Latchkey kid
A latchkey kid or latchkey child is a child who returns from school to an empty home because their parent or parents are away at work, or a child who is often left at home with little parental supervision.
History of the term
The term refers to the latchkey of a door to a house. The key is often strung around the child's neck or left hidden under a mat (or some other object) at the rear door to the property. The term seems to first appear in a CBC radio program called "Discussion Club - Topic: How War Affects Canadian Children" in 1942, due to the phenomenon of children being left home alone becoming common during and after World War II, when one parent would be enlisted into the armed forces, so the other would have to get a job. Given that the "Discussion Club" participants are all familiar with the term and allude to it being in colloquial usage, it likely predates 1942. In general, the term latchkey designates "those children between the ages of five and thirteen who care for themselves after the school day until their parents or guardians return home".
Latch Key Kid
Gavin Heaney (born July 18, 1976) (professionally known as Latch Key Kid) is an American singer-songwriter from Manhattan Beach, California. His albums include the self-titled "Latch Key Kid" released on September 21, 2005, "Miracle Mile" released on January 23, 2008, "All Becomes One" released on January 22, 2009 and "Live & Acoustic" released on October 19, 2009.
Biography
Born and raised in Manhattan Beach, California, attended Mira Costa High School and went to University of California, Santa Barbara, where he lived for about four years before moving back to Manhattan Beach.
Latch Key Kid creates his own signature sound by playing the guitar, bass, piano, drums, mandolin, and harmonica on his recordings. "Heaney's biggest strengths: He produces, plays multiple instruments, is stylistically diverse... His live show has been marketable, too." Think mid-60's Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Simon and Garfunkel: it's the ability to write songs that are like smiles.
His song Good Times was used in the opening of the DreamWorks movie I Love You, Man, and was included in the Lakeshore Records soundtrack of the film. The song is also used in the advertisements of Australian drama Packed To The Rafters. Good Times was also used in the 2008 Coca-Cola commercial entitled "Jinx" that first aired during Super Bowl XLII and reached an audience of over 97 million viewers. The commercial was considered, "A close second to Kina Grannis in terms of worldwide coming-out parties" for new artists. "The spot, featuring Democrat James Carville and Republican Bill Frist cavorting together, perfectly fit the mood of the cheery ditty about sharing good times with good friends."
Latch Key Kid (album)
Latch Key Kid is a self-titled Studio album by singer/songwriter Latch Key Kid. It was released on September 21, 2005.
In the United States, the album is available as a single release in most retail and online stores.
Track listing
External links
The Fall
The Fall may refer to:
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The Fall (band)
The Fall are an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. With an ever-changing line up, the Fall essentially consists of founder and only constant member, Mark E. Smith, who has quipped, "If it's me and your granny on bongos, then it's The Fall".
First associated with the late 1970s punk movement, the band's music has evolved through numerous stylistic changes, often concurrently with changes in the group's line-up. Nonetheless, the Fall's music is typically characterised by repetition and an abrasive guitar-driven sound, and is always underpinned by Smith's typically cryptic lyrics, described by Steve Huey as "abstract poetry filled with complicated wordplay, bone-dry wit, cutting social observations, and general misanthropy."
The Fall have been called "the most prolific band of the British post-punk movement." They have released thirty-one studio albums as of 2015, and more than three times that number when live albums and compilations (often released against Smith's wishes) are taken into account. While the Fall have never achieved widespread success beyond minor hit singles in the late 1980s, they have maintained a strong cult following. They were long associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career. Peel described the Fall as his favourite band, famously explaining, "they are always different; they are always the same."
List of Life with Derek episodes
The following is a list of episodes of the Canadian sitcom Life with Derek, which also appeared on Disney Channel. The show premiered on September 18, 2005 and ended its run on March 25, 2009, spanning 4 seasons, with 70 episodes produced.
Series overview
Episode list
Season 1 (2005-06)
Season 2 (2006)
Season 3 (2007-08)
Season 4 (2008-09)
Series finale film
External links
Latch Key Kid
ALBUMS
- I Love You, Man released: 2009
- ROAM: Music From the Film released:
War
Tell of the birth
Tell how war appeared on earth
Musicians with gongs
Permeate the autobahns
Foetus of disgusting breath
And she split the egg
Cast a spell and war was born
Come follow me
Out of the obscurity
Pilgrims in songs
Swamp the empty aerodrome
Kalashnikovs but no houses
Women at the double, march
No food for the spouses
They wait for the US drop
Russians sit back and laugh While war casts her gory locks
Over the deserted docks
She casts her gory locks
Over the deserted docks
She cast a spell
Split an egg and war was born
And pillage hopes with gusto
Even though they have no nerve
And she does just look on
And war does what she has to
War does what she has to
People get what they deserve