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It Is What It Is (film)
"It Is What It Is" is a tautophrase, and an idiomatic phrase, indicating the immutable nature of an object or circumstance. It may refer also to: Music Albums * ''B.A.R.S. The Barry Adrian Reese Story'' or ''It Is What It Is'', a 2007 album by Cassidy * ''It Is What It Is'' (ABN album) (2008) * ''It Is What It Is'' (Johnny Logan album) (2017) * ''It Is What It Is'' (Thundercat album) (2020) * ''It Is What It Is'', a 1982 album by The Hitmen * '' Is What It Is'', a 1994 album by Mike Stern Songs * "It Is What It Is", a 1988 song by Derrick May from the compilation album ''Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit'' * "It Is What It Is (What It Is)", a 1992 song by Adam Again from ''Dig'' *"It Is What It Is", a 1995 song by The Highwaymen from the album '' The Road Goes On Forever'' * "It Is What It Is", a 2010 song by Lifehouse from '' Smoke & Mirrors'' * "It Is What It Is", a 2013 song by Blood Orange from ''Cupid Deluxe'' * "It Is What It Is", a 2013 song by Kacey Musgraves from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tautophrase
A tautophrase is a phrase or sentence that repeats an idea in the same words. The name was coined in 2006 by William Safire in ''The New York Times''. Examples include: * "Brexit means Brexit" (Theresa May) * "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do." (John Wayne) * "It ain't over 'till it's over" (Yogi Berra) * "What's done is done." (Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'') * "I am that I am." (God, Exodus 3:14) * "Tomorrow is tomorrow" (Antigone (Sophocles)) * "A rose is a rose is a rose." (Gertrude Stein) * "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." (Sigmund Freud) * "A man's a man for a' that." (Robert Burns) * "I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam!" (Popeye) * "Cars are cars." (Paul Simon song title) * "Let bygones be bygones." * "Facts are facts." * "Enough is enough." * "A deal is a deal is a deal." * "Once it's gone it's gone." * "wikt:it is what it is, It is what it is." * "Boys will be boys." * "A win is a win." * "You do you." * "''A la guerre comme à la guerre''" — A French phrase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Same Trailer Different Park
''Same Trailer Different Park'' is the debut studio album by American country music artist Kacey Musgraves, released on March 19, 2013, through Mercury Nashville. Musgraves co-wrote all 12 tracks and co-produced the album with Luke Laird and Shane McAnally. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. Conception ''Same Trailer Different Park'' draws on styles such as rockabilly, blues rock, country folk, and catchy country pop. Its songs are performed midtempo, and written from a Middle-American perspective, featuring stories of challenges and setbacks faced by men and women who struggle with their surroundings. "Follow Your Arrow" examines the small-minded perspective of small-town life. On "Merry Go 'Round", Musgraves sings over a shuffle beat and banjo about emotional, material, and addictive liabilities that prevent people from escaping restrictive lifestyles. Jonathan Bernstein of ''American Songwriter'' wrote that Musgraves's char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fihi Ma Fihi
The ''Fihi Ma Fihi'' ( fa, فیه مافیه; from ar, فیه ما فیه), "It Is What It Is" or "In It What Is in It") is a Persian prose work of a famous 13th century writer, Rumi. The book has 72 short discourses. Description The title and origin of the book According to J. M. Sadeghi the title ''Fihi Ma Fihi'' has appeared on a copy dated 1316. Another copy of the book dated 1350 has the title ''Asrar al-jalalieh''. Rumi himself in the fifth volume of ''Masnavi-i Ma'navi'' mentions that which most likely refers to this book. The title ''Maghalat-e Mowlana'' of copies of the book published in Iran follows this. Not much is known about the publication time and the writer of the book. According to B. Forouzanfar, the editor of the most reliable copy of the book, it is likely that the book was written by Sultanwalad, the eldest son of Rumi, based on manuscripts and notes taken by himself or others from the lectures of his father on ''Masnavi-i Ma'navi''. In the ''E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Baligian
Sean Baligian is a sports radio broadcaster who has been on the Detroit sports airwaves, for WDFN and WJR. He is a native of Livonia, Michigan and graduated from Livonia Stevenson High School. Radio career He began his radio career as a producer/reporter at WSPD in Toledo, Ohio in 1995. In 1997, he was named sports director and host of ''The Evening Sports Show''. Baligian broadcast several sports for the station including OHL hockey, CCHA hockey, and was the analyst for both University of Toledo football and basketball. In 1998 he began working part-time for WJR in Detroit, doing a Sunday call-in show. He worked on the Detroit Lions post-game show with former Lion Greg Landry. He began working for WDFN in May 1999 and left WSPD in August 1999 to work for WDFN full-time. He hosted the 9:00 am–12:00 pm show ''It is What It Is'' (a reference to a quote given to reporters by former Detroit Lions running back James Stewart) as well as a weekly fantasy football show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller (born 30 March 1966) is an English people, English conceptual, video and installation artist. Much of Deller's work is Collaboration, collaborative; it has a strong political aspect, in the subjects dealt with and also the Idealization and devaluation, devaluation of artistic ego through the involvement of other people in the creative process. He won the Turner Prize in 2004. Early life and education Jeremy Deller was born in London and educated at St John's and St Clement's Primary School and Dulwich College before studying for his BA History of Art at Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London); he achieved his MA in Art History at the University of Sussex under David Alan Mellor. Work Deller traces his broad interests in art and culture, in part, to childhood visits to museums like the Horniman Museum, in South London. After meeting Andy Warhol in 1986, Deller spent two weeks at The Factory in New York. He began making artworks in the early 1990s, often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Coulthard
David Marshall Coulthard (; born 27 March 1971) is a British former racing driver from Scotland, later turned presenter, commentator and journalist. Nicknamed 'DC', he competed in 15 seasons of Formula One between and , taking 13 Grand Prix victories and 62 podium finishes. He was runner-up in the championship, driving for McLaren. Coulthard began karting at the age of eleven and achieved early success before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the Formula 3000 series. He first drove in Formula One with Williams Grand Prix Engineering, Williams in the 1994 Formula One season, 1994 season succeeding the late Ayrton Senna. The following year he won his first Grand Prix in 1995 Portuguese Grand Prix, Portugal, and then for the 1996 Formula One season, 1996 season he moved to McLaren. After winning two races in the 1997 Formula One season, 1997 season, he finished 3rd in the World Drivers' Championship in the 1998 Formula One season, 1998 season. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Frolick
William Frolick (born 1959) is an American writer and film director. Biography Born and raised in Long Island, New York, Frolick graduated from NYU film school, where he studied under professor (and Martin Scorsese mentor) Haig Manoogian. In the eighties, Frolick moved to Los Angeles and worked at various agencies, studios and production companies as a script reader, agency assistant, and development executive. When the Writers Guild of America, west went on strike in 1988, his career as a journalist began. His first ''Premiere Magazine'' story, “Sink or Float,” served as the prototype for the magazine's popular “Life at the Bottom” column. Frolick's work has also appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Movieline'', ''TV Guide'', The Huffington Post, and the ''Los Angeles Times'', for which he interviewed such personalities as Milton Berle and Richard Pryor. He also conducted dozens of videotaped interviews with survivors of the Holocaust for Steven Spielberg’s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Special (Uncle Kracker Album)
''Midnight Special'' is the fifth studio album by Uncle Kracker, released on November 20, 2012 under Sugar Hill Records. It his first full-length country album and his first not to involve Kid Rock in any capacity. As of 2022, ''Midnight Special'' is his most recent album. Track listing Personnel * Robert Bailey Jr. - background vocals * Mark Beckett - drums * Tom Bukovac - electric guitar * John Catchings - cello * Mark Douthit - saxophone * Dan Dugmore - slide guitar * Nick Garvin - background vocals * Vicki Hampton - background vocals * J. T. Harding - background vocals * Mike Haynes - trumpet * Uncle Kracker - lead vocals * Randy McCormick - Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, piano, Wurlitzer * Brent Mason - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar * Gary Prim - accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At The Cut
''At the Cut'' is a 2009 album by Vic Chesnutt. It was his penultimate album release before his death on December 25, 2009, from an overdose of muscle relaxants. The song "Flirted with You All My Life" alludes to Chesnutt's own attitude toward suicide, including his previous attempts to take his own life. Along with ''North Star Deserter'', this album features various members from the Canadian post-rock band Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, as well as Fugazi's vocalist and guitarist Guy Picciotto. Track listing All songs written by Vic Chesnutt # "Coward" – 5:16 # "When the Bottom Fell Out" – 3:11 # "Chinaberry Tree" – 4:11 # "Chain" – 3:00 # "We Hovered with Short Wings" – 5:15 # "Philip Guston" – 3:28 # "Concord Country Jubilee" – 4:33 # "Flirted with You All My Life" – 4:42 # "It Is What It Is" – 6:59 # "Granny" – 3:25 Personnel Musicians * Vic Chesnutt – guitar, vocals * Thierry Amar&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Clothes 3
''Church Clothes 3'' is the third mixtape by Christian hip hop recording artist Lecrae. It was released on January 15, 2016, through his label Reach Records. The mixtape is the third in his ''Church Clothes'' series, and his first major release since his studio album '' Anomaly'' (2014). It features guest appearances from E-40, N'dambi, Propaganda, John Givez, JGivens, Jackie Hill-Perry, and then-label-mate KB. While the previous two mixtapes were hosted by DJ Don Cannon, on ''Church Clothes 3'' S1 served as executive producer on the tape. In addition to S1, Epikh Pro, Black Knight, GAWVI, and others contributed production to the mixtape. The mixtape was released without any prior announcement or marketing campaign. Available in digital form through iTunes and other online vendors, physical copies were made available exclusively through DTLR stores. ''Church Clothes 3'' sold well during its first charting week, reaching No. 12 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and No. 1 on the US Top Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cupid Deluxe
''Cupid Deluxe'' is the second album by Dev Hynes as Blood Orange, and is the follow-up to 2011's '' Coastal Grooves''. The album was released on 18 November 2013 in the UK, and was available worldwide a week earlier on iTunes on 12 November 2013. Between albums, Hynes has written and produced music for the likes of Solange, Sky Ferreira, MKS, and more. ''Cupid Deluxe'' shows a more expansive aural palate than the previous release ''Coastal Grooves'', while still retaining the pop sensibilities that Hynes has showcased since his days in Test Icicles and Lightspeed Champion. The album features many guest appearances, including performances from David Longstreth (Dirty Projectors), Caroline Polachek (Chairlift), Samantha Urbani (Friends), Clams Casino, Despot, Adam Bainbridge (Kindness), Skepta and more. The album was streamed in full on Hynes' own YouTube channel on 5 November 2013. Speaking about the album, Hynes said it was inspired by "New York City, the Big Apple. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Is What It Is (ABN Album)
"It Is What It Is" is a tautophrase, and an idiomatic phrase, indicating the immutable nature of an object or circumstance. It may refer also to: Music Albums * ''B.A.R.S. The Barry Adrian Reese Story'' or ''It Is What It Is'', a 2007 album by Cassidy * ''It Is What It Is'' (ABN album) (2008) * ''It Is What It Is'' (Johnny Logan album) (2017) * ''It Is What It Is'' (Thundercat album) (2020) * ''It Is What It Is'', a 1982 album by The Hitmen * '' Is What It Is'', a 1994 album by Mike Stern Songs * "It Is What It Is", a 1988 song by Derrick May from the compilation album ''Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit'' * "It Is What It Is (What It Is)", a 1992 song by Adam Again from ''Dig'' *"It Is What It Is", a 1995 song by The Highwaymen from the album '' The Road Goes On Forever'' * "It Is What It Is", a 2010 song by Lifehouse from '' Smoke & Mirrors'' * "It Is What It Is", a 2013 song by Blood Orange from ''Cupid Deluxe'' * "It Is What It Is", a 2013 song by Kacey Musgraves fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
