#Nolan Leary

[wade-a-minute]

Deadpool's voice and its media portrayals

I read this post by @jhirowolf and @spider-mand, which inspired me to make my own post specifically about dp's voice - please read the og post first!

In the comics it's known that Deadpool has a unique voice - his speech boxes are yellow while everyone elses' are white. What makes it unique is its quality (it's described as rough, raspy and gravelly) but I also think that it's its cadence too (i'll get in to this below). Unfortunately, Ryan's voice in the movies doesn't really come close to this - for multiple reasons.

Ryan's voice physically is very smooth and also pretty high but I get the sense that as dp, he doesnt really do much for his voice, he is pretty much just himself and cracking jokes. As @jhirowolf pointed out, he kind of has this smooth, sarcastic tone. For me the vibe is that of a stereotypical side-character who mumbles sarcastic comments at whatever the other characters are doing. Ryan's voice is often mellow, calm and even

I dont have concrete examples right now, but in the comics SO many characters call Wade insane mere minutes upon meeting him, despite the fact that they dont know anything about him apart from the fact that he is a mercenary.

Why? Because of his voice!

Immediately upon hearing him talk they conclude he is unhinged and unstable and generally unwell. He's loud, aggressive, speaks a mile a minute and on top of that makes dark jokes serious situations that no one else laughs at. It freaks people out and rightfully so! Adding on to this, I think he varies his pitch and rhythm frequently, further making him appear unstable because his voice is never even or monotone for more than a few seconds. I'm basing this on the fact that his speech bubbles are so much bigger than everyone else's (he talks a lot) and also bc he varies his facial expressions and body language a lot when he speaks.

@jhirowolf mentions that Denis Leary was the inspiration for his voice, which i had no idea about but looking at this video, I think his cadence is perfect. You feel that unlimited energy, the loudness, the unpredictableness, his voice and the look behind his eyes make him seem manic and frantic - which it should! It puts people on edge around him, gives him his reputation of being unpredictable and also makes him regard him as insane. Wade doesnt give a shit about norms for socializing, how loud or crass he is - hes got shit to say and hes gonna say it, no matter how much it may annoy, offend or make others uncomfortable

i think the teaser trailer for the first movie could be Ryans best work when it comes to wades voice

Conversely, this video could be the worst:

Like this is purely Ryan, theres no deadpool here. its just his own shameless self-promo in a dp suit

Nolan's voice, on the other hand, isn't perfect either bc it kind of has the similar smooth quality as ryans, its not gravelly, raspy or anything. But his cadence is soo good! He's calm one minute but you never know when he's gonna snap and lose his shit, i love it

And yeah, Nolan's performance and the funny moments are the only good thing to come out of this game (well i guess another positive is that it made him more popular, it certainly was one of my first encounters which made me interested in him). The bad thing is the amount of damage it did to the complexity of dp's character - they stripped away his layers, the serious and tragic parts that make up who he is, instead of this they literally gave him 1 trait - insane. And that was it. I blame Way's 2008 run for this bc he essentially did the same thing - but the game turned it up to 11. Way at least included several serious and earnest moments where Wade was forced to be introspective and face his issues

in conclusion - so far our ears havent yet been blessed to hear wade's voice

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Rita Edmond – Easy Living

Rita Edmond – vocal Joel Scott – piano James Leary – bass Albert “Tootie” Heath – drums Nolan Shaheed – trumpet

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PRC challenges Val Lewton's brand of horror with DEVIL BAT'S DAUGHTER (1946) from director Frank Wisbar and starring Rosemary La Planche, John James, and Michael Hale. But will this sequel live up to its progenitor, THE DEVIL BAT (1940)?

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 12:10; Discussion 32:22; Ranking 44:44

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Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore in Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937) Cast: Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch, Elisabeth Risdon, Minna Gombell, Ray Mayer, Ralph Remley, Louise Beavers, Louis Jean Heydt. Screenplay: Viña Delmar, based on a novel by Josephine Lawrence and play by Helen Leary and Nolan Leary. Cinematography: William C. Mellor. Art direction: Hans Dreier, Bernard Herzbrun. Film editing: LeRoy Stone. Music: George Antheil, Victor Young. As the music ("Let Me Call You Sweetheart") swelled, and the train taking her husband to California pulled out of the station leaving Lucy Cooper (Beulah Bondi) alone on the platform, I muttered, "Please end it here. Please end it here." And so Leo McCarey, bless him, did. He could have, as the studio wanted, moved on to a mawkish conclusion, pulling a sentimental rabbit out of the hat in which their children relented and found a place where Barkley (Victor Moore) and Lucy Cooper could live together, but thank whatever gods preside over cinema, he didn't. I thought, before my reading confirmed it, that Yasujiro Ozu must have seen Make Way for Tomorrow -- or as seems to have happened, his scenarist Kogo Noda did. This is one Hollywood picture from the '30s and '40s that has its head on straight, keeping its heart in the right place. The film gives us complex, fallible characters instead of sugary and vinegary stereotypes: The elder Coopers are as much to blame for the predicament in which they find themselves as their children are for not finding a satisfactory way to resolve it. As an aged parent, one who once faced the problem of an aged parent, I find the film's willingness not to lay blame on anyone refreshing: Barkley Cooper should not have allowed himself to get in the financial difficulty in which he finds himself; he and Lucy should have come clean to the offspring about their money difficulties long before they did. And though it's easy to see the children as hard-hearted and selfish -- the film does tilt a little more in that direction than it might -- what we see on the screen makes clear that housing Lucy and Barkley is a little harder than it ought to be. She seems oblivious to the burdens she puts on George (Thomas Mitchell) and Anita (Fay Bainter), and he is a cantankerous handful for Cora (Elizabeth Risdon) and Bill (Ralph Remley), refusing to follow the doctor's instructions. McCarey and his wonderful cast handle all of this superbly, with McCarey not only stubbornly refusing to provide a conventional movie ending, but also withholding some information a lesser director would have made much of, such as what Rhoda (Barbara Read) did when she disappeared that night, or what Barkley said to his daughter on the telephone when he informed her that he and Lucy weren't coming to their farewell dinner. (I think it's better that we don't know what he told her to do with that roast she was planning to serve.) A small, surprising treat of a movie.

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On An Island With You (1948)

✧ Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse, Dick Simmons, and Esther Williams

✧ Leon Ames, Charles Rosher, Bobby Barber, Kathryn Beaumont, Jack Boyle, Chester Clute, Dorothy Cooper, Lester Dorr, Tay Dunn, William O. Harbach, Samuel Herrera, Carmencita Johnson, Edna Mae Jones, Al Kikume, Dorothy Kingsley, Nolan Leary, Billy Lechner, Emilia Leovalli, Uluao Letuli, Carl M. Leviness, Leon Lontoc, Charles Martin, Walter Merrill, Frances Morris, Joe Pasternak, Nina Garson, Cosmo Sardo, Robin Short, Dick Simmons, Robert St. Angelo, Richard Thorpe, Sam Tubuo, Arthur Walsh, Hans Wilhelm, Esther Williams, Marie Windsor, Dick Winslow, Kay Norton, James Dale, and George Betz

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You Gotta Lose? Hell, Some Of Us Ain’t Dead Yet by Mary Leary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fz3FVBlOE

NRBQ has done so many amazing songs. I never thought much about “Roll Call,” from Tiddlywinks - for one thing, it has a lighter, almost Billy Joel sound that’s more about latter day Terry Adams style than what I think of as the classic Q. Yet just as Adams’ work has grown on me, this track has made its way into my consciousness. The lyrics speak to me more in 2020 than they did when Tiddlywinks was released in 1980, before the D.C.-area music scene had lost Robert Goldstein (Urban Verbs), Kevin MacDonald (brilliant visual artist and scene stalwart who helped me design and layout [The] Infiltrator), Danny Gatton disciple/guitar maverick Evan Johns, bassist Michael Maye from the original H-Bombs, Rick Dreyfuss (Half Japanese/Chumps/Shakemore), Libby Hatch and Michael Mariotte  (Tru Fax and the Insaniacs), Sally Be/Berg - REM/Egoslavia/SHE/Robert Palmer), Nurses member Marc Halpern (heroin, 1982), Lorenzo (Pee- Wee) Jones (Tiny Desk Unit) and hybrid rocker Jim Altman (HIV, 1990s).  Goldstein, Dreyfuss, Maye and MacDonald succumbed to cancer, while Evan Johns’ deterioration followed years of touring, hard drinking and pushing himself past the limit.

(Top to bottom: Tommy Keene, Kevin MacDonald, Susan Mumford)

Those named above have been joined by Tommy Keene (the Rage/the Razz/solo/Paul Westerberg/Matthew Sweet - cardiac arrest at the age of 59; 2017), TDU’s Susan Mumford (cancer, 2018), David Byers (Psychotics/H.R./Bad Brains), and Skip Groff (Yesterday and Today/ Limp Records/Dischord - seizure, 2019).  This is just an imperfect/incomplete naming of D.C.-area losses - I’m sure journalists from other cities could make lists. A horde of New Wave and early alternative musicians have died within the past few years. Whether through the stress of hard living/poverty, substance abuse, cancer or Covid-19, we’re seeing artists pass much earlier than I, anyway, expected them to.

(Top to bottom: Fred "Freak” Smith, Michael Maye with Evan Johns, Tru Fax and the Insaniacs)

We’re already past the loss of all the original Ramones. All the Cramps less Poison Ivy. Joe Strummer. Robert Quine. Hilly Kristal. Lou Reed. As of July, 2020, since 2018 we’ve also lost Andy Gill, Ivan Kral, Genesis P-Orridge, Adam Schlesinger, Danny Mihm, Ric Ocasek, Daniel Johnston, Kim Shattuck, Lorna Doom, Mark Hollis, Keith Flint, Ranking Roger, Mark E. Smith, Glenn Branca, Randy Rampage, Hardy Fox, Pete Shelley, Matthew Seligman, Bill Rieflin, Dave Greenfield, Florian Schneider,  Ian Dury, Benjamin Orr, Kirsty McColl and David Roback.

(Top to bottom: Sally Be/Berg, Ranking Roger, Danny Mihm)

Talking about the deaths of talented, gifted creatives is a helluva way to start a column. But here we are. Older performers don’t always get the attention afforded newer, so the rest of this piece shares and celebrates artists from the original New Wave/punk scenes who are still around and active. Many are from the D.C.-area cornucopia I know best, while others have just come to my attention, or seem especially noteworthy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MED9_XK_JVQ

The Zeros’ Javier Escovedo has been steadily emitting tasty Americana-ish rock while occasionally dropping some Zeros sturm-’n’-drang - most recently with Munster Records single “In The Spotlight” and a track on Burger Records’ Quarantunes compilation. Quarantunes is a seven-album affair featuring 140 alternative/punk performers old and new, all of whom wrote songs between March-April 2020. A cursory listen to Volume 2 reveals the recorded version of a good night at a very wild bar, with Zeros still handily kicking ass of all ages.

https://velvetmonkeys.bandcamp.com/album/legacy-of-success?fbclid=IwAR0lJyS0YDE4e3o7LJiITEtw1lhBWMkUX47Vuag1Lf9fs2QozJJKD1lwkes

Velvet Monkeys/B.A.L.L. player and Sonic Youth/Teenage Fanclub producer Don Fleming reports, “We’ve put out new tracks ‘Theories of Rummanetics’ and ‘Legacy of Success.’ Jay has written a few ‘modules’ and Malcolm and I are having fun doing the music,” adding, “I play some electric six string on the new Rob Moss album - it’s fun to be on, with lots of guitar slingers from the DC daze.”

Yup, Rob Moss of Skin-Tight Skin has solicited contributions from Fleming and from Marshall Keith (Slickee Boys), along with a pile of talent including Stuart Casson (Psychotics/Dove/Meatmen), Franz Stahl (Foo Fighters/Scream), Billy Loosigian (Nervous Eaters, the Boom-Boom Band), Nels Cline (Wilco) and Saul Koll (the guy who made guitars for Henry Kaiser and Lee Ranaldo). The set is called We’ve Come Back To Rock ‘n’ Roll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdIB8a_0Q4c

Chumps/Workdogs/Jam Messengers player Rob Kennedy apparently has too much energy to throw in the towel - he’s kept recording, performing and making various sorts of lo-fi, DIY mischief that never loses that fresh, ‘70s feeling. Jam Messengers released Night And Day on vinyl in 2017. One of my fave Kennedy tracks, “A Low Down Dirty Shame” speaks to this moment as well as any.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-CRBEGVLE4

Former Tiny Desk Unit/Fuji’s Navy/Rhoda & the Bad Seeds members Bob Boilen, Kevin Lay, Michael Barron and Bob Harvey have released a new Danger Painters joint, Thank Speak Love This Record. Lay joked, “I have a voice made for Morse Code” before revealing his recent work with Rhoda and the Bad Seeds material, released June 30 as Live at Nightclub 9:30. Boilen continues to introduce artists both vital and obscure via Tiny Desk Concerts and All Songs Considered/NPR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejQ1GajwfB0

I’ve seen David Arnson play recently and can attest to his proclivity for unfettered growth via Insect Surfers, the instrumental group that originally had some trouble establishing cred. with younger D.C. punks. The Surfers’ most recent release was Living Fossils (2019). Arnson celebrated the band’s 40 years of existence with a European tour in 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SkIuWIZVkM

Jad Fair says, “Half Japanese will have a new album released in November on Fire Records.” Jad’s art was recently featured at the Hiromart Gallery/Tokyo, while David has created a Facebook page where fans can pick up his colorful images for, well, mere bags o’ shells, as far as we can see -  https://www.facebook.com/David-Fair-Painting-107055447700859/

Despite health issues for several members, Bad Brains has collaborated with Element to make BB themed skate wear https://www.elementbrand.com/mens-collection-bad-brains/ and added some killer live tracks to its YouTube channel.  

Former WGTB programmers John Paige and Steve Lorber have been presenting Rock Continuum on WOWD-LP FM 94.3 since 2017.

Mike Stax continues to give excellent motivation for hunting down a pair of Beatle boots - Munster released the Loons’ 7” EP, A Dream In Jade Green, last year. The latest issue of Ugly Things, said by Stax to be heavily focused on the Pretty Things’ Phil May, was reported in early July to be nearing publication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jSc7gEAv0

Razz (the) Documentary will tell the story of how an uncommonly combustible rock band - especially with the Bill Craig/Abaad Behram line-up - helped spread the Flamin’ Groovies gospel while throwing down oddly compelling originals and taking the two-guitar thing up several notches - the producers are purportedly seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Whether anyone can ever recreate the experience of being in an altered state via obsessive, sometimes conversational repetition of certain chords, anchored by Ted Nicely rethinking just what can be done with a bass guitar, given girth by Doug Tull’s intuitive drumming; with Mike Reidy the heat-seeking missile somewhere near the center... well, I doubt it. ‘Cause at this point you’re feeling no pain and it’s not about drinking; there is no room for anything but water - the beer will be knocked over when you’re this busy matching David Arnson’s other-side-of-the-front-line’s leaps into joydum while PCP’d out yahoos from the sticks learn the hard way that hugging Marshall amps can lead to lifelong repercussions. There (in case nothing I want to say about [the] Razz makes it into the film) - I’ve said it.

Discussions among old friends have confirmed that I’m not alone in being happily surprised at this development - we never expected our actions - which led to the hardcore explosion that’s received a lot more attention... would ever make it into any history book. Yet coverage of many of the D.C.-area musicians featured in this piece also comes with Punk The Capitol, A History of D.C. Punk and Hardcore, 1976-1983. Spring 2021 is the projected date for streaming/DVD release.

Ivan Julian came back from a scary 2015 bout with cancer to do a show in New York in 2016. The cancer has returned. Friends have organized a GoFundMe to raise money for surgery and basic needs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDB_3by-xkI

The Shakemore fest also refuses to fade, promising “eight hours of streaming steaming video” on August 1. Sounds will be provided by R. Stevie Moore, Velvet Monkeys, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, Half Japanese, Johnny Spampinato, Weird Paul and the Chumps, among many, many others.

Despite having played at CBGB and other alternative venues in 1979, at the height of the New Wave, Gary Wilson’s work is so distinctive, he’s rarely been included with any musical genre other than the oft-vague “experimental” category. Folks were too unmoored by his visceral performances to get behind him. Wilson’s 14th album, Tormented, was released by Cleopatra in February.

Paul Collins recently published a book that he wrote with Chuck Nolan; I Don’t Fit In: My Wild Ride Through the Punk and Power Pop Trenches with the Nerves and the Beat (Hozac Books).

As “Heath,” Michael Layne Heath, a journalist who contributed to (the) Infiltrator and many other ‘zines, published My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed in May (Hat & Beard Press).

In April, X released its first album in 35 years; Alphabetland.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1I-laItPI

As exciting for me as any of the above is Richard Hell with the Heartbreakers’ 2019 release of Yonkers Demo 1976. Hell’s “You Gotta Lose” is one of my picks for best punk/new wave singles of all time. The Heartbreakers version is, predictably, messier than the Robert Quine guitar-spiked classic. Its more excessive charms are growing on me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48QnsysCN_A

This piece could go on and on - compiling it has been exhausting. The best part has been the response to my social media call for any info I didn’t have re: the D.C.-centric scene I left for New York in 1983. Musicians anxious to keep their compadres’ names alive have hammered that post with 138 comments to date. Urban Verbs percussionist Danny Frankel, who’s played with a colorful spread of artists including Beck, Marianne Faithful, Lou Reed, John Cale and k.d. Lang, made a point of being sure I knew about the passing of Marc Halpern, a source of obvious pain. People were worried I wouldn’t mention John Stabb (Government Issue - 2016), rockabilly player Billy Hancock (2018), Fred “Freak” Smith (Strange Boutique/Beefeater - murdered in Los Angeles, 2017), John Hansen (Slickee Boys - 2010), record store owner/Wasp Records starter/music supporter Bill Asp, Jimmy Barnett of The Killer Bees, and David Byers.

One of the hardest for me to write about is Chris Morse, whose 1984 passing from a drug overdose wrenched so many - I managed to get an obituary into, I think, The New York Rocker (that physical trek was part of a long-ago blur; a very hot day of traipsing over steaming concrete in a narrow-skirted dress to deliver the copy). Chris popped up in my dreams for years - one “visitation” pushed me to write a poem about it in the ‘90s. Morse, who played in Rhoda & The Bad Seeds and worked as a doorman at The Pyramid after moving to NYC in the early ‘80s, was on one of the Urban Verbs’ early flyers. I’m on another.

(Top to bottom: Me in an early Verbs flyer/photo shot at the Atlantis; Chris Morse on another Verbs flyer)

I ended up getting so burnt out on the responsibility of populating this sad roll call, I’ve started a memorial page for them all on Facebook. The nature of truly alternative music is such that many of its lights still fail to fill the pages of major publications. Many of these lights gave a great deal of their lives, if not everything, for the art they believed in. It’s good to remember them, and those heady early days. It’s good to enjoy what we still can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA3IfK76mmI

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John Handy ‎– Moogie Woogie

John Handy ‎– Where Go The Boats. Alto Saxophone, Saxello, Vocals – John Handy. Bass – James Leary. Congas, Percussion – Eddie "Bongo" Brown. Drums – Eddie Marshall. Guitar – Lee Ritenour, Steve Erquiaga. Piano, Electric Piano – Bill King. Synthesizer – Ian Underwood. Tenor Saxophone – Herman Riley. Trombone Tenor & Bass – Donald Cooke. Trumpet – Nolan Smith. Vocals – The Waters.

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Comic Books: Will The Justice League Film Ever Fly?

American actor Ray Aranha (Bodyguards, City Hall, Associated with Hope, Dead Man Walking, Deconstructing Harry, Hallelujah, The Heights, The baby and Married People) produced on May 1, 1939. Either way, Thomas offers the bright idea to do something about the guy who murdered him, the Mad Thinker. You might thinking the Mad Thinker, he's some type of genius, right? Well he is probably. Of course, there's that whole 'Mad' part to take a look at too, may quite accurate. So as place guess, when Thomas comes a askin the Mad Thinker's job site, the villain has several failsafes in mind to along with would-be hazards. The new movie marks the fourth "Spider-Man" movie under the Sony banner and 1st starring Golden Globe nominee Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Tenacious cast includes Emma Stone, Denis Leary, Rhys Ifans, Sally Field and Martin Sheen. The flick spins into theatres in Kansas and more than United States on July 3rd. Put on pounds . screened in 2D, 3D and IMAX.

I'm writing on "Captain America," which surprisingly isn't into the Captain America you know and take great delight in. You probably know the old fuddy-duddy Captain America - Steve Rogers, the skin-and-bones Army recruit who drank the mysterious "Super Soldier Serum" back before World war Two and have become a powerhouse U.S. operative dressed within a Star-Spangled suit, armed having a red-white-and-blue face shield. As you may recall, Cap ended up frozen for many years until he was revived, then in order to become leader of the avengers. He quite a colorful life - partnering with the Falcon, feuding with the Red Skull, and striving to reconicle himself to how much he was an old-school 40s guy living these days. The next story equals DC 2nd poster boy: Batman. Most of these same are anticipating the third film to Christopher Nolan's Batman series: "The Dark Knight Rises" and ingestion that contributes to already excited, who can blame your kids. So much buzz has risen in you will discover few weeks, but is focused on quality just so happens with regard to the first picture of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. The look of Catwoman comes to no surprise as may be everything for you to become expected from Christopher Nolan. It can't be what individuals were expecting, but globe end, it might not be that big of a great deal. Man of Steel has grown into playing in theaters while the state of Justice League is still to be determined. Look at your Columbus theaters for tickets and showtimes. The Big Wedding-- Therefore many few wide release entries, it's in order to find compile a listing of out-right box office nonwinners. Maybe, to some studio executives, a fourth place debut of $7.5 million to put together a piece of romantic comedy counter-programming is good enough. To everyone else, it isn't, particularly with the star-studded cast of this Big Wedding. watch avengers infinity war reddit , a comedy teaming up Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, and young pretty faces like Amanda Seyfriend sells itself and in all likelihood scores a $20 million debut. Time have revitalized. At first the Batman was given a grey armor to wear but in his second story, the degrade was changed to a sleek red and golden armor which was designed by Steve Ditko.

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Premiere de Dunkirk

Vamos ahora a un estreno próximo de cine. Se trata de la película Dunkirk dirigida por Christopher Nolan. Se ambienta en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la podremos ver en los cines desde este mismo viernes. A la premiere acudió el Príncipe Harry de Inglaterra ya que tuvo lugar en Londres. Vamos a ver esta alfombra roja!

Clara Paget de Chanel.

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You say JavaScript, I say JS.. let's call the whole thing off?

#495 — July 3, 2020

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V8 Release V8.4 — The next release of V8 (due to come out in coordinate with Chrome 84) boasts improved startup time, support for weak references and finalizers (worth seeing the code examples for these advanced features), and private methods and accessors.

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Continuous Deployment of Gatsby Apps to Heroku

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An In-Depth Beginner's Guide to Testing React Apps — A lot of posts will say ‘in-depth’ and be 500 words long – this isn’t one of those! If you’re a beginner to testing, there’s a lot to chew on here but it stays accessible throughout.

Johannes Kettmann

Exploring the Web Speech API — One of those APIs I keep forgetting exists but with which you can do some pretty cool stuff.

James at De Voorhoede

TodoMVC Implemented Using a Game Architecture: ECS — Can you build more traditional GUIs with the Entity Component System as popular in game development? An interesting idea.

Andy Bulka

Getting Started with the Vue 3 Composition API

Joel Parks

🔧 Code & Tools

Vest: Effortless Validations Inspired by Testing Frameworks — If you’re used to unit testing, the syntax used here will be familiar.

Evyatar

React Hook Form 6.0: Simple, Extensible React Form Validation — Now with better TypeScript support, a smaller package size, and numerous refinements and improvements, RHF is certainly worth a look if you’re building or refactoring forms. GitHub repo.

Blue Bill

Stream Chat API & JavaScript SDK for Custom Chat Apps — Build real-time chat in less time. Rapidly ship in-app messaging with our highly reliable chat infrastructure.

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Hyperapp: (Another) Tiny Framework for Building Web Interfaces — Claims to be 2x faster than React and comes in at less than 2KB.

Jorge Bucaran

Textures.js: SVG Textures for Data Visualization — Built on top of d3.js, this lets you bring together patterns and colors in an elegant and, dare we say, old school manner.

Riccardo Scalco

emoji-picker-element: A Lightweight Emoji Picker for the Modern Web — See a live demo here. Some cool performance advantages for this: It’s a web component and it’s built on Svelte and IndexedDB.

Nolan Lawson

🎨 Creative Corner

24a2: An Ultra-Minimalist Dot Matrix-Based Game Engine — What makes this different is that it has a limited set of features so you can build a game in a few hours. Here’s an example.

James Routley

PHONK: A Creative Scripting Toolbox for Android Devices — If you’ve got any old Android devices sat around, this could be a way to have some fun with them. It’s based around JavaScript.

Victor Diaz

parallax-effect: Parallax Effect in JavaScript using Face Tracking — A lot of designers seem to love parallax effects, whereas a lot of us end users aren’t so keen. But if you’re going to do it, do it in an over the top creative way like this 😂

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Mr.'69 - Жжёнка №61

Первая "Жженка" в этом году! В этом выпуске: "Доктор Лири – капустная аллилуйя – безумцы-почемучки – усяка – дядя Сэм – и ЭТО". Intro 01. Timothy Leary & Ash Ra Tempel – Space 02. Can - Halleluwah (Edit) 03. Marju Kuut - Lapsepõlve Muinasmaa 04. Frantics – Why 05. Mike Russo - Jeanne Hayes - The Dellwoods - I'll Never Make Fun Of Her Mustache Again 06. Faust – Passings 07. Mickey Baker - Steam Roller 08. The Wailers - Hang Up (Version 1) 09. Don Willis - Warrior Sam 10. Simon and Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair/Canticle 11. АлисА – Сканер 12. Ruth & Sherry - Nothing Much Tom Cat 13. Can – Spoon 14. James Carr - To Love Somebody 15. The Cramps – Teenage Rage 16. Ritchie Valens - Bluebirds Over the Mountain 17. Rodd Keith – This 18. Bo Diddley – Hey Bo Diddley 19. Nolan Strong and The Diablos – White Christmas 20. Can – Dizzy Dizzy (Edit) Outro

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Live Action Spider-Man Retrospective Review: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2012)

I cover #TheAmazingSpiderMan with #AndrewGarfield as #SpiderMan, less than a week from #SpiderManNoWayHome.

( INTRODUCTION, SPIDER-MAN 1, SPIDER-MAN 2, SPIDER-MAN 3) Our Live-Action Retrospective Review proceeds to 2012 with the first reboot: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). The following is my review of this film. I am making my own observations and subjective impressions here. I am not remotely commenting on everything inside the film or making any final word here. Ten years after the first…

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Birth. Movies. Death.

SXSW 2018 Review: TAKE YOUR PILLS Shines A Light On An Alarming Problem

Is Denis Villeneuve Still Making a DUNE Movie? Nope! Now He’s Making TWO Of Them

FIRST MATCH Trailer Takes A Girl’s Troubles To The Mat

Wes Anderson And Bill Murray: A Cinematic Rapport

Book Review: S. Craig Zahler’s HUG CHICKENPENNY Is A Touching Gothic Parable

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Film Review: Midnight Sun

Film Review: Journeyman

Criterion Review: Yi Yi

Film Review: A Wrinkle in Time

Film Review: Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Cinema Blend

Will Cloak And Dagger Cross Over With Marvel's Other TV Shows? Here's What Jeff Loeb Says

Anna Faris Says She Needs To Figure Out The Purpose Of Marriage

Why Brie Larson Is Perfect For Captain Marvel, According To One Actor

Tyga Seemingly Shut Down Rumors About Kylie Jenner's Baby

Ready Player One Reviews Are In, Here’s What The Critics Are Saying

Cinema Scope

Cinema Scope 74 Contents

The Work (Jairus McLeary & Gethin Aldous, US)

Global Discoveries on DVD: A Few Peripheral Matters

Canadiana | Hometown Horror: Robin Aubert’s Les affamés

Exploded View: Bruce Conner’s Crossroads

Comicboook.com

New 'Captain Marvel' Set Photos Released Online

'Avengers: Infinity War' Trailer Remade With Deadpool Playing Everybody

Beetlejuice Is Getting A Musical

John Cena Confirmed For Upcoming Duke Nukem Film

Avengers: Infinity War - Fan Slows Down Iron Man's Bleeding Edge Armor Footage To Show How It Works

Film Comment Magazine

Queer & Now & Then: 2018

The Film Comment Podcast: Easter Hams

Festivals: True/False 2018

Berlin Interview: Lav Diaz

Readings: Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa

Film Inquiry

WILDE SALOMÉ & SALOMÉ: Pacino’s Passion Project Finally Sees The Light Of Day

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Trailer

Fantasy Science Pt. 2: The Turing Test & EX MACHINA

CALIFORNIA DREAMS: I Don’t Know What I Just Watched & I Don’t Care

SWEET COUNTRY: Magnificent Australian Western Touches On Universal Themes

Film School Rejects

Beautiful Concept Art for ‘The Last Jedi’ Reveals Luscious Worlds

‘Beetljuice’ to Reclaim Center Stage in Musical Revival

The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2018 So Far

Justine Bateman To Make Feature Directorial Debut With ‘Violet’

The Sweet, Refreshing Optimism of ‘Barry’

Reddit Movies

Christopher Nolan Will Celebrate ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ by Taking an Unrestored 70mm Print to Cannes

12 Angry Men - The Value of Human Life

First Poster for Paul Schrader's "First Reformed" | Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried

"Jackie Brown: How It Went Down" - An excellent, behind-the-scenes documentary on Tarantino's often forgotten masterpiece

Thailand to give the beach from 'The Beach' movie a breather - Authorities in Thailand have ordered the temporary closing of the beach made famous by the Leonardo DiCaprio movie “The Beach” to halt environmental damage caused by too many tourists.

Roger Ebert

Women Writers Week 2018: Table of Contents

Phantom Thread, Jane Eyre, and the Power Dynamics of Hetero Romance

Disability Theater Access in 2018

Against the Odds: Netflix Brings “Lost in Space” to WonderCon

Ready Player One

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The Handmaid’s Tale Full Season 2 Trailer: On The Run From Gilead

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Ready Player One Poised For Spielberg’s Biggest Opening In 10 Years

Roseanne Premiere Earns Highest Sitcom Ratings in 3 Years

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‘The Darkest Minds’ Trailer: Your Next YA Obsession Comes from the Producers of ‘Stranger Things’

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Dallas Cowboys Re-Sign Terrance Williams on 4 Year Deal

Dallas Cowboys Re-Sign Terrance Williams on 4 Year Deal

Welcome to the 2017 NFL free agency period, Dallas Cowboys! The Cowboys have gotten busy in adding DT Stephen Paea, CB Nolan Carroll, and DE Damontre Moore to their defense, and now they have re-signed WR Terrance Williams on a new four-year deal.

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Terrance Williams was expected to join Terrell McClain, Jack Crawford, Ronald Leary, and Barry…

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Lesbians on Broadway! Cynthia Nixon is set to direct a Broadway production of Jane Chambers’s 1980 play “Last Summer at Bluefish Cove,” about Lesbians on summer vacation. Ellen DeGeneres, Lily Tomlin and their respective spouses will produce. Cast, details to be announced. Meanwhile, a play about an iconic blues signer who was a lesbian, is currently running Off-Off Broadway. (See below)

When did “theater” become an insult? With the impeachment trial scheduled to begin in earnest this week, the one thing that the right and the left, Democrats and Republicans, seem to agree on is that using the word “theater” is a good way to dismiss the other side, just as the term “theater criticism” is commonly used to knock journalists’ coverage of the 2020 election campaign.

Can we please stop using “theater criticism” — a craft practiced by professionals, requiring discipline, observational rigor, analysis, common sense and duty — as a byword for irresponsible writing? https://t.co/HEcwTexP1J

— Lily Janiak (@LilyJaniak) January 20, 2020

I GOT A BAD REVIEW FOR MAKING A PERFECT PLAY! (It happens) https://t.co/Bb6hIkqEQc

— Sean Daniels (@seandaniels) January 17, 2020

Broadway Week two-for-one tickets begins today

The Week in New York Theater Previews and Reviews

Ann Harada as Pile of Poo in Emojiland

My Name is Lucy Barton

Laura Linney as Lucy Barton offers a sometimes poignant, often tedious 90-minute monologue.

Rosalind Brown as Alberta Hunter

Leaving the Blues

“Leaving the Blues” dramatizes the life of the amazing jazz, blues and Broadway singer/songwriter Alberta Hunter. It is not a musical; it’s a play by Jewelle Gomez – a play that’s too long, with too many choices that need to be rethought. But it also offers a new perspective, what it was like to be a star – and a lesbian.

Ich Kann Nicht Anders

“You will hear an unbelievable true story,” one of the three actors from the Republic of Slovenia on a stage designed to look like a makeshift bunker, tells us at the beginning of the play entitled “Ich kann nicht anders,” “Some of you might find it boring, which will mean that you have chosen the wrong event for this evening. But the rest of you — and there will hopefully be quite a few — will find this intriguing, maybe even inspiring.” I was too uncertain about what was going on in the hour that followed to feel inspired, but I certainly wasn’t bored.

Modern Maori Quartet Two Worlds

Those theatergoers drawn to “Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds” for the authentic music and culture of the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand might feel blindsided by what seems like a Las Vegas-like lounge act.

Under the Radar:

To The Moon This 15 minutes of Virtual Reality offering the sensation of looking at, walking on and flying over the moon — created by performance artist Laurie Anderson and new media artist Hsin-Chien Huang — is more of a playful hallucinogenic experience than a linear lunar journey; more Timothy Leary than Neil Armstrong.

Feos

They meet on a line for a movie. The man and the woman — each disfigured by childhood accidents — are both used to being stared at, and they are used to being alone. At the Under the Radar festival, inspired by the late Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti’s tender short story, “La noche de los feos” (The night of the ugly people), the Chilean theater troupe Teatro y Su Doble is presenting “Feos,” which combines puppetry and animation to tell the story of the encounter between these two shunned people, and their awkward, hesitant attempts at connecting — on the line, then in a cafe, eventually in bed.

The Week in New York Theater News

The fifth annual BroadwayCon (like ComicCon, but about Broadway), this coming weekend January 24-26.

Alex Newell will be the host of First Look at BroadwayCon on Friday, which will feature performances by the casts of new shows: Caroline, or Change, Company, Sing Street. SIX, Jagged Little Pill, Mrs. Doubtfire, Girl from the North Country, Emojiland, Between The Lines, as well as Hadestown.

Completed casts announced:

Flying Over Sunset

Erika Henningsen, Jeremy Kushnier, Emily Pynenburg, Michele Ragusa, Robert Sella, Laura Shoop, and Atticus Ware will join Carmen Cusack, Harry Hadden-Paton, and Tony Yazbeck in the LSD musical Flying Over Sunset, which opens April 16 at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont.

Plaza Suite

Joining Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker in the cast of Plaza Suite: ,Danny Bolero, Molly Ranson and Eric Weigand. Michael McGrath and Erin Dilly will be Broderick and Parker’s standbys.

The Bedwetter

Linda Lavin and Stephanie J. Block will be in the cast of Sarah Silverman’s Off Broadway musical The Bedwetter, running April 25 to June 14 at the Atlantic theater. Sami Bray, who appeared on Broadway in the 2017 production of 1984, and Zoe Glick (of Broadway’s Frozen) will share the role of Sarah, the 10-year-old title character inspired by Silverman.

Ciara Renée will take over the role of Elsa in “Frozen,” starring opposite McKenzie Kurtz, who will make her Broadway debut in the role of Anna. Renée comes to the role after starring as the Witch in “Big Fish” on Broadway and taking over as Leading Player in the revival of “Pippin.” She and Kurtz replace original cast members Caissie Levy and Patti Murin, who will depart the production on Feb. 16.

Park Avenue Armory and National Black Theatre have announced the 100 Years | 100 Women Initiative, with a symposium on February 15 and then 100 (short) works by 100 women on May 16 responding to the centennial of women’s suffrage

The Public cancels “Truth Has Changed”

The Public Theater abruptly shortened the run of a climate change activist’s provocative one-man show at Under The Radar, saying the creator, Josh Fox, had violated the theater’s code of conduct. Fox accused the Public’s staff of “verbal threats, coercion, angry tirades and physical intimidation” as well as “acts of aggression.”

Sick of seeing sidelined heroines, playwrights Kate Hamill and Lauren Gunderson are rewriting classics like ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘Dracula’ to reinvent the female characters

Guggenheim Works & Process will present Lincoln Center Theater: Intimate Apparel by Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage with Bartlett Sher on Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 7:30pm.

Full schedule of Works & Process this season

Shows that closed Sunday that I’ll miss

Greater Clements

Like all of Samuel Hunter’s plays that I’ve adored, this one chronicles Idaho, a state I’ve never visited, and American loss, a state we all seem to be in.

Oklahoma

Who can forget the talented & inclusive cast, including Ali Stroker as the fun-loving, oversexed Ado Annie, teasing and kissing and flirting — and swinging gleefully from a wheelchair.

Joaquina Kalukango and Paul Alexander Nolan (

Slave Play

If I felt differently about this play than many critics, the best thing to come out of it is the spotlight on @jeremyoharris , an artist of talent and smarts who is already helping to transform Broadway.

The photo is of artist Keith Haring in his studio at P.S. 122 during a residency in 1980. (He died of AIDS in 1990 at 31) @PerformSpaceNY is now naming its main space The Keith Haring Theater, & partnering w/ @KeithHaringFdn for an annual lecture series & fellowship in his name. pic.twitter.com/rSeMIquDB0

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 15, 2020

“Typically grossed between $300k and $500k, a tally at the lower end of Broadway’s ranks. But it wasn’t for a lack of attendees—just the opposite. “Slave Play” often played to weekly audiences of at least 90% capacity.”

PLAYS SHOULDN’T BE A LUXURY ITEM.https://t.co/08hAwtGXWP

— Former Broadway Playwright Jeremy O. Harris (@jeremyoharris) January 20, 2020

  Marking the publication of “The Letters of Cole Porter,” @AdamGopnik in @newyorker writes an appreciation of the “almost inhumanly prolific songwriter” who measured a Broadway show’s success “simply by the number of hit songs it produced.”https://t.co/ogI5ReWRHM pic.twitter.com/Gl841pgCXM

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 17, 2020

“Cole Porter was to straight sex in his ‘affair’ songs as his best friend, Irving Berlin, was to Christianity in writing White Christmas—the outsider’s triumph was to own the insider’s material.” Adam Gopnik on the open secret of Porter’s sexuality.

The ten most check-out books of all time from the New York Public Library Most have been adapted for the stage.

When Disability Isn’t a Special Need but a Special Skill

Jesse Green looks at two Under the Radar productions performed by people with disabilities

Hollywood Bets On a Future of Quick Clips and Tiny Screens

Entertainment startup Quibi has already won over industry A-listers with its vision for short-form mobile streaming. But will it catch on with viewers?

Rest in Peace

Peter Larkin, 93, designed sets for 45 Broadway productions (for which he won four Tonys) and worked as production designer on more than two dozen movies

“Theater” as political insult. Lesbians on Stage. Broadway Week. #Stageworthy News of the Week When did "theater" become an insult? With the impeachment trial scheduled to begin in earnest this week, the one thing that the right and the left, Democrats and Republicans, seem to agree on is that using the word "theater" is a good way to dismiss the other side, just as the term "theater criticism" is commonly used to knock journalists' coverage of the 2020 election campaign.