S4.49 Hopefully Forward
Ducky Carlisle
The world and the Greater Northeast music scene recently lost one of its finest recording studio wizards. Ducky Carlisle, who operated his studio Ice Station Zebra in Medford, MA, died earlier this month. A drummer, singer, songwriter, and most notably a three-time Grammy-winning recording engineer, Ducky has left an enormous hole in the hearts of those who were lucky to know and work with him.
69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs is the sixth studio album by American indie pop band the Magnetic Fields, released on September 7, 1999, by Merge Records. As its title indicates, 69 Love Songs is a three-volume concept album composed of 69 love songs, all written by Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt.
Abbey Road by the Beatles
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969, by Apple Records. It is the last album the group recorded, although Let It Be (1970) was the last album completed before the band's break-up in April 1970. It was mostly recorded in April, July, and August 1969, and topped the record charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom. A double A-side single from the album, "Something" / "Come Together", was released in October, which also topped the charts in the US.
Fingertips: They Might Be Giants
A series of short songs by TMBG from Apollo 18.
Notable Productions
Dan was the recipient of the Berklee College of Music Fly Grant. A prestigious grant to fund his year-long Global Hip-Hop initiative at the Boston Campus. It helped bring Omar Offendum, The Narcysist, Poetic Pilgrimage, Ben Herson, and Shokanti to the college for lectures, performances, and recording sessions on and off-campus.
Mark Basquil's play Unreconciled
Unreconciled is the true story of an adolescent actor cast as Jesus in a school play directed by a parish priest. The story chronicles a survivor’s journey as he confronts his past, navigates a victims’ reparations program set up by the Catholic Church, and discovers the courage to use his voice. This 80-minute piece is a poignant and at times humorous exploration of family, place, and the meaning of reconciliation.
David Byrne's American Utopia
The theatrical concert includes songs from David Byrne's American Utopia along with songs from Talking Heads and his solo career.
Scavengers Reign
The crew of a damaged deep space freighter are stranded on a beautiful but dangerous planet.
Miyazaki & Moebius Catalogue D'exposition (2004-2005)
A catalog for an art exhibition by the cartoonists Hayao Miyazaki and Moebius that ran from 2004 to 2005 at Monnaie de Paris in Paris, France.
The Very Pulse of the Machine
"The Very Pulse of the Machine" is a science fiction short story by American writer Michael Swanwick, published in 1998. It was the winner of the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. It was also nominated for the 1999 Locus Award for Best Short Story and Asimov's Science Fiction magazine's Reader Poll. In 2022, the story was adapted into an episode of the Netflix anthology series Love, Death & Robots.
Jibaro
A deaf knight and a siren of myth become entwined in a deadly dance. A fatal attraction infused with blood, death and treasure.
Rebel Moon
Atticus Noble, the sadistic admiral of the militaristic Imperium, arrives on the backwater moon of Veldt on behalf of the Motherworld, an interstellar empire fueled by centuries of conquest and war. He explains that his troops are hunting for a band of rebels led by siblings Devra and Darrian Bloodaxe, and offers to buy the village's surplus grain. The village's leader, Sindri, refuses the offer, claiming they barely have enough to survive. A farmer, Gunnar, ignores earlier warnings from Sindri and farmer Kora and indicates that the village might have some surplus. Noble kills Sindri and orders Gunnar to prepare grain for them in ten weeks, which would not leave the village with enough to survive.
His Dark Materials: BBC production
In a parallel world ruled by the sinister Magisterium, a battle rages over a mysterious particle called Dust. Can orphan Lyra stop the fight from spilling over into our time?
The Acolyte
The Acolyte premiered on Disney+ on June 4, 2024, with its first two episodes. The following six episodes were released weekly through July 16. The series was estimated to have lower viewership than previous Star Wars series, and it was the target of review bombing campaigns on websites such as Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and IMDb. Initial critic reviews were generally positive, but reviews for the full series were less positive and especially criticized the writing. The action sequences received praise.
Ahsoka
Rosario Dawson stars as the title character, reprising her role from The Mandalorian. Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ray Stevenson, Ivanna Sakhno, Diana Lee Inosanto, David Tennant, Eman Esfandi, Evan Whitten, Genevieve O'Reilly, Hayden Christensen, Ariana Greenblatt, Lars Mikkelsen, and Anthony Daniels also star. Ahsoka Tano was co-created by Filoni for the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Dawson was cast to bring her into live-action for the second season of The Mandalorian, and a spin-off series with Dawson reprising her role and Filoni set as showrunner was announced by Lucasfilm in December 2020. It serves as a continuation of the animated series Star Wars Rebels. In addition to Filoni, Jon Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, and Colin Wilson returned from The Mandalorian as executive producers and were joined by Carrie Beck.
The Clone Wars
The Clone Wars received at first mostly positive reception and later acclaim from critics and became a significant ratings success, becoming Cartoon Network's highest-rated show during its initial run. The series was also nominated for numerous industry awards, including the Daytime Emmy Awards and the Annie Awards.
J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World. He later courted controversy with the short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition, which includes the story "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", and the novel Crash, a story about car-crash fetishists.
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o
A story that shouldn’t work on paper yet does very successfully in reality, “The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O” is a Jungian milieu of archetypes told across the breadth of human history. Its success achieved by sustained focus and vivid capture of one archetype (rebel woman in love with a man on a motorcycle), Swanwick captures the essence of Jung’s idea in vigorous, energetic form. Good story.
from the linked review.
There Will Come Soft Rains: Ray Bradbury
"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a science fiction short story by author Ray Bradbury written as a chronicle about a lone house that stands intact in a Californian city that has otherwise been obliterated by a nuclear bomb, and then is destroyed in a fire caused by a windstorm. The title is from a 1918 poem of the same name by Sara Teasdale that was published during World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic. The story was first published in 1950 in two different versions in two separate publications, a one-page short story in Collier's magazine and a chapter of the fix-up novel The Martian Chronicles.
Heaven is Ten Zillion Light Years Away by Stevie Wonder
Producer, Associated Performer, Recording Arranger: Stevie Wonder
Producer, Associate Producer, Studio Personnel, Engineer: Malcolm Cecil
Producer, Associate Producer, Studio Personnel, Engineer: Robert Margouleff
Participant: Gary Olazabal
Participant: Joan DeCola
Associated Performer, Background Vocalist: Paul Anka
Composer Lyricist: Stevie Wonder