#monica sullivan

[just-a-latina-fangirl]

The Big Leap reunion 💙

How is a single picture enough to get me teary-eyed?

[skepticxdreamer]

Happy Pride Month with a little shitpost for Heroes and what they SHOULD NEVER SAY TO SOMEONE WHO JUST CAME OUT.

[highsummonertemptress]

Black Ink Asia

[tv-moments]

FUBAR

Season 1, “Stole Train”

Director: Holly Dale

DoP: Colin Hoult

[laurapetrie]

By the time the Beatles trotted out onto Ed Sullivan's stage with those heartrendingly sexy toothpick legs, I was such a sucker for George Harrison that how he would have looked on the beach in Santa Monica with those ghost white legs was the last thing on my mind.

Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming

[wellesleybooks]

Ria, our part time bookseller and full time student at Wellesley College made a book display. She calls it “Anything You Can Write We Can Write Better- Works by alumnae of historically women’s colleges.” It’s full of some fantastic books.

Ria's List

Wellesley College Madam Secretary - Madeleine Albright Mr. Churchill's Secretary - Susan Elia MacNeal Last Night at the Telegraph Club- Malinda Lo The Sweet Spot - Amy Poeppel Heartburn- Nora Ephron Dear Wendy- Ann Zhao Pieces of Blue- Holly Goldberg Sloan Barbara the Slut- Lauren Holmes Good Grief - E.B. Bartels We Have Always Been Who We Are- Sofia Romero Nancy Drew- Carolyn Keene (aka Harriet Stratemeyer)

Barnard College Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh The Vulnerables - Sigrid Nunez The Death of a Jaybird- Jodi M. Savage Making It in America- Rachel Slade

Smith College The Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan The Cliffs- J. Courtney Sullivan A Tale for the Time Being- Ruth Ozeki A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara Ariel- Sylvia Plath Mastering the Art of French Cooking- Julia Child The Starless Sea-Erin Morgenstern The Babysitters Club- Ann M. Martin

Bryn Mawr Crying in H Mart- Michelle Zauner The Trouble with You- Ellen Feldman The Brightwood Code- Monica Hesse Necessary Trouble- Drew Gilpin Faust

[diceriadelluntore]

Storia di Musica #311 - Weezer, Weezer (The Blue Album), 1994

Nella classifica di artisti che hanno intitolato i loro lavori con il proprio nome, vincono a mani basse per quantità: in 17 anni di carriere ne hanno pubblicati 6 (che poi spiegherò come si distinguono). E questa decisione rientra nel loro modo alternativo e irriverente di fare musica, in un momento di passaggio che grazie a loro diviene quasi spartiacque. Rivers Cuomo è un ragazzo a cui piace tanto fare musica: ha 18 anni quando fonda il primo gruppo, gli Avant Gard, che era anche un modo per trovare nuovi amici dopo essersi trasferito da Los Angeles al Connecticut. Dopo un po', Cuomo incontra il batterista Patrick Wilson, che gli presenta il suo amico Matt Sharp, anch'egli musicista. Si trasferiscono a Santa Monica dove Sharp incita Cuomo a scrivere, e proprio in questo periodo, siamo a fine 1991, nascono le prime idee che confluiranno nella loro prima band insieme: Weezer (dal nomignolo che il padre di Cuomo gli aveva dato da ragazzino) insieme a Jason Cropper, che va alla chitarra. Il primo concerto come Weezer è a supporto della band di un giovane attore cantante destinato al successo mondiale, i Dogstar di Keanu Reeves. Diventano ben presto un gruppo con la nomea di grandi live, e se ne accorge anche Todd Sullivan, che li segnala alla Geffen che dopo aver ascoltato dei demo li mette sotto contratto nel 1993. C'è solo un problema: il loro stile, un power pop con echi punk, irriverenti e testi molto ironici era un bel po' diverso dal nichilismo grunge imperante. La Geffen li mette sotto le cure di Rick Ocasek, ex membro de The Car, una delle band più importanti della scena New Wave Americana, che li porta agli Electric Lady Studios, di New York, il leggendario studio di registrazione fondato da Eddie Kramer per Jimi Hendrix. Ocasek ha una intuizione geniale: decide di far cantare Sharp come coro di Cuomo, secondo un particolare stile a cappella (che negli Stati Uniti ha il nome curioso di barbeshop style), un'ottava più alto, così da riuscire meglio a integrare il suono di basso e chitarra, straniando ma allo stesso tempo enfatizzando la caratteristica "simaptica" della loro musica sin dagli esordii. Nel Frattempo licenziano Cooper, sostituito da Brian Bell, e registrano una quindicina di canzoni, di cui 10 faranno parte del loro primo lavoro. Che intitolano Weezer, uscito il 10 maggio del 1994 perchè, disse Cuomo, non "ci veniva niente di meglio da proporre". Verrà ricordato come The Blue Album per la copertina perchè succederà qualcosa in seguito che lo renderà "difficile" da ricordare come "Weezer". Cinque settimane prima, come una bomba atomica, era arrivata la notizia del suicidio di Kurt Cobain, e questo disco segna il passaggio, straniante e traumatico, da un'estetica all'altra.

Se ne volete una prova, il primo singolo, e successivamente canzone mito, era titolata semplicemente Undone, ma siccome è stata una delle prime scritte da cuomo e portata sul palco sin dai primi concerti, i primi fan la iniziarono a chiamare come The Sweater Song, perchè appunto parla di un maglione: If you want to destroy my sweater\Hold this thread as I walk away (Undone - The Sweather Song in verità è una metafora di tristezza rispetto al rapporto con le altre persone spesso prevaricatrici). Un muro di chitarra, echi di punk, i coretti che a volte sembrano quasi fuori posto, una musica che verrà definita "emo" ma che si rifà anche al periodo d'oro del rock. Come non citare in questo senso Buddy Holly, canzone diventata famosissima anche grazie al meraviglioso video di Spike Jonze (che vincerà decine di premi per il mondo) in cui la band è trasportata sul palco del Drive In di Arnold di Happy Days a cantare "Ooh-wee-hoo, I look just like Buddy Holly\Oh-oh, and you're Mary Tyler Moore"; Buddy Holly è stato uno dei primi grandi cantanti del rock, tragicamente scomparso in un incidente aereo, insieme a Ritchie Valens, quello che scrisse La Bamba e ai The Big Bopper (a questo tragico incidente Don Mclean scriverà American Pie, "the day the music died"); Mary Tyler Moore è stata invece una attrice di cinema teatro e Tv tra le più famose degli anni '60 e '70 negli Stati Uniti. Il disco è ricco di canzoni stupende: Say It Ain't So (altro classico), nato nella testa di Cuomo quando si "autoconvinse" che il matrimonio dei suoi stava finendo per colpa dell'alcool, My Name In Jonas, ariosa e fresca, dedicata al fratello di Cuomo non risarcito dall'assicurazione dopo un incidente in auto, Only In Dreams, su un ragazzo che non riesce a dischiararsi alla ragazza che adora e così continua a vivere la loro storia d'amore "solo nei sogni". Manifesto del loro modo scanzonato e irriverente di fare musica è In The Garage: I've got an electric guitar\I play my stupid songs\I write these stupid words\And I love every one\Waiting there for me, yes, I do\I do\In the garage, I feel safe\No one cares about my ways\In the garage where I belong\No one hears me sing this song.

Il disco all'inizio è abbastanza incompreso, ma con il passare del tempo acquista sempre più rilevanza sia commerciale (venderà quasi 10 milioni di copie) che critica, stabilmente nelle liste dei dischi più importanti degli ultimi 30 anni. Sharp lascia dopo il secondo disco, Pinkerton (che mostra una evoluzione musicale ma perde un po' di slancio ironico rispetto all'esordio) dedicandosi ad un progetto particolare, i Rentals, con cui suona musica molto retrò dal gusto a volte kitsch. I Weezer lo rimpiazzano con Mikey Welsch. Ci metteranno 4 anni per ritornare ai dischi, con un nuovo album Weezer, conosciuto come The Green Album, perchè in una foto simile a quella del Blue c'è uno sfondo verde, e così succederà con Weezer (The Red Album, nel 2008), Weezer (The White Album 2016), Weezer (The Teal Album, 2019) e Weezer (The Black Album, 2019, dove almeno hanno delle tute orribili di latex su sfondo gotico di luci viola). Anche per questo vanno ricordati.

[the-forest-library]

January 2023 Reads

Partners in Crime - Alisha Rai

Never Ever Getting Back Together - Sophie Gonzales (thank you, carrie!)

The Key to My Heart - Lia Louis

A Little Bit Country - Brian D. Kennedy

Funny You Should Ask - Elissa Sussman

A Guide to Being Just Friends - Sophie Sullivan

Mysteries of Thorn Manner - Margaret Rogerson

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett

Wildwood Dancing - Juliet Marillier

Really Good, Actually - Monica Heisey

Dead Collections - Isaac Fellman

Ms. Demeanor - Elinor Lipman

They Never Learn - Layne Fargo

Five Survive - Holly Jackson

The Silence Between Us - Alison Gervais

6 Times We Almost Kissed - Tess Sharpe

The Star That Always Stays - Anna Rose Johnson

Illuminations - T. Kingfisher

The Witch Boy - Molly Knox Ostertag

Witchlight - Jessi Zabarsky

Hawkeye, Vol 1 - Matt Fraction

Hawkeye, Vol 2 - Matt Fraction

You Can Do All Things - Kate Allan

Divergent Mind - Jenara Nuremberg

The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly - Margareta Magnusson

Unraveling - Peggy Orenstein

Windfall - Erika Bolstad

Quit - Annie Duke

Portable Magic - Emma Smith

Little Pieces of Hope - Todd Doughty (thanks, kim!)

This is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch - Tabitha Carvan

Two Old Broads - Dr M.E. Hecht and Whoopi Goldberg

Year of the Tiger - Alice Wong 

Spare - Prince Harry

Hello, Molly! - Molly Shannon

Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love - Yotam Ottolenghi

The Blue Zones American Kitchen - Dan Buettner

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts:

This was a really good reading month to start the year with. I was able to get to quite a few of the books on my physical TBR and really enjoyed the two books I was most looking forward to: Mysteries of Thorn Manor and Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries.

Goodreads Goal: 37/400 

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads |

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads 

[ilovernb1]

Jazmine Sullivan's concert review - July 11th, 2024

On Friday (July 11th), American R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan was in Paris for her European tour.

After French R&B singer Affa opened for her, Jazmine Sullivan arrived on stage minutes after Affa left.

She opened up the show with Bodies (Intro) (from Heaux Tales) and Bust Your Windows (from Fearless). She then thanked us and kept it going with Put It Down (from Heaux Tales), Mascara (from Reality Show) and Price Tags (from Heaux Tales).

She continued with Girl Like Me, Hurt Me So Good and Roster (all from Heaux Tales). The next one was Holding You Down (Goin' In Circles) (from Love Me Back) and she covered The Fugees' Killing Me Softly, which we loved.

Then, she told us that she lost her mom last year to cancer and that the next song she was going to sing meant a lot to her. On these words, she sang Lost One (from Heaux Tales) and after that, she took us back to the first album with In Love With Another Man (from Fearless).

After that, her background singers covered Muni Long's Made for Me, Monica's So Gone and SWV's Weak. It was amazing, we all sang together and loved it.

She continued with Tragic (from Heaux Tales), Brand New (from Reality Show) and Insecure. She kept it going with On It (from Heaux Tales), Let It Burn (from Reality Show) and Need U Bad (from Fearless).

She ended the show with Pick Up Your Feelings (from Heaux Tales), thanked us again and left.

Jazmine Sullivan is another favorite singer of mine and her voice is incredible. I found her show way too short but it was awesome.

Thanks for reading!

[harleystuff]

Gif Packs Projects

Personnal Projects

Devery Jacobs (Reservation Dogs)

Ella Hunt (Dickinson S03)

Will Poulter (Why Didn't They Ask Evans)

Hailee Steinfeld (Dickinson S03)

Margaret Qualley (Maid)

Jack Lowden (Slow Horses S02 & 03)

Rudy Pankow (Outer Banks S03)

Alexa Demie (Euphoria S02)

Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria S02)

Florence Pugh (Fighting with my family, Outlaw King, Oppenheimer, Dune Part 2)

Zendaya Coleman (Spider-Man Movies, Euphoria S02)

Jenna Ortega (Finestkind)

Kaitlyn Dever (Ticket to Paradise, Rosaline)

Harry Styles (My Policeman)

Alycia Debnam-Carey (The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart)

Suggestions

Gwyneth Paltrow (Iron Man)

Logan Lerman (Hunters)

Miguel Bernardeau (1899)

Audrey Fleurot (Belle comme la femme d'un autre)

Kate Winslet (Divergent)

Monica Barbaro (Top Gun Maverick)

Charlie Plummer

Marisa Nichols (Riverdale)

Lily Sullivan (The other guy)

Ana de Armas (Ghosted)

Lorena Andrea (Warrior Nun)

Toya Turner (Warrior Nun)

Pedro Pascal (Narcos)

Emma Corrin (A murder at the end of the world)

[just-a-latina-fangirl]

This made me so ridiculously happy 🥹❤️

[flurryheaven]

2023 Primetime Emmy Nominations - Outstanding Period Costumes for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story / Netflix Episode 2 "Please Don't Go" Costume Designer - Rudy Mance Assistant Costume Designer - Monica Chamberlain Assistant Costume Designer - Desmond Smith Costume Supervisor - Suzy Freeman

Rudy Mance was previously nominated in 2018, Period Costumes for The Alienist.

Suzy Freeman was previously nominated in 2020, Period Costumes for Hollywood.

Daisy Jones and the Six / Amazon Prime Video Episode 8 "Track 8: Looks Like We Made It" Costume Designer - Denise Wingate Costume Supervisor - Derek Sullivan

George & Tommy / Showtime Episode 3 "We're Gonna Hold On" Costume Designer - Mitchell Travers Assistant Costume Designer - Mitchel Wolf Assistant Costume Designer - Laurel Rose Assistant Costume Designer - Aileen Abercrombie Costume Supervisor - Susan Russell Costume Supervisor - Charles Carter

Charles Carter was previously nominated in 1993, Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Miniseries or a Special for Stalin.

Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities / Netflix Episode 6 "Dreams In The Witches House" Costume Designer - Luis Sequeira Assistant Costume Designer - Ann Steel Costume Supervisor - Heather Crepp

Heather Crepp was previously nominated in 2021, Fantasy/Sci-fi Costumes for The Umbrella Academy.

Welcome to Chippendales / Hulu Episode 5 "Leeches" Costume Designer - Peggy Schnitzer Assistant Costume Designer - Derek Bulger Costume Supervisor - Julie Heath

[tv-moments]

FUBAR

Season 1, “Royally Flushed”

Director: Phil Abraham

DoP: Michael McMurray

[queer-and-dear-books]

Title: Into The Light

Author: Mark Oshiro

Genre: Sci-fi? | Friendship | Romance | LGBTQ+

Content Warnings: Homophobia | Conversion Therapy | Abuse | Sexual Assault | Grooming

Overall Rating: 8.6/10

Personal Opinion: As always with Mark Oshiro, you can expect grim reality mixing with the most powerful kindness you’ve ever read about. This time, we venture into the world of a corrupt foster care system and grooming by religious zealots. It’s scary but absolutely worth reading about. Manny has been through hell. He lost his sister, he was abandoned, he’s been preyed on, but still he found some light in the form of a kind family, the Varelas. This journey that he takes us on is emotional and raw and it deserves to be brought into the light.

Do I Own This Book? Nope.

Spoilers Below For My Likes & Dislikes:

Likes:

- If nothing else, I found this very entertaining. The twist that Manny and Eli were once one and the same was pretty obvious but it was set up so well. Eli’s chapters were few and far in between at the start. He said he resembles Elena in his first chapter. And the big clue was when Carlos saw Eli in one of Deacon’s videos and thought it was Manny and yet Manny could not remember being in it. It’s wild. It’s crazy. Am I not entertained? I am. I thought it was some sort of repression or amnesia though, I was not anticipating Manny to have somehow split into two. That is so disturbing. I am so perturbed. It’s great.

- The kindness of the Varelas made me emotional at times. I mean, they were already living out of a van, driving around to find kids that were ejected from their church and providing all of them with means of living and I love that. But then they went out of their way to protect Manny, a stranger, from Stan, an old pervert. And then they proceeded to continue helping him for a whole month. I just love Monica and Ricardo so damn much. They protected Carlos too and I have so much respect for them. Even if they made their mistakes, they’re out here atoning in the best way possible.

- Manny’s reluctance to trust even the Varelas was totally reasonable. After everything he went through and after what he did to them (stealing their money and their son’s iPad), I get why he felt like he couldn’t stay with them. I’m glad that he changed and realized his sister was right about one thing. He does choose to be miserable. Not anymore. The ending, where he chose to be happy and chose Carlos’s family was just so sweet.

- Oh also, the other twist with Rakeem showing up in the end. Oh my god, for a second, I thought Rakeem was the dead body. I truly thought Eli was alive. It was written so well to make you think it was Rakeem because at this point, we had no idea Eli “came out” of Manny. We didn't know that supernatural shit was going on! So that twist was a gut punch and a great one.

- Manny having a crush on both Carlos and Ricardo is so hilarious and also so me-coded. I too would have a crush on my love interest and his dad. But the budding romance between Manny and Carlos was so sweet. I could feel the way they cared about each other in those little touches and night time conversations. And the way they could both relate to that feeling of abandonment but wanting to be close to each other anyway is so good. I love when touch-starved individuals find each other.

- It’s implied that Elena burns Reconciliation down to the ground and honestly? Good. I hope it never rises from the ashes again. I also hope that Deacon and the Sullivans had burned with it. God, they were so fucking creepy.

Dislikes:

- I’m going to be honest, I’m not sure how I feel about the supernatural aspect of this story. I mean, it’s cool and unexpected, don’t get me wrong, but it also felt wildly out of place. It reads like a CreepyPasta. And it’s also sort of glossed over? No one really questions it. I mean, the proof is right there I guess but like still, it’s a wild supernatural occurrence in a non-supernatural setting.

- Fuck Deacon and Lester and Stan and anyone else who preys on the most vulnerable. Children. It was disgusting to read about but unfortunately very real. 

- I’m also so disturbed by Diana and Elena. Diana for basically being a bystander and giving kids away to Deacon’s families with no proper background checks. And Elena for falling for all of Deacon’s bullshit so easily. Yes, she is a victim in this too, but my god, the way she did everything the Thompsons asked of her without question was just bad.

- These are all necessary evils for the story to take place so I can give them all a pass. 

- I’m going to be honest (again), I expected so much worse from the conversion camp. Not that it wasn’t awful. Mrs. Thompson backhanding Rakeem in the face and Deacon reading their darkest secrets out loud was fucked up. But I think I was expecting things closer to torture because of the way Manny dodged so many of the Varelas’ questions and the way Carlos said, “They never should’ve done that to you. They never should’ve done that to me either.” I don’t know, I was just holding my breath for something horrendous and then when we saw what happened, it just… wasn’t so bad to me? Or wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been. Again, it is very bad. I was just bracing myself for the worst.

- Oh god, is Simone okay? I just realized she’s still with the man that raped her and forced her to get an abortion. Somebody save her because oh my god, I legit gagged at that. Well… at least Maddie and a few others are okay.

[mikaswannabe]

WHO EVEN IS MONICA?

WELL, monica’s a…

— anime self-insert obsessee!

✰︎ monica’s fav animes

➱︎ aot, jjba, bnha, jjk, tokyo revengers, ouran, kny, tokyo ghoul, fruits basket, spy x family.

— girl who sits in the back of her classes and thinks abt fictional men!

✰︎ monica’s fav men

➱︎ eren mf jaeger - ❤︎ - got a yt boy on my roster!!!

➱︎ guido mista - ❤︎ - tried to change my ways but the dope boy know what i want!!!

➱︎ toji fushiguro - ❤︎ - show you how much you mean to me, ‘cause you are all i need!!!

➱︎ yuji itadori - ❤︎ - rock it ‘til waterfalls!!!

➱︎ baji keisuke - ❤︎ - jus’ wanna ride, get high in the moonlight!!!

➱︎ josuke higashikata - ❤︎ - why window shop when you own this!!!

— black woman enthusiast!

➱︎ a pretty ass one herself, not to brag. 🤭

— pinterest obsessed cancerbae!

➱︎ bi, pronouns she/her.

— a sexy girl with many hobbies!

➱︎ which includes; astrology! spirituality! getting pretty! dancing! playing the sims! sleeping! eating! cooking! writing! imagining! laughing! singing!

➱︎ she likes to listen to; beyoncé, ariana, megan, lucky daye, nicki, doja, summer, frank, rihanna, ice spice, jack harlow, jazmine sullivan, victoria monet, sza, chloe x halle, ari lennox, and more!

︎➱︎ she likes to watch; modern family, coryxkenshin, berleezy, abbott elementary, the rookie, dylan is in trouble, bailey sarian, princess and the frog, black panther (i + ii), more marvel stuff, winnie the pooh movies, pixar nd disney, heartwarming stuff that’ll make me cry.

— also mikaswannabe on wattpad.

➱︎ wp has definitely been my writing home but i wanna get comfortable putting my works on here. i’m in my oneshot bag.

— eren’s hot delicious blk gf (realer than real)!

➱︎ i have a book on wp abt him called KNEW BETTER.

get to know her! she’s bad, but not the worst! 😚

[cchsunday]

Notable guests on the very first “Toast of the Town” later known as The Ed Sullivan Show: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and singer Monica Lewis.