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uomo-accattivante · 4 years ago

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I recently came across a bunch of press articles and photos about Oscar Isaac that are so old, they appear to be out-of-print and pre-date social media. Considering they were probably never digitally transcribed for internet access, I’m guessing that the majority of current fans have never seen this stuff.

Even though a lot of these digital scans are challenging to read because they are the original fuzzy news print, I think there some gems worth sharing with you guys. Over the next several weeks, I will transcribe and share those gems on this page. Hope you enjoy them!

Let’s start with this fantastic 2001 profile piece done before Oscar was accepted into Juilliard:

South Florida’s rising star isn’t just acting the part

By Christine Dolen - [email protected]

February 4, 2001

As fifth-graders at Westminster Christian School in Miami, Oscar Isaac and his classmates were asked to write a story as if they were animals on Noah’s Ark. Oscar turned in a seven-page play – with original music – from the perspective of a platypus. Then he starred in the production his teacher directed.

He hasn’t stopped expressing himself creatively since. Today, Isaac is one of South Florida’s busiest young theater actors, and certainly its hottest. And not just because he’s a slender five-feet nine-inches tall with an expressively handsome face and glistening brown eyes.

Since making his professional debut as a Cuban hustler in Sleepwalkers at Area Stage in July 1999, he has played an explosive Vietnam vet in Private Wars for Horizons Repertory, a pot-smoking slacker in This Is Our Youth at GableStage, another Cuban on the make in Praying With the Enemy at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, the entrancing narrator of Side Man at GableStage, a Havana-based writer in Arrivals and Departures for the new Oye Rep and, most recently, a young Fidel Castro in When It’s Cocktail Time in Cuba at New York’s Cherry Lane Theater.

Beginning Wednesday, he’ll be juggling five roles in City Theatre’s annual Winter Shorts festival, first at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach, then at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. But that is not all: During the two weeks he is doing Winter Shorts, he’ll also be playing dates with the punk-ska band The Blinking Underdogs (www.blinkingunderdogs.com), which features him as lead singer, guitarist and songwriter.

Oh, and he just got back from auditioning for New York’s prestigious Juilliard School of Drama.

All this for a guy a month shy of his 22nd birthday.

Sure, you could hate a guy who’s that talented, that charismatic, that transparently ambitious. But the people who have worked with Oscar Isaac don’t. On the contrary, they’re all sure he has it – that magical, can’t-be-taught thing that transforms an actor into a star.

Playwright Eduardo Machado, who put in a good word for Isaac at Juilliard, says “he does have that star quality that makes your eyes go to him. It’s great that someone with that talent still wants to train.”

“He has a star quality that’s rare in a young actor,” adds Joseph Adler, who directed him in Side Man and This Is Our Youth. “Without a doubt I expect to be hearing great things from him.”

‘I JUST LOVE CREATING’

Isaac, who also makes short films, can’t say exactly why he was attracted to acting. He just knows it makes him happier than anything, that it’s what he was meant to do. And he’s been doing it since he was a 4-year-old putting on plays in his family’s backyard with his sister Nicole.

“I just love creating, whether it’s music or films or a character on a stage. I love taking people for a ride,” he says. “In Side Man, every night I would love being that close to the audience. I felt like I was talking to 80 of my closest friends.

“I could feel what the audience was feeling.”

His powerful, mournful-yet-loving monologue near the end of the play, he said, “worked every night. I knew it would get them. I’d hear sniffles.

“But it had less to do with me than with the atmosphere [created by the playwright and director].”

You could understand if Isaac, surrounded as he is by praise and possibility, had an ego as burgeoning as his career. Instead, he channels the positive reinforcement into confidence about his work.

“He has such a charm and an ease onstage, but he’s very modest,” says New York-based actress Judith Delgado, who shared the stage with Isaac in Side Man. “He’s hungry. He’s got moxie. I was blown away by him.

“He saved me a couple of times. I went up [forgot a line] and that baby boy of mine came through. He’s a joy.”

FORGING HIS OWN PATH

The son of a Cuban-American father and a Guatemalan mother, Isaac was never a stellar student. But he found ways of turning routine assignments – like the Noah’s Ark story – into creative challenges.

His science reports were inevitably video documentaries underscored with punk music. He acted through middle and high school, though he had a falling out with his drama teacher at Santaluces Community High in Lantana over his misgivings about a character. When she refused to cast him in anything else, he got his English teacher to let him play the dentist in Little Shop of Horrors his senior year.

His skepticism about authority and love of playing the devil’s advocate have long made him resist doing things the usual way. His post-high school “training” consisted of one semester at Miami-Dade Community College’s South Campus (where he met his girlfriend, Maria Miranda), touring schools playing an abusive character in the Coconut Grove Playhouse’s Breaking the Cycle, and working as a transporter of bodies at Baptist Hospital, where he absorbed the drama of people in emotionally intense situations.

“It was the most magnificent dramatic institute I could’ve attended,” Isaac said. “I was able to observe the entire spectrum of human emotion, people under the most extreme duress. I was mesmerized watching the way people interacted with each other in such heightened situations.

“I learned everything about the human condition, and it was real and harsh and brutally honest.”

Yet even given his propensity for forging his own path, something nudged him another direction while he was in New York making his Off-Broadway debut in December. Walking by Juilliard one day, he impulsively went in to ask for an application. Though the application deadline had passed, Isaac persuaded Juilliard to accept his, noting in his application essay that most of the exceptional actors he admires had acquired “a brutally efficient technique” to enhance their talent by studying at places like Juilliard.

Though he won’t know whether he has been accepted until the end of this month, his audition last weekend went well, he says. He did monologues from Henry IV, Part I and Dancing at Lughnasa, adjusting his Shakespearean Hotspur to a more fiery temperature at the suggestion of Michael Kahn, head of Juilliard’s acting program – though not without arguing that Hotspur wouldn’t be speaking to the king that way.

Isaac, not surprisingly, loves a good debate.

Adler, GableStage’s artistic director and a man who is as liberal as Isaac once was conservative, savored the verbal jousting they did during rehearsals for Side Man.

“He knows exactly how to pull my chain,” Adler says with a laugh. “Intelligence is the cornerstone of all great actors, and he’s bright as hell.

“He has relentless ambition but with so much charm. He’s very hard to say no to. He has incredible raw talent and magnetism that is very rare in a young actor along with relentless energy, perseverance and ambition. I see his growth both onstage and off. He’s mature in both places.”

Part of his growth, of course, will necessarily involve dealing with the rejections that are part of any actor’s life. His career is still too new, his string of successes solid, so it’s anyone’s guess how failure will shape him. But director Michael John Garcés, who picked him for When It’s Cocktail Time in Cuba after Isaac flew to New York at his own expense to compete with a pool of seasoned Manhattan actors for the role, believes his character will see him through.

“Oscar is realistic, but he’s so willing to go the whole nine yards,” Garcés says. “He didn’t go out when he was in the show here. His focus earned the respect of the other actors, some of whom have been working in New York for 30 years.

“He hasn’t had a lot of blows yet, when the career knocks the wind out of you. But he has talent, determination and focus, and if he has perseverance – my intuition is that he does have it – he could achieve a lot.”

FAMILY TIES

His father and namesake, Baptist Hospital intensive-care physician Oscar Isaac Hernandez, couldn’t be more proud. (Isaac doesn’t use the family surname in order to avoid, in his words, being “put in that Hispanic actor box.”)

“I’m ecstatic that he’s probably going to be going to the most prestigious drama school in the United States,” he says. “School will help him focus his energies and give him discipline. He’s got the raw material and the drive.”

Isaac’s mother, Maria, divorced from his father since 1992, is a kidney-transplant recipient who acknowledges that she’ll miss her son if he moves to New York. But, she adds, she wants him “to live out his dreams. He amazes me every day. He calls me every day. I’m very proud of him.”

Even the other guys in The Blinking Underdogs are fans of Isaac’s acting, though it could take him away from South Florida just as the band appears to be, Isaac says, on the brink of signing a recording deal (it has already put out its own CD, The Last Word, with songs, lead vocals and even cover photography by Isaac.

“Oscar’s the leader of the band, a great musician who amazes me and motivates us,” says sax player Keith Cooper. “I’ve been to see every one of his plays. He’s a phenomenal actor.

“I completely buy into his role in every play. As close as I am to him, I forget it’s Oscar.”

His South Florida theater colleagues credit that to Isaac’s insatiable desire to learn and grow.

Gail Garrisan, who is directing him in Donnie and One of the Great Ones for Winter Shorts, observes, “It’s not often that you find a young actor who is willing to listen and who doesn’t think he knows everything. He loves the work.

“He really brought the young man in Side Man to life. When I saw it in New York, it seemed to be the father’s play. When I saw it here, I felt it was his [Isaac’s] play.”

Oye Rep’s John Rodaz, whom Isaac calls “the best director I’ve ever worked with,” gave the actor his first important job in Sleepwalkers at Area Stage. They met when Isaac came to see Area’s production of Oleanna and the actor, knowing Rodaz ran the theater, introduced himself.

“He has so much energy and such a sparkling personality,” Rodaz says. “He knows how to move in the world. He seems to take advantage of every situation in a good way; he’s not a cold, calculating person who’ll stab you in the back.

“[But] he wants it so badly. Everything he does, he’s the leader. When I was 21, I was taking naps.”

Rodaz coached Isaac on his Juilliard monologues and found the experience energizing.

“I got chills just watching him. That happens so rarely. I was so exhilarated when I came home that I just had to go out and run. You just know he’s got all the tools.”

Christine Dolen is The Herald’s theater critic.

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#oscar isaac #vintage #juilliard #blinking underdogs #area stage company #john rodaz #gablestage #when it's cocktail time in cuba #side man #arrivals and departures #this is our youth #praying with the enemy #sleepwalkers #private wars #winter shorts #the miami herald

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mickies-amadwoman · 4 years ago

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Hello everyone,

First off, I’d like to introduce myself as this is a new tumblr I made. My name is Mickie (they/them), I’m 24 years old and I love all things Taylor Swift, dogs, and Disney Pixar. For as long as I can remember I’ve connected to Taylor on a level I always convinced myself wasn’t possible. I am an abuse survivor and due to that pain, I went to her to survive. From the age of 10 years old, most of my positive memories were and are still associated with Taylor. To start this off on a positive note, let me show you some photos of me in my happiest of places, anything involving Taylor.

I sadly have no photos of me at The Fearless Tour so here is one I took on the 10 year anniversary of Fearless coming out.

Speak Now World Tour:

Red Tour:

1989 World Tour:

rep tour:

Release of Lover:

Wango Tango:

Now here’s the hard part...I’m terrified to do this because one thing that’s really really hard for me is asking for help.....but here I go anyway because Taylor taught me that being fearless isn’t being unafraid, it’s being terrified and jumping anyway.

I have an eating disorder and have struggled with it for the past 15 years. One that’s almost killed me too many times. On June 1st of this year, I admitted into a residential treatment program for my eating disorder and other chronic mental health issues including bipolar disorder and C-PTSD. I stepped down to partial hospitalization two weeks ago and today my insurance decided to no longer pay for my care because “my labs are now normal and I’m medically stable enough” to go down to intensive outpatient. Here’s the thing, I’d be okay with that if it weren’t for some other factors in my life right now that make that impossible. I’m homeless and have absolutely no way to make IOP a possibility because due to covid, everything’s gone virtual. With that happening, I’d need a place to stay with a computer and WiFi. With less than 24 hours notice, that’s pretty much an impossible task. I’m also nowhere near ready to step down as I’m still struggling with behavior use, self harm, and a lot of trauma responses. My team at program is very angry and is trying to fight for me to get the care I need but it’s seeming very hopeless at this point. My insurance company told my psychiatrist to not even try doing an appeal because they’re gonna say no anyway. How is this ethical? It’s not. What it is though is inhumane and unsafe. During my stay in PHP I had access to apartments to live in while going to program 11 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, those are no longer available to me because they don’t offer them in lower levels of care. I’m not trying to be negative but I know myself rather well and I know for sure I will not survive another relapse. My body won’t be able to handle it again. If it’s illegal to evict someone during a global pandemic, how is it okay to discharge me without a place to live or a team I can work with? That’s literally killing me. My life is not a monetary value, IT’S A LIFE and I deserve a real shot at getting better. So I’ve hit a point of self realization where I KNOW exactly where I need to be. I need to stay in partial hospitalization. So here’s me being very vulnerable and asking for your help. Please please reblong this is and if that’s all you’re capable of, that’s enough. I’m hoping that people can help me in some way, whether that be big or small. I am asking for support in this journey that I’ve been battling my whole life so I can change my entire family dynamic and my future. I want to be a Mom, I wanna see all the sunsets and every Pixar movie that comes out. I want to see everything Taylor does in her future too but I’m telling you that won’t happen if I have to leave treatment right now. I want to travel and see broadway musicals. I want a life worth living for the first time in 24 years. Treatment is very expensive and I have no way of paying for it out of pocket. I’m trying to stay hopeful and remind myself that I will get through this but to be 100% I’m terrified. I’m so scared that I’ll leave and since I’ll have nowhere to go and no way to buy food, my eating disorder will take control of me once again. I am sick of being sick...and I’m willing to do anything to finally be free from this debilitating disorder but I don’t think I can do it alone....in fact, I know I can’t do it alone. I need support in any way you can give it. If you read this whole thing, thank you. I appreciate you more than you know.

#taylor swift #swifties #folklore #taylor nation #Spotify

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daerjohn · 5 years ago

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enough is enough

I have been pretty silent the past week when it comes to this fandom. But I have seen enough now. So below you will find my opinion on Taylor not doing enough for BLM, Fans attacking eachother and Taylor Nation

I wanna start with the most important toppic which is Taylor and BLM. I have been supporting Taylor for 12 years now, I love her and I respect her. I watched fans judging her for not posting much about the BLM Situation which I understand fully! She should have used her platform much more than she did. So don’t get me wrong I wish she would have done more too. But... I didn’t focus on it. And it’s not like she didn’t say anything. She did. At the beginning, the blackouttuesday (I wasn’t really supportive of it cause I do think that many people just used it as some kind of alibi to be able to say ‘Oh look I am posting this black square, I am doing something good!” Nope. Not enough. However she did post earlier this week. So it’s not like she didn’t say anything. But I know it wasn’t enough, I agree. I have a much smaller platform on twitter, tumblr and instagram but I have been using them since I have a platform. What bothered me though is that many fans really only focused on that?! That I don’t understand. I didn’t waste my time on waiting for her to say something. I just did the best I could, I protested, I spread the word on all my social media and I signed my ass off on all the petitions. I couldn’t donate because I lost my job due to corona, so I am struggling enough with that. But everyday I wake up I get on twitter and check for new petitions to sign and if there is another protest, I am going. Because it’s fucking important. I focused on the actual issues - Police brutality, racism, sexism and Trump! I didn’t wait for Taylor to say something because I shouldn’t. Don’t wait, act on it. Most of you did so it was nice to see that but there were a lot of hate posts about Taylor not doing more, fans fighting about it. It breaks my heart because back in 2012, 13, 14, 15 and 16 this fandom was the best fandom to exist. Now not anymore. Which brings me to the second topic.

Swifties building groups and hurting other Swifties!!!???? WHY? If you are a fan of Taylor’s but are against LGBTQ+ or against other “races” (I hate using this word. We are all humans!!!) sorry to say but if you are against them/us you do not belong here. Please leave my blog and please leave this fandom because Taylor wouldn’t have it either. I just saw a message someone published where one “fan” threatens to destroy another fan. What the HELL?! I mean I get it if someone doesn’t get along with someone thats ok. It’s normal. I know people I don’t get along with but talking about them and threatening them behind their back?! No! I am not here for it. If you don’t like them just don’t interact with them and let them be but do not go and spread things about them that don’t concern you. You are not in that position to do so! Mental health is a serious issue and if you decide to use it against someone you are a horrible human being.

My last topic has nothing to do with the fandom or BLM. This is about TaylorNation. I am very unhappy with a few things not just lately but basicly since reputation. Like I said at the beginning I have been a Swiftie for a very long time and I will always love and support Taylor. But since the RepTour Dates I have been very upset which is also a reason why I am not as active on this blog anymore as I used to be. I feel like world records and money are more important than ever and even more important than the fans? kinda. Let me explain what I mean. I am from Europe and we already don’t have not many chances to see Taylor live. We don’t have the big TV Shows and award shows over here. (Germany) And so my only chances to see her is when she does a Tour and when I saw that she didn’t come to Europe for the Rep Tour I was very upset. She only did UK and I just simply can’t afford to travel there, get a hotel and buy the expensive ass tickets. So my question was ‘Why not Europe?!’ Answer: Stadiums only. For records. I was kinda leaving my TS blog during that time because I was upset and hurt and yeah jealous too. I spent lots of money on CDs, DVDs, Tickets, Merch and streaming websites. And yet I never got the chance to meet her or get like a message or whatnot. Now I know it’s not just me but just gonna say it again, it has been 12 years. Next: Lover Fest, now she did plan on coming to Germany and I did buy a ticket but for a lot of money! When I buy VIP Tickets for 5SOS or Hayley I still pay less money for that than for a simple Taylor ticket. But I love her and she owns my ass still so yeah I bought a ticket. What happens next? Covid-19! (not Taylor’s or tNation’s fault) but I am still waiting for informations about it? Like is it just postponed or is it cancelled??? I don’t know. Cause if it’s cancelled I want my 166€ back! My last point on my agenda is the City of Lover Fest. First stream: Can’t watch cause once again, I am not american. Then they say you can watch it on streaming pages. I got excited cause I already subscribed to Netflix for Rep Tour and Miss Americana. What happens? They don’t put it on Netflix only hulu and Disney+. HOW MANY STREAMING COMPANIES DO YOU WANT ME TO SUBSCRIBE?! THEY ALL COST MONEY!!!! AppleTV for 1989, Netflix for Rep and Miss Americana. So yeah till this day I still haven’t seen it. Because I am not rich enough. Also Merch. Can’t afford it anymore since Reputation era cause WTH?! Way too expensive.

So yeah here you have my statement. I love you all, I love you Taylor. Get off if you are racist or against lgbtq+

Thank you

#taylor swift #my statement #swifties #taylornation #tree paine #me

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caticornsrreal · 5 years ago

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OKAY HEAR ME OUT! @taylorswift mentioned on the @ryanseacrest-blog podcast that she wanted to perform in a more intimate setting and that she wasn’t sure if she would do another stadium tour for the Lover era.

This immediately triggered my mind to daydream about a living room Lover tour with fresh baked cookies and Le Labo Santal 26 candles. Okay, that’s a Secret Session...

When I snapped back to reality, my second reaction was utter panic. How would she pull off an intimate setting when 60k+ Swifties flock to a single show? No matter how much staging you do there, that’s never going to be intimate.

MY IDEA FOR BOTH

What if Taylor plans a stadium tour and instead of booking 2 nights in some cities, she books the second night as an intimate “Storytellers” type performance. Think about when she played Harvey Mudd during Red era (photos above). This would be mostly an acoustic set, very soft, very warm and intimate. Maybe 1k people. The stage could resemble one of her living rooms. There would be a lot of storytelling in between songs, a lot of special moments that she would get to share with the fans. She could even hold a Q&A where fans get to ask her questions!

Also, (now I know she does not offer paid meet & greets but hear me out) she could INCLUDE with the ticket purchase a VIP box (like Rep era) and an M&G invitation to anyone who HAS NOT met her yet and of course who is a verified fan. The tickets could be sold at the VIP price point with availability to attend only one show per fan. She could also have the Lover Experience pop up shop there with a crazy awesome photo op vibe like the recent pop up shop in NYC.

The Benefits:

We would get all the unicorns and rainbows of a stadium tour while getting the incredible opportunity to experience an intimate setting with Taylor. Fans would go to both shows.

And if the VIP price point is an issue and bothers people, then maybe she could set it up as a Secret Session spin-off where she just invites people instead of charging for it. But IMO, I don’t see anything wrong with charging for it since she’s working, her band would be working and there would be a great expense to cover.

#lover tour #lover era #my bright ideas #taylor notice

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swiftiemcdibbles · 5 years ago

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Advice for Parents about @taylorswift

NEVER EVER EVER make a promise that since they weren't able to go to the concert you have just returned home from, that you will make sure they get to go see her next show for her next album.

The reason is, you think @taylorswift will do a tour. You think she will come either to Charlotte, Atlanta, or somewhere from Tennessee to Florida. You KNOW it will be expensive but you think you'll have about 2 whole years or more before the next album is released after the previous one. You think that means that by the time tickets go on sale, you will undoubtedly have planned and saved, because you KNOW they will be expensive.

What you don't plan on, what I DID NOT PLAN ON, was that @taylorswift would only play 4 US shows and the CLOSEST one is 13 hours & 56 minutes away (900.8 miles away from my house) and the other being 35 hours (2,362.2 miles away from my house). So you think, "ok, I'm from Newport, RI and have family all over Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and most of New England, so I can still make this work. So you sign up for the Foxborough show and since you had to chose 2 different cities((if you wanted a back up, you could not choose the same city or your back up would be ignored, per Ticketmaster))you chose the California show thinking it would be a worst case scenario. You have hope because you learn you'll be in the same place as you were as the previous pre-sale for the REP tour on the Verified Fan pre-sale. You RSVP, you register, you read all the tips to make it go seamless like it did when you bought your REP tickets. Except, your Husband is literally 6,888 miles away this time deployed in Kuwait with a 7 hour time difference. Meaning it's really hard to talk about live events as they happen. Last time, he was in the living room. You also did not anticipate it would happen on Monday, the day you had a parent teacher meeting at 4, and a Scout's den meeting at 6:30, where you get a text saying you need like 10 things for a "hike" so you have to run around getting the things you don't already have. All the while trying to keep your eye on the Queue. Only to get home and lay in bed until it was my turn to look for tickets, to then get a message saying the pre-sale was over and tickets for your preferred show were sold out or not on sale anymore. So you literally are up, fighting with your Husband until 4 am, to end up with nose bleed seats for the California show for $600 before Insurance. And now, you have to figure out how to get there and that will be about another $2-3,000 IF we are lucky. So now, you are ate up with guilt because realistically you can't afford this, but you also are a Mother who cries everytime you think of having to tell your @taylorswift OBSESSED son that YOU broke your promise.

Yes. He will get over it if I sell them, which I will have to because California is too far away. But, at 5 years old he will not understand how his Mom who has made everything happen, even the things kids think are impossible like Superman coming to a Birthday party, he will not understand why I couldn't make this happen and why it's ok for me to break pinky promises or any promise when he gets in trouble for doing so.

So long story short, do not EVER promise your kids big things like this. He's 5 and will be 6 in March which is 5 months away, he will remember this let down, perhaps even as his 1st big let down. And I did it. I'm crying as I write this because it breaks me.

@taylorswift said during her Tiny Desk concert for @npr that song writing is cathartic for her and it helps her to process emotions. I am not a master of the craft but I do write little poems and other stuff when I'm overwhelmed and that's what this post is. It is not for pity. It is not asking for a handout(I did think about starting a Go Fund Me, but then instantaneously realized the ridiculousness of it). This is expression of one of the most complex times of my life. And no one close to me understands. They all say I'm crazy if I spend that much for him to go. He will forget about it, no he won't. He's wanted this for 2 years and has asked at least twice a week if we are going. I've posted videos of him falling asleep to the Lover album so @taylorswift or "His Taylor Swift" sees that he knows them. I only know if one group of people who will understand and it's you, the SWIFTIES. You guys get it, ESPECIALLY the OG's who now have kids who are swifties and you want to share that magic with them. Because we can all admit, a @taylorswift concert is magical.

Sorry for the long post, thank you.

@taylorswift @taylornation

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polaroidofus-89 · 5 years ago

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You have no idea what being an international fan is like!

She hasn’t performed in Italy (or any other country in Europe besides the UK) since 2011! 2011! The last time she was in Germany was during the RED tour!

She only performs in UK (when in Europe) and, although ticket prices sky-rocketed in these past years, with a bit of sacrifice you can definitely manage to get one IF YOU ARE LOCAL! The problem comes when you have to add flight and accommodation costs to the amount. It gets impossible for everyone! I had saved for months when 1989 and reputation tour where announced, did not spend a single cent of the money I earned and still I wasn’t able to attend because the total price was terrifying - for rep I couldn’t even afford the tickets after 10 MONTHS of saving!

This time I’ve been saving since ME! was revealed as the new single back in April and I’m still not sure I will be able to afford all expenses when the time to get tickets comes (at this point I lost all hopes and don’t think there will be any shows in Italy).

Also, American swifties got all 4 Deluxe Editions for 68$ (61€) and I spent 136€ (150$!!!!) because of shipping costs. I ordered the same day they became avaible online and I STILL DIDN’t GET ANY OF THEM! And there won’t be any chance for me to get a signed booklet! Don’t event get me started on merch...

We don’t want to cause fights or anything...US swifties just need to understand that it’s unbelievably hard and frustrating being international. Nothing is ever done for us and, when it is, it’s so badly organized that none of the ACTUAL fans are able to attend. It’s not the first time issues like these are brought up and you bullying on us and calling our reactions ‘overdramatic’ is what stops these issues from being fixed! You get so loud trying to shut us up, but you don’t spend a single second trying to get Taylor or Taylor Nation to notice us and our point!

I’m sorry but I’ve been crushed by this issue since RED and I’ve been here since 2008... it is not and will never be fair, but nobody is trying to fix that.

#taylor swift #taylor swift lover #swifties #international #lover era #taylornation

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abbaswift · 2 years ago

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omg im so nervous for the tickets for the tour and also idk anyone who would go with me 😭😭 im SO STRESSED ABOUT IT. i had tickets for loverfest in london and i wish that just rolled over to the next tour or something but she's gotten so much bigger as an artist than she was during lover era and ugh i bet it's gonna be expensive as well. last time i went to tour was 1989 tour and i lost my bag 😭 SO I WANNA GO AGAIN AND NOT LOSE ANYTHING

bestie i’m so sorry if this is the third time you’ve seen a near identical reply to your ask but my posts weren’t posting over wifi 🧍🏻‍♀️ imagine the first two replies were atwtmvtvftv and this is just atw pocket edition

ANYWAY for red and 1989 i couldn’t go to the tours because i was #poor and i saved up for the rep tour which was SOOO good but for some reason never got loverfest tickets so i am desperate to go to this tour to feel happiness like i felt in 2018. i will skydive into the stadium if i have to. i’m already feeling so anxious about everything tour related like will i even get tickets??? i think i will if i’m awake and prepared but i’m so paranoid i’ll oversleep or my thumbs will become paralysed while in the ticketmaster queue. i guess any tickets are fine because i loved having the (relatively expensive) nosebleed seats at rep tour but i would love some closer to the stage so taylor isn’t just a tiny blur. if i don’t get tickets i’ll literally rob the tickets off someone who did, see if i care! ive got no real swiftie irls so i’ve already asked my mum to maybe go with me (if not to the concert than at least to the city) even though we don’t get on because the idea of travelling on my own? navigating the city? finding the stadium from the train station? almost out of the question. how can i expected to do all that when i am a BABY! i think once i’m in the stadium i’ll be calm and i’ll be able to enjoy it and i almost wish i was going on my own to be independent and so no one can spoil the mood but i also cannot be dealing with the extra stress of it all

i hope all my moots gets tour tickets (but please reserve tickets for the birmingham concert specifically for me MWAH gracias x)

#thanks for asking!

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the things I’ve done for Taylor

-skipped school to go to her very first headlining show in Evansville

-got yelled at by some mom in a Verizon store when trying to win meet and greets when I didn’t do anything wrong

-skipped school to buy Speak Now during lunch the day It came out

-carried a guitar around school when I dressed up like her in high school for Halloween

-bought tickets to the Speak Now Tour during math class (so yeah, didn’t pay attention...) and almost missed my next class because Ticketmaster was being slow

-made a parody of Speak Now (the song) called “Ellen Say Yes” about how my BFF and I wanted Ellen’s help to meet Tay. (She never saw it. Thank goodness because our voices were terrible. But here’s the link in case anyone cares to laugh at us see it.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WROUYKmudM

-called radio stations during class in high school to try to win meet and greets

-carried a cardboard GOAT around downtown Indy the day of the Red tour (remember the video from IKYWT? yeah...)

-got crazy looks from people at the printing shop when asked to print ginormous pictures of baby Taylor and Ed for Red Tour Chicago

-got yelled at by people for thinking we were part of the Westboro Baptist church when we had a sign that said “who’s Taylor Swift anyway? Ew.” (ITS FROM A SONG DUH)

-skipped school AGAIN to go to a Chicago to get expedited passports because we WON A TRIP TO SEE TAYLOR IN LONDON on the Red tour (highlight of my life. Except we still didn’t get to meet her😔)

-dressed up like Alice in Wonderland while my bff dressed like the Cheshire Cat in like 80 degree weather for 1989 Tour Detroit (where Taylor also brought out DAN REYNOLDS FROM IMAGINE DRAGONS AND WE LOST ALL CHILL)

-missed by sister’s baby shower to see the 1989 Tour in New Jersey (my niece loves me so it’s okay); also we got to meet Mama Swift that night and SHE WAS SO NICE.

-bought grape juice and poured it on white dresses to make wine stained dresses for 1989 Tour Indy (they were really sticky and we realized after we could’ve just used food coloring...). Then proceeded to walk around downtown to the mall to buy my friend a new top and asked the workers at forever 21 to use their tape to fix it. We got some good stares that day.

-got an internship at the CMHOF in the Taylor Swift Education Center even though I’m not really a big fan of country music (your first few albums don't count. I love country Taylor. Can that be a thing again??)

-used up all my dad’s airline points to fly to Austin, TX just so we could see Taylor in 2016. (also used up all his hotel points so we could travel for all the shows. My dad is the real MVP).

-rode around Target in the cart throwing albums at people the day Reputation came out

-poured glitter all over ourselves which ended up all over the seats and floor of my (then) clean car (and is still there to this day but glitter is pretty so I don’t mind), for Rep Tour Louisville

-spent an ungodly amount of money on tickets and travel expenses and costumes BUT I would not trade any of it for ONE single thing. All the memories I’ve made because of Taylor? Priceless.

Taylor, I can never thank you enough for everything you and your music have done for me over the past 11 years. You brought my two best friends and me together. It’s gotten me through middle school, high school, and college (twice). When I was so depressed I didn’t want to get out of bed, your music was there.When I say all my biggest and best memories revolve around you and your music, I 100% mean it. I’m not sure who or where I would be if I never heard Picture to Burn back in 2007 while I was riding in the car with my sisters. I just hope one day I will finally get to thank you and hug you in person for everything you’ve done for me. I love you more than you will ever know.

#my taylor story #taylurking #see you September 15th!#my 14th Taylor concert

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I've never been defeated until the rep era...People always say that this is the best era in which everyone has a chance to meet her, to see her on tour, and to communicate with her...But no. Everything in his era is too expensive. Only the ones who are rich enough to buy over-priced stuff like merch/tour tickets get that chance. But not me. I never have and never will. Taylor's even more inaccessible this era. I've been to SN, RED & 1989 tour, but I can't even afford to go to her tour this era.

Anon, firstly, I’m so sorry that you aren’t able to go to this tour. It makes me sad that you’ve been to her past three ones and you’ll be missing out on this one. I’m not going either though, so maybe we can start a club of people who aren’t going, and we can all virtually attend each concert through live updates?

Secondly, I know that Taylor would do anything if she could meet every single one of her fans, and even though she tries her hardest to meet as many people as possible, she just can’t meet every single one them; it’s just a con of being a fan of one of the biggest stars in the world. She has tens of thousands of fans, and there’s only one of her, so it’s sadly implausible to expect her to meet everyone. Also, since she doesn’t do meet and greets that people can pay for, we can only rely on luck and chance to meet her. I think people say everyone has a chance to meet her this era because of all the people she met during release week (SNL, the pop up shop), and the fact that she said that she’s “trying to meet as many of us as humanly possible), but other than that I don’t find it any different than past eras.

I know the merchandise is really expensive this era, and it sucks, especially since the tour merch is really nice this era! Like I think it’s the first time that everyone loved her merch haha. I don’t think there’s many people who can afford it though, or if they can, they don’t find it necessary to spend so much money on a sweater. And it’s really unfair to the fans I think. The majority of them are so young, and of course they don’t have jobs, so they can’t afford to buy a jacket that costs $150.

Did you try to get the cheapest tickets? I know you you don’t get as good as an experience compared to being close to the stage, but it’s better than nothing, right? Especially this tour, you’ll get an amazing view of the screens on the stage! Also, there are many people who have been saving for this tour since the last tour, so maybe you could do that if you haven’t already? I know it’s a long time from now, but it’d be nice to know that you have enough money saved to afford a ticket for next time.

Anyway, I hope someday you get the chance to meet Taylor, and that you get to go to all of her tours in the future. And please don’t every lose hope about meeting her! If you’re at a show, there’s always a slight chance you’ll get chosen for the post concert meet and greet, so don’t ever give up, and I’m always here if you ever want to talk!

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10 Los Angeles renters’ rights your landlord doesn't want you to know

More than half of Los Angeles residents are renters (probably because of the high cost of homeownership)—at 64 percent, it’s the fourth-highest percentage of any major U.S. metro area, according to Zillow.

But how many of those renters are familiar with their basic rights as tenants?

There are online repositories of important tenant info, of course. There’s the comprehensive (sometimes overwhelmingly so) website for the city's Housing and Community Investment Department, for instance, as well as websites for fair housing and tenant advocacy groups, such as the Coalition for Economic Survival, Housing Rights Center, and the Los Angeles Tenants Union. We spoke to the experts at these groups to put together a quick primer on a few key rights all tenants should know.

All tenants have a right to clean, habitable housing, and landlords are required to maintain livable units—ones in which doors and windows are not broken; the roof and walls keep out water; plumbing works and dispenses hot and cold water; and there are no vermin running free in the building and unit. There are more legal qualifications, but this is the gist. “Basically, tenants have a right not to live in slum housing,” a rep for the Housing Rights Center says.

If a unit is not habitable, the landlord is supposed to remedy it immediately, and technically the landlord is not supposed to collect rent for that unit until it is habitable again. But a lingering problem doesn’t mean that tenants should decide to stop paying rent.

“People are hearing about rent strikes, and we’ve had an increase in tenants who think, ‘Well, there’s a problem in my unit, so I can stop paying rent,’” says Susan Hunter, a caseworker in the Hollywood chapter of the Los Angeles Tenants Union. That’s definitely not the case.

Hunter says it’s important to know that even in a rent strike, participating tenants are still paying their rent—their money just goes into an escrow account instead of to their landlord.

“You’re helping the landlord in the long run if you don’t go through the [correct] process,” because by not paying rent, tenants put themselves at risk of eviction for non-payment.

Continuing to pay rent allows the tenant to have the upper hand in the situation: They can always point to the fact that in the landlord-tenant compact, they’re holding up their end of the bargain.

Got a problem with your apartment, and your landlord is not doing anything about it? Experts recommend that you first tell your landlord verbally. If the problem persists, graduate to a dated letter detailing the issue, taking timestamped pictures of the problem and other documentation that could later be used, if needed, to show that your landlord was aware of the issue. If that doesn’t work, the Housing and Community Investment Department (HCID) has some information here about how to initiate the city inspection process. It’ll issue the landlord a letter telling them to fix the issues fast.

“People sit on complaints, because they think if they make a complaint, they’ll get evicted,” says Hunter. But there are state laws and provisions of the city’s rent-stabilization ordinance that protect tenants who file complaints from retaliation. “Let [the landlord] know that there’s a problem. If they don’t fix it in two weeks, call the housing department or the health department,” Hunter says.

But let’s say the problem doesn’t get fixed, even after a 60-day notice is issued to your landlord by the city. Unfortunately, both HCID and the Housing Rights Center seem to agree that the best thing you can probably do is sue your landlord for the rent you paid while you were living in a gross place.

In Los Angeles, there are lot of places that have been converted into living spaces without the proper residential permits—a garage that’s been turned into a one-bedroom, for instance.

If you are living in one of those illegal apartments, you have the same protections that a tenant in a permitted apartment would have. If the unit is in a rent-controlled building, you have additional rights and protections. (Don’t know if your building is under rent control? Here’s a guide to finding that information.)

The Housing Rights Center advises that renters always write checks for their rent, put a note in the memo along the lines of “rent for (address),” and get a receipt every time. That way, there’s a paper trail that can establish tenancy down the line, if needed.

When can your landlord come into your unit? Unless it’s an emergency—in which case, the landlord can enter without any notice at all—your landlord has to give you 24 hours notice, whether it’s to give potential new tenants a tour, to come in to make repairs or improvements, or to let in the workers who are making those improvements. And even with proper notice, they’re only supposed to enter during normal business hours.

How often can a landlord raise your rent, legally? If you live in a non-rent-controlled unit and you have a lease, your rent can't be increased until the lease is up (unless the lease includes provisions for rent increases). Non-rent-controlled units that are rented month-to-month can have their rents increased whenever, provided that the landlord gives the appropriate written notice.

Rent-controlled housing can only have rent increases once a year, and the rent can only go up by a certain percentage, as decided by the city. In 2019, that rate is 4 percent.

Another big advantage of living in an apartment that is rent-controlled is your protection against no-fault evictions—situations in which you, the tenant, didn't do anything wrong.

If you live in a rent-controlled apartment, there are a limited number of reasons, found here, for which you may be evicted. Rent-controlled tenants are also entitled to mandated relocation time and compensation if they are evicted via the Ellis Act, and the amount increases according to how long a tenant has lived in the building. Head’s up: some landlords try to get tenants out quicker by offering them cash to leave voluntarily, without going through the Ellis Act process. (More about that below.)

If you do not live in a rent-controlled apartment, there are fewer restrictions on evictions than there are on rent-controlled units.

If you live in a rent-stabilized building and get a notice that says you’re being evicted through the Ellis Act, call the housing department and verify that your landlord has actually filed the correct paperwork for evictions through the Ellis Act.

If they have not, Hunter says, it is possible that what is happening to your unit and likely your whole building is a practice called “cash for keys.” That’s when building owners pay rent-stabilized tenants money to leave the apartment voluntarily as a way to avoid going through the expensive and long Ellis Act process.

If the eviction notice is not actually an Ellis Act eviction, “All you have to do is say ‘no,’” Hunter says. In this case, tenants are not obligated to sign anything or do anything or take money just because it’s offered. In fact, if your landlord tries to trick you with a phony Ellis Act eviction notice, you can report him to HCID, says Hunter.

In many cases, the money offered with “cash for keys” might seem like a lot, but it’s actually usually less than what tenants are entitled to under the Ellis Act. The calculation for relocation assistance under the Ellis Act takes into account the time tenants have lived on the property, their age, their income, and whether they have a disability.

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Bottom line: If something seems off about your rented living situation, don’t ignore it. If you’ve gotten weird notices telling you you need to move out, or the rules of your building have suddenly become strict under new ownership, seek input from a tenants’ rights organization or the housing department.

“We constantly see that tenants are confronted with situations, not knowing their rights, and end up losing their homes,” says Larry Gross of the Coalition for Economic Survival. “In many situations, if tenants knew their rights, they’d still have a roof over their heads.”

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memories with TS songs

Today I’m thinking about how many memories I have with Taylor songs and imaging how there are even more coming just waiting to happen.

I was in sixth grade when Taylor’s first album came out and I used to steal my older sister’s hot pink iPod nano so I could listen to Taylor on the bus drives to and from school. It’d be me sitting alone, slouched on the seat with my knees propped up, staring out the window daydreaming while listening to Our Song. Or thinking about Teardrops On My Guitar and changing the lyrics to “teardrops on my violin” bc I was an orchestra kid with massive crushes on people who always looked past me.

Every time I had a falling out with someone or a friend that was going through a breakup, Picture to Burn was there with me. On more than one occasion my sister or I brought the small kitchen pot and a lighter to our bathroom and turned on the blower so we could literally burn pictures or notes or letters without starting a fire.

I’m Only Me When I’m With You has been the longtime anthem of me falling in love with my best friends over and over, and them not feeling the same way.

The summer after Fearless came out, I was absolutely obsessed with the album. I was away from home for a month or so and I would listen to it on repeat. Sometimes I’d g-chat (bc it was the newest feature on my new gmail account) with my cousin and we’d watch the You Belong With Me music video at the same time and gush about it.

Fearless was really That Album—so many iconic bops. Hey Stephen was my first favorite on that album. The Best Day made me want to cry and hug my parents and I still think that if I ever get married, that’s gonna have to be my father daughter dance song. I still scream sing the bridge of Tell Me Why every time it comes on. Fearless is the song that got me and still gets me gassed up to shoot my shot (archer pun not intended). Fifteen. White Horse. You’re Not Sorry. BREATHE. Forever & Always became my sign-off salutation and it’s still one I use. The Way I Loved You! I didn’t have the deluxe version of the album (bc I didn’t know there was one) but damn. I still stan fearless.

Speak Now was definitely the album my sister loved the most. It’s a lyrical masterpiece. I don’t know if I’m remembering this right but when Mine dropped with the music video there was this story circulating that it dropped early because Taylor and her team found out that it had leaked while they were on a flight or something crazy so they released as soon as they landed, ahead of the original date. And I remember watching that video and being so in love with all the pictures hanging on strings in the forest. I have so many memories of me playing Speak Now from my CD player and jumping around singing and dancing to my favorites songs or lying on the carpet like a dramatic bitch for the slow ones, especially Dear John. I’m pretty sure the only way I listened to Dear John was lying on the floor in the puddle of tears (imagined and real).

Red came out when I was in high school and everyone was so shook when it dropped bc we were like yooooo is Taylor experimenting with dubstep (back when dubstep had its little hay day). 2012 was such a weird year. It gave us Kony 2012 and apocalypse theories. But mostly, Red is the album that was the soundtrack to my last years of high school. It was sitting in the passenger seat with the music up and windows down, on long drive to the country or to get milkshakes and slushees. It was me falling in love with my best guy friend again, him choosing to date my best girl friend, and then him breaking both of our hearts. It was forbidden moments with him knowing he was dating my best friend. It was me singing “don’t look at me you got a girl at home and everybody knows that” and then being a fucking hypocrit bc all our friends would be over hanging out and we’d be snuggled up, never holding hands or kissing but always being a little too close.

Red was the first concert I got to see Taylor. A relative got me tickets for my birthday. I wore my cowboy boots and favorite hi-low dress and curled my hair. And every drive I took that year, after every pool party, after every movie date with the boy, every last adventure before my friends went off to college, every late night at a friends house was awash in Red.

1989 is the soundtrack of my first years of college. It was me feeling left behind and awkward, and turning that into a fresh start in a new city and trying to shake off negativity. I remember when the Shake It Off video came out and I literally screamed and laughed and cried tears of happiness bc I felt so seen. Loving to dance even though I wasn’t the best at it. I remember late nights walking around campus in the dark in the winter listening to Welcome to New York and letting that feeling of endless possibilities and new beginnings wash over me. I remember countless times I zoned out standing in the shower thinking about Clean. I remember feeling like 1989 sounded like such a mixtape (in the best way—it captured such a specific set of feelings).

Reputation. Where do I even start. I think up until Rep, my love for Taylor Swift and her music was such an internal part of me, but EVERYONE was talking once the singles started coming out and it was when I finally found myself getting defensive over Taylor. I remember literally screaming the first time I watched the LWYMMD music video. My eyes nearly popped out of my head. When the lyric video for CIWYW came out, my best friend and I were staying at this hotel while she was visiting me and I cried and all I could say was that I was just so happy that Taylor found someone to love her whole. reputation was quite literally the only thing I really listened to for MONTHS. I was obsessed with the album. I would have died for that album.

I initially didn’t think I would get a chance to see her on tour because the tickets were soooo expensive but I ended up getting a surprisingly cheap floor seat just 3 days before I saw her in Foxborough night 1. That entire performance blew my mind. I was 5 rows back from the B stage which ended up being the perfect place cause Tay was soooo close while performing Shake It Off (one of my all time faves) and the surprise acoustic song was 22, which made me literally melt because I had just turned 22. I actually danced so hard during SIO that I twisted my ankle and fell back onto my seat during the concert—almost everybody that was seated around me had moved up by that point to get closer while Tay was on the B stage, but my ✌️social anxiety ✌️ was not about that life. I think I lost my voice from singing. And definitely was shooketh to the core when Hayley Kiyoko came on stage. Truly unforgettable.

This era has been such a whirlwind and I cannot wait for the memories it will bring and the lyrics that will destroy me. If Taylor talks at all more explicitly about dealing with family illness or sexuality/identity or the monumental effort it takes to really love yourself, just know that it will probably end me.

ANYWAY I love you @taylorswift

Your music has been the soundtrack to so many parts of my life. I know there are countless fans out there with stories like mine, or even more powerful ones and I just want to share how much your craft and dedication to your fans means to every single one of us whether or not we meet you. In these last couple weeks before the album is released, I hope you see and hear SO MUCH positivity and no more of the drama.

Lol if anyone, if a single one of you actually reads this 1) wow thanks 2) please reblog with some of your #TS song memories or times when #Taylor Swift was there with me AND USE THE TAGS so we can share these awesome memories with each other

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Talking about A80 Supra and over-hype, take a look at Japan during the 90s via /r/cars

Talking about A80 Supra and over-hype, take a look at Japan during the 90s

People often forget or don't even know how this car was seen in the 90s by the Japanese people themselves before it was launched into the space thanks to F&F in states. A good measure to tell is manga like Wangan Midnight and Japanese car shows and media at the time in likes of Best Motoring or others; it was already a "monster full of potential" already at that point. Japanese car enthusiasts were well aware of this. And they were well aware of this during the 90s. During the 90s when touring car races in Japan had quite a significance wolrd wide. When Mclaren F1 and Lamborghini among others were participating JGTC. Japan's economy was on its start line to roll down, but it was still in its twilight and people were still buying expensive cars and tuning it to race on the streets.

Supra was well recognized in such era; Not only well considered, but sometimes even looked upon among skylines, 3000GTs, Porsches, Bimmers and sometimes even compared to Ferraris.

I still remember me being a young kid seeing my uncle's Best Motoring video about tuned Supra going head to head against a F40. Hell, there are videos of it going on a Touge run and on tracks against other exotic Japanese car at the time now that I search in Youtube. In the manga it was perceived almost as an unbeatable car on the highways.

The thing is, such reputation of A80 Supra is what it earned by its own. The reason it was set as a 'protagonist' vehicle in F&F or Wangan Midnight was because of how it was perceived by car enthusiasts in Japan and some JDM enthusiasts in the US at the time. F&F showcased such perception to a wider audience globally. I'm not saying it was a great car on curvy roads nor am I saying that it was as fun to drive compared to Skyline GT-R or a FD. It wasn't even successful in international GT cups nor was it in All Japan GT Championship unlike other 90s Japanese cars which dominated group A and WRC. The A80 Supra was more of a touring oriented car after all. Even its iconic looks - apart from its rear lights - in my personal opinion, still lags behind compared to very memorable looks of R32, R33 and R34 or elegant NSX and beautiful FD.

Still, I just want to point out that the car itself is not some mirage fantasy solely created by F&F unlike some people suggest. It wasn't just some fairy tale that came to its existence only after the F&F went to the cinemas.

It's just like the AE86 or the RX-7. Although those cars, especially the 86 got popular in the US mostly thanks to Initial D, it doesn't mean that the reputation of those cars comes solely from Initial D. In fact, its the opposite. Its the reputation of those cars in Japan among hashiriya and drifters at the time that earned those cars such a spot in the show and I think that its just the case for the A80 Supra.

Apart from tuning there are still things to love about A80 Supra as well. The driver focused cockpit and center console, its actual rep as a GT car is things to consider. (That's also what I'm disappointed with the new Supra as well. Its the Toyota experience. I think B58 ain't a big deal but the interior is. This argument doesn't belong to this thread tho.)

This applies to every hyped up Japanese car I guess. If you want to question the hype? Just take a look at how people in Japan thought about it in the 90s. It may make you reconsider. Remember, during 90s there were actual young car guys and motorcycle guys in Japan which you'll hardly find today.

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