#I am obsessed with this 5 sec clip

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[Hi, this is Michael Jackson saying I'll be seeing you soon, Nittele-Chan (on NTV).]

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Late night OA special program from November 1996

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I just want you to know that I am obsessed with ur It Devours! Fanart and anything and would like to ask if u have special hcs based solely on the book?

OH IM SO HAPPY YOU LIKE MU IT DEVOURS FANART THAT BOOK MAKES ME SO HAPPY. So I have like. A VERYY long list of very specific Nilanjana x Darryl headcanons but. For the general cast of It devours I do have a lot of weirdly niche headcanons,, for the main characters of the podcast I have a lot toooo but. Lemme give these characters a spotlight for a sec i care them sosos much

Stephanie is a character I really like actually! and I wish we had more on her. Especially at the end when Darryl says she’s changing the church for the better I REALLY wanna know how! And if I remember correctly she was actually the one that draws the pamphlet art and I just took that and went to town with it. She’s one of those creepy artists that looks intimidating but is actually rlly sweet?? I genuinely want to believe she’s doing good for the church!!

Another small headcanon I have for her is that she dresses all black with small specks of gold. Before becoming the pastor she used silver as an accent instead! Lil symbolism ooooo :3c

Jamillah and Stephanie should be besties I will not hear anything else ever,,,

JAMILLAH IS A LESBIAN I DONT KNOW WHU DONT ASKKKKKKK‼️‼️ SHE JUST ISS‼️

OKAY MOVING ON FROM THOSE 2. Mark looks like a graphic tee guy? Also very straight I don’t know why

He’d be listening to ed Sheeran but also ed Sheeran in nightvale would be 5 ducks tapped together that run around in circles because this is nightvale we’re talking about

OKAY I CANT HOLD IT IN ANYMORE HERES SOME DARRYL AND NILANJANA HEADCANONS :3c

NILANJANA DOESNT SHAVE SHE DOESNT SHAVEEEE‼️ she felt the pressure before she got to nightvale but then. She arrived to nightvale and saw that no one cared, so she stopped caring herself

Darryl uses the dreaded 3 and 1 shampoo and conditioner meanwhile nilanjana just goes to Carlos for any good hair products he can recommend cause she doesn’t Trust Night Valian hair salons

Darryl collects pins and stamps from places outside night vale, he has never left the area but he still manages to find em somehow! He likes hearing about Nilanjana’s time in Indiana and she’d buy him some cool pins from there when visiting her parents too :]

Okay last one before I go deranged she hates hair over her face meanwhile Darryl just uses clip ons:3

Nilanjana‘s left handed and Darryl is ambidextrous because he’s just that good at writing

Darryl would put The Book Of Smiles quotes on his profile. This kinda shit would ensue

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I was tagged by @rampagewriting to do this fun and interesting get to know me survey! :) Thanks for the tag lovely! 

0) Name/Nickname? If ya wanna share it.

Jamie. Nickname? J and I know @rampagewriting calls me Sami sometimes. lol 

1) If you could bring any two fictional characters (from books or film/tv) into the same world who would they be, what world would you put them in, and what would their relationship to each other be?

Hmm, this is an interesting question. I’d probably put Sam and Dean from Supernatural into True Blood. Real monsters... They would still be brothers because why not? But I’d like them to try and figure out the whole TB universe. 

2) If you could drop yourself into any fictional world from books or film/tv, which would it be?

I’d go with The Tudors. Historical but mildly inaccurate and I’m not gonna lie, I’d love to wear those dresses and jewels. Probably The Witcher as well. 

3) What’s your spirit animal?

Ummm, animal would probably be a american husky. (I, too, shed like crazy and am extremely sassy) But I usually say Louise Belcher (Bob’s Burgers) and Karen Walker (Will & Grace) are both my spirit animals lol 

4) What is the most unpopular opinion you hold?

HAHAHAHA NO. Nope. This is a trap.... I don’t like a lot of the people most of the people I follow thirst over. Some of it... idk man. But this is also coming from someone who fucking absolutely loves a fucking lanky ginger weirdo. 

5) How do you like to style your hair most often?

Ponytail. 90% of the time in a messy knot with or without a clip in the front for a little bump thing. It’s my go to.

6) I always love this overdone question - you’re allowed three books on a desert island, what do you bring? (Note: Survival Guides don’t count).

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (I own the book that has the first three in one! Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned), Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, and  Sweet Surrender by Maya Banks. 

7) Something new you’ve learned in quarantine/lockdown/corona times?

I can in fact play video games... and I’m teaching myself how to properly use a sewing machine. 

8) Favorite alcohol? (Or non-alcoholic beverage if you don’t drink!)

Depends on my mood. Right now I absolutely love Pink Whitney (pink lemonade vodka) with lemonade or sprite. I also fell in love with Crown Royal Apple with triple sec and cranberry juice. I also love a good beer. I currently have Fat Tire and Brooklyn Brewery Summer Ale in the fridge... also lime Truly. 

9) Music you can’t stand? Music you love?

Honestly there isn’t much I “can’t stand” ... I just would prefer something else? I dislike K-POP. I don’t fucking get it. (there’s an unpopular opinion for you). I LOVE EVERYTHING... I have eclectic taste. Country one minute... to Prog Metal to Pop.... fuck I’ll throw on Classical too or like 50s era stuff. Depends on my mood. 

10) Have a favorite herb?

How is this a question?! Rosemary, thyme, basil are all my go to of choice when cooking. I have sage on hand for other reasons... I own so many fucking spices it’s ridiculous. I’m fucking Italian for Christ sake... if your food doesn’t have at least 3 seasonal items are you even cooking?!  

11) What kinds of cups/glasses/bottles do you prefer to drink out of?

I have an obsession with cold cups. You know ones with lids and straws. I own about 230948320958324 starbucks ones. Also if it has a mermaid and/or sparkles? I’ll fucking buy it. I also love pint glasses and very rarely pay for them thanks to the bar my family frequents. 

12) Preferred mode of communication: texts, phone calls, emails, letters?

Text. Don’t call me unless this is gonna take a while to explain. I do enjoy snail mail though. 

13) What is your favorite weather?

I love a warm, dry (humid free!) daytime. Something where you are super comfortable with a t-shirt and jeans (or shorts if you feel the need) but then it gets super crisp at night where a fire outside is required with a sweatshirt. Fall is usually my favorite time of year, but summer down the shore where I can sit on the beach during the day and hang out in the yard at night is a favorite. 

14) What kind of lighting do you like?

I enjoy a softer light? Lamps, wire lights (christmas lights), candles. I have wire lights all year long in my house around my window and in my windows (I keep it decorated all year long) 

15) What is the best thing you cook?

Everything. I’ve had no complaints. LOL the big winners are my sriracha potato salad, Caprese chicken pasta, roasted/grilled mixed vegetables.... there’s a lot. 

16)  Do you have a favorite font to write in?

Can’t say I have a favorite. It’s been a while. I like scroll fonts really, or anything kinda of deconstructed? 

17) What is something you’ve always wanted to write in a fic, but you’ve been too afraid to? Or, what is something that you were afraid to write, but then you did and it ended awesome?

I have a lot of stuff that comes across my mind that I love fucking love to write but then don’t for reasons... But I always get scared to write smut because nothing pisses me off more than when someone writes it and it’s not fucking possible. Like it’s not exactly realistic.... IDK lol 

18) If you were in your favorite fantasy world, what would your weapon of choice be?

Weapon???? Probably some sort of knife/sword. I used to be decent with a bow but yeah that was forever ago. Maybe be decent with like poison. The gratification of watching someone slowly suffer is fun. LOL 

19) Is there a commonly used expression/saying that you can’t stand?

(I feel you K, your answer was spot on). Shit like “It’s in God’s hands...” etc. NAH SORRY. You can fix things for yourself or that person who caused the problem could have NOT fucking been dumb. Also it’s always fun to return my co-workers’ “Not today Satan” or “y’all are going to hell” with “No, it’s ok I welcome it.”

20) What is something that you would like people to know about you?

I am pretty much a sarcastic asshole in real life... but I will go out of my way to help someone or teach them. Especially my patients, I will go that extra mile to help them with things (insurances especially) to make sure they get it and not let anyone take advantage of them. Also my co-workers if they can’t fight for themselves with owners. I try to be as fair as I can as a manager. If I wasn’t in the job I was in, I most likely would have been a teacher but I absolutely hate kids I don’t know, unless it’s a baby. Babies are cool with me, but other kids that have no relation to me (family, friends) I absolutely can’t fucking stand them. 

Tagging: @snarkandsarcasmftw @baloraffe @laochbaineann @superrezzy00And whoever else wants to do this...    

[dangermousie]

Rank all the dramas (okay fine nevermind that's probably too hard sooo maybe top 5 or top 10... up to you) that you're currently watching now - from most anticipated/enjoyed etc to least. Thank you! :)

I thought at first you were going to ask me to rate all the dramas I’ve watched and quailed but luckily this is doable so I am doing all of them.

24. Flower Crew - solid and unmemorable at once.

23. The Great Craftsman - I like it but I am so early in, I don’t have much of an impression yet.

22. Devilish Joy - nice but omg that filter needs to die!!!!

21. The Secret Life of my Secretary - not higher because I literally know nothing of it other than the cute premise and the actors.

20. The Tale of Nokdu - it’s fluffy and cute and I am enjoying it but I have never invested emotionally in a comedy and this one is not gonna break the mold for that.

19 Her Private Life - it looks adorable, I just can’t at the moment because all I can see is Sec Kim. 

18. Search WWW - one of those that I will probably put higher once I watch more of it, but I hate the washed out palette.

17. Legend of the Phoenix - I love it but the minor characters are flattish. Mains are amazing.

16. Deserving of the Name - looks solid and I am a fan of KNG but medical dramas never get me insanely obsessed at least so far.

15. Goodbye My Princess - love the emo, but the politics is blah. Gorgeous as hell tho.

14. While You Were Sleeping - I love I Hear Your Voice and Pinocchio too much and this doesn’t seem as awesome but I still have hopes for it being satisfying (unlike a lot of people, I genuinely like watching Suzy on screen.)

13. One Spring Night - slow and gorgeous; it will probably move higher the more in I am.

12. Rebel: The Thief Who Stole the People - very solid but I am not as in love as I wanted to be.

11. Angel’s Last Mission - Love - I don’t think L is the best actor ever but he’s fine and the story is grabby. I’d probably have it higher if it was a male lead I was rabid about him it’s pretty darn high anyway.

10. Haechi - I’ve just really been looking forward to this one for some reason.

9. Fates and Furies - I love and crave old school melo they don’t make much of any more.

8. Still 17/30 But 17 - this one is anticipation on spec but because of clips I’ve seen and the fact that I now am gonna watch YSJ in basically everything, I have hopes.

7. Mr Sunshine - just started but it’s gonna own me, I can tell.

6. Love and Destiny - I am a sucker for fantasy romance and with such heavy-hitter leads to boot.

5. Just Between Lovers - realistic and moving, like an old school jdrama.

4. Lovers -  it’s a rewatch so won’t compare with obsession of first view or it would be higher, but I still adore it so.

3. The Legend - it’s a rewatch so won’t compare with obsession of first view or it would be higher, but I still adore it so.

2. Extraordinary You - a surprising favorite, this hooked me and makes ne think of things before eps.

1. My Country - I am so obsessed with this one, it’s sick. 

[lovelyandmorbid]

1, 2, 8, 11, 15 :)

these are so deep I really have to think about them. 

if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?

mmmh my family quotes a lot of things included Clerks the Animated Series, Anchorman, commericals from the 1960s. But thats mostly my dad rubbing off the rest of my family. If you wanted to understand me? I think you would have to read fanfiction. There is nothing quite like it and I have spent most of my free time reading it since I was 12. Watch? Probably Red v Blue. It’s exactly my humor and I love it. Also Bake Off. I am very noncompetitive and thats what I would be like in a tv show. And listen, I am going to say the podcast Nancy. It so perfectly describes what its like to be queer and I cry anytime I listen to it. 

have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who?

This is an interesting question. I don’t usually seek out writers because they think the same as me. Rather I seek out writers who show me something new.  I will say that I began to read memoir because I loved the interior of women’s thoughts. The first one that turned me on to memoirs was Crazy Brave by Jo Harjo. Probably my favorite is Just Kids by Patti Smith. Although neither of these women are anything like me. Both had children very young, both experienced homelessness. But I think I was so mesmerized by how women navigate and investigate the world. Where we are alike and where we are disimilar. One fiction book where I felt so connected to a character, even though we were nothing alike was Ivy Abereen’s Letter to The World. Its a middle grade book about a girl figuring out her sexuality while she suffers through relocation after a hurricane.  I was very different from Ivy, but the author could write so clearly about confusing gay feelings, and just being angry all the time when it feels like no one is listening. 5/5 book. 

8. what musical artists have you most felt connected to over your lifetime?

Well when I began to listen to music I listened to what my brother listed to. I would say two of my parents where Green Day and Linkin Park. I listened to these as early as kindergarten. My first personal venture into music was Kelly Clarkson. Come Undone was huge when I was in 5th grade. In middle school I was pretty into Three Days Grace. I don’t really remember what I listened to in high school. Probably Imagine Dragons (i’ve seen them in concert 3 times). In college I went through a phase where I realized that I didn’t have my own music identity really. I got really into spotify’s discovery weekly. I would listen to 30 sec clips and decide if I wanted to get to know the song. I would then add it to a playlist called “experiment” which I was supposed to listen to for an hour a week. When I listened to a song enough times, I would either add it to “my songs” or I would delete it forever. This did not work. It was supposed to be capped at 100 songs and its at about 600 right now. BUT what I learned. I ventured a bit into electronic music and now I hate it. I need to be able to hear the instruments. I still recommendations for it today. What I landed it on was actually the music in Welcome to Night Vale. So I went from alt and punk rock to more indie rock. Now I mostly either listen to my music on shuffle or listen to showtunes (another staple in my life) but the last group I was obsessed with that got added was Harry Styles. When is he releasing new music??? To be honest, I don’t listen to a lot of music anymore. I mostly read audiobooks or listen to podcasts now. I also got back into Sum 41 and Fleetwood Mac recently (what a combo lol). 

11.describe your ideal day.

Wake up at about 9:30 am. I have nowhere to be. I eat a late breakfast. Something with fried eggs. After a prolonged breakfast, I decide to take a short nap and go back to sleep. A wake up in time for lunch. In the afternoon, I read a book, maybe take a trip to the library. Maybe I have an academic discussion with someone but I don’t have any pressing homework. I have a nice dinner (potatoes, or tomato soap, or poutine, or sushi). I watch youtube videos until about midnight and go to bed early. Or I have a few drinks at a bar with friends but I am home by 10. 

15. five most influential books over your lifetime.

I love this question!!! okay. 1) Bridge to Terebithia- first book that made me fall  in love with reading. 2) Hope Was Here - my first favorite book. everything I like in a book. A new york teenager moves to small midwestern town and falls in love with it. The short order cook becomes her step father and wants to run for mayor against the local villain who has been major for like 20 years. She does everything she can to dismantle the local government and get her new stepfather in seat. 3) Hero by Perry Moore. Second favorite book. Also one of the early books that I read because it was gay. Angst! Gay! Superheroes! What is not to love! I am so sad that the author died after one book. 4) The Outsiders. I think I just like to suffer. All of these are sometimes or majorly sad but hopeful.  5) Crazy Brave by Jo Harjo. Got me interested in nonfiction. I now actively seek memoirs by poets of color because of her. (Just Kids is also a memoir of a poet)

Honorable mentions: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Impulse by Ellen Hopkins, Just Kids by Patti Smith, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, The Color of Water by James McBride, 

[batsysims]

100 QUESTIONS NO ONE ASKS

I was tagged by @tickledsims ty ily!!

1. DO YOU SLEEP WITH YOUR CLOSET DOORS OPEN OR CLOSED? CLOSED when i was younger my little sister had a baby doll that would talk on its own at night and we called it the demon baby and hooooly shit

2. DO YOU TAKE THE SHAMPOOS AND CONDITIONER BOTTLES FROM HOTELS? i dont take those bc my hair cant take cheap hair products but i do take the soaps!!

3. DO YOU SLEEP WITH YOUR SHEETS TUCKED IN OR OUT? i put the mattress cover sheet thingy on my bed but i dont use an actual sheet :/

4. HAVE YOU STOLEN A STREET SIGN BEFORE? nah lol

5. DO YOU LIKE TO USE POST-IT NOTES? YES i love using office supplies i could spend all day at staples omg

6. DO YOU CUT OUT COUPONS BUT THEN NEVER USE THEM? no lol but il save the lil receipt coupons and find them in my wallet months after they expire

7. WOULD YOU RATHER BE ATTACKED BY A BIG BEAR OR A SWARM OF BEES? hhhhh bees

8. DO YOU HAVE FRECKLES? yep!! i love them its why im scared to use foundation i dont wanna lose em

9. DO YOU ALWAYS SMILE FOR PICTURES? i either smile or if my moms takin the pic il make a stupid face 

10. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST PET PEEVE? i have terrible road rage...... um........... i also hate it when men interrupt me i just walk away at that point 

11. DO YOU EVER COUNT YOUR STEPS WHEN YOU WALK? yeah i pretty much count everything

12. HAVE YOU PEED IN THE WOODS? i dont think so??

13. HAVE YOU EVER POOPED IN THE WOODS? def not lmao

14. DO YOU EVER DANCE EVEN IF THERES NO MUSIC PLAYING? i have an eating dance, a drinking dance, and a video game playing dance hahaa

15. DO YOU CHEW YOUR PENS AND PENCILS? yes ugh it annoys me but i cant stop

16. HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOU SLEPT WITH THIS WEEK? at LEAST 0

17. WHAT SIZE IS YOUR BED? i think its a single? a single or a twin either way im miserable send help

18. WHAT IS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? ummm probably You by Weird Milk?? its the most recent song i added on spotify so  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

19. IS IT OK FOR GUYS TO WEAR PINK? yeah def unless its one of those “real men wear pink shirts” like just.... stop

20. DO YOU STILL WATCH CARTOONS? sometimes my sister makes me watch stevens universe?? il watch phineas and ferb too bc honestly who doesnt anime too but not always cartoon ones or w/e

21. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE MOVIE? 2001: A Space Odyssey and Daughters of the Dust come to mind

22. WHERE WOULD YOU BURY HIDDEN TREASURE IF YOU HAD SOME? u kno where ;) no how big is the treasure?? if its a lil bit id put it in that drawer under the oven bc my family never uses that but if its BIG TREASURE id hide it in the backyard of the last house i lived in bc a. nobody lives there now and 2. its totally overrun with green bc of like two floods

23. WHAT DO YOU DRINK WITH DINNER? water! only water ever

24. WHAT DO YOU DIP A CHICKEN NUGGET IN? honey if theyre mcnuggets but other than that i use honey mustard!

25. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOD? chicky parm

26. WHAT MOVIES COULD YOU WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND STILL LOVE? honestly Inception is my feel-good movie

27. LAST PERSON, YOU KISSED/KISSED YOU? a lil babu

28. WERE YOU EVER A BOY/GIRL SCOUT? i was in girl scouts much longer than i ever wanted to be lmao WISH i coulda done BOY SCOUTS

29. WOULD YOU EVER STRIP OR POSE NUDE IN A MAGAZINE? if cash is involved absolutely

30. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WROTE A LETTER TO SOMEONE ON PAPER? aboutttt three months ago!

31. CAN YOU CHANGE THE OIL ON A CAR? no but i can watch

32. EVER GOTTEN A SPEEDING TICKET? when i first got my license yea :( 15 yr olds are dum

33. EVER RAN OUT OF GAS? twice! very good memories

34. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE KIND OF SANDWICH? egg salad gud

35. BEST THING TO EAT FOR BREAKFAST? the all star breakfast at waffle house yasssss

36. WHAT IS YOUR USUAL BEDTIME? honestly like 9 since i always have to wake up at 7 in the am but il stay up til 11 if i can

37. ARE YOU LAZY? absolutely when have ACTIVE ppl done ANYTHING

38. WHEN YOU WERE A KID, WHAT DID YOU DRESS UP AS FOR HALLOWEEN? i was usually a cat bc i never could find a costume i liked smh but when i was 2 i went as winnie the pooh lmao

39. WHAT IS YOUR CHINESE ASTROLOGICAL SIGN? ox!

40. HOW MANY LANGUAGES CAN YOU SPEAK? just english but im tryna learn spanish and japanese and im fluent in french if a two year olds speech patterns can be considered as such

41. DO YOU HAVE ANY MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS? nah

42. WHICH ARE BETTER: LEGOS OR LINCOLN LOGS? LEGOS lincoln logs are big with nostalgia thoooo

43. ARE YOU STUBBORN? with dumb shit yeah but i usually just dont care enough abt stuff to deal

44. WHO IS BETTER: LENO OR LETTERMAN? theyre both old idc

45. EVER WATCH SOAP OPERAS? no lol

46. ARE YOU AFRAID OF HEIGHTS? not really tbh i like the adrenaline

47. DO YOU SING IN THE CAR? if im alone!! nobody deserves to hear that

48. DO YOU SING IN THE SHOWER? nahhh

49. DO YOU DANCE IN THE CAR? when im in the drive thru haaaa

50. EVER USED A GUN? id like to go to a shooting range some time but ive never used one im also very anti gun so i probs would never buy one unless it was a cute lil glock i can handle well

51. LAST TIME YOU GOT A PORTRAIT TAKEN BY A PHOTOGRAPHER? st patricks day it wasnt technically for me tho

52. DO YOU THINK MUSICALS ARE CHEESY? not in general but when ppl start obsessing over a certain one for months on end abt a certain time period and certain performers and certain songs and certain people of history i start wanting ppl to die

53. IS CHRISTMAS STRESSFUL? YEAH I NEVER HAVE MONEY WTF

54. EVER EAT A PIEROGI? my sisters obsessed with them so yea but never like. authentic polish potato pockets or anything just a frozen box of em

55. FAVORITE TYPE OF FRUIT PIE? apple?? im not rly into pie tbh

56. OCCUPATIONS YOU WANTED TO BE WHEN YOU WERE A KID? ive wanted to go into law enforcement/criminology my whole life!! for a sec i wanted to be a firefighter, a journalist/writer/poet, and some sort of artist but u know how kids are

57. DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? i tried to find that clip from malcolm in the middle for like ten mins but i couldnt yea

58. EVER HAVE A DEJA-VU FEELING? doesnt everyone tho?

59. DO YOU TAKE A VITAMIN DAILY? no im a bad adult

60. DO YOU WEAR SLIPPERS? nah

61. DO YOU WEAR A BATH ROBE? im not rich!!

62. WHAT DO YOU WEAR TO BED? usually just my undies but when im living with other people il wear a soft shirt and my dc heroes pajama bottoms ayyy

63. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CONCERT? ive never been to one! i was gonna go see metallica in baltimore but i moved before i could smh

64. WALMART, TARGET, OR KMART? walmart sry targets cool but too much money!!! i go there for home things tho does kmart still exist

65. NIKE OR ADIDAS? ADIDAS ive been trying to get a full adidas tracksuit for YEARS

66. CHEETOS OR FRITOS? fritos! i like the super hot cheetos tho

67. PEANUTS OR SUNFLOWER SEEDS? peanutsssss

68. EVER HEAR OF THE GROUP TRES BIEN? Nope but they must be good im keepin @tickledsims response bc it made me laugh

69. EVER TAKE DANCE LESSONS? when i was a lil babu i took ballet and gymnastics a lil later

70. IS THERE A PROFESSION YOU PICTURE YOUR FUTURE SPOUSE DOING? i hope to never have a spouse  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

71. CAN YOU CURL YOUR TONGUE? yep

72. EVER WON A SPELLING BEE? ive actually never even had a spelling bee im sure theyre a myth

73. HAVE YOU EVER CRIED BECAUSE YOU WERE SO HAPPY? i think so??

74. OWN ANY RECORD ALBUMS? nah

75. OWN A RECORD PLAYER? nahhhhh

76. DO YOU REGULARLY BURN INCENSE? no but i had a roommate who did i fell in love

77. EVER BEEN IN LOVE? yeah ok lol so one time when i was a sophomore my french teacher had to use a substitute teacher and hes the reason i believe in love at first sight im STILL in love with him wtf ive also had a bf haha im hilarious

78. WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IN CONCERT? i dont really do concerts so i couldnt say but i think matd would be fun!!

79. WHAT WAS THE LAST CONCERT YOU SAW? oh my god

80. HOT TEA OR COLD TEA? hot!!!!

81. TEA OR COFFEE? coffee!!!!!!

82. SUGAR COOKIES OR SNICKERDOODLES? i dont rly like either but i prefer snickerdoodles over sugar

83. CAN YOU SWIM WELL? i can only do that weird frog swim i forget what its called so no im shit at it

84. CAN YOU HOLD YOUR BREATH WITHOUT HOLDING YOUR NOSE? ye

85. ARE YOU PATIENT? if im able to distract myself?? it also depends on the severity of what im waiting on i guess

86. DJ OR BAND AT A WEDDING? probs a band i guess i dont rly think abt that kinda stuff sry

87. EVER WON A CONTEST? when i was four i won a coloring contest at the ice cream store

88. HAVE YOU EVER HAD PLASTIC SURGERY? nope im poor 89. WHICH ARE BETTER: BLACK OR GREEN OLIVES? both are good!

90. CAN YOU KNIT OR CROCHET? i can knit but i cant crochet

91. BEST ROOM FOR A FIREPLACE? fckn bathroom

92. DO YOU WANT TO GET MARRIED? not rly unless its a partnership longlasting romance stresses me out especially with financial responsibility etc

93. IF MARRIED, HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN MARRIED? -20 years

94. WHO WAS YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CRUSH? my high school boyfriend hahaaa h,,,,

95. DO YOU CRY AND THROW A FIT UNTIL YOU GET YOUR OWN WAY? im an adult sry

96. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? 1!

97. DO YOU WANT KIDS? nope! lmao i love her tho

98. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR? red but i also like many others??? idk

99. DO YOU MISS ANYONE RIGHT NOW? ummm not rly?? im not close enough to anyone to miss them and those i am close to im able to hang with

100. WHO ARE YOU GOING TO TAG TO DO THIS TAG NEXT? god uhhh if you havent done it already and want to, @dreambot @nebula-simms @ellowynsims and @pixelbloom

[micaramel]

Artist: Andrew Norman Wilson

Venue: Human Resources, Los Angeles

Exhibition Title: Pretense

Co-presented by: Document, Chicago

Date: October 6 – 20, 2017

Click here to view slideshow

Full gallery of video, images, press release and link available after the jump.

Video:

Andrew Normal Wilson, Reality Models, 2016, HD Video and VHS, 5 min 40 sec loop

  Andrew Normal Wilson, The Unthinkable Bygone, 2016, HD Video, 2 min 18 sec loop

  Andrew Normal Wilson, Ode to Seekers, 2012 – 2016, HD Video, 8 min 30 sec loop

  Images:

  Images courtesy of Human Resources, Los Angeles

Press Release:

Through the use of puppets both computer-generated and hand-made, the recent work of Andrew Norman Wilson stages inescapable narrative scenarios in which rational thought becomes contradictory and human exceptionalism unravels. Drawn from the popular imagination, the videos’ anthropomorphized characters mimic our emotions and behavior while exploiting the illusory and uncertain qualities of puppetry. In the words of the artist, “Being a person means being paranoid that you might be a puppet of some other force, like economic networks or algorithms or genetic coding.” Divided, replicated, transposed, and multiplied, Wilson’s puppets are subjected to biological and computational functions within infinitely looping narratives where perceptual play reigns and human reason offers no escape.

The Unthinkable Bygone (2016) was the first project Wilson developed in collaboration with the animator Vlad Maftei, whose experience includes realistic simulations of vital organs for the healthcare industry as well as the limitless elasticity of a 4D Spongebob Squarepants film. For Wilson, such overlaps of scientific visualization and popular cinematic technique are a key site for understanding science as a cultural practice that offers information about matter without revealing a consciousness-piercing truth. Together Wilson and Maftei created a 3D model of Baby Sinclair from Jim Henson’s animatronic puppet TV series Dinosaurs (1991-94) and subjected him to varied forms of scientific analysis, including simulation, dissection, reflection, and endoscopy. What emerges is an infinite loop in which speculation on an organism’s intelligence, experience, and points of view inevitably reveal the influence of cinematic and televisual convention, and leave us knowing less than we did at the beginning of the experiment.

Reality Models (2016) is a shot-by-shot recreation of a scene from “Peppermint Park,” an educational home video series produced in the 1980s by a group of investors seeking to profit off the narrative models that “Sesame Street” invented for educational children’s entertainment. A s the artist recounts, “Growing up, a family friend had several copies of the VHS tapes and I remember being terrified of an unexplained dance sequence by a breakaway puppet dressed to look like a scarecrow. A few years ago, clips from the show resurfaced online, and my relationship with the dancing scarecrow has shifted from horror to obsession.” Wilson added a backstage scene that reveals the puppet as h is own puppeteer. Inspired by a 2010 experiment by the physicist Aaron O’Connell, the scene dramatizes the discovery that an object visible to the naked human eye can be in two places at once, thus demonstrating the influence of quantum physics on objects larger than atoms. In his essay on the video, Wilson writes, “From here it starts to seem like existing means being inconsistent, while dying means becoming consistent. Or that classical logic – where things are either A or B , but never A and B at the same time – is being replaced by a quantum logic which says t hat all future possibilities exist i n the p resent.” O ne could say t he narrative operates analogically to that idea. Or, it’s a demonstration of how, in cinema and literature, narrative closure occurs when plot and story arrive at a 1:1 ratio: consistency. At its most basic, it’s the s tory of an artist torn between their public persona and the private struggle of day-to-day survival. Whatever it means, Reality Models is about just that: whatever it means. In the words of O’Connell, “People have models of reality, and those models are descriptions, but they d on’t get you any closer to the truth.”

Ode to Seekers 2012 (2016) was the second project Wilson developed in collaboration with Maftei and was initially conceived during treatment at Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg New York, which contains the abandoned children’s ward seen in the video. Loosely based on John Keats’ poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1820), the work emerges from a translation of the formal techniques of Keats’ textual ode to an infinitely looping video. Ekphrasis – the graphic, dramatic description of a visual work of art – shifts from Keats’ urn and the celebratory scene it depicts to an abandoned children’s ward at a mental institution and a computer-generated scene composed by Wilson and Maftei. “What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?” The questions that Keats asks of the images on the urn are visually translated for the viewer of Seekers , transposing the poet’s queries to a scene in which a mosquito, a syringe, and an oil pump all thrust their piercers into a surface that looks at once like human skin under a microscope, desert salt flats, and potato casserole. Sifting through the artist’s experiences with mosquito-borne illness, drug addiction, and climate change, the work operates as both a questioning of and a testament to the choice to continue to make art, or do anything at all, when every attempt to love, desensitize, or survive inevitably entails traumatic destruction.

A sculpture entitled Robin Williams Window Shade (2015) is mounted in the former cinema. The artist bought a resin cast of Robin’s head from a Hollywood prop studio that was made when the actor was still alive. Face casts seem to anticipate a person’s death – they not only require the person to “play dead” during the making of the mold, but they also outlive the person, turning their form into a replicable commemoration. Wilson 3D-scanned the cast and worked with a 3D modeler to open its eyes and make it grimace in the way Robin Williams was known to do. He also 3D-scanned an alligator clip that the modeler used to pinch his eyebrow within the software. The clip, but not its effect, was then removed and the model was 3D printed and thrust through a hole in a piece of faux leather. As with the baby dinosaur from The Unthinkable Bygone , Wilson picks up traces of forms, copies of copies, and attempts to reanimate the affect of their source towards atypical ends. He writes, “With the face print in my hands, I am ecstatic. Then, a feeling that something was always absent, regardless of the fact that it’s a faceprint of a faceprint of a faceprint of a face. Like any object itself, Robin himself was never an adequate expression of his actual existence. In person, he sparkled with the same mysterious absence as this powder print in my hands, or as in the projection I saw of Mrs. Doubtfire’s face, covered in cake icing, yelling ‘toodaloo’ from behind a refrigerator door. The object is mournful – it holds on to the feeling of something slipping away. It’s about being respectful, being true, but knowing that you are losing something. Treasuring an illusion, while kissing it goodbye.”

Mosquito Computer (2015-2017) is a custom computer case that has been modified to house multiple generations of mosquitoes over the course of an art exhibition. Inside the case is a mosquito colony, a hard drive enclosure with a small pond inside for larvae to grow, and another hard drive enclosure filled with tree resin that serves as both a food supply and a preservation medium for dead mosquitoes. The multi-generational family drama On Golden Pond (1981) is projected onto the case to serve as visual stimuli for the mosquitoes. Over the course of the exhibition, the female mosquitoes are fed blood meals sourced from the artist’s veins to afford them the protein they need to make their eggs. These blood meals also allow the artist to store his genetic information temporarily in the mosquitoes’ bodies, and permanently in the tree resin once it becomes amber. According to the narrative of Jurassic Park (1993), this could allow for clones of the artist to be produced in the future.

Andrew Norman Wilson is an artist from suburban Massachusetts. After studying journalism and communications, he worked on various activist and documentary projects while employed as a commercial video producer. In 2008, he decided to start making art, and since then his work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, Centre Pompidou, the Gwangju Biennial and the Berlin Biennial. Lectures include Harvard University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, UCLA, and Cooper Union. His work has been featured in Artforum, e-flux, Frieze, the New Yorker, and Wired.

Co-presented by Document, Chicago

Link: Andrew Norman Wilson at Human Resources

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