try to ignore all this blood on the floor / it’s just this heart on my sleeve that’s bleeding
seeing ray lamontagne the first point was pretty dang impossible. it was early 2005 and i had just mature the beginnings of my slow musical rebirth (snatched from the jaws of grownup musical apathy) through his groundshaking trouble. i listened to it non-conclude, feeling like something i had been missing far-off of music was slowly being diffused back into me. the rough-hewn beauty of the music, the incisive daggers in his lyrics, and most of all that unbelievable voice — it all felt so cold and beautiful. i went to see him at the fillmore in s.f., and as i wrote:”this skinny guy comes walking out on lap, looking as uncomfortable as all take up out. big beard. quiet voice. hiding behind his guitar. i little short of thought he was universal to bolt.but then he opens his mouth and begins to cavort.he has this vulnerable, raspy, velvety, correct voice, and he quite pours his soul into his music . . . he feels each briefly and resonates with each chord.[one] non-album track that i remember vividly from the show is “can i stay.” he ended with this tale. the venue went still, as if we were all transfixed in the moment, like you could almost feel the song hanging there surpassing our heads. the spotlight shone on him, with the dust motes swirling in the staid alike. absolutely beautiful song. i almost felt liking i couldn’t hint at.”
Wiki halloween
on monday night, i made the long drive up to boulder for the purpose my fourth time seeing flicker. as jaded and cynical as i every once in a while worry that my little critic’s sensitivity is suitable, wouldn’t you know it - it happened again for me. the chills and the lump in the throat. several times. the potency and passion noiseless lives in ray’s music, and i was so glad to meet up with it again.dressed in the same plaid shirt/jeans/workboots choir of his maine roots, streak is really hitting an awesome stride and verdict his subtle confidence as a actress. instead of feeling unsatisfactory for even looking at him on-stage, as i sometimes did that outset Stygian, ray now exhales a quiet sense of purpose, a level of comfort as he melds with his backing bunch, and occasionally a wickedly funny whiz. (one gal in the crowd yelled out that it was her birthday, 26. streak principal claimed not to remember that long ago in his verve, and then he thought for a moment and pensively but determinedly said, “now i said i didn’t know what i was doing at 26, and that’s not true. i was getting stoned, that’s what i was doin’”).ray’s set skillfully wove his older material together with the bigger, brighter, shiner songs from his new album scuttlebutt in the grain. from the robust opening notes of “you are the most adroitly thing,” to the rocking blues of his ode to meg milk-white (while the stage was saturated in a very white-stripesy crimson light), it was titillating to see this contrary side of him bloom. the country flavor ran deep, with pedal steel replacing the modish strings on songs like “shelter.” songs were laced through with elevated and unwelcome whistles, and harmonicas unbounded like a runaway coach.
i was nothing short of captivated, that he could still move those reflect on pieces around inside me. in a moment, ray’s music conjures up a bankrupt-working world of faded wood cabins on the crystal clear, country dresses, and going home at night exhausted to someone who really loves you. there may be some cornbread involved, maybe a passel of children. all that f
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Brett Favre: The ‘If I Did It’ Defense
The following is a review of Brat Out-of-Favour’s 2020 book, “If I Did It: Betrayal of the Green Bay Packers.”
The ghost writer for this book, Greta Van Susteren, makes sure in the beginning we understand that none of what is written is a confession on the part of Brat, the former Packers quarterback whose name was legally changed thanks to a massive lawsuit by highly motivated fans of the team.
“It is a hypothetical,” says the former Fox News reporter and self-described friend of Brat Out-of-Favour; her father was also a close friend of Joe McCarthy as she was growing up in Appleton, WI. “That’s why it’s titled “If I Did It…”
Her former network was going to air an interview with Brat, to whom they had given an advance on book and movie rights, until public outcry compelled them to cancel the interview. A judge ruled that publishing rights be turned over to Packers shareholders, of which Van Susteren belonged until she was forced to sell back to the team because shareholders voted that she was continually acting “against the best interests of the organization” in her agenda to support Brat at every turn.The book is well-written, but offers little revelatory information. It was based on his premise in Brat’s first press conference after the report, in which he claimed to be innocent but went into detail about how what the Packers did to succeed against Detroit was no secret, it’s not against the rules and “happens more than you know.”
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He also later vowed to start the search for the real treasonists.
Among the assertions used to justify the action that Brat then insists never took place, Brat cites in particular the team’s sudden departure, after coach Mike Sherman left, from the philosophy that his needs would be put ahead of the team’s. He said that made it obvious to him he was unwanted by management.
The following is a partial list of examples of the policy shift:
With regard to the last point, reports came out one by one when opposing front-office staff and coaches retired that Out-of-Favour had also fed those teams information. When the finally-retired star was cornered about this in 2011, he said, “If I did it, it was to prove the Packers wrong about saying I wanted to stick it to them.”
He later pointed out, “It’s not like my information helped anyone—if I had provided it, I mean!”
That much is indisputable: the Packers struggled defensively that year and only won nine games, but Aaron Rodgers made the Pro Bowl by passing for 4018 yards, 30 TDs (plus running for six more), and only nine interceptions. (Brat had 13-plus interceptions in every season of his career except for the one in which he attempted only four passes; in that season he threw two interceptions.)
Nevertheless, the book outlines how the selling of secrets would have happened if it had taken place.
“I called Matt Millen to say we should talk before his Lions played the Packers, but I got voicemail,” Out-of-Favour said. “So I told him to call me back, and that’s why I was able to say he called me, I mean, if he had—wait, I can admit that—yeah, so that’s why I said he called me.”
Van Susteren was asked why she didn’t edit that out, and said she was misquoted. People who worked with her claim it is further proof of her incompetence as a reporter, an assertion she vehemently denies.
Out-of-Favour goes on: “And he said he would take me hunting if I told him something, so I talked about the game plan to spread them out and attack their secondary because we always knew they only had playmakers at the receiver position. I asked Matt why he didn’t know this, and then was like, ‘Oh, yeah, he’s really bad at his job.’
“Matt said he needed to know more because he said his job was finally on the line, and offered me a free hunting trip for it. So I started telling him about audible terminology, route combinations, etc. I should have known he wouldn’t be able to take advantage of it.
“And then it was similar with the other teams, but most of them didn’t call me back when they could see it wasn’t working. If I had told them anything, that is.”
The last chapter is a plea from Brat to be allowed into
