#Marmont Hill

[glimmerindarlinginthesummer-blog]

#summertime #summer aesthetic #lana del rey aesthetic #retro aesthetic #los angeles #california #summer #poolside #ultraviolence #born to die #paradise #beverly hills #beverly hills hotel #ldr #ldr aesthetic #swimming pool #swimmingpoolglimmeringdarling #chateau marmont

[waynes-multiverse]

Soldier boy x breeding kink because we all know he has one 🥵🤰

@syrma-sensei

A/N: A fun one! Wasn't even surprised I got this one twice. Like lovely anon put it so perfectly, we all know that man has a heavy breeding kink, and I was all too happy to make his (and your) wishes come true. Let myself get a little inspired by the lyrics of the Zombie's song for this one 😈

Pairing: Soldier Boy x F!Reader

Warnings: +18/NSFW, drinking, celebrity name drops, smut (rough p in v, dirty talk, breeding kink, daddy kink, spanking, slight degrading, a technical age gap), naive reader, SB being a manipulative asshole

Word Count: 1.5k

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Time of the Season

April 1969

“She’s too young for you.”

Soldier Boy heaves an irritated sigh at his manager’s words but keeps his sparkling green eyes stubbornly trained on the young waitress who’s currently refilling Alan Arkin’s champagne glass. “Nonsense, Legend. She’s perfect. Just fuckin’ look at her,” he huffs and nurses his scotch.

“I am,” his manager insists. “She’s too fucking young for you. You’re technically turning fifty this year. Times are changing. You can’t just wet your dick with any pussy you want anymore. That girl doesn’t look older than twenty.”

“Twenty-three, actually,” Soldier Boy smirks cunningly. “I asked around. Prime of her life.”

The Legend scoffs and shakes his head. “Why don’t you fuck someone your age, huh? Like Katharine Hepburn?”

“You’re fucking kidding, right? That fucking broad is even older than me,” Soldier Boy bites and motions down two tables to the actress in question, admiring her little golden statue. He almost won one of those himself in 1951 for his biopic – not that he needs that useless glory.

“Do you know who has to clean up your fucking mess if you go a little too rough on this poor girl again? I do! And then there’s the reporters and the tabloids…”

“I’ll be careful, okay? Trust me. Last thing I wanna do is fucking break her,” he chuckles devilishly and empties his tumbler, flagging the young waitress down for another drink.

“Yes, sir? Can I get you another one?” She smiles brightly at him, shifting nervously on her low heels.

“That would be fantastic, doll,” Soldier Boy smiles charmingly up at her, causing a red tint to haunt her cheeks. “And how about you give me your name as well and tell me when I can get you outta this boring event, hm? Someone as pretty as you surely deserves to have some fucking fun, too.”

“Wow, I’ve never been here before,” the young girl gasps with eyes as wide as the illuminated Hollywood sign on the hills when Soldier Boy shoos her into his usual suite at the Chateau Marmont – room 29. “Was that Desi Arnaz in the lobby?”

“Uh-huh, yeah,” Soldier Boy mutters disinterestedly as he shuts the door behind them and wanders to the bar, pouring himself a glass of scotch on the rocks. “Lucy’s probably nagging the shit outta him again.”

“Really? But they seem like such a lovely couple,” Y/N, that's her name, says in surprise and eagerly accepts the glass of alcohol he hands her.

“Yeah, it’s called TV, doll. It’s all fake,” Soldier Boy forces a smile to his lips and sips on his drink as he leans against the dresser across from her, raking his eyes over her exquisite, hourglass body. Nice rack, juicy ass, and perfectly wide hips with a small waist he could squeeze between his large hands. With a figure like hers, she surely wouldn’t have any trouble bearing his sons.

“It’s so crazy. I grew up in a small town in Kansas. Never imagined any of this when I came here, much less meeting someone like you,” she explains, her cheeks blushing rosy-red.

Soldier Boy only chuckles, loving that he already has this girl exactly where he wants her without putting much effort into it. “Well, sugar, it’s my pleasure. Like I said, gorgeous girl like you deserves some attention,” he coos and saunters over to the bed, sitting down next to her. His hand reaches out and gently brushes a few loose strands of hair behind her ear, practically feeling the heat radiate off her cheeks from the simple gesture.

“I’m not that pretty,” she swallows insecurely and hides parts of her face. “Why did you pick me? There were way more beautiful and more important women in that room. I saw how Brigitte Bardot looked at you the whole night.”

Ben purses his lips, shaking his head. “Nah, you have something that these whores don’t have, doll. All they want is money and fame. I’m not interested in that. I’m not even interested in that for a fuck,” he lies before mixing in the truth, “You see, what I want is a family. A nice, obedient wife to come home to after a long, hard day.”

“Wife?” Her eyes widen in disbelief, but as he expected, she isn’t appalled by the idea.

His smile widens as he strokes the apple of her cheek. “Yeah, you know? Someone who takes care of me, can give me kids, make me dinner, bake a decent pie,” he tells her.

“Really? Well, I actually make a great blueberry pie. Even won a contest in my hometown a few years back,” she informs him proudly.

“See? I knew you were the perfect girl for me the moment I laid eyes on you,” Soldier Boy grins broadly. “And I mean, I don’t wanna impose, but you’re probably sick of waitressing and working odd jobs to make ends meet at this point, aren’t you? C’mon, lemme take care of you, huh? I can give you everything you want. You want a house? A credit card? Nice clothes? I’ll make sure every dream you have comes true, baby girl.”

For a moment, Y/N chews on her bottom lip before she meets his gaze with a hopeful look shimmering in her eyes. “You mean it?”

“Of course! I’d never lie to you, my sweet girl. You can trust me. I'm America's hero, after all,” he smiles slyly and lifts her chin with two fingers, forcing her to keep eye contact. “There’s just one thing you have to do for me.”

“Okay, anything,” Y/N all too eagerly nods her agreement. “Can I just ask your real name first? I don't wanna call you Soldier Boy during, uhm...”

Soldier Boy laughs lowly. “I’ll tell you in the morning, baby girl. How about for tonight, you just call me daddy, hm?”

“Fuck, daddy! Harder, please!” Y/N moans as he has her bent on the bed, crying out on all fours for him as he fucks into her from behind. Her perky ass is high up in the air as he grips the flesh on her hips, bruising her delicate skin purple, green, and blue.

Y/N has been a bit of a very positive surprise. So much so that he’s actually considering keeping the bitch. First of all, she’s deliciously loud. Dickhead Howard Hughes has already knocked on their door twice and complained about the unbearable noise level. Secondly, Y/N’s submissive and obedient and does just about anything he tells her to do. Nothing seems too shabby or naughty for that little whore. He fucked her throat till she was choking and crying, and still, she didn’t even whine once. She’s damn responsive, too, and comes faster than lightning. And last but not least, her pussy is probably one of the tightest ones he’s ever had, and if he didn’t plan on fucking a spawn into her, he’d love to fuck her asshole as well, but he supposes that one has to wait till she’s on her period, or better yet – already round with his child.

His balls tighten at the thought alone, slapping against her cunt as his thumb furiously rubs her clit to force another orgasm out of her. He just needs one more clench of his cock before he’s ready to burst as well and coat her walls with his seed.

“You’re gonna be my little breeding bitch now, huh?” Soldier Boy prompts, his palm sharply coming down on her asscheek as he spanks her luscious flesh, both globes already burning red from his constant abuse, but damn, he just can’t get enough of that noise.

“Yes, daddy… Wanna be full of your cum,” she whimpers needily and even pushes her hips back into him to meet his thrusts.

“Such a good slut you are,” he praises her and spanks her other cheek as well. “‘M proud of you, baby girl. You’re gonna make a great mother to our sons.”

“Fuck yes!”

“Gonna come for me again, hm? Need you to come one more time when I’m deep, so I can pump that pretty pussy full of cum,” Soldier Boy groans, spearing his thick cock in and out of her abused cunt.

One last harsh pound of his hips and Y/N breaks down, her pussy violently pulsating around his throbbing length and milking him dry as she takes him over the edge with her as her orgasm ripples through her small body. An animalistic grunt leaves his throat as he shoots hot ropes of cum deep inside her.

When he feels his dick soften, he carefully lays them both down, keeping her in place and his cock in her cunt as their sweat-clad bodies stick together on the filthy sheets. She’s breathing heavily, close to passing out, as he chuckles and lays a flat palm on her lower belly, gently brushing the spot.

“Fuck, you’re gonna look so good carrying my child, baby girl,” he whispers softly into her ear.

“Thank you, daddy. You’re the best,” Y/N mumbles blissfully, her eyes closing.

Y/N’s the sixth girl he fucked raw in the last couple of months. He always tells them the same thing but ends up fucking and leaving. All he wants is to know that his DNA is living on somewhere, running around in the world out there. But honestly? Y/N’s so perfect that he might just keep this one as a side piece and fuck a million more kids into her. Maybe he'll even buy her that fucking house.

Pfff, can you tell I had fucking fun with this one? 🤣

Btw, I've decided to keep the dirty drabbles open for now, so you can keep sending them in if you have more smutty thoughts and kinks to get off your chest 😉 I already have a loooot for Dean, so Beau, Jensen, and SB especially are very welcome! There's no timeline when I'll post them. I figured this could just be a fun little idea we can keep doing in between ☺️🤷‍♀️

So, you have a kinky request? Then fill up my ask box, bitches 🖤

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[josefavomjaaga]

That one time, when Soult accused Joseph of treason… (Part 1)

… needs a long disclaimer, I fear, and I’m not sure if I’m the best person to give it, or if I’ve only properly understood the military situation.

I’ve tried to explain it to myself in the most simplified way possible but I’m in no way sure that’s correct, so please, if somebody can explain it better, go ahead!

By spring 1812, the respective positions of the different armies were – I think - as shown in the map. Joseph was at Madrid, mostly undisturbed. At the border to Portugal, west of Madrid, was Marmont’s armée de Portugal, watching Wellington. In the south, Soult (armée du Midi) was all over the place, directing army movements from Estremadura to Murcia, running to whoever had last called for help, but mostly managing to keep things quiet. Between Marmont’s and Soult’s corps, keeping contact between them, there was Drouet’s corps d’observation of about 9,000 men, watching Hill’s British army across the border but not strong enough to go on the offensive. Not shown in the map: The region north of Madrid up to the French border (Valladolid, Burgos etc.) was all under French control.

The two main British corps could communicate freely and support each other at will, with the French usually only realizing it when it was too late. After the important border fortresses Badajoz and Ciudad-Rodrigo had fallen, both could march onto French controlled territory any time. Hill was ready to invade Andalusia, which is what Soult feared and why he had placed Drouet to watch him. At the same time, it was quite possible for Wellington to enter further north and threaten Marmont, which is what Joseph feared. And to Joseph’s credit, he was right, and Soult was wrong, the British adopted the second plan.

When it became clear that Wellington would be the one to act, Joseph wanted to reinforce Marmont’s army. He ordered Marmont to move north, in order to block Wellington’s path, sent orders to Soult to reinforce Drouet, and to Drouet to join Marmont. Drouet, however, would need to go to Madrid first and join Marmont from there (due to the Brits having destroyed the only bridge over the Tajo Drouet could have used).

At which point Soult protested that a) Joseph had no right to give orders to Drouet who happened to be under Soult’s command and b) this whole arrangement did not make the slightest bit of sense, as it left a huge gap in the French forces precisely where Hill’s army corps was lying in wait. Instead of moving north, Marmont should move south, thus getting closer to Drouet and Soult, and let Wellington try to move in – who would then get between two fires, from the French forces in Northern Spain and from Marmont’s corps, and would probably not even budge for fear of having his retreat cut off.

To which Joseph replied that a) he was the king here and that Napoleon on leaving for Russia had put him in command and b) thus he was to be obeyed, c) he was the king here, d) if Soult did not do as he was told he would be held accountable for anything bad that happened (which Soult knew he would be anyway), e) Soult was to either send Drouet to support Marmont, via Madrid, or to immediately send 10,000 men from his armée du Midi from Sevilla to Madrid, which would then join Marmont. And just in case Soult had forgotten: Joseph was the king here!

To which Soult replied that he had no 10,000 men to spare, because of the 20,000 men that Napoleon had intended as support for the Armée du Midi, not a single one had ever reached Sevilla, as they had all been taken in by the Armies in the North and by Joseph in order to guard Madrid. So his army was currently 20,000 men short, and if he had to deploy another 10,000 men, he could not guard Andalusia anymore and would need to evacuate it, which he would not do without an express order from the king, and that in any case he was offering his resignation.

To which Joseph replied that, being the king, he authorised Soult to evacuate whatever portion of Andalusia he deemed necessary to evacuate but that Soult was to immediately march to Madrid 10,000 men in support of Marmont’s army, or bear the consequences, and as to his resignation, Joseph would be only too glad to have it, as Soult had never shown the slightest inclination to respect Joseph’s authority, Joseph being, just in case Soult had forgotten, the king and also officially in command of the French forces in Spain ever since Napoleon had left for Rus…

At which point Marmont shouted from Salamanca: Guys? Remember that Wellington bloke? Well, he’s kinda he-ere…

Which caused Joseph to do something really, really extraordinary: He took the 13- to 14,000 troops that he had apparently had sitting around Madrid playing cards all this bloody time, basically next door to Marmont, and marched with them to reinforce the latter.

Something that, as Napoleon would later state, he f-ing could have done two weeks ago. (Well, Napoleon did not use the f-word. At least not in his official correspondence.)

Unfortunately, Joseph’s decision being a last minute one, the movement following no previously agreed plan and communications being what they were in Spain, Marmont never learned of Joseph coming to his aid, gave battle and was beaten by Wellington. (Napoleon actually accused Marmont of not having wanted to share the glory and thus not having waited for Joseph, because he could not imagine that Marmont had been completely left in the dark about Joseph coming to support him.)

That event is called the battle of Salamanca, or des Arapiles in France. Joseph learned of the defeat while on the march, habitually blamed Soult, and instead of trying to gather the remnants of Marmont’s corps and face the British forces, retreated north. (Another thing Napoleon would later critisize him for.)

Wellington was now free to move on to Madrid, and Joseph and Soult got into another long discussion. Joseph declared that Southern Spain, so far kept mostly under control by Soult, had to be given up because it would not be possible to maintain a line of communications to the French forces in the north with Madrid gone. Soult on the other hand suggested Joseph should come to the South, to Andalusia, as long as it was still possible, from where they could try to redeem the situation and wait for reinforcements from France.

Of course Joseph wanted to hear nothing of that. So Soult, in August, really had to evacuate Andalusia, and the French-controlled territory in one go shrank down to some northern and eastern provinces (Suchet’s territory) at the coast.

It was at this point that Soult started to get suspicious about Joseph. As he writes in his memoirs:

The king in two words gave me the order to evacuate Andalusia. As if he had not even thought about it, he did not say anything about what was to be done with the sick […], all the material, the enormous artillery in front of Cadiz, the ammunition, the siege and fortification works etc. He did not tell me any more about what he would do in order to support my retreat.

This attitude (just get out of Andalusia and come north), this lack of premeditation and planning to Soult seemed incomprehensible – and that’s what made him think that maybe there indeed was a plan:

It never occurred to me that the king maybe did not see all the consequences as clearly as I did. This was probably an error of mine. […] I could not help but to consider some connections. From Cadiz I received many rumours about secret negotiations between the king and the Cortès [i.e., the insurgents]. I knew that the crown prince of Sweden [Bernadotte], brother-in-law of the king, started to adopt a hostile attitude to France, that he served as intermediary between the emperor of Russia and general Moreau […]

Add to this the curious lack of interest that Joseph showed for the evacuation of Andalusia, the - to Soult - incomprehensible orders Joseph had given about how to manoeuvre, almost as if he wanted to compromise the army and be forced to retreat, the fact that he was on well enough terms with the enemy Cortès of Cadiz to ask them to send him an honour guard, his mouvements after the battle of Salamanca, and the fact that, as Soult puts it “the little work [Joseph’s] administration had to do was usually in opposition to the interests of the French army”, and you have more than enough food for thought for a notoriously distrustful character like Soult to suspect Joseph might be up to no good. Soult seriously wondered if Joseph was ready to compromise French interests in order to be granted a separate peace and some smaller Spanish territory to rule over by the insurgents and/or the Brits.

And that’s when he wrote a letter to Napoleon, and to Clarke. But I’ll get to that at a later date in another post, because it’s really a lot to chew on.

#napoleon's family #joseph bonaparte #napoleon's marshals #jean de dieu soult #this surprisingly often reads like two five-year-olds squabbling over who gets to make the rules for the game in the sandbox #spain 1812 #battle of salamanca #joseph and soult

[barbratempleton]

you know what i want? i want a house in the hills. not a modern mansion but a true old hollywood house, with a ton of random memorabilia laying around, potentially a grammy or an oscar peaking through the clutter. i dont want a museum, i want a home. i want to stand in my front yard in a dress i wore to a party at Chateau Marmont a night before and notice a paparazzi from across the street taking pictures. i want to walk down my street to a coffee shop being filmed asked 'how's your day going' and 'is it true that you and...'. i know it's shallow and to the ones living this a nightmare but to me it's a dream i refuse to wake up from.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

Marmont Hill Boy on High Dive, Norman Rockwell

#norman rockwell

[northernmariette]

Happy Birthday, Marshal Marmont!

Considering the length of this post, I guess I’m making up somewhat for all the other Marshals whose birthday I neglected in the past few months. I’m also interested in this Marshal because he has become such a cardboard cutout in the popular imagination, and nobody on Earth is a cardboard cutout; this characterization only makes me more curious about what he was actually like. 

A biography of Marmont, in French, was published just a year or two ago. Reading its first pages from the Amazon site ( https://www.amazon.ca/MARMONT-Franck-Favier/dp/2262068054/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2XGX0RQWO1G9P&keywords=marmont&qid=1658303682&s=books&sprefix=marmont%2Cstripbooks%2C127&sr=1-2&asin=B07DGNKW98&revisionId=&format=2&depth=1 ), I found out how carefully educated he was, the one surviving child of well-to-do, happily married, doting parents.

As I’m always interested in links between prominent people of the period, I was happy to discover that he knew an already turbulent Junot from adolescence; that he met Napoleon as early as 1791, and Duroc in 1792; and that in 1793, he was serving under Kellermann, the oldest future Marshal and he, Marmont, the youngest. Their difference in age was forty years.

About Kellermann, Marmont wrote this to his mother: that Kellermann was an old military commander who had previously fought in 16 campaigns, and who took advice from nobody; but who did seek Marmont’s opinion at times, and who adopted it. Did Kellermann do so? I don’t know, but Marmont’s education was excellent, as previously noted, and whatever one might think about him he was one sharp tack.

Finally, this is some of what old curmudgeon McDonnell wrote about Marmont's time in Dalmatia: "His activity was prodigious. He set up a new constitution for the ancient city of Ragusa, conducted negotiations with Turkey and Montenegro, created the Dalmatian Legion, appointed new judges, reorganized the finances of both his army and of the country, established large depôts in various towns in order to enable him to march independently of lines of communication, drew up plans for an invasion of Turkey, decentralized the military hospitals, built fortifications, bridges, dykes, among the marsh-lands and cutting through the rocks, and during his governorship visited every village and hamlet in all Dalmatia, and knew every hill and mountain by its name." I wish I had this kind of energy.

#auguste viesse de marmont #napoleon's marshals #marshals' save-the-date calendar

[boricuacherry-blog]

After James Franco published his fictional account entitled "Bungalow 89" where he claims he didn't sleep with Lindsay Lohan, just read her a bedtime story about bananafish, Lindsay countered with a short story of her own:

James Franco says we did not have sex, and one of the things I learned growing up in a family of chaos was to respect other people's truths, even if that truth is something they made up driving home wasted in an Escalade that I frickin bought. Anyway, since he has shared his version of events, I think it's only fair I shared mine.

It was a few years ago. I don't remember if I was sober or not. I think I probably was. I actually never even really drank that much, and as I told Oprah, I only did coke 10-15 times, so statistically, the chances are good I was not wasted when this happened.

I was wandering around the Chateau Marmont, which is a hotel. I will say that I do like the Chateau because there are lots of beautiful flowers tended by people who care as deeply about tending flowers as I do about my passion, starring in films.

I had just taken a swim in the pool where, per the advice of several therapists, I had taken some time to imagine that I was one of any number of various sea creatures.

Afterwards I had taken a leisurely shower and then put a deep conditioning pack on my hair. So I was just walking around inhaling the scent of night blooming jasmine and my deep conditioning pack when one of the bungalow doors opened.

This guy stuck his head out. I didn't know who it was. In fact at first I thought it was this guy who worked at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on Beverly Hills and I was like, what is he doing here? "Hey," he said.

As I got closer I saw that it was that actor who always wants people to think that he's smart but I still couldn't remember his name.

"Oh hey," I said.

"What are you doing?" he said.

"I'm deep conditioning my hair," I said.

"Why?" he said. He said it in this really challenging way, like deep conditioning your hair was against the law.

"Uh, because it has a lot of split ends from being so color treated and all the extensions that I have used over the last few years, being an actress who cares about my craft, the way that Chateau Marmont flower-tenders care about flowers."

He shook his head. He was kind of good looking I guess but there was something about his face. He looked so serious, like he had just finished reading 1000 books and had to read 1000 more or he was never going to get to watch TV again.

He said, "Have you ever thought about all the time you spend deep conditioning your hair? Have you ever thought about the expectations that society places on you as a celebrity and how you exploit yourself by responding to them?"

I said, "Duh, that's all I think about. But deep conditioning my hair is one of the ways I find my center."

"That's beautiful," he said. He actually got a tear in his eye. Then he said, "I'm sorry, it's just that the intersection of the banal commercial world with narratives about inner peace triggers a conditioned, sentimental response in me that produces something like actual feelings."

It was all clear now. "You're James Franco," I said.

He asked me to come in and I did. I sat in a chair.

"Can I read you a story?"

He said it was called A Perfect Day for Bananafish. I don't remember very much about it, except at one point, he stopped reading and started to explain to me that it should really be called something else gross and dumb because of something about the fish being phallic which personally I feel like he made up. I can't really remember. I was so tired, but somewhere, a little voice piped up and let me know there was actually a really brilliant way to get through the next hour of my life without having to walk all the way back to my room, and I was like, "If I have sex with you, will you stop talking?"

I am a lady, so I don't want to tell you what happened next.

#time magazine #lindsay lohan #james franco #chateau marmont #story #a perfect day for bananafish #article #j.d. salinger

[venusofsuburbia]

Sleepover Saturday q: If you were to tell a tourist what they should do in 3 days to get the Best LA Experience, what would you recommend? This includes occult sites/stores, really any place you'd recommend

oooooh okay! I'm assuming you're starting in Hollywood, because that's where I live, so here we go!

DAY 1: get thee to the Academy Museum. it is exquisite and it will make you feel some type of way about movies but it probably won't take all day so go ahead and wander about LACMA and the La Brea Tar Pits for the rest of the afternoon. either pay to go to into the exhibits at LACMA or stick to the free stuff (Urban Light and the tar pits); they're all in the same park on the same block so be sure to take your time and enjoy the green space and beautiful sunshine. head to the permanent farmers' market at the Grove for dinner, and make sure you go up to the top floor of the parking garage to see the best views this side of the San Gabriel mountains. if you have time, go to the Quentin Tarantino-owned New Beverly Cinema to catch a movie on 35mm film before heading back to Hollywood to see the Times Square of the west coast: the Walk of Fame lit up for the night.

DAY 2: driving all over god's beautiful forsaken creation is a time-honored LA tradition, so today you are gonna take the interstate 10 out to the Pacific Coast Highway and drive all the way up along the coast. stop wherever you want. the beauty of SoCal beaches is that you can just pull over on the side of the road and hop out of the car onto the sand and into the ocean! it's easy! it's free! it's what god intended! then once your feet have gotten wet, keep going up to the Self-Realization Fellowship Center, aka the lake shrine, and sit for an hour or so in meditation by the lake. then keep going up the PCH past the Getty Villa to route 27, and take that all the way through Topanga. the canyon views are sublime. (at least until you get back to the 101.) oh and for food, make sure you stop at whatever mom & pop place catches your fancy along the way. I had a really good tuna burger at Malibu Fresh Fish Market patio cafe, but as a general rule whatever looks good probably is.

DAY 3: get an early start and drive west down the Sunset Strip. Sunset is easily one of the very best streets in the city because if you stay on it long enough you get to experience the best of what Hollywood has to offer, from the strip to Bel Air to the Pacific Ocean if you drive far enough, but today we're going to turn onto Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills to go up to Mulholland Drive. YES it is every bit as beautiful as the movies make it seem, however it is a WHOLE LOT more twisting and winding so I really would not recommend going more than 25mph. you're gonna take Mulholland back east toward the 101, and then head for Burbank, my favorite shopping destination bar none. in one neighborhood you have Besame Cosmetics' flagship store, The Crooked Path occult shop, the Mystic Museum horror boutique with rotating exhibits, and piles of stores like Slone Vintage and the year-round Rob Zombie-owned Halloween Town. further downtown (still in Burbank) there's Unique Vintage's only brick-and-mortar store, Story tavern (great burgers), and Artelice patisserie, where they always make the macarons fresh and if you get there late enough in the day, they'll give you some free ones with your pastry.

DAY 4 (BONUS DAY): if you still have time after all that, go take a morning hike in Runyon Canyon and then head for a studio tour at Warner Brothers. eat lunch beforehand at the Smoke House (open since 1946) right across the way, and eat dinner afterward in Hollywood at Musso & Frank's (open since 1929). grab some cocktails at the Roosevelt Hotel or Chateau Marmont afterward if you feel like it. idk I'm not the boss of you.

#los angeles #i could do a whole week's worth of these i love los angeles so much it's not even funny #this city has my whole heart and it makes me sad when people are mean to it #especially people who live here??? like just LEAVE please there's not enough parking as it is #luxephire #sleepover saturday #questions queries quandaries

[fillielitsa]

Marmont Hill - Handmade Tree in Town Square

[closertotheheart]

Marmont Hill Art Collective.

[byneddiedingo]

Henry Kendall and Joan Barry in Rich and Strange (Alfred Hitchcock, 1931) Cast: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann, Elsie Randolph. Screenplay: Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Val Valentine, based on a novel by Dale Collins. Cinematography: Jack E. Cox, Charles Martin. Art direction: C. Wilfred Arnold. Music: Adolph Hallis. One of Alfred Hitchcock's early talkie flops, Rich and Strange begins well, with an opening shot of Fred Hill (Henry Kendall) at work in an expressionist-style depersonalized office set, followed by a montage showing his attempt to make it home on the Underground, dealing with elbowing crowds and a recalcitrant umbrella. There's a nicely synched bit in which umbrellas open to musical flourishes before Fred's fizzles. Then it's home to a drab and chaotic existence before the Hills receive their wished-for deliverance from the daily muddle: A rich uncle tells Fred that he can have an advance on his inheritance so he and his wife, Emily (Joan Barry), can live a little. They set off to see the world. This early part of the film is perhaps the best because it mostly picks up on the skills Hitchcock learned through his work in silent movies. In fact, it is shot through with droll title cards and very little dialogue of consequence. The Hills are overwhelmed by Paris and shocked at the Folies Bergère, then board ship -- not a promising moment for Fred, who succumbed to seasickness on the Channel crossing -- for a cruise on the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal toward Asia. (The American title was East of Shanghai.) And then the talk takes over, as both Fred and Emily have shipboard romances, she with a somewhat dashing bachelor on his way to Ceylon, he with a German "princess" who cons him out of his money. Rich and Strange is a curious mess, with Kendall, a once-well-known music hall comedian, awkward in the romantic part of Fred's story. Barry worked for Hitchcock before, dubbing  Anny Ondra's lines in  Blackmail (1929), but as an on-screen performer she's not much more than pretty. Hitchcock liked the film, but nobody else did very much, and opinion doesn't seem to have changed with time.

#Rich and Strange #Alfred Hitchcock #Henry Kendall #Joan Barry

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Billboard, August 22, 2019

With her new album, 'Norman Fucking Rockwell,' the singer makes her most adventurous and candid music yet -- and leads Billboard's list of the 38 most-anticipated things about music this fall.

YOU’VE GOT TO CLIMB THE HILL BEHIND the Chateau Marmont to get to the office where I’m meeting Lana Del Rey, which feels appropriately on the nose on this early-August day: The hotel is Hollywood’s ultimate nexus of glamour and doom, the keeper of 90 years of celebrity secrets that touch everyone from Bette Davis to Britney Spears. It shows up in the homemade visuals for Del Rey’s breakout single “Video Games” and in the lyrics of songs like “Off to the Races.” She lived here while writing her Paradise EP in 2012. Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski lived here, too, in Room 54, before moving to Cielo Drive where — exactly 50 years ago, as of midnight tonight — the Manson Family arrived.

But these kinds of connections are standard in the Lana Del Rey multiverse, where nods to Bob Dylan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Elton John and Henry Miller can coexist in a single chorus and not feel overdone. (No, seriously: Play her 2017 duet with Sean Ono Lennon, “Tomorrow Never Came.”) And if the Lana of five years ago radiated significant Sharon Tate circa Valley of the Dolls energy, the 34-year-old singer-songwriter has more of a Summer of Love thing going on now. The songs she has previewed from her fifth album, the exquisitely titled Norman Fucking Rockwell, are far more Newport Folk Festival than femme fatale — meandering psych-rock jam sessions and slippery piano ballads that shout out Sylvia Plath. The narrative thread throughout all of this can lead listeners down an endless rabbit hole of references, but you can sum it up like so: The music Lana Del Rey makes could only be made by Lana Del Rey.

That means songs like the nearly 10-minute-long “Venice Bitch,” the most psychedelic tune in her catalog, or the title track, a ballad rich with one-liner gems like, “Your poetry’s bad, and you blame the news” — songs that represent the best writing in her career yet have almost zero chance of radio play. Norman Fucking Rockwell, out Aug. 30, is a “mood record,” as Del Rey describes it while perched barefoot on a velvet couch in the new office of her longtime management company, an airy pad way up in the Hollywood Hills with platinum plaques scattered about that no one has gotten around to hanging up yet. There are no big bangers, just songs you can jam out to during beach walks and long drives. This is not exactly a surprise: Del Rey’s only top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 was a raving Cedric Gervais remix of her song “Summertime Sadness.” But in the streaming era, when success often means getting easily digestible singles on the right playlists, making an album that’s meant to be wallowed in for 70 minutes isn’t just inspired — it’s defiant.

Yet it’s an approach that has worked for Del Rey: Her songs, even the long, weird ones, easily rack up tens of millions of streams, and overall they have amassed a solid 3.9 billion on-demand streams in the United States, according to Nielsen Music. Collectively, her catalog of albums has sold 3.2 million copies in the United States, and all of her full-length major-label studio albums have debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 1 or No. 2. The first of those, 2012’s Born to Die, is one of only three titles by a woman to spend over 300 weeks on the Billboard 200. (The other two: Adele’s 21 and Carole King’s Tapestry.) Born to Die also has spent 142 weeks on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart — more than Prince’s Purple Rain, tied with Michael Jackson’s Thriller and just behind Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. It’s an indication that, as broad as her fan base is, it also runs deep, with a ratio of hardcore devotees to casual ones that even stars with inescapable radio hits might envy.

Credit Del Rey’s strong aesthetic and singular throwback sound that, as it has moved away from its initial pop and hip-hop influences, has kept young fans interested and allowed them to grow up with her. “When we sign [an artist], it’s not necessarily what everyone was listening to, but they had real vision,” says Interscope chairman/CEO John Janick. “Lana’s at ground zero of that. There have been so many other people who’ve been inspired by Lana. She’s massive, she has sold millions of albums, but it always has been on her terms.”

This has been Del Rey’s deal from the jump. “Some people really are trying to get in the mix of the zeitgeist, and that is just not my MO — never cared,” says Del Rey, cradling a coffee with sky blue-painted fingertips. “My little heart’s path has such a distinct road that it’s almost taking me along for the ride. Like, ‘I guess we’re following this muse, and it wants to be in the woods. OK, I guess we’re packing up the truck!’ It’s truly ethereal, and it’s a huge pain in the ass.”

Del Rey’s instincts are what led Interscope to sign her to an international joint-venture deal with U.K. label Polydor in 2011 and what compelled her managers Ed Millett and Ben Mawson to create their company, TaP Music, with Del Rey as their first client in 2009. “It was at that moment of peak piracy when no one in the music business was making money, so labels just weren’t taking risks,” recalls Millett. “You’d play one of her songs at an A&R meeting, and they’d be like, ‘You know what’s selling at the moment? Kesha.’ But we were lucky with Lana because she knew exactly who she was. Our job was about making sure everybody understood that.”

That battle for understanding has followed Del Rey for much of her career. “People just couldn’t believe she could be so impactful without some svengalis behind her. I still think there’s a tinge of misogyny behind all that,” says Millett, referencing the endless debates about Del Rey’s creative autonomy. “She realized very quickly, being at the center of that storm, you’re not going to win.” So she went deeper into her own weird world, and somewhere between her third and fourth records — the haunted jazz of 2015’s Honeymoon and the new-age folk of 2017’s Lust for Life — it felt like people finally got it. Or, at least, the people who were meant to get it got it. After all, Del Rey never had intended to make popular music, even if she now headlines festivals. It just kind of happened that way: a poet disguised as a pop star.

In many ways, Norman Fucking Rockwell feels like a fulfillment of the groundwork she has spent nearly a decade laying: She is now free to be Lana, no questions asked. “People want to embrace her lack of formula,” says Millett. “And now she can do whatever the hell she wants because people have accepted that, well, she’s brilliant.” Though she has sold out arenas in the past, the North American leg of her upcoming fall tour has her playing amphitheaters and outdoor venues that feel especially suited to the style of her music. And if her songs feel lighter, it’s because Del Rey does, too.

“I mean, God, I have never taken a shortcut — and I think that’s going to stop now,” she says, feet kicked up on the coffee table. “It hasn’t really served me well to go by every instinct. It’s the longer, more arduous road. But it does get you to the point where, when everyone is just copying each other, you’re like, ‘I know myself well enough that I don’t want to go to that foam rave in a crop top.’ ”

Although that does sound kind of dope, now that she’s thinking about it. “Yeah, never mind,” she says, laughing. “Google ‘nearest foam rave.’ ”

IN PERSON, DEL REY’S VIBE isn’t noir heroine or folk troubadour so much as friend from college who now lives in the suburbs. Her jean shorts, white T-shirt and gray cardigan could’ve easily been snatched off a mannequin at the nearest American Eagle Outfitters. A couple of times in our conversation, she lets out a “Gee whiz!” like a side character in a Popeye cartoon. Between the tour announcements and Gucci campaign shoots, her Instagram consists mostly of screenshot poetry and Easter brunch pics with her girlfriends. For the most distinctive popular songwriter of the past decade, she appears disarmingly basic.

“Oh, I am! I’m actually only that,” agrees Del Rey, eyes gleaming. “I’ve got a more eccentric side when it comes to the muse of writing, but I feel very much that writing is not my thing: I’m writing’s thing. When the writing has got me, I’m on its schedule. But when it leaves me alone, I’m just at Starbucks, talking shit all day.” Starting in 2011, when her nearly drumless, practically hookless breakthrough single “Video Games” blew up, the suddenly polarizing singer found it hard to move through the real world unbothered. But something changed a few years back; she’s not sure if she chilled out or if everyone else did. In any case, she’s happiest among the people, whether that’s lingering in Silverlake coffee shops or dipping out to Newport to rollerblade. “I’ve got my ear to the ground,” she says with a conspiratorial wink. “Actually, that’s my main goal.”

Somehow this only makes Del Rey weirder and cooler: the high priestess of sad pop who now smiles on album covers and posts Instagram stories inviting you to check out her homegirl’s fitness event in Hermosa Beach. You could feel the shift on Lust for Life, which enlisted everyone from A$AP Rocky to Stevie Nicks and traded the interiority of her early songwriting for anthems about women’s rights and the state of the world. She even seemed down to play the pop game a bit, though by her own rules: She worked with superproducer Max Martin on the title track, even as it quoted ’60s girl groups and cast R&B juggernaut The Weeknd as the long-lost Beach Boy.

Among those entering Del Rey’s creative fold on Norman Fucking Rockwell is Jack Antonoff, the four-time Grammy Award-winning producer who has become a go-to collaborator on synth-pop heavy hitters for the likes of Lorde and Taylor Swift. Enlisting Big Pop’s most in-demand producer doesn’t seem like a very Lana Del Rey move, and she knows it.

“I wasn’t in the mood to write,” she admits. “He wanted me to meet him in some random diner, and I was like, ‘You already worked with everyone else; I don’t know where there’s room for me.’ ” But when Antonoff played her 10 minutes of weird, atmospheric riffs, Del Rey could immediately picture her new album: “A folk record with a little surf twist.” In the end, Antonoff wound up co-producing almost the whole project, alongside longtime collaborator Rick Nowels and Del Rey herself.

Most of Norman Fucking Rockwell follows similar whims — or, as Del Rey puts it, “Divine timing.” Though artists like Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande have taken the creation of pop music to a more informal and impulsive place — Eilish recorded her debut album with her producer brother Finneas O’Connell in his childhood bedroom, while Grande wrote most of Thank U, Next in a weeklong blitz — Del Rey’s approach seems even more casual. “She doesn’t follow any kind of plan beyond what she feels is right, and it works every time,” says Millett.

That includes the cover of Sublime’s sleazy 1996 hit “Doin’ Time” — essentially the “Summertime Sadness” of the Long Beach, Calif., ska band’s discography — recorded out of pure fandom, yet somehow a perfect complement to the album’s beach bum vibe. “We were involved in executive-producing the [recent] Sublime documentary because their catalog is through Interscope, and Lana was talking about how big a fan she was,” says Janick. As it happened, her earliest producer was David Kahne, who had worked with Sublime in the ’90s. “So she ended up doing that cover, which turned out amazing. But then she felt like it fit the aesthetic of the album.”

The album title was just something she came up with when she randomly harmonized the name of the American illustrator while recording “Venice Bitch,” though she recognizes that she and Rockwell — an idealist whose cozy depictions of Boy Scouts and Thanksgiving turkeys graced magazine covers for half the 20th century — have both explored big questions about the American dream in their work. And then there’s the artwork she has been using for the record’s singles: bizarrely casual iPhone photos that feel a bit tossed-off because, well, they are.

“Every time my managers write me, ‘Album art?,’ I’m just like, send!” she cackles, pantomiming taking a selfie. “And they just send the middle-finger emoji back to me.”

THE WEEK OF OUR INTERVIEW, JUST a few days after two consecutive mass shootings took place in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Del Rey recorded a song called “Looking for America.” She hadn’t planned to write it, but the shootings affected her on a “cellular level,” as she phrased it in an Instagram preview, which also included a sharp disclaimer: “Now I know I’m not a politician and I’m not trying to be so excuse me for having an opinion.” Over Antonoff’s acoustic guitar, she sings softly, “I’m still looking for my own version of America/One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly.”

The quiet protest song is a move you can hardly imagine her making five years ago. It wasn’t until Lust for Life, she acknowledges, that she felt brave enough to have an overt political opinion. “It is quite a critical world, where people are like, ‘Stick to singing!’ ” she says. “They don’t say that to everyone, but I heard that a lot.”

With that sense of permission has come a kind of peace and an acceptance that evaded Del Rey in her early career; she has never indulged her critics, but it’s nice to be understood. “Sometimes with women, there was so much criticism if you weren’t just one way that was easily metabolized and decipherable — you were a crazy person,” she marvels, noting a shift in the perception of female pop stars that happened only recently (one catalyzed in large part by her own career arc). She recently recorded a song for the soundtrack to the upcoming Charlie’s Angels reboot with Grande and Miley Cyrus — stars who also have faced criticism for the ways in which they don’t conform to the expectations of women in the spotlight.

Her newest songs are some of her most personal, particularly the album closer, “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have — but i have it” (a title only Del Rey could pull off). It also hovers anxiously on the margins of the #MeToo movement, though never in such broad strokes. “It was staggered with references from living in Hollywood and seeing so many things that didn’t look right to me, things that I never thought I’d have permission to talk about, because everyone knew and no one ever said anything,” she says in a tangle of sentences as knotty as the lyrics themselves. “The culture only changed in the last two years as to whether people would believe you. And I’ve been in this business now for 15 years!

“So I was writing a song to myself.” She exhales deeply, sinking back into the sofa. “Hope truly is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have, because I know so much.” Del Rey pauses. “But I have it.”

Del Rey has been thinking a lot about hope and faith lately. She has been going to church every Wednesday and Sunday with a group of her girlfriends; they get coffee beforehand, and it has become something to look forward to. She likes the idea of a network of people you can talk to about wanting something bigger — just another extension of her fondness for pondering the mysteries of the universe. (Fittingly, she studied metaphysics and philosophy at Fordham University in New York.) “I genuinely think the thing that has transformed my life the most is knowing that there’s magic in the concept of two heads are better than one,” she says.

That has crept into her music, too. Del Rey says she hadn’t realized until recently how isolating her creative process had been for so long. These days, studio sessions feel more like cozy jam sessions, according to Laura Sisk, the Grammy-winning engineer who worked closely on the record with Del Rey and Antonoff. “Something I love about Norman is how much of the energy of the room we’re able to record,” says Sisk. “We often don’t use a vocal booth, so we’re sitting in a room together recording, usually right after the song was written and the feeling is still heavy in the room.”

Even the cover of Norman Fucking Rockwell, Del Rey says, was designed to cultivate a sense of community. For the first time in her discography, she’s not pictured by herself. She’s on a boat at sea, one arm wrapped around actor Duke Nicholson (a family friend and grandson of Jack), the other reaching out to pull the viewer aboard. As she explains the idea, Del Rey rifles through her sizable mental rolodex of quotations and offers this one from Humphrey Bogart by way of Ernest Hemingway: “ ‘The sea is the last free place on earth.’ ” A place, in other words, where you can finally just be you.

Del Rey says her album covers tend to be self-fulfilling prophecies — whatever energy she puts out tends to shape the next chapter of her life. She’s eager to see how this one, with its open arms and sense of adventure, manifests itself. “We’re going somewhere,” she says with a mysterious grin. “I don’t know where we’re going. But wherever it is, my feet are going to be on the ground.”

Originally published on billboard.com with the headline Lana Del Rey on Finding Her Voice and Following Her Muse: ‘I Have Never Taken a Shortcut’, and in the August 24, 2019 issue of Billboard with the headline Lana Del Rey Speaks Her Mind.

#2019 #Norman Fucking Rockwell! #Billboard #Meaghan Garvey

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Halloween: Wo gruselts sich am Besten?

Am 31. Oktober ist es wieder soweit: Im Supermarkt begegnet man bunten Hexen, auch Zombies hinken über die Straßen und an den Türen klingeln kleine Vampire und rufen „Süßes, sonst gibt’s Saures!“. Halloween ist ein Fest, das weltweit unterschiedlich gefeiert wird. Einen Grundgedanken hat der Tag jedoch überall gemeinsam: es soll gruselig sein! Anlässlich des schaurigsten Tags des Jahres stellen wir Mythen über das Fest und Erlebnisse vor, die man sich nicht entgehen lassen sollte. InhaltEuropa Halloween ist ein traditionell irisches Fest Spukendes Edinburgh, Schottland Halloween im Vegnügungspark Liseberg in Schweden Naher Osten Motiongate Dubai lädt mit filmreifen Schreckgeschichten zum Gruseln ein Über den großen Teich Kentucky: Louisville - Geistertouren und Gänsehautmomente Geistertouren in Old Louisville Gruselige Themenwege Viktorianische Geistertour Die Phantome der Prohibition Spuk im alten Sanatorium Das beeindruckendste Halloween-Event der Stadt – The Jack-O'-Lantern-Spectacular Philadelphia - mit Segways zu Gruselorten New York - Long Island Familienfreundlicher Gruselspaß Handgeschnitzte Kürbisgeister Untote Grabräuber und Piraten Zeitreise zu Jack the Ripper Haunted Mansion of Melville auf Long Island Brennende Boote treiben die Geister aus Arizona: Halloween wird im Grand Canyon State groß gefeiert Zombie Crawl in Scottsdale Spuk auf dem Cleopatra Hill Eine Zeitreise in den Wilden Westen in Goldfield In Bisbee beginnt das Gruseln bei Nacht Spuk, Gespenster und übernatürliche Kräfte – auch West Virginia führt seine Besucher in eine andere Welt Halloween on Central in St. Pete/Clearwater, Florida Hotels mit Halloween-Geschichte Coco Chanel und Lady Di – Hotel Ritz, Paris Anna Nicole Smith – Seminole Hard Rock Hotel, Florida John Belushi und Helmut Newton – Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles Janis Joplin – Highland Gardens Hotel, Los Angeles Oscar Wilde – L´Hôtel, Paris Weitere Grusel-Anregungen

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Halloween ist ein traditionell irisches Fest Halloween steht vor der Tür - aber wusstest Du, dass wir Irland die beliebtesten Bräuche und Traditionen zu dieser unheimlichen Zeit des Jahres zu verdanken haben? Die irrlichternenden Fratzen ausgehöhlter Kürbisse kündigen dieses besondere Fest schon an, in der Nacht geistern dann leichenblasse Schauergestalten: blutrünstige Vampire, Voll-, Halb- und Untote neben warzennasigen Hexenweibern. Seinen Ursprung hat Halloween in den Nebeln von Irlands historischem Osten und im keltischen Samhain-Fest, einem großen Fest mit Feuer und Festmahl. Samhain ist nach dem altkeltischen Kalender mit Neujahr gleichzusetzen; ebenso steht es für das Ende des Lebens und den Eintritt in das Reich der Toten, die mit diesem Fest geehrt wurden. In dieser Zeit des Übergangs glaubten die Kelten an eine Wechselwirkung zwischen der Welt der Lebenden und der Welt der Toten und daran, dass Geister zwischen ihnen hin- und herwandern können. Aus Angst, dass alle möglichen Wesen sie vor ihrer Zeit in die andere Welt ziehen könnten, verkleideten sich die Kelten, um die umherziehenden Geister, Feen, Kobolde und Dämonen zu verwirren und zu verscheuchen. Sie sangen Lieder oder sprachen Gebete für die Seelen der Verstorbenen und erhielten im Gegenzug Lebensmittel, in der Regel einen Seelenkuchen, ein Fladenbrot mit Früchten. Diese Tradition war als "Souling" bekannt. Dieser Brauch, sich zu verkleiden und Hausbesuche zu machen, um kleine Geschenke in Form von Süßigkeiten, Früchten und Geld zu erbitten, ist in Irland und in vielen anderen Ländern der Welt unter der Bezeichnung "Trick or Treat" (Süßes oder Saures) noch heute lebendig und verbreitet. Im frühen Mittelalter verstanden die missionarischen Kirchenväter Samhain als ein heidnisches Totenfest. Sie besetzten es mit Allerheiligen und Allerseelen, den katholischen Totengedenktagen. Am "Abend vor Allerheiligen" ist "All Hallows' Eve" - daraus wurde im Laufe der Jahrezehnte: "Halloween". Sein originäres Brauchtum war ursprünglich nur im katholischen Irland verbreitet, kam nach Amerika und ging von dort kommerzialisiert um die Welt. Dabei wandelte sich das Fest von einem Volks- zum Familienfest, das auf lustig-makabre Weise gefeiert wird. Der moderne Brauch, sich an Halloween zu verkleiden, ist fest mit den alten vorchristlichen keltischen Bräuchen verwurzelt, ebenso wie die Tradition des Anzündens von großen zeremoniellen Samhain-Feuern, die ihren Ursprung auf den Hügeln Irlands hatten, wo sich Clans und Gemeinschaften versammelten. Eines der größten keltischen Feuerfeste fand auf dem Gipfel von Tlachtga oder dem Hill of Ward in der heutigen Grafschaft Meath statt. Jüngste archäologische Ausgrabungen deuten darauf hin, dass der Hügel schon vor über 2.000 Jahren für Feste und Feiern genutzt wurde. Und aus alten Handschriften geht hervor, dass die Kelten hier ein Feuer entzündeten, von dem aus alle Feuer in Irland neu entfacht wurden. Beleuchtete Kürbisse mit schaurigen Gesichtern sind ein weiterer beliebter Aspekt von Halloween. Der Brauch, Kürbisse zu schnitzen, begann in Irland, wo Rüben und große Kartoffeln kunstvoll geschnitzt wurden. Der Name der Halloween-Dekoration stammt aus einer irischen Volkserzählung über einen Mann namens Stingy Jack, der dem Teufel einen Streich spielte. Zur Strafe verdammte der Teufel Jack dazu, bis in alle Ewigkeit mit einer brennenden Glut aus den ewigen Feuern der Hölle in einer Rübe umherzuwandern, um seinen Weg zu erleuchten. Irische Einwanderer brachten die Tradition schließlich nach Amerika, der Heimat des Kürbisses, und der Winterkürbis ist heute ein fester Bestandteil der Halloween-Feierlichkeiten. Ein weiteres Relikt aus der keltischen Ära sind auch spezielle Speisen wie "barm brack", ein süßer Hefekuchen mit Gewürzen und getrockneten Früchten verfeinert. Er wird überall in Irland in den Bäckereien und Supermärkten angeboten. Wer darin einen Ring findet und gerade einen neuen Partner sucht, wird sich "mit Sicherheit" verlieben, und eine bestehende Partnerschaft bekommt neuen Schwung. Wer eine Münze findet, hat für die kommenden zwölf Monate keine Geldsorgen. Es gibt also zahlreiche Mythen und Überlieferungen rund um Halloween - viele Iren glauben auch heute noch an die Zeit der Geister und Unholde und befolgen die alten Rituale der Kelten. Und wenn sich die grüne Insel in der dunklen Jahreszeit durch gelbe und rötlich gefärbte Blätter langsam verändert und der von den Seen aufziehende Morgennebel die Umrisse verschleiert, erscheint Irland in einem ganz besonderen Licht. In diesen Tagen sind uns auch die alten Traditionen plötzlich ganz nah. Die grüne Insel ist ein bei den Deutschen beliebtes Reiseziel, allein im Jahr 2019 kamen mehr als 730.000 Besucher nach Irland. Hoch im Kurs stehen bei allen Reisenden die beeindruckenden Naturkulissen, die historischen Schätze und natürlich die vielfach gepriesene Freundlichkeit der Menschen. Wer sich derzeit mit der Urlaubsplanung beschäftigt, sollte die grüne Insel unbedingt in der Auswahl haben: Denn der Golfstrom sorgt ganzjährig für ein gleichbleibend gemäßigtes Klima. Irland ist einfach zu erreichen; die meisten Flüge gehen von mehreren deutschen Städten direkt nach Dublin. Pünktlich zum Herbst gibt es auch wieder eine alternative Flugroute mehr auf die grüne Insel. Ryanair hat die Verbindung von Frankfurt/Hahn nach Kerry wieder aufgenommen. Ab Ende Oktober geht es in nur zwei Stunden direkt in den Südwesten Irlands. Spukendes Edinburgh, Schottland Wer die Royal Mile entlang spaziert, ist vollkommen ahnungslos, dass sich unterhalb ein Netz aus uralten Gassen ("Closes") erstreckt. Im Jahr 1644 wurde Edinburgh von der Pest besonders schwer heimgesucht, und man sagt, dass die Seelen der Pestopfer noch immer dort umhergeistern. Nun können Sie sich von einer Figur aus Edinburghs Vergangenheit durch Mary King's Close führen lassen, die Sie mit Erzählungen aus der Vergangenheit und 300 Jahre alten Schauergeschichten erschreckt. Wer nicht in den Untergrund möchte, kann auch an einer Geistertour voller Überraschungen durch die Gassen der Altstadt teilnehmen – z.B. mit Mercat Tours, Witchery Tours oder Auld Reekie Tours - ob tagsüber oder bei Nacht hängt allein von Ihrem Mut ab. Lies mehr in unserem Beitrag. Halloween im Vegnügungspark Liseberg in Schweden Seit dem Start von "Halloween at Liseberg" im Jahr 2015 hat der Freizeitpark im schwedischen Göteborg fast zwei Millionen Besucher verzeichnet, die sich von den Halloween-Attraktionen erschrecken und unterhalten ließen. Normalerweise wird das Erschrecken mit negativen Erfahrungen in Verbindung gebracht, doch Untersuchungen haben gezeigt, dass auch das Gegenteil der Fall sein kann.

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Motiongate Dubai lädt mit filmreifen Schreckgeschichten zum Gruseln ein Wo sonst niedliche Schlümpfe und Kung Fu Panda kleine und große Filmfans begrüßen, ist bis zum 6. November 2021 Zittern angesagt. Bereits fünf Wochen vor Halloween verwandelt sich Motiongate Dubai in einen aufwendig inszenierten Schauplatz für das große Schrecken. Statt Comic und Action steht während der Fright Nights Horror auf dem Programm des größten von Hollywood inspirierten Themenparks der arabischen Region. Auf Unerschrockene wartet die düstere Seite der Kinowelt mit Labyrinthen, einem Verlies, gespenstischen Live-Shows und allerhand dunklen Gestalten. Auch Kindern wird bei der vierten Ausgabe des berühmt-berüchtigten Halloween-Events altersgerecht das Fürchten gelehrt. Angsthasen weichen besser auf die zu den Dubai Parks and Resorts gehörenden Bollywood Parks oder ins Legoland aus. Das schaurige Erlebnis in Motiongate Dubai beginnt mit dem Durchdringen eines unheimlichen Labyrinths, das von einer furchterregenden Gestalt aus der Vergangenheit heimgesucht wird. Binnen sechs Minuten müssen die Gäste den Ausgang finden, um bei weiteren Abenteuern erneut in Schockstarre oder Kreischen zu verfallen. Zum Beispiel bei der 20-minütigen Live-Horror-Show „The Tale of Midnight Theater“ im Hollywood Theater des Parks. Hier werden Zauberer gejagt; Monster erstehen auf, und die Zuschauer müssen sich ihren schlimmsten Ängsten stellen. Für weitere Schreckmomente sorgt „The Curse of the Music Box“. Das Verlies der Gesellschaft der Schattenwächter bewahrt verfluchte Artefakte auf, um sie vor bösen Mächten und Kreaturen zu schützen. Noch mehr Herzrasen verspricht "Nyctophobia". In einem verlassenen Kino nehmen Besucher an einem Experiment über die Angst vor der Dunkelheit teil und erleben in den düsteren Gängen einen Albtraum nach dem anderen. Kindgerechten Gruselspaß gibt’s bei Fototerminen mit ulkigen Gestalten, spannenden Kürbisgeschichten, Kostümwettbewerben und Beutemachen im Süßigkeitengrab. Jeden Abend kurz vor Parkschluss präsentieren sich alle Akteure auf der großen Halloween-Parade und es darf aufgeatmet werden. Alle Aktivitäten und Zeiten für Shows und Paraden der Halloween Frights Nights sowie allgemeine Informationen zu Fahrgeschäften und Attraktionen: www.motiongatedubai.com.

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Kentucky: Louisville - Geistertouren und Gänsehautmomente Den gesamten Oktober feiert Louisville Halloween mit vielen spaßigen Spuk-Happenings. Tatsächlich gilt das viktorianische Stadtviertel in Kentuckys größter Stadt als eines der am meisten heimgesuchten Viertel der gesamten Vereinigten Staaten! Besucher können bei geführten Rundgängen durch sagenhafte Spukhäuser oder auf den Spuren von Geistern der Vergangenheit echte Gänsehautmomente erleben.

Highland's Neighborhood Homes / Copyright Louisville Tourism Geistertouren in Old Louisville Im historischen Kern von Kentuckys größter Stadt tauchen zwischen verwunschenen Kirchen, verwinkelten Straßenecken und märchenhaften Parks so viele Spukgeschichten und übernatürliche Legenden auf, dass Old Louisville den Ruf erlangt hat, eines der gruseligsten Viertel des ganzen Landes zu sein. Besucher können auf geführten Rundgängen in die gespenstische Vergangenheit eintauchen und paranormale Hotspots erleben wie den Pink Palace, die First Church Christ Scientist oder den Witches Tree. Die nächtlichen Geistertouren finden von März bis November täglich statt, sie wurden von nationalen und internationalen Publikationen mit Preisen ausgezeichnet. Gruselige Themenwege Viktorianische Geistertour Beim Victorian Ghost Walk treffen die wagemutigen Spaziergänger eine Gruppe realer Charaktere, die jedes Jahr aus dem Grab zurückkehren, um ihre Geschichten zu erzählen. Sie haben maßgeblich dazu beigetragen, Old Louisville zum meistheimgesuchten Viertel Amerikas zu machen. Die Phantome der Prohibition Die Tour Phantoms of the Prohibition: Ghosts, Cocktails, & Bites verbindet Geisterspuk, Cocktails und Häppchen. In der gesamten Innenstadt tauchen ansässige Geister auf und erzählen verborgene Geschichten aus der unheimlichen Vergangenheit von Louisville, während die Gäste in der Whiskey Row einkehren, einen stärkenden Imbiss essen und am Bourbon nippen. Sie verfolgen die Spuren der Bourbon-Barone und Gangster, finden versteckte Flüsterkneipen und sehen, wo Al Capone seine geheime Fluchttür fand. Spuk im alten Sanatorium Das gespenstische stillgelegte Tuberkulose-Krankenhaus Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville wurde von USA Today 2020, 2021 und 2022 zu einem der am meisten heimgesuchten Reiseziele in den USA gekürt. Angeblich starben darin fast 50.000 Menschen! Auf einem geführten Rundgang kommen die Gäste der verschwiegenen Geschichte und den paranormalen Legenden auf die Schliche, die sich um das unheimliche Sanatorium ranken.

Jack O'Lantern Spectacular 2013 in Louisville's Iroquois Park / Copyright Louisville Tourism / Marty Pearl Das beeindruckendste Halloween-Event der Stadt – The Jack-O'-Lantern-Spectacular Der vom berühmten Landschaftsarchitekten Frederick Law Olmsted entworfene Iroquois Park in Louisville erwacht jedes Jahr im Oktober bei dieser besonderen Halloween-Veranstaltung zum Leben. Über 5.000 handgeschnitzte Kürbisse säumen einen eineinhalb Kilometerlangen langen Weg und werden jeden Abend im Rahmen einer nächtlichen Kunstausstellung beleuchtet. Das schaurig-schöne Herbstfest eignet sich für große und kleine Besucher und ist bei vielen Familien zu einer echten Tradition geworden. Weitere Informationen: https://www.gotolouisville.com/blog/halloween-haunts-happenings-in-louisville/ Philadelphia - mit Segways zu Gruselorten Wer sich gerne gruselt ist bei der Ghost Tour of Philadelphia an Halloween genau richtig. 75 bis 90 Minuten führt die Tour durch den Independence Park, Old City and Society Hill und nimmt die Teilnehmer mit auf eine düsterere Reise voll von gruseligen Geschichten, geheimnisvollen Gärten, Friedhöfen und spukenden Anwesen. Gänsehaut ist garantiert, verspricht der Veranstalter. Read the full article

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