#Ben Lurie

[guerrilla-operator]

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN

[spilladabalia]

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Black

[operationandre]

after the shooting, rachel runs through the crowds of students in the grass and the parking lot, trying to find cal or even andre. she begs and begs for them to be safe, for them to have not gotten hurt. there’s no sign of them. she ends up breaking down in her friend’s arms, thinking cal got hurt. her heart only breaks more when she hears someone rushing out of the building saying cal and andre are the ones with guns.

[adamwatchesmovies]

Nine Lives (2016)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

A movie like Nine Lives feels like a mistake. Certainly in 2016, when everyone involved knew better. A premise this tired and unoriginal had no business playing in theaters. I saw this movie at home and felt a little more than embarrassed. Had I seen it on the big screen or told another human being “One ticket for Nine Lives, please!” I might’ve died of shame.

New York business tycoon Tom Brand (Kevin Spacey) is a workaholic who never made time for his now-adult son David (Robbie Amell), ruined his first marriage and is on the verge of losing his second wife, Lara (Jennifer Garner). Their daughter Rebecca’s 11th birthday is days away and she only wants two things: for her father to be there and for him to bring her a cat. Redirected to a mysterious pet store owned by Felix Perkins (Christopher Walken), Brand adopts a cat named Mr. Fuzzypants. Moments later, an accident puts his body into a comatose state while his mind takes residence inside Mr. Fuzzypants.

Every time Nine Lives introduces a new story element, character, or plot point, a new wave of indifference splashes over you. Brand desperately wants his new skyscraper to be the tallest building in North America but a rival company is set to overtake the title. Who cares? As a cat, he overhears his wife talking about a man and suspects she may be cheating on him. So what? It’s not like we like him. Brand’s family is losing hope that he’ll wake up and begins considering pulling the plug. Good. Being stuck in a cat's body might’ve been the best thing that happened to him. Not because he’s learning any lessons - because it’s put him in a position where he can’t bully everyone around him anymore.

I understand what this “family comedy” wants to do. Brand is an egotistical, selfish jerk. This cat magic will teach him a lesson. Unfortunately, him being a cat means there’s no one for him to bounce off of, no one he can win over by showing how he's changed because he can’t talk or communicate with anyone. Sure Brand makes a couple of limp-wristed attempts to reveal his true identity to his family but his efforts are in vain and he gives up quickly. Director Barry Sonnenfeld is not interested in telling a story, he just wants to lead us from one lame cat joke to another while Spacey sits comfortably in a sound booth and narrates over the abysmal footage shown.

This movie is cheap and lazy. The special effects are terrible whenever the cat is on-screen. If a real cat appears, it frequently interacts with unconvincing sets. If the picture needs a CG kitty to fly through the air or do some acrobatics, you’ll wince. The character arcs are obvious to everyone watching even if they haven’t seen this scenario a thousand times - which they probably have. It’s a dusty script that’s been given a few dabs of fresh paint in the form of references to viral videos, social media and cellphones.

I’ll admit it. I laughed a few times but these chuckles are not enough to dissuade me from giving the film the lowest score possible. No executive watched this film and thought “this is good”. Every actor who read the script finished the last page with a sigh and said “well, I’ve got to pay those bills SOMEHOW”. Even the animal handlers must’ve questioned some of their career choices once they set foot on stage. There are no excuses for Nine Lives. (November 29, 2019)

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Tom Waits, Ben Gibbard, Jim Jarmusch, Charlie Kaufman, John Lurie and Rivers Cuomo as Representatives for the New Act of the Consecration of Man

[girlactionfigure]

Nice try. 

But NOBODY was calling Yusif Pasha Al Khalidi a “#Palestinian” in 1877. 

Let me fill in some other blanks for you.

To be clear, the Ottoman Empire was #Turkish, not #Arab.

Also, while #Herzl built #Zionism into the political powerhouse it became and was a focused, determined, genius who cared about saving his people and doing the actual job of state-building and planning, he was most definitely not the first person to just come up with the idea of Zionism – not even close.

First, Zionism is baked into the #Jewish soul – there has been a yearning to return to #Zion since Emperor Hadrian brought 12 Roman army legions from #Egypt, #Britain, #Syria, and areas of #Judea to finally put down the three-year Bar Kokhba Revolt (the Third Jewish Revolt against the Romans) in 135 CE – after which Hadrian was so embarrassed by the early Jewish victories that he murdered more than 1 million Jews, he outlawed the practice of #Judaism on pain of death, and he renamed our homeland “Syria Palestina” after our ancient, long-extinct enemies – the Aegean “sea people” known as the Philistines.

The Jewish yearning to return is why, ever since then, #Jews have always faced #Jerusalem when we pray, Jews have always said “Next Year in Jerusalem” at the end of every Seder on Passover, Jewish grooms stepped on and broke a glass to signify the destruction of the Temple and to remind us, even in happy times, that we are a scattered people, and it is why we would recite the Psalm, “If I forget thee O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning.”

Also, waves of Jews from Europe frequently made Aliyah and moved back home to Eretz #Israel over the years. For example, in 1211, a group of 300 #French and #English rabbis made Aliyah back to Israel. And more Jews from both #England and #France followed them in 1260.

Nahmanides also made Aliyah in 1267, which then encouraged other Jews join him and together they built the Ramban Synagogue in Jerusalem.

More waves of Aliyah came from #Spain because of the Inquisition starting in 1492 – thousands settled largely in Tzfat (Safed), Tiberias, and Jerusalem.

The 1500s saw waves of additional Aliyah from France, #Germany, #Italy, and other European countries as well as North #Africa – these Jews mostly joined a flourishing Jewish community in Tzfat.

Then, on October 14, 1700, a group of 1,500 Jews from Europe, headed by Rabbi Judah Hasid, made Aliyah and settled in Jerusalem.

1764 saw another organized Aliyah, this time of Hassidic Jews who were led by disciples of Ba’al Shem Tov; and they were followed by more Hassidic Jews in the subsequent years and generations.

Then in 1808, the Perushim – Jewish disciples of Elijah, the Gaon of Vilna – organized an Aliyah and established a community in Jerusalem. Others followed them to Jerusalem, while still others moved to Tzfat, Tiberias, and Jaffa.

Then, in 1830, there was a significant wave of Aliyah of Jews from Germany as well as #Holland and #Hungary.

After the Ottomans retook Jerusalem from Muhammad Ali in 1840, Jewish Aliyah more than doubled in the next four decades since Jerusalem was seen as a safer place to live.

Finally, we get to the first writings of the early pioneers of modern political Zionism. Only neither of the two early Zionist pioneers were named “Theodor Herzl.” 

Modern political Zionism started with the writings of Sephardic Rabbi Judah ben Solomon Chai Alkalai  (LEFT) and Ashkenazic Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer (RIGHT) in 1843.

Then in 1852, Alkalai established the Society of the Settlement of Eretz Yisrael in #London, and in 1871 he established a branch of this Society in Jerusalem.

Kalischer’s influence, meanwhile, led Chayyim Lurie to form the Association for the Colonisation of Palestine in Frankfort in 1860, and Kalishcher helped found the Mikveh Israel agricultural school in Eretz Israel in 1870.

Then, still before Herzl, Leon Pinsker published Auto-Emancipation in Germany on January 1, 1882, in which he urged Jews to strive for independence in Eretz Israel.

Meanwhile, the “First Aliyah” of modern political Zionism began in 1882, at a time when fewer than 250,000 #Arabs were living in the Land. About 35,000 Jews moved to Eretz Israel between 1882 and 1903.

It was in 1890 (still pre-Herzl) that publicist Nathan Birnbaum coined the word “Zionism” to describe the Jewish return to Eretz Israel where they could become a “normal” people again and live in their own sovereign nation in the only place on Earth the Jews could call “home.”

Then, finally we get to Theodor Herzl and his famous book Der Judenstaat (“The Jewish State”) in 1896.

That should clear a few things up.

@CptAllenHistory

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Veuve Clicquot 🍾 🥂 "The grande dame of champagne"

It's time to meet Madame Clicquot. 🥂🍾 Pop some fizz this bank holiday weekend with Madame Clicquot or Veuve Clicquot - WIDOW CLICQUOT is out now, and get ready for the best biopic of the year!

✨ Very demure, very mindful. ✨

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The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century. Barbie-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot was 27 when her husband died. Rather than sell off his vines, she poured her resources & keen intellect into creating a new style of champagne for the Russian market.

Braving Napoleon's wartime blockades, competition from her neighbour Jean-Rémy Moët, & social upset at her new position, Barbe-Nicole revolutionised the champagne-making process with ingenious methods still in use today and became the world's first great businesswoman.

Beautiful... a tale of love, loss, & legacy that continues to inspire generations.

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Director: Thomas Napper Starring: Haley Bennett, Tom Sturridge, Sam Riley, Leo Suter, Ben Miles Producer: Christina Weiss Lurie, Haley Bennett Writer: Erin Dignam

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Posted 25th August 2024

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What could've been Animaze ..iNC during the 2010s

Talent pool (Note: any voice actor marked with * is union-only):

Steve Blum*

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn*

Crispin Freeman*

Kari Wahlgren*

Johnny Yong Bosch

Yuri Lowenthal*

Dave Wittenberg*

Roger Craig Smith*

Laura Bailey*

Travis Willingham*

Cherami Leigh

J.B. Blanc*

Sam Riegel*

Liam O'Brien*

Amy Kincaid*

Troy Baker*

Matthew Mercer

Joe Romersa*

Fleet Cooper*

Dyanne DiRosario*

Jennifer Love Hewitt*

Brian Hallisay*

Spike Spencer

Amanda Winn Lee*

Jaxon Lee*

Kyle Hebert

Ben Pronsky

Bob Buchholz

Richard Cansino

Murphy Dunne*

Carolyn Hennesy*

Jerry Gelb*

Adam Sholder

Ezra Weisz

Cristina Vee

Bryce Papenbrook

Michael Sorich

Richard Epcar

Ellyn Stern

Tony Oliver

Kirk Thornton

Lexi Ainsworth*

Aria Noelle Curzon

Grace Caroline Currey*

Michael Forest

Erik Davies

Adam Bobrow

Joshua Seth

Junie Hoang*

Kirk Baily*

Tom Fahn

Jonathan Fahn

Dorothy Elias-Fahn

Melissa Fahn

Stephen Apostolina*

René Rivera*

Deborah Sale Butler

Kevin Brief

Michael Gregory*

Riva Spier*

Cassandra Morris

Erica Mendez

Erika Harlacher

Erica Lindbeck

Marieve Herington

Kira Buckland

John Rubinstein*

Kim Matula*

Brittany Lauda

J. Grant Albrecht*

Michael McConnohie

Steve Bulen*

Dan Woren

Derek Stephen Prince

Wendee Lee

Edie Mirman

Jason C. Miller

Taliesin Jaffe*

John Snyder

Robbie Daymond

Ray Chase

Kaiji Tang

David Vincent

Christina Carlisi*

Christopher Corey Smith

Cindy Robinson

Rachel Robinson

Jessica Boone

Lauren Landa

Megan Hollingshead

Jalen K. Cassell

Doug Erholtz

Michelle Ruff

Gregory Cruz*

John Bishop*

Matt Kirkwood*

Lara Jill Miller*

Carol Stanzione

Steve Staley

Dave Mallow

Mona Marshall*

Darrel Guilbeau

Robert Martin Klein

Robert Axelrod

William Frederick Knight

Lex Lang

Sandy Fox

Joey Camen*

Randy McPherson*

Jad Mager

Richard Miro

Milton James

Anthony Pulcini

Douglas Rye

Patrick Seitz

Keith Silverstein

Jamieson Price

Skip Stellrecht*

Stoney Emshwiller*

G.K. Bowes

Alyss Henderson

Patricia Ja Lee

Peggy O'Neal

Carrie Savage

Melodee Spevack

Jennifer Alyx

Julie Ann Taylor

Sherry Lynn

Brad Venable

Christine Marie Cabanos

Greg Chun

LaGloria Scott

Steve Kramer

Melora Harte

Rebecca Forstadt*

Kyle McCarley

Mela Lee

Karen Strassman

Faye Mata

Laura Post

Kayla Carlyle*

Brina Palencia

Connor Gibbs

Brianne Siddall*

Barbara Goodson

Loy Edge

Jay Lerner

Jennie Kwan

Max Mittelman

Jessica Straus*

Alexis Tipton

Fryda Wolff

Michele Specht

J.D. Garfield

Debra Jean Rogers*

Julie Maddalena

Carrie Keranen

Tara Sands

Matthew Hustin

Cody MacKenzie

Bridget Hoffman*

Colleen O'Shaughnessey

Grant George

Jessica Gee

Jeff Nimoy*

Peter Lurie*

Brian Beacock

Paul St. Peter

Chris Jai Alex

Dan Lorge*

Ewan Chung*

Steve Cassling*

Philece Sampler

Stephanie Sheh

Sam Fontana

Ben Diskin

Juliana Donald*

Michael O'Keefe*

Christina Gallegos*

Tara Platt

Keith Anthony*

Beau Billingslea

David Lodge*

Kim Strauss

Eddie Jones*

William Bassett*

Kim Mai Guest*

Caitlin Glass

Hannah Alcorn

Ron Roggé*

Camille Chen*

Ethan Rains*

Yutaka Maseba*

Joe J. Thomas

Michael Sinterniklaas

Erin Fitzgerald

Joe Ochman

Marc Diraison

Xanthe Huynh

Brianna Knickerbocker

Dean Wein*

Michael McCarty*

[branded-perceptions]

Similar like we via (linguistic, cultural) identity distort pronunciation connotation of

social constructs' like

🎶"BIG BEN - Diversify"

we all distort explanatory mind constructs curving relativistic data interpretation

https://youtu.be/s5yON4Gs3D0

like due projective collective search for one answer to everything religious-like grandiose mass psychogenic concept of

"BIG BANG" (📚9798223536000)

https://youtu.be/aboZctrHfK8

being psychological saviour functions

of SUPER-POSITION behind

POLARISING mentally reductionistic focused narratives similar like between as opposing poled

states'

symbolic🇺🇦 convergerted motivational group focus direction vector of via unconscious archetypes

(which are coherence in mimetic reinforcement attached to mind symbols🔢🎅🔠)

blurred justifying (mass) and motivating (energy) reasons (information)

https://youtu.be/CR-eOhdxbes&t=6m39s

socio-psychological POLARISING via its by mental compression hidden variables (📚infinity category Jacob Lurie)

https://youtu.be/8OsUQ1yXCcI&t=10m20s

similar like reductionistic🔢🎅🔢 natural numbers N algebra

subjective perspectives' inevitably reductionistic psychologically snapshotted reality-compressing PHOTO N

🔍"susanne R cook-greuter about construct-dependency"

https://youtu.be/8OsUQ1yXCcI&t=9m28s

that we share like PARTICuLar perspectives of group minds like geopolitical states' vector motivations' creation effects' naturally via shared trial and errors reductionistically glorifying and devaluing reductionistic isolated🔍 aspects of objective reality as wavefunctions

(this is water david foster wallace)

https://youtu.be/8OsUQ1yXCcI&t=12m55s

whose mind construct-dependend attention shadows John Stewart Bell analysed via for habitualised and thus for reality mistaken group actions' responsibilities similarly applicable metaphors like

"If [a hidden-variable theory] is local [not mental] it will not agree with quantum mechanics [symbolic convergerted mentally sharable and reproducible psychological action-observation-loops],

if it [a hidden-variable theory] agrees with quantum mechanics [psychological action-observation-loops] it will not be local [but mental, free will]."

[moviereviews101web]

Hearts and Bones (2019) Movie Review

Hearts and Bones – Movie Review  Director: Ben Lawrence Writer: Beatrix Christian, Ben Lawrence (Screenplay) Cast Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) Andrew Luri Hayley McElhinney (The Babadook) Bolude Watson (Carmen and Bolude) Alan Dukes (The Stranger)   Plot: Daniel is preparing an exhibition of his work from the world’s war zones. When Sebastian learns that this exhibition may display…

[guerrilla-operator]

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN

[odk-2]

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Snakedriver (1993) Jim Reid / William Reid from: "Sound of Speed" (EP) "21 Singles: 1984-1998" (2002 Compilation)

Alternative | Noise Rock | Scottish

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Jim Reid: Vocals / Guitar William Reid: Guitar Ben Lurie: Bass Nick Sanderson: Drums

Produced by Jim Reid / William Reid

Recorded: @ The Drugstore in South London, England UK during 1993

Released: in July of 1993

Blanco y Negro Records

[operationandre]

rachel becoming an outcast after zero day.

she’s interrogated by the police and by her parents, begging her to tell them if she knew anything about zero day. she’s regarded as a criminal and traitor by her friends. she’s not even invited to greg’s funeral. when she calls any of her friends, the call is ignored; she’s basically been blocked. all she does is stay in her room and visit cal’s house.

it took a bit of convincing for her parents to let her go to the gabriel house, but the therapist she started going to recommends it. she helps his parents sort out his clothes, sleeps in his bed, and comforts his younger siblings.

when graduation ultimately rolls around, having been postponed due to the actions of the army of two, rachel is barely cheered for. she walks across the stage, only hearing the voices of her parents after her name is announced.

[splinterfix]

The Jesus and Mary Chain….with li’l ray of sunshine, William Reid

From an interview in New Musical Express publication 17.06.1995...photo of article by @melbutlerphoto

[airxn]

excuse you for making me and Aubrey thirst with those Xavier photos

i could post more if you’d like 👀

[film-book]

Film Review: HEARTS AND BONES (2019): A Picture Exposes the Truth of Trauma for Unlikely Friends http://filmbk.me/RWMmlm