#Stephen Alan Brown

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. - He's dead, all right. So cold. - Is the pizza?

The Slumber Party Massacre, Amy Holden Jones (1982)

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The Electric State Teaser

After a robot uprising in the '90s, an orphaned teen "ventures across the American West with a cartoon-inspired robot, a smuggler, and his sidekick in search of her younger brother." (Netflix)

The Electric State stars Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, Giancarlo Esposito, and Stanley Tucci and the voice talents of Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo, and Alan Tudyk. The film is directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo from a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.

The Electric State hits Netflix on March 14, 2025.

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Therapist Reacts to THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

I haven’t clicked on a video so fast in a while!

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MY FAVORITE POETRY OF 2024 (Prologue) This was a bit of a different reading year for me. There were plenty of new books that I enjoyed, but I was mostly dipping into (not rereading cover to cover) books I've read before. Also, I've been reading a lot for my Jewish studies, which is time I wasn't reading fiction or poetry. So while I did read a fair amount, the total of that isn't reflected in this annual end-of-year book post.

On the ground level, this was another good year for me. My second full-length poetry collection, Wrong Horse, was published by Moria Books in January. In October, a chapbook of "spooky" poems, There's Nothing Out There, was published by above/ground press. I had ten poems published across five magazines and six more poems accepted for publication and appearing next year. My second book hasn't gotten as many reviews as I'd hoped so far, but I think its release did help me be part of more readings this year, which was very fun (special shout out to the folks who came out for the Wrong Tour dates).

Of course, I wasn't able to read all I wanted to this year--a good problem to have for the future. And, as always, these books are just my favorites, not a best of list.

FAVORITE FULL-LENGTH POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2024 Wrong Norma by Anne Carson (New Directions) This is Not a Place of Honor by John Leo (Night Gallery) The Ruins of Nostalgia by Donna Stonecipher (Wesleyan)

FAVORITE CHAPBOOK OF 2024 Swim Lessons by Elizabeth Taddonio (self-released)*

FAVORITE POETRY COLLECTION OF LAST YEAR (2023) I DIDN’T READ UNTIL THIS YEAR (2024) Ablation by Danika Stegeman (11:11 Press)

FAVORITE POEM PUBLISHED IN 2024 "On Love" by Sara Nicholson in Little Mirror

FAVORITE NOVEL PUBLISHED IN 2024 I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger (Grove Atlantic)

DID MY FAVORITE FICTION WRITER PUBLISH A NEW BOOK IN 2024 BECAUSE IF SHE DID I READ IT Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams (Tin House)

BOOK THAT MESSED ME UP IN 2024 Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars tr. Alan Brown (NYRB Classics, 2004)

REMAINING TBR FROM THIS YEAR (2024) James by Percival Everett (Knopf) Falling Fine: Selected and New Poems by Matt Hart (Ledge Mule) You Like It Darker by Stephen King (Scribner)**

CURRENTLY READING Collected Poems by Louis Jenkins (Will O' the Wisp Books)

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*A collection of nonfiction essays.

**Some of stories in this collection I was able to read via audiobook. I was most interested in the "sequel" to Cujo, "Rattlesnakes," which I did listen to and thought was better than Cujo.

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Books I’ve consumed so far in 2024:

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll

How to Read Nature: An Expert’s Guide to Discovering the Outdoors You Never Noticed by Qarie Marshall

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli

The World According to Physics by Jim Al-Khalili

How Not To Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet by Sean B. Carroll

Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber

The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh

I am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg

Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words by Maxfield Sparrow

All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran

Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults by Finn V. Gratton, LMFT, LPCC

Nisa by Marjorie Shostak

Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky

21 Lessons for the 21st History by Yuval Harrari

The Book Of Secrets by Deepak Chopra

The Joy of Science by Jim Al-Khalili

The Rock Warriors Way by Arno IIgner

The Pursuit of Endurance by Jennifer Pharr Davis

Quantum Mechanics, Technology, Consciousness and the Multiverse by Martin Ettington

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Connecting with the Autism Spectrum by Casey “Remrov” Vormer

Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession with Einstein by Brian Greene

A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson

10 Days in Physics that Shook the World by Brian Clegg

On Being a Therapist by Jeffrey Kottler

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the language of the human experience by Brene Brown

What do you really want? By Cayla Craft

The Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

Chemistry for Breakfast by Dr. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

A Molecule Away from Madness by Sara Manning Peskin

Quantum Wonder: How the Tiny Drives Our Immense Reality by Carl AL-Khalili

Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha Linehan

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply by David Brooks

Speed Reading by Kam Knight

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth

You Are Not an Imposter by Coline Monsarrat

You are the Placebo by Dr. Joe Dispenza

Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History by Alan Sepinwall

Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams

DBT Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide to Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Sheri Van Dijk MSW

Move on Motherf*cker: Live, Laugh, and Let Sh*t Go by Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt, Emma Bryne PhD

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Real and proven strategies for managing anxiety by Charlie Norman

CBT Workbook: 7 Strategies to Overcome Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, Worry, Intrusive Thoughts by Mind Change Academy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A comprehensive guide to DBT and using Behavior Therapy to Manage Borderline Personality Disorder by Christopher Rance

Somatic Psychotherapy: A Comprehensive Guide to Theoretical and Practical Considerations by Hale Boyd

Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Regulate Emotions, Panic, Anger. Guide for BPD by Dustin Drig

How Confidence Works: The new science of self belief by Ian Robertson

Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm by Thich Nhat Hanh

The God Equation by Michio Kaku

Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Cindy Crosby

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed by Jim Al-Khalili

Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh

Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon

Reality is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli

Resurrecting the Body, Reinventing the Soul by Deepak Chopra

A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett

What the Future Looks like by Jim Al-Khalil

Retirement 101: From 401(k) Plans to Social Security Benefits to Asset Management by Michele Cagan

Still the Mind by Alan Watts

Anchor System Thinking by A.I. Shoukry

Finance Basics by Harvard Business Review

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

A Brief History of Earth by Andrew Knoll

The Physics Book by DK

Investing for Beginners by David Cohne

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and your Health by Professor David Nutt

Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality by David Linden

Psychedelics by Professor David Nutt

What do you need? By Lauren Wesley Wilson

Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins

Endure by Cameron Hanes

Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh

Die with Zero: Getting all you can with your money and your life by Bill Perkins

How Humans Evolved by Robert Boyd and Joan Silk

No Bad Parts by Richard C. Schwartz,PHD

The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World by Suzie Sheehy

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

Bumpin: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy by Leslie Schrock

Choose Strong by Sally McRae

Outgrowing God by Richard Dawkins

Can We Talk about Israel? By Daniel Sokatch

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays by Stephen Hawking

Hal Koerner’s Field Guide to Ultra Running by Hal Koerner

The Science and Art of Running by Cooper Barton

Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness by Scott Jurek

North: Finding my Way While Running the Appalachian Trail by Scott Jurek & Jenny Jurek

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Securities Industries Essentials by Kaplan

Above the Clouds by Kilian Jornet

What is Life? by Paul Nurse

What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Mastering Logical Fallacies by Michael Withey

This is why you Dream by Rahul Jandial,MD,PHD

The Tao of Running by Gary Dudney

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins

Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions and the Future of the Cosmos by Michio Kaku

Dance of the Photons by Anton Zelinger

Quantum Body by Deepak Chopra

The Heart of Understanding by Thich Nhat Hanh

Annuity 360 Learn All You Need to Know About Annuities by Ford Strokes

Quantum Entanglement by Jed Brody

Relationships by Ram Dass

The Way of Zen by Alan Watts

Ultimate Confidence by Ralf Aabot

101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest

The Science of Happiness by Brendan Kelly

Fighting for our Friendships by Danielle Bayard Jackson

One Day My Soul Just Opened Up by Iyanla Vanzant

K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts

Know that I Am by Eckhart Tolle

Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller

Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships by Dr. Sue Johnson

Girls that Invest by Simran Kaur

Slow Productivity by Cal Newport

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle

Retroactive Jealousy by Vincenzo Venezia

Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday

The Best American Essays 2022 by Alexander Chee & Robert Atwan

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Insecure in love by Leslie Becker-Phelps PHD

Codependent No More by Melody Beattie

Be Here Now by Ram Dass

Reality, Art, and Illusion by Alan Watts

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

We Will be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson and Matt Everymann

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Series 7 by Kaplan

What Every Therapist Ought to Know: Attachment, Arousal Regulation, and Clinical Techniques in Clinical Therapy by Stan Tatkin, Psyd,MFT

Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

Touching a Nerve: Our Brain, Our Selves by Patricia Churchland

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek

Creativity, Inc. ( The expanded edition)by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

Bang Crunch Stories by Neil Smith

There are places in the world where rules are less important than kindness and other thoughts in physics, philosophy, and the World by Carlo Rovelli

Let it go by chelene knight

Waters of the world: the stories of the scientists who unraveled the mysteries of the oceans, atmosphere, and Ice Sheets by Sarah Dry

List of Books I Consumed in 2023:

The Last climb by David Breashears, Audrey Selkeld, and Audry Salkend

What is Life by Schrodinger

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Beyond Feeling: A Guide to Critical Thinking by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero

Furniture by Kevin Sheetz

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Relativity by Albert Einstein

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

An Immense World by Ed Yong

Quantum Supremacy by Michio Kaku

White Holes by Carlo Rovelli

A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda

Outlive by Peter Attia

Until the End of Time by Brian Greene

Tribe by Sebastian Junger

Ghosts of Everest by Jochen Hemmleb

Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

Mind and Matter by Schrodinger

Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin

Grit by Angela Duckworth

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a fuck by Mark Manson

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Ethical Slut by Janet Hardy and Dossie Easton

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert

Homo Deus Summary a Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Harari

Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold

Why we Believe in God (s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith by J. Anderson Thomson

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution of Modern Science by Werner Heisenberg

The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Chopra

Sacred Woman by Queen Afja

Everest: The West Ridge by Thomas Hornbein

Tracks by Robyn Davidson

The Ink Dark Moon by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikoku

Einstein by Walter Isaacson

Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman

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other books from Daniel’s apartment i’ve been able to pick out are “ADVICE AND DISSENT: WHY AMERICA SUFFERS WHEN ECONOMICS AND POLITICS COLLIDE” by Alan S. Blinder (2018), Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff (2021) and Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray (2005)

i really wish we could see all the books the set designers chose! i feel like the ones we can see/read more clearly might've been intentional choices but i wonder how intentional others are. were they just randomly picked as set dressing, or can they offer any insight into daniel? have some been left behind by someone else? an ex-wife/daughter/etc... (did anyone else ever live in this apartment too? or has it always been just him?)

i can make out a few by the tv:

Dairy Queen Days by Robert Inman (1997)

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown (2006)

Attila: The Judgement by William Napier (2008)

In a Heartbeat by Rosalind Noonan (2010)

The Lost Recipe for Happiness by Barbara O'Neal (2008)

Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism by Jacques Dupuis (1997)

Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle by Anna Chalcraft, Judith Viscardi (2007)

The Yoga Book: A Practical Guide to Self-realization Through the Practice of Ashtanga Yoga by Stephen Sturgess (1997)

A Pictorial History of the Talkies by Daniel Blum (1958)

(yes i already pointed that last one out but i wanted to include it in the list)

[cherri-the-role-playaz]

𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚 𝐀. 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥.🍒

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲: 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐬.

"𝐇𝐢, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲."

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𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: Chrysta Anastasia Campbell.

𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬: - "Cherry" By most people, specifically The Lost Boys.

- "Chrys" by people like Sam Emerson, and Michael Emerson. "Miss Chrysta" By Lucy Emerson, Grandpa Emerson. "Anastasia" By Max Lawerence. "Juice-box" Used by the Frog Brothers, Edgar and Alan. "Chick" and "Babe" by Michael Emerson.

-Pet names include and exclusively used by David Williams are "Doll" "Baby-Doll" and "Kitten"

-Pet names include and exclusively used by Dwayne Stephens are "Mama" "Mi amor" "Doll-Face"

-Pet names include and exclusively used by Paul Harris are "Mama" "Baby" "Baby-Doll" "Angel"

-Pet names include and exclusively used by Marko Bianchi are "Angel" "Angel-Face" "Bimbo" "Amore"

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𝐀𝐠𝐞: 19 years old.

𝐒𝐞𝐱: CIS Female.

-She/Her pronouns.

-𝐒𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: Bisexual, Polyamorous.

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𝐃𝐨𝐁: August 8th, 1968.

-𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧: Leo.

-𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞: Peridot.

-𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫: Gladiolus

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-𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧/𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡: Salt Lake City, Utah.

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲/𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲: American, White.

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬: Alive.

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𝐎𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭. Chrysta is a worker and helper at her Aunts small salon shop along the strip at the boardwalk. She usually is running register and stalking dyes and nail polish or sweeping up hair while her Aunt deals with clients, but when there's a rush or two in the week, Chrysta is there to help aid in cutting hair, or doing nails. It is her main source of income even if her allowance isn't that plentiful with all her work.

-𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲. Since he's a stay-at-home client, Chrysta runs deliveries to mister Emersons home upon the request of her Aunt, who makes him microwave ready meals that he can use and make throughout the week, so he isn't living off of Oreos and root beer. She also comes over now and then to give him a haircut/beard trim.

"𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐭 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭? 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐈 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫... 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐡?"

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𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞: Apple, square.

-𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝: Toned arms and inframammary. Soft, and slight plump in stomach, hips, and thighs.

-𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: Five foot four inches.

-𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: One-hundred and twenty-eight pounds.

-𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞-𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦: Brooke Sheilds.

-𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐞: Very soft, smooth, low and flirty.

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𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫: Natural brown/brunette.

-𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡: Short, mid-length to her neck.

-𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐬: Usually worn down with large, loose curls or full volume waves.

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𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫: Deep green.

-𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞: Big doe-eyes.

-𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬: None.

𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐬: None.

𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬: Two beauty marks dotted on her cheeks and one on her chin. Also, multiple sunspots along her arms, legs, and backside.

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𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: Large red lensed sunglasses with cherry charms hanging from them.

-Red, almond-shaped acrylic nails.

-Large silver hoop earrings.

-Cherry scented lip-gloss always on her person at all times.

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𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬: Fake metals, pollen.

𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞: A-negative.

𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬, 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬: Fear of loneliness.

-Fear of abandonment.

-Fear of disappointment.

-Fear of heartbreak.

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𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬: Dancing, makeup, music, sweets, candy, hair styling, teen magazines, gossip, the boardwalk, rides, carnival games, jewelry, nail art, clothes, swimming, surfing, bike rides, summer.

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬: Being alone, being grounded, missing out, rude people, being scared, rude people, catcalling, school.

-𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝: food truck corn dog with honey.

-𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤: Cherry Coca-Cola.

-𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭: cotton candy.

-𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫: Baby pink and crimson.

-𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞: Legend.

-𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠: Rebel Yell by Billy Idol.

-𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲: Sneaking out to the Boardwalk.

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Chrysta's boardwalk wardrobe consists of tightly fitted jeans and a jean jacket with rhinestone spangles along the back, arms, and pockets. She wears a simple white tank top with silver hoop earrings and a cross necklace, along with charm bracelets and a couple rings on her fingers. Her makeup is a striking silverly blue eye shadow and pink glossy lip with a pack-ton of blush.

-Other appearances includes her more casual fit for a day in at the Salon, which is jeans and a fuzzy white sweater with multi-colored polka dots all over it.

-Her Pajamas which one would consider the most casual lingerie one could get with it consisting of a lot of silks and lace.

"𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐝, 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐲... 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞..."

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𝐌𝐁𝐓𝐈: 𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐏. 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲, 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬. Chrysta is a very charismatic, flirtatious young lady who's always up for any thrill you can offer. Chrysta is the personification of a lady straight from the 80s- a California dream from the magazines. While she gives of an intimidating presence, she's extremely kind, and a very sweet, soft-hearted young woman who is welcome to friends and meeting people. 

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭, 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭, 𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭: Extrovert. Chrysta is very much a people person, any adventure she has on the boardwalk is involved in random groups she tags along with for concerts, sneaking onto rides, or running to the secluded parts of the beach to go swimming.

𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐬: 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭. Chrysta is very confident, and it projects in her appearance or attitude. She's very bold and striking, that of a bird, always trying to show off her colors and striking feathers. When she walks on the boardwalk her head is held high, and she struts with boldness.

-𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠. Chrysta seems like she'll say yes to anything, which makes her come off a little reckless. But Chrysta is simply a sheltered girl who is somehow trying to catch up and enjoy her youth all at the same time. With adulthood seemingly around the corner, she wants to jump at any opportunity it seems she'll never get the chance to have ever again.

-𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲. Chrysta has an overwhelmingly kindness and want to make everyone her best friend. Within an instant she's dragging you to every store and shop at the boardwalk, yapping your ear off with the newest gossip she's heard from the salon or read in her magazines. 

-𝐅𝐥𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲. Heavens above this girl is a flirt. Doesn't matter what gender you are, Chrysta will do anything in her power to see a shy smile or a little blush on someone's cheeks. She enjoys flattery and seeing people's self-confidence bloom if all she has to do amp up a bit of sweet-talk. Another thing is it's a lovely perk for a free meal or sneaking onto a ride without having to pull your wallet out.

-𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠. Chrysta's a very sympathetic person, especially toward kids. She's a caretaker of Laddie a lot of the time, mostly tag teaming with Star on watching him when they go to the Boardwalk or beach. She continues to visit Grandpa Emerson as often as she can before Lucy and the boys had showed up, wanting to keep the lonely man as much company as she could. She knows what it's like to feel lonely or abandoned, and she does everything she can to make sure the ones she loves don't feel that way when with her.

𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐬: 𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐲. Chrysta has a bit of an envy bug and can be quick to jealousy. It's a habit she isn't proud of, knowing a big part of it is due to most of her life yearning for a life like in the movies, with the newest fashion and hottest boys, sometimes she can't help but wish for more.

-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬. Chrysta can be very reckless in her choice making. Once again, having the 'only live once' mind-set can lead her to making some wrong decisions in the long run. Her fear of not living her life to the fullest in turn causes her to act foolishly, and sometimes even dangerously in acts of peer-pressure.

-𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧. With her reckless nature in the debacle, Chrysta's stubbornness added onto that is a recipe for disaster. You can't talk her down from the cliff she's willingly walked herself onto, once her mind is set you can't change it. Especially if one openly dislikes her decision, it seems her urge to rebel grows stronger.

-𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬. Chrysta can be very self-conscious. Shocking from a girl who shows off confidence to the public eye, but behind closed doors she tends to be very worried about her image and her fragile pride. She seems to see every flaw that needs to be fixed or covered up with pounds of makeup. 

-𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬. Chrysta doesn't like to be told what to do and in return and can cause her to act out. From sneaking out to getting her ears pierced or a tattoo, it doesn't help with the individuals she spends her time with and influence.

"𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞... 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐲 𝐀𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲, 𝐤𝐚𝐲?"

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𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲: Andy Sansbury [Biological Mother], Charles Campbell [Biological Father], Susan Campbell [Stepmother], Danny Campbell [Younger stepbrother], Markus Campbell [Younger stepbrother], Violet Campbell [Younger stepsister], Jessie 'Aunty' Sansbury [Biological Aunt].

-Chrysta grew up in Utah with both of her parents till about the age of six when her mother d fathers marriage began to grow strained. The divorce wasn't very messy, but her life afterwards was much harder. Her parents seemed to be constantly at each other's throats over the smallest things, wanting to make their lives miserable as much as they could without having to be a part of it. It resulted in a lot of Chrysta's life being ignored or used as an excuse in their mistakes they had made through their marriage.

Chrysta grew up living with her father, Charles, given he was a wealthy businessman and could keep income, unlike her mother, Andy, who was constantly in and out of medical care due to her worsening health. Her father was quick to remarry after the divorce, and met a lady named Susan, who- to put it bluntly- tried to replace Chrysta's mother. She was always pushing and pressuring Chrysta into their lifestyle, forcing her to call her 'mom' and take care of her new stepsiblings. 

It felt as though her only escape was when she'd spend her summers in Santa Carla at her Aunts home. No school, no fights, no dad or stepmom, just fun, living, thrill seeking. It started out as a wholesome, familial tradition that had been in place since she was about seven years old... But the older she got, the clearer it was to Chrysta that these 'visits' were starting to become a way for her father to get rid of her. Her relationship with him is very tense, because it's obvious he wants to restart with his 'new family' and Chrysta is in the way of that. So now she's working at her Aunty's salon, scrounging up enough money to run away and live in Santa Carla permanently.

It didn't help that it feeling like even in her summers, Chrysta couldn't even be a girl. Her Aunty was always an extremely over-protective woman, and it never changed. If anything, it only grew worse as the years went on, and Chrysta grew older. Don't be out on the boardwalk after eight, no inviting anyone inside after dark, don't move or touch any of the crosses on the walls, doors stay locked, and the salon doesn't open no later than seven in the morning or when the sun rises.

And no matter how many times she asks, or always begs to go out with her friends, her Aunty always tells her one thing, the same thing night after night: 

"That's when the Vampires come out to play..."

But, alas. Chrysta's nineteen, a teen girl, a little rule breaking won't affect her- especially when she has all her gal pals expecting her on the boardwalk to watch some totally hot performers that night! So Chrysta quickly creates herself a routine around when her Aunty goes to bed, crashed in her bedroom at nine o'clock, the TV droning some old soap opera, loud enough Chrysta can easily open up her window, and swiftly hop out and sneak right onto the boardwalk for a night of fun, and be home without catching any notice.

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Chrysta had been playing cat and mouse with a group of leather clad vampires since the beginning of summer that year- it seemed anywhere she was, they were there, or vice versa. Something about them seemed oh so tempting and curious to her, she felt as though she couldn't stay away.

And everytime she caught one of their attention, soon followed by the rest, she'd quickly shy away the second all eyes were on her. Disappearing into a store or crowd, some little anticipation in the back of her mind hoping they'd chase soon after.

It wasn't until one night they had followed her into the Video rental store she realized she might get caught in her 'playing hard to get antics' even leading them on just a bit more by sneaking around aisles just for a bit longer, before she was trapped in my David and Dwayne down one side, and Paul and Marko by the other, almost circling her as if animals hunting prey.

Of course now getting caught she was rather shy and quiet, the four sweet talkers asking her name and what she was doing tonight- even telling her they had a nickname for the mysterious chick following them around- Chrysta getting the name 'Cherri' from them. She's never gotten an answer why they choose to call her that... But the boys knew that when she was around, the faint scent of blood and cherry perfume would linger in the night air.

After a while of talking and playful banter, Max comes in to scold the four reckless teens and asked Chrysta if they were bothering her- but Chrysta quickly stepped in to defend them, fibbing her and the boys way out of any bad news that'd get her caught by her aunt.

As thanks for helping them get past the old man Max, David offers her 'just one ride' on his bike around the boardwalk. She's been hanging with the boys ever since. 

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𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬/𝐀𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: Michael Emerson, Sam Emerson, The Lost Boys.

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜/𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬: Lucy Emerson, Max Lawerence, Grandpa Emerson.

𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥: Star, The Lost Boys, Frog Brothers.

𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬: Max Lawerence.

𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 (s): Any/or all The Lost Boys, your OC, or Michael Emerson. [I usually RP a Poly relationship with the boys, and if one is comfortable, your OC as well. But if you're not comfortable with that idea I'm OK with any of the boys for a singular love interest! I usually lean toward David as my favorite.]

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𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧. 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬: Chrysta had met Michael the day he, Sam, and his mom were new residence to Santa Carla. Chrysta was a regular to the Elder Emerson resident considering her aunt would send her there once or twice every week with some prepared meals for Grandpa Emerson in return for doing some freaky taxidermy of all her aunts' old dogs. So Chrysta had caught the two new boys to town and happily introduced herself, immediately sparking some flirty commentary between herself and Michael- of course nothing more really sparked from it, Chrysta knew she'd be in a little trouble if she got too caught up in those blue eyes and charming smile. But she does get caught on the job flirting and talking with him at the register a few times.

𝐒𝐚𝐦 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧. 𝐒𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝, 𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬: Sam didn't really mind Chrysta before, he found himself a little annoyed with her teasing or her flirting with his older brother, but they seemed to not mind one another- even the smallest hint of a sibling dynamic between the two when Lucy had brought him over for a haircut and she got a bit more one on one time to get to know him. He grows a bit distant and skeptical of her after he finds out about her being with The Lost Boys, and the added fact of a lot of stories and rumors the Frog Brothers have about her.

𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐲 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧. 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲, 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: Lucy met Chrysta the same time the young woman had met Sam and Michael. Chrysta's relationship with Lucy is nothing but motherly, the woman is just the sweetest person she's met in Santa Carla in a long time and given Chrysta's mother is currently undergoing illness and surgeries, it's nice to have an older woman figure like Lucy- especially with her aunt being a bit... Cooky. She gets closer to Lucy through Sam and his haircuts- and Chrysta even offers and has helped get her dressed up and all dolled-out for a few dates she goes on with Max.

𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐠. 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧-𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: The Frogs are pretty hostile and suspicious of Chrysta since the moment she even stepped into Santa Carla. It only got worse when they saw her getting on the back of a bike with their top list suspects of being Vampires. They assume she's somehow hypnotized or being used as some sort of servant Juicebox they'll have to interview and get more information from. But, to Chrysta, it's like two pestering, annoying little cousins/brothers always trying to cause trouble to her poor clients.

𝐌𝐚𝐱 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: Max is a very... Off putting character to Chrysta. It isn't to say he isn't a nice man; he just has something about him that always make her feel some nagging in the back of her mind to keep her distance- which doesn't help due to the boys hanging around his Video store a few times- enough times that she's always pulled into the strange, offering for her to join their family on a more permanent basis. He's extremely vague and always calling her by her middle name, Anastasia, and every time she asks, he merely waves her off with a chuckle, saying: "Oh, I'm sure you'll understand eventually. Afterall... Those who don't know their history, tend to repeat it, miss Chrysta..."

The side note/reason Anastasia is used by Max referring to Chrysta is based off of the Lost Boys prequel script, where David fell in love with a Russian Princess Anastasia, but tragically killed herself when she had been turned into a vampire. Chrysta has a VERY distant relation to her, yet besides her hair, she's the spitting image of the girl David fell in love with centuries ago.

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫. 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬: Chrysta and Star are... Complicated. It's obvious the tension between them is awkward and tense after the new girl showed up all of the sudden, now Star has become Davids's favorite for the time being and Chrysta isn't happy about it. She isn't exactly mad at Star; it isn't her fault- but she isn't close to her either. But on Star's behalf she doesn't really want Chrysta getting any closer if it means keeping her safe from what the boys are hiding...

𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐬𝐨𝐧. 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞, 𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧, 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫: Another attempt a making Star and Chrysta close is David ̶B̶a̶b̶y̶-̶T̶r̶a̶p̶p̶i̶n̶g̶  making the two Laddie's caretaker. Watching him while on the boardwalk, putting him to bed, etc. Chrysta is close to him, wanting to protect him considering Santa Carla isn't the safest place for a little boy at night.

"𝐌𝐚𝐱 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞... 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧' 𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐚. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐢𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞."

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𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐬. 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬: Chrysta's relationship with David is something not many know what to put a label on. He calls, and she will follow. He asks, and she answers. A Devil and Angel dynamic shines as bright between these two as it would with a halo sitting atop her curls and a set of sharp horns atop his brow. Whether he's got her on the back of his bike, or he struts the boardwalk with the little lady attached to his arm, showing her off like a prized trophy, as something no one but him can touch. And who is his little Chrissie to deny such attention?

𝐃𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐬. 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬: Ah, Dwayne. Dwayne and Chrysta's relationship is very 'Beauty and the Beast'. This brooding, quiet giant is following after a bubbly talkative bundle of pink, her tiny little hand intertwined with his large, cold one. She's chatting up a storm about her magazines and rambling gossip while he's fixing and working on him and his boys' bikes, merely replying with a few grunts and 'yeah?'s here and there. He loves her, he truly does, she's like a little doll hugging onto his large frame while they drive around the boardwalk or across the bluff. And he'll be sure everyone knows that she's his perfect Queen, but he's putting an emphasis on His.

𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬. 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬: Like watching two lovesick puppies. Paul is the other half of Marko, and twice as wild and exciting. Paul is the closest to being anything akin to a boyfriend of his time, with his flirty persona and spunk, he loves taking his girl out for cruises on his bike, stealing her jewelry and items on the boardwalk, taking her on every ride, trynna win anything and everything at carni-stands just to have an excuse to get a kiss as a reward. But don't let his labrador boyfriend aura fool you, he's still Paul, he's still a vampire- and the most insane no doubt.

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨 𝐁𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢. 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬: Marko is definitely Chrysta's more wild side. Compared to David. Marko is labeled the guard dog of the coven- little but the fiercest of them all. And if David doesn't have eyes on their girl, Marko is making sure she isn't too far from their sights. Marko practically worships David, and Chrysta is a delicate possession that no one else is allowed to keep... Or even look at wrong, cause best assured, Marko won't take any backhand comment to his Angel lightly..

"𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧' 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐭𝐚𝐡. 𝐌𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐦𝐚'𝐬 𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐦𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐀𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐛. 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭... 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭.."

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Dame Joan Plowright

Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre

Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, played a central role in the historic overhaul of British theatre at the Royal Court in the late 1950s. A founder member of George Devine’s English Stage Company in 1956, she made her name as Beatie Bryant, the working-class heroine in Arnold Wesker’s Roots in 1959, and married Laurence Olivier in 1961. The union of Plowright and Olivier was symbolic of the new theatre order embracing the old glamour, as the greatest actor of the day threw in his lot with the younger generation.

Olivier had scored one of his biggest successes as Archie Rice, the dying music hall star, in John Osborne’s The Entertainer at the Court in 1957. When the play transferred to the West End and Broadway, Plowright took over from Dorothy Tutin as Jean Rice, Archie’s daughter, and their friendship ripened into an unshakeable intimacy, and marriage, that lasted until Olivier’s death in 1989.

Plowright embodied the qualities of common sense, honesty and a sort of earthy vitality that characterised her acting. She had deep brown, currant-bun eyes in a face of plump beauty and openness. Olivier always admired the self-deprecating quality in her performances, and encouraged her to develop this as a comic weapon in her armoury. As she revealed in an affecting autobiography, And That’s Not All (2001), she worried about being employed at the National Theatre as the wife of the boss when Olivier launched that institution first at Chichester in 1962 and then at the Old Vic. But her early performances, as Sonya in what many believe to be the greatest Uncle Vanya ever seen on the British stage (Michael Redgrave in the title role, Olivier as Astrov, Sybil Thorndike as the old nurse), and as George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, put paid to suspicions of nepotism.

She had an intense and fiery quality, and a wonderfully melodious speaking voice that was a constant, grounded musical counterpoint to the brilliant skitterings of the NT’s star turns, Maggie Smith and Geraldine McEwan. In later years, she acquired a comforting matronliness in her film performances, though a quality of rare decency always shone through, as in her supporting role as a suspected witch in Roland Joffé’s version of The Scarlet Letter (1995) or as a trusted confidante in Franco Zeffirelli’s Callas Forever (2002).

Plowright’s father, William, was a journalist and newspaper editor from Worksop in Nottinghamshire, and her mother, Daisy (nee Burton), an enthusiastic actor from Kent. Joan, born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, was the middle of three children; her younger brother, David Plowright, became a senior executive at Granada Television and was closely involved in much of Olivier’s later television work, including Brideshead Revisited and his final King Lear.

From 1931 the family lived in Scunthorpe, where Joan attended the grammar school before joining the Laban Art of Movement Studio in Manchester and the Old Vic Theatre School in London. At the latter (from 1949) she studied with Glen Byam Shaw, Michel Saint-Denis and Devine, and this period was crucial to her development as a prominent artist in the postwar theatre, as new British writing and the European theatre of Brecht, Ionesco and Beckett fuelled an upsurge of brilliant acting among a new generation, many of them from the provinces. This crew articulated the changing face of modern society, and Plowright was in the vanguard, alongside Albert Finney, Alan Bates, Eileen Atkins, Billie Whitelaw and Robert Stephens.

Before joining Devine at the Royal Court, she appeared in Orson Welles’s bare stage, kaleidoscopic production of Moby Dick at the Duke of York’s in 1955, a show described by Kenneth Tynan as “a sustained assault on the senses which dwarfs anything London has seen since, perhaps, the Great Fire”. As Pip the cabin boy, she was the only girl in a cast that included Patrick McGoohan, Kenneth Williams, Gordon Jackson and Welles himself as Captain Ahab.

The impact of Roots at the Court, in John Dexter’s famously incisive, unsentimental production, was nearly as great as Osborne’s Look Back in Anger had been three years earlier. Beatie was in some ways a feminine, rustic counterpart (the play was set in Norfolk) to Osborne’s metropolitan antihero, Jimmy Porter, but she was also a young woman finding her voice. At the end of a blazing tirade lambasting her own family for their ignorance and conservatism, Plowright’s Beatie cried out, said Tynan, with the wonder that is cognate with one’s first sense of identity – “I’m beginning. I’m beginning!”

You could argue that no subsequent performance was ever so stirring, or ever so influential. But at the National she made a great impact even when she shared a role, Hilde Wangel, with Smith, in The Master Builder, and then as Masha in Three Sisters and Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost.

Her finest NT performances following the opening season were as Portia in Jonathan Miller’s brilliant 19th-century production in 1970 of The Merchant of Venice and, in the following year, opposite a candescent Anthony Hopkins, in John Dexter’s stark and scrupulous revival of Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed With Kindness. In the first, she gave full rein to her capacity for wit, irony and a scathing sense of justice; in the second, she boiled with fallibility and indignation as the unfaithful Anne Frankford.

When Olivier gave way to Peter Hall at the National, she sidestepped with some dignity all rumours that she might have wanted to succeed her husband, and her memoirs give a lucid account of the jostling that took place between the factions. She worked with her “beloved” Zeffirelli for the first time on the smash hit Saturday Sunday Monday by Eduardo de Filippo at the Old Vic in 1974 (transferring to the Queen’s theatre) and repeated her success with the same author’s equally popular Filumena at the Lyric in 1977.

In between those hits, in 1974, she joined Lindsay Anderson’s newly formed West End company to play Arkadina in The Seagull and the sexually awakened Alma in Ben Travers’s jaunty but tiresomely scatological The Bed Before Yesterday. There followed modest successes as Nurse Edith Cavell at Chichester in 1982 and an imposing Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard at the Haymarket in 1983, with an all-star cast but, alas, an unfinished set on a disastrous opening night. Plowright recalled how the abandoned old retainer Firs (played by Bernard Miles) wailed disconsolately that everyone had left and locked him in while rattling the handle of a door that swung invitingly open and rendered the last moments of the play quite meaningless.

By now she was happily reconciled to the older roles, joyfully seizing on Lady Wishfort, “the old peeled wall”, in The Way of the World (Chichester, 1984), with Smith as a definitive Millamant, directed by William Gaskill. In Núria Espert’s glorious 1986 production of Lorca’s House of Bernarda Alba at the Lyric Hammersmith, as a sleeve-rolling old maid, Plowright suggested “a lifetime of drudgery in the folding of linen”, said Michael Billington. Both shows sailed triumphantly into the West End.

After Olivier’s death, she gathered her family around her in a sombre revival of JB Priestley’s Time and the Conways at the Old Vic in 1990. Both daughters, Tamsin and Julie-Kate, were in the cast, as well as her son-in-law, Simon Dutton, and her son, Richard, directed. Her last notable West End appearance was a great one as the fraught mother-in-law, Signora Frola, in Zeffirelli’s sleek 2003 revival of Pirandello’s Absolutely! (Perhaps) at Wyndhams, with a new text by Martin Sherman.

She worked mostly in films, however, from 1990, gracing two charming Italian idylls: Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991) and Zeffirelli’s Tea With Mussolini (1999). The latter was based on the director’s own memories of wartime, scripted by John Mortimer, and co-starred her old friends Smith and Judi Dench as well as Cher and Lily Tomlin – a regular galère of delightfully entertaining eccentrics.

Before she announced her retirement from acting in 2014, due to her failing eyesight from macular degeneration, she made several more films including Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), in which she embarks on an unlikely friendship with a young writer played by Rupert Friend, the animated movie Curious George (2006) and Anthony Hickox’s spooky horror thriller Knife Edge (2009).

She celebrated her retirement in a series of onstage anecdotal conversations in 2014 with the director Richard Digby Day – “Acting is an outlet for comedy and grief, and all the characters inside you,” she said; and, now almost totally blind, invited three fellow dames, and good friends – Dench, Smith and Atkins – to join her in an overlapping, chatty reminiscence filmed by Roger Michell for the BBC in the garden of the West Sussex home she had shared with Olivier and her young family. Feisty and funny, Nothing Like a Dame (2018) was a surprise delight.

She was made CBE in 1970 and a dame in 2004 and was particularly pleased to receive an honorary degree from Hull University, conferred in a ceremony in Lincoln Cathedral, which she had often visited as a girl.

Her first marriage, in 1953, to the actor Roger Gage, ended in divorce. She is survived by her children from her second marriage, Richard, Tamsin and Julie-Kate, four grandchildren, Troy, Wilf, Ali and Kaya, and a great-grandchild, Sophia.

🔔 Joan Ann Plowright, actor, born 28 October 1929; died 16 January 2025

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Non Cultus Sabbati Reading List (Part 1)

This list generally covers my study of Qutub and Azoëta. I've found these titles to be exceptionally helpful in illuminating core concepts within the Azoëtia and Qutub.

A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe - Michael S. Schneider

The Sufi Path of Knowledge - William Chittick

Introduction to Sufi Doctrine - Titus Burckhardt

The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

Idiot's Guide to Alchemy - Dennis William Hauck

The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation - Dennis William Hauck

Jung and the Alchemical Imagination - Jeffery Raff

Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung

Mysterium Coniunctionis - Carl Jung

Alchemy - Marie-Louise von Franz

Divine Horsemen - Maya Deren

Art, Creativity, and the Sacred - Diane Apostolos-Cappadona

The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images - Taschen

The Goetia of Dr. Rudd - Stephen Skinner & David Rankine

The Veritable Key of Solomon - Stephen Skinner & David Rankine

Tao te Ching - Lao Tzu (translation by Ralph Alan Dale)

The Roots of Tantra - Katherine Anne Harper & Robert L. Brown

The Night Battles - Carlo Ginzburg

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hello all! i've been working on some major updates the past week: new series, upgrades, consolidations, requests, etc. my lil macbook doesn't work too quickly but i should have gotten to all of the requests + added some other fun things!

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day 356 of lockdown March 13th 2021.wav • just chopsing • caiman show • thank you to all our fans • karma • day 361 of lockdown March 18th 2021 • day 362 of lockdown March 19th 2021 • day 363 of lockdown March 20th 2021 • day 364 of lockdown March 21st 2021 • my god get back is longer than this album • day 366 of lockdown March 23rd 2021 • day 367 of lockdown March 24th 2021 • the family madrigal • day 369 of lockdown March 26th 2021 • day 370 of lockdown March 27th 2021 • day 371 of lockdown March 28th 2021 • day 372 of lockdown March 29th 2021 • day 373 of lockdown March 30th 2021 • day 374 of lockdown March 31st 2021 • day 375 of lockdown April 1st 2021 • day 376 of lockdown April 2nd 2021 • day 377 of lockdown April 3rd 2021 • day 378 of lockdown April 4th 2021 • day 379 of lockdown April 5th 2021 • day 380 of lockdown April 6th 2021 • day 381 of lockdown April 7th 2021 • day 382 of lockdown April 8th 2021 • day 383 of lockdown April 9th 2021 • day 384 of lockdown April 10th 2021 • day 385 of lockdown April 11th 2021 • day 386 of lockdown April 12th 2021 • we love haulix • We love hotpress! • Rodney Of The Rock • Daniel Ek The Visionary • day 391 of lockdown April 17th 2021 • one falls they all fall • day 393 of lockdown April 19th 2021 • Lazar 111 • day 395 of lockdown April 21st 2021 • guess that official spotify playlist isn't going to happen now • day 397 of lockdown April 23rd 2021 • day 398 of lockdown April 24th 2021 • day 399 of lockdown April 25th 2021.wav • day 400 of lockdown April 26th 2021 • day 401 of lockdown April 27th 2021 • day 402 of lockdown April 28th 2021 • day 403 of lockdown April 29th 2021 • day 404 of lockdown April 30th 2021 • day 405 of lockdown May 1st 2021 • day 406 of lockdown May 2nd 2021 • day 407 of lockdown May 3rd 2021 • day 408 of lockdown May 4th 2021 • time walker • are we there yet • day 411 of lockdown May 7th 2021.wav • day 412 of lockdown May 8th 2021 • day 413 of lockdown May 9th 2021 • day 414 of lockdown May 10th 2021 • day 415 of lockdown May 11th 2021 • day 416 of lockdown May 12th 2021 • peace piece • talk about the nice time • define • froota • going viral • theses • munching carrots • new gwr • the beatles used the law of attraction • new machine • tct • more plinky guff • anyone bored yet? • fatman jogging (me) • urgent letter • mike errico thank you • day 433 of lockdown May 29th 2021 • columbo • bbq • bar mexe • may your dreams come • rolling atone baby baby • arts and dafts • afters • v is for • misquote • day 443 of lockdown June 8th 2021.wav • hungary • french fries • yo t l • level 42 met mark king in a pub • dinosaur • dance youself dizzy • no score • gritter splitta • jools • bombs • penalty • spurs • day 456 of lockdown June 21st 2021 • db • dear losers • Dear Losers still on repeat sorry • demons • dg • Dino Zoff • Dreaming Of THat Perfect Goal • Drowsy • DUA LIPA • Dull & Bottom • Dy • el mundo gira • elegy • Er • Es • Eu • noel ed • EVERY CRAP INDIE BAND SHOULD RECORD AT LEAST ONE FOOTY SONG • Every Nation Has It's Golden Generation • Exit (pursued by a bear) • F • Facist Football Hater • Faerie Queen • farewell part 1 • farewell part 2 • Farewell parts 1 and 2 • FAST RED MAN • Fe • feedback at the start of i feel fine • FIFA Sutherland • Food of Love • Fr • Franz • french got the funk on • from russia with hetero love • FUELLED UP ON ENERGY DRINKS • Full Fathom 5 Live • Full Time • Ga • Gaberdines And Pantaloons • Garincha Stryder • Gary Lineker • Gazza'a tears • Gd • Ge • george harrison didn't write his 2 biggest hits • gethsamane • give ringo another crap country song • glass onion • glitter on my carpet • GROTESQUE • H • Half Time • Hamlet • Happy Camper • Happy Dagger • have love will louis louis • He • He's A Sticker Licker • Heart's Content • HELL MONEY • helter skelter pissed in the bus shelter • Henry IV part 3 • Henry V's Doorbell • Her Majesty Was The First 30 second song • here come's the sun • HERRENVOLK • Hey Ho Nonny Nonny • Hf • Hg • High Time

Ho • Holographic Beatles On Tour • home • Homeward Bound • Hungary 10 El Salvador 1 • I don't give a flying folio malvolio • I Feel Fine • I got 3 years solitary for bringing my own beer • I ME ME RONALDO! • I ONCE AUDITIONED FOR A BAND CALLED MEXICO 70 • i wanna hold your hand but I'll ask you first • I wanna Hold Your Hand While YOu Sign My A Cheque For a million pound • I Wish The World Cup Was In Brazil Again says lonely sports reporter • I WROTE AND RECORDED 100 SONGS ABOUT THE WORLD CUP IN 2 DAYS, CAN'T YOU TELL • i.am will.i.am shakespeare. • I • I'm a Pal a Salah • I'm Going TO Make you A VAR • I'm Leaving On an standard class Aer Lingus. • I'M SUPPORTING PUSSY RIOT • I'm The Only Person Who Wants Iceland To Get Knocked Out Early.wav • If Prince had written a World Cup song it wouldn't sound like this • If Shakespeare Was Alive Today He'd Be Writing For Youtube • if the beatles were an 80s band • If this album doesn't get me an interview on Hawksbee & Jacobs I'm Going to stop listening to Talksport • If you Listen To The beatles backwards it says thyhtnkks • If You Play THis Song Backwards It Will Sound Crap. • Inv • INTER STELLAR CUP. • introducing the beatles • Ir • It gets a bit messy when you try to rhyme with Messi. • It is music with her silver sound • it's juck a fucking xebra crossing • It's Not even a realy country anyway • Jeremy Corbyn As Julius Ceasar • john lennon v the fbi • joey ramone joins the beatles • jose chungs from outer space. • Josimar comeback • Jules Rimming. • Julian Lennon PLayed THis Piano Once. • JUMPERS FOR GOAL POSTS. • Just Don't Let Spain Win Again • K • KADDISH. • KGB V FBI WORLD WAR 3 COMING SOON • King James 46 • King John's Rant • Kingdom For A Stage. • Kr • La • Lark • Larry O • leonard betts. • Let Music Sound • Letchkov not Letcho • Li. • live and let die is the best bond theme. • Living On Top Of A Porno Cinema • Love Is Blind. • Lr • Lu. • magic alex • man from the motor trade. • Manna • Marying A Punk. • MAX. • mcartney's ego trip part 2 • McCartney's Ego Trip • MEMENTO MORI • Mg • Mn. • Mo • MOOY JOY • Motley Coat • mr kite • Mr Trump • Much Ado • musings of a csm • N • Na • Nb • Nd • Ne. • nems • NEVER AGAIN. • Ni. • NO SCORE…NO DRAW. • none more white. • Not Many Beatles Songs Start in A Minor Key • Not Many Foootball Players Like Punk! • Np. • Oberon Kenobi. • On Shakespeare's Grave • on the field where i died • Ophelia • Os. • Oyster. • P. • Pa • paper hearts • Patti • paul's first acid trip • Pb • Pd. • PELE • Pet Sounds • Pete Best • Pick (ford) Of The Pops - Numba 1 • pickles the dog • PIPER • Play On. • Playing For Penalties. • Pm • Po • Pr • Pt • Putin hot • Pursued By A Bear • Pusher • QUAGMIRE • Hall Of fame • Quickly • ra ra poohtin • Ra • Rain • Ray Wilson • Rb. • Re • Redux 1. • Redux 2. • Revolution number 9 was way ahed of its time • rf. • Rh • Ringo's Replacement • Ripping Off The Beach Boys • Rn • Rocky Racoon as a Trump Type tycoon • Rome • Romeo & Juliet • ronnie scott • Ru • rubber soul was the greatest • Russian Bear • S • sanguinarium • Sb • Sc. • scrambled eggs. • scurvy politician • Se. • sergeant pepper seeks lady madonna to form lonely hearts club band • Second Best Bed (In Da House) • Shake It Off • All Over? • Shakespeare In Time • Shakespeare The Commuter • Shakespeare v Aliens. • Shakespeare v Spotify • Shaking Speare Stevens • Shaquiri V Shakira • She's A Woman • shitter's full. • Si • silent night • Slave Labour Stadiums • Sm • Sm1 • SMALLPOTATOES • Sn. • Sonic Youth Play The Beatles • world cup widows • Sounds Of Music • Spot the player on Coke • Sr • Stadium Inferno • Stage Craft Beer. • Star Of England • Stop Calling It The White Album - It's The Beatles! • Suicide In Shakespeare. • corned beef curry (not my idea) • Larry O • SYNCHRONY • SZYGY 4 • Ta • TALITHA • TAX CHEATS • tb or not tb • Tb • Tc. • when does art become pretension? • Teliko • TEMPUS FUGIT • TERMA • TEsos dos bichos 2 • the very best of Boris Johnson

The Ballad Of The Poisened Referee • The Beatles Gave Us Backwards Guitar • The Beatles Meet Elvis and Play Bass. • The Beatles Meet The Queen • THE BEST ONE YET • The Blue Samurai • the catcher in the rye. • The Charnocks. • The Curse Of WS • The Day I Met George Martin • the death of good duke humphrey • the doors took more drugs than the beatles • The First Twitter World Cup • The Globe • the hamburg days • The Life Of Brian • the long and winding road to get this album finished • The Maradona OF The Carpathians • The Middle Class Wives Of Windsor • The Miracle Of Bern • the missing chord • The Old Boys Of Panama • the people that don't get the beatles. • The Ringo Button • The Seven Moons • the trembling wilburrys • the usual suspects • The Water Carrier • THe White Album • There are 3 Gary Stevens But Only one of them caught a glimpse of Maradonna flying by • japan • this is a northern song • when does sound become music • Time Doth Waste Me • soundaries • white noise symphony • to die to sleep no more. • Tomorrow Never Knows Is The First Techno Track. • Tongue In Your Tail. • TOO MANY WHITE LINES • Tosspots. • Trident Studio Jam • Trump Town • TUNGUSKA • Turn Turn Turn in a Cruyf Style • U • unbeaten keepers • UNREQUITED • UNRUHE • V is for Vacumn • W • Was it Bobby or Roger Moore that was the towel thief. • WE ALL HATE WHEN ITV HAS THE MATCHES • We All Know Sexie Sadie Was About The Maharishi.wav • We All Live In A Yellow Submarine • We All Love Football Guff. • WETWIRED • WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO HALF TIME ORANGES • whatever happened to 442 • When i'm Pissed I'll Shout • When Shall We 3 Meet Again • when we were fab. • While THey Play The Bombs Keep Dropping • why were wings so • will anyone get close to Klose • Willow Willow Willow • World Cup Snacks • WORLD CUP WIDOWS • World Cup Winners Aftershow Party • World Cup Winners Hangover • World In Motion Was So Over Rated • World Of Leather • Xe • summer jesus • Y • Yb • you can't burn streams • zero sum • didn't think I would make it to 1000 • ok thanks to all involved and peace and love • 3000 streams just for a pint • time to go it's chicken time

[geekcavepodcast]

The Electric State Trailer

After a robot uprising in the '90s, an orphaned teen "ventures across the American West with a cartoon-inspired robot, a smuggler, and his sidekick in search of her younger brother." (Netflix)

The Electric State, based on the book by Simon Stalenhag, stars Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, Giancarlo Esposito, and Stanley Tucci and the voice talents of Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo, and Alan Tudyk. The film is directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo from a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.

The Electric State hits Netflix on March 14, 2025.

[bigforeheadbaddie]

The Black History of No Doubt 🖤🤍

In 1986, Eric Stefani and John Spence met and bonded over their love of the anti-racist UK ska movement while working at their local Dairy Queen.

With John on lead vocals and Eric on keyboard, they formed Apple Core. Which was later changed to No Doubt after Spence’s frequent use of the term became an inside joke for the group.

John Spence (Traci Vicars Brown)

This catchphrase also spawned an early track of the same name with Eric’s little sister Gwen Stefani and John Spence on vocals.

Gwen Stefani and John Spence (Traci Vicars Brown)

Spence was most notably known amongst early No Doubt fans for his infectious energy and on-stage back flips. Wherever Spence went, the rowdy youth of Orange County followed.

In the lead up to one of their biggest shows yet, the members of No Doubt were blindsided at the news of Spence’s untimely death.

On December 21st, 1987, John Spence had passed from a self inflicted gun wound at just 18 years old.

The band was devastated and played their show at the Roxy as a final goodbye, not only to John, but to the band he had co-created.

Early No Doubt Lineup Featuring John Spence

However, after deep thought and a break from the music, they ultimately decided that in the spirit of John and his love for music, that they’d continue on. Their first song without Spence being a tribute titled “Dear John”

“You're singin' in a band with a mic on in your hand

The way that you would sing really made me feel all grand

You left your friends alone, right upon this earth

I wish you would've seen how much life was worth…”

John Spence (Eric Keyes)

With Gwen Stefani still too timid to take over full time, trumpet player Alan Meade stepped up to take the space John Spence had once occupied.

Like Spence, Meade became quickly know for his amazing stage presence and spirit. With Meade and time, Gwen Stefani began to break out of her shell.

Alan Meade and Gwen Stefani

Although often mistaken for Spence in images and videos of live performances, Meade was so much more than simply a “replacement” for Spence.

Much of Gwen’s later vocalizations are adaptions of Meade’s choices in demo tapes of songs such as “Boucing Shoes”, “Get A Life”, and “Doormat” to name a few.

Another black performer that deeply influenced Gwen’s vocal style was ska icon and lead singer of The Selecter, Pauline Black

Pauline Black of The Selecter

Alan Meade’s time as the lead singer of No Doubt was short lived as the news of his then girlfriend’s teen pregnancy in 1988 led to his departure. He left the group to focus on his family, yet would regularly make surprise appearances at their shows and perform with them for a song or two.

The members of No Doubt and Alan Meade have stayed connected throughout the years and he eventually went on to join members of Save Ferris in the creation of a new ska group known as Starpool.

Gwen Stefani and Alan Meade during the Tragic Kingdom Era

In the early 90’s, Gabrial McNair and Stephen Bradley would join No Doubt as backing vocals and the “horn section” of the final lineup.

McNair and Bradley, often seen as a team, have maintained their musical relationship with Stefani the longest out of all the other members of No Doubt.

1998 MTV Music Video Awards

Being a part of her backing artists since the early 90’s with No Doubt and through all of her solo efforts as well.

The pair still performs with her to this day and are often not included in descriptions of No Doubt’s lineup, but all fans know that they are just as vital as the rest of them to the band’s massive success.

Gabrial McNair has also toured with Green Day, co-founded Olso in 2005, composed music for film & TV, and worked with multiple artists in-studio.

Stephen Bradley too has toured with Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, and Steel Pulse. He has also released solo work and is a talented photographer/videographer as well.

‘Rock Steady’ Jamaica Recording Sessions Crew

For their fifth album, Rock Steady, the band desired a Jamaican dance hall inspired sound, collaborating with numerous local artists/legends.

Including Bounty Killer, Lady Saw, Sly Dunbar, and Robbie Shakespeare (Sly & Robbie), to name a few.

This also marked the beginning of a lifelong musical partnership and friendship between Pharrell Williams (of The Neptunes at the time) and Gwen Stefani.

Gwen Stefani & Pharrell Williams for Vibe Magazine 2005 (Albert Watson)

In addition to the impressive list of collaborators on Rock Steady, the band also worked with one of Stefani’s greatest inspirations and favorite artist, Prince.

In the same year, she got to return the favor and provide backing vocals on his 2001 track “So Far, So Pleased”

“He was such a genius that you can’t believe he existed. I was onstage with No Doubt in Minneapolis in the Nineties, and I saw his silhouette in the audience. I was like, ‘How is this happening?’”

Gwen Stefani on Prince, Rolling Stone Magazine 2016

Since the band’s initial breakup, Stefani has collaborated with artists like Eve, Dr. Dre, Saweetie, Fetty Wap, Slim Thug, Andre 3000, Snoop Dogg, Akon, and most recently Shenseea on Sean Paul’s “Light My Fire”

Without the insurmountable talent of all of the artists covered in this post, No Doubt would not be the band it is today. The influence Black musicians have had on members of the band (of all racial backgrounds) is evident in their discography and should be recognized.

I wrote this post in hopes of highlighting the often forgotten side of No Doubt and to celebrate Black History Month, but every month is a good month to recognize Black excellence :) Thanks for reading!

[theguywithaplan]

List of Films Turning 10 Years Old in 2024

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

American Sniper

Annie (the remake starring Jamie Foxx)

As Above, So Below

The Babadook (we stan a gay icon)

Batman: Assault on Arkham (a direct continuation of the Batman: Arkham games)

Big Eyes

Big Hero 6

Birdman (won the Best Picture Oscar for this year)

The Book of Life

The Boxtrolls

Boyhood (filmed over the course of 12 years)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Chef

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead

Dear White People (the basis for the TV series on Netflix, and made by the same guy)

Dracula Untold (this was Universal’s second attempt at launching the Dark Universe)

The Drop (a crime drama starring Tom Hardy)

Edge of Tomorrow/Live Die Repeat

The Equalizer

Exodus: Gods and Kings (a biblical epic directed by Ridley Scott)

The Expendables 3

The Fault in Our Stars

Foxcatcher

Fury (the war movie with Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf)

Get on Up (the James Brown biopic starring Chadwick Boseman)

Godzilla (the 1st film in the MonsterVerse)

Gone Girl

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1

The Guest

Hercules (the one starring The Rock)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (did you guys know the working title for this movie was “The Hobbit: There and Back Again”?)

How to Train Your Dragon 2

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

If I Stay

The Imitation Game (the movie where Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing)

Inherent Vice

Interstellar

The Interview (the movie that almost caused World War 3)

Into the Woods

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Jodorowsky's Dune (a documentary about the Dune movie that we never got)

Joe (one of Nic Cage's best movies)

John Wick (the 1st one)

Kill the Messenger

Left Behind (one of Nic Cage's worst movies)

The Lego Movie

Life After Beth

Lucy ((the “humans only use 10% of their brain” movie. Which has since been proven false. Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/ )

Maleficent

The Maze Runner

A Million Ways to Die in the Weset

Mr. Peabody and Sherman

Muppets Most Wanted

Need for Speed (Aaron Paul's first project after "Breaking Bad" ended)

Neighbors

Night of the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (the third one. Also one of Robin Williams’ last movies)

Nightcrawler

Noah (a biblical epic directed by Darren Aronofsky)

Non-Stop

The Nut Job

Obvious Child

Oculus (one of the 1st projects from Mike Flanagan)

Ouija

Paddington

Penguins of Madagascar

The Purge: Anarchy

The Raid 2

RoboCop (the reboot that was actually decent)

Selma

Sharknado 2

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Son of Batman

St. Vincent

The Taking of Deborah Logan

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the one produced by Michael Bay. It’s also the one where the Turtles look like aliens)

The Theory of Everything (the movie where Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen Hawking)

Third Person

300: Rise of an Empire

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Tusk

22 Jump Street

Veronica Mars (the film continuation of the TV show)

A Walk Among the Tombstones

What If? (a rom-com starring Daniel Radcliffe)

What We Do in the Shadows (the film that was the basis for the TV show)

When Marnie Was There

Whiplash

X-Men: Days of Future Past

[fairytalesandfandoms]

a long but still incomplete list of notable blorbos for @adamnagaitis, in approximate order of when I encountered them, and focusing on the male blorbos because, well, it's easier to spot patterns with them, not that we want to do that of course

Arthurian legend - Merlin

The Secret Garden - Archibald Craven (especially John Lynch in the movie)

Kidnapped - Alan Breck Stewart

(there was a certain professor character from [redacted series] which I only mention for completeness)

A Series of Unfortunate Events - Uncle Monty/Dr Montgomery Montgomery, and also later Lemony Snicket as an in-universe character (The Beatrice Letters will do that to you)

The Edge Chronicles - Cloud Wolf

The Hobbit - Thorin Oakenshield (and also Thranduil in the movies)

Treasure Planet - Dr Doppler

The Mask of Zorro - Diego de la Vega

The Spiderwick Chronicles (books) - Arthur Spiderwick

The Phantom of the Opera (musical) - Erik

Doctor Who - The Doctor

Independence Day - David Levinson

Stravaganza series - Rodolfo

Star Trek - Spock

Sally Lockhart series - Fred Garland

Discworld - Sam Vimes and Havelock Vetinari

BBC Robin Hood - Guy of Gisborne

X-Men - Wolverine

North and South - John Thornton

Indiana Jones - Henry Jones Sr. (Indy's dad)

Good Omens - Aziraphale

Chrestomanci series - Christopher Chant

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor - Hatter Madigan (especially in Seeing Redd)

Sense and Sensibility - Colonel Brandon

Foyle's War - DCS Christopher Foyle

Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister - Sir Humphrey Appleby

National Treasure - Ben Gates

Back to the Future - Dr Emmett Brown

Moll Flanders (1996) - the Artist

Fire & Hemlock - Thomas Lynn

Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes - Gene Hunt (who is something of an outlier compared to many others on this list)

Rebecca - Maxim de Winter

Vanity Fair (1998) - William Dobbin

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) - Cyrano de Bergerac

Around the World in 80 Days (2004 and 2022 versions) - Phileas Fogg

The Return of the Native - Clym Yeobright (Diggory Venn a close second)

Sherlock Holmes (and variations) - Sherlock Holmes

Kick-Ass - Damon Macready/Big Daddy (that is his vigilante name, don't blame me for it)

The Three Musketeers - Athos BUT The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) - D'Artagnan BUT The Musketeers TV show - Cardinal Richelieu (because Peter Capaldi)

Persuasion - Frederick Wentworth

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Jim Prideaux

MCU - Tony Stark

Les Miserables - Jean Valjean

Howards End - Leonard Bast

The Historian - Bartholomew Rossi

Kingsman - Merlin

The Shadow of the Wind - Fermín Romero de Torres

The Grand Budapest Hotel - M. Gustave

Pacific Rim - Stacker Pentecost

Jurassic Park - Ian Malcolm

Earth Girls Are Easy - Mac

The 10th Kingdom - Wolf

Little Women - Friedrich Bhaer

Withnail and I - Withnail

The Terror - Harry Goodsir

Our Flag Means Death - Stede Bonnet

Master and Commander - Stephen Maturin

Ghosts (BBC) - the Captain

All Creatures Great and Small - Siegfried Farnon

Excalibur (1981) - King Arthur

Wicked - Jeff Goldblum Wizard ONLY. I detested him in the book and he is only redeemed by being played by Jeff Goldblum.

The Fly - Seth Brundle (in the first half at least)

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe - Lionel Whitney