#adding this to my autobiography /j

[key-lime-soda]

Sumi Lore Professional Question One:

what's the game you've played that's affected you most? i feel like this'll be... inch resting :>

easy. Pokemon

played pokemon leafgreen when i was 5. instantly fell in love. my sister beat the main story cuz i was too young to understand battling, so i just did the post game. I sailed around the Sevii Islands and it was the coolest shit ever. It defined my definition of a good game forever.

Then my interests faded as i got into late elementary school. It was still cool, but not as big in my life. Me and my sister got Pokemon Black and it was definitely really cool (did revive my love a bit). but the post-game was kinda dry. we did everything extra that we could do without internet.

Then i got a phone in 6th grade. I was given the chance to listen to music whenever I wanted. But back then i didnt have a personality music taste, so i didn't know what to listen to. figured i'd try something random.

So, i opened up youtube and looked up Pokemon

i started by listening to the anime openings. sure they're cheesy but some of them are catchy. memorized all the words. then i branched out into the other songs from the show and eventually discovered a whole world of unknown pokemon lore. did you know that the japanese anime had full fucking albums of original songs for every season??? and they go hard too!

with this, i discovered youtubers. Truegreen7, Bird Keeper Toby, Woopsire, MandJTV, and so many more. This defined my middle school era. I had an art account on a different site and posted a lot of fanart. made a lot of online friends too. it was such a good feeling...

then my mom found out.

she was pissed at my art account for various reasons, and punished me severely. at that point i was so hurt about losing all my online friends that i couldn't bring myself to draw ever again. i ended middle school in a very messy headspace.

then highschool came arounf . still wasn't into it. felt like i didn't have the motivation to do much anymore. i reluctantly went to freshman orientation, and got to the club fair, where all the clubs advertise to the new students. and one club struck my attention:

Pokemon Club

for the first time in a long time, i was exited to do something. I embarrasingly hung around their booth way longer than i needed to. I stole like 6 of their fliers too. it finally felt like a place where i belonged. I attended (almost) every single meeting for my first two years of high school. i met my current best friends there. they were the ones to introduce me to ace attorney and yttd!!

one day, one of the presidents was telling me about how their PR was ditching all the meetings and never did their work. i offered to take over cuz i had experience making club advertisements. it went from simple posters to booth flyers to fundraiser ads. then she asked me if i was willing to design club merch. bear in mind, i rarely drew since the incident 3 years prior. but it was my job as PR so i faced my fears and did it. the merch was perfect, and everyone loved it.

the end of my 2nd year came the dreadful question: who would take over? the staff were all graduating and needed a new president.

they all chose me.... i was so excited (and nervous) but i was determined to do my best.

unfortunately, covid hit that very year. my entire 3rd year was online, and so was club. it went better than i expected. the president reached out to me and asked if i wanted to color for her webcomic. next thing i knew, i was drawing as much as i used to. she really helped me find that part of me again, and i'm so thankful. now i'm a college student majoring in graphic design and minoring in video game studies

and it was all because of pokemon

#save #adding this to my autobiography /j #sumi tunes lore #holy shit this is long #sorryyyyyy #be seriously pokemon has been the driving force of my entire being #that shit is 1/3 of my personality #live for it fr #pokemon

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Oppenheimer

The man staring back at you with a cigarette enclosed between his lips, not quite an inviting one, but a deep gaze holding your eyes - that is what I remember as my first memory of American Prometheus. I do not quite remember how I came to the book. Maybe it was from some early reading on Oppenheimer, or maybe I found my way to it once I finished reading Feynman's "Surely You're Joking..." autobiography. In any case, I know reading it at the time I thought the Prometheus analogy fit perfectly. A man who knew too much, revealed to much to the humans; punished for it, tortured for it, forever haunted by it.

Then to see the words come to life, in and through Cillian Murphy's eyes - what a treat. To see Oppenheimer be himself on screen, dressing up in a small Los Alamos building room as he discards the military uniform and adorns his hat, takes his pipe and the same deep gaze peering back was life coming full circle. The realization of my imagination of the words could not have been rewarded more aptly. In his performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Murphy lights up the screen and by the end I was left with a gut-wrenching knot in the pit of my stomach as he looked back into nothingness in the final moment of the movie before all cuts to black.

Nolan, so expertly, has fit in so much into one film. I felt transported between a historical drama, a court room thriller, a piercing look into a not so simple marriage and yet at the center of it all a psychological dismantling of a man, who pursued the responsibility of unearthing some awesome but life-altering truths about scientific forces and was left to bear the weight of how he had changed the very nature of our world. One scene early on in the film that thundered in was the switch in Oppenheimer's attire as the camera pans during his witch hunt of an AEC hearing. Pivoting behind the attorney pecking away at Oppenheimer's fragile mental armor, the camera reveals a naked man. Vulnerable. Laid bare in front of his contemporaries. As you think his humiliation could not be further, a layer is added from his wife's perspective when her point of view of her husband's affair is imagined by the now dead-girlfriend nakedly and lifelessly staring back at Katherine Oppenheimer.

Emily Blunt does so much with her eyes as well and many a times without them. In her few minutes giving testimony to the people tearing down her husband, Katherine Oppenheimer shudders initially, unable to meet the eyes of the men who are doing so. As they lock in on her, that unease is replaced with fight, tenacity and a determination to defend her truth, personifying what she has been pleading her husband to do since the witch hunt started. Equally significant is Kitty Oppenheimer's stare back at Edward Teller during a final montage where Teller hopes to mend broken fences but instead is met with deathly eyes, unforgiving of the statements he made to contribute to her husband's witch hunt.

The fallout of this witch hunt comes back to haunt its architect - played so beautifully by Robert Downey Jr. With an almost youthful energy he welcomes Oppenheimer to join the Institute of Advanced Studies and a within a handful of moments you see the ego-bruising disappointment in him, as he feels a rejection and the lack of embrace from the very legend of Oppenheimer he imagines he has helped create. Till the final turn of the film, I almost thought the narrative did so well to present a redeeming side to the Lewis Strauss of Downey Jr. But as the black and white scenes reveal the final layers of Strauss's story through his senate confirmation hearing, you are presented with an equally piercing image of a self-centered man who has worked so hard, all his life really, to get to the pinnacle of his life, only to see his machinations behind Oppenheimer's downfall come back to haunt him and deny him that reward.

Able to elicit wonderful performances from all the supporting cast and breath taking visuals to show them in, Nolan is relentless in his mastery of the craft. I was curious to see how he would capture the sheer scale of the atomic bomb explosion. I was not disappointed by his interpretation. He does not go about romanticizing the bomb or its effects. The explosion fills up the screen, and with it your senses. The sound, and in some instances, the lack of it, bring through the nothingness and destruction that such a "gadget" leave in its wake. The raw and bare colors of the explosion are left on the screen for your eyes to soak in. Letting you take a moment to think of the scale, washing over you. And then comes the sound, and in some instances the lack of it. Accurately conveying the physics of it, the light from the explosion reaching you before the sound of the blast comes blazing at you.

By the end, I was left with a hollowness akin to the gaze of Oppenheimer's eyes. Leaving the theater to a soundtrack that is magnificent yet intimate and vulnerable, I came out into the night feeling haunted. Haunted by the simple reality I was transported back into, away from the magnum opus of a vision that had been imprinted in my mind. A haunting is what will stay with me.

[phroyd]

One of our Great Comedians leaves us this day! Rest In Peace, Jackie! - Phroyd

Jackie Mason, whose staccato, arm-waving delivery and thick Yiddish accent kept the borscht belt style of comedy alive long after the Catskills resorts had shut their doors, and whose career reached new heights in the 1980s with a series of one-man shows on Broadway, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 93.His death, at Mount Sinai Hospital, was confirmed by the lawyer Raoul Felder, a longtime friend.Mr. Mason regarded the world around him as a nonstop assault on common sense and an affront to his sense of dignity. Gesturing frantically, his forefinger jabbing the air, he would invite the audience to share his sense of disbelief and inhabit his very thin skin, if only for an hour.“I used to be so self-conscious,” he once said, “that when I attended a football game, every time the players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.” Recalling his early struggles as a comic, he said, “I had to sell furniture to make a living — my own.”The idea of music in elevators sent him into a tirade: “I live on the first floor; how much music can I hear by the time I get there? The guy on the 28th floor, let him pay for it.”

The humor was punchy, down-to-earth and emphatically Jewish: His last one-man show in New York, in 2008, was titled “The Ultimate Jew.” A former rabbi from a long line of rabbis, Mr. Mason made comic capital as a Jew feeling his way — sometimes nervously, sometimes pugnaciously — through a perplexing gentile world.“Every time I see a contradiction or hypocrisy in somebody’s behavior,” he once told The Wall Street Journal, “I think of the Talmud and build the joke from there.” Describing his comic style to The New York Times in 1988, he said, “My humor — it’s a man in a conversation, pointing things out to you.”“He’s not better than you, he’s just another guy,” he added. “I see life with love — I’m your brother up there — but if I see you make a fool out of yourself, I owe it to you to point that out to you.”He was born Yacov Moshe Maza in Sheboygan, Wis., on June 9, 1928, to immigrants from Belarus. (Some sources give the year as 1931.) When he was 5, his father, Eli, an Orthodox rabbi, and his mother, Bella (Gitlin) Maza, moved the family to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where Yacov discovered that his path in life had already been determined. Not only his father, but his grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfathers had all been rabbis. His three older brothers became rabbis, and his two younger sisters married rabbis. “It was unheard-of to think of anything else,” Mr. Mason said. “But I knew, from the time I’m 12, I had to plot to get out of this, because this is not my calling.”

After earning a degree from City College, he completed his rabbinical studies at Yeshiva University and was ordained. In a state of mounting misery, he tended to congregations in Weldon, N.C., and Latrobe, Pa., unhappy in his profession but unwilling to disappoint his father.Hedging his bets, he had begun working summers in the Catskills, where he wrote comic monologues and appeared onstage at every opportunity. This, he decided, was his true calling, and after his father’s death in 1959 he felt free to pursue it in earnest, with a new name.He struggled at first, playing the Catskills and, with little success, obscure clubs in New York and Miami. Plagued by guilt, he underwent psychoanalysis, which did not solve his problems but did provide him with good comic material.Nevertheless, he found it hard to break into the nightclub circuit in New York — in part, he claimed, because his act made Jewish audiences uncomfortable. “My accent reminds them of a background they’re trying to forget,” he said.

While performing at a Los Angeles nightclub in 1960, he caught the attention of his fellow comedian Jan Murray, who recommended him to the television personality Steve Allen. Two appearances in two weeks on “The Steve Allen Show” led to bookings at the Copacabana and the Blue Angel in New York.Mr. Mason’s career was off and running. He became a regular on the top television variety shows, recorded two albums for the Verve label — “I Am the Greatest Comedian in the World Only Nobody Knows It Yet” and “I Want to Leave You With the Words of a Great Comedian” — and wrote a book, “My Son the Candidate.”

After dozens of appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Mr. Mason encountered disaster on Oct. 18, 1964. A speech by President Lyndon B. Johnson pre-empted the program, which resumed as Mr. Mason was halfway through his act. Onstage but out of camera range, Sullivan indicated with two fingers, then one, how many minutes Mr. Mason had left, distracting the audience. Mr. Mason, annoyed, responded by holding up his own fingers to the audience, saying, “Here’s a finger for you, and a finger for you, and a finger for you.”Sullivan, convinced that one of those fingers was an obscene gesture, canceled Mr. Mason’s six-show contract and refused to pay him for the performance. Mr. Mason sued, and won.The two later reconciled, but the damage was done. Club owners and booking agents now regarded him, he said, as “crude and unpredictable.”

“People started to think I was some kind of sick maniac,” Mr. Mason told Look. “It took 20 years to overcome what happened in that one minute.”His career went into a slump, punctuated by bizarre instances of bad luck. In Las Vegas in 1966, after he made a few ill-considered remarks about Frank Sinatra’s recent marriage to the much younger Mia Farrow (“Frank soaks his dentures and Mia brushes her braces,” one joke went), an unidentified gunman fired a .22 pistol into his hotel room.A play he starred in and wrote (with Mike Mortman), “A Teaspoon Every Four Hours,” went through a record-breaking 97 preview performances on Broadway before opening on June 14, 1969, to terrible reviews. It closed after one night, taking with it his $100,000 investment.He also invested in “The Stoolie” (1972), a film in which he played a con man and improbable Romeo. It also failed, taking even more of his money. Roles in sitcoms and films eluded him, although he did make the most of small parts in Mel Brooks’s “History of the World: Part I” (1981) — he was “Jew No. 1” in the Spanish Inquisition sequence — and “The Jerk” (1979), in which he played the gas-station owner who employs Steve Martin.Rebuffed, Mr. Mason set about rebuilding his career with guest appearances on television. His new manager, Jyll Rosenfeld, convinced that the old borscht belt comics were ripe for a comeback, encouraged him to bring his act to the theater as a one-man show.

After attracting celebrity audiences in Los Angeles, that show, “The World According to Me!,” opened on Broadway in December 1986 and ran for two years. It earned Mr. Mason a special Tony Award in 1987, as well as an Emmy for writing after HBO aired an abridged version in 1988.

“I didn’t think it would work,” Mr. Mason said. “But people, when they come into a theater, see you in a whole new light. It’s like taking a picture from a kitchen and hanging it in a museum.”In 1991 Mr. Mason married Ms. Rosenfeld, who survives him. He is also survived by a daughter, the comedian Sheba Mason, from a relationship with Ginger Reiter in the 1970s and ’80s.“The World According to Me!” generated a series of sequels — “Politically Incorrect,” “Love Thy Neighbor,” “Prune Danish” and others — which carried Mr. Mason through the 1990s and into the new millennium.He published an autobiography, “Jackie, Oy!” (written with Ken Gross), in 1988. He also found a new sideline as an opinionated political commentator on talk radio. In the 2016 presidential campaign, he was one of the few well-known entertainers to support Donald J. Trump.Mr. Mason’s forays into political commentary caused him trouble. He was reported to have used a Yiddish word considered to be a racial slur in talking about David N. Dinkins, the Black mayoral candidate, at a Plaza Hotel luncheon in 1989. Mr. Mason was a campaigner for Mr. Dinkins’s opponent, Rudolph W. Giuliani. Mr. Giuliani said the incident had been blown out of proportion but nevertheless dismissed Mr. Mason from the campaign. Mr. Mason at first refused to apologize but did so later.

He drew attention for using the same word regarding President Barack Obama during a performance in 2009.Appearances on the cartoon series “The Simpsons,” as the voice of Rabbi Hyman Krustofski, the father of Krusty the Clown, confirmed his newfound status, and earned him a second Emmy. Not even the 1988 bomb “Caddyshack II,” in which he was a last-minute replacement for Rodney Dangerfield, or the ill-fated “Chicken Soup,” a 1989 sitcom co-starring Lynn Redgrave that died quickly, could slow his improbable transformation from borscht belt relic into hot property.“I’ve been doing this for a hundred thousand years, but it’s like I was born last Thursday,” Mr. Mason once said of his career turnaround. “They see me as today’s comedian. Thank God I stunk for such a long time and was invisible, so I could be discovered.”

Michael Levenson contributed reporting.

Phroyd

#rip #jackie mason

[librarycards]

You seem very educated in anti-psychiatry and mad studies. Do you have any readings you could recommend to someone who knows very little on these subjects?

yes! first of all, for your basic 101 type reading, i'd look to the late, great mel baggs -- hir blogs are full of basic info that everyone can understand, and which will prepare you really well as you look to engaging with more challenging readings:

https://cussinanddiscussin.wordpress.com/

https://withasmoothroundstone.tumblr.com/

then i would go to eli clare's works, 

"exile and pride" and 

"brilliant imperfection,"

 for a foundational understanding of transness&disability&trauma + the concept of pathologization. then, i'd move toward readings –– highly critical ones!! –– from psychiatric p/c/s/x (patients/consumers/survivors/ex-patients), particularly from The Icarus Project, Mad in America, and this specific post about the "burrito test." 

Read, of course, Madness and Civilization. Seriously. You have to read it. 

Read Epistemic Injustice by Miranda Fricker. Epistemic Injustice is the foundational & formational mark left by/responsible for producing "Madness" and "patienthood." 

From here I'd recommend some more titles such as the Mad Matters reader by  LeFrançois, Menzies, and Reaume (this is the citation I use when "defining" Mad studies/a Mad studies approach/conceptual framework)  Psychiatric Hegemony by Bruce Cohen, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness by Theri Alyce Pickens, Crip Theory by Robert McRuer, Mad At School by Margaret Price, The Protest Psychosis by Jonathan M. Metzl, Containing Madness by Kilty & Dej, and Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body by Lennard J Davis.

you'll notice a lot of these are focused on disability "rather than" Madness -- Mad studies is a comparatively small (sub-)field. you'll need to keyword search within other resources to find a lot of this work. start out with disability studies quarterly, searching Madness, etc. there's also some intriguing work going on in the area narrative studies, esp. with regard to Mad experimental autobiography. 

There's also *TONS* of new, exciting thesis work happening by and for and from Madpeople!! and members of otherwise psychopathologized groups! one i'd love to highlight is a 2017 paper on the pathologization of indigenous youth -- it's phenomenal.

these works can be found at "the usual sources," as it were. if you need help accessing pdfs/epubs, please message me with your email address and i can get it to you. if you find some scholarly journal article, etc. you need access to but lack an institutional login, please contact me and i will get it to you as soon as i can, with a potential slight delay as i'd need to request it from my college library.

use keywords like:

critical Mad studies

Madness

postpsychiatry

antipsychiatry

psy-critical

etc.

let me know if you have questions or need further clarification –– I am by *no means* any sort of expert on the field, only on my own Mad experiences. but this guide -- as well as reading the #survivingpsych tag on tumblr!!!!!!!!!! -- has helped illuminate a lot of stuff for me. happy reading!

ETA: adding https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com for Mel Baggs - idk how I forgot this! And reiterating @salcristina ‘s comment that Icarus project has become liberal + assimilationist 😔 - but their old work still holds up imo!

#ask #madness #mad studies #disability studies #Anonymous

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The Freedom of Expression Ep 21 - Gone with the Wind's relation to BLM.

K: Ok, this is Dir en grey's Kaoru, starting this episode of The Freedom of Expression. Joe san, Tasai san. Welcome. Well, um..you know, Dir en grey...we've cancelled our Pia Arena concerts.

J: Ahh, thats right.

K: Its a bit...

T: Its a shame.

K: Well..it is a shame..it was kind of a build up of different things. We did search for ways which we could make it happen. We went to the venue in person, and tried to come up with ideas about how it could work, incuding our staff in the discussion, but...in the end it was quite difficult.

J: Ahh, really?

K: I had thought if we started to be a bit active things might begin to change. I really wanted to get moving, but...well..there would be people who wouldn't be able to go...

J: Well, yes.

K: So when we thought about whether we should do it...hmm..yeh.

J: Well, we want to let everyone know that you went as far as going to the venue to try to figure out what to do, and it does not mean that the band will disappear..

K: Yes

J: And in this sense, its a matter of waiting for the right time.

K: Yeah.

J: Right?

K: When will that be though, right?

J: Ah, well, the number of infections in Tokyo is in a state of increase at the moment, in particular, the night time entertainment sector is being blamed, so it seems as if live houses, or so called places of entertainment may be facing tough times for a little while yet.

K: Well, the numbers...if you decreased the number of customers..there are some places starting to operate again in that way, right?

J: There are, yes.

K: But packed standing areas are probably still a bit far off.

J: Yeah. When I think of a Dir en grey live show...I think of Shinkiba etc, I mean, thats what comes up in my mind. One way to see that type of place is like the three C's woven together (Cramped and poorly ventilated, crowded with people, close contact setting).

K: Yeh.

J: So it is really painful not being able to do that. But while it may take a while until we can, in the meantime we can find different ways or hybrid ways of doing it.

K: Yeah, we have to keep looking in a foward direction. Well...but on the days that we ought to have been performing, the 24th and 25th of  this month, we are planning to stream the intended setlist live on Youtube, so if people can, I'd love them to watch that.

Kami: Um....um...

J: Ah, Kami is here.

Kami: Have you considered playing live wearing face guards or something?

K, J: Face guards?

K: No, we didn't consider that, hahaha

J, T, K: Hahaha

J: This wouldn't fit with Dir en grey.

K: No, we actually talked about it, jokingly. Like how about it?

*laughing*

J: No, if you actually did, it would be like you were making fun of it or something like that. Hahaha.

Kami: Have you thought about ventilating the venue during the show or something?

K: Hmm, yeh, we'd have to make an interval in the middle and doing something like that.

T: I see

J: Well, its difficult isn't it? You'd have to deal with a lot of things. But just like you want to do it, people want to see it too, we are all the same.

Kami: Watching a Dir en grey show with interval breaks would be quite hard, right?

K: Hm, yeah it would probably break the tension.

T: Yeah.

K: Kinda.

Kami: What do you think about doing that?

K: Doing that...well..

Kami: Raising the tension, they saying  Ok, ventilation time!

K: We'd have to make it kinda like smoothly seperated waves.

J: Like leading into something when there is a break?

K: Leading into something. For example, like something sanwiched between the different sections, like showing a piece of film or something.

J: Ahh, its difficult! The people making the rules, have probably never been to live cocerts, because they don't imagine this type of thing at all. We'll have to think about all these small details at the time of performing from now on.

K: Ok, well, today...Joe san, can you please go ahead.

J: Ok, I'd like to go ahead with today's news. This is the news of how Gone with the Wind relates to the Black Lives Matter movement.

With the ongoing anti-racism Black Lives Matter movement, the expanding movement fighting for the lives of black people to be valued, the American streaming service HBO Max who halted the broadcasting of the Hollywood movie Gone with the Wind, have decided to start streaming the movie again, this time with a disclaimer attached....I'm sure you all know it...a movie which is set during the era of the American civil war, in which the system of slavery existed. This was announced by the American entertainment site TMZ. The same service had stopped streaming the movie earlier this month, after Oscar winning screen writer, John Ridley had pointed out that it includes affirmative portrayals of the system of slavery. Ridley won an Oscar for his work on the movie 12 Years A Slave, which depicts the experiences of slaves who were brought to America during the 19th century. According to TMZ, Jaqueline Stewart, a professor know for her research into the history of black people in cinema, has prepared a video containg some historical background to accompany the movie, in which she asks why we need to appreciate this 1939 movie in its original form, and says how it is  important to discuss our interpretations of it. Furthermore, a video of a panel discussion about this movie which took place in April last year will also be shown at the same time. Gone with the Wind is a movie based on the story by Margret Mitchell, featuring top star of the time, Clark Gable, and English actress, Vivian Leigh.

Soo, Gone with the Wind...the news that streaming was stopped once, but has been restarted with a disclaimer attached. What do you think about this, Kaoru?

K: This type of stuff has been said for a long time, right?

J: Yes.

K: And there are a lot of movies like this aren't there?

J: There are. When looking back now, some parts seem problematic. Well, even so, its a difficult issue, but I don't really think there was any need to halt streaming it in the first place. When watching a movie with such a background as this, people will have various feelings about it, so I don't really...but of course including these extras..the American Black Lives Matter movement has grown huge in a way no one imagined, so in order to prevent adding fuel to the fire, these extra videos are being screened too. But, in the first place, I think its important for people to watch works like this, and think about it for themselves. If you are always telling people how it should be, the nuance or message contained in these movies might be lost. Its quite difficult.

T: Well, if it is lost, we'll end up forgetting how that generation used to see the world.

J: Yeah

K: But we won't lose it, right? Just from this..???1* So, well..it was a problem which couldn't be stopped at that time, it was a growing problem. You can sense that meaning, but its like, how you put it across.

J: Yeh, thats right. Well, this isn't about this movie, but for example, as for books, the publication of Hitler's Mein Kampf was halted for 70 years after the war in Germany. There was the idea that it would be bad to let people read Hilter's autobiography, after what he did. But a few years ago it started to be permitted to be published again, based on the idea that banning it also isn't a good idea. And people do actually want to read it, it is selling. So what do you do? Its a very difficult issue. If the works are by people who have done very bad things, like, a if they are written by a very bad person, should we ban it....Like some of Dir en grey's videos are also quite...when you majored, weren't some of them withdrawn or denied release?

K: With that ????2*

J: Ahh, I see. Some bits were ok, and some weren't? Well, with corona changing the world now, this problem will...

K: Well, this type of thing has an influence on a lot of stuff.

J: It does, yes.

K: Like Japanese anime.

T: Also, people are questioning this idea of 'whitening' beauty products.

J, K: Ahh, yeah.

T: That type of thing has come out recently. But even if you say 'whitening' in the context of beauty, what does it mean? Does it mean, white people are beautiful, or does it mean your skin is ???*3 That has become a talking point.

K: Now that you mention it, you are not allowed to tell someone they're short are you?

J: Right.

K: The same for if they are tall, right.

J: Yeah, if you worry too much, you'll end up trying to censor words. Especially with younger people, like sometimes  you have to express things in abbreviated forms, and if they jump on this and say, 'you can't say that!', then the amount of expressions we have will shrink. Well, it is difficult.

K: Well, I mean there are lots of ???*4 with that type of person.

J: Well, its difficult  to know where to draw the line with this type of thing. But with regards to Black Lives Matter, it doesn't appear to have a lot to do with this country, but Black Lives Matter has been closed in on the event where a policeman kneeled on the neck of a black man and killed him. However, if you look at the broader scene, one of the policemen standing by and watching is thought to be a man of Asian descent. And the store that reported the black man who died was run by middle eastern descended people, so its certainly not an issue unrelated to Asia. Its often said that its an issue of only whites against blacks, but actually there are clearly people of Asian descent involved in this situation. On a global scale, there are a lot of issues which you cant simply separate into white against black. So i think we should get our imaginations working a bit more, and think about all the parties involved. It might be a bit hard to imagine living in this country, but we need to realise these are not just other peoples' affairs.

T: Its really imoprtant to try to imagine yourself in someone else's situation, isn't it?

J: I think it is really important. ...Kami?

Kami: Yes yes yes. Were you talking about Gone with the Wind?

J: Ah, you want to return to the topic of Gone with the Wind?

Kami: No, I just thought this was about Gone with the Wind. I have no interest in the movie Gone with the Wind, just the title puts me off. I wasn't really listening this time.

K: He hates this type of movie, right?

J: Yes, he hates it, haha. You don't like this type of thing much?

K: What type of movies do you like?

Kami: Anything, even banned movies.

T: Kami sometimes...

J: He's like Chabudai gaeshi!

T: He appears at times like this.

K: Well, Kami probably likes action movies or that type of thing.

J: Oh you like that type of thing? You don't care  if streaming of Gone with the Wind is stopped?

Kami: Yeh, if a big fuss is made when its stopped, then people will wonder what its all about and try to watch it won't they?

T: Ahh, I see.

J: Ah, on the other hand, yeh.

Kami: I won't watch it though.

K: He's really pressing that point. He won't let us forget.

J: Ahh, so thats that. It doesn't meet Kami's expectations.

K: Okay, well, lets end here. Please subscribe. Thank you very much.

J, T: Thank you.

*1, 2, 3, 4 Couldn't figure out these bits.

#dir en grey #the freedom of expression #tfoe #kaoru #薫

[dewitty1]

Eye of the Beholder

pir8fancier

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Astoria Greengrass

Summary:

Draco Malfoy has written an explosive autobiography. Not only does lay bare his role as a Death Eater, he also makes a number of other shocking revelations. Harry Potter owls him, asking that they meet for drinks to discuss his novel.

Excerpt:

"Afraid, Malfoy?"

He'd always known how to push my buttons, but as he said, we weren't children anymore.

"That might have worked when I was fifteen; it's not going to work now. What do you want?"

"I... I think I want you." He threw up his hands. "That somehow we worked, and I'd like to know if it was a weird fluke or whether there's something there." Potter's voice was calm, but then I imagine being Head Auror was a lot about cool under fire. This was emotional fire, true, but dangerous enough. Especially with someone like me. I ignored the tone of his voice and watched him destroy the tassels on my favorite pillow with nervous fingers. "Maybe something big," he added.

Neither of us moved. Last time I had been the first to make a move, and I was going to be goddamned if I was going to be first again. I wanted to scream at him, "You utter arse. The ball's in your court. I've been waiting for a fucking owl for nine months, you fucking Gryffindor wanker, and if you fucking well want me, then you're going to have to bloody well come get me."

But I didn't. I waited.

He took a swig of cognac--Dutch courage, I suppose--stood up, crossed the room, gripped my shirt collar, and pulled me up to him. The violence of that act was belied by the soft touch of his mouth on mine. When he was sure that I wasn't going to topple over, he cupped my cheeks with his hands and began to kiss me. These weren't the beautiful, sweet kisses that he'd seduced me with months earlier. These were brutal, hungry, bruising kisses that had some anger at the edges, an anger that I shared. Because as much as I imagine he hated that Draco Malfoy had his dick in knots, Draco Malfoy was just as narked that of all people, Harry Potter had his dick in knots.

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#Eye of the Beholder #pir8fancier #Drarry #Drarry Fic rec #fic rec #Drarry Fanfiction #Draco Malfoy #Harry Potter #Epilogue compliant #Carey's Bookmark Fic Recs #Carey's Personal Bookmarks

[lsmithart]

‘The Object’ by Antony Hudek: Documents of Contemporary Art

Art theory research that collates a series of writings by art critics, theorists, psychologists, philosophers and more. This book has introduced me to theories surrounding the object as commodity, token of memory, being of the body and the relationship between casting, sculpture and found object.

Hudek’s Introduction to the Text:

Page 14 - Martin Heidegger – thing ‘ding’ differs from the object as it is autonomous; self-supporting. E.g. a jug is assertive of its independence, its presence as well as nearness. Objects are everywhere in equal measure, neither near nor far. The thing resists appropriation.

Jacques Lacan – the thing resists and stands outside of language and consciousness

Page 14 - “The world of objects, however ordinary, is a trove of disguises, concealments, subterfuges, provocations and triggers that no singular, embodied and knowledgeable subject can exhaust.”

“Artwork is the prime example of the object’s capacity to evade the knowing grasp.

Page 15 - “Do objects define us by catering to our needs as users, consumers or collectors, and by limiting our movements by their physical properties?”

“Objects define us because they come first, by commanding our attention, even our respect; they exist before us, possibly without us”

Page 20 – ‘Transforming the Duchampian readymade into something dubious and obsolete was a widespread preoccupation in the 1960s and 70s, as the post-war euphoria at the potentially infinite multiplication of consumable objects turned into doubt.

Page 22 - Casting and moulding – the subjective or positive application of plaster, clay or papier-mache on an object and the objective or negative indexical trace of the object’s voided form. E.g. Bourgeois and Hesse’s casts of quasi-body parts (resembling), Alina Szapocznikow’s partial body casts ‘awkward objects’, Marina Abramovic’s clay mirrors. Rooted from Duchamp – small casts Objet Dard and Feuille de vigne femelle.

Links to Freud’s theory of the drives;

Melanie Klein’s ‘part objects’;

Reconnecting the object to the human body;

Identifying the artwork with transitional objects such as toys**;

Psychoanalysis – identifying the object as more than a thing in itself lying statically outside of the subject. It is a dynamic element in constant flux, mediating the subject’s inner and outer worlds.

If matter in these art objects still matters, it is better to confuse genres (and genders), swapping still life for dead life, or still life for a strangely organic, not necessarily human life form.

Krauss on Hesse’s reliefs: demonstration of a ‘wonderfully humorous elaboration of Duchamp’s interest in the mechanics of desire and the relays established by the readymades between bodies and objects.’

‘This mechanistic as well as psychic interpretation identifies the artwork closely with other intermediary or transitional objects (Donald Winnicott), such as toys. Indeed, one of the indisputable achievements of psychoanalysis is to have identified the object as more than ‘a thing in itself’ lying statically outside of the subject, but as a dynamic element in constant flux, mediating the subject’s inner and outer worlds as well as coercing the subject into varying configurations with itself and (other) objects. the toy, like the relational art object, is unpredictable; there is no telling when it will lose its aura and lapse into thingness, or, on the contrary, change from mere thing to object of ceaseless wonder.

Page 24 – ‘The subject must now contend with its own availability and attraction as an almost-object, while the object accrues the status of almost-subject, bearing little relation with the material, graspable thing.’

Further research? Rosalind Krauss ‘part object, part sculpture’; On Duchamp and impressions – Georges Didi-Huberman.

Page 30 - Theodor W Adorno (1969) “Everything that is in the subject can be attributed to the object; whatever in it is not object semantically bursts open the ‘is’.

Universal and particular – neither one can exist wtihout the other. The particular only as determined and thus universal, the universal only as the determination of a particular and thus itself particular.

Adrian Piper ‘Talking to Myself: The Ongoing Autobiography’ of an Art Object (1970-73)

Page 32 - As an artist separate from my art, I saw the effect of my existence in the existence of the work. The work changed the world for me by adding something new that wasn’t there before. Thus in the existence of the work, I saw my effect on the world at large.

Jane Bennett ‘Vibrant Matter’ (2010)

Page 23 - “If matter itself is lively, then not only is the difference between subjects and objects minimised, but the status of the shared materiality of all things is elevated.” We cannot simply cast-off objects and things permanently; the object is an almost subject.

Page 40 – ‘By acknowledging that the framework of subject versus object has indeed at times worked to prevent or ameliorate human suffering and to promote human happiness or wellbeing.

Marcus Steinweg ‘What is an Object?’ (2011)

Page 42 – Fascination digs a trench between subject and object. The subject is faced with an object that opens a distance not easily bridged. Difference or trench, rupture, chasm or distance – in any case there is a gap that gives way to an absence and a disappearance, a non-identity and un unstable presence. The objectivity of the object cannot be compared to a constant entity. It is characterised by all manner of fractures and what it presents is this fragility, this instability and contingency.

In the possibility of self-objectification, the subject transcends its status as object and moves toward its status as subject.

Page 43 – The tear in the present means precisely this: that there is always something missing or absent, that every present is permeated by a non-present.

Allan McCollum ‘Perfect Vehicles’ (1986)

Page 94 – ‘I have observed that a common vase becomes an art object upon the suspension of its utility; that is, it is filled with meaning and value only after it is emptied of substance. Thus, its privileged status must be maintained according to a tacit agreement amongst the social body (a body, perhaps, represented by the vase itself): that the object should not be used for what it was intended.’

Neil Cummings ‘Reading Things: The Alibi of Use’ (1993)

Page 97 - ‘A functional object has a metonymic relationship to meaning while in service; the effect and implementation of its function can be juxtaposed to produce a figure of meaning by contiguity. Outside of its immediate context, stripped of its function, in a museum, gallery or photograph, for instance, an object operates more conventionally, like a sign or written language.’

‘It is conceivable to theorise away any absolute value of use and to erode distinctions based qualitatively upon function.’

‘It is possible to play with the semiotic difference of those actions, to luxuriate in the endless possibilities of signification, but there is a bottom line, a referent, some resistance.’

REFERENCES:

Adorno, T. W., (1969). On Subject and Object. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. pp. 256-257.

Bennett, J., (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press. pp. 12-13.

Cummings, N., (1993) Reading Things: The Alibi of Use. pp. 19-24.

Hudek, A., (2014). Documents of Contemporary Art: The Object. London: Whitechapel Gallery, The MIT Press. pp. 14, 15, 20, 22, 23, 24, 30, 32, 40, 42, 43, 94, 97.

McCollum, A., (1986), Perfect Vehicles in Damaged Goods; Desire and the Economy of the Object. New York. New Museum of Contemporary Art. p.6.

Piper, A., (1970-73). Extract from: Talking to Myself: The Ongoing Autobiography of an Art Object. In: Out of Order, Out of Sight, vol. I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art, 1968-1992. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1996). pp. 34-36.

Steinweg, M., (2011). Extract from: What is an Object? In: Majewski, A., (ed), The World of Gimel. How to Make Objects Talk. Berlin and New York: Steinberg Press. pp. 218-20.

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[scotianostra]

On March 1st 1910, David Niven, actor and author, was born.

This is another one of those should he be included or not, was he Scottish questions, well what makes you Scottish? Many of you here will be of Scottish descent either researched, known or simply because you have a Scottish name, one of my friends has a broad English accent but was born and brought up near Inverness and a lot of people up the north of Scotland claim to be "more" Scottish than those in the south, what a load of nonsense that is.

Some sources indicate Niven was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, home of Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie, but this is what would be called "Fake News" nowadays, spread by the actor himself to enhance his romantic image. His birth certificate said he was born at Belgrave Mansions in London.

Niven wanted to be Scottish and that's good enough for me and the same goes for any of you out there. Being Scottish, as well as being born here can be a state of mind in my humble opinion. Niven's Scottish heritage came from his paternal grandfather, David Graham Niven, he was from St Martin's, a village in Perthshire, and was killed in WW1 during the Gallipoli campaign.

Niven entered Royal Military College, Sandhurst and graduated Officer training, becoming a second lieutenant, on completion he requested assignment to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders or Blackwatch, adding "anywhere but the Highland Light Infantry" on the forms The reason he didn't want to serve with them? They were the only ones who wore tartan trews rather than the kilts!! Of course the army posted him into them. 

He resigned his commission in 1933 and made his way to the USA, where, still chasing the Scottish connection, spent a short time as a whisky salesman, then in a rodeo, before arriving in Hollywood in the mid 1930's. Early appearances in films include Barbary Coast and Mutiny on the Bounty, but blink and you'll miss him. His first starring role was in Thank You, Jeeves! as Bertie Wooster

Other films include A Matter of Life and Death, Around the World in 80 Days, The Guns of Navarone and The Pink Panther. My favourite was The Bishops Wife and he played  Bonnie Prince Charlie in the film of the same name.

At the outbreak of World War II Niven returned home and rejoined the army, the Government at the time advised actors to stay in Holywood at the time, and he was alone in refusing this advice, he was assigned to a motor training battalion. He wanted something more exciting, however, and transferred into the Commandos, his training was at Inverailort House in the Highlands. On his return to Hollywood afterwards the Americans awarded him with Legion of Merit, the highest military award that can be given to a non US citizen. Niven never talked much about his time during the war, but did see action a few days after D Day and at Battle of the Bulge.

He is also well known as the author of the bestselling autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon. His career fluctuated in the 50's but he endured that and came back bigger than ever, he played Bond in the original Casino Royale, but his greatest achievement was winning an Oscar in the film Separate Tables, becoming the only person to win an academy award while hosting the ceremony!

So David Niven maybe not "Scottish" in the true sense of the word, but certainly Proud to be seen as a Scot.

#scotland #scottish? #anglo-scottish #actor #soldier

[srinithyananda]

26 OCTOBER 2020, MONDAY (IST) 9:04 PM SCREEN OPENING. SHAKTI PADA AND SHAKTINI PADA WITH THE LIVE DARSHAN OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM, JAGATGURU MAHASANNIDHANAM, HIS DIVINE HOLINESS BHAGAVAN NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. FOLLOWING DARSHAN, NITHYANANDA SATSANGH (LIVE ADDRESS), TULABARAM AND PRATYAKSHA PADA PUJA COMMENCED. *10:00 PM - SATSANG STARTS *PARAMASHIVA’S MESSAGE DIRECTLY FROM KAILASA: *HUMAN DNA HAS RIPENED, GROWN. 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THANK YOU ALL! *I HAVE WONDERFUL GIFTS TO ALL OF YOU WHICH WE WORKED FOR THE LAST FOUR MONTHS. THIS CHATURMASYA, WE CHURNED THE MILKY OCEAN AND GOT THE NECTAR, CLEANED ALL THE POISON AND GOT THE NECTAR AND WE ARE SHARING THE NECTAR WITH ALL OF YOU. *THESE ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIFTS FOR ALL OF YOU TO MANIFEST THE STATE, SPACE, POWERS, BEING, SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS OF KAILASA AND PARAMASHIVA. *FIRST: KAILASA LMS WHICH IS THE SOURCE FOR ALL THE PROGRAMS, SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS, CLASSES, SESSIONS, EVERYTHING I HAVE OFFERED FOR THE LAST 26 YEARS OF MY PUBLIC LIFE. IT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY JOB LED BY AKHIL KODALI. MOHANA’S AND RAMESH RAMANI’S TEAM HAVE DONE A WONDERFUL JOB MAKING THIS KAILASA’S LMS. I REALLY WANT TO THANK THE TEAM FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN. *I WELCOME THE WHOLE WORLD TO BECOME E-CITIZENS OF KAILASA BY LAUNCHING THIS KAILASA LMS. *KAILASA LMS IS A PLATFORM WHICH ORGANISES, MAKES ALL THE SERVICES AVAILABLE TO E-CITIZENS IN ONE PLATFORM. 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THE DIGITAL VYASA WORK IS BEING DONE NOW THROUGH THIS HINDUISM PEDIA PROJECT. *HINDUISMPEDIA IS THE SIMPLE, HUMBLE, HARD WORK TO ORGANISE AND PRESENT ALL THE HINDU SCRIPTURES AVAILABLE ON THE PLANET EARTH DIGITALLY IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES, WITH AUTHENTIC TRANSLATION AS IT IS WITHOUT ANY MANIPULATION OR INTERPRETATION. *ALL THE HINDU SCRIPTURES FROM VEDAS, AGAMAS, PURANAS, DHARMA SHASTRA, BOOKS BY ACHARYAS, COMMENTARIES, BHASHYAS, TIKAS, VARTIKAS, EVERYTHING AVAILABLE ON THE PLANET EARTH… SOURCE BOOKS OF HINDUISM, COMMENTARIES ON SOURCE BOOKS... EVERYTHING AVAILABLE ON PLANET EARTH AS OF NOW, WE ARE COLLECTING, ORGANISING, TIME CAPSULING, AND MAKING IT AVAILABLE TO THE WHOLE WORLD. *WITH THE GRACE OF GANAPATI, PARAMASHIVA, PARASHAKTI, MAHASARASWATI, VYASA AND GURU PARAMPARA, THE HINDUISM PEDIA IS AVAILABLE TO THE WHOLE WORLD. I AM OFFERING IT AT THE FEET OF PARAMASHIVA AND TO THE WHOLE WORLD. *ALL THE BLESSINGS MY GURUS SHOWERED ON ME, THE SINCERE HARD WORK THEY HAVE DONE ON ME, AND ALL THE SINCERE HARD WORK I HAVE DONE ON MY DISCIPLES, THE WHOLE THING PUT TOGETHER IS THIS GIFT, HINDUISM PEDIA TO ALL OF YOU. IT IS THE FRUIT OF ALL OF IT. IT IS THE GREATEST HAPPENING ON THE PLANET EARTH. *YOU WILL SEE IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS, HOW THIS HINDUISM PEDIA IS GOING TO INSPIRE AND INFLUENCE THE WHOLE WORLD THROUGH THE HINDU DIASPORA. BY INFLUENCING AND INSPIRING THE HINDU DIASPORA, IT WILL INSPIRE AND INFLUENCE THE WHOLE WORLD. THIS HINDUISM PEDIA IS GOING TO BE ONE OF MY MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WHOLE WORLD! VISIT HINDUISM PEDIA http://hinduismpedia.org/ *NEXT IS THE NEXT GREAT WORK - KAILASA PEDIA. THIS KAILASA PEDIA IS THE COMPILATION OF THE GLORY OF KAILASA - THE OLDEST, ANCIENT, ENLIGHTENED HINDU CIVILIZATION, AND HOW IT WAS MANIFESTING ON THE PLANET EARTH AND ABOUT THE MULTIPLE HINDU NATIONS, AND THE PERSECUTION WE FACED AND THEIR WHOLE REVIVAL HAPPENING NOW. *THE WHOLE THING IS BEAUTIFULLY GETTING COMPILED. BLESSINGS TO SRI SHIVAJNANA, SANJAY VERMA, MA MUKTIKA, HARIHARAN AND THE WHOLE KAILASAPEDIA TEAM. *IT IS SUCH A WONDERFUL THING HAPPENING. *I AM PRESENTING THE KAILASA PEDIA TO PARAMASHIVA´S FEET AND TO THE WHOLE WORLD AND HUMANITY TO ENJOY. VISIT KAILASA PEDIA https://kailasapedia.org/ *I AM ACTUALLY OVERWHELMED BY THE WORK DONE FOR THE LAST FOUR MONTHS OF CHATURMASYA BY THE TEAM OF PARAMASHIVA GANAS. *I WANT TO BLESS ALL OF YOU! SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED IN ME WITH THE SPIRITUAL TAPAS. I AM BLESSING YOU WITH ALL THE SPIRITUAL MERIT DIRECTLY FROM PARAMASHIVA. LET ALL THE AUSPICIOUS THINGS IN THE LIFE, BE SHOWERED BY PARAMASHIVA ON YOU. *NEXT: THE NITHYANANDA HINDU UNIVERSITY IS OFFERING THE SADASHIVOHAM COURSE, LED BY MA PRANAPRIYA , MA MAHAVIDYA AND THE WHOLE TEAM. BLESSINGS TO THE WHOLE TEAM. I AM OFFERING IT TO THE FEET OF PARAMASHIVA AND TO ALL OF YOU. TO REGISTER https://nithyanandahinduuniversity.exphosted.com/learningpage/198/ExpertusONE_1 *NEXT: THE GREAT OFFERING WE HAVE, IS FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE AVATAR TEAM UNDER MA ACHALA - THE GURU GITA COMMENTARY COMPILED. THE FIRST VOLUME IS BEING RELEASED. I AM OFFERING THIS TO PARAMASHIVA´S FEET, WITH HIS BLESSINGS AND THE WHOLE GURU PARAMPARA’S BLESSINGS. *GURU GITA IS WHERE HE TALKS TO HER ABOUT HIM! THE GREAT GURU TATTVA DIRECTLY EXPLAINED BY THE ADI GURU, PARAMAGURU, BY PARAMASHIVA HIMSELF. THIS IS THE OFFERING TO THE WHOLE HUMANITY. TO READ AND AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD: https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Guru_Gita_(Book) *NEXT: THE SPIRITUAL NAME SERVICES WEBSITE BY SRI AMRITANANDA AND THE TEAM. DROPPING THE OLD IDENTITIES, KARMAS, SINS AND PATTERNS, CUTTING THE ROOT OF DELUSION AND IGNORANCE AND GIVING A NEW SPIRITUAL IDENTITY TO YOURSELF IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GURU. BY GIVING A SPIRITUAL IDENTITY AND SPIRITUAL NAME, THE NEW SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATION IS INITIATED INTO YOUR LIFE. SO THIS SERVICE WILL BE OFFERED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE. BLESSINGS TO SRI AMRITA AND THE TEAM. I AM OFFERING THIS TO PARAMASHIVA AND TO THE WHOLE WORLD. BE AN EKAILASAVASI REGISTERING FOR EPASSPORT https://kailaasa.org/free-epassport , FOLLOWING THAT, REGISTER FOR SPIRITUAL NAME, http://tiny.cc/spiritual-name-signup *SO WONDERFUL TO PRESENT THIS TO ALL OF YOU WITH THE GRACE OF PARAMASHIVA! *THERE IS SO MUCH MORE TO OFFER, TO DO. *I HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO SPEAK, SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU. I WILL DO IT THROUGH FURTHER SATSANGS. *NOW IT IS TIME FOR CHANDI HOMA POORNAHUTI, THE VIJAYADASHAMI NAVARATRI CELEBRATIONS, THE 40TH CHATURMASYA RITUALISTIC COMPLETION AND THEN THE PADA PUJA. OFFERINGS FROM GLOBAL KAILASAS: 2953 NAIVEDHYAMS WERE OFFERED TO THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM, JAGATGURU MAHASANNIDHANAM, HIS DIVINE HOLINESS BHAGAVAN NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. THE CONSECRATED FOOD WAS THEN DISTRIBUTED AS PART OF SHRIKAILASA UNITING NATIONS FOR NUTRITIOUS FOOD AND HUNGER FREE WORLD. *I BLESS YOU ALL. Read the full post here: https://www.facebook.com/138595819561610/posts/4510644559023359/

#Nithyananda #KAILASA

[bookclub4m]

Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction

This episode we’re discussing Entertainment Non-Fiction! We talk about what does (and doesn’t) count as entertainment, how we’re bad at watching TV, whether people are now turning non-book sources for analysis of media (e.g. watching videos on YouTube), and how many bananas are in a bunch.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read This Month

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes

A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer

Jim Brown: Last Man Standing by Dave Zirin

Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman

Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara

Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Companion to Buffy and Angel edited by Roz Kaveney

16 Entertainment Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib

Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame edited by by Jennifer Adese & Robert Alexander Innes

The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin

Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers by Donald Bogle

Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang by Lamont U-God Hawkins

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies by bell hooks

Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric by Madison Moore

Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama

Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes by Adilifu Nama

Everything’s Trash But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson

Movies (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano

The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed by Shea Serrano

This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe

I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone by Nina Simone

Iwao Takamoto: My Life With A Thousand Characters by Iwao Takamoto

EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest by Qiana Whitted

Announcements

The book we’ll all be reading and discussing for episode 107 is Pet by Akwaeke Emezi 

Matthew talked about streaming visual novels, and that will hopefully happen, but there’s no pilot episode (yet…). 

We’ve started doing lists for each genre by people of colour. You can find a list of the lists here.

We’re designing new bingo sheets for the podcast! (Here are the bingo sheets we made for episode 50.) What topics or titles always come up on the podcast? What verbal tics do we have? Let us know!

Other Media We Mentioned

If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble: Movies, Mayhem, and Malice by Joe Queenan

Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan J. Napier

Pulgasari (Wikipedia) (North Korean giant monster movie)

3 Ninjas (Wikipedia)

Mars Attacks! (Wikipedia)

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Métis in Space

Stardew Valley (Wikipedia)

Octodad: Dadliest Catch (Wikipedia)

The Jackbox Party Pack (Wikipedia)

What we completely forgot to mention: 33⅓ (a well-known and popular series of books about specific albums)

Links, Articles, and Things

American Ninja Warrior (Wikipedia)

Pedestrianism (Wikipedia)

Six-day racing (Wikipedia): Bicycle races

Dust-to-Digital (Instagram)

Get a Mac (Wikipedia): Ad campaign featuring John Hodgman

A bunch of the ads in question

Slash fiction (Wikipedia)

Ars Technica’s War Stories

lonelygirl15 (Wikipedia)

Todd in the Shadows’ review of Drake’s Toosie Slide

Glass Animals - Dreamland

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 21st we’ll be discussing Summer Reading/Challenges!

Then on Tuesday, August 4th we’ll be talking about Alternative History fiction!

#episodes #genes #nonfiction #entertainment

[loveisblindfanficton]

The Autobiography of Riot of the Purple Angel - Chapter 1: The Beginning!

We started doing shows at our favorite hangout on the weekends, and then I saw ad for the next Korean Idol, I mean it was a million chance to one, you know? I didn't think we would get picked by BTS personally, but we did a week after I secretly sent in the video of us doing a killer version of Mic Drop by our beloved BTS. I mean it was only about a week later when I got an email from BigHit Entertainment saying that Riot of the Purple Angel got in, and that we had to be there in two weeks....so that means I have to tell Hazel and Rebekah what I did or I'll just....no, no that is not an option I know! So I decided to text them to come over to tell them what I did. Anyways they came right over because they thought I was going to take Axel back(as if is all i'm saying!), I mean I'd rather eat two tubs of cookie dough ice cream than take that douche bag back, you know? Like seriously?! Okay back to me telling them we are going to Seoul, South Korea to perform for BigHit Entertainment, and maybe catch a glimpse of BTS. What I'd be happy with a glimpse of them and that's no joke!  So today is the day, the day we are performing for BigHit Entertainment, and to say we are nervous is an understatement. Yes we all got on the plane to Seoul, South Korea but I did have a weak moment at the Chicago airport with my ex-boyfriend begging me to stay, and dumbass me almost took him back if Hazel didn't drag me away with Rebekah trailing behind us to our terminal. But that's all in the rearview mirror now because here we are at the record label about to make our dreams come true. Love is going to take a backseat but I'm not going to hold my two best friends back from love though, I mean I'm not that selfish. As our band name is called, I take a deep breath before Rebekah starts rapping J-Hope's part in Mic Drop, but when my part came I looked in the crowd and made eye contact with the seven members of BTS. I froze but Rebekah elbowed me and my attention turned back to what I was doing. We got through the performance without anymore fuck up from me, but they were waiting for us backstage and I was not ready to meet my idols....yet! My hands were sweaty and I felt like I couldn't breath. I mean how would you feel if you were meeting the people you loved and admired? And I knew I was going to act like a complete fool but there was no way around it, so bring it on I guess? As soon as they start talking, I freeze again. Why am I acting like this? And why is Taehyung looking just at me? I don't understand anything that is going on right now. "I'm sorry about my friend." Rebekah spoke up. I looked at her then as I thought to myself thank you for throwing me under the fucking bus...before looking back Taehyung smiling at me now....I told you I'd make a complete ass of myself, ugh! And to top it off, I looked down at the floor with my cheeks hot when he smiled. I wanted to leave but couldn't move  even if I wanted to, plus the boys decided to take us to eat and I tried to politely decline the offer but I was out voted apparently. Keep your cool, I reminded myself. Yeah like that was going to happen, you know? I guess fate had a hold of me at the moment....HELP ME...PLEASE? The entire time we were having dinner, I was quiet. But I felt his eyes on me the whole time during dinner. What is his problem doesn't he know that staring is flippin' rude? I was going to go off on him, but I thought better of it because of my friends. Plus Taehyung is my bias as well. Once we were done with dinner, the guys invited us to their soundcheck before their show tonight, which Hazel and Rebekah blurted out yes before I could even politely decline again. The girls and I went back to our hotel room to get ready.  "Alright Em, what's up?  I know something's wrong, " Hazel said. I just sighed before saying as I fell on the bed behind me, "Did you notice V aka Taehyung was staring at me all night?" They both smiled before Hazel said. "Actually, I did notice that. It was kinda cute!" I glared at her then at Rebekah as I said. "More like rude and creepy!" They both stared at me as they questioned me as well by saying, "That was not rude. Why would you think that was rude?" I didn't know why I was acting this way so I sighed again. "I don't know," I finally answered. And then I spoke again by saying, "Truth is, I'm scared to fall for someone right now." They just nodded before saying, "That is why you need to go with us tonight to meet the guys." I looked at them like they lost his fucking mind as I said. "Did you guys not hear anything I just said?" They just shook their heads yes, so I spoke again by saying, "Then read my lips....I'M NOT GOING WITH YOU GUYS TONIGHT!" They asked. "And why not?" I didn't get a chance to answer before Rebekah said. "If you don't go, you'll be wondering what we are doing and driving yourself crazy here by yourself!" They are right but I don't want to be stared at all night. "Ugh," I groaned. And then I said. "Fine, I'll go but I'm going for you guys....happy?" They jumped up and cheered, which led me to roll my eyes. Hazel did my hair and make-up as Rebekah let me borrow her Purple dress that hugs my every curve, so if he was staring before he is going to be staring more now.  Oh and plus they put me in flippin' heels too, so this should be fun for me tonight!  As Hazel  and Rebekah put on a nice top and FUCKING jeans with FUCKING sneakers! I'm still fuming mad as they drag me out of the hotel room.

An hour later we were standing in front of seven guys that we love, but as soon as I looked at Tae who was already eyeing me which made me shiver under his gaze. His eyes finally met mine and he gave me that boxy smile that I swear turned my legs into jello, you know? Then he spoke to me in english(which RM must have taught him) by saying, "Hello Emma, you look very beautiful tonight." That made me blush before mumbling a thank you awkwardly, I mean I don't know how to do this, you know? It's been 2 years since I've had to flirt with a guy, and now I'm in South Korea and having V from BTS openly flirting with me....how am I not freaking out right now? I don't know to be honest, but him speaking again interrupted my thoughts, "Emma, are you okay?" I wanted to yell no at the top of my lungs but I decided not to do that, but I did say, "Huh? Oh, yes I'm okay." Then I looked around to see my two friends gone along with six members of BTS....oh FUCKING great I walked into a set up, ugh!  Hazel and Rebekah are so died when I see them next, and I do mean that! Taehyung spoke again because I wasn't saying anything, so he said. "Hello I'm V, and I'm a good boy!" Okay that just has to be the cutest way to introduce himself or the lamest, but I'm going with cute so I said. "Hi there, good boy!" Then I gave him a little wink. Two hours later Taehyung walked me up to my hotel room door and said goodnight to me, before turning away and leaving me to watch him leave. I was also feeling a bit disappointed that he didn't try to kiss me or try to make a move, you know? Oh well I guess, huh? I'm tried so I'm just going to go in now and sleep, but when I walked in I was pounced on by my two so-called friends, Hazel and Rebekah asking me, "Tell us everything that happened tonight....Oh c'mon please!" I just rolled my eyes and continued to walk to my bed, then I sat down and took the heels off as well before saying, "Don't you mean did your plan work? Oh yeah I know you two set me up!" They both looked like they got caught with there hand in cookie jar, before Hazel said. "You know Taehyung isn't like Axel...right, Em?" Yes I knew that, but....Okay, I'm scared to put myself back out there....happy? Anyways I just nodded at them and then I got up again to change out of this stupid dress, and go to bed but my two friends had other plans for me because Rebekah said. "So what happened with you two tonight? And if you say nothing we will beat you....just saying!" I rolled my eyes before saying, "We just walked around and talked in the park, and then he bought me back here without making a move or kissing me goodnight." Rebekah was grinning as her sister, Hazel was smirking as Rebekah said. "Someone sounds very disappointed about that, right Hazel?" I rolled my eyes at them again as I put on my pajamas and dropped on the bed trying to ignore them until I drifted off to dreamland where Taehyung was waiting for me.....

#The Autobiography of Riot of the Purple Angel #chapter 1 #bts #My writing

[rkariel]

                                        ❝ MEMORIES   —   RKARIEL EDITION    !!    ✦

SELF-LOVE

these #♡ ; aes posts are high in protein 

apparently, I joined this tumblr place at 08/01/2018 1:09:32 AM

You ever just... yell about #aes ; bln?? 

CHERI ON TOP   —   (   @rkcheri   ) 

rkariel and @rkcheri? a match made in heaven

Incredible, but true: @rkcheri deserves to have a good day today.

DISNEY PRINCESS OTP FTW   —   (   @rkyeri   ) 

I can’t believe my mom grounded @rkyeri. That’s not even her kid... is it?

I’ll name my first child #coppy, my second child @rkyeri, and my third child Jim.

I’d be nothing without @rkyeri 

I’ve been silent for too long and can no longer bear to keep this inside: @rkyeriis a good person and deserves many good things

Legend has it if you put any good tag in the title of your favorite car movie, it sounds canon. The #rkyeri and the Furious

If the groundhog sees @rkyeri, that’s 6 more weeks of winter

Pour one out for #thr ; dreamworld

RKTAENY LIVES ON / ARISEUL   —   (   @haseulrk   ) 

#rktaeyeon > #✧ ; thr? Not on my watch!

If there’s one thing I learned since I signed up on 08/01/2018 1:09:32 AM, it’s that #rktaeny takes up too much of my time

I’m not going to say it again: #rktaeny deserves to win first place

I want to take a heaping batch of #thr ; evergreen and spread it all over me like I’m that peanut butter baby. You know the one

Do not blame me for who I am. The doctor prescribed me 20 mL of #haseulrk twice a day

FAIRYTALES WITH ROYAL(TY)   —   (   @rkxroyal   ) 

I regret to inform you I’m #thr ; sayyes trash 

WE GOT THAT SUPERBAS(S)   —   (   @rkpcy   ) 

The day I started posting about #♡ ; superbas was the best day of my life

APPLE AD-DAE   —   (   @rkxkjd   ) 

#thr ; happybdae is my biggest hobby... and my greatest fear

                                                  & !      WITH SPECIAL MENTIONS                                       ❝ MEMORIES   —   RKTIFFXNY EDITION   !!    ✦

SELF-LOVE

apparently, I joined this tumblr place at 01/11/2014 11:52:28 PM

#( bf ) and Other Things That Ruined My Life: An Autobiography by rktiffxny

The day I started posting about #becausewe'resisters was the best day of my life 

FOREVER A QT PIE   —   (   @rkcheri​   ) 

You ever just… yell about #hbcsquad??

ALWAYS A FAVORITE   —   (   @rkhyeri   )

My body is but a #rkhyeri temple

MEME QUEENS FOR LIFE   —   (   @rkaudrey​   )

In my next life I will be reborn as #rkxsooyoung

RKTAENY LIVES ON / ARISEUL   —   (   @haseulrk   )

#onthegrind > #chasingcars? Not on my watch!

(J)ACE OF HEARTS   —   (   @jacerk   )

#jihoonrk is my biggest hobby… and my greatest fear 

#♡ ; my heart is yours to fill or burst #rkcheri #rkyeri #haseulrk #rkxroyal #rkpcy #rkxkjd #ooc ; bc u know my extra af ass couldn't pick / just / one #also some of these are rly LMFAO #icb rktaeny is so big on here when i don't think i've posted that much on this one before the fc changes on both sides

[matiness-project]

December 23, 2020 

Happiness Project: Mati 

Day 3

Good morning,

Starting off with noting these are essentially Journal/Blog entries in regards to the project.  No need to correct the many grammar mistakes you will see throughout.

So yesterday was particularly effective.  I completed my daily goals and I also mustered the courage to discuss my project with a good friend of mine, Dean Fiorese.  The plan is to meet every 1-2 months to discuss ideas and just chat about our projects.  He has a blog up and running and it primarily has to do with book reviews, highly recommend looking in to, “@_the.deans.list_” on Instagram.  I am actually going to order, “The Autobiography of Gucci Mane” after reading his review! Anyways, I think this an important step in this process because I know myself very well and I know that I get very excited with projects and what I lack is consistency.  Last year for example I decided to train for a marathon, and it lasted all of 3 months, eventually giving up on signing up for one.  Hopefully my bi-monthly meetings with Dean-osaurio will help keep me on track and keep ideas fresh and exciting. 

I also mentioned my project to Sarah, (my girlfriend).  She seemed excited for me but I also noticed a bit of confusion, I need to explain my process a bit better so that is going on my weekly ideas to review.  She got a particular kick out the title I decided on, “The Matiness Project”.  I particularly like the title for many reasons.  First it makes the project my own, as opposed to being so general.  In reading Gretchen Rubin’s, “The Happiness Project”, (which is essentially the main outline of my project) she talks often about how this project should be personalized for the individual committing to it, therefore the title has my name added.  Secondly, the name is goofy, corny, and really makes me want to laugh every time I say it out loud. Couldn’t I argue that even title even contributing to the end goal? Lastly, I know my boys are going to troll me for this.  Why is that important?  I am Colombian and love to tease my friends and I love when they troll me.  I enjoy friendships where “all in good fun” applies to everything.  I want my friends to be able to look at this project in a manner that allows them to look at the content and not have to just praise me in my effort. I don’t enjoy serious praise and I feel its false if its not light-hearted.  I want them to be able to make good fun of it and remind me that I am doing this because I enjoy it.  I read in Rubin’s book somewhere that the once you start getting paid or rewarded for something, you don’t enjoy it as much. (I clearly suck at citing my sources).  So I want it to be fun for me and fun for others.

Particular shout out to Pascy, Mitch, Grack, Jant, Penner, Brian G, Ian J, and others who I know will not stop bashing me for the corny title. Can’t wait for the trolling.

Thanks again for reading,

-Mati 

[dailynewswebsite]

Obama book offers key insight about how laws really get made

In a photograph from 2004, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama, proper, speaks with a fellow legislator on the ground of the state Senate chamber. AP photograph/Randy Squires

Amid all the eye on former President Barack Obama’s new guide, what could not have proven up within the evaluations is point out of a two-page abstract that, for legislative students like me, consists of what will be the shortest and maybe finest description of how legislatures actually work, even for political scientists.

Based mostly on his time as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004, the temporary passage crystallizes the inside workings of the legislative course of. As a scholar who has noticed and studied state legislatures and Congress for nearly 50 years, I do know there are tons of of autobiographies by former members of Congress, former U.S. senators and former state legislators – all of whom provide classes about what goes on of their respective chambers.

However none is so succinct as Obama’s.

U.S. Sen. Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania talks with fellow Sen. Robert Kennedy of New York in 1967. AP Picture/Invoice Ingraham

Legions of accounts

One of many first legislative memoirs I learn, in about 1972, was “Congress: The Sapless Department,” written a decade earlier by Joseph Clark, who then represented my dwelling state, Pennsylvania, within the U.S. Senate. I grew to become fascinated with the thought of legislators evaluating their very own establishments – and even proposing reforms to make them work higher.

Most legislator autobiographies are heavy on private journeys, describing why and the way they ran for workplace, what occurred throughout the marketing campaign and their legislative successes as soon as elected. These kinds of books embrace former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri’s 2015 “Lots Ladylike” and Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky’s 2016 “The Lengthy Sport.” They pay little consideration to the efficiency of the legislature or the broader political system – although McConnell does observe the distinction between politics and actuality, the distinction between “making a degree and making a distinction.”

Longtime Illinois state Sen. Philip Rock wrote an unusually explanatory guide concerning the legislative course of. AP Picture/John Swart

There are exceptions to this. For example, in Philip J. Rock’s memoir, printed after his 2016 dying, “No one Calls Simply to Say Hey,” the longtime Illinois Senate president rigorously explains how at the least a dozen vital choices took place.

Obama’s expertise

In his 750-page guide, Obama’s legislative perception comes early, on pages 33 and 34. Obama recounts an early speech opposing tax breaks to companies utilizing information and figures that he felt sure had been convincing. When he completed, Senate President Pate Philip came visiting to his desk:

“That was a hell of a speech,” he stated, chewing on an unlit cigar. “Made some good factors.” Then he added:

“May need even modified a whole lot of minds,” he stated. “However you didn’t change any votes.” With that he signaled to the presiding officer and watched with satisfaction because the inexperienced lights signifying “aye” lit up the board.

Obama went on to explain his view of politics in Springfield as “a collection of transactions largely hidden from view, legislators weighing the competing pressures of assorted pursuits with the dispassion of bazaar retailers, all of the whereas preserving a cautious eye on the handful of ideological sizzling buttons – weapons, abortion, taxes – which may generate warmth from their base.”

Obama defined that it wasn’t that legislators “didn’t know the distinction between good and dangerous coverage. It simply didn’t matter. What everybody in Springfield understood was that 90 % of the time voters again dwelling weren’t paying consideration. An advanced however worthy compromise, bucking get together orthodoxy to help an modern concept – that might price you a key endorsement, a giant monetary backer, a management publish, and even an election.”

In that passage, Obama describes the central weak spot of consultant democracy: Good-looking political establishments don’t work the best way they appear, partly as a result of organized particular pursuits maintain them that manner, and extra importantly, as a result of “90 % of the time voters again dwelling weren’t paying consideration.”

Legislators reply to individuals and pursuits they see and listen to. Normally meaning different politicians, lobbyists and their staffs. With out an attentive public, the general public curiosity loses out.

What Obama noticed throughout his time within the Illinois state legislature was revealing. AP Picture/Seth Perlman

Everyone knows higher than we stay

His account reinforces a fact I first struggled with in 1981 whereas interviewing an Indiana legislator for my dissertation. I requested him if he appeared for info to higher perceive legislative proposals. He instructed me, “I can’t assist however suppose that you just suppose that our downside is that we don’t know what we needs to be doing right here. It’s identical to in farming, I already know tips on how to farm higher than I farm.”

Individuals already know the information of tips on how to stay more healthy, work extra successfully and save more cash. And politicians largely know tips on how to tackle what the general public truly wants. It’s motivation and self-discipline which might be typically the obstacles, not a lack of awareness.

Tutorial books and articles are helpful for understanding items of the legislative course of. However they, and lawmakers’ personal reflections, seldom so clearly reveal – as Obama captures – how legislators perceive it.

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BOOTLEQ'S MASTERLIST

Hi! So, as promised, here are the links to every single bootleg I have, as well as my list of requests! My goal is to streamline this blog and make it more of a community effort, so feel free to take what you need but if you have one of my requests please send it my way! Make sure to check this post before asking, but if you are looking for something that isn't here definitely shoot me a message!Also, if one of my links is down, please message me so I can try to fix it or remove it! Thank you for helping me out!

  A

Aida

·       2001 with Mara Days, Matt Bogart, Idina Menzel (x)

·       Broadway full show (x)

Aladdin

·       Pre-Broadway Full Show Toronto (x)

·       Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular final performance HD (x)

Allegiance

·       Broadway with George Takei and Lea Salonga (x)

Amelie

·       OBC (x)

·       Audio w/ Philippa Soo (x)

American Idiot

·       (x) [password: greenday]

American Psycho

·       OBC (x)

An American in Paris

·       Broadway (x)

Anything Goes

·       Sutton Foster & Joel Grey (x)

Annie

·       1982 Film (x)

·       1999 Film (x)

·       2012 Broadway Full Show (x)

Assassins

·       2004 Broadway Revival (x)

Avenue Q

·       Broadway full show (x)

A Bed and a Chair

·       Bernadette Peters and Jeremy Jordan (x)

A Chorus Line

·       excellent high school production (act 1) (act 2)

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

A Very Potter Trilogy

·       A Very Potter Musical (x)

·       A Very Potter Sequel (x)

·       A Very Potter Senior Year (x)

B

Bare

·       2012 Off Broadway (Part One) (Part Two)

Beauty and the Beast

·       Benet Academy 2008 (part one) (part two)

Billy Elliot

·       2008 Broadway (x)

·       Broadway with Trent Kowalik (x)

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

·       Broadway (x)

Bonnie and Clyde

·       Laura Osnes & Jeremy Jordan (x)

Book of Mormon

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

·       US Tour (Act 1) (Act 2)

Bring It On

·       (x)

Bye Bye Birdie

·       1963 Film (x)

·       On Stage with Alan Cumming (x)

C

Cabaret

·       1972 Film (x)

·       Televised performance with Alan Cumming (x)

Camelot

·       1982 (x)

Carrie

·       1988 Stratford Opening Night (x)

·       2012 Off Broadway Revival (x)

·       2013 Seattle Production (x)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

·       1984 VHS (x)

Cats

·       Stephanie J Block (x)

Catch Me if You Can

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

Chess

·       (x)

Chicago

·       US Tour (x)

Children of Eden

·       (x)

·       Chess pine high school (but still excellent for a high school show!) (x)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

·       1968 Film (x)

Cinderella (R&H)

·       1997 Film with Whitney Houston (x)

·       Broadway with Carly and Fran (x)

·       Broadway with Keke Palmer (act 1) (act 2)

 Company

·       2006 (x)

Crybaby

·       Stage (x)

Curtains

·       (x)

D

Dear Evan Hansen

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

Dogfight

·       (x)

·       HD (x)

Dracula

·       German {English Subtitles}(x)

Dreamgirls

·       Original Broadway Cast {low-quality}(x)

·       2006 Film (x)

E

Equus

·       (part one) (part two)

Evita

·       2012 Broadway Revival (x)

F

Falsettos

·       2016 Broadway Revival (x)

Fantasticks

·       Fairfield Community Arts Center (part one) (part two)

Fame

·       1980 Film (x)

·       2009 Film (x)

Fiddler on the Roof

·       1971 Film (x)

Finnian’s Rainbow

·       1968 Film (x)

First Date

·       (x)

Flash Dance

·       1983 Film (x)

Follies

·       2001 revival (x)

Frozen

·       Live Musical First Showing HD (x)

Funny Girl

·       1968 Film (x)

Fun Home

·       Act 1 & 2 (x) [password: funhome]

G

Gentleman Prefer Blondes

·       2012 New York City Center Encores (x)

Grease

·       New Broadway Cast with Laura Osnes and Max Crumm (x)

Grey Gardens

·       Chesterton, Indiana (x)

·       West End (x)

Gypsy

·       1962 Film (x)

·       2008 Revival (x)

H

Hair

·       1979 Film (x)

·       2009 Revival (part one) (part two) (part three) (part four)

Hamilton

·       OBC (x)

Heathers

·       Barrett Weed (part 1) (part 2)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

·       Neil Patrick Harris (x)

·       2001 Film (x)

·       Off Broadway Full Show (x)

·       Anthony Rapp (x)

High Fidelity

·       2006 Broadway (x)

High Society

·       1956 Film (x)

Holler if Ya Hear Me

·       Broadway 2014 (x)

Holy Musical B@man!

·       (x)

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

·       1967 Film (x)

·       Broadway with Daniel Radcliffe (x)

·       Broadway with Nick Jonas (x)

Hunchback of Notre Dame

·       1999 Berlin (x)

·       Idk what performance this is but its hunchback (x)

·       Idk what performance but this has a really good view for a bootleg (part one) (part two) (part three)

I

If/Then

·       Broadway Preview Performance (x)

·       Pre-Broadway Washington DC (x)

In the Heights

·       OBC (x)

·       I’m not sure what production this is but if you’re looking to watch the show here it is (x)

Into the Woods

·       1991 Film (x)

·       2014 Film (x)

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

·       2002 Revival (x)

J

Jesus Christ Superstar

·       1973 Film (x)

·       2012 Live Arena Tour (x)

Jersey Boys

·       Broadway full show (x)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat

·       1999 (x)

K

Kinky Boots

·       Original Broadway Cast (part one) (part two) (part three)

Kiss Me Kate

·       1953 Film (x)

L

Legally Blonde

·       With singalong (x)

Les Miserables

·       2014 Broadway Revival (x)

·       25th Anniversary Concert (Part One) (Part Two)

·       2000 with Sutton Foster {missing part one} (x)

·       Broadway full show (x)

Lestat

·       Opening night on broadway (x)

Little Shop of Horrors

·       1986 Film (x)

Little Women

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

Love Never Dies

·       London Full Show (x)

M

Mamma Mia!

·       2008 Film (x)

Mary Poppins

·       London {missing the beginning} (x)

Matilda

·       Broadway 2014 (x)

·       Broadway with Sophia Gennusa (x)

·       Broadway with Oona Lawrence (x)

Memphis

·       Broadway (x)

Miss Saigon

·       Final performance on broadway (x)

·       Broadway 1/7/01 (x)

·       National tour (x)

·       2008 (x)

N

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

·       OBC w/ Josh Groban (x)

Never Forget

·       2007 Manchester Premier (x)

Next to Normal

·       Final performance of Alice Ripley, Jennifer Damiano, and Brian d’Arcy James (x)

·       Jessica Philips and Kyle Dean Massey (x)

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

Newsies:

·       1992 Film (x)

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

·       Broadway with Jeremy Jordan (x)

·       Broadway with Corey Cott (x)

·       Touring Cast December 2014 (x)

O

Oklahoma!

·       1955 Film (x)

·       1999 Film with Hugh Jackman (x)

Oliver!

·       London 2010 (x)

Once

·       Broadway (x)

Once Upon a Mattress

·       Movie (x)

P

Paramour

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

Passion

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

Peter and the Starcatcher

·       Original Broadway Cast (x) [password: starstuff]

Peter Pan

·       2012 Tour (act 1) (act 2)

Phantom of the Opera

·       Sierra Boggess and Norm Lewis (x)

·       1925 Film (x)

·       1989 Film (x)

·       2004 Film (x)

·       Royal Albert Hall 2011 (x)

·       Broadway December 2014 (x)

·       All of the tour links that you could possibly want, I’m not going to list them all but check it out here (x)

Pipe Dream

·       (x) [password: suzy]

Pippin

·       Live in Toronto 1982 (x)

Q

R

Ragtime

·       Poor quality (x)

Rent

·       Hollywood Bowl Performance with Neil Patrick Harris (x) [password: tango maureen]

·       2008 Broadway (x)

S

School of Rock

·       Broadway (act 1) (act 2)

Seussical

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

She Loves Me

·       Livestream (x)

Shrek the Musical

·       Broadway [Netflix] (x)

Side Show

·       (part 1) (part 2)

Sister Act

·       Broadway (x)

Something Rotten

·       Original Broadway Cast Preview (x)

·       (x)

Spring Awakening

·       Original Broadway Cast with Mattt Doyle ad Melchior (x)

·       Original Broadway Cast with Gerard Canonico as Moritz, Matt Doyle as Otto, Jennifer Damiano as Martha (x)

·       2010 with Leah Michelle (x)

Starship

·       (x)

Sunday in the Park with George

·       (x)

Sunset Boulevard

·       (act 1) (act 2)

T

The Addams Family

·       Original Broadway Cast and Chicago Preview Mix (x)

The Apple Tree

·       Broadway (part one) (part two)

The Bridges of Madison County

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

The Drowsy Chaperone

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

The King and I

·       1956 Film (x)

The Little Mermaid

·       Pre-Broadway with Sierra Boggess (x)

The Lion King

·       2000 Broadway (x)

The Music Man

·       1962 Film (x)

·       2003 Film (x)

The Producers

·       1968 Film (x)

The Sound of Music

·       1965 Film (x)

The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown

·       Orange County Performing Arts Center 2009 (x)

The Wedding Singer

·       (x)

Thouroughky Modern Millie

·       Original Broadway Cast (act 1) (act 2)

Three Musketeers

·       With Aaron Tveit (x)

Titanic the Musical

·       Peace Players Production (x)

Title of Show

·       Broadway (x)

Tuck Everlasting

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

Twisted

·       (x)

U

Urinetown

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

V

W

Waitress

·       Broadway..i think obc (x)

Wicked

·       Original Broadway Cast Preview (x)

·       Original London Cast (x)

·       Donna Vivino & Alli Mauzey (x)

·       Nicole Parker, Alli Mauzey & Aaron Tveit [password: swankified] (x)

·       Pre-Broadway (x)

X

Xanadu

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

Y

Young Frankenstein

·       (x)

Z

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13!

·       Broadway (part one) (part two) (part three) (part four) (part five) (part six)

·       Broadway full show (x)

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

·       Original Broadway Cast (x)

  WANTS

These are bootlegs that have been requested or I am looking for! If you have any of these please feel free to drop the link in my messages so I can share! :)

•           Cursed child

•           Priscilla queen of the desert

•           A little night music

•           Giant

•           Finian’s Rainbow

•           The Glass Menagerie (2013 w/ Celia Keenan Bolger & the revival)

•           Finding Neverland

•           The Wild Party with Sutton Foster

•           Picnic

•           Light in the Piazza

•           Fiddler on the roof (especially the 2016 revival)

•           Big Fish

•           Rock of Ages

•           Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

•           Cinderella OBC – laura osnes & santino fontana

•           The Woman in White – west end

•           Heathers chicago

•           Heathers with ryan as JD

•           Godspell

•           The color purple

•           Hairspray with Aaron Tveit – 2006

•           Hairspray in general really

•           Bright Star

•           Violet

•           Spamalot OBC

•           Christian Borle in thouroghly modern millie ??

•           Elegies (off-broadway)

•           Pamela’s first musical

•           West side story with Karen Olivo

•           9 to 5

•           The outsiders

•           Loserville

•           Parade

•           How to Succeed in Buisness without really trying with Darren Criss

•           Wicked with Kara Lindsay as Glinda

•           Born Yesterday 2011 revival

•           Beautiful, the Carole King Musical

•           Footloose

•           Bronx Tale

•           Come From Away

•           Rent 20th anniversary

•           La Cage Aux Folles

•           Hamilton (all casts/shows)

•           Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Christian Borle

#broadway bootlegs #bootleqs #bootlegs

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Katherine Jackson

Katherine Esther Jackson (née Scruse, born Kattie B. Screws; May 4, 1930) is the matriarch of the Jackson family.

Early life

Katherine Jackson was born as Kattie B. Screws on May 4, 1930 in Clayton, Alabama to Prince Albert (October 16, 1907 – January 21, 1995) and Martha Screws (née Upshaw; December 14, 1902 – April 25, 1990). The elder of two daughters, Jackson contracted polio at age two, which left her with a noticeable permanent limp. In 1934, her father changed his surname to "Scruse", and renamed his daughter "Katherine Esther".

As a child, Jackson aspired to become an actress or country singer, but was dismayed to find no notable black country stars. Jackson's parents divorced when she was still a child. While attending Washington High School, Jackson joined the local high school band. In 1947, Katherine met Joseph Jackson, who was also living in East Chicago. Joseph obtained an annulment of an earlier marriage and began dating Katherine. After a year-long courtship, they married on November 5, 1949. In January 1950, they purchased a two-bedroom house in Gary. During the couple's early years in Gary, they sang together, with Joe playing guitar. After Joe's dream of a boxing career was dashed, he continued working at nearby East Chicago's Inland Steel Company. From 1950 until 1966, Jackson gave birth to 10 children, including twins Marlon and Brandon, the latter of whom died a few hours after birth.

Jackson family

Joe eventually enlisted Michael and older brother Marlon into the group not as vocalists, but as backing instrumentalists, playing percussion. In 1966, Joe began to see seven-year-old Michael's overall talents two years after Jackson's discovery. Beforehand, Michael had performed onstage without his father's knowledge at several school recitals starting at five. By the end of 1966, Michael was positioned as the second frontman of the group after Jermaine. Acting on advice from a schoolteacher in 1965, Joe changed the group's name to The Jackson Five. In 1967, after winning several talent shows in Gary, Joe Jackson decided to make the group a professional act when Gordon Keith, an owner and vocalist at Gary's Steeltown Records, discovered and signed them to their first contract with him on November 21. Their first single, "Big Boy", produced by Keith, was released on January 31, 1968. "Big Boy" became a local hit, playing on radio stations in the Chicago-Gary area. During the Jackson 5's 1970–71 heyday, Jackson – along with her three daughters and youngest son – was barely mentioned in the press. This changed in 1974 when Joe began building careers around his three younger children and eldest daughter. Jackson started to become part of her husband's management team when the grown-up members of the group (which renamed themselves The Jacksons after splitting from Motown in 1975) reunited for the Victory Tour in 1984. Michael dedicated his 1982 album Thriller to her. Janet Jackson did the same following the release of her 1989 album Rhythm Nation 1814, the first album where she was not under the watchful eye of her father following the success of Control, as Janet had fired him months after its release. In 1985, acknowledging what was then a positive impact on her children's successful music careers, national urban magazine Essence honored her as "Mother of the Year".

My Family

In 1990, Jackson released her autobiography My Family, The Jacksons, which documented her early years and her relationship with her husband and their children, eight of whom wrote salutes to their mother in the book's foreword. She detailed that her husband on more than a few occasions had committed adultery. She decided to file for divorce on March 9, 1973 at the Los Angeles County clerk, but chose to rescind the divorce papers. The following year, Joh'Vonnie Jackson, Joe's daughter with another woman named Cheryl Terrell, was born on August 30, 1974. This led Joe and Cheryl to a 25-year affair while raising their daughter Joh'Vonnie.

In an unauthorized biography of Janet Jackson, a confrontational family incident was described. This biography claims that in 1979, Jackson and her two youngest children, Randy and Janet, confronted a woman who worked for Joseph's company, whom Jackson had often reportedly accused of cheating with Joseph. That incident was redramatized for the 1992 miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream. However, in the miniseries, Jackson was shown confronting Joseph instead of the woman about the alleged incident. During the late 1980s, Jackson began experiencing an estrangement from her daughter La Toya after she was being managed by Jack Gordon. In her 1991 memoir La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family, La Toya alleged that Jackson was emotionally abusive, charges Jackson denied to the press and blamed Gordon, who married La Toya in 1989, for "brainwashing" her. In 1997, La Toya and Jackson reconciled after she filed for divorce from Gordon. Jackson was portrayed by Angela Bassett in the 1992 miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream. Patricia Idlette portrayed her in the 2004 film Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story.

Recent years

Jackson has spent the last couple of decades talking to the press defending her children, mainly Michael, who began to gain notoriety. In an interview promoting her Michael Jackson vip Book/DVD on The Oprah Winfrey Show, however, Jackson acknowledged that she got her husband to admit to physically disciplining their children. Over the years, some claimed that Joe was abusive towards his children, which he continually denied. As of 2011, Jackson resided with her grandson T. J. Jackson, along with his family, at her home in Calabasas, California. Jackson had moved out of her Hayvenhurst home in Encino, California, due to house renovations.

Despite rumors that she was estranged from Joe, she denied it and dismissed rumors that Joe was banned from the Jackson family home as false, which was something the media had tried to cook up. According to her son Jermaine Jackson's 2011 book You Are Not Alone: Michael Through a Brother's Eyes, Jackson had told Michael that she was nearing the age of 80 and before she died, she wanted to see her sons perform together one last time. One of Michael Jackson's future plans as part of his deal with AEG Live was a final reunion tour with his brothers. She most recently appeared at the BET Awards 2015 with her daughter Janet as she accepted the Ultimate Icon Award. Katherine's husband Joe died from pancreatic cancer on June 27, 2018, two days after the 9th anniversary of Michael Jackson's death.

Death of Michael Jackson

On June 25, 2009, Michael died from an overdose of propofol. On July 30, 2009, Katherine Jackson and Debbie Rowe reached a settlement pertaining to the care of Michael's two oldest children (with Rowe), Prince and Paris, in which the children will be raised by Katherine, and Rowe will have visitation rights and continue to receive the yearly payments to which Michael had agreed. On August 3, 2009, a judge named Jackson as the children's permanent guardian. On July 25, 2012, Jackson's guardianship of the children was suspended by the court amid allegations that she may have been held against her will by several Jackson family members as a result of a financial dispute between those family members and Michael's estate. Guardianship of the children was temporarily given to Michael's nephew, TJ, one of Tito's sons. Katherine Jackson's guardianship resumed with T.J. Jackson added as a co-guardian. On November 1, 2017, Jackson resigned as co-guardian of Michael's youngest son, Blanket. Jackson stated her reasons for resigning included her own advanced age, the fact that Michael's oldest children Prince and Paris were now adults, and that Blanket was now 15 years old. TJ Jackson was, without objection, awarded sole custody of Blanket.

Children

Ten children — seven sons and three daughters — were born to Katherine and Joe Jackson:

Maureen Reillette "Rebbie" Jackson (born May 29, 1950)

Sigmund Esco "Jackie" Jackson (born May 4, 1951)

Toriano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson (born October 15, 1953)

Jermaine La Jaune Jackson (born December 11, 1954)

La Toya Yvonne Jackson (born May 29, 1956)

Marlon David Jackson (born March 12, 1957)

Brandon Jackson (stillborn March 12, 1957)

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009)

Steven Randall "Randy" Jackson (born October 29, 1961)

Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966)

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