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The Psychology of Crushes and Relationship#SpotTheSpark #RelationshipFacts #LovePsychology #CrushFacts #DatingInsights #LoveExplained #AttractionScience #RelationshipTips #RomanticPsychology #HumanConnection #LoveAndPsychology #FunFactsAboutLove #PsychologyOfCrushes #RelationshipCuriosity
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The #fashernista crew take and dispoal anything that starts to grow in the alt.
That’s the pattern: spot the spark, capture it, smooth the edges, and sell it back as lifestyle.They move fast - faster than we do - and by the time you notice, what was radical has been turned into content, branding, and funding portfolios.
If you’re working on something that matters, an alt tech project, a grassroots network, a commons. Mediation before they move in,
defend your work, your world, and your dreams before they’re commodified into polite irrelevance.Because make no mistake, it’s happening to something you care about right now.
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‘Play Dirty’ Review: Mark Wahlberg Lacks the Spark to Sell a Sardonic Master Criminal in Shane Black’s Ho-Hum Heist Caper
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‘Play Dirty’ Review: Mark Wahlberg Lacks the Spark to Sell a Sardonic Master Criminal in Shane Black’s Ho-Hum Heist Caper
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‘Play Dirty’ Review: Mark Wahlberg Lacks the Spark to Sell a Sardonic Master Criminal in Shane Black’s Ho-Hum Heist Caper
#MovieReviews #Movies #AmazonMGMStudios #AmazonPrime #GretchenMol #KeeganMichaelKey #LakeithStanfield #NatWolff #RosaSalazar #ShaneBlack #ThomasJane #TonyShalhoub -
‘Play Dirty’ Review: Mark Wahlberg Lacks the Spark to Sell a Sardonic Master Criminal in Shane Black’s Ho-Hum Heist Caper
#MovieReviews #Movies #AmazonMGMStudios #AmazonPrime #GretchenMol #KeeganMichaelKey #LakeithStanfield #NatWolff #RosaSalazar #ShaneBlack #ThomasJane #TonyShalhoub -
‘Play Dirty’ Review: Mark Wahlberg Lacks the Spark to Sell a Sardonic Master Criminal in Shane Black’s Ho-Hum Heist Caper
#MovieReviews #Movies #AmazonMGMStudios #AmazonPrime #GretchenMol #KeeganMichaelKey #LakeithStanfield #NatWolff #RosaSalazar #ShaneBlack #ThomasJane #TonyShalhoub -
EELS Play “Last Stop: This Town”
Listen to this track by Los Angeles-based pop music concern headed up by Mark Oliver Everett, EELS. It’s “Last Stop: This Town”, a single from the group’s second LP Electro-Shock Blues released in September 1998. That album was a kind of concept record of sorts, with many of the songs on the record dealing directly with family history, illness, and personal bereavement. These themes are come by very honestly. In the span of months, Everett aka “E” suffered the loss of his sister Elizabeth who died by suicide, and his mother Nancy who succumbed to cancer.
After his losses, E became the only living member of his immediate family. His famous quantum physicist father and Many Worlds theorist Hugh Everett III died in 1982 at the family home. A 19-year-old Mark Oliver Everett was the first person to discover him. Mental illness in his family, estrangement, death, and loss characterized his existence more than most. He even refers to it as the curse in many places in his work even beyond this album. Being of the John Lennon school of songwriting, E drew from his own emotional pain that was still very raw when he set out to follow-up his debut album.
With all that in place, you’d think the new material would come out in morose shades of gray to black, full of mournful lyrics and relentless minor chords. Yet, this song and many others on the album all seem to have a wider perspective than expected. In fact, the songs are expressed in a colourfully varied musical palette, grim in places, but also wistful, and even playful. The video for this song that served the record as a single is downright goofy, with animated depictions of gene splicing that, perhaps indirectly, is yet another ode to his family and to his heritage in the world of science.
E singing with his beta-carotene infused clone in the video
for “Last Stop: This Town”.Family is as strong a narrative thread as loss is on the album, making them inseparable. Along with his father and mother, E’s sister Liz is a recurring main character throughout. In other places on the record, she’s the principal narrator. Switching up perspectives is what helps E to keep the songs balanced and from being too downcast and monochromatic. In his quest to find peace in loss, it seemed that imagining emotions and events from points of view other than his own freed him up to better examine his own feelings and to express them in artistically viable ways.
In this song, he takes his grief and inverts it in an unconventional way. At least a part of the inspiration for this tune came from Francis, his neighbour and landlady. E had been away to attend his sister’s funeral. He hadn’t informed Francis of the reasons for his trip. But when he returned, she had news for him. First, she informed him that she had a talent for seeing dead people. Next, she’d seen the apparition of a young woman entering E’s abode only hours before he arrived home.
E recounts the story from his autobiography:
“Initially, it really spooked me when Francis told me this and I was feeling a little scared about sleeping in the house that night. But then I thought about the timing of it and I tried to look on it in a more positive, less spooky, light. Kooky or not, I liked the idea of Liz coming to say good-bye one last time, even if she just missed me by a few hours. If there’s gonna be a ghost in your house, you might as well think of it as a friendly ghost.”
~ Mark Oliver Everett, Things Your Grandchildren Should Know (2008)
As he says, kooky or not, the idea was a comfort in the middle of a grieving period. It was also the spark of an intriguing idea: what if the dearly departed felt a similar sense of grief in leaving the dearly bereft behind? What if they wanted to say goodbye to their loved ones and the world as much as those who remain to grieve their passing?
This empathetic perspective informs the lyrics. The music is supportive by never being sombre. In fact, “Last Stop: This Town” is more celebratory than funereal. Music box celesta, cheerful beats, a Kurtis Blow sample, and lighthearted vocal interplay punctuate its Sixties girl group melody. There’s even a subtle melodic reference to Scottish folk song “The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond”, another bright tune about love and loss thought to date back to the 1740s and Bonnie Prince Charlie. That reference handily suggests that the weight of bereavement was never an easy one to bear.
Importantly, “Last Stop: This Town” doesn’t trivialize how difficult saying goodbye to a passing loved one is. It doesn’t shy away from the troublesome thoughts that often arise when we experience the burdensome and overwhelming feelings caused by that loss. The opening line hits as hard as anything associated with that experience: You’re dead but the world keeps turning. This line contains an ocean of feelings and thoughts. How dare the world continue as normal when I’m in so much pain? Why isn’t the hole in my life obvious to everyone? In this world of billboards and factories and smoke, where can I find any source of comfort now that you’re gone?
E seems to find that comfort in storytelling and in the imagination. In writing this song, he gives shape to his grief. He paints a picture of his sister as a person who isn’t really gone, but is just on a long journey somewhere else. Whether he believes that or not is immaterial. By writing a song about her last errand before flying away from the world forever, he’s immortalized her. He’s preserved her essence in his world and freed her of the torment he knew she felt in her own. By making her a part of his song about grief, he’s taken steps to freeing himself, too.
With this song and the record off of which it comes, EELS solidified their sound. E made a habit of writing songs about hard subjects with lightheartedness, candour, and respect for how difficult and sometimes absurd living in this world so often is. In doing so, he does what artists are meant to do; allow us to connect to our own stories and feelings with greater clarity through their art. In so doing, this song helps make us feel less alone as tides turn one way or the other in our own unpredictable lives.
EELS is an active musical vehicle today, with a lineup that’s revolved around E’s songwriting. You can learn more at eelstheband.com.
You can read this interview with E on American Songwriter from 2013, a few years after the EELS record Tomorrow Morning came out. That release was the last in a trilogy of albums that in turn came out before he released Wonderful, Glorious. In it, and among other things, he talks about the inherent optimism and sense of gratitude in being alive in his music even though he’s often pegged solely as a writer of bummer rock.
Enjoy!
#90sMusic #Eels #MarkOliverEverett #songsAboutDeath #songsAboutLoss
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Picked up my cash Yen yesterday and this morning my busses to & from #FujiQHighland were confirmed, so everything is now in place for #TheParksForThe34thTokyoDrift! 😎
Just ten work days (or 12 total days) now before I set off on my first visit to Japan!
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The Spark of a Manhunt: The Mad Trapper's First Stand
The legend of the 'Mad Trapper' began Dec. 1931: a complaint about damaged traplines. Two RCMP constables arrived at the remote cabin of Albert Johnson; he refused to speak. Instead, he fortified his cabin. The officers returned with a warrant, one was shot through the door, sparking one of the largest manhunts in Canadian history. #Canada #MadTrapper #RCMPHistory #NWT 🇨🇦
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The Spark of Rebellion (1837-38)
The Rebellions of 1837-38: a violent demand for democracy. Colonists in Upper & Lower Canada VS unelected elites, the 'Family Compact' & 'Château Clique.' Though defeated militarily, the rebellions succeeded politically. They forced Britain to investigate colonial grievances, leading directly to the Durham Report & the path to responsible government. #Canada #CreationOfCanada #History #Democracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellions_of_1837%E2%80%931838
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Cooper Cronk proven right as Ricky Stuart’s massive mistake comes back to haunt Raiders
NRL legend Cooper Cronk has declared the Raiders needed to win in week one of the finals to…
#NewsBeep #News #NRL #AU #Australia #Broncos #CooperCronk #JedStuart #NationalRugbyLeague #nightgame #nrl #Raiders #ReeceWalsh #RickyStuart #sports #theBroncos #theRaiders #theSharks
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And at 3AM, onboard a coach driving through rainy Northern France, I got my Priority Seating (Restaurant Reservation) booked for lunch at Crystal Palace in #TokyoDisneyland on my birthday #TheParksForThe34thTokyoDrift
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The theme of this weekend has definitely been trip planning for me. I have an extensive planning note for #TheParksForThe34thTokyoDrift which has been getting ever more filled out with itinerary items for my #TokyoDisney & #USJ park days (& a few other days) since Friday night
As you might expect, this has also meant I’ve spent quite a lot of time watching TDR Explorer videos as well 😅
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Rolling on with prep for #TheParksForThe34thTokyoDrift, I already had my #UniversalStudiosJapan ticket which I get free through my employer (🙌🏻), but got my Express Pass today and I got the one I wanted - #MarioKartRide, #DonkeyKongRide #TheFlyingDinosaur & #Jaws or #JurassicParkTheRide! #Japan #USJ
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Rolling on with prep for #TheParksForThe34thTokyoDrift, I already had my #UniversalStudiosJapan ticket which I get free through my employer (🙌🏻), but got my Express Pass today and I got the one I wanted - #MarioKartRide, #DonkeyKongRide #TheFlyingDinosaur & #Jaws or #JurassicParkTheRide! #Japan #USJ
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Rolling on with prep for #TheParksForThe34thTokyoDrift, I already had my #UniversalStudiosJapan ticket which I get free through my employer (🙌🏻), but got my Express Pass today and I got the one I wanted - #MarioKartRide, #DonkeyKongRide #TheFlyingDinosaur & #Jaws or #JurassicParkTheRide! #Japan #USJ
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Welcome back to The Spark, the monthly newsletter focused on how individuals create positive change, one step at a time! #Biodiversity #ChangeMakers
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Christine Vachon & Pamela Koffler On Killer Films At 30 With Metrograph Screenings From ‘Hedwig’ To ‘Happiness’ To ‘One Hour Photo’ – Specialty Preview
#News #Architecton #CatVideofest #ChristineVachon #Harvest #KillerFilms #Metrograph #PamelaKoffler #Souleymane039sStory #SpecialtyPreview #TheSparrowInTheChimneyhttps://deadline.com/2025/08/indie-films-opening-killer-films-at-30-souleymans-story-1236476584/
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The Spark of Rebellion (1837-38)
The Rebellions of 1837-38: a violent demand for democracy. Colonists in Upper & Lower Canada VS unelected elites, the 'Family Compact' & 'Château Clique.' Though defeated militarily, the rebellions succeeded politically. They forced Britain to investigate colonial grievances, leading directly to the Durham Report & the path to responsible government. #Canada #CreationOfCanada #History #Democracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellions_of_1837%E2%80%931838
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Another couple of prep tasks for #TheParksForThe34thTokyoDrift completed today. Moved the money from my savings account to PayPal Credit to pay off the flights and set up a digital SUICA Card for transit payments in Apple Wallet to confirm my UK card can top it up - works fine! #Japan #Travel
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#TheParksForThe34thTokyoDrift preparations continue! I now have the voucher for my #UniversalStudiosJapan Ticket. I work for a division of Comcast, so I get one day admission there for free. Still need to buy the tickets for #TokyoDisneyland & #TokyoDisneySea, but those dates aren’t out yet
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Michigan State football lands commitment of 2026 linebacker from Colorado https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/96662/ #BraylonHodge #Football #Iowa #MichiganState #MichiganStateFootball #Minnesota #OfficialVisit #RecruitingClass #TheSpartans
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The track, now released as “Start A Fire,” is the latest preview of the trio’s forthcoming album Bigger Than All Of Us. Siljamäki originally created it as what he described as a “deep instrumental cut” tucked away in his personal archive.
https://retroworldnews.com/above-beyond-reignite-the-spark-with-new-single-start-a-fire/#AboveAndBeyond #StartAFire #NewMusicRelease #ReigniteTheSpark #EDMCommunity #MusicInnovation #DanceMusic #ElectronicMusic #MusicLovers #InspirationThroughMusic #SoundtrackOfLife #FeelTheBeat #MusicJourney #CreativeVibes #music
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VanHelsing’s ransomware builder leak might be the spark for a new wave of cyber attacks—imagine ransomware in the hands of anyone with a computer. How will this change the game?
https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/understanding-the-impact-of-the-vanhelsing-ransomware-builder-leak/
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VanHelsing’s ransomware builder leak might be the spark for a new wave of cyber attacks—imagine ransomware in the hands of anyone with a computer. How will this change the game?
https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/understanding-the-impact-of-the-vanhelsing-ransomware-builder-leak/
#vanhelsingransomware
#ransomwareleak
#cybersecuritythreats
#infosectrends
#ransomwarevariants -
VanHelsing’s ransomware builder leak might be the spark for a new wave of cyber attacks—imagine ransomware in the hands of anyone with a computer. How will this change the game?
https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/understanding-the-impact-of-the-vanhelsing-ransomware-builder-leak/
#vanhelsingransomware
#ransomwareleak
#cybersecuritythreats
#infosectrends
#ransomwarevariants