 8:23am. I wish to reclaim the voices of my teen years and express my sincerest gratitude to Mr. Neal Brennan and Mr. Dave Chapelle.
To Neal directly, I would like apologize for trying to meet you at Canter’s Deli on a Sunday, but the uncomfortable truth is I’m a native Angelino and you’re a transplant, we’re gonna have beef forever over turf and territory. But we are both Irish, You 100%, me just a dash. We’ll come to reconciliation eventually. If not for the children.
You’ve opened up my world to what my writing could be, and whether you want to believe it or not OG, you and Dave are my heroes. You helped me laugh when there wasn’t anything to laugh about and you’ve helped me learn when I thought my time was out. From those horrid Sunday afternoons, to this wonderful day 5 days away from the release of your best special to date.
You are an installment in this medium. I will iterate what I wrote in an email to you only a few weeks after our first awkward encounter.
“You are 100% in your league… And I think you understand this but I want you to know that everybody is seeing it. You are on your way to becoming one of the greatest black comedians of all time. … You [have] moved you into a league that you were always called to be in with freedom and joy and a security that you deserve. You deserve this. Take this in. Keep going! My heart skips a beat when I think of all of the success that is coming into your life today due to your courage and persistence. I’m so inspired and grateful to have witnessed it in my lifetime. You inspire me so much— We all got to take a little bit from you every day in every way.”
One day when we are both comedy legends, and I get off the stage at the store opening up for you on a Tuesday, and you fist bump me, I hope you will say “you stuck the landing, you little bitch.
All my love, Forever a Fan. - B
Play Post to Be - Omarion, Chris Brown, Jhene Aiko

Here is an Essay I wrote talking about why Neal Brennan is my Comedy Hero:
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I've also included a playlist to vibe to and cues of when to play which song! - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwgZMs3_0OQlPKgaNHT5xCzmEVFuTodLx&si=8OyI9pNl_arhnUwi
Episode Dave and Neal… but really Neal.
Upon Meeting.
I met Dave Chapelle in 2016. It was the year of the Trump Election. I was in my late 20s and a little know failed television writer preparing for my very first public — failed attempt at marriage.
I had never met Dave before. I don’t particularly remember wishing to meet Dave, but I knew that on the day I met him, it was important.
I had met a lot of comedic giants at that point. I met Jaleel White ( one of the greatest clowns this generation has seen) earlier that year, whom I had loved since I was 4. I met Julia Louis Dreyfus years prior. (Shout out to women in comedy)
Ironically both of whom gave me the same advice when I asked them how to get into comedy; a question which they both replied, “I don’t know, get a dog, and a camera and do something.” If you ask me, I did not miss opportunity to display my comedic wit by hinting in both cases, that the obviously implication was beastiality porn.
I had been tested and primed. I knew exactly how to convince a legend that I too had the potential of becoming a legend. Still, Dave, on his way to becoming a Mark Twain Prize winning comedian and poet, was the only one whom I would genuinely attribute to saving my life.
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A Whole Thing.
My first “boyfriend” was an 18 year old ex-con, conveniently provided to me by my evangelical step-father and pastor and his associate pastor, both of whom lived under the presumption that certain type of support might keep me at the very least from becoming a lesbian (this churches’ greatest fear apparently) I genuinely do wish I had been born a lesbian as this perverse type of conversion therapy really fucked me up and can be attributed to my being institutionalized twice if not thrice. Also, had I not been molested this introduction would be a lot shorter. The experience however, taught me a lot.
The first is that if you decide to put a bunch a grown men in a room with young girls and blossoming bodies, and no supervision, someone is going to get molested. In this case that someone was me. I was getting molested.
The second thing that I learned was that if you put a version of black excellence on television, even a perverse one, those men can become little boys even for a moment, paralyzed by awe… they might even stop molesting little girls.
That perverse image didn’t come from Tyler Perry. Sadly, Madea and her loosely veiled threats were not enough. Their perception was, a nigga in a dress wasn’t gonna keep me from nobody.
But maybe one Nigga, in a braided wig, in white patent leather boots kicking a white couch screaming at the top of his lungs “Fuck yo Couch” and declaring in song “I want to piss on you!” could potentially do the trick.
Play Cold Blooded by Rick James
The Thing
That was the thing though. Long Sunday afternoons, huddled in a living room in South Central Los Angeles, watching those Chapelle Show DVDs, sales that would go on to make that man in a wig, not a dress, incredibly rich, were the only afternoons I remember my small body, mind, and spirit getting a real break.
So for this, my meeting with again, future Mark Twain Prize winning comedian and poet went something like this.
***
I was working in a 3rd wave tech institution, also known as a coffee shop, in Santa Monica, my hometown, where many celebrities had visited and lived. The one I appreciate most was Rawle D. Lewis who played “J.R.” from the film Cool Runnings. Feel the Rhythm, feel the rhyme… you know — bob sled time.
Still, Dave was rare. He wasn’t even from LA. He had retreated to the middle of Ohio, where no one could find him, talk to him, or even send him fan mail. That was Dave.
So when Dave had arrived to LA, dropped into my coffee shop and paid for coffee at my register, my celeb protocols kicked in overtime. Take the card, run it, don’t look at the numbers, say nothing. Thank him for coming to our shop, hand over the card. Then I took a chance. I looked him dead in his eye, and said in the deepest voice I could possibly muster, “You know, you’re my comedy hero, right? And It’s an honor to meet you.”
That was it. He graciously thanked me for saying so, told me that it was very nice, grabbed his coffee and left.
It was the most beautiful moment of my celebrity dealing life.
And I’ve done a lot celebrity dealing in my life.
Once I met Danny Trejo [is he related to Jesus Trejo ???] as a 13 year old and I couldn’t help but hug him and sob because I only knew him as “Uncle Machete” from Spy Kids.
What Dave didn’t know was that I wasn’t thanking him for his brilliant standup work, his advocacy for those who had no voice, his honest critiques of Black America, or white America’s omission of our accomplishments through his countless inquiries that came in fives, twos, and a rare but perfect spontaneous 6 count tag (which could only qualify as worship). I was thanking him for the moments alone with my thoughts after being a serving church goer as a young teenager on Sunday Mornings, then an underpaid, underaged prostitute on Sunday evenings. Neither of these jobs I took on by choice, but they were the ones I got. And I’m a workaholic. That’s been the case, since I was 4. I’m what they call a semi retired child actress. It’s what I call myself.
I was thanking him for the smoke breaks really.
***
Sunday Mornings.
In 2023 on Sunday Morning, I was going to run an experiment. I was going to find out if this ugly white man who opened his DMs to me was really where he said he was, because I didn’t believe him.
I want to make a confession. I have a lot of experience with ugly white men in mid life crisis. More than I would care to admit to. The thing I can tell you about white men in mid life crisis is that they lie. They are all liars. It’s why reparations hasn’t honestly been paid out, it’s why at the time of writing this, I’m not married and I don’t have any kids, and it’s why in no uncertain terms I was institutionalized on multiple occasions. White men in mid life crisis, sexual assault and domestic violence…none of which have causality merely correlation, that being me. I like data on me as the common denominator.
On this Sunday Morning I was hunting for one man, and his honest confession that on Sunday Mornings he goes to Canter’s Deli and gets sweets. I wouldn’t go to Canters, I’m not a stalker and I’m not cool enough for the Kibbutz Room. I can’t stalk people, I don’t have a car, I don’t drive and I don’t believe in it —driving not stalking. I whole heartedly believe in stalking if not for research purposes. Additionally I have always been polite to famous people. But this famous man owed me an explanation, or rather I owed him a debt of gratitude, and I wasn’t sure how I was going pay him back, but I think it has something to do with what you’re reading right now.
I went to Colfax across from Canter’s Deli, for their veggie breakfast burrito. I’m not a vegetarian, but people who eat pork can’t tell me what to do, and that includes myself. I got my food, sat out front and began my stake out. I spotted no white Teslas driven by white men in mid life crisis. Not one. I had synced his tour schedule to my menstrual cycle, I had listened to every podcast he’d ever recorded —- Where the fuck was Neal Brennan?
Play Heard ‘Em Say Kanye West Featuring Adam Levine
There was no one, not nobody just no one. And so it was true. He was liar just like every other white man in mid life crisis in the world. Like my naughty mullato piece of shit Choctaw fuck of a grandfather.
He was, old, white and and now he was a liar too! The one white guy I would have trusted in Hollywood was in fact no longer trustworthy.
And I was now a stalker.
So I walked away. I furiously swore to myself that I would never be embarrassed like this again. A promise I would break within a year. I walked to where I was staying in LA, at the time. I crossed Beverly, and there turning onto Fairfax towards Canter’s Deli, was Brennan, in a white Tesla with a woman on his passenger side, (she looked British) and although I was disappointed, (Far be it from me to be a liar too, the idea of starting an affair with another man in mid life crisis was tremendously exciting), I was relieved. I was right. He was honest.
I was vindicated. I had vitriol, I had motion and now I had all of the information I needed to thank this man. It didn’t matter who the woman had been, there was at least one honest white man in the world.
***
Meeting Neal
Upon meeting, Neal was not impressed with myself. Mainly because, I had come to learn, Neal made habit of making himself seem unimpressive. He may have had a problem with dissolution of responsibility. It’s why I perceive that Lorne Michaels is commensurately irritated with him for not petitioning for a job as head writer, a job he’s long been over qualified for, and why he and Dave split the writing credit on Chapelle show 50/50, no disagreements— respectfully. I discovered this information about his recurring dream about Michaels’ anger toward him for no apparent reason and his hiphop writer’s covenant with Chapelle starting as far back as 1999, during what I like to call spring fling with Neal Brennan 2023. Stalking— I mean research mode.
Fun fact ironically, ’99 was the year I met another comedic Icon Bill Cosby. I really knocked it out of the park with him, even at the tender age of 9. I plagiarized Lauryn Hill lyrics, couldn’t hit the high note on a Minnie Ripperton song I had no business knowing the words to, some might even say I turned Kids Say the Darnedest things into an adolescent episode of Jerry Springer. Cosby said that. It was Cosby. Like I said, knock out.
I had met Brennan after stalking— I mean researching his former podcast co-host Moshe Kasher from club to club for weeks in hopes that he would actually introduce me to his older (code white man in mid life crisis) brother, whom I had not understood was engaged to be married for quite some time. Gorgeous girl!
I did run into see Chris De’lia —- big surprise.
But I was doing my best to meet a good man to be my husband. Not De’lia. I was a good girl, and knew how to cook, vegan even and I was kind of pretty and I can kiss — I’ve heard.
If I met another brilliant comedian in the process of husband hunting, what more could I do but add the moment to my Rolodex of awkward interactions.
***
The Comedy Store
I first saw Neal perform stand-up live at the Comedy Store on a line up with Kasher. Other comedians included, Justin Martindale (who outed me as queer in front of the entire room) Bobby Lee (whom had flashed me and the room his pubes. Sadly, I cannot confirm if the carpet matched the drapes because I didn’t linger. Also, please remember I was partaking in the fine art of husbandry no time to stop and take notes), Ali Wong (no notes, only awe), and Pauly Shore (Another one of my heroes, and much more good-looking in person if you can believe it. Also the owner of the club.) Caroline Rhea was there too. She is the fairy godmother of comedy if you ask me. If you ask she’s still a witch. Still awesome!
Finally came Brennan. He was taller in person —on stage. He was also very fair skinned. I more observed than watched him.
He went on to tell of series of jokes, one that failed very badly. To which I had reached out to him on Instagram about at 8:59pm on Thursday, one minute shy of booty call hours. I was on good behavior. To which he replied much to my chagrin 2 hours later. It was a very scary 24 hours following.
Why was the famous man in my DMs? Why was he responding to me—I’m ugly!!! What does he want from me? But in truth he had merely responded to my message. It was a firm and quick debate. Nothing notable. And after running into each other at the club for approximately two or three weeks after the messages began, I finally mustered the courage to speak to him in person.
Play Perfect Angel by Minnie Ripperton
It was at the Comedy Store, A Wednesday I believe. He was at the end of the legendary hallway with Fahim Anwar, who was facing me, and Neal’s back to me.
Fahim had scurried off- rebuffed I pretend— while I acted like I was working on bits but really catch my breath.
How did I get a crush on Neal Brennan? Fuck that shit!
I closed my tab in the back part of the bar, where I was interacting with my favorite Comedy Store waitress. I gathered all of my strength, and made my way through the long hallway. Anwar had gone now into the OR and Neal leaning against a wall near the exit. I walked up to him on my way out. In balance. I said in the softest voice I’d ever heard myself speak in, barely audible.
“ Excuse me.” I don’t speak in soft voices for anyone. Ask any one of my partners past, present, and future. I do not have a soft voice.
He looked up, from his phone. He looked tired. With the kind of exhaustion of a man who should be retiring soon, but won’t stop working because he has the right to work. He would always rather be right over happy he would say. He was slumped against the wall looking at his phone.
“Yes.” He responded.
***
Black Mouth
I’m going to say something about Neal’s mouth and I don’t want any rebuttal, because I’m right about this. Neal has a black mouth. He’s wearing the exact same facial hair as Prince, whom I presume left it to him in his will shortly after his first meeting with Brennan and Chapelle. As Neal is a white man. I don’t believe anyone will make concessions for otherwise. Yet still he has a black mouth. Prince in his generosity and wisdom knew that this newly applied facial covering would help with the whole being a white but really a black man. He’s got a nice mouth.
“Yes” he responded. Just as softly.
“You’re amazing, as always.” Was all I could manage to get out.
Whether or not I could process it at at the time, I wasn’t simply talking to a comedy giant or a good looking man, or a drug addict depending on who you asked. I was talking to my other comedy hero. My other hero. The other reason I have to thank for the end of a long—- long series of internal deaths at the hands of people who otherwise didn’t know how and didn’t really want to care for me. Perhaps even more so now due to his over all body of work.
“Oh, thank you.” He responded. Dry, simple and straightforward. I brushed him on the hand. Smiled gently, then walked away, into the night. Take that Julia Roberts.
That wouldn’t be the only time I would speak with Neal. The second time, he would stand up straight, have Owen Smith the television writer and comedian with him, and would reveal to me that his eyes were the green, because I was looking straight into them and would not be fooled. Also he’s taller than 5’10” I’m sure of it. He encourage me “Keep going!"
Adore By Prince
A Pilot of Explanations and a Joke About the N word.
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Have you ever heard of auteurist or art cinema: Tarentino, Ingmar Bergman, Spike Lee? How about auteurist television? Slightly more complex idea to expound upon due to the differences in the way that the studio system and the television system work. But I’ll try.
Here’s how I understand the studio system. It used to be that production, distribution and exhibition were processes owned by the same company. Imagine I’m Disney and I own a studio, and some theaters and I am also in charge of who is allowed to show the picture in their theatre. That’s called a vertical monopoly. It was illegal for some time, was busted up during the 40’s I think, then reinstated for complicated reasons that may or may not involve The Catholic Church.
But in the 50’s because of the bust of the studio monopolies this beautiful invention comes to save my company’s skin. There’s a new invention called “Television”. It's like Netflix but more random, and fewer choices. And listen to this kids, it’s free and you have to watch it at home with your family.
As a studio this opens up a new revenue stream for me. That would be making money through selling ad space.
Fast forward years later there is now cable television, premium channels and all sorts of wonderful new ways to create and enjoy programing. New markets and demographics to match.
WOOO HOO HOO!
The sky is the limit.
That was the case for Dave and Neal. They were ready to to get a piece of that pie, but not before a pit stop at the theaters. In a revised studio system.
Half Baked was a film written by Dave and Neal. They were friends in comedy for many years at this point and Dave had a great idea about a weed movie and asked Neal to write it with him. Neal tells the story better than I ever could. How Universal met with Dave he promised he was making a weed movie with someone they had never heard of— little did he know they had met with Neal Brennan a few days prior about another project. To which Dave initiated contact and told Neal “If Universal calls, tell em’ we’re making a weed movie.” I wish that Dan Soder were here to do his Chappell impression, but sadly we are not well acquainted yet. Neal did in fact inform Universal that they were writing a weed movie and that it would be ready in “30 days time.” They wrote the film in one night.
This weed movie would be distributed under Paramount. This is all fine, these are great names in show business. The joke that Neal always tells is It opened against Titanic. My research tells me that Titanic had been open for a month according to IMDB. It might have premiered at the same time, but box for Baked was open a month later.
The film was released during the tentpole era of movie releases. A time when studios had EXPLOSIVE amounts of money in their marketing budget, and 8 million dollars extra was available for Half Baked. There is no indication that anyone producing that show expected the movie to be super successful. I don’t think it was malicious. It was economics. The editor allegedly alleges that our beloved creators were just two “R-words” that turned out not to be. Again, Neal tells the story better.
This was perceived as a failure in the time it was released by Brennan, but upon further inquiry it was an auteurist success. The film is personal despite the way it was messed with by the producers. At times you can feel the would be creators of Chapelle Show sparking their creativity. Dave’s inventiveness, and Neal’s cut throat integrity in story structure alone is there in essence, despite the perceived fumble on the part of the studio.
And while a cult following from Half Baked found its way to the Chappelle Show, so did an intriguing storying telling style. Guerrilla filming, fast thinking, edgy, incredibly crass in all of the right ways. Sketch comedy revived. Vine, Lebron James… I’m Rick James Bitch…. That sort of thing.
This requirement for grit from impossible circumstances birthed the style of Chapelle Show.
The Pilot.
Half Baked gets it’s flowers now because
1.) We know who made it. Dave and Neal the creators of the Chapelle Show and
2.) We now know how difficult it was to make….
And
3.) It’s pretty fuckin’ funny.
But in a beautiful way if the studio had just let Brennan and Chapelle loose with a camera and 8 million dollars… The plot of Bowfinger is what I believe would be as close to what the experience would have been. Don’t ask to intern for them, just watch Bowfinger. And the movie would have been a lot better…. “Gotcha Suckahs” is in fact an incredible catch phrase.
The Chapelle Show was supposed to be like Playboy After Dark but just Dave. I don’t know what Playboy After dark Is cause I’m too little, but it sound sultry. Chapelle Show however, took on the structural contributions of Dick Ebersol and cranked it up to 10,000 and, and blacker, than black ought to be black… I’m aspiration-ally roasting.
This is when I would like to press the importance of the Chapelle Show as demonstrated through two sketches. The opening sketch, displays what happens when auteurist television is done right. The Clayton Bigsby Sketch for example engages with the important cultural phenomenon "cancel culture” long before its time.
The pilot opens with this Mitsubishi parody commercial. In this parody they make fun of a popular car commercial where a white woman is the center of an epic adventure in the passenger side of a Mitsubishi (ugliest model they made if you ask me but I digress). The woman is then replaced by Chapelle with a beautiful black woman, who is no longer pop locking to Moby, but pop locking and dropping it to Cool Mo Deep. I don’t know… I’m 33.
Bold arrival to basically dare advertisers to sponsor you. “We’re gonna replace your girls and change the music.” Toyota might more efficient. From the beginning Brennan and Chapelle knew that they had an audience. And they knew advertisers, Comedy Central executives, premium cable execs, anyone who watches TV like a score board would be watching … I don’t think they would be counting on former film majors over analyzing their show for a piece of content again, I digress.
Nowhere Man The Beatles
The “Clayton Bigsby” sketch is by and large the most famous and expansive Chapelle show sketch in the lexicon. This sketch tackles issues of race, self hatred, and influence in all about 10 minutes.
It depicts a white surpremacist who is blind and black. He doesn’t know he is black due to the fact that he is blind. He is one of the worlds most renowned leaders of the Ku Klux Klan. It’s based off of an experience that Chapelle’s grandfather had in the 60’s as a blind black man — albeit very light skinned. He would be harassed by members of the black community as if he were a white man on the day of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.
The “Clayton Bigsby” sketch has the basic story structure of any script. Clayton is introduced, we learn more about him. He goes to a clan rally. His true identity as a black man is revealed at the time of the rally. Everyone freaks out. Comedy madness issues. It’s basic, the good kind.
The thing that makes the sketch so magical is what happens in the editing bay. The end of the sketch Brennan’s playing a white surpremacists and his head explodes at the revelation that Clayton Bigsby is black and not white. “Show us your face!” I don’t know what he was expecting…. I guess a white man in mid life crisis — I don’t know—- so anyway. The blood from his pasty skull erupts and splashes onto a book. A book entitled “ Nigger Stain” It’s a brilliant punch. It implicates that the real “nigger stain” in this case is the blood of the white surpremacists.
Why do I bring this up? Because Brennan would later leverage the exact same joke premise in a joke in his first hour long special Women and black dudes. Brennan is a famous joke thief, but he’s so good at it, that nobody calls him on it, and his pitches are so divine that no one can get angry. I’m kidding.
I will say that Brennan has leveraged at least three of my pitches in the past year and a half, and I don’t say anything because I expect an ice cream date in Montreal at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. And an introduction to Jimmy Carr, who might be my cousin.
A Fine Trade.
Brennan takes the same premise and layers it into the N-word bit. This joke describes how he, a white man (Brennan) has an “N-word pass.” In this case he, the white man is the Clayton Bigsby of his black group but far less influential. He is of course more careful than Bigsby with his use of the N-word, and in the sketch he masterful only says the “Nigga” or “ Nigger” word as a specific character in the context of story. He never outright uses it or calls anyone but his own self the word. He not only paints himself as the oppressor but the oppressed. At the end of the joke, he is cornered by black men who are not happy with his use of the word. He is seemingly accepted after introducing himself as “Neal, Jamal’s friend." but then in a turn he is called a “Nigger” note not “Nigga” but hard ER and his iPhone is appropriately stolen by the black men.
Rightfully so.
Brennan makes himself the “Nigger” of the joke. He has subtly leveraged comedy and literary articulation to trade skins with his black friends in story form. It’s an interesting thought, no?
So When Dave left the show, when the pressure was too much for him, and he went to Africa and went on Oprah, and went and took care of himself and his family and his soul. I know now looking back at the work that Neal’s heart was broken because if he could, if it were possibly he would have traded souls with Dave, even for just a moment of peace— And why not, Dave is the most talented comedian on the planet. Someone that gifted should never be that stressed out about anything. I know that Neal wanted to do all he could if not more.
Play Mirror by Kendrick Lamar
3 Mics, Blocks, Westside Comedy and Crazy Good mmmmhhmmmhmmmhmmhmm
I wasn’t available for the Champs podcast. But when I went back and listened, I can tell you that the “JB Smooth” episode was the funniest thing I had ever heard in my life, and if you can’t tell the difference between Neal and Moshe’s voices, you’re racist.
I wasn’t really around for “How Neal Feel” either. I do know that an episode where Neal said he didn’t find thick women attractive caused me to drop 65 pounds in an uncommonly short amount of time. I’m still too heavy, but I’m sensitive. And I can say irrefutably that Bianca Sia has one of the sexiest voices I’ve heard in a long time and should be doing more radio.
3 Mics was beautiful shot at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about it at first. But when I watched it I understood that this man was redirecting his path in life toward the axis it is on now with discretionary confession, one powerful aspect a person can take from catholicism I imagine. Again I am not catholic.
There was of course Blocks, shot at the Belasco Theatre in Downtown LA, my favorite theatre to work in. Blocks was certainly a love note, probably to the love of Neal’s life Dave. Or maybe his Forever Lady. I don’t know much about the traipse and travails of the rich and famous. But it has now inspired his popular podcast now. LFG Reddit community.
But knowing that this man suffered so much for reasons unknown is what I think gives him his appeal with his audience.
I went to the “Brand New Neal” Tour. I met Brennan-ites like myself. Got the intro on that the “sun (being) the cops for white people” joke. Laughed with black men and women at that joke. I was in the most diverse crowd I had ever been in, in a theatre, my life. People from all walks of life really love Brennan. And this is something that cannot be forgotten.
I started attending Westside Comedy Theatre shortly after the DMs started. I didn’t know what it all meant, I just know that I like the mother fucker and I wanted know how tall he was!
I should have known it would get me suckered into spending more money on comedy than I could afford, and becoming a pretty good early comedian in my own right.
But it was at Westside I noticed things about Neal, Private things I won’t mention here. Special quirks he has, and ways that we were similar. I was being welcomed into a community and it seemed really healthy and pure and lovely.
I attended the Crazy Good special taping at the Fonda. It was a hectic night. I tried to warm up the line in hopes of getting picked up as an opener. Some day my love. We all walked in, many of us wearing all black. I kind of got into a fight. But It allowed me to move and sit with the Netflix people. I remember that I didn’t like seeing Neal so tired, ( I attended second taping) I had grown attached. I wanted him to be healthy. And well rested and well fed. He was grumpy, but well practiced. I liked his hair though. It was looked Fallon tight. And I knew that it would all be worth it. I ended up giving him a standing ovation. I was maybe one of 6 who stood. I think everyone else was drunk. And my pepper spray got confiscated. Not cool Brennan.
When Dave’s latest special was released. A month later (much like the Titanic) It answered a lot of questions for me. What the distance between two lovers really creates. A diverging conversation of view points and criticisms. Speculation from the reddit community that Dave and Neal are no longer close. My heavy admission that none of that is anyone’s business. But I did want it to be known, at least to myself, that as one legend might sunset, the other might emerge. And maybe even the sunsetting legend might be resolving the conflict in his own work for the purpose of releasing a new revelation. Brennan is a GOAT. If we try to deny him or drop him into some false comparison as opposed to asses him in his own right we miss the benefit of having him in our lives as an artist. We don’t need to know the whole deal about all the lives of the comics we love in order to love the comics for their comedy.
Play Are You Even Real - James Blake.
Neal and Dave were the co creators of one of the greatest television shows of all time. They were “the loves of each other’s lives” and I still think they are.
They both still keep a majestic hold over a generation of writers who still want to know when the Chapelle was coming back and when Dave is coming back from Africa.
I hate to be the bearer of sad news. I don’t think it will. Dave is back from Africa thought.Still, I will always ask under my breath where is Neal’s Twain Prize? While lauding Dave as a voice of a generation I have so many question. I will never work in a coffee shop in LA again, nor will I ever send a direct message to a celebrity at 8:59pm. Both are fair too exposing to my complexed PTSD. Traumaaaaaaa. But at I write this at 2am. Edit it at 8:23am. I wish to reclaim the voices of my teen years and express my sincerest gratitude to Mr. Neal Brennan and Mr. Dave Chapelle.
To Neal directly, I would like apologize for trying to meet you at Canter’s Deli on a Sunday, but the uncomfortable truth is I’m a native Angelino and you’re a transplant, we’re gonna have beef forever over turf and territory. But we are both Irish, You 100%, me just a dash. We’ll come to reconciliation eventually. If not for the children.
You’ve opened up my world to what my writing could be, and whether you want to believe it or not OG, you and Dave are my heroes. You helped me laugh when there wasn’t anything to laugh about and you’ve helped me learn when I thought my time was out. From those horrid Sunday afternoons, to this wonderful day 5 days away from the release of your best special to date.
You are an installment in this medium. I will iterate what I wrote in an email to you only a few weeks after our first awkward encounter.
“You are 100% in your league… And I think you understand this but I want you to know that everybody is seeing it. You are on your way to becoming one of the greatest black comedians of all time. … You [have] moved you into a league that you were always called to be in with freedom and joy and a security that you deserve. You deserve this. Take this in. Keep going! My heart skips a beat when I think of all of the success that is coming into your life today due to your courage and persistence. I’m so inspired and grateful to have witnessed it in my lifetime. You inspire me so much— We all got to take a little bit from you every day in every way.”
One day when we are both comedy legends, and I get off the stage at the store opening up for you on a Tuesday, and you fist bump me, I hope you will say “you stuck the landing, you little bitch.
All my love, Forever a Fan. - B
Play Post to Be - Omarion, Chris Brown, Jhene Aiko

[UPDATE: Hopefully the lack of any comments with corrections means I was in the clear and it was OK to go ahead and drop the episode, because I just did: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6u1RUWNONClUGfaZSaslot?si=Oos4uRB6Q7yaZC5o9ELhdQ ]
I host a radio-DJ-style podcast called, you guessed it, Songs of the Years. Last fall I started doing monthly episodes doing deep dives on my favorite recording artists, starting with the Beatles, then Dylan, the Stones, etc. On each of these episodes I play ten songs from the artist or group in question, and in between tracks I talk about their biography.
With a month to work on each one, I was able to take my time and be careful with meticulously fact-checking each one. But then a few weeks ago, Spotify announced that they were ending their "experiment" with the Music + Talk format in June. Well, that's the foundation of my whole deal! If I can't play tracks from the album I'm talking about, it becomes just talking about music, but taking away the music part. Which, to slightly repurpose the possibly apocryphal Martin Mull quote, is like dancing about architecture.
But I still had dozens of artists and groups I wanted to cover in these deep dives, so I started cranking up the pace, releasing multiple episodes per week. Unfortunately, this inevitably meant sacrificing some of that rigor when it came to fact-checking, and the result was that a few days ago I heard from someone on the Fleetwood Mac sub that I had gotten some important facts wrong about that band's early days.
I felt sick about this, since I can't go back and change the pod once it's released. So I resolved that going forward, I'm going to post my podcast scripts to Reddit once they are finished, and ask the people best situated to know this history inside out to help crowdsource the error checking.
Now, I can't pay anybody anything for this, as I don't get paid myself. No ads, no Patreon. Just a labor of love. But if you spot a goof and give me a citation from a solid source showing the correct information, I can (if you wish) credit you on the show for "research assistance provided by ________", using your Reddit handle or your real name, as you prefer. And you'll have the satisfaction of knowing the episode dedicated to Bruce will not spread false info like the Fleetwood Mac episode unfortunately has. (Spotify has said that although once June comes we can no longer create Music + Talk episodes, they will keep the ones already created up indefinitely, so this may well be the last podcast of this type, including full music tracks, you'll ever see dedicated to the Boss.)
Thanks in advance for your help. Below you'll find the full script. It's okay if you share portions of it with others, as long as you credit me, Alan Thomas, as the writer:
Bruce Springsteen, "The Boss," isn't just a musical icon: he is a blue-collar poet laureate, a voice for the working class. His music was born from the gritty streets of New Jersey and the vast expanse of the American dream. With a raspy voice, soaring melodies, and lyrics that pulsated with both hope and despair, he paints vivid portraits of everyday heroes, forgotten towns, and the struggle for something better.
His music isn't background noise; it is a freight train barreling down the tracks, carrying the hopes, heartbreaks, and resilience of the American working class. He chronicles factory closures and dead-end streets, but also the flicker of defiance and the yearning for a brighter horizon. Springsteen isn't just a singer; he is a bard of the blue-collar world, a champion for the forgotten, offering a flicker of hope in the face of hardship.
Bruce emerged from a hardscrabble Jersey town, the shadow of the American Dream flickering at its edges. Born into a blue-collar world with Dutch, Irish, and Italian blood flowing through his veins, his mother was the family's mainstay while his father was haunted by demons. His was a Catholic childhood, where rebellion against the nuns simmered even as something bigger whispered on the radio – Elvis, Sinatra, a raw power crackling with promise. His cheap rented guitar became a beacon, a pathway into the neon heart of the Jersey Shore. He haunted those boardwalk towns, absorbing characters and stories as the specter of Vietnam loomed. Then, in a stroke of luck, or maybe fate, a motorcycle accident kept him grounded while others went to fight.
The Beatles exploded onto the scene, upending everything, sparking that first ragged chord. His mom saw a flicker of something special, a fire worth feeding--the Kent guitar was a benediction, a baptism into rock'n'roll. From there, it was smoky Elks Lodges, beach bars, guys like Vinnie Roslin by his side – the apprenticeship years of the Jersey Shore. Names like Steel Mill and Dr. Zoom weren't just bands, they were battle scars. That raw Jersey sound, born on the Stone Pony's stage, rippled outwards. A San Francisco critic, Philip Elwood, caught the fire, proclaiming Springsteen a poet and composer with a blazing future. He wasn't wrong: the Boss was a fuse burning short.
His parents sought a new start out West, but the young rebel stayed behind. The restlessness wouldn't quit, though. The words flooded out, rough and urgent, attracting hustlers like Mike Appel, hungry for that spark. It was enough to get him in front of John Hammond, the legendary talent scout--the same man who unearthed Dylan years earlier. That audition was it: the last brick laid before the explosion.
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. was a calling card, a bolt of raw, unfiltered energy. Springsteen, restless and prolific, recorded most of the album at a shoestring studio, backed by his band of hungry Jersey misfits: the sax wail of Clarence Clemons, the relentless thump of Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez's drums. It was a whirlwind of youthful hopes and hard-luck stories, blending boardwalk bravado and poetic ambition.
Columbia Records boss Clive Davis saw potential but wanted a hit. Springsteen, with his rhyming dictionary and inexhaustible drive, obligingly whipped up "Blinded By the Light":
["Blinded By the Light" plays]
That tune's a kind of Dylanesque word salad: madmen drummers, teenage diplomats, summertime car chases. It defies easy explanation, but the energy was undeniable. There was something special in the air, even if its initial release barely registered.
Critics took notice, hearing echoes of Dylan, but also a voice all Springsteen's own. Words tumbled out, a torrent of vivid imagery set against rockabilly rhythms and Clarence Clemons' soaring sax breaks. Even with its grand ambition, it never lost that Jersey Shore grit. Maybe the world wasn't fully ready in 1973.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band later covered the song, scoring a massive hit and forever altering the popular understanding of the lyrics. Legacy? It's complicated. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. is a time capsule, a portrait of an artist on the verge. "Blinded by the Light" remains its most famous--or infamous--track, proof that the journey from rough-hewn gem to pop phenomenon can be as unpredictable as the boardwalk scene Springsteen once chronicled.
In these lean years, the nameless group of musicians that would become the E Street Band took shape. Springsteen, handling the band's finances and forever ready for a Monopoly game, earned the nickname "The Boss"--a title that became synonymous with his leadership and their shared ambition.
They were back at 914 Sound Studios, the same cramped room where they'd cut Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. But this time felt different. The E Street Band, though still unnamed, had gelled during those lean months. They were Springsteen's partners, not just sidemen. The music reflected this: it was bolder, the street corner poetry set ablaze by Clemons's saxophone and Danny Federici's organ swells. The Wild, the Innocent, & the E Street Shuffle was a testament to ambition, to dreaming big even with empty pockets.
The embodiment of that spirit was a seven-minute-long whirlwind of teenage yearning called "Rosalita":
["Rosalita" plays]
That is Springsteen at his most joyous and unrestrained. The lyrics, a playful tangle of boardwalk bravado and doomed romance, are pure Jersey, but the band brought a touch of epic grandeur, a sonic wall of sound that begged to be played at maximum volume. It was as if Springsteen was daring the world to ignore them this time.
No wonder it became a staple of those legendary multi-hour shows.
FM radio latched onto "Rosalita" even without an official single release, a testament to Springsteen's slow-burning breakthrough. Critics adored its energy and lyrical depth, understanding that beneath the raucous surface was a heart yearning for escape, for something greater. It wasn't a chart-topper in '73, but with time, its legend has only grown. "Rosalita" isn't just a song, it's the embodiment of youthful rebellion, a promise that the best nights, the best adventures, are always just down the road.
Springsteen's raw, unfiltered energy was undeniable, but fame remained elusive. Then came the Harvard Square Theater, that sweatbox of a venue where destinies change. Jon Landau, the critic with the power to make or break careers, was in the crowd. And that night, he saw more than just a skinny kid with a guitar and a heart full of dreams. "I saw rock and roll's future," he wrote, "and its name is Bruce Springsteen." It was more than praise; it was prophecy, a proclamation that the world was about to catch up to the fire that burned so brightly on those Jersey backstreets.
Born to Run wasn't just willed into existence – it was forged in the fires of frustration. Springsteen was coming off the modest success of his first two albums, but he knew he had something bigger inside him. The sessions were grueling, the pressure intense. Springsteen wrote and discarded songs relentlessly, demanding perfection from himself and the E Street Band. Stories abound of battles fought in the studio over the relentless wall-of-sound production, Springsteen's vision clashing with the band's desire for a rawer vibe.
From this struggle emerged what are, in my and many other people's estimation, Springsteen's best songs. I've managed to narrow the list down to three selections to share with you today. Let's start with the evocative harmonica and piano that open "Thunder Road":
["Thunder Road" plays]
"Thunder Road" went through countless iterations, Springsteen endlessly tweaking the lyrics and melody. But at its core, it always held that yearning for something more, that plea for escape that resonated deeply with his own restlessness. It wasn't just his story; it was a universal feeling painted in vivid detail. The band matched that intensity, crafting a musical landscape that felt like it could burst at any moment.
Next up is another beast entirely, a sprawling, ten-minute epic that showcases Springsteen's ambition and lyrical prowess in equal measure. This time we're opening again with piano, but with a sweet string accompaniment, as we listen to a tale of a barefoot girl sittin' on the hood of a Dodge, drinkin' warm beer in the soft summer rain, down in..."Jungleland":
["Jungleland" plays]
With "Jungleland", the Boss traded the open road of "Thunder Road" for the gritty underbelly of city life. Clemons recalled marathon sessions focused solely on that now-iconic sax solo, Springsteen demanding a performance that transcended notes on a page, something that cut to the emotional core of the song.
And of course we can't leave this album behind without spinning the iconic, anthemic, title track! This is "Born to Run":
["Born to Run" plays]
"Born to Run" came late in the recording process, and seemed to encapsulate the album's themes. It was a declaration of independence, the soundtrack for any kid who dreamt of escaping their small-town life to chase a better future. The recording was a testament to obsession: six months were reportedly spent perfecting that single track alone. Yet, even when the mix was finished, Springsteen's struggle wasn't over. Dissatisfied, he tossed the initial version into a hotel pool, nearly scrapping the entire album. It took the persuasive powers of Jon Landau to bring him back to the project, ultimately approving a final mix amidst the chaos of touring.
Commercially, the album was a breakthrough, peaking at number 3 on the Billboard charts and eventually achieving multi-platinum status. Critics hailed it as a masterpiece, with Rolling Stone later placing it at number 18 on its "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. They praised its scope and raw emotion, calling it "a furious, romantic statement of youthful hopes". Born to Run remains an iconic work, the album that catapulted Springsteen into the upper echelon of rock stardom and proved that desperate dreams, fought tooth and nail for, sometimes really do come true.
August 1975 marked a turning point. The Bottom Line shows were proof that the hype was real, Springsteen playing with a raw, hungry energy that transcended the small stage. The press went wild, Newsweek and Time placing him front and center. It was the breakthrough he'd craved, but fame had a bite. Critics started circling, questioning the authenticity of this blue-collar poet turned rock star. Springsteen felt the sting, a flash of doubt amidst the whirlwind. The E Street Band was his anchor, the road his refuge. But the legal battle with Appel raged on, a creative prison when he was bursting with songs. The struggle was real, and it would shape the darkness that lay ahead.
Darkness on the Edge of Town wasn't a victory lap – it was a hard right turn. The legal battles may have stalled his recording career, but Springsteen's creative wellspring overflowed with frustration and a newfound maturity. Gone was the wide-eyed optimism of Born to Run; Darkness was a meditation on blue-collar ennui, the American Dream seen through a cracked windshield.
One track stands out as a stark centerpiece. It's "Factory":
["Factory" plays]
The opening lines paint a picture wearied by familiarity: "Early in the morning factory whistle blows / Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes." It's a scene dripping with resignation, a script handed down through generations. The factory isn't a symbol of progress; it's a relentless machine, stealing more than sweat – "takes his hearing," Springsteen sings, "gives him life." That dark bargain hangs heavy in the air.
This isn't a romanticized vision of the working class. Springsteen doesn't shy away from the grime and desperation. When he sings of "mansions of fear / through the mansions of pain," the anger feels like a physical force. You hear the echoes of his father's struggle, the frustration of a life spent chasing a dream that keeps receding into the distance.
Critics hailed Darkness on the Edge of Town as a masterpiece, a stark portrait of the working class grappling with a tarnished American Dream. "Factory" is a microcosm of that struggle – a song that burrows deep, leaving behind a gritty truth and the lingering sense that the relentless grind of factory life leaves scars that etch themselves onto the soul.
The late Seventies saw Springsteen's influence spread, a testament to his songwriting prowess. Patti Smith took the bones of his unreleased "Because the Night" and transformed it into a dark, desperate anthem that shot up the charts. The Pointer Sisters found similar success with his fiery "Fire." He fueled the Asbury Jukes' rise, penning hits like "The Fever" and collaborating with his E Street lieutenant Stevie Van Zandt.
Then came the No Nukes concerts, where Springsteen and the band unleashed their legendary live energy on a wider stage. It was his first foray into political activism, but the live album and later documentary gave audiences who had only heard the records a taste of his electric, sweat-soaked shows. These weren't just side projects; they were sparks from a creative engine that refused to slow down, a reminder that even as he grappled with his own demons, Springsteen had plenty of fuel left in the tank.
The River was a product of ambition and restlessness. Released in 1980, it was Springsteen's attempt to reconcile the exuberance of his previous work with the darker themes of Darkness on the Edge of Town. The double-album format allowed him to indulge his creative appetite for contrasting narratives and sonic experimentation, but it also presented a challenge.
The album's title track emerged from a batch of songs Bruce had been working on intermittently, initially written as a stark, acoustic ballad. Here's "The River":
["The River" plays]
The story of the unnamed protagonist and his girl Mary, with its themes of lost innocence and unfulfilled dreams, resonated deeply with Springsteen's own grappling with the conflicting desires for freedom and stability. As the recording sessions progressed, the song grew in scope. Roy Bittan's piano became a key element, adding a layer of melancholy. The band's arrangement straddles the line between rock energy and poignant introspective balladry, a testament to Springsteen's expanding musical palette.
Commercially, The River was a blockbuster, reaching number one on the Billboard album chart and eventually going multi-platinum. Though the title track wasn't a major hit, critical acclaim was overwhelming. Rolling Stone later placed the album at number 250 on its "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. The title track became a Springsteen signature, its themes of yearning and regret amplified by the energy of his marathon shows. It remains a potent reminder of the transformative power of music, its ability to capture the complexities of the human experience.
The 1982 album Nebraska was born from a creative detour. Inspired by a book about the Starkweather murders, Springsteen began crafting a series of bleak acoustic demos. There was a raw intimacy to these recordings, a sense that he was tapping into a new and unsettling source. The decision to release the demos in their stark form was a bold one, defying conventional record label wisdom. He kept the E Street Band at arm's length, instead capturing the songs alone, using a four track cassette recorder. He even carried the cassette around in his pocket for a while, not even in a protective case, before he realized this wasn't just a demo, it was basically the master for the actual album!
The title track evolved from its initial form as a chilling portrait of a killer into a meditation on American violence and desperation. Springsteen recorded multiple takes, searching for that chillingly understated vocal delivery, a counterpoint to the brutality of the lyrics. Take a listen, this is "Nebraska":
["Nebraska" plays]
Bruce's guitar is sparse, almost skeletal, mirroring the empty highways and isolated towns his characters inhabit, accompanied by that mournful harmonica. That line about how "me and her, we had some fun" gives me chills.
I've got one more cut from this brilliant album to play for you today. It's a song that also began as a stark acoustic sketch. But as Springsteen honed the lyrics, the arrangement grew in subtlety. Hear for yourself, it's "Atlantic City":
["Atlantic City" plays]
The jangly guitar and shuffling rhythm create a false sense of hope, only adding to the pathos of the narrator's doomed gamble, somewhat reminiscent of the desperate scenario laid out in the earlier composition "Meeting Across the River", on Born to Run. The contrast between the upbeat sound and the bleak lyrics is disarming, a testament to Springsteen's increasing sophistication as a songwriter.
Critics hailed Nebraska as a stark, uncompromising masterpiece. It landed at number 224 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. The record's stripped-down sound and relentless gaze into the darkest corners of human experience were an artistic risk, but one that paid off. Commercially, the album was a modest success, but its impact extended far beyond sales figures.
Nebraska is a testament to Springsteen's ability to inhabit characters far removed from his own life, to use music as a means to examine difficult truths about American society. These aren't feel-good songs; they're songs that force you to confront the bleak corners of the American Dream, a reminder that sometimes the most powerful journeys are those we take into the shadows.
Born in the U.S.A. arrived in 1984 with the force of a sonic hurricane. More than just another album, it was a cultural phenomenon, catapulting Springsteen into the realm of stadium-rocking superstar. Its anthems of blue-collar struggle wrapped in a flag-waving package resonated with a nation hungry for a new kind of patriotism. But beneath the arena-ready choruses and radio-friendly hits lay a restless heart, an undercurrent of dissatisfaction that hinted at the darkness of Springsteen's previous work. This tension--between populist anthems and a critical examination of the American Dream--created a fascinating and often overlooked subtext to the album, as exemplified by the titular track "Born in the U.S.A.", whose message of struggle and disillusionment was often misinterpreted by those swept up in jingoistic fervor.
I don't love this album like I do his earlier releases, but my favorite track on it harkens back to his older records with a slightly updated sound, standing as a stark contrast to the record's fist-pumping anthems. It's a haunting ballad, propelled by a repetitive minimalist synth riff and throbbing drumbeat reminiscent of a heartbeat. Here's "I'm On Fire":
["I'm On Fire" plays]
Bruce Springsteen originally wrote that song for Roy Orbison, but it resonates uniquely with his own voice--a tense, almost whispered confession of forbidden desire. The lyrics are a study in frustrated yearning, all unspoken longing and suppressed heat. The narrator is consumed by a desire he can't contain, the imagery crackling with sensual tension: "Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby / edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley / through the middle of my soul."
The song's production enhances its simmering intensity. Springsteen and his team experimented with synth sounds amidst the otherwise sparse arrangement, as the E Street Band provided a subtle pulse, creating a sonic backdrop that's both disquieting and strangely alluring.
The Born in the USA album was a commercial juggernaut, spawning seven Top-10 singles and going multi-platinum. Critics were largely swept up in the fervor, praising Springsteen's undeniable talent for crafting anthems that tapped into the American psyche. However, a more nuanced reading of the album reveals a streak of social commentary beneath the anthems, a critical eye turned towards the American experience. "I'm On Fire," with its hushed intensity and dark undertones, exemplifies this complexity. Though not one of the record's hit singles, the song remains a testament to Springsteen's ability to tap into universal emotions that lie beneath the surface of his larger-than-life tales.
In 1985, Bruce found himself shoulder-to-shoulder with pop royalty for "We Are the World." The charity single was a world away from gritty Jersey bars, the studio filled with stars at the height of their fame. Still, amidst the glitz, his raspy plea cut through with raw urgency. He may have later called it a "corny" song, but Bruce understood its power: even a simple song, sung by a chorus of voices, could spark a global movement. After all, it wasn't every day The Boss himself got to belt out a harmony with Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, not to mention being able to hang out with Huey Lewis and Cyndi Lauper. That kind of camaraderie, for a cause like this, transcended any reservations about the music itself.
Bruce Springsteen wrestled with fame's burdens during the late Eighties. The downbeat Tunnel of Love album found him probing love's rough edges, and as Berlin Wall fissures began appearing, his 1988 East Berlin show helped pry it open, proving that rock 'n' roll could be a force for liberation. But the E Street Band had to go in '89.
He cut "Human Touch" and "Lucky Town" in LA in 1992, risking accusations of going soft, and indeed these records didn't stick the landing like prior classics. Even a brave unplugged set did little to quiet growing dissent within Springsteen's ever-loyal fanbase.
Still, Hollywood came knocking: Springsteen snagged an Oscar in '94 for "Streets of Philadelphia". A brief E Street reunion led to a sprawling greatest hits collection. Then, inspired by Steinbeck, Springsteen hit the road with just an acoustic guitar for '95's "The Ghost of Tom Joad", a stark homage to the American downtrodden. But by decade's end, even he was confessing the Nineties had been a musical wasteland for him.
But the Boss came roaring back in 1999, reuniting with the E Street Band for a triumphant tour. 2002's The Rising was a gut-punch reaction to 9/11, reaffirming his gift for capturing the nation's pulse through rock. That led to stints on high-profile benefit tours and even an appearance honoring Joe Strummer.
A stark solo turn came with 2005's Devils & Dust, tackling America's growing anxieties. Then, Bruce dug into Pete Seeger's songbook in 2006, leading a giant folk ensemble on a tour many hailed as a creative rebirth. 2007's Magic was another E Street revival; then in 2008, Springsteen threw his weight behind Barack Obama's history-making campaign. He serenaded the crowd on Obama's inauguration night, his music the soundtrack to that dawn of a new era. Sure, his Super Bowl halftime show in 2009 was a nod to the mainstream, but the marathon sets on the 'Working on a Dream' tour, plus a Kennedy Center Honor, proved the Boss was more than a nostalgia act.
After 2012's fiery Wrecking Ball, Bruce found a new gear. No longer just a stadium hero, he got intimate with his autobiography, then even hit Broadway in a stark one-man show. He wasn't above campaigning for Obama or a Super Bowl romp, but that Springsteen on Broadway special? It was a reminder that he wasn't merely fueled by anthems: the Boss was a storyteller at his core.
But even when he dug into Americana on Western Stars or revisited old demos with High Hopes, Bruce refused to get nostalgic. He was too damn restless. So, covers albums felt inevitable, Springsteen putting his spin on the soul classics that shaped him on Only the Strong Survive.
And then came 2020: Springsteen's intimate Letter to You, a gut-level reflection during a bleak year, felt like a lifeline tossed from rock's elder statesman. It hinted that his hunger for connection hadn't faded at all. He even popped up on podcasts, bantering with Barack like old times. Proof that the Jersey bard still had a few tricks up his denim sleeve.
Sure, there have been pauses for health scares, and the decision to cash out his catalogue struck some as the final act. But Bruce kicked off an E Street Band mega-tour in 2023, proving he's far from the retirement home stage of rock 'n' roll. Hell, he's even promising more outtakes and soul covers on the way. The man who once raged against the dying light is now finding a thousand different ways to keep burning.
Few artists have captured the American spirit quite like Bruce Springsteen. For over five decades, he's been a tireless chronicler of its complexities: the grit, the glory, the shadows, and the unwavering hope. From anthemic stadium singalongs to introspective confessions whispered on Broadway, his music resonates across generations. He's a storyteller who paints vivid portraits of ordinary lives, reminding us of our shared humanity. He's a social conscience, unafraid to grapple with injustice and inequality.
More than just a rock star, Bruce Springsteen embodies a fundamental American mythology: the promise of hard work, the pursuit of freedom, the aching beauty of ordinary lives. His songs, belted out in sweat-soaked stadium concerts, evoke both a nostalgic longing for a simpler past and a fierce belief in the future. With his mix of gritty realism, yearning romanticism, and a profound faith in the human spirit, Springsteen's music is a soundtrack to both the American dream and the struggle to make it real.

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Words were shared between us both. Not very good ones. I had many terrible things to say to that young attendant and they didn’t have a very well rehearsed defense. Only blabbering and self-pity came out of their mouth while my patient was still sleeping in his room. We argued as quietly as possible in the hall.
“Look, ma’am, I’m sorry, but we’re severely understocked. I had other things to do. That guy with the stubs isn’t laying down dying. His recovery is simple, so I wasn’t needed. It seems like you did good on your own anyways.”
“Are all of you humans so uncaring towards your own kind?”
“No…”
“So it’s just you then that does not care?”
“When the choice is between keeping a cripple company and assisting with life changing surgeries, it’s pretty clear what’s more important. I was needed elsewhere. The rest of his life is already set in stone. It’s not the same for everyone else. They’re more important.”
“You disgust me. Get out and go back to the rest of your patients. I refuse to work with someone of your mindset. Tell your head nurse or whoever she was to send me anyone else. You are awful, too awful to be helpful.”
“Oh well fuck you too, ma’am. I don’t want to work with you xenos either. It’s your fault all of this happened. Why don’t I go remind your patient of that? Want me to?” he asked.
“Don’t you even go near my patient.”
“This is our hospital. My hospital! You’re only a guest. I’ll do what I damn well please! Get out of my way so I can do my job, xeno.”
He shoved me out of the way and put his hand on the door handle. He put the full strength of his arm into opening it, but it didn’t budge at first. Had I accidentally locked it?
The door opened a crack and confirmed that I had not. Then it suddenly slammed back shut and into the face of the obor’s ass that had argued with me and insulted me so. He fell flat on his rear and clutched at his nose as red fluid dribbled out from under his fingers. I chuckled a little then stopped myself. It was too unprofessional of me to keep laughing even if he deserved what had happened to him.
“Ow! What the hell?! Who’s in there?!”
“Me! The cripple!” Trevor yelled, wobbling along on the false legs he supposedly hated. It was a terrible truth that he looked adorable doing it. I cursed my own soul for thinking such a thing.
The nurse on the ground looked in surprise at the altered man struggling along. His legs may have been gone, but his arms were as strong as Resket’s legs, as was expected of a primate.
“Don’t ever call me a cripple again, shitheel. It’ll hurt even harder when I kick your ass with these babies.”
“I’m… so sorry…” the nurse coughed between swallows of blood.
“You’d better be, but you know what, I’m not the only one you need to apologize to. Say sorry to the xeno nurse too, and then get gone.”
“I’m sorry… Ma… ‘am… I mean… it…”
“Uhm… Good.” I said to him. “Shall I call another doctor to assist you?”
The nurse sputtered more words. “No. I’ll… leave…”
And so he did, hobbling away with his nose still hidden under now blood soaked rags and reddened hands. The pattering of his feet on the polished stone floor eventually faded into light taps and then into nothing at all. I was left looking at the unexpected defender of my honor.
“Thank you, Mr. McGrath.”
“I did it more for myself than you, but you’re welcome, nurse.” he said to me.
“What now?” I asked.
“Want to help me around? I’m exhilarated from all that action. I want to go do something other than sleeping. Kicking his ass has me in that kind of mood. Show me the rest of this place, medical servant.”
“Yes, Mr. McGrath. Anything for my patient’s well being.”
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I spent the first few minutes helping the surprisingly light Human down the halls until he gained enough of an understanding of his instruments to carry himself along. As soon as he could, he was moving the mechanical things on his own enough to stumble along. It almost became hard to keep up with him. Though they were not his true legs, they seemed to offer some sense of the freedom he had lost. I could tell they needed adjustment though. I would have to learn how to do that.
“These things ain’t so bad, Trev. Still would like my legs back, but they’re not so bad.”
“I’m glad to hear you say that.”
“I’m sure you are. You’re a doctor, and I just told you you did something right.” he said in a grumble.
“You seem disappointed. What’s wrong now?” I asked.
“I was hoping to see a few names that I didn’t see on this little hike of ours. I’m assuming my buddies didn’t make it. Kind of depressing, you know?”
“I’m so sorry, Mr. McGrath.”
“I know you are… It doesn’t make it hurt any less. That’s not your fault though. Oh well… Let’s go back to my room, Trev. I’m tired of walking now. These things hurt my stumps and that just reminds me of what happened. I want to do something that doesn’t remind me of what I’ve been through.”
“What would you like to do?”
“I want to watch tv and sleep.”
“You have slept enough, so ‘tv’ will have to be good enough. What sort of programming do you enjoy watching, if I may ask?”
“I like watching Horrors of the Hudson reruns. Sometimes I imagine I live in New York and Earth isn’t gone. It would have been cool to be a detective. The closest thing we have here is security, but I wasn’t fit for that. My body’s built for mining, not holding a gun. I don’t have the speed or the agility to do what those guys do. Especially not now.”
“Perhaps you could be a detective for our people. New recruits are accepted from all species in the Consortium, and your species is now a part of our Consortium. You’d fit right in, after a while.”
“With these useless things? I doubt it.”
“The Trombil can help you. They can work miracles with cybernetics. Their methods would be a lot more ‘intrusive’, but they would be a lot more effective as well. I think it’s likely that they can provide you with a much better life experience..”
“Do you promise to get me a pair of their legs?”
“I do.”
“I’ll take your word for it, but I won’t believe you entirely until I see the magic cyborg legs you’re promising.”
“That is okay so long as you do not give up. You have to keep going if you ever want to see what the future holds. A dead man cannot see, after all.”
“No, I guess not. I won’t give up that easily, Doc.”
“Good. I do not want to have to force you up and feed you every day. I will if I have to though. Believe you me.”
“I believe you.”
“You have better. I do not joke when it comes to the care of my patients.”
“You’re a good doctor then, Trev, but you’re a liar too.”
“That I know, though I don’t like to admit it. Now, let us go watch your shows. Then later, exercise.”
“Awful. No.”
“Too bad. So sad.”
“Yes. I will be very, very sad. My stubs already hurt.”
“Yes, but your joints do not.”
He grumbled and kept walking ahead with a strange gait in his step. It was to be expected with such improper instruments. I pitied him as I watched him. The Trombil couldn’t come soon enough.
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“Let us try the other one now. We have to get those muscles moving.”
“Bahhh. I still think this is stupid. I’m only doing this so you’ll watch the show with me. No one else ever wanted to watch it because it’s ‘too cheesy’. None of the rest of my friends ever knew…” he said before cutting himself off.
His legs grew more resistant. He’d thought of them again. I knew the exercises could not be held off again, so it was up to me to cheer him up. They had not even bothered to try to replace the obor’s ass. It was all on me to be a therapist. Something I was not exactly capable of. I was used to dealing with primate pets, not primate people.
“I am sorry for the losses you have taken, my sweet patient. No one should have to go through what you have gone through in such a short time.”
“I’ll get through it, I hope. They were like my family though, Trev. I don’t have any real family here. They were my family. It’s hard to imagine going on without them. I’ve been stuck in this room for so long, and they didn’t even tell me who I’d lost. Their bodies are probably already gone. I can’t even say goodbye. Can’t see their funerals. We can’t even bury our dead down here, Trev. We burn them. We don’t even have the choice to give them a proper rest, and I can’t even say my goodbyes to their remains.”
“Perhaps you could say goodbye to their memories. Tell me about them, Trevor. Let your memories of your family out and let yourself mourn them. I will do what must be done with your legs. All you need to do is speak, and let me work.”
“Okay… I’m sorry for being so useless, Trev… I’m nothing now.”
“You are a man, and you are suffering. Allow yourself time to heal, both mentally and physically. You are still so many things, and one day you will be just as well as you once were.”
“I hope so… Can you hand me the remote, Trev?”
I fulfilled his request and handed him the remote control programmed to the television set on the wall. He clicked through a menu in a script I could not yet understand. Slowly he typed out a sentence and entered it into some sort of search menu. I knew that the Humans had records stored in their city with easy access from all sorts of places, but the amount of things that came up from one search was astounding. He scrolled through a whole list of things until he came to one and smiled. With him clicking a button, the television started playing something musical. A string-band song of some kind.
“Me and my buddies, we always loved listening to these guys as we worked. It hurts to hear them again, but it’s the strongest memory I have of them. God, I’ll miss them all. Why did I survive, Trev? Why me and not them?”
“Someone had to, and luck determined that it was you. You are the chosen one, and I would suppose that it’s your task to keep their memories alive.”
“Any of the rest of them could have done it all the same.”
“And if they had, they would be in the same position as you. I would tell them the same thing, that their friends would not wish for them to be miserable. You must live a life for those you have lost. It is as the song says, ‘Lord knows that you have been blessed. You can stand up to the test.’ This much I already know.”
“Very funny.”
“It is helpful to take an interest in Human culture. I will be working around your people for quite some time I think. It is time I start learning your traditions.”
“Well this band isn’t exactly an important one to remember. It ain’t the Beatles, BTS, or Nirvana.”
“What is it then?” I asked.
“Some old bunch of Okies. The Turnpike Troubadours. Truth be told, I’m surprised they’re even on the records. They weren’t American legends like Michael Jackson or John Denver. They were just some guys from Oklahoma.”
I knew I had to keep him talking. At least talking about his former home-world would keep his mind off of the sadness of his more recent losses.
“What is Oklahoma?” I asked.
“It’s a state. Part of the United States of America.”
“And can you explain what that place is?”
“It’s a union of states. They were a controversial place before the Feds went and killed the whole world. Still, even if it wasn’t the best country, I sure do miss it. I miss the sun of the Oregonian summer. Would be nice to feel it again.”
“I will make you another promise. Tomorrow we will go and see the sun of this world. Will that make you happy?”
“Yes, it very much would.”
“Then it shall be done, but we will have to get you some scale cream. You have been down here for a very long time, and I would not want my patient to burn up in the sunlight.”
“That’s right. I’m a goddamned crippled vampire. I’ll suck your blood!”
“What?”
“Nothing. Weird cultural thing. I’ll explain it to you someday.”
“Okay?” I said questioningly, a bit of worry in my voice.
He only chuckled in response.
“Hey, Trev?” he asked.
“Yes? What is it?”
“We’re friends now. You can stop calling me mister. It sounds dumb. Just call me by my name.”
“And so I will, Trevor.”
“Thank you.”
“You are welcome.”
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12 APR UPDATE: https://www.reddit.com/singaporemusicchat/comments/1c26c7k/reupload_megalist_sg_gigs_concerts_raves_mid/

29 Mar 2024, Fri - Good Friday

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• Singapore Symphony Orchestra - John Williams' Essay and Flute Concerto - 1 of 2, Victoria Concert Hall, $15
• Esplanade Music: Poetry In Motion by San The Wordsmith (hip hop), outdoor, free
• Esplanade: Outspoken: Competitive Spoken Word (improv & poetry) , indoor concourse, free
• Esplanade Poetic Dance Drama till 31st: A Mere Touch of Green by 中国东方演艺集团, Theatre, $68
• Esplanade Theatre till 31st: Hi, Can You Hear Me? by The Necessary Stage, Theatre Studio, $38
• Chinese Children Drama: Chinese Proverbs - Mr "Smart", 华语儿童剧 《成语寓言剧之"聪明"先生》 1 of 2, Gateway Theatre Bukit Merah, $35
• Till 30 Mar Theatre: The Death of Singapore Theatre as Scripted by the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre @ Wild Rice, Funan, $30

 

• Live Electronic Experimental + DJ, BLENCH pres ZULI (EGY deconstructed glitch hiphop) ft. sl_owtalk, yetpet, Dodgy South, DJs yetpet, Nah, $32
• DJ, KOKO LOKO - Sergei Rex (ESP), Stephen Day & Reiko - 9 hour Latin edm event (tech tribal house, progressive, afro, reggaeton hiphop & more), NoonTalk x ShowCo Studio at Alice @ Mediapolis (one-north), $45
• DJ, Culture X WhoHurtYou❓ Presents Avril Lavigne x Paramore night (International Women's Day Celebration), club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), $20
• DJ Party, The Taylor Swift Era's End Game by UnfilteredPresents x sg.swifties , Projector X Golden Village No Spoilers Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard L5, [$28
• DJ, Daydream Nation by Ginette Chittick - indie , rock, shoegaze, punk and everything in between at projector, Projector X Golden Village Ruby Lounge @ Cineleisure Orchard L6, free
• DJ, Vertigo 26: DJ KidG of eatmePOPTART (electronic to indie pop, Asian disco), listening bar @ MINT Museum City Hall 26 Seah St, free/bar
• DJ, BLASÈ March Edition DJ Marie, K, Piratheeb - Hip-hop, Rnb, Dancehall and Reggaetón, Blu Jaz L2 @ bali ln (bugis), $16
• DJ, Here Kitty Kitty: Fresh Fridays Launch - Fuego Night's DJ Skilla and K Faith (Hip Hop R&B, Afrobeat, Reggaeton & Dancehall), cocktail lounge @ clarke quay blk e, free
• DJ, Christ! He's Coming! - DJ ESTR & AMPRSND lgbt event, salud @ 19 Keong Saik Rd, $25
• DJ, BARE dance party collab with Lluvia , gay event, MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $68
• Closing Down Cocktail Bar DJ,THE FINAL FLING - Adieu Levant), Levant Bar @ 32 Tras Street L4 (maxwell), free/bar
• DJ, 🏖 Tanjong Beach Club: Manolet Dario (PH), Beach Club @ 120 Tanjong Beach Walk, Sentosa
• DJ, Thugshop x Unmute pres: Never Tooo Loud with JUSTINE PERRY (FRA-DE techno) & VAIBS, headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36

30 Mar 2024, Sat

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• KYUHYUN, Singapore Expo Hall 7, $128
• FISH LEONG 梁静茹 , Singapore Indoor Stadium, $98
• Marquee: VAVA (CN rapper, singer), nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $45 or student dc
  • After-Party: with DJ Sally , same as above
• Sakura Anime Garden Festival at Gardens by the Bay, Day 1 , Map IG 📸 free
  • Japan Music Nights - Hiro from MY FIRST STORY, TeddyLoid, WISE of Teriyaki Boyz, supertree grove, free
  • Warm up Concert: Sparkle Guitar Ensemble, Mike Miller, Allen, Narutee, ryoko, Kirameki future, Dear Kiss (JP), DJ Anisong Rave by Golden Mix, supertree main stage, free
• Wisma Geylang Serai / Bazaar: AFGAN and Ezad Lazim, , free
• Indie Cosy Singer-Songwriter Gig: Benny's, Krysta Joy, Enrico - Blankets, Tea, Lullabies with New Mongrels, Saylah Studios @ 180 Paya Lebar Rd, $25
• Gemilang Kampong Gelam: Tomok, baghdad street stage at kampong glam (bugis/nicoll highway) , free
• liminal archives Ramadhan market: ashruff, Song Lin Building L6 @ 1 Syed Alwi rd (lavender)
• Strait Up Blues Jam$20
• Maduro Jazz: Easter Jazz: An Exchange by Sarah-Kei Lauw & Russell Tay (jazz standards, bossa nova), maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
• Cool Cats Jazz: Diah & Micah presents Groove Night (soul) 3 of 3, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $38
• Jazz Loft: NITA AARTSEN TRIO (Indonesian Latin jazz) 2 of 2, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• Singapore Symphony Orchestra: John Williams - Essay and Flute Concerto - 2 of 2, Victoria Concert Hall, $15
• Churen Li's FEMME-DOM: A Piano Concert, The Arts House (old parliament city hall), IG info 📸 $43

 

• Esplanade Music: 2MANY 2MICS by Ihasamic! x Wovensound (hiphop, rnb, metal, pop) ft Eliza Cuarez & Jean Seizure, kozy allways & Khalif Rawi, Will Beale & Umar Sirhan, Hasyir Ibrahim & Ash, outdoor, free
• Esplanade Poetry Music: Dream a Granted Sky Book Launch by Felix Cheong ft Phoon Yu, Reuben Lai and Jonathan Shin - lyrical arias, piano, concourse. free

 

• Standup Comedy, Afrobeats & DJ Party RIVERSIDE LONG WEEKEND - ft Rumshot, MC JAC45 from Ghana, SWTLKR, DJ DrZ, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), free
• DJ & Afrobeats Party: AFROGROOVE - Afro Club Night with JAC45 (ghana), DabishopOnDmix, DJ Al, Marie, Jag (Afrobeats, Amapiano, Hip-Hop/RnB & Reggaeton),Blu Jaz L2 @ bali ln (bugis), $20
• DJ Party, Moonstone: MOONSTONE’s 7th birthday bash - Secret Pals, bongomann, daryl knows, snooze, snooze, one braincell, Revision Music , Gahmen, Halia, Nez Senja, Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St
• DJ, Fizzy (City) Pop Night at SG Taps with DJ Itch & Hiddy (Japanese city pop, asian boogie records), SG Taps Craft Beer Bar, Izakaya fusion @ 13 Duxton Hill, free bar
• DJ, Offtrack: CuCiCuCi (GER) & The Weatherman (jazz , house, broken beat), bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
• DJ, 🏖Manifest 5th Anniversary Pool Party - feat RPDM + Aman Anand + Raja Rani + Eli Rojas (Ibiza), 1-Altitude Coast at The Outpost Hotel Sentosa , $43
• DJ, Wallich Manor: DJ Shortkut (US) & Koflow (SG) - attn turntablist heads, Wallich Manor Lounge @ Sofitel City Centre Hotel L6 (tg pagar)
• DJ, 🏖 Tipsy Unicorn: MOJI (AU edm),@ 36 Siloso Bch Walk (Sentosa), $18
• DJ, MODAL Presents AMOTIK (GER techno) & ANSWER CODE REQUEST (GER idm ambient techno), MDLR pop-up club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $34

31 Mar 2024, Sun - Easter Sunday, Singapore Poetry Month

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• Sunday Metal Service II - SUFFOCATION and GATECREEPER (both USA death metal) x DOLDREY (SG), Gr.ID Mall Selegie (bs SOTA dhoby, bencoolen) L5, $98
• Sakura Anime Garden Festival at Gardens by the Bay, I Love Anisong - Nano and Kitadani Hiroshi
  • Warm up Concert: Tokimeki JUMP, AIJOU, Rae Atrista, Cosplay Competition, alt.titude, Dear Kiss (JP), supertree main stage supertree, free
• Wisma Geylang Serai / Bazaar: Zakhrafa,free
• FLAME OF THE FOREST Pupa: Music and Art Jam - multidisciplinary music concert and some chinese art-style workshop, EXP @ 340a Joo Chiat Rd, IG video📸 $20
• Singapore Poetry Writing Month: SingPoWriMo 2024: Opening Party Open Mic and Hangout ft Vivien Yap, SingLit Station @ 22 Dickson Road (jalan besar), free
• NUS Guitar Ensemble: NUS Guitar Ensemble presents Aventura, school of the arts (bencoolen, dhoby), $16
• NUS Jazz Band: Milestones: The 30th Anniversary of NUS Jazz Band, NUS university cultural centre, $20
• Miss Nee with Drag Qabaret Does Disney (musical theatre parody), Alchemy Bistro & Craft Beers @ 128 Prinsep Street, $30
• William Scorpion and the 黑天狼 (mando/cantopop) at The Mermaid Haw Par Villa, The Mermaid Bar & Restaurant @ 27 W Coast Hwy (bs. Haw Par Villa)

 

• Esplanade Music: Unbecoming by Mantravine (psychedelic, shamanic Carnatic tribal funk, jazz fusion, electro swing), outdoor,free
• Esplanade: TSMC Tunes by AEONA and Ying Ying (english and chinese-pop covers), indoor concourse,free

01 Apr 2024, Mon

• Esplanade Presents , Coffee Morning & Afternoon Tea Reminiscing Leslie Cheung 追忆张国荣 by Donnie Chan & Winnie Wong 陈国荣与黄慧妮, Esplanade Recital Studio, $18
• Esplanade: I Have A Dream, A Song to Sing by Cedar Girls’ Secondary School Choir, concourse, free
• Blu Jaz: Musical Theatre Open Mic Night , Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), $15

02 Apr 2024, Tue

• Esplanade: Concord Primary School Choir , free
• Comic Improv: PowerPoint Karaoke Singapore , the Hive Carpenter @ 36 Carpenter St (clarke quay), $15

03 Apr 2024, Wed - Bruno Mars

• Bruno Mars Live in Singapore - 1 of 3, National Stadium, $108
• Esplanade: Songs that Saved my Life by Matthias (singer-songwriter, jazzy pop soul), free
• Esplanade: Ang Mo Kio Secondary School Concert Band , Concert Hall, $15

04 Apr 2024, Thu - Tomb-Sweeping Day(?)

• PUMA BLUE, SCAPE The Ground Theatre (somerset), $79
• Wisma Geylang Serai / Bazaar: Floor 88 ft mamat bora, free
• Esplanade Music: Chemistry of A Teenage Girl by Stage Fright (band, bedroom pop, rock), indoor concourse, setlist free
• NAFA: Concert Series: An Evening of Arias and Art Songs, Lee Foundation Theatre @ 151 Bencoolen St (bencoolen), free
• Club Lunar: Bruno Mars cover songs, Club Lunar (southeast asian club) @ Orchard Plaza L4, table
• DJ, TEMPEST ft Joshua Dillon, Hande JumboGoat XXL (hard dance techno), at Club Rich (lol) southeast asian club @ 114 middle rd (bugis), $38
• DJ, MOONSTONE: Jenn Chunes b2b Tashasan (uk garage, rnb, jungle, bass, asian pop), Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St

05 Apr 2024, Fri

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• EVNNE, The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $138
• Bruno Mars - 2 of 3, National Stadium, $108
• Wisma Geylang Serai / Bazaar: OKLETSGO, , free
• Gemilang Kampong Gelam Bazaar: Nabila Huda 3 of 3, Baghdad Street Stage (bugis/nicoll highway)
• Phil Studio Anniversary: 1st Anniversary with Exfl Records - The Black Koes, Shuffle Squad, The Hooligans, Bad Idea, Cole's Law, Shananigans, Surprise Band, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $15
• Maduro Jazz: Soulful Standards & Swing with EJ Trio, maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
• Candlelight: Candlelight: Vivaldi's Four Seasons w Vocalise String Quartet, the arts house (old parliament city hall), $56
• YST Conservatory: (double) basses of spring, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, Orchestra Hall L3, free
• NAFA School of Music 40th Anniversary Celebration Concert, Victoria Concert Hall, $37
• The TENG Recital Series: Guzheng Music 溯•筝 Transcendence - 1 of 2, Mapletree Business City (labrador park), $10

 

• Esplanade: Benny’s (singer-songwriter, alt, folk), free
• Esplanade: Lights, Camera, Strings! by St. Margaret's School (Secondary) String Ensemble, free
• Esplanade Performing Arts x Tech Lab sharing: AI and storytelling - Kamini Ramachandran, sound artist Syafiq Halid and AI engineer Ernie Chen, annexe studio, free RSVP
• Esplanade Performing Arts x Tech Lab sharing: Verge 2.0 - interactive sound art with James Lye with with choreographer Dr. Amin Farid, annexe studio, free RSVP

 

• DJ, EMONIGHTSG: The B-Sides (alt rock, 2000s emo, pop punk guilty pleasures, hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), $22
• DJ, DUTTYWINE PARTY : CINCO - DJs Sristi, Lokies Khan, Ampsnd (reggaeton, moombahton, afrobeat), lgbt friendly, Projector X Golden Village Ruby Lounge @ Cineleisure Orchard L6,, $15
• DJ, UnfilteredPresents: One Night in Seoul (kpop), Projector X Golden Village No Spoilers Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard L5, $30 left
• DJ, Africa Parties x Saint Ben - Feel Africa: BLAZIN' , Mortar & Pestle rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, $20
• DJ, Offtrack: Bongomann (house, jazzy atmospheric electronica), bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
• DJ, Capasso Restaurant: Capasso Friday by Party Social - hiphop rnb pop, CAPASSO Italian @ 92 Telok Ayer St, , free,
• DJ, Temple Cellars: Bring Your Own Vinyl Night, liquor store wine bar @ 31 Binjai Park (king albert park), free

 

• DJ, Marquee: Wonderland, marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, from $20
• DJ, HighHouse: Aldrin & David Carollo, High House Lounge @ 1 Raffles Place Roof (old 1-altitude), $38
• DJ, Highh Club: DJ NICOLE CHEN ft gainzter, shai tmo, Highh Club Party @ Pan Pacific Hotel, 7 raffles blvd (old bang bang - esplanade, promenade)
• DJ, Ark11: DJ JADE RASIF for The Shop pre-party, ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11
• DJ, Ce La Vi: Singapore William Djoko (NED house techno), marina bay sands hotel rooftop bar-club, $38
• DJ, Tuff: DEETRON (SUI techno-funk) ft Stephen Day, Vix pres by Solid Ground x Midnight Shift, tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $35
• DJ, Groovetop presents S!RENE (NED Afro, Funk, Amapiano, Hip Hop, R&B), MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $40
• DJ, HQ: All Night Long with BAMBOUNOU (FRA techno idm tribal), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36

 

06 Apr 2024, Sat

• ITZY, Indoor Stadium, $168
• NICKTHEREAL 周湯豪, capitol theatre city hall, $108
• Bruno Mars Live in Singapore - 3 of 3, National Stadium, $108
  • DJ, Official Bruno Mars Afterparty: he will be hanging out at Marquee, marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $150
• Blind Equation (US cybergrind) & Your Arms Are My Cocoon (US midwest emo, indie folk w screamo) - ft Cayenne of Sobs, Anjing, Internet Love Scam, Microchip, Terror, Spider, heavy music band and electronic gig, lion studios @ 115B Commonwealth Dr, 2F, IG 📸 $38
• Wisma Geylang Serai / Bazaar: Imran Ajmain, DOLLA, Bazaar Raya Fashion Show, , free
• Phil Studio: presents Jam and Cheese - Live music and cold cuts - ft the temporaries, Forty Two, Waiting for players, Cronkite Satellite, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $25
• Jazz Loft: The Joey van Leeuwen Organ Trio - 2 of 2,Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• Candlelight: From Bach to The Beatles w Vocalise String Quartet, the arts house (old parliament city hall), $56
• Candlelight: Best of Hans Zimmer 2 w Vocalise String Quartet, the arts house (old parliament city hall), $81
• The TENG Recital Series: Guzheng Music 溯•筝 Transcendence - 2 of 2, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), IG 📸 $10
• ESPLANADE: EN TUS CUERDAS - flamenco dance and guitar - ft Luisa Palicio, Jesús Rodriguez, Jesús Corbacho, Recital Studio, $68
• ESPLANADE SSO Gala: OLGA PERETYATKO – A Night at the Opera w Singapore Symphony Orchestra ft Mikhail Agrest , Esplanade Concert Hall, $25
• Piano Recital: Zoltán Fejérvári pres by Altenberg Arts, Victoria Concert Hall, IG 📸 $25
• ESPLANADE: CHONG FENG 18TH REUNION CONCERT - 重逢18 演唱会 (G) - ft. Zhao Yonghua 赵咏华, Yu Taiyan 于台烟, and Ye Huan 叶欢 - Taiwan x Singapore - ft. 施孝荣, 黎沸挥，苏心荃, TCR Accapella, Esplanade Theatre, $88

 

• Esplanade: Controller X Big Screen by JDN Party Quest and Friends (chamber ensemble) - gaming classics and anime cinema, outdoor theatre IG 📸 free
• Esplanade: Soulful Serenade by Sarah Syazlina, indoor concourse, free
• Esplanade Theatre: #TellStory by How Drama - anglican high & cedar girls, indoor concourse, free
• ESPLANADE Performing Arts x Tech Lab Industry sharing: DOTS 2.0 - Childrens Theatre with Five Stones Theatre, Annexe Studio, free rsvp
• ESPLANADE Performing Arts x Tech Lab Industry sharing: Dancing the Algorithm (DatA) - with Dapheny Chen & SERIAL CO_, Annexe Studio, free rsvp
• Tamil Language Fest: Bharatanatyam on Kambaramayana & Arunachala Kavirayar's Ramanatakam, SIFAS Annexe, $32,
• Tamil Theatre Pugalenthii’s Silapathikaram by Athipathi International Theatre - 2 of 2, The Grassroots’ Club @ 190 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8 , $30
• Downtown Live House @ Funan: rated phigie, dnyl crso, nimrod adventures, bibiboizz, gonedown, Funan Mall (city hall) @ 107 North Bridge Rd (facing fire station), free/table
• Blackbird: The Man Child (90s acoustic grunge and alternative rock) and later Reverie and also ft Vijay the DJ, Blackbird Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park), free/table
• Timbre+ One North Singapore Originals - Maneloren, music food court/beer garden @ 73A Ayer Rajah Crescent (one-north), free/table

 

• DJ, Songkran Singapore ft DJ Nicole Chen, Titus Low, Rick Svage, Shuhandz (US), Tom Price (CN), MC Damon (SG), Sofitel City Centre Rooftop Pool (tanjong pagar),$16
• DJ, THE ADULTS ARE DANCING - DJ Lincey x Fantastic Dinosaur, Wallich Manor Lounge @ Sofitel City Centre Hotel L6 (tg pagar), $30
• DJ, Moonstone: eatmePOPTART: The Kids are Alright - the unapologetic pop night - ft weelikeme & YAFTH (80s pop, indie rock, electronica, hip hop, sad sh), Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St, free/table
• DJ, No Sleep Club (Cocktail Bar): Upstairs and Downstairs Party! DJs Aalely, Yetpet, Kindergarchy, Vinylheavy x DJ Itch (Heavyitch) downstairs, 20 keong saik road (maxwell)
• DJ, Foxtail 3rd Anniversary ft DJs Mari, Manilajunkie, Knrck, Mortar & Pestle rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, free
• DJ, Vertigo 26: Teenagepop: A nite of britpop, shoegaze, indie, punk, grunge, pop, listening bar @ MINT Museum City Hall 26 Seah St, free/bar
• DJ, Offtrack: Daryl Knows x Leland (house, jazzy disco), bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
• DJ, Naga House: Naga Bites ft Tunes by DJ Kins + Special Guests, Naga House Bar @ 14 Lor Telok (boat quay)
• DJ, 🏖 BYOT - Bring Your Own Trunks ft DJ Abraham Neri, Akito, Thomas , gay event, Mondrian Singapore Duxton hotel @ 16A Duxton Hill, $40
• Club Hell: Throwback in Hell, gay lgbt club @ 113 telok ayer st, $30
• Drag: RIOT! CLASH, hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), $25
• DJ, Two Queens Asia - Stay Gold w DJ Candice B (00s hits), lgbt, bar nkd @ 95 club st
• LGBT DJ Party: MisMatch x FomoHomo - MISS HOMO – Birthday Bukkacakes, MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $40
• DJ, OneCrew Presents: SOUTH SPICE! (indian music party), DDD Bar @ 63 Kampong Bahru Rd (spottiswoode, outram), ~$35

 

• DJ, CIEL SSV6 Presents Corona Sunset Sessions Feat. TOTEM (Bali) - DJs STAY GOLDEN, JOSÉ and Siggi- also ft CIEL residents HALIS, Andre Marc, Chirag K, Sand Bar 🏖 @ 53 Siloso Beach Walk, Sentosa, $32
• DJ, Tipsy Unicorn Beach Club: Official pre-party for The XChange Road to Siam Songkran Music Festival - ft DJ Ezra Hazard ,Tipsy Unicorn Beach Club 🏖 @ 36 Siloso Bch Walk (Sentosa)
• DJ, HighHouse: Zushan & Faz (house techno progressive), High House Lounge @ 1 Raffles Place Roof (old 1-altitude), $38
• DJ, ARK11: It's the Ship Pre-party with Hanif, Miggy T, Nicole Lim, ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11
• DJ, Highh Party Singapore: Highh BPM ft DJ KAEIZ, Highh Club @ Pan Pacific Hotel, 7 raffles blvd (old bang bang - esplanade, promenade), $37
• DJ, Zouk: Phuture - Slime Hip Hop Battle Night, Capital Lounge - Poparazzi, Mainroom - One dance, zouk club clarke quay
• DJ, PANGAEA (UK bass, techno house, garage, dubstep), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36

 

07 Apr 2024, Sun

• Music Travel Love《Covering The World》Asia Tour 2024 Feat. Dave Moffatt from The Moffatts, Suntec City Convention Hall 406, $138
• SILENT SANCTUARY (PH rock) ft downtown alive & jepp, Timbre+ One North @ 73A Ayer Rajah Crescent (one-north), IG 📸 $50
• Flamenco Show: TABLAO FLAMENCO by Flamenco Sin Fronteras - ft guitarist Jesus Rodriguez & singer Jesus Corbacho (ESP), Flamenco Sin Fronteras @ 1 Lorong 24A Geylang
• Choral Workshops etc: The SSC Affair - Singapore Symphony Chorus, Victoria Concert Hall, $100
• NUS Wind Symphony: InTempo 2024: Triumphs of the Human Spirit, NUS university cultural centre, $10
• Wisma Geylang Serai / Bazaar: 1965 Geylang Seriai Beraya, NAQIU, DWI AISHA, A'ARTSG, KIRANAN SENI, ORKES ENGKY AMAN, , free

 

• Esplanade Beautiful Sunday: Classics to Modern; A Musical Expedition by Sembawang Wind Orchestra, Concert Hall free reg
• Esplanade: WHYLUCAS , indoor concourse 545 645, free
• Esplanade: Novo Winds (Youth wind ensemble) , outdoor 7pm 8pm.free
• The Quiet Space - Music and imagery (Workshop) of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), Gillman Barracks @ 5 Lock Rd (labrador park), $15
• Chinese Children Drama: The Prince and The Pauper , 华语儿童剧 《王子与 乞丐》- 2 of 2, Victoria Concert Hall, $35
• LAST: Matilda The Musical, Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands, $68

 

• DJ & Live , Tipsy Unicorn: Kohsh and live band, Beach Club 🏖 @ 36 Siloso Bch Walk, Sentosa
• DJ, Tanjong Beach Club: Yujin, Beach Club 🏖 @ 120 Tanjong Beach Walk, Sentosa

 

Events

• 2-14 Apr: Taha : Tribute to Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali by Singapore Repertory Theatre, KC Arts Centre @ 20 Merbau Rd (robertson quay), $45
• 4-28 Apr: Theatre Tartuffe: The Imposter by Wild Rice, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre @ Wild Rice, Funan (city hall), $35
• Till 7 Apr: Matilda The Musical, Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands, $68
  • Sentosa Market Hall (Siloso Point) Movie screening every weekend, Harry Potter, free
• 21 Apr: Puppetry Workshop Puppets Alive! Rod Puppetry by The Finger Players 《偶趣味！》十指帮仗头偶工作坊 , The Artground @ OHV (holland village), $10
• Apr 10-14: Theatre: The Last Gardener 《身后的微光》, 54 Waterloo Street (bras basah), $34
• Till Apr 14: Dance workshops: da:ns focus – EveryBody Workshops (Adults & Kids), or (Adults & Youth), or (Adults & Preschoolers), Esplanade Rehearsal Studio, $20
• Till 30th Apr Water Park: Wild Wild Wet Songkran Kids Festival ft DJ Joeru, 1 Pasir Ris Cl, from $29

Newly Open

• Music Movie: Ryuichi Sakamoto's Opus, the projector exclusive
  • others: Amy Winehouse Back to Black (opens Apr 11), Bob Marley One Love, The Color Purple, Perfect Days
• Universal Studios Singapore: Naruto the Gallery - till 30th Jun, resorts world sentosa
• Till 21 Apr: Sakura Festival at Gardens by the Bay

Ramadan Bazaars

• Till 6 Apr: Food Bazaar, Month-long events @ GEMILANG KAMPONG GELAM, @ Kampong Gelam (bugis/nicoll highway) or GEYLANG SERAI Bazaar, @ Wisma Geylang Serai (paya lebar)
• OH! Kampong Gelam Art Walk in Singapore, @ Kampong Gelam (bugis/nicoll highway), IG 📸 $35

 

08 Apr 2024, Mon

• Esplanade: Yunie Karim , free
• Esplanade: NUS PIANO ENSEMBLE - Touch, recital studio, $20
• Wisma Geylang Serai / Bazaar: Geylanggang raya, geylang serai cc bazaar (paya lebar), free

09 Apr 2024, Tue - Hari Raya Eve

• Esplanade: More Demonic and Divine by Kenneth Hamilton (scottish pianist plays chopin & liszt), Recital Studio, $22
• Esplanade: Eunoia Junior College Choir , Concert Hall, $15
• Esplanade: Lyla Ng (once singapore's youngest busker, english & chinese covers and originals), free
• YST: Bach Cantata Series x Red Dot Baroque x Orchestral Institute: Kommt, Eilet und Laufet! , NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, Concert Hall L1, tix 🎟 $10
• NAFA: NAFA Vocal Competition 2023/2024 Finals, NAFA Lee Foundation Theatre @ 151 Bencoolen St (bencoolen), free
• Community Song Circle: Harmony and Joy, Co. @ Duxton (maxwell), $28
• Wisma Geylang Serai / Bazaar: Takbiran, wisma geylang serai cc bazaar (paya lebar) , free
• Cool Cats Jazz: The Blues Revue with Joey van Leeuwen, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $20

 

• Live & DJ, Level Up: A night of all things Bruno Mars - w Ready player one ft Allie & DJ Kohsh, Level Up Arcade & Live Music Bar @ Clarke Quay
• DJ, ARK 11: GLHF ORIENTAL RAVE ft. DJ Kasho & Miggy T, DJ Evie - mandopop Kpop Jpop, ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11, $20
• DJ, Highh Club: New Nakhra:Whiteout (AfroDesi) ft Shahan DJ K2, SWTLKR, Bigdbangla, Highh Party @ Pan Pacific Hotel, 7 raffles blvd (esplanade, promenade), tix 🎟 $35
• DJ, Shiv Kambdar pres. Bollywood Throwback from 00s 10s 20s, Cherry Disco @ 133 cecil st (cbd), tix 🎟 $35
• DJ, BOLLYWOOD CLUB - India’s Favourite DJ Suketu, hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), tix 🎟 ~$45
• DJ, Club Hell: Gym in Hell, gay lgbt club @ 113 telok ayer st
• DJ, Zouk: DJ Wukong (oriental rave, hard dance). zouk club clarke quay, $45
• DJ, Marquee: Marquee 5th Anniversary presents Odyssey: Mixtape Rewind with DJ Vice (US hiphoppy), marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $30 to free ladies
• DJ, Thugshop Presents - ROMAN FLÜGEL (GER deep techno house) ft Leland & Daytime Dancing ,tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $36
• DJ, Pleasures of Anomaly - DJs Lawrence Lee (GER techno), Yetpet, FAUXE, cyda, DONN, club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), IG 📸 $32

10 Apr 2024, Wed - Hari Raya Puasa (Eid al Fitr)

• King Gnu, The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $88
• Esplanade: Swan Lake 《天鹅 湖》苏州芭蕾舞团经典芭蕾舞剧 by Suzhou Ballet Theatre, $50
• Esplanade: An Evening with Vanako (jazz pop, synthpop), indoor concourse free
• Esplanade: Owen Li (island voices, r&b pop) , outdoor theatre, IG 📸 free
• Maestro Douglas Bostock Conducting Masterclass
• JCS Spring Recital 2024: 和音の色, 112 Middle Rd Midland House, free, Celebrating spring with a myriad of Japanese tunes
• Jazz Loft: Sinclair Ang & His Rhythmakers (Hari Raya Tea Dance Edition, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• Cool Cats Jazz: The Jazz Sessions: Amanda Lee Swingtet , nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $20
• Skyline Songs - Open Mic Session with Vocal Coaching by Darius Lim of Voices of Singapore, High Street Centre L24 (clarke quay, city hall), free
• DJ, Cherry: Ladies Night Ft. NUS KR Hall , 133 cecil st (cbd),

11 Apr 2024, Thu

• Animenz World Tour (the anime piano arranger), Esplanade Concert Hall, $88
• Esplanade: Viva Violin! - Violin - Low Peng Guan, Giselle Ang Zi Qi, Teia Lee, Aidan James Kwek, Piano - Khor Shang Jin, indoor concourse, free
• NAFA: Concert Series: NAFA Chorus - Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schubert, Pärt, Takemitsu and Chen Yi , NAFA Lee Foundation Theatre @ 151 bencoolen st (bencoolen), free,
• YST Conservatory: Expert Interpreter Recital: Carolin Ralser, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory ensemble room 2 (kent ridge, free
• SHELF SESSIONS: Live Music featuring The Jukuleles, Mad & Midas Cocktail Bar @ 39 Ann Siang Hill (maxwell), free
• NLB: Tony and Friends - Open Stage Originals (piano er hu), National Library Building, Level 1, Lobby, free, Don't miss out on our next OSO session!
• * Timbre One North: Mid-Week R&B with Polyphonix, music food court/beer garden @ 73A Ayer Rajah Crescent (one-north), free

 

• DJ, Midweek Blues @ Phil's Studio, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $15
• NUS Theatre: The Vault: The TRUE Awards - a performance responding to Lim Chor Pee's "A White Rose at Midnight", Black Box @ 42 Waterloo Street, $32
• DJ, Offtrack: Moss (house disco breaks), bs hong lim park, music gastro bar

 
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As a reminder of the format, each week we'll be revisiting a past contest from Malmö 2013 to Malmö 2024, sharing fond memories and voting on our favourites as a reddit community. The top 8 countries from each vote will advance to the next round, where they will join the top 8 of our regular 2024 ranking thread. These votes will run weekly until the end of April, when finally we will crown the subreddit's favourite Eurovision entry ever!
Last week we voted on Turin 2022, and these eight acts qualified to the semi-finals.
EDIT: The vote has now closed! Look out for the results soon :)

~Heat Eleven: Liverpool 2023~

In the final heat of the Throwback Thursday Supervote, it's time to revisit the most recent contest! Owing to security and practical concerns following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2022 runners-up the United Kingdom stepped up to produce the show on behalf of UA:PBC, hosting the contest for a record-extending ninth time. Staged in Liverpool, home of the Beatles and many other music superstars, the BBC created a celebration of Ukrainian success and resilience, whilst also taking the opportunity for lots of typically-British self-effacing nods at the UK's continued Eurovision failures over the past couple of decades. Veteran commentor Graham Norton and ITV-regular Alisha Dixon were joined as hosts by Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina and immediate fan-favourite Hannah Waddingham.
The ESC contest was dominated by the fierce rivalry between two Nordic heavyweights. Whilst Finland's Käärijä dominated the televote, ignited the hearts of his nation and earnt thousands of fans across the globe, it was Sweden's Loreen who took home the trophy, thanks to her own domination of the jury vote, becoming the first female artist to win Eurovision twice and bringing Sweden a record-matching 7th victory. Israel, Italy and Norway completed the top five. Behind them, many fan favourites unfortunately failed to find as wide an audience in the general viewer-base, as Slovenia, Spain and France failed to set the scoreboard alight.
Missed it the first time around, or want a trip down memory lane? If you've got time to spare, why not watch the final?

~How to Vote~

To vote, please submit your ranking as a top-level comment in this thread. You can either submit your top ten or your full ranking of all 37 entries. Your ranking will then be transformed into a Eurovision style vote - 12 points for your #1, 10 points for your #2, and so on. The vote will be open until Sunday 31st March 23:59CET; the results will then be posted in a separate post at the start of the next week.
u/TrollHunter87 will very kindly be using his automated script to collate these rankings. If you want to ensure that your vote counts, make sure that:

1. You provide your ranking in a top-level comment
2. You write the countries in separate lines, and the lines start with a number (example: "1. United States")
3. You either use the Country name, the song name or the flag emoji of the country.
4. You can't have a tie between songs
5. Don't just put "1." at the start of every row and let reddit do its thing. Actually put the all the numbers from 1 to 10 in the markdown
6. If you're unsure, just look at the other comments. Almost all of them are valid.

Country	Artist	Song	Performance
Albania	Albina and Familja Kelmendi	Duje	Link
Armenia	Brunette	Future Lover	Link
Australia	Voyager	Promise	Link
Austria	Teya and Salena	Who the Hell is Edgar?	Link
Azerbaijan	TuralTuranX	Tell Me More	Link
Belgium	Gustaph	Because of You	Link
Croatia	Let 3	Mama ŠČ!	Link
Cyprus	Andrew Lambrou	Break a Broken Heart	Link
Czechia	Vesna	My Sister's Crown	Link
Denmark	Reiley	Breaking My Heart	Link
Estonia	Alika	Bridges	Link
Finland	Käärijä	Cha Cha Cha	Link
France	La Zarra	Évidemment	Link
Georgia	Iru	Echo	Link
Germany	Lord of the Lost	Blood and Glitter	Link
Greece	Victor Vernicos	What They Say	Link
Iceland	Diljá	Power	Link
Ireland	Wild Youth	We Are One	Link
Israel	Noa Kirel	Unicorn	Link
Italy	Marco Mengoni	Due vite	Link
Latvia	Sudden Lights	Aijā	Link
Lithuania	Monika Linkytė	Stay	Link
Malta	The Busker	Dance (Our Own Party)	Link
Moldova	Pasha Parfeni	Soarele și luna	Link
Netherlands	Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper	Burning Daylight	Link
Norway	Alessandra Mele	Queen of the Kings	Link
Poland	Blanka	Solo	Link
Portugal	Mimicat	Ai coração	Link
Romania	Theodor Andrei	D. G. T. (Off and On)	Link
San Marino	Piqued Jacks	Like an Animal	Link
Serbia	Luke Black	Samo mi se spava	Link
Slovenia	Joker Out	Carpe Diem	Link
Spain	Blanca Paloma	Eaea	Link
Sweden	Loreen	Tattoo	Link
Switzerland	Remo Forrer	Watergun	Link
Ukraine	Tvorchi	Heart of Steel	Link
United Kingdom	Mae Muller	I Wrote a Song	Link

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Hi all,
Was just wondering if somebody would have a hint about that specific problem:
I've just bought a 1974 PIONEER STEREO RECEIVER SX-535 today, on FB Marketplace, advertised as "in perfect working condition and recently professionally maintained and cleaaned". Traveled 2 hours to get it. Paid $220 Cad and as far as I know, it is an excellent price.
On the cosmetic side, it is in pristine shape the glass on the front has been replaced (so I do not have the "FM MUTE" script anymore) and the guy who sold it to me had the light replaced it in (a blue LED). I could not ask for more as far as the appearance is concerned. All the connections in the back are clean, no rust etc.
When I was there, he turned it on and played some FM radio station. Things seemed ok.
However, when I got back home I have tested it and encountered the followig problems:
First I plugged my Audio Technica turn table in the "phono" connectors and a loud noise came on the speakers, for only a second or two. I put on a vinyl and tried to play it: it sounded like a bunch of distant noises herd through a windy snow storm! I wanted to make sure that it was not due to a sudden problem with my turn table, so I unplugged it and plugged it back in the "auxiliary" entries: the sound was "normal"... so I guessed the "phono" connection would need to be repaired...
As I listened closely, I realized that indeed both speakers woul play...but everything was in MONO. I have a good ear and sure would know right away the difference but, just to make sure I was right, I have done the "ultimate" test: I've put on some early Beatles STEREO record where the mix is usually very drastic with the voices on one channel and the instruments on the other. Everything was blended in mono. OF COURSE I made sure that I had not pushed the "MONO" button accidentally.
I've contacted the seller who told me that it used to work perfectly fine and that he had used it for a while (he owns THREE of the very same model...) without any problem. He told me, when I picked it up, that there is a "stereo" sign above the dialer and that it was not working while he played it for me, but as far as I remember (I am 56...) that type of "gimmick" usually would come on whenever you would listen to a FM signal with a clear stereo signal. I did not supect that it would "detect" a tereophonic signal when listening to any other plugged in device... Was I wrong?
So that's pretty much all I can say about it.
I wonder if I will be able to find a technician, locally, but first things first, I was wondering if, based on my description of the problems, somebody in this community would have hints and comments about both the "phono" and the "stereo" problems I am encountering.
Thanks in advance for your much anticipated help!
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Yesterday, as a film, is definitely beneath this sub's consideration. The movie's logic is held together by spit and duct tape and I did not finish it as the last 30 minutes only bring up more questions instead of answering any posed in the first place. I think it proved a really silly choice for Danny Boyle's career but who knows, maybe it will be a learning moment and he'll come back to direct a script worth a damn.
All that being said; the topic of the film flirts with an idea that if executed differently could be interesting. I'm just not really sure how interesting so I wanted to throw it out to the panel.
It touches briefly, in a few scenes at the beginning, on the notion that if our main character was one of a few people who woke up into a world where The Beatles as a band never existed, a lone singer songwriter still might not be able to make their music "work" even if he could replicate the tone and remember the lyrics. Of course the movie takes the easy way out and our leading man becomes very popular has to deal with the trappings of fame etc.
But a more interesting idea would've been what if as a songwriter he only got slightly more popular? How much of any piece of art is directly tied to its time and place? Or how much of The Beatles popularity was tied to the 4 piece dynamic etc.
It would've been kind of interesting to watch our protagonist just fail for the whole movie, get increasingly more frustrated knowing how truly popular those songs were.
I think that would be a way to explore how much the artist is supposed to believe in themselves, or, that the only true artistry at the core of any art is to truly find out who you are.
Ok that second suggestion also takes us somewhere near sappyville - maybe there's no way to make that what if? conceit interesting because like it or not we are beings condemned to time. I just can't help but feel like there's a tiny kernel of something interesting in there I just can't imagine the soil type which would produce a flowering plant. Maybe you can.

I've waited a little while to fully complain about how truly awful season 4 of True Detective was because I'm a huge fan of Nic Pizzolatto's seasons and didn't think it would be fair to compare them. Mainly because I didn't want to spoil anything but also because I saw anyone saying they didn't like season 4 be called misogynistic and/or racist (even women of color expressing distaste wtf). I am a woman but none of those things, and s4 was truly a steaming pile of garbage that should not have been called "True Detective". I was so hopeful after episode 1 (even up until ep5)...the mystery of it all, the supernatural aspect, a cluster of bodies frozen in a state of terror, the "30 days of night" setting, Jodie Foster and Fiona Shaw, the Beatles used in a spooky way, the spirals calling back to season 1 (literally the best drama story of any HBO show).
Every week I kept my hopes up, and the finale shattered them. And it all boils down to Issa Lopez being a LAZY and SLOPPY writer. I knew Nic Pizzolatto expressed how he did not think season 4 should be a continuation of True Detective and he asked HBO not to use any references to his work. MAX really said "too bad, we are commissioning our own fanfiction and you can't sue us!" We got the spiral in ep 1 (and also several other times), a creepy trailer full of branch dolls, allusions to relatives of Rust, and "Time is a flat circle". And where did those tie in to season 1? NOWHERE. IT WAS ALL FOR NOTHING.
If you enjoyed this show as a whole and are celebrating Issa Lopez as an amazing writer, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I wish I could have. So to quote Danvers, "you're not asking the right questions." So here are my questions, but they are not necessarily in chronological order....this is ramblings I made in a notepad file over the last 2 weeks 🤣 I wasn't even going to share these thoughts but I'm almost finished with a TD s1 rewatch and I'm tired of the disrespect lolol
Who wrote "we are all dead" on the whiteboard? Why did the bodies of the research team have self inflicted wounds? Why did Otis have the same wounds? Why are "ghosts" able to move oranges, turn on DVD players, have a pack of caribou k*ll themselves, and place the tongue of a long-deceased Annie K in an obscure place under a table?
Why did Navarro and Danvers take SO MANY NAPS while they were interrogating (torturing) their witness? Why did Danvers not flash freeze when she was pulled out of ice water and brought back to life with zero neurological or physical effects bc she was hugged with some blankets on her? Then seen drinking vodka later (alcohol lowers body temperature)? Why did a subzero SCIENCE station not have a working generatonot be insulated to where it seems the building started to freeze after 10 minutes of no power? Why didn't Navarro and Danvers GET INTO ONE OF THE TRUCKS AND TURN THE HEAT ON when the power went out? (We see them leave in a Tsalal truck so even if their police truck died there were others). Why did Clark freeze almost instantly walking out into the blizzard for a few minutes but Danvers survives a wet flash freeze with some blankets and a hug?
Why would an entire group of seemingly normal nerdy scientists turn into a cold-blooded rabid pack of killers after a woman destroyed maybe 5% of their findings? Why didn't they just try to restrain her and call the cops? Why would they encourage the mine to keep polluting the ground if they're looking for some ancient microbe that could cure cancer? Oh because pollution melts the ice faster!
Why are we celebrating Danvers and Navarro as "True Detectives" when they covered up 3 murders in their custody, and a coworker and did zero leg work? So technically 9 murders covered all together. Why did the rookie cop Prior do 99% of the detective work, risking his marriage and killing his father, only for these 2 to be celebrated as the main champions of the "case" (also the season)? Why are we rooting for these women who drive drunk, assault other officers and suspects, cover up murders, treat their family like garbage and f their bosses (and womens' husbands)? In s1-3 we rooted for the detectives because they were VERY flawed but they did amazing work and put bad people behind bars/gave the families peace of mind. Their BIGGEST flaw (not adultery or alcoholism lol) was that they pursued the truth and justice more than anything else in their lives that could bring normal people happiness.
How did that scientist get frozen into an ice block of people for FOUR DAYS in that weather and survive, only to succumb to a heart attack 1-2 days after multiple amputation surgergies?
Why was the specific scene of Ferris Beullers Day Out "Twist and Shout" playing when Danvers and Navarro came back to apprehend Clark? Danvers literally ripped the cords out in ep1 to make it stop when they were investigating the scene. Why would Clark, hoping he wouldn't be found by them, set that specific scene up if he didn't want them to know he was hiding there? Possibly as a diversion but WHY that specific scene/song? We, the audience, know the song had meaning to Danvers because of her son but Clark didn't. Why did Danvers and Navarro keep splitting up when they were going after ONE suspect in an enormous vacant building, leaving them both open to being attacked and picked off one by one by Clark??? How did Navarro survive like 3 blunt force traumas to her head in one week (fights, falling on the ice, a fire extinguisher to the head from Clark)?
Speaking of ice science, how did Danvers punch through seemingly 6+ inches of ice (which they previously drove a truck on) with a few blows? Also whenever they show characters chipping through inches of ice, it's a few picks vs what would take HOURS to chip away at with the most sophiscated of hand tools. I only know this because I did some detective research (probably more than Issa Lopez did for the whole script) to find out how precarious ice is.
So there's CCTV of Danvers and Navarro checking out a mine, but there's no digital footage of the inside of a billion dollar science station or even exterior cameras to show vehicles coming and going?
Why did Danvers and Navarro go investigating the ice cave without ANY preparations (some rope maybe???) Why couldn't Navarro just communicate with Danvers what she is seeing in her cave instead of running off on her own? Literally no one knew where they were, even Prior stuck back cleaning up a crime scene.
Why did we have Prior bring in his vet cousin to tell Danvers "these guys died before they froze" and then we find out they literally died of hypothermia bc they were pushed out into freezing temperatures with no clothes at gunpoint? Why did they all freeze together in a clump (I swear if you say it's because "she's awake" we can't be friends lol)
Why did Annie K's video evidence not actually sync up with the narrative? Her phone gets destroyed in Clark's retelling of her murder (he stomped on it) so how is it in working condition without any cracks on the screen when found in the trailer, that is seemingly a shrine made by Clark himself? Why would Clark even keep it if there's evidence against him? Why would she record herself saying "I'm Annie K andahhhhhhh" and not record the evidence she found or say WHERE she is/what she found and take that evidence to authorities to get it shut down? Like girl if someone finds your phone they know it's yours and can ping your last location. (Not Annie K's fault but Issa's lazy writing). Why did Danvers deduce from the video that there was a power outage wherever Annie K was and that ended up meaning absolutely nothing?
And speaking of Annie Ks findings.....so she just happened to find a secret hatch inside the station and instead of recording evidence while she knew the scientists were gone/occupied, she gets so emotional she just smashes the evidence and THEN decides to record a "if you find this" video? This woman was a midwife who worked under extremely stressful situations and I understand it would be emotional, but you're telling me Annie K just decided to destroy any evidence she found to get the place poisoning her community shut down? How does she even know the tubes contain samples and if she wanted to get the place shut down why destroy the evidence of their wrong doings?
How did a bunch of cleaning ladies deduce from a file showing Annie K had star shaped star wounds that all 6-7 scientists were automatically ALL guilty of murdering her? Was that not a drill bit that is used in all kinds of ice breaking methods, even in drilling for oil or simply mass ice fishing?
And listen, I'm not trying to attack Issa Lopez personally I just think she's an extremely lazy writer. And this is coming from someone who doesn't need every mystery story wrapped up in a neat package with a pretty bow on top. Just read her Vanity Fair article. The only media creator in the world allowed to say "well what did YOU think it meant?" when asked is David Lynch. And girl no one should even be asking this many questions. AND I'M THROUGH!

Finished watching Season 4 a while back and I think I'm getting more, not less, frustrated about it as time goes by, so I figured I'd ruminate about it in written form. Below, some thoughts on what I think went wrong with the writing, and how it might have been fixed. As noted above, I've only watched Seasons 1 and 4, so I am just comparing those. Spoilers ahead.

1. Danvers isn't really a necessary character. I like Jodie Foster, and I think she did well as an actor with.... whatever this script was. But going back and rewatching Season 1, everything in it works because Marty and Rust are dependable foils to one another. It seems like they were trying to do that here with Danvers and Navarro, but behold: She is a lady cop; she is angry quite a lot of the time; she got a demotion for personal reasons; she has a lot of casual sex; she regularly contemplates her past traumas and takes out her anger on people who resemble those who have hurt her; she is capable of torture and unflappable in the face of really quite serious violence, grossness and death; she's kind of a jerk to Prior but is maybe teaching him things; she occasionally has visions of weird shit; she is preoccupied with caring for a beloved younger family member who is a Native woman. Danvers and Navarro are too close to being the same person, and the result is that there's nothing for them to talk about except religion and politics.

Navarro and Prior, however could've been actual foils to one another: she's uneasy in her personal and professional identities, he's committed to his, or thinks he is. She's Iñupiaq and disconnected from her roots; he's a White, multigenerational Alaskan. She's jaded, he's earnest. Leah could have been Prior's adopted sister instead of Danvers' stepdaughter and the tattoo subplot could've been between her and Prior or her and Hank, which would've given Hank something more interesting to do.
2) Too many stray backstory threads; e.g., pick a lane on why Danvers isn't a Beatles fan. Minor issue in some ways, but come on. Is it 'cause a dude she murdered hummed it or because it was a song that her dead son liked? Everything with Hank comes out of nowhere and goes nowhere, too, afaict. He pulled his son out of ice in slow motion one time, which ... changes nothing? If the mail-order bride had been real it would've at least subverted our expectations.
3) Does Prior actually develop as a character at all? Like, at the start of the season he's married, diligent and bringing Danvers coffee. At the end of the season he's still married, diligent and bringing Danvers coffee. There's no weight to anything in between, because he doesn't change anything about what he wants or how he approaches it. We learn things about him - he is a cop who wants to be more of a cop! he is a dad who wants to be more of a dad! he's missing out on at least one quality Dustin Hoffman movie! - but none of those things change over the course of the season. In the big climactic scene with Hank, they were clearly trying to build up a moment of tension where Prior is confronted with choosing between his father and his boss, and he...continues to listen to his boss, as he has done up to that point and continues to do after. The result was so gratuitous and unearned that I laughed, which cannot have been the response they were going for.
4) Time is a flat circlejerk. I should state here that I have not watched Seasons 2 or 3, but I don't think the callbacks did justice to Season 1. The fact that the notion of "asking the right questions," which is but one of many, many quality Rustisms, becomes a character trait so prominent in Danvers that multiple other characters complain about it, for instance, is one microcosm of this. I'm reminded of a certain prurient metaphor: https://gizmodo.com/the-problem-of-premature-nerdgasms-979468607
5) Cheap use of supernatural elements. Reviews that are kinder to the series than I am seem to assume (or assert) that the tone of Season 4 fits with the tone of Season 1. imho, part of what works in Season 1 is that you kind of have the option of discounting the supernatural elements if you want to: all the weird stuff you actually see could just be Rust's synesthesia (it's easier to discount one character having visions than an entire town having them on the regular) and all the weird stuff people say could just be codewords from their costume party murder cult, combined with the fact that they're almost all on drugs. With Season 4, there is zero wiggle room: Giant goddess serpent ghosts exist and specifically did the murders. Rust's dead dad is a dead body GPS interpretive dancer now (everyone needs a hobby). Also, someone left a ghost tongue on the ghost floor. Mysterious!
There's an entire Lovecraft mythos to mine for this series, folks. Not to mention traditional Indigenous myth. (If there were references to either, I didn't catch them; happy to be corrected on that.) They could have gone to much more interesting places with this.
6) Clumsy motifs and jump scares. Where Season 1 had a range of fairly subtle stuff, Season 4 gives us.... oranges and teeth. All the truly unsettling moments in Season 1 come from actors ("You know Carcosa?") but in Season 4 that job is almost uniformly given to objects instead of people. And there's only so many times I can get weirded out by a stuffed animal appearing in an unexpected place. When it is up to people to scare us, the job still isn't really given to the actors (as it was in Season 1) but rather to their makeup jobs. The first episode or two had some genuine potential (Travis, particularly), but by the time Navarro's finding ghost hair in a washing machine it's just annoying.
7) Villains (and plot elements) that don't make sense. Many on here have remarked that the scientists suddenly doing a Caesar stabbing and then singing karaoke for 5 years feels forced; I agree. The show could've done a nuanced critique of parachute science, but nah. (Or, for a show that seems to pride itself on feminist bona fides, maybe had some lady evil scientists? No? You do realize there are, like, a lot of women in geoscience, right? Some of them are probably evil too.) Also, some on here pointed out that the show doesn't seem to understand how permafrost and crevasses work.
(Also: maybe there are too many scientists here? You only need one body in a murder mystery. The guy screaming in the ice made for a good jump scare, but that still brings the necessary scientist count only to 3: one to die for reals, one to run away, and one to unfreeze and scream at us. Could you have made do with, say, four dead scientists? Six? Did we need to hear all their resumes and sandwich orders?)
For me, though, the thing that really made zero sense was Hank turning evil. Dude seemed to have no internal conflict about it at all, which was just.... boring? At least he sounded pretty good on guitar.
8) Not enough time for the events and characters. Perhaps it's paradoxical to say that something I didn't like could've used more episodes, especially when it feels like they managed their time so poorly in the first three or four. But there's just too much trying to happen in this container. Consider: Season 1 has twice as much time to flesh out three dynamic characters, Marty, Rust and Maggie, over a much longer span of diegetic time. Season 4 tries to make dynamic characters out of Danvers, Navarro, Prior, Hank, Leah, Kayla, Julia, Ted... it's too much. Navarro and Leah, imo, are the only ones with anything resembling a story arc. Meanwhile, Rose and Qavvik seem to have wandered in by mistake from some better show. The real problem is too many characters, but at least more time might have ameliorated it a bit.
9) Just straight-up plot holes and shoddy plot construction. Many of the plot holes have been dwelt upon already (Danvers and Navarro freezing for hours indoors and then stealing a heated truck, anyone?) The most annoying bit to me was the part where they find that a secret science ice cave leads to the secret science ice building, and an establishing shot of the research station is accompanied by a little musical sting with a surprised attitude. That wasn't a surprise, show. Don't act like you gave me a surprise, because it wasn't.
Much of the cinematography was quite good (cf. https://youtu.be/04zaTjuV60A?t=218), and I liked that they had a lot of Indigenous characters. There's just a lot of missed potential here, and it kinda bums me out.
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/20/beatles-films-sam-mendes-john-paul-george-ringo
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Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of two of the most successful ever James Bond films, is to tackle another multimillion pound British cultural institution: the Beatles.
The director has announced that he will make four separate fiction films, one for each member of the band. The project has the blessing of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and of the families of John Lennon and George Harrison. It marks the first time they, and rights holders Apple, have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film. Barry Keoghan and John Lennon. Barry Keoghan as John Lennon? Who Sam Mendes should cast in his Beatles movies Read more
Mendes explained that the four films will all be released in 2027 and tell interconnected stories, one from each band member’s point of view. The “dating cadence” of the films, explained a press release, “will be innovative and groundbreaking”.
“I’m honoured to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time,” he said, “and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies.”
No writers or cast have yet been announced.
Mendes’ producer Pippa Harris explained that the director had the idea more than a year ago, “and it’s a testament to his creative brilliance and powers of persuasion that Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Sean Lennon and Olivia Harrison responded with such warmth and enthusiasm as soon as he spoke with them”.

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More at the link.
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Here is what I have so far :

• Blake Shelton-Amber Saxon- Sangria
  
• Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song
  
• Emily Valentine - Sober
  
• Evanescence - tourniquet
  
• Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby
  
• Michael Bublé - Save The Last Dance For Me
  
• The Offspring - Behind Your Walls
  
• 2pac - So Many Tears
  
• 3 doors down - When I'm gone
  
• 50 Cent ft Snoop Dogg - P.I.M.P. (Snoop Dogg Remix)
  
• 50 cent - P.I.M.P
  
• Aaron Lohr - On The Open Road
  
• Afroman - Wet tight energy
  
• Akon (ft pitbu) - Te Quiero Amar
  
• Akon - Soul Survivor
  
• All American Rejects - Mona Lisa
  
• Apocalyptica feat. Lzzy Hale - Talk To Me
  

• Avenged Sevenfold - Mad Hatter
• Avenged Sevenfold - Malagueña Salerosa
• Avenged Sevenfold - Not Ready to Die (From "Call of the Dead")
• Avenged Sevenfold - Seize the Day
• Avenged Sevenfold - Sidewinder
• Avenged Sevenfold - So Far Away
• Avenged Sevenfold - Streets
• Avenged Sevenfold - Thick And Thin
• Avenged Sevenfold - Tonight the World Dies
• B.B king - When It All Comes Down
• B2k - uh huh
• Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizárraga, Snoop Dogg - Qué Maldición
• Beastie boys - So What'Cha Want
• Beastie boys - Sure Shot
• Ben King- stand by me
• Beverly McClellan - I'm The Only One
• Billy Boyd - The Last Goodbye
• Billy Squier - Lonely Is the Night
• Billy idol - Rebel Yell
• Black Keyes - Lonely boy
• Blondie - X Offender
• Bob Seger - Old Time Rock Roll
• Bobby Darin - Splish Splash
• Bobby day - Rockin' Robin
• Bon Jovi - Wild In the Streets
• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - the crossroad
• Bowling for soup - out the window
• Britney spears - Toxic
• Britney spears - lucky
• Bubba Sparxxx - ms.new booty
• Carl Carlton - SHE'S A BAD MAMA JAMA
• Cartel - Runaway
• Cartoon Maggie and the Ferocious Beast Theme Song
• Cartoon Maisy Intro
• Cartoon Mega Man TV Show Intro
• Cartoon Mighty Ducks the animated series opening
• Cartoon Mr Meaty Theme Song
• Cartoon Mucha Songkran Theme Song
• Cartoon Ozzy & Drix intro
• Cartoon Pinky And The Brain Theme Song
• Cartoon Top Cat Opening
• Cartoon Yakkity Yak Intro
• Cassie - Me & U
• Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
• Charlie puth - one call away
• Christina Aguilera, TINI - Suéltame
• Christina aguilera - Te Deseo Lo Mejor
• Christina aguilera - Traguito
• Chubby Checker - Popeye The Hitchhiker
• Chubby checker - The Hucklebuck
• Chubby checker - pony time
• Chuck berry - Maybellene
• Chuck berry - Rock and Roll Music
• Chuck berry - School Days
• Dan Hartman - Delight my fire
• Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel
• Darius Rucker - straight to hell
• Daryl Hall, Train - Papa Was A Rolin' Stone
• Daughtry Featuring Slash - What I Want
• Death Cab For Cutie - Title and Registration
• Dion DiMucci - Runaround Sue
• Disney - Under the Sea
• Disney Alice in wonderland - Painting the Roses Red / March of the Cards
• Disney Mulan - I'll Make A Man Out Of You
• Disney Pocahontas - Colors of the Wind
• Disney Robin Hood - Not in Nottingham
• Disney Robin Hood - Oo De Lally
• Donna Summers - She Works Hard For The Money
• Dope band -You Spin Me Round (Like a Record
• Dr Seuss - You're a Mean One, Mr Grinch
• Dua Lipa - physical
• Dua Lipa- love again
• E=MC˛ - Mariah Carey - Touch My Body
• Eminem - Mockingbird
• Eminem - When I'm Gone
• Eminem - Won't Back Down
• Eminem feat. Rihanna - Monster
• Evanescence - My Last Breath
• Evanescence - Made Of Stone
• Evanescence - Taking Over Me
• Fabolous (feat. Ne-Yo) - Make Me Better
• Fat joe (feat. Ashanti) - What's Luv
• Fiona Apple - Sally's Song
• Five for fighting - Superman (It's Not Easy)
• Flyleaf - What's This
• Frank Sinatra - My Way
• Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night
• Frank Sinatra - Summer Wind
• Gorillaz - tranz
• Green day - paper lantern
• Guns N' Roses - Yesterdays
• Gym class heroes - Stereo Hearts
• Halestorm - Love Bites (So Do I)
• Halestorm - The Steeple
• Hall & Oates and John Oates - Out of Touch
• Hall and Oates - Me and Mrs Jones
• Hawthorne Heights - Pens and Needles
• Huey - Pop Lock And Drop It
• Irena Cara - What A Feeling
• Jasom derulo - Whatcha Say
• Jason Derulo - Ridin' Solo
• Jason Derülo Ft. Snoop Dog- Wiggle
• Jimmy eat world - Something Loud
• Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - You Don't Know What You've Got
• Johm legend - What's Going On
• John mayer - Waiting On The World To Change
• Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time
• Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus
• Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
• Justin timberlake - Summer Love
• Juvenile - slow motion
• Kid Rock ft. Sheryl Crow - picture
• Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
• Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
• Lloyd - Get It Shawty
• Lloyd Banks ft 50cent - Victory freestyle
• Lloyd ft Lil Wayne - You
• Logic with Marshmello - Everyday
• Lose Yourself (Eminem) Gypsy Jazz Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson
• Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5
• Love Is A Battlefield (The Voice Performance)
• Lovesong - The Cure (1940s Big Band Style Cover) feat. Emma Smith
• Ludacris - Whats Your Fantasy
• Luk3 Combs - When It Rains It Pours
• Luke Christopher - Lot to Learn
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
• MUSE - GHOSTS
• MUSE - KILL OR BE KILLED
• MY IMMORTAL ( FRENCH VERSION ) EVANESCENCE ( SARA'H COVER )
• Madonna & Sickick - Frozen On Fire
• Madonna - Into The Groove
• Madonna - Like a virgin
• Madonna - Material Girl
• Maino ft. T Pain - All of the Above
• Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends
• Mandy Moore - When Will My Life Begin
• Manfred Mann - Doo Wah Diddy Diddy
• Mariah Carey (feat. Snoop Dogg) - say somethin'
• Mariah Carey - I Know What You Want
• Mariah Carey - Shake It Off
• Mario (ft. Enya & P. Diddy) - I Don't Wanna Know
• Mario - How Do I Breathe
• Mario - let me Love you
• Mark Ronson - Nothing Breaks Like a Heart (Acoustic Version)
• Maroon 5 - Animals
• Maroon 5 - Crazy little thing called love
• Maroon 5 - Daylight
• Maroon 5 - If I Ain't Got You
• Maroon 5 - If I Never See Your Face Again
• Maroon 5 - Maps
• Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger
• Maroon 5 - One More Night
• Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
• Maroon 5 - Sugar
• Maroon 5 - This Love
• Maroon 5 Cover - Sugar (The Voice Performance)
• Maroon 5 ft. Kendrick Lamar - Don't Wanna Know
• Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Weeknd-Dirty 6th payphone
• Marty Robbins - Big Iron
• Marty Robbins - El Paso
• Mary J. Blige - Be Without You
• Mayday Parade - Jamie All Over
• Megas XLR Theme Song
• Melanie Martinez: "Toxic" - The Voice (Studio Version)
• Metalachi - Livin' On a Prayer
• Metalachi - Rock and Roll All Nite
• Metalachi - Sweet Child O' Mine
• Metallica - Enter Sandman
• Metallica - Master Of Puppets
• Metallica - The four horsemen
• Metallica- Disposable heroes
• Metro Boomin, The Week7nd, 21 Savage - Creepin
• Michael Bublé - I'll Never Not Love You
• Michael Bublé (feat. Cécile McLorin Salvant) -La vie en rose
• Michael Bublé - Baby I'll Wait
• Michael Bublé - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
• Michael Bublé - Feeling Good
• Michael Bublé - Frosty The Snowman
• Michael Bublé - Haven't Met You Yet
• Michael Bublé - Higher
• Michael Bublé - It's A Beautiful Day
• Michael Bublé - You're the First, the Last, My Everything
• Michael Jackson - Come together
• Michael Jackson - You Rock My World
• Mighty Mouse Opening Credits and Theme Song
• Mike jones - Next to You
• Miley Cyrus (feat. Dua Lipa) - prisoner
• Miley Cyrus - Gimme What I Want
• Miley Cyrus ft. Billy Idol - Night Crawling
• Modern English - (I Melt With You)
• Modern Talking - Sexy Sexy Lover
• More (RedOne Jimmy Joker Remix)
• Moriah Formica & Shilo Gold American Woman Studio Version The Voice
• Moriah Formica Crazy On You Studio Version The Voice
• Motionless In White - Another Life
• Mr. Krabs - Don't Worry Be Happy (AI Cover)
• Mr. Krabs - Puffy (Peaches AI Cover Parody)
• Mumford & Sons - After The Storm
• Muse - Bliss
• Muse - Butterflies & Hurricanes
• Muse - Citizen Erased
• Muse - Dead Inside
• Muse - IT 5
• Muse - Map Of The Problematique
• Muse - Starlight
• Muse - Uprising
• Muse - Verona
• Muse - You Make Me Feel Like Its Halloween
• My Chemical Romance - Bulletproof Heart
• My Chemical Romance - Party Poison
• My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
• My Dad the Rockstar- Theme Song
• My Girl _ The Temptations _ funk cover ft. Casey Abrams
• My Life As A Teenage Robot Theme Song Intro
• My chemical romance - Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
• My chemical romance - Summertime
• My chemical romance - The Ghost of You
• N'Sync - Tearin' Up My Heart
• N'Sync ft Nelly - Girlfriend
• NSYNC - POP
• NUMB ( FRENCH VERSION ) LINKIN PARK ( SARA'H COVER )
• Nacho Libre: Ramses Song
• Nas - Abracadabra
• Nas - Black Magic
• Nas - N.Y. State of Mind
• Nas - The World is Yours
• Nas - Thief's Theme
• Nas feat. 50 Cent - Office Hours
• Nathan Evans - Wellerman
• Ne Yo - Because Of You
• Ne Yo - So Sick
• Ne yo - Miss Independent
• Ne-Yo - Friend Like Me
• Ne-Yo - Link Up
• Ne-yo - Mad
• NeYo - Superstition
• Nelly - Country Grammar
• Nelly - Die a Happy Man (Mr Entertainment Man)
• Nelly - ride wit me
• Nelly Ft Kelly Rowland - Dilemma
• Nelly Furtado { ft Timbaland } Promiscuous
• Nelly ft. St. Lunatics - ride with me
• New Edition - Mr. Telephone Man
• New Found Glory - Map Of Your Body
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Jubilee Street
• No Doubt - Its My Life
• No Doubt - Spiderwebs
• No Woman, No Cry (The Voice Performance)
• No doubt - snake
• Notorious - Thugs
• Notorious BIG - One More Chance
• Notorious b.i.g- big poppa
• Numb” (Linkin Park) Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson
• O-Town - All Or Nothing
• Olamide feat. Omah Lay - Infinity
• Oliver and Company - Why Should I Worry
• Olivia Newton John - Physical
• Oliviq newton johm - Twist Of Fate
• Onie Trice - We All Die One Day
• Original TMNT theme song
• Otis Redding - Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay
• Otis Redding - Stand by Me
• Ottis redding - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
• Ottis redding - my girl
• OutKast - ATliens
• OutKast - The Way You Move
• Outkast - In due time
• Outkast - M.s Jackson
• Outkast - Mainstream
• Outkast - Millennium
• Outkast - Ova Da Wudz
• Outkast - Roses
• Outkast - So Fresh, So Clean
• Outkast - Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)
• P!nk - Funhouse
• P!nk - Get This Party Started
• Panic! At The Disco cover Starboy by the WeekndDaft Punk
• Paramore - Passionfruit
• Paramore - Let The Flames Begin
• Paramore - Misery Business
• Paramore - My Hero
• Paramore - Running Out Of Time
• Paramore - Still Into You (Jazz Cover)
• Paramore - That's What You Get
• Paramore - The News
• Paramore - Turn It Off
• Paramore - crushcrushcrush
• Passenger - Let Her Go
• Pat Benatar-Hit me with your best shot
• Pat Razket - A Pirate's Curse
• Pat Razket - Pirate's Lullaby
• Pat Razket - Sleep Sleep
• Paul Engemann - Scarface (Push It to the Limit)
• Pearl Jam - Black
• Pearl Jam - Oceans
• Pepper Ann- Intro
• Pete Rock & CL Smooth - They reminisce over you
• Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood
• Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
• Peter Pan - Following the Leader
• Petey Pablo - Freek A Leek [Explicit Version]
• Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
• Phil Collins - True Colors
• Phil Collins - you Can't Hurry Love
• Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
• Plain White T's - poor jack
• Plankton - I Hate Everything About You (ai cover)
• Plankton - I Will Not Bow - Breaking Benjamin (AI Cover)
• Plankton - Life Is A Highway (AI Cover)
• Plankton - Nightmare (AI Cover)
• Plankton sings I'm Not Okay - MCR (AI Cover)
• Plankton sings Miss Murder (AI Cover)
• Plankton sings Mr. Brightside (Ai Concert)
• Plankton sings Toxic by Britney Spears [AI Cover]
• Plies ft. Ne Yo - bust it
• Pokémon: Original Full Theme Song
• Popeye cartoon - Original Theme
• Porky Pig's - Blue Christmas
• Post Malone - Better Now
• Post Malone - Chemical
• Post Malone - Insane
• Post Malone - Wrapped Around Your Finger
• Post Malone - congratulations
• Post Malone Feat. Nicky Jam & Ozuna - rockstar Latin remix
• Post Malone ft. 21 Savage - rockstar
• Post Malone ft. Future, Halsey - Die for me
• Post Malone ft. Ozzy Osbourne, Travis Scott-Post - take what you want
• Post Malone ft. Roddy Ricch - cooped up
• Post Malone's - Psycho but it's Kermit and O$car the Grouch
• Post Malone, Swae Lee - Sunflower
• Post Malone, The Weeknd - One Right Now
• Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard (1960s Early Soul Style Cover) feat. Kyndle Wylde
• Powerpuff Girls theme song
• Prince - purple rain
• Prince And The Revolution - When Doves Cry
• Puddles Pity Party - FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE - (The Cure Cover) - Springsteen Style
• Puddles Pity Party - I Can't Help Falling In Love With You (Elvis Presley Cover)
• Puddles Pity Party - Malibu - (Miley Cyrus Cover)
• Puddles Pity Party - SPACE ODDITY - (David Bowie cover)
• Puddles Pity Party - Suspicious Minds (Elvis Presley Cover)
• Puddles Pity Party - When The Party's Over (Billie Eilish Cover)
• Puddles Pity Party - When You Rock And Roll With Me (David Bowie Cover)
• Puddles Pity Party - Wicked Game (Chris Isaak Cover)
• Puff Daddy - I'll Be Missing You (Every Breath You)
• Puffy AmiYumi - Teen Titans English Theme
• Pyrolysis - Captain Cray
• Pyrolysis - The Pace
• Q-Tip, Demi Lovato - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
• Quack Pack Theme Song
• Quadeca - real thing
• R2-D2 - We Wish You a Merry Christmas
• REDBONE - Come And Get Your Love
• REO Speedwagon - Keep on Loving You
• REO Speedwagon - Take It On the Run
• Radioactive (The Four Performance)
• Rainbow - The Temple Of The King
• Ratt - Back For More
• Ratt - Dance
• Ratt - Lay It Down
• Ratt - Round And Round
• Ratt - Shame, Shame, Shame
• Ratt - You're In Love
• Ray J Feat: Young Berg - Sexy Can I (Dirty)
• Real Ghostbusters: EXTENDED introduction
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aquatic Mouth Dance
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Bastards of Light
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Black Summer
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Go Robot
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Here Ever After
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - It's Only Natural
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Let 'Em Cry
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Nobody Weird Like Me
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Not The One
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Way Traffic
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Poster Child
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - She's A Lover
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Sick Love
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul To Squeeze
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Storm In A Teacup
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tangelo
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Great Apes
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Heavy Wing
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Shape I'm Takin'
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - These Are The Ways
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Veronica
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Whatchu Thinkin'
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - White Braids & Pillow Chair
• Red Hot Chili Peppers- Wet Sand
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers - otherside
• Redbone (The Voice Performance)
• Reid Umstattd I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Studio Version The Voice
• Rema - Charm
• Remy Zero - Save Me
• Rev Theory-Hell Yeah
• Richard Cheese 'Like A Virgin' (cover)
• Richard Cheese & Allison Crowe - 'Viva Las Vegas' (cover)
• Richard Cheese 'Baby Got Back' (cover)
• Richard Cheese 'Come Out And Play (Big Band Version)' (cover)
• Richard Cheese 'Everlong' (cover)
• Richard Cheese 'Eye Of The Tiger' (cover)
• Richard Cheese 'Freak On A Leash' (cover)
• Richard Cheese 'Gangnam Style' (cover)
• Richard Cheese 'Hey Ya' (cover)
• Richard Cheese 'Ice Ice Baby' (cover)
• Richard Cheese 'Livin' On A Prayer' (cover)
• Richard Cheese 'Material Girl' (cover)
• Richard Cheese 'Spider-Man Theme'
• Richard Cheese - Pour Some Sugar On Me (cover)
• Richard Cheese - Smells Like Teen Spirit (cover)
• Richard Cheese - Toxic (cover)
• Richard Thompson - Oops! I Did It Again
• Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
• Ricky Martin - Livin La Vida Loca
• Rise Against - Behind Closed Doors
• Rise Against - Give It All
• Rise Against - Under The Knife
• Rise Against - paper wing
• Rise against - Swing life away
• Roadrunner Original Theme
• Rob Thomas - Lonely No More
• Rock Me Tonite (2002 Digital Remaster 24-Bit Mastering)
• Rocket Power Theme
• Rockin' at the House of Mouse
• Rocko's Modern Life Intro
• Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
• Rod Stewart - Maggie May
• Rod Wave - Boyz Dont Cry (Acoustic)
• Rod Wave - Great Gatsby (Acoustic)
• Rolie Polie Olie Intro
• Romeo Santos, Justin Timberlake - Sin Fin
• Rose Royce - Car Wash
• Roxanne - Vintage '50 Rock'n' Roll Style Police Cover ft. Dani Armstrong
• Roxette - Listen To Your Heart
• Royal Blood cover The Police's Roxanne
• Royce da 5'9 ft. Eminem, King Green - Caterpillar
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Rush Hour- War! What is it good for
• Ruth B. - Lost Boy
• SCRIPTOONS - Shiny Teeth The Fairly OddParents
• SHAKIRA BZRP Music Sessions #53
• SHAKIRA, BZRP MUSIC SESSIONS #53 ( FRENCH VERSION ) SARA'H COVER
• SLASHSTREET BOYS - SLASHING BODIES (OFFICIAL BACKSTREET BOYS PARODY)
• SLASHSTREET BOYS - “I'LL KILL YOU THAT WAY (OFFICIAL BACKSTREET BOYS PARODY)
• SLASHSTREET BOYS - "DIE BY MY KNIFE" (BACKSTREET BOYS PARODY)
• SLASHSTREET BOYS - AS LONG AS YOU'RE BLOODY (BACKSTREET BOYS PARODY)
• STORM SEEKER - How To Be A Pirate
• STORM SEEKER - Pirate Squad
• SUERTE (Shakira) versión en COREANO Lucy Paradise
• Sabrina: The Animated Series
• Saliva - Click Click Boom
• Sam and Dave - Soul Man
• Samantha Mumba - Baby Come On Over
• Sammy Davis Jr. - Frankie and Johnnie
• Sammy Davis Jr. - Love Me or Leave Me
• Sammy Davis Jr. - Smile, Darn Ya, Smile
• Sammy Davis Jr. - Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)
• Sammy Davis Jr. - That Old Black Magic
• Sammy Davis Jr. - The Rivers Too Wide
• Samurai Jack (intro)
• Samurai Pizza Cats Intro
• Savage - swing (dirty)
• Savage Garden - To the moon and back
• Scatman John - Scatman
• Scooby Doo, Where Are You? (Main Theme)
• Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (Theme Song)
• Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island - The ghost is here
• Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane
• Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
• Sean Kingston - Take You There
• Sean Kingston ft. Chris Brown, Wiz - beat it
• Season Of The Witch (From The Motion Picture - Scary Stories)
• Seether - Careless Whisper
• Seether - Gasoline
• Seether - What Would You Do
• Seether - Will It Ever End
• Seether ft. Amy Lee - broken
• Seether- Fake It
• Selena Gomez & Rema - Calm Down
• Selena Gomez & The Scene - Love You Like A Love Song
• Selena Gomez - Same Old Love
• Selena Gomez - The Heart Wants What It Wants
• Selena Gomez, Marshmello - Wolves
• Senses Fail - Bonecrusher
• Shaggy ft. Rayvon - Angel
• Shakira (Spanish Version) ft. El Cata - loca
• Shakira - Acróstico
• Shakira - Don't Wait Up
• Shakira - Nada (Patoka Russian Cover)
• Shakira - Octavo Día
• Shakira - Waka Waka
• Shakira ft. Alejandro Sanz - la Tortura
• Shakira, Fuerza Regida - El Jefe
• Shakira, Rauw Alejandro - Te Felicito
• Shalamar - Dancing In The Sheets
• Silverstein - My Heroine
• Simple Plan - Shut Up
• Simple Plan - Welcome To My Life
• Simple Plan - What's New Scooby Doo
• Simple plan - i'm just a kid
• Simpsons Theme Song
• Skillet - Hero
• Skillet - Monster
• Skillet - Surviving the Game
• Skycycle - It's Terror Time Again
• Slaughterhouse - My Life
• Slayer - Angel of Death
• Slayer - Raining Blood
• Sleeping Beauty - Once Upon A Dream
• Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
• Snakehips, MØ - RedboneOlivia Newton John Physical
• Snoop Dogg (ft Nate Dogg & Xzibit) - Bitch Please
• Snoop Dogg - Gz 5'9 Hustlas
• Snoop Dogg "Boom" f. T-Pain (prod. Scott Storch)
• Snoop Dogg (Ft. 2Pac) - "Wanted Dead Or Alive"
• Snoop Dogg (Ft. Mystikal & Fiend) - woof! Dirty
• Snoop Dogg (feat. Nate Dogg) - Boss' Life
• Snoop Dogg - Beautiful
• Snoop Dogg - Doggy Dogg World
• Snoop Dogg - Just Get Carried Away
• Snoop Dogg - Lodi Dodi
• Snoop Dogg - Sets Up
• Snoop Dogg - Still A G Thang
• Snoop Dogg - Tha Shiznit
• Snoop Dogg - Think About It
• Snoop Dogg - Who Am I (What's my name)
• Snoop Dogg Ft. Pharrell ,Dr. Dre Jr - let's get blown
• Snoop Dogg ft B Real - Vato (Dirty version)
• Snoop Dogg, Charlie Wilson, Justin Timberlake - signs
• Snoop Dogg, D.O.C., RBX, Tha Dogg Pound - Serial Killa
• Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, E-40 & Too Short - Free Game
• Snoop Dogg, Kokane - Y'All Gone Miss Me
• Snoop Dogg, Too Short, Mistah F.A.B. - Life Of Da Party
• Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs - I'm WishingOne Song
• Sofia Karlberg - rockstar
• Soft Cell - Tainted Love
• Soft Cell - Where Did Our Love Go
• Sonic 2 Music Casino Night Zone
• Sonic 2 Music Chemical Plant Zone
• Sonic 3 Music Final Boss
• Sonic 3 Music Ice Cap Zone Act 1
• Sonic Spinball Music Lava Powerhouse
• Sonic Underground Theme
• Sonic adventure 2 battle music Pumpkin Hill
• Sonic the Hedgehog: The Animated Series Theme Song
• Soul 4 Real - Candy Rain
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast Opening Theme
• Spectacular Spiderman Intro
• Spice Girls - WANNABE (Sad Cowboy Cover)
• Spider Man Song Original
• Spider-Man Theme (Junkie XL Remix)
• Spin Doctors - Jimmy Olsen's Blues
• Spin Doctors-Two Princes
• SpongeBob SquarePants Intro
• Spongebob - Sweater Song
• Spongebob Music - Electric Zoo
• Spongebob world's smallest violin
• Spooky Scary Skeletons
• Squidward - Hooked on a Feeling (AI Cover)
• Squidward Tentacles - My Way (AI Cover)
• Staind - It's been Awhile
• Staind - Outside
• Stand Out (A Goofy Movie)
• Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
• Starship - We Built This City
• Steely Dan - Black Cow
• Stephen - Crossfire
• Stereophonics - You Sexy Thing
• Steve Wariner - Some Fools Never Learn
• Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You
• Stevie wonder - Superstition
• Stitched Up Heart - Catch Me When I Fall
• Stitched Up Heart - Straitjacket
• Stitched Up heart - Event Horizon
• Stitched Up heart - Monster
• Stormfrun - Down Below
• Stormfrun - Gallows Dance
• Stormfrun - On The Sea of Thieves
• Stormfrun - Once A Sailor
• Stormfrun - Pay What is Due
• Stormfrun - Prepare Yourself to Fight
• Story Of The Year - Until The Day I Die
• Street Sharks Opening Credits Theme
• Styx - Mr. Roboto
• Styx - Come Sail Away
• Styx - Nothing Ever Goes As Planned
• Styx - Renegade
• Sugar Ray - Every Morning
• Sugar Ray - Someday
• Suicide - Ghost Rider
• Sum 41 - Fat Lip
• Sum 41 - In Too Deep
• Sum 41 - Landmines
• Sum 41 - Over My Head
• Sum 41 - Rise Up
• Sum 41 - Still Waiting
• Sum 41 - The Hell Song
• Sum 41 - Underclass Hero
• Sum 41 - Walking Disaster
• Sum 41 - What I Believe
• Sum41 - The Jester
• Sum41 - war
• Sunflower - Post Malone Jukebox (Bossa Nova Cover) ft. Leah Zeger
• Sunflower Japanese COVER Post Malone, Swae Lee
• Super Mario Brothers Super Show Credits - Do the Mario!
• Super Mario Brothers Super Show Intro
• Super Mario Maker theme
• Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
• Sydney Rhame - Photograph
• Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
• System of a down - Toxicity
• T.U.F.F Puppy Main Theme
• TFS Parody Make A Man Out Of You
• THE FUGEES - READY OR NOT
• TMNT (2003) opening
• TOOL - Stinkfist
• TOOL - The Grudge
• TOXIC (Britney Spears) in KOREAN - Lucy Paradise
• Tainted love by soft cell but plankton sings it (ai cover)
• Taking Back Sunday – You're So Last Summer
• Talespin - Full Theme Song
• Tarzan - Strangers Like Me
• Taylor Dayne - Tell It to My Heart
• Tearin' Up My Heart - NSYNC (Beatles 1960s Style Cover) ft. Casey Abrams
• Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
• Teddy Swims (Feat. Maren Morris) - Some Things I'll Never Know
• Teddy Swims - A Thousand Miles (Vanessa Carlton Cover)
• Teddy Swims - Blinding Lights (The Weeknd Cover)
• Teddy Swims - Let Me Love You (Mario Cover)
• Teddy Swims - Lose Control
• Teddy Swims - The Door
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme Song
• Tenacious D - Wicked Game
• Tenacious D - 39
• Tenacious D - COLORS
• Tenacious D - Car Chase
• Tenacious D - City Hall
• Tenacious D - Classico
• Tenacious D - Dio
• Tenacious D - Double Team
• Tenacious D - Explosivo
• Tenacious D - FUCK YO-YO MA
• Tenacious D - Fuck Her Gently
• Tenacious D - HOPE
• Tenacious D - Karate
• Tenacious D - Kickapoo
• Tenacious D - Lee
• Tenacious D - Low Hangin Fruit
• Tenacious D - Master Exploder
• Tenacious D - Never Give Me Your Money / The
• Tenacious D - Roadie
• Tenacious D - Rock Is Dead
• Tenacious D - Rock Your Socks
• Tenacious D - Senorita
• Tenacious D - TAKE US INTO SPACE
• Tenacious D - The Ballad Of Hollywood Jack And The Rage Kage
• Tenacious D - The Government Totally Sucks
• Tenacious D - Throw Down
• Tenacious D - Tribute
• Tenacious D - Tribute
• Tenacious D - Video Games
• Tenacious D - WOMAN TIME
• Tenacious D - Wonderboy
• Tenacious D - the road
• Tenacious D vs. Sum 41 - Things I Want
• The Addams Family intro cartoon theme song
• The Addams Family Theme song
• The Adventures Of Moon Man & Slim Shady
• The All American rejects - Move along
• The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret
• The All-American Rejects - It Ends Tonight
• The All-American Rejects - The Last Song
• The All-American Rejects - The Wind Blows
• The All-American Rejects - Top Of The World
• The Angry Beavers Theme Song Episode Opening
• The Ataris - The Boys of Summer
• The Ataris - The Saddest Song
• The B-52's - Rock Lobster
• The Banana Splits Adventure Hour original intro
• The Bare Necessities (from The Jungle Book)
• The Baseballs - Candy Shop
• The Beatles - Here comes the Sun
• The Beatles - Now And Then
• The Beatles - Please Mister Postman
• The Beatles - let it be
• The Black Eyed Peas Where Is The Love
• The Black Eyed Peas - My Humps
• The Black Eyed Peas - pump it
• The Black eyed peas - Meet Me Halfway
• The Blues Brothers - Gimme Some Lovin
• The Brave Little Toaster - Worthless
• The Calling - Wherever You Will Go
• The Chainsmokers, Coldplay - Something Just Like This
• The Chipmunks Theme Song - We're The Chipmunks 1983
• The Coasters - Yakety Yak
• The Cranberries - Zombie
• The Cranberries - Promises
• The Dark Element - Not Your Monster
• The Dark Element - The Pallbearer Walks Alone
• The Doobie Brothers - China Grove
• The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running
• The Doors - Riders On The Storm
• The Enchanters - Mambo Santa Mambo
• The Fairly OddParents - Real and Scary
• The Flintstones - Main Theme
• The Flintstones - Yabba Dabba Doo
• The Fox and the Hound - Best of Friends
• The Fray - Hurricane
• The Heart Wants What It Wants - Motown Style Selena Gomez ft. Lara Johnston
• The Hex Girls - Earth, Wind, Fire, And Air
• The Hex Girls - Hex Girl
• The Huckleberry Hound Show theme songs
• The Human League - Don't You Want Me
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame - The Bells of Notre Dame
• The Interrupters - "A Friend Like Me"
• The Interrupters - "By My Side"
• The Interrupters - "Let 'Em Go"
• The Interrupters - "Raised By Wolves"
• The Interrupters - On A Turntable
• The Interrupters - She Got Arrested
• The Isley Brothers - Shout
• The Jackson 5 - ABC
• The Jackson 5 - Body Language
• The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
• The Jackson 5 - I'll Be There
• The Jacksons - Blame It On The Boogie
• The Jacksons - Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)
• The Jetsons Intro
• The Killers - Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine
• The Killers - Read My Mind
• The Killers - When You Were Young
• The Killers - mr.brightside
• The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past - the dark world
• The Little Mermaid - Kiss the Girl
• The Magilla Gorilla Show Intro
• The Maine - Bad Behavior
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - The Wonderful Thing about Tiggers
• The Mask: The Animated Series - opening
• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Theme
• The Offspring - All I Want
• The Offspring - Army of One
• The Offspring - Breaking These Bones
• The Offspring - Burn It Up
• The Offspring - Gone Away
• The Offspring - Hassan Chop
• The Offspring - Have You Ever
• The Offspring - Hit That
• The Offspring - Huck It
• The Offspring - Kick Him When He's Down
• The Offspring - Let The Bad Times Roll
• The Offspring - Million Miles Away
• The Offspring - Offspring-You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
• The Offspring - Self Esteem
• The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright
• The Offspring - This Is Not Utopia
• The Offspring - Walla Walla
• The Offspring - Want You Bad
• The Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job
• The Offspring - coming for you
• The Offspring - magic
• The Offspring- Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
• The Outfield - Your Love
• The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides
• The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me
• The Police - Every Breath You Take
• The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
• The Police - Message In A Bottle
• The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang
• The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket
• The Pretty Reckless - Going To Hell
• The Pretty Reckless - Heaven Knows
• The Pretty Reckless - Make Me Wanna Die
• The Pretty Reckless - Zombie
• The Pretty Reckless - “25 (Acoustic)”
• The Pretty Reckless - “Death By Rock And Roll (Acoustic)”
• The Pretty Reckless - “Halfway There”
• The Pretty Reckless - “Only Love Can Save Me Now (Acoustic)”
• The Pretty Reckless - “Quicksand”
• The Pretty Reckless - “The Keeper”
• The Pussycat Dolls (feat. Snoop Dogg)- Buttons
• The Pussycat Dolls - stickwitu
• The Ramones - Spider-Man
• The Ranjahz feat. Cee-Lo - Inspiration
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down
• The Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night
• The Rolling Stones- Angry
• The Romantics - What i Like About You
• The Runaways - You Drive Me Wild
• The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
• The Script - Hurricanes
• The Script ft. Will.I.Am - Hall of Fame
• The Showdown - Carry On Wayward Son (Kansas cover)
• The Siamese Cat Song (From Lady and the Tramp)
• The Simpsons sings Memories by Maroon 5
• The Smurfs intro song
• The Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie - Peaches
• The Temptation - my girl
• The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps tonight
• The Troggs - Wild Thing
• The Used - The Bird And The Worm
• The Used- Under Pressure
• The Used-Buried Myself Alive
• The Weeknd - Less Than Zero
• The Weeknd - Out Of Time (Without Jim Carrey Outro)
• The Weeknd - Starboy
• The Weeknd - Until I Bleed Out
• The Weeknd ft. Future - Double Fantasy
• The Weeknd, Madonna, Playboi Carti - Popular
• The Weeknd-Dirty Diana
• The Yogi Bear Show - Main Theme
• The all american rejects - Damn Girl
• The interrupters - Take Back The Power
• The spinners - The Rubberband Man
• The sword in the stone - Rubity, scrubity sweebity
• The used - The Taste Of Ink
• Theme Song (Second Version) - Garfield & Friends
• Theme Song Atom Ant
• Theme Song DuckTales Disney
• Theme Song Kim Possible
• Theme Song Phineas and Ferb
• Theme Song Super Mario 64
• Theory Of A Deadman - Hurricane
• Theron Statler - Blackbead
• Third Eye Blind - Crystal Baller
• Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
• Third Eye Blind - Tattoo of the Sun
• This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan (Jazz Style Cover) Postmodern Jukebox ft. David Simmons
• This Love - Vintage 1940s Jazz Style Maroon 5 Cover ft. Devi-Ananda
• Thomas Mac - Santa Claus Ain't Comin' This Year
• Thomas Rhett-Die A Happy Man
• Three Days Grace - Animal I Have Become
• Three Days Grace - Break
• Three Days Grace - Chalk Outline
• Three Days Grace - Drown
• Three Days Grace - Home
• Three Days Grace - I Am An Outsider
• Three Days Grace - I Am The Weapon
• Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You
• Three Days Grace - Just Like You
• Three Days Grace - Never Too Late
• Three Days Grace - Over and Over
• Three Days Grace - Overrated
• Three Days Grace - Take Me Under
• Three Days Grace - Wake Up
• Three day grace - Bitter Taste
• Three days grace - Somebody That I Used to Know.
• Thundercats Remake - Intro Opening Theme
• Thundercats opening
• Thursday - Understanding in a Car Crash
• Tiger Army Devil That You Don't Know
• Tiger Army - As The Cold Rain Falls
• Tiger Army - Beyond The Veil
• Tiger Army - Dark Paradise
• Tiger Army - Dark and Lonely Night
• Tiger Army - Happier Times
• Tiger Army - In The Orchard
• Tiger Army - Never Die
• Tiger Army - Oogie Boogie's Song
• Tiger Army - Outlaw heart
• Tiger Army - Prisoner of the Night
• Tiger Army - When Night Comes Down
• Tiger Army- Through the Darkness
• Timbaland - The Way I Are
• Timbaland ft. OneRepublic - Apologize
• Timon and Pumbaa Theme song
• Tiny Toon Adventures - Opening Theme Song
• Toby Keith - Should've Been A Cowboy
• Toby Keith - whiskey girl
• Tom Harder - Rolling on the River
• Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual
• Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Runnin' Down A Dream
• Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels (Home Recording)
• Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - I Won't Back Down
• Tom and Jerry Kids Intro
• Toni Basil - Mickey
• Too $hort ft. Lil' Jon, The EastSide Boyz - Shake That Monkey
• Toto - Hold the line
• Toxic - Vintage 1930s Torch Song Britney Spears Cover ft. Melinda Doolittle
• Train - 50 Ways To Say Goodbye
• Train - Angel In Blue Jeans
• Train - Drive By
• Train - Drops of Jupiter
• Train - Hey Soul Sister
• Train - Mermaid
• Train - Play That Song
• Transformers opening theme
• Trapt - Headstrong
• Trashin' The Camp (From _Tarzan)
• Trouble (The Voice Performance)
• Try A Little Tenderness (The Voice Performance)
• Tupac - Changes
• Tupac-Keep Ya Head Up
• Twista - Overnight Celebrity
• Twistes sisters - We're Not Gonna Take It
• Tyrese ft Snoop Dogg-Just a Baby Boy
• U2 - Every Breaking Wave
• Uncle kracker -You Make Me Smile
• Underdog Cartoon theme song
• Unleash The Archers - Tonight We Ride
• Usher - Yeah
• Usher - Burn
• Usher - Caught Up
• Usher - Hey Daddy
• Usher - His Mistakes
• Usher - Twisted (featuring Pharell)
• Usher - U remind me
• Usher - love in this
• Usher OMG (Oh My Gosh)
• Van Halen - Jump
• Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
• Varend Volk - The Pull of the Tides
• Victim - Avenged Sevenfold
• Viktor Király - If I Ain't Got You
• Vixen - Rev It Up
• Volbeat Heaven Nor Hell
• Volbeat - Becoming
• Volbeat - 16 Dollars
• Volbeat - A Warriors Call
• Volbeat - Back to Prom
• Volbeat - Cape Of Our Hero
• Volbeat - Caroline Leaving
• Volbeat - Dagen Før
• Volbeat - Die To Live (feat. Neil Fallon)
• Volbeat - Fallen
• Volbeat - Goodbye Forever
• Volbeat - Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood
• Volbeat - I Only Wanna Be With You
• Volbeat - Last Day Under The Sun
• Volbeat - Let It Burn
• Volbeat - Leviathan
• Volbeat - Lola Montez
• Volbeat - Lonesome Rider ft. Sarah Blackwood
• Volbeat - Mary Jane KellyVolbeat - Making Believe
• Volbeat - Maybe I Believe
• Volbeat - Sad Man's Tongue
• Volbeat - Seal The Deal
• Volbeat - Shotgun Blues
• Volbeat - Soulweeper #2
• Volbeat - Step Into Light
• Volbeat - Still Counting
• Volbeat - The Bliss
• Volbeat - The Devil Rages On
• Volbeat - The Devil's Bleeding Crown
• Volbeat - The Mirror And The Ripper
• Volbeat - The Sacred Stones
• Volbeat - Wait A Minute My Girl
• WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE ( FRENCH VERSION ) Charlie Puth ft. Selena Gomez ( Sara'h Cover )
• WHITESNAKE Is This Love
• Wake Me Up - Avicii feat. Aloe Blacc (Boyce Avenue feat. Jennel Garcia cover)
• Wakko's States and Capitols
• Warrant - Cherry Pie
• Warren G - Regulate
• Warren Zevon Werewolves of London
• We Can't Stop - 1950's Doo Wop Miley Cyrus Cover ft. Robyn Adele Anderson, The Tee
• Weezer (feat. Hayley Williams) - Rainbow Connection
• Weird Al Yankovic - The Night Santa Went Crazy
• Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
• Wham! featuring George Michael - Careless Whisper
• Whistle stop 1973 - Robin hood disney
• Wild Cherry Play that funky
• Will I am and Brittany spears . MIND YOUR BUSINESS
• Will Smith - Men in Black
• Will Smith - Wild Wild West
• Willie Nelson - On The Road Again
• Winnie the Pooh - Theme Song
• Within Temptation - Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
• Within Temptation - Faster
• Within Temptation - Frozen
• Within Temptation - Let Her Go (Passanger Cover)
• Within Temptation - Lost
• Within Temptation - Mad World
• Within Temptation - Radioactive (Imagine Dragons Cover)
• Within Temptation - Shed My Skin
• Within Temptation - Shot In The Dark
• Within Temptation - Sombody That I Used To Know (Gotye Cover)
• Within Temptation - Somewhere
• Within Temptation - Stand My Ground
• Within Temptation - Summertime Sadness (Lana Del Rey Cover)
• Within Temptation - Supernova
• Without Me” (Eminem) Jazz Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson feat. Ten Second
• Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Theme Song - Season1
• Wreckx N Effect - Rump Shaker
• Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck (UNCENSORED)
• X-Men - The Animated Series Theme
• Yakko's Nations of The World
• Yandel, Feid, Daddy Yankee - Yankee 150
• Ying Yang Twins Salt Shaker { Dirty }
• Ying Yang Twins (Feat. Pitbull) - Shake
• Ylvis The Fox (What Does The Fox Say)
• Ylvis - Stonehenge
• Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirates life for me
• You Can Fly (from Peter Pan)
• You Give Love A Bad Name - Vintage Blues - Style Bon Jovi Cover ft. Jennie Lena
• ZZ Top - Tush
• Zac Brown Band - Chicken Fried
• Zach Seabaugh - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• Zhavia - cover Location (Khalid)
• beastie boys - no sleep 'till brooklyn
• billy idol - Yellin' At the Xmas Tree
• charlie puth(feat. Selena Gomez) - We Don't Talk
• ludacris ft. pharrell - money maker
• snoop dogg - pump pump
• the offspring - original prankster
• “Closer” (Nine Inch Nails) String Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson
• “Come As You Are” (Nirvana) Havana Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson
• “Crawling” (Linkin Park) Musical Theater String Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson
• “Down With the Sickness” (Disturbed) String Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson
• “Fat Lip” (Sum 41) 1960s Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson
• “Highway to Hell” (AC_DC) 1950s Doo Wop Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson
• “I Hate Everything About You” (Three Days Grace) Swing Cover by Robyn Adele Ander
• “Iron Man” (Black Sabbath) Latin Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson
• “Livin’ On A Prayer” (Bon Jovi) Motown Cover by Robyn Adele Andersonville