Faves of 2023: The 1984 Draft - Best Friends Forever
The city of Dayton, Ohio, has long been a hotbed for musical creativity, birthing numerous bands that have left an indelible mark on the music industry and on the hearts of music lovers. Among these, The 1984 Draft has carved its niche, blending indie rock sensibilities and the cleverness of punk music with heartfelt lyrics that resonate with audiences. In 2023, the band released “Best Friends…
small little doodle page for you @niceguyanonymous !!!!!
((I tried my best, I'm not a very good writer, but I hope you like it <33 sorry I didn't put too much detail into this one, I wasn't sure how exactly to interpret it!))
Yknow as devo as I am about there not being a full proper studio recording for the Electric Dreams musical, I'm glad the singular proper one we have is one of the objectum ones
Thank you for reblogging the post about the August 5 1988 Script Draft of Ghostbusters 2.
If you were a screen writer or screen doctor, wich angles would you keep for the final movie, and wich you would cut out?
Thanks for the question! It’s a good one and a challenging one!
I think that GB2 could have been interesting with a new love interest for Peter. He’s clearly a Lothario—we learn in the first moments of GB1 that he’s trying to woo a student, then he uses his professional work to flirt with Dana. It would make sense for him to be chasing someone else in the next film (as was the case in the 1999 video game, which was set in 1991). It’s formulaic, but it works.
I don’t think that merging that new woman’s traits into Dana’s story made sense. I’d have rather seen Dana remain a musician, married to Peter, and elevated to the role of a Ghostbuster.
I like the insect idea—reminiscent of the 10 plagues—but I could see it getting a bit too creepy. I think mood slime was a better fit for a paranormal movie.
Also obviously omitting Winston and Janine is/was a mistake. They should have had more screen time.
Old timey hockey is unhinged! I'm in a rabbit hole...
1984 Pittsburgh vs Vancouver
Mario Lemieux's pummeling Gary Lupul 19 after he got under his skin!
Here is 1984 first draft pick Pittsburgh
Lemieux and the Pens had failed to reach a contract agreement before the draft, and it was to express his displeasure that he refused to go downstairs on the floor and wear the Penguins jersey.
After the draft, look at his 99 ring!
Also, he kinda did salvage penguins till 2005 when penguins drafted another hockey prodigy.
1984 Mario leaving for Pittsburgh
Major Clark Kent energy also I can't believe I'm thirsting over Mario lemieux, but he has a very nice bum....
Here guy lefleur after his 1000th point acknowledging the fans behind him a 15 year old Mario lemieux
And finally, if Patrick Roy didn't pan out for Habs, here is Sidney's dad
recommended resources on Lebanese resistance and its context
this has been in my drafts for a long time bc I wanted to find more audio resources but in light of recent events I'm posting as is, and will add more later. pdfs for texts without links can be found on libgen
⭐ = start with these
📺 = video resource
🎧 = audio resource
Hizballah
⭐ Lara Deeb, "Hizballah and Its Civilian Constituencies," in The War on Lebanon: A Reader, eds. Nubar Hovsepian and Rashid Khalidi (2007)
⭐🎧 Electronic Intifada Podcast with Rania Khalek, "Why Hizballah would deal Israel a deadly blow" (2024)
⭐🎧 Electronic Intifada Podcast with Amal Saad, "How Hizballah Aims to Deter Israel" (2024)
🎧 Rania Khalek and Julia Kassem, "The Hybrid War on Lebanon is All About Weakening Hezbollah" (2022)
Hassan Nasrallah, "Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah," ed. Nicholas Noe (2007)
Judith Harik, "Hizballah's Public and Social Services and Iran," in Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the last 500 years (2006)
Sarah Marusek, Faith and Resistance: The Politics of Love and War in Lebanon (2018)
Abed T. Kanaaneh, Understanding Hezbollah: The Hegemony of Resistance (2021)
Karim Makdisi, "The Oct. 8 War: Lebanon's Southern Front" (2024)
Political theory
⭐ Ussama Makdisi, "Understanding Sectarianism," in The War on Lebanon: A Reader, eds. Nubar Hovsepian and Rashid Khalidi (2007)
⭐ Rula Juri Abisaab and Malek Abisaab, The Shi'ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists (2014)
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 (2010)
Tareq Y. Ismael and Jacqueline S. Ismael, The Communist Movement in Syria and Lebanon (1998)
2006 war
⭐ Gilbert Achcar and Michel Warschawski, The 33-Day War: Israel's War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and Its Consequences (2007)
The Electronic Intifada with Dahr Jamail, "The world just sat by" (2006)
The Electronic Intifada with Bilal El-Amine, "Lebanon in Context" (2006)
The War on Lebanon: A Reader, eds. Nubar Hovsepian and Rashid Khalidi (2007)
Civil war and 1982 invasion
⭐📺 Up to the South, dir. Jayce Salloum and Walid Ra'ad (1993)
⭐📺 Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon, dir. Mai Masri and Jean Khalil Chamoun (1987)
⭐ Souha Bechara, Resistance: My Life for Lebanon (2003)
Jean Said Makdisi, Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir (1990)
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout, Sabra and Shatila, September 1982 (2004)
Ottoman era
Charles Al-Hayek, "How, then, did you try to rebel?"
Lebanon Unsettled, "Lebanon's Popular Uprisings"
Axel Havemann, "The Impact of Peasant Resistance on Nineteenth Century Mount Lebanon," in Peasants and Politics in the Modern Middle East (1991)
Ussama Makdisi, The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (2000)
Peter Hill, "How Global was the Age of Revolutions? The Case of Mount Lebanon, 1821" (2020)
Mark Farha, "From Anti-imperial Dissent to National Consent: the First World War and the Formation of a Trans-sectarian National Consciousness in Lebanon" (2015)
French mandate era
⭐ Kais Firro, Inventing Lebanon: Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate (2002)
Sana Tannoury-Karam, "Founding the Lebanese Left: From Colonial Rule to Independence" (2021)
Idir Ouahes, Syria and Lebanon Under the French Mandate: Cultural Imperialism and the Workings of Empire (2018)
Malek Abisaab, Militant Women of a Fragile Nation (2009)
Misc
⭐📺 Leila and the Wolves, dir. Heiny Srour and Sabah Jabbour (1984)
⭐ Fawwaz Traboulsi, A History of Modern Lebanon (2007)
Karim Makdisi, "Lebanon's October 2019 Uprising" (2021)