#franz art friday

[franzfriday]

QUICK while it's still FRANZ FRIDAY sound the TRUMPETS Toot TOOT upload doodle from 2017 that you dug up recently and completely forgot existed

have a Franztastic Franz Friday everyone

[metamorphesque]

Level 1:   🌼 daisy 🌼 membership  

a letter from "Letters of Vincent van Gogh" every single day

art recommendations on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

poetry recommendations on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

access to all the previous posts (Franz Kafka’s “Letters to Milena”, “Letter to his Father”, poetry/art recs)  

Level 2:   🌻sunflower🌻 membership  

a letter from "Letters of Vincent van Gogh" every single day

a letter from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Letters to Véra” on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays

art recommendations every day of the week

poetry recommendations every day of the week

monthly book recommendations

additional content related to art and literature

access to all the previous posts (Franz Kafka’s “Letters to Milena”, “Letter to his Father”,  Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet", poetry/art recs)

Level 3:  🌸cherry blossom membership🌸

a letter from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Letters to Véra” on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays

poetry recommendations on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays

art recommendations on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays

access to all the previous posts (Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet", poetry/art recs)

[ratherembarrassing]

2023: weeks 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 [13 feb to 19 mar]

this is madness. it's been a crazy busy month. i'm currently in my fourth hotel. let's go.

VACATION!

new york: greenwich village was home for the first week of my vacation. a part of manhattan that i liked to visit a lot when i lived in brooklyn but never a place i've managed to spend as much time as i would like... and still have not. the marlton hotel on 8th was delightful although i encountered far too many australians for my liking. the lobby bar was, as warned of in every single review i read, absolutely packed with people just chilling/drinking/working at all hours of the day, but it was honestly a hoot.

new york coffee: i am notoriously hateful of american coffee, because it's revolting, but the game has been changed in the last few years. every morning i went somewhere different as i set out for the day, and every day i was rewarded handsomely with a decent-to-perfect latte. thank you for embracing the milk based espresso game, new york. i cannot extend my compliments to california.

art: i managed to hit up two art museums i've been to previously (the met, the guggenheim) and two that i had not (the whitney, the frick) while in new york, and the completely out of character pre-modern kick i've been on heavily influenced where i had the most fun.

the guggenheim is home to my very favourite painting, franz marc's yellow cow, but half the permanent collection was down for an exhibition, so he was gone. however, i had seen marc's fighting cows at the met a few days earlier, in which my good friend the yellow cow is hanging out in the background, so i was content.

the met was full of all the classical architecture things i have spent the last few months being weird about, and so is every street in new york, so i was having a great time and my phone is full of photos of completely random buildings all over manhattan. but there was something really satisfying about walking through parts of the building i viscerally remember not having any interest in previously and being like, i know you guys now.

the frick was a similar experience, kind of, in that i have a clear memory of passing on going because i knew it was full of old paintings. not exactly my thing, for the most part, more of an incidental acquaintanceship from often being housed in the same building as art i prefer. i don't remember what specifically prompted me to go this time, but an inadvertent consequence of deep diving architectural history is that i acquired a whole art history education that i never really had, and like, what a difference that makes.

the whitney had a hopper exhibition showing that had pretty much everything he ever painted except for nighthawks, which was weird.

shows!: "are you going to see any shows while you're there?" "is there any other reason to even go to new york?"

this was documented as it happened, but i experienced classical music live for the first time while unintentionally very, very drunk. i've settled on this having been an incredible experience, well done me.

i saw funny girl. it's actually incomprehensible how good lea was in this given that, okay, so. wait, context. so what actually happened was, i had tickets for funny girl on the friday night and the ny phil on saturday night, and lea was out sick friday AND the saturday matinee. i got an email about her being out at 3pm but didn't see it until 6pm, and somehow i still managed to switch both tickets to seats in almost the exact same location and recovered like $100 of the original price in the process. so after being off sick for two shows lea was, honestly, fucking incredible. it's so irritating, but it is what it is.

jessica chastain is currently doing a doll's house (i think it technically opened on march 9 but it's been in previews for weeks). this was wild, as far as these things go. extremely minimal, bordering on avant-garde maybe or just throwing a lot of singular things that other productions have done into a pot together. spoilers for the key staging moments: it started with nora on stage for a solid 10 minutes before curtain (there was no curtain), while the house lights were still up and people were still wandering into their seats and talking, and ended with her walking out through a door at the back of the stage directly onto the street behind the theatre in a moment so baffling i am still chuckling every time i think about it. it wasn't perfect but it's going to stay with me.

an assortment of other things i bought/experienced in new york

an australian goes to an nhl game: i thought i could come to like any sport, but this was really just not my thing. also, the shouting from the crowd during the national anthem made me genuinely uneasy.

the post-metrocard subway. people had commented to me and have asked since if new york "felt different", and this might be the only place where it did feel different. the subway felt empty, and nobody uses the emergency exit anymore, and no more metrocard just feels wrong.

an american biscuit from popeyes. it was delicious. at the time i said i was coming around on the biscuit thing, but then i had one with gravy in california and it was just wrong.

a whole bunch of writing implements and notebooks from good for the study, which happened to be across the street from my hotel. it's maybe one of the hardest things to buy in australia now, as everything else has become easier and this one specific category of goods has not. i spent so much money it was ridiculous. ask me about my pens.

the apple charger adapter kit, because i accidentally packed my european adapter and had planned to use my apple brick exclusively as my means of charging all my shit. so now i have one for everywhere on earth, and that feels like a challenge.

which also lead to me walking past zitomer, because somehow i spent half my time in new york on the upper east side, and tar had reminded me of that new york magazine article about the women who shop at zitomer, and anyway now i own $22 lipbalm in a zitomer lipstick tube.

also, because travel seems to somehow always destroy my hands, i now own hand cream that smells like orange tic tacs. that was from whole foods, though.

los angeles: i drove! in california! pulling out of that avis parking lot was honestly one of the more terrifying things i've ever done. socal was experiencing some weather, and i had to drive to long beach, and i'd spent 20 minutes trying to figure out the carplay controls in a mazda (fucking insane) and it was going to get dark soon, so i had to go. in the end it was great, and the last day i spent driving all over the place and i am fully committed to doing the entire PCH as a trip sometime soon.

the pie bar: it was february 24, which is twin peaks day, so i dragged everyone to this place we found on google, and i ate cherry pie for the first time and it was fantastic, and like the ten or so of the rest of us all had different kinds of pies and everyone enjoyed the hell out of them, so this place was fucking awesome. also they gave us a candle to stick in leah's pie so we could sing happy birthday.

broadway cocktail lounge's karaoke night: long beach really was batting well above its average this night. maybe it was the weather keeping everyone local, but there was a woman who sounded like stevie nicks who did gold dust woman and i'm honestly still thinking about her all these weeks later.

santa monica: a lovely place to be! i stayed at the fairmont, which was very funny because i had previously had brunch in the restaurant there without realising it was the same place. anyway, five star hotels are hilarious and i love them. they brought my ubereats order to my door at nearly midnight, which makes them infinitely better than the intercons that i've stayed at that make you come down and get it yourself. i will but up with that at a four star hotel, but not at a five! i'm kidding, but not really lmao.

disneyland!: go on a rainy monday in february! waltz right into every right! do the star wars rides twice! i fucking love disneyland and will go in the heat when it's packed and queue for an hour for most things, but this was super special just getting to do anything. the new star wars ride is so fucking awesome! take your kids to disneyland!

then i ate a final lax panda express and headed home.

FIVE SHOWS IN TWELVE DAYS!

angel olsen @ melbourne recital centre: i will admit i was jetlagged as fuck and might have nodded off for a second in my front row seat. nonetheless, what a babe.

bikini kill @ forum: happy international womens day! this was all ages gig with a lot of tiny little kiddos there with their cool mums and it was a great time to be in a room with a lot of people there for the vibe.

florence and the machine @ rod laver: that woman is a god damn witch, and i will not be told otherwise. fucking mesmerizing. it's just a fucking treat to see the person who makes some of your favourite music be incredible in front of you.

lorde @ sydney myer music bowl: MUNA opened for her and they slapped.

carly rae jepsen @ forum: the most fun i've had at a concert in ages. i was sweaty and exhausted and full of joy by the end, and unlike everyone else there i didn't get covid. midway through the show i got a text that my 6.30am flight the next morning had been cancelled and that was also very fun!

haloumi baos at blondie bar: this is the always busy spot outside the melbourne recital centre / southbank theatre. they came with pineapple jam. it was so good i went back a week later for pre-lorde dinner and sat on a tiny tiny bench to eat them.

sydney: i am in it. i'm here for work, but yesterday i had brunch at pina in potts point, and this morning i had brunch at porch and parlor and wandered around bondi before i had to spend a few hours working. i'm here for another week and a half, so tell me fun things to do.

THREE COMEDIES IN TWO WEEKS!

am i being unreasonable (season 1, bbc): i watched this on the flight to lax, i had no idea what it was and no way to find out, and let me tell you: that was wild. one of the most intriguing and fucked up and funny things i've watched in a while.

extraordinary (season 1, hulu/disney+): this show is so charming i want to scream. luke rollason, oh my god. he's just a little guy!

the flatshare (season 1, paramount+): i dunno. did anyone else watch this?

okay i'm done, goodbye.

[ataraxiaspainting]

F A Q.

masterlist: it's in the works but not at the moment!

posting days: i'm trying to work on a more stable posting schedule for stories but i will most likely be answering inbox messages on fridays, saturdays, and sundays! mostly saturdays though.

tagging: feel free to tag me in anything! as long as the post in question does not do harm to me or others, of course.

writing history: ever since i was little, i've pretty much always had a love for making up stories and saving them on my laptop. i got into x reader works when i was in middle school i think... still am just as much into them now as i was back then.

art history: i've always loved to draw/sculpt too! i may not be the best at making art myself, but i have always loved looking at other people's works, especially paintings. my current pfp is actually a painting of ophelia from shakespeare's hamlet, done by alexandre cabanel.

music taste: i really only listen to classical and k-pop/j-pop, along with game osts. though my queen mitski breaks her way into my on repeat playlist multiple times a day. my favorite songs from her are buffalo replaced, i bet on losing dogs, i will, francis forever, my love mine all mine, i want you, stay soft, class of 2013, townie and last words of a shooting star. non-mitski songs are often either by red velvet, twice, king gnu, or kenshi yonezu.

book recommendations: i read a lot on days i'm not so busy, mostly reading thriller/horror stories. my main recommendations are notes from the underground by fyodor dostoevsky, i have no mouth, and i must scream by harlan elison, the cask of amontillado by edgar allan poe, the stranger by albert camus, the metamorphosis by franz kafka, uzumaki by junji ito, the talented mr. ripley by patricia highsmith, the collector by john fowles, misery by stephen king, coraline by neil gaiman.

favorite tropes: lovers to enemies, enemies to lovers, the reluctant hero, paying the price for victory, the mysterious neighbor next door, a deal with the devil, the unhappy ending, cults and religious extremists, mysterious things are happening, seducing an archenemy for an opportunity.

other fun facts:

-> i'm a criminology major.

-> i played a lot of instruments and sang a lot when i was younger. i'm trying to get back into it now. my favorite instrument to play was the electric violin and my favorite type of music to sing was choir-like osts like mourning from nier automata, lacrimosa from the one and only mozart, and song of the ancients from nier replicant.

-> i'm a huge animal lover. i often watch streams of horror movies, listen to video essays, or write while snuggling up with one of my dogs. i also often volunteer in community service, with most of it being either being at a shelter/adoption event or some sort of event involving a fundraiser in schools. i once happened to do an adoption event that happened to be fundraising more resources for schoolchildren, and it was one of the best moments of my life. got to pet a lot of animals too, and that made the time like ten times better.

CURRENT ANONS -> childe anon

this post will be edited/added to as life goes on.

[byneddiedingo]

Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Walter Surovy, Marcel Dalio, Walter Sande, Dan Seymour. Screenplay: Jules Furthman, William Faulkner, based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. Cinematography: Sidney Hickox. Art direction: Charles Novi. Film editing: Christian Nyby. Music: Franz Waxman

Beatrice and Benedick. Rosalind and Orlando. Viola and Orsino. "Slim" and "Steve"? Why do I think of To Have and Have Not in terms of Shakespearean romance? Does this most enjoyable of movies have anything in common with those grand predecessors? It's all Howard Hawks's doing, with a little bit of help from screenwriters Jules Furthman and William Faulkner. Hawks had done this sort of romance before, in his comic masterpieces Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940), but leave it to Hawks to see World War II (and Ernest Hemingway's "grace under pressure" fiction) through the lens of screwball comedy. And to do it with the movies' most famous tough guy, Humphrey Bogart, and an unknown 19-year-old actress who had her name changed from Betty Perske to Lauren Bacall. And to treat it all as a semi-musical, with Hoagy Carmichael at the piano. Blood is shed and causes are espoused, but nobody takes it terribly seriously. Instead, Bogart and Bacall surf through the film on some of the best dialogue ever written, working out their fine romance as deftly as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ever did on the dance floor. Walter Brennan adds another memorable figure to his impressive gallery of old coots, and Marcel Dalio brings the kind of charm that might threaten to upstage lesser performers than these stars. It's certainly not a perfect film: Dolores Moran (clambering from shore to ship in heels) and Walter Szurovy are rather tediously noble as the de Bursacs. (Watch the bit when Mme. de Bursac faints and spills the chloroform and Bacall's Slim, sensing a rival for her Steve's affections, casts a stinkeye on the fallen form and intentionally fans some of the fumes in her direction.) As the Vichy police captain, Dan Seymour seems to be trying to do a Sydney Greenstreet impersonation with the worst of all French accents. And does anybody really believe that the odd company that sails off at the end to rescue a Resistance fighter from Devil's Island is going to succeed? But no matter. It's all the stuff of which legends are made.

[one-album-wonders]

UK Rock Superstars Tournament Participants!!!!

We have a remarkable 244 entries into the UK Rock Superstars Tournament. They will be sorted into 61 groups of 4 for the tournament to begin on Monday, May 22nd. Based on the number of nominations and other popularity factors I've sorted the entries into four pots. I will create the groups by randomly selecting one rock act from each pot for each group.

The names of all the participants are below the cut. If you find that there's a GRIEVOUS omission of a great UK rock band or solo artist, please notify me by the end of the day Friday. After that, the participants list will be final.

POT 1

Arctic Monkeys Bauhaus Black Sabbath Blur Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) David Bowie Def Leppard Depeche Mode Donovan Duran Duran Dusty Springfield Electric Light Orchestra Elton John Elvis Costello & The Attractions Eurythmics Fleetwood Mac Franz Ferdinand Genesis George Harrison George Michael Gorillaz Jeff Beck John Lennon Joy Division Judas Priest Kate Bush King Crimson Led Zeppelin Motörhead Muse New Order Oasis Paul McCartney Peter Gabriel Pink Floyd Placebo Pulp Queen Radiohead Rolling Stones Roxy Music Sex Pistols T. Rex Tears for Fears The Animals The Beatles The Bee Gees The Clash The Cure The Dave Clark Five The Hollies The Kinks The Moody Blues The Police The Pretenders The Small Faces / Faces The Smiths The Who The Yardbirds The Zombies Yes

POT 2

Amy Winehouse Bananarama Billy Bragg Billy Idol Black Midi Buzzcocks CHVRCHES Coldplay Cradle of Filth Cream Culture Club Dire Straits Echo & the Bunnymen Elvis Costello Emerson, Lake, & Palmer Erasure Gary Numan Graham Parker Herman's Hermits Iron Maiden Joe Cocker Joe Jackson Madness Manfred Mann Manic Street Preachers Marc Bolan Mott the Hoople Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark Ozzy Osbourne Pet Shop Boys Peter Frampton Phil Collins Primal Scream Ringo Starr Robert Plant Rod Stewart Siouxsie and the Banshees Sisters Of Mercy Slade Squeeze Supergrass The Beat The Damned The Human League The Jam The Jesus and Mary Chain The Pogues The Psychedelic Furs The Specials The Stone Roses The Stranglers The Sweet The Tornados Traffic Ultravox Van Morrison Wham! Wings X-Ray Spex XTC Yazoo

POT 3

ABC Adam and the Ants Alestorm Alt-J Annie Lennox Art of Noise Autechre Belle and Sebastian Big Audio Dynamite Big Country Black Country, New Road Blood Red Shoes Bullet for My Valentine Camera Obscura Carcass Cardiacs Cliff Richard Cornershop Davy Jones Deep Purple Elastica Fairport Convention Fine Young Cannibals Florence + The Machine Gang of Four Gerry & The Pacemakers Gerry Rafferty Happy Mondays Howard Jones Inspiral Carpets Jade Bird John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers Kevin Ayers Little Simz Los Campesinos! Mojave 3 My Bloody Valentine Napalm Death Nothing But Thieves Petula Clark Royal Blood Self Esteem Sleep Token Snow Patrol Soft Machine Steeleye Span Suede The Fall The Holloways The Kooks The Pigeon Detectives The Ting Tings The Undertones The Wombats The xx This Heat Throbbing Gristle Tom Jones Two Door Cinema Club Wet Leg Whitesnake

POT 4

10 cc Alison Moyet Bloc Party Cabaret Voltaire Crawlers Creeper Dexys Midnight Runners Eddy Grant Fad Gadget Fontaines D.C. Free Glass Animals Jarvis Cocker Jessie Ware Jethro Tull Kaiser Chiefs Killing Joke Laura Marling Lonnie Donegan Manfred Mann's Earth Band Modern English Mogwai Mungo Jerry Nazareth Nick Lowe Paul Young Peter & Gordon Procul Harum Public Image Ltd Rainbow Richard Thompson Roger Waters Sham 69 Simple Minds Soft Cell Spandau Ballet Spiritualized Status Quo Stereolab Steve Winwood Stiff Little Fingers Super Furry Animals Syd Barrett Talk Talk The Boo Radleys The Chameleons The Cocteau Twins The Cult The KLF The Mission The Searchers The Selecter The Slits The Verve Thomas Dolby UB40 Underworld Uriah Heep Van der Graaf Generator Yard Act Young Fathers

[sourkitsch]

I have been seeing lots of art this weekend + I’m also going to see a traveling show I’m in today so I am filtering all my thoughts here. I’ll try to provide context. This is long.

So in order to deal with all my issues I have a very odd way of dealing with my self esteem. I do this thing where I find myself and my life disgusting and I love myself despite it. I don’t expect anything from other people, I am so internally confident in myself that other people’s lack of care/negative emotions are functionally irrelevant to me. It’s always a nice surprise when people do like me despite everything! Obviously this applies to my art, as my art is an extension of myself. My art is equally as disgusting as I am, and my current work literally is, as I’ve decided fuck it I’m going to be as true to myself and my interests as humanly possible. I like my art, and I am confident enough in my technical skills, so if I paint upsetting little girls 24/7 it’s not my problem if others can’t stand the content. They’re well constructed paintings.

So. A show I was in with some friends at school traveled to this mansion where rich people hold benefit events and we were allowed to sell our works with an extremely small commission to the venue. Like 15% which is unheard of even nonprofit galleries take 30-40%. I did not put my pieces up for sale. Why bother, when I don’t think others would even be interested? When I said this to my friend after the show had already gone up, his eyes bugged out of his head. He hadn’t priced anything less than $1000.

I’d previously spoken to a professor about selling clamgina, which I’d never wanted to sell, or even thought would sell because it’s my vagina with snails eating it alive, but I want to submit it to a show I was invited to in NY and work being for sale is part of the requirement. I had said something like “yeah I’ll just price it high and hope no one buys it” She laughed and was like “of course someone will buy it!” And I was kind of confused. Also, pricing it high was like. $800 in my mind.

There was another time too, where I was talking to the senior who has gallery rep at my school and he was looking at a current piece and asking me questions and we got on the topic of galleries. And I literally said to him. Yeah I don’t think my work is commercially viable. I don’t think it’s gonna sell. He looked at me like I had 5 heads and I was like. Hm well maybe I’m wrong I’m sure there’s a niche audience. I went to his show on Friday and he had a painting up that was going for $6000.

All of this to say I think that filtering my work through my weird self esteem coping mechanism is like shooting myself in the foot repeatedly until there’s literally nothing left it’s just a stump and I’m bleeding out. What am I doing to myself. My peers who I’m (roughly) on the same level as clearly see some kind of value in my work that is equal to their own, even if the art I make is not to their personal taste. I could literally start building my post grad life right now with that kind of money. Oh my god. I think I’ve internalized the Franz Kafka but a girl who paints thing a little too hard.

[kingmystrie]

Stories to Read Other Than Stuff Harper Collins Publishes

Literature club requirements (all of these contain triggering topics but if you haven't read ANY of these i will find you):

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Mrs.Dalloway from Virginia Woolf

Friday Black from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Things Fall Apart from Chinua Achebe (when I read this in lit class I also read Heart of Darkness but I hated heart of darkness)

Into The Wild from Jon Krakauer

Metamorphosis from Franz Kafka

To Kill a Mockingbird from Harper Lee

Maus from Art Spiegelman

The Diary of Anne Frank

Webtoon recommendations for fun:

I Hope So from Detective Calico

Melvina's Therapy from A.Rasen (Complete, contains heavily triggering topics)

Daybreak from Moosoop

Red Dart from Punko (Complete, also contains heavily triggering topics)

Magic Soda Pop from Raul Trevino (Complete)

Muted from Miranda Mundt (Complete)

[madeline-kahn]

2022 in gifsets

I did a tag game a couple days ago that was to post your most popular and favorite set of each month but I also like to do a full list of at least some of my more major series of edits

PSCentral Event Creations:

December: dancing in 2022 film

November: Meg Ryan/Nora Ephron movies

October: girl group trios

September: Star Wars references to Beastie Boys

August: Bronco tour setlist

July: Best original score winners of the 1990s

June: Set it Up

May: Cillian Murphy in Free Fire

April: Noises Off...

March: Women and non-binary actors in Shakespeare

February: Jessie Buckley in The Lost Daughter

Dancing in Film:

Best of 2001: Moulin Rouge!

Best of 2002: Chicago

Best of 2021: Encanto

2022 movies (also a PSCentral event post)

Dancing in Oscar nominated movies

Bring it On: All or Nothing

Ron Mael in The Sparks Brothers

Bridgerton

Music in Film: 

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (score)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (soundtrack)

Noises Off...

The French Dispatch (score)

The French Dispatch (soundtrack)

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Eternals (soundtrack)

Eternals (score)

Belfast

C’mon C’mon

Lemonade Mouth

This is Spinal Tap

Luca (soundtrack)

Vivaldi’s Summer in ice skating

Best Original Song nominees 2022

Best Original score nominees 2022

Shang-Chi (soundtrack)

Shang-Chi (score)

Karaoke Duets

Valentine’s Day

West Side Story 2022

O Brother Where Art Thou

Life of Pi

Song of the Sea

Cyrano

The Batman (soundtrack)

The Batman (score)

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Stick It

Robin Hood

Summer of Soul

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The Princess Diaries

Best original score winners of the 1990s

Brother Bear

Risky Business

A Cinderella Story

The Breakfast Club

Honor Society

Reservoir Dogs

Prey

Xanadu

Romeo & Juliet

Hackers

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Mamma Mia/Mamma Mia Here We Go Again songs

Top Gun: Maverick score

Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack

Nope

Sleepless in Seattle

Night at the Museum

Freaky Friday

The Big Chill

Thor: Love and Thunder

Do Revenge

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Turning Red

Night at the Museum 2

Howl’s Moving Castle

Hocus Pocus 2

The Final Girls

Scream 2

Grim grinning ghosts music in movies

The Princess Diaries 2

Scream 3

Megamind

1989 World Tour

Twilight: Breaking Dawn part 1

Scooby Doo

Scream 4

Werewolf by Night

Rosaline

X 2022

Scooby Doo 2

Night at the Museum 3

Girl group trios (also a PSCentral event post)

Scream 2022

Monster High The Movie

#666 Devil Songs

The Electric Horseman

Enola Holmes 2

Wendell & Wild

Zoolander

A Christmas Carol musical adaptations

Music in TV:

Ted Lasso (Rainbow)

Bridgerton

Heartstopper (p1)

Heartstopper (p2)

Heartstopper (p3)

Heartstopper (p4)

Stranger Things (p1)

Stranger Things (p2)

Stranger Things (p3)

Stranger Things (p4)

Stranger Things (p5)

Favorite 2022 releases:

Bronco (Orville Peck)

The Loneliest Time (Carly Rae Jepsen)

Being Funny in a Foreign Language (The 1975)

Hits to the Head (Franz Ferdinand)

Heartstopper

Cyrano

Quote edits:

Downton Abbey + Daytona Sand

Dead Poets Society + Bigger Than the Whole Sky

Downton Abbey + Michael

House MD + Midnight Rain

Shadow and Bone + Persuasion

Amadeus + jealousy jealousy

Taylor Swift + you all over me

Downton Abbey + my baby’s taking me home

Taylor Swift + legacy

Ted Lasso + I Know it’s Over

Taylor Swift + Daylight

Downton Abbey + falling in love

Taylor Swift + Invisible String

Misc film:

Ariana Debose awards

Love Actually

Wednesday (Makeup looks)

Do Revenge (Beastie Boys shirt)

Do Revenge (Godard reference)

Werewolf by Night

The Princess Bride

Nope (Jupe’s suit)

Clue (Jane Wiedlin)

Dunkirk

The French Dispatch

Beauty and the Beast (I want a rose)

Free Fire

Olivia Rodrigo driving home 2 u

Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Power of the Dog

Ben Whishaw in Julius Caesar

Taylor Swift in Valentine’s Day

Noises Off...

Crush (teen movie references)

Crush (director names)

Encanto top shots

Fruitblr: Arsenic and Old Lace

Fruitblr: Monty Python

Fruitblr: Luca (coffee)

Fruitblr: Groundhog Day

Misc TV:

Bridgerton (Edwina)

Bridgerton (Violet and Lady Danbury)

Bridgerton (dog)

Bridgerton (bees)

Downton Abbey

The Durrells in Corfu

Peaky Blinders (Anya)

Sparks on Gilmore Girls

Stranger Things (audio descriptions)

Stranger Things (Lumax at the movies)

TV Week: The Durrells in Corfu

TV Week: Shadow and Bone

TV Week: BBC Ghosts

TV Week: Ted Lasso

TV Week: Downton Abbey

TV Week: Heartstopper

Julie and the Phantoms

Unfinished business

Types of mutuals

Friends react (Rush shirt)

Friends react (dilfs)

Friends react (Wake Up)

Friends react (Bright)

Friends react (Caleb)

Juke + let me dance for you

Julie + Wonder Girl

Luke + Edith Piaf said it better

All That

Wordle

Valentines

Luke

Misc music:

Where Have all the Cowboys Gone?

Billy Goodbye

All My Exes Live in Texas

Outta Time

The Curse of the Blackened Eye

Fruits of My Labour

Bria

Fruit mentions in Three MC’s and One DJ

Fruit mentions in No Sleep Til Brooklyn

Her music video choreography

Stand on the Horizon

Drive Me Crazy

Green Green Rocky Road

Legends Never Die

Bronco tour Seattle

More Bronco tour Seattle

Bronco tour wardrobe

Taylor Swift barefoot in music videos

I Bet You Think About Me

Lover (music video)

Lover album

Paper Rings film concept

Taylor Swift + pink

Taylor Swift + 2021 seasons

Parallels:

Disenchanted/Beauty and the Beast

Wednesday/Sweet Charity

Downton Abbey pilot/New Era film

Harriet Walter Emmy nominations

C’mon Baby Cry/Fosse

First Kill/The Neon Demon

All Too Well/Dazed and Confused

Downton Abbey movies + Molesely

Billy Elliot/CODA

Multi film concepts:

Morissey impressions

Magicians

Israel Hands in TV and movies

Jessie Plemons BP nominees

Movie themed Wordle

Black and white movies in 2021

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Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas Volume III : Line Up Reveal

Wales Arts Review is delighted to reveal the line-up for Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas Volume III, as the ultimate alternative Christmas album returns for a final installment, with an introduction by the album’s creator, Kevin McGrath.

I spent 2022 curating Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas Volumes I & II, a collection of 108 original Christmas songs, including contributions from Dodgy, Girl Ray, The Lilac Time, Pete Astor, Helen Love, White Town, bis and Suzzy Roche, in order to raise money for the homeless charity Crisis. The albums made a bit of a splash, being played on BBC6 Music, BBC Scotland, BBC Radio Wales (each volume was named an album of the week by Huw Stephens) and on Radio X. Internationally renowned critics John Harris and Pete Paphides endorsed the project, which raised just over £5,800 for Crisis at Christmas.

Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas Vol III, the final album in the series, follows the same eclectic mix as its predecessors: a generous sprinkling of celebrated indie names (this time around it’s The Wedding Present that tops the bill), cult combos from across Europe and America and a selection of underground bands that listeners will be thrilled to hear for the first time. All have one thing in common: they’ve each written a distinctive Christmas earworm that will make your Xmas playlists for years to come!

Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas III is available from Velindre Bandcamp, priced at £5.00. You can pre-order now, but if you can hold on until December 1st, a ‘bandcamp Friday’, the company waives its commission, raising even more money for Crisis. All of the credit for the compilation’s success goes to the contributing artists, a reflection of their creativity and generosity. As always, I don’t receive a penny.

It’s a thrill to exclusively reveal the line-up for Volume III at Wales Arts Review:

Merry Christmas Joey Ramone – El Sancho

El Sancho is a fast, fun DIY punk rock band from Hawaii. “Merry Christmas Joey Ramone”, taken from the combo’s 2022 cassette release Jollier Than Thou, is carried along on a wave of crunching riffs.

Christmas Was Better in the 80s – The Futureheads

The Futureheads, alongside Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party, were part of the “angular movement” of post-punk inspired bands that emerged in the 2000s. This track was originally released in 2010 and there remains a lot to like here, from the song’s affectionate swipe at Xmas nostalgia, to its blockbuster chorus.

Would You – Sunturns

Sunturns are a Norwegian super-group devoted to Xmas, featuring members of Making Marks, Moddi, The Little Hands of Asphalt, Monzano and Einar Stray Orchestra. “Would You” has a cool, distrait vocal that smooths the way to a simply glorious chorus. Taken from their 2nd Xmas album Sunturns II (2015).

Lockdown Holiday – The Brixton Riot

New Jersey’s The Brixton Riot wrote and recorded this especially for Jon Solomon’s 32nd Annual 25-hour Holiday Marathon show on WPRB 103.3 FM. Princeton. A legendary festive broadcast from Princeton University campus.

The Loneliest Time of Year – The Wedding Present

David Gedge has flirted with Xmas songs once or twice before, returning to the subject as part of last year’s 24 Songs album. At the time of release, the singer noted “To be honest, I’ve been one of those ‘bah, humbug’ types ever since I realised that the thing we’re really celebrating on 25th of December is capitalism!”.

It Only Snows at Christmas – Les Bicyclettes de Belsize

Charlie Darling, the one and only member of Les Bicyclettes de Belsize, has a true passion for Xmas songs. This track has a sublime Weather Prophets sheen to it and can be found on the Christmas compilation Dufflecoats and Christmas Cards (2016).

Christmas in the Borough of Our Birth – The Virgin Birds

“Kiss me on the mouth, It’s Christmas Eve”, sings Jon Rooney, helmsman of Seattle’s Virgin of the Birds, in a striking, stream of consciousness lyric that ventures well outside the scope of a traditional seasonal song.

Merry (Christmas) and Me – Toad Venom

Even in the age of social media, there is a dearth of info on Toad Venom. A Swedish band “experimenting in the void between the spaghetti western and psychedelic rock”, this track aims for the stratosphere and damn near gets there. Released in 2021.

C U Christmas Day – Jacklen Ro

The opening lines – ‘I’m on my way to your new apartment/Just down the street from Sunset Boulevard/The neon lights are all shining on me/My mistletoe is always where you are’ – sends a romantic shiver skidding down the spine as LA’s Jackie Giroux & Caelen Perkins trade vocals in heartwarming, heart-on-sleeve fashion.

A Cold Wind – The Ornaments

The ninth intriguing instalment of Christmas music from The Ornaments. Wisconsin’s Mike Behrends and Lance Owens are joined on this twist-in-the-tale seasonal story by Erin Kirby, literally phoning in her part from the airport.

Take it Easy This Christmas – Health and Wellbeing

This beautiful tune is taken from the band’s Christmas Demos EP, released on Xmas Day last year. Despite my best efforts, I haven’t found out too much more about the band, except that there may well be a Welsh connection. A proper Christmas mystery!

Thee Christmas Card Committee – Wake Up And Smell The Sun

Philadelphia’s John Murray, the mainstay of Wake Up And Smell The Sun, has long specialised in Xmas music, so it is a shock to hear from the singer/songwriter that he is renouncing, if that is not too strong a word, the seasonal sub-genre altogether. Enjoy it while it lasts.

The Joy is in the Giving – Lisa Mychols

Lisa Mychols, aka the ‘Queen of power-pop’, founded the cult LA group the Masticators in 1998. More relevant to this project, Lisa worked with Darian Sahanaja & Nick Walusko of the Wondermints (regular backing band for Brian Wilson) on Lost Winter’s Dream (1991), now regarded as a lost Xmas classic. Lisa re-recorded this 2017 track for the album.

Always a Dream – Charlie’s Hand Movements

“Always A Dream” is taken from Lance Keeble and Adam Gardner’s unique compilation album Xmas Singles 2014-18.

Xmas Trip – Run On

New York’s Art-Rock outfit Run On ‘combine a love of pop, rock and the avant-garde’ (Heather Phares). Originally written in 1996, “Xmas Trip” was re-released last year to raise funds for the American Foundation for The Prevention of Suicide.

The Pearlfishers

The Pearlfishers released an Xmas classic (if you like Prefab Sprout and The Beach Boys, that is) in 2004’s A Sunflower at Christmas. The track selected here comes from the expanded edition that the Glaswegian band issued through Germany’s Marina Records five years later.

Can You Hear the Snowfall – The Hannah Barberas

The Hannah Barberas play DIY indie pop loaded with sharp melodies and hooks you could hang your Santa hat on. “Can You Hear the Snowfall?” will be part of a vinyl compilation of B-sides and EP tracks planned for 2024 on the Spinout Nuggets label.

Christmas is Coming (We all Know the Score) – Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard

A rollicking glammed-up track that has a proper pop at the commercialisation of Christmas. Singer Tom Rees declaring this 2020 release a ‘sarcastic song about capitalism’.

The Salvation Army Band Plays – Helen Love

The legendary Helen Love has dabbled with Christmas music on and off, including on their cover of the Ramone’s “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight”). This track, released in 2012, features producer, songwriter and musician Ricardo Autobahn.

Ice and Snow – Red Shoe Diaries

Nottingham’s Red Shoe Diaries has played at Indietracks and Edinburgh Popfest. They previously released music through Fika Recordings, a DIY vinyl and cassette label. This track was released in 2012 and is something of a lost classic.

Fell in Love at Christmas – The Photocopies

Sean Turner, a Londoner based in Michigan, maybe the hardest working person in showbiz. In the last year or so, he has released Pop Trivia a 45-track retrospective and Triple Decker a 39-track follow up on the Subjangle label.

The Sound of Snow – Math and Physics Club

All Music has a nice line on the band, which I can’t top: “Sweet and earnest indie-pop from a group of sweater clad fellows from the Pacific Northwest”. This track can be found on the B-side of “Jimmy Had a Polaroid” and on In This Together: EPs, B-Sides, Rarities and Unreleased Songs 2005-2015.

Christmas Has Come – Man Behind Tree

Berlin’s Hans Forster featured on Volume I in the guise of Hanemoon and he returns here with a track from one of his many other projects, Man Behind Tree. Described by Rolling Stone as purveyors of “sunny Westcoast melancholia”.

Merry, Merry Christmas – El Gato Roboto

Chicago’s El Gato Roboto play a frothy mix of Garage Rock, Power Pop and Space Rock. This track was released back in 2019.

Nadolig, Pwy a Wyr? – Swansea Sound

Swansea Sound kicked off Vol I, so it’s great to have this underground super group (Hue Williams-The Pooh Sticks, Amelia Fletcher-Tallulah Gosh, Rob Pursey-Heavenly & Ian Button-Death in Vegas) back again. The vocal is provided by Catrin Saran James, formally of The Loves.

I Fell in Love on Christmas Day – Caleb Nichols

This ballad is included on It’s Hard to Dance When It’s Cold and There’s no Music: Kill Rock Stars Winter Holiday Album Volume 2 and is also the closing track on Caleb’s 2022 album, Ramon.

Ho Ho It’s Christmas Again – Wicketkeeper

The band makes no secret of how this Xmas ditty came about: “The story is we got asked to demo a tune to pitch for a TV ad. When they didn’t use it (boo, British Telecom), we thought it would be funny to re-record the vocals, add some sleigh bells and plop it down your chimneys”.

Grief of a (Frozen) Sailor – Jetstream Pony

Fronted by Beth Arzy (Trembling Blue Stars and featuring Shaun Charman (The Wedding Present). This track originally appeared as a Snowflake Singles Club (a specialist Dutch Xmas label) selection back in 2020.

All I Got for Christmas Was This Lousy Boy – Bunnygrunt

Missouri’s Bunnygrunt has been around since 1993, although they did take a break between 1998 and 2003. Leading exponents of ‘Cuddlecore’, they were once labelled by All Music as ‘the world’s cutest band’.

I Want New Ramones Songs for Christmas – Vista Blue

Vista Blue is a rock band based in Nashville and rooted in New Orleans. This is one of many festive tunes the band has released and was included in their Keep it all Year EP (2019).

Advent Calendar – Valentina Way

A Charlie Darling composition given an Xmas makeover on the Balham band’s Advent Calendar EP (2022). With five mixes to choose from, I’ve opted for the ‘Candlelight’ version, which should only be played in absolute darkness, save for the lights on your Christmas tree.

Sleep Sound – Bjéar (featuring Ella Ion)

Adelaide’s Bjéar released A Christmas with Friends Vol 1 & Vol II in November last year. A stunning mix of standards and originals, it found favour with the peerless Christmas Underground, who described the mesmerising “Sleep Sound” as a “sonic hug”.

Christmas in Love  –  Euros Childs

Euros Childs, former frontman with the legendary outfit Gorki’s Zygotic Mwnci and current keyboards player with the legendary Teenage Fanclub, released his 20th solo studio album Curries last year. ‘Christmas in Love’ is taken from the album Sweetheart, released in 2015.

Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas is available now via Bandcamp.

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Happy Pride

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Level 1:   🌼 daisy 🌼 membership  

a letter from "Letters of Vincent van Gogh" every single day

art recommendations on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

poetry recommendations on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

access to all the previous posts (Franz Kafka’s “Letters to Milena”, “Letter to his Father”, poetry/art recs)  

Level 2:   🌻sunflower🌻 membership  

a letter from "Letters of Vincent van Gogh" every single day

art recommendations every day of the week

poetry recommendations every day of the week

monthly book recommendations

additional content related to art and literature

access to all the previous posts (Franz Kafka’s “Letters to Milena”, “Letter to his Father”, poetry/art recs)

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2D Summer Semester First Day of Class - 5/8/2023

Students, Welcome to the 2023 Summer Semester for 2D.

An email will be sent on Friday with the class instructions and other information including a link to the course blog and a second email with the invitation to the virtual first day meeting Via TEAMS.

The meet and greet on Monday morning via TEAMS will begin at 8:30 AM . 

Accept the link to the meet  immediately.

Check your mymdc.net email.

On the first day all students who have not done so, will create their own portfolio blog using the Tumblr platform and they will create a twitter  handle to follow additional instructions during the semester.

FIRST DAY INFO and class assignments for today after our meet and greet will be as follows:

THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE THIS MORNING:

1)Create your Twitter handle. 2)Find my twitter handle and follow me on Twitter. (@Prof_AFresquet )

3)Create your own Tumblr handle.

4)Follow class blog ONLY nothing else.

THINGS TO KNOW FOR CLASS:

I will post  assignments to be completed  weekly, you will check the information that I post here in the class blog.

You will follow instructions for weekly assignments here.

On the day new assignments are added, I usually open the class on Twitter with a welcome daily tweet.

This happens before our Virtual meet and inperson.

I like to give tips and ideas for doing class assignments during these days.

Additionaly , I am available for questions from  8:30 - 10:30 am on M/W via the twitter feed.

Anytime you need help, use the DM to communicate with me back and forth.

I am available via Twitter at @Prof_AFresquet .

I note those in attendance by the work completed each day and the interaction via twitter.

Pay attention as I post suggestions and information there.

You can ask me question on Twitter and I will respond quickly during class time. For general questions use the open feed. For private information use the DM.

I will also show photos with examples and or additional instructions there.

All work to be done in class will be done on the Bristol pad except when otherwise noted (Homework assignments are done on the sketchbook).  

All work needs to be framed within the picture plane as stated during class meets.

Work completed during class will be posted on your Tumblr (portfolio page) by end of class t ime.

Work that was not completed during class , needs to be completed during lab hours (Thursdays is your make up day).

A) FIRST DAY CLASS ASSIGNMENT

1) Today you will watch three short videos.

You will be  looking at the work of two artist,

Franz Kline

Agnes Martin.

Throughout the semester we are going to be looking at work from different artists who work in the following genre:

Non Objective , Abstract , Modern Art.

2) As you watch the videos posted below, take notes  regarding the three videos (two about Franz Kline and One from Agnes Martin).

See if you can answer the questions below:

a) Pay attention to how they create art and why if that is so stated. b) What inspires them?

NEXT

B) WRITE THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR TUMBLR PAGE ,

THIS WILL BE YOUR FIRST TUMBLR POST:

Brief statement of what you understand about how FRANZ KLINE creates art.

How does he divide the page ?

How is line changing from one stroke to the next?

Is it the same kind of line, thick , bold or thin and light?

Is space painted first (white), before line (black) or the reverse?

One you have finished the videos and written your statement, proceed to your sketchbook to sketch some ideas of your own version of a

C) Franz Kline inspired work.

Start out by playing with line as it divides the composition.

These are preliminary ideas known as sketches

How would  you do it?

D) Next, using  three pages in your sketchbook create THREE Franz Kline inspired compositions.

You will be using black and white paint.

E) Post VIDEO work with notes on Monday by 5pm. (This is your first tumblr blog )

F ) Sketches and final product to your class blog by tomorrow at 5 pm

LASTLY, USE THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS TO BUY CLASS MATERIALS. ALL MATERIALS CAN BE PURCHASED AT BLICKS, MICHAELS, AND OTHER ART SUPPLY STORES NEAR YOU. 

DO NOT ORDER ANYTHING ONLINE AS WE DO NOT HAVE TIME THIS SEMESTER FOR ITEMS TO ARRIVE. ALL MATERIALS NEED TO BE ON HAND ON THE SECOND  DAY OF CLASS

SEE THE LIST ADDED BELOW:

For the first few weeks , the materials listed below are essential to complete class assignments.

CLASS MATERIALS:

BRISTOL PAD 100lbs. ( 9x 12  )

Sketchbook bound 8 x 11 or bigger

Black ink or Black acrylic paint (mars black)

White paint Acrylic Titanium White

Beginners acrylic paint set assortment of brushes

Painters tape (blue tape from Home Depot or Lowes)

Black assortment of sharpies different sizes (thick, thin etc )

RULER Scissors Glue sticks

WE WILL HAVE THE FIRST CLASS LECTURE ON TUESDAY MAY 9TH AT 9:30  AM. 

We will begin class by learning vocabulary related to art. I will show a PowerPoint with the information below.

Elements and Principles of Art.

THERE WILL BE A CLASS MEET via TEAMS on TUES. 5/8 at 9:30 AM  TO DISCUSS THE CLASS ASSIGNMENTS FOR THIS WEEK.

MATERIALS:

BRISTOL PAD 100 LBS (9 X 12 )

starter set acrylics ( CAN BE GOLDEN , WINSOR NEWTON BRANDS  6 or 8 colors )

Variety of brush set or something similar - different sizes

Higgins black ink

small tube of Mars ink

small tube of Titanium white

Bound Sketchbook  

Note: Students who have taken drawing classes with me have most of these items. 

Additional Materials list will be  discussed on the first day of class.

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To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944). Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Walter Szurovy, Marcel Dalio, Walter Sande, Dan Seymour, Aldo Nadi. Screenplay: Jules Furthman, William Faulkner, based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. Cinematography: Sidney Hickox. Art direction: Charles Novi. Film editing: Christian Nyby. Music: Franz Waxman. 

Beatrice and Benedick. Rosalind and Orlando. Viola and Orsino. "Slim" and "Steve"? Does this most enjoyable of movies really have  a lot in common with Shakespearean romance? If so, it's all Howard Hawks's doing, with a little bit of help from screenwriters Jules Furthman and William Faulkner. Hawks had done this sort of romance before, in his comic masterpieces Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940), but leave it to him to see World War II (and Ernest Hemingway's "grace under pressure" fiction) through the lens of screwball comedy. And to do it with the movies' most famous tough guy, Humphrey Bogart, and an unknown 19-year-old actress who had her name changed from Betty Perske to Lauren Bacall. And to treat it all as a semi-musical, with Hoagy Carmichael at the piano. Blood is shed and causes are espoused, but nobody takes it terribly seriously. Instead, Bogart and Bacall surf through the film on some of the best dialogue ever written, working out their fine romance as deftly as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ever did on the dance floor. Walter Brennan adds another memorable figure to his impressive gallery of old coots, and Marcel Dalio brings the kind of charm that might threaten to upstage lesser performers than these stars. It's certainly not a perfect film: Dolores Moran (clambering from shore to ship in heels) and Walter Szurovy are rather tediously noble as the de Bursacs. (Watch the bit when Mme. de Bursac faints and spills the chloroform and Bacall's Slim, sensing a rival for her Steve's affections, casts a stinkeye on the fallen form and intentionally fans some of the fumes in her direction.) As the Vichy police captain, Dan Seymour seems to be trying to do a Sydney Greenstreet impersonation with the worst of all French accents. And does anybody really believe that the odd company that sails off at the end to rescue a Resistance fighter from Devil's Island is going to succeed? But no matter. It's all the stuff of which legends are made.

gifs from boydswan

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Fine art Friday

The Morning Greeting, Franz Schmid-Breitenbach (Crocker Art Museum) I already feel like it’s been far too long since I wandered through an art museum; my most recent visit was to the de Young in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park last August. This morning I’ve been looking back at some images from both this outing and from my trip to the Crocker Museum in downtown Sacramento back in September 2019.…