#mark carr

[vulpiano]

From the Video Hook-Ups Archive:

Mark Carr – The Scream

The Scream

A 1 hour video/performance work by Mark Carr and Trevor Johnson

‘The Scream’ is an autopsy of mental ill health. As a person who throughout his life has periodically suffered from mental ill health, but without a diagnosis until two years ago, I have drawn deeply on my own experiences to make this video/ performance work.  It is a work of deep significance for me and I hope for others who have similar issues.

For the first time as an artist I have worked in cooperation with another video/sound artist – Trevor Johnson.  This was an enlightening experience and led me to use visual and sound ideas I may never have explored.

The work is to be shown in a cinematic/gig environment.  The main video work is an hour in length which will be projected onto a large 3m x 7m screen. This will be supplemented by a live stream video performance by me, simultaneously projected onto two smaller screens situated in front of the large projection screen. The music/sounds in the video are an important and integral aspect to the work. The sound needs to be loud enough to allow the audience feel and not just hear the work.

The work comprises of six distinct phases. They are not titled, but do explore various aspects of the ‘headspace’ that is created when one is unwell – hyper – morose and lost.  The title is derived from a physical action I sometimes take to quieten the voices and delusions crashing into my head. In simple terms, I shout out, both internally and externally, in an attempt to block out of the things and ideas that are making ill.

PHASE  1

This phase explores the initial crashing of voices in my head when I begin to become ill.  It also begins the journey of self-awareness about my illness, which until two years ago, I really did not understand or even believe I had. This continues periodically throughout the work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHXImeBNcRM

PHASE  2

This phase explores aspects of when I become hyper, loud and want to tell the world what I think.  It is also links my musical background as an artist.

PHASE  3

This phase explores my total disgust for the human race when I become ill. It is hard to explain this manifestation, but it wells up inside to the point where I believe there is no merit for the existence of homo-sapiens and that the species is a plague on the universe.

PHASE  4

This phase explores those long dark periods of morose despair and confusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7w-sc7LfgA

PHASE  5

This section explores how sometimes the ‘head-space’ just spins and spins and no matter how hard you try, the carousel will not stop.

PHASE  6

This section explores the possible ‘end game’, which has yet to manifest itself.  It is an imaginary me where my head steadily becomes overwhelmed by voices, ideas, worlds and confusion.  

At the very end of the work an old man walks away from the screen. In my live streamed performance, I turn and walk away from the camera. It is a symbol of hope – the ability to quietly walk away from the madness of it all – life.

I am currently working with the independent cinema/gig space ‘The Star and Shadow’ situated in Newcastle upon Tyne, to facilitate a performance of the work in early 2020.

— Mark Carr 2019

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Donald Trump has lately made clear he wants little to do with Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in his race for the White House.

“I have no idea who is behind it,” the former president recently claimed on social media.

Many people Trump knows quite well are behind it.

Six of his former Cabinet secretaries helped write or collaborated on the 900-page playbook for a second Trump term published by the Heritage Foundation. Four individuals Trump nominated as ambassadors were also involved, along with several enforcers of his controversial immigration crackdown. And about 20 pages are credited to his first deputy chief of staff.

In fact, at least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in Project 2025, a CNN review found, including more than half of the people listed as authors, editors and contributors to “Mandate for Leadership,” the Project’s extensive manifesto for overhauling the executive branch.

Dozens more who staffed Trump’s government hold positions with conservative groups advising Project 2025, including his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and longtime adviser Stephen Miller. These groups also include several lawyers deeply involved in Trump’s attempts to remain in power, such as his impeachment attorney Jay Sekulow and two of the legal architects of his failed bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Cleta Mitchell and John Eastman.

To quantify the scope of the involvement from Trump’s orbit, CNN reviewed online biographies, LinkedIn profiles and news clippings for more than 1,000 people listed on published directories for the 110 organizations on Project 2025’s advisory board, as well as the 200-plus names credited with working on “Mandate for Leadership.”

Overall, CNN found nearly 240 people with ties to both Project 2025 and to Trump, covering nearly every aspect of his time in politics and the White House – from day-to-day foot soldiers in Washington to the highest levels of his government. The number is likely higher because many individuals’ online résumés were not available.

In addition to people who worked directly for Trump, others who participated in Project 2025 were appointed by the former president to independent positions. For instance, Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr authored an entire chapter of proposed changes to his agency, and Lisa Correnti, an anti-abortion advocate Trump appointed as a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, is among the contributors.

Several people involved in Project 2025 didn’t serve in the Trump administration but were influential in shaping his first term. One example is former US Attorney Brett Tolman, a leading force behind the former president’s criminal justice reform law who later helped arrange a pardon for Charles Kushner, the father of Trump’s son-in-law. Tolman is listed as a contributor to “Mandate for Leadership.”

The extensive overlap between Project 2025 and Trump’s universe of allies, advisers and former staff complicates his efforts to distance himself from the work. Trump’s campaign has sought for months to make clear that Project 2025 doesn’t speak for them amid an intensifying push by President Joe Biden and Democrats to tie the Republican standard bearer to the playbook’s more controversial policies.

In a statement to CNN, campaign spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez said Trump only endorses the Republican Party platform and the agenda posted on the former president’s website.

“Team Biden and the (Democratic National Committee) are lying and fear-mongering because they have nothing else to offer the American people,” Alvarez said.

HERITAGE PLAN BECOMES A POLITICAL HEADACHE

Behind Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation, a 51-year-old conservative organization that aligned itself with Trump not long after his 2016 victory. Heritage is led by Kevin Roberts, a Trump ally whom the former president praised as “doing an unbelievable job” on a February night when they shared the same stage.

Heritage conceived Project 2025 to begin planning so a Republican president could hit the ground running after the election. One of its priorities is creating a roadmap for the first 180 days of the new administration to quickly reorient every federal agency around its conservative vision. Described on its website as “a movement-wide effort guided by the conservative cause to address and reform the failings of big government and an undemocratic administrative state,” Project 2025 also aims to recruit and train thousands of people loyal to the conservative movement to fill federal government positions.

One organization advising Project 2025, American Accountability Foundation, is also putting together a roster of current federal workers it suspects could impede Trump’s plans for a second term. Heritage is paying the group $100,000 for its work.

Many of Project 2025’s priorities are aligned with the former president, especially on immigration and purging the federal bureaucracies. Both Trump and Project 2025 have called for eliminating the Department of Education.

But Project 2025 has lately become a lightning rod for other ideas Trump hasn’t explicitly backed. Within “Mandate for Leadership” are plans to ban pornography, reverse federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, exclude the morning-after pill and men’s contraceptives from coverage mandated under the Affordable Care Act, make it harder for transgender adults to transition, and eliminate the federal agency that oversees the National Weather Service.

Its voluminous and detailed plans also run counter to Trump’s desire for a streamlined GOP platform absent any language that Democrats could wield against Republicans this cycle.

Roberts recently faced backlash as well for saying in an interview that the country was “in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Three days later, Trump posted to Truth Social: “I know nothing about Project 2025.”

“I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” he wrote.

In response to Trump’s social media post, a Project 2025 spokesperson told CNN in a statement it “does not speak for any candidate or campaign.”

“It is ultimately up to that president, who we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to use,” the spokesperson said.

Trump’s campaign has repeatedly said in recent months that “reports about personnel and policies that are specific to a second Trump Administration are purely speculative and theoretical” and don’t represent the former president’s plans. Project 2025 and similar policy proposals coming from outside Trump’s campaign are “merely suggestions,” campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita wrote in a statement.

VAST NETWORK OF TRUMP ALLIES

However, Trump’s attempts to distance himself from Project 2025 have already encountered credibility challenges. The person overseeing Project 2025, Paul Dans, was a top official in Trump’s White House who has previously said he hopes to work for his former boss again. Shortly after Trump’s Truth Social post last week, Democrats noted a recruitment video for Project 2025 features a Trump campaign spokeswoman. On Tuesday, the Biden campaign posted dozens of examples of connections between Trump and Project 2025.

CNN’s review of Project 2025’s contributors also demonstrated the breadth of Trump’s reach through the upper ranks of the vast network of organizations working to move the country in a conservative direction – from women’s groups and Christian colleges to conservative think tanks in Texas, Alabama and Mississippi.

New organizations centered around Trump’s political movement, his conspiracy theories around his electoral defeats and his first-term policies are deeply involved in Project 2025 as well. One of the advisory groups, America First Legal, was started by Miller, a key player in forming Trump’s immigration agenda. Another is the Center for Renewing America, founded by Russ Vought, former acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, who wrote for Project 2025 a detailed blueprint for consolidating executive power.

Vought recently oversaw the Republican Party committee that drafted the new platform heavily influenced by Trump.

In addition to Vought, two other former Trump Cabinet secretaries wrote chapters for “Mandate for Leadership”: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller. Three more former department heads – National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe, acting Transportation Secretary Steven Bradbury and acting Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella – are listed as contributors.

Project 2025’s proposals for reforming the country’s immigration laws appear heavily influenced by those who helped execute Trump’s early enforcement measures. Former acting US Customs and Border Protection chief Mark Morgan and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Tom Homan – the faces of Trump’s polarizing policies – contributed to the project, as did Kathy Nuebel Kovarik, one of the policy advisers pushing to end certain immigrant protections behind the scenes. The Project 2025 chapter on overhauling the Department of Homeland Security was written by Ken Cuccinelli, a top official at the department under Trump.

Some of Trump’s most contentious and high-profile hires are credited with working on “Mandate for Leadership,” including some whose tenures ended under a cloud of controversy.

Before Trump adviser Peter Navarro went to prison for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena as part of the House investigation into the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, he wrote a section defending the former president’s trade policies and advocating for punitive tariffs.

Other contributors include: Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker who orchestrated a mass firing at the US Agency for Global Media after he was installed by Trump; Frank Wuco, a senior White House adviser who once promoted far-right conspiracies on his talk radio show, including lies about President Barack Obama’s citizenship; former NOAA official David Legates, a notable climate change skeptic investigated for posting dubious research with the White House imprint; and Mari Stull, a wine blogger-turned-lobbyist who left the Trump administration amid accusations she was hunting for disloyal State Department employees.

The culmination of their work, spread across 900 pages, touches every corner of the executive branch and would drastically change the federal government as well as everyday life for many Americans. In summarizing the undertaking, Roberts wrote in “Mandate for Leadership” that Project 2025 represented “the next conservative President’s last opportunity to save our republic.”

“Conservatives have just two years and one shot to get this right,” Roberts said. “With enemies at home and abroad, there is no margin for error. Time is running short. If we fail, the fight for the very idea of America may be lost.”

[tygerland]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011

[we-will-swallow-your-soul]

[victusinveritas]

Incredible film cast Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011 and John le Carré. Starring

Gary Oldman

Kathy Burke

Benedict Cumberbatch

Colin Firth

Stephen Graham

Tom Hardy

Ciarán Hinds

John Hurt

Toby Jones

Simon McBurney

Mark Strong

[rabid-dog-steve-horn]

[the-hottest-band-tournament]

Round Two

KISS 

Defeated opponents: Mötorhead

Formed in: 1973

Genres: hard rock, heavy metal, shock rock, glam metal

Lineup: Paul Stanley – vocals, rhythm guitar, occasional bass

Gene Simmons – bass, vocals

Eric Carr – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Bruce Kulick – lead guitar, backing vocals

Albums from the 80s: 

Unmasked (1980)

Music from "The Elder" (1981)

Killers (1982)

Creatures of the Night (1982)

Lick It Up (1983)

Animalize (1984)

Asylum (1985)

Crazy Nights (1987)

Chikara (1988)

Smashes, Thrashes & Hits (1988)

Hot in the Shade (1989)

Propaganda: Whether you think they're super hot or not, women did. They got all sorts of action. Paul Stanley for his traditional good looks, and Gene Simmons because of that tongue. Carr, and whatever guitarist they had at the time (Kulick was the longest lasting replacement for Ace in the 80s & 90s) got laid plenty as well.

Heart

Defeated opponents: L.A. Guns

Formed in: 1973

Genres: Hard rock, rock, folk rock, pop rock

Lineup: Ann Wilson- vocals, flute

Nancy Wilson- guitar, mandolin, vocals

Howard Leese- guitar, keyboards, mandolin

Mark Andes- bass

Denny Carmassi- drums

Albums from the 80s:

Bébé le Strange (1980)

Private Audition (1982)

Passionworks (1983)

Heart (1985)

Bad Animals (1987)

Propaganda:

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Steve Contorno at CNN:

Donald Trump has lately made clear he wants little to do with Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in his race for the White House. “I have no idea who is behind it,” the former president recently claimed on social media. Many people Trump knows quite well are behind it. Six of his former Cabinet secretaries helped write or collaborated on the 900-page playbook for a second Trump term published by the Heritage Foundation. Four individuals Trump nominated as ambassadors were also involved, along with several enforcers of his controversial immigration crackdown. And about 20 pages are credited to his first deputy chief of staff. In fact, at least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in Project 2025, a CNN review found, including more than half of the people listed as authors, editors and contributors to “Mandate for Leadership,” the project’s extensive manifesto for overhauling the executive branch.

Dozens more who staffed Trump’s government hold positions with conservative groups advising Project 2025, including his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and longtime adviser Stephen Miller. These groups also include several lawyers deeply involved in Trump’s attempts to remain in power, such as his impeachment attorney Jay Sekulow and two of the legal architects of his failed bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Cleta Mitchell and John Eastman. To quantify the scope of the involvement from Trump’s orbit, CNN reviewed online biographies, LinkedIn profiles and news clippings for more than 1,000 people listed on published directories for the 110 organizations on Project 2025’s advisory board, as well as the 200-plus names credited with working on “Mandate for Leadership.”

Overall, CNN found nearly 240 people with ties to both Project 2025 and to Trump, covering nearly every aspect of his time in politics and the White House – from day-to-day foot soldiers in Washington to the highest levels of his government. The number is likely higher because many individuals’ online résumés were not available. In addition to people who worked directly for Trump, others who participated in Project 2025 were appointed by the former president to independent positions. For instance, Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr authored an entire chapter of proposed changes to his agency, and Lisa Correnti, an anti-abortion advocate Trump appointed as a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, is among the contributors. Several people involved in Project 2025 didn’t serve in the Trump administration but were influential in shaping his first term. One example is former US Attorney Brett Tolman, a leading force behind the former president’s criminal justice reform law who later helped arrange a pardon for Charles Kushner, the father of Trump’s son-in-law. Tolman is listed as a contributor to “Mandate for Leadership.”

The extensive overlap between Project 2025 and Trump’s universe of allies, advisers and former staff complicates his efforts to distance himself from the work. Trump’s campaign has sought for months to make clear that Project 2025 doesn’t speak for them amid an intensifying push by President Joe Biden and Democrats to tie the Republican standard bearer to the playbook’s more controversial policies.

[...]

Heritage plan becomes a political headache

Behind Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation, a 51-year-old conservative organization that aligned itself with Trump not long after his 2016 victory. Heritage is led by Kevin Roberts, a Trump ally whom the former president praised as “doing an unbelievable job” on a February night when they shared the same stage. Heritage conceived Project 2025 to begin planning so a Republican president could hit the ground running after the election. One of its priorities is creating a roadmap for the first 180 days of the new administration to quickly reorient every federal agency around its conservative vision. Described on its website as “a movement-wide effort guided by the conservative cause to address and reform the failings of big government and an undemocratic administrative state,” Project 2025 also aims to recruit and train thousands of people loyal to the conservative movement to fill federal government positions.

[...]

Vast network of Trump allies

However, Trump’s attempts to distance himself from Project 2025 have already encountered credibility challenges. The person overseeing Project 2025, Paul Dans, was a top official in Trump’s White House who has previously said he hopes to work for his former boss again. Shortly after Trump’s Truth Social post last week, Democrats noted a recruitment video for Project 2025 features a Trump campaign spokeswoman. On Tuesday, the Biden campaign posted dozens of examples of connections between Trump and Project 2025. CNN’s review of Project 2025’s contributors also demonstrated the breadth of Trump’s reach through the upper ranks of the vast network of organizations working to move the country in a conservative direction – from women’s groups and Christian colleges to conservative think tanks in Texas, Alabama and Mississippi. New organizations centered around Trump’s political movement, his conspiracy theories around his electoral defeats and his first-term policies are deeply involved in Project 2025 as well. One of the advisory groups, America First Legal, was started by Miller, a key player in forming Trump’s immigration agenda. Another is the Center for Renewing America, founded by Russ Vought, former acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, who wrote for Project 2025 a detailed blueprint for consolidating executive power. Vought recently oversaw the Republican Party committee that drafted the new platform heavily influenced by Trump.

In addition to Vought, two other former Trump Cabinet secretaries wrote chapters for “Mandate for Leadership”: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller. Three more former department heads – National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe, acting Transportation Secretary Steven Bradbury and acting Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella – are listed as contributors.

CNN reports that at least 140 people who worked for Donald Trump’s administration are involved in The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. This should put an end to the nonsensical lie that Trump “know[s] nothing about Project 2025.”

See Also:

MMFA: Trump and his allies are denying any association to Project 2025 and its architects. History speaks for itself.

[magnuficentwo]

The Katagawa family and Maliwan as a whole were one of the most (if not the only) interesting things about Promethea and it makes me SO FUCKING MAD that they're in the hands of people who are a) completely disinterested in exploring concepts they set up and b) straight up just kinda racist. Like what do you fucking mean you're going to give me all this interesting conflict about a cult-like family owned business with humanitarian law violations that would make Hyperion blush. And then just not expand on that. Why would you do that to me

[myvinylplaylist]

KIϟϟ: Konfidential & X-Treme Close Up (2004)

2004 DVD compilation of two VHS releases that came out in the early 1990's.

Universal Music

[raedroid]

Thank You Kiss

I’ve found the band in 2011 when my parents saw them at an outdoor festival. I was 6 at the time so I couldn’t go. From 2013-2016 I started downloading their music for some reason I don’t know why to this day but I never regretted it. I’ve played their music, I watched concerts, and researched everything I could about the band. Once I watched Kiss Meets The Phantom for the first time in 2016, that was where I became a huge fan

I wanted to see them so badly but I couldn’t because I was already travelling for other things. But once they announced their final tour, I knew I needed to go. There were no dates in my town so I gave up on getting tickets. But Christmas 2018 rolled around and my last presents were tickets to see them in Toronto and makeup. To this day, that was the best Christmas gift ever.

For a long time, I was hurt pretty bad by toxic fans online to the point where I was terrified of meeting them in public at the concert, only to be met by so many loving and respectful fans and I couldn’t be happier. And with Kiss ending tonight, I want to say all of the things on my mind about this amazing group

I was bullied, was sent inappropriate messages online, dealt with toxic friends, struggled with my identity and loneliness but Kiss kept me going no matter how difficult the world was for me. They made me believe I could be the best person I can be without any fear. They made me become the performer I want to be. They made me who I am today and I know many people feel the same way.

If anyone from kiss finds this somehow, I want to say thank you for inspiring me, for helping me, for freeing me from the difficulties of my life and making me feel happy when I was feeling down. I can’t wait to watch your concert and experience my last concert with you tomorrow and I will miss you forever and love you forever

Once again from me, a member of the kiss army

Thank you. Rock on

[musicmags]

[blackramhall]

Mindhunter

[spacefoxy]

[2000-man1]

Aside from all of that just happened 😍

[star-xdd]

guys, this is actually the end.

i am forever grateful for this band. im someone who has been through some of the hardest moments in my life, and discovering this band and the band just existing was like the second coming of jesus (lol)

i collected merch, later started a blog, dreamed of seeing them in concert, spent so long researching kisstory, collecting all the autobiographies

then the day i went to see them in seattle my world actually changed. i cried during the concert, blew out my voice, and finally realized my dream actually came true.

from the bottom of my heart, i am thankful to everyone apart of kisstory. thank you paul stanley, gene simmons, ace frehley, peter criss, eric carr, vinnie vincent, bruce kulick, tommy thayer, eric singer, and so many others who have carried on the legacy of kiss for 50 years and forever.

rest in peace to eric carr, a wonderful drummer who put his love into this band, and may his memory live on. he would've been proud to see where the band is now, and the legacy he helped create.

thank you to the kiss fandom, kissblr, and other fans, young and old.

thank you to paul stanley, someone who suffered bullying all his childhood, to gene who moved to the U.S knowing no english, his mother a holocaust survivor. to the empire they were able to build with what they loved most, music.

Truly a bittersweet moment we are living through.

THANK YOU KISS