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Gave up drawing for many months and am trying to figure out how it's done again—janky portrait and pic from last night of my friend eating seven-hour-old pizza high on a baffling piece of furniture (purple!)

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A couple of posters that commemorate Palestine’s Land Day, March 30th

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Propaganda

Yvonne De Carlo (Frontier Gal, The Ten Commandments, Casbah)— Although most famous for playing Lily Munster in The Munsters, Yvonne De Carlo had a successful movie career throughout the 1940s and 1950s, appearing in such films as “The Ten Commandments”, “Sea Devils” and two Munster movies later in life.

Setsuko Hara (Tokyo Story, Late Spring, The Idiot)— "'The only time I saw Susan Sontag cry,' a writer once told me, his voice hushed, 'was at a screening of a Setsuko film.' What Setsuko had wasn’t glamour—she was just too sensible for that—it was glow, one that ebbed away and left you concerned, involved. You got the sense that this glow, like that of dawn, couldn’t be bought. But her smiles were human and held minute-long acts, ones with important intermissions. When she looked away, she absented herself; you felt that she’d dimmed a fire and clapped a lid on something about to spill. Over the last decade, whenever anyone brought up her lips—'Setsuko’s eternal smile,' critics said, that day we learned that she’d died—I thought instead of the thing she made us feel when she let it fall." - Moeko Fujii

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Yvonne de Carlo:

The woman who brought Burt Lancaster to his knees.

Setsuko Hara:

One of the best Japanese actresses of all time; a symbol of the golden era of Japanese cinema of the 1950s After seeing a Setsuko Hara film, the novelist Shūsaku Endō wrote: "We would sigh or let out a great breath from the depths of our hearts, for what we felt was precisely this: Can it be possible that there is such a woman in this world?"

One of the greatest Japanese actresses of all time!! Best known for acting in many of Yasujiro Ozu's films of the 40s and 50s. Also she has a stunning smile and beautiful charm!

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She's considered by some to be the greatest Japanese actress of all time! In Kurosawa's The Idiot she haunts the screen, and TOTALLY steals the show from Mifune every time she appears.

"No other actor has ever mastered the art of the smile to the same extent as Setsuko Hara (1920–2015), a celebrated star and highly regarded idol who was one of the outstanding actors of 40s and 50s Japanese cinema. Her radiant smile floods whole scenes and at times cautiously undermines the expectations made of her in coy, ironic fashion. Yet her smile's impressive range also encompasses its darker shades: Hara's delicate, dignified, melancholy smile with which she responds to disappointments, papers over the emotions churning under the surface, and flanks life's sobering realizations. Her smiles don't just function as a condensed version of her ever-precise, expressive, yet understated acting ability, they also allow the very essence of the films they appear in to shine through for a brief moment, often studies of the everyday, post-war dramas which revolve around the break-up of family structures or the failure of marriages. Her performances tread a fine line between social expectation and personal desire in post-war Japan, as Hara attempts to lay claim to the autonomy of the female characters she plays – frequently with a smile." [link]

Leading lady of classic Japanese cinema with a million dollar smile

Maybe the most iconic Japanese actress ever? She rose to fame making films with Yasujiro Ozu, becoming one of the most well-known and beloved actresses in Japan, working from the 30s through the 60s in over 100 hundred. She is still considered one of the greatest Japanese actresses ever, and in my opinion, just one of the greatest actresses of all time. And she was HOT! Satoshi Kon's film Millennium Actress was largely based on her life and her career.

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The Assassination of Julius Caesar by Vincenzo Camuccini

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Tagged by the lovely @inflammatory…

Last song: Bert Jansch cover of Davy Graham’s Angi(e). Not really representative but thank god for bluesy guitars

Favourite colour: Greens and greys… greyish greens… pale green pants with nobody inside them type thing

Currently watching: Last watched was Early Summer, next will be Ivan’s Childhood, also halfway through The Devil Wears Prada with some friends

Spicy/savoury/sweet: Savoury

Relationship status: I can't get into this

Current obsession: 19th century British & Portuguese naval activities... Although the rabbithole of polar exploration has many branching tunnels… out of respect for the principle of balance also learning lots about precolonial Inuit custom which is so fascinating. Rest in peace antigone, you would’ve loved the rule- vs. religion- vs. authority-based law distinction probably. And increasingly up close and intimate with extinct madhhabs.

If you feel like it @scripps @cyrus-the-younger @swordwound @weekendteeth @andromerot @leastparanoidandroid @advancedscurvy

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Propaganda

Omar Sharif (Funny Girl, Lawrence of Arabia)—Dark and thrilling, strange and sweet, honey in your ear, spice in your mouth, he was Sherif Ali the Arab, Yuri Zhivago the Russian, Colonel Grau the German and much much much more, here's to the one and only Omar Sharif---- Pharaoh of romance!!! (I'm sorry Im stealing lyrics from the song "Omar Sharif" but it ain't lying!)

Toshiro Mifune (Rashumon, Seven Samurai, Grand Prix, Stray Dog)—i love and respect my boi tab hunter (rest in peace you beautiful, beautiful man ❤️), but after i watched like 12 of his movies in a row on tcm last year, i ALSO love and respect toshiro mifune, son of a literal actual hatamoto’s (a high-ranking samurai) daughter, also very possibly related to the best judokan EVER, AND, he’s the guy who SHOULD have been obi-wan kenobi. the fact that he’s ALSO hot as hell just adds to his appeal.

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Toshiro Mifune propaganda:

"In addition, he spoke fluent mandarin and every time he was casted in foreign films, he said his lines in the language of the movie (although they ended up dubbing him. He wasn’t happy about it though).”

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Also submitted: this video (yes, that one)

"Crucial Toshiro Mifune propaganda: THOSE LEGS."

"That is hella muscle. Go watch The Hidden Fortress, aka Star Wars A New Hope. His thighs deserve an award."

Omar Sharif propaganda:

"he and Peter O'Toole didn't have the heaviest "we're fucking" energy in Lawrence of Arabia for nothing!"

"Additional Omar Sharif propaganda (I am counting as propaganda both the way he looks and the way Peter O'Toole is looking at him.)"

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Changed my sheets today and am now a lamb in the arms of the world :) Trying to force myself to do more pushups lately. Weed makes me faster at crosswords Monday–Wednesday. Went on a nice walk yesterday around sunset, too rainy today to see. Newfound love of Romantic poetry, especially god help me a stable rhyme scheme and metre, lots of exclamation marks. And tangentially wish I could see eye to eye with Whitman, if he were not hidden behind a terrible rectangle of masculinity. These ducks will all extend their necks, wait thirty seconds or so, then take off in a single burst without a signal—confused by the social dynamics here.

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Everyone knows

(jfj dying of scurvy in the arctic voice) guys be honest am I the life and soul of this situation

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(jfj dying of scurvy in the arctic voice) guys be honest am I the life and soul of this situation

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'Distress by Sea' (from James Thomson's poem 'The Seasons') Henry Thomson (1773–1843) National Trust, Stourhead

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I see the point yet reminds me of when a guy told me I was imposing punitive instead of restorative justice when I said he couldn't be listed as co-editor on a publication he hadn't worked on for four months

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Addendum to previous post hey girl are you a slow-acting poison because you're working your way into my brain and heart

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i've got your daughter who i'm prepared to kiiiiiillll (yeahyeahhyeah)

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withnail & i (1987) | dr. dog my old ways

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-Anthony Bourdain