#Paul Lavers

[mariocki]

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (BBC, 1974)

"In what other parish church in the advowson of the good Abbot Thomas shall we find Bartholomew, Jude, Simon and Matthias all together in one window?"

"Not the 'good' Abbot Thomas, Peter. That was never suggested, not even by himself."

[willstafford]

Jury Fury

TWELVE ANGRY MEN The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, Monday 30th October 2023 Reginald Rose’s classic play from 1955 is doing the rounds again and it’s well worth catching even if, like me, you have seen it before.  Based on Rose’s own experience of serving on a jury, this tense, taut thriller continues to weave its engrossing spell, as a dozen increasingly tetchy males gather in a jury room to…

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Laver Cup 2023 Champions!

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A New Beginning

A year ago when Terrorizer spoke to Joey Jordison, the drummer was a man of (sic) the edge. Now the Slipknot founder is in a different headspace and facing the future with heady determination.

Words: Tobyn Dorcian  Pics: Kane Hibberd Terrorizer #224, July 2012 (google docs link)

**self harm warning for questions 4 and 5 and image 4**

When Joey Jordison was in Australia in March 2011, he was a wreck. Ten months afterPaul (sic) Gray, Joey’s best friend and fellow Slipknot originator/bassist had died from a drugs (sic) overdose, and the drummer was psychologically frail. To distract from his grief, Jordison had over-committed to Soundwave festival as both guitarist in the Murderdolls and drummer for Rob Zombie – exhaustion led to him cancel (sic) a Sydney show.

A year on, Jordison is the antithesis of that vision. Once again in Australia, this time with Slipknot for their 7pm slot at Soundwave festival, he is chipper and energetic. Near unrecognisable with a bush ranger-like beard and moustache, the 37-year-old is in such a great mood he insists on doing two interviews: one at 6.30pm prior to Slipknot’s Melbourne arena sideshow, and another at 11.40pm at its conclusion.

How has the past 12 months been for you? “Very positive. I’m happier than I’ve been for a long time.”

The death of best friend and Slipknot bassist Paul Gray had put you in a bad place. What’s helped you to move forward? “I went right into the studio. I’ve been working non-stop, pouring all my energy into writing music, and nothing but good results have come from it. I am happy being (sic) the studio and am working on music because that’s my life-blood. We all have deaths in our family but you have to move on. [Pauses] It’s really hard for me to talk about Paul’s death…”

Do you ever feel Paul’s presence? “Oh yeah. I’ve been writing stuff since his death and he’s with me at all times. I will be sitting writing a riff, and I know the exact part where he is coming in. I almost talk to him, in a weird way.”

** As a tribute to Paul, Corey [Taylor, vocalist] got a tattoo of him on his leg. “I don’t have any tattoos but I have this. [Rolls up his left shirtsleeve to reveal two several inch-long scars on his shoulder]. After he died, I cut two lines [Paul Gray was Slipknot number 2] into my arm. He remains on my snare hand.”

** What do the lines represent? “That he’s with me at all times. I will never have tattoos, ever. I don’t put ink in my body. I am the only one in the band that doesn’t have them. I don’t want anyone putting my memory into my body but me. This will never go away. When I did it it cut pretty deep. Now, he is playing with me at all times.”

You have spoken about your life in Iowa, that you live in isolation. In your house there are no clocks, the windows are blacked out and you rarely answer the phone. To what extent has that changed? “I now have three cats: Mokey, Melvin and Murray [previously, Joey had Mokey], but nothing has changed. That part of me will always remain the same. It [that feeling] is even happening right now. When I walk out of this room [backstage at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena], I can’t stand it until I get behind my drums; that’s my safe zone. That’s where I feel at home, besides in my house with a guitar. I didn’t pick isolation – this is not a story piece, that’s fucking bullshit – It’s the way I am. I like things that I like and I stick to them. I’ve been like this since I was a kid.”

What do you think that’s about? “I don’t necessarily know. I guess I was so interested in music when I was a kid and was so engulfed by it that it was all I could think about. I was like, ‘This is what I want to do and this is my calling’. I knew what I wanted to do at a very, very young age, so I am very lucky in that respect. On tour, I have done the sightseeing and it is beautiful and I love that but if I want to see something I’ll got (sic) and see it. If I want to stay in my [hotel] room and listen to music… that is what I usually do. It just depends on my mood, which is a little different every day.”

You feel comfortable at home and behind the kit, but not so much in the places in between. “I can’t relate to too many people. When I was very young my grandma told me that if you have just one really close friend you should consider yourself lucky, and I still live to that rule, because honestly, you cannot hardly trust anyone. That’s why I termed the song ‘People = Shit’. I had that term on a t-shirt when we were a club band, way before we got signed.”

It seems like you don’t fit in. “I don’t. I have never been that person who goes out to try to make friends intentionally. I like to have a drink here [at the venue] and hang out with good people but I don’t go out anymore. I like hanging out with my family and my cats and my guitar. I am probably one of the only people who has a guitar in their bathroom. It’s there just in case when I have to go shit [Laughs], I have a cool idea. I always wake up with a riff, so when I have to go and do the morning thing, I play guitar while I’m doing it.”

Something might come of it… “A lot has come of it. [Laughs] I like taking baths. I’m not a shower guy too much. I love soaking in the bath and I get really good ideas there too. I like coming out and grabbing my guitar. Even if I write some of the craziest, fastest shit of the Slipknot catalogue, I am always at peace. I have to be at peace. I can never write anything unless I am at peace. That’s what’s good about having this sort of [musical] gift.

“I watch a lot of shows on the Discovery Channel about how things are made: it intrigues my brain. Some of the science stuff makes me feel a little stupid, but then I’m like, wait, what they (sic) hell are you talking about? They can’t do what I’m doing.”

Surely, you are in the wrong business [music] if you are looking for trust? “I can’t bitch about anything because I am very lucky, but luck has nothing to do with where I am right now. That luck shit can fuck right off. I work my fucking ass off to be like this. I did this to be true to myself and to my friends. Then you have all these assholes come in and they are like, ‘We can’t play a goddamn note but we learnt how to market a bunch of shit and collect off you’. I cannot stand one of them. Slipknot is a product of the shit we hate, and when we go out onstage it is vengeance.

“On the other hand, the maggots who come to our shows, I have something in common with each one of them: that’s how much they understand my music. Our music becomes their music. They give it right back to us and it gives us energy. I can see in kids’ eyes what we have done, what a movement we’ve created. Not many bands have done what we have.”

Last year Clown [Shawn Crahan, percussionist] told Terrorizer he wasn’t sure if he wanted to do Slipknot anymore. “I don’t believe that at all. Plus, there isn’t any shit that needs to be ‘repaired’, like there’s a rift between band members. We all do other stuff. There are no fights. We are getting along so well right now. The feeling is like it was in 1999, when we first came out. Corey and I understand each other more than we ever have. The thing is that we have never not gotten along; it’s the fucking press that turned us against each other. In fact, I brought Corey into Slipknot. Back then, no one even wanted him in the band.”

Why not? “At that time we were like an eccentric death metal circus act. It was great, but something was missing. I said to Clown that we needed to get Corey to sing for us. Shawn [Clown] is hardcore, he is the dad of our band and we respect his opinion. He was like, ‘Fuck no’, but said he liked Corey’s vocals. So myself, Mick [Thompson (sic), guitar] and Shawn went to the porn store where Corey used to work. When we arrived Corey was really nervous, like we were going to beat him up or something. Shawn went up to Corey and asked him if he wanted to try out and he freaked out.

“The next day he parked his car around the back of the studio – because we didn’t want anyone to know – and it was just me and Shawn. The first song he demoed was ‘Me Inside’. I sat next to Shawn and said, ‘Watch this shit, I know what’s going to happen’. Corey got to the chorus and Shawn looked at me and was like, ‘You were right’. Corey’s relationship with me has come full circle. We love each other very much.”

Right now, what binds Slipknot together? “We started to think, what if it [Slipknot] did go away, and realised how much the band meant to us. The songs mean more to me now than they ever have… remembering the crap we went through, all the stupid bickering and crap that never needed to happen. All of that has been weeded out and now it’s like we’ve been rebuilt, stronger than ever. Slipknot is a machine right.

“Our band is nine fucking extraordinary personalities, extreme, intense personalities, who live all over the place and yet we are still together, so fuck you. I would die for these guys. If I died onstage, I wouldn’t care. This is going to sound stupid, but it would be from my heart. It’s a fucking war onstage, it isn’t safe.”

Your temporary bass player [Donnie Steele] is out of view. Why? “The other guy [Donnie] is not allowed onstage, no fucking way. He is behind the stage and does a great job. We are nine people and we unfortunately lost one. But it doesn’t matter; we are still nine. We can never replace Paul, but that’s why I bought (sic) Donnie into the band. He was the first guitar who played before I came into the picture, when we were The Pale Ones. He is a really cool guy and very mellow.

“We haven’t decided on another bassist yet. We don’t want any marquee names or anything like that. It doesn’t make sense to bring anyone in from another band that’s huge. We want to keep it in the family, and he’s part of our family and it’s been great ever since.”

Will the next Slipknot album still be “the darkest one ever?” “It’s going to be dark no matter what. There ain’t no changing that fucking statement.”

How much darker than ‘Iowa’ can you go? “That’s up to us. So far, I’ve written and recorded 40 songs.”

Is there a song about Paul? “Yes, my working title is ‘Gray’.”

Have you been working with the other guys or by yourself? “To tell you the truth, it’s just been me. Everyone is writing stuff, but people want to do other projects [Corey Taylor and Jim Root and (sic) working on a new Stone Sour album. Clown has released a photography book], and so I’m writing alone until we can all come together. Then we can start playing and go from there. That’s how we wrote, ‘Prelude’, ‘The Blister Exists’, it’s how we start a lot of songs.”

With the next album, what is the journey you wish to take the listener on? “This will be our deepest, most celebrated record. The journey is that we are trying to live our lives, just like everyone else is trying to live theirs’. We all have weird shit in our lives and a lot of our songs reflect that. On the next record we will be exorcising, getting out a lot of the crap out that I think personally, we have held in too much, against each other.”

What sort of emotions will come out? “Both positive and negative. Jealousy? That doesn’t exist in this band. That is the worst emotion; it kills people. You know who fucking does that? It’s the press, and it just pisses us off. People [journalists] keep putting words in our mouth. If they want to keep doing it, keep doing it, because it’s pissing us off right now. Everyone on the outside – journalists, business manager, accountant – this album will be the worst in terms of ‘fuck you’. ‘Iowa’ was kind of playful. This one, as far as emotions go, is going to connect with everyone way more than any of our others.”

Where do you see Slipknot evolving from here? “Slipknot can do two things: either leave the legacy where it is now or cut everything that’s been before and take it even further. That’s where my mindset is at. I can only see it getting even bigger.”

In the early 2000s, Clown had stage props of cow heads on spikes. What is the most shocking thing Slipknot has done? “We never look to shock anyone. If it’s shocking to some people, then I guess you can call it shock but that was never the intent. That’s just Shawn being Shawn. We used to go down to the meat packing plant [in Des Moines] and were really intrigued by the smell of dead animals. We’d just sit there and gawk at them. We just liked the fucking smell of it. No matter how pungent or grotesque.

“Bringing that type of stuff out was part of the ‘Iowa’ cycle and it made sense then. I don’t think it makes sense now. The thing about that is you never know what we are going to do tonight. I don’t know what the rest of them are doing (sic) to do; they don’t have to know what I am going to do. We don’t have structure. Ours is no choreographed shit.”

You’ve been doing Slipknot for almost 20 years. To what extent have you mellowed? “Not at all. I’m still punk rock. I will travel in a van; I don’t care. It doesn’t matter to me: trains, buses, planes, whatever, I’ll get there. As long as I have my leather jacket and maybe a toothbrush, throw me in a fucking corner and I’ll sleep there. I don’t give a fuck.”

Slipknot must have made a lot of money. Looking at you, you’d never know it, as you are in no way ostentatious. “To tell you the truth, I have no fucking clue about it. [Laughs] It’s there, but money and all that shit doesn’t register with me. I don’t calculate it. Maybe it’s stupid but I don’t give a fuck about money, which is maybe why I’ve been ripped off in the past, but I just don’t care. Money is bullshit to me. I hate it. It’s an evil fucking thing. It controls the world and that’s why I don’t like it. With our band, it was never about that and it still isn’t. The last thing we think about is that. But if there is money to be made, of course we want to make it and not get ripped off.

“When we were starting we thought maybe we’d sell 30,000 records. Even getting signed was weird. When someone says, ‘You need to get business smart’, I’m like, fuck all that. I am still that little punk rock kid. That little kid that was in his basement playing drums, blast-beating and learning all this shit from the bands I grew up listening to.”

What does your number [1] mean to you? “Now it doesn’t really mean much. When we started it was an idea and I am number one for a reason. I was that number because I am the base of the band, the rhythm section, its glue. I don’t really look it at (sic) much anyone (sic), I try to think of us by our names, but I’m glad to still have that number.”

In 2000 you let my 15-year-old socially awkward nephew watch Slipknot from the side of the stage [in Melbourne, Australia]. 12 years later as his mother was dying of cancer, he recalled how much that meant to him. And how you looked after him. “That means a lot to me. [Pauses] I’m glad he had that outlet [Slipknot] because that’s what I needed when I was young. I needed it because I was an outcast. I don’t have many friends and I don’t want them: that is my sickness. The ones that I have are the guys in my band; they are my brothers. They would do anything for me.

“When I was young… that’s why I was so attracted to music. Everyone else was into sport and extra curricular activities and so I was the misfit. Music just felt safe. It spoke to me so loudly that it made everything seem clear – nothing else at that time did. In a weird way, it almost chose me. The demon grabbed me by the throat and put me on a mantle and said, ‘This is what you are going to do’. I have been stuck there ever since. [Laughs] It’s not a bad place to be. It makes me comfortable and keeps me warm.”

‘Antennas To Hell’ is out on July 16 on Roadrunner www.Slipknot1.com

Joey on:

Watain “They are the real deal, man. I think [frontman] Erik Danielsson is in the top 3 black metal singers of all time. That guy’s voice is pure. Watching them, people want to do the whole pit thing, but I am the opposite, I find it relaxing. It’s weird. The blood they put on, that’s real. They are coming to Iowa, so I will probably be in the front row, being a fan boy.”

Burzum “I loved ‘From The Depths Of Darkness’ [2011]. A lot of people focus on the murder [of Euronymous], but I look beyond that, to his music. I don’t condone murder, but I’m like, ‘Get over that and listen to this shit’. The Count is about as dark as you get and I totally love everything he has done. I haven’t met him, but he’s definitely one of the people I’d love to meet.”

Marilyn Manson “I met him a long time ago and we became friends after that. What I like about him more than anything is that you never know what’s coming. He is unpredictable and that is punk rock. That to me is true fucking art. I think that’s why him and me really connected. He gets me and I get him too. I haven’t talked to him for a while, but he’s always been nice to me.”

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Hubert Hurkacz, Casper Ruud & Tommy Paul - Yonex

"The Laver Cup besties"🎾

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Rod Laver Arena // Mar 16th 2023 // Paul Miles

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Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC, 16.03.2023

By 📸 Paul Miles / whatsmvscene.com

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Dipping a pig a lime and sulpher solution, Division of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota

H.G. Laveral (right) and unidentified herdsman dipping a pig in lime and sulphur solution to control mange at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul campus. The poster in the background, produced by the University of Minnesota Extension Service, shows a hog louse and a hog mange mite.

Minnesota Veterinary Historical Museum

Minnesota Digital Library

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The Roman Catechism

Part Two: The Sacraments

THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM (cont.)

Matter of Baptism

Now since we said above, when treating of the Sacraments in general, that every Sacrament consists of matter and form, it is therefore necessary that pastors point out what constitutes each of these in Baptism. The matter, then, or element of this Sacrament, is any sort of natural water, which is simply and without qualification commonly called water, be it sea water, river water, water from a pond, well or fountain.

Testimony Of Scripture Concerning The Matter Of Baptism

For the Savior taught that unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The Apostle also says that the Church was cleansed by the laver of water; and in the Epistle of St. John we read these words: There are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit, and the water, and the blood. Scripture affords other proofs which establish the same truth.

When, however, John the Baptist says that the Lord will come who will baptize in the Holy Ghost, and in fire, that is by no means to be understood of the matter of Baptism; but should be applied either to the interior operation of the Holy Ghost, or at least to the miracle performed on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost descended on the Apostles in the form of fire, as was foretold by Christ our Lord in these words: John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many days hence.

Figures

The same was also signified by the Lord both by figures and by prophecies, as we know from Holy Scripture. According to the Prince of the Apostles in his first Epistle, the deluge which cleansed the world because the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil, was a figure and image of this water. To omit the cleansing of Naaman the Syrian, and the admirable virtue of the pool of Bethsaida, and many similar types, manifestly symbolic of this mystery, the passage through the Red Sea, according to St. Paul in his Epistle to the Corinthians, was typical of this same water.

Prophecies

With regard to the predictions, the waters to which the Prophet Isaias so freely invites all that thirst, and those which Ezekiel in spirit saw issuing from the Temple, and also the fountain which Zachary foresaw, open to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for the washing of the sinner, and of the unclean woman, were, no doubt, intended to indicate and express the salutary waters of Baptism.

Fitness

The propriety of constituting water the matter of Baptism, of the nature and efficacy of which it is at once expressive, St. Jerome, in his Epistle to Oceanus, proves by many arguments.

Upon this subject pastors can teach in the first place that water, which is always at hand and within the reach of all, was the fittest matter of a Sacrament which is necessary to all for salvation. In the next place water is best adapted to signify the effect of Baptism. It washes away uncleanness, and is, therefore, strikingly illustrative of the virtue and efficacy of Baptism, which washes away the stains of sin. We may also add that, like water which cools the body, Baptism in a great measure extinguishes the fire of concupiscence.

Chrism Added To Water For Solemn Baptism

But it should be noted that while in case of necessity simple water unmixed with any other ingredient is sufficient for the matter of this Sacrament, yet when Baptism is administered in public with solemn ceremonies the Catholic Church, guided by Apostolic tradition, has uniformly observed the practice of adding holy chrism which, as is clear, more fully signifies the effect of Baptism. The people should also be taught that although it may sometimes be doubtful whether this or that water be genuine, such as the perfection of the Sacrament requires, it can never be a subject of doubt that the only matter from which the Sacrament of Baptism can be formed is natural water.

Form of Baptism

Having carefully explained the matter, which is one of the two parts of which Baptism consists, pastors must show equal diligence in explaining the form, which is the other essential part. In the explanation of this Sacrament a necessity of increased care and study arises, as pastors will perceive, from the circumstance that the knowledge of so holy a mystery is not only in itself a source of pleasure to the faithful, as is generally the case with regard to religious knowledge, but also very desirable for almost daily practical use. As we shall explain in its proper place, circumstances often arise where Baptism requires to be administered by the laity, and most frequently by women; and it therefore becomes necessary to make all the faithful, indiscriminately, well acquainted with whatever regards the substance of this Sacrament.

Words Of The Form

Pastors, therefore, should teach, in clear, unambiguous language, intelligible to every capacity, that the true and essential form of Baptism is: I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. For so it was delivered by our Lord and Savior when, as we read in St. Matthew He gave to His Apostles the command: Going, . . . teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

By the word baptizing, the Catholic Church, instructed from above, most justly understood that the form of the Sacrament should express the action of the minister; and this takes place when he pronounces the words, I baptize thee.

Besides the minister of the Sacrament, the person to be baptized and the principal efficient cause of Baptism should be mentioned. The pronoun thee, and the distinctive names of the Divine Persons are therefore added. Thus the complete form of the Sacrament is expressed in the words already mentioned: I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Baptism is the work not of the Son alone, of whom St. John says, He it is that baptizeth, but of the Three Persons of the Blessed Trinity together. By saying, however, in the name, not in the names, we distinctly declare that in the Trinity there is but one Nature and Godhead. The word name is here referred not to the Persons, but to the Divine Essence, virtue and power, which are one and the same in Three Persons.

Essential And Non-Essential Words Of The Form

It is, however, to be observed that of the words contained in this form, which we have shown to be the complete and perfect one, some are absolutely necessary, so that the omission of them renders the valid administration of the Sacrament impossible; while others on the contrary, are not so essential as to affect its validity.

Of the latter kind is the word ego (I), the force of which is included in the word baptizo (I baptise). Nay more, the Greek Church, adopting a different manner of expressing the form, and being of opinion that it is unnecessary to make mention of the minister, omits the pronoun altogether. The form universally used in the Greek Church is: Let this servant of Christ be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. It appears, however, from the decision and definition of the Council of Florence, that those who use this form administer the Sacraments validly, because the words sufficiently express what is essential to the validity of Baptism, that is, the ablution which then takes place.

Baptism In The Name Of Christ

If at any time the Apostles baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ only, we can be sure they did so by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, in order, in the infancy of the Church, to render their preaching more illustrious by the name of Jesus Christ, and to proclaim more effectually His divine and infinite power. If, however, we examine the matter more closely, we shall find that such a form omits nothing which the Savior Himself commands to be observed; for he who mentions Jesus Christ implies the Person of the Father, by whom, and that of the Holy Ghost, in whom, He was anointed.

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NFR Reviews #13: Multiple SIDosis

Released 1970 / Inducted 2000

Watch film here

In some ways, this short film is a throwback by a middle-aged man remembering a past career that never quite panned out, down to the old-fashioned opening music resembling a carousel organ. The first segment, which runs a bit overlong in my opinion, depicts a Christmas morning, a holiday whose popular conception is tied to reminiscing with family and sharing traditions. While the depiction of creator Sid Laverents being gifted a sound recorder by his wife is most likely scripted, it calls to mind a common form of amateur filmmaking: the home movie. In 1923, Eastman Kodak launched the 16mm film format (the name referencing the width of the film itself). Compared to the 35mm format used by professionals, 16mm cameras were smaller, cheaper, and more mobile. Advertising for this type of camera emphasized ease of use for the average consumer who lacked specialized knowledge, and also the creation of private, domestic films of happy life events. While the first part sticks to what was expected of amateur filmmaking, the second part deviates into something else completely.

Laverents had played theaters and busked in the street as a one-man-band vaudeville performer. By roughly 1929, he aspired to make it in New York City. The city had a wealth of entertainment options which made it difficult for individual performers to stand out, and he was especially unable to compete with the recently introduced synchronized sound films. With the Depression on the horizon, he had to take any available job such as sales or dishwashing. Unlike some vaudevillians which found success transferring to film, his early work did not succeed in finding a wide audience in the public space of mainstream entertainment. By the 1960s, he was employed as an engineer at Convair, a part of the aircraft industry. When discussing his vaudeville past with coworkers, he was prompted to fix his instruments and recreate the act. This was the reason his 1964 film One Man Band exists. 

Made years later, Multiple SIDosis is a higher-tech riff on the same concept. Laverents heavily edits and plans out how to perform every instrument and vocalization of the 1910s Felix Arndt novelty ragtime song “Nola.” If this film had nothing going for it except nostalgia, it wouldn’t have gotten the same amount of later recognition. His ambition was to make the cinematic equivalent of Les Paul and Mary Ford’s multitrack recordings, in which they would record on the tape, play it back, and record it again so it sounded as if they were harmonizing against themselves. The number of different onscreen Sids increases throughout the film, peaking at eleven. The look of the film was created through a complex system of mattes. With each take, parts of the camera were blocked off save for a hole where one part of the song would be filmed. Then, he would record the next part on film through double exposures until all takes were completed. Since the whole thing was filmed in-camera without help from an optical printer, one mistake would throw off the entire enterprise. 

In 1960, movie writer Jonas Mekas predicted a total collapse of barriers between amateur and professional film in the future. This never fully came to be, but Laverents’ work offers a unique perspective on how amateurism shifted over the decades. He exhibited films to fellow members at the San Diego Amateur Movie Club, finding a community with likeminded interests. Many similar clubs faced difficulty with the advent of video, which existed in some form since at least the mid-60s with 1965’s Sony Portapak but really proliferated in the late 1980s. Video was supposed to make moviemaking more accessible, but many club members found the editing prohibitively complicated in comparison to cutting up film strips, especially once computer editing came around. Neither Laverents or the San Diego club quit here, though. The club lasted until the early 2000s, while Laverents continued making films into the same decade. By this time, younger generations were utilizing digital video, which offered similar visual quality to professional cameras, and desktop editing software such as Final Cut Premiere, Adobe Premiere, and i-Movie. (Also Windows Movie Maker, not that anyone would mistake my school projects on that software for a professional project). 

Social media became a route for amateur filmmakers to gain a higher visibility than ever before, especially YouTube, which launched four years before Sid Laverents’ 2009 death at age 100. Traditional media outlets exerted heavy influence over smaller creators through copyright claiming unauthorized remixes of their material, uploading officially sanctioned videos that compete with amateurs, and collecting user data for targeted advertising in new ways that didn’t exist in the era of pre-internet film clubs. Despite still-existing barriers and disparities in resources between studios and individuals, amateur filmmakers still make unique and creative art distinct from what the professionals are doing. Half the theater kids on that site unintentionally echo Multiple SIDosis in their own music videos, both in the editing structure and the general attitude of earnestness and sincerity.

This one’s a collaboration of two people instead of a one-man-band, but they still deploy similar person-harmonizing-with-himself techniques.

While Multiple SIDosis may not be among the most historically significant or well-known films on the registry, it’s a novelty that required a lot of technical expertise and innovation on less resources than the major studios had. Even if Laverents failed to “make it big” in entertainment in his youth, his recollections on that time ended up foreshadowing much later generations of amateur creators.

Sources

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/multiple-sidosis-and-disneyland-dream-two-amateur-masterpieces-1-180949236/

https://www.centerforhomemovies.org/other-histories/essays/multiple-sidosis-melinda-stone/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/im-short-not-stupid-presents-multiple-sidosis-456/

https://amianet.org/wp-content/uploads/Resources-Oral-History-Laverents-2006-1.pdf

https://cinema.usc.edu/archivedassets/098/15844.pdf

https://www.amateurcinema.org/index.php/filmmaker/s.-n.-laverents

[kwebtv]

Brensham People  -  BBC  -  December 3 - 17, 1976

Historical Drama (3 episodes)

Running Time:  50 minutes

Stars:

Richard Warwick as John Moore

Denis Carey as The Colonel

Dominic Long as The Young Moore

Freddie Jones as Mr. Chorlton

Peter Hughes as Headmaster

Dominic Sargent as Donald

Howard Goorney as Bardolph

David Pugh as Nym

Philip Jackson as Jeremy Briggs

Roger Milner as Vicar

Ysanne Churchman as Mrs. Doan

Paul Lavers as Student

Sarah Porter as Jane Orris

Sophie Ward as Young Jane

William Bond as Deputy Mayor

Philip Ryan as Keeper

Rosalind Knight as Drawling Woman

Simon Chandler as Curate

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🎙️⚾🎾🏎️🏈 ERdF 558: Ohtani vs Judge, Cy Youngs y la Semana 3 de la NFL 🌟

¡Bienvenidos a otro emocionante episodio de El Rincón del Fanático! Hoy cubrimos desde el final de la temporada de MLB, hasta la situación actual en la F1 y la NFL. ¡No te pierdas nuestra trivia y debates llenos de pasión deportiva!

Desglose del Episodio:

01:00 ⚾ MLB: La temporada regular está por terminar el 29 de septiembre. Discutimos el declive de Texas tras ganar la Serie Mundial el año pasado, y cómo equipos sorpresa como Detroit buscan colarse como comodines. Hacemos un paneo de las ligas Americana y Nacional y analizamos cómo quedarían los equipos en distintos escenarios. Hablamos del récord de Shohei Ohtani con 50+ HR y 50+ bases robadas, y debatimos quién es mejor: ¿Aaron Judge o Shohei Ohtani? Además, discutimos los pitchers favoritos para ganar el Cy Young y por qué Paul Skenes no puede serlo. Cerramos con una cápsula y trivia.

40:57 🎾 Tenis: Hablamos de la Laver Cup, donde se enfrentan jugadores europeos contra el resto del mundo.

45:17 🏎️ F1: Resultados del GP de Singapur y análisis de cómo van los pilotos y las escuderías.

54:50 🏈 NFL: Brett Favre ha revelado que tiene Parkinson, recordamos a uno de los mejores QB de nuestra generación. Discutimos sobre jugadores que se retiraron jóvenes por problemas de salud, lo que sucedió en la semana 3, nuestra opinión sobre los Steelers y los equipos que aún están invictos. Hablamos del supuesto favoritismo arbitral hacia Kansas City y lo que esperamos para la semana 4. ¡No te pierdas nuestra trivia!

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✝️🙌 Lavez-vous les mains

“Durant la pandémie de Covid-19, on nous répétait : “Lavez-vous les mains”. Je me disais : Suis-je si sale pour être obligé de me laver aussi souvent ? J’ai repensé à la première fois où j’étais entré dans une salle où l’évangile était prêché.

Là, j’étais vraiment sale, sale de toutes les mauvaises actions que j’avais commises dans ma vie. Ce jour-là, en entendant l’évangile pour la première fois, j’ai compris que j’avais besoin d’un lavage intérieur, et que seul le sang de Jésus Christ pouvait me purifier de mes nombreuses désobéissances à Dieu.

Un grand changement s’est produit en moi quand je suis venu à ce Christ crucifié, confessant ma vie de péché loin de lui ! Il a lavé mon âme parfaitement et pour l’éternité. Car “le sang de Jésus Christ son Fils nous purifie de tout péché.” (1 Jean 1, 7)

La Bible nous montre le chemin du ciel. Là, aucun péché ni rien de sale ne peut entrer. La purification de celui qui croit en Jésus Christ sacrifié pour lui est totale et pleinement suffisante parce qu’elle repose sur la valeur du sang de Jésus. À lui s’appliquent les paroles de l’apôtre Paul citées dans le deuxième texte du jour.

Toutefois, dans sa vie de tous les jours, le croyant se rend compte que beaucoup de choses dans ce monde le salissent. Cela n’affecte pas son salut éternel, mais sa communion avec Dieu est altérée. Il lui faut alors laisser le Seigneur le “laver” par sa Parole : la lecture de la Bible lui montre ce qui, dans sa vie, doit être corrigé ou abandonné, pour lui permettre de retrouver une relation heureuse avec son Père céleste.

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La bonne semence, 5 décembre 2024

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[yes-bernie-stuff]

Jeudi 5 décembre 2024

Use de grâce envers moi, ô Dieu !… Lave-moi pleinement de mon iniquité et purifie-moi de mon péché.

Psaume 51. 3, 4

Mais vous avez été lavés, mais vous avez été sanctifiés, mais vous avez été justifiés au nom du Seigneur Jésus, et par l’Esprit de notre Dieu.

1 Corinthiens 6. 11

Lavez-vous les mains

“Durant la pandémie de Covid-19, on nous répétait : “Lavez-vous les mains”. Je me disais : Suis-je si sale pour être obligé de me laver aussi souvent ? J’ai repensé à la première fois où j’étais entré dans une salle où l’évangile était prêché. Là, j’étais vraiment sale, sale de toutes les mauvaises actions que j’avais commises dans ma vie. Ce jour-là, en entendant l’évangile pour la première fois, j’ai compris que j’avais besoin d’un lavage intérieur, et que seul le sang de Jésus Christ pouvait me purifier de mes nombreuses désobéissances à Dieu. Un grand changement s’est produit en moi quand je suis venu à ce Christ crucifié, confessant ma vie de péché loin de lui ! Il a lavé mon âme parfaitement et pour l’éternité. Car “le sang de Jésus Christ son Fils nous purifie de tout péché” (1 Jean 1. 7).”

La Bible nous montre le chemin du ciel. Là, aucun péché ni rien de sale ne peut entrer. La purification de celui qui croit en Jésus Christ sacrifié pour lui est totale et pleinement suffisante parce qu’elle repose sur la valeur du sang de Jésus. À lui s’appliquent les paroles de l’apôtre Paul citées dans le deuxième texte du jour.

Toutefois, dans sa vie de tous les jours, le croyant se rend compte que beaucoup de choses dans ce monde le salissent. Cela n’affecte pas son salut éternel, mais sa communion avec Dieu est altérée. Il lui faut alors laisser le Seigneur le “laver” par sa Parole : la lecture de la Bible lui montre ce qui, dans sa vie, doit être corrigé ou abandonné, pour lui permettre de retrouver une relation heureuse avec son Père céleste.