#bolivar the dog

[boingodigitalart]

Recent drawings for Webby Wednesday I did throughout yesterday afternoon and early evening.

[ducktoonsfanart]

Louie Duck with Fethry and Dugan Duck plus Bolivar Dog - Gladstone and Shamrock Gander - Quack Pack AU

And now for a change, the Quack Pack, that is, my version of the Quack Pack. I drew Louie Duck from the Quack Pack with the dog Bolivar (from the comics, he's Donald's pet, but he can also be Louie's pet since Louie loves animals), but there's also Fethry Duck and Dugan Duck (Fethry's nephew), in hoodie jackets and to draw them together, since I know Louie has similar personalities to the two of them, even though Louie is a little more clever. Certainly, they would fit in perfectly, while Louie's brothers would be a little jealous of him. Yes, I also love the Italian version of Fethry Duck, which is called Paperoga in Italian. Also, my inspiration came from a drawing, from my friend @boingodigitalart, so thanks to him.

The second drawing I did was a Gladstone Gander with his nephew the Shamrock Gander, but in modern clothes, as I imagine them in my Quack Pack version. Yes, since the Gladstone Gander first appeared in the Wintertime Wager comic, stripy by Carl Barks from January 1948, I wish him a happy 75th anniversary or 75th birthday too! Yes, they are very happy, since they are such characters. Happy birthday, Gladstone!

I hope you like these drawings and these ideas and don't worry, there will be more surprises like this! Especially with pets! Happy New Year once again!

Also this is my gift for my friends who love these characters.

[kitaychan]

🥐🪐🧩

🪐 ⇢ name three good things going on in your life right now

Ohh

I'm finally getting to the end of the Brothers Karamazov, and agsjfkg it has been a nice ride! (Plus the following book in the list is a banger)

We're going to make lasagna on Friday 😋😋

I'm finally going to resume my swimming classes

🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

Omegaverse, like it's not my cup of tea and I have encountered some fics where it wasn't tagged as such and like yeah, I nope out of it

🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh 

Probably not a internet reference but that Brooklyn nine nine episode where they sing I want it that way which someone made a vídeo of with heta characters xd

But also for an actual internet reference (though it's a colombian joke) is the image of a "toad dog" which is an expression used here like a swear word but it's so silly that it always makes me laugh

[zeravmeta]

It's absolutely hilarious to me that siracusa and its wolves have this whole mafia loyalty war going on and within the story itself are super vain about it as well like "oh our proud famiglia has managed to become powerful we have long evolved past our savagery and are noble civilized lupo" and i think its great because its a complete reverse to how the dogs/perro in bolivar are still in constant civil war. like they very much take the real world difference between "civilized dogs" and "savage wolves" and completely invert it. the wolves are quite literally having petty territory polite game squabbles and the dogs are operating out of a smoking crater knowing nothing but bloodshed

[ducklooney]

Happy birthday, Carl Barks!

On March 27, 1901, near Merrill, Oregon, Carl Barks was born, the famous writer and artist of Donald Duck comics who would turn Donald Duck and his family into something spectacular, starting with Duckburg and the Duckverse universe. He had a difficult childhood and was constantly looking for work until he started working for Disney from 1935. He worked on writing scripts for many classic Donald Duck shorts, and from 1942 he started writing and publishing the comic book "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" and since then he has been writing famous comics that will be read all over the world and that Donald Duck will be even more famous. Although Al Taliaferro invented Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Gus Goose, Grandma Duck and Bolivar the dog, while Walt Disney Donald and Daisy Duck, Barks remains famous for perfecting these characters and inventing one of the most famous characters without that the Duckverse wouldn't even exist. They are certainly Scrooge McDuck (created in 1947), Gladstone Gander (created in 1948), Beagle Boys (created in 1951), Junior Woodchucks (created in 1951), April, May and June Duck (created in 1952), Gyro Gearloose (created in 1952), Cornelius Coot (created in 1952), Goldie O'Gilt (created in 1953), Flintheart Glomgold (created in 1956), Magica De Spell and Miss Quackfaster (created in 1961), John D. Rockerduck (created in 1961), Abner Whitewater Duck (created in 1962), as well as Neighbor Jones, Soapy Slick, Pig mayor, Matilda and Hortense McDuck and other characters.

He stopped working with comics in 1967, but continued to draw special artwork and developed a duck style that influenced other artists and writers to follow him. Although he established his own rules for the Duckverse and the duck family, he never established it as true canon and let other authors make up their own. He strove for excellent humor (sometimes dark humor), and his comics are proof of that, even though conclusions about adventure comics were drawn from it. Those comics will later greatly influence other media, not only for Disney, but for the creation of the Indiana Jones movies. Influenced a lot on Osama Tezuka, the founder of manga. It also influenced the creation of Ducktales in 1987. He traveled around European countries and met other Donald Duck comic artists and writers. He especially influenced Don Rosa, Romano Scarpa, William Van Horn, Guido Martina, Carpi, Vicar and other authors. He married three times and left two daughters. He died on August 25, 2000 in Grants Pass, Oregon.

And now the best pictures of him in memory of the great Donald Duck artist who won The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1987. He was also called The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. If you love this comic artist and writer, feel free to like and reblog this and tell me what your favorite Carl Barks comics are. Happy Birthday Carl Barks!

[dogdogdogs]

"Dog" by artist Diego De La Rosa. oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches 2022.

In this painting, De la Rosa explores how poverty has pushed Venezuelans to rely on mysticism and spirituality for their betterment. The painting portrays an impoverished scenery that is reminiscent of the poor communities that are found outside the main urban areas.

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The dog is modeled after a stray that both Diego and his wife adopted from the streets in Caracas. Its appearance is embellished by a halo surrounding its head, and an ornamental collar on its neck. Both items serve to imbue the character with a sense of goodness and dignity. The halo is reminiscent of images of saints, found in Christianity, while the collar design is directly inspired by garments worn by the heroes of independence, such as Simon Bolivar and Francisco de Miranda.

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To illustrate the benevolence of the main character, the dog is accompanied by two items in front of its feet. A small bag of rice and mangoes. While rice has become a product hard to acquire for many Venezuelans, mangoes can be found growing on the trees on the street, and are an easy and accessible way of making ends for the hungry citizens. As such, the holy creature brings a humble bit of salvation to a community that has been abandoned by its leaders

[a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives]

Article from Mail about Andrew Wincott in Colombia (scroll down to read the article)

Coming soon to The Archers...Adam Macy's cocoa farm in Colombia!

written by Andrew Wincott for Mail on Sunday Travel (31 March 2014)

Radio star Andrew Wincott is bewitched and bedazzled by a historic and colorful corner of South America

Oh dear! Really? Are you quite sure?' Such were the reactions of various acquaintances to my announcement that I was planning a trip to Colombia.

The fact that I have friends in Bogota didn't assuage their anxieties. And now even I started to imagine scenarios in which, having been kidnapped by some paramilitary renegades, I could possibly negotiate some sort of communication line down which I could record scenes for The Archers from my cell in Bogota. Perhaps Adam could have been on a trip researching cocoa farming, I reflected, and found himself deludedly diverted towards coca instead.

Such is the curious blurring between fiction and reality in The Archers that stranger things have happened.

Bogota is a dynamic city with a chaotic character all its own. At 8,500ft above sea level you would think the head-rush would be mandatory. The rush is all in the traffic: buses veer, bikes swerve, taxis vie for fares across choked lanes.

But in the tranquil historic neighbourhood of La Candelaria you escape to the city's Spanish colonial past. Amid the teeming hordes of students, travellers and local Bogotanos, the gold exhibits of the Museo D'Oro, such as the pre-Colombian gold raft sculpture from the Muisca era, are dazzling.

Alternatively one can enjoy the whimsical wit of Colombia's most famous artist, Botero. His porcine figures are found in a museum named after him and built around a charming 18th Century courtyard. Also housed here is part of Botero's personal art collection, including works by Monet, Renoir, Chagall, Miro, and Dali.

Taking in the view: Andrew at the Iglesia de Monserrate overlooking Bogota.

In the nearby Plaza de Bolivar I saw a llama sauntering by - they are used to give rides to giggling tourists. On one corner stands the Museo de la Independencia, housing artefacts and exhibits that fascinatingly illustrate the story of the 1810 Revolution: how the fight for independence began and how, some might contend, it is still being fought today.

Looking up from the plaza - high in the mountains to the east - you see the Iglesia de Monserrate, which is accessible within minutes by cable car. Here you find a sanctuary of tranquillity and spirituality, as though one has risen above the city while its secular urban unreality sprawls magnificently but chaotically across the plateau below.

If the tumult of Bogota becomes too much, a mere hour away lies Zipaquira and its cathedral, one of the most startling buildings in the world. With ingenuity, vision and audacity, a cavernous expanse 600ft below ground has been carved from a salt mine to form a space for worship.

Such is the combination of iconography, natural forms, colours, and carvings that you feel you're in a sodium-chloride art installation.

It's extraordinary to imagine that on Sundays and holy days 3,000 people come here to worship.

At Guatavita, the legend of El Dorado resonates from the pre-Colombian past. Cradled by crater walls is the lake on to which the Muisca tribe rowed their new cacique (king) on a raft before ritually immersing him, naked and covered in gold dust. In further homage, thousands of gold offerings were thrown into the lake by members of the tribe surrounding the shores.

Across the mountains, through the valleys, past polytunnels (Adam would have been pleased to note) the poncho - or ruana - wearing farmers tend the fields, ride horseback or stroll as though time has stopped. Being on the road is an experience in itself. Away from Bogota, down from the plateau and the temperate high ground, the temperature rises.

Roadside grills offer chorizos, chicken and cold beers to slake the thirst. Dogs slumber, sheltering in doorways to escape the heat while cats watch from the shadows.

If it's history you crave, about 90 miles from Bogota, in the Andes near Tunja, there is a tiny bridge over the Teatinos River, marking the site where the Battle of Boyaca was fought.

Here in August 1819 a decisive victory was won against the Spanish in the war for independence - with the help of the British - an event marked by imposing monuments to the generals Bolívar and Santander.

Soon you reach the white-washed walls, red-tiled roofs and cobblestone streets of Villa de Leyva, a preserved colonial town which, since 1954, has been a national monument.

The 17th Century architecture, featuring cool arcaded courtyards, fountains, and flower-festooned columns, is unspoilt. Dancing in the square and drinking aguardiente in the bars around here seem like timeless nocturnal pursuits.

Further afield, an hour's flight from Bogota on the shores of the Caribbean, lies the Unesco World Heritage site of Cartagena, a beautifully restored jewel of a walled Spanish city with perhaps the most impressive fortifications in Latin America, the Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas.

The stature of the walls and the tunnels beneath help the visitor understand why it was virtually impossible to defeat the Spanish here, and why they stayed until the 19th Century.

At night the sun-drenched Plaza de la Santisima Trinidad is transformed into a natural theatre. All life is here. Children race, dogs strut like horses, folk reflect and ruminate.

Locals and travellers mix over a beer bought from the shop across the square and a hot dog from a stand.

If you fancy a cocktail, perhaps a cuba libre, you can try to wake the old girl slumbering behind her stall to mix one.

Colombia is a country that defies expectations. It will bewitch and bedazzle you. The countryside is timeless and you'll find pure pleasure in the tranquillity and variety of the landscape and the charm of its people. If you're looking to escape from the greyness of the commonplace, the warmth, colour and natural beauty of Colombia elevate it to the dimension of another world. I shall certainly be going back.

Maybe that cocoa farm of Adam's wasn't such a bad idea after all.

[fortressofserenity]

Who really is an everyman?

I remember somewhere in a Spider-Man board where somebody said that Spider-Man isn’t so much of an everyman but rather a stand-in for the superhero comics reader, when I think about this while there are certainly portrayals of Spider-Man that hew closer to his purported everyman reputation (the newspaper cartoons where Mary Jane worked as a computer saleswoman) there are aspects of him in the ‘616′ stories that don’t feel everymannish.

It’s not that normal men don’t cheat on their partners either, but that Spider-Man finds himself in situations where he gets the attention of femmes fatales like Black Cat and White Rabbit. The 616 version of Mary Jane works as a model, most men may have a crush on a female model but don’t date and marry these kinds of characters. I could also say that Kate Pryde herself isn’t much of an everywoman when one considers these.

Not only is she a skilled martial artist and hacker, she also has a pet dragon. You might say that it’s fiction, so she should have her pet dragon. But if you take a look at most other cartoon characters, they often have dogs. Obelix has a dog (or is it Asterix), both Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse have pet dogs (Bolivar and Pluto), Charlie Brown has a pet dog named Snoopy and Garfield’s Jon also owns a dog named Odie.

Both Batman and Superman have pet dogs, well so did Impulse at one point. Nightwing has a dog, so does Hawkeye. If you want a villainous example, we have Dick Dastardly and his pet Muttley. If you want a stretch, we have Pegleg Pete and his pet dog Chainsaw but he still qualifies and fits the shoe pretty well.

Most people in the real world have cats and dogs as pets, it’s very rare to encounter somebody who has a pet reptile. If dragons are reptiles, while reptile owners aren’t nonexistent they’re not that common either. There are even some people who point out that Kate Pryde panders a lot to those who really are deep into X-Men, if this is true then she resonates with just a few people. 

One would wonder why Wolverine became X-Men’s breakout character and not her, well the problem is that she may not be much of an everyperson to appeal to everybody else in some regards. Especially if she appeals too much to a certain demographic, then it goes a long way why her appeal in comics never translated well to media with a more mainstream audience like film.

Not everybody’s experience is going to be the same, so defining what makes an everyperson character’s going to be tricky. If there’s ever going to be a concrete consensus for what counts as one, they wouldn’t be part of a niche subculture of any sort. They’d have normie experiences and interests, mainstream and basic even. There’s a big difference between Charlie Brown and Tim Drake.

This is what separates the everymen from the fanboy favourites, they’re characters everybody can relate to. Whoever they are, they’re not part of some elite or niche. They’re going to be very plebian in a way Tim Drake never was.

[iwillruletheuniverse]

The Donald Duck magazine came in the mail today. Daisy thinks that Bolivar is too wild so Donald goes to a new petstore to buy a small dog. Saturn is a symbol for Thomas🩷

[bremont]

(via (94) "What we are seeing here is a coup d'état" - YouTube)

what we are seeing here is 1811 VENEZUELA liberation by a women 🚺 Venezuela is under occupation by a psychological 🧠 brain force called the chavista⛪ religion🙏 reason for the assassination of chaves ✝ same as JESUS✝️🙏 and 410 AD and the church⛪ , Chaves✝️🙏 the Martir✝ the chavista⛪ religion and the cleric🙏 with his crowd the chavistas 🛎 Maduro the cleric blames the WASHINGTON ROMAN EMPIRE and the chavistas 🙏 that cry liberty and MADURO the cleric ⛪ increases the fear by blaming anyone he does not like fingering the other for the suffering of the Venezuelan people the 11 millions of forced immigration are desertor of the torture chambers of the helicoide they are all fascistas The cleric has spoken..!! ..Not much can be done for the people the citizens as the cleric MADURO are the president of an OLYGARCHY that are the real owners of the nation a sort of double agent with a double speak reason why in Venezuela the rich exist well in las mercedes🤣 the poor cry🙏 WASHINGTON the enemy 🙏 conditioned 🐕‍🦺 like 🛎 Pavlov dogs that respond salive by the tone of MADURO VOICE ** The Bolivar 1811 version 2024 happens to be a women 🚺 corina machado, however it does not mean everything is dandy it means once Maduro goes the 2 stage of the work is on to avoid another 1811 like BOLIVAR and evolve properly.

[boingodigitalart]

Just cuddling their pets since I thought about this one screenshot of Huey and a rabbit together.

[ducktoonsfanart]

Quack Pack Kids and Teens with Pets

First of all, I wish everyone who celebrates according to the Julian calendar, Merry Christmas! Don't worry, there will be a surprise about that holiday and sorry for not making it, I'm busy sometimes.

Anyway I drew this drawing of kids and teenagers ducks with their pets after I got the idea from my friend. Well, children usually like to play with pets, so why not our heroes from the Duckverse. This is also part of my Quack Pack AU.

Louie Duck is usually an animal lover as well as an animal rescuer so I usually draw him with Donald's pet dog, Bolivar who happens to be a Bernadette. That dog first appears in the classic short "Alpine Climbers" where he rescues Pluto the dog. He was later used by Al Taliaferro as Donald's dog in the comics and mostly he appears in the comics. often Donald's nephews like to play with him, so why not teenager Louie with him. Both Bolivar and Louie have grown older. I also added pugdaddy, which is a raccoon-like animal that has a platypus tail and a duck beak. He also appears in a Quack Pack episode called "Shrunken Heroes".

Then there's Gosalyn Mallard from Darkwing Duck, but as a teenager who hangs out a lot with Donald's nephews and Daisy's nieces, and she keeps Archie, the goofy spider who's usually witch Morgana Macawber's pet. Since Morgana is part of Gosalyn's mother model, I'm sure Morgana's pets would also hang out with Gosalyn.

There are also April, May and June Duck, Daisy's nieces as teenagers. Mostly how I envision them in my Quack Pack. April Duck is with a cat named Trixie and it is Daisy's cat and it mostly appears in European mostly Dutch comics. Daisy's nieces love to play with the cat. May Duck is leashed by Knuckles the Iguana, a goofy iguana who is usually Daisy's pet in the Quack Pack. And June Duck keeps a rabbit as her pet. Yes, there's Dugan Duck, Fethry's preteen nephew who keeps a toad as his pet. And there's Webby Vanderquack, entering her teenage years, who also keeps her pet rabbit, since Webby likes cute animals.

Unfortunately, I wanted to add Huey and Dewey, but unfortunately they wouldn't fit in this drawing, so I apologize for that. As well as Morgana's pets, the bats, but I'll get to that another time. Other times, other children and teenagers with their pets will be shown. Maybe. They also all celebrate the New Year together with fireworks. I hope you like this drawing and this idea!

Once again, happy holidays! And please don't use these ideas without my permission. Thanks!

[xprojectrpg]

This Day in X-Project - February 21

PHASE 2

2015: Cecilia posts an update about the people in the Medlab and another post about adopting Pizza Dog. Adrienne emails P1 people about having attended Yale and having an empire again. Warren and Sue meet at a technology conference and they discover this isn't their first meeting. Julian wakes up in the woods and hurries off to find Tandy, finding Angelica, Adrienne and the harsh truth of a new reality instead. Lorna emails Wanda about escaping her father. Wade emails Marie-Ange about possible security threats.

2016:

2017: Warren stops by Jean’s hospital to make good on his word to donate money and is impressed by her dedication. With Extreme Prejudice: Daredevil and Spider-Man interfere in a confrontation between Friends of Humanity and mutants before it gets violent.

2018:

2019:

2020:

2021: Amanda and Hope A have a rather difficult discussion while leaving flowers at the M-Day memorial.

2022: Exorcism Robotica: Amanda alerts the X-Men to another Sentinel base and another Brotherhood attack; Marie-Ange confronts Amanda about the secrecy surrounding the Sentinel information but Amanda won’t tell her more; Bolivar Trask is showing off his new Sentinels to A.I.M. and Olivier when the Brotherhood arrive and some of the Sentinels attack Olivier before Magneto takes his turn; the X-Men discuss the mission en route; Amanda texts Gabriel to meet her in her suite; Gabriel is not happy when Amanda reveals she needs him to return to Olivier’s dimension; Olivier is beaten by Magneto and retreats to AZTECA, with Magneto and Erik the Red in pursuit; when Erik the Red/Garrison tells Magneto to stand down, his true plan is revealed; Cyclops, Bevatron, Dust and Wildchild take on one of the Sentinels; Nightcrawler, Wolverine and Spectrum take on another; Marvel Girl has a chance of a rematch against Uniscione and defeats her; Echo and Thornn face off; Psylocke gets the upper hand against Toad; Blink takes down Dragoness; the team destroys Master Mold, the Sentinel factory; as the X-Men prepare to leave, Amanda and Gabriel teleport in and take Jean and Kyle with them to AZTECA; Erik the Red’s true identity is revealed at the nightclub and Jean, Kyle and Gabe have no time to deal with their feelings of betrayal; with Amanda holding the portal out open, the four return to Olivier’s realm to destroy the masks that anchor it to their world; before each can destroy a mask, they are tempted by what they want most in the world, with varying levels of resistance; once the masks are destroyed they are ready to leave, but Abigail Brand appears, ready to avenge her ‘master’, Olivier; Garrison gives Brand his amulet that allows them to enter and leave and tells the others to go, that he has another option to escape; back in their own dimension, the group watch the nightclub burn down, only to discover Garrison’s flayed body in the wreckage; Jean posts to xp_teams that Garrison is back but seriously injured; Amanda posts to xp_teams to explain that the whole thing was part of a plan to take down Olivier, the Sentinels and weaken the Brotherhood; Gabriel texts Felicia to demand they have a spa day.

2023:

[ducklooney]

Duckvember - Yucky, Diner, Zealous, Community, Tranquil, Brother and Curious Duck (Ducks) - Thanksgiving Day and the meeting of the Pilgrims with the Native Americans in Duckverse

I'm late, and sorry for that, but I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Yes, it is celebrated every fourth Thursday in November (in the US), while in Canada it is celebrated on the second Monday in October. If anyone remembers my drawing from last year: https://ducklooney.tumblr.com/post/702120382036131840/duckvember-rural-holiday-and-shy-duck

Yes, and it follows on from last year's drawing, but with a different outcome, as it depicts this as a celebration of the First Thanksgiving, which took place in November 1621, when the Pilgrims thanked the Indians for taking care of them and giving them food during the strong last winter. And here you can see Native Americans and Pilgrims celebrating the day together, with me drawing them as ducks. And the Pilgrims ducks provide food that they prepared for the Native Americans. And yes, it's like my redraw from the genius artwork by American painter Jean Leon Gerome Ferris who painted the first Thanksgiving. Since not all the characters fit in one drawing, I made a separate drawing of the kids playing, throwing mud, chasing the turkey, and enjoying Thanksgiving. Although I know that this holiday causes controversy, I must again emphasize that the mishaps between settlers and Native Americans were not as pronounced in the 17th century as they were in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Yes, the first drawing shows Native American Donald and Daisy Duck, while the Pilgrims side shows Donald, Daisy and Della Duck wearing 17th century clothing. Another drawing features mischievous Huey, Dewey and Louie who are both Native Americans and Pilgrims, Webby Vanderquack and Honker Muddlefoot as Pilgrims and Gosalyn Mallard as a Native American. And there is also the unfortunate turkey and the Bolivar dog that came to America, although Bernadine dogs are only mentioned in the second half of the 17th century.

I hope you like these drawings and once again Happy Thanksgiving! If you like these drawings, feel free to like and reblog this!

[pesura]

My 25 fav albums in 2023 - An unordered list

Cark - Cave Dog (Throttle Records, 2023) https://clark.bandcamp.com/album/cave-dog #electronica #minimal��#experimental #bass

SVLBRD - The Waves (Faint, 2023) https://faintmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-waves #deeptechno #dubtechno #minimal #ambient

Tristan de Liège, Gregory Allison & Taylor Mackall - Life As A Film (Holy Volcano, 2023) https://tristandeliege.bandcamp.com/album/life-as-a-film-2 #ambient #modern classical

Dub Tractor - Wait (Touched, 2023) https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/wait #electronica #ambient #glitch #downtempo

Digitalverein - Tiefer Ins System (Seven Villas Voyage, 2023) https://sevenvillasvoyage.bandcamp.com/album/tiefer-ins-system #minimal #dubtechno #deeptechno

Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune, 2023) https://youngfathersofficial.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-heavy #alternative #postrock #electronica #bass

Saltbreaker & The Lasso - Lake Mist (2023) https://soundcloud.com/johnmarkhanson-1/sets/lake-mist #ambient

Lee - For Emma (Artificial Intelligence, 2023) https://artificialintelligencercrds.bandcamp.com/album/ai003-lee-for-emma #minimal #analogue #acid #idm

Girls in Airports - How It Is Now (Kaja Records, 2023) https://alexbanksmusic.bandcamp.com/album/projections #jazz #fusion jazz #downtempo #instrumental

Legiac - Vespertine (Riddim Record Store, 2023) https://roelfuncken.bandcamp.com/album/vespertine #electronica #ambient #glitch #idm

Tim Hecker - No Highs (Kranky, 2023) https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/no-highs #ambient #drone #experimental

Dj Panthr - Jade District (100% Silk, 2023) https://djpanthr.bandcamp.com/album/jade-district

Ital Tek - Timeproof (Planet Mu, 2023) https://italtek.bandcamp.com/album/timeproof #bass #experimental #soundscape #ambient #minimal

Sigur Rós - Átta (BMG, 2023) https://sigurros.bandcamp.com/album/tta #ambient

Arovane - Polymer (quiet details, 2023) https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/polymer #ambient #experimental

Shed - Towards East (KulturManufaktur, 2023) https://shed030.bandcamp.com/album/towards-east #electronica #minimal #bass #posttechno #ambient

Luke Hess - These Streets (Dolly, 2023) https://dolly-records.bandcamp.com/album/these-streets #detroit techno #minimal techno #deep techno #techno

Forest Swords - Bolted (Ninja Tune, 2023) https://forestswords.bandcamp.com/album/bolted #electronica #postrock #experimental #chillout

AMB - Collected Stories Vol 2: Time (Muti Music, 2023) https://ambmusic.bandcamp.com/album/collected-stories-vol-2-time #eletronica #downbeat #downtempo

Subset - Ambient Particles (Greyscale Music, 2023) https://scale-limited.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-particles-grscl33 #dubtechno #deeptechno #minimal #ambient

Anthony Naples - Orbs (ANS, 2023) https://anthonynaples.bandcamp.com/album/orbs #downtempo #eletronica #chillout

Pablo Bolivar & Nacho Sanchez - Distances (Seven Villas, 2023) https://pablobolivar.bandcamp.com/album/distances #dubtechno

Rampue - Bubblebath Trance (A Tribe Called Kotori, 2023) https://atribecalledkotori.bandcamp.com/album/bubblebath-trance-2 #minimal #deep house #idm #house

Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly International, 2023) https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/goodbye-hotel-arkada #ambient

James Holden - Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities (Border Community, 2023) https://jamesholden.bandcamp.com/album/imagine-this-is-a-high-dimensional-space-of-all-possibilities #experimental #electronica #jazz #ambient

[lesmislettersdaily]

M. Bamatabois’s Inactivity

Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 12: M. Bamatabois’s Inactivity

There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, “My fields, my peasants, my woods”; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, serve no use, and do no great harm.

M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld Paris, would have been one of these men.

If they were richer, one would say, “They are dandies;” if they were poorer, one would say, “They are idlers.” They are simply men without employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, and some knaves.

At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of the other—the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter shade of olive, ornamented on the two seams with an indefinite, but always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven—a limit which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, spurs and a moustache. At that epoch moustaches indicated the bourgeois, and spurs the pedestrian.

The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of moustaches.

It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats were royalist, and were called morillos; liberals wore hats with wide brims, which were called bolivars.

Eight or ten months, then, after that which is related in the preceding pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of these dandies, one of these unemployed, a “right thinker,” for he wore a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of the officers’ café. This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly fashionable.

Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered witty and mirthful, such as, “How ugly you are!—Will you get out of my sight?—You have no teeth!” etc., etc. This gentleman was known as M. Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The small effect which he produced no doubt piqued the lounger; and taking advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, between her bare shoulders. The woman uttered a roar, whirled round, gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice roughened by brandy, did, indeed, proceed in hideous wise from a mouth which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine.

At the noise thus produced, the officers ran out in throngs from the café, passers-by collected, and a large and merry circle, hooting and applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, whom there was some difficulty in recognizing as a man and a woman: the man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, horrible.

Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and said to her, “Follow me!”

The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert.

The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape.