#Karl Geary

[celluloidrainbow]

NADJA (1994) dir. Michael Almereyda After the death of Count Dracula, his daughter Nadja and her familiar Renfield arrive in New York to burn it his corpse, hoping this ritual will free her from her own vampiric curse, but then Nadja gets sidetracked when she meets a lost soul in a bar. Lucy is not a vampire, but she too is suffering from ennui – bored by her life and her relationship with husband Jim. Meanwhile, Jim is bailing his uncle, Van Helsing, out of jail: after learning of the disappearance of the Count's corpse, he enlists his nephew in his quest to destroy any trace of any vampire still left in the city. As the plot develops, Nadja visits her sickly brother, Edgar, who’s being looked after by a nurse called Cassandra. Van Helsing and Jim’s quest to seek out Dracula’s descendants also leads them to Edgar, bringing the two halves of the story together... (link in title)

[vinosities]

There was something I was thinking about actually, in terms of resolve. There is that Susan Sontag quote, "A landscape of devastation is still a landscape, there's beauty in ruins." The idea has been that, even if your inner life at some point has been made desolate, something will grow over the rocks and the concrete, awareness continues. And maybe that's all we get, you know, as scarred or as broken as a landscape is, our perspective can shift. And maybe that just has to be enough.

— Gabriel Byrne Talks Memory, Loneliness and More with Karl Geary

[razorsadness]

They fade, memories, even good ones, the ones we want. I’d practise my favourites, learned as if by rote. But no matter, you end up with memories of memories: you get tar from coal, not diamonds. I sat outside of things. Time, quick as a drumroll, flew past. Then I was sixteen. Then I was seventeen.

—Karl Geary, from Juno Loves Legs (Catapult, 2023)

[sungleams]

“I wouldn’t worry about it, true doesn’t care if you believe in it or not.”-Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary

[2ndaryprotocol]

#NowWatching ‘Mimic 3: Sentinel’ (2003) 🪳📸🧬

“𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚊𝚍𝚊𝚙𝚝. 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝’𝚜 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚋𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛… 𝚜𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚐𝚘𝚝 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚛.”

[queerographies]

[Juno ama Gambelunghe][Karl Geary]

"Juno ama Gambelunghe" racconta di due adolescenti che tutti considerano due piccoli delinquenti. Entrambi trovano la salvezza l'una nell'altro.

Nella Dublino degli anni Ottanta, Juno è una dodicenne ribelle, aggressiva, e soprattutto sola. Figlia di una sarta e di un meccanico improvvisato, troppo povera persino per quelle strade squallide, trova comprensione e tenerezza soltanto in un coetaneo, Seán, detto Gambelunghe, anch’egli emarginato, ma per ragioni opposte: è tormentato dai compagni, ma anche dagli educatori, incarnati dalle…

[steelycunt]

hiiiii…. do you have any book recommendations? i think we have similar taste :)

hi! yeah! i definitely have some recs, although they’ll all be books i’ve talked about on here before so they probably won’t be very new for anyone who’s been following me for a while 😭 not sure what you’re after specifically but this is just everything i’ve enjoyed! anything with as asterisk is a special favourite : ^ )

books ive read this year:

(fiction)

boulder* - eva baltasar: very short read but baltasar’s prose is 2 die for! second in a trilogy but im pretty sure they can all be read as standalones. also nice to see fiction that treats lesbians as seriously as piles and piles of arty litfic treat gay men rather than the clipart cover of two women with a title like ‘Jemima Mulligan Is So Done 🤣’ that comes up when you search lesbian fiction now.

all quiet on the western front* (+ the way back/the road back) - erich maria remarque: only classic im going to mention (i could talk about james baldwin all day) but this is my favourite book i’ve read this year! and my only five star fiction read so far this year. absolutely heartbreaking!! and if you enjoy it i would say it’s worth reading the sequel, the way back.

hangman - maya binyam: read this recently and honestly think it’s quite a marmite book i think you’ll either enjoy the absurdity of it or find it deeply irritating almost straight away but. i thought it was wonderfully disorientating + not too long that the style started to grate on me + an great postcolonial work

we need to talk about kevin* - lionel shriver: such a terrifyingly good book omg. prose is a bit dense which at least i found a bit daunting at first but it’s soo intricate and absorbing and horrific.

penance* (+ boy parts) - eliza clark: was honestly a bit surprised to like this as much as i did my expectations were pretty low but i thought it was a genuinely excellent depiction of modern teenagers + the way they use social media (i have never seen it done so well) + the intricacies of the dynamics between young girls against the backdrop of ‘true’ crime. if you like it you’ll probably also enjoy boy parts so i recommend that too!

antarctica + walk the blue fields - claire keegan: keegan is imo one of the best storytellers writing today and these two short story collections by her were wonderful this year! my favourite of her work is foster but since there are multiple stories in these collections id say they’re the best place to start!

my work - olga ravn: quite experimental in terms of style there’s a lot of prose spliced with prose which i wasn’t sure would be for me (im an idiot) but i thought it was a really fascinating look at motherhood + creation + post-partum depression!

(non-fiction)

dont actually have a ton of non-fiction books 2 mention just adding this category in to recommend empire of pain* - patrick radden keefe as a book i finished recently and one of if not the best non-fiction book ive ever read. just so incredibly interesting i can’t stress enough

some quickfire books i read last year/year before!

duck feet - ely percy

juno loves legs - karl geary

archive of alternate endings* - lindsey drager

shuggie bain* + young mungo* - douglas stuart

my brilliant friend* - elena ferrante

the secret history + the goldfinch - donna tartt

mr loverman - bernadine evaristo (SAINT LUCIA MENTIONED 🇱🇨)

the marriage portrait - maggie o’farrell

the passion - jeanette winterson

[rustbeltjessie]

What r some books that r close to uu

Ohhhh this is so difficult. There are so many. So I’m gonna go with whatever pops into my head.

Books I first read a long time ago that are close to me: On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Girl Goddess #9 by Francesca Lia Block, the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block, Sassafras Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange, The Early Diaries of Anaïs Nin, Angel Maker by Sara Maitland, Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing by Jamie Schweser & Abram Shalom Himmelstein, Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates, Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe, Fatal Interview by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution, Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane Di Prima, Written On the Body by Jeanette Winterson, Pussy King of the Pirates by Kathy Acker, A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon, The Night Country by Stewart O’Nan, Why Things Burn by Daphne Gottlieb, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, etc. etc., etc.

Books I’ve read more recently that already feel close to me: The Girl in the Green Silk Gown by Seanan McGuire, The Wendys by Allison Benis White, frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss, Saint 1001 by Daphne Gottlieb, The Collected Poems of Lynda Hull, Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary, I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall, Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury, First Love by Lilly Dancyger, Romantic Comedy by James Allen Hall, Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart and Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott. Etc.

[doyouknowthisactor]

By "roles" I mean playing a different character, and in a different piece of media; someone playing one character across a franchise only counts as one thing for the purposes of this poll, as does playing multiple characters in one franchise/piece of media

Below are some of this actor's roles. Please only check after voting!

A Knight's Tale as Kate

Neverwhere as Door

Lip Service as Cat MacKenzie

Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul as Lydia Rodarte-Quayle

Fraser is married to actor Karl Geary

More roles

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday actress Laura Fraser, born July 24th 1976 in Glasgow.

Laura attended Hillhead High School and is a former member of the Scottish Youth Theatre. She trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

During her time there, she got a supporting role in Gillies MacKinnon's film Small Faces. This was on top of a couple of other minor roles she had taken (such as 'Big Day for the Bad Guys). The college authorities took a pretty dim view of the amount of professional work she had been taking on, questioning her commitment to the course.

Having not been enjoying her time at the Academy, and encouraged by her parents, she dropped out after a year and moved to London.

Later on, she has appeared in numerous films in supporting roles, but always noticeable as lead characters. All these roles have demonstrated her versatility in characterisation and style to the full.

From the fantasy of ‘Neverwhere’, a comedy of ‘Virtual Sexuality’, the Shakespearean drama of ‘Titus’, emotional drama of ‘Forgive and Forget’ and slapstick of ‘Kevin and Perry’. She effortlessly adapts to all the genres, very seldom was she cast as characters with her native Scottish accent.

After appearing in the 2003 Irish comedy, Coney Island Baby, Laura relocated to the US where she married Irish-born American author actor and club owner Michael Geary,.

She landed a role in the well regarded US TV movie, Iron Jawed Angels. In early 2005, Laura returned to live in Glasgow with her husband and stepdaughter, and a desire to start a family and focus on local work. She found she was pregnant in late 2005, and spent time working as a choreographer on a pantomime written by her father 'Oh Yes He Is!' for the charity Sense Scotland.

In May 2006 she and Karl became proud parents of a baby girl. Laura intended to not work for 12 months and be a full-time mum, but by September 2006 she was back making a film for the BBC.

Other TV roles for Laura include, Casanova, Ian Rankin's Reichenbach Falls and Florence Nightingale and her role in the US series Breaking Bad and spinn-off Better Call Saul as Lydia Rodarte-Quayle.

Laura maybe a star over the pond nowadays, but she has also been cast in some great shows based in Scotland, including Traces with Martin Compston, and Crime with Ken Stott and Dougray Scott,

Next up for Laura in anpther crime drama, Patience, a 6-part police crime set in York , it should hit our screens before the end of the year.

[tea-leaf-girl]

recent reading list

juno loves legs - karl geary

the general in his labyrinth - gabriel garcía márquez

mouthful of forevers - clementine von radics

perfume - patrick suskind

jazz - toni morrison

hot milk - deborah levy

year of the monkey - patti smith (currently reading)

any other recommendations you guys have let me know please im always looking for more !!! ‎౨ৎ⋆｡˚ᡣ𐭩 •｡ꪆৎ ˚⋅

[mikemaggio-blog]

Juno Love Legs: A Review

Here’s my review of Karl Geary’s Juno Loves Legs, a novel I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend.

[vinosities]

Karl Geary: And actually, the book is shrouded with a sense of isolation, separateness. And I wondered if there was anything in that, is this a necessary isolation in order to be able to filter the information that's coming in and reinterpret it as art? Is some degree of separation or otherness necessary in order to be able to reflect and retell a story?

Gabriel Byrne: I think that's possibly true for a great many artists. I always remember that image of Joyce writing Ulysses in Trieste, on the back of a suitcase and Nora sweeping under him, saying, "you lift up your legs Jim." I don't know why that image stays in my head. {Laughs} You know, isolation, distance, are those things necessary to write? I mean, I've always written in cafes because I can't bear the idea of sitting in a room, looking at a wall. It reminds me too much of school. I want to be out among people. But what's interesting there is you talk about isolation and loneliness. I think that we're all isolated in our own particular ways. And I think one of the things that writing does, or reading or being exposed to art, it makes us feel less isolated and it makes us feel connected to the world.

— Gabriel Byrne Talks Memory, Loneliness and More with Karl Geary

[razorsadness]

I was squeezed onto a couch, facing into the room. I watched as Legs kissed this boy; it was the first time I’d seen a boy kiss another boy. It thrilled me, that kiss. My own boy, I thought suddenly, without a lick of that human instinct that cuts fresh flowers in bloom and takes them home to wilt and die. His fingers fell over the boy’s face as their mouths joined, and one finger gently scratched along his cheek. Their lips would part and they were held suspended, locked. Legs danced some more and the boy sat back and watched. Legs’ body lost inside his oversized jumpsuit, in full charge of his limbs, as the music from the boom box echoed from the other room and through the empty space. Legs moved forward again, his lips finding the boy’s neck this time. Then he whispered something bold and the boy smiled and took his hand.

—Karl Geary, from Juno Loves Legs (Catapult, 2023)

[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6 / 10

Título Original: The Burrowers

Año: 2008

Duración: 96 min.

País: Estados Unidos  

Dirección:  J.T. Petty

Guion: J.T. Petty

Música: Joseph LoDuca

Fotografía: Phil Parmet

Reparto: Doug Hutchison, Clancy Brown, William Mapother, Sean Patrick Thomas, Karl Geary, Jocelin Donahue, Laura Leighton, David Busse, Alexandra Edmo, Brighid Fleming, Christopher Hagen, Galen Hutchison, Harley Coriz, Suzi McLaughlin, Tatanka Means, Seri DeYoung, David Midthunder, Jon Kristian Moore, Cole Resch, R.J. Rice, Bonnie Morgan, Chris Grabher

Productora: Blue Star Pictures. Distribuidora: Lionsgate

Género: Horror; Thriller;Western

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445939/

TRAILER:

[qudachuk]

The actor turned novelist on creating authentic working-class characters, swapping Dublin for New York aged 16, and why sewing is like writingBefore making his literary debut in 2017 with Montpelier Parade, Irish-born novelist Karl Geary spent more than two...