#adrienne byrne

[annabolinas]

Adrienne Byrne as Catherine of Aragon and Jason Kemp as Prince Arthur in The Shadow of the Tower (1972), Episode 13: The King Without a Face

edited by me; apologies for any remaining artifacts!

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Knowing 2009

[longwuzhere]

Some cool Easter eggs I caught watching My Adventures with Superman that I want to show to people so they can be in on it with comic book readers pt2

Episode 1 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 3 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

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Episode 9 of My Adventure with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 10 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

(SPOILERS obviously):

An obvious one, but a classic, the "up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" line reference. This one never gets old.

Jimmy next name drops Flamebird. in the comics Nightwing and Flamebird were Kryptonian superheroes adopting their names from a species of Kryptonian birds. This is where Dick Grayson gets his Nightwing identity from. The page here is from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #17 (1986) drawn by Curt Swan and Karl Kesel.

At the climatic battle of part 2 of Adventures of a Normal Man, we see Leslie Willis become blue and look more like her traditional Livewire look. Her first appearance was in Superman the Animated Series, season 2 episode 5 "Livewire" where she was voiced by Lori Petty, a.k.a. Tank Girl. In the show Leslie was a shock jock radio DJ slinging hot takes live on air knocking down Superman a peg or two

Obviously MAwS took Leslie in a whole different direction, design choice, and occupation change, but I am excited to see what happens next for her.

Before we see Clark battle Leslie we see this guy. White hair, wears orange and black, its Slade Wilson a.k.a. Deathstroke. This fool here in like 20 to 25 years will have his life spiral out of control and get his ass kicked by a bunch of colorfully dressed teenagers.

Deathstroke makes his first appearance in New Teen Titans #2 (1980) (W: Marv Wolfman and George Perez, P: George Perez, I: Romeo Tanghal, C: Adrienne Roy, L: Ben Oda) where he is hired by H.I.V.E. to kill the Teen Titans. In the comics he's a major piece of shit, but a damn good assassin.

After the fight we see Supes clean up and he picks up a billboard that reads Amazotech.

This is a good reference to Professor Anthony Ivo, a mad scientist of the DC Universe who built the Amazo robot who could adapt and replicate any power that the Justice League has and weaknesses. Both Ivo and the Amazo robot make their first appearances here in Brave and the Bold #30 (1960) with the cover art done by Mike Sekowsky and Murphy Anderson.

At the end of the episode Slade name drops Task Force X better known as the Suicide Squad. The name "Suicide Squad" is from the Brave and the Bold #25 where it was the name of Rick Flag's unit in the military. The Suicide Squad pop culture knows first debuted in Legends #3 (1987) as seen below (W: John Ostrander and Len Wein, P: John Byrne, I: Karl Kesel, C: Tom Ziuko, L: Steve Haynie).

The team at this time was composed of Rick Flag, Bronze Tiger, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Enchantress, and Blockbuster. The team members have changed out with each new Task Force X/Suicide Squad iteration.

Behind Slade, here is Amanda Waller, the most fearsome woman in the DC universe. She's ruthless, politically powerful, and will not hesitate to blow up anyone in the Suicide Squad if they screw up. She makes her first appearance in Legends #1 (1987) same comic series in the previous picture. Very excited to see where My Adventures with Superman goes with this cuz you don't see Superman interact with Deathstroke or Suicide Squad all the often.

Link to Episode 1 of My Adventures of Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

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[lightleckrereins]

The Moulin Rouge heels/skirts/female ensemble

Paloma Garcia Lee (Original Broadway cast), Khori Michelle Petinaud (Original Broadway cast), Bahiyah Hibah (Original Broadway cast), Ericka Hunter (Original Broadway cast), Jodi McFadden (Original Broadway cast), Morgan Marcel (Original Broadway cast)

Karli Dinardo (swing, Original Broadway cast/swing, Australia), Amber Ardolino (swing, Original Broadway cast), Kaitlin Mesh (swing, Original Broadway cast/ensemble Broadway), Tilly Evans-Krueger (swing, Broadway), Keely Byrne (Broadway), Maya Bowles (Broadway)

Kara Menendez (swing, Broadway), Mia DeWeese (swing, Broadway), Lauren J. Hamilton (Broadway), Kelsey Orem (swing, Broadway), Ariana Rosario (Broadway), Adéa Michelle Sessoms (first US tour)

Adrienne Balducci (first US tour), Alexis Hasbrouck (first US tour), Jenn Stafford (first US tour/Broadway), Jennifer Wolfe (first US tour), Tanisha Moore (first US tour), Amy Quanbeck (swing, first US tour/swing, Broadway)

Tamrin Goldberg (swing, first US tour), Alexa De Barr (swing, first US tour/swing Broadway), Ayden Pratt (swing, first US tour), Emma Russel (Australia), Chaska Halliday (Australia), Anica Calida (Australia)

Kara Sims (Australia), Amy Berrisford (Australia), Scout Hook (Australia), Bree Tipoki (swing, Australia), Brittany Ford (swing, Australia), Kahlia Davis (swing, Australia)

Giuliana Carniato (swing, Australia), Katie Ella Dunsden (West End), Tinovimbanashe Sibanda (West End), Melissa Nettleford (West End), Lily Wang (West End), Katie Singh (West End)

AmyThorton (West End), Alicia Mencía (swing, West End), Georgia Morgan (swing, West End/swing, Australia), Misty May Tindall (swing, West End/ensemble Germany), Elly Shay (swing, West End), Tamsin January (swing, West End)

[dulcie-with-the-docs]

today on Juno’s EITPYACO posting- lyrics from my ep28/chrislou playlist that make me feel emotions

Songs in order-

anything :: Adrienne Lenker

Remember Me :: Gael Garcia Bernal

This Is a Life :: Son Lux, Mitski, David Byrne

Things To Do :: Alex G

Home :: Edith Whiskers

[britneyshakespearess]

2023 Recap

Goal: 35 books

Books read: 50 11 nonfiction 39 fiction

Pages read: 15,896

My 5 star reads (in order by which I read them):

The Winter of the Witch Katherine Arden

The Catcher in the Rye (reread) J.D. Salinger

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Claire Dederer

Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros

The Anomaly Herve Le Tellier

White Wedding Kathleen J. Woods

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Natalie West (editor)

Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor

Jawbone Monica Ojeda

Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan

How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti

Educated Tara Westover

Sharks, Death, Surfers: an Illustrated Companion Melissa McCarthy

Minor Feelings Cathy Park Hong

Best book I read this year:

Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor

Worst book I read this year:

In the Woods Tana French

The books I thought I was going to love but didn't:

The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls

Idlewild James Frankie Thomas

Biography of X Catherine Lacey

How Music Works David Byrne

Bluebeard's Castle Anna Biller

The book I didn't expect to love but did:

Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan

How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti

The books I haven't stopped thinking about:

The Anomaly Herve Le Tellier White Wedding Kathleen J. Woods We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Natalie West (editor) Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor

Jawbone Monica Ojeda Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan

How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti

Educated Tara Westover Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Claire Dederer Nails and Eyes Kaori Fujino What Was She Thinking? Zoe Heller How to Blow Up a Pipeline Andreas Malm Treasure Island!!! Sara Levine Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh At the Edge of the Woods Kathryn Bromwich Lament for Julia Susan Taubes

The complete list and my ratings (in order by which I read them):

Ninth House Leigh Bardugo (reread) 4/5 Hell Bent Leigh Bardugo 3.5/5 The Winter of the Witch Katherine Arden 5/5 What Was She Thinking? Zoe Heller 4/5 Spells for Forgetting Adrienne Young 3/5 Elektra Jennifer Saint 3/5 How to Blow Up a Pipeline Andreas Malm 4.5/5 Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson 4.5/5 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger (reread) 5/5 Treasure Island!!! Sara Levine 4.5/5 The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World Malcom Gaskill 4/5 Milk Fed Melissa Broder 4.5/5 Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh 3.5/5 Bunny Mona Awad 3.5/5 Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Claire Dederer 5/5 A Crack-Up at the Race Riots Harmony Korine 4/5 Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros 5/5 Delta of Venus Anais Nin 4.5/5 The Only One Left Riley Sager 4/5 Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Rachel Aviv 4/5 The Anomaly Herve Le Tellier 5/5 A Court of Silver Flames Sarah J. Maas 4/5 At the Edge of the Woods Kathryn Bromwich 4.5/5 How Music Works David Byrne 3.5/5 Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises Rebecca Solnit 3/5 Boy Parts Eliza Clark 4/5 White Wedding Kathleen J. Woods 5/5 Lament for Julia Susan Taubes 4.5/5 In the Woods Tana French 2/5 Biography of X Catherine Lacey 4/5 The Near Witch Victoria Schwab 4/5 Divine Rivals Rebecca Ross 4.5/5 We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Natalie West (editor) 5/5 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 5/5 Starling House Alix E. Harrow 3/5 Nails and Eyes Kaori Fujino 4.5/5 Jawbone Monica Ojeda 5/5 Small Favors Erin A. Craig. 3/5 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 4/5 Bluebeard's Castle Anna Biller 3.5/5 Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros 4.5/5 Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan 5/5 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti 5/5 Educated Tara Westover 5/5 The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls 3.5/5 Idlewild James Frankie Thomas 4/5 The Guest List Lucy Foley 4/5 Ruthless Vows Rebecca Ross 4/5 Sharks, Death, Surfers: an Illustrated Companion Melissa McCarthy 5/5 Minor Feelings Cathy Park Hong 5/5

[rainingmusic]

Stone Temple Pilots - She's My Queen 

[nofatclips]

Perdida by Stone Temple Pilots

Fare Thee Well

Three Wishes

Perdida

I Didn't Know the Time

Years

She's My Queen

Miles Away

You Found Yourself While Losing Your Heart

I Once Sat at Your Table

Sunburst

[wwprice1]

Kori in all her glory. By John Byrne, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, and Adrienne Roy!

[theblackestofsuns]

“Your So-Called Signature”

Batman #435 (July 1989)

John Byrne, Jim Aparo, Mike DeCarlo and Adrienne Roy

DC Comics

[johnbyrnedraws]

New Teen Titans Annual #2, page 20 by John Byrne &  Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez & Adrienne Roy. 1986.

[biandlesbianliterature]

New Bi & Lesbian Books Out This Week! (August 18th)

[image description: Slides with the cover and (condensed) description of the books listed below. Full description is available at the links.]

Books mentioned:

Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner (YA)

Afterlove by Tanya Byrne (YA Fantasy)

Love Frankie by Jacqueline Wilson (Middle Grade)

Lumberjanes Volume 15: Birthday Smarty by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, AnneMarie Rogers, and Maarta Laiho (All Ages Comics)

Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola (Fiction)

Summer of the Cicadas by Chelsea Catherine (Fiction)

Fidelity by Marco Missiroli, Alex Valente (Translator) (Fiction)

Evie and the Pack-Horse Librarians by Laurel Beckley (Fantasy)

The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell (Fantasy)

Destiny’s Choice (Destiny and Darkness #3) by Karen Frost (Fantasy)

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Science Fiction)

Hugs & Quiches by Candace Harper (Romance)

On the Square by Brenda Murphy (Romance)

The Lavender House Murder (Reissue) by Nikki Baker (Mystery)

Motor Crush, Volume 3 by Babs Tarr, Brenden Fletcher, and Cameron Stewart (Comics)

Be Gay, Do Comics: Queer History, Memoir, and Satire from The Nib edited by Mat Bors (Comics)

I Love You So Much, I Hate You by yuni (Manga)

If you like what we do here and want to see more of it, support this tumblr & the Lesbrary on Patreon for $2 or more a month to get queer books in the mail throughout the year!

[twh-news]

The 2020 Tony Awards Preview | Broadway Direct

Like the recent Olympics, the 2020 Tony Awards arrive after a lengthy delay necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. And amid enduring uncertainty, they are all the more eagerly anticipated by fans of Broadway theater and the industry serving them.

This year’s ceremony, set for September 26 at the Winter Garden Theatre, will be different on several counts. The number of productions recognized has been limited by the March 2020 shutdown, which prevented a bunch of high-profile shows from opening, and rendered others — including Ivo von Hove’s staging of West Side Story, and Girl From the North Country, the acclaimed musical weaving Bob Dylan songs into a book by Conor McPherson — ineligible, as many Tony voters had not been able to see them.

On the other hand, a new arrangement that will make the entire event available on Paramount Plus, beginning at 7 p.m. ET — with longtime Tonys home CBS broadcasting from 9 to 11 p.m. ET — will enable viewers at home to see awards given out in categories such as design, orchestration, and choreography. “We haven’t had all of our creatives and the awards recognizing them on the special since before my time,” notes Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, which presents the Tonys with the American Theatre Wing.

“The whole point of the show is to set an optimistic and realistic tone,” adds Heather Hitchens, the Wing’s president and CEO. “The theme of this show is that Broadway’s back — theater is safe if protocols are followed — and we have exciting new work for people to see.”

Both St. Martin and Hitchens point to the diversity of shows represented both in nominations for the 2019–2020 season as well as those premiering in the new season, which launched in August with the arrival of Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s Pass Over. Slave Play, another work by a Black playwright that transferred after earning praise Off-Broadway, is up for 12 Tonys, making it the most nominated play to date. Author Jeremy O. Harris was tapped for his provocative look at the roles race, gender, and sexuality play in contemporary relationships; director Robert O’Hara, leading actress Joaquina Kalukango, featured actors Ato Blankson-Wood and James Cusati-Moyer, and featured actresses Chalia La Tour and Annie McNamara are among the other nominees.

Tina – The Tina Turner Musical is also a contender in 12 categories, with celebrated Black artists including Adrienne Warren, who won raves for her performance as the titular rock and R&B icon, and this year’s Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Katori Hall among the nominees. The other productions up for Best Musical, Jagged Little Pill and Moulin Rouge! The Musical respectively collected 15 and 14 nominations; both combine books by noted writers — Jagged Little Pill’s Diablo Cody and Moulin Rouge’s John Logan — with established music — Alanis Morissette’s for Jagged Little Pill, and various pop songs tracing several decades for Moulin Rouge!.

Consequently, none of the five candidates for best original score is a musical production. They include Slave Play and fellow Best Play nominees The Inheritance and The Sound Inside and new stagings of A Christmas Carol and Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo. (The theatrical concert David Byrne’s American Utopia is being honored with a Special Tony Award, as Springsteen on Broadway was in 2018.)

Only three revivals made the cut for Best Revival of a Play: a production of A Soldier’s Play showcasing Blair Underwood, a nominee for leading actor in a play, and David Alan Grier, up for featured actor; a Betrayal, featuring Tom Hiddleston, a contender for leading actor; and Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, starring six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald, nominated for leading actress.

Other stage and screen stars who are candidates at this year’s ceremony include Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge, both for leading actor in Best Play nominee Sea Wall/A Life, a pair of one-man pieces respectively written by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne, each told from the perspective of a young husband and father. In the category for leading actress in a play, Mary-Louise Parker is acknowledged for Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside, an intimate mystery involving a cancer-stricken college professor and her alienated, prodigious student, also up for Best Play; and Laura Linney is nominated for My Name Is Lucy Barton, an adaptation of Alice Munro’s novel tracing a complex mother-daughter relationship.

Matthew López’s The Inheritance — up for 11 awards, and focused on gay men living in a New York haunted by a pandemic of the recent past, AIDS — yielded nominations for John Benjamin Hickey, for featured actor, and Lois Smith, for featured actress. (Cast members Andrew Burnap and Paul Hilton are nominees for leading and featured actor in turn, with Linda Vista’s Ian Barford also up for leading actor.) And a fifth Best Play contender, Grand Horizons — a comedy that dares to look at sex and marriage in the golden years — and the Broadway debut of Bess Wohl earned a nod for another duly cherished veteran, Jane Alexander, also for featured actress.

Musical theater favorites recognized include Danny Burstein, who earned a seventh Tony nomination for his featured performance in Moulin Rouge; Moulin Rouge’s Karen Olivo and Jagged Little Pill’s Elizabeth Stanley, completing the leading actress category; and Moulin Rouge’s Aaron Tveit, who, as a result of the relative dearth of musical productions in this abbreviated season, was the only performer nominated in the leading actor field. (He needs the approval of 60 percent of Tony voters to claim the prize.)

In vying for Best Direction of a Play, Slave Play’s O’Hara will face stiffer competition from lauded British directors Stephen Daldry (Inheritance) and Jamie Lloyd (Betrayal) and equally accomplished Americans David Cromer (Sound Inside) and Kenny Leon (Soldier’s Play). The directors tapped for their work on musicals are no less distinguished: British film and stage vet Phyllida Lloyd (TINA), Pill’s Diane Paulus, and Moulin Rouge’s Alex Timbers, who, between the two of them, have helmed some of the most admired musical productions of the past decade both on and Off-Broadway.

And thanks to this year’s multiplatform format, fans of the three musicals will get to see awards handed out to their choreographers and orchestrators — one of each, anyway. The nominees include Moulin Rouge’s Sonya Tayeh, whose collaborators have ranged from the Martha Graham Dance Company to Miley Cyrus, and Jagged Little Pill’s Tom Kitt, whose many credits as a composer include Next to Normal, for which he won both Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.

Variety writer and podcast host Gordon Cox adds that the 2020 Tony nominations would likely have presented “an entirely different race” had the rush of productions originally scheduled to open in late March and April of last year had been able to do so. Still, he believes there are “a significant group of people who think the Tonys can be a celebration, not just of a season that got overshadowed by the pandemic, but of a return to performances — to being able to sit in theatres, knock on wood. There are people looking for an opportunity to celebrate theater in general.”

[mikexx2]

Time for Lorena’s birthday! Carmen and Angelino of course invite a smallish group of friends over to celebrate.

Lorena grows up looking, I think, a lot like Angelino. And judgy af.

[whosafraidofvirginiawoolf]

Books Read 2021

Fingersmith, Sarah Waters

The Woman in Black, Susan Hill

West Wind, Mary Oliver

The Pigman, Paul Zindel (reread)

White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi

Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff

The Dark Phoenix Saga, Chris Claremont & John Byrne (reread)

Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

Affinity, Sarah Waters

The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

The Lying Game, Ruth Ware

18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (reread)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (reread)

Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (reread)

Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (reread)

The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe

The Scapegoat, Daphne du Maurier

We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates

The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters

Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh

The Night Watch, Sarah Waters

The Library of the Unwritten, A.J. Hackwith

Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood

The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

Death in Her Hands, Ottessa Moshfegh

The House on the Strand, Daphne du Maurier

Gentleman’s Agreement, Laura Z. Hobson

A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams

The Desert of the Heart, Jane Rule

Ripley Under Ground, Patricia Highsmith

The Terror, Dan Simmons

Homesick for Another World, Ottessa Moshfegh

Ripley’s Game, Patricia Highsmith

Planet of Exile, Ursula K. Le Guin

Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood

The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood

MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood

Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters

The Boy Who Followed Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (reread)

Dawn, Octavia Butler

City of Illusions, Ursula K. Le Guin

Red Dragon, Thomas Harris

The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich

Don’t Look Now (Not After Midnight, and other stories), Daphne du Maurier

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee

Ripley Under Water, Patricia Highsmith

Suddenly Last Summer, Tennessee Williams

The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris

Adulthood Rites, Octavia Butler

The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams

Hannibal, Thomas Harris

A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee

Imago, Octavia Butler

The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, Edward Albee

The Other Typist, Suzanne Rindell

We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson (reread)

Sweet Bird of Youth, Tennessee Williams

Tangerine, Christine Mangan

The People Who Knock on the Door, Patricia Highsmith

The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Tennessee Williams

Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood

The Two Mrs. Carlyles, Suzanne Rindell

The Next Species: the future of evolution in the aftermath of man, Michael Tennesen

Orpheus Descending, Tennessee Williams

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

Out Cry, Tennessee Williams

Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler

The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams (reread)

The Rose Tattoo, Tennessee Williams

Lady Oracle, Margaret Atwood

Play It as It Lays, Joan Didion

Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O'Neill

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey

A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin

Melmoth, Sarah Perry

The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin

Kingdom of Earth (The Seven Descendants of Myrtle), Tennessee Williams

The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood

The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Tennessee Williams

The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield

Fledgling, Octavia Butler

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller (reread)

Bodily Harm, Margaret Atwood

Vieux Carre, Tennessee Williams

Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen

Conjure Women, Afia Atakora 

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Helen Oyeyemi

A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen

Deep Water, Patricia Highsmith

Surfacing, Margaret Atwood

The Italian, Ann Radcliffe

The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O'Neil

Paradise, Toni Morrison

Sisters, Daisy Johnson

Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi

The Castle of Ortranto, Horace Walpole

Period of Adjustment, Tennessee Williams

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Tennessee Williams

The Mutilated, Tennessee Williams

Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood

The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood

In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado

Me: Stories of My Life, Katharine Hepburn

The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Another Country, James Baldwin

The Blunderer, Patricia Highsmith

Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood

A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver (reread)

Sula, Toni Morrison

Nothing Holds Back the Night, Delphine de Vigan

Frankissstein, Jeanette Winterson

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Loyalties, Delphine de Vigan 

The Romance of the Forest, Ann Radcliffe

The American, Henry James

The Seep, Chana Porter

The Old English Baron, Clara Reeve

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (reread)

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Challenge, Vita Sackville-West

Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood

Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin

Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi

The Family Plot, Cherie Priest

Experimental Film, Gemma File

Henry James: Stories of the Supernatural

The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides

The Discomfort of Evening, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

Passing, Nella Larsen

Quicksand, Nella Larsen

Horrorstor, Grady Hendrix

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon

[theblipster]

best of 2020.

sorry abt the late post. might get back to Tumblr, who knows? for now, here's what I thought was the best stuff from the worst year. c

movies.

Small Axe (Mangrove / Lovers Rock / Red, White & Blue / Alex Wheatley / Education) // dir. Steve McQueen

Da 5 Bloods // dir. Spike Lee

First Cow // dir. Kelly Reichardt

The Forty-Year-Old Version // dir. Radha Blank

Bacurau // dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles

David Byrne’s American Utopia // dir. Spike Lee

Soul // dir. Pete Docter, Kemp Powers

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm // dir. Jason Woliner

Time // dir. Garrett Bradley

Kajillionaire // dir. Miranda July

Boys State // dir. Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine

The Vast of Night // dir. Andrew Patterson

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom // dir. George C. Wolfe

Tigertail // dir. Alan Yang

His House // dir. Remi Weekes

The Assistant // dir. Kitty Green

Possessor // dir. Brandon Cronenberg

Palm Springs // dir. Max Barbakow

The Trip to Greece // dir. Michael Winterbottom

She Dies Tomorrow // dir. Amy Seinmetz

albums.

Lianne La Havas // Lianne La Havas

Untitled (Black Is) // SAULT

RTJ4 // Run the Jewels

It Was Good Until It Wasn’t // Kehlani

SAWAYAMA // Rina Sawayama

Future Nostalgia // Dua Lipa

Women In Music, Pt. III // HAIM

R.Y.C. // Mura Masa

Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez // Gorillaz

Circles // Mac Miller

Ungodly Hour // Chloe x Halle

We Will Always Love You // The Avalanches

INDUSTRY GAMES [EP] // CHIKA

Alfredo // Freddie Gibbs x The Alchemist

2017-2019 // Against All Logic

A Written Testimony // Jay Electronica (& Jay Z)

color theory // Soccer Mommy

græ // Moses Sumney

how I’m feeling now // Charli XCX

Black Habits // D Smoke

What’s Your Pleasure? // Jessie Ware

Punisher // Phoebe Bridgers

Dinner Party [EP] // Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper & 9th Wonder

The Slow Rush // Tame Impala

Chromatica // Lady Gaga

folklore // Taylor Swift

A Beautiful Revolution // Common

Fetch the Bolt Cutters // Fiona Apple

UNLOCKED [EP] // Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats

It Is What It Is // Thundercat

Limbo // Aminé

Shabrang // Sevdaliza

After Hours // The Weeknd

Shore // Fleet Foxes

We’re New Again // Makaya McCraven x Gil Scott-Heron

FOREVER // Starchild & the New Romantic

songs // Adrienne Lenker

Heaven to A Tortured Mind // Yves Tumor

Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able [EP] // Black Thought

There’s Only Being Yourself // Radiant Children

songs.

“Bittersweet” // Lianne La Havas

“Ooh La La” // Run the Jewels f. Greg Nice & DJ Premier

“circle the drain” // Soccer Mommy

“Do It” // Chloe x Halle

“WAP” // Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion

“Wildfires” // SAULT

“Gospel For A New Century” // Yves Tumor

“Guilty Conscience” // 070 Shake

“CROWN” // CHIKA

“Bad Friend” // Rina Sawayama

“Freeze Tag” // Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder & Phoelix

“forever” // Charli XCX

“Toxic” // Kehlani

“BALD!” // JPEGMAFIA

“The Pink Phantom” // Gorillaz f. Elton John & 6LACK

“Garden Song” // Phoebe Bridgers

“Cut Me” // Moses Sumney

“Savage [Remix]” // Megan Thee Stallion f. Beyoncé

“Good Morning” // Black Thought f. Pusha T, Swiss Beatz & Killer Mike

“Time (You & I)” // Khruangbin

“Gasoline” // HAIM

“The Box” // Roddy Ricch

“Ghost of Soulja Slim” // Jay Electronica (& Jay Z)

“WAKING UP DOWN” // Yaeji

“hand crushed by mallet [Remix]” // 100 gecs f. Fall Out Boy, Craig Owens & Nicole Dollanganger

“Lost In Yesterday” // Tame Impala

“Don’t Start Now” // Dua Lipa

“Take Care In Your Dreaming” // The Avalanches f. Denzel Curry, Sampa the Great & Tricky

“anything” // Adrienne Lenker

“Comeback” // Carly Rae Jepsen f. Bleachers

“Dior” // Pop Smoke

“Laugh Now Cry Later” // Drake f. Lil Durk

“BLACK PARADE” // Beyoncé

“Deal Wiv It” // Mura Masa f. Slowthai

“Black Qualls” // Thundercat f. Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington & Childish Gambino

“SUGAR [Remix]” // BROCKHAMPTON f. Dua Lipa & Jon B

“Something to Rap About” // Freddie Gibbs f. Tyler, the Creator

“Spotlight” // Jessie Ware

“Better Than I Imagined” // Robert Grasper f. H.E.R. & Meshell Ndegeocello

“Delete Forever” // Grimes

“minding_my business” // Knxwledge f. Durand Bernarr & Rose Gold

“Tape” // Starchild & the New Romantic f. Toro y Moi

“Blinding Lights” // The Weeknd

“DIET_” // Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats

“Hit Different” // SZA f. Ty Dolla $ign

“Rain On Me” // Lady Gaga f. Ariana Grande

“The Gates” // Aesop Rock

“Lose Your Love” // Dirty Projectors

“Gaslighter” // The Chicks

“say the name” // clipping.

television.

I May Destroy You (HBO)

Industry (HBO)

The Queen's Gambit (Netflix)

The Mandalorian (Disney+)

Tales from the Loop (Amazon)

The Boys (Amazon)

High Fidelity (Hulu)

P-Valley (Starz)

Ozark (Netflix)

Tiger King (Netflix)

Nate (Netflix)

Fargo (FX)

Insecure (HBO)

Lovecraft Country (HBO)

Betty (HBO)

Devs (FX)

Big Mouth (Netflix)