#dr. jekyll and mr. fame

[music2023]

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Fame by Black Cards

I deal and drink in spades But heaven's got a gate full of metal detectors

[27-royal-teas]

idk I was listening to the lyrics of jekyll and mr fame more and it kinda… fucks me up a little? the connections of “heavens got a gate full of metal detectors” to heavens gate? “nurse me like a drink” alluding to the need for gentle care in a probably not gentle setting? “I’m dr jekyll and mr fame” referring to jekyll and hyde and how he’s himself on the inside and someone different, famous, evil on the outside??? “I want to be used and left empty”??????? BOY. LIKE. it’s so obviously Pete Wentz lyricism and it kind of hurts

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

but what if they pull out some arma or black cards or something as an eight ball like honey if i'm not there........

[deansmultitudes]

I'll listen to the same few songs for weeks and then suddenly at an asscrack of dawn will get overwhelmed with a craving to listen to every single song I've ever known and discover every single song I could ever love all at once and aaaaa

[coffeeandcinema]

In 1963 photographer Bert Stern photographed some of the top actors/actresses at the height of their fame playing their dream roles for a photo series in LIFE magazine's December 20, 1963 issue.

Cary Grant as Charlie Chaplin's Tramp / Audrey Hepburn as Pearl White in 'Perils of Pauline' / Tony Curtis & Natalie Wood as Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky in 'The Sheik' / Paul Newman as a Douglas Fairbanks Sr. swashbuckler / Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin as Judah Ben-Hur and Messala from 'Ben-Hur' / Bing Crosby & Bob Hope as 1930s gangsters / Jack Lemmon as a war pilot / Shirley MacLaine as one of Busby Berkeley's showgirls / Rock Hudson as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

[strangestcase]

The weird tumblr brand infantilization of Mr. Hyde (of Dr. Jekyll and fame) is pretty funny, all things considered, particularly when you remember the character's trajectory in adaptations, specifically cinema.

[thekidsarentalright]

top 5 Pete lyrics that AREN'T Fall Out Boy >:)

oooo this is an interesting one to answer:

1. “that i’m skin and bone / just a cane and a rusty throne / oh, the castle’s under siege / but the sign outside says ‘leave me alone’” always / p!atd

2. “i feel marooned in this body / deserted, my organs can go on without me” trade mistakes / p!atd

3. “saviors who betray me / with every breath who sell themselves / at every turn they sink beneath contempt” misanthrope 2.0 / arma angelus

4. “Why would you bring me in / if you knew what you’d become? / so curse everyone and everything / even the sun” stall me / p!atd

5. “the witness got a story, no corroborating / they are in big black cars / kiss me like a victim, i’ll collaborate it” dr. jekyll and mr. fame / black cards

[bizarrebazaar13]

FL-inspired book recs, part 2!

part 1 here

Locations

The Shuttered Palace: Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul. when Kitty Karr, a white film star, dies and leaves her estate to the Black St. John sisters, everyone wants to know why. Elise, the oldest of the three sisters, takes on the responsibility of getting Kitty’s affairs in order, and stumbles on a secret that could change everything. told in both Elise’s words and Kitty’s own, the book examines wealth, fame, race, gender, family, and the inner workings of Hollywood. I’m not usually very into the palace, but I think the themes here of family ties, facades, and who exactly gets to be rich and famous could be a nice parallel.

The Stacks: Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine. an alternate history where the library of Alexandria was never destroyed, and now controls all the world’s knowledge. Jess Brightwell, a book smuggler, passes the entrance exam to join the Library’s ranks. but nothing about the Library is quite what it seems, and Jess and his fellow postulants are about to learn just how powerful- and dangerous- knowledge can be. this is the first book in what is honestly one of my favorite series that I’ve ever read.

The Brass Embassy: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo. a retelling of The Great Gatsby from Jordan Baker’s point of view, set in a version of the Jazz Age with demons, magic, and the possibility of losing your soul. Vo’s version of Jordan is a queer Vietnamese woman adopted by the wealthy Baker family as a child, and I loved her narration. I don’t really care for the original great gatsby, but this version hooked me immediately.

Exceptional Stories

Caveat Emptor: Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. isolated but wealthy households, mysterious characters that you know are vampires but the protagonist doesn’t, be careful what you wish for, something oddly romantic about what the narrator and the antagonist have going on… sound familiar? I think Carmilla is technically a novella, so it’s a shorter read than some of these other books.

Factions

The Masters: The Bartimaeus Sequence by Johnathan Stroud. a series of four books (a main trilogy and a prequel) that takes place in an alternate London where the government is controlled by magicians who get their powers from summoning spirits. the first book, The Amulet of Samarkand, is narrated alternatively by Bartimaeus, a djinni summoned to help a young apprentice get revenge on a powerful rival, and Nathaniel, an ambitious magician’s apprentice whose revenge plot soon spirals out of control. Stroud’s magicians parallel FBG’s masters in many ways, and one that jumps out immediately is Nathaniel’s later role as the information minister, and how closely it resembles Pages’s ministry of public decency.

The University: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. it’s about an experiment gone awry, and the truths that might be better left unfaced. another novella, this classic horror story may have been inspired by a friend of Stevenson’s, a french teacher who appeared to be a perfectly normal academic, but turned out to have murdered his wife and possibly several other people by poisoning them. this, along with the focus on Jekyll’s previous high status in the academic community, puts me in mind of the investigations in the university storyline, and the Summerset vs Benthic rivalry.

The Tomb-Colonies: Whichwood by Taherah Mafi. when Laylee’s mother dies, and her father abandons her, she is left as the only mordeshoor in the village of Whichwood. she spends her days washing the bodies of the dead and preparing their souls for the afterlife. rejected by the townspeople and slowly dying as her magic is drained away, her only company is the dozens of ghosts in her shed, awaiting burial. one day, she meets Alice and Oliver, two strangers on a mission to save her. this is technically a companion to one of Mafi’s earlier books, Furthermore, but I read Whichwood before I knew there was another book, and I understood it perfectly fine.

[hrrtshape]

120 books? Hello? Thats insane 😟

and i did it to get validation from a MAN 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭anyways. EMMA's 2024 reading list

✶ letters to felice by f. kafka ✶ the trial by f. kafka

✶ brother's karamazov by f. dostoyevsky

✶ crime and punishment by f. dostoyevsky ✶ the second sex by s. de beauvoir

✶ what is existentialism? by s. de beauvoir

✶ journals, 1951-59 by a. camus

✶ the communist manifesto k. marx (had nothing better to do)

✶ god is dead by f. nietzsche

✶ existentialism by j. p. sartre

✶ notes from underground by f. dostoyevsky

✶ the meek one by f. dostoyevsky

✶ white nights by f. dostoyevsky

✶ the double by f. dostoyevsky

✶ the idiot by f. dostoyevsky

✶ letters to milena by f. kafka

✶ the bell jar by s. plath (my love)

✶ bend sinister by v. navokov (fun fact, nabokov has my favourite writing style ever)

✶ the defence by v. nabokov

✶ lolita by v. nabokov (i started this book when i was 13. can u believe that????

✶ metamorphosis by f. kafka (re-read 2 in the month of february)

✶ anna karenina by l. tolstoy

✶ inferno by dante

✶ no longer human by o. dazai

✶ frankenstein by m. shelley

✶ catcher in the rye by j.d sallinger

✶ hamlet by w. shakespeare

✶ 1984 by g. orwell

✶ emma by j. austen (hey ! that's me !!!)

✶ a clockwork orange by a. burgess

✶ jane eyre by c. bronte

✶ dracula by stoker 

✶ picture of dorian gray by o. wilde 

✶ wuthering heights by e. brontë

✶ great expectations by c. dickens (not a fan)

✶ pride and prejudice by j. austen (love love love the 2005 (i think) film)

✶ letter to my father by f. kafka (relatable ASF)

✶ animal farm by g. orwell

✶ the man and the sea e. hemingway 

✶ a christmas carol by c. dickens 

✶ to the lighthouse by v. woolf 

✶ 100 years of solitude by g. g. márquez 

✶ the nun by d. diderot (surprisingly one of my favourites from the list. definitely top 5)

✶ guardian angel by f. sagan (i love sagan. i'm starring in two of her book adaptations in my fame dr)

✶ caesar by w. shakespeare

✶ sename dvare (old farm) by š. ragana ( a lithuanian one)

✶ master and margarita by m. bulgakov (read this to get the approval of my father)

✶ cherry orchard by a. chekhov 

✶ mrs dalloway by v. woolf 

✶ death of ivan ilych by l. tolstoy 

✶ unabridged journals of sylvia plath by s. plath (also one of my absolute faves)

✶ the seagull by a. chekhov 

✶ the scarlet letter n. hawthorne

✶ perfume: story of a killer p. süskind

✶ a captains daughter a. pushkin

✶ night sky with exit wounds o. voung

✶ norwegian wood h. murakami

✶ the handmaids tale by m. atwood (honestly the only dystopian book i liked)

✶ on the road j. kerouac

✶ strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde r. l. stevenson

✶ eugene onegin by a. pushkin 

✶ dievu miškas (forest of the gods) (another lithuanian one)

✶ the stranger by a. camus (againnnnnn) 

✶ moby dick (get ready for me not to put the author's because im too lazy)

✶ the man in the case

✶ a streetcar named desire

✶ othello 

✶ much ado about nothing

✶ lady chatterley's lover 

✶ little women

✶ the bell jar (again) 

✶ ‘letters to vera’ by v. nabokov (favveeeee. i'm the biggest yearner of em all actually and vera&&&nabokov are me and coriolanus coded)

✶ persuasion

✶ description of a struggle by f. kafka 

✶ gender trouble by j. butler 

✶ my year of rest and relaxation (surprisingly relatable protagonist)

✶ ‘the secret history’ by d. tart

✶ odyssey

✶ breakfast in tiffany's

✶ virgin suicides

✶ valley of the dolls

✶ all of the 14 dork diaries. yes. i'm just saying that instead of linking all 14. but i read them all. because i was bored and it was june.

✶ what i mean by j. didion

✶ the white album by j. didion

✶ beloved by t. morrison

✶ lapnova

✶ girl, interrupted

✶ inseparable by s. de beauvoir

✶ the sun also rises

✶ the vanishing half

✶ flowers for algerion

✶ do androids dream of electric sheep?

✶ the portrait of the artist as a young man

✶ brave new world

✶ the silence of the lambs

✶ the eye

✶ fahrenheit 451

✶ dead poet's society

✶ enhancer

✶ bartleby, the scrivener

✶ the yellow wallpaper

✶ the tomb

✶ madagaskaras by m. ivaškevičius (another lithuanian one)

✶ the lottery by s. jackson

✶ there will come soft rains

✶ hills like white elephants

✶ the snows of kilimanjaro

✶ testaments what i wanna read but won't...because im too lazy

✶ war & peace

✶ something else idk brain's not working

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

Black Cards, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Fame // Taylor Swift, Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince

[alphaman99]

A Daily Dose of History

The son and grandson of prominent Scottish engineers, Louis was expected to follow in their footsteps. He dutifully attended engineering school, and excelled there, but upon graduation he disappointed his parents by announcing that he intended to become a writer rather than a civil engineer. Later he would disappoint them again by marrying Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, a pistol-packing American divorcee who was 12 years his senior.

But following his heart led him ultimately to happiness and success. When he died at age 44 of a cerebral hemorrhage, he was not at a desk in Scotland doing a job he hated, but rather at his home in the South Pacific, happily married and doing a job he loved, his novels Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde having won him enduring fame.

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, one hundred seventy-three years ago today.

[tranquilitybasehotelcasino]

black cards “dr jekyll and mr fame” is going in the vault as one of those songs that’s kind of unintentionally transgender. mostly due to the fact that aside from calling herself miss and mister in the same chorus noted female bebe rexha does sing a line about herself getting a blowjob

[stylecouncil]

pete wentz should have just kept doing this. literally anything to prevent modern fall out boy from happening. this kind of goes off frankly. even if the 820 monthly listeners would make you think otherwise.

[rpfsex]

I'M MISS AMERICA I MISS THE UK 🍾 🕺 i want to be used and left empty 😟 I DREAM OF A WORLD THAT ONLY RAINS CHAMPAGNE I'M DR JEKYLL AND MR FAME 🍾 🕺

[27-royal-teas]

ok finally got around to listening to black cards and. dr jekyll and mr fame is a BANGER