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actualmomotaro · 4 years

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Howdy yall it is I, Kel, here to yell about my idol group again otl

“But Kel it’s been months surely there’s been progress!” Well thats,,,, incorrect umu so I’m just gonna keep yelling till we have a full roster (even tho you can still join after that!!! Bc we make online content as well :0)

Our group is Ra1n8ow Idols! We perform in PA but have members all around the area really. We’re starting our performances with Love Live and need two more people so we can fill the roster!

A short qna:

Where do I find more info that sounds swell,,,

Find us at http://instagram.com/ra1n8owidols! Our application link is in our bio uwu

Do I have to be a character from Muse and Aqours to perform with you?

Not at all!! If u only cos one of the girls were looking for its totally okay to apply still!

What are you planning on performing?

We plan on performing in 2021 at Thy Geekdom Con and Derpycon! (if they occur as scheduled and let us do so.) Our first outfits planned are the Happy maker! outfits, with some slight mods to make them more streamlined and easier to dance in. We’re working on performing five full-length numbers, with two full-group dances and one dance for each subunit.

What do u mean by online content thats confusing,,

We post content on Instagram and YouTube from all idol series! This allows people to cosplay other idols in addition to who they perform as, and lets us make content all the time!

So I’m allowed to make other vids and stuff as other girls??? :0

Yes thats exactly what that means!!!!! You are only commited to performing as the idol(s) you agree to perform as.

I don’t cos from Love Live, can I still apply?

We’re open to making content from every idol series! (I’ll be trying to tag the ones I think of but I’m sure I’ll miss some,, it’s not an attack I swear ;-;) You’re still allowed to apply, and can make content as soon as we have all your info settled uwu

If I just want to make online content do I have to be in the PA area?

The beauty of online content is it can be made anywhere!! :D While we would prefer you be around us so we can collab with you, it’s totally okay to be from elsewhere and apply! Just make it clear on your form that you only want to make online content and we’ll be gucci

So who the ding dang heck do you need for performances anyway???

I saved this for last bc reasons ;3c We have a slightly more urgent need for Muse girls but all these spots need filled!

Rin Hoshizora

Hanayo Koizumi

You Watanabe

Mari Ohara

This isnt really my thing, how else can I help?

Thats okay friend!!! Please spread the word that we’re scouting anywhere you can and link our Instagram when you do! That will help us get these spots filled asap so I can finally stop crying about it

That should be it! Thanks for reading! You can message us on our Instagram with any questions, or you can just send me an ask here. (though it might take a hot lord for me to get back to u on tumblr gomen)

- Kel, co-leader of Ra1n8ow Idols

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soulvomit · 5 years

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Weird zeitgeist thing

When I was younger and mainly hanging out with guys, they tended to be two kinds of guys:

1) old school nerds/geeks who over time became huge LGBTQ allies (lots of LGBTQ people joined our group) and were nerds *because* they rejected bro culture (I feel like the huge influx of bro energy into geekdom happened with video games and comics). I'm still friends with lots of them. As a whole these specific men supported women/LGBTQ people being creators and in geek space. And yes there were shitty male geeks. But I didn't hang out with them. There were as many who weren't shitty, and that's who was in my group. The couple that most resemble angry incels, got wedged out of the group and excluded over time.

2) slacker dudes. The popular image of young men when I was 18 was mainly the young suburban white guys who call everyone dude, as represented by Bill & Ted/Wayne's World, or a stoner flick. Basically: not bros, not just guys, but DUDES. This wasn't lad culture, it wasn't bro culture, it was DUDE culture. Slacker dudes were my first introduction to a subculture away from geek culture.

Here's the thing: you could filter out the casual racism and objectification from the average 90s "dude" movie, and still be left with 80% of the content, and something that seems relatively harmless compared to bro or lad culture. (Even Beavis & Butt-head are tame these days.) That's *why* you could still do a Bill & Ted movie with modern sensibilities.

Slacker snark was just as often guys making fun of pop culture or Silent Generation attitudes (and lots of us IDOLIZED hippies, Beatniks, and old Civil Rights activists.) Also, lots were their own kind of nerdy.

Most "dudes" I knew *weren't* socially awkward woman-haters. They didn't like those people. I had a few male friends in my spaces and a couple were probably asexual and they were largely just left alone about their sex life.

They *could* be racist and sexist as individuals, but that also means some of them weren't. There was no massive cult or groupthink space trying to rally Dude Culture into a standing army of the culture war. Slacker Dude Culture was all about NOT participating in that.

They didn't have any great analysis (or often any analysis at all) and lots didn't claim to be feminists.

Here is the thing, they weren't even close to incel adjacent, in fact they didn't have the massive problems with dating (and lots seemed to not care about it; there was a very brief weird 90s, 20something Gen X slacker culture zone between being a player and being a traditionalist serious person that allowed lots of different kinds of relationship and lifestyle shapes.) Lots I knew didn't seem to really care whether they got sex or not and they were the *most* respectful of boundaries of any straight guys I knew; there was lots of focus on just looking within and living your own life and "being chill" (which meant not putting your trips on other people). Doesn't mean there weren't other dudes and dude-adjacent people who weren't big boundary violators, but my realization that I *could* just be friends with straight guys and it could be chill and not even be sexualized, happened because my slacker dude friends just wanted to hang out and smoke weed, and weren't pushing romantic or sexual agendas. A couple had close friends who were LGBTQ, too. Some of my slacker dude friends were horrible flakes, and horrible people to date, but this wasn't as gendered an issue or politicized an issue as it became and there was an *option* - they just weren't as shitty about whether or not they were getting laid as guys in middle class square spaces were. (And if you were Gen X and hanging out in slacker culture, you probably were hanging out with guys, it was a very gendered phenomenon.)

I ran into some men acting horrid or hurtful, but in my own communities, it was on an individual basis, and not a groupthink, and not a broad culture meme... and I didn't expect to get along with or be liked by *every* person in a space, anyway. (Which is another thing that needs to be unpacked, because I feel like it's a thing women are socialized with that makes female social awkwardness different from male social awkwardness.)

#slacker culture saved my sense of selfhood in many ways #it's hard to elucidate

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jesse-eisenberg-interview · 15 years

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Jesse Eisenberg Becomes an Action Figure in Zombieland

Posted: October 2, 2009.

For 26 year old actor Jesse Eisenberg –who was awarded lots of attention for his troubled teenager in The Squid and the Whale – becoming a zombie-killing machine offers a curious shift in gears. Interspersed with his first-person voiceover as the wussy Columbus, Zombieland spotlights two survivors who forge an uneasy alliance to live in a world destroyed by a plague that turns nearly everyone into zombies. Both are trying to get east to see if anyone is free of the infection. The multiweapon-toting, bad-ass Tallahassee (the darkly funny Woody Harrelson) distrusts bonding as much as he hates zombies – but that's only because he doesn't want to pummel a friend if they've morphed into the living dead.

At first bamboozled by sisters Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin), they establish a relationship with this duo to form a dysfunctional and desperate ersatz family. All four have found their own ways to vanquish zombies, so when the sisters steal the boys' SUV and guns, they catch up to the girls and go along with their determined effort to visit their favorite amusement park in California.

This wry, macabre horror comedy not only brings out the mayhem-making on Eisenberg's part, it shows he's capable of spoofing the kind of post-collegiate, sexually repressed nervous wreck he played so well in Adventureland who, lo and behold, worked in a local amusement park. And, if it's successful, he will be doing a lot more than just the San Diego Comic-con and the recent Fantastic Fest in Austin. Ironically though, as Eisenberg admits in this exclusive one-on-one interview, he's more of an art house rather than genre fan and proud of it. Maybe his next few roles – as Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings or possibly, as the founder of Facebook – may better suit him, but I think he has a long future in geekdom.

You're a healthy 20-something. How have you avoided watching your share of horror movies? Maybe you read little too many Greek tragedies. I saw a performance of The Bacchae by Euripides the other day and that could be translated into a horror film.

My friend directed a Greek play and then he did like a horror movie version of it. It's not actually that different. I just don't really like horror movies. They're either scary, or if they're not scary, they're terrible. If they're not scary then they're a failure, and if they are scary then they scare you. So either way, you kind of walk out lost. But this movie is really not that. As you saw last night, it's mostly comedic, and it's a real fun experience. The horror of it is really secondary.

Now that you've done this movie, and you're a zombie-slayer, are you going to investigate a lot more horror films?

I have my own narrow view of cinema, but no, not really.

You've got to see Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn with the slaying of the vampires, or John Carpenter's Vampires. Bride of Frankenstein is one of the great movies of all time. Didn't making this film intrigue you as to what is behind the psychology of horror films like the old Universal pictures? What would you want to see?

I'm sure they're great. There was a movie out last year that everyone said to go see, called Let the Right One In.

The Swedish vampire movie.

Is it really good?

It's great. For those who like indie films, you get your dose of indie art from of it. It's teen angst via the vampire genre without too much teen idol-making. Now that you've done the kind of movie that might make you a teen idol, are you worried that Robert Pattinson's Twilight fans will switch over to you?

That's not my nature or the character in this movie. The only people that will be interested in me from this movie will be grandmothers, and they don't have websites. No, I think there's no threat.

You don't think that you've made a valid play for Wichita (Emma Stone) to fall madly in love with you?

Yeah, but he's not that kind of character. Thank God because who wants to be in the tabloids for anything, ever.

If this movie does well, you're going to be doing lots of comic-cons and things like that now.

I know. I realize that... I know.

Do you collect anything that you might find at the comic-cons so you should be looking forward to them?

I had no idea what anything was there. We had to go to this year's [San Diego Comic-con]. I was out of my element.

You didn't get turned onto any cool graphic novels?

No. They couldn't be further from my comfort zone.

You must collect something. What do you collect?

I don't know. I don't have any space for anything. We have collector's half-photos of Fidel Castro at my house. I don't know why. We have like three amazing collector's editions.

How did you separate yourself from the character which plays on the type of characters you've done?

All the acting is very naturalistic, so it seems like we're all these people. It takes a lot of effort to establish this tone of this movie. The movie asks a lot of you comedically in a very specific world and in a very specific way. It's a unique world that the movie takes place in. I don't see the character as exactly like myself, but I'm sure when people see the movie they will think that. Until one acts in a movie, they realize that it requires effort, even if it looks very natural or casual.

When you do a movie like this – you've handled guns, kicked ass on zombies – how does it change you? Are you inspired to be more of an ass kicker in some way?

No. I don't want to be promoting violence to children or making it look fun. Luckily, my character does not want to shoot people. He might close a door on this girl's foot and she's trying to kill me, and I'll say, "I'm so sorry that I hurt your foot." I'm glad that my character and I cannot have too much fun with the violence. People are going to see this movie that maybe have a proclivity towards violence, and we wouldn't want to make it look that much fun where it's inadvertently promoting it.

Woody does a damn good job of making it seem like it's a lot of fun. It brought out your inner shit-kicker. Do you think you're going to get offers now to do a lot more shit-kicking as a result?

No, no, I don't think so, nor am I interested in that. It's exhausting and technically difficult to shoot scenes like that. The scenes that I'm interested in are the scenes where we're creating these characters. These other scenes, half the time the stunt guy is doing the thing that's the most fun looking.

If you had to smash anything like you did in the film, if you had that opportunity to smash as a result of the freedom to smash, what would you have had in mind?

Probably a laptop computer, because you know how frustrating it is when it's not doing the thing you asked it to do. It's the most frustrating thing in the world, and you just want to throw it against the wall. It would probably feel good for one second – and after that, terrible. Again, the things that are most fun to watch are usually the things that are the most difficult to shoot. When we were filming the scene where we destroyed this store, you had to be very careful. Then when you watch it, it looks like the characters are having fun so spontaneously. But it's a difficult thing to shoot. It's so much fun to watch so you can relive it, almost, through your characters.

Did you discuss a back story as to how the zombie plague began? Did you elaborate – just for fun – on whether it was some sort of biological experiment?

It changed so much over the course. At first, we weren't sure if people would be interested in knowing the back story. Then we did the test screenings of it and realized people actually want to know where it came from. So the final verdict is that it's now like a mad cow disease. It came from contaminated hamburger, which is good because it has some kind of possible practical implications toward the food industry. Woody is really happy with that because he's a strict vegan.

Harrelson is an incredibly naturally funny guy. I don't know how you get on set with him without breaking up all the time. Abigail Breslin can be funny too. But you must have had some interesting conversations with him, because he's got that passionate, serious side about politics, philosophy, and other things?

I've admired him for many years. I work with a few animal rights organizations, I've been vegetarian for five years and I was vegan for a year. I'm not a vegan right now, but when we were filming I ate all the same food he ate.

You had so much fun with Woody there, that you must love to have a chance to work with him again. Do you see that as a possibility?

Yeah, I would love to. He kind of cast me in this, so I owe him a lot and would love to.

Not only as a result of this movie, but are there people you'd like to act with or work with? Now you've done such an interesting range of people, you're moving on to a new plateau.

Yeah, that's exactly it. I would never think that I would get to meet Woody Harrelson. It always ends up being more shocking than you would have expected had you tried to fantasize about it.

Do you ever sit there and fantasize about who you would have as your leading ladies?

No, I'm surprised that they stay on the set after they meet me. As you're well aware, I'm more than lucky.

It must have been fun working with Emma. Did you know her from before? She really doesn't take seriously that role of the sex kitten, zombie-slayer. It must have been fun to work with her.

It's a great asset to the movie that she's not the typical hot girl. She's an incredibly funny person. The character that she has is a very strong and self-respecting female character, which is not the most common thing – especially in a movie like this, a horror-comedy.

You're lucky that you've been able to get some really great directors. Are there people you want to target? Writers you want?

No. Once you start doing that, you just open yourself up to disappointment, because it doesn't work that way. It's best to just be open minded to whatever new opportunities present themselves, like in this case.

You must have thought about sequels.

No, no, I haven't. If you'd asked me a week ago if I wanted to do a sequel, I would say that would definitely be the last thing that I would ever want to do. In fact, they asked me when I originally signed up for the movie, "Could you sign on for a sequel now?" I asked my lawyer at the time, "Please, please, don't agree to something like that," because the worst thing you want to be doing is a sequel to a movie that no one likes. When I saw the movie the other night for the first time in Miami, I was so blown away. I think it would be a great thing to do.

When you envision that sequel, can you imagine all the possible places to go, like zombies in New York versus zombies in LA?

I would love to do that, too, because I wouldn't have to leave home to film it. That's exactly right; there's so much you could do. Although I imagine zombies in New York would be so much more expensive they'll probably end up doing zombies in Tulsa. But there are so many possibilities because there's such a free-flowing logic to the movie.

You were pretty young when you started, and you've naturally evolved. Where do you want to go from here? You've done comedies, but they're with a more indie heart to them then some of the raunchy buddy stuff that Judd Apatow's produced and directed. Where do you see yourself going now that you've added this into the catalog?

Well, I never expected to be in a movie like this. But because the script was so good, I wanted to. So I guess it's just project to project, regardless of what the genre is or the size of the movie. I feel like if it's good, then that stuff is really not relevant, and that's what I felt about this. I mean they're sending me a lot of movies that are similar to this because people are liking this movie, but they're awful. I have plays that I've written that I'm trying to get done, and it's certainly helpful to be in movies that people see. The next movies I'm supposed to do happen to be dramas, but if something like this came along again I'd be happy to do it.

What about directing and other things?

That's a whole different [story], to actually have some command of authority, and I don't have any of that.

But then you'd rise to the occasion.

I suppose you could, but you need a deep voice or something.

Oh, you're undervaluing your magnetic and influential skills.

Thank you, but you're the same person that wanted to see an action figure of me.

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#jesse eisenberg #2009 #zombieland

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skymoonandstardust · 6 years

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oh ships :) i am latina, 5 ft tall, bi, sarcastic, love reading book/comics, i also love geekdom, also love mythology, i dislike cooking lol

i ship you with Peter Parker

mcu Ships!!

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thegreythoughtsblog · 5 years

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Guest Derek Vigeant from The Geekdom Fancast joins Jack to discuss the nature of Death, Geek Culture, the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek, Thought Experiments and the wave of sexual abuse charges of catholic priests. Story: On one of the most topically diverse shows to date, Jack brings Derek from the Geekdom Fancast. With his help they investigate the origin of corrupt rapists, lying mediums the Michael Jackson accusations. What they find out in the depths of their research is both enlightening and highly disturbing. Remember to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or anywhere you listen to podcasts to help us get noticed.We’ll read our favorites Apple Podcast reviews on the show! Tell friends, family or anyone you know who’ll like the show about it. l Topics Discussed - Death of Our Idols - Random Chances of Dying - Walk Through the Process of Dying - What is a Spirit? - Ghost Consciousness - Ghost Hunters on TV - Reality Tv - Fiction vs Reality - Podcasting Alone - Geek Culture - Star Wars vs Star Trek - Thought Experiment - Death Penalty - Torture - Trump is Important - Catholic Church Molestation Charges - Micheal Jackson: Escaping Neverland l Geekdom Fancast Links: Website - thegeekdomfancast.com Apple Podcasts Instagram - @thegeekdomfancast Twitter l Listen on Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Stitcher Or anywhere you her your podcasts. #newepisode #podcast #podcasting #new #geek #nerd #starwars #startrek #fan #guest #podcastguest https://www.instagram.com/p/B7zF--MpkEY/?igshid=prdm51jw0ia6

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adambstingus · 6 years

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Can You Ever Love Jimi Hendrix Too Much? The Theater of Music Geekdom

Music geekdom is a horrid calamity. You have to largely suffer in private, since who among your friends and loved ones could ever been said that the original Miles Davis Quintet isn’t jazz so much as pure amber distilled into the form of phone, or that the Chicago post-rock scene in the late 1990 s rivaled the grunge vistum in Seattle in the early’ 90 s for its splendour and depth or that no, you can’t go out tonight, you have to go home and listen to the first Faces album on repeat.

Music geekdom explained how a few riffs of guitar can transport you amply back to an afternoon in high school. It is a fever best borne alone.

But this malady gets a full and unabashed airing in a duo of shows that were a part of the the Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival, a 14 -year-old showcase of some of the most wonderful cutting edge theater all over the world.

The two indicates are in a dialog with each other about simply this ailment: being punch drunk, crazily in love with stone n’roll.

Dialog though is an odd word to use here, since that building block of any decent romp is entirely absent from both of these recitals.

The Hendrix Project undoes wordlessly. It is the story of 12 people–kids we would probably call them now, since they are somewhere between the ages of being old-time enough to buy cigarettes but not quite old-time enough to buy booze–who have to come to rafters of Fillmore East in New York City on New Year’s Eve 1969 to watch Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsys tear the ceiling off the place in one of the most fabled concerts in boulder history.

How to Be a Rock Critic is a one humanity show about the antic living for Lester Bangs, the gonzo boulder critic who devised the word “punk,” characterized a generation’s appreciation in music and brought a kind of grab-them-by-the-throat mode of review that the artistry flesh hadn’t really examined before.

Here the words coming spilling out, one on top of the other in a great waving, mainly as flights of fancy on the significance of rock-and-roll stardom, or art, or life.

” Look, there have always been stellars and idols have always been created and the public has always vested them with everything we believe that we don &# x27; t have, because the whole detail of rock& bun is to create imaginations. The whole part of it is myth. And who am I, Lester Bangs, World Famous Rock Critic, to tell you what your illusion is ?” Erik Jensen, as a bravura Bangs, says early on.” Enjoy your splendid illusions. Ultimately being a’ critic’ only symbolizes wanting to inflict your tastes on other beings. It’s a very honest motive: I simply want you to like the same things I like. I need you to like them. Then I will not be alone .”

Both of these shows are acts of cherish, the product of a kind of pure fandom that strays into evangelism for the goals and objectives of their centre. And if you fail to get wise, both displays try harder, like that one friend who thinks you will really like Captain Beefheart if you simply render it one more listen, and this time actually listen.

The Hendrix Project can scarcely be called a play-act. Directed and seen of by Spike Lee traitor Roger Guenveur Smith, it is more of a action fragment while a rock concert comes exploding out of the theater’s speakers.

The 12 gathering members sway to the music, mutedly scream with satisfy, gape at the show in a dazed wonder, mime taking copious amounts of alcohol and drugs and pair off with one another in ever-rotating combinings, with a few of them sneaking off to a windowed chamber behind the balcony to jailer.

It is Dec. 31, 1969, and the’ 60 s are purposing with a thunderclap as soon as the last saloons of” We Gotta Live Together” fade away. In a short sum of hour Hendrix would be dead of anti-retroviral drugs overdose, and that halcyon decade of peace and cherish would give way to a far darker decade of Watergate, Jonestown, Kent State and Three Mile Island.

You will wait in vain for a coherent narrative to words out of The Hendrix Project . It is a co-production with CalArts Center For New Performance and feels a bit like a classroom activity designed to teach students how to move through cavity.

It is as if Smith invited you up to his dormroom to check out this new Hendrix album that will Blow. Your. Mind.

There is no way out until the needle ultimately face-lift off the record player.

How to Be a Rock Critic provides the commentary that The Hendrix Project absence, as Bangs waxes lyrical about what becomes The Stooges so great and why pretty much every other circle or artist you are able like is like a phony purveyor of bullshit.

Rock stellars, Bangs says( while poignantly enough impounding a Jimi Hendrix record) are” like divinities. They frighten us even as we bow before them. And we are therefore build them up and rip them down. We encourage them in their deterioration. It &# x27; s culture cannibalism .”

As someone who, although he would scarcely declare it, attempted to threw the rock-and-roll pundit in the same pantheon as the stone starring, once even climbing on stagecoach with his typewriter and writing a review in real epoch during a J. Geils Band concert, Bangs was guilty of the same kind of cultural self-cannibalism.

Indeed, the answer to the question How to Be a Rock Critic seems to be: booze vodka from the bottle, swallow cough medicine whole, and ingest whatever capsules you can find in your pocket.

The show takes residence in Bangs’ living room, piled high with books and records and cough medicine and beer cans, and Bangs stumbles out on stagecoach asking us to go away. He is just about to finish a review. He changes his recollection and invites us to abide, tossing a got a couple of those beers out to the audience.

It is fair to wish that he hadn’t been so gracious. Even though the show is only 80 hours, it was better feels as if you are caught in the accommodation of a stone geek, hopped up on who knows what as he presses simply one more album you got to hear on you, tells one more fable from life on the road, causes one last-place chestnut about Art and Life and Beauty.

Both of these performances adoration rock-and-roll n’roll, and they enjoy what they desire so sincerely and truly that “youre supposed to” adoration it to, just for their purpose. But at health risks of a Bangian flight of fancy myself, that’s the thing about love–it is personal and idiosyncratic, and it never obligates appreciation to anybody else. And despite some very well prepared music, these participates don’t really either.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/can-you-ever-love-jimi-hendrix-too-much-the-theater-of-music-geekdom/ from All of Beer https://allofbeercom.tumblr.com/post/182728064432

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samanthasroberts · 6 years