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Moontide (1942) Archie Mayo

September 25th 2024

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Preview: DC Power 2024

DC Power 2024 preview. DC Power returns for round two with brand-new stories spotlighting Black characters from across the DC Universe #comics #comicbooks

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The Top 40 Most Popular Operas, Part 1 (#1 through #10)

A quick guide for newcomers to the genre, with links to online video recordings of complete performances with English subtitles.

Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

The most frequently performed opera worldwide: Mozart's fascinating, philosophical fairy tale opera, which appeals to both children and adults.

San Francisco Opera, 2010 (Piotr Beczala, Dina Kuznetsoca, Christopher Maltman, Erika Miklosa, Georg Zeppenfeld; conducted by Donald Runnicles)

Verdi's La Traviata

Tragic romance with social commentary, based on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias, which was also the basis for the classic 1936 Greta Garbo film Camille.

Los Angeles Opera, 2006 (Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazon, Renato Bruson; conducted by James Conlon)

Bizet's Carmen

The fiery tragedy of a seductive, free-spirited Spanish Romani woman and her loves, with some of opera's most iconic music.

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann, Ildebrando d'Arcancelo, Norah Ansellem; conducted by Antonio Pappano)

Puccini's La Bohéme

Relatable slice-of-life romance that blends comedy and tragedy. The inspiration for the popular musical RENT.

Studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Rolando Panerai, Adriana Martino; conducted by Herbert von Karajan)

Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

The best loved of Mozart's Italian operas, a great comedy of class conflict and sexual intrigue.

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt, Marie-Ange Todorovich; conducted by Bernard Haitink)

Puccini's Tosca

Political intrigue, lust, and bloodshed amid the splendor of Rome – some call it a "shabby little shocker," others call it thrilling.

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Marco Armiliato)

Mozart's Don Giovanni

Arguably the greatest retelling of the legend of Don Juan, with comedy, drama, and Mozart's glorious music.

Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Anton Dermota, Lisa della Casa, Erna Berger, Walter Berry Deszö Ernster; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler)

Puccini's Madama Butterfly

Puccini's iconic "Japanese tragedy." Controversial from a racial standpoint, but a tearjerker nonetheless, and the inspiration for the musical Miss Saigon.

Feature film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan; conducted by James Conlon)

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)

The lighter and more madcap prequel to The Marriage of Figaro, known as the quintessential comic opera.

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Rafael Fingerlos, Juan Diego Flórez, Margarita Gritskova, Paolo Rumetz, Sorin Coliban; conducted by Evelino Pidò)

Verdi's Rigoletto

A richly melodic tragedy of a hunchbacked jester, his daughter, a lecherous duke, and a self-fulfilling curse.

Studio film, 1982 (Ingvar Wixell, Luciano Pavarotti, Edita Gruberova; conducted by Riccardo Chailly)

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Karaoke ⎥ Toronto Maple Leafs

As per usual, I went with the players I know. I also included 2 prospects for funsies. I have no idea what their music preferences are, this is purely based off vibes. This is what I think the Toronto Maple Leafs' go-to karaoke songs are.

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Max Domi - fantastic version of 'Unwritten' by Natasha Bedingfield and no one expects him to sing as good as he does

Mark Giordano - painfully awkward, stiff version of whatever song until the liquid courage kicks in

Matthew Knies - 'Mr. Brightside' by The Killers every. single. time.

Auston Matthews - Justin Bieber without question

Mitch Marner - anything Taylor Swift. Sometimes there is the odd Swiftie duet with Max or Morgan

William Nylander - 'I Want It That Way' by Backstreet Boys. The vibes just fit

Ryan Reaves - he seems like the guy who would sing 'Thunderstruck' by AC/DC and I won't question it

Morgan Reilly - 'Unforgettable' by Thomas Rhett

Nick Robertson - 'She Looks So Perfect' by 5 Seconds of Summer. He seems to just be vibrating with energy so a early 2010's pop rock song just fits

John Tavares - 'Uptown Girl' by Billy Joel. He's not the best singer of the bunch, but Johnny boy is very enthusiastic

Joseph Woll - somehow wrangles a keyboard and plays 'Don't Stop Believin'' by Journey very, very well. And is also a really good singer

Fraser Minten - refuses to do it and the guys leave it at that but sometimes he gets drunk enough that he does a quartet of 'What Makes You Beautiful' by One Direction with Easton, Matthew, and Mitch

Easton Cowan - 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA, but the Mamma Mia movie version. It's his guilty pleasure movie and has all the songs memorized

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Beyond The Bath: A Dreamers Guide - Thomas Cowan 1983

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July 1983 to October 1986. In 1983, DC lured Doug Moench away from Marvel and books like MASTER OF KUNG FU and MOON KNIGHT to take over BATMAN and DETECTIVE COMICS under the editorship of Len Wein. Their run, which lasted 40 months, was the final phase of the Bronze Age Batman continuity; although it continued for some months after the end of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, everything through DETECTIVE COMICS #566 and BATMAN #400 is functionally part of pre-Crisis continuity, in particular most anything to do with Jason Todd becoming the second Robin. (Jason debuted during the end of Gerry Conway's run in early 1983, but it was Moench and Wein who oversaw Jason's actually becoming Robin.)

From 1981 to 1986, there was a tight continuity between BATMAN and DETECTIVE COMICS: a story begun in one book would continue in the other two weeks later. This was something new for Batman; there had been occasional multi-issue storylines for years, and Steve Englehart and Len Wein had introduced a certain amount of Marvel-style continuity in the late '70s, but having around 40 story pages per month allowed more room for character-driven stories, supporting characters, and subplots. When Doug Moench arrived, a central focus was on leading up to Jason Todd becoming Robin, but there were also numerous other major and minor subplots, from Alfred's attempts to connect with his adult daughter, Julia Remarque (introduced by Conway in 1981), to Gotham's messy city politics and various deadly underworld power struggles.

In MASTER OF KUNG FU, Moench's signature storytelling preoccupation had been "kinky weirdos hurting each other's feelings," and his initial run on the Bat-books also featured a series of messy, sometimes bloody romantic triangles, the most important of which involved Batman; the now-reformed Catwoman; Nocturna (Natalia Knight), a pretentious Goth burglar who attempted to adopt Jason Todd; and Nocturna's adoptive brother Anton, who became a cat burglar out of deranged obsession with Natalia and later tried to kill her so no one else could have her. It was all very grandiose and inevitably somewhat florid, but then expecting gritty, understated realism from a comic book about a man who fights crime dressed as a bat is itself pretty silly.

The strongest story in this run actually has little to do with that soap opera: "What Price the Prize?" in BATMAN #372, is an intelligent, grounded drama about an up-and-coming young Irish boxer maneuvering for a bout with a Black champion obviously inspired by Muhammad Ali, featuring some of Don Newton's finest Batman art; the conclusion in DETECTIVE #539 isn't quite as sharp, but is still one of Moench's best. Other highlights include a clash with Catman (BATMAN #371/DETECTIVE #538) in which Thomas Blake's determined belief in the magical power of his costume nearly gets both him and Batman killed over and over; a wistful story about the private life and hidden depths of boorish Harvey Bullock (DETECTIVE #549); a delightful one-shot (BATMAN #383) in which Batman repeatedly tries and fails to get some sleep; the debut of Black Mask (BATMAN #385–386 and DETECTIVE #553); a comedic tale of Batman and Catwoman on an actual date, in costume (BATMAN #392); and a distinctly '80s-Bondian espionage adventure reuniting Moench and artist Paul Gulacy (BATMAN #393–394).

Artistically, the run got off to a good start with Don Newton on BATMAN (inked by Alfredo Alcala) and Gene Colan on DETECTIVE (generally inked by Bob Smith). Newton's departure in 1984 hurt, leading to a period of artistic musical chairs and some really bad early Pat Broderick art, followed by Tom Mandrake taking over BATMAN. Mandrake gets a bad rap in some quarters, mostly because his style is looser (and about two steps further in the direction of Gene Colan) than many comics fans care to tolerate, but his work here is mostly fine, and certainly an improvement over Broderick's. The Annual has some very nice early Denys Cowan pencils, inked by Alcala, and BATMAN #400 is an all-star extravaganza art-wise.

Maddeningly, DC has never properly reprinted a lot of this material, which I think is badly overdue. If it's not as epochal as some more familiar periods both before and after, the median level of quality is pretty decent (and certainly no worse than the 1987–1991 period, which has now been reprinted in its entirety); its emphasis on characterization wouldn't be matched again in the Batman titles for many years. Denny O'Neil supposedly hated much of what Moench had done (Moench has said O'Neil especially loathed Nocturna, whom he flatly refused to revive in any form), but Denny is dead now, and in any case, his Batman stories include their share of stinkers as well as gems. I don't know that DC has any kind of real reprint strategy anymore, but I hope they won't wait until Doug Moench is dead to properly remaster and collect these issues. Doing them all (BATMAN #360–400 and Annual #10, DETECTIVE #527–567) in something akin to Marvel's Epic Collection format would probably take four volumes — there's around 1,800 pages of material, more if you include Moench's Superman/Batman stories from WORLD'S FINEST — but why not?

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"DC Power" Returns for 2024

DC Power is an anthology from DC Comics that pays tribute to DC's black super heroes. The comic is a 104-page prestige format one-shot.

DC Power will contain new stories, as well as the epilogue to Far Sector from writer N.K. Jemisin and artist Jamal Campbell, which will show the first meeting between Green Lanterns Sojourner "Jo" Mullein and John Stewart. In addition to Jemisin and Campbell, other creatives for DC Power include writers John Ridley, Brandon Thomas, Lamar Giles, Shawn Martinbrough, Cheryl Lynn Eaton, and Alitha Martinez, and artists Edwin Galmon, Khary Randolph, Denys Cowan, Tony Akins, Asiah Fulmore, and more. Characters featured in the anthology include The Signal, The Spectre / Crispus Allen, Thunder and Lightning / Anissa and Jennifer Pierce, Bloodwynd, Val-Zod / Superman of Earth-2, Nubia, and more.

DC Power goes on sale on January 30, 2023. The comic features a card stock main cover from Chase Conley and card-stock variant covers by Jamal Campbell and Denys Cowan.

(Image via DC Comics - Chase Conley's Cover of DC Power)

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DC COMICS FACECLAIM/FANCAST:

╰┈─➤ Batfamily (Part 2)

★ Deaken Bluman as Tim Drake

★ Caylee Cowan as Stephanie Brown

★ Arsalan Ghasemi as Damian Wayne

★ Iman Marson as Duke Thomas

★ Gemma Chan as Kate Kane

★ Sierra McCormick as Carrie Kelley

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Preview: DC Power 2024

DC Power 2024 preview. DC Power returns for round two with brand-new stories spotlighting Black characters from across the DC Universe #comics #comicbooks

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Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Jerome Cowan, Elisha Cook Jr. Screenplay: John Huston, based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett. Cinematography: Arthur Edeson. Art direction: Robert M. Haas. Film editing: Thomas Richards. Music: Adolph Deutsch. 

"By gad, sir, you are a character," says Kasper Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet), with what Greenstreet's co-star Mary Astor once described as "that evil, hiccupy laugh." He is speaking to Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), who is certainly a character, if decidedly not a man of character. There aren't many other films so full of characters, but so lacking any with what one might call a moral center. Spade, for one, proves that you can be both misogynistic and homophobic -- as if proof of that were needed. Does he do the right thing at the end when he sends Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Astor) up the river? Perhaps, but he does it with such relish that it's hard to ascribe any probity to the act. The Maltese Falcon is one of the greatest examples of hoodwinking the censors of the Production Code, which among other things forbade depictions of homosexuality on screen. But does anyone miss the fact that Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre) is meant to be gay,  from his fussy little perm to his teasing fondling of the handle of his umbrella to the scent of gardenia that Spade finds so amusing? And probably only the ignorance of Yiddish on the part of the Catholics in the Breen office allowed Wilmer (Elisha Cook Jr.) to be called a "gunsel" -- a word that originally meant a young man kept by an older man for sex. Actually, it was Dashiell Hammett who slipped that one by the watchdogs in the original novel; John Huston kept it when he wrote the screenplay, doubtless smiling the sly smile of someone who knows what he's getting away with. Even today, most people probably think like the Breen office and Hammett's editors, that it means a gunman. But Huston also got away with the clear indication that Spade had been having an affair with Iva Archer (Gladys George), the wife of his partner, Miles (Jerome Cowan). And is there anyone who doesn't realize that Spade has slept with Brigid? This was Huston's first feature as a director, and the result of all this Code-dodging, as well as his unwillingness to sentimentalize his characters, made him a formidable directorial force in the years to come, one of the few Hollywood directors who knew how to make movies for adults.

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Labor Day 1969 UFO Incident (Berkshire County, Massachusetts)

Interview with Melanie Kirchdorfer (Sky Cowans, 2023)

Visit to Berkshire County (Ammar Kandil, Thomas Dajer, 2020)

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

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Veña, vai, o de poñer a lista aleatoria que me nominou @zorrxchicle​. Foime complicado porque non uso spotify nin nada unificado para escoitar música (unha mistura entre listas de reprodución en youtube, a miña biblioteca persoal virtual e mais o pendrive de música do coche haha) pero anotei as 10 últimas cancións que escoitei e saíu isto. Vou anotar tamén en que contexto a escoitei, porque me parece interesante hehe

1. The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (busqueina a propósito en youtube porque me acordei de que existía e me gustaba hai anos. temaso) 

2. Black Eye Blues - Ma Rainey (radio do coche)

3. Lamprey - Rogue Legacy OST -  Judson Cowan (Un boss theme dun videoxogo, que escoito de cando en cando porque me da un boost de produtividade que flipas. Téñoa nunha lista de reprodución pública que fixen: 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕖 en youtube)

4. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Ralph Vaughan Williams (nunha lista de reprodución que se chama Tres Grolos de Ron e que uso para ambientar o relato que estou a escribir, maioritariamente música clásica e folk europeo)

5. Abatina - Calypso Rose (pedínllo á Alexa dunha familiar nunha comida, porque o aparatiño non saía dos clásicos españois dos 80 *glups*)

6. Floral Fury - Cuphead OST -  Kristofer Maddigan (escoiteina unhas cantas veces esta semana porque a estou a aprendela nun arranxo para piano)

7. All the Pretty Little Horses -  Odetta (en youtube, un descubrimento recente clicando un link aquí en tumblr)

8. El pueblo unido - Quilapayún (versión de Inti Illimani) (outra que estou sacando no piano)

9. Bass Catch - Carol Kaye (busquei a propósito sobre esta baixista da ostia nos últimos días, este é o primeiro tema do seu disco Picking up on the E string)

10. Fire Coming out of the Monkey's Head - Gorillaz (púxena no móbil mentres cociñaba, logo, da biblioteca persoal)

Non vou nominar a ninguén porque son tímida... <3 pero paseino ben recopilando isto haha