#E/R 1984

[trnsocial]

Remember That Show? Ep. 15: E/R (1984)

Adam and Will are are taking an ambulance ride to the past as they watch E/R (no, not that one) featuring George Clooney (seriously, NOT that one), the one season sitcom from 1984 starring Elliott Gould and a cast of familiar faces. We explore the mystery of why George Jefferson appeared in the pilot, reveal which of the actors also appeared in G.I. Joe The Movie and so much more. The RTS hosts…

[ygamiraito]

does this make sense

[fruitcage]

[nerds-yearbook]

The Last Star Fighter premiered on July 13, 1984. The film stood out at the time for it's heavy use of early CGI and was often compared against Return of the Jedi that was still using stop motion, puppets, and matte paintings. Behind the scenes, the film was connected to the Halloween universe as its director Nick Castle played "The Shape" in Halloween, Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills, and "flasher" in Halloween Ends, and stars Lance Guest appeared as Jimmy in Halloween II and Dan O'Herlihy starred as Conal Cochran in Halloween III Season of the Witch. In the story, an alien named Centauri (Robert Preston in his final theatric role) travelled to Earth to recruit high schooler Alex Rogan (Guest), who lived in a trailer park, because he passed a starfighter test disguised as a video game. So his absense wouldn't be noticed, Centari left a Beta clone to take Alex's place and spend time with Alex's brother Louis (Chris Hebert) and Alex's girlfriend Maggie Gordon (Catherine Mary Stewart). Meanwhile in space, due to a betrayal by Xur (Norman Snow), Alex found that he and alien pilot Grig would have to use the last starfighter to fend off an invation lead by Lord Kril (Dan Mason). ("The Last Starfighter", Film, Event)

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: June 4, 1984

Lyrics:

She wears a long fur coat of mink

Even in the summertime

Everybody knows from the coy little wink

The girl's got a lot on her mind

She's got big thoughts, big dreams

And a big brown Mercedes sedan

What I think this girl

She really wants is to be in love with a man

She wants to lead the glamorous life

She don't need a man's touch

She wants to lead the glamorous life

Without love it ain't much

She saw him standing in the section marked

"If you have to ask you can't afford it" lingerie

She threw him bread and said, "Make me scream

In the dark, " what could he say?

Boys with small talk and small minds

Really don't impress me in bed

She said, "I need a man's man, baby

Diamonds and furs

Love would only conquer my head "

She wants to lead the glamorous life

She don't need a man's touch

She wants to lead the glamorous life

Without love it ain't much

They made haste in the brown sedan

They drove to 55 Secret Street

They made love and by the seventh wave

She knew she had a problem

She thought real love is real scary

Money only pays the rent

Love is forever, that's all your life

Love is Heaven-sent it's glamorous

Lead the glamorous life

She don't need a man's touch

She wants to lead the glamorous life

Without love it ain't much, it ain't much

She wants to lead the glamorous life

She don't need a man's touch

She wants to lead the glamorous life

Without love it ain't much, it ain't much

Songwriter: Prince Rogers Nelson

Lead the glamorous life

She don't need a man's touch

She wants to lead the glamorous life

Without love

AlbumFacts:

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[cinemedios]

'Purple Rain: La Vida de Prince', 40 Años de la Púrpura Cumbre

El 28 de julio de 1984 llegó la primera ficción musical protagonizada por el grandioso Prince, siendo merecedora de un premio Oscar y ganando admiradores en todo el mundo es momento de repasar esta icónica película en su aniversario 40.

El 27 de julio de 1984 llegó la primera ficción musical protagonizada por el grandioso Prince, siendo merecedora de un premio Oscar y ganando admiradores en todo el mundo es momento de repasar esta icónica película en su aniversario 40. Reseña | ‘Purple Rain: La Vida de Prince’ A finales de los 70, un joven de apenas 18 años de nombre Prince Rogers Nelson firmaba un contrato con Warner Bros.…

[robobarbie]

odxny and thrim have a movie date/hangout (it is a terminator marathon.)

"Ready?"

Od sighs. "I suppose." They settle into the beanbag behind you, watching as you fiddle with the controller. "Are we really watching them all?"

"As far as we can go, at least."

You start to search for the first film. T....E....R.... god. Searching one letter at a time sure is tedious. You hear Odxny yawn behind you and chuckle.

"Doubt you'll make it past the first two."

"What? Why?" Od scoffs.

"You're, like, old."

"Old??"

"Didn't you go to bed at 8pm yesterday?"

Od kicks your leg. "Shut up. I woke up early."

"And the night before."

"I woke up early that day too!"

"Sure."

You finish keying in the movie title and are met with the glorious poster for the 1984 classic.

Finally, it's time to-

Arms circle your waist and yank you back. With a yelp, you fall back against Odxny into the beanbag.

"Hey!"

"Whose fault is it that I get up early so often, huh?"

"Not mine!"

Od laughs into your neck as they hug you closer to their chest. "It's absolutely your fault."

You crane your head back. "How, exactly?"

"Well. You know. Sleeping next to you and all..."

"Yeah?" You grin. "Get you excited? Make you restless?"

"You-"

"C'mon, just give me the corny line so we can start the movie. Arnold is waiting." You gesture dramatically at the screen.

"...Something about having to sleep next to you just makes me want to get the fuck out of that bed-"

You elbow them. "Fuck you."

"Maybe later."

"Ew!"

Od laughs, and you hit play.

[transmutationisms]

do you have any reading recs (books, ~scholarly articles, whatever) in the same vein as this post? (doesn't need to be a super long list, i'm content to branch off with the works cited of whatever you come up with...) as always, love your blog!! :-)

yes :3 split roughly by subtopic, bolded some favs

Evolution in England prior to (Charles) Darwin

Cooter, Roger. The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science: Phrenology and the Organisation of Consent in Nineteenth Century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1985).

Desmond, Adrian. The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1989).

Elliott, Paul. “Erasmus Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and the Origin of the Evolutionary Worldview in British Provincial Scientific Culture, 1770–1850.” Isis 94 (1): 1–29 (2003).

Finchman, Martin. “Biology and Politics: Defining the Boundaries.” In: Lightman, Bernard (Ed.). Victorian Science in Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1997), 94–118.

Fyfe, Aileen. Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820–1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2012).

Harrison, James. “Erasmus Darwin’s View of Evolution.” Journal of the History of Ideas 32 (2): 247–64 (1971).

McNeil, Maureen. Under the Banner of Science: Erasmus Darwin and his Age. Manchester: Manchester University Press (1987).

Ospovat, Dov. “The Influence of Karl Ernst von Baer’s Embryology 1828–1859: A Reappraisal in Light of Richard Owen’s and William Benjamin Carpenter’s ‘Palaeontological Application of Von Baer’s Law.’” Journal of the History of Biology 9 (1): 1–28 (1976).

Rehbock, Philip F. The Philosophical Naturalists: Themes in Early Nineteenth-Century British Biology. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press (1983).

Richards, Robert J. Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behaviour. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1987).

Rupke, Nicolaas. Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2009 [ 1994]).

Secord, James. Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2001).

van Wyhe, John. Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism. London: Ashgate (2004).

Winter, Alison. “The Construction of Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in the Early Life Sciences.” In: Lightman, Bernard (Ed.). Victorian Science in Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1997), 24–50.

Yeo, Richard. “Science and Intellectual Authority in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain: Robert Chambers and Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.” Victorian Studies 28 (1): 5–31 (1984).

Edinburgh Lamarckians and Scottish transmutationism

Desmond, Adrian. “Robert E. Grant: The Social Predicament of a Pre-Darwinian Transmutationist.” Journal of the History of Biology 17 (2): 189–223 (1984).

Jenkins, Bill. Evolution Before Darwin. Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804–1834. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2019).

Secord, James. “The Edinburgh Lamarckians: Robert Jameson and Robert E. Grant.” Journal of the History of Biology 24 (1): 1–18 (1991).

Corsi, Pietro. ‘Edinburgh Lamarckians? The Authorship of Three Anonymous Papers (1826–1829)’, Journal of the History of Biology 54 (2021), pp. 345–374.

Darwin and Darwinism

Desmond, Adrian and James Moore. Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist. New York: W. W. Norton & Company (1994).

van Wyhe, John. “Mind the Gap. Did Darwin Avoid Publishing his Theory for many years?” Notes & Records of the Royal Society 61 (2007), 177–205.

Sloan, Philip R. “Darwin, Vital Matter, and the Transformation of Species.” Journal of the History of Biology 19 (3): 369–445 (1986).

Phillip R. Sloan, “The Making of a Philosophical Naturalist.” In: Hodge, Jonathan and Gregory Radick (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2009), 17–39.

Sponsel, Alistair. Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2018).

Young, Robert M. “Malthus and the Evolutionists: The Common Context of Biological and Social Theory.” Past & Present 43 (1969): 109–45.

Young, Robert M. “Darwin’s Metaphor: Does Nature Select?” The Monist 55 (3): 442–503 (1971).

Bowler, Peter J. The Non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting a Historical Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1988).

Bowler, Peter J. The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1983).

Hale, Piers J. “Rejecting the Myth of the Non-Darwinian Revolution.” Victorian Review 41 (2): 13–18 (Fall 2015).

Lightman, Bernard. “Darwin and the popularisation of evolution.” Notes and Records of the Royal Society 64: 5–24 (2010).

Richards, Robert J. The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin’s Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1992).

Ruse, Michael. The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1979).

Lamarck and Lamarckism

Barthélemy-Madaule, Madeleine. 1982. Lamarck, the Mythical Precursor: A Study of the Relations between Science and Ideology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Burkhardt, Richard. 1970. Lamarck, Evolution, and the Politics of Science. Journal of the History of Biology 3 (2): 275–298.

Burkhardt, Richard. 1977. The Spirit of System: Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Corsi, Pietro. 1988. The Age of Lamarck: Evolutionary Theories in France, 1790–1830. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Corsi, Pietro. 2005. Before Darwin: Transformist Concepts in European Natural History. Journal of the History of Biology 38 (1): 67-83.

Corsi, Pietro. 2011. The Revolutions of Evolution: Geoffroy and Lamarck, 1825–1840. Bulletin du Musée D’Anthropologie Préhistorique de Monaco 51: 113–134.

Jordanova, Ludmilla. 1984. Lamarck. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Spary, Emma C. 2000. Utopia’s Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

[ltwilliammowett]

A little Naval History Beginners Guide

Books I like to recommend because they are really well written, have a high information content and I personally work with them. This is only a small list, there are of course many more, but for a start these are good to begin with.

   B. Lavery, Nelson’s Navy. The Ships, Men and Organisation. 1793-1815 New Edition    (London 2012)    B. Ireland, Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail. War at Sea 1756-1815 ( London 2000)    N. Tracy, Nelson’s Battles. The Art of Victory in the Age of Sail (London 1996)    D.Davies, A brief history of Figthing Ships (London 1996)    A. Lambert, War at Sea in the Age of Sail 1650- 1850 (London 2000)    G. Wells, Naval Customs and traditions (London 1930)    P. Goodwin, HMS Victory, Pocket Manuel 1805 (London 2015)    J. Eastland a. I. Ballantyne, HMS Victory. First Rate 1765 (London 2011)    J. Bennett, Sailing into the Past. Learning from replica Ships (London 2009)    M. P. Smith, Terror at Sea. True Tales of shipwrecks, cannibalism, pirates, fire at sea & otherdire disasters in the 18th& 19th centuries (Maine, 1995)    J. Lowry, Fiddlers and whores. the candid memoirs of a surgeon in Nelson’s fleet, James Lowry, 1798 (London 2006)    B. Lavery, Royal Tars. The lower deck of the royal navy, 875-1850 (London 2010)    R. and L. Adkins, Jack Tar. Life in Nelson’s Navy (London 2008)   A. Bruce, Encyclopedia of Naval History (London 1998)   J. Black, Naval Power: A History of Warfare and the Sea from 1500 (London 2009)   N.A. M Rodger, The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 (London 1997) C. L. Symonds, The U.S. Navy: A Concise History (New York 2015)

https://naval-encyclopedia.com/ C. G. Davis, American Sailing Ships: Their Plans and History (University of Michigan 1984) B. Greenhill, The Evolution of the Wooden Ship (1988) R. Woodman, The History of the Ship: The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1998)

Admiral W. E. Smith, The Sailor's Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms (England 1867)

[talesfromthecrypts]

Hi Brittany! Do you have any examples of iconic kid roles in horror (Linda Blair in The Exorcist, Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, Isabelle Furhman in Orphan etc)?

Your blog is iconic by the way

Aww thank <3

Village of the Damned (1960), ensemble I guess

Alice, Sweet Alice (1976), Paula E. Sheppard

The Omen (1976), Harvey Stephens

Sleepaway Camp (1983), Felissa Rose

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), Corey Feldman

Poison for Fairies (1986), Ana Patricia Rojo and Elsa Maria Gutierrez

Near Dark (1987), Joshua Miller

Child's Play (1988), Alex Vincent

Pet Semetary (1989), Miko Hughes

It (1990), ensemble

Interview With the Vampire (1994), Kristen Dunst

Trick r' Treak (2007), Quinn Lord

Let the Right One In (2007), Lina Leandersson

The Girl With All the Gifts (2016), Sennia Nanua

Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Lulu Wilson

Us (2019), Shahadi Wright Joseph

Hatching (2022), Siiri Solalinna

Evil Dead Rise (2023), Nell Fisher

Abigail (2024), Alisha Weir

[marypickfords]

"Moreover, by the time Findlay switched her attention to horror, a number of her contemporaries were doing very well from the genre.

Wes Craven, a fully fledged horror auteur by the 1980s, had worked on numerous hardcore features around the time he directed The Last House on the Left in 1972, a widely controversial, yet popular horror film that played all over the world. The success of his subsequent horror films, including The Hills Have Eyes (1977) and especially A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), showed that the transition from porn to horror was not only possible, but also potentially highly lucrative. Similarly, fellow New Yorker William Lustig cut his teeth directing two hardcore features, Hot Honey and The Violation of Claudia (both 1977), prior to shooting the horror film that made his name, Maniac (1980), and several higher-profile R-rated horror films he made in the years that followed.

As hardcore stalwart and director of the R-rated horror film, Deranged (1987), Chuck Vincent, explained to Variety, “Filming adult features has been a tremendous aid for me [and others] in terms of experience,” affording him and his contemporaries the ability to master industry-standard equipment and materials, such as 35mm film, and providing others, including adult film producer and producer of the horror film A Hazing Hell (dir. Paul Ziller, released as Pledge Night in 1988), Joyce Snyder, with unmatched knowledge of distribution and foreign sales.

Findlay, with the assistance of her partner, the composer and studio engineer Walter E. Sear, and their new company Reeltime Distributing (est. 1979), was well positioned to enter commercial filmmaking of this nature, by self-financing and shooting on location (as was usually the case with her adult features), and then exploiting her networks within theatrical, cable, and video distribution."

Johnny Walker, from ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay (2023)

[kon-igi]

QUEL POST CON CUI EMPATIZZERANNO IN TRE (ME COMPRESO) Parte 1

Non è una storia triste, non ci sono plot twist né morali strazianti per cui togliete pure il secchio da sotto la sedia ché i testicoli rimarranno al loro posto (figura retorica gender-inclusiva).

L’altro giorno @der-papero ha rebloggato un mio post in cui c’era l’immagine di una mazza ferrata per ‘resettare’ un pc dicendo ‘Non fare male ai computer che sono stati i miei unici amici per tanti anni! (o qualcosa del genere) ed è a quel punto che io ho pensato la stessa cosa, anche se in modo più specifico e meno informatico del suo.

Dal 1979 a oggi ci sono stati degli ‘amici’ che sono diventati una sorta di pietra miliare temporale a cui posso tornare con la memoria in modo microscopico e con una precisione quasi eidetica, al punto che li posso usare come una personalissima radiodatazione al carbonio per conoscere gli eventi contestuali occorsi in un dato periodo.

Quando ero piccolo ho sempre creduto che tutti giocassero ai videogames, sia con la propria console a casa che nei bar o nelle sale giochi e invece ho lentamente scoperto che non solo quasi nessuno aveva un console per videogames a casa ma che anche i cabinati che erano nelle sale giochi o nei bar per molti non erano affatto un’attrattiva.

Beh... per il sottoscritto le cose andavano in modo molto differente.

Alle console che ho posseduto dedicherò la seconda parte di questo post ma ora vi dico che sul viale pedonale principale di Viareggio (quello del carnevale, per intenderci) c’erano due sale giochi ENORMI (posso confermarlo a distanza di anni che non era solo lo sguardo di bimbo) e mio nonno paterno lavorava li vicino, ragion per cui mi bastava mendicargli mille o duemila lire, cambiare tutto in monete da 200 lire (i gettoni dovevano ancora arrivare) e giocare come se non ci fosse un domani.

Io non so se la seguente descrizione possa avere un senso per la maggior parte di voi ma dovete considerare quanto fosse ENORME il trip sinestesico nell’entrare in uno di quei luoghi: prima di tutto passavi dalla luce del sole a una penombra che assomigliava molto a un buio luminoso, poi le tue orecchie venivano sopraffatte da parecchi decibel di musichette a 8 bit che si mescolavano a formare un meraviglioso cachinno eustordente e infine l’odore di sigaretta che permeava ogni centimetro cubo dell’ambiente con una coltre di fumo in cui lampeggiavano gli schermi dei cabinati come finestre su altri mondi.

(in effetti a posteriori posso capire perché la mia passione non fosse così condivisa)

Ho parlato del 1979 perché quello fu l’anno in cui da flipper, biliardini e altri giochi analogici (che io schifavo) si passò al primo videogame completamente elettronico a grafica vettoriale: ASTEROIDS.

Ora, siccome sono ben consapevole che la maggior parte di voi non ha la minima idea di cosa io stia parlando, sappiate che quando parlavo di finestre su altri mondi era proprio quella la sensazione che allora si provava: dalla visione passiva di un programma televisivo su tubo catodico passavi a poter FARE COSE SULLO SCHERMO, un qualcosa che pochi fra voi possono capire quanto fosse pazzesco.

E quello per me segnò un altro modo di considerare lo scorrere del tempo.

Per esempio, nell’Agosto del 1983 giocai per quindici giorni a Moon Patrol nel piccolo bar dell’Isola del Giglio dove andai in vacanza coi miei genitori 

mentre al Bar Sombrero del mio quartiere nell’inverno del 1984 a Mag Max e Kung Fu Master, quest’ultimo a scrocco perché avevo imparato come accedere al sensore che veniva toccato dalla monetina e dava 1 credito

la stessa estate, nella sala giochi in pineta, scoprii e finii Bubble Bobble (l’intro musicale mi dà ancora i brividi) mentre il Juke Box mandava in loop una canzone che dopo ho scoperto essere Sweet Dreams degli Eurythmics. 

Trojan nel bar Moreno sotto a una tenda minuscola, R Type al chiosco sul viale dei tigli, Tiger Road al bagno Aretusa, Circus Charlie nel bar della stazione vecchia vicino al biliardo dal panno verde consumato e segnato dalle sigarette, Knuckle Joe in un hotel in Val d’Aosta per la gita di terza media, Wiz nel bar vicino casa di mia nonna materna, Bomb Jack al maneggio dove Diego con 200 lire giocava tutto il giorno e regalava crediti, Bank Panic al bar del cinema all’aperto e New Zeland Story in quello del palazzetto dello sport mentre mangiavo un Paciugo all’amarena, prima Green Beret e poi Iron Horse nella pasticceria sotto casa di mia nonna paterna con l’odore di sfoglie alla crema, Robocop e Xain’d Sleena al bar del liceo, finiti entrambi a memoria prima che suonasse la campanella, i tornei di Dark Stalker con i miei amici al bar della stazione nuova e poi ancora X-Men e Avengers.

Centinaia di giochi che meriterebbero decine di post perché con mille lire potevo andare in un mondo dove non ero più il ciccione sfigato che non sapeva giocare a pallone... ero quello che poteva sconfiggere i nemici e alla fine vincere, sempre.

L’ultimo arcade cabinato a cui giocai - e poi dopo quella data praticamente scomparvero per essere sostituiti dalle Slot Machine - fu Metal Slug, in data 1997, dopo aver lasciato Figlia Grande all’asilo nido nel piccolo ritaglio di tempo prima di andare nello studio medico dove avevo appena cominciato a lavorare.

Naturalmente lo finii ma finì anche col chiudersi quella parentesi durata appena vent’anni ma lunga una vita intera.

Chi di voi è abbastanza vecchio da capirmi?

@axeman72​? @renatoram​? @ilnonnodiinternet​​? 

[cherrylng]

Muse Disc Guide - The Resistance [STYLE Series #004 - Muse (August 2010)]

The Resistance

IN MUSIC Having established themselves as a stadium-class national band in the UK, their fourth world tour took them to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. They conquered five continents. Having gone as far as they could musically with their last album, it was interesting to see what direction Muse would take next, but this time they decided to venture into new territory by self-producing without using an outside producer.

So far, each album has evolved to become more dense, more exaggerated, more massive, more dynamic, more varied…… at times it leaves the listener shaken, wondering, "Can they pull it off this far!?" How far will they go without a third party to stop them? This album, which we greeted with such expectations and a touch of anxiety, was surprisingly clear-cut with its finish.

After a barrage of songs that mastered electronic elements in a modern way, such as electro-glam (1/ Uprising), 80s-style synth drums and piano with a gorgeous chorus (2/ Resistance) and R&B-style electropop (3/ Undisclosed Desires) that reminded me of Depeche Mode, the following song (4/ United States Of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage)) turned into a magnificent and grandiose rock opera. The Arabic music-like interlude with piano and strings in the middle of the song is full of power! This was a result of making use of their experiences in the Middle East. The final section leads into Chopin's Nocturne No. 2, a development that might not have been possible if an outside producer had been present. Similarly, the last three pieces are three-part rock symphonies by Matthew. His classical taste is on full display.

The relatively unprocessed infusion of all three tastes from the trio balances the overall ups and downs of this album, which is generally dominated by mid-tempo songs, except for (6/ Unnatural Selection) and (7/ MK Ultra), where the heavy, intense guitars explode into a gallop. The album became a worldwide smash hit, to the surprise of the band themselves, who said, "We did whatever we wanted." —Sumi Imai

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2009 Hit Albums

Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga were the stars of the 2009 scene. Michael was scheduled to perform 50 shows of 'This Is It' at London's O2 Arena from July 13th, 2009, but died suddenly on June 25th. While the world was in a state of surprise and sadness, the documentary film of the same name, featuring rehearsal footage, became an unprecedented blockbuster hit. Meanwhile, the momentum of 'The Fame', released by Gaga in 2008, continued unabated, and the eight-track 'The Monster', released in 2009 as a coupling (A/ The Fame Monster) to the reissue of 'The Fame', was also a big hit, including 'Bad Romance' and 'Telephone' with Beyoncé. Beyoncé and other female artists were also in high spirits, with Grammy winners Taylor Swift (B/ Fearless) and KE$HA constantly making noise on the stage. It was also in 2009 that Susan Boyle, a plain middle-aged Scottish woman, attracted attention on the popular audition programme ‘Britain's Got Talent’ and made her long-sought album debut with ‘I Dreamed a Dream’.

Among rock bands, U2 (C/ No Line On The Horizon), Pearl Jam, Green Day, and Jets released new albums one after the other. Among young artists, Animal Collective's (D/ Merryweather Post Pavilion), The Horrors, and Grizzly Bear attracted attention with their new releases. Among solo artists, the young UK singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini's (E/ Sunny Side Up) and Canadian Michael Bublé's (F/ Crazy Love) were big hits. The latter in particular appealed to a wide audience and was a huge success, topping the album charts in the US, UK, and other countries.

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IN LYRICS

Inseparable from this album is George Orwell's 1984. (2/ Resistance) is about forbidden love under surveillance and information control, and (4/ United States Of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage)) about perpetual war to maintain the power of the rulers (the title is taken from American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives). Both clearly follow the world of '1984', but in fact the lyrics can also be seen as a reference to the ‘crisis of the moment’ in the sense that they illuminate the geopolitics of post-9/11, with today's controlled society in which individuals and their information can be monitored from every angle, from CCTVs to satellites on the ground and eventually the internet network. The lyrics can also be seen as a reference to the ‘current crisis’. (1/ Uprising) and (7/ MK Ultra), which deal with mind control, also encompass a similar worldview, but at the same time Matthew tries to present a critical perspective on the crisis and hope by confronting the unshakable will and love that lies beyond it, in a situation where the ‘individual’ is being lost. This is the deeper meaning behind the song titles ‘Uprising’ and ‘Resistance’.

"Love" is also the warp of the lyrical universe, with occasional moments of overt expression. In an interview with Q magazine, Matthew says, ‘It's a personal song about me and my girlfriend’ (3/ Undisclosed Desires), which is a typical example of this. The song is Muse's version of a ‘hymn to love’, a sublime love song.

When I heard the news that Muse were to perform with U2's The Edge on stage at Glastonbury in 2010, it occurred to me that ‘The lyrics of both bands share a common language of “protest” and “love”’. Matthew's world will continue to grow in scale within the time axis of ‘now’. —Abe Kaoru

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YEAR 2009 January - US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in New York, but the captain's quick thinking brought all passengers and crew back safely. It was dubbed the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’. February - Japanese films 'Departures/Okuribito' and 'La maison en petits cubes/Tsumiki no Ie' won double awards at the 81st Academy Awards. March - Samurai Japan [aka Japan's national baseball team] won the World Baseball Classic. April - H1N1 influenza outbreak in Latin America, followed by a worldwide pandemic. May - Twitter, the internet chat service, becomes a worldwide phenomenon. Muse also announced the title of a new song in the works on Twitter. - The jury system (saiban-in in Japan) came into force. June - The H1N1 influenza alert level is raised to the highest, Phase 6. - Michael Jackson's death sent shockwaves around the world. He was 50 years old. July - Longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century. In Japan, it could be seen in the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture and elsewhere. August - The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won an overwhelming victory in the 45th general election for the House of Representatives. September - Muse's 5th album 'The Resistance' was released. It reached No.1 in 20 countries, including the UK. - To celebrate 10 years since the release of their first album, the band played a two-day open-air show at ‘The Den’ in their home town of Teignmouth. It was the first time in 12 years that the band had performed in their hometown, and the triumphant return of the national stars was a major event for the whole town. - After performances in Germany and France, the band travels to the USA to take part in U2's 360°Tour. October - European tour begins. - US President Barack Obama receives the Nobel Peace Prize. - Rio de Janeiro is chosen to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. November - Chris joins the testicular cancer charity ‘Movember’. December - Muse travels to the USA for performances in Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

Translator's Notes: We're... actually not done here yet. We still have their live DVDs to cover.

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Fun Fact I am affected by heavy synesthesia and decided to document a few silly things! When i read certain words / letters / numbers i see colors and taste things! As well as with listening to music i see visuals and taste things etc Feel free to ask questions i love answering!

Long post but basically i list brain associations so stuff under cut if you care to read

Anyway to the interesting stuff 😋😋

Color Flavors

🔴 - spicy and bitter with some sweetness. Makes my chest hurt

🟠 - Not sweet or sour it's like a uhh a snow cone

🟡 - frostingless sugar cookie

🟢 - butter

🔵 - steak

🟣 - those little mini cake things they have at weddings

⚫ - sweet and crunchy but has a dust residue like a handful sprinkles

⚪ - pineapple gummy bear

💗 - Walmart birthday cake

Colors / shapes i see when listening to artists

Lemon Demon - navy blue trapezoids and red triangles

Tally Hall - yellow circles and white diamonds

Will Wood - green squares and purple spiral circles (?)

Marina - pink bubbles and white sparkles

Lovejoy - light blue arrows facing downward

Penelope Scott - black semicircles

Mitski - slate colored trapezoids

TV Girl - gray rectangle

Weezer - green boing boing dog toy idk how to describe it

TMBG - orange semicircle really stretched

Oingo Boingo - green circles

Letter and Number Color Associations

A🔴 B🔵 C🟡 D🟢 E🟡 F🔴 G🟤 H🟤 I🔵 J🟣 K🟣 L🟣 M🟤 N🔵 O🔵 P🟣 Q⚫ R🔴 S🟡 T🟣 U🟣 V🔵 W🟣 X⚫ Y⚪ Z🔵 0⚪ 1🔵 2🟢 🟡 4🟡 5🔴 6🟢 7🔵 8⚫ 9🔴 10⚫

Day of the week Equations

10 x 0 = Sunday, 100 - 46 = Monday, 25 - 11 = Tuesday, 4 x 4 = Wednesday, 7 x 7 = Thursday, 5 x 5 is Friday, 10 x 5 = Saturday

Day of the Week Colors

Monday is Black Tuesday is dark blue Wednesday is dark green Thursday is dark purple Friday is yellow Saturday is lavender and Sunday is gray I don't make the rules

School Subject Colors

Math is red, Science is green, social studies is blue, literature / English is purple, art is also green

Number Flavors

0 - the chemicals you blow bubbles with when you accidentally get it in your mouth

1 - plain cracker you get in restaurant baskets

2 - gummy worm that's really old

3 - Doritos

4 - hamburger

5 - giant hot apple left in the sun 2 hours

6 - green apple

7 - steak fajita

8 - grape juice

9 - Hot Dog

10 - seat belt

Smells and Tastes regarding Music

Lemon Demon - lavender candle smell, taste like burger

Tally Hall - rusting Metal smell, taste like cold butter just taken out of the fridge

Will Wood - old church carpet smell, tastes like communion wine

Marina - tropical car refreshener smell, taste like putting a pen in your mouth

Lovejoy - smells like sea salt, tastes like sea salt chocolate

Penelope Scott - smells like rotting wood, tastes like Coca Cola

Mitski - smells like soap, tastes like Christmas cookies

TV Girl - smells like perfume drowning out body odor, tastes like ham sandwich that got ketchup on it

Weezer - smells like hamburger, taste like banana

TMBG - smells like antique store, taste like Olive Garden bread

Oingo Boingo - smells like barbecue, tastes like those big ass erasers people would poke with their pencils in elementary school

Misc

My Name - smells like vanilla perfume from bed bath and bodyworks, tastes like cheese pizza, is the color gold

Five Nights at Freddys - smells like cigarettes, tastes like burger (WHY DOES EVERYTHING TASTE/SMELL LIKE BURGER), is the color purple

Electric Dreams 1984 - smell like a city in Mississippi i went to 7 years ago, taste like red velvet cake, is the color hot pink

The number 999 tastes like watermelon

Pinterest app smells like nail polish and popcorn

Spotify taste like Gatorade

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S U P E R N A T U R A L T W I N P E A K S

john winchester's journal, 1984; the secret diary of laura palmer, undated