#John Andre mourning hours

[tallmadgeandtea]

John Andre you have to stop. Your serve level is too high. Your bitch too bad. Your treason tactics too mismanaged. They’ll hang you John Andre

#this came to me in a vision #John Andre mourning hours #amanda speaks

[dweemeister]

2020 Movie Odyssey Awards

Because the 2020 Movie Odyssey Award for Best Original Song final was extended, the 2020 Movie Odyssey Awards themselves are late once more - and all because of me this time out (oops). As you may know, this is the annual awards ceremony to recognize a year of films that I saw for the first time in their entirety in the calendar year. All films featured - with the exception of those in the Worst Picture category - are worth seeing.

The full list of every single film I saw as part of the 2020 Movie Odyssey can be seen in this link.

Best Pictures (I name ten winners, none of which are distinguished above the other nine)

The African Queen (1951)

The Haunting (1963)

The Irishman (2019)

A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Mädchen in Uniform (1931, Germany)

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Ordet (1955, Denmark)

Parasite (2019, South Korea)

The Shop on Main Street (1965, Czechoslovakia)

The Trial (1962)

Seven of these films received 10/10 ratings. The others received 9.5/10 ratings. This Best Picture lineup were the ten best films I saw in all of 2020. The African Queen is a rollicking adventure film with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn that took me by surprise (I was long put off from the film because of its reputation). It displays some of the most charming moments that only Golden Age Hollywood can offer. Golden Age Hollywood horror may not be scary to viewers; but what it lacks in elicited screams, it makes up in goosebumps. The Haunting is one of the great haunted house movies of all time with its thick atmosphere, fantastic production design, and spectral ambiguity. Watch it in the dark, if you dare.

Two gangster epics with a mournful disposition are also here in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America. The former sees Robert De Niro seeking absolution despite personally not being fully regretful; the latter sees a regretful Robert De Niro seeking not absolution, but peace.

Made in Weimar Germany in the years just before the Nazi takeover is a classic of queer cinema, Mädchen in Uniform. Beyond its LGBTQ themes, it is a tale of young women finding friendship amongst each other. On the other side of Europe after its Nazi takeover is The Shop on Main Street - which switches gears between drama to lighthearted comedy to tragedy so nimbly. Another film exemplifying mastery in tonal shifts was the headline-grabber Parasite - an explosive, justly historic movie.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s A Letter to Three Wives is a suburban feminist ensemble piece, reflecting on the martial anxieties of women questioning their spousal bliss. The ending there, though not quite storybook, is poignant. Questions of faith, too, are asked in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet - not in others, but in God. The film, one of the greatest films ever made about religious faith, ends impossibly, provocatively.

Best Comedy

The Battle of the Century (1927 short)

Best in Show (2000)

Elmer, the Great (1933)

It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)

Klaus (2019)

One Hour with You (1932)

The Princess and the Pirate (1944)

Road to Utopia (1945)

Soul (2020)

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Now I typically give this category to the film that elicits the most belly laughs from me. None of these comedies did that for me this year. So I went with Ernst Lubitsch’s One Hour with You - starring Lubitsch regular Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. It is what some folks might call a sophisticated comedy. But if you read between the lines, this pre-Code romantic comedy was probably one of the raunchiest things I saw all year.

For example:

POLICE OFFICER: Come on, come on. Where do you think you are? What are you doing? What’s going on here? ANDRE BERTIER: The French Revolution! [resumes kissing Colette] POLICE OFFICER: Hey, you can’t make love in public. ANDRE BERTIER: I can make love anywhere! POLICE OFFICER: No, you can’t! COLETTE BERTIER: Oh, but officer, he can! ANDRE BERTIER (joyously): Darling!

Otherwise, runners-up included It Happened on Fifth Avenue and Best in Show.

Best Musical

Blue Hawaii (1961)

Flower Drum Song (1961)

Hamilton (2020)

The Magic Flute (1975, Sweden)

My Dream Is Yours (1949)

New Orleans (1947)

New York, New York (1977)

One Hour with You

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

You know, if Hamilton was an original musical and not a filmed version of the original Broadway run, it would certainly threaten in this category. Instead, it rounds things out. Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York - as a deconstruction of the mid-century MGM musical - wins out not only its strong soundtrack, but glossy aesthetic that one would not associate with Scorsese. Runners-up are Flower Drum Song (the last movie with at least a majority Asian-American cast until The Joy Luck Club thirty years later and Crazy Rich Asians after that) and Bergman’s adaptation of Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute.

Best Animated Feature

I Lost My Body (2019, France)

Klaus (2019)

The Last Unicorn (1982)

Mad Monster Party? (1967)

Marona’s Fantastic Tale (2019, France)

Melody Time (1948)

Saludos Amigos (1942)

Soul

Weathering with You (2019, Japan)

Wolfwalkers (2020)

Perhaps the least known animated feature of these nominees takes the prize. Anca Damian’s Marona’s Fantastic Tale is gorgeously animated, attempting to tell its story through the point of view of its small canine protagonist. The film appears as a dog might understand the confusing mess that is humanity. Close behind is Cartoon Saloon’s Wolfwalkers and Pixar’s Soul.

Best Documentary

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)

Diego Maradona (2019, United Kingdom)

Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970)

The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018)

The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)

I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

I Am Somebody (1970 short)

The River (1938 short)

The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)

Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Japan)

This was the best year for documentaries in a year’s Movie Odyssey for a long, long while. As a part of the tradition of Olympic films, Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad is a chronicle of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The film resembled nothing like the Olympic documentaries before it - choosing not to concentrate on just gold medalists and reportage, but a story of Japan’s reintroduction to the Western world and the pains of the many also-rans in any Olympics. I also considered Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (a JFK/RFK real-time documentary on the racial integration of the University of Alabama system), Elvis: That’s the Way It Is, The River (a New Deal-funded documentary short about the importance of the Mississippi River - narrated in free verse!), and The T.A.M.I. Show as potential winners, but nothing could eclipse Ichikawa’s monumental effort.

Best Non-English Language Film

The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005), Mongolia

Emitaï (1971), Senegal

Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), India

Olivia (1951), France

Ordet, Denmark

Parasite, South Korea

Persona, Sweden

The Shop on Main Street, Czechoslovakia

Sleepwalking Land (2008), Mozambique

Tokyo Olympiad, Japan

My god, this is always a stacked category. So why do I even bother? Because non-English language films - though they shouldn’t be ghettoized and considered a specialty - are nevertheless ghettoized and considered a specialty in America. This sort of category also gives some attention to a few films that don’t make much of an impression in other categories (namely the wondrous Sleepwalking Land and stunning The Cave of the Yellow Dog). But it is Ordet the reigns supreme here, edging out The Shop on Main Street, Parasite, and Kaagaz Ke Phool for this prize.

Best Silent Film

The Battle of the Century

Body and Soul (1925)

Bumping into Broadway (1919 short)

The Dragon Painter (1919)

I Do (1921 short)

Next Aisle Over (1919 short)

Ramona (1928)

The Scar of Shame (1927)

Shoes (1916)

Young Mr. Jazz (1919 short)

Lois Weber was as instrumental to shaping early American cinema as D.W. Griffith or Cecil B. DeMille. And in Shoes, she brings her sense of social righteousness and cinematic innovation to the fore. It is one of her best feature films, and its release came at the height of America’s Progressive Era - a time of greater awareness of industrialization and unregulated capitalism’s ill effects. Distant runners-up are new National Film Registry inductee The Battle of the Century (a Laurel and Hardy film with one of the best pie fights you will see) and Body and Soul (Paul Robeson’s theatrical debut). 

Personal Favorite Film

The African Queen

The Cave of the Yellow Dog

The Haunting

A Letter to Three Wives

Marona’s Fantastic Tale

McFarland, USA (2015)

Murder Most Foul (1964)

Stars in My Crown (1950)

Three Little Girls in Blue

The Trial

An understated but nevertheless eloquent screenplay, light humor, and careful attention to all three of its lead actresses roles define A Letter to Three Wives. It is one of the best exercises of empathy I saw all year, amid its tremulous and anxious narrative backdrop. We like to deride post-WWII American film as depicting an idyllic suburbia that never existed... but not here. Byambasuren Davaa’s The Cave of the Yellow Dog captured my heart, too. The film, from Mongolia, was one of the gentlest movies I’ve had the pleasure to see in the longest time. McFarland, USA revived memories in me of high school cross country days; Murder Most Foul was a Ms. Marple whodunit that cements Margaret Rutherford as one of my favorite actresses; the homespun Stars in My Crown is Americana at its finest.

Best Director

Ingmar Bergman, Persona (1961, Sweden)

Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ordet

Guru Dutt, Kaagaz Ke Phool

John Huston, The African Queen

Kon Ichikawa, Tokyo Oympiad

Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in America

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives

Leontine Sagan, Mädchen in Uniform

Ousmane Sembène, Emitaï

Orson Welles, The Trial

Dreyer is in command of the film’s mise en scene from the beginning - culminating in breathtaking scene set-ups for conversations spoken in hushed tones. The style is never oppressive, never showy, and just right for a deeply introspective movie of tried and troubled faith.

Best Acting Ensemble

Edge of the City (1957)

Gosford Park (2001)

The Irishman

A Letter to Three Wives

Little Women (2019)

Marriage Story (2019)

Once Upon a Time in America

Ordet

Parasite

Stars in My Crown

Subtract any one actor from Parasite and the film cannot work as well as it does. Perhaps Song Kang-ho has the best performance in the movie, but that isn’t possible without his fellow cast members putting out the incredible turns that they offer. Ordet is a close second. Behind by a country mile are Gosford Park, A Letter to Three WIves, and Little Women.

Best Actor

Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen

Maurice Chevalier, One Hour with You

Guru Dutt, Kaagaz Ke Phool

Jozef Kroner, The Shop on Main Street

Alan Ladd, This Gun for Hire (1942)

Joel McCrea, Stars in My Crown

Paul Robeson, Body and Soul

Howard Vernon, Le Silence de la mer (1949, France)

Jon Voight, Deliverance (1972)

Denzel Washington, Malcolm X (1992)

Arguably Denzel’s finest. He inhabits Malcolm X - the bravura, the attitude, the pastor-like (and occasionally incendiary) rhetorical devices, the early rage, the standoffishness. It is a magnificent performance. Just behind is Bogart and the irresistible Chevalier.

Best Actress

Bibi Andersson, Persona

Edwige Feuillère, Olivia

Helen Hayes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)

Katharine Hepburn, The African Queen

Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story

Ida Kamińska, The Shop on Main Street

Liza Minnelli, New York, New York

Lucia Lynn Moses, The Scar of Shame

Madhabi Mukherjee, The Big City (1963, India)

Waheeda Rehman, Kaagaz Ke Phool

As Ms. Lautmannová, Kamińska - in the autumn of her career - gives us a portrait of devout religiosity, elderly naivete, and otherworldly trust. She and co-star Jozef Kroner play off the other’s performance, one benefitting from the other. It is a delicate, heartbreaking performance. Some ways away are our two Indian actresses, Madhabi Mukherjee and Waheeda Rehman, as well as Bibi Andersson in the dizzying Persona.

Best Supporting Actor

Stephen Boyd, The Man Who Never Was (1956)

Haren Chatterjee, The Big City

James Edwards, The Steel Helmet (1951)

Moses Gunn, Aaron Loves Angela (1975)

Victor McLaglen, The Princess and the Pirate (1944)

Victor Moore, It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Sidney Poitier, Edge of the City

Song Kang-ho, Parasite

Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death (1947)

James Woods, Once Upon a Time in America

For the sixth straight year, Best Supporting Actor - a category almost always filled to the brim with villains - goes to an actor playing a menacing villain. That smirk, that creepy laugh. Holy crap. Widmark knocks it out of the park as the psychopathic Tommy Udo in his debut role. The role, taken by some the wrong way, inspired Tommy Udo frats in American colleges and universities (their central premise: male chauvinism and anti-feminist beliefs). Who else did I consider for a win here? Victor Moore, Sidney Poitier, Song Kang-ho, and James Woods (before he became a twitter conspiracy theorist).

Best Supporting Actress

Tsuru Aoki, The Dragon Painter

Ethel Barrymore, Pinky (1949)

Ruby Dee, Edge of the City

Laura Dern, Marriage Story

Nancy Kwan, Flower Drum Song

Maggie Smith, Gosford Park

Genevieve Tobin, One Hour with You

Emilia Unda, Mädchen in Uniform

Ethel Waters, Pinky

Dorothea Wieck, Mädchen in Uniform

Emilia Unda beats out fellow co-star Dorothea Wieck as the headmistress of the boarding school featured in Mädchen in Uniform. As the strict, uptight disciplinarian, one can see hints behind the facade she displays in front of the girls at the school. Nevertheless, yet another antagonist takes home this award. Also contending are Nancy Kwan and Ethel Waters.

Best Adapted Screenplay

John Huston, James Agee, Peter Viertel, and John Collier, The African Queen

Ladislav Grosman, Ján Kadár, and Elmar Klos, The Shop on Main Street

Steven Zaillian, The Irishman

Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Vera Caspary, A Letter to Three Wives

Christa Winsloe and Friedrich Dammann, Mädchen in Uniform

Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, and Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in America

Samson Raphaelson, One Hour with You

Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ordet

Teresa Prata, Sleepwalking Land

Orson Welles, The Trial

And unlike the mistake the Academy made in just giving the Oscar to Mankiewicz back in the day, the award also goes to his co-screenwriter, Vera Caspary.

Best Original Screenplay

Juan Antonio Bardem, Death of a Cyclist (1955, Spain)

Ousmane Sembène, Emitaï

Julian Fellowes, Gosford Park

Jérémy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant, I Lost My Body

Everett Freeman, Vick Knight, and Ben Markson, It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won, Parasite

Ingmar Bergman, Persona

Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, Road to Utopia

David Starkman, The Scar of Shame

Delphine Girard, A Sister (2018 short, Belgium)

This is Sembène’s first Movie Odyssey Award, and I think he was probably one of the most overdue. As one of the fathers of African cinema, Sembène’s movies are colored by politics, specifically anti-colonialism, racism, tribal relations, and the destruction of traditional Senegalese life. His biting work to Emitaï is an excoriating piece, and essential to anyone seriously wanting to learn more about movies. No real challengers, in my mind, but the next ones up would have been Bergman and Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won.

Best Cinematography

David Schoenauer, The Cave of the Yellow Dog

Michel Remaudeau, Emitaï

Davis Boulton, The Haunting

Rodrigo Prieto, The Irishman

V.K. Murthy, Kaagaz Ke Phool

Norbert Brodine, Kiss of Death

László Kovács, New York, New York

Tonino Delli Colli, Once Upon a Time in America

Kazuo Miyagawa, Shigeo Murata, Shigeichi Nagano, Kenji Nakamura, and Tadashi Tanaka, Tokyo Olympiad

Edmond Richard, The Trial

The Trial unfolds and is shot as if it was a nightmare, albeit a nightmare without any dreamlike elements. With Dutch angles and unconventional use of focus, it is a remarkable film to look at. Having the soon-to-be Orsay Museum as an interior certainly helps. The Cave of the Yellow Dog, The Haunting, Kaagaz Ke Phool, Once Upon a Time in America, and even Tokyo Olympiad would have been worthy winners too.

Best Film Editing

Don Deacon, Born Free (1966)

De Nosworthy and Nicholas T. Proferes, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

Tom Priestly, Deliverance

Ernest Waller, The Haunting

Barry Alexander Brown, Malcolm X

Nino Baragli, Once Upon a Time in America

Yang Jin-mo, Parasite

Ulla Ryghe, Persona

Tatsuji Nakashizu, Tokyo Olympiad

Yvonne Martin and Frederic Muller, The Trial

Best Adaptation or Musical Score

S.D. Burman, Kaagaz Ke Phool

José Feliciano and Janna Merlyn Feliciano, Aaron Loves Angela

Nat W. Finston, Woody Herman, Louis Alter, and Edgar De Lange, New Orleans

W. Franke Harling, Oscar Straus, Rudolph G. Kopp, and John Leipold, One Hour with You

Maury Laws and Jules Bass, Mad Monster Party?

Joseph J. Lilley, Don Robertson, Hal Blair, George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, Sid Tepper, and Roy C. Bennett, Blue Hawaii

Alfred Newman, Flower Drum Song

Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, and Charles Wolcott, Saludos Amigos

David Raksin, George Gershwin, and Ira Gershwin, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

Harry Warren, Ralph Blane, and Howard Jackson, My Dream Is Yours

Oh geez what a line-up. But this category favors original musicals above all. And though some might hesitate to call it a musical, Kaagaz Ke Phool’s soundtrack - in its melding of dramatics and music - is as cinematic as they come. As opposed to the let’s-just-put-a-song-here-to-kill-free time attitude of some of these musicals, Kaagaz Ke Phool uses its songs purposefully. In other words, with feeling. Alfred Newman’s adaptation of Flower Drum Song was probably up next.

Best Original Score

John Barry, Born Free

Elmer Bernstein, The Comancheros (1961)

Akira Ifukube, Destroy All Monsters (1968, Japan)

Zdeněk Liška, The Shop on Main Street

Toshiro Mayuzumi, Tokyo Olympiad

Ennio Morricone, Once Upon a Time in America

Alfred Newman, The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

Leonard Rosenman, Edge of the City

Virgil Thomson, The River

John Williams, Empire of the Sun (1987)

This is not a sympathy prize for the recently-departed Italian composer. The key cue is the second one featured, "Deborah's Theme" and, when you listen to it, I think it tells you all you need to know about this movie. It's deeply expressive. And in the movie, it's allowed to be prominent. I've seen people say the late Morricone considered this his best score, but I can't find any official word of that anywhere. It is tremendous work, with Bernstein, Newman, and Thomson just behind.

Best Original Song

“Angela”, music and lyrics by José Feliciano and Janna Merlyn Feliciano, Aaron Loves Angela

“Can’t Help Falling in Love”, music and lyrics by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss, Blue Hawaii (1961)

“Dekhi Zamaane Ki Yaari / Bichhde Sabhi Baari Baari”, music by S.D. Burman, lyrics by Kaifi Azmi, Kaagaz Ke Phool

“(Do You Know What It Means to Miss) New Orleans”, music by Louis Alter, lyrics by Edgar De Lange, New Orleans

“Farewell to Storyville",  music by Louis Alter, lyrics by Edgar De Lange, New Orleans

“Happy Endings", music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, New York, New York

“Here They Come (From All Over the World)", music and lyrics by P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri, The T.A.M.I. Show

“Is There Still Anything That Love Can Do?", music and lyrics by Yôjirô Noda, Weathering with You

“Theme from New York, New York”, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, New York, New York

“Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam”, music and lyrics by S.D. Burman, Kaagaz Ke Phool

Thank you to all of those who participated in the 2020 Movie Odyssey Award for Best Original Song!

Best Costume Design

Uncredited, The Duke Is Tops (1938)

Irene Sharaff, Flower Drum Song

Jenny Beavan, Gosford Park

Jacqueline Durran, Little Women

Henry Noremark and Karin Erskine, The Magic Flute

Ruth E. Carter, Malcolm X

Marcelles Desvignes and Mireille Leydet, Olivia

Gabriella Pescucci, Once Upon a Time in America

Travis Banton, One Hour with You

Bonnie Cashin, Three Little Girls in Blue

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Daniel C. Striepeke, John Chambers, Verne Langdon, Jack Barron, Mary Babcock, and Jan Van Uchelen, Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Sallie Jaye and Jan Archibald, Gosford Park

Judy Chin and Fríða Aradóttir. Little Women

Uncredited, Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)

Uncredited, The Magic Flute

Marietta Carter-Narcisse and John James, Malcolm X

Michael Westmore, Christina Smith, Mary Keats, June Miggins, and Sydney Guilaroff, New York, New York

Carmen Brel, Simone Knapp, Jean Lalaurette, and Maguy Vernadet, Olivia

Ben Nye, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

Ben Nye, Three Little Girls in Blue

Best Production Design

Norman Reynolds and Harry Cordwell, Empire of the Sun

Alexander Golitzen, Joseph C. Wright, and Howard Bristol, Flower Drum Song

Stephen Altman and Anna Pinnock, Gosford Park

Elliot Scott and John Jarvis, The Haunting

Bob Shaw and Regina Graves, The Irishman

M.R. Achrekar, Kaagaz Ke Phool

Henny Noremark, Anna-Lena Hansen, and Emilio Moliner, The Magic Flute

Harry Kemm, Robert De Vestel, and Ruby R. Levitt, New York, New York

Dennis Gassner and Lee Sandales, 1917 (2019)

Carlo Simi, Once Upon a Time in America

The production design, or the haunted house, was a character. Nothing else in this category could compare.

Achievement in Visual Effects (all are winners because it would be unfair to compare the visuals of 1917 against When Worlds Collide)

Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Destroy All Monsters

The Irishman

1917

Red Dawn (1984)

Plymouth Adventure (1952)

War of the Worlds (2005)

When Worlds Collide (1951)

Worst Picture

Age 13 (1955 short)

Fireman, Save My Child! (1932)

Frankie and Johnny (1966)

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Red Dawn

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Fuck Fallen Kingdom.

Honorary Awards:

Colored Players Film Corporation, for its thematically courageous race films, tackling issues neglected by Hollywood

Harold Michelson, for his contributions as an illustrator and storyboard artist (posthumous)

Lillian Michelson, for her dedication as a film researcher and archivist

Tadahito Mochinaga, for achievements in stop-motion animation with Rankin/Bass

Floyd Norman, for his pioneering career in cinematic animation

FILMS WITH MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS (excluding Worst Picture... 57)

Ten: Once Upon a Time in America Nine: Kaagaz Ke Phool Seven: New York, New York; One Hour with You Six: The African Queen; Gosford Park; The Irishman; Parasite; The Shop on Main Street; The Trial Five: Flower Drum Song; The Haunting; A Letter to Three Wives; Mädchen in Uniform; Ordet; Persona; Three Little Girls in Blue; Tokyo Olympiad Four: Edge of the City; Emitaï; The Magic Flute; Malcolm X; New Orleans; Olivia Three: Aaron Loves Angela; Blue Hawaii; The Cave of the Yellow Dog; It Happened on Fifth Avenue; Marriage Story; The Scar of Shame; The Shocking Miss Pilgrim; Stars in My Crown Two: The Battle of the Century; The Big City; Body and Soul; Born Free; Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment; Deliverance; Destroy All Monsters; The Dragon Painter; The Greatest Story Ever Told; I Lost My Body; Kiss of Death; Klaus; Mad Monster Party?; Marona’s Fantastic Tale; My Dream is Yours; 1917; Pinky; The Princess and the Pirate; The River; Road to Utopia; Saludos Amigos; Sleepwalking Land; Soul; The T.A.M.I. Show; Weathering with You

WINNERS (excluding honorary awards and Worst Picture; 28) 3 wins: A Letter to Three Wives; Ordet 2 wins: The Haunting; Mädchen in Uniform; Once Upon a Time in America; Parasite; The Shop on Main Street; The Trial 1 win: The African Queen; Babe: Pig in the City; Blue Hawaii; Destroy All Monsters; Emitaï; Gosford Park; The Irishman; Kaagaz Ke Phool; Kiss of Death; Malcolm X; Marona’s Fantastic Tale; New York, New York; 1917; One Hour with You; Red Dawn; Persona; Plymouth Adventure; The Shocking Miss Pilgrim; Shoes; Tokyo Olympiad; War of the Worlds; When Worlds Collide

92 films were nominated in 26 categories.

#2020 Movie Odyssey Awards #My Movie Odyssey

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Steal Into My Melancholy Heart (Michael Langdon x Reader Beauty and the Beast AU)

Notes: Here it is (finally), the start of the AHS: Apocalypse Beauty and the Beast AU. There’s going to be a lot of changes to canon. Some characters have been left out, others have a different backstory and purpose to suit this AU ‘verse. Hopefully everything makes sense as the story goes on! The title comes from the song “Evermore” in the 2017 version of Beauty and the Beast, because I can’t help myself.

Word Count: 3.7k+

Warnings: Some violence, mentions of gore and blood. 

 {Prologue}

A thin veil of moonlight fell across the obsidian spiral, a monolith shrouded in a layer of dense fog. It parted around Cordelia Goode’s shoes, chilly and damp, clouding an otherwise clear night. The Hawthorne School looked abandoned. That was for a purpose, for protection, but a feeling clawed its way deep into her gut that suggested maybe they were already too late.

That the warlocks had suffered the same fate as her girls.

She could still hear their screams, their agony echoing in her ears. The shadow of their blood still clung to her hands. Even in the dark, she saw the trails it had leached under her nails and how it sat in the creases between her knuckles. The house had reeked of it, the blood and carnage heavy in the air, bright red pooling on the immaculate floors. She’d sat there for the longest time, minutes turning to an hour she didn’t have, hollow with grief. That house was now their tomb. Cordelia had left their bodies where they’d fallen, cold and still and pale. Fingers and lips turning blue. The halls of her school silenced.

Four had survived. It was enough, for now, to hold together Cordelia’s shattered heart.

Madison, Mallory, Coco, and Emily trailed in her wake, footsteps whispering across the dry, desert earth. She could hear their quiet weeping, their sniffling and heartache so palpable it settled on her chest like stones. They hadn’t spoken on the plane ride here, too stricken with heartache and shock and anger that words didn’t seem enough. The march up to the doors of Hawthorne felt like a funeral procession. Somber. Bleak. Their black clothes, still holding the scent of their fallen sisters’ blood, a sign of mourning rather than tradition.

Cordelia steeled herself, wiping the last of her tears from the corner of her swollen eye with the edge of her thumb, as she came to a halt at the doors. Where they were still coming from, she didn’t know. How could she have any left to cry? What would she do if they found the warlocks slaughtered inside their school?

The quiet unnerved her. The hum of crickets, the distant sway of leaves in a nocturnal wind. The strange, dark cylinder towering over them stood resolute and still as a grave. If it had become one, then she couldn’t see a way out of this. She couldn’t see a light beyond the hurt and despair. Not right now. Not when they’d already lost so much.

Every muscle in Cordelia’s body tensed when the door slid open. The surviving witches, gathered at her sides, looked up once warm, flickering light spilled over the threshold and broke the chill of the night. Golden candle light illuminated the tears that glistened on their faces.

John Henry Moore leaned against the doorway, a pale wisp of smoke coiling up from the cigarette between his fingers. Cordelia’s knees almost buckled from relief.

“Oh, thank god,” she exhaled. “Are you all right? The students—are they all okay?”

One of John Henry’s dark eyebrows rose. “Yeah,” he drawled. “Why?”

“Michael Langdon isn’t here, is he?” Her tone had turned dangerous, the hate dripping from her curt question.

“Haven’t seen him since he fucked off into the woods, Cordelia.” He pushed off the wall and moved to let her and the girls through, then took a drag from his cigarette. He sounded annoyed. “What is it? Kind of late to be making unannounced house calls. It’s past curfew.”

“We’re not here for your witty comebacks, asshole,” Madison countered.

Before John Henry could take offense, Cordelia started down the hall toward the elevator, the girls following close behind, a cacophony of heels ricocheting across marble and stone.

“We don’t have a lot of time.”

“You want to explain what’s going on?”

They took the elevator down beneath the earth. John Henry leaned against the wall, taking long drags from his cigarette and eyeing the group of young witches congregated tightly opposite him. Madison was silently furious, arms crossed over her chest, her sharp glare fixed on the closed doors. Mallory sniffled, drabbing at her eyes with the edge of a long, black sleeve. Emily found solace in Coco, her head pressed to Coco’s shoulder. Cordelia looked beside herself, her gaze distant, restless as they waited for the elevator doors to hiss open.

“You were right.” Cordelia’s voice broke, frayed with the tears that still trickled down her cheeks. “About everything. You were right.”

“Now what’s all this?” Behold Chablis joined them as they filed into the cavernous heart of The Hawthorne School, a labyrinth of candle lit staircases and hallways. His question, rising sharply at the end, filled up the quiet. The students were locked away in their dormitories for the night. Safe and oblivious to the danger heading their way, for now.

“Miss Goode was just about to tell me.”

“Langdon,” her voice cut deeply into the name as her eyes fluttered closed to stave off more tears, “Michael Langdon…murdered my girls. We were lucky to escape when we did. And if we don’t act now, then this school—you and your students are next. I don’t know how much time we have.”

“Jesus.” John Henry muttered. He turned away, scratching at an eyebrow with the edge of his thumbnail.

Behold’s dark eyes widened. “I’ll evacuate the school.”

“No,” Cordelia said. “We might need them.”

“For what?” Behold asked. “I’m not leaving our boys to be some Antichrist’s cannon fodder, Miss Supreme. Not after he slaughtered your girls.”

“Coming here wasn’t about just warning you. We need a curse,” she explained. Madison and Mallory exchanged looks of surprise before they caught her eye. She’d kept her plans to herself, an impulsive decision on the flight to California. “And if memory serves, the reigning expert on curses is you.” She turned to John Henry.

At her pointed look, he scoffed. “We need a firing squad, not a curse.”

“Shockingly, I agree,” Coco said softly.

“You never said shit about that,” Madison said. “I mean, what the fuck, Cordelia?”

“We have to fight him,” Emily agreed. “I don’t care what it takes.”

Mallory’s eyes narrowed. “What kind of curse?”

John Henry held up a hand. “Forget it.”

“He has too much power now,” Cordelia reasoned. “We can’t kill him…we can’t even stop him if we tried. I felt that power when he broke past the defenses at Robichaux—Langdon’s the Devil’s son, and that makes him invincible. Our only choice is to play the long game. Survive the impossible, together, and create something that tears him down, bit by bit. Make him his own demise.”

“So your solution is,” Behold drawled, “to…sit back and watch the world go up in flames? Let him win?”

“He’ll think he’s won,” Cordelia said, a determined grin curving one side of her mouth despite the tears that welled in her eyes. “And then he’ll get what he deserves for all the chaos he’s wrought, slowly, until his death sets things right again. A hard reset. Everything back to the way it was.”

She’d had a lot of time to think on the plane.

John Henry laughed, but there wasn’t much humor in it. “That’s a tall order.”

“Yeah, no shit.” Madison rolled her eyes.

“Wait,” Coco interrupted. “Can we…really do that?”

“No,” Behold answered at the same time John Henry deadpanned a halfhearted, “Definitely not.”

“Yes,” Cordelia insisted, her voice shaking. Her gaze flittered to Mallory, who hadn’t spoken a word of dissent or skepticism. “There’s enough power in this room—in this school. If we combine that magic, I know we can. I have to believe it, otherwise what else do we have left?”

“Curses are stubborn. Delicate,” John Henry said. “They have to be precise, not to mention the amount of magic they require. You can’t engineer a curse in a single night, Cordelia, it can’t be done. Not for what you’re asking.”

“We have to find a way.”

“It’s just not possible,” seemed to be John Henry’s final answer. Resolved to defeat.

“I’m sorry,” Behold offered. “Wish we could—”

“I think we should do it,” Mallory said. “I know…I know Cordelia’s right. We have enough magic right here in this room. We have to try.”

“What the hell, right?” Madison flicked her long hair behind her shoulder. “Mallory’s magic could power the whole curse by itself. I’ve seen it.”

The witches murmured their agreement.

“It’s not the magic I’m worried about,” John Henry replied. “Curses are unwieldy. I’ve never designed one this complex.”

“Well,” Coco said brightly. “First time for everything.”

***

They settled into the central hub of The Hawthorne School, their work lit by roaring fires and sconces on the walls. John Henry gave each of them a task based on their skill level, some facet of the curse that was theirs to render with their magic. By that time, he and Behold determined that they’d only need a few of the students lend their talents, and the rest would be sent in groups to scatter themselves in different directions across the state. To escape and survive the impossible, as Cordelia said.

Three Hawthorne students had joined the witches and John Henry, chosen by Behold’s own meticulous eye. He knew those boys well enough, saw their magic at work in his classes. They’d proven to be the most proficient with the incantations and sigils needed to design their curse.

Timothy, Andre, and Gallant circled around John Henry like a trio of baby ducklings, a force of habit that couldn’t be broken even under the unusual circumstances. The boys cast wary glances at the witches in their midst, unused to working alongside them. They were half-dressed in their Hawthorne uniforms, not quite so polished, the dress codes forgotten. Sleep still clouded their vision as they struggled with whatever archaic texts John Henry shoved at them.

The room was a mess—papers littered with John Henry’s inelegant scrawl, more discarded on the floor than kept for revision; old books heavy with a musty scent in careless piles for reference. Most were in Latin, others almost unreadable even to Cordelia’s rather astute magical knowledge.

She hoped these archaic words and symbols would be enough. There had been more than one argument ricocheting off the vaulted ceilings in the long hours they’d spent working on this. Cordelia knew what it would take, how she wanted the curse to evolve as time wore on, but translating that to magic had John Henry at his wit’s end.

There were variables to consider. And layers upon layers of incantations, each with a specific purpose. Not to mention, they had to put the entire world back together—and billions of lives—once the curse had slowly withered Langdon away. One wrong link in that chain and everything else would crumble. So, of course, there had been shouting matches and a litany of swearing and one instance of John Henry walking the fuck out of the room for another cigarette as tensions ran high.

“We need a failsafe,” John Henry decided.

Cordelia reached over the table of papers and books to reach her wine glass. “Like what?”

John Henry sighed, ink-stained fingers splayed on the tabletop. He slumped forward a little and stifled a yawn. “You said it yourself. Kid’s got the protection of fucking Satan. If this isn’t enough to wear that down and kill him over time, we’re gonna need backup. Another way to take the shot. So to speak.”

“Well, he’s still half-human.”

“I think that ship has sailed,” Behold mused. He refilled Cordelia’s wine glass with a languid sweep of his fingers.

“I’m talking about emotionally,” she explained. “He’s…sensitive. You saw his reaction when we retaliated. The way he cried over that woman. I don’t have much hope for whatever humanity is left in him, but if we can use it to bring him down, that might be our only shot. If the evil in him doesn’t break him, then maybe his heart will.”

“You think the Antichrist is capable of love?” Behold raised an eyebrow.

“I don’t know.” She shook her head. “That human heart of his—Michael’s heart—might.”

John Henry heaved another long-suffering sigh. “That’s a gamble.”  

Cordelia took a sip of wine, her gaze downcast to the scattering of notes. “It’s all we have.”

They chose the main foyer to lay their trap.

Right below where the two central staircases converged, there was ample floor space. Langdon would have to set foot there when he arrived at Hawthorne, and by the time he recognized the power that surrounded him, it would be too late. For that to work, they needed the curse to soak into every single fiber of the room, to make the space itself alive with the full force of their magic.

And piece by piece, it did.

Sigils were burned into the floor, where they disappeared out of sight. That was Mallory’s doing, her strong, unwavering magic building the foundations of the curse. She had the most work of all, though she didn’t complain about it. Not once. Not even when she and Cordelia and Behold had to figure out the complex magic involved in restoring the entire Earth. The hard reset Cordelia insisted on seemed to be beyond anyone’s capabilities. But she was the exception.

More sigils were inlaid in the walls. John Henry oversaw the precise order and placement of each one from the notes that no one could read because he’d written them. The incantations were the most important—and required every single witch and warlock to chant the ancient words as one. That was the trickiest part. John Henry, Behold, and Cordelia went over the exact pronunciation beforehand until their students were tired of it; archaic Latin wasn’t everyone’s best subject at either school of magic, and one wrong syllable would topple all their hard work.

Designing a curse was fucking exhausting.

Emily slumped onto the staircase. Through a yawn, she asked, “So, what happens now?”

“This is going to get ugly,” John Henry said, running a palm across his face. “He’s coming here for revenge. He’ll want blood.”

“Which means you all need to get yourselves out of here,” Behold agreed.

“The three of us will stay behind,” Cordelia said. She studied the weary faces in front of her, so young, trying to hide their fear. “We’ll get out once we know Langdon’s activated the curse. But if this works—”

“And it should,” John Henry grumbled.

“We’ll have to stick close,” Cordelia told them. “We have to see this through to the end.”

***

A midday sun blazed scorching hot across the dry desert earth. Michael Langdon inhaled the scent of dust and heat, pausing to consider the gruesome scene in front of him. Three large birds, their pitch black feathers fluttering, beady eyes reflecting the bright sky, poked at an animal carcass. He couldn’t tell what it was. Maybe a rabbit or a squirrel; tufts of brown fur were lost in the gore, dark scarlet staining the cracked earth. Two of the birds fought over the animal’s innards, pulling at them with their sharp beaks. Michael turned away, slightly unsettled, the edge of his cape rustling in the wind. He had no reason to fear the blackbirds—they were harbingers of his father’s presence, they kept a watchful eye from above.

And they wouldn’t be the only ones to spill blood today.

Michael drew in another deep breath, his fingers curling into light fists at his sides. He wasn’t so blinded by his own rage and vengeance that he couldn’t sense the magic inside Hawthorne. It was almost oppressive. It had never been that way before, not when he was a student. Maybe then he hadn’t been so sensitive to it. The power inside him was far stronger than it had been when he turned the library into a furious snowstorm. But now Hawthorne’s magic felt different to him, seeping out of the strange building to coil at his shoes like a fine mist.

It was strong. Defensive, he thought, if he had to give it a particular quality. But it wouldn’t give him any trouble. No witch or warlock had the power to rival Satan’s own son.

Hawthorne was quiet. Michael noticed an unusual tension in the air, a breath away from snapping. He could still remember the meticulous class schedules and customs, how the halls were always buzzing with noise and footsteps and voices chanting. Lessons took up every odd corner and room. The only time he’d ever seen it this quiet had been long after curfew, when he’d slip away to visit Ms. Mead, memorize the layout of the school, or try and contact his father.

It was just after twelve thirty in the afternoon. And yet, the halls were abandoned.

No, Michael thought, a snarl on his lips. Evacuated.

Someone told them he was coming.

“Cordelia,” Michael growled.

“Hello, Michael.” The voice was a gruff, familiar one that hadn’t so much said his name as it had spat it back at his feet.

Michael found John Henry Moore sitting in the middle of one of the main staircases. A single, flickering flame from a lighter—which he appeared to have some trouble igniting—illuminated the purple shadows beneath his eyes and his jaw shadowed by stubble. His gaze was dark, sharp as a razor.

“I thought you would have been smart enough to leave,” Michael said. His voice carried, bouncing off the cavernous walls as he approached. “After all, you were the one to see past the bullshit. You had me all figured out.”

John Henry’s gaze didn’t break from him, not when he took a long drag from his cigarette. Michael tilted his head a little, a provocation for whatever sarcastic comment John Henry had to offer him. The school’s magic still pressed in on him at all sides, in relentless waves, though there was no one else in sight. He listened, fingers flexing at nothing, stirring up the air. Testing it.

With a rough flick of his wrist, Michael sent John Henry flying backward up the staircase. His lighter clattered onto the steps at the same time his body landed with a crack, his neck twisted at a sickening, abnormal angle. A thin ribbon of blood trickled from the corner of his mouth onto the floorboards. His open, sightless eyes reminded Michael of the blackbirds feasting on their gory prey.

Michael lifted his chin in approval. But when he stepped forward to admire his grim handiwork, the magic in the room seemed to shift. Michael staggered back from the intensity of it, the crushing weight he felt from all sides. It immobilized him, kept him rooted to the spot where he stood. His hands curled into fists so tight that his nails bit into the skin of his palms. He tried to push against it, break it down like he’d torn through the defenses at the witches’ school. A hoarse, mournful, frustrated cry ripped free from his throat as the magic overpowered him and forced his knees to collapse.

And when he looked up, beneath the curls that had fallen into his eyes, he saw how the room itself had changed. He watched the markings surface on the walls. Symbols that meant nothing to him, scored into the stone and wood and tile as if they’d been etched there by fire. He lifted his palm when they appeared under him like they’d scorch his flesh. The complicated patterns arranged one by one, circle by circle. There was no one else in the room with him, not that he could see, but the air echoed with voices. They chanted as one, their ghostly chorus filling up the silence. Words he’d never heard before.

Words, he realized, that were meant to harm him.

“You’re not used to weakness, are you?” another voice asked.

“Cordelia,” Michael spat.

The ground trembled under the influence of magic. Some of the fires in the sconces on the walls flickered out. Michael let out a sob when the suffocating weight of the magic surrounding him turned into a sudden flash of pain. He fought again, pushing a hand toward Cordelia, fingers rigid with agony and a surge of pure hatred. Cordelia didn’t even flinch.

“You’re just a sad, scared little boy,” she told him. “And if you want to embrace that evil, then fine. You do that. You can tear apart the world until there’s nothing left. But now…it will cost you, Michael.”

“It already has,” Michael sobbed through gritted teeth.

“No.” Cordelia shook her head. “Not like this. If you want to become a monster, then who are we to deny you that? Your actions will have consequences, now; ones you won’t have any control over. The further you descend into darkness, you’ll have to live with what your choices have done to you. Every time you look at your reflection—when you see all that beauty withering away, you’ll think of the lives you’ve stolen and all the times you could’ve stopped. But no amount of regret will help you. It’s too late, Michael.”

A pain Michael couldn’t find the words for took hold of him, forcing another strangled cry from his lips. He was sprawled on the floor, muscles tense, tears streaming down the swell of his cheekbones. He felt the magic seeping into him, latching onto his bones, branding itself onto his very soul.

“Enjoy your apocalypse.”

The air went still and silent. Michael sensed the remnants of the magic as it receded and let go of him. There was nothing left except the sound of his ragged breathing. When he pushed himself off the floor onto his elbows, ignoring the deep, lingering ache in his body, Cordelia had disappeared. Her escape, and the warlocks’ covert plan to destroy him, renewed the flicker of rage in his heart.

Michael staggered back into the daylight with a curse sitting in his veins like poison.

***

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[alexanderhamilinton]

Quicker Hamilton Facts

Y’all STILL ALSO need to realize:

Lafayette go soooo drunk once that his brother-in-law had to drag him home

Hamilton’s ship caught on fire coming over to America

Jefferson had a mockingbird named Dick

He also owned a goat that killed someone

After being told about Hamilton’s death, Jefferson became quiet and aloof as he quickly found Burr to arrest him.

EVERY. FOUNDING. FATHER. HAD. DADDY. ISSUES

Which is why Hamilton didn’t want to get close to Washington in fear he would be a father figure and let him down.

Washington refused to respond letters from the British because they didn’t address him correctly.

Hamilton was announced dead after destroying British supply and trying to cross a river with British gun fire only to show up soaking wet later while everyone was drinking to his memory 

When Lafayette came back to America before his death, he and Jefferson hugged and cried with each other 

They said God Bless to each other

AND Jefferson and Lafayette did a lot of weed and a lot of alcohol

Washington liked to pretend his knife and forks were drumsticks and play music on tables

Despite common belief, Hamilton would often make time for his family and would write home to Eliza about how homesick he was

Martha Washington outlived four children and two husbands and said the worst day of her life was went Jefferson came to visit.

Laurens was getting out of bed when he hit his head on the ceiling

Hamilton was supposed to go on Washington’s boat while crossing the Delaware but he wasn’t used to this thing called “winter” and often got sick a lot.

Thomas Jefferson told his grandchildren to flirt with everyone despite their gender so everyone would like them

Jefferson had an expensive bust of Hamilton in his house for no other reason than he wanted one.

Burr set himself on fire trying to lite a candle on fire with gunpowder.

TWICE

Hamilton was not only gay for Laurens, but also for the spy John Andre.

He said Andre was too pretty to be hung

Franklin and Adams shared a bed and fought over whether a window open was good for your health while you slept.

Franklin won because he ranted so much that Adams fell asleep.

Lafayette often joked about his name, saying “It’s not my fault, I was baptized like a Spaniard, with the name of every conceivable saint who might offer me more protection in battle”

When George Washington was 17, a girl stole his clothes just to see him looking for them while naked.

Eliza had a mourning ring which she had on a ribbon around her neck which contained a strand of Hamilton’s hair

Engraved inside the ring was the day he died and how old he was

Lafayette was buried under soil from Bunker Hill in France

During World War 1, General Pershing and a parade went to Lafayette’s grave and said “Lafayette, we’re here!”

Sooo…America help Lafayette in a war, just a little toooo late.

After Hamilton’s death, Eliza referred to her late husband as “my Hamilton” and “my Alexander” 

When giving tour of her home, she would stare at a bust of Hamilton for a few seconds and would whisper “my Hamilton”

Burr bought a coconut for about $40 today because why not.

Hamilton was called “The Little Lion” because of his mouth and small stature.

Burr would often refer to Hamilton as “my dear friend Hamilton, whom I shot”

Burr was attacked by bedbugs and then proceeded to sleep on the floor for 6 hours

Burr’s daughter, Theodosia, was lost at sea.

Burr had sex with A LOT of ladies in Europe…after he killed Hamilton

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[mightystargazer]

Audiobook Reading List 2017

Another year gone by, Another Reading list completed. Not as many as last year, but quite empressive all the same in my opinion.

 Here goes!

  Michael Phillip Cash Monsterland

Larry Correia Grunge

Larry Correia Sinners

Carrie Fisher Postcards From The Edge

Melinda DuChamp Fifty Shades of Alice in Wonderland

Terry Goodkind Nest

Mark Cain Hell's Super

Mark Cain A Cold Day in Hell

Mark Cain Deal with the Devil

Mark Cain The Reluctant Demon

Kevin J. Anderson Resurrection, Inc

Joseph John The Eighth Day

Jonathan Ryan 3 Gates of the Dead

Andr Alexis Fifteen Dogs

Michael McDowel The Elementals

Clayton Smith Apocalypticon

Luke Smitherd Kill Someone

Luke Smitherd In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You

Jonathan Mayberry Beneath the Skin

John K. Addis The Eaton

Jeremiah Knight Hunger

Jeremiah Knight Feast

Jeff Strand Pressure

Jason Arnopp The Last Days of Jack Sparks

James Patterson Zoo

James Patterson Zoo 1.5

James Hankins Drawn

Mary Roach Stiff

John G. Hartness Demon Hunter collection 1-4

John G. Hartness Heaven Sent

John G. Hartness Heaven’s Door

John G. Hartness Night at the Museum

John Cleese So, Anyway

Jack Ketchum The Girl Next Door

Ilsa J. Bick Draw the Dark

Paul Tremblay Disappearance at Devil's Rock

Mark Tufo Immortalitys Touchstone

Mark Tufo Marks Merry Mayhem

Neil Gaiman The View from the Cheap Seats

Misha Burnett Book of lost doors 1

Misha Burnett Book of lost doors 2

L. X. Cain Bloodwalker

Larry Correia Detroit Christmas

Larry Correia Hard Magic

Larry Correia spellbound

Larry Correia Warbound

Larry Correia Murder on the Orient Elite

Larry Correia Tokyo Raider

A. American Going Home

A. American Surviving Home

A. American Escaping Home

A. American Forsaking Home

A. American Resurrecting Home

A. American Enforcing Home

A. American Avenging Home

A. American Charlie's Requiem

Ania Ahlborn The Shuddering

Adam Vine Lurk

Alan Black Metal Boxes

Alan Black Trapped outside

Alan Black Rusty hinges

Alan Black At the edge

Ambrose Ibsen Transmission

Jenny Lawson Furiously Happy

Clifford D. Simak Way Station

Mark Tufo Those Left Behind

Mark Tufo Zombie fallout 0.5

A.R Wise Deadlocked 1

A.R Wise Deadlocked 2

A.R Wise Deadlocked 3

A.R Wise Deadlocked 4

A.R Wise Deadlocked 5

A.R Wise Deadlocked 6

A.R Wise Deadlocked 7

A.R Wise Deadlocked 8

Tony Vigorito Love and Other Pranks

Richard Kadrey Butcher Bird

Andrew Michael Hurley The Loney

John G. Hartness Midsummer

John G. Hartness Moon over Bourbon street

John G. Hartness Oh Bubba, where art thou

Richard Roberts I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence

Jim McDoniel An Unattractive Vampire

Jake Bible Stone Cold Bastards

David Rhodes Written in Stone

Neil Gaiman Norse Mythology

Alexander McCall Smith The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

Chris Bucholz Severance

Barry J Hutchison Space Team

David M. Salkin Forever Hunger

Drew Hayes Going Rogue book 3

JM Guillen The Herald of Autumn

Craig Spector The Light at the End

Ted Dekker Eyes Wide Open

Ted Dekker Water Walker

Robert Bevan Critical Failures IV

Richard Kadrey Dead Set

Richard Kadrey The Wrong Dead Guy

Thomas Olde Heuvelt Hex

Glenn Bullion Jack Kursed

Drew Hayes Super Powereds 01 - Year 1

Drew Hayes Super Powereds 02 - Year 2

Drew Hayes Super Powereds 03 - Year 3

Brett J. Talley That Which Should Not Be

Richard Kadrey The Everything Box

Jane Harper The Dry

Emma Geen The Many Selves Of Katherine North

Alan Dean Foster For Love of Mother Not

Alan Dean Foster The Tar Aiym Krang

Alan Dean Foster Orphan Star

Alan Dean Foster The End of the Matter

Alan Dean Foster Flinx in Flux

Alan Dean Foster Mid-Flinx

Alan Dean Foster Reunion

Alan Dean Foster Flinx's Folly

Alan Dean Foster Sliding Scales

Alan Dean Foster Running from the Deity

Alan Dean Foster Bloodhype

Alan Dean Foster Trouble Magnet

Alan Dean Foster Patrimony

Alan Dean Foster Flinx Transcendent

Stephen Kozeniewski Billy and the Cloneasaurus

Robert Jackson Bennett Mr Shivers

Richard Kadrey Sandman Slim

Richard Kadrey Kill the Dead

Richard Kadrey Aloha from Hell

Richard Kadrey Devil in the Dollhouse

Richard Kadrey Devil Said Bang

Richard Kadrey Kill City Blues

Richard Kadrey The Getaway God

Richard Kadrey Killing Pretty

Richard Kadrey The Perdition Score

Joe Haldeman Buying Time

D. M. Pulley The Buried Book

M. R. Carey; The Boy on the Bridge

Sally Slater Paladin

J.R. Rain The Dead Detective

J.R. Rain Deadbeat Dad

Eric Padilla Unfurled Heroing Is a Tough Gig

Claire North The End of the Day

Alan Dean Foster Spellsinger

Alan Dean Foster The Hour of the Gate

Stephen King Gwendy's Button Box

Ron Ripley Berkley Street

Ron Ripley The Lighthouse

Ron Ripley The Town of Griswold

Ron Ripley Sanford Hospital

Ron Ripley Kurkow Prison

Ron Ripley Lake Nutaq

Ron Ripley Slater Mill

Tim Lebbon Predator Incursion

Tim Lebbon Alien Invasion

Tim Lebbon Armageddon

Emma Geen The Many Selves Of Katherine North

Jen Calonita Flunked

Will McIntosh Faller

Lincoln Child Deep Storm

Lincoln Child Terminal Freeze

Lincoln Child The Third Gate

Lincoln Child The Forgotten Room

Lincoln Child Full Wolf Moon

Diana Rowland Mark Of The Demon

Diana Rowland Blood Of The Demon

Diana Rowland Secrets Of The Demon

Diana Rowland Sins Of The Demon

Diana Rowland Touch Of The Demon

Diana Rowland Fury of the Demon

Diana Rowland Vengeance of the Demon

Richard Laymon Flesh

Elizabeth Anne Hull Gateways

The yellow wallpaper

Garth Nix A Confusion Of Princes

Diana Rowland Legacy of the Demon

Christopher Moore Bloodsucking Fiends

Christopher Moore A dirty job

Rick Gualtieri Bill the Vampire

Rick Gualtieri Scary Dead Things

Rick Gualtieri The Mourning Woods

Rick Gualtieri Holier Than Thou

Rick Gualtieri Sunset Strip

Rick Gualtieri Goddamned Freaky Monsters

Rick Gualtieri Half a Prayer

Rick Gualtieri The Wicked Dead

Rick Gualtieri Shining Fury

Rick Gualtieri The Last Coven

Ron Ripley Borgin Keep

Nick Cutter Litlte Heaven

Steve Alten The Loch

Steve Alten Vostok

Richard Kadrey The Kill Society

Dean Koontz The Silent Corner

Christopher Moore A Dirty Job

Joseph Fink Welcome to Nightvale 1-110

Peter Meredith The Apocalypse Revenge

Scott Meyer Run Program

A. G. Riddle Pandemic

Seanan McGuire Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Scott Sigler Earthcore

Peter Clines Dead Men Can't Complain

Keith C. Blackmore Breeds 3

Jeff Strand Cyclops Road

Eleanor Lerman Radiomen

Christina Raines Claimed by the Elven King

Jeff Strand Blister

Jeff Strand WolfHunt

Fanny Merkin Fifty Shames of Earl Grey

Angela Marsons DEAD SOULS

Tad Williams The Burning Man

Tad Williams The Dragonbone Chair

Tad Williams Stone of Farewell

Tad Williams To Green Angel Tower

Tad Williams The Heart of What Was Lost

Iain McKinnon Demise of the living

Eddie Izzard Believe Me

Brad Magnarella Demon Moon

Brad Magnarella Blood Deal

Brad Magnarella Purge City

Larry Correia Siege

Tom Perrotta The Leftovers

Al K. Line Black Spark

Al K. Line Evil Spark

Al K. Line New Spark

Al K. Line Guilty Spark

Al K. Line Neon Spark

Barry J. Hutchison The Wrath of Vajazzle

Charles Stross The Delirium Brief

Matthew Iden The Winter Over

John Langan The Fisherman

Mo Daviau Every Anxious Wave

Marcus Sakey Afterlife

Lou Cadle Gray

Gary McMahon Pretty Little Dead Things

Gary McMahon Dead Bad Things

Mark Tufo Victorys Defeat

Tess Gerritsen The Surgeon

Tess Gerritsen The Apprentice

Tess Gerritsen The Sinner

Tess Gerritsen Body Double

Tess Gerritsen Vanish

Tess Gerritsen The Mephisto Club

Tess Gerritsen The Keepsake

Tess Gerritsen Ice Cold

Tess Gerritsen The Silent Girl

Tess Gerritsen Last to Die

Tess Gerritsen Die Again

Tess Gerritsen I Know a Secret

Tess Gerritsen The Bone Garden#

Robert Bevan 4d6 Caverns and Creatures

James Acaster Classic Scrapes

Nicholas Sansbury Smith Trackers

Mike Evans Civil War

Nightingale

John Cleaver I am not a Serial Killer

John Cleaver Mr Monster

John Cleaver I Don't Want to Kill You

John Cleaver The Devil's Only Friend

John Cleaver Over Your Dead Body

John Cleaver Nothing Left to Lose

Ezekiel Boone Skitter

Barry J. Hutchison The Search for Splurt

Stephen King Sleeping Beauties

Stephen King It

Kevin Hearne Grimoire of the Lamb

Kevin Hearne Clan Rathskeller

Kevin Hearne Kaibab Unbound

Kevin Hearne Hounded

Kevin Hearne Hexed

Kevin Hearne Hammered

Kevin Hearne A Test of Mettle

Kevin Hearne Tricked

Kevin Hearne Two Ravens and One Crow

Kevin Hearne The Demon Barker of Wheat Street

Kevin Hearne Trapped

Kevin Hearne Hunted

Kevin Hearne Shattered

Kevin Hearne A Prelude to War

Kevin Hearne Staked

Kevin Hearne The Purloined Poodle

Stephen King The dark half

Stephen King Desperation

Larry Correia The Monster Hunter Files

Greig Beck The first bird

Greig Beck Book of the dead

Greig Bird The immortality curse

Sean Thomas Fisher Floodwater

Ryan Lockwood What Lurks Beneath

Stephen King The Regulators

S L Grey Mall

S L Grey Ward

S L Grey New Girl

Peter Clines Paradox Bound

Diana Rowland Unchained

David Wong John Dies at the End

David Wong This Book Is Full of Spiders

David Wong What the Hell Did I Just Read

David Wong Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

Aaron Mahnke The World of Lore

Brad Magnarella Book of Souls

Brad Magnarella Death Mage

A.I. Nasser Children to the Slaughter

A.I. Nasser Shadows Embrace

A.I. Nasser Copper's Keeper

Jon Hollins Fools Gold

Jon Hollins False Idols

Colin Dickey Ghostland

C.T. Phipps The Rules of Supervillainy

C.T. Phipps The Games of Supervillainy

C.T. Phipps The Secrets of Supervillainy

C.T. Phipps The Science of Supervillainy

Joseph Fink Welcome to Nightvale 111-116

Peter Brannen The Ends of the World

Anthologi Nights of the Living Dead

Jonathan Mayberry Joe Ledger Unstoppable

Alexander C. Kane Andrea Vernon

Josef Fink It Devours!

Joe Hill Strange Weather

Christopher Gray When the Dead Wake

Ron Ripley Amherst Burial Ground

Derek Landy Demon Road

Derek Landy Desolation

Derek Landy American Monsters

Joseph Fink Nightvale 117-118

Bentley Little The Handyman

David A. Simpson Zombie Road

Peter Meredith War of the Undead Day One

Peter Meredith War of the Undead Day Two

Peter Meredith War of the Undead Three

Peter Meredith War of the Undead Day Four

James Alan Gardner All Those Explosions Were Someone Elses Fault

Andy Weir Artemis

Bentley Little The Association

Kevin Hearne The Squirrel on the Train

John C. McCrae Worm 1-298

Chris Fox Deathless 1

Chris Fox Deathless 2

Chris Fox Deathless 3

rachel manija brown stranger

Peter Meredith The Apocalypse Sacrifice

J-F. Dubeau A God in the Shed

Drew Hayes The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales

Drew Hayes Undeath and Taxes

#audiobooks #reading #list #final count

[the-salty-purple-nimrod-blog]

Great Moments in History

Washington would pretend the silverware at dinner was drum sticks and play music on the table Laurens hit his head on the ceiling when getting out of bed once Jefferson ate a tomato like an apple at a dinner and everyone rushed off to find a doctor because Americans thought tomatoes were poisonous back then Martha Washington outlived four children and two husbands and said the time Jefferson payed her a visit was the second worst day of her life When Lafayette returned to America before his death, he and Jefferson hugged and started crying Burr set himself on fire TWICE trying to light a candle with gunpowder After Jefferson was informed of Hamilton’s death, he became quiet and aloof as he tried to find Burr to arrest him (Odd thing, Jefferson hated Hamilton. Maybe he liked fighting with him? The world may never know) “Peggy” wasn’t her real name. It was “Margarita” Angelica once SLAPPED Jefferson SO HARD that Jefferson would sometimes refuse to go to social events if he thought Angelica was going to be there Benjamin Franklin and John Adams had to share a bed at one point and had an arguement on whether sleeping with an open window was healthy for you or a sure-fire way to get sick. Franklin ranted on fresh air so much that Adams fell asleep, winning the argument Burr ate ice cream for the first time, got a brainfreeze, and thought he was dying Eliza had a mourning ring tied to a ribbon worn around her neck and kept a lock of Hamilton’s hair, referring to him as “My Alexander” Lafayette and Washington sat under a tree after the battle of Monmouth to talk trash about Charles Lee, both of them using Washington’s cape as a blanket Jefferson would refer to his pet ram as “this abomadable animal” which hospitalized several pedestrians and killed a small boy. The ram was only killed after it killed some of Jefferson’s other rams Burr would often refer to Hamilton as “My dear friend Hamilton, whom I shot” Burr was attacked in the middle of the night by bedbugs, tried to fight back, lost, and proceeded to nap on the floor for the next six hours Hamilton misspelled “Pennsylvania” on the Declaration of Independence Washington cursed out Charles Lee after his retreat Lafayette literally had to sneak out of France to go to America by boarding a ship disquised as a pregnant woman Lafayette gave President John Quincy Adams a FREAKING ALLIGATOR as a present for no other purpose than the purpose of not knowing what to do with it Hamilton once claimed oh loud that John Andre was “too pretty to be hung” (I guess he just has a fetish for anyone named “John”) The Schuyler home was invaded and Peggy, being the hidden badass she was, got them to retreat in a single sentence (See full story in the Peggy the Badass tag) Belle Marie Antoinette knew that Lafayette had a habit of being clumsy. She offered to dance with him once, and when Lafayette tripped, she laughed at him in front of everyone Speaking of which, Lafayette later had an affair with her And while we’re on the topic of Affairs, Jefferson had his own personal affair with his slave, Sally Hemings Burr had a knife stuck inside his umbrella because he was depressed. When he went to a meeting, the umbrella had disappeared and he couldn’t find it. Future historians found out that Hamilton took it because he was worried about Burr (Aww)

#Funny Moments in History

[the-everqueen]

more lams in conservatory au, please? if you wanna!

It’s evening and John is in bed, working on his paper for von Steuben’s class (rough draft due tomorrow at noon) when Alex stumbles into their dorm and collapses face-first on top of him, narrowly missing John’s laptop with his head. John moves it over a fraction of an inch, checks the time in the corner of the screen. 7:32 pm.

“I thought you were going to the concert tonight.”

Alex groans into John’s rib cage. “She dumped me.”

“Who?”

“Maggie. Said she and Andre were getting back together.”

“Didn’t you date Andre?”

Alex makes a gesture of dismissal. “We went to some art museums,” which isn’t an answer either way. “She told me during intermission. Can you believe that? Like I’m supposed to sit through Mahler’s Third next to my newly ex-girlfriend. We were making out in the parking lot an hour before! Anyway, I left because I am not going to associate the minor Frere Jacque theme with a break up, that would be pathetic.”

John bites his lip. If he’s being honest, it’s hard to feel sympathy for Alex, who this semester alone has dated five different people, not counting his vague courtship of that transfer, John Andre. His relationships have never lasted more than a week, despite his enthusiastic declarations of love and rumors that Washington’s favorite piano student is also a prodigy in bed. (“It’s the fingers,” Cora once told him in all seriousness, and John couldn’t watch him play for a week without thinking of that.)

Yet for all his mourning, Alex also rebounds faster than anyone John has ever seen. He complains about Maggie tonight, but in two days it will be Sarah or Adrienne or maybe Tallmadge, even though he’s a grad student and they’re in the same studio. And then he’ll be heart-eyed and full of poetic nonsense again, his past lovers forgotten outside of class.

And John… John is just here. The best friend, the confidant, even though he could swear the first time they met Alex was flirting, pulling out all stops to impress him despite the fact Alex’s approach to jazz is more instinct and luck than actual knowledge. John hates himself for clinging to that, thinks he’s reading into things, but then Alex nuzzles him in class or plays with his hair while they’re studying and he can’t help but feel maybe it’s something more.

Alex’s monologue winds down. John keeps his eyes fixed to his laptop screen - although who is he kidding, he’s not focused on Bernstein - but he feels Alex relax into him, his breathing gone languid, and John thinks maybe he’s fallen asleep.

Then, quiet: “Why do they all leave?”

“Hmm?”

Alex pushes up onto his elbows. His expression is one John has never seen before: on another person it might be resigned, but Alex doesn’t ever stop fighting.

“Why does everyone leave?” he repeats.

“… I don’t know.”

“You think I’d be used to it - I mean, Dad left when I was ten, that should’ve be a sign. But I don’t… is it me? Obviously, that’s the common denominator, but what about me, then? If I knew what it was, I might be able to fix it. Or maybe I just give off a vibe: This is a mistake! Get out while you can!”

“You’re not a mistake,” John says, feeling stupid.

Alex shrugs. “Whatever. Didn’t mean to get all maudlin. What are you working on?”

“Paper for von Steuben. It’s due tomorrow.”

“Yeah, I turned in a week ago.” Alex crawls forward to nestle against John’s side, head resting on his shoulder. “What’s your topic?”

John swallows. Prays Alex can’t feel his heart going a million miles an hour. “Influence of jazz in Age of Anxiety.”

Alex hums. “You should read it to me.”

He really shouldn’t. His pulse is in his throat, he still needs to write the conclusion and then go back and do some edits because yeah, it’s a rough draft but von Steuben grades those, too, and he can be harsh -

He does anyway.

#conservatory au #thanks for the prompts! #the distraction was very welcome #anyway #i don't know how Alex manages to memorize so much music #considering he's never practicing in this fics #also! #john's topic is a real one that others have talked about #shapechangersinwinter #also this is pre-Eliza #in case that wasn't obvious? #they're sophomores #von Steuben teaches music history #it's a blast

[nyslovesfilm]

Save the Date: TV Premieres and Film Releases

The schedule of television premieres and film releases continues.  Below is a list of upcoming television shows and films that participated in New York State’s production and post-production tax credit programs with upcoming release/premiere dates. American Son ­– Nov. 1 – Netflix An estranged interracial couple searches for answers about their missing son. Based on the Broadway play. Starring: Kerry Washington, Jeremy Jordan, Steven Pasquale (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit program – Production) Cubby – Nov. 1 – Pulsar Studios A 26-year-old from the Midwest moves to New York City to find hope and self-discipline through his friendship with a precocious 6--year-old and the adult superhero Leather-Man, who is conjured from a psychedelic cupcake. Starring: Patricia Richardson, Lucy DeVito, Zachary Booth (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production) Dickinson – Nov. 1 – Apple TV+ An inside look into the world of Emily Dickinson. Poet. Daughter. Total rebel. In this coming-of-age story, Emily’s determined to become the world’s greatest poet. Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Toby Huss, Jane Krakowski (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) For All Mankind – Season 1 – Nov. 1 – Apple TV+ Imagine a world where the global space race never ended. This “what if” take on history from Ronald D. Moore (Outlander, Battlestar Galactica) spotlights the lives of NASA astronauts—the heroes and rock stars of their time—and their families. Starring: Joel Kannaman, Michael Dorman, Wrenn Schmidt (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production) Harriet – Nov. 1 – Focus Features Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, Harriet tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America’s greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history. Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production) Helpsters – Nov. 1 – Apple TV+ Meet Cody and the Helpsters, a team of vibrant monsters who love to solve problems. Whether it’s planning a party, climbing a mountain, or mastering a magic trick, the Helpsters can figure anything out—because everything starts with a plan. Starring: Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Martin P. Robinson, Tim Lagasse (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) The Irishman – Nov. 1 – Netflix Martin Scorsese’s epic saga of organized crime in postwar America, as told by a hit man. Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Motherless Brooklyn – Nov. 1 – Warner Bros. Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, Motherless Brooklyn follows Lionel Essrog, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette’s Syndrome, as he ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna. Starring: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Cherry Jones (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan – Season 2 – Nov. 1 – Amazon An up-and-coming CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, is thrust into a dangerous field assignment as he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit. Starring: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, John Hoogenakker (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Patriot Act – Season 1, Cycle 5 – Nov. 3 – Netflix Every Sunday, Hasan Minhaj brings an incisive and nuanced perspective to global news, politics, and culture in his unique comedy series. Starring: Hasan Minhaj (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Marriage Story – Nov. 6 – Netflix Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach directs this incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together. Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production) Noelle – Nov. 12 – Disney+ Santa’s daughter finds herself needing to take over the family business after her dad retires and her brother crumbles under the pressure of the job. Starring Anna Kendrick, Bill Hader, Billy Eichner (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production) The Good Liar – Nov. 15 – Warner Brothers Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life. Starring: Helen Mirren, Jim Carter, Ian McKellen (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production) The Report – Nov. 15 – Amazon In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. CIA agents begin using extreme interrogation tactics on those they think were behind it. Starring: Adam Driver, Annette Benning, Jon Hamm (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) The Shed – Nov. 15 – A Bigger Boat Stan lives with his abusive grandfather and tries to protect his best friend from high school bullies. When he discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside his tool shed, he tries to battle the demon alone until his bullied friend discovers the creature and has a far more sinister plan. Starring: Jay Jay Warren, Cody Kostro, Sofia Happonen (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Waves – Nov. 1 – A24 The epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family—led by a well-intentioned but domineering father—as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. Starring: Taylor Russell, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lucas Hedges (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)  Crown Vic – Nov. 15 – Screen Media Films Follows one memorable night in the life of LAPD officer Ray Mandel while hunting two cop killers on the loose. Starring: David Krumholtz, Bridget Moynahan, Thomas Jane (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Ray Donovan – Season 7 – Nov. 17 – Showtime Ray Donovan, a professional “fixer” for the rich and famous in Los Angeles, can make anyone’s problems disappear except those created by his own family. Starring: Liev Schreiber, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) 21 Bridges – Nov. 22 – STX Entertainment Thrust into a citywide manhunt for a duo of cop killers, NYPD detective Andre Davis begins to undercover a massive conspiracy that links his fellow police officers to a criminal empire and must decide who he is hunting and who is actually hunting him. Starring: Chadwick Boseman (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Nov. 22 – Sony After a jaded magazine writer is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about empathy, kindness, and decency from America’s most beloved neighbor. Starring: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Cooper (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production) Dark Waters – Nov. 22 – Focus Features Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world’s largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything – his future, his family, and his own life – to expose the truth. Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins. (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production) Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays – Nov. 23 – Hallmark Channel A Graceland tour guide meets a single father during a tour and agrees to fill in as his temporary nanny for the holidays. Starring: Kaitlin Doubleday, Adrian Grenier, Sunny Mabrey (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Servant – Nov. 29 – Apple TV+ From M. Night Shyamalan, Servant follows a Philadelphia couple in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door for a mysterious force to enter their home. Starring: Lauren Ambrose, Toby Kebbell, Rupert Grint (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production) Daniel Isn’t Real – Dec. 6 – Samuel Goldwyn Films Trouble college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend, Daniel, to help him cope. Starring: Patrick Schwarzenegger, Miles Robbins, Sasha Lane (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) The Wolf Hour – Dec. 6 – Brainstorm Media It’s July 1977, and New York City is awash with escalating violence. June, once a celebrated counterculture figure, attempts to retreat from the chaos by shutting herself inside the yellowed walls of her grandmother’s South Bronx apartment. But her doorbell is ringing incessantly, the heat is unbearable, and creeping paranoia and fear are taking hold. Starring: Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Emory Cohen (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – Season 3 – Dec. 6 – Amazon Studios A housewife in the 1950s decides to become a stand-up comic. Starring: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Tony Shalhoub (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Uncut Gems – Dec. 13 – A24 Set in the diamond district of New York City, Howard Ratner, a jewelry store owner and dealer to the rich and famous, must find a way to pay his debts when his merchandise is taken from one of his top sellers and girlfriend. Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin Garnett, Idina Menzel (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) Little Women – Dec. 25 – Sony Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War. Starring: Florence Pugh, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)

[gyrlversion]

Families mourn, bury those killed in Ohio, Texas shootings

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A man who died in the arms of his son in a mass shooting in Ohio was remembered Saturday as a loving family man who painted houses and loved to fish and cook.

The funeral for Derrick Fudge, 57, was among several being held Saturday for people who died in mass shootings last weekend in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas. Investigators say a shooter opened fire in a Walmart store on Aug. 3, targeting Mexicans and killing 22 people. Less than 24 hours later, another gunman killed nine people in a popular Dayton nightlife area.

Hundreds of mourners, including Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, attended Fudge’s funeral at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Dayton, the Dayton Daily News reported.

Fudge’s son, Dion Green, said his father spoke often of his willingness to die for him. Green previously told the Springfield News-Sun he believes his father protected him from being killed. Green told mourners his father was a great person who was always there to help when needed.

Burial services for 38-year-old Saeed Saleh were also held Saturday morning in Dayton, according to the Daily News. Saleh, who was originally from Eritrea and recently immigrated to the U.S., was remembered as a “humble and quiet person” by a spokesman for the family.

In El Paso, a requiem Mass was offered for 15-year-old Javier Amir Rodriguez, a high school sophomore and avid soccer player who was at the Walmart with his uncle when he was killed.

Burial was also scheduled for Jordan Anchondo, who died shielding her infant son from gunfire. Her 2-month-old son was treated for broken bones, but was orphaned after Jordan and her husband, Andre, were killed.

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[tallmadgeandtea]

This week on Turn Twitter:

#as you can all see I need spring break to happen I’m literally going INSANE. #rattling the bars of my cage #pacing around the enclosure #no treason just trust #john andre #John Andre mourning hours #turn: washington's spies #amanda speaks #this week on Turn Twitter

[hatingwithfears]

Top Albums of 2018: 30- 11

30. SUN KIL MOON- THIS IS MY DINNER

29. MARK KOZELEK- MARK KOZELEK

A list of foods mentioned on the three hours of material that Kozelek put out this year:

Turtle soup

Fish soup

Gumbo

Dirty rice

Reindeer

Salmon

Thanksgiving turkey

Mashed potatoes

Stuffing

Sunflower seeds

Fries and a falafel

Burgers and shawarmas

Chicken and waffles

An enchilada plate at Taqueria Cancun

Tomatoes at a Mediterranean restaurant

Oranges and bananas from Walmart

Buffalo wings from Buffalo

A frankfurter hot dog

Boiled shrimp

Lasagna

An avocado

Lemons

A loaf of bread

A Snicker’s bar

Rating: 8.6

28. LAURA CANNELL & ANDRE BOSMAN- RECKONINGS

The first recording from violinist Laura Cannell and her husband Andre Bosman is a powerful display of improvisation and craft. Recorded in a churches with each song taking place in a different half hour recording session, Reckonings is a very solemn at times. At only half an hour long, these improvisations show a movement through sound, where the place carries an importance (plenty of albums have been recorded in churches (including live albums from Mount Eerie and Rufus Wainwright this year).

Rating: 8.6

27. BEN VINCE- ASSIMILATION

After collaborating with Joy Orbison last year, saxophonist Ben Vince continues teaming up with others on his new album. Assimilation adds Micachu & The Shapes, Merlin Nova, Rupert Clervaux and others, but it never makes the album less cohesive. Vince’s saxophone rhythmically howls in a way similar to Colin Stetson, it’s not as frantic, but it’s almost more avant-garde with songs like “Sensory Crossing” adding in jittery beats.

Rating: 8.6

26. WILL OLDHAM- SONGS OF LOVE AND HORROR

Will Oldham, aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy, on the album of acoustic covers of his own songs to go along with the publication of his lyric book, with the same title:

“It's just a tie-in. It's like a Star Wars Happy Meal or something like that. It really is.”

Rating: 8.7

25. FATHER JOHN MISTY- GOD’S FAVORITE CUSTOMER

A more simplistic recording than FJM’s previous two albums, and more simplistic with it’s songwriting too. It’s an internal album that has the songwriter moving through depression, love, writing itself. The album’s reality has our songwriter holed up in a hotel room. It’s not a new concept, or reality, but Father John Misty sings with an emotional conviction and immediacy that appeals to his first two albums, but still has the self awareness of Pure Comedy. He’s never been closer to Randy Newman.

Rating: 8.7

24. YOB- OUR RAW HEART

Guitarist and singer of the band Yob, Mike Scheidt, had a near death experience and underwent surgery and a hospital stay. Our Raw Heart is the a massive metal album with Yob pulling even further into spiritual territory that had only been dabbled with on other Yob records. The ten minute “Ablaze” is a pummeling and grand opener. “The Screen” has some thick post-rock sounds, and “Original Face” is one of the more typical metal songs that breaks through thanks to the great songwriting. The greatest moment on this massive work is on the sixteen minute, “Beauty In Fallen Leaves” a meditative track that show the band taking their time.

Rating: 8.7

23. TANGENTS- NEW BODIES

The third album from Australian jazz quintet Tangents, puts jazz into very electronic places, with thick bass, skilled guitar work, keyboards that shimmer or provide thick atmosphere when needed. The drums on New Bodies are the stand out here, with every track giving way to another complex drum pattern (the influence of Radiohead’s recent output is obvious to me). Even the shorter tracks here have a seamlessness to them that make the mix of jazz and electronic a true wonder.

Rating: 8.8

22. NILS FRAHM- ALL MELODY

Avant classical composer, Nils Frahm, recorded his new album at a studio room that he renovated himself and allowed himself as much time as needed to complete All Melody. What we get is a classical album that can sound very organic (“My Friend the Forest” and “Forever Changeless” are strongly piano based, “Human Range” has choir vocals, plucked strings, horns) and also moments of electronic wonder that can float into songs and stick there (“All Melody”, or the droning “Sunson”).

Rating: 8.8

21. THE BODY- I HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST IT, BUT I CAN’T ANY LONGER

Terror is one thing to show up in metal. Dread is something else entirely, and The Body have continued to emulate that sound in their albums over the last decade, and their new album is another branch of experimentation for the group. The beats from their last proper album pop back up here, but it’s even bleaker this time around. From the guttural screams, the mixing of hip hop beats, even some songs have a thick dance beat.

With a title that quotes Virginia Woolfe’s suicide note, a black and white photograph of a closed off rural road serves as the album cover, and there’s an eight minute mournful, depressive track “Ten Times A Day, Every Day, A Stranger” that has a monotonous spoken word throughout.

Rating: 8.8

20. KEIJI HAINO + SUMAC- AMERICAN DOLLAR BILL KEEP FACING SIDEWAYS, YOU’RE TOO HIDEOUS TO LOOK AT FACE ON

Recorded over one day, doom metal band Sumac teamed up with Japanese guitarist-vocalist Kijiji Naino. With an opening track that goes on for twenty minutes, and the music never stays put for longer than fifteen seconds. It’s brutal, odd, and avante garde. (And it reminds me of Can!) There’s a song title that a paragraph long. And it’s been somewhat written off for those facts that actually make it stand out from a lot of the more shallow art pieces in avant garde in today’s music.

Rating: 8.9

19. NONAME- ROOM 25

Two years after putting out her debut, Room 25 has seemed to catapult Noname into stardom (of some degree), and it’s worthy of the praise. Soft soulful instrumentals, strings, even Latin jazz. It’s an introspective album that speaks frankly about sex (“Window”, “Montego Bae”), American issues (from Clinton to Chick Fil-A to a song about a corrupt cop). On only album number two, Noname is setting up to be one our greatest rappers.

Rating: 8.9

18. SZUN WAVES- NEW HYMN TO FREEDOM

The second album from this jazz trio is an electronic jazz wonder that takes ease in ambient sounds one track, then rushes into some quick playing. The track, “Temple” flutters through some high keyboards that rush in part of the way through, build, then dissipate long enough for a great saxophone solo. There’s bells, there’s drones, there’s repetition. New Hymn To Freedom is a dark album that has a menacing undertone ringing throughout. The final two songs are bleak works that show how jazz can capture our state in music.

Rating: 9.0

17. YVES TUMOR- SAFE IN THE HANDS OF LOVE

On his debut for Warp Records, Yves Tumor goes down a more commercial road than his previous work, like the great 2016 album Serpent Music. This switch of labels gives Yves Tumor a bigger sound that has some really catchy hooks, like “Noid” or “Lifetime”. Yet, Safe In The Hands of Love is a stunning noise album never lets the listener get unsettled. Many of these songs sound like something you’ve heard before, except it’s all been distorted, tossed around.

With noise music coming closer to the mainstream in the last few years, Safe In The Hands of Love make a push for these kinds of sounds (artists Puce Mary, James K and Croation Amor are featured here). The sense of dread on the album is accentuated in some lyrics (single “Noid”), while other moments push for something greater than the current dilemma (“Economy of Freedom” and “Hope In Suffering”)

Rating: 9.1

16. TROYE SIVAN- BLOOM

The opening song “Seventeen” is about hooking up with an older man on Grindr. It could have been a sinister song, but Sivan looks at the situation as a growing experience, and doesn’t place blame. The lead single “My! My! My!” Has a massive chorus where Sivan is caught up the ecstasy of his partner and the joys of passionate sex. On the second single “Bloom”, Sivan uses the huge pop-rock sound and turns the subject to bottoming for the first time. “Plum” takes to using fruit as metaphor, much like last year’s film Call Me By Your Name, looking at a relationship that can’t last. Other songs like “Postcard” or “Lucky Strike” are simple tracks, but the mere mention of a male pronoun or submissive sex makes these songs stand out from all other pop music that’s left today.

Rating: 9.1

15. PHILIPPE BRONCHEIN- ME AND THE MOON

This collection of eight songs from Bronchein is his first under his name (his previous three were under the name Hip Hatchet), and his best work yet. Me and The Moon is a country album that wanders through America, but never seems too vast, Bronchein’s songwriting is eloquent enough to make the ordinary moments seem more lyrical then they ever could be. One song mentions doing a Springsteen song at karaoke, Springsteen’s Nebraska sound shows up on Me and Moon. This musical simplicity gives Bronchein plenty of poetic moments: “From Seattle down to Tennessee/Always looking back/At the life I could have had”, “a thin line between thankful and naive/ which is just the same as that between the man I am/ and the man I wanna be”.

Rating: 9.1

14. FOXING- NEARER MY GOD

An album brimming with ideas, with songs that move the band further out from the emo rock label that’s been assigned to them. Nearer My God has a degree of anxiety that’s reminiscent of The Antlers, “Trapped in Dillard’s” and “Gameshark” are two songs that have some astounding vocals. “Five Cups” would have been the centerpiece to any other album, at nine minutes long, the track has strings, horns, beats, it’s a grand piece that’s not even the best track here. “Nearer My God” is the rock song of the year, from it’s glimmering keys that hang in the background, to the conviction of the vocals, the massive chorus, it’s a perfect rock song.

Rating: 9.2

13. MITSKI- BE THE COWBOY

This collection of songs has multitude of emotions, but never once do these songs become drab. It’s an icy album. It’s romantic. It’s longing. The use of pop structures from country music (“Lonesome Love”, “Blue Light”), indie rock (“Remember My Name”, “Washing Machine Heart”), disco (“Nobody”), Beatles-esque pop (“Me and My Husband”). With short songs that don’t waste time, Mitski’s album setup is reminiscent of The Beatles. At fourteen songs, with only three going beyond the 2:30 mark, it’s a tightly done collection.

Rating: 9.2

12. SLEEP- THE SCIENCES

A surprise release on 4/20, and an astronaut smoking weed on the cover would be shitty stoner music, but this isn’t stitty stoner music. This is stoner metal, some of the best. Coming twenty years after their album Dopesmoker, it’s a thick, heavy and catchy metal album. The lyrical quality of the work has been updated in a way. There’s still plenty of lines about weed, but there’s a spiritual edge to most of the tracks here that builds upon the mythology of the band.

Rating: 9.3

11. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN- SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY

After a year of sold out shows, Bruce Springsteen’s glowingly received one man show was released as a film on Netflix and a double CD. Springsteen on Broadway has Springsteen going through some tracks in his long discography, these songs are presented with Springsteen on acoustic guitar, with (or without) harmonica, and piano. His wife, Patti Scialfa joins her husband on stage to play two songs from Tunnel of Love (“Brilliant Disguise” and “Tougher Than The Rest”).

This is a Broadway show: there’s a set of songs, and there’s a script to be adhered too. Springsteen’s frank autobiography, Born To Run, provides the lyrical prose between the songs, where we see Springsteen discuss his life, his band, religion, humor, and his own myth. It’s a very meta presentation that shows the artist giving his stories, his pains, his humor to the audience that has adored him for so many years.

Rating: 9.3

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Heart Touching Sad Quotes about Life approximately Life Heart Touching Sad Quotes about Best Short Status approximately Life Awesome Sad Quotes approximately Life approximately Life sad existence quotes The feeling of sadness may be commonplace to humans, there’ll usually be unhappy moments which are inevitable. These sad moments may be about love, existence or even demise. Sadness is regularly because of a discrepancy between in which you are and where you want to be. Sad conditions can take all of our strength, spirit, and happiness, it’s miles defined because the emotional ache characterized by means of emotions of sorrow, loss, downside, helplessness, melancholy, sadness and so on.

Sad Quotes About Life

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Sad Quotes About Life And Love

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. – John Sutherland Bonnell

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice. – Gloria Estefan (Sad Quotes About Life)

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel. – Tupac Shakur

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. – Alfred De Musset (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there’s so much shame around it. If you have it you’re a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive. – Mike Mills

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us. – Fred Rogers

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Tears are words that need to be written. – Paulo Coelho

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed or is ashamed of his success. – Seneca (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. – Washington Irving

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. – Jonathan Safran Foe

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. – Henry Van Dyke (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sad Quotes About Life And Love

The man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure is taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. – Emile Durkheim

It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories. (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sad Quotes About Life That Make You Cry

It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. – Chuck Palahniuk

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – William Mather Lewis (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it. – Adam Silvera (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. – Olive Schreiner (Sad Quotes About Life)

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. – Bess Myerson

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. – Dante (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. – Andre Gide

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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. – J. K. Rowling

Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong. – Tabitha Suzuma (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sad Quotes About Life That Make You Cry

I have a thousand reasons to die and many millions of tears to cry. – Draconian

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. – Lord Byron (Sad Quotes About Life)

Best Sad Quotes About Life

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must. – Bob Dylan (Sad Quotes About Life)

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. – Jim Rohn

This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach. – Wendy Wunder

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. – Charlie Chaplin (Sad Quotes About Life)

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain. – Erica Baican

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbors. – Richard Whately

There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. – Nicole Krauss (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. – Stefan Kanfer

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Best Sad Quotes About Life

It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry Rollins (Sad Quotes About Life)

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley

Latest Sad Quotes About Life

Everything in life is luck. – Donald Trump

For some moments in life, there are no words. – David Seltzer

A useless life is an early death. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.

In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. – Charlie Brown (Sad Quotes About Life)

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. – Woody

“Tears are words that need to be written.” ~ Paulo Coelho

Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ~ Alfred Austin

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation? – Khalil Gibran (Sad Quotes About Life)

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. – Louis E. Boone

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Sad Quotes About Life)

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A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out, in the end, it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go. – Will Smith

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. – Albert Schweitzer (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Kahlil Gibran

Anger, tears, and sadness are only for those who have given up. – Katie Gill

Latest Sad Quotes About Life

I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. However, the worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go. – Lauren Oliver (Sad Quotes About Life)

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. – Gloria Steinem

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Sad Quotes About Life

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Sad Quotes About Life

Heart Touching Sad Quotes about Life approximately Life Heart Touching Sad Quotes about Best Short Status approximately Life Awesome Sad Quotes approximately Life approximately Life sad existence quotes The feeling of sadness may be commonplace to humans, there’ll usually be unhappy moments which are inevitable. These sad moments may be about love, existence or even demise. Sadness is regularly because of a discrepancy between in which you are and where you want to be. Sad conditions can take all of our strength, spirit, and happiness, it’s miles defined because the emotional ache characterized by means of emotions of sorrow, loss, downside, helplessness, melancholy, sadness and so on.

Sad Quotes About Life

In this conditions, Sad Quotes About Life is needed whilst you don’t have phrases to explicit which you are in an emotional mood. Sadness is a feeling which nearly everybody faces in his life and those Sad Life Quotes helps you to explicit your emotions. In this segment we have a whole collection of Short & Famous Sad Quotations about Life, here we’ve introduced Sad Life Status for Alone Boys & Girls, Painful Sad Sayings Images, Heart Touching Life Status in English, Sad Life Facts, True Sad Status in English, One Line Sad Status about Life for Whatsapp & Facebook Updates.

Sad Quotes About Life And Love

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. – John Sutherland Bonnell

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice. – Gloria Estefan (Sad Quotes About Life)

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel. – Tupac Shakur

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. – Alfred De Musset (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there’s so much shame around it. If you have it you’re a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive. – Mike Mills

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us. – Fred Rogers

Read: Latest 50 Emotional Status For Whatsapp 2018

Tears are words that need to be written. – Paulo Coelho

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed or is ashamed of his success. – Seneca (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. – Washington Irving

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. – Jonathan Safran Foe

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. – Henry Van Dyke (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sad Quotes About Life And Love

The man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure is taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. – Emile Durkheim

It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories. (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sad Quotes About Life That Make You Cry

It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. – Chuck Palahniuk

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – William Mather Lewis (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it. – Adam Silvera (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. – Olive Schreiner (Sad Quotes About Life)

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. – Bess Myerson

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. – Dante (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. – Andre Gide

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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. – J. K. Rowling

Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong. – Tabitha Suzuma (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sad Quotes About Life That Make You Cry

I have a thousand reasons to die and many millions of tears to cry. – Draconian

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. – Lord Byron (Sad Quotes About Life)

Best Sad Quotes About Life

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must. – Bob Dylan (Sad Quotes About Life)

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. – Jim Rohn

This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach. – Wendy Wunder

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. – Charlie Chaplin (Sad Quotes About Life)

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body. – Naguib Mahfouz

Read: 250+ Whatsapp Status 2018 in English

Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain. – Erica Baican

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbors. – Richard Whately

There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. – Nicole Krauss (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. – Stefan Kanfer

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Best Sad Quotes About Life

It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry Rollins (Sad Quotes About Life)

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley

Latest Sad Quotes About Life

Everything in life is luck. – Donald Trump

For some moments in life, there are no words. – David Seltzer

A useless life is an early death. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.

In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. – Charlie Brown (Sad Quotes About Life)

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. – Woody

“Tears are words that need to be written.” ~ Paulo Coelho

Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ~ Alfred Austin

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation? – Khalil Gibran (Sad Quotes About Life)

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. – Louis E. Boone

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Sad Quotes About Life)

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A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out, in the end, it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go. – Will Smith

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. – Albert Schweitzer (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Kahlil Gibran

Anger, tears, and sadness are only for those who have given up. – Katie Gill

Latest Sad Quotes About Life

I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. However, the worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go. – Lauren Oliver (Sad Quotes About Life)

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. – Gloria Steinem

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Sad Quotes About Life

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Sad Quotes About Life

Heart Touching Sad Quotes about Life approximately Life Heart Touching Sad Quotes about Best Short Status approximately Life Awesome Sad Quotes approximately Life approximately Life sad existence quotes The feeling of sadness may be commonplace to humans, there’ll usually be unhappy moments which are inevitable. These sad moments may be about love, existence or even demise. Sadness is regularly because of a discrepancy between in which you are and where you want to be. Sad conditions can take all of our strength, spirit, and happiness, it’s miles defined because the emotional ache characterized by means of emotions of sorrow, loss, downside, helplessness, melancholy, sadness and so on.

Sad Quotes About Life

In this conditions, Sad Quotes About Life is needed whilst you don’t have phrases to explicit which you are in an emotional mood. Sadness is a feeling which nearly everybody faces in his life and those Sad Life Quotes helps you to explicit your emotions. In this segment we have a whole collection of Short & Famous Sad Quotations about Life, here we’ve introduced Sad Life Status for Alone Boys & Girls, Painful Sad Sayings Images, Heart Touching Life Status in English, Sad Life Facts, True Sad Status in English, One Line Sad Status about Life for Whatsapp & Facebook Updates.

Sad Quotes About Life And Love

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. – John Sutherland Bonnell

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice. – Gloria Estefan (Sad Quotes About Life)

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel. – Tupac Shakur

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. – Alfred De Musset (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there’s so much shame around it. If you have it you’re a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive. – Mike Mills

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us. – Fred Rogers

Read: Latest 50 Emotional Status For Whatsapp 2018

Tears are words that need to be written. – Paulo Coelho

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed or is ashamed of his success. – Seneca (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. – Washington Irving

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. – Jonathan Safran Foe

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. – Henry Van Dyke (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sad Quotes About Life And Love

The man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure is taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. – Emile Durkheim

It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories. (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sad Quotes About Life That Make You Cry

It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. – Chuck Palahniuk

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – William Mather Lewis (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it. – Adam Silvera (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. – Olive Schreiner (Sad Quotes About Life)

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. – Bess Myerson

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. – Dante (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. – Andre Gide

Check: Whatsapp Status About Life In English

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. – J. K. Rowling

Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong. – Tabitha Suzuma (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sad Quotes About Life That Make You Cry

I have a thousand reasons to die and many millions of tears to cry. – Draconian

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. – Lord Byron (Sad Quotes About Life)

Best Sad Quotes About Life

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must. – Bob Dylan (Sad Quotes About Life)

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. – Jim Rohn

This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach. – Wendy Wunder

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. – Charlie Chaplin (Sad Quotes About Life)

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body. – Naguib Mahfouz

Read: 250+ Whatsapp Status 2018 in English

Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain. – Erica Baican

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbors. – Richard Whately

There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. – Nicole Krauss (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. – Stefan Kanfer

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Best Sad Quotes About Life

It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry Rollins (Sad Quotes About Life)

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley

Latest Sad Quotes About Life

Everything in life is luck. – Donald Trump

For some moments in life, there are no words. – David Seltzer

A useless life is an early death. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.

In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. – Charlie Brown (Sad Quotes About Life)

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. – Woody

“Tears are words that need to be written.” ~ Paulo Coelho

Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ~ Alfred Austin

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation? – Khalil Gibran (Sad Quotes About Life)

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. – Louis E. Boone

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Sad Quotes About Life)

Check: Latest Collection of Status For Whatsapp 2018

A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out, in the end, it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go. – Will Smith

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. – Albert Schweitzer (Sad Quotes About Life)

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Kahlil Gibran

Anger, tears, and sadness are only for those who have given up. – Katie Gill

Latest Sad Quotes About Life

I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. However, the worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go. – Lauren Oliver (Sad Quotes About Life)

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. – Gloria Steinem

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Great Moments in History

1#: Washington would pretend the silverware at dinner was drum sticks and play music on the table. 2#: Laurens hit his head on the ceiling when getting out of bed once. 3#: Jefferson ate a tomato like an apple at a dinner and everyone rushed off to find a doctor because Americans thought tomatoes were poisonous back then. 4#: Martha outlived four children and two husbands and said the time Jefferson payed her a visit was the second worst day of her life. 5#: When Lafayette returned to America before his death, he and Jefferson hugged and started crying. 6#: Burr set himself on fire TWICE trying to light a candle with gunpowder. 7#: After Jefferson was informed of Hamilton's death, he became quiet and aloof as he tried to find Burr to arrest him (Odd thing, Jefferson hated Hamilton. Maybe he liked fighting with him? The world may never know.) 8#: "Peggy" wasn't her real name. It was "Margarita." 9#: Angelica once SLAPPED Jefferson SO HARD that Jefferson would sometimes refuse to go to social events if he thought Angelica was going to be there. 10#: Benjamin Franklin and John Adams had to share a bed at one point and had an arguement on whether sleeping with an open window was healthy for you or a sure-fire way to get sick. Franklin ranted on fresh air so much that Adams fell asleep, winning the argument. 11#: Burr ate ice cream for the first time, got a brainfreeze, and thought he was dying. 12#: Eliza had a mourning ring tied to a ribbon worn around her neck and kept a lock of Hamilton's hair, referring to him as "My Alexander." 13#: Lafayette and Washington sat under a tree after the battle of Monmouth to talk trash about Charles Lee, both of them using Washington's cape as a blanket. 14#: Jefferson would refer to his pet ram as "this abomadable animal" which hospitalized several pedestrians and killed a small boy. The ram was only killed after it killed some of Jefferson's other rams. 15#: Burr would often refer to Hamilton as "My dear friend Hamilton, whom I shot." 16#: Burr was attacked in the middle of the night by bedbugs, tried to fight back, lost, and proceeded to nap on the floor for the next six hours. 17#: Hamilton misspelled "Pennsylvania" on the Declaration of Independence. 18#: Washington cursed out Charles Lee after his retreat. 19#: Lafayette literally had to sneak out of France to go to America by boarding a ship disquised as a pregnant woman. 20#: Lafayette gave President John Quincy Adams a FREAKING ALLIGATOR as a present for no other purpose than not knowing what to do with it. 21#: Hamilton once claimed oh loud that John Andre was "too pretty to be hung." (I guess he just has a fetish for anyone named "John.") 22#: The Schuyler home was invaded and Peggy, being the hidden badass she was, got them to flee in a single sentence (See full story in the Peggy the Badass tag.) 23#: Belle Marie Antoinette knew that Lafayette had a habit of being clumsy. She offered to dance with him once, and when Lafayette tripped, she laughed at him in front of everyone. 24#: Speaking of which, Lafayette later had an affair with her. 26#: And while we're on the topic of Affairs, Jefferson had his own personal affair with his slave, Sally Hemings. 27#: Burr had a knife stuck inside his umbrella because he was depressed. When he went to a meeting, the umbrella had disappeared and he couldn't find it. Future historians found out that Hamilton took it because he was worried about Burr (Aww.) 28. 29. 30.

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Music, comedy take centre stage at National Arts Fest

A Midsummer Nights Dream The Ballet – Mahlatse Sachaneas Oberon with his fairies.

Arts and entertainment lovers should keep their eyes peeled for a series of early booking opportunities for this year’s National Arts Festival.

For the first time, popular shows will enjoy a limited release ahead of the 9 May online box office opening and full programme reveal. This will allow festival-goers a chance to secure some top shows and start shaping their Festival experience. Details will be released on social media.

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To date the Festival’s main programme has been announced and fans are currently digesting numerous reasons to make 2017 a big Festival year.

SERIOUS ABOUT COMEDY The National Arts Festival is tearing up the comedy stage this year, starting with international comedian Stephen K Amos on the opening weekend. The globe-trotting laughter master will perform his new show WORLD FAMOUS on 2 & 3 July only. Tickets are now available so fans should grab them while they’re hot.

Together with the Brighton Fringe, the National Arts Festival has brought IT’S ONLY BIRDS to the 2017 Festival; Louise Reay’s trail-blazing language experiment in non-verbal communication. “You’ll understand it but won’t know why”, says Chinese-speaking Reay, who was recently won awards in Brighton and at other World Fringe Alliance events in Adelaide and Edinburgh.

Home-grown talents John van de Ruit (Spud) and Ben Voss (Beauty Ramapelepele) are reunited for a savagely funny look at all that is wrong with the ‘Rainbow Nation’ in MAMBA REPUBLIC. Topics such as fees must fall, state capture, online dating, the economy, sport, technology, casual racism, an alternative national anthem, and even the most unusual football match in living memory, are given the once over by the duo. Succeeding its predecessors Green Mamba (2002) and Black Mamba (2005), the show will run from 2-8 July.

Trailing endless accolades and endorsements from international festivals– including the Brighton and Cape Town Fringe 2016, the UK’s The Pretend Men will present POLICE COPS; an action-packed hour of adrenaline-fueled physical comedy, cinematic style and uncompromising facial hair. Runs daily throughout the Festival.

There’s also the return of the ever popular VERY BIG COMEDY SHOW (5 July), a one-night only comedy gala evening, produced and emcee’d by Rob van Vuuren. This year’s show will include Loyiso Gola, Tats Nkonzo, Mojak Lehoko, Alan Committie, Louise Reay, Nik Rabinowitz and Virgil Prins. Expect to see plenty more exciting comedy reveals and familiar names as the Fringe programme goes online.

MUSICAL GENIUS LIVE It’s an exciting year for music on the Festival’s Main stages as Featured Artist, Neo Muyanga, leads the charge through a programme filled with tradition, innovation and experimentation.

Muyanga’s solo work, Solid(T)Ary Work, promises a survey of the tradition of protest song in the global south: moving swiftly between the chanted chorales of Soweto and Salvador to the laments around the squares of Tahrir and Meskel, the presentation is a musical contemplation of modes of resistance in a world hit by flux. Muyanga will also present a collection of songs and music through a trio comprised of Andre Swartz, Peter Ndlala and Eastern Cape-born artist Msaki.

Msaki, recently nominated for a South African Music Award (SAMA), also performs with her band the Golden Circle in PLATINUMb HEART, an exploration of trauma and its ability to ossify, alienate and elude one into thinking one is coping. “The heart merely becomes numb as we move on to the next #trending issue without a chance to mourn or the time to heal,” says Msaki.

THE STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST FOR MUSIC in 2017, Abel Selaocoe, celebrates a much-anticipated return visit to South Africa after an extended time spent playing on top international stages. Abel’s Festival offering will explore the virtuosity of the cello and his diverse musicianship ranging from Debussy’s poetic and vivid Cello Sonata to James Macmillan’s spiritual reflective music – ending with foot stomping klezmer and African style inspired pieces. Catch him on the 5 & 6 July only.

Off the back of the release of their debut number 1 charting collaboration, Kahn Morbee and Karen Zoid will present one concert only (3 July) of WE COULD BE DIVINE their new collaboration and a song writing process Kahn describes as “organic and effortless”. Festival audiences are well advised to book now for what is sure to be an early sell-out show.

Another Festival favourite is the GALA CONCERT; taking place on the closing weekend of the Festival this year (8 July) it will feature the Cape Town Philharmonic, conducted by Richard Cock, with soloists Abel Selaocoe (cello) and Luis Magalhães (piano).

Double platinum selling a cappella group The Soil will present two concerts on 30 June and 1 July. Defined as ‘Kasi Soul’, their music is a blend of contemporary township style and an eclectic mix of urban contemporary, fusing beat box and soul. This show has been opened for limited bookings, visit the box office to check availability.

RAGTIME PLUS (1&2 July) is an informative and highly accessible programme about ragtime music. Presented in France and Switzerland to great audience and critical response, it’s an ongoing and ever-evolving project, which changes as creator Liza Joubert finds different pieces and new information to present to different audiences.

The debut production by the award-winning Charl du Plessis Trio, BAROQUESWING, returns from sold out tours in Europe and the Far-East, to perform in a series of Grahamstown concerts with famous melodies from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Bach’s Air on a G String and Musette and Minuet from Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena, amongst others (29 and 30 June).

THE CHILDREN’S CONCERT is a great way to introduce children to music and the orchestra with a relaxed and interactive concert of popular classics and South African favourites – children can meet the musicians in the National Youth Wind Orchestra, and a few familiar (or unfamiliar) instruments. Catch it on the 7 July.

Another inspiration to children – and adults – everywhere is Pendo Masote, a 13-year-old violinist who will play with a small string ensemble. Born into a richly musical environment, Pendo is proof that classical music has a bright future. See him perform on 29 and 30 June and 1 July.

Jimmy Nevis whose hit songs include Elephant Shoes, Heart Boxing, Balloon, 7764, Misscato, All About It, and his breakout new single Don’t Wanna Fight will perform on 30 June only.

A journey through time and place, exploring new genres for the violin such as film and gaming music, is how Naomi Tagg describes NEOLEKTRA. “I wanted to break away from classical ideas of the violin and to present it in a light that was accessible to many more listeners than just the classical world,” says Tagg. Made up of 5 string players, a DJ/synthesist and a percussionist audiences can expect a dramatic show, that pushes boundaries, and disrupts our ideas of where instruments traditionally fit in. Two concerts only on 3 & 4 July.

Together with the Standard Bank Jazz Festival, the National Arts Festival 2017 presents Desmond and the Tutus and Opposite the Other in a Double Bill. Desmond and the Tutu’s have been touring their infectious shape-shifting brand of kwela-indie-punk for just on ten years. The band’s latest album Enjoy Yourself won the SAMA for Best Rock Album in 2016. Other highlights on the Jazz stage include Judith Sephuma, James Morrison Quintet (Austraila) Estafest (Netherlands), Michael Pipoquinha (Brazil), Marcus Wyatt’s BOMB SHELTER BEAST, Africa Mkhize and Kyle Shepherd among others.

While front man Sam Burger has, over the past years, established a solid YouTube following with over 200,000 hits, the band Opposite the Other was only founded in late 2015. Since then their star has risen fast. Their performance at Rocking the Daisies 2016 saw them voted one of the Top 20 acts at the festival and their first single Ride Away organically reached the Top 10 on the Spotify Global Viral 50 Chart (peaking at #8). Notably it also made its way into the Top 10 in the US and Top 5 in both Australia and New Zealand.

The double bill with Opposite the Other is on 29 June, whilst Desmond and the Tutus play their own gig on 30 June.

Early bird shows now open for booking can be found at https://www.nationalartsfestival.co.za/events/

Music, comedy take centre stage at National Arts Fest was originally published on Artsvark