#hal lindes

[mazzy-rockstar]

[rainingmusic]

Tina Turner - Private Dancer 

[sunset-supergirl]

Happy birthday Hal Lindes

[lunastrophe]

Sorry if you’ve already done this but I’ve been trying to learn about the drow language but I’m not sure how to pronounce the words? I can’t find anything on pronunciation other than the few words used in bg3.

Hello 🙂 The topic of pronunciation of drow language is a bit tricky, since in most official sources we are given only written names and phrases without pronunciation tips.

In Drow of the Underdark (2e), it is mentioned that drow are "as eloquent and musical in their speech as other elves" and that the everyday language of the drow "varies slightly from community to community, in the same way that spoken Common has regional accents, phrases and words" - but that is all.

🔹As for the drow content from the novels, R. A. Salvatore seemed to be generally applying Italian pronunciation to his drow characters' names.

In Lisa Smedman's The Lady Penitent books (in section "dramatis personae" in the second and third book), there are names of drow characters with pronunciation guides. There are, for example, Qilue Veladorn - KIE-loo-ay VEL-a-dorn, Cavatina Xarann - cav-a-TEEN-a zar-ANN, Cabrath Nelinderra - ka-BRATH nel-in-DAIR-uh, Halisstra Melarn - HAL-is-truh mel-ARN, Q'arlynd Melarn - KAR-lind mel-ARN, Seldszar Elpragh - SELDS-zar el-PRAG.

In Waterdeep: Dragon Heist there is a small pronunciation guide for non-English names, with a few drow names included - for example, Bregan D'aerthe - BRAY-gan DAIRTH, Jarlaxle Baenre - jar-LAX-ull BANE-ray.

🔹Following the most common pattern when it comes to fantasy elven laguages, it is probably safe to assume that drow language is generally pronounced a bit similarly to Latin.

It seems to be a thing - more or less, at least - with drow names and phrases voiced in games like Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale or Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark, as well as with many drow names that appear in books with pronunciation guides.

But since roleplay-wise, drow language "varies slightly from community to community", I suppose it is totally OK to use a different pronunciation, especially in relation to characters from Underdark cities and communities different than Menzoberranzan.

Hope you will find this information helpful in some way 🙂

[wardrobeoftime]

Master Post - N to Z

If you notice any show, movie or character missing that I’ve made gifs of, please let me know. Characters are sorted alphabetically by first their last name and then their first name.

Go to A-M | Last updated: December 19th, 2024

N

Nussknacker und Mausekönig (Louise Stahlbaum | Marie Stahlbaum | Zuckerfee/Sugar Fairy)

O

Oktoberfest 1900/Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood (Clara Prank | Curt Prank)

Once Upon A Time (Belle French | Colette French | Cora Mills | Ella Mills | Regina Mills / The Evil Queen | Robin Mills | Emma Swan | Anastasia Tremaine | Drizella Tremaine)

Once Upon A Time in Wonderland (Alice | Cora Mills | Anastasia Tremaine)

Outlander (Abigail | Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne | Jocasta Cameron | Margaret Campbell | Geilis Duncan | Geneva Dunsany | Isobel Dunsany | Madame Elise | Brianna Fraser | Claire Fraser | Jamie Fraser | Janet “Jenny” Fraser Murray | Harold “Hal” Grey | John Grey | Lady Grozier | Mary Hawkins | Jeanne LeGrand | Louis XV | Mairi | Laoghaire MacKenzie | Letitia MacKenzie | Joan MacKimmie | Marsali MacKimmie | Mary MacNab | Elias Pound | Alexander Randall | William Ransom | Charles Edward Stuart | Suzette | Margaret Wake Tryon | Martha Washington | Elizabeth “Lizzie” Wemyss | Extras)

Oz the Great and Powerful (Evanora | Glinda | Theodora)

P

Q

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Agatha Danbury | Queen Charlotte | Violet Ledger | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Princess Charlotte of Wales)

R

Reign (Aylee | Kenna de Poitiers | Amy Dudley | Robert Dudley | Claude of France | Greer Norwood | Penelope | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots | Elizabeth Tudor/Elizabeth I | Elisabeth of Valois)

Reinas/Queens: The Virgin and the Martyr (Joanna of Austria | Empress Maria / Maria of Austria | Margaret Douglas | Bess of Hardwick | Isabel de Osorio | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots | Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain | Anna Throndsen | Elizabeth I/Elizabeth Tudor | Elisabeth of Valois)

Rise of Empires: Ottoman (Katarina Branković | Mara Branković | Gülbahar Hatun | Hüma Hatun | Constantine XI Palaiologos)

Romeo & Juliet [2013] (Juliet Capulet)

S

Sechs auf einen Streich (see the individual movies)

Shadow and Bone (Tatiana Lantsov | Zoya Nazyalensky | Genya Safin | Alina Starkov)

Sisi [2009] (Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria | Archduchess Sophie of Austria | Helene “Néné” in Bavaria | Charlotte of Belgium | Eugénie de Montijo)

Sisi [2021] (Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria | Archduchess Sophie of Austria | Helene “Néné” in Bavaria | Karl Ludwig von Grünne | Eugénie de Montijo)

Sissi Trilogy (Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria | Archduchess Sophie of Austria | Helene “Néné” in Bavaria | Ludovika, The Duchess in Bavaria)

Snow White and the Huntsman (Ravenna)

Sophie - Braut wider Willen (Sophie von Ahlen)

Still Star-Crossed (Guiliana Capulet | Juliet Capulet | Rosaline Capulet | Tessa Montague | Princess Isabella of Verona)

T

The 100 (Emori | Clarke Griffin | Lexa)

The Age of Adaline (Adaline Bowman)

The Last Duel (Marguerite de Carrouges | Jacques Le Gris)

The Little Mermaid [2023] (Vanessa)

The Crown (Catherine Middleton | Queen Elizabeth II | Princess Margaret)

The Empress (see Die Kaiserin)

The Eras Tour (Taylor Swift)

The Gilded Age (Mamie Fish | Bertha Russell | Peggy Scott | Extras)

The Great (Countess Belanova | Catherine the Great | Georgina Dymova | Marial | Queen Agnes of Sweden | Extras)

The Greatest Showman (Jenny Lind)

The Hunger Games Trilogy (Katniss Everdeen | Peeta Mellark | Johanna Mason | Finnick Odair | Coriolanus Snow)

The Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Lucy Gray Baird | Livia Cardew | Arachne Crane | Clemensia Dovecote | Palmyra Monty | Iphigenia Moss | Juno Phipps | Persephone Price | Diana Ring | Vipsania Sickle | Tigris Snow | Lysistrata Vickers)

The Huntsman: Winter’s War (Freya | Ravenna)

The Originals (Davina Claire | Hayley Marshall | Aurora de Martel | Freya Mikaelson | Hope Mikaelson | Keelin Mikaelson | Rebekah Mikaelson)

The Other Boleyn Girl 2008 (Anne Boleyn | Elizabeth Boleyn (née Howard) | Mary Boleyn)

The Pillars of the Earth (Empress Matilda)

The Princess Switch (Margaret Delacourt | Fiona Pembroke)

The Royals (Princess Eleanor Henstridge | Queen Helena Henstridge | Wilhelmina “Willow” Moreno)

The Scandalous Lady W (Seymour Fleming)

The School for Good and Evil (Emma Anemone | Clarissa Dovey | Leonora Lesso)

The Serpent Queen (Catherine de Medici | Diane de Poitiers | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots)

The Spanish Princess (Catherine of Aragon | Henry VIII | Mary Tudor)

The Tudors (Catherine of Aragon | Bessie Blount | Anne Boleyn | Anne of Cleves | Katheryn Howard | Ursula Misseldon | Kathryn Parr | Jane Seymour | Elizabeth Tudor/Elizabeth I | Margaret Tudor | Mary Tudor/Mary I)

The Twilight Saga (Charlotte | Alice Cullen | Edward Cullen | Katrina “Kate” Denali | Jasper Hale | Rosalie Hale | Peter | Bella Swan | Caius Volturi | Demetri Volturi | Jane Volturi)

The Vampire Diaries (Bonnie Benett | Caroline Forbes | Elena Gilbert | Jo Laughlin | Rebekah Mikaelson | Katherine Pierce | Annabelle “Anna” Zhu | Pearl Zhu)

The White Queen (Anne Neville | Isabel Neville | Margaret Plantagenet | Bona of Savoy | Elizabeth “Jane” Shore | Elizabeth Woodville | Cecily of York | Elizabeth of York | Margaret of York)

The White Princess (Mary of Burgundy | Elizabeth of York)

The Witcher (Calanthe of Cintra | Pavetta of Cintra | Tissaia de Vries | Philippa Eilhart | Sabrina Glevissig | Margarita Laux-Antille | Triss Merigold | Keira Metz | Lydia van Bredevoort | Yennefer of Vengerberg)

The Young Victoria (Victoria, The Duchess of Kent (née of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld) | Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen | Queen Victoria)

Three Thousand Years of Longing (Hürrem Sultan | Kösem Sultan)

Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone (Anna Amalia of Prussia)

Tulip Fever (Mrs Overalt | Sophia Sandvoort | Mrs Steen)

Tut (Ankhesenamun)

U

V

Vampire Academy [2022] (Vasilisa “Lissa” Dragomir)

Victoria (Queen Victoria | Victoria, Princess Royal)

Vom Reich zur Republik (Victoria, Princess Royal)

W

War & Peace [2016] (Natasha Rostova)

What We Do In The Shadows (Marwa | Nadja of Antipaxos)

Wolf Hall (Anne Boleyn | Catherine of Aragon)

X

Y

Z

[soleiltac]

Okay, recently I found out the information from Disney Wiki that AUTO from WALL-E is the only non-sentient robot in the movie. And I don't feel like that. :(

I am aware that he is meant to be an antagonist, the "villain" of the story as he follows his directives like there's no tomorrow. But, I didn't think this trait should define ALL of his personality. Like, he clearly had emotions and showed them in a restrained way. Or at least I thought he did?

I decided to rewatch it.

Warning: spoilers, potential grammar, punctuation mistakes. Excuse me, english is hard!

***

Why do I think AUTO is a sentient robot? My observations.

• Every bot on this ship is capable of emotions, when why an intelligent steering wheel isn't?

• Well, why, he actually has them! You can tell it by his body language and a tone of deep synthesized voice.

He expresses:

1. Frustration, annoyance.

- "CAPTNNNNN D:" – AUTO said calmly.

2. Surprise.

- He is genuinely shocked to see WALL•E with 'the p l a n t' on his head. I actually laughed at his reaction.

- "n ot pos sible! 0:" every now and when.

3. He is persistent and blutantly stubborn. Strict on himself. Some people can be like that without any directives.

- Captain McCrea needed to give AUTO 'a stern look' for him to share the information about directive. AUTO reluctantly obliged. (At least he tried to reason with Captain.)

- "sir, i INSIST you give me the plant." (Dutch Van der Linde voice here: "he INSISTS...")

- (And the whole plot obviously.)

4. Anger, fear. McCrea: – You want it? Come and get it, blinky.

Auto: – N O.

- "E N ouGh" 😡 *flips the ship around impulsively*

- "NOT POSSIBLE D:" but with more panicking tone.

- "NoOOo..." when he gets deactivated.

• The whole sequence with manual is... interesting.

- At this point of the story AUTO ordered GO-4 to steal the plant from EVE to make her look defective in Captain's eyes.

- I felt how much AUTO and McCrea are tired of each other's presence. AUTO is patiently anticipating McCrea's attention, he is eager to do his job.

(- Captain tries to imitate jogging in his seat and AUTO for some reason looks at him with puzzled and uncertain look. )

- AUTO keeps pretending like he doesn't know anything...

• Which is actually not a common thing for robots. "Lying is a human emotion." (c) HAL 9000

And yes, hiding the truth is considered to be lying too.

It's not like he was instructed to lie by his superiors, they didn't care. But rather it's the tactic that he learnt while being active for 700 years. I bet he understands it would be much easier to secretly yeet the plant into space without bothering captain with a decision. I suppose it required some thinking in his mechanical brain.

When why does he show the captain an operation manual? Good question. My personal headcanon: he loves doing his job so much, it doesn't matter for him if it can increase risks towards his global goal. That is why I can tell it wasn't a programmed, logical decision of the machine. If non-sentient perfect AUTO knew about A-113, he wouldn't let captain see the possibility at all. He hasn't considered that his domestic human pet might get interested in whole "Earth" thing. And he hasn't considered sentient WALL•E and EVE as serious obstacles. He did a crucial mistake to satisfy his ego... Or... Or maybe not? It's a headcanon, after all. Maybe it was a part of protocol. Or maybe he tried to entertain McCrea. AUTO seems to care about him in some way as he didn't push him out off the power until the last moment. (uwu) Choose whatever you like more. It's a thought-provoking subject.

• That aside, have you noticed that there is not a single character in the movie who would not be terrified of having to leave the comfort zone? It's only AUTO, who is opposing this idea for the sake of survival. Recolonizing nearly-dead Earth is not an easy work, someone can get really hurt and, well, die. And knowing that AUTO is based on famous computer HAL 9000, who is, in fact, killed people because of his panic attack (he didn't want to be deactivated/murdered), this situation kinda gets a new meaning? It's an interesting perspective to look at AUTO's character, too. AUTO, like HAL, at the start of story was okay and non-hostile towards others. Eventually, as the story progresses, AUTO becomes more and more impatient, eager to complete his primary task, thus taking violent measures. In AUTO's eye WALL•E & EVE are rogue robots anyway, defected and dispatchable. But attacking the captain? AUTO's final step to AI "madness" was fighting the man he is designed to serve. And though I believe he wouldn't kill him, we can imagine AUTO was panicking at this moment. So, no programmed logic there either, pure emotion of fear and reckless behaviour, almost like HAL. And HAL is 100% sentient and conscious entity.

*** Well...

Maybe it's just me and my anthropomorphizing tendencies on non-living fictional objects. I can be self-projecting too much, so if you disagree, let's say it's my headcanons and leave that at that. After all, AUTO is a direct representation of BnL – heartless company, that destroyed life on Earth and continued destroying it in space. They made humans, their customers, helpless like babies! And I am afraid it could only be worse in the future, if it wasn't for WALL•E and EVE.

It's quite a tragedy that AUTO can't escape from this never-ending system of least resistance and comfort. He is the system. He is made to be an autopilot of Axiom, he IS the Axiom, programmed to do his job fully dedicated to the mission of saving mankind. And if he was really fully-sentient... well, it would've made his life even more miserable. What's the use of the steering wheel on Earth surface? It's not like they are gonna fly into space again. Captain's dead and woah, hello eternal loneliness, next generation forgets about your existence or decides to ignore it like a bad memory about containment. Even AUTO's closest henchman GO-4 is forever destroyed... *sigh*

I am overthinking too much, aren't I? Gosh, this wheel NEEDS a redemption arc. And friends. My heart bleeds for him, really.

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

Top 5 worst movies you've ever seen, if you please!

YES thank you!!! finally i get to be a Hater lol!

5 cats (2019)

it does feel low hanging fruit to pick this but... it is really bad lmao...

mainly just so pissed off about them not using the superior (98) version of mungojerrie & rumpleteazer song smh smh

4 the texas chainsaw massacre (original 70s one lol)

i'm sorry it was just kinda lame lol...

like i think the premise was interesting but it lost me after the midway mark and i just kinda switched off pfft... like i can kinda appreciate how this was an influential horror film but... there have been better ones that have come out since pfft soz

3 sahara

baby's first most hated film lol

my dad made me watch this as a kid and i was SO bored and my dad found it rly funny so he kept trying to get me to watch it lol

anyway i rewatched it like 3 or so years ago and yeh it's still shit lol... boring with annoying characters and an even more boring storyline lol

2 the greatest showman

i actually saw this at the cinema which is i think why i was filled with more hate for this than i probs would have been if i'd just seen it at home lol... the music is kinda eh, it's fine, but it doesn't do a whole lot lol

i think the part where i lost my shit was when jenny lind(?) the OPERA SINGER that they kept going on and on about being an amazing OPERA SINGER starts singing a generic pop song lol.........

anyway yeh i feel like we just didnt need a musical about pt barnum pfft...

1 shallow hal

god... i can't explain the rage i have for this film lol.. i have had MANY sleepless nights thinking about how awful it is, it's just so SO fucking bad lol...

i did start writing an essay about how bad it is pfft... maybe one day i'll finish it lol

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Florence Ballard, Boyz II Men’s 1992 “End of the Road” single, Billy Brown (The Moments), Bryn Burrows (Fabulous Poodles), the TV debut of The Johnny Carson Show (1955), Cirque de Soliel’s 2006 debut of THE BEATLES - LOVE, Stanley Clarke, the 1989 film GREAT BALLS OF FIRE, Andy Knowles (Franz Ferdinand), Mike Leander, Hal Lindes (Dire Straits), Yngwie Malmsteen, Glenn Shorrock, Superman comics #1 (1938), Dave Van Ronk, Leonard Whiting, Ronald Winans, and the legendary actress, dancer, singer, and Civil Rights activist Lena Horne. She was a trail-blazer whose career spanned 70 years and covered films, musicals, recordings, and television. Her 1980 one-woman show, LENA HORNE: THE LADY AND HER MUSIC ran on Broadway for over 300 performances, and in 1995 she won a Grammy for her jazz album AN EVENING WITH LENA HORNE when she was 78 years old. I wrote this song “Girl With The Lena Horne Smile” as a tribute to her (and to my fiancé Uma Robin Mackey for her own “Lena Horne Smile”). Meanwhile, thank you Lena for being courageous, talented, and for breaking down barriers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8duaeQIVQ

#birthday #lenahorne #actress #dancer #singer #civilrights #activist #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge #umarobinmackey

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 6.30

Beer Birthdays

Louis J. Hauck (1866)

Larry Berlin (1961)

Nick Funnell

Hildegard Van Ostaden (1975)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Bo Carter; blues musician (1892)

Stanley Clarke; jazz bassist (1951)

Susan Hayward; actor (1917)

Lena Horne; singer, actor (1917)

Brendan Perry; rock musician (1959)

Famous Birthdays

Florence Ballard; pop/soul singer (1943)

Robert Ballard; oceanographer (1942)

Fantasia Barrino; singer-songwriter and actress (1984)

Thomas Lovell Beddoes; English poet (1803)

Madge Bellamy; actress (1899)

Paul Berg; biologist (1926)

Harry Blackstone Jr.; magician (1934)

Brian Bloom; actor (1970)

Lizzy Caplan; actress (1982)

Murray Cook; singer, "Wiggles" (1960)

Man Mountain Dean; wrestler (1891)

Vincent D'Onofrio; actor (1959)

Georges Duhamel; French author (1884)

Nancy Dussault; actress and singer (1936)

John Gay; English writer (1685)

Alicia Fox; wrestler, model, and actress (1986)

Archibald Frazer-Nash; English car designer (1889)

David Garrison; actor (1952)

James Goldman; screenwriter and playwright (1927)

Winston Graham; English author (1908)

Rupert Graves; actor (1963)

David Alan Grier; actor (1955)

Larry Henley; singer-songwriter (1937)

Barry Hines; English author (1939)

Joseph Dalton Hooker; English botanist and explorer (1817)

Allan Houser; sculptor and painter (1914)

Mario Lanfranchi; Italian film director (1927)

Hal Lindes; American-English guitarist (1953)

Czesław Miłosz; Lithuanian writer (1911)

Kelsi Monroe; adult actress (1992)

Raymond Moody; parapsychologist (1944)

Tony Musante; actor (1936)

Clive Nolan; English musician (1961)

José Emilio Pacheco; Mexican poet (1939)

Brendan Perry; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1959)

Michael Phelps; swimmer (1985)

Monica Potter; actor (1971)

Julianne Regan; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1962)

Andy Scott; rock guitarist, singer (1949)

Harry Shields; jazz clarinetist (1899)

Glenn Shorrock; English-Australian singer-songwriter (1944)

Thomas Sowell; economist (1930)

Stanley Spencer; English artist (1891)

Mark Spoelstra; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1940)

Ron Swoboda; New York Mets OF (1944)

Eleanor Ross Taylor; poet (1920)

Mike Tyson; boxer (1966)

Dave Van Ronk; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1936)

Horace Vernet; French painter (1789)

Friedrich Theodor Vischer; German author, poet (1807)

Brian Vollmer; Canadian singer (1955)

Rich Vos; comedian (1957)

Heinz Warneke; German-American sculptor (1895)

Mark Waters; film director (1964)

Philip Adrian Wright; rock keyboardist (1956)

Ed Yost; hot-air balloon inventor (1919)

[moochilatv]

BIRD AKA JANIE PRICE presents: What The Night Knows

It's the "After Dark Remix" by Sleepcub

About the song:

A remix of Bird's last single "What The Night Knows" made by her long time collaborator "Sleepcub" aka Pete Davis (PJ Harvey, Dido)

Janie Price aka “Bird” is an award winning half English, half Irish singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

She started her classical training as a cellist aged six, learnt the drums at eleven and started her session career in her teens which saw her singing, playing cello and writing with numerous signed artists.

Subsequently, she became an artist herself releasing her debut album to critical acclaim before signing her second album to EMI publishing and the independent Copenhagen based label Music for Dreams

She was invited to star in a 6 episode t.v.programme for Sky Arts, “Art of Survival” filmed playing her musical compositions across Europe and entered the Swiss Eurovision finals with her cowrite “Secrets and Lies” for Chiara Dubey as well as co-writing and performing on two Number 1 gold certified chart topping Hooverphonic albums.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Janie Price (@birdofficial)

She is currently touring film festivals with her first, award winning short, film “Wider Than The Sky” for which she wrote not only the script but also the soundtrack which, of the same name, has also just been released.  She is also working on a new acoustic EP to be recorded in Nashville this Autumn and is mixing material worked on over the past five years with producer Mike Hedges and Grammy award winning artist John Paul White (The Civil Wars) for an eventual album release next year (2025).

She has written with and continues to write and collaborate with many house hold names in the world of music including James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers) , Andy Dunlop (Travis), Ally McErlaine Texas , Shelly Poole (Alisha's Attic) Hal Lindes (Dire Straits), Tennessee Tears. She is a voting member of PRS, Ivors Academy, World Soundtrack Awards, FAC and the Alliance for Women Film Composers.

[undiscoperlapausapranzo]

Un Disco per la Pausa Pranzo no. 12 - 2 Ottobre 2017 - Dire Straits - Love over Gold - 1982

Canzoni:

Telegraph Road

Private investigations

Industria desease

Love over Gold

It never rains

Canzone preferita: Telegraph Road

Musicisti:

Mark Knopfler: Voce - Chitarre

Hal Lindes: Chitarre

John Illsley: Basso elettrico

Alan Clark: Tastiere

Pick Withers: Batteria

Ed Walsh: Programmazioni

Mike Mainieri: Vibrafono e Marimba (2 a 4)

[lyrics365]

Kapitel V: Schellenklingeln / Vom kurzen Leben fast verschneiter gruener trauben

Aufzug so in Stucke, verseuch ich lind als Wrack, das Haupt in Fleischesblut versenkt, als liess ich es von Dornen spalten Zur Stunde schon, wie ein verspatet Kindlein, schmolle ich im kleinen Gartchengetroffen schon vom Hals der Schopferkugel! “Was meint ihr dann? Meint ihr die Trane brenne nicht? Was meint ihr dann? Stribt gar die Traubesfrucht, das kleine gierige Gezucht”. “Du Rebstock kannst…

[blog-aventin-de]

Narkose durch Bücher · Kurt Tucholsky

Narkose durch Bücher · Kurt Tucholsky · Satire Literatur Liebe

»Und wenn alles aus ist ... « Es ist niemals alles aus. Alles geht weiter - eine sehr schmerzliche Erfahrung, die man erst ziemlich spät lernt. Alles geht weiter. Was aber, wenn es doch weiter geht, und man denkt, alles sei aus . . . was dann? Manche betrinken sich. Es steht einer Dame nicht wohl an, sich zu betrinken - wir sind doch hier nicht in Amerika. Nun, also dann: eine neue Liebe? Nie wieder Liebe ... ! In den Romanen vergessen die Heldinnen im Strudel des rauschenden und eleganten Vergnügungslebens ihren Kummer ... aber wo strudelt es denn schon und noch? Dann gibt es also nur ein Mittel, nein zwei. Das eine ist: Narkose durch Bücher. Durch welche Bücher kann man das Leid betäuben? Das kommt auf die zu Betäubende an! Ist es eine sehr kluge, eine sehr gebildete, eine sehr intellektuell trainierte Dame, dann mag es wohl sein, dass sie zu den Klassikern greift ... zu deutschen oder zu französischen oder zu englischen. In diesen Büchern steht gewöhnlich immer ein Teil mehr, als man bei der ersten Lektüre heraus gelesen hat. Man kann zum Beispiel in den Swift auch viel hineinlesen; das kann man nicht bei jedem Buch . . . Aber das ist noch nicht das Richtige. Das Richtige ist: das intensive Buch. Das Buch, dessen Autor dem Leser sofort ein Lasso um den Hals wirft, ihn zerrt, und zerrt und nicht mehr loslässt ... bis zum Ende nicht, bis zur Seite 354. Lies oder stirb! Dann liest man lieber. Musterbeispiel 1: Zu dieser Gattung gehört etwa Wallace, der es ja nunmehr schon etwas reichlich grob treibt, womit nicht gesagt sein soll, dass er es nicht immer so getrieben habe. Musterbeispiel 2: Prinzgemahl von Philipp Mac-Donald. Davon gibt es natürlich viele hundert Beispiele. Betäubt dergleichen ... !? Ja, es betäubt; diese Gattung Literatur betäubt. So, wie es gegen Kopfschmerzen ein wirkliches Universalmittel gibt: nämlich starke Zahnschmerzen -: so wird bei der Lektüre dieser modernen Märchenbücher nur ein kleines Feld im Gehirn angestrengt, der Rest ist gelähmt, er ruht . . . die Sache mit Martin wagt sich nicht hervor . . . für den Augenblick ist sie nicht mehr da . . . Der Autor schleppt die Liebeskranke (gibts!) durch die Dschungel und durch die Unterwelten der großen Städte. Es knallt und es brennt; die Heldin stürzt mit rutschendem Büstenhalter aus dem 44. Stockwerk, und unten wartet der Befreier, weiter! weiter! Die Leidende liest weiter. Sie liest, wenn sie allein ist, bei Tisch, zum Kaffee und den ganzen Nachmittag lang ... und wenn sie noch so ein Buch hat, auch noch an diesen langen Abenden, die schlaflose Nacht werden wollen, die Stunden wollen nicht enden, der Schlaf kommt nicht . . . Er braucht nicht zu kommen. »Mit einem einzigen Blick übersah Jack die Situation. Er ergriff den Konservenbüchsenöffner, der auf dem Tisch lag, und stürzte sich auf den Chinesen . . . « Faul wird die Sache nur dann, wenn in diesem Rumor plötzlich ein Kerl auftaucht, er zufällig Martin heißt. Martin . . . Dann lässt sie das Buch sinken, und der ganze Kram ist wieder da. Hat er sich nicht gemein benommen? Er hat sich gemein benommen! Hätte ich mich anders benehmen können? Ich hätte mich nicht anders benehmen können! Hätte ich ihm den Brief . . . hätte er mir den Brief . . . hätten wir uns die Briefe . . . äh! Einer, der Martin heißt, darf also nicht vorkommen. Aber sonst sind diese Bücher bunte Oasen, in die die Leserin aus der Wüste flieht, wo man sie so grimmig enttäuscht hat . . . Und es muss nicht immer unglückliche Liebe sein (gibts!). Da ist die Rekonvaleszenz: die süße Mattigkeit, die Zeit, in der sie alle gut zu einem sind und so leise und so rücksichtsvoll ... auch, dass sie ewig grünen bliebe, die schöne Zeit . . . ! Da sind dann mildere Bücher am Platz ... aber gut geschrieben müssen sie sein und sanft und hinreißend (Musterbeispiel: Raucat - Die ehrenwerte Landpartie). Glatt wie Öl geht dir das runter, die Seiten wenden sich so lind um, die Erzählung fließt sanft dahin, unaufhaltsam. Man muss nicht alles so genau verstehen, lesen genügt auch ... die Zeit vergeht ... die Krankheit entweicht ... die Gesundheit wächst langsam ... Kummer und Elend liegen grollend in der Ecke, niemand kümmert sich um sie, und das bekommt ihnen schlecht; denn das Unglück ist eine eitle Frau und will hofiert sein. Beachtet man es nicht, dann stirbt es. Wer wird denn gleich Kokain schnupfen, dieses Stimulans unserer Großmütter aus der Inflation! Bücher sind auch sehr schön. Aber es müssen die richtigen Bücher sein! Und so ist es denn das Beste, wenn die Dame den Herrn Martin gleich zu Beginn ihrer Beziehung fragt: »Sag mal - was rätst du mir zu lesen, wenn wir uns gezankt haben?« Wenn er so nett ist, sagt er es. Das wäre das eine Mittel, um den Kummer zu vergessen. Es gibt aber noch ein zweites. Arbeit ist auch nicht schlecht! Narkose durch Bücher · Kurt Tucholsky · Satire Literatur Liebe Read the full article

[diarioelpepazo]

El japonés fue elegido como el bateador designado más destacado del año David Méndez Shohei Ohtani, el fenómeno japonés de los Ángeles de Los Ángeles, fue elegido como el ganador del Premio Edgar Martínez al Bateador Designado Sobresaliente de 2023, según anunció hoy la Major League Baseball. El nipón exhibió una línea ofensiva  de .304/.412/.654 con 102 carreras anotadas, 151 hits, 26 dobles, ocho triples, 44 jonrones, 95 carreras impulsadas y 20 bases robadas en 135 juegos como bateador designado de los Angelinos. Entre los bateadores designados calificados con 100 turnos al bate, Ohtani lideró a sus rivales en imparables, carreras, bases totales (325), triples, jonrones, bases por bolas (91), bases robadas y slugging. Ohtani sumó su segundo Premio al Jugador Más Valioso de la Liga Americana en su carrera y se convirtió en el primer jugador en la historia del béisbol en ganar el Premio MVP por unanimidad más de una vez, después de haber ganado previamente el Premio MVP de la Liga Americana 2021 de manera unánime. Con sus 44 jonrones, se unió a Troy Glaus (47 bambinazos en 2000) como los únicos jugadores de los Angelinos en terminar una temporada como líder de jonrones de la Liga Americana. Los 171 jonrones de carrera del nativo de Oshu, Japón hasta ahora en su carrera, lo colocan en el segundo lugar entre todos los jugadores de Grandes Ligas nacidos en Japón, solo detrás de Hideki Matsui (175). La superestrella japonesa  es uno de los 11 jugadores que ganaron el premio varias veces y es uno de los cuatro jugadores con al menos tres premios en su carrera: David Ortiz de los Medias Rojas de Boston, lo ganó ocho veces; el epónimo Martínez de los Marineros de Seattle, que ganó cinco veces; y Hal McRae de los Kansas City Royals, que se adjudicaron tres veces el galardón. En el montículo esta temporada como lanzador, Ohtani tuvo marca de 10-5 con efectividad de 3.14 en 23 aperturas para los Angelinos. Lanzó la primera blanqueada de su carrera el 27 de julio en Detroit. El premio lleva el nombre de Edgar Martínez, el legendario bateador designado de los Marineros de Seattle, que fue exaltado al Salón de la Fama en 2019. Ohtani es el cuarto jugador de los Ángeles en ganar este premio, después de Don Baylor (1986), Chili Davis (1991) y Vladimir Guerrero (2010). Como segundo en la votación finalizó Marcell Ozuna, Yordan Álvarez, Bryce Harper y JD Martínez también sumaron votos para el premio. Otros ganadores: 1973 – Orlando Cepeda (Bostón) 1974 – Tommy Davis (Baltimore) 1975: Willie Horton (Detroit) 1976 – Hal McRae (Ciudad de Kansas) 1977 – Jim Rice (Bostón) 1978 – Rusty Staub (Detroit) 1979: Willie Horton (Seattle) 1980 – Hal McRae (Ciudad de Kansas) 1981: Greg Luzinski (Chicago) 1982 – Hal McRae (Ciudad de Kansas) 1983 – Greg Luzinski (Chicago) 1984 – Dave Kingman (Oakland) 1985 – Don Baylor (Nueva York – Alabama) 1986 – Don Baylor (Bostón) 1987 – Harold Baines (Chicago) 1988 – Harold Baines (Chicago) 1989 – Dave Parker (Oakland) 1990 – Dave Parker (Milwaukee) 1991 – Chili Davis (Minnesota) 1992 – Dave Winfield (Toronto) 1993 – Paul Molitor (Toronto) 1994 – No premiado 1995 – Édgar Martínez (Seattle) 1996 – Paul Molitor (Minnesota) 1997 – Édgar Martínez (Seattle) 1998 – Édgar Martínez (Seattle) 1999 – Rafael Palmeiro (Texas) 2000 – Édgar Martínez (Seattle) 2001 – Édgar Martínez (Seattle) 2002 – Ellis Burks (Cleveland) 2003 – David Ortiz (Bostón) 2004 – David Ortiz (Bostón) 2005 – David Ortíz (Bostón) 2006 – David Ortiz (Bostón) 2007 – David Ortiz (Bostón) 2008 – Aubrey Huff (Baltimore) 2009 – Adam Lind (Toronto) 2010 – Vladimir Guerrero (Texas) 2011 – David Ortiz (Bostón) 2012 – Billy Butler (Ciudad de Kansas) 2013 – David Ortiz (Bostón) 2014 – Víctor Martínez (Detroit) 2015 – Kendrys Morales (Kansas City) 2016 – David Ortiz (Bostón) 2017 – Nelson Cruz (Seattle) 2018 – Khris Davis (Oakland) 2019 – Nelson Cruz (Minnesota) 2020 – Marcell Ozuna (Atlanta) 2021 – Shohei Ohtani (Los Ángeles – AL) 2022 – Shohei Ohtani (Los Ángeles – AL)

2023 – Shohei Ohtani (Los Ángeles – AL) Para recibir en tu celular esta y otras informaciones, únete a nuestras redes sociales, síguenos en Instagram, Twitter y Facebook como @DiarioElPepazo El Pepazo/Meridiano

[human-antithesis]

Heljarkviða II: Helgrindr brotnar

Óðins sonr andvana at Haðars hǫndum ok Lopts vilja, eftir sitja sigtíva synir ok heimakyn veglaus í svalheimi ofan. Bragar kvónar hvarma hrynregns herjar á mellu dólgs móðr æ síðan ok fjǫrtál magnask krafti með sorta gullslegins alar Forseta. Stála æski-Baldr kom heim. Nú hrings setr liggr frammi fyr inni sem blá half en half með hǫrundar lit sitr at Eljúðnum, skjálfti er marka��r þessu kalda votlendi aldrstila. Þá er Sleipnir snart Helgrindr, þá er hjaraflóð gjǫll rísa ok hylja eyðilendr með dǫkkrauðu eitri, þá er Nástǫnd ber ofgótt fǫlra gunnhvata náa. Þpa er Helgrindr brotnar niðr! Herþruma ok dolgeisa í dǫkkvandi regns hátunni, flækt i Ýmis skýja slóð, afhjúpa grimm ǫrlǫg guma!

Fyllisk fjǫrvi feigra manna, rýðr ragna sjǫt rauðum dreyra; svǫrt verða sólskin um sumur eftir, veðr ǫll válynd. (Vǫluspá 41)

Gól of ásum Gullinkambi, sá vekr hǫlða at Herjafǫðrs; en annarr gelr fyr jǫrð neðan sótrauðr hani at sǫlum Heljar. (Vǫluspá 43)

Hvellt hljóð klýfr þá níu heima sem þyngsk bǫnd bresta sundr ok kveldríðu stóð Varðrúnar viggja renna undan viðþolslaust. Garmr er sá nefndr, sem frá vatnsmynni Gnipahellis tveggja bági rennr til at færa at fjǫrslit þess eineygða áss gunnhvata óðann ok hans herlið frá Valhǫllu. Nú skelfr Jarðar hals ok linns blóðar miklask upp eftit, linna ei Ratatǫski at færa hergamms orð at Níðhǫggi. Jólna sumbl renna saman ok dolga fangs barr bersk hvor við annan. Nú hefsk Herjans tuggu leikr. Nú rís vagna græðir. Nú blæs ragna reinvári í sitt Gjallarhorn ok skilr við Himinbjǫrg hinsta sinni.

Hrymr ekr austan, hefisk lind fyrir, snýsk Jǫrmungandr í jǫtunmóði; ormr knýr unnir, en ari hlakkar, slítr nái niðfǫlr, Naglfar losnar. (Vǫluspá 50)

En Fenrisúlfr ferr með gapandi munn, ok er inn neðri kjǫftr við jǫrðu, en in efri við himin. Eldar brenna ór augum hans ok nǫsum. Miðgarðsormr blæss svá eitrinu, at hann dreifir loft ǫll ok lǫg, ok er hann á aðra hlið úlfinum. (Gylfaginning 51)

Frá austri ok frá suðri, frá bǫlrǫnn ok frá illskáu hermagni Niflheljar undirheima, Lokabǫrn ok Surts ætt, ǫll magna grimmiligt élregn umlykjandi glatan.

Troða halir helveg, en himinn klofnar. (Vǫluspá 52)

Hropts hjalmeldar gildar ok kvikyndi, Vana guðir ok Ymis niðjar, goð ok frumberi uppskorna visku, Einherjar at Valhǫll ok blóðorra bǫrr frá svǫrtum strǫndum, allir valbráð þeirrar miklu orrustu við Ragnarǫk. Ok þá skar Surtr Bifrǫst Surtarloga, dǫkkva slegin brátungl Marnars fǫðr, skipar at hrótgarmi ok mélar þau bensævar rǫnn sem dreyfask um jǫtna dolgs móðr.

Sól tér sortna, sígr fold í mar, hverfa af himni heiðar stjǫrnur; geisar eimi ok aldrnari, leikr hár hiti við himin sjalfan. (Vǫluspá 57)

En nú nýr elds heimr rís. Æsir snúa aftr ok Yggjar brúðr skal græn á ný verða. En þá er Níðhǫggr snýr aftr, sá allra landa endiseiðr, flýgr hann yfir vǫllu ok ber rauðs eggjar á vindǫr sinni. Valbráð ulfs tugga mun skjǫgra helvegar manns mjǫtvið á ný. Niðurum ok þvert á lífs heima, niðurum í hrollkalda dauða heima.

[ENGLISH - Helgrindr bursts asunder]

Baldr died by Hǫðr's hands and Loki's will, leaving gods and humans lost in worlds above. Rivers of tears bursting into lands ever since and mischief gains power by darkening the golden-shielded halls of Forseti. Baldr came home. Now he lies before the half-rotten queen of the snake hall, shivering engraved in this cold and wet lands of death. This is when Sleipnir touches Helgrindr. This is when sword-filled Gjǫll rises and covers the wastelands with dark-red poison. This is when Nástrǫnd is most filled with bleak-faced corpses of shielded sword-arms. This is when Helgrindr bursts asunder! Thunder and lightning in dark clouds, entangled in Ýmir's brain, unveil the bleak future of mankind!

The corpses of doomed men fall, the gods' dwellings are reddened with crimson blood; sunshine becomes black the next summer all weather is vicious. (Vǫluspá 41)

Golden-comb crowed for the Æsir, he wakens the warriors at the Father of Hosts'; and another crows down below the earth, a sooty-red cock In the halls of Hel. (Vǫluspá 43)

A roaring sound shatters the nine worlds as the heaviest wrist bursts asunder and the wolf of wolves starts to run without resistance. Garmr he is called, from the water's mouth at Gnipahellr he runs to bring death to the one-eyed god of war-madness and his army from Valhǫll. Now Yggdrasill trembles and snakes gorge their way upwards, giving Ratatǫskr no chance to bring the eagle's words down to Niðhǫggr. Words collide and brothers slay each other. Now axes start to play their game. Now waters starts to rise. Now Heimdallr blows Gjallahorn and leaves Himinbjǫrg forever.

Hrymr drives from the east, he has his shield before him, Jǫrmungandr writhes in giant rage; the serpent churns the waves, the eagle shrieks in anticipation, pale-beaked he tears the corpse, Naglfar breaks loose. (Vǫluspá 50)

Fenris shall advance with gaping mouth, and his lower jaw shall be against the earth, but the upper against heaven. Fires blaze from his eyes and nostrils. Jǫrmungandr shall blow venom so that he shall sprinkle all the air and water, and shall be on one side of the Wolf. (Gylfaginning 51)

From the east and from the south, from Hel and from Niflhel fierceful armies of the underworlds, Children of Loki and Muspell's people, all raise the furious storm of impending doom.

Men tread the road to Hel, and the sky spits apart. (Vǫluspá 52)

Æsir and beasts, Vanir and giants, gods and primordial harvester of wisdom, worriors at Valhǫll and murderers from the black sands, all die in the furious battle of Ragnarǫk. And then Surtr cuts Bifrǫst with Surtalogi, darkens the thrown eyes of Þjazi, commands the hasty one and smashes all remaining bodies to the scourged ground below.

The sun turns black, earth sinks into the sea, the bright stars vanish from the sky; steam rises up in the conflagration, a high flame plays against heaven itself. (Vǫluspá 57)

But a new sun rises. Æsir return and the earth becomes all green again. But when Niðhǫggr returns, the flying serpent, he flies over the plain and carries corpses on his wings. Slain people will wander the path to Hel again. Downwards and reversed to worlds alive, downwards to gloomy worlds of death.

[goalhofer]

Famous June 30, 2023 birthdays:

Cmdr. Robert Ballard (American naval commander & oceanographer), 81

Ron Harris (Canadian hockey player & coach), 81

Ron Swoboda (American baseball player & commentator), 79

Hal Lindes (American-British singer & guitarist), 70

David Grier (American actor)(pictured), 67

Harry Black (American baseball player & manager), 66

Murray Cook (Australian guitarist & actor), 63

Rupert Graves (British actor), 60

Steve Duchesne (Canadian-American hockey player & coach), 58

Mike Tyson (American boxer)(pictured), 57

Phil Anselmo (American singer & songwriter), 55

Mike Grudzielanek (American baseball player & manager), 53

Sandra Cam (Belgian swimmer), 51

Park Chan-Ho (South Korean baseball player), 50

Ben Utecht (American football player), 42

Matt Kirk (Canadian football player), 42

Lizzy Caplan Riley (American actress), 41

Ryan Cook (American baseball player), 36

Trea Turner (American baseball player), 30

A.J. Brown (American football player), 26