#Alan Wallace

[sillyboycam]

My hyperfixations are all over the place right now I’m going insane

Homestuck??

Rim of the world??

Trolls??

Avatar the way of water??

BBC Merlin??

SOUTHPARK??

ALAN BECKER STICKMEN??????

scott pilgrim.

There is so much more but my mind can not remember it all

The excitement is too much I might explode

I am being so genuine here I love it all too much, is this what real happiness feels like

wtf???

#help my sanity #jedtavius #davekat #aounung #neteyam #scollace #scott pilgrim #wallace wells #broppy #alan becker #rim of the world #kyle broflovski #stan marsh #eric cartman #kenny mccormick #merther #merlin #arthur pendragon #i stand with palestine #free palestine #free gaza

[funeral]

While cognitive scientists seek to formulate the cognitive laws of nature with all the credibility of biology, biological theories alone do not define, predict, or explain the emergence of consciousness in the universe. In the language of biology, such terms as "desire," "attention," "emotion," and "consciousness" have no meaning except what they acquire on the basis of observations of mental phenomena. Likewise, psychology alone does not define, predict, or explain the emergence of philosophy, defined as the systematic, rational exploration of what we know, how we know it, and why it is important that we know it. Nor does philosophy alone account for the emergence of religious, beliefs and experiences.

B. Alan Wallace, Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness

#b. alan wallace #consciousness #thought philosophy #quotes #p

[connievalentine]

obsessed with making these now (3/?)

#mighty med #skylar storm #kaz mm #oliver mm #jordan mm #horace diaz #alan diaz #tecton #wallace mm #clyde mm #mm text #mine #photo

[thecolebrothers]

Joe Cole attends the opening of the 2023 Choose Love pop-up shop for Help Refugees on Carnaby Street on November 21, 2023 in London, England.

#actor #peaky blinders #joe cole #john shelby #gangs of london #sean wallace #skins uk #black mirror #hang the dj #events #british actors #bel powley #douglas booth #alan mckenna

[hydrobromic]

Art for @and-so-he-rambled 's amazing fic waiting for superman

it's a super fluffy Kaz/Oliver/Skylar fic that you should totally go read!

#mighty med #kaz #oliver #skylar storm #horace diaz #alan diaz #megahertz #the crusher #wallace and clyde #kaziver #skaz #skoliver #skaziver #i love them so much and this fic is so sweet #mine

[dozydawn]

The Way U Make Me Feel by Clarity, 1985.

Vocals by Simon Wallace.

“Now is the time to say I love you. I’m so grateful for the things undeserved. Try to understand all things about you, all your ways... Your way of thinking is so different from all the things that ever cross my mind. To have this feeling that you’re giving, all the time...”

#that’s what keeps me turning over!!! #simon wallace was a huge figure in 80s & 90s british gospel. and can’t you tell? #music #gospel #funk #post disco #1985 #1980s #simon wallace #clarity #alan weekes #gospel music #(not technically but it’s simon wallace come on)

[thishadoscarbuzz]

248 - Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

We are returning to the work of Jennifer Jason Leigh this week, and Jourdain Searles is joining us once again with an underrated and underseen gem. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle takes on the life of indelible writer Dorothy Parker, capturing her days with the insular Algonquin Circle and her later dissolution with the group, all with Jennifer Jason Leigh as the noted wit. Launched at Cannes, the film was celebrated for her performance even with a limited audience, including Golden Globe and Independent Spirit nominations for Best Actress. But even in a famously uncompetitive Best Actress lineup, Leigh was left out.

This episode, we talk about Leigh's several close calls for a nomination in the 1990s and our feelings about the nomination that she eventually received for The Hateful Eight. We also talk about Pulp Fiction's domination on the independent film scene, the Cannes Film Festival, and the influence of producer Robert Altman.

Topics also include writer/director Alan Rudolph's filmography, the film's massive (and nepotism baby-inflected) ensemble, and the person-not-company Condé Nast.

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The 1994 Oscar nominations

Jourdain on Jennifer Jason Leigh

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#jennifer jason leigh #campbell scott #alan rudolph #matthew broderick #andrew mccarthy #jennifer beals #gwyneth paltrow #jane adams #rebecca miller #lili taylor #heather graham #james legros #peter gallagher #wallace shawn #stephen baldwin #independent spirit awards #golden globes #cannes film festival #academy awards #oscars #movies

[tabl3]

i fucking deleted the og post by accident lmaoooo

anyway, finished it :) silly dumb show that I like

#mighty med #elite force #lref #disney #mm #kaz #oliver #skylar storm #jordan #gus #horace diaz #alan diaz #tecton #megahertz #solar flare #gamma girl #wallace #clyde #experion #fanart #art #drawing #short haired sky because women are hot

[gatutor]

Laraine Day-Alan Marshal "Mi ilusión es un marido" (Bride by mistake) 1944, de Richard Wallace.

#Laraine Day #Alan Marshal #Richard Wallace

[spryfilm]

Blu-ray review: “Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle” (1994)

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#Alan Rudolph #Andrew McCarthy #bluray #bluray review #Campbell Scott #Jennifer Beals #Jennifer Jason Leigh #Matthew Broderick #Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle #Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle bluray #Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle bluray review #Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle review #Peter Gallagher #Wallace Shawn

[potahun]

tomorrow is the last day of the month, so time for a classic TSME4 souvenir picture  

I had a great run

- For TSME Month (x)! 

#the strongest mega evolution #pokemon #pokeani #steven stone #trainer alain #trainer mairin #gym leader wallace #tsme4 #tsme #wallace #alain #manon #Hari san #mikuri #is using alan's back as an armrest #tsme month #my doodles

[laszlo-writes]

I just love me a strange little man with sad eyes it’s like medicine

#yes this is about Abner #also Caliban/John Clare #and Laszlo #OH and Nathan Wallace #can’t forget Alan Grant #and we must recall Otto Octavius #rb and put your sad wet pathetic little guys in the tags #I need more #laz talks

[funeral]

Science can either devise novel methods for rigorously examining mental phenomena or continue to rely primarily on the study of the physical correlates of the mind, while mental phenomena themselves display none of the normal physical characteristics of matter such as mass, velocity, impenetrability, and spatial extension and location.

It is a natural human tendency to regard only the phenomena we are attending to as real, and things we fail to notice as epiphenomenal or simply nonexistent ... Since science is based on quantitative, objective observation, mental phenomena, which are qualitative and subjective, have largely been overlooked or marginalized. Even when scientists have turned their attention to mental phenomena, they have largely done so by posing questions about their neural causes and behavioral effects. Hardly any progress has been made in observing such phenomena directly, in the only way possible: by means of first-person observation, or introspection.

B. Alan Wallace, Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness

#b. alan wallace #consciousness #thought philosophy #quotes #excerpts #p

[radioactive-earthshine]

Blue Beetle: Graduation Day from Round Robin 2021 is moving forward!!!! Right now on DC Universe Infinite Round Robin Editors are answering questions and in response to concerns about past claims of NOT moving forward with previous titles that had "lost" when they had claimed that some would move forward they have confirmed that Jaime Reyes is in fact moving forward.

Additionally... Some of those who did not make it to the semi-finals THIS year are moving on as six-page short stories.

I am still very dissatisfied with these being delegated to 6 page short stories so it falls very flat in my opinion; going from a 6 issue mini to 6 pages is profoundly unsatisfactory.

But Jaime getting his story is an absolute positive and I cannot wait!

#Jaime Reyes #blue beetle #round robin 2022 #dc comics #alan scott #green lantern #kid flash #wallace west #hawkman #hawkwoman

[anhed-nia]

BLOGTOBER 10/21/2022: POPCORN (1991)

I hate this movie with my whole heart. It isn't just that it's obnoxious, inauthentic, unfunny, and not scary; it's that it insults me as someone who loves movies. It's a personal attack that weaponizes my favorite thing in the world against me, and I can't forgive it. This condescending wankfest poses as an homage to William Castle and the glory days of the gimmick, but POPCORN's B-movie impressions have none of the zany charm of that kind of filmmaking, and its Castle-esque gimmicks are so complex and unwieldy as to totally defy the original idea of making money from nothing. Few things are worse than an homage that doesn't show any real understanding the reference material.

This movie doesn't deserve this great poster.

Jill Schoelen does her very best with the character of Maggie Butler, an irritating film nerd who lets us know she's a film nerd by name dropping Orson Welles for no reason, and hustling around acting very busy with a movie that's just a direct translation of her dream journal. She's even too busy to fuck her mouth-breathing boyfriend Mark (Derek Rydall), whose sexual frustration is his only characteristic. Soon Maggie is busier still, when her classmate Toby (Tom Villard) proposes that they and the other film dorks put on an all-night movie marathon to raise funds for their university's film department. They somehow stage this event in a condemned movie palace with the help of quirky old Dr. Mnesyne (Ray Walston, who the film tries to force you to love in the smarmiest way possible), who turns up with trunks full of old props to help drum up publicity. The marathon is a gigantic success, but during the night, the dorks are picked off by a killer in disguise—a refugee from a massacred "movie cult"—who holds the key to Maggie's apparently mysterious past.

This is not Maggie, but...???

Without even getting into Maggie's convoluted origins and how her destiny is intertwined with the killer's, there's a lot of stuff about POPCORN that just doesn't make any sense to me. If the film department is so impoverished, how does this huge project get authorized? Why, and actually how, would the school allow students to operate in a decaying building that's on the verge of being razed to the ground? (Hopefully these plucky kids have all had their shots) How does a group of college students (especially Maggie who is so very busy) find the time and resources to refurb an entire movie theater, outfitting it with complex systems like this movie's version of Odorama, which blasts the audience with billowing, opaque clouds of noxious gas? How are the movie goers supposed to see through this fog, and how are they supposed to see around some of the costumes dispersed throughout the audience, which have gigantic rubber heads and other sight line-obscuring appendages? When the power goes out in the theater, what's going on with the swirling spotlights, mics, and amps used by the awful reggae band that's supposed to keep everybody entertained? And if most of these props are supposed to be original, like from the golden age of B-movie ballyhoo, why the fuck are they so complicated, like the gigantic movie-quality mosquito that, instead of just being drawn across the house by pulleys like William Castle's Emergo skeletons, is operated with a high tech remote control?

I promise I would kill anyone who sat in front of me in a movie theater with that jumbo fright wig on the left or that big rubber fake head on the right.

OK OK, so we're supposed to understand that the killer has outfitted the mosquito with remote control capabilities, but…it just doesn't make any sense that this should even be possible with an ancient advertising prop. And this problem connects with what really bothers me about this movie: its basic misunderstanding of the form of production that POPCORN supposedly-lovingly sends up. The gang are using materials that Dr. Mnesyne has preserved from back in the day, but stuff from back in the day would be way cheaper and simpler than this. The point was to make money without spending money that you didn't have in the first place. Cardboard axes for STRAIT-JACKET. Seatbelts added to the "Shock Section" of theaters playing I SAW WHAT YOU DID. Fake life insurance policies lest anyone die of fright during MACABRE. A flimsy yellow "Coward's Corner" booth for anyone who was too scared to watch the end of HOMICIDAL. The most high tech thing you might encounter were the Percepto seat buzzers that went off during a key moment in THE TINGLER, but you can hardly imagine a dedicated Percepto operator sitting at an elaborate switchboard in an opera box, hand-selecting victims in the theater below like you see in POPCORN.

While the gimmicks here are crazily luxurious compared to the real deal, the movies in POPCORN's meta marathon are very deliberately limp, dry, and stupid. The audience is only there to laugh, sneer, and throw shit, which is the most miserable thing I can think of as somebody who loves movies. Imagine being trapped in a theater filled with people who think that being incredibly rude and hateful is all it takes to be as witty as the cast of MST3K? Where this film really has its wires crossed is, the Castle movies were both cheap AND good, or at the very least, entertaining on their own virtues. Even "the worst movie ever made", PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, is creative and unpredictable, with wild dialog delivered wildly by certain stars. Many of the low budget movies that people would actually come out for in the slavering droves you see in POPCORN had more going for them than wooden acting, laughable effects, and bad writing. But, that's all you see in POPCORN: bad imitations of bad movies, and bad people laughing at them sadistically. You'd never know what's supposed to be enjoyable about the B- or even Z-movie experience, in all its campy, unhinged glory, from the shitty situation set up by Maggie and her friends. The gimmicks are way too overblown, and the movies are so bad they only invite cruelty from viewers. Like…why are we doing this, you guys?

The point of the rubber head above is that when the wearer leans over, it dumps a pint of neon green "vomit" onto the ground (so make sure no one is standing next to you I guess). But I have questions about that, like, does the guy have to reset the thing every single time he does the gag? Can he only do it once? Is this possibly worth the effort? It seems like a huge pain in the ass all the way around.

Somehow POPCORN is even worse when it occasionally does things I wish I could enjoy. The "movie cult" of which the killer was once part made a psychedelic snuff film that we catch intriguing glimpses of, partially filtered through the bizarre dreams that plague Maggie's nights. Some of the special effects are decent, too, and the performers are really doing their best for the most part (including a sadly squandered Dee Wallace). There was some kind of potential here, but it all gets gobbled up by anonymous characters, demanding leaps of logic, brutally unfunny jokes, infantile music, and what can feel like an antagonistic attitude toward film itself. By blowing everything out of proportion in its shallow attempt at homage, it feels like POPCORN is saying, "The original gimmicks were so stupid we had to upgrade them until they're unrecognizable, and the original movies were so stupid that you can only enjoy them by treating them like punching bags." The logical conclusion of which is, "If you like any of that old stuff for what it was, you're an idiot." Not a great thing to hear. I don't feel like getting into the story of this movie's tortured production, but let's just say that it didn't surprise me to hear that it was as hard to make this movie as it is to watch it, effectively ending the relationship between creative partners Alan Ormsby and Bob Clark, and creating various miseries for the others. You can always tell when there's some joy missing at the heart of a film, and that is never clearer than when the film is supposedly about people who love film. Hopefully this is the last time I watch POPCORN.

EDIT: It has come to my attention that I got some of the plot points wrong here, but I think if you've seen this movie, you can probably forgive me.

#blogtober #blogtober 2022 #popcorn #1991 #mark harrier #alan ormsby #bob clark #jill schoelen #tom villard #derek rydall #ray walston #movie within a movie #horror #slasher #mystery #cult #dee wallace #musical #tod hackett

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

I really really liked Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune a lot

i laughed really hard at parts and cried a lot at other parts and altogether really enjoyed the exploration of grief and starting anew and what life means while you still have it and everything the book explored

i just really really loved reading it. i started reading it yesterday afternoon and finished it today, this evening, because i just wanted to read more. i loved all the characters so much. i loved the story. would 100% recommend

#under the whispering door #also #i've always hated the idea of working really hard when you're young so you can benefit when you're older #which probably stems from the fact that i have chronic pain and have had enough scares in my life to KNOW i'm not guaranteed old age #but like. i hate the idea so much cause what if you don't get old age. what if you just spend your whole life (30 years lets say) working #your ass off and then you die. and that's your life. #and T.J. Klune rlly took that idea and was like yup. here's what happens! #and actually what happens is wonderful and made me cry a lot and feel a lot of love #BUT as for the real life not-dead side of things...I'm so right according to this book lmao #it's honestly rare for me to love every single character in a story equally but like #i fucking LOVED mei and nelson they were both so fucking funny and also really lovely characters #and although wallace was totally a dick before i loved watching him change and grow into a good man #and hugo of course. hugo was incredible. the kindest guy around. but not in a fake way i hate. in a i have my problems and moments #but i'm going to be a really incredible person when i can #EVEN THE MINOR CHARACTERS WERE GOOD. i liked cameron (and zach) and lea and nancy and EVEN THE MANAGER #even alan i felt bad for #GOD. it was just such a good book #aND TO THINK I JUST PICKED IT UP BC THE CERULEAN SEA ONE WAS OUT AT THE LIBRARY #I'M SO FUCKING GLAD I DID.