#Daniel Craig is british... so...

[benoits-neckerchieves]

Ok but Spectre era Daniel 🥰🥰

[fiiiiin]

I’m sure I’m not the first to point this out but the Daniel Craig–Hugh Grant–Ben Whishaw love triangle needs to be studied…

Daniel and Hugh as lovers in Knives Out, Hugh and Ben as lovers in A Very English Scandal (and, strangely, enemies in Paddington 2), Daniel and Ben as (virtually lovers) coworkers in James Bond.

And I’m so certain these guys will continue to star in the same films, because they somehow just run in that British circle of the film industry. I can’t wait.

[gl1tchr]

@maddnessmadds: HEY HEY HI HI!! 👋👋

Id love to hear your own two pence on EDWARD THE RIDDLER fancasts other then people we have seen before as this character

OOOO WHAT A FUN QUESTION I have actually *never* thought about this beyond voice acting because I don't want anymore live action batman stuff JHGKSDG I dream in Animation BUT I'll give a top three for actors I'd like to see portray Edward in live action!

LIVE ACTION TOP THREE

3. Matthew Gray Gubler

this is Kind Of cheating because he *already was* the Riddler! But for the animated Assault on Arkham movie :3 I loved his voice so much, I genuinely think he could also pull it off in live action too, but he wouldn't be my ideal Riddler. I think it would have similar vibes as Corey Michael Smith in Gotham! That may not be my *faaavorite* Riddler, but with the right writing, I can definitely see enjoying it!

2. Harry Lawtey

You may or may not recognize the name but this is who played Harvey Dent in Joker Folie a Deux and every. time. he came on screen I would forget for half a second he's Harvey and thought I'd just been Riddled without realizing it. He looks like a Baby Gorshin, he's two shades away from being a ginger, and he's a solid actor from what I saw of him in Joker :] he'd be a VERY cute live action Zero Year. One thing I didn't love in Joker was his voice, BUT I would later learn he is a *British* actor, and honestly with Riddler he often speaks with that diluted transatlantic affectation, I don't think Lawtey would have to alter his voice as much for Riddler!

Daniel Craig

I want. old Riddler. I want a mean old BITCH who thinks he's smarter than everyone, dresses questionably, and drips with condescension. I LOVE Craig as Benoit Blanc, a close choice for this vibe would've been Ralph Feinnes, but I don't think he's got Quite the right look THOUGH he has amazing sense of humor, but I think Craig could get there easily because, like Lawtey, he's already kinda rocking a Gorshin look and ofc in the Knives Out series he Does do quirky. I'm imagining a horrific hybrid that suits only my tastes of BTAS, Telltale, and P.I.

THOSE would be the big three I'd like to see, tho I also need to get better at learning actors, there may be choices out there I love more but I just don't have a huge personal catalog of actors WITH good examples of their work <//3 and ofc with a character I've hyperanalyzed so much like the Riddler, I'd need a LOT of context for different looks they've pulled off, TYPES of movies they've done and roles they've played, etc.

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

Do you think when Sarandos talked about Meghan’s impact on culture, he’s also talking about the impact of Meghan’s accusations against the BRF? Ever since Meghan accused the BRF of racism, there’s been an influx of shows and movies about the monarchy with color blind casting. Anne Boleyn was played by Jodie Turner-Smith. Edward VI was played by a black actor in My Lady Jane. In Netflix’ very own Queen Charlotte show, there was even a storyline about Lady Danbury fighting for her son to be allowed to inherit a title.

Also Sarandos saying that Harry and Meghan are “over-dismissed” feels like he’s justifying their decision to keep backing them up amidst other companies like Spotify dismissing them. They weren’t dismissed by people in the beginning. They were overrated, and then dismissed because people realized there’s not much substance. I’m sure Netflix didn’t sign them in the first place because they were willing to bet on over-dismissed individuals. They signed them because of their connection to the monarchy. I guess Sarandos decided there’s still value in that.

Colorblind casting (eg Hamilton) and race-based casting (eg Bridgerton*) in predominantly/historically white stories were happening long before Meghan met Harry. For example:

Eartha Kitt played Catwoman in 1967.

Morgan Freeman played Red in Shawshank Redemption in 1994. (Red was written to be an Irishman.)

David Oyelowo played Henry VI in 2000. (He also played Javert in the 2018 Les Mis.)

David Harewood played Friar Tuck in a 2006 production of Robin Hood.

Miss Moneypenny in the Daniel Craig Bond franchise was played by Naomie Harris, and Jeffrey Wright played Felix Lester. Daniel Bond began in 2006 with Casino Royale.

So if anyone should get any credit for being the catalyst that let Black actors play historically white roles, it’s Eartha Kitt. Certainly not Meghan Markle. Meghan did make it much more relevant, though, particularly when it came to stories about the British monarchy.

Also, some quick research about these productions would have told you that two of them were cast and in production *before* Meghan accused the BRF of racism. Her accusations came in March 2021 via the Oprah interview; Jodie Turner-Smith was cast as Anne Boleyn in October 2020 and Bridgerton* cast their principal stars in July 2019. So that theory, that these characters/plots were developed as a response to the racism allegations) isn’t valid.

But the overlap of those roles with Meghan’s allegations certainly made them much more relevant. But that’s all - relevant and coincidental. Art imitates life and life imitates art.

*the creators intentionally had a diverse cast because they were interested in exploring race. The inspiration came from the 1940s scholarly discourse of Queen Charlotte being a Black woman, plus Shonda’s own desire to make the show fresh and relevant. You can find interviews where they talk about this.

[deramin2]

If you're loving the moral complexity of Critical Role Campaign 3, and enjoy Bell's Hells making agonized interesting character-driven choices that may not "right," here's a list of films I saw within the last few months to get more of that. (All of these ended up being at least a bit queer because queer people just make better films.)

Queer (2024)

My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Wicked: Part 1 (2024)

How To Blow Up A Pipeline (2022)

Hundreds of Beavers (2022)

I Saw The TV Glow (2024)

National Anthem (2023)

The Green Knight (2021)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Carol (2015)

Elevator pitches under the cut.

Queer (2024)

Based on a 1985 novella by Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs, it's a portrait of a middle-aged American gay writer named William Lee (played by Daniel Craig) living in Mexico City in the 1950s who becomes infatuated with a younger man named Eugene Allerton. He struggles with alcohol and heroin addiction, and is obsessed with telepathy. Eventually he invites Allerton with him to Ecuador seeking an experience with the hallucinogen yagé (ayahuasca), which little is known about outside local Indigenous medicine.

It's also about both of their very complex and painful experiences of queerness at a time when it was highly stigmatized and illegal. Including saying they reject the label as more of a political identity. The novella is loosely based on Burroughs own life and experiences. He's often excluded from the "queer canon" precisely because his relationship with homosexuality was too messy politically, despite being so open about it he's one of the Beat writers sued for obscenity that helped overturn those laws and allow every queer story after him to be published. (An astute viewer may note the symbolism of main characters refusing the label of queer in a work that explicitly labels them as queer as told by a "queer but it's complicated" author known for his semi-autobiographical work with unreliable narrators.)

My Own Private Idaho (1991)

A loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV from the perspective of Ned Poins. It moves the action to early 1990s Portland, Oregon where Ned becomes Mike Waters, a gay survival sex worker with narcolepsy trying to get by in a cruel and ableist world with a little help from his fellow hustler and degenerate friends. They live in an abandoned building with the newly returned king of the nest Bob Pigeon. With a little drug use and mugging to pass the time.

His best friend and crush is Scott Favor, a rebellious mayor's son who aims to disappoint so that his "miraculous" change into a redeemed son upon his father's death will finally earn his family's admiration. They travel together to Idaho and then Italy on a quest for Mike's estranged mother.

Genuinely some of the best bits of gay, sex worker, and disability in the 1990s. A really great look at how marginalization can be intersectional and the people ground under the heels of the powerful in the class war. When the Shakespeare really shines through it hits with the forceful immortality of the human condition as he saw it long ago.

Wicked: Part 1 (2024)

Based on both the book and musical Wicked. It tells the story of how the much-ostracized and green-skinned Elphaba came to be the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz. The film is in deep dialogue with how people are marginalized and made scapegoats in our current world in order to maintain the power of its rulers.

As told by Glinda The Good, her former roommate homoerotic frenemy who she was in a nebulous polyamorous triad or love triangle with (even they don't know which).

Also if Paul Tazewel doesn't win every award possible for his costume designs it will be biggest robbery since the British Museum. Look at this fucking spiral quilted vest that was worn in one scene near the beginning in low light while close-up dancing and seen basically only from the back to avoid identifying the wearer. Look at Elphaba's gorgeous goddamn dress on a green dress form so the could get the colors through the sheer gathered chiffon just right! These are some of the most gorgeous pieces of clothing ever made and required the technical precision of rocket scientists to make. 140 costumers worked on this film in the same building so they could build off each other's creativity. Even if it wasn't the best musical to be made in decades with technicolor enthusiasm and masterful film-making matching The Wizard of Oz (1939), it would be worth it just to see all the costumes. The Met Gala wishes it had costumes as good as the background actors.

How To Blow Up A Pipeline (2022)

A group of young environmental activists deeply harmed by the oil and gas industry (through land theft, climate change, and environmental poisoning) decide to take direct action by blowing up a pipeline in West Texas to drive up prices. Brought together by anger, love, righteousness, and chance, they set out to teach themselves to build a bomb to save the world from powerful capitalist overlords.

It's got the framework of a heist action film going between the main events and flashbacks showing what radicalized them. Incredibly powerful story about what's right and wrong in the face of a dire climate crisis driven by class war, racism, and greed.

Hundreds of Beavers (2022)

A no-dialogue black and white slapstick comedy about a 19th century Canadian applejack (alcohol) salesman who becomes a fur trapper for survival after beavers ruin his business. After many Wile E. Coyote like attempts to hunt rabbits for food, he befriends an expert trapper. Like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, he slowly learns to string all his bad ideas into Rube Goldberg type contraptions to succeed in his hunts and goes to war with the beavers for the love of a girl. All the animals are wearing literal mascot costumes. Mix of live action, 2-D animation, practical effects, and light CGI. It's the Who Framed Rodger Rabbit (1988) of our time.

One of the funniest movies I've ever seen. If you've ever wondered what would happen if you combined Charlie Chaplin, silly Japanese game shows, Loony Toons, and Mario Kart, look no further! It wears a hundred media influences proudly on its sleeve while also being one of the most original films of all time.

I Saw The TV Glow (2024)

Alienated and isolated teenage Owen is introduced to the cheesy 1990s late-night kids show The Pink Opaque by his classmate Maddy, and he becomes obsessed with it. He especially connects to the female main character in ways he can't express.

When Maddy tells him she's running away to escape her abusive stepfather, Owen refuses the call to go with her. The film checked in on him at two other points into adulthood as he's locked into the gravity well of denying his inner self.

This is a tragic psychedelic horror film about how psychologically deep the closet can go for trans people, even to themselves. (The clear subtext is that Owen is trans woman, but I use he/him pronouns because his inability to face that fact, let alone rethink his pronouns, is the fundamental dread of the film.) A perfect example of why horror can be such a deep cathartic scream for marginalized creators. Nothing's ever come close to describing how soul-crushing it is to commit to pretending you're cis.

National Anthem (2023)

21-year-old Dylan is adrift in life working construction jobs in rural New Mexico. In this way he comes to work at a queer rodeo ranch. He didn't know such a thing existed and has never really had contact with any queer community. There he meets Sky, the most beautiful women he's ever seen in his life, who's a trans barrel racer.

She draws him into the commune polycule and introduces him to parts of his heart, gender, and sexuality that he never knew existed. Their love is tested against the fierce storms of family (natal + found), nature, and identity.

Absolutely breathtaking film about a queer subculture many people are unaware even exists. Wonderful to see films about confident trans women played by trans women. If you're a fan of Anthony Hurd's paintings, you must see this film.

The Green Knight (2021)

A masterful modern psychedelic adaptation of the famous Medieval poem. On Christmas Day the Green Knight visits King Arthur's court and proposes a game: a contestant may use his great axe to land one blow on him. However light or powerful, it will be returned onto that person in one year's time. King Arthur's headstrong nephew, and aspiring knight, Gawain takes up the challenge and cuts off his head. When it's done, the slain Green knight picks up his head and tells Gawain that for his honor must seek the Green Knight out for the return blow in one year.

We follow Sir Gawain's journey the next year to confront his duty, his honor, and his fate as various trials beset him. What awaits Gawain in his heart is heavier than any weapon. All using strong metaphor and red-green colors to get at the emotional and philosophical heart of this timeless tale of man's dominion vs. nature's. A literary symbolism bonanza.

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Zero Moustafa is a lobby boy in a famed European hotel in 1932. He's an illegal refugee fleeing a violent government. The hotel's flamboyant concierge, Monsieur Gustave H.. is known far and wide for impeccable service and among the hotel staff for his affairs with wealthy old clients. Gustave ends up taking Zero under his wing making him his protégé.

One of of Gustave's affairs spanned nearly two decades with the dowager Madame Céline Villeneuve Desgoffe-und-Taxis. When she mysteriously dies, it sends Zero and Gustave on a caper for a stolen painting, a family fortune, and Zero's affections for a clever girl, as fascism closes in around them.

Carol (2015)

This is the "Harold, they're lesbians" film. In the Christmas season of 1952, a young clerk and aspiring photographer named Therese Belivet is noticed by a gorgeous older women named Carol Aird who is looking for a gift for her beloved little girl. Carol is trying to divorce her abusive husband (who's only grown more possessive and controlling after discovering her homosexuality). Meanwhile Therese's boyfriend Richard is trying to convince her to come away with him to France and get married.

Carol slowly draws Therese into her first lesbian love affair, and helps her develop and thrive. But as the stakes of the divorce are raised and their relationship gets increasingly complicated, they must choose between the risks of their truth or the gilded cage of straightness.

[houseofbrat]

Well, well, well...

Wasn't it just yesterday where I was typing out how Will & Kate & the kids were in the Caribbean?

Prince William, Kate and their children flew to the privately owned island on Thursday, days after Kensington Palace announced that the couple would not be at the star-studded ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall.  Instead, the family will be on their second holiday in as many months following a New Year ski break. They are all believed to have flown business class on the same British Airways flight – the protocol that heirs to the throne fly separately having been relaxed in recent years. A source says they flew to Saint Lucia before taking a private flight to Mustique, which was famously the favourite hideaway of the late Princess Margaret as well as a beloved escape for A-list celebrities. The late Queen and Prince Philip also visited in 1966, 1977, and 1985. It is thought that Kate's mother Carole Middleton, who also enjoys the privacy the island affords, is there too. 

Oh, so not on a private jet as I stated just yesterday?

Why thank you for confirming this so quickly!

Yeah, I'm sure they're all there to celebrate Carole's 70th birthday.

Or maybe Carole and Mike will mark the occasion with a holiday? Carole previously revealed she ‘often’ spends her birthday away on a trip. In 2015, she celebrated her 60th birthday on the Caribbean Island of Mustique topped off with a dazzling fireworks display and a suave jazz performance from a live band.

Tatler made the comment/suggestion that this could happen two weeks ago. Now, Charlotte Griffiths of the Daily Mail confirms.

She recently celebrated her 70th birthday and it's thought she had been there for several days before her daughter arrived. Mustique is owned by a private company and does not allow journalists or photographers to stay.  The island has no hotels and visitors must own a villa there – or have an invitation to stay in one.  It has only one bar, Basil's, where the clientele has included Mick Jagger, Daniel Craig, Noel Gallagher and Kate Moss. Bafta insiders had originally hoped William and Kate would make a show-stopping joint appearance, marking a glorious return to the red carpet for Kate, 43. William, 42, attended the ceremony last year without Kate, but he has not attended in two consecutive years since becoming president in 2010. Kensington Palace was approached for comment last night but did not respond.

Oh, so KP didn't "officially" comment but let the DM have all these details?

Just how Roya's story two weeks ago originated from KP unofficially until Lee Thompson passive-aggressively outed himself as the source this week.

[halfbaked00q]

im too deep down the silly rabbit hole... all of these ppl in the comments on various old man daniel craig interviews like he's so rude! he's so grumpy! ugh he hates talking about Bond so much, so ungrateful! and Im here like don't worry mr craig I understand you ... you just have a rly dry British sense of humor.. and also you ARE kind of tired of ppl making everything about Bond when ur not even on the press junket for Bond...

like. u gotta understand. this is an old man who according to Jamie Lee Curtis is NOT on any socials. The man is an actor but he is not an Influencer. off stage/out of character he's gonna be himself he's not gonna try to be a Brand

[mrs-bond]

This man is fine as fuck.

@gridmouse86

[oldbutchdanielcraig]

another thing about daniel craig's early work is that they are always making him do some accent. and he is just frankly not that good at them. he's always letting his own british slip through like 40% of the time at minimum which is just too high for an actor doing an accent that isn't their own. it's really interesting because there doesn't appear to be a "reason" he's doing these accents most of the time it's just a choice. so why couldn't he just use his voice. anyway i guess he was practicing and learning <3

[luckydiorxoxo]

Adrien Brody's spot should have gone to Daniel Craig. They snubbed both of Luca's movies in all categories and it sucks so bad.

Daniel Craig was snubbed by the BAFTAs, not even the British liked his film. As progressive as the Academy is, it is still difficult for them to appreciate gay films with explicit sex. The closest they get is Call Me By Your Name.

Agreed. I like Luca's work but it was a long shot.

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

Amazon founder and current executive chair Jeff Bezos has a question: “Who’d you pick as the next Bond?” Following the shocking news that Amazon MGM Studios has taken full creative control of the 007 franchise, Bezos riled up the fandom on X by asking his 6.8 million followers for their thoughts on who should succeed Daniel Craig as the world’s most famous movie secret agent.

Amazon MGM Studios and longtime Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced a new joint venture to house the 007 intellectual property rights. Under the venture, the three parties are co-owners of the franchise, but it is Amazon MGM that gets the creative control.

Social media users started flooding Bezos’ replies with their thoughts on who should become the new James Bond, from Tom Cruise to James McAvoy. But it was the Henry Cavill social media army that swarmed Bezos’ posts with pictures and gifs pitching the former “Superman” actor to become the new 007. It’s hardly a surprise, as Cavill is constantly pitched by fans to be James Bond on the big screen.

Cavill could have been Bond had Craig not earned the role of 007 in the 2006 franchise reboot “Casino Royale.” The film reinvigorated the Bond franchise after Pierce Brosnan’s divisive “Die Another Day” in 2002, and it kicked off Craig’s acclaimed tenure as Bond. “Casino Royale” director Martin Campbell told Express UK last year that Cavill’s audition was incredible.

“He looked great in the audition. His acting was tremendous,” Campbell said. “And look, if Daniel didn’t exist, Henry would have made an excellent Bond. He looked terrific, he was in great physical shape…very handsome, very chiseled. He just looked a little young at that time back then.”

At the time, Campbell also downplayed the possibility of Cavill taking over for Craig by saying: “Henry’s 40, so by the time he’s done the third one he’s going to be 50 and anything beyond that’s two, three years per Bond. He’s in good shape Henry, he’s a good guy. He did very well in the audition, but ironically he was too young.”

There’s currently no timeline in place for when the next James Bond actor will be announced.

https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/1892590064766484622

Today was announced that after more than 60 years, the Broccoli family have relinquished creative control of the franchise to Amazon MGM Studios.

James Bond is more than just a character for many fans, he’s a cultural touchstone and an icon of British film backed by a 60-year legacy 😎

We hope Amazon don't even consider anything unthinkable and follows Fleming’s idea. Ian Fleming always considered James Bond to be a British secret agent, as he created the character specifically as a fictional British Secret Service agent in his novels; this is a core aspect of Bond's identity throughout the literary series cast by a British actor.

Posted 20th February 2025

@imahalfemptykindofgirl Now things get tough for Sam and his fans 🥴 Jeff Bezos openly asked who the next James Bond should be, and far and away there was an answer shouted with a deafening yell: Henry Cavill. Henry has a deep connections to Amazon and has a legion of superfans (both men &women)

Let the media blitz Bezos for Henry Cavill

[mistresscurvy]

For the fic ask meme 💖

happy new year!

💖 a fic you read you recently loved and why!

I will give you two! The first is like real people do by vesna, which is The Queen’s Thief and Kamet/Costis and that is the pairing of my HEART and since finishing that series four years ago all I want is a million stories about those two. And this one just captures the idiot4idiot of their dynamic perfectly and then resolves it beautifully, it made me so happy.

The second is a reread in 00Q fandom: Negotiable by eyebrowofdoom. I fell back into this pairing this fall because both Daniel Craig and Ben Whishaw are in new queer projects rn and for me this is the perfect Bond/Q fic. It’s a casefic, it feels both actually gay and actually British to me, and it’s also both hot and really, really funny. It’s a bit of a unicorn of a fic tbh and I have to not reread it too frequently because I need it to still hit the way it does in the future.

[randomvarious]

Today's mix:

Pure Garage Presents: Bass, Breaks & Beats by EZ 2001 UK Garage

There are *plenty* of times where you might find me lamenting over the unfortunate repeated failures of most British electronic and dance music to make significant impacts in the US, but when it comes to the genre of UK garage, know that I am super grateful that almost none of this shit managed to succeed Stateside, because the vast majority of this stuff is dumber than your own kitchen table 😵.

Cultivated in a country that's known for its own melting pot approach to music, UK garage naturally culminated in a confluence of things from a whole bunch of different genres, including drum n bass/jungle, breakbeat, dancehall, and house. Its own name had been derived from garage house, one of the earliest forms of house music as we know it, which is more rooted in elements of disco, R&B, gospel, and soul. And garage house itself was named after the venue where it was originally most famously spun at: New York's Paradise Garage, by the legendary DJ Larry Levan, which operated from the late 70s to late 80s.

But between garage house and UK garage was the indispensable link of speed garage. This music took the shuffled-snare house rhythms that'd been a hallmark of garage house, paired them with breakbeats, and then sped the whole thing up. A very inventive guy from New Jersey named Todd Edwards was a pioneer of this music, and became especially known for creating nicely textured melodies that were made of patched together strings of millisecond-long samples too. One of the only good tracks that happens to appear on this 2001 double-disc mix from UK garage stalwart DJ EZ (pronounced E-Zed) is Edwards' own "Show Me a Sign," which itself is, again, not a UK garage track, but speed garage instead—a sonic predecessor.

But what then followed speed garage was a British dance phenomenon of utter mindlessness 🚫🧠. UK garage took the speed garage idea of using those breakbeats and snares and then the only other additional things that people did with them was seep or ladle in fat and squelchy basslines—which were reminiscent of how the famous Reese bass had proved a worthy addition to drum n bass—and then peppered in vocal samples too. The music's only real unique versatility was that it could sound more akin to either house or breakbeat depending on the drum patterns that were chosen, but other than that, every track that leaned towards one or the other genre sounded very similar, because there's only so much that a person can do with a strictly percussive breakbeat and a bassline that seems to require a specifically fat and squelchy quality to it. People liked rapping over these beats too, which contributed a good level of energy to them, but to contrast it with hip hop—imagine that genre's beats being limited to only those specific combinations of breakbeat-and-bassline? I really don't think that it'd be the world's single-most popular genre of music right now if that'd ever been the case!

So, basically, UK garage sucked so much because of how overly simple its formula was, and because of that, how limited its sonic possibilities were too. You can scrub to pretty much any point on either of the discs for this mix here on YouTube and get a good idea of what both of them are entirely made of, because almost every single song utilizes a similar recipe of breakbeat-and-specific-bassline.

Not all UK garage turned out to be totally awful, though. When filtered through a contemporary R&B/pop kind of lens, it gave us essential early 2000s hits like Craig David's "Fill Me In" and Daniel Bedingfield's "Gotta Get Thru This"—two of the only UK garage tunes to achieve major success in the US.

But without any sort of pop sensibility lent to it, UK garage mostly just languishes in obscenely boring levels of formulaic unoriginality, as can be heard throughout the near entirety of this mix. I really don't understand how anyone could've ever enjoyed listening to this music for more than five minutes, but somehow, despite how totally reductive, devolutionary, and lobotomized it all felt, it still managed to flourish majorly on a commercial level in its home country, defining a piece of the UK's late 90s-to-early 2000s dance music landscape.

The only other track on here that I dig is "Firin' Times" by Swoopes (aka DJ Zinc), which isn't even a garage track of any sort—it's pure breakbeat! And it happens to make for a nice and unexpected spell from all the other gar(b)age that lines the rest of this whole mix.

So, ultimately, as an American, I'm really glad that 99.9% of this stuff didn't end up hitting our own airwaves. Besides those couple hits that I mentioned above, I've only ever really been exposed to UK garage in a similar way to how every year I'm made aware of the current fall season lineup of bad network TV shows—through all those ridiculous promo ad reads during football games 😂. In a sense, UK garage is like the BOB❤️ABISHOLA of dance music; you can just tell from the outset that it's gonna be dreadful, but the fact that it's managed to stick around for as long as it has indicates how popular it's been too, which then inevitably leads you to wonder, who on earth actually genuinely enjoys all of this terrible, terrible shit?!?

Listen to CD1 here. Listen to CD2 here.

Highlights:

CD1:

Swoopes - "Firin' Times"

CD2:

Todd Edwards - "Show Me a Sign"

[stitched-mouth]

List of Every Brandon Rogers Characters Ever

I don’t know why I did this. It took 4 hours. I haven’t seen ever Brandon Rogers video (shocking, I know) so some are missing. I purposely didn’t add any parody characters (the Kardashians, Annabell, M3GAN etc), but if you notice any BRCU characters missing, please comment so I can add them.

And obviously the characters not credited are played by Brandon Rogers.

David July is credited as David Burton on this list. I’m not sure when they changed their name, as they are credited as both on Brandon’s videos.

I can’t remember who Debbie and Doyle are but I must of put them on this list for a reason

Main Characters

Sam

Bryce Tankthrust

Bobby Worst

Blame/Sebastian/ Grandpa

Elmer

Cathy

Karen

Helen Brownstein

Stuff & Sam

Donna Phitts (Paulette Jones)

Damien (Onision)

Ms Cunney (Monique Parent)

Blame the Hero

Young Donna Phitts (Alariza Nevarez)

Duke Tuggler (Anthony Padilla)

Coach Best (Jack Plotnick)

Skinny Bitch (Kornbread Jeté)

Dill Flippo (Jonathan Hinman)

Family Doctor Office

Dr Gupta

Nurse Kavi (Nandini Minocha)

Lipschtiz the Clown (Paulette Jones)

Surgeon Miller (Jude B. Lanston)

Nurse Hole (Georgina Leahy)

Patient (Adam Neylan)

Another Patient (Jonathan Hinman)

Daniel (Jess Weaver)

Daniel’s Mother (Christine Sydelko)

Mad tea party

Mad Hatter

Cheshire Cat (Bazil)

White Rabbit (Benjamin Alexander Hall)

The Jabberwocky (Natalie Hawkins)

Flower (Jordan)

No one was credited in this video and most were personal friends of Brandon’s and not content creators so are nearly impossible to find. I had to stalk Brandon’s Insta to find these people.

BTW, Bazil (who plays Cheshire Cat) is a trans man who goes by he/him. Just letting people know because people are misgendering him and I assume it’s because they don’t know his pronouns.

Theatre Class

Alex Rimmer

Mason Lucas (Salim Razawi)

Oliver Hamilton (Stephen Weighill)

Linda Starford (Janet McCarroll)

Karen Shou (Karen Fokes)

Jamie (Adam Neylan)

Marlena Lewton (Rachael Ferris)

Dean Shaft (Tony Rogers)

Trump’s Emotions

Joy

Anger (Stephen James)

Disgust, Fear and Sadness were not credited in this skit and I can’t guess with all the makeup or find them.

Fashion

Jurgen Klausvonschwitz

Damien Ditsin (Logan Bubar)

Gretchen (Paulette Jones)

Sookilah (Judyth Brooke)

Dolorio (Devyne Carr)

Cheap Skate

Luxy

Lost Boy (Adam Neylan)

Chick Flick (the first Brandon Roger’s Video I ever watched)

Ashley

Ashley’s Best Friend (Vincent Marcus)

Ashley’s Crush / Cop (Jon Cozart)

Ashley’s Mom (Christine Sykdelko)

Teacher (Jude B. Lanston)

Doctor (Jonathan Hinman)

The Real Patient/ Dick’s Owner (Skye Williams)

The Real Patient’s Wife (Adam Neylan)

5 Year Old (Paulette Jones)

Since this video is now restricted on YouTube, I did this one from memory. I can’t believe I remember all these characters and actors. Thank God I rewatched it like a billion times when I first found it.

Mad funhouse

Mr Marbles/ Arlo

Dave (Jess Weaver)

Cliff (TJ Smith)

Sacha (Elise Christian)

Jimmy (Alex Diehl)

Manjusha (Nandini Minocha)

Mr Chronis (Jude Lanston)

Nuclear family

Barbara

Frank

Daniel/ Echo Noir

Unnamed Daughter

Devontay (?) (Devyne Carr)

The Office

Dorian Ditsin

James Shaft (Stephen Rezza)

Vishalam Rangan (Natalie Hawkins)

Jimmy Rustler (Benjamin Hall)

Craig Dildon (Stephen James)

Ernie (Seth Munson)

Diesel (David Burton)

Kevin (Davis Benz)

Regina (Georgina Leahy)

British Family/ The Mingeworthys

Lord Mingeworthy

Lady Mingeworthy (Georgina Leahy)

Cockwaddle (David Burton)

James (Davis Benz)

Blood & Makeup

Blah Blah the Clown

Whoopsie Wendy (Elise Christian)

Dumb Bitch Linda (Kornbread Jeté)

Blonde Bitch (David Burton)

Percy the Pervert (Adam Neylan)

Christmas Family/ The Hendersons

Patty Henderson

Paul Henderson (Stephen James)

Shelby Henderson (Caleb Shorey)

Unnamed Daughter (Elise Christian)

Spike (Logan Bubar)

The Devil (Paulette Jones)

Uncle Frank (Gabriel Gonzalez)

Notice how often Brandon forgets to name the daughter in his skits 👀?

Silly Cat

Clifton

Lenny/ Daddy (Jon Cozart)

Dr Williams (Sky Williams)

Wild West

Lucius Cowpussy

Vivian Delonprix (Georgina Leahy)

Map Maker Milton (Logan Bubar)

Lesbians

Darlene

Kathleen (Adam Neylan)

Power (David Burton)

Rock (Georgina Leahy)

Damien (?) (Logan Bubar)

Cheaters

Trina

Delilah

Gustavo

Unnamed Husband

Sleep Paralysis Demons

Felix

Iris (Paulette Jones)

Chad (Gary Nohealii Neil)

The Laundromat

Clyde Can

Bart (Joel Haver)

Debra (Mitsy Sanderson)

Barbara Ditliminor (?) (Adam Neylan)

The North Pole (included this group for fun)

Santa Clause

Mrs Clause (Christine Sydelko)

Gingerbread Man (Jude B. Lanston)

Female Elf (Georgina Leahy)

Male Elf (David Burton)

Head Elf (Kornbread Jeté)

Jesus (Jess Weaver)

Rudolph (Paulette Jones)

Tiny Tim (Jack Plotnick)

Characters I Didn’t Know Where To Put

Suck (Dominiq Badiyo)

Swallow (David Burton)

Beatrice Brownstein (Paulette Jones)

Judey Patoody (Jude B. Lanson)

Gloria Goopty (Kornbread Jeté)

Courtney (Liam Krug)

Ryder (Kassius Marcil-Green)

Barbara Worst (Katie Johnson)

American boyfriend (Ben Furney)

Ignaolo (Gabriel Gonzalez)

Debbie (Trevor Wallace)

Doyle (Trevor Wallace)

Carol Cox

Japanese Girlfriend

Deeno

Flint Dicker

Delmar Lysol

Humanoid Simulation XL-57692/ Simian

Double Licker Leroy

Paisley

Hole Bros

Rafał Sanchez Dimelo

Noah

Bryce is my favourite

[thatscarletflycatcher]

I have been 1/8 watching (meaning: background noise while I study) the James Bond saga, and I have some thoughts so far (I'm on In Her Majesty's Secret Service):

I have always had a soft spot for Scottish actors. Big fan of Robert Carlyle and Bill Paterson. Yet even before I was aware of his opinions on hitting women, I never cared for Sean Connery, and my opinion on his acting abilities and personal attractiveness to me has not been changed by these movies. He's at his most attractive there on Thunderball, and it's just okay.

On the same vein, while I'm of course very ignorant about the character Ian Fleming wrote, it's kind of hard to square Sean Connery with "quintessentially suave British spy". He's only slightly better at accents than Daniel Craig (that's damning with faint praise indeed), and his whole energy screams RUGGED all the time.

I had heard of George Lazenby in a memetic way, and I was not ready for how much of a relief it was to see his performance in contrast with Connery's. I think he's better at the character type, SUE ME.

These movies are even dumber than I thought they would, and I knew them to be dumb. And yet the sillier the better, I think. You Only Live Twice and Thunderball were slogs in comparison with Goldfinger and Dr. No, as measured by how easy it was to forget I had them on XD

[muzaktomyears]

I know there's a lot of answers out there for this question, but personally like what do you think are the best beatle books to read? Like what's the best for you?

hello anon! I'm hyperfixated so I'll read pretty much anything on them tbh. I do like to read the more anecdotal stuff because I love gossip lol - and some of them can be so revealing (both of the Beatles themselves and the authors). But I'll read and have enjoyed lots of stuff: the big biogs, memoirs, fan accounts, academic studies, that novel by Paul's ex publicist.

anyway, here's the list of Beatles books I've read all the way through and what rating out of 5 I'd give them. The books I've rated highest have generally been the big biographies just because I think they tend to say more and tell a fuller story, since obvs that's their purpose, so they're a more satisfying read. My ratings are based on a random combo of what they can tell us about the Beatles, how interesting I find them historiographically/as Beatles reception, and how much I enjoyed reading them.

★★★★★

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (Craig Brown)

The Beatles: The Authorised Biography (Hunter Davies)

Shout!: The True Story of the Beatles (Philip Norman)

Love Me Do!: The Beatles' Progress (Michael Braun)

Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America (Jonathan Gould)

The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away: The Amazing True Story of the Beatles' Early Years (Allan Williams & William Marshall)

★★★★☆

The Love you Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles (Peter Brown & Steven Gaines)

Backbeat: Stuart Sutcliffe - The Lost Beatle (Alan Clayson & Pauline Sutcliffe)

The Gospel According to the Beatles (Steve Turner)

Lennon vs. McCartney: The Beatles, Inter-band Relationships and the Hidden Messages to Each Other in Their Song Lyrics (Adam Thomas)

Beatle! The Pete Best Story (Pete Best & Patrick Doncaster)

Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World (Rob Sheffield)

A Cellarful of Noise (Brian Epstein)

Waiting for the Beatles: An Apple Scruff's Story (Carol Bedford)

John (Cynthia Lennon)

John Lennon: In My Life (Pete Shotton & Nicholas Schaffner)

Summer of Love: The Making of Sgt. Pepper (George Martin with William Pearson)

★★★☆☆

John, Paul & Me Before the Beatles: The True Story of the Very Early Days (Len Garry)

The Beatles and Me on Tour (Ivor Davis)

A Twist of Lennon (Cynthia Lennon)

At the Apple's Core: The Beatles from the Inside (Denis O'Dell with Bob Neaverson)

The Guitar's All Right as a Hobby, John (Kathy Burns)

With the Beatles (Alistair Taylor)

The Day John Met Paul: An Hour-By-Hour Account of How the Beatles Began (Jim O'Donnell)

The Beatles: I Was There (Richard Houghton)

All Our Loving: A Beatle Fan's Memoir (Carolyn Lee Mitchell & Michael Munn)

Rock Bottom (Geoff Baker)

Once There Was a Way: What if the Beatles Stayed Together? (Bryce Zabel)

Like Some Forgotten Dream: What if the Beatles Hadn't Split Up? (Daniel Rachel)

Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God (Jon Stewart)

Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion (Alan Goldsher)

★★☆☆☆

Paperback Writer (Mark Shipper)