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[ufonaut]

Covers for Alan Scott: The Green Lantern (2023) #2. Art by David Talaski, Travis Moore, and Stephen Bynre respectively.

[witch-of-the-sands]

THEY'RE PUTTING OUT THE STOP MAKING SENSE COVER ALBUM RIGHT AFTER MY BAND DID AN ENTIRE STOP MAKING SENSE COVER SHOW WITH FULL CHOREO, RIGHT AFTER I FULLY IMMERSE MYSELF, AND THEN HAYLEY WILLIAMS HERSELF DOES FUCKING BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE AND IT'S DARE I SAY AS GOOD IF NOT BETTER THAN DAVID BYNRE'S VERSION BECAUSE OF HER INCREDIBLE VOCAL DELIVERY?! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING FUCK

[silveragelovechild]

Have you heard of a streaming service called EPIX? If not, it recently changed its name to MGM+

A couple of years ago EPIX had a free weekend and I binged a scifi show it had - “War of the Worlds” starring Gabriel Byrne and Elizabeth McGovern. (McGovern did this after Downton ended and probably between the movies.)

Despite its name, it had little in common with HG Welles book. It started with an extraterrestrial invasion then went off in an entire different direct. At the time I thought I might have liked it better if it had a different name. I kept expecting it/wanting it to connect to the book.

In this series, the extraterrestrials release an electromagnetic pulse which causes most people on earth to have a seizure then die. Only people who were underground or in some other enclosure (made of metal?) survived. The extraterrestrials (not seen in the season) release robotic dogs to kill off any survivors (via a gun built into their snout).

What I found interesting was that it was an international production - England and France. The series followed 3 groups trying to survive:

group one in London led by Byrne;

group two in Paris with an English father trying to get to England to find out if his family is okay (he travels with a French woman and her teen son);

group three - a French woman scientist in an outpost in the Alps who detected the extraterrestrials signal before the attack. She hooks up with a team of French soldiers who protect the base in the alps. The scenes in the Alps were entirely in French (with subtitles).

When I finished the season, I felt indifferent. There was an English young woman central to the plot. She had been blind but after the attack she got her sight back. And she had “visions” related to the extraterrestrials AND dreams about the French teen boy from group two. The thing was, I didn’t particular like those 2 characters. She was too twitchy and the teen boy was clearly unhinged but hiding it.

I forgot all about the series until this week. I was looking for a new streaming service and MGM+ was available cheap via Amazon (which bought MGM proper last year). It had two more seasons of the show. Despite my indifference, I binged/scanned the episodes (fast forwarding when I got bored).

The issue over all with the series is that it didn’t seem as if the creators/producers had a cohesive plan - there were radical changes between seasons. And a kind of Mumbo-Jumbo use of pseudo-science to explain plot holes.

Season 2 - the two French groups eventually make it to London during this season. But McGovern doesn’t survive into season 2. It is revealed the extraterrestrials were humans (in season one it said they were from another “galaxy”). They looked exactly like normal humans, spoke English, and wore the same kind of grunge clothes as the Earth humans. I could only tell the difference because I notice their clothing was shade of dark green. They had traveled to Earth and centuries into their past to kill Gabriel Byrne because he would release a virus that would kill then all. (But Byrne only creates the virus because they invaded Earth!?!)

Eventually it’s revealed that the formerly blind girl and the sullen teen boy were the “Adam and Eve” of the extraterrestrials. They both had genetic defects which the Gabriel Bynre character (now an expert geneticist) would exploit to create the virus.

Although the girl was exposed to the virus, somehow both she and the teen boy were lured into an empty space ship, which the extraterrestrial leader sent into space to their home planet (where they would have children and populate the extraterrestrial planet). HUH?

Time travel stories often have plot holes but this one was a doozie. How did the the woman and the teen get to the planet in the first place… they could only do it because their ancestors sent a ship. There was no attempt to explain this. It was just never mentioned.

Season 3 made another incredible shift. Somehow Gabriel Byrne was able to steal another ship and use it as a Time Machine, going back in time to just before the invasion. He sees the young woman (blind) and kills her by pushing her off a building. BUT extraterrestrial leader and a bunch of her team had also been on the time traveling ship. They were determine to kill Byrne - this time in revenge for negating their existence by killing their ancient grandmother. How? By triggering another electromagnetic pulse to kill all humans on Earth.

I won’t explain the resolution, except to say there was a “black hole” hovering above the Arctic that connected this Earth to the parallel Earth where the invasion occurred. Other than saying radio waves couldn’t escape the black hole, there was no mention of what other hazards might occur with a black hole hovering over the earth for many months.

Why did I watch seasons 2 & 3? Dunno. Part is because I recently canceled 4 streaming services (HBO max, Paramount+, AMC+, and Broadway direct). I think I was curious where it was going. More to the point, why was the series funded with its meandering plot laden with holes?

(The thing I liked the best about the series was the robot dogs… an interesting design. They digitally designed, then 3D printed. But all movement on screen was CGI.)

[lastchancevillagegreen]

Monday, 25 September 2023:

The Greater Wings Julie Byrne (Ghostly International) (released 7 July 2023)

I bought the new Allegra Krieger album recently and she reminded me considerably of Julie Bryne, causing me to wonder what it is about plaintive female singers that attracts me to their music. To ensure I wasn't merely remembering something incorrectly, I pulled out my two Julie Byrne albums (2014's Rooms With Walls and Windows and 2017's Not Even Happiness) and played both of them and discovered I was still in sway with Bynre's music. That in turn lead me to check her discogs page and it was there I discovered she had recently released her first album in six years!

I came upon Bryne via Grapefruit Records, Simon Joyner's label, as they were hyping her debut which was on Ordinal, a label out of Chicago. Grapefruit distributed Ordinal, the label her debut was on at the time and they could not say enough great things about her (I understand hype is to sell). I bought it (it was an era when i seemingly would buy anything Joyner/ Grapefruit hyped) and it did take a few spins to warm up to the sparse music and unadorned voice. But once I broke through I was crazy for Bryne's work.

I had no clue she had a new album out and the instant I saw it, I couldn't hit the Buy It Now button on discogs fast enough (nevermind I was a few Shines in and it might have been midnight or later). Above you see the album cover and the back of the album. Below you see the enigmatic hype sticker.

What is "Secretly Society"? It's nothing more than a Record Club (whose choices include Lump, Angel Olsen, Phosphorescent (where the hell is Phossy these days), Yoko Ono and other odd choices. There are plenty on this list I don't care for (Japanese Breakfast) but plenty that I do care for making me wonder, who makes these weird decisions? It all seems way too "vinyls babies" to this music lover. And by the way, one year's membership runs you $240! (Three months is only $75 which I suppose is cheaper than buying it in a record shop...maybe. I certainly didn't spend $25 on my copy of this album.)

Below you will find the inner sleeve, front and back.

This album was pressed on white vinyl (the Secretly Society version) and you can see the two shots of that white vinyl below.

Below are the A and B side of the labels. Please, note the difference in them. I find it rather interesting.

This came with a download card. I like it when companies put an effort into their download cards. Heck, I like it when companies still include download cards! (Until I saw the back of the card I didn't even realize Byrne had a puffball sweater on!)

Finally, I became familiar with the label Ghostly International way back when I was a member of This Is My Jam. I followed a dozen people or so and I'd spend way too many hours listening to new music (I don't believe bandcamp existed then). One of the many albums I bought via This Is My Jam was Rhine Gold by Choirs of Choir of Young Believers. It currently resides in my closet. Anyhow, when I received that album I also relieved a sticker of their logo which I promptly applied to my moleskine that I use to document The Festive Fifty which is what my brother and I call our year end party where we tell one another what our most played 50 albums were on the year. I've been using this particular notebook since 2005! You can see said notebook below.

By the way, I just discovered this link via...God's Jukebox: https://www.goldflakepaint.co.uk/new-music-julie-byrne-summer-glass/

[cesium-sheep]

dream about amanda bynrs playing as a pair of twins, one of whom is well liked and well adjusted and the other is kept in the house and tries to take her twin's place but acts nothing like her. the first twin makes it back to school fairly early and they're just both running around but a lot of them understand early that there's two of them. there was also a guy flirting with me who looked way too excited at the possibility of a kiss when I squished in closer on the couch but I decided I only wanted cuddles. he'd added his own custom character to an old fighting game with graphics of himself and all. I think both twins were only into girls. right before I woke up arin sat down in the dream and seemed much happier with my response to a sentence than the other twin's.

[ronovanwrites]

8 Questions with Hope Gibbs, author of Where the Grass Grows Blue.

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Penny Crenshaw’s divorce and her husband’s swift remarriage to a much younger woman have been hot topics around Atlanta’s social circles. After a year of enduring the cruel gossip, Penny leaps from the frying pan into the fire by heading back to Kentucky to settle her grandmother’s estate.Reluctantly, Penny travels to her hometown of Camden, knowing she will be stirring up all the ghosts from her…

[jljarvis-blog]

Curl up with a cozy, small-town romance series. https://amzn.to/3MW8oxB

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The Dark Solar System Series

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[robertfrancis4]

Schizophrenia Books !!

I wrote 2 books on living with, and overcoming, schizophrenia. I have lived with schizophrenia for 25+ years. I currently work as a post-masters mental health talk-therapist (a Licensed Clinical Social Worker-LCSW). My first book is titled “On Conquering Schizophrenia; From the Desk of a Therapist and Survivor”. My second book is titled “The Essential Schizophrenia Companion; With Foreword by Elyn R Saks, PhD, JD”. I write from the perspectives of both a provider and also someone with schizophrenia. Both are on Amazon. If you go to Amazon you can see all the editorial reviews. My books are intended to provide education and hope, and to let others know a regular life is obtainable. Dr Saks, who wrote the foreword to my second book, is the leading global icon and legend in the schizophrenia canon. Check out her INCREDIBLE TedTalk! It has over 4 million views! I remain ever astounded and grateful for her support! #schizophrenia #BYNR #reader #readmore #bookworm #booklove #psychology #nonfiction

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