#James Cohn

[swampflix]

Podcast #231: 187 (1997) & Inner-City Schools

Welcome to Episode #231 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Hanna, James, Britnee and Brandon discuss a grab bag of 90s movies about well-meaning teachers confronted with the violent chaos of inner-city schools, starting with the 1997 Sam Jackson vehicle 187. https://m.soundcloud.com/swampflix/231-187-1997-inner-city-schools 00:00 Welcome 01:55 Presence (2025)02:56 The Brutalist…

[wanderingmind867]

Kid Devil in an 8 page story about Captain Cold and The Trickster! I loved this story. I want fifty more of these stories, immediately. Jokes? Plenty of them. Good plot and art? Yes to both. A light read but one that makes me smile and laugh? Yes. This is the ideal for humour. It makes you smile, it makes you laugh, and it makes your day brighten. Kid Devil's being taught by the weird scientists from before, and they've hired Captain Cold to do a guest lecture for them. But The Trickster vets jealous, and tricks Captain Cold into breaking back into crime. Then Kid Devil stops him with The Tricksters aid, and Captain Cold goes back to jail (leaving Trickster free to soak up the fame)!

I don't know what joke I love most here. The fact that the trickster dressed in drag for his scheme? The fact that he used cottage cheese as a prop to sell the idea of non-melting ice cream? The fact that his fake name is Trixie (so unsubtle it's funny)? The fact that his invention came from a Professor Baskin (like Baskin Robbins)? The fact Captain Cold apparently keeps getting mistaken for other ice villians? Or the fact that adorable hero Kid Devil mostly wins because The Trickster throws him like a ragdoll? I don't know. This thing has so many wonderful jokes. I love it. (Blue Devil #19):

[julio-viernes]

Me resulta extraño escribir sobre un nuevo álbum de los Rolling Stones en... ¡2023! No sé si fue el exagerado de Nik Cohn (en los 70s- 80s buena parte de la crítica musical lo era) quien escribió que si les quedaba algo de vergüenza se deberían morir en un accidente de avión antes de cumplir los 30 años o una barbaridad semejante. Personalmente me alegro de que sigan vivos, la cuestión es si no se tenían que haber separado hace muchos años, yo mismo he pensado muchas veces que sí. La cosa es que nunca lo hicieron, y siguieron y no pararon. Y aquí están........ Y tienen nuevo disco.

Contra todo pronóstico me ha parecido razonablemente bien "Hackney Diamonds", al menos parte de ese nuevo LP de los otrora "enemigos públicos nº 1", hoy simpáticos octogenarios millonarios. El LP tienta la complicada dualidad- esquizofrenia de compaginar las esencias clásicas de la banda, en ocasiones bordeando el autoplagio ("No Expectations", "I Got The Blues", "Sweet Virginia", "Tumbling Dice", "Start Me Up") con un desesperado intento de continuar manteniéndose jóvenes. Está claro que los Stones jamás van a hacer un disco de "madurez", un "Time Out Of Mind", por mucho que intenten cantar como Bob Dylan (¿?). Los Rolling Stones pretenden ser los eternos adolescentes de Peter Pan. Hasta el final.

Están los ultra clásicos 'rockers' de riff demasiado previsible a estas alturas pero que en un LP "media" suyo los tiene que haber a la fuerza, son su "marca": cosas como el insignificante primer single "Angry"; "Driving Me Too Hard", ésta es mejor pero ya la escuchamos antes, o la que más me ha gustado, el balanceo pillo y "good time" de "Live By The Sword" (en la que tocan Charlie y Bill).

Las baladas, buenoo... correctas y poca cosa más. Lo mejor sea probablemente Keith en "Tell Me Straight". El country blues de "Dreamy Skies", bueno... La épica gospel "Sweet Sounds of Heaven", bueno... "Depending On You", se les fue la mano con el azucarado y relamido arreglo (tíos, esto casi parece James Last...). Son canciones correctas que recuerdan a otras suyas y no son especialmente memorables.

El disco lleva alguna sorpresilla: "Get Close", con rasposas guitarras Faces- "Stay With Me" (buen trabajo, Ronnie); "Bite My Head Off", "punk patricio", cosa de Mick, con bajo distorsionado que crujjjje de Paul McCartney y un acorde final que es un guiño a los Beatles; "Whole Wide World", ligera, popi pero recia y con riff similar a "Five Foot One" de Iggy Pop (el productor del disco Andrew Watt también le produjo), o el vacile de "Mess It Up", pegajosa chuchería disco- rock.

Los R. S. de momento no se mueren - toquemos madera- y mucho menos se separan. Es 2023, llevan juntos 60 años, tienen 80 tacos, y siguen y siguen (duran duran). Han hecho un entretenido - significativo adjetivo- y nada esencial álbum.

[sedoretu]

Curious — how many are you familiar with? 🔥

Defined however you want, but ideally more than “have heard the name before”:

Harry Truman

Doris Day

Red China

Johnnie Ray

South Pacific

Walter Winchell

Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy

Richard Nixon

Studebaker

Television

North Korea

South Korea

Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs

H-bomb

Sugar Ray

Panmunjom

Brando

"The King and I"

and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower

Vaccine

England's got a new queen

Marciano

Liberace

Santayana (goodbye)

Joseph Stalin

Malenkov

Nasser

Prokofiev

Rockefeller

Campanella

Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn

Juan Peron

Toscanini

Dacron

Dien Bien Phu falls

"Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein

James Dean

Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett

Peter Pan

Elvis Presley

Disneyland

Bardot

Budapest

Alabama

Krushchev

Princess Grace

Peyton Place

Trouble in the Suez

Little Rock

Pasternak

Mickey Mantle

Kerouac

Sputnik

Chou En-Lai

"Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon

Charles de Gaulle

California baseball

Starkweather homicide

Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly

Ben Hur

Space monkey

Mafia

Hula hoops

Castro

Edsel is a no-go

U2

Syngman Rhee

Payola

Kennedy

Chubby Checker

Psycho

Belgians in the Congo

Hemingway

Eichmann

"Stranger in a Strange Land"

Dylan

Berlin

Bay of Pigs invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia"

British Beatlemania

Ole Miss

John Glenn

Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul

Malcolm X

British politician sex

JFK (blown away, what else do I have to say?)

Birth control

Ho Chi Minh

Richard Nixon (back again)

Moonshot

Woodstock

Watergate

Punk rock

Begin

Reagan

Palestine

Terror on the airline

Ayatollah’s in Iran

Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune"

Sally Ride

heavy metal suicide

Foreign debts

Homeless vets

AIDS

Crack

Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shore

China's under martial law

Rock and roller cola wars

I can’t take it anymore (free space)

[billyjoelmutt]

United Universes Tour 2024!- We Didnt start the Fire!!

Dodger- “Oh somethings burning!! Burning!!!! Come on lets try to fight it!!!!” 

The song then began!!!! And Dodger looked like he was ready to fight it!!! 

Dodger- Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, “The King and I” and “The Catcher in the Rye"Eisenhower, vaccine, England’s got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye!!

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc!

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron Dien Bien Phu falls, “Rock Around the Clock"Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev Princess Grace, “Peyton Place”, trouble in the Suez!!

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, “Bridge on the River Kwai"Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, “Ben Hur”, space monkey, Mafia Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-goU2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, “Psycho”, Belgians in the Congo

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, “Stranger in a Strange Land” Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion"Lawrence of Arabia”, British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say?!!

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it!!!

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan"Wheel of Fortune”

, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shores, China’s under martial law Rock and roller cola wars, I can’t take it anymore!

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on

We didn’t start the fire!

Triple D-(It was always burning!! Since the world’s been turning!!) We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it

Everyone was singing along!! Like crazy! the end was near but the energy is high!

(All credits to original creators! Video belongs to Edit Carrel on Youtube and all characters belong to there respected hosts!) 

(I must say this video is still awesome!!! :3 It never gets old! Thankyou! You know who you are!! :3)

@thelittlemermaidfan1989

@mellowwpopper

@mellowwpuphub

@teen-lyoko-fan7777

@goldmudder

@andy-squirrel-and-friends

@askdj-timelord2

@keirastarlightdraconequus

(Credits to Disney, the Beatles, JFK, MLP, Billy Joel, and all blogs tagged as well as creator of video!!!)

[scotianostra]

On this day in 1707, 110 members of the then Scottish Parliament sold their souls and voted for the Union of the Scottish and English Parliaments.

The picture is Parliament Square, as it looked back then and , where the vote took place and meeting place of the Parliament from 1639–1707.

As Rabbie Burns later wrote......

Fareweel to a’ our Scottish fame,

Fareweel our ancient glory;

Fareweel ev'n to the Scottish name,

Sae fam’d in martial story.

Now Sark rins over Solway sands,

An’ Tweed rins to the ocean,

To mark where England’s province stands-

Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

The following men are listed as being paid for their vote by the English, note, not all voted for the Union and some votes are unknown. The money in todays worth may be a wee bit out of date as this is from a post on my blog from 2012.

1 ~ Lord Anstruther, Sir William Anstruther was paid 300 pounds to vote “yes” on The Act of Union 1707. He voted yes. The 300 pounds received is today worth around 42,000 pounds.

2 ~ The Duke of Athol, James Murry was allegedly paid 1,000 pounds to vote yes for The Act of Union in 1707, but today’s listings show he voted “NO”.

3 ~ Earl of Balcarres – Cohn Lindsay is said to have been paid 500 pounds for his vote “yes” in 1707, vote on The Act of Union. This would be worth about 70,000 pounds in today’s money. He did vote yes.

4 ~ Lord Banff – George Ogilvy was paid to vote yes on The Act of the Union. He did vote yes.

5 ~ Mr. John Campbell was paid 200 pounds to vote yes. This amount today is worth about 30,000 pounds. He voted yes.

6 ~ Patrick Coultrain Provost of Wigton was paid 25 pounds. Roughly 4,000 pounds today to vote yes. Not sure of his vote.

7 ~ Lord Cesnock now Polwarth received 50 pounds, today this would be about 7,000 pounds. Not sure of his vote.

8 ~ The Earl of Cromarty – Sir George MacKenzie is said to have been paid 300 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. He voted “yes”. The 300 pounds would be worth roughly 42,000 pounds today.

9 ~ Major Cunningham of Eckatt allegedly received 100 pounds, today worth around 14,000 pounds for his “yes” vote. Not sure of his vote, yes or no.

10 ~ The Earl of Dunmoor, William Murray is said to have been paid 200 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. He did vote “yes”. 200 pounds today is worth about 28,000 pounds.

11 ~ The Earl of Eglington, Alexander Seton Montgomerie is reputed to have been paid 200 pounds for his “yes” vote. He did vote yes.

12 ~ The Lord Elibank, Alexander Murray is said to have been paid 50 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. He did vote yes. To that 50 pounds would be worth about 7500 pounds.

13 ~ The Earl of Findlator, James Ogilvy was supposed to have been paid 100 pounds or about 14,000 pounds in today’s money to vote yes on The Act of Union. He voted yes.

14 ~ Lord Forbes, William Forbes is reputed to have been paid 50 pounds for his “yes” vote. He did vote yes.

15 ~ The Earl of Forfar, Archibald Douglas said to have been paid 100 pounds for his “yes” vote. He did vote yes.

16 ~ Lord Fraser, Charles Fraser said to have been paid 100 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. He did vote yes. That 100 pounds would be worth about 14,000 pounds today.

17 ~ The Earl of Glencaird, William Cunningham is said to have been paid 100 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union, but it is shown he voted NO.

18 ~ Lord Preston Hall, reputedly paid 200 pounds for his “yes” vote to The Act of Union. Not sure of his vote, but the 200 pounds would be worth about 28,000 pounds today.

19 ~ The Earl of Kintore, Sir John Keith was allegedly paid 200 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. He did vote yes.

20 ~ The Earl of Marchmont, Patrick Hume is said to have been paid 1,104 pounds for his “yes” vote. Today this would be around 154,000 pounds. He did vote yes to the union.

21 ~ Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, said to have been paid 100 pounds for his “yes” vote. He did vote yes for The Act of Union.

22 ~ The Duke of Montrose, James Graham, reputedly paid 200 pounds to vote yes on The Act of Union. He did vote yes.

23 ~ John Muir, Provost of Ayr, was to receive 100 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. He did vote yes.

24 ~` Lord Ormiston, John Cockburn, reputedly paid 200 pounds for his “yes” vote. He did vote yes.

25 ~ The Duke of Roxburgh, John Ker was said to have been paid 500 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. This would be worth around 70,000 pounds today. He did vote yes.

26 ~ The Earl of Seafield, James Ogilvy, said to have been paid 490 pounds for his “yes” vote. He voted yes.

27 ~ Sir William Sharp, reportedly paid 300 pounds for a “yes” vote on The Act of Union. This would be worth about 42,000 pounds today. Not sure how he voted, but a John Sharp of Hoddam voted NO.

28 ~ Mr. Stewart of Castle Stewart, this was William Stewart, was to be paid 300 pounds for his “yes” vote. He did vote yes to the union. The 300 pounds is worth about 42,000 pounds in today’s money.

29 ~ Marquis of Tweedale, John Hay, reputedly paid 1,000 pounds for his “yes” vote to the Union. He did vote yes to The Act of Union. The 1,000 pounds would be worth about 140,000 pounds today.

30 ~ Mr. Alexander Wedderburn was to receive 75 pounds for his “yes” votes. Not sure if he voted yes or no. 75 pounds today would be worth around 11,000 pounds.

31 ~ The Duke of Queensberry, James Douglas, reportedly was to receive 12, 325 pounds. This would be worth about 2,000,000 pounds today.

[lightofraye]

Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire

Harry Truman, Doris Day Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon Studebaker, Television North Korea, South Korea Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, The King And I, And The Catcher In The Rye Eisenhower, Vaccine England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace Santayana goodbye We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella Communist Bloc Roy Cohn, Juan Peron Toscanini, Dacron Dien Bien Phu Falls, "Rock Around the Clock" Einstein, James Dean Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan Elvis Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev Princess Grace, Peyton Place Trouble in the Suez We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it But we tried to fight it Little Rock, Pasternak Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Zhou En-lai Bridge On The River Kwai Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle California baseball Starkweather Homicide Children of Thalidomide Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur Space Monkey, Mafia Hula Hoops, Castro Edsel is a no-go U-2, Syngman Rhee Payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, Psycho Belgians in the Congo We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it But we tried to fight it Hemingway, Eichmann Stranger in a Strange Land Dylan, Berlin Bay of Pigs invasion Lawrence of Arabia British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X British Politician sex J.F.K. blown away What else do I have to say? We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it But we tried to fight it Birth control, Ho Chi Minh Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine Terror on the airline Ayatollahs in Iran Russians in Afghanistan Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride Heavy metal suicide Foreign debts, homeless Vets AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shores China's under martial law Rock and Roller cola wars I can't take it anymore We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire But when we are gone It will still burn on, and on And on, and on We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it But we tried to fight it We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it But we tried to fight it We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it But we tried to fight it We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning

[mrs-stans]

Golden Globes Close Calls Decided: ‘Anora,’ The Apprentice,’ ‘Heretic,’ ‘A Real Pain,’ Others Stake Claims As Dramas or Musical/Comedies (Exclusive)

THR reports on the submission plans for all of the top contenders ahead of the Nov. 4 entry deadline.

BY SCOTT FEINBERG

Filmmakers and distributors of awards-hopefuls have until Nov. 4 to submit their category preference — drama versus musical or comedy — to the Golden Globes organization, which reserves the right to overturn any classification that it finds egregiously inaccurate.

Some of this year’s cases are inarguable — for instance, Netflix’s Emilia Pérez, in which characters spontaneously burst into song, is clearly a musical (if not a comedy), and A24’s The Brutalist, in which an immigrant faces all sorts of harrowing hurdles, is clearly a drama. There are, however, also plenty of close-calls, about which many have made assumptions, but, in most cases, not confirmed.

The Hollywood Reporter has been working the phones and can now report which way almost every contender is breaking. This intel is, of course, subject to change prior to Nov. 4, and to being overturned by the Globes thereafter — but it is current as of this writing.

Joining Emilia Pérez in the the musical/comedy field will be several other musicals, including Universal’s Wicked; Warners’ Joker: Folie à Deux; Sony Classics’ Kneecap; Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King; and Paramount’s Better Man and Mean Girls. But THR can confirm that a number of pretty dark films will also be entered there, most notably Neon’s Anora, the story of a sex worker who gets mixed up with shady Russians; Searchlight’s A Real Pain, about cousins who visit Poland to pay tribute to their late grandmother; A24’s A Different Man, the story of a man with neurofibromatosis who undergoes surgery to reverse it, and Heretic, a horror flick in which a home visit by Mormon missionaries goes wrong; and, as Gold Derby previously reported and some are likely to raise objections to, Amazon/MGM’s Challengers, in which young tennis players wind up in a love triangle.

Also in the musical/comedy field: dramedies (Netflix’s Hit Man; Searchlight’s Nightbitch and Kinds of Kindness; Focus’ Dìdi and Piece by Piece; Magnolia’s Thelma; Sony’s Saturday Night and Fly Me to the Moon; and Sony Classics’ Between the Temples); broader comedies (Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine; Universal’s The Fall Guy and Argylle; Warners’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice; Amazon/MGM’s My Old Ass; Apple’s Wolfs; and Sony Classics’ Wicked Little Letters); and, as was made possible by a rule change in 2021, animated features (Universal’s The Wild Robot; Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2; Disney’s Moana 2; and Focus’ Piece by Piece).

Some films that perhaps could have been pushed for a musical/comedy classification, but will instead be entered as a drama, include Briarcliff/Rich Spirit’s The Apprentice, which is essentially a buddy film about Donald Trump and Roy Cohn; A24’s Queer, a trippy film about the colorful escapades of a William S. Burroughs stand-in; and Sony Classics’ Daddio, in which a taxi driver (Sean Penn) and passenger (Dakota Johnson) banter during a long ride.

There are a bunch of movies this year that contain a lot of music but will not be entered in the musical/comedy race — an acknowledgement that they are really dramas with music: Searchlight’s Bob Dylan portrait A Complete Unknown; Netflix’s Maria Callas biopic Maria (meaning its leading lady, Angelina Jolie, will not have to go up against the streamer’s Emilia Pérez leading lady, Karla Sofía Gascón); Focus’ Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black; and Paramount’s Bob Marley biopic Bob Marley: One Love.

In a different era of the Globes, some films of this sort were able to sneak past the guardians and land in the musical/comedy category, which was usually thinner — for example, A Complete Unknown director James Mangold’s 2005 Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash biopic Walk the Line. But these days, the revamped organization behind the Globes doesn’t let that sort of thing happen. Films in which characters play musicians who perform songs, as opposed to films that feature characters who spontaneously break into song, almost always wind up classified as dramas whether they like it or not (see 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star Is Born).

The drama field was always, of course, going to include Focus’ Conclave, Nosferatu and The Bikeriders; Paramount’s Gladiator II and September 5; Sony Classics’ The Room Next Door, I’m Still Here and The Outrun; Apple’s Blitz; Warner’s Dune: Part Two, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 and Juror #2; A24’s Babygirl, Civil War, Sing Sing, Babygirl and We Live in Time; Amazon/MGM’s Nickel Boys, The Fire Inside and Unstoppable; Netflix’s The Piano Lesson, His Three Daughters and Shirley; Disney’s Young Woman and the Sea; Vertical’s The Order; Sideshow/Janus’ All We Imagine as Light; Kino Lorber’s Oh, Canada; Neon’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig and Longlegs; Roadside’s The Last Showgirl; Roadside/Vertical’s Lee; Shout!’s The Dead Don’t Hurt; Falling Forward’s Day of the Fight; Bleecker Street’s Hard Truths; Lionsgate’s Small Things Like These and White Bird; IFC/Sapan’s Ghostlight; and Sony’s Here.

There is really only one wild-card still out there: MUBI’s The Substance, in which Demi Moore plays an aging movie star who goes to extreme measures to try to retain her viability in the industry. I can see arguments on both sides for this one, and apparently so can MUBI and Moore’s team, who are still deliberating about what to do. On the one hand, one could argue that it’s a very dark drama turned horror flick. But on the other hand, one could certainly call it a satire, sending up a business in which youth and beauty are prioritized above all else. To me, it’s a modern-day Sunset Blvd. (1950), which straddled those two descriptions — and ultimately competed at the Globes as a drama and took home four awards, including best actress.

[pompompurin1028]

My favourite Dazai literary papers compiled:

Note: Most if not all the papers I have are accessed either via my university library or from @/bsd-bibliophile 's online library so I apologize if they are behind paywalls :") Also, I am partial towards essays which push the boundaries of Dazai-sensei's typical reputation, therefore most of them are perhaps of such nature

My Favourites that I have either finished or have been reading:

A Religion of Humanity: A Study of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human by Yukihito Hijiya - I personally think it is a rather different view of NLH than other interpretations I have seen

"Art Is Me": Dazai Osamu's Narrative Voice As a Permeable Self by Phyllis I. Lyons - this paper investigates the notion of self in Dazai's works especially due to the autobiographical nature of his work

Dazai Osamu's Otogizoshi: A Structural and Narratological Analysis by Kazurni Nagaike - a thesis so it's very long, it investigates Otogizoshi as a work which blends I-novel elements and metafictional elements

"Dazai Osamu Laughing at the End" from Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction by Joel R. Cohn - Although I have yet to finish this chapter of the book, I think it has a really interesting perspective of looking at Dazai's work from a comic perspective and interesting notes on a book of Dazai's I enjoy - Otogizoshi

After the Silence by Ralph F. McCarthy - Pushes against the idea of Dazai only being able to write I-novels or novels which feature Dazai-like figures

Entering history through ‘weak’ prose: Dazai Osamu's ‘Sange’ by Yukiko Shigeto - this paper explores Dazai's short story Sange (Fallen Flowers) which features juxtaposing tales of the narrator’s two friends’ deaths: one died a quiet, ‘personal’ death at home and the other a heroic death in the battle of Attu near the end of the Pacific War

Dazai Osamu by James O'Brien - O'Brien's book which introduces readers to Dazai's life and his works

The Critical Study Section from The Saga of Dazai Osamu by Phyllis I. Lyons - looks at Dazai's works from a very interesting angle where they believe that a series of Dazai's autobiographical-esque works belong to something called The Osamu Saga, the book is accompanied by translations of those works

[unwelcome-ozian]

THEORETICAL APPROACHES AND TREATMENT MODELS (listed alphabetically)

Practitioners who are unfamiliar with dissociative disorders or to working with DID may prefer to start with texts that are based on their core models or familiar ways of working. Survivors can also expect to come across and be offered a variety of theoretical approaches, summarised below, although none have the monopoly on healing. It is more important that professional help is trauma-informed and based on a collaborative and companionable approach to finding what is best for each individual’s journey.

Attachment-based Psychotherapy – focuses on relationships and bonds between people. It emphasises the developing child’s need to form a healthy emotional bond with at least one primary caregiver for positive social and emotional development.

Doing Psychotherapy: A Trauma and Attachment-Informed Approach, (2020) by Robin Shapiro

Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology, (2019), by Graham Music (See description in Working With children & Adolescents)

Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing, (2010), & Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up, (2019) by Robert Muller

Working with the Developmental Trauma of Childhood Neglect, (2022), by Ruth Cohn

Cognitive & Behavioural – theories and therapies elaborate the interplay between mind, thought, behaviour and action, and demonstrate how they can provoke emotions and contribute towards the maintenance of problems or towards recovery.

Cognitive Behavioural Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Dissociation, (2013) edited by Fiona Kennedy, Helen Kennerley & David Pearson

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, Second Edition, (2014) by Marsha Linehan

Reinventing Your Life, (Schema Therapy-updated 2019) by Jeffrey Young & Janet Klosko

The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Recovering from Trauma and PTSD: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Flashbacks, Shame, Guilt, and Fear, (2013), by Deborah Lee & Sophie James

Trauma-Focused ACT: A Practitioner’s Guide to Working with Mind, Body, and Emotion Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, (2021), by Russ Harris

Creative Therapies – use arts-based models and interventions, including music, drama, movement, art or play, with support from a trained professional. Individuals of all ages may find them helpful because they address issues and support expression without the need to talk or focus on the physical self.

A Therapeutic Treasure Box for Working with Children and Adolescents with Developmental Trauma, (2017), by Karen Treisman

Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy, (2020), by Cathy Malchiodi

Integrative Therapy – affirms and blends different models of therapy with consideration given to what works and why.

Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders, (2009), by Paul Dell & John O’Neil (Eds)

Mindsight: Transform Your Brain with the New Science of Kindness, (2011) by Daniel Siegel

Neurobiology and Treatment of Traumatic Dissociation: Towards an Embodied Self, (2008) by Ulrich Lanius, Sandra Paulsen & Frank Corrigan

Working with Voices and Dissociative Parts – A Trauma-informed approach, (2019) by Dolores Mosquera. (See description in Treatment Books)

Internal Family Systems Therapy – elaborates the relationships between parts of self or psyche and demonstrates how separation or division between parts can cause suffering.

Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse, (2017) by Frank Anderson, Richard Schwartz & Martha Sweezy

Internal Family Systems Therapy, 2nd Edition, (2019) by Richard Schwarz & Martha Sweezy

Mindfulness – a meditative practice that reconnects individuals to the present moment; purposefully drawing attention and focus to moment-by-moment, internal and/or external awareness.

Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations: Trauma-Informed Practices to Facilitate Growth, (2017), by Christine Forner

Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing, (2018), by David Treleaven & Willoughby Britton

Polyvagal Theory – explains the importance and value of interpersonal neurobiology in recovery from trauma, and the effect of trauma on the body and the brain. The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation, (2011) by Stephen Porges The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, (2018) by Deb Dana

Psychoanalytic – theories and therapies that aim to treat mental disorders and distress by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious mind.

The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma, (2016), by Elizabeth Howell & Sheldon Itzkowitz

Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity: Working on Identity and Selves, (2010) edited by Valerie Sinason

Psychodynamic – based on the theories and principles of psychoanalysis, but with an increased emphasis on an individual’s relationship with their external world; seeks to understand conscious and unconscious processes that influence emotions, thoughts and behaviour patterns.

Easy Ego State Interventions: Strategies for Working with Parts, (2016) by Robin Shapiro

Somatic (Body-Oriented) Resources – recognise that trauma and its effects are stored within the body, and cause dysregulation and restriction to movement and/or emotion.

EMDR Eye Movement, Desensitisation & Reprocessing – a psychotherapeutic approach that uses visual, auditory or tactile stimuli bilaterally, (from side-to-side of the body), in a rhythmical pattern, to enable reprocessing of memory and its effects. Care needs to be exercised with RAMCOA survivors, since similar techniques have been used in some survivors’ abuse, and EMDR may prove triggering or breach the therapeutic relationship.

EMDR and Dissociation: The Progressive Approach, (2012) by Anabel Gonzalez & Dolores Mosquera

EMDR Toolbox: Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation, 2nd Edn, (2018), by James Knipe

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – an evolving “body-oriented talking therapy”, helps individuals stabilise, discharge and resolve physiological symptoms of trauma and adverse experiences.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment, (2015) by Pat Ogden & Janina Fisher

Trauma and the Body, (2006) by Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton & Clare Pain

Additionally: The Body Remembers Volume 2, (2017) by Babette Rothschild 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery, (2010) by Babette Rothschild

Somatic Experiencing – focuses on the body and perceived body sensations, to express and relieve mental and physical traumatic stress-related conditions.

In an Unspoken Voice, (2010) by Peter Levine

Waking the Tiger, (1997) by Peter Levine

[cuddlebugsirius]

🎶✨ when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool) 🎶✨

1. Fifth of May by Zach Bryan (he's an awful person but a great songwriter please do not @ me)

2. Say Don't Go by Taylor Swift

3. Taste by Sabrina Carpenter (that blonde bombshell is just too good I can't resist)

4. The Off Menu Podcast by James Acaster and Ed Gamble (yes it counts it dominates most of my Spotify listening hours)

5. True Companion by Marc Cohn (I will love this song until the day I die and I don't know who I will marry but I know my first dance will be to this song)

[swampflix]

Swampflix's Top 10 Films of 2024

1. I Saw the TV Glow – A pastel kaleidoscope of teen angst, gender dysphoria, Buffy the Vampire Slayer nostalgia, and general melancholy. It’s impossible not to read Jane Schoenbrun’s VHS-warped horror of persona as a cautionary tale for would-be trans people who are too afraid to come out to themselves, but it hits home for anyone who’s ever avoided authentically engaging with their life, body,…

[steelbluehome]

"For the first hour of the film, Stan’s Trump is, deliberately, not the man we know today: his voice has a slight Queens bray, but he avoids all the caricaturist’s tics, murmurs softly and almost tenderly at times, even when describing his ambitious. Stan plays him as he’s written, nervous and unformed and frankly sympathetic"

Little White Lies (click for article)

Mark Asch

The Apprentice – first-look review

Ali Abbasi's attempted takedown of America's previous (and perhaps next) President of the United States, charting his early years under the mentorship of Roy Cohn, lacks the killer instinct.

Did you know Donald Trump is in Paris Is Burning? No, really: in Jennie Livingston’s seismic documentary on New York’s queer ballroom scene, an independent film about people at the margins, there’s an insert shot of a Forbes magazine cover: “What I Learned in the 80s” is the cover feature, and right underneath it, back row center in an illustration of various one-percenters luminaries, there he is, in between check-ins with Willi Ninja and Venus Xtravaganza.

When Trump was elected President of the United States in 2016, so much of American culture became retrospectively seeded with Easter eggs foreshadowing his eventual ascent to the seat of power; future generations, unlike mine, will have no trouble imagining how this could possibly have happened. For so long Trump was present within discourses on business, crime, race, and politics; he was in Home Alone 2 and had a show on NBC; he was a late-night talk-show punchline and appeared at Wrestlemania. He was so ubiquitous, for so long — how could he not have become President?

The point I want to make here is that there is very little we don’t know about Donald Trump; his rise to the White House was accompanied and indeed fueled by wall-to-wall coverage across all forms of media, which during his (first) term as President enjoyed a boom in readership and revenues — there was always another article breaking another new scandal, or unearthing another embarrassing episode from his past that had been hiding in plain sight all along.

It is, then, very difficult to make a movie that has something new to say about Donald Trump, that tells a new story or shows a new side of the most famous person — probably — you’re not supposed to say this — but they’re saying — many people are saying — he’s the most famous person, frankly, that we’ve ever seen, and we’re seeing him more and more. The task before The Apprentice — a biopic telling the story of Trump’s rise in the New York real estate world in the 70s and 80s, abetted by the notorious fixer Roy Cohn — is therefore a formidable one, and it’s not a task to which director Ali Abbasi and screenwriter Gabriel Sherman prove remotely equal.

The film begins in New York City, in the 70s, at an exclusive members’ club where Trump (Sebastian Stan), the twentysomething son of outerboro slumlord Fred (an unrecognizable Martin Donovan), restlessly narrates the power players in the room to his bored date; Trump is an outsider, a striver, palpably uncomfortable — but there, through a doorway, doing the Kubrick Stare, is Roy Cohn, former Joe McCarthy aide during the the Red Scare of the 1950s and infamous lawyer for mobsters and other power players, publicly revealed after his death from AIDS to be a closeted gay man. Cohn takes an interest in Trump, and smooths the wheels for his first big deal, the overhaul of the old Commodore on Manhattan’s then-decrepit 42nd Street.

Trump’s relationship with Cohn was widely reported on during his presidency, so much so that Cohn — a figure notorious enough to have been played by James Woods in a TV movie in the 1990s, and Al Pacino in the HBO miniseries of the Pulitzer-winning Angels in America — has been retconned as primarily Trump’s mentor; a feature-length documentary about him is titled Where’s My Roy Cohn?, after an Oval Office lament. So it’s not exactly newsworthy that the film credits Cohn with teaching Trump to affect a brashness and flair and to learn to attack, deny, and dominate the narrative — nor are these particular novel insights into Trump.

For the first hour of the film, Stan’s Trump is, deliberately, not the man we know today: his voice has a slight Queens bray, but he avoids all the caricaturist’s tics, murmurs softly and almost tenderly at times, even when describing his ambitious. Stan plays him as he’s written, nervous and unformed and frankly sympathetic, genuinely drawn to Ivana (Maria Bakalova) for her ambitions, a finicky and unschooled naïf wandering around Cohn’s decadent parties avoiding the drugs and gay sex. He’s a would-be shark so doughy and vague as to be almost sympathetic, like the budding young Nazi collaborator of Louis Malle’s Lacombe, Lucien.

The almost sympathetic cast of the film’s first hour is, I suppose, a fresh perspective, but equally an offensive and shallow one, driven less by any particular insight into the perverse incentives of American society — the film is remarkably insular, shot largely on soundstage recreations of the Trump home in Jamaica Estates, the penthouse in Trump Tower, the backs of various limos and the offices of various power brokers — than by the dictates of a character arc in which Cohn and Fred are obviously posited as polar opposite father figures, demanding and competitive men after whom Donald models himself and whose approval he seeks.

A number of things change at the film’s halfway mark. The film switches from a celluloid to a digital look — throughout, Abassi and cinematographer Kasper Tuxen ape the period of the action, from seamy red-tinted narrow-gauge for the gritty 70s to a bleary pixelated look that improves throughout the 80s—a gesture that would give the film an appealing momentum and raw texture were the narrative not so wedded to the historical record, with cutesy cameos from Warhol and Rupert Murdoch, and knowing references to the Trump Tower elevators, MAGA, and other future features of American life. Stock-footage montages exposit the eras’ historical context via potted histories of New York City, with an unclear point of view on the cycle of urban decline and rebirth in the postwar era: though lightly in quotation marks, they also seem objective accounts of a general historical record that gives credence to the narrative of White Flight–era NYC as “Fear City” (an image of lawlessness Trump long exploited, first as a developer and then as a demagogue), and of the go-go Reagan 80s, the decade in which Trump applied all of what he learned in the 70s, and of which he became an avatar.

At this point in the film, Stan’s dialogue takes on the familiar turns of phrase, the verbal and physical mannerisms: the diet pill— the pursed lips, the overenunciation and theatrical hand gestures, the addled mile-a-minute grandiose rants and flippant dismissals and breathtaking glibness and oddly matronly cattiness. It’s funny, but hardly virgin territory the years we’ve spent enjoying the work of comedians like James Austin Johnson and that one friend of yours who sends you voice memos in the Trump voice talking about the discourses of the day, impersonators who reshape the news by pushing the man’s implicit grotesquery and absurdity to the fore.

This Trump gets more flagrantly cruel to Ivana, delusional, thin-skinned and aggressive. It’s the kind of charismatic antihero’s journey that might fly in a Scorsese film — arguably the ultimate Trump film is The Wolf of Wall Street — but Abassi and Sherman’s take on the material is largely dutiful. The soundtrack aspires to an incongruously feel-good high-energy looseness that the film doesn’t back up. I’ve never been unhappier to hear Suicide, Pet Shop Boys or New Order, and the smash cut and needle drop that takes us out of after Trump’s rape of Ivana (a scene from her divorce deposition, staged as literally and luridly as you’d expect from the director of Holy Spider) is especially egregious.

Maybe there’s supposed to be a larger point about Trump’s political movement in the way that he’s shown to abandon Cohn as his former mentor’s legal aides and health woes pile up, but Cohn recedes from the narrative in the second half of the film, which is much less grounded in their relationship; though as Cohn weakens from a virus he steadfastly denied, the second hour is his turn to be portrayed more sympathetically than he deserves.

Strong has the same problem in his performance as Stan, in that Cohn is almost as media-saturated a figure as Trump. Strong gives Cohn a low, aggressive voice, slightly nasal and rounded, with casual and cruel inflections tossed out at a Succession-trained tempo; he bobs his neck up and down like a turtle on each syllable, but holds it forward tentatively as if the muscles are atrophying, as Cohn becomes frailer. It’s a credible performance, not remotely campy, but not really anything — there’s nothing here like the perspective on the role as interpreted by, say, the underground theater legend Ron Vawter in his performance piece Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, in which he gave Cohn a shrill, mincing Jewish voice, flaunting the traits most concealed and loathed by his recently deceased subject.

Recognizable figures are a fun challenge for actors, as well as for the hair, makeup, and wardrobe departments tasked with recreating iconic looks that everyone remembers from recent history. This year, election season is also Oscar-movie season, and you can expect some attention from the crafts teams on The Apprentice and maybe Strong or Sherman (one of the many glossy-magazine journalists to enjoy an elevated profile since the Trump years). I’m sure their acceptance speeches will be full of righteous anger directed at the new administration.

PUBLISHED 21 MAY 2024

[dragoneyes618]

"The visual evidence...of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, [General] George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be ina position to give firsthand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency t ocharge these allegations merely to "propaganda.""

- General Dwight Eisenhower, (1890-1969), Supreme commander of the Allied armies in a letter to Chief of Staff George Marshall, after visiting the Nazi concentration camp at Ohrruf, Germany (Harry James Cargas, Shadows of Auschwitz, page 157)

Compare the prescient comment of Eisenhower, who intuited as early as 2945 that forces would arise to deny the Holocaust, with the record of Noam Chomsky. The latter, the acclaimed MIT linguist and left-wing polemicist, has aggressively defended the right of Robert Faurisson, a French university professor, to teach that the Holocaust never occurred and that Auschwitz contained no gas chambers. One wonders whether Chomsky would similarly defend the right of an MIT professor to teach that slavery never existed in America. As Bernard Baruch once stated: Every man has a right to his own opinion. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.""There is an obvious danger in assuming that because Holocaust denial is so outlandish, it can be ignored. The deniers' worldview is no more bizarre than that [of those who believe in the] Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a report purporting to be the text of a secret plan to establish Jewish world supremacy."- Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust, page 24A proven forgery, The Protocols were cited by the Nazis as one of their warrants for ridding Europe of Jews (see Norman Cohn, A History of Genocide, a histroy of this forgery and of the damage it did). Historian Lipstadt documents the growing acceptance of claims advanced by Holocaust deniers. In Italy, where many of their publications have appeared, a 1992 public opinion poll revealed that 10 percent of Italians believe the Holocaust never happened. In this country, a 1993 Roper poll question, "Does it seem possible or does it seem impossible to you that the Nazi extermination of the Jews never happened?" revealed that 22 percent of Americans believe it possible that the Holocaust is a hoax. Unfortunately, given Americans' common penchant for conspiratorial and revisionist history, we would probably have a more accurate perception of American attitudes had the questioner simply asked, "Do you believe the Nazi extermination of the Jews happened or did not?"

- Jewish Wisdom, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, pages 554-555

[billyjoelmutt]

United Universes Tour 2024! We Didnt Start the Fire 3.0!

It was time for one more!!!!!! :3 ONE MORE FOR THE TOUR!!!!! :3

Dodger- “ALRIGHT READY FOR ONE MORE?!!!!!!!! :D Audience was ready!! Dodger- "THEN COME AND JOIN US IN THE MIDDLE!!! ALL OF YOU!!!!!! :D

Dodger- "WHOOOOO WHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! :3”

As then the beat for We Didnt Start the FIre came on!! But this one was different!!!!!! :3 It was like a rock out brawl!! A party!!! With characters everywhere!!!! :D

Dodger started the song!!!!

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe!!!! :3

Snoopy was truly showing off his talents!!!!!

Vee- “WOOOHOOO!!! You got it Snoopy!!!!!! :3”

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, “The King and I”, and “The Catcher in the Rye” Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

Dodger- “EVERYONE!!!!!!! :D

Beside him were Dolly and Holly at the time!!!!

Dolly- "BOW WACKA WOOOOOWWW!!!!!! :3”

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning, since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it!!!!!!

It was then Dodger got a show with the Heelers and a shot of Steve Burns, Joe and Josh with Blue dancing!! :3

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron Dien Bien Phu falls, “Rock Around the Clock!!

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez!!!

Stitch- "ROCK AND ROLL BABY!!!! :3” Everyone- We didn’t start the fire It was always burning, since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it!!

Dodger happened to be next to Mei Mei then and there!!! :3

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, “Bridge on the River Kwai” Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide!!!

Yumi and Umi took the guitar solo there as the audience cheered!!! :3

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafia Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo!!!

Everyone- We didn’t start the fire It was always burning, since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it!!!!!

A shot of Dodger and Angel fooling around would not hurt!! :3

And Tianas daughter holding Slink Jr as well!!! :3

Hemingway, Eichmann, “Stranger in a Strange Land” Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion “Lawrence of Arabia”, British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say?

Jimmy Neutron- “GOTTA BLAST!!!!! :3”

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning, since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it!!

The camera got Lil and Mila!!!! :3

And Dodger with Luz and Shortstop with Amity!!!! :3

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

“Wheel of Fortune”, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shore, China’s under martial law Rock and roller, cola wars, I can’t take it anymore!!!!!! SONIC RAINBOOM!!!!!! :3

Everyone!- We didn’t start the fire It was always burning, since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire But when we are gone It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on!!!!!

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning, since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it!!!! :3

Scooby- “SCOOBY DOOBY DOOOO!!!!!!!! :D

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning, since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it!!!! :3

We didn’t start the fire IRE IRE IRE!!!! :3 It was always burning, since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it!!!! :3

We didn’t start the fire IRE IRE IRE!!!! :3 It was always burning, since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it!!!! :3!!! YEAH!!!!!! :D

Vanellope- "WAHHHHHOOOOOO!!!! :D

We didn’t start the fire IRE IRE IRE!!!! :3 It was always burning, since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it!!!! :3!!! YEAH!!!!!! :D

We didn’t start the fire IRE IRE IRE!!!! :3 It was always burning, since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it!!!! :3!!! YEAH!!!!!! :D YEAHH!!!!!! :D

Everyone was singing it!!!! AND IT CAME TO AN END!!!

Dodger- "YES THANKYOU!!!! THANKYOU!!!!!!!!!! FROM ALL OF YOU!!!!!!! :3

Dodger- "GOODNIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :3”

THIS WAS THE BIGGEST ONE YET!!!!!!!!!!! :3

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(Credits to Disney, Dreamworks, Billy Joel, MLP, Nick, Paramount, Scooby Doo!, Rock Concert, all video makers, all image makers, We Didnt start the Fire, Shrek Karoake Dance Party, and all blogs tagged!!)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 5.20

Beer Birthdays

John Adam Lemp (1798)

Louis de Luze Simonds (1852)

Eduard Buchner (1860)

Louis Hemrich (1872)

Lord "Benjie" Iveagh (1937)

Judy Ashworth (1942)

Oliver Hughes (1959)

David Walker (1964)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Emile Berliner; inventor of flat phonograph record (1851)

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole; Hawaiian singer (1959)

John Stuart Mill; English philosopher (1806)

Timothy Olyphant; actor (1968)

James Stewart; actor (1908)

Famous Birthdays

Danny Aiello; actor (1933)

Emile Berliner; German/US inventor (1851)

Cher; pop singer, writer (1946)

Joe Cocker; rock singer (1944)

Christopher Columbus; explorer (1451)

Mindy Cohn; actor (1966)

William Congreve; English inventor (1772)

Francis Cotes; English artist (1726)

Henri-Edmond Cross; French artist (1856)

Moshe Dayan; Israeli general (1915)

Honore de Balzac; French writer (1799)

Aleksandr Deyneka; Russian artist (1899)

Alfred Domett; English/NZ poet (1811)

Patrick Ewing Jr.; basketball player (1984)

William Fargo; banker (1818)

Gardner Fox; author (1911)

George Gobel; comedian (1919)

Tony Goldwyn; actor (1960)

John M. Harlan; US Supreme Court justice (1899)

William Hewlett; H-P Founder (1913)

Nick Heywood; UK pop singer, guitarist (1961)

Guy Hoffman; rock musician (1954)

Levinus Lemnius; Dutch writer (1505)

Shorty Long; musician (1940)

Dolley Madison; first lady of James Madison (1768)

Hector Malot; French author (1830)

Hans Meerwein; German chemist (1879)

R.J. Mitchell; English engineer (1895)

Bobby Murcer; baseball player (1946)

Sumitranandan Pant; Indian poet (1900)

Bronson Pinchot; actor (1959)

Busta Rhymes; rapper (1972)

Michele Roberts; UK author (1949)

Louis Smith; jazz trumpeter (1931)

Tony Stewart; automobile racer (1971)

Jewel Styles; pornstar (1988)

Dave Thomas; Canadian comedian, actor (1949)

William Thornton; architect (1759)

David Wells; baseball player (1963)

Jane Wiedlin; pop singer (1958)

Anthony Zerbe; actor (1936)