#German Robles

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It's number TWO FIFTY! THANK YOU to all of our patrons for sticking with us over the last 250 pieces of bonus audio!

This clip is from our episode on EL ATAUD DEL VAMPIRO (1958), aka THE VAMPIRE'S COFFIN from director Fernando Mendez and starring German Robles and Abel Salazar!

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On January 2, 1960, El Vampiro debuted in West Germany.

Here's a new drawing of German Robles to celebrate!

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Swipe File 26: El Vampiro Goes Viral

In honour of the upcoming Blu-ray premiere of El vampiro and El ataúd del vampiro, here are some of the many times the likeness of actor Germán Robles as "Count Duval aka Count Lavud" has been borrowed (clockwise from top left):

USA video release of a different film (Guess What Happened to Count Dracula, 1971);

Mexican lobby card for a different film (Slaughter of the Vampires, '62);

Italian fumetto Il Vampiro 44 (1978);

Spanish horror comic SOS 44 (1976);

German horror comic Gespenster Geschichten 1285 (cover by Sanjulián);

Mexico horror comic El Viejo 54 ('70, cover by García Tena);

Ad mat for a different Mexican film (El imperio de Dracula, '66, with Eric del Castillo as the vampire);

Ad for a spook show circa ’74;

Spanish horror comic Horror 10 ('74, cover Rafael Cortiella);

1977 Italian disco record

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weirdlookindog

dettman-ima-meat-popscicle

La Cabeza Viviente (1963) Mexican Poster

AKA El ojo de la muerte, The Living Head

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German Robles- the VAMPIRE'S COFFIN (1958)

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German Robles-the VAMPIRE (1957)

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Yesica Nery Plata vs. Kim Clavel - 1/13/2023

Mexican light flyweight star Yesica Nery Plata (29-2) has been on a run since 2018. She's got wins over a lot of top fighters around the weight class - Silvia Torres, Sandra Robles, Yesica Bopp, and most recently Kim Clavel. That run has netted her the WBA and WBC light flyweight titles.

Now she is headed to Germany, where she will attempt to defend her title against German boxer Sarah Bormann (17-0) this Saturday (Dec. 16).

[cerebraldischarge]

They say, you have to leave in order to return.

But I have been both at home this whole time and far away from home. My body is a lumbering RV rolling through this ambiguous vacation. I see every new landscape through a window, without being a part of the scene. I have accepted that as my role, for the most part. Maybe that’s why the destructive whispers of most humans barely reach my ears anymore, let alone my heart. Or maybe I just got used to the fact that, by virtue of not being human like them, I will always attract suspicion with my unusual nature. The vitriol itself abated, too - perhaps they figured out that I meant no harm, and classified me as a non-threat simply because I’m just an observer. And yet, I still hope that keeping this travel diary can sort of count as participation. After all, I may be the only one who notices a certain thing on the road.

There’s one observation that I keep spotting out there, attracting my attention like an odd-shaped cactus in the dry orange sea.

This is it: What the hell happened to the queer community?!

Willem Arondeus, before being executed for resistance activities by everyone’s favorite German villains, made the statement: “homosexuals are not cowards”.

Amelio Robles Ávila, a trans man born in 1889, would shoot anyone who taunted him by calling him a woman.

Aileen Wuornos made the world a slightly safer place for women by taking out seven male creepers, then went to her death with the knowledge that she did nothing wrong.

But are we still not cowards? Are we still ready to fight in a revolution? Are we still willing to protect ourselves?

I won’t get into the statistics here, because they can be just as easily used to prove one thing as its opposite, but there seems to be a theme within the bulk of the queer community (and the allies) which puts a strong emphasis on peacefulness, warm and fuzzy feels, community-orientedness, and projecting a generally “cute and harmless” public image. That on its own is not really a problem, but the balance seems to have been shifted. In the content the community leaders share, there seems to be a lot of talk about how we are supposed to be afraid, targeted by the baddies, experiencing dread and hopelessness, being essentially a helpless victim and expecting to be validated by legislation and flashy, organized gestures of acceptance. Is this really necessary?

I don’t mean we should “be fine with” discrimination and actual rights being taken away, but do you think the people who legitimately want you dead (whether they admit it in daylight or not) will suddenly change and start giving a damn if you show them how miserable they are making you the hundredth time? And do you really think any politician actually cares? I don’t know who said this, but it appears to be truer than ever: people who think politicians truly represent their interests are the same people who think the stripper at the bar really likes them.

As for my personal reason why this bugs me so much: while projecting the image of “we love everyone”, nonviolence, peace-light-and-harmony, these same community leaders shut down any sort of disagreement or criticism with the help of technology, money, and clout. It’s as if some people (I’m not naming names because 1. It’s not important, 2. I don’t remember half of the names of the people I had this experience with) have a poor ability to distinguish between bigots and real enemies on one hand, and potential allies with a different perspective on the other. Let’s not mince words here: I have been banned, deleted, harassed, and made out to be the bad guy multiple times by my fellow queers because I dare to advocate for self-defense - both on a personal and on an organizational level. I try to educate and infect the community with my love for the Second Amendment and the ideas that often come associated with it, such as personal responsibility and economic sensibility, as well as restricted government power and mostly unrestricted discussion of ideas. (Am I the only one who expected this stuff to be part of the default American attitude package in the first place, by the way?) Occasionally I get a positive response, but most often I get called out for “bigotry”, “ignorance”, and “disrespectful” behavior.

I get it, y’all. You probably only heard stuff like this (especially the Second Amendment part) from actual bigots who 1. hate you without even knowing why, and 2. have less than zero idea about what being a sexual or gender minority even means and think that gays have been invented in the 1980s. That’s who gets on TV, that’s who gets to be heard - because perturbed emotions equal higher ratings, and you can’t sell a media product without covering some kind of conflict. The more exaggerated, the better. People - all people - have a ghoulish side to them: they want to “spill the tea”, “own the libs”, see someone fly high and fall down. We are drawn to gawking at tragedy, even if we hate it - at least it’s not boring, after all!

(one of my favorite songs seems relevant here: TOOL - Vicarious)

So, it’s natural to associate the words in my mouth with the rotten people who try to weaponize them against us. (Mostly the “religious freedom for me, but not for thee” crowd, who often have the audacity to display patriotic imagery while spouting their nonsense. I forgot the name again, but years ago I’ve seen a white-haired man preach the wrath of his god on anyone who isn’t 100% cis and straight - and he did this with the Preamble as his graphic backdrop. I remember that part, because it made me livid. You would never say that stuff if you have read the damn thing!)

But stop and think. As the popular slogan goes, “we don’t want to make your kids queer, we want your queer kids to survive” - if that’s really the case, what are we actually doing towards that goal? Could we be more effective? Have the years of dragging out statistics proving our victimhood changed anything? Yes, some minds can be changed through discourse, as the growth of the secular/atheist community has demonstrated. But some minds will not be changed and will not respond to anything gentle. In fact, I myself have been embarrassed to be associated with people who, frankly, appear to be weak and vulnerable. Yes, some of us are genuinely vulnerable, gentle souls who could never hurt a fly - even if said fly actively works for the KKK or something. But that’s not all we are.

Perhaps I’m painting too bleak a picture here - after all, Erin Palette and Gina Roberts, with their wonderful organizations, are already doing the work I’m trying to urge y’all to start doing. But there is still, in many places, this self-destructive resistance towards the idea of putting on some big girl pants and protecting our own community, and it’s just sad to see.

The government is not there to feed and save you. Not even if you sacrifice everything to it and let it micromanage all your choices and lives. If you let it control you in exchange for bribes and comforting feelings, you risk it turning against you on a whim - all it takes is an election, or one corrupt person, or an unforeseen situation in your life that the algorithm cannot handle. (There was a British series in the 1970s called Space: 1999, in which the main computer brain, when faced with a particularly difficult problem, ethical dilemma, or outlandish occurrence, displayed the words “Human Decision Required” on its screen. I’m sure you can think of situations from your life where, inevitably, human decision was required. Or even a moment when the option applicable to you was not present on a standardized questionnaire you had to fill out. I mean… do I really need to explain this to you, of all people?)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 6.20

Beer Birthdays

Greg Robles (1964)

Forest Gray (1967)

Lisa Zimmer (1977)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Wendy Craig; English actor (1934)

Andy Etchebarren; Baltimore Orioles C (1943)

Errol Flynn; actor (1909)

Nicole Kidman; actor (1967)

Brian Wilson; pop singer, songwriter (1942)

Famous Birthdays

Danny Aiello; actor (1933)

Michael Anthony; rock bassist (1954)

Chet Atkins; guitarist (1924)

Charles W. Chesnutt; writer (1858)

Candy Clark; actor (1947)

Len Dawson; Kansas City Chiefs QB (1935)

Eric Dolphy; jazz musician (1928)

Olympia Dukakis; actor (1931)

Stephen Freaks; film director (1941)

John Goodman; actor (1952)

Billy Guy; pop singer (1936)

Lloyd Augustus Hall; chemist (1894)

Lillian Hellman; writer (1905)

Martin Landau; actor (1928)

Audie Murphy; actor (1924)

Anne Murray; pop singer (1945)

Jacques Offenbach; composer (1819)

Miles O'Keeffe; actor (1954)

Lionel Richie; pop singer (1949)

Gigi Rivera; pornstar (1989)

Robert Rodriguez; film director (1968)

Kurt Schwitters; German artist (1887)

Vikram Seth; Indian poet (1952)

John Taylor; rock guitarist, bassist (1960)

Dave Thomas; comedian, actor (1949)

James Tolkan; actor (1931)

Bob Vila; television construction host (1946)

[elmundosegungiorgio]

¿Béla Lugosi? Ni que mis huevos, German Robles, nuestro vampiro.

[moonwaif]

My toxic trait is frothing at the mouth when people misuse "magical realism."

It is NOT fantasy tropes like wizards and ghosts in a realistic setting; as in it is not urban fantasy (genre fiction). It is extremely literary and specific. It is about unsettling strangeness that defies reality (or disrupts our understanding of reality, showing a reality in which the strange exists side by side the mundane), often taking elements from indigenous folklore and beliefs (as in indigenous to the setting of the story, heavily influenced by the history and culture).

👏educate yourselves👏

The term magic realism is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous, and Matthew Strecher (1999) defines it as "what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe."[10] The term and its wide definition can often become confused, as many writers are categorized as magical realists. The term was influenced by a German and Italian painting style of the 1920s which were given the same name.[2] In The Art of Fiction, British novelist and critic David Lodge defines magic realism: "when marvellous and impossible events occur in what otherwise purports to be a realistic narrative—is an effect especially associated with contemporary Latin American fiction (for example the work of the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez) but it is also encountered in novels from other continents, such as those of Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie and Milan Kundera. All these writers have lived through great historical convulsions and wrenching personal upheavals, which they feel cannot be adequately represented in a discourse of undisturbed realism", citing Kundera's 1979 novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting as an exemplar."[11] Michiko Kakutani writes that "The transactions between the extraordinary and the mundane that occur in so much Latin American fiction are not merely a literary technique, but also a mirror of a reality in which the fantastic is frequently part of everyday life."[12] Magical realism often mixes history and fantasy, as in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, in which the children born at midnight on August 15, 1947, the moment of India's independence, are telepathically linked.

...magical realism is often associated with Latin-American literature, including founders of the genre, particularly the authors Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Elena Garro, Mireya Robles, Rómulo Gallegos and Arturo Uslar Pietri. In English literature, its chief exponents include Neil Gaiman, Salman Rushdie, Alice Hoffman, Louis De Bernieres, Nick Joaquin, and Nicola Barker. In Bengali literature, prominent writers of magic realism include Nabarun Bhattacharya, Akhteruzzaman Elias, Shahidul Zahir, Jibanananda Das and Syed Waliullah. In Kannada literature, the writers Shivaram Karanth and Devanur Mahadeva have infused magical realism in their most prominent works. In Japanese literature, one of the most important authors of this genre is Haruki Murakami. In Chinese literature the best-known writer of the style is Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature for his "hallucinatory realism". In Polish literature, magic realism is represented by Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism

[nolanboomer]

Nolan Boomer is a writer, editor, and doctoral student. Their research uses cultural studies and historical materialist lenses to study the built environment. They are primarily interested in how crisis narratives have shaped architecture across the Western Hemisphere in the twentieth century.

nolanboomer [at] fas.harvard.edu

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Ph.D. in History of Art & Architecture, 2022-Present

UC Berkeley, M.S. in Architecture (History, Theory, Society), 2018-2020

Oberlin College, B.A. in English, 2012-2016

SELECTED WRITING

“Concrete Poetry,” New York Review of Architecture (2023)

"Eugene Tssui" in PIN-UP (2022)

"Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca" in World Architecture and Society (2021)

"Chiron Life & Science Building" in Rumor (Princeton SoA, 2021)

"Book Club: The Architecture of Bathing" in PIN-UP (2020)

"The Arson Riot Image" in Places Journal (2020)

Print and online exhibition reviews in Artforum (2016-2019)

“Murder Play: Reading Pain in Chris Kraus’s How to Shoot a Crime” in Full Stop and Take Shape (2017)

The Cell Tree (2017)

SELECTED EDITORIAL PROJECTS

Take Shape no. 3 (2021), Editor and founder

Speaking of Buildings (2019, Princeton Architectural Press), Project editor

Creating Chaos (2018, O/R Books), Proofreader

Inventory Press (2018) Freelance proofreader

Avery Shorts (2018, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City), Copyeditor

W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits (2018, Princeton Architectural Press), Project editor

Pamphlet Architecture 36: Buoyant Clarity (2018, Princeton Architectural Press), Project editor

Take Shape no. 2 (2018) Editor and founder

Take Shape no. 1 (2017) Editor and founder

Nat Brut (2016–2018), Proofreader and design assistant

AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES

Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellowship (2021-2022)

Joan E. Draper Architectural History Research Grant (2020)

Queer Emerging Scholars Program (2019)

Mount Lebanon Residency (2018)

Graham Foundation Grant (2018)

Northampton Arts Council (2017)

LANGUAGES

English, Spanish, Portuguese, German (reading only)

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Celebrate ‘Oaktoberfest’ with Firestone Walker on Sept. 30

Community event features special beers, German-style fare and live music – Dust off your lederhosen and don your dirndls for Firestone Walker’s all-day Oaktoberfest Party on Saturday, Sept. 30, featuring special beer, food, and live music from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Paso Robles brewery. Access to the event is complimentary. “This party is a mashup of Bavarian style and SLO County flavor, and…

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German Robles- the VAMPIRE'S COFFIN (1958)

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German Robles- the VAMPIRE'S COFFIN (1958)