#karl geary

[vinosities]

There was something I was thinking about actually, in terms of resolve. There is that Susan Sontag quote, "A landscape of devastation is still a landscape, there's beauty in ruins." The idea has been that, even if your inner life at some point has been made desolate, something will grow over the rocks and the concrete, awareness continues. And maybe that's all we get, you know, as scarred or as broken as a landscape is, our perspective can shift. And maybe that just has to be enough.

— Gabriel Byrne Talks Memory, Loneliness and More with Karl Geary

#readings #gabriel byrne #karl geary #susan sontag #persona

[ashtrayfloors]

They fade, memories, even good ones, the ones we want. I’d practise my favourites, learned as if by rote. But no matter, you end up with memories of memories: you get tar from coal, not diamonds. I sat outside of things. Time, quick as a drumroll, flew past. Then I was sixteen. Then I was seventeen.

—Karl Geary, from Juno Loves Legs (Catapult, 2023)

#quotations #typography #books #karl geary #juno loves legs #recently read #memories #this fucking book #i have been reading so many amazing novels and short stories lately #this was one of the very best

[blackramhall]

I've been clinically diagnosed with sociopathy, Rob. To me, you're an object. You know, you're a, you're a thing. You're about as important to me as a cardboard box. And the -- the thing about cardboard boxes... is that... You know they're totally boring on the outside, right? But... sometimes, if you cut'em open there'll be something interesting inside. You know, and so, while you're saying all these boring things to me I'm thinking about what it'd be like to cut you open. But I -- I don't wanna, I don't wanna be that person. And so, I have a rule that anytime somebody says somethings to me where I -- I think about, you know, cuttin' 'em. I -- I -- I just smile and I say something nice. So that's why I say to you, Rob Anders of 232 Carnation Street. You are a really great guy.

I Am Not a Serial Killer - Billy O' Brien (2016)

#I Am Not a Serial Killer #Billy O' Brien #Dan Weels #horror movie #Max Records #Christopher Lloyd #Laura Fraser #Tim Russell #Christina Baldwin #Karl Geary #Anna Sundberg #Lucy Lawton #Raymond Branstrom #Dee Noah

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Jimmy’s Hall (2014) Ken Loach

May 4th 2022

#jimmy's hall #2014 #ken loach #barry ward #simone kirby #aileen henry #jim norton #francis magee #mikel murfi #aisling franciosi #andrew scott #karl geary #brian f. o'byrne #martin lucey #bfi #film 4

[josefksays]

#Hamlet #Karl Geary #Horatio #So cute #My edits

[sungleams]

“I wouldn’t worry about it, true doesn’t care if you believe in it or not.”-Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary

#Juno loves legs #Karl Geary #book quotes #words #truth

[queerographies]

[Juno ama Gambelunghe][Karl Geary]

"Juno ama Gambelunghe" racconta di due adolescenti che tutti considerano due piccoli delinquenti. Entrambi trovano la salvezza l'una nell'altro.

Nella Dublino degli anni Ottanta, Juno è una dodicenne ribelle, aggressiva, e soprattutto sola. Figlia di una sarta e di un meccanico improvvisato, troppo povera persino per quelle strade squallide, trova comprensione e tenerezza soltanto in un coetaneo, Seán, detto Gambelunghe, anch’egli emarginato, ma per ragioni opposte: è tormentato dai compagni, ma anche dagli educatori, incarnati dalle…

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#2023 #Dublino #fiction #Juno ama Gambelunghe #Juno Loves Legs #Karl Geary #LGBT #Narrativa #Playground Libri #UK

[2ndaryprotocol]

#NowWatching ‘Mimic 3: Sentinel’ (2003) 🪳📸🧬

“𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚊𝚍𝚊𝚙𝚝. 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝’𝚜 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚋𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛… 𝚜𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚐𝚘𝚝 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚛.”

#now watching #horror #sci fi #mimic #mimic 3 sentinel #lance henriksen #DTV #direct to video #Karl Geary #alexis dziena #Keith d Robinson #amanda plummer #jt petty #Donald A Wollheim #bugs #Spotify

[steelycunt]

same book anon i'm just looking for anything interesting.. i got the handmaids tale, normal people, and little women already but i dont really mind about genres just annyything you've got!

ah okay!! well firstly i hope you enjoy those three!! i really loved little women and the handmaids tale : ^ )) as for recommendations!! sorry they are a bit all over the place...i was not sure how to organise them so sort of gave up trying

at the risk of sounding like a broken record some of my absolute favourite books which i will just always recommend are. giovanni's room by james baldwin, young mungo by douglas stuart and my brilliant friend elena ferrante!!

classics i would recommend in particular are another country / james baldwin, wuthering heights / emily bronte and emma / jane austen (+ 300 pages) and then a single man / christopher isherwood, franny and zooey / jd salinger, bonjour tristesse / francoise sagan, and the prime of miss jean brodie / muriel spark (< 300 pages).

for speculative fiction i recommend the archive of alternate endings by lindsey drager (particularly if you enjoy the handmaid's tale) which i read in one sitting and cried over!! for thrillers i'd recommend these violent delights by micah nemerever and the secret history by donna tartt if you havent read it already (i'd also recommend her other book, the goldfinch--whichever one interests you more!!)

for historical fiction (or at least what my storygraph chart lists as historical fiction) id recommend the marriage portrait by maggie o'farrell (or her other book, hamnet, if it sounds more your thing!), nobber by oisin fagan, and the passion by jeanette winterson (not for everyone but i really enjoyed it--historical fiction with a bit of magical realism). i'd also recommend swimming in the dark by tomasz jedrowski (particularly if you happen to read + enjoy giovanni's room!), and douglas stuart's other book, shuggie bain, which is also wonderful--i expect if you read one of his books and enjoy it you will also love the other!!

for other literary fiction + contemporary fiction + just anything i havent mentioned yet! for 300 + pages i would recommend duck feet by ely percy, mr loverman by bernadine evaristo, and trainspotting by irvine welsh.

and then for < 300 pages, i'd recommend the end of loneliness / benedict wells, anything by claire keegan but particularly her book foster, juno loves legs / karl geary, the virgin suicides / jeffrey eugenides, mayflies / andrew o'hagan, and panenka by ronan hession.

i hope you find something here you fancy!! let me know if you do!! : ^ ))

#this is essentially just a list of practically ever book ive already talked about on here probably multiple times but. i cant help that #theyre that good...also storygraph's criteria for what makes a book historical fiction is completely baffling and nonsensical to me but im #just taking it for granted im sure they have their reasons #anon #telegram #reading tag

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday actress Laura Fraser, born July 24th 1976 in Glasgow.

Laura attended Hillhead High School and is a former member of the Scottish Youth Theatre. She trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

During her time there, she got a supporting role in Gillies MacKinnon's film Small Faces. This was on top of a couple of other minor roles she had taken (such as 'Big Day for the Bad Guys). The college authorities took a pretty dim view of the amount of professional work she had been taking on, questioning her commitment to the course.

Having not been enjoying her time at the Academy, and encouraged by her parents, she dropped out after a year and moved to London.

Later on, she has appeared in numerous films in supporting roles, but always noticeable as lead characters. All these roles have demonstrated her versatility in characterisation and style to the full.

From the fantasy of ‘Neverwhere’, a comedy of ‘Virtual Sexuality’, the Shakespearean drama of ‘Titus’, emotional drama of ‘Forgive and Forget’ and slapstick of ‘Kevin and Perry’. She effortlessly adapts to all the genres, very seldom was she cast as characters with her native Scottish accent.

After appearing in the 2003 Irish comedy, Coney Island Baby, Laura relocated to the US where she married Irish-born American author actor and club owner Michael Geary,.

She landed a role in the well regarded US TV movie, Iron Jawed Angels. In early 2005, Laura returned to live in Glasgow with her husband and stepdaughter, and a desire to start a family and focus on local work. She found she was pregnant in late 2005, and spent time working as a choreographer on a pantomime written by her father 'Oh Yes He Is!' for the charity Sense Scotland.

In May 2006 she and Karl became proud parents of a baby girl. Laura intended to not work for 12 months and be a full-time mum, but by September 2006 she was back making a film for the BBC.

Other TV roles for Laura include, Casanova, Ian Rankin's Reichenbach Falls and Florence Nightingale and her role in the US series Breaking Bad and spinn-off Better Call Saul as Lydia Rodarte-Quayle.

Laura maybe a star over the pond nowadays, but she has also been cast in some great shows based in Scotland, including Traces with Martin Compston, and Crime with Ken Stott and Dougray Scott, the second season is due on screens in September.

#scotland #scottish #actress #cinéma #television #happy birhtday

[vinosities]

Karl Geary: And actually, the book is shrouded with a sense of isolation, separateness. And I wondered if there was anything in that, is this a necessary isolation in order to be able to filter the information that's coming in and reinterpret it as art? Is some degree of separation or otherness necessary in order to be able to reflect and retell a story?

Gabriel Byrne: I think that's possibly true for a great many artists. I always remember that image of Joyce writing Ulysses in Trieste, on the back of a suitcase and Nora sweeping under him, saying, "you lift up your legs Jim." I don't know why that image stays in my head. {Laughs} You know, isolation, distance, are those things necessary to write? I mean, I've always written in cafes because I can't bear the idea of sitting in a room, looking at a wall. It reminds me too much of school. I want to be out among people. But what's interesting there is you talk about isolation and loneliness. I think that we're all isolated in our own particular ways. And I think one of the things that writing does, or reading or being exposed to art, it makes us feel less isolated and it makes us feel connected to the world.

— Gabriel Byrne Talks Memory, Loneliness and More with Karl Geary

#readings #gabriel byrne #karl geary #on writing

[ashtrayfloors]

I was squeezed onto a couch, facing into the room. I watched as Legs kissed this boy; it was the first time I’d seen a boy kiss another boy. It thrilled me, that kiss. My own boy, I thought suddenly, without a lick of that human instinct that cuts fresh flowers in bloom and takes them home to wilt and die. His fingers fell over the boy’s face as their mouths joined, and one finger gently scratched along his cheek. Their lips would part and they were held suspended, locked. Legs danced some more and the boy sat back and watched. Legs’ body lost inside his oversized jumpsuit, in full charge of his limbs, as the music from the boom box echoed from the other room and through the empty space. Legs moved forward again, his lips finding the boy’s neck this time. Then he whispered something bold and the boy smiled and took his hand.

—Karl Geary, from Juno Loves Legs (Catapult, 2023)

#quotations #typography #karl geary #juno loves legs #recently read #love #kissing #boys

[mikemaggio-blog]

Juno Love Legs: A Review

Here’s my review of Karl Geary’s Juno Loves Legs, a novel I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend.

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[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6 / 10

Título Original: The Burrowers

Año: 2008

Duración: 96 min.

País: Estados Unidos  

Dirección:  J.T. Petty

Guion: J.T. Petty

Música: Joseph LoDuca

Fotografía: Phil Parmet

Reparto: Doug Hutchison, Clancy Brown, William Mapother, Sean Patrick Thomas, Karl Geary, Jocelin Donahue, Laura Leighton, David Busse, Alexandra Edmo, Brighid Fleming, Christopher Hagen, Galen Hutchison, Harley Coriz, Suzi McLaughlin, Tatanka Means, Seri DeYoung, David Midthunder, Jon Kristian Moore, Cole Resch, R.J. Rice, Bonnie Morgan, Chris Grabher

Productora: Blue Star Pictures. Distribuidora: Lionsgate

Género: Horror; Thriller;Western

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445939/

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[josefksays]

#Hamlet #Karl Geary #Horatio #My edits

[qudachuk]

The actor turned novelist on creating authentic working-class characters, swapping Dublin for New York aged 16, and why sewing is like writingBefore making his literary debut in 2017 with Montpelier Parade, Irish-born novelist Karl Geary spent more than two...