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In the Valley of Death: Somaliland’s Forgotten Genocide

Published: The Nation (22 October 2018) w/ Ismail Einashe

On a hot and humid June afternoon, a group of boys wearing FC Barcelona jerseys kicked around a soccer ball in the Malko-Durduro, a dry seasonal river on the outskirts of Hargeisa, the capital of the breakaway territory of Somaliland. At first glance, the flat, red earth of the riverbed made for a typical improvised pitch in this arid region. But recent heavy rains had exposed what had earned the area its moniker, the Valley of Death. Around them, human bones protruded from the ground. But these kids had grown up playing soccer surrounded by skeletal remains; they hardly noticed them.

Between 1987 and 1989, the regime of Somali dictator Siad Barre massacred an estimated 200,000 members of the Isaaq tribe, the largest clan group in the northwest part of Somalia. At the time, some Isaaqs were fighting for independence, and to eliminate the threat, Barre tried to exterminate all of them. Experts now say there are more than 200 mass graves in Somaliland, most of them in the Valley of Death.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of what is often called the “Hargeisa Holocaust,” when about 90 percent of the city was destroyed and tens of thousands of Isaaqs were killed. Yet there are no major plans to mark the horrors in Somaliland, or anywhere else for that matter. In the past, a few international organizations have recognized the bloodletting. A 2001 UN report investigating the attacks against the Isaaqs concluded, “the crime of genocide was conceived, planned and perpetrated by the Somalia Government against the Isaaq people of northern Somalia.” But the events have been mostly forgotten; the boys playing soccer did not know the story behind the bones.

Even in Hargeisa, many people don’t realize the extent of US support during the genocide. No American has ever apologized for what happened in Somaliland; there has been no internationally backed Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and no one has been criminally punished. There is little funding to investigate—let alone prosecute—the perpetrators. And some of the Somali genocidaires now have close ties to the US-backed government in Mogadishu of President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, known as Farmajo.

COLD WAR PROXY

The country of Somalia was formed in 1960, when British Somaliland gained its independence from Britain and joined with its much larger neighbor to east and south, Italian Somaliland. Nine years later, General Siad Barre took over in a bloodless coup and steered the young country toward the Soviet Union. Somalia was strategically placed along Africa’s longest coastline, and the Soviets welcomed a new proxy in the Horn of Africa.

This all changed in 1977 when Barre invaded the Somali-majority Ogaden region of southeastern Ethiopia. Previously Ethiopia had been aligned with the US, but after the Derg military junta seized power in 1974, the Soviets had begun supporting Somalia’s communist neighbor. Forced to choose between allies, the Soviets sided with the Derg junta, and sent arms and military advisers . Cuba’s Fidel Castro provided an additional 13,000 troops, and Ethiopia repelled the Somali army in 1978.

Livid at the Soviet support for Ethiopia, Barre switched sides, allying himself with the US. In January 1981, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger visited the presidential palace in Mogadishu, hoping to further strengthen US-Somalia ties. Barre had criticized President Jimmy Carter for not backing his country against the Soviets. But now Kissinger was convincing President Ronald Reagan to view Somalia as a crucial theater for US-Soviet confrontation. A year later, Barre made the trip to Washington, DC, to meet with Reagan in the Oval Office. Grainy footage of the encounter shows Barre asking Reagan for help. “Somalia is not afraid of any other country in the region, but it cannot cope with a superpower like the Soviet Union,” he told Reagan.

Barre said the United States agreed to help Somalia, because it “is also in its own interest.” In the 1983 budget, Reagan requested $91 million in military and economic assistance for Somalia, plus another $18 million in food aid for refugees. That year Somalia’s entire GDP was less than $750 million.

Around this time, Paul Manafort, a lobbyist who would become the chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, took on the Barre government as a client. In 1980 Manafort founded the lobbying company, Black, Manafort and Stone, which had close ties to the Reagan White House and later the George HW Bush administration. Riva Levinson, who worked with Manafort in the 1980s, has said she asked at the time, “Are we sure we want this guy as a client?” Manafort sounded agitated: “We all know Barre is a bad guy, Riva. We just have to make sure he’s our bad guy.”

Manafort did PR for Barre even as he was massacring the Isaaqs. Levinson said Manafort sent her to Somalia to have Barre sign a contract for $1 million. “Our assignment would then be to clean up Siad Barre’s international reputation, which needed plenty of soap,” she wrote in The Washington Post in 2017.

With Manafort’s PR work and the country’s anti-Soviet Union alignment, the US was happy to turn a blind eye to Barre’s abuses. By 1988, the US had given his government hundreds of millions dollars of military and economic aid, and Barre had become entirely dependent on US support.

THE GENOCIDE AND THE US

Barre had long targeted and discriminated against the Isaaq tribe, and so in 1981 in London, Isaaq dissidents formed the Somali National Movement (SNM) to overthrow Barre’s rule in the north of the country. Barre responded to this insurgency with a ruthless military campaign. In 1988, Amnesty International reported the Barre regime used ”widespread arbitrary arrests, ill treatment and summary executions” and torture of those suspected of collaborating with the SNM. They found that those who opposed the Barre regime were gathered, bound, and taken to places like the Valley of Death where they were shot and buried in unmarked graves.

One of the most brutal parts of the genocidal campaign was the destruction of Hargeisa, the largest city in northern Somalia. In May of 1988, Barre’s regime sent in fighter jets to level the city. The destruction of Hargeisa was so total that it earned the nickname “the Dresden of Africa.” Bombing missions and ground troops attacks killed more than 40,000 people. Burao, the third largest city in Somalia at the time and the second principal city in northern Somalia, was razed. The relentless violence against Isaaq civilians in 1988 resulted in the world’s largest refugee crisis. More than 300,000 refugees fled to Ethiopia, most of them arriving in the small border town of Harta Sheikh in Ethiopia, which became the largest refugee camp from 1988 until it closed in 2004.

Saad Ali Shire, Somaliland’s current foreign minister, told us, “In 1988, when the government started bombarding Hargeisa and other towns in Somaliland, the Americans were of course friends of the Siad Barre regime … for strategic reasons. … And they gave Siad Barre arms—arms were unloaded in Berbera port—and it was reported by Amnesty International and other human-rights organizations at the time.”

He paused and then said, “The US was not directly involved in the inhuman treatment of the people of Somaliland, but, like many other allies of the regime then, of course their hand was there.” The US mission to Somalia did not return a request for comment.

The US knew what was going on and maintained its support. A cable released by Wikleaks from that period and sent by the US embassy in Mogadishu noted: “Many displaced persons (i.e. Isaaqs) would have returned home long ago had they not been deterred from doing so by … government forces.” The cable continued: “Isaaqs, suffering from thirst, hunger, disease, and abominable camp conditions, were demanding to go home.” There was no discussion of cutting support for Barre as the genocide unfolded.

But as the US ramped up its bombing campaigns in Iraq and the Cold War ended, the US eventually decided to redirect its resources from Barre’s government to the Middle East. Without US support, the government of Somalia collapsed.

Around that time, on May 18, 1991, the SNM declared the northwest bit of Somalia independent and established the Somaliland Republic. The international community still does not recognize Somaliland as a sovereign country, but it has all the trappings of a nation-state—a Constitution, a president, a currency, and even biometric passports.

THE HUMAN CONSEQUENCES

Three tumultuous decades later, the genocide still haunts survivors. Somaliland has one main tribute to the victims: In the middle of a traffic island in Hargeisa, the rusting shell of a MiG fighter jet shot down by the SMN sits perched on top of a wall with murals of mass slaughter. The central figure in one painting is a man with blood spurting out of his limbs after his arms and legs have been chopped off.

For survivors like Yusuf Mire the trauma depicted on the murals is still fresh. During a crackdown in 1988 by Barre’s forces in the city of Burao, Somali troops hacked off his left arm, and abducted and killed his family.

Mire has dedicated his life to uncovering the truth of what happened in the Valley of Death. He works with survivors and families of the disappeared, helping those who, like him, had loved ones that never returned from Barre’s killing fields. Mire told us that the US is simply not interested in digging up the past or funding forensic investigations in Somaliland. Given the US role, he said they’d prefer to prop up the government in Mogadishu and for the truth to remain buried.

Ismail Abdi is another survivor who works with vulnerable children in Somaliland for a British humanitarian NGO based in Hargeisa. As a young teen, Abdi ended up at the Hargeisa Orphanage. Then, in May 1988, from the orphanage window, he watched Barre’s military personnel execute a family; he still remembers the screams of dying children. Abdi sent us a photo taken by a Dutch woman who had worked at the Hargeisa Orphanage in 1988. The photo, which Abdi asked us not publish, showed the bodies of a woman and her children covered in blood.

We met him in the garden of a swanky hotel in the center of Hargeisa; men sat nearby on plastic chairs eating goat curry and drinking mango juice. Abdi lamented that young people now do not know what happened, and said he wants “justice for our people.” Abdi said he wants the evidence he has collected about this one family to be used to bring those responsible to justice. But like most Somalilanders, he does not have the money to pursue those responsible in the courts either internationally or in Somaliland, a country that does not officially exist.

But there is an organization Abdi is hoping can help bring those responsible to justice. In the mid-1990s, Somaliland’s first president, Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, established the Somaliland War Crimes Investigations Commission to find and unearth the mass graves, offer proper burials to victims, and bring judicial action against those responsible for the killings. The US government has offered no help.

Without international support, the Commission is woefully underfunded, according to the Khadar Ahmed, the Commission’s chairman. It lacks the necessary resources to properly investigate or collect the evidence needed to bring about prosecutions.

The Commission usually gets tip offs from locals about the mass-grave locations after rains expose new bones. Then staff members place piles of stones with red marks on them adjacent to the graves to alert the community. The Commission is tasked with investigating these graves, but with such tight budgets, graves are identified but few are ever dug up. Since it was founded, the Commission has exhumed 11 mass graves and reburied 318 skeletons, including a recent ones in Hargeisa and another in Berbera.

Ahmed said he’s upset that the US and other western powers have taken so little interest in the genocide: “As Somaliland Republic we are expecting to hear from the UN to establish a tribunal like Rwanda.” But their requests have been met with silence. Ahmed said that many of the killers are now hiding in plain sight in the US, Kenya, Canada, and elsewhere. Because it’s not a recognized state, Somaliland does not have the power to push for a UN-backed war-crimes tribunal, like in Yugoslavia or Sierra Leone.

As time passes, evidence gets lost. In the Valley of Death, rainfall reveals new skeletons, but it also erodes and washes away the bones. Thankfully, while the US government has not provided any support, the San Francisco-based Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) has stepped in, and introduced the Commission to the Peruvian forensic anthropology team Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense (EPAF), led by Franco Mora. Since 2012, EPAF has been excavating the mass graves in the Valley of Death and other parts of Somaliland, identifying and recovering as many bodies as possible. They are also helping the Commission provide proper burials. “Our work is only humanitarian; we try to recover and identify the disappeared and to bury them with dignity,” Mora told us.

Ahmed said that the Commission has to pay the EPAF to dig up the graves, but complained that the Somaliland government can only afford to do this, at most, twice a year. With an estimated 200 sites, “we don’t have the capacity to carry out the work ourselves,” he said.

The Commission hopes the remains unearthed by the EPAF team can be used not only to get a better idea of what happened, but also as evidence to convict or hold genocidaires accountable. But this will be tough. Mora said his team is only, “recording the injuries and establishing the most probable cause of death.” He said to establish a legal case you would need not only information retrieved from the bodies and graves, but also historical information and documentation, which is nearly nonexistent because so many government records were destroyed during the war. The only reliable documents about the Barre regime’s genocidal campaign are held by countries like the US or international human-rights groups.

There have been a few successes holding perpetrators accountable, but to expand beyond the handful of cases requires funding and for the US to release more of its records. In 2012, the CJA helped a group of Somalis living in Virginia secure a $21 million judgment in a US federal court against Mohamed Ali Samantar, who served as prime minister under Barre. The court ruled that he was responsible for planning the torture and killings of Isaaq clansmen.

In 2016, a CNN investigation publicized another Somali who arrived in the US after allegedly participating in the genocide. Yusuf Abdi Ali stands accused of war crimes while a colonel in Barre’s regime during in the 1980s. He was head of the Somali army’s Fifth Brigade, which is said to have tortured clan members and burned down villages. For 20 years, he had lived near Washington, DC, and worked as a security guard at Dulles Airport (he was suspended after his identity was revealed).

The CJA brought a lawsuit against him in 2004. The CJA is representing Farhan Warfaa, who was nearly killed by Ali during an interrogation in 1987. In a 2016 ruling, the Fourth Circuit dismissed Warfaa’s claims of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but upheld claims of torture and attempted extrajudicial killing. In June 2017, the Supreme Court allowed for the CJA to continue pursuing Warfaa’s claims under the US Torture Victim Protection Act.

But the US government has not been as keen as the CJA to help. Ali’s background had been revealed as far back as 1992 when Canadian broadcaster CBC News uncovered that he had worked as a security guard in Toronto after fleeing Somalia in 1991. Despite this, US authorities did not prevent him from settling in the US. The US authorities knew his record, but allowed him to settle in the US, get a job at Dulles airport, and live a suburban American life.

Of course not all the Somali perpetrators headed to the US. Last year, General Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan was filmed watching Farmajo’s presidential inauguration in Mogadishu, apparently as a guest. Morgan, known as the “butcher of Hargeisa,” has lived freely in Kenya since the collapse of the Barre government in 1991. Many Somalilanders hold him responsible for carrying out the Isaaq genocide; in 1988, he’s reported to have ordered his troops “to kill all but the crows.” Yet he still gets invited to political events in Mogadishu.

One thing Somalilanders are adamant about is that no one involved with the Somali government in 1988 can claim they didn’t know. “I think everybody was aware of what was happening,” Saad, the foreign minister, told us. “Perhaps they didn’t have the full picture of what was happening, but the fact that the Siad Barre regime was undemocratic and brutal and murdering many civilians was well-known. … But sometimes superpowers look the other way.”

Somaliland is now asking for the US to pay attention to these crimes that they funded. The people of Somaliland say they need help to reckon with the bloody history that remains buried underneath their feet.

#somalia #somaliland #us foreign policy #genocide #isaaqs

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100 films to look forward to in 2021 – part 2

In Part 1 of our preview of upcoming films we checked in with new works from Mia Hansen-Løve, Zhang Yimou and Ridley Scott. Without further ado, here’s the second half of our bumper 2021 preview. Let us know what you’re looking forward to watching next year by tweeting us @LWLies.

51. Titane

Julia Ducournau’s Raw was one of the most exciting debuts of the last decade, so we can’t wait to see what she does next. Her sophomore feature was scheduled to shoot last spring, but has probably been delayed. Still, there’s hope it might be ready in time for Cannes 2021. The script – also written by Ducournau – sees an injured young man picked up at an airport, where it’s revealed he’s been missing for ten years. At the same time, a string of murders are taking place across the same region. What’s the connection? We can’t wait to find out. Hannah Woodhead

52. C’Mon C’Mon

Mike Mills’ last project was a collaboration with indie rock band The National, in which they produced an audio-visual album together. His new film sees him team up with post-Joker Joaquin Phoenix, who stars as an artist left to take care of his precocious young nephew during a cross-country road trip, while the boy’s father struggles with bipolar disorder. The film wrapped production in February 2020, so there’s every chance we’ll get to see it at some point in 2021. HW

53. Anne at 13,000 Feet

Breakout actress Deragh Campbell earned raves for her performance as a woman on the verge of an anxious breakdown in this outstanding Canadian export. Though her mother, friends, and hookups all seem visibly concerned about her, she revels in her own dysfunction, at times creating awkwardness for the sheer thrill of sowing discomfort. She seems only to be at peace when among the children she looks after in her work as a daycare manager, another piece of a complicated psychological puzzle laid out by director Kazik Radwanski. He makes a splashy arrival here, his claustrophobic close-up shots as visceral and affecting as anything you’d find in an action film. Charles Bramesco

54. Nocturne

He won the Venice Golden Lion in 2013 for his film Sacro GRA, then he won the Berlin Golden Bear in 2016 for his film Fire at Sea. Now Italian documentarian Gianfranco Rosi is taking his camera to various Middle Eastern border zones and embedding himself there for such time as to be able to elicit something a little closer to objective truth from his subjects. Rosi’s previous films have demonstrated his knack for discovering charismatic characters who are free from the scruples of self-consciousness, and they are also examples of political films that are entirely free of didacticism and point-scoring. He tries to give a voice to underrepresented people, and the only question that remains is, will Nocturne win the Palme d’Or? David Jenkins

55. When the Waves Are Gone

The question with the Filipino auteur Lav Diaz is, will his next film be a short one (four hours), a medium one (eight hours) or a long one (12 hours). We’ll have to wait and see with When the Waves Are Gone, his intriguing latest and follow-up to 2019’s speculative sci-fi effort, The Halt. The plot looks amazing: 30 years ago, two best friends rob a bank. One goes to prison, the other returns to their home island with the money and becomes its tyrant ruler. For over 30 years, he keeps his friend locked up in prison with his influence. One day, during the monsoon storm season, the prisoner is set free after fulfilling his duties as a prison hit man. It sounds like Diaz’s version of The Count of Monte Cristo, and we’re here for it, however long it ends up being. DJ

56. The Card Counter

Paul Schrader’s latest was forced to suspend production after one of the crew members tested positive for COVID-19 back in March, but Schrader – renowned for his impressive productivity – was back on set as soon as possible, and the film wrapped at the beginning of July in Mississippi. Oscar Isaac stars as the appropriately-named Tell, a serviceman turned wandering gambler, who’s approached by a young upstart (Tye Sheridan) with a plan to take down a mutual enemy (William Dafoe). We’re particularly keen to see Tiffany Haddish’s role in all this – and might not have to wait long. Distribution rights were snapped up quickly by Focus, and filming wrapped in October, so we’re hopeful this will make an appearance in 2021. HW

57. Samaritan

Audiences devoured Avery’s gore-tastic zombie World War Two film Overlord, and he’s promised his next feature will be just as dark. A young boy discovers a superhero, missing presumed dead for 20 years since he disappeared during a famous battle, is actually alive. Sylvester Stallone is cast as the errant avenger, while newcomer (and boxing prodigy) Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton plays the kid trying to track him down. Martin Starr and Dascha Polanco round out the eclectic cast. HW

ETA: June 2021

58. Promising Young Woman

Another victim of shifting release dates due to the pandemic, it’s our duty to remind you all that Emerald Fennell’s blistering black comedy is still yet to come. Starring Carey Mulligan as a woman who takes revenge following an incident involving her best friend, it’s a confronting, accomplished debut. We loved it so much we made a whole magazine about it, and nearly a year later, we’re thrilled it will finally get a cinema release here in the UK. HW

ETA: February 2021

59. Chaos

Nadav Lapid received heaps of praise for his debut The Kindergarten Teacher and follow-up Synonyms, so all eyes are on him to make it a hat trick. Originally entitled Le Genou A’hed, the film centres on an Israeli filmmaker shooting in the desert, fighting against oppressive forces in his home country while also dealing with the death of his mother. HW

60. Stillwater

Tom McCarthy has one of the strangest filmographies in Hollywood. After three small but well-received indie movies he made the widely-derided magic shoe Adam Sandler vehicle The Cobbler, then went on to win two Oscars for his journalism drama Spotlight. Earlier this year his children’s movie Timmy Failure premiered at Sundance, but his next project seems a lot more serious: it’s about a father (Matt Damon) working to exonerate his estranged daughter (Abigail Breslin) for a murder she didn’t commit. Shine on McCarthy, you crazy diamond. HW

61. Naked Singularity

The directorial debut from Chase Palmer (who co-wrote It with Cary Fukunaga) stars John Boyega as a successful young public defender who loses his first case, and watches his life begin to unravel. It’s based on the book of the same name by Sergio De La Pava, and Boyega is joined by Bill Skarsgård, Ed Skrein, Olivia Cooke and Tim Blake Nelson in the cast. We’re intrigued to see what Boyega does after serving time in the Disney machine with Star Wars, and this looks like a solid step after his incredible performance in Steve McQueen’s Red, White and Blue. HW

62. The Eyes of Tammy Faye

An odd bird, this Tammy Faye: she rose to prominence as the wife and cohost to televangelist Jim Bakker, made waves in the Christian community by standing with the LGBT community and AIDS patients in direst times, and divorced Bakker after he was imprisoned for fraud and conspiracy. A documentary covering her wild life story gets a dramatisation from The Big Sick director Michael Showalter, with Jessica Chastain playing against type as glammed-up Tammy Faye and Andrew Garfield pushing snake oil as Jim Bakker. The lion’s share of Showalter’s career has been in comedy, making him an ideal fit for a bizarre true story with black humour built right in. CB

63. Minari

When I saw Minari at Sundance last year, I cried so much I had to hide my head in my hands when Lee Isaac Chung and the cast took the floor after the film for a Q&A. Based on Chung’s own childhood growing up on a farm in rural Arkansas, it’s a tender portrait of familial tensions, starring Steven Yeun as a would-be farmer chasing the American dream and outstanding (super cute!) newcomer Alan Kim as his son David. You’ll be rushing to call your own grandma after watching Youn Yuh-Jung’s performance as the elderly Soon-ja, who comes to stay with her daughter-in-law’s family and attempts to bond with her sceptical young grandson. HW

ETA: April 2021

64. Prisoners of the Ghostland

It’ll take more than some puny heart attack to put Sion Sono down. The Japanese lunatic-god comes roaring back from his cardiac episode with his first film in the English language, which will pair him with a comparably volatile talent in star Nicolas Cage. As the criminal named Hero — that should give you a good idea of the level of demented wit we’re working with here — he must venture into a nightmare dimension so that he may retrieve the governor’s daughter and maybe dispel the malevolent curse haunting this realm while he’s at it. Sofia Boutella and Imogen Poots join him in this anything-goes hail of bullet fire strafing the depths of dark fantasy, already set for a buzzy premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. CB

65. Triangle of Sadness

Production was paused on Ruben Östlund’s follow-up to The Square, but it’s now wrapped following covid-safe filming in his native Sweden. Woody Harrelson plays the captain of a luxury yacht, while Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean play a supermodel couple who are his passengers. Now, it’s difficult to know what exactly the film is about, as conflicting reports suggest a class war due to food poisoning, or a shipwreck which pits the yacht’s rich and poor passengers against each other, but Östlund did confirm they blew the yacht up at the end of the shoot. All aboard! HW

66. The French Dispatch

It’s no secret we’re big fans of Wes here at LWLies, and we look forward to anything he does. But a Wes Anderson film about print journalism? It’s got our name written all over it. With a classic ensemble cast comprised of Anderson regulars Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton and Jason Schwartzman, plus newcomers Timothée Chalamet, Elisabeth Moss and Christoph Waltz (just a fraction of the huge, star-studded cast) The French Dispatch focuses on an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional French city. The journalists and subjects of their stories will both be explored, as Anderson pays homage to the New Yorker. Anderson is reportedly prepping his next project for a 2021 shoot, but we’re still eagerly awaiting this one. HW

67. Wolf

George Mackay had a wildly successful 2019/20 thanks to 1917 and The True History of The Kelly Gang – his next feature sees him taking on a rather unusual role, care of Nathalie Biancheri’s upcoming Irish film. He plays Jacob, a young man who is convinced he is a wolf trapped in a human body (a real life condition called species dysphoria), while Lily Rose Depp plays a character called Wildcat, who presumably suffers from a similar condition. They live in a specialist home where they are subject to cruel treatment from ‘The Zookeeper’, designed to cure their conditions. Paddy Considine also stars – our money is on him playing the sadistic doctor. HW

68. The Green Knight

David Lowery’s new film starring Dev Patel as Sir Gawain, Knight of the Round Table, was supposed to have a glitzy premiere at South By Southwest in March 2020, but the festival was called off in light of COVID-19. A24 have set a July 2021 release date now, but we’re not sure when the UK will follow suit. No need to despair though – they’re selling a tabletop roleplaying game based on the film to keep fans busy, and you can always watch the trailer again to get your fix of Arthurian intrigue. HW

69. Zola

From the most captivating Twitter thread in the platform’s history and director Janicza Bravo comes a vivid, sordid tale of “how me and this bitch here fell out”. “Me” being Zola herself (Taylour Paige), a waitress/stripper who makes the acquaintance of “this bitch here,” fellow dancer and trickster-demon wild card Stefani (Riley Keough, at her Riliest). Their road trip from Detroit to Tampa turns into a mordantly funny spiral of blunts, guns, and pimps as the girls bond over the shared spiritual discipline they term ‘hoeism,’ just one expression of the inimitable authorial voice setting this apart from most high-profile literary adaptations. Keep an eye out for a supporting turn from Succession’s Nicholas “Cousin Greg” Braun. CB

70. French Exit

In 2018 American author Patrick DeWitt’s ‘The Sisters Brothers’ was turned into a wonderful western by Jacques Audiard and now his acclaimed 2018 novel about Frances Price and her adult son Malcolm, who move from New York City to Paris with their cat, is next up on the big screen care of Azazel Jacobs. Michelle Pffeifer and Lucas Hedges star as the duo, while Tracy Letts provides the voice of Small Frank, their feline companion, who just so happens to be the reincarnation of Frances’ dead husband. HW

71. Cosmogony

Vincent Paronnaud is best known for the two features he made with Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis and Chicken with Plums. He’s directed a few shorts and another feature under a pseudonym, but horror-thriller Cosmogony is his first “official” solo effort. It follows a woman who meets a seemingly charming man in a bar, only to realise he’s a psychopath with an equally twisted accomplice. She flees into the woods, which are her only hope to evade her would-be killers. HW

72. Dune

For a long time it looked like we were never going to see another film version of Dune, after the rights were purchased in 2008 and the project never materialised. Denis Villeneuve entered talks back in 2016, and some time later, his two-part epic is finally on the horizon – after being delayed from a Christmas 2020 release due to (you guessed it!) covid. Timothée Chalamet plays young Paul Atreides, while Oscar Isaac and Rebecca Ferguson are his parents, Duke Leto and Lady Jessica Atreides, and Zendaya, Jason Momoa and Charlotte Rampling co-star. Taking on Frank Herbert’s behemoth sci-fi novel is no easy task, so how will Villenueve stack up to David Lynch’s 1984 film and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unrealised vision? HW

ETA: October 2021

73. Where is Anne Frank?

When Ari Folman was approached by the estate of Anne Frank about the prospect of adapting her diary into an animated film, he was initially unsure. But after speaking to his mother, and learning his parents arrived at Auschwitz on the same day as the Frank family, he felt inspired to take the project on. This film, aimed at a younger audience than Folman’s past work, will tell the story of Anne from the perspective of her imaginary friend Kitty, to whom her diary was addressed. The 2D characters are paired with stop-motion backdrops created by master puppeteer Andy Gent (best known for his work with Wes Anderson). It sounds brilliant – but be sure to take your tissues. HW

74. The Woman in the Window

If any upcoming film merits the Stefon-voiced ‘this movie has everything’ treatment, it must surely be this one, sold to Netflix for a song by a stalled Paramount. Amy Adams as an agoraphobic psychologist! A Sapphic one-night stand with her Park Slope neighbour, Julianne Moore! A murder across the street, witnessed Rear Window-style! A possible gaslighting, as Jennifer Jason Leigh shows up introducing herself as Moore’s thought-dead character! And is that a highbrow cinematic pedigree? No, it’s just a group of talented A-list actors pooling their skills to bring delectably pulpy life to a shameless, twisty airport potboiler! New York’s hottest club is “Tracy Letts as the sinister therapist with possible ulterior motives.” CB

75. Benedetta

It has been a long old wait for Paul Verhoeven’s forthcoming nunsploitation epic Benedetta, but if producer Saïd Ben Saïd is to be believed, it’s too good to not enjoy a proper run in cinemas and a glitzy festival premiere. The film stars Virginie Efira, so memorable in her supporting role in Verhoeven’s previous, Elle, as a novice nun in a 17th century Italian convent who instigates a relationship with another woman. DJ

76. No Sudden Moves

You didn’t think Steven Soderbergh would let something as pesky as a pandemic slow him down, did you? While his Contagion cast were presenting PSAs, Sody was prepping his next feature, and it’s back to the heist genre for the Oceans and Logan Lucky director, though this time, it’s a period thriller. The year? 1955. The city? Detroit. A group of small-time crooks are hired to steal a document in what looks like an easy job, but things go badly wrong, leaving them trying to put together the puzzle pieces of who hired them, and why. Intriguing enough – but the cast really sells this wholesale: Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, David Harbour, Amy Seimetz, Jon Hamm, Ray Liotta, Kieran Culkin, Brendan Fraser, Bill Duke and Julia Fox – plus a cameo from Matt Damon. We’ll take tickets for opening night, please. HW

77. Don’t Worry Darling

Olivia Wilde has been scaling back her acting gigs and placing a greater focus on her burgeoning career as director, begun in auspicious fashion back in 2019 with the crowd-pleasing Booksmart. Here’s hoping she can stave off the sophomore slump with a ’50s-set psycho-thriller starring Florence Pugh as a discontented housewife who discovers that her husband (musician Harry Styles) is hiding an unspeakable secret. Is he gay? Is he a murderer? Perhaps a gay murderer? All will be revealed by a stacked cast including Chris Pine, Kiki Layne, Gemma Chan, Nick Kroll, and Kate Berlant. (Wilde herself will also appear on the other side of the camera, in a supporting role.) CB

78. Peggy Jo

A Texan woman by the name of Peggy Jo Tallas made a pretty penny during the ‘90s by robbing banks in the guise of a man, a persona dubbed “Cowboy Bob” by local law enforcement. Her unlikely life story, already sold as “Bonnie and Clyde, minus the Clyde” in the trade papers, will come to the silver screen with Baby Driver ingenue Lily James now behind the wheel of her own getaway car. Phillip Noyce, most relevantly identified here as the director of Angelina Jolie action vehicle Salt, will direct this odd-but-true story hiding a few more twists up its sleeve. Do yourself a favour and refrain from Googling before watching. CB

79. The Sparks Brothers

The second Edgar Wright film on our list is a documentary, premiering at Sundance 2021 and focussing on the iconic pop-rock duo of Ron and Russell Mael. Responsible for classic high-pitched pop banger ‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us’, the brothers have been working together for some 50 years, and are still going strong. Combining archive footage and contemporary recording, Wright’s doc will get to the heart of these art pop legends – and maybe even give a little insight into their work on Leos Carax’s forthcoming musical Annette. HW

80. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Possessed as ever by his flair for the meta, Nicolas Cage portrays himself in a heady action-comedy playing on his alter egos. A cash-strapped Cage accepts a million-dollar offer to appear at the birthday party of a Mexican superfan (Pedro Pascal), where an unexpected assault from mysterious enemies forces the actor to dust off his repertoire of characters to save the day. How this knotty conceit might work is anyone’s guess, but the real point is that Cage will be dressed like this, so how bad can the movie be, really? When he gets a role that really challenges him, there’s no one more exhilarating to watch than this thespian demigod, and this sounds like the sort of role that’ll bring out his best. CB

81. Spiral

One of the best plot twists of 2019 was that Chris Rock had been working on a new addition to the Saw franchise. Apparently a long-time fan keen to push his career in a new direction, he took his ideas to Lionsgate and the original franchise creators (James Wan and Leigh Whannell), and they liked what they saw (sorry). Spiral takes place in the Saw universe, but it’s neither a prequel or sequel. A teaser trailer introduced us to the cast (Chris Rock, Samuel L Jackson and Max Minghella are headlining) but with a release delayed until next spring, we’ll have to wait a little while longer for the return of Jigsaw. HW

ETA: May 2021

82. The Forgiven

Michael McDonagh has directed two excellent films (Calvary and The Guard) and one okay one (War On Everyone) so we’re eager to see where his next project falls. Based on Lawrence Osborne’s novel of the same name, The Forgiven tells the story of “drama and debauchery among wealthy westerners in Morocco” and McDonagh’s version stars Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Saïd Taghmaoui and Caleb Landry Jones. Fun fact: Fiennes and Landry Jones worked with Michael’s little brother Martin on In Bruges and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Helps to have a contact, I guess. HW

83. Swan Song

A family man (Mahershala Ali) hasn’t long left before his body succumbs to cancer, and so he faces the choice of whether to replace himself with a carbon-copy clone for the sake of his family. It’s not the latest episode of Black Mirror, it’s the debut feature from Oscar-nominated short filmmaker Benjamin Cleary, already locked down for a release by Apple. Ali’s joined by Naomie Harris, Awkwafina, and Glenn Close in a cerebral sci-fi thought experiment, interrogating themes of identity, consciousness, and the ever-present question of what it means to be human. In a normal world, this would probably slay audiences at Sundance, but it could still find an audience going directly to the online masses. CB

84. Madres Paralelas

Pedro Almodóvar has been exceptionally busy in 2020. He shot a short film with Tilda Swinton, and wrote a new script for his long-time muse Penelope Cruz – which he’s hoping to shoot in early 2021 for an end-of-year release, per an announcement from his brother. The title, which loosely translates Parallel or Twin Mothers, refers to two women who give birth on the same day – the film will follow them through the first two years of their children’s lives. It sounds like it’ll make a great accompaniment to his last film, Pain and Glory, and his 1999 dramedy All About My Mother. Still to come: his first English language film, based on Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women. HW

85. The Matrix 4

Much has transpired in the decade-plus since the Wachowski sisters completed what was thought to be their trilogy of Cartesian cyberpunk epics, soon to be built upon with another instalment. But the building blocks remain the same: Keanu Reeves returns as Neo, with Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity and Jada Pinkett Smith and Niobe, alongside franchise newcomers Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jessica Henwick, and Neil Patrick Harris. Details of the plot have been kept under lock and key, though the leaked set photos of motorcycle chases through San Franciscso look promising. Who among us can say we won’t show up to see Keanu doing the bullet-time thing again, or better yet, its upgraded 2020 equivalent. CB

ETA: December 2021

86. In the Earth

While we were all eating Chinese takeout and watching Frasier reruns, Ben Wheatley completed photography on a quarantine-era thriller shot in the thick of the COVID-19 crisis. In a similarly virus-stricken world, a scientist and park scout go on a perilous mission into a forest for a cure, and descend into madness as the nature around them comes to malevolent life. The cast collects Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, and Reece Shearsmith for what promises to be a return to form for the Wheatley of The Kill List after the high-gloss letdown of his Rebecca remake. The fusion of horror and narrative abstraction has worked for him before, so who’s to say it won’t again? CB

87. Red Notice

Though he seems like the calibre of star too great to be contained on our streaming laptops, Netflix is getting in the Dwayne Johnson business. The online giant was the only studio willing to front a $125 million-plus budget for this action spectacle putting the former Rock on patrol with Interpol as the greatest thief-hunter on the planet. He’s hot on the trail of an internationally-renowned purloiner of art (Gal Gadot, raking in a reported $20 million for her appearance) in league with an expert con man (Ryan Reynolds), setting the scene for a globetrotting showdown filling the James Bond-shaped hole in our collective heart. Director Rawson Marshall Thurber has already led Johnson to blockbuster paydays in Central Intelligence and Skyscraper; this could complete the trifecta. CB

88. Radioscopie

While Claire Denis’ already-announced Nicaraguan Revolution picture with Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley gets back-burnered due to COVID restrictions, she’s keeping busy with a smaller-scaled project in the meantime. Denis will reunite with her past stars Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon for a drama set in the world of French radio, to be shot in the historic halls of the Maison de la Radio in Paris. The title refers to a daily culture radio program launched in 1968, surely remembered with fondness by Denis, though it remains unknown whether the film will be set in that period. What we can be sure of, this being a Claire Denis film, is a sharp eye turned toward human behaviour, enacted with grace and honesty by La Binoche. CB

89. Decision to Leave

It’s been five years since Park Chan-wook’s last feature, The Handmaiden, and though he’s been busy in TV with a Florence Pugh-led miniseries, faithful fans still feel overdue. He’ll give the people what they want in 2021, when he completes production on a murder mystery with noirish undertones and an erotic charge. A detective heads to the country for a murder investigation, only to fall for the dead guy’s widow, who’s high up on his list of suspects. (Basic Instinct, anyone?) The Handmaiden was a feast of tasteful perversion and dark intrigue, both of which should be in plentiful supply with this new tale of torn allegiances and sinister scheming. CB

90. Cry Macho

So what if he’s 90 years old and a pandemic of specific threat to the elderly continues to rage around the globe? If you think that’s going to stop Clint Eastwood from venturing into the Mexican desert to get another movie on the books, you are most sorely mistaken. The unstoppable nonagenarian will direct and star in this ‘70s-set Western as a former cowboy tasked with retrieving his employer’s son from the kid’s alcoholic mother south of the border, and then bringing the youngster back to Texas. As is the way with oaters like this, the grizzled older fellow and his pint-sized charge will find a common humanity and most likely learn something about What It Means to Be a Man from one another. For Eastwood loyalists, it’ll be another essential chapter in his career’s never-ending story. CB

91. Soggy Bottom

Paul Thomas Anderson likes to keep a tight lid on his movies. We know that the new one centres on a high schooler attaining fame as a child actor in 1970s Los Angeles, that the character will be played by the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s son Cooper, and that he’ll be joined in the cast by Benny Safdie and Alana Haim, at the very least. We know that Bradley Cooper is in the mix as well, and that he’s rocking a truly heinous feathered hairdo, which may or may not be in reference to movie producer Jon Peters. Beyond that is anyone’s guess, though the precocious kid lead recalls Magnolia and the ’70s SoCal setting is pure Boogie Nights. A kickin’ soundtrack is all but assured. CB

92. Nomadland

Chloé Zhao has been pretty busy since The Rider wowed audiences back in 2017. She’s directed a big-budget superhero flick for Marvel (The Eternals, now due out 2021) and has a film in development with Amazon, but we’re most interested in Nomadland, based on a non-fiction book by Jessica Bruder. Starring Frances McDormand and David Strathairn, the film focuses on the phenomenon of older Americans who travel the US in search of employment – many affected by the recession of 2007-2009. The film was a smash hit at Venice, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, and McDormand could be on track for her third Academy Award. HW

ETA: February 2021

93. The Many Saints of Newark

The Sopranos is something like the Citizen Kane of TV, a medium-defining work generally agreed upon as a good place to start any greatest-of-all-time conversation. This film acts as a prequel to the gangster series by David Chase, who returns to pen the screenplay with his regular writing partner Lawrence Konner. A strapping young Tony Soprano (portrayed by Michael Gandolfini, son of the late James) gets caught up in the shifting currents of American counterculture, as Newark becomes a battleground between the Italian-American and Black communities during the ’60s and ’70s. Alessandro Nivola, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Leslie Odom Jr, John Magaro, Vera Farmiga and Billy Magnussen fill out the dramatis personae responsible for giving Tony all those paralysing neuroses he’d spend his adult life working out. CB

ETA: March 2021

94. Red Rocket

Folks have been wondering for some time how Sean Baker would follow up his 2017 breakout hit The Florida Project; for a hot minute it looked like he was making a documentary about OnlyFans with Bella Thorne, before Baker himself shut the rumours down. In a November interview with Variety he confirmed he was actually shooting his third feature film in Texas. Details are pretty thin on the ground – all we know so far is that it’s a dark comedy, and stars Simon Rex, whose other credits include, uh, Scary Movie 5 and Jack and Jill. No word on if he’s shooting on an iPhone this time. HW

95. Malcolm & Marie

Sam Levinson, the Gen-Z ambassador behind Assassination Nation and TV’s Euphoria, killed some time during the quarantine by shooting this romance starring Zendaya and John David Washington. He’s a filmmaker on the night of his new movie’s world premiere; she’s his girlfriend. The film plays out over one long night, as they get home from the opening and plumb the fault lines of their relationship while awaiting critical and commercial feedback from the public. Shot on 35mm monochrome for an added warmth, it will be in keeping with Levinson’s default tone of intense intimacy, as characters shake out the contents of their hearts through tears of sadness and rage. Despite no one having seen a frame, it’s already being talked about as an Oscar competitor, though that may say more about awards prognostication than the film itself. CB

ETA: February 2021

96. Les Olympiades

Jacques Audiard was caught shooting outside Paris back in the fall, in the thick of production on his upcoming adaptation of a short story collection from cartoonist Adrian Tomine. Working from a script drawn up by Celine Sciamma and Léa Mysius, the non-anthology project will take a more novel (and novelistic) tack in translating the text to the screen, focusing on a single story that will reportedly deal with adolescence and feature female protagonists. That’s all we’ve got at present, and with a director as chameleonic in terms of tones and genres as Audiard, it’s a guessing game to surmise anything else. A perennial friend of the festival at Cannes, a Croisette debut next year seems imminent. CB

97. Benediction

A veteran of World War One and stalwart of British schoolchildren’s English lessons, Siegfried Sassoon is regarded as one of the most famous war poets, documenting his experiences of fighting on the western front through verse. He receives the biopic treatment courtesy of another British artist – Terence Davies, who has good form for the genre, with his Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion receiving deserved praise. Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi will portray Sassoon at different points in his life, while the strong supporting cast includes Geraldine James, Gemma Jones, Anton Lesser and Jeremy Irvine. HW

98. The Brutalist

Having studied under enough of the great European auteurs, Brady Corbet figured he’d rather be one himself, an ambition that manifests more clearly in his next film than ever before. He gathers an international cast (Mark Rylance! Marion Cotillard! Isaach de Bankolé! Vanessa Kirby! Sebastian Stan! Joel Edgerton!) for the epoch-spanning chronicle of a Hungarian architect who flees the war with his family and comes to the United States to rebuild his life and the nation along with it. The personal and the global intertwine in a grandly ambitious narrative that sets one love affair against a backdrop of societal overhaul, a fitting follow-up to the “21st century portrait” that Corbet’s last film Vox Lux billed itself as. CB

99. Our Way

This new one from Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti appears to continue his shift from the whimsical, lightly humorous doodles of the ’90s (Aprile, Dear Diary) to more socially-aware and serious drama, as seen in previous feature Mia Madre. Our Way is based on an Israeli novel called Three Floors Up by author Eshkol Nevo and it is the first time Moretti has made a film based on someone else’s work. The story takes in the comings and goings of various families living across three floors in a Roman apartment block. DJ

100. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Adventure

After tinkering with the technique on 2001’s A Scanner Darkly and 2006’s Waking Life, Richard Linklater employs the live-action/animation hybridisation known as “rotoscoping” once again, this time for a more playful purpose. This odd experiment whisks us back to the summer of ’69, when kids across America were captivated by NASA’s literally groundbreaking moon landing. Linklater’s film visualises juvenile fantasies of this momentous event, lifting scientific imagination into a more vividly dreamlike realm with the help of Glen Powell, Jack Black, and Zachary Levi. Knowing Linklater’s penchant for conspiracy theorizing, we can safely presume that the whole “the moon landing was shot on a soundstage in Queens” hoax will get its moment in court here. CB

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James Brown makes me think of the famous singer. It might be a perfectly valid name for New Zealand to have, but I’d go with a different name if you wanted to avoid that immediate association.

Lorenzo is an Italian name, but it’s more used in the North. I briefly used it for Romano, but then switched to Savino because I was looking for something that sounds like Lovino that’s a mostly Southern name. Italian names are very regional, so I’d suggest putting any first name you’re considering into this tool if you want to make sure it’s more regionally accurate. I’m not sure if there’s a tool out there for surnames, but maybe you can ask the Italian people in the fandom who helped me (@flamaflavio, @hws-cernunnos, @j-crna-zvijezda, and @elelloletee) for advice on a last name for the Italian brothers. (Vargas is used in Italy, though it’s fairly rare, and in the post where I talked about Romano’s name, they told said it’s okay to use Vargas for the purposes of fic.)

I got a little carried away with names today. Started with Sweden then went all over the place lmao. I'd like your guys' opinions on the names I've chosen before I ever use them in published works.

Sorry for the long read in advance ^^

Sweden: Berthold— I just like it. Not 100% sold on it though. He still has his canon surname as, as far as I know, there are no issues with it.

Denmark: Mikkel Hanssen— I just like it lol.

Ladonia: Oscar(or Oskar)— Its pretty sweet which is why I'm pretty sure Sweden would have chosen it for him. Not sure which spelling I like better. Shares a surname with Sweden.

Liechenstien: Lotta Vogal— I like em both. Not super sure how correct in origin or popular Lotta is as I keep getting mixed results, often talking about Scandinavian origin and bringing up the name Lottie and how popular that is in America. But it does mention how its used in German speaking countries.

South Italy: Lorenzo— Its from both Italy and Spain so I think it fits Romano well. The meaning not so much but Romano probably picked it because that's how he'd like to see himself one day??

Rome: Gaius Vergilius Crispus— The praenomen Gaius comes from the same root as gaudere, which means to rejoyce, happy which fits Rome to a T. His nomen is Virgilius as a reference to poet Publius Vergilius Maro(Virgil). Crispus as his cognomen because of his curly hair. I wanted Romulus to be his praenomen, however Romulus is not a praenomen whatsoever. It seems to be a nomen. I'm quite fond of Virgilius though to be honest. I actually had to deep dive this one to make sure everything was correct(meaning and order). The praenomen are the given names and those weren't normally used outside of the family(meaning only Romano and Italy would call Rome Gaius). Rather it was either their nomen or cognomen used freely. So I had to keep the importance of each name in mind; I couldn't really find the meaning behind Virgilius except that it is the latinized version of the english Virgil.

Seborga: Alonzo— Finally found a name for Seborga that I think fits better than Romeo! Well I'm still not sure of it for the long run but it does fit better than Romeo at least(in my opinion).

Italies' surname: Russo— Not super sure of this one. Its Sicilan/Southern Italian in origin but quick google searches repeatedly tell me that it has spread to other regions due to internal migration. It's also the second most popular surname in Italy(or that's at least what several sites have told me). I'm not sure if Russo is a good name for all three of the Italy brothers, but I do think its at least a plausible one for Romano. And as Romano is the older brother, perhaps Veneziano just took it some time after unification? Maybe to try and feel closer to the brother he barely grew up with?

Greece's surname: Katsaros— I dunno about this one still. But curly-haired is at least better than being a watermelon. Might change later, might not.

Cyprus: Demetris Georgiou— Not super sure about his name as a whole. Nicos is an alternative given name. Not sure about an alternative surname.

America's middle name: Fitzgerald— Its speculated that the F in his name is a reference to John F. Kennedy(or its Freedom). John F. Kennedy's middle name is Fitzgerald. There you have it. Actually, I honestly didn't know JFK's middle name was Fitzgerald beforehand, I kinda just really liked Fitzgerald as America's middle name already. Then I went into looking up the name's origin and meaning and google just handed this fact to me kinda randomly. Either way, I really do like the ring Alfred Fitzgerald Jones has.

Australia: Kyle King— I just like the name Kyle for him. It sounds nice. No deep reason for choosing Kyle. King, however, I feel like he might have chosen to like say fuck you to England after abandoning him? Like I'm the King now?? I'm in control?? From what I've seen on a few sites, King is a fairly common surname. Also considering Martin or Walker as alternative options.

New Zealand: James Brown— He looks like a James so he is a James. According forebears.io, Brown is the 4th most common surname in New Zealand. I'm not super sold on this surname yet but I do quite like the combination of it with James.

Wy: Charlotte "Charlie"— She gives off a lot of tomboyish vibes to me so I wanted to give her a kinda "boyish" nickname that Australia most likely started. Well it just so happens that Charlotte is a pretty popular name in Australia! She shares Australia's surname.

Hutt River: David— He just looks like a David. Plain and simple. Shares a surname with Australia. Despite being dissolved, I still like his character(and design) so I refuse to acknowledge him being dead lmao.

Molossia: Maximilian "Max" Theodore Jones— I picked a kinda flashy name for him because I tried to think like him while choosing it. He looks up to America. America is often flashy and exaggerated. What better way than to get your mentor's attention than by a name like Maximilian?? And I simply thought Theodore would be a good correlation to the middle name I gave America; they're both references to US presidents(Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy).

Kugelmugel: Tobias— No super deep reason. Its common in Austria in the year(or close to) when was he founded. I think Austria isn't super creative when naming things or people so he picked something common. Kugel probably does not care.

Osaka: Honda Tetsuya— I think he'd share Japan's surname rather than having his own. As for his given name, I chose something pretty common in Japan as a whole. I'm not sure about this choice, however.

Niko Niko Republic: Takahashi Shigeru— Again, picked common names. I didn't think he'd share Japan's surname, especially after dissolving. I thought maybe he'd like his very own name as he chooses his very own life to live out into old age y'know? Not totally confident in these name choices, however.

Monaco: Jules— I'm debating whether I personally like her having the same surname as France or not. I haven't found any alternative surnames yet as I'm not really dwelling on it. Jules, however, I think fits her pretty well.

Holy Roman Empire: Otto— Reference to Otto I, the Holy Roman Emperor, as well as Otto von Bismarck to kinda correlate the Germany-HRE theory(whether I 100% believe it not).

I'm honestly considering giving Germany a different surname than Beilschmidt since he was never given one by Hima in the first place(even stated there was a reason for that). I'm not sure if I will or not because I'm still looking into surnames for HRE, which I'm having a hard time doing so if I'm honest. Its harder than picking Rome's tria nomina lol.

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pandora, internet explorer, microsoft edge, female celebrity: tumblrs-twitters, myspace, snapchat, insta, facebooks, microsoft windows all versions, fast load times, autorepair, windows updates, netflix, tv chanel apps such as fox, or disney xd, starz hd llc...amazon music and video, mtv app, fierce females, victorious, android, ios, microsoft, msn, mediamonkey, playstation, xbox, nintendo, google, yahoo, aol.com, bing search, adobe flash, java, tumblr, twitter, myspace, instagram, facebook, snapchat female celeb verizon or internet facetime......----tw/verison/swift/taylor or part-time-awards show celebs-female, or hayley planning throught the day or week, its a fully compensate everyone for a one.... at the 5th reiteration of way or ia with tw......at the mafia 5.... so u may have to run en until a 5th glance.... at the fifth it compensates for everything klan and one.... whilst full compensation for blag and chink runs continuosly... this will go on for years....sometimes people dont know... even people near location... and they may try to create less glance.... even as the 5th compensation includes their compensation... i urge u to let them allow many looks or ni or esplaination for theirs and everyones sake'.... the amount of coma is determeined by the amount of friends i have.... i need to compensate many years.... before i am coherent.... friends, which it seems as everyone nowadays is.... imean female but tizzown u kno... turnpuke,,,,,, anywhere i was gpsed and or....corporate sponsorship.... during the legacy.....and each one i talked about..... at.... every store.,.... mall groups......bars.... strip clubs......burlington, somerdale, stratford, route 206 with all sos male cars flying against me, atlantic ciyt...... expect a full compensation then u may rescue me what is overhardened is fractured. what is fractured is remolded 13 call of duty ghosts: left and right speaker are switched. r and n is switched...grenade launcher and taticals are switched....i am putting out data and i am not recieving the data in my joourney. but i am the originator of such data the hair products technology in the town is developed for one reason… one person…. audio….. so she had to b the one to clean our mess…….. and expose source both mls and j seems to be the problem.... but i dont push the issue these first years... but they to vblame S R baby d, or baby c. baby c,d, are a’s the representatives for the eating or protectors or marriage of environment…. to nexus…. here is the theory…. the a’s are sexualy attached…. as instinct to protect….. not a random urge which may lead to casualty in such unstable times and mentalities….. the schematics, when normal is such, for a round four corners. G or g is a round top. a J would be a round bottom….. it is assumed…. the protectors of the region are J’s or j;s…. cuz audio is baby does not take things… u have to feed her btw…. she cannot feed herself… she has sexual anoroxia….. recieves…… gifts…. already to subconciosly powerful…. cannot have regal power too much……. but the reasons for these ideas are not for play…. they are for anti-terroristic measure…. to create guardinas. or protectors of each location….. local….-tizzown….. state—turnpuke——nj where i traverse…… and national… such as hayley tennessee or taylor texas katraina….. or AC atlantic city natural disaster international…. such as sweden or london, england ,,,,, each a is a sexified representative of each location…. to protect them/region from natural disaster….. the sex creates a need to protect….. to create connection…. and diplomacy…. and extreme subconscious love sacrifice and benefit…….. will never let anything kill her….. and thousands of people surrounding her…… i will do anything in my power to….. even get maimed…… to save her….. instead of inhumanely striking a individual from place to place and torturing from position to position….. torture creates hardening…. which makes things immobile and unresponsive over time…. in terms of striking from place to place……. which creates a terroristic monster…… during anyways time when everything is out of sorts….. the ideas multimillion dollar ideas are not to be mutated switched or played with….. they are carefully crafted by eye and united states gov…. to create balance and protection from weapons of mass destruction and or large scale acts of nature……we have to keep residence clear of other stimuli during…. which means lack of humen…… which mommy leaves a neutral footprint…. is nonsenstive… tank…. hardened……she absorbes Anything in proximity… and it goes in her thouts and influences…. so we should create limits of what influences everything…… isolation is not bad during….. with tumblr babysitter……..and it would be nice if she could choose what is in her presence instead of male or aggresive things invading a passive object that reflects them……..during this time…..we need to bring back…… town a’s local a’s and such…. as a precaution….. they have been missing….. public has been missing…. public ideas have been missing for two years……we must if we have j’s replace it for j’s with reason…… which are gurls…..and also we need to reduce the jew problem by half…….in house and in town if that is what u beleive…… if u look at mirror blog…. which reflects my thouts….. and what is the purpose of such large investment….. there should only be one blue i outside…. and one L in the garage….. both fit each other like a pattern….. there should be no other intrusions….. both the i and the l are separated in the house…. and when together…. they are nonsensitive. i am moon most of the time… even i give day rush hour morning to neighbors…… even though they are separated by house walls… lawns…. and many meters R - S - c or d (baby) please please please include tizzown and interstate again... for imaging and protection of the environment anyways things changed. there are 3 todaste R is for gurls in tizzown, female. women.... c and d R's tumblr twitter and fb is all young women R's fans are gurls S is men and boys i want pictures and e to be cute :) im also going to change my address to. nmd for now.... im working on this...... to make hapy :) tumblr, hey li will save me. the dead will save me..... if u listen and keep reading i will be oka. proximity and using devices that have the letters on. or one in it. i dont know if i talk about the lawnmower they will retailate shadowplay was on overdrive so it amplifies damage and pain by with superfuck heavy 10 to 40 times more tortura. my programs like tumblr google. computers shut down automaticaly and browsers and tumblr and video games wont open. or quit immediately...... i fixed shadowplay and paid my bills last month..... i hope to bee away any pull out the tumblr google windows updates cord.... its extremely sensitive. if i use tumblr 30 seconds more then it blocks me out of tumblr.... can u bee it away? it looks like shadowplay steering wheel. u know the story... did not subscribe... forgot two years.... right now.... shadowplay is shut down declawed and does not actualy inflict torture. but we cemented autoshut down from minute uses ..... anyways we have volume probkem.... so people were insubordinate from bad things. 2. impossible conditions jew lawyer on urself on purpose. no the law never actualy works that way. that is a cover. u misconstrued. im sory for ur misconstrution it has not worked on me. cuz i already know that cover so im not jewelry big suprise well sparkles at least actualy no thats to figure out u it has to be processed on ur base has to be pure specialy if u have a job and not playing around all day like us. theroretica MY CONNECTIONS AND CONTRACTS ARE BASED ON THIS. “ a duck must either destroy all the pretty and beawtiful prospects surrounding me. (I am very popular) or sabotage the system to make room artlivelove31  · 3h3 hours ago to have waters run deep between me and you would look more idea. if u are deeply wanted and needed. it reciporacates more mercy on each side a pretty or beawtiful or cute girl. is governemtn blue. a prospect actively wanted needed and loved. in slavery to have waters run deep w/u in slavery, would you like to be enslaved by something u love, or not? a duck is a unattractive prospect a ugly prospect a unwanted prospect - if u are asexual or a big hairy dick u are a duck if u are divine, if u are a goddess, a object of need and want and love. if I worship u….. u are not a duck I am extremely popular and beloved. im surrounded by goddesses of love and lust and beawty sexual attractive is define duck I AM 6/2 cut my teeth on celebrity wedding rings--- so. ima EXTREMELY SOCIALY SKILLED i have alot of friends. very popular. mostly white by chance. dont come here! its a trap! the in the air is torture! hc is all wearing sag masks and taking medication! for emergency. it numbs u and u cant decisions. dial for hair and air filters. please if u move here. AIR FILTERS IS A MUST. cvs sells prescription medication for such things. create levels that u wish for eveyrone in ch put their kids on sag mask medication so no one is going to risk killing their kid in one second. they have to make the decisions so parents less gas mask. — :/ UNDERAPPRECIATED3 that is y we did not abuse the power it will normalize they are exterminating all the bugs men and women!!!!! 2014 is extermination year!!!!! plz dont stap by the hizzouze or access the tumblr.!!!!! i suppose this is a persuasion vacation years? or year. i dont kno yet. the only editing i did on ja reflection is the delete button. thats all. sory assholes The problems caused by cooped-up-ness that's also SFA fault also. for agreeing to hide. away from everyone all the time Its too much. its too much $ for a household. but its early in development. okay. also IMPORTANT! WE ARE CLEANING ON PREMISES. WE REQUIRE LOTS OF TIME MEANING. HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE READY BEFORE DEC 1 MY BIRTHDAY IF CONDITIONS PERMIT. IM NOT SURE ABOUT HOW LONG THE CLEANING WILL BE FOR. AND there are some obstacles like money and such and also im all like wierded out and such and all those thingys and factors i improvise as best i can but im sometimes not that precise lately. anyways this is a run on and i want to say alot but i havent spoken and stap,. wait. okay. also ============================== last of all and most important. i love u all. please im asking and begging frankly plz be safe for me. and thank you for not ruining this for everyone. ====== cuz i spend so much time and effort being scared. ;) - imean wait no being concerned and watchful and caring for all of u. and the people the closer networks, spending lots of consideration and time caring watching and planning so that they are okay and all of u as a whole. r ok. and a small fraction of our time and my alone time actually scared. like scared for yalls wellbeing. seriosly. ============================== ok. to sum it up i love u b safe for me plz. i will be here for u in time. soon as i finish this cleaning. u can tell ur friends about the cleaning. u dont need to secret taht up. the cleaning part. code it tho. thats easier and safer. like my blog. which is code and acronyms. duh. so, therefore please stay away for a wiles for cleaning. im disorganized so bear with me. whats the point? scare? clean? thats not the point. that is a insulting cover clean does exit the haspital tho. which makes life much betta without too much bm but physical clean does not subtract retained power. or audio……… dissapoint does oka we got updated. which then, it almost killed me. speaking of killing. i died twice. the first looking down….. and i had a which tumblr gurls balanced my heaviness. but it was a matter of time…. a underage gurl stole my in spoon me…. i was blasting taylor swift parked in front…. windows open. on the passenger seat….. when i went in to use the bathroom and came out. the wire connect there was there, but not the …… after losing the …. everyone converged on me…. trying to get in my bed… or everyone just connected all at once… i could not defend…..thats when i looked down and my head struck the concrete…… u kno it sucks. in atlantic city 1 week later after the signal...... as i lay dying…. i said its oka…. im v…. i will be oka…. and i passed out…… i hear muttering….. yeah…. she dead….. but u kno…… rumour is her body is made entirely of george washington wata…….. taylor and posibly even taylors friends got realy mad at vhs and cw and spoon me…. and i died… so it was a big deal…. she block me from sharing with stbk and spoon me and cw… for two years! but its oka… every share was blistering harsh painful….. then closed spoon me… and then changed the name… there must of been a rumour saying people were bragging. the data was shared and sold….. at the time. they said…… with many gurls or alot of teenagers i think.i supose that was bragging. when the convergence happened…… the air was striking the house everywhere. it was like trash flying everywhere….. i did not could not remember… i could not think….. so i did the first thing i was trained to do…. i placed a warning on my phone….. via internet…. i believe i left emergency instructions….. and such….. and alerts….. then someone sent me telepahtic message…. some one is going to try to kill me…. and i should alert the auorities….. so i ran out of the house immediately….. went to pnc bank….. and the teller….. latina…. was replaced by a blonde terminator,,,, she was beawtiful….. there was not much in the bank…… i ran away. fast. looking in all directions…. following coded messages thruout the route to north jersey….. where i could place a emergency code….. in one of the turnpike desginated sate and natnal beacons……. it was a park…… i made it there and signaled. and anwyways everyone along the turnpike psychicly read me all along the way. we were communicating. and that gets sent to state and local and also and guardina and mafia. in atlantic city. my head hit the concrete…. no one told me to dump the car in the atlantic ocean….. but there was mafia decoys… and as i said i had a false escort….. undercover car…. false siren and all……meaning a paid car……. as a decoy….. which urged me and led me into instead a casino….. with a car bomb of satan……… which i thout taht joke was terible…. there was also a acura escort-same as mansion house… so u kno…. it was marked hi end mafia……. …. when i came back from my death….. i looked uppp. and died agains…… and once again taylor and taylor women and hayley got angry….. and many other groups……. miss taylor then u kno what she and cali and tw did? my head was on concrete slammed already. not healed. and they dragged me facefirst on 2000 miles of black street concrete…… and i exclaimed! i have A galaxy blackface! and i was conceptioned… down….. is i am become a blonde terminator…. i am… i have been heavily medicated…. for some time now…… these medications are mixed with things… and are state of the art…… they can put these in anything. even crack…. up…… is satan….. and guardina….. and the reason i could not share data with stbk and cw for years now…..networks and went left….. because we are evolving… and im heavily and we…. are all heavily medicated….. and gurls that live here. and hang out in stores outside…….. im sory i died twice…… and we are gifted…. everything is a gift….. i am not penalized…. i am creating eye. for everyone. every mistake….. everything intolerable….. is a extreme gift….. u are….. i am changing all of u…… and gurls…… u could not easily enter the hizzzouze…. i kno…. im not permadead….. they wanted u to have the gift…. but not have to risk infiltrating hizzouze. so they put it out everywhere. for u to eat and breathe outside. walking around…. living in it…. so they spread it all over outside where u can hang out and still eat the medication. its rough and uncomfortable…. sometimes…. the only time u are well gifted is if it is intolerable…. cw stbk tizzowns are become next gen….. i made few mistakes…. im sory for that….. but im going realy long…. im thankful for that……. everytime i hit the turnpike…. im weaponizing state and and secret and mob hitmen and guardina…… after i go….. they buy 20 dollars of gas…. and drive up and down the turnpike 24 hours straight. i make psychic. i make weaker terminators. i make guardina….. mommy is evolved too……. moreso on location if i share too much… they get mad. if i share too much tizzowns also got mad…. but the peopl did not know….. during compensation period….. everything is gift…..extreme gift……. this is klan…. tumblr…. u have to wait…. this is gifting sharing…….i am blonde terminator… and guardina… and thats y u were driven from house…. and i could not connect to cw and stbk and and others. we are making civilizations…. and gurls… u kno… all of u have a upgrade…… its not a secret…….…. oka. basic medication package esplained. medicatoin bids are done via. air, which bids take effect within seconds. medicatoin bids done via ingestion via beverages food inside and outside the house via ss switching takes effect 20 minutes to 1 hour. switching outside fast food. coffee… beverages in the house kitchen medicatoins bids done via inhalation. oka we covered that medication bids done via contact…. or absorbtion via land, water air, furniture, clothes, devices, female hand to hand or full body…. such is minutes seconds to hours within the bid medication bids done via injection take about 24 hours to take effect…. medicatoins bids done via circulation take seconds to minutes… and are sometimes extended release medication bids run throughout the day/….. and sometimes there are random chemistry scans via toliet pipes at home and in stores and analysis of landscape medication propelled via machine…. and walls and furniture of public places scanned…. to ensure a low level of mismedicatoin from enimies which they have the technology….. but use it sparingly because of privacy issues…. of the many medication bids coming in constantly its alot of friends. a lot of enimies ur intelligence is determined by the amount of friends u have. in terms of constuction nelson…. the medication dispersed and distributed to each female individual aggregates in the body of audio collectively…. in how she medicates many to get a large dose for her self…. in which constuction is legit…. and excels more than the police in that area,,,,,, the more people who are dosed…. the more intense the dose that audio recieves over time…. it is a large enough amount of people to regulate audio…. same as landscape…. whateva u put out there gets dumped on audio as a aggregate and the house….. and then the house then feeds the outside via machine. during operating machine the propel chemistry is scanned and documented in real time. and translated into music videos and media, via celebrity artists and underground artists. from 2013-2015 +90% percent of all the outside time was captured in music videos and song.... but operating system changes the data according to the trend each day and week at this time..... usually illuminati would listen to the ride the week following a long drive and internet is configured weel need a couple weeks to configure everyone in nj pa del ny people go but how they left always stays nicki minaj = 930…. thats max actoluy…. max is 990. max = iq 200…. 2 tablets. tw = 34… which is over….sats dosages are announced. disneyland tizzown (2) is 4. 120//// turnpuke is 1…. 30….. mermaids are 7. 210… tumblr is 10…300.. h=480(1 full tablet) t=660 r=8something 1 day ago based on closeness to audio “ so taylor face down head hitting the concrete….fuel on hands…. is reversible and wrath for sniffing pine sol…. when mommy made me frustrated… im soryy and hiting balls swift the emergency room im sorry and hitting head fist as n i have not figureed out this puzzle as of yet… from… anytwyas/// probably nelson’s revenge/…… as the entire world trend…..against me iphone was not espected at that degree also car fuel….. i showed hard drive to gas station attendant…. whilst computer cleaning with air….. therefore we acertained as celeb… we ascertained…. gasoline from exxon, shell, valero, citco and another…… all in different regions of new jersey we found out sag is a gift…. best kept in possesion for one year…. because unbearable…. as u know…. i was supposed to pick up litter…. and run car sag for 3 times…. 3 ones… or 3 years… i dunno… probably instead….3 28 months which is 28 56 84 months… and then run out of car fuel…. and then go to haspital 84th month for torturing so much…. its a lot of owe…. but first 12 months…. i rid of car gas…. lawnmower a little later…. some months later……therefore its i dont know…. i suppose it will taken care of weeel……. storage media hard drives were presented to multiple banks in the region…. so banks are a gift…. and car sag (gas stations) are a extreme gift…… and probably the main things about such is keys…. iphone 4c (hayley and taylor bm) fuel level…. probably… ku klux klan gifting is level 6….. probably car gas level at first…. was a quality of 10…….. dna of underage white gurl who stole my iphone 4c with hayley and taylor words and everything…. and dna of white gurl….. propelled 20 miles to the right and left of the turnpuke and 295 and ace and all the way up to new york…….and then bleached also cum of many of the females(not all) and myself…. and blackmail of every international mafia groups propeelled across 10 states of the east coast dispersed with tires…and metal bodies playstation and dna (controller not included…. so maybeh there was dna on the power button of the playstation….vs the underage dna…. convering the entire face of the iphone and the back…….( on and off button.) only….. hard drive dna…. with possible blag….. youtube celebrity female interview facetime telepathic…. and music videos netflix amazon and ea bm so playstation and all my video games…. and other games and a account created by myself named aptly blue wolf 747. which was erased because it dint happen……watch out the hard drive will kill you….. and a prophesy of satan the second 911 planes flying into a building..turnpuke.. our house as the world trade center…. the right corners…. tumblr satans double in the other clone car…. family driving the original car……driving a paramore honda….. and the honda clone being ‘audio is satan’ and then the prophesy thwarted by secret agents of allysa and cw….. underage white gurl group……because i was able to compensate A twenty… taylor women e nelson taylor is yelyah……as jack sparrow dying turnpuke diablo/ desert eagle cod/ claymore crysis/ and 5s……kept in proximity of myself during superfik heavy verison and cara for making superfik heavy car sag…. and banks and storage media and hard drives and computer desktop (gaming) air shown in full view for quick glance (eeeveryone……everything) and secret agent cleaning….. preliminary…. and labtop air (gaming) cum and all mafia and unites stays and illuminati info…… shown on turnpuke and distibuted via tires and cars…..and rain….. and chew and pjww for long period of time……. when everyone was watching for months…..even chew…. i never went back to clean……()….. not the first premtive day/../in the middle of it all// where it could not be cleaned from secret agents silently i will dwelve into stories later :’) ” – sora 2 days ago “ THIS IS NEW UPDATE as a result of the iphone death in front of eeeveryone, ch gurls/linden gurls, pjw and chew and strippers escorts massuses and all white and puerto rican white and such and EUROPEAN AND SUCH spain white and such and such women groups….and celeb females (included participated….we dont care it does not matter randomly :/)and tumblr gurls will have access to psychoc acid for 13 years….. it is one of the most generous rewards. everyone knos by now….. tumblr suffered the most,,,, and they get dosages most often… meaning they are always included….of course male illum artists and (few celeb role models that are men…. i like their templates)))))that are white are included because i like them of course at artists. which are integral to my art… i know… but thanks for your lack of salience in your telepathy it is random cowboy acid for the first 3 years…. but it does not go too far in sleepyness. most likely there is a combination of wake and such…. easiest way to solve basically as it evolves…. everyone will be pleased….. it is on auto callibration after the rough draft is configured…. eeeeveryone knows in klan or mafia…. in the begining its crazy too much and too concentrated to enjoy…. and after…. the supply gets realistic…. and after with configuration its optimal…. as any celeb or any gift…. which is from any of the mafias…..or usa or illuminati over time…. possibly extremely soon like in days or weeks. most people will not be sleepy at all. recomendations are always welcomed first three years is unlimited resource….. after that receptors will be somewhat workable and realistic it will take 10 additional years random…..but monitored at least moved from (it doesnt matter supply) from the first 3 years…. for a acid recharge it will be a random cowboy combination of short…. long…. medium…. short and intense…. lady gaga long and instantaneos…..lorde…. medium and middle….. hayley and taylor…….. gurls will have pretty much long….. and such…. nelsoning the guardina follows much later that the acid before nelsoning the guardina…. if that is even necessary after a decade….. nelsoning the guardina without the torture will be done in long distace drives…. up and down the turnpike…. same as before many suppose after the 5 th year mark. of 2013….. the drives will be possible without being bothersome compensation for blog will take up to 120 months after the year 2013 in a steady compensation. compensation also includes. because of the second 9/11…. it includes every location i have ever frequented ” – the iphone death was not taken in account as much as other things… and they realized most of sora went to audio….. most of gun also…. the only way to get or utilize sora the most…. is to actualy die… or blow up all ur receptors from the neck and brain down….. so there are many ways to make things unstealable every 10 years important groups totaly torture audio thinking about obedience sacrifice submittion and fear of the weather okay instructions… when u recieve your dosage….. u have a weeks supply in your body…. eeeveryttime you want to feel your dosage….. u say out loud or in your head….. you…. or yelyah owe you…… your body will release the dosage into the air and also in any cups or cigarettes or food or anything that is ingestible near you…. u will also inhale the medication in that location….. you are sitting or standing in…..usualy with rough draft doses…. you want to hold the you… or yelyah owe you for approximately 4 seconds…..ur dose is a weeks supply at a time… upon maximum dosage or maximum recomended dosage,,,,, that much alone… makes u sleepy…. so we add wake up to it…. also releasing the dosage into the air… is walking… running…for quick release… moving… and such….. coughing….singing…..speaking…… yelyah owes you/you… tumblr gurls told me in coded messages… you… is approximately 3 times the regular dosage for your own personal use…. i would do such…. but instead of 500 doses per week for every female i have ever seen spoken to or thout about…. instead… just 2-4 week supply to 20,000 females…. 1,000,000 doses for females aggregate collect in my body and are somwhat discernable for approximately a week at 1,000,000 doses simultaneosly hitting my recptors…. my receptors will be strengthened enough to be readable and scannable monitorable by the three year mark…so they are saying… by 2019….. some of my receptors will be functioning somewhat to be monitorabl;e and that way…. when u feel it…. more people at the same time…. it collects…. each females…. into my body…..so…. usualy 2,000 to 10,000 at the same time is sufficiont… please remember my receptors process feelings at approximately 400 times less efficient that everyones….. but my sensitibvity to side effects are 20 times more than everyone….. so basically i get tortured and react to things…. as if i was intoxicated… but cannot perceive or feel the emotion in the middle…. most of the time… i cannot register the emotion…. suppose alcohol…. i cannot smeel it…. i cannot feel it…. there is a empyty gap in the middle of the feeling…. and register at the top is 1/17 of normal peoples at the surface…. and there a 1- foot gap… and then in the deepest part… i can register it some……and i act drunk without knowing that i am… or feeling any of it… and then later i say…. why did i act like that.? without noticing that i acted even…. and then im daft…. noticing i am acting drunk whilst clean there is a divide between surface and deepest part of the feeling or water… and im incoherent alot …. unable to process or feel….so basically i am not in tune to my feelings or myself much…. it looks like iphone did that… but they said…. because they planned fuel…. because i smeeled pine sol…. therefore that had a surefire guarantee that i would recover fully from… because they did it to me…. but iphone…. they did not realize…. that it would be placed in my car long term by a white underage gurl i was only saing a lot of bm poo about…..and that i dint discover it the first year. from morning till night… i had instead spoon me gravity plus say too muc poo……and playing also…. i cannot smell… anything… most of the time… turnpuke air 1. 30. (everyone) starting a discernable telepathy. tizziown air 2. 4. 120 (everyone) mermaids 3. 7. 220..kittles bibbnnys puppies j. 3. 7. 220 (linden) bibbles kittles such turnpuke gurls. 4. kittles nibbles banmys 10. 300. mls 5 13 390 grammy potential intelligence 6 16 480 1 tablet-500. verison- 7 19 570 8 22 660 9 25 750 r 10 28 840 mnck head down on concrete sex cashout period 11 31 930 2 tablets. 1000 iq 200. max. sats anyways, right now the mud is not regulated. the tablets are neither regulated if there is mud.... do acid and air..any amount is okay. to yourself... your bones.....the acid will run the mud out.... and the air will autoclean u out.anything..... even buttons.... as you know.... things such as my memories my entire lifetime, celeb buttons, some united stays buttons, and myself... movie trailer,.,,, verison and secret service classified info... celebriti females... such as in small nano...if u touch. wash immedietely... it causes bumps and things.... any too classified data.... also sometime. i share 5000 buttons simultanoeos ly and it get uncomfortable.... my data transfer from body ok. oka(model computer) has a auto ip everything and verison television tracks and ips everything because of such….. in fact everything ip and tracks everything within the vincity of me,,,, which could have been the problem of female employee switching so frequently but verison is the most transparent and public of them. even with a decent filter….. and not so decent filter on the ip if u talk out loud…. verison and everything ip your vocal. it will be some mud…… and male and females can be switched out pretty fast…. but come back as town policy has evolved some recommend having 32 employees. and doing it different each time to not over cash out your 15 minutes of fame yelling is the most transparent most noisy and loudest and most visible to everyone. talking is the second most iping and such whispering is the 3rd most thinking is the smallest ripples thru the tv and hemisphere. if they use you. it will probably be translated on your end as rape. male or female and you may blame the fame for your quick exit to come back later. so im constantly raped from morning to night….. and i maintain espenses and will change and configure after nov 8//// so town should be sensitve to fame limits and such i have a fame limit…. unpurchasabel…. cuz my thouts just shut off after minutes expire…. and my suffereing will equal to my fame… or infamy cuz i not rock star…. im weather if thouts done autoshut or celly mintues….. then…. i prefer not to be a black male…… or seen as such….. so’ anyways…. that how it is… remember im heavier than a car….. my so is in the 900s or my you……but mostly its a fraction…. but even a thout…. everything we do goes on tv….///////hello we are all on tv///////. esplaining the rape and fireing note they also ip the voice…. and then your inner thouts and compare and contrast…. so its alot……. i opt after verison fully compensates…. gives me prized ip advice…. i will then dismantle the tracking either thru beeing or such…. and after the model computer tracking ip is off…. cuz so much overtorture…. then everyone…. not only verison will be more tolerable roger is the cause for most of the global weather cuz people got confused with local hair and global... so its global we are talking about and much much hair... and i also personally dont want to watch it turn to flat white and water only either 2016: god fights on the side of whomeva has the best ammunition. this year 2016 they made the guardina god or such or what also.. its celebration or something... and political duty. or political term. plus yelyah was drug thru the mud twice.... and hayley or me would have to compensate... either one would have a award winning blog... but hayley already won a grammy. so its me with the award blog love you wish me a excellent recovery. we kick gurls after they are compensated. they are 20,000 so im in coma. or something maybeh one version of the truth.... and so obviosly we dont linda the gurls. we pay all at once and then can kick or mansion which is so many gurls. i dunno. its still coma so it not good. anyways...i can do way or ia... intoxicated. or not... in coma or not.... we have found gurls.... its many... and its time.... and i plan to include you. therefore celebs did not linda rawr... so gurls and rawr can enjoy a little mansion... even if linda... it would be the same again. and then mommy would go without any rules... and veto everything.... so thats not good. so we need. i know. i was tortured. i need therapy. i need amnesia. i need healing. i need wealth and compensation.... so i went thru it i know how to take care of mommy so empire also... mommy went first... getting her cycle up first... i would follow later in terms of job in terms of body brain and nerve damage its obvious. the illuminati as long they are dead i will be dead infuse electricity in me. shock me back to life. either them with mission impossible pair they say alot of damage. but illuminati has the best rapid resurrection technology and secret serveice can reverse any meds. infrequently in terms of large infrustructural damage not to scare but just saying if u are damaged by anything guise in macro during my atlantic city death/ i had three guitars in cases. leaned up against the car.... the car appriximatiely 40 feet from many 50 gallon black and yellow cans placing construction nelson poison in the air for miles. i took them out.... car... was filled... with sewage from the week before.... a almost deadly sewage.....it looked like the cans killed the sewage in the car. the guitars first in the car sewage... then placed outside in the air. all the wood in the guitars were stained with the constuction poison from the black and yellow cans. it is rumoured that the cans or the meedication in such causes your body to radiate for years on end. there were three guitars i brought with me to my death the parker kermit taylor acousic oscars or the third reign prs rememba i did not clean the guitars. instead coated them with ck acid instead and a thick construction bass the guitars were treated. with acid... first sewage... then construction poison one of them causing the body to radiate for years. and then calvin klein acid and bass i used geneticly altered corn stalks to ease my poison after falling down the dirt hill into the desert... before my swim thrue the sewage the corn stalks are still in my guitar case. my guitars are espensive.... cept the ovation i bring to cw.... they are like a thousand. many believe its a blonde alexa and a atlantic city death template…and many friends….. so there might be a considerable amount of bleach to follow into tizzown and turnpike from 2013-20 something but i amended the guitars… cuz it was indeed hit with death sewage… and sewage from my body after the cans…. and then coated with acid//// and this is part davy jones….cuz the hayley and taylor and celeb women during the united states…. were embeeded in the keys…. in the wood… so its part that also…..then coated with sewage/ black and yellow alexa cans… proximity poison from everything bushes…..air…. sewage…dirt desert hill….. and then sealed drenched in acid and bass the guitar were then unused and placed in cases… facing backwards…. being raped. or killed from 2013-2016….face against the wall like dunces…. almost blown out by a california binge drinking which awards now have a construction style they said in addition to ,my other styles i just opened taylor today to see how she is… the corn stalks in her pocket… wilted a bit… but they are still there

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torontoseoulcialite · 7 years ago

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Normal by Ryunique

At 22, Busan-born Tae Hwan Ryu decided he wanted to become a Chef. After culinary schools, he worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in Tokyo, Sydney, and London. In 2011, Ryunique, a Seoul restaurant with Japanese and French influences, was born! By 2014, the restaurant had already won 27th place and 79th place in the Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants and the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. We recently had the opportunity to visit Normal by Ryunique. This cozy, maybe 20-seat restaurant is located in fancy-pants Garosu-gil (Plastic Surgery paradise and totally Gangnam Style). I’m not sure why it’s called “Normal” as it’s anything but…

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Amuse Bouche @ Normal by Ryunique

Our first amuse bouche was soft, buttery fish perfectly complimented by the tart green apple and the simple crunch of rice paper. The “monkfish liver” (“Ankimo” in Japanese is also called “frog fish”) was similar to tuna. We were told that it’s almost like fois gras. It’s considered a delicacy and is very expensive in Japan.

Amuse Bouche @ Normal by Ryunique

Our second amuse bouche was Ayu, a sweet river fish that swims in the cleanest rivers in Japan. As our second stop on the tasting journey, it honestly wasn’t my fave. It still had a face! While my dining companion bit right in, I had a little more trepidation. I think at one point I even named my little, dragon-like friend. Eventually I sliced in somewhere in the middle. We were told that the bones were so small and soft you wouldn’t be able to taste them or even really feel a crunch. I could totally taste the bones. Plus, the small fish had been deep-fried whole. Regardless, the white fish was surprisingly pretty tasty, albeit very salty!

Wine Pairing: Château Soucherie’s Crément de Loire Rosé. This sparkling rosé made of 90% Cabernet Franc and 10% Chenin was light, fresh, and easy drinking. I could definitely see myself sipping this wine on a patio at a summer cottage. It wasn’t overly sweet, so it matched well with the tartness of the apple and the creamy flavour of the tuna-like amuse bouche. This wine is said to be ideal as an aperitif and that it pairs well with fruits and iced desserts.

Starter @ Normal by Ryunique

Our starter was simply called “Tomato and Cucumber”, but it was so much more. It came topped with a foam, which created an interesting aesthetic presentation. The tomatoes, which were marinated in sugar stock and berries, were paired with cucumber dressing and homemade ricotta cheese. The berries were punchy and the ricotta was smooth, but I found there was a little too much sauce. There was definitely some mint or basil (maybe both!) which made the salad taste super summery.

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Duck Leg, Tomato Sauce, Shiitake Tortellini

I wanted an entire bowl of this. When it was brought to the table it was incredibly fragrant. Like the salad before it, I described the tortellini as being quite punchy. There were tons of herbs blending together. The texture of the pasta was perfect, and it had an insane amount of cheese paired with a beefy ragu. Our server for the evening, nick-named “Yummy” because of her delicious eats and similar Korean name, chops the duck thigh and other ingredients really finely by hand. The dish itself was tiny, but intensely flavorful with tons of pepper and rock salt I wanted more, but felt like it would be super heavy. At the table, I described this dish as being like a first date where you share one sweet kiss and walk away without looking back. You know you want more, but the moment would be ruined if that were granted.

Pork Belly, Apple

This is an elevated take on a traditional British combination of apple and pork. This dish was very visually appealing and almost as fragrant as the tortellini. It definitely doesn’t taste like it smells. but it was still delicious. I felt like this portion of the meal was a journey in and of itself. It started out pretty dry, then rounded things out with apple flavour. After a couple of glasses of wine we joked that it went from the Sahara to the apple Nile. The pork is braised then grilled. The cabbage was marinated in salt water. The dish included a shrimp reduction and an apple reduction. Rose flowers were sprinkled on top. It had a very nutty smoky flavour and tasted of pretty Chinese flavours (to me). All the elements together reminded me of my dad’s classical chef training and my mom’s old school “Joy of Cooking” book.

Langustine Ramen, Slow Cooked Egg

Normal by Ryunique did it again. Just like all the other tasting menu dishes, the presentation of what boils down to a deconstructed noodle dish was beautiful. The noodles were fried in langoustine (Norway lobster, prawn, scampi) sauce with a quail egg. The noodles were lovely. They tasted quite similar to the hand-spun noodles I tried in Taipei, but I just couldn’t get past the overwhelmingly fishy smell and taste.

Wine Pairing:Vernaccia Di San Gimignano Rubicini. This Italian white wine is from one of my favourite regions to visit in Italy: San Gimignano. This town is between Siena and Florence and I had the pleasure of visiting twice when I was 16, however did not get the chance to imbibe. This is one of the cheaper bottles from the region. This is an easy drinking white with a hint of oak.

Striploin – Main @ Normal by Ryunique

The striploin looked like it was a deceptively tiny portion, but was more filling than you might think! My dining companion and I actually did manage to share our entrées. The broccoli purée was phenomenal. The hit of the plate, it stood out because it was unexpected and paired with the rare striploin very well. The veggies were seasoned to perfection and charred just a hint.

Duck – Main @ Normal by Ryunique

By the time we reached the main course we were through about 2 and a half glasses of wine. As far as flavour profiles go, the steak was far superior to the duck and the broccoli purée was much tastier than the citrus (yuzu?) which accompanied this dish. Whatever was stuffed into the sweet onion was unreal. Was it more ground duck? I’m not certain. Whatever it was, I was into it!

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Wine Pairings: Art Series Shiraz from Leeuwin Wine Estate (Australia) which is made up of 93% Shiraz, 5% Malbec, and 2% Viognier. This red has notes of blueberries, blackberries, anise, dark chocolate, and roasted coffee beans. I found this to be a smooth, light, red wine with a long finish.

P+S Prats & Symington Chrysea Post Scriptum (Portugal) is made up of 53% Touriga Nacional and 47% Touriga Franca. It is said to be in the top 7% of wine rankings in the world. This red is high in tannins and pairs well with organs and gamier meats. It is quite smooth with a high concentration of fruits. Of the two reds, this certainly has more depth.

Yogurt, Vanilla Mousse

Dessert rolled around and we were totally stuffed already. This dessert was a perfect combination of light and refreshing flavours and rich, creamy textures. The vanilla bean yogurt mousse was dense and cold, like a better version of ice cream! Our second deconstructed dish of the evening, I liked putting together the creamy yogurt mousse, sweet and crunchy granola, and marinated berries. You can never go wrong with pistachio, either!

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Last Thoughts on Normal by Ryunique

If you want to celebrate a special occasion, spend time with family and friends, or even impress a first date, Normal by Ryunique is a great spot just off the main drag of Garogsugil in the heart of Sinsa. while the sticker price (KRW 80,000 without wine pairings) might create a little shock and awe for your average ESL teacher, I think we forget just how much money we spend on a night out in Hongdae or Itaewon. Not only was the food fantastic, the ambiance of the restaurant was special because it’s so small. The service was so excellent and, for once in Korea, the staff truly understood that they were a key ingredient to a successful dining experience. Each gastronomic event was art on a plate (or in a bowl!). I loved the attention to detail in every aspect of Normal by Ryunique’s entertaining dining experience.

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Getting to Normal by Ryunique

Hours: Open Tuesday – Sunday 12 PM – 11PM

Address: 520-8 Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul (just up the street from Mr. Holmes Bakehouse [42, Apgujeong-ro 10-gil] one street over from Garosu-gil in Sinsa).

I was invited as a guest of Normal by Ryunique’s PR Company, not Chef Ryu himself. He did come out and quality check towards the end of our phenomenal dining event, and it was such a pleasure to meet the man behind the art on my plates. While this post was written in partnership, I only publish honest experiences. I would certainly visit any of Chef Ryu’s restaurants on my own dime as the value is definitely there and the service impeccable!

Seoul Food: Normal by Ryunique Normal by Ryunique At 22, Busan-born Tae Hwan Ryu decided he wanted to become a Chef. After culinary schools, he worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in Tokyo, Sydney, and London.

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mkpeacemaker · 8 years ago

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#THIS IS FOR JONNY #I SPENT 5 MINUTES COPYING THAT #LONG POST

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