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stairnaheireann · 10 months

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#OTD in 1848 – A gunfight takes place between Young Ireland Rebels and police at Widow McCormack’s house in Ballingarry, Co Tipperary.

The Young Irelander Rebellion was a failed Irish nationalist uprising led by the Young Ireland movement, part of the wider Revolutions of 1848 that affected most of Europe. It took place on 29 July 1848 in the village of Ballingarry, South Tipperary. After being chased by a force of Young Irelanders and their supporters, an Irish Constabulary unit raided a house and took those inside as hostages.…

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#American Civil War #Battle of Ballingarry #Daniel O&039;Connell #Famine Rebellion #Famine Warhouse 1848 #Irish Brigade #James Stephens #John Blake Dillon #John O’Mahony #Kilkenny #Michael Doheny #Mrs. Margaret McCormack #Richard O&039;Gorman #The Young Irelander Rebellion #Thomas Francis Meagher #Tipperary #William Smith O&039;Brien

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badmovieihave · 9 months

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Bad movie I have Maniac Cop 1988

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letterboxd-loggd · 2 years

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Layer Cake (2004) Matthew Vaughn

May 24th 2022

#layer cake #2004 #matthew vaughn #daniel craig #colm meaney #george harris #tom hardy #kenneth cranham #jamie foreman #sally hawkins #michael gambon #ben whishaw #sienna miller #dexter fletcher #louis emerick #tamer hassan #burn gorman #stephen walters #steve john shepherd

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wornoutspines · 14 days

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Sleepy Hollow (Season 1 Review) | An Excellent Mix of Genres and Actors

Sleepy Hollow season 1 has a nice blend of supernatural suspense, historical intrigue, and two amazing leads. Check out my review! #SleepyHollow #TVSeries #TVReview #ThrowbackThursday #TomMison #NicoleBeharie

Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Phillip Iscove & Len Wiseman (Creators)CASTTom MisonNicole BeharieOrlando JonesKatia Winter Neil JacksonThe series is loosely based on the 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Review I love the new take on the Sleepy Hollow tale, the show has a nice mix of elements that I appreciate in a TV Show: a fantasy and supernatural side with a…

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saglaophonos · 28 days

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things good omens and pacific rim have in common:

1. two guys who used to be one guy

2. authors who love to lie for clout (neil g and steven deknight)

3. fujoshi actors laying their life on the line for gay sex (michael sheen and charlie day)

4. doctor who actors who have kissed john barrowman and are just there to have a good time (david tennant and burn gorman)

#let me know if i’m forgetting anything

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panelshowsource · 9 months

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britcom comedians & panel show personalities who share your sign

AQUARIUS ♒ dara ó briain • frank skinner • glenn moore • guz khan • hugh dennis • lucy porter • maisie adam • mark watson • phil wang • vic reeves

PISCES ♓ aisling bea • alan davies • dave gorman • ed gamble • jenny eclair • katy wix • michael mcintyre • rose matafeo

ARIES ♈ andy parsons • desiree burch • ed byrne • gary delaney • jamali maddix • john kearns • josh widdicombe • josie long • roisin conaty • romesh ranganathan • rory bremner

TAURUS ♉ al murray • alex brooker • catherine tate • greg davies • joe wilkinson • john robins • mae martin • milton jones • morgana robinson • rhys james • rob brydon • sally phillips • sandi toksvig • sean lock • stephen mangan

GEMINI ♊ alan carr • bob mortimer • david baddiel • fern brady • judi love • julian clary • london hughes • mel giedroyc • noel fielding • paul sinha • rich hall • richard ayoade • sara pascoe • sarah millican • shappi khorsandi • sindhu vee • tom allen

CANCER ♋ adam hills • alice levine • david mitchell • katherine ryan • harriet kemsley • ian hislop • jack whitehall • joe lycett • paul merton • peter serafinowicz • phill jupitus • rosie jones

LEO ♌ bridget christie • cariad lloyd • chris ramsey • daisy may cooper • frankie boyle • isy suttie • lee mack • jo brand • nish kumar • victoria coren mitchell

VIRGO ♍ alex horne • dane baptiste • darren harriott • ivo graham • jimmy carr • johnny vegas • lolly adefope • miles jupp • nina conti • stephen fry • sue perkins • tim key

LIBRA ♎ diane morgan • harry hill • jack dee • jon richardson • limmy • nick helm • rhod gilbert • robert webb • tiff stevenson • zoe lyons

SCORPIO ♏ angela barnes • chris addison • elis james • ellie taylor • holly walsh • liza tarbuck • jonathan ross • kerry godliman • kevin bridges • matt forde • mike wozniak • sofie hagen • susan calman

SAGITTARIUS ♐ adam riches • david o'doherty • jessica knappett • larry dean • miranda hart • richard osman • seann walsh • simon amstell • steven k. amos

CAPRICORN ♑ ahir shah • angus deayton • bill bailey • claudia winkleman • james acaster • mark lamarr • paul foot • rob beckett • suzi ruffell

#REPOSTING CUZ I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED IT HAHA #sorry i can't include every person ever but i tried to at least do everyone's faves!#a good day to be a gemini!!!#signs

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a-queer-seminarian · 10 months

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Making a quick post with some of the texts I read during seminary on biblical criticism. These are very much academic texts; if you haven't been trained in reading academia they'll be very hard to get through.

If anyone knows of more accessible resources on the topic of biblical criticism, I'd love to know them!

Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture by William P. Brown, which offers 16 points of view on how to view the Bible (including one Jewish perspective and a variety of liberationist perspectives);

Biblical Interpretation: A Roadmap by Frederick C. Tiffany and Sharon H. Ringe, which introduces you to understanding the how your context impacts your reading, how various texual and historical contexts impact any given Bible passage, some stuff about critical analysis, etc.

Elements of Biblical Exegesis by Michael J. Gorman — this one gets really into biblical criticism and hermeneutics; it's dense but there are a lot of concrete examples that are nice

The Art of Theological Reflection by Patricia O'Connell Killen and John de Beer, for connecting our personal experiences to Christian tradition.

#log #summer 2023 #biblical criticism

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slicedblackolives · 6 months

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List of celebrities that have signed letters in “solidarity” with Israel’s genocide of Palestinians

and the list of celebrities that have signed a letter supporting a ceasefire in Gaza:

Adam McKay

Alfonso Cuarón

Alia Shawkat

Alyssa Milano

Amanda Gorman

Amanda Seales

Amber Tamblyn

America Ferrera

Andrew Garfield

Ani DiFranco

Aminé

Anoushka Shankar

Aria Mia Loberti

ASAP Nast

Ayo Edebiri

Bassam Tariq

Bassem Youssef

Belly

Bonnie Wright

Boots Riley

Caroline Polachek

Cate Blanchett

Channing Tatum

Charm La’Donna

Cherien Dabis

Darius Marder

David Cross

David Oyelowo

Deb Never

Dev Hynes

Dina Shihabi

Diplo

Dominic Cooper

Dominique Fishback

Dominique Thorne

Dua Lipa

El-P

Elvira Lind

Elyanna

Farah Bsaiso

Farida Khelfa

Fatima Farheen Mirza

Florence Pugh

Hasan Minhaj

Hend Sabry

Ilana Glazer

Indya Moore

James Schamus

Jay Shetty

Jai Courtney

Jeremy Strong

Jessica Chastain

Jessie Buckley

Jessie Williams

Joaquin Phoenix

John Cusack

Jon Stewart

Kathryn Grody

Kaytranada

Kehlani

Killer Mike

Kristen Stewart

Lauren Jauregui

Lena Waithe

Macklemore

Mandy Patinkin

Mahershala Ali

Margaret Cho

Mark Ruffalo

May Calamawy

Megan Boone

Michael Malarkey

Michael Moore

Michael Shannon

Michael Stipe

Michelle Wolf

Miguel

Mo Amer

Mousa Kraish

Natalia Cordova

Natalie Merchant

Oscar Isaac

Quinta Brunson

Rachel McAdams

Rachel Sennott

Ramy Youssef

Raveena Aurora

Riz Ahmed

Rooney Mara

Rosario Dawson

Rosie O’Donnell

Rowan Blanchard

Ryan Coogler

Sandra Oh

Sebastian Silva

Shailene Woodley

Shaka King

SimiHaze

Simon Helberg

Stephanie Suganami

Susan Sarandon

Taylour Paige

Tommy Genesis

Tony Kushner

V (formerly Eve Ensler)

Vic Mensa

Victoria Monét

Wallace Shawn

Wanda Sykes

Yara Shahidi

Zoe Lister Jones

I wanted to include them both but there were hundreds of celebrities who came out in support of Israel.

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #anyway here’s who you ignore

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crepesuzette2023 · 3 months

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Mike McCartney was an artistic

What was the background of The Scaffold coming together?

I was a ladies hairdresser in Liverpool. One of them was Lewis Collins from The Professionals. He and I were juniors; he was younger than me at Andre Bernard Ladies Barbers in Liverpool. [...] I was passing up pins to the stylist Mike Weinblatt, he was a London boy, he said “You are arty Peter.” They had a Michael there, one of the senior staff was called Michael, so I couldn’t be called that so I went on the first name. My name is Peter Michael. So I became Peter, he said “You are an artistic, aren’t you Peter?” and I said “Why?” He said “Come down to The Hope Hall in Liverpool. It’s now the Everyman theatre. It’s a very important theatre, all the writers and the actors that came out of there was extraordinary.

But I went down with him to do these underground happenings and events and these two people were running it, John Gorman, a post office engineer and a poet called Roger McGough who was a teacher. Adrian Henri the painter, he was there as well. I just went to see it at first and they got me up and I tried to do a little sketch called “Old Folks”. I just read it from a piece of paper and the audience laughed. I thought “Ooh god, I can do this? They like it.” But we are collectively called The Liverpool One Fat Lady Non Electric Show. Then we got rid of a couple and three men emerged and we called ourselves Scaffold.

(Mike McCartney interview on The Strange Brew Podcast)

#mike mccartney #paul mccartney #the scaffold #liverpool #the concept of being artistic

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chillingcinemachronicles · 5 months

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Best Animated Movies on Netflix for a Visual Feast

1. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Director: Joel Crawford

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, Wagner Moura

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Sequels released over a decade after the first film are always a gamble, but Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was one of multiple films from 2022 (Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way of Water) that actually improved upon its predecessor. Eleven years after the first Puss in Boots, the eponymous rascally cat has now burned through eight of his nine lives on his various adventures, reteaming with Kitty Softpaws in pursuit of the Last Wish, which would restore his lives. Along the way, he tries to outrun Goldilocks — hoping to attain the Last Wish for herself — and a menacing wolf who mysteriously stalks Puss. Like other DreamWorks films post-Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the blend of 2-D and 3-D is striking in its visual texture, particularly in action sequences, but its darkly authentic themes of anxiety and the value of friendship resonate most of all.

2. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)

EW grade: B+ (read the review)

Director: David Soren

Cast: Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Nick Kroll, Thomas Middleditch, Jordan Peele, Kristen Schaal

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The wildly popular Captain Underpants book series has kept kids entertained since 1997, but it wasn't until 20 years later that the tighty-whities-clad hero made it to the big screen. The First Epic Movie centers on George and Harold, fourth-grader best friends who create the Captain Underpants comic book and hypnotize their strict principal into becoming the superhero — who doesn't actually have superpowers. Kid-friendly without being too mind-numbing to their parents, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie has "charm to spare," praises EW's critic, noting it works "mostly because it never tries to be more or less than what it is." It also spawned a series on Netflix, The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, which ran from 2018 to 2020.

3. The Angry Birds Movie (2016)

EW grade: B (read the review)

Director: Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly

Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Sean Penn, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader, Peter Dinklage

While it may be damning with faint praise to give credit to The Angry Birds Movie for not being a total disaster...it really could've been much worse. Based on the wildly popular app of the same name, the film follows Red (voiced by Jason Sudeikis), a talking bird who comes to suspect that his island's new pig inhabitants have malicious intent. Your mileage may vary depending on your tolerance for punny/juvenile humor, but as EW's review notes, the film "delivers a mildly diverting mix of winky meta-jokes and moral lessons, cannily aimed at both the next generation of tiny consumers and their more sophisticated parents.

4. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

Director: Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson

Cast: Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Burn Gorman, Ron Perlman, John Turturro, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton

Codirectors Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson transport the classic story of Pinocchio to World War II-era Italy in this meticulously crafted stop-motion animated film. Following the death of his young son, carpenter Geppetto cuts down a tree and carves a wooden boy, who is subsequently brought to life and dubbed Pinocchio. As the boy ventures to the outside world, he is met with dark forces that attempt to use and corrupt him, all against the backdrop of Benito Mussolini's reign as leader of Fascist Italy. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is a darker take on the tale compared to the well-known Disney adaptation (which also received a far-inferior live-action remake in 2022). From the fraught setting to the detailed creature designs, del Toro and Gustafson create a distinct world while providing valuable life lessons to viewers of all ages. The film became the first Netflix production to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

5. The Sea Beast (2022)

Director: Chris Williams

Cast: Karl Urban, Zaris-Angel Hator, Jared Harris, Marianne Jean-Baptiste

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A brave orphan girl named Maisie stows away aboard a ship of sea monster hunters in The Sea Beast, helmed by Big Hero 6's co-director Chris Williams. The sailors are renowned for their hunting abilities, though their status is threatened by their society's admiral, who wishes to replace them. They go out on one last hunt to track down a powerful sea beast called the Red Bluster, but, as Maisie soon discovers, the creatures may not have the kind of malicious intent for which they've come to be known. With dazzling colors, fast-paced thrills, and classical storytelling, it's easy to see why The Sea Beast became Netflix's most watched animated original film as of October 2022, according to the streamer. The film also earned a Best Animated Feature nomination at the Oscars, following a wave of critical praise.

#netflix #movies #film #top 5 #animation movies

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stairnaheireann · 2 years

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#OTD in 1848 – A gunfight takes place between Young Ireland Rebels and police at Widow McCormack’s house in Ballingarry, Co Tipperary.

The Young Irelander Rebellion was a failed Irish nationalist uprising led by the Young Ireland movement, part of the wider Revolutions of 1848 that affected most of Europe. It took place on 29 July 1848 in the village of Ballingarry, South Tipperary. After being chased by a force of Young Irelanders and their supporters, an Irish Constabulary unit raided a house and took those inside as hostages.…

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#American Civil War #Battle of Ballingarry #Daniel O&039;Connell #Famine Rebellion #Famine Warhouse 1848 #Irish Brigade #James Stephens #John Blake Dillon #John O’Mahony #Kilkenny #Michael Doheny #Mrs. Margaret McCormack #Richard O&039;Gorman #The Young Irelander Rebellion #Thomas Francis Meagher #Tipperary #William Smith O&039;Brien

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dragonmuse · 2 years

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What kind of books does every one like in the Leda verse?

(have I mentioned on here that I'm a librarian recently? Holy shit this is my JAM)

Stede is a voracious reader and will plow through nearly anything, but he does love a romanticized adventure story and has soft spot for the classics. His favorite book from childhood is The Hatchet by Gary Paulson and My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (and Treasure Island naturally). As an adult, he would probably have a conniption if you made him narrow it down to just one favorite.

Eddy does not read for pleasure on her own, but she comes to deeply love Stede reading to her (he keeps trying to give them audiobooks and they don't know how to explain that it is explicitly the act of laying with their head in his lap being read to that is so satisfying). Her favorite so far is Jane Eyre, particularly: "Because," he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame."

Lucius, like Stede, will read anything that isn't nailed down, but his preference runs to poetry and literary fiction. He regularly cries over books though probably only Pete knows that. He adores Umberto Eco, Margaret Atwood, Donna Tart and Michael Chabon. Every year he reads the Booker Prize shortlist and has a lot of opinions about all of them. He also has a very battered secondhand copy of Oscar Wilde's collected works that is his most treasured book.

Pete reads at this point because Lucius just leaves so many books laying around. He doesn't care for a lot of it, but he picks at them occasionally just to see. He enjoys reading the local paper every day and baffles Lucius by still having a physical paper delivered. He also gets many magazines on a variety of topics that sometimes get put to use later in costumes.

Frenchie and John both like romance novels and share them back and forth regularly. Frenchie also likes biographies and memoirs, particularly of musicians. His current favorite is Just Kids by Patti Smith.

Izzy reads only World War I histories and mystery novels, preferably old ones though he's run out of the real classics. Being a PI is nothing like being a book detective, but maybe sometimes when he's alone he might do a dry voice over in his head to pass the time. His favorite book is The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. For your consideration: She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.'

Jim goes through phases of reading. They'll stop for long periods and then pick it back up, go through a pile then stop again. They love thrillers, the more ridiculous the better. They genuinely enjoy Dan Brown books and have no issue arguing someone down who tries to point out their flaws.

Oluwande loves Amy Tan. This one I can't explain, I just know it in my heart. He has read every one of her books and doesn't care who's seen him cry over them. He also enjoys solarpunk and has recently gotten very into Becky Chambers.

Roach loves all speculative fiction, but prefers stuff written more recently over the classics. He's a big library user and doesn't actually own many books because he prefers to live light. His current favorite is The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin.

Buttons reads philosophy almost exclusively. He doesn't really agree with any of it, but he has a soft spot for Lebieniz because the concept of monads resonates with him. (Monads were a kind of early idea of the atom and also the soul, it's a whole thing. I have to use my philosophy degree for something sometimes.)

Alma loves poetry and Lucius has shared a lot of favorites with her. Amanda Gorman is her idol and her current all time favorite, particularly: & what we share is the bark, the bones. Paleontologists, from one fossilized femur, Can dream up a species, Make-believe a body Where there was none. Our remnants are revelation, Our requiem as raptus.

#leda house and the kraken verse #ask answered

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dear-indies · 2 years

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Hi Cat + Mouse, Could you suggest some male fc's 40-45ish years old please? I'm struggling to find some with good resources. Thank you + have a lovely day/ night <3

Idris Elba (1972) Sierra Leonean / Ghanaian.

Lee Jung Jae (1972) Korean.

Michael Ealy (1973) African-American.

Pedro Pascal (1974) Chilean [Spanish, Basque, possibly other].

Danny Pino (1974) Cuban.

Sendhil Ramamurthy (1974) Kannada and Tamil Indian.

Tobias Menzies (1974)

Omari Hardwick (1974) African-American.

Joaquin Phoenix (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, with some Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, Irish, Welsh, and French Huguenot.

Matthew Macfadyen (1974)

Burn Gorman (1974)

Isaiah Mustafa (1974) African-American.

Mahershala Ali (1974) African-American.

Adam Rodriguez (1975) Puerto Rican.

David Harbour (1975) - has bipolar disorder.

Scott Speedman (975)

Aaron Stanford (1976)

Andrew Scott (1976) - is gay.

Sterling K. Brown (1976) African-American.

Eric Winter (1976)

Tom Ellis (1978)

Matthew Goode (1978)

Trevor Donovan (1978)

Josh Dallas (1978)

Kumail Nanjiani (1978) Pakistani.

Josh Hartnett (1978)

Omar Sy (1978) Mauritanian / Fula Senegalese.

Daniel Henney (1979) Korean / German, Irish, English, Scottish.

Nonso Anozie (1979) Igbo Nigerian.

Conrad Ricamora (1979) Filipino / German, English, possibly other - is gay.

Omid Abtahi (1979) Iranian.

John Krasinski (1979)

Andrew Walker (1979)

Lee Pace (1979) - is queer.

Gong Yoo (1979) Korean.

Oscar Isaac (1979) Cuban-Guatemalan-Spanish, small amount of French.

Ben Whishaw (1980) - is gay.

William Jackson Harper (1980) African-American - no gif packs from The Resort yet but somebody has to be making them??

Enver Gjokaj (1980)

Luke Macfarlane (1980) - is gay.

JD Pardo (1980) Argentinean / Salvadorian.

Brett Goldstein (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish.

William Levy (1980) Cuban, Spanish, Jewish.

Rami Malek (1981) Egyptian.

Ricky Whittle (1981) Afro-Jamaican / English.

Park Hae Soo (1981) Korean.

Brian Tyree Henry (1982) African-American.

Daveed Diggs (1982) African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish.

I reblogged gif packs too because I didn't know some of these more packs!

#fc help #rph #rpc #olderfcs

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iloveshortsongs · 2 years

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Short Blues - Grimms feat. Neil Innes (1973)

"Watch out you guys in the mobile unit outside..."

I was dead chuffed to find this incredible record in a local shop. Sometimes records you've given up looking for after decades have a way of finding YOU!

Anyway, this odd LP is a mix of poetry, comedic bits, and the odd tune here or there. The name GRIMMS comes from the surnames for the founders of the collective:

Gorman, John (The Scaffold)

Roberts, Andy (Liverpool Scene and The Scaffold)

Innes, Neil (Bonzo Dog Band)

McGear, Mike (The Scaffold)

McGough, Roger (The Scaffold)

Stanshall, Vivian (Bonzo Dog Band)

Although by the release of this LP they should have been rechristened G.G. PIMMZ, due to Stanshall and Roberts not appearing while Brian Patten, Michael Giles and Zoot Money make some inspired contributions instead.

#Neil Innes #Grimms #1973 #Mike McGear #Roger McGough #Island Records #Michael Giles #Brian Patten #Zoot Money

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byneddiedingo · 2 years

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Jessica Lange and Roy Scheider in All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)

Cast: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen, Erzsebet Foldi, Michael Tolan, Max Wright, William LeMessena, Irene Kane, Deborah Geffner, John Lithgow, Sandahl Bergman. Screenplay: Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse. Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno. Production design: Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton. Film editing: Alan Heim. Music: Ralph Burns.

Bob Fosse's All That Jazz has a valedictory feeling to it, and not just because it's about a man foreseeing his own death, which strikingly foreshadows that of Fosse himself. It also feels like one of the last films of the 1970s, a decade associated with young hotshot American filmmakers who were determined to go their own way and to craft movies filled with a personal vision that didn't sugarcoat the material or pander and talk down to the audience. After them, the myth goes, came the deluge of movies made with a view to spawning sequels and franchises. That summary is oversimple, of course, but perhaps it does illuminate why a film like All That Jazz continues to fascinate viewers, despite its inherent messiness and occasional excessive self-indulgence. It's held together by Fosse's abundant mad energy and by a cunning, committed performance by Roy Scheider as the driven, workaholic, self-destructive Joe Gideon, whom no one would deny is a warts-and-all self-portrait by Fosse. All That Jazz is usually classified as a musical, because of its elaborate production numbers, but it fits the genre only loosely. It's a bit like 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933) in that it's a "backstage musical" with a serious undercurrent, although the undercurrent becomes a torrent in All That Jazz, and the music becomes an ironic counterpoint to the sardonic drama of the life and death of Joe Gideon.

#All That Jazz #Bob Fosse #Jessica Lange #Roy Scheider

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2022 in books! All in all my best year for reading in a while -- I beat last year by 22 books and ~6500 pages. Thank you, audiobooks!

Full list below the cut. Favorites are bolded and marked with an asterisk.

Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

King Richard by Michael Dobbs

When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard *

Uncommon Sense Teaching by Barbara Oakley, Beth Rogowsky, and Terrence J. Sejnowski

The Lost Founding Father by William J. Cooper

The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling

Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno Garcia

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look On My Face? by Alan Alda *

Coolidge by Amity Shlaes

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen *

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones *

The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis

The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore *

The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Man From the Train by Bill James

How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge by K. Eason

I'll Be Gone In the Dark by Michelle McNamara

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

How to Write a Lot by Paul J. Silvia

The Truffle Underground by Ryan Jacobs

The Awakening by Kate Chopin *

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff *

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams

What Lives in the Woods by Lindsay Currie

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong *

Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller *

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor

His Hideous Heart edited by Dahlia Adler

The Woman In the Library by Sulari Gentill

Persuasion by Jane Austen *

Misery by Stephen King *

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson

Grant by Ron Chernow *

The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley

The Axeman of New Orleans by Miriam C. Davis

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson *

Sisters by Daisy Johnson *

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum *

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue

Sherlock Holmes (Audiobook collection: The Adventure of the Empty House/The Adventure of the Devil's Foot/The Adventure of the Abbey Grange) by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum *

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller *

The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Three Pianos by Andrew McMahon

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Dorothy and the Wizard In Oz by L. Frank Baum

I Hope This Finds You Well by Kate Baer

The Zealot and the Emancipator by H. W. Brands

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