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[thatrobotkid]

On this day, 20 years ago, the RJ episodes, “Garage Band” and “Work”, premiered at 11:00pm, on the 3rd night of the new “Fridays”

[crazykuroneko]

Rewind the Tape — IWTV S1E03 Rewatch

It's time to continue @iwtvfanevents Rewind the Tape with Episode 3. A disclaimer: this is my first time rewatching the show (excluding indirect watch through YouTube reactions), and it's purpose for me to refresh my mind and noticing things. So, I won't dwell on certain theories, but I'll take notes about it for myself. An extra disclaimer: I revoke my feminist card for Antoinette Brown.

Before that, this is my favorite shot of this episode:

• The music during the opening. It's a comedy show lol

• "I put you on this earth. Your purpose is to enjoy yourself." A bar. An extremely red flagging bar.

• "I know you don't believe that." This is entering a headcanon/personal theory zone, but I always suspect Lestat during this era has this "ideal life" he envisions for him and Louis. That vampires should be this or that, vampire family should be this or that etc. And he stubbornly holds to it which leads to him denying himself to be vulnerable and more communicative to Louis and Claudia. I wonder if we'll get some clue on this later. anyway, BACK TO THE MAIN PROGRAMMING

• "I desire *small voice* blood..." He is so cute

• ugh Louis' suit is Excellent. Carol Cutshall i worship you

• "Every one of them is capable of abomination, even the ones worthy of admiration" "Thrust them into circumstance,[...] and you'll see all kinds of depravity" Unfortunately, he is right.

• I, too, want to flirt with my spouse while talking about how to decide which human we'll kill.

• NOT THE CAT LOUIS 😭😭😭😭

• And with that, the theme of the episode is set: the consequence of Louis' eating disorder. Deeper exploration after establishing what he lost and not lost to vampirism in the previous episode.

• Antoinette is from Atlanta.

• "You're ashamed of what we are." Highlighting this for later.

• "Could you not use the word..." Louis 😂

• Louis has business in Clairborne. Google tells me it's dominated by Black population back then and has a lot of shops. (cmiiw ofc)

• "There it is". We're gonna back to this later.

• Not at Louis staring at Lestat staring at Antoinette. With Lestat already knew Morton will leave Louis soon, you know that his bad idea (he'd call it genius actually) of inciting Louis' jealousy and rage through Antoinette flashes in his little brain right there.

• Jolly Morton vs Lestat banter. what a moment 😂

• *Googles* Wolverine Blues was written in 1923.

• Okay, this is paraphrase, but Daniel said, "When you're still too close to it, the abused still loves the abuser. But you flipped it on its head" aka '70s Louis hated and trash talked Lestat, but now he romantisized him. Well, we'll definitely see the answer in S2. But I wonder if this raises a possibility of Louis meeting Lestat after the '70s interview? Or 2022 Louis believes Lestat is dead dead? You know, you could be forgiving after someone dies. Anyway, kind of fast forwarding here, but this and how Louis downplays Lestat's power in E01 and Louis' whole speech in E06 about "are we the sum of our worst moments?" establishes Louis' current POV actually softens Lestat. Beating that "Louis is lying to make Lestat look worse" allegations. (Unfortunately, he really loves that man guys 😞)

• It's so cute of Louis he really knows what page he has to read out loud when Daniel starting to question his story. Like, he's very aware there's accuracy problem to his memories.

• Louis looks so cute when he's happy (and what a good acting there from Jacob)

• I like that light blue vest on Lestat. Why do we only see it once (and with Antoinette on top of that)? 😭

• Lestat and Antoinette's gig is two weeks old by this time.

• "I understand the indulgence. I let it happen" Oh, Louis 😞

• Not at Lestat offering a threesome. And "I like burnished complexion". God, they should have killed this racist fake ass sooner. And woman even opens her dress herself 😭

• The editing during this scene is kinda jumpy though. But again, no male gaze on the naked woman body. I appreciate that.

• The laugh omg. I don't know, maybe i'm kinda sick in the head and could see how crazy Lestat's brain works, so since the beginning, even before knowing the "inappropriate laugh" explanation from the books, I saw it as like him going "are you really saying you're not enough? LOL" but that's still fucking rude from Louis' POV. That's like the closest Louis ever being vulnerable and saying "I love you" to Lestat, but alas. In E01, Louis himself says he doesn't like how his family judges him, and now he gets Lestat laughing at his sincerity, so OF COURSE he will become more closed-off.

• "There. I said this" And as I said, we're back to the beginning of this episode. This whole thing with Antoinette is Lestat's "clap back" to Louis' shame about their vampirism, which he sees as a personal slight to him because he's Louis' maker. He's deliberately doing this in away that it betrays his own words. So, Lestat is not being hypocritical here, he's being, "Look, how silly it is when we go along with your words of sparing them according to the standard that pleases us?" He's trying to make a point. This is not unlike when Lestat uses "my love" on Antoinette after Louis calling him "my love" while presenting him the poisoned blood that would kill him in E07. I mean, they're both so petty to each other, and unfortunately they're literally this Taylor Swift meme:

• And as we know, unfortunately Lestat will keep using Antoinette to push Louis' buttons until Louis is numb enough to feel hurt about it 😞

• "So, I can fuck whoever I want?" And since it's basically about making a point, Lestat of course has never considered a possibility of Louis fucking anyone else. Because he assumes Louis would be mad and drain Antoinette himself soon. He's that genius (sarcasm).

• "sanctioned infidelity" Louis really has a way with bis words 😂

• Ordinance 4118. Segregating Storyville.

• Lestat standing right in front of the stage while Antoinette is performing 🤮. They're so overtly public. Rubbing on something he can't do with Louis as a couple.

• Oh Jacob's acting during the game and talking to the Alderman. He looks hot as well 🧎‍♀️

• Ngl since I'm not American and I don't know much about American history, I opened Google for these lines.

• God, after the incident with Benny, there's definitely no contact between Louis and his family because he only knows it's the twins' birthday from Jonah.

• "Do you remember the old days?" Oh, Louis is giving that whole montage of their youth for Lestat. Something they don't have together as a couple. They're so nasty to each other woo!

• Oh Lestat takes umbridge because Louis is praising Jonah's uniform, later saying it's Louis' "type"

• I believe here Lestat is honest he stops the thing with Antoinette because he sees his "clap back" doesn't work like it should be. Tries to wave the white flag of surrender to Louis by offering a night out together the next day, but unfortunately Louis chooses to go to his family. Interesting though, 2022 Louis definitely notices Lestat's disappointment at that time, judging from that shot of Lestat freezing there. Again, this goes with my assumption that 2022 Louis tries to understand Lestat better.

• In hindsight, it's interesting Louis himself offers the opening for Daniel to question his recollection by saying the mud on Lestat's boots could come from anywhere, because later he knows for sure Lestat was there in the bayou watching. During my first watch, I thought Daniel catching his error, but maybe Louis deliberately wants Daniel to catch it? Which makes his words in S2 trailer "I want to remember" more sense. He's been prepping Daniel to see through his errors.

• The eye contact with Armand there. So brief, but what a clue. Is he lingering for Jonah's bit or for the testing memory bit?

• That transition to the girls calling him a ghost. So clever.

• Six months of no contact.

• And Lestat claps back to the Jonah thing by bringing those soldiers to their home. Again, he's genius like that.

• "I think Bricks is onto us". Ofc Bricks knows (because like Antoinette says, they talk gossips), but making Lestat notices this from her after weeks of Lestat and Antoinette being so public is interesting. Idk where I'm going with this, but interesting.

• I still really like with how they did Lestat's face during this big showing of power. Kudos for special effects team

• And I watch you drain the dog and eat rats" Yes yes, Lestat did this whole plan to drive Louis to kill in rage but it ends up with him so close to eat properly yet still draining animals. I believe he'd be less mad if Louis drinks from Jonah there. Anyway, first proof of anything Lestat has planned never ends well (except the Come to Me record in E06, but that's not a long game) and yet we have people saying he's like Hannibal 🤷‍♀️

• Louis really makes him speechless there. Kudos.

• I'm glad to see Lestat supporting Louis here in front of Fenwick and Anderson, and rejects Fenwick's suggestion to make him the face of Louis' business, because I was ready to slap him if he said yes during my first watch.

• And of course Lestat calls it a "hobby" because he never takes Louis' human business seriously and he is unable to understand why his bussiness is important to Louis. The scene where Louis' making the No Whites sign proves it.

• So, Louis' remaining business after this riot in Clairborne is hats and grocery stores. And like Louis says, the money isn't that much. That and the remaining Azalea money (if he saved them, exclusing the amount he's been giving to his family as deputy in charge of their trust) are what funding his life and Claudia during Lestat is away in E06 and their whole trip in Europe in S2. That, if those shops survives the Depression.

• The directing during the killing of Fenwick is so 🤌

• Hanging him at the St. Louis church is too on the nose, Louis, but like Lestat, I really appreciate the style. (I wonder how they got the permit to hang it there. I zoomed this shot a lot back then to identify the church, so I'm pretty sure that's the real church not a replica)

• That zoom in on Louis by the window 🤌

• I went to Google and apparently the Ordinance didn't get time to be applied because it's challanged immediately by a mixed raced Madam, and Storyville ended up being closed due to military pressure. Read here. In the show though, it's applied, so logically it makes the existing racial tension even worse, and there's a big possibility of a race riot to happen with or without Louis' action.

• He really says finding Claudia is a "before you and after you" type of moment 😭

• God, all the things Louis puts on the saving of Claudia. Azalea, Storyville, his people. *spoiler* It's no wonder unable to save Claudia in the end is very traumatic for him.

Summary:

So, we're here in episode 3 aka the essay of all consequences when Louis self-regulates too much. Side effects of his eating disorder we've seen in this episode: "barely energy to hold up a book", lacking libido, easier to become bitey when he is aroused (i mean, it took longer for Claudia in E04 but since she's way younger, she lost herself immediately unlike Louis), healing way later than it should be (a scar that should only take minutes to heal probably takes one good night sleep), unable to control rage hence he's prone to uncontrolled outburst.

If in the last episode, we see how bad Loustat handling a conflict, this time we see their ugly habit of "settling a score" when they're mad with each other instead of communicating like normal people. And when one of them let themselves vulnerable enough to communicate, the other doesn't respond well and instead worsen the other's insecurity (however, we can't blame Louis not noticing Lestat's moment vulnerability because unlike Louis who vocalize his insecurity and gets laughed at, Lestat conceals what he feels and why)

Anyway, can't wait to see this gets even worse 😂😭

[ieatsockz]

Headcanon about the koopalings? 🥺

In terms of everything but looks Ludwig and Bowser share the most similarities.

Iggy will continuously color his hair depending on the situation (he’s been shown with yellow, pink, green, and multicolored hair before I think it’s funny).

Ludwig tries his best to teach Jr and Larry but they find him so BORING they’d rather hang with Roy despite the fact that he will most definitely get them put in horrible situations. (Roy will often “at least we aren’t dead pops!” His way out of punishment)

Most of the siblings don’t hate the Mario Brothers they do it to make their dad happy (Roy and Ludwig don’t count, Roy enjoys pestering and annoying them for fun but Ludwig genuinely HATES Mario (this is canon actually, it’s been said that he doesn’t even care about capturing Peach anymore the beef is personal now)

Wendy is spoiled rotten but she isn’t very showy of it she’d rather not bring too much attention to herself so she could avoid interacting with people

Lemmy and Morton are the easiest to confront or talk to they won’t give you snarky comments or weird looks

Ludwig is the scariest of the bunch, not just how powerful he is but he just looks down on people with a certain look that’ll give you goosebumps very seldom will he give his siblings that look but when he does they’ll listen

Iggy will find random things no one needs or wants and just bring them inside the castle no one questions it because he’s just THAT ODD

Jr and Larry are the youngest so they’re usually together 90% of the time Bowser goes easy on them so they get away with a lot he loves it when they reek havoc

Kamek love’s his “grandkids” but he enjoys talking with ludwig more he’s the only one that can sit in one spot and now annoying him to death

Lemmy has his own side gig and hosts shows where people watch him do tricks and other cool things he enjoys the attention

“Who’s their mother?!?” They were all delivered via stork no mother needed

Ages:

Jr. 8

Larry 10

Morton 13

Wendy 15

Iggy 16

Roy 16

Lemmy 18

Ludwig 19

Bowser 38

[justinssportscorner]

Ken Schultz at Outsports:

Since swimming against Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Championships, Riley Gaines has made herself into one of the most prominent names in the movement to ban trans women from competing in women’s sports. In addition to showing up at anti-trans demonstrations whenever there’s a TV camera nearby, Gaines regularly advocates against transgender women on Fox News, hosts an anti-trans-athlete podcast on Outkick, and spreads her message of exclusion at colleges as varied as Harvard, Notre Dame, Grand Canyon University and UC-Berkeley. Gaines’ national profile took off after her race with Thomas, so naturally you’d expect that this meet must have resulted in some kind of traumatic loss that caused her to turn heel against the transgender community. Incredibly, though, nothing like that took place. When Gaines competed that day in the NCAA 200-meter freestyle final, she finished tied with Thomas for fifth place. That doesn’t seem like the kind of result that would haunt Gaines and eventually galvanize her into the anti-trans pundit she’s become. Indeed, if Gaines had somehow retroactively gotten what she currently advocates for, and Thomas was banned from competition, she still would’ve finished fifth.

As if to underscore this, immediately after the race, Gaines’ criticism of Thomas was muted. Even when The Daily Wire gave her a platform a few days later, her biggest complaint was that the NCAA only had one fifth place trophy and they decided to give it to Thomas while promising to mail her another. Speaking of Thomas in that story, Gaines even added, “I am in full support of her and full support of her transition and her swimming career and everything like that because there’s no doubt that she works hard too, but she’s just abiding by the rules that the NCAA put in place, and that’s the issue.” While she was still speaking out against Thomas’ participation in the event, Gaines’ rhetoric was remarkably toned down from what we’ve come to expect. There are even surprising hints of her acknowledging Thomas’ humanity — and if Gaines wanted to go scorched earth on trans athletes at this point, The Daily Wire would have gladly printed all of it.

To get a sense of how much things have changed, almost a year to the day later, Gaines tweeted, “Lia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman. The NCAA is responsible.”

Well, that sure took a turn. While Gaines’ criticism of the NCAA was consistent, everything else about her message went full-on hard right into misgendering and outright transphobia. What happened in that year that would cause this? Could a fifth-place trophy have been that important? Considering Gaines repeated the trophy story in testimony before the Congress and the Ohio Statehouse and still obsessed over it at recent rallies, the answer appeared to be yes.

[...] Her growing celebrity in the anti-trans movement eventually led to further gigs. Summer 2023 was momentous for her as she launched her Outkick podcast that July. Then in August, conservative advocacy organization The Leadership Institute announced the founding of The Riley Gaines Center to oversee her speaking events. The Leadership Institute was founded by millionaire conservative activist Morton Blackwell and is funded in part by the Charles Koch Foundation.

Outsports's Ken Schultz reports on the rise of University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines's career shift to right-wing anti-trans extremist grifter and pundit.

In the immediate aftermath of Gaines tying in 5th with trans woman swimmer Lia Thomas in March 2022, Gaines was in support of Thomas's transition to becoming a woman even while still she was against her participation in the 200-meter freestyle final.

Later that same year, however, Gaines turned the anti-trans bigotry up to 100 by appearing on multiple right-wing programs and featuring in Republican campaign ads against the inclusion of trans women in women's sports.

In the past year, Gaines has been using her platform to spew out hateful right-wing propaganda on all sorts of issues in addition to her usual transphobia, endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ extremist Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for President, and even got a podcast on Outkick called Gaines For Girls.

[scotianostra]

 Happy Birthday Dougie Thomson.

Born Douglas Campbell Thomson on March 24th, 1951 in Glasgow and raised in the Rutherglen area of the same city. Dougie was a member of the so-called Supertramp ‘classic lineup’ playing bass guitar from 1973 until Supertramp’s initial break-up in 1988.

Dougie’s musical career began in August 1969 when he joined a local Glaswegian band “The Beings”. Then in September of 1971 Dougie, joins The Alan Bown Set replacing Andy Brown and, as fate has it, first worked with future Supertramp bandmate John Helliwell briefly. In February of 1972, Dougie tried out for Supertramp and ended up playing with the band at several gigs as a temporary stand-in. In 1973, Dougie joined Supertramp as bass player and also helped take over the business management along with Dave Margereson. He also persuaded John Helliwell into joining the band.

Dougie would play with Supertramp on its Crime of the Century, Crisis? What Crisis?, Even in the Quietest Moments, Breakfast in America, Paris, …Famous Last Words…, Brother Where You Bound and Free as a Bird albums.

After Supertramp initially disbanded in 1988, Dougie became a publisher in the music business creating Trinity publishing and works with a management company in Chicago, Illinois. He didn’t participate in Supertramp’s regrouping in 1997 for the album Some Things Never Change.

He is also an avid sailor owning a number of yachts.

Thomson has four children, Laura, James, Kyle and Emma, Kyle played professional football, both in the US and at Morton.

I do like Supertramp, but only ever owned one of their albums,…Famous Last Words…, and that is only because I won it in a competition on Radio Forth. I must admit I thought the group were American, and it is only in the past few years that I found out they were a “Brit” band

[lindyloosims]

The Family Business!

Original lineup (top): Bonnie Tan, Logan Reed, Blaine Morton, Monica Reed, Nicolai Gunderson, Esther Tan

New lineup (bottom): Bonnie Tan, Esther Tan, Nathan Pearson, Monica Reed, Logan Reed, Blaine Morton

The Family Business was formed by Logan Martin Richard Reed, son of Jensen Reed, three time Oscar winning actor and lead singer of River Monster. It all started out with his best friend Blaine, then Blaine’s Swedish cousin Nicolai wanted involved followed by Logan’s school friend Bonnie Tan and her sister Esther. Logan’s little sister Monica was constantly sniffing around, she had a huge crush on Nicky who was five years older than her, and somehow she ended up in the band much to the annoyance of her big bro. The band started out when Logan and Blaine were eighteen, Nicky was twenty, Bonnie nineteen, Esther seventeen and Monica fifteen. Jensen was not happy about his children entering the spotlight as he had struggled with fame and battled addiction as a result, it was his wife Jane who managed to guide him out of the dark tunnel he found himself in. To Jensen fame is a wicked and destructive beast and he did not want that for his children, having moved from Los Angeles to Ayrshire in Scotland so that he and Jane could raise them in a normal and paparazzi free environment. Despite his disapproval, he and his siblings Jonah and Juliet helped the band get off the ground. By the time they were young adults, they were enjoying being a successful group in their own right, however there was a slight change in their lineup.

After practicing together for over a year and managing to get their first gig, the band were dealt a potentially fatal blow when lead singer Nicky decided to go back to Sweden and left them in the lurch. The group moped around for a few days wondering what to do, should they cancel? Could Logan overcome his stage fright and take Nicky’s place? So many questions. Then one day, Monica happened to be visiting her Aunt Louise when she heard what she thought was the voice of an angel singing on the radio upstairs. She followed the voice and found herself standing in the bathroom gawping at a naked Nathan in the shower. Overcome with shock, awe and probably a little lust, Monica went downstairs and interrogated her Aunt Louise over hiding that her son was such a great singer. Not only did Monica fall in love with the ever pining Nathan that day, but she also found the band their new singer which took a lot of persuading to get bashful young Nathan onboard. Eventually he agreed and the band made their gig, which was lucky for them as Logan and Monica’s Aunt Juliet had arranged for a representative of their father’s record label to come and listen to them. The rest is history, The Family Business looks like they might be just as successful as River Monster...possibly more so!

[theloniousbach]

FROM THE SMALLS ARCHIVE: MICAH THOMAS AT MEZZROW’S

Solo, 22 NOVEMBER 2024, 11:59 pm set

With Dean Torrey and Kayvon Gordon, 13 DECEMBER 2024, 10:30 pm set

I had hoped to see MICAH THOMAS with Immanuel Wilkins at Jazz St Louis at the end of October, but it was Paul Cornish who filled in on piano. They have pushed one another on Wilkins’ recordings and gigs, exciting young players to be sure. While he has struck me there as a bit edgy and free form, he also played with Joe Farnsworth and Sarah Hanahan where he just managed to keep up with their power. To be fair, Farnsworth imposes some structures while welcoming being pushed by these younger players.

Add a recent article in Paste that in raising the interesting notion that horn players innovate and pianists consolidate citing examples from King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton to Bird/Diz and Bud Powell and Coltrane and Tyner but also Andrew Hill, that we should keep our eyes on Wilkins and Thomas. Wellllll, exciting players, yes; reason to be optimistic about where the music will go, yes; the next big thing, doubt it.

But all this made me interested in what I would hear.

I was rather surprised that he was quite structured and lyrical at the solo gig. Sure he took on the changes inventively, but he and we always knew where we were in the tunes. With Dean Torrey and Kayvon Gordon as sympathetic launching pads on mostly original tunes, he was far more exploratory. The solo gig—and the work with Farnsworth—gave me a better sense of his approach so the out there was a little closer. Their take on Mel Torme’s Christmas Song with its roasting chestnuts was another touchstone whose sappy familiarity I actually appreciated. Still they were a sympathetic adventurous trio, but appreciated intellectually more than emotionally enjoyed.

But the solo set with tunes was just fun. There was plenty to appreciate in Thomas’ technique and invention, but Who Can I Turn To?, Someone To Watch Over Me, Monk’s In Walked Bud, What a Fool Believes (?!?), a gospel-y tune, a blues, a probably latter day pop song, the Sound of Music’s Somewhere in My Youth and Childhood with not quite embarrassing vocals, and a very short The Theme just made it easier to hear what he wants to say musically.

And that’s worthwhile.

[dustedmagazine]

Listed: IMustBe Leonardo

IMustBe Leonardo is a Berlin-based songwriter who has been making his oddball songs since around 2016. His latest album, Not To Be Scared of Weekend, is a self-recorded delight, entirely unfettered by commercial considerations — with one song that asks the eternal question, “Why should...you need god…when you have Kim Gordon?” Writing about it, Jennifer Kelly said, “About half the tracks are hand-made rock songs, bolstered by clicky drum tracks and ravaged guitar tones. The other half are the maddest, most surreal campfire songs you ever heard, gently strummed but extremely odd.” Leonardo wrote us one of the nicest — and longest — thank you notes we’ve ever received at Dusted, so of course we asked him for a Listed.

Nina Simone — An Artist's Duty

What she says in these 51 seconds, the way she asks that question at the end — everything is there.

Typhoon — Sympathetic Magic

This album was released in January 2021. Kyle Morton is a poet and a great songwriter. His notes to the album tell all you need to know: “The songs are about people — the space between them and the ordinary, miraculous things that happen there, as we come into contact, imitate each other, leave our marks, lose touch. Being self and other somehow amounting to the same thing.” He played a solo gig in Berlin, on June 17, 2023. I asked him to play my favorite song, “And So What If You Were Right.” He did it. He said it was the first time he played it in public. That was a gift.

Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha — Ballad Of A White Cow

There is almost only love in this movie, and all that love leads only to suffering. It terrifies me to see how often “doing the right thing” and well-intended lies destroy good people’s lives.

Emma Ruth Rundle — Engine of Hell

This album is a pulsing heart in the shape of a songwriter sitting in front of us, playing piano or classical guitar, and singing her story. “I wanted to be close to the listener and be whispering to you. I wanted to be close on an emotional level. Because I wanted to connect with myself on an emotional level, ” she said about this record. It takes courage to do this. It also takes a little bit of courage to stay in front of her and look at her fragile, invincible grace. Sonny Diperri, who recorded and produced this terrific record, is a great sound engineer and a lucky guy.

Christian Petzold — Undine

Art is proof that people can find infinite ways to create beauty, as long as they believe they truly need to love. Undine is a work of art. It not only is a truly original, touching movie about love. It is an act of love, made by people who can’t stand living in a society willing to humiliate and lose it.

Vic Chesnutt — At The Cut

Maybe one day our species will ignore what anguish is, and we will not even be allowed to mention the word. Someone will consider this “progress.” I don't see any progress in not feeling moved by what Vic Chesnutt — and every person involved in those sessions — did in this album.

Aki Kaurismaki — Ariel

I love Kaurismaki's cinema. I’m mentioning Ariel here just because it is probably my favorite... today. (For the record, it contains the best bank robbery scene in the film history.) If I ask myself why I love his movies so much, one reason I can put into words is that all his characters are condemned to the tragic and funny punishment of knowing what truly makes human beings happy. They are such stuff as the Tramp is made on.

This Mortal Coil — Blood

I put this album in my CD player recently, after several years, and started listening to it with the state of mind of someone who’s going to meet an ex-lover and is scared of not feeling anything. I was wrong. It still asks me the same beautiful question: “Did you really think you knew which kind of songs you like?”

Hirokazu Kore-eda — Shoplifters

I see Kore-eda as a sort of photo reporter who goes around and, almost by mistake, takes poetic pictures of fragments of happiness that — tomorrow — will not be there anymore. Laws were supposed to be instruments by which people pursued well-being. This movie shows how society rules are sometimes not ready to handle real life. They can end up killing what they should preserve, and it looks like a frighteningly stupid scenario.

New Pollution — Kiss The System

New Pollution is not just a band — it’s a no-filter attitude. They're the most contemporary group I know. I cannot imagine someone attending a New Pollution gig and not getting captured. There is spontaneity and freedom in everything they do — on stage and online. They keep releasing whatever they record (concerts, demos, soundtracks, studio sessions) and mocking all the show business rules. Nowadays musicians — indie ones more than others — are like bank clerks, each one with their daily plans: x hours of social media, x hours emails to labels, x hours emails to magazines... Music seems to be the last thing you should care about — and you're supposed to be a musician! New Pollution they don't care. “Revolution was your spare time,” they sing. I think Patrick Jessop has an instinctive awareness of how ephemeral existence is and I hope he never loses it.

[kristenbrady]

Forget Indeed. Those Over 50 Should Be Looking on These Job Boards Instead.

Hi Kristen,

Thank you for applying for a Team Member position with McDonald’s. At this time, we have decided not to move forward with your application. We appreciate your interest in our jobs and wish you the best of luck in your search!

Thank you, McDonald’s hiring team at McD of Grand Morton (37954).

I have gone on more than 6 job interviews over the last couple of months and have been turned down for all of them. I’m not saying that there is age discrimination going on here. But when certain employers in the job interview say that “There’s a lot of younger workers here. Would you be comfortable working with them?” Or “We’re not sure you fit in with our company culture, but thank you for coming by.” When I hear those types of things I start to wonder, “Am I too old to be hired?”

A recent data analysis by the Urban Institute and ProPublica shows over 50% of older workers in the U.S. are pushed out of longtime occupations before choosing to retire, essentially experiencing often irreversible financial damage. According to this article “If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours,” more and more folks are experiencing age discrimination. The article states ‘Many people in America assume that by the point of reaching their 50s they will have time to save, have steady work, as well as the right to make their own choices regarding when to retire. However, unfortunately, that is no longer the case for most people.’

So it is recommended that if you are approaching 50 or are over 50, you choose one of the three suggestions:

Stay in your current job no matter what

Start your own business

Try one of the following listed job boards that specifically works with older workers

The workforce landscape for older workers is changing. If you are still going to Indeed, I highly encourage that you change that. If you are 50 years of age and up, I highly recommend these 3 job boards for older workers:

RetirementJobs.com

RetirementJobs.com is a certified age-friendly job board of employers committed and willing to take on older workers.

This job boards offers these benefits:

Free

Millions of members

Mixture of people from every level, from leadership/executive level all the way to staff level

Multitude of jobs available

Hourly and salary positions available

No age discrimination

Members rate employers

Retired Brains

The site Retired Brains offers a multitude of resources and offers part-time, seasonal, and temporary work. It is a fantastic option for retirees looking to supplement their income or who are considering restarting a business.

Over 50 and Looking for Remote Work? Try These!

Tired of looking for a job and getting turned down? Check out these sites!

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Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) Program

SCSEP is a work-based training and community service program for America’s older demographic. The program offers training for unemployed, low-income, senior individuals. The Senior Community Service Employment Program grantees comprise 19 nationwide non-profit organizations and state agencies. For more details on programs in your region, you can use this Older Worker Program Finder here. The AARP foundation also helps with such resources and information.

According to the program’s website:

Participants receive work experience in various community service tasks at public and non-profit facilities, which includes senior centers, daycare facilities, hospitals, and schools. This program offers more than 40M community service hours to non-profit and public agencies, which allows them to provide and enhance needed services. People work about 20 hours per week and get paid the greatest of local, state, or federal minimum wage.

If you are a seasoned freelancer and prefer the peace and quiet that remote work offers, here is a list of remote job sites to check out so you can get your first gig:

Reddit R/ForHire

Guru

LinkedIn

Fiverr

Upwork

Media Bistro

99Designs

Ruby Now

Gun.IO

Dribble

Authentic Jobs

Remote Jobs Club

Workew

Remote4Me

Angel List

Virtual Vocations

Skip The Drive

Remote.Co

We Work Remotely

HubStaff Talent

Remotive

Solid Gigs

Jobspresso

Remote OK

Flex Jobs

Working Nomads

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[papermoonloveslucy]

Lucy in Beverly Hills

Part 2 ~ The Episodes

'Thank God I'm doing "Lucy" and thanks for "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Dick Van Dyke", and the rest.' ~ Lucille Ball, November 4, 1963

~ Parallel Universes ~

Sometimes hillbillies turned up on Lucycoms - just not necessarily Beverly Hillbillies. Lucille Ball often blacked out her teeth and deepened her voice to play backwoods type characters.

In "Lucy and Tennessee Ernie Ford" Homer (Ernie Ford) and his family walk into a palatial penthouse and “The Lucy Show” suddenly feels very much like an episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies”.  It is very likely that “The Lucy Show” cast Roy Roberts as the much-anticipated Mr. Cheever after seeing him play banker Mr. Cushing on "The Beverly Hillbillies". Robert Easton (who plays Iffie on "The Lucy Show") appeared in both the TV series and the 1993 film adaptation of “The Beverly Hillbillies.”  

"Turkey Day" (S2;E4) presents what appears to be stereotypical Native American characters (aka "Indians") who are really just actors on a gig. On "Hillbillies" the faux 'Indians' are played by Benny Rubin and George Suwaya, two performers who were also seen on "I Love Lucy." Lucy's "The Indian Show" (1953) featured Ray Kellogg and Frank Gerstle as the pair. in both cases, the 'white' characters (Mrs. Drysdale / Lucy Ricardo) indulge in broken English and use now-offensive terms in a humorous context.

"Pygmalion and Elly" (S1;E10) riffs on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion (filmed in 1938), which was the basis for the 1956 musical My Fair Lady (filmed in 1964). Both play and musical deal with the transformation of a lowly woman into the epitome of beauty and class. In 1962 Sonny Drysdale sets to remake Elly from a hillbilly into a woman of society. In 1972, Lucy transformed wallflower Annie Whipple (Ruth Buzzi) into a brazen showgirl on "Here's Lucy." This was Ball's second take on the story, having previously produced "My Fair Lucy" (1965) on "The Lucy Show."

In 1964, the Hillbillies went on location to Marineland of the Pacific. But they weren't the only only ones. A year later, "The Lucy Show" also shot on location at the marine park, kicking off the show's 'move' to California. CBS had previously shoots at Marineland for “The Munsters”. Coincidentally, Sid Gould, Gary Morton's cousin and a bit player in 45 episodes of “The Lucy Show,” played the Munsters' Marineland tour guide.

"Dog Days" (S6;E27) trots out most all of Frank Inn's canine cast - and then some. Dozens of dogs were also involved in "Lucy and Viv Learn Judo" (1963). Prominent among Elly's pooches is Lord Nelson, the sheep dog who played Mr. Mooney's pet on "The Lucy Show."

1963's "The Clampetts in Court" (S1;E32) finds the family being sued by the Johnsons (Murvyn Vye & Kathleen Freeman) who claim to have been injured in an auto accident caused by Jed. They are faking, of course. In addition to Vye and Freeman, the episode features "Lucy" regulars Roy Roberts and Bert Stevens. Similarly, in a 1972 episode of "Here's Lucy," the Carters find themselves in court when a dancer and his unscrupulous agent (Jim Bates & Jesse White) claim injuries from Lucy's negligence - until Lucy and Harry spy him dancing up a storm with an undercover Kim.

Elly Mae's affection for her 'critters' is not unlike Wayne Newton's on "The Lucy Show" and "Here's Lucy". In both episodes that the singer appears in (as himself), he is surrounded by a variety of barnyard animals. Lucy and Donna Douglas ignored the old show-business axiom: "Never work with children or animals."

"Jed and the Countess" (S3;E26) introduced Jean Willes as the Countess Maria. While she made only one appearance, Countess Henri Gaston Armand Jean-Louis Philippe Framboise Le Cul-de-Sac  (aka Rosie Hannigan) played by Ann Sothern made seven appearances on "The Lucy Show" in 1965. Burt Mustin played Countess Maria's chauffeur. Mustin played Old Uncle Joe on two episodes of "The Lucy Show." Countess Framboise flirted with Mr. Mooney the same way Countess Maria flirted with Jed. Willes was seen in two films with Lucille Ball as well as an episode of "Here's Lucy."

The Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills and The Westland Bank were the banks featured (respectively) on "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "The Lucy Show."

When "Elly Becomes a Secretary" (S1;E35), Millburn Drysdale is guest speaker at the National Bankers Convention. Two years later, in 1964, Vinnie Meyers (Max Showalter) takes over for Mr. Mooney while he is away at a banker's convention in Bridgeport on "The Lucy Show." Meyers is said to be from the Jamestown (NY) branch of Mr. Mooney's bank.

In a 1967 episode of "Here's Lucy," Mrs. Carmichael is volunteered as a date for the 90 year-old president of the bank (Dennis Day) so he can attend the Annual Bankers Banquet. Naturally, she disguises herself as a little old lady and finds that although he is old, he is still very interested in the opposite sex!

"The Clampetts Play the Rams" (S4;E7) tackles two hot topics of the day: Football and Color Television. Lucycoms were no stranger to pigskin plots, the LA Rams in particular. The entire team was featured in the 1949 Lucille Ball film Easy Living. Other mentions include: "The Football Game" (1950), Lucy is a Referee" (1962), "Lucy The Skydiver" (1970), and "Lucy and Aladdin's Lamp" (1971).

Although not played by Stretch (aka Duke), Lucy Ricardo briefly encountered a Basset Hound named Rocky aboard the S.S. Constitution in 1956. Lonely, she briefly considers the dog as a ping pong partner!

"The Little Monster" (S5;E29) introduces banker Drysdale's obnoxious nephew, Little Millby, played by Teddy Eccles. A year earlier on "The Lucy Show," banker Mooney's unruly nephew Wendell, played by Jay North, visits his uncle Theodore in "Lucy The Robot" (1965). North is best remembered for playing cherubic menace named Dennis on his own sitcom. Coincidentally, Eccles played Arnold Mooney, banker Mooney's youngest son, on a 1964 episode of "The Lucy Show."

The Clampetts found themselves in England on several occasions. Most of their adventures were filmed in Hollywood, but the shows did include some location shooting with the principal cast, including of Buckingham Palace, a location visited by Lucy and Ethel in 1955. On "I Love Lucy," however, the Palace was recreated at Desilu. In 1966, Lucy Carmichael went to London in a special titled "Lucy in London." This time Ball and company actually visited England. Both the Clampetts and Mrs. Carmichael flew Pan American Airlines. Lucy Carter went to London in 1971 as traveling companion to talk show host David Frost. Once again Pan Am carried the characters across the pond. In return, stock footage of one of their jets was used, but viewers never saw anything more than Hollywood recreations of the interior of the jet and Frost's London TV studio. Faversham!

In "Race for the Queen" (S2;19) in 1964, Miss Jane competed with Elly Mae (and Granny!) for the titled Queen of Beverly Hills. In 1970, Lucy Carter competed with Carol Krausmeyer for the title of Secretary Beautiful. Both pageants featured celebrity judges: Bob Cummings on "Hillbillies" and Robert Alda on "Lucy". Naturally, and somewhat regrettably, both contests included swimsuit competitions!

In "Clampett City General Store" (S3;E3) Granny gets cast as Cleopatra in Mammoth Pictures' new epic. A year earlier, in 1963, Lucy Carmichael played Cleopatra for the Danfield Community Players. In both scripts, Theda Bara, who played Cleopatra in 1917, and the 1963 Liz Taylor epic are mentioned. Neither scripts acknowledge the 1934 Cecil B. DeMille epic starring Claudette Colbert.

A bus tour of Beverly Hills is part of "Dr. Jed Clampett" (S3;E5) and a 1955 episode of "I Love Lucy" titled "The Tour". Both feature second unit film footage of a tour bus driving through the palm-lined streets. On the bus, an obnoxious woman is aching to get off, despite the warnings of the bus driver. In "Dr. Jed Clampett", that woman is the mother of a tap dancing prodigy and the home is that of movie studio owner Jed Clampett. In "The Tour," that woman is Lucy Ricardo, and the home is that of movie star Richard Widmark.

In "Jed the Movie Mogul" (S3;E1), TV viewers (and the Clampetts) get a preview of a scene from the upcoming Universal film Send Me No Flowers. The scene features Rock Hudson and Doris Day and is shown to the Clampetts as dailies from a film being shot at Jed's Mammoth Studios. On a 1955 episode of "I Love Lucy" titled "Lucy and the Dummy" the host of the MGM executive show introduces a clip from their upcoming movie musical Guys and Dolls. After the first airing, the clip was removed from the syndicated print, while Send Me No Flowers remains part of "The Beverly Hillbillies" to this day. That same season, Lucy Ricardo met Rock Hudson on "In Palm Springs." BTW, both films were released in color, but seen on television shows filmed and aired in black and white.

Double Trouble

With so many episodes and so many seasons, it was inevitable that "Hillbillies" and "I Love Lucy" shared the same titles.

"The Ballet" (S3;E10) of the "Beverly Hillbillies" concerns Jed financially rescuing the Los Angeles ballet. Leon Belasco played the ballet master. He was seen on several episodes of "The Lucy Show," often in the context of classical music. "The Ballet" (S1;E10) of "I Love Lucy" has Lucy learning ballet to get into Ricky's act. Mary Wickes played the ballet mistress. Wickes played social climber Adaline Ashley on a 1967 episode of "Hillbillies."

"The Diner" (S6;E19) of "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "The Diner" (S3;E27) of "I Love Lucy" have more than titles in common. They both concern the main characters purchasing a diner. Jethro named his eatery The Happy Gizzard. The feuding Ricardos and Mertzes divide their diner. One half is named A Little Bit of Cuba, and the other side is named A Big Hunk of America.

~ Epilogue: Y'all Come Back Now!

When the Clampetts made the cover of TV Guide in November 1962, it was Lucille Ball who got top billing - with a line over the masthead promoting her TV special with Danny Kaye. "The Beverly Hillbillies" made the cover nine times - while Lucille Ball reigned as queen of the Guide with 39 covers.

"Return of the Beverly Hillbillies" (1981) featured Lucy regulars Lurene Tuttle as Mollie Heller as Charles Lane as Chief, both of whom were in the original series. Lucille Ball never presented a 'reunion' show as such, she simply reinvented her Lucy character with a new last name, just as she did in 1986's short-lived "Life With Lucy."

In addition to comic books, both shows were novelized for young readers.

[memecucker]

@dubstepcarcommercial it depends entirely on the specific neighborhood and time of day. Like Beverly Hills on average doesn’t really tip much better or worse than a typical middle class neighborhood for the most part (during Covid lockdown you could earn monster tips from people ordering a full course dinner for two from like Morton’s Steakhouse but those are much less common nowadays) and when there is a decent tip it’s often a house deep in the mountains.

Interestingly I’ve noticed that the ideal rich neighborhoods to focus on in my experience are the wealthy urbanized coastal areas from Santa Monica in the north down down to Redondo Beach in the south. Specifically I like Marina del Rey which is pretty small but one of the most expensive areas in SoCal and it’s nicely located. Idk what it is like maybe the ocean breeze makes people more chill or maybe these are vacationers more willing to spend money but people in these areas are the most willing to leave monster tips as in like $35 tips for like a personal pizza or a poke bowl (so like, an over 100% tip) . They’re also more likely to add an extra tip post-delivery which tends to happen when I’m delivering say ramen or frozen yogurt and it arrives still pretty hot/cold since I use coolers and warmer bags. Hell, I’ve even noticed that i even get better tips depending on how I dress which is interesting because returning to the app to add an extra tip is a pretty deliberate decision but I guess some people like my style a lot

@smoothestjazz yeahh I also see gated communities as pretty bad EV usually and tend to avoid those areas. Especially since they can be like 25+ minutes away from restaurant areas which matters a lot with gig economy deliveries bc that means I’ve spent nearly a whole hour away from civilization. Interestingly the rich areas I do like to deliver in like Marina del Rey or Venice Beach are predominantly high end apartment and townhouses so idk maybe there’s something about people living in houses under tipping idk

People that have experience being servers at fancy expensive US restaurants (as in a normal bill for a single person is $150+), do the customers still consistently tip a percentage of the bill still? Does it seem like even if they tip generously they still consider tipping to be a ‘review’ system rather than something to be automatically done?

I’m curious about the comparison between that and doing deliveries in rich areas.

[northernwet]

Brendan Meyer and Gig Morton slimed in Mr Young

[theloniousbach]

ELIJAH WALD, THE FOCAL POINT, 4 OCTOBER 2024

It is fitting that the merch table at this show was primarily books. Indeed I came with my copy of the Dave Van Ronk memoir The Mayor of MacDougall Street that ELIJAH WALD cowrote. His stage patter reflected books that got behind myths to get at what folks really heard in folk music. Early blues, like Winding Ball Blues from Jelly Rolly Martin which he did by request in the second set, were “dirty” because they were in the vernacular and were outside the commodification of the music business.

Similarly, another suite of tunes, starting fascinatingly from a Congolese masterpiece by Jean-Bosco Mwenda, were grounded in the pervasiveness of Jim Reeves of all people, in the world’s perception of US country music. When Wald sought the precise Swahili lyrics, Mwenda said why?, that Wald’s audience wouldn’t know AND, anyway, all he was trying to do was sing like Jim Reeves in Swahili. Okay, Wald played a Reeves song with Congolese accompaniment. That led to stories about being shown Jim Reeves albums in a little Indian village and going to Scotland to learn that repertoire as a way to be a better ethnomusicologist.

He played Sloop John B in the first set as a tip to his instructional DVD on Joseph Spence which I have. I asked for another one in the second set and he played Coming On a Wing and a Prayer. The first set was loosely organized around tunes he learned from the Woody Guthrie/Cisco Houston albums that were part of the de rigeur record collection of his lefty parents and grandparents. He started with a version of Stagger Lee that included verses about that bad man, mean old Stagolee, taking over hell from the devil that I hadn’t heard. He ended with Duncan and Brady which was a bigger St Louis story wherein a Duncan, a black bartender, shot a copy almost certainly in self-defense. He was convicted and hung, resulting in him lying in statue, but only after his lawyer made history by going to the State Supreme Court to appeal.

There were tunes from the Carter Family back to one AP collected from a Black friend Leslie Riddell, a cowboy song via Cisco, a Kris Kristofferson deep cut Best of All Possible Worlds from his monumental first album. He also recited Jake the Plumber, the Yiddish version of The Face on the Ballroom Floor. There was another Jelly Roll Morton tune and then the St Louis Tickle he got from Van Ronk with the same double entendre, darker than the fart joke it’s usually thought to be. He did Freight Train as an encore because there’s nobody doing the songs that everybody once did.

It took a very gentle lecture with an eclectic series of illustrations by way of a wide range of fingerpicking to get me back to good old Focal Point after too too long. Books would be the appropriate souvenir from this gig. I didn’t have to buy one, but I did get one signed.

[unforgottenuniverse]

Gig and Brendan

[unbreakablemouserat]

So I rediscovered something from my childhood...

if you people are fans of Disney or Nick sitcoms, with a dash of out there/weird sitcoms like Community and Arrested Development, stream it if it’s available, pirate it or fucking do something else to find it. It’s a pretty funny show to watch and I do recommend it a lot

[allaroundidiot]

Your Fave Is a War Criminal-Gig Morton