While a Mikanko Deck is centered around a Ritual Monster, theoretically, it doesn't even need its own Ritual Spell Card. Monsters Using Equip Spells To Deal Damage Even With 0 ATK The more materials attached, the stronger the Xyz Monster. On top of that, the Xyz Monsters can use the activated Quick-Play Spells as attached materials, instead of sending them to the Graveyard. Purrely Decks make use of a few number of monsters, as their strength lies with Quick-Play Spells. Using Quick-Play Spells To Materials Attached To Xyz Monsters This allows the Deck to run the Spright Engine and use their monsters to provide additional protection and support. Gishki monsters happen to have quite a number of Level 2 monsters in their disposal, some with effects that have no once-per-turn restriction whatsoever, alongside a new Ritual boss monster for the "Gishki" archetype. Using Spright Engine to Support Ritual-based Gishki Archetype God Tier Deck List Explanations Tier List Explanation Shortcuts Any Deck can win on a good day and a good starting hand, but players using Decks in this tier will have an uphill battle to deal with. Ojama Tier can be considered the bottom of the barrel. Do not let your guard down against Decks listed here.ĭecks within this tier will have a very hard time pulling off an upset, unless certain conditions align to achieve win conditions easier. They do have the capacity to upset Duels, however, and players should not underestimate Decks in this tier. Rogue Decks are not necessarily bad, but they will be rare to face because the Decks in the higher tiers are too good to not consider. Still, they do have the necessary tools to win against stronger Decks, and can be a menace in Duels in the hands of commited players. However, they are missing something, like a certain mechanic or strategy, that can take them to the next level.ĭecks in this tier can be seen as underrated.įan-favorite Decks can end up here, but fall short of strength and consistency compared to the higher tiers. Running Decks in this tier will definitely help you climb up the ladder in no time.ĭecks in this tier can be as strong and consistent as the tiers above it,Īnd on a good day, they can beat any other Deck in the hands of a skilled and/or dedicated player. The most frequent and meta-defining Decks used in the highest levels of Ranked Duels.Įxpect these Decks to appear more frequently the higher your Rank is, especially in high Platinum to Diamond. Duels against these are wars of attrition. \When going up against these Decks, luck will have to be involved in order to beat them. They are extremely hard to Duel against regardless if they start first or second, and can win most of the time depending on the state of the game. Represented by a crown, these are Decks that are even stronger and more common than Tier 1 Decks, due to their consistency and overall strength. Here are our explanations for the different categories of our Deck Tier List. Want to know the latest updates on card statuses that could make or break a Deck? Check out the Forbidden & Limited Cards List Page to see which cards have been given adjustments in the most recent updates!įorbidden & Limited Card List Deck Tier List Explanation Suggest an Archetype! Forbidden/Limited Cards Think we missed an Archetype that needs to be ranked? Leave a comment down below! With a different banlist, playable decks on the TCG/OCG may not be viable here and vice versa. Yu-Gi-Oh! is massive and Master Duel has a fresh meta that is still changing up to this day.
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So far, there’s nothing different really from what we did in the last article. Looking at the neck pickup we have a similar situation: its green and bare wires are grounded and its output is connected to our hot signal in positions 3, 4 and 5. Black is the hot output, and it’s connected to the output to the volume control in positions 1, 2 and 3. Taking the bridge humbucker first, we can see that, as always, green and bare are grounded. This is the same as what we did in the last article. The black wire is grounded, and the white wire is connected to the output (the yellow wire to the volume control) in positions 2 and 4. Hopefully by now you shouldn’t be too intimidated when you look at a diagram like this! It’s important to note that in this diagram I’ve used red and white dotted lines to indicate that both the red and white wires from a humbucker go somewhere, and green and grey to indicate the green and bare wires. Here’s what our final wiring scheme looks like: So all we need to do (in addition to wiring the output of the various pickups up to the relevant places) is wire the switch so that it can ground out those wires in the correct positions.įor this guitar, we’ll just wire in a master volume and master tone. By now you’ll know that to split a humbucker to a single coil, the usual way is to connect that humbucker’s red and white wires to ground. This can be achieved with our superswitch. Neck humbucker split to single coil + middle pickup.Bridge humbucker split to single coil + middle pickup.Let’s say, for example, that we’re wiring up a guitar with two humbuckers and a single coil and we’d like to see the following combinations active as we sweep through the switch positions: It opens up many, many wiring possibilities. This gives us four separate five-way switches, all operated by a single lever. Hopefully you can see from this that it’s very similar to our two-throw switch from last time – but the switch has a whole new wafer attached, with another two poles on it. This allowed us to create some different wiring schemes for a Stratocaster, rather than just the standard one. This time we’re going to go a step further and look at a true “superswitch.” It looks like this: In the last article we got our first look at a five-throw switch with two poles. Not that I was so good at keeping a secret: People at school called my friend group “The Craft,” because we seemed like we were right out of the teen witch movie. My grandmother lived by the teachings of astrologer Walter Mercado, regularly quoting him.īut for years, I mostly kept this passion quiet, for fear of what others thought. The fact that I was hardly the first in my family to explore the intuitive arts helps: My dad hails from a long line of Kabbalistic healers my great-grandmother on my mom’s side was a tarot reader in the Lower East Side of New York during the Great Depression. My parents tolerated my hobbies and my growing crystal collection. Like other witchy New Yorkers, I went shopping for white candles at Enchantments and sipped a whimsical coffee elixir at the Witches Brew in Hempstead, Long Island with friends. I had moon circles with my friends in Central Park and cast spells to elevate my GPA. I could point out every constellation, rhapsodize about every tarot card and protect my energy by sprinkling black salt. As a kid, I used to drag my parents to the local esoteric store called “Past Times” to buy crystals, incense and books.Īs a teenager, I leaned more into my interest in all things magic - it simply made the world feel more interesting. ( Plus, as a Gemini, I can't resist a story about sisters we are the twins, after all). Sally and Gillian couldn’t escape from who they were, and neither could I. 2023 21(6):e3002159.In the movie, two sisters - Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian Owens (Nicole Kidman) - are introduced to their witchy heritage by their aunts, who take them in after their parents’ death. 2,3 “It will take the field still some time to sort out exactly why autophagy in myeloid cells in vivo is important for the bacterial control and inflammatory response,” said Jen Philips, a microbiologist at Washington University School of Medicine who was not involved in the study. While the researchers observed these effects in vitro using human iPSCs, others reported mixed results using mouse models. “We weren't expecting such a strong phenotype with ATG14 because there is still some autophagy operating in those cells.” In subsequent experiments, the authors found that ATG14 regulates the fusion of Mtb-containing phagosomes with lysosomes for disposal, thus identifying another mechanism by which autophagy restricts the pathogen’s escape into the cytosol. However, when they performed the same experiment in ATG14-deficient cells, the disarmed Mtb replicated successfully. As expected, wild type cells and ATG7-deficient cells showed hindered Mtb replication. Next, the researchers disarmed Mtb by deleting two defense genes. Using CRISPR-Cas9 tools, they deleted ATG7 or ATG14 from macrophages and observed increased Mtb replication in both cases, confirming that both genes are required to curtail the pathogen. Gutierrez’s team infected macrophages generated from human induced pluripotent stem cells with Mtb. Maximiliano Gutierrez, a cell biologist at The Francis Crick Institute, investigated two key genes, ATG7 and ATG14, to uncover the underlying mechanisms. Infected macrophages engage two main autophagy pathways to package Mtb into phagosomes for removal, but the exact details of how they do this are unknown. “Initial interactions are critical for disease outcomes, so understanding factors that drive pathogenic versus protective responses are really important,” said Robert Watson, a microbiologist at Texas A&M University who was not involved in the study. In a study published in Nature Microbiology, researchers probed the genetic weapons used on both sides of the battle and revealed how host cells deploy autophagy as a first line of defense to prevent Mtb from gaining a foothold. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and the human immune system have been at war for centuries. RoderickGI, I noticed that you posted when I was composing my response. I have tried Harmony remotes and yes they will work but I do not feel that they work as well as the MX-850. Now the only way to get help is through a authorized dealer and most will not help unless they do the all of the programing. When I bought it they supported it to the end user and you could get updates etc. Since the MX-850 is not considered a consumer remote I cannot get any help from URC. To me this is a challenge that I will overcome, We got used to having one remote to control everything and I really do not want to go back. Does the HP WMC remote send out a different type command or IR signal than most other IR remotes? I have noticed that it will not work unless you use the HP receiver that comes with it. Funny thing is I never had an issue with the MX-850 learning commands from any other IR remotes. If all else fails I can use both remotes but I would rather get the MX-850 to work. I will order a FLIRC tomorrow and then work on getting it set up. I was under the impression that any WMC remote would also work with JRiver MC but that does not seem to hold true. What I do not understand is both the HP and the old WMC remote would control WMC and when I programmed the MX-850 using a code I found in the URC editor database it also worked with WMC. Thanks guys, If I can get my MX-850 to mimic all of the commands that the HP WMC remote sends it will work just fine. It still isn't a complete solution because I gave up. I use a Harmony 880 emulating an MCE Remote, with some custom functions. For example, there are no Remote-Control Plug-Ins any more.įinally, user BLGentry tells me that the FLIRC can do everything required to use MC as you desire. IR Remotes codes are still a can of worms, and unfortunately not well documented in the Wiki, which is out of date. If they are at default at the moment and don't work, try learning the IR Code for the button.īut not all standard MCE Remote buttons work in MC as expected. So if you have learned new codes for those buttons, put them back to default and they should work. Those buttons work without doing any IR Code "learning" in MC, with the default setup. It is equivalent to "MC23.exe /MCC 22001, 8". The "Recorded TV" button should take you to the " Theatre View > Video > Shows" area of the Theatre View menu, unless you have modified the Theatre View menu system. It is equivalent to "MC23.exe /MCC 30002, 0". Just make sure people are talking about the Gen 2 version.īTW, when in Theatre View the standard MCE Remote "Live TV" button should launch live TV playing the last played channel. For example, restart MC (not the PC) with "mc23.exe /Restart".Īlso search the forum for "FLIRC". Send simple commands using MC Command Line switches. Edit that version of Resource.xml and MC will look for and use that version first. Create a "Custom Resources" and put the Resource.xml file in it, here "C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 23\Data\Custom Resources\". Use the Resource.xml from "C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 23\Data\Default Resources\" (64bit) rather than download a copy. If your URC MX-850 can send key combinations to the PC, and/or run programs on the PC using macros or otherwise, and include parameters, then your existing remote can do everything you want. Right now with the exception of JRiver it is truly a one remote solution. As it is the MX-850 can use a macro to start my TV and switch to the proper input, start a DVD player, start my AVR and switch inputs, control whatever device I am operating, and if I want to switch to a different device do the proper input switching and shut down the previous device. Getting one remote to work will go a long way in the wife factor. I was thinking that I could make my MX-850 work with one of the USB devices above. The live TV, Recorded TV, Movie, and other direct access buttons do nothing. What is strange is I have a WMC remote that I first used with WMC and it will also only partly control MC. I do have a HP remote and transceiver like the one that JRiver used to offer and it will control all functions properly but when I try to teach the commands to my MX-850 they show that they were learned but they do not work. I have been trying to get my URC MX-850 to work with MC in Theater View and cannot get all of the functions to work properly. I was wondering if any one has used either or both of these to control MC and can give advice. The killer, later convicted of first-degree murder, had initially reported that thieves committed the crime.ĬNN could not immediately reach the two employees who were fired in Georgia. In 2011, a Lululemon staffer was killed by another worker in a brutal stabbing in Bethesda, Maryland. "We've had instances, and we've seen in other retailers instances where employees step in and are hurt or worse, killed," he told CNBC. It's a point that McDonald stressed as well. The stolen goods are most often sold online or to neighborhood mom and pop shops or at street fairs, for example. It's an opportunistic crew stealing specific items from a specific place or one item from many places to resell them," said Hayes. The group said retailers on average saw a 26.5% increase in this type of theft over the previous year. Nearly half was attributed to large-scale theft of products. While Vancouver, Canada is where you can trace the company's beginnings, the global community is where you’ll find lululemon's soul. The National Retail Federation said total annual shrink, a retail metric that tracks inventory losses caused by external theft, including organized retail crime, employee theft, human errors, vendor fraud, damaged or mismarked items, reached $94.5 billion in 2021, up from $90.8 billion from 2020. lululemon, located at San Marcos Premium Outlets: lululemon is a yoga-inspired, technical athletic apparel company for yoga, running, training and most other sweaty pursuits. Many other retailers have blamed crime for closing stores, although Walgreens, notably, has backed away from an earlier claim of rising theft at its stores, saying it may have overstated the problem. Nordstrom, Whole Foods and some other big chains said they were abandoning San Francisco because of changing economic conditions or employee safety. Target said last month that it was bracing to lose half a billion dollars this year because of rising theft. SEE THIS: Video of Oak Lawn jewelry store robbery in which 3 men cut hole in wall to break in released Retailers large and small say they're struggling to contain the escalation of in-store crime in particular- ranging from petty shoplifting to organized sprees of large-scale theft that clear entire shelves of products. Several retailers, from Dollar General to Walmart, have had employees or security staff injured or killed during attempts to intervene in theft.Īs economic fears grow amid inflation and rising borrowing costs, incidents of retail crime are mounting. The employees risked putting themselves and others "in harm's way," Lululemon noted. Employees are able and instructed to call 911 when needed, and that was not the cause of termination," the statement said. "The two employees at our Peachtree Corners location in Georgia were not terminated for calling the police. The company went on to refer to its "longstanding protocols in place" in regards to safety, and said that "no amount of merchandise in a store" is worth the risk for an employee. Why? Because we put the safety of our team and of our guests front and center," McDonald said during a CNBC interview on Friday. "In this particular case, we have a zero-tolerance policy that we train our educators on around engaging during a theft. RELATED: Group of women steal $10,000 worth of Lululemon leggings It is unclear if the footage was taken by a customer or an employee. One female employee is seen near the entrance of the store close to where the men are heard yelling "get out" repeatedly. The incident took place in late April at its store in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, CNN reported.Ĭellphone footage from the store shows two men wearing hoodies and face masks rush into the store and grab armloads of merchandise from areas closest to the entrance of the store and then rush out. "People draw their own conclusions, if the terminologies that you use are tethered to people's understanding of how they have been used in the past," said Reynolds.NEW YORK - Lululemon's CEO Calvin McDonald said the retailer stands by its decision to fire two employees who tried to intervene during a theft at one of its stores. And folks, often may be on their own," he said.īoth experts expressed the importance of media literacy for viewers to critically think about the language used by public officials and the media as we all try to make sense of these complex issues our society is facing. We're thinking of scenarios where first responders are completely overwhelmed. "This seems like it's an organized smash and grab robbery. Maynard Institute of Journalism Education thinks back to Hurricane Katrina, when largely Black New Orleans residents were labeled looters for crimes of survival - stealing water, food, and supplies before federal government aid arrived. Martin Reynolds, Co-executive director of the Robert C. "These types of massive, organized smash and grabs were happening before the Rittenhouse situation, because it happens cyclically," said Boyd. Oakland protesters denounce Rittenhouse non-guilty verdicts Friday night nearly 100 people took to the streets of Oakland responding to the not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. The second round will be contested on Saturday with the top 30 returning for a final round on Sunday morning.Īll action is being live streamed. Look for both ladies on the rodeo trail in 2023 during their rookie season.įull results of all competition from the weekend can be found at Money won this weekend in the card holder race will be added to the members 2023 ProRodeo Standings and is also serving as a RodeoHouston qualifier. Rylee Leach won the short round in a time of 16.062 seconds and finished second in the average with 48.635. Balch won the second round of the permit only race in a time of 15.911 and was third in the final round in a time of 16.129 seconds. Balch and Quickaintfair entered the final round in the driver’s seat and remained atop the leaderboard following the short round. 1-10.īrooklyn Balch took home the permit only race title finishing with a total time of 48.327 seconds on three runs. She will be looking to add another world title to her resume in Las Vegas, Dec. Briggs and Rollo finished second in the final round in a time of 15.854 seconds. Reigning world champion Jordon Briggs looked to be in championship form finishing second in the average with 47.675. Ganter last qualified for the NFR in 2016, but 2023 might be the year she returns to the Thomas and Mack if this weekend was any indication. Ganter was aboard Howes A Tycoon and won the average in a total time of 47.565 on three runs.Īll money won in the card holder race will count toward 2023 ProRodeo World Standings and the race also served as a qualifier for RodeoHouston. Ganter turned in the fastest time on Sunday morning stopping the clock in 15.682 seconds to win the round. The WPRA Boot Barn Card Holder race came to an end on Sunday morning with Jackie Ganter of Abilene, Texas, taking the title. Zilverberg placed third in the first round and won the second round en route to the average championship as well with a time of 52.9 seconds on three. She finished the year with $4,155 to take the title from the reigning world titlist Kari Nixon, who finished second with $2,877. Taking home the tie-down roping world title for the first time in her career was Tanegai Zilverberg. Lowman qualified for the NFBR in 2021 and Edens will make her first appearance in just a few weeks. Danielle Lowman and Jordi Edens were second in a time of 30.6. Linsay Rosser-Sumpter and Taylor Munsell roped three steers in an event best 24.3 seconds to take the title. Two ladies that have spent time as college rodeo coaches teamed up together to win the average in Waco. Moreno captured her first WPRA world title finishing the year with $17,994, while Rylie Smith finished reserve champion with $12,245. Thompson finished the year with $21,671 to reserve world champion Bailey Gubert’s $18,626. Thompson captured her third WPRA team roping world title and fourth WPRA world title over all. Joining Sarah Angelone in the world champions circle was Hope Thompson and Lorraine Moreno in the team roping and Tanegai Zilverberg in the tie-down roping. 30 at the conclusion of the Wrangler National Finals Breakaway Roping, presented by Teton Ridge at the South Point Arena. She is now looking forward to Martha adding another gold buckle to the family trophy case on Nov. Martha is currently the traveler in the family, while Sarah elects to stay closer to home making the WPRA World Finals a perfect fit for her. The Angelone sisters, originally from Cross Junction, Virginia, and now are both living in Texas, look to be a force for years to come. Sarah headed for Martha in the team roping and heeled for Jessica Remsburg, a former WPRA world champion as well. I’m currently cooking up some Mac boot floppies that will make installing System software a breeze. These will be immediately useful without any decompression. If StuffIt Expander isn’t available, attempt to find the necessary disk image in uncompressed Disk Copy 4.2 format. This free program is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux/i386. Before these disk images can be written onto real floppy disks, they must be decompressed with StuffIt Expander. Many sources of Mac floppy disk images distribute them in StuffIt (.sit) format. (All other vintage Macs have a 1.4 MB SuperDrive or FDHD floppy drive, which is compatible with modern computers.) StuffIt Expander This means that boot disks for a Mac 128K, 512K, 512Ke, Plus, pre-FDHD SE, or un-upgraded Mac II cannot be made on a Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows machine. When written to a floppy, these images create exact copies of the master disks.ĭue to physical differences between Mac and PC floppy drives, 800K double density Mac floppies can only be written by other vintage Macs. These floppies are distilled into disk images you can download from the Web. Installing System 6 or System 7.0.1 onto an older Mac is only possible using floppy disks, and the first step to installing System 7.5 is usually “boot from a floppy”. And that’s what we’ll talk about: Free tools for writing Mac floppy disks and HFS CD-ROMs using modern Mac, Windows, and Linux computers. To get that vintage Mac up-and-running, you need to be able to write downloaded software onto disks that an older Mac can read. 2007: One of the biggest hassles of the vintage Macintosh hobby is loading software onto your first older Mac. On the flip side, a lower turnover ratio may indicate an opportunity to collect outstanding receivables to improve your cash flow. The accounts receivable turnover ratio is a type of efficiency ratio. Efficiency ratios measure a business’s ability to manage assets and liabilities in the short-term. Other examples of efficiency ratios include the inventory turnover ratio and asset turnover ratio. Why is it important to track accounts receivable turnover? Efficiency ratios can help business owners reduce the amount of time it takes their business to generate revenue. Your accounts receivable turnover ratio measures your company’s ability to issue credit to customers and collect funds on time. Tracking this ratio can help you determine if you need to improve your credit policies or collection procedures. Additionally, when you know how quickly, on average, customers pay their debts, you can more accurately predict cash flow trends. And if you apply for a small business loan, your lender may ask to see your accounts receivable turnover ratio to determine if you qualify. It’s important to track your accounts receivable turnover ratio on a trend line to understand how your ratio changes over time. A too-high ratio can indicate that your credit policy is too aggressive. Your credit policy may be dissuading some customers from making a purchase. If your ratio is consistently very high, you may want to consider loosening your credit policy to make way for new customers. You have an efficient collections department.A high ratio indicates that your customers pay their debts on time. This means your collection methods are working, and you’re extending credit to the right customers. Your accounts receivable turnover ratio will likely be higher if you make cash sales primarily. Your collections policies aren’t working.A low ratio, or a declining ratio, can indicate a large number of outstanding receivables. If that’s the case, this is a good opportunity to revisit your collection policies and collect invoices past due or late payments. If your ratio is too low, it may indicate that your credit policy is too lenient. The result is “bad debt.” Bad or uncollectible debt occurs when customers can’t pay. Your customers are struggling to meet your payment terms.Consider revamping your credit policy to ensure you’re only extending credit to the right customers. If your payment terms are too stringent, customers may struggle to meet them. Modify an AKS-74U to comply with the given specifications +2,000 EXP Mechanic Rep +0.01 15,000 Roubles 15,750 Roubles with Intelligence Center Level 1 17,250 Roubles with Intelligence Center Level 2 2× Capacitors 2× Bundle of wires 2× Light bulb Unlocks purchase of AK 100-series polymer handguard at. Today we're completing Gunsmith Part 12 in Escape From Tarkov! Unfortunately this build takes some higher level traders than those before it, without much ab.Bautteilliste:Colt M4A1 5.56x45 Assault Rifle ( )Troy M7A1 PDW stock ( you need to know about Gunsmith part 3 and how to easily & quickly build it in Escape From Tarkov! In this video, I will go over Gunsmith part 3 f.Gunsmith - Part 2 is a Quest in Escape from Tarkov. Modify an AKS-74N to comply with the given specifications +8,600 EXP Mechanic Rep +0.02 75,000 Roubles 78,750 Roubles with Intelligence Center Level 1 86,250 Roubles with Intelligence Center Level 2 2× AKS-74U CAA XRSU47SU tactical handguard 2× AK-74 thread type JMac Customs RRD-4C multi-caliber muzzle. All exchanges are on fire, hope it won't start a panic.To complete Gunsmith Part 22, modify the M4A1 with these attachments: These items are rather difficult to obtain, such as the Trijicon REAP-IR thermal scope or the UNV DLOC-IRD sight mount and you'll need to purchase them direct from traders or the Flea market.Gunsmith - Part 8 is a Quest in Escape from Tarkov. □ #CHERO □□ TWITCH - □ DISCORD - □(Gun Builds, Settings, Guides etc.) □.1 Dialogue 2 Requirements 3 Objectives 4 Rewards 5 Initial Equipment 6 Guide 7 Build 7.1 Notes: Dialogue " You have not failed me with the shotgun, so you may know your way around tools. He said “Thanks!” I said “Don’t mention it.” I bought my friend an elephant for his room. It’s all right for 10 minutes, then you start to feel sick.” – Andrew Lawrence “Looking at my face is like reading in the car. “Toughest job I ever had? Selling doors, door-to-door.” – Bill BaileyĪ soldier survived mustard gas in battle, and then pepper spray by the police. Sometimes I tuck my knees into my chest and lean forward. I told my friend 10 jokes to get him to laugh. They left a little note, it said ‘Parking Fine.’” – Tim Vine (Photo: Shutterstock) “Somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. He said, ‘I want you to trace someone for me.'” – Tim Vine “This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. “This bloke said to me: ‘I’m going to attack you with the neck of a guitar.’ I said: ‘Is that a fret?'” – Tim Vine Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.” – Ken Dodd I thought: ‘He’s trying to pull a fast one.'” – Tim Vine I waited and stayed up all night and tried to figure out where the sun was. “I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day, but I couldn’t find any.” – Tommy Cooper I told my girlfriend she drew her eyebrows too high. “I had a dream last night that I was cutting carrots with the Grim Reaper – dicing with death.” – Tim Vine I was involved in very organised crime.” – Milton Jones “Years ago I used to supply Filofaxes for the mafia. “The best time to add insult to injury is when you’re signing somebody’s cast.” – Demetri Martin The first one is on the house.” – Tim VineĪs a scarecrow, people say I’m outstanding in my field. So let’s step back from the image and pay homage to her one-of-a-kind songbook - because the weirdest and most fascinating thing about Taylor Swift will always be her music.“I’d like to start with the chimney jokes – I’ve got a stack of them. These are the songs that sum up her wit, her empathy, her flair for emotional excess, her girls-to-the-front bravado, her urge to ransack every corner of pop history, her determination to turn any chorus into a ridiculous spectacle. Sister Tay may be the last true rock star on the planet, making brilliant moves (or catastrophic gaffes, because that’s what rock stars do). It’s a tribute to her fierce creative energy - in the past couple years she’s released an avalanche of new music, with more on the way. So far, she’s up to Fearless, Red, Speak Now, and 1989 For the Taylor’s Version remakes, both versions count as the same song. Since Taylor loves nothing more than causing chaos in our lives, she’s re-recording her albums, including the outtakes she left in the vault before. (I guarantee you are a more fascinating human than the Twilight guy, though I’m probably not.) All that matters is whether they’re about you and me. But they’re not ranked by popularity, sales or supposed celebrity quotient - just the level of Taylor genius on display, from the perspective of a fan who generally does not give a rat’s nads who the songs are “really” about. She’s got at least 5 or 6 dozen songs that seem to belong in her Top Ten. The hits, the flops, the deep cuts, the covers, from her raw 2006 debut as a teen country ingenue right up to Midnights and 1989 (Taylor’s Version).Įvery fan would compile a different list-that’s the beauty of it. Let’s break it down: all 243 tunes, counted from the bottom to the top. So with all due respect to Taylor the myth, the icon, the red-carpet tabloid staple, let’s celebrate the real Taylor - the songwriter she was born to be. She was soaring on the level of the all-time greats before she was old enough to rent a car, with the crafty guile of a Carole King and the reckless heart of a Paul Westerberg - and she hasn’t exactly slowed down since then. It’s in her music where she’s made her mark on history - as a performer, record-crafter, guitar hero and all-around pop mastermind, with songs that can leave you breathless or with a nasty scar. But Swift was a songwriter before she was a star, and she’ll be a songwriter long after she graduates from that racket. Taylor Swift the celebrity is such a magnet for attention, she can distract from Taylor Swift the artist. |
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