#keith bower

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Bower Siblings 1.0 Pride Art ♡

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Final piece for the end of June! I hope you enjoyed this little series :>

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Trade Alert!

Boston and Colorado have agreed to a one-for-one swap of depth pieces, terms are below

BOS Receives: Shane Bowers

COL Receives: Keith Kinkaid

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Keith was a theater kid.

He specialized in Shakespeare, hence the poems written in Elizabethan English.

He would memorize entire scripts and then act them out for Shiro and Adam.

Sometimes, when Lance is just hanging around their house, he'll hear Keith start to mindlessly speak to himself while he's doing chores. Lance will go up to him and hear him saying something like

"O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame to pay this debt of love but to a brother, away before me to sweet beds of flowers; love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers." (quoted Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene one. Spoken by Duke Orsino.)

And he'll just be like "Hey man, I love you, but what the fuck are you saying???????"

And Keith just turns to him and goes "Shakespeare."

Lance has never been more worried about anything. Keith being able to mindlessly recite Shakespeare plays? Horrifying. But impressive.

[v-eight-lover]

Top Fuel Tuesday; Dennis Baca’s “The Carpetbagger”, Keith Black Hemi w/ Bowers supercharger, Lenco Shur-Shift - vintage 1970′s

[freetheshit-outofyou]

USS Albacore (SS-218), a 311-foot, Gato-class submarine lost 7 November 1944 of the coast of Hokkaido Japan, she was presumed lost on 21 December 1944 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 March 1945, found 16 February 2023.

The USS Albacore earned 9 battle stars, received 4 Presidential Unit Citations and was responsible for sinking at least 10 ships.

Below is a listing of the ships compliment, their names are written in memorial at the National Memorial Cemetary of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii:

IN THESE GARDENS ARE RECORDED

THE NAMES OF AMERICANS

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES

IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY

AND WHOSE EARTHLY RESTING PLACE

IS KNOWN ONLY TO GOD

Walter Henry Barber, Jr., Kenneth Ripley Baumer, Henry Forbes Bigelow, Jr., Edward Brown Blackmon, William Walter Bower, Allan Rose Brannam, Herbert Hodge Burch, Nicholas John Cado, John Joseph Carano, Charles Lee Carpenter, James Louis Carpenter, Pasquale Charles Carracino, Stanley Chapman, Douglas Childress, Jr., Frederick Herbert Childs, Jr., Perry Aubrey Collom, Audrey Cecil Crayton, Eugene Cugnin, John Wilber Culbertson, Philip Hugh Davis, Ray Ellis Davis, Fred Wallace Day, Julius Delfonso, James Leroy DeWitt, James Thomas Dunlap, Carl Hillis Eskew, John Francis Fortier, Jr., Gordon Harvey Fullilove, Jr., John Wilfred Gant, John Paul Gennett, William Henry Gibson, John Frederick Gilkeson, Charles Chester Hall, James Kenneth Harrell, Robert Daniel Hill, Allen Don Hudgins, Donald Patrick Hughes, Eugene Edsel Hutchinson, Burton Paul Johnson, Sheridan Patrick Jones, George Kaplafka, Nelson Kelley, Jr., Morris Keith Kincaid, Victor Edward Kinon, Joseph Mike Krizanek, Arthur Star Kruger,Walter Emery Lang, Jr., Jack Allen Little, Kenneth Walter Manful, Patrick Kennyless McKenna, Willie Alexander McNeill, Joseph Norfleet Mercer, Leonard David Moss, Richard Joseph Naudack, Encarnacion Nevarez, Joseph Hayes Northam, Frank Robert Nystrom, Robert James O'Brien, Elmer Harold Peterson, Charles Francis Pieringer, Jr., James Teel Porter, Jerrold Winfred Reed, Jr., Francis Albert Riley, Hugh Raynor Rimmer, A. B. Roberts, James Ernest Rowe, Philip Shoenthal, George Maurice Sisk, Joe Lewis Spratt, Harold William St. Clair, Arthur Lemmie Stanton, Robert Joseph Starace, John Henry Stephenson, Maurice Crooks Strattan, Earl Richard Tanner, William George Tesser, Paul Raymond Tomich, Charles Edward Traynor, Theodore Taylor Walker, Elmer Weisenfluh, James Donald Welch, Richard Albert West, Wesley Joseph Willans, Leslie Allan Wilmott, David Robert Wood

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Fantasia Announces First Wave of Titles for Its 28th Edition

The Fantasia International Film Festival will celebrate its upcoming 28th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 18 through August 4, 2024, returning yet again at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screens and events at Montreal’s Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée.

Poster art by Donald Caron The festival’s full lineup will be announced on July 3, but in the meantime, Fantasia has revealed a select first wave of premiere titles, along with a first look at its 2024 poster art. The festival’s 2024 poster art, created by Montreal visual artist Donald Caron, brings back two of the festival’s most beloved characters from earlier editions, returning by popular demand. The cinema-loving cat and pug, barreling into the future on a sidecar motorcycle, embody the excitement, playfulness, and absurdity that Fantasia has championed since its inception in 1996.

28th Fantasia International Film Festival

CHUCK RUSSELL RETURNS TO HORROR WITH WITCHBOARD, A WILD RE-IMAGINING OF THE CLASSIC 80'S FRANCHISE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr0d00hy1h8 From A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS and the beloved1988 remake of THE BLOB to THE MASK, ERASER, and THE SCORPION KING, director Chuck Russell has no shortage of imaginative fantasy/horror classics under his belt. Now he returns to the genre he’s marked so brilliantly with a radical reinvention of Kevin S. Tenney’s 1986 Canadian cult favorite WITCHBOARD. Emily (Madison Iseman, ANNABELLE COMES HOME) and her fiancé Christian (Aaron Dominguez, Hulu's Only Murderers in the Building) discover an ancient Wiccan artifact, a pendulum board, as they prepare to open a bistro in New Orleans' French Quarter. Emily becomes obsessed with the board's powers, exposing her to the ancient spirit of the Queen of Witches. Desperate to help his fiancé, Christian seeks the advice of occult expert Alexander Babtiste (Jamie Campbell Bower, Netflix's Stranger Things, the TWILIGHT saga), but Babtiste has dark secrets of his own. Shot in Montreal by cinematographer Yaron Levy (UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING). Also starring David La Haye (TRUE NORTH), Charlie Tahan (Netflix's Ozark), Antonia Desplat (AppleTV+'s Shantaram), and Mel Jarnson (MORTAL KOMBAT).

PRESENTED BY MIKE FLANAGAN, CHRIS STUCKMANN’S SHELBY OAKS IS HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4u3Z72KhN8 A woman's desperate search for her long-lost sister, a famous YouTuber who investigated paranormal happenings, falls into obsession upon realizing that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real. After a successful Kickstarter campaign that broke records across the platform, the highly anticipated feature debut feature from YouTube creator Chris Stuckmann is finally here and ready to scare the pants off the world. SHELBY OAKS delivers in all departments. Starring Camille Sullivan (HUNTER HUNTER), Brendan Sexton III (DON’T BREATHE 2), Sarah Durn (RENFIELD), Keith David (THE THING, NOPE), and Michael Beach (AQUAMAN). Produced by Aaron B. Koontz, Cameron Burns, and Ashleigh Snead, and Executive Produced by Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy, among others.

MIGUEL LLANSÓ’S INFINITE SUMMER IS A TRIPPY, TRANSHUMANIST FEAT OF FILMMAKING Estonia-based Miguel Llansó (CRUMBS, JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY) is a singular gift to cinema. Fantasia is proud to be bringing the visionary iconoclast back to Montreal for the World Premiere of what may be his most compelling creation yet: INFINITE SUMMER, a trippy transhumanist sci-fi exploration vibrant with humor, poignancy, and gonzo invention. On a summer break, Mia and her friends try a meditation app that that’s somehow related to the operating system of the Tallinn Zoo, changing in the body chemistry of its users into something between pollen and cosmic dust. Mia will need to choose between saving her friends or joining them.  An astonishing film, produced by legendary US producing partners Allison Rose Carter and Jon Read (EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, AMERICAN HONEY), Rain Rannu (CHASING UNICORNS, THE INVISIBLE FIGHT), and Tõnu Hiielaid (KRATT), and Llansó himself, starring Hannah Gross (Netflix’s Mindhunter), Johanna Rosin, and Teele Kaljuvee-O'Brock.

TRUTH BE TOLD, CONFESSION IS A MASTERFULLY CRAFTED SINGLE-LOCATION THRILLER Every Winter since Sayuri’s tragic disappearance sixteen years ago, Asai and Jiyong climb the mountain where it happened to honor her memory. However, an intense blizzard and a catastrophic injury convince Jiyong he’s done for and, before forcing Asai to leave him to die, he shares a devastating revelation. Asai returns, however, after finding a nearby cabin and now, isolated for the night, the two have to deal with Jiyong’s not-so-last words... the hard way. Two award-winning Fantasia legends, director Nobuhiro Yamashita (LA LA LA AT ROCK BOTTOM) and actor/writer/director Yang Ik-june (BREATHLESS), along with superstar Toma Ikuta (THE MOLE SONG trilogy), team up to adapt a beloved manga into a narrative and technical achievement, one of the best single-location thrillers ever created. With stellar performances and masterful direction using every inch of his set to generate maximum tension, CONFESSION flirts with perfection at every level - and must be experienced in a theatre.

JAYRO BUSTAMANTE’S RITA WILL HAUNT YOUR MEMORY AND BREAK YOUR HEART Following up on the international success of his brilliant LA LLORONA (2019), director Jayro Bustamante’s RITA fuses mythical fantasy and whimsical imagery with themes of childhood innocence and the potent emotional register of a story based on a harrowing real-life event, wherein 41 young women needlessly burned to death inside a Guatemalan orphanage in the midst of a protest about inhumane conditions. At its core is the powerful performance of Guiliana Santa Cruz, who speaks for all the young women who suffered. As a result, the story speaks much to the power of female anger, and yet, not once does the director lose sense of the fact that at its heart, Rita’s tale is one of girlhood, of dreams, of an innocence lost, and regained within the bosom of female solidarity.

THIS MAN BLENDS WESTERN INSPIRATIONS WITH J-HORROR TROPES IN A PERFECT MELTING POT OF TERROR An inexplicable wave of tragic deaths plunges two investigators into the heart of a fateful whirlwind, where logic and facts have no value as a far-fetched urban legend seems to come true. A mother plagued by terrifying dreams, seeing her friends and colleagues disappear one after the other, and her family witness the horror unfold. Director and screenwriter Tomojiro Amano (TRAPPED IN MAKYO) skillfully fuses the styles of Eastern and Western classics, referencing RINGU, IT FOLLOWS, and A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET among others, to create an intimate, oppressive work that constantly keeps viewers on the edge of their seats as it slowly and subtly unveils the pandemic-like slaughter outside. At the crest of the international horror-film harvest of 2024, already a banner year, THIS MAN is sure to lodge itself in viewers' memories. With such potential, a Hollywood remake wouldn’t be surprising.

LOWELL DEAN’S DARK MATCH CONJURES SIX-TIME CHAMP CHRIS JERICHO AS A CULT LEADER! After his success with the WOLF COP films, Canadian filmmaker Lowell Dean switches it up and takes horror to the ring! When small-time wrestlers get a big payday for a private gig, they jump at the chance for fame and fortune, but the event, run by a mysterious leader who calls himself “The Prophet,” demands plenty of blood on the mats and involves a sinister, demonic deal! Set in the wrestling heyday of the 80s, DARK MATCH is an action-packed rumble on the ropes shot by acclaimed cinematographer Karim Hussain (INFINITY POOL, POSSESSOR). Starring wrestling legend Chris Jericho as the charismatic leader of its bloodthirsty cult, Ayisha Issa (TRANSPLANT), and Steven Ogg (AMC’s The Walking Dead), you’ll get more than your share of intrigue, action, and gore inside this ring! Septentrion Shadows section.

A SAMURAI IN TIME IS WORTH THE TIME AND TRAVEL TO SEE An Edo-period swordsman is flung into the future, arriving in modern Kyoto to confront utter confusion—and an acting career. The medieval warrior transported to modern times is a variant of the time-travel subgenre that has been explored many times around the world. Award-winning writer/director Junichi Yasuda (GOHAN), however, offers a take on the theme that’s not only clever, funny, and distinctly Japanese, but remarkably poignant. Shot on location at Toei Studios Kyoto, A SAMURAI IN TIME is held together by the subtle and convincing performance of lead actor Makiya Yamaguchi. More than just a fun fish-out-of-water fantasy, it’s an homage to samurai cinema as it wanes as surely as the shogunate once did.

SWIPE RIGHT ON ELRIC KANE’S DATING APP CHILLER THE DEAD THING A young woman, lost in a series of meaningless connections through dating apps, falls in love with a charismatic man who is hiding a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession. Smart, tragic and unsettling, Pure Cinema host Elric Kane’s first solo-directed feature is a character-driven supernatural nightmare that explores the demons of modern dating in ways that are both horrific and disturbingly relatable.  Swipe right on this profound piece of genre cinema that is destined to become a horror classic. Staring Blu Hunt (Netflix’s Another Life), Ben Smith-Petersen (MAD MAX: FURY ROAD), Katherine Hughes (ECHO 3), and John Karna (SCREAM). Co-Written by Webb Wilcoxen (The Frontier). Produced by Monte Yazzie, Matt Mercer (BLISS), and Rebekah McKendry (GLORIOUS).

MASHING UP GENRES, MASH VILLE IS A KOREAN CULT CLASSIC IN THE MAKING Someone has died after drinking the bootleg liquor brewed by Se-jong and his two younger brothers. While on a mission to retrieve their deadly booze before another person perishes from it, they come across two homicidal cultists who are terrorizing the villagers. The love that director Hwang Wook (LIVE HARD, DOG EAT DOG) harbors for the Western, action, and comedy genres shines through from start to finish with stylish cinematography, quirky characters, and an incredibly entertaining screenplay. Most importantly, pitch-black humor abounds. Hwang and company commit to their absurdity, and it’s an absolute blast, a genre-mashing crowd-pleaser sure to be a Korean cult classic as time goes on.

LUCÍA PUENZO’S ELECTROPHILIA CASTS A SUBVERSIVE NEW VISION A woman wakes up from a coma six weeks after being struck by lightning and finds herself compulsively drawn to electric currents as her body’s workings begin to change. She soon joins an underground support group of strike survivors led by a dangerously charismatic doctor, opening a doorway into unexpected new explorations. A gripping, sensorial experience with a visceral emotional core, ELECTROPHILIA is the latest creation from Cannes-award-winning Argentinian filmmaker and novelist Lucía Puenzo (THE FISH CHILD, XXY). Reminiscent of CRASH-era Cronenberg, it is a subversive and beautiful genre work, a different kind of self-discovery tale, and a new breed of dramatic thriller. Starring Mariana Di Girolamo (Pablo Larrain’s EMA), German Palacios (EL RAPTO), and Guillermo Pfening (THE GERMAN DOCTOR).

A MORALLY CHALLENGING TALE OF REVENGE, PENALTY LOOP TAKES A FAMILIAR THEME ON A DEVILISHLY TWISTED PATH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-uwF0-__uY Left bereft by the wanton and inexplicable murder of his girlfriend, Jun chooses his own justice, carefully planning the perfect murder of the man who led him to become what he wants to eliminate. Once the vengeance is consummated, he wakes up with a confirmed sense of déjà-vu and his target alive and well, repeating the same routine as the day before. Offering a breathless, dark, and innovative variation on the time-loop concept, writer/director Shinji Araki (THE TOWN OF HEADCOUNTS) establishes himself as a sure thing in contemporary Japanese genre cinema with this unpredictable, shocking narrative that constantly twists and turns toward a conclusion that’s as satisfying as it is devastating. Carried by a convincing duo of actors in perfect sync, PENALTY LOOP is an accomplishment condemning Araki to return to the forefront with each of his future projects.

THE ADAMS FAMILY BIRTH CREATURES AT A SERBIAN FRACKING SITE IN HELL HOLE A road trip through Canadian oil fields conjured up fantasies of secrets deep in the dirt for the Adams family, and inspired them to create HELL HOLE, an indie rock-n-roll monster movie set at a far-away fracking site. Known for their DIY ethos, John and Lulu Adams and Toby Poser, partnering with Shudder, have joined the team behind The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs and FX legend Todd Masters to shoot their latest in Serbia with a local cast and crew. Absurd, mutinous, and transgressively comical, Hell Hole is old-school sci-fi horror, yet in typical family fashion, they subvert the genre with textures of biological and environmental horror in tandem with questions of gender and bodily autonomy. This will be the fourth time that Fantasia World Premieres work from the gifted filmmaking family, following launches of THE DEEPER YOU DIG, HELLBENDER, and WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS.

DEAD DEAD FULL DEAD MUTATES THE WHODUNIT GENRE Junior police officers Balraam and Zubeida make a cute couple, but not the most diligent detectives. Called to a posh apartment tower to investigate a reported murder, the seemingly straightforward case quickly becomes a conundrum that would confuse even Sherlock Holmes. When the victim herself returns from the afterlife, matters become even more muddled, and soon enough the question isn’t who killed her... but who didn’t?! With the deadpan delirium of his debut feature, Mumbai-based editor and filmmaker Pratul Gaikwad offers a very odd, otherworldly mutation on the much-loved mystery-comedy genre. Featuring paranormal powers and multiple manias, cosmic wonders and covert class warfare, celestial bureaucracy and dysfunctional love, and even a supernaturally transformed goat, Gaikwad’s surreal whodunit offers a bit of everything... except perhaps proper law-enforcement procedure.

VOIVOD: WE ARE CONNECTED OFFERS A THUNDERING TRIBUTE TO LEGENDARY PROG METAL PIONEERS From the moment they exploded out of Jonquière in the early ‘80s, Voivod have been widely hailed as one of the most original and influential metal bands in the world. Years in the making and produced with full access to the band’s archives, Felipe Belalcazar’s illuminating VOIVOD: WE ARE CONNECTED brings the story of a groundbreaking 40+ year career to the screen with energy, insight, and a palpable sense of love. The long-awaited doc will be launched in the very province that birthed the band and Fantasia couldn’t be prouder. With appearances by Tobias Forge (Ghost), Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth), Jason Newsted (Metallica – and brief Voivod member), Zach Blair (Rise Against, GWAR), Tom G Warrior (Celtic Frost, Triptykon), and Ivan Doroschuk (Men Without Hats), among many others. Docs from the Edge section.

A FANTASTICAL JAPAN RETURNS IN FLY ME TO THE SAITAMA: FROM BIWA LAKE WITH LOVE After stealing hearts at Fantasia 2019, where FLY ME TO THE SAITAMA won the Audience Award for Best Asian Feature, director Hideki Takeuchi returns to a fantastical version of Japan—“definitely not a portrayal of any actual place”—with a completely original story independent from the ’80s manga from which it takes its name. Read the full article

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Unfortunately I haven’t been in the mood for many of these fandoms, so as of currently I am not open to roleplay requests.❤️

(Please read this if you do plan on roleplaying with me!!)

I don’t plan on listing a novel on my style and how I do so, but I will list some simple details below. (Also, if you’re interested and wanna know more just DM me and I can give you more info!)

Staring off, I’d like to say fandoms (I do have characters out of each I’d prefer but I’m extremely lenient and understanding if there are preferences that my partner has)

I just like being able to go as a character that I favorite (I generally like characters like I act like as a person and that I can relate to)

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SLC PUNK! — Steve “Stevo” Levy / “Heroin” Bob

—> I prefer to be Stevo

Scream — Tatum Riley / Sidney Prescott

—> I prefer to be Tatum

Stuart “Stu” Macher / William “Billy” Loomis

—> I prefer to be Stu

Senseless — Tim LaFlour / Darryl Witherspoon

—> I prefer to be Tim

The Outsiders — Ponyboy Curtis / Johnny Cade

—> I Prefer to be Ponyboy

Sodapop Curtis / Steve Randle

—> I prefer to be Steve

Keith “Two-Bit” Mathews / Dallas “Dally” Winston

—> I prefer to be Two-Bit

American Horror Story — Violet Harmon / Tate Langdon

—> Either

Basically any ships (I don’t really have any down at the moment)

IT — Patrick Hockstetter / Henry Bowers

—> I prefer to be Patrick

Patrick Hockstetter / Victor Criss

—> I prefer to be Patrick

Stanley Uris / Bill Denbrough

—> I prefer to be Stanley

Eddie Kaspbrak / Richie Tozier

—> I prefer to be Eddie

FNAF — Michael (Afton/Schmidt) / Male OC

—> I prefer to be Michael

Michael (Afton/Schmidt) / William Afton

—> I prefer to be Michael

Michael (Afton/Schmidt) / Jeremy Fitzgerald

—> I prefer to be Michael

Future Man — Josh Futturman / Wolf (Corey Wolfhart)

—> I prefer to be Josh

The Hunger Games — Peeta Mellark / Gale Hawthorne

—> I prefer to be Peeta

Peeta Mellark / Finnick Odair

—> I prefer to be Peeta

(And other ships too)

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I’m pretty much good with anything

I can be either character! Just let me know your preference!

(I’ll Do SFW and NSFW)

-No One-Line Replies (Please!!)

-No Making It All About Your Character

-If It’s An 18+ Roleplay (And You Have A Specific Submissive Character Please Don’t Make Them Too Whiny/Helpless)

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- Just let me know about any trigger you may have, your preference, if you want [NSFW, SFW, or Both], what app you’d prefer using (Discord, Tumblr…), Etc.

- Also, I ask a lot of questions for my partners comfort, mostly plot based and about characters.

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That’s Pretty Much It! ♡

I’ll most likely continue adding onto this periodically.

[bonniebird]

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Halloween with Eddie Munson:

Eddie meets you after a Halloween session with the Hellfire club that he made specifically for Halloween.

You both go to Family Video and pick out some movies to watch together and have a movie marathon.

Keith gives Eddie a few bootlegs that he found of new tapes they don’t have to rent yet which Eddie says you might try.

You stop off at the corner store and pool your money to get a massive haul of Halloween-themed snacks.

The two of you walk through the woods to get to his trailer and crunch the leaves. Eddie finds a really big one that he says will look awesome when it gets to the ‘skeleton stage’ where the veins are all that’s left of the leaf.

As soon as you get to Eddie’s, he finds out that Wayne has gone out for the evening but left him some money for pizza so, Eddie calls the pizza place and orders their Halloween-themed pizza which turned out to be a regular pizza that was sort of ghost-shaped but must have lost it’s shape when it was cooked because it looked like a weird blog. 

You help Eddie go around and turn on all the lights and decorations ready for trick-or-treaters.

Eddie says that Wayne always goes all out for the kids in the trailer park because he thinks they deserve it.

Every time someone comes to the door Eddie insists that you both go and has to get a good look at all the costumes. 

He promises to several people who had clearly trick or treated at the trailer several years in a row that he’ll update Wayne on their costumes.

Once the trick-or-treaters die down you and Eddie start your movie marathon. 

Eddie finds it hard to sit still and starts working on another campaign while you both watch the movies.

Eddie tags:

@stellasblog​ @deanwinchestersgirl87​ @thekayarlene​ @linkpk88​ @babypink224221​ @prettyplant0​ @hardladyheart​ @bluejaysaysstuff​ @wittiestrain184​ @im-ilvn​ @slxthxrxn-sxmp​ @jamie-c-bower-simp @aprilfire18 @im-eating-rn​ @skylermoyer​ @writerfulltime​ @im-ilvn​ @maplefire18​

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mwm?

hey nonny! i asked the members in our discord & added a couple myself and thus i present you our most wanted males right now: cillian murphy, jamie campbell bower, jesse williams, gerard butler, keith powers, bradley cooper, justin hartley, milo ventimiglia, joe keery, david giuntoli, gong yoo, park seo-jun, logan lerman, chance perdomo, toby wallace, jack mulhern, griffin gluck, ali hadji-heshmati & anthony keyvan! hope this helped and if you'd like some more inspo here is our wanted page and here you can see all our answered asks considering most wanted faces!

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Selling to the "real fans" would be my Utopia — Gorski

ALL those fans who wanted owner Rob Gorski to leave Bower Fold have got their way. He has resigned as chairman and Stalybridge Celtic is up for sale.

The question now, is who will buy? Is anyone able to put their money where their mouth is?

In the midst of an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis, who has the funds to buy the controlling interest in a Northern Premier League club that is bound to come with an expensive price tag?

Will it prove possible to put together a supporters' co-operative? As you'll see below, that would be Rob Gorski's preferred option, but could it happen. My own experience suggests that while many people might be prepared to buy a single share for £10 or £20, far fewer would be willing to invest the kind of much sums needed for a realistic bid.

So what does the future hold? What are Rob Gorski's plans? What does he think of Celtic's current situation? Below, is a series of questions I asked him and the replies I received.

If someone wants to buy Stalybridge Celtic, how do they register an interest?

I haven't started to officially market the club externally, yet I’ve already had three parties showing an interest. I'll be asking all parties to submit their formal bids via the club’s accountants, David Lever at Warr and Co of Denton*. If they can't find his details they can also contact me directly.

In the past you've said you were prepared to consider selling Stalybridge Celtic but only to someone with the club's best interests at heart. Do you have some sort of fit-and-proper persons test lined up?

I'll perform my own due diligence on each interested party.

Most fans won't be aware of this, but I had a potential buyer from Singapore express interest about a year ago. For Rob Gorski personally, it was potentially a very tempting financial option. However, my research uncovered someone who had his own pure financial gain as his motive and he had taken over two other football clubs before only for him to close them both and capitalise on the land.

As a Celtic fan, notwithstanding potential large sums of money, I simply could not have lived with myself and so I closed that particular door.

I'll be vetting all potential new buyers to ascertain what they can bring to the club and what their motives and goals are. I'll then balance that with their financial proposal.

Do you have a price in mind? Are you looking to recoup what you've put in over the last 20 years or just a "serious" amount?

I do have figures in mind. However, I’ve already alluded to the fact that it will be an overall “package" and the intentions of the buyer that will also play a major role.

With national government changing housing legislation on building developments, I need to ensure that a potential buyer is not just going to take a 970-year lease on land worth maybe £7 to 8 million, and leave the club hoping to ground share with a Tameside neighbour.

I'll ensure there are some guarantees with regard to Celtic’s future. That will be written in to any legal document. 

While you look for a buyer, will you remain in charge or day-to-day affairs or have you stepped down and passed on the baton? If so to whom? A person, the board as a whole?

I have stepped down due to ill health. I need to have more tests and then maybe medical procedures, and that's why I stepped down, with immediate effect, a fortnight ago.

In fact, I have not been at a game for over two months now. I miss it terribly, but I have to look after myself.

Keith Smart has been taking care of everything in my absence and will continue to drive the club forward. Keith is simply an outstanding man. Professional, diligent and utterly honest.

Fans have no idea how difficult it is to run, (practically as well as financially), a non-league, part-time, football club. People like Keith and Gordon Greenwood are worth their weight in gold. I hope that other directors, who have been "less visible" step up to help them and others.

Has there been any sign of the much-talked-about fans' co-operative?

Not a word. Conceptually, that would be my Utopia — that the fans, the real fans, own Stalybridge Celtic. However, back on planet earth, Stalybridge, the town I love, is truthfully a town entering a depression that would be socially graded as D or E. Sadly, I suspect  I won’t be hearing much back on that.

In your time as chairman/owner you put a lot of blood and treasure into the club and appointed a string of managers who came with an impressive pedigree. Why do think you were never able to achieve any success?

That's a question I've asked myself many times.

Jim Harvey’s kids were technically outstanding, but sadly lacking in physicality. Liam Watson was a major disappointment — his football was 20 years out of date — and Simon Haworth was shockingly negative.

So really, only Steve Burr brought good times the first time he was at Bower Fold in 2007-2011. The quality of football was a real joy with Dave Hankin burning down one wing and Steve Torpey down the other, with a really strong 16-man squad. It very nearly got us back up punching above our weight in National League North.

However, we’ve seen more and more clubs come through the pyramid with money I simply couldn't compete with. Not just Salford, Harrogate, Fylde and Fleetwood, but ones that came and went like Shaw Lane Aquaforce. All paying simply stupid money.

Stalybridge Celtic does not have an asset like Ashton United’s Cross Bar Club, which is effectively one of Hurst's pubs, or Hyde United’s 3G pitch, so the club relied on directors putting their hand in their pocket or an ever diminishing fanbase that was no longer attending due to Premier League lunchtime/early evening screenings.

Then there was covid, and of course the lack of a challenging team, which brings us back to the fact we simply couldn’t compete financially.  

Will you remain a fan or are you stepping away from football for good?

I will always remain a Stalybridge Celtic fan. I was a fan in the Seventies, I was when I lived in London and abroad, and I shall be until I die.

I remember telling Pete Dennerly, my predecessor as chairman, that I had some bad news for him back around 2007 when Ken Bates had invited me to join the Leeds United board. Pete fell silent, only for me to tell him the bad news was that I would only ever be a Celtic director and that he was stuck with me.

I respect other people who have been a director at different clubs. However, personally, I could never relate to that. It was Celtic or nobody for me. I need to look after my health first and foremost, but nothing will give me greater pleasure than buying Chris Willcock (a top man by the way) or Keith Smart, a beer after a great win on a Saturday afternoon next year.

Will Celtic avoid relegation?

I desperately hope so. When you see or hear about wages up and down the Northern Premier League, it makes you wonder how clubs stay afloat.

Without an asset to milk, or hugely disproportionate fan bases, clubs rely on directors and fans to cover ever-increasing costs and because Celtic have struggled financially off the field, it makes achieving success on it, much more difficult.

I think Chris Willcock has now got a much better quality squad than he had early doors. He effectively had to build it from scratch and he quickly realised he’d have to make a number of changes to ensure we could compete.

I’ve not been well enough to attend of late, so I've missed recent performances. However, I gather they are much improved and I sincerely hope and believe the lads can continue to improve and that they'll get that little rub of the green that will see them start to climb the table. 

*Warr and Co, 76 Manchester Road, Denton, M34 3PS — 0161 336 2222 — https://warr.co.uk

[softfem-dom]

NAVIGATION POST ! [🧺🐚] paola / spanish / +18 / aries. current husbands : wade wilson (earth-10005) , worst logan , logan howlett.

requests closed ! 🌊 crossed fandom means i'm not writting for them atm but probably will in a near future.

MASTERLIST ! BOT MASTERLIST !

FANDOMS I WRITE FOR ! (current hyperfixations in blue)

𝙭 𝙢𝙚𝙣 logan howlett worst! wolverine old man logan

wade wilson (earth 10005) weapon x! wade wilson deadpool / wade wilson nicepool

𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙤𝙮𝙨 michael david marko paul dwayne

𝙄𝙏 patrick hockstetter henry bowers gard jagermeyer (book) steve 'moose' sandler (book) peter gordon (book)

𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙡 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙣 martin riggs

𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 carlos de vil harry hook gil legume chad charming

𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙥𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮 todd anderson neil perry knox overstreet charlie dalton

𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 danny zuko kenickie murdroch putzie / roger doody sonny

𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 stu macher billy loomis ethan landry /non requestable.

𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨 patrick zweig art donaldson

𝙢𝙖𝙯𝙚 𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧 thomas aris winston

𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 dallas winston sodapop curtis ponyboy curtis darry curtis johnny cade steve randle keith matthews bob sheldon

requesting rules !

I will write : ✰ fem reader / afab reader. ✰ romantic stuff. ✰ platonic stuff. ✰ imagines. ✰ headcanons. ✰ blurbs. ✰ one shots songfics. ✰ (legal) age-gap. ✰ found family trope (i love it) ✰ angst. ✰ hurt/comfort. ✰ fluff. ✰ crackfic. ✰ smut. ✰ s3lf h4rm and e4ting diss0rder stuff (i'll proberly warn at the start and tags of the post).

I won't write : ✰ male reader / amab reader. ✰ anything related to p3doph1lia. ✰ dd/lg. ✰ anything related to p1ss, sh1t, f3et or any bodily fluids kinks. ✰ homophobic / racist requests in any way. just no. ✰ canon gay / lesbian characters in love with the opposite gender. ✰ requested full fics (like someone request their idea to be turned into a long/full fic). ✰ anything related to age play in a sexual context.

DNI : HOMOPHOBICS , RACISTS , TERFS , NSFW AGE REGRESSION BLOGS , KINK BLOGS .

[notoriouseliterp]

Hi tags. Hope you're enjoying your Sunday. As it happens, I have some spare time on my hands today should anyone need anything. We're a canon celebrity group where writers are encouraged to expand their creative juices. Reserves last 24 hours and you can bring in your three favourites immediately. We have a variety of celebrities open and wanted, such as, Madelyn Cline, Richard Madden, Emma Mackey, Alexander Skarsgård, Madison Beer, Keith Powers, Anne Hathaway, Tyla, Jamie Campbell Bower, Kendall Jenner, Michael Clifford, Lily Collins, Chase Stokes, Perrie Edwards and Jeong Jungkook.

[northiowatoday]

OBIT: Daniel S. "Smoothie" Paulson

Daniel “Smoothie” Paulson, 66, passed away Monday, July 29, 2024 at his home after a hard fought 13 year battle with cancer. Born on June 23, 1958, in Mason City, IA, Daniel Scott was the son of Keith C. and Jacqueline (Bowers) Paulson. The family initially lived on an acreage near Thornton. When he was in kindergarten, they moved to Clear Lake. He attended Clear Lake High School before embarking…

[arkin-oconnell]

“ If I weren’t so cold, we could freeze this moment, and as we won’t grow old, we’ll leave no heart unbroken”

[cis-male, he/him] Welcome to Aurora Bay, [ARKIN O’CONELL]! I couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like [JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER]. You must be the [THIRTY THREE] year old [ACTOR]. Word is your [PASSIONATE] but can also be a bit [VINDICTIVE] and your favorite song is [17 CRIMES BY AFI]. I also heard you’ll be staying in [CRYSTAL COVE]. I’m sure you’ll love it!

Tw: drug abuse, Abuse, overdose, gaslighting,

Family

Janey O’Connell: Mother

Keith O’Connell: Father (deceased)

Addison O’Connell: Twin Sister

Eden O’Connell: Younger Sister

Olivia Alderidge: unknown daughter

Wanted Connections

Ex girlfriend/ secret baby mama : Iris Alderidge

Current hook up in town : Sterling Levin

Ex girlfriend from Hollywood

Former high school hook ups

Best friend from high school:Cordelia Danvers

A therapist

A lawyer

Ex girlfriends family: Buddy Wells, Delilah Carrẽno

A best friend :Cordelia Danvers

An enemy

History

Arkin looks like the classic bad boy in every way and his public life has done little to persuade anyone to think differently. However the truth about his circumstances is far more complex than just rumor. Born in Aurora Bay to a couple who decided that having a children would fix their already rocky marriage, Arkin was the first of three band aid babies and the oldest of twins that were essentially used as a tool to repair a bad situation. When things fell apart when his youngest sister was barely out of diapers, Arkin’s dad walked out in his mom after years of abuse and cheating and left her struggling financially. The huge move forced them to move out of seabrook quarter and into Oceancrest; where Arkin found himself sleeping in the couch most of the time so that his mom and sisters got to have their own rooms. All the while the rumors of their dad’s philandering, abusive behavior, and penchant for ruining marriages had a way of making the O’Connell’s look like too much trouble than they were worth.

Money was tight and the mostly affluent environment he was surrounded with did little to make Arkin a cheerful child. In fact it made him into a fairly dramatic and self destructive individual. The characters you would read about in classic literature that were very intense and brooding became almost a blueprint to his personality. It was an act at first but quickly became who he was with a series of additional setbacks. His mom tried her best but when bottles of empty alcohol would appear in the trash more frequently; it was clear the family’s coping mechanisms were growing more destructive for everyone; not just Arkin. He tried to shield his sisters from it but when his twin started to get into just as much trouble outside and in school it was clear they were all struggling. His own behaviors of getting caught stealing liquor bottles from grocery stores, causing drama in school, being a bit of a playboy and just being a chaotic little shit wasn’t helping in any capacity.

As he grew older he started to fall behind in school and most of the staff began to allow him to fall into the cracks since he didn’t show much promise. He was just another one of those kids that was going to fail out. However, the high school theater teacher took one look at all of his pent up dramatics and theatricality and knew it could be put to some positive use. The only way he was able to pass his classes was because he was now part of the schools theater program. In fact Arkin had an affinity for most art forms. While math and science made not a single bit of sense to him, it was painting and plays that made him start to see a way out of his family situation and off his couch and able to provide.

Arkin could have been the most talented person on the planet but that didn’t mean he was ever going to be good enough for some people. And with a mom who was becoming a well known drunk and an absentee scumbag of a dad as his parents it wasn’t like anyone would look at him and assume he was perfect for their daughter. And that was exactly what had happened. Arkin had a history of not wanting a girlfriend and would sleep around ally before the age of 16. After all ‘like father like son’ and yet as soon as he saw her in his junior year English class it was like electricity. He’d fallen head over heels in love with her and decided that maybe he was a one woman man now. Always a man of dramatic flair he felt like he was in Romeo and Juliet as soon as he began to know her. Her family was from wealth and had a positive reputation in Aurora Bay. It seemed like she was destined for greatness while he would be lucky to get out of ocean crest but that didn’t stop him from pursuing a relationship. And that idea of Romeo and Juliet was becoming more of a reality. Arkin was now seen as a bad influence, someone from a trash upbringing who was bringing down someone who was going to be prom queen and have her pick of any Ivy League college upon graduation. He was getting in the way of everything her family had worked so hard to provide for her. Arkin was seen as a dark influence. The bad boy who needed to be stopped.

He knew Aurora Bay was a dead end for him and he didn’t see the point in finishing high school; not when his art teachers told him he was talented and his girlfriends family told him he’d wind up in a gutter or leaving her pregnant and alone. So Arkin hatched a plan, they would run away together. Make their names in Hollywood and he’d also be able to provide for his sisters and get his mom the help she needed. There was just one problem, his girlfriends family found out about their plans of escaping and began to work their own plans to break them apart. Arkins past as someone who would cheat came back to haunt him when rumors about him sleeping with his high school best friend began to leak. Rumors about him planning on leaving his girlfriend alone in the city soon followed.

“ Arkin O’Connell was an opportunist. “

“ he’s only using her families money to get to Hollywood and then he’s gonna leave her in the dust “

“ he’s been cheating on her since they started dating”

They were all lies but the closeness of him and his best friend; coupled with the fact his dad had essentially done the same if not worse to his own family started to form cracks in the relationship and as Arkin packed his bags and showed up to whisk the love of his life away in an adventure; she never showed up. He wrote her a letter begging for answers but it was never delivered to her. It was intercepted by her own mother. All he got was a letter saying it was over. That he was the same scum of the earth his father was. And that he was foolish to believe that he could ever be with the likes of her.

The letter was a hard wound to his heart and Arkin disappeared into the night never to be heard from again until he became almost a mega star over night. By that point it was impossible to avoid seeing his angular jawline and tattoos covering film billboards and making headlines for all the right and wrong reasons. The bad boy image he had in Aurora bay became a persona. He made millions by milking that aesthetic into a career. No longer was he someone who seemed like trouble as much as he was one of the names in town that was looked at with more reverence than his youth gave him.

He used the money he made to help out his family like he promised. His mother got sober and he put his family in a large house in Aurora Bay drive. If his sisters needed anything financially from him, he’d be able to help support their hopes and dreams. Arkin seemed like he truly had it all. But the problem with a bad boy image meant that you behaved in a way that gave you that moniker. While he tried to help his family out he was still crumbling under the weight of success and legacy. And the ghosts of the past would haunt him again.

Arkin had tried to get answers about why his father had done for years and when he finally found the man he was only met with a headstone. He’d also heard word back from his sister that the ex that had believed the lies was thriving. Unable to have any closure with his dad and realizing there were still wounds from the relationship; Arkin started to spiral more and began to move from just drinking too much to doing recreational drugs on the regular. It started to grow and grow to the point where he was getting fired from projects due to his on set behavior and the news about him wasn’t about a movie but about whether or not he was going to show up on a red carpet halfway coked out of his mind and getting into a fight with some PA.

It was then he overdosed and reality came crashing back in. He sat in rehab trying to figure out just what went wrong and he knew it was a million little things. They all added up and painted his trip into this strange and unfamiliar place.

He was now Sober, clean, and out of work. Three things he dreaded.

With prompting from his little sister who told him coming home would do him some good and unable to say no to her; Arkin came back to the town he dreaded ever stepping foot in again. He had no intention though of letting people see him when he was down. As soon as he set foot in city limits; the chaos bringing; dramatic and troubled image the news rejected him to be was the only thing others were allowed to see. The only ones who saw the truth were his family and friends and even then he was keeping people at a distance. He didn’t want anyone to see how many cracks had appeared on his veneer. He didn’t want anyone to know just how fragile he was emotionally and within his sobriety. The guy who took care of his family needed his sisters and his mom to take care of him. He’s attending meetings, seeing a therapist, painting as a way to heal the wounds he still carries with him as he tries to figure out if his acting career is over.

The longer he spends in town the more he remembers how much he hated it. Everything reminds him of both good and bad times. Everything reminds him of her. He hasn’t had the courage to reach out and ask why? If he did he would realize the truth. How her family had manipulated the whole situation. That she never had sent him that scathing letter and that it was her mom who delivered the killing blow. That when he left; those rumors about him leaving her pregnant and alone had actually come true and that they have a teenage daughter out there that had been adopted so that she could finish school. If he knew the truth about everything would it finally grant him peace or send him spiraling back into chaos and addiction

@aurorabayaesthetic

[discoverdurhamnc]

Things to Do in Durham this Weekend (Apr 13-16)

Check out our full Durham events calendar.

If you'd like to add an event to our calendar, submit an event here. Please check with the event owners to see if events change due to weather. Have a great weekend!

Multi-Day Events

Durham Bulls Home Stand at Durham Bulls Athletic Park

Apr 13-16

vs. the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs

$10+

Beetlejuice at DPAC

It’s showtime! Based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film, this hilarious musical tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes.

Thu, Apr 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Fri, Apr 14 at 8:00 p.m.

Sat, Apr 15 at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

Sun, Apr 16 at 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

$71+

Rent at Reynolds Theater on Duke’s West Campus

Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

Thu-Fri at 8:00 p.m.

$15

Tour at Historic Maplewood Cemetery

Tour Durham’s famous Old Maplewood Cemetery. Founded in 1872, Maplewood is Durham’s first public amenity. Here are buried great captains of industry, brave soldiers, crusaders for public health, and remarkable women. Here also is a story of Jim Crow, segregation, and the struggle for equal rights.

Sat and Sun from 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

$15

Venue Weekend Schedules

Events at The Pinhook

Thu, Apr 13 at 7:00 p.m. - Legends of Drag!

Fri, Apr 14 at 9:00 p.m. - Canine Heart Sounds / Hammer No More the Fingers / Bangzz / Nick Sandborn (DJ Set)

Sat, Apr 15 at 7:00 p.m. - Monsoon / Grocer

Sat, Apr 15 at 10:00 p.m. - Energy: The Conjure’s 6th Anniversary!!

Sun, Apr 16 at 7:00 p.m. - Carolina Abortion Fund(Raiser!!) W/ Orre + Raffles / Art Sale Etc.

Events at Motorco Music Hall

Thu-Sat - Flamenco Vivo’s Tablao Flamenco

Sun, Apr 16 at 8:00 p.m. - Xiu Xiu with Slow Teeth

Live Music at Blue Note Grill

Thur, Apr 13 at 7:00 p.m. - Bark and Hart

Fri, Apr 14 at 6:00 p.m. - The Duke Street Dogs

Fri, Apr 14 at 9:15 p.m. - Wiley Fosters perform Willie Nelson

Sat, Apr 15 at 7:30 p.m. - Harmless Error

Events at Moon Dog Meadery

Sat, Apr 15 at 8:00 p.m. - Comedy on Broad Presents - No Bull Comedy

Sun, Apr 16 at 7:00 p.m. - Moon Dog Open Mic

Live Music at Sharp 9 Gallery

Fri, Apr 14 at 8:00 p.m. - Art Lande, Kate McGarry, Keith Ganz, Alan Hall

$31.35

Events at Arcana

Thu, Apr 13 - Closed for a private event

Fri, Apr 14 - Aphelyon and Tarot with Heiltje

Sat, Apr 15 - Ben Lassiter Trio and Tarot with Joy

Sun, Apr 16 - Brittany Ann Tranbaugh & Griefcat

Events at Rubies on Five Points

Thu, Apr 13 at 8:00 p.m. - Haunted Like Human and Jesse Fox

Fri, Apr 14 at 8:00 p.m. - Crisa Presents Dreaming of You: Celebrating Selena’s Legacy

Sat, Apr 15 at 9:00 p.m. - Shallow Cuts Presents: 1900s

Events at Glass Jug Beer Lab in RTP

Thu, Apr 13 from 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Welcome East Bower Cider Co

Fri and Sat from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - RTP Food Truck Fridays

Events at Glass Jug Beer Lab in Downtown Durham

Thu, Apr 13 from 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Karaoke Night: Spring Your Heart Out!

Fri-Sun - Weekend Food Trucks Downtown

Live Comedy at Mettlesome

Thu, Apr 13 at 7:00 p.m. | Standup Comedy Open Mic

Fri, Mar 18 at 8:00 p.m. | Well Seasoned - All Durham. All Black. All comedy.

Fri, Mar 18 at 9:00 p.m. | Hush Hush - Improv inspired by anonymous secrets from the audience.

Sat, Apr 15 at 8:00 p.m. | The Racket - See indie improv teams from around the Triangle show off their stuff.

Sat, Apr 15 at 9:00 p.m. | House Party - A mix of short-form (similar to Who's Line is it Anyway?) and long-form inspired by an audience interview.

All shows $8

Thursday, Apr 13

Date Night at Nailed It DIY Studio

Couples are invited to join us in the studio for some time together doing a project or making home decor. We have lots of great couple-themed items or you can each choose your own to make. As always our studio is BYOB so grab your favorite beverages and let’s DIY together!

Cost varies based on the project you choose

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Vinyl Night with DJ Deckades at Gizmo Brew Works

Enjoy fresh vibes on the patio with DJ Deckades. Bring your own vinyl to share or just listen to what the DJ is spinning.

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Free admission

Boulders & Brews Meetup at Triangle Rock Club - Durham

Show up and climb at TRC Durham, then head over to Hi-Wire for some brews. Don't worry if it's your first time or haven't bouldered before; everyone's welcome.

Your first visit to the gym with the Meetup includes free admission and gear rental, and subsequent visits with the meetup are $15 and include harness rental (outside of meetups, day pass rates of $19 apply and do not include rentals).

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Trivia Night w/Big Slow Tom at Clouds Brewing Brightleaf Square

Join Clouds Durham for Big Slow Tom's Trivia Night, every Thursday. Win some prizes, drink some beer, and show your smarts.

Enjoy $4 select draft and $5 rotating bartender's choice all night.

7:30 p.m.

Free admission

Latin Nights at The Honeysuckle at Lakewood

Get ready to spice up your Saturday night with a Cobo Brothers salsa party! Join in for salsa night and experience the best of Latin music, dance, and culture.

10:00 p.m.

$10 at the door before 10:30 p.m.

Friday, Apr 14

Tasting at Ten at Counter Culture Coffee

Every Friday morning at 10 am, Counter Culture Coffee opens their Training Centers to coffee lovers who want to learn more about Counter Culture Coffee’s high-quality, sustainably sourced menu.

10:00 a.m.

Free, but donations accepted

'70s Dance Party with 8-Track Minds at Bralie's Sports Bar 2

C'mon get happy with all your singalong and dancing favorites from the era of polyester suits, muscle cars, deep pile carpets and rich Corinthian leather! Dig the classic gems from KC & the Sunshine Band, Abba, Bee Gees, Jackson 5, Commodores, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Carpenters, Olivia Newton-John, and many more.

7:30 p.m.

Free admission

Duke Jazz Ensemble with Cyrus Chestnut, piano at Baldwin Auditorium

Join the Duke Jazz Ensemble, directed by John Brown with associate director Evan Roberson, as they welcome pianist Cyrus Chestnut to the Baldwin stage.

8:00 p.m.

$10 general public

Open Mic Stand-Up Comedy at Durty Bull Brewing Company

This weekly event takes place indoors in the Barrel Room, with seating available for nearly 100 people. There's no better way to unwind after a long week than a night of laughter with Ashley & Ebony. Interested in performing? Please contact Ashley and Ebony.

8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

21+

Free admission

JAM.BAE Fridays at Gojo Hookah Lounge

The premiere Afro-centric vibe energy in Durham. Afro heritage and futurism.

10:00 p.m.

$10 at the door

Saturday, Apr 15

parkrun Durham at Southern Boundaries Park

A free, fun, and friendly weekly 5k community event. Walk, jog, run, volunteer, or spectate. It's up to you!

8:00 a.m.

Free admission

Crafternoons at Gizmo Brew Works

Free pint with purchase of craft box. Choose from a variety of craft packages available for all ages.

12:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Nature Walking Meditation at Eno Rock Quarry

Featuring an orientation to nature meditation, walking quietly on a trail, and intentional pausing to experience nature with curiousity and wonder. There is a comforting feeling in being with others, without the pressure of speech. Going for walks in nature helps us regulate our nervous systems, calm our minds, improve our health, connect with beauty. It can also be helpful for psychedelic integration.

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Free admission (registration required)

NCCU Spring Game at O'Kelly-Riddick Stadium

The defending MEAC and HBCU national champions will host their annual NCCU Football Spring Game.

2:00 p.m.

Free admission

Mobile Cinema: Nuestro Durham at The Scrap Exchange

This vibrant exploration will begin with a live performance by a local Danza Azteca(Aztec Dance) group, before screening seven short documentaries – all with a local Durham or North Carolina focus.

7:30 p.m.

Free admission

Jambalaya Soul Slam I-85 Lyric Slam at Hayti Heritage Center

This is a competition where the participants are slamming with lyrics from their favorite songs. Popular songs, obscure songs, under appreciated songs, any song you like!

8:00 p.m.

$10

Sunday, Apr 16

Durham Farmers’ Market at Durham Central Park

The Durham Farmers’ Market offers locally grown fruits and vegetables, meats, eggs, cut flowers, artisanal cheeses and breads, home-baked pies, honey, handmade chocolates, preserves, local wines, handmade soaps, fresh pasta, and artwork of all sorts!

8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Free admission

South Durham Farmers' Market at Greenwood Commons Shopping Center

The market strives to support new and growing farms and vendors in the greater Durham area, and they are also home to some of the most iconic Durham brands around.

8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Free admission

Public Tour at Duke University Chapel

Learn about the history, architecture, and life of Duke Chapel in this tour. The tour begins at 12:15 p.m., or immediately following the conclusion of the Sunday morning service, and lasts approximately 45 minutes. No reservation is required but if you plan to bring a large group please contact dukechapel@duke.edu. Meet the docent on the front steps of the Chapel.

12:15 p.m.

Free admission

Black Farmers’ Market at Durham Tech

The Durham Black Farmers’ Market kicks off its 2023 season with a new location.

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Free admission

Trivia at Navigator Beverage Co.

Hosted by the Triangle’s Trivia team, Hammered Trivia, gather your team and post up to compete for prizes and enjoy an afternoon of great drinks, great friends, and great games.

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Free admission

Running Art Exhibits

The Mind’s Eye: Gallery Members Exhibition at 5 Points Gallery

5 Points Gallery celebrates cleverness in the Year of the Rabbit with their new exhibit called “The Mind’s Eye”.

Runs through Apr 15

Free admission

Damian Stamer/Collaborations: New Paintings at Craven Allen Gallery

Collaborations features both new paintings from Stamer’s continued exploration of home, memory, and place as well as a new body of work created in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence. Instead of his traditional process of using photographs as source material, Stamer used an AI text-to-image generator to compile reference imagery. The resulting oil paintings are visually striking and raise timely questions about our relationship with the digital world.

Runs through May 6

Free admission

Beyond the Surface: Collage, Mixed Media and Textile Works from the Collection at the Nasher

This exhibition includes approximately 40 works, primarily from the Nasher Museum’s collection. With a focus on collage, mixed media and textile works, Beyond the Surface explores how artists bring together disparate materials and ideas to create artworks that engage with all audiences.

Tue-Fri from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Sun from 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Runs through May 14

Free admission

Patrimonio | Heritage at John Hope Franklin Center Gallery

A series of drawing interventions on “Llanchama” (Amazonian tree bark) by Peruvian/American artist Renzo Ortega.

Mon-Fri from 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Runs through May 18

Free admission

Exhibit at 21c Museum Hotel

Whitney Stanley: We Just Be in the Vault Gallery

Runs through May 2023

Open 24 hours

Free admission

Spirit in the Land at the Nasher

Spirit in the Land is a contemporary art exhibition that examines today’s urgent ecological concerns from a cultural perspective, demonstrating how intricately our identities and natural environments are intertwined. Through their artwork, 30 artists show us how rooted in the earth our most cherished cultural traditions are, how our relationship to land and water shapes us as individuals and communities

Tue-Fri from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Sun from 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Runs through Jul 9

Free admission

Andy Warhol: You Look Good in Pictures at the Nasher

Andy Warhol: You Look Good in Pictures explores the breadth of the artist’s relationship with photography through several distinct bodies of work including screenprints of celebrities, all of which were taken from photographs, a group of Polaroids and black and white snapshots illustrating his social circles, and an early silent film of the curator Henry Geldzahler from 1964.

Tue-Fri from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Sun from 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Runs through Aug 27

Free admission

Art of Peru at the Nasher

This gallery features ceramics, textiles, metalwork and carvings produced by ancient cultures across what is known as present-day Peru.

Tue-Fri from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Sun from 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Runs through Dec 2

Free admission

[ryotarox]

パイプオルガンで即興演奏

(Kit Downes – Obsidian | ECM Records - YouTubeから)

Interview Kit Downes - Vermillion：僕らが選んだのではなく、録音した環境が演奏を決定していた｜柳樂光隆 Mitsutaka Nagira｜note

――2018年にはECMからの最初のアルバム『Obsidian』をリリースします。これはオルガンによるソロですが、どんなコンセプトだったのか教えてください。 子供の頃、当時住んでいたUK東部の田舎町でいろんな教会に行ってはそこにあるチャーチ・オルガン（パイプ・オルガン）を弾いていた。その経験をアルバムでもやってみようと思ったんだ。いろんなところに行ってオルガンを弾いてみると、大きなオルガン、小さなオルガン、その中間のものとサイズだけでも様々なオルガンがあって、それぞれに音が違う。そのオルガンにふさわしいアイデアや構造、即興演奏のやり方を自分なりにやってみるというのがこのアルバムのコンセプトだね。

――『Vyamanikal』はどんなコンセプトだったんですか？ 実は同じコンセプトでいろんなところに行って、そこにあるオルガンを弾くってコンセプトなんだけど、ひとつ違いがあって、それは壊れている楽器を敢えて使ったところ。壊れた楽器だからこそ引き出されるいびつさみたいなものをドキュメントしたアルバムだね。

――その2作では教会にあるパイプオルガンを演奏しているわけですが、誰か参照した演奏者はいますか？ ECMから出ているものならChristopher Bowers-Broadbent、Keith Jarrett『Hymns Spheres』。他にはJurgen Essl、Kali Malone、Giulio Tostiとか、オルガンで面白いことをやっている人はけっこういるんだよね。