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Juliette Contzen is a lazy, good-for-nothing princess. Overshadowed by her siblings, she's left with little to do but nap, read … and occasionally cut the falling raindrops with her sword. Spotted one day by an astonished adventurer, he insists on grading Juliette's swordsmanship, then promptly has a mental breakdown at the result.
Soon after, Juliette is given the news that her kingdom is on the brink of bankruptcy. At threat of being married off, the lazy princess vows to do whatever it takes to maintain her current lifestyle, and taking matters into her own hands, escapes in the middle of the night in order to restore her kingdom's finances.
Tags: Comedy, Adventure, Action, Fantasy, Copious Ohohohohos.
Chapter 242: Season's Reprise
A familiar snap resounded in my mind, ringing like a gong.
The fact I could refer to this as ‘familiar’ after only a single occurrence was appalling.
Granted, to be taken away from the steps of the Adventurer’s Guild was something I’d usually be extremely grateful for … particularly at a speed which I needed to train my servants to adopt as the new standard.
But that was assuming I was stolen away somewhere nice!
Somewhere warm! Somewhere comforting! Somewhere with a platter of hot scones and oodles of freshly made marmalade waiting for me!
Instead–
There was a twilight sky.
Dawn and dusk danced together above me like the notes of a grand symphony whose conductor had been the first to escape the ordeal.
Here was a song which has been occurring since before the first waves met the shoreline. A mesmerising horizon more vivid than any memory. It was less a sky and more a tapestry of dreams, its colours drawn from a palette dipped into the mind of a child without restraint.
A truly wondrous sight.
And one I’d already dismissed before.
I could do so again.
After all–as wonderful as this twilight sky was, it was not my sky. And until the day the fae learned this crucial detail, I would fail to be enraptured.
A shame.
For if my eyes were busy staring at the sky, I’d be spared from staring at a pile of bricks instead.
Assorted upon a cake rack, a variety of bricks of different colours and textures waited upon the wooden saddle of a rocking horse. A vibrant songbird pecked at it. And then it was joined by more, the scavengers fluttering forth from the green crystalline trees which surrounded me in this meadow.
If, indeed, a meadow is what this was.
A slide of bramblewood, twisting and turning from a height to make any child look up in joy.
A climbing frame of vines, held together across a wall of tightly knitted branches.
A sandbox of petals, forming a pile dense enough to roll in.
A hopscotch court, the squares outlined with giant daisies.
It was a playground … and its most popular apparatus was a swing made of crystalline leaves.
Slowly swinging backwards and forwards, it was sat upon by an elven girl with mirror-like wings, reflecting an image of a faultless spring day like another world within it.
A child no older than those sent to shadow my maids of noble lineage to learn how best to shame their family with a single cup of tea. Possessing eyes of shimmering silver, she toyed with a large braid before her shoulder, as green as the leaves which surrounded us.
She blinked at me.
Then, she offered an innocent smile as sweet and deceptive as her large eyes could muster.
“Welcome, Your Highness, to the Court of Eternal Spring.”
Still lightly swinging, she gestured with both hands towards the pile of bricks sat upon a rocking horse now being fought over by the crystalline songbirds. Here and there, I saw a few wafers of feathers being lost amidst the melee.
“Would you like a brick?” she asked.
I raised a brow as my only acknowledgement.
My first words were important. I wouldn’t waste it on declining her bricks. Not when the sight of me leaning away from the creatures did that. And so I busied myself with tapping the grass instead.
Not quite my orchard. But nothing was.
Even so, I could feel its springiness as much as the magic baked within it, unmasked before the judging touch of the tip of my boot. But I expected no less from one who would call spring her own.
The scent of white portulacas was an interesting addition, however.
A warm fragrance, nostalgic and comfortable, bringing with it a memory of a lakeside picnic.
Ah. I remembered that day. Roland was insufferable. Even more than usual. He’d ordered the scones to be glazed with lemon instead of marmalade. Even now, my face creased from the zestiness. Tristan and Florella were dancing. My brother would shortly be sent to the Loerstadt Gate and didn’t understand the need to practise. But we all knew he enjoyed it more than any of us did. Clarise was suffering. The way her porcelain skin was shining with contact from the sun caused the venomous carp to crowd by the edge of the lake, hoping if they flailed enough they’d somehow reach her.
A wonderful memory. And not entirely by accident.
But try as this queen in the guise of a child might to dull my guard, I could hardly forget that the white portulacas of my memories grew by a lake riddled with more than venomous carp.
They also contained lures cast by fishermen … made using hair from their own beard.
I’d seen them do it … pluck it … one by one … twisting it around hooks like sewing work with a needle.
A sight so horrific I now needed written assurances that none of the perches meunières I ate were sourced from that lake. And almost enough to make the bricks appear appetising.
Almost.
And so I instead left them to one side as I approached the elven girl upon her swing.
An unorthodox throne. But I was hardly one to judge the chairs of queens in their domains.
After all, if my mother could sit on a chestnut mare which was snorting in the face of the Granholtz ambassador, then I hardly took issue with a child’s swing.
And so–I at last offered the courtesies expected of a princess before fellow royalty.
A smile chiselled to practised perfection.
A curtsy measured by the eyes of my etiquette tutors.
And most of all, the traditional greeting when treating with a ruler of the Fae Realm. An ancient and powerful queen, older than stone and wiser than dragons.
“I demand to know where the exit is.”
“There is no exit.”
I threw up my arms in outrage.
“This … This is scandalous!”
“Yes, I agree. Are you certain you won’t try a brick? They’re quite nice.”
“I do not want a brick! I want the exit! This … This is outrageous! Just because I’m a beautiful princess doesn’t mean I can be kidnapped at the click of a finger! I … I have rights! All of them! Do I look like some curio from a troll’s basement? You cannot steal me at will! Not unless you’re a dragon. Are you a dragon?!”
The elven child blinked sweetly at me.
“I am the Spring Queen.”
A simple answer, spoken with all the unapologetic tone it deserved, as though I needed nothing else.
Well … I refused to accept it!
“You being the Spring Queen is as relevant to me as the laws of time are whenever I hear a servant sneeze! I expect them to go back into the past and prevent themselves from doing so–just as I expect you to reverse the past minute to a time where I wasn’t sucked into the Fae Realm!”
The absolute gall of this!
Why, I’d already been sent into a farmer’s soul today! Now I was in the Fae Realm!
At this rate, I may as well order a carriage prepared! If I was going to be dragged to sights I had no wish to see, then I’d at least have a corner I could sleep through the entire experience in!
“As the ruler of the Spring Court, I can bend the wind,” she said, still with her innocent smile. “But no matter how far behind me I send it, I’m afraid that reversing time is a feat even I cannot do.”
“Then do something you can. Snap your fingers like some noblewoman barely wealthy enough to afford her first disloyal hirelings and return me to where I was.”
“I cannot.”
“Why can you not?”
“My hands are occupied.”
The Spring Queen held onto her ropes of crystalline leaves forming the swing. She began to propel herself backwards and forwards with slightly more enthusiasm.
I stilled the groan of distress which wished to leave.
To offer a reaction was to lose. I would not allow the satisfaction. I was a princess. And this meant I represented the pride of my kingdom.
Thus–I did the next best thing.
I rolled my eyes so far to the side I could almost spy the Summer Court from here.
“Do you not require some stolen crown in order to bring your magic to bear?” I asked plainly.
“My crown is one of pollen, petals and dreams. Where these exist, so too do I. As the Spring Queen, I am not constrained by snow, flames and dead things as my sisters are.”
“And so you whisk mortals away at your leisure?”
“My leisure? Not at all. I was prompted. And neither mortal nor fae can deny the call of the cue. I’ve seen empires rise and fall, Princess Juliette. Tyrants and heroes who could command hearts as easily as they could spear them, whose names are now sung only in the barrows where they are buried. Yet no matter the passing of the years, punctuality has never not been important.”
She slowed her swings.
Releasing a hand from her swing, she drew a picture in the air. A childish portrait of a man and a woman. And yet even without knowing their faces or their names, I knew who they were.
“That’s right,” she said with a bat of her eyelashes. “I was called. And I answered. A wish to return the mother and father of the former Lady Renise Rimeaux back to the non-drooling realm. A modest plea, far different to the usual wreaths of power those who think of me hope to see placed upon their heads. And one I am willing to consider.”
I raised a finger of my own, drawing a window to my raised brows.
“Is that so? … How very charitable. To think that the busy ruler of the Spring Court would take time from her corner of eternal twilight merely to offer a maid an act of benevolence. Yet you appear to have dragged the wrong person. Should she not be the audience to your generosity?”
The Spring Queen shrugged.
“I wished to meet you,” she said simply. “I heard wonderful things from my sister. The Winter Queen derives great amusement from your antics.”
My mouth widened with indignation.
“E-Excuse me! Do not insinuate my quest to relieve the pillow makers of the world from destitution is anything less than noble! My antics? Why, without me, their entire industry would be ruined!”
I paused as a sudden feeling of suspicion tugged at the corner of my mind.
“... Moreover, how exactly does the Winter Queen derive any amusement? The last I recall, she was stuck in a featureless room. One now without even a bed to laze upon. My promise was to regale her with an evening of my time later. Not before.”
The Spring Queen’s idle swinging paused.
Then, she tilted her head slightly.
“Hm? Did I say something?”
“What are you not telling me?!”
“Nothing.”
“This is clearly not nothing! What am I not being told?!”
“There’s nothing to be told. Especially not from a slip of the tongue. And so I subtly divert your attention away from matters concerning breaches of privacy and towards answering the earnest wish of the maid currently wondering if she should wipe the drool forming upon your lips.”
I reached forwards and grabbed the Spring Queen’s shoulders.
“S-Send me back!” I demanded, shaking her as the swing threatened to collapse. “I cannot be seen drooling even whilst alone! What if one of the louts in that guild sees me in such an undignified state?! This … This is a life or death situation! For them!”
“You’ve little to fear. An adventurer did attempt to step outside. But the clockwork doll pushed the door back into his face. He is now being pried from a wall. The rest now prepare to spend the night inside unless she leaves.”
C-Coppelia!
As ever, her loyalty, physical strength and lack of empathy is a glowing commendation on her character!
“And now to matters of generosity,” said the Spring Queen, casually beginning her swinging anew. “I wouldn’t want you to see me as only willful. I am willing to offer your kingdom those who conducted where the sewage ran in your royal capital, to judge as you see fit. Upon the last day of spring, Damien and Sabilla Rimeaux may awaken from their eternal slumber.”
The sweet smile upon her face never budged. I met it with my own, even if for some reason it looked exactly like a frown of deep suspicion.
“Very well. I accept. Will that be all?”
“Not in the slightest. I said I am willing to offer. I desire something in return.”
“In that case, you needn’t fear that I see you as willful. I see you only as delirious.”
“Oh? And why would this be? Even as the ruler of dreams, I cannot remove those from eternal slumber derived from my own sister’s wine with a click of my finger. It will require two, actually. One for both. A taxing affair. But one I’m willing to consider, providing my only wish is met.”
I leaned forwards, ensuring that every morsel of my unimpressed expression could be seen.
“Spring Queen. Accepting the return of two criminals is a concession on my part. Not a desire. You are severely overestimating how much I value smugglers if you believe I will answer any whim.”
“... Am I? I do not offer two nameless criminals. I offer the Smuggler King and the Smuggler Queen.”
“Two criminals with scandalous titles, then. If it were possible for me to offer less than nothing, I would.”
“Then you would deny yourself the knowledge, the connections and the resourcefulness to grant your kingdom what it currently lacks. A means to stand firm against the shadows which crawl ever in the small hours of the night. As bright as your will shines, Your Highness, even you must sleep.”
“Sleep which will be better in the knowledge I’ve not indulged the whims of the fae only to reinvigorate the underbelly of my royal capital. I seek to lift my brother’s weight. Not add to it.”
“Then allow me to lessen that weight–at least so far my wish is concerned.”
Suddenly, the Spring Queen stopped swinging.
Her smile widened as she stretched out her arms, gesturing to all the Fae Realm and beyond.
“... I ask for nothing more than what you have already offered before, Princess of Tirea. My desires are no different from any fae, not least my sisters.”
And then–
She giggled, her silver eyes flashing ominously.
“I wish to be entertained.”
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I’m looking for one more 5 color land for my cube and am wondering what experiences y’all have had with 5 color stuff. I have at various times run some combination of [[Gemstone Mine]], [[Gemstone Caverns]], and [[Forbidden Orchard]] but I’m not really enamored with any of them.
I made a list of 23 5 color lands that i could consider for various cubes, most of which are not good. Here’s how I’d tier them:
F tier. The absolute worst, for someone intentionally trying to make a cube of terribad cards, but since that exists, so do these.
[[Rainbow Vale]] always brings a smile and some serious confusion when I play it, and it’s in the dual land stack for the worst cube ever alongside an even more rancid land.
[[Rhystic Cave]] is a comical reminder of how terrible card design used to be. Ok, now to the real cards.
E tier. Some of these are excellent in very specific, niche cubes, but that’s the only place to use them.
[[Pillar of the Paruns]] would likely excel in a heavy multicolor environment, but be terrible elsewhere. I’m elsewhere.
[[Tarnished Citadel]] might do work in a commander cube like it does in cEDH, but even if you have Death’s Shadow it’s a stretch to play this in cubes with 20 starting life.
[[Tendo Ice Bridge]] would be good in an environment with heavy proliferate but hard to justify anywhere else.
I suspect this summer we’ll start to see a fair number of [[Aether Hub]]s added to cubes as MH3 blasts us with a bunch of energy counters and “The Reserved List, but with Energy™️” cards. It’ll be a great shout in a heavy energy cube, but not for me.
[[Cavern of Souls]] could be amazing in a tribal cube but doesn’t cast enough spells for me in any of my current cubes.
D tier. A strict upgrade exists, or you get rolled by board wipes.
[[Lotus Vale]] is fun if you’re trying to do degenerate things but has no protection and sets you up to just die if it’s destroyed. Plus, Field exists.
[[Grand Coliseum]] is a bad City of Brass that ETBs tapped. Yuck.
[[Glimmervoid]] and [[Thran Quarry]] are functionally identical, huge risks that tap for all the colors but set you back massively if a board wipe removes them.
C Tier. Maybe these are useful in some decks but overall the downside is a bit much.
[[Ancient Ziggurat]] is probably fine in creature Beatdown decks with only a few spells in them but much of the degenerate stuff my cube wants to do isn’t creature based.
[[Forbidden Orchard]] is unconditional 5 colors all the time but, as creatures get pushed and shrapnel slash fodder becomes more valuable, it’s often a bad strategy to give your opponents dudes.
I love me some [[Undiscovered Paradise]] and it gets better as your landfall cards get better, but sometimes the tempo loss is a significant problem. It feels close to Vintage Cube power but not quite.
B Tier. I can see playing these but I’m not super excited. Should I be?
[[Spire of Industry]] having the colorless option and not dying to board wipes is pretty great, and it’s pretty easy to have an artifact sitting around in Vintage Cube. This is one of the ones I’ve never run in my cube but thought about all the time.
[[City of Ass]] can ramp you in conjunction with Thespian’s Stage, Snap, Frantic Search, etc. But….
[[Exotic Orchard]] is probably the one I most want to try. My cube has great fixing, so I always assume I’ll have a couple color options. That’s probably enough for the decks that want this. If you play Fellwar Stone in your vintage cube, isn’t this the same thing?
[[Lotus Field]] is a fine combo piece and can make some swingy plays. I don’t see any reason not to run it.
A tier. Vintage Cube staples, including one I doubt and hate having in my cube.
[[Gemstone Caverns]] is a high tier powerhouse that has just never worked for me in cube, in cEDH, anywhere. Tell me stories, try to sell me on this one.
At the same time, I’m higher than many on [[Gemstone Mine]] and currently run it as an absolute stud in aggro and combo. I just want one more 5 color land that’s better in slower, grindier decks.
The people who have started cutting [[City of Brass]] are lunatics, as this is one of those staples that belongs in every cube.
S tier. The best.
[[Mana Confluence]] isn’t going anywhere. Ever.
[[Nearby Planet]] is a stunning, fetchable target that fixes mana, turns on domain, and has a bunch of sweet niche interactions with tons of random cards. I don’t care if it’s an acorn, it’s given me the earliest Scion of Draco and Leyline Binding casts known to man.
TLDR version: Should I add Exotic Orchard, Spire of Industry, or do nothing?
Your thoughts on five color lands are most appreciated.

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Introduction:
In the heartlands of agricultural excellence, one name stands tall, synonymous with reliability, performance, and innovation – Swaraj Tractors. As a leading player in the Indian tractor industry, Swaraj has been a steadfast companion to farmers, empowering them to cultivate their dreams and ushering in a new era of productivity. This blog delves into the world of Swaraj Tractors, exploring their rich history, key features, and the impact they have had on the agricultural landscape.
A Legacy of Innovation:
Swaraj Tractors, a division of the Mahindra & Mahindra Group, has a legacy dating back to 1971 when it was established with the vision of empowering Indian farmers. Over the decades, the brand has evolved into a symbol of trust and efficiency. Swaraj's commitment to innovation has been a driving force behind its success, leading to the development of cutting-edge technologies that cater to the diverse needs of farmers.
Key Features and Technological Advancements:

1. Powerful Engines: Swaraj tractors are renowned for their robust engines that deliver high power and fuel efficiency. Whether it's a compact model for orchard farming or a heavy-duty tractor for large fields, Swaraj ensures that each engine is optimized for maximum performance.
2. Advanced Transmission Systems: The tractors are equipped with advanced transmission systems, offering a range of gears to suit different farming applications. This ensures ease of operation and flexibility for farmers, enabling them to navigate various terrains with efficiency.
3. Ergonomic Design: Swaraj prioritizes the comfort of the farmer. The tractors are designed with ergonomic features, including a spacious and comfortable operator station, easy-to-reach controls, and adjustable seats. This not only enhances the productivity of the farmers but also ensures a fatigue-free working environment.
4. Precision Farming Solutions: Keeping pace with modern agricultural practices, Swaraj integrates precision farming solutions into its tractors. This includes features like GPS guidance, automatic steering, and data analytics tools that enable farmers to optimize their resources and maximize yields.
5. Diverse Product Range: Swaraj understands the diversity of farming needs in India. From compact tractors for small-scale farmers to heavy-duty models for large agricultural operations, the brand offers a comprehensive range catering to different requirements.

Impact on Indian Agriculture:
Swaraj Tractors have played a pivotal role in transforming Indian agriculture. By providing reliable and efficient machinery, Swaraj has empowered farmers to increase productivity, reduce manual labor, and adopt more sustainable farming practices. The brand's commitment to rural development goes beyond just manufacturing tractors; it involves empowering farmers with knowledge, training, and support services.
Conclusion:
In the ever-evolving landscape of Indian agriculture, Swaraj Tractors continue to stand as a beacon of reliability and innovation. The brand's commitment to empowering farmers and contributing to the growth of the agricultural sector has solidified its place as a trusted ally in the fields of India. As we move forward, Swaraj's legacy is sure to inspire future generations of farmers and shape the future of Indian agriculture

Looking into the feasibility of growing a cider orchard over the next 10-13 years and then using it as a retirement hobby/semi-passive income.
I’m a 37m who is current in the commercial construction industry. Over the next 10-13 years, I would like to retire from being out on the road to being at home full time on our farm. I currently have (5) 7-8 acre parcels that I could plant to cider trees. I currently planted 25 bare root sweet/semi sweet for eating. They are doing very good. I have been thinking about planting 100-150 trees every year and eventually end up with an orchard of 1500 cider trees. This orchard would give me something to do in my early retirement and also provide an income stream.
Do you guys think there is a commercial viable need for cider apples in the northern Midwest? Obviously there would be quite an initial investment, but would cider apples pay a return? I am not looking to do a farmers market, or an apple patch where we sell to general public. Would be looking to sell directly to a cider house.
Sorry if I rambled, let me know your thoughts!

I'm checking to see if I'm correctly handling my job assignments for my people that have basic burgage extensions (apples, carrots, goats, chickens). My current approach is below - am I missing anything?
Extension Types:

• Apples - Give them a big extension space (like .5 morgen or more?), and let them work a busy job until the trees are grown 3 years later. Once grown, micromanage their job so that they're not busy when it's harvest season so they can pick the apples.
• Carrots - Give them a big extension space like the orchard, but they will need more job micromanagement to be available for planting in the spring and harvesting in the fall. 2-home plots are preferred so you can plant and harvest faster.
• Goats - Only a small extension needed because the goats don't need much space. It seems like the worker can be busy with their real job and it doesn't make any difference to hide collection overall.
• Chickens - Same as goats. Space and worker presence doesn't seem to impact egg collection.

Jobs

• Jobs that are important to keep the worker on-site, so they're good for chickens and goats burgages as well as burgages with no extensions:
  • Woodcutter and Logger - gotta keep the wood flowing to build stuff and not freeze
  • Logistics workers like granary, storehouse, hitching post, trader - gotta keep goods moving or the whole thing seizes up
  • Any food harvestegatherefarmeetc that is critical to your particular town's survival. May be seasonally important.
• Jobs that are often non-critical and therefore are good candidates to assign to carrot and apple farming burgages:
  • Sawpit, Kiln, Forester
  • Hunter (often sitting around waiting for animals to spawn anyway)
  • Mining and Stonecutting
  • Church/Pit
  • Tavern
  • Shepherd, miller, oven - depends on how badly you need their goods at the moment
  • All industry buildings
  • Livestock trading - unless you have a critical need for an ox or something at the moment

About six years ago my family bought a place in rural Indiana, just outside of town. We bought it for the machine shop, a huge industrial building with zoning, power and access for trucks. I had been a professional metal smith for about ten years but had to leave that work behind for financial reasons and the cost of proper space where I live. This new place was on 5 acres with a house, barn and a creek in the back. It was bordered by a neighbor with an extensive garden and orchard on one side and an empty field on the other. Two years after we moved in the field sold. The new owner stored trucks and building supplies there for two years before starting on a house. It took them quite a while to build it- they were building it themselves. They seemed decent enough at the time. Now, I am used to being viewed as nuisance- I run a blacksmith/welding shop. I try to mitigate the noise. The building is insulated, and machinery anchored to huge (and expensive) concrete footings that reduce vibration. I don’t crank the stereo to drown out the machines, I have headphones. I do regular noise audits and keep reasonable hours ( nothing before 7 or after 9, and no weekend work) When the new neighbors began nearing completion, they brought goats out and stuffed them into a chicken coop about midway down our driveway. They would come out to check on the goats every few days but sometimes the animals would go a while without anyone coming by. My wife and I would walk the dogs past a few times a day ( it’s our driveway) and after a few days of goats screaming at us, one of us would go over and give them food and water. This was an every other week kind of thing. I figured these folks were probably really busy and just getting hung up on driving the 45 + minutes to feed the animals- not a big deal really. As they began moving in, they built a fence, or rather, they had a drunk uncle build a fence. It was just a foot, or two or three from my driveway, and as it meandered toward my house veered into my carport. I tried to have a conversation with them about this, and was threatened with a lawsuit… ( my first altercation with them) I approached the county only to be told that it would be a civil dispute and I would have to go through an attorney to get anything done. Now the drunk uncle realized he was off the line when he got to the carport and just stopped. For 8 months they did nothing. Well, they did start collecting animals. 6 more goats, 16 sheep, 2 then 4 horses and 4 cows…all of these tied to posts in chicken wire fences… I did call animal control. Animal control informed me that this county is rural and they can have whatever animals they want, and do to them whatever they want… (damn Indiana… just??? ) this was about the time he decided to start “training “ the horses. This involved tying them to a post in front of my porch, blasting mariachi music, while whipping the horse- for about two hours a night…they lost three horses, and got 5 more…the half built fence blew over into our driveway last spring. I was out of town working and my wife took the dogs out and took some pictures of the fence in our driveway. The neighbor called the police and reported that she was stalking them, and taking pictures of their workers ( who were eating lunch at the time apparently, but ran off when they realized they had been seen) the police were not thrilled with the call and gave the neighbor a bit of a talking to. The following week they pulled the fence and rebuilt it straight. It now fully encloses their property and is not interfering with my carport. Now, I don’t trust these idiots, but hoped this was the end….far from it. They covered their property with flood lights, that are motion activated. We no longer have dark nights. In the fall they began building a 7000-8000 sq ft barn. Right next to my front porch. Now, at least the horses have a decent place…(right? ) they brought in a full time horse trainer and are “raftering” the horses. The new barn comes with a sound system, and the horse beating is now an 8 am- midnight 7 day a week affair. When the horses get unmanageable they trade them out. I have no count on the animals anymore, but at least I don’t have to watch the beatings anymore. Four times now he has charged me on horseback while I was walking the dogs. I figured he had no control the first three times but the last time he looked me in the eye and spurred the horse directly at me… starting in late January the manure began. They have 7 acres. They pile the manure right by my porch. I messaged her- she blocked me. I e-mailed both of them. From February to April they just piled it higher. In May I called the health department ( damn Indiana…) On the books, the pile shouldn’t be within 200 feet of a residence. The inspector said horse manure doesn’t count…. They responded… the inspection got them riled up. Apparently I am the asshole for wanting the poop piled on the side of the barn that is not right by my front door and dining room window…My second conversation with them ( in two years) was two weeks ago, and now they are going out of their way to pile it closer to my house. I haven’t complained about the noise, or called zoning on them for the unapproved event space They are building, or mentioned any of a dozen other obnoxious things they do. I am concerned that they seem to only want to escalate things. From the conversation it sounds like they are getting flak from other neighbors and thinking it is me. I am not sure they realize that there are houses all around them. She “rescued” a cat that belongs to one of the other neighbors which makes me think she hasn’t talked to any of them. And she kept going on about us calling the police, which I never have. I can hear the mariachi music, literally night and day , echoing through my house, and in the shop ( built for noise abatement) with doors closed and machines running) I am fairly certain that is not going over well with some of the neighbors.

So this differs from my usual writing style, where I keep things very simple. But just looking for thoughts on this: does the purplish prose work? Is it too try hard and cringe?

• It was said by those who stood in the quiet shadows, incognito and watchful, that the beating drums of unrepelled greed and pseudo-democracy will lead to a time of radical oppression. In the passage of time, in its unrestrained flow, a process forming splintering and crusting rivers between the masses, the two, greed and false democracy, had attained their duplicitous baptism.

The waters grew and boiled.
The darkness which had blanketed the lands had drowsed the people. Their limbs grew limp to the duties of spiritual care, their minds sat idle, sedated by trophies of commonness. A commonness which was found everywhere. Whether in the orchards of creativity, in the crucibles of autonomous industriousness, or any other battleground testing man's intellectual boundaries. Occupants had found abode in commonness. It was a commonness gifted by the hands of legislative gods - a well curated congregation of men and women seated in chambers, flinging out ideas. Ideas which they assumed to be a product of their own unique intellect, organic spurts emanating from unparalleled neural plasticity, as if their minds penetrated beyond the cranium and stretched itself over the earth and heavens. What tales the pride shouts. What fool man is.
Once the masses began to awake from their open-eyed slumber, and they found their dirt riddled, toiling hands empty, out spilled a blistering yet ever silent wrath.
They turned against their legislators, they abhorred the distant-standing greed.
Of course the truth was simpler. A thing once told long ago in the caves, while eyes glinted fire under starry night skies, or yelled on the backs of horses. The whispers were couriered through ages by sound reasoning, and the clear sight. That truth which matured in the minds of masses to but a fairytale, an ancient story to cover the silence of death.

Update 23 May: Quick update. tomorrows list late tonight

10 May, Fri

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Sat, 11 May

• RADWIMPS WORLD TOUR 2024, Singapore Expo Hall 7, $168
• TesseracT (UK prog metal, djent), L5 @ GR.iD mall (selegie), $88
• Nancy Sit 薛家燕 & Friends - Mother’s Day Celebration 爱在心中母亲节演唱会, resort world sentosa, $118
• 'EK THA RAJA' BADSHAH LIVE IN SINGAPORE, Singapore Expo Hall 5, ft YUNG RAJA, $148
• Konsert Dato’ Jamal Abdillah Seniman Berjasa (G), The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $98
• Mediacorp GOLD 905’s Solid Gold Night, Simply Retro BaClub by Tin Box @ CHIJMES, $88
• 25 Years of Ska Love – Gerhana SKA Cinta - Timeless Rhythm (ska reggae rocksteady ska-punk), capitol theatre city hall, $68
• Indie HC: Destiny "To See Another Day" Release Show ft Doldrey, xdesterx, FUSE, Chaosphere, punk, old dm, hardcore gig, aliwal arts centre (kampong gelam, nicoll highway, $28
• Indie Rock Gig: BOY DINNER - Pines, Blindside, Bear the Remedy, Second Chance, Sound, Quitline, $20
• Indie Rock Gig: CTRL CHAOS, MONDA(E), INTERMISSION, Last Minute, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $15
• Music Matters Live Festival Schedule and the conference Creator Week
  • Fountain Square Afternoon: DAY 4 - Adrian Dzvuke 🇦🇺, Dhruv Visvanath 🇮🇳, Jewel Owusu 🇦🇺 , Peej 🇵🇭, Eleanor Whisper 🇮🇩, RANGGA JONES , the center area of CQ @ clarke quay fountain square, free
  • Fountain Square Night: Girls Night Out - MATILDE G, JHM (AU), JOYA (HK), Celine Wanyi (HK), Mali (IN), Nao Yoshioka (JP), Emma Dilemma (NZ), Marian Carmel
  • Senor Taco Stage: DAY 3 - COUNT VERNON, Oliver Cronin 🇦🇺, Balu Brigada 🇳🇿, Teo Glacier🇳🇿 ), Señor Taco restaurant livehouse at CQ @ Clarke Quay, free
  • HIPHOP RNB at IKI: Mic Check with Josh Makazo, Berywam 🇫🇷, ARlo Maverick 🇨🇦, Adrian Dzvuke 🇦🇺, Who Shot Scott 🇳🇿, club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), pop, R&B, afrobeats and hip-hop free
  • It's a girl thing TALK: Singapore Edition - Inch Chua, Preeti Nair, Marian Carmel, Mali, JOYA, Matalie Dau et al., free with RSVP

 

• Singapore Chinese Orchestra: Mother‘s Day Concert 2024 母亲节音乐会 2024 - 慈母心 - Day 2 of 2 , Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $38
• Singapore Symphony Orchestra: SSO Symphony Ball 2024 - SSO Benefit, The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore, uh $10k
• Cool Cats: Jamie Aditya presents Funky Town (soul and funk) - day 3 of 3, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $28
• Jazz Loft: JAPANESE FUSION WONDERLAND with Eric Lee and M.I.C, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24,
• Maduro Jazz: Mellow Mixtape by Mila Vidanovic (soul jazz pop), maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
• Irish Music & Plays: Lasalle's Red Dot Green Dot 2024 - celebrating Ireland and Singapore culture, LASALLE college of the arts (rochor), $40
• Choral: Resonance of Singapore - Nonsensical Notes - Songs of Innocence by The ROS Singers, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory concert hall,, $17

 

Esplanade Pesta Raya Festival 11

• ES Theatre - Bawang Putih Bawang Merah by by Teater Ekamatra, Waterfront Theatre, $45 soldout
• ES Performances: Jalan Raya by Zarina Muhammad, in collaboration with local artists- Day 3 of 3, Annexe Studio, $22
• ES Music Kids: tikTOKtik – Children’s Storytelling by Kelana Purba, and folk songs, dikir barat, Indoor Concourse 230 345pm, free
• ES Music Kids: JUARA MIC JUNIOR di Pesta Raya by The Stars of JMJ, Outdoor Theater 3pm 415pme, free
• ES Dance: Mak Yong by Kumpulan Mak Yong Cahaya Matahari & PUSAKA, Waterfront Theatre Lawn 6pm, free
• ES Music: Sanggar Seni by Kelana Purba and Makyong Kedek (dikir barat), Courtyard 645pm, free
• ES Music: Nadi Singapura x Djangat - ethnic folk percussion and electronic soundscapes, Outdoor Theatre 7pm 815 930pm, free
• ES Music: Malam Balada by Zalelo & Fauzie Laily - M-pop ballads and raya hits , Indoor Concourse 730pm 830 930pm, free

 

Events & Parties 11

• DJ, [Intervention 5 feat. Gabber Modus Operandi 🇮🇩](Fetching Title#aokv, queer, Projector X Golden Village No Spoilers Box Office Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard L5 ,$22
• DJ, SHiOCK x Manifest - House of Mayhem with DJ IMX & Denz Devarez 🇳🇱🇿🇦 - ft Aphad & YZ, Wallich Manor Lounge @ Sofitel City Centre Hotel L6 (tg pagar), $15
• DJ 🏖, GrooveTop: Hip Hop Pool Party ft. Secret Pals, Durio & AKA Sounds, El Chido 1 Hill Street, Pullman Singapore (city hall), $25
• DJ, Flashback Saturday 90s & 2000s Hip Hop x RnB, Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), $11
• Party Queer: SALUD - united by music - eurofashion, salud cocktail bar @ 19 keong saik rd (maxwell), $25
• DJ,🏖 Fuego Night: Afro Beach 5.0, Sand Bar 53 Siloso Beach Walk, $35
• DJ, Jugaad: The Revolution - Night Of Bollywood X Punjabi Bangers by Untamed, hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), $30
• Drag Party, [The KasiCunt Ball: Yin & Yang]((https://kasicuntball-2024.peatix.com/), MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $58
• DJ, 10-11 May: Neil Conversion, Unleash pres. Unhinged - circuit party bar in sg, 43 Neil Road (maxwell), lgbt gay bar-club
• DJ, Zodiac Bar Night Party, gay bar at 50 prinsep st (bencoolen)
• DJ, Offtrack: Bongomann (deep house) and Sigmond Fn (aka fzpz), 34 North Canal Rd (bs hong lim park, clarke quay), music gastro bar
• DJ, Highh Club: ASSEMBLY MAYHEM @ Highh School, Highh Party @ Pan Pacific Hotel, 7 raffles blvd (esplanade, promenade), $20,
• DJ, HighHouse Fred E & XTVA (melodic techno & trance) , High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place (old 1-altitude), $38
• DJ, NoSleepClub - Excessive heat ft DJs Moss and Nez Senja (rnb hiphop), No Sleep Club @ 20 Keong Saik Rd (outram/maxwell)
• DJ, Neon Pigeon - Mothers I’d Love To Feed., Neon Pigeon @ 36 Carpenter St (clarke quay)

 

Club Guest Performers 11

• DJ, ARK 11: AMBER NA 藍星蕾 (🇲🇾 chinese style edm) , ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11, IG 📸 $25
• DJ, .WAV(Y) Remixed Presents: DAVE NUNES (🇳🇱House, Afro, Baile Funk, and Amapiano) with PRAV, XG & KNRCK, Mortar & Pestle rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, $27
• DJ, Tipsy Unicorn Lizzy Wang (🇨🇳Tech House) , tipsy unicorn beach club, $25
• DJ, ArtBeyond X CIEL: Electric Playa! Ft. Patrice Bäumel (🇩🇪 techno) & Guy Mantzur), Rumours Beach Club 🏖 @ 40 Siloso Bch Walk, Sentosa, $48
• DJ HQ: Thugshop Presents - UFO95 [LIVE, 🇧🇪 techno], headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36

 

12 May, Sun - Mother's Day

• Concert at Botanic Gardens: SSO Mother’s Day Concert 2024 by Singapore Symphony Orchestra, singapore botanic gardens, shaw foundation symphony stage, free
• Retro Rani by Mediacorp 968, orchid country club, ballroom (yishun), $89
• Indie Hiphop Rnb: PRIVATE FUNCTION 5 - Fahmy., Lucky Levi, SUBHAS, Martin Spacely, CHRISKRIS, BCKNIP, AE$OP CA$H, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $16
• Indie Screamo, HC Grind Gig: ANGUISH IS FOR LOVER - 🇲🇾: TERDERITHA , Dasawarsa, Rugh, 🇸🇬: ANJING, Mordhau, C.A.S.S (Tibetan Punk Band) , moved to rad studio 345, $20
• Crust Punk: Subconscious (🇮🇩 Batam crust) ft Istilah, Vitriol, Topsy Turvy, lithe style (house) near rochor mrt, $20
• Jazzy Ukulele Mother's Day with Daniel Purnomo & Fabian Lee, Crane OCBC at Wisma Atria Orchard, $10 to $30
• SOTA Wind Ensemble x Dunman High Symphonic Band: Where the Sky Meets the Sea, Victoria Concert Hall, $10
• Choral: Songs From Our Childhood - an educational programme by The ROS Singers, National Library Building, Level 1, Lobby, free, dont worry if registrations are full - its open
• Strings & Melodies: A Family Musical Adventure with violinist Alexander Suptel and Alexandra Novicova, At 36/38 Armenian Street, $58 for 2
• Indie Theatre - Ancient Music Songs: An Open Work Session & Dialogue with Thomas Richards, Centre 42 at 42Waterloo Street, $20
• The Projector Cineleisure Orchard: Mother's Day w The Staircase Duo (pop, rock, acoustic), Projector X Golden Village No Spoilers Box Office Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard L5
• Indie Rock Math Pop Gig: Amberhill Motion & Bloom - Album Launch ft MAXIME & ELO ELO, Esplanade Recital Studio, tix 🎟 $25

Esplanade - Pesta Raya Malay Festival Last

• ES Music: Hidup Pop Yeh Yeh! (Long Live Pop Yeh Yeh!) by Dato’ Jeffrydin, Dato’ L. Ramli, S. Mariam & Masdo 🇲🇾, Concert Hall 8pm, $40
• ES Music: Dangdut Koplo Extravaganza! by Ochi Alvira & Syahiba Saufa 🇮🇩, Annexe Studio 5pm 8pm, $40 soldout
• ES Folk Music and Kids Storytelling: tikTOKtik – Children’s Storytelling by Kelana Purba, Indoor Concourse 230 345pm, free
• ES Music Children's: JUARA MIC JUNIOR di Pesta Raya by The Stars of JMJ, Outdoor Theatre 3pm 415pm, free
• ES Dance: Mak Yong by Kumpulan Mak Yong Cahaya Matahari & PUSAKA, Waterfront Theatre Lawn 6pm, free
• ES Music: Irama Nostalgia with Angklung Empire, Indoor Concourse 630 730pm, free
• ES Music: Sanggar Seni by Kelana Purba and Makyong Kedek, Courtyard 640pm, free
• ES: The Cliffters with The Impian Batiks (60s band, malay, english songs) , Outdoor Theatre 7pm 815pm, free
• OTHERS
• Wanna Dance 2024: On Broadway - jazz, tap, ballet, contemporary, musical theatre - by Jitterbugs, Kreta Ayer People's Theatre (maxwell, chinatown), $55

 

• DJ Party and Market: Slow Sundays Vol. 6 - Bring Your Own Mom BYOM, DJs Bongomann, Tasha, Tyler Made, FatCatHeartAttack & the 5210 PM Crew - Loyboy, LTLX, Juhvunnn, Tanglin Gin Jungle at Dempsey Hill, 26B Dempsey Rd (napier), free/bar
• DJ, Afro-Cuban Domingos ft DJ Yuma & DJ Cam, at Ziggy Zaggy 51 Kampong Bugis (kallang riverside)

 

13 May, Mon

• elijah woods : ilu 24/7, 365 tour, ESPLANADE Annexe Studio, $108
• Esplanade: Ebony & Ivory with Erwin Angullia featuring Nur Umairah on vocals (80s contemporary & movies, jazz-pop) Day 1 , Indoor Concourse, free
• Sonic Explorations - a collaboration with Eunoia JC MEP and What the Forte (contemporary, classical), Eunoia Junior College (bright hill), free

 

14 May, Tue

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15 May, Wed

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16 May, Thu

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17 May, Fri - Start of Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA 2024)

• Arch Enemy (melodic death metal, melodeath) - Deceivers Asia Tour 2024 in Singapore, Scape Orchard, The Ground Theatre (somerset mrt), $118
• SCO: Young Children's Concert 2024 儿童音乐会 2024 - Karung Guni Boy by Singapore Chinese Orchestra - Day 1 of 2 , Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $20
• SSO: Chamber: Smetana and Dvořák by Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Victoria Concert Hall, $20
• Reggae Remedy : WITH SURPRISE GUEST (Ska, Rocksteady, Dancehall & Reggae), el pico at 6 Hongkong St (clarke quay), free
• Crust Punk Show: bastarddestroyer (ID), deviare, afterdeath, cass, topsy turvy, rad stuido 345, $10
• NLB: Diabetic Duo (Amanda Ong & Sope) - Open Stage Originals - singer-songwriter duo, folk soul, alt-pop, National Library Building, Level 1 Lobby, free, dont worry about registration its open
• Tribute: Some Might Say Oasis, molly malone's irish pub @ 56 circular rd (raffles place, boat quay)
• Cool Cats: Rai Maia presents Soul Sessions (neo-soul hiphop) - day 2 of 3, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $28
• Maduro Jazz: A Classical Aftertaste with The David Loke Trio ft Charmaine Teo & Hang Oh, maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
• Candlelight: Film Scores at RWS S.E.A. Aquarium w Vocalise String Quartet, S.E.A. Aquarium Sentosa, $73

 

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• DJ, MUGIC with Black Pomade (🇵🇹🇮🇹 PT-IT) ft Halal Sol, Projector X Golden Village Ruby Lounge @ Cineleisure Orchard L6, $37

 

Club Guest Performers

• DJ, HOSPITALITY 2024 feat. P MONEY x WHINEY & ANAЇS (UK 🇬🇧) - Kings of Bass with Hospital Records (the UK DNB label), MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd, tpi building), IG 📸) $37
  
• DJ, Celestial Seasonings: 1st Anniversary with Aldonna (AU 🇦🇺) ft Miss Lil, JAS, and 3MZY., tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $37
  
• DJ, Drip: Posh Singapore edm techno pop with DJs tajima, ling, belle, drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel, tix 🎟, $30
  
• DJ, XclusiV Club Xtra Special Event - DJ NADD & DJ KIDD & SAN, Xclusiv (XV) asian Restaurant Club (fmr. Prism) @ marina square, S039594, $30
  
• DJ, Marquee: Marquee Utopia - trance & future rave night, marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $20
  
• DJ, Zouk Phuture: [EATS EVERYTHING (UK 🇬🇧 deep tech house)](https:/www.ticketfairy.com/event/eats-everything-17may2024), zouk phuture club @ clarke quay, IG 📸 $48
  
  • DJ, Zouk: Mambo Jambo (70s 80s disco boogie night), $35

 

18 May, Sat

• Power Station 动力火车 - 「都是因为爱」世界巡回演唱会, indoor stadium, from $138
• Jazz It Up! A Jazzy Celebration of Chinese Songs 2024 爵士也华彩 2024 - Day 1 of 2 - ft Teresa Carpio (杜丽莎), Wysom Wong (黃偉深), Serene Koong (龚芝怡), Jazz Association Singapore, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), IG 📸 $48
• CAPITAL 958 唱FUN天 (G) - Day 1 of 2, the theatre @ mediacorp (one-north), $38
• SCO: Young Children's Concert 2024 儿童音乐会 2024 - Karung Guni Boy by Singapore Chinese Orchestra - Day 2 of 2 , Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $20
• SG Music: TRIFECTA Backyard sessions - Charlie Lim, Shye, Tengy, Regina Song (pop, rock, rnb) and DJ set by Culture, IG Set Times📸, TRIFECTA - Surf, Snow, Skate Park (at Somerset MRT skate park), free
• Indie Hiphop & Rock & DJs: G-Town Presents: That's What I Call Open House - Live Hip Hop collectives Leftmind, Sappy Chill, Reptile Skin Business Club - Grungy Alt Rock with Bellied Star - DJS HZQ, El Professionel, Sadat, Nez Senja, Intermission Bar @ the projector golden mile tower (indie cinema, nicoll hwy mrt), ft. Mediocre Haircut Crew, Mars B, Fariz Jabba, Abangsapau, Sharbil, Boonbakes, Infra.24, Fauxe, Naztykeys, Fandy Razak, Big Mat, Tengy & Leftmind's Shane 2 Sweet , Kzy , Acapslim , Opus Renegade and Zimmy E., IG 📸 $20
• Indie Emo Pop Punk Gig: Sad Boy Hours Emo Night - Pillow Head, Circle Line Kid x Last Minute, A Letter You'll Never Read, DJ TheSoundofAlvin, Tonehouse Studio at Parklane Shopping Mall (bencoolen) L3 , IG 📸 $15
• Indie Synth Electronic - Hyper Highways by Synth Commune insp. by Nam June Paik - PolyBlank, Bokeh Fields, Falling Islands, Microchip Terror, Darts Legend @ One North, 20 Ayer Rajah Crescent, IG 📸 $7
• Indie Open Mic: INDIGO SCALES Open Mic Night - Melodies under the Stars, little island brewing co @ south beach (esplanade mrt, opp suntec convention)
• Wisma Geylang Serai Senandung Rock Jiwa Retak - thje competition, Wisma Geylang Serai (the Geylang Serai CC at Paya Lebar MRT) L1, free
• Cool Cats: Rai Maia presents Soul Sessions (neo-soul hiphop) - day 3 of 3, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $28
• NLB Talk: Music Talk: The Play-by-Ear & Sight-Reading Divide in music learning and making., National Library (bugis) Lobby, Level 1, *free, its the public area *
• NTU A Cappella: NTU Harmonix's Story of My Life, Ngee Ann Polytechnic Music Box 535 clementi rd (king albert pk), $22
• NTU Jam Bands - Rocking In The North '24: Dream On - bands of North Hill Halls, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), IG 📸 $7
• NUS Rock Bands: Amplitube by NUS Amplified, ESPLANADE Annexe Studio, IG 📸 $15

 

Esplanade

• ES: songs on my floppy disk by Krysta Joy (singer songwriter), Indoor Concourse 545 645 745pm, free
• ES Music: Across the Golden Era - A Tribute to Hong Kong Movies & TV Series by The Mashed Ups, Outdoor Theatre 630 8pm 930pm, free
• ES Theatre: Moby Dick by Plexus Polaire - mutimedia theatre, puppets & live music - Day 2 of 2, SIFA 2024, Waterfront Theatre, $38

SIFA 2024

• Theatre/Multimedia AI: Una Isla by Agrupación Señor Serrano (ES) - 1 of 2, SOTA Drama Theatre (bencoolen, dhoby), $38
• Music Performances at Stamford Arts Center @ 155 Waterloo St (bugis):
  • 1 - 145 pm: Suhaili
  • 3 -4 pm, 5-6pm: Sonic Escapade with Micheal Spicer, Deborah Tan, Lydia Ang & Zheng Jie (improv avant garde eastern & western, from new age folk to industrial post-rock)
  • 7-730pm: Tetradics with Ridwan Ramli, Khairil Shazwan, Khoiriyyatun Sabila & Hanisah Tan (malay trad drums)
  • 8-830, 930-10pm: NUS Fingerstyle Guitar Ensemble
  • 8-830, 930-10pm: The Harp Quarterly with Karen Tay & Nigel Foo
• THEATRE AT STAMFORD ARTS CENTRE @ 155 waterloo st (bugis), ALL FREE but $20 refundable deposit
  • Theatre: Work In Progress by Dramabox (SG) - 1 of 2
  • Theatre: ANAK by The Necessary Stage (SG) - 1 of 2
  • Theatre: The Radicalisation of Mrs Mary Lim-Rodrigues by Michelle Tan, Centre 42 (SG) - 1 of 2
  • Theatre: DIDO AND AENEAS - a riotous reimagination of Henry Purcell's timeless opera by T:>Works (SG) - 2 of 2
  • Theatre & Puppetry: Remember My Party by The Finger Players - 2 of 2
  • Theatre: Waiting For Audience《等待观众》by Nine Years Theatre (SG) - 2 of 2
• Dance: The Romeo by Trajal Harrell (US/CH) - 1 of 2 w special post show talk, Victoria Concert Hall, $38
• Others
• Chinese Drama Performance by Hua Yi Secondary at Jurong West Public Library, Storytelling corner (children's section), free
• Methodist Girls' School Festival of Arts – Kizuna (Drama, International and Indian Dance), NUS University Cultural Centre Theatre, $30
• Blackbird: Flash Mobsta, Rock Rosettes, DJ Maverick, Blackbird Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park),

 

DJ Events

truncated, word limit - Wellness and DJ Party Immersion by Wild Pearl - BIG SPLASH with Yoga Movement & Rumours Beach, Rumours Beach Club 🏖 @ 40 Siloso Bch Walk, Sentosa, IG 📸 $37 - Live Hiphop & DJ, Drip, Dreamfellas Presents: CLOUT, drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel, $27 - DJ, Behind the Green Door: Anthony Middleton (🇬🇧 house, Audiofly), Behind the Green Door @ 97 Duxton Road (maxwell), $35 - DJ, Marquee: Marquee Rising ft DJ Kiara 🇸🇬, marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $20 - DJ, Bollywood Club X pres. KALA CHASHMA, hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), $29 - DJ, Zouk: One Dance, Total Recall, Slime Hiphop, zouk clarke quay - DJ, Ce La Vi: BIG NITE OUT! feat. NAKADIA 🇹🇭 & OSCAR L 🇪🇸 (techno & house), marina bay sands hotel rooftop bar-club 🗼, $38 - DJ, MODAL presents MODE09 feat. Tommy Four Seven (🇬🇧 techno), MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd) L2, $37
 

19 May, Sun

• VCHpresents Chamber: The Pavel Haas Quartet 🇨🇿, Victoria Concert Hall, $20
• Jazz It Up! A Jazzy Celebration of Chinese Songs 2024 爵士也华彩 2024 - Day 2 of 2 - ft Teresa Carpio (杜丽莎), Wysom Wong (黃偉深), Serene Koong (龚芝怡), Jazz Association Singapore, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), $48
• Vocabella Ladies Choir: Lux et Amor - featuring Dan Forrest's Lux: The Dawn From on High and local compositions., School of the Arts (bencoolen/dhoby), $32
• Mus'Art Youth Wind Orchestra: Extravadanza - Music of Dance - band classics such as El Camino Real to pop favourites like Michael Jackson, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory main concert hall L1, $15
• Victoria School Chinese Orchestra : A MUSICAL JOURNEY IV (G), Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $15
• Blackbird: New Stream Brass Band, Blackbird Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park)
• ESPLANADE: : Theophilus Tan - Spring: Your Curated Experience by Musicians’s Initiative (plays Tchaikovsky, Schumann) , ESPLANADE Recital Studio, $32
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20 May, Mon

• BOWKYLION 🇹🇭 (t-pop) at Club Lunar 月, Club Lunar (southeast asian club) @ Orchard Plaza L4, table
• Pianoland Noon: Grand Opening for the Week-long showcase - Michelle Poh (jazz-pop-soul), Westgate Level 2 Atrium, free
  • Pianoland Evening: Mandopop Hits & More ft Chi Sheng & Aaron, free
• ESPLANADE: Victoria Junior College Symphonic Band , Concert Hall, $15
• ESPLANADE: Gabriel & Dennis - soul pop, rock, singer-songwriter blues, Indoor Concourse 645 745pm, free
• Blu Jaz: Musical Theatre Open Mic Night @ Blu Jaz Café Level 3, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $15
• DJ, FATE by HaveFun 520 party on Monday, southeast asian style club @ orchard cineleisure L8, (S239695)

21 May, Tue - PH eve

• Simply Jazz: Swing Journal - Johnny Gaerlan, Rosanna Gaerlan, Arnold Pontoh, Rafael Mahmood, simply jazz bar @ CHIJMES b1 (city hall)
• Cool Cats Jazz: Homegrown Originals feat. Maya Raisha (jazz rnb pop soul), nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $20
• Pianoland Noon: Grand Opening Week - Namie and Ann Gie (of namie & the waves, jazz vocal pop), westgate level 2 atrium (jurong east mrt), free
• ESPLANADE: Grey Ying - childhood favorites from doraemon, crayon shin-chan to naruto, inyuyasha, Indoor Concourse, free
  • 15-21 May: ESPLANADE Workshop & Peformances: Day Out! @ with vocal coaches Dionne, Amanda and Deniece, and also bollywood dance crew Royalusion , Various locations around Esplanade, $27
• SIFA: URL to IRL: SIFA Digital, Victoria Theatre Atrium, free
• Workshop: Percussion Masterclass and Recital by Dr. Wannapha Yannavut 🇹🇭, Singapore Raffles Music College 456 Alexandra Road, Recital Hall @ Level 9 (labrador park, next to ARC), free
• The Blackbird: Bellingham Duo & Reverie ft DJ Maverick, Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park), free/bar
• Kids: Avocado Piano Candlelight Concert Series, Avocado Piano Studio Fort Canning @ 233 River Valley Road , free
• Flying V Metal Bar: Singer Song Rioter - YAS33 🇯🇵, flying v metal bar @ the adelphi B1, 📹vid, free
• Liveband & DJ, Level Up: Through the Decades - Pop Punk Edition with Jukuleles & DJ Kohsh, Level Up Clarke Quay – Live Music & Arcade Bar @ cq clarke quay L2 blk a S179020

 

• DJ, Hard Ascension presents Rave Odyssey ft. Kavok's Birthday (hardstyle hard dance night), black horse southeast asian club @ 138 robinson rd (cbd, oxley tower L20), tix 🎟 $27
• DJ, GLHF ORIENTAL RAVE ft. ATOMIX @ ARK 11, ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11, $20 w 2 drinks, ladies guestlist
• DJ, Club Hell: Rebirth in Hell. gay lgbt club @ 113 telok ayer st, $30
• DJ, HighHouse PLUTO PARTY PEOPLE feat. Stassh (KFC & Hookstyle), High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place (old 1-altitude), free
• DJ, Marquee: Darren Styles (🇬🇧UK hardcore), marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $30
• DJ, Zouk: AFRO BROS (🇳🇱Latin, house, reggaeton), zouk club clarke quay, $35

22 May, Wed - Vesak Day

• EVE 🇯🇵, Asia Tour 2024 ‘Culture’ (alt j-pop j-rock) (not the rapper), the theatre @ mediacorp (one-north), $98
• Parandhu Pogindren with Pradeep Kumar (G), The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $65
• VCHpresents Chamber: Poetry of the Harp – Xavier de Maistre 🇫🇷, Victoria Concert Hall, $20
• Cool Cats: Kelvin Ng Presents Mr Blues , nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $20
• ESPLANADE: Crooner's Corner: Perry Brady Koh (60s-80s), Indoor Concourse 545 645 745pm, free
• ESPLANADE: MISCOMM+ (pop, R&B, mandopop, country band), Outdoor Theatre 715 845, free
• Blackbird: Zenso & Peepshow, Blackbird Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park),
• Pianoland Grand Opening: Mandopop Hits & Vocal Session by Lim Tay Peng, westgate level 2 atrium (jurong east), 6-7pm, free
  • Also: Students of LASALLE College of the Arts, 4-5pm, free
  • Kids: Students of Intune Music, Benjamin Loh, Rising Stars Series & Workshop: A Musical Playdate with The Music Connection by Sueli Tang, westgate level 2, from 11am, free except workshop $10
• DJ, Zouk: TGIW - Hazel's Guestlist, zouk clarke quay
• DJ, Highh Club: Highh Club presents WedneSLAY feat. K Faith , Highh Party @ Pan Pacific Hotel, 7 raffles blvd (esplanade, promenade)
• Find the usual ladies night clubs elsewhere

Other Arts Events

• Till 9 Jun Musical: Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, marina bay sands, $80
• Festival 25 Apr- 26 May: Voilah! France Singapore Festival, various
• Festival 1 - 25 May: Singapore HeritageFest 2024
• 16-26 May: Theatre: Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream by Singapore Repertory Theatre aka STC (Advisory - Some Mature Content), KC Arts Centre - Home of STC, $53
• 16-25 May: Theatre - I and You by Lauren Gunderson (G), Gateway Theatre Bukit Merah, $35
• 18-26 May Kids Chinese Theatre - 《小问号和探险家》The wee Question Mark and the Adventurer, 54 Waterloo Street (bras basah), $34
• 23-25 May: Indie Theatre: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, The Artground at Goodman Arts Centre (mountbatten mrt), $27
• 23-26 May: Kids Ballet - Peter & Blue's Treasure Hunt 2024 Presented by Singapore Ballet (G), School of The Arts (SOTA) Studio Theatre (bencoolen, dhoby ghaut), $35
• 10 May - 22 Sep Exhibition - Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey, Singapore Art Museum (SAM) at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, tix 🎟 from $12
• Ended: Comedic Theatre - God of Carnage, Drama Centre Black Box @ national library (bugis), $30
• Ended: Teochew Opera - The Pawned Wife 典妻 by Nam Hwa Opera, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), $10
• Ended: Theatre - Backstage Betrayal, A Crack the Case Mystery (Some Mature Content), KC Arts Centre @ 20 Merbau Rd, $68
• 18 May: Objectifs Photography Opening: The Yearning for Harmony by Full-time farmer in Japan, part-time photographer, Ryhan M.Y., info
• 23 May: Dance: SMU Eurhythmix - TIMELESS: NONSENSE II (hiphop), , capitol theatre city hall, $30
• Till 31 May DJ, ARK11 Club Complementary Entry for all Moms, @ Orchard Central Mall L11

 

23 May, Thu

• Pianoland Grand Opening Noon: Pop RnB Piano Jams with Owen Li (of a capella grp < the island voices>), westgate level 2 atrium
  • Evening: Classical Repertoire by local virtuoso pianist Jessie M. and Musical Stories ft Students of Pianology, free
• ESPLANADE: The Suncitysons (‘90s and ‘00s rock anthems, pop, rnb), Indoor Concourse, free
• Cool Cats: Ramy Falcon pres Havana Nights (cuban latin jazz) - day 1 of 3, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $28
• 23-25 May: Indie Theatre: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Conundrum Theatre, The Artground (at Goodman Arts Centre, mountbatten mrt), $27
• 23 May: Indie Theatre - The "Down There" Monologues - Charity Event by Evolve Arts, 44 pasir panjang rd (same mrt)
• SIFA Installation Performance: 23-26 May Wilful Machine by Genevieve Chua - day 1 , ArtSpace @ HeluTrans (tanjong pagar distripark next to Singapore Art Museum), $38
• SIFA Theatre (experimental visual): ANGELA (a strange loop) - day 1 of 2, Victoria Concert Hall, $38
• == Movie: Bocchi The Rock! General Opening==
• ==The Flying V Metal Bar: Special Set with Iman’s League and Joe,== dive bar at The Adelphi B1 (city hall), free
   
  
• Drag Burlesque: The Fruit Basket: Packed With Love, the projector golden mile tower, $25
  
• ==Party, Tuckshop Drag Bar Thirsty Thursday,== 51 neil rd
  
• DJ & Cocktail Guest Shift: HighHouse Coast To Toast ft DJ The Weatherman, High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place (old 1-altitude)
  
• DJ, Moonstone: Dance Fever by DJ Aldrin (a 70s 80s disco party, mambo jambo), Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St, free/table
  
• DJ, Offtrack: Ryotaro (disco soul jazz), 34 North Canal Rd (bs hong lim park, clarke quay), music gastro bar
  
• DJ, Drip: Fuego Night's NRG Thursday (hiphop latin afrobeats amapiano), drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel, tix 🎟 free to $15
  

 
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In case you didn't know, Dianne C. Luce is one of the deserving Cormac McCarthy scholars emeritus. Back when I was reading all critical literature on McCarthy, it was her bibliography on the McCarthy site that I was always turning to.
I hardly care that my posts here mostly get downvoted, for my 2002 review of John Sepich's NOTES ON BLOOD MERIDIAN is still the most voted for at Amazon, as is my 2009 review of Luce's previous book, READING THE WORLD: MCCARTHY'S TENNESSEE PERIOD (2009).
I have not profited from my reviews in any monetary way. Neither Sepich nor Luce have offered me free copies. not even a thank you. I'm an independent scholar, not an academic. True scholarship is, and always has been, and always should be, its own reward.
I highly recommend Luce's work, elated by what she has given us, yet disappointed by what she left out--or maybe had to leave out for editorial reasons. For instance, she doesn't even mention Nelson Algren, a source for THE ORCHARD KEEPER's many cat symbols and many other things as well. McCarthy was writing SUTTREE at the same time, and both Algren and McCarthy got some bad press labels as purposely slumming, being "champions of the stumblebum." Ruder forms survive.
As I've said before, want to know why McCarthy wrote CHILD OF GOD? Take a look at Algren's LONESOME MONSTERS.
Here's a good review of THE ORCHARD KEEPER from May, 1965, appearing in THE KANSAS CITY STAR, which Luce must have neglected for editorial reasons:
Once in Long, Long While There Gomes Such a Novel By Theodore M. O'Leary --This is a rare book that, coming unexpectedly, gives fresh hope and zest to a man whose job is to read books and who, even with the best will in the world toward them, more often is disappointed than enamored. Alan Paton's' Cry, the Beloved Country was one of them. Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest was one of them. So is Cormac McCarthy's The Orchard Keeper.
Knowing that novels like this by hitherto unknown writers are possible is enough to keep a man reading novels by unknown writers. McCarthy, who is 33, never made it through the University of Tennessee although ho tried twice. The first time his record was so bad they asked him not to return. He did and that time he lasted four years but didn't manage a degree. If the university is smart, it will give him an honorary one in a hurry for artistically he must already be one of its most gifted sons.
Any state should be joyous to be brought to life as McCarthy brings to life a part of Tennessee. It's something no state can buy, no industrial development commission or tourist bureau can create. It can only be achieved through a vast stroke of good fortune the conjunction of an area and a writer at least touched with genius. THE OVERRIDING presence in this novel is that of nature as it manifests itself in East Tennessee, notably in the hills. There is no mood, no aspect of nature, no evidence of the changing seasons, no sight, no smell, no sound, no movement that Cormac McCarthy has not looked at with the curiosity and the precise objectivity of the scientist and then put into words with the sense of beauty and the subjectivity of the natural poet.
Every aspect of nature In this novel is as old as nature THE ORCHARD KEEPER, by Cormac McCarthy (246 pages; Random House; $4.95). itself and as new as the unique perception of Cormac McCarthy. The reader who fails to look around outside of himself with a new eye and a new awareness after reading McCarthy, whether he be in Tennessee or North Dakota, or anywhere else, is already partly dead. A novel, of course, must deal with people and while McCarthys people are subordinated to their environment, are fragmented, they cant possibly bore you because by that very fragmentation McCarthy is . able to eliminate the dull spots from their lives and show them to us only at those moments when they are living with the most intensity, are most charged with emotion and with significance.
THE PRINCIPAL characters are a boy, a young man and an old man. The boy is mostly a child of nature with the right instincts among them awareness and a basic gentleness. The young man has taken to running whisky (this is the prohibition era) from a mountain top to Knoxville. He is basically an outlaw; he is also a stoic and as such is admirable in his way. The old man at first seems to be all the old and lonely men.
He lives by himself with an old hound dog, who at first seems to be all old hound dogs. Yet, somehow the old man and the old dog, for all their symbolic qualities, once you get to know them could never be mistaken for just any old man or just any old hound dog.
The old man dwells in a hill cabin near a pit where one day he discovers a body floating below in the brackish water. The body we know, but he doesn't, is that of the boy's father, murdered in self-defense by the young man and dumped into the pit. For seven years its moldering presence obsesses the old man. All that time the boy is waiting to do as his mother has told him he must avenge his father's death. The boy saves the young man from possible death and is in turn befriended by him.
But he does not know that the young man killed his father. THAT IS THE BASIC situation from which McCarthys story evolves. He does not tell it tidily. He does not even seem to tell it. Rather it seems to grow, like a living organism.
This is a novel full of intimations and implications as well as many forms of violence, none of it gratuitous. One of the intimations is that nature endures, man passes. Another is the existence of absolute and naked evil. Two obvious truths you may say. But there is nothing obvious about McCarthys intimations because there are many ways of telling the truth and McCarthys are all his own.
You almost tremble knowing that McCarthy is now working on two new novels. What a possibility for a great and much needed new voice in American fiction, one that can speak to the world and find a response everywhere. But suppose and then you think of Paton's and Kesey's subsequent novels suppose that this is McCarthys first and his last master work. It simply must not be!.

The global micro irrigation systems market size is expected to register figure of USD 12.40 billion by 2027, while exhibiting a promising CAGR of 6.92% during the forecast period. According to a report by Fortune Business Insights, titled “Micro Irrigation Systems Market Size, Share & Industry Analysis, By Type (Drip Irrigation and Sprinkler Irrigation), Crop Type (Field Crops, Orchard Crops, Landscape & Turf, and Others), Application (Agriculture and Industrial), and Regional Forecast, 2020 - 2027.” Increasing use of advanced techniques and supportive government policies to produce good quality crops will be the driving factors for the growth of market in the forthcoming years.
The emergence of COVID-19 has brought the world to a standstill. We understand that this health crisis has brought an unprecedented impact on businesses across industries. However, this too shall pass. Rising support from governments and several companies can help in the fight against this highly contagious disease. There are some industries that are struggling and some are thriving. Overall, almost every sector is anticipated to be impacted by the pandemic.
Information Source - https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/micro-irrigation-system-market-102839
Micro-irrigation technique is a type of irrigation method that requires less pressure and flow of water when compared to other traditional irrigation techniques. It is also known as localized irrigation, low-flow irrigation, trickle irrigation, and low volume irrigation, among others. In addition to this, a scientific method that requires sufficient amount of water and nutrients, this type of irrigation yields better quality and surplus crops. Furthermore, it is most suited to terrains that suffer from inferior quality of crop owing to high rate of alkalization ad salinization. Micro-irrigation involves two type of techniques such as drip irrigation and sprinkle irrigation.
What does the Market Report Include?
The market report includes detailed information on the growth parameters such as the drivers, challenges, opportunities, and restraints that the market will go through during the forecast period. Furthermore, it provides qualitative and quantitative details about the regional demographics present in the market. Moreover, the competitive landscape includes in-depth information of the companies proliferating in the market and the strategies such as mergers and acquisitions, product launches, and collaborations adopted by them to gain market presence between 2020 and 2027.
Drivers and Restraints:
Large-Scale Adoption of Land under Micro-Irrigation amid COVID-19 Threat to Drive the Market
With depleting water sources and increasing demand for good quality crops, the growers are adding more area under micro-irrigation across the globe. Factors such as easy mechanization and efficiency in growing wide range of crops is the driving factor that is propelling the acceptance of the technique by commercial property owners. This is expected to boost the market during the forecast period. For instance, in turbulent times where every sector is reeling downward owing to the global effects of novel coronavirus, COVID-19, farmers in Tamil Nadu, India brought cheers to the agriculture sector. In the just concluded financial year 2019-2020, Tamil Nadu topped the all-India level for area under micro-irrigation. Under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY), the state covered about 2, 06,853.25 Hectares of land during the aforementioned financial year. Increasing adoption of land under this technique owing to its several positive benefits for crops will contribute to the growth of the market during the forecast period.
Regional Analysis:
Asia-Pacific to Remain Dominant; Adoption of Smart Farming Techniques to Fuel Growth
Among the regions, Asia-Pacific will be at the forefront during the forecast period. With a market share of USD 2.97 million in 2019, adoption of smart farming techniques will further propel the market growth during the projected horizon. Moreover, increasing investment by major players owing to lucrative opportunities to gain maximum micro irrigation systems market revenue will bode well for the growth of the market during the forecast period. North America, on the other hand, is anticipated to register exponential growth during the forecast period. This is attributable to factors such as high awareness among the people for advanced farming techniques in countries such as the U.S. and Mexico.
Competitive Landscape:
Merger and Acquisition by the Private Players to Promote Growth
According to the micro irrigation systems market report, there are several companies striving to gain major market share and outshine their rivals during the forecast period. Adoption of strategies such as expansion of facilities, partnership, merger and acquisition, and collaboration by the key players will drive the market growth in the forthcoming years. For instance, in April 2017, Jain Irrigation Systems, an India-based irrigation solution provider, announced its acquisition of two U.S. companies- Irrigation Design, Construction Inc. (IDC), and Agri-Valley Irrigation Inc. (AVI). With an investment of about USD 48 million, the company plans to acquire 805 stakes in the two other companies. Moreover, government policies to promote micro irrigation technique is expected to bode well for the market during the forecast period.
Industrial Development:

• February 2020: Lindsay Corporation, a pioneer in irrigation market, announced its launch of new product, Zimmatic poly pipe. According to the company, the product is favourable for farms wherein the water environment is most corrosive. This launch is anticipated to boost the strategic position of the Company in the marketplace.

List of the Companies Operating in the Market:

• Lindsay Corporation (U.S.)
• Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. (India)
• Valmont Industries (U.S.)
• Rain Bird Corporation (U.S.)
• Reinke Manufacturing Co. Inc. (U.S.)
• Netafim Limited (Israel)
• The Toro Company (U.S.)
• Hunter Industries (U.S.)
• Nelson Irrigation Corporation (U.S.)
• Rivulis Irrigation Ltd. (Israel)

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