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freddieloundsgf · 6 months

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my five star books so far this year!

twitching and shaking right now trying not to become a book blog but i have no one else to talk to so you will all be subjected to my ramblings! >:)

i am not a professional reader or reliable critic. what i give five stars is usually totally dependent on vibes and how i feel while reading and is not at all indicative of extreme technical skill or otherwise life altering capabilities. i just work here.

1. Inferno by Dante Alighieri

- to no one’s surprise, the exvangelical, religious iconography and hell-obsessed girl* gave 5 stars to the famous book about hell. this is my favorite book and i have read it many times. i have two inferno tattoos and i collect copies of this book. i prefer the Longfellow translation simply because it is the one i am comfortable with and have tabbed to hell (wink emoji) and back.

2. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

- i love when women love each other. BUT WAIT. disclaimer alert: if you can listen to this book rather than read it, please please please do yourself the favor of listening. this book is non-linear, convoluted, and chock-full of flowery and even complicated prose that will make you kill yourself if you have to comprehend the text as it is inked upon a page. the audiobook is only 4 hours long and can be listened to in a day. it would not have been five stars if i hadn’t listened to it.

3. Know My Name by Chanel Miller

- an absolutely gut-wrenching, heartbreaking, and important memoir from the “Emily Doe” involved in the Brock Turner case. a powerful depiction of reclaiming your identity and navigating the husk of your own life after being rendered a “victim.” i don’t have much i can say about this, the book says it all. Chanel Miller puts words to feelings that have rotted me from the inside out my entire life.

4. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

- most people would probably not rate this so high, but i had a really good time reading this book. the world was strange and Piranesi was just such a great perspective to live within. i will admit this did get tedious at times but it did not affect my overall enjoyment.

5. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

- listen. i know, okay? i know. my intention was to hate-read this book so i could make fun of the men who love it. and look where that landed me. i read this in basically one sitting and really really enjoyed it. i tabbed and highlighted it to pieces and, unfortunately, found myself thinking “he’s just like me fr” throughout the entirety of the book. sue me.

6. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

- this book had me on suicide watch. just kidding. but really i loved this book and it ripped my heart out and i think about it on and off. i just love James Baldwin’s writing and really respect him as a person and activist, which made it easy to lean into reading this and absorbing it the way i did. i heart gay tragedy.

7. We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

- this book was so funny. it is about two best friends in their 40s (?) and one of them is dying. it goes through bits of their lives, families, and how love finds a way to flourish despite it all. i really loved this book and read it so quickly. it was just a fun, sad, and charming little read.

8. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

- i was unable to put this book down while i was reading it. and nothing even really happens, so that’s saying something. i was so busy with college and work but i was using every spare moment of free time—forfeiting my lunch breaks, extending my bed time—to read this lol. it is just so brilliantly written. i also wrote fanfic for it. i need Mrs Danvers so bad it makes me look stupid.

9. Pew by Catherine Lacey

- this was such a strange but deeply human story. i don’t even know how to describe it. it is such a quick read though and i definitely recommend that you check it out if you have time or feel so inclined.

10. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

- i am so late to this. read this for the first time earlier this month. yes i cried. leave me alone. this story is just so good and sweet and it gave me something akin to a warm hug or a kiss on the cheek.

11. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

- The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment are still sitting menacingly on my shelf, but i felt comfortable tackling this ≈130 page work of Dostoevsky’s as a means of dipping a noncommittal toe in lol. i really liked this book and, again, like with Catcher in the Rye, found myself relating to the narrator in an almost worrying capacity. the first 40 or so pages of this book that you have to get through before reaching the actual story can be a little grueling but i still had a good time and consider this to be a very good book.

12. Foster by Claire Keegan

- short and sweet at ≈90 pages. i supplemented my read by listening along to the audiobook at the same time. this is just such a meaningful and sad but strong story about a young Irish girl who is brought to live with some distant relatives for a summer. well worth the read if you have a moment to spare.

13. My Husband by Maud Ventura

- i loved this book. another worrying instance of relatability. reading this went by really quickly for me and i had a good time. i will say, i wish there were no epilogue. many such cases.

14. The Employees by Olga Ravn

- another short and sweet read at 125 pages, written as a compilation of “witness statements” that are either just a sentence long or spanning two pages. very interesting and strange, if a little confusing at first. but i loved it and knocked it out in a couple of hours during a lazy afternoon.

currently reading: i am listening to Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, which i am willing to predict right now that it is going to be a five star read.

i am also reading Harrow by Joy Williams. this book is indescribable. i am over halfway done and i couldn’t tell you a single thing about it. but it is incredibly written and somehow still engaging through the veil of confusion. i think this one may be a five star read for me as well, though i don’t know if others would say the same.

#i have read 44 books so far this year #most of them do not fall beneath 4 stars because i have a pretty tight grasp on what i know i will enjoy reading #but the ones that do…..agony

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byneddiedingo · 1 year

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Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich, 1972)

Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Michael Murphy. Screenplay: Buck Henry, David Newman, Robert Benton, Peter Bogdanovich. Cinematography: László Kovács. Production design: Polly Platt. Film editing: Verna Fields. Music: Artie Butler.

Peter Bodganovich's What's Up, Doc? is a tribute to the masters of screwball comedy, Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges especially, but also the ones who made worthy contributions like Gregory La Cava, George Stevens, Mitchell Leisen, and Frank Capra. Bogdanovich followed a few of the rules of the genre: One, get stars who usually played it straight to make fools of themselves. Two, make use of as many comic character actors as you can stuff into the film. Three, never pretend that the world the film is taking place in is the "real world." Four, never, ever let the pace slacken -- if your characters have to kiss or confess, make it snappy. On the first point, Bogdanovich found the closest equivalents to Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn (or Clark Gable, Joel McCrea, James Stewart on the one hand, Rosalind Russell, Claudette Colbert, Jean Arthur on the other) that he could among the stars of his day. Ryan O'Neal was coming off the huge success of the weepy Love Story (Arthur Hiller, 1970) and a five-year run on TV's Peyton Place, and Barbra Streisand had won an Oscar for Funny Girl (William Wyler, 1968). O'Neal is no Cary Grant: His timing is a little off and he overdoes a single exasperated look, but he makes a suitable patsy. But has Streisand ever been more likable in the movies? She plays the dizzy troublemaker with relish, capturing the essence of Bugs Bunny -- the other inspiration for the movie -- to the point that you almost expect her to turn to the camera and say, "Ain't I a stinker?" As to the second point, we no longer have character actors of the caliber of Eugene Pallette, Franklin Pangborn, or William Demarest, but Bogdanovich recruited some of the best of his day: Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Michael Murphy, and others, and introduced moviegoers to the sublime Madeline Kahn. And he set it all in the ever-picturesque San Francisco, while making sure no one would confuse the movie version with the real thing, including a chase sequence up and down its hills that follows no possible real-world path. And he kept the pace up with gags involving bit players: the pizza maker so distracted by Streisand that he spins his dough up to the ceiling, the banner-hanger and the guys moving a sheet of glass, the waiter who enters a room with a tray of drinks but takes one look at the chaos there and turns right around, the guy laying a cement sidewalk that's run over so many times by the car chase that he flings down his trowel and jumps up and down on his mutilated handiwork. This is comic gold of a sort we don't often see -- and, sadly, never saw again from Bogdanovich, whose career collapsed disastrously with a string of flops in the mid-1970s.

#What's Up Doc #Peter Bogdanovich #Barbra Streisand #Ryan O'Neal

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muffystudies · 1 year

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January 2023 Reads

I got this idea from @apricitystudies, since her monthly reading lists encouraged me to read further outside of my comfort zone, I thought I'd try the same sort of thing here

I'm dividing these lists into 3 categories:

News and Current affairs

Medical/Psychology/Public Health(I'm an undergrad psych student looking to go into public health and it's like my only personality trait at this point /s)

General Interest

Personal favourites will be bolded, with podcast links Italicised.

Without further ado, let's get into it!

News and current affairs:

Probably my favourite news story this month has been about this radioactive capsule that's missing somewhere between Perth and Newman in Western Australia (a distance of around 1200kms and a lot of it is fairly isolated). It's about the size of a 10c piece and fell off the back of a truck, I'm not even joking but if you want to read about it for yourself:

What is the radioactive capsule missing in WA used for and how dangerous is it?

Also, if you're gonna look this up anywhere else and people are joking about it (not from wa specifically but if we don't laugh we'll cry imo) you're gonna need some context:

Emu War

Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off

Medical/Psychology/Public Health

Epilepsy: Lessons for clinicians from popular memes on social media

Object personification in Autism: This paper will be very sad if you don't read it

The Year I Lost Myself to Concussion

General interest:

The College Essay Is Dead

A Love Letter to Australia's Old School Chinese Restaurants

Taylor Swift is on the cusp of becoming a billionaire. Fans are debating if that's a good thing

#studyblr #monthly reads #seriously the radioactive capsule thing has me riveted #studyspo

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (2022)

Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, Michael Hyatt, Sterling Macer Jr., David Strathairn, Jayson Warner Smith, Garret Dillahunt, Ahna O'Reilly, Eric Ladin, Joe Chrest, Logan Macrae, Victoria Paige Watkins, Charlie Talbert, Jojo Regina, Caroline Cole, Luke David Blumm, Bill Kelly, Toby Nichols, Sarah Durn and Blue Clarke.

Screenplay by Lucy Alibar.

Directed by Olivia Newman.

Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. 125 minutes. Not Rated.

I belong to an online book forum, and in the past year or so, very few books have inspired as much debate as Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing. Many members of the group swear by the book, calling it a masterpiece. Others snipe that it is overrated and kind of dull. Personally, I don’t know; I have not read the book, yet, although I have definitely been considering it. Therefore, the film version of Crawdads is my first exposure to the actual story. And I get that films are rarely as good as the books that they are based upon.

On the evidence of the movie version, it is pretty good, if far from perfect. It’s an intriguing story with interesting twists and turns, but it also is a bit manipulative – and at least one part of the twist ending makes very little sense. Maybe it is explained better in the book.

However, we are reviewing the film, not the book. Just looking at it as a movie, the final question is – do you like the movie or not? And, for the most part, yes, I did enjoy Where the Crawdads Sing.

It tells the story of Kya Clark (seen here from childhood to elderly years, but mostly focusing on her young adult years, where she is played by Daisy Edgar-Jones). She lives deep in the bayous of Louisiana in a well-hidden shack with her abusive father (Garrett Hedlund), her shell-shocked mother (Ahna O'Reilly) and a few brothers and sisters. (One or two of those may have been cousins.) It is a poverty-stricken, dangerous world, mostly detached from the local town.

Dad is an angry drunk, and his rages and abuse eventually drives the mother away, then two of the children, then another one, leaving Kya alone with dad. Eventually he disappears too, leaving Kya to care for herself from the time she is a tween. She makes a few friends – a local shopkeeper and his wife, a local lawyer (David Straithairn), and a young boy her age (who she will eventually fall in love with when he grows into being Taylor John Smith), but mostly she is a recluse and looked at by the town as their personal Boo Radley – she is referred to by locals as Marsh Girl.

By the time she has become a young woman, she is mostly comfortable with her ostracism. Then when a local former athlete is murdered deep in the bayou, the town decides that the strange marsh girl must be responsible. At first the charge seems ridiculous, but the more we learn leads the audience to realize that it is not quite as unlikely as it immediately seemed. Kya had a brief secret relationship with the guy, who turns out to be very similar to her dad temperamentally.

Most of the film is a courtroom drama, with the film flashing back to give the audience more and more information about what happened. The southern courtroom scenes are sort of reminiscent to To Kill a Mockingbird, which I assume is totally intended.

Some plot points here don’t make that much sense. Wouldn’t at least one of her family members – particularly her mom and her closest brother – bring Kya with them when they escaped rather than abandoning her with her abusive father? How does a girl who didn’t learn to read until she was in her late teens – and she mostly taught herself – become a recognized and published expert in the flora and fauna of the swamp? And like I said earlier, the final twist ending sort of strains credulity.

Still, although it is far from a perfect film, Where the Crawdads Sing is a pretty compelling tale. And from what I have been told, it is fairly faithful to the events in the book. Now I guess I should read it to get a deeper understanding of the motivations behind the characters.

Jay S. Jacobs

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#Where the Crawdads Sing #2022 #Movie Reviews #Daisy Edgar Jones #Jay S. Jacobs

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New Fiction 2023 - December

"Ezekiel" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Ezekiel had a lot to prophesy, and none of it good news.

"Daniel" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

We're really just there for lions and Susanna.

Revenant by Alex White (2021)

I like that I can hop around between DS9 stories that are part of the post-show timeline and the various stories that just take place at some point during or prior to the show. Also good to see the designers stepping up that cover art! And let me tell ya, this story delivers on that cover. Half of it is a Jadzia and Kira adventure with mysteries, heists, danger, and a lot of really good background on the Dax symbiont. Loved that! Then Kira tagged out for Worf and Bashir, and that was alright. I wish it had been Jadzia and Kira all the way though.

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2023)

It's a nerds' tale through and through. Film nerds, occult nerds, horror nerds, and Moreno-Garcia blends it all skillfully. It doesn't hit as strongly as Mexican Gothic, but mysteries tend to be like that when they take place in a metropolis instead of the confines of a creepy mansion.

The Men by Sandra Newman (2023)

I liked the setup, and the premise, and I was mostly onboard until the finale really let me down. Maybe the idea is depressing to people, like it is to most characters in the story, but I saw hope in sticking with the reality of most of the book and making a better world of it. You grieve, you build anew. There was also some hand-wringing around race and gender tension from the main character that feels like it's meant to be considerate but is just channeling white anxiety about the optics of appearing racist instead recognizing racial bias and making changes to address it.

Aftermath by Christopher L. Bennett (2003)

Whoops, one more Star Trek book before the end of the year. I’d been meaning to read it for about a year and finally found some time with the digital copy from Open Library. Like the other SCE stories, it’s a short and sweet little tale. The thematic elements about a civilization’s collapse and hope for the future were just what I needed after reading some more downbeat stories.

Jekyll and Heidi by R.L. Stine (1999)

It was... okay. Not the strongest plot or twist, although notably darker in terms of setting up the main character's predicament. Kinda Dahlesque but without his absurdity.

"> THE JESTER" by Margaut Shorjian (2023)

Do it.

The Simpsons: Bart vs. Homersaurus dev. Tiger Electronics (1994)

These level-based LCD games are never as strong as the endless loops of their Game & Watch progenitors, but the tech is neat. Voice clips must've been an expensive proposition.

Dream Scenario dir. Kristoffer Borgli (2023)

You know, it is a weird movie, but the part where it digs into cancel culture felt off. Too real maybe. And even then, I just don't think it'll stick around in my brain.

Godzilla Minus One dir. Takashi Yamazaki (2023)

A great Godzilla story with a good balance of humans and monster. It's a big deal when I can care about the human side of a monster attack.

The Boy and the Heron dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2023)

It meanders and contemplates, kinda like The Wind Rises, but it's so beautiful and weird that it's easy to just roll with it.

The Abyss dir. James Cameron (1989)

So did Cameron just establish the genre of scifi that is working class stiffs who aren't trained for this being sent out into the deep end?

Eileen dir. William Oldroyd (2023)

It has that short story quality I can never quite describe. Like something unsettling I'd read in The New Yorker.

A Christmas Story dir. Bob Clark (1983)

1983?! This feels so ancient. Well, I'm glad I finally watched it all through instead of bits and pieces on TV.

Wonka dir. Paul King (2023)

I should watch a Paddington sometime.

Monster dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (2023)

I wanna say it's a perfect movie. It has some dread but still has a hopeful vibe in the end.

Leave the World Behind dir. Sam Esmail (2023)

I guess I see why people responded to it, but I found it too bleak, and that's saying something. I guess I prefer these things to be a little further removed from the current timeline. *hugs The Outer Limits 1995*

The Polar Express dir. Robert Zemeckis (2004)

My nephew straight up performs the movie as he watches it, and that's about as memorable as a viewing can get.

The Muppet Christmas Carol dir. Brian Henson (1992)

Pretty good, but it can't top Muppet Treasure Island in my brain. The effects for some of those scenes are mighty impressive though.

Velvet Buzzsaw dir. Dan Gilroy (2019)

No one told me this was a horror movie! I'd have watched it sooner. It's an excellent high-budget version of an episode of Tales from the Crypt.

The 100 - "Perverse Instantiation – Part One" (2016)

I sorta picked up what the show is throwing down, but coming into at this late stage is not the way to watch an episode.

The 100 - "Perverse Instantiation – Part Two" (2016)

This episode was a little more clear as a season finale with defined stakes. It was enough that I'd watch this series at some point in the future.

The Crown - "Ipatiev House" (2022)

Sorta tuned in here, and it has big House of Cards vibes. I guess all this stuff about royals is the original HoC.

The Crown - "No Woman's Land" (2022)

Elizabeth Debicki is a great Diana. I don't know if I'm in the mood for sociopolitical interpersonal drama anytime soon, but this show seems to manage it all with aplomb.

The Outer Limits - "The Galaxy Being" (1963)

A bit snoozy I'll admit, but that's most TV of the era. Things really pick up when the well-designed alien kicks in. Those effects are impressive.

Night Gallery - "Pilot" (1969)

Whoa! This first episode is real good. I've heard the show has its ups and down since Serling didn't have the same level of creative control, but the pilot is just a great horror anthology film.

Babylon 5 - "The Gathering" (1993)

Hokey VFX and 90s-era production values aside, I can see the appeal of the show. I'll be fighting my instinct to go back and watch Star Trek the whole time but I'm glad to finally get into the show.

#new fiction #2023 #december

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hellostarrynightblr · 5 months

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highlights of June-December

Favourite movies: The Farmer's Daughter (1947), Oppenheimer (2023), The Bourne trilogy (2002-2007), Gojira -1.0 (2023).

Decent movies I liked / appreciated but not loved: Highlander (1986), From the Terrace (1960), Mary Poppins (1964), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), If I Were King (1938), The Equalizer 3 (2023), No Way Out (1950), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).

wtf movie/ending: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) just because they ended it like an episode of a TV show rather than a part one of a movie. I knew it was part one and even I was sitting at the cinema confused once the credits rolled. Also, in the best way, They Won't Believe Me (1947). I was not expecting the film to end like that at all. AT ALL. Also, Caught (1949) has the most unsatisfying tonal shift in the end I probably have ever see. Up until that last few minutes, it was solid, dark, edgy even. Just the way I like my noirs to be. And then the resolution and it is just…. huh?

Best scenes: the Spider Men chase scene in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023); Alfred leaving Mary for good in From the Terrace (1960); the finale in They Won't Believe Me (1947); father's final walk to work in Mary Poppins (1964); the bomb / 'You will remember this day' in Oppenheimer (2023); saying goodbye to the 'daughter' in Gojira -1.0 (2023); the garage confrontation in Caught (1949).

Favourite genres: action, adventure, drama.

Favourite directors: Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer, 2023); Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 2023); Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins, 1964); Paul Greengrass (The Bourne trilogy, 2002-2007); Joseph L. Mankiewicz (No Way Out, 1950); Takashi Yamazaki (Gojira -1.0, 2023); Mel Brooks (Robin Hood: Men in Tights, 1993); Sidney Lanfield (The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939).

Favourite actors: Robert Cummings (The Lost Moment, 1947), Susan Hayward (The Lost Moment, 1947 and They Won't Believe Me, 1947); Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward (From the Terrace, 1960); Ethel Barrymore, Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten (The Farmer's Daughter, 1947); Robert Young (They Won't Believe Me, 1947); Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell (Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, 2023); Matt Damon (The Bourne trilogy, 2002-2007); Ronald Colman (If I Were King, 1938); Denzel Washington (The Equalizer 3, 2023); Sidney Poitier, Linda Darnell, Richard Widmark (No Way Out, 1950); Cary Elwes (Robin Hood: Men in Tights, 1993); Bob Hope (The Ghost Breakers, 1940); James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan (Caught, 1949); Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe (Gojira -1.0, 2023); Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer, 2023); Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns (Mary Poppins, 1964). (Dick Van Dyke is an international treasure, I absolutely love this sweet, sweet man!)

Least favourite performances: anyone in Angels Over Broadway (1940) is pretty forgettable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in particular. I did not like Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986), so it might be affecting my perception of Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger's performances as I know both of them are more than capable performers. George Sanders is pretty bland in The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945). Vincent Cassel is bizzare in La belle et la bête (2014).

The most wasted cast: I don't think there is any particular cast that was wasted this time around. I didn't enjoy Angels Over Broadway (1940), so might be this one.

The best wasted premise: The Lost Moment (1947). It's not a bad film, but way too rushed. Had they taken more time, I think the film would have been much, much better.

Best premise: Highlander (1986); No Way Out (1950); Gojira -1.0 (2023).

Favourite cast: Oppenheimer (2023), hands down. Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Scott Grimes, Jason Clarke, James D'Arcy, Kenneth Branagh, Tim DeKay, David Krumholtz, Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Dane DeHaan, Josh Peck, Rami Malek, Casey Affleck, Gary Oldman. At one point I just started listing every actor I know who's popped up in this, it got crazy.

Favourite on-screen duos: Robert Cummings + Susan Hayward (The Lost Moment, 1947); Paul Newman + Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman + Ina Balin (From the Terrace, 1960); Loretta Young,+ Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore with literally anyone (The Farmer's Daughter, 1947); Julie Andrews + Dick Van Dyke (Mary Poppins, 1964); Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell (Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, 2023); anyone in Oppenheimer (2023); James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes (Caught, 1949); Bob Hope + Paulette Goddard (The Ghost Breakers, 1940).

Favourite on-screen relationships: my favourite is easily Larry Quinada and Leonora Eames from Caught (1949), but I have a few others. Alfred Eaton + Mary St. John (in a very toxic, unhealthy way) and Alfred Eaton + Natalie Benzinger (From the Terrace, 1960); Katrin Holstrom + Glenn Morley (The Farmer's Daughter, 1947); Bourne + Marie (The Bourne Identity, 2002 + The Bourne Ultimatum, 2004); Koichi Shikishima + Noriko Oishi (Gojira -1.0, 2023).

Favourite characters: Alfred Eaton, Mary St. John (From the Terrace, 1960); Mrs. Morley, Katrin Holstrom, Glenn Morley (The Farmer's Daughter, 1947); Jason Bourne (The Bourne trilogy, 2002-2007); Larry Ballentine (They Won't Believe Me, 1947); Mary Poppins, Bert (Mary Poppins, 1964); Ethan Hunt, Grace (Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, 2023); J. Robert Oppenheimer, Lewis Strauss (Oppenheimer, 2023); Jason Bourne (The Bourne trilogy, 2002-2007); François Villon (If I Were King, 1938); Robert McCall (The Equalizer 3, 2023); Edie Johnson, Dr. Dan Wharton, Dr. Luther Brooks (No Way Out, 1950); Koichi Shikishima, Noriko Oishi (Gojira -1.0, 2023), Robin Hood (Robin Hood: Men in Tights, 1993); Larry Quinada, Leonora Eames, Smith Ohlrig (Caught, 1949).

Favourite quote: Let no one laugh at our absurd design, but pray to God that he forgives us all. (If I Were King, 1938). I also love this exchange in From the Terrace: Mary St. John: You've touched me deeply. Alfred Eaton: But not in the right places.

Favourite fact discovered in 2023: James Mason asked to play the good guy in Caught (1949) because he wanted a break from playing bad buys in British films. Gojira -1.0 (2023) was made on a 15-million-dollar budget. Effective filmmaking if I ever saw one. Oppenheimer (2023), a 3-hour biopic, made around a billion dollars at the box office.

The most overrated film: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). It was fine, the animation is great, but there are a few too many stupid and slow moments. Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986) is terrible. No Way Out (1987) is okay, but I prefer the original anyway. Almost everything Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) is good except for the actual plot.

The most disappointing film: I didn't hold out much hope for any of these, so I wasn't disappointed.

The biggest surprise: Gojira -1.0 (2023).

Best cinematography: Hoyte Van Hoytema (Oppenheimer, 2023). Also, J. Peverell Marley (The Hound if the Baskervilles, 1939).

Best set design: Oppenheimer (2023). Also. I loved La belle et la bête (2014).

Best costume design: Pierre-Yves Gayraud La belle et la bête (2014).

Best music: I don't remember any. My guess is Oppenheimer (2023), but I can't remember any music from it either.

Best production choice: casting Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, 1964); black-and-white sections (Oppenheimer, 2023), focusing on the human drama and survivor's guilt (Gojira -1.0, 2023)

Worst production choice: (randomly) killing Ilsa (Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, 2023).

Film of the month(s): Oppenheimer (2023), Gojira -1.0 (2023).

#highlights #2023 #months #best

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daggerzine · 2 years

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Celebrity Mixtape Party #5 (compiled by Matthew Kenneth)

Please welcome my guests Arash Torabi (Beat Hotel, June Brides, The Distractions, The Painted Word, The Granite Shore) and Jim Shepherd (The Jasmine Minks) as we delve into a mixtape that generated great conversation, memories, and anecdotes.

I remember The Loft from the early days. First thoughts were: these are nice guys, all (apart from Dave Morgan) were journos and very middle class. I also thought who needs another Lloyd Cole! I actually grew to love Pete's songs and he has a better back catalogue than Lloyd Cole overall. We hung about a bit (Pete Astor is a great fella and has a great enthusiasm for life and music. There was a bit of 'healthy' competition between us, vying for supremacy at The Living Room. I remember Pete reviewing us (Jasmine Minks) at The Living Room. We were a bit 60s obsessed at that time performing songs by Love and The Cramps, we did songs by The Scars and Chelsea too btw. Anyway, things came to a head when The Loft played The Ambulance Station on The Old Kent Road, a brilliant squat/venue. Superb place - best venue in London at that time, no big business, run by music fans. Me Tom (Reid; drums/vocals) and Adam (Sanderson;vocals/guitar) got very drunk and formed a mosh pit and everyone around gave us loads of space as we were flinging ourselves round and round. I jumped on stage and took Pete's mic and wrapped the cable around him, completely tying his arms to his side. It was a spectacle and Pete thought it was great. Andy Strickland was furious and wanted to kill me! Those were the times. The Loft came fully formed. Most of us were still finding our way. He talked about people like Randy Newman to me and I was mindblown - I thought that was for old hippies. Little did I know the genius of RN! Still love Pete's songs - I heard his latest on the radio last week and loved it.

Snivelling Shits - loved em. Freeform, amazing images in the lyrics and Sex Pistols vibe. Is God A Man was a great single - making God an ordinary geezer. They were still going up until recently, playing gigs in a pub on The Old Kent Road as coincidence would have it!

I lump in John Cooper Clarke, Bowie's mod songs and Wreckless Eric in the same era for me because I first bought the Bowie song on an ep released in 79 or 80 and the others were around at the same time. JCC and WE were part of the students union gigs or medium -sized venues. Not your home-grown punk stuff like UK Subs (who used to play our local youth club). They were brilliant though. There was a clear division then between straight people who liked disco or heavy rock and then there was the left field folk like us who liked bands on Rough Trade, Factory and Fast Records etc. It suited us better, more honest, something with a bit of an edge to it. It was inspiring, whereas most music was for consumption.

The Loft was the first band I ever saw live. They were supporting the Colour Field (Terry Hall from the Specials) on tour, the same tour that saw them (The Loft) split up on stage! I wasn’t at that gig though: I saw them at Cornwall Coliseum. I fell in love with Pete Astor & Dave Morgan’s next band the Weather Prophets even more! I love Pete’s songs and Dave’s drumming. I still have to pinch myself that I’m in 2 bands with him!

I remember hearing some of the pre-psychedelia 60s songs on the radio in 79 and 80 and thinking, this has a lot in common with the post punks bands, not huge guitar and drums, more scratchy and it talked to me more than most chart music did, or at least the dance stuff and the rock stuff. I remember Rolling Stones I Wanna Be your Man and thinking the guitar was something I'd like to do. Then The Byrds Singles vol.1 made its way into my hands. Wow, that was an eye-opener. I only really knew Mr Tambourine Man, but every track on that album is pure guitar-pop screetch heaven. From there it was a small step to Nuggets and bands like 13th Floor Elevators, The Seeds and The Sonics which drew me in completely.

I loved the British bands like The Small Faces and The Kinks from the early 80s. But it wasn't until the mid 80s that our manager Kevin Pearce made me a cassette of The Action. What a fucking singer, I was already madly into Northern Soul having been introduced (indoctrinated) by a workmate who went to the Wigan Casino all-nighters (as lots of my school mates did). I wanted to be like Ray Davies in particular. I started jamming on Tired Of Waiting at our gigs and trying to write about ordinary folk, more story-telling in my songs.

My gateway to the 60s came through Jim’s band and other early Creation Records faves like Biff Bang Pow! and Primal Scream

I was also discovering Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys. I fell in love with 20/20 first of all, then I bought Surf's Up, then Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson was on my shoulder as I was writing the songs for Another Age, our second full LP for Creation. Brian Wilson came over to be interviewed on Radio London and I had to be talked out of camping out overnight to meet him going into the radio station - haha. I nicked the intro from I Can Hear Music for my song Nothing Can Stop Me and wrote a song about Brian, Living Out Your Dreams. he was in my veins by then!

Another Age (Jasmine Minks) is one of my favorite records

Well that was me channeling Ray Davies and Brian Wilson in my limited way.

The organ on it is unique to most of the 80s artists as far as I know.

Paul Cooper played genuine organs using a Leslie cabinet. It sounded amazing, but was like carting a large piece of furniture to gigs. Enormous!. He was a cool dude - looked like a Beatnik, wispy beard and leather jacket.

I wonder if Ian McLagen had to shlep his own organ.

I'm sure he did occasionally if only to make sure it was in the right position. They were fairly quiet things and had to be close to hear them. Microphones didn't even pick them up that well. Big Star was a massive influence too. (Alan)McGee gave me a cassette with Alex Chilton written on it. He told me to listen to it and take it in. I played it to death. It turns out it was Big Star Third. I went a found a copy and played that tons too. Then I found a double LP of the first two Big Star albums. That became my template for Scratch The Surface basically.

Radio City was my favorite record in high school. Third is now. John Fry and Jim Dickinson recorded that masterfully.

3rd is a masterpiece except I'm not actually sure what the track listing should be because it seemed to vary from release to release!

I actually prefer the PVC issue for the cover and the track order

I was so amazed when we started playing gigs with The Jazz Butcher. Pat knew I loved Alex Chilton so he brought a signed copy of Chilton's latest single to a gig to show me. Chilton had turned up at a Jazz Butcher gig in the US and given it to him. I was gobsmacked! Pat was such a nice guy. Always wanting to help others out - no ego whatsoever! He would insist that the Minks got treated well wherever we went with him. If he was invited to do a radio interview, he'd make sure that I was invited too. He would miss out on his hotel bookings sometimes to come with us into the night to find people to stay with and party.

I love the Bowie track on this mix: I have it on a mod compilation “20 Mod Classics” I think it’s called? The sleeve is a mock-up of Sound Affects by The Jam. Anyway: I’m a bit late to the party with Bowie: I bought Ziggy Stardust finally about a year ago! For years the only track I had by him is Can’t Help Thinking About Me!

Pat gave us a really cool introduction at the Creation All-dayer at The Doing It For The Kids event in 1988. I wish I had that recorded. It's funny because the whole Minks gig was put up on youtube last week but, alas, no Pat intro.Ed Ball was another lovely guy. I remember supporting The Times. I had never seen such a tight band among all the bands in our scene. We were mostly a bit sloppy, we all tried but we were jagged around the edges. Ed was a step above.

I love John Cooper Clarke though I’m ashamed to say I that I don’t have any of his records! I’m glad I got to meet him though: he was on the same bill as us (The June Brides) when we played Barcelona in 2016. He was quite pleased when I told him that I’d also played on the last two Distractions albums. He told me he wrote a great review of one of their early records (before I was a member)!I love Ed Ball: one of my favourite songwriters of all time! I could literally bore you senseless for days on end, going on about how much I love that man and his songs!

Gotta get Kevin Robertson or The Vapour Trails in the mix Matthew. They (VPs) played with the Minks at a gig in Aberdeen in 2019. They were brilliant. Me and Arash both played on Kevin's second solo album on a song called If You're Free.

Postcard Records was probably the single biggest influence at the very beginning of The Jasmine Minks for me. the other might point to Julian Cope or The Fire Engines. All the Postcard records were amazing, the packaging was funny and cool. They were a reaction to the Oi! punk scene which seemed to us to be regurgitating the most obvious parts of punk for a younger audience. Schoolkids basically. So we wanted something newer and with some hip cache. Orange Juice were amazing, the songs were punky-pop, the attitude was that it's ok to be a bit effeminate and bitchy, also to be loud guitars with great songs, varying with softer slower songs. I loved it all.

I don't have the singles any more but I still have a cassette with most of the Postcard singles on for some strange reason. I ditched all my vinyl when I was living in a tiny , damp cottage in Glencoe, but somehow the cassettes survived. The subtleties don't matter to me so much any more. I used to think that the bands all lost something when they recorded elsewhere. I love the Orange Juice first and third albums in particular. I still think Rip It Up album is crap. Folk music was a big part of my childhood. My sister is 8 years older than me and my carer for my younger years in many ways as we were constantly being evicted and moving from house to house. She was a big folk music fan and would take me along to folk clubs the length and breadth of the country. It was a tough listen for a young kid. But nowadays when I hear Bert Jansch, Pentangle, Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention I think fondly of those days. It's just bloody great guitar music mostly with great stories, often as simple as pop songs or in the case of ISB a precursor to Prog Rock but with a folk slant. I learned how to play guitar from my sister and, to this day, I still pick a lot and use that folk influence. From our first single, Think and Work For Nothing, I was picking as much as thrashing my guitar.

Kids On A Crime Spree - sounds cool - all been done a hundred times but still sounds good, Beach Boys, Spector with a punky edge.The Coral - early 2000s one of the few things I liked to hear on the radio (usually BBC Radio 2). Still as melodic and with interesting sounds. Rhythms are a bit Bo Diddley-ish. And I love Bo Diddley!

The Coral were one of the bands that got me back into bands, after a chemically enhanced lost decade of dance music.. You can use that quote about the Coral if you like! And the track you chose is from their new album which I love.

Camera Obscura - I love this band. I bought Let's Get Out Of This Country album and love nearly everything they have done (that I've heard). A perfect pop band, great voice, great songs. This song is a blatant rip-off of The Cascades-Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain but that is such a great song to rip-off - haha

I’ve not heard of the Real Numbers. Are they from back in the day or a current band who emulate that 80s indie sound?

Newish band from Minneapolis

JS I did listen to Cool Ghouls on the playlist - very cool. A nice Lovin Spoonful vibe

AT I’ve always had mixed feelings about that whole current bands doing the C86 revival thing. The only band I really like from that camp is Veronica Falls. I don’t wanna diss anybody and I’ve played on records released by Slumberland (by The June Brides and Phil Wilson solo) but there just seems to be a never ending conveyor belt of C86 bands… bands that mimic that old sound with precision. What made the original artists interesting to me was that they all had their own style. I was mostly into the Creation Records bands anyway, and a few others. I was never a die hard. I never even heard of Sarah Records until years later, when I became friends with a former Sarah recording artiste (Andy Hitchcock from Action Painting) I dunno…. If the kids love it then great

I hear ya. But my thinking is a lot of young people don't have access to the original. For them, this is new. Maybe even exciting hearing this sound for the first time. As someone who doesn't write songs or can't write songs I am enamored with anyone who can put together a well-written song regardless of what influenced it

Yeah, absolutely! That’s why it’s a mixed feeling. I don’t write songs myself. I don’t even call myself a musician. I’m a music geek, that is for sure! The Coral “The Game She Plays” I love the whole album, Coral Island. It’s so dark, sad and beautiful. A very cynical concept album. Are we allowed to say concept album? Is that too “prog?” Haha!

So Arash, Jim says you're a Televison Personalities fan?

I am indeed sir. I think Dan Treacy is pivotal to the scene that we all know and love, leading the way to that mix of 60s inspired songs with a punk/mod edge.

Do you have a favorite album or song

I love Geoffrey Ingram. Too many others to choose from. Long Time Gone, Boy in the Paisley Shirt, The Dream Inspires, Sad Mona Lisa, Hard Luck Story Number 39, Goodnight Mr Spaceman. No favourite album as such. They’re all good apart from the last two, the post “comeback” ones of this century. I’m a massive Ed Ball and The Times fan as well. His songs really resonate with me. He has a great voice, he’s a terrific songwriter, very musically open-minded. That whole album Pop Goes Art is faultless. I just bought it again on CD. Ed told me that the vinyl reissue copy I had (I recently posted the sleeve) with the Pop Art sleeve is a bootleg! I was gutted! Then he told me how hard he tried to stop it from being released

I don't know if mine is a bootleg though it is a reissue. My copy says Cherry Red Records. I think there were some bootlegs around but I think it was also licensed.

My copy isn’t on Cherry Red. It’s Pop Records, Spain. Yes, I think mine must be the one you circled (referring to screenshot of Discogs). It’s a shame Ed is no longer on Facebook. I miss talking to him. And on MySpace before that

For further listening I highly recommend seeking out more of Arash's music here:

https://beathotel2.bandcamp.com/album/beat-hotel

Also check out Jim's latest record The Circle:

https://spinoutnuggets.bandcamp.com/album/the-circle

AT Dave Morgan (The Loft/Weather Prophets) who played on Jim’s album also plays for us. And we previously recorded a 7” with Jim guesting on both sides.

Thanks for doing it you guys! Take care.

https://m.soundcloud.com/deejay-tigerstripes/arash-torabi-and-jim-shepherd-mix

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somerabbitholes · 3 years

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Essays

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; I’ve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love

also quick note: some of these links, especially the ones that are from books/anthologies redirect you to libgen or scihub, and if that doesn’t work for you, do message me; I’d be happy to send them across!

Literature + Writing

Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag

The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul*

Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux*

A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi

How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik

Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone

Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman

Lost in Translation: What the First Line of “The Stranger” Should Be - Ryan Bloom

The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote*

The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita Catalão Guedes

Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman*

Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan*

Why I Write - George Orwell*

Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland*

Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)

Looking at War - Susan Sontag*

Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz

Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker

The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews

In Plato's Cave - Susan Sontag*

On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

Kalighat Paintings - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past - Maël Renouard

Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel

Cities

Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash

Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo*

Timur's Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur

The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall*

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai's iconic railway station - Srinath Perur

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective - Andrew Harris

The Limits of "White Town" in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay

The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel

Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan

A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp

The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne

The Nowhere City - Amos Elon*

The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour

Philosophy

The trolley problem problem - James Wilson

A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram

Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls*

Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer

The Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato*

The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape

If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood

Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart

The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae*

The Science of "Muddling Through" - Charles Lindblom*

History

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan

The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore*

From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert*

Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson*

All By Myself - Martha Bailey*

The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder

The sea/ocean

Rim of Life - Manu Pillai

Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery

‘Piracy’, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History)*

The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History)*

Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and “Pirate” States - Roxani Eleni Margariti

Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*

Assorted ones on India

A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *

Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash

Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee

Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu

The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar*

Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta

Our worldview is Delhi based*

Sports (you’ll have to excuse the fact that it’s only cricket but what can i say, i’m indian)

'Massa Day Done:' Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman*

Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900–70 - Albert Grundlingh

When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger

Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha*

Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha

MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way*

Music

Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. Araújo

Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder

The 1975 - ‘Notes On a Conditional Form’ review - Dan Stubbs*

Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield*

How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield

Concert for Bangladesh

From “Help!” to “Helping out a Friend”: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha Christiansen

Gender

Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane

The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin

Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu*

Women’s Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe

Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman*

Women’s health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack

Food

How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)

Colonialism's effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee

Tracing Europe's influence on India's culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu

Chicken Kiev: the world’s most contested ready-meal*

From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad*

The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin*

How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream*

Pav from the Nau

A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes

Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)

Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)

Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter)*

Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua

The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales)*

Tolkien’s Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales)*

Travel

The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism

Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan

On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas*

More random assorted ones

The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries)*

In El Salvador - Joan Didion

Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee

Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell*

What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard*

The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith

Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia*

Credibility and Mystery - John Berger

happy reading :)

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snowonthebeachftlana · 3 years

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July 2016

Jul 3rd - Taylor's 4th of July festivities kick off at her Rhode Island house. Guests include Tom Hiddleston, Abigail Anderson, Matt Lucier, Claire Winter, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Karlie Kloss, Josh Kushner, Austin Swift, Ruby Rose, Harley Gusman, Halston Sage, Gigi Hadid, Cara Delevingne, Britany Maack, Ben LaManna, Martha Hunt, Jason McDonald, Uzo Aduba, Chioma Aduba, Jordan Masterson, Kesha, St Vincent, Ed Sheeran, Cherry Seaborn, Rachel Platten, Kennedy Rayé and the Haim sisters. (x) (x) (x) (x)

This is the day Tom wears the infamous 'I <3 TS' tank top while they're all at the beach. (x)

Jul 4th - The online mockery for the 'I <3 TS' shirt is quick to pour in. Daily Mail commenters are yet to shut up about it in 2021.

The party continues with a giant inflatable waterslide, body painting, karaoke, charades and fireworks. (x) And also Kesha and Haim getting tricked by Cara, Uzo and Ruby into thinking they heard scary noises in the night, and trying to call the police but not knowing their own location. (x) (x)

Jul 5th - The day after the party, when all the guests post their photos online.

Britany posts a photo of her & Ben, Blake & Ryan, and Taylor & Tom. (x) The internet has a field day with Ryan's unimpressed facial expression. (x) (Ryan later says that it's just his resting bitch face as he wasn't aware a photo was being taken. (x))

Taylor posts several photos to Instagram of her celebrating the 4th July with friends, but doesn't post any pictures with Tom. (x)

Claire Winter posts a bunch of Polaroids, including one of Taylor and Tom kissing. (x)

Abigail posts a photo to Instagram showing the banners Taylor put up to celebrate her engagement to Matt and the anniversaries of Cara & St Vincent (real name Annie Clark) and Ed & Cherry. (x)

Jul 6th - Taylor and Tom fly out of Rhode Island (x) and arrive at LAX that evening. (x) They then get on a plane to Australia.

Joe attends the Warner Music Group summer party in London. (x)

Rumours are swirling that Tom is no longer in consideration to be the next Bond, due to his relationship with Taylor. (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

Jul 8th - Taylor and Tom are flying on a commercial Quantas flight so someone is able to take a pic of them on the plane. (x)

According to another passenger on the plane, Taylor plays Scrabble during the flight (presumably on her phone because nobody takes big physical board games on commercial flights and the creepshot of Hiddleswift on the plane suggests she wouldn't have had anywhere to put the board anyway). In hindsight, knowing how Taylor and Joe play lots of Scrabble together including online Scrabble aka Words With Friends, and how they stayed in touch largely via texting that summer, it’s very possible she was playing against Joe.

Taylor and Tom arrive in Sydney, where Tom is about to start filming for Thor: Ragnarok. (x) Aussie media, including daytime TV, goes nuts over Hiddleswift's arrival in the country. (x)

Flying from LA to Australia involves crossing the international dateline, so they would have left the US on the 6th July local time and arrived in Sydney approx 15 hours later on the 8th July local time.

Calvin's new song Olé, written for John Newman, is released. There is speculation that it's a Hiddleswift song, written from Tom's perspective and containing lyrics implying that Taylor cheated on Calvin with Tom. However, sources also told multiple outlets that the song was written and recorded months earlier, and its supposed links to Hiddleswift were just for publicity. (x) (x)

Jul 9th - Tom goes out for a run (x) and avoids answering questions about Taylor. (x)

Jul 10th - Taylor and Tom go out for dinner to Gemelli Italian restaurant in Broadbeach on Australia's Gold Coast. (x)

Jul 11th - Taylor is named as the highest earning celebrity on the 2016 Forbes Celebrity 100 list, with earnings of $170m mostly due to the 1989 World Tour. If she and Calvin had not split up, they would have been the top-earning celebrity couple. (x)

Jul 12th - Taylor visits Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in South Brisbane. (x)

Jul 13th - Us Weekly makes a wild claim that Tom is planning to propose soon, and Taylor is going to say yes. The magazine cover also claims they're already talking about babies. (x)

TMZ claims that Taylor wrote TIWYCF, and that Calvin disrespecting Taylor following its release was the reason for their breakup. (x)

Taylor Swift really is the creative brains behind Calvin Harris' monster hit "This is What You Came For," and their relationship fell apart because he disrespected her when the song was released ... this according to sources connected with Taylor.

It's a fascinating story. We've learned an early fan rumor about the song is true, but to a deeper extent than anyone suspected. During their relationship, Taylor wrote the song, sat down at a piano and did a demo into her iPhone. She sent it to Calvin, who loved it. They both went into a studio and did a full demo with Taylor on vocals and Calvin doing the beat.

They both knew the song would be a hit, but Taylor wrote it for Calvin and both agreed it was a bad idea to let the world know they collaborated as a couple ... it would overshadow the song.

So Taylor, who kept the publishing rights, used the pseudonym Nils Sjoberg on the credits.

The problem in the relationship came the day the song was released. Calvin appeared on Ryan Seacrest's radio show and Ryan asked, "Will you do a collaboration with your girlfriend?" Calvin responded, "You know we haven't even spoken about it. I can't see it happening though."

We're told Taylor was hurt and felt Calvin took it too far.

It was a quick downward spiral from that point. One source called it "the breaking point in the relationship." The Met Gala was several days later, when Taylor danced with Tom Hiddleston.

Tree confirms to People magazine that Taylor did write TIWYCF under the pseudonym Nils Sjöberg. (x)

Calvin also confirms that Taylor wrote TIWYCF and goes on a Twitter rant:

Katy Perry tweets a gif of Hillary Clinton with a smug/'told you so' expression. (x) She also retweets an older tweet from May 2015 which reads, 'Time, the ultimate truth teller.' (x)

#TaylorSwiftIsOverParty trends on Twitter (x) (x) and Taylor's Instagram comments are spammed with the snake emoji. (x)

Following Calvin's tweets, TMZ publishes another article claiming he is downplaying Taylor's involvement in the song as she wrote the melody in addition to the lyrics. (x)

Jul 14th - Taylor goes out shopping in Gold Coast. (x)

Tom mentions Taylor in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter: (x)

You're in the middle of a cultural frenzy right now because you're dating Taylor Swift. How would you respond to people who claim that you're involved in some sort of publicity stunt?

(Laughs.) Well, um. How best to put this? That notion is — look, the truth is that Taylor Swift and I are together, and we're very happy. Thanks for asking. That's the truth. It's not a publicity stunt.

Martha says at a Pepsi/World Emoji Day event that Taylor and Tom are 'both happy and free together. It's amazing, I'm all about people being happy in love.' (x)

Kim talks about Taylor and the Famous controversy in a clip from an upcoming episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. (x)

“I never talk shit about anyone publicly, especially in interviews. But I was just like I had so had it,” Kim says in the clip to her sister Kourtney. “I wanted to defend him in it. She legitimately quote says, ‘As soon as I get on that Grammy red carpet I’m gonna tell all the press. Like I was in on it.’”

“And then she just didn’t like the reaction?” Kourtney says in response.

“Yeah, and you know just another way to play the victim,” Kim replies. She then brings the infamous VMAs moment from 2009 by saying, “It definitely got her a lot of attention the first time… I just don’t think he should be punished for it still to this day.”

Jul 17th - Kim posts an edited recording of Kanye and Taylor's phone call. In it, they discuss the 'I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex' line and Taylor says, 'Go with whatever line you think is better. It’s obviously very tongue in cheek either way. And I really appreciate you telling me about it. That’s really nice.' However, nowhere in the Snapchat video does Kanye consult her about the line, 'I made that bitch famous,' which is the line Taylor insisted she had never approved. (x) The other Kardashian sisters retweet and support Kim. (x)

(The full recording of the call, leaked in 2020, confirms that Kanye never told Taylor he was going to call her a bitch. It also shows her reminding him that she sold 7 million albums before he had even heard of her, in response to him suggesting the lyric, 'I made her famous.')

Kim takes to Twitter to call Taylor a snake.

Taylor posts a statement on Instagram responding to Kim's Snapchat video. (x)

Selena tweets, 'There are more important things to talk about… Why can’t people use their voice for something that fucking matters? This industry is so disappointing yet the most influential smh' (x)

Katy Perry tweets, '#RISE above it all' and links to her new single. People interpret it as a dig at Taylor. (x)

Martha Hunt tweets, 'It's pathetic how quick our culture is to sensationalize a fabricated story...' (x)

Jul 18th - #KimExposedTaylorParty spends the day trending at number one worldwide on Twitter. (x) To the point where 0.8% of all tweets posted in the entire week from the 18th-24th use the hashtag. (x) (Assuming that 1/7th of the week's total tweets were posted on each day, that means more than 1 in every 20 tweets on the 18th used the hashtag.) #TaylorSwiftIsOverParty also returns.

TMZ claims to have a copy of a letter from Taylor's lawyer, dating back to February, demanding that Kanye destroy the recording of their phone conversation and reminding him that it is a felony to secretly record a phone conversation in California. (x)

Taylor changes the name on her writing credits for TIWYCF on the BMI songwriters database. She is now listed as Taylor Swift instead of Nils Sjöberg. (x)

Camilla Belle, the subject of Taylor's 2010 song Better Than Revenge, posts a quote to Instagram which reads, 'No need for revenge. Just sit back & wait. Those who hurt you will eventually screw up themselves & if you’re lucky, God will let you watch.' (x)

Abigail tweets against Kim and Kanye, saying, 'May God forgive you & your wife for doing to others the very things you pray are NEVER done to your daughter.' She deletes the tweets after receiving death threats but leaves a tweet which reads, 'Guys…I will always stand by my best friend. There's no point in fighting over that.' (x)

Joseph Kahn (director of many of Taylor's music videos) defends Taylor on Twitter. (x)

The aunt of Dinah Jane from Fifth Harmony tweets, 'I always knew @/taylorswift13 was a SNAKE! Trying 2 break up my girls & use @/camilacabello97 as her protégé bitch bye you’ve been exposed!’ (x) The tweet is soon deleted and she claims her account was hacked. (x) (Camila quit the band at the end of 2016 and has since said that Taylor had nothing to do with her decision to leave.) (x)

Paula Erickson, Taylor’s former publicist from 2007 until 2014, likes a two-and-a-half-week-old tweet dragging Hiddleswift for being a badly executed bit of PR by Taylor and Tree. (x)

James Corden spoofs the recorded phone call on the Late Late Show. (x)

Calvin is rumoured to be dating Tinashe. (x)

Jul 20th - Todrick Hall defends Taylor, saying, 'She's one of the most genuine people I've ever met in my entire life.' (x)

Uzo Aduba says Taylor is 'a beautiful person and strong' and that she will overcome the Kimye drama. (x)

Paula likes another tweet shading Taylor and Tree. (x)

A graffiti artist creates a mural in Melbourne 'in loving memory of Taylor Swift' (misspelled as Smith). According to the artist, they are then contacted by Taylor's lawyers and threatened with legal action. (x)

Jul 21st - Taylor's Wikipedia page is vandalised with insults. (x)

Taylor and Tom fly back from Australia into a private airport in LA, and are seen out and about. (x) (x)

Jul 22nd - Fergie, who had Kim appear in her M.I.L.F. $ music video, says she thinks the Kimye-Taylor feud was planned and 'they’ll probably all come together at the MTV Awards or something.' (x)

Taylor goes to the gym in LA. It is the first time she has appeared in public since Kim posted the edited video, and her phone screen is now shattered. (x)

She also returns to Instagram to wish Selena a happy birthday. (x)

Jul 23rd - Taylor goes to the gym in LA. (x)

Tom is at Comic Con in San Diego. (x)

Calvin lip-syncs to Kanye's song That Part in a video posted on his Snapchat. (x) He also attends J-Lo's birthday party and is photographed with Kim. Apparently they have a friendly chat. (x) A source claims to E!, 'When Kim walked in Calvin saw her and stood up. He was clearly excited to see her and said 'hi' to Kim backstage.' (x)

Jul 24th - Taylor blocks the snake emoji from her Instagram comments section using a new Instagram feature. (x)

Tom is seen at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills with members of Taylor's security team. (x)

Jul 26th - Tom flies back to LA from NYC, where he has just spent a couple of days. On the same day, Taylor's plane arrives back in LA from Nashville, where she has spent a couple of days. (x)

VMA nominations are announced. Taylor is not nominated in any category, despite Out Of The Woods and Wildest Dreams being eligible, leading some people to think she has been snubbed. Gossip Cop, an outlet widely used by celebrity publicists to quietly squash rumours, says that Taylor did not submit any videos for consideration this year. (x)

Jul 27th - Taylor goes to the gym in LA. (x)

John Newman, singer of Calvin's song Olé, jokes, 'Supposedly we had a holiday where he was movin’ on from his ex-missus,' referring to the trip to Mexico to film the music video, which involved girls and a yacht. He also says he doesn't think it's his place to say what inspired Calvin to write the song. (x)

Taylor and Tom go for dinner at Hillstone restaurant in Santa Monica. One source claims they 'seemed to really be enjoying each others’ company.' (x) It is the last time they are papped together.

Kanye makes a surprise appearance at Drake's concert in Chicago where he responds to Kim's Snapchat video for the first time, saying, 'All I gotta say is, I am so glad my wife has Snapchat. Because now y’all can know the truth. And can’t nobody talk shit about ‘Ye no more.' (x)

Cara appears on James Corden's show and talks about how she, Uzo and Ruby pranked Kesha and Haim at Taylor's 4th of July party. She mentions consulting Taylor and Tom first so that security knew what they were up to. She also says that Taylor and Tom got woken up at one point by all the noise they were making, and came upstairs together to find Cara and Uzo still making ghost noises. (x)

Jul 28th - Taylor goes to the gym in LA. (x)

Jul 29th - Sources close to Calvin deny rumours that he is planning to collaborate on music with Kanye. (x)

Abigail likes E! News' Instagram photo of Tom and Taylor going out for dinner on the 27th, which has a gushing caption about them. (x)

Jul 31st - Taylor is seen entering her gym in LA through the back door. (x)

A fan sees Tom and Taylor at The Church Key restaurant in LA. (x) The outing is not papped.

Intro // February // March // April // May // June // July // August // September // October // November

#taylor swift #hiddleswift #tayvin #swiftwyn #jaylor #toe #taylor swift in 2016 #timeline

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sorry if this is random but agdjd i just checked your carrd again and im fucking crying at the clark newman thing please- but also i love the layout sm 💖 just 2 summer dads summer lovin yknow

I WAS WONDERING IF SOMEONE KNEW WHAT IT MEANT LMAO! glad I got to be Mr funny man for a few seconds

THANK YOU THO !!!!!! 😭 Im so excited for summer I just went ahead and said WE'RE BBQ DADS NOW ! We are GRILLING if u need us 🥩🌭

#hiiiiii Bambi #i smiled with devilish glee that u saw the clark section 😭#mmm whatcha say

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confessurmobs · 4 years

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“As much as I love the Clark Newman meme, I feel that its messed up how everyone is mainly focused on Reigens cameo while ignoring Molly of Denali.. It’s like that argument where a show/movie can have diverse representation and multiple characters of color but everyone obsesses over the white/white passing minor character. Can we take some love we have for ‘Clark’ and share it with MoD please? That show really needs it.”

I’ve never heard of MoD! It sounds interesting though and I might check it out later! Also sorry for taking a joke approach to this i needed somethin to give me a giggle. //🐍

#mp100 #clarknewman #clark newman #mp 100 #mob psycho #mob psycho 100 #mp100 asks #mp100 confessions #im so sorry but this edit was so fun to make #//🐍

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xashirama · 4 years

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tagged by @v-v-e-g-a!!!!! thankyeww

tag one

“describing your blog tag”

icon: manga kira edited by me (not really i just added the color to match with the rest of my blog)

my content: i reblog anything i like! (esp ocean/water aesth and jjba since its my newest obsession) someone said my blog had a romantic violent vibe to it and i still think about it............ h

letter colour: red?? dark crimson?

header: transparent cherries!!!!!!!

url: i wanted to be weeb on main and for it to sound and look beautiful

blog title: i just wanted to make letter o big

tag two

who were you named after?: my dads fucking ex crush but he was forced to change one letter (thanks god)

last time you cried?: yesterday night bc of piece of media. its very rare for me to cry actually

do you like your handwriting?: idk but people say its very monotonous precise and easy to read which is a good thing i suppose?

what is your favourite lunch meat?: i dont like meat that much but i love fish????

longest relationship: 9 months

do you still have your tonsils?: y es???

do you bungee jump?: no

what is your favourite kind of cereal?: idk but i dont like it when its too sugary and i love cereal in general

do you untie your shoes when you take them off?: no and if i have to then i tie them back after i take them off

do you think you’re strong willed?: absolutely not every time something bad happens i start biting my nails and go hysterical

favourite ice cream?: ANY I JUST LOVE ICE CREAM. but sour flavours > sweet flavours

what is the first thing you notice about a person?: the way they dress. i have a hard time with remembering faces i have to see a person constantly in order to remember it

football or baseball?: volleyball

favourite donut?: never tasted one.

what are you listening to?: nothing at the time but i listened to some stupid russian rave 2 hours ago

if you were a crayon, what colour you would be?: id be those scented crayons for kids for sure!!!!!!! cherry dark pink one i think.

what is your favourite smell?: its easier to say which ones i dislike. i also have toxicomania

who was the last person you talked to on the phone?: my friend!!!

hair colour?: very dark brown? its kinda blueish gray but turns very bright red on the sunset

eye colour?: dark brown

favourite food to eat?: CHEESECAKES AND PANNACOTTA....

scary movies or happy endings?: horrors

last movie you watched in the theater?: birds of pray with my best friend (she absolutely hated this film and her reactions were HILARIOUS and we actually wanted to go to the little women instead)

what colour shirt are you wearing?: light blue with retro pop-art style images on it

favourite holiday?: HALLOWEEN

beer or wine?: wine

night owl or morning person?: neither i fucked my sleep schedule that badly. but i love morning hours and being productive during it

favourite day of the week?: saturday

favourite animal?: frogs n cats

do you have a pet?: :( no

where would you like to travel?: i dont care i just want to go to places. but i rly want to visit italy spain germany japan and many other places. and scotland and maroc and russia

im tagging @vilkavagabond @greenwi-t-ch @yourcryptidgf @sunzehir @puccicontrol @american-celebrity-clark-newman @evilm0chi @sicutflos !! ! ! !

#tag game

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Idk enough about MP100 to think up a plausible answer so who's Rico in your Hannah Montana AU?

Okay so I have been thinking. And thinking. And thinking about this for days. And I have finally reached an answer, but first let me go over my thought process since:

1. Definitely not any of the kids. In Hannah Montana Rico had a weird nonserious hate/love relationship with the Stuart siblings and with Miley in particular but he was also a huge Hannah Montana fan. None of the mp100 kids would even come close to respecting Clark Newman though, so the Rico replacement would have to be as much of a clown as Reigen. Also none of the mp100 kids come close to replicating the same dynamic toward Reigen so.

2. With that said, after thinking long and hard about all the adult mp100 characters, I have come to the conclusion that he would be either THIS:

or THIS:

guy.

Based on what I’ve seen of them they’re both clowns, making them the exact type of person who would stan Clark Newman. In canon they both outwardly hate Reigen but (probably) harbor a begrudging respect for him considering all he’s done to show them up. They are the PERFECT Rico replacements. I can only see them randomly approaching Reigen around the city to trash him in a 😳😳 “I lowkey respect u tho” manner while explicitly fangirling over Clark Newman. Thank u for ur time.

#mp100 #reigen arataka #clark newman #hannah montana au

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Frankenstein Adaptions

1823: Richard Brinsley Peake's adaptation, Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein, was seen by Mary Shelley and her father William Godwin at the English Opera House.

1826: Henry M. Milner's adaptation, The Man and The Monster; or The Fate of Frankenstein opened on 3 July at the Royal Coburg Theatre, London.

1887: Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim was a musical burlesque written by Richard Henry (a pseudonym of Richard Butler and Henry Chance Newton).

1910: Edison Studios produced the first Frankenstein film, directed by J. Searle Dawley.

1915: Life Without Soul, the second film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, was released. No known print of the film has survived.

1920: The Monster of Frankenstein, directed by Eugenio Testa, starring Luciano Albertini and Umberto Guarracino.

1931: Universal Studios' Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, starring Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye, and Boris Karloff as the monster.

1935: James Whale directed the sequel to the 1931 film, Bride of Frankenstein, starring Colin Clive as Frankenstein, and Boris Karloff as the monster once more. This incorporated the novel's plot motif of Frankenstein creating a bride for the monster omitted from Whale's earlier film. There were two more sequels, prior to the Universal "monster rally" films combining multiple monsters from various movie series or film franchises.

1939: Son of Frankenstein was another Universal monster movie with Boris Karloff as the Creature. Also in the film were Basil Rathbone as the title character and Bela Lugosi as the sinister assistant Ygor. Karloff ended playing the Frankenstein monster with this film.

1942: The Ghost of Frankenstein featured brain transplanting and a new monster, played by Lon Chaney Jr. The film also starred Evelyn Ankers and Bela Lugosi.

1942–1948: Universal did "monster rally" films featuring Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man. Included would be Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. The last three films introduced Glenn Strange as Frankenstein's monster.

1957–1974: Hammer Films in England did a string of Frankenstein films starring Peter Cushing, including The Curse of Frankenstein, The Revenge of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. Co-starring in these films were Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Veronica Carlson and Simon Ward. Another Hammer film, The Horror of Frankenstein, starred Ralph Bates as the main character, Victor Frankenstein.

1965: Toho Studios created the film Frankenstein Conquers the World or Frankenstein vs. Baragon, followed by The War of the Gargantuas.

1972: A comedic stage adaptation, Frankenstein's Monster, was written by Sally Netzel and produced by the Dallas Theater Center.

1973: The TV film Frankenstein: The True Story appeared on NBC. The movie starred Leonard Whiting, Michael Sarrazin, James Mason, and Jane Seymour.

1981: A Broadway adaptation by Victor Gialanella played for one performance (after 29 previews) and was considered the most expensive flop ever produced to that date.

1984: The flop Broadway production yielded a TV film starring Robert Powell, Carrie Fisher, David Warner, and John Gielgud.

1992: Frankenstein became a Turner Network Television film directed by David Wickes, starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid. John Mills played the blind man.

1994: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein appeared in theatres, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Robert De Niro and Helena Bonham Carter. Its all-star cast also included John Cleese, Ian Holm, and Tom Hulce.

2004: Frankenstein, a two-episode mini-series starring Alec Newman, with Luke Goss and Donald Sutherland.

2006: Frankenstein, A New Musical, composed by Mark Baron, book by Jeffrey Jackson, and based on an adaptation by Gary P. Cohen.

2007: Frankenstein, an award-winning musical adaptation by Jonathan Christenson with set, lighting, and costume design by Bretta Gerecke for Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta.

2011: In March, BBC3 broadcast Colin Teague's live production from Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds, billed as Frankenstein's Wedding, Live in Leeds. About the same time, the National Theatre, London presented a stage version of Frankenstein, which ran until 2 May 2011. The play was written by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle. Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternated the roles of Frankenstein and the Creature. The National Theatre broadcast live performances of the play worldwide on 17 March.

2012: An interactive ebook app created by Inkle and Profile Books that retells the story with added interactive elements.

2014: Penny Dreadful is a horror TV series that airs on Showtime, that features Victor Frankenstein as well as his creature.

2015: Frankenstein, a modern-day adaptation written and directed by Bernard Rose.

2015: Victor Frankenstein is an American film directed by Paul McGuigan.

2016: Frankenstein, a full length ballet production by Liam Scarlett. Some performances were also live simulcasts worldwide.

Loose adaptations:

1967: I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night and its sequel, Frankenstein Unbound (Another Monster Musical), are a pair of musical comedies written by Bobby Pickett and Sheldon Allman. The casts of both feature several classic horror characters including Dr. Frankenstein and his monster.

1971: Lady Frankenstein is an Italian horror film directed by Mel Welles and written by Edward di Lorenzo. The strory begins when Dr. Frankenstein is killed by the monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue with his experiments.

1973: The Rocky Horror Show, is a British horror comedy stage musical written by Richard O'Brian in which Dr. Frank N. Furter has created a creature (Rocky), to satisfy his (pro)creative drives. Elements are similar to I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night.

1973: Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Usually, Frankenstein is a man whose dedication to science takes him too far, but here his interest is to rule the world by creating a new species that will obey him and do his bidding.

1974: Young Frankenstein. Directed by Mel Brooks, this sequel-spoof has been listed as one of the best movie comedies of any comedy genre ever made, even prompting an American film preservation program to include it on its listings. It reuses many props from James Whale's 1931 Frankenstein and is shot in black-and-white with 1930s-style credits. Gene Wilder portrayed the descendant of Dr. Frankenstein (who insists on pronouncing it "Fronkonsteen"), with Peter Boyle as the Monster.

1975: The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show (1973), written by Richard O'Brien.

1984: Frankenweenie is a parody short film directed by Tim Burton, starring Barrett Oliver, Shelley Duvall and Daniel Stern.

1985: The Bride starring Sting as Baron Charles Frankenstein and Jennifer Beals as Eva, a woman he creates in the same fashion as his infamous monster.

1986: Gothic, directed by Ken Russell, is the story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to Frankenstein. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson.

1988: Frankenstein (フランケンシュタイン) is a manga adaptation of Shelley's novel by Junji Ito.

1989: Frankenstein the Panto. A pantomime script by David Swan, combining elements of Frankenstein, Dracula, and traditional British panto.

1990: Frankenstein Unbound.Combines a time-travel story with the story of Shelley's novel. Scientist Joe Buchanan accidentally creates a time-rift which takes him back to the events of the novel. Filmed as a low-budget independent film by Roger Corman in 1990, based on a novel published in 1973 by Brian Aldiss. This novel bears no relation to the 1967 stage musical with the same name listed above.

1991: Khatra (film) is a Hindi movie of Bollywood made by director H. N. Singh loosely based on the story, Frankenstein.

1995: Monster Mash is a film adaptation of I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night starring Bobby Pickett as Dr. Frankenstein. The film also features Candace Cameron Bure, Anthony Crivello and Mink Stole.

1998: Billy Frankenstein is a very loose adaptation about a boy who moves into a mansion with his family and brings the Frankenstein monster to life. The film was directed by Fred Olen Ray.

2004: Frankensteinmade-for-TV film based on Dean Koontz's Frankenstein.

2005: Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove, a 90-minute feature film homage of classic monsters and Atomic Age creature features, shot in black and white, and directed by William Winckler. The Frankenstein Monster design and make-up was based on the character descriptions in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel.

2009: The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, a short film from Chillerrama.

2011: Frankenstein: Day of the Beast is an independent horror film based loosely on the original book.

2011: Victor Frankenstein appears in the ABC show Once Upon a Time, a fantasy series on ABC that features multiple characters from fairy tales and classic literature trapped in the real world.

2012: Frankenweenie, Tim Burton's feature film remake of his 1984 short film of the same name.

2012: In the Adventure Time episode "Princess Monster Wife", the Ice King removes body parts from all the princesses that rejected him and creates a jigsaw wife to love him.

2012: A Nightmare on Lime Street, Fred Lawless's comedy play starring David Gest staged at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

2014: I, Frankenstein is a 2014 fantasy action film. The film stars Aaron Eckhart as Adam Frankenstein and Bill Nighy. The film is based on the graphic novel.

2014: Frankenstein, MD, A web show by Pemberly Digital starring Victoria, a female adaptation of Victor.

2015: The Supernatural season 10 episodes Book of the Damned, Dark Dynasty and The Prisonerfeature the Styne Family which member Eldon Styne identifies as the descendants of the house of Frankenstein. According to Eldon, Mary Shelley had learned their secrets while on a visit to Castle Frankenstein and wrote a book based on her experiences, forcing the Frankensteins underground as the Stynes. The Stynes, through bioengineering and surgical enhancements, feature many of the superhuman features of Frankenstein's monster.

2015: The Frankenstein Chronicles is a British television drama series, starring Sean Bean as John Marlott and Anna Maxwell Martin as Mary Shelley.

2016: Second Chance, a TV series known at one point as Frankenstein, was inspired by the classic.

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