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6 posts reblogged (18%)

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#digital sculpture - 24 posts

#nomad sculpt - 21 posts

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13 notes - Posted January 16, 2022

#4

It's been so incredible watching a new generation rediscover the classic film GONCHAROV. I had to dust off my copy of Donald Nelson's novelization ($6.99 on eBay including shipping- you won't find it for that price now!). For years this was the only way anyone could experience the story! 

I'm extremely fortunate to live within walking distance of the Brattle Theater, Cambridge MA's legendary arthouse cinema, and was able to see GONCHAROV on a beautiful 35mm print at a screening a few years ago. 

I'd heard of it, of course: my dad had seen it first run in at the Orson Welles Theater on Mass Ave, and had praised it as one of Scorsese's finest. In the days before media consolidation, local UHF channel TV38's MOVIE LOFT program had aired it- unedited and without commercials- something they'd only done once before, for Cimino's THE DEER HUNTER (which also starred Robert De Niro). I'd been too young for either of those, but couldn't wait to see GONCHAROV, which I would... Eventually.

It was almost 30 years before I got my chance. The Brattle showing was well-attended by a bunch of film nerds, many of whom I recognized. We'd all heard the stories of the tangled copyright issues and studio infighting that made these prints so scarce, and we knew we were in for a rare treat. But I'm not sure how many of us realized the artifact we were about to see would be competing with the film each of us had imagined.

For the most part, it held up remarkably well. Beautiful and atmospheric, it married European cinema sensibilities with American pacing, and a young, hungry Scorsese was already a master of his medium. The acting, well, there's a reason for that Oscar nomination.

But I'll confess... the abrupt ending left me feeling unsatisfied and, dare I say it, a little ripped off. Not for the cost of a ticket, but for the time I'd spent imagining and admiring the GONCHAROV that existed only in my head. In the years since I saw it, I'd periodically flash on that feeling of disappointment at an otherwise throughly entertaining movie, and chew on it like a canker. Turning it over on my head, asking what I wanted instead of what I got, and only ever able to articulate the feeling as "not this."

Finally I came to accept it for what it was: of course it was too abrupt, too inconclusive. The movie, like Goncharov himself, had simply run out of time. It was the ending it had to be. 

GONCHAROV exists in my memory in two forms: the perfect, incomplete picture conjured of the movie I'd never seen, and the ambitious, beautiful, frustrating, imperfect film it really is. I would not trade either one. 

(By the way, the novelization has more details about Katya's pregnancy: the father was not who you think it was!)

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23 notes - Posted March 10, 2022

#2

Case and Molly from William Gibson's NEUROMANCER.

Digitally sculpted and rendered in Nomad Sculpt for the iPad Pro.

27 notes - Posted October 9, 2022

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SIX BY SONDHEIM (2013) Run Time             86:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 - English Aspect Ratio       1.78:1; 16 X 9 Widescreen Product Color    COLOR Disc Configuration           BD 25

From award-winning director and frequent Sondheim collaborator James Lapine, Six by Sondheim is an intimate and candid look at the life and art of legendary composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who redefined musical theater through such works as Company, Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George. Told primarily in Sondheim’s own words from dozens of interviews spanning decades, the film is a highly personal profile of a great American artist as revealed through the creation and performance of six of his songs. It features rarely seen archival performance footage and original staged productions – created exclusively for this film – with stars including Audra McDonald, Darren Criss, America Ferrera and more.

HARLEY QUINN: THE COMPLETE FIRST AND SECOND SEASONS (2019,2020) Run Time             594:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 - English Aspect Ratio       1.78:1, 16 X 9 Widescreen Disc Configuration           2 BD 50

Harley Quinn (Kaley Cuoco) has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker (Alan Tudyk) and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City in this half-hour adult animated action-comedy series. With the help of Poison Ivy (Lake Bell) and a ragtag crew of DC castoffs, Harley tries to earn a seat at the biggest table in villainy: the Legion of Doom. Don’t worry – she’s got this. Or does she? In Season 2, Harley has defeated the Joker, and Gotham City is hers for the taking…what’s left of it, that is. Her celebration in the newly created chaos is cut short when Penguin, Bane, Mr. Freeze, The Riddler and Two-Face join forces to restore order in the criminal underworld. Calling themselves the Injustice League, they’re intent on keeping Harley and her crew from taking control as the top villains in Gotham.

NEW 2021 1080p HD master! PUMP UP THE VOLUME (1990) Run Time             102:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 - English Aspect Ratio       1.85:1, 16 X 9 Letterbox Product Color    COLOR Disc Configuration           BD 50 Includes Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

By day, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater) is a painfully shy new kid in a small Arizona town. But by night, he’s Hard Harry, the cynical, uncensored DJ of a pirate radio station. Idolized by his high school classmates (who are unaware of his real identity), Harry becomes a hero with his fiercely funny monologues on sex, love, and rock and roll. But when he exposes the corrupt school principal, she calls in the FCC to shut Harry down. An outrageous rebel with a cause, Slater gives a brilliant performance as the reluctant hero who inspires his classmates to find their own voices of rebellion and individuality. A movie with a message, Pump Up the Volume is a raw and witty celebration of free speech that will make you laugh, make you cheer and make you think.

NEW 2020 1080p HD master! A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1935) Run Time             126:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English, MONO - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1 Disc Configuration           BD 50

Special Features: Audioscopiks (MGM short); 2 Classic Cartoons 'Hey, Hey Fever' and 'Honeyland'; Radio adaptation with Ronald Colman; Trailer

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens’ tale of love and tumult during the French Revolution comes to the screen in a sumptuous film version by the producer famed for nurturing sprawling literary works: David O. Selznick (David Copperfield, Anna Karenina, Gone with the Wind). Ronald Colman (The Prisoner of Zenda) stars as Sydney Carton – sardonic, dissolute, a wastrel…and destined to redeem himself in an act of courageous sacrifice. “It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done,” Carton muses at that defining moment. This is far, far better filmmaking too: a Golden Era marvel of uncanny performances top to bottom, eye-filling crowd scenes (the storming of the Bastille, thronged courtrooms, an eerie festival of public execution) and lasting emotional power. Revolution is in the air!

NEW 2021 1080p HD master! BABY DOLL (1956) Run Time             114:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English, MONO - English Aspect Ratio       1.85:1, 16 X 9 Letterbox Product Color    BLACK & WHITE Disc Configuration           BD 50

Special Features: "Baby Doll: See No Evil" vintage featurette; Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

Times are tough for cotton miller Archie (Karl Malden), but at least he has his child bride (Carroll Baker), who’ll soon be his wife in title and truth. The one-year agreement keeping them under the same roof – yet never in the same bed – is about to end. But a game with a sly business rival (Eli Wallach) is about to begin. In Baby Doll, as in A Streetcar Named Desire, director Elia Kazan and writer Tennessee Williams broke new ground in depicting sexual situations – earning condemnation from the then-powerful Legion of Decency. They earned laurels too: four Academy Award® nominations, Golden Globe® Awards for Baker and Kazan, and a British Academy Award for Wallach. Watch this funny, steamy classic that, as Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide proclaims, “still sizzles.”

NEW 2021 1080p HD master from nitrate preservation elements! SAN FRANCISCO (1936) Run Time             115:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English, MONO - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1 Product Color    BLACK & WHITE Disc Configuration           BD 50

Special Features: Alternate Ending Sequence; "Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome" featurette with Liam Neeson; two vintage FitzPatrick Traveltalks: 'Cavalcade of San Francisoco' & 'Night Descends on Treasure Island'; Classic Cartoon 'Bottles"; Theatrical re-issue trailer (HD)

Romantic drama combines with humor, starpower combines with lavish spectacle and the walls come tumbling down! This Academy Award-winning extravaganza’s street-splitting, brick-cascading, fire-raging recreation of the cataclysmic earthquake remains "one of the greatest action sequences in the history of the cinema, rivalling the chariot race in both Ben-Hurs" (Adrian Turner, Time Out Film Guide).

Clark Gable plays rakish Barbary Coast kingpin Blackie Norton. Jeanette MacDonald portrays a singer torn by her love for Blackie and her need to succeed among the operagoing elite. Earning the first of nine career Best Actor Oscar® nominations,* Spencer Tracy is a priest who supplements spiritual advice with a mean right hook. He urges Blackie to change. But if love and religion can't reform Blackie, Mother Nature will.

NEW 2021 1080p HD master from 4K Scan of original Technicolor negatives! SHOW BOAT (1951) Run Time             108:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 STEREO - English, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Original Mono Theatrical track- - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1 Product Color    COLOR Disc Configuration           BD 50

Special Features: Commentary by Director George Sidney; Till the Clouds Roll By - Show Boat (1946) Sequence; "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and "Bill" Ava Gardner Audio-only Outtakes; Lux Radio Theater Broadcast (2/11/1952); Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

From novel (by Edna Ferber) to Broadway smash (by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) to three film versions (1929, 1936, 1951) to stage revivals. Like Ol’ Man River, Show Boat just keeps rollin’ along. Produced by Arthur Freed and directed by George Sidney, this 1951 version of the saga of riverboat lives and loves has glorious stars (Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Marge and Gower Champion) in Technicolor® radiance, a made-from-scratch 170-foot paddle wheeler, timeless songs and an equally timeless outcry against racial bigotry. “This was music that would outlast Kern’s day and mine,” Ferber said in recalling her first reaction to hearing “Ol’ Man River.” She was right as rain.

NEW 2020 1080p HD master! MY DREAM IS YOURS (1949) Run Time             101:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        MONO - English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1 Disc Configuration           BD 50

Special Features: Vintage Joe McDoakes Comedy Short "So You Want to be An Actor"; The Grass is Always Greener short subject; Classic Cartoon 'A Ham in a Role' ; Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

Talent agent Doug Blake (Jack Carson) is giving 100% to earn his 10%. He walks away from his arrogant singing star (Lee Bowman) and scrambles to discover another who will shine even brighter. He finds effervescent songstress Martha Gibson. Doris Day plays Martha. Think she has a chance? During the shooting of Day’s first film (Romance on the High Seas), director Michael Curtiz was sure the sparkling newcomer had much more than a chance and set the wheels in motion for My Dream Is Yours. Curtiz dots his film with authentic Hollywood locales (including the fabled Schwab’s Pharmacy). And Bugs Bunny himself hops into a dream sequence. Welcome to the Dream Factory. Make it yours.

NEW 2020 1080p HD master from 4K scan of Original Technicolor Negatives! ON MOONLIGHT BAY (1951) Run Time             95:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        MONO - English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1 Disc Configuration           BD 50

Special Features: 'Let's Sing a Song About the Moonlight' vintage short; Classic Cartoon 'A Hound for Trouble'; Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

Not since Judy met the boy next door in St. Louis has there been a heaping of tuneful, romantic Midwestern American life like this! Doris Day and Gordon MacRae team for spoonin’, croonin’ and swoonin’ On Moonlight Bay, based on Booth Tarkington’s Penrod stories. “Try not to walk like a first baseman,” Mama (Rosemary DeCamp) tells tomboy Marjorie (Day) as she prepares to date college man Bill (MacRae). The advice takes. The lovebirds hear wedding bells ahead, just as soon as Bill gets his sheepskin. But World War I rages “over there.” And Papa (Leon Ames) rages at home after a flap with his prospective son-in-law. Will harmony return to this Hoosier home? Surely Day and MacRae will make musical harmony. And On Moonlight Bay will have you sailing along.

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Reading de Nacht Reading 2019

                              my favourite books of the year

my overall favourite book of the year:

martin hägglund "this life why mortality makes us free" (2019)

postcyberpunkstompf:

01 ken liu (ed) "broken stars: contemporary chinese sf in translation" (2019)

02 cory doctorow "radicalized" (2019) 03 dave hutchinson "the return of the incredible exploding man" (2019)   + dave hutchinson "nomads" (2019)   + dave hutchinson "thumbprints" (1978)   + dave hutchinson "torn air" (1980)   + dave hutchinson "the push" (2009)   + dave hutchinson "the villages" (2002)   ... damn that elusive "paradise equation" (1981) ... 04 tade thompson "rosewater" (2016)   + tade thompson "rosewater insurrection" (2019)   + tade thompson "rosewater redemption" (2019) 05 desirina boskovich (ed) "lost transmissions: the secret history of sf & f" (2019)

06 hannu rajaniemi & jacob weisman (eds) "the new voices of science fiction" (2019) 07 gardner dozois (ed) "the very best of the best: 35 years of the year's best science fiction" (2019) 08 jonathan strahan (ed) "the best science fiction & fantasy of the year, volume thirteen" (2019) 09 robert markeley "kim stanley robinson modern masters of sf" (2019) 10 allan kaster (ed) "the year's top hard sf stories 3" (2019)

11 olivier girard (ed) "bifrost 96 la revue des mondes imaginaires: william gibson" (2019) 12 mario guglielminetti "web is over. parabola ed esplosione di ubuweb, l'antiprofilo" (2019) 13 bryan thomas schmidt (ed) "infinite stars: dark frontiers" (2019) 14 baoshu "the redemption of time" [2011] (2019) 15 cixin liu "the supernova era" [2003] (2019)

16 l. x. beckett "gamechanger" (2019) 17 gareth l powell "fleet of knives" (2019) 18 chen qiufan "waste tide" [2013] (2019) 19 derek künsken "the quantum garden" (2019) 20 gregory benford "rewrite: loops in the timescape" (2019)

21 james s.a. corey "tiamat's wrath" (2019)   + james s.a. corey "auberon" (2019) 22 jim al-khalili "sunfall" (2019) 23 peter f hamilton "salvation lost"  (2019) 24 neal asher "the warship" (2019) 25 jonathan strahan (ed) "mission critical" (2019)

26 jack mcdevitt "octavia gone" (2019) 27 elizabeth bear "ancestral night" (2019) 28 ian mcdonald "moon rising" (2019) 29 carmen maria machado (ed) "the best american sf & f 2019" (2019) 30 valerie valdes "chilling effect" (2019) 31 simon morden "bright morning star" (2019)      + s. j. morden "no way" (2019) 32 neil stephenson "fall or, dodge in hell" (2019) 33 graham edwards "string city" (2019)

klassikstompf:

01 arno schmidt "bottom's dream" [1970] (2016) ... & still reading ...

02 jorge luis borgès "borgès restored (the author's preferred translations)" (2016) 03 julie orringer "the flight portfolio" (2019)   + julie orringer "the invisible bridge" (2010) 04 pola oloixarac "savage theories" (2017)   + pola oloixarac "dark constellations" (2019) 05 simon critchley "memory theatre" (2014)

06 gabriel josipovici "hotel andromeda" (2014) 07 david keenan "for the good times" (2019) 08 wg sebald "vertigo" [1990] (1999)   + wg sebald "the emmigrants" [1992] (1996)   + wg sebald "the rings of saturn" [1995] (1998)   + wg sebald "austerlitz" (2001) 09 luis chitarroni "the no variations "diary of an unfinished novel" [2007] (2013) 10 julián ríos "larva: a midsummer night's babel" [1983] (1991)

11 césar aira "birthday" [2001] (2019)   + césar aira "three novels" [1990-2000-1997] (2018) 12 tom mole "the secret life of books" (2019) 13 lucy ives "loudermilk or the real poet or the origin of the world" (2019) 14 lászló krasznahorkai "baron wenckheim's homecoming" [2016] (2019) 15 lucy ellmann "ducks, newburyport" (2019)

16 lars iyer "nietzsche & the burbs" (2019) 17 d harlan wilson "the psychotic dr. schreber" (2019) 18 andrew gallix (ed) "we'll never have paris" (2019) 19 chris kelso (ed) "i transgress" (2019) 20 john crowley "the solitudes" [1987] (2007)   + john crowley "love & sleep" (1994)   + john crowley "daemonomania" (2000)   + john crowley "endless things" (2007) ... (the aegypt cycle)

polarstompf:

01 carlos ruiz zafón "the labyrinth of the spirits" [2017] (2018)

02 volker kutscher "the fatherland files" [2012] (2019) 03 andrea camilleri "the overnight kidnapper" [2015] (2019)   + andrea camilleri "the other end of the line" [2016] (2019) 04 mick herron "joe country" (2019)   + mick herron "this is what happened" (2018)   + mick herron "nobody walks" (2015) 05 john le carré "agent running the field" (2019)

06 guillaume musso "la vie secrète des écrivains" (2019) 07 luke mccallin "the man from berlin" (2013)   + luke mccallin "the pale house" (2014)   + luke mccallin "the divided city" (2016) 09 henry porter "brandenburg" [2005] (2019)   + henry porter "firefly" (2018)   + henry porter "white hot silence" (2019) 10 mitch silver "the bookworm" (2018)   + mitch silver "in secret service" (2007)

11 alan judd "the accidental agent" (2019) 12 philip kerr "metropolis" (2019) 13 ian rankin "westwind" (2019) 14 jo nesbø "the knife" (2019) 15 david hewson "devil's fjord" (2019)

16 barry forshaw "crime fiction: a reader's guide" (2019) 17 a.a. dhand "one way out" (2019) 18 martin holmén "clinch: the stockholm trilogy 01" (2016)   + martin holmén "down for te count: the stockholm trilogy 02" (2017)   + martin holmén "slugger: the stockholm trilogy 03" (2019) 19 michael kestemont "de zwarte koning" (2019) 20 soren sveistrup "the chestnut man" [2018] (2019)

21 tim mason "the darwin affair" (2019) 22 patrick conrad "good night, charlie" (2019) 23 chris pavone "the paris diversion" (2019) 24 dov aflon "a long night in paris" (2019) 25 arne dahl "hunted" [2017] (2019)

                                  RIP ANDREA CAMILLERI !

gedächtnisstompf:

01 martin hägglund "this life: why mortality makes us free" (2019) /                            "this life: secular faith & spiritual freedom" (2019)

02 derrida "la vie la mort: séminaire (1975-1976)" (2019) 03 jean-luc nancy "derrida, suppléments”  (2019) 04 jean-françois bouthors et jean-luc nancy "démocratie! hic et nunc" (2019) 05 hannah arendt "de vrijheid om vrij te zijn" (2019)      + hannah arendt "nous autres réfugiés" (2019)

06 mckenzie wark "capital is dead": is this something worse?" (2019) 07 johan schokker & tim schokker      "extimiteit: jacques lacan's terugkeer naar freud" (2000) 08 gerhard richter & ann schmock (eds) "give the word:      responses to werner hamacher's 95 theses on philology"    (2019) 09 ranja n gosh "philosophy & poetry: continental perspectives" (2019) 10 shoshana zuboff "the age of surveillance capitalism" (2019)

11 kate zambrano "screen tests: stories & other writing" (2019) 12 daniele carluccio "roland barthes lecteur" (2019) 13 jean-clet martin "la philosophie de gilles deleuze" (2019) 14 mitchell dean & daniel zamora  "le dernier homme et la fin de la révolution:          foucault après mai 68" (2019) 15 arnon grunberg "vriend & vijand: decadentie, ondergang & verlossing" (2019)

16 kwami anthony appiah      "de leugens die ons verbinden: een nieuwe kijk op identiteit" [2018] (2019) 17 quentin meillassoux "science fiction & extro-science fiction" (2015) 18 roberto calasso "het onbenoembare verleden" [2017] (2019) 19 lydia davis "essays" (2019) 20 denise riley "time lived, without its flow" (2019)

poesisstompf:

zoë skoulding "footnotes to water" (2019)

platterstompf:

01 rick moody "on celestial music, and other adventures in listening" (2012)

02 yann courtiau "frictions:   ce que la littérature a fait à la musique et ce que la musique a en a fait" (2019) 03 vivien goldman "revenge of the she-punks:      a feminist music history from poly styrene to pussy riot" (2019) 04 garrígos, triana & guerra "god save the queens: pioneras del punk" (2019) 05 jon savage "this searing light, the sun & everything else:      joy division the oral history" (2019)

06 richard beck "trains, jesus, and murder: the gospel according to johnny cash" 07 mark lanegan "sleevenotes" (2019) 08 jason williamson "jason williamson's house party: sleaford mods 2014-2019" (2019) 09 gallix, hill, & rose (eds) "love bites: fiction inspired by pete shelley" (2019) 10 greg laurie "johnny cash the redemption of an american icon" (2019)

11 marc vos & toon loenders "siglo xx:     opdat de dood ons levend vindt & het leven ons niet doodt" (2019) 12 david sandilands & david keenan "go ahead & drop the bomb      (memorial device pamflet)" (2019) 13 guillaume belhomme "pop fin de siècle" (2019) 14 chris bohn (ed) "the wire" (magazine) (2019) 15 sylvain sylvain "there's no bones in ice cream:      sylvain sylvain's story of the new york dolls" (2018)

16 debbie harry "face it" (2019) 17 jaime gonzalo "poder freak: una crónica de la contracultura vol III" (2014) 18 matthew bower & samantha davies "talisman angelical" (2017) 19 darryl w bullock "the world's worst records: an arcade of audio atrocity vol I" (2013)   + darryl w bullock "the world's worst records: another arcade of audio atrocity vol II" (2015) 20 steve zisson (ed) "a punk rock future" (2019) /      ivar muñoz-rojas "underground babilonia" (2019)

bilderstompf:

01 didier ottinger "bacon en toutes lettres" (2019)

02 antoni tàpies "cap braços cames cos" (2012)   + antoni tàpies "mahlerei und graphik" (2011) 03 laura oldfield ford "savage messiah" (2019) 04 fred vermorel "dead fashion girl: a situationist detective story" (2019) 05 françois schuiten & jaco van dormael "le dernier pharaon" (2019)

06 ken krimstein "the three escapes of hannah arendt: the tyranny of truth" (2018) 07 erik bindervoet & saskia pfaeltzer "aldus sprach nietzsche's zuster" (2019) 08 anthony n fragola & roch c smith "the erotic dream machine: interviews with alain robbe-grillet on his films" (2006)

cyclostompf:

01 bernard chambaz "petite philosophie du vélo" (2019)

02 filip osselaer "de man die doodging (vervolgens mosselen bestelde,      de rekening vroeg en verdween): el tarangu, josé manuel fuente" (2019) 03 peter schmink "de cultus van het lijden: een vrije oefening" (2006) 04 laurent willame "les lieux sacrés du cyclisme:     15 pélérinages à faire avant de crever" (2019) 05 jonas heyerick (ed) "bahamontes: uit liefde voor de stiel" [magazine] (2019)

06 johnny vansevenant "1969, het jaar van eddy merckx" (2019) 07 edwin winkels "la vuelta: heroïsche verhalen uit de ronde van spanje" (2019) 08 frederik baeckelandt "fausto coppi (les héros 04)" (2019) 09 harry pearson "the beast, the emperor & the milkman:      a bone-shaking tour through cycling’s flemish heartlands" (2019) 10 peter cossins "the yellow jersey / le maillot jaune" (2019)

11 thijs zonneveld "het panini album" (2019) 12 thijs zonneveld "de fiets, de fiets & nog veel meer sportverhalen" (2019) 13 willy vangenechten "hoe word je een wielerfan (en blijf je er een)?" (2019)

some wissenschaftstompf & autres divertissements ...:

01 robert macfarlane "underland: a deep time journey" (2019)

02 george van hal & ans hekkenberg "het kosmisch rariteitenkabinet" (2019) 03 josey waley-cohen "only connect: the difficult second quiz book" (2019)

… tsundoku !

may your home be safe from tigers, leroy, x HNY!

... the annual out of control TBR pile ...

postcyberpunkstompf

ada hoffmann "the outside" (2019) adrian tchaikovsky "children of ruin" (2019) alastair reynolds "shadow captain" (2019) + alastair reynolds "permafrost" (2019) annalee newitz "the future of another timeline" (2019) charlie jane anders "the city in the middle of the night" (2019) farah mendlesohn "the pleasant profession of robert a heinlein" (2019)gareth l powell "ragged alice" (2019) greg egan "perihelion summer" (2019) ian creasey "the shapes of strangers" (2019) jo walton "lent" (2019)

kameron hurley "the light brigade" (2019) karl schroeder "stealing words" (2019) megan o'keefe "velocity weapon" (2019) neil clarke (ed) "the eagle has landed: 50 years of lunar sf" (2019) nina allan "the silverwind" (2019) paul di filippo "aeota" (2019) peter swirski "stanislaw lem: philosopher of the future" (2019) + peter swirski & waclaw m osadnik (eds) "lemography: stanislaw lem in the eyes of the world" (2019) richard kadrey "the grand dark" (2019) rudy rucker "million mile road trip" (2019) simon ings "the smoke" (2019)

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alex landragin "crossings" (2019) enrique vila-matas "mac's problem" [2017] (2019) joseph scapellato "the made-up man" (2019) kevin breatnach "tunnelvision" (2019) michel houellebecq "serotonin" (2019) nell zink "doxology" (2019) roberto bolaño "the spirit of science fiction: a novel" (2019) samanta schweblin "mouthful of birds" (2019) sergio pitol "mephisto's waltz: selected short stories" (2019) will eaves "murmur" (2019)

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johan op de beek "het complot van laken" (2019) jon steinhagen "the hanging artist" (2019) juli zeh "empty hearts" (2019) max hertzberg "operation oskar" (2019) + max hertzberg "berlin centre" (2019) peter robinson "many rivers to cross" (2019) tony belloto "bellini & the sphinx" [1995] (2019)

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Comprehensive Exam Readings

My research “question”:

Many writers of U.S. fiction insert nonfiction documents into their narratives to critique how marginalized citizens are excluded from their rights to equal protection granted by the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. I’m interested in how African American authors and other writers of color have employed these strategies since the end of World War II; for example, the inclusion of real warrants for runaway slaves in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, or passages from U.S. treaties with Native American tribes featured in Watershed by Percival Everrett. In the essay, I will identify, historicize, and examine some of these conventions, and drawing upon Assemblage Theory and Third Space theory,  explore how these subversions of the fiction genre might allow authors of color to highlight historical truths, erase some of the distance between literary and political realms, and possibly affect political change.

To be completed by September 2020. (note: Strikethrough is complete / Bold means I intend to cite them in my comprehensive exam)

U.S. Fiction (Post ‘45): Major List

Guiding Questions:

How do works of geopolitical American fiction since the end of WWII explore the ways in which American exceptionalism has subjugated people of color? Specifically, how do these works examine the ways American colonial rule define U.S.–indigenous relations; and how do these works continue to engage with race in America since the Civil Rights movement?

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. Anchor, 2014.  

Akwaeke, Emezi. Freshwater. Grove, 2018.

Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Algonquin, 2010.

Aswany, Alaa Al. Chicago. Harper, 2008

Baldwin, James. Giovanni’s Room. Vintage, 2013.

Barthleme, Donald. “Concerning the Bodyguard,” Sixty Stories. Penguin, 2003. 

Beatty, Paul. The White Boy Shuffle. Picador, 2001.

Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Random House, 2012. 

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. Vintage, 1991.

Clemmons, Zinzi. What We Lose. Viking, 2017.

Currie Jr., Ron. God is Dead: Stories. Penguin, 2008. 

Diaz, Junot. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Riverhead, 2006.

Egan, Jennifer. A Visit from the Goon Squad. Anchor, 2010.

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Vintage, 1995. 

Everett, Percival. Watershed. Beacon Press, 2003.

Gay, Roxane. Ayiti. Grove Press, 2018. 

Gibson, William. Pattern Recognition. Berkley, 2005.

Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. Penguin, 1980. 

Habila, Helon. Travelers. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. 

Hagedorn, Jessica. Dogeaters. Pantheon, 1990. 

Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Harvest, 2008.

Herrera, Yuri. Signs Preceding the End of the World. And Other Stories, 2015.

James, Marlon. A Brief History of Seven Killings. Riverhead, 2015. 

Jarrar, Randa. A Map of Home. Other Press, 2008.

Jen, Gish. Typical American. Harcourt, 2014. 

Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master’s Son. Random House, 2013. 

Johnson, Mat. Pym. Spiegel & Grau, 2011.

Kaulfus, Ken. A Disorder Peculiar to the Country. Harper Perennial, 2006. 

Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. Vintage, 1989.

Kushner, Rachel. The Strange Case of Rachel K. New Directions, 2016.

Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies: Stories. Mariner, 1999. 

Lapcharoensap, Rattawut. Sightseeing: Stories. Grove Press, 2005. 

Le Nam. The Boat: Stories. Vintage, 2009.  

Lee, Chang-rae. Native Speaker. Riverhead Books, 1996. 

Luiselli, Valeria. The Story of My Teeth. Coffee House Press, 2015.

Mathews, John Joseph. Sundown. University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

Mbue, Imbolo. Behold the Dreamers. Random House, 2017.

Mengetsu, Dinaw. How to Read the Air. Riverhead, 2011. 

Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2010.

Ng, Celeste. Everything I Never Told You. Penguin Books, 2015.

Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Sympathizer. Grove Press, 2015.

Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Refugees: Stories. Grove Press, 2018.

Okada, John. No-No Boy. University of Washington Press, 2014.

Orange, Tommy. There There. Vintage, 2018. 

Otsuka, Julie. The Buddha in the Attic. Anchor, 2012. 

Ozeki, Ruth. A Tale for the Time Being. Penguin Books, 2013. 

Packer, ZZ. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere: Stories. Riverhead, 2004. 

Pena, Daniel. Bang. Arte Publico, 2018. 

Reed, Ishmael. Japanese by Spring. Scribner, 1993. 

Reed, Ishmael. Mumbo Jumbo. Scribner, 1972.

Rekdal, Paisley. Intimate: An American Family Photo Album. Tupelo Press, 2012.  

Salesses, Matthew. The Hundred-Year Flood. Little A, 2015. 

Sebald, W.G. The Emigrants. New Directions, 2016.

Shamsie, Kamila. Burnt Shadows. Picador, 2009. 

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. Penguin Books, 2006.

Washington, Bryan. Lot: Stories. Riverhead, 2019.

Williams, John Alfred. The Man Who Cried I Am. Harry N. Abrams, 2004.

Wright, Richard. Native Son.Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005. 

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five. Dial Press, 1999.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions. Dial Press, 1999.

African-American Iconoclast Fictions: Minor List

Guiding Questions:

What methods do African-American fiction writers use to interrogate racial subjugation for people of color in the United States and across the Global South?

Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame. Friday Black. Mariner Books, 2018

Baldwin, James. Go Tell it On the Mountain. Everyman’s Library, 2016.

Baldwin, James. “Sonny’s Blues.” Going to Meet the Man. Vintage, 1995.

Beatty, Paul. The Sellout. Picador, 2016.

Bell, Derrick. “Space Traders”

Brooks, Gwendolyn. Maud Martha. Third World Press, 1992. 

Butler, Octavia. Dawn. Aspect, 1997. 

Butler, Octavia. Kindred. Beacon Press, 2009.

Cole, Teju. Open City. Random House, 2012. 

DuBois, W.E.B., “On Being Crazy.”

Dumas, Henry. Goodbye Sweetwater. 

Ellis, Trey. Platitudes. Vintage, 1988.

Everett, Percival. Erasure. Graywolf Press, 2001.

Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying. Knopf, 1993.

Hannaham, James. Delicious Foods. Back Bay Books, 2016. 

Hopkinson, Nalo. Falling in Love with Hominids: Stories. Tachyon Publications, 2015. 

Hopkinson, Nalo. Midnight Robber. Grand Central Publishing, 2000.

Hughes, Langston. “One Friday Morning”

Hughes, Langston. “Salvation.”

Hurston, Zora Neale. “Sweat”

James, Marlon. The Book of Night Women. Riverhead, 2010.

Jones, Edward P. The Known World. Amistad, 2006.

Keene, John. Counternarratives: Stories and Novella. New Directions, 2015.

Kincaid, Jamaica. “Girl”

Larsen, Nella. The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand and The Stories. Anchor, 2001.

Laymon, Kiese. Long Division. Agate Bolden, 2013.

Mackey, Nathaniel. Late Arcade. New Directions, 2017.

MacPherson, James Alan. Hue and Cry: Short Stories. Harper Collins, 1969.

McFarland, Jeni. The House of Deep Water. Putnam, 2020.

Miller, Keith D., Joyce Lausch and Kevin Everod Quashie. New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America. Prentice Hall, 2001. 

Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Vintage, 2004.

Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Vintage, 2004.

Morrison, Toni. Paradise. Vintage, 2004.

Reed, Ishmael. Flight to Canada. Penguin, 1976. 

Ross, Fran. Oreo. New Directions, 2015.

Scott, Rion Amilcar. The World Doesn’t Require You: Stories. Liverlight, 2018. 

Senna, Danzy. New People. Riverhead, 2017. 

Shuyler, George. Black No More. Penguin Classics, 2018. 

Thompson-Spires, Nafissa. Heads of Colored People: Stories. 37 Ink, 2018.

Toomer, Jean. Cane. W.W. Norton & Company, 1988.  

Toure. The Portable Promise Land. Back Bay Books, 2003.

Whitehead, Colson. Sag Harbor. Anchor, 2010.

Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad. Doubleday, 2016.

Widerman, John Edgar. American Histories: Stories. Scribner, 2018.

Wideman, John Edgar. Phildelphia Fire. Vintage, 1991

Wideman, John Edgar. Fanon. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.

Theory: Assemblage & Third Space Theory 

Guiding Questions:

Can fiction be used as a tool to engender a new sense of belonging while rejecting a stable state of being? If so, how can this framework of assemblage be applied in fiction to highlight the ways local identities intersect with shared global perspectives? Can an assemblage approach to fiction encourage accountability for civil rights without state sanctioned legal status?

Agamben, G., 1998. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by D. Heller-Roazen. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 2012.

Anzaldua, Gloria. Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise). Duke University Press Books, 2015.

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. “The Case for Contamination." The New York Times Jan. 2006. 5 Nov. 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/magazine/01cosmopolitan.html

Bakshi, Sandeep, Jivraj Suhraiya and Silvia Posocco. Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions. Counterpress,  2016.

Belletto, Steven and Joseph Keith. Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War, University of Iowa Press, 2019. 

Bhabha, Homi K. Nation and Narration. Routledge, 1990.

Bruynell, Kevin. Third Space of Sovereignty. University Of Minnesota Press, 2007.

DeLanda, Manuel. Assemblage Theory. Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

DeLanda, Manuel. A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity. Continuum, 2006.

Dubey, Madhu. Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism. University of Chicago Press, 2003. 

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press, 2005. 

Gates, Henry Louis. The Signifying Monkey. Oxford University Press, 1988. 

Gwaltney, John Langston. Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America. The New Press, 1993. 

Goyal, Yogita. The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Goyal, Yogita. Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 

Goyal, Yogita. Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery. NYU Press, 2019.

Knadler, Stephen. Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African Literature. Routledge, 2010. 

Lorde, Audre. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythology. The Crossing Press, 1982.  

Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider. The Crossing Press, 1984.  

Machado, Carmen Maria. In the Dream House: A Memoir. Graywolf, 2019. 

Madsen, Deborah L. Beyond Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory. Pluto Press, 2008.  

Munoz, Jose Estaban, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. University of Minnesota, 1999. 

Okker, Patricia. Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction. Routledge, 2012. 

Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s. Routledge, 1994. 

Puar, Jasbir. “I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess: Becoming intersectional in Assemblage Theory.” philoSOPHIA, vol. 2, no. 1, 2012, pp. 49-66. 

Puar, Jasbir. The Right to Maim. Duke University Press, 2017. 

Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages. Duke University Press Books, 2007.

Rosen, Jeremy. “Literary Fiction and the Genres of Genre Fiction.” Post45, Aug. 2018. http://post45.research.yale.edu/2018/08/literary-fiction-and-the-genres-of-genre-fiction/ 

Rutherford, Johnathan. "The Third Space Interview with Homi Bhabha." Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, Lawrence and Wishart, 1990, pp. 207-221. 

Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. Vintage, 1994. 

Scott, James C. Weapons of the Weak. Yale University Press, 1987.

Shackleton, Mark. Diasporic Literature and Theory – Where Now? Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 

Shamsie, Kamila. “The Storytellers of the Empire.” Guernica, Feb. 2012. <http://www.guernicamag.com/features/3458/shamsie…> 

Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake On Blackness and Being. Duke University Press. 2016

Shklovsky, Viktor. “Art, as a Device.” 

Soja, Edward. Thirdspaces: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other-Real-and-Imagined Places. Blackwell Publishers, 1996. 

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ABC NEWS ANNOUNCES NEW LITERARY PODCAST, ‘THE BOOK CASE,’ HOSTED BY LONGTIME ABC NEWS JOURNALIST CHARLIE GIBSON AND DAUGHTER KATE GIBSON

First Episode, Debuting Monday, May 2, Includes Conversation With Oprah Winfrey 

*ABC News

 Today, ABC Audio announced and debuted the trailer for its new literary podcast, “The Book Case,” hosted by longtime ABC News journalist Charlie Gibson and his daughter Kate Gibson. The first episode, posting Monday, May 2, features a conversation with television icon Oprah Winfrey, who discusses the impact of her book club on American readership, her own reading habits and how she makes her picks. 

Each week, the father-daughter duo will provide hand-selected recommendations and sit down with a prominent or up-and-coming author, book industry insider or literary influencer. Upcoming guests include popular authors John Irving, Azar Nafisi, Sue Miller, Niall Williams, as well as Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who discusses her role as a steward of some of the country’s rarest and most historic books. Each episode will also feature a short audio postcard from an independent bookstore owner about the titles flying off the shelves in their region.   

“Kate and I share a passion for books and that sparked Kate’s idea for this podcast. It features two generations and two different viewpoints, but we share a desire to find books we think are worthy of listeners’ time,” says Charlie Gibson. “It’s also a chance to work with my daughter and read lots of books. What could be better than that?” 

"During the pandemic, I really missed spending time with my parents. Given how much we love talking about books, this seemed like an amazing way to combine father/daughter quality time with our favorite pastime,” says Kate Gibson. “Plus, I get to read everything I can get my hands on. It feels like I’m living a dream.”

“The Book Case” is available for free on major listening platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, TuneIn, Audacy and the ABC News app. New episodes post weekly on Thursdays beginning May 5. “The Book Case” joins ABC Audio’s growing library of lifestyle, culture and entertainment on-demand audio content available for free on the “GMA” channel on Apple Podcasts.

ABC Audio produces “The Book Case” in conjunction with SureCAN TV. Liz Alesse is director and executive producer for ABC Audio.   

About Charlie and Kate Gibson:   

Charlie Gibson is an award-winning journalist who retired from ABC News in 2009 after a 35-year career in broadcasting. For nearly two decades, Gibson co-hosted “Good Morning America.” He also anchored “World News with Charles Gibson” from 2006 to 2009. Highlights from his tenure at ABC News include covering the White House and Congress, interviewing nine presidents and moderating a presidential debate.   

Kate Gibson is a passionate reader and dedicated lifelong learner, currently working to obtain a master’s degree in library and information sciences. Before pursuing her master’s degree she had a career in television, most recently as an executive in public television. Prior to that, she produced and directed various programs for Food Network. She is the mother of two children, ages 8 and 3, and the wife of an audio engineer and producer. 

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Frederick Peterson Jr.: Tai-Chi Jitsu

Soke Grandmaster Frederick Peterson Jr. is the founder of American Tai-Chi Jitsu Self Defense which is a combination of Jui-Jitsu, Judo, Gung Fu and Filipino Escrima.

He has been inducted into five international Halls of Fame with Platinum awards in two Halls of Fame in 1988 and two in 1999 and he was inducted into The Masters Hall of Fame in 2000.

Chronological History of Qualifications and Experiences

1934 – Began boxing in Cincinnati, Ohio as a lefty lightweight in the same gym with boxing legends: Ezzard Charls, Floyd Gibson, David Clark, Sam Birch, Newsboy Seal and John Smith.

1943 – Enlisted in the U. S. Navy. There was trained in the art of Jagaro Kano Ju-Jitsu (Judo) by the “First Marine Raiders”, who were trained by Master James Metose. Served in the Solomon Islands such as, Guadal Canal, Invasion of Bougainville and a few of us were sent to the Philippine Islands.

1945 -1965 – Became the Lightweight Champion of the Americal Division Smokers in the South Pacific, (Boxing). Served on ten (10) naval ships and four (4) naval air stations, shore patrol and prisoner chaser over six (6) years, all during 21 years of military service. Played Judo at most of these naval assignments.

1947 – 1967 – Continued Judo training under several Japanese instructors and under such teachers as Sensei Rubio (U.S. Army CIA Agent) at Luter’s Park in Compton. CA. Earned Black Belt finally as Assistant Instructor to Master Sensei John Ogden, Long Beach, CA. Gung-Fu training under Great Grand Master James Sharp and Dr. Hugh McDonald in Compton, CA.

1967 – Started officiating at open and traditional tournaments all over the USA from San Francisco to New York. Associations were AAU, USAKF, USAKA and USKA. Holds the distinction of being the center official along with four (4) others, who could not break a tie during the Kata Performances (three times each) of Sifu George Chung and Sifu Stewart Quan. Both received Grand Championship awards. This was held in San Francisco.

1971 – Combined all training and experience over the years and founded Tai-Chi Jitsu Self Defense. Opened and taught at my first academy, Salvation Army, Building in Compton, CA.

Frederick Peterson Jr. has been a Boxing official in the Amateur Association (USA Boxing), since 1967 having officiated such pro, fighters and champions as Oscar de la Hoya, Sugar Shane Mosely, Fernando Vargas and brother. Larry Mosely and brother, Young Macho Comacho and many others as Amateurs even during several USA Olympic trails, Colorado (2), Lake Placid, New York (2), Kansas (2). Retired in 1999.

Frederick Peterson Jr. has referred and judged Amateur Kick Boxing for a few years and still at present state of California: Timekeeper for Professional Boxing.

Having trained hundreds of students over the years, Frederick Peterson Jr. has a number of Black Belts disciples including: Dr. Daniel Lane John and Richard Towels – 5th and 3rd degree respectively. Ricky Green – 4th degree. Tom Hardy – 3rd degree.

Willie Elam, Big John Robinson, Marvin Knight and Peter Fenny – all 2nd decree. Angelina and brother, Oscar Kesane, Pili Tutuvanu, Cesar Rojas (Skater with the Roller Derbys), Sgt. Michael Brooks (Los Angeles Police Department), Robert Williams, Henry Wilson, Jowel Schlicter, Andre Bey, Fred and Kelvin Floriman (father and son) – all Black Belts (Shodan).

Frederick Peterson Jr. tutored and or has been a part of the promotion of the following Black Belts:

Terry Wilson – 4th degree (’92 AAU JUI JITSU Silver Medalist)

Master Culpepper – Chief Instructor of Tai Quan Do, Long Beach, California and Open Tournament competitor.

Danny Bonadouche – Master Culpepper’s student (actor, TV, Partridge Family)

G.A. Sankara Frazier – Chief Executive Officer, Circle of Discipline, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN. Ranked degree Grand Master and instructor under Soke Grandmaster Frederick Peterson, Jr.. Currently have four (4) students, under Mr. Frazier, who are black belts/sash that teach and continue to learn at the Circle of Discipline, Inc. Also, USA International Amateur Boxing Coach and Professional Boxing Coach.

Worked with other Black Belts from the BKF system, such as Sifu Shulaman, Grand Master Nat Moore, Richard Gomes, Master James Sharp and in several California Dojos.

Frederick Peterson Jr. has been inducted with top honors in five (5) southern California Martial Arts Halls of Fame throughout the years of 1998 – 2000.

November 25, 1988, Frederick Peterson Jr. was certified by southern California Karate Association, Judan Chuck Farley. President and Judan Jimmy Bartell, consultant, promotion to 10th degree Black Belt (Judku).

Certified to “Soke” when inducted into the World International Global Hall of Fame in San Diego, California under Dr. Soto in 1999.

From 1987 through 1991 Frederick Peterson Jr. was Grand Champion in Masters Point Fighting (Kumite).

Frederick Peterson Jr. has referred, judged, and worked as a timekeeper for the California State Athletic Commission for both Muay Thai and Kickboxing events.

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Thursday, 12 June 1823

5 1/4

12

Clean bed, comfortable enough, and I believe well aired tho’ I slept in my drawers flannel waistcoat and great coat for fear of damp – could not go to my uncle yesterday or today which makes me rather feverish –

Off from Ilkley at 7 – very pretty drive very good road to Addingham, 3 miles – Had we gone to the small Inn on our right some distance before we came to the town, we should not probably have been so well off as at Ilkley – a few scattered houses; a neat, rather modern church; and, near it, a large probably cotton mill, form the commencement of Addingham, which then becomes a regular street, Extending considerably up the hill, and puts on the appearance of business –

we missed the turn, about 1/2 way thro’ the town, to the right to Bolton, and went 1/2 mile out of our way, to the top of the hill, within 6 miles of Skipton, which seemed likely to be a bleakish road – turned back – the 2 miles from Addingham to Bolton bridge very pretty

Stopt at Bolton bridge Inn, the Devonshire arms, kept by – Wilson, at 8 1/2 – had a good breakfast – café au lait – could not sleep there tonight – 9 people coming today – at least, there were 9 beds ordered – the mistress did not know what to do – only 2 double bedded and 2 single bedded rooms, without some of the family sat up all night – much consideration what we were to do – Mr Wilson lent us Greenwood’s map of Yorkshire mounted in 3 – the 3 ridings – Determined to see Bolton abbey, and then go forward to sleep at Kilnsey ‘14 long miles’ –

Off at 10 1/2 – Took a guide at the abbey (from one of the cottages near) at 10 55/60 – the nave and its side aisles now a neat church – the choir and transept form a fine ruin – the cloisters gone – one side traceable by the archwork along the south wall of the church § – what used to be the entrance gateway, is now the lodge, fitted up for the reception of the duke of Devonshire when he comes in the shooting season – the view from the Hartington seat (a rustic covered seat near the abbey, to the north) is perfectly beautiful – wood, water rock and ruin form a scene as perfect as the fancy of a Claude could imagine – the scenery as we proceeded northwards, for ever varying, and every variation in this singularly beautiful spot strikingly picturesque – Had we been a week earlier the hues of the foliage would have been more varied; at present they are rather too much mingling into one shade – Mr Carr’s house near the abbey (he is the clergyman, but has charge of the grounds) is in the abbey style, and very pretty – carriages not allowed to go down to the abbey; but the woman allowed us to go, all along the fields and the private road thro’ the woods –

Ludstream island a mile from the abbey – the Strid 2 miles from Ditto then the Hawkstone rock, and near it the Hawkstone seat, then the Pembroke seat, so called from the lady Anne (Clifford) countess of Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery, because overlooking her residence of Barden tower – in ruins – a fine object – went to the woodman’s cottage – returned by a higher and nearer road – the lady Harriet seat. beautiful view of the south nab which is in the deer park. to where we left the gig just above the Strid; drove it thro’ the fields into the high road to Kilnsey, and, afterwards a delightful stroll of 2 hours, set off again – Indeed my aunt had gone in the gig as far as the turn down to the strid –

stopt 25 minutes at Barden tower – something in the style of Kenilworth, but smaller – went into the old woman’s cottage in what appears to have been an entrance to the chapel which she shewed us – very plain – no ornament – Mr Carr preaches there in the morning the 1st Sunday of every month, and in the afternoon of the 3rd Sunday –

Beautiful drive all the way along the drive to Burnsall (but very hilly and in some parts roughish road tho’ tolerable – very fair – on the whole) where I am now writing having arrived at 2 3/4 – the rain which we feared in the morning has kept off – it has been cool and pleasant and we could not have had a day more delightful for our purpose – Percy did not eat quite so well this morning – I fear he is more lame – George says it is in the fetlock – then it is the old sprain – or perhaps in the coffin joint – at all events I have no hope of his even being good for anything again – How shall we get? – we saw Burnsall some time before we arrived – very picturesquely situated along the river – (Wharf) – but a small village – saw looms in a few of the cottages, and the people (women) wearing calico – sauntered out about an hour – along the river side – a neat stone bridge of 3 or 4 arches over it – a wide, shallow stream – pebbly bottom – the water perfectly clear –

sauntered into the church yard – looked thro’ the windows – read the monument of the Battys of Thorpe, the family of the late Mrs Wiglesworth of Townhead – an inscription over the church door, purporting that the church had been repaired in 1612 at the cost of sir William Craven Knight, who had been lord mayor of London – the same sir William founded and endowed the school adjoining into which we sauntered – several children there – all of the lower orders – the building now become old, and shabbyish-looking –

Set off from our Inn (Red lion, John Emsley) where we had sat in a neat double bedded room upstairs – the low room smelling of smoke tobacco etc – set off from our Inn at Burnsall at 4 55/60 a very narrow rough, hilly, road between 2 high amorphous – stone walls – we turned down to Linton by mistake a nice looking village with a shallow stream running thro’ it – to the left a large stone building an hospital, rather to the right a pretty house little lawn and green before it belonging to a Mr Robinson – an intricate road – went along the back of Thresfield, Grassington looking well on our right – at last crossed the great road from Skipton to Pately bridge, the guide post, quite a godsend for there are none hereabouts (scarcely a guide post or mile stone since we left Bradford) marked 11 to Pately bridge 21 to Otley, 10 to Bolton 6 to Kettlewell –

a large whitish building had for some time appeared in the distance on rising ground in the valley – about a mile from this guide post, we passed it close; and struck by its appearance, imitation of the antique, Elizabethan, we fortunately got out at the farther gate, and went the back way to the house – the rough stone of the country Except the portico consisting of 3 arcades, surmounted by the arms of the builder Mr Noel (a man of large property near Kirby Lonsdale, and a place 50 miles below London pronounced Hedgington 1) vide page 39. and dated 1820. the portico stone what we should call tooled – a gothic door studded with nails opens in a handsome square hall (light from a dome at the top) with a gallery round it into which open 4 doors communicating with parallel passages into which open the lodging rooms – Ground floor the hall out of which 4 doors opening, one on the right to the best stair case, and then the other to the drawing room – opposite the great hall or entrance door, the library – the 2 doors on the left opening one to the kitchen etc, and the other to the dining room opposite the drawing room – upstairs the best bed room over the library, and one lodging room and a dressing room opening into the passage on each side of the hall gallery – down the passage leading to the rooms over the kitchens etc a water closet (and another underneath it) and then a bath – capable of being supplied with hot water in 1/4 hour – capital attics – I went out upon the leads – the dome and the chimnies capitally managed –

the house 2 gable ends etc house body and kitchens attached – gable ends and all in straight line save the protection of the portico – garden

(Sunday 13 July 1823 § who married Miss Atkinson (of Linton) an only child, and, by her mother’s side, niece and heir to, Mr Noel of Netherside house; her father Mr A– [Atkinson] made his money as a fringe-maker Mr Robinson is a clergyman brother to Mr R– [Robinson] the attorney of Settle, who married Mrs William Priestley’s friend Miss Peart, daughter to the banker, formerly an attorney of that name at Settle according to Mrs William P–‘s [Priestley’s] account

half-moon shaped – the man who shewed us over the house (not yet finished) a sort of under gardener – Mr N– [Noel] keeps about 20 servants – married but no children, ætatis about 60 – the house stands on fine ground which from the back wooded down to the water’s edge descends steeply – A fine object several times as we wound along our road to Kilnsey whose majestic cragg is from the 1st glimpse caught a very fine feature in the landscape – the drive to Kilnsey very fine – limestone rocks on our right, reminding us of the Elwsy near Llangollen – All who go to Bolton should come here (Kilnsey) –

Stop at the 2nd house the Tennants arms, kept by Harman Trueman – much the best – Ordered our dinner at 8 1/4 having arrived at 7 10/60 – In the mean while walked perhaps 1/2 mile beyond the crag – very fine – Jackdaws building and flying about it –

Got back at 8 1/4 – and sat down to dinner at 8 3/4 – enjoyed it very much – cold roast beef and ditto legs of lamb – Excellent potted trout – gooseberry tarts, Cheshire cheese and old milk ditto which they were surprised at our preferring – Had the master in. Determined to go to the top of Whernside, etc tomorrow – If we had had the weather for wishing for, it could not have been better – no sun and cool and pleasant till from between 5 and 6 to 7 the sun tinged the hills beautifully –

Architect of Netherside house, Mr Webster of Kendal; master builder Mr Gibson of Ditto; – painter Mr Lockwood of Skipton – he had done the plaster work pannels in imitation of oak most naturally and beautifully the pannels in the hall are all plaster above the Skirting board – wrote the latter part of this of today after dinner –

E .. d.. – never enjoyed our dinner more than today – cold roast beef – Ditto some leg of lamb – potted trout (very good) gooseberry tarts and cream, Cheshire and very good old milkcheese – drank nothing but water –

left margin:

§ Put our names down in the abbey book ‘Mrs and Miss Lister, Shibden hall’ –

§§ about 1 mile from here are the remains of a Roman camp. vide

Baines’ Yorkshire Directory i. 442 (Tuesday 12 August 1823.) –

Addingham. §§

Bolton-bridge.

Bolton-Abbey.

Kilnsey. p[ages] 39. 40. 41

the Crag. p[age] 40. 41.

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0023 - 0024

[nutriyumaddict]

5, 10, 34 and 42 (Ben) please! 💗💗

Thank youuuuu! :)

This got long so putting behind a read more.

5: do you write scenes in a linear fashion or do you write future scenes/dialogues sometimes?

I’ve almost always jump around and write out of order. Sometimes, I’ll have the ending completely written before I fill up holes in the middle. That was definitely the case with bother mermaid fic and train fic.

10: any writing advice?

Ohhhhh, well. Let’s see:

Read a lot (novels, short stories, fic, whatever). I feel like that helps, not only for  inspiration but also in terms of just getting familiar and in-tune with flow and pacing, regarding story.

Try to write what you want and/or what you enjoy.

Also, I feel like there are no rules (always do X, never do Y, etc…) when it comes to creative pursuits. Art shouldn’t have rules! Make something and put it out there and if people like it, great (and obviously, that feels wonderful and comments/kudos are the best) but if they don’t, that’s okay too. You created something and that’s wonderful!

34: a scene/paragraph you wrote that you’re proud of

From Two More Parties: (Sorry, this is kinda long). I’m proud of it because I think Ben and his dad are a hard relationship to figure out/write. Personally, I think they are not that close, but I think they do love each other. It’s just complicated.

Ben is rummaging through his bag looking for his copy of the latest William Gibson novel, when his father comes out of the master bathroom, wearing a pair of blue and white striped pajamas. He recognizes them instantly.

“Are those the ones Leslie and I sent last Christmas?”

“Yeah,” his dad confirms. “I usually sleep naked but I figured–”

“Oh god. Yes, pajamas are good,” Ben agrees quickly, giving up the search for his book and instead just standing there awkwardly.

“I like airing out the equipment at night,” his dad adds, heading towards the dresser and the bottle of scotch.

He continues to stare as his father simultaneously pours drinks and makes Ben feel incredibly uncomfortable at the same time.

Ladies and gentlemen, Steven Wyatt.

“Besides, that way if I get a boner, it’s that much easier to–”

“Wow. Please stop talking. I get it. I don’t need to hear about the details.”

“What? I would think you’d appreciate knowing that everything still works on the old man. You know, genetics and all that. Wyatt men have no trouble in that department. Did you know that Teddy had a heart attack right in the middle of–”

“With Lila?” Ben asks, his curiosity getting the better of him, even as he has difficulty holding back a shudder, while trying to get the now-present visual of his dad’s much older brother and his…special lady friend out of his mind.

“Who else? Seventy years old and he’s still humping away on her like a teenager, right until his heart stopped and he collapsed on top of her. I always knew he ate too many fried foods. Anyway. You got a lot of good years ahead of you, my son,” he says, walking over and giving Ben a hard punch in the arm.

His dad finishes with a, “just stay away from the donuts,” and then hands one of the glasses to Ben.

“Oh, I really don’t like scotch. Um, Ron,” he pauses, realizing how strange it is to actually say the man’s name out loud instead of the current moniker of you-know-who or Leslie’s recent favorite, that-stupid-jerk-face, “made me try some once before and I just don’t like–”

“Don’t be a pussy. Have a drink with me,” his dad insists, sitting down on the bed. “This is my bachelor party.”

Ben sighs and takes a seat in the nearby chair. “Alright.”

They toast and he tries a sip but, yep, it’s still horrible. Ben does manage to swallow this time, though. So at least that’s good.

“I went to a tea party yesterday,” his dad tells him.

“You did?”

“Yeah. Your sister–”

“Stephanie was here?”

“No,” he says slowly. “The small one. Your three year-old sister.”

“Oh. Roxy. Right. Of course. My half-sister. Sister.”

That earns him an irritated look, but his dad continues. “She had a little table in her room all set up with stuffed animals and we drank pretend tea and ate real cookies.”

Ben smiles. “That’s cute.” It really is, he thinks, although he can’t at all visualize his gruff and terrifying father drinking pretend tea, surrounded by stuffed animals.

“It was really fucking cute,” Steve agrees, smiling back. “And no. I never did anything like that with Stephanie. I just…the point is…look, Ben. I’m trying. You kids grew up with your mom and I fighting all the time and sure, it could have been better but it also could have been worse but we did the best we could. And now maybe I have a chance to do it all better.”

“I know,” Ben says. And really, he does. It wasn’t ideal but times were different then and his parents were pretty miserable living together. But he really does hope his dad is a good father to Roxanne. “I know that, dad. We all do.“

“Alright. Drink up, then.”

Just then, Sonia wakes up and starts to cry.

Slightly relieved at the interruption, Ben puts the scotch down and goes over to the crib and picks his daughter up. He starts walking her around the room, trying to get her to settle down so that she doesn’t wake her brothers up. He even sings a few lines of an REM song to her.

Sonia smiles up at him and quiets down and Ben is so filled with love he can’t even believe it. He’s so full of love whenever he holds or cuddles or sings to one of the kids. Whenever he thinks about his family–-his team.

“You’re a good father,” the older man tells him quietly. “A good man. I’m proud of you, Benny.”

42: five songs that this character has on their iPod/iPhone?

So, I’m going to do Mermaid AU Ben since I just wrote that and it’s kind of where my head still is:

Night Swimming - REMMariner’s Revenge Song - The DecemberistsInto the Mystic - Van MorrisonRiver Rise - Mark LaneganThe Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

Mermaid AU Ben is a strange mixture of very focused and Ben-like, while also being kind of obliviously obsessed. He knows he has a thing for mermaid folklore and lakes and history (so to some degree he knows he’s obsessed) but then there are other unconscious decisions he makes all the time that go back to what happened to him as a child too.

For instance, the condo he bought in Bloomington overlooked a lake. He thought he bought it because the kitchen had granite countertops and the floors were hardwood, but it was really because he wanted to be near a lake. Also, 48% of the songs on his ipod reference bodies of water/have an aquatic theme.

He’s just always surrounding himself with maritime imagery whether it’s all of his pet fish or the artwork he chooses for his walls, which are mostly lake and ocean themes/colors. It’s this subconscious hole he’s trying to fill until he gets Leslie back in his life.

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Blake, Keats 6/18

William Blake (1757-1827)

Biography: Though largely dismissed in his own time, William Blake is now recognized as one of the great poets -- and, to a lesser extent, engravers and painters -- of the English Romanticism. As a child, Blake had religious visions: it is rumored that he saw, for instance, “God ‘put his head to the window” and later a “tree filled with angels” (poets.org). At age 10 he attended drawing school before becoming an apprentice to a master engraver; at 21, he enrolled in the Royal Academy, while earning his living as a journeyman engraver (he invented relief etching, or “Illuminated Printing,” which involved acid), employed by booksellers (branchcollective.org, britannica.com). He married an illiterate woman, whom he taught to read and write, but they had no children. A few years later, he witnessed his younger brother Robert die: “Blake saw his brother's spirit rise up through the ceiling, ‘clapping its hands for joy.’ He believed that Robert's spirit continued to visit him and later claimed that in a dream Robert taught him the printing method that he used in Songs of Innocence and other ‘illuminated’ works” (poets.org).

Much of his work concerned religion, but Blake did not adhere to the traditional religious thought at the time: “a religious seeker but not a joiner… Blake loved the world of the spirit and abominated institutionalized religion, especially when it was allied with government…. For Blake, true worship was private communion with the spirit” (britannica.com). Similarly, he lived during the Industrial Revolution, and the mechanization of England is said to have influenced his works as well.

Blake died in 1827 of liver failure, though it appears that this was unidentified at the time, as he referred to his “undiagnosed disease” as “‘that sickness to which there is no name’” (biography.com). He was, for the most part, unappreciated as a poet until after his death: “At the time of Blake's death, he had sold fewer than 30 copies of Songs of Innocence and of Experience,” a major collection of poetry of his (inclusive of “The Tyger,” “Ah! Sun-flower,” “Earth’s Answer,” “The Garden of Love,” etc. (wikipedia.org).

Questions:

Question #1: Where does the sunflower wish to go, and why does the “youth” and the “Virgin” want to follow it? Does this poem display features of typical Romantic works?

“Where the youth pined away with desire

And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow;

Arise from their graves and aspire,

Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.”

Question #2: What is “Earth’s Answer” an answer to? How does this seemingly light and simple content matter compare to Blake’s other darker and more ominous works, like “The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun” and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell?

https://incitingsparks.org/2016/09/06/an-inspiration-for-murder-the-blakean-images-in-popular-culture/

Question #3: Why is the garden a “Garden of Love”? Does the poem contain the answer to this question?

John Keats (1795-1821)

Biography: John Keats was born in London on 31 October 1795, the eldest of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats’s four children. Although he died at the age of twenty-five, Keats had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a few magazines. But over his short development he took on the challenges of a wide range of poetic forms from the sonnet to the Spenserian romance, to the Miltonic epic, defining anew their possibilities with his own distinctive fusion of earnest energy, control of conflicting perspectives and forces, poetic self-consciousness, and, occasionally, dry ironic wit. Although he is now seen as part of the British Romantic literary tradition, in his own lifetime Keats would not have been associated with other major Romantic poets, and he himself was often uneasy among them. The generally conservative reviewers of the day attacked his work as mawkish and bad-mannered, as the work of an upstart “vulgar Cockney poetaster” (John Gibson Lockhart), and as consisting of “the most incongruous ideas in the most uncouth language” (John Wilson Croker). Yet Keats today is seen as one of the canniest readers, interpreters, questioners, of the “modern” poetic project-which he saw as beginning with William Wordsworth—to create poetry in a world devoid of mythic grandeur, poetry that sought its wonder in the desires and sufferings of the human heart. He is very well known for his philosophical theories for poetry “the authenticity of imagination” (questions his own self in regards to whether the encounter did happen or if it was he who imagined the entire moment) and “negative capability” (when man is capable of being in uncertainties- mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason).

Keats befriended Isabella Jones in May 1817. She is described as beautiful, talented and widely read, not of the top flight of society yet financially secure, an enigmatic figure who would become a part of Keats' circle. Throughout their friendship Keats never hesitates to own his sexual attraction to her, although they seem to enjoy circling each other rather than offering commitment. He writes that he "frequented her rooms" in the winter of 1818–19, and in his letters to George says that he "warmed with her" and "kissed her". The trysts may have been a sexual initiation for Keats according to Bate and Gittings. Jones inspired and was a steward of Keats' writing. The themes of "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "The Eve of St Mark" may well have been suggested by her, the lyric Hush, Hush! ["o sweet Isabel"] was about her, and that the first version of "Bright Star" may have originally been for her. In 1821, Jones was one of the first in England to be notified of Keats' death

John Keats died in Rome from tuberculosis on February 23 1821. His body was buried in the city's Protestant Cemetery. His last request was to be placed under a tombstone bearing no name or date, only the words, "Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water." Severn and Brown erected the stone, which under a relief of a lyre with broken strings, includes the epitaph:

This Grave / contains all that was Mortal / of a / Young English Poet / Who / on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his Heart / at the Malicious Power of his Enemies / Desired / these Words to be / engraven on his Tomb Stone: / Here lies One / Whose Name was writ in Water. 24 February 1821

Questions:

Question #4: Keats seems to have an infatuation with death and even contemplates suicide in “Ode to Nightingale”. Do you think that Keats displays the idea of the “damned poet” in romanticism throughout the poem to bring weight to his artistic value or do you believe that he was in fact contemplating taking his life ? Do you feel that his words are inviting to others for an end of their life much like the text in The Sorrows of Young Werther were?

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time

       I have been half in love with easeful Death,

Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,

       To take into the air my quiet breath;

          Now more than ever seems it rich to die,

       To cease upon the midnight with no pain,

          While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad

                      In such an ecstasy!

       Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—

              To thy high requiem become a sod.”

Question #5: Although Keats expresses through “Sleep and Poetry” how he believes that the sublime experience many seek through this wave of romanticism lies in the emotions brought by poetry, he demonstrates to have an immense amount of respect for God and religion. Could this be conflicting for those are searching for something sublime outside of religion? If so, how?

“No one who once the glorious sun has seen,

And all the clouds, and felt his bosom clean

For his great Maker’s presence, but must know

What ’tis I mean, and feel his being glow:

Therefore no insult will I give his spirit      45

By telling what he sees from native merit.”

Question #6: Keats’s theories of “the authenticity of the imagination” and “negative capability” requires the individual to acknowledge that we, as humans, are; A) always learning and should always wants to learn, and B) can easily confuse a dream or a vision with reality if we are not careful. Aside from Werther, what other characters or stories that we have read can we apply these theories to? *It can be other characters from Werther as well.

Arguments:

Blake:

“The Garden of Love” revolves around the corruption of a place representative of youth and purity. The narrator describes the garden as a location that was once a comfort to him: “I used to play in the green.” Upon revisiting it, to his horror, he finds a brooding and unwelcoming chapel literally built on top of his container of tranquil memories and associations; what was once land to an abundance of “sweet flowers” has transformed into a graveyard. This is the imposition of man-made constructs over nature, I think: flowers are nature, and they have been uprooted for corpses -- the literal bodies of men. Furthermore, there is the imposition of religious institutions over the more free-spirited faith of the Romantic era, which typically stemmed from a sense of the sublime or a reverence for nature.

These ideas are demonstrated further in the concluding two lines, in which the narrator describes “Priests in black gowns… walking their rounds”: priests represent both humanity and organized religion, and the way they “[walk] their rounds” suggests an activity of habit, or one that has become a monotonous routine more than a devout act of faith, which in itself reveals the flaws the narrator might see in religious roles. Their gowns are black to contrast the green of what the garden once was; the priests restrict the narrator’s “joys & desires” with “briars,” which are prickly and painful. This last line is a powerful blow to the narrator -- where nature was once a thing of beauty and happiness, its undesirable remnants are now the final and most direct transmitters of pain to the narrator. Physically, briars are painful, but metaphorically, the garden still remains, only now in warped form -- perhaps the most difficult aspect of this anecdote, for the narrator, is humankind’s forsaking of what it once prized (nature) for restrictive forces also inclusive of industrialization.

Keats:  

With the movement of Romanticism, many artists arose to provide both an artistic and intellectual concepts towards a better society. Keats developed the concept(s) of “the authenticity of the imagination” promoting truth being held within one’s imagination and “negative capability” in which individuals find comfort in not knowing everything there is about a subject, place, or event. By using the prior knowledge of Keats’ beliefs with “the authenticity of the imagination” and “negative capability”, we can obtain a greater comprehension of “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Sleep and Poetry” by creating analysis and making connections between the poems to the theories. Keats is clear about his sublime experiences with connecting his poetry to his emotions and discovering the unknown (even if that means one must die to achieve it). Both “Sleep and Poetry” and “Ode to a Nightingale” allow us to see how Keats used his platform to display these ideas through the messages of these poems, their tone, and form in which the poem is written.

[jessicakehoe]

Read Chapter 1 of Ian Williams’s Exclusive Short Story “I Want It All. I Want It Now.”

We wanted our Summer issue to be special, as it’s on newsstands for three months. What we came up with is two pieces of culture in one: There’s a short story, a dark take on contemporary romance written by Canadian poet and novelist Ian Williams, and then there’s the regular Summer issue, featuring Kacey Musgraves on the faux cover. Below you’ll find the first chapter of the fictional story, “I Want It All. I Want It Now.” If you pick up our Summer issue, on newsstands May 26, you’ll find it intertwined with stories on travel, trends and all the other content you’ve come to expect from FASHION.

–Noreen Flanagan, Editor-in-Chief

PHOTOGRAPHY BY TRUNK ARCHIVE

Vancouver

Another woman

I looked at my phone for—no joke—15 seconds to respond to a notification. (My father. Could I work that afternoon?) And when I looked up, my boyfriend was checking out a blond in the checkout line ahead of us. He was trying to be discreet, absent-mindedly picking the inside corner of his nose and nibbling both of his lips, willing the woman to turn around so he could see her face.

I tapped my phone against the magazine rack and waited. I picked up a pack of Trident, glanced at the nutritional label, put it back. Unbelievable. Hudson was grinding up on her in his fantasy. From the back, the woman was either Dolly Parton or Nicki Minaj. Blond. She wore high-waisted mom jeans, a white crop top, hoop earrings the size of her bracelets and probably too much makeup. She was probably Botoxed between the brows, probably had too much filler in her lips and probably her face was coated in downy fuzz.

So you got a contract for a shoot in—Whistler? Hudson came out of his trance.

Mexico, I said.

Mexico. Even better, he said. You can swing up to L.A. and meet me.

I’ll be working.

He mouthed “working” and made air quotes.

You’ll be “networking,” I said. Same finger quotes. You swing down and meet me. I’m always the one following you around.

I’ll see. His eyes shifted to Dolly Minaj tapping her debit card.

Do you know her or something?

My mom had this poster tacked up in her workspace at Citytv. She was one of the first female producers there. Now my dad keeps it in the waiting room.

Yorkie

I lifted the dog from the examination table into a plastic bag. It was an old honey-coloured Yorkie with long bangs—a faded beauty queen. I took it down to the freezer.

We had one more procedure for the day; then my father would get in his car and drive to Whistler. He had a condo there and an Australian girlfriend who thought I should be teaching public school and nursing a baby at 25. Neither my father nor the girlfriend understood terms like contract labour, freelance, precariat.

I made room in the freezer for the Yorkie. As a child, I remember my father teaching me the difference between a carcass and a corpse. To me, it was all death, a staple black dress. But to him, death was more elaborate, like a damask pattern. The worst part of death was not knowing you were dead, he thought. Not pain, not leaving people behind, but the blindness of the dead regarding their condition. I closed the freezer door and returned upstairs.

Up next, we had a Pomeranian with an intestinal blockage. I held the dog’s head; my father injected it and cut its stomach open. Then we took turns feeling along the intestines for the obstruction. It was a good note to end the day on.

Sometimes he injected them and they didn’t wake up.

I learned early on not to be squeamish. My father doesn’t pay me. This is not my life. It’s not even my job.

Dye

How blond we talking? Ella asked.

I was sitting on the lip of her bathtub while she sectioned my hair into six parts. I had bought two boxes from L’Oréal Preference: my regular light brown shade, “Shade 36 Havane,” and my dream shade, “Medium Rose Blonde 823.”

I wanted to be so blond that I’d turn the festival into a testostefest of bug-eyed guys tryna get with me. Hudson would block hotties with his shoulder and say, You got a problem, bro? They’d scuffle. Maybe rip their white tees. Blood. Yeah, a bloody nose or two. I’d drag Hudson off the guy, then clutch his bicep as we walked away. From the back, my blond hair would be dishevelled but fabulous.

You gotta work on your feminism, girl. Ella put on gloves. What’s it gonna be?

You don’t think it’ll look like a wig on me? With my eyebrows and everything? I’ve got all these gigs late in the summer. I can’t show up looking like a bleached fern.

I like you dark. Ella shrugged.

But—

Odile, make a decision!

I considered the models on both boxes. The blond was radiant, but the brunette was sultry. In the end, I slapped the light brown box into her hand. Safe.

Ella didn’t look surprised. I almost changed my mind, but she ripped open the box and I knew I couldn’t return it. I leaned forward, partly so she could start with the roots at the back, partly to hide my face.

Ella and I were a year into an M.B.A. program, half online, half in the classroom. On the first day of Risk Management, I introduced myself as Odile, a model. The female professor said, There’s math in this course. The male students looked up from their phones and calculated their chances. All the female students dismissed me as a ditz, except for Ella. On break, she characterized the professor as the kind of white feminist who is a puppet of patriarchal oppression in all its forms, including capitalism. Ella had a background in social justice and intersectional politics.

You do realize you’re basically a white feminist, I said. She stroked her hair hand over hand, like a Kardashian.

I totally realize my complicity in the problem, she said, full of vocal fry. Then, seriously, she added: I’m in this M.B.A. to grow a dick and then cut it off. I should have introduced myself as Ella, I used to be a stripper.

Ella applied dye to the middle section of my hair, then to the front.

I told her that I caught Hudson looking at a woman in a grocery store.

She said, The same way you got him is the same way you’re gonna lose him.

I did not break them up.

You kinda did, she said. Karma’s not just the name of an escort.

I met Hudson in Risk Management. He told me later that his philosophy was always to approach the hottest girl in a room first. Go big. And there was no question who was the hottest in that room of cuttlefish. His words. He was with another woman at the time. But he ended that relationship (like a month after we hooked up, Ella would add here), and we’ve been together for seven months. We went public. Like Ella, he was only getting an M.B.A. as part of a master plan; his was for him and his band to be a brand. He was in the program to talk the talk, to learn the reptilian language he could use in L.A. to get his band signed. His ultimate non-sexual fantasy involved rolling across America in a tour bus and calling me from pay phones in dusty rectangular states. Some women like men with plans. I like men with dreams. Or fantasies. Even better if they included me.

Ella removed her gloves.

While we were waiting for the colour to set, I flicked my hand through her closet for something to borrow. Ella was taller than me so I couldn’t wear her pants, but everything else was fair game. I’d call my style “bohemian”—mismatched layers and oversized accessories—like a human gallery wall. Actually, I passed most of the spring semester layering Ella’s clothes on mine or Hudson’s. Sometimes his clothes ended up in her closet. Sometimes her clothes ended up in his. She slept in my bed some nights. I slept in hers other nights—maybe tonight.

Photography via Trunk Archive

Flight Centre

When I saw my hair, I reacted like women in makeover reveals. I wasn’t blond, but I was my best self. My mother used to watch Oprah. Call me crazy, but a good dye job always makes my boobs look bigger. I had to fan my eyes to keep back the tears. Ella tried to get me to spend the night, but I messaged Hudson.

Texts after midnight always got an enthusiastic reception.

Hudson met me on the street as I was parallel parking. Even though he was a few feet away, I could feel him all over me like a cloud of blackflies.

He fluffed my hair with both of his hands and pressed me against the side of the car. A lump in his sweatpants. I was wearing Ella’s sequined shift dress; slipping off my shoulders, it was like wearing moonlight on a lake. Hudson kissed my neck, kisses like bubbles everywhere. I had stepped into a glass of Champagne. I turned my head into the glare of the Flight Centre’s lights.

He remembered his trips based on what he ate. I remembered mine by what I bought: a Michael Kors bag in L.A., a Dior macramé dress in Paris, Gucci slippers in Ireland, a Van Cleef & Arpels pendant in Chile.

Then I went inside and surfed him like in the Beyoncé song.

Insomnia

I fell asleep while Hudson was making himself an avocado sandwich. I woke up a few hours later, and he was fingerpicking his electric Gibson. The next time I woke up, he was mixing music with his laptop on top of his keyboard. Then he was flipping through the FASHION magazines I had left on his amp, maybe reading the marginalia I wrote while I was reading them.

It’s like he wanted to sleep but couldn’t. I got up and went to him on the couch.

What’s bothering you? I asked.

He shook his head. He was bouncing his leg.

Photography by Robert Reader

I was used to his insomnia, but tonight his energy was more skittish. Maybe he’d had a late cappuccino. I put my hand down his pants to tire him out. He put his nose in my hair. When he tensed and exhaled, I lay down on top of him so he couldn’t move, so our heartbeats and breathing would synchronize and he’d fall asleep. (He believed in that cosmic energy stuff.)

But when I peeked, I saw that his headphones were on and his eyes were open.

At dawn, he walked me to my car.

What you got going on today? I asked.

He shrugged. I just need to get some sleep.

I nodded. I’ll leave you to that then.

I bought an Americano at the place nearby, but when I got back to my car, I saw him unlocking his bicycle.

He swooped a leg over the frame and pedalled hard the other way.

Odile’s story isn’t over yet. Where was Hudson headed and will his relationship with Odile survive mounting tensions when things don’t go as planned during a weekend getaway? See how it all pans out in Chapter Two and follow @the.real.odile on Instagram for real-time updates.

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Jason Dumont and his Beautiful Handcrafted Lap King Guitars

By: Rick Landers  

Jason Dumont

Guitar International landed on the handiwork of Jason Dumont when checking out an array of guitars, a search starting with small parlor guitars that lead to Gibson L-00 and Nick Lucas boutique guitars before discovering the beautiful wing-swept designs of some of Jason’s Lap King Steel Guitars, as well as some of his more traditional axes.

Certainly his Dumont Bel-Aire model was fashioned from the cool fins of those classic ’57 Chevy cars adorned in Surf Green and other classic colors.

Jason’s shop expertise has a custom-shop lineage that includes Fender, Guild and Hamer. Working and studying the ways of the masters for years, he found the entrepreneurial bug bit him. He went out on his own, a lone wolf, to build his own line-up of guitars, many standard models, but he still found custom work interesting and appealing to not only himself, but to some of his clients.

Dumont’s not one to stamp out guitar after guitar, especially when challenged by a customer who wants something special, a guitar unique and one that fits like a handcrafted melodic glove.

“Building guitars since 1997, I’m driven by relentless passion to build the finest handcrafted instruments  made. Lap King lap steels celebrate classic American styling and craftsmanship with the very best components available. Every guitar I make is crafted to deliver superior tone, playabilty and musical inspiration long after it’s purchase.” – Jason Dumont

What’s most intriguing about custom builders is their focus and their precision to details, but mostly the inordinate amount of patience it takes to craft a guitar as a piece of art. At times it must be a zen-like coupling between the builder and the wood, the torquing of individual screws, sanding until it “feels right”, not calibrated as much as intuited to shape.

One wonders if there’s some level of regret when a guitar leaves the shop, or is that feeling overcome by some level of satisfaction of the joy the guitar brings to an anxious owner.

We’re pleased to introduce many of you to Jason Dumont and his very fine handcrafted guitars – Lap King Guitars.

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Rick Landers: You’ve been an instrument builder for some time.  What drew you to being an artisan-craftsman of guitars and later lap steels?

Jason DuMont: Originally, I had just set out to simply make myself one nylon string classical guitar. I was in my early twenties and taking classical guitar lessons and I just got the romantic notion that I could build myself a wonderful guitar.

I had stumbled across the book,  Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology, by William Cumpiano and in it he shows how to make an instrument with almost all hand tools, hand tools I had seen in my grandfather’s basement. Hand planes, egg-beater style hand drill, chisels, I was swept away with the thought of playing a guitar made with my own two hands.

I come from a family with really artistic people, My Grandfather was a brilliant, prolific, albeit undiscovered, sculpture, my Grandmother and Mother, as well as uncles were talented painters. So, value of creative endeavors was really instilled from as far back as I can remember.

I was always a good drawer and painter myself, it had always come easy, but working with tools? It presented a real challenge, the challenge of combining a guitars aesthetic qualities with required, exacting structural requirements really attracted me to it.

My first nylon string guitars were so ghastly looking! They were mis-shapen wrecks, but I thought they were beautiful! The same way parents with funny looking kids think they’re adorable! [Laughs]

But, they sounded good and I just kept telling myself “The next one will be even better!”

I found the chase instantly intoxicating.

Lap King’s Bel Aire

Rick:  Many of our readers are novice builders and we have some fine world-class builders, when learning nearly anything as complex as a guitar, what are the most critical steps and maybe the biggest challenges to get right?

Jason DuMont: I can only speak for myself  here, but I found the discipline of not rushing to be the most challenging. Making yourself execute every task involved to the best of your ability was a big challenge for me.

So often when you start out building  you get “summit fever”, you are so anxious to hear and play your creation it’s easy to not sand something well enough, leave a brace a bit thick…

That urge to rush needs to be reigned in. To me, that’s the biggest challenge.

Rick:  So, what do you do if you build a beautiful guitar, but the end result is a bad sounding instrument? Start over, trash it or what?

Jason DuMont: For me it’s the joy of building that motivates me, I can honestly say I have never been terribly disappointed by the sound of any guitar I’ve made, I just looked to the next guitar with excitement to do even better.

So, I would say if that happens just move on to the next one and do better!

Enjoy the journey.

Rick:  Finding great tone woods I find is a talent and it’s a little amusing watching someone walking around tapping wood. What do you do and how do you know you’ve got wood that will do the trick?

Jason DuMont: Tapping and flexing soundboards is key when I choose wood. You use the tactile feedback to determine if the wood is right for a given instrument.

For example, I would choose a more flexible top with a lower tap tone for a smaller size guitar like a OO. For a 12th fret dreadnaught I’d want a nice stiff top that had a tight tone.

Then pairing the tops with scale length, back and side materials, what sound your looking for…that’s exciting!

You just have to build a lot of guitars, you learn from every one of them, and what the wood will bring to one.

Rick:  Are you a player of 6-strings and lap steels too? Anything else?

Jason DuMont:I am! I love to play guitars of all sorts and bass and ukulele!

I kinda see a Hurdy Gurdy in my future too!

Rick:  What kinds of work did you do for Fender’s acoustic Custom Shop, Guild and Hamer? Did you work on or craft any special guitars or guitars for well-known clients?

Jason DuMont: I was fortunate to begin my career working for the Kaman Music Corp. They had such a diverse product offering is was like a university of instrument making. They had several lines of instruments all being made in one facility in New Hartford, Connecticut.

When I started there I was in the Bowed Instrument department and learned how to set up and adjust their offerings of violins, cellos and upright basses. After a few years of that I moved on to the Ovation Guitar’s Adamas line of guitars.

They were handmade using really cutting edge composites, but with really decorative ornamentation. They were the flagship model and no expense was spared.

From there I moved to Hamer Guitars, a fantastic line of electric guitars. My duties were primarily in the finish, wiring, and set up department.

We only produced three guitars a day and Jol Dantzig (one of the founders) who ran the shop was an absolute perfectionist. In a “ factory” setting it was a real luxury to be able to spend as much time as it took to make sure a guitar shipped as perfect as we could make it. He ran a tight, well-disciplined shop and I learned a lot from him and the ten man crew.

Jason Dumont

After seven or eight years at Hamer, Fender bought KMC and brought Guild to the facility. Those guitars were great in my opinion. The whole shop was really excited to make all wood, traditional acoustic guitars and we rose to the occasion. I was in the spray booth shooting nitro and doing bursts.

Eventually, Fender wanted to try to have an Acoustic Custom Shop, like their famed electric shop. When that started I was in the Engineering Department working on a lot of prototype and small batch runs. Really, it consisted of classic, hand building techniques, bending sides by hand, bracing, kerfed linings, just building in general, then shooting the finish.  That position was a dream come true!

I worked with one other guy, William Vassilopoulos who was a real mentor to me. To this day he is the finest craftsman I ever met. He had seen it all and was very generous with his knowledge.

The Acoustic Custom Shop never really took off. A few terrific models were made, but I think the wheels were already in motion to jettison Guild and Hamer and Ovation guitars and close the facility.

After 22 years with the company, I had worked on so many instruments for some great players, Rick Nielsen, John Mayer, Tom Petty, Glenn Tipton, as a member of the team in New Hartford I couldn’t guess at the number of famous players we made guitars for. The doors in New Hartford were abruptly closed in 2014.

Rick:  You recently finished building a little 00 style guitar. Given your lap steel business, was that out of the norm and what prompted you to build it?

Jason DuMont: It really isn’t out of the norm for me, I usually make 3-5 non lap steel instruments a year. Electric guitars, basses, classical guitars, steel string acoustics, or ukes. They usually find their way to customers who are familiar with me already.

I haven’t really pushed them online because the lap steels have done well for me, but I love building instruments of all sorts. What prompted the OO is my wife had purchased two antique shutter style doors from New Orleans, well over 100 years old. They were so heavy! 75 pounds a piece!

One was left over from her project and I had to see what was under all that paint. It turned out they were made of quartersawn non- plantation Central American Mahogany.

I felt like something that old from that city must have some mojo in it!

The stuff was so dense and hard I instantly had the notion to make a late 20’s/early 30’s inspired, 12 fret OO , like a “Nick Lucas” using the same materials you’d find back in the day.

Red Spruce top and braces, maple back and sides, hot hide glue etcetera. Early on I knew I wanted to “relic” it which I know is not everyone’s bag. I didn’t want to make one of those guitars that sit pristinely in their case, taken out with kid gloves.

I wanted to make a real ass kicker guitar that someone wouldn’t constantly obsess about maybe putting a ding or scratch on her and the reliced finish sort of invites you to just grab her and have at it….and she looks cool! [Laughs] 

Dumont 00 named “Magnolia” after its Louisiana origins.

Rick:  Who’s playing your lap steel axes that we might know and did you find them or did they find you?

Jason DuMont: I’ve been really fortunate to have some incredible players take a liking to my steels. Jerry Douglas  was the first to really embrace them.

It all started with a Bel Aire model and we’ve collaborated on quite a few, I think five, by my count at this point.

In fact, it was his idea to come up with a mount so he could play them standing up. I had been a fan for years and I liked to go on his website forum and I sold a steel to a fellow forum member and he emailed me that I should try and get one to Jerry because it was a really great steel.

I sent an email and in a little while he got back to me saying he’d love to try one out. I was over the moon!

Cindy Cashdollar has one, she’s just terrific and Gary Morse is another monster player has two.

Cindy Cashdollar plays “Foggy Mountain Rock” on a Lap King – Video courtesy of Fretboard Journal.

Zack Filkins from the band OneRepublic plays one. He’s one of the nicest guys I ever met.

Bruce Bouton has just received one.

I’ve been very fortunate, I have met a lot of great people building steels.

Lately it’s been word of mouth, I’m such a small shop and access to the caliber of this level of musician can be tough, so I’ve been lucky to occasionally get an email from these guys.

Rick:  Will you build custom guitars or lap steels for people with the bucks?

Jason DuMont: Absolutely, since I build to order, often each one has something customized to the customers liking. I love making unique instruments!

Rick:  Does owning and running your own business have challenges that you appreciate better now, than when you worked for Fender, Guild and Hamer?

Jason DuMont: Definitely! I am far less cavalier with sandpaper! [Laughs] Materials and supplies are a big issue.

Rick: Any I’d imagine running your own shop offers you a sense of freedom too, right?

Jason DuMont: It really does, as I mentioned, I love to build unique instruments or go from an electric bass to a tenor uke to a classical guitar, and being the captain of the ship allows you to pursue ideas as fast as you can come up with them.

Rick: What do you think are the most important character or personality traits  necessary to be an entrepreneur in the guitar building, marketing and selling business?

Jason DuMont: That’s a tough question, I don’t think you can logically pursue the craft with the thought of financial success.

Most builders I know, me included are hopelessly drawn to it though. There’s no choice in the matter. Often to our detriment! You have to just love the art of building, that has to be the satisfaction. It really is the journey.

Rick: What are some of your all-time favorite lap steel songs?

Jason DuMont: Oh man! C’mon! Hmm …I’d have to say, “So, Here We Are”, off the Jerry Douglas Traveler album, David Lindley’s “Mercury Blues” from his Eld Rayo X, “Hillbilly Hula Gal” off off Junior Brown’s album, 12 Shades of Brown, oh, and Ben Harper’s song, “Ground on Down”.

There are  so many songs, from so many genres, that’s a hard question!

Jason Dumont’s Lap King Guitar Gallery

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PROGRESS UNBOXING PART DEUX

Hello everyone! Welcome to the final edition of Grapa and Claps for 2017 which took me to Camden for Show 104 of the year for Progress Wrestling's mystery show - Unboxing which as with the word mystery it was actually a mystery to who or what would turn up???

But as with any trip to Camden, it was time to take in a couple of the sights and sounds of the town before going to the graps.

First port of call was The Black Heart where rumours of a possible BritWres Pool Title taking place were unfounded due to Champion Athers strategically placing a 'No Pool' sign on the table to take his reign further into 2018 😉

Drink in this establishment though was as expensive as ever with one of the drinks on offer being £7.80 for a 6% pint of Beavertown - ridiculous 😣. I instead went for a pint of Camden Town INK which is a cross between a stout and a porter and cost the sum of £4.70 for a pint.

After working through the crowds of the Progress Fans Forum meet up, it was time to get to the next destination of Brewdog for the inevitable dry bumming of £6 for 2/3rds and surprise surprise I wasn't far away. 2/3rds of 5.6% Big Brown at a cost of £5.60 and also 2/3rds of a 6% ale for £5.40 weren't too bad with the Big Brown maybe picking up the best drink award.

An early start to proceedings was had with a start of 3pm at the ballroom for Progress Wrestlings last show of the year. So let's see what went down:

First match up was a Survivor Series style 4 on 4 elimination match with the teams entering the festivities were as follows - Moustache Mountain, Aussie Open, Chris Brookes and Inflatable Lykos and also the Tag Team Champions - ITV 1's BAFTA Award Winning Drama THE GRIZZLED YOUNG VETS.

The rules of this was Tyler Bate and Trent Seven were made respective captains of their team with them picking high school style - all lined up. So the teams ended up.being Trent, a reluctant Zack Gibson who was on great form again trading barbs with Trent, Kyle Fletcher and Inflatable Lykos vs Mark Davis, Tyler Bate, Chris Brookes and the unfortunate James Drake who was picked last (much sympathy here from 14 year old FAT Andrew Ogden of Hollingworth High School, Milnrow who always got picked last)

This was a lengthy but fun match with Gibson and Drake being early casualties getting done over by shenanigans involving the Inflatable Lykos. One of the main comedy parts of this match was the Inflatable being chucked off the Electric Ballroom balcony by Chris Brookes to the awaiting congregation below to the laughter of the 700 strong crowd.

Finish eventually came with Trent Seven and Chris Brookes being the last two men woth Brookes pulling out the Cheeky Roll Up victory over Trent to win in 22 minutes (the whole segment was just over 40 minutes, like an opening to RAW) - I just wasn't a big fan of the GYV's looking silly here if being critical of the match but i'm sure they will bounce back.

2nd match was Jack Sexsmith vs Joe Coffey in a interesting match up as it was Sexsmith in a different predicament against a much larger opponent. This match I felt was to get current No.1 contender Jack Sexsmith over a serious wrestler and I have got to say it worked here with him and Coffey producing a very good match which Sexsmith won with the Crossface for the surprise submission victory.

The Sexsmith push has been a bit stop start obviously with him getting injured in the SSS16 when I guess he would have been prominent in the latter stages of that tournament. But since then he has played beating stick having been done over by Haskins, Havoc and Eddie Dennis, I am just hoping now that there can be a sustained push now to get him ready for a match with Travis Banks for what would be a great title match.

3rd match up was a 6 way Womens contendera contest with a multitude of new faces to the Chapter shows with Chakara vs Charlie Morgan vs Charli Evans vs Millie Mckenzie vs Candyfloss vs Sierra Loxton.

One thing to note early is that Candyfloss's music just doesn't suit her bubbly character, The music is all dark and moody, when it should be a more upbeat and snappy pop tune.

This was a really good showcase match here with everyone getting their spots in, including many German suplexes from Millie Mckenzie for whom 2018 could be a huge year. Sierra Loxton I like the look of as well, good character and a good wrestler - very promising.

It was Millie who ended up with the victory here hitting a neckbreaker type move for the popular win. Millie vs Toni Storm in 2018 could be a great match to set up to later in the year with the right build.

Half Time Main Event was a '12 Days of Christmas' Tag Team Match with Jimmy Havoc & Mark Haskins vs the Progress debuting Clint Margera & Drew Parker. In all sense and purposes this was a Tag Team Hardcore match with the usual cavalcade of weapons including Kendo sticks, tables, chairs and lego.

I never understand why if doing a hardcore match why wouldn't you use Sticklebricks instead of Lego but thats just a personal choice of mine.

In terms of a Hardcore match it served a purpose and was good in places but having already seen the Fight Club Pro DeathHouse this year with at least 3 of these characters, everything else past it this year has gone down like a 'wet fart in church' and would be a late entrant into the 'get in the bin' awards for 2017 - i'm just fed up of these type of matches now.

That aside this was a good introduction for Parker and Clint to Progress but they eventually fell to the team of Havoc and Haskins in 17 minutes due to a Lego related finisher.

After the break and a great review from our Geoff of Bang Bang Chicken it was time to get into the meaty sized portion of the second half of the show, starting off with Flash Morgan Webster looking hopeful of victory but this was soon banished with the opening sounds of 'I Will Be Heard' by Hatebreed signalling the arrival of Rampage Brown to the roar of the Camden Massive.

Very good 10 minute match played to the backgrpund noise of the '12 days of Rampage' which first got an airing at a TIDAL show recently. The original version at a wrestling show was sang to Ryback at PCW Bradford last Christmas for those who could remember.

Webster plays the underdog really well against much larger opponents and doesn't really get the credit he deserves. But for all of his effort he was eventually put away with a SUPERBOMB from the top rope and then finished off with the 'Piledriver of Death' from Rampage for the loss.

After the match Webster got on the mic to say that the run of losses has took a toll on him that much that he is now taking time away from Progress to regain his bearings. This is very similar to what Progress are currently doing with Doug Williams at the moment 🤔

It is to be noted that the winning theme of Rampage's was not 'I Will Be Heard' but more 'I Won't Be Heard'.

Semi Main Event was for the Progress World Championship with Champion Travis Banks facing a returning and in what was a surprise to many - Will Ospreay who when last seen in Progress was losing a 'Loser Leaves Progress' match vs Jimmy Havoc in March this year.

This was 20 minutes of just fantastic high-octane action between 2 of the best wrestlers in the world. For all what people think of Ospreays usual high flying antics, his ground game has really improved in the last year since his move to pastures new in New Japan.

Plenty of near falls in this match with Ospreay kicking out of the Slice of Heaven and Kiwi Crushers, Banks also kicked out of many finishing attempts from Ospreay as well. The end came though at just after 20 mins with Travis locking Ospreay in the Lion's Clutch Submission for the win - this was a late contendet for Match of the Year, you owe it to yourself to watch it on demand.

After the match TK Cooper made an in-ring appearance to say to tag team partner and friend Travis Banks that when he is fit in 2018 that he is possibly coming for a Progress World Title shot in the future. If he can stay fit next year, TK could do big things - he has the look of a young version of The Rock in my opinion.

Main Event time with the WWE UK Title taking prominence tonight with current WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne facing off with a one off returning Gentleman Jack Gallagher.

Now in his time away from the UK scene, Gallagher has carved out a decentish career in the WWE starting off as the quirky umbrella carrying gentleman who also had a fantastic upbeat theme, he looked so different to the rest of the bland blokes in trunks brigade that are prevalent on 205 live that the crowd really got behind. I can say first hand that Gallagher is a lovely person to meet and has some of the warmest hands around (only matched by Chris 'Taff Master' off of Twitter)

But in the last 6 months that has been ripped up totally by WWE who have turned Jack into a dastardly heel with an utter dirge of a theme tune and also stuck him with perennial momentum killer Brian Kendrick. Jacks likeable personality has literally disappeared and he is now just 'bland bloke in slacks and brogues'.

So with utter toss theme tune in hand, Gallagher made his way to the ring to a good reaction to face the Bruiserweight Pete Dunne for said WWE UK Championship.

A good match in its own right but it did have an hard act to follow after Ospreay vs Banks which for me was Match of the night. Lasting just over 15 minutes, it was Pete Dunne who retained the title hitting two bitter ends on his way to victory over a valiant Gallagher who looked good in defeat.

By the looks of it, Pete Dunne will now be moving on to a match with Joe Conners early next year.

Drink prices - £4.90 for Camden Pale Ale and £3 a pint for coke.

Leaving the ballroom it was then decided to have a swift drink in the Euston Tap which I had 2/3rds of a Beavertown Stout for £4.60 and it was very nice indeed.

I would like to note the train ride home was also one of the noisiest ever singing along with a load of merry Stoke City supporters who had just seen there team get hammered 5-0 with Chelsea, they were in great spirits though and made the journey home a fun one.

So that was that for the last show of the year and I feel despite some gripes e.g. the hardcore tag, the lengthy opening and some questionable music choices, I thought it was a really good end to the year. Ospreay vs Banks, Sexsmith vs Coffey and Gallagher vs Dunne are ones to watch back when it arrives on demand.

Hope you have enjoyed reading and see ylu again in 2018 for the first review of the year which will be Progress in Birmingham #grapsandclaps.

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Tuesday, 6 May 1832

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Down to breakfast at 9 – Read aloud a few pages of the critique on O’Meara in the Quarterly Review published last February

at 11 Mr Duffin and Mr Dyer, the riding master, and I set off to ride – went thro’ Bishop Thorpe to Appleton within a mile of sir William Milner’s – returned the same way (went about 12 miles or rather more) – went slow – very little out of foot’s pace because Hotspur being heated by his good living was to be bled on his return home and take physic

Did not get home till 2 1/2. Hotspur tired – we went too far – but I have not my own way and will never have a horsehire while I was with Mr D (Duffin) knows no more horses than a goose and does not like my paying the horse any attention –

as good sadlers in town (London) and who make for the regent, Mr Dyer recommended Gibson and Peake Coventry street, Piccadilly – and he recommended as the best work he knows on the subject Adams’ treatise on riding, in 2 small volumes – He had found fault with my groom – on lifting up the horse’s mane, he had found a little scurf – and if horses were not well groomed, in riding them you were sure to see a little scurf rise round the rim of the saddle – Hotspur’s tail was not so good as at 1st – the man had broken the hairs by combing them – the tail should never be combed – only pulled out with the fingers, and wetted, and brushed – the mane might be combed, but to make it grow long and silky, it should be wetted 3 or 4 times – say – if any scurf at the top of the Tail, clean it out with a little sweet oil – they dress their horses 3 times a day, an hour each time – begin with the head and neck; clean these well 1st – lastly, wash and pick the feet – after Exercise, dress a horse before you feed him – he will eat with better relish – Never give physic but when absolutely necessary – keep sores clean with warm water – this is the main thing for them – Good grooming and regular Exercise will keep a horse well – the allowance is 12 lbs. (pounds) per day of hay and 10 lbs. (pounds) of oats, and 8 lbs. (pounds) of straw for bedding – the oats are reckoned to weigh 50 lbs. (pounds) a bushel but if they do not weigh 37 lbs. (pounds), the contractor cannot compel them to be taken – A horse should have long chops – i.e. a deep mouth to take the bit well – his shoulder should rise well, and fall well under the saddle – if the shoulder is upright, does not fall under the saddle the horse is never sure-footed – he should be well legged, well bonded, from the knee downwards – should have a good girth, i.e. be deep bodied – so, in short, should all sorts of cattle – Hotspur will grow about 3/4 inches more before or by the time he is 7 – 

was to have walked with Miss Henrietta Crompton at 2, but not getting back till 2 1/2, not out again till 2 3/4, and she had called for me in vain – Inquired at their door, found she was waiting for me on the new walk – but Mr D– (Duffin) went with me over the bridge to order Barr to go to the barracks to measure Hotspur for a saddle, waited for me at the library while I went to Fisher’s, and it was too late to go in quest of the lady – met with her 3 sisters in Stonegate – made my apology, walked with them as far as Bull’s shop in College street – Miss Mary C– (Crompton) talked more than usual – now do be rational said she just before we parted she had before said you will find Henrietta by herself wont that be delightful I see they have dubbed Henrietta as my favourite so it must be so for aught in now – 

met and spoke to Mr Hudson of Hipperholme as we were going into the minster yard – Joined Mr D�� (Duffin) at the library – we walked back together and got home at 3 40/60 – having talked all the way very seriously about Mrs Duffin – I said she seemed to me much altered of late, and to be in a bad way – It seemed he thought so too – this cough seems a break-up cough she will not get the better of – Dr. Lawson is to call tomorrow – a little while will decide – In the event of things growing worse, will gladly prolong my stay – I thought it right to offer and he seemed pleased at my doing o said Miss M (Marsh) and I were different people she could not be in the house nor continue to come as she does now it would not do it Mac was left to himself – Slept an hour after dinner – 

then and in the evening wrote 3 pages and the ends, and under the seal to Miss M– (Marsh) and 1/2 sheet notewise to Mrs Norcliffe – mentioned to both how much the alteration in poor Mrs B– (Belcombe) struck me, and Expressed my doubts of her recovery – thanked Mrs N– (Norcliffe) for the almanac de Gotha … etc etc At 8 Henry brought me a letter just come to Fisher’s from Miss M– (Marsh) she has again put off her return – to the week after – perhaps next Friday week –

Finished and sealed my letters and left them on the Table for Henry to take to Fisher’s the 1st thing in the morning – to Mrs N– (Norcliffe) Miss Marsh (Langton hall – 

Mr D– (Duffin) and I played 2 games at chess – I won the 1st – the 2nd a drawn game – Very fine day – fine air early – very hot afterwards at least I have felt most today – Came upstairs at 10 40/60 wrote the above of today and yesterday – had done at 12 20/60  writing two pages of a half sheet a note to Henrietta C (Crompton) till thirty five minutes past she how foolish I shall not send it I have been too dull about it and it is not safe to trust much in that quarter –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0009

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Abigail Breslin Biography

Abigail Kathleen Breslin born on April 14, 1996 is an American on-screen character and vocalist. She showed up in her first business when she was three years of age, and in her first film, Signs (2002), at five years old. Her other film parts incorporate Little Miss Sunshine (2006), for which she was designated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress,[3] No Reservations (2007), Nim’s Island (2008), Definitely, Maybe (2008), My Sister’s Keeper (2009), Zombieland (2009), Rango (2011), August: Osage County (2013), The Call (2013), Ender’s Game (2013), and Perfect Sisters (2014). In September 2015, she started acting in the repulsiveness satire Scream Queens on Fox, in which she has her first general part on a TV arrangement. Breslin was conceived in New York City, the girl of Kim and Michael Breslin, an information transfers master, PC software engineer, and specialist. She has two more established siblings, Ryan and Spencer, who are likewise performers. The Breslin kin live in New York in an “affectionate” family. Her maternal grandma, Catherine, passed on in June 2015. She is named after Abigail Adams, the second First Lady of the United States. Breslin’s profession started at three years old when she showed up in a Toys “R” Us business. Her first acting part was in Signs (2002), coordinated by M. Night Shyamalan, where she played Bo Hess, the girl of the principle character, Graham Hess (Mel Gibson). Signs collected generally positive surveys and was a film industry achievement, earning $408 million around the world. Breslin’s execution in the film was commended by pundits. David Ansen of Newsweek composed that she and co-star Rory Culkin gave “astoundingly common, nuanced exhibitions”. In 2004, she showed up in Raising Helen, in which she and her sibling Spencer played kin however the film fared inadequately. Breslin had a little part in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. In the autonomous film Keane, she played Kira Bedik, a young lady who reminds the rationally aggravated hero William Keane (Damian Lewis) of his missing, stole little girl. Keane had a constrained showy discharge and netted just $394,390 worldwide yet it got positive surveys and Breslin’s execution was commended by pundits. Meghan Keane of The New York Sun composed that “the scenes between Mr. Lewis and the charmingly delicate Kira, winningly played by Ms. Breslin, convey a charming humankind to the film”.

Abigail Breslin Personal Info.

Full Name: Abigail Kathleen Breslin

Nick Name: Abbie, Miss Sunshine

Family: Michael Breslin – (Father) Kim Breslin – (Mother) Spencer Breslin – (Brother) Ryan Breslin – (Brother)

Date of Birth: 14 April, 1996

Birthplace: New York City, New York, U.S.

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Religion: Roman Catholic

Ethnicity: White

Nationality: American

Profession: Actress

Measurements: 37-25-32 in or 94-63.5-81 cm

Bra Size: 34C

Height: 5′ 1″ (155 cm)

Weight: 121 lbs (55 kg)

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Dyed Blonde and Naturally Brown

Dress Size: 08

Shoe Size: 06

Friends: Skye McCole Bartusiak

Boyfriend/Dating History:

Michael Clifford (2013) – In August 2013, she was Rumored to be dating 5 Seconds of Summer guitarist, Michael Clifford, when she was seen out with him on a supper date after Teen Choice Awards.

Jack Barakat (2013-2014) – Breslin began dating All Time Low vocalist Jack Barakat in October 2013. Be that as it may, they met interestingly back in April 2013 amid Jack’s show. They threw in the towel in 2014. The relationship was a RUMOR as they didn’t affirm about it.

Known For: Abigail Breslin caught fame for playing the role of Olive Hoover in 2006 movie “Little Miss Sunshine” and as Valentine Wiggin in “Enders Game” in 2013.

Active Year: 1999 (present)

TV Shows: The O.C. (2003-2007), American Idol (2002-)

Cookies: Tagalongs, Thin Mints

Restaurant: Rosa Mexicano

Store: Space Kiddets in NYC

Movie: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Insidious (2011), The Help (2011), Prancer (1989), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Actress: Meryl Streep, Judy Garland

Singer: Kelly Clarkson

Official Twitter: Twitter Account

Official Facebook: FB Account

Abigail Breslin Filmography:

Filmography

Film

Year Title 2002 Signs 2004 Raising Helen 2004 The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement 2004 Chestnut: Hero of Central Park 2004 Keane 2005 Family Plan 2006 Air Buddies 2006 The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause 2006 The Ultimate Gift 2006 Little Miss Sunshine 2007 No Reservations 2008 Definitely, Maybe 2008 Nim’s Island 2008 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 2009 My Sister’s Keeper 2009 Zombieland 2010 Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey 2010 Janie Jones 2011 Rango 2011 New Year’s Eve 2011 Zambezia 2013 The Call 2013 Haunter 2013 Ender’s Game 2013 August: Osage County 2014 Wicked Blood 2014 Perfect Sisters 2015 Maggie 2015 Final Girl 2016 Freak Show

Television

Year Title 2002 What I Like About You 2002 Hack 2004 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 2004 NCIS 2006 Ghost Whisperer 2006 Grey’s Anatomy 2015–present Scream Queens

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Art F City: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Virtual Reality Exhibitions and Cyberdefense Workshops

The tight stuff and the right stuff at tonight’s special event with @babycastles –@di_mo_da @micahnotfound @moisesnotfound @akaprash @princessgollum and many more superstars 7-10pm Only @vrworldnyc #virtuallyexcited #actuallyexcited

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Well, this week starts off strong. Monday we’re looking forward to checking out the new VR World NYC, which is hosting a virtual reality art show and concert until midnight. If that hasn’t sated your cyberpunk hunger, check out Lin Wang’s cyborg wigs tuesday at Gallery Sensei, the NYFA/NYSCA group show Facial Profiling at C24 Gallery on Thursday, or the “Digital Self Defense and Empowerment Workshops” happening all Saturday afternoon at the New Museum. We love when a week’s itinerary in IRL New York looks like a montage from Hackers.

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VR World NYC

4 East 34th Street New York, NY 7:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m. Website

Virtual Insanity™: VR + Music

Well this is undoubtedly the coolest thing happening on a Monday night this summer. Babycastles is presenting a virtual reality art show and concert at VR World NYC.

Among the highlights is the Digital Museum of Digital Art, which Paddy and I have both experienced and raved about. It’s seriously one of the best art-viewing experiences you can have this week, so get yourself there ASAP.

Artists: Alfredo Salazar-Caro and his virtual institution Di Mo DA, Art 404, Haleek Maul, James Orlando, HYPER.ZONE, LaJuné McMillian, Michelle Cortese, Michelle Senteio, Nicole Ruggiero, Prashast Thapan

Live performances by: Icarus Moth, RAFiA, Haleek Maul

Tue

Gallery Sensei

135 Eldridge Street New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Website

Lin Wang: Tenant, Tranant, Trance

This show is only up for two days, a unusual duration for an installation that has to do, on some level, with time. Lin Wang’s semi-narrative installation alludes to past tenants of a surreal domestic space, which itself is somewhat anachronistic—referencing a cyborg future where the synthetic and prosthetic wait to merge with absent bodies. The artist has created a series of household appliances associated with comfort (fans, massage chairs, etc.) combined with wigs. Picture mounds of artificial hair quivering in anticipation of contact with a user. So creepy, yet so alluring.

Artists Space

55 Walker Street New York, NY 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Website

People's Cultural Plan Launch

This looks good: Mychal Johnson, community activist and member of South Bronx Unite, and artist Chloë Bass will discuss the ins and outs of the People’s Cultural Plan. It’s a grass-roots, social-justice focused alternative to the Department of Cultural Affairs’ CreateNYC plan, which launches this week. The guiding principles here are de-gentrification, cultural equity, and labor equity—three things the city desperately needs, in particular for the survival of the arts.

The event features drinks, opportunities for discussion and mingling, and translators in Chinese and Spanish. This is a great opportunity to meet other artists thinking politically and getting involved in the interrelated labor/gentrification struggles happening now in New York.

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Equity Gallery

245 Broome Street New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Website

Liana Finck: Passing for Human

Liana Finck is the most millennial comic artist I can think of for several reasons. For one, her pen-and-ink melancholic musings on relationships, existential angst, and the never-ending stresses of being a broke 20-something are relatable and often hilarious. Also, she’s built her fan base out of her popular Instagram account. Here’s a chance to see her work (some 80 drawings!) IRL.

EFA Project Space

323 West 39th Street New York, NY 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.Website

Setting 1880-1920 / Dinner Party

Liliana Dirks-Goodman’s theatrical dinner party/lecture/performance will introduce guests to “the utopian design visions of seven first-wave white feminists” who lived in the decades surrounding the turn of the last century. This is the era when a lot of social “progressives” advocated for urban planning, design, and architectural movements intended to better the lives of the poor and immigrants. We often hear about men’s grand visions for the “city beautiful” or Garden City movements, but the fact that many of these visionaries and activists were women is often overlooked. Their different perspective was often aimed at improving the lives of women as well.

The dinner (arguably the most highly-gendered domestic social activity of the 20th Century) will be prepared by chef Kristin Worral, who will use recipes from Rumford Kitchen’s cookbook.

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MX

167 Canal Street, 5th floor New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Website

My fossil, my echo / my excess, my scrap

This exhibition is curated around the idea of anxieties related to the index.  The curatorial statement, from Gabrielle Jensen and Julia Lee, is a bit dense, but the show looks really promising. Chiefly, the concern here seems to be what becomes of an object once it is a record or fragment of itself?

I’m excited to see Carmen Neely included in this exhibition. When I met her on a studio visit years ago I was convinced she’d be an art star. Her work includes personified abstract forms that jump from piece to piece, personal objects embedded in canvases, and plenty of autobiographical ephemera worked into painterly compositions. It definitely fossilizes some weird stuff, and does it charmingly.

Artists: Cristine Brache, Isabel Legate, Carmen Neely, Kayode Ojo, Patrice Renee Washington

C24 Gallery

560 West 24th Street New York, NY 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Website

Facial Profiling

Curated by David C. Terry, this show looks at identity through the lens of seven NYSCA/NYFA Artists. The artists here touch on issues such as “the observed self, the portrayal of individuals as well as the perceived and projected self, and how we interpret/project imagery as portrait.” Included among the seven is master of selfies/constructed identity Sean Fader, so expect there to be a dash of humor among what could otherwise be heady navel gazing.

Artists: Samira Abbassy, Kwesi Abbensetts, Geoffrey Chadsey, Sean Fader, Michael Ferris Jr. , Kymia Nawabi, Oliver Wasow

Sat

New Museum

235 Bowery New York, NY 1:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Website

Digital Self-Defense and Empowerment Workshops

In conjunction with the exhibition Paul Ramírez Jonas: Half-Truths, the New Museum has teamed up with Equality Labs and NEW INC residents DATA X and Taeyoon Choi to offer an afternoon of workshops about surveillance and autonomy in the digital age. So spend a muggy Saturday nerding out to all your hacker fantasies in the New Museum’s air conditioning.

Here’s the rundown of workshops:

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Handmade Computers with Taeyoon Choi—learn how to assemble a basic computer that can perform addition, keep time, and store memory! It’s free, but requires registration by emailing season@newmuseum.org .

3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Data Selfie with DATA X—DATA X is a creative studio that believes in transparency. Here, they’ll be demonstrating their browser add-on Data Selfie, which tracks the way sites such as Facebook track your data, giving the user a peak at how corporations and their algorithms view us. Register here.

4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Digital Self-Defense with Equality Labs—Equality Labs, “a South Asian women’s, gender non-conforming, and trans tech collective” will present a workshop about protecting one’s information in the age of the surveillance state. This is pretty useful stuff as the world becomes more and more like William Gibson’s worst authoritarian nightmare. The event is limited to 30 participants, so be sure to register here ASAP.

Pine Box Rock Shop

12 Grattan St Brooklyn, NY 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Website

Meowmania! A Cat Party in Brooklyn

It is Summer in New York City, which means our art event guides tend to be a little heavier on events that are just ridiculous or activism-oriented than usual due to the dearth of art openings. This event is both.

Bring your leashed cat to partake in activities such as a cat photobooth, games, cat-themed drink specials, and a cat costume contest. The whole event is a fundraiser for local cat rescue programs, so all of this “basically internet circa 2012” style shenanigans is at least for a good cause.

Sun

Brooklyn Museum

200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Website

Performance in the Park: Maren Hassinger's "Pink Trash"

As part of the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, Maren Hassinger will be re-staging her 1982 performance “Pink Trash” in Prospect Park. The piece was an important reflection on public space, labor, and “maintenance art”, and seeing it performed three decades later is bound to be something special.

Tickets are $25, but you get a lot of bang for your buck:

1:00 p.m. Special tour of We Wanted a Revolution and conversation with co-curator Rujeko Hockley and Maren Hassinger

2:00 p.m. Walk to Prospect Park

2:15 p.m. Performance of “Pink Trash”

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