#tucker mcguire

[claudia1829things]

"A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" (1958) Review

"A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" (1958) Review There have been many versions about the April 1912 sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. Many versions. And I have personally seen at least five of them. One of them happened to be the 1958 movie, "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER".

Directed by Roy Ward Baker, "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" is based upon historian Walter Lord's 1955 book about the historical sinking. Since the 1958 movie was based upon a historical book instead of a novel, Baker, producer William MacQuitty and screenwriter Eric Ambler approached the film's plot in a semi-documentary style. Even the movie's leading character turned out to be the Titanic's Second Officer, Charles Lightoller, who was portrayed by actor Kenneth More. The movie also featured other historical figures such as J. Bruce Ismay, Thomas Andrews, Captain Edward J. Smith and Margaret "Molly" Brown. Due to this semi-documentary approach, "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" is regarded as the best movie about the Titanic. I cannot deny that there is a great deal to admire about "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER". Not only do I feel it is an excellent movie, I could see that Roy Ward Baker did his best to re-create that last night aboard the Titanic. He and Ambler gave the audience glimpses into the lives of the ship's crew and passengers. The movie also went into great detail of their efforts to remain alive following the ship's brief collision with an iceberg. Some of my favorite scenes include the Irish steerage passengers' efforts to reach the life boats on the upper decks, the wireless operators' (David McCullum and Kenneth Griffin) efforts to summon other ships to rescue the passengers and crew, and passenger Molly Brown (Tucker McGuire)'s conflict with the sole crewman in her lifeboat. But my favorite scene has to be that moment when the Titanic's stern rose high before the ship sank into the Atlantic Ocean. For a film shot in black and white during the late 1950s, I must admit that "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" looked very handsome. Legendary cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth's phtography struck me as sharp and very elegant. I do not know if Yvonne Caffin's costume designs for the movie's 1912 setting was completely accurate, but they certainly did add to the movie's late Edwardian atmosphere. Especially those costumes for the first-class passengers. I do have to give kudos to the special effects team led by Bill Warrington. He and his team did a superb job in re-creating the ocean liner's historic sinking. I am even more impressed that their work still manages to hold up after fifty-four years. The cast of "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" was led by Kenneth More, who portrayed Second Officer Lightoller with his usual energetic charm. More was ably supported by the likes of Laurence Naismith as Captain Smith, Michael Goodliffe's poignant portrayal of ship designer Thomas Andrews, Frank Lawton as J. Bruce Ismay, George Rose as the inebriated survivor Charles Joughin and Tucker McGuire's colorful portrayal of American socialite Molly Brown. The movie also featured future "AVENGERS" and Bond veteran Honor Blackman; David McCullum of "THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E." and "N.C.I.S." fame; and Bernard Fox, who will also appear in James Cameron's 1997 movie about the Titanic sinking. Even Sean Connery made an uncredited appearance in the film, but I never did spot him. But despite the numerous good performances, I honestly have to say that I found nothing exceptional about any of them. Like many others, I used to believe that "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" was the best movie about the Titanic. After this latest viewing, I do not believe I can maintain that opinion any longer. In fact, I am beginning to suspect there may not be any "ultimate" Titanic film. And "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" is not perfect, as far as I am concerned. Many have applauded the filmmakers for eschewing any fictional melodrama or using the sinking as a backdrop for a fictional story. Personally, I could not care less if a Titanic movie is simply a fictional melodrama or a semi-documentary film. All I require is a first-rate movie that will maintain my interest. "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" began with a montage of newsreel clips featuring the Titanic's christening in Belfast. One, the ship was never christened. And two, I could see that the newsreel footage used in the movie dated from the 1930s. The movie tried its best to allow the audience to identify with some of its characters. But due to "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" being a docudrama, I feel that it failed to give an in-depth study of its more prominent characters . . . making it difficult for me to identify with any of them. I realize that "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" was a British production, but I was amazed at the low number of American passengers featured in the cast. The 1953 film, "TITANIC" suffered from a similar malady - the only British characters I could recall were members of the crew. I do remember at least three Americans in the 1958 movie - Molly Brown; Benjamin Guggenheim, portrayed by Harold Goldblatt and a third passenger, whose name escapes me. I was satisfied with McGuire's performance as Molly Brown and the nameless actor who portrayed the third American passenger. But Goldblatt portrayed Guggenheim as a member of the British upper class in both attitude and accent. It almost seemed as if the filmmakers wanted Guggenheim to be viewed as a British gentleman, instead of an American one. Walter Lord's book made it clear that one of the last songs performed by Titanic's band was NOT "Nearer My God to Thee". Yet, the filmmakers chose to perpetrate this myth in the movie by having the remaining passengers and crew sing the song en masse before the ship began to sink in earnest. This pious attitude continued in a scene aboard the R.M.S. Carpathia, in which the survivors listened to a religious sermon. Instead of projecting an air of melancholy or despair, the survivors, thanks to Ward Baker, seemed to project an air of the British stiff upper lip cliche. I feel that a melancholic air among the survivors would have made the scene seem more human. I cannot deny that "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" is a first-rate look at the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. More importantly, the movie and especially the visual effects still hold up very well after half-a-century. But the movie possesses flaws that make it difficult for me to regard it as the best Titanic movie ever made. Perhaps . . . there is no best Titanic movie. Just bad or well-made ones.

[spryfilm]

Blu-ray review: “A Night to Remember” (1958)

Blu-ray review: “A Night to Remember” (1958)

“A Night to Remember” (1958) Drama Running Time: 123 minutes Written by: Eric Ambler based on the book A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Directed by: Roy Ward Baker Featuring: Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith, Kenneth Griffith, David McCallum, Tucker McGuire, Frank Lawton, Richard Leech and John Cairney Steerage steward: [going through the steerage corridors, rousing the…

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Sands of Iwo Jima 1949

[rae-of-gold]

So I have a playlist for the EAH music au I made and I wanted to share some of my favorite specific songs for some of the characters.

(note: these are not what I think their voices sound like, moreso what their musical sound would be and/or the lyrics they would write)

(and another note: not all characters are here as not all character make music. yes they're all in the music industry, but that doesn't mean they write or create music. some do art, some marketing, some are lawyers, hell some are security. so if your fav aint here, they're doing something else)

Dexter: I'm made this whole thing for him but I can't decide on a single sound for him. I feel the closest would be With Confidence. I mean the playlist is long, but seven songs from just one band, from various albums too, I'd say that's one of the top runners.

Darling: since Darling writes the majority of Apple's music, her lyrics are like Taylor Swift songs. But she as an individual is a bit of an enigma. She makes her lyrics sound very much royal, when really she's a rebel, but she's also Wonderlandian at heart. So would she sound like Junie and the Hutfriends? Or maybe Studio Killers? or AlicebanD? very honestly it could be all, none, whatever. I do feel like those could fit her though.

Raven: I know that canonically she's a huge of fan of Taylor Quick but that doesn't mean she can't like other genres or that her own sound can't be different from what her favorite. I imagine her musical sound a lot like Icon For Hire, especially with the album You Can't Kill Us, I think it's a perfect fit for her. Paramore and Avril Lavigne are also close to her.

Apple: Taylor Swift. She is the pop princess and Apple would be too. starting her career at a young age, writing stories she makes up and having her sound change and grow the more she does. But also The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess album by Chappell Roan once she breaks away from the idea of making music solely for the money and fame.

Briar: Ke$ha. just all her music.

Cerise: Disobedient from Steven Universe. it's just so perfect for her. The obvious choice is She-Wolf by Shakira, which is also there for her, but Sadie and the Killers.

Sparrow and his Merry Men: Hats off the to Bull by Chevelle. no thoughts, just vibes. OR (i guess one thought), i know a lot of people dont like him, i am not one of them, i think he's fun and classic stereotypical emo, TX2.

Poppy: genuinely imagine her and Holly writing and singing Something That I Want by Grace Potter about their parents. I feel like Holly and Poppy made like a single album when they were younger and both moved on to do other things but they both still really liked music. Holly nowadays just plays short covers of songs on social media and Poppy of course being a hair stylist that eventually joins Dexter and Darling's band. With a musical sound and voice like the lead singer in Tonight Alive.

Maddie: S.J. Tucker. I'm not a huge fan of her music, a couple songs here and there, my partner is and loves how witchy her sound is. Maddie ain't every witchy, but she is odd and witchy-ness can and is also very weird and goes every which way. one song can sound like a whole different genre from another and I feel like Maddie would very much like that sound. Especially with some lesser known instruments thrown in there. (if we wanna talk about what I think her voice sounds like; Madilyn Mei)

Ashlynn: Ryn Weaver. no thoughts just vibes pt. 2

Duchess: the plot I have for her is that she isn't very musically inclined. except for dancing. she can't play instruments and can barely sing. but she has the look and is willing to do anything to become a pop star. so I have a hard time deciding what she would sound like. except ambience music near a lake. she goes along with the vibe of AURORA. Who knows it could be a Paulo and Lizzy McGuire situation where she's just a pretty face with someone else's voice over hers.

Melody: she could be doing so many different things i dont know how to choose just one. i feel like her true sound is Maggie Rogers or Chase Petra while the music she's kinda forced to have per her Charming Records contract is more like Marshmello. Very electric.

Humphrey: Flamingo by Token. i know no other song by him, and i rarely listen to rap as it isn't my jam. Only reason i know this song was a friend from high school gave me some recommendations.

Meeshell: I like the idea of her sounding like Regina Spektor. A light, smooth, clear voice over music that has clear and distinct beats. Often doing music for movies, ending songs that bring the story to a fitting finish.

Hopper: he doesn't make music per my writing, but he does write lyrics. I feel like he writes things like Cody Fry or Gang of Youths. Horribly beautiful and haunting lyrics that tell stories of death and love and beauty paired with huge symphonic melodies that are overwhelming in the best possible way.

Faybelle: Becky by Be Your Own Pet. It took me some time to figure out what exactly her sound would be but i feel like it would be a lot of loud kinda venting music to get all of her emotions out in any way she can. Even though she can get them out just fine on a normal day (though she would never admit that's what she's doing, always playing it off as not as important as it is to her, especially if it's any feeling other than anger.) sometimes writing music for it just feels better.

Chase: yes I made him an important character cause fuck you, I do what I want. Starset. The song Carnivore specifically. I wanted him to have an otherworldly but grounded type feel. like all wonderlandians though his being more...I don't want to say put together. Cohesive than the others. while the other wonderlandians are somewhat all over the place with their acoustic music, his is electronic and always revolving around a certain theme.

and that's just the current generation.

The Evil Queen has a musical sound like Pat Benatar (a personal fav of mine) though the only reason she ever had any sort of softer sounding music was because of pressure from her manager and company.

Snow White has a sound like Whitney Houston, especially with Whitney's History with Dolly Parton. I don't know who Dolly would be in this, but i dont know where i was going with this train of thought. like i said, no thoughts, just vibes.

[ereborne]

Hello, happy holidays! For the End of the year ask meme if you'll like to answer any of the following: 8 (game of the year), 25 (a character you created), 14 (fav book), or 18 (a memorable meal)

Happy holidays! I hope they've treated you well <3

8: I don't play many games myself (only Stardew Valley, Minecraft, and silly seek-and-find puzzle games) and my laptop was too tuckered for games for most of the year, but even if I'd been farming nonstop I think the game of the year would still be Final Fantasy VII Remake. Pretty sure it'll be the game of every year until it's all out, and then maybe a couple years more for good measure. I am having such an incredible time following the game as it comes out and @kaylithographica plays through it, and I can't wait to see how Square Enix keeps going with the meta and story changes.

25: Some of the more complex edits I've been trying to work on this week actually revolve around a particular OC, so we'll talk about her. Her name is Mercy, and she was not supposed to be important (folks who have lived with me may be familiar with this refrain). She was supposed to be a filler character! She's an archetype! Her name is Mercy and she has none! Grr rar tragic backstory vengeance quest knife collection! But nooo now she's got layers. She's got depth. We're emotionally invested in her character arc. Damn it. Anyway she befriends her local main characters to use them as pawns in her revenge plot, spends a lot of time with them waiting for them to vouch for her to her target, gives up her first chance at revenge because she has to go save them instead (in a scene so terribly close to the classic 'stand at crossroad, look longingly at selfish goal down the left, turn back fully on goal to run to friends down the right path' that I may rewrite it to avoid cliche shame), and then eventually gives up her scheming entirely because it would be too much of a betrayal of her very best friends the main characters. She was supposed to die in the first rescue, and then the whole story locked up and I had to go back through trying to find the writer's block instigation point, and I realized I've made too optimistic a world to kill her off without friends or redemption. She's (big sigh) thematically significant now. At least she's also very cool.

14: I'm going with my favorite book that came out this year, to help narrow things down: "The Innocent Sleep", by Seanan McGuire. Seanan McGuire is one of my favorite authors and this is my favorite of her ongoing serieses, and usually we get one a year (usually just in time to be my birthday present to myself! a joyous coincidence) but this year we got two. "Sleep No More" and "The Innocent Sleep", paired stories, one from Toby's point of view and one from Tybalt's. The current state of their world means that these two POVs of the same happenings are wildly different, and it's fascinating (a little heart-wrenching sometimes) to see. Also, Tybalt and his friends dimension-door into Costco in the dead of night and steal all their catfood. It's amazing.

18: The vegeble man had a special on collard greens one time, and I bought a 'bundle' thinking it was your standard grocery-store greens bundle, a generous handful at most. It was more like an armful. Apparently the special was because they'd been sold a literal truckload of greens (perfectly good but disqualified as 'organic' by some neighbor shenanigans) and needed to offload them quickly because the fridge wasn't ready for such a bumper crop. I cooked them in batches with andouille sausage and bacon and just a touch of this amazing miso ghost-pepper hot sauce Duncan has, and we ate them for our next four meals (with grits, with cornbread and grilled tomatoes, with fried eggs and beer bread, and then the last of them mixed into red beans and rice). I really miss not just Southern food but access to Southern ingredients (the 'andouille' sausage I get here is pitiful, and bacon is no substitute for a proper salt-ham, and neither is beer bread always a good alternative to a buttermilk biscuit or quickbread) and it was so nice to have a proper mess of greens again.

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

Song Title Game

Rules: Pick a song for each letter of your url, and tag that many people.

I was tagged by @exlibrisfangirl because she likes tagging me in the really hard ones, apparently (*bomk*)

Tagging: @santacarlahorrorshow @merrilark @misskittysmagicportal @fleetwood-matt @seancekitsch and anyone else wants to play

And then putting mine under a cut because this is going to be a long post 😅

Marry Me a Little (Company) All is Not As It Seems (The Witcher) Goodbye, Monday (Caleb Hyles) I Design Disasters (Robert Hallow and the Holy Men) Chasing Stars (Alesso, James Bay) My Grand Plan (The Lightning Thief Musical) Uptown Girl (Billy Joel) Love Lost (Carlito Olivero) Through a Glass (Henry Jamison) In All My Dreams I Drown (The Devil's Carnival Soundtrack) Chords (The Amazing Devil) One by One (Patty Gurdy) Lady Hands (Reesha Dyer) Our Lady of the Underground (Hadestown) Resurrection (Reeve Carney) Edgar (Eli August, The Davenport Sisters) Dear Mr. Darcy (Marian Call) Mad As A Hatter (Larkin Poe) In Extremis (Queensryche) Ravens in the Library (S.J. Tucker) As the World Falls Down (David Bowie) Church of Sound (Frenchy and the Punk) Lost Boys (Dogwood) Evil Laugh (Seanan McGuire)

[joslincox]

Chick Flicks

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Clueless (1995)

Teen Witch (1990)

The Hot Chick (2002)

13 Going on 30 (2004)

Legally Blonde (2001)

Freaky Friday (2003)

Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

Heather (1988)

Osmosis Jones: Out of the Body Experience (2013)

Drive Me Crazy (1999)

Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging (2008)

Mean Girls (2004)

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)

What a Girl Wants (2003)

Coyote Ugly (2000)

27 Dresses (2008)

Bring It On (2000)

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

A Cinderella Story (2004)

John Tucker Must Die (2006)

She's the Man (2006)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

The Princess Diaries (2001)

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)

Never Been Kissed (1999)

Wild Child (2008)

It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)

Sleepover (2004)

Sixteen Candles (1984)

Picture This (2008)

Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

She's All That (1999)

Easy A (2010)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

Pretty in Pink (1986)

Twilight (2008)

The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)

Ice Princess (2005)

New York Minute (2004)

Aquamarine (2006)

The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)

Jawbreaker (1999)

Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead (1991)

[backtostrangers]

2000s movie recommendations <3

bring it on

the princess diaries

legally blonde

save the last dance

honey

lizzy mcguire movie

how to lose a guy in 10 days

the cheetah girls

white chicks

mean girls

new york minute

a cinderella story

13 going on 30

first daughter

the perfect man

american pie no limit

she’s the man

john tucker must die

high school musical

wild child

bratz

[ragnarockz]

Doing a 2000s movie re-watch (I don’t remember where I got this list from but)

Legally Blonde

John Tucker Must Die

A Cinderella Story

Save the Last Dance ✔

She’s the Man

White Chicks

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Dude, Where’s my Car?

Center Stage ✔

Freaky Friday

What A Girl Wants

A Walk to Remember

The House Bunny

Bend it like Beckham

Bring it On

The Hot Chick

Knocked Up

Almost Famous

Pineapple Express

The Sweetest Thing

Bubble Boy

The Skulls

Miss Congeniality

Super Bad

40 Year Old Virgin

American Pie

Lizzie McGuire Movie

Sleepover ✖

Uptown Girls

Old School

Holiday in the Sun

Summer Catch

Knight’s Table

Saved

Not Another Teen Movie

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Grandma’s Boy

Sweet Home Alabama

Orange County

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Road Trip

From Justin to Kelly

[intheseautumnhands]

I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT DAWSONS CHRISTIAN

I LOVE THAT SONG-

@nsfwitchy (you have good music taste pls gimme the rest of ur narrative songs)

IT'S SUCH A GREAT SONG. Also a favorite for singing along to, it can be so much fun in that telling-a-story kind of tone.

Man, where do we start, I love narrative songs nad I have way too many. XD Let's see, I might be stretching the definition slightly, some are more "songs clearly about a character in a way that sketches a story around it" if that makes sense, but --

Heather Dale does a lot, most is based on mythology/legends, but some favorites: Sedna, The Maiden and the Selkie, Joan, Skeleton Woman, Up Into the Pear Tree

SJ Tucker also does this a lot, often based on books. Seanan McGuire also does this a fair bit, but it's hard to find her music online. I am under the impression Talis Kimberly does this a fair bit too, but the only songs of hers I know well enough to recommend are Still Catch the Tide (which I REALLY REALLY do), Archetype Cafe, My Lady of the Underpass, and Small Mended Corners

Vixy & Tony: The Girl That's Never Been, The Collars, Ladies Don't Do Those Things, Thirteen, Persephone, Siren Song, Anna

Dessa also does a lot in a MUCH different tone; If and When is maybe my favorite, but also Mineshaft 2, Children's Work, Dixon's Girl, Skeleton Key, I Hope I'm Wrong, and if you don't mind some intense subject matter, The Lamb and Annabelle

Vienna Teng: 1br/1ba, Say Uncle, Shasta (Carrie's Song), Homecoming (Walter's Song), Passage, Grandmother Song, Radio

The Doubleclicks: Wrong About Gender, Now I Am the Fastest, Lasers and Feelings

Radical Face basically has like. a narrative career. at least three albums (the Family Tree albums + The Bastards) form the stories of various characters, starting with one family and sprawling from there. there are charts. the songs are beautiful alone and scratch this itch as well, but when you see the narratives develop it gets even better. special mentions: The Dead Waltz, Holy Branches, Secrets (Cellar Door)

Relatedly, Jordan Reyne's album Children of a Factory Nation tells a story through the album, and Mama Gina's album Nine-Toes the Bard is told in-character, giving the title character's life story and things that have happened around her

Dar Williams: The Christians and the Pagans; The Ocean; When I Was a Boy; The Babysitter's Here; This Is Not the House That Pain Built; The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co-Ed; Mortal City

Sleeping at Last: Next to Me, Mars

Kat Flint: London Lullaby, Ohio, Saddest Blue Dress

Ani Difranco: Both Hands, Fixing Her Hair, Two Little Girls

I feel like I could name quite a few comedy songs that do this? Easier to make a joke from. XD But I'm specifically gonna go from the Brobdingnagian Bards for now, not all of which are original: Do Virgins Taste Better Medley, A Prudent Theif, A Fairy Story, The Unicorn Song, The Orange and the Green, Oor Hamlet

Misc:

Come On Eileen (Dexy's Midnight Runners)

A Better Place, A Better Time (Streetlight Manifesto)

Winter's Carol (Tori Amos)

Next to Me (Alan Cumming)

One Last Drink (Enter the Haggis)

Brother (Murder by Death)

My Manic and I (Laura Marling)

Anywhere On This Road (Lhasa de Sela)

Space Girl (The Imagined Village)

Home (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)

Fairies Stole My Keys (Emerald Rose)

Taylor, The Latte Boy (Kristen Chenoweth, but also the Alan Cumming version is adorable)

Hit and Run (LOLO)

The Wintry Queen (Coyote Run is my favorite of the available covers)

Pierre (Ryn Weaver)

Magic Man (Heart)

The Way (Fastball)

Your House (Alanis Morissette)

Larissa's Lagoon (Idina Menzel)

-- I feel like I'm gonna hit post and immediately think of like twenty more but that is probably. way more than enough. XD

[alexseanchai]

URL Mixtape Game: pick a song for each letter of your URL, then tag the same number of blogs however many people you want to play

@saiikavon tagged me! if you thought the X makes it a trick question, you are wrong!

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Ave Mary A - Pink

Love Gets Me Every Time - Shania Twain

Eden - Sara Bareilles

XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl) - Trisha Yearwood

Safe in the Arms of Love - Martina McBride

Evil Laugh - Seanan McGuire

Angels of the Silences - Counting Crows

Neptune - SJ Tucker

Cosmic Love - Florence + the Machine

Heads Carolina, Tails California - Jo Dee Messina

Anticipate - Ani DiFramco

I Bruise Easily - Natasha Bedingfield

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so who wants to play? tag yourselves in

[mylifeissuperboring]

Books Read in 2023

[2017] [2018] [2019] [2020] [2021] [2022]

January (5 books)

Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire (Fiction) Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman (Fiction) Imaginary Numbers by Seanan McGuire (Fiction) The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle (Non-fiction) Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom (Non-fiction)

February (7 books)

Soil Science for Gardeners by Robert Pavlis (Non-fiction) Brilliance by Markus Sakey (Fiction) Dead Boy Detectives Vol. 2 by Mark Buckingham (Comic) Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt (Non-fiction) No More Police. by Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (Non-fiction) Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes by Rob Wilkins (Non-fiction) Making Money by Terry Pratchett (Fiction)

March (2 books)

Calculated Risks by Seanan McGuire (Fiction) The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (Fiction)

April (2 books)

Maggie Smith by Michael Coveney (Non-fiction) An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire (Fiction)

May (2 books)

Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire (Non-fiction) Dune by Frank Herbert (Fiction)

June (1 book)

The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh (Fiction)

July (1 book)

Go Big or Go Home by Tucker Trotter & Diana Kander (Non-fiction)

August (3 books)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Fiction) Greywaren by Meggie Stiefvater (Fiction) Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire (Fiction)

September (3 books)

The Girl in the Green Silk Gown by Seanan McGuire (Fiction) Daemons of the Shadow Realm Vol. 1 by Hiromu Arakawa (Manga) Spelunking Through Hell by Seanan McGuire (Fiction) October (5 books)

Dodger by Terry Pratchett (Fiction) Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (Fiction) Sorrowland by Rivers Soloman (Fiction) Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens (Fiction) Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang (Fiction)

November (1 book)

Congratulations, the Best is Over! by R. Eric Thomas (Non-fiction)

December (1 book)

How Can I Help You by Laura Sims (Fiction)

[chthonicrose]

so I have this giant file of song lyrics that I've noted down that might make good fic titles for gomens shit, right

and I forgot I had it because it's from four years ago and I'm looking back through it and

all we can own is what we can hold, so he’s not mine (seanan mcguire, snapshots)

there is no grace waiting at the end of a long journey, not for us (sj tucker, the list falls away)

in all my dreams I drown (alleluia! the devil's carnival)

you were never mine (evanescence, call me when you're sober)

there are a lot more but some of them hit harder than others right this second

that first one especially

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Abraham Lincoln, Moe Bandy, Tex Beneke, Judy Blume, Josh Brolin, George Cohan’s 1906 musical GEORGE WASHINGTON, Charles Darwin, music curator Anthony Ferraro, Rick Frank (Elephant’s Memory), George Gershwin’s RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1924), Steve Hackett, Omar Hakim, Arsenio Hall, Michael Ironside, Joseph “Mr. Wilson” Kearns, Ray Kurzweil, Bill Laswell, Ray Manzerek, Cotton Mather, Christopher McCandless, Gene McDaniels, Michael McDonald, The McGuire Sisters’s 1955 single “Sincerely,” Gil Moore (Triumph), The NAACP, Chynna Phillips, Josef Reicha, Christina Ricci, Brian Robertson (Thin Lizzy), great rock bassist Joe Schermie (3 Dog Night), Bob Shad, former bandmate and one of my favorite drummers Jason Shuman, Forrest Tucker, and legendary actor-singer Lorne Greene. He’s imbedded in TV culture as Commander Adama in the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, and as Ben Cartwright in the long-running western BONANZA. Extending from that, Greene released a series of Old West-themed recordings—his 1964 cowboy story “Ringo” hit #1 (also dial up his appearances on the Johnny Cash TV show circa 1970). Greene started in radio, and his remarkable bass voice made him a perfect narrator. 

One day in 1992, I was working in a recording studio and happened across boxes of this 1976 Bicentennial COLONIAL KEYSTONE LP featuring Lorne Greene. The studio was in Northumberland, Pennsylvania—an unlikely hub for a well-appointed facility built by “local genius” Bob Spangler. That studio was an intersection for acclaimed pop/rock acts (The Badlees, Hybrid Ice, Whitney Houston) and composers (William Duckworth), and it was where I began working with Davy Jones (Monkees). One of Bob’s early career moves was to record Greene for this spoken word project. When I asked Bob about the LP, he dug out a photo album that documented Greene’s appearance—a “big star” who cheerfully accommodated the small-town citizens of central PA. The COLONIAL KEYSTONE LP was reissued on CD on the Cherry Red label. Meanwhile, HB to LG. Thank you for your hours of giving people edification and quality entertainment.

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