#i saw a quote about david bowie

[pretensesoup]

Queer Books 2024

I've been meaning to write more book reviews this Pride, because they were pretty popular last year, and I like writing them. But I've been tired. Busy with the new novel (last year, I'd just released one, so I had more time; this year I am trying to get one out the door to my editor). Busy sleeping and having feelings about stuff. Anyway, let's correct that.

Space Opera is a book that a friend of mine saw someone reading in a doctor's waiting room and mentioned on our group chat. I then requested the audiobook based on the title and tagline alone (the tagline is, "In space everyone can hear you sing"). Aaaaaand I was not disappointed. The lovechild of David Bowie and Douglas Adams, it was incredibly amusing and glittery, and at times kind of poignant as well. The variety of aliens was amazing. And it turned out to be really queer, too.

Like...what do you do when the main character defines himself as "gender splat"? Or one of the characters is a kind of hollow blue space flamingo that happens to be one of three genders of her species, and another character is a time-traveling red panda? At one point, someone has sex with a sentient beam of hypermasculine moonlight. If you always wished for a universe that feels huge, beautiful, and totally ungovernable, this is it.

After I finished the audiobook, I checked out the hard copy for my husband, who loved it so much he would read passages aloud to me. Then he ordered a copy for our household. I feel like that is the most ringing endorsement I can muster.

Key quote:

“The only wall we could ever build against What’s Going On was the glitter and the shine and the synth and the knowing grin that never stops knowing. The show. Because the opposite of fascism isn’t anarchy, it’s theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.”

Anyway, 10/10 for style. I do heartily recommend the audiobook, just because the narrator does so many different voices, and it's very fun.

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday to the bubbly bonnie Ashley Jensen born in Annan on August 11th 1969.

Raised single handedly by her mother Margaret, Ashley knew from an early age she wanted to be an actress. She grew up glued to British sitcoms, especially Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em with Michael Crawford as Frank Spencer. And after her mum saved up for her to attend the National Youth Theatre in London, the 16-year-old returned home determined to pursue a career on the stage.

Ashley went on to study drama at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh before fulfilling her dream by landing roles treading the boards in London. From theatre she moved into TV, ealy roles included wee parts in City Lights and Rab C Nesbit , and a 1991 film called Tickets for the Zoo, which was set in my hometown Edinburgh, she the started racking up credits in popular dramas such as The Bill, Casualty, Clocking Off and EastEnders. Other Scottsih roles were in Taggart and Rebus.

It was her part as Ricky Gervais’ hapless sidekick in the popular Extras that was to be Ashley’s breakthrough role, though. As well as making her a household name in Britain it also gave her the opportunity to appear alongside Hollywood heavyweights such as Kate Winslet, Samuel L Jackson and Orlando Bloom, all of whom made guest appearances. The part also brought official recognition when she was named both best actress and best newcomer at the 2005 British Comedy awards - accolades which she celebrated in typical low-key fashion with a cod sandwich from a roadside chip van.

Ashley saw fame in the US follow playing the straight-talking Christina in the sitcom Ugly Betty, leading her to relocate to LA and renting a house in the Hollywood Hills. While the role was originally meant to be American, the casting agents fell in love with her Scottish accent and it stayed.

Ashley may be a star in the US now but her feet are firmly on the ground I found this quote from her “Even now I think I might never work again. I’m still a bit like that. I probably always will be, “This from one of her best friends who has a chippy in Annan speaks volumes "She has her head screwed on and won’t be changed by the star treatment.” Recalling a visit to her LA home soon after Ashley relocated, he says: “We were holding hands and jumping up and down. She was shouting, 'Can you believe it? What am I doing here?’.” Ashley’s acting career has seen in her in many shows, my faves include, Catastrophe with fellow Scot Mark Bonnar, Trust Me, with Jodie Whittaker, which was set in Edinburgh, and again with Ricky Gervais in Afterlife, as well as the comedy drama Agatha Raisin, where she plays the title role, a cotswolds-based PR guru turned amateur sleuth.

Tragedy struck for Ashley in 2017 when she discovered her husband, Terence Beesley body at the wheel of his car in the garage at their Somerset home. The couple, who met in 1999 while they were both involved in a London theatre production of King Lear, were married for ten years. A verdict of suicide was later ruled on at the coroners court.

As well as her work as an actress Ashley has narrated a couple of shows recently, Inside The Balmoral: Scotland's Finest Hotel, about the hotel that takes pride of place at number I Princes Street and The Airport: Back in the Skies about London Heathrow.

Ashley took over in the lesd role in Shetland, I think she did well, filling the huge boots of Dougie Hensall was a big ask, two seasons are planned the first coming soon. I like the lass and read in an interview she said that her greatest achievement was; 'That my son is kind and loves David Bowie.'

[secondblooms]

He was called "filthy" because his skin was dark, unintelligible because he could barely speak English. When he arrived in this country, he was placed in a special class for immigrants. But, a few of his teachers saw something in the way he expressed himself, through his drawings, through his view of the world. He would soon master his new language.

His mother had made a difficult decision to take him, his two younger sisters and a half-brother to America, seeking a better life for their family. They settled in Boston's South End, at the time the second-largest Syrian-Lebanese-American community. The family would struggle and the young boy would lose one sister and his half-brother to tuberculosis. His mother would die of cancer.

He would write, “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

He was born in poverty on January 6, 1883 in what is now modern day Lebanon.

He believed in love, he believed in peace, and he believed in understanding.

His name was Kahlil Gibran, and he is primarily known for his book, "The Prophet." The book, published in 1923, would sell tens of millions of copies, making him the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Laozi.

Published in 108 languages around the world, passages from "The Prophet" are quoted at weddings, in political speeches and at funerals, inspiring influential figures such as John F. Kennedy, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and David Bowie.

He was very outspoken, attacking hypocrisy and corruption. His books were burned in Beirut, and in America, he would receive death threats.

Gibran was the only member of his family to pursue scholastic education. His sisters were not allowed to enter school, primarily because of Middle Eastern traditions as well as financial difficulties. Gibran, however, was inspired by the strength of the women in his family, especially his mother. After one sister, his mother, and his half-brother died, his other sister, Mariana would support Gibran and herself by working at a dressmaker's shop.

Of his mother, he would write:

"The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word 'Mother,' and the most beautiful call is the call of 'My mother.' It is a word full of hope and love, a sweet and kind word coming from the depths of the heart. The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness."

Gibran would later champion the cause of women’s emancipation and education.

He believed that “Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.”

In a poem to new immigrants, he would write, "I believe you can say to the founders of this great nation. 'Here I am. A youth. A young tree. Whose roots were plucked from the hills of Lebanon. Yet I am deeply rooted here. And I would be fruitful.'"

He would write in "The Prophet":

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”

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● THE PROPHET ●

Do not live half a life

and do not die a half death

If you choose silence, then be silent

When you speak, do so until you are finished

If you accept, then express it bluntly

Do not mask it

If you refuse then be clear about it

for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance

Do not accept half a solution

Do not believe half truths

Do not dream half a dream

Do not fantasize about half hopes

Half the way will get you no where

You are a whole that exists to live a life

not half a life. ~Khalil Gibran

(Book: The Prophet https://amzn.to/3SnIaZd )

[perelka-l]

The other thing I was curious about is music. Do you have any specific songs you associate with the dlc characters? Like for me, it's a bit embarrassing but I think of Drayton's pov to Kieran while I'm listening to Stay Gold by Utada Hikaru, and Within You by David Bowie.

I can see we have a bit of a different music taste, anon ;w;)a I couldn't work on playlists due to no access to my library so I have very little songs atm ;__;

As for Drayton:

Stromae - Ta fête - I honestly don't know what song could fit him better. Like, first thing that came to my mind when I got to know him

米youngティー - 息をしない屋根の下で - It's more about the vibes tbh..

IAMX - Kiss and Swallow - :)

Malajube - Dragon de Glace - Opelucid kind of song (and all issues and traumas hehe... "In your eyes dark with fear I saw my crimson blood make dance in the rain" type of hehe)

Kieran:

Missing Persons - Mental Hopscotch (Kevin Haskins Remix) - With a subtlety of a sledgehammer but I love this song's gothic and erratic vibes which match Kieran well here

P-MODEL - Black in White - I quoted that song under one of art I did with him and Drayton hehe

The Neighbourhood - Blue - Just Kieran in Teal lol

MIKA - Relax, Take It Easy - :D

IAMX - You Can Be Happy - And here we go between Teal and Indigo

Radiohead - Nude (Holy Fuck Remix) - Here it's more about the vibes, the song itself matches Kieran well but this remix kind of matches Kieran better than the original ;w;)a

As for both:

Róże Europy - Krew Marylin Monroe - "Kiss me, kiss me, make my teeth go insane, I want your blood, not even Christ has blood like this" among other lines.

Sneaker Pimps - Black Sheep - just in general

Malajube - Casablanca - i ain't gonna paste the entirety of lyrics here but. Fits them so well in all areas.

Goldfrapp - Ocean (feat. Dave Gahan) - okay it's a banger song in general and I wanted to match it to something for YEARS and I decided it fits here so.

Radiohead - The Amazing Sounds of Orgy - do I even have to explain

Johnny Hollow - The Body Lies - Alright this one is mostly because of one particular fanfic series and I was like ALRIGHT LESSGOO. Who ordered dubcon~?

I can't wait to regain access to my PC and work more on playlists jdsfhjsdfh

[mickgaydolenz]

@tantamount-treason tagged me to list my top 10 favourite movies (thank you so much dude fr 💖🥹!!)

so i’m going to go a bit crazy here and get into why i like these 10 movies as much as i do because today i am feeling extra passionate about movies. so buckle up bby because i’m about to get hella long winded ✌️😔 (p.s these are in no particular order except for the first two which are forever and always my all time favourite movies💖)

1. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - i could literally go on for YEARS as to why this is both the BEST and the most UNDERRATED WWII movie of all time (no literally i could i made a whole slideshow presentation and write up to convince my irl friends of this very thing) but i’ll keep it short and simple here. why i think this movie is so spectacular is because it purposefully undermines the glorification of war and violence while simultaneously retaining a very human narrative. Nagisa Oshima, as a japanese director, does a particularly phenomenal job of critiquing japanese societal views on the war, which at the time (the 80’s) were still largely sanitized or skewed to view japan’s participation as a relatively harmless one, by simultaneously highlighting the hypocrisy and humanity of japanese soldiers through their engagement with british POWs.

2. Labyrinth - the movie that got me into David Bowie 💖😔. the nostalgia i have for this film is off the charts and i love it with my whole heart. my twin and i watched this movie so many times we wore out the vhs. i can quote this movie in my fucking sleep 😴. it has such a feel good vibe to it, and i have a particular fondness for classic puppetry (a dying art form in my humble opinion) and practical effects which i think are major highlights of this movie!! just overall a great time

3. Death by Hanging - another film from Nagisa Oshima that i adore. i’ve only seen it once, but it captivated me right away. it’s a film that, on the surface, deals with a group of people that have to decide what to do after a man sentenced to death survives his execution. beyond that it’s a fantastic critique of the japanese death penalty, police corruption, and japanese prejudice towards korean people.

4. Mishima a Life in Four Chapters/Patriotism - so i’m cheating because these are two separate films, but they both deal with Yukio Mishima (an author i am unhealthily fascinated by). the first film (Mishima a Life in Four Chapters) is a really interesting blend of fact and fiction as it details the events leading up to Mishima’s suicide with intersecting snippets from his various books to better contextualize the viewers understanding of Mishima as a person and his ideologies. the second film (Patriotism) is a short film adapted, directed, and starring Mishima himself based off a short story he wrote. it is a super interesting example of everything Mishima wanted to embody as a person, and ironically serves as a near blueprint for how he’d later kill himself.

5. The Game - this is one of those movies where i don’t even really know why i like it as much as a do, but there is something about it that just does it for me. it’s an interesting psychological thriller about a man who starts participating in this game that quickly gets out of hand. it’s mind bendy and the first time i saw the ending i spent a good five minutes afterwards just going 🤯

6. Perfect Blue - the most perfect psychological thriller ever made hands down. i love this movie SO MUCH!!!! a fantastic peak into the super sketchy, super skeevy world of japanese idols and all the exploitative, disgusting hoops they were expected (and still are expected in some cases) to jump through in order to further their careers beyond the idol realm.

7. The Spirit of the Beehive - actually just rewatched this today, but a super atmospheric movie with beautiful visuals. it’s a spanish film set in the 1940’s about two young sisters that are greatly impacted after watching frankenstein for the first time. this film deals a lot with death and how children come to internalize the conflicting concept of mortality. (it also deals with the franco rule/regime in spain but i am woefully uneducated in that area and am unsure exactly to what extent that is present in the film)

8. Head (1968) - duh.

9. Kiki’s Delivery Service/The Cat Returns - two of my other childhood staples! both of these ghibli movies were big comfort movies for me, and i still enjoy watching them if i just want to have some nice cozy viewings :)

10. Interview With the Vampire - trash. i know. and yet this movie is one of my best friends <3. in general i just love the little bitch ass that is lestat de lioncourt and his sad little drowned rat lover louis de pointe du lac 😔🙏. oh. and antonio banderas as armand is simultaneously the funniest and BEST casting choice anyone has ever made. (also this is probably the only movie i’ve seen where tom cruise actually does a decent job acting).

wow sorry that went on forever. anyways i tag @reignoerme @tomvorikandharry @repurposedmeatlocker @vintagecocacolainthesun @birdie-hop @kuryakincore @distortedfractals @rollingthunderevue and @kvetchs (as always no pressure and feel free to ignore if you do not want to do this 💖✌️😔) i also tag anyone who wants to do this fr!!!

[late-to-the-fandom]

23, 32, 40

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what's around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

During the day, my writing is done on an iPad or on my phone in one of a hundred places around my house. It's done while sitting in the too-small chair at the little wooden table in the playroom while my son makes me pretend coffee. It's done at the real dining table at real tea-time with my daughter while we sip from that day's specially chosen mismatched cups, her working on her own story (it's called "The Kingdom of Terrible Animals") and me on mine. It's done in the rainbow tent I set up outside to rest in while they play what can really only be described as "Jackass Junior" in my half-acre yard. It's done on the couch while they watch Star Wars which both children (6 and 1) are inexplicably into even though I could not tell you where that comes from because I've never watched even the original three. It's done in the kitchen, tapping a few words here and there between my awful attempts at cooking, and it's done in the laundry room, pausing between folding to add or edit another line, and, yes, it's done in the bathroom with the fan on where I linger longer than necessary to get a few private minutes to myself to read the words I manage to write out loud.

At night, though, when everyone's asleep, writing is done where it should be: in the library. This, our first ever house, has a sort of nebulous open living space upstairs which I immediately knew would be the library I always wanted. I painted it a muted shade of green Behr paints named "Arsenic" (which I'm sure is fine) to match the green bookcase shaped like a tree which houses the children's picture books, and on the two larger walls I installed three rows of light grey floating shelves (which I spent 12 days sawing into just the right size). They are stuffed with books. Horror, sex, and non-fiction textbooks on the highest shelves, the chapter books of my childhood on the lowest, and on the in-between shelves the classics I inherited from two sets of grandparents and which have that lovely, crumbly spine that I won't pretend isn't an excellent aesthetic. In the middle of the room are a pair of brown leather chairs with ottomans that I bought like new at a yard sale and are inexplicably the most comfortable pieces of furniture I own. I set up camp here, writing under the light of the cheap Ikea floor lamps (I'm not replacing with anything better until my son outgrows his love of breaking my things). In the winter, I even indulge in a fire from the actual working fireplace, which turns the room into exactly the combination of mysteriously inspiring and soothingly restful I always dreamed my library would be. Although the fireplace and the chairs and bookshelves with their books and even the David Bowie pictures on the wall are not quite magical enough to solve all my writer's block problems, just sitting there, even when I can't manage to write, is a ritual all its own.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic that you return to from time to time? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

I probably quote more from "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell," by Susanna Clarke more than any other book, and there's so many amazing quotes it's hard to choose just one. But, what I will do is combine this ask with the next one and share for you what is really a spell from that book rather than a poem.

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it?

So in the book, this is a spell that frees a person from enchantment. And there is something haunting about it I always loved. I don't mess with magic, but I believe the advice in the spell is something that can be applied whenever anything is haunting you, though I'll leave it to you to interpret the practicalities of that as you will.

Here it is, the Chauntlucet

“Place the moon at his eyes and her whiteness shall devour the false sights the deceiver has placed there.

Place a swarm of bees at his ears. Bees love truth and will destroy the deceiver’s lies.

Place salt in his mouth lest the deceiver attempt to delight him with the taste of honey, or disgust him with the taste of ashes.

Nail his hand with an iron nail so that he shall not raise it to do the deceiver’s bidding.

Place his heart in a secret place so that all his desires shall be his own and the deceiver shall find no hold there.

Memorandum. The colour red may be found beneficial.”

Thank you for the asks!

[angiebowiearchive]

Angie’s Confessions at Timothy Lock’s G-Spot Transcript [Part 1] (2006)

(originally transcribed by me in 2006 and posted on an old LJ community. These are the same transcriptions from that time and I can no longer verify how accurate it may be Wayback link to the episode summary, mp3 link does not work; if anyone still has these audio files/knows how to access them, let me know.)

Timothy: On the phone with me right now from sunny Tucson, Arizona is the fabulous Angie Bowie. Angie how are you today?

Angie:I’m fine Timothy how are you? Hi everyone who’s listening.

Timothy: Do you know what, I am melting. London is in the middle of a heat wave right now.

Angie: Well I am very, very sympathetic. We’re in the middle of Monsoon Madness two thousand and six it’s 105, 108.

Timothy: Oh my God

Angie: Tucson is usually ten degrees cooler than Phoenix, so for it to be this hot you can imagine in Phoenix they’re seeing 114, 118 temperatures. Now what is the temperature in London

Timothy: It’s um, Celsius it’s about 35 today, which I think is the high eighties

Angie: Yeah well for London with all that concrete that’s high

Timothy: D’ you know what, they, they had a wonderful picture in this newspaper the other day. You know the whole quote of you ‘oh you can fry an egg on the sidewalk?’

Angie: Uh-huh

Timothy: Well they actually fried an egg on the top of a black cab

Angie: Oh yeah I saw that picture!

Timothy: Isn’t that great?

Angie: Yes and that demonstrates that it is darned hot.

Timothy: Oh definitely

Angie: Yeah. I’m listening to your accent. Tell me where you’re from.

Timothy: I’m from Toronto originally.

Angie: Ahh! And where are you living now?

Timothy: I am living in London, and I’ve lived here for the past nine years.

Angie: I thought so when I was listening! You know my mother was Canadian, and my father grew up Canada, in British Columbia. I’m sure you wouldn’t know that, but I did and so I was listening to your voice. How nice! And so you’ve lived in London what, nine or ten years now?

Timothy: Nine years now yeah

Angie: Oh, and are you enjoying it? Of course, or you wouldn’t be here.

Timothy: Angie, I love it. It’s my favorite city on the planet. I’ve lived in New York, Calgary, Toronto, Orlando and London I love, I will never move.

Angie: Good! Good for you. Well I couldn’t agree with you more. Of course it’s a little-when I went there on those last two trips, you know it was so bizarre because of the CCTV.

Timothy: Oh I know

Angie: And I, you know one of the taxi drivers was so cute, I said to him, I said ‘and I guess you can’t go down there, he said ‘no,’ he said ‘the ticket would be in two weeks in my mail box’

Timothy: [laughs]

Angie: And we both started laughing, he said ‘yeah, you can’t even get in trouble if you want to now’

Timothy: Do you know what, here in London one of the big television shows is Big Brother. I don’t know if it’s big in the States at all?

Angie: I’m not sure, but I think when I was in England I saw it advertised and I didn’t get to what it, I was-that’s when I was on call for Patrick.

Timothy: Patrick Lily sends his love by the way

Angie: Oh good! And please give him a big, big hug for me

Timothy: I definitely will. And the thing about Big Brother is I say it’s being famous for being on CCTV.

Angie: Yeah.

Timothy: And I thought you know if that’s the case, you know, then I should be famous for urinating behind every dumpster in London when I’m drunk.

Angie: [laughs]

Timothy: Now when I was thinking about talking with Angie Bowie, I thought you know, you’re someone I can’t really label under one banner. And the obvious thing would be to, you know, focus on your opinions of your ex husband David Bowie, but that’s been done to death Angie. You’ve also detailed it in your best selling autobiography Backstage Passes: Life On The Wild Side with David Bowie. I’m not going to draw you into a discussion about David Bowie because that’s unfair and you’re my guest and I want you to feel welcome.

Angie: Oh you’re very sweet Timothy, I appreciate it, and it’s not because of anything bizarre. It’s not like, you know, a publicist say, saying ‘oh and she won’t talk about that’, it’s not that. I haven’t seen him for twenty five or thirty years. So talking about him, talking about him in the context of the seventies-

Timothy: Yeah

Angie: -as my artist, the artist I was promoting and the person I was managing, no problem. But you know, they, people have recently been asking me-they, they sprung an interview in the Evening Standard on me.

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie: Very huge interview. And the gal was very sweet. Unfortunately when I first heard her name, I-I had to do a double take because I wanted to make sure that I addressed her correctly during the interview.

Timothy: What was her name?

Angie: Emine. And it’s a strange name, you know what I mean

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie: So I was already, you know, and the next question she asked me was ‘ what do you think of David Bowie?’ And I said [stammers a bit] ‘He’s a jackass!’ What do you mean what do I think of David Bowie? You know, I haven’t seen him for twenty seven, thirty years, why would I have an opinion on him?

Timothy: Yeah, exactly.

Angie:So um, then of course that became the most quoted thing, you know, coming to the States newspapers. And that’s okay, I don’t mind a bit ‘cause it’s exactly how I feel but it’s boring! I don’t wanna promote him anymore, I’m not being paid for it. I just don’t have time for this now

Timothy:It’s like someone asking me ‘what did you feel like when you went to see Star Wars in the cinema?’ I’ll be like ‘I was seven years old, I have no idea’

Angie:Yeah really and why should I promote them now?

Timothy:Yeah exactly

Angie: They’re part of the culture, you know, ask someone who wrote it, go talk to, you know Lucas

Timothy: Yeah, ask someone who’s actually getting royalties from it

Angie: Yes, exactly. Well that’s the whole thing Timothy: And I know it’s hard to start a discussion with you at one point, but let’s start in America in the 1960’s when you were attending Connecticut College for Women.

Angie: Well I, yeah, uh. I took my A levels when I was fifteen.

Timothy: Mm-hm

Angie: And I wanted to take a year off and my father wouldn’t hear of it. So I couldn’t go to college in England, they wouldn’t let me go, they said ‘sure, come back when you’re eighteen’. But my father said ‘oh well in that case you can go to college in the United States’. So I’m, you know, filled out application forms and I was accepted at Connecticut College for Women. I hated it. It was the most horrible place. I didn’t want to be there. I didn’t understand the girls, I didn’t understand the way they taught. They had these huge classes. I’d never been in a huge class in my life, the biggest I’d ever been in was thirty-two people. I’d never taken a class in an auditorium. And I had performed at the [unintelligible], Expo in 1964 and done the play [unintelligible], for five days, I had done a lot of sophisticated things. But what I had not done was be treated like a, um, a unit to be educated.

Timothy: Right

Angie: And uh, I was appalled. So I fell in love with this girl, and um, because I had done a deal with my father that I wouldn’t get pregnant or embarrass him or sleep with men. Leaving myself the out, I kept thinking to myself ‘well that way I can always sleep with girls, I won’t get pregnant, right?’

Timothy: Well there ya go.

Angie: Well ya gotta make due with what ya got, right? So that was fine, but then I got asked to leave. She got put in the infirmary, I went to visit her there, they tried to sedate me so I leapt out the window and escaped and went and packed my stuff and said ‘ya know what, before you ask me to leave, I’m leaving.’

Timothy: Yeah

Angie: And I went back to my parents from Cyprus, the [unintelligible], who were in New Haven, and from then I got my ticket back to Cyprus.

Timothy: Now Angie, did you consider yourself a lesbian at that time?

Angie: No

Timothy: What did you consider yourself?

Angie: A bisexual

Timothy: Now your autobiography, as one reviewer puts it, and I quote, details your ‘drug-fueled and openly bisexual lifestyle’ together David Bowie and many other well known rockers. Now if you look back at the experiences you’ve had and, you know, speaking of the drugs, the substances you’ve tried, do you think drugs should be legalized?

Angie: Well unfortunately we have to back up a little. Your question is premature.

Timothy: Right, okay.

Angie: I didn’t do any drugs until I was twenty six years old, so, so no. It wasn’t ‘drug fueled’. I didn’t drink and I didn’t smoke.

Timothy: Right.

Angie: And people don’t understand if you start your public life at nineteen.

Timothy: Yes

Angie: That’s eight years of being on the ball, so all this crap about ‘drug-fueled’, you know, that’s in the minds of a wannabe wisher they had been there.

Timothy: Yeah

Angie: Drugs were a, uh, became a part of David’s life three or four years before I had anything to do with it and when I had something to with it, it’s all written in Backstage Passes, I’m not gonna bore myself or you.

Timothy: Yeah

Angie: But…do I think they should be legalized? Yes, I think marijuana should be legalized, I mean as everybody in any civilized country knows. Um, alcohol, I don’t believe in uh, prohibition, but I think every health class in the world ought to explain the effects of alcohol and how stupid it is, and how easy it is to get date raped if you’re already high on alcohol.

Timothy: Yeah

Angie: I think children in, in middle school and high school, like they taught in England-do you know in America if you talk to a kid-probably Canada’s a little better, okay, so I’m not lumping Canada in there-when my daughter was at middle school, I had to sit down, she and three of her friends, they came to me and they said, ‘Mom what is it?’ My daughter had brought these kids in, and she said ‘Mom, I told everybody that if anyone would give us sex education, you would’. And I said absolutely. And I gave them a lecture, I explained to them about all kinds of venereal diseases, every type that there were. Because in England, when we were at college, that information was available.

Timothy: Yeah

Angie: You know, and everyone knew. You went and found out before you slept with somebody. And um, when I finished the lecture, I said ‘well don’t they teach you that? Don’t you have a health class or something?’ I didn’t know. But she was at a private, you know, middle school. Not a-a kind of a state run one, and I guess they just didn’t feel that it was appropriate, I guess they didn’t know whether the parents would, you know, approve of them teaching them that kind of health class, but I think it’s really tragic in the countries where it’s not taught. I’m not pointing fingers at anyone because I’m sure in Europe that is not the case so much but here in America, this is a parochial-ism about matters to do with sexuality that I find very frightening and worrisome.

Timothy: Which is?

Angie: That they’re not taught!

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie: It’s not that they don’t know. I mean really they, get a lot, everyone here, the youngsters here, seem to get most of their information from the television, which is-that’s not a bad thing, I’m not knocking this, I’m just saying I don’t understand. I mean, wouldn’t it be better to give people the facts in a classroom environment and then let them fill it in with what you read in magazines and what you see on television and on the Internet?

Timothy: Yeah

Angie; I just-I worry about things like that. It’s like history. They don’t teach history here properly now. You talk to them about World War II, they actually, you know, my generation-my father was a World War II hero from the Philippines. He wasn’t there to fight in the-he was there as a mining engineer. When the war broke out, when Pearl Harbor started, he was caught in North Lazon. They took to the mountains, he and the men that worked for him, they joined the resistance movement. Because he was ROTC, that meant he had to be commissioned and became an officer. For three years, they fought from the mountains. World War II is a live thing to me.

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie: It’s a part of my father’s life. Now, if we’re not gonna have, ya know, kids who have a relative who can explain it to them, then at least let’s teach it in school so, you know, everyone knows who was on which side, what the-the reasons they went to war were, I mean something. Children don’t know that anymore and that’s not good.

Timothy: Well Angie lets go to back to the topic of sexuality. As a mother yourself, what do you think the most important thing is that parents should teach their children about sexuality?

Angie: I think the most important thing is to remind everyone that children and humans don’t mature until they’re eighteen or nineteen. So sex before eighteen or nineteen-I didn’t have sex with anyone until I was eighteen. My eighteenth birthday, chronicled in Backstage Passes, I had sex with my boyfriend, it was very exciting. Now, the reason for that is, is because a mammal does not mature, get it’s fu-and even then there’s another four or five years after eighteen up to twenty five and twenty six when people fill out and mature. Height, strength in the shoulders, spine all that. Now, if a girl gets pregnant, she has a new weight to bear. So having sex, which-and, and we’re talking historically now where you get pregnant, not, you know, protected sex, this is a new concept from the 20th century, one we learned about birth control and family planning. But you see what I’m saying here.

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie: The best idea would be to wait until your body was big enough to carry it. Now we’re not talking about nine year olds that run up and down the mountains and happen to get pregnant in, uh, strange out-of-the-way South American countries which are, you know, on the cover of the British newspapers all the time. Basically, I think the most important thing is that. Is if you can say ‘look, wait until you’re eighteen so that at least your body is skeletally, you know, in the right place for it’.

Timothy: Right.

Angie: Now the great thing about putting it in that kind of term is, is that it stops being a moral issue, it stops being a judgment issue. It kind of tidies it up along with health. You know, would you drink from a dirty cup in a dumpster?

Timothy: No, definitely not.

Angie: You see what I’m saying?

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie: Why would you have sex with someone that you don’t really know where they’ve been?

Timothy: Mmm

Angie: And it’s like some experiment, and you just wanna like fuck around? Ick!

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie: It’s a dirty cup in a dumpster! You don’t know where the hell it’s been.

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie: So I think by the age of eighteen, you start to think like that. At fourteen and fifteen and sixteen and seventeen, one tends to be less-but, but, it-less aware, but if you’re informed, you try for the purpose of being mature, you know, and grown up and being cool-to think about that stuff so that you don’t act like a jackass. And I’ve acted like a jackass many times in my life, so please don’t think I’m trying to make out I’m so clever, I don’t mean it like that. We learn through our mistakes. In answer to your question, I would say hold onto it just for a bit, you know what I mean.

Timothy: Yeah

Angie: The idea that people have sex so early kind of amazed me. It shocked me. I didn’t realize that people fourteen and fifteen and sixteen years old were having sex. I had no idea. I’m very naïve I suppose in a lot of ways.

Timothy: Now how did you approach the subject yourself, of discussing sexuality with your children? Angie: I, well I never did with my son because I didn’t see him after he was fourteen.

Timothy: Yes

Angie: It wasn’t an issue. With my daughter, she came to me, you know, and we were always very straight forward. I-I just, I have a European attitude about it, thank God, from growing up. God knows Cyprus was no help, but Switzerland and England were a help.

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie. And so um, from that experience, I guess, you know that how I spoke to her about it and then when she came back to me with her friends and asked me to inform them, I realized that I had gotten through to her.

Timothy: Now your daughter is-is Stashia, am I pronouncing that correctly?

Angie: Yeah, Stasha.

Timothy: Stasha, sorry, um-

Angie: No, no, that’s fine. And uh it’s her birthday, it was her birthday yesterday.

Timothy: Oh, well happy birthday yesterday Stasha. How old is she?

Angie: So, uh, oh twenty six.

Timothy: Oh wonderful.

Angie: She called me yesterday and she said ‘oh Mom, thank you for having me’. I thought ‘that’s a very nice thing to say’

Timothy: Oh, I’m sure you were beaming from ear to ear.

Angie: I was! I thought-there was a big grin for quite awhile.

Timothy: Now Angie, this is one thing I-I’ve always been curious about. Um, your son, who now goes by the name Joey, uh, his birth-

Angie: No he doesn’t, his name-he uses Duncan now.

Timothy: Oh he uses Duncan, sorry. But his birth name was Zowie, Zed [sic]-o-w-I-e-

Angie: His birth name-would you like to know this or-

Timothy: Oh yeah tell the story please.

Angie: His name is Duncan Zowie Hayward Jones.

Timothy: Ah.

Angie: That is his name.

Timothy: The myth is dispelled. Now do you find that a-a-that there are a lot of stories about you that are just so wrong?

Angie: Yes! Of course there are, that’s why I don’t pay any attention. I have no interest in any of it.

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie: That’s why I live here.

Timothy: Oh.

Angie: I wouldn’t live in a big city. Why?

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie: Aggravated by a bunch of scumbags who don’t know me?

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie: I did a-when I did the tour for Backstage Passes, I talked to redneck DJs in Texas

Timothy: Uh-huh.

Angie: They called me a whore on the air.

Timothy: Are you serious?

Angie: No, I told them, I said ‘guess what? I don’t have to do this. Fuck you’

Timothy: Yeah, of course.

Angie: Got off. Yeah, I have no interest in the bullshit and the lies, that’s-I, I’ve never been interested, I’ve never been-my area of expertise and my creativity

Timothy: Yeah.

Angie: Is writing, music, and art. I have an A level in History of Art, French, History and English. Those-that’s what I’m interested in. Also anthropology.

Timothy: And Angie, reading your writing, you-I can tell you love words.

Angie: I do

Timothy: And the way they go together, alliteration, asides that are in parentheses, it’s-it’s a joy to read.

Angie: Thank you

Timothy: Yeah

Angie: You’re so kind. I-I love it, and um, I think a lot of my being angry and behaving badly, was having that creativity interrupted by unhappiness.

Timothy: Yes.

Angie: So I-I wanted-because I had brought that up, and I didn’t wanna leave it hanging, I-I want you to know that when I say how we learn from experience.

Timothy: Mmm hmm

Angie: And I-I think you understand as a writer, I don’t really have to explain this to you, maybe I’m explaining it to your listeners. As writers, we can’t really write unless we’ve experienced. It doesn’t mean we have to go to the very depths of depravity or the very heights of ecstasy, but we have to at least have seen it or tasted it to describe it, and that experiential context for being a writer is I think what allows us to live vivid lives

[part 2 here]

[filenameghost]

hi tumblr, here's a piece of writing I did based on the David Bowie quote "I always had the repulsive need to be something more than human" and my generally strange feelings related to it!!

I think at my core I am something else. A creature of some sort. But not in the way a dog or a cat is a creature. It’s closer to how fairies or dragons are creatures - they’re something mysterious and powerful and dangerous. Legends of them can be traced back centuries, there’s something ancient about them.

Though I do not think my creature is a fairy or dragon, or anything heard of before. I think whatever lurks inside me is something new, something else. And while it feels powerful and dangerous, it does not feel evil. Actually, it feels somewhat kind. But it also feels unpredictable and wild - feral, I suppose.

It feels like something that was once human but no longer is, and if you saw it now you would be completely unable to tell it was anything even similar to human. Sometimes it feels like it’s beyond human emotions, like it cannot feel anything. Other times it feels angry and hurt, like it wants justice, or maybe revenge, or maybe both.

Sometimes it feels like a scared little girl, alone in her room, crying so hard but so quietly. I think whatever it is wants to protect people from danger. But I worry how it would go about doing so. So no matter what it is, i’ll let it remain where it is - deep inside my soul, restless and ancient. 

[thesearenotphotographs]

De-Evolution Is Real: The Restored Films of DEVO with Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh at The Museum of Modern Art

Full gallery available on my website here.

On Saturday, January 27, 2024, The Museum of Modern Art screened restored videos from the Akron, OH band known as DEVO as a part of their “To Save and Project: The 20th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation” series. The restoration and screening coincided with the 50th anniversary of the formation of the band.

I first discovered DEVO many years after the group was founded. They had a hit song with a single, “Whip It,” that was released the year I was born. The song would play on the radio and when I was older, I finally saw the video on MTV (or VH1) and was struck by the video. It made me laugh and I decided to check out more. I ended up purchasing a two CD compilation released in 1990: one disc was their Greatest Hits and the second disc was titled Greatest Misses. Their sense of humor was right up my alley. So was their weirdness and politics. In college, I enrolled in a class at Fordham University called “Popular Music As a Form of Communication.” One day, my professor, Anahid Kassabian, played DEVO’s cover of “(I Can’t Get Me No) Satisfaction” for the class and asked if anyone knew who the band was. I immediately knew but hesitated to answer. I looked around when I saw no other hands raised, I then put mine in the air and gave the answer, she smiled and seemed relieved that at least one young person knew the group’s music. Both of these aforementioned songs had their videos restored by Peter Conheim who was in conversation with Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale at MoMA last night.

Before the restored videos were screened, MoMA curator Josh Siegel talked about his connection with the band before introducing ex-Negativland member Conheim who worked on the restoration of these videos. The earlier ones that were shot on film were restored from the negative, but the later videos that were shot and edited on video were more difficult to upgrade, and some are still in progress. The item in the program that I was most excited to see was the live footage of the band’s first performance in New York City at Max’s Kansas City in 1977. They were introduced to the stage by David Bowie and wore extremely short shorts in this performance. It was definitely of those things that I truly wish I was alive to witness in person. When “Freedom of Choice” was shown, I realized that it was the second time in one day I saw a man on a leash (photos of the first instance are to come hopefully tomorrow). I also saw someone get spanked earlier in the day, just like in one of DEVO’s videos, too.

After the videos were shown on the large screen of Theater 1, Conheim was joined by Mothersbaugh and Casale who spoke candidly about their band. Casale appreciated that the audience laughed when a baby was thrown in the air. We also clapped excitedly after each video was shown. Casale admitted that the record executive character in a couple of their videos was based on an amalgam of people and the things he said were direct quotes. One of the questions from the audience was regarding Mothersbaugh’s commercial work and he revealed that he did a Hawaiian Punch commercial and added in a subversive message of “sugar is bad for you.”

DEVO were just at Sundance Festival for their documentary and hopefully that film, plus these restored videos become available commercially for fans to see at some point in the future. Images from the Q&A session appear in the above gallery, and many thanks to Peter Conheim for his efforts in restoring DEVO’s videos and for Gerald and Mark for taking the time to make an appearance at MoMA last night.

[mo0n-water]

hello hello, sorry that it’s been so long :( i’ve missed you.

i will hear the song if it’s the last thing i do 🥸 what’s it called? what’s the first lyric?

what book is it? why is it your favourite? summarise it in three words?

i hope you allow yourself to be a child sometimes. growing up so quickly must be tough.

nostalgia is my hamartia, i’m very stuck in the past, whether it is good or bad. also my great aunt has the most beautiful house, i’d love to live there when i’m older but it’ll probably go to the other side of the family. we can hope :)

i don’t really have any definitive life goals. i’m more of a live and let live kind of person, what’ll happen will happen and i shan’t waste time fretting about it. but i would like to own lots of cats when i’m older and have the village i live in suspect me of being a witch. i think that’d be fun.

i love people who talk a lot and are passionate about things they are interested in. there is nothing i enjoy more than listening to someone ramble on about a historical event i’ve never heard of or a movie i’ll never see. my best friend is very much a talkative person and i think that’s why we get on so well.

how many people can come to my party? i would probably invite: my two best friends, david bowie, regulus black, frida kahlo, oscar wilde, amy winehouse, boris pavlikovsky (from the goldfinch), my great great uncle who’s existance no one knew about until a few weeks ago (he had a very interesting life) and you :) i think we’d all have some very interesting conversations.

my favourite quote is ‘i don’t know. poets are always taking the weather so personally. they’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.’ from the catcher in the rye.

questions for you:

- what are you doing right now?

- are you religious?

- how do you define art?

- do you want to get married? would you marry a friend in a non-romantic way?

- what’s your favourite smell?

- what would you name this chapter of your life?

- are you a responsible person?

- what’s your favourite punctuation mark and why?

HAHA HI!!! i missed you too!! i was telling the jegulily server about how i missed you…… then again, idk who you are, so maybe you saw that. (mysterious music.) anyway i hope you’re well & i mean… didn’t you say you were going to see harry yesterday? so you MUST BE well

re: your song… it’s called counting hours. you’re not gonna find it online but maybe i’ll send it to you if/when you tell me who you are. (not holding it hostage, i just don’t wanna post it publicly hahaha!! first line is “spent the early hours of june reading quotes from whitman” i guess you don’t know what that has to do with you, but the rest of the song is… a little more obvious xx

the book is looking for alaska! i think i mentioned it before. i like how it explores grief and unanswerable questions, as well as how it talks about growing up. for three words, i don’t know, i’d maybe say “famous last words” :)

you definitely seem like the type of person one would mistake for a witch. and believe me, that is the highest of compliments coming from me. and about nostalgia, YEAH. yeah. G-d yeah. i feel like nostalgia rules my life sometimes, but i don’t really mind that? i was talking with my dad about that recently, about trying to recreate old memories & bring the past back. i think there’s something beautiful about that.

i like the live & let live philosophy. i think it makes for an interesting life. my favorite kinds of people are the ones who aren’t afraid to do something unexpected, to seek out new opportunities & go on adventures. a change of plans is my favorite thing. have you always been like that, or is your decision to embrace that a new thing? (i am ignoring your use of the word shan’t, lest i make a fool out of myself in my own tumblr post…)

listening to people ramble is a secret favorite of mine. i have a friend who’s really into films, & i love to get him ranting about his favorite plot lines & all that cinematography stuff that i don’t understand. i don’t even like movies! but i like listening to him talk about them. what’s something you like to ramble about like that?

i like your quote & i like your dinner party. i question how wise it is to invite boris, given he’d probably derail the whole thing… but i suppose that’s the whole point, and what makes it fun. consider this my rsvp! i think regulus, bowie, & boris would either be best friends or sexy rivals. can’t decide, but i’m here for it. also, your great great uncle?? i would love to hear the story there.

right now, i’m sitting on a porch swing & thinking about you. the temperature is perfect out here, humid enough to feel like a hug without descending into something more like a chokehold. i keep getting distracted & staring at the daylilies across the road. i was sitting in the living room before, but my parents were talking so i stepped out here to focus on writing this. after, i think i’ll play guitar for a bit – i was working on something earlier that i’d like to continue.

yes, i am religious! i’m a religious jew, which i think i’ve probably mentioned before because i honestly don’t shut up about it. it’s shabbat today, & i actually just got back from an event at synagogue. it was a pride event more than a religious thing, though – i convinced the rabbi to go out in drag, which was fucking brilliant honestly. anyway, judaism is easily one of the most important things to me. how about you? i always worry it’s rude to ask but i love talking about faith.

okay i had a conversation about defining art a few months ago & it just about broke my brain… genuinely it was in like january but i still don’t have an answer, no matter how much i think about it. i kinda think art is an arbitrary categorization we use to fit human expression into a box, but my opinion there could be changed with a strong wind. help????

i’d definitely like to get married someday, but it’s not a goal i’m working towards or anything… obviously, i think. i’d definitely marry a friend. it all comes down to whether it’s the right person. (if this is an offer, my answer is yes xx)

my favorite smell is rotting wood.

i’d name this chapter of my life “the wandering” because i feel like i’m looking for something, but i’m not sure what it is & i’m not in any rush. taking my time! it feels a lot like wandering.

responsible??? me???????? i suppose it depends on what you mean by responsible. in some regards, sure. in others, not at all. i don’t like the idea of responsibility, though, it feels stifling – i’d rather dedicate myself to things out of love than out of any sense of responsibility. not sure if that makes sense or answers your question.

i like semicolons!! as my best friend can surely tell you… i just feel like they conceptualize my ceaseless need for elaboration. i’m wary of overusing them. but yeah i learned how to use a semicolon in elementary school & i’ve been terrorizing people with them ever since.

as always, i love the questions you pick! some from me:

- what grounds you?

- what’s a feeling you find overwhelming? how do you cope?

- what’s your relationship with music? what does it mean to you, how do you interact with it?

- favorite fruit?

- tell me a secret?

hope to see you in my inbox soon!! kind regards <3

[mainsfolder]

Slash mother

#Slash mother full#

Read More News Tags: Slash, dead, Ola Hudson, David Bowie admin JMore News Black Dahlia Murder Vocalist Trevor Strnad Dead Skins and Bangers Joining Mosh as One: D.R.I. "I was really resentful."įuneral arrangements were still being finalized. Beth Hart: I still dont hear her voice, I still cant hear her voice, I dont deserve her.

#Slash mother full#

"I really didn't like him that much, because he was the new guy in the house," Slash said of Bowie in a 1990 interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Full and accurate LYRICS for Mother Maria from Slash feat. Refro: C G Dm Am Mother Mary, she dont talk to me C G Dm Am Mother Mary. The scene has caused a pile-up of traffic on the busy main road linking May Pen to Chapelton. His mother dated David Bowie after her marriage broke up in the mid-1970s. A mother and four children, comprising three girls and one boy, were found with their throats slashed Tuesday morning at their home in the New Road community near Chapelton in Clarendon. In a Twitter message late on Monday, Slash said he was back in the studio working on a solo project, "but I'm having a hard time concentrating." She is survived by another son, graphic artist Albion "Ash" Hudson, 38, as well as her ex-husband, English artist Anthony Hudson. Mother Mary, she dont talk to me Mother Mary, she dont talk to me Give her my apologies And tell her not. The bodies were discovered in Clarendon parish, west of the capital Kingston, on Tuesday morning. Hudson died at Saint John's Health Center in the Los Angeles municipality of Santa Monica. A mother and her four children were found dead with their throats cut in Jamaica on Tuesday. He hasn’t commented on Slash’s most recent quote, though he did break his typical silence to make a joke.Ola Hudson, mother of Slash (Saul Hudson) has died at Saint John's Health Center in Los Angeles on Friday evening. Video clip and lyrics Mother Maria by Slash. Slash's mother, Ola Hudson, died on Jafter a battle with lung cancer. At the time, Slash called her “the sweetest, warmest, most loving human being I’ve ever known (next to my grandmother on her side), as well as one of the most creative & talented.” He also said she was “responsible for exposing me to a lot of the music that would influence me as a musician growing up.” Bowie’s attention, meanwhile, is presumably focused on NASA’s Mars rover. Sadly, Ola died in 2009 at age 62 after suffering from lung cancer. Hudson died at Saint John's Health Center in the Los Angeles municipality of Santa Monica. Slash revealed the shocking incident to Australian radio station. He found the glam-rock icon in bed with his costume designer mother, Ola Hudson, when he was just 8 years old. Slash, formally known as Saul Hudson, really saw it all when he walked in on David Bowie naked with his mom. He would only have been about nine years old at the time his mother and Bowie were together, so the title problem isn’t a reference to what he saw, though he reportedly added, “When I look back on that whole combination of people, I can only imagine how freaky it was.” Aliens in the backyard are one thing, but in your mother’s bedroom? Welcome to the jungle, way too early. Slash 's mother, Ola Hudson, died on Jafter a battle with lung cancer. But Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash might have them all beat. Slash made the comments as he promotes his recently released second solo album, Apocalyptic Love. Still, the top-hatted guitar wizard and recent Walk of Fame inductee opened up more than usual about his late mother’s relationship with Bowie in an interview with Australian radio station Triple M, in which NME quotes Slash saying as saying, “I caught them naked once.” Slash - Mother Maria (Letras y cancin para escuchar) - For everyone I loved and every road Ive known / For all the trash Ive won, I celebrate alone / Sit. Seeing Ola Hudson - a costume designer for Bowie, Diana Ross, John Lennon, and more - together with the glam-rocker was “like watching an alien in your backyard,” the Guns N’ Roses co-founder once told an interviewer. Slash has never made any secret of his mother’s relationship with David Bowie.

[notmyyear1981]

full offense to rock historians but when you pull out all the gender, sexuality, and fluidity of the musicians you write about, that's not very rock n roll of you

[loverboybrightsideghost]

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[mclennonlgbt]

My favourite Lennon and McCartney's quotes where they express love to each other

I don't know if they were soulmates, lovers, something else or all of the above; there's no doubt they loved each other. I know there's a lot of quotes but these touch my heart the most <3

PAUL

- ‌Me and John, we’d known each other for a long time. Along with George and Ringo, we were best mates. And we looked into each other’s eyes, the eye contact thing we used to do, which is fairly mind-boggling. You dissolve into each other. But that’s what we did, round about that time, that’s what we did a lot. And it was amazing. You’re looking into each other’s eyes and you would want to look away, but you wouldn’t, and you could see yourself in the other person.

- ‌I was thinking the other day, ‘I wish I had sat and just hugged John all the time when we were together. (…) I’d just sit around and hug him forever. That’s the depth of my feeling for him.

- ‌But the great thing about me and John was it was me and John, end of story.

- ‌When I painted him recently, I found myself saying "How do his lips go? I can't remember". Then I would think, "Of course you know. You wrote all those songs facing each other".

- ‌John and I were perfect, really, for each other.

- ‌We grew up literally in the same bed because when we were on holiday, hitchhiking or whatever, we would share a bed.

- ‌I dream about him.

- ‌I mean, we had a wonderful... I had a wonderful time with one of the most world's talented people. - John and I were two of the luckiest people in the twentieth century to have found each other. The partnership, the mix, was incredible. We both had submerged qualities that we each saw and knew. I had to be the bastard as well as the nice melodic one and John had to have a warm and loving side for me to stand him all those years. John and I would never have stood each other for that length of time had we been just one-dimensional. - We wrote our first songs together, we grew up together and we lived our lives together. And when we’d do it together, something special would happen. There’d be that little magic spark. I still remember his beery old breath when I first met him here [Woolton church fete] that day. But I soon came to love that beery old breath. And I loved John.

JOHN

- ‌I've compared to a marriage a million times and I hope it's... understable. For people that aren't married. Or any relationship. It was a LONG relationship. It started many, many years before the American public, or the English public for that matter, knew us. Paul and I were together since he was 15, I was 16.

- ‌How can you be suprised by your brother since you were 15?

- ‌We were recording the other night, and I just wasn't there. Neither was Paul. We were like two robots going through the motions. We do need each other alot. When we used to get together after a month off, we used to be embarrassed about touching each other. We'd do an elaborate handshake just to hide the embarrassement... or we did mad dances. Then we got to hugging each other.

- ‌I think it's [writing songs] partly something natural - and partly something that Paul and I spark off in each other. [...] Some people say it's a speculative stock because no one knows how long Paul and I will stay together. But we intend to stick together and if you can write songs, you can write them all your life.

- ‌Throughout my career, I’ve selected to work with – for more than a one-night stand, say, with David Bowie or Elton John – only two people: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono. I brought Paul into the original group, the Quarrymen, he brought George in, and George brought Ringo in. And the second person who interested me as an artist and somebody I could work with was Yoko Ono. That ain’t bad picking.

- ‌Nobody ever said anything about Paul's having a spell on me or my having one on Paul! They never thought that was abnormal in those days, two guys together, or four guys together! Why didn't they ever say, 'How come those guys don't split up? I mean, what's going on backstage? What is this Paul and John business? How can they be together so long?

- ‌But the only - the person I actually picked up as my partner, who I'd recognised had talent, and I could get on with, was Paul. Now, 12 or however many years later, I met Yoko, I had the same feeling. It was a different feel, but I had the same feeling. So I think as a talent scout, I've done pretty damn well! - I’d like to thank Elton [John] and the boys for having me on tonight. We tried to think of a number to finish off with so I can get out of here and be sick, and we thought we’d do a number of an old, estranged fiancé of mine, called Paul. This is one I never sang. It’s an old Beatle number and we just about know it.

[jesuisgourde]

The Libertines queer media influences/references

I’ve sort of forgotten about compiling this so I figure I’ll just post it now. If anyone knows of other references feel free to let me know and I’ll add it or reblog and add your own.

I’ve put the works by the authors in parenthesis. First the works referenced by the band, then general well-known or popular works by the person. These are things they’ve mentioned in interviews or journals, or referenced musically, or have otherwise quoted or talked about.

Oscar Wilde (The Picture Of Dorian Gray, The Ballad Of Reading Gaol, The Duchess of Padua, Salome) Jean Genet (The Thief’s Journal, Our Lady Of The Flowers, Miracle Of The Rose, The Balcony) Saki / H.H. Munro (The Interlopers, The Open Window, Sredni Vashtar) Love And Death On Long Island (1997 film) E.M. Forster (Maurice, A Room With A View, Howard’s End) Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited, Decline And Fall) Truman Capote (A Diamond Guitar, Breakfast At Tiffany’s) Arthur Rimbaud (A Season In Hell, The Drunken Boat) Paul Verlaine (Poems Under Saturn) Hedi Slimane (fashion designer, collaborator) Un Chant D’Amour (1950 film by Jean Genet) Siegfried Sassoon (Suicide In The Trenches) Wilfred Owen (Anthem For Doomed Youth, Dulce Et Decorum Est) Tennessee Williams (Suddenly, Last Summer, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof) D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterly’s Lover, The State Of Funk, Women In Love) Liquid Sky (1982 film) Allen Ginsberg (Howl) David Bowie (Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud, Jean Genie, Station To Station) Jean Cocteau (Opium, Les Enfants Terribles, illustrations for Genet’s Querelle) Dirk Bogarde (actor: Victim, Darling, Death In Venice) Quentin Crisp (actor/writer: The Naked Civil Servant) Lord Byron (She Walks In Beauty, Don Juan, The Corsair) Jeremy Reed (The Lipstick Boys, Jean Genet: Born To Lose, Saints And Psychotics) William S Burroughs (Junky, Naked Lunch, Queer, The Soft Machine) Morrissey (Every Day Is Like Sunday, Suedehead, A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours) The Boys In The Band (1970 film) Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, Milk) Tutti Frutti by Little Richard Women In Love (1969 film) Queen (mentioned as a guilty pleasure of Carl’s; I Want To Break Free, Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, The Prophet’s Song) The Others (associated band; Johan, Stan Bowles, This Is For The Poor) Lindsay Anderson (if..., O Lucky Man!) Bright Young Things (1920′s socialite group, 2003 film) Robert Graves (In Her Praise, 1915, I, Claudius) A.E. Housman (A Shropshire Lad, De Amicitia) Buzzcocks (Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) Pet Shop Boys (Rent, It’s A Sin, Go West) Velvet Underground/Lou Reed (Venus In Furs, Sister Ray, Walk On The Wild Side) Eclogues by Virgil (poem) W.H. Auden (The Age Of Anxiety, The Shield Of Achilles, For The Time Being) Noel Coward (Blithe Spirit, Words And Music) Edward Lear (The Owl And The Pussycat, The Book Of Nonsense) Jeanette Winterson (Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Written On The Body) Joe Orton (Loot, What The Butler Saw, Entertaining Mr Sloane)

[fathermarty]

hi angel! would i be able to request a harry potter ship?

(preferably for the marauders era)

my name is katherine but i mostly go by kate. i’m a bisexual ravenclaw and my pronouns are she/her.

i am a waitress and an avid reader who has a thirst for knowledge. i’m somebody who loves learning about random things that spark my interest instead of school work (my grades aren’t bad but really not the best).

i play the guitar and my most played artists on spotify are lana del rey and the smiths (bit of a red flag??). i adore sixties/seventies rock with my entire heart. david bowie stan <3

i have three black cats (otto, marlon and hera) and two goldfish (jimi and stevie). they’re all my children. i used to have a third goldfish (emmeline) but otto ate her :(

i’m a sarcastic mess with a mean streak but i promise i’m really lovely when you get to know me. i smoke too much and have a caffeine addiction so im trying to get my shit together (it’s not working. my life’s a mess.)

sorry if this is really long? take you’re time obviously no rush at all. have a cup of tea and a good day <3<3

Okay, I know by reading this that we will become the best of friends. Also, thank you so much for requesting, + I hope you enjoy this. :)

I ship you with......

REMUS MF LUPIN

From the first moment I knew you were made for Remus, or he was made for you? Either way, you get what I mean. I HIGHLY, recommend listening to "Sweeter Than This" by Katie Herzig while reading this. It inspired me to write this, and I definitely included some quotes from the song for this. (They are in italics and blue coloring).

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One day you and Remus were paired up in Transfiguration after Professor McGonagall decided to split all the boys up because they were causing a ruckus. She wanted to eliminate any further disruption of her class -- but everyone knew that wouldn't last long. Of course, you know who Remus is, everyone knows who all the Marauders are. You know though that he is the brains of the operation, you can see it when they pull a prank + Remus is wearing a small smirk of success while the other three whoop + holler.

"You know Lupin, with those conniving plans of yours I would almost think you are Slytherin," You say to him once McGonagall resumes her lesson.

"Well Kate, if you spent more time trying to keep your life in order than focusing on mine you would have noticed the coffee stain on your shirt." He shoots back with a sideways smirk on his face. To your dismay, you did realize the front of your shirt had a small coffee stain right front and center.

Remus Bloody Lupin caught you off guard that day, + ever since you two have playfully taken jabs at one another. They went from in-class remarks to passing remarks in the corridor, to remarks to one another anytime one saw the other.

"Oi Lupin, whatcha reading? 10 Ways to Make My Enemy Love Me?" You joked sarcastically one day when entering the library.

"Why Kate why would I need that when you're already hopelessly in love with me?" He would shoot back with a matter-of-fact tone. The boy's friends staring at you two because Remus is usually the quiet + reserved one, + to see him interacting with a sassy Ravenclaw was new.

"If you think ragging on you every bloody time you enter my field of vision is a gesture of love, you might want to reevaluate your standards mate. I think they may have fallen shorter than Sirius."

"HEY!" Sirius put his hand up to his heart in mock hurt, looking between both you + Remus noticing the comfortable familiarity between the two of you.

Remus would blush when they guys ask him about you. Remus is used to sharing everything with the boys + part of him wanted the moments he shared with you to stay strictly between the two of you. He didn't want to share your attention with anyone else.

Eventually Remus found himself wanting to learn everything he can about you. He knows you enjoy books, the occasional smoke at night, + playing guitar in the astronomy tower when you think everyone is busy. Remus became infatuated with you when he noticed you playing the guitar with a cigarette hanging from your lips. The way your hair fell effortlessly around your face with your blue + bronze school tie undone + lazily hanging around your neck. (I know you probably, smoke a vape, but the cigarette aligned better with the image in my head.)

"You know how you mentioned I was hopelessly in love with you?" You said startling Remus, "I think that was you projecting your feelings onto me. When are you going to quit watching me from afar + have an actual conversation with me?"

This was the beginning of your + Remus' late-night adventures, every night you would meet at the Astronomy tower + either talk about the book you are reading or attempt to teach him a guitar.

"I like to watch you play Kate, you look so at peace." He tells you one night.

You turn your body so your knees are touching his leg, "If I didn't know any better Lupin I would say you're flirting with me."

"Would that really be an issue?" Remus never ceases to amaze you, + that is something you have adored about him since your first interactions. The fact that he is himself, + the confidence he exudes with you makes your heart dance.

"I guess it wouldn't be an issue if you would just-" before you can finish your snarky remark Remus grabs your knee to pull you impossibly closer.

"Just what Kate?" He said looking into your eyes with such intensity.

"Merlin Remus, will you just kiss me already?" + kiss you he did, it was something you never experienced before in your life. When he kissed you it was gentle but full of passion. So much so that you find yourself relaxing into his touch + he smiles.

"I have been waiting to do that since I saw you with that coffee stain on your shirt." He said smiling.

"I've been waiting for you to do that since you caught me off guard with your wit. What took you so long?"

Remus tucks a piece of hair behind your ear, "Because someone like me doesn't deserve the raw and precious beauty you possess." Without thinking you bring Remus into another kiss. This time you put all the love + pent-up feelings you had for the boy into it. Conveying to him that no matter what living is simple when love isn't broke.

Things between the two of you got more intimate, but Remus began to push away, fearing what you would think if you knew about his furry little problem.

You knew his secret, hell you knew what the other Marauders did for him monthly. You have called the Astronomy tower your home away from home since you first attended Hogwarts. Of course, you notice Remus every full moon, + when the other three animals showed up + started taking care of the wolf you knew it was his friends.

"Remus Lupin, if you do not show up to the damn Astronomy tower tonight I will come to the Gryffindor common room and kick your arse." You told him one morning after he missed not one but TWO nights. The boys gave him a look + he couldn't help but look down in shame. It broke your heart to see him like that, but you knew what you were going to show him tonight would make up for it.

You had spent the past few weeks during your free period putting together a small journal of the next few years with all the moon phases + when the full moon would be out.

When Remus saw what you had done he didn't even need to ask if you knew because by this gesture + attention to detail it was obvious you knew. Of course you bloody knew, you're a Ravenclaw.

Without hesitation he wrapped you up in his arms + buried his face into your hair, "I love you, Kate." Remus whispered into your ear planting a kiss to your temple.

"I love you, Remus." You pull away to give him a kiss before saying. "You can fix anything with a kiss."

He smiles at you, "If life gets any sweeter than this, I don't want to know."

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I ACCIDENTALLY POSTED THIS WITHOUT FINISHING IT HAHAHA, I AM SO SORRY. Anyway, I had so much fun writing this, I love Remus with my whole heart + I think he deserves the world. Thank you so much for requesting @divinekills I really hope you like it!

✰REMEMBER; if you would like a ship go to my Navigation (it is pinned on my profile), + read over the "Ship Request Info" before you request!