#Paul Gillman

[onebluebookworm]

December 2023 Book Club Picks

Batman: Mad Love and Other Stories by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm: Harley Quinn - the Joker's right hand henchwoman, hopelessly in love with her dear sweet puddin'. But what lead her down this dark path? And is there any hope to possibly reach her?

As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman: Welcome to Camp Three Peaks, a rustic, Christian summer retreat for teenage girls. A week of hiking, adventure, and communing with the God of its 19th-century founders… a God that doesn’t traditionally number people like 13-year-old Charlie Lamonte among His (Her? Their? Its?) flock. The only black camper in the group, and queer besides, she struggles to reconcile the innocent intent of the trip with the blinkered obliviousness of those determined to keep the Three Peaks tradition going. As the journey wears on and the rhetoric wears thin, Charlie can’t help but poke holes in the pious disregard this storied sanctuary has for outsiders like herself—and her fellow camper, Sydney.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte: Gilbert Markham is intrigued by Helen Graham, the beautiful, mysterious new tenant who's recently rented Wildfell Hall with her young son. Although Gilbert is more than happy to befriend her, Helen's reclusive behavior sparks local gossip, and she seems intent on keeping Gilbert at arm's length. Finally, as Gilbert's feelings for Helen become more than friendship, she allows him to read her diary that explains exactly why she behaves the way she does, as the details of the disastrous marriage she left behind unfurl.

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds: Will's older brother Shawn has been murdered. And Will knows the rules - no snitching. No crying. And revenge at any cost. So now, with a gun shoved in his waistband, he boards his building's elevator to do just that. But then the elevator stops and on comes Buck, the one who gave Shawn the gun in the first place...and who Will knows for a fact is dead too. As the elevator continues to descend and more passengers hitch a ride with Will, the cycle of violence unfolds before him. Each ghost has a piece that changes the story Will thought he knew, a story that might continue forever if Will gets off that elevator.

Get Well Soon: History Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright: In 1518, a woman in the small village of Strasbourg began dancing and didn't stop. Six days later, her corpse was carried away after she died of exhaustion. In a month, 400 more people would be infected with the so-called Dancing Plague. A national effort to clean the River Thames is ignited when a cholera outbreak is linked to the "Great Stink" in London. An eccentric English gentleman creates the No Nose Club, a social club for stigmatized syphilitics when there was no known cure. An Irish cook causes two lethal breakouts of typhoid, forever earning the moniker Typhoid Mary. Since the dawn of humanity, we've been fascinated and terrified by disease. In this hilarious and historical book, Jennifer Wright not only explores the circumstances that lead to the outbreaks, but the brave people who fought against them, found cures, or simply eased the suffering of its victims.

[emotionaldashtoons]

If there was a Inside Out 3, what would it be like?

(Poster Edit by Me/App on Android: PixelLab)

Like we already got how Sadness and Joy were lost in the first movie, than Anxiety taking control in the second film, I think I the third should be about Riley is ready to go to college next Thursday, and then, nine new emotions appear to take over Riley's mind, the names would be Love, Courage, Hope, Shaudenfreude, and the dark emotion himself, Spite. The nine emotions cannot handle it when Riley develops a new crush onto the new boy and that's where things get serious when Spite takes the eight new emotions in his control and uses Love to make Riley's crush into love chaotic madness.

As Spite gets rid of our nine heroic emotions out of their jobs, it's up to Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger, Anxiety, Envy, Ennui, and Embarrassment to save Headquarters and go through place to place in Riley's new developed mind, which is practically now a Mindtopia. And it means it'll be a lot more tricky.

Returning Voice Cast

Amy Poehler as Joy, Lewis Black as Anger, Phyllis Smith as Sadnes, Maya Hawke as Anxiety, Ayo Edebiri as Envy, Adele Exarchopoulos as Ennui, Paul Walter Hauser as Embarrassment, Kensington Tallman as Riley Andersen, Diane Lane as Mom, Kyle MacLachlan as Dad, and Lilimar as Val Ortiz.

OLD RETURNING STARS

Bill Hader & Mindy Kaling as Fear & Disgust (My favorite emotions!)

WHO WOULD CO-STAR IN INSIDE OUT 3?

Sophia Bush (Incredbles 2, Van Wilder) as Love, Jake Johnsobln (the Spider-Verse films, Jurassic World, & Wildwood) as Courage, Kristen Wiig (the Despicable Me and How To Train Your Dragon films, and Bridesmaids) as Hope, Flula Borg (The Suicide Squad, Ralph Breaks The Internet, and Creature Commandos) as Shaudenfreude, Nathan Fillion (Superman, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Monsters University) as Spite,

Xolo Maridúena (Blue Beetle, Cobra Kai, and Smurfs) as the new boy Riley now has a crush on, Cameron Rivera, Dan Fogler (the Fantastic Beasts films, Fanboys, & The Walking Dead) as The Mind Councilman, J.K. Simmons (the Spider-Man films, Klaus, and Zootopia) as The Mind Warden, Nicole Scherzinger (the Moana films, and Men In Black 3) as Spite's Big Fan, Grey Griffin (Onward, TUFF Puppy, and Scooby-Doo!) as Leah Lust, Edie McClurg (A Bug's Life, Planes Trains And Automobiles) as (the new voice of) Nostalgia, Yong Yea (Inside Out 2) as Lance Slashblade, Ron Funches (the Trolls films, Hoops, and Disney's Noelle) as Bloofy, James Austin Johnson (Saturday Night Live) as Pouchy, Steve Purcell (Brave, Toy Story: That Time Forgot) as Deep Dark Secret, Jeff Pidgeon (Toy Story) as The Mind Receptionist, Eli Fucile (the Incredbles films) as Awe,

Paula Pell (Sisters, The Cat In The Hat) as Mom's Anger, Conrad Vernon (the Shrek, and Madagascar films) as the Mind Constructor, Flea (Toy Story 4, The Big Lebowski) as Mind Cop Jake, Sam Richardson (Werewolf Within, Ruby Gillman, Veep) as Mind Cop Sam, Frank Oz and Dave Goelz (The Muppets, Sesame Street) as Mind Cop Dave and Mind Cop Frank, John Ratzenberger (Toy Story, Cars, The Incredibles, Up, Coco) as Fritz, Paula Poundstone (Inside Out) as Forgetter Paula, Bobby Moynihan (IF, Hoppers, We Bare Bears) as Forgetter Bobby, and Angela Kinsey (The Office, Furry Vengence) as Principal Dennison,

Crew

Directed by Kelsey Mann

Co-Directed by Bob Peterson

Screenplay by Josh Cooley, Meg LeFauve, and Andrew Stanton

Produced by Mark Nielsen, p.g.a., and Jonas Rivera, p.g.a.

Executive Producers Pete Docter, Steve Purcell, and Ross Stevenson

Story by Josh Cooley & Meg LeFauve

Music by Mick Giacchino

Director of Photography by Kim White and Patrick Lin

Edited by Catherine Apple

Production Designer Jason Deamer

Animation Supervisors Jerome Ranft and Conrad Vernon

Visual Effects Supervisor David Ryu

Casting by Natalie Lyon & Kevin Reher

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What do you think about it?

It seems that I have creative ideas for it. And it also seems that director Kelsey Mann and Amy Poehler really want a third Inside Out, you guys can look up the new articles if you want. I'll see you soon.

[toaverse]

Painful Ruby Gillman fact! The director, Kirk Demicco, also directed and wrote Space Chimps and The Croods! BUT, there was another director before him that was replaced for some unexplained reason, Paul Tibbitt. He worked on things like Disney's Recess, Catdog, and THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE.

.....I swear, this movie had every chance at success robbed. Marketing that highlighted the wrong things or just showed too much, storyboards better than the final product that were revised for whatever reason, and this directorial change. I'll never get over this movie in the worst ways possible. :')

They had so many chances to at least make something decent, yet they blew them all….

Look, I get that marketing campaigns for movies these days are pretty shit, especially this year (idk how??), but fucking up the whole movie is something else.

Comparing Ruby Gillman to Elemental seems fair in that regard, since both had shit marketing.

However, the difference is that Elemental turned out to be a really good movie with a competent director who just wanted to tell a good story from his own experience.

Ruby Gillman on the other hand, is the opposite of all those things…

[denimbex1986]

'“Barbenheimer” is officially here, and the battle between the bomb and the bombshell is about to ignite the box office.

Greta Gerwig’s cotton candy-colored “Barbie,” starring Margot Robbie as the plastic, fantastic doll, is expected to generate a huge $95 million to $110 million from 4,200 North American theaters over the weekend. Given the omnipresence of “Barbie” (the marketing is practically inescapable, with enough memes and marketing tie-ins to last a lifetime), initial estimates are all over the place. Warner Bros. is projecting a more conservative $75 million to start, while rivals and exhibitors believe the PG-13 movie could make as much as $140 million between Friday and Sunday.

In any case, “Barbie” will claim the top spot over Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb drama “Oppenheimer,” which is aiming to collect a solid $50 million from 3,600 cinemas through Sunday. Universal is backing the R-rated historical biopic, which cost $100 million.

“Oppenheimer” runs at three hours (“Barbie” clocks in at just under two), which may limit the screenings per day. However, Nolan’s epic will benefit from premium large format screens like Imax, which is dedicating its entire footprint to his film for three weeks.

Together, the seemingly different blockbusters with twin release dates are fueling the phenomenon known as “Barbenheimer.” AMC Theatres, the nation’s biggest cinema chain, reported that 40,000 people have already purchased tickets for double features of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” on the same day — up 20,000 from last week.

The $145 million-budgeted “Barbie” stars too many A-listers to name, but we’ll give it a shot: Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Dua Lipa, Simu Liu, Helen Mirren, John Cena and Will Ferrell round out the cast of the fantasy comedy, which follows Barbie and Ken as they leave the comfort and familiarity of Barbie-Land on a quest for self-discovery in the real world.

“Oppenheimer,” adapted by Nolan from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “American Prometheus,” is an equally star-studded character study about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Cillian Murphy plays the man who led the development of the atomic bomb, alongside an ensemble of Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh and Alden Ehrenreich.

The potent combination of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” as well as last weekend’s champion “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” is expected to fuel one of the biggest box office weekends in ages. Summer season has otherwise produced a string of underperforming options, like “The Flash,” “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.”

Tom Cruise’s newest “Mission” looks to add $28 million to $30 million in its second weekend of release, a decline of roughly 50% from its debut. The seventh installment in Paramount and Skydance’s globe-trotting action franchise opened to $56 million in North America and $234 million globally. It cost $291 million before marketing, so Ethan Hunt’s latest death-defying adventure needs to remain a draw throughout the summer to justify that price tag.

Elsewhere, the unlikely box office hit “Sound of Freedom” is imminently crossing the $100 million mark, which will put the film among the top 16 highest grossing of the year. The low-budget, faith-based movie about child sex trafficking has generated a remarkable $85.7 million to date. That’s thanks mostly to the religious and conservative media groups that have rallied behind the film.

Paul Dergarabedian, a senior Comscore analyst, calls “Barbenheimer” a “movie marketers dream come true.” He adds that the craze is “creating a rising tide of interest that should also boost the fortunes of ‘MI7’ and ‘Sound of Freedom’ as moviegoers flood the multiplex in search of movies to catch on the big screen.”'

[freyjuseggr]

Do you for real want me to summarize for you like an entire 1000+ years of Jewish philosophy? I will recommend some books instead how bout that

Sacred Fragments - Neil Gillman

Philosophies of Judaism - Julius Guttman

A History of Medieval Jewish Philosophy - Isaac Husik

Questions Jews Ask: Reconstructionist Answers as well as The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion - Mordecai Kaplan

I and Thou - Martin Buber transl. Walter Kaufmann

The Writings of Martin Buber - Will Herberg

and for good measure

Dynamics of Faith - Paul Tillich

Myths Models and Paradigms - Ian Barbour

Guide of the Perplexed Maimonides transl. S. Pines

Sorry but if god was a real thing and we asked him "why did you allow this?" and he responded "why did you allow this?" I would kill him. You're the omniscient omnipotent one man. Next time you open up your divine mailbox to receive your followers' sacrifices expect a holy hand grenade in the mix

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O filme foi anunciado em junho de 2021 com seu título original, Meet the Gillmans, com Condor, Laura Dern, Michael Sheen e Murphy em negociações para papeis, e um lançamento esperado para 2022. Paul Tibbitt iria dirigir, com Brady escrevendo o roteiro. A maioria dos membros do elenco, junto com a confirmação de Condor e Murphy, foram anunciados em março de 2023, junto com o novo diretor, DeMicco.

Quem é o Elenco principal do filme Ruby Marinho - Monstro Adolescente?

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Quando o filme do Ruby Marinho - Monstro Adolescente é lançado?

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken foi lançado em 30 de junho de 2023 nos Estados Unidos, pela Universal Pictures.

Dados completos sobre o filme do Ruby Marinho - Monstro Adolescente

29 de junho de 2023 No cinema / 1h 30min / Animação, Aventura, Família, Ação, Comédia Direção: Kirk DeMicco, Faryn Pearl Roteiro Pam Brady, Brian C. Brown Elenco: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Jane Fonda Título original Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

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[man-creates-dinosaurs]

TAKING SHAPE: LITERARY TRADITIONS “In the Abyss” is a short story by H.G. Wells, the man rightfully remembered as one of the ‘Fathers of Science-Fiction’ having left of a legacy of profound works which includes his novels The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).  Told from the point of view of an otherwise unnamed naval lieutenant, “Abyss” concerns an underwater exploration being carried out by a scientist known only as Elstead who has invented a specially-designed metal sphere which will allow a person to be transported to the lower depths of the ocean without succumbing to the tremendous pressure which exists under the sea. Here Wells demonstrates science-fiction’s occasional prognostic capabilities as Elstead’s device anticipates the development of the first real-world bathysphere by 34-years!

Having traveled to the waters of the Tropic of Capricorn, Elstead instructs the lieutenant to lower him and his sphere five miles below the surface and leave him there for a few hours until he signals them to bring him up. The lieutenant and his men do as Elstead wishes but after many hours with no signal from the plucky scientist for them to bring him back up to the surface they begin to panic. The lieutenant orders the sphere be brought up and when opened they find Elstead inside unconscious but alive. When Elstead eventually regains consciousness he’s pressed for details about what he saw at the bottom of the sea. The scientist then delivers the most astonishing report telling the lieutenant and crew that he saw a fabulous underwater city inhabited by a race of amphibious humanoids! Elstead describes the first one of the creatures he spotted as follows…

“It was a strange vertebrate animal. Its dark purple head was dimly suggestive of a chameleon, but it had such a high forehead and such a braincase as no reptile ever displayed before; the vertical pitch of its face gave it a most extraordinary resemblance to a human being. Two large and protruding eyes projected from sockets in chameleon fashion, and it had a broad reptilian mouth with horny lips beneath its little nostrils. In the position of the ears were two huge gill-covers, and out of these floated a branching tree of coralline filaments, almost like the tree-like gills that very young rays and sharks possess. But the humanity of the face was not the most extraordinary thing about the creature. It was a biped; its almost globular body was poised on a tripod of two frog-like legs and a long thick tail, and its fore limbs, which grotesquely caricatured the human hand, much as a frog’s do, carried a long shaft of bone, tipped with copper. The colour of the creature was variegated; its head, hands, and legs were purple; but its skin, which hung loosely upon it, even as clothes might do, was a phosphorescent grey.”

Elstead goes on to speculate that these creatures must be “descendants like ourselves of the great Theriomorpha of the New Red Sandstone age.” The invocation of “the New Red Sandstone age” should ring a bell for readers of my previous Taking Shape post since this seems to be a clear reference to the Chirotherium fossil track ways which lead science writer Robter Chambers to erroneously speculate in his Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844) that mankind had evolved from an extinct species of giant amphibian. Here Wells’ gill-men are seen as an evolutionary offshoot of this same hypothetical ancestor. Eventually the subterranean gill-men surround Elstead’s sphere and begin to prostrate themselves before it as if worshiping it. The whole experience is so overwhelming that Elstead faints. However, the story concludes with Elstead making it clear to the lieutenant that a follow-up mission to establish further contact with the gill-people must be organized at once!                    “In the Abyss” was first published in Pearson’s Magazine in 1896 with accompanying black and white illustrations by Warwick Goble. It has subsequently been reprinted many times including in the September 1926 issue of Amazing Stories magazine where it received both a color cover illustration and new black and white interior illustrations from well-known pulp artist Frank R. Paul. PDFs of both the Pearson’s and Amazing versions are available here and here, courtesy of sffaudio.com. This story was also covered by the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast as part of their aptly named Creatures from the Black La-June series back in June of 2014. Check out their coverage here.      

[fatehbaz]

[Some] readings of Herman Melville’s novella “Benito Cereno” (1855/56) rarely consider the significance of the Pacific island and coastal settings of a story grounded in the transatlantic slave trade. While Melville’s canonical tale about a slave uprising on the ship San Dominick, and its detection and suppression by an American captain has been insightfully discussed in the context of Paul Gilroy’s black Atlantic paradigm and New World slavery, the tale, in fact, starts off the coast of Chile, near the island of Santa María, and ends in Lima, the capital city of the Viceroyalty of Peru, where the rebellious slaves are tried and executed [...].

“Benito Cereno” is prophetic regarding the violent imperial scenarios that would come to characterize US-Pacific relations in this period, with America ��Pushing Out Pacific Frontiers” already since mid-century and creating what John Eperjesi calls “the American Pacific,” an economic and cultural frontier, both politically and in literature. Eperjesi defines the American Pacific as [...] “a regional, or regionalizing [Orientalist] myth,” and “a space of conflict,” with the possessive American expressing the “will to mastery and control [...],” and continuing a providential national design eventually leading to the “Pacific Century." [...] Just as the pursuit of the sperm whale “began in the Atlantic and gradually pulled American whalers up the coast of Chile and then across the Pacific” and as the gruesome Pacific sealing industry took off, the African (and later Pacific Islander) slave trade entered this maritime region. [...]

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[T]he novella remains historically grounded as it re-constructs these Atlantic relations in the Pacific [...], a “transoceanic imaginary” of slavery and piracy. Unlike the myth-building texts that Eperjesi examines, [...] “Benito Cereno” imagines the Pacific as more complicated, a space of contradiction beyond stable colonial binaries, between metaphor and historicity, between possibility (for revolt and the renegotiation of justice/legitimacy; for a black Pacific counterculture) and the continuity of unequal, racialized power relations [...]. Oddly, the tale thus both highlights Peru as a crucial Pacific agent in the context of the South American trade to Manila during the formation of the early modern Pacific, including transpacific slave traffic, and foreshadows Peruvian slavery in Polynesia in the early 1860s [...]. Blackbirding, the raiding of Melanesian and Polynesian coasts for slaves, represented a “trans-Pacific fate” with the rise of white supremacy in the Pacific since mid-century. Indigenous populations were racialized as colored already at the end of the eighteenth century, which facilitated rationalizing their enslavement [...]. Susan Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz have read the novella as Melville’s “most overtly hemispheric work” as it maps out “a New World or ‘Americas’ history of race-slavery and colonialism, revolt and revolution.

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Melville’s novella [...] [is] haunting and [...] pervaded by the imagery of death, ghosts, and a deep sense of gloom [...]. Scholars have criticized that the novella leaves no space for utopian possibility or “remedial action,” “no […] hope about the fruitful merging of cultures”; “[b]ecause of the question of race, we are not saved, we remain in the shadow” in an “aprogressive narrative [...] of modernity” that resists closure and historical teleology. [...]

The tale yokes together Europe, Africa, the Atlantic, the Americas, and the Pacific as tainted by the institution of slavery [...]. As Lawrie Balfour concludes, the novella’s “great, troubling success may consist most dramatically in its capacity to foreshadow dangers that would linger long after the storm.” In this light, US-American perceptions of itself as exceptional in, and pushing forward, world history appear as self-complacent, continuing to repress the shadow of “the negro” (101) while simultaneously emulating the hegemonic ambitions of Old World powers. [...]

The novella’s Pacific triangle, continuing the socio-cultural and political effectuality of the triangular [slave] trade, reaches back to the Panamanian isthmus, which was crossed in the late seventeenth century by Anglo pirates like Dampier, to Cape Horn as the main maritime entry point to the Pacific, and to Lima as one of the centers of Pacific slavery. While the novella negotiates national tensions in the 1850s, “recast[ing] the collective consciousness of the nation through a critique of New World slavery,” its geography can “help us to re-encounter the histories of those Pacific shores in ways that make the kinds of problems represented […] by the ‘Atlantic’ more than a specter.”

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All text above by: Alexandra Ganser. ‘From the black Atlantic to the bleak Pacific: Re-reading “Benito Cereno”’. Atlantic Studies Volume 15, Issue 2, pages 218-237. Published online 13 March 2018. doi dot org/10 dot 1080/14788810 dot 2017/1384612 [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism.]

[rockislandadultreads]

Book Recommendations: National Tell A Fairy Tale Day

Clockwork Fairy Tales edited by Stephen L. Antczak & James C. Bassett

Combining the timeless fairy tales that we all read as children with the out-of-time technological wizardry that is steampunk, this collection of stories blends the old and the new in ways sure to engage every fantasy reader.…

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Red Shoes", New York Times bestselling author K. W. Jeter’s "La Valse" forges a fable about love, the decadence of technology, and a gala dance that becomes the obsession of a young engineer - and the doom of those who partake in it.…

In "You Will Attend Until Beauty Awakens", national bestselling author and John W. Campbell Award winner Jay Lake tells the story of Sleeping Beauty - and how the princess was conceived in deception, raised in danger, and rescued by a prince who may be less than valiant.

The tale of "The Tinderbox" takes a turn into the surreal when a damaged young soldier comes into possession of an intricate, treacherous treasure and is drawn into a mission of mercy in national bestselling author Kat Richardson’s "The Hollow Hounds".

In "The Kings of Mount Golden", Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee Paul Di Filippo tells the story of a young man’s search for his heritage and a mechanical marvel that lies at the heart of a sinister pact in this fascinating take on "The King of the Golden Mountain".

Other Ever Afters by Melanie Gillman

Once upon a time... happily ever after turned out differently than expected. In this new, feminist, queer fairy-tale collection, you’ll find the princesses, mermaids, knights, barmaids, children, and wise old women who have been forced to sit on the sidelines in classic stories taking center stage. A gorgeous all-new collection in graphic novel format from a Stonewall Honor-winning author and artist.

What if the giant who abducted you was actually thoughtful and kind? What if you didn’t want to marry your handsome, popular, but cold-inside suitor? What if your one true love has all the responsibilities that come with running a kingdom?

Award-winning author Melanie Gillman’s phenomenal colored-pencil art creates another "ever after" for the characters who are most worthy of it.

The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm edited by Jack Zipes

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their "Children's and Household Tales" in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style. For the very first time, " The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" makes available in English all 156 stories from the 1812 and 1815 editions. These narrative gems, newly translated and brought together in one beautiful book, are accompanied by sumptuous new illustrations from award-winning artist Andrea Dezso.

From "The Frog King" to "The Golden Key," wondrous worlds unfold - heroes and heroines are rewarded, weaker animals triumph over the strong, and simple bumpkins prove themselves not so simple after all. Esteemed fairy tale scholar Jack Zipes offers accessible translations that retain the spare description and engaging storytelling style of the originals. Indeed, this is what makes the tales from the 1812 and 1815 editions unique - they reflect diverse voices, rooted in oral traditions, that are absent from the Grimms' later, more embellished collections of tales. Zipes's introduction gives important historical context, and the book includes the Grimms' prefaces and notes.

Celtic Fairy Tales edited by Joseph Jacobs

Joseph Jacobs collected these fairy stories in the closing days of the nineteenth century. They are engaging brief episodes of fancy and fantasy from the oral tradition, which were designed to engage and fascinate the young mind. In this fast-paced, electronic world where life whizzes and fizzes by, it is a comfort and joy to pause awhile to savour such delights from a simpler and less pressured age. Reading one of these stories is the literary equivalent of stepping into the quiet and majesty of a medieval church or a circle of standing stones. In the twenty-first century there is a renewed appetite for magic, fairies, and fantastic worlds. With Celtic Fairy Tales, we are not only entertained but can also feel the gentle spiritual hand of history resting on our shoulders.

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Caruso featuring Paul David Gillman - Memories

Caruso connected with Paul David Gillman online and it really was a true meeting of musical minds. Here they bring us Memories on Steve Conry’s recently re-activated Ten Lovers Music. Paul David Gillman is a kindred spirit to Caruso, a sound designer that focuses on truly deep soundscapes. Gillman released his Colours Of The Earth EP on Joe Claussell’s Sacred Rhythm Music in 2017 and will release an LP on Sacred Rhythm Music soon. Caruso is the Steve Conry led UK based production outfit who recently blessed us with Detached on Ten Lovers Music, a track that Gillman also lent a hand on. Memories is a deep and organic effort worthy of the players involved.  The original version features a beautiful melody laid over heavy rugged beats, where flute and flugelhorn play an important role. Gillman’s Red Earth Design Dub sees layered percussion joined by spongy bass delving and thoughtful organ keys. As per TLM 021, this is a vinyl only release with 150 copies manufactured by Mother Tongue in Italy.    

Buy: Eastern Bloc /  Mother Tongue / Juno

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Upcoming Dreamworks movies

‘Meet The Gillmans’

Meet The Gillmans is an upcoming coming of age animated film directed by Paul Tibbit. Pam Brady is writing the film; Chris Kuser and Christi Soper are executive producers.

The plot for Meet the Gillmans is the story of a typical teenage girl, Ruby. Growing up in a seaside town in Florida. Like all teenagers, she’s embarrassed by her family. Only in this case, Ruby has extra reason to be embarrassed; because she’s from a family of …sea monsters. No one in town knows this (the Gillmans are “different” but the locals chalk it up to them being from Canada), but poor Ruby is scared to death that someday the truth will come out. If this happened, what would become of her social life? It would be calamitous. Naturally, the truth comes out, and disaster ensues.

Character descriptions:

“Lady Bird” Tough-loving mother.

Dad, keeper of the peace in the family.  

Uncle Brill, quirky and loving uncle.

Clarica, mermaid.  

The obvious comparison to Pixar’s recent film Luca but just American this time.  

I'm sure it will be unique. Like ''AntZ'' and ''Bug's Life'' or ''Megamind'' and ''Despicable Me''.

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It’s here!!! Just released, the fall 2020 issue featuring the pin-up powerhouse Macee Legree as our cover and centerfold. Also featuring pulse-pounding pictorials from Miss Sweet Tea, Shann Nicole Allen, The Lingerie Dame, and Abby Costello. And a bonus pin-up from Scarlett Spitfire! We also have a story about a forgotten bar by Emilio Jasso called “The Gillman House” with art by Anthony Dunnigan. Catherine Tomasko returns for another Savvy Swinger feature. Plus, we chat with Erin Riddle of Lone Star Pin-Up about remote photo shoots. The Velveteen Lounge Kitsch-en takes us to The Twilight Zone. Will “The Thrill” Viharo talk about Gill-Man movies. Don Spiro has a down-home Speakeasy Review. And Paul Spencer fills in again for our Last Call column (with art from Rob Kramer). We have jokes from Becca Whitaker, Jerry Carr, and Ernest Posey. Plus, Tales from the (Grounded) Jet Set, Pretty Girls Reading Bachelor Pad, and much more! We are taking orders for the print copy right now. And each print copy comes with a free digital download! Please allow three weeks for delivery. More info at www.BachelorPadMagazine.com #bachelorpadmagazine #pinup #maceelegree #girliemagazine #pinupmagazine #retromagazine https://www.instagram.com/p/CE6qYMEg4Xc/?igshid=psniec3thxqq

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GILLMAN En Vivo - KULTURA ROCK - "EL HACHADOR / LA LLORONA"

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“Maduro no es mi amigo”: Lo que dijo Paul Gillman tras polémica en Colombia El músico venezolano Paul Gillman aseguró que “es mentira” que sea amigo del presidente Nicolás Maduro, según declaraciones que ofreció al diario colombiano…

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Por esta razón Paul Gillman fue tendencia en Twitter #12May

Por esta razón Paul Gillman fue tendencia en Twitter #12May

  El músico venezolano Paul Gillman fue retirado del festival Rock al Parque 2017 de Bogotá, Colombia, luego de una ola de críticas en contra del cantante por apoyar al chavismo. Gillman, declarado en su Twitter como 100% chavista, estaba en la programación original de la edición 23 del festival de rock más grande del país vecino, lo que causó una fuerte polémica entre los fanáticos del evento.…

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Defending the Duke: David Bowie’s “problematic” actions debunked

You’d think that after two years people would have figured it out by now, and yet here we are. Alright let’s get started.

“David Bowie was a sexual predator.”

TW: CSA, statutory rape, rape

This claim originated from an interview with former groupie Lori Mattix of the “Baby Groupie” scene of the 1970s that was republished on The Thrillist the day after David’s death, where she claimed she lost her virginity to him in 1973 when she was 15 years old and he was 26. Additionally, she claimed that she kept seeing him over ten years, however this causes a problem with consistency because David’s personal life was scrutinized more than the average rock star (most likely because of him coming out as bisexual), and the two were never photographed together unlike Mattix’s relationships with other rock stars during the 1970s. More problems with the consistency of her claims include that in some interviews she said she lost her virginity to David and in others she said she had her first time with Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, and certain circumstances that contradict her side of the story (or stories).

For example, in an 1985 interview with Stephen Davis, she stated that she had her first time with Jimmy Page in 1972 while the band was in California for their summer tour. She later said that she was having sex with David before Page. This provides an inconsistency because David’s Ziggy Stardust tour came to California in October 1972, months after Led Zeppelin’s summer tour. In a later interview, which was made available online in 2009, she said she was a virgin when she met Page.

In an 1986 interview with Peter Gillman, she said that while eating at the Rainbow Bar in March 1973 with her friend and fellow groupie, the late Sable Starr, David spotted her and got his bodyguard to invite her to his suite, and she accepted. She said they had sex for five or six hours and she convinced him to let Starr join them, and all fell asleep afterwards, and the two snuck out before David’s then-wife Angie would arrive. In a different interview with Paul Trynka however, she said that in October 1972 she and Starr snuck into his Beverly Hilton suite and convinced a tired David to sleep with them before they snuck out without being seen.

In the Thrillist interview, Mattix said David approached her in October 1972, but she rejected him. When he came back in March 1973, he called her and invited her to dinner. John Lennon and Yoko Ono joined them for dinner before she and David left for his Beverly Hilton suite, they and Sable Starr had a threesome, and Angie walked in on them the next morning. In addition to her earlier interviews contradicting this so-called recollection, David didn’t meet Lennon until September 1974 when they were introduced to each other by Elizabeth Taylor at one of her parties.  And David stayed at the Hyatt hotel in March 1973, not the Beverly Hilton.

In the same interview, she said she attended a recording session in 1975 when she was 17, where John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, and a bunch of other artists were there, and she slept with Jagger after the session wrapped up. Another inconsistency with this is that the only time Lennon and McCartney jammed together after the Beatles broke up was the year before, in march 1974. Not only that, there is no evidence to suggest that Jagger was at that session in 1975.

Mattix’s claims were further contradicted by Pamela Des Barnes, another former groupie who was in her 20s during the 1970s (one year younger than David), in her memoir, I’m with the Band. Des Barnes was in a relationship with Jimmy Page by 1972, however she ended their relationship and moved in with Frank and Gail Zappa and worked for them as a nanny in February 1972,  because he was sleeping with Mattix and leaving Des Barnes in the dust. The breakup and move happened a month before David’s tour came to Long Beach, when Mattix claims she lost her virginity to him.

(Additionally, along with changing her story about it many times including how old she was when it happened, she said once how she met him in LA in 1973 five months beforehand, but the his tour didn’t have a stop in California at that point, and the last time he really visited LA at that point was 1972.  She said it happened at the Beverly Hilton in 1973, but the only time he is photographed there is in 1972.)

Sources: X X 

In 1987, he was falsely accused of rape by 30 year-old Wanda Nichols who claimed he exposed her to AIDS. They were both tested and both their results were negative. He was cleared of the charges. (x) (x)

Not to mention that this kind of behavior sounds completely out of his character. On one of his later tours, he threatened to fire his drummer for directing teenage girls to his hotel room (x), according to one of the commentaries of the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth, a kiss scene was originally written but he refused to do it because his co-star Jennifer Connelly was 14 at the time (x), and when he was in the band Tin Machine he wrote the song “Shopping for Girls” which is about and brings awareness to child prostitution in Thailand (x).

Now with that said, this isn’t to say that the “Baby Groupie” scene never happened. Although Mattix obviously lied about him, there are perverts in the rock music industry like Kim Fowley and Gary Glitter, and the whole Baby Groupie scene and the idea of teens having sex with adults were being encouraged in the 70s, according to the June 1973 issue (pages 59–61) of Star Magazine 

and this quiz in the March 1973 issue (pages 62–63) of Star to see if you have what it takes to make an older guy like you.

They were encouraging these young girls to go out, dress up and wear makeup to make themselves look older, act older by smoking and drinking, carry fake IDs, and lie about their ages. Even though I don’t trust her word, I do feel really sorry for her for being manipulated by disgusting men and bad influences in the 70s into thinking this was okay. It’s especially horrid once you consider how rape culture was at a high point in the 70′s and how a lot of disgusting things were being romanticized and encouraged.

(The Runaways promotional poster from the 70s with bodice,  ass and crotch shots of the then teenage girls and  a then 24 year old Tony Parsons calling them nymphets and saying the “young and extremely horny teenage females was a bonus”)

(Love’s Baby Soft Perfume ad from 1975)

Disgusting. Moving on.

“David Bowie was a racist and a n@zi sympathizer.”

This claim came from Bowie’s comments in 1976 under his persona the Thin White Duke that supposedly supported fascism. However, at this time his diet consisted only of milk, red peppers and cocaine, and he really was out of his mind at that time because he was at the height of his cocaine addiction, when he was convinced Jimmy Page was trying to steal his soul, that witches were trying to steal his semen, and wanted an exorcism done on his swimming pool because he believed Satan lived in it. When he was getting clean and coming back to his senses, he became horrified and disgusted of how his image was being used by neo-nazis.  With all that crazy shit and more, do you honestly think he meant all the garbage he said? He was so out of it, he barely had any recollection of recording the album for Christ’s sake. Also, around this time he was photographed supposedly giving a n*zi salute but he was really just waving hello to his fans. He retracted and apologized for his statements in a 1977 interview for Melody Maker and later called the Duke an “ogre,” and again looked back at that period with unkind words in 1983. 

Additionally, while making his blue-eyed soul album Young Americans, he gave credit to where credit was due, saying, “It’s the squashed remains of ethnic music as it survives in the age of Muzak rock, written and sung by a white limey,” and collaborating with Ava Cherry, Luther Vandross, and Carlos Alormar to give the album an authentic soul sound. (x) (x) He also encouraged Nina Simone to continue performing, and a huge supporter of Tina Turner’s career. (x)

David wrote many songs and videos with anti-nazi and anti-racism themes. The “China Girl” video serves to parody Asian female stereotypes as well as to protest colonization by making the lyrics in the POV of a colonizer to show how fucked up the mindset is, and the video, as well as the Let’s Dance video, were made as statements against racism. The Let’s Dance video in particular was very influential in Australia. David even openly criticized MTV for not playing videos from black artists. The first Tin Machine album had a direct anti-fascism and anti-neo n*zi stance. He continued to protest racism throughout his career. 

And also marrying Iman. Yes, yes I know. It’s true that many white celebrities who enter relationships with black partners often do it either as a front or to satisfy some eldritch fetish, and usually try to start relationships with black people who are either naive or ignorant (like, “my black boyfriend said it’s okay” and shit like that). *cough cough* K*rdashians *cough cough* But here’s the thing, this is Iman Abdulmajid we’re talking about here. This is the same woman who started her own cosmetic company for women of color, protested the lack of black models on runways with Naomi Campbell and Bethann Hardison, and supports many charities and human rights causes. Just take a look at her Twitter page. She is absolutely not ignorant or naive. She and David worked on many charitable activities and events together, including her I Am African campaign.

And I know what you’re thinking, he could have used his charity support for publicity or as a front like many celebrities in the past. *cough cough Sp*cey, W*instein, H*ffman *cough cough* But when Iman was given a Voice Award at the Save The Child’s Illumination Gala in 2016, she dedicated the award to him, saying “David was also a staunch supporter of human rights and devoted an innumerable amount of time and resources, which he chose to do anonymously. [...] I share this award with him, knowing that the fire in him lit the fire in me, and vice versa. [...] Good partnerships have a habit of doing that.” 

And finally,

“David Bowie was never bisexual.”

(X)

Okay, but let’s talk serious. This claim is more specifically saying he used bisexuality as shock value and he isn’t a good icon for the LGBT community. In 1983 he called his coming out a “mistake,”said he was only experimenting, and called himself a “closet heterosexual,” in 1993. However, there are things to heavily consider. In the 1980s he was going through a depressive period in his life with alcohol problems. In addition, he felt that his sexuality overshadowed his music in America and and wanted to change his image to appeal to a more mainstream audience (to make his career survive during that time when homophobia was on the rise so he had to shield himself; may I remind you of when he was falsely accused of giving Wanda Nichols AIDS, not to mention dealing with ignorant interviewers acting so clueless over such a simple concept). In 1993, Tin Machine failed to revive his career after the critical failures of his last two solo albums of the late 1980s, of course those problems continued. And if you think I’m reaching, take a look at what he said in an interview for Blender in 2002.

You once said that saying you were bisexual was "the biggest mistake I ever made." Do you still believe that? WHOODAAMANN, SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA

Interesting. [Long pause] I don't think it was a mistake in Europe, but it was a lot tougher in America. I had no problem with people knowing I was bisexual. But I had no inclination to hold any banners or be a representative of any group of people. I knew what I wanted to be, which was a songwriter and a performer, and I felt that [bisexuality] became my headline over here for so long. America is a very puritanical place, and I think it stood in the way of so much I wanted to do. (x) 

And it’s not like his impact on the LGBT+ community is nonexistent.

He was bi and a damned good LGBT icon.

And with that said, just because his most high-profile relationships were with women that doesn’t mean he wasn’t bi. A bi person can have a preference towards one sex or gender but that does not in any way diminish their attraction to the other sex or genders. There are plenty of examples of bisexual people who enter monogamous relationships with people of the opposite sex. That doesn’t make them any less bi.

Reflections & Conclusion

One of the biggest problems I see when the Bowie/Classic rock fandom talk about this is how they completely derail the conversation to how “feminism and sjw culture is toxic and spreads lies” and other dumb shit like that. You can’t blame an entire movement for trouble caused by a few assholes on a site like this. This is Tumblr, remember? You can’t expect people to be perfect to know everything about everyone famous. Newsflash: I’ve made mistakes too. There are many more people who make up for their mistakes than you give credit for. It should only be a real problem if they refuse to believe you or ignore you after you give them solid corrections. Chances are the people like that have generally shitty views or have something to hide (like every TERF blog on here). It also upsets me when people, who I will not name (you know who you are) defend him by slut-shaming Lori Mattix or the other groupies (I won’t say why, I hope you can figure that out for yourselves). 

So in conclusion, don’t believe everything you read, be patient with people but don’t take shit from anyone, don’t use people screwing up as an excuse to spread your own ignorance, stay away from books written about David by Lesley-Ann Jones, Dylan Jones, and “Backstage Passes” by Angie Bowie, and if you have written a callout post about David Bowie, don’t ever fucking do that shit again. Have a nice day.