Matthew Jamison, contractor and project manager (Lucas Bryant, Five More Minutes: Moments Like These, 2022)
Many people won't know that Lucas has a thriving business outside of acting, and it seems like fate was calling for him to step into Matthew's shoes.
"Well, first of all, in a strange mirroring of art meets life, right now, when I'm not working as an actor, I'm often doing building stuff. And so I'm working right now on a renovation that needs to be done by Christmas."
That's right, Lucas is a real-life Hallmark character.
"Right! So they were like, 'Well, this guy's a contractor.' And I said, 'Well, as much as I'm able to play any kind of character, this is in my wheelhouse.' I was right on board. And the director, Kevin, thought it was hilarious that the things that I was most particular about were when we were doing various installation techniques.
And so I was just like, 'This is upside down. This needs to go the other way. If you were hitting this, you'd hit it from here. And I'm not going to use a wrench here when I need a hammer.' And I just want to make sure that I'm a believable builder."
When you've got two worthwhile professions, you would certainly want to portray both in the best light. What would anybody think of his construction work if he couldn't handle the tools properly on screen?
He laughed, "So I was my own technical advisor when it came to my contractor work."
In the story, Matthew is a local contractor with ties to Kaitlyn's family who finds himself playing middleman between a developer and Kaitlyn for the home she shared with her husband and son.
It's "special because it was the first house that was designed by our lead character's late husband, who was an architect. So it's a touchy situation, obviously, but Matthew has heart and soul and a relationship with the family. So he's just trying to navigate that transaction without being insensitive to the needs of the family."
Lucas Bryant Talks Five More Minutes: Moments Like These and Life Mirroring Art
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A lot of people are posting their Spotify wrapped. It's always a double edged feeling to participate cause I'm too aware that Spotify does not support the people that make their app an app, but I will share the person I listened to the most this year. Through school work and decompression of life I listened to a shit ton of Matthew Jamison.
Not only a great friend of mine, he's an incredibly talented bass player. He's a devoted father and husband and one of the kindest human beings I know. If you like really good hip hop beats and melodic bass grooves, definitely check him out. I'll leave a Spotify link for quick listening access but I'll post his links too.
Buy some of his music on bandcamp and if you ever see his name on a flyer, don't sleep on a fire performance.
https://linktr.ee/matthewjamisonmusic?fbclid=PAAaYZtXU2yRlDzdf8qiffPulDdzEx89jQ4IhpN5LNPzqGZzM5HSDBtv5VS3k
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Bad movie I have Bone Tomahawk 2015
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Names with Cute Nicknames
Boys' Edition
Sometimes we just fall in love with a cute nickname for our characters. So here is a list of names that you can name your characters, even though you will only call them by their nickname.
Alexander - Al, Alex, Lex, Lexie, Xander, Xandie, Sasha
Alfred - Al, Alfie, Fred, Freddie, Freddy
Andrew - Andie, Andy, Drew
Antonio - Ant, Anto, Toni, Tony
Aurelia/Aurelius - Auri
Arthur - Art, Artie
Benjamin - Ben, Benny, Benni, Benji, Minnie
Felix - Feli, Lix, Lixie
Ferdinand - Ferdi, Fred, Nando
Florian - Flo, Flori
Frederik/Frederic - Fred, Freddie, Freddy, Rik, Ric, Rick, Ricky
Jamison - Jay, Jamie, James, Jim, Jimmy
Joseph - Josie, Joe
Kilian - Kili, Kil
Luciano/Lucian - Luci, Luce, Cian
Lukas - Luke, Luki
Lysander - Lys, Sander
Matthew - Mat, Matty, Mattie
Matthias - Mat, Matty, Mattie, Thias
Matteo - Mat, Matty, Mattie, Teo
Maximilian - Max, Maxi, Maxim, Millie
Michael - Mick, Mike, Mikey, Micky
Nicholas - Nick, Nicky, Nico
Oliver - Olive, Oli, Olly
Paxton - Pax
Phillip - Phil, Philly, Pip
Salvatore - Sal, Sally, Salva, Tore
Samuel - Sam, Sammy
Santiago - Santi, San, Tiago
Sebastian - Seb, Basti, Bastian
Theodore - Ted, Theo, Teddy
Victor - Vic, Tor, Vicky
Vincent - Vin, Vinnie, Vinny, Vince
Wilhelm - Willie, Willy
More names!
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Critics Choice Awards 2024: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer, Barbie, Succession, The Bear lead the wins
The Critics Choice Awards 2024 celebrated cinematic and television excellence on Sunday night, January 14, 2024. Chelsea Handler returned as the host for the evening. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer shone, securing eight wins, including Best Picture and Best Director though Cillian Murphy missed the Best Actor win. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie claimed six awards, winning in categories like Best Comedy and Best Original Screenplay. Emma Stone earned Best Actress for Poor Things. On the TV front, Succession, The Bear, and Beef led the wins.
FILM
BEST PICTURE
American Fiction
Barbie
The Color Purple
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer - WINNER
Past Lives
Poor Things
Saltburn
BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers - WINNER
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
BEST ACTRESS
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things - WINNER
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer - WINNER
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Charles Melton, May December
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Julianne Moore, May December
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers - WINNER
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Ariana Greenblatt, Barbie
Calah Lane, Wonka
Milo Machado Graner, Anatomy of a Fall
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers - WINNER
Madeleine Yuna Voyles, The Creator
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Air
Barbie
The Color Purple
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer - WINNER
BEST DIRECTOR
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer - WINNER
Alexander Payne, The Holdovers
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Cord Jefferson, American Fiction - WINNER
Tony McNamara, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Samy Burch, May December
Alex Convery, Air
Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer, Maestro
Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach, Barbie - WINNER
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
Celine Song, Past Lives
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Matthew Libatique, Maestro
Rodrigo Prieto, Barbie
Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
Linus Sandgren, Saltburn
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer - WINNER
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Suzie Davies, Charlotte Dirickx, Saltburn
Ruth De Jong, Claire Kaufman, Oppenheimer
Jack Fisk, Adam Willis, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer, Barbie - WINNER
James Price, Shona Heath, Szusza Mihalek, Poor Things
Adam Stockhausen, Kris Moran, Asteroid City
BEST EDITING
William Goldenberg – Air
Nick Houy – Barbie
Jennifer Lame – Oppenheimer - WINNER
Yorgos Mavropsaridis – Poor Things
Thelma Schoonmaker – Killers of the Flower Moon
Michelle Tesoro – Maestro
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jacqueline Durran, Barbie - WINNER
Lindy Hemming, Wonka
Francine Jamison-Tanchuck, The Color Purple
Holly Waddington, Poor Things
Jacqueline West, Killers of the Flower Moon
Janty Yates, David Crossman, Napoleon
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Barbie - WINNER
The Color Purple
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Priscilla
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Creator
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer - WINNER
Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
BEST COMEDY
American Fiction
Barbie - WINNER
Bottoms
The Holdovers
No Hard Feelings
Poor Things
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - WINNER
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Wish
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Anatomy of a Fall - WINNER
Godzilla Minus One
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Taste of Things
The Zone of Interest
BEST SONG
“Dance the Night," Barbie
“I’m Just Ken," Barbie - WINNER
“Peaches," The Super Mario Bros. Movie
“Road to Freedom," Rustin
"This Wish," Wish
"What Was I Made For," Barbie
BEST SCORE
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Michael Giacchino, Society of the Snow
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer - WINNER
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon
Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Barbie
TELEVISION
BEST DRAMA SERIES
The Crown
The Diplomat
The Last of Us
Loki
The Morning Show
Stark Trek: Strange New Worlds
Succession - WINNER
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Kieran Culkin – Succession - WINNER
Tom Hiddleston – Loki
Timothy Olyphant – Justified: City Primeval
Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us
Ramón Rodríguez – Will Trent
Jeremy Strong – Succession
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Jennifer Aniston – The Morning Show
Aunjanue Ellis – Justified: City Primeval
Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us
Keri Russell – The Diplomat
Sarah Snook – Succession - WINNER
Reese Witherspoon – The Morning Show
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Khalid Abdalla – The Crown
Billy Crudup – The Morning Show - WINNER
Ron Cephas Jones – Truth Be Told
Matthew MacFadyen – Succession
Ke Huy Quan – Loki
Rufus Sewell – The Diplomat
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Nicole Beharie – The Morning Show
Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown - WINNER
Sophia Di Martino – Loki
Celia Rose Gooding – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Karen Pittman – The Morning Show
Christina Ricci – Yellowjackets
BEST COMEDY SERIES
Abbott Elementary
Barry
The Bear - WINNER
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Poker Face
Reservation Dogs
Shrinking
What We Do in the Shadows
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Bill Hader – Barry
Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building
Kayvan Novak – What We Do in the Shadows
Drew Tarver – The Other Two
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear - WINNER
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai – Reservation Dogs
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear - WINNER
Bridget Everett – Somebody Somewhere
Devery Jacobs – Reservation Dogs
Natasha Lyonne – Poker Face
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Phil Dunster – Ted Lasso
Harrison Ford – Shrinking
Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows
James Marsden – Jury Duty
Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Bear - WINNER
Henry Winkler – Barry
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Paulina Alexis – Reservation Dogs
Alex Borstein – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Janelle James – Abbott Elementary
Sheryl Lee Ralph – Abbott Elementary
Meryl Streep – Only Murders in the Building - WINNER
Jessica Williams – Shrinking
BEST LIMITED SERIES
Beef - WINNER
Daisy Jones & the Six
Fargo
Fellow Travelers
Lessons in Chemistry
Love & Death
A Murder at the End of the World
A Small Light
BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Finestkind
Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie
No One Will Save You
Quiz Lady - WINNER
Reality
BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Matt Bomer – Fellow Travelers
Tom Holland – The Crowded Room
David Oyelowo – Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Tony Shalhoub – Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie
Kiefer Sutherland – The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Steven Yeun – Beef - WINNER
BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Kaitlyn Dever – No One Will Save You
Carla Gugino – The Fall of the House of Usher
Brie Larson – Lessons in Chemistry
Bel Powley – A Small Light
Sydney Sweeney – Reality
Juno Temple – Fargo
Ali Wong – Beef - WINNER
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Jonathan Bailey – Fellow Travelers - WINNER
Taylor Kitsch – Painkiller
Jesse Plemons – Love & Death
Lewis Pullman – Lessons in Chemistry
Liev Schreiber – A Small Light
Justin Theroux – White House Plumbers
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Maria Bello – Beef - WINNER
Billie Boullet – A Small Light
Willa Fitzgerald – The Fall of the House of Usher
Aja Naomi King – Lessons in Chemistry
Mary McDonnell – The Fall of the House of Usher
Camila Morrone – Daisy Jones & the Six
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES
Bargain
The Glory
The Good Mothers
The Interpreter of Silence
Lupin - WINNER
Mask Girl
Moving
BEST ANIMATED SERIES
Bluey
Bob’s Burgers
Harley Quinn
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off - WINNER
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Young Love
BEST TALK SHOW
The Graham Norton Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - WINNER
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
BEST COMEDY SPECIAL
Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool
Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
John Early: Now More Than Ever
John Mulaney: Baby J - Winner
Trevor Noah: Where Was I
Wanda Sykes – I’m an Entertainer
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My Uncanny Valley Series OCs explained vaguely via a few short sentences because I can (and because it is taking forever to make their designs):
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Chucky Davidson: Chaotic femboy with Tumblr gremlin energy. He likes to eat drywall. Torments REALTORS for fun with his forced "valley girl" accent. Best friends and roommates with Andy. Will beat up people who makes fun of Andy tbh.
Reverend Andy Robinson: Depressed preacher with Wernicke's Aphasia. Life seems like a twisted, ironic joke. Introverted and hates it. Best friends and roommates with Chucky.
Katrina Liddell: Immortal who "dies and responds". Curiosity killed the cat incarnate. She would like extreme sports so much fr. Definition of "you changed for the worst".
Jamison Twist: Human who believes he's a REALTOR. Literally the start of a phenomenon in the Uncanny Valley. Somebody please send him help. Even the REALTORS are concerned, somehow. He's taking business away from them.
Matthew Somnia: Hypnotherapist who is a vampire. Instead of consuming blood or energy, he eats your mind. Loves his patients, hates his life. Looks like a cinnamon roll, but will actually "kill" you, but will also hate it.
Dr. Pierce Glasgow: Reworked old OC. Cold boi. Misses his kids. Sensitive to temperature. "Hey can I drink your blood so I can warm myself up? My joints are stiff."
Kōji Andou: An actual human realtor who's depressed about lack of business. Poor as dirt - moved to the Uncanny Valley in hopes of getting more business (plus it was cheap). Unsurprisingly to us, didn't get business. Too poor to move out, now. Feels like a clown.
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Episode 184 - Horror
This episode we’re discussing the fiction genre of Horror! We talk about fear, control, Goosebumps, bad dogs, horror-comedy, creepypasta, the apocalypse, lizard romance, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
Straight by Chuck Tingle
Mister Magic by Kiersten White, narrated by Rebecca Lowman
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
The Wicked Unseen by Gigi Griffis
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
Leech by Hiron Ennes
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen edited by Ellen Datlow
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit: Fazbear Frights #1 by Scott Cawthon and Elley Cooper
Sadako at the End of the World by Koma Natsumi
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 3 by Eiji Otsuka and Yamazaki Housui
Things We Read (but didn’t talk about in this episode)
Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki! by Kanako Inuki
Résumé With Monsters by William Browning Spencer
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee
Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
A Song for the Quiet by Cassandra Khaw
The Helios Syndrome by Vivian Shaw
Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum
Other Media (& Authors) We Mentioned
Captain Britain And MI13, Volume 3: Vampire State by Paul Cornell, Leonard Kirk, and Mike Collins
Stephen King
Misery
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Cujo
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Alien: Isolation (Wikipedia)
Dead Space (2008 video game) (Wikipedia)
R.L. Stine
Goosebumps
Fear Street
Junji Ito
The Enigma of Amigara Fault - “T-this is my hole! It was made for me!”
Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
Emily Carroll
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Smart Podcast Trashy Books: 579. Punk Rock Writing with Chuck Tingle
Candle Cove by Kris Straub
Candle Cove (Wikipedia)
SCP Foundation
SCP-087
The SCP Foundation: Declassified (YouTube)
The Ring (2002 film) (Wikipedia)
We talked more about the novel The Ring in Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers
Crapshots Ep608 - The Old Ones (YouTube)
Links, Articles, Etc.
Episode 176: Fantasy
Episode 123: Psychological Horror
Does the Dog Die?
Matthew’s spooky phone case is a variant of this one
Matthew did a “31 Spooky Manga” challenge a few years ago and read a different spooky manga every day in October.
The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry
Sound Effects
Big Thunder And Distant Thunder Rain Birds by morvei01
Dramatic Organ, A by InspectorJ
bats1 by sofie
Pigeons (St Stephens Green, Dublin) by iainmccurdy
31 Recent Horror Books by BIPOC Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
This list features horror fiction by BIPOC authors published within the last 3 years.
Jackal by Erin E. Adams
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
The Spite House by Johnny Compton
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell
Piñata by Leopoldo Gout
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena-Garcia
This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele
Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn
Manmade Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
Chlorine by Jade Song
Midnight Storm Moonless Sky: Indigenous Horror Stories by Alex Soop
There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer
She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories by Lindsay Wong
White Horse by Erika T. Wurth
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hello! im currently trying to find a name, and i saw your recent posts about name help. so here i am.
short-mid length masc/neu names are preferred, but i dont really mind either way
if its any inspiration, the names i like so far are cain, corvid and zachary (in order of most liked to least liked). i like them all, but none of them really "click", if that makes sense.
thanks for your time.
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Hello, hello! We appreciate the ask as always ! We hope you enjoy it, and if not, you can always request that we would love to help more if we can ^^
corvid:
Wren
alder
lark
astor
circe
cyric
Conan
Cesare
Ciaran
Carrigan
Corcoran
Caspian
Cyr
Cyril
Caelan
Caetano
Cypress
corvan
crowven
crowley
Corvus
Cynfran
Corbinian
Corbin
corveun
Rook
Corvo
Corvus
Cain:
Cade
caden
cailter
Caine
kyran
Canis
Canine
Callem
Callahan
Case
Cano
Caniver
Cayde
Caster
Krow
Kein
karrion
Kaiser
koa
koan
Zackary:
Zeke
Maddux/maddox
Zach
Zachariah
jaxson
jayson
Jamie
Jamison
warden
Dakota
Andrew
drew
jaylynn
Trevor
William
Matthew
zane
Zeal
Zyaire
Zion
Zander
zrown
Zariah
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December reads
asterisk = reread
Blood to Poison by Mary Watson
Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni
The Mossheart’s Promise by Rebecca Mix
The Body’s Question by Tracy K. Smith
Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV et al
The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan
Something More by Jackie Khalilieh
The Tent Generations: Poems edited by Mohammad Sawaie
Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey
Hijabi Butch Blues by Lamya H
Old Enough by Haley Jakobson
Prom and Other Hazards by Jamie Sullivan
Poems on Friendship by various authors
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Ferguson, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
Before the Next Bomb Drops by Remi Kanazi
A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee
Rosewater by Liv Little
Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Unraveller by Frances Harding
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
OKPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza
The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall
Arden Grey by Ray Stoeve
The Best American Poetry edited by Matthew Zapruder and David Lehman
The House in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill edited by Jericho Brown
The Adam of Two Edens by Mahmoud Darwish
The Feast Makers by H.A. Clarke
Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao
Gay Club! by Simon James Green
Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min
The King’s Assassin: the Secret Plot to Murder King James I by Benjamin Woolley
All Systems Red by Martha Wells*
Judas & Suicide by Maya Williams
You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
Currently reading
Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju
The Secret Life of Albert Entwhistle by Matt Cain
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Matthew Jamison - Dawn
This whole album is top tier. Treat yourself.
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Like every year, I'm toying with the idea of doing nanowrimo, and for my current idea I need names that read as immediately and obviously from the US without actually saying they're from the US (which doesn't exist).
Here's what I've been able to gather about US naming conventions so far:
Consist of 2-3 separate names
The last name is usually treated like a surname, but the name used there could also have been used as a first name.
Tendency to take otherwise pretty names and turn them ugly (Stefan -> Steven, Madeleine -> Maddie, Valeria -> Vee, Joshua/Josef -> Josh, Mathæus/Mathias/Matti -> Matthew)
Names will occassionally have suffix -son attached for no clear reason
Tendency for "I want people to know my child is the most special and beautiful child there ever was" names (James, Chloe, Ethan, Dylan, Jennifer, Jack, Julia, the list goes on).
Anyways here is my work in progress of clearly and obviously USA-ian names:
Konrad Svend Rickard
Maddie Maddison Maddie
Amanduson Dokkemannson
Ethan Dylan Jennifer Jack Julia Jamison Chloe
Skleeb Sk'Beep
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Statcat's official list of favorite Cats performers
(I'm horrible with specific ranking so performers are listed in alphabetical order gfiuedw)
Alonzo: Jason Gardiner, Matt Huet
Bombalurina: Erica Lee Cianiculli, Rosemarie Ford, Chelsea Nicole Mitchell, Christine Cornish Smith
Cassandra: Lexy Bittner, Emily Pynenburg, Mette Towley
Demeter: Nora DeGreen, Kim Faure, Juliann Kuchocki, Aeva May, Madison Mitchell, Cornelia Waibel
Electra: Lili Froehlich
Grizabella: Tayler Harris, Jennifer Hudson, Elaine Paige, Mamie Parris
Gus: Christopher Gurr, John Mills, Tony Mowatt
Jellylorum: Sara Jean Ford, Kayli Jamison
Jemima/Sillabub: Arianna Rosario, Ahren Victory
Jennyanydots: Eloise Kropp, Susie McKenna, Emily Jeanne Phillips
Macavity: Daniel Gaymon
Mistoffelees: Jacob Brent, Tion Gaston
Mungojerrie: Danny Collins, Max Craven, John Thornton, Drew Varley
Munkustrap: Robbie Fairchild, Michael Gruber, Matthew Pike, Kade Wright
Old Deuteronomy: Ken Page
Plato: Daniel Gaymon, Tyler John Logan
Rum Tum Tugger: Jason Derulo, John Partridge, Hank Santos, Siegmar Tonk
Rumpleteazer: Jo Gibb, Shonica Gooden, Bonnie Langford, Taryn Smithson
Skimbleshanks: Jeremy Davis, Geoffrey Garratt, Steven McRae, Christopher Salvaggio
Tumblebrutus: Daymon Montaigne-Jones, Devin Neilson
Victoria: Phyllida Crowley Smith, Francesca Hayward, Yuka Notsuka, Georgina Pazcoguin
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Earis Recs: Acafans and Acafandom - Sources
Academia and fandom - an uneasy relationship at the best of times. Fandom studies, including studies of fans, fan activities, fan spaces, fan communities, and all sorts of fan behavior, are usually categorized as a type of media studies, but overlap with plenty of other fields, including literary criticism and cultural anthropology.
On the surface, there shouldn’t be discord between academia and fandom. Many academics are also fans and engaged in fannish behavior. Many fans experience or analyze their preferred texts or media through academic lenses or practices. And indeed, there are a lot of academic studies that are written by fans, for fans. But there are differing motives in academia and fandom which can drive a wedge between the denizens who walk in both words. Some academics look at fans or audiences as mindless, naive entities who passively consume mass-produced pop culture, or as infantile social rejects who can’t let go of their ids. There are academics who enter fan communities and study them without respect. Fans, for their part, generally do not want to be seen primarily as objects of study or figures of scorn. There are also academics who are very wary of engaging in fannish behavior because it diminishes the appropriate distance between the scholar and topic. And though fans do process media and fandom thoughtfully and analytically, fandom space contains multitudes - enthusiasms, hatreds, reactions, personal gripes, flame wars, shipping, and tons of activities that could violate copyright laws. While academia certainly has a lot of that (especially personal gripes), there are academics who prefer not to engage with those activities, and view them as distractions that take away from substantive work.
Nevertheless, I am someone who is fannish and someone who has been an academic. It can take a while to negotiate the relationship, but with some care and self-reflection, academia and fandom need not struggle against each other, but can even work together. After all, both include critical analysis, investigations of texts, and a constant interplay between thought, creation, text, and analysis. In the end, we’re just nerds nattering on about our hyperfixations. For me, reading academic works on fandom is a fun, fannish endeavor, and it has helped me understand what I am doing as a fan, where I come from, and where I am going.
In that vein, I now present a reading list/bibliography - books, edited volumes, articles, and other sources that have shaped or informed my own activities and understandings of acafandom and fan studies. This list is not comprehensive, and not necessarily an endorsement. Rather, the listed work has something interesting to say or has been an important piece in the evolution of fan studies. I’ll add to the list as I continue to read and discover.
[Also on Dreamwidth at EarisRecs]
Start here:
Books
The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age, Francesca Coppa
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Henry Jenkins
Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, Anne Jamison
Productive Fandom: Intermediality and Affective Reception in Fan Culture, Nicolle Lamerichs
Edited Volumes
Fanfic and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, eds. Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse - table of contents here
Articles
Thinking About Slash/Thinking About Women - Edi Bjorklund (Nome #11)
Why We’re Terrified of Fanfiction - Constance Grady
The Fan Historian - E Charlotte Stevens and Nick Webber
African American Acafandom and Other Strangers: New Genealogies of Fan Studies - Rebecca Wanzo
Want to Go Further?
Books
Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth, Camille Bacon Smith
Novelization: From Film to Novel, Jan Baetens
Characters Before Copyright: The Rise and Regulation of Fan Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Germany, Matthew H. Birkhold
Black Women as Cultural Readers, Jaqueline Bobo
The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel DeCerteau
Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom, Abigail De Kosnik
Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida
Fanfiction and the Author, Judith Fathallah
Fan Cultures, Matt Hills
Black Looks: Race and Representation, bell hooks
Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the motives, bell hooks
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Henry Jenkins
Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent, Milena Popova
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Culture, Janice Radway
Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellctual Property Protection, Aaron Schwabach
Edited Volumes
Fan Studies: Researching Popular Audiences, eds. Alice Chauvel, Nicolle Lamerichs, and Jessica Seymour
Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, eds. Jonathan Gray, C. Lee Harrington, and Cornel Sandvoss
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Story Telling, ed. SA Guynes
The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media, ed. Lisa Lewis
A Tumblr Book: Platform and Culture, eds. Aliison McCraken, Alexander Cho, Lousia Stein, Indira Neill Hoch
Science Fiction across Media adaptation/novelization edited by Thomas Van Parys and I.Q. Hunter
Other Resources
The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom
Fanlore - a wiki about fandom by the Organization for Transformative Works
Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures - a peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works
Confessions of an AcaFan
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Just in case there are any Emmys voters floating around here. FYC - Matthew Goode in ‘The Offer’.
But don’t listen to me - listen to these people (just a very small selection) and the thousands of positive audience reviews.
‘I was lucky enough to know Bob Evans, and I can tell you Matthew Goode deserves any award he’s eligible for. It’s a runaway hit performance. He has Evans down to his perpetual stuffed nose. Even better, he makes him real, human, three dimensional. He’s a charmer who can talk his way in and out of everything. He’s that Goode.’ - Roger Friedman
‘Goode is a joy to watch on the series — an unleashed id who lands every punchline and delights in each line. ‘ - Gold Derby
‘Bob Evans, just a mile a minute—and also it’s the ’70s, and cocaine, all those things. It was a big piece, and we worked on that a lot. And he just knocked it out of the park.’ - Jamison Bryant - Dialect Coach
‘the standout is Matthew Goode’s charismatic Evans, full of both swagger and sadness, believable as a hard-headed businessman who still has a feel for his art.’ - Empire Online
‘the standout is Goode as Robert Evans, so completely transforming into the iconic Hollywood executive that it might as well be Evans playing himself.’ - Media Play News
‘Goode — who has earned widespread acclaim for his characterization’ - The Hollywood reporter
‘the big scene stealer throughout the series is Matthew Goode as Hollywood legend Robert Evans, the larger-than-life Paramount honcho who was a champion of The Godfather. But Evans, like many of the movie’s cast and producers, went through a lot of personal and professional problems during the Godfather production, and The Offer’s writers used those experiences to portray Evans in a more vulnerable light than the one he himself painted in his classic memoir The Kid Stays in the Picture and his reputation in Hollywood’ - Rotten Tomatoes Editorial
‘Why is The Offer recommended viewing? Matthew Goode. He's so good as longtime producer and Paramount Studios head Robert Evans that you cannot take your eyes off of him’ - TV Fanatic
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