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Born in October 1969 in the Bronx, New York City, USA, Heather left home at 16 and supported herself by working as a clerk at the Latin Quarter, which was a well known hip hop club. At the age of 18, she answered an ad in The Village Voice for striptease artists and soon appeared in pictorials for Players and Swank. While working at the Latin Quarter, she met adult film actress Hyapatia Lee, who suggested she enter the world of adult movies. Starting in 1988, she appeared in a few movies for New York based Vidway before moving to Los Angeles and eventually becoming the first African-American woman to be a Vivid Entertainment contract girl. From 1989 through to 1999, she appeared in just over 50 videos before leaving the industry. At the same time as her adult career, she worked on a music career, initially with Island Records with the house track I Want It All Night Long, then signing with Tommy Boy Records, who didn't know how to market her. Eventually she managed to release a hip hop album under the name Double H in 2005 called the Unexpected. In addition she was a dancer on the TV show Soul Train at the same time as her adult actress career in the early 1990's. She also played the role of a hooker in the black comedy horror film Frankenhooker in 1990. In the mid 2000's, she turned to the art world and opened her own gallery in New York.

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I'm Tony DiGerolamo. Previously, I wrote jokes for Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and comic books for The Simpsons. Currently, I write The Pineys, it's about a family of hunters that hunt the kin of the Jersey Devil. The Jersey Devil is a 289 year-old folktale in South Jersey and is connected to many other stories about witches, ghosts, pirates and other supernatural entities. Book 15 of the Pineys dropped in January and is called La Cosa Nostra Piney. The series is a little bit like Ghostbusters with drunken hillbillies.

(Laura) 

Congrats on the book now onto the questions.

(Laura)

Is there a special reason behind the title of your book/series?

(Tony)

Yes, the Pineys is what people who live in the Pine Barrens are called. It was coined by Philadelphia elites in the early 1900's as a derogatory term, but it's now a term of endearment.

(Laura)

What was the inspiration behind your story/series?

(Tony)

The Jersey Devil legend is 289 years old and has been part of the folklore and culture of this region. It's what they named the hockey team after and is New Jersey's official state demon. It is inspired by the many folktales about and around the Pine Barrens.

(Laura)

Will there be any more books in your series?

(Tony)

There are currently 15. I put out three a year: March, July and October.

(Laura)

How many books have you written?

(Tony)

Total? At least 20. If you count comic books, more.

(Laura)

How many books are in your series?

(Tony)

Currently 15.

(Laura)

What can your readers expect from your next book?

(Tony)

More folktales, history, comedy and action in the Pines.

(Laura)

How does your next book fit in with your series?

(Tony)

La Cosa Nostra Piney is basically The Pineys vs. The Mafia. Allegedly, Mafia members have buried various dead guys in the Pine Barrens because it's very remote. One of the cousins owed the mob $8,000 and now they've come to collect.

(Laura)

What made you want to become a writer?

(Tony)

I won a contest in the 1st grade for a McDonald's hamburger for a short story. I kept winning every month until the school asked me to stop entering so one of the other kids could win. I am motivated by food.

(Laura)

For people who have not read your books or series, what are they about?

(Tony)

In the 1730's in Leeds Point, NJ, the mother of the Jersey Devil, Mother Leeds, was a witch. She opened the portals of Hell and flooded the Pine Barrens with devils. But in the neighboring village of Abe's Hat, the villagers formed a secret hunting society to hunt down the devils and send them back to Hell.

(Laura)

Do you have any pets? If so, what are their names?

(Tony)

A dog. Joan of Arc.

(Laura)

Besides writing, what are your other hobbies/skills?

(Tony)

I like making videos on YouTube these days. I make comics on The Webcomic Factory.

(Laura)

What is your favorite part of your book or series?

(Tony)

I like that I'm educating my readers about their local history, which I find fascinating.

(Laura)

Do you prefer paperbacks or ebooks?

What format do you prefer?

(Tony)

Books.

Softcover or hardcover books?

Soft.

(Laura)

What was your favorite book or series as a child?

(Tony)

As a kid, I read The Hardy Boys, The Three Investigators, Ellory Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Magazine and comic books.

(Laura)

Do you have a favorite cd or artist you like to listen to while writing?

(Tony)

Beastie Boys Ill Communication

(Laura)

What is one of the most important things your readers should take away from your books?

(Tony)

They should laugh.

(Laura)

If you could, would you make any changes to your book or series?

(Tony)

I would do all the audio books. So far, I've only done the first one.

(Laura)

Why do you think more people should read books?

(Tony)

People should ready GOOD books. There are plenty of them that are a waste of time and full of propaganda.

(Laura)

If your book got turned into a movie, who would you want to star in it?

(Tony)

Me. Other contenders: Chris Pratt and Ryan Reynolds.

(Laura)

How would you make the movie as good as the book?

(Tony)

I would insist on approving everything and/or direct it.

(Laura)

Do you think beta readers should be compensated in some way? And are they necessary?

(Tony)

If you work, you should be compensated.

(Laura)

What is your thought on outlines for stories/books?

(Tony)

They're fine. I use them in a very loose fashion these days. If you need them, use them, but don't be wed to them if the story changes.

(Laura)

Do you have a favorite quote by an author?

(Tony)

Yes.

(Laura)

Paper, computer or typewriter what do you write your story on?

(Tony)

Computer.

(Laura)

The last book you read was?

(Tony)

The whole book? Hard to say. I read parts of books looking for more folktales about the Pines. I tried to read the Gulag Archepelago, which is amazing, but I only got to Chapter 5. Need to go back and finish.

 

(Laura)

Which one of your books would you want turned into a movie?

(Tony)

All of them.

 

(Laura)

Do you snack while you write?

(Tony)

Sometimes.

 

(Laura)

What book meant the most to you?

(Tony)

Jersey Devil by McCloy and Miller 1974

 

(Laura)

Did any real life experiences have an impact on your book?

(Tony)

Sure. How could all of them not?

 

 (Laura)

Name one character you liked writing for/about in your book?

(Tony)

I like them all.

 

(Laura)

What three adjectives would best describe your book/story?

(Tony)

clever funny chaos

 

(Laura)

How would you best describe your characters to someone who has not read your book yet?

(Tony)

Part of the concept is the idea of a small town vibe where everyone knows your business. They are very close knit and don't see any reason to leave their little enclave and know it very well. You can try to roll in and change things, but you will probably fail.

 

 (Laura)

Writing multiple character perspectives is that something that is commonly found in your stories?

(Tony)

Yes.

 

(Laura)

Explain the thought process behind your book?

(Tony)

I use the improv method. I come up with a concept and heighten it until it leads somewhere.

 

(Laura)

Where do you write your books/stories? 

(Tony)

In my house.

 (Laura)

(Finale question) 

Current book you're reading?

(Tony)

I read books on the history of South Jersey and various folktales.

 

 

(Laura)

Any social media pages our very few readers can find you at and were they can buy your books 

 

(Tony)

The Pineys is available on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082SCFW9R?binding=paperback&qid=1716835547&sr=8-2&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk

 

You can visit my site at ThePineys.com

 

I have various social media including YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtWOlHbXZRG9P2K1moOZzsg

 

And Twitter/X at @TonyDiGerolamo

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Movies I watched this week (#187):

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997) is a random Japanese screwball comedy that I never heard of, and have no idea how it popped on my radar. A late night radio drama is transmitted live in a studio, and none of the voice actors is happy about the script, so they start amending it. It was so absurd and chaotic - and so funny! After laughing out loud non stop the second half of this crazy ride, it won me over. 8/10.

Later on I discovered this video essay about director Koki Mitani, calling him 'The best Japanese filmmaker you've never heard of'. I'm going to catch his other movies, f'sure f'sure.

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3 by Australian stop-motion animator Adam Elliot:

🍿 "PPS. Did you know that turtles can breath through their anuses?"

Mary and Max is like a weirdly adult Wallace and Gromit, a dark and tragic clay figure story, voiced by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette. It's my most wonderful surprising discovery of the week! Two damaged and unfortunate souls connect by becoming pen pals; a lonely Australian 8-year-old girl with an ugly birthmark on her forehead, and an obese Jewish New Yorker with Asperger's. It encompasses 20 years of outlandish long-distance emotions which ends with the acknowledgement of friendship. Absolutely magical. 10/10.

🍿 "Life is like a cigarette. Smoke it to the butt."

His 2003 Oscar winner Harvie Krumpet is another dark biography of an unfortunate character. He is born in a village in Poland to a mad woman, and suffers throughout his life with a long list of calamities, Tourette's, magnetized skull, asthma, Alzheimer's as well as generally very bad luck. It's really odd. It also involves nudism, depression, vegetarianism, and birth defects - and still ends on a oddly-positive note!

🍿 Ernie Biscuit (2015), another "differently-able" story about a "divergent" type of an unusual protagonist: A deaf, lonely Parisian taxidermist who escapes to Venice with his duck but ends up in Australia.

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The wind will carry us, my 8th drama by Iranian Abbas Kiarostami. An "engineer" comes to a distant Kurdish village, but the story, whatever it is, is not very clear, and is never fully-explained. Apparently, he's not an engineer, but a journalist, and he comes to witness the burial rituals of a very old woman. Meanwhile, she doesn't die, and he just hangs around, waiting. This is not only "Slow cinema", but also "Simple cinema", and this "primitive" village doesn't offer many clues. The roosters crow, the radio plays songs in the distant, the shepherd boy walks his goats...

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2 with Simone Signoret:

🍿 Army of shadows, my 6th bleak film by J-P Melville, following a group of French resistance fighters. It's a formal, introspective and restrained picture of hopelessness, fear and destiny, and you know from the depressing look of it that none of them will survive. "Still, they persisted".

🍿 The Shortest Day (1963), my first film by Italian Sergio Corbucci, and the first with the popular comedian duo 'Franco and Ciccio' (Screenshot Above). A forgettable broad comedy about a couple of numskulls who are recruited by mistake and sent to fight in the trenches of the first World War [Like Treat Williams was in the musical 'Hair!].

This film was only memorable because it had over 50 cameos of famous stars of the day, who appeared in it (for free), some of them only for few seconds worth.

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Christy Hall's superb directorial debut Daddio (2024). It's a 2-person conversation inside a NYC night cab, like a movable 'Dinner with Andre'. Talkative and foul-mouthed Sean Penn is the taxi driver and armchair psychologist and he knows how to engages passenger Dakota Johnson in an impromptu therapy session. Meanwhile, she opens up more and more and discloses personal and painful "truths" until the predictable 'reveal'. It's stagey but emotionally satisfying. 8/10. [*Female Director*]

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They shot the piano player (2023) is a Spanish animated drama about the real-life disappearance of Brazilian Bossa Nova pianist Tenório Jr. in 1976. It is hand drawn in a uniquely colorful style, and the music obviously is superb (For example, here's The trailer). But the framing devise of American journalist Jeff Goldblum, who discovers the story of and travels south to talk to musicians and family members, distracts from the emotional impact that could have been achieved. It ends up spending much time about the American-financed 'Operation Condor', which turned nearly all of South America into a cabal of murderous right-wing dictatorships, with thousands murdered and 'disappeared'.

(I saw it in the original Portuguese - with Arabic subtitles! - so I missed many details of the story.) 7/10.

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2 with Icelandic Egill Ólafsson:

🍿 Touch, my 4th emotional film directed by Baltasar Kormákur. Ólafsson is an old man with a very early onset Alzheimer, who has to put his affairs in order. So he shuts down his restaurant, and embarks on finding his long-lost love from 50+ years ago. It brings him back to London where he had learnt to cook at a Japanese restaurant, and then to Hiroshima, where he finally meets his old lover.

🍿 Children of nature was the only Icelandic film nominated for an Oscar (in 1991). Interestingly, it also tells a story of an old man at the end of his life, who dares to do one crazy thing before the curtain falls. A man finds himself in a retirement home, where meets an old girlfriend. They decide to steal a Jeep and drive back to die in the place of their youth. 8/10.

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I enjoyed the original 'That's entertainment' very much, and promised myself to watch the sequel (there were two). Like 99% of all sequels,That's Entertainment, Part 2 is a copy of a much lower quality. Still, it includes dozens and dozens of clips from old MGM classics, many of which I haven't seen before (Young Bob Fosse in tight tights tap-dancing with Ann Miller in 'Kiss me Kate', human pogo stick Bobbie Van...) It felt though like somebody just threw together a 2-hour YouTube compilation of excellent highlights.

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"My name? Enema Bag Jones!..."

The wrong guy is my first Dave Foley goofy, low-brow comedy (1997). It opens with a faux-Saul Bass and James Bond title sequence, and the first 10 minutes are cringeyly stupid! But then it shifts into a idiotic Hitchcock satire -an exceedingly funny and moronic Hitchcock satire - with joke after really idiotic joke that made me laugh out loud. He plays an over-the-top moron, and Jennifer Tilly plays a dumb narcoleptic farm girl and they do it so straight, it was a big surprise. 4/10.

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"Two Tati’s":

🍿 School for postmen (1947), Jacques Tati's first film. A perfect gem of comedic genius, which he expanded 2 years later into his first feature, 'Jour de fête'. Absolutely masterful. 10/10. Re-watch ♻️.

🍿 House Specialty ('Dégustation Maison, 1978) is a lovely short directed by Tati's daughter, Sophie Tatischeff, in the same village where he filmed 'Jour de fête' 30 years earlier. A day in the life of a little patisserie where all the pastries are loaded with liqueur. I just loved it! [*Female Director*]

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Through an eclectic reviewer on Letterboxd, I discovered Hamburger America, a so-so documentary about "different kinds" of burgers. (In 71 years I never ate a hamburger, and I will probably not have one in the next 71 years. But I love food, and I also cooked professionally for 10 years. Still I really cannot understand the concept of a burger, chopped beef, a bun, a slice of tomato, lettuce, and some mayonnaise. How did that ever become so iconic?)

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Another bunch of (mostly early-career) shorts:

🍿 Hypnotizing the Hypnotist (1911) was just a 1-reeler about hypnotism, a popular topic of the time. With Florence Turner, one of the early "stars" of the screen.

🍿 The Madness of Dr. Tube (1915), my first by Abel Gance. A (literal 'Egghead') mad-scientist discovers a cocaine-like powder, which causes those who are sprayed with it to experience hallucinogenic visions as if their bodies - and minds - are distorted, like in a crazed mirror house. The restored copy is exceptionally clear! (I didn't realize that Gance made movies up until 1967.)

🍿 Over the fence, Harold Lloyd's very first outing (1917), a debut of his 'Glasses' character. A cute baseball comedy that maintained its zest.

🍿  À propos de Nice, (1930), Jean Vigo's first documentary. It opens as an impressionistic time capsule, of the sights and people, with lots of overhead shots, upper class folks walking down the promenade, the carnival, casinos, and fancy cars. But then it turns into a surrealistic metaphor, with a sitting woman losing her cloths, feet losing their shoes, open manhole shot from below, and a man turns into a crocodile. An experimental tour.

🍿 The wagoner ("Borom Sarret", 1963), my first terrific film by Senegalese director Sembène Ousmane - possibly the first African film made by an African. A powerful and sad story about a poor man in Dakar trying to earn a meager living as a cart driver. 9/10.

🍿 Foutaises ("Things I like, things I hate"), is another of my frequent and beloved re-watches ♻️. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's very first film (1989), a condensed black and white precursor to Amélie. 8 minutes of perfection.

🍿 Like the Tati film above, the 2013 short Whiplash was the original proof of concept on which Damien Chazelle based his feature film debut the following year. And like the later Whiplash, the abusive psychopath J.K. Simmons holds zero appeal for me. Technically, this 18-min. short is as effective as the later one. 🍿  Linklater: On Cinema and Time (2013) is a visual essay that Kogonada made to accompany a philosophical BFI article he wrote about time and memory. I like Kogonada very much, but this reminds me why I didn’t care for ‘Before Sunrise’.

🍿 "Look at all that wasted space". In Negative Space a boy bonds with his traveling businessman dad by packing his suitcase. Oscar nominated in 2017. 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes. [*Female Director*]

🍿 In Kiss of the Rabbit God (2019) a young waiter at an ordinary Chinese restaurant falls in love with a gorgeous, ethereal, neon-haired deity from the 18th century. A gay sexual hook-up in the back of the kitchen between two young guys, one of whom is an ancient God.

🍿 "Lean into loneliness and know you're not alone in it".

How to be at home, (2020) a Canadian instruction manual of how to deal with Covid social isolation, based on a poem by Tanya Davis. (Via). [*Female Director*]

🍿  Tall, dark and handsome (2023), my 3rd film by Sam Baron and the third starring 'Big Ears' Amit Shah. An Indian guy dating a white British woman (They're even expecting a baby together), becomes insecure when he discovers that she had dated several other Indian guys before him. Heartbreaking ending. 8/10.

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And finally: Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (2019) is a highly speculative documentary made by an astronomer about the end of "Time". Because I have no knowledge about the subject, it may or may not be scientifically plausible, as it talks about events that will happen trillions and trillions years into the future, but it mentions red and white dwarfs, pulsars, degenerate matters, Hawkins radiation, Black Hole Era, dark energy, entropy and unstable protons. All the while it plays various scenarios with creepy stock music, Kubrick's Stargate, and psychedelic graphics. Mmmmm....

Spoiler Alert: The universe will end in the year one googol.

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(My complete movie list is here).

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New Q&A with Ivo in The Times!

Ivo Graham: ‘My gig in Falkirk was top-tier awkward’

The comedian talks his most memorable Scottish performance, his long-enduring love for Gary Neville and why a recent trip to the dentist left him flabberglasted. [NON-PAYWALL VERSION]

When did you first come to Scotland?

We came up most years as children to stay with cousins just outside Stirling — shout out to the Gargunnock Grahams — but we also came as a family to the Edinburgh Fringe in 1999. I wouldn’t be the self-promoter I am if I didn’t mention that my report of the trip was given a commendation by my headmaster.

What has been your most memorable Scottish gig?

Falkirk, 2019, days after a pretty top-tier break-up, in front of 13 people, five of them friends of my parents. Lovely as it was of my mum and dad to email all their extensive contacts in the Falkirk area, it would almost have been less awkward if it was eight people, none of them family friends.

What’s your favourite place in Scotland?

Ullapool — its harbour is one of the most serene bodies of water I have ever had the good fortune to gaze upon. My brother and I were there in 2019, him sent by my parents to cheer me up post-Falkirk.

What’s been your most embarrassing moment?

I feel very certain there are going to be a few contenders this month, but to raid the recent archives, I’d have to say being caught by two Taskmaster fans eating a KFC mini fillet burger in the toilets of Corley services (southbound).

Tell us a secret.

In 2016 I won a Toblerone from my friend Matt because I correctly bet what song Foals would open their set with at Wembley Arena. However, despite my protestations to the contrary, I HAD checked their previous setlists online ahead of the gig. I just really wanted the Toblerone. I’m not proud of who I am.

What’s your favourite journey?

I spent much of the last hour of the London-Edinburgh train yesterday trying to capture the sublime power of the Northumberland coastline in a tweet (rather than just looking at it) and I am not ashamed to go into bat for it again here.

What’s your earliest memory?

Obviously I have plenty of blurrier stuff from the mid-Nineties but I very vividly remember going for lunch in summer 1998 (seven years old) with a boy called Julian in a nearby village. We were starting at the same boarding school in September so our mums thought it would be nice if we had a friend. Julian remains one of my best friends to this day, and I lived with him and his own young family during two of the three lockdowns, so needless to say: thanks, socially manipulative mums. Anyway, my vivid memory is my brother (then three) relieving himself fantastically unapologetically in the middle of Julian’s garden, and me worrying that in some way this would damage my new arranged friendship with Julian. In fact, it’s become something we both reminisce about regularly, so needless to say: thanks, casually urinating brother.

What’s the best meal you’ve had in Scotland?

So so many options but the haddock wrap at the Seafood Shack in Ullapool. Or the 20-minute curry I had at Solti with Stuart Laws last night, a lamb madras against the clock for a video that I hope to use at the start of my show. The food was delicious, although admittedly I was not exactly pausing to give it much thought. I am now having an Africa wrap with my producer at the Nile Valley Café. I have had many of these wraps at this table over the years, usually at the invitation of Kieran Hodgson, whose shows I have loved since even before they became the unstoppable forces/immoveable objects of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and who expresses his love of this festival and its wraps far more poetically than I can in this time frame.

Who was your childhood hero?

I’m really sorry to say that beyond a sincere but uninteresting reverence for my parents/a couple of my more charismatic teachers, I didn’t emotionally project onto anyone other than footballers until I was at least a teenager. In the late 1990s, as a Manchester United glory hunter yet to pivot to my local team (Swindon Town FC), I’m afraid I really did spend a lot of time wanting to be Gary Neville: a dignified older brother, as I still dream of being, and leader of men, as I don’t think is really likely at this juncture, who had such a lovely on and off-pitch relationship with the more obvious hero figure of David Beckham.

Tell us one lesson life has taught you.

I’m still some way off any Big Wisdom, sadly, so please enjoy instead a trio of recent resolutions: always print off tickets if you have the opportunity to (absolute QR code-based panic attack at a War on Drugs gig recently); always have pens and paper with you (drawing with my daughter is one of the most pleasurable and also strategically useful activities in my life at the moment); and if you have the opportunity and chiropractic derring-do to put someone on your shoulders at a festival (aka the best thing ever), do make sure to do a little spin so they can take in every angle of this absolutely sublime life moment. It’s all about these moments!

What song would you have played at your funeral?

Oh for goodness’ sake. And I’m meant to just have this ready to go, am I? What I would say is that (clang!) my theatre show, Carousel, has about three pieces of music in it that could be used as the answer to this question, although they are now all probably too associated with panicking about scripts and props to be played anywhere else. Not that I’ll be there to listen and complain, of course. A big chunk of the show is about a very dearly beloved friend I lost in 2022, and his family and I were all pretty floored by Bruce Springsteen’s I’ll See You In My Dreams at Wembley recently, so although I’m not pinching that for my own service, I’d certainly recommend it to anyone trying to take solace, as we are, in reunions around the river bend, for death is not the end. What an unbelievably heavy thing to answer under timed conditions!

What’s the most outrageously untrue thing that’s ever been said about you?

I saw a note recently from my old dentist to my new dentist saying that I was a “very chilled-out guy” and I was baffled and ecstatic at how wrong he’d got me.

What’s Grand Designs all about?

It’s about the desperate gulf between my expectations and reality, as compared (only briefly in the show, to be frank) to some of the fantastically ambitious/deluded people who appear on the TV show Grand Designs. I am not trying to build a clifftop mansion with a built-in lighthouse. That is out of my budget. But I am trying to do three different shows at the Edinburgh Fringe and that is, by a lot of people’s measurements, too many.

Who was your first celebrity crush?

Holly Valance undeniably quit Ramsay Street with more of a bang than most, and though I would like to distance myself from her recent political lurches, you’re welcome to write “that only makes her MORE attractive to me!” if you think that’s more pleasingly on brand.

What three words sum you up?

Dishevelled, distracted, and late.

Ivo Graham will perform Grand Designs until Aug 25 at Pleasance Courtyard; Carousel until Aug 25 at Assembly George Square (The Box); Comedians’ DJ Battles on Aug 9 & 16 at Assembly George Square Studios (Underground) and Aug 24 at La Belle Angele, edfringe.com

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🚨 LISK Breakthrough: Is Rex Heuermann the Long Island Serial Killer? 😱

The Long Island Serial Killer: A Comedy of Murders and Missteps He murdered, oh let's say four, no wait, ten! Wait, could it be even more? This guy was like a twisted Martha Stewart of crime, leaving his victims strewn about like yesterday's trash along a prime beachfront property. Just when you thought the only terror on Long Island was bumper-to-bumper traffic, in walks the pop culture boogeyman himself: LISK, the Long Island Serial Killer. Hashtag #KillerCatch So picture this: a swarm of cops descends on the charming village of Massapequa Park, a place that sounds like it's straight out of a cartoon. Rex Heuermann, a seemingly harmless architect, gets the spotlight. Like, seriously, an architect? Did he build his victims a custom coffin? Anyway, they nabbed him outside his Manhattan office, probably wondering if his blueprints included a secret dungeon. Architecture or Serial Killer 101 According to the New York Post, our boy Rex first caught the authorities' attention a year back, thanks to a DNA match. Yep, even criminals get caught up in that 23andMe wave. Apparently, Rex's blueprints were all over the scene of the first set of LISK's victims, or as they're affectionately known, "the Gilgo four." These victims were the trendsetters, discovered all the way back in 2010 around Gilgo Beach. So Rex gets hauled into court, probably wearing an architecturally questionable outfit, and pleads "not guilty." I mean, it's the go-to defense for serial killers these days. "Oh, those weren't my DNA molecules on the murder weapon, Your Honor. I swear!" Unraveling the Murder-y Yarn Now, here's where things take a turn that even our twisted killer didn't see coming. The news of Rex's arrest set social media on fire. The true crime buffs were in their element, celebrating like they'd just found a hidden Easter egg in their favorite video game. You know you've got a crazy case on your hands when people are more excited about the investigation than the next season of their Netflix binge. The LISK case is like the Bermuda Triangle of crime stories. It's so complicated and confusing, you might actually forget the plot of Inception trying to wrap your head around it. Our villain targeted sex workers, and honestly, that's like aiming for a bullseye the size of Texas. These folks are often marginalized and overlooked, which, come on, doesn't exactly help with the investigation. But wait, there's more! Corruption and misconduct from a former police chief, who apparently thought he was above the law, threw some extra chaos into the mix. And then there's the killer himself. Did he change his MO? Did he have a sidekick? Did he moonlight as an architect by day? The intrigue just keeps piling up, like a Jenga tower of murder mysteries. A Comedy of Victims Let's take a moment to admire the variety of victims in this dark comedy. Shannan Gilbert was our aspiring singer who wandered around Oak Beach like a lost diva before meeting her unfortunate fate. And oh, the "Gilgo four" – Melissa, Amber, Maureen, and Megan – sounds like the cast of a quirky crime sitcom. But wait, there's more! Dismembered bodies, partial remains, and enough twists to put a pretzel factory out of business. The mysterious "Fire Island Jane Doe" was found more times than Waldo in those books. We're talking multiple Jane and John Does, like they were having a block party in the afterlife. Architect of Chaos Enter Rex Heuermann, our unexpected antagonist. He's a local architect, which makes you wonder if his "blueprints" involved a few too many secret compartments. Imagine being neighbors with a guy who just might've had a side hustle as a serial killer. "Hey, Rex, can you check my foundation?" "Sure, just don't check my foundation, wink wink." Rex's arrest led to a frenzy of speculation. People were dissecting every little detail, trying to connect the dots like they were playing a murderous game of Connect the Dots. DNA evidence, internet searches, and more drama than a soap opera – this case had it all. Whodunit? Or Is It "Who-Dones-It?" So, as Rex sat in court, probably wondering if his cellmate would appreciate his architectural skills, a question loomed large: Are there more victims? Is this a one-man show, or are we dealing with an ensemble cast of serial killers? It's like the Long Island version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" – "Is it A) Rex, B) Rex's evil twin, C) A group of copycat killers, or D) All of the above?" And you thought deciding where to eat for dinner was complicated. Conclusion: The Architect of Mystery In the end, the Long Island Serial Killer saga is a true crime roller coaster with more twists than a bag of pretzels. Rex Heuermann, the unexpected architect of chaos, is in the hot seat. Married, with kids, and possibly a secret dungeon – the perfect recipe for a twisted crime novel. But this ain't fiction, folks. It's a real-life murder mystery that had New Yorkers on the edge of their subway seats. So as we await more twists, turns, and revelations, one thing's for sure: Long Island's beaches might be a hot vacation spot, but they're also home to some pretty chilling stories. Who needs palm trees and piña coladas when you've got mysterious belt insignias and a "big talker" neighbor with a dark side?# The Long Island Serial Killer: A Comedy of Murders and Missteps He murdered, oh let's say four, no wait, ten! Wait, could it be even more? This guy was like a twisted Martha Stewart of crime, leaving his victims strewn about like yesterday's trash along a prime beachfront property. Just when you thought the only terror on Long Island was bumper-to-bumper traffic, in walks the pop culture boogeyman himself: LISK, the Long Island Serial Killer. Hashtag #KillerCatch So picture this: a swarm of cops descends on the charming village of Massapequa Park, a place that sounds like it's straight out of a cartoon. Rex Heuermann, a seemingly harmless architect, gets the spotlight. Like, seriously, an architect? Did he build his victims a custom coffin? Anyway, they nabbed him outside his Manhattan office, probably wondering if his blueprints included a secret dungeon. Architecture or Serial Killer 101 According to the New York Post, our boy Rex first caught the authorities' attention a year back, thanks to a DNA match. Yep, even criminals get caught up in that 23andMe wave. Apparently, Rex's blueprints were all over the scene of the first set of LISK's victims, or as they're affectionately known, "the Gilgo four." These victims were the trendsetters, discovered all the way back in 2010 around Gilgo Beach. So Rex gets hauled into court, probably wearing an architecturally questionable outfit, and pleads "not guilty." I mean, it's the go-to defense for serial killers these days. "Oh, those weren't my DNA molecules on the murder weapon, Your Honor. I swear!" Unraveling the Murder-y Yarn Now, here's where things take a turn that even our twisted killer didn't see coming. The news of Rex's arrest set social media on fire. The true crime buffs were in their element, celebrating like they'd just found a hidden Easter egg in their favorite video game. You know you've got a crazy case on your hands when people are more excited about the investigation than the next season of their Netflix binge. The LISK case is like the Bermuda Triangle of crime stories. It's so complicated and confusing, you might actually forget the plot of Inception trying to wrap your head around it. Our villain targeted sex workers, and honestly, that's like aiming for a bullseye the size of Texas. These folks are often marginalized and overlooked, which, come on, doesn't exactly help with the investigation. But wait, there's more! Corruption and misconduct from a former police chief, who apparently thought he was above the law, threw some extra chaos into the mix. And then there's the killer himself. Did he change his MO? Did he have a sidekick? Did he moonlight as an architect by day? The intrigue just keeps piling up, like a Jenga tower of murder mysteries. A Comedy of Victims Let's take a moment to admire the variety of victims in this dark comedy. Shannan Gilbert was our aspiring singer who wandered around Oak Beach like a lost diva before meeting her unfortunate fate. And oh, the "Gilgo four" – Melissa, Amber, Maureen, and Megan – sounds like the cast of a quirky crime sitcom. But wait, there's more! Dismembered bodies, partial remains, and enough twists to put a pretzel factory out of business. The mysterious "Fire Island Jane Doe" was found more times than Waldo in those books. We're talking multiple Jane and John Does, like they were having a block party in the afterlife. Architect of Chaos Enter Rex Heuermann, our unexpected antagonist. He's a local architect, which makes you wonder if his "blueprints" involved a few too many secret compartments. Imagine being neighbors with a guy who just might've had a side hustle as a serial killer. "Hey, Rex, can you check my foundation?" "Sure, just don't check my foundation, wink wink." Rex's arrest led to a frenzy of speculation. People were dissecting every little detail, trying to connect the dots like they were playing a murderous game of Connect the Dots. DNA evidence, internet searches, and more drama than a soap opera – this case had it all. Whodunit? Or Is It "Who-Dones-It?" So, as Rex sat in court, probably wondering if his cellmate would appreciate his architectural skills, a question loomed large: Are there more victims? Is this a one-man show, or are we dealing with an ensemble cast of serial killers? It's like the Long Island version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" – "Is it A) Rex, B) Rex's evil twin, C) A group of copycat killers, or D) All of the above?" And you thought deciding where to eat for dinner was complicated. Conclusion: The Architect of Mystery In the end, the Long Island Serial Killer saga is a true crime roller coaster with more twists than a bag of pretzels. Rex Heuermann, the unexpected architect of chaos, is in the hot seat. Married, with kids, and possibly a secret dungeon – the perfect recipe for a twisted crime novel. But this ain't fiction, folks. It's a real-life murder mystery that had New Yorkers on the edge of their subway seats. So as we await more twists, turns, and revelations, one thing's for sure: Long Island's beaches might be a hot vacation spot, but they're also home to some pretty chilling stories. Who needs palm trees and piña coladas when you've got mysterious belt insignias and a "big talker" neighbor with a dark side? 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Preview: 2023 Boston Underground Film Festival

From Wed. March 22 to Sun. March 26, the Boston Underground Film Festival takes over Harvard Square at The Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, MA). The fest is in its 23rd edition and it is a celebration of bizarre, weird and alt cinema!

Here at Green’s Party, I’ve been lucky enough to cover the festival since 2016 (the fest took off in 2020 and 2021, and I was unable to attend 2022). Here are some of the highlights of this year’s BUFF:

Wed. March 22:

Opening Night film is Jeffrey A. Brown’s The Unheard, which is going to be on Shudder later this month. The film finds a young deaf woman undergoing experimental treatment to regain her hearing. Recovering at her family’s beach home, she fears she is not alone - all while uncovering family secrets and experiencing psychological strife and auditory hallucinations. It was filmed in Massachusetts and it was written by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen (full disclosure: the writing duo are friends of mine). Then it’s Nightsiren from Slovakia. The trailer is pure WTFery!

Thurs. March 23:

BUFF doesn’t screen nearly as many documentaries as narrative films, but the ones they do are quite noteworthy. The doc Stand By For Failure: A Documentary about Negativeland looks at the experimental Bay area music group Negativeland. Then it’s back to narrative films with the sci-fi Spaghetti Junction, about a teen discovering a mysterious place in the woods. From France, the Canne Film Festival hit Smoking Causes Coughing is a wild bonkers super hero film about the dangers of smoking.

Fri. March 24:

First up is The Dunwich Horrors, a collection of short films about New England. Massachusetts certainly has its history with horror stories, but there’s other states like VT and ME represented here as well. This is usually one of my favorite short collections at the fest and among the shorts is Skin & Bone (full disclosure: director Eli Powers is a friend I worked with on a film previously). Then it’s another doc Mister Organ, the new one from David Farrier, director of Tickled. This one looks at the secrets behind a a man at a small antique shop in New Zealand. From U.K. Enys Men is a throwback to 70s horror on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast.

Sat. March 25:

A matinee screening of Moon Garden, about a little girl who falls into a coma and finds herself in a strange new world. One of my favorite shorts programs at BUFF is Sound + Vision, a collection of music videos that push the envelope. Then it’s Butter My Noodle, a collection of comedy short films. Among them is High Moon, directed by my buddy Kevin J. James (director of Not For Resale). From Germany, Piaffe is about a woman who fills in for her sister as a foley artist and grows a horse’s tail. Not a typo! Then it’s the Sundance hit Divinity, which boasts star power of Stephen Dorf and Scott Bakula as well as producer Steven Soderbergh.

Sun. March 26:

First up is Survival is Insufficient, a collection of shorts including CONTENT: The Lo-Fi Man co-directed by BUFF alumni / my friend Brian Lonano (read my interview with him at BUFF 2018 here) and It Takes a Village co-written and co-starring SNL’s Sarah Sherman. Then it’s Destination, a collection of animated shorts that are not suitable for children. Then it’s the festival hit How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a crime thriller about a group of environmental activists who plan a disruption of an oil pipeline. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is about a brilliant teenage girl who tries to bring back her recently murdered brother from the dead. And finally the Closing Night Film is Rebel from Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the Belgium filmmakers known for Bad Boys for Life and Ms. Marvel. This film focuses on a Muslim family torn apart over the future of its youngest member in Belgium. 

For info on this year’s #BUFF23: https://bostonunderground.org/

Stay tuned to Green’s Party for my coverage of this year’s fest!

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Movies I watched this week (#176):

6 new Romanian films:

🍿 After listening to the angelic voice of Maria Coman, I wanted to re-visit some Romanian films.

Acasă, My Home, a raw, unexpected gem! A quiet documentary (with no music score!) about a family of feral Romas (9 kids and their stubborn parents) who live isolated from society, in a nature reserve just outside Bucharest. Filthy, proud, tight-knit and independent, they are eventually chased out of their shack and subsistence living, and struggle with their integration into the system. With a surprise cameo by Prince Charles (WTF?) who shows up for a UN ceremony to plant a tree. Sublime 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes. 9/10.

🍿 Betisoare rock n'roll (2010) a moving short about a deaf woman who goes to a concert, to find the singer. She's his mother who gave him up for adaption 35 years prior. 10/10.

🍿 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, an absurdist, post-modernist riddle by infant-terrible Radu Jude. A history teacher at a secondary school films a sex tape with her husband, but the video leaks on the internet. Everybody around her is scandalized and she has to attend a raucous free-for-all parent conference, where they get to vote if she should be expelled or not.

It's a wild, uneven film. It boldly opens with and features several hardcore pornographic scenes without any excuses. It also uses experimental / structuralist tropes a-la-Godard, which makes this into a jarring experience; The first act basically follows the teacher as she keeps walking through the noisy streets. The second act is a provocative pastiche of images and thought-bubbles which criticizes the schizophrenic, reactionary Romanian society today, dealing with ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, the trauma of history, as well as misinformation during the Covid years. The third act, of the 'trial' against the teacher, offers three different outcomes, including a surprising dream-vision where the teacher turns into Wonder Woman, and she fucks the mouths of all the attendees with a giant silver dildo.

🍿 I was planning on exploring Radu Jude's complete works, but (after that ^) I will continue another time. Instead, I just saw his first touching film The Tube with the Hat (2006). A village boy convinces his dad to take their broken TV set to a repairman in the city. Show, don't tell.

🍿 The dictator and his servant, an odd, experimental short from 1967. Found on 'Cinepub', a free YouTube channel with over 900 Romanian films. [*Female Director*].

🍿 2 Lottery Tickets (2016), a lighthearted and sweet comedy about 3 hapless, bumbling losers from a sleepy provincial town, who win the lottery but lose the ticket. Low-key, but assured directing style, follows wretched situation without condemnation. 8/10.

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Waking Ned is a 1998 feel-good Irish comedy that was the inspiration for '2 Lottery Tickets', the Romanian film above. The plot deals with Ned Devine who dies from a heart attack, when he hears on the telly that his numbers match the big lottery winning numbers. And with the whole tiny village which conspires to claim the big prize money. The simple, rustic wholesomeness is being excessively idolized, but it ends on a surprising twist. 5/10.

[Extra - Not-A-Movie-But - Spark, an infectious rap video that some County Cork kids just made!].

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Barbara Stanwyck X 3:

🍿 Meet John Doe, Frank Capra's wholesome, politically-naive tale. An average Joe Shmoe, an "Everyman", (but one who looks just like Gary Cooper), becomes a lightning rod for a populist 3rd party candidate. An ordinary citizen vs. money and corruption in government. 'Come together' and be 'Nicer to your neighbors'. (Screenshot Above).

🍿 "Use men - to get the things you want!"

Baby face was an extreme pre-Code story of a young woman using sex to advance in the world. Stanwick goes from a 14-year old daughter, sexually-abused by her pimp-father, to a serial seductress who heartlessly ends up with the president of the bank. No wonder The Hays Office was able to clamp down on morality and filth in the movie business around that time. Blatant whoring and early feminist sentiments, mixed with motivation born of reading some Nietzsche philosophy. Too much for the poor plebeians suffering from The depression. With a 2-line cameo by John Wayne. WOW! 8/10.

🍿 "Once I watched my big brother shave..."

Ball of Fire, a 1941 Howard Hawks screwball comedy with a ridiculous premise. A group of stodgy "professors", all bachelors except of one widower, live in an old-fashioned boarding house while writing an encyclopedia. The old men, all foreigners but Gary Cooper, know nothing about sex, but are all titillated when a young woman takes refuge there. They are anti-intellectual, creepy and infantile, and the whole story was difficult to swallow. 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes, but only 1/10 on mine.

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"These are fantastic mushrooms..."

(Not to be too personal, but I feel quite melancholic recently, what with the looming end of the world, destruction of all life, etc. So, the only remedy is to lose myself for the 15th, 16th, Nth time in Palm Springs, and forget that soon we'll all be dead too.) Another (very) frequent re-Watch ♻️.

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The slender thread was Sydney Pollack's first feature film, and also the first film featuring Dabney Coleman. A mixed bag social drama, with young Sidney Poitier working at the then-new suicide prevention hotline, and trying to save the life of Anne Bancroft, who had just ingested a bunch of pills. With a fantastic score by Quincy Jones, and evocative locations of 1965 Seattle. But the psychological play between the the two is dated and ham-fisted. Nobody today would treat her as clumsily and unprofessionally as it was then. 4/10.

RIP, Dabney Coleman!

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Challengers, the new Health and Wealth soft-core porn-drama for bi-curious teenagers. Tennis and Threesomes, served in a slick, non-linear package. Lush cinematography (and irritating tecno-score by the otherwise always-outstanding Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross). Surprisingly (or maybe not), it's the latest from Luca Guadagnino, but doesn't compare to his so much better 'Desire Trilogy'. I wish he would just stay in Italy! 4/10, mostly for the initial seduction scene.

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2 more with Denzel Washington:

🍿 My first by Carl Franklin, Devil in a Blue Dress, a 1948's LA Neo-Noir. It's obvious that they were going for a Chandler style 'Chinatown' clone, but with a black hero, Hunky Denzel in his white undershirt. There was a moment where they even say nearly verbatim "Just find the girl, Mr. Gittes" but without Noah Cross's deep, guttural voice, and definitely without his gravitas. 5/10.

🍿 The Equalizer, a re-watch ♻️. I felt like a silent vigilante movie, and this was is actually pretty good, especially the meticulous, quiet build-up. The violent action portions I could do without. 7/10.

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"...Daddy won't be living here anymore..."

Shut the Door. Have a Seat, one of Mad Men's greatest episodes, Season 3 finale. A perfectly-perfect 47 minutes of pure economic drama. Concise dialogue, compact story telling, classic build up. Everybody's invited to hear unexpected news, by being told to 'sit down'. And it ends with all the suffering characters, from the glacially-beautiful Betty Draper, to Sally, her 10 yer old daughter. moving on with their lives, while Roy Orbison sings 'Shahdaroba' in the background. "When a dream dies... And a heart cries... Shahdaroba Is the word they whisper alone..."Another regular 10/10 Re-Watch ♻️.

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3 by Dutch animator Mascha Halberstad:

🍿King sausage (2022) is a weirdly-animated musical about love among the offals. 2 butchers duke it out in a small town sausage competition. The descriptions of the meats are not for vegetarians. The language sounds extremely harsh. 7/10.

🍿 In Goodbye mister de Vries, a 93 year old man receives a package with his childhood skates, and tries to go skating on the ice one more time.

🍿In the weird Pregnant (2015) a guy pisses up on a pregnancy test thingie, to discover that he's expecting a baby. [*Female Director*].

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I only decided to give the new horror film For sale a try because it looks like the world I knew so well. Shady salesmen and dirty real estate tricks. I knew I would probably hate it, but maybe it will be accurate? However, the actor who played the sleazeball piece of shit Realtor had as much charisma as the character he played, and as soon as the standard "horror" tropes appeared on screen, it was time to pack it in. Couldn't finish it.

I still would like to find some realistic new real estate movies [besides '99 homes', 'The big short', 'Glengarry Glen Ross'...?]

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Chloë Sevigny’s debut film as a director, Kitty (2016). A little girl dreams of becoming a kitten, and then she turns into one. Moody and unsettling. [*Female Director*].

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2 First generation A.I. nightmares by obscure indie director Damon Packard:

🍿 The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings an imaginative agony of a on obese, middle-age cinephile, sitting at home on his computer, being hen-picked by his nagging Chinese wife, who doesn't appreciate his love for the art of moving pictures... All that played against Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably numb'. It hits too close to home. man! Made in 2023, which means that the A.I. is very passé, so this is nearly an historic document. Astounding 9/10!

🍿 The Sleeping Audience, another early onset nightmare fuel about mass scare, audiences sleeping through real messages about the end of the world, but waking up when the 'fake' movie starts. [Terrific, but the audience is all black for some reason- ?]

Apparently this guy had been making indie movies under the rader for 40 years. Many more of his new A.I. shorts can be found on his YouTube channel. (Including the nightmarish Welcome to the machine, which is based on the famous photo of Roger Waters riding the subway...)

(My r/truereddit post about him was deleted for some reasons...)

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(My complete movie list is here).

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Sorry if you've been asked this before, but I couldn't find any posts about it. What are Catalan movies you'd recommend? Not matter if there is a translation or not

Salvador (Puig Antich) (2006), dir. Manuel Huerga. (In Catalan and Spanish). A real story about the events that led to the execution of Salvador Puig Antich, a young Catalan anarchist who was the last political prisoner sentenced to death by the Francoist dictatorship, in 1974. (Available on Filmin).

Herois [Heroes] (2010), dir. Pau Freixas. The protagonist remembers the best summer of his childhood, with a plot that runs parallel to her present. A beautiful and nostalgic film about friendship, adventure, first love, and memories that can move you to affect the present. (Available on Prime Video and Filmin).

Pa negre [Black Bread] (2010), dir. Agustí Villaronga. Cinema adaptation of best-selling books by Emili Teixidor, it starts with a murder. From there, it's a dark drama and mystery story that focuses on the relations between family members in a village in 1940, the post-war period, through the eyes of a child. (Available on Filmin).

Fènix 11·23 (2012), dir. Joel Joan. This drama movie tells the real story of Èric Bertran, a 14-year-old Catalan boy who was arrested for terrorism for having sent an email in 2004. (Available on Filmin, can be rented on AppleTV).

Barcelona, nit d'estiu [Barcelona, summer night] (2013), dir. Dani de la Orden. Romantic comedy of six love stories that meet on a summer night. It was very successful and has a sequel called Barcelona, nit d'hivern [Barcelona, winter night] (2015). (Available for free on RTVE Play).

El mètode Grönholm [The Grönholm Method] (2015). TV movie adaptation of a comedy theatre play, a group of aspirants meet for a job interview but are asked to do very unconventional things. As time goes on, they see that maybe there were more secrets between the characters than there seemed. It's funny and unexpected. (Available for free on TV3 a la carta).

Incerta Glòria [Uncertain Glory] (2017), dir. Agustí Villaronga. Cinema adaptation of the best-seller book by Joan Sales, it's the story of three friends who fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War and who are in love with the same woman. (Available on Netflix).

Estiu 1993 [Summer 1993] (2017), dir. Carla Simón. A 6-year-old girl has to move in with her aunt, uncle and cousin after her parents die. Even though she is welcomed and treated well, she has difficulty adapting to her new life. This is an artistic film that was even selected for the Oscars, but be aware that it's one of the most "European artsy cinema"-style ones here. (Available for free under the Spanish name "Verano 1993" on RTVE Play).

Jean-François i el sentit de la vida [Jean-François and the Meaning of Life] (2018), dir. Sergi Portabella. A lonely 13-year-old boy finds a copy of The Myth of Sisyphus by the French philosopher Albert Camus and decides to run away to Paris to meet him, not knowing he's dead. On the way, he meets a girl who will accept to run away with him but has her own motives. (Available on Filmin and for free on RTVE Play).

El nom [The Name] (2018), dir. Joel Joan. Movie adaptation of a comedy theatre play, five friends meet for dinner and talk about two of them who will soon have a child. The witty chatter becomes a fight when the father-to-be says the child will be called "Adolf, like that man with the moustache". (Available for free on TV3 a la carta).

La vampira de Barcelona [The Barcelona Vampiress] (2020), dir. Lluís Danés. A dark story once again based on a real one. In the early 20th-century Barcelona, the investigation on a mentally-unstable woman accused of kidnapping children to sell them or harvest their organs will take a journalist through the poorest streets, brothels and secrets of the Raval quarter. (TW for child abuse & sexual assault. Not a happy film but it's worth watching). (Available on Movistar+).

Alcarràs (2022), dir. Carla Simón. Filmed not with professional actors but with the real inhabitants of Alcarràs whose story is being told, this film shows the story of a family of farmers. After generations of working the same fields, they are told they must leave because the land will be confiscated to install solar panels. A realistic rural drama about the loss of agriculture, based on the real experiences of rural people in Western Catalonia. This film has received many international awards and won the Berlinale Film Festival, but once again be aware it's probably the most "European artistic cinema" film of this list. (Can be rented on many services).

I've added what streaming platform they're in for an international audience (though sometimes it changes country to country), but if you have a library card from Catalonia they're available for free on the digital platform ebibliocat.efilm.info.

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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Screenshot Let’s Play and Transcription

Since June of last year, I’ve been doing a mostly-on-sometimes-off playthrough, transcription, and Let’s Play of the Steam and GOG port of Higurashi When they Cry/Higurashi no Naku Koro ni on Something Awful. Someone else actually already made a forum-based, screenshot Let’s Play of this game years ago (and finished it!), but half of the images in the first arc are broken and it’s a little hard to parse.

So I thought, why not kill three birds with one stone? I can create a proper transcription of Higurashi that will be saved on its own dedicated server (the LPs in Something Awful are archived both on SA and lparchive.org, the latter once it is completed). I can also reread this sound novel that I am incredibly fond of.

Most importantly, I hope that this LP gets more people to read Higurashi. For people who either don’t want to pay 50 dollars on Steam/GOG for all of the arcs or sit down and commit 60 hours to watch video footage of a game released in 2002, this format lets you read it at your own pace in just a couple of days.

This is how the LP is presented. People who are familiar with and/or fans of Higurashi will notice a few things about this— and my choices are explained in the masterpost (which you can see as soon as you click the link to the LP). I also recorded every update in video form and put a link to it at the top of every update. (Higurashi is a sound novel after all, not a visual novel.) The recordings also have some fantastic voice acting, so check that out if possible.

I update three times a week on Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday.

Here’s the link.

My sales pitch, for those uninitiated to Higurashi or do not know why they should read it, is under the cut.

Some people may know of Higurashi because of its rather infamous Studio DEEN anime adaptation. The yandere anime or whatever.

(This is the cover of a Higurashi video game released in 2014 but the art is pretty similar to the anime’s ssshhhhh)

In the game, you play as Keiichi Maebara, a city boy who recently moved to the peaceful and close-knit village of Hinamizawa. While he initially spends his days playing various games with his new friends, the discovery of a string of disappearances and murders that happen in the village set him on a path towards conspiracies, paranoia, and a fight for his own life.

One of the game’s more memorable aspects is how it endears you to the characters through the slice-of-life aspects of the story, until those idyllic days slowly morph into something much more sinister. That in and of itself is nothing new in the horror and thriller genre— pretty much every dime a dozen horror movie starts with a peaceful suburb being threatened with a serial killer or monster on the loose, after all.

Where Higurashi differs is that it doesn’t stop there, but starts pulling the reader in, makes them want the horror and thrill to stop, for the idyllic days to come back. They start off engrossed in the wonderfully unsettling atmosphere that the author, Ryukishi, crafts with nothing but images, text, and sound. As they read one arc after another, they gain more questions even as some are answered.

Because, surprise— Higurashi is a slife-of-life, comedy, horror, suspense, thriller, murder mystery.

Every arc takes place in the same timeframe: June of 1983, but things are different. Something that happens in one arc doesn’t happen in another arc, and vice versa. Even though the characters do  not retain their memories of past arcs, they still perform different actions at different times as strings are pulled behind the curtain. As someone with an omniscient viewpoint of the entire story, it is your job to piece together the puzzle and figure out just what is causing the deaths in Hinamizawa.

If that interests you, I’ll link the Let’s Play once more at the end of this post. The first post is the masterpost, which has even more information on the game as well as the LP itself. If nothing else, please read the trigger warnings. Higurashi is not a kind game to those who are squeamish. This may only be Ryukishi’s first big work— his writing and pacing is fairly rough for the first two arcs— but there’s a reason this game so thoroughly took over the fandom consciousness in the 2000s. His writing is, if nothing else, completely his own and paints vivid depictions of the cruelty humans have to live through every single day.

(A tidbit to note is that the author used to be a social worker. He writes about the topic with great skill but it is all very hard to watch/read.)

The game is also uh…very anime. It was initially sold in Comiket, after all. If you have a low tolerance for anime bullshit this might be a hard read for you. But underneath everything, the story is, at the core, a very touching one about the bonds between friends. Higurashi has a heart, no matter how ugly its exterior may seem at first glance, and I urge you to give it a shot.

Here’s the link again.

By the by, if you’re interested in a more “straightforward” murder mystery (more of an actuual murder mystery, much less straightforward), you should check out Ryukishi’s next work, Umineko no Naku Koro ni, which someone else already LPed. If you want to see how he might be like, trying to, solve…world conflict…?, the person who LPed Umineko also did one for the first arc (or Phase as it’s called) of Ciconia no Naku Koro ni. It’s all a bit vague for Ciconia, we really only have one chapter to go off of. None of these “sequels” require knowledge of the former entries to enjoy them.

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So, the 2000s was one of the most productive decades for brazilian movies, an era known as Retomada (Retaking), because after the crisis caused by corrupt administration of President Collor cutting financing to movie productions in the 90s, the 2000s felt like the national movie industry was getting back on its feet.

Most of the movies of this era were in contemporary settings, usually varying between dramas, dramedies, comedies, slice of life, social satire or a mix of all this.

Their heroes tended to be normal people, the common everyday man, and while most of them choose the realist aproach, here and there you would get some pieces leaning on the fantastical.

These are the ones i most fondly remember watching and enjoying with my family.

Meu Tio Matou Um Cara (My Uncle Killed A Guy, 2004)

A boy tries to help his uncle prove his innocence in a murder case. He thinks his uncle has confessed the crime as a cover-up for his girlfriend, who was the dead man's wife, so he starts a private investigation with help from his own friends, including the girl he has a crush on.

Saneamento Básico: O Filme (Basic Sanitation: The Movie, 2007)

A small community of descendants of Italian immigrants in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul resorts to making a video to win the money award of a short film competition and try to solve the problems of basic sanitation that plague their village.

Was kind of video they make?

A B Monster Movie!

O Homem que Copiava (The Man Who Copied, 2003)

André, relatively poor, falls in love with Silvia, a neighbor he spies on with a telescope. Falling more and more in love with her, he begins to follow her around the city and realizes she works in a clothing shop. He works in a Xerox place and makes a copy of a brand new $50-bill to buy a dress from her store. This becomes a vice and he begins to photocopy more and more money, until it gets out of control. Things go wrong when he decides that photocopying is not the only way to make money.

Lisbela e o Prisioneiro (Lisbela and the Prisoner, 2003)

Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man who travels from town to town selling all sorts of things and performing as Master of Ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Inaura, a sexy, beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman in the area. The hitman find out about his wife's affair and pursues Leléu, who must leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.

O Caminho das Nuvens (The Middle of the Word, 2003)

Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge with the courage to pursue dreams.

Narradores de Jave (The Storytellers, 2003)

The illiterate population of the small town of Javé charge Antônio Biá with the mission of writing the story of the town, in an attempt to stop the construction of a hydropower dam that would destroy the village. They start remembering (or making up) great local personalities and events.

Deus é Brazileiro (God is Brazilian, 2003)

God decides to take a vacation - but, first, He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. For that, He goes to Brazil's northeast, where He believes there's a very good man for the job - but, during His mission, He becomes friend of a very smart young man, Taoca.

Woody e Stock: Sex, Orégano e Rock and Roll (Woody and Stock: Sex, Oregano and Rock and Roll, 2006)

Animated movie, based on a series of comic strips by Angeli, telling the story of two die-hard hippies, named Woody and Stock, trying to live on today's world.

Tapete Vermelho (Red Carpet, 2005)

Quinzinho (Matheus Nachtergaele) has a promise to keep to his late father: take his child, Neco (Vinicius Miranda), to the city to watch a movie starring Mazzaropi (a comedic actor famous for starring and producing movies where the typical brazilian southeast hillbilly, known here as "caipira", was the protagonist) in theaters. They live in a small farm in São Paulo. In this odyssey by the cities of São Paulo, he also leads his wife Zulmira (Gorete Miracles), which part unwillingly, and the donkey Policarpo. On the journey, they find regional peculiarities and undergo magical situations, related to popular belief.

O Coronel e O Lobisomem (The Colonel and the Werewolf, 2005)

In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Coronel Ponciano de Azeredo Furtado inherits the farm Sobradinho in the country, many possessions and the title of "colonel" of his grandfather. His close friend Pernambuco Nogueira, son of one of the employees of the farm and with whom Ponciano was raised together since they were born, gets nothing in the will. Ponciano has a crush on his cuisine Esmeraldina, but he never declares his love to her. When he loses the mortgage of his farm to Nogueira, who got married to Esmeraldina, Ponciano goes to the court trying to prove that Nogueira is a werewolf.

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Pairing: Robot!Namjoon x Reader

Genre: Friendship, Comedy, Soft boy, Fluff.

Summary: Kim Namjoon was a robot librarian and database of information. On mondays and wednesdays he read to the children on Thursdays the old people from the retirment home came to find new books to read. His favourite days of all were when you would come to study, but what does he do when you are locked in his library over night.

Kim Namjoon was written as 金南俊 in Chinese and meant ‘Genius from the south’. He was a library database, you could ask him questions and he would try to answer, you could ask for a book or genre and he would know where it was. He was good at his job.

He spent Monday and Wednesday mornings reading books to the children, and on Thursdays, the old people from the retirement village would arrive and he would guide them about the library looking for books.

He had seen many different people good and bad and he enjoyed what he did. He was watering the indoor plants in the library. The woman he worked with named them all and so he would bow to them and say good morning to each one before pouring water from his watering can and moving on.

“Hello Priscilla, you are looking vibrant today?” He smiled “You have definitely grown a millimeter since I last saw you!”

A head popped up over the small plant and Namjoon saw you smiling. “Are you talking to the plant?”

“Yes, Mrs. Park says that talking to the plants helps them grow” He smiled, “I am Kim Namjoon, the library Database, I am here to assist you, can I help you find anything?”

“No, it’s okay?” you smiled

“You look like a young adult, a popular novel has been released about a Robot caregiver and a sick human would you like me to locate this book for you?”

“No thank you,” you smiled, “I am just studying.”

Namjoon wanted to ask what you were studying but was called by another patron of the Library looking for a book. Namjoon watched you all day and then he watched you collect your things and leave.

~

It seems you come in every day studying in the same booth and Namjoon leaves watering Priscilla till last so that he can observe you some more. “Can I help you?”

“Actually, yeah would you be able to find me this book here?” You said holding up a piece of paper, he took it feeling your fingers brush for a moment. He scanned the database and got a few hits making him smile.

“We have a few copies, which edition would you like?” He asked and you grinned back at him.

“Ah, the latest one if I can,” You watched him turn and leave into the many aisles of the library. At least five minutes had past and you got up and went after him. “Namjoon?”

You saw him looking at the book in his hand and just staring at the cover, you walked over slowly, “Is everything okay?”

“Oh, I am sorry, I just got an update and was downloading.” He didn’t smile, “I found your book”

“How are you feeling?” You asked softly, taking his arm in your hand “About the update, is everything okay?”

“Everything is working perfectly, just new information,” He gave an endearing smile showing off his dimples, “here is the book you requested.”

You watched him walk off feeling a little concerned, there had to be a reason he had stopped for so long, some malfunction or something.

~

The two of you had gotten close and Namjoon was a goofy sweet guy, he would make you laugh and would ask some rather endearing things. He was actually really good with his words. He would make rhymes and funny little soliloquies to pass the time.

As he watered the plant he bowed to it respectfully greeting and complimenting the vegetation, he was honestly a sweetheart. He must have noticed you watching so he waved and walked closer.

“Miss Y/n I have a question that I have been thinking about a lot,” you nodded prompting that you were listening and wanting him to continue. “Well, do you have things in your head that you shouldn’t?”

You blinked shocked, “What type of things?”

“Like videos of people, it’s like I am someone else and watching their life.” He said “I don’t know why but every now and then I get these things that play, I don’t know where it is and it’s not the same every time”

“Why don’t you tell me some of them?” You asked, he walked over and sat down.

“Well the first one is in some type of lab, there are people and I open my eyes and look around, they call me Lee Hyun. In another I am walking somewhere and when I look in the mirror it isn’t me. The last one is the scariest because I or Lee Hyun, kills a woman and her fiance”

“Lee Hyun,” a voice said, you were in shock from the story you didn’t know someone had heard.

“You know Lee Hyun?” Namjoon asked the other robot, he was wearing some old clothes.

“I know he was shut down because he had killed a woman and her fiance. He was a robot who glitched.” The robot said frowning.

“How do you know this?” You asked curious as his human companion looked around before sitting in the booth with you.

“It’s on the down-low but the story goes a Robot was made but he fell in love with his creator, circumstances with the way he was trained programmed and taught by the humans shaped him and made what he did so terrible. When he fell in love he confessed but she said she was already engaged. Furious he killed her and her fiance and when they came to shut him down he sent out a type of virus that made the Robots act a little strange.”

“Strange how?” You asked, Namjoon seemed lost in thought.

“They started to develop feelings and hobbies, they started acting more like humans.” The woman said, she looked oddly familiar.

“Ah my assumptions are correct, you are the author of the ‘Robot Caregiver’ it is a best-seller among young adults,” Namjoon said.

The group dispersed and You watched Jungkook he did act a little differently he didn’t seem like he was following commands the way he moved and spoke and laughed were all instinctive.

~

It was the week before your big history test and you were practically living at the library, Namjoon would watch you study, eat and occasionally nod off at the desk. He went about his day reading to the children and helping a man learn Spanish.

He was disappointed that he was so busy that he didn’t get to wave you goodbye when you left that afternoon.

The library was soon closed and Namjoon returned all the books to the shelves vacuumed the floor and walked to your usual booth. He found himself sitting in your spot and charging, it felt a little taboo but he just couldn’t seem to charge anywhere else.

When he turned the opener to the booth he saw you delicately curled up on the curved seat breathing.

Namjoon froze looking around the lights. No one was here and you were both locked in until morning.

He took care of plants but never humans, searching his databases he found humans needed warmth food water shelter to survive.

Hurrying to the staff room Namjoon found some cup ramen and began following the instructions. This was not something he knew how to do but he followed the instructions to the letter and it seemed to turn out okay.

Carrying a glass of water and ramen seemed simple but was actually quite difficult. Arriving back at the table he saw you stirring and knelt down. “Miss Y/n?” He gently shook you. “Miss Y/n, you fell asleep and the library is closed.”

“Closed!” You shrieked sitting up confused, “Oh, I am so sorry. I didn’t mean to fall asleep in the library, I can leave now, what time is it?”

“I am sorry, the library is locked so you can’t leave until the owner unlocks the door in the morning,” Namjoon hummed, “but I bought you something to eat and drink and if you want we have some pillows and blankets near the children’s reading corner.”

“Oh thank you,” You mumbled feeling kind of awkward about being in the library when it was closed and after hours. “I guess I can use this time to study.”

Taking the noodles you began eating and continued studying. Namjoon found you a blanket and pillow and you sat studying for a while. When you grew tired he told you to lay down and he began reading to you ‘The Robot Caregiver’ you listened for half a chapter before drifting off once more and Namjoon brushed your hair off your face and watched over you all night.

He woke tired and on low battery but it was worth it to make sure you were safe.

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Ah ah ah I’m getting in too deep into my modern day/football AU Nicky headcanons so I’m just gonna jot down some notes:

Q: Why is his surname Di Genova? It’s a little odd but then again I did have a classmate with last name Brescia.

A: Nicky’s paternal grandfather is actually from Buenos Aires, which means Nicky could have played for Argentina too (but why)

Argentina has a huge Italian migrant population, so Grandpa!Di Genova’s ancestors would have come from Italy, and Genoa especially, which is why they called themselves “Di Genova” in a new land.

Grandpa Genova played for Boca Juniors for a brief period of time. One of the Boca Juniors nicknames is “Xeneizes” = Genoese.

Grandpa Genova moved back to Italy in the 1950s postwar boom, and decided to settle where his last name came from

Grandma Genova is Sardinian. She met Grandpa in Genova and they got married and settled down etc

On the maternal side, Giuliana is from an inland/mountain village near the Piedmont border.

Giuliana frequently mentions she was the prettiest girl in her village

She loves harping on about la bella figura to her ungroomed son

Nicky has a huge aversion to hearing her talk about this because he doesn’t see what’s the big deal with pretty girls. He finds all that makeup and heels and whatever quite grotesque

This brings me to Nicky’s first girlfriend: Laura

Nicky and Laura met in middle school, and Laura is super intelligent and was assigned to help Nicky with his schoolwork

Laura bonded with Nicky because he was a quiet oddball loner like her

As these kids went through puberty, Nicky wasn’t like the boys in the class who were crude, sex obsessed and gross

Laura is aroace (she will discover the labels later) and just...hated the overt hormonal atmosphere in school. She just didn’t get it.

Nicky seemed like a safe guy to hang out with

In truth Nicky was struggling with the realization that he is gay gay gay GAY GAY

But Nicky finds the crude gross icky boys that Laura disdains hot, so he can’t tell her ever and furiously suppresses all his feelings

Feeling the pressure to confirm to heteronormativity, Nicky asks Laura out on dates and she agrees

Their dates are very cute (and platonic) they play video games together, eat crappy fast food together, get gelato together etc

Laura LOVES that Nicky’s never tried to make a move on her

Nicky in turn just comes to believe that dating is all about having nice food and doing fun things like claw machines at the arcade. Also no one else in school picks on them since they have each other

Giuliana of course is delighted her little boy has a girlfriend, she constantly calls them the young lovebirds (which Nicky finds extremely icky)

Laura is extremely online and she constantly rails about various feminist issues to Nicky and when she rails about the male gaze to Nicky, he is like “yeah I agree it’s gross I’m not attracted to that at all” (a/n: 🤔)

I think maybe Nicky and Laura thought they should try kissing one day and both were so grossed out they agreed to never try anything like that ever again

At 18, overwhelmed by the weird early marriage pressure in football (it’s a thing), Nicky decided to propose to Laura because he’s only had the one girlfriend ever and they’re good friends and they could spend the rest of their lives together plus his football salary can support her academic ambitions etc

Laura (who firmly identifies as ace at this point and is kinda just stringing Nicky along since he’s a sweet guy who has never tried anything sexual with her) promptly FREAKS OUT at the idea of marriage and breaks up with him

It’s mostly a comedy of misunderstanding, Laura never wanted to be “anybody’s wife” and marriage is such a weird icky concept and like their parents would put so much pressure to have kids and like...what?? WHAT? She’s 18 and off to university and this guy??? comes up with the worst idea ever???

Anyway Nicky suffers from the sting of rejection for several months after and realized he screwed up badly in his desperation to conform to heteronormativity and maybe 6 months later he contacts Laura and they kind of repair the friendship a little

At that point Laura definitively dropped the info that she is aroace on him and yup they can be friends but if he ever tries anything weird and stupid like that marriage proposal ever again...

But with time it becomes their cute inside joke, the sham marriage (if we’re both not married by 30, we can come into a domestic arrangement for financial and social benefits etc)

Anyway Nicky never really comes out to Laura, who also never bothered asking if he’s actually interested in anyone romantically or sexually

But.....she does correctly come to the conclusion that Nicky is gay and deeply closeted, and also correctly identified Yusuf as being “the one”

She may or may not have written Yucky fanfic

Her writing style is absolutely breathtaking, Margaret Atwood level etc

By the point of the main fic, Laura has moved upwards in the field of academia and doesn’t live in Italy anymore

Her Yucky fanfics may or may not be the ones that Nicky absolutely wants to wipe off the face of the internet

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