#stephen singleton

[zoezoegr]

Inspired by this song

[moviesiverecentlywatched]

923: Graveyard Shift [1990]

There's only one way to deal with these fuckers.

Halloween Horrorfest 2024:

31 Days of Stephen King in Chronological Order:

30/31

[hourcat]

started watching black sails again (for the thousandth time) and god even in the pilot episode they do not fuck around

[librarycards]

Hello all, and happy September! I'm excited to share my third quarterly book rec post for 2023. I had a great summer, particularly reading-wise, mixing books like Anna Édes (picked up at an indie bookshop in Budapest), Angel Blood (foraged at my hometown library's book sale), and Blue Flame (found at a new-to-me indie I found while pre-move shopping).

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Now, without further ado, my top nine books read between mid-June and now, in no particular order. I can't wait to see what you come up with on your own posts!

Emily Petit, Blue Flame

Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

Dezső Kosztolányi tr. George Szirtes, Anna Édes

Sara Ahmed, On Being Included

Kwon Yeo-sun, tr. Janet Hong, Lemon

Fiona Mozley, Elmet

Davey Davis, X

Becky Chambers, The Galaxy and the Ground Within

John Singleton, Angel Blood

I tag @thepixiediaries @discworldwitches @smokedgoudagirl @gwenderqueer, @capricornpropaganda, @wirefoxedterrier @fatehbaz @punkkwix @patchworkstudies, @growtiredofpublicvulnerability, @biomaterial @probablymoons @materialisnt @bioethicists @slowtides, @stephen-deadalus, @artuhmes @felgueirosa @myalgias, @metamatar, @heavenlyyshecomes, @osmanthusoolong, @passerea, @txttletale, @aldieb, @sawasawako, @voidofcourse, @boykeats, @tirragen, @sadhoc @campgender @r-ob-yn, @querxus, @grimesapologist, @closet-keys, @abstractlesbian, @vawoolf, @feypact, and anyone else who wants to!

[lobster-risotto]

sometimes I like to think about the flippy sword thing Flint does when he's getting prepared for a fight. i.e.: before fighting singleton and before fighting blackbeard

he twirls it around in his hand and looks at it really closely. it's such an interesting repeated behavior for Toby stephens to add to flint

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: May 14, 1982

Lyrics:

Ah, mm

Whoa, whoa, whoa

When your world is full of strange arrangements

And gravity won't pull you through

You know you're missing out on something

Well that something depends on you

All I'm saying

It takes a lot to love you

All I'm doing

You know it's true

All I mean now

There's one thing yes one thing

That turns this gray sky to blue

The look of love

(That's the look, that's the look)

The look of love

(That's the look, that's the look)

The look of love

When your girl has left you out on the pavement (goodbye)

Then your dreams fall apart at the seams

Your reason for living's, your reason for leaving

Don't ask me what it means

I don't know the answer to that question

(Where's the look)

If I knew I would tell you

What's the look

Look for your information

Yes there's one thing, the one thing

That still holds true

(What's that)

The look of love

(That's the look, that's the look)

The look of love

(That's the look, that's the look)

The look of love

The look of love

(That's the look, that's the look)

The look of love

(That's the look, that's the look)

The look of love

If you judge a book by the cover

Then you judge the look by the lover

I hope you'll soon recover

Me I go from one extreme to another

And all my friends just might ask me

They say, "Martin, maybe one day you'll find true love"

And I say, maybe there must be a solution to

The one thing, the one thing we can't find

Songwriter:

Sisters and brothers

(That's the look, that's the look)

Should help each other

(That's the look, that's the look)

Heavens above

(That's the look, that's the look)

Hip hip hooray aye

(That's the look, that's the look)

Yippie aiy yippee yaye

(That's the look, that's the look)

Be lucky in love

Look of love

David Gerald Palmer / Mark Andrew White / Martin David Fry / Stephen Barry Singleton

SongFacts:

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[denimbex1986]

'Actor Andrew Scott played the role of ‘Best Supporting Brother’ to absolute perfection at his sister Sarah’s fun-filled Dublin wedding.

Accustomed to being the star of the show Scott appeared decidedly delighted to take a back pew as his sister Sarah Scott married her long-term partner Janine Curran on the rooftop of Dublin’s Marker Hotel.

Dressed in a snazzy rouge red zip jacket, with jeans and sunnies Scott beamed as Sarah and Janine said their vows.

Accomplished hockey player Sarah looked beautiful in modern bridal chic as she opted for a classically chic white suit. Her now-wife Virgin media TV producer Janine was effortlessly effervescent in a blossom pink trouser suit as she wed the love of her life.

Scott was joined by his extended family and what looked like a super fun bunch of wedding guests for the ceremony and post-nuptials soiree at the landmark Docklands Hotel.

Clearly overjoyed at becoming woman-and-wife Sarah and Janie took to dancing on the pristine white couches that deck out the hotel’s rooftop lounge.

Sherlock star Scott is himself believed to be currently single since he split from long-term partner, writer Stephen Beresford in 2019.

And the singleton superstar-of-screen was certainly mingling as he enjoyed the merriment of the Scott family’s happy occasion.'

From darrenfitzpatrickphotography (IG):

'Great fun hanging out with these boss bitches yesterday. From standing on tables to surprise arrivals, it was all very special! The added bonus was getting to order my good friend Janine around. Jan + Sarah 😍'

[michaelcoffeysthoughts]

Favorite First Time Watches of 2024

Favorite pre-2024 films watched for the first time in 2024:

All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The Battle of Algiers (1966) dir. Gillo Pontecorvo

Black Narcissus (1947) dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

Boyz n the Hood (1991) dir. John Singleton

Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar-Wai

The Deer Hunter (1978) dir. Michael Cimino

Dr. Caligari (1989) dir. Stephen Sayadian

Donnie Darko (2001) dir. Richard Kelly

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) dir. Howard Hawks

The Heartbreak Kid (1972) dir. Elaine May

Heat (1995) dir. Michael Mann

The Heroic Trio (1993) dir. Johnnie To

The Hitch-Hiker (1953) dir. Ida Lupino

The Intruder (1962) dir. Roger Corman

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) dir. Elio Petri

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) dir. Chad Stahelski

Macbeth (1948) dir. Orson Welles

May (2002) dir. Lucky McKee

Oldboy (2003) dir. Park Chan-wook

Out of Sight (1998) dir. Steven Soderbergh

Poor Things (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

Portrait of Jason (1967) dir. Shirley Clarke

Pumping Iron II: The Women (1985) dir. George Butler

Serial Mom (1994) dir. John Waters

The Seventh Juror (1962) dir. Georges Lautner

Shock Troops (1967) dir. Costa-Gavras

Southern Comfort (1981) dir. Walter Hill

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) dir. Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson & Joaquim Dos Santos

[betterthanthemovies]

books read in 2024:

out on a limb - hannah bonam-young

keeping 13 - chloe walsh

picking daisies on sundays - liana cincotti

done and dusted - lyla sage

flawless - elsie silver

funny feelings - tarah dewitt

call it what you want - brigid kemmerer

a love letter to whiskey - kandi steiner

once upon a broken heart - stephanie garber

mile high - liz tomforde

night shift - annie crown

heartless - elsie silver

afterglow effect - alecia gabrielle

too wrong to be right - melonie johnson

just go with it - madison wright

powerless - elsie silver

just friends - tiffany pitcock

magnolia parks - jessa hastings

twisted love - ana huang

the duet - hailey gardiner

love redesigned - lauren asher

happily never after - lynn painter

camp let you go - kristen lucero

more than just us - allie otoski

the infinity between us - n.s. perkins

older - jennifer hartmann

wild love - elsie silver

diving in - bianca miller

funny story - emily henry

the seven year slip - ashley poston

the rule book - sarah adams

next of kin - hannah bonam-young

twice shy - sarah hogle

rewrite our story - kat singleton

the truth & lies duet - c.w. farnsworth

just for the summer - abby jimenez

the deal - elle kennedy

the cruel prince - holly black

the consequences of falling - liliana rose hastings

the summer of perfect mistakes - cynthia st. aubin

the right move - liz tomforde

the summer of broken rules - k.l. walther

this summer will be different - carley fortune

catch the sun - jennifer hartmann

every last word - tamara ireland stone

like i never said - c.w. farnsworth

a thousand broken pieces - tillie cole

caught up - liz tomforde

the art of breathing - cali melle

she followed the moon back to herself - amanda lovelace

the cinnamon bun book store - laurie gilmore

where time stands still - n.s. perkins

the irish goodbye - amy ewing

blue sisters - coco mellors

all too well - corinne michaels

forget me not - alyson derrick

when we were friends - jane green

i fell in love with hope - lancali

the housemaid - freida mcfadden

the perfect marriage - jeneva rose

daisy haites - jessa hastings

dead poets society - nancy h. kleinbaum

summer on dune road - rachel cullen

can't help falling in love - sophie sullivan

by the book - c.a. steinhaus

pageboy - elliot page

caraval - stephanie garber

red - annie cardi

hooked - emily mcintire

maine characters - hannah orenstein

firefly lane - kristin hannah

dear ava - ilsa madden-mills

the perks of being a wallflower - stephen chbosky

whispers of deception - liliana rose hastings

cruel summer - maisey yates

friends to lovers - sally blakely

radio silence - alice oseman

call it what you want - alissa derogatis

keeping 13 - chloe walsh (reread)

a wish for us - tillie cole

an irish summer - alexandra paige

this song is (not) for you - laura nowlin

my december darling - lauren asher

reading goal: 84/50

[rockislandadultreads]

Spooky Reading Recommendations!

Death Overdue by Allison Brook

Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut, until she's offered a job as the head of programs at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost. Her first major program is presented by a retired homicide detective who claims he knows who murdered a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen years earlier. As he invites members of the audience to share stories about Laura, he suddenly keels over and dies. The medical examiner reveals he was poisoned and Carrie becomes determined to discover who murdered Laura and the detective. 

This is the first volume of "The Haunted Library Mysteries" series.

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six long days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. 

Weyward by Emilia Hart

I am a Weyward, and wild inside.

2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century.

1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. As a girl, Altha’s mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence for witchcraft is set out against Altha, she knows it will take all of her powers to maintain her freedom.

1942: As World War II rages, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention, she longs for the robust education her brother receives - and for her mother, long deceased, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial W and the word "weyward" scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom.

Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.

Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May

On Crow Island, people whisper that real magic lurks just below the surface. But magic doesn't interest Annie Mason. Not after it stole her future. She's only on the island to settle her late father's estate and, hopefully, reconnect with her long-absent best friend, Beatrice. Yet Crow Island is brimming with temptation, and the most mesmerizing may be her enigmatic new neighbor. Mysterious and alluring, Emmeline Delacroix is a figure shadowed by rumors of witchcraft. Soon, Annie is drawn into a glittering, haunted world.

[jessicafurseth]

Reading List, Intellectual Freebird edition

"We predict a hot summer. We always do. It always is." - The Fool-Killer, Pores Knob, North Carolina, 1st June 1925

Image: Rafa Recuenco via Yesterday’s Print

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Pirates of the Ayahuasca [Sarah Miller, n+1]

How far can we go on the old hippy trail?3,000 miles by bus and train to Georgia, the current the eastern limit of independent overland travel [Annapurna Mellor, The Guardian]

"We biked up and down the neighborhood, pooled spare change for candy that we ate at the park, and skinned our knees doing cartwheels and playing red rover. We made the best of every single day and even when we did nothing, it felt like we’d accomplished everything." Here's to a feral summer [Amil Niazi, The Cut]

Scientists on their neurodiversity, and how they get things done [Julian Nowogrodzki, Nature]

The Most Mysterious Cells in Our Bodies Don’t Belong to Us The science of how we carry pieces of our mothers within us - and they of us, too [Katherine Wu, The Atlantic]

This Is Your Priest on Drugs On the religious leaders who swear by psychedelics [Michael Pollan The New Yorker]

"In the modern technological world, airports can also be seen as ‘thin places’. They are liminal zones where boundaries fade. On a literal level, national borders dissolve. Once we pass through security, we enter a no man’s land, between countries. The concept of place becomes hazy." The weird psychology of airports [Steve Taylor, Adventure.com]

"Every example that’s offered is somehow not right, not enough, not built to facilitate the specific kind of experience that person is looking for, even though specific experiences aren’t really what third spaces are about. So what do people want out of third-place socialization?" What Is a Third Place? [Jaya Saxena, Eater]

Stephen Hawking’s Electronic Voice Conveyed a Self [Sarah Bell, Nautilus]

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. [Kashmir Hill, The New York Times]

My Parents Expected to Be Retired. Instead, They Are Raising My Sister’s Kids [Frances Dodds, The New York Times]

Can a nicotine patch fix brain fog? [Hannah Singleton, Slate]

Creature of the Late Afternoon [Tammy Kim, n+1]

Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? What other stories are there to tell? [Eliane Glaser, Aeon]

"With love, please be siller." The case for weir writing [Emily Bernay]

Mary HK Choi found her old lady haircut [Mary HK Choi]

Tilda Swinton on why it's okay to take your time making stuff - a LOT of time.

[t3r3sa-p]

Illegal Immigrant Set Free After Allegedly Killing Popular Pastor | The Gateway Pundit | by Michael Austin, The Western Journal

JUSTICE❗

😡An ILLEGAL Immigrant IS FREE AFTER He Purportedly KILLED a Well-Known Detroit-based CHRISTIAN PASTOR

😔That pastor, 72-year-old Stephen Singleton, WAS HIT BY A CAR while out for a stroll on the morning of Nov. 3. Singleton later died form injuries sustained in the accident

[vmonteiro23a]

ONCE IN ’79: Vice Versa - "Riot Squad"

ONCE IN ’79: Vice Versa – “Riot Squad” “September 11, 1979 VICE VERSA are an experimental electronic Sheffield group who have just burst on the scene with their debut EP “Vice Versa Music 4.” It’s a four song EP of “Riot Squad,” “Camille,” “New Girls / Neutrons” and “Science – Fact.”  The trio are Stephen Singleton, David Sydenham and Mark White. The single is on the band’s own Neutron Records…

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.3

Beer Birthdays

Tom Kehoe (1964)

Christian Ettinger (1973)

Max Finance (1985)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Dave Barry; writer, humorist (1947)

M.F.K. Fisher; writer (1908)

Mississippi John Hurt; blues singer (1893)

Franz Kafka; Czech writer (1883)

Tom Stoppard; playwright (1937)

Famous Birthdays

Robert Adam; Scottish architect (1728)

Amalia Aguilar; Cuban-Mexican film actress and dancer (1924)

Rae Allen; actress, singer, and director (1926)

Evelyn Anthony; English author (1928)

Paul Barrere; rock guitarist (1948)

Sándor Bortnyik; Hungarian painter (1893)

Laura Branigan; rock singer (1957)

Betty Buckley; actor (1947)

Vince Clarke; English singer-songwriter, keyboard player (1960)

George M. Cohan; actor, singer, songwriter (1878)

Michael Cole; actor (1945)

Johnny Coles, American trumpeter (1926)

John Singleton Copley; artist (1738)

Richard Cramer; actor (1889)

Tom Cruise; actor (1962)

William Henry Davies; Welsh poet and writer (1871)

Lisa De Leeuw; adult actress (1958)

Jesse Douglas; mathematician (1897)

Pete Fountain; clarinetist (1930)

Andy Fraser; English singer-songwriter and bass player (1952)

Thomas Gibson; actor (1962)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman; sociologist, writer, feminist (1860)

Ramón Gómez de la Serna; Spanish author and playwright (1888)

Albert Gottschalk; Danish painter (1866)

Larry "Bozo the Clown" Harmon; clown (1925)

Charlie Higson; English actor, singer (1958)

Philip Jamison; artist (1925)

Leos Janacek; Czech composer (1854)

Elle King; singer, songwriter, and actress (1989)

Alfred Korzybski; Polish-American mathematician (1879)

Johnny Lee; singer and guitarist (1946)

Doris Lloyd; English actress (1896)

Nicholas Maxwell; English philosopher (1937)

Didier Mouron; Swiss-Canadian painter (1958)

Olivia Munn; actor, comedian (1980)

Connie Nielsen; Danish-American actor (1965)

Tim O'Connor; actor (1927)

Carla Olson; singer-songwriter (1952)

Baard Owe; Norwegian-Danish actor (1936)

Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (1920)

Susan Penhaligon; English actress (1949)

Stephen Pearcy; singer-songwriter, and guitarist (1959)

Ralph Barton Perry; philosopher (1876)

Susan Peters; actress (1921)

Jethro Pugh; Dallas Cowboys DT (1944)

François Reichenbach; French film director (1921)

Ken Russell; English film director (1927)

George Sanders; Russian-born British actor (1906)

Richard Mellon Scaife; businessman (1932)

Harrison Schmitt; geologist, astronaut (1935)

Ruth Crawford Seeger; composer (1901)

Michael Shea; author (1946)

Kurtwood Smith; actor (1943)

Yeardley Smith; actor (1964)

Jan Smithers; actor (1949)

Poly Styrene; British musician (1957)

Kenzie Taylor; adult actress (1990)

Tommy Tedesco; guitarist (1930)

Norman E. Thagard; astronaut (1943)

Aaron Tippin; singer-songwriter, guitarist (1958)

Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo; Belgian artist (1922)

John Verity,; English guitarist (1949)

Johnnie Wilder, Jr.; R&B/funk singer (1949)

Montel Williams; television host (1956)

Patrick Wilson; actor (1973)

Edward Young; English poet, dramatist (1683)