#eric backman

[niftysnazzy]

Deathstars - Newcastle University Student Union - 11th November 2023

It was the best concert, first concert I've been to on my own and I flew on my own for the first time from Belfast to Newcastle to go to it. Got speaking to loads of lovely people at the concert and the VIP meet and greet before hand so I was there on my own but had people to talk to.

[jgthirlwell]

A reminder that JG Thirlwell will be performing his surround sound Silver Mantis project in St Louis at Gethsemane Lutheran Church on Sept 27 2024 and in Kansas City at Grand Avenue Temple on Sept 28 2024.

In Kansas City, there will be opening performances by Elska, Inner Death Choir and Eric Hall. In St Louis the evening will feature special performances by Nádir Smyth and Eric Hall.

Silver Mantis is a 50 minute live surround-sound electro-acoustic presentation, performed with keyboards, prepared piano and theremin. It is performed with a projection created exclusively for the project by acclaimed Swedish visual artist Sten Backman.

Tickets for St Louis at the door.

Tickets for the Kansas City show available here

Shows at 7pm.

[rodgermalcolmmitchell]

Airlines are 3 trillion in debt. The Monetary Sovereignty of airline loyalty programs.

Frightening headline? It shouldn’t be. Here’s a bit of context: Airlines don’t disclose how many miles are outstanding or the value used to calculate these liabilities. However, if we assume a valuation of 1 cent per outstanding mile, loyalty program members would have around 3 trillion outstanding miles. Some economists, politicians, and media talking heads might tell you it means the airlines…

[mnyd]

on friendship, on love, on knowing alex albon & george russell us against you — fredrik backman / super one series MSA junior british kart championship 2009 / maybe if i keep everything sealed — @/julykings / ribs — lorde / george russell driver's room / hungarian GP: george russell says alex albon 'being made to look like an idiot' due to red bull car / friends - rivals - future champions? russell, norris & albon on their F1 rise / kazuyuki futagawa — memory - refreshing / poetry rx — i loved my friend - claire schwartz / one of your girls — troye sivan / self control — frank ocean / italian gp 2023 — @/geochalexblr / postcolonial love poem — natalie díaz / our beautiful life when it's filled with shrieks — christopher citro / things have gotten worse since we last spoke — eric larocca / nang laveng — phra aphai mani / alex albon played a vital role in george russell’s F1 career & how the mercedes driver paid him back / albon owes russell 'a couple of beers' for williams f1 seat / the letter — frog and toad

[goldshirtleia]

Hello yes it is that time of year again, I am listening to the 1970 OG recording of JCS on vinyl and have decided to finally make a list my rankings for every role and aspect of this show. For the record I am a pagan whose only real knowledge of the Jesus story is from this show so forgive my unhinged takes.

Characters:

Jesus:

Ian Gillan (OG album/broadway)

Ted Neeley (1973)

Ola Sålo (Swedish 2014)

Jack Hopewell (North American Tour 2022)

Morgan James (all female cast 2022)

Judas:

Carl Anderson (1973)

Brandon Victor Dixon (2018)

Murray Head (OG album)

Shoshana Bean (all female cast 2022)

Peter Johannson (Swedish 2014)

Honourable mention to Colm Wilkinson (it is a CRIME that there isn't a full recording of the Irish cast)

Mary Magdalene:

Yvonne Elliman (OG album/broadway/1973)

That's it, no one else even comes close

(Maybe an honourable mention for Gunilla Backman)

Pontius Pilate:

Barry Dennen (OG album/1973)

Filippo Strocchi (Vienna 2018)

Orfeh (all female cast 2022)

Caiaphas:

Bob Bingham (OG broadway/1973)

Norm Lewis (NBC 2018) I will ALWAYS stan Norm

Victor Brox (OG album)

Simon Zealotes:

TIE - Larry Marshall (1971)

TIE - Eric Grönwall (NBC 2018)

John Gustafson (OG album)

Tony Vincent (2000)

Herod:

Alice Cooper (NBC 2018)

Mike D'Abo (OG album)

Chris Moyles (Arena Tour 2012)

Overall - staging/set design/costumes:

1973 Movie

NBC 2018

North American Tour 2022

Arena Tour 2012

Honourable mention to the OG broadway production -- I haven't seen enough footage to accurately rank it but I LOVE Jesus's cape in Superstar.

Best overall rendition of Superstar (incl. staging, costumes, etc)

1973 Movie

NBC 2018

Arena Tour 2012

Swedish 2014

Best facial expressions:

Carl Anderson during Simon Zealotes

Carl Anderson right before he engages in respectability politics to slut shame Mary

Tim Minchin when the priests take his joint lmao

Best Superstar costume:

Carl Anderson's white maxi fringe jumpsuit (come ON)

Peter Johannson's shirtless #lewk (I have a whole thing about how Judas should not look like a demon but the sparkly red pants and the Legolas hair are too fantastic)

Brandon Victor Dixon in the full silver fit

Best WTF moments:

That bit in the 1973 film where they all form The Last Supper for a quick second and no one comments on it

When the 1973 crowd says "won't you die for me?" in Hosanna and it just FREEZES on Jesus's face

The Swedish cast pushing Jesus into Jerusalem in a shopping cart

The fighter pilots swooping at Judas after Blood Money in 1973. What WAS that. How did they get that.

That is all lol. Every time we watch even a clip of a new production my mother and I spend 2-3 hours discussing how it fits into our rankings, so this could change.

[endlich-allein]

POV: You're on tour with Deathstars and Rammstein in 2012 and Eric Backman challenges Till Lindemann to an early version of the Tortilla Challenge @ deathstarsofficial

[glowing-disciple]

Reading List - 2025

Currently Reading:

Digital Logic and State Machine Design by David J. Comer

Books Read:

Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt by Robert A. Armour

Future Reading:

Adventures in Cryptozoology Vol. 1 by Richard Freeman

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez

Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions by Philip S. Callahan

Anne of Green Bagels by Susan Schade and Jon Buller

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

The Anti-Mary Exposed by Carrie Gress

The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle

The Art Nouveau Style by Stephan Tschudi Madsen

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Clearly

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Blade Itself by Joe Ambercrombie

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Carmilla by Josphen Sheridan Le Fanu

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Champions of the Rosary by Donald H. Calloway

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft

Cranfod by Elizabeth Gaskell

Cubism by Guillaume Apollinaire

Dancing with Siva by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Dark Journey Deep Grace by Roy Ratcliff

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Dialogue of St Catherine of Siena by St. Catherine

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Evolution by Nowell Stebbing

Expressionism by Ashley Bassie

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by Hal Johnson

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Freaks on the Fells by R. M. Ballantyne

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

Fundamentals of Character Design by Various Authors

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Good Hunting by Theodore Roosevelt

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Humorous Ghost Stories by Various Authors

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Illuminated Manuscripts by Tamara Woronowa

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods by Fr. A. G. Sertillanges

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Javelin Program by Derin Edala

Joan Miro by Joan Miro

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Life of St Catherine of Siena by Blessed Raymond of Capua

Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

Living by the Sword by Eric Demski

The Longest Cocktail Party by Richard DiLello

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

Middlemarch by George Eliot

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Otis Spofford by Beverly Clearly

Pat of Silver Bush by L. M. Montgomery

Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Return of the Thief by Megan Turner

The Secret of the Rosary by St. Louis de Montfort

The Shining by Stephen King

Show Me God by Fred Heeren

The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

The Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Liseux

The River by Gary Paulsen

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman

The Third Man Factor by John Geiger

Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Walking Practice by Dolki Min

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill

The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology by Deena West Budd

The White Mountains by John Christopher

Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

[theone]

Annie's 2024 books

January:

Eric (Discworld #9) by Terry Pratchett ☆☆☆

Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F.Kuang ☆☆☆

February:

The Parisian by Isabella Hammad ☆☆☆☆

God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4) by Frank Herbert ☆☆☆☆

March:

Heretics of Dune (Dune #5) by Frank Herbert ☆☆☆☆

April:

The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #3) by Rick Riordan ☆☆☆☆

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #4) by Rick Riordan ☆☆☆

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman ☆☆☆☆

May:

The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #5) by Rick Riordan ☆☆☆☆

Chapter House Dune (Dune #6) by Frank Herbert ☆☆☆

June:

Guardians of the Galaxy by Abnett & Lanning: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 ☆☆☆

Guardians of the Galaxy by Abnett & Lanning: The Complete Collection, Vol. 2 ☆☆☆

The Judge's List by John Grisham ☆☆

July-August:

The Scar by China Miéville ☆☆☆

September:

Jingo (Discworld #21) by Terry Pratchett ☆☆☆☆

October:

Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies by John Langan ☆☆☆☆

Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology (edited by Richard Wells) ☆☆☆☆

November:

Градинарят и смъртта - Георги Господинов ☆☆☆☆

My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels #1) by Elena Ferrante ☆☆☆☆☆

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco ☆☆☆☆

December:

The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels #2) by Elena Ferrante ☆☆☆☆

Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy ☆☆☆

The Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett ☆☆☆

The Last Stories by Olga Tokarczuk ☆☆☆☆

Таралежите излизат през нощта - Йорданка Белева ☆☆☆☆

[swedebeast]

And I finally got my thumb out of my ass and put up the political science books I had stored away from university. This is not the complete curriculum I read, but the majority of it. And I figure, hey, why not share what I got?

International Relations - Jakob Gustavsson & Jonas Tallberg The Liberation of Man - Karl Marx Politics as organization - Rothstein A New Handbook of Political Science - Gooding & Klingemann Modern civic theories - Per Månsson Dictatorship: About the political systems of oppression - Lauri Karvonen Of Paradise and Power - Robert Kagan New and Old Wars - Mary Kaldor Parties and organizations - Mats Bäck & Tommy Möller The Swedish politics - Bäck & Larsson Reports and essays - Jarl Backman Form of governments and politics - Rod Hague & Martin Harrop & Shaun Breslin From Pax Romana to Pax Americana - Björn Hettne Municipal politics - Olof Petersson Foreign political systems - Lindahl Comparative methodology - Thomas Denk The suicide - Emile Durkheim Scientific writing - Karin Widerberg Cultural-Sociological texts - Pierre Bourdieu Nordic politics - Olof Petersson Eleven texts in political theory - Hallberg & Jansson & Mörkenstam Political theory - Andrew Heywood Democracy and its antagonists - Robert A. Dahl From Plato to the war on terrorism - Sven-Eric Liedman

Looking back at it, I recall missing my book on feminist theory and Das Kapital, and a book on Hegel. I am pretty sure I sold them off to another student that started a year later than me.

[uhhavey]

My TBR ₊ ⊹

Opposite of Aways (Justin A. Reynolds)

The Way I Am Now (Amber Smith)

Tender Is The Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica)

What Moves The Dead (T. Kingfisher)

Falling into Place (Amy Zhang)

That’s Not What Happened (Kody Keplinger)

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer (Fredrik Backman)

Lost in a Fishbowl (Len Vlahos)

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Eric LaRocca)

The Art of Starving (Sam J. Miller)

The Year After You (Nina De Pass)

Everything I Never Told You (Celeste NG)

Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson)

Being a Woman (Mya G. Wolf)

The Goldfinch (Donna Tart)

A Little Life (Hanya Ganagihara)

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[niftysnazzy]

I am slowly uploading my videos of the concert to youtube. Still a couple more to add over the next day or so. Deathstars at Newcastle Uni Student Union - 11th Nov 2023

[angelicapocalypse]

[nofatclips]

Cult, 2 track single by Spiral Skies

[bookbagged]

L-L-L-Library sale book haul *air horns*

First and Second Rumpole omnibuses - John Mortimer

A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman

Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde

The Skull Beneath the Skin - P. D. James

Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow

Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D. H. Lawrence

1632 - Eric Flint

Burn Me Deadly- Alex Bledsoe

I didn’t hesitate a moment to grab the Rumpoles because they’re hard to find and while I’ve never read any of the stories (yet!), the series has my interest. The James was no-brainer. I read An Unsuitable Job for a Woman a few years back, and wanted to read the sequel badly. Alas, the library doesn’t have a copy.

Only paid $5.50. I’m going back on Saturday for their bag sale. I can fill up an entire tote back and only pay $3 per bag! 😁

[prismabird]

5 moments when Till was at his most Till like?

Hmm…When Rammstein was on the Family Values Tour, and he very excitedly asked … I think it was Ice Cube, if he wanted to hear the new song he was writing in English. He then proceeded to sing some version of Pussy for Ice Cube, who was apparently confused by the whole thing. This all gives us some idea of how long the rest of Rammstein fought him on it.

When he bought a failing zoo because he was worried the animals in it might miss one another. And then supposedly sang to them.

When he got into a slap fight with Eric Backman, and then tried to go easy on him because he’s nice. And then won the fuck out of it, because can you image getting slapped by those hands (no, not on the ass, stop it, you’re thinking about it, don’t think about it).

When he peed in public in the US, and then was really confused that he got arrested for it. The indignation on his face when he tells that story just kills me dead.

When Flake and Paul would regularly crash his house and eat all his food even thought they barely knew one another, and he apparently just sat back, like, “I guess we’re friends, then. This is my life now.”

[wizardsexmachine]

(Most) Half Life 2 Citizens and the people they were based on! Some Citizens were not included due to unavailable photos.

In order:

Van Crowder, Ted Backman, Richard Roundtree

Eric Kirchmer, Art Min, Michael S. Smith

Vance, Erdin Grcic, Joey Paresa

Chau Luu, Naomi Cotton, Lakeetra Gilbert