#andrew wilson

[toppermostpoppermost]

WHIP IT (2009) dir. Drew Barrymore

+bonus:

[derangedrhythms]

She struck me as having a very exceptional quality of mind – both imaginative and controlled, both lucid and intense.

Newton Arvin, quoted in ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted’ 

[racetrackmybeloved]

ok but like, lets talk about bart.

he shows up halfway through the musical for one song, and you go oh look that brooklyn newsie has massive arms and extremely high waisted pants? cool. he disappears again, AND THEN HE SHOWS UP RIGHT AT THE END AND DOES THIS??

and THEN you find out that he's a freaking acrobat who was the dance captain and swing for 17 different roles

so yeah. bart. andrew wilson. icon.

[theimaginauts]

MR. LICORICE & BETTE NOIR

Art by ANDREW WILSON

[coffeeman777]

"The normal condition of the Christian life, as the apostle Peter explains, is one of inexpressible and glorious joy, in spite of the fact that we are also grieved by many kinds of trials. We do not ignore the realities of sadness and suffering, but we stubbornly proclaim that they do not have the last word; the kingdom is here, Good Friday ushers in Easter Sunday, and death is swallowed up by life. This, from the resurrection onward, has given Christians a paradoxical way of responding to the brokenness of the world. So Paul and Silas spend a night in the stocks, in an age when that meant muscular agony rather than damp sponges, and hymns reverberate through the cells until an earthquake destroys the prison. Eighteen centuries later, in the same spirit, African slaves stand enchained in cotton fields and sugar plantations, singing the songs of Zion until deliverance comes. Christianity stares death in the face and sings anyway. We are, in Paul’s terms, sorrowful yet always rejoicing."

-- Andrew Wilson, "Spirit and Sacrament"

[walkingthroughthisworld]

“…one day she asked him about something he had never mentioned, something he had deliberately left out of his narrative—the noise the passengers made after being thrown into the water. ‘Finally I saw him turn sombre. “You have to forget the screams,” he said quietly. “You have to forget the screams or you’d go crazy.”’”

[transmasculinizing]

bro its so joever if this happens

[existential-labrador]

Watched The Iron Claw last night (devastating and incredible) and I couldn’t help feeling that Harris Dickinson could be a lost Wilson brother

[eye-candy-film-enjoyer]

Wes Anderson Movies + Tv tropes part 1/12

Bottle Rocket (1996)

[mrjinx87]

A.I. “art” needs to just die already.

[trutown-the-bard]

This is such a dumb take. This dumb Twitter user is simultaneously against AI use in development and in favor of using AI to replace the most powerful position in a company. Absolute brain rot.

[derangedrhythms]

[…] he also classified her as a demon, a devil, a fiend, a spirit and a sorceress, descriptions that actually capture her strange essence.

Andrew Wilson, from ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted’ (a letter from Dick Norton to Sylvia Plath, 4th January 1952)

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[nevinslibrary]

Mystery/Thriller Monday

So, Agatha Christie, but, a fictional character, but, also, this particular story is based a bit on when she went missing for 11 days in December of 1926.

In real life, Agatha’s husband Archie was having an affair, but, in this fictional mystery, she is also being threatened by a blackmailer because of her husband’s affair. The one doing the blackmailing wants Agatha to kill his wife.

On the practical side, the real life side, I’m not sure that I believe that her disappearance is really still ‘unsolved’ as everyone would like it to be. But, on the fictional side, it really does make for the start of a mystery and of a thriller. And, the author weaves a tale that did make me forget just for a moment that this character started as a real person. It was a really fun read, and, what is really cool (but I didn’t realize when I started this one), is that this is the first in a series too. Always a plus.

You may like this book If you Liked: A Study in Murder by Callie Hutton, Crowned and Dangerous by Rhys Bowen, or The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict

A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson

[adamwatchesmovies]

Time Trap (2017)

Time Trap is an honest effort from directors Ben Foster and Mark Dennis, who clearly have enthusiasm for this story. Unfortunately, the film never lives up to its potential. We spend so much time with characters who are stupider than we are that you'll become bored and frustrated waiting for them to catch up to you.

Professor Hopper (Andrew Wilson) has been searching for his missing parents and sister for years. After discovering their abandoned vehicle, he claims to have solved the mystery of what happened to them. When he vanishes as well, his students - Taylor (Reiley McClendon), Jackie (Brianne Howey), and Cara (Cassidy Gifford), her sister Veeves (Olivia Draguicevich), and Veeves' friend Furby (Max Wright) go investigate the site.

As Professor Hopper enters a cavern near his parents’ van, he spots what looks like a cowboy, frozen still up ahead. Not frozen as in ice, frozen as in he doesn’t move. After taking a couple of steps, the rancher begins moving normally while the daylight behind Hopper flickers rapidly from light, to dark, light, to dark, over and over. What could it mean?

If you haven’t guessed, it’s pretty obvious when you see it in action. Professor Hopper has stepped through a time barrier. Inside, time passes by so slowly that to those watching outside, it looks like you’re standing still. The mystery is obvious even if you don’t know the film’s title. I realize the characters in the movie don’t know they’re in a movie but it takes them an eternity to put two and two together, even when they receive camera footage from Furby that show him wondering where they went, waiting for them to return overnight, and then descending into the same cave in which they disappeared even though to them, they've only been gone for a few minutes.

The problem isn’t that it takes long for the students to realize what they’ve walked into; it's that the film makes it too obvious to those watching. There’s plenty of strange happenings: ropes suddenly snapping, phones being unable to contact that surface, artifacts from the past in pristine condition, etc. In any other movie, these would draw you in. Here, they make you restless. Within minutes, it’s clear too much time has passed. Even if the party gets back to the surface, so much time has passed that everyone they know has been reduced to dusty bones and memories. Escape is almost pointless except for the fact that you can’t live underground.

Time Trap is 95 minutes long and it’s about an hour before the non-mystery steps aside so the plot can begin. It gets pretty silly and inconsistent from there. Magic is introduced for no reason except to force a happy ending in a movie that shouldn’t have one. Villains show up out of nowhere. The characters jump to wild conclusions. Meanwhile, you’re still stuck asking questions about this time cave. If the time barrier has been there for millions of years, shouldn’t the place be filled to the brim with random bugs and debris that’s been blown in by the wind? What about rain?

Time Trap is a concept and nothing more. It either needed to keep its cards closer to its chest - and even then, that ending desperately needed a re-write - or do something worthwhile with its idea of people forced into the future against their will. There’s got to be a movie that handles this idea better. Even if there isn’t, not enough about this film works for me to recommend it. (July 16, 2021)

[abs0luteb4stard]

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