#1993 ladies and gentlemen

[jarjar-not-binks]

The 1993 Mario movie was on some shit I swear to god

Why is mario like 40 and Luigi like 19????

Why is princess daisy born from a lizard egg????

Why is princess daisys dad fungus?????

Why are they all evolved from dinosaurs????

Why is toad this???

Anyways go watch it it's amazing

[clementianos-blog]

Jack Drake's Real Name

What was that? Say it again, Mr. Federal Marshal.

I am surprised none of the Wiki pages for Jack say this!

Like many men who go by Jack, his full first name is Jonathan!

John F. Kennedy was famously called/nicknamed Jack Kennedy. Jack is a traditional nickname for John/Jonathan. Don't ask me why.

But trust me when I say that this panel is telling us that Jack Drake's real name is Jonathan Drake. Official US government style. There is no question, that's his name.

Though I do find it interesting that he gives Tim the middle name Jackson. He really just was a Jack by that point in his life, I guess.

Robin vol. 2 issue 73

[camelliagwerm]

SIX CHARACTER INSPIRATIONS — VALERIUS DRAGAVEI

Both @halkuonn and @dragonologist-phd suggested Valerius, so Valerius it is. Explanations are under the cut. Art is from @swordcoasts

BILLY FLYNN (CHICAGO, 2002)

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the silver tongued prince of the court room - the Emcee, All I Care About Is Love

When I think corrupt lawyers, two come to mind: Saul Goodman and Billy Flynn. And because I'm in the process of watching Breaking Bad but haven't come across Saul yet, I can't add him to the list retroactively. But I can add Billy; I think about the line "Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the silver tongued prince of the court room" a lot for Valerius once I'd established that he had been a criminal lawyer before he became an antipaladin of Urgathoa, and I realised that in his lawyer days, Camellia is exactly the sort of client he would have taken on in another life - it felt...eerily reminiscent of Billy Flynn to me, especially since towards the end of his career, he had a near 100% success rate because of his vampiric charms, and not because he actually did well at the University of Lepidstadt (he would've actually failed several classes, had he not done some stuff that is between him and Urgathoa), and very rarely did he care about his clients in the same way Billy doesn't care about his.

SORIN MARKOV (MTG, SPECIFICALLY INNISTRAD: CRIMSON VOW, 2021)

"It's always morally correct to steal from WOTC" - me, circa 2021 as I left my last job.

So if you feel like you've seen that picture before, it's because it was. For the longest time, I've been using Sorin Markov ala Innistrad: Crimson Vow as a portrait for Valerius, and that's because around the same time that WOTR came out and my son came to be, Crimson Vow was in its pre-release cycle. Now, I used to work in a WPN (Wizards' Premium Network) store, so MTG pre-releases were always our busiest periods. I injured my feet shifting stock for this Godforsaken deck, and so once I settled on Valerius as my WOTR pc and was taking medical leave until the end of my contract, I decided that the least WOTC could do was provide the portrait for my handsome dhampir lad as reparations lmao. Of course, Valerius' appearance has varied and strayed, so he's a not one to one copy (and I wouldn't want him to be <3) but including Sorin felt correct. Sorry, buddy, you're Valerius to me now.

(Though, both Valerius and Sorin have dedicated a great portion of their lives to their whims and pleasure, leading them to have a detachment, confidence and seeking out new experiences for the novelty and diversions.)

SAREVOK ANCHEV (BALDUR'S GATE 1, 1998)

Your death is inevitable.

The Sarevok I'm referring to for this is exclusively in the original game — on paper, Valerius and Sarevok have enough similarities that I consider him a retroactive inspiration: they both utilise an extremely similar combat style that combines the art of intimidation, strength, cruelty and brutality on the battlefield that seeks to control and paralyse enemies, as well as deal hard-hitting blows. Deathbringers and Tyrants, at least, can have that in common. They both can be seen as a deity of death's Special Boy (Sarevok, as Bhaal's strongest progeny; Valerius, who believes himself Urgathoa's favourite antipaladin) before a fall from grace or death proves them otherwise, and both of them cause widespread panic and chaos through the iron shortages / string of Bhaalspawn murders and Valerius killing what was left of Mendev's royal line and subsequently breaking Drezen from its sovereignty.

GOMEZ ADDAMS (THE ADDAMS FAMILY, 1991 & 1993)

To mirth, to merriment… to manslaughter.

I'd say Valerius is a little bit of an evil variant of Gomez in his own way. Both are madly in love with their tall, dark-haired wives (and can be exceptionally jealous if someone else was to flirt with them), regularly smoke cigars (for Valerius it's not so much about the hit itself, since tobacco doesn't really do anything for him, but more the act of it and the level of sociability that comes with smoking - e.g. with Greybor), skilled at swordsmanship, and would harm anyone that would endanger their children.

VLAD DRACULA III (BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, 1992)

I love you too much to condemn you.

As inaccurate as this movie is at times, I actually love Gary Oldman's Dracula and a bit of him did rub off on Vali. A Church Militant type, fighting for a God(dess), born from an ancient, prestigious line; who falls either because or in part of the love for their partner - Vlad because he was told Elisabeta's soul was damned , Valerius because he refused to damn Camellia's to ascend - and a perceived Fallen Hero from the eyes of the Church and the Fifth Crusade respectively.

Both also have, ahem, exceptional prowess (judging by dialogue), are considered well-dressed, attractive (at least in Vlad's younger form), and they even both share the tears of blood.

EDWARD HYDE (JEKYLL & HYDE, 1990)

I have an adversary steeped in sin — Henry Jekyll, Streak of Madness

What better inspiration of Valerius' most base desires is there than the personification of a man's? Edward Hyde serves as a way for Henry Jekyll to indulge in his desires, pursue what he would not otherwise engage in - soliciting sex, committing murder, and generally not depriving himself of anything. It reminds me a lot of Valerius' own hedonistic tendencies, and how he tends to corrupt or encourage others' base desires around him — life is short, and one day we shall all meet our inevitable ends in the form of death, so seize life has to offer and do not deprive yourself. Indulge.

[thecaptainoutoftime]

"All right, listen up, Ladies and Gentlemen, our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 4 miles per hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Dr. Richard Kimble. Go get him."

Happy 30th Anniversary to The Fugitive

August 6th 1993-August 6th 2023

[dededaio]

Thought of a fun thought experiment that will either age brilliantly or horribly quite soon.

So, we all know that Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe is coming soon, right? Like REALLY soon. Less than 2 months kind of soon.

We still don't really know much about what this remake will change or add except for:

1 new copy ability

new multiplayer mini-games

looming Magolor Castle (that is left unexplained for now) in promotional artwork

I don't mention the visuals because it's the most obvious and expected change coming from the remake of 2011 Wii game.

So I want to do something fun. I'll list my predictions on what this remake will change and/or add. I will be splitting them into predictions that are likely and predictions that are more on pipe dreams territory. I'll present arguments and/or evidence towards each point as we go. Let's begin!

Things that I think are likely to happen:

Playable Magolor. I mean, come on now. Not only he's now included on the cover, which he wasn't in the original game, he's also one of the most popular characters in the franchise now. Like he's actually probably the most popular addition to the series since Meta Knight and Meta Knight was introduced in 1993. I'm not entirely sure yet how this would work (it partially goes into pipe-dream predictions territory), but I'm certain it will somehow happen. It helps that modern Kirby games on Switch had a tendency to have a late-game unlockable that is super OP and is related to game's storyline in some way. Star Allies had playable Mage Sisters, Forgotten Land had Masked Hammer and Morpho Sword as milestones for beating main story mode and post-game campaign. Magolor only makes the most sense to follow suit.

Dedede, Meta Knight and Bandana Dee will receive their updated movesets from Star Allies. While I wasn't overall a huge fan of how Star Allies treated those three characters, being way less polished than later DLC Dream Friends, one things they got right is by finally giving them more original moves into their arsenal. They basically started out as hammer clone, wing and sword clone hybrid and spear clone respectively, which, I assume, was byproduct of RTDL's co-op being a late addition in the development. Giving each of them more unique moves in SA was a great move and them to carry over into RTDL DX would be excellent choice as well. Not only they would stand out more against contemporary copy abilities they were based on, it presents more fun gameplay possibilities (I'm sleeping and dreaming how much I will spam super dedede jump in various boss fights like grand doomer). But the best of all, we have an evidence of this potentially happening, ladies and gentlemen! In trailer footage we got we can decipher Meta Knight doing Galactic Counter that was introduced in Star Allies.

If this is anything to go by, all new additions are set in stone and it's just matter of seeing more of it in the final game.

The boldest prediction yet, mainly because it's not based on anything except for my gut feeling. But Magolor Castle will be the hub-world for the post-game in RTDL DX. It makes the most logical sense as it would be a good way to differentiate post-game from the main story where the hub world was Lor Starcutter. What we will do there? Who knows, there's tons of possibilities. It will most likely house mini-games but I doubt they would design such elaborate looking location just to be a place where you could pick a mini-game. There would certainly be more stuff to do, but what would it be?.. Time will tell!

Things that I want to happen but aren't necessarily likely:

King Dedede, Meta Knight and Bandana Dee becoming playable in single-player (outside of arenas). There are many ways how it could work, but the idea I'm betting on (and therefore hoping for) the most is introducing Guest Star-like mode where each of them get an abridged and changed take on the main campaign's levels, taking advantage of their individual movesets in the process. I feel like them being locked behind co-op in the original game was some of the biggest shortcomings of RTDL so I genuinely hope remake will fix that.

Entirely new post-game story. Extra mode that original RTDL had is less than stellar, to say the least. It's basically the same game again with slightly updated bosses and halfed health bar. Lame. If this remake were to go down the route of recent Switch Kirby titles, introducing an extra-mode that actually continues the story of the main game is the way to go! It can go down many ways, but personally I think the most fun (And funniest) plotline for such extra mode would be helping out to build Magolor's theme park (aka Magolor Castle we've been seeing on the cover art), mirroring the story of the main mode, but with lower stakes and reestablishing Magolor's current status-quo on-screen instead of it being left to Miiverse information.

Old Extra mode being remade into a difficulty option. I think both this game and Forgotten Land were developed co-currently so they are bound to share some of the game design philosophies. Getting rid of the old extra mode entirely would probably be too harsh and unfaithful to the original game... But if you were to repurpose it instead, it's a different story entirely. It will become this game's "Wild Mode", I wager.

These are all the main ideas I currently have for what this remake will have in store. I hope I got at least one of those things right. See y'all in 2 or so weeks when they will actually drop a new trailer.

[bitter69uk]

“There is no obvious motive for Jane Russell’s charming churlishness on screen; it was often gratuitous, more than the script called for or than the director, I should think, would allow. It would seem, then, natural. But it wasn’t; according to her book, to her TV talk show appearances and to Arthur Bell, who had lunch with her, she was plain Jane in the best sense, a friendly foul-mouthed pious Christian. I can only theorize that she regarded the picture business as so shitty, as it were – and it arguably was and is – that she felt she should act accordingly.” / Deviant queer film critic Boyd McDonald (1925 - 1993) enthusing about one of his favourite subjects - surly and statuesque actress and singer Jane Russell - in his volume Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV (1985) / Born on this day: mean, moody and magnificent leading lady of the forties and fifties (and Playtex cross-your-heart bra spokesmodel), Jane Russell (21 June 1921 - 28 February 2011). I particularly treasure Russell’s screen partnerships with film noir tough guy Robert Mitchum, who matched her for tough wry humour and impudence. (They were buddies offscreen: Mitchum called her “an authentic original”). If you only know Russell as Marilyn Monroe’s wisecracking pal in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), her filmography is studded with gems like His Kind of Woman (1951), Macao (1952) and her magnum opus, The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956). But I even love her in lesser efforts like Hot Blood (1956) and The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957) (and I’ve yet to see the intriguing-sounding The Las Vegas Story (1952) or Foxfire (1955)). Not that Russell herself was impressed. “I got little artistic satisfaction from my work,” she confessed in her 1985 autobiography. “I was definitely a victim of Hollywood typecasting.” Pictured: portrait of Russell by George Hurrell, 1946.

[yesimtrashforit]

Happy Pride Month!

Hey all! Happy June!!. As a member of the community myself, I'm so excited to celebrate. The LGBTQ+ community has come a long way, especially with representation. I feel like it's more important than ever to highlight stories with great representation. So in honor of pride month, here is a list of media with LGBTQ+ representation & stories.

Disclaimer: I have not seen/listened to all of these medias and am unsure if some of these are actually good representation. Please do let me know if any of these are offensive or have bad representation.

• All of Us Strangers (2023)

• American Fiction (2023)

• Angels In America (2003)

• Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

• As Good As It Gets (1997)

• Bent (1997)

• Bottoms (2023)

• Bound (1996)

• Boy Erased (2018)

• Boys Don't Cry (1999)

• Brokeback Mountain (2005)

• But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

• Carol (2015)

• Close (2022)

• Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

• Disclosure (2022)

• Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

• Fear Street trilogy (2021)

• Handsome Devil (2016)

• Happiest Season (2019)

• Happy Together (1997)

• I Saw The TV Glow (2024)

• Jennifer's Body (2009)

• Kill Your Darlings (2013)

• Knock At The Cabin (2023)

• Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

• Love, Simon (2018)

• Maurice (1987)

• Milk (2008)

• Moonlight (2016)

• My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

• Nimona (2023)

• Philadelphia (1993)

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

• Saving Face (2004)

• Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010)

• Shiva Baby (2020)

• Tár (2022)

• The Children's Hour (1961)

• The Favourite (2018)

• The Handmaiden (2016)

• The Kids Are All Right (2010)

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

• The Opposite of Sex (1998)

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

• To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)

TV shows

• Atypical

• Brooklyn Nine-Nine

• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

• Glee

• Good Omens

• Heartstopper

• I Am Not Okay With This

• Julie & The Phantoms

• Never Have I Ever

• Orange Is The New Black

• Our Flag Means Death

• Pose

• Stranger Things

• The Owl House

• The Politician

• The Umbrella Academy

• Young Royals

Books

• Aristotle & Dante Discover The Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

• History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

• I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver

• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

• Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

• Red White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

• The Falling In Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

• The Gentlemen's Guide To Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• The Simon Snow trilogy by Rainbow Rowell

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

• They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera

• What If It's Us by Adam Silvera & Becky Albertalli

Podcasts

• Alice Isn't Dead

• Hello From The Hallowoods

• Kaleidotrope

• Love and Luck

• Spirit Phone

• The Bright Sessions

• The Magnus Archives

• The Magnus Protocol (listen only AFTER TMA)

• The Penumbra Podcast

• The Two Princes

• Welcome To Night Vale

• Woe.begone

[mogwai-movie-house]

The 50 Best Albums of the 1990s

Screamadelica (1991) - Primal Scream

Achtung Baby (1991) - U2

Debut (1993) - Bjork

It's A Shame About Ray (1992) - The Lemonheads

Extricate (1990) - The Fall

Henry's Dream (1992) - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1993) - Underworld

Selected Ambient Works Vol. II (1994) - Aphex Twin

Let Love In (1994) - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Songs For Drella (1990) - Lou Reed & John Cale

Into The Labyrinth (1993) - Dead Can Dance

Jonathan Goes Country (1990) - Jonathan Richman

Toward The Within (1994) - Dead Can Dance

Good As I Been To You (1992) - Bob Dylan

Neroli (1993) - Brian Eno

Out Of Time (1990) - R.E.M.

Exile In Guyville (1993) - Liz Phair

The Good Son (1990) - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Play (1999) - Moby

Automatic For The People (1992) - R.E.M.

Having a Party with (1991) - Jonathan Richman

Swing The Statue (1990) - Victoria Williams

The Boatman's Call (1997) - Nick Cave

Anthology (1995) - The Beatles

Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (1997) - Spiritualized

The Bootleg Boxset (1991) - Bob Dylan

The Future (1992) - Leonard Cohen

Your Arsenal (1992) - Morrissey

Zooropa (1993) - U2

The Ugly One With The Jewels (1995) - Laurie Anderson

Vision Thing (1990) - The Sisters of Mercy

Dummy (1994) - Portishead

Come On Feel (1993) - The Lemonheads

I See A Darkness (1999) - Bonnie Prince Billy

Autogeddon (1994) - Julian Cope

Vauxhall & I (1994) - Morrissey

Sad But True (1993) - Tex, Don & Charlie

Shift-Work (1991) - The Fall

Ritual De Lo Habitual (1990) - Jane's Addiction

1990 (1990) - Daniel Johnston

Universal Mother (1994) - Sinead O'Connor

Time Out Of Mind (1997) - Bob Dylan

West of Rome (1991) - Vic Chesnutt

Vena Cava (1993) - Diamanda Galas

Magic & Loss (1992) - Lou Reed

Vanishing Point (1997) - Primal Scream

Where Y'Been (1993) - Dinosaur Jr

Boys For Pele (1996) - Tori Amos

20 Mothers (1995) - Julian Cope

Unplugged In New York (1994) - Nirvana

(Also rans: I'm So Confused (1998) - Jonathan Richman / Up (1998) - R.E.M. / 99.9F (1992) - Suzanne Vega / Thrills 'n' Pills and Bellyaches (1990) - Happy Mondays / Nevermind (1991) - Nirvana)

[i-watch-too-many-movies]

50 Favorite First Viewings of 2022

1. AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001) (dir. Steven Spielberg)

2. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

3. Cure (1997) (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

4. Something Wild (1986) (dir. Jonathan Demme)

5. Sweet Charity (1969) (dir. Bob Fosse)

6. Double Indemnity (1944) (dir. Billy Wilder)

7. An Angel at My Table (1990) (dir. Jane Campion)

8. Ganja and Hess (1973) (dir. Bill Gunn)

9. In the Mood for Love (2000) (dir. Wong Kar-wai)

10. The Lady Eve (1941) (dir. Preston Sturges)

11. Barton Fink (1991) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

12. The Wedding Banquet (1993) (dir. Ang Lee)

13. Watermelon Man (1970) (dir. Melvin Van Peebles)

14. Smooth Talk (1985) (dir. Joyce Chopra)

15. Exotica (1994) (dir. Atom Egoyan)

16. Drive My Car (2021) (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

17. Paths of Glory (1957) (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

18. Smiley Face (2007) (dir. Gregg Araki)

19. Heat (1995) (dir. Michael Mann)

20. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) (dir. William Greaves)

21. Fox and His Friends (1974) (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

22. Bright Star (2009) (dir. Jane Campion)

23. Tape (2001) (dir. Richard Linklater)

24. Magick Lantern Cycle (1948-1981) (dir. Kenneth Anger)

25. La cérémonie (1995) (dir. Claude Chabrol)

26. Aliens (1986) (dir. James Cameron)

27. Better Than Chocolate (1999) (dir. Anne Wheeler)

28. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

29. Häxän (1922) (dir. Benjamin Christensen)

30. Burn After Reading (2008) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

31. The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967) (dir. Melvin Van Peebles)

32. 2046 (2004) (dir. Wong Kar-wai)

33. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) (dir. Park Chan-wook)

34. The Last Detail (1973) (dir. Hal Ashby)

35. Charade (1963) (dir. Stanley Donen)

36. Far from Heaven (2002) (dir. Todd Haynes)

37. Broadcast News (1987) (dir. James L. Brooks)

38. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

39. One Week (1920) (dir. Buster Keaton)

40. The Learning Tree (1969) (dir. Gordon Parks)

41. Clue (1985) (dir. Jonathan Lynn)

42. A Simple Plan (1998) (dir. Sam Raimi)

43. Poison (1991) (dir. Todd Haynes)

44. Fishmans (2021) (dir. Yuki Teshima)

45. Masculin Féminin (1965) (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

46. Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (1999) (dir. Jim Jarmusch)

47. Lenny (1974) (dir. Bob Fosse)

48. Kuroneko (1968) (dir. Kaneto Shindo)

49. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (dir. Vincente Minnelli)

50. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1952) (dir. Howard Hawks)

[glennmillerorchestra]

i was tagged by the wonderful maddie @leonardcohenofficial to post the posters from my favorite new-to-me watches of the year!! (in purely aesthetic order)

rope - alfred hitchcock (1948) sunset boulevard - billy wilder (1950) deep end - jerzy skolimowski (1970) i’m not there - todd haynes (2007) brewster mccloud - robert altman (1970) carol - todd haynes (2015) ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains - lou adler (1982) what’s up doc? - peter bogdanovich (1972) the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - paul newman (1972)

i'll tag @frogeye-pierce @thebuffalospringfeild @iwrotemrtambourineman and @juliebarnes!!!!

i only made it through half my goal of 100 new-to-me movies this year (life was. crazy) but the 52 i did watch will be under the cut!

edge of the city - martin ritt (1957)

the grand budapest hotel - wes anderson (2014)

licorice pizza - paul thomas anderson (2021)

dazed and confused - richard linklater (1993)

brewster mccloud - robert altman (1970)

the tragedy of macbeth - joel coen (2021)

my own private idaho - gus van sant (1991)

my beautiful laundrette - stephen frears (1985)

dead reckoning - john cromwell (1947)

keep off my grass! - shelley berman (1975)

raising arizona - joel & ethan coen (1987)

top hat - mark sandrich (1935)

the man who fell to earth - nicolas roeg (1976)

chicago - rob marshall (2002)

the blues brothers - john landis (1980)

little miss sunshine - jonathon dayton & valerie faris (2006)

sunset boulevard - billy wilder (1950)

i'm not there - todd haynes (2007)

love & mercy - bill pohlad (2014)

walk hard - jake kasdan (2007)

mysterious skin - gregg akari (2004)

whip it - drew barrymore (2009)

sophie scholl: die letzten tage - marc rothemund (2005)

when harry met sally - rob reiner (1989)

the watermelon woman - cheryl dunye (1996)

shiva baby - emma seligman (2020)

juno - jason bateman (2007)

carol - todd haynes (2015)

what's up doc? - peter bogdanovich (1972)

the philadelphia story - george cukor (1946)

die fälscher - stefan ruzowitzky (2007)

but i'm a cheerleader - jamie babbit (1999)

the twilight saga: eclipse - david slade (2010) <- THIS WAS NOT MY CHOICE but it was technically new to me. i want to emphasize my friend forced me to watch this with her

velvet goldmine - todd haynes (1998)

magical mystery tour - bernard knowles & the beatles (1967)

the shape of water - guillermo del toro (2017)

all that heaven allows - douglas sirk (1955)

i was a male war bride - howard hawks (1949)

the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - paul newman (1972)

ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains - lou adler (1982)

the breakfast club - john hughes (1985)

airplane! - jerry & david zucker & jim abrahams (1980)

maleficent - robert stromberg (2014) <- twilight friend pick lmfao

chi-raq - spike lee (2015)

a league of their own - penny marshall (1992)

rope - alfred hitchcock (1948)

pearl - ti west (2022)

get out - jordan peele (2017)

one cut of the dead - shinichiro ueda (2017)

deep end - jerzy skolimowski (1970)

the hours and times - christopher munch (1991) <- random number generator decided my gay john lennon fate with this one :/

glass onion - rian johnson (2022)

[justforbooks]

The prolific historian and biographer Philip Ziegler, who has died of cancer aged 93, was never less than scrupulously fair – but also honest – about the shortcomings of his subjects, who included some of the most prominent men and, occasionally, women of modern British history.

Lord Mountbatten’s personal vanity, deviousness and ambition, Edward VIII’s meanness and superficiality, even Edward Heath’s charmlessness were all remorselessly revealed, even though they amounted to official biographies and are books that have shaped the men’s reputations for posterity.

“The biographer’s first responsibility is to the truth and to the reader. If he is not prepared in the last resort to hurt and offend people for whom he feels nothing except goodwill then he should not be writing a biography,” Ziegler said in 2011.

The foibles of Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India before independence, were such that Ziegler wrote a note on his desk while writing the biography in the mid-1980s stating: “Remember, in spite of everything, he was a great man.” That is not necessarily the view any longer of many British and Indian historians, though it is hard to overlook Mountbatten’s significance to the modern subcontinent and his relatives in the Royal family.

If Ziegler’s patrician, establishment status and urbane charm helped to smooth his path to selection for such monumental biographies, his industry and the punctiliousness of his research meant that they come close to definitive. He said: “Ideally the biographer should know everything about his subject and then discard 99% of his information, keeping only the essential. Of course one can never hope to discover anything approaching everything, but one can find out a great deal.”

Ziegler was born in Ringwood, in the New Forest, to Dora (nee Barnwell) and Louis Ziegler, a retired army major. He was educated at Eton college and then studied law at New College, Oxford, graduating with a first. After national service with the Royal Artillery, he entered the Foreign Office, serving as a diplomat in Laos, Paris and Pretoria.

In 1966, with his wife Sarah (nee Collins), whom he had married in 1960, and two small children, he was posted to Bogotá, Colombia, as head of chancery at the British embassy. It was there the following year that, returning home from an embassy reception, he and his wife found armed robbers rifling the house. Sarah was killed in the melee and he was badly wounded.

The tragedy persuaded him to leave the diplomatic service and take a job with Sarah’s publisher father, William Collins, then the head of one of the largest publishing houses in the country. Ziegler became editorial director in 1972 and editor-in-chief of the company seven years later. He had already published two books, a biography of the Duchess of Dino, mistress of the wily French diplomat Talleyrand, in 1962, and one of the Georgian prime minister Henry Addington (later the reactionary home secretary Viscount Sidmouth) in 1965. A book about the Black Death followed in 1969, though that was to be his only venture into pre-modern history, and one on the battle of Omdurman (1973), as well as biographies of William IV (1971) and the Victorian prime minister Lord Melbourne (1976).

In 1980, Ziegler became a full-time writer, and a regular and eclectic stream of books followed: biographies of the 1920s’ society beauty Lady Diana Cooper (1981), Harold Wilson (1993), the minor poet Osbert Sitwell (1998), the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis (2005) and the actor Laurence Olivier (2013), as well as Heath (2010), Mountbatten (1985) and Edward VIII (1990), and a short biography of George VI (2014). There were also histories of Barings Bank (1988), London during the second world war (1995), the Rhodes Trust in Oxford (2008) and Brooks’s gentlemen’s club (1991). Not forgetting, Elizabeth’s Britain 1926 to 1986 and a book of photographic portraits of the Queen (2010).

All were assiduously researched. Given access to the royal archives, Ziegler ploughed through 25,000 letters of Edward VIII, revealing the shallowness of the king who abdicated and, allegedly to her displeasure, the Queen Mother’s relentless hostility towards him. His verdict that Edward was well meaning and that no monarch could have been more anxious to relieve the sufferings of his subjects though “few can have done less to achieve their aim”, was suitably waspish.

The biography of Mountbatten, for which he was chosen by the Broadlands trustees, custodians of his legacy, was followed by three volumes of the admiral’s diaries. The biography of Heath was also both official and comprehensive, but struggled to find the man’s elusive charm.

Of the Olivier biography, he told an interviewer at the Cheltenham literary festival in 2013: “In the course of my alarmingly long biographical career I have written about an inordinate number of prime ministers, kings and the like and I suddenly decided in old age that I would indulge myself and do myself an actor.” What he found to his alarm that there was very little substance beneath the parts the great actor played.

Following the death of his first wife, Ziegler married Clare Charrington, a social worker and bereavement counsellor, in 1971. She died in 2017. He is survived by the two children of his first marriage, Sophie and Colin, and by the son of his second, Toby.

🔔 Philip Sandeman Ziegler, biographer and historian, born 24 December 1929; died 22 February 2023

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[heavyarethecrowns]

Medieval Islam was a religion of remarkable tolerance for its time, allowing Jews and Christians the right to practise their inherited beliefs, and setting an example which was not, unfortunately, copied for many centuries in the West. The surprise, ladies and gentlemen, is the extent to which Islam has been a part of Europe for so long, first in Spain, then in the Balkans, and the extent to which it has contributed so much towards the civilisation which we all too often think of, wrongly, as entirely Western. Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour. It has helped to create modern Europe. It is part of our own inheritance, not a thing apart.

Speech on Islam and the West to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (27 October 1993).

King Charles III

[jaspers47]

I watched 154 movies in 2022

Five Stars

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (2022) Bergman Island (2021) Blonde Crazy (1931) Blow-Up (1966) Cryptozoo (2021) Decision to Leave (2022) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Glass Onion (2022) The Hunger (1983) It Came from Hollywood (1982) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022) Minari (2020) Mona Lisa (1986) Never Let Me Go (2010) Night on Earth (1991) Nope (2022) Pearl (2022) Tár (2022) Turning Red (2022) Wolfwalkers (2020) The Worst Person in the World (2021)

Four Stars

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Black Swan (2010) Blackmail (1929) Bullet Train (2022) Captain Blood (1935) Christmas in Connecticut (1945) CODA (2021) Confess, Fletch (2022) Doctor Sleep (2019) Dune (2021) Encanto (2021) The Fabelmans (2022) The Firemen's Ball (1967) First Blood (1982) Five Came Back (1939) Flee (2021) Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Gilda (1946) The Gospel of Eureka (2018) Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) Harvey (1950) House/Hausu (1977) The Hustler (1961) Hustlers (2019) Kajillionaire (2020) The Killing (1956) Kimi (2022) Kiss of Death (1947) The Menu (2022) Moonwalker (1988) The Mouse That Roared (1959) My Dinner with Andre (1981) The Northman (2022) Parallel Mothers (2021) The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) Predator (1987) Prey (2022) The Punk Singer (2013) Quatermass II/Enemy From Space (1957) Relaxer (2018) Saint Maud (2019) The Seven-Ups (1973) Thelma (2017) Watcher (2022) We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022) Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) X (2022)

Three and a Half Stars

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) The Booksellers (2019) Blade II (2002) Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul (2022) Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) My Name is Julia Ross (1945) Onibaba (1964) The Party (1968) Pygmalion (1938) The Quatermass Xperiment/The Creeping Unknown (1955) The Song Remains the Same (1976) Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) Wendell & Wild (2022) Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

Three Stars

Amistad (1997) The Bank Dick (1940) The Batman (2022) Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Cries and Whispers (1972) Crimes of the Future (2022) Drive My Car (2021) The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) Emily the Criminal (2022) The Funhouse (1981) Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Inland Empire (2006) Jennifer's Body (2009) Jubilee (1978) Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) Life of Pi (2012) Linda Linda Linda (2005) Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) Lucy and Desi (2022) Nobody (2021) Opening Night (1977) Pretending I'm a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story (2020) Repeat Performance (1947) See How They Run (2022) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Strawberry Mansion (2022) Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021) The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) A Woman is a Woman (1961) Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) White Zombie (1932) WNUF Halloween Special (2013)

Two and a Half Stars

Babylon (2022) Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020) Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017) Thunderball (1965)

Two Stars

Doctor Mordrid (1992) Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) Enchanted (2007) Hardcore Henry (2015) The House (2022) My Fair Lady (1964) My Name is Emily (2015) The Princess (2022) Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) Rosaline (2022) Strange World (2022) Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Treasure of the Amazon (1985) Werewolves Within (2021) Willy's Wonderland (2021) Winnie the Pooh (2011)

One Star

Beyond Atlantis (1973) Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000 (1999) The Crawling Hand (1963) Daddy-O (1958) Demon Squad (1999) Hello Again (1987) Indestructible Man (1956) Munchie (1992) Operation Kid Brother (1967) The Rebel Set (1959) Santo in the Treasure of Dracula (1969) Robot Jox 2: Robot Wars (1993) Shadow in the Cloud (2020) The She-Creature (1956)

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[srebrenicagenocidecommemoration]

UNGA President remarks at the High-level Commemorative Event on the occasion of the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica.

His Excellency, Elmedin Konaković, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Excellencies,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I thank the Permanent Mission of Bosnia and Herzegovina for their invitation to this solemn gathering.

In April 1993, the United Nations Security Council declared Srebrenica a safe area.

Yet, in July 1995, this supposed sanctuary became the site of the largest massacre in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

Over 8,372 lives were lost, thousands were displaced – and entire families and communities were devastated.

Nearly three decades after this horrific chapter of History, survivors and their families continue to draw strength from their pursuit of justice and reconciliation.

Both the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice have recognized this massacre as an act of genocide.

The lessons of Srebrenica are clear: intolerance and bigotry – when allowed to flourish – culminate in atrocities beyond comprehension.

We must always remain vigilant and guard against rhetoric that dehumanizes, degrades, and discriminates against a particular group.

Because such rhetoric is always rooted in hate, and – left unchecked – always leads to unspeakable evil.

While it is essential to prosecute the remaining perpetrators of the Srebrenica genocide, we cannot accept any attempt to simply forget or deny the enormity of what transpired.

We simply cannot allow this to happen.

The United Nations General Assembly’s designation of 11 July as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica is therefore a timely act – to not only recognize the victims and their families; but also pay tribute to survivors who have tirelessly fought to keep the memory of Srebrenica alive and ensure that such atrocities never happen again.

Upholding this responsibility is fundamental to the mission of the United Nations.

Genocide denial will neither lead to justice nor peace, and every nation – regardless of its distance to Bosnia-Herzegovina, or its own history – has a responsibility to uphold international court decisions that bring justice to survivors and prevent genocide within its own borders.

Excellencies,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today, this commemoration is more relevant than ever – as divisive rhetoric and attempts to create divisions run wider, louder, and deeper than ever before, around the world.

It offers a chance for significant societal transformation.

From Europe to the Middle East, this period of global upheaval prompts essential questions about our way of life, our shared future – and how we treat one another.

As we approach the thirtieth anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in 2025, let us reflect on and learn from this darkest chapter in our history, to help prevent its tragic repetition.

This commitment demands that we acknowledge the profound suffering of survivors and the families of victims.

It requires unwavering opposition to any denial, distortion, or falsification of incontrovertible facts.

And above all, it calls on us to relentlessly pursue justice and truth – for that is the only path to fostering sustainable peace and genuine reconciliation.

Let us use this new International Day to honour those lost, educate [future] generations, unite communities, and combat hate in all its forms – I repeat: in all its forms..

This is essential to ensure that everyone – regardless of race, faith, or nationality – feels safe in their communities.

I leave you with the wise words of Maya Angelou, the famed African American writer:

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

To write a brighter future acknowledging the truth about the Srebrenica genocide is essential — not only as a matter of justice for its victims, but as a cornerstone for lasting peace.

I thank you.

[whatilistenedtoatwork]

From April 8th to April 11th, 2024

08-04-2024

THE AMPS “Pacer”; THE CORAL “Sea Of Mirrors”; BELLE & SEBASTIAN “Tigermilk”; THE WEDDING PRESENT “Watusi”; JAMES TAYLOR “Sweet Baby James”; FRANK SINATRA “In The Wee Small Hours”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Alien Lanes”; GRATEFUL DEAD “American Beauty”; TEDDY WILSON & HIS ORCHESTRA “Teddy Wilson 1946”; KATHRYN TICKELL “The Gathering”; SUZANNE VEGA “Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles”; BILL RYDER-JONES “If...”; CORNERSHOP “Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast”; PEGGY LEE “I Lke Men!”; JETHRO TULL “Aqualung”; SUEDE “Head Music”; THE EAGLES “The Eagles”; ELLA FITZGERALD “Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Johnny Mercer Songbook”

09-04-2024

SUZANNE VEGA “Beauty & Crime”; THE DURUTTI COLUMN “Amigos Em Portugal”; THE BREEDERS “Mountain Battles”; GRATEFUL DEAD “Anthem Of The Sun”; ORBITAL “Orbital (1993)”; VAN DYKE PARKS “Discover America”; FATBOY SLIM “Halfway Between The Gutter & The Stars”; RICHARD THOMPSON “Celtschmerz – Live In The UK, '98”; ERIC BOGLE “Something Of Value”; PEGGY LEE “Dream Street”; EDDIE NBOYD “Third Degree”

10-02-2024

BOB DYLAN “The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan”; THE FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS “The Flight Of The Conchords”; LUNASA “The Merry Sisters Of Fate”; KATHRYN TICKELL & ENSEMBLE MYSTICAL “Kathryn Tickell & Ensemble Mystical”; MOUNTAIN GOATS “All Hail West Texas”; SARAH VAUGHAN “The Divine Sarah Sings”; THE DURUTTI COLUMN “Another Setting”; PIXIES “Pixies Complete 'B' Sides”; THE FALL “The Frenz Experiment”; CHILDISH GAMBINO “Because The Internet”; GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI “Patio”; RONI SIZE & REPRAZENT “Live Forms”

11-04-2024

NADA SURF “Let Go”; HAPPY MONDAYS “Happy Mondays Live”; SPIRITUALIZED “Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space”; FOO FIGHTERS “Foo Fighters”; SHARON SHANNON & FRIENDS “Tunes”; THROWING MUSES “University”; LUNASA “Otherworld”; DOC & MERLE WATSON “Pickin' The Blues”; LEMONHEADS “Car Button Cloth”; JAY SEMKO & VARIOUS ARTISTS “Due South Original Television Soundtrack Volume II”; RICHARD THOMPSON “Semi-Detached Mock Tudor”; THE DARKNESS “One Way Ticket To Hell ...And Back”