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[whenyourbirdisbroken]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/world/europe/paul-mccartneys-lost-bass-guitar.htm

Have You Seen Paul McCartney’s Lost Bass Guitar? Tips Welcome.

By Isabella Kwai

For decades, mystery has surrounded the fate of the missing bass that accompanied the Beatles as they rocketed to fame. A new campaign is trying to find it.

Before Beatlemania, there was the distinctive Höfner violin bass — the first guitar that Paul McCartney bought after becoming the bassist for the Beatles.

That bass can be heard on some of the band’s most famous hits, including “Love Me Do,” “She Loves You,” and “Twist and Shout.”

Mr. McCartney picked up the instrument in a Hamburg music store in 1961, and it accompanied the Fab Four as they rocketed to stunning success, becoming the most famous band in the world. But the guitar vanished eight years later.

A new campaign is seeking to find the missing instrument, and hundreds of people have responded, hoping to help solve the decades-old mystery: Where is Paul McCartney’s missing bass guitar?

“It’s a hugely significant instrument in its own right,” said Nick Wass, a semiretired consultant for Höfner, the guitar’s manufacturer, who has joined forces with two journalists to try and track the guitar down. “It’s the bass that made the Beatles.”

“The bass was absolutely at the heart of the origins of the Beatles sound,” said one of the journalists, Scott Jones, who worked for the BBC. “The smallest pieces of information can often lead to the biggest breakthroughs,” he said of their appeal for tips on its fate.

Mr. Jones’s wife, Naomi, is the other journalist behind what they are calling The Lost Bass Project.

The three Beatles fans have urged members of the public to come forwardwith any information that might help. No tip is too small, they say, and they are promising to keep sources confidential. They say they have already received several credible leads since the project was launched on Saturday.

The instrument’s treasured place in Beatles mythology is intertwined with the band’s story. After the departure of their original bassist, Stuart Sutcliffe, Mr. McCartney, who had been playing guitar, switched instruments to replace him during a residency in Hamburg in 1961. For that, he needed a new bass guitar.

“I got my Violin Bass at the Steinway shop in the town center. I remember going along and there was this bass which was quite cheap,” he said in a 1993 interview with Guitar Magazine, adding that he had not wanted to go into debt and could only afford the Höfner, 500/1 guitar at the time. It cost about £30 pounds, or $38, he recalled. “And once I bought it, I fell in love with it.”

Mr. McCartney took the guitar back to Britain, where it accompanied the Beatles through hundreds of gigs — from the band’s early concerts at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where they were spotted by Brian Epstein, who would become their manager, to the recording of their first two albums. It was repaired in 1964, according to the team behind the new search, and then used along with other bass guitars.

But the last confirmed sighting of the instrument was in London in 1969, in video footage of the band members writing their final album, “Let It Be.” Rumors have percolated ever since about what happened to the instrument: The Lost Bass Project suggests that it could have been stolen or lost either from the basement of Abbey Road Studios, or from the Apple Corps recording studio on Savile Row.

A representative for Paul McCartney declined a request for an interview. But Mr. Wass said he understood, from previous communications with Mr. McCartney, that he was keen to be reunited with the instrument. “He calls it the ancient one,” Mr. Wass said.

Among the leads they had received, Mr. Jones said, were suggestions that the instrument could have traveled to the United States or Japan. But he added that all the leads need to be vetted. “Somewhere among that information there is going to be the answer,” he said.

Other iconic instruments have been lost and found over the years — one close example being a Gibson acoustic guitar belonging to John Lennon, which was bought in 1962 and then lost the following year. Half a century later, it re-emerged and was sold at auction in 2015 to an anonymous buyer for $2.4 million.

It is unclear what the market value of Mr. McCartney’s missing guitar would be, but the team behind the search insists that the effort is not for monetary gain, calling the guitar “priceless.”

“We just want to know where it is,” said Mr. Wass.

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Holidays 12.7

Holidays

Armed Forces Flag Day (India)

Blue Marble Day

Christmas Jumper Day (UK)

Cypress Tree Day (French Republic)

Dia de las Velitas (Day of the Little Candles; Colombia)

Enlightenment Day

Ferry Floss Day (UK)

Fetes de l’Escalade (Scaling or Climbing Day; Switzerland)

Hang a Wreath Day

Heavy Snow Day (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)

Human Rights Day (Kiribati)

International Civil Aviation Day (UN)

Letter Writing Day

Memorial Day (East Timor)

National Day (Myanmar)

National FAFO Day

National Fire Safety Day

National Heroes’ Day (East Timor)

National Illinois Day

National Joy Day

National Judith Day

National Letter Writing Day

National Rina Day

National Slime Day

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

Spider-Woman Day

Spitak Remembrance Day (Armenia)

Students’ Day (Iran)

World Kamishibai Day

World TTTS Awareness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Marshmallow Peeps Day

National Cotton Candy Day [original date, moved to 6.11; also 7.31]

National Prosciutto Day

1st Thursday in December

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

Lover's Fair (Arlon, Belgium) [1st Thursday]

Independence Days

Delaware Statehood Day (#1; 1787)

Farrar Republic (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Fraughtia (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Aemilianus (Greek Church)

Ambrose of Milan (Christian; Saint) [Italy]

Bhairava Ashtami (Indian Goddess of Soma) [8th Lunar Day of Kartik]

Bradley (Positivist; Saint)

Bruma II (Pagan)

Eve of the Immaculate Conception

Fara (Christian; Saint)

Feast of All Monsters (Church of the SubGenius)

Festival of Primordial Beings

Flag Day (India)

Flag Land Base Day (Scientology)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Artology)

Haloia of Demeter (Pagan)

Hanukkah (Judaism) [begins at sundown]

Holiday from Death Day (Pastafarian)

Maria Giuseppa Rossello (Christian; Saint)

Quema del Diablo (Burning of the Devil; Guatemala)

Rosita (Muppetism)

Sabinus of Spoleto (Christian; Saint)

Still Not Dead Day (Pastafarian)

Stuart Davis (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 23 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [23 of 24]

Fatal Day (Pagan) [23 of 24]

Historically Unlucky Day [11 of 11]

Historically Bad Day (Cicero assassinated, Pearl Harbor attack & 4 other tragedies) [11 of 11]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 56 of 60)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [56 of 60]

Premieres

Abbott Elementary (TV Series; 2012)

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (TV Mini-Series; 1986)

Bad Day at Flat Rocky or A Record in Bullwinkle’s Blot (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 326; 1964)

The Bells of St. Mary’s (Film; 1945)

Brokeback Mountain (Film; 2005)

Canine Patrol (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Dominique, by The Singing Nun (Song; 1963)

Edward Scissorhands (Film; 1990)

Frosty the Snowman (Animated TV Special; 1969)

The Golden Compass (Film; 2007)

The Gondoliers, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1889)

The Grifters (Film; 1990)

Hallelujah, by Leonard Cohen (Song; 1984)

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture, by Johan Huizinga (Science Book; 1938)

I’m Not There (Film; 2007)

Jamboree (Rock & Roll Film; 1957)

Kung Fu Fighting, by Carl Douglas (Song; 1974)

The Librarians (TV Series; 2014)

The Long Tomorrow, by Leigh Brackett (Novel; 1955)

Mary Queen of Scots (Film; 2018)

New Kin in Town, by The Eagles (Song; 1976)

Ocean’s Eleven (Film; 2001)

Resign Your Fate to a 52nd State or Moosylvania (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 325; 1964)

Rock! Rock! Rock! (Rock & Roll Film; 1956)

Rosemary, played live by the Gratefull Dead (Song; 1968) [Only Time It’s Played Live]

(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay, recorded by Otis Redding (Song; 1967)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film; 1979)

2010: The Year We Make Contact (Film; 1984)

Wild Life, by Paul McCartney & Wings (Album; 1971)

The World’s Fastest Indian (Film; 2005)

Today’s Name Days

Ambrosius, Benedikte (Austria)

Ambrozije, Sabina, Urban (Croatia)

Ambrož (Czech Republic)

Agathon (Denmark)

Piine, Sabiine (Estonia)

Sampsa (Finland)

Ambroise (France)

Ambros, Benedikte, Farah (Germany)

Amvrosios (Greece)

Ambrus (Hungary)

Ambrogio (Italy)

Anta, Antonija, Dzirkstīte, Tonija (Latvia)

Ambraziejus, Daugardas, Tautė (Lithuania)

Hallfrid, Hallstein (Norway)

Agaton, Ambroży, Marcin, Ninomysł (Poland)

Filofteia (Romania)

Ekaterina (Russia)

Ambróz (Slovakia)

Ambrosio (Spain)

Angela, Angelika (Sweden)

Ambrose (Ukraine)

Ambrose, Ambrosine, Jasmin, Jasmine, Jazlyn, Jazmin, Jazmine, Yasmeen, Yasmin, Yasmine, Yazmin (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 341 of 2024; 24 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 49 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 25 (Ji-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 24 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 24 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 11 Zima; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 24 November 2023

Moon: 27%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 5 Bichat (12th Month) [Bradley]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 75 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 16 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 12.7

Holidays

Armed Forces Flag Day (India)

Blue Marble Day

Christmas Jumper Day (UK)

Cypress Tree Day (French Republic)

Dia de las Velitas (Day of the Little Candles; Colombia)

Enlightenment Day

Ferry Floss Day (UK)

Fetes de l’Escalade (Scaling or Climbing Day; Switzerland)

Hang a Wreath Day

Heavy Snow Day (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)

Human Rights Day (Kiribati)

International Civil Aviation Day (UN)

Letter Writing Day

Memorial Day (East Timor)

National Day (Myanmar)

National FAFO Day

National Fire Safety Day

National Heroes’ Day (East Timor)

National Illinois Day

National Joy Day

National Judith Day

National Letter Writing Day

National Rina Day

National Slime Day

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

Spider-Woman Day

Spitak Remembrance Day (Armenia)

Students’ Day (Iran)

World Kamishibai Day

World TTTS Awareness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Marshmallow Peeps Day

National Cotton Candy Day [original date, moved to 6.11; also 7.31]

National Prosciutto Day

1st Thursday in December

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

Lover's Fair (Arlon, Belgium) [1st Thursday]

Independence Days

Delaware Statehood Day (#1; 1787)

Farrar Republic (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Fraughtia (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Aemilianus (Greek Church)

Ambrose of Milan (Christian; Saint) [Italy]

Bhairava Ashtami (Indian Goddess of Soma) [8th Lunar Day of Kartik]

Bradley (Positivist; Saint)

Bruma II (Pagan)

Eve of the Immaculate Conception

Fara (Christian; Saint)

Feast of All Monsters (Church of the SubGenius)

Festival of Primordial Beings

Flag Day (India)

Flag Land Base Day (Scientology)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Artology)

Haloia of Demeter (Pagan)

Hanukkah (Judaism) [begins at sundown]

Holiday from Death Day (Pastafarian)

Maria Giuseppa Rossello (Christian; Saint)

Quema del Diablo (Burning of the Devil; Guatemala)

Rosita (Muppetism)

Sabinus of Spoleto (Christian; Saint)

Still Not Dead Day (Pastafarian)

Stuart Davis (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 23 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [23 of 24]

Fatal Day (Pagan) [23 of 24]

Historically Unlucky Day [11 of 11]

Historically Bad Day (Cicero assassinated, Pearl Harbor attack & 4 other tragedies) [11 of 11]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 56 of 60)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [56 of 60]

Premieres

Abbott Elementary (TV Series; 2012)

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (TV Mini-Series; 1986)

Bad Day at Flat Rocky or A Record in Bullwinkle’s Blot (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 326; 1964)

The Bells of St. Mary’s (Film; 1945)

Brokeback Mountain (Film; 2005)

Canine Patrol (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Dominique, by The Singing Nun (Song; 1963)

Edward Scissorhands (Film; 1990)

Frosty the Snowman (Animated TV Special; 1969)

The Golden Compass (Film; 2007)

The Gondoliers, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1889)

The Grifters (Film; 1990)

Hallelujah, by Leonard Cohen (Song; 1984)

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture, by Johan Huizinga (Science Book; 1938)

I’m Not There (Film; 2007)

Jamboree (Rock & Roll Film; 1957)

Kung Fu Fighting, by Carl Douglas (Song; 1974)

The Librarians (TV Series; 2014)

The Long Tomorrow, by Leigh Brackett (Novel; 1955)

Mary Queen of Scots (Film; 2018)

New Kin in Town, by The Eagles (Song; 1976)

Ocean’s Eleven (Film; 2001)

Resign Your Fate to a 52nd State or Moosylvania (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 325; 1964)

Rock! Rock! Rock! (Rock & Roll Film; 1956)

Rosemary, played live by the Gratefull Dead (Song; 1968) [Only Time It’s Played Live]

(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay, recorded by Otis Redding (Song; 1967)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film; 1979)

2010: The Year We Make Contact (Film; 1984)

Wild Life, by Paul McCartney & Wings (Album; 1971)

The World’s Fastest Indian (Film; 2005)

Today’s Name Days

Ambrosius, Benedikte (Austria)

Ambrozije, Sabina, Urban (Croatia)

Ambrož (Czech Republic)

Agathon (Denmark)

Piine, Sabiine (Estonia)

Sampsa (Finland)

Ambroise (France)

Ambros, Benedikte, Farah (Germany)

Amvrosios (Greece)

Ambrus (Hungary)

Ambrogio (Italy)

Anta, Antonija, Dzirkstīte, Tonija (Latvia)

Ambraziejus, Daugardas, Tautė (Lithuania)

Hallfrid, Hallstein (Norway)

Agaton, Ambroży, Marcin, Ninomysł (Poland)

Filofteia (Romania)

Ekaterina (Russia)

Ambróz (Slovakia)

Ambrosio (Spain)

Angela, Angelika (Sweden)

Ambrose (Ukraine)

Ambrose, Ambrosine, Jasmin, Jasmine, Jazlyn, Jazmin, Jazmine, Yasmeen, Yasmin, Yasmine, Yazmin (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 341 of 2024; 24 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 49 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 25 (Ji-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 24 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 24 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 11 Zima; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 24 November 2023

Moon: 27%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 5 Bichat (12th Month) [Bradley]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 75 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 16 of 30)

[acrossthearctic]

Sydney to Nice via Dubai

It was great to catch up with some of my fellow travellers at Sydney Airport including those who had been on other Gulliver’s RWC tours with me.

I enjoyed snacks and drinks with Vicki and Paul before boarding the flight. 

I had paid to select my seat and as I particularly wanted an aisle seat in a centre four , I ended up in the very back row. However I really lucked out as there were only two of us in the fours seats. According to the crew they were 2 of the only three empty seats on the plane. The back was also exceptionally quiet with very few people coming down to use the amenities.

I was able to watch part of the Australia v India Cricket before the Japan v Argentina then the crucial Portugal v Fiji Rugby. Wow the Portuguese were tremendous and thoroughly deserved their win - a shame it couldn’t have been by a bit more !

The food was excellent and the flight smooth but unfortunately as usual I did not get any sleep.

The stop at Dubai was just over 3 hours which allowed time to not only navigate to our next departure lounge ( a 30 minute walk) but also to catch up with others in the group and enjoy a coffee ( > $12 each!) 

The Dubai to Nice flight was only about 25%full so I had 4 seats to myself. It was quite funny during the flight to see many  had changed seats and there were sleepers spread out everywhere. It reminded me of a flight Stuart, my mother and I took from Honolulu to Sydney many years ago  when the flight crew said to us during the meal service “ you don’t need to sit together there are so many spare seats”

Breakfast was not as good as the previous leg nor lunch, which is not a criticism but more a compliment to the Sydney facilities.

We arrived at the hotel around 3 pm and most of us tried to keep awake. i went for a short walk around the area.

Welcome drinks and canapes was a good way to start the tour as it gave us the opportunity to meet the 'strangers" in our group. Quite an interesting mix. Joyce and I were pleased to catch up with Damien Frawley , a formed Qld Red and Wallaby who had had a couple of seasons playing at SydneyUni .

We have mixed thoughts on which teams we are going to support now. i think for the games we are attending this weekend Fiji for most of us but sunday is divided betwen Wales and Argentina.

[jpf-sydney]

Monkey business. Volume 5

New item:

Shelf: 905 MON A5 Monkey business. Volume 5 : new writing from Japan. editors Ted Goossen, Motoyuki Shibata.

Brooklyn, N.Y. : Public Space Literary Projects, 2015. ISBN: 9780615962757

197 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Text in English. Majority of the works are translated into English from the Japanese.

Table of contents:

Photographs are images / a vignette by Aoko Matsuda ; translated by Jeffrey Angles.

The great noise / a short story by Masatsugu Ono ; translated by Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen.

Variation and theme / a graphic narrative by Satoshi Kitamura, inspired by "Doubles," a poem by Charles Simic.

The thirteenth month / a short story by Mieko Kawakami ; translated by Hitomi Yoshio.

The crullers / a short story by Stuart Dybek.

Mother leads me from Iwanosaka toward Sugamo / a chapter from a novel by Hiromi Itō ; translated by Jeffrey Angles.

<In another time and place : four stories>

Star date / by Laird Hunt.

Hemingway's valise / by Rebecca Brown.

A ritual / by Matthew Sharpe.

3 > 16 > 44 / by Steve Erickson.

So what shall I write about? / an essay by Haruki Murakami ; translated by Ted Goossen.

Family traditions / a short story by Eric McCormack.

Twelve Twitter stories / by Toh Enjoe ; translated by David Boyd.

Goodbye, Christopher Robin / a short story by Gen'ichirō Takahashi.

Hazuki and me / a short story by Hiromi Kawakami ; translated by Ted Goossen.

Shoehorn technique / comic strips by Ben Katchor.

Under the cherry trees / a short story by Motojirō Kajii ; translated by David Boyd.

In the box / a short story by Taeko Kōno ; translated by Jay Rubin.

The forbidden diary (part 9) / an excerpt from a fictional diary by Sachiko Kishimoto ; translated by Ted Goossen.

This is how we talked about it / a short story by Yōko Hayasuke ; translated by Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen.

On not knowing my own books / an essay by Kelly Link.

Botchan and Tsuru-san / a short story by Taki Monma ; translated by Ted Goossen.

Rivers / a short story by Keita Jin ; translated by Paul Warham.

The book of three hundred teacherous women / an excerpt from a novel by Hideo Furukawa ; translated by Michael Emmerich.

[sugirandom]

Yes, I think it was all part of a fascination with Western culture influenced seeing crosses in fashion and religious themes in Anime and Japanese music. I'll let you know if I do find anything! XD yes vampires and churches do seem to go hand-in-hand and I can think of one Anime I watched that specifically involves the Catholic church and vampires, Trinity Blood and it looks like that was 2006 but other than that I haven't watched too many Vampire Anime.

Yeah, sometimes I wonder if some of it could have been adlibing on Eric Stuart's part. Considering he portrayed Brock and James in Pokemon I'm sure he got used to cracking jokes in-character but I wouldn't know for sure, perhaps it's a mixture of both jokes 4kids wrote and his own adlibing Yes, karaoke was so much fun and I miss it every day lol

Yes, I agree that even though the later seasons aren't weak at all that Battle City was just right in terms of how it was written. Seeing how it's such a large part of the manga it makes sense. I do agree that Dartz wasn't that compelling a villain but certain aspects of the Doma arc were really interesting. By late Battle City it seemed like Atem had shed the darker half of his personality to the point where he was almost willing to give up dueling for the safety of his friends. So, it's interesting to see that when pushed to the edge he very much still had that darker side to him. As for the dynamic with Mai, Valon, and Jou, I found that pretty compelling as well. I know she was still recovering from the damage Malik caused her mentally and was in the perfect state of vulnerability to be manipulated. I do feel like Valon was actually falling for her too though which made it very interesting lol.

Yes, same here! I was so happy to see them celebrating the original Yugioh and to actually see merch with the original characters on it in Japan! Especially after seeing ads in stores for the spin-off. Yeah, to me Ash, despite having his own personality, is kinda like a self-insert for the viewer, I mean he's generic enough that it could work but he also has enough personality that if you don't want to insert yourself it could also work? I know in Japanese he was named after the creator Satoshi, but yeah he is kinda boring. I don't blame you for being more interested in Dawn and Paul.

Certainly we are on the older end of the demographic so that probably affects what interests we had when the show was newly airing. I'd been interested in Egyptian mythology really since 2nd or 3rd grade. I liked all kinds of mythology but I felt like Greek and Roman mythology were being covered to death at that time and got kinda bored to them (to this day I'm trying to push myself to get back to reading them lol) and Egyptian mythology was just so unique. I also found their history and culture fascinating. So yeah, Yugioh relating to it really helped keep me invested.

Yeah, based on what I know about you I understand you preferring Seto Kaiba and the antagonists. I initially focused on Yuugi and his group of friends but I did come to really like Seto Kaiba once I started reading the manga and saw some of the Japanese version, that and having an OC that's a huge fan of him kinda made me pay more attention than I had previously lol. During Battle City I really liked Malik and felt invested in his backstory. I wasn't a fan of Yami Malik though so once he took over full-time I stopped caring as much.

Yes, I absolutely loved how he stylized the characters' decks based on their personalities! That was one of my favorite aspects of his writing. I wanted to do the same with my OCs but since I'm not great at coming up with Dueling strategies it was a bit of a struggle for me tbh.

As the title says this is a mixed dub. Atem is in English and Seto Japanese. So hope you don’t mind. But I do just love the duels in the movie…!

Sugirandom: Ahh, yes I thought when this started that he was using a simulation, dueling in a church does seem dramatic lol. I guess having it be dubbed subbed mix actually made it easier for me to pick up on it being the simulation too because of the disconnect. I don't mind too much, the duel is always epic and it's nice to hear the dub alongside the OG soundtrack instead of 4Kids' music. I really like

Atem's japanese voice though so I'd like to see the whole movie in Japanese one day. I feel like in Japanese Yuugi and Atem sounded more like the same person, he had the deeper voice and different vibe but the voices weren't so different that it felt like the voice was from two seperate bodies.. IDK if that makes sense, I guess it felt like it was easier to imagine that Yuugi was 'possessed' by Atem's spirit in the Japanese version to me.

IDK why I went on that tangent sorry, the CGI in the movie is nice too, it's blended it in nicely and not distracting like some Anime CGI can be! Thanks again for sharing!

[thetweedpig]

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[drumlincountry]

What are your book recommendations? I read the Shiver and Lament series by Maggie Stiefvater like 10 years ago so we might have similar tastes :D

Hi Oliver!! Hope you're well.

Firstly, if you enjoy YA, you might like my podcast, which is my librarian friend and I telling one another about YA books we've read.

Secondly, I keep a spreadsheet of books I've read because that's the kind of person I am. Based on Stiefvater, you might enjoyyyy:

Out of Salem – Hal Schrieve(2019)

It's queer zombies and werewolves doing solidarity and facing a rising wave of fascism in their small town.

My note on it was "big feelings about this one. May not be coherent about it for a little while yet. Everything in the world was in it. 8/10 i think." Hal Schrieve MADE A COMIC ABOUT THE COMMENTS I MADE ABOUT IT. so that was a gorgeous. It's really queer. not just has queer characters, but is deeply and fundamentally queer.

Podcast episode here

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl – Andrea Lawlor (2017)

"this book reminded me why I love reading. Why I love being queer. 10/10. The character is unlikeable sometimes but I still always love him. The slight surrealness is so real though. This is amazing."

Cry of the Icemark - Stuart Hill (2005)

"Love. Reread. Lord I don't care about military snow leopards tho. Skip that and it's perfect. LOVE the grotesque healing cave 9/10"

and a grab bag of books not very like maggie stiefvater but which I adored recently:

Apricots at midnight – Adéle Geras (1977)

"10/10 i love it still. Perfect bedtime stories."

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt (1994)

"I prefer the first half of the book to the second, it loses some of of its charm and colour in the trial details. Also noteworthy that the two points where the author inserts himself most into the narrative is when he is disapproving of the actions of black women. Yikes John. I still love this book. 9/10"

Never Bite A Boy On The First Date - Tamara Summers (2009)

"10/10 a beachy summery vampire romance murder mystery read. Funny and silly and wonderful. Read it in a day."

Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett (1991)

"god i read it in a day. I didn’t realise how early in the run it is. There’s some oddness in that. I love that the moral seems to be that the undead (queer coded and like, reject coded. Punk coded.) is the city’s natural adaption to resist gentrification (mall culture). 9/10 "there's no justice, there's just us.""

House of Leaves – Mark z. Danielewski. (2000)

"I don’t even know what to say. 10/10."

Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto (1993 – english translation)

"9/10 i adored it. One novella in two parts, and one short story/novella. So, 3 parts total. About death and being young in japan. I love the way of writing. A real attention paid to moments. Jamie and I think the author is trans."

Amongst Women – John McGahern (1990)

9/10 i read it all in two days. True. Rough. Teaching a language to me that i don’t know that well. It deflated a bit at the end, as lives do i suppose.

And I'll stop myself now!!!

[hunterben302]

Hondo Guitar Serial Number Lookup

Hondo Acoustic Guitar Serial Number Lookup

Hondo Guitar Serial Number Lookup Yellow Pages

Hondo Guitar Serial Number Lookup

Hondo was an American guitar company and brand owned by IMC, and later Musicorp, that produced a range of entry level to high-end acoustic guitars, electric guitars and basses with designs primarily based on those of classic models such as the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul. From 1972 to 1989 the guitars were mainly produced in Korea by Samick, with the short-lived Professional Series being made in Japan. In 2005, the J.B. Player brand replaced the Hondo name.

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If your guitar was built prior to 1984, or has lost its serial number sticker, the only other way to date your guitar is by looking for a date ink-stamped on the side of the original box switch. August 31, 1987 The format for these dates is (YY/MM/DD). Vintage Hondo Acoustic Guitar Wood And Brass Korea Mkd- VINTAGE Vintage Hondo Acoustic Guitar This Is For An Old Hondo Acoustic Guitar. I Think This Ones From The 1960's But Not 100% Sure. It Is Marked And On The One Area At The Top It Says 21480, It Also Has The Model No In The Inside. Gibson style models’ serial numbers. All Tokai replicas of Gibson guitars, during the first 8 years of their production, had a serial number with 7-digits. The first digit was the year of manufacture. Serial numbers can be found at the following locations. Hondo was an American guitar company and brand owned by IMC, and later Musicorp, that produced a range of entry level to high-end acoustic guitars, electric guitars and basses with designs primarily based on those of classic models such as the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul.From 1972 to 1989 the guitars were mainly produced in Korea by Samick, with the short-lived Professional.

The Hondo guitar company was originally formed in 1969 when Jerry Freed and Tommy Moore of the International Music Corporation (IMC) of Fort Worth, Texas, formed a joint-venture with Korean manufacturer Samick Company. IMC's intent was to introduce modern manufacturing techniques and American/Japanese quality standards to the Korean guitar manufacturing industry. The Hondo concept was to offer an organized product line and solid entry-level market instruments at a fair market price.

Hondo II banjo played by jazz band

Hondo Acoustic Guitar Serial Number Lookup

By 1975, Hondo had distributors in 70 countries worldwide, and had expanded to producing stringed instruments at the time. In 1976, over 22,000 of the Bi-Centennialbanjos were sold. The company also made improvements to the finish quality on their products, introduced scalloped bracing on acoustics, and began using a higher quality brand of tuning machines.

Hondo was one of the first overseas guitar builders to feature American-built DiMarzio pickups on the import instruments beginning in 1978. By this year, a number of Hondo II models featured designs based on classic American favorites. In 1979, over 790,000 Hondo instruments were sold worldwide. In 1980, the Professional Series was introduced, featuring higher-end Japanese-made models, produced by Tokai and Matsumoku (Only the Professional Series models were made in Japan, all other Hondos were made in Korea). These models were sold until 1983, alongside the Korean lineup (which became the Deluxe Series in 1981). At that point, the product line consisted of 485 different models.

In 1985, IMC acquired major interest in the Charvel/Jackson Company, and began dedicating more time and interest in the higher end guitar market. The Hondo trademark went into mothballs around 1989. However, Jerry Freed started the Jerry Freed International Company in 1989, and acquired the rights to the Hondo trademark in 1991. Freed began distribution of a new line of Hondo guitars produced in India, China and Taiwan. In 1993, the revamped company was relocated to Stuart, Florida.

The Hondo Guitar Company was purchased by the MBT International (now Musicorp) in 1995.(1) The Hondo product line was revamped for improved quality while maintaining student-friendly prices. Hondo celebrated their 25th year of manufacturing electric guitars in 1997. Musicorp also owns and distributes J.B. Player instruments which replaced Hondo in 2005.

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References(edit)

^'MBT: Musicorp parent acquires Hondo Guitar. (MBT International Inc.; Musicorp.; Hondo Guitar Co.)'. Music Trades (March 1, 1995). Archived from the original on 2016-03-09.

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Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hondo_(guitar_company)&oldid=972460365'

Vantage Dating and Serialnumbers

VANTAGE serial numbers (electric guitars/basses)

1978?/79: V-100 model: “V-100”-sticker, no serial

1979 models: VLP Spirit: six digit ser.nos. 05xxxx

Vantage Standard – VS: five digit ser.nos. 6xxxx

Hondo Guitar Serial Number Lookup Yellow Pages

Vantage Performer – VP: five digit ser.nos. 7xxxx 700VP

Vantage Artist – VA: five digit ser.nos. 8xxxx VA-800

Ghost (VP-750): no or hard to read serial number. 1979 models: 4 digit serial number.

1979/1980 (until 4/80): 6 digit serial numbers: 0xxxxx

1980 (April) – 1984 (June?): 7 digit serial numbers First digit = year of production (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984) Digits 2 + 3 = month of production VS-650 0040415 = 1980 – April – 0415

1980/81: VA-900 series: 6 digits: First digit (0 or 1) = year Digts 2+3 month VA-900 006108 = 1980 – June – 108

7 digit # for late ’81 models

1981/82: “Special” series of VP and VA models: five digit ser.nos: 71xxx or 72xxx(VP), 81xxx or 82xxx(VA) (following the number system of their ’79/ ’80 predecessors)

1984 – 1988: Letter prefix serial numbers: (A-L)xxxxxx: letter=month – A=January – B=February – C=March – D=April – E-May – F=June – G=July – H=August – I=September – J=October – K=November – L=December First digit=year of production (unconfirmed!) 33B-XF J500338 = October – 1985 – 00338

1990 – 1998 (Samick models):

Acoustic models (THis information is not verefied!!!) Matsumoku didn’t produce any acoustic guitars themself. Their were set out to other factories.

Hondo Guitar Serial Number Lookup

Here’s a list of producers with the code: S = Samick C = Cort K = KWO F = Fujigen P = Peerless factory in Pusan Korea. PA = Acoustic and PE = Electric

[geekcavepodcast]

MGM Working on “Yasuke” Film

MGM is working on a film based on the life of Yasuke, a native of Portuguese Mozambique who was taken to Japan as a slave in the 16th century and became a samurai for Oda Nobunaga. 

Stuart C. Paul is writing the script. Whalerock Industries’ Lloyd Braun and Andrew Mittman are producing.

Deadline broke the news.

[mikhaelasworld]

SUPER MODEL PROFILE | COCO ROCHA

Coco Rocha is a Canadian fashion model.She is known as one of the first "digital" supermodels, and is known for her advocacy for younger models. As an author, she collaborated on the 2014 book Study of Pose. She is also the founder of the Coco Rocha Model Camp and co-owner of the Nomad Management Modeling Agency.

In 2002, agent Charles Stuart approached Coco at an Irish dance competition and asked her if she would consider modeling for him. At that point, she had never thought of modeling before. When she did begin to model, her knowledge of fashion was limited. Initially Coco spent time modeling in Asia, where she would shoot up to 75 looks a day for two months. She returned to New York and signed an exclusive contract with photographer Steven Meisel, who created a list of clients she could and could not work with. Of the time,She as stated that, "the industry started to hear about this list, so when I finally got to Paris, big designers were trying to get their name on the list. It was, now looking back, one of the craziest times in my career."She became known as one of the first models to harness social media,and earned the nickname the “Queen of Pose”. Meisel shot an editorial of Coco with Gemma Ward and Amanda Moore, which appeared on the cover of the April 2006 issue of Vogue Italia.

Coco has been on the cover of many top fashion magazines including American, Brazilian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Mexican and Spanish Vogue, Russian, Australian, Singaporean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Serbian, Thai, Brazilian and Mexican Harper's Bazaar, Flare, Fashion, Numéro, L'Officiel, W, Dazed & Confused, i-D, Vanity Fair, Time Style & Design, among others.

She has modeled in New York, London, Milan, Paris, Canada, Australia and Asia and has work with the biggest fashion houses and top brands around the world such as Versace, Americana Manhasset, Balenciaga, Chanel, D&G, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Lanvin, The Gap,Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Karl Largerfield,Anna Sui,Jean Paul Gautier, Donna Karan,Michael Kors,Ports 1961,Tommy Hilfiger, Yves Saint Laurent,Esprit, Liz Claiborne,Calvin Klein, Nicole Farhi, DeBeers, Zac Posen, Rimmel,Tatras Japan,Balmain,Mary Kay, Top Shop and more.

In June 2016, Coco took a management and ownership stake at Nomad Mgmt Modeling Agency and served as the brand director for the agency. In her new role, she works with models to help them develop strategies for their career. The agency roster includes Soo Joo Park, Jourdana Phillips, and herself. She also helped launch the agency’s first office outside of the US, located in Vietnam, in addition to opening a Los Angeles booking agency.

She privately trained models entering the fashion industry, such as Kendall and Kylie Jenner, through one-on-one consultations, from which she developed the idea for a model camp. In July 2018 Rocha opened the Coco Rocha Model Camp in a renovated 8,000 square foot property that can house about a dozen model students at a time. The program is attended in four-day sessions, instructing students on the modeling industry, and Coco has also taught the program at Harvard University.

Aside from modeling Coco married artist James Conran on June 9, 2010. In October 2014, She announced via her Facebook page, that they were expecting their first child, a girl, due in Spring of 2015. Rocha gave birth to their daughter, Ioni James Conran, on March 28, 2015. In December 2017, she announced that they were expecting their second child. Coco gave birth to son Iver Eames Conran, on April 20, 2018.In July 2020, she announced that they were expecting their third child, a girl, due in November.

[dailytomlinson]

'Don't Let It Break Your Heart' is a simple and elegant ballad about resilience and taking time to heal after tough times, written by Louis with Stuart Crichton, Stephen Wrabel, Cole Citrenbaum and James Newman, and produced by Steve Mac.

The music video is again directed by Charlie Lightening (Paul McCartney and Liam Gallagher), and is the third part of the story that ran through Louis' recent ‘Kill My Mind’ and 'We Made It' music videos.

Louis says: "Don’t Let It Break Your Heart is a song I’m really proud of.

"It’s a song about hope and seeing the glass as half full."

'Don't Let It Break Your Heart' is taken from Louis' highly anticipated debut solo album, Walls, released January 31st 2020.

Louis recently announced a World Tour for 2020 that will visit London, Glasgow, Doncaster and Manchester, alongside Europe, UAE, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, the USA and Canada.

Earlier this year Louis headlined the Coca-Cola music festival in Madrid to an audience of 25,000 people and recently performed to 65,000 fans at Premios Telehit in the Foro Sol stadium in Mexico City.

He also picked up the Best Song Award at the 2019 Teen Choice Awards for his recent single 'Two Of Us', which has so far hit 40 million streams on Spotify, with YouTube views at 23 million.

In 2018 Louis won an iHeart Award for 'Best Solo Breakout', and an EMA Award for 'Best UK & Ireland Act' in 2017. He was ranked No. 5 on Billboard’s emerging artists of 2018 and has over 60 million combined followers on social media.

As a member of One Direction, Louis has sold over 100 million records. Overall Louis’s solo music has garnered over a BILLION streams.

[jpf-sydney]

Monkey business. Volume 04

New item:

Shelf: 905 MON A4 Monkey business. Volume 4 : new writing from Japan. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Public Space Literary Projects, 2014. ISBN: 9780615962757 167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

"Published annually"--Title page verso. Text in English. Majority of the works are translated into English from the Japanese.

Table of contents:

Everybody's got something to hide except me and my money / a story with objects by Craft Ebbing & Co. ; translated by David Boyd.

The man who turned into a buoy / a short story by Masatsugu Ono ; translated by Michael Emmerich.

Unforgettable people / a short story by Doppo Kunikida ; translated by Jay Rubin.

Naked / a short story by Stuart Dybek.

A record of my grandmother / a short story by Toh EnJoe ; translated by Terry Gallagher.

The punish / a short story by Brian Evenson.

A message to my Japanese readers / by Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Denis Johnson, Salvador Plascencia.

The bears of Mount Nametoko : a remix of a tale by Kenji Miyazawa / a short story by Hideo Furukawa ; translated by Michael Emmerich.

Eri's Physics / a short story by Yōko Hayasuke ; translated by Ryan Shaldjian Morrison.

The lighthouse on the desk / tanka poems by Mina Ishikawa ; translated by Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen.

The girl behind the register blows bubbles / a short story by Keita Jin ;  translated by Paul Warham.

People from my negiborhood. Part 3 / a vignette by Hiromi Kawakami ; translated by Ted Goossen.

The little girl blows up her pee anxiety, my heart races / a short story by Mieko Kawakami ; translated by Hitomi Yoshio.

The forbidden diary. Part 4 / an excerpt from a fictional diary by Sachiko Kishimoto ; translated by Ted Goossen.

The restaurant of many orders / a short story by Kenji Miyazawa ; translated by Roger Pulvers.

White socks / a short story by Taki Monma ;  translated by Ted Goossen.

After Ryūnosuke, before Ryūnosuke / a short story by David Peace.

Tailor's dummies / a manga by the Brother and Sister Nishioka ; based on the short story by Bruno Schulz ; translated by Celina Wieniewska.

The global distributed self-mirroring subterranean neurological soul-sharing picture show : on Haruki Murakami's fiction / an essay by Richard Powers.

Three very short stories / by Matthew Sharpe.

Demon beasts / a short story by Gen’ichirō Takahashi ; translated by Ryan Shaldjian Morrison.

The little match-girl / a manga by Fumiko Takano ; based on the short story by Hans Christian Andersen ; translated by H. B. Paull.

The sarasate disk / a short story by Hyakken Uchida ; translated by David Boyd.

[louistomlinsoncouk]

Louis Tomlinson today releases his beautiful new single 'Don't Let It Break Your Heart'.

'Don't Let It Break Your Heart' is a simple and elegant ballad about resilience and taking time to heal after tough times, written by Louis with Stuart Crichton, Stephen Wrabel, Cole Citrenbaum and James Newman, and produced by Steve Mac.

Listen and watch the lyric video here: http://louis-tomlinson.co/DLIBYH

The music video is again directed by Charlie Lightening (Paul McCartney and Liam Gallagher), and is the third part of the story that ran through Louis's recent ‘Kill My Mind’ and 'We Made It' videos.

Louis says: "Don’t Let It Break Your Heart is a song I’m really proud of. It’s a song about hope and seeing the glass as half full."

'Don't Let It Break Your Heart' is taken from Louis's highly anticipated debut solo album 'Walls', released January 31st 2020.

Louis recently announced a Wold Tour for 2020 that will visit London, Glasgow, Doncaster and Manchester, alongside Europe, UAE, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, the USA and Canada.

Earlier this year Louis headlined the Coca-Cola music festival in Madrid to an audience of 25,000 people, and recently performed to 65,000 fans at Premios Telehit in the Foro Sol stadium in Mexico City. He also picked up the Best Song Award at the 2019 Teen Choice Awards for his recent single 'Two Of Us', which has so far hit 40 million streams on Spotify, with YouTube views at 23 million. In 2018 Louis won an iHeart Award for 'Best Solo Breakout', and an EMA Award for 'Best UK & Ireland Act' in 2017. He was ranked No.5 on Billboard’s emerging artists of 2018 and has over 60 million combined followers on social media.

As a member of One Direction, Louis has sold over 100 million records. Overall Louis’s solo music has garnered over a BILLION streams.

UK Tour Dates

23.03 Roundhouse, London

24.03 Roundhouse, London (SOLD OUT)

26.03 O2 Academy, Glasgow (SOLD OUT)

27.03 Dome, Doncaster (SOLD OUT)

28.03 O2 Apollo, Manchester (SOLD OUT)