#the full article is in the link

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

"Why do Britain’s guitar heroes become household names – yet its piano and organ players don’t? Let’s end this injustice, writes Elton John, as he pays tribute to all those thrilling showmen eternally confined to the wings" "I realised incredible keyboard players were everywhere: not just Zoot Money but Georgie Fame, Brian Auger, Graham Bond, Rod Argent. They were all doing something different with the keyboards; each of them had their own personality. "

"Rod Argent was the engine room of the Zombies. He wrote She’s Not There and his playing takes it to another level. It’s very English-sounding, very reserved and melancholy, then out of nowhere he plays this incredible solo that’s soulful but slightly classically influenced. It both fits the song perfectly and takes it somewhere else." "We think of heavy rock as a guitarist’s art, but in Deep Purple, Jon Lord was experimenting with distortion to give the organ a sound as hard-driving as the guitars. So did Rod Argent when the Zombies broke up and he started Argent."

- Elton john

[sainz100]

via this 2017 article covering Daniel's thoughts on routines & coaching & more ahead of the 2017 Singapore GP

[beirarowling]

Beira’s Place: Thousands helped by Edinburgh rape centre set up by JK Rowling

A year on from the opening of JK Rowling’s women-only rape centre, thousands of victims have reached out for help.

A veteran of more than four ­decades protecting and sheltering women suffering sexual violence and domestic abuse, Isabelle Kerr was so passionate about supporting JK Rowling’s decision to fund a women-only centre that she came out of retirement to help set it up.

Speaking for the first time since Beira’s Place opened, Isabelle, 67, said: “The whole ethos of the place took me back to the grassroots of the women’s movement in Scotland, when women helped other women stay safe in an act of basic feminism.

“It was how women dealt with the practicalities brought about by the age-old problem of domestic abuse and sexual violence. I’m saddened to say very little has changed through the decades, which is why Beira’s Place has been busy from the moment we opened our doors.”

Isabelle said: “Men’s violence towards women continues unabated around the world. Justice systems continue to fail women with sentencing that rarely reflects the damage and trauma inflicted, despite these crimes carrying the possibility of a life sentence.

“We still have a culture where ­victims are blamed because of what they wear, where they went or what they did rather than holding the perpetrator to blame. It’s soul destroying.”

“Our phones started ringing the day we opened. They haven’t stopped. We’ve helped almost 2,000 callers looking for support. Over 250 survivors have used our safe space. Many told us they would not want to use the service if men were on the premises, either because they have been so traumatised or for cultural reasons.

Isabelle warns that much more needs to be done about identifying the escalating cycle of violence towards women. She said: “We don’t live in the kind of society where women and girls are safe from predators, stalkers, rapists and men who use coercive control to trap the vulnerable. We live in a society where women and girls have lost so much trust and hope in our criminal justice system that only 10% of violence and sex crimes are ever reported.

“Until we take these crimes more seriously, very little will change.”

[d-criss-news]

“Getting to Do It for an Audience, It’s Like Drugs”: 7 Tony Nominees on Jumping Between Hollywood and Broadway

Sarah Snook, Darren Criss, Nicole Scherzinger, Jonathan Groff, Audra McDonald, Cole Escola and Louis McCartney join THR's Tonys Roundtable and dish about non-trad casting, pushing people's buttons and life on the Great White Way.

Full Tonys Roundtable: Audra McDonald, Darren Criss, Jonathan Groff, Nicole Scherzinger & More | The Hollywood Reporter

[HQ] Darren Criss, Cole Escola, Sarah Snook, Louis McCartney, Nicole Scherzinger, Jonathan Groff and Audra McDonald (Photographed by Nina Westervelt)

[fawnforevergone]

what absolutely floors me is the way "Unknown (Nth)" is the song for Treachery, and yet is more about betraying ourselves rather than being betrayed. hozier says that, when the break-up happened, it felt as though his lover was chewing on his heart while it still beats, but he can only blame himself because entering a relationship is acknowledging the chance it may fail and still going through with it. AND THEN HE SAYS "i'd walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowing you" - meaning he would do it all again with the knowledge of failure because isn't that what he risked in the first place anyway? ,,,"Unknown (Nth)", the weapon that you are-

[oensible]

—via Annie Moore/Medium (2025 Mar 22) (full article link)

[neuropteran]

Take That's Mark Owen on why moustaches are back [x]

[leonsliga]

Have you seen Leon’s interview OMG😂😂

The interviewer said they got good along with Vincent Kompany and Leon said Hansi also. He completely ruled Tuchel and Nagelsmann out of this lmao…

Then he said he’s suprised that Nagelsmann put his face down to call him.

This b*tch slay…

I will always love how unapologetically honest cunty Leon is, especially in his interviews. He always says what he means. He’s always sincere, and in a world of footballers who are basically media trained to give politician-esque non-answers from birth, that’s super refreshing. He proves that while media training is one way to ensure you can’t be misconstrued by the press, true authenticity can be another. And even though he’s so open, that openness has its limits. He knows what he is and is not willing or ready to talk about and he sticks to that.

What I love most though is how even though Leon’s profoundly honest, staggeringly so at times, he’s never overly negative. He’s not a dweller by nature—he always looks to the future. And having gone through what he has—finding himself on the outside looking in at Bayern and the national team several times over—that can’t be easy, but he manages just fine ❤️

In case anyone missed it, here’s some of what Leon had to say in that interview:

Ngl, it gives me hope when Leon says he has no plans to leave Bayern. I really, really hope he stays. He’s earned that.

[cloudslou]

Young Brit signs for the squad on a multi-year agreement

Nissan Formula E Team is delighted to announce that 2024 F1 Academy champion Abbi Pulling will be joining the Japanese outfit as rookie and simulator driver on a multi-year agreement.

The 22-year-old impressed the Formula E paddock last November at Circuito del Jarama in Madrid, topping the timesheets in the first-ever all-women’s session.

Pulling will become an important member of the team both on and off-track, taking part in Rookie Tests, simulator work and event preparation, as well as in the initial set-up of the squad’s new state-of-the-art, bespoke Dynisma simulator ahead of Season 12.

Considered as one of the most promising young drivers in world motorsport, Pulling has a strong racing CV. In addition to her superb title-winning 2024 F1 Academy season, she also became the first female driver to take a race victory in British F4, and has been competing in GB3 this year, finishing a strong fifth in the season-opener at Silverstone.

Tommaso Volpe, managing director and team principal, Nissan Formula E Team: “We’re very pleased to welcome Abbi to the team as our official rookie and simulator driver on a multi-year agreement. We were very impressed with her speed, commitment, and professionalism during the all-women’s test in Madrid last November, and we’re very happy to extend and formalize our collaboration. She is very talented – she was able to adapt incredibly quickly to the car and comfortably top the timesheets, which is difficult in every category but even more so in Formula E, so she is the perfect candidate to join us in this role. Abbi will have many responsibilities in the position we’ve created for her; we want to give her as much experience as possible and we are confident that this long-term, continued collaboration will be very beneficial both for the team and for Abbi, to keep developing as a more complete driver.”

Abbi Pulling, rookie and simulator driver, Nissan Formula E Team, “I’m really excited to be joining Nissan Formula E Team and extending our collaboration together, after driving for the squad during the all-women’s test in Jarama. Everything the team did for me during the test was so professional. The time and effort put in to make sure I was prepared was great to see, and the crew were patient with me as a rookie. The GEN3 Evo car is so unique, especially the 350kW mode in all-wheel drive which was very fun to use! It’s different from anything I’ve driven before, and it took some time to adjust to the increased power. I’m looking forward to my work in the simulator and to take the car on track as well when the opportunities arise.”

[gardenwalrus]

The Beatles quickly got used to fans screaming hysterically during their early performances, but nobody had ever seen a mob like the one which greeted their exit from London's Royal Albert Hall following a concert there on April 18, 1963. [...] The Ad Lib club off Leicester Square was their usual nightly haunt but, as a very nervous George Harrison pointed out, hundreds of fans would already be making their way there. 'You can come back to my flat,' I volunteered - rashly, given I was renting a bedsit on the King's Road. I hadn't planned on entertaining four guests and the number swelled to seven with the arrival of singer Shane Fenton (later known as Alvin Stardust, now sadly deceased), his girlfriend Susan and 17-year-old actress Jane Asher, who had been at the Albert Hall to interview the Beatles for the Radio Times. [...] Soon John grabbed the small bottle of amphetamines sent to me by my mother from our home in Torquay, to help me keep awake when I drove from London to see her. They were prescribed for slimming but we took them as 'uppers' and tongues quickly loosened as they took effect. That was bad news for Miss Asher, who was bombarded with some offensively intimate questions by John and soon began quietly weeping. After that party-killing interrogation, it was left to Paul to escort the flame-haired beauty back down the stone steps and into the night, beginning a relationship which saw them together for the next five years.

- Anecdote within Chris Hutchins, 'Night my friend John Lennon played a vile trick on Hollywood's sexiest woman: How Beatle urinated into Jayne Mansfield's cocktail and watched her drink it when he became tired of her during US tour', Daily Mail (9 May 2015) (x)

[This was the day Jane and Paul first met]

[bikefuckersoftheworldunite]

Mid-Ohio Memories, 1987: Schwantz Wins, Protests Fly

The 1987 AMA Superbike season featured a Wayne Rainey/Kevin Schwantz rivalry that began in America and would ultimately find its way to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and the 500cc World Championship. At Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the seventh round of the 10-round AMA Superbike series, the rivalry caught fire as both riders and their teams ended up protesting the other over the legality of their motorcycles.

The race itself was won by Schwantz with the Yoshimura Suzuki rider besting Rainey by 12.6 seconds on a hot and steamy day in central Ohio. Rainey started fast but Schwantz took over at the front on the seventh lap, ran lap times in the 1:35 range, and was never headed again. A lonely third went to Yamaha FZ750-mounted Jimmy Filice with two dirt trackers, Bubba Shobert, and Doug Chandler, rounding out the top five.

That, however, was all pending results that weren’t initially official after the two teams – Suzuki and Honda – started World War III with protests. It began with Schwantz/Suzuki protesting the legality of the valves in Rainey’s Honda VFR750 and then Rainey and Honda countered with a protest of the rods in Schwantz’s Suzuki GSX-R750. The protested parts were taken to a metallurgy lab in Cleveland, and both were declared legal a few days after the event.

[Tried to find out more about this, but all I could find was this short blurb in the 1987 issue of Cycle News:

[horridcassette]

David Byrne for Pulse! Magazine, February 1992 Issue (x) / PDF

[tenok]

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[zot3-flopped]

https://x.com/variety/status/1833203722551250965?s=46

And there it is, folks: a piece on Taygreedy’s hypocrisy written by the CHIEF CORRESPONDENT of variety, no less!

Good to see!

[trans-axolotl]

"In social science research, including criminology, the convention is to think of confinement in terms of placement in jails and prisons, therefore reinforcing a skewed interpretation of ‘the rise in incarceration’ in the USA. Under this interpretation, the first half of the 20th century is conceived as an era of relative stability in terms of incarceration, with an explosion in this area in the 1980s onward, in the form of immense growth in the capacity of prisons and jails. However, as Harcourt (2006) suggests, if the data on mental hospitalization and institutionalization were also covered in such studies under the prism of incarceration, then the ‘rise in incarceration’ would have reached its peak in 1955, when mental hospitals reached their highest capacity. Put differently, the incarceration rates in prisons and jails today (although appallingly high by any standards) barely scrape the levels of incarceration during the early part of the 20th century because of the then massive confinement in hospitals...

...Broadening the scope of research on incarceration to include a variety of confinements (such as psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, institutions for those labeled as intellectually and developmentally disabled) will take into account the work of scholars who have already theorized the carceral along these lines (such as Foucault, Goffman, Scull and others) and can also generate new work in this vein. It will also account for the lived reality of prisoners with disabilities who are caught in the webs of the institution- and prison-industrial complexes. Under this formulation, incarceration is understood as a continuum of carceral edifices, or as an institutional matrix in which disability is a core component, not simply an added category of analysis.

This call for connecting analysis of incarceration with disability is also a call to pay attention to the lives of mostly poor people of color who are still incarcerated worldwide in nursing homes, institutions for those with labels of mental illness and/or intellectual disability and prisons, and bring their perspective to bear on what Chris Bell characterized as ‘White disability studies’ (2006). My main argument here is that the history of disability is the history of incarceration."

-Liat Ben Moshe, Disabling Incarceration: Connecting Disability to Divergent Confinements in the USA

[hyohaehyuk]

Decider: Our @/megsokay asked #InterviewWithTheVampire stars @/jacobanderson and Sam Reid to dish on Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac's beautiful, floating, vampire love scene.

Decider: #InterviewWithTheVampire stars @/jacobanderson and Sam Reid talk about the logistics of filming Louis and Lestat's floating love scene.

Read more here ⬇️

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“Yeah, it’s beautiful,” Jacob Anderson said when Decider asked the actors about the scene.

“I mean, you know, it just goes to show the intensity of their connection,” Sam Reid said. “That was translated really beautifully. Read it on a page and you think, ‘How the hell is this going to happen? Like how does this work?’ and then you see the mechanics of it and then you think, ‘Oh, okay. It’s quite straight forward.'”

How exactly was it straight forward? Decider was sent an early version of the Interview with the Vampire pilot with unfinished VFX. In that version, the scene in question was no less captivating, but you couldn’t help but notice that Reid and Anderson were on a small platform being lifted by a mechanical crane. So what was that like?

“What was it like?” Reid said. “It was, you know…”

“The bicycle scene,” Anderson said.  “We called it the bicycle scene,” Reid said. “It was quite uncomfortable, I got to tell you the truth, it was quite uncomfortable. We’re balancing on that [rig] and sort of holding onto each other for balance as well.”

“Yeah I just like, don’t want to kill the magic of that scene, but it was…we were naked in front of the whole stunt team,” Anderson said.

“The whole stunt team who were pulling the thing down…”

“Basically on a steel seesaw,” Anderson said with a laugh.

Anderson didn’t want to spoil the magic, but he added that he was specifically proud of the single shot that circles around Louis and Lestat in that scene.

“I know I said I didn’t want to ruin the magic, but one of the most magical shots in the whole show is there’s like a crane that goes around from our feet to the top of our bodies and that was done completely in camera,” he said.

Just goes to show you that some of the magic in Interview with the Vampire is most definitely real.