#Gordon Sine

[cast-you-dxwn]

Songs to Write My Muse. Whether it be melodies that give you inspiration for your muse or songs that get you into the writing mood — pick ten songs that give you the urge, the drive or the creativity to write for your muse!

In no particular Order

1. BFG Division- Mick Gordon

2. Belisarius- Farya Faraji

Gladius Rōmae imperī sum/Ubi’st nostrum imperium?/Nē plōrā, mater Rōma, Dēnuō flōrēbis/Cīvis Romānus sum, Sed sine imperiō sum/Sanguine barbarōrum, Renāta erit Rōma!

3. The Blood of The Lamb- Joshua James

Are your bones all spotless/Are they white as snow/Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb/Is your soul all spotless/Is it clean as snow/Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb

4. I Will Fail You- Demon Hunter

Lost in the shadow of an endless grace/Relentless, my reign is unbound/In this abandon, I will devastate/Dismember, 'til agony's found

I will fail You/Of that I’m sure/I will remind you of the pain forevermore/And when my sins are just a memory, faith restored/I will fail You to the core

5. Rosetta- STIM

We’re dying with the sun/A solar scarlet letter/I’m losing everyone/Don’t think that I’ll get better/The feeling’s overdone, yeah, I’m well aware/Baby, we’re not set in stone/I can’t be your Rosetta

6. Standing- STIM

If I lose it all, reborn from the wreckage/I don't need the walls for my protection/Cover your eyes/Raise a standard, tattered, candid/Close to death I/Catch my breath and/Trust this sigil at my side, standing/Godhand ripping at my spine/I'm branded now/I don't wanna be the last man standing/I don't wanna be the last, be the last

7. The Turnaround- McKane Davis

True story on a weekday night/I saw you dancing in the flickering light/I, I really like the way you move/And all this time you never did take that easy out/Won't take that easy route/Taught me that turn around

You would stare down the tiger/You would run with the bulls/Laughing loud with the jackals/While you raise these wolves/You just understand the meaning/There's just something in your eyes/You could out-dance the devil/But your heart is pure, your heart is pure and wild

8. Appetite For Destruction- Vo Williams

I feel my rage erupting/Feed my appetite for destruction/Blood rushing/I love when/You feed my appetite for destruction

I heard you wanted a war/Funny, I wanted it more/Here comes the "bang-bang" on your door/It's time to back up the noise/I've been ignoring the voice/Begging me seek and destroy/It's eating my core/I feel like a time bomb in the eye of a storm

9. By The Sword- iamjakehill

Okay, my blade is itchin', ready up now, I smell the fear/This is where it ends, don't look around, there's no one for you here/It's just you and me/So motherfucker are you feelin' lucky?/What's it gonna be? Tell me, what's it gonna be?

Kill, my blade stained, plain face/Say my fuckin' name/As my blood runs black, you can tell we're not the same/See the fire in the sky and embrace of the storm/'Cause I live by the sword and I'll die by the fuckin' sword

10. The Night We Met- Lord Huron

I am not the only traveler/Who has not repaid his debt/I've been searching for a trail to follow again/Take me back to the night we met

And then I can tell myself/What the hell I'm supposed to do/And then I can tell myself/Not to ride along with you

I had all and then most of you/Some and now none of you/Take me back to the night we met/I don't know what I'm supposed to do/Haunted by the ghost of you/Oh, take me back to the night we met

Tagged by: @angelsandemons

Tagging: @heaven-said @maykrisms @infernal-dominion @infernal-feminae @deathinfeathers @avispatr @originemesis @eraba-reta-unmei

[sawtastic-sideblog]

Dumbest thought of the day:

Prima ballerina Adam

Douche bag manager Hoffman (mans is secretly a dancer but life happened and now he's a bitter man who dances I secret)

Ballerina bff Amanda

(Only open if you wanna see my incoherent sleep deprived ramblings. I haven't slept in 2 days because insomnia and my anxiety has decided to 🎶 kick it up a notch 🎶 I currently have no filter)

Obsessed audience member that wants Adam...idk probably William or Logan...fuck it it's Ivan

Logan works in props

William (this is emmerson schenk whatever btw) works with the lights

Theater owners John and Jill (they hate hoffman and love Adam)

Buff head stangehand Strahm

Zeke is a principal dancer as well and they whore him out to film and other theater productions (they can spare him but not Adam because Adam puts asses in the seats)

Remember Addy? The middle aged lady that works for William Easton? Yeah she was prima ballerina back in her day but an injury to her out of the game. Now she's the dance teacher/instructor who adores Amanda and Daniel.

Speaking of William Easton he's the number one patron he's at every show and everyone calls him Uncle MoneyBags ™ because he dressed like Mr. Monopoly for Halloween ones fifteen years ago (Adam started it)

Brent Abbott you ask? He's just starting out in the big leagues. Adam has taken him under his wing

Corbett Denlon? Star of her class. Been dancing sine she was 3. She's at every performance she can get her parents to go to. The practice room she uses to rehearse is named after her late brother (who was also a student everyone adored)

And who is this up in the rafters changing the backdrops for scenes? Why it's Bobby Dagen the stage hand who is down bad for children's dance instructor and another principal dancer that gets lent out to other productions Joyce Young (in this universe Amanda and Joyce are cousins just go with it)

Where's our favorite Doctor Lawrence Gordon? (I know our actual favorite doctor is Lynn Denlon but for the sake of this post it's Larry (imagine cary elwes saying Larry from that one scene of men in tights)) well I'll tell you. He is the new front of house manager and he hates Hoffman and he went backstage to confront him but got distracted when he saw Adam dancing. Completely transfixed. He was smitten but has never talked to him in the 3 months he's Been there.

Zep is John's nephew. He's clumsy and spills his mop water on the daily. He's also the janitor/ maintenence man for the theater. He's been electrocuted many times. He's fine. His hair is permanently sticking up tho.

Remember Britt and Addison? Yeah they're the mean girls who constantly undermine everyone they dont like (mainly Amanda. They try to get into Adam's pants) (honestly they could hit me with a car and I'd say thank you)

Perez is Strahms BFF and costume designer

Cecil Adams? Of course he's here. He's the pervy stage hand nobody likes (think Joseph Buquet in Phantom of the Opera meets Ted Spankofski from Starkid's Hatchetfield series)

Art Blanc of course he's the theaters legal aid

Rigg is Amanda's dance partner. They're also like together but not

Kerry is there. She's Gordon's second in command.

Daniel Matthews was forced into dance classes by his mom when he got in trouble in school at 13. He's a natural. He still isn't the best but he takes extra lessons with Addy, Adam, Rigg, Amanda, and Joyce (everyone does one of one with him) and Brett helps him outside of the theater. (They're bffs)

Eric Matthews is head of security who is constantly watching Daniel. He's proud

Dan Erickson is here too. He's the accountant.

Jeff joined Eric's security after his son died so he could spend more time with Corbett

Lynn serves as the unofficial theater nurse. She's patched up many floor burns (trust me it fucking hurts when you fall on a stage/dance studio floor even with something to cover your skin think rug burn but from a wooden floor) and sprain ankles and a few broken toes, one time Daniel was a little over zealous and rammed himself into the mirror and broke his nose. She loves being the only unofficial nurse on the unofficial payroll (they're donations for new pediatrics wing of the hospital. John and Jill are grateful for her services but she won't accept payment so they donate to her new department she runs)

The theater is called "Gideon Theater" of course.

Other characters make up the orchestra but I'm too lazy to look them up rn. Up to your imagination but like Charles from 5 plays bass clarinet. The two from the pound of flesh trap are here too. I don't remember their names but the girl plays clarinet and the guy is percussion (I can see him playing xylophone the hammer bell things and crashing th cymbals) And the last surviving dude from the fatal 5 plays trumpet. I know their names my brain is just fried right now

Oh and Bobby's BFF I think he's named after spinach or some other leafy vegetable I can't remember but he's an investor in the theater too.

(Just because I don't have motivation to write this I'd love for people to write their own interpretation of this and tag me) (bonus points if we cross universes and Specs and Tucker show up) (I don't expect anyone to actually do this)

[obito-week]

Prompt explanation, part 4!

We're almost done with our prompts, folks, and that means we're closer to the main event 🥰

Intimacy - relationship, feeling, space, details. Intimacy can be related to various things! Intimate atmosphere, spending time with the loved one, being in the intimate space of one’s home… Those are all warm feelings. But remember, intimacy can be lacking, one can long for it. And it can be a really painful feeling.

Identity - A name or persona - a mask or appearance one presents to the world - by which one is known. It’s your own, or someone's. Maybe it’s public, maybe it’s hidden. Can it be revealed? But also, do you know that you can find “identity” in mathematics, algebra, and computing too?

Ghost - a supernatural being haunting poor humans. A ghost of the past, haunting someone because of their choices. Whatever it is, Obito is about to have an interesting time. Haunting someone, being haunted… Or even maybe hunting for the one who is haunting?

Kink - Many of us think about one certain thing. And you’re not wrong, it’s very often associated with an NSFW subject, describing someone's kinks, and using them in your creations. That is perfectly fine if you choose to do it! We are looking forward to it! (Just remember about proper tagging ;)) BUT! For those who decide (or have to) keep it SFW, there is an alternative meaning - via one of the Thesaurus, it can mean: 1. To laugh loudly. 2. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair, etc. 3. (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation. So don’t worry, there is always an alternative!

Always watching - Famous words spoken by Rin, saying that she is always watching Obito. Maybe indeed, it’s a moment when she spoke these words? Maybe someone said it to the Uchiha without realizing the meaning of these words? Or maybe this time, it’s Obito who is always watching over someone? Possibilities are only limited to your imagination, don’t hesitate to experiment!

Phew, that's all for today! Stay tuned for tomorrow's last part! ♥️

And remember to like and share the Obito Week Bingo Card, and help us spread the word about our favorite Uchiha man ♥️

[kaywavy]

[not my writing]

Pocket calculators! Now there's something. They're so complicated! I have a calculator which has sines, cosines, tangents, logarithms, hyperbolic functions and multiple nested parentheses. You can program it in Fortran, Algol, Basic, Pascal, Forth, Fifth and Sixth, ADA and Carruthers. It will factorize primes for you. At present it's working on the Halting Problem.

(continued)

It translates from one language to another. From German to Spanish. From Macedonian to Esperanto. From Cantonese to Greek. Or from American to English.

It is, in fact, a multiprocessor system. There are 22 Transputers in there. Sometimes they organize a game of football between them.

It has a full color, wraparound wide screen, liquid crystal, three-dimensional holographic display. It's called HoloChromaCinePhotoRamaScope.

Its audio facilities include Dolby Digital Decaphonic surround sound. On the way here I watched "The Labyrinth" on it.

It also has synthetic speech and a voice recognition system. I often talk to it. I tell it my problems. Sometimes it psychoanalyses me. It has me figured as paranoid. But that's just because it keeps getting at me. But don't get me wrong - it can be very user friendly. In fact you can program precisely HOW user friendly you want it is to be on a scale from ONE to TEN.

On a setting of ONE it won't even interrupt a football game to answer you. But on a setting of TEN it's so friendly that on a cold day it pre-heats its pushbuttons.

But no matter who smart it SEEMS, deep down inside it's just a dumb old computer.

One time I got really mad at it. Like all computers, it knew precisely what I wanted it to do. It knew exactly what I MEANT. So why does it have to go and DO what I SAID?

How do you get even with a dumb machine like that?

First I tried slapping it around a little. I pushed its buttons a bit hard. I threatened it. "How would you like a busted display" I said.

But it did no good. It just said "I am virtually unbreakable - and I'm not going to take any notice till you enter the data nicely, like you used to do."

Whatever I did it always seemed to win.

I decided to have a man-to-man talk with it. So I sat it down and said to it "Who's the boss here, you or me?"

No reply.

Again I ask "Who's the boss, you or me? Go on, answer me!"

"I'm thinking, I'm thinking," it said.

So I hit it. Hard. Too hard. I cracked its case.

At first I thought that was the limit of the damage. But then little things started to go wrong. At first there was nothing definite. Nothing you could put your finger on. Just little things like stuttering. It just didn't sound quite the same. Its voice seemed to lack its former confidence.

Then once I caught it making an arithmetic mistake. Of course I didn't mention it. But you could tell it knew. Its self image was shot to pieces.

Saddest of all, it forgot our anniversary - of the day I bought it. In the past this had been a special time for us.

I just couldn't bear it any longer. One evening I tucked it up snugly in its case, lit candles, played a record which was popular when we first met, and sat down beside it.

"Where did we go wrong?" I said. But it had it pride. It wasn't about to weaken in front of a non-machine.

"Wrong? Nothing is wrong," it said. "Just insufficient data."

But underneath you could tell it was hurt.

From there it was a rapid downhill slide.

Now it just mutters to itself. It can only do very simple calculations on small numbers.

Finally came the ultimate indignity. It lost control. It leaked electrolyte all over its case.

I felt so bad about it. My other gadgets weren't happy about it either. They all came out in sympathy for the calculator. My watch gave me a bad time. My power tools keep blowing fuses.

Then one night last week I was driving my car back from London when suddenly the engine stopped all by itself on this lonely country road.

I tried to get out but the solenoids were inhibited by the central locking computer. Suddenly the air conditioner came on and started to blow out freezing cold air. It made a noise like wind whistling through the trees. Then this creepy music came from the loudspeaker. The sort of music they play in movies when the hero is lost in a dark forest.

I got scared. The cold, the wind and the weird music got to me. Then it started to speak.

"You're the guy who beats up pocket calculators!"

[drakternfl2]

Mest undervurderte running backs på NFL-lagene

I den siste sesongen på college har i utgangspunktet mange unge spillere klart definert sin posisjon i laget. Tidligere Denver Broncos' Melvin Gordon sa nylig at han tror den mest undervurderte spilleren i NFL akkurat nå er runbacken. De nybegynnere som er valgt ut av profesjonelle lag i årets draft har alle sett NFL Drakter sine, og blant dem er de tilbakeløpende rookies.

Selv om NFL har økt lønnsrommet til forskjellige lag, kan ikke det harde lønnstaket begrense quarterbackens lønnsøkning. I år signerte Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, som ble den best betalte spilleren i NFLs historie. Lamar Jacksons lønn brøt lønnsgrensen for quarterback, og signeringen hans la press på andre lag. Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrows fireårige rookie-kontrakt går ut neste år, og laget vil diskutere en kontraktsforlengelse med ham på forhånd. Quarterback-lønnsøkningsproblemet er ikke et problem for lag med tilstrekkelig lønnsplass, men det er et problem for lag med utilstrekkelig lønnsplass.

Running backs har mistet verdi i NFL det siste tiåret. Med mindre det er en spesielt god running back-spiller, får de neppe noen stor kontrakt. Selv om Saquon Barkley er heldig som eier en New York Giants Drakter, er han ikke fornøyd med lagets forlengelsesforhandlinger. Fordi quarterback-lønnen er for høy, kan laget bare redusere lønnen fra spillere på andre posisjoner. Det mest alvorlige lønnskuttet er runbacken, som ikke har blitt verdsatt av ligaen og laget.

[hobbersblog]

Jeg har sett film: Halloween (2018)

Halloween Hele Året, del 2

Halloween (2018)

Regi: David Gordon Green

Plot: Det er 40 år siden Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) ble terrorisert av Michael Myers og hun har isolert seg på en avsidesliggende gård hun har omstendelig forvandlet til et fort i frykt for at Myers skal komme tilbake og avslutte det han startet. Hennes datter, Karen (Judy Greer), hadde en langt fra ideell oppvekst under disse forholdene og deres forhold er nå anstrengt. Lauries eneste kontakt med familien er via sitt barnebarn, Allyson (Andi Matichak), som ønsker å gjenforene sin mor og bestemor og således legge familiens mørke fortid bak seg. I mellomtiden skal Myers flyttes fra institusjonen han holdes fanget i og under flyttingen klarer han å rømme og setter sporenstreks kursen for Haddonfield igjen.

"He's waited for this night... he's waited for me... I've waited for him..."

Jeg synser: Regissør David Gordon Green (som også har manuset, sammen med Jeff Fradley og Danny McBride) velger å ignorere alle tidligere oppfølgere til Carpenters klassiker fra 1979 og leverer en film som trofast følger i Carpenters opprinnelige fotspor. Åpningssekvensen følger nøyaktig samme oppskrift som originalen, med samme musikk, lsyout og skrifttype og filmen presenterer en Michael Myers som unektelig er nøyaktig den samme drapsmaskinen han var for 40 år siden.

Filmen klarer, for det meste, å unngå fristelsen til å følge andre slasherfilmer ved å forsøke å gjøre det ene drapet mer oppfinnsomt enn det forrige og Myers holder seg til sine tradisjonelle takter: Rå, overmenneskelig styrke og, naturligvis, den ikoniske kjøkkenkniven han er så glad i. Han etterlater seg også langt flere på likhuset denne gangen enn han gjorde i originalen, men etter 40 år er det bare naturlig at han har litt å ta igjen.

Jamie Lee Curtis vender tilbake i rollen som Laurie Strode og hun fremstiller Laurie som en beintøff men emosjonelt ustabil bestemor som ikke har klart å legge fortiden bak seg. Familiedynamikken mellom henne, Greer og Matichak er interessant og troverdig gjennomført og trioen danner en velegnet motstander for Myers å bryne seg på.

Alt i alt er dette et meget godt tilskudd i slashersjangeren og en meget lovende start på den siste Halloween-trilogien med Laurie Strode.

Film jeg har/skal ha i hylla: Ikke nødvendigvis. Det er som sagt en god film, men jeg er ikke helt sikker på hvor interessert jeg er i å se den så veldig mange flere ganger. Avhenger nok litt av om det kommer en 4K release med spennende ekstrainnhold til en hyggelig pris.

[kalifissure]

Watch "A pair of solitons running" on YouTube

[this-should-do]

Inspired by a quote from the novel “White is for Witching” by Helen Oyeyemi

[sine-fine-inanis]

oh and of course, there's our lord and saviour: Mick Gordon. what a legend.. i mean, composing all of doom 2016 and doom eternal's soundtracks, and making them both so original while also keeping that amazing oomph that the original game osts (doom 1 and 2) had, and obviously turning the bass up to 11.

sorry i just have a thing for the doom games. they are everything to me.

there's something oddly calming about watching the DoomSlayer rip and tear through hordes of hell's armies. like, is it strange that i find it quite therapeutic to watch him do these visceral glory kills on the demons??

anyway i'm just a big fan of the 2 latest doom games' osts. love em.

djent absolutely slaps dude..

current favourite band: TesseracT

[aquagirl555]

Just had the funniest idea for a hlvrai au:the boyband au, where gordon, tommy, bubby, benry, and coomer(and maybe forzen and darnald) are around the same age, 20-25 and are in a boyband together, sining a veriety of genres because they couldnt decide on which 5o go with, they all sing, the ones that can do black mesa sweet voice for ambiance, and overall just a silly idea, like theres one of those 'gordons from different universes ' fics and one is boy band singer gordon who doesnt know how to shoot a gun, but has some sweet dance moves

[eridanai]

Manalakáran

"Ang takot ang pumapatay sa pag-ibig ngunit ang pag-ibig ay paglaban."

Ilan lang 'yan sa libu-libong narinig ko nang dumayo pa kami sa Pampanga upang um-attend ng rally ni VP Leni. Isang araw na puno ng karanasan na mas lalong nagpatindig sa akin para ipaglaban kung ano ang tama para sa bayan.

Tanghali pa lang ay mahaba na ang pila papunta sa venue. Lahat ay nakasuot ng iba't-ibang shade ng pink at dala ang kani-kanilang expression through placards—maraming satirical at mayroon rin namang talagang may ipinaglalaban.

Bubungaran ka ng isang arch design na alam mong pinaghandaan nila. Bilang isang alagad ng sining, mas na-appreciate ko kung paano nila i-welcome ang lahat. Ang sabi nga ni VP Leni na kung siya ay mauupo, magiging presidente siya ng lahat ng kulay. Na-realize ko sa puntong iyon na 'yon ang totoong ibig sabihin ng 'radikal na pagmamahal'—walang iiwanan sa laban dahil sama-samang aangat ang buhay ng LAHAT.

Mula sa mga libreng pagkain na hindi ka talaga mahihiyang kumuha dahil sila mismo ang nagbibigay (dahil sa Gobyernong Tapat, MABUBUSOG ANG LAHAT!) hanggang sa mga biglaan sigaw ng "Leni-Kiko!" chant sa iba't-ibang parte ng Robinson Starmills ay mararamdaman mo ang espiritu na nagkakaisa at sabik sa totoong pagbabago ng bansa.

1PM pa lang ay nakisiksik na kami sa 'di mahulugang karayom na tao para naman may mas maganda kaming pwesto. Buti na lang ay napunta kami sa saktong tanaw ang stage. Hindi mapagkakailang mainit dahil wala kang natatanaw sa mga nagsasalita sa stage kung hindi ang mga payong. Pero kapag may interesting part, marami ang sumisigaw ng "payong! payong!" o kaya naman "ibaba ang payong!" para lamang matanaw kung ano na ang nangyayari pero kahit ang totoo na wala ka pa rin namang makikita.

At sinubukan ko rin palang i-message 'yung mga kakilala kong um-attend rin ng rally ngunit mukhang hanggang "see you!" na lang sa messenger ang magagawa ako (nawalan pa ng signal). Actually, totoo nga. Natapos ang rally nang hindi ko sila nakikita.

*1PM nang makarating kami sa venue

*Almost 1 hour after, ganito na kapuno

Masasabi mong hindi talaga papatalo ang mga kapampangan, dahil hindi lamang drone ang mayroon sila kung hindi helicopter pa! Medyo flop nga lang kasi buo-buo 'yung mga confetti (na-manage naman nu'ng kalaunan) lol. Mayroon din palang pa-saranggola na sa lahat ng grand rallies ay Pampanga lang raw ang mero'n.

Hindi rin mawawala ang famous chant ng mga kakampinks sa lahat ng rallies, ang "MEDIC! MEDIC!". Kada may bagong aakyat sa stage ay mayroon rin kalakip ng pagsigaw nito. Mas marami pa ata akong nasigaw na ganoon kay sa Leni-Kiko chant. But on a serious note, masasabi mo talagang mayroong pagkakaisa at pagtutulungan.

At syempre, ang mga celebrities at OPM Bands (nakaka-disappoint 'yung ibang fave ko ay nasa kabila hehe) na mas pumiling tumindig kaysa pansinin ang mga bashers na dapat ay huwag na raw silang maki-alam. 'Yung narrative naman ng iba ay dahil para lang raw sa franchise renewal ng ABS-CBN. Nakakatawa lang isipin at sa isang banda ay nakabilib na alam mong mas progresibo na ang mga tao dahil everything is political.

*as much as I want to post a video clip, I don't know what is happening but it's having an error posting it so I'll just serve you a sunset view from the rally :>

Isa rin sa mga highlights ng event ay ang senatoriables. Sadly, Atty. Neri Colmenares was not part of it. But salamat rin dahil nabigyan siya ng pagpakakataon upang makapagsalita sa pre-program. #WeWantNeri

Furthermore, present ang lahat ng senatorial slate ng Leni-Kiko Tandem! At syempre ang pinakahihintay ng lahat si Atty. "Lolo" Chel Diokno.

Narito ang list ng piniling suportahang senatorial slate ng Leni-Kiko Tandem (in no particular order):

De Lima, Leila

Baguilat, Teddy

Diokno, Chel

Gordon, Dick

Lascon, Kuya Alex

Hontiveros, Risa

Trillianes, Antonio

Matula, Sonny

Binay, Jojo

Escudero, Chiz

Villanueva, Joel

Zubiri, Migz

The names that were mentioned above were the tandem chose to be their senatoriable slate. Note that we have the freedom to choose who are we going to vote. We should not vote straight but wisely.

*Atty. Chel Diokno expressed his gratitude to his 'CHELdren' [left], re-electionist Sen. Risa Hontiveros campaigned her platforms while the crowd clamored 'rISA pa!' [right]

At syempre hindi mawawala ang grand entrance ng mga rallies ni VP Leni. Nakakatuwang isipin na naipapakita ang mga kultura ng bawat probinsya sa mga rally na ito. May mga nabasa rin ako na hindi katulad sa iba na sa Pampanga ay sabay na nag-entrance si VP Leni at Sen. Kiko—isang simbolo na dapat ay sabay natin silang suportahan. #ShabayShabay

Sabi nga ng iba na hindi na ito ang typical na political rally katulad ng dati. Dahil ngayon, mas bukas na ang isip ng tao hindi dahil sa perang kanilang maaaring matanggap. Lumalabas ang kagandahan ng bawat probinsyang binibista nila. Mas nakakadagdag ng saya at espiritu ng bayanihan.

*Cultural Dance performed as the grand entrance of Leni-Kiko tandem [left], VP Leni & Sen. Kiko on th stage after the performance [right]

Hindi ko makakalimutan ang part ng event na ito. Ang mga magsasaka ng Pampanga ay sinorpresa si Sen. Kiko upang suportahan sila. It was eye-tearing para sa lahat ng naka-witness. Sobrang saya sa puso na makita na tumitindig ang mga ito para sa kanilang mga karapatan.

Walang binayaran upang gawin ang sinasabing drama-drama raw ang nangyaring ito. Patunay na matagal nang ipinaglalaban ni Sen. Kiko ang mga magsasaka at mangingisda mula sa tunay na resibo.

Para sa kanila, hindi important ang pagtaas ng kamay ng mga nakaluklok sa bawat probinsya kung hindi mas mahalaga ang suporta ng mga ordinaryong tao na mas makikinabang sa maayos na pamamahala.

*Photo grabbed from Rappler

Katulad ni Sen. Kiko, sila ang dahilan kung bakit mas namulat ang aking isipan upang maging mapanuri sa mga ginagawa ng mga public servants. Kung bakit maraming naiinis sa akin sa twitter. At kung bakit pinili kong suportahan ang Leni-Kiko Tandem dahil tunay na tao ang kanilang ipinaglalaban mula nang simula silang magserbisyo sa tao.

Para sa mga magsasaka, mangingisda, marginalized people, Indigenous People at Lumad ang aking boto. Ang boto na pinipili ang Pilipinas. Piliin natin kung sino ang karapatdapat mula sa tamang pamamahala at kung ano ba talaga ang kanilang nai-ambag mula noon.

Isa ako sa 220,000 na taong tumindig at patuloy na tumitindig para sa totoong pagbabago. Sa atin magsimula ang paglinis na politikang rinungisan ng mga trapo noon pa man.

Sama-sama tayong kumalap ng suporta para sa iba. Tandaan natin na hindi lamang para sa atin ito. Para rin sa iba—sa ating minamahal. Sa hindi natin katulad ng prinsipyo. Sa ating minsang nakaaway dahil disinformation. Para sa kanila ito.

Dahil mas radikal ang magmahal.

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New Again: Grace Jones

This Friday, The Black Rock Coalition Orchestra will host a tribute to Grace Jones at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in New York. Curated by musician Gordon Voidwell, the evening is titled “State of Grace.” Ms. Jones will join an impressive list of artists previously celebrated by the BRC, including Nina Simone, James Brown, Betty Davis, Curtis Mayfield, and Gil Scott-Heron.

Grace Jones first appeared in Interview in January of 1977, and in October of 1984 she graced our cover. At the time, Ms. Jones was a mother (to Paolo, her son with Jean-Paul Goude) and dating Dolph Lundgren (before Rocky IV made him semi-famous, when he was still known as Hans). She’d already released six albums (she’d go on to release another four) and was starting a side gig as a film actress.

Grace Jones By Andy Warhol & André Leon Talley

She’s positively jet-propelled. Since 1974, when Grace Jones began her entertainment career lip-synching on tabletops at Club Sept in Paris, she’s transcended the stigma of disco diva and captured true stardom. Having released her sixth album, Living My Life (on Island Records), and made a wicked film debut in Conan the Destroyer, Grace is now working on a James Bond flick (A View to Kill) in which she’s slated to jump off the Eiffel Tower in a cape that becomes a parachute.

Even when she had no money, long before her one-woman show was a sellout around the world, Grace Jones had indefatigable style. She would sweep into New York in August to vacation on Fire Island with only a Swiss Army knapsack slung over her shoulder. In that sack, she had a sea of silk squares and pounds of Kenzo knits (all gifts of the designer) to create the Wrap Esthetic. Her one big dress for years was a chenille bedspread anchored with golf-ball sized Victorian upholstery fringes, which the clergyman’s daughter converted into a Parisian sine qua non of sophistication—from poolside to all night romps with LouLou de la Falaise. Her gift is for visual originality. To appreciate it, one must witness Grace thrashing around onstage, or in her “A One-Man Show” video—an Academy Award nominee directed by Jean Paul Goude—crashing a dozen cymbals into orchestrated revolt on stage. Or in Paris, swinging over a throng of 2,000 at Le Palace. Or taking three hours to pin in a white foxtail to the back of her Azzedine Alaïa ensemble to create a city savage suit.  Designers Montana, Kenzo, Miyake, and Alaïa come to Grace with gifts as if to an altar incarnate. At last count (by Grace’s own arithmetic), she has over 1,000 pairs of designer shoes. “I keep them organized by taking Polaroids and taping them on each box,” she says. “I’ve been in my apartment only two years and already I have to build a new closet.”Graffiti impresario and artists Keith Haring came along to Interview‘s Union Square office to watch this month’s cover story in action, as did physical maintenance technician Lydia Cengic if the SoHo Fitness Center. Amazing Grace was three hours late, going over the inventory in her fur vaults uptown before her escape from Manhattan into the movies.

ANDRÉ LEON TALLEY: Grace, now hit it! Right from the top, they want to know about the glamour bit. How many furs do you own at this moment?

GRACE JONES: Around 35. I’m having a new yellow fox made by Claude Montana. I buy them with my play money, money I make from the Honda TV commercial, and the new Citroën car commercial I will begin shooting in Paris next week with Jean-Paul [Goude]. In that, my hairdo will become the headlights of the car. And I start running like Superwoman. Soon, I guess they will have me in airplane commercials, reflecting speed.

ANDY WARHOL: Why don’t you buy a house instead of all those furs

JONES: I’ve got that, too. I’m living in my own condominium in the West Village. I am going to build a house soon in Jamaica. I don’t wear jewelry, so I wear furs. I don’t have diamonds.

WARHOL: You should.

JONES: I couldn’t wear them.

WARHOL: Diamonds would look great on you.

JONES: Well, I don’t think I could get away with it. I would be held up in the street. But no one comes over to me and says, “Give me that fur coat.”

WARHOL: But your furs are in the fur vault, right?

JONES: Yes.

TALLEY: At Bergdorf’s.

WARHOL: Your diamonds could be in the diamond vault.

JONES: That’s true. It’s a bit harder, I think, to find a good diamond. You’ve really got to know where you’re getting them from.

TALLEY: But a good fur is easy to find?

JONES: I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not. You don’t have to dissect a fur.

TALLEY: But does dyeing the fox fur purple do something to the fur?

JONES: Oh, definitely. You dye the hair red, bright orangey red…

TALLEY: Do you have a red fur?

JONES: I have a red one, I have an electric blue, and a purple one. You put a hat on and you’ve got all this color coming.

TALLEY: Well, with a fur coat you don’t have to wear a dress very often. In the winter you can just wear a leotard or your body stocking.

JONES: Or backless tight dresses. I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

TALLEY: And when you travel how do you pack them?

JONES: I never check them on an airplane. I wear and carry as many as I can. Sometimes they tell me I can’t carry them on board and I say, “What do you mean I can’t carry them on board?”

TALLEY: Furs are a big investment. How many do you buy a year?

JONES: I buy the whole collection if I like it. I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.

TALLEY: Remember we went to the first show of Claude Montana’s at Bergdorf’s and you tried on the furs?

JONES: I went crazy. I had some cloth coats from Montana and Kenzo, and I was always saying, “I wish they would make these coats in fur,” and when they started doing them I went absolutely crazy. Usually the first collections are really good.

TALLEY: I was uptown going to church and on the 95th and Broadway “Grace Jones” was above the title of Conan on the movie marquee. They didn’t even have Arnold [Schwarzenegger]’s name.

JONES: Maybe Schwarzenegger was too long.

TALLEY: In that neighborhood you must be a big celebrity. In Conan you upstaged everyone.

JONES: I didn’t try to. I mean it’s a normal thing to do. I really wanted to be an animal in this. I wanted a lot of animalism to come out of it, and when you come out with a tail that’s wet, it’s just natural—

TALLEY: To shake it.

JONES: Yeah.

TALLEY: Did you design your own costumes?

JONES: I brought along all my stuff and said, make this cut, copy the belt…

WARHOL: In the James Bond film you’re doing, are you going to play the same kind of character?

JONES: No. It will be more feminine. Also tough, but feminine tough, lethal. I’m the bad guy, and then, of course, after Bond makes love to me, like all the other women, I wake up out of my hypnosis, and I turn good in the end.

WARHOL: Who is James Bond now?

JONES: It’s still Roger Moore, but I wish it were Hans [Lundgren, GJ’s bodyguard beau now known as Dolph Lundgren]. He should be the next James Bond. I don’t think Roger has much more…

TALLEY: This is his last film.

JONES: I don’t think he can go anymore. Hans is going to be coaching me for the kickboxing scenes. I’m a kickboxer in the movie and Hans is a champion kickboxer, so it’s perfect.

WARHOL: He’ll be in the movie, too?

JONES: Yeah, I don’t know anyone who could coach me any better.

WARHOL: I think you’re a really good comedienne.

JONES: Bette Midler told me that. She said, “My god, you say the funniest things.”

WARHOL: Actually, you should start to buy all the Rosalind Russell pictures. The Front Page, the early ones that she did as sort of a tough comedienne with Cary Grant. I think Chris Reeve would be a great person to play against you, or Eddie Murphy. He’s a good comedian.

JONES: He doesn’t have any style though, does he? Who has a Cary Grant that could pull it off?

WARHOL: Chris Reeve. I saw him in Aspen a couple of days ago. He really hasn’t had a good comedy part yet.

JONES: This is also a very glamorous role. I dictate my wardrobe.

TALLEY: In Conan, when you hit Wilt Chamberlain all the time, did you actually knock him off the horse?

JONES: Yup.

TALLEY: And leap on him? That’s not a stuntwoman?

JONES: That was me.

TALLEY: Was it a real stick?

JONES: Yes, but he’s padded.

TALLEY: So you wouldn’t hurt him.

JONES: I had to hit him right on the mark, right in one area. What happened is they had such a hard time finding a double for me.

TALLEY: That’s impossible, darling!

JONES: They don’t want to cut their hair. Can you imagine people freaked-out over a lousy haircut? The hair is going to grow back. I had a guy double for me. He chewed tobacco and spat all the time. It was like seeing myself chewing tobacco and spitting every two seconds.

TALLEY: What things did he do as your double?

JONES: He did the really dangerous stuff, like climbing… down the waterfall. He did the stunt when both Wilt’s and my horse collided. That’s when the horse fell on his leg. After that he disappeared. He took off and didn’t say a word. We were looking for him; all the police were looking for him. He left all his clothes in the hotel, and we thought he’d gotten mugged or something. Here you bring somebody from Mexico, and he was wild, really animalistic, much more than I was…

TALLEY: Was he the same color as you?

JONES: Yes. Same size. He rode a horse very well.

TALLEY: Is your father very proud of you?

JONES: Yes.

TALLEY:  Did he go to see Conan?

JONES: Oh no, he doesn’t go to the movies.

TALLEY:  But his daughter is in a movie.

JONES: I know, but he can wait till it comes on Home Box Office.

TALLEY: Did your mother go?

JONES: My mother hasn’t seen it yet either.

TALLEY: Why not?

JONES: I don’t know.

TALLEY: But you see your mother all the time. I always see you with your mother.

JONES: I think I wanted to go with her. Why don’t we take her tonight, or when she comes back on Thursday?

TALLEY: Okay, I’ll go with you.

JONES: I’ve never really gone and seen an audience’s reaction.

TALLEY: I saw it at 49th and Broadway… you give your mother furs at Christmas, don’t you?

JONES: I give my mother a fur every year.

TALLEY: And yourself five.

JONES: Seven, eight, nine, 10.

TALLEY: Remember Steve Rubell’s old club—it was like a country club in Queens.

JONES: And we went on that bus with [fashion illustrator] Antonio, [models] Pat Cleveland and Alva, and I sang “I Need A Man.”

TALLEY: You wore a gold tutu and gold cowboy boots. That was probably your first live appearance in New York.

JONES: Can you imagine?

TALLEY:  How do you write your songs? How do you compose lyrics? Where do they come from?

JONES: They come from real-life experiences. I write them in five minutes. Something happens and you start writing. I like writing them rather than talking on tape. When you write you can see it. KEITH HARING: Do you type or write by hand?

JONES: I write by hand.

TALLEY:  At this point of your life, what do you not have that you’d like to have?

JONES: Oh, just more of what I have. I want to create really good work and have fun with it.

TALLEY: Do you remember the great moments like when we were in Paris and you opened at the Palace and Yves [Saint Laurent] and LouLou [de la Falaise] were sitting in the balcony, and they freaked out, they though the costume was inappropriate.

JONES: It was the most awful costume. The people were wild. The audience ripped off my clothes. I was stark naked. Yves took LouLou’s scarf and wrapped it around my waist, and he took off his belt, put it around my breasts and carried me back out on the stage.

TALLEY: But don’t you remember the great moments you also had when there were rumors in Paris that Yves was very ill and you did this great show, one of his best, the Carmen collection, and at the end of it—after 300 outfits—everyone has to hold Yves up. All the models were supporting him as he was having a breakdown, and you were the only one where—

JONES: “Darling, it’s all right, it’s fine.”

TALLEY: “It’s fine,” and you were smiling. You were the only one with a sense of humor about it. Everyone else was in mourning—very sad. It was so natural for you to have this upbeat moment. Where do you think it comes from?

JONES: I think it’s just my natural talent. They used to call me firefly when I was a little girl and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars.

TALLEY: But born from a minister.

JONES: There’re lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I’ve got to make a record with my mother’s voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I’m a baritone. She’s a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.

TALLEY: Do you realize that there are still people who think that you are a sex change?

JONES: Oh, I love it.

TALLEY: Or that you never had Paulo as a child.

JONES: Oh, I adopted, huh? So what does that make Hans?

TALLEY: You were one of the first with your style to cross over in your way of dressing.

JONES: Androgynous.

TALLEY: There are people who say to me, “Grace Jones, she’s not a real woman, she’s a man, a drag queen.” How do you feel about that?

JONES: I don’t care. I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.

TALLEY: Don’t you think it’s passé the way society puts these sort of stigmas and labels, “boy,” “girl”?

JONES: Very passé. The future is no sex.

TALLEY: You can change your personality.

JONES: You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

TALLEY:  And you have a lot of woman in you too, darling.

JONES: I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.

TALLEY:  How do you feel about people that cross over? Are there any crossover people that you like? Marlene Dietrich has a very wonderful sort of crossover style.

JONES: I love Dietrich.

TALLEY: Greta Garbo?

JONES: They’re all the people I love.

TALLEY: Michael Jackson?

JONES: More and more now than ever. Well, Annie Lennox, she’s doing a number.

TALLEY: Is there any drag queen that you thought had great style? Can you think of a great drag queen, one who had a true style and originality?

JONES: I think Amanda Lear came the closest.

TALLEY:  She even wears Chanel slings.

JONES: There’s this other one that used to run around all the time dancing. We had a fight once.

TALLEY: Potassa.

JONES: Potassa is really wild. Gorgeous still, and bones, cheekbones. People think I have silicone cheekbones, they think I had a nose job or something. My god, I feel like I’m completely remade. Why couldn’t I have been born looking like this? But I don’t care. It doesn’t bother me.

WARHOL: You were a very famous model, you’ve always had good looks. What was your first job?

JONES: My first modeling job was for Essence. Remember that makeover? They did a before and after and I looked better before.

WARHOL: Were you with an agency then?

JONES: Yes, I was with Black Beauty.

WARHOL: That was a great agency.

JONES: They had trouble booking me, though. I couldn’t do any commercials… I looked a lot freakier than I do now.

WARHOL: Then you went to Europe and you just became very big there.

JONES: I took the same look that I was pounding the streets with. I mean, I’d come on my motorbike.

WARHOL: You lived in Philadelphia—

JONES: For a year.

TALLEY:  And you took the bike from Philly?

JONES: Yeah. A Honda. I went to Paris, and in three months I was on four covers. My timing was jus right. I went there and everyone went, “We found her—Josephine Baker.” They went wild. Then I started working with Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin and Hans Feurer, and I started getting incredible pictures. I was wild there. I went in for this Ellecover. I just went to see them, and I got hot. I said, “Do you mind if I take off my stockings?” because I hated stockings. I don’t even know why I had them on. They said no, and I guess they thought that I was going to the ladies’ room to do it, and I did it right there in front of all the good actresses. They gave me the cover right away. You do that here and they’d say, “This girl, never send her to our office again.”

TALLEY: Do you ever want to design clothes? You could make a lot of money with a Grace Jones collection.

JONES: I think I would let my sister do it. My sister lives in Colorado and she designs. She has a store. She has wonderful taste, like mine. I would let her do it and let it come through her. That way you keep it in the family.

TALLEY: You’re going to bring out a lipstick, aren’t you?

JONES: Well, I’m working on that.

TALLEY: You’ve been working on that lipstick for a long time. The Grace Jones lipstick.

JONES: I was going to do it by myself… then do it with a company that can take more of the responsibility. I don’t want to put my own money into it.

TALLEY: Weren’t you going to so a sunglasses collection?

JONES: That also is going to be a whole line. I’m gathering a lot of stuff so that when I do it, it will be a whole line, like 15 items.

TALLEY: Wigs, scarves, sunglasses—

JONES: Accessories.

TALLEY: And your calendars.

JONES: I thought I’d do a couple calendars with some of Richard Bernstein’s stuff if we can gather it up in the next few years, and some of Antonio’s drawings. A really nice calendar.

TALLEY: Do you see yourself as a role model for black women?

JONES: No, I don’t think in color.

TALLEY:  Do you see yourself as a role model?

JONES: They think of me as a role model, but I don’t. When I’m doing something like Conan, for example, just before I did it I had questions like, “Do you think this is a role that people are going to be proud of you for?” This is something like my mother or father would ask me. Do you know what I mean? Don’t put that responsibility on my head. I said, “My body will look gorgeous.” I just have to say, “Hey, I’m going to have to worry about politics now at this point? Forget it.” I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal. If you think in color, then everyone around you is going to think in color and that puts limits on the way you think. I don’t think like that. A lot of the roles that I’m doing are roles that a man or a person of any color can do.

TALLEY: Have you ever come up against prejudice in your career?

JONES: No.

TALLEY: You never had to curse someone out for making rude remarks?

JONES: I curse people out, but not for remarks, not racial remarks. Maybe they’re too scared of me.

TALLEY: Do you know what Karl Lagerfeld said once? There was a period when he had gone off you for a while, this was before you went to by his big fan hats. LouLou and I were saying, “Grace is so fabulous,” and he said, “Grace Jones, she looks so fierce I could have her as a guard dog in my castle!”

JONES: [laughter]

WARHOL: But you’re always nice, Grace.

JONES: Aren’t I? I can just sit there, though, and people get really scared just to come up and say “Hi.” They think I’m some kind of witch or something.

TALLEY: Where do you get the stamina to go through all of the style thing? When we were in Paris, you made us stay with you for 10 hours at Azzedine Alaïa’s for personal fittings, but Alaïa loved it.

JONES: Three days in a row. You have to do it.

TALLEY:  You always loved clothes. You used to make Givenchy couture dresses to wear to high school from Givenchy patterns you got at Woolworth’s.

JONES: Yeah. I don’t cook, but I can sew.

TALLEY:  When you didn’t have much money in Paris, you used to have the best outfits. Like dresses that looked as though they were made from chenille bedspreads and a nice pair of gold sandals. Remember when you used to dance around with LouLou?

JONES: Underneath the table.

TALLEY:  On the table and falling down.

JONES: Those crazy parties at Kenzo’s. Oh, my God. I don’t know what happened, I was supposed to do his show and something happened… Oh yes. This girl insulted me in Paris. I remember it was a racial thing, too. She was working for Kenzo, and he had booked me for the show and she just thought, “No way.” I know it wasn’t Kenzo’s fault, but I got so mad that night. We had this ceremonial dance on the floor and I whipped him, I beat him.

TALLEY: Well, you’re good at that.

JONES: I whipped him.

TALLEY: Did you really?

JONES: Yes. Whipped him, stripped him naked in front of the whole party. Everybody was there.

TALLEY: But you and LouLou and Kenzo used to have some wild moments at the Club Sept under the tables and stools, my dear.

JONES: LouLou only comes out when I go to Paris.

TALLEY: She’s fantastic. She’s one of the true originals.

JONES: They wait for me to come once a year to drag them out of their holes.

WARHOL: I met you through LouLou the first time—we were in an elevator at a party.

JONES: Oh wow, God, you remember that.

TALLEY: Well, LouLou is a great person for putting people together under some sort of weird circumstance.

JONES: She has a beautiful soul. I love her. She’s one of the first women I could really love.

TALLEY: Me, too. She’s fabulous. How do you keep your body so beautiful?

JONES: I pump iron with Hans.

TALLEY: Every day?

JONES: Yes.

WARHOL: You don’t have varicose veins.

JONES: I never do that much.

WARHOL: Where do you workout?

JONES: Madison Avenue Muscle. Great name, isn’t it? It’s beautiful, all new black gorgeous machines. I cant wait just to lay there and do a leg curl on it. You just want to stay in there and go from one machine to the other. It’s really like making love to them.

TALLEY: When you go to your father’s church don’t they just go crazy?

JONES: I sign autographs. Every church I go to all the kids come around with their paper.

TALLEY: With your fur coats and your limousines and all the glamorous trappings, don’t they just go mad when they see you coming?

JONES: Oh yes. It’s like a dream.

TALLEY: Deep down you are also very much a home person. You’re very close to your mother, and you’re a wonderful mother to Paulo. What is it like being a mother?

JONES: I had him in half an hour—I didn’t suffer, so it’s great. If I’d suffered longer than that I don’t think I would have appreciated it as much. He’s wonderful.

TALLEY: How old is he?

JONES: Four.

TALLEY: Does your son give you a balance after all the hard work on the road and films?

JONES: No, he’s so wild. It’s nice to have moments when I can cuddle up with him and lie down with him and fall asleep with him. He’s so passionate. He kisses me the way they do on The Guiding Light. I say, “Where did you learn to kiss like that?” and he says, “As The World Turns and The Guiding Light.” And I figure my mother must be watching a lot of soap operas when he’s with her. His eyes become like bedroomy and he hugs me and sticks his tongue in a little bit. I say, “Paulo, what are you doing?” and he says, “That’s how they kiss on television.”

TALLEY:  Would you ever want to have your own television program like those half-hour sitcoms?

JONES: We were just approached to go The A-Team. I said, “What is this, Mr. and Mrs. T?” Give me a break. No way!

TALLEY: Darling, you have to do Dallas.

JONES: On Dallas their lighting is awful. I wouldn’t do it, never. If you can go in there, and if they can let you light—

TALLEY: Light yourself?

JONES: Not just yourself, but the whole scene. I mean, I come from that world and I can’t see myself thrown into these day-bright hot lights every day. I don’t see myself doing television until they improve their quality of lighting.

TALLEY: What is the most incredible memory you have onstage live?

JONES: Being handcuffed.

TALLEY: That night at the Savoy?

JONES: Yes. That and the Palace. And also a live performance in San Remo was incredible. I tore up the whole set. I took all the flowers and threw them to the audience. The audience went crazy. The next day the director came on his knees with a bucket of flowers for me and said, “God, please, here are some flowers you can throw. You can destroy the whole state.” That was pretty wild.

TALLEY: Do you think you have matured from five years ago with all this work? You said you’re much nicer.

JONES: I don’t know what “mature” means. I still keep my mind open. It’s not stagnant. I’m still very childlike, and I keep a certain naivety as far as being able to receive information. Once you think you’re mature and you know everything, then you don’t put up the antenna, it’s no longer out there receiving for you…

TALLEY:  Do you think that shock value is very important?

JONES: I think you’ve got to come in and bang them over the head. I don’t spend all that time putting on my makeup and big dragonish clothes from Japan to get on television. You have to create a lot of energy in one second. Otherwise it’s a waste of time.

TALLEY: I know you like to travel, and you’ve had some strange experiences.

JONES: I’ve been to Africa. I used to vacation in Tunisia a lot. And Abidjan (Côte D’Ivoire), I worked there for a long time. That was my nightmare experience.

TALLEY: Did you ever eat ants for lunch?

JONES: No, worse than that, they put me in jail. They said my papers weren’t in order and they wanted a payoff. We came in really late with this Italian photographer. It was the first time I turned down a job with Saint Laurent, and he never hired me again until the show you talked about before. I turned it down to go on this gig in Africa, and then I get there and this little creep tells me my papers aren’t in order. They isolated me and put all my clothes back on the plane. I thought I’d take enough Valium so I could pass out in the airport and they wouldn’t send me back on the plane. So that’s what I did. By the time the police came to get me the plane was leaving. I just lay on the floor. They lifted me up like a sack of potatoes and put me right on the floor of the entrance to the plane. The stewardesses came over and they were blabbering away in their African French. The stewardesses decided they couldn’t take me in that condition, so they had to lift me up again. They threw me in this jail for undesirables. I was there one night and some guy tried to rape me in the middle of the night.

TALLEY: And what did you do?

JONES: I spat up all over myself is what I did. I went into convulsions. Finally I woke up crying. Good trick, crying. You cry and you get anything you want. Finally, it all came out who I was and they were asking me to marry them in the end. I went through a whole night of hell. They wanted some money. They were a little jealous. The next day the bosses changed and the new boss was nice. He snuck me out to the airfield.

WARHOL: How long ago was this?

JONES: That was in 1972. Yves got really pissed, saying, “Who does she think she is, cancelling on Yves Saint Laurent,” but I said, “I’ll never get another opportunity to go to Africa.” I swear I should have never gone to Africa. I should have stayed right in my house in Paris.

TALLEY: Grace, what qualities do you seek in a man?

JONES: I like sensitive men. They have to be able to understand themselves.

TALLEY: Real men also show weakness, they can cry.

JONES: Crying is not a weakness. It’s something that should be able to work for you. It should also be a strength. I think if you can cry when you feel like crying it’s a strength. If you feel like crying and you can’t cry, that’s a weakness. That means you’re holding all that stuff inside. It’s a physical thing. You make yourself sick if you can’t have that release. I think its great if a man can cry. I cry all the time when I sing “La Vie en Rose.” I always cry. Paris and all of that, all my French lovers.

TALLEY: Don’t you think that Paris is the greatest place to begin a career?

JONES: It’s wonderful.

TALLEY: There’s no sky like the Paris sky.

JONES: It has all the romance. Everywhere you look it’s a picture. It’s so inspiring. You put a lot more effort into what you’re doing. It’s definitely an incredible culture there for stimulation of one’s art.

WARHOL: How do you fight off all the groupies?

JONES: They follow me all over the place. They follow me on tours. I don’t know where they get the money. They’ll be at every town, the same people throughout the whole tour. This one clone from Jamaica was following me everywhere and so I told him to wait and I’d invite him in for a drink. But then he wanted to feed me. Finally, I had the club guy come in and say we had some business to do. Otherwise it’s like I adopted a son. They write, call, send paintings. It’s amazing how many paintings are done. There was a student that does architecture that wanted me to come to his graduation. He was doing his thesis on me.

THIS ARTICLE INITIALLY APPEARED IN THE OCTOBER 1984 ISSUE OF INTERVIEW.

[anarcki]

I just saw ur frenrey comic and I fucking LOST IT AT GORDON SINING SANA SANA, and question!! What ethnicity do you hc ur Gordon as? It make me super happy to see Hispanic/latinx gordos hcs so thank you for that! (And if he isn’t Hispanic/latinx I’m very sorry for assuming!!)

I head canon Gordon as my own nationality asdfas which is Colombian since obviously thats the culture that i know most of lmao but IM SO HAPPY theres a lot hlvrai latinx/hispanic fans that can relate to my Gordon it really just warms my heart seing all the comments and tags sayings the sana que sana song gave them flashbacks of their childhoods cuz same lol.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Ex-Reeve Held On Bail,” Toronto Star. March 25, 1931. Page 08. ---- G. C. Turnbull, Parkhill, Involved in Auto Fatality --- Special to The Star London, Ont., March 24. - A preliminary inquest into the death of Fred Mason, former London barber, was held by Coroner Dr. K. Hoginson at the county courthouse to-day and adjourned sine die for the inquest proper. Mason died at Victoria hospital on Monday night as the result of a fractured spine which he suffered in a motor accident on Saturday on No. 7 highway a mile west of Ailea Craig.

Gordon G. Turnbull, ex-mayor of Parkhill and a former reeve, in being held on $6,00 bail in connection with the fatality. He was driving on the car which collided with the vehicle driven by Mason. Arraigned in county police court Monday Turnbell was remanded until April 4.

[closertotheheartofthesunrise]

its discount mick gordon hours does anyone know how to play sine wave

[bobgoesw00t]

Tagged Game again

wwGot tagged by @shawn-and-aiden-frost-9 for the following tag game so HERE WE GO!!!

1. What do you prefer to be called name wise?

Bob, Matt or MJ

2. When is you birthday?

September 27th

3. Where do you live? (You don’t have to give city, you can give the state if your USA or country if you are overseas)

Ohio

4. Three things you are doing right now?

Filling this in, listening to Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me and thinking about other stuff

5. Four Fandoms that have your peak interest right now?

Pokemon, Kingdom Hearts, Inazuma Eleven aaand...Shinkalion

6. How has this pandemic been treating you?

Literally, the only thing that’s been different since this virus hit Ohio is that I’ve been seeing the family that I live with basically 24/7...and I haven’t been able to hang out with my sister because she’s a hospice nurse and one of her patients has COVID Q_Q.

7. A song you can’t stop listening to right now?

Sine From Above (with Elton John) by Lady Gaga from her new album Chromatica..IT’S SUCH A GOOD ALBUM GO LISTEN TO IT RIGHT NOW!!! :D

8. Recommend a movie.

I’m gonna recommend The Rebuild of Evangelion aaaaand...The Rise of Skywalker.

9. How old are you?

All I’m gonna say is that I’m between 25-30 and that I’m half a kid at heart :D

10. School, University, Occupation, Other?

Otherish, I really don’t know how to answer this one xD

11. Do you prefer heat or cold?

Warmish??? I get VERY hot VERY easily and I usually have the thermostat set between 68-64 depending on how hot I am

12. Name one fact about you that others may find unusual.

I have INSANELY good hearing and my eyes change colors to different shades of blue depending on what I’m wearing.

13. Are you shy?

HELL NO! I’m probably the loudest person you’ll ever know...which makes it interesting to see movies with me xD

14. Do you have preferred pronouns?

Not really.

15. Biggest pet peeve?

Stupid people that don’t use common sense along with ignorant mother fuckers that aren’t very accepting of others.

16. What is your fave ‘dere’ type?

Didn’t really know there was more then one type, so I’ll just go with the always silly Tsundere :D

17. Rate your life 1-10, 1 being really crappy and 10 being best it could ever be.

I prefer to use a 1-5 scale so I’m gonna say 4/5. Could be a bit better but once all the hooha coming from this coronavirus dies down, it should be good.

18. What is your main blog?

@bobgoesw00t

19. List your side blogs and what they are used for.

I have one but I don’t even use it so I’m gonna list it xD

20. Is there anything you think people need to know about you before becoming friends with you?

I’m a very happy go lucky kind of guy and I’m actually quite sensitive. I can also get quite vocal when it comes to people that are pissing me off. I’ll tell you EXACTLY what I think about the situation if I need to and you’d best be ready to hear so cussing coming out of my mouth. Thankfully it’s NOWHERE near Gordon Ramsey levels but it can be intense if I get pissed enough. ALSO should mention that it takes QUITE ALOT of bullshit to get me to that level.

Imma gonna tag @lxmon-jawz, @destiny-islanders, @shuuji-chan, @alexkamiya, @misdre, @worldendcross, @mageyalook, @calmystorm-saltycandy, @neddtar and @wintea-melon