Soul Jar is a wide-ranging collection of sci-fi and fantasy stories by disabled authors. Most of the stories feature openly disabled and/or neurodivergent characters and some deal with ableism, but mainly they feature many kinds of people in the kind of SFF stories I love to read. They vary widely in tone and topic, meaning that there's something for everyone, probably several stories to catch your fancy.
literally when will another game’s opening sequence ever fuck as hard as inscryption’s. “let’s see what’s on this thing”. the extremely old-school menu and title screen. you can’t start a new game, you can only continue. the complete dark. leshy’s eyes opening, slowly, and they are all you see. the game comes into focus and the graphics are far newer, more detailed, than they are supposed to be. they don’t match the menu or title screen at all. something is wrong with the game but you have no idea what yet. literally when will anything ever fuck that hard again.
Heard them playing in the bookstore and now I’m on a kick and decided to share. At one point, U2 was a band that I could recite all their lyrics to by heart. They’re nostalgic in the sense that they were introduced by a parent, and one of the bands responsible for me loving music.
In their beginning, U2 was very much a punk rock band. You can hear their early influences of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, and more in their debut album, Boy.
Definitely recommend Boy to anyone who enjoys early 80’s music in general. The trend continued with their second album, October, which was less popular than Boy, but still holds some gems like Stranger In A Strange Land, and October.
Enter their third album onto the scene in 1983, and arguably one of their most well known and acclaimed albums, War; which at the time knocked Michael Jackson’s Thriller off the UK’s top charts.
War is also a further example of their post punk roots. Songs dealing with the album’s namesake, particularly the album’s opening track, Sunday Bloody Sunday. The track sheds light on The Troubles in Northern Ireland; focusing specifically on the incident in Derry in 1972 when British troops shot, and killed, unarmed civil rights protestors.
Enter a change from producer Lillywhite, to Brian Eno (and Daniel Lanois) with the band’s fourth studio album, The Unforgettable Fire, of which is a reference to an art exhibit about the atomic bombing of Heroshima.
Eno and Lanois’ involvement with the band, in my opinion, produced some of their best work; spanning from The Unforgettable Fire to Achtung, Baby!
I’ve run out of room to share songs, but if anybody is interested in the rest of their albums or more songs, I can do another post.
What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
It's a beautiful day
Playing For Change video for U2’s “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”.
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Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Songwriters: Larry Mullen Jr., Adam Clayton, David Howell Evans and Bono
I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire
I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
But yes I'm still running
You broke the bonds
And you loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Oh my shame
You know I believe it
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
Parallel Fields of Color Align in Daniel Mullen’s Precise Mathematical Paintings
Comprised of meticulous angles and lines on linen, the acrylic paintings are studies of precision, geometry, and perception, allowing each element to collide in a mathematically aligned composition. Mullen’s process involves measuring and taping the individual planes before laying the slight, translucent marks.
The great producer-musician combos usually start more tentatively. No, scratch that, this is not a set rule, The Unforgettable Fire by U2 proves the assertion I claimed wrong. While U2 were on their way up, them calling Brian Eno ended up being one of the best decisions they made in their career. He transformed their bombast into something that retain this quality, though he somehow managed to find a possibility for the latter to be subtle. I know, I know, I basically described the paradox of U2, because they became the world's biggest rock band, though they would rather settle to be the best. However, this dichotomy served them well and the tune on the link seems to be a great example for such a definition of them.
Very interesting the connections that Ketu and Jupiter has with Frankenstein's monsters.
In the upcoming film "Bride" Jessie Buckley will play the Bride of Frankenstein and Christian Bale will play Frankenstein's monster.
Both are Ketuvian. She's Mula Sun, and he is Ashwini Moon. The film is made by Maggie Gyllenhaal who is a Vishakha Sun.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in (National Theatre Live 2011) "Frankenstein" interchangeably play the Creature (Frankenstein's monster) and Victor Frankenstein. Benedict Cumberbatch is an Ashwini Moon and Jonny Lee Miller is a Vishakha Sun.
The play was literally directed by Ashwini Moon Danny Boyle.
In the film "Lisa Frankenstein", Magha Ascendant Cole Sprouse plays a corpse from the Victorian-era who was resurrected to life (named Creature, commonly being Frankenstein's monster), and his love interest is played by Shatabhisha Moon Kathryn Newton as Lisa Frankenstein. The film is directed by Punarvasu Moon Zelda Williams.
Cole Sprouse's character reminds me of Emily the Corpse Bride from the film "Corpse Bride", voiced by Magha Moon Helena Bonham Carter and the movie being made by Magha Sun Tim Burton.
What I found so interesting was how the internet is intuitively sensitive to Ketu energies as they have connected Laura Harrier to this character in online fan-casting. Laura Harrier is literally an Ashwini Moon.
In the film "Van Helsing" Frankenstein's monster is now played by a Jupiterian instead of a Ketuvian. Purva Bhadrapada Sun Shuler Hensley.
Purva Bhadrapada Moon Daniel Radcliffe, though he plays Igor, Frankenstein's sickly hunchback assistant, in the film "Victor Frankenstein". And in this film it is Ashwini Sun James McAvoy who played Victor Frankenstein.
And Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie" animation movie, it is Mula Moon Charlie Tahan who voices young Victor Frankenstein who resurrects his dog.
Purva Bhadrapada Moon Jacob Elordi will be playing Frankenstein in Guillermo Del Toro's retelling of the story, ultimately replacing Purva Bhadrapada Ascendant Andrew Garfield who was up for the role. AND Purva Bhadrapada Sun Oscar Isaac will be playing Victor Frankenstein.
Link to article
A couple of years ago, I remember Scarlett Johansson was in talks for a "Bride of Frankenstein" movie, and this was never heard of again. I doubt the project has been finalized or proceeded, considering the fact that it's been four years now. But still noteworthy as she is Vishakha Moon so perfectly fits this post.
Vishakha Sun Emma Stone stars in the film "Poor Things", based on a book with the same name which is a clever feminist retelling of Mary Shelley's known work.
A film quite aligned with "Poor Things" is actually "Frankenhooker", being that the 'Creature' is a victimized female, starring Punarvasu Sun Patty Mullen who plays a girlfriend accidentally killed by her scientist boyfriend and is resurrected by him with the use of her head and separate body parts of deceased prostitutes.
This film was literally directed by Magha Sun and Purva Bhadrapada Moon Frank Henenlotter.
Mary Shelley, the creator of the tale of Frankenstein, was a Mula Moon and Ardra Ascendant, a gothic novelist whose work is considered one of the earliest work of science fiction 🖤
Literally went into more examples about Ketu's connections to transcendence, life, death, resurrection etc. in part 2 of my Ketu exploration. And also my vampire post.