#about; james farley

[i-just-want-to-destroy]

Jimmy stewart and henry fonda r both the same breed of bland, all-american old hollywood leading man but stewart has got this cynical cockiness to him and while fonda is just as bland as the former, fonda’s silently anxious, concerned mannerism is more charming 2 me

[nepoupdates]

opinions on the upper east side couples?

 are  committed  relationships  still  a  thing  in  the  ues  ?  i’m  being  serious  .  all  i  seem  to  hear  is  ‘  it’s  casual  ’  or  ‘  i’m  not  looking  for  anything  serious  ’  and  my  favorite  ‘  we’re  just  friends  !  ’  .  please  ,  i  know  what  you  little  birdies  get  up  to  .  and  to  actually  answer  your  question  ,  here  are  the  couples  that  seem  to  capture  my  attention  :

 lightning  and  farley  .  what  is  going  on  with  those  two  ?  seriously  .  i  want  to  say  they’re  a  couple  but  maybe  they  won’t  be  by  the  time  this  comes  out  .  gentlemen  ,  this  on  and  off  thing  is  getting  really  old  .  you  two  look  cute  together  but  i  guess  looking  good  together  just  isn’t  enough  nowadays  .  do  us  all  a  favor  and  get  your  shit  together  .  dare  i  say  i’m  rooting  for  you  ?

 gemma  and  livia  .  an  unexpected  couple  but  i  like  it.  they’re  really  giving  me  power  couple  in  the  music  industry  vibes  .  for  their  sake  ,  i  hope  they’re  not  losing  any  friends  over  this  .  but  i  might  be  speaking  too  soon  .  did  you  see  the  shade  livia  threw  at  joey  ?  i  for  one  can’t  wait  to  see  how  this  unfolds  .  must  be  hard  being  in  such  a  high-profile  relationship  .  livia  and  gemma  better  remember  that  all  eyes  are  on  them  .  especially  me  .

 lari  and  knox  .  these  two  are  the  definition  of  a  hot  couple  .  come  on  ,  you  know  i’m  right  .  i  always  am  .  it’s  an  added  bonus  that  these  two  look  very  good  in  uniform  .  but  to  be  quite  honest  ,  i  don’t  know  if  they’re  going  to  last  .  lari  always  seems  to  be  working  and  knox  ?  is  it  me  or  has  he  been  hanging  out  with  a  certain  suwannarat  more  often  ?  and  i’m  not  talking  about  lightning  .  i’ll  need  you  all  to  be  my  eyes  and  ears  .  perhaps  there  is  some  trouble  in  paradise  ?

[plathfiles]

dating Felix Catton headcannons

I literally cannot stop thinking about Saltburn. Felix and Jacob Elordi live in my head rent free.

Felix would take you to Saltburn every summer.

You two met at Oxford and you also come from a rich family.

You are studying English literature and want to become an author.

During the summer, you would hang out with Felix, Farely and Venetia.

Felix, with the best intentions, is easily jealous. Especially if you just want to hang out with Venetia or Farley.

Elsbeth LOVES you and absolutely adores you. She and Sir James are already planning the wedding at Saltburn.

At oxford you and Felix spend a lot of time in the library or the pub or even his room.

To be honest you really only sleep in his dorm.

You guys go to a lot of parties together.

His love language is physical touch and giving gifts. Like he always will have an arm around you and loved buying you things.

You guys hook up in the library and in the labyrinth at Saltburn.

He calls you “darling” or “angel”

At Elsbeth’s themed summer parties you two would definitely dress up as Romeo and Juliet.

You recommend him books and help him with his studies.

[mask131]

November is usually my Shining month, and so I want to bring forward again something I have been repeating for a long time now but that I don't see being picked up a lot by people. A detail that is well-hidden inside the Doctor Sleep movie, but that makes the piece even more infinitely appreciable and shows it was made by true Shining fans.

And this detail is... the ghosts of the Overlook Hotel.

Now, when this bunch appeared during the final scene some familiar faces could be spotted. Grady of course, the Injured Guest from the "Great party, isn't it?" scene, the Twins, and of course the Woman of Room 217 -sorry, 237. But there are other faces there - seemingly random people in fancy outfit just for the sake of it. People were confused as to who these people were...

But all you have to do is look at the end credits. And you have a big surprise.

The familiar faces are confirmed to be the ghosts we always thought we were, or to correspond to famous ghosts of the original novel. The twins are confirmed as Grady's two daughters, while the woman in the white dress (not on the picture above but you can her in the scene) is Mrs. Grady. Meaning we have the whole Grady family as ghosts. The woman of room 237 is confirmed to be indeed Mrs. Massey, just like in the book ; as for the Injured Guest (only referred to as "injured guest" in the original scripts of The Shining), the sequel decided to make him Horace Derwent. Meaning he likely can switch between a young/attractive and older/more gruesome form, just like Massey's ghost, since in the original movie Derwent was clearly seen though not named in the scene with the man wearing a dog-bear-like costume (the script confirms it is supposed to be a dog costume though).

Alright, but what of the others? Now this is where things get interesting! The bald man to the right of Grady? That's Vito the Chopper. Yes, the Vito the Chopper from the novel by King, the mafia boss who got his head blown off in the Presidential Suite - as for the two men near him, they are his two bodyguards, Victor T. Boorman and Roger Macassi. Also from the book. These three characters are actually an Easter egg for those who read the book (and we know from the original treatment of Kubrick's movie that the criminal paradise-era of the Overlook and the murders at the Presidential Suite were originally supposed to play a big role in the cinema version of the story too).

But things get even better with the last ghost of the group. He doesn't appear in the picture above either, like Mrs. Grady, but you can notice him during the scene, a large man right behind Mrs. Grady when the ghosts first appear (he is played by Marc Farley). And the ghost's name, as revealed in the credits is... James Parris.

Now, fans of the novel might wonder "Wait... Who's that? I don't recall reading about him". And indeed, you did not! At least if you just read the regular version of the novel! James Parris is however a true character of the Shining, a true victim of the Overlook Hotel, a character written about and invented by Stephen King... But he is part of the deleted prologue of the novel, "Before the Play". You know this prologue that was not part of the published novel but was released in various TV magazines several times, and then finally re-added to the main novel in the collector Cemetery Dance edition of "The Shining"? You must have heard of it - even before the Cemetery Dance release the prologue was going around the Internet, published on small fan websites and discreet literature blogs...

And James Parris was, according to the first part of this prologue (detailling the building and creation of the Overlook... and its first victims) the second owner of the Overlook Hotel. A man that was touched by the same obsession and madness for the hotel that had overtaken Watson's grandfather (the actual builder and first owner of the Hotel), and, if I recall well, ended up dying of a heart attack on the hotel's garden-grounds (near the topiary beasts if I recall well, but I am not too sure, I haven't read the prologue in a while).

So all of that to say - not only did they bother placing an Easter Egg for the fans of King who had read the original book ; but they also placed an Easter Egg for those that knew of or had read the Before the Play prologue, which most regular fans of the novel never even heard about! If this isn't commitment to researching your source material, I don't know what is!

[wexhappyxfew]

Might be a silly question but would you be able to do a quick post about the girls of Silver bullets and who their relationships (romantic?) are with?

I find that I’m reading too many things at one time and am having a hard time remembering who’s with who. Ps absolutely love your writing!

hey anon! not a silly question at all and something i'm more than happy to provide!!! it's quite the grouping and a whole lot of people and moving parts, so it is no worries at all :D some of the girls have more established and *finalized* storylines and such, while others....we'll see as it comes. so! below are all the pairings, with little descriptions i've given each! both vivian and bessie have boyfriends back home (and are serving in the war), while all the other girls are either paired with some MOTA boys or not (if you have ideas though, i'd be happy to take them!) this can serve as a silver bullets pairing masterlist!! thank you again and enjoy! <3

PAIRINGS:

ANNIE BRADSHAW X JOHN BRADY

Two pilots who find one another amid a world war, trying to seek out some form of comfort and warmth, in a time filled with grief, mental torment, and uncertainty.

FRANCIS MONTEZ

A co-pilot whose mental battle becomes the biggest proponent next to a world war - wondering if their replacement pilot will step up to plate, if they'll go down and lose Silver Bullets altogether, or if they'll be blasted from the sky in a metal coffin.

BESSIE CARLISLE X THOMAS MCKENZIE (OMC)

Separated by countries and oceans and merely connected through nothing but letters and pressed flowers, with scented envelopes, childhood sweethearts who fell head over heels with one another.

CARRIE ACHTERBERG X JAMES DOUGLASS

Bombardier friends who suddenly find themselves together more often not - and usually always trying to get the other to laugh, even if they're not watching.

KENNEDY FARLEY X JOHN EGAN

In training, she was a waist gunner on his fort. Then he found out she was a Red Sox fan and he, being a loyal Yankees fan, took every opportunity to 'bust her chops'. On tougher days, they seem to linger a little closer to one another than warranted.

MARGIE HARLOWE X BERNARD DEMARCO

Bonded over their love for animals and seemed to hang around one another since. Co-parents it appears to Meatball, the husky won in craps - they say they're just friends though.

JUDY RYBINSKI X ROSIE ROSENTHAL

Losing command pilot after command pilot began to take its toll on the young turret ball gunner, so getting a new pilot who stepped up to the plate and took charge made her gravitate closer toward him more than anything.

MARIANNE SALINGER

Lovingly takes care of an orange cat named Frank who likes to wander the base. Has never been in anything serious with a guy, usually a cheerleader for her friends, if anything.

VIVIAN RATCLIFFE X JAMES PENNINGTON (OMC) (eventual EVERETT BLAKELY)

He worked at her dad's mechanic garage and soon was coming over for dinner at the Ratcliffe household. She hangs onto any letters he sends and spends nights writing back to him in training, hoping one day, they're back on her family's farm once again.

PAULINA STAGLIANO X HAMBONE HAMILTON

Had a boyfriend back home, but when she was in Greenland, wrote that he thought they should break it off - since then has made it her goal to commit entirely to the cause and focus on the world in front of her - and the war.

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Balearic Beats (The Album Vol 1) 1988 Balearic Beat / Disco / House / Industrial

Man, this is such a momentous fuckin' album that was compiled by legends Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong, and Trevor Fung back in '88. Here they deliver the first compilation to *ever* attempt to encapsulate the sound of the wide-ranging 'Balearic beat,' a dance phenomenon whose home was in the party capital of the world, on the Spanish isle of Ibiza, where plenty of Europeans would visit and end up drawing inspiration from. And with this album, these three guys appear to have finally successfully broken through, able to bring this very quirky vibe into the UK to coat its own exploding dance music scene during the historic 'Second Summer of Love,' which saw the Chicago-born genre of acid house reach critical mass among the youth and spawn a first generation of ravers.

But Balearic beat is not something that one can easily describe, because its most defining trait is that it really only has one rule: so long as there is some sort of tangible beat that's danceable, it'll do. Essentially, Balearic beat represents an extremely expansive coterie of a whole bunch of different genres: pop, rock, house, disco—pretty much everything that ranges between James Brown funk records and industrial music, and with blends of psychedelia, Italo flavor, plenty of leftfield experimentalism, guitar rock, and chunks of world music too. It's probably the single-most unique dance music scene that this world's ever borne witness to, and it not only allowed, but actively encouraged DJs to take unprecedented levels of risk in their own selections, as a culture of decadence, hedonism, freedom, and acceptance was nurtured and fostered.

And Oakenfold and co. really tried to bring this vibe and approach into the UK's own dance consciousness a couple times between '87 and '88, after returning from summers spent on Ibiza and opening up a couple nightclubs. But things finally started taking hold with Oakey's own Monday club night called Spectrum at gay superclub Heaven in Westminster, London. And this comp, with liner notes provided by Boy's Own's Terry Farley, represents those Spectrum club nights, as well as stuff from Shoom, which is the club where the UK's acid house movement first originated. Shoom was founded by Oakenfold compatriot Danny Rampling, whose own first trip to Ibiza with Oakey and others is what inspired him to open up the club in the first place. And Rampling took ecstasy for the first time on that Ibiza trip too 💊😁🥹.

So, from a glance, by looking at this tracklist and not having any familiarity with what Balearic beat entails, you might see this list of songs and inevitably scratch your head: Italo-jazz saxophonist Enzo Avitabile?; pop starlet Mandy Smith, who's unfortunately best known for having an underage relationship with former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman and then marrying him 🤮?; San Francisco avantgardists The Residents taking the bassline from "Billie Jean" and fashioning a cover of a Hank Williams honky-tonk tune out of it?; EBM group Nitzer Ebb?; industrial act Fini Tribe on a weird, cocaine-fueled tribal disco tip with ringing and clanging bells??? What on earth is this?!?!?

But don't worry, now that you have a proper frame of reference, it'll all make a whole lot more sense when you actually put this album on 😎.

And we gotta make special mention of this release's opener too, "Jibaro" by Oakenfold and Steve Osborne's Balearic electronic project, Electra. Yesterday I posted about an Italo comp that was put out by this same Pete Tong-run FFRR label called The House Sound of Europe - Vol. V - 'Casa Latina', and I remarked that although the Electra track on there really had no business being included—because it was neither Italian-made nor really a house tune—it was still the best track that that comp had to offer, as it was the pure ultimate in 80s Ibiza silky-chillness. But this "Jibaro" track, a cover of a mid-70s Spanish psychedelic disco-funk tune, and whose own 12-inch art inspired the album art for this comp itself, represents a different branch of that girthy Balearic tree, because this one's a full-fledged house jam; slower than a typical house tune, but a house tune nonetheless; and with a richly patched-together sonic quilt of different sounds that *majorly* diverges from all the black, queer, and acid-jacking beauty that'd been emanating from Chicago.

So, ultimately, this was a very important album in the grand scheme of things. Balearic beat brought a very elastic dimension to the acid house movement writ large in the UK, and if you'll now all allow me to unveil my corkboard-and-yarn setup here to give you all a parting glimpse of just how intertwined all of this got within the UK's own vibrant, fluid, and interconnected music landscape, let's bring all of this full-circle by talking about legendary Manchester new wave band New Order.

New Order once took a two-week trip to Ibiza that had such a profound effect on them that it yielded their fifth studio LP, Technique, in 1989. And they also owned a very popular club in Manchester called The Haçienda. In '88, The Haçienda would launch its own Ibiza-themed club nights, which then played an integral role in the development of the city's own Madchester scene, a style of alternative dance music that saw indie bands mesh their sound with psychedelia and acid house beats. And one of Madchester's biggest landmarks ended up being 1990's Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, an album by a group called Happy Mondays that was co-produced by none other than the Electra boys themselves—Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne! 🤯

Highlights:

Electra - "Jibaro" Code 61 - "Drop the Deal" Beats Workin' - "Sure Beats Workin'" Enzo Avitabile - "Black Out" Mandy Smith - "Mandy's Theme (I Just Can't Wait) (Cool & Breezy Jazz Version)" The Residents - "Kaw-Liga (Prairie Mix)" The Woodentops - "Why Why Why (Live)" Fini Tribe - "De Testimony (Collapsing Edit)" The Thrashing Doves - "Jesus On the Payroll"

[morbidology]

The victims of the Birmingham church bombing shall forever be written in the history books as a clear example of racial violence. However, the related killing of another young African American boy, seems to have been completely forgotten about. On 15 September, 1963, 13-year-old Virgil Lamar Ware, an eighth grader that dreamed of becoming a lawyer, was returning home from a shopping trip with his older brother, James. Virgil was riding on the handlebars of his brother’s bike when they tragically encountered Larry Joe Sims and Michael Lee Farley, two white teenagers who had just attended a segregation rally. Sims reached for his gun and shot the oblivious Virgil in the cheek and chest. He died on the Docena-Sandusky Road on the outskirts of Birmingham. A true tale of injustice, the two killers received no prison time. Convicted by an all white jury, they were sentenced to a measly two years probation.

[allysah]

list 5 topics you could talk about for an hour without preparing any material (i have reason to yap now).

james “jimmy” stewart.

jimmy is just like. that guy for me. i could probably go on an hours long tirade about him, his films, his characters, his relationships, his military experience, his ptsd, his politics, etc. without interruption. right now i'm specifically thinking of his relationship with henry fonda (who deserves his own honorable mention) which OH MY GOD is one of the best hollywood friendships to date. orson welles said they were either having the hottest affair in hollywood or were the straightest men alive. he realized they were the latter... anyways that leads me into:

old/classic hollywood + its underground queer scene and the hays code.

first of all just old hollywood in general i can go hours and hours about because i just love so many of the actors and actresses. leslie howard and gregory peck are other honorable mentions in that category. however, the queer folks will always be my favorite <3 people like farley granger and marlene dietrich come to mind as well as cary grant and his biwife energy. but just all of the queer undertones from then i just appreciate so, so much. also the HAYS CODE... when i get you... i've seen so many pre-code movies which are just incredible and whenever they put that damn code in place everything got boring... unless they fixed the subtext so then you have films like rope (1948) which is such a good gay film like wtf?? old hollywood is a gem and if you avoid black + white movies or just older movies in general you SUCK!!

franklin expedition.

i've written academic essays about this damn expedition and i had no sources at all. just my mind and a dream. for two years my only thoughts for a future career was becoming a franklin expedition researcher who worked in the arctic. of course that's not gonna work?? okay but these dumb mfers were some of my favorite people on this earth like COMMANDER JAMES FITZJAMES was a real person who walked this earth and i never even got close to touching him. this is sickening. captain francis crozier is ALIVE and WELL on king william island you just cannot see him. i think i will genuinely throw up if they ever find crozier's captain log on the hms terror. the desolation and sickness is just like. eye clawingly scary and i could never fathom what truly went down on that island. i feel so so bad for the cold boys and i love them so, so much.

fallout lore

here’s where i start geekin about shit. FALLOUT IS SO FUCKING GOOD I DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS. 3, 4 and new vegas are top tier games (yes nostalgia is clouding my head but idc) i also love 1 and 2 but genuinely cannot play a turn based game like that. okay but the entire plot of new vegas is such a top tier storyline and it’s just such a fun silly game and is like made perfectly for gay trans autistic people i love it. 4 is just The Game you play it doesn’t matter you just end up there and it’s always fun idc what the haters say PRESTON GARVEY MINUTEMEN #1!!! 3 is there. BUT ITS SO BAD ITS GOOD LIKE COME ON ITS ALMOST ENDEARING GOING BACK IN THOSE SUBWAY TUNNELS AND GETTING LOST FOR 30 MINUTES!! these games are the only reason i know the layouts of nevada, washington, d.c., and boston. thank you for the geography lesson AND the history lesson fallout. i love you.

civil war politics and battles

ok this is my latest fixation and one that came out of ABSOLUTELY no where. i literally told myself years ago to never become a civil war buff because it's so stupid and only old men like it but here we are. i for real blame this on david straithairn's portrayal of william h seward because otherwise i would NOT care (sorry ddl, i love you still). also atun-shei films and his humongous catalogue of videos. but oh my godddd i'm so obsessed with these annoying fuckers i hate them ALL. lincoln and seward are just an absolute class-act together and whenever i watched gettysburg (1993) it was just over for me. jeff daniels and c thomas howell when I CATCH YOU (I Want You)!!! it's just all so interesting i love seeing how these men ticked. it's like a zoo exhibition but with random dead racist white guys. (i also had like a 5 minute discussion about lincoln being racist today after i gave a book talk on team of rivals in my college comp. absolute all-timer)

HONORABLE MENTIONS!!!

rms titanic. film in general (i have memorized a shit load of the letterboxd catalogue and I WILL not shut up about my favorite films and directors). classic literature. us presidents. history in general. musical theatre. how arthur morgan is the best fictional character ever written period.

TAGGED BY: @rmstitanics (THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME YAP AND BASICALLY JUST RANT. SORRY!)

TAGGING: @brainandnarfunkel + no one in particular, but know if you see this i want you to… and i know you want to yap as well… :)

[pop-pop-pop-popculture]

Who, in your opinion, are ✨Legendary, Talented Actors and Actresses✨ (deceased, alive and "legend in the making")?

Nice question!!!!  Like the word “versatile”, I feel that when referring to an actor or actress, “legendary” is thrown around too often without actually understanding what that word means and how it correlates to an actor or actress. That being said, I hope I do this right...

Alive: - Daniel Craig - Winona Ryder - Christian Bale - Julianne Moore - Jim Carrey - Meryl Streep - James McAvoy - Julia Roberts - Willem Dafoe - Susan Sarandon - Ewan McGregor - Charlize Theron - Johnny Depp (like him or not) - Nicole Kidman - Tom Hanks - Kate Winslet - Edward Norton - Morgan Freeman - Robert Downey Jr. - Leonardo DiCaprio - Allison Janney - Christopher Walken - Will Smith - Michael Caine - Brad Pitt - Dakota Fanning - Denzel Washington - Viola Davis - Gary Oldman - Bryce Dallas Howard - Idris Elba - Helena Bonham Carter - Tom Cruise (like him or not, and I, personally, absolutely despise him) - Jessica Chastain - Al Pacino - Cate Blanchett - Steve Carell (his career took off after he landed his iconic role as Michael Scott in The Office, but since his last episode in 2011, he's come a long way and has even branched out into a variety of genres as well as role types) - Angelina Jolie - Michael Keaton - Michelle Pfeiffer - Daniel Day-Lewis - Sandra Bullock - Robert De Niro - Renée Zellweger - Colin Farrell - Patricia Arquette - Colin Firth - Joaquin Phoenix - Keanu Reeves - Matthew McConaughey - Brendan Fraser - Harrison Ford - Jack Nicholson - Stanley Tucci

**There are tons of actors and actresses from the 30s-60s that were in-demand and could definitely be considered a legend, but I chose to leave them off because I didn’t want this list to be long and I wanted to focus on only the ones I grew up with as well as heard of**

Gone, but NEVER Forgotten - Heath Ledger - Carrie Fisher - Robin Williams - Brittany Murphy - River Phoenix - Chadwick Boseman - Chris Farley - Patrick Swayze

Legend in the Making: - Anya Taylor-Joy - Robert Pattinson - Margot Robbie - Julia Garner (I can just feel it...!) - Finn Wolfhard - Melissa McCarthy - Andrew Garfield - Sadie Sink (I can just feel it...!) - Cillian Murphy - Kate McKinnon - Saoirse Ronan - Anne Hathaway - Amy Adams - Lin-Manuel Miranda - Kristen Stewart (like her or not)

Honorable Mentions: Emma Thompson, Natalie Portman, Elle Fanning, Halle Berry, Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Zoë Saldaña, Emma Stone, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler

Unsure:

Hugh Jackman - click here

Matthew Modine - A true artist at heart who was quite versatile with his roles and genres in the 80s (and so fine 😍), but he isn't super well-known nor popular like, for example, Tom Hanks; however, the role of 'Papa' on Stranger Things won him tons of new fans as well as awoke his fans that grew up with him

Jason Bateman - He's been around since the 80s, but aside from Ozark, he only really stars in crude R-rated films, so I'm on the fence about whether he'd be considered one or not

Amy Poehler

Adam Driver

Tina Fey

Jake Gyllenhaal

Chris Rock

Florence Pugh

Bill Skarsgård

Tom Holland

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There are definitely tons--I mean tons of more actors and actresses I could write out for each category, but I'll end the lists here. Thank for the ask, this was fun to think about! If any of you have suggestions, then send me an ask.

[imaproperstranger]

Hi,

I started this blog, because I feel like I'm depressed.

That is "unhappy and without hope" as Cambrige Dictionary puts it.

The state of sadness is definetely longer than 2 weeks, I'd say.

If I'm not mistaken, it's been over 5 years (plus a few weeks).

I may return to this and explain the thing I believe to be the cause of my emotional state. Of course there was a break more or less through the year 2021, because I just read books all the time in hope to escape reality and finally acomplish something. And I did. But 2022 came with new disappointments, lost "friend(s)?" and not enogh will to read so many books again.

I would like to add a few words about myself as an introduction, but I don't think I know mysef well enough to be able to do it this instant.

So I'll just write down some things that I like in no particular order: - cold (it's been way too hot recently) - tea (I'm going to take a sip right now) - jigsaw puzzles (today I started doing one I wanted to for a few years now, but the last time I gave up after putting only a little bit together) - books (their smell, feeling them in my hands, flipping through the pages and sometimes reading) -cocoa (recently mainly because of The Amelia Project; you MUST check it out or I'm going to throw USB sticks with it at you and run away) - podcasts (I know it's pretty unexpected; yesterday I discovered I Am In Eskew and I love the vibes; the depressed and ominous vibes that is) - music (at the moment I'm listening to Dr. Sunshine Is Dead; as I said, the depressed vibes; recently I also listen a lot to AlicebanD) (sip) - idk, not sweating? it's way too hot for this time of day - old Hitchcock movies ( so far I've seen in this particular order: 1. Strangers On A Train (1951) (yes, because of The Amelia Project) 2. Rope (1948) (it's great; to sum up: be gay do crime) 3. Rear Window (1954) ( I really like the way it's filmed, I almost felt like I was one of the tennants of the building)

and after I'm finished with this I'm going to finish watching "Dial M for Murder (1954)" ( I started yesterday and stopped at Intermission; I wonder how he's going to frame his wife, I'm not smart enough to figure it out only from what I've seen so far)

It's funny that all the Hitchcocks films I've seen so far can be connected by starring actors/actress: 1&2 Farley Granger 2&3 James Stewart 3&4 Grace Kelly - Dirt Poor Robins (great band, and Queen Of The Night is increadible, I'm just listening to Komm Jesu rembering what happens in the movie)

- you made it so far?

♠♣♦Congratulations♦♣♠

Anyway, I think that's it for now. I'm going to watch "Dial M..." after tagging this post.

Ciao

PS: Yes, the blog's name comes from that The Guess Who song in case you were wondering.

[deadpresidents]

Who do you think would’ve been the Democratic nominee in 1940 if FDR decided against a third term?

FDR's two-term Vice President (and former Speaker of the House) John Nance Garner really wanted the Democratic nomination in 1940 and openly spoke out against the idea of FDR running for a third term. Garner actually launched a campaign for the nomination in 1940. Roosevelt and Garner had disagreed on policy a lot by that point, but that was still a unique moment in which an incumbent President was being challenged for his party's nomination by his own sitting Vice President. Now, FDR tried to make it appear as if he was being drafted for a third term and that he wasn't intentionally seeking re-election in 1940, but he absolutely was pulling the strings behind-the-scenes and working to make sure that he ended up with the nomination.

But even if Roosevelt hadn't run again in 1940, I don't think Garner would have been the nominee. He was popular with Democrats, but he was 71 years old (back when that seemed to be too old to be President!) and he was from Texas and the Civil War was fresh enough in memory that the country still wasn't all that open to electing a President from the Deep South. Plus, FDR and his New Dealers would have still controlled the party mechanisms and Garner was far too conservative of a Democrat for their tastes. If Roosevelt hadn't run, Postmaster General James Farley, who desperately wanted to be President and had long been a power in Democratic politics in New York probably would have grabbed the nomination. As it was, Farley did make a bid for the nomination in 1940 because he was under the impression that FDR was not going to seek a third term and that Roosevelt had given him the blessing to run, but he lost out to FDR on the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention.

If FDR hadn't run and Farley had been the nominee in 1940, it's interesting to think about whether he could have beaten the eventual Republican nominee, Wendell Willkie. Farley would have backed all of FDR's New Deal programs, was much more liberal than Roosevelt, and an early and enthusiastic advocate for civil rights. But he was also a Catholic and anti-Catholic sentiment was still a very real thing, as it was even when JFK was nominated 20 years later. A Farley-Willkie matchup would have been much closer than an FDR-Willkie matchup because Farley wouldn't have had the advantage of being FDR and Willkie was an energetic candidate on the campaign trail. Ideologically, there wasn't much distance between Farley's politics and Willkie's, just as there wasn't much difference between FDR and Willkie politically.

In fact, if FDR had made it clear ahead of time that he absolutely wasn't running in 1940, one of the leading contenders for the Democratic nomination actually probably would have been Wendell Willkie himself. Willkie was a Democrat for most of his life and even talked about as a potential future Democratic Presidential candidate in the late-1930s. When it became obvious that Roosevelt wasn't going to definitively refuse a third term, Willkie changed his voter registration to Republican -- in late 1939! That made him available as a compromise candidate for Republicans at the 1940 Republican Convention, but he probably would have been a contender for the 1940 Democratic nomination if FDR had dropped out. And after the Willkie lost to FDR in the 1940 election, he became a vocal supporter of Roosevelt's wartime leadership and acted as an unofficial diplomat for FDR on a couple of occasions.

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Farley Granger, James Stewart, and John Dall in Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)

Cast: James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Dick Hogan, Edith Evanson, Douglas Dick, Joan Chandler. Screenplay: Hume Cronyn, Arthur Laurents, based on a play by Patrick Hamilton. Cinematography: William V. Skall, Joseph A. Valentine. Art direction: Perry Ferguson. Film editing: William H. Ziegler. Music: David Buttolph.

Montage, the assembling of discrete segments of film for dramatic effect, is what makes movies an art form distinct from just filmed theater. Which is why it's odd that so many filmmakers have been tempted to experiment with abandoning montage and simply filming the action and dialogue in continuity. Long takes and tracking shots do have their place in a movie: Think of the suspense built in the opening scene in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), an extended tracking shot that follows a car with a bomb in it for almost three and a half minutes until the bomb explodes. Or the way Michael Haneke introduces his principal characters with a nine-minute traveling shot in Code Unknown (2000). Or, to consider the ultimate extreme of anti-montage filmmaking, the scenes in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975), in which the camera not only doesn't move for minutes on end, but characters also walk out of frame, leaving the viewer to contemplate only the banality of the rooms in which the title character lives her daily life. But these shots are only part of the films in question: Eventually, Welles and Haneke and even Akerman are forced to cut from one scene to another to tell a story. Alfred Hitchcock was intrigued with the possibility of making an entire movie without cuts. He couldn't bring it off because of technological limitations: Film magazines of the day held only ten minutes' worth of footage, and movie projectors could show only 20 minutes at a time before reels needed to be changed. In Rope, Hitchcock often works around these limitations by artificial blackouts in which a character's back fills the frame to mask the cut, but he sometimes makes an unmasked quick cut to a character entering the room -- a kind of blink-and-you-miss-it cut.* But for most of the film, we are watching the action in real time, as we would on a stage. Rope began as a play in 1929, when Patrick Hamilton's thinly disguised version of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case was staged in London. Hitchcock, who had almost certainly seen it on stage, asked Hume Cronyn to adapt it for the screen and then brought in Arthur Laurents to write the screenplay. To accomplish his idea of filming it as a continuous action, he worked with two cinematographers, William V. Skall and Joseph A. Valentine, and a crew of camera operators whose names are listed -- uniquely for the time -- in the opening credits, developing a kind of choreography through the rooms, designed by Perry Ferguson, that appear on the screen. The film opens with the murder of David Kentley (Dick Hogan) by Brandon (John Dall) and Philip (Farley Granger), who then hide his body in a large antique chest and proceed to hold a dinner party in the same room, serving dinner from the lid of the chest, which they cover with a cloth and on which they place two candelabra. The dinner guests are David's father (Cedric Hardwicke), his aunt (Constance Collier), his fiancée, Janet (Joan Chandler), his old friend and rival for Janet's hand (Douglas Dick), and the former headmaster of their prep school, Rupert Cadell (James Stewart). Everyone spends a lot of time wondering why David hasn't shown up for the party, too, while Brandon carries on some intellectual jousting with Rupert and the others about whether murder is really a crime if a superior person kills an inferior one, and Philip, jittery from the beginning, drinks heavily and starts to fall to pieces. Murder will out, eventually, but not after much talk and everyone except Rupert, who returns to find a cigarette case he pretends to have lost, has gone home. There is one beautifully Hitchcockian scene in the film, in which the chest is positioned in the foreground, and while the talk about murder goes on off-camera, we watch the housekeeper (Edith Evanson) clear away the serving dishes, remove the cloth and candelabra, and almost put back the books that had been stored in the chest. It's a rare moment of genuine suspense in a film whose archness of dialogue and sometimes distractingly busy camerawork saps a lot of the necessary tension, especially since we know whodunit and assume that they'll get caught somehow. Some questionable casting also undermines the film: Stewart does what he can as always, but is never quite convincing as a Nietzschean intellectual, and Granger's disintegrating Philip is more a collection of gestures than a characterization. The gay subtext of the film emerges strongly despite the Production Code, but today portrayals of gay men as thrill-killers only adds something of a sour note, even though Dall and Granger were both gay, and Granger was for a time Laurents's lover.

*Technology has since made something like what Hitchcock was aiming for in Rope possible. Alexander Sokurov's 2002 Russian Ark consists of a single 96-minute tracking shot through the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg as a well-rehearsed crowd of actors, dancers, and extras re-create 300 years of Russian history. Projectors today are also capable of handling continuous action without the necessity of reel-changes, making possible Alejandro Iñárruitu's Oscar-winning Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), with its appearance of unedited continuity, though Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki resorted to masked cuts very much like Hitchcock's.

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ROPE (1948)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Screenwriter: Arthur Laurents

Cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger

Genre: psychological crime thriller

Two friends murder their former classmate as an intellectual exercise.

One of my favorite Hitchcock films. Both in part of what went into making this movie, its LGBTQ+ casting, and its monologue.

I'm down for any theme that's about reality checking people with superiority complexes.

The original play was likely based on the real-life murder of a 14 year old by two students who believed they could commit the "perfect crime".

Known for its technical feat with its long shots, creatively masking the cuts in order to change out the reels. I'm simplifying here, but it's worth looking into in order to appreciate. Also Hitchcock's first technicolor movie.

The movie didn't do well in its time. The studio distanced from the movie because of its overt queer context. It was banned in some locations and received a Mature rating.

Didn't know this before watching Matt Baume's video the fact but James Stewart's character, Rupert Cadell, was originally gay and it would have been rad to see a more queer-coded character! Like as much as I love James Stewart, it's unfortunate he couldn't pull it off. But it's great to know now that-that was how it's meant to be in the original play and what Hitchcock had intended (Stewart was not his first choice)! Mind-blown.

Along with that, it's always fascinating to know what the Hays code was obsessed with, and what they missed for any movie. It also just gets my gears turning because I feel like audiences now would miss these innuendos too, now that writers and directors don't have to rely on them. And with Rope in particular, as mentioned the studio bowed out because of this. And the audiences were like, "THIS IS GAY! THIS IS VERY GAY!" and had it banned in some places. But a fear years ago I was watching this with a straight friend, they had no idea there was any gay subtext.

"The Secret Gay Love Affair Behind Alfred Hitchcock's Rope" Matt Baume, 2023

"Rope Needs More Gay", Rantasmo, 2016

Again, because of the re-writes, the casting, the fact that Rupert Cadell reads as straight, it could easily read as condemning gay people as being inherently evil and murderers. But yeah, I just never watched it with that lens even without knowing Cadell was straight. Many people did view it that way though (Rantasmo) but with Baume's research I think the next time I watch it, I will appreciate it further.

And to be honest, everyone reads Stewart as straight or sexless but not me, at least not for his roles. And I think it's because I saw some trash tabloid talking how he and Henry Fonda were totally boyfriends because they lived together when they were unknown and broke as shit, even slept in the same bed. While that is true that they lived together - there's no such thing as roommates anymore? haha. They were best friends the rest of their lives, but as far as the "lovers" thing that didn't really have any evidence. That's with being fully aware that Hollywood likes to keep secrets. But not even a single hearsay from people behind the scenes... um.

Also, if Cadell's character was actually read as queer, maybe Hoover wouldn't have felt this about the movie? Because what the hell? haha.

"I mean that tonight you've made me ashamed of every concept I ever had of superior or inferior beings. But I thank you for that shame, because now O know that we are each of us a separate human being, Brandon. With the right to live and work and think as individuals, but with an obligation to the society we live in. By what right do you dare say that there's a superior few to which you belong? By what right did you dare decide that, that boy in there was inferior and therefore could be killed? Did you think you were God, Brandon? Is that what you thought when you choked the life out of him? Is that what you thought when you served food from his grave? I don't know what you thought or what you are, but I know what you've done. You've murdered! You've strangled the life out of another fellow human being who could live and love as you never could - and never will again."

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notes on poking a dead frog

intro: talks about "I did it their way"

"all great comedy has managed to circumnavigate executive meddling."

james downey

jim downey on clapter "it congratulates itself on its edginess, but it's just the ass-kissiest kind of comedy going, reassuring his status-anxious audience that there are some people they're smarter than"

"my own politics are sort of all over the place in terms of issues, but as far as the writing goes, the only important thing its that it's funny, and that it's an original comment. that the audience agrees with me isn't necessary and probably isn't even a good thing. it's so easy to coast by, just hitting the same familiar notes you know are popular and have been pretested for effectiveness. the audience will always at least applaud, so you never have to risk silence."

he goes on to then talk shit about monica lewinsky, which is not the vibe

shouldn't there be some connection with the audience? can you be a complete anarchist when it comes to humor? "yeah well that's norm macdonald. he does things for the experience of doing it, and he doesn't fear silence at all"

it's funny that he says his status anxious audience wants to be assured that they're smarter than someone but this guy does seem to sort of think he's smarter than a lot of people

talking about not being able to title a sketch pussywhipped "'cmon it doesnt mean vagina. it means female-dominated. but that's where the nbc standards lady says, 'well as a woman...' which was her way of reminding me that her sense of humor had been removed at birth."

"one of the points i pride myself on is that i avoid anything i feel is a cheap laugh based on shock or just being dirty. you can always get a laugh, but you don't want it to come at the price of your dignity"

talking about the chippendales sketch he's like it wasn't making fun of him for being fat, because it's crucial that farley wasn't embarrassed and that the judges react the way that they do

~but bro, all of the laughs are predicated on the idea that it's ridiculous that anyone could find chris farley or his body attractive. like there's not really any laughs that aren't about just like making fun of chris's body. they're literally like we thought you were a great dancer, just a fat fat fatty and we hate that about you. like there's actually no way that this joke could be played out in any other way. like the jokes they're going for are literally just look at this fat fat fatty and how fat he is lol isn't it dumb that he thought he could be sexy

"writers tend to write ordinary people in weird situations. performers tend to write weird people in ordinary situations."

"i honestly never want a political agenda to be the leading edge of the piece. i want the piece to be funny, but only because it's based on an observation that i think if fair to make and that no one else is making."

he wants them to be true more than he wants the implications to line up with what he believes

talks about this interesting exercise when he was reading submissions he would ask for three pieces and one of them had to be something that only you think is funny as the writer

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i'm taking prompts - again haha

i had SO MUCH FUN with taking prompts last time for the Silver Bullets girls (MOTA), that i can't help but do it again - especially now that we have some relationships more fleshed out too (and a better introduction to other OCs and such hehe) SO, please feel free to send in a prompt and an OC or OC/canon character pairing of your choice!!! pairings sent in also don't have to be with the romantic pairing below - it can be platonic, or against a foil too! pairings can also be two SB girls, or just one of the SB girls too!!! feel free to mix and match!! it's all about the fun and the vibes! <3 (things can happily be sent on anon too if you’re not comfortable 🫶✨)

Silver Bullets girls are linked here !!!!

-> interested in pairings? just below!

Annie Bradshaw x John Brady

Kennedy Farley x Bucky Egan

Judy Rybinski x Rosie Rosenthal

Carrie Achterberg x James Douglass

Margie Harlowe x Benny DeMarco

Bessie Carlisle x Thomas McKenzie

and here are the prompts i'm looking into as well!! <3 please feel free!!! these get me going *BIG TIME* and are so much fun, more than anything. thank you all for the love and support and for taking the time to look into the Silver Bullets girls - seriously, you've made my heart so warm and it has helped me through more than you can imagine :) (we're definitely going more angsty with some of these, but i eat it up every time so hehe!)

seeking out physical affection

dialogue assortment

lack of sleep starters

protective sentence starters

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