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For the past three years, I’ve struggled daily with social anxiety and with periodic episodes of depression.
Even though I believe that...
Ice Cube tells Bon Appetit Magazine he starts his day with Peace Coffee from Minneapolis
I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don’t head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients. We usually have Peace coffee, or sometimes Starbucks, and I make it strong.(click pic for the rest of story)
S’RIGHT
At Last has become arguably the most popular song in the U.S. for weddings, Valentine’s Day, or other kinds of bourgeois events calling for cheap sentimentality—despite the fact that James’s powerhouse vocals and phrasing actively work against the sentimentality of the song’s arrangement, as it does in most of her work covering jazz standards during that period.
But her vocals weren’t the only place James was working decidedly against a safe “jazz singer” image. She worked in her personal life and her styling to embody the kind of black urban street culture in which she was immersing herself:
“I [was] serious about turning little churchgoing Jamesetta into a tough bitch called Etta James…. I wanted to look like a great big high-yellow ho’. I wanted to be nasty.”
James ascribes the blonde-yellow hair and black eyebrows that she adopted early in her career to being closely associated with street-based sex workers and drag queens at the time. That’s who she was emulating.
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Minnesota is the New California - The Sota Boys
I’ve listened to it twice now. Not sure I can go back to work.
It’s catchy.
DUNCAN SHEIK RELEASED AN ALBUM OF 80’S COVERS THREE MONTHS AGO AND NO ONE TOLD ME?
I’m not just part of the demographic for this stuff. I am the demographic for this stuff. He should have just emailed the album directly to me.
Tears For Fears, Japan, The Thompson Twins, Love & Rockets, Talk Talk, The Smiths … Get out of my head, Duncan Sheik.
Reblogging because I haven’t thought about Duncan Sheik since I was in high school. I think I still have that album on a shelf in Minneapolis.
So I just dropped this and the entirety of Duncan Sheik’s discography in my Rdio queue.
Yes. This is awesome.
Community Singing Returns to Minneapolis Parks
6:30-8 pm, Tuesday, August 16, Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 4055 Nicollet Avenue South
In the days before air conditioning, Minneapolitans would leave their stuffy, hot houses and apartments and head to the local park to sing together….
This is a good idea.
I can’t make it tonight, but that’s pretty cool.
