#brian mansfield

[notesonartistry]

Who is Brian Mansfield??

He's a journalist that's based in Nashville. He used to work for USA Today. He has some good Taylor articles although I don't have any links offhand

[omegaremix]

Autumn 2010 Mixtape.

Alan Hawkshaw “Crusing”

Alan Hawkshaw “First Affair”

Alan Hawkshaw “Gingerbread”

Alan Hawkshaw “Mystique Voyage”

Alan Hawkshaw “Sunflower”

Alan Hawkshaw “Warm Hearts”

Alan Hawkshaw & Brian Bennett "Mermaid"

Brian Bennett “Morning”

Brian Bennett “Nuplex”

Clive Hicks “Deserted Factory”

Dave Richmond “Welcome Home”

Dick Doershuck “Paradise Found”

Keith Mansfield “Breezin’”

Keith Mansfield “Love De Luxe”

Keith Mansfield “Love Of A Lifetime”

Keith Mansfield “Pretty Colours”

Keith Mansfield “Routine Procedure”

Mike Vickers “Lollipop Shop”

Mike Vickers “Pigtails”

Ray Davies “Expansion Programme”

Steve Gray “Lemon And Lime”

[tayfabe75]

"Swifties, the plot has just thickened. I have just stumbled upon even more lore about The Starting Line. Yes, The Starting Line that Taylor Swift references in both 'The Black Dog' and 'Fresh Out the Slammer'. So this is playlist on Spotify that I listen to so much. Taylor Swift's iPod When She Was 18 by Brian Mansfield. Brian Mansfield is a journalist who used to work at USA Today and in 2008, Fearless Era, he interviewed Taylor Swift and he talked her into letting her export all the data from her iPod onto like a thumb drive. It shows all the songs she had when she got them, how many times she listened to them, how many times she skipped them, everything. In his article for USA Today they made a spreadsheet of the song she played the most. Then Mr. Brian made this playlist, I'm presuming in the order of like, most played to least played. Whenever I like, don't know what to listen to, I always listen to this playlist. I just put it on shuffle because it'll literally go from like country Americana to like, rap to like, rock to like, punk to like, Maroon 5. Taylor Swift genuinely listens to everything and anything. I also really enjoy this because I am the biggest Brandy Carlisle fan and there is a lot of Brandy Carlisle on here. Taylor Swift as an 18 year old was a ginormous Brandy Carlisle fan. I know that's right. But, getting to the lore… Do we see what song is right here? 'The Best of Me' by The Starting Line. The second song on the playlist is 'The Best of Me' by The Starting Line. Like The Starting Line in 'The Black Dog', where she says 'when someone plays The Starting Line and you jump up, but she's too young to know the song that was intertwined in the magic fabric of our dreaming'. 'Fresh Out the Slammer', where she says 'now we're at The Starting Line'. Like this has been on her playlist since she was 18! This is feeding into the idea in my head that Taylor Swift and Matty Healy are twin flames, because he also loves The Starting Line. And Matty Healy covered 'The Best of Me' by The Starting Line at The 1975's May 3rd show. And that May 3rd show in Manila is literally going to go down in history, because that's the show where Matty did the, 'this is about you, you know who you are. I love you' during About You to Taylor Swift. The same show where he covers 'The Best of Me' by The Starting Line. 'The Best of Me' by The Starting Line is literally on Taylor's playlist from 2008. I definitely did stumble upon this today because I had this on shuffle and then 'The Best of Me' came on. I was like, what the heck? Then I go click into the playlist, it's literally the second song, so I just felt like sharing that."

TikToker Alyssa Yung explains the lore behind Taylor's long-standing appreciation for 'The Best of Me' by The Starting Line and its connections to Matty. (source)

[itspileofgoodthings]

everyone like “if she’d really forgotten and moved on she wouldn’t be singing about it”

no. you can remember that you forgot and celebrate that and sing about how it was so nice and peaceful and quiet without that being a methinks the lady doth protest too much situation.

[hotvintagepoll]

THE TOURNAMENT IS OVER! Eartha Kitt lounges in her deck chair in the sun, dipping her toes in the pool with Toshiro Mifune and sipping a brightly colored fruity something with an umbrella in it.

Far below in the shadow realm, however, the fallen hotties dance in the dark—let's take a minute to look back at them under the cut.

PRELIM PRETTIES:

Claude Gensac, Silvia Pinal, Ewa Aulin, Rita Tushingham, Annette Funicello, Norma Bengell, Catherine Spaak, Brigitte Auber, Micheline Presle, Nanette Fabray, Libertad Lamarque, Vera Miles, Martha Raye, Catherine McLeod, Virginia Mayo, Elizabeth Allan, Belle Bennet, Virginia Cherill, Mary Brian, Ruth Chatterton, Agnes Ayres, Merna Kennedy, Marie Prevost, Corinne Griffith, May Allison, Virginia Brown Faire, Alice Brady, and Jetta Goudal

ROUND ONE WONDERS:

Angie Dickinson, Thelma Ritter, Geraldine Chaplin, Evelyn Preer, Vanessa Brown, Betty Blythe, Susan Hayward, Mae Clarke, Sally Ann Howes, Ossi Oswalda, Adrienne La Russa, Hermione Gingold, Barbara Bouchet, Melina Mercouri, Anna Karina, Edwige Fenech, Charmian Carr, Pina Pellicer, Marlène Jobert, Tsuru Aoki, Alice Roberts, Leila Hyams, Lady Tsen Mei, Geneviève Bujold, Dolores Hart, Anita Berber, Bonita Granville, Vonetta McGee, Claire Windsor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Tuesday Weld, Grace Darmond, Carol Channing, Deanna Durbin, Laraine Day, Mariette Hartey, Wendy Hiller, Candy Darling, Hermione Baddely, Valeria Creti, Ella Raines, Ann Miller, Dana Wynter, Dalida, Martine Beswick, Gale Storm, Simone Signoret, Cristina Gaioni, Mabel Normand, Stéphane Audran, Ruth Weyher, Anna Wiazemsky, Ann Sheridan, Sandhya Shantaram, Alice White, Anne Francis, Gena Rowlands, Lyda Borelli, May Whitty, Cathleen Nesbitt, Jessica Walter, Virna Lisi, Barbara Shelley, Iris Hall, Heather Angel, Anne Shirley, Joanna Pettet, Virginia O'Brien, Joan Collins, Greer Garson, Gracie Allen, Peggy Ryan, Frances Dee, Shirley Maclaine, Geraldine Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Margaret Hamilton, Eva Gabor, Francesca Bertini, Julie Adams, Olga Baclanova, Misa Uehara, Yvette Vickers, Milena Dravić, Jenny Jugo, Madeleine Carroll, Benita Hume, Olive Borden, Shirley Jones, Miyoshi Umeki, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard, Mary Anderson, Charlotte Greenwood, Sybil Seely, Mona Barrie, Kathryn Grayson, Katharine Ross, Madge Bellamy, Rhonda Fleming, Sally Gray, Jana Brejchová, Debra Paget, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Evelyn Brent, Zelma O'Neal, Marie Laforêt, Türkan Şoray, Beatriz Costa, Irene Zazians, Eleanor Powell, Susan Luckey, Patsy Kelly, Lil Dagover, Norma Talmadge, Dorothy Mackaill, Madge Evans, Virginia McKenna, Amália Rodrigues, Mamie Van Doren, Valerie Hobson, Isabel Jeans, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Claire Luce, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Nieves Navarro Garcia, Janet Leigh, Carmen Miranda, Jean Harlow, Aud Egedge-Nissen, Nina Foch, Jean Simmons, Piper Laurie, Katy Jurado, Jayne Mansfield, Anita Garvin, Frances Farmer, Lizabeth Scott, Joan Greenwood, Una Merkel, Arlene Francis, Ethel Merman, Doris Day, Suzanne Pleshette, Ruta Lee, Carolyn Jones, June Richmond, Eva Nil, Diana Dors, Anna Chang, Colleen Moore, Alexis Smith, Yvette Mimieux, Ruby Keeler, Viola Dana, Dolores Grey, Marie Windsor, Danielle Darieux, Jean Parker, Julie Christie, Acquanetta, Leatrice Joy, Ghita Nørby, Julie Newmar, Joanne Woodward, Sandra Dee, Eva Marie Saint, Simone Simon, Katherine Dunham, Birgitte Price, Lee Grant, Anita Page, Flora Robson, Martha Sleeper, Elsie Ames, Isabel "Coca" Sarli, Glenda Farrell, Kathleen Burke, Linden Travers, Diane Baker, Joan Davis, Joan Leslie, Sylvia Sidney, Marie Dressler, June Lockhart, Emmanuelle Riva, Libertad Leblanc, Susannah Foster, Susan Fleming, Dolores Costello, Ann Smyrner, Luise Rainer, Anna Massey, Evelyn Ankers, Ruth Gordon, Eva Dahlbeck, Ansa Ikonen, Diana Wynyard, Patricia Neal, Etta Lee, Gloria Stuart, Arletty, Dorothy McGuire, Mitzi Gaynor, Gwen Verdon, Maria Schell, Lili Damita, Ethel Moses, Gloria Holden, Kay Thompson, Jeanne Crain, Edna May Oliver, Lili Liliana, Ruth Chatterton, Giulietta Masina, Claire Bloom, Dinah Sheridan, Carroll Baker, Brenda de Banzie, Milú, Hertha Thiele, Hanka Ordonówna, Lillian Roth, Jane Powell, Carol Ohmart, Betty Garrett, Kalina Jędrusik, Edana Romney, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Kay Kendall, Ruth Hussey, Véra Clouzot, Jadwiga Smosarska, Marge Champion, Mary Astor, Ann Harding, María Casares, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mildred Natwick, Michèle Morgan, Romy Schneider, Elisabeth Bergner, Celeste Holm, Betty Hutton, Susan Peters, Mehtab, Leslie Caron, Anna Sten, Janet Munro, Nataša Gollová, Eve Arden, Ida Lupino, Regina Linnanheimo, Sonja Henie, and Terry (what a good girl)

ROUND TWO BEAUTIES:

Evelyn Nesbit, Thelma Todd, Tura Satana, Helen Gibson, Maureen O'Hara, Rocío Dúrcal, Mary Nolan, Lois Maxwell, Maggie Smith, Zulma Faiad, Ursula Andress, Musidora, Delphine Seyrig, Marian Marsh, Leatrice Joy, Sharon Tate, Pina Menichelli, Teresa Wright, Shelley Winters, Lee Remick, Jane Wyman, Martita Hunt, Barbara Bates, Susan Strasberg, Marie Bryant, Diana Rigg, Jane Birkin, Rosalind Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Brigitte Helm, Gloria Grahame, Rosemary Clooney, Bebe Daniels, Constance Bennett, Lilian Bond, Ann Dvorak, Jeanette Macdonald, Pouri Banayi, Raquel Welch, Vilma Bánky, Dorothy Malone, Olive Thomas, Celia Johnson, Moira Shearer, Priscilla Lane, Dolores del Río, Ann Sothern, Françoise Rosay, June Allyson, Carole Lombard, Jeni Le Gon, Takako Irie, Barbara Steele, Claudette Colbert, Lalita Pawar, Asta Nielsen, Sandra Milo, Maria Montez, Mae West, Alma Rose Aguirre, Bibi Andersson, Joan Blondell, Anne Bancroft, Elsa Lanchester, Nita Naldi, Suchitra Sen, Dorothy Van Engle, Elisabeth Welch, Esther Williams, Loretta Young, Margueritte De La Motte, Ita Rina, Constance Talmadge, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Bedford, Josette Day, Stefania Sandrelli, Jane Russell, Doris Dowling, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Donna Reed, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Billie Burke, Kyōko Kagawa, Françoise Dorléac, Hend Rostom, Monica Vitti, Lilian Harvey, Marjorie Main, Jeanne Moreau, Lola Flores, Ann Blyth, Janet Gaynor, Jennifer Jones, Margaret Sullavan, Sadhana, Ruby Myers, Lotus Long, Honor Blackman, Marsha Hunt, Debbie Reynolds, Michèle Mercier, Irene Dunne, Jean Arthur, Judy Holliday, Tippi Hedren, Susse Wold, Vera-Ellen, Carmelita González, Nargis Dutt, Purnima, Harriet Andersson, Yvonne De Carlo, Miroslava Stern, Sheila Guyse, Helen, Margaret Dumont, Betty Grable, Joan Bennett, Jane Greer, Judith Anderson, Liv Ullman, Vera Zorina, Joan Fontaine, Silvana Mangano, and Lee Ya-Ching

ROUND THREE ELECTRIFIERS:

Jean Hagen, Sumiko Mizukubo, Mary Philbin, Ann-Margret, Margaret Rutherford, Claudia Cardinale, Eleanor Parker, Jessie Matthews, Theresa Harris, Brigitte Bardot, Alla Nazimova, Faye Dunaway, Marion Davies, Anna Magnani, Theda Bara, Myrna Loy, Kay Francis, Fay Wray, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Hideko Takamine, France Nuyen, Claudine Auger, Miriam Hopkins, Maylia Fong, Samia Gamal, Maude Fealy, Machiko Kyō, Sharmila Tagore, Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, Juanita Moore, Anna Fougez, Waheeda Rehman, Ruan Lingyu, Nina Mae McKinney, Ethel Waters, Nadira, Olivia de Havilland, Abbey Lincoln, Louise Beavers, Agnes Moorehead, Lana Turner, Norma Shearer, Maria Falconetti, Reiko Sato, Marie Doro, Clara Bow, Margaret Lindsay, Catherine Denueve, Madhabi Mukherjee, Rosaura Revueltas, Hu Die, Mary Pickford, Fredi Washington, Louise Brooks, Leonor Maia, Merle Oberon, Paulette Goddard, Vivien Leigh, Francine Everett, Savitri, Tita Merello, and Meena Kumari

ROUND FOUR STUNNERS:

Judy Garland, Dorothy Dandridge, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Marilyn Monroe, Irene Papas, Lupe Vélez, Pola Negri, Gene Tierney, Barbara Stanwyck, Gina Lollobrigida, Lena Horne, Nutan, Jean Seberg, Kim Novak, Gladys Cooper, Tallulah Bankhead, Linda Darnell, Julie Andrews, Carmen Sevilla, Gloria Swanson, Glynis Johns, Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Anita Ekberg, Toshia Mori, Deborah Kerr, Hazel Scott, Chelo Alonso, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Kwan, Devika Rani, Shima Iwashita, and Anouk Aimée

ROUND FIVE SMOKESHOWS:

Setsuko Hara, Pearl Bailey, Joan Crawford, Madhubala, Marpessa Dawn, Keiko Awaji, Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, Ava Gardner, Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly, Xia Meng, Suraiya, Natalie Wood, María Félix, and Mbissine Thérèse Diop

ROUND SIX SEXY LADIES:

Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Vyjyanthimala, Jane Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ingrid Bergman

QUARTER FINALIST GLAMAZONS:

Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Lauren Bacall

SEMIFINALIST ICONS:

Rita Moreno, Diahann Carroll

FINALIST FABULOSITY:

Hedy Lamarr

ULTIMATE CHAMPION OF THE HOT & VINTAGE MOVIE WOMAN TOURNAMENT:

Eartha Kitt

[lucidloving]

Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (trans. Ibrahim Muhawi) // John Keats, "Ode on Indolence" // Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart // Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk // Misun Holdorf // Dear Icarus—Anna Miriam Brown // Louise Erdrich // Frank Bidart, "Guilty of Dust" // Mary Oliver, "Honey Locust" // Kahlil Gibran, "Defeat" // Mary Oliver, That Sweet Fruit John Clare // Brian Jekel // Katherine Mansfield, The Diaries of Katherine Mansfield // see 6 // Mary Oliver, Thirst // Yves Olade, Bloodsport // Marina Tsvetaeva, Poems for Akhmatova (trans. Michael R. Burch) // Galileo Chini, Icarus // Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything

[ineffable-rohese]

Neil's picks for Aziraphale & Crowley's Angelic Playlist were Cry Me a River (Julie London), The Book of Love (Peter Gabriel), and The Show Must Go On (Queen).

Three songs. Two about the aftermath of a break up, and one about coming together in love. So very clearly, we can infer a Crowley POV song, an Aziraphale POV song, and a song for the two of them and their happily ever after. (Song lyrics for all three after the cut for reference.)

The Book of Love is a perfect wedding song. It's a song to play under two people declaring their desire to spend eternity together. With lines about dancing and reading and it's perfect. It's originally a Magnetic Fields song that was released in 1999. Peter Gabriel recorded a cover in 2004 for the movie Shall We Dance about which I know nothing but the Wikipedia summary. But since we know how movies are important here... It's a standard rom-com with a bored Richard Gere secretly taking up ballroom dancing after following a pretty lady from the train (J-Lo). His wife (Susan Sarandon) thinks he's cheating, turns out nope, just dancing, drama ensues, he gives up dancing but eventually his wife becomes supportive and he realizes he loves his wife. And dancing. And they live happily ever after, with both of them getting what they want. Maybe we can draw some parallels here? But I think the song speaks for itself better than its connection with what sounds like a standard early 2000s romcom.

The individual songs are where it gets interesting.

Cry Me a River was first released by Julie London in 1951, but became popular after she sang it in the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It starring Jayne Mansfield as an aspiring rock 'n roll singer. Again, relying on Wikipedia here, but there is an interesting bit about a blossoming forbidden relationship, wiretapped phones, and someone editing the recordings to keep the love affair secret. But again, it's probably a stretch to look too deeply into the movie.

The song has a very classic jazz feel. It's from a decade and a half later, but if you were, say, an angel who enjoyed Moonlight Serenade or A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square, it has a similar feel. You definitely wouldn't say it's bebop. The lyrics are about someone who was in love and had their heartbroken. Their former love (who never shed a tear over the break up) has returned and wants to make up. The singer essentially says "you love me? Prove it. Cry me a river like I cried when you left." Which, fair, but in our context, ouch.

The Show Must Go On is a Queen song, and we know how much Queen we hear in association with Crowley in particular. But this just isn't any Queen song. It was written by Brian May about Freddie Mercury's struggles as he neared the end of his life, and it was recorded in 1990. (Coincidentally or not, the year Good Omens was published, a book co-created by friends, one of whom would die too soon, and the other of whom would reflect on his friend's end of life struggles as the story was told more fully. Yes, I'm crying about this.)

In the song, the singer is fighting to reach a place of freedom, away from empty spaces and heartbreak. They are fighting with pure will, and even though their heart is breaking they smile and carry on because the show must go on.

What I really appreciate here with the POV songs, is that they are cross-coded. Queen is Crowley-coded, but the song about someone fighting through heartbreak to achieve something vital, while forcing a smile for the audience? That's absolutely Aziraphale in Heaven. And the 40s/50s jazz ballad is absolutely Aziraphale's style, but the jilted lover who may be willing to give their love a second chance but needs to see proof that the lover cares as much as they do is Crowley all the way.

It's almost like... Well it's almost like even in their separation, they are each carrying a piece of the other. The book of love has music in it, indeed.

The Book of Love

The book of love is long and boring No one can lift the damn thing It's full of charts and facts, and figures And instructions for dancing But I I love it when you read to me. And you You can read me anything.

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it's just transcendental Some of it's just really dumb But I I love it when you sing to me And you You can sing me anything

The book of love is long and boring And written very long ago It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes And things we're all too young to know But I I love it when you give me things And you You ought to give me wedding rings

Cry Me a River

Now you say you're lonely You cry the whole night thorough Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river I cried a river over you

Now you say you're sorry For bein' so untrue Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river I cried a river over you

You drove me, nearly drove me out of my head While you never shed a tear Remember, I remember all that you said Told me love was too plebeian Told me you were through with me and

Now you say you love me Well, just to prove you do Come on and cry me a river, cry me a river I cried a river over you

The Show Must Go On

Empty spaces, what are we living for? Abandoned places, I guess we know the score, on and on Does anybody know what we are looking for?

Another hero, another mindless crime Behind the curtain, in the pantomime Hold the line Does anybody want to take it anymore?

The show must go on The show must go on, yeah Inside my heart is breaking My makeup may be flaking But my smile, still, stays on

Whatever happens, I'll leave it all to chance Another heartache, another failed romance, on and on Does anybody know what we are living for? I guess I'm learning I must be warmer now I'll soon be turning, round the corner now Outside the dawn is breaking But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free

The show must go on The show must go on Inside my heart is breaking My makeup may be flaking But my smile, still, stays on

My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies Fairy tales of yesterday, grow but never die I can fly, my friends

The show must go on The show must go on I'll face it with a grin I'm never giving in On with the show I'll top the bill I'll overkill I have to find the will to carry on On with the show Show Show must go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on

[vintagegeekculture]

“Voyage: a Journey into Discoid Funk” (1978). 

Spotify has it if you’d like to check out his ambient funk. Brian Bennett is a good friend of soul/funk library music pioneer Keith Mansfield, best known for the “funky fanfare” song (aka the 70s “And Now Our Feature Presentation” song, associated with the movies of Quentin Tarantino). Like his friend Keith, Bennett is a composer of “library music” leased for use as background. 

[greywindys]

So, recently, a Swiftie discovered a Spotify playlist by Nashville journalist, Brian Mansfield, comprised of the top 170 songs on Taylor's iPod that she shared with him for an article back in 2008. Not only is it full of bops, but it also includes the last big hit Gorillaz ever had - Feel Good Inc. Idk if there were still any Gorillaz fans that doubted her claim that she was a fan of Damon's work, but there you have it lmao. She is one of us. You have something in common with Taylor.

[duffertube]

The KPM 1000 Series . Vol 1

1. The Mad Hatter's Ball - Syd Dale

2. Image - Brian Bennett

3. The Hell Raisers - Syd Dale

4. Race to the Top - Syd Dale

5. The Big Fuzz - Johnny Pearson

6. Sports Arena - Neil Richardson

7. Excitement Personified - David Lindup

8. Bossa Noches - Bill Le Sage

9. Exclusive Blend - Keith Mansfield

10. Water Sports - James Clarke

11. Beat Me 'til I'm Blue - Alan Hawkshaw

12. Acquittal - David Lindup

13. Beach Barbeque - Keith Mansfield

14. Lazy Evening Blues - Alan Parker

15. Gold Medal - Complete - Keith Mansfield

16. Gathering Crowds - John Scott

17. Kinky Boots - Syd Dale

18. Firebird - Neil Richardson

19. Cha Cha Del Sol - David Lindup

20. Organ Mania - Alan Hawkshaw

21. The Extrovert - David Lindup

22. Summer Stomp - Keith Mansfield

23. Funky Fanfare - Keith Mansfield

24. Action Replay - Alan Hawkshaw

25. Against the Clock - John Shakespeare

26. Did Somebody Spook? - Johnny Hawksworth

27. Party Time - Keith Mansfield

28. Sidetrack - Brian Bennett

29. Super Sell I - Keith Mansfield

30. People's Choice - Keith Mansfield

31. Speed Speed Speed - Alan Parker

32. Solo Theme - Syd Dale

33. Match Play - Syd Dale

34. The Zodiac - David Lindup

35. Opening Trailer 2 - Syd Dale

Source: Internet Archive

[slightlydullpencil]

Hello everyone! I was looking through some meme templates today when I found this one. After looking at it for a minute, I thought it would work perfectly for creating a meme about Fanny Price in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.

To begin, I feel like I should explain a little bit about the template for those who have no idea what is going on here. The picture is from season 20, episode 16 of Family Guy, in which Lois becomes addicted to painkillers that were originally prescribed for her dog Brian. This in my opinion, unfortunately, can be related to Fanny.

For example, I want to start by relating the pills to Edmund and Brian to Mary Crawford. This is due to the fact that, originally, it looked as if Edmund and Mary Crawford would get married. Throughout the early parts of Mansfield Park, we can see clear signs that both Mary and Edmund had caught each other's eye. Like when Mary and Edmund voluntarily played the parts of in Amelia and Anhalt in Lovers Vows. However, as the novel progresses, we begin to see the relationship between the two of them crumble, as Mary's morals and values begin to ruin their relationship. For example, Mary's hesitancy to become "a preacher's wife" was one of the biggest reasons her and Edmund split. In fact, we see this prejudice highlighted in volume 2 chapter five when Mary Crawford says to Edmund, "(b)e honest and poor, by all means-but I shall not envy you; I do not much think I shall even respect you. I have much greater respect for those that are honest and rich." (Austen 147). This quote showcases Mary's way of thinking when it comes to class, she views anyone of a lower social status or economic standing beneath her. As a result, it drove a definite wedge in between the two of them. Which, funny enough, can be related to how Brian purposefully stops taking the painkillers as he views them as dangerous to himself.

On the other hand, I definitely think Lois represents Fanny in this situation. In this scene, we can see Lois try to resist taking another one of Brian's pills as she herself knows they are not good for her. Similarly, Throughout the majority of the novel, Fanny struggles with her own feelings with Edmund, as she knows her feelings are inappropriate. Apart from the obvious, that being that Edmund is her first cousin, Fanny also does not want to get in the way of Edmunds happiness with Mary Crawford despite the fact that she disapproves of the match. But despite all of this, in the end Fanny ends up marrying Edmund, much like how Lois ends up taking the pain killers. What do you guys think? Let me know!

[taylor-on-your-dash]

Hello, how are you? This is an old question that I had ever since I entered to the fandom and saw a lot of people fighting because of this, and I wanted to ask your opinion about this topic because you looks like a TS Timelines fairy, you always have a good answer to a Timeline question: Who do you think IKYWT and Treacherous are about? I've saw many people who says that it's about John, other that say it's about Harry, other that it's about Jake and some that says that it's a mix of all of them, at this point I don't even know what to believe, so can you please help me. Thank you beforehand 😊

aw, thank you for the beautiful words! i hope i won't upset anybody with the answer. I usually don't write any theories on the timelines about who the songs are about because it gets hateful really fast.

HARRY: I'm just gonna say it: Trouble cannot be about Harry because they didn't know each other. Taylor herself said that she wrote the chorus to Trouble six months before she was scheduled with Max Martin. If you look at the Lover Journals, Taylor finished Trouble in June 2012, therefore placing the start of the song around January 2012. Taylor and Harry met on March 31st, so it's impossible for the song to be about him.

JOHN/JAKE: I do think that the song is a mix of John and Jake. She was still healing from the relationship with Jake (an older man who looked down on her), while singing songs about John (an older man who looked down on her) in tour. I'm sure that irony of the situation hit her at some point.

My opinion is that the song is about the anger that a lot of young women feel once they realise that an older man immediately clocked that they were naive, and therefore easier to manipulate, and he chose to play with it, almost in a mockingly way, instead of, idk, helping them grow in a healthy way or something like that.

the fact that Taylor wrote "the blame was on me" is another aspect of how society views young women (or females in general, regardless of age). we're expected to be the more mature ones, and if someone like John or Jake happens to us, it will never be the guy's fault, it was our fault for not recognising the red flags immediately.

TREACHEROUS: I see a lot of references about Treacherous and Trouble being about the same person, with Treacherous being the beginning and Trouble the end, but we actually don't have any source confirming that. Genius.com quotes the US Today article by Brian Mansfield as the source, but that's incorrect. this rumor started on release day, so while it's possible that the OG interview was lost to time, I highly doubt it.

Everyone can be a good candidate for Treacherous, even Harry, since the song was written on April 11th. I don't have a clear hypothesis of who Treacherous is about, the only thing I can offer is that i recognise that feeling of anxiety that a lot of people who were burned badly, like Taylor was at that moment, experience. You wanna fall in love again but will it end in burning flames or paradise?

[pagetreader]

Last 3 films you watched:

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Emma (2020)

POTC: COTBP (2003)

4 films on your to-watch list:

When Marnie Was There (2014)

In The Heights (2021)

Mr. M.alcolm's L.ist (2022)

Last 3 songs/artists you listened to:

Brain Stew by Green Day

1950 by King Princess

Miracle by The Goo Goo Dolls

4 songs/artists on your to-listen list: N/A

Last 3 books you read:

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)

A Sudden Light by Garth Stein (2014)

The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton (1938)

4 books on your tbr:

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1814)

George Washington's Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade (2013)

Slow Horses by Mick Herron (2010)

Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham (1915)

Tagged by: @retrograderesemblance (<3333) Tagging: @honorhearted // @brooklynislandgirl // @smiletimeisrunningout // @widowshill // @fasciinating // @ensnchekov //

[freddiemercurydaily]

‘A Night At The Opera Tour’

John Reid's prediction of a highly successful year was proven highly credible the next evening in Cardiff. The band had still not paused from the rush up to the tour and spent most of the day relaxing and sleeping - no doubt a factor in their near recumbent profile. Also, unlike most groups, they were keeping their dissatisfaction with the show to themselves.

The band stopped off at Harlech TV on the way to see a cassette of the video for 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. The general consensus was quite good for four hours, with much laughter during the operetta. Brian finds film of the group educational - the first time he saw himself was a Mike Mansfield opus for 'Keep Yourself Alive' - "It was 'All right fellows, give it everything you've got but don't move off that spot.' It was terrible." You don't like Mansfield, eh? "Oh, I hate him - we all do... I was horrified when I saw it - I couldn't believe we looked that bad. I looked very static - seeing myself has taught me a lot about stage movement. Some of the things I do are planned for effect, but it's mostly just feeling the audience and communicating that back to them."

Arriving at the motel - several miles out of town - Freddie immediately fell asleep, John held court of a sort, joined later by Brian, while Roger went jogging, a daily event when touring. Tuning in to rock via Bill Haley and Tommy Steele, he became a drummer because he was better at it than guitar. All through school he was in bands; he only went to dental school out of "middle class conditioning, and it was a good way to stay in London without having to work". His mother thought it a bit strange when he opted for a career as a rock star, but she doesn't worry too much now.

The concert starts in much the same manner as the previous night, but there are signs that tonight is work, with posing an afterthought.

During ‘Stone Cold Crazy’ Freddie's movements explode in perfect unison with the music, the lights and surroundings go crazy, and the audience goes berserk.

Freddie asks for requests and receives a roar out of which one can vaguely make 'Liar'. Fred walks along the stage, nodding, agreeing he will do this one and that one while the kids roar on. "I'll tell you what - we'll do them all!"

(Brian twisted his ankle during ‘Liar’ unbeknownst to the audience.)

'Doing Alright' changes into a cha-cha beat, Freddie snapping his fingers, the coolest hipster in town, and then instantly drops into faster-than-light drive - the whole row next to me leaps to their feet as a man, rocking back and forth as Brian roars into a blinding solo.

Two songs later, in 'Seven Seas of Rye', the kids break - very fast - and in five seconds half the audience is a seething mass in front of the stage, climbing on each other in pyramids, sudden openings appearing as a splintering seat sends a few bodies to the floor.

(Seats seats were damaged from the fans climbing over them)

Interestingly, Freddie's strip act during ‘Big Spender’ isn't part of the show every night. On this night Freddie appeared (and remained) in his kimono, while on the previous night he emerged for the encore in his tight white shorts

Queen will probably always be remembered, because as their tour is beginning to demonstrate, they have the ability to actualise and encompass the outer limits of their sense of self-importance. Queen and their music, presentation, production - everything about them says that they are more important than any other band you've every heard, and who has there been, so far, who has objected? Certainly not the 150,000 people (plus 20,000 a day) who bought 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in the first 20 days of its release. Certainly not me.

Source: Queen: A Riot At The Opera

Published in Sounds, November 29 1975

Queen triumphant

Report by Jonh Ingham

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23 Books I Want to Read in 2023

(all books I already own, many of which have been lounging on my shelves for a very long time and growing very impatient that I haven’t read them yet)

(tagged by @televinita )

1. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

2. Year One by Nora Roberts

3. Scythe by Neal Shusterman

4. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

5. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

6. Carrie by Stephen King

7. Radium Girls by Kate Moore

8. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

9. Frankenstein Unbound by Brian W. Aldiss

10. The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes

11. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

12. Longbourn by Jo Baker

13. Dune by Frank Herbert

14. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt

15. Angel City by John Steele

16. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

17. Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

18. The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

19. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

20. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

21. Storm Front by Jim Butcher

22. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist

23. The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster

Might keep this handy as a reference and cross them off as I read them!

Tagging @simplyshelbs16xoxo

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