#2007 yankees

[yessoupy]

my favorite baseball game (15 april 2007)

below is something i wrote in 2012 to commemorate my favorite baseball game.

This was inspired by a thread on Myspace about how awesome Mariano Rivera is, even though he's kind of old. Whenever the-last-remaining-#42 is mentioned, just one game comes to mind, one glorious game in April.

I wrote this little ditty and posted it in that thread, but decided that here would be a good, permanent home for it.

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I will tell you about my favorite Mariano Rivera outing. I invite you all to share your own.

Over a year ago in the bright sunlight of the Oakland Coliseum, it’s a day game in April, and the date is Sunday the 15th.

The attendance is 35,077, the same it’s been for the whole series – a sellout crowd (in more ways than one). The Yankees are in town. More than just the famed Mariano Rivera is wearing the number 42.

Rich Harden is pitching.

A two-run first inning had put the A's up early, but their bats were unable to produce the rest of the game.

Goose eggs for both teams until the seventh inning, where after two pitches to Alex Rodriguez (a strike and a ball) Jason Kendall trots out to the mound in all his veteran glory and is joined by home plate umpire Laz Diaz and then the pitching coach, manager, and trainer.

Meanwhile, Rodriguez gets treatment of his own for a bloody nose.

Rich shakes his head at Larry Davis and speaks some in his Canadian tongue, which he slips into in moments of frustration and pain. (Davis, of course, is well-versed in Canadian after spending so much time with the oft-injured pitcher.)

Rich shrugs, nods, and smirks at manager Bob Geren, who is not so familiar with Canadian and steps off the mound to allow Rich to throw some pitches. Rich throws one high and windmills his shoulder. He insists upon staying in the game and Geren, lulled into a false sense of security by the Canadian's charm and gentle smirk, lets him stay in.

Rodriguez, bloody nose taken care of, steps into the box. He works a double off Rich and Geren heads back to the mound and takes the ball from that tricky Canadian. He is done for the day, done for the week, and done for most of the season.

Joe Kennedy (may he rest in peace) enters the game to face Jason Giambi (who is being heartily booed by the Oakland faithful). His first pitch ends up in right field and there are runners on the corners with no outs, Jorge Posada up to the plate. He scorches a double down the left field line on the 9th pitch of the at-bat, scoring Rodriguez and sending Giambi, not exactly fleet of foot, to third. Rich's run has scored and the lead is hanging on by a thread with men on second and third and no outs. The sun beats down on Joe's fair skin and the temperature rises.

Giambi scores on a sacrifice fly by Robinson Cano and it’s a tie ballgame. It’s 2-2 and Rich’s win is gone. Joe has blown the save and with one out and a runner on third he can only hope to get back into the dugout without giving up another run.

Kiko Calero is up in the bullpen.

The Yankees take the lead on a sac fly from Melky Cabrera and Joe keeps sweating. Doug Mientkiewicz strikes out trying to check his swing and the inning is over.

But in the 8th, Joe gives up another run to make it 4-2, Yankees. Kiko comes in to finish of the inning and Jay Marshall pitches a scoreless 9th.

Athletics fans shake their heads when Mariano Rivera steps in, that number 42 on his back making them wince, thinking of their broken starter on this Jackie Robinson Day (not to mention the closer’s impeccable stats and spotless baseball reputation).

Eric Chavez grounds out on the first pitch of his at bat and A’s fans sigh.

Bobby Crosby hits a fly ball to right field, giving the A’s fans a brief rush of “Maybe, could he possibly …?” before it lands in Bobby Abreu’s glove. The A’s fans either sit down to wait out the last out or walk up the aisles to beat the traffic home.

Todd Walker (who else remembered he had a stint with the A’s in 2007?) slaps a basehit to left field and some of those fans walking out slide into a seat, just in case.

Jason Kendall is at bat and as he is swinging through a pitch Todd takes second base on defensive indifference. Jason takes on a 3-1 count and the umpire calls a strike. Geren hollers from the A’s dugout and A’s fans make themselves known. “Are ya crazy, blue? That was a mile high! Who’s payin’ your salary -- Steinbrenner?”

Marco Scutaro is on deck, taking his swings and waiting for the moment he was born for.

Jason fouls off the next pitch and the pitch after that and the one after that goes off his ankle. He’s a hard-nosed gamer not afraid to get dirty, but that’s not what he’s getting paid to do as an Oakland Athletic; he’s getting paid to get on base.

Jason steps back in and waves his bat and takes a pitch high and at his hands. As he takes his base the remaining A’s fans get to their feet – the winning run is at the plate and it’s Marco Scutaro holding the bat!

Posada walks out to the mound and pats Rivera on the back. Maybe he’s saying what to throw next, maybe he’s talking about what Marco’s weaknesses are, and maybe he’s just telling him a joke. Whatever it is, Marco waits patiently, prepared.

Batting ninth in this game Marco has struck out twice and grounded to short, hardly anyone’s best hope in this kind of situation, but all of Oakland remembers his magical doubles and how the stadium shook with their shouts of his name last October, the team clean and crisp and finally finally winning.

Rivera paints the black for a called strike and Marco steps back, appraising the opposing pitcher. He bows his head, adjusts his helmet, and eyes his bat as if to say, “You got a hit in you? Please, jus’ don’ strike out.” He spits in the dirt and steps back in, tapping the ground with his bat and digging in with his cleats. Marco pulls the next pitch foul and the crowd is so full of Yankees fans that hardly a sound goes up in hope. Marco steps out of the box and applies more pine tar to his bat.

It’s the bottom of the ninth. There are two outs. Todd Walker is on second, Jason Kendall is on first, the score is 4-2 favoring the visitors and Marco stands in with an 0-2 count. The crowd gets loud, Yankees fans cheering for a strike and Oakland fans just wanting to get another man on for Bradley. They dare not hope for more. Their tender hearts are already hurting from the loss of their short right-handed power pitcher.

The runners take their leads off their respective bases.

Rivera leans in, gets his sign, then straightens up.

Marco peers out intently from under the brim of his batting helmet and the ball is on its way.

Marco makes contact to left field, it’s high, it’s away, it’s heading towards the foul pole --

“If it’s fair, it’s ------ GONE! THE A’S WIN IT! SCUTARO WINS IT! Celebrate -- Oakland A’s, are you kidding me?”

Marco rounds the bases after Todd and Jason, rushing to meet the clutch of his teammates surrounding home plate, smiles splashed across their faces and the A’s fans, out-cheering the Yankees fans for once, shouting his name --

“MAR-CO! SCU-TA-RO!”

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Rivera left Oakland that April 15th, still looking for his first save of the 2007 season.

[mcmansionhell]

2007-core nostalgia extravaganza

Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called "McMansion Hell 2.0" -- If you see it, please report! Thanks!

Howdy folks! I hope if you were born between 1995 and 2001 you're ready for some indelible pre-recession vibes because I think this entire house, including the photos have not been touched since that time.

This Wake County, NC house, built in 2007, currently boasts a price tag of 1.7 million smackaroos. Its buxom 4 bedrooms and 4.5 baths brings the total size to a completely reasonable and not at all housing-bubble-spurred 5,000 square feet.

I know everyone (at least on TikTok) thinks 2007 and goes immediately to the Tuscan theming trend that was super popular at the time (along with lots of other pseudo-euro looks, e.g. "french country" "tudor" etc). In reality, a lot of decor wasn't particularly themed at all but more "transitional" which is to say, neither contemporary nor super traditional. This can be pulled off (in fact, it's where the old-school Joanna Gaines excelled) but it's usually, well, bland. Overwhelmingly neutral. Still, these interiors stir up fond memories of the last few months before mommy was on the phone with the bank crying.

I think I've seen these red/navy/beige rugs in literally every mid-2000s time capsule house. I want to know where they came from first and how they came to be everywhere. My mom got one from Kirkland's Home back in the day. I guess the 2010s equivalent would be those fake distressed overdyed rugs.

I hate the kitchen bench trend. Literally the most uncomfortable seating imaginable for the house's most sociable room. You are not at a 19th century soda fountain!!! You are a salesforce employee in Ohio!!!

You could take every window treatment in this house and create a sampler. A field guide to dust traps.

Before I demanded privacy, my parents had a completely beige spare bedroom. Truly random stuff on the walls. An oversized Monet poster they should have kept tbh. Also putting the rug on the beige carpet here is diabolical.

FYI the term "Global Village Coffeehouse" originates with the design historian Evan Collins whose work with the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute!!!!

This photo smells like a Yankee Candle.

Ok, now onto the last usable photo in the set:

No but WHY is the house a different COLOR??????? WHAT?????

Alright, I hope you enjoyed this special trip down memory lane! Happy (American) Labor Day Weekend! (Don't forget that labor is entitled to all it creates!)

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[ushkowitzdaily]

Jenna on Yankees on Deck | August 9 2007

[thesolarangel]

I couldn't limit myself to the stuff that is in one room only (yes I'm taking this way too literal again, I'm autistic what's new) so you get whole apartment!

Thank you for tagging me @hippodameia @queenmeriadoc 😍

I'm tagging @fenharel-enaste @pedro-pedrito-pascalito @orehuna @vaile-elenya @aliceliddell13

[fakeoutbf]

so much for (tour)dust u.s. leg

magic 8 ball and piano medley songs sorted by date

color coded by album ● repeated songs in bold

tttyg ● futct ● ioh ● fad ● srar ● abap ● mania ● smfs

June 21 - Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL

Piano medley

- Lake Shore Drive (Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah cover)

Magic 8 Ball song

- G.I.N.A.S.F.S. (Live Debut) (Alias: GOLF)

June 23 - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, MO

Piano medley

- What a Time to Be Alive (Live Debut)

Magic 8 Ball song

- Of All the Gin Joints in All the World (First time live since 2008) (Alias: GAMMA JULIET)

June 24 - Azura Amphitheater, Bonner Springs, KS

Piano medley

- I'm Like a Lawyer With the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You) (First time live since 2014)

Magic 8 Ball song

- Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year (First time live since 2014) (Alias: OCHO)

June 27 - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX

Piano medley

- Somebody to Love (Queen cover)

- Take On Me (Aha cover)

Magic 8 Ball song

- The Kintsugi Kid (Ten Years) (Live Debut) (Alias: TANGO YETI)

June 28 - Dos Equis Pavilion, Dallas, TX

Piano medley

- What a Catch, Donnie (First time live since 2013)

Magic 8 Ball song

- The (After) Life of the Party (First time live since 2007) (Alias: SIERRA ALPHA)

June 30 - Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre, AZ

Piano medley

- Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia) (Patrick Slump song, first time live since 2011)

Magic 8 Ball song

- Homesick at Space Camp (First time live since 2013)

July 1 - North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, CA

Piano medley

- Nothing Compares 2 U (Prince cover)

Magic 8 Ball song

- (Coffee’s For Closers) (First time live since 2009)

July 2 - BMO Stadium, Los Angeles, CA

Piano medley

- Mr. Blue Sky (Electric Light Orchestra cover)

- Golden (First time live since 2007)

Magic 8 Ball songs

- G.I.N.A.S.F.S.

- America’s Suitehearts (First time live since 2009) (Alias: ASS)

July 3 - BMO Stadium, Los Angeles, CA

Piano medley

- Every Breath You Take (The Police cover)

- I’ve Got All This Ringing In My Ears and None On My Fingers (Live Debut)

Magic 8 Ball songs

- The (After) Life of the Party

- Bang the Doldrums (Live Debut) (Alias: YANKEE HOTEL HOTEL)

July 5 - Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA

Piano medley

- Alison (Elvis Costello cover)

- What a Catch, Donnie

Magic 8 Ball song

- The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes (First time live since 2013) (Alias: PATRIZZY S)

July 7 - USANA Amphitheatre, West Valley City, UT

Piano medley

- What a Time to Be Alive

- Hold the Line (Toto cover)

Magic 8 Ball song

- The Kids Aren’t Alright (First time live since 2018) (Alias: KILO)

July 9 - Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO

Piano/acoustic medley

- Goin’ North (David Stump cover)

- Golden

Magic 8 Ball song

- Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner (First time live since 2014)

July 11 - Walmart AMP, Rogers, AR

Piano medley

- (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (Brinsley Schwarz cover)

- What a Catch, Donnie

Magic 8 Ball song

- I Slept With Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me (First time live since 2015)

July 13 - Somerset Amphitheater, Somerset, WI (shortened show due to weather)

Magic 8 Ball song

- Fame < Infamy (Live Debut) (Alias: BRAVO WHISKEY PAPA)

July 15 - Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH

Piano medley

- What a Catch, Donnie

- Golden

Magic 8 Ball song

- Favorite Record (Live Debut)

July 16 - Ruoff Music Center, Noblesville, IN

Piano medley

- What a Time to Be Alive

- Golden

Magic 8 Ball song

- Where Did the Party Go (First time live since 2014) (Alias: WHISKEY PAPA)

July 18 - Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH

Piano medley

- Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)

- I'm Like a Lawyer With the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You)

Magic 8 Ball song

- 27 (Live Debut) (Alias: TANGO SIERRA)

July 19 - Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA

Piano/acoustic medley

- Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner (full song)

Magic 8 ball

- She’s My Winona (First time live since 2009) (Alias: BEETLE JUICE)

July 21 - PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte, NC

Piano medley

- Lean on me (Bill Withers cover)

- What a Catch

Magic 8 Ball song

- Dead on Arrival (First time live since 2013) (Alias: DELTA OMEGA ALPHA)

June 21 - Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach, Virginia Beach, VA

Piano medley

- What a Time to Be Alive

- Golden

Magic 8 Ball song

- 7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen) (Patrick on drums, First time live since 2007) (Alias: WOLFGANG)

July 24 - iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, FL

Piano medley

- Dancing Queen (ABBA cover)

- Golden

Magic 8 Ball song

- Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today (First time live since 2013) (Alias: GATOR BITES)

July 25 - MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa, FL

Piano medley

- What a Catch, Donnie

- Golden

Magic 8 Ball song

- Miss Missing You (First time live since 2015)

July 26 - Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta, GA

Piano medley

- Nothing Compares 2 U (Prince cover)

- I’ve Got All This Ringing In My Ears and None On My Fingers

Magic 8 Ball song

- From Now On, We Are Enemies (Live Debut)

July 29 - Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI

Piano medley

- What a Time to Be Alive

- Golden

Magic 8 Ball song

- Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am? (First time live since 2007)

July 30 - Budweiser Stage, Toronto, ON, Canada

Piano medley

- What a Time to Be Alive

- Golden

Magic 8 Ball songs

- West Coast Smoker (Live Debut)

- G.I.N.A.S.F.S.

August 1 - Forest Hills Stadium, Queens, NY

Piano medley

- What a Catch, Donnie

- Just One Yesterday (First time live since 2014)

- Stereo Hearts (with Travie McCoy)

- Cupid’s Chokehold (with Travie McCoy)

Magic 8 Ball song

- I Am My Own Muse (Live Debut)

- 27

August 2 - Fenway Park, Boston, MA

Piano medley

- W.A.M.S. (Live Debut)

- Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond cover)

Magic 8 Ball songs

- XO (First time live since 2007)

- G.I.N.A.S.F.S.

August 4 - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien Center, NY

Piano/acoustic medley

- Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows) (First time live since 2006)

- Golden

Magic 8 Ball songs

- You’re Crashing but You’re No Wave (Live Debut)

- 27

August 5 - PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ

Piano medley

- I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song) (Live Debut)

- What a Catch, Donnie

Magic 8 Ball songs

- Bob Dylan (Live Debut)

- I Am My Own Muse

August 6 - Freedom Mortgage Pavilion, Camden, NJ

Piano medley

- Jet Pack Blues (First time live since 2018)

- I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)

- Golden

Magic 8 Ball songs

- Pavlove (Live Debut) (Alias: KEVIN BACON)

- 27 (Alias: ONLY THE GOOD)

- G.I.N.A.S.F.S. (Alias: ACRONYM)

[heedra]

review of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco, as experienced while driving a used 2007 Suzuki Sx4 I just bought with cash a hundred miles up I-5 at night: this album sure has a lot of songs and noises that sound like engine problems

[aryburn-trains]

Metro-North 207 pushes coaches south toward New York City. There's a pretty good chance folks on this train are headed to Yankee Stadium for the Yankees/Mets matchup later that evening. Bear Mountain, NY June 17, 2007

[drenchedindisappointment]

I normally avoid posting anything besides reblogs, but I need people to know that Tommy Tallarico claims on his website to be a 2007 New York Yankees Hall of Famer

[broadwaydivastournament]

Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 2A

Brenda Braxton (1956) "BRENDA BRAXTON (Velma Kelly) was last seen on Broadway in Smokey Joe's Cafe for which she received a 1995 Tony Award nomination, NAACP Theatre Award, the city of Chicago's Jefferson Award and a Grammy Award for Best Cast Album. Other Broadway credits include: Jelly's Last Jam, Cats, Legs Diamond, and the original production of Dreamgirls. She received the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Living the Dream" Award given by New York Gov. Pataki and the Josephine Baker Award from the National Council of Negro Women for her work as founder of Leading Ladies Just for Teens, seminars geared to empowering teenage girls. Last fall she added entrepreneur to her resume with the launching of BBRAXTON Exceptional Grooming for Exceptional Men, a gentleman-only grooming parlor in Harlem." - Playbill bio from Chicago, March 2007.

Paula Leggett Chase (1961) “PAULA LEGGETT CHASE (Betty/Meg Boyd Understudy) tap-danced en pointe in the original cast of Crazy for You, and on occasion played Iren Roth. B’way debut: A Chorus Line (the final cast). Nat’l tours: Cabaret, featured with Joel Grey, A Chorus Line (Judy Turner). Regional: Annie 2 (Amanda Beekman). Favorite Role: Mrs. David Chase.” – Playbill bio from Damn Yankees, March 2, 1994

PROPAGANDA AND MEDIA UNDER CUT: ALL POLLS HERE

"Impressed and surprised Brenda managed to topple Janet McTeer. She runs a damn good cabaret show too."

"Watching this woman dance, it's easy to fall in love with her. Once again, I implore you to look up her antics on instagram because each video is a wild ride from start to finish."

[queer-ragnelle]

All light-hearted options this week! Several animated choices, musicals, and parodies. Perhaps only one film this time as it’s New Years Eve. Prince Valiant (1954) / Prince Valiant (1997) and Gawain and The Green Knight (1973) / Sword of The Valiant (1984) are first renditions / remakes. They’re essentially the same films twice, down to scripts, so they get one vote. If they win, we can pick an era after that.

[helenewate]

friday night lights feels like a cozy autumn sunday in 2007 with a matching juicy track suit (low rise pants obviously) and your mom lit a yankee candle pumpkin candle and she’s been on her pink razor flip phone with her girlfriend for hours while she files her nails and flips through a magazine with a football game on the big old box tv

[vodenanimfa]

@makotoscoffee tagged me to post 5 songs I "actually listen to" ♪⁠ヽ⁠(⁠･⁠ˇ⁠∀⁠ˇ⁠･⁠ゞ⁠) so here goes ~

1. FOALS- Black bull

2. Run The Jewels- Yankee and the brave

3. FOALS- Exits

4. Daft Punk- Steam machine (live 2007)

5. The Knife- Pass this on

I tag @katebvsh and @cr0wsang (⁠~⁠‾⁠▿⁠‾⁠)⁠~💗

[angstics]

your wttbp posting just reminded me of f1's 2008 end-of-year montage where itv had the paddock singing along to the song--it feels like a trip and if u don't know the history of the sport i'm sure it's nonsensical and i'm so curious to know if the boys know the sport did this but anyway!

what u were saying about like, the song being used by sports teams as a rallying cry, and how f1 in particular saw that trend and took it in a slightly different direction, like the song is about moving on from tragedy and looking forward instead, and how that landed them closer to what wttbp might have actually been about... i'm hysterical every time i think about it like mcr really got. so incredibly mainstream and this song got taken in so many directions

i have no idea what happened with f1 (“crashgate”? though that developed in 2009). but it’s interesting how context changes the song. i really do wonder what the players thought they were singing, or what yankees (?) fans thought of it being used in that recent video, or what viewers thought they were listening to when mcr debuted the song to open the vmas in 2006. is the meaning of the song the same when it gained traction in 2007 as it was when they performed it the last time in osaka? as it was in 2016?

[crowsandmurder]

NAME?: Tanya

PRONOUNS?: she/her

MOST ACTIVE MUSE(S)?: Anakin/Vader & Nathan. Sometimes Jax. He's fickle.

RP PET PEEVES?: People who talk to friends less, in favor of newer ones. This goes fo rp partners too. People who think if you message them to take accountability for something you did wrong to them, that you are stalking them. People tend to follow the same people in fandoms. Having too many replies to do / Having not enough replies to do. Yankee fans who bash the best infielder on their team, when he's not perfect. Fandoms still arguing over the same BS, twenty years later. Yes I'm talking Brucas/Leyton. I'm Team Naley and also Brooke/Nathan. People who don't understand explaining why a villain does bad things does not mean I think it was right. People who refuse to admit that Anakin Skywalker is a HUGE part of Star Wars. People who want to make tragedies happy. People who can't accept that some people like canon.

EXPERIENCE / HOW MANY YEARS?: Um well, I started rping a soap opera on invisionfree in 2007, Tumblr in 2011 and indie rping in 2016. I have played Glee characters, The Vampire Diaries, tons of time in the Marauders Era of Harry Potter, Sons of Anarchy, Game of Thrones, Vikings, Versailles, Star Wars, American Horror Story, The Umbrella Academy, One Tree Hill, and I'm sure I'm missing some. I don't write many OC's. I had one in the Marauders Era, but really, that's it. I've also adminned probably 20 tumblr RPs, had 4 last over 2 years. I messed around with indie a tiny bit in 2013, but I hated the idea of switching to icons so I refused until there were no SOA rps and I made an Indie Jax Teller.

FLUFF, ANGST, OR SMUT?: Angst and Smut and angsty smut. Fluff, it has to be the right ship and I do better if I have an angsty thread too. I can do more fluff with a ship like Naley than most of my others.

PLOTS OR MEMES?: Both. I am honestly up for either one, depending on my mood. If your meme sits too long and you want to plot, just message me.

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES?: I can write anywhere from 2-40 paragraphs. I'll do one for the write person. But, I don't do sentence replies. I really have some people and characters, I can write novels on.

TIME TO WRITE?: Um lately, I've been trying to more. School kicks my ass. I'm in my Senior Year for my Bachelor's in Education and even though it's going to last 2 years, I have all the classes I put off. But, I have been trying to do at least five a day. Like right now, I have no replies to do. I have starters but no replies. If I get back on the right sleep pattern, I can crank out 30 replies at 7am. Other than the last two weeks, I can reply a lot on Discord.

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S)?: God, I hope not. But, the stubbornness and reactiveness of Anakin, Jax, James and Nathan is definitely similar. I'm a Taurus. I don't kill people though. I do threaten to throat punch people who talk shit on my favorite baseball player, though.

TAGGED BY: I stole it.

TAGGING: @mayxthexforce, @story1ines, @burnnouts, @cagedpotential, @petitsdieu, @taliaromanova, @writtenxbeginnings, @nieithryn, @xx--ofmanythoughts--xx

[aliveandfullofjoy]

nobody asked but i started my day off with attempting a ranking of the best actor and actress oscar winners lmfao so here are my personal top fifteens <3

actress

vivien leigh, gone with the wind (1939)

emma thompson, howards end (1992)

janet gaynor, sunrise: a song of two humans (1928)

olivia de havilland, the heiress (1949)

elizabeth taylor, who's afraid of virginia woolf? (1966)

meryl streep, sophie's choice (1982)

michelle yeoh, everything everywhere all at once (2022)

diane keaton, annie hall (1977)

marion cotillard, la vie en rose (2007)

emma stone, poor things (2023)

liza minnelli, cabaret (1972)

julie andrews, mary poppins (1964)

jane fonda, klute (1971)

cher, moonstruck (1987)

frances mcdormand, fargo (1996)

(stone might seem a touch premature, and i was fully #teamlily this year, but it's a mind-blowing performance imo and one of the very best to win so! here we are)

actor

f. murray abraham, amadeus (1984)

marlon brando, on the waterfront (1954)

robert de niro, raging bull (1980)

daniel day-lewis, there will be blood (2007)

clark gable, it happened one night (1934)

anthony hopkins, the father (2020)

james cagney, yankee doodle dandy (1942)

anthony hopkins, the silence of the lambs (1991)

gregory peck, to kill a mockingbird (1962)

casey affleck, manchester by the sea (2016)

fredric march, the best years of our lives (1946)

daniel day-lewis, lincoln (2012)

alec guinness, the bridge on the river kwai (1957)

philip seymour hoffman, capote (2005)

sidney poitier, lilies of the field (1963)

(honest to god didn't even realize both of hopkins' movies made it in the top 10 till just now but i stand by it)

and just to be rude, the bottom five, from worst to slightly less worse:

actress

mary pickford, coquette (1929)

luise rainer, the good earth (1937)

joan fontaine, suspicion (1941)

kate winslet, the reader (2008)

sandra bullock, the blind side (2009)

actor

roberto benigni, life is beautiful (1998)

brendan fraser, the whale (2022)

sean penn, mystic river (2003)

george arliss, disraeli (1930)

john wayne, true grit (1969)

[nimuetheseawitch]

🎬 + 2007

🎶 + 1994

and for the music asks: 💖🧼🌅

🎬 + 2007

Oh man, apparently this was a year of big blockbuster hits that were sequels or 3rd or 4th in a series. But also some movies that are just super important to me. I saw a lot of movies that year because I had a part-time job, so I had some spending money, and the movie theater on the bus line I took to get anywhere and tickets were only $5.

Okay, I have to choose only one, so I choose Pan's Labyrinth. But I'm also going to cheat and make some honorable mentions: 28 Weeks Later, There Will Be Blood, and Juno. I was also obsessed with Once, but I'm afraid to rewatch it because I'm pretty sure it wasn't as good as I thought it was back then.

🎶 + 1994

Wow, so, this is the year of music that defines my taste. The albums from this year are ones I have on burnt CDs copied from friends or from the library as I was learning to care about music (besides classical - that's a whole different story) and fell in love with grunge and pop punk and alt rock. There are so many to choose from, and I kept paging back and forth between track listings.

And the winner is: Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. I almost didn't pick it because it's so popular, but a) it's popular because it's good, and b) it was fucking brilliant live. Soundgarden will remain one of my favorite ever live shows (I saw them open for NIN).

To close this one out, I wanna say that I hate that I had to choose because I had to choose between some of my favorite albums of all time: The Downward Spiral and Superunknown.

💖A guilty pleasure song

Havana by Camila Cabello, the Daddy Yankee remix

🧼What you sing in the shower

I tend to sing whatever I'm obsessing over right now (so the last few months have had a lot of Metric) or classic rock or top 40 from 2005-2015. Right now though, it's Janelle Monae because Lipstick Lover has me incredibly excited for her new album.

🌅 A song for sunrise

I just laughed as I remembered I use to sing Good Morning from Singin' in the Rain to campers as my way to wake them up when I was a camp counselor. But my actual answer is A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left by Andrew Bird. That whole album, The Mysterious Production of Eggs, feels like an early morning album.