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bitchwhoyoukiddin · 6 months ago

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End of the year books chat!

Only a few asked me questions about that books meme, so I decided to do the whole thing. For fun!

How many books did you read this year?

At the time of writing, I've read 77 books this year. Though, my end of the year break is nigh, and I'm in the middle of reading five. And I have five on reserve to read!

2. Did you reread anything? What?

Surprisingly, I did! It's not my normal modus operandi, but this was the year of the re-read for me. I started the year re-reading the first ten volumes of Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill by Eguchi Ren. Guys they are so stupid and so calming. I also re-read all (then) three extant books of Beware of Chicken, and the first part of Ascendance of a Bookworm. The last is in anticipation of the final volume of part 5 coming out next year. Overall, 17 books I've re-read. Which is deeply weird for me.

3. What were your top five books of the year?

Oooh, good question. In no particular order, they're Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters, Judgement of Paris by George M. Taber, When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill, and Firsts and Lasts edited by Laura Silverman.

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

Three, actually! Patrick Radden Keefe absolutely knocked me sideways with Say Nothing, and I'm cheerfully reading his back catalog. It's a tough sit (he is an investigative journalist who talks to rich, shitty people a lot), but woof. Also V. Castro is someone I want to absolutely read more of. The Haunting of Alejandra was a haunting (lol) sit, and I've put a bunch more of her stuff on my tbr for next year. Lastly, Beth/Bich Minh Nguyen absolutely bodied me with her writing. Likely, some of my abject joy comes from the fact that we have a shared background (Midwestern ladies growing up in the 80's), but her prose just kicked me in the shins and kept jumping up and down on me. I'm so excited to read more of her stuff.

5. What genre did you read the most of?

Just due to my dedication to series this year, cozy fantasy has it by a mile.

6. Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

*eyes tbr that is 200+ strong* I think the one that's going to meet this is likely Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree. I don't know that I'm going to get to it this year, and it's been on my "to read next month" list all year. But who knows! I still have two weeks left...

7. What was your average Goodreads rating? Does it seem accurate?

3.4, and yeah, that seems right. I'm real picky about the stuff I rate highly.

8. Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones?

I did! To be fair, my goals were pretty minimal this year. The main one was "read more nonfiction because you need to feed your brain". I read a lot of fluff last year and wanted to ease myself back into more high-level reading. I went from two non-fiction books last year to 18 finished right now and two more in-process. I also read ALL the books for my two book clubs!

Oh! And I guess I also tried to read a bunch of the food-history books that have been hanging out on my TBR for a long time. I knocked seven of those off, which is pretty good progress!

9. Did you get into any new genres?

Not exactly? I'm weirdly diverse in my reading, but I guess you could say that I've read a lot more contemporary lit this year. It's a genre I've read before, but not to the extent I did this year.

10. What was your favorite new release of the year?

I didn't really read many 2024 books, but HANDS DOWN, The Brides of High Hill by @nghivowriting. I love this series and this entry was a huge tone-shift from the last but delightful and mean and creepy as hell. <3

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

Probably Untangling My Chopsticks by Victoria Abbott Riccardi. I tried to read a bunch of food history stuff this year, and this was one of the first I picked up. It's about a woman who goes to Japan in the late 80's to learn how to make the food that accompanies a Japanese Tea Ceremony. It's both a snapshot of her life during that time, but also a meditation on a white woman's experience of Japan in the 80's and the philosophies of the tea ceremonies along with a short history of what that kind of means. Surprisingly respectful and a cool read.

12. Any books that disappointed you?

Oh, definitely. Slaying the Dragon by Ben Riggs, ReLIT edited by Sara Proudman, Four Kitchens by Lauren Shockey, The Magnolia Sword by Sherry Thomas, Curry: Eating, Reading and Race by Naben Ruthnum, and The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst.

All were ultimately fine, but none hit the way I wanted them to.

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

I generally DNF ones I am not actively enjoying, but there were a couple notable ones I finished. The Bookshop and the Barbarian by Morgan Stang was just. Well. I wanted more from it than it was willing to give and just really didn't enjoy it. And Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin was just. Too much up its own ass? Ugh, it wasn't for me.

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Current list: Heretical Fishing #2 by Haylock Jobson, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe, The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher by E.M. Anderson, The High Crusade by Poul Anderson, Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn, and The Sea is Ours edited by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng. In the "Want to But Unlikely" category I also have Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree, You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried by Susannah Gora, and Kim Jiyong, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo.

15. Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?

Nope!

16. What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll. It was a compelling read and well written, but I am not really a true-crime person much anymore? Also, the way it was written (prose, not organization) just didn't hit me right. I am glad a lot of people enjoyed it, but I ended up very meh about it.

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

18. How many books did you buy?

Turns out, 89! (YIKES.) To be fair to myself, a good ~40+ of those were me buying the Terry Pratchett discount bundle, and another ~7-9 were audiobook subscription credits, AND a good ~8 were presents for other people. Still, almost 40 books purchased is mildly terrifying. (I did not count the open access books I acquired, because legally free, thank you!)

19. Did you use your library?

God, yes. Of the 77 currently finished, only 29 are owned by me.

20. What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

21. Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

Nope! I am sure something got mentioned in one of the readers I follow, but mostly it's shitting on people who like to read [fill in book type here]. Oh, wait. I was vaguely aware of the hockey fandom overstepping like hell and getting smacked down for being Too Much in public and not just fandom spaces. Which, look. RPF has a long and storied history and I've got complicated feelings on the subject (nuance), but my general rule of thumb is maybe don't send explicit shit to a.) the person and b.) their spouse. That just feels like good manners getting trampled on.

22. What’s the longest book you read?

Beware of Chicken volume 3, clocking in at 785 pages.

23. What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book?

Probably The Tea Dragon Festival and The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O'Neill. Both were one-sitting reads and absolutely delightful!

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

Honestly? To have a good time and learn some stuff. I also want to keep up my general background goal of reading books by prioritizing reading authors that aren't [fill in my personal demographics here]. I've been doing that for 7+ years now and it's given me so many new stories and authors and even genres to enjoy.

#books #reading wrap up 2024 #reading #end of the year book tag

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historyhermann · 2 years ago

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My Adventures With Superman Season One Spoiler-Filled Review [Part 2]

Continued from part 1

The voice cast is talented. Jack Quaid lent his voice to Peter Parker / Lizard in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and more prominently as Ensign Bradward "Brad" Boimler in Star Trek: Lower Decks. This series marks one of Alice Lee's first voice roles, apart from voicing a character in Mickey Mouse Funhouse. She has played characters in TV series since 2009. Ishmel Sahid has been working on similar series since around the same time. In an exclusive interview with Lee and Sahid, both said they were excited to see fanart, but also said it was challenging to maintain the high energy of Lois and Jimmy. Both noted the writers and producers helped them. They described how they had to adjust their speaking voices to the characters and explained the flair they gave each character through the voices.

One member of the voice cast, Kari Wahlgren, is well-known. She voiced Martha Kent, and young Clark Kent, in this series. She has done dubbing of anime characters since 2002, and has voiced iconic characters in Western animation. This includes Electronique in Kim Possible, Suzy Johnson in Phineas and Ferb, Tigress/Sheena in Carmen Sandiego, Callie in the somewhat underrated Cleopatra in Space, and Zatanna in DC Super Hero Girls. She also lent her voice to characters in Sym-Bionic Titan, Young Justice, Infinity Train, Dota: Dragon's Blood, The Ghost and Molly McGee, The Owl House, Velma, and OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.

Wahlgren is voice actor powerhouse in her own right. There are few voice actors, in the cast, who have voiced as many characters as Wahlgren. One exception is Zehra Fazal. She is recognized for voicing Nadia Rizavi in Voltron: Legendary Defender and Halo/Violet in Young Justice. She also voiced Faraday and Shannon in Craig of the Creek, Mara in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Zahra and Sabrina in Glitch Techs, General Yunan in Amphibia, and Tassia in Dragon Age: Absolution.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Maniacs and Wayback Machine. This was the forty-ninth article I wrote for Pop Culture Maniacs. This post was originally published on September 21, 2023.

Others have voiced just as many characters. Chris Parnell voiced characters in Gravity Falls, BoJack Horseman, Elena of Avalor (Migs), Samurai Jack, and Dogs in Space (Ed). Debra Wilson previously voiced characters in Cannon Busters (Lady Day), Final Space (Quinn's mother), The Casagrandes, The Owl House, Star Trek: Prodigy, Black Dynamite, and The Proud Family. Catherine Taber voiced her share of animated characters including Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Lori Loud in The Loud House. Lucas Grabeel voiced characters such as Jiku in Elena of Avalor and the haughty scammer Julian in Spirit Riding Free.

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The voice cast includes other prominent voice actors. Vincent Tong voiced characters in 16 Hudson, Ninjago, LoliRock (Mephisto), My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Polly Pocket, and The Dragon Prince (Prince Kasef). André Sogliuzzo voiced King Bumi in Avatar: The Last Airbender and King Verago in Elena of Avalor. He also voiced characters in Samurai Jack, Star Wars Rebels, and The Owl House. Darrell Brown previously lent his voice to characters in Gabby's Dollhouse and Madagascar: A Little Wild. Azuri Hardy-Jones voiced Jade in Deer Squad. Kenna Ramsey voiced various characters in video games.

Apt viewers may recognize Jake Green, Laila Berzins, Jesse Inocalla, David Errigo Jr., Max Mittleman, and Andromeda Dunker. Errigo Jr. is known for voicing Ferb in the 2020 film, Candace Against the Universe. The film is the most recent iteration of the Phineas and Ferb franchise. Inocalla voiced Soren in The Dragon Prince. Berzins voiced characters in indie animations such as Satina, Wild Card: Shuffled, and Monkey Wrench.

Other well-known individuals voice bit characters in the seventh episode: Kimberly Brooks as Jalana Olsen, Osric Chau as Lewis Lane, and Lauren Tom as Leader Lois. Brooks is best-known as Princess Allura in Voltron: Legendary Defender and the rough-and-tough Jasper in Steven Universe. Some may remember Chau as the one who voiced the villainous computer hacker known as The Troll in Carmen Sandiego. Tom voiced Mop Girl in recently ended a mature animation, Disenchantment, and Amy Wong in currently airing Futurama, another mature animation. This differs with actors such as Reid Scott, Joel De La Fuente, Melanie Minichino, and Michael Emerson (as Brainac). All four do wonderful voice work on this show, but have almost exclusively, or exclusively, previously done live-action TV series.

Warner Bros. Animation is a subsidiary of the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate. This subsidiary produced Velma, Harley Quinn, DC Super Hero Girls, Young Justice, Justice League Unlimited, Teen Titans, Justice League, Static Shock, Superman: The Animated Series, and Batman: The Animated Series. Rooster Teeth, another subsidiary, is recognized for RWBY, its flagship series. The CRWBY is doing all they can to ensure RWBY gets a tenth season. The RWBY superhero crossover film (part 2) is coming out this fall. It may include a version of Superman, like part one.

A largely-circulated spreadsheet in which people anonymously described their conditions in animation studios mentions Warner Bros. Animation. In one entry, Warner Bros. Animation is said to have too much work and treat workers badly. However, it acknowledges that each production is different. People on Glassdoor praised Studio Mir for high-quality projects and talented colleagues. Others were more critical.

Whatever the second season of My Adventures with Superman brings, the number of fans will continue to grow (including the 10,000+ fans across two subreddits), regardless of the corporate decision to air it on Adult Swim rather than Cartoon Network, possibly because of "dark moments" in the series. Hopefully the next season goes above and beyond what the first season delivered. Even so, I can't rate this series high enough, as it is just as strong as Harley Quinn and superior in many ways to the sometimes-convoluted Young Justice and mediocre Velma.

My Adventures with Superman can be streamed on Max or Spectrum. It can also be purchased on Prime Video, either as an entire season or individual episodes, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, or Microsoft Store.

#my adventures with superman #jack quaid #lower decks #kari wahlgren #zehra fazal #chris parnell #debra wilson #catherine taber #lucas grabeel #subreddit #reddit #reviews #voice acting #max #spectrum #hbo max #rwby #warner bros discovery #conglomerates

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how2fit · 3 months ago

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April is finally here. With warmth, longer days and nature all around us reviving and starting to blossom. It’s a time of new beginnings. Of new hope. And of new energy to go after your goals and dreams. In today’s post I’d simply like to share 85 of the most inspirational, positive and funny short April quotes. I hope you’ll find something here that’ll help you to appreciate April a little extra this year and to have a wonderful and a less stressful month. Short Positive April Quotes to Welcome This Spring Month “April is the sweetest month of the year, the mellow season of rebirth and renewal.” – Mary Sojourner “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.” – Hal Borland “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” – Lady Bird Johnson “The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.” – S. Brown “Happiness? The color of it must be spring green.” – Frances Mayes “Sweet April showers do bring May flowers.” – Thomas Tusser “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” – William Shakespeare “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” – Christina Rossetti “The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “April brings the primrose sweet, scatters daisies at our feet.” – Sara Coleridge “I shine in tears like the sun in April.” – Cyril Tourneur “Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” – Anita Krizzan “April is a reminder that life is a beautiful, ever-renewing cycle.” – E.E. Cummings “Sweet April’s tears dead on the hem of May.” – Alexander Smith “The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” – Harriet Ann Jacobs “Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.” – Geoffrey B. Charlesworth “April is a promise of what’s to come.” – Gladys Taber Short Motivational April Quotes for Work “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” – Leo Tolstoy “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” – Lilly Pulitzer “Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.” – Ellis Peters “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the spring who reaps a harvest in the autumn.” – B.C. Forbes “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “No rain, no flowers.” – Haruki Murakami “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” – John Muir “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood “To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” – George Santayana “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.” – Yoko Ono “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “The deep roots never doubt spring will come.” – Marty Rubin “Renewal is rooted in gratitude for what has been and hope for what can be.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot Short Hello April Quotes for Inspiration “Winter’s done, and April’s in the skies. Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!” – Charles G.D. Roberts “April, the joy of the green hours, clothes with flowers over all her locks of gold.” – Remy Belleau “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke “Sweet April-time – O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow of promise, and red lips with longing paled.” – Dinah Craik “April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks, ‘Go!'” – Christopher Morley “Oh, to be in England now that April’s there.” – Robert Browning “Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers.”

– Byron Caldwell Smith “If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May.” – Buddy DeSylva “April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.” – Yip Harburg “Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!” – William Hamilton Gibson “April weather, rain and sunshine both together.” – English Country Saying “The April winds are magical and thrill our tuneful frames.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.” – Robert Frost “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” – Virgil A. Kraft “April splinters like an ice palace.” – Ruth Stone “When April steps aside for May, like diamonds all the raindrops glisten.” – Lucy Larcom “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne Short and Funny April Quotes for Laughs and Stress Relief “The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” – Mark Twain “Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” – Charles Lamb “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s Party!'” – Robin Williams “Snow in April is abominable, like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.” – L.M. Montgomery “Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.” – W. Earl Hall “In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” – Mark Twain “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin “Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.” – Louise Erickson “The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn’t even get the late worm.” – Charles M. Schulz “I’m 100 percent sunshine.” – Lil Yachty “Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” – Zig Ziglar “Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” – Edgar Bergen “Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.” – L.M. Montgomery “Although I was born in April, I’m quite certain I was not fully awake until October.” – Peggy Toney Horton “Some people can’t be fooled on April Fool’s Day because they were fooled too many times during their entire lifetime.” – Akash B Chandran “Everybody wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes.” – P.J. O’Rourke Short Happy April Quotes for Your Letter Board and Instagram “April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.” – Vita Sackville-West “My favorite weather is bird chirping weather.” – Terri Guillemets “April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.” – Doug Larson “Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.” – Gustav Mahler “Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” – Bishop Reginald Heber “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.” – Susan Polis Schutz “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.” – Virginia Woolf “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” – Oscar Wilde “Always it’s Spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” – E.E. Cummings “Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” – Unknown “Spring is shoving up the front windows and resting your elbows on the sill, the sun burning your nose a little.” – Ruth Wolff “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn “A kind word is like a spring day.” – Russian Proverb “If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.” – Victor Hugo “The coming of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.” – Henry David Thoreau “An optimist is the human personification of spring.” – Susan J. Bissonette Want

more spring inspiration? Then have a look at these inspirational April quotes, the positive spring quotes here and also these short spring quotes and the short spring captions in this post.

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twittercomfrnklin2001-blog · 1 year ago

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Final Summer

Just when you think nobody could come up with a new way to make a bad slasher film, along comes John Isberg’s FINAL SUMMER (2023, Prime, Tubi, Plex). The film opens with counselors at Camp Silverlake in 1986 as one tells a story of a traumatized Vietnam vet who killed his family and now stalks the woods. When two of them are sent out to find more firewood, a masked killer shows up and dispatches them with an axe. The film then cuts to 1991 and hardly ever mentions the opening sequence. Now it’s closing day for the camp, whose owner has decided to sell the land to developers after a counselor was killed in the woods. We never see that murder. The film starts with Lexi (Jenna Kohn), the counselor who was out with the victim at the time, being questioned by the police. Kohn also keeps flashing back to an incident in which her kid brother was killed. Like the opening, this, too, has little connection to the main plot and doesn’t even seem to play a role in motivating her actions. When the killer shows up, people start acting stupidly so they fall victim easily. They keep going off alone, even after they’ve seen him kill one of them. At one point, Kohn runs into a building and leaves the door behind her open as she quakes in fear in front of it.

This was the first feature directed by Isberg, who has worked primarily as a cinematographer. It’s certainly well shot, though there’s an awful lot of light around the camp after the killer has cut the power lines. Some of the cast are decent actors. Kohn, however, isn’t. She generalizes a lot, and since she’s the final girl, we’re stuck with her for a long time. I would also suggest that in these days of closed captioning, writers refrain from naming main characters Peter. It makes for some risible closed captions along the lines of “Peter thuds to ground.” Since the killer eschews two opportunities to kill Peter (Wyatt Taber), it may also lead one to wonder about his sexuality, though that’s a welcome distraction from the idiocy on screen.

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ramrodd · 1 year ago

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The common source is the Talking Cross. Pilate's lost euangelion conveys these Tidings of joy to Tiberius and Tiberius took it to the Senate to legislate.

Your intuition regarding the relationship of John Mark to the author of the Gospel of Mark, Cornelius, is exactly correct. My opinion of the secret Gospel of Mark reflects to me, from a Hegelian harmonization and editorial process for the final Greek version of the Gospel of Mark as a translation from the Latin, which is why the Greek is so crude. In any event, it is evident to me that the Gospel of John was written by John Mark by 68 CE after his final meeting with Paul. whenever that was. and is he memoir of his role as the Beloved Disciple from the time he first connected with Jesus and John the Baptist before the 30 CE Passover and after Jesus was baptized when he was 12 and going through his Bar Mitzvah, John Mark becomes the Saint Mark of Alexandria and becomes the primary distributor of the Gospel. After he died, the surviving editorial board added the Mark 16:9 - 20 and the last two chapters of John.

The Gospel of John brings the Seder into the harmonics of the Gospels we now have. He composed it specifically to compliment Mark's time line and narrative. He is an eye witness to the feeding of the 5000 but not to the Triumphal Entry nor the fig tree nor the scourging of the Temple, He adds the detail of the lash from Peter's memory. He is there with Peter when Mary Magdalene reruns alone to report the Risen Lord. He was faster than Peter, but not as tough, so he let Peter go first.

Jimmy Taber's intuition that Mark and John are intentionally intertwined narratives is exactly correct. This theory of inquiry will validate your scholarship in delightful ways.

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cykeltojoewgoi · 2 years ago

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Fremkomsten af unge topryttere dæmper veteranernes tilstedeværelse

Efterhånden som de vigtige landevejsbegivenheder i 2023-sæsonen slutter, har mange fans set for mange fremragende unge kørere. Deres fokus skiftede fra veteranryttere til yngre ryttere, og løbet var meget konkurrencedygtigt. Jumbo-Vismas Primož Roglič så fremkomsten af unge ryttere på holdet, og han tog også beslutningen om at forlade holdet og skifte sin Billigt Cykeltøj.

I år tiltrak Jonas Vingegaard og Jumbo-Visma for meget opmærksomhed fra fans, og holdet nåede også den højeste vinderrekord i holdets historie. Team sky, som tidligere dominerede landevejsmesterskabet, har skiftet navn til Team Ineos. Det nuværende Team Ineos har ikke nået sit mål med hensyn til mesterskabshæder. Holdets hovedkører Remco Evenepoel har misset Tour de France og Vuelta a España mesterskaberne. Mange chauffører ser fremkomsten af unge chauffører, og de glemmer, at der findes for mange veteraner. For professionelle kørere kan de kun genvinde fansens opmærksomhed ved at deltage i konkurrencer. Chris Froome, Peter Sagan, Geraint Howell Thomas osv., de er alle forsvundet fra racerfans opmærksomhed i år.

Selvom veteraner stadig er i stand til at deltage i konkurrencen, er antallet af deltagere i de tre store ture begrænset. Holdet foretrækker at overlade muligheder til kørere, der kan vinde mesterskabet, mens veteraner, der engang fik stor opmærksomhed, gradvist taber nyheder. Chris Froome har vundet Tour de France Cykeltrøje fire gange og har ingen ambition om at vinde en femte titel. Optagelserne af begivenheden blev givet til mesterskabskørerne, og deres udseende indledte en ny æra for landevejsløb.

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marcmarcmomarc · 1 month ago

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(Now, as Ladybug’s yo-yo rotates counterclockwise over a red background with black spots, credits roll.)

Cast

Marinette Dupain-Cheng: Cristina Vee

Adrien Agreste: Bryce Papenbrook

Tikki: Mela Lee

Lila Rossi: Lisa Kay Jennings

Alya Césaire: Carrie Keranen

Nino Lahiffe: Ben Diskin & Zeno Robinson

Chloé Bourgeois: Selah Victor

Sabrina Raincomprix: Cassandra Lee Morris

Kim Chiến Lê-Ature: Grant George

Ivan Bruel: Max Mittelman

Mylène Haprèle: Jessica Gee

Juleka Couffaine: Reba Buhr

Rose Lavillant: Reba Buhr

Nathaniel Kurtzberg: Michael Sinterniklaas

Alix Kubdel: Kira Buckland

Max Kanté: Ben Diskin & Zeno Robinson

Tom Dupain: Christopher Corey Smith

Sabine Cheng: Philece Sampler & Anne Yatco

Luka Couffaine: Andrew Russell

Kagami Tsurugi: Faye Mata

Marc Anciel: Kyle McCarley & Alejandro Saab

Nora Césaire: Laila Berzins

Ondine: Erika Harlacher

Nadja Chamack: Sabrina Weisz

Manon Chamack: Stephanie Sheh

Markov: Grant George

Ella Césaire: Cherami Leigh

Etta Césaire: Cherami Leigh

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Plagg: Max Mittelman

Trixx: Cherami Leigh

Wayzz: Christopher Corey Smith

Pollen: Cassandra Lee Morris

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Luna-TK: Luna-TK

Lyss: Lyss

Siebee: Siebee

Shady Doorags: Shady Doorags

Momo: Luminara

Beth: RascalRabbit

Miranda: Hildaglitz

Sharki: ArtistSharki Cosplay

Shadow Tag: Shadow Tag

Rhilentless: Rhilentless

Gabi: Radio_Bla_Bla

Kathy: Kyashì

Jake: JakeHeilos

Jack: BluexShift

Emi: Tealeath

Calxiyn: Calxiyn

Robyn: RbnVids

Hungary Harmony: Hungary Harmony

Sofia LaVoice: Sofia LaVoice

Camryn: Camryn

Yackachoo: Yackachoo

JD Shadow: JD Shadow

Austin Holden: Austin Holden (ASLB247)

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Bob Parr: Craig T. Nelson

Helen Parr: Holly Hunter

Violet Parr: Sarah Vowell

Dash Parr: Huckleberry Milner & Banks Pierce

Jack-Jack Parr: Tara Strong

Lucius Best: Samuel L. Jackson

Edna Mode (E): Brad Bird

Winston Deavor: Bob Odenkirk

Tony Rydinger: Michael Bird

Kari McKeen: Bret Parker

Voyd: Sophia Bush

Mirage: Norma Maldonado

Rick Dicker: Jonathan Banks

Krushauer: Phil LaMarr

He-lectrix: Phil LaMarr

Reflux: Paul Eiding

Brick: Greg Dykstra

Screech: Dee Bradley Baker

Lincoln Loud: Tex Hammond, Asher Bishop, & Bentley Griffin

Clyde McBride: Andre Robinson, Jahzir Bruno, & Jaeden White

Lori Loud: Catherine Taber

Leni Loud: Liliana Mumy

Luna Loud: Nika Futterman

Luan Loud: Cristina Pucelli

Lynn Loud Jr.: Jessica DiCicco

Lucy Loud: Jessica DiCicco

Lana Loud: Grey DeLisle

Lola Loud: Grey DeLisle

Lisa Loud: Lara Jill Miller

Lily Loud: Grey DeLisle

Lynn Loud Sr.: Brian Stepanek

Rita Loud: Jill Talley

Howard McBride: Michael McDonald

Harold McBride: Wayne Brady & Khary Payton

Bud Grouse: John DiMaggio

Ronnie Anne Santiago: Izabella Alvarez

Sid Chang: Leah Mei Gold

Bobby Santiago: Carlos PenaVega

Rosa Casagrande: Sonia Manzano

Hector Casagrande: Ruben Garfias

Maria Casagrande-Santiago: Sumalee Montano

Arturo Santiago: Eugenio Derbez

Carlos Casagrande: Carlos Alazraqui

Frida Puga Casagrande: Roxana Ortega

Carlota Casagrande: Alexa PenaVega

Carlos Jr. “CJ” Casagrande: Jared Kozak

Carlino Casagrande: Alex Cazares

Carlitos Casagrande: Cristina Milizia

Oh: Jim Parsons

Gratuity “Tip” Tucci: Rihanna

Lucy Tucci: Jennifer Lopez

Kyle: Matt Jones

Miguel Rivera: Anthony Gonzalez & Ryan Lopez

Elena Rivera: Renée Victor

Enrique Rivera: Jaime Camil

Luisa Rivera: Sofía Espinosa

Berto Rivera: Luiz Valdez

Carmen Rivera: Roxana Castellanos

Gloria Rivera: Carla Medina

Franco Rivera: Roberto Donati

Abel Rivera: Polo Rojas

Rosa Rivera: Montse Hernandez

Socorro Rivera: Dafne Keen

Benny Rivera: Elias Janseen

Manny Rivera: Elias Janseen

Red: Jason Sudeikis

Chuck: Josh Gad

Bomb: Danny McBride

Leonard: Bill Hader

Silver: Rachel Bloom

Garry: Sterling K. Brown

Courtney: Awkwafina

Ethan “Mighty” Eagle: Peter Dinklage

Matilda: Maya Rudolph

Terence: Nolan North

Jay: JoJo Siwa

Jake: JoJo Siwa

Jim: JoJo Siwa

Zeta: Leslie Jones

Debbie: Tiffany Haddish

Glenn: Eugenio Derbez

Ross: Tony Hale

Mime: Tony Hale

Stella: Kate McKinnon

Bubbles: Ian Hecox

Hal: Anthony Padilla

Zoe: Brooklynn Prince

Vivi: Genesis Tennon

Sam-Sam: Alma Versano

Queen Poppy: Anna Kendrick

Branch: Justin Timberlake

Biggie: Samson Kayo

Prince Cooper: Ron Funches

Guy Diamond: Kunal Nayyar

Smidge: Kevin Michael Richardson

Satin: Aino Jawo

Chenille: Caroline Hjelt

DJ Suki: Fryda Wolff

Queen Bridget: Zooey Deschanel

King Gristle: Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Viva: Camila Cabello

King Peppy: Walt Dohrn

John Dory: Eric André

Clay: Kid Cudi

Floyd: Troye Sivan

Spruce: Daveed Diggs

Queen Barb: Rachel Bloom

Tiny Diamond: Kenan Thompson

Prince Darnell (D): Anderson .Paak

King Quincy: George Clinton

Queen Essence: Mary J. Blige

Hickory: Sam Rockwell

Dickory: Flula Borg

Creek: Matt Lowe

Riff: Karan Soni

Delta Dawn: Kelly Clarkson

King Trollex: Anthony Ramos

Trollzart: Gustavo Dudamel

Archer Pastry: Arnie Pantoja

Cloud Guy: Walt Dohrn

Val Thundershock: Lauren Mayhew

Demo: Charles DeWayne

Holly Darlin’: Megan Hilty

Dante Crescendo: J.P. Karliak

Lownote Jones: Michael-Leon Wooley

Synth: Vladimir Caamano

Legsly: Ester Dean

King Thrash: Ozzy Osbourne

Pennywhistle: Charlyne Yi

Mr. Dinkles: Kevin Michael Richardson

Fuzzbert: Walt Dohrn

Flint Lockwood: Bill Hader

Sam Sparks: Anna Faris

Tim Lockwood: James Caan & Seán Cullen

Earl Devereaux: Terry Crews

Brent McHale: Andy Samberg

Manny: Benjamin Bratt

Steve: Neil Patrick Harris

Barb: Kristen Schaal

Dipper Pines: Jason Ritter

Mabel Pines: Kristen Schaal

Stanley Pines: Alex Hirsch

Stanford Pines: J.K. Simmons

Soos Ramirez: Alex Hirsch

Wendy Corduroy: Linda Cardelini

Fiddleford McGucket: Alex Hirsch

Grenda Grendinator: Carl Faruolo

Candy Chiu: Niki Yang

Robbie Valentino: Justin Rupple

Pacifica Northwest: Jackie Buscarino

Gideon Gleeful: Thurop Van Orman

Melody: Jillian Bell

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III: Jay Baruchel

Astrid Haddock: America Ferrera

Fishlegs Ingerman: Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Snotlout Jorgenson: Jonah Hill

Tuffnut Thorston: Justin Rupple

Ruffnut Thorston: Kristen Wiig

Valka Haddock: Cate Blanchett

Zephyr Haddock: Madalyn Gonzalez

Nuffink Haddock: Liam Ferguson

Gobber: Craig Ferguson

Eret: Kit Harrington

James P. Sullivan: John Goodman

Mike Wazowski: Billy Crystal

Boo: Mary Gibbs

Celia Mae: Jennifer Tilly

Yeti: John Ratzenberger

Scott “Squishy” Squibbles: Peter Sohn

Don Carlton: Joel Murray

Terry Perry: Dave Foley

Terri Perry: Sean Hayes

Art: Charlie Day

Tylor Tuskman: Ben Feldman

Val Little: Melissa Villaseñor

Fritz: Henry Winkler

Katherine “Cutter” Sterns: Alanna Ubach

Duncan P. Anderson: Lucas Neff

Felonious Gru: Steve Carell

Dru Gru: Steve Carell

Lucy Wilde: Kristen Wiig

Margo Gru: Miranda Cosgrove

Edith Gru: Dana Gaier

Agnes Gru: Nev Scharrel & Madison Skyy Polan

Poppy Prescott: Joey King

Felonious Gru Jr.: Tara Strong

Dr. Nefario: Romesh Ranganathan

Minions: Pierre Coffin

Count Dracula: Adam Sandler

Jonathan Loughran: Andy Samberg

Mavis Dracula: Selena Gomez

Frank Frankenstein: Kevin James

Eunice Frankenstein: Fran Drescher

Wayne Werewolf: Steve Buscemi

Wanda Werewolf: Molly Shannon

Griffin: David Spade

Murray: Keegan-Michael Key

Dennis Dracula-Loughran: Asher Blinkoff

Vlad Dracula: Mel Brooks

Ericka Dracula: Kathryn Hahn

Abraham Van Helsing: Jim Gaffigan

Crystal: Chrissy Teigen

Winnie Werewolf: Sadie Sandler

Blobby Blob: Genndy Tartakovski

Baby Blobby: Genndy Tartakovski

Puppy Blobby: Genndy Tartakovski

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Evelyn Deavor: Catherine Keener

Morag: Michelle Gomez

Smek: Steve Martin

Velvet: Amy Schumer

Shelbourne: Bruce Campbell

Henry J. Waternoose: Brian Hull

Randall Boggs: Steve Buscemi

Johnny Worthington III: Nathan Fillion

Victor “Vector” Perkins: Jason Segel

Eduardo “El Macho” Perez: Benjamin Bratt

Balthazar Bratt: Trey Parker

Mr. Perkins: Will Arnett

Maxime Le Mal: Will Ferrell

Valentina: Sofía Vergara

Principal Übelschlecht: Chris Renaud

Scarlet Overkill: Sandra Bullock

Herb Overkill: Jon Hamm

Belle Bottom: Taraji P. Henson

Jean-Clawed: Jean-Claude Van Damme

Svengeance: Dolph Lundgren

Stronghold: Danny Trejo

Nun-Chuck: Lucy Lawless

Bela: Rob Riggle

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Gabriel Agreste: Keith Silverstein

Nathalie Sancoeur: Sabrina Weisz

André Bourgeois: Joe Ochman

Audrey Bourgeois: Haviland Stillwell

Roger Raincomprix: Christopher Corey Smith

Caline Bustier: Dorothy Fahn

Marlena Césaire: Erin Fitzgerald

Otis Césaire: Paul St. Peter

Anarka Couffaine: Cindy Robinson

Fred Haprèle: Ezra Weisz

Jalil Kubdel: Alejandro Saab

Alim Kubdel: Todd Haberkorn

Jagged Stone: Lex Lang

Penny Rolling: Mela Lee

Gina Dupain: Reba Buhr

Adrien’s Bodyguard: Ezra Weisz

Denis Damoclès: J.C. Hyke

André Glacier: Ezra Weisz

Aurore Beaureál: Mela Lee

Théo Barbot: Brian Beacock

Mireille Caquet: Mela Lee

Olga Mendeleiev: Anne Yatco

Mrs. Rossi: Mela Lee

Armand “Jean”: Ben Diskin

Clara Nightingale: Allegra Clark

Nooroo: Ben Diskin

Wang Fu: Paul St. Peter

Wayhem: Chris Hackney

Jean Duparc: Yuri Lownethal

Duusu: Melissa Fahn

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Corvette Driver: Larry Matovina

Marriott’s Grande Vista Worker 1: Lee Eddy

Marriott’s Grande Vista Worker 2: Yuri Lowenthal

Cab Driver: Sam Riegel

Panera Cashier: Cassie Ewulu

Tour Guide: Dave Fennoy

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Sass: Ben Diskin

Ziggy: Susannah Corrington

Kaalki: Deneen Melody

Daizzi: Jessica Gee

Roaar: Sandy Fox

Xuppu: Sarah Weisz

Barkk: Sabrina Glow

Fluff: Ryan Bartley

Mullo: Deneen Melody

Stompp: Lauren Landa

Longg: Grant George

Orikko: Sabrina Weisz

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Singing Voices

Adrien Agreste: Drew Ryan Scott

Valka Haddock: Mary Jane Wells

Clara Nightingale: Laura Marano

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Miraculous

Chapter 26: End Credits

(Now, credits appear over locations from throughout the story, ala “Finding Nemo”.)

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Original “Miraculous” Themes by

Alain Garcia

Noam Kaniel

Jeremy Zag

Original Crossover Media Themes by

Lorne Balfe, Christophe Beck

Brad Breeck, Germaine Franco

Michael Giacchino, Aleena Gibson

Jonathan Hylander, Molly Anne Kaye

Christopher Lennertz, & Michelle Lewis

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Mark Mothersbaugh, Trevor Muzzy

Randy Newman, Heitor Pereira

John Powell, Jimmy Richard

Doug Rockwell, & Theodore Shapiro

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Marinette Dupain-Cheng will return in

Miraculous 2: New York

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The Dusted Midyear Exchange 2019, Part 1

Charly Bliss

We started doing the Dusted Midyear Exchange in 2013, the same year we went to the Tumblr format, and it’s become a bit of an institution. The concept is simple: We survey Dusted’s famously opinionated staff of writers, asking for two favorite albums as of the midpoint of the year. Then we assign these albums to other Dusted writers, without regard to background, beat or even preferences. It’s a way to find out what other people are listening to, get out of our respective ruts and explore unfamiliar genres. It is occasionally uncomfortable—a couple of these blurbs are noticeably grouchy—but we think worthwhile. Comfort zones are meant to be stepped out of. This year, Bill Meyer, Jennifer Kelly, Ian Mathers, Isaac Olson, Andrew Forell, Peter Taber, Justin Cober-Lake, Patrick Masterson and Jonathan Shaw participated. In day one, we explore artists from the front end of the alphabet: Joshua Abrams to Fennesz.

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society — Mandatory Reality (Eremite)

Mandatory Reality by Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society

Who recommended it? Bill Meyer

Did we review it? No. But Bill has previously referred to Natural Information Society as an “internationally acclaimed post-Saharan trance-groove combo.”

Ian Mathers’ take:

There are a number of different ways to take the title of Mandatory Reality, but one is as a reference to just how inescapable this double album feels while it’s unspooling. Joshua Abrams (here mostly playing the guimbri) and the rest of the Natural Information Society (here comprised of Lisa Alvarado, Mikel Patrick Avery, Ben Boye, Hamid Drake, Ben Lamar Gay, Nick Mazzarella, and Jason Stein) have ditched the drum set, electric guitars and so on that have made up part of their make-up on past records to focus on mostly acoustic instruments (give or take an electric autoharp) with a renewed sense of patience and control. Mandatory Reality is divided into four pieces, although the opening (and linked) “In Memory’s Prism” and “Finite” take up 63 of the 81 minutes on offer here; there, the octet sets up a series of gradual exchanges and tones that can feel richly minimalist, involvingly ambient, or several other paradoxical paired qualities. That first hour and change in particular feels like music you could leave on a loop forever, finding out new things every third or fourth iteration for… years, maybe. The low-key groove of these offerings, the sense of patient investigation, rewards both passive appreciation and active interrogation, so much so that it’s almost a shame when “Shadow Conductor” takes things in a more actively Reichian direction (led by Stein’s bass clarinet). The (relatively) brief, closing “Agree” sees all eight musicians take up flutes for what sounds like an attempt to transform birdcalls into drones, or vice versa. It’s as good a way to work up from the deceptively, subtly heavy trance that the rest of Mandatory Reality can indeed lay on the listener.

ASUNA & Jan Jelinek — Signals Bulletin (Faitiche)

Signals Bulletin by ASUNA & Jan Jelinek

Who recommended it? Peter Taber

Did we review it? Yes. Peter said, “The suggestion of inquiry into sonic function reinforces the modernist, formal sensibility hinted at by the overall album.”

Jonathan Shaw’s take:

“Relief, Pt. 1,” the 13-plus-minute track that opens Signals Bulletin, does that thing that long, carefully textured drone can do well: tones and notes keep emerging out of the sonic field, and you wonder, “Is that a new sound, or was it there from the song’s beginning?” It keeps happening. Instead of digitally scanning back and forth in the track, it’s probably more in the spirit of things to let the mystery ride and stay in the drone’s moment, suspended in sound. I like that there’s no “Relief, Pt. 2” on the record. After 20 minutes of this sort of thing, I begin to respond much in the way I do to Alejandro Iñárritu’s recent movies. I get antsy. But there’s no arguing with the way the first seven minutes of “Blinking of Countless Lines” get under your skin. Antsy-ness turns to itch, your teeth grit. Then a cluster of shimmering, chiming sounds leaks into the foreground, and things get much prettier for the remaining seven minutes. Maybe that’s the second part of the “relief.” Perversely, I prefer the itch.

Boy Harsher — Careful (Nude Club)

Careful by BOY HARSHER

Who recommended it? Ian Mathers

Did we review it? Yes. Ian Mathers wrote, “At the right (or wrong) moment it can feel as threatening as the work of David Lynch, or as warmly empathetic, even fatherly, as the same.”

Peter Taber’s take:

Careful sees the inherited timbres and arpeggio-driven rhythms of coldwave, new wave, and various other synth-y pop music distilled into a quasi-formal apparatus that ticks mercilessly on. The almost-too-perfectly-executed production is offset by the viscerality of Jae Matthews’ vocals. Sung-muttered in tones that variably evince desperation and resignation, Matthews’ delivery is authentically pained enough to elevate the album above pastiche, but subdued enough to avoid the pitfalls of some overwrought EBM. The sense of reserve lends outsized impact to small gestures like Matthews’ re-sampled howl on “Fate,” or the downward synth glissando on “LA” that punctuates Matthews’ lyric, “You’ll hurt me either way/It’s a matter of your time,” perfectly capturing the sense that, no, things are probably not going to be okay.

Charly Bliss — Young Enough (Barsuk)

Young Enough by Charly Bliss

Who recommended it: Justin Cober-Lake

Did we review it? Yes, Andrew Forell wrote, “Young Enough harvests pop tropes to express and expel trauma through the discovery and strength of voice.”

Jennifer Kelly’s take:

Charly Bliss’s Eva Hendricks wrote “Chat Room” during the Kavanaugh hearings, dredging up her own memories of sexual assault while the whole country grappled with whether women’s pain mattered (spoiler: it doesn’t). Like the rest of Young Enough, the cut is bouncy and buoyant musically, with phrases like “I wanna see you naked” ripe for taking out of context. And yet there’s a darkness here and on the anthemic “Young Enough,” with its huge serrated guitar sounds, its pounding-heart percussion, its fragile assertion that, “We’re young enough…to believe it should hurt this much.” Like contemporaries in Hop Along and the Cherry Glazerr, Hendricks affirms the power of pop without granting it magic powers to conquer suffering. The hurt and the learning to live with it coincide here, as they do in young female life, both important, neither cancelling the other.

Dark Blue — Victory is Rated (12XU)

Victory Is Rated by Dark Blue

Who recommended it: Jennifer Kelly

Did we review it? Yes, Jennifer said, “Dark Blue rolls over you like a freight train, a mass of shadowy, goth-y, gut-shocked overload that takes no pains to minimize itself.”

Isaac Olson’s take:

John Sharkey III, lead singer of Dark Blue, has a booming baritone voice and here’s what it does well: faux-roué fatalism, world-weary derision, and stagey arrogance, all unleavened by wit or humor. Sure, he’s sarcastic, but that’s not the same thing. Furthermore, Sharkey’s timbral and emotional limitations, (intentionally?) campy crooning, clunky lyrics (“ watching the planes go fly”, “take your time to write a letter/that you don’t agree”), and catholic scorn can make it hard to tell the difference between sneering and soaring, and worse, whether his all-encompassing contempt includes Dark Blue’s catchy if static, glittery goth-pop tunes and their audience.

The best song on Victory is Rated, “Challenge of Death” plays it relatively straight, and “Midnight Moon” is straightforwardly nasty enough for Sharkey to sound convincing, but as for the rest…while your mileage may vary, I’ve got no use for boorishly bellowed lyrics — however sardonic — like, “Counterculture in my veins/lack of culture on this plane..but who am I to be the judge/of the dim and lonely slugs on holiday?”. Yes, the joke is as much on the narrator as anyone; yes, righteous sincerity can be oppressive; yes, we need morbid, mordant ironists, but cheap sarcasm does no favors to leaden tempos and a voice that ironizes itself. Or maybe I’m just allergic to vibrato-heavy cynicism.

Drahla — Useless Coordinates (Captured Tracks)

Useless Coordinates by Drahla

Who recommended it? Andrew Forell

Did we review it? Yes. Andrew said, “For all the echoes and ghosts of post-punk past, Drahla sound exactly like themselves.”

Jonathan Shaw’s take:

Is this Leeds, in the West Riding, or the Lower East Side, c. 1982? One could be forgiven for being confused, listening to this sharply angled record by Drahla. The Yorkshire band’s indebtedness to No Wave’s feral skronk and Sonic Youth’s posed dissonance is immediately apparent on album opener “Gilded Cloud” (great title, that) and intensifies the longer you listen. So do the album’s considerable sonic charms. Most of the songs are fairly brief, and they rise like a second-degree burn blister that you can’t stop poking. The exception is “React_Revolt,” which comes in on a sax-driven groove primed for a torchy workout à la Richard Hell; but midway through, the song shifts gears and snaps into an anxious contest between Luciel Brown’s brightly chiming guitar chords and her understated, sung-spoken vocals. I like the short songs best: “Serenity” and “Primitive Rhythm” are tightly strung, whirring, clicking machines that evoke the most rock-oriented stuff made by Mars. Art punk!

Fennesz — Agora (Editions Mego)

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Who recommended it? Andrew Forell

Did we review it? Yes. Andrew Forell wrote, “Agora is another deep exploration of the boundaries of experimental guitar ambience in which to lose oneself.”

Bill Meyer’s take:

Agoraphobia is a fear of open spaces, and Agora was recorded in a bedroom studio. But Christian Fennesz didn’t record there out of fear; rather, he’d lost a better-appointed workplace and temporarily found himself working like he did much earlier in his career. Having followed Fennesz for over twenty years, I would have been quite happy to hear him revisit his old habit of burying melodies deep within clouds of noise. No such luck; Agora sustains Fennesz’s post-Endless Summer practice of wrapping the noise around the melodies. Which isn’t so bad, since he has pretty good taste in noises and a refined instinct for deploying them just right. He uses big sounds to amplify simple tunes, which in turn evoke vast spaces. Still, I miss the days when his sounds didn’t just articulate the space, but immersed you in it.

#dusted magazine #midyear #midyear 2019 #joshua abrams #asuna #jan jelinek #boy harsher #charly bliss #dark blue #drahla #fennesz #bill meyer #jonathan shaw #jennifer kelly #isaac olson #peter taber #ian mathers #andrew forell

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morphenominalconfessions · 5 years ago

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“Ninja Steel was my favorite Neo-Saban series and I found Dino Charge boring”

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All right, reactions to Mando 2.05, “The Jedi”, in...semi-coherent form. Spoilers, obvs. I hated this episode, so keep scrolling now if you don’t want to see negativity. This is not in any kind of order except stream-of-conscious.

again, I reiterate, spoilers.

again, I reiterate, this is REALLY negative.

Rosario Dawson...yikes.

how...did Bo-Katan know that Ahsoka was on Corvus? are they in contact? since when? Ahsoka seems to have been on Corvus for long enough to be a nuisance to the Magistrate (Morgan Elsbeth), but normally Ahsoka is very efficient and she just...really does not seem to be here? I did not get the impression she was planning on sticking around for any period of time.

(the same could be true for Frog Lady and Bo-Katan on Trask several episodes back. that wasn’t a convert, that was three Mandalorians hanging around the port in cloaks. I guess they could be doing that on the regular, but? would the Empire not then be more worried about being attacked by Mandalorians?)

there was only ever a very, very slim chance that I was going to be happy with any translation of Ahsoka from animation to live action. I am on record as thinking that animation is the medium for Star Wars and that live action is always going to be a weaker medium than animation and that a lot of things that can be done in animation just cannot be translated to live action in any meaningful form. I knew Ahsoka’s fighting style couldn’t translate to live action convincingly (here’s what I said about the mo-capped duel in TCW); it never occurred to me that they couldn’t pull off TOGRUTA given that Shaak Ti, you know, exists, and also there are so many excellent Ahsoka cosplayers.

(Consider KM Creations’ excellent silicone lekku (S7), which have beautiful movement; the cosplayer behind that is CallMeSnips and her epilogue prototype is from SWCC is in there somewhere. I think Rei Kennex’s are latex (you can tell they don’t have much movement) but at least they’re the right length. I think Ahsoka94′s are also latex (again with the movement); this is her Mortis vision grown-up Ahsoka.)

AND YES, THE LEKKU/MONTRALS WERE A DEAL-BREAKER FOR ME.

I feel very “you have made your bed and now you have to die in it” about that -- apparently the reasoning is for stunts and movement, but for me here’s the thing: her lekku length wasn’t optional. This is not the equivalent of changing a hair style, which some people seem to think (believe me, I have read so many hot takes); this is like...I’m trying to think of a good comparison. Like putting Peter Mayhew or Joonas Suotamo in a wig because Chewie’s head was too hard for the actor to see out of, or giving them normal human hands because they can’t grip with the Wookiee hands.

Also your main character wears a helmet at all times that (if it’s anything like my Mandalorian helmet) is pretty poor visibility and full body armor and THIS was your breaking point for stunts?

Ahsoka’s lekku and montrals grow as she ages. These are about S7 length; as @reena-jenkins put it, THEY DE-AGED HER HEAD. Ahsoka fans coming in know this. PEOPLE SAW THE REBELS EPILOGUE.

I wonder how many of the people being self-righteous about being totally fine about Ahsoka’s lekku are the same people who claim that Katee Sackhoff is too young to play Bo-Katan.

this also puts them in a weird position in regards to the inevitable merchandise: do they go with normal Ahsoka from TCW and Rebels, the one everyone is familiar with, or do they go with these stunted lekku?

(I can’t believe they’re going to make Her Universe sell merch with this Ahsoka on it. it’s not going to happen but I wish HU was going to be petty enough to not sell any nu!Ahsoka merch.)

Here is some nice art of how Ahsoka’s lekku and montral should have looked.

hoo boy were those prosthetics also just Bad.

“but the stunts” buddy I’m sure Pedro Pascal and his various stunt doubles aren’t having a great time in full armor with almost no visibility either

if you’re going to put the character in, do it right

YOU CAN’T CHEAT

look, I am really, really aural -- the best example I can give is that even though intellectually I know that Matt Lanter and Hayden Christensen both play Anakin Skywalker, I literally cannot parse them as both being the same Anakin Skywalker and for that reason TCW and the PT don’t exist for the same continuity for me. (This also goes for Ewan McGregor and James Arnold Taylor, Natalie Portman and Cat Taber, and Samuel L. Jackson and TC Carson. I can kinda cope with the multiple Palpatine VAs. Yes, the decision to use Hayden and Sam in Ahsoka’s vision in “Shattered,” even blending into Matt’s voice from Hayden’s, threw me so badly I couldn’t take the vision seriously.) Ashley Eckstein has a very distinctive voice, and moreover has been the only person to ever voice Ahsoka up to this point (even in the Ahsoka novel audiobook). Barring a MIRACLE I was never going to be able to parse another actress’s voice as Ahsoka’s, solely because of how my brain works.

I could probably have parsed someone else’s face because animated Ahsoka is pretty stylized but the voice thing is a huge problem for me because of how aural I am.

(I say this but when Squadrons did a more live action-style Hera -- knowing they mo-capped Vanessa Marshall I think they used Vanessa’s face for Hera’s, which is also what it looks like on the revised art and face sculpt for the Black Series Hera -- I kind of had a meltdown about it (for...weird reasons). And that was the same VA.)

(The timeskip between TCW and Rogue One, then Rebels, probably saved Saw Gerrera for me here, but he was also never a main character.)

can you believe that Sam Witwer’s Maul got more live action respect than Ashley Eckstein’s Ahsoka

I love Sam’s Maul but wow

this is particularly jarring because Dave Filoni and Ashley Eckstein always seemed like they were friends? I realize that this gets skewed by how little of their actual lives we see online, but that is the vibe that I’ve gotten from interviews and social media posts.

can you believe that TROS gave more respect to Ashley Eckstein’s Ahsoka than Dave Filoni’s Mando episode did (here is her statement on TROS.)

back in March, when the Dawson casting rumors first dropped (or leaked, as the case may be), Ashley posted a statement about it saying that she was not involved in The Mandalorian. she has over the years been very vocal about desperately wanting to play live-action Ahsoka, who is a character solely associated with her up until today, and honestly this just breaks my heart.

I am not the massive Ashley Eckstein fan that many Ahsoka fans are, but I have never heard anything bad about her (I saw her at my hotel at SWCC while I was waiting for my roommate to arrive! that’s the closest I’ve ever gotten to her, a distance of about six feet), and I really desperately hope that someone told her about this beforehand and she didn’t find out from watching the episode.

Also, while I’m here talking about Ashley Eckstein, the characterization here was extremely off, in that specific way that happens when a writer/director is working with their absolute favorite character, DAVE FILONI. I do trust Ashley to course-correct Dave on Ahsoka (in the same way we’ve heard about Sam Witwer pushing back on people about Maul), and that...was not happening here. (I think Katee Sachoff said something similar to this about Bo-Katan in her interview last week, as well.)

how did you get Bo-Katan so right and Ahsoka so wrong

look, Dave Filoni is truly living up to George Lucas’s legacy in that he can story tell pretty well but he’s not actually that great at nitty-gritty of writing and directing. (none of the really good TCW episodes are his.)

this episode made me think of A Friend in Need (which he directed) which is not, like, a BAD episode but quite notoriously includes the Bo-Katan ass-slap and also Ahsoka beheading four Mandalorians at once.

it also includes a helpless village of oppressed and exploited Asian-coded civilians who are there mostly as background scenery so the bad guys can be bad and the heroes can feel righteous

I’ll come back to that one

the level of violence in this episode was...weird. honestly, too high? in a way that probably would not have registered if it was anyone but Ahsoka. look, I am an animated shows person. I know TCW and Rebels inside and out. I know that neither one is particularly shy about killing off faceless bad guys (though if you watch Rebels S1 compared to Rebels S4 they really dial back the amount of fatal violence the main characters commit in the last season, lol). But this felt off for Ahsoka in a way I can’t really articulate.

why is Ahsoka attacking a random Mandalorian (her allies are Mandalorians!) who is walking through the woods WITH A BABY? WITHOUT WARNING?

part of that is just her movement -- when they animated her for TCW back in 2008, they made a deliberate decision to give her mannerisms and movement and a fighting style that a human can’t do because she isn’t human and animation can do that. which means that they hobbled themselves when they came to translating her to live action because uh a human can’t do that.

something about her lightsaber blades looked really, really wrong and I can’t put my finger on what. it’s like they just used the illuminated blades of the stunt sabers but didn’t do the extra CGI that the films do? I don’t know.

Ahsoka did a LOT of dramatic posing and what WAS that?

Dave can’t direct live action, that’s what that was

since when can you canonically convey that much information mind to mind

are Ahsoka and Grogu a dyad in the Force (I know the answer is no but also: what? what was happening?)

the only people we’ve seen who can do that sort of thing are Quinlan Vos and Cal Kestis, who both have the rare talent for telemetry, and even that’s not mind to mind communication, that’s touching a thing and going “YIKES”

you are telling me that Ahsoka Tano, whom six months ago we saw take on Darth Maul, a whole barrage of Mandalorian warriors, and her entire clone trooper battalion and walk away without a scratch, had to work up a sweat fighting one woman with a spear

you do know that we all saw TCW and Rebels right

and here’s the problem! this episode makes zero sense if you HAVE seen TCW and Rebels because (1) she doesn’t look right (2) she doesn’t fight right (3) timelines? we’ve never heard of them? (4) is Thrawn back? did you find the Chimaera? (you all do remember that Ezra and Thrawn aren’t out there alone and are in fact with a 40,000 man crewed star destroyer right) (5) did you NOT find them? (6) are you even looking? (7) this is supposed to be AFTER the Rebels epilogue unless you’ve decided to take advantage of that specific ending scene not being super specifically dated and if it’s before IT MAKES IT EVEN WORSE! because I desperately hate that epilogue and its implications EVEN AS IT IS! (8) why would you call this episode “The Jedi” when since 2013 Ahsoka’s whole thing has been not being a Jedi

to be fair I’m pretty sure S7 tried very hard to course correct that but unfortunately, they could not because the rest of canon exists

are you still trying to deny me grown Ahsoka and Rex when we know you got Temuera back for a five second shot of Boba

to be fair I would have the same aural problems with Temuera voicing Rex because that’s Dee Bradley Baker as far as I’m concerned (I reiterate that this is because of how my brain process character and sound, not anythign else)

if you haven’t seen TCW and Rebels this is a random Jedi wandering around for no specific reason namedropping a completely random person who has no prior significance unless it’s going to turn up later

this entire show has consisted of namedropping random people and things with no prior significance within the show itself and it remains entirely unclear whether they’re ever going to have significance within the show itself

look, I can buy Ahsoka not wanting to train the kid both for her stated reasons and for some implied stuff from earlier on in canon (the kids in the Ahsoka novel, the babies from Future of the Force), even what happened with Ezra, and obviously she has Plans and cannot haul a baby around with her when that baby is going to be a baby for an indeterminate amount of time

which honestly is something that ought to come up because even if Ahsoka wanted to train the kid by the time she grew old and died he might, if we were very lucky, have advanced to being essentially a pre-teen and then would be on his own again? this is also true for Din.

lol sure go cast yourself out into the Force, I’m sure there’s absolutely not a single darksider still wandering around the galaxy who might perk up at “ooh, free apprentice!”

I’m literally starting to think that this show takes place in an alternate universe where Luke and Leia either don’t exist or died at some point in the OT

me, baffled, last season: you’re telling me Cara Dune, Alderaanian, had never heard of the Jedi? was she not keeping up with whatever Leia Organa was doing? was the Rebel Alliance actually big enough that PEOPLE IN IT HADN’T HEARD OF LUKE SKYWALKER?

what...is Luke doing right now. isn’t he training Leia?

WHAT HAS AHSOKA BEEN DOING FOR TEN YEARS are we seriously supposed to believe she peaced out of the Rebel Alliance after Malachor and whatever the hell they’re going to make that out to be (honestly at this point I’m betting on “they will never touch it”)

does or does Ahsoka not know that Luke exists

hoo boy can you just see them trying to cast a younger Luke, or do you think they’d CGI de-age Mark Hamill?

oh yeah let’s go through this again in a season with someone else playing young Luke, let’s, I’m not emotionally invested in that so I’m prepared to be entertained

hasn’t Sebastian Stan been floated (even if just on Twitter) for young Luke?

why are these not-imperials on this planet. what are they doing here. what’s the point.

why is the planet...being burned? I was half-expecting, like, normal deforestation (in terms of logging for lumber) but I’m also a bit ??? about this.

since when is beskar resistant to lightsabers, I thought cortosis was the only thing that was? whatever, it’s new canon, they can do whatever they want. (ETA: apparently that’s been true for a while; I am more a Jedi person than a Mandalorian one as far as the EU goes and my Mandalorian lore is my weakest point.)

dear god were these fight scenes bad

I did spot Morai and I appreciated the tookas

okay, I am taking the next thing out of bullet points because I was really, really upset by it, and as an Asian-American woman it affects me directly.

I was really, really shaken by the use of village of (space) Asian people who were portrayed solely as background victims to be tortured and exploited. Star Wars has a long history of Orientalism, and some of it I can look away from and some of I can’t. Mando especially has a very bad track record with its treatment of Asian characters (Fennec Shand), and in recent years the rest of Star Wars live action has also been pretty bad about it; I will never forget how shaken and upset I was by Paige Tico’s death at the beginning of TLJ, and Rose’s sidelining in TROS was a lot to deal with. There has also been some pretty appalling anti-Asian racism from the Mandalorian fandom that I have seen in regards towards casting rumors about Sabine (which brought me to the point of tears as recently as yesterday).

I had been braced for Rosario Dawson Ahsoka because it’s been rumored for so long, if never officially confirmed by Lucasfilm, and after they pulled the original VA for Leia from Resistance a few years ago (without ever making an official statement but it was after she made really dismissive statements during the Kavanaugh hearings) I was still really hoping they’d pull Dawson for the transphobic assault allegations, or that the rumors were false, or...something. I was not expecting the way that they treated the Asian civilian population here. I kept hoping that there was going to be something, and it’s like they kept almost going there with Governor Wing (you want to make either his name or his position clear in the actual episode, maybe?) but then kept pulling back, which just made the whole population victims that had to be rescued by outsiders. And exploited, and tortured, and abused in general.

And yes, I’m aware the Magistrate/Morgan Elsbeth is an Asian-American woman. That doesn’t make it better? Since Ahsoka presumably kills her offscreen?

(Also Diana Lee Inosanto is a stunt performer and a fight choreographer, why is that fight scene so wooden, damn.)

okay back to bullet points to wrap up

I realize I haven’t said much about Din and the kid and that’s because they didn’t...do...much? I guess if you’re actually invested in them “YAY HE HAS FEELINGS” is a major thing but I’m not

I have flashes of being invested in Din, but the problem is that I never know what the hell this show is doing because it’s all over the place. We are 5/8 of the way into season 2 and I have no idea what it’s trying to do: they keep setting stuff up and then not doing anything with it. I can make vague predictions based on what’s set up and based on my knowledge of canon, but this show is so weirdly set up and paced that I can never tell if they’re something for A Reason, for the lulz, or for the Aesthetic.

I feel extremely vindicated by the revelation a few weeks ago that Din grew up in a cult but I also straight-up feel like I spent the past year being gaslighted about what Mandalorians were, and that’s...not a great feeling. Do I think that the show is going to do anything with that? Fuck, I don’t know. I hope so. I know what I’d do as a writer. But I can’t predict anything they’re doing and that makes me really uneasy.

jeez, at least when George Lucas was making Star Wars you knew he was doing it to entertain himself and tell a specific story rather than constantly having to go back and wonder what story lines got compromised for a project down the road.

like, is this why they did mo-cap Ahsoka in S7, to brace us for live action Ahsoka here? I know they had already filmed Mando S2 before S1 came out. WHY THEY DIDN’T THEY REUSE LAUREN MARY KIM AS AHSOKA’S STUNT DOUBLE THEN? it’s not like she hasn’t stunted in Mando before?

if this was supposed to be a backdoor pilot to a Rebels sequel...I will flip a table

I enjoyed the Bad Batch eps in TCW S7 but knowing that there’s going to be a Bad Batch show I’m now wondering if they’re only in S7 to backdoor pilot that show

how far back does this go? did they put the Legacy of Mandalore story line in Rebels S4 solely to set up for this? especially considering that that’s the one thing in S4 that actually has saga weight and then they immediately got rid of everything it accomplished to set up for this?

I presume that this is the reason they refused to release the turnaround for Ahsoka’s epilogue look two years ago. apparently it doesn’t matter given they changed her entire epilogue color scheme and also her lekku and personality.

Look -- at the end of the day, there was only about a 2% chance I was ever going to like this episode, but I was holding out for it nevertheless. I do get surprised from time to time! I liked the Bo-Katan episode! This was, however, a hot mess. And yes: a lot of the things that bother me are not going to bother other people. (I haven’t seen anyone comment on the Asian villagers, for example.)

#just so there is no doubt: I HATED THIS EPISODE #the mandalorian spoilers #bedlam watches the mandalorian #mando the jedi

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