#Comedy 104

[notsocheezy]

Brain Curd #104

Brain Curds are lightly edited flash fiction - practically first drafts - posted daily (haven't missed one yet!) and sometimes written with the express intention of being terrible… but, you know, in an endearing way. Please like and reblog if you enjoy - the notes keep me going!

The following material is classified - unless you've read the rest of Government Man here on Tumblr!

Government Man pushed the last quarter through the slot and keyed in the code. The machine whirred as the motor spun the metal spiral to push his desired refreshment off the edge. The bag of peanuts leaned off the side, scared to jump, but finally went over. And got caught on the next shelf down.

GM put his face up to the glass and his lower lip quivered as though he was pleading with the bag of peanuts to please come down from there. But of course, peanuts are terrible at reading social cues and had no idea.

Suddenly, though, snacks seemed less important as the lights went red and a siren echoed through the halls. Boss Man’s voice boomed through the intercom.

“All hands on deck! Report to my office immediately!”

Government Man ran through the winding halls, his shoes squeaking as he turned corners. There were some near-misses with drinking fountains, too. But finally he arrived at Boss Man’s office, where Government Woman and Government Boy were already waiting.

“What is the emergency?” Government Man asked, out of breath.

Boss Man turned his chair around to face him and disabled the alert system.

“I have misplaced my missile launch codes.”

Everyone gasped.

“But Boss Man,” Government Woman replied. “Are you supposed to have missile launch codes?”

“I’m certain I am,” he answered. “I was just using them for reading material mere moments ago, but when I washed my hands, they were gone!”

“You read the missile launch codes…” Government Boy asked, “In the bathroom?”

“I know I may have read them many times before, but I always forget what happens in  the end. Very exciting. But that is beside the point - these codes can be used to start a war if they fall into the wrong hands!”

“Hmmm…” Government Woman rubbed her chin. “Classified documents, the restroom… this sounds like the work of Counter Spy.” She looked to Government Man. “Don’t you think?”

GM had a blank expression on his face. “Huh?”

“You know… your adversary… your nemesis…?”

He tilted his head.

“You first confronted him at a circus. He infiltrated the CIA. You wouldn’t sleep for weeks!”

“Oh… uh…” Government Man squinted his eyes and took a deep breath. “Yes, I remember now. Counter Spy. Yes.”

“Right…” Government Woman straightened her collar. “I say we start by searching the men’s room.”

Boss Man held up a finger. “I do not think you are allowed in there, Government Woman.”

“I think he is right,” Government Man nodded. “It is in the name of the room.”

“What difference does it make?!?” GW pounded her fists on Boss Man’s desk. “You lost the missile codes! I thought it was ‘all hands on deck��!”

“I have an idea, Government Woman.” Boss Man smiled. “Why don’t you check the ladies’ room since that is where you are allowed?”

“But they won’t be in there!”

“Have you already checked?”

“Why would they be there? You aren’t even supposed to be in the ladies’ room!”

“That’s why I need you to look. Please do not argue with me.”

Government Woman growled and stormed off. She kicked the door open to the ladies’ room and began searching the stalls, one by one. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. She pulled at her hair and leaned on the sink counter, frustrated. This was a waste of time, surely. But then, she heard something. A stall door opened behind her, the only one she hadn’t checked. Before she could turn around, the cold metal of a pistol was pushed up against the back of her head.

“Put your hands up. I don’t want to hurt you.”

She slowly put her arms in the air, shaking.

“What… what do you want?”

“I only want to show you something.”

She looked at his face in the mirror and her eyes went wide. “Wait… but you can’t be… you?!?”

[finelinefae]

ski trip (the match ig check-in)

a/n: xmas check in for tennis!h and tennis/yn

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y/n.love we're going on a trip ❄️

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mitchrowland in our favourite rocketship ↳ y/n.love smh harrystyles passenger princess ↳ y/n.love ew ↳ harrystyles 😎

December 2nd 2024

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sarahjones: pit stop

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mitchrowland is y/n strangling harry? ↳ harrystyles yes 😏 ↳ y/n.love he dropped my chicken nugget meal y/n.love the most fun!! ↳ sarahjones moments with my bestie are my fave moments!!

December 2nd 2024

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harrystyles: she said 'hold my hand' and i think i shed a tear

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y/n.love and then i fell 😐 ↳ harrystyles i let go for one second ↳ y/n.love for the churro stand??? ↳ harrystyles I'm sorry my love

December 4th 2024

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y/n.love: first time skating

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sarahjones so cute 🥰 mitchrowland all cute until u enter the rink and suddenly ur in the hunger games ↳ y/n.love just admit u can't skate ↳ mitchrowland ... never harrystyles hey that's my name ↳ y/n.love omg i didn't know u could read! well done baby ↳ harrystyles wow she noticed me

December 4th 2024

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harrystyles: nights with her in the mountains

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y/n.love i love you ↳ harrystyles i love you baby mitchrowland i took the first pic ↳ harrystyles facts

December 7th 2024

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y/n.love me and my best girl

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sarahjones im obsessed with u ↳ y/n.love more obsessed with u harrystyles kinda hot ↳ mitchrowland i didn't want to be the first one to say it ↳ y/n.love pigs

December 10th 2024

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y/n.love: harry would not stop doing the shrek gingerbread man voice

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harrystyles he was drowning and u didn't save him 😔 ↳ y/n.love tasted delicious tho ↳ harrystyles *gasps* u monster mitchrowland what she hasn't told u was that he stayed in character the whole evening ↳ harrystyles comedy gold

December 11th 2024

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harrystyles my favourite person to be around every season, every holiday, every month, every year, every day, every hour, every minute

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y/n.love every second? ↳ harrystyles of course my love sarahjones very cute ↳ harrystyles thanks bestie ↳ sarahjones ofc bestie

December 15th 2024

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y/n.love last night means friend-mas dinner in the mountains

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harrystyles we aced the veg ↳ mitchrowland u both burnt the veg ↳ y/n.love who doesn't love a charred vegetable ↳ mitchrowland it turned to dust on my fork ↳ harrystyles sounds like a u problem sarahjones don't want to leave 🥲 ↳ y/n.love wish we could stay forever ↳ sarahjones bahamas in the summer? December 16th 2024

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Hello, all! Normally at the end of the month I post an end-of-month update, but since this blog was on hiatus for most of October, that will be skipped until the end of November.

Instead, here is a data spread post to make up for the one I was unable to post last time we hit 200 movies with a majority "yes" vote; currently, there are 213 films that have received a majority "yes" vote. You can see the previous chart by clicking here.

This first chart is a breakdown of decades of the movies Tumblr has voted seen:

As you can see, the top three most popular decades are the 2000s with 80 movies, the 1990s with 42 movies, and the 2010s with 39 movies.

The oldest movie that Tumblr has voted seen Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), while the newest is while the newest is Knives Out (2019).

Next, a breakdown of the genres* of the movies that Tumblr has voted seen:

This chart shows that the three most popular genres are family with 104 movies, adventure with 103 movies, and comedy with 95 movies.

*Keep in mind that this chart is based on what Letterboxd defines these movies’ genres as, so you might find that you disagree with how certain films are categorized (for instance, the “music” genre describes films that are about music, not necessarily musicals. There is no “musical” genre on Letterboxd.)

Under the read more is the data from these charts listed in text form. Have a great day, everyone!

Decade breakdown:

1930s - 2

1940s - 2

1950s - 5

1960s - 3

1970s - 10

1980s - 30

1990s - 42

2000s - 80

2010s - 39

Genre breakdown:

Action - 53

Animation - 74

Adventure - 103

Comedy - 95

Crime - 16

Drama - 42

Family - 104

Fantasy - 76

History - 1

Horror - 15

Music - 6

Mystery - 8

Romance - 34

Science Fiction - 43

Thriller - 14

TV Movie - 2

War - 1

Western - 1

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Jean Harlow (Red-Headed Woman, Dinner at Eight, Libeled Lady)— The original blonde bombshell. There would be no Marilyn Monroe or other funny blonde starlet without her! She was still an up and comer when cast in Platinum Blonde and at the time the film was either gonna be called The Gilded Cage or Gallagher (after the other female lead in the film) but after casting Harlow her role was expanded and the film titled after her. That's starpower!!!

Marsha Hunt (The Human Comedy, College Holiday, These Glamour Girls)—To be honest, I haven't had the chance to see a lot of her films, but she was an amazing person. A beautiful, popular actress during the 30s and 40s, Marsha was unfairly blacklisted during the Red Scare for speaking out against McCarthyism. Instead of letting that stop her, she focused her efforts on humanitarian work for causes such as world hunger, poverty, and pollution. She was also a support of same-sex marriage. Side note to any fellow fashion history nerds, she wrote a book on 30s-40s fashion. She stayed true to her beliefs through the years, and passed away at the age of 104 in 2022.

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Marsha Hunt:

Marsha Hunt first signed with Paramount in 1935 at the age of seventeen, kicking off a prolific career as a beloved Hollywood star and fashion model. Her distinctive profile and facial structure earned her the nickname “Curly Lips”: “Besides a rounded forehead, almost no nose bridge, and a nose that curved upwards, even my lips curled up at the corners. Ronald Coleman and his wife Benita told me they used to describe me to each other as ‘Curly Lips.’ I decided that anything that helped two people I adored take notice of me would no longer keep me awake at nights.” (The Way We Wore, p.95) Marsha appeared in about seventy films over almost eighty years, including Hollywood Boulevard, College Holiday, Easy Living, These Glamour Girls, Irene, Pride and Prejudice, Blossoms in the Dust, Thousands Cheer, The Human Comedy, and many more. She was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for publicly defending Hollywood from the accusations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, alongside Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Deanna Durbin, Henry Fonda, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and many other members of the Hollywood community.

Jean Harlow:

what is there to say just look at her. the blondest woman to ever live. a sort of prototypal marilyn monroe. has a cocktail named after her so you know she was really that beautiful. dated longie zwillman. godmother to bugsy siegel's daughter. if we really want to bring back being a mob wife we have to start here.........

She was the OG Blonde Bombshell. People don't give her credit, but she was actually a sweetheart and had a great flair for comedy. And she worked those pencil thin brows! And even though she's known for the Blonde, she is deliciously evil in Red-Headed Woman, I highly recommend!

[my-anime-goods]

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Kan (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax!) - New goods with new illustrations (Beach Volleyball) for Comic Market 104

[call-me-copycat]

Going to start posting panels of MHA SMASH! on here, here's where the masterlist will be!

It's going to be very rough right now, still working out how I want to organize this (as you can see from my pinned post, I really like to organize)

Now, I'm not going to do this in order one by one - I'm going to share random panels I like then add their novel, chapter and page and link it here

So it's going to be a bunch of empty and filled links (⁠；⁠^⁠ω⁠^⁠）

I just like to have an area where I know where everything is

There's also an issue with SMASH having some... Interesting content. That will be put under a "Read More" and will be tagged "Suggestive". Wish it didn't but I guess Neda's just like that :⁠-⁠\ He did get a warning from Horikoshi though so that counts for something

(probably not going to share those chapters very much/at all unless someone's curious and asks for them)

Also pages/chapters with such content will be marked only here to make it clear

❗ = Watch (ex; Mineta saying something)

‼️ = Warning (Ex; Mineta doing something)

🔖 = Favorite of mine :⁠-⁠)

Welcome to MHA SMASH! This is the rarely heard of, only non-canon MHA spinoff! It's a comedy series, and has gotten a warning (or two) from Horikoshi himself! I hope you enjoy it!

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Novel 1

Ch.1

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Ch.2

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Ch.3

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[Extra]

Ch.4

[pg.23] / [pg.24] / [pg.25] / [pg.26] / [pg.27]

Ch.5

[pg.28] / [pg.29] / [pg.30] / [pg.31] / [pg.32]

Ch.6

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Ch.7

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Ch.8

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Ch.9

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Ch.10

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Ch.11

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Ch.12

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Ch.13

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Ch.14

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Ch.20

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Novel 2

Ch.21

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Ch.22

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Ch.23

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Ch.24

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Ch.26

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Ch.28

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Ch.29

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Ch.31

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Ch.32

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Ch.33

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Ch.34

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Ch.37

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Novel 3

Ch.38

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Ch.39

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Ch.40

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Novel 4

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Ch.59

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Ch.60

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Ch.67 🔖

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Ch.73

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Novel 5

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Ch.83

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Ch.84 🔖

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Ch.85

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Ch.87

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Ch.88

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Ch.89 🔖

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Ch.90 🔖

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Ch.91

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Ch.92

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Ch.93

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Ch.94

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♡ @never-wake-up

[gemsofgreece]

RIP Mimis Plessas

Mimis Plessas, a giant of Greek music composition, passed away at the age of 99. In fact, he would turn 100 in just 7 days and a big tribute concert with him as a honorary guest in order to celebrate his 100 years was planned for October 10th.

Some interesting facts about Mimis Plessas:

He became the First Piano Soloist in Greece in a very young age.

He studied Chemistry in Athens and the USA. He was a Chemistry Honorary Doctor in the University of Patras in Greece and the Cornell University of New York.

He won the first Music Award of the University of Minnesota.

A little later he was ranked as the fifth best active pianist in the USA, no small achievement for a young Greek immigrant who was there for chemistry.

He started music composition in 1952. He composed music for 104 movies and 70 theatrical plays. He was quite probably the most productive film music composer in Greece, writing laikó songs, musicals and instrumental film music.

He had conducted several of the most famous orchestras in the world and he has recorded albums of his in the US, the UK, France, the Netherlands and Spain.

His album Ο Δρόμος (The Road) with lyricist Lefteris Papadopoulos and singer Yannis Poulopoulos is the most commercially successful album of Greek music domestically.

In 2001 he was awarded the Gold Cross of the Order of the Phoenix (which apart from a Harry Potter book is also a legit honorary order of Greece since 1926) for his contribution to Greek music.

Below are a few of my favourite compositions by Mimis Plessas:

Το Άγαλμα (The Statue, from The Road)

Του Αγοριού Απέναντι (To The Boy Over There)

Βρέχει Φωτιά Στην Στράτα Μου (It Rains Fire On My Way)

Θα Πιω Απόψε το Φεγγάρι (I Will Drink the Moon Tonight)

Οι Θαλασσιές Σου Οι Χάντρες (Your Sea-Blue Beads)

For anyone interested, Mimis Plessas also produced a lot of jazz music but because I am not into that genre, I wouldn't know what to recommend. But he wrote most of the shakes in Greek movies. For example, The Spider's Shake is his (sorry for bad quality). (Pay no mind, just another excuse for me to post Karagianni.)

And this slow sequence by Vouyouklaki is also his. (BTW this comedy is such a must watch if you speak Greek)

RIP Mimis

[lunaticobscurity]

ok, @posthumanwanderings asked me about my favourite simple 2000 games, and it'd be easier to format this as a text post than as a private message. so here it is:

vol 37: the shooting ~double shienryu~ - released in europe as steel dragon ex, this is the excellent arcade shooting game shienryu, along with a newly-made sequel. the ps1 port has a ton of weird extras, but this port has a whole sequel.

vol 50: the daibijin - released in europe as demolition girl, this is about attacking the supermodel riho futaba, who has become kaiju sized, for some reason. contains the iconic phrase "breast acquisition data". when it came out here, it had some brief infamy as one of the games unfunny hacks would play and exaggerate how bad it was, for the purposes of alleged "comedy"

vol 64: the splatter action - released in europe as splatter master, it's a cute, gory beat em up, in which you control a little pumpkin man with chainsaws

vol. 73: the saiyuutou saruden - possibly released in europe as monkey king, but i'm not sure if it actually happened. i wrote about it here

vol 81: the chikyuu boueigun 2 - released in europe as global defence force, i'm sure you all know what this is. iconic, era-defining, one of the best games on the entire ps2, not just in the simple series. i'm not joking.

vol. 95: the zombie vs kyuukyuusha - released in europe as zombie vs ambulance, it's post-apocalyptic horror crazy taxi with boss fights. you'll probably get bored after a few stages at most, but the novelty of it is compelling for a while at least.

vol. 101: the oneechanpon ~the neechan 2 tokubetsu-hen~ - the early musou-style oneechanbara games are rough to go back to compared to the more modern character action-style games, but if you're going to play any of them, this is probably the most interesting. it's got a bunch of guest characters from other simple 2000 games!

vol. 104: the robot tsukuuruze ~gekitou robot fight!~ i wrote about this one here

vol. 105: the maid fuku to kikanjuu - a beat em up where you play as a heavily-armed maid killing evil dolls and shit

vol. 112: the tousou highway 2 ~road warrior 2050~ - i wrote about this one here

[sleepythug]

went to see kind of kindness which is amusing enough, satisfyingly mean for a dark comedy and like 3hr long when you throw in pre-roll and movie trailers therefore the best kinda film to see when you don't have a/c in your house and it's like 104 degrees outside.

after I went over to barnes & noble thinking "oh i'm going to kill another hour here!!" browsed the criterions for a bit, ended up getting y tu mama tambien, pat garrett and billy the kid, and hirokazu kore-eda's after life. looked at the horror books. then manga. grabbed a copy of tatsuki fujimoto's "look back" which i've read already but love, maybe even more so than chainsaw man, and im very excited to see the film adaptation of.

then i could feel beads of sweat rolling down my back, i think their a/c wasn't blowing out fully or was out, so I decided to bounce. which was too bad bc i really could have spent a whole hour and a half reading the back of books that have been on my list of books i'm curious about. ohhh and the girl that rang me up picked up my copy of y tu mama tambien and went "ohhh hey look:)" to her co-worker

[cornrats]

news years resolution post. resolution seems too firm theyre more pretty loose goals. theyre not all that serious its just my way of reminding myself theres something i want to do. intention is to update every month to keep track of my progress. or lack of it. who knows what will occur.

read 26 books

last year the goal was 52 and for some reason i didnt read anything until december, so im halving it. i did read fifteen books in december so as long as i actually read for at least two months i should finish this up no biggie. 13 of those books were library books and i need to start working on all the books that i own because i dont really have room for all of them and im sure once read i wont keep most of them.

read in public once every two weeks

this has less to do with reading and more to do with trying to get myself to go to parks and such as that, i just feel like reading is an activity to do while there that isnt exercise which i would get self conscious about. every two weeks is really arbitrary, i just need to try to consistently do this. i think existing in public and also being outside is good for pretty self explanatory reasons and i want to try to explore more of my town on foot, which admittedly ive never really done.

watch 104 movies.

last year i watched 121 so this should be relatively easy. its two movies a week which is not an absurd amount by any means. historically speaking i wont do it this way and will instead watch like 30 movies in one month instead but its not necessary.

finish baldurs gate 3/one of the switch pokemon games

i have three pokemon games that ive played like three hours of each and i want to at least make an effort to finish one of them, same with baldurs gate. i dont finish most video games i buy and i dont buy enough of them for it to be a big deal but it does sort of make me feel bad and also i do like playing them, so i really wanna try and finish them.

visit all county historical plaques

this sounds fun and also i think itll be a good way to get myself exploring and paying more attention to the local area. theres only like 45 and most of them are clustered together so i think i could do this relatively easily in a handful of afternoons.

go to a live event once a month

ive been wanting to go to a ball game for more than a year and i just keep never getting around to it, so i really wanna try to get myself to go see shit. im not attached to sports, it could be any live event, but sports does seem the most plentiful and generally speaking i think id need to go out of state to see a comedy or music act that i like unless i deliberately go to one ive never heard of, which im not really keen on, because the thought of being at a comedy show i think isnt funny is a nightmare situation for me, and also ive never been to a live music event so i feel like i should at least be familiar for the first ones i go to.

general life improvement shit

i want to get a job that doesnt make me wanna kill myself. preferably with insurance, because i need new regular glasses and i want to get prescription sunglasses, which ive been wanting for nearly a decade and i just havent gotten yet for some reason, and also depending on how annoying it is it would probably be nice to get on anxiety medication for a bit. or maybe not. taking medication gives me anxiety so it might be a net zero gain. i also want to try to take some online classes at the community college cause ill get financial aid so i might as well slowly work my way to some sort of degree even if i dont really care about it.

new hobbies

i think i should get a record player and try to get into records, which is something ive been thinking about getting around to for like four years. i also really want to try to make a blanket[?], which i assume will be kind of shit ass, but it seems like a very approachable project in terms of someone basically new to fiber arts that will also find some sort of use in my house, its just a really time consuming one. everything else you can make is stuff that i dont want so i wouldnt make or its like clothes and that seems intimidating cause you gotta wear that shit outta the house. i also really want to try my hand at painting, i dont have any thought that ill be good at it but its something ive had in the back of my mind for a while so i want to give it a go at least a few times and see if i enjoy it.

[theharpermovieblog]

#HARPERSMOVIECOLLECTION

2024 MOVIE LIST

www.tumblr.com/theharpermovieblog

1. X (2022)

2. The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)

3. The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (1964)

4. One Armed Boxer (1972)

5. Master Of The Flying Guillotine (1976)

6. Road House (1989)

7. Asteroid City (2023)

8.Mission Impossible (1996)

9. Strawberry Mansion (2021)

10. Event Horizon (1997)

11. Septic Man (2013)

12. The Punisher (1989)

13. Dragonslayer (1981)

14. Sweet Home (1989)

15. Stephen King's The Night Flier (1997)

JOHN CARPENTER MARATHON

16. John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)

17. John Carpenter's Prince Of Darkness (1987)

18. Dark Star (1974)

19. Geostorm (2017)

20. Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)

21. Suitable Flesh (2023)

22. Saltburn (2023)

23. Videodrome (1983)

24. Short film triple feature

•Rabbits Moon (1972)

•Premonitions Following An Evil

Deed (1995)

•Curve (2016)

25. Strangers On A Train (1951)

26. Hardcore Henry (2015)

27. Alligator (1980)

28. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf (1966)

29. Mindwarp (1992)

30. Severed Ties (1992)

31. The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017)

32. The Wolf House (2018)

33. Kuso (2017)

STEPHEN KING THEATRICAL MOVIE WEEK

34. Needful Things (1993)

35. The Dark Half (1993)

35. Creepshow (1982)

STEPHEN KING TV WEEK

36. The Tommyknockers (1993)

37. Quicksilver Highway (1997)

38. Storm Of The Century (1999)

39. Dream Scenario (2023)

40. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

41. Dark City (1998)

FUCKED UP MOVIE WEEK

42. Ichi The Killer (2001)

43. We Are The Flesh (2016)

42. Possession (1981)

43. Messiah Of Evil (1973)

44. Double Impact (1991)

45. The Mask (1994)

DAVID LYNCH WEEK

46. The Grandmother (1969)

47. Blue Velvet (1986)

48. Inland Empire (2006)

49. Late Night With The Devil (2023)

50. Alone In The Dark (1982)

51. In A Glass Cage (1986)

52. Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)

53. Death Proof (2007)

54. Night Of The Comet (1984)

RUTGER HAUER DOUBLE FEATURE

55. Surviving The Game (1994)

56. Flesh+Blood (1985)

57. After Blue (2021)

58. Dunkirk (2017)

59. Mortal Kombat (1995)

60. Barfly (1987)

61. The Innkeepers (2001)

62. Deathdream (1974)

63. Piranha (1978)

QUEER HORROR WEEK

64. Interview With The Vampire (1994)

65. Knife+Heart (2018)

66. Cat People (1942)

67. High Plains Drifter (1973)

68. Dr. Caligari (1989)

69. Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into The Future (1985)

70. Southern Comfort (1981)

71. Curse 2: The Bite (1989)

72. Liquid Sky (1982)

73. Runaway Train (1985)

74. Logan's Run (1976)

75. A Face In The Crowd (1957)

1980's COMEDY WEEK

76. The Naked Gun (1988)

77. Better Off Dead (1985)

79. Vibes (1988)

PHANTASM SEQUEL WEEK

80. Phantasm 3: Lord Of The Dead (1994)

81. Phantasm 4: Oblivion (1998)

82. Phantasm 5: Ravager (2016)

83. Stopmotion (2023)

84. Men (2022)

85. She Is Conann (2023)

86. The City Of Lost Children (1994)

87. Etheria Film Night (2024)

88. Doom Asylum (1987)

89. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

90. The Sadness (2021)

91. Jaws (1975)

92. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

93. Alien: Romulus (2024)

94. CRITTERS FOUR IN ONE REVIEW

•Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)

•Critters 3 (1991)

•Critters 4 (1992)

•Critters Attack (2019)

95. Poor Things (2023)

96. The Masque Of The Red Death (1964)

97. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

98. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

99. Cemetery Man (1994)

100. War Of The Gargantuas (1966)

101. Kinds Of Kindness (2024)

102. Man Bites Dog (1992)

103. An American Werewolf In London (1981)

MAD MAX MARATHON

104. Mad Max (1979)

105. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

106. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

107. Longlegs (2024)

108. In A Violent Nature (2024)

109. Sleepwalkers (1992)

110. Black Moon (1975)

111. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

112. American Mary (2012)

113. Dracula (1931)

114. Riki-Oh: The Story Of Ricky (1991)

115. Castle Freak (1995)

116. Miller's Crossing (1990)

117. Night Of The Creeps (1986)

118. On The Waterfront (1954)

BONUS FILM

119. Hundreds Of Beavers (2022)

112. Crimes Of The Future (1970)

121. Dark Night Of The Scarecrow (1981)

122. Nosferatu (1920)

123. The Thief Of Bagdad (1924)

124. Ghosts Of Mars (2001)

125. Hellraiser (1987)

126. High Sierra (1941)

127. Phantasm (1979)

128. Cannibal Apocalypse (1980)

129. I, Tonya (2017)

130. The Long Good Friday (1980)

131. Nosferatu (2024)

132. The Substance (2024)

FINAL MOVIE OF 2024

133. Hour Of The Wolf (1968)

[srkizer]

judging from how sticks interacts with audiences (us), it means that there is a cameraman. and that cameraman can reliably follow sonic running. that cameraman can go to the space without worrying about having to breath. that cameraman can go underwater without the fear of water.

the cameraman in sonic boom is metal sonic (except for episodes 45 and 104). and everyone in cartoons know that the producers are the gods. it is reasonable to expect that sticks in particular would be very nice to metal sonic.

the image is fun though. metal sonic flying, holding a camera, recording soar on jetpacks narrating on the car race. soar can complain on how a fox can fly but a bird can't, but he would not dare complain to the gods.

but yeah i think sticks and metal sonic are a good pair.

anyway metal's a good choice as a cameraman for sure, as there is no way metal would make giggling sounds, especially while filming a comedy show.

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Marsha Hunt (The Human Comedy, College Holiday, These Glamour Girls)—To be honest, I haven't had the chance to see a lot of her films, but she was an amazing person. A beautiful, popular actress during the 30s and 40s, Marsha was unfairly blacklisted during the Red Scare for speaking out against McCarthyism. Instead of letting that stop her, she focused her efforts on humanitarian work for causes such as world hunger, poverty, and pollution. She was also a support of same-sex marriage. Side note to any fellow fashion history nerds, she wrote a book on 30s-40s fashion. She stayed true to her beliefs through the years, and passed away at the age of 104 in 2022.

Fredi Washington (Imitation of Life, The Emperor Jones)—She was a beautiful woman whose movie career was struck short because she refused to pass as white, but she did get to star with the greats like Cab Calloway, Hattie McDaniel, Paul Robeson, Duke Ellington, Louise Beavers, etc. Being a person of moral and conviction is hot. Also, she knew ballet and was a beautiful dancer in general.

This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Marsha Hunt:

Marsha Hunt first signed with Paramount in 1935 at the age of seventeen, kicking off a prolific career as a beloved Hollywood star and fashion model. Her distinctive profile and facial structure earned her the nickname “Curly Lips”: “Besides a rounded forehead, almost no nose bridge, and a nose that curved upwards, even my lips curled up at the corners. Ronald Coleman and his wife Benita told me they used to describe me to each other as ‘Curly Lips.’ I decided that anything that helped two people I adored take notice of me would no longer keep me awake at nights.” (The Way We Wore, p.95) Marsha appeared in about seventy films over almost eighty years, including Hollywood Boulevard, College Holiday, Easy Living, These Glamour Girls, Irene, Pride and Prejudice, Blossoms in the Dust, Thousands Cheer, The Human Comedy, and many more. She was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for publicly defending Hollywood from the accusations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, alongside Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Deanna Durbin, Henry Fonda, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and many other members of the Hollywood community.

Fredi Washington propaganda:

Short Hollywood career for being too light-skinned to play maid roles, but too brown to be cast opposite a white man in the time. Civil Rights activist. Worked with Paul Robeson to create the Negro Actors Guild. Heavy work in theatre and the NAACP.

[starcrossed-nebula]

So just in case you’re wondering how much I listen to this series. I am now on TMA 104.

Spoilers ahead:

Season 3 has brought a lot of new information. But this episode is killing me. Tim is so dejected when giving this statement.

Also throughout season 3, Elias has quickly become one of my favorite characters. The way that he is just so ominous throughout this season.

Also Melanie’s murder attempts have been amusing. Elias’ “That’s fair” after she said that the police didn’t want to investigate anything doing with The Magnus Institute killed me.

Episode 100 was also amazing. The fact that all the statement givers just couldn’t give proper statements without Jon is exactly what the 100th episode needed. A slight break from the horror to do some amazing comedy.

Anyways I’m still going feral over this series. The fact that everyone is in the loop now, is great.

[thornswoggled]

Same person who asked if you think elias knows how to dance. Do you think he knows gen alpha brainrrot slang. If he can take in information but only mimic it, do you think he's accidentally said something like gyat or rizz without knowing what it means. 😨

"Chise... do you know about the emotion skibidi? I heard one of the students say they felt so skibidi..."

(I myself am unsure of what skibidi means other than a weird youtube rabbit hole, so me and elias are on the same boat of not knowing what the hell it means)

tamb is early 2010s though, so shes going to college around 2014-2015 presumably. that was sophomore year of college for me... hm... what were the memes back then? time is an abstract blur to me. had oppa gangnam style waned in popularity by that time? i remember shrek being the pinnacle of comedy. maybe his students are telling each other to get out of their swamp

then again maybe tamb is trying to vaguely reflect whatever year its being published during. simons phone in 104 looks newer than an iphone 6, which would have been era appropriate. wait a minute, i just realized im losing the plot of your initial question. i do absolutely think that elias would parrot back something hes heard said and thought he understood the appropriate context of, but his delivery makes it flop

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

‘it’s sunday, em’ you may say. ‘it’s not a tuesday or a thursday so why are you making one of these godawful posts where you reveal that you are very easily entertained by women so long as they are older than your parents and express an iota of interest in your annoying ass’ you may say. welcome to the Security Blanket Rehearsal.

if you indulge me you may be treated to a cartoon under the cut.

concertmaster (who i found in the parking lot) and i walk into rehearsal to find all the seats set up, most of the winds and brass present, and little to no strings save a STACKED cello section and my stand partner

and on the podium, inexplicably, a bag of oranges sitting where tita conductor would normally stand.

rehearsal was supposed to start at 12:30. it did not, in fact, start at 12:30. neither the instrument locker rooms or restrooms are open on the weekends and a police officer had to be called to grant access to them. ('never mind privacy,' tita conductor announced, 'keep the main doors propped open because they will lock')

we had photo and video at this rehearsal, so it was a good thing i actually fixed my hair today. i expect to be jumpscared by myself on the orchestra instagram again sometime this week

tita conductor announced she was going to take the un poco meno mosso middle section of dvořák 7 mov. iii a little faster because she had 'been taking it a little too meno mosso' and i couldn't resist the urge to jot down 'molto meno mosso' on one of my spare sticky notes for my stand partner to see. i am the queen of comedy etc

tita conductor cut us off after running a bit of the beginning of the midsection and said 'seconds, this is very espressivo and thank you for that, but we do need a little less of you and more of the winds' and my stand partner said 'aw man' in the most put out tone

unlike the last time the soloist was with us for the saint-saëns, she did not steamroller through her part when tita conductor had to cut us off. with one notable exception. tita conductor had to cut us off while the soloist was climbing the fingerboard into the stratosphere at measure 525 or something like that; the soloist continued into the harmonics but didn't reach the F natural

luckily, tita conductor was on hand for that, resulting in a very "did anyone else hear just one single angelic note" moment:

after running through the saint-saëns to tita conductor's and the soloist's satisfaction, we took a break, where i found myself with various strings in the back of the rehearsal room (as well as nicking snacks brought by tita conductor)

after eating some conductor-provided candy, i decided i should wash my hands before touching my instrument again, so i headed out to the restrooms

tita conductor was standing outside, fiddling with her phone with a very frustrated look on her face; i tried to sneak past her (very difficult in an ivovanhovedongiovannicore exterior hallway) but she looked up and said 'excuse me?' so i stopped to see what was the matter

i thought she was going to tell me something about my playing or my leading or whatever but she showed me her screen, where an overlay of photo details was taking up her screen, and said 'i just—i just need this crap taken off the picture.'

i peered closer and said 'may i?' and off her answer to the affirmative, tapped once on the screen to clear the photo details, to which she said, fanfic italics and all, 'Oh. Well then.'

i was left to scurry off to the restroom

once break finished, we went on to the debussy. forget 'dancing in paris' we are now 'ice-skating in paris' apparently

the debussy was glossed over very quickly because we needed time for 'our beloved pals haydn and mendelssohn'

after working on some bits we played the haydn 104 finale all the way through the development and recapitulation without stopping (we have played this in concert already so it was sort of a reintroduction) and something about it just felt. different. in a good way.

haydn isn't my favorite (i love it but the brahms serenade mov. i will always have my heart in terms of our concert program) but somehow at the end my eyes were stinging a little bit. we sounded so good and unified and i'm just a sappy wreck when it comes to orchestra but i really was overcome thinking about how i had never thought i'd be able to do anything like this, and now—there i was. first time i've ever felt like happy-crying after playing a piece.

if i'd thought i felt overcome with emotion at the end of that piece, tita conductor was even more so: she couldn't say anything except 'yeah. yeah' for a few seconds, until she told us that we had really taken the spirit of the symphonic form 'and brought it home to its DAD!'

which. yeah i know, haydn, father of the symphony, but HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEE

'please take some of [the snacks] lest they all end up in my body. which will not be good' -tita conductor

(she finished a bag of viola friend's toffee in something like a day that i took a week and a half to finish. she is not joking)

anyways, yeah. i had so much fun. i have so much fun every time i go to rehearsal. i literally cannot wait for more.