#Owen Kraus

[rjptalk]

TO OWEN GARRY KRAUS, HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS

[msn-04iinightingale]

The Hanged Man

Operation Touchdown D-Day, 2403 Hours HAWK SLDF FOB, Helios

Owen didn't like this. He knew something was up from the second the SLDF MP's came and "escorted" him to Commanding General Melissa Hazen. He somehow doubted it was for a pat on the back and a "good job!" from Melissa, at least not if the serious looks from the MP's were anything to go by.

The five of them, yeah, they felt they needed four guys for him, something which was almost flattering and most certainly accurate, stopped in front of the General's office door, located in the command building of the now captured AAA complex.

The lead MP, a Captain Kraus, pushed the intercom button.

"Commander Owen, to see you, General."

There is a pause, and the buzz of the door unlocking, and sliding open.

"Sir, if you would, please." Kraus says.

"...sure...thanks for the company on the way." Owen replies, slight sarcasm in his tone. He enters the office, the door sliding shut behind him.

"Evening, General" he says, offering a salute to Melissa, seated as she was at her desk, stern look on her avian features.

"...I take it this isn't a social visit." He says, not asks, his friendly tone dropping slightly.

@is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not

[quoththemaven]

2024 Favoritest Great Reads

Loved….

Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) / Miéville, China 

Man Who Invented Saturday Morning: And Other Adventures in American Enterprise, The / Owen, David 

Master Key, The / Togawa, Masako

Big Swiss / Beagin, Jen

Complete Maus / Spiegelman, Art

Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) / Tchaikovsky, Adrian 

Stone Sky, The (The Broken Earth, #3) / Jemisin, N.K. 

Interior Chinatown / Yu, Charles 

Crying in H Mart / Zauner, Michelle

Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) / Rothfuss, Patrick 

Trees, The / Everett, Percival

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) / Muir, Tamsyn 

Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1) / Scalzi, John 

Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) / Jones, Stephen Graham 

Chain-Gang All-Stars / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame 

Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) / Sanderson, Brandon 

Stranger in a Strange Land / Heinlein, Robert A.

Liked lots….

33 1/3 Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me / Nick Attfield

Mason & Dixon / Thomas Pynchon

City and Its Uncertain Walls / Haruki Murakami

I Am Not Sidney Poitier / Everett, Percival

Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice & Vol. 2: International Flavor / Layman, John

Whalefall / Kraus, Daniel 

Life After Life (Todd Family, #1) / Atkinson, Kate

This Bright River / Somerville, Patrick 

Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears / Schulman, Michael 

Blankets / Thompson, Craig

Embassytown / Miéville, China 

Bloodchild and Other Stories / Butler, Octavia E.

Duma Key / King, Stephen 

High-Rise / Ballard, J.G.

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood / Zwick, Ed

Paper Menagerie and Other Stories / Liu, Ken 

Klara and the Sun / Ishiguro, Kazuo 

My Sister, the Serial Killer / Braithwaite, Oyinkan 

Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player / Rodríguez, Robert

33 1/3 Jeff Buckley's Grace / Brooks, Daphne A.

The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2) / Miéville, China 

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) / Wells, Martha 

From a Buick 8 / King, Stephen 

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) / Leckie, Ann 

Stories of Vladimir Nabokov / Nabokov, Vladimir

Anansi Boys / Gaiman, Neil 

Milkman / Burns, Anna

Hollywood: The Oral History / Basinger, Jeanine

Universe in Miniature in Miniature, The/ Somerville, Patrick 

33 1/3 Fleetwood Mac's Tusk / Trucks, Rob

Witch King (The Rising World, #1) / Wells, Martha 

Obelisk Gate, The (The Broken Earth, #2) / Jemisin, N.K. 

MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3) / Atwood, Margaret 

[gender-luster]

@lokiiied as you wish! :D

media recs under the cut, bc long post

summary: A pastry chef with the power to bring dead people back to life solves murder mysteries with his resurrected childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.

okay, so i'm going to start here by going pretty in-depth with the ones i really strongly recommend, and then end with a bunch of rapid-fire these are either really obvious, or just here based on vibes

name: Pushing Daisies

type: tv show

additional notes: this show has a very strong, beautiful style/aesthetic. it's funny, it's sweet, it's poignant, it's one of my favourite shows of all time, and between the detectiving, talking to dead people to solve their murders, and the being helplessly in love with one's childhood bestfriend who they brought back to life thing, i strongly believe that anyone who enjoyed dbd would absolutely enjoy this too. (be warned though, it only has two seasons and leaves off without really resolving everything)

name: Wendell & Wild

type: stop motion animated movie

summary: Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot to summon them to the Land of the Living.

additional notes: i feel like if Crystal was your favorite character, you'd especially really enjoy this. something about magically powered teenage girls with parental issues being manipulated by demons. anyways this movie is fucking wonderful and i though about a lot while watching dbd

name: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (well really any of Gaiman's works [bc. obvs] but ESPECIALLY the graveyard book)

type: novel

summary: Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.

additional notes: i've not actually read this book in years and years, but dbd made me really want to reread it so.

name: Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye

type: webseries & podcast

summary: After podcast host, Artemis, and her twin brother, Paul, uncover a secret race of werewolves, they must decide who to trust and the price they’re willing to pay for a juicy story.

additional notes: one of my favorite horror-comedies ever. another thing i'm rewatching/listening to because of dbd. i highly recommend watching each episode and then listening to its corresponding podcast ep before continuing

name: Trollhunters Tales of Arcadia (the rest of the ToA franchise as well, but this is the starting point, so. i also highly recommend the Trollhunters book by Daniel Kraus and Guillermo del Toro)

type: animated series

summary: After finding a mysterious amulet, a teen and his friends pursue an unlikely destiny and set out to save two worlds.

additional notes: it's got fantasy, it's got folklore, it's got found family, it's got a small town with a lot of secrets, and it's made by Guillermo del Toro, who i could honestly put like. all of his works in this list

name: Constantine (2005)

type: movie

summary: As a suicide survivor, demon hunter John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) has literally been to hell and back -- and he knows that when he dies, he's got a one-way ticket to Satan's realm unless he can earn enough goodwill to climb God's stairway to heaven. While helping policewoman Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz) investigate her identical twin's apparent suicide, Constantine becomes caught up in a supernatural plot involving both demonic and angelic forces. Based on the DC/Vertigo "Hellblazer" comics.

additional notes: i mean. just look at that summary. they're both based of dc comics and they both start with a possession and they both end with a main character being allowed to stay out of hell

name: Carnivàle

type: tv show

summary: It's the mid-1930s, and we're in the middle of the Dust Bowl, a time when sandstorms and disease were running rampant across the Great Plains. After his mother's death, teenage fugitive Ben Hawkins is picked up by a mysterious traveling carnival run by an unseen force known only as "Management." Surrounded by magic, Ben reconnects with his long-dormant supernatural powers. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, an evangelical preacher is plagued with apocalyptic visions. What the two of them don't know is that they're set to become players in the great (and heretofore hidden) battle between Darkness and Light.

additional notes: this also only has two seasons and is left unresolved, but it's a great supernatural/dark fantasy mystery show

name: Being Human (BBC version)

type: tv show

Summary: A werewolf, a vampire, and a ghost try to live together and get along.

additional notes: that summary kinda sucks, but it's the best one i could find, so. but yeah, basically a werewolf and a vampire move into a flat together, only to find it's haunted by the ghost of the woman who previously lived and was murdered there. i never actually finished this show, but i did really enjoy what i watched

name: Resident Alien

type: tv show

summary: An alien crashes on Earth and hides in a remote Colorado mountain town. After assuming the identity of the town doctor, Harry Vanderspeigle, his nefarious mission to kill all humans is threatened when he realizes one of the townspeople, a 9-year-old boy, can see his true alien form. Harry starts off living a simple life, but things get a bit rocky when he's roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world and slowly begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his secret mission on Earth.

additional notes: might not immediately make sense, but a paranormal being who's stuck in a weird US town solving murders still fits the vibe i think

name: Dead End Paranormal Park

type: animated series

summary: Two teenagers and a talking pug work together to fight demons in a haunted amusement park. The two slowly start to grow into themselves as they face zombies, game show hosts, witches, and crushes.

additional notes: i don't really have anything to say about this one other than it's so fucking good and i need everyone to watch it

and now it's time for rapid-fire!!

The Dead Boy Detectives Omnibus by DC Comics (or just any of their comic appearances, as omnibuses are expensive and can be hard to find, i can add the list of all the comics included in the omnibus if desired)

The Devine Comedy (ESPECIALLY Inferno) by Dante Alighieri

The Nancy Drew Novels

The Hardy Boys Novels

Scooby Doo, but ESPECIALLY the Scooby Doo/DC crossovers

The Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie and show)

Topper (1937)

Ghost Whisperer

Spirited Away

The Book of Life

Over the Garden Wall

Summer Camp Island

Hilda

Casper (1995)

Lady Hawke (1985)

Maurice (novel or movie)

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (again, really just Guillermo del Toro's entire filmography)

all of Neil Gaiman's work

anyways... when i said a whole list, i meant it. there's probably more that i just can't remember right now. hope you enjoy!

i have a whole list of media recommendations for dead boy detectives enjoyers if anyone wants to hear it

[holliswoodny]

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Public transportation (bus, planes, trains, etc.

One day, Owen met a guy who turned out to be a conductor on a train that runs through Worcester. It’s a very old narrow-gauge train and its maximum speed is 5 mph.

“Take pictures!” I told him. He had never taken pictures except for a few snapshots, so I wasn’t expecting much. And he still rarely takes pictures, but he could. The pictures are great.

The conductor climbs up the engine into the engine

Heading into the woods

Leaving the yard

This is our train. There are two of them and our Department of Transportation runs these trains three or four times a week to keep them functional. This is the train created to run through places where no other traffic could go.

Train in the yard

Through a meadow, passing the long stone fence

Heading into a curve as the rain begins to fall

There are no roads nor will there be. The train travels through woods, swamps, and meadows. It slowly passes long-defunct mills and factories, past sludgy canals and dark swamps. Not only is this a look at an old train, but it’s also a look at parts of the Blackstone Valley no one sees because it is inaccessible.

Passing trains

About to pass

Looking out the window into the rain

Pulling back into the yard

Welcome to the Blackstone Valley. Have a look at our history as the home of America’s industrial revolution. This is where all manufacturing industries began in the U.S. and why we are a historical corridor.

THE TRAIN THROUGH WORCESTER – OWEN KRAUS Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Public transportation (bus, planes, trains, etc. One day, Owen met a guy who turned out to be a conductor on a train that runs through Worcester.

[loveafairs-a]

        doing    a    little    recycling    again    so    here’s    the    muses    i’ll    be    adding    &    getting    rid    of    !

adding    (    ...    )

rhys   barlow    (   rohan   campbell   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   five.

maeve   beckford    (   madelyn   cline   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   five.

recycling    (    ...    )

amara    mckinnon    (   leah   halton   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   three.

avani   hasan    (   alisha   boe   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   five.

blakely   owen    (   maya   hawke   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   five.

derek    stewart    (    scott    speedman    fc    )    …    heterosexual.    he/him.   forty  six.

elsie allard    (   isabelle   mathers   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   four.

evie   reyes    (    kelsey    merritt    fc   )   …    heterosexual.    she/her.    twenty   six.

gracie   rivera    (   christina   nadin   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   seven.

jackson   kraus    (   chris   pine   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   forty   two.

kade   alwis   (   josh   heuston   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   six.

kamile   karsli   (     cemre    baysel     fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   three.

koray   ekim   (   alperen   duymaz   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   nine.

lara    kiraz    (    melis    sezen    fc    )    …    heterosexual.    she/her.    twenty    five.

maeve   taylor    (   gabby   epstein   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   she/her.   twenty   eight.

navie   pereira     (   mikey  madison   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   five.

noah  morelli    (   milo   ventimiglia   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   forty   five.

nora   chandler    (   liana  liberato   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   seven.

remy   adria    (   andrea   faccio   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   nine.

rhys   vaux    (   timothée   chalamet   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   six.

rylan   de   vries   (   michiel   huisman   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   forty   one.

riven   krause    (   timothy   olyphant   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   fifty   four. 

cemile   sydin    (   aslihan   malbora   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   she/her.   twenty   seven.

reserved    (    ...    )

lucien    robinson    (      josh    duhamel      fc    )    …    heterosexual.    he/him.   forty nine.

matthew   garza    (   oscar   isaac   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   forty   three.

[apod]

2021 May 27

Mid-Eclipse and Milky Way Image Credit & Copyright: John Kraus

Explanation: May's perigee Full Moon slid through Earth's shadow yesterday entertaining night skygazers in regions around the Pacific. Seen from western North America, it sinks toward the rugged Sierra Nevada mountain range in this time-lapse series of the total lunar eclipse. Low on the western horizon the Moon was captured at mid-eclipse with two separate exposures. Combined they reveal the eclipsed Moon's reddened color against the dark night sky and the diffuse starlight band of the Milky Way. Frames taken every five minutes from the fixed camera follow the surrounding progression of the eclipse partial phases. In the foreground a radio telescope dish at California's Owen's Valley Radio Observatory points skyward.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210527.html

[glassprism]

apologies if i remembered wrong but i think you once said that sometimes actors realize they're being filmed in a bootleg and look straight into the camera or something like that. i'm wondering if you have any examples of that, out of curiosity. ps love ur blog very much xx

Yeah, a few examples.

The first is Celia Graham in the September 21, 2002 video of The Phantom of the Opera with John Owen-Jones and Matthew Cammelle. During the cadenza in ‘Think of Me’, she looks straight into the camera and seems to smile a bit, and the bootlegger knew it, because they put the camera down for a few seconds. You can see it here. As noted in the description, she must not have cared very much, since the filmer managed to get the entire show.

Another is Sierra Boggess in the April 29, 2010 video of Love Never Dies. During the title song, she looks directly into the camera and gets a rather confused look as she realizes what she’s seeing. You can view it here.

Finally, I’ve also heard that Serkan Kaya realized he was being filmed in one of the Elisabeth bootlegs of him, I think one with Ruth Kraus from November 1, 2004, during the ‘Kitsch’ scene? I couldn’t really find the exact moment, though there was one moment where he looked in the direction of the camera and shook his head, and another where he stared straight at it and just turned really quickly around. Rather like with Celia Graham, he must not have cared much, since the filmer got the rest of Act 2 without incident.

And of course, there are plenty of incidents where an actor will say on Twitter something like, “Saw a light in the audience, stop filming us guys”, but I’ve never bothered to search for videos there. If the actor can see the light from your camera or phone, you’re not doing it right.

[theinsiderrp]

TUTORIAL GROUPS.

TUTORIAL GROUPS will start on MONDAY 27TH OF SEPTEMBER 2021. they will run from 9:00 - 9:30. this is where you’ll register for the day, receive any updates about things going on etc. and the tutor you’re given will be the person to talk to about concerns or thoughts you have. they’ll regularly check in with you. women teachers use “ms” at st judes because their marital status is none of your business.

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[rjptalk]

GOING TO THE ZOO

[farsouthproject]

Books 2019-20

I didn’t bother with one of these booklist blog posts last year but I got curious as to what books I’d read this year. I don’t write a regular book blog so here are some short comments on the books that I’ve read starting in January 2019, more or less

Virginie Déspentes’ Vernon Subutex 1 & 2 made me feel that she is the author who best expresses in fiction a clear vision of the world in the first fifth of the late capitalist 21st Century, the first volume in particular. 

I haven’t read a lot of poetry this year but I did begin 2019 with Pey Pey Oh’s Pictograph and Shadowplay by Phillip Gross; Lutz Seilor’s In Field Latin (thanks to translator, Alexander Booth) Later in the year, Alexander Booth’s own collection Insulae. All treasures. Another poetry pleasure was a re-read of Ifor Thomas’s Body Beautiful, a vision of the body as it the writer faces cancer. This is also the year that I delved deeply into Cavafy (which led me to re-read Durrell’s Justine.) This poetry created for me a feeling of space, opening up areas away from the rich density of prose.

After a second Moroccan visit, prose reading continued to circle the Levant: Abdellatif’s The Law of Inheritance; Olivia Manning’s The Levant Trilogy; Amin Malouf’s Ports of Call; and a new Mathías Énard Tell Them of Battles (translated by Charlotte Mandell).

Not so much reading on the noir/crime front this year but John Lincoln Williams’ Fade to Grey was an intriguing and action-filled investigation that exposed a complex Cardiff/Bristol underworld. James Lee Burke’s In the Moon of Red Ponies managed to skewer undercover American politics and arms trading while involved in a story of an Indigenous American on the run for crimes he may or may not have committed.

A group of writers that kind of fall together subject-wise are Chris Kraus, Olivia Laing, and Maggie Nelson: New York, Kathy Acker, S&M, Artaud, sex positive, art-queer. Have to include Cosey Fanny Tutti’s Art Sex Music here, too.

To put another couple of books/writers/artists together with them: Dreamweapon by Angus MacLise; and LouReed: A Life, by Anthony DeCurtis. They deal with directions in which I’m interested in taking my own creative work to some extent: nonfiction and performance art, particularly Butoh. After training in Butoh with Yuri Nagaoka and Seisaku, I picked up the anthology, Inside, Japanese women write on Japanese women. Inside covers in short fiction every stage of life from birth to menopause. Yuri’s daughter, Rio Minamoto, who has won a plethora of Japan’s most prestigious prizes, has a story in this, the only piece of her work that I could find in translation.

After re-reading the hardback copy of ICE by Anna Kavan, I read and re-read a lot more Anna Kavan, inspired by that and the Machines in the Head anthology from Peter Owen Publishers. I reviewed Machines in the Head for 3AM magazine. In connection with the review article, I also read Rhys Davies’s Honeysuckle Girl, a novel based on Kavan’s life. https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/missives-from-a-parallel-dimension/

Speaking of anthologies, I was pleased to have story – Our Lady of Penrhys – in High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories, edited by Jonathan Taylor and Karen Stephens.

Outside of any reading pattern, I read three by Cynan Jones, Richard Hughes’ A High Wind in Jamaica (kind of like the Famous Five on an acid trip), two by the extraordinary Christa Wolf. Sam Shepard’s Spy of the First Person, Patti Smith’s The Year of the Monkey, Ann Quin’s Berg. Wayne McCauley’s Simpson Returns. Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Fall of Sleep.

Happy New Year Everybody

Here’s the full list more or less in the order of reading. All power to the makers.

Vernon Subutex 1                   Virginie Déspentes (trans. Frank Wynne

Art Sex Music                          Cosey Fanny Tutti

Ports of Call                            Amin Malouf (trans. Alberto Manguel)

The Law of Inheritance           Yasser Abdellatif (trans. Robin Moger)

Ice                                           Anna Kavan (re-read)

Tell them of Battles               Mathías Énard (trans. Charlotte Mandell)

Fade to Grey                           John Lincoln Williams

In Field Latin                           Lutz Seilor (trans. Alexander Booth)

Bright Magic                           Alfred Döblin (trans. Damion Searls)

Pictograph                               Pey Pey Oh

Shadowplay                            Phillip Gross/Jenny Pollack

High Spirits                             Jonathan Taylor/Karen Stephens eds.

The Levant Trilogy                  Olivia Manning

The Fall of Sleep                     Jean-Luc Nancy (trans. Charlotte Mandell)

The Balkan Trilogy                  Olivia Manning

Crudo                                       Olivia Laing

Simpson Returns                    Wayne McCauley

The Lonely City                        Olivia Laing

Aliens and Anorexia                Chris Kraus

Vernon Subutex 2                   Virginie Déspentes (trans. Frank Wynne)

Star                                         Yukio Mishima (trans. Sam Bett)

City of Angels                          Christa Wolf (trans. Damion Searls)

News from Berlin                   Otto de Kat (trans. Ina Rilke)

The Case of Anna Kavan         David Callard

Sleep has his house                Anna Kavan

Julia and the Bazooka             Anna Kavan (re-read)

Accident                                  Christa Wolf (trans. Heike Schwarzbauer/Rick Takvorian)

Don’t Hide the Madness         William Burroughs/Allen Ginsberg

Stranger on Earth: A biography of Anna Kavan          Jeremy Reed

The King, the Witch and the Priest    Pramoedya Ananta Toer

My Soul in China                     Anna Kavan

Honeysuckle Girl                     Rhys Davies

Aleister and Adolf                   Douglas Rushkoff/Michael Avon Oeming (graphic novel).

Asylum Piece                          Anna Kavan (re-read)

Machines in the Head             Anna Kavan

Berg                                        Ann Quin

Inside: Japanese Women by Japanese Women (Cathy Layne editor, trans. Louise Heal Kawai)

Body Beautiful                        Ifor Thomas (re-read)

Transit                                     Rachel Cusk

Cavafy: Poems                       C.P. Cavafy (trans Daniel Mendelsohn)

Justine                                     Lawrence Durrell (re-read)

Granta Book of Travel            Liz Jobey editor

The Art of Cruelty                   Maggie Nelson

A High Wind in Jamaica         Richard Hughes

Freya of the Seven Isles         Joseph Conrad

Flights                                     Olga Tokarczuk (trans Jennifer Croft)

Insulae                                    Alexander Booth

Dreamweapon                       Angus MacLise

In the Moon of Red Ponies     James Lee Burke

The Dig                                    Cynan Jones

The Long Dry                           Cynan Jones (re-read)

Lou Reed: A life                      Anthony DeCurtis

Stillicide                                  Cynan Jones

Spy of the First Person           Sam Shepard

The Year of the Monkey         Patti Smith

In the middle of reading now:

A Dream Come True   Juan Carlos Onetti (trans. Katherine Silver) (halfway through)

Bluets                          Maggie Nelson (halfway through)

The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa Kawabata (trans. Alisa Freedman).

[newcountryradio]

New country #1104 (663) van 20 december  2021  (wk 51) tussen 19.00 -22.00 op Smelne fm

Album van de week *American Aquarium* Slappers, Bangers & Certified Twangers, Vol. 2*  Losing Side Records  

 + #1 hits (airplay)  2021

1.      Buck Owens                     Act Naturally                        

2.      Parker Mc Collum           Pretty Heart

3.      Chris Lane                        Big Big Plans

4.      Lady A                               Champagne Night  

5.      Luke Combs                     Better Together                    

6.      Darius Rucker                    Beer & Sunshine

7.      Dustin Lynch/ Mackenzie Porter          Thinking Bout’You      #1

8.      American Aquarium        That Ain’t My Truck               

9.      American Aquarium        Nobody Wins                        

10. Toby Keith                        She’s Drinkin’Again

11. Old Dominion                  No Hard Feelings

12. Sophie Jannah                  Nightfall                                 

13. JD McPherson                  Holly, Carol, Candy & Joy             

14. John Berry                         Oh Holy Night                    *

15.  Pistol Annies--  If We Make It Through December *    *favoriet

16.  Alan Jackson /Alison Kraus – The Angels cried  

17.  Kenny Chesney                  Never  Wanted Nothing More *    *sofi  

18.  Luke Bryan                         Down To One

19.  Niko Moon                         Good Time

20.  Parmalee /Blanco Brown   Just The Way

21.  Thomas Rhett                     What’s Your Country Song

22.  American Aquarium           Money In The Bank      

23.  American Aquarium           Small Town Saturday Night   

24.  Cody Johnson                     Hat Made Of Mistletoe          

25.  Brett Young                        Lady

26.  Taylor Swift                       I Bet You Think About Me

27.  Florida Georgia Line          Long Live      

28.  Gabby Barrettt                   The Good Ones

29.  Jake Owen                          Made For You

30.  Sam Hunt                           Breaking Up Was Easy In The 90’s

31.  Chris Young                       Famous Friends

32.  Craig Gerdes                   Truck Drivin Queen   trucksong

33.  Buck Owens /Dwight Yoakam       Streets Of Bakersfield                     

34.  Hello Darlins        Heart In The Snow                  *juweeltje

35.  Jason Aldean                      Blame It On You

36.  Cole Swindell                     Single Saturday Night

37.  Dan + Shay                         Glad You Exist    

38.  Justin Moore                       We Didn’t Have Much

39.  American Aquarium           Watch Me                             

40.  American Aquarium           No One Else On Earth           

41.  Berend Riemersma             Wait For Me                

42.  Nynke McYard                   Strong Enough           *

43.  Jack Bottleneck                  Ain’t Waiting  

44.  Jameson Rodgers               Cold Beer Calling Your Name

45.  Elvie Shane                        My Boy

46.  Jason Aldean/Carrie Underwood –If I Didn’t Love You

47.  Re Dallas Moore     Every Night I Burn Another Honky Tonk Down :

Adres  Bauke van der vliet Samensteller/ presentator New Country Barten 30 8447 BS Heerenveen   (newcountryradio@gmail.com)

[alexpopovic]

Alex Popovic Phoenix Commercial Real Estate Various Events

Alex Popovic Phoenix Commercial Real Estate Various Events

Alex Popovic at major downtown Phoenix Development project Alex Popovic ASU W.P. Carey Masters Real Estate Development Alex Popovic with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego Alex Popovic with Steve Kraus, owener/founder Press Coffee Alex Popovic speaking at Commercial Real Estate trends day at Arizona School of Real Estate and Business

[holliswoodny]

The Changing Seasons, February 2020

It has been a dreary February. To be fair, February is usually dreary, though it normally gets more snow. We didn’t get any snow in either January or February which is a record for the past 100 years. We did, however, get a lot of rain, so at least we won’t run out of water anytime soon.

An indoor garden

I didn’t get out much. It was dreary, dull, gray, and wet. Inside, I could take pictures of birds and flowers and my brand new quilt cover. I’m pretty sure I took other pictures, too, but I’m not sure what they were.

Macro Orchid

So first, let’s get to the orchids which have been blooming very well and there is suddenly a second branch with a lot more buds. Maybe this will be a long blooming period. Hope so!

Moving along, let’s take a look at the birds. This has been the month of Goldfinches. Red Finches too and the periodic visit by Nuthatches, Chickadees, woodpeckers of three varieties, Doves, Flying Squirrels, regular non-flying squirrels.

Now, a few cactus blooms …

Wider shot

My exciting new bedroom:

The new bedroom

And of course the concert we went to see with Ron and Cherrie, conducted by Dr. Anton Armstrong, Garry’s baby brother. It was a brilliant concert — and Anton was amazing.

Photo: Owen Kraus

Brothers!

And then we were on the road, to and from Ellin and Tom’s place in Connecticut.

Still too many cars

Meanwhile, guess what Garry is working on?

What does this mean?

About The Changing Seasons

The Changing Seasons is a monthly challenge where bloggers around the world share what’s been happening in their month.

If you would like to join in, here are the guidelines:

The Changing Seasons Version One (photographic):

Each month, post 5-20 photos in a gallery that you feel represent your month

Don’t use photos from your archive. Only new shots.

Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons so that others can find them.

The Changing Seasons Version Two (you choose the format):

Each month, post a photo, recipe, painting, drawing, video, whatever that you feel says something about your month

Don’t use archive stuff. Only new material!

Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons so others can find them.

If you do a ping-back to this post, Su-Leslie can update it with links to the other posts.

THE CHANGING SEASONS, FEBRUARY 2020 – Marilyn Armstrong The Changing Seasons, February 2020 It has been a dreary February. To be fair, February is usually dreary, though it normally gets more snow.

[loveafairs-a]

      𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘    GETTING    TO    the    muses    part    of    my    revamp,    so    down    below    will    be    a    list    of    muses    i'm    keeping,    recycling    &    muses    that    i've    moved    to    my    reserved    list.

reserved.

aiden   nilsen    (   aaron  tveit   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty   eight.

antony   smith    (   theo   james   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty   seven.

corrine   braun    (   lili   reinhart   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   five.

taner   eldem    (   alp   navruz   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty   two.

trevor   geller    (   jon   bernthal   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   forty   five.

wyatt   foster    (   dyldo   o’crien   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty.

keeping.

archer   larsen    (   finn   wittrock   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty   seven.

asher   bailey    (   hero   fiennes   tiffin   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   five.  

austyn   hansen    (   kristine   froseth   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   six.

avani   hasan    (   alisha   boe   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   five.  

blakely   owen    (   maya   hawke   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   five.

brayden   cameron    (   thomas   doherty   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   seven.  

briar   morris    (   florence   pugh   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   six.

cemile   sydin    (   aslihan   malbora   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   she/her.   twenty   seven.

daisie   forbes   (   madison   iseman  fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   five.

davie   vásquez   (   maia   reficco  fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   three.

daxton    fraiser    (    thomas    doherty    fc    )    …    heterosexual.    he/him.   twenty  seven.

davie   vásquez   (   maia   reficco  fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   three.

daxton    fraiser    (    thomas    doherty    fc    )    …    heterosexual.    he/him.   twenty  seven.

derek    stewart    (    scott    speedman    fc    )    …    heterosexual.    he/him.   forty  six.

dilan   kanca   (   bahar   sahin   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   five.

emerie   coyle    (   daisy   edgar   jones   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   four.

emira   demir    (    hande    ercel    fc   )   …    bisexual.    she/her.    twenty   eight.

frankie   novak    (   bailee   madison   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   three.

georgina   becker    (   halston   sage   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   nine.

harlan   alder    (   freddie   thorp   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   eight.

harvey   james   (   alex   fitzalan   fc   )   …   heteroexual.   he/him.   twenty   six.

jackson   kraus    (   chris   pine   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   forty   two.  

kaisen   adams   (   jonathan   bailey   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty   four. 

kamile   karsli   (     cemre    baysel     fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   three.

keaton   jenning   (   nick   robinson   fc   )   …   heteroexual.   he/him.   twenty   six.

kiyana   kumari    (   simone   ashley  fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   seven.

koray   ekim   (   alperen   duymaz   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   nine.

kyson   davis   (   jeremy   allen   white   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty   one.

laila   demirci   (   ayça   ayşin   turan   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   she/her.   twenty   nine.

lara    kiraz    (    melis    sezen    fc    )    …    heterosexual.    she/her.    twenty    five.

lucien    robinson    (      josh    duhamel      fc    )    …    heterosexual.    he/him.   forty nine.

maritza   ruiz    (   priscilla   quintana   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   she/her.   twenty   nine.

matthew   garza    (   oscar   isaac   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   forty   three.

mavie   ereira    (    abigail    cowen    fc    )    …    bisexual.    she/her.    twenty   three.

melinda   fredrick    (   ana  de  armas   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   thirty   four.

miller   axelsson    (   bill   skarsgard  fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty   one.

navie   pereira     (   mikey  madison   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   five.

niles  walsh    (   dyldo   o’crien   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty.

noah  morelli    (   milo   ventimiglia   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   forty   five.

nora   chandler    (   liana  liberato   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   seven.

rainer   moretti   (   dyldo   o’crien   fc   )   …   heteroexual.   he/him.   thirty.

ranslie   lundy   (    adelaide    kane    fc   )  …    bisexual.    she/her.    thirty   two.

reagan   martin    (   abigail   cowen   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   she/her.   twenty   four.

rhys   vaux    (   timothée   chalamet   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   six.

richie   moretti    (   dyldo   o’crien   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty.

ridge   walker    (   robert   pattinson   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty   six.

riley   keller    (   rudy   pankow   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   four.

riven   krause    (   timothy   olyphant   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   fifty   four.

rylan   de   vries   (   michiel   huisman   fc   )   …   heteroexual.   he/him.   forty   one.

salem   sousa    (   camila   mendes   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   eight.

sayde    nowak    (    crystal    reed    fc    )    …    heterosexual.    she/her.    thirty  seven.

talen   arauz    (   jacob   elordi   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   six.

valerie   lewis    (    sadie    soverall    fc    )    …    bisexual.    she/her.    twenty   three.

vance   mirkin    (   austin   abrams   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   six.

verity  martín    (   melissa  barrera   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   thirty   two.

walker   johnson    (   oliver   jackson   cohen   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty   five.

warren   erner   (   sebastian   stan  fc   )   …   heteroexual.   he/him.   thirty   nine.

whitley   collins   (   josephine   langford   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   she/her.   twenty   five.

retiring.

alexander    matthews    (     chace    crawford    fc    )    …    heterosexual.    he/him.   thirty  seven.

* anaya   kumari    (   anya   chalotra   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   she/her.   twenty   six.

andie   stevens    (   maia   mitchell   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   nine. 

arlo   dixon    (   jesse   williams   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   forty   one.

cerilla   garza    (   alexa   demie   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   thirty   one.

christian   knight    (   danny   griffin   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   twenty   five.

elodie   serra   (   mia   goth   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   eight.  

elsie   granger   (    lily    james    fc   )   …    bisexual.    she/her.    thirty   three.  

heath   levy   (   logan   lerman   fc   )   …   heteroexual.   he/him.   thirty.

* jaiden   anderson    (   henry   cavill   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty   nine.  

kailene   sanchez   (   sofia   carson   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   nine.

marcus   ruiz    (   manny  montana  fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty   eight.

myles   lee    (   charles   melton   fc   )   …   heterosexual.   he/him.   thirty   one.

sereniti    hill    (    olivia    holt    fc    )    …    bisexual.    she/her.    twenty    five.

sirena   lee    (   adeline   rudolph   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   seven.

* sylas   kaseke   (   rege   jean   page   fc   )   …   heteroexual.   he/him.   thirty   four.

* thomas   cantor   (   ben   barnes   fc   )   …   heteroexual.   he/him.   forty.

wren   hossen   (   malia   pyles   fc   )   …   bisexual.   she/her.   twenty   four.

zane    burton    (     hunter    parrish    fc    )    …    heterosexual.    he/him.   thirty  five.

[bighousela]

Free VIP Day passes to our full days film screenings available to all whom register for this free event with Gerry Fialka, The list of films screening will be available as the films are selected to screen, updates to film blocks screening at the festival social media pages, and website:

https://www.facebook.com/filmfestla/

https://www.instagram.com/bighousela

https://www.filmfestlalive.com/

Nov 7th. Sat "Film Fest La & L.A. LIVE" presents FILM CAN'T KILL YOU BUT WHY TAKE A CHANCE from 3:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. at Regal Cinemas 1000 W Olympic Blvd, LA CA 90015, Info: 310-306-7330 Laughtears.com Free workshop and day passes sponsored by BigHouse-la.com Paramedia ecologist Gerry Fialka's fun interactive workshop explore cinema's hidden psychic effects via Marshall McLuhan's Menippean satirized percepts: "We shape our tools, then they shape us." and “The Balinese have no word for art, they do everything as well as they can.” and "How about technologies as the collective unconscious and art as the collective unconsciousness?" Delve deep into Live Cinema, Neurocinema and the metaleptic heart of movies. Read the OtherZine article: sticks-and-stones-may-break-your-bones-but-film-will-never-hurt-you.Gerry Fialka has been praised by the LA Times as "the multi-media Renaissance man." The La Weekly proclaimed him "a cultural revolutionary." His new book Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation, with a foreword by David James will be published soon. His new feature The Brother Side of the Wake (BroSide) is the experimental documentary about the people of Venice, California. It probes the cliché: "Is the journey more important than the destination?" Watch the preview on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBj0UdpFEWo

Laughtears Press is proud to announce the new book,

Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation

by Gerry Fialka, Edited by Rachael Kerr, Foreword by David James.Publication date: SoonContact: Gerry Fialka

310.307.7330

pfsuzy@aol.com

http://laughtears.com/

Compelling interviews with notables in avant-garde cinema offer insights into moving image art--its creative processes, formative influences, and hidden psychic effects. Through interviews with George Manupelli, Chick Strand, Tom Gunning, Lynne Sachs, Jay Rosenblatt, Martha Colburn, Evan Meaney, Mike Hoolboom, Robert Nelson, and Nina Menkes,

Strange Questions

links powerful personal stories with the contemporary media-scape.

Questions addressed in this collection include:

What role does the audience play in the creative process?

Can art-making be egoless?

Is perception reality?

What is the role of intention in the creative process?

What counts as storytelling? Are experimental filmmakers telling stories a different way or doing something completely different?

What was the motive of the cave artists?

What is more important: conviction or compromise?

Is ambition based more on fear or joy?

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Accolades from award-winning experimental filmmakers:

"Fialka is a damn good interviewer. His questions are sometimes so precise that it tickles and sometimes so grand and thought provoking that one feels on the edge of a new spiritual awareness." --Lynne Sachs

"Fialka asks unexpected Questions about important Ideas, eliciting Answers that can surprise even those doing the answering. My Interview with him taught me something about myself; it was a Gift." --David Gatten"Fialka's was the funniest interview I have ever had. He has developed a very wise way of triggering thoughts in the interviewee." --Leighton Pierce"Fialka's interview had me buzzing inside with thoughts and memories that his engaging questions set in motion. Super stimulation." --Larry Gottheim"I thank Gerry Fialka so much. I really enjoyed his interview with me, especially his unjaded joie de vivre, hearty laugh, and endless pursuit of knowledge sparked by social curiosity." --Phil Solomon."Gerry Fialka is a master interviewer. Working out of his natural sympathies and his erudition, Gerry cannily and cheerfully guides his interviewees along a path of Socratic inquiry that goes far deeper than the average Q & A and possibly deeper than the interviewee thought himself/herself capable of going. With Gerry at the helm, the journey really is about the destination and not just the journeying." --Fred Worden"Fialka is a meteor shower in the contemporary media arts discourse. He's blowing my mind." -- Craig Baldwin

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Gerry Fialka, artist, writer, and para-media ecologist, lectures on experimental film, avant-garde art, and subversive social media at NYU, USC, UCLA, Cal Arts and MIT. He has been called "the multi-media Renaissance man" by the

Los Angeles Times

and "a cultural revolutionary" by the

LA Weekly.

Fialka's interviews have been published in books by Mike Kelley and Sylvere Lotringer. They have been heard on Pacifica KPFK radio, and have appeared in magazines:

Canyon Cinema, OtherZine, CineSource,

Artillery,

AMASS magazine, LA Jazz Scene, Jazz News,

Bird, Flipside, Venice BeachHead.

"Gerry Fialka is Los Angeles' preeminent underground film curator." - Robin Menken, CinemaWithoutBorders

Rachael Kerr is a filmmaker, writer, and researcher. She is a 2017 graduate of the University of Michigan Department of Screen Arts and Cultures. As a student she collaborated on the feature documentary

The Big House

, now slated for theatrical release in Japan. In Winter 2017, Rachael was part of a UM course taught be Terri Sarris and supported by the University's Bicentennial Committee, which explored the AAFF's long relationship to the University.

David E. James has written or edited a dozen books on avant-garde cinema and other forms of non-commodity culture, especially in Los Angeles. His latest publication is

Rock ‘N’ Film: Cinema’s Dance With Popular Music

(2016). His films have screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles Filmforum, and Canyon Cinema in San Francisco.

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SoonSunday 7pm at Beyond Baroque

681 Venice Blvd Venice CA

FREE Admission

MOM - Movie Or Manuscript on Mother's Day -

Celebrate the publication of Gerry Fialka's new book

Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation

http://laughtears.com/strange-questions.html

and

his new feature film

The Brother Side of the Wake (test screening). Facebook=

https://www.facebook.com/events/173605590088661/

VIEW Youtube Clips=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlhspvI86Z8

&

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vso1cEAUYRs

LilyCat Radio Show - Gerry talks about both book and film -

https://archive.org/details/20180225LilycatGerry

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Upcoming volumes in the

Strange Questions

book series:

Experimental Film as Conversation, Continued.

This volume includes interviews with filmmakersDavid Gatten, Frank Mouris, P. Adams Sitney, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Bill Brand, Pip Chodoov, Craig Baldwin, Bill Morrison, Braden King, Naomi Uman, John Smith, Patrick Turrant, Madison Brookshire, Tony Gault, Bill Daniel, Vera Brunner Sung, Alexandra Cuesta, Tooth, Fred Worden, Mark Street, Leslie Raymond, Jason Jay Stevens, Ben Russell, Bryan Konefsky, Owen Land, Peter Rose, Alfonzo Alvarez, Jesse Lerner, Terri Sarris, Chris McNamara, Oren Goldenberg, Jesse Drew, Roger Bebe, Jon Jost, Betsy Bromberg, Thom Anderson and more.

Michigan Aesthetics as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with Mike Kelley, George Clinton, Sam Green, Jack Epps Jr, Grace Lee Boggs, Marshall Crenshaw, Ari Weinzweig (Zingerman's), Steve 'Muruga' Booker, John Sinclair, and Mary Jane Shoultz.

Venice Aesthetics as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with

Venice artists

Rip Cronk, Earl Newman, and Carol Fondiller.

Art as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with artists William Pope.L, Alexis Smith, Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, George Herms, Doug Harvey, Winston Smith, and Robert Branaman.

Poetry as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with poets Amiri Baraka, SA Griffin, Suzanne Lummis, ruth weiss, Linda Albertano, Les Plesko, Harry Northrup, and David Meltzer.

Political Activism

as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with political activists Grace Lee Boggs, Tom Hayden, Haskell Wexler, Bill Ayers, Skip Blumberg, Jon Rappoport, Lila Garrett, and Marcy Winograd.

Jazz as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with musicians Horace Silver, Jon Hendricks, Annie Ross, Oscar Brown Jr, Hadda Brooks, David Amram, Perry Robinson, Theo Sanders, and jazz writers Kirk Silsbee and Greg Burk.

Literature as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with writers Eric McLuhan, John Bishop, Chris Kraus, Kristine McKenna, Janet Fitch, Brad Schreiber, and Johanna Drucker.

Comedy as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with comedians Paul Krassner, Ric Overton, Paul Provenza, David Misch, Roy Zimmerman, Wes Skoop Nisker, Lady Lord Buckley, and Darryl Henriques.

Rock N' Roll as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with musicians Mac Rebennack (aka Dr John), Pamela Des Barres, Steve Vai, Van Dyke Parks, Barry Smolin, Bruce Langhorn, Jeff Mosier, Roger Steffans, Paul Zollo, Billy Vera, Del Casher, Baby Gramps and John French.

Avant Garde Music as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with musicians DJ Spooky, Carl Stone, Patrick Gleeson, David Ocker, Blue Gene Tyranny, Frank Pahl, and Veronika Krausas.

Documentary Film as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with documentary filmmakers Ondi Timoner, Marina Goldovskaya, Rodney Ascher, Jay Weidner, Tiffany Shlain, Mary Jordan, William Farley, Chris Felver, Chris Metzler, Stan Warnow, and Jon Alloway.

Performance Art as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with performance artists Ann Magnuson, Heather Woodbury, Gordon Winiemko, Joseph Keckler, Mark Pauline, and Ed Holmes (aka Bishop Joey).

Dance as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with dancers Simon Forti and Rudy Perez.

Hollywood as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with Hollywood people James Harris, Orson Bean, Timothy A. Carey, Mews Small, Abraham Polonsky, Jeremy Kagan, Jay Cassidy, Steve DeJarnatt, and Steve Fife.

Animation as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with animators Bruce Bickford, Karl Krogstad,and Gary Schwartz.

++++++This first book is the beginning of a 22-volume series.Upcoming

Strange Questions

will cover:More Experimental Film as ConversationMichigan Aesthetics as ConversationVenice, California Aesthetics as Conversation

Art as ConversationPoetry as ConversationPolitical Activism as ConversationJazz as ConversationLiterature as ConversationComedy as ConversationRock 'n' Roll as ConversationAvant-Garde Music as ConversationDocumentary Film as ConversationPerformance Art as ConversationDance as ConversationHollywood as ConversationAnimation as ConversationMedia Ecology as Conversation

Sculpture as ConversationPhotography as ConversationLive Cinema as Conversation

Gaming & Coding: Information Technology as Conversation