#Don Ingalls

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Scott McKenzie, the singer-songwriter best known for his association with John Phillips and the 1967 Summer of Love anthem “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” the sonic tract that called 1000s of young people to California.

 

Phillips (who played on the track with The Wrecking Crew) wrote the song to appease authorities concerned that hippies would overrun the Bay Area for the Monterey Pop Festival. Peace and love prevailed. The song has been used in several films and was a theme for the Prague Spring Czech uprising in 1968. That same year, McKenzie’s next Top 40 hit “Like an Old Time Movie” (also written and played by Phillips) segued with McKenzie writing “What About Me” for Anne Murray (her first hit single).

 

Like many artists circa 1960, McKenzie morphed out of doo-wop and became a folkie, joining the New York folk scene that beget The Mamas & The Papas. Phillips initially invited McKenzie to join that group but he declined, saying he didn’t want “the pressure.” Years later McKenzie joined a road version of The Mamas & The Papas in 1986. Concurrently, the Phillips-McKenzie team joined Mike Love and Terry Melcher to create the huge Beach Boys hit “Kokomo.”

 

The evergreen “San Francisco” remains McKenzie’s best-known work (he passed from Guillain-Barre syndrome in 2010). Periodically I dabbled with the song, dirty demo-ing a grunge-y Iggy Pop-like update: https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/san-francisco-be-sure-to-wear-flowers-in-your-hair-demo-remastered-2020

 

HB and RIP Scott.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the 1964 Vee-Jay LP INTRODUCING THE BEATLES, Pat Benatar, Ray Bolger, Frances X. Bushman, Eddy Clearwater, Jemaine Clement, Shawn Colvin, the 1972 UK LP issue of CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH, Jim Croce, drum heroes Aynsley Dunbar and Max Roach, Donald Fagen, the musical FINIAN’S RAINBOW (1947), George Foreman, the 1928 Gershwin-Romberg-Wodehouse musical ROSALIE, Byron “Whild Child” Gipson, Teresa Graves, Ronnie Hawkins, Paul Henreid, sculptress Barbara Hepworth, Mary Ingalls, Frank James, Brian Joo, King Crimson’s 1971 US album release of LIZARD, Bob Lang (The Mindbenders), Don Letts (Big Audio Dynamite), Jerry Lee Lewis’s 1958 UK single “Great Balls of Fire,” Linda Lovelace, Mendelssohn’s 1833 cantata  "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," the 1927 film METROPOLIS, Sal Mineo, St. Philomena, Fayette Pinkney (Three Degrees), Johnnie Ray, Lou Reed’s 1989 NEW YORK album, Lyle Ritz (Wrecking Crew), Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies), Hrithik Roshan, Samira Said, William Sanderson, Michael Schenker, “Silly Symphony” comics (1932), Frank Sinatra Jr., Sonic the Hedgehog, Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, Rod Stewart, Scott Thurston, composer-violinist Gasparo Visconti, Drew Robert Weiser, mega-producer Jerry Wexler, and Scott McKenzie, the singer-songwriter best known for his association with John Phillips and the 1967 Summer of Love anthem “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” the sonic tract that beckoned 1000s of young people to California.

 

Phillips (who played on the track with The Wrecking Crew) wrote the song to appease authorities concerned that hippies would overrun the Bay Area for the Monterey Pop Festival. Peace and love prevailed. The song has been used in several films and was a theme for the Prague Spring Czech uprising in 1968. That same year, McKenzie’s next Top 40 hit “Like an Old Time Movie” (also written and played by Phillips) segued with McKenzie writing “What About Me” for Anne Murray (her first hit single).

 

Like many artists circa 1960, McKenzie morphed out of doo-wop and became a folkie, joining the New York folk scene that beget The Mamas & The Papas. Phillips initially invited McKenzie to join that group but he declined, saying he didn’t want “the pressure.” Years later McKenzie joined a road version of The Mamas & The Papas in 1986. Concurrently, the Phillips-McKenzie team joined Mike Love and Terry Melcher to create the huge Beach Boys hit “Kokomo.”

 

The evergreen “San Francisco” remains McKenzie’s best-known work (he passed from Guillain-Barre syndrome in 2010). Periodically I dabbled with the song, dirty demo-ing a grunge-y Iggy Pop-like update: https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/san-francisco-be-sure-to-wear-flowers-in-your-hair-demo-remastered-2020

 

HB and RIP Scott.

 

#ScottMcKenzie #SanFrancisco #Flowers #Hair #MontereyPopFestival #SummerofLove #JohnPhillips #MamasandthePapas #wreckingcrew #PragueSpring #folkmusic #BeachBoys #Kokomo #MikeLove #TerryMelcher #GuillainBarre #grungemusic #IggyPop #NobHill #demo #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge

[kits-shrine]

“Lead the way Touma!” Ingall grinned.

“That's a good idea,” Laurel agreed.

“Of course, I’m coming with you,” Wulf replied, wrapping an arm around her waist, “as Ylva said, she’ll wait for Agni and can answer most of his questions.”

Kit passed him back to Ingall "You two get the fluffies, I'll keep and eye on these two."

Yurei kissed her temple before opening a portal to the shop, donning his more human form as they crossed over.

"Ok." Rebecca murmured softly hugging the girls close as Jacob sidled back over to them.

[chloeafrazier]

Why Did Charles and Caroline Condone Mary"s bad behavior but not Laura"s ?

hey everyone how are you all doing today? so i would like to talk about Little House On the Prairie again.

so here is something else that i would like to talk about so in season 4 Episode 11 Entitled Meet me at the fair.

the Ingalls". go to the fair and Laura see's the hot air balloon and Charles them not to ride it cause he thinks it's too dangerous to ride.

but then later on in the Episode Mary Goes up in the balloon without Permission so she directly disobeyed her Parent"s

and all Charles says is alright no more balloon rides no harm done and he even kissed Mary on the cheek and acted like nothing

happened and then in the same episode right after that Charles started yelling at Laura for not taking Carrie on the merry go round.

like she was told to... so Mary can straight up disobey by going up in the balloon after she was told not to and nothing is said nothing is

done and Charles even kisses Mary on the cheek too so if Laura dose not do what she is told by taking Carrie on a ride she is yelled at for it.

but if Mary goes and dose something that she was plainly told not to do nothing is said nothing is done ... like at all.

so if you can see the things in Common here both Mary and Laura made mistakes both Mary and Laura did things wrong...

and yet it was only Laura that Got Yelled at for it so once again i am saying that Charles and Caroline don"t Love Laura but i don"t care for

the way that when Mary dose something wrong she is let go for it or they act as if she didn't do anything wrong... but when Laura dose

something wrong most of the time she is yelled at for it or punished or something so my thing is both of the girls disobeyed both of the

girls were wrong and yet it was only Laura who was yelled at for what happened so in a way Charles and Caroline are saying that it"s okay

for Mary to disobey but it"s not Okay for Laura to disobey once again i am not saying that they don"t Love Laura or that they don"t care

about Laura however i do feel that when the girls do something wrong i think and feel that it is unfair that Laura is the only one who

has to pay a price for what she did and Mary dose not so this is something else that i feel is not really right or fair about the show i

wish the writer"s would have had Charles and Caroline have a Little more Compassion on Laura like they did for Mary is all and if Laura

has to own up to her Mistakes then i wish Mary would have had to own up to her Mistakes as well not just Laura you know... well Thanks

for reading have a great day know that God Loves You always and forever.

[kwebtv]

Series Premiere

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer - The High Cost of Dying -Syndication - January 7, 1958

Crime Drama

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Steven Thornley

Produced by

Directed by Lawrence Dobkin

Stars:

Darren McGavin as Mike Hammer

Bart Burns as Captain Pat Chambers

Lynn (Marilyn) Allen as Eva Hollister Ingalls

William Allyn as Floyd Ingalls

Robert Patten as Herb Garth

Eleanore E Tanin as Meg Hollister

Don Kennedy as Plainclothesman

[brookston]

Holidays 9.27

Holidays

Ancestor Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Honor Your Ancestors Day)

Answering Machine Day

Battle of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)

Book Matches Day

Crush A Can Day

French Community Day (Belgium)

Fun and Fancy Free Day

GNU Day

Google Commemoration Day

Lendemain du Magal de Touba (Sénégal)

Morning Show Hosts Day

National AJ Day

National Day of Forgiveness

National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

National Prescription Take-Back Day

National Scarf Day

Polish Underground State’s Day (Poland)

Shut Up and Let Somebody Else Talk Day

World Tourism Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Chocolate Milk Day

National Corned Beef Hash Day

Saloon Day

Tabasco Sauce Day

4th & Last Wednesday in September

Maple Leaf Day (Canada) [Last Wednesday]

National Rehabilitation Day [4th Wednesday]

National Women's Health and Fitness Day [Last Wednesday]

See You at the Pole [4th Wednesday]

World School Milk Day [Last Wednesday]

Independence Days

Consumación de la Independencia (End of Independence War; Mexico)

Elleore (Declared; 1944) [unrecognized]

Glebiania (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Mexico (Date Consummated, 1821)

Turkmenistan (from USSR, 1991)

Zekia (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Adheritus (Christian; Saint)

Aequinoctium Autumnale I (Pagan)

Caius of Milan (Christian; Saint)

Cosmas and Damian (Christian; Martyrs)

Elzear, Count of Arian, and Delphina, his wife (Christian; Saints)

Feast of Mashiyyat (Baha’i)

Festival of Namakungwe (The Originator; Zambia)

Festival of Varuni (Goddess of Wine; India)

George Cruikshank (Artology)

Hieronymus Bosch Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Insult a Narcissist Day (Pastafarian)

Meskel Day (a.k.a. Finding of the True Cross; Eritrea, Ethiopia)

Mookie (Muppetism)

Sesage (Positivist; Saint)

Vincent de Paul (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Abominable (Animated Film; 2019)

The Affair, 16th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2011)

Bananaphone, by Raffi (Children’s Album; 1994)

A Bird in a Bonnet (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)

Bongo (Disney Cartoon; 1947)

Born to Run, by Bruce Springsteen (Autobiography; 2016)

The Cleveland Show (Animated TV Series; 2009)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Animated Film; 2013)

Cracker (UK TV Series; 1993)

Dolly! (TV Series; 1976)

Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert (Music TV Series; 1973)

Don’t Stand So Close to Me, by the Police (Song; 1980)

Elementary (TV Series; 2012)

The Fever Code, by James Dashner (Novel; 2016) [Maze Runner #5]

Fun and Fancy Free (Animated Disney Film; 1947)

The Garden of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran (Poetry; 1931)

Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood (Novel; 1939)

The Journey of Natty Gann (Film; 1985)

The Karate Guard (WB Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 2005)

The Last King of Scotland (Film; 2006)

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Novel; 1935)

Memphis Blues, by W.C. Handy (Song; 1912)

Mickey and the Beanstalk (Disney Cartoon; 1947)

Monster, by R.E.M. (Album; 1994)

New Jersey, by Bon Jovi (Album; 1988)

Nightmare, recorded by Artie Shaw (Song; 1938)

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Film; 1939)

Ran (Film; 1985)

Ringo's Rotogravure, by Ringo Starr (Album; 1976)

Rush (Film; 2013)

Sand and Foam, by Kahlil Gibran (Poetry; 1926)

Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV Series; 2007)

Silent Spring (Nature Book; 1962)

Sweet Home Alabama (Film; 2002)

Thanks for the Memory, by Bob Hope (Song; 1938)

The Tonight Show (TV Talk Show; 1954)

2 Days in the Valley (Film; 1996)

Under the Table and Framing, by The Dave Matthews Band (Album; 1994)

We Didn’t Start the Fore, by Billy Joel (Song; 1989)

Today’s Name Days

Dietrich, Hiltrud, Vinzenz (Austria)

Berislav, Gaj, Vincent, Vinko, Vinko (Croatia)

Jonáš (Czech Republic)

Cosmus (Denmark)

Elo, Loone, Õrne (Estonia)

Vesa (Finland)

Vincent (France)

Dietrich, Hiltrud, Vinzenz (Germany)

Akylini, Epicharis, Kallistratos, Zenon, Zinon (Greece)

Adalbert (Hungary)

Cosma, Damiano, Vincenzo (Italy)

Ādolfs, Ilgonis, Ronalds (Latvia)

Adalbertas, Damijonas, Daugilė, Kęsgailė, Kovaldas (Lithuania)

Dagmar, Dagrun (Norway)

Amadeusz, Amedeusz, Damian, Kosma, Przedbor, Urban (Poland)

Antim (Romania)

Cyprián (Slovakia)

Vicente (Spain)

Dagmar, Rigmor (Sweden)

Cosima, Cosimo, Cosmo, Damian, Damiana, Damien, Damion, Damon (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 270 of 2024; 95 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 39 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 23 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 13 (Wu-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 12 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 12 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 30 Aki; Ninthday [30 of 30]

Julian: 14 September 2023

Moon: 95%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 18 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Lesage]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 4 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 4 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Gyfu (Gift) [Half-Month 19 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 10.9)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 9.27

Holidays

Ancestor Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Honor Your Ancestors Day)

Answering Machine Day

Battle of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)

Book Matches Day

Crush A Can Day

French Community Day (Belgium)

Fun and Fancy Free Day

GNU Day

Google Commemoration Day

Lendemain du Magal de Touba (Sénégal)

Morning Show Hosts Day

National AJ Day

National Day of Forgiveness

National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

National Prescription Take-Back Day

National Scarf Day

Polish Underground State’s Day (Poland)

Shut Up and Let Somebody Else Talk Day

World Tourism Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Chocolate Milk Day

National Corned Beef Hash Day

Saloon Day

Tabasco Sauce Day

4th & Last Wednesday in September

Maple Leaf Day (Canada) [Last Wednesday]

National Rehabilitation Day [4th Wednesday]

National Women's Health and Fitness Day [Last Wednesday]

See You at the Pole [4th Wednesday]

World School Milk Day [Last Wednesday]

Independence Days

Consumación de la Independencia (End of Independence War; Mexico)

Elleore (Declared; 1944) [unrecognized]

Glebiania (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Mexico (Date Consummated, 1821)

Turkmenistan (from USSR, 1991)

Zekia (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Adheritus (Christian; Saint)

Aequinoctium Autumnale I (Pagan)

Caius of Milan (Christian; Saint)

Cosmas and Damian (Christian; Martyrs)

Elzear, Count of Arian, and Delphina, his wife (Christian; Saints)

Feast of Mashiyyat (Baha’i)

Festival of Namakungwe (The Originator; Zambia)

Festival of Varuni (Goddess of Wine; India)

George Cruikshank (Artology)

Hieronymus Bosch Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Insult a Narcissist Day (Pastafarian)

Meskel Day (a.k.a. Finding of the True Cross; Eritrea, Ethiopia)

Mookie (Muppetism)

Sesage (Positivist; Saint)

Vincent de Paul (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Abominable (Animated Film; 2019)

The Affair, 16th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2011)

Bananaphone, by Raffi (Children’s Album; 1994)

A Bird in a Bonnet (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)

Bongo (Disney Cartoon; 1947)

Born to Run, by Bruce Springsteen (Autobiography; 2016)

The Cleveland Show (Animated TV Series; 2009)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Animated Film; 2013)

Cracker (UK TV Series; 1993)

Dolly! (TV Series; 1976)

Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert (Music TV Series; 1973)

Don’t Stand So Close to Me, by the Police (Song; 1980)

Elementary (TV Series; 2012)

The Fever Code, by James Dashner (Novel; 2016) [Maze Runner #5]

Fun and Fancy Free (Animated Disney Film; 1947)

The Garden of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran (Poetry; 1931)

Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood (Novel; 1939)

The Journey of Natty Gann (Film; 1985)

The Karate Guard (WB Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 2005)

The Last King of Scotland (Film; 2006)

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Novel; 1935)

Memphis Blues, by W.C. Handy (Song; 1912)

Mickey and the Beanstalk (Disney Cartoon; 1947)

Monster, by R.E.M. (Album; 1994)

New Jersey, by Bon Jovi (Album; 1988)

Nightmare, recorded by Artie Shaw (Song; 1938)

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Film; 1939)

Ran (Film; 1985)

Ringo's Rotogravure, by Ringo Starr (Album; 1976)

Rush (Film; 2013)

Sand and Foam, by Kahlil Gibran (Poetry; 1926)

Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV Series; 2007)

Silent Spring (Nature Book; 1962)

Sweet Home Alabama (Film; 2002)

Thanks for the Memory, by Bob Hope (Song; 1938)

The Tonight Show (TV Talk Show; 1954)

2 Days in the Valley (Film; 1996)

Under the Table and Framing, by The Dave Matthews Band (Album; 1994)

We Didn’t Start the Fore, by Billy Joel (Song; 1989)

Today’s Name Days

Dietrich, Hiltrud, Vinzenz (Austria)

Berislav, Gaj, Vincent, Vinko, Vinko (Croatia)

Jonáš (Czech Republic)

Cosmus (Denmark)

Elo, Loone, Õrne (Estonia)

Vesa (Finland)

Vincent (France)

Dietrich, Hiltrud, Vinzenz (Germany)

Akylini, Epicharis, Kallistratos, Zenon, Zinon (Greece)

Adalbert (Hungary)

Cosma, Damiano, Vincenzo (Italy)

Ādolfs, Ilgonis, Ronalds (Latvia)

Adalbertas, Damijonas, Daugilė, Kęsgailė, Kovaldas (Lithuania)

Dagmar, Dagrun (Norway)

Amadeusz, Amedeusz, Damian, Kosma, Przedbor, Urban (Poland)

Antim (Romania)

Cyprián (Slovakia)

Vicente (Spain)

Dagmar, Rigmor (Sweden)

Cosima, Cosimo, Cosmo, Damian, Damiana, Damien, Damion, Damon (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 270 of 2024; 95 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 39 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 23 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 13 (Wu-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 12 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 12 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 30 Aki; Ninthday [30 of 30]

Julian: 14 September 2023

Moon: 95%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 18 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Lesage]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 4 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 4 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Gyfu (Gift) [Half-Month 19 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 10.9)

[docrotten]

IL DEMONIO (THE DEMON, 1963) – Episode 152 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“Blood of Christ. Demon. A curse upon this man. A curse that he will never forget me. Blood of my body. Until the grave. A curse that he will never forget me.” That doesn’t sound like a love spell. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they learn about the folk horror of Southern Italy in Il Demonio (1963).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 152 – Il Demonio (1963)

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Purificata is a young peasant woman in a small Italian villa obsessed with Antonio, a newly married man. Puri’s sickly fixation on Antonio leads her to practice witchcraft in an attempt to direct him to her, but instead, she becomes the subject of a witch-hunt when she appears to be possessed.

  Director: Brunello Rondi

Writers: Brunello Rondi, Ugo Guerra, Luciano Martino

Produced by: Luciano Martino, Ugo Guerra, Federico Magnaghi

Cinematographer: Carlo Bellero

Music: Piero Piccioni

2nd Assistant Director: Sergio Martino

Selected Cast:

Daliah Lavi as Purificata “Puri”

Frank Wolff as Antonio

Anna María Aveta as Sister Angela

Dario Dolci as Father Don Tommaso

Franca Mazzoni as The Mother Superior

María Teresa Orsini as Nun

Rossana Rovere as Antonio’s Wife

Giovanni Cristofanelli as Padre Tommaso (uncredited)

Nicola Tagliacozzo as Zio Giuseppe (uncredited)

If you thought “folk horror” began in the 70s, then Jeff and Grue-Crew have some excellent news for you! Check out this early entry into superstitions and curses with Il Demonio (1963). Is it possession? Is it witchcraft? Could be either, could be both! Regardless, the film is a must-watch for horror aficionados for the exquisite black and white cinematography and remarkable performance from its lead, Daliah Lavi, alone. If you’re like Doc, the gorgeous early Sixties Italian countryside is enough. Regardless, you’ll want to check out this discussion into an overlooked classic.

At the time of this writing, Il Demonio is available to stream from Shudder, Screambox, and Tubi. Il Demonio is also available on physical media in All the Haunts be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror, a stunning Blu-ray collection from Severin that includes 20 feature films plus over 15 hours of special features.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Doc, is I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957). Wait! Is that the one starring Little Joe? Or is it Pa Ingalls? Or a probationary angel?

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com

To each of you from each of them, “Thank you so much for watching and listening!” 

Check out this episode!

[britishchick09]

rewrite coincidences!

david bischoff's poto having 1888 as its year

christine graduating the conservatory the same year erik satie went in

victorien sardou writing 'il muto' and the fedora sarah bernhardt play

the mini series logo having the same font as rewrite erik's handwriting

a mobile game using that font for raoul's handwriting

holly anne hull's ultimate christine certificate being in rewrite christine's handwriting

a palais garnier plan having eerily similar handwriting to rewrite christine's! :o

daddy daae's favorite flower having an alternate name that references nadir

rebecca luker's tenure as christine being 100 years after the rewrite's time

the rewrite trap door being in the irl palais garnier!

listz, one of rewrite erik's favorite composers, having marfan's syndrome just like him

'angel's mask' christine's flat being where the rewrite giry flat was originally going to be

pozzi, a prominent intersex researcher, having a relationship with sarah bernhardt

a letterboxd reviewer for the herculine barbin movie having the first name of erik

a random girl in the herculine movie having rewrite erik's color scheme of black and dark red

herculine barbin, an intersex person with raven locks, having a blonde gf

rue des iris, the street rewrite erik was born on, having an eerily similar name to dies irae, a creepy song from the original book

the website for the old de chagny mansion being called christie, aka raoul's aunt's nickname for christine

‘par le rang et par l'opulence’ being sung in the rewrite and at her majesty's theater aka the west end home of poto

the 'don juan' rehearsals lasting 9 days and the 'ghost on the roof' training montage starting on day 9

me thinking that it would be neat if christine saw mr. e after turning around... and that phrase from the title song appearing right after i thought it!

rewrite erik's epilogue outhit being exactly like the valets in 'family guy'

original book erik having a nearly 4 octave vocal range just like rewrite eristine

rouletabilie playing raoul in a comic... and he's friends with raoul in the rewrite!

buquet appearing on page 13 in the rewrite and original book

the french translator for 'der vampyr' being buried in pere lachaise cemetery aka the original daddy daae cemetery

laura ingalls being a year younger than raoulstine and almanzo being a year older than erik

fanny heldy, the singer who owned christine's dressing room irl, being born in 1888

edmond rostand, a guy who has a library in paris, wrote a 'don juan' play

the mystery gate on rue scribe being in the original book

'un ballo in maschera' having a ton of references with the number 13 and the king being called gustavo nearly like daddy daae

a leggero tenor role called nadir! :D

thinking of an 8 part rewrite mini series... and the chapters splitting up into 8 parts!

visiting the rewrite doc 1888 times on my old drive

WHATEVER THE FRICK 'GHOST' ERIK'S FACE IS???

bonus general poto coincidences:

a sarah bernhardt program having the names weber, carlotta, pauline (christine's prototype name) and christina nilsson

fnac, a store kobo partners with, having a store near palais garnier

coincidences i've discovered since making this post!:

a poto manga using box 3 as box 5

madeleine's actual last name, destin, originating in berry, a town from george sand's 'valentine', which her kid reads years later

erik's babyhood home being located in la carriere, aka part of his last name! (this was found before the post and i forgot to add it!)

st. george's abbey having a raoul with either 'de' or 'cha' in their last names

[readingaway]

Oh yeah I can second the Valente books.

Some weird to very weird books of various flavors I've read include:

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

Swamp Story by Dave Barry

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

How to Be Both by Ali Smith

Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi

The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction by Amy Brashear

The Girl Who Slept With God by Val Brelinski

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

Contact by Carl Sagan

My Tusks of Exctintion post is getting attention so I'm curious, what's the weirdest book you've read? I'd especially love to hear about weird books you enjoyed

I'd start but I didn't actually get around to reading Tusks of Extinction yet, so I'll have to think for a minute

[marvelevreni]

Captain America (1979)

Siz bakmayın 2000’lerden sonra Avengers‘ın filan ortaya çıktığına. Marvel 70’lerin sonunda neredeyse efsanevi bir Avengers takımı daha toplamak üzereymiş. Daha önce konuk ettiğimiz The Amazing Spider-Man ve The Incredible Hulk dizileri ile birlikte Dr. Strange‘in ardından bir de Captain America için 2 bölümlü TV filmi çekilmiş. Dönemin yetersizliklerini bir kenara bırakarak düşünecek olursanız da…

[theyboldlywent]

Don Ingalls (who had also scripted the thoroughly-bungled “The Alternative Factor”) wrote multiple outlines for and the first draft of “A Private Little War.” So, why isn’t his name anywhere to be seen in the final product?

Hewing to an approved outline, Ingalls’ initial screenplay was a fairly straightforward adventure, with the Enterprise being called away and leaving Kirk and McCoy in the middle of a war that the Klingons were manipulating. It featured a few overt references to the Vietnam War, including specific Asiatic clothing cues and a description of Apella that evoked the Communist revolutionary...

[Apella] is quite old, looking a great deal like Ho Chi Min, a wise face, and scholarly eyes, at first glance. A closer look there reveals a craftiness....an innate cruelty...the look of a man whose senses are not offended by death.

....but it wasn’t quite there, as memos from the period reveal.

The production team’s reactions to the delivered draft leaned into the negative, with Gene Roddenberry, Robert Justman, DC Fontana and Gene Coon discussing how to save the core idea, tighten up the story, reach an ending everyone was happy with and make it appropriately Star Trek. Ingalls’ second draft took most of their suggestions to heart, but it wasn’t quite enough to earn him the chance to do a final draft — that belonged to the Great Bird himself.

Despite his long-time friendship with Roddenberry — the two had served together in the LAPD — Ingalls asked for his name to be removed as a story credit and replaced with the pseudonym Jud Crucis. He wasn’t pleased with how the Star Trek creator had laid direct parallels between the war in Asia and the situation on Neural. 

“Mine was more of an adventure in a vacuum. Gene’s was more a political statement. His story was more tilted to parallel Vietnam than I did,” Ingalls would later diplomatically say in an interview. 

Ingalls would also point out that despite rumors that ‘Jud Crucis’ meant ‘Jesus crucified,’ he intended it as a nod to ‘judicious crucis,’ a form of combat in which a single soldier from each king’s army was sent to fight on behalf of their assembled forces. Whoever won that fight won the war. From his perspective, Roddenberry was the victorious king while he suffered defeat.

[kits-shrine]

Ingall hugged Shakko tightly, "You're wonderful, big brother, and I couldn't ask for a better son."

The teen returned the hug "You're a pretty good dad yanno?" he pulled back to look at Ingall with a arched brow "But ya know if ya get hurt mom'll have both our hides. So don' do anything stupid."

[chloeafrazier]

Some Of The Misleading Statements That Caroline Made About Her And Laura.

Hey Everyone How are You doing today ? here are some things that i would Like to talk about some Misleading statements that Caroline

has said on the show in season 7 Ep 1 Entitled Laura Ingalls wilder Part 1 during the scene Caroline goes up to Laura's Room and she

starts brushing her hair and she says You Use to Love for me to brush your hair when you were Little I thought i arm would fall off but i

Loved it okay Look i am sorry but Caroline Hardly ever touched Laura hair i mean like ever when she was Little so i don t know why the

writers had Caroline say this at all Because it was Not true because Never saw her even touch Laura's Hair Let alone Brush it the Next

Misleading statement was Made in season 8 Ep 13 when Laura Became sick after trying to water the Orchard and Caroline takes

Over for Laura with the teaching and Caroline tells the children a story and she says that she use to tell Laura this story all the time

when she was a Little girl and once again i saw this as being a Very Misleading statement as well Because i only ever saw Caroline

reading a story to Laura but one time that was it and she made it seem as if she had told her the story more then once and i do not

think that is true Like at all i am Not saying that Caroline is Lying but i do think that some of the statements that she Made and said were

very Misleading is all and make no sense sometimes Because most the things that she is talking about Never Happened was all well

Thanks for reading have a Great day and ps i love Caroline i just Never Liked the Fact that in her Lines she was Made to say some Misleading statements is all about her and Laura well Thanks for reading have a Great day.

[lyrasky]

【The Flaming Lips/ She Don't Use Jelly】和訳 経年劣化でなく経年向上 Being Jelly's Mightness

【The Flaming Lips/She Don't Use Jelly】和訳 経年劣化でなく経年向上Being Jelly's Mightness Lyraのブログへ #theflaminglips #shedontusejelly #Transmissionsfromthesatelliteheart #lofi #psychedelic #waynecoyne #michaelivins #stevendrozd #ronaldjones #ザフレーミングリップス #noiserock #freak

経年劣化ねぇ〜、なんか嫌な響き。

生き物には、生死が絡んでくるのは仕方がないこと。

だからと言ってそれを悪い物とか、短所にするのって、人間(動物も)を差別してるよう。

その様は、負の連鎖をも呼び、生き生きとした未来をワザと消しゴムで消しさっている様に感じる。

それじゃ、生きるっていけないことみたい。

Lyraには、生きるって素晴らしいことだと思う。

いろんな事を学び、見て、味わい、経験する事で、人はVirsion Up すると信じているからだ。

人は年月と共に変わる…外見のイメージ・チェンジ然り、���面も自信がついたりする(逆もあり)。

人により様々。

経験した事を全て貯め込み、着飾る者も居れば、中には、悟りを開いて余計なものを削ぎ落とし、自分の欲しいものだけに照準を合わす物もいる。

どちらも素敵な行為だと思う。

だから「劣化」と言う単語は、生き物には使うべきではない。

命ある限り、魂は…

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the 1964 Vee-Jay LP INTRODUCING THE BEATLES, Pat Benatar, Ray Bolger, Frances X. Bushman, Eddy Clearwater, Jemaine Clement, Shawn Colvin, the 1972 UK LP issue of CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH, Jim Croce, drum heroes Aynsley Dunbar and Max Roach, Donald Fagen, the 1947 Broadway launch of FINIAN’S RAINBOW, George Foreman, the 1928 Gershwin-Romberg-Wodehouse musical ROSALIE, Byron “Whild Child” Gipson, Teresa Graves, Bob Lang (The Mindbenders), Don Letts (Big Audio Dynamite), Ronnie Hawkins, Paul Henreid, sculptress Barbara Hepworth, Frank James, Brian Joo, Mary Ingalls, Jerry Lee Lewis’s 1958 UK single “Great Balls of Fire,” Linda Lovelace, Mendelssohn’s 1833 cantata  "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," Sal Mineo, St. Philomena, Fayette Pinkney (Three Degrees), Johnnie Ray, Lyle Ritz (Wrecking Crew), Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies), Hrithik Roshan, Samira Said, William Sanderson, Michael Schenker, “Silly Symphony” comics, Frank Sinatra Jr., Sonic the Hedgehog, Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, Rod Stewart, Scott Thurston, composer-violinist Gasparo Visconti, mega-producer Jerry Wexler, and Scott McKenzie, the singer-songwriter best known for his association with John Phillips and the 1967 Summer of Love anthem “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” the sonic tract that called 1000s of young people to California.

Phillips (who played on the track with The Wrecking Crew) wrote the song to appease authorities concerned that hippies would overrun the Bay Area for the Monterey Pop Festival. Peace and love prevailed. The song has been used in several films and was a theme for the Prague Spring Czech uprising in 1968. That same year, McKenzie’s next Top 40 hit “Like an Old Time Movie” (also written and played by Phillips) segued with McKenzie writing “What About Me” for Anne Murray (her first hit single).

Like many artists circa 1960, McKenzie morphed out of doo-wop and became a folkie, joining the New York folk scene that beget The Mamas & The Papas. Phillips initially invited McKenzie to join that group but he declined, saying he didn’t want “the pressure.” His solo career phased in and out, then he joined a road version of The Mamas & The Papas in 1986. Concurrently, the Phillips-McKenzie team joined Mike Love and Terry Melcher to create the huge Beach Boys hit “Kokomo.”

The evergreen “San Francisco” remains McKenzie’s best-known work (he passed from Guillain-Barre syndrome in 2010). Periodically I dabbled with the song, dirty demo-ing a grunge-y Iggy Pop-like update in 1990 (oddly prescient to Iggy moving to my old Nob Hill neighborhood years later): https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/san-francisco-be-sure-to-wear-flowers-in-your-hair-demo-remastered-2020

HB and RIP Scott.

#ScottMcKenzie #SanFrancisco #Flowers #Hair #MontereyPopFestival #SummerofLove #JohnPhillips #MamasandthePapas #wreckingcrew #PragueSpring #folkmusic #BeachBoys #Kokomo #MikeLove #TerryMelcher #GuillainBarre #grungemusic #IggyPop #NobHill #demo #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge

[brokehorrorfan]

The Initiation of Sarah will be released on Blu-ray on June 21 via Arrow Video. Luke Insect designed the new cover art for the 1978 made-for-TV supernatural horror film; the original art is on the reverse side.

Robert Day (She) directs from a script by Don Ingalls (Airport 1975), Carol Saraceno (General Hospital), and Kenette Gfeller. Saraceno shares story credit with Tom Holland (Child's Play, Fright Night). Kay Lenz, Shelley Winters, Morgan Fairchild, Tony Bill, Morgan Brittany, and Tisa Farrow star.

The Initiation of Sarah has been newly restored in 2K from the original camera negative with original lossless mono audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by TV movie expert Amanda Reyes

Interview with story writer Tom Holland

Welcome to Hell Week: A Pledge’s Guide to the Initiation of Sarah - Appreciation by Gaylords of Darkness podcast hosts Stacie Ponder and Anthony Hudson

Cracks in the Sisterhood: Second Wave Feminism and The Initiation of Sarah - Visual essay by film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

The Intimations of Sarah - Film critic Samantha McLaren looks at witchcraft, empowerment, TV movies, and telekinetic shy girls post-Carrie

Image gallery

Booklet with new writing by Lindsay Hallam and Alexandra West (first pressing only)

Shy misfit Sarah Goodwin (Kay Lenz), has a secret gift: the ability to control — and destroy — with her mind. When Sarah goes off to college with her more outgoing and popular sister, Patty (Morgan Brittany, Sundown: The Vampire In Retreat), their plans to join the most prestigious sorority on campus are scuttled by snobby president, Jennifer Lawrence (Morgan Fairchild). Separated from her sister, Sarah is taken in by a rival, less popular sorority, whose mysterious house mother, Mrs. Hunter (Shelley Winters), is harboring a secret of her own: a scheme to harness Sarah’s terrifying power for revenge. Betrayed by Patty, humiliated by Jennifer, it can only be a matter of time before Sorority Hell Week erupts in flame!