Enjoy! is the third album by the American punk rock band the Descendents, released in 1986 through New Alliance Records and Restless Records. It was the band's final album with guitarist Ray Cooper and only album with bassist Doug Carrion, both of whom left the group after the album's first supporting tour. Enjoy! was marked by the use of toilet humor, with references to defecation and flatulence in its artwork, the title track, and "Orgofart". It also displayed a darker, more heavy metal-influenced sound in the songs "Hürtin' Crüe", "Days Are Blood", and "Orgo 51". Reviewers were critical of both the scatological humor and the heavier songs on the album. Enjoy! features a cover version of The Beach Boys' "Wendy", the only cover song in the Descendents catalog.
Writing and recording
Following three tours of the United States in support of 1985's I Don't Want to Grow Up, the Descendents prepared to record their third album, their first with bassist Doug Carrion. As with their prior records, all four band members contributed songwriting ideas to the album. Some of their new songs displayed a heavy metal influence, including "Hürtin' Crüe", the instrumental "Orgo 51", and the nearly 8-minute "Days Are Blood". "We'd been on tour for so long that we wrote some messed-up freakazoid songs like 'Days Are Blood' and all these weird things", recalled singer Milo Aukerman in 2013. The lyrics of "Hürtin' Crüe" derived from a high school classmate of Aukerman's who had earned a score of 1420 on the SAT, gaining him admittance to the United States Military Academy. Gloating about his accomplishment, he sang a taunt that went "I am better than you / You are a piece of poo / 1420". Aukerman incorporated these lyrics into "Hürtin' Crüe".
This article is about the American writer; see Blake Butler for the British actor
Blake Butler (born 1979) is an American writer and editor. He edited the defunct literature blog HTML Giant, and two journals: Lamination Colony, and concurrently with co-editor Ken Baumann, No Colony. His other writing has appeared in Birkensnake, The Believer, Unsaid, Fence, Willow Springs, The Lifted Brow, Opium Magazine, Gigantic and Black Warrior Review. He also writes a regular column for Vice Magazine.
Transmembrane channel-like protein 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TMC6gene.In vivo, TMC6 and its homolog TMC8, interact and form a complex with the zinc transporter 1 (SLC30A1) and localize mostly to the endoplasmic reticulum, but also to the nuclear membrane and Golgi apparatus.
Inactivating mutations in TMC6 or TMC8 have been implicated as the genetic cause of the rare skin disorder epidermodysplasia verruciformis, which is characterized by abnormal susceptibility to human papillomaviruses (HPVs) of the skin resulting in the growth of scaly macules and papules, particularly on the hands and feet.
Transmembrane channel-like 8 is a protein which in humans is encoded by the TMC8gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is an integral membrane protein that localize to the endoplasmic reticulum and is predicted to form transmembrane channels. This gene encodes a transmembrane channel-like protein with 8 predicted transmembrane domains and 3 leucine zippermotifs.
Nuts was a British lads' mag published weekly in the United Kingdom and sold every Tuesday. Nuts' marketing campaign at its launch in 2004 used the slogan, "When You Really Need Something Funny".
The magazine closed in April 2014.
Sector profile
Nuts' main rival magazine was Zoo Weekly, which is aimed at much the same demographic, 18–30 men, and contains similar content. However, since the start of the respective magazines, Nuts always outsold Zoo, with the sales figures for the later half of 2013 showing a gap of nearly 25,000 copies per week. Other magazines in competition with Nuts were Zip and men's monthly publications such as FHM and Loaded.
Decline and closure
The circulation of the magazine declined from 2007 onwards. The average number of copies sold in the second half of 2013 was 53,342, whereas the magazine had sales of 306,802 at its peak in 2005.
On 8 August 2013, Dominic Smith, the magazine's editor, announced that their publication would no longer be sold by Co-op supermarkets. Smith withdrew the publication in response to the Co-op's request for publishers to put their 'lads' mags' in modesty bags to mask their explicit front covers. The Co-op said that it was responding to consumer concern.
Nuts is a 1979 play by Tom Topor. The play is a courtroom drama, suspense, and psychological drama — and explores sexual abuse issues, family and social power dynamics, and aspects of the criminal court system. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1987, starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss.
Plot
When strong-willed, high-class call girl Claudia Draper is indicted for manslaughter in the first degree after killing a client in self-defense, her mother Rose and stepfather Arthur attempt to have her declared mentally incompetent, which would prevent a trial and cause Claudia to be institutionalized. Public defender Aaron Levinsky is assigned to her case, but Claudia is angry and distrustful of everybody, and she resists his help, disrupting both her examinations by psychiatrist Herbert Rosenthal and her court hearings. As findings progress, new insights into Claudia's entire life experience, including sexual abuse by her stepfather, begin to surface.
Background
Nuts takes place in the courtroom in the psychiatric wing of Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Tom Torpor used his years of experience as a journalist covering New York City police stations, courtrooms, hospitals, and psychiatric wards in crafting the play. He derived the mental illness plot from a true-life incident he had reported in the early 1970s, and he also questioned his wife about her incestuous childhood, which provided the lead character's motivation to become a prostitute.
In poker, the nut hand is the strongest possible hand in a given situation. The second-nut hand or third-nut hand (and so on) may refer to the second and third best possible hands. The term applies mostly to community card poker games where the individual holding the strongest possible hand, with the given board of community cards, is capable of knowing that they have the nut hand.
Usage in context
In Texas hold 'em, if the board is 5♠ 6♠ A♣ 9♠ 5♥, a player holding 7♠ 8♠ has the nut hand, a 9-high straight flush of spades, and cannot lose. On the same board, the hand 5♣ 5♦ would be the second-nut hand, four of a kind fives; the third-nut hand would be any pair of the remaining three aces, making a full house, aces full of fives.
It is important to note that the actual nut hand may not be the same as the absolute nut hand; for example, if the board is 7♥ 2♣ K♠ K♥ 3♦ a player with K♣ K♦ has the absolute nut hand. However, any player with K-7 knows that he has the nut hand as it is impossible for another player to have two kings. The phrase may also refer to a hand in progress with cards yet to be dealt, as the player can be said to have the nuts at that time. For example if a player holds 7♠ 8♠ on a board of 5♣ 6♠ 9♥ he can be said to have the nuts, however if the next card comes 7♥ then 8-10 becomes the nuts. This makes some nut hands very vulnerable in nine-card games, such as Omaha hold 'em.
Blake Butler reading from "Ever" at Word Books in Brooklyn on Mar 5, 2009. Ever available from Calamari Press: http://calamaripress.com/Ever.htm
published: 06 Mar 2009
7. Blake Butler
Blake Butler is the author of the memoir NOTHING: A PORTRAIT OF INSOMNIA (Harper Perennial). Support independent bookstores! Buy your copy here: https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780061997389
Also by Blake Butler:
ALICE KNOTT - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780525535218
300,000,000 - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780062271853
SKY SAW - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780985023508
EVER - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780979808067
ANATOMY COURSES - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9781621050186
***
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published: 24 Feb 2021
Algiers Discuss Writing: 'There Is No Year' with Franklin Fisher & author Blake Butler
Algiers' album, 'There Is No Year' released by Matador Records on January 17, 2020. Listen and purchase the album here: https://algiers.ffm.to/thereisnoyear
Filmed by Ian Cone
Edited by Sam Campbell
Additional Super8 footage shot by Branislava Lalin
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published: 12 May 2020
Virtual Book Launch: Alice Knott by Blake Butler
Join us for the Virtual Book Launch of Alice Knott by Blake Butler. He's in conversation with Chelsea Hodson.
Purchase a copy here: https://www.powerhousebookstores.com/book/9780525535218.
published: 10 Jul 2020
The Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series Episode 4: Blake Butler, Tracy O'Neill, Maisy Card, and...
This episode is a showcase of New Fiction by acclaimed writers Blake Butler (Alice Knott), Tracy O'Neill (Quotients), Maisy Card (These Ghosts Are Family), and Ashleigh Bryant Phillips (Sleepovers).
The Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series is an online event series from the producers of the longrunning, Crown Heights, Brooklyn-based Franklin Park Reading Series. Hosted by Marae Hart and curated by Penina Roth, Virtual Franklin Park events feature authors with newly released books and favorite alumni sharing work tied to different monthly themes.
To purchase the authors’ books through FP’s local indie bookstore Unnameable Books, visit: (https://unnameablebooks.square.site/shop/18).
published: 17 Jul 2020
Friday Reads, Jonathan Coe and Blake Butler
Books discussed:
"Alice Knott" - Blake Butler
"Middle England" - Jonathan Coe
Other book mentioned "The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds" - John Higgs
"Utopia Avenue" - David Mitchell
Blake Butler is the author of the memoir NOTHING: A PORTRAIT OF INSOMNIA (Harper Perennial). Support independent bookstores! Buy your copy here: https://booksho...
Blake Butler is the author of the memoir NOTHING: A PORTRAIT OF INSOMNIA (Harper Perennial). Support independent bookstores! Buy your copy here: https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780061997389
Also by Blake Butler:
ALICE KNOTT - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780525535218
300,000,000 - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780062271853
SKY SAW - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780985023508
EVER - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780979808067
ANATOMY COURSES - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9781621050186
***
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Blake Butler is the author of the memoir NOTHING: A PORTRAIT OF INSOMNIA (Harper Perennial). Support independent bookstores! Buy your copy here: https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780061997389
Also by Blake Butler:
ALICE KNOTT - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780525535218
300,000,000 - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780062271853
SKY SAW - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780985023508
EVER - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780979808067
ANATOMY COURSES - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9781621050186
***
Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth conversations with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc.
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Algiers' album, 'There Is No Year' released by Matador Records on January 17, 2020. Listen and purchase the album here: https://algiers.ffm.to/thereisnoyear
Fi...
Algiers' album, 'There Is No Year' released by Matador Records on January 17, 2020. Listen and purchase the album here: https://algiers.ffm.to/thereisnoyear
Filmed by Ian Cone
Edited by Sam Campbell
Additional Super8 footage shot by Branislava Lalin
Join the Algiers Crew on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Algiers
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https://twitter.com/matadorrecords
Algiers' album, 'There Is No Year' released by Matador Records on January 17, 2020. Listen and purchase the album here: https://algiers.ffm.to/thereisnoyear
Filmed by Ian Cone
Edited by Sam Campbell
Additional Super8 footage shot by Branislava Lalin
Join the Algiers Crew on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Algiers
http://www.algierstheband.com/
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Join us for the Virtual Book Launch of Alice Knott by Blake Butler. He's in conversation with Chelsea Hodson.
Purchase a copy here: https://www.powerhousebook...
Join us for the Virtual Book Launch of Alice Knott by Blake Butler. He's in conversation with Chelsea Hodson.
Purchase a copy here: https://www.powerhousebookstores.com/book/9780525535218.
Join us for the Virtual Book Launch of Alice Knott by Blake Butler. He's in conversation with Chelsea Hodson.
Purchase a copy here: https://www.powerhousebookstores.com/book/9780525535218.
This episode is a showcase of New Fiction by acclaimed writers Blake Butler (Alice Knott), Tracy O'Neill (Quotients), Maisy Card (These Ghosts Are Family), and ...
This episode is a showcase of New Fiction by acclaimed writers Blake Butler (Alice Knott), Tracy O'Neill (Quotients), Maisy Card (These Ghosts Are Family), and Ashleigh Bryant Phillips (Sleepovers).
The Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series is an online event series from the producers of the longrunning, Crown Heights, Brooklyn-based Franklin Park Reading Series. Hosted by Marae Hart and curated by Penina Roth, Virtual Franklin Park events feature authors with newly released books and favorite alumni sharing work tied to different monthly themes.
To purchase the authors’ books through FP’s local indie bookstore Unnameable Books, visit: (https://unnameablebooks.square.site/shop/18).
This episode is a showcase of New Fiction by acclaimed writers Blake Butler (Alice Knott), Tracy O'Neill (Quotients), Maisy Card (These Ghosts Are Family), and Ashleigh Bryant Phillips (Sleepovers).
The Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series is an online event series from the producers of the longrunning, Crown Heights, Brooklyn-based Franklin Park Reading Series. Hosted by Marae Hart and curated by Penina Roth, Virtual Franklin Park events feature authors with newly released books and favorite alumni sharing work tied to different monthly themes.
To purchase the authors’ books through FP’s local indie bookstore Unnameable Books, visit: (https://unnameablebooks.square.site/shop/18).
Books discussed:
"Alice Knott" - Blake Butler
"Middle England" - Jonathan Coe
Other book mentioned "The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Po...
Books discussed:
"Alice Knott" - Blake Butler
"Middle England" - Jonathan Coe
Other book mentioned "The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds" - John Higgs
"Utopia Avenue" - David Mitchell
Books discussed:
"Alice Knott" - Blake Butler
"Middle England" - Jonathan Coe
Other book mentioned "The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds" - John Higgs
"Utopia Avenue" - David Mitchell
Blake Butler is the author of the memoir NOTHING: A PORTRAIT OF INSOMNIA (Harper Perennial). Support independent bookstores! Buy your copy here: https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780061997389
Also by Blake Butler:
ALICE KNOTT - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780525535218
300,000,000 - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780062271853
SKY SAW - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780985023508
EVER - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780979808067
ANATOMY COURSES - https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9781621050186
***
Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth conversations with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc.
Support the show on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/otherpplpod
Merch: https://cottonbureau.com/products/otherppl-podcast-official-t-shirt
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Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. https://bookshop.org/shop/otherppl
Algiers' album, 'There Is No Year' released by Matador Records on January 17, 2020. Listen and purchase the album here: https://algiers.ffm.to/thereisnoyear
Filmed by Ian Cone
Edited by Sam Campbell
Additional Super8 footage shot by Branislava Lalin
Join the Algiers Crew on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Algiers
http://www.algierstheband.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Algierstheband/
https://twitter.com/AlgiersMusic
https://www.instagram.com/algierstheband
http://www.matadorrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MatadorRecords/
https://twitter.com/matadorrecords
Join us for the Virtual Book Launch of Alice Knott by Blake Butler. He's in conversation with Chelsea Hodson.
Purchase a copy here: https://www.powerhousebookstores.com/book/9780525535218.
This episode is a showcase of New Fiction by acclaimed writers Blake Butler (Alice Knott), Tracy O'Neill (Quotients), Maisy Card (These Ghosts Are Family), and Ashleigh Bryant Phillips (Sleepovers).
The Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series is an online event series from the producers of the longrunning, Crown Heights, Brooklyn-based Franklin Park Reading Series. Hosted by Marae Hart and curated by Penina Roth, Virtual Franklin Park events feature authors with newly released books and favorite alumni sharing work tied to different monthly themes.
To purchase the authors’ books through FP’s local indie bookstore Unnameable Books, visit: (https://unnameablebooks.square.site/shop/18).
Books discussed:
"Alice Knott" - Blake Butler
"Middle England" - Jonathan Coe
Other book mentioned "The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds" - John Higgs
"Utopia Avenue" - David Mitchell
Enjoy! is the third album by the American punk rock band the Descendents, released in 1986 through New Alliance Records and Restless Records. It was the band's final album with guitarist Ray Cooper and only album with bassist Doug Carrion, both of whom left the group after the album's first supporting tour. Enjoy! was marked by the use of toilet humor, with references to defecation and flatulence in its artwork, the title track, and "Orgofart". It also displayed a darker, more heavy metal-influenced sound in the songs "Hürtin' Crüe", "Days Are Blood", and "Orgo 51". Reviewers were critical of both the scatological humor and the heavier songs on the album. Enjoy! features a cover version of The Beach Boys' "Wendy", the only cover song in the Descendents catalog.
Writing and recording
Following three tours of the United States in support of 1985's I Don't Want to Grow Up, the Descendents prepared to record their third album, their first with bassist Doug Carrion. As with their prior records, all four band members contributed songwriting ideas to the album. Some of their new songs displayed a heavy metal influence, including "Hürtin' Crüe", the instrumental "Orgo 51", and the nearly 8-minute "Days Are Blood". "We'd been on tour for so long that we wrote some messed-up freakazoid songs like 'Days Are Blood' and all these weird things", recalled singer Milo Aukerman in 2013. The lyrics of "Hürtin' Crüe" derived from a high school classmate of Aukerman's who had earned a score of 1420 on the SAT, gaining him admittance to the United States Military Academy. Gloating about his accomplishment, he sang a taunt that went "I am better than you / You are a piece of poo / 1420". Aukerman incorporated these lyrics into "Hürtin' Crüe".
So, you ain't heard about The J yet? Shut up, you don't know what I'm gonna say yet Livin' in a rage, given in a cage, company cut now I'm coming to get a paycheck Homie depending on how you're looking at it I could be considered a renegade or a gentleman I may dress funny, but I'm one of a kind, the son of a giant, and God Zilla wouldn't consent to a DNA test So I got a complex like I gotta be the baddest at everything that I do and I feed the madness Got a ding and a bruise and the key to sadness, and I'm still trying to figure out who my dad is Though I gave it every effort yo I still came up short, I left it to the government appealed enough courts It never got me anything definitive and nothing ever turned out quite my way no... So I looked to the sky, looked to my God, digging down deep hey, look what I find Another cruel scheme and a crook to abide at the bottom with a pole, line, hook and an eye Just waiting for me with the bait in the sea (thinking I really gotta be a) fool if I take it But I did and go... (Down down down) So (what did I) de(velop) with (all) my time, (in the dark) trapped (cellar) in (hall) my mind (I don't know) What (happened) or (how), but I'm (Tearing all) you (rappers ) on (down) now You can hear the Jhemani calling in every word I'm back from the dungeon to bring you something you've never heard E-Ver-Be (For)X4 Now how do you know what secrets the labyrinth may hold If never you've opened up it's treacherous door E-Ver-Be (For)X4 Now look to the sky oh ever so high we're going up Further than we ever have soared E-Ver-Be (for) Now I've been told over and over that I'm over the top with flowing But I'm like "Oh no I'm the Jokerr, the one and only, so lonely." And if I'mma keep it going then I gotta do what I gotta To stand out in the crowd of imposters from Atlanta to Gotham a lot of Rappers especially try to assume the role Then try to accuse me of being unoriginal like you wouldn't know It's beautiful; going up against uno numeral induces funerals For stupid kids with pseudonyms they just ain't suited fo[r] But look how I rip it, it's over the top, it's so wicked It's never quite what you would expect but it's always better it's different I come from all different angles; it's so involved and entangled The pursuit of perfection with exceptional depth and dimension And I know that you might have heard of plenty other Jokers singing rapping Juggling joking jingling dancing and more Well the reason I'm different when you say that the whole Jokerr gimmick is such a bore... Is I do it better than... E-Ver-Before... It's the battle day, and we're ready all, with a steady aim We'll never fall, we'll never fade, we're a people of honor (Sing it out now hey) It's the battle day, will we be gone? Or will we stay?