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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.
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December 8, 2016: African Queens, Tunisian Knights, and other Jazz Tropical Tabus
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Thu. 12/8/16 6:58pm
Flash Strap:
Evening, exploratory persons! Coming to you live from my new home in Bahama NC tonight |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:00pm
ndbob:
evening Evan and everyone! |
Thu. 12/8/16 7:01pm
Ehd:
Good Evening Evan, I forgot to bring my housewarming gift! Hola Bob | |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:01pm
ndbob:
Hello EHD! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:03pm
Flash Strap:
Hello Bob, Hello Ehd! Wonderful to see you both |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:05pm
geezerette:
Evening Evan and all ! Happy housewarming ! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:05pm
Flash Strap:
Thanks Geezerette! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:07pm
Flash Strap:
God I love this record |
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![]() i...forgot to bring a housewarming present |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:08pm
Flash Strap:
Dammit Hyde, present or no it's good to have you warming this house! |
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![]() heh. i also was just listening to lonnie liston smith before coming over and realized after a couple minutes that i had forgotten to click on the stream and was still listening to lonnie liston smith. i mean, it sounded like the explorer's room. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:13pm
Flash Strap:
Lonnie is a friend of the Explorers Room, that's for sure |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:13pm
geezerette:
Cannot feel sad with music like this. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:13pm
geezerette:
hey hyde! |
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![]() This Melle is awesome, Flash! |
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![]() hiya geezerette! also ndb and carmichael... |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:15pm
Flash Strap:
Hi Carmichael! I agree! This whole record is very very good. Always liked the cut, "Weird Valley" |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:15pm
Flash Strap:
also a very nice "Moonlight in Vermont" – another version of which we may hear tonight, actually |
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![]() As I was explaining to Irwin, my jazz gene pool is very shallow. I've never heard of Melle, as well as lots of others. But I like it when I hear it! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:21pm
Flash Strap:
Melle also did a lot of soundtrack (Andromeda Strain) and early electronic work. A painter too. Interesting guy |
Thu. 12/8/16 7:22pm
JtotheK:
Hi Explorers, Hi Flash -- happy house warming! Digging the jazz tunes. This time of year puts me in a jazz mood. | |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:23pm
geezerette:
Love this version! "Night in Tunisia" one of my all time favorites. :) |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:24pm
Flash Strap:
Hi JK! Me too G: Love "Night in Tunisia" just to death. At least one more version coming tonight |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:24pm
geezerette:
Cra-a-a-a-zy man, crazy! |
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![]() Hi, there. I'm in the room tonight. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:25pm
geezerette:
so damn glamorous. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:26pm
Flash Strap:
Ken! this is wonderful |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:26pm
geezerette:
hey Ken FHP! |
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![]() I guess today, we say goodbye to intrepid space explorer John Glenn at age 95. A life well lived. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:37pm
Flash Strap:
A life well lived indeed |
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![]() off topic: did any of you see the GQ fashion thing a couple days ago with fashion shots of the living legends of jazz? they chose pretty well, and let's just say roy haynes and cecil taylor are the coolest www.gq.com... |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:42pm
Flash Strap:
wow cecil taylor is entirely fly in all that chocolate velvet |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:44pm
geezerette:
thanks hyde, what beautiful old men. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:44pm
Flash Strap:
damn and you are CORRECT about Roy Haynes Pharoah's jacket needs some props though that thing is glorious |
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![]() i really thought it was great, in this year where we're doing so much going over of people's careers as they peel off, that gq chose to celebrate the giants who are still here. i men, that is a serious bunch. (i might have swapped out chick corea for roscoe mitchell, but that's quibbling) |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:48pm
geezerette:
It's certainly something to celebrate! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:49pm
geezerette:
Jazz Messangers :D |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:51pm
Flash Strap:
Wayne Shorter really excellent on sax here, Lee Morgan on trumpet (Morgan also wrote) |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:52pm
geezerette:
!!! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:52pm
Flash Strap:
Ah, but Blakey's drums are always the star! oh my god! |
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![]() heh, i was just going to bring up the wayne shorter thing. i was waiting for him to take a break ;) |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:54pm
Flash Strap:
can't remember who's on piano, but I love how it functions in the ensemble as this dark anchor |
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![]() bobby timmons on piano |
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![]() Hi Flash and all! Killer playlist thusfar |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:55pm
Flash Strap:
yep yep |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:56pm
Flash Strap:
Hi LD! thanks man |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:58pm
ndbob:
excellent first hour Evan! catch the rest later |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:58pm
Flash Strap:
great art: img.discogs.com... |
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Thu. 12/8/16 7:58pm
Flash Strap:
thanks bob, adios |
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![]() Not before 'Afro Blue' - but still - damn. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:02pm
Flash Strap:
Big Black is on this. Man, I can never find any of his solo records in any form |
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![]() hi explorers! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:03pm
Flash Strap:
Hi Rev Rab! Hi Melinda! |
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![]() i've been building up my southern & african-american cookbook collection lately. need to build up my african cookbooks next. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:03pm
Flash Strap:
boy does this ever cook |
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![]() hiya, rev rab and melinda! |
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![]() Welcome to your new house, Flash! Bahama is near Durham, right? It sounds appropriately exotic. |
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![]() hi hyde! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:07pm
Flash Strap:
thanks Melinda! yeah it's just north of Durham, in the hinterlands |
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![]() ...then it reminds me of 'Lonely Woman' a touch - but it's just more African. What a jam... |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:08pm
Flash Strap:
that whole LP is a wild ride, revrab |
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![]() I believe listener annie resides in the Asheville area. She's on the comments boards in the mornings. She'd probably enjoy this show. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:10pm
Flash Strap:
She does live up there! definitely a morning person |
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![]() been in since the start but been working; diggin' the lovely sounds! |
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![]() hola Flash y exploradores |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:22pm
Flash Strap:
Hello Lurker James from Westwood! And Welcome C! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:24pm
Flash Strap:
Somethin' so damn lovely about this cut |
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![]() heya, coel |
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![]() oh, and also ljfw! jeez, when you start to say hello to everyone, you don't want to screw up. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:39pm
Flash Strap:
One of my favorite Lyman tracks, here |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:42pm
Flash Strap:
One of the very least Egyptian sounding things the Cairo Jazz Band ever did |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:45pm
Flash Strap:
very australian sounding |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:45pm
geezerette:
Hearing this though, you can really hear how middle eastern Klezmer actually is. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:46pm
geezerette:
it's in there... |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:47pm
Flash Strap:
oh absolutely it is. like how dutch/polka-esque mariachi music is |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:48pm
geezerette:
Yes! |
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![]() been digging the whole set. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:49pm
Flash Strap:
Hi NGH! glad to hear it |
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![]() Man you are playing some of my all time fave jazz/Latin exotica this evening, Flash |
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Thu. 12/8/16 8:51pm
Flash Strap:
Music to my ears, LD |
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![]() If I don't make it back in time, thanks Flash! |
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![]() hi hyde (a little late...just listening not looking) |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:04pm
Flash Strap:
any time, NGH! |
Thu. 12/8/16 9:06pm
DL in LA:
Heard the last hour. Gotta go now. Sounded great! | |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:06pm
Flash Strap:
ugh this track is so good |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:08pm
Flash Strap:
Thanks DL! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:14pm
Flash Strap:
Randy Weston is so cool |
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![]() this track is killer |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:16pm
geezerette:
piano bar dreamy |
Thu. 12/8/16 9:16pm
jeff:
lol at the diva las vegas thing | |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:19pm
Flash Strap:
Larry Young, fresh out of Lifetime, with James Blood Ulmer. This whole LP is a raging inferno |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:19pm
geezerette:
sounds like liquid lunch with Truman Capote and his swans. |
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![]() I stupidly sold my copy of Lawrence of Newark years ago, and now I know I need it back |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:20pm
Flash Strap:
oh my goodness now THERE's a visual I bet Larry didn't have in mind |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:21pm
Flash Strap:
that's some regret to have to carry with you, LD! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:21pm
geezerette:
likely not! :D |
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![]() OMG you are slaying it tonight Evan. "Incense" is some top-ten self-hypnosis material |
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![]() h'lo |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:24pm
Flash Strap:
The only thing I can think of that would make a liquid lunch with Capote & his swans even stranger is a soundtrack of dreamy spiritual jazz, G Thanks LD! I aim to slay! and yeah this is a craaaazy good Mann cut |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:25pm
Flash Strap:
h'lo yourself scraps! |
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![]() 'allo Scraps! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:26pm
Flash Strap:
Roy Ayers on vibes |
Thu. 12/8/16 9:29pm
Dean:
Can't listen just now, but you do know that that Rousseau painting inspired one of Fleetwood Mac's more attractive covers? | |
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![]() going back a bit: haha, little danny. there are few things worse than regret over records that you sold that you'd really like back |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:30pm
Flash Strap:
Hi Dean! and no I did not |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:31pm
geezerette:
Evan,I was imagining the way it sounded to them after second martini. When they stopped hearing his voice and drifted away |
Thu. 12/8/16 9:31pm
Dean:
Tango in the Night: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-uJ_WBoU-Kw/maxresdefault.jpg | |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:31pm
Flash Strap:
I'm right there with ya, Geezerette! You're taking me on a vision quest |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:33pm
Flash Strap:
god DAMN I love Eddie Harris |
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![]() wait, what? the latin jazz quartet with pharoah sanders? huh? |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:36pm
geezerette:
Loving this show. |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:37pm
Flash Strap:
I know right? sort of a mysterious release, recording date unknown. I've read somewhere that it's one of his first sessions, but I don't know about that |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:37pm
Flash Strap:
thanks, geezerette! |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:38pm
Flash Strap:
oh yeah that piano MAKES this psycho little boogaloo |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:44pm
Flash Strap:
Dolphy! |
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![]() the latin jazz quartet sure got some good guest sax players |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:45pm
Flash Strap:
no kiddin' |
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![]() Scraps i just sent you an email. and hi! and short answer: i wasn't. |
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![]() Really like this Dolphy |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:49pm
Flash Strap:
he's just doing his thing, and they're doing theirs, and it's great he really is always such a delight, he's so playful |
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![]() Wow, I actually prefer those two Dolphy-less Latin Jazz Quintet LPs. They're much more straightahead Latin jazz of course |
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![]() * the ones led by Juan Amalbert that is |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:56pm
geezerette:
Thanks for the weekly excellence, Evan! |
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![]() thanks Flash! |
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![]() Hi all - hope you'll join me one door down: wfmu.org... |
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![]() Thanks Evan. Peace go with you, brother. -all y'allz... |
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Thu. 12/8/16 9:59pm
Flash Strap:
thank YOU all! goodnight! |
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