#Geordie Johnson

[franzliszt-official]

What's the best portrayal of yourself you've seen in modern media?

Good day my darling mask.

Have thus a podium from nearest to farthest to me.

This one, I'd suppose. Svjatoslav Richter certainly knew how to play, which is the most important thing, and his mannerisms are exact to what has made me despised by many. Alas, he lacks in height and voice... One cannot have everything... This is what I would present myself as, all around and most of all as an artist.

Sviatoslav Richter as Franz Liszt in the "Glinka - The Composer" movie - YouTube

As to media centered around my person, the only two I would save are the long performance by Géza D. Hegedüs... Which stars as well as Daniel, my son, at one point...

...and, but to a much lower degree, fitting for looks and self-deprecament, Geordie Johnson in Liszt's Rhapsody.

[kwebtv]

Dracula: The Series - Syndicated - September 29, 1990 - May 11, 1991

Supernatural / Drama (21 episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Bernard Behrens as Gustav Helsing

Geordie Johnson as Alexander Lucard/Count Dracula

Mia Kirshner as Sophie Metternich

Joe Roncetti as Christopher Townsend

Jacob Tierney as Max Townsend

Geraint Wyn Davies as Klaus Helsing

Lynne Cormack as Eileen Townsend

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SnowJob ‘97 — RPM Magazine

[oldtvlover]

And today then A Stranger in the Mirror from 1993, based on a novel by Sidney Sheldon. Cast: Perry King - Toby Temple Lori Laughlin - Jill Castle Geordie Johnson - David Kenyon Juliet Mills - Alice Tanner Christopher Plummer - Clifton Lawrence Lochlyn Munro - Alan Preston and many more 

Story: Toby Temple, a low comedian with no luck, is sent out to the country but he makes it till Hollywood where he is still low but meets the right woman, Alice. She brings him into contact with Clifton Lawrence who becomes his agent and so Toby's career slowly but steadily takes off. He even gets his own TV show. On the other hand, Josie works as a waitress but dreams also from a Hollywood career, yet when David, her big love, marries another woman, she goes there and learns the hard way how they do business there. She changes her name to Jill and meets Toby at his show. Well, he's quickly attracted to her and can be very persistent to get a date. It works and they even marry, despite his agent's doubts and Jill uses her power over him to get what she wants. Until a stroke hit Toby who then can't talk and walk anymore but Jill doesn't give up and gets him back on his feet. They are happy to go to London where Jill/Josie meets David again what Toby sees quickly that there's more behind it. Clifton, meanwhile, has discovered the old porn movie and wants to show it Toby but they are away. At the airport, Toby plays around and gets a second stroke, leaving him more or less bed-ridden. Jill is ready to kill him but Toby can all of a sudden speak to her in her mind. Or she thinks, with his eyes. Never mind, Toby still sees what's going but he's drowned himself with his wheelchair in his own pool where he dies. After some grieving time, Jill decides to take David's offer on a cruise where Clifton shows him the movie and David flips out, leaving the boat. Clifton then shows up and tells Jill about this. She's angry but can't do anything. In the end, she hears Toby's voice and follows it. At her balcony, she sees his face in the water and follows him, to be with him.

Well, the movie is available on Youtube and be aware of some strange twists. Logic works not always.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Brian Johnson

[you-will-adore-me]

The other day I went to see The Angels of North Tour at the girls’ & my home town and omfg it was legit one of the best shows I’ve ever been too. It was so consistent, the music was perfect, the story was engaging & hilarious with local references, the costumes were amazing, the choreo ??? Fantastic, every joke landed there was not a single dull moment.

Drag race UK girlies on top as usual 🖤🤍

[stealfromthedevil]

Just the best night ever. 🖤🤍

(Photos by Serena Taylor)

[dinosaursr66]

This song has been covered memorably by many bands and artists. I love this version the most. Brian Johnson on lead vocals pre AC/DC.

SONG OF THE DAY - April 26, 2023

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

Geordie feat. Brian Johnson: She's A Teaser (Live TV Performance, 1974)

[chacusha]

The Orville thoughts

Okay, basically, most of my reaction to watching the first few minutes of this show is "How is this legal?!" Like, people weren't kidding when they said this show is more Star Trek than modern Star Trek...

(I haven't seen this many Star Trek alumni in one place since Disney's Gargoyles! :V Seriously, my face when I saw Penny Johnson Jerald!)

More thoughts:

This show really GETS the value of opening episodes with senior officers engaging in some wacky off-duty bullshit before getting called to the bridge.

This show also GETS the value of showing events happening in bright, clear lighting. Even if this makes the cheesiness of the costumes, locations, and special effects more apparent, it also makes for clearer action too, so very much worth it overall IMO.

It is so bro-y, though. So, so bro-y. I think I might have died during the "astrology sucks" episode.

Also, I feel like Kelly Grayson's character is like the embodiment of the Cool Girl archetype (bro version)? Effortlessly pretty, always willing to get drunk and party (never in an ugly or unappealing sort of way, though), always on Ed's (quite bro-y) level when it comes to humor and hobbies and interests (you know, except for that One Time She Betrayed Him).

Also, there is so much weird "women are emotional and men are logical" and other gender essentialism going on in this show that I'm not even going to go near that... Other than to note that a lot of the issues around the depiction of Moclan culture and the relationship between the Federation Union and Moclus in the show suffers from an ultimately patriarchal sort of approach to feminism.

I might be a bit feral for Claire and Isaac's relationship, though. A lot of the elements of The Orville seem to be a direct reference to Star Trek (especially TNG). As part of that, Isaac is clearly a Data expy (except with a robot superiority complex and therefore very much NOT The Nicest Boy, unlike how Data is), but I appreciate the differences here -- that they weren't afraid to give the Data expy character a romantic plotline (quite similar to the Data episode "In Theory," which ultimately shied away from having Data successfully be in a romantic relationship). I appreciate this plotline as the path not taken there!

Overall, I think this show is surprsingly good at doing sincere emotional moments (which is unexpected given Seth Macfarlane's oeuvre), but terrible at doing politics/philosophical debates/legal drama. (Like, some of the arguments made during these sci-fi issue debates are often so bad/shallow/missing the point, it's a bit cringeworthy.) Which is quite ironic given above-mentioned weird gender essentialism going on in the writing of the show!

That said, even though I would say the politics of The Orville is only OK (I would describe it as trying to live up to Star Trek but distinctly "Reddit atheist" in its aesthetic and political leanings), at least The Orville TRIES to do philosophical debate plotlines (i.e. episodes where the whole conflict/source of tension is an ethical puzzle and one that isn't a painfully easy "obviously good position vs. obviously evil position" ethical "debate" such as "is genocide good? please discuss" or "which is better: doing science or waging war? discuss"), which is something that modern Trek seems to have kind of given up on. And often the politics here, even if not particularly great, still have a distinctly progressive lean, which is better than shows like Picard, for example.

Sometimes it's hard for me to tell what in this show is meant to be a sudden change in creative vision, hastily executed, and what is meant to be a purposeful reference to TNG's (own hastily-executed) writing. For example, the black officer at the conn who suddenly gets promoted to chief of engineering? The show deciding they needed to switch directions with this character and give him more to do, or is John LaMarr a big reference to Geordi La Forge? The female security officer getting suddenly put on a bus -- a reference to what happened to Tasha Yar, or an indication of behind-the-scenes conflict? (Whatever the intention is, the writing here, while hasty, is still overall better done than those bumpy early parts of TNG.)

Another good thing about this show is that it has a good, very likable/charming mauve shirt cast, which it treats pretty well. Which, again, is more than what can be said about a lot of modern Trek, which either has very flat and boring mauve shirts, or kills them off for cheap drama (or, frequently, both, which is hilarious -- like, sure, maybe this mauve shirt dying would have some emotional weight on this show if they literally had a personality or were given anything interesting to do before this episode, but they weren't, so... 🤷).

I was looking at reviews this show got, and apparently it was quite poorly reviewed in the first season, but got better reception in later seasons. I guess this makes sense as the first season was kind of stuck in that weird area between irony-filled parody, fawning homage, and just trying earnestly to bring more Star Trek-type entertainment into the world. People seemed to think it found its footing by jettisoning some of the edgier and irreverent parody aspects in favor of straightforward earnesty, but I also kind of wonder if what happened was more like as Star Trek shows started getting worse around it (Discovery declining in quality; Picard just... being Picard....; Strange New Worlds being distinctively, like, just OK; Lower Decks being fine while avoiding serious/philosophical plotlines; Prodigy also being fine but for kids), having something that didn't shy away from the aesthetics, sci-fi worldbuilding + cosmopolitics, and self-contained plots of TNG felt refreshing? Like The Orville seemed to find its niche largely by just keeping going with what it was doing, while nuTrek failed to fill or offer anything in that highly-coveted niche aside from the perfectly passable but somewhat bland SNW.

So yeah, overall, this show falls quite short of meeting the bar of "more 90s Star Trek for you to watch," but it benefits from sincerely trying to be that, including not being afraid to do entirely new worldbuilding and political-balance-of-power within its own new universe. Or trying to create plots that tackle social issues not handled before by 90s Star Trek shows. In that sense, it keeps quite well with the original spirit of Star Trek even if it doesn't quite get there. There are some updates here as well due to being made several decades later, like more casual depictions of LGBT relationships, more variety in the alien designs, and more smoothness to the writing in general (like more coherent episode plots and character arcs). Overall, I felt the show very worth watching although quite "pointy" in quality (i.e. does some things really, really great, while doing others very poorly) and just very refreshing in the current nuTrek environment. (But with Discovery regaining its footing, maybe that will change!)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Brian Johnson & Geordie - Hope You Like It

[you-will-adore-me]

I just want to say as someone who lives in North East I am absolutely beaming with pride for the 3 finalists on Drag Race Uk S5. They did us so so proud & I could not have asked for a better run for the 3 of them. Love them all to pieces & can’t wait to see them on tour up here. Geordies 🖤🤍

[kwebtv]

Bionic Ever After - CBS - November 29, 1994

Science Fiction

Running Time:

Stars:

Lee Majors as retired Air Force Colonel Steve Austin

Lindsay Wagner as former tennis pro Jaime Sommers

Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman

Farrah Forke as Kimberly Harmon / Haviland

Martin E. Brooks as Dr. Rudy Wells

Alan Sader as John MacNamara

Anne Lockhart as Carolyn MacNamara

Geordie Johnson as Miles Kendrick

Featuring:

Ivan Sergei as Astaad Rashid, a charismatic tennis star

Lee Majors II as Jim Castillian, an OSI agent

Robert D. Raiford as Minister

James Shanta as Rock

Michael Hartson as Stone

Ann Pierce as Connie Havilland

Michael Camden Richards as NEC Technician

Shanghai Stafford as Marine Captain

General Fermon Judd, Jr. as Bahamas Policeman

Michael Burgess as Delta Commando

Steffen Foster as Reporter

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Writing Patterns

Thanks for the tag, @curator-on-ao3! This is a very interesting trip down memory lane...

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

Working in reverse posting order:

I'm With Her (The Closer: Brenda Leigh Johnson/ Sharon Raydor, 5+1 fic, completed but not fully posted yet; T) "The first time Sharon Raydor saw Brenda Leigh Johnson, she was waiting at the LAX baggage claim to welcome her son home from college."

When the Night Comes (The Closer: Brenda/ Sharon, double drabble; G) "Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson finds it easier to forget the horrible things she’s done when the days are busy and filled with new challenges to conquer."

Patheti-Q (TNG: Picard and Q, prompt based gift fic for Star Trek Winter Gift Exchange, one shot; T) "They are sitting in a bar when they see him."

Candy Hearts and Other Sweet Surprises (ST: Prodigy: Gwyn/Dal, Valentine's Day one shot; G) "At the end of his first week aboard the USS Voyager-A, Dal R’El decided that it was a lot more exhausting being an actual Starfleet warrant officer than it was being a fake Starfleet captain."

A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes (Star Trek crossover: Beverly Crusher/ Kathryn Janeway, multi-prompt fic from femslash feb; T) ""I like it,” Beverly said, fingering the grey streak in Kathryn’s hair."

The blue of your eyes, the gold in your smile (Star Trek crossover: Beverly/Kathryn, one shot multi-prompt fic from femslash feb; G) "The package contained only three things: a strip of black silk, an umbrella, and an envelope."

The Holo-Adventures of Data Holmes (Star Trek crossover: Data/Geordi, Janeway & Tuvok, prompt based gift for Star Trek Winter Gift Exchange, multichapter, G) "Geordi La Forge moved quickly across the grounds of Starfleet headquarters, hoping to avoid being stopped on his way to the holo-complex."

I'll Be Home For New Year's (ST crossover: Beverly/ Kathryn, one shot, T) "It’s late when Beverly gets home from the New Year’s gala, although she still managed to make her escape before midnight."

Resolutions? More Like Revelations! (Voyager: J/C, babyfic, multichapter, T) "Kathryn Janeway could not get out of bed."

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita (Voyager, post canon: J/C, Janeway & various, multi-chapter vignettes, T) "My childhood home shimmers into existence before me."

Tagging 10 people (who hopefully haven't been tagged before?): @ussjellyfish, @madamairlock, @caitylove, @isagrimorie, @cleverlycrusher, @commandermeg, @ruthbaderjaneway, @captainhattersvoyagerstuff, @regionalpancake, @magdalenejaneway