#2006-06-13 @ Bottom of the Hill

[sharkjumpers]

I wrote this one when we lived in Colo, Iowa, which is a town no-one reading this will ever see. 775 people lived there and we were two of them. Our house was tiny and the pipes froze every winter; one winter they burst. We ate a lot of potatoes because they were cheap, and I taught myself to bake bread from scratch. We were young in our love and not yet married and there was a shack behind the house where I’d experiment with my boombox and my guitar to see what different sort of atmospheres I could get on tape. “There Will Be No Divorce” was one of the songs on The Coroner’s Gambit that took a long time to get right, and the final version was recorded in that little shack on a rainy day. Originally it was a much more uptempo song than the one I ended up doing that day; it had a sort of vaguely half-rockabilly feel. It sounded, I mean, more like the one I played at this session.

[earlycuntsets]

earlycuntsets.org sourced - where I got all my mcr pictures

pt. 1

parts (2, 3, 4)

first of a series. due to tumblr limits on how many links you can post. this full idea will be continued on future posts. for now here's 2002- 1/2 of 2007. this is pictures. will make a separate post for youtube/recordings.

been needing to fully source my website so here we go! wanted to share with other kool mcr fans.

old fansites/website appearances:

most popular - theimmortalityproject.com

mcr's old website [2002, 2003, 2004, 2005]

magazine scan archive - mcrhollywood.blogspot.com

more mcr flyers here than anywhere - theydrewblood.blogspot.com

gerard pic/interview 2003 - artsucks.com

show pics:

(8/18/2003 & 04/28/2004 washington dc, 08/20/2004 gillette stadium foxborough ma and 06/13/2004 baltimore md) - brokenvoices

(09/13/2004 & 01/21/2005 birmingham academy) - blackvelvetmagazine.com

(rainbow montreal 01/06/2003, kool haus toronto ca 02/10/2003, salle lx montreal ca, 08/25/2003) - junkedcamera.com

(bottom of the hill sacramento ca 1/23/2003) - sacramentomusicarchive.com

I do not know this show, 2003 - idolize magazine

04/03/2004 majestic theater detroit mi - schwegweb.com

05/07/2004 bakersville ca - rocksandiego.com (kira olsson-trap)

10/13/2004 kansas city mo - grrphotography

03/11/2005 taste of chaos cobo arena detroit mi - schwegweb.com

03/13/2005 taste of chaos st louis - grrphotography

03/16/2005 td waterhouse arena orlando fl - jencray.com

03/20/2005 st paul mn - shatterthelens.com

07/16/2005 fairgrounds, salt lake city - trent nelson

08/07/2005 warped tour orlando fl - jencray.com

08/08/2005 warped tour verizon wireless lot charlotte nc - josh hofer

08/12/2005 warped tour tweeter center camden nj - musicmattersmedia.com

11/01/2005 wolverhampton civic hall, wolverhampton england - blackvelvetmagazine.com

03/17/2006 emos austin tx - brooklynvegan.com & andrewkendall

10/26/2006 webster hall ny - dontbescene.com

11/15/2006 nottingham uk - blackvelvetmagazine

1/21/2007 big day out gold coast australia - kylie keene

03/25/2007 cardiff - blackvelvetmagazine.com

07/03/2007 helsinki - deadflowerphotography

flickrs (show pics):

7/25/2003 farmingdale ny - gaelen harlacher

08/16/2003 toronto ca - allfalldownphotography

I do not know this show, 2004 - joel

01/13/2004 night and day cafe manchester uk - tony woolliscroft

04/28/2004 cotton club atlanta ga - mike white

06/15/2004 mr.smalls theater, milvale pa - scapularemix

08/20/2004 gillette stadium foxborough ma - futurebreed

10/26/2004 roseland ballroom nyc - alyssa

01/30/2005 cologne germany - johanna bocher

07/02/2005 warped tour piers, san fransisco ca - laurentertaining

07/06/2005 warped tour pampano beach fl - internetpirateradio

7/28/2005 warped tour quebec city, quebec @ the pepsi colisée parking lot - alec hartman photography

08/05/2005 warped tour st petersburg fl - todd cynic

08/10/2005 warped tour nissan pavillian va - jessica

08/13/2005 warped tour nyc ny - christine natanael

08/23/2005 underworld london uk - sammi hills & lauren siohan

09/02/2005 &09/03/2005 rock in idro milan italy - matteo galli

09/13/2005 station park providence ri - katie o'keefe

09/15/2005 columbus ohio - stacy chambers

09/20/2005 st paul mn - matt birhanzel

10/14/2005 tweeter center camden nj - kristin

03/17/2006 emos austin tx - nicole herbst & allison7821

03/19/2006 recording academy san fransisco ca - james

05/12/2006 sun god festival la jolla ca - sam litvin

08/06/2006 nyc - heather marie ryan

08/25/2006 bramham park leeds uk - dancelike.hell

10/12/2006 virgin megastore london uk - stephen kallao

10/28/2006 & 10/29/2006 voodoo festival new orleans - mandi & voodoo music

10/31/2006 house of blues hollywood ca- veronica murietta

11/09/2006 e-werk cologne germany- sabrina & himychemicalromance

11/21/2006 milano italy - rodolfo sassano

1/24/2007 brisbane austraila - conradpayton

2/04/2007 perth australia - richard giles

03/04/2007 denver co - selene locke

03/07/2007 las vegas nv - heather marie ryan & pamela zabala

03/11/2007 anaheim - scarlet lark

03/21/2007 brighton england - peter hill

04/21/2007 seattle wa - steven friederich

04/22/2007 ft lauderdale fl - heather marie ryan

04/28/2007 williamsburg va - andrew s

05/05/2007 east rutherford nj - maria newman & mimie7981

05/01/2007 toronto ca - liz lulu

05/20/2007 vancouver ca - amy sept

05/21/2007 seattle wa- ciera walters

06/08/2007 leicestershire uk - sara bowrey

06/21/2007 bilboa spain - patriciana

06/23/2007 madrid spain - juan the fly factory

06/24/2007 lisbon portugal - mario guilherme

06/30/2007 hovefestivalen tromoya norway - kim erlandsen

07/08/2007 naas ireland - james quinton

07/25/2007 seattle wa - ciera walters

livejournals:

04/04/2004 bottom lounge chicago il - mechanical_riot

05/11/2004 san francisco ca - from strawberyxlove

01/05/2005 newcastle university england - open_heart_zoo

03/06/2005 daytona ohio - xxmeansyourhxc

03/10/2005 taste of chaos cleveland - dyanna

04/07/2005 barrowland, glasgow uk - elite_cru

part 2 here

[brasscompasses]

this remains an open tab in my phone at all times

[porlockstompf]

Reading de Nacht Reading 2019

                              my favourite books of the year

my overall favourite book of the year:

martin hägglund "this life why mortality makes us free" (2019)

postcyberpunkstompf:

01 ken liu (ed) "broken stars: contemporary chinese sf in translation" (2019)

02 cory doctorow "radicalized" (2019) 03 dave hutchinson "the return of the incredible exploding man" (2019)   + dave hutchinson "nomads" (2019)   + dave hutchinson "thumbprints" (1978)   + dave hutchinson "torn air" (1980)   + dave hutchinson "the push" (2009)   + dave hutchinson "the villages" (2002)   ... damn that elusive "paradise equation" (1981) ... 04 tade thompson "rosewater" (2016)   + tade thompson "rosewater insurrection" (2019)   + tade thompson "rosewater redemption" (2019) 05 desirina boskovich (ed) "lost transmissions: the secret history of sf & f" (2019)

06 hannu rajaniemi & jacob weisman (eds) "the new voices of science fiction" (2019) 07 gardner dozois (ed) "the very best of the best: 35 years of the year's best science fiction" (2019) 08 jonathan strahan (ed) "the best science fiction & fantasy of the year, volume thirteen" (2019) 09 robert markeley "kim stanley robinson modern masters of sf" (2019) 10 allan kaster (ed) "the year's top hard sf stories 3" (2019)

11 olivier girard (ed) "bifrost 96 la revue des mondes imaginaires: william gibson" (2019) 12 mario guglielminetti "web is over. parabola ed esplosione di ubuweb, l'antiprofilo" (2019) 13 bryan thomas schmidt (ed) "infinite stars: dark frontiers" (2019) 14 baoshu "the redemption of time" [2011] (2019) 15 cixin liu "the supernova era" [2003] (2019)

16 l. x. beckett "gamechanger" (2019) 17 gareth l powell "fleet of knives" (2019) 18 chen qiufan "waste tide" [2013] (2019) 19 derek künsken "the quantum garden" (2019) 20 gregory benford "rewrite: loops in the timescape" (2019)

21 james s.a. corey "tiamat's wrath" (2019)   + james s.a. corey "auberon" (2019) 22 jim al-khalili "sunfall" (2019) 23 peter f hamilton "salvation lost"  (2019) 24 neal asher "the warship" (2019) 25 jonathan strahan (ed) "mission critical" (2019)

26 jack mcdevitt "octavia gone" (2019) 27 elizabeth bear "ancestral night" (2019) 28 ian mcdonald "moon rising" (2019) 29 carmen maria machado (ed) "the best american sf & f 2019" (2019) 30 valerie valdes "chilling effect" (2019) 31 simon morden "bright morning star" (2019)      + s. j. morden "no way" (2019) 32 neil stephenson "fall or, dodge in hell" (2019) 33 graham edwards "string city" (2019)

klassikstompf:

01 arno schmidt "bottom's dream" [1970] (2016) ... & still reading ...

02 jorge luis borgès "borgès restored (the author's preferred translations)" (2016) 03 julie orringer "the flight portfolio" (2019)   + julie orringer "the invisible bridge" (2010) 04 pola oloixarac "savage theories" (2017)   + pola oloixarac "dark constellations" (2019) 05 simon critchley "memory theatre" (2014)

06 gabriel josipovici "hotel andromeda" (2014) 07 david keenan "for the good times" (2019) 08 wg sebald "vertigo" [1990] (1999)   + wg sebald "the emmigrants" [1992] (1996)   + wg sebald "the rings of saturn" [1995] (1998)   + wg sebald "austerlitz" (2001) 09 luis chitarroni "the no variations "diary of an unfinished novel" [2007] (2013) 10 julián ríos "larva: a midsummer night's babel" [1983] (1991)

11 césar aira "birthday" [2001] (2019)   + césar aira "three novels" [1990-2000-1997] (2018) 12 tom mole "the secret life of books" (2019) 13 lucy ives "loudermilk or the real poet or the origin of the world" (2019) 14 lászló krasznahorkai "baron wenckheim's homecoming" [2016] (2019) 15 lucy ellmann "ducks, newburyport" (2019)

16 lars iyer "nietzsche & the burbs" (2019) 17 d harlan wilson "the psychotic dr. schreber" (2019) 18 andrew gallix (ed) "we'll never have paris" (2019) 19 chris kelso (ed) "i transgress" (2019) 20 john crowley "the solitudes" [1987] (2007)   + john crowley "love & sleep" (1994)   + john crowley "daemonomania" (2000)   + john crowley "endless things" (2007) ... (the aegypt cycle)

polarstompf:

01 carlos ruiz zafón "the labyrinth of the spirits" [2017] (2018)

02 volker kutscher "the fatherland files" [2012] (2019) 03 andrea camilleri "the overnight kidnapper" [2015] (2019)   + andrea camilleri "the other end of the line" [2016] (2019) 04 mick herron "joe country" (2019)   + mick herron "this is what happened" (2018)   + mick herron "nobody walks" (2015) 05 john le carré "agent running the field" (2019)

06 guillaume musso "la vie secrète des écrivains" (2019) 07 luke mccallin "the man from berlin" (2013)   + luke mccallin "the pale house" (2014)   + luke mccallin "the divided city" (2016) 09 henry porter "brandenburg" [2005] (2019)   + henry porter "firefly" (2018)   + henry porter "white hot silence" (2019) 10 mitch silver "the bookworm" (2018)   + mitch silver "in secret service" (2007)

11 alan judd "the accidental agent" (2019) 12 philip kerr "metropolis" (2019) 13 ian rankin "westwind" (2019) 14 jo nesbø "the knife" (2019) 15 david hewson "devil's fjord" (2019)

16 barry forshaw "crime fiction: a reader's guide" (2019) 17 a.a. dhand "one way out" (2019) 18 martin holmén "clinch: the stockholm trilogy 01" (2016)   + martin holmén "down for te count: the stockholm trilogy 02" (2017)   + martin holmén "slugger: the stockholm trilogy 03" (2019) 19 michael kestemont "de zwarte koning" (2019) 20 soren sveistrup "the chestnut man" [2018] (2019)

21 tim mason "the darwin affair" (2019) 22 patrick conrad "good night, charlie" (2019) 23 chris pavone "the paris diversion" (2019) 24 dov aflon "a long night in paris" (2019) 25 arne dahl "hunted" [2017] (2019)

                                  RIP ANDREA CAMILLERI !

gedächtnisstompf:

01 martin hägglund "this life: why mortality makes us free" (2019) /                            "this life: secular faith & spiritual freedom" (2019)

02 derrida "la vie la mort: séminaire (1975-1976)" (2019) 03 jean-luc nancy "derrida, suppléments”  (2019) 04 jean-françois bouthors et jean-luc nancy "démocratie! hic et nunc" (2019) 05 hannah arendt "de vrijheid om vrij te zijn" (2019)      + hannah arendt "nous autres réfugiés" (2019)

06 mckenzie wark "capital is dead": is this something worse?" (2019) 07 johan schokker & tim schokker      "extimiteit: jacques lacan's terugkeer naar freud" (2000) 08 gerhard richter & ann schmock (eds) "give the word:      responses to werner hamacher's 95 theses on philology"    (2019) 09 ranja n gosh "philosophy & poetry: continental perspectives" (2019) 10 shoshana zuboff "the age of surveillance capitalism" (2019)

11 kate zambrano "screen tests: stories & other writing" (2019) 12 daniele carluccio "roland barthes lecteur" (2019) 13 jean-clet martin "la philosophie de gilles deleuze" (2019) 14 mitchell dean & daniel zamora  "le dernier homme et la fin de la révolution:          foucault après mai 68" (2019) 15 arnon grunberg "vriend & vijand: decadentie, ondergang & verlossing" (2019)

16 kwami anthony appiah      "de leugens die ons verbinden: een nieuwe kijk op identiteit" [2018] (2019) 17 quentin meillassoux "science fiction & extro-science fiction" (2015) 18 roberto calasso "het onbenoembare verleden" [2017] (2019) 19 lydia davis "essays" (2019) 20 denise riley "time lived, without its flow" (2019)

poesisstompf:

zoë skoulding "footnotes to water" (2019)

platterstompf:

01 rick moody "on celestial music, and other adventures in listening" (2012)

02 yann courtiau "frictions:   ce que la littérature a fait à la musique et ce que la musique a en a fait" (2019) 03 vivien goldman "revenge of the she-punks:      a feminist music history from poly styrene to pussy riot" (2019) 04 garrígos, triana & guerra "god save the queens: pioneras del punk" (2019) 05 jon savage "this searing light, the sun & everything else:      joy division the oral history" (2019)

06 richard beck "trains, jesus, and murder: the gospel according to johnny cash" 07 mark lanegan "sleevenotes" (2019) 08 jason williamson "jason williamson's house party: sleaford mods 2014-2019" (2019) 09 gallix, hill, & rose (eds) "love bites: fiction inspired by pete shelley" (2019) 10 greg laurie "johnny cash the redemption of an american icon" (2019)

11 marc vos & toon loenders "siglo xx:     opdat de dood ons levend vindt & het leven ons niet doodt" (2019) 12 david sandilands & david keenan "go ahead & drop the bomb      (memorial device pamflet)" (2019) 13 guillaume belhomme "pop fin de siècle" (2019) 14 chris bohn (ed) "the wire" (magazine) (2019) 15 sylvain sylvain "there's no bones in ice cream:      sylvain sylvain's story of the new york dolls" (2018)

16 debbie harry "face it" (2019) 17 jaime gonzalo "poder freak: una crónica de la contracultura vol III" (2014) 18 matthew bower & samantha davies "talisman angelical" (2017) 19 darryl w bullock "the world's worst records: an arcade of audio atrocity vol I" (2013)   + darryl w bullock "the world's worst records: another arcade of audio atrocity vol II" (2015) 20 steve zisson (ed) "a punk rock future" (2019) /      ivar muñoz-rojas "underground babilonia" (2019)

bilderstompf:

01 didier ottinger "bacon en toutes lettres" (2019)

02 antoni tàpies "cap braços cames cos" (2012)   + antoni tàpies "mahlerei und graphik" (2011) 03 laura oldfield ford "savage messiah" (2019) 04 fred vermorel "dead fashion girl: a situationist detective story" (2019) 05 françois schuiten & jaco van dormael "le dernier pharaon" (2019)

06 ken krimstein "the three escapes of hannah arendt: the tyranny of truth" (2018) 07 erik bindervoet & saskia pfaeltzer "aldus sprach nietzsche's zuster" (2019) 08 anthony n fragola & roch c smith "the erotic dream machine: interviews with alain robbe-grillet on his films" (2006)

cyclostompf:

01 bernard chambaz "petite philosophie du vélo" (2019)

02 filip osselaer "de man die doodging (vervolgens mosselen bestelde,      de rekening vroeg en verdween): el tarangu, josé manuel fuente" (2019) 03 peter schmink "de cultus van het lijden: een vrije oefening" (2006) 04 laurent willame "les lieux sacrés du cyclisme:     15 pélérinages à faire avant de crever" (2019) 05 jonas heyerick (ed) "bahamontes: uit liefde voor de stiel" [magazine] (2019)

06 johnny vansevenant "1969, het jaar van eddy merckx" (2019) 07 edwin winkels "la vuelta: heroïsche verhalen uit de ronde van spanje" (2019) 08 frederik baeckelandt "fausto coppi (les héros 04)" (2019) 09 harry pearson "the beast, the emperor & the milkman:      a bone-shaking tour through cycling’s flemish heartlands" (2019) 10 peter cossins "the yellow jersey / le maillot jaune" (2019)

11 thijs zonneveld "het panini album" (2019) 12 thijs zonneveld "de fiets, de fiets & nog veel meer sportverhalen" (2019) 13 willy vangenechten "hoe word je een wielerfan (en blijf je er een)?" (2019)

some wissenschaftstompf & autres divertissements ...:

01 robert macfarlane "underland: a deep time journey" (2019)

02 george van hal & ans hekkenberg "het kosmisch rariteitenkabinet" (2019) 03 josey waley-cohen "only connect: the difficult second quiz book" (2019)

… tsundoku !

may your home be safe from tigers, leroy, x HNY!

... the annual out of control TBR pile ...

postcyberpunkstompf

ada hoffmann "the outside" (2019) adrian tchaikovsky "children of ruin" (2019) alastair reynolds "shadow captain" (2019) + alastair reynolds "permafrost" (2019) annalee newitz "the future of another timeline" (2019) charlie jane anders "the city in the middle of the night" (2019) farah mendlesohn "the pleasant profession of robert a heinlein" (2019)gareth l powell "ragged alice" (2019) greg egan "perihelion summer" (2019) ian creasey "the shapes of strangers" (2019) jo walton "lent" (2019)

kameron hurley "the light brigade" (2019) karl schroeder "stealing words" (2019) megan o'keefe "velocity weapon" (2019) neil clarke (ed) "the eagle has landed: 50 years of lunar sf" (2019) nina allan "the silverwind" (2019) paul di filippo "aeota" (2019) peter swirski "stanislaw lem: philosopher of the future" (2019) + peter swirski & waclaw m osadnik (eds) "lemography: stanislaw lem in the eyes of the world" (2019) richard kadrey "the grand dark" (2019) rudy rucker "million mile road trip" (2019) simon ings "the smoke" (2019)

klassikstompf

alex landragin "crossings" (2019) enrique vila-matas "mac's problem" [2017] (2019) joseph scapellato "the made-up man" (2019) kevin breatnach "tunnelvision" (2019) michel houellebecq "serotonin" (2019) nell zink "doxology" (2019) roberto bolaño "the spirit of science fiction: a novel" (2019) samanta schweblin "mouthful of birds" (2019) sergio pitol "mephisto's waltz: selected short stories" (2019) will eaves "murmur" (2019)

polarstompf

johan op de beek "het complot van laken" (2019) jon steinhagen "the hanging artist" (2019) juli zeh "empty hearts" (2019) max hertzberg "operation oskar" (2019) + max hertzberg "berlin centre" (2019) peter robinson "many rivers to cross" (2019) tony belloto "bellini & the sphinx" [1995] (2019)

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[untilolympiusreturns]

this is literally my favorite banter ever

i can only hope to be part of a crowd like this one day

[onemountaingoatssongaday]

It Froze Me

I saw you in the blazing light When the lotus caught fire In the middle of the night It froze me It froze me

I saw you coming closer real slow You grabbed hold I let go Yeah I saw you in the blazing light I saw you I saw you alright It froze me It froze me It froze me It froze me

from Nothing for Juice (1996)

"I'll tell you a secret. Most of the songs I used to write were just made-up stories but... I think I wrote so many made-up stories so I could bury the real songs. Nobody would catch me. This is a real love song." 

- 2006-06-13 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA

[tmgbanter]

I'll tell you a secret: most of the songs I used to write were just made up stories but I think I wrote so many made up stories so I could bury the real songs and nobody would catch me. This is a real love song.

John Darnielle introducing It Froze Me, Bottom of the Hill on 2006-06-13

[blubberquark]

Procedural Generation Pattern: Story Generation by Simulation

In my previous post I have explained the terms ontogenetic (top-down, feature-based) and teleological (bottom-up, simulationist) procedural generation.

I have argued that in most cases, the additional effort both in terms of programming or balancing the initial state of the simulation and in terms of computation time spent on simulationist generation is not worth the gains in detail and fidelity. In any case, an equal amount of effort could be spent on adding detail to a feature-based generator.

Two main differences set stories apart from other kinds of generated content: Narrative economy and the causal, temporal nature of storytelling. While narrative economy works in favour of a top-down feature-based approach to storytelling, the temporal and causal nature of stories favour simulationism.

Stories in Time

In artifacts like level maps, the product of a simulation-based generator is only the result of the final simulation step, and each state depends only on the immediately previous one. Stories don’t work like that: They unfold over time, and step by step follow a chain of connected events. If the main attraction of a story were its outcome, readers would always skip to the ending of books, and writers would not need to bother writing the parts before that.

Each simulation step moves the story forward. Because of that, intermediate simulation steps can be tremendously useful to storytelling. Story generators can generate a story by simulating step by step the world of a story, and describing what happened.

Two early story generation systems relied on a rather simulation-driven approach:

Michael Lebowitz’ 1984 UNIVERSE system for storytelling uses the same simulation algorithm both for character generation and storytelling: UNIVERSE generates interesting soap-opera-style storylines based around the interrelations of an ensemble cast. The two main goals of UNIVERSE are consistency and coherence in the generated stories. Consistency means that the stories and characters are free from internal contradiction, and coherence means that story events don’t just happen at random, or for no discernible reason, but arise from previously established facts in the story. Through simulated interactions between characters, they acquire shared histories and motives that motivate and explain their later behaviour in the story.

The TALE-SPIN system by James Meehan  (1977) generated fable-like stories about animals living together in a forest. While the system used planning or constraint-solving algorithms to generate character actions, these plans were not driven by narrative concerns, but by the goals and knowledge state of the respective characters. Characters could be wrong in their beliefs about the world, or take actions to get more information about known unknowns.

Narrative Economy

You almost never see people going to the bathroom in movies -  with some notable exceptions like Pulp Fiction, in which major plot events happen while Vincent Vega is sitting on a toilet - and if you see somebody doing a mundane action like eating breakfast, going to bed, or reading the newspaper, it either serves as a backdrop for a more interesting plot point, or as a set-up for later events - for example a busy family eating breakfast together gives an opportunity to put all the characters together at a table and introduce them, or explain why the lot of them were together when the main plot started to unfold.

Even though most stories, be they movies, books or told in other forms, do not directly depict or mention such mundane events, it is usually implied that they still happen. Characters still need to eat, sleep, and do their taxes. In accordance with to the Gricean Maxims, stories only communicate to the audience only that which the audience does not already know or assume to be the case. On top of that, stories focus on topics and events that are unlikely, unusual, novel, or just generally interesting in some way.

Creating Drama

If a storytelling system wants to emphasize novel and unusual events, it must first generate such events, so it can talk about them. The need to create interesting situations is at odds with fine-grained simulation, consistency and coherence, as most events in an iterated simulation are not very interesting by virtue of occurring regularly.

A storytelling system should start and end the story in a way that allows the central conflict to develop and be resolved. It should not include long passages of exposition or childhood events of the protagonist, and it should end the story soon after the conflict is resolved. The story should follow a dramatic arc.

A simulation-based storytelling system can exercise some amount of narrative economy by omitting mundane events that occur inside the simulation from the generated story text, and focusing on the more interesting parts. Alternatively, the system can bias random chance events and character decisions towards more interesting outcomes, within the bounds of coherence and consistency. This is also the approach taken by UNIVERSE.

TALE-SPIN more or less failed at narrative economy, often producing rather repetitive stories about animals trying, and failing at, multiple successive strategies to find food. Although the world of TALE-SPIN models animals with  mundane goals like finding food, it is capable of simulating theory of mind, competition and social interaction in pursuit of these goals. Unfortunately, TALE-SPIN does not include these details in the story text. Thus, a situation that could have been described as “Henry the hare knew that Brian the bear was fishing for salmon at the river, but Brian had a mean streak and was not to be trusted. Henry decided to seek out Olly the owl on the hill for advice instead.“ simply becomes “Henry went up the hill“.

 Top-Down Drama Generation

Feature-based story generation systems like William Wallace Cook’s Plotto, outlined in his 1926 book of the same name, maintain narrative economy, create a story arc, and focus on an interesting subject matter through top-down design. For example, Plotto contains the following situation:

A, poor, is in love with wealthy and aristocratic B * A, poor, in love with wealthy B, pretends to be a man of wealth

This situation sounds by itself at least a little interesting and noteworthy. Each of these plot points fits into an overall structure of a central conflict, and can be combined with other conflicts that have preceded or been caused by it. The Plotto book has a table of central conflicts, protagonists and plot points, and rules for how to combine them.

Since Plotto was a book intended for novelists and screenwriters, and not a computer program, it was the end user’s task to write the actual text of the novel, stage- or screenplay. Eventual inconsistencies could always be caught and corrected by a human editor. Likewise, the balance of detail against narrative economy is in the hands of a human author.

The MINSTREL system tries to follow a high-level plot outline by fleshing out the structure with adapted events from a library of previous stories. By drawing upon events from previous stories, it retains the level of drama of the story corpus, but sacrifices consistency and coherence: Story elements are not causally connected in an underlying simulated model. Instead, they are retrieved and adapted by an analogical process, based on superficial similarity.

Conclusion

Although top-down procedural generation is often better suited for level generation, bottom-up simulation is well suited to generate stories. Detailed simulation can produce stories that make sense: They are internally consistent, and no story development feels out of place. Feature-based or top-down methods can build dramatic arcs, but rely on user-supplied plot structure.

If you want to generate compelling stories with a bottom-up simulation approach, you need a model of the reader, a model of dramatic tension, or a way to enforce a plot structure, in addition to a model of the world your story is set in.

Links:

http://wikis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/index.php/Story_Generator_Algorithms

Gricean Maxims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle

Tale-Spin: https://grandtextauto.soe.ucsc.edu/2006/09/13/the-story-of-meehans-tale-spin/

More on Tale-Spin: http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=2068

Universe: https://grandtextauto.soe.ucsc.edu/2008/03/05/ep-72-universe/

Plotto: https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/06/plotto/, http://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146941343/plotto-an-algebra-book-for-fiction-writing, http://prosecco-network.eu/blog/generating-new-stories-plotto

Minstrel: https://games.soe.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/lessons_learned_from_RR_of_M-AAAI2012.pdf

Tropes Discussed: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NarrativeFiligree, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLawOfConservationOfDetail, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NobodyPoops, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Asspull

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84. Whole Wide World

My favorite song from Sweden opens by teasing you thinking you’re going to hear something a little less cryptic than the songs surrounding it on the album. “When the last of the repercussions died off real slow” is the kind of line you might expect to see in somebody’s memoir, or maybe hear somebody say in a therapy session. But you never find out what the repercussions are or what they’re from; the rest of it is too shrouded in metaphor.

The tree-climbing thing reminds me of Treetop Song, but the ending here is far more ambiguous than “I knew that I would be alright.” “I drank in the whole wide world” might be a good thing -- or it might be a drunk thing. In fact, that’s true of a lot of the contents of Sweden.

“Tricky young southerly wind” reminds me both of “do you see that young star overhead?” from California Song, and the much-later lyric variation from Never Quite Free “hear his breath come whistling sometimes”.

It’s a song that you might expect to be an ending, but instead, it’s just the beginning of the world of hurt that the Sweden characters find themselves in.

2006-06-13 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA

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ActBlue

Political nonprofit organization

ActBlue is a nonprofit technology organization established in June 2004 that enables Democrats, progressive groups, and left-leaning nonprofits to raise money on the Internet by providing them with online fundraising software. Its stated mission is to “empower small-dollar donors”.[1]

Contents

1 Activities

2 Related products

3 Fundraising

4 References

5 External links

Activities[edit]

Co-founder Benjamin Rahn at a fundraiser in 2006

ActBlue is technically independent of the Democratic Party itself and does not endorse individual candidates.[2] The organization is open to Democratic campaigns, candidates, committees, and progressive 501(c)4 organizations. Groups that use ActBlue pay a 3.95% credit card processing fee. As a nonprofit, ActBlue runs its own, separate fundraising program and accepts tips on contributions to pay for its expenses.[3][1][4]

ActBlue was founded in 2004 by Benjamin Rahn and Matt DeBergalis.[5] In February 2016, ActBlue launched AB Charities, an arm of the organization that makes ActBlue’s fundraising tools available to nonprofits.[6] Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns used ActBlue for contributions.[7] 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden has also used ActBlue for fundraising.[8]

Related products[edit]

In 2019, the Republican Party created a rival platform, WinRed, to counter ActBlue’s strength.[9]

Fundraising[edit]

In the 2018 midterms elections, ActBlue raised $1.6 billion for Democratic candidates.[10] According to FEC data, from January 2017 to October 2018 Beto O’Rourke had raised $45m through ActBlue for his run against Ted Cruz, 48% of which came from outside Texas.[11]

In 2019, ActBlue raised roughly $1 billion for a wide variety of campaigns.[12] The Daily Beast notes that between January and mid-July 2019, ActBlue brought in $420 million, and that “According to the organization, that total came from 3.3 million unique donors and was dispersed to almost 9,000 Democratic campaigns and organizations, with $246 million coming in the second quarter alone.”[13]

Several records for the year of 2020 were broken in the week following the Killing of George Floyd, with over $19 million raised on May 31st, the highest so far that year. On June 1st, that yearly record was again broken with $20 million in donations. Over half of donations in the week following killing went to charitable (non-political) causes, including one ActBlue page devoted to a bail fund which raised over $1.5 million dollars from over 20,000 donors.[14]

References[edit]

^ a b Pindell, James (10 May 2017). “How a Somerville nonprofit revolutionized American politics”. The Boston Globe..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:”””””””‘””‘”}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background-image:url(“//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png”);background-image:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url(“//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg”);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:9px;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background-image:url(“//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png”);background-image:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url(“//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg”);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:9px;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background-image:url(“//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png”);background-image:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url(“//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg”);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:9px;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-image:url(“//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png”);background-image:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url(“//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg”);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:12px;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}

^ Willis, Derek (9 October 2014). “How ActBlue Became a Powerful Force in Fund-Raising”. The New York Times. Retrieved 23 March 2020.

^ Kroll, Andy. “The $2 Billion Powerhouse Behind Jon Ossoff”. Mother Jones (July/August 2017).

^ “Pricing”. ActBlue.com. ActBlue.

^ Wayne, Leslie (29 November 2007). “A Fund-Raising Rainmaker Arises Online”. The New York Times. Retrieved 23 March 2020.

^ Hill, Erin (17 February 2016). “ActBlue Charities is HERE”. ActBlue.

^ “Case study: Bernie 2016”. Revolution Messaging. Revolution Messaging.

^ “Chip in to elect Joe Biden”. ActBlue. Retrieved 2020-03-11.

^ Isenstadt, Alex. “GOP to launch new fundraising site as Dems crush the online money game”. POLITICO. Retrieved 2019-06-25.

^ Isenstadt, Alex (23 June 2019). “GOP to launch new fundraising site as Dems crush the online money game”. POLITICO. Retrieved 23 March 2020.

^ Lavine, Carrie; Zubak-Skess, Chris (October 25, 2018). “How ActBlue Is Trying To Turn Small Donations Into A Blue Wave”. Fivethirtyeight. Graphics by Rachael Dottle. ABC News.

^ Hakim, Danny; Thrush, Glenn (9 March 2020). “How the Trump Campaign Took Over the G.O.P.” The New York Times. Retrieved 28 March 2020.

^ Resnick, Gideon (17 July 2019). “ActBlue Has Brought in a Whopping $420 Million This Year”. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 24 April 2020.

^ Goldmacher, Shane (1 June 2020). “Protests Spur Surge in Donations, Giving ActBlue Its Biggest Day of the Year”. The New York Times. Retrieved 2 June 2020.

External links[edit]

Official website

“ActBlue: Putting the ‘D’ Back in Democracy”, The Huffington Post

“Internet-Based PAC Driving Democratic Push: Small Donors Fuel Big Support Drive”, The Boston Globe

“Marketing Election ’08: Q&A With Matt DeBergalis, ActBlue”, Fast Company

“Donations Pooled Online Are Getting Candidates’ Attention”, The Washington Post

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Empirical SCOTUS: Wild ride of a term with 20 decisions still to go

The October 2018 Supreme Court term has taken many twists and turns, and the court still has 20 decisions to release in its last week and a half of work before the summer recess. Much may change between now and then, but with 55 cases already decided, we have unique and surprising patterns of decision-making among the justices. This is most apparent in the court’s 5-4 (or 5-3) decisions, in which one vote could shift a decision in a different direction. The court’s 5-3 and 5-4 decisions this term include Madison v. Alabama, Stokeling v. U.S., Nielsen v. Preap, Lamps Plus Inc. v. Varela, Washington State Department of Licensing v. Cougar Den Inc., Bucklew v. Precythe, Apple Inc. v. Pepper, Herrera v. Wyoming, Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, Home Depot U.S.A. Inc. v. Jackson, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, Mont v. U.S. and Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill. So far, these decisions and the court’s majority compositions in general have not gone as many predicted.

The justices have aligned in eight different majority compositions in these 13 decisions. The only alignment that has voted together in more than two decisions is the one composed of the five more conservative justices – Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

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When examined another way, however, the different compositions suggest a new method for the liberal justices whereby they seek a fifth vote among the conservative justices to secure a 5-4 majority. Six of these compositions included all four of the more liberal justices in the majority and a swing vote from one the more conservative justices.

Although the tactics for securing this fifth vote may have led the liberals to account for more diverse views in the majority opinions, they have also led to a higher rate of success in these cases than many expected prior to the term. This is evident below as we break down the 5-3 and 5-4 ideological compositions for these 13 decisions.

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Four different conservative justices voted along with the liberals in six different compositions, and the only conservative who has yet to vote along with the four liberals in a five-justice majority, this term or ever, is Alito.

This is actually the first time in the Roberts Court era that four different conservative justices provided a swing vote to liberal majorities in 5-3 and 5-4 decisions in a term when nine justices sat on the court (There were four different compositions in 2005, but there were also 10 justices on the bench that term, as Justice Sandra Day O’Connor departed in the middle of the term and Alito took her seat before the term’s end.). The figure below shows swing justices for both liberal and conservative coalitions from the 2005 term through the 2017 term (The Supreme Court Database supplied much of the pre-OT 2018 data.).

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These swing justices are defined as follows: The more conservative coalitions included Justice Antonin Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts through the middle of the 2015 term, and then Gorsuch from the end of the 2016 term forward. A fifth justice voting alongside one of these groupings of four was noted as the swing. The more liberal coalitions included Justices David Souter, John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer until 2009, then Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Stevens, Ginsburg and Breyer in 2009, and Sotomayor, Justice Elena Kagan, Ginsburg and Breyer for the 2010 term forward. Similar to the conservatives’ swing justices, a swing for the liberals voted along with one of these groupings of four liberal justices.

This can also be visualized by combining the justices into liberal, conservative and mixed 5-4 and 5-3 coalitions for the 2005 through 2017 terms. When organized in this fashion the graph looks as follows:

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Last term, when Justice Anthony Kennedy still sat on the court as the potential swing justice, the more liberal justices’ rate of success in 5-3 and 5-4 decisions was actually much lower than in past, as Kennedy did not vote with the liberals in any of these close decisions.

Another unique quality of these close decisions is the number of different majority compositions of justices. The eight different five-justice majorities this term are the most we’ve seen during any Roberts Court term, and there are still 20 decisions left to be released.

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Finally, the diversity of authorship in 5-3 and 5-4 decisions is also readily apparent. With Kennedy no longer taking the bulk of these opinion assignments, these opinions are split more evenly among the justices. Thomas has written the most such decisions so far this term with four, and Kavanaugh is the only other justice who has written more than one 5-4 or 5-3 majority opinion (with two so far), while the remaining seven other justices each wrote one such decision apiece.

Keeping the focus on Thomas for a minute, the greatest number of 5-4 decisions he wrote in a previous term was four in 2006 and in 2010. If he writes another 5-4 majority opinion out of the court’s remaining 20 decisions, he will have written five 5-4 majority opinions for the first time in his 28 terms on the court.

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The chief justice assigns majority opinions when he is in the majority, and otherwise the most senior justice in the majority assigns opinions. Three different justices have assigned the majority opinions in 5-4 and 5-3 decisions this term.

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Two of Thomas’ decisions were self-assigned and two were assigned by Roberts. Kavanaugh had one opinion assigned by Roberts and one by Ginsburg.

Looking at past opinion assignments during the Roberts Court years, we may note that Thomas had only assigned himself to write one 5-4 majority opinion prior to this term. This was in the 2012 decision Alleyne v. U.S. The horizontal axis below shows assigning justices (and terms on the bottom), while the vertical axis contains the authoring justices.

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The patterns described above are designed to trace changes in the court’s behavior from previous terms to the current one and nuances that might have gone otherwise unnoticed. They also are meant to highlight areas worthy of attention between now and when the court completes its business for the 2018 term next week.

This post was originally published at Empirical SCOTUS.

The post Empirical SCOTUS: Wild ride of a term with 20 decisions still to go appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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Cinefessions Sixth Annual Summer Screams Challenge [Link]

Ashe’s Main Checklist

Week One - When Science Screams - Sci-Fi/Horror (June 1 - June 3) [X] Featured Film - Harbinger Down (2015) Points: (3) June 1 ex. Title (Year) Points:  Date: 1. Let’s Be Evil  Points: 2 Date: 06/02/2017 2. Last Days on Mars (2013) Points: 2 Date: 06/02/2017 3. Viral (2016) Points: 2 Date: 06/02/2017 4. Tremors 5: Bloodline (2015) Points: 2 Date: 06/02/2017 5. The Thing (1982) Points: 2 Date: 06/03/2017 6. Alien (1979) Points: 2 Date: 06/03/2017 7. Pitch Black (1999) Points: (2) Date: 06/03/2017 8. Body Snatchers (1993) Points: 2 Date: 06/03/2017

Week One Theme - Points Total: 19

Week Two - Let’s Read! - Foreign Films (June 4 - June 10) [X] Featured Film - House (1977) Points: (3) 06/04/2017 1. Lucid Dream (2017) Points: 2 Date: 06/05/2017 2. Daemonium (2014) Points: 2 Date: 06/05/2017 3. What We Become () Date: -06/06/2017 4. Ghost in the Shell (1995) Date: 06/06/2017 5. Perfect Blue (1997) Date: 06/07/2017 6. Phantom of the Theater (2016) Date: 06/08/2017 7. Evolution (2015) Date: 06/08/2017 8. The Host (2006) Date: 06/09/2017 9. The Secret of Evil () Date: 06/09/2017 10. Tag (2015) Date: 06/09/2017 11. Strayed (2014) Date: 06/09/2017 12. Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (2001) Date: 06/10/2017 13. Ludo (2015) Date: 06/10/2017

Week Two Theme - Points Total: 29

Week Three - Battle of the Decades: 50s vs 60s (June 11 - June 17) [X] Featured Film - It Came From Outer Space (1953) Points: (3) 06/13/2017 [X] Featured Film - The Haunting (1963) Points: (3) 06/14/2017 1. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 06/11/2017 2. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) 06/12/2017 3. The Fly (1958) 06/12/2017 4. Night of the Living Dead (1968) 06/15/2017 5. Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) 06/15/2017

Week Three Theme - Points Total: 16

Week Four - Not All Heroes Wear Capes – Super Heros (June 18 - June 24) [X] Featured Film - Darkman (1990) Points: 4 06/19/2017 1. Iron Man (2008) 06/18/2017 2. Hellboy (2004) 06/19/2017 Points: 3 3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) 06/19/2017 Points: 3 4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016) 06/20/2017  Points: 3 5. Doctor Strange (2016) 06/22/2017 6. Catwoman (2004) 06/22/1017 7, Barb Wire (1996) Points: 3 06/23/2017 8. Captain America: Civil War (2016) 06232017 9. Sky High (2005) 06/23/2017 Points: 3 10. Krrish 06/23/2017 Points: 3 11. Krrish 3 06/23/2017 Points: 3 12. Hellboy Animated Blood & Iron 06/24/2017 Points: 3

Week Four Theme - Points Total: 36

Week Five - The Three R’s – Remakes, Reimaginings, Reboots (June 25 - June 30) [X] Featured Film - Martyrs (2015) Points: (3) 1. House on Haunted Hill (1999) 06/25/2017 2. Dredd (2012) 06/25/2017 3. The Grudge (2004) 06/26/2017 4. The Ring (2002) 06/26/2017 5. Lost in Space (1998) 06/27/2017

Week Five Theme - Points Total: 13

[ ] Checklist (20 Points)

Watch a sci-fi or horror film from each specific sub-genre: [ ] Apocalyptic or Post-Apocalyptic Film (Film, Year) [ ] Black and White Horror or Sci-fi Film (Film, Year) [ ] “Natural Horror” Film (Film, Year) [ ] Slasher Film (Film, Year) [ ] Steampunk Horror or Sci-Fi Film (Film, Year)

Watch a sci-fi or horror film with these people/companies in the following roles: [ ] Writer – Stephen King or Clive Barker (Film, Year) [ ] Director – Andrei Tarkovsky or Fritz Lang (Film, Year) [ ] Production Company – Dark Castle Entertainment or Platinum Dunes (Film, Year) [ ] Composer – Richard Band or Harry Manfredini (Film, Year) [ ] Cinematographer – Peter Suchitzky or Guillermo Navarro (Film, Year) Watch a sci-fi or horror film that fits into the following categories:  [ ] Watch a Horror or Sci-Fi Film from Danny Peary’s Cult Movies Books or Scott Tobias’ New Cult Canon List (Film, Year)  [ ] Watch a Horror or Sci-Fi Film from The Asylum (Film, Year)  [ ] Watch a Film from Taste of Cinema’s Best Sci-Fi Soundtracks or Thump’s Best Horror Soundtracks (Film, Year)  [X] Watch a Horror or Sci-Fi Found Footage Film (Secret of Evil,)  [ ] Watch a Rape & Revenge Film (Film, Year)  [ ] Watch a Horror or Sci-Fi Film Directed by a Woman (Film, Year)  [ ] Watch an Animated Horror or Sci-Fi Film (Film, Year)  [ ] Watch an Anthology Horror or Sci-Fi Film (Film, Year)  [ ] Watch a Horror or Sci-Fi Film Adapted from a Novel (Film, Year)  [ ] Watch a Horror or Sci-Fi Film Released by Vinegar Syndrome or Severin Films (Film, Year)

Optional (for an additional 3 bonus points each): [ ] Watch a Horror of Sci-Fi Film Once Normally, then Again with a Commentary Track (Film, Year)  [X] Watch a Movie in Theatres (Transformers: The Last Knight, 2017)  [ ] Read a Sci-Fi or Horror Graphic Novel of at Least 50 Pages (Book, Author)  [ ] Read a Sci-Fi or Horror Novel, or a Book about Sci-Fi/Horror, of at Least 100 Pages (Book, Author) [ ] Play at least Two Hours of any Horror or Sci-Fi Video Game on Console or PC. (Game, Console)

[ ] 15 bonus points for checklist and optionals completion

Films Outside weekly Theme and Checklist 1. Transformers (2007) Date: June 1 2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) Date: 06/04/2017 3. Monster High Fright On! (2011) Date: 06/05/2017 4. Monster High: Escape from Skull Shores (2012) Date: 06/05/2017 5. Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 1 06/09/2017 6. Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 2  06/09/2017 7. Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 3  06/09/2017 8. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2012) 06/14/2017 9. Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 4 06/16/2017 10. Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 5 06/16/2017 11. Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 6 06/16/2017 12. Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 7 06/16/2017 13. The Handmaid’s Tale Season 1 Episode 10 06/16/2017 14. Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) 06/17/2017 15. Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 8 06/17/2017 16. Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 9 06/17/2017 17. Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 10 06/17/2017 18. Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 11 06/20/2017 19. Transformers: The Last Knight 06/27/2017

Outside Points: 19

Points Total: 135