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“NEW YORK, ARE you feeling well and emotionally stable?” Harry Styles asked on the opening weekend of his historic 15-night stand at Madison Square Garden. When the entire crowd roared “Noooo,” he replied, “Good!” We can’t say he didn’t warn us. He kicked off his NYC Love on Tour residency with a riotous two-night celebration of mega-pop rapture at its most ecstatic. “Please feel free to do whatever you want to do in this room tonight,” Harry told the fans on Night Two. “Within reason.” It was a perfect intro, because the concept of “within reason” does not exist anywhere in the Harry cosmology—he couldn’t even say it with a straight face. Let’s just say this man is not doing wonders for the city’s emotional stability right now.

Styles is trying a new mode of touring, celebrating his blockbuster Harry’s House with extended residencies in New York, Austin, Chicago and L.A. As he told Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos in our brand new cover story, it’s a way to perform without the energy-sucking strains of travel. You can tell Harry’s in town, by the trail of feathers and sequins for blocks around—a touch of glam in the dog days of summer. NYC in August is usually a place people are desperate to escape, but he makes it seem like the most romantic destination on the planet.

Harry’s residency starts almost exactly 8 years after the first time I saw him onstage with One Direction, August 2014 at MetLife Stadium. It’s unmistakable how so much has changed about this guy, but not the weirdest thing—his pure devotion to Too Much All The Time. He thrives on an absurd drive to give his energy away, to bombard every corner of the room with the joy he gets from music, no matter how huge that room might be. As he sings in the show-opener “Daydreaming,” he wants to give you something to dream about. And he does, from the tubular-bells synth groove of “As It Was” to the destructo-punk headbang of “Kiwi.”

He took the stage to jazz pianist Bill Evans’ “Peace Piece,” which (as he told Rolling Stone in 2019) was his longtime wake-up ritual. The music was overlaid with the voice of Buddhist scholar Alan Watts, saying, “This sensation of being a separate lonely individual is a hallucination.” Watts is talking about the soul breaking free of “our phony feeling that we are something lonely locked up in a bag of skin.” But it’s also a perfect description of live music at its best: a room full of strangers from different cultures, countries, generations, breaking free to become part of something vast and strange and slightly scary. And a Harry show IS live music at its best.

One of the coolest fan signs in the pit: “Pose if you can see this.” Guess he saw it? Because this vixen never stopped wiggling, twirling, swooshing down the catwalk, giving high kicks like a Rockette with the rent due. This set is almost all uptempo bangers, mostly from Harry’s House. He’s going for a festively manic vibe, so you don’t mind him leaving out the ballads. (No “Falling,” “Cherry,” “Fine Line,” not even “Lights Up.”) It’s a super-emotional show, even without the sad songs, because the will to uplift never quits. The mood was summed up in the great moment where his guitar boogie “Cinema” crashes into “Music For A Sushi Restaurant,” linked by the horn fanfare from the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.”

When he debuted these songs live in May, at his NYC One Night Only extravaganza, his excitement was off the rails—he ended the show by doing “As It Was” twice, a totally unexpected and unplanned move, because he just didn’t want it to end. (At his very first NYC show, in 2017, it was “Kiwi” he did twice.) As he says in the Rolling Stone cover story, that moment was startling even for him. As he said, “I kind of felt like, ‘All right, I’ve seen how crazy it can get.’ And I think there was something about it where I was … not terrified, but I just needed a minute. Because I wasn’t sure what it was. Just that the energy felt insane.” That’s how this show feels all the way through.

It’s his first time at the Garden since his HarryWeen blow-out last October. He’s back to performing in the round, or as he elegantly put it, “I’m gonna be in the middle of you all night!” This stage set means he has to cover more space, but nobody loves covering space like he does. He explained, “Sometimes we’re gonna be face-to-face, eye-to-eye, window-to-soul. If I’m not facing you, you’ll be looking ass to face. If you have a preference, face or ass, let me know.” He gallantly promised to distribute his ass evenly, saying, “I can assure you there is plenty to go around. Which leads me to the introduction to this very sad song.” (Who else could get away with using an ass-to-face disclaimer as a lead-in to a ballad as heart-wrenching as “Matilda”? This man only.)

As always, he took special joy in roasting all the dads in the audience. On Night 2, he announced a new innovation. “It’s called Golf Dad Cam,” he said. “We’re gonna find the golf dads. Its like Kiss Cam, except nobody wants to kiss them, because they’re golf dads!” He found 30 victims to mortify on the video screen, then proclaimed, “At the end of these shows, they’re gonna erect a banner in Madison Square Garden in honor of the golf dads. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to the bottom of your tucked-in polo-shirt hearts.”

(Note: Can you imagine if Harry played the Super Bowl halftime show? It would take hours because he’d have 70,000 golf dads in the house, and he’d need to make fun of every single one of them. They’d have to cancel the damn game.)

On Night 1, a fan held up a sign asking for advice: her ex just texted her after seven years. Harry took her phone to call the ex, Josh. (“It’s ALWAYS Josh, isn’t it?”) When Josh immediately hung up on him, Harry told her, “I wish you all the happiness. Just not with Josh. There’s someone else out there who will treat you with respect and love you for who you are. Never Josh!” At the end of the show, he told the crowd, “Make some noise for Josh, whatever kind of noise you want to make.”

Harry’s House was made in pandemic isolation, so it’s a trip to hear how the songs open up live. The album’s most ethereally beautiful moments—“Daylight,” “Keep Driving,” the peerless “Satellite”—turn into full-blown glitz-rockers, thanks to his all-star band: guitar god Mitch Rowland, drum guru Sarah Jones, percussion master Pauli Lovejoy, keyboardist Ny Oh, bassist Elin Sandberg, keyboardist Yaffra, and a jazzy four-piece horn section. On Sunday night, he busted out “Medicine,” really treating the microphone like a gentleman. At one point he paused so he could point out to Mitch and Sarah a t-shirt in the crowd that said “Bitch for Mitch.” (A category that pretty much included us all.)

He ended with the rock & roll mosh-pit raunch of “Kiwi,” a song that never fails to make strong buildings quiver in terror—both nights, it turned the floor of Madison Square Garden into Jell-O. Has anyone ever made a “Kiwi” supercut of Harry’s faces at the line “such an actress”? He gives a different actress every night, and it’s always an Oscar-worthy star turn. You also gotta love how he always says “get home safe” right before dropping “Kiwi” on our heads—it’s like telling someone “have a nice day” before setting them on fire.

“Grapejuice” isn’t in the set, probably because of its tonsil-trashing high notes, but maybe it’ll be the “To Be So Lonely” of this tour—the fan fave that sneaks into the show by popular demand. On Night 1, he teased an instrumental snippet while introducing the band—just a little edging. FWIW, when Paul McCartney hit the road this summer for his Got Back tour, he surprised fans by busting out the slightly similar Wings groove “Let ‘Em In.” Could this mean that Sir Paul is a “Grapejuice” head himself?

Harry slowed it down for his two most soulful ballads: “Sign of the Times” and the new “Matilda.” They feel spiritually linked—two poetic songs about trauma, grief, and rebirth. “Sign of the Times” is a communal anthem that gets mightier the more strangers you sing it with—in a way, that’s what the song is about. (I thought I already loved that song in 2017, but it’s built to be lived with over the years.) Yet “Matilda” is so intimate, it’s still disorienting to hear it in a crowded room. It’s a song designed for fans to access their most private selves, in a public, supportive space. Some spent “Matilda” having a meditative moment to themselves. Others let it all hang out, like the weepy group hug in front of me, with eight chosen sisters singing together. But everybody became part of the story. It’s the kind of moment Harry lives to generate.

He’d be the first to say that the audience creates these moments, and he just shows up to be part of it. But either way, the New York shows were a nonstop rush of those moments. You spend a couple of hours in this environment, and the outside world looks a little brighter when you leave, because you take that feeling with you. It’s a revelation that enthusiasm is everything. Somehow, a 15-night stand of Harry Styles seems like it could never be enough.

Set List:

“Daydreaming”

“Golden”

“Adore You”

“Daylight”

“Keep Driving”

“Matilda”

“Little Freak”

“Satellite”

“Cinema”

“Music for a Sushi Restaurant”

“Treat People With Kindness”

“What Makes You Beautiful”

“Late Night Talking”

“Watermelon Sugar”

“Love of My Life”

Encore:

“Sign of the Times”

“Medicine” (Sunday only)

“As It Was”

“Kiwi”

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Movie Review | New York Ninja (Liu & Spieler, 2021)

If you spend enough time (and money, mostly money, all hail capitalism) buying and watching things from different Blu-ray labels, you start to get a feel for the different sensibilities behind each one's curation of the films they release. And in that sense, New York Ninja feels so at home with the schlocky charms of Vinegar Syndrome's releases that if it didn't exist, they would will it into existence. Which is kind of what happened. A bunch of unreleased footage from an incomplete production of a ninja movie from the '80s was lovingly assembled into a finished film, with dialogue provided by a voice cast of genre stars (Don "the Dragon" Wilson, Linnea Quigley, Michael Berryman and others) and slapped with a snazzy new synth soundtrack courtesy of the band Voyag3r. What's even more surprising is the respect that went into this, and the overall coherence of the result. There's a certain goofiness inherent in the subject matter, but the movie doesn't play this up excessively, and the results feel true to the spirit of a real '80s ninja movie. And given that all the original audio elements were lost, the script wasn't available and the original director didn't want anything to do with the project, the story is actually easy enough to follow. It's a miracle this movie exists. As for whether it's any good...

Well, it feels like an authentic '80s ninja movie, and not an especially distinguished one, but if you like that kind of thing, it certainly has its charms. The original director and star is John Liu, a martial arts star best known for his superman kicking abilities, which Grady Hendrix claims, on the documentary included on the Blu-ray, were the result of extensive training and "perverted crotch torture" (a phrase both frightening and intriguing). One can see these abilities put to great use in the highly entertaining Invincible Armour, which contains one of the great villain deaths in cinema. These abilities can also be seen in New York Ninja, but in less potent a package.

Working with a minuscule crew inexperienced in shooting martial arts, the shot setups here are a lot more basic and the effect is more demonstrative than exciting. See John Liu kick the hell out of a bunch of goons who can barely keep up. (The goons here don't coordinate their outfits very well. At times it seems like the Ninja is fighting members of the Village People.) The effect is similar to Jackie Chan handily outperforming the much slower American stuntmen in Battle Creek Brawl. (I enjoy that movie enough, as director Robert Clouse understands Jackie's star qualities, even if he's not skilled enough to do them justice. And we get to hang out with Jackie's girlfriend Kristine DeBell.) But when the Ninja chases bad guys on rollerskates or does his big hair-raising stunt at the end, it's pretty hard to hold those shortcomings against it.

The other charms of the movie come from the "New York" part of the title. Pre-cleanup NYC is one of the ultimate movie settings if you're into genre fare, providing a reliable level of scuzzy texture to the proceedings. There's added sleaze thanks to the plot, which features the titular New York Ninja avenging the death of his wife by fighting a sex-trafficking ring run by the monstrous Plutonium Killer, who has a habit of murdering the girls his organization kidnaps with his radioactive hands. (I assume this is the sex-trafficking version of "getting high on your own supply", which seems like a poor business model.) The Ninja of course has a secret identity, and during his off hours attaches himself to a news crew determined to catch his exploits and build up his legend. He ends up with a dedicated fanbase, who bail him out with the cops at least once. There are even t-shirts, although it looks suspiciously like they just modified a bunch of "I ❤️ New York" shirts.

The movie settles into a pattern of the Plutonium Killer's goons terrorizing innocent women (including the great Sharon Mitchell, who gets harassed in the subway; alas, she has no dialogue) and the New York Ninja intervening to deliver justice. It's hard to say the movie really escalates, but the fun stuff comes steadily enough that I was entertained. And in case you're wondering, there's an end credits rap, for those of us who want to either relieve the glories of the preceding hour and a half, or didn't pay enough attention and need it summarized for us. I would suggest pairing this with Charles Ahearn's The Deadly Art of Survival, another movie that situates martial arts in pre-cleanup New York and features its share of ninja bullshit, although that one is surprisingly sincere about its belief that martial arts can better the community. (The star Nathan Ingram once received a medal from Ed Koch for foiling a bank robbery, so he seemed to practice what he preached.)

I chased this with a viewing of an earlier Liu directorial effort, Ninja in the Claws of the CIA AKA Made in China AKA Kung Fu Emmanuelle, a movie whose feverish incoherence makes New York Ninja seem downright classical in its storytelling. From what I could make out (and I confess some of the details escaped me), John Liu is hired by the CIA to train their operatives in martial arts (and of course, Liu had his own style, Zen Kwun Do) and then crosses them and escapes to Paris with his own secret heretofore unmentioned organization as the CIA tries to kill him. Also he has a twin brother (also played by Liu) who appears for one scene, disappears for 90% of the proceedings, and then *SPOILERS* is immediately machine-gunned to death when he makes his return. *END SPOILERS* There's definitely a Seagalian quality to the self-aggrandizing material, but the delivery feels like a direct transmission from the mind of a conspiracy nut who stayed up all night watching kung fu movies. How "good" this is I cannot say, but when Liu is fighting off a whiny little bitch played by Casanova Wong and ignoring a scantily clad female operative rubbing up against him at the same time, traditional standards of quality go out the window. (I assume that operative was the "Kung Fu Emmanuelle" of the alternate title. The version I watched trimmed out around twenty minutes from the runtime, which unless I hear other, will assume consisted entirely of more scenes of this character.) And of course, there are lots of great fights, the fruits of that frightening and intriguing "perverted crotch torture" that Grady Hendrix alluded to.

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a mistake (spotify wrapped 2023 on steroids)

here's the top 100 from both of my accounts. and i mean both. i used two different accounts this year. meaning it's a top 187 :3

links will be supplied at the bottom in case you'd rather look at them that way

version one

1. ramen waitress - high sunn 2. hunter's moon - ghost 3. how to never stop being sad - dandelion hands 4. rats - ghost 5. ghuleh / zombie queen - ghost 6. the bug collector - haley heynderickx 7. nova scotia 500 - boyscott 8. ode to joy 2 - remo drive 9. per aspera ad inferi - ghost 10. where the sun sets - mars water 11. what a pleasure - beach fossils 12. seventeen (age) - mike krol 13. year zero - ghost 14. glass jaw - chokecherry 15. american spirits - inner wave 16. fifteen minutes - mike krol 17. kiss the go-goat - ghost 18. ever new - beverly glenn-copeland 19. visions - loving 20. dræm girl - no vacation 21. jigolo har megiddo - ghost 22. song for a guilty sadist - crywank 23. her sinking sun - coma cinema 24. lotus eater - foster the people 25. mummy dust - ghost 26. hospital beach - cottonwood firing squad 27. evergreen - richy mitch & the coal miners 28. what once was - her's 29. con clavi con dio - ghost 30. grade school love - mike krol 31. my blueberry life - current joys 32. clay pigeons - michael cera 33. call me little sunshine - ghost 34. the end - sisyphus 35. gnaw - alex g 36. i exist i exist i exist - flatsound 37. dance macabre - ghost 38. orgasm of death - the growlers 39. using - sorority noise 40. disco - surf curse 41. cirice - ghost 42. swing lynn - harmless 43. stress relief - late night drive home 44. boys - indigo de souza 45. jesus he knows me - ghost 46. red minivan - mike krol 47. blond hair, black lungs - sorority noise 48. smokey eyes - lincoln 49. twenties - ghost 50. ash in the sun - vundabar 51. kids - the frights 52. francis forever - mitski 53. square hammer - ghost 54. alien blues - vundabar 55. ***hidden track*** - prince daddy & the hyena 56. nostalgic feel - bedroom 57. faith - ghost 58. misty morning - travis bretzer 59. killing floor - subvision 60. fine, great - modern baseball 61. i'm a marionette - ghost 62. losing touch (nyc) - thanks for coming 63. make out song - the rosebuds 64. forever dumb - surf curse 65. monstrance clock - ghost 66. two weeks - grizzly bear 67. the gaping mouth - lowertown 68. art school wannabe - sorority noise 69. kaisarion - ghost 70. need 2 - pinegrove 71. you are going to hate this - the frights 72. velvet ring - big thief 73. ritual - ghost 74. rip van winkle - shannon & the clams 75. like a star - mike krol 76. i dreamt i saw you in a dream - sunbeam sound machine 77. watcher in the sky - ghost 78. maud gone - car seat headrest 79. natural disaster - mike krol 80. where'd all the time go? - dr. dog 81. griftwood - ghost 82. morning sun - dave bixby 83. glue - p.h.f. 84 idk - fake tides 85. stand by him - ghost 86. all alone - acid ghost 87. everything is going to hell - teen suicide 88. best supporting actor - good morning 89. spillways - ghost 90. cold weather - glass beach 91. woke up - olivia olson 92. heart attack - mike krol 93. from the pinnacle to the pit - ghost 94. nothing lasts - bedroom 95. enjoy yourself - saint pepsi 96. s.w.a.k. - luxary elite 97. crucified - ghost 98. resonance - home 99. 恢复 - 2 8 1 4 100. a sad song about a girl i no longer know - bedroom kites

version two

1. the village - wrabel 2. get fucked - mustard service 3. unlucky - lunar vacation 4. dancing through the telephone - the axidents 5. i think it might be hell - clarence james 6. common sense - benches 7. want me - baby queen 8. a portrait of - sorority noise 9. like or like like - miniature tigers 10. keep two-stepping - pretoria 11. smokey eyes - lincoln (48) 12. hanging from the ceiling - the velveteins 13. eventualities - daddy's beemer 14. card declined for pizza & wine - stevie dinner 15. fear of heights - daddy's beemer 16. why do you lie - the grinns 17. stay - buddah trixie 18. jesus he knows me - ghost (45) 19. demons - m.a.g.s. 20. shrek~chic - winona forever 21. why am i like this? - orla gartland 22. dogs - nouns 23. drought - carpool tunnel 24. where did my pets go? - furnsss 25. sea dogs & pyrite - soft cough 26. a.c.l. - the symposium 27. jaded - near tears 28. cowboy hat - sea ghost 29. typical - goodbye honolulu 30. nova scotia 500 - boyscott (7) 31. red minivan - mike krol (46) 32. like i care - noah nolastname 33. girls - girls in red 34. corpse - franky flowers 35. grade school love - mike krol (30) 36. dance with me - beabadoobee 37. dover beach - baby queen 38. lovesick - peace 39. like a star - mike krol (75) 40. sappho - frankie cosmos 41. colours of you - baby queen 42. too close - sir chloe 43. easy eyes - archer oh 44. strawberry milk - deep sea peach tree 45. art school wannabe - sorority noise (68) 46. pine point - pup 47. 27 club - strange case 48. blackout control - spendtime palace 49. kids - the frights (51) 50. where the sun sets - mars water (10) 51. the spins - mac miller 52. shred cruz - mom jeans 53. evergreen - richy mitch & the coal miners (27) 54. my only friend - lll spector 55. kim - joy again 56. don't delete the kisses - wolf alice 57. grass eater - the mellowells 58. call me - elevator fight club 59. if you want to - beabadoobee 60. lucid - rina sawayama 61. don't leave me (chapter 1: despair) - hmltd 62. buzzkill - baby queen 63. any other way - tomberlin 64. because i love you - montaigne 65. fever dream - mxmtoon 66. alaska - maggie rogers, toby green 67. i want to be with you - chloe moriondo 68. paper mache world - matilda mann 69. close to you - dayglow 70. telephone - waterparks 71. 14 days - floral tattoo 72. april - beach bunny 73. let's go - stuck in the sound 74. d'you have a car - swrms 75. soapbox sunday - courier club 76. dance macabre (37) 77. ode to joy 2 - remo drive (8) 78. star catcher - vansire 79. cut your bangs - radiator hospital 80. our window - noah and the whale 81. yer killin' me - remo drive 82. my own person - ezra williams 83. angel - lava la rue 84 clearest blue - chvrches 85. flirting with her - sir babygirl 86. heart - flor 87. what's it gonna be - shura 88. tired - beabadoobee 89. urbanangel1999 - thomas headen 90. knock me off my feet - soak 91. you are going to hate this - the frights (71) 92. nothing else i can do - ella jane 93. moment in the sun - sunflower bean 94. bang bang bang - lauren hibberd 95. imposter syndrome - sidney gish 96. natalie portman 2002 - jason is 97. nobody loves you - similar kind 98. i want to kiss you - the spook school 99. turtleneck sweater - marinelli 100. satan's hands - sexy girls

links for the impatient :3

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"Of The Sea" NYC Debut at Village East Cinema

JP Van Leare, Jean Ferreira, Claudia Saboia Lemos, Bruno Lemos, Ramon, and Joao Paulo Gasparian at “Of The Sea” NYC Documentary Premiere at Hālāwai Film Festival at Village East Cinema. Photo by JF Bruno Lemos debuted his documentary “Of The Sea” A Story of Another Ocean Lover in NYC at the Hālāwai Film Festival in the Village East Cinema today. “Of The Sea’ shows beautiful images of Bruno…

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greysscoop · 2 years

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Dancing with the stars finale

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after being fat-shamed by comedian Aries Spears Lizzo shows off her curves while modeling bra and underwear sets from her shapewear line Yitty. Jennifer Lawrence and husband Cooke Maroney are simpatico as they hold hands wearing matching T-Shirts on NYC date night 'Surprise pottery date': Georgia May Jagger, 30, cosies up to her new boyfriend Cambryan Sedlick, 22, as they enjoy an art classīritney Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline says he was 'mortified for her' but didn't help her in conservatorship battle because he had to 'worry' about their sons Pure feel-good escapism! From George Clooney and Julia Roberts to hilarious dialogue and a stunning setting, here's why we're all going to LOVE hit new comedy Ticket to ParadiseĮrika Jayne says she feels 'vindicated' after major legal win in estranged husband Tom Girardi's embezzlement drama as she's seen out in Los Angeles 'It's the talk of the village': Harry Styles 'purchases Grand Designs' saddest ever property in North Devon for £8million ' Sharon Osbourne runs errands in Beverly Hills days after husband Ozzy Osbourne declared they're moving back to U.K.ĭua Lipa sends temperatures soaring in a sequinned flame swimsuit as she poses for sizzling poolside snaps Popcorn at the ready! Cinema Day is coming THIS weekend, and here's where YOU can enjoy films from just £3īella and Gigi Hadid are a study in style contrasts as the model sisters head to the US Open in New York in fashionable outfits Venice Film Festival 2022: Jodie Turner-Smith and Julianne Moore dazzle while Greta Gerwig opts for a plunging frock at the White Noise premiere 'It's a real pinch me moment': Ekin-Su Cülcülolu flaunts her figure in sizzling ensembles as she confirms she's signed Oh Polly deal 'I've been going through hell': Chloe Ferry reveals botched 'fox eye' lift has 'ruined her life' and left her with 'permanent' scars

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Is America falling out of love with the 'Petulant Princess'? Even 'woke' magazine that interviewed Meghan Markle 'disapproved' of her 'marshmallowy' lifestyleĬost of living on your mind? Here's how to take control of your money and make it work for you Kimberly Stewart, 42, shares rare photo with daughter Delilah, 10, whose father is Benicio Del Toro. Katy Perry slips into an olive green swimsuit and a matching sarong as she and shirtless fiancé Orlando Bloom enjoy a relaxing yacht day on the Amalfi Coast Kim Kardashian slips her curves into a long-sleeve black dress despite soaring LA temperatures as she stops by a gas station Kate Moss admits her daughter Lila scolded her for THAT Vivienne Westwood skirt and reveals teen 'couldn't even go to the toilet' in her Met Gala gown

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