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markleesthighs · 3 years

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i need more mark angst 🧎🏾‍♀️

-I didn’t realize so many of you liked my last mark angst so I was like damn y’all ok? So, here’s an original concept by me that I’ve been thinking about for a while, fwb w markie 😥

You’ve been in a friends with benefits relationship with Mark for about a year now. After hooking up at Johnny’s party, some feelings went unresolved, so you mutually decided it was best to leave as friends with benefits and no feelings attached. But each day that went by with this “relationship” you found yourself falling harder for Mark. It was something about the way he pleased you to the max and gave you the best aftercare. Always running you a bath and cleaning you up before he left.

But last night was different. Something was off about Mark. As he kept saying his “I love you”s each passing time he said it made it less genuine for you. You just had to remind yourself he was saying it because his dick was inside you. After you both finish and he cleaned you up, instead of instantly cuddling you. He just sat on the side of the bed, shirtless looking at his phone for awhile before cuddling you. You knew something was off.

Mark woke up before you, which was normal, but he wasn’t having his lousy attempts at breakfast, he was out of the house. Strange. As you were cooking yourself breakfast you heard the door open you saw Mark walking in with another person. You greeted Mark as he introduced who that was.

“y-y/n...t-this is my uh, girlfriend/boyfriend. This is my roommate y/n.”

“o-oh...”

“So, he never had feelings for you huh?” you thought faking a smile as you shook their hand.

“Mark’s talked so much about you, good things only I promise, can I get you something to drink? Tea? Coffee?”

“A coffee would be great thanks!”

You nodded as you walked into the kitchen starting to grab stuff for their coffee. You realized Mark always made the coffee for you two and it was on the top shelf.

“Hey Mark could you come in here? I don’t know where the coffee is?” (your kitchen is in a closed off separate room from the living room)

Mark then swiftly came in and grabbed the coffee over your shoulder. He noticed your solemn, blank face as you were making their coffee.

“So when were you going to tell me about your girlfriend/boyfriend?”

“I just couldn’t find the right time to bring it up but-“

“I mean, this was going to happen eventually right? No feelings attached right?” You tried to say in the most monotone voice you couldn’t he couldn’t tell you were hurt.

“Y-yeah, it kind of just happened...”

You instantly became flooded with insecurities. Maybe you weren’t meant for Mark? Was this all a game? All those “I love you”s really meant nothing? They were so much prettier, god no wonder Mark would never date you. Who were you thinking Mark actually liking you? No you are a fool to think he ever cared enough to want to date you. Why would he start this no feeling attached relationship if he had feelings? Everyone was right, getting into this “relationship” would ruin you and fuck you over. You were blinded by the love you had for Mark, oblivious to the reality of what Mark thought of you.

The room fell silent as you handed Mark his coffees, including one you made for him just the way he liked it, vanilla creamer and one sugar. You walked out with Mark giving his partner some sugar and the creamer for them to customize their coffee to their liking.

“Hey, Mark I’m going to head to the grocery store, you need anything?”

“Ooh, some cookies and cream ice cream?”

“Sure, I’m going to leave you two alone don’t have too much fun.”

You said putting on your coat and walking out the door. As you closed the door you could feel your heart sink to the bottom of your stomach. Let’s just say the car ride to the grocery store was full of emotional break up songs. You arrived looking around the store wanting to take your mind off of Mark. You saw a couple arguing over what cereal to buy for their apartment, it reminded you of that time Mark yelled at you for buying Froot Loops over Apple Jacks. You spaced out as you accidentally bumped your cart with someone.

“Oh! I’m so sorry! J-Jaehyun?”

“y/n! Funny running into you, how have you been?”

Jaehyun was your childhood best friend growing up, you kept him up to date with your life and he was a brother to you. He knew about your “relationship” with Mark which he constantly teased and irked you about, begging you to confess to Mark.

“To be honest I’ve had a pretty bad day, Jae...” Your eyes started to tear up.

“Mark got a girlfriend/boyfriend...”

Jaehyun immediately held you as you sobbed with negative thoughts.

“Maybe I’m not enough for him, I’m not what he wants in a girlfriend, I was just a good fuck for him, I fucking hate love, Jae.”

Jaehyun consoled you as you both eventually did self checkout at the grocery store. Jaehyun walked you to your car and actually wanted to come help you with your groceries, since a friend dropped him off here and he did not have a ride home. On the drive back Jaehyun drove (for your emotional safety), as he pulled into the driveway, he saw you sigh as you got out of the car, dreading seeing Mark.

You pulled yourself together as you approached the doorstep, putting on a fake smile and wiping your tears. Jaehyun saddened at the fact you had to act like this around Mark, it wasn’t fair.

“Hey gu-“

You caught them making out on the couch as Jaehyun could see your face drop.

“Never mind us, continue.” Jaehyun said quickly dragging you to the kitchen.

As you walked to the kitchen you felt yourself about to break down into Jaehyun. You sobbed into Jaehyun.

“I-I can’t do this anymore...it hurts too much.”

You walked out of the kitchen and stormed out slamming the door behind you.

“Woah, Jaehyun what’s wrong with y/n?”

“Are you seriously that dense Mark? They’ve been fucking in LOVE with you, ok? Look at what you’ve done, toying with their heart and then crushing it. I hope you’re happy.”

Jaehyun scolded Mark as he ran after you.

“W-what have I done...”

part 2

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sunflowerhae · 4 years

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;moon taeil

;language

;happy birthday moon taeil. i have never felt sexually close to him, because we have such a huge age difference (almost 9 years) but i love him all the same, and i wanted to convey that. also sorry, i wrote this in like 20 mins.

i could feel the air on my skin.

i could hear the crashing of the deep waves below my body from where i laid.

they sounded distant, and unfamiliar, yet so known to my untrained ear. like a song i had heard, long ago, but forgotten the lyrics to.

if i laid completely still - not a twitch of my legs, not a flutter of my eyelids - i could imagine myself crashing onto the ocean flow, hearing, blown out and breathing, forever halted as i drifted into death; my body slowly dissolving into flakes of sand and meals for my predators.

if i concentrated just enough; i could feel myself leave my body.

yet, the feeling of someone kicking my thigh softly and mumbling my name lured me back into my plane of existence, and for a moment, i had to remind myself who i was and what i was doing.

grass, laying down, eyes closed, y/n - right.

“y/n, did you hear me?” Taeil’s voice finally peered through my dizziness, as i slowly peaked my eyes open, only to look up at the taller man currently blocking the sun from burning my eyes.

Taeil was my angel.

not my literal angel, of course. He was as human as me, as human as anyone could be, anyway. While i understood that calling someone my angel would imply an unhealthy relationship - one where i depended on him - it isn’t too far fetched from the truth, unfortunately. for Taeil was basically my angel. We had met many many years ago, when i still regularly smiled and he was still at least in the 5’4 feet range. we were both wide eyed freshmen in college, and were both the unfortunate conclusion of what happens when you decide to look down at a map when walking instead of looking out for slightly taller strangers. the memory still brings an ill-fitted smile onto your face.

“oh! sorry!” he was awkward, that you could tell, and had hair that you just knew he got off of a justin bieber album, but you didn’t want to judge him based off looks.

instead, you decided to judge him based off of the incoming bruising that would most definitely show up on your ass by nightfall.

“it’s okay!” you tried a smile, but felt like it came off as a grimace. so instead, you just moved to pick up the bag and map that you had previously held in your hands. when looking down, you saw a hand come into you view, momentarily blocking you from picking up your map. upon looking up at the korean justin bieber, you saw he was smiling wide at you, while introducing himself as Moon Taeil, and

“-from Dongdaemun-gu!”

after that moment, you saw Taeil pretty much everywhere you went. it wasn’t long until he walked up to you and asked if you liked coffee. and when you said you were more of a tea person yourself, he gladly accommodated to your needs, going on about a new tea shop on campus he was just dying to try out.

yet, it wasn’t a surprise by anyone that you and Taeil had never kissed, let alone had sex.

it wasn’t a surprise, because no matter how anyone tried to look at it, you and Taeil just did not seem like a couple. did he always find a way to touch you, whether that be a locked in side hug, a secret pinky holding under the table, or a singular hand playing with the crusted tips of your hair between his fingers? yes. did you two continuously pout at each other whenever you wanted something from the other, almost to the point where one could describe it as aegyo? occasionally. and did Taeil sometimes kiss you on the cheek, or the forehead, as a way of parting? it could be said.

but, all of that could be and simply was the cause of two people who could be soulmates in another life - and probably were - and were in love with each other - just, platonically.

Taeil was your angel.

to you, he held the stars in his hand and pushed the planets around the sun. hell, he was your sun. he always knew how to make you happier. how to take your fake smile and push it until it felt as real as he did when he called you a dork endearingly. when you sat across from him at a restaurant you couldn’t remember the name of, and you both laughed about something your shared friend johnny had said not a couple days prior, he felt as real as the same feeling of hearing waves crashing from the cliff you and your two year best friend were currently occupying.

“sorry?” you mumbled, sitting up.

“i said, why did you call me to meet you here? what is this place?” he scrunched his nose in detest after taking a small glance towards the cliff’s edge, before looking back down at you, and moving to sit next to you.

“haha, what do you mean? Happy Birthday!” you entrapped him in bear hug the minute he was comfortably sitting next to you, and he laughed while gripping his hands onto your forearm currently wrapped around his chest.

“thanks, y/n/n. but seriously, we have never been here before. what is this place?”

“i’m not really sure. i was driving by, on my way to this coffee place down the road i wanted to try, when i saw this spot and had to stop. i was going to stay for just a second, but it was so pretty i had to just..inhale it all. i wanted to share it with you, pretty nice way to start your 26th birthday, huh?” you smirked.

“i guess..” he trailed off and looked to the right, away from you. something was wrong with him, you quickly learned.

“hey, what’s up? you seem down on the one day of year you’re legally not allowed to be.” taeil didn’t say anything for a minute or so, any when he looked back at you, the sun perfectly revealed the gloss and red of his eyes.

“i’m 26 now, y/n. 26. and i feel like i’ve done..nothing with my life. people my age are getting married, having kids! shit, i’ve barely paid off my car. i just, where did the fucking time go?” he looked out at the ocean in front of your figures, and you softly placed your hand over his left shoulder, and said nothing. In your 25 years of life, you had learned that sometimes, people didn’t need words to feel the emotions you shared, and in the 8 years that you and taeil had been friends, you didn’t need verbal confirmation that he understood how you felt about the situation.

“you don’t need to always have it figured out.”

you replaced your hand on his shoulder with your head, and you two stayed there for another hour or so, eventually talking about the plans for the day, before getting up and agreeing to go to that coffee shop you wanted to try.

by the end of the night, you finally found taeil sitting on the balcony of Taeyongs apartment, where a surprise party for taeil was under way. you walked up and shifted into the seat adjacent your best friend.

“hey loser, i was wondering where you were! you missed it, drunk doyoung did a body shot off of an even drunker johnny. i swear that old man is going to blow his back out one day.” you laughed, while taking a swig of your gross beer.

“hey, i’m older than him. what does that make me?”

“a veteran.” you both laughed, and continued staring down at Seoul’s still busy streets.

“i hope it was a happy birthday, taeil.” you said, softly, after some time. taeil turned back to you, and gave you a small, all-knowing, smile.

“it was, wasn’t it?”

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marunalu · 4 years

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Disney Movies List

Ok first of all I want to make clear that english is not my first language. I therefore apologize in advance for any grammar or spelling mistakes. Please don't be too strict with me =D

I recently bought Disney+ and I plan now to watch and review every movie, Disney has ever produced or participated in it. And I tell you, this will be a hell of a trip, because my list now contains no fewer than 701 movies. That means if I watch at least one movie every day, it will take me about 2 years to see all of them. And since I will most likely not watch a movie every day, I will definitely need at least twice as long....

For the films on my list, which I marked with a cross at the end, it means that I have seen them already. However, since I last saw most of these movies in my childhood or teenage years (so at least 15 years ago), it will be interesting for me to rewatch them after such a long time. I have probably already forgotten most of the plots.

I also plan to watch them in chronological order and rank them. The movies that I don't find on Disney+ I will watch somewhere else.

Here is the list: (The films follow the chronological order in which they were published. However, it is quite possible that I accidentally swapped a few. But I think most of it is accurate).

1930:

Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons (X)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (X)

1940:

Pinocchio (X)

Fantasia (X)

The Reluctant Dragon ( )

Dumbo (X)

Bambi (X)

Saludos Amigos ( )

Victory Through Air Power ( )

The Three Caballores ( )

Make Mine Music ( )

Song of the South ( )

Fun and Fancy Free (X)

Melody Time ( )

Seal Island ( )

So Dear to my Heart ( )

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (X)

1950:

Cinderella (X)

Treasure Island ( )

In Beaver Valley ( )

Alice in Wonderland (X)

Nature's Half Acre ( )

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men ( )

The Olympic Elk ( )

Water Birds ( )

Peter Pan (X)

The Sword and the Rose ( )

The Living Desert (X)

Bear Country ( )

The Alaskan Eskimo ( )

Prowlers of the Everglades ( )

Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue ( )

The Vanishing Prairie ( )

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( )

Siam ( )

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier ( )

Lady and the Tramp (X)

The African Lion ( )

The Littlest Outlaw ( )

Men Against The Arctic ( )

The Great Locomotive Chase ( )

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates ( )

Secrets of Life ( )

Westward Ho the Wagons! ( )

Johnny Tremain ( )

Perri ( )

Old Yeller ( )

Navajo Adventure ( )

The Light in the Forest ( )

Tonka ( )

Grand Canyon ( )

Sleeping Beauty (X)

The Shaggy Dog ( )

Darby O'Gill and the Little People ( )

Zorro the Avenger ( )

Third Man on the Mountain ( )

Mysteries of the Deep ( )

1960:

Toby Tyler: Or, ten Weeks with a Circus ( )

Kidnapped ( )

Pollyanna ( )

The Sign of Zorro ( )

Jungle Cat ( )

Ten Who Dared ( )

Swiss Family Robinson ( )

Island of the Sea ( )

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (X)

The Absent-Minded Professsor ( )

Parent Trap ( )

Nikki, Wild Dog of the North ( )

Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog ( )

Babes in Toyland ( )

Wonders of the Water Worlds ( )

Moon Pilot ( )

Bon Voyage! ( )

Big Red ( )

Almost Angels ( )

The Legend of Lobo ( )

In Search of the Castaways ( )

The Prince and the Pauper ( )

Son of Flubber ( )

Miracle of the White Stallions ( )

Savage Sam ( )

Summer Magic ( )

The Incredible Journey ( )

The Sword in the Stone (X)

A Tiger Walks ( )

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones ( )

The Three Lives of Thomasina ( )

The Moon-Spinners ( )

Mary Poppins ( )

Emil and the Detectives ( )

Those Calloways ( )

The Monkey's Uncle ( )

That Darn Cat! ( )

The Ugly Dachshund ( )

Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. ( )

The Fighting Prince of Donegal ( )

Follow Me, Boys! ( )

Monkeys, Go Home! ( )

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin ( )

The Gnome-Mobile ( )

The Jungle Book (X)

Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar ( )

The Happiest Millionaire ( )

Blackbeard's Ghost ( )

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band ( )

Never a Dull Moment ( )

The Horse in the Grey Flannel Suit ( )

Guns in the Heather ( )

The Love Bug ( )

Smith! ( )

Rascal ( )

The Computer Whore Tennis Shoes ( )

My Dog, the Thief ( )

Ride a Northbound Horse ( )

1970:

King of the Grizzlies ( )

The Boatniks ( )

The Wild Country ( )

Smoke ( )

The Aristocats (X)

The Barefoot Executive ( )

Scandalous John ( )

The Million-Dollar-Duck ( )

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (X)

The Biscuit Eater ( )

Now You See Him, Now You Don't ( )

Napoleon and Samantha ( )

Run, Cougar, run ( )

Snowball Express ( )

Chandar, the Black Leopard of Ceylon ( )

The World's Greatest Athlete ( )

Charley and the Angel ( )

One Little Indian ( )

Robin Hood (X)

Mustang! ( )

Superdad ( )

Herbie Rides Again ( )

The Bears and I ( )

The Castaway Cowboy ( )

The Island at the Top of the World ( )

The Strongest Man in the World ( )

Escape to Witch Mountain ( )

The Apple Dumpling Gang ( )

One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing ( )

The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures ( )

Ride a Wild Pony ( )

The Boy Who Talked to Badgers ( )

No Deposit, No Return ( )

Treasure of Matecumbe ( )

Gus ( )

The Shaggy D.A. ( )

Freaky Friyday ( )

The Littlest Horse Thieves ( )

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (X)

A Tale of Two Critters ( )

The Rescuers (X)

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo ( )

Pete's Dragon ( )

Candleshoe ( )

Return form Witch Mountain ( )

The Cat from Outer Space ( )

Hot Lead and Cold Feet ( )

Child of Glass ( )

The North Avenue Irregulars ( )

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again ( )

Unidentified Flying Oddball ( )

The Black Hole ( )

The Muppet Movie ( )

The London Connection ( )

1980:

Midnight Madness ( )

The Watcher in the Woods ( )

Herbie Goes Bananas ( )

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark ( )

Popeye ( )

The Devil and Max Devlin ( )

Amy ( )

Dragonslayer ( )

The Fox and the Hound (X)

Condorman ( )

The Great Muppet Caper ( )

Night Crossing ( )

Tron ( )

Tex ( )

Trenchcoat ( )

Something Wicked This Way Comes ( )

Tiger Town ( )

Never Cry Wolf ( )

Love Leads the Way (X)

Where the Toys Come From ( )

Return to Oz ( )

The Black Cauldron (X)

The Journey of Natty Gann ( )

One Magic Christmas ( )

Teen Academy ( )

The Great Mouse Detective (X)

Flight of the Navigator ( )

Disneys Fluppy Dogs ( )

The Parent Trap ( )

The Christmas Star ( )

Benji the Hunted ( )

Return of the Shaggy Dog ( )

Mr. Boogedy ( )

Return to Snowy River ( )

Oliver & Company (X)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( )

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (X)

Cheetah ( )

The Little Mermaid (X)

Bride of Boogedy ( )

1990:

DuckTales: The Movie – Treasure of the Lost Lamp ( )

The Rescuers Down Under (X)

White Fang (X)

Shipwrecked ( )

Wild Hearts Can't be Broken ( )

The Rocketeer ( )

Beauty and the Beast (X)

Newsies ( )

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid ( )

The Mighty Ducks ( )

Aladdin (X)

The Muppet Christmas Carol ( )

Day-O ( )

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (X)

A Far Off Place ( )

The Adventures of Huck Finn ( )

Hocus Pocus ( )

Cool Runnings ( )

The Nightmare Before Christmas ( )

The Three Musketeers ( )

Iron Will ( )

Blank Check ( )

D2: The Mighty Ducks ( )

White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf ( )

The Lion King (X)

Angels in the Outfield ( )

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale ( )

The Santa Clause (X)

The Jungle Book (X)

The Return of Jafar (X)

Heavyweights ( )

Man of the House ( )

Tall Tale ( )

A Goofy Movie ( )

Pocahontas (X)

Operation Dumbo Drop ( )

A Kid in King Arthur's Court ( )

The Big Green ( )

Frank and Ollie ( )

Toy Story (X)

Tom and Huck ( )

Gargoyles – The Movie ( )

Muppet Treasure Island ( )

Homeward Bound: Lost in San Francisco (X)

James and the Giant Peach ( )

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (X)

First Kid ( )

D3 The Mighty Ducks ( )

101 Dalmatians (X)

Aladdin and the King of Thieves (X)

Wish Upon a Star ( )

Susie Q ( )

The Darn Cat ( )

Jungle 2 Jungle (X)

George of the Jungle (X)

Air Bud (X)

RocketMan ( )

Flubber (X)

Mr. Magoo ( )

Tower of Terror ( )

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas ( )

Under Wraps ( )

Northern Lights ( )

Angels in the Endzone ( )

Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Faceoff ( )

Pooh's Great Adventure: The Search for Christoper Robin ( )

Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves ( )

The Love Bug ( )

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella ( )

Oliver Twist ( )

Meet the Deedles ( )

Mulan (X)

The Parent Trap (X)

Air Bud: Golden Receiver ( )

I'll Be Home for Christmas ( )

A Bug's Life (X)

Mighty Joe Young ( )

You Lucky Dog ( )

Halloweentown ( )

Brink! ( )

Whoopi – A Knight in Camelot (X)

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit ( )

Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World ( )

The Lion King 2: Simbas Pride (X)

Belle's Magical World ( )

Armageddon ( )

Don't Look Under the Bed (X)

Genius ( )

The Thirteenth Year ( )

Johnny Tsunami ( )

Can of Worms ( )

Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century ( )

Horse Sense ( )

Smart House ( )

My Favorite Martian ( )

Doug – The 1. Movie ( )

Endurance ( )

Tarzan (X)

Inspector Gadget ( )

The Straight Story ( )

Toy Story 2 (X)

H.E. – Double Hockey Sticks ( )

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas ( )

Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving ( )

Annie ( )

2000:

Fantasia 2000 ( )

The Ultimative Christmas Present ( )

Phantom of the Megaplex ( )

Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire ( )

The Other Me ( )

Quints ( )

Ready to Run ( )

Stepsister from Planet Weird ( )

Miracle in Lane 2 ( )

Rip Girls ( )

Alley Cats Strike ( )

The Color of Friendship ( )

Up, Up and Away ( )

Angels in the Infield ( )

Air Bud 3 ( )

Mail to the Chief ( )

Geppetto ( )

The Tigger Movie ( )

Dinosaur (X)

Disney's The Kid ( )

Remember the Titans ( )

102 Dalmatians (X)

The Emperor's New Groove (X)

An Extremly Goofy Movie ( )

Whispers: An Elephant Tale ( )

The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea (X)

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command ( )

Life-Size ( )

The Miracle Worker ( )

Bounce ( )

Jett Jackson: The Movie ( )

The Other Side of Heaven ( )

`Twas the Night ( )

Halloweentown 2: Kalabar's Revenge ( )

The Poof Point ( )

Jumping Ship ( )

Jennie ( )

Hounded ( )

Luck of the Irish ( )

Zenon: The Zequel ( )

Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse ( )

Motocrossed ( )

Recess: School's Out ( )

Lady and the Tramp 2 – Scamp's Adventure (X)

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (X)

The Princess Diaries ( )

Max Keebles Big Move ( )

Monsters, Inc (X)

Princess of Thieves ( )

Air Bud 4 ( )

The Scream Team ( )

A Ring of Endless Light ( )

Gotta Kick It Up! ( )

Get a Clue ( )

Tru>> confessions ( )

Cadet Kelly ( )

Double Teamed ( )

Snow Dogs (X)

Return to Neverland (X)

The Rookie ( )

Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True (X)

Lilo & Stitch (X)

The Country Bears ( )

Tuck Everlasting ( )

The Santa Clause 2 ( )

Treasure Planet (X)

Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year ( )

The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2 ( )

Tarzan & Jane ( )

Mickey's House of Villains ( )

Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time ( )

Air Bud 5 ( )

Full Court Miracle ( )

The Cheetah Girls ( )

Eddies Million Dollar Cook-Off ( )

The Even Stevens Movie ( )

Right on Track ( )

You Wish! ( )

101 Dalmatians 2: Patch's London Adventure ( )

The Jungle Book 2 (X)

Inspector Gadget 2 ( )

Piglet's Big Movie ( )

Ghosts of the Abyss ( )

Holes ( )

Atlantis: Milo's Return (X)

The Lizzie McGuire Movie ( )

Finding Nemo (X)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (X)

Freaky Friday ( )

Brother Bear (X)

George of the Jungle 2 ( )

The Haunted Mansion (X)

The Young Black Stallion ( )

Stitch! The Movie ( )

Recess ( )

Recess: All Growed Down ( )

Going to the Mat ( )

Pixel Perfect ( )

Zenon Z3 ( )

Halloweentown High ( )

Tiger Cruise ( )

Stuck in the Suburbs ( )

Teacher's Pet ( )

Miracle ( )

March of the Penguins ( )

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen ( )

Ghost in the Shell 2 – Innocence ( )

Home on the Range (X)

Sacred Planet ( )

Springtime with Roo ( )

Around the World in 80 Days (X)

America's Heart and Soul ( )

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement ( )

Mulan 2 (X)

The Incredibles (X)

Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (X)

The Lion King 1½ (X)

National Treasure ( )

Mickey, Donald and Goofy: The Three Musketeers (X)

Aliens of the Deep ( )

The Three Musketeers ( )

Kronk's New Groove ( )

Once Upon a Mattress ( )

Kim Possible Movie – So the Drama ( )

Go Figure ( )

Life is Ruff ( )

The Proud Family Movie ( )

Twitches ( )

Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (X)

Pooh's Heffalump Movie ( )

The Pacifier ( )

Ice Princess ( )

Herbie: Fully Loaded ( )

Sky High ( )

Valiant ( )

The Greatest Game Ever Played ( )

Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie ( )

Now You See It ( )

Buffalo Dreams ( )

Chicken Little ( )

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Descendants 3 ( )

Captain Marvel ( )

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ( )

One Day at Disney ( )

Togo ( )

2020:

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made ( )

Onward ( )

Stargirl ( )

Dolphin Reef ( )

Elephant ( )

Artemis Fowl ( )

Hamilton ( )

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The One and Only Ivan ( )

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Magic Camp ( )

Howard ( )

Urgh! Wish me luck, that I survive this....

#disney #disney movies #reviewing disney movie #ranking disney movies #disney+#list #hell of a trip #long post #english is not my first language

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paceypeternathanslawyer · 4 years

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Top 10 Favorite TV Shows (In A Row):

The Dick Van Dyke Show (The Dick Van Dyke Show has earned the number 1 spot in my heart through years of love and loyalty. Growing up you learn about shows through your family, it’s only natural. Especially with me because we didn’t have cable much of the time. So the only way I could really learn about TV shows was through them. TDVDS was the first show that I considered to be “my show,” it was sorta my identity for a lot of years. Yes, I learned about it through my family, but the first time I remember watching it was on my own. My sister Ingrid had it on VHS tape, and I just remember rummaging through her VHS’ and deciding to watch it one day. One thing’s for sure…. my love for that show outpaced everyone in my family. It was also one of the first shows that I came to consider myself an expert on. It’s a show that is everything to me, and if you get me started I could talk about it for about 24 hours straight. If you want a big list of why TDVDS is such an iconic show. I have a whole post about that)

Get Smart (Another show that has earned it’s spot and that will never change despite whatever hyperfixation I have at any given time. Don’t even talk to me about the 2008 movie adaptation of Get Smart. It’s not even worthy to lick the TV shows boots!!!! Get Smart is a show that I have memories of since I was like 8 years old. It’s such a happy show for me, though I would say that about all of my top 10 favorite shows. This show had such a genius concept. It came at a time when spy shows and movies were all the rage. It took that genre and just flipped it on it’s head. It was kinda like a parody of James Bond and stuff like that. Get Smart has shaped popular culture so much…. and so much more than people realize. So many popular words or terms that are in out lingo and dictionaries were created in Get Smart)

I Love Lucy (I Love Lucy is a show that has been a part of my life…. forever. I literally don’t think there was a time when I Love Lucy wasn’t in my life. It was probably playing in the hospital room while I was being birthed. My dad was obsessed with this show. He was so obsessed that when he was in California with my mom, on vacation. They went to Beverly Hills and my dad wanted to knock on Lucille Ball’s door and say “hi” (this was in the 80s), but my mom was too mortified at the thought. So he snuck into her backyard and took a picture of her garbage can. Yep… that’s my dad for you. I think that picture is still in a picture book of his!! He was a huge collector, he collected a shit ton of stuff before giving most of it away in the early 2000s, cause our family was moving to a much smaller house. One of my first memories of any show or movie was I Love Lucy. It was in 2003, when I was 6 nearly 7. We had recently moved to a condo, and the house was still in disarray and we as a family sat on the floor watching I Love Lucy. I remember the episode…. it was called “First Stop” and it was about the Ricardo’s and the Mertz’s trip to California and they stop at a shady diner off of a highway. The diner owner tricks them into staying in a cabin that he rents out (long story, you’ll have to watch the ep to see how that happens :) ) Either way, they are in this cabin that is feet away from a train track and every time a train goes past, Ricky and Lucy’s bed moves all the way to the other side of the room. It was so funny and I peed my pants… no joke…. i’m embarrased to admit it but it’s true. But hey I was 6 years old, I give myself a pass for that ;) )

I Dream Of Jeannie (I Dream Of Jeannie is a show that I learned about relatively late in life. I was 12 when my sisters and myself watched the first episode. It really became a show that was mine and my sister Ingrid’s show. We used to watch every episode together from start to finish and we were both huge fans of Tony and Jeannie’s relationship. Tony and Jeannie were one of my first ships)

Stranger Things (STRANGER THINGS!!!!! This show took me completely by surprise and it has now earned the 5th spot, that will never change! I have never been hyperfixated on a show for this long. It has been my hyperfixation for over 3 years now. Before I started watching Stranger Things, I thought I knew all I needed to know about it. I knew it was a sci-fi/horror show that revolved around kids. I had heard the cultural noise surrounding it and I respected that, but as someone who doesn’t consider herself a “nerd”, I had no real interest in it. It was one of those shows that I acceded I would eventually watch, maybe in 20 years, but it was so low on my priority list. In fact, my opinion of sci-fi or quote un quote nerd shows/movies really hasn’t changed despite my love of ST. I still have no interest in Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter, or any other show like that. I have no interest in action for action’s sake. I can’t watch a light saber dual and get excited about that. In order to care about an action scene I need to first care about the characters. It wasn’t until Jan 2017, that I decided to give in and watch and i’ve never looked back. It’s one of the best decision i’ve ever made. I’m telling you, if there is anyone out there who hasn’t watched ST yet and doesn’t think they would like the show. Please give it a try…. I thought the same thing as you before I watched it. It’s so much more than just sci fi and horror. It’s also a drama with big comedic elements, it’s a relationship show. It’s horror but it’s not overly scary (and this is coming from a scaredy cat), it’s sci fi but it doesn’t lean on that too much, it’s not overly gloomy and the cinematography is so beautiful, it’s fun and exciting, it’s got a really interesting conspiracy storyline running through it. Believe me, it’s worth a try!!)

Gilmore Girls (Gilmore Girls is a show that became mine and my sister Greta’s show. She’s on Tumblr (though not as active) so if you see this Greta… thankyou for my undying love with this show :) It’s all your fault ;). GG came at a time in my life where I was really kind of averse to watching any new shows. I had my favorite shows and that was fine with me. But Greta wanted to watch this show with me, and we hadn’t really bonded too much because I was in school and she was working and there was an 8 year age difference between us. So I really credit GG with bringing us closer. We really bonded with our love of this show. Though I think she only watched it with me cause she thought that Jared Padalecki being in it would help me get into Supernatural…. i’m onto you Greta, i’m onto your tricks ;) The year was 2011, the month was October and I was 15 years old (the same age as Rory when the show started) and my life has never been the same (I think i’m being overly dramatic at this point) :)

New Girl (New Girl is a show that my sister Millie got me into in 2016. She just kept showing me clips of it until I gave in and watched it. For anyone looking for a quality comedy to watch, ya’ll should watch this. It’s damn hilarious!!!)

Community (I watched Community for the first time around 2012. I watched episodes here or there when my siblings would have it on. But I didn’t start watching it from beginning to end until about 2015. I regret not watching it all sooner because Community is a genius show, and is grossly underrated. I think it’s the first show that had a big grass roots fan base that saved it from being cancelled year after year. It seemed like every year Community was in danger of being cancelled by NBC, but the fans would go ballistic and kick up a storm during every hiatus. It was really one of the first, if not the first time that fans would picket and riot online and their attempts to bring the show back did not go unnoticed by NBC. The show would go on to have 5 seasons on NBC, and then it had a 6th season on Yahoo. Now every time a show is cancelled people kick up a storm online and make their attempts go viral, but Community was really the first of that. Community fans are freakin tenacious)

Psych (There are 7 people in my family including my parents and everyone of us is fans of Psych. Psych came out in 2006 and was on until 2014. It’s a show that a family where the oldest was born in 1953 and the youngest was born in 1996, can all agree and love the show. My brother Johnny was the first, I remember he used to walk around and sing the theme song thus annoying me constantly. Then my brother made my sister Greta a fan, and then my sister Ingrid became a fan, around that time my sister Millie became a fan. Next Greta watched Psych with my mom and my mom became obsessed to the point where it’s one of her favorite shows ever and Shawn and Gus are two of her favorite TV characters ever. She has watched it all the way through about 7 times. Then my mom and myself watched it together from start to finish, and I became a huge fan. I can safely say that is the only time my mom has ever gotten me into a show. I love her so much, but she is not a big TV viewer, she’s more into books and such. Which makes her love for Psych even more unique and surprising. Then Greta and my mom watched it together again about 2 years ago and my dad joined in and found himself becoming a fan of it. That’s also not including my 2 brother in laws and my sister in law who are all huge fans of it. And my sister in law initially hated it…. until she found herself becoming a huge fan as well. This all speaks to Psych’s amazing power. It’s so funny and an all around amazingly done show.)

Remington Steele (Remington Steele is a show that my mom and dad watched together with a group of friends when it was first airing in the 80s, so I learned about it through them. It’s such a fun show!!!!!!! It has a really fun concept as well. If there is any Psych fans who are reading this post, you should all watch this show. A writer of Remington Steele was also a writer on Psych and RS is referenced on Psych multiple times. Totally worth everyone’s time, it’s my favorite 80s show)

#favorite tv shows #the dick van dyke show #tdvds #get smart #I dream of jeannie #i love lucy #stranger things #gilmore girls #new girl #community #psych #remington steele #the golden age of hollywood #the golden age of tv #classic tv shows #modern tv shows

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starfxckersinc · 4 years

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@yung-tamale tagged me for this and I’m actually gonna respond lolll

name: Liv/Curt

nicknames: i absolutely don’t have any other than ‘hey this picture of pj harvey made me think of you’ which is sexy

zodiac: Cancer

height: 5’6”

languages: sadly only English. i May need to learn Italian eventually for undisclosed reasons

nationality: American. i wish it were anything else

favorite season: S U M M E R

favorite flower: hyacinths, roses, irises, morning glories, day lillies, snowdrops, clover flower, daffodils, cherry blossoms, dogwood flowers, and anything I ever saw in my grandmother’s garden

favorite scent: bleach, dad’s cologne, mom’s shampoo, rain, uh. girls

favorite fictional character: OK MM

Curt Wild is part of the reason why I’m currently going by Curt and it’s bc he’s handsome and stupid and people keep hurting him like me

Brian Slade is the actual definition of what I would look like ideally and we’re both bottoms who believe we’re otherworldly and important with 0 evidence other than ego

Mark Renton is also the definition of what I would look like ideally and I feel such a strong connection to his miserable cunt life that idk how to watch Trainspotting 1 or 2 without crying

Orlando in the 1992 film is me but masc and they get a crush on this dark haired foreign girl that throws them into a YEARS LONG poetic depression & then have sex w a dick 1 time & have a daughter like same :/

Tommy Gnosis/Hedwig Robinson bc I’m the definition of their chaotic blend of stupid, horny, and philosophical

Euchrid Eucrow from And The Ass Saw The Angel is honestly one of the most relatable characters in existence and his internal monologue and how he feels abt himself and views the world is exactly how I’ve felt more and more as I’ve gotten older

Dorian Gray is who I would be if I could make my life the way I wanted it. I ruined your life and I’m a sexy twink. oops 💋

Harley Quinn,, I don’t feel like I have to explain Harley Quinn. me

coffee, hot tea, or hot chocolate?: coffee or hot chocolate tea is for the English

average sleep: 7 hours usuallyfjdjdndn

dogs or cats: cats 🐈

number of blankets: quilt, top cover being fleece blanket, covering ur entire body lest you fall prey to some demon ur anxiety pulled out of Hereditary

dream trip: I wanna go to London literally so bad, and Seattle and San Francisco And Berlin and. yknow. all the gay haunts.

blog established: dec. 2017, but I’ve been here since dec. 2015

random fact: when I was a kid I got so obsessed with the game Wolf Quest that when I finished it and got separated from my last pup, Snow, who id formed an actual maternal bond with, I became depressed for three months. one of the reasons I didn’t actively try to destroy myself at the end of 2017 was bc they’d announced Wolf Quest 3. i am a fucking furry

Gender: androgynous(any pronouns, most comfortable with she/they)

Current time: 4:05 PM

Favorite musical artists: David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen, Kathleen Hanna, Placebo, Elton John

Stuck in my head: Never Let Me Down Again- Depeche Mode

Last movie I saw: Last Days- Gus Van Sant

Last thing I googled: Ben Folds lyrics I’m so sorry

other blogs: ok @iknewishouldcreateasensation and @everyonesintothisscene are my two velvet goldmine blogs, but I’ve been putting a lot of shit on @untieformeyourhighbluegown like aes/vent stuff, all my original art, and all my music. it’s like a museum of me

do I get asks: The asks I get fall into three categories

1- why are you such a lesbian hater for being mean to x terf

2- why do you like David Bowie

3- you’re sexy

4- something pj Harvey related

5- one of my cool gay friends saying cool gay things to me and ya just generally vibing abt loving each other

6- random accusations and transphobia that I don’t understand

so yeah boys pls send asks!!!

reason for url: i lov Oscar Wilde and I love Velvet Goldmine

followers/following: I have like 500 followers MAYBE it might actually be 300 and I follow like 2,000 blogs

lucky number: 6

currently wearing:

Johnny Cash target t shirt

dream job: jack of all trades artist & touring musician

favorite foods: pastries, sugar, sharp cheese, any bread that isn’t soft, garlic, Mac n cheese, p-

instruments: vocals/guitar, but I want to learn piano again I think??

favorite song(rn): Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On(Jerry Lee Lewis), Levi Johnson’s Blues(Ben Folds and Nick Hornby), Clap Hands(Tom Waits), I Hope That I Dont Fall In Love With You(Tom Waits), Life And Death Of Mr. Badmouth(PJ Harvey), Ballad Of Hollis Brown(Bob Dylan), Don’t(Ed Sheeran)

i tag:

@wannabegothgurl @pawnshopbluez @wherearemyelephants @beatle-capaldi @lionslove @glamrock-lizardman @joestrummershowl @bigembarrassingheart @old-memoria

#aberdeen spoken word

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the-marx-brothers-will-live-on · 4 years

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Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star. A master of quick wit, he is generally considered to be one of America's greatest comedians.

Julius Henry Marx was born on October 2, 1890, in Manhattan, New York. Marx stated that he was born in a room above a butcher's shop on East 78th Street, "Between Lexington & 3rd", as he told Dick Cavett in a 1969 television interview. The Marx children grew up in a turn-of-the-century building on East 93rd Street off Lexington Avenue in a neighborhood now known as Carnegie Hill on the Upper East Side of the borough of Manhattan. His brother Harpo, in his memoir Harpo Speaks, called the building "the first real home they ever knew". It was populated with European immigrants, mostly artisans. Just across the street were the oldest brownstones in the area, owned by people such as the well-connected Loew Brothers and William Orth. The Marx family lived there "for about 14 years," Groucho also told Cavett.

Marx's family was Jewish.[7] His mother was Miene "Minnie" Schoenberg, whose family came from Dornum in northern Germany when she was 16 years old. His father was Simon "Sam" Marx, who changed his name from Marrix, and was called "Frenchie" by his sons throughout his life, because he and his family came from Alsace in France.[8] Minnie's brother was Al Schoenberg, who shortened his name to Al Shean when he went into show business as half of Gallagher and Shean, a noted vaudeville act of the early 20th century. According to Marx, when Shean visited, he would throw the local waifs a few coins so that when he knocked at the door he would be surrounded by adoring fans. Marx and his brothers respected his opinions and asked him on several occasions to write some material for them.

Minnie Marx did not have an entertainment industry career but had intense ambition for her sons to go on the stage like their uncle. While pushing her eldest son Leonard (Chico Marx) in piano lessons, she found that Julius had a pleasant soprano voice and the ability to remain on key. Julius's early career goal was to become a doctor, but the family's need for income forced him out of school at the age of twelve. By that time, young Julius had become a voracious reader, particularly fond of Horatio Alger. Marx would continue to overcome his lack of formal education by becoming well-read.

After a few stabs at entry-level office work and jobs suitable for adolescents, Julius took to the stage as a boy singer with the Gene Leroy Trio, debuting at the Ramona Theatre in Grand Rapids, MI, on July 16, 1905.[9] Marx reputedly claimed that he was "hopelessly average" as a vaudevillian, but this was typical Marx, wisecracking in his true form. By 1909, Minnie Marx had assembled her sons into an undistinguished vaudeville singing group billed as "The Four Nightingales". The brothers Julius, Milton (Gummo Marx) and Arthur (originally Adolph, but Harpo Marx from 1911) and another boy singer, Lou Levy, traveled the U.S. vaudeville circuits to little fanfare. After exhausting their prospects in the East, the family moved to La Grange, Illinois, to play the Midwest.

After a particularly dispiriting performance in Nacogdoches, Texas, Julius, Milton, and Arthur began cracking jokes onstage for their own amusement. Much to their surprise, the audience liked them better as comedians than as singers. They modified the then-popular Gus Edwards comedy skit "School Days" and renamed it "Fun In Hi Skule". The Marx Brothers would perform variations on this routine for the next seven years.

For a time in vaudeville, all the brothers performed using ethnic accents. Leonard, the oldest, developed the Italian accent he used as Chico Marx to convince some roving bullies that he was Italian, not Jewish. Arthur, the next oldest, donned a curly red wig and became "Patsy Brannigan", a stereotypical Irish character. His discomfort when speaking on stage led to his uncle Al Shean's suggestion that he stop speaking altogether and play the role in mime. Julius Marx's character from "Fun In Hi Skule" was an ethnic German, so Julius played him with a German accent. After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915, public anti-German sentiment was widespread, and Marx's German character was booed, so he quickly dropped the accent and developed the fast-talking wise-guy character that became his trademark.

The Marx Brothers became the biggest comedic stars of the Palace Theatre in New York, which billed itself as the "Valhalla of Vaudeville". Brother Chico's deal-making skills resulted in three hit plays on Broadway. No other comedy routine had ever so infected the Broadway circuit. All of this stage work predated their Hollywood career. By the time the Marxes made their first movie, they were already major stars with sharply honed skills; and by the time Groucho was relaunched to stardom on You Bet Your Life, he had been performing successfully for half a century.

Marx started his career in vaudeville in 1905 when he joined up with an act called The Leroy Trio. He was asked by a man named Robin Leroy to join the group as a singer, along with fellow vaudeville actor Johnny Morris. Through this act, Marx got his first taste of life as a vaudeville performer. In 1909, Marx and his brothers had become a group act, at first called The Three Nightingales and later The Four Nightingales. The brothers' mother, Minnie Marx, was the group's manager, putting them together and booking their shows. The group had a rocky start, performing in less than adequate venues and rarely, if ever, being paid for their performances. Eventually one of the brothers would leave to serve in World War I and was replaced by Herbert (Zeppo), and the group became known as the Marx Brothers. Their first successful show was Fun In Hi Skule (1910).

Marx made 26 movies, 13 of them with his brothers Chico and Harpo. Marx developed a routine as a wisecracking hustler with a distinctive chicken-walking lope, an exaggerated greasepaint mustache and eyebrows, and an ever-present cigar, improvising insults to stuffy dowagers (usually played by Margaret Dumont) and anyone else who stood in his way. As the Marx Brothers, he and his brothers starred in a series of popular stage shows and movies.

Their first movie was a silent film made in 1921 that was never released, and is believed to have been destroyed at the time. A decade later, the team made two of their Broadway hits—The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers—into movies. Other successful films were Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, and A Night at the Opera.[11] One quip from Marx concerned his response to Sam Wood, the director of A Night at the Opera. Furious with the Marx Brothers' ad-libs and antics on the set, Wood yelled in disgust: "You can't make an actor out of clay." Marx responded, "Nor a director out of Wood."

Marx also worked as a radio comedian and show host. One of his earliest stints was a short-lived series in 1932, Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel, costarring Chico. Though most of the scripts and discs were thought to have been destroyed, all but one of the scripts were found in 1988 in the Library of Congress. In 1947, Marx was asked to host a radio quiz program You Bet Your Life. It was broadcast by ABC and then CBS before moving to NBC. It moved from radio to television on October 5, 1950, and ran for eleven years. Filmed before an audience, the show consisted of Marx bantering with the contestants and ad-libbing jokes before briefly quizzing them. The show was responsible for popularizing the phrases "Say the secret word and the duck will come down and give you fifty dollars," "Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?" and "What color is the White House?" (asked to reward a losing contestant a consolation prize).

Throughout his career, Marx introduced a number of memorable songs in films, including "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" and "Hello, I Must Be Going", in Animal Crackers, "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It", "Everyone Says I Love You" and "Lydia the Tattooed Lady". Frank Sinatra, who once quipped that the only thing he could do better than Marx was sing, made a film with Marx and Jane Russell in 1951 entitled Double Dynamite.

In public and off-camera, Harpo and Chico were hard to recognize, without their wigs and costumes, and it was almost impossible for fans to recognize Groucho without his trademark eyeglasses, fake eyebrows, and mustache.

The greasepaint mustache and eyebrows originated spontaneously prior to a vaudeville performance in the early 1920s when he did not have time to apply the pasted-on mustache he had been using (or, according to his autobiography, simply did not enjoy the removal of the mustache because of the effects of tearing an adhesive bandage off the same patch of skin every night). After applying the greasepaint mustache, a quick glance in the mirror revealed his natural hair eyebrows were too undertoned and did not match the rest of his face, so Marx added the greasepaint to his eyebrows and headed for the stage. The absurdity of the greasepaint was never discussed on-screen, but in a famous scene in Duck Soup, where both Chicolini (Chico) and Pinky (Harpo) disguise themselves as Groucho, they are briefly seen applying the greasepaint, implicitly answering any question a viewer might have had about where he got his mustache and eyebrows.

Marx was asked to apply the greasepaint mustache once more for You Bet Your Life when it came to television, but he refused, opting instead to grow a real one, which he wore for the rest of his life. By this time, his eyesight had weakened enough for him to actually need corrective lenses; before then, his eyeglasses had merely been a stage prop. He debuted this new, and now much-older, appearance in Love Happy, the Marx Brothers's last film as a comedy team.

He did paint the old character mustache over his real one on a few rare occasions, including a TV sketch with Jackie Gleason on the latter's variety show in the 1960s (in which they performed a variation on the song "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean," co-written by Marx's uncle Al Shean) and the 1968 Otto Preminger film Skidoo. In his late 70s at the time, Marx remarked on his appearance: "I looked like I was embalmed." He played a mob boss called "God" and, according to Marx, "both my performance and the film were God-awful!"

The exaggerated walk, with one hand on the small of his back and his torso bent almost 90 degrees at the waist was a parody of a fad from the 1880s and 1890s. Fashionable young men of the upper classes would affect a walk with their right hand held fast to the base of their spines, and with a slight lean forward at the waist and a very slight twist toward the right with the left shoulder, allowing the left hand to swing free with the gait. Edmund Morris, in his biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, describes a young Roosevelt, newly elected to the State Assembly, walking into the House Chamber for the first time in this trendy, affected gait, somewhat to the amusement of the older and more rural members. Marx exaggerated this fad to a marked degree, and the comedy effect was enhanced by how out of date the fashion was by the 1940s and 1950s.

Marx's three marriages ended in divorce. His first wife was chorus girl Ruth Johnson (m. 1920-42). He was 29 and she was 19 at the time of their wedding. The couple had two children, Arthur Marx and Miriam Marx. His second wife was Kay Marvis (m. 1945–51), Catherine Dittig, ormer wife of Leo Gorcey. Marx was 54 and Kay was 21 at the time of their marriage. They had a daughter, Melinda Marx. His third wife was actress Eden Hartford (m. 1954-69). He was 64 and she was 24 at the time of their wedding.

During the early 1950s, Marx described his perfect woman: "Someone who looks like Marilyn Monroe and talks like George S. Kaufman."

Marx was denied membership in an informal symphonietta of friends (including Harpo) organized by Ben Hecht, because he could play only the mandolin. When the group began its first rehearsal at Hecht's home, Marx rushed in and demanded silence from the "lousy amateurs". The musicians discovered him conducting the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the overture to Tannhäuser in Hecht's living room. Marx was allowed to join the symphonietta.

Later in life, Marx would sometimes note to talk show hosts, not entirely jokingly, that he was unable to actually insult anyone, because the target of his comment would assume that it was a Groucho-esque joke, and would laugh.

Despite his lack of formal education, he wrote many books, including his autobiography, Groucho and Me (1959) and Memoirs of a Mangy Lover (1963). He was a friend of such literary figures as Booth Tarkington, T. S. Eliot and Carl Sandburg. Much of his personal correspondence with those and other figures is featured in the book The Groucho Letters (1967) with an introduction and commentary on the letters written by Marx, who donated his letters to the Library of Congress. His daughter Miriam published a collection of his letters to her in 1992 titled Love, Groucho.

Marx made serious efforts to learn to play the guitar. In the 1932 film Horse Feathers, he performs the film's love theme "Everyone Says I Love You" for costar Thelma Todd on a Gibson L-5.

In July 1937, an America vs England pro-celebrity tennis doubles match was organized, featuring Marx and Ellsworth Vines playing against Charlie Chaplin and Fred Perry, to open the new clubhouse at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club. Marx appeared on court with 12 rackets and a suitcase, leaving Chaplin – who took tennis seriously – bemused, before he asked what was in it. Marx asked Chaplin what was in his, with Chaplin responding he didn't have one. Marx replied, "What kind of tennis player are you?" After playing only a few games, Marx sat on the court and unpacked an elaborate picnic lunch from his suitcase.

Irving Berlin quipped, "The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl". In his book The Groucho Phile, Marx says "I've been a liberal Democrat all my life", and "I frankly find Democrats a better, more sympathetic crowd.... I'll continue to believe that Democrats have a greater regard for the common man than Republicans do". However, just like some of the other Democrats of the time, Marx also said in a television interview that he disliked the women's liberation movement. On the July 7, 1967, Firing Line TV show, Marx said, "The whole political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence."

Marx's radio career was not as successful as his work on stage and in film, though historians such as Gerald Nachman and Michael Barson suggest that, in the case of the single-season Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel (1932), the failure may have been a combination of a poor time slot and the Marx Brothers' returning to Hollywood to make another film.

In the mid-1940s, during a depressing lull in his career (his radio show Blue Ribbon Town had failed, he failed to sell his proposed sitcom The Flotsam Family only to see it become a huge hit as The Life of Riley with William Bendix in the title role, and the Marx Brothers as film performers were well past their prime), Marx was scheduled to appear on a radio show with Bob Hope. Annoyed that he was made to wait in the green room for 40 minutes, he went on the air in a foul mood.

Hope started by saying "Why, Groucho Marx! Groucho, what are you doing out here in the desert?" Marx retorted, "Huh, desert, I've been sitting in the dressing room for forty minutes! Some desert alright..." Marx continued to ignore the script, ad-libbing at length to take the scene well beyond its allotted time slot.

Listening in on the show was producer John Guedel, who had a brainstorm. He approached Marx about doing a quiz show, to which Marx derisively retorted, "A quiz show? Only actors who are completely washed up resort to a quiz show!" Undeterred, Guedel proposed that the quiz would be only a backdrop for Marx's interviews of people, and the storm of ad-libbing that they would elicit. Marx replied, "Well, I've had no success in radio, and I can't hold on to a sponsor. At this point, I'll try anything!"

You Bet Your Life debuted in October 1947 on ABC radio (which aired it from 1947 to 1949), sponsored by costume jewelry manufacturer Allen Gellman;[23] and then on CBS (1949–50), and finally NBC. The show was on radio only from 1947 to 1950; on both radio and television from 1950 to 1960; and on television only, from 1960 to 1961. The show proved a huge hit, being one of the most popular on television by the mid-1950s. With George Fenneman as his announcer and straight man, Marx entertained his audiences with improvised conversation with his guests. Since You Bet Your Life was mostly ad-libbed and unscripted—although writers did pre-interview the guests and feed Marx ready-made lines in advance—the producers insisted that the network prerecord it instead of it being broadcast live. There were two reasons for this: prerecording provided Marx with time to fish around for funny exchanges and any intervening dead spots to be edited out; and secondly to protect the network, since Marx was a notorious loose cannon and known to say almost anything. The television show ran for 11 seasons until it was canceled in 1961. Automobile marque DeSoto was a longtime major sponsor. For the DeSoto ads, Marx would sometimes say: "Tell 'em Groucho sent you", or "Try a DeSoto before you decide".

The program's theme music was an instrumental version of "Hooray for Captain Spaulding", which became increasingly identified as Marx's personal theme song. A recording of the song with Marx and the Ken Lane singers with an orchestra directed by Victor Young was released in 1952. Another recording made by Marx during this period was "The Funniest Song in the World", released on the Young People's Records label in 1949. It was a series of five original children's songs with a connecting narrative about a monkey and his fellow zoo creatures.

An apocryphal story relates Marx interviewing Charlotte Story, who had borne 20 children. When Marx asked why she had chosen to raise such a large family, Mrs. Story is said to have replied, "I love my husband"; to which Marx responded, "I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while." The remark was judged too risqué to be aired, according to the anecdote, and was edited out before broadcast. Charlotte Story and her husband Marion, indeed parents of 20 children, were real people who appeared on the program in 1950. Audio recordings of the interview exist, and a reference to cigars is made ("With each new kid, do you go around passing out cigars?"), but there is no evidence of the claimed remark. Marx and Fenneman both denied that the incident took place. "I get credit all the time for things I never said," Marx told Roger Ebert in 1972. "You know that line in You Bet Your Life? The guy says he has seventeen kids and I say, 'I smoke a cigar, but I take it out of my mouth occasionally'? I never said that." Marx's 1976 memoir recounts the episode as fact, but co-writer Hector Arce relied mostly on sources other than Marx himself—who was by then in his mid eighties, in ill health and mentally compromised—and was probably unaware that Marx had specifically denied making the observation. Another anecdote that may or may not be apocryphal recounts how Warner Brothers threatened to sue Groucho when they learned that the next Marx Brothers film was to be called "A Night in Casablanca", contending that that title was too similar to their own film Casablanca. Groucho is reported to have replied: "I'll sue you for using the word Brothers."

By the time You Bet Your Life debuted on TV on October 5, 1950, Marx had grown a real mustache (which he had already sported earlier in the films Copacabana and Love Happy).

During a tour of Germany in 1958, accompanied by then-wife Eden, daughter Melinda, Robert Dwan and Dwan's daughter Judith, he climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of Adolf Hitler's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two-minute Charleston. He later remarked to Richard J. Anobile in The Marx Brothers Scrapbook, "Not much satisfaction after he killed six million Jews!"

In 1960, Marx, a lifelong devotee of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, appeared as Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, in a televised production of The Mikado on NBC's Bell Telephone Hour. A clip of this is in rotation on Classic Arts Showcase.

Another TV show, Tell It To Groucho, premiered January 11, 1962, on CBS, but only lasted five months. On October 1, 1962, Marx, after acting as occasional guest host of The Tonight Show during the six-month interval between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson, introduced Carson as the new host.

In 1964, Marx starred in the "Time for Elizabeth" episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, a truncated version of a play that he and Norman Krasna wrote in 1948.

In 1965, Marx starred in a weekly show for British TV titled Groucho, broadcast on ITV. The program was along similar lines to You Bet Your Life, with Keith Fordyce taking on the Fenneman role. However, it was poorly received and lasted only 11 weeks.

Marx appeared as a gangster named God in the movie Skidoo (1968), directed by Otto Preminger, and costarring Jackie Gleason and Carol Channing. It was released by the studio where the Marx Brothers began their film career, Paramount Pictures. The film received almost universally negative reviews. As a side note, writer Paul Krassner published a story in the February 1981 issue of High Times, relating how Marx prepared for the LSD-themed movie by taking a dose of the drug in Krassner's company, and had a moving, largely pleasant experience.

Marx developed friendships with rock star Alice Cooper—the two were photographed together for Rolling Stone magazine—and television host Dick Cavett, becoming a frequent guest on Cavett's late-night talk show, even appearing in a one-man, 90-minute interview. He befriended Elton John when the British singer was staying in California in 1972, insisting on calling him "John Elton." According to writer Philip Norman, when Marx jokingly pointed his index fingers as if holding a pair of six-shooters, Elton John put up his hands and said, "Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player," thereby naming the album he had just completed. A film poster for the Marx Bros. movie Go West is visible on the album cover photograph as an homage to Marx. Elton John accompanied Marx to a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar. As the lights went down, Marx called out, "Does it have a happy ending?" And during the Crucifixion scene, he declared, "This is sure to offend the Jews."

Marx's previous work regained popularity; new books of transcribed conversations were published by Richard J. Anobile and Charlotte Chandler. In a BBC interview in 1975, Marx called his greatest achievement having a book selected for cultural preservation in the Library of Congress. In a Cavett interview in 1971, Marx said being published in The New Yorker under his own name, Julius Henry Marx, meant more than all the plays he appeared in. As a man who never had formal schooling, to have his writings declared culturally important was a point of great satisfaction. As he passed his 81st birthday in 1971, however, Marx became increasingly frail, physically and mentally, as a result of a succession of minor strokes and other health issues.

In 1972, largely at the behest of his companion Erin Fleming, Marx staged a live one-man show at Carnegie Hall that was later released as a double album, An Evening with Groucho, on A&M Records. He also made an appearance in 1973 on a short-lived variety show hosted by Bill Cosby. Fleming's influence on Marx was controversial. Some close to Marx believed that she did much to revive his popularity, and the relationship with a younger woman boosted his ego and vitality. Others described her as a Svengali, exploiting an increasingly senile Marx in pursuit of her own stardom. Marx's children, particularly Arthur, felt strongly that Fleming was pushing their weak father beyond his physical and mental limits. Writer Mark Evanier concurred.

On the 1974 Academy Awards telecast, Marx's final major public appearance, Jack Lemmon presented him with an honorary Academy Award to a standing ovation. The award honored Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo as well: "in recognition of his brilliant creativity and for the unequalled achievements of the Marx Brothers in the art of motion picture comedy.” Noticeably frail, Marx took a bow for his deceased brothers. "I wish that Harpo and Chico could be here to share with me this great honor," he said, naming the two deceased brothers (Zeppo, still alive, was in the audience). He also praised the late Margaret Dumont as a great straight woman who never understood any of his jokes. Marx's final appearance was a brief sketch with George Burns in the Bob Hope television special Joys (a parody of the 1975 movie Jaws) in March 1976. His health continued to decline the following year; when his younger brother Gummo died at age 83 on April 21, 1977, Marx was never told for fear of eliciting still further deterioration of his health.

Marx maintained his irrepressible sense of humor to the very end, however. George Fenneman, his radio and TV announcer, good-natured foil, and lifelong friend, often related a story of one of his final visits to Marx's home: When the time came to end the visit, Fenneman lifted Marx from his wheelchair, put his arms around his torso, and began to "walk" the frail comedian backwards across the room towards his bed. As he did, he heard a weak voice in his ear: "Fenneman," whispered Marx, "you always were a lousy dancer." When a nurse approached him with a thermometer during his final hospitalization, explaining that she wanted to see if he had a temperature, he responded, "Don't be silly — everybody has a temperature." Actor Elliott Gould recalled a similar incident: "I recall the last time I saw Groucho, he was in the hospital, and he had tubes in his nose and what have you," he said. "And when he saw me, he was weak, but he was there; and he put his fingers on the tubes and played them like it was a clarinet. Groucho played the tubes for me, which brings me to tears."

Marx was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with pneumonia on June 22, 1977, and died there nearly two months later at the age of 86 on August 19, four months after Gummo's death.

Marx was cremated and the ashes are interred in the Eden Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. He was survived by his three children and younger brother Zeppo, who outlived him by two years. His gravestone bears no epitaph, but in one of his last interviews he suggested one: "Excuse me, I can't stand up."

Litigation over his estate lasted into the 1980s. Eventually, Arthur Marx and his sisters were awarded the bulk of the estate, and Erin Fleming was ordered to repay $472,000.

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Last Month In Review_0919

Lana Del Rey - Norman fucking Rockwell

Metronomy - Salted Caramel Ice Cream

Robyn - Beach2k20 (Yaeji Remix)

Gus Dapperton - Give It To Me Straight

A$AP Rocky - Babushka Boi

LION BABE - Western World (omniboi remix)

Francis and the Lights, Bon Iver, Kanye West - Take Me to the Light

Kindness - Softness As A Weapon

Rome Fortune - Ethan Hawke

Danny Brown - Best Life

NEIL FRANCES - Shallow End

Kito, Empress Of - Wild Girl

Blue Hawaii - All The Things

Biig Piig - Sunny

Sampa the Great - Freedom

Perfume Genius - Eye in the Wall

Wild Nothing - Partners in Motion (Live from Brooklyn Steel)

Tei Shi Feat. Blood Orange - Even If It Hurts

Pavo Pavo - Mystery Hour

Broadcast - The Book Lovers

Angel Olsen - Lark

David Bowie - Conversation Piece (2019 Mix)

Johnny Payne - All Messed Up

Holy Hive - If I Could See You Now

Brittany Howard - History Repeats

The Big Moon - Your Light

The Growlers - Try Hard Fool

BRONCHO - Keep It in Line (Yeasayer Remix)

Temples - Context

Allah-Las - Prazer Em Te Conhecer

Van Houten - Moon

Part Time - Everyone's Got a Gun

Dad Bod - You Never Say Hi

sir Was - The Sun Will Shine

Shura - religion (u can lay your hands on me)

Gemini Rising, Tensnake, Fiora - After the Rain

Death and the Maiden - Wisteria

Bat For Lashes - Vampires

Twin Shadow - Crushed

lophiile, Col3trane, Amber Mark - No Bus

FKA twigs, Future - holy terrain

Grimes, i_o - Violence

Boys Noize, Francis and the Lights - Why Not?

Free Nationals, JID, Kadhja Bonet, MIKNNA - On Sight

Roosevelt - Yr Love (Midnight Version)

BAD CHILD - BAD CHILD (MUNYA Remix)

King Princess, Mark Ronson - Happy Together

Claud - Easy

Userdeleted_95, Ava Trilling - Honest.

Lily Moore, Maverick Sabre - In-between

Oh He Dead - Lonely Sometimes

The Harmaleighs - Sorry, I'm busy

Lucy Dacus - Dancing In The Dark

Samia - Ode to Artifice

beabadoobee - She Plays Bass

Y La Bamba - Entre Los Dos

Vacationer - Autofocus

Automatic - Calling It

Triptides - Call of Creation

Gillet - Said It

GRMLN - Osaka

Blonder - I.C.U.

Twin Peaks - Laid in Gold

The Black Keys - Walk Across The Water *0919 @ The Wiltern

Alex Cameron - Far From Born Again

Pond - Don't Look At The Sun (Or You'll Go Blind) (Live) *09/20 @ The Fonda

Sturgill Simpson - Mercury In Retrograde

Cold War Kids - Waiting For Your Love

The Shelters - Down the Line

Heaven the Dude, Fat Tony, Dent May - Waiting For A Check

OJR - Song for Stephen H

Connan Mockasin - Con Conn Was Impatient (Live At Rough Trade)

Amen Dunes - L.A. (Remix feat. Westerman)

Andrew Combs - Ideal Man

Whitney - Rhododendron

Cigarettes After Sex - Heavenly

North Downs - Dad's Old Tapes

Bombay Bicycle Club - Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You)

Hot Chip - Spell (Superorganism Remix)

Underworld - Tree And Two Chairs (Film Edit)

Discovery - Can You Discover? *09/15 Booksmart @ Rooftop Cinema NeueHouse

Charli XCX, Kim Petras, Tommy Cash - Click

Deaton Chris Anthony, Clairo, Coco & Clair Clair - RACECAR

Seb Wildblood, Buddy Love - ghostie

Toro y Moi - New House *09/20 @ The Palladium

H.E.R., YG - Slide

Ambar Lucid - Mar de Llanto

Wallows - Trust Fall

Wasuremono - Are You OK?

Monster Rally - Shell Snake

Wilco - Everyone Hides

Jim James, Teddy Abrams, Louisville Orchestra - Back To The End Of The World

Jenny Hval - Ashes to Ashes

Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, Sharon Van Etten - Let's Face The Music And Dance

Franz Waxman - Juke Box # 6 (From "Rear Window") *01/10 Rear Window @ Alamo Drafthouse

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TASK #004

FULL GIVEN NAME — jude orlando hayward

NICKNAMES & WHO CALLS THEM THESE — judas (a lot of ppl call him this n it’s his twitter handle) n then i think tht? is kind of it? a lot of ppl reference beatles songs as a greeting too bt :/ he isn’t tht fond of tht tbh…. minus 10 points for unoriginality

AGE & D.O.B — 23, march 3rd

PLACE OF BIRTH — sheffield, england

TOWNS THEY’VE LIVED IN AND FOR HOW LONG — sheffield until he was 13 then his parents gt a place in san fran n he was back n forth consistently until he applied to lockwood at 19 n moved to rochester

GUARDIANS NAMES & LOCATIONS — orla isaacs & nathan hayward. currently abroad in indonesia.

SIBLING NAMES, AGES & LOCATIONS — N/A altho i do sometimes contemplate the idea of him having a half sibling tht his mum put up fr adoption n never told anyone abt

WATERSHED.APP STATUS — sheep

DO THEY HAVE ANYTHING QUESTIONABLE ONLINE? — not particularly?? probably some…. nsfw texts / mayb pics bt nothing beyond standard

BANK ACCOUNT BALANCE — $689

DOES YOUR MUSE HAVE ANY CREDIT CARDS? HOW MANY? DO THEY HAVE A BALANCE AND LIMIT? OF HOW MUCH? — mayb one credit card n it wld b a fairly low limit one tht i doubt he… uses often tbh

CRIMINAL RECORD — 1 assault charge tht got dropped when it was realised it was in self defence, a few fr public indecency (once he woke up naked in the woods after doin shrooms n had to walk home like tht n ppl called when they spotted him jst. naked strollin thru the streets), n then recently he had a stint of community service fr stealing a hearse w his dead neighbour inside n going on a joy ride before it got to the funeral

HOSPITAL & MEDICAL VISITS / RECORD — came in once when he ws having a rly bad panic attack fr the first time n thought he was dying, almost drank himself to death twice n had to have his stomach pumped both times, ws admitted n held for observation after taking all of his anti-depressants at once, broke his arm and 2 ribs in a car accident once, had to have stitches on his finger when a game of pin finger saw his parents friend almost chopping it off, had his jaw broken and wired shut when he was 15. honestly jst like…. a lot. probably mre tht im forgetting abt

PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS — he’s been prescribed fluoxetine, venlafaxine, citalopram & sertraline in the past all on…… quite significant doses. he started low bt very quickly increased to 200mg tbh. he’s currently on 200mg of sertraline bt his taking of it is semi irregular

DO THEY USE ILLICIT DRUGS? — ya…. his favs r acid n shrooms bt. he tries to save shrooms fr special occasions like they’re a birthday cake or smthn

DO THEY DRINK ALCOHOL? — ya

DO THEY SMOKE WEED AND/OR CIGARETTES? — both in copious excess babey!

SUBSCRIPTIONS THEY HAVE — jst spotify n netflix

FAVORITE BOOKS — on the road by jack kerouac, the bell jar by sylvia plath, kurt cobain’s diaries, sylvia plath’s diaries, macbeth by shakespeare, to the lighthouse by virginia woolff, honestly jst…… lots of classic stuff. he also hs a soft spot fr harry potter bc he wld read them growin up n feel kind of like the boy who lived under the stairs in terms of….. … the way he ws treated in his parent’s loft (badly by their friends n he didn’t see his parents enough to rly feel they. were alive anyway)

FAVORITE FILMS — shutter island, the cabin in the woods, monster house, i origins, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, jumanji, the social network, donnie darko, scream, the room, the disaster artist, trainspotting, beautiful boy

FAVORITE MUSICIANS — the smiths, elliott smith, neutral milk hotel, metronomy, talking heads, the stone roses, primal scream, mac demarco, the libertines, pixies, johnny goth, wolf alice, mazzy star, radiohead, perfume genius, gus dapperton

FAVORITE GAMES — feel like he loves like………. horror games like. silent hill n resident evil n tht sort? bt also ones like outlast n the last of us. also probably saints row n gta. jst like a multitude rly?? like cn imagine if he’s depressed he jst aimlessly drives around rly high on gta fr hours

PAST ROMANTIC / INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS THAT MAY HAVE AN ONLINE PRESENCE — mara wells (ex-girlfriend at age 16), saskia cohen (ex-girlfriend on n off for yrs), rory vanderberg (they’ve shared some…. nsfw texts before 2 say the least)

MOST FREQUENTLY VISITED WEBSITES — youtube n ???? idk….. weird threads on reddit probably. feel like he loves the ambien one bc he likes things tht dnt make much sense

DO THEY USE A VPN? — yh just for the basic stuff like accessing diff netflix or whatever

WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA DO THEY HAVE? — instagram (barely uses), twitter, facebook (barely uses), he had a vine too (rip). downloaded tiktok bt finds it kind of confusing to work

ARE THEY ON ANY HOOK-UP OR DATING APPS? WHICH ONES? — jst tinder. his profile is prob pretty nonsensical bt he somehow gets lots of responses anyway. king of nt making sense bt thriving regardless

#wshedtask004 #suicide attempt tw #overdose tw #drugs tw

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YESTERDAY (2019)

Starring Himesh Patel, Lily James, Kate McKinnon, Ed Sheeran, James Corden, Ana de Armas, Joel Fry, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Alexander Arnold, Sophia Di Martino, Harry Michell, Ellise Chappell, Sarah Lancashire, Vincent Franklin, Karma Sood, Gus Brown, Karl Theobald Alexander Arnold, Dominic Coleman and Michael Kiwanuka.

Screenplay by Richard Curtis.

Directed by Danny Boyle.

Distributed by Universal Pictures. 116 minutes. Rated PG-13.

Yesterday taps into a fantasy that I have had on and off for my entire life. And from speaking with other people, I know I’m not alone.

What if you’re in a world where only you know some of the greatest music of all time? Would you perform it and pass it off as your own? If so, would you become a star?

It’s a fantasy that has also been tapped into by film periodically over the years, usually in passing, often in time travel movies. Like when Marty McFly and the Starlighters introduced the 1950s to “Johnny B. Goode” in Back to the Future. Or when Peggy Sue “wrote” the song “She Loves You” for her 1950s band-leader boyfriend in Peggy Sue Got Married and he tried to change the “yeah, yeah, yeah” to “ooh, ooh, ooh.”

It’s a fun, fascinating premise. Specifically, to Yesterday, what if the entire world has forgotten about the music of The Beatles except for one man? (Well, three people, but more on that later…) Not just forgotten, but The Beatles have literally been erased from history. Would that man, a struggling musician, be wrong to perform those songs as if they were his own? Should he feel guilty that he is stealing from the works of people who appear to have disappeared? Would the sheer artistry of the songs make him a star even in a music world that has moved on nearly 50 years since the original (forgotten) band’s breakup?

So right away you know the soundtrack will be amazing. Wall to wall Beatles. How can you go wrong? (Okay, there is a bit of Ed Sheeran music peppered in as seasoning as well.)

Add to that terrific premise the fact that the movie was scripted by a man who was responsible for writing some of my favorite movies ever – Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually, About Time and more – and it’s almost a little pathetic how much I have been looking forward to seeing this movie. It’s certainly one of the top summer releases – if not at the apex of the list – that I have been waiting for.

Now that I have seen it, I can say without reservation, it was worth the wait. Yesterday is smart, sweet, funny, romantic, sometimes sad, sometimes blissful, and easily one of the best movies I’ve seen so far this year.

Granted, the supernatural aspect of the film is a tiny bit of a leap of faith. The lead character of Yesterday is Jack (Himesh Patel), a struggling singer who is about to give up on his dream of music when he is biking home from the latest of a series of pathetic gigs. He is hit by a bus and knocked out when an odd phenomenon happens – turning off all electricity in the world for a matter of 12 seconds. When the lights are restored, several ubiquitous pop culture items have been erased from existence – like Harry Potter, Coke… and The Beatles.

It is never explained how or why this happened. Nor is it explained how or why this one man still remembers these objects which the rest of the world does not know about. You have to take it on faith if you are going to allow anything wonderful to happen.

As Jack slowly comes to realize that no one other than himself remembers the music of The Beatles, he realizes this could be his way of finding stardom – playing the music of The Beatles and letting people believe it is his own. It starts out small, but the lie starts to snowball as the music spreads from his small British village and starts to become a global YouTube phenomenon.

His music is discovered by pop star Ed Sheeran (doing a good-natured self-effacing supporting role as himself), which leads to him introducing Jack to his manager (Kate McKinnon of SNL is funny in the role, though it is obviously a caricature rather than a character). Jack also gets a record contract and the possibility of international superstardom.

Through Jack’s travels, he keeps running into a man and a woman who appear to somehow know what he is up to, which just makes his guilt for taking credit for the songs skyrocket.

In the meantime, at home, Ellie (Lily James) – the girl who has always been there for him, but who has always been just a friend – supports his career even though they both realize suddenly that maybe they were meant to be more than platonic.

So, yes, in a way this may be the world’s most complex setup for a romantic comedy. Still, the concept is so ingenious and so well realized that hopefully most people will overlook or forgive that.

After all, in the end all you need is love.

Jay S. Jacobs

#Yesterday #2019 #Movie Reviews #Hamish Patel #Jay S. Jacobs

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thesportssoundoff · 5 years

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“A Damn Good PPV But....” The UFC 235 Preview

Joey

February 24th, 2019

The first PPV offering was a dud. A weak card on paper made weaker by Robert Whittaker's last minute pull out. This card is world's better although it doesn't come with some risks. It's got two title fights, a main card loaded with intriguing fights, an ESPN prelim slate filled with fights that wouldn't seem out of place as UFC Fight Night headliners, the WMMA fights are intriguing and relatively well put together as well plus you have some damn good busywork at 205 and 135 lbs. Unfortunately there are some bad vibes to be picked up on given some of the matchmaking. There's a good chance this card turns into a lecture on numbers not equating good fights. Ah well. Has a Jon Jones fight ever let ya down before? Let's do some numbers and the like!

Fights: 13

Debuts: Ben Askren

Fight Changes/Injury Cancellations: 4 (Holly Holm vs Aspen Ladd CANCELLED/Song Yadong OUT, Cody Stamman IN vs Alejandro Perez/Thomas Almeida OUT, Frankie Saenz IN vs Marlon Vera, OSP out, Johnny Walker IN vs Misha Cirkunov)

Headliners (fighters who have either main evented or co-main evented shows in the UFC): 12 (Jon Jones, Robbie Lawler, Anthony Smith, Kamaru Usman, Tyron Woodley, Cody Garbrandt, Jeremy Stephens, Misha Cirkunov, Diego Sanchez, Mickey Gall, Tecia Torres, Diego Sanchez)

Fighters On Losing Streaks in the UFC: 1 (Tecia Torres)

Fighters On Winning Streaks in the UFC: 10 (Johnny Walker, Anthony Smith, Kamaru Usman, Tyron Woodley, Pedro Munhoz, Zhabit Magomedsharipov, Marlon Vera, Alejandro Perez, WEili Zhang, Frankie Saenz)

Main Card Record Since Jan 1st 2017 (in the UFC): 21-8-1

Jon Jones- 1-0-1 Anthony Smith- 5-1 Tyron Woodley- 3-0 Kamaru Usman- 5-0 Ben Askren- 0-0 Robbie Lawler- 1-1 Weili Zhang- 2-0 Tecia Torres- 3-2 Cody Garbrandt- 0-2 Pedro Munhoz- 4-1

Fights By Weight Class (yearly number here):

Bantamweight- 3 (11) Welterweight- 3 (11) Light Heavyweight- 2 (8) Women’s Strawweight- 2 (6) Women's Bantamweight- 1 (1) Featherweight- 1 (7) Middleweight- 1 (5)

Lightweight- (12) Women’s Flyweight- (7) Heavyweight- (4) Flyweight- (4)

2019’s Records We Keepin Track Of:

Debuting Fighters (4-12): Ben Askren

Short Notice Fighters (3-5): Frankie Saenz, Cody Stamman, Johnny Walker

Second Fight (15-3): Hannah Cifers, Macy Chiasson

Cage Corrosion (Fighters who have not fought within a year of the date of the fight) (4-6): Robbie Lawler

Undefeated Fighters (4-8): Ben Askren, Edmen Shahbazyan, Macy Chiasson

Fighters with at least four fights in the UFC with 0 wins over competition still in the organization (1-2): Mickey Gall

Weight Class Jumpers (Fighters competing outside of the weight class of their last fight even if they’re returning BACK to their “normal weight class”) (5-5): Macy Chiasson

Twelve Precarious Ponderings

1- I wonder if this is the best card with the highest propensity of having a bad boring no good very bad main card. Every fight on UFC 235's main card (and half of the prelims really) are compelling as shit clashes with stories to be told. You have the closest thing to a Rocky story in Jon Jones' career; the ultra dominant champion who tends to lose focus at a moments notice vs the hard luck tough guy dragging himself up through the ranks. You have a dominant contender facing a dominant champion where they stylistically could cancel each other out en route to a potentially exciting fight. Ben Askren makes his debut against either a potentially cooked or a renaissance Robbie Lawler. Weili Zhang vs Tecia Torres is a great prospect vs established ace fight. Cody Garbrandt's potential renaissance is as compelling as any fight above it. Now for the cold water; there's a chance Jon Jones carries Anthony Smith out of pity a la Glover Teix or OSP. There's a REALLY good chance Woodley vs Usman is a fight contested entirely in the clinch against the fence as Usman crashes too hard whiffing on takedowns while Woodley is content to throw one punch every 30 seconds and clinch up. Askren vs Lawler could look a lot like Lawler's Strikeforce fights where the threat of the takedown turned him into a pensive weak pressure fighter. Tecia Torres is very hit or miss in terms of action and when she realizes she's outgunned, she shells up. The only fight I'd feel remotely comfortable in betting on action potential meeting action quality is Munhoz vs Garbrandt. Chances are this card could be QUITE disappointing for some folks.

2- How many MINUTES does Anthony Smith have to get Jon Jones' respect before Jones just decides "Okay there's nothing to be worried about here?"

3- SO I suppose if one is looking for a potential avenue for Anthony Smith, it's that he IS new in a few facets. For one, 30 year old Anthony Smith is Jon Jones' youngest opponent since a 26 year old Alexander Gustafsson back in 2013. Even if Daniel Cormier is an otherworldly athlete (seriously you don't reach the olympics without being a special athlete), you can't replicate youth and speed. Smith will at least bring those in bunches which....I mean I guess gives him something to hang his hat on. One could argue he's the best moving LHW Jones has faced when you consider that Gus looked very very shopworn in their fight. He's also very versatile offensively as every tool in his toolbox gets used and is used with a threat of finishing someone. Elbows, kicks, uppercuts, knees all backed by a decent enough grappling game (for 205 lbs) gives Smith an element of danger even if it's fleeting. He brings some of the tools Gustaffson often uses except whereas Gus is a touch and go type of striker, Smith is a high level fight finisher. It's just hard to believe anybody can really hurt Jon Jones plus we're talking about a guy in Smith who tires pretty easily if the pace isn't to his liking.

4- Maybe it's JUST me but I actually really like Smith getting the title fight, not just because he stalls for guys like Dominick Reyes and Johnny Walker to get some more work in. It's one of those things I always found kind of endearing about flyweight or HW, the path to a title shot is always JUST a run away. Imagine being one of these guys at 155 lbs who can win three fights in a row and BARELY be scratching the top 15. Anthony Smith went from middling 185er to fighting the best fighter of my era and I think that's a cool story. It's always a bit of fun when we know the lamb to the slaughter personally.

5- I was really confident Kamaru Usman would beat Tyron Woodley (basically doing what Colby Covington tends to do but way better) but the closer I get to it, the more I think that's not gonna happen. Beating Woodley requires a commitment to touching him from a safety range or smothering him in close, stifling the power he can generate on the counter right. You also have to have a competent counter wrestling game. What Usman can do well is pressure, clinch when he's concerned or confused about what to do next, chain his wrestling together and if he can get somebody down, he tends to give them plenty of problems with his output. Also we've seen him throw consistent paprika for 25 long minutes so if this turns into one HIS kinda fights then I can see him overwhelming Woodley. The problem is I don't think Usman has the fight IQ to do that intelligently for 25 minutes and I wish I had seen him hit clean enough in the past to judge and gauge his recovery skills when he's in trouble. I'm not about to squish on this though.

6- Okay so what happens if Woodley wins and then Askren wins? Do we just cancel this stupid division once and for all?

7- Two fights against TJ DIllashaw exposed some of the flaws in Cody Garbrandt's game and his break from being TAM's defender against the Dillashaw/Cruz combo is a similar enough fighter to where a coin toss pick em isn't out of the question. At the very least, I think we can bet on Cody Garbrandt having a fun fight against a like minded opponent who will probably give him plenty of avenues to pop off offensively.

8- Could Johnny Walker leapfrog Thiago Santos in the LHW WAR rankings if he finishes Misha Cirkunov?

9- I kinda wonder if Zhabit Magomedsharipov vs Jeremy Stephens could've been better suited for a main event overseas. I mean if it's Volkov vs Overeem or Stephens vs Zhabit in St. Petersburg which makes more sense?

10- Macy Chiasson looked like a redeemable prospect at 145 lbs, built like a big featherweight, showcasing some damn good pressure based striking, heavy on top, big with activity on the ground and blessed with submission chops. With the division seemingly on the rocks she's made the choice to drop DOWN to 135 lbs in what should be a pretty scary looking weigh in. Chiasson gets Gina Mazany who bounces between good enough and god awful depending on what day of the week it is. I'm excited to see Chiasson back in there, assuming of course she makes the weight.

11- MARLON VERA IS BACK! My favorite bantamweight!

12- If you allow your minds to dispel cynicism, there's a lot of fun to be had between Diego Sanchez and Mickey Gall. Both guys are probably going to do some wacky grappling, Diego is not likely to take a ton of damage and Mickey Gall's love of fighting stupid should give us a few occasional glimpses of wacky Diego Sanchez action.

#MMA #UFC #UFC 235 #Jones #Smith #Askren #Lawler #Woodley #Usman #Garbrandt #Munhoz

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My Own Private Idaho (1991)

“I love you, and... you don't pay me.”

Everyone is always talking about Kurt Cobain, but as far as I’m concerned, another icon of the nineties that died too young is just as tragic: River Phoenix was born, showed a brilliant, seemingly unforced natural talent in films like 'Stand By Me', 'Running On Empty' and especially this one 'My Own Private Idaho', he took drugs and died.

He was barely 23 when, after an overdose, he collapsed in Johnny Depp's nightclub, The Viper Room. A few days later, a photographer broke into the morgue to take a picture of him, which was then swapped for $ 5,000 to The National Enquirer.

'My Own Private Idaho' is probably his best film. Gus Van Sant, who had just gained a bit of commercial credibility with 'Drugstore Cowboy', made this film in 1991 a daring mix of road movie and love story, about homosexuality and a desperate nostalgic longing for youth. And although the motto of the film is "wherever, whatever, have a nice day", it’s also all based on Shakespeare.

Phoenix plays Mike Waters, a young gay hustler who suffers from narcolepsy and never knew his mother a fact that he carries with him everywhere. One of his best friends is Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves), the son of the mayor who rebels against his privileged background by selling himself.

They are both parts of the street gang of Bob Pigeon (William Richert), an eloquent petty thief who collects the lost youth of Portland as a private army. After a traumatizing visit to his father, Mike decides to find his mother together with Scott, a search that will lead them along endless American highways, all slightly different from the others, and will even lead them to Rome.

What’s most striking about 'My Own Private Idaho' is the almost surrealistic atmosphere that Van Sant is able to capture in the film. Mike is narcoleptic, and the whole film is viewed from his sleep drunken state.

We are constantly in a state somewhere between dream and reality, in which people look bizarre without being able to pinpoint why and in which voices sound distorted, without being able to say what exactly it is that’s wrong with them. It's reality, but then also... different.

To achieve that astonishing effect, Van Sant uses a true arsenal of cinematic tricks. Whenever Mike is about to fall asleep, we get a shot of fish swimming against the current and blue skies with a few milky white clouds.

Not because there is a rational reason to use these shots, but simply because they convey the appropriate atmosphere. When Bob appears in the film, the dialogues suddenly turn into a sort of 20th century version of Shakespeare's English (We are minions of the moon!), With all theatrical effects that come with it, including characters who suddenly go into a whole monologue about how they’re feeling and what they’re going to do.

We get absurd interludes, like a German customer of Mike and Scott. Who keeps a lamp under his face to sing a song for them. Sex scenes are in turn portrayed as tableaux vivants: sequences of static shots in which the actors do n’t. No still images, but just literally the actors who try not to move as long as the shot lasts.

And that's how it goes: Van Sant throws in all those effects and more to keep the tone of his film on a certain wavelength. This is what the world looks like to Mike, almost a child still who is obliged to behave like an adult, and consequently walks around in a somewhat dazed manner: is this my life? How did that happen?

The theme of the film is not surprisingly innovative in itself: we get one boy who doesn’ really know his parents and goes to look for them, and another one who often fitting with adolescence, loathes them and runs away from them as far as possible.

The difference, of course, is that Scott, when it comes down to it can always fall back on Dad's money, while Mike goes through life without a safety net, traveling from one highway to another. That’s why the support and friendship that they find together is probably doomed to end in a disappointment.

'My Own Private Idaho' is a film that happily ignores reality to do something more interesting: Van Sant crawls into Mike's head and then begins to build his story, he starts from the distortions of reality that take place between Mike's ears, and the result is a unique film.

Literally: I have never seen another film that did exactly the same thing, gave exactly the same feeling as this one. The whole thing is made up of the depressing, muted gray colors of rainy Saturday mornings. You feel the wind blowing in your ears and the damp air sticking to your face.

Add to that the performances: here Phoenix creates a character that has remained innocent in a corrupt environment, always sleepy, actually still a child, and yet with a sharp mind.

Keanu Reeves also does an excellent job. 'My Own Private Idaho' came out around the same period as 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure' (where he got his dude reputation) and 'Point Break'. My Own Private Idaho shows, that contrary to what’s sometimes believed, Reeves actually can act, with a varying emotional degree.

Set on the groovy rhythm of a not entirely unpleasant daydream,... Have a nice day.

#wow...#how could anyone call keanu reeves a bad actor after seeing this film #but it didn’t really make an impact at the time #my own private idaho #my own private idaho movie #my own private idaho film #gus van sant #river phoenix #keanu reeves #movies #films #reviews #movie reviews #movie review #film review #cinema

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gangqueer · 6 years

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Local Radio Makes You Fall In Love

@just-tea-thanks

“How do ya’ reckon this is any good anyway? My dad don’t drink anything without a dog on the bottle,” Wayne asks, taking the plastic handle of vodka and bag of all-dressed chips from Darry with one hand and pulling him up to the loft in the other.

“Give yer balls a tug, Wayne, you wanna go ask your dad for some Gus n’ Bru? I’ll be here waitin’ while you get yer ass skinned,” Darry snorts. He’s trying and failing to regain his balance on the ledge of the loft and Wayne can tell by the way his arms start flailing that Darry’s about to eat shit 10 feet below if Wayne doesn’t step in.

Wayne’s strugglin’ to get there in time, and his arms wrap around Darry’s waist just as soon as the curly haired kid starts to squeal. Wayne picks him up over the railing and tosses him onto the loose hay. Momentum and bad footing has Wayne following right after him. The only thing Wayne can think when he falls and finds himself on top of Darry with his face buried in the straw to the side of the other boy’s is that they aren't even drunk yet. Getting down from the loft afterwards is gonna be fun at least.

When Wayne pushed up on his arms and lifts himself off of Darry he stops with his arms extended and takes a good look at Darry’s face. He’s flushed up to his ears and lookin’ anywhere else but Wayne’s face.

“Aw, she’s bashful,” Wayne teases, smacking Darry’s cheek lightly before moving off and sitting himself down next to his friend. Darry’s fiddling with his little portable radio and trying to tune it into the local station without too much fuzz in the background.

The year is 1997 and Tracy Lawrence is croonin’ “How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye” through the $5 speakers of a portable radio. Darry’s crackin’ open the bottle of vodka that one of the skids outside the liquor store was all too excited to get them in exchange for a $20.

Wayne’s rollin’ a joint for them to share. One of the Bay brothers promised it’s the best they’ll ever smoke, and Wayne likes to pretend to be skeptical of the Johnny Red Eye, but he really doesn’t have enough experience to have an opinion of good or bad weed.

The joint he rolls is maybe a bit too tight and it’s a bit pregnant in the middle but Darry can’t roll for shit so when he passes it over to him to light he doesn’t comment. He takes too big of a drag and coughs up a lung before handing it back to Wayne. Darry tries to wet his dry throat with a swig of vodka that has him hacking even more.

Wayne’s smacking him on the back over and over, grinning so big it’s startin’ to hurt as he takes his own hit. It has him coughin’ a bit as well because if’n y’aint coughin, y’aint doin’ it right.” He leans back in the straw, looking up through the skylight and up at the stars. Darry joins him when he can get his breathing under control. He’s taking deep breaths and giggling himself. They’re propped up, pressed flush shoulder to thigh, passing a joint and cheap vodka back and forth until it burns down to nothing and the bottle’s a little past half-empty.

“Would you go toe-curlin’ with Reba McEntire?” Darry asks because “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia” is coming soft through the radio.

“Hard no.”

“Why?”

“Super hard no.”

“You got an exclamation, Big Shoots?” Darry asks, smackin’ him on the shoulder.

“Are ya’ even listenin’ to the song, bud? I’d do her any wrong and she’ll go pumpin’ my ass full of lead and get away with it scot-free too,” Wayne says, gesturing toward the little hand held radio. “Then she’d go blaming the murder on Katy seein’ as she’s my only sibling. And they’d hang her!”

“I think she means her brother,” Darry interjects.

“What?”

“Reba, I think she means her brother. She let her brother get blamed for it,” he explains.

“Oh,” Wayne says and they leave it at that.

A couple of hours have passed of them talkin’, tellin’ bad jokes and gagging on liquor. Wayne’s laughin’ his ass off because Darry decides to serenade him by singin’ along to Randy Travis in the most dramatic and out of tune rendition of “Forever and Ever, Amen” he’s ever heard in his life. The song rolls to an end and Darry holds on to that last note as long as he can before his voice cracks something awful which makes another round of laughter roll through Wayne like a heart attack. The radio host prepares them for the hit coming up next while Wayne gives Darry a well-deserved round of applause.

“You sure know how to make a gal feel special, Darry,” Wayne teases, passing back the bottle. Darry’s smiling at him and Wayne swears it’s so bright it’s outshinin’ the stars.

They are 14 years old and feelin’ warm and heavy. The straw pile is feelin’ as comfortable as any bed either have ever been in. Wayne’s lookin’ at the night sky singin’ “Two Dozen Roses” in a note deeper than any of the members of Shenandoah could ever hope to reach. He drops his arm to his side and it lands on Darry’s, and he goes to move away, mumblin’ out a ‘sorry’ when Darry’s fingers catch around his wrist, holding him in place.

He turns his head to check on his bud but finds Darry layin’ on his side, starin’ at Wayne with bloodshot puppy dog eyes, like he’s thinkin’ ‘bout somethin’ real hard. He doesn’t move his hand, doesn’t move to hold his hand like Wayne’s half-hopin’ he won’t, half-hopin’ he will.

“Do you ever think-” Darry stops himself short, won’t finish his thought and lookin’ at Wayne’s shoulder. It’s silent for a second- save for the radio finishin’ off “Two Dozen Roses” while Darry’s busy avoiding him and Wayne can’t look away from his friend’s anxious look.

“Pitter patter, Darry, do I ever think of what?” Wayne snaps, his own anxiety makin’ him rude. Darry looks back into his eyes and cracks a fake little smile.

“I forgot what I was gonna say.” He laughs a fake little laugh. Wayne will let him have an out if he needs it, he supposes.

“You are interplanetary, bud,” Wayne says, watching Darry’s eyes flick down to watch his mouth while he speaks.

“Yeah,” Darry agrees with a small smile, not lookin’ away. Wayne licks his lips, nervous for some reason, and Darry blue eyes follow the movement of his tongue.

Darry’s palm is gettin’ real sweaty where it’s still holdin’ on to his wrist like he might run away if Darry doesn’t keep a hold of him and Wayne knows for a fact that his palms don’t look any better.

“You too though, huh?” Darry asks, lookin back up into his eyes.

Wayne turns on his side. They are facing each other, breathing in each others air.

It’s a warm night and their breath smells like weed and vodka and the radio is giving them “The Closer You Get”. Wayne’s never been a big fan of Alabama but he’ll be damned if they don’t know what they’re talkin’ about.

“I’m what?” he asks.

The closer you get, the further I fall...

“Interplanetary.” Darry explains, lookin’ up at him through his eyelashes. Katy’d call those ‘The Big Eyes’ and maybe he never believed her because she’s 12 and there is no way she has more experience in the flirtatious habits of people than him. Wayne can’t think of a better example than the way Darry’s lookin’ at him now though- like he’s responsible for hangin’ the stars in the sky.

“Yeah,” Wayne says, “I think I must be right up there with ya, bud.”

“Good,” Darry says, with some finality that Wayne can’t understand.

It’s then that Darry let’s go of his wrist. He runs his hand up Wayne’s bare arm, slow and heavy, like he’s givin’ Wayne a chance to move away. Wayne’s arms light up with goosebumps and he holds his breath.

Darry must feel like he’s tested the water’s enough because he’s grabbin’ a fist full of Wayne’s t-shirt and smooshin’ their lips together in one uncoordinated move. Wayne’s closes his eyes and his body goes stiff in an instant and he holds it that way until Darry moves away.

Wayne keeps his eyes closed but he lets out the breath he was holding. It’s quiet between them for too long and the radio is playing “Young Love” by The Judds and isn’t that just a kick in the pants.

“Wayne, I-” Darry starts but Wayne cuts him off before we can start to try to talk his way out of this one. Wayne presses their lips together again, softer this time, and moves his hand to the back of Darry’s head to pull him closer like he’s seen the older kids do against the lockers between classes. Darry’s still got a handful of his shirt and Wayne can feel the grip go slack. Darry acts like he doesn't know what to do with his hands for a second before he’s holdin’ onto Wayne’s shoulder.

Wayne pulls away first and he’s sure if he weren't so tanked he’d be worried that his dad could see them. Could be a part of the atmosphere they’ve created with the smell of weed hangin’ in the air and the sound of them panting into the space between them and Randy Travis singin’ “Deeper than the Holler” just for them. Instead, they have heavy limbs and bloodshot eyes and completely secluded in the loft layin’ in the worlds softest pile of straw on the clearest night with the brightest stars Letterkenny has ever seen.

“Do you- uhm,” Darry starts, cheeks redder than Wayne’s ever seen them, eyes as bright as he thinks they’ll ever be, “do you want to roll another one?”

Wayne’s feels a tingle in his lips and he has to keep himself from reaching up to touch them.

“Sure,” he says, cracking a smile, “whatever you want, ya fuckin’ skid.”

Darry scoffs and tosses a handful of straw at his face.

Diamond Rio is singin’ “Meet in the Middle” and they both agree that he’s a fuckin’ Sally and change the station to top 40s instead.

#wayne/daryl #letterkenny #just-tea-thanks

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The Ballerino

By Paul Teodo & Tom Myers

“WHAT’D SHE SAY?”

Melinda looked away. “She’s scared.”

“Of what?”

“You won’t come.”

“I’ll come. What’s wrong with her? I show up... I’ll come, for Christ’s sake.”

“It’s Sunday.”

“Big deal.”

“Noon.”

Johnny’s jaw clenched. “Noon! What kinda people do big things for little kids at noon?”

“That’s what she’s scared of.”

“What does that mean?”

“I should take a picture.”

“Of what?”

“Your face. It’s easy to see. You don’t wanna come.”

“Whatta you talkin’ about?”

“C’mon, Johnny. Everybody knows what you do.”

“I got a right. It’s just four hours.”

“She’s your daughter. Your only child.”

“I work hard.”

“Nobody says you don’t.”

“Can they change it?”

“Change the goddamn ballet recital just for you?” Her voice rose. She thrust her hip sideways and firmly planted a hand on it. “Johnny, that’s how you operate! Change it for me.” Melinda turned and walked out of the room. “Jesus Christ.” The door slammed behind her.

Johnny followed her. Pressing his face to the door, his voice rattled the pictures on the wall. “I work my ass off for this family and I deserve one day, four hours. They’re playin’ the fuckin’ Packers, Melinda!”

Melinda’s voice muffled through the door. “She’s your fuckin’ daughter too, Johnny.”

“I’m goin’ out!” He snatched his car keys and headed down the steps.

✶

”USUAL?” GUS ASKED, WIPING OFF THE STICKY BAR.

“Yeah,” Johnny said.

Gus pulled the bottle of Jack off the shelf and sloppily poured a shot into the glass in front of Johnny. He tilted his head back and threw it down hard like he couldn’t wait for its magic.

“Jesus,” Gus said. “Here’s your chaser. Not that you need it.” He slid the seven-ounce glass, white foam overflowing down its side, in front of Johnny.

“I work my fuckin’ ass off.” Johnny’s voice rose over the background hum of the bar.

“Who doesn’t?” Johnny heard a guy say from far in the back, next to the juke box, nursing a bottle of Budweiser.

Springsteen moaning, ghost-like. One step up and two steps back.

“My wife,” Johnny turned, tapping his empty glass on the bar. “She’s on me.”

Gus poured him another shot of Jack. And drew another shorty off the tap, using a rusty metal ruler to even out the foam.

“You gotta wife?” The guy in the back yelled.

“Oh, yeah,” Johnny said, shooting down the Jack, anxious for that comforting burn.

“I used to.”

“Used to what?” Johnny stood, squinting to make out the commentator.

“Have a wife,” the guy said, “A kid too. But I showed ‘em.”

Johnny stepped towards him. “What’d you show ‘em?”

“That I had a life. And their lives depended on me.”

Gus touched Johnny’s shoulder. His voice quiet. “Yeah, he showed ‘em. He’s here every day. Noon to six. Sits in the corner by himself. He’s got something to say about everybody’s shit.”

Johnny eyed the old guy and turned back to Gus.

“Got fired years ago and blames the world. Don’t fuck with him, Johnny.”

“What’d he say?” The guy stood, bottle of Bud still in his hand, stumbling into the juke box causing Bruce to roar.

One step up and two steps back.

“Nothin’,” Johnny’s voice rose over Springsteen.

“He said somethin’. I heard him!”

“Sit down and shut up,” Gus hollered, pointing the ruler at him.

“Fuck you!” the guy screamed.

The bottle hit Johnny square in the face. He dropped to the floor.

Gus came over the bar like an acrobat.

The guy charged Gus.

One shot and Gus dropped the guy cold.

✶

JOHNNY STUDIED HIS FACE IN THE MIRROR. The zig-zag gash ran from his eyebrow up to his receding hair-line. His tongue conducted an investigation over a busted scraggy tooth, and his nose was turning an ugly purple.

“He got you good,” Gus said, studying Johnny in the mirror.

“Real good,” Johnny said. “You got a phonebook?”

“Phonebook?”

“Yeah.

“This is over, Johnny. Let it go.”

“Phonebook, Gus.”

✶

JOHNNY DROPPED A QUARTER IN THE PHONE. He struggled to yank the door shut in the graffiti-filled, foul- smelling booth. He waited. Melinda answered. “I ain’t gonna be home tonight.”

“Where you gonna be?” she asked.

“I’m okay.” He hung up.

✶

“THAT’S IT?” THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN ASKED HIM.

“Yes,” he said.

“Are you okay?” She pointed to his face.

“Yes, fine. Thank you.”

“May I ask?”

“It’s complicated.”

“Do you want to try them on?”

“They look like they’ll fit fine.”

“At least try them on.”

“Okay.” Johnny turned and headed toward the dressing room.

He came out of the room looking sideways like a cat burglar.

“They fit?”

“They fit fine.”

“Good,” she said. “Fifty dollars, cash or credit?”

“Fifty dollars?”

“Yes, they aren’t cheap, but they will last.”

“Great.” He needed them to last. “Cash.” Johnny said, handing her two twenties and ten singles. Half a week’s pay.

“I hope you enjoy them.”

“Yeah… sure.”

✶

“WHERE YOU BEEN? IT’S BEEN TWO DAYS.”

“Sorry, I’m an asshole. I needed to think.”

“What happened to your face?”

“I’m an asshole.” His voice lowered. “I deserved it.”

“What happened?!” Melinda’s voice loud enough to make his ears hurt.

“Is Olive here?”

“What’s going on, Johnny?”

“Melinda, please. Is Olive here?”

“No, she’s at practice. What’s in there?” She pointed to the box tucked under his arm.

“New hobby. Talk later. I’m going to see Olive.”

✶

“FIVE-SIX-SEVEN-EIGHT. CHIN UP. ON YOUR TOES. BEAUTIFUL. That’s right, so nice.” The woman’s voice drifted through the studio, mixing with the melodic music.

Johnny watched his daughter from a corner. Her tiny feet struggling to keep balance, her hands awkwardly grasping the air. Her warm smile, Melinda’s smile, the smile that melted his heart, spread across her determined little face.

“One-two-three-four. That’s so nice.”

Johnny studied his little girl.

His heart breaking.

He ducked into the bathroom, box still under his arm.

He exited slowly, cautious, like a child at an audition, stupidly hoping not to be seen.

It was his daughter.

Fuck it!

“Olive!” Johnny’s voice echoed in the hall filled with tiny ballerinas and startled mothers.

His daughter froze, mid-clumsy-pirouette.

“Daddy!” She ran towards him.

“I love you, Olive.”

She leapt into his arms. “I love you, Daddy! You came to watch me dance!”

Even better, my sweet Olive.

“Johnny,” Melinda stormed through the door, “what the hell are you…” she stopped, backing away. Her eyes fixed on her husband. Her hand waived towards him with surly curiosity. “What’s this?”

The room, silent. Little feet making no noise on the dusty wooden floor. The music had vanished. The hovering mothers, observant, like lionesses ready to protect their young.

Miss Crump, the ballet instructor, smiled, her eyes sparkling. “This, I believe,” she waved her hand towards Johnny, “is a father who is ready to dance.”

Johnny’s face, pounded from the Budweiser bottle, nose clogged, and scabs ready to burst, gave way to an immense smile.

He gently placed Olive on the studio floor. He bowed, head still throbbing, struggling to keep balance. “I’m ready, Olive. Show me what you got.”

She curtsied. “Those are the prettiest tights I’ve ever seen Daddy.”

“Your favorite color, Baby. Momma’s too.” He glanced back over his shoulder at his wife, he puckered his swollen lips, and blew her a kiss.

Melinda shook her head, wiping the tear welling in her eye.

Ms. Crump flipped the music back on. Its beat foreign to Johnny.

“This is the best song, Daddy!”

Johnny stood terrified, a frightened scarecrow in the middle of the studio. Olive raised her hands with great dignity and pride, carefully raising her dimpled chin. Johnny followed her lead, and the two of them stumbled around the floor like puppies.

The music took over, sweeping them away in an awkward crawl.

Her in her tutu and tiara and him in his new fifty buck baby blue ballet tights and size 13 dance slippers.

Bruce drifted back, ghost-like, into his head as he tried to follow Olive’s lead….

One step up and two steps back.

Not today Bruce.

Not today.

#Fiction

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