#indy 500 2005

[vetteldixon]

The car was pretty good though and we were able to move up to 9th, but midway through the race Richie Hearn and I crashed together and were both taken out of the race. Got cleared at the medical center and went up to the Target suites and had a few beers and watched the rest of the race. That’s the first time in my life that I was actually saying, “Go Dan Wheldon.”

→ Scott Dixon in his 2005 Indy 500 diary

[jack-doohan]

BRYAN HERTA - 2005 Indianapolis 500 Carb Day

[josiebelladonna]

last night, somehow, by some whim, i started reading about my favorite f1 drivers, and i’m talking back when i was watching it religiously with my dad—2005-2011; 2012, i was watching it for the most part by myself; i remember i quit watching in 2013 because things were getting way too political to be enjoyable and everyone i liked was either without a drive or they sucked in the previous season and i wasn’t in the best headspace then. then somehow, i caught the 2016 season, right after jules passed away and that was it after that.

one of my first cartoon endeavors was called “life in the paddock”: a hand drawn comic/fanfiction that i made when i wasn’t focusing on school. i made my last cartoon in summer 2011 when my home life was in shambles and i had to focus on going to college and also surviving; i wouldn’t even touch the cartoon world again until that following may with my soundgarden ones. i remember it so well, from january 2007 - july 2011. in fact, just last night, i got the honest to god stupidest idea to resurrect it from the grave, 13 years after its untimely demise à la soundgarden’s reunion—if i do, it’s going to have to wait until i finish my kinktober fics, which i actually plan on signing and sealing and queuing up all the way in the coming days. it + throughout the dark months of april and may could be a wonderful balance to my testament fics. things that go vroom vroom to balance out the complex crush that i never want to stop exploring.

my guys are always going to be kimi räikkönen, robert kubica, nick heidfeld, jenson button, mark webber, takuma sato (his winning the indy 500 back in 2017 was easily a bright light for me in that summer), adrian sutil, “the nicos” (rosberg and hulk), the schumacher brothers, and i even liked bruno senna and timo glock for a while; i had the weirdest fucking soft spot for vitaly petrov, too (and when i say weird, i mean it—the dude was backed by putin and the mob, so i remember being seen as like the “bad girl” or even the “hellraiser” on the old groups and boards i used to frequent—that title literally just stayed with me the last 12 years 😅)

it’ll never not be wild to me to see how much it’s changed now. how americanized it all is now. the fandom now is like kpop twitter before twitter fell under elon’s control, a far cry from the kind of sassy, snarky fandom i had cozied up with initially.

when i was watching, it was insulated away from everything. it was a very ritzy, very glamorous atmosphere. it was all very high tech.

i’m literally not sure what happened after 2016. it’s got this “how do you do, fellow kids” vibe but slightly to the left.

[trainsinanime]

You know what? I think I'm rooting for Felipe Massa to win his court case.

Now, I am absolutely not saying that he should win his court case. The court case is completely bonkers and makes no sense. He can't prove he'd have won the title in 2008 without crashgate, let alone how much money that'd have given him. He can't even prove he'd have won that race. For all we know, Ferrari's pit stop incompetence would have doomed him anyway. Alternatively, maybe he could have finished ahead of Hamilton anyway if it hadn't been for Ferrari's pit stop performance, which is absolutely something that's his problem.

And then there's the well established and well respected precedent of not changing things after the fact, especially not sixteen years later. If Max Verstappen got to keep the 2021 world title, then obviously Hamilton gets to keep the 2008 one, the FIA's actions there are far less controversial.

But… just consider if he won the court case. What would that be like? From then until forever, all F1 YouTubers discussing racing history would have to bring up that the world driver's champion 2008 was decided in 2024. Would Massa get a ceremony with a trophy? Perhaps right there in the court room? Would he have to sue Hamilton to get his trophy? Would the statistics all say that Hamilton used to be a seven time world champion until it was changed to six? It would be pure and utter incomprehensible chaos, and I'd love to see it. I think it would be utterly hilarious. The F1 world would be talking about this for the entire year and probably all of 2025 (basically until Verstappen stops winning, and I don't see that happening before 2026). It would be a bigger story than Brawn GP. Massa would be the most spoken-about world champion ahead of Schumacher.

In fact, let's go further. Let's reopen 2021, in ten years from now, and reassign the title to, I dunno, Vettel. Make the Indy 500 part of the F1 championship again, but retroactively and only for 1994. Decide the winner of Indianapolis 2005 by random coin toss. Assign a race win to Grosjean, he deserves one after that crash and Hamilton or Verstappen won't even notice if they miss one. I want to see the F1 world burn! As does Felipe Massa, apparently.

[anandrettisimp]

See that smiling wee cherub looking all smart in his first race suit?

He’s became this little ray of sunshine that’s just won his first open wheel series through Skip Barber and with it $100,000 scholarship to go to USF JR aka the first rung of the Road to Indy ladder.

This is Sebastian Wheldon, son of the late Dan Wheldon, 2005 IndyCar champion and two time Indy 500 winner.

It would have been very easy and understandable for his mum Susie to of just kept him and his younger brother Oliver away from motorsport but she didn’t and they are flourishing in racing.

So if you want a next gen to keep tabs on over the next couple of years then Sebastian (and Oliver) is definitely a good choice.

Also keep an eye out for The Lionheart, a documentary about the Wheldons (with a warning that it does include Dan’s final race) that has been doing the film festival circuit and HBO has got the rights to (no date on when to be shown though).

[crystalracing]

Video ideas

How bad was Max Verstappen's dad in F1?

The story of the Japanese Kimi Raikkonen (Tora Takagi)

Why Ocon & Gasly's rivalry means nothing (Peterson, de Angelis, Heidfeld & Fisichella)

How unlucky was Fernando Alonso's F3000 rival in F1 & Indycar? (Bruno junquiera)

How unlucky was Senna's local rival in F1 & Indycar? (Raul Boesel)

When did Fernando Alonso peak in F1?

How 2003 Australian Grand Prix changed F1 forever

How bad was Kevin Magnussen's dad in F1?

Why have Japanese & Asian drivers never won in F1?

How 1999 French GP nearly led to F1's greatest underdog champions (Frentzen & Jordan)

How Ronnie Peterson's death changed F1 safety forever

How Niki Lauda's crash changed F1 completely

How AJ Foyt vs Mario Andretti made Indy 500 America's most famous car race

How great was Audi in 1930s F1?

Why the greatest Italian driver would destroy today's F1 stars (Tazio Nuvolari)

How bad was Nelson Piquet Jr in F1?

How good was Johnny Herbert in F1?

How unlucky was Lewis Hamilton in 2012?

How a politician nearly became Argentina's 2nd F1 champion (Reutemann & FISA-FOCA war)

How Ferrari destroyed Vettel for good

How great was Kimi Raikkonen in F1?

How good was Kimi Raikkonen's hero in F1 (James Hunt)

How good were BAR-Honda in F1?

How good were BMW in F1?

How Ford Cosworth changed F1 forever

How Lotus & Colin Chapman changed F1 forever

How Ayrton Senna's death killed off independent F1 teams

Why Lewis Hamilton is wrong about diversity in F1 (Story of Prince Bira)

How McLaren redefined professionalism in F1 (Lauda, Prost & Ron Dennis)

Why Paul Tracy wrongly lost 2002 Indy 500 (CART vs IRL)

How Gilles Villeneuve’s death nearly ended Ferrari & F1 (FISA-FOCA war)

How Prost & Senna made F1 so popular (how the media reported on their rivalry)

Was Keke Rosberg lucky to win 1982 F1 championship?

How Nico Rosberg's 2016 championship win changed F1

How Toyota changed F1 for worse (and ruined independent teams)

From Jordan to Aston Martin: victory against all odds

The story of F1's forgotten Robocop (Alessandro Nannini)

What Fernando Alonso's success taught F1 about marketing (Spain)

How Daniel Ricciardo redefined marketing in F1

The story of how the Finnish Ayrton Senna (Kimi) became an internet meme

How the Japanese Lance Stroll heralded the rise of F1 pay drivers (Satoru Nakajima, Pedro Diniz, Montermini, Ghinzani, Tarquini, Schneider, Dalmas, Zunino & Rebaque)

How a Brazilian backmarker was sacrificed for Michael Schumacher (Roberto Moreno)

How good were Michael Schumacher's team-mates in F1?

How bad was Michael Schumacher at Mercedes?

Why Sergio Perez proves how midfielders are overrated in F1 (Fisichella, Johansson, Bottas)

How a Belgian prisoner handed Michael Schumacher his F1 break (Bertrand Gachot & Jean-Marc Bosman)

Why we will never see a race like 1996 Monaco GP again

How 1997 Canadian GP destroyed France's next superstar (Olivier Panis)

Why Juan Pablo Montoya was feared by Schumacher, Alonso & Kimi (old school)

How Jacques Villeneuve changed F1 social media without even trying

How Mansell & Piquet became tabloid heroes & villains in F1

How a fat Australian set Williams on the path to F1 glory (Alan Jones)

How 1984 Monaco GP redefined rookies in F1 (Senna & Bellof)

How Brazil's original Senna changed F1 & Indycar for better & worse (Emmo Fittipaldi, his team sucked & he became the first foreign Indycar champion)

How 1989 Ferrari reworked F1 car design

How Jenson Button made rookies hot property in F1

How 1998 Belgian GP lost Jordan another Schumacher (how Ralf left for Williams)

Who was better: Hakkinen or Raikkonen?

Who are Ferrari's true rivals in F1? (Clue: themselves)

Why the French Fernando Alonso should have won 7 F1 world titles (Prost)

How the death of Helmut Marko's friend changed F1 forever (Jochen Rindt)

How 1999 Malaysian GP changed F1 forever (new circuit, title fight, Schumi's return from injury)

Why F1 flopped in America before Liberty Media (DTS, poor tracks, 2005 Indygate, few American drivers, NASCAR & Indycar)

Why are there no more Fangios in F1 from Argentina nor South Africa?

How F1 contributed to the rise of Russia & Putin (Max Mosley, Life F1, Hungarian GP, China, Middle East & Marussia, Midland)

How an Australian farmer upset the odds in F1 (Jack Brabham)

How a fat Italian redefined F1 team management (Flavio Briatore)

How a motorcycle dealer made F1 popular (Bernie Ecclestone)

How Red Bull & F1 made each other BIGGER brands

Why F1, Ferrari & Mercedes are synonymous with each other

Aston Martin & Honda: A recipe for F1 disaster?!

Have Red Bull ruined their rookies' F1 careers? (Answer: No)

How Ferrari crushed the F1 career of their last Italian driver (Ivan Capelli)

Why Alfa Romeo failed in F1 again (50s & 80s, brand image and Ferrari)

How a Frenchman dominated Indycar & flopped at Red Bull F1's B team (Bourdais)

Why Silverstone, Monaco & Monza mean EVERYTHING to F1

He won Le Mans 6 times & Dakar, but never a F1 title (Jacky Ickx)

How sacking a Spanish backmarker helped Lewis Hamilton in F1 (de la Rosa)

How an American's tantrum led to Red Bull domination (Scott Speed)

How Jules Bianchi's death killed off the independent F1 teams forever

Why Lewis Hamilton DOMINATES F1 social media

How Max Verstappen became the antithesis to Lewis Hamilton in F1

How McLaren & Kimi Raikkonen nearly wrecked each other in F1

Why was Mika Hakkinen rated as Schumacher's greatest rival in F1?

How 2007 damaged Fernando Alonso's F1 career

Why did Mario Andretti's son fail in F1?

How Senna & Berger became the original F1 social media pals

How a lost diamond made Jaguar quit F1 (2004 Monaco)

How this Ferrari legend became a voice for disability (Clay Regazzoni)

The Damon Hill of WRC: the tragic tale of Richard Burns

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2004 - Wrap Up

It's time to wave a fond farewell to Istanbul. 2004 has been the year of expansion - the year Eurovision got too big for a single show on a Saturday night. The girl bop domination continued, but the Balkan ballad also entered the spotlight. It's the year of debuts and new national finals.

Despite the expansion, in many respects 2004 is a year of consolidation and settling after several years of change, upheaval and scandal. The voting system has achieved the EBU's desired final form of 100% televote at last. The was some oddness, but that was largely confined to unexpected ABBA puppets and the sudden warm feeling between formally antagonistic neighbours in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The string of first time winners continued, this time with Ukraine with their second ever attempt. The vibes at the end were almost universally good ones.

The biggest set of innovations were happening outside of Eurovision itself. Now that there were more countries, there were many more national finals. There were severnal new ones, venerable competitions like Festivali i Këngës now serving an additional purpose, and other countries went for complete reinventions.

Some existing competitions seemed to get even bigger and grander. In Germany, Belgium and Poland there was expansion not only in the number of acts but in the quality and the recognisability of the competitors. This was the year that both Željko and Toše first shone outside of Balkans, where they were household names, and reached a much wider audience.

Metas were emerging. Not only the girl bop, but there was an increase in the amount of disco as well as the emerging new trend of rock. Ranging from glam metal schlager to serious brooding as well as indie anthems, national broadcasters seemed to want to make a point that there were multiple different genres that could be selected. Eurovision could be more broadly representative of popular music. New formats were tried - the age of the super-final was ushered in with several competitions trying it out.

For the songs that made it to the Eurovision stage, it was another good year. Matching 2003 in the number of songs that make it into the songfestival.be annual chart - there are six in the latest top 500. There was very little in the way of controversy and booing compared to the previous year. TRT became the first broadcaster to have to organise two shows and even more rehearsals. There were a few wrinkles to iron out of course, but when the biggest visible hitch is Sertab Erener's heel briefly getting caught in the grill surrounding the stage, you know it's been a competent production. I still miss the reverse recap though!

Bye bye 2004 - it's been great. Let's see what Kyiv can do in 2005. There's revolution in the air.

[dystini]

Indycar Driver Lore

Indycar Driver Lore Masterlist

Colton Thomas Herta

Birthdate: March 30, 2000 Hometown: Valencia, California Residence: Brentwood, Tennessee Height/Weight: 5’10”/140lbs

Rookie Year: 2019

Team: Andretti Global

Follow him on: Instagram Twitter

Career Stats

2018: 1 race with Harding Racing - 37th Overall 2019: Harding Steinbrenner Racing - 7thg Overall 2020: Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport - 3rd Overall 2021: Andretti Autosport - 5th Overall 2022: Andretti Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian - 10th Overall 2023: Andretti Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian - 10th Overall

IMSA 2019 BMW Team RLL, GTLM class, won Daytona 24 2020 BMW Team RLL, GTLM class 2021 Turner Motorsport, GTD class 2022 DragonSpeed USA, LMP2 class, won Daytona 24 2023 BMW M Team RLL, GTP class

2022 Race of Champions

-He was the first NTT INDYCAR SERIES driver born in the 2000’s and is a seven-time race winner. -Became the youngest race winner in NTT INDYCAR SERIES history when he won at Circuit of The Americas in 2019 at 18 years, 359 days old and became youngest pole winner in NTT INDYCAR SERIES history at 19 years 83 days when he scored his first pole at Road America in 2019. -Son of former NTT INDYCAR SERIES driver Bryan Herta, who won four races in his driving career and two Indianapolis 500s as a team owner. Bryan Herta was race strategist for his son's NTT INDYCAR SERIES team and a co-owner of the Andretti Herta Haupert with Marco and Curb-Agajanian entry. -Won the 2019 Rolex 24 at Daytona with BMW Team RLL in GT Le Mans class. -Competed for Andretti Steinbrenner Racing in INDY NXT by Firestone in 2017-18, winning six races. -Enjoys electronic dance music (EDM), comedies and video games. He is also an active athlete who enjoys cycling, running and golf. -Plays drums in a rock band caled The Zibs, which is an arabic slang term for penis. The band toured the West Coast in 2019 -Doesn't really drink coffee

-left handed

Iconic/memorable moments 2022 INSIDE THE RACE // COLTON HERTA AT HONDA INDY TORONTO Outside the Line: Colton Herta HONDA PACE CAR // COLTON HERTA AND ALEXANDER ROSSI What Racecar Phenom Colton Herta Is Listening To JAVA WITH JAMES // JAMES HINCHCLIFFE WITH COLTON HERTA Colton Herta crashes, flips in final Indy 500 practice | Motorsports on NBC Colton Herta impresses in Formula One test at Portimão Circuit Outside the Line: Colton Herta The Racer Channel videos with Colton Herta Unbelievable Herta Save | Indycar GMR Grand Prix 2022 2022 PACE CAR LAPS // BRYAN AND COLTON HERTA ON THE STREETS OF LONG BEACH King Taco: Questions with Colton Herta

IndyCar rookie phenom Colton Herta's side gig: Rock band drummer Colton Herta INTERVIEW! The IndyCar Podcast Tom Griswold Interviews Colton Herta (2022 Indy 500) Colton Herta and Dan Wheldon Celebrate Bryan Herta's Win at Michigan 2005 MP 651: The Week In IndyCar,, Sept 28, with Colton Herta Colton Herta Loves Star Wars, Drumming, & Talladega Nights

Andretti IndyCar Drivers Test Their Pit Stop Skills | #AllAndretti | Indy 500

Road and Track's music issue, Feb/Mar 2023:

Colton is easygoing and laidback, a true California kid, yet is intensely competitive. Participant (rumored to be the mastermind) in several of the infamous Indy 500 bus lot pranks in recent years, he somehow eludes any true blame falling upon him. He’s well-liked within the paddock, most recently sort of adopted by the Bus Bros and nicknamed “Swolton.” He is also close friends with Alex Rossi, often staying with his former teammate when he needs to be in Indy. He doesn’t make a lot of waves off-track, one of the quietest drivers on social media, but makes up for it on-track with fantastic saves and crashes in equal measure. Just 23 years old in 2023 has 7 wins, 11 podiums and 9 poles in his young life.

F1 discussions.

In late summer 2022, it was announced that F1 team AlphaTauri had an interest in Colton for the 2024 F1 season. Colton, already signed to McLaren F1 as a test driver in addition to his Andretti contract in Indycar, was not eligible for a Super License, a requirement to drive in F1, but this could be addressed with an exception by the FIA. At one point it was announced that this was a done deal but it was not and Red Bull (AlphaTauri’s parent team) soon abandoned all efforts to acquire Colton as a driver.

The Super License system is a convoluted thing that I will not explain here other than to say that Indycar is vastly underrated in points assigned and if not for this discrepancy, Colton would have had more than enough points. But as it is, Colton had 32 points out of a needed 40. Other drivers in similar situations have raced in various lower tier FIA sanctioned series to make up the points and Colton was willing to do this over the winter of 2022-23 but this was also not allowed by the FIA.

But seeing Colton in F1 is still a possibility, should he do well enough in Indycar to earn the points needed and should Michael Andretti eventually succeed in buying an existing F1 team or convincing F1 to allow him to enter a new team. After the end of the 2022 Indycar season, Colton signed a multi-year contract extension with Andretti that includes the ability to switch to an Andretti owned F1 team.

Fanfic Lore

Paired with Pato O'Ward, ship name O'Herta

[abalonetea]

hi there! If it isn’t weird or too much of a bother, I saw your reply on a post mentioning how marble hornets fundamentally changed the horror genre, and now I’m super interested. could you share more about that?

nnnnn this isn't weird or a bother, it's one of my absolute favorite topics to discuss! people don't discuss it much, or at least not in the circles that i tend to roam, but it truly changed the horror genre on a multi-platform level.

so! some basic information. YouTube was launched in 2005. four years later, the first video in what would become known as the Marble Hornets series was posted. right now, ARGs (alternate reality style YouTube series filmed as though they are 'real life') are super common, and the Slenderman phase had come and gone; and the indie horror game market is booming!

but when Marble Hornets first came out, only lonelygirl15 was on-going and making an impact. even then, it was only known in very select circles. Slenderman was only discussed on select Reddit threads, and had no solid popularity attached to it yet. and indie horror games were few and far between.

So, it was one of the first of its kind - and the first to truly make any known waves. by the time that the second 'season' came out, even people outside of the main horror circles had heard about it! there was so much discussion at the start as to whether or not it was real, and it hit a level of popularity that no other YouTube series had managed to reach.

the first 26 episodes were made with only $500, Adobe Premier, and Sony Vegas Pro. it was featured as one of the top ten horror fan films in Dread Central, and even got positive reviews from Robert Egbert! but this isn't about the acclaim around the series itself, which is its own separate post.

this is about THE RIPPLE EFFECT.

the ripple effect can be boiled down to several points

*ARGs

*indie horror games

*the slenderman mythos

*horror films

first, the obvious. Marble Hornet's showed people what you could do with a small budget and the still very recent addition of YouTube online. Keep in mind, it had only been about four years since YouTube launched and people were still finding new ways to make use of it. Marble Hornets showed other indie artists what the medium could be used for - and inspired a massive swath of horror ARGs such as tribeONE and everymanHYBRID which took the universe that Marble Hornets created and built off of it.

There were dozens of these. A lot of them fell apart fast, but others ended up being almost as good as their original inspiration!

and then people started to get creative! Daisy Brown, Petscop, Jack Torrence, POSTcontent, and countless others - and they were shown this medium through Marble Hornets series and subsequent success.

next up is the mythos itself.

Up until now, Slenderman had just been a vague concept on the Something Awful forums. Marble Hornet is the series that popularized an actual concept around it, providing the monster in question with the alternate reality base that has since become mostly accepted cannon. it very literally created the larger idea behind the Slenderman mythos - which leads directly into -

the truly massive amount of Slenderman indie horror games that came out en masse right after Marble Hornets became popular! and this was huge! many of the big name indie game developers we see on market today got their start making Slenderman games. it also, same as Five Nights At Freddy's, introduced a new method of gameplay that took the indie gaming community by storm.

suddenly, everyone was not only making a Slenderman game, but they were trying to one up each other, leading to a rapid increase in the capabilities of indie horror game developers, as well as a boom in the market itself. those who did Let's Plays at the time (i'll give a shout out to my favorites, John Wolfe and MrKravin) suddenly had a surplus of short horror games available to them!

and then there's the media sensation! not only did it manage to get its own movie, but it created a very specific genre of movie that took off rapid fire. Butterfly Kisses and Char Man fit into this genre, as examples.

it also took what was a seldom used concept at the time, the disruption of the camera and the audio/video distortions, and introduced techniques that had not been brought into the mainstream viewing.

it was also one of the first YouTube horror phenomena to break containment; a creation that started as a $500 project and rippled out into a genre defining, Slenderman mythos creating, technique inspiring series that to this day can still be seen as the influence in popular games and movies.

it heralded in the creation of so many new projects, inspired a new genre of horror, and reinvigorated an otherwise stagnant game market.

how cool is that?

[gaykarstaagforever]

I watched (500) Days of Summer, which I never saw. In 2009 I was at least the generational target for this, in that I'm around the same age as JGL and Zooey Deschanel. I think I missed it because at the time I was too edgelord for what were marketed as romantic comedies. Plus it gave off serious Zach Braff indie hipster energy and I was out of that phase and annoyed by it by like 2005.

I remember discourse on here about it more recently than that. Which makes sense, because it is a pretty good movie I think everyone in their mid-20s (especially men) can immediately relate to. Sad that those men probably won't see it like I didn't, because they are too X for movies without blue sky beams.

The cast is good and it is well-constructed, with only a couple awkward things. Narration wasn't necessary even if I know why it was there (evidence of main character Tom's view of himself as the star of the world). And the movie doesn't need to keep stopping to explain what it is trying to say (at least, not to me, because I am super-smart and never entirely miss the point of a movie). But I like the non-linear progression and the unexpected surrealist moments, like the dance number with the animated birds, and the parody French New Wave movie.

The ENTIRE MOVIE is peering into and out through Tom's perspective of reality, and he is a kid pretending to be an adult who can't feel anything without it consuming him. What he thinks he knows is just media tropes he has consumed and egotistically forgotten didn't come from reflecting on his own experiences. He considers himself the player character in a video game where anything he does with other people is only a success when he "wins" something. He takes relationship advice from his little sister as if she were Yoda, because she is precocious and eager and he is too immature to know the difference between that and actual insight.

And none of this is bad or makes him a bad person. This is simply a complex definition of being young. Tom is young, and doesn't know how young he is, and is annoying and emotionally manipulative because of that. And aren't we, weren't we, all? Growing up is growing through that and learning to laugh at the emo baby goon you were.

Now, my question is, does the movie know that? I'm not sure. Sometimes it seems to appreciate how Tom is the cause of and solution to all of his problems. Other times it seems as if trapped itself in Tom's pissy sexist immaturity, blaming Summer and society and the media for why pretty girls are impenetrable mysteries who don't ever get how intense male creepiness is what devotion IS, dammit!

It was like the screenplay was written by a guy who was almost over a divorce. But not quite. And while that may be an emotionally honest tone, it muddles what I think they were hoping to show. Not that Tom isn't in his way a victim, as we all are, of the times and places in which we live, and of the whims of other people. But the degree to which that matters seems far more irrelevant here, where it is clear that the great bulk of Tom's issues are him being a desperate selfish man-baby who thinks of women as trophies and toys to satisfy his need for play.

A movie from Summer's perspective would be very different. She is young and selfish too, but also demonstrates a healthy self-acceptance. She knows who she is, more or less, and knows what she is about, more or less. ...Until she doesn't. But that isn't flightiness or mysterious feminine wiles. That's a person doing life. We are ALL like that. Summer seems to understand that about herself, at least better than Tom does about anyone.

But again, the fact that the movie has named her Summer, and Tom meets Autumn at the end and appears poised to go off not treating another woman as an actual person, tells me the movie itself is, at least in part, as not self-aware as Tom. And that is a little frustrating.

If you are yourself a young man, or an old man who never grew up, and haven't figured it out yet, women are humans with human feelings. They are only mysterious because you aren't paying attention to them and are holding them to a standard where you expect them to be the solution to your emotional problems. And that is YOU, not them. And how can you expect to ever love or be loved by them, when you aren't regarding them as people? Because love is between two people. If one of them isn't a person to the other one, whatever there is will never be love.

I don't think Tom learns that, and neither does the movie, even when it shows his expectations vs his reality at Summer's engagement party.

...Which, okay. Yes. Summer should have told him that was what it was. But this is all from Tom's perspective. Maybe she tried and he wasn't paying attention, as usual, too caught up in his own doggedly persistent obsession with being coupled to her.

(500) Days of Summer is at least an accurate portrayal of what it is like to be a young dummy in love. It is valuable in that, and has some wisdom to impart about the foibles of that. I just wish it was as smart as it hopes to be. Because the world is cruel and imperfect, and Summer used Tom in a way he clearly couldn't handle, and she should probably not have done that. But what Tom is doing to her is way worse, and what he is doing to HIMSELF is, while inevitable, his biggest problem of all.

An interesting movie, at any rate. Worth exploring.

[f1]

McLaren reveals special Triple Crown-inspired livery for Monaco Grand Prix | 2023 Monaco Grand Prix

McLaren has unveiled the special livery it will run at the Monaco Grand Prix. The design inspired by motorsport’s ‘Triple Crown’ of races, all of which McLaren has previously won. Monaco and the Indianapolis 500 are two of the three events counting towards it, and both take place this weekend. The third element of the Triple Crown is next month’s Le Mans 24 Hours race for sports cars. McLaren, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary as a company, won the Indy 500 in 1974 and 1976 with Johnny Rutherford. Their first Monaco Grand Prix win did not come until in 1984 when Alain Prost started a run of nine wins in 10 years there for the team. Ayrton Senna went unbeaten on the streets of Monaco from 1989 to 1993, then Mika Hakkinen put McLaren on top again in 1998, his team mate David Coulthard won Monaco in 2000 and 2002. Victories for Kimi Raikkonen (2005), Fernando Alonso (2007) and Lewis Hamilton (2008) brought McLaren’s Monaco win count up to 15 – the most of any team. The highlight of McLaren’s brief Le Mans history was in 1995 when teams running its BMW-powered F1 GTR car finished first, third, fourth and fifth. The first of each of those wins have been incorporated into McLaren’s 2023 Monaco livery, with the rear of the car adorned in a Papaya orange harking back to Rutherford’s Indy 500-winning livery. The middle of the MCL60 is white, evoking the iconic liveries McLaren used through the eighties. The race-winning Le Mans livery was all-black, so the top of the MCL60’s nose will switch from orange to black as the front wing and the sides of the front-end of the chassis are already painted dark. McLaren’s four-car Indy 500 entry this weekend is also celebrating the brand’s history and Triple Crown success, with each of the cars using a different livery referencing those past wins. The F1 team will also run its special livery at next week’s Spanish Grand Prix. Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren M16C/D IndyCar McLaren F1 GTR Le Mans 24 Hours car McLaren ‘Triple Crown’ winners McLaren F1 GTR Le Mans 24 Hours car McLaren-TAG Porsche MP4/2 Formula 1 car McLaren M16C/D IndyCar McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free 2023 Monaco Grand Prix Browse all 2023 Monaco Grand Prix articles via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net/

[jack-doohan]

❝i’m just having fun with my ladies tonight!❞ - women of indycar in the 2000s/2010s!

SOOOO…i thought about when i was young and first started watching indycar with my dad, and i thought of the women who have raced in the indy 500 during my childhood: simona, kat, and pippa!! and then this edit was born 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶 I LOVE WOMEN (IN MOTORSPORTS)!!!!! Also fun fact: both simona’s houston 2013 podium and kat’s formula atlantic long beach 2005 wins are in this!!!

slight flash warning!!

song is woman by kesha

[unmotivated-student]

i've read twitter threads about how Lightning McQueen got handed the Piston Cup (and still didn't win it).

i've read twitter threads about how (deadly fuel aside) the rules of the World Grand Prix from Cars 2 were not fair (and about how it was not exactly a very well regulated event).

i've read twitter threads about how it wasn't safe to let Herbie compete in a NASCAR race in 2005.

now (biology, physics and chemistry lessons aside), i'd love to read a thread about how weird it would be to let a snail compete in the Indy 500 against a bunch of cars 😊

[discotective]

respond to the following prompts out of character, then tag others you'd like to get to know a little bit better.

roleplayer name: monk.

roleplayer pronouns: they / them.

muse name: harrier "harry" du bois (aka dick mullens, aka tequila sunset, aka raphaël ambrosius costeau, aka the human can opener)

preferred communication: discord is much preferred! i don't mind starting a quick chat through tumblr's im system but it's honestly so easy to miss notifications through it that i usually ask to switch to discord pretty quickly if we're going to be talking at all.

experience: i honestly was introduced to rp at way too early of a developmental age lmao on the neopets forums of all places. i don't remember the exact year, it was either 2005 or 2006 which means i've been doing this for way too long. i've done rp forums, got introduced to tumblr rp in college, and have dabbled a little bit with discord servers as well.

preferred roleplay type: short paragraph responses are my sweet spot, 2-4 usually though sometimes i get carried away. i would get so burnt out back in the indie forum days where you had to meet a 500+ word count so it's nice to just write something with a natural flow that isn't usually too overwhelming to read or respond to. that's not to say i don't enjoy short, punchy dialogue oriented threads every once in a while.

pet peeves & dealbreakers: if you don't have your name/alias and age clearly stated and easy to find, i usually don't read much further. i really don't have any major deal breakers, i tend to just kind of go with the flow. if you're vaguing on main about specific people (not just general complaining, we've all gotta do that) but rather kind of passive aggressively trying to make a point about someone rather than talking to them personally, i get pretty uncomfortable, even if it's not relevant to me. also just don't be a transphobe or an ablest, it's not hard to be nice.

plots or memes: both!! love memes, love plotting from memes, but i also love just yelling about dynamics and scenarios and possibilities with other people. plot is a very loose term for me, i don't really plot threads in detail (or at least i haven't in a very long time?), i just love to discuss character thought processes with other people: figuring out what makes them tick, how they're different, how they're alike, how one of them reacts to something the other might say or do. but also my inbox is always open, i love getting memes.

best time to write: i definitely am more productive in the mid-mornings when life/work lets me sit down and write around that time. i'm always online in the evenings but my energy burns out very quickly and i just kind of sit here and scroll rather than do anything productive.

are you like your muse?: [ long sigh.gif ] listen .... i empathize with harry, a lot. as someone who has a memory condition and has dealt with major depression and alcoholism, i can certainly see his perspective and bring my own to it at well. but also, like, he was not a good person in his past to a way that i obviously can't relate to. there are pieces of myself in every character i play, and maybe i relate a little more than i'd like, but i'm also very happy to say we're different.

tagged by: stole from the dash. tagging: you steal it if you haven't already.

[themovieblogonline]

Nashville Film Festival: The Day the Music Stopped

 the"The Day the Music Stopped,” directed by Patrick Sheehan is a 95 minute film that explores the independent end of an iconic Nashville music venue, the Exit/In. Last year’s Nashville Film Festival ended with a wonderful buffet meal at the Exit/In. The Big Names who have played at the iconic Exit/In venue appeared on plaques that literally filled the walls. You could feel the history in the room. The Exit/In hosted its last indie concert on November 23, 2022. Fifty-one years of music as an independent venue stopped when Goliath beat David. As Wikipedia explained Exit/In’s demise, it had 25 different owners over the years from 1971 to 2022 and was not continuously open. But it definitely was a place where many big names in music either got their start or performed over the years. Comedian Steve Martin performed there while climbing the ladder of success. LAST INDIE OWNERS LOSE  The final owners before the Big Boys of Music moved in and took over were Chris Cobb and his wife, Teisha, who put up a valiant fight to keep the venue independent.  Says Wikipedia, on November 14, 2022, club operators, Chris and Telisha Cobb, announced their departure. In December 2022 AJ Capital Partners, was announced as the new purchasers and operators of the venue. The venue was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. There are still shows at Exit/In and the Rock Block, but admission prices to the 500-seat space have, no doubt, increased. (At one time there was even talk of how Live Nation would charge musicians a fee simply to use their lights.)  There is a hopeful bit of film showcasing Attorney General Merrick Garland at the very end of the film that would probably bring forth a cheer from the group assembled in the photo below this paragraph. Exit/In’s last indie show in 2022. This film depicts the tumultuous last show as an indie venue and also charts a path forward that gives a glimmer of hope—a national movement and alliance, Save our Stages. Watching the crowd surfing group revel one last time you could feel the joy and also the sadness in the room. The city and the state face the reality that capitalistic greed is destroying the music culture created in Nashville over decades.   As Chris Cobb of the Exit/In said, “The winds of charge are certainly upon us.” Much of the fight centers on who owns the brand name “Exit/In.” (Still unresolved).  A.J. Capital Partners (of Chicago) is the villain of the piece, especially when we learn that they are in business with Live Nation. It seems to be only a matter of time before the Big Boys gobble up all of the small venues that used to provide platforms for the future Taylor Swifts and Garth Brooks of the music business. Nashville. One by one, iconic venues are listed and (mostly) shown going under—Mercy Lounge (closed May 19, 2022), Douglas Corners, Exit/In, Lindsay Corners (saw Low Cut Connie there), the Bluebird Cafe.  The music business is still very unstable post-pandemic. The iconic venue once reopened in 1981 by Chuck Berry, which spawned so many big names through the years, is one of the casualties of what is described as “a corporate takeover of America by capitalists.” Exit/In is still open, but it’s not the same. THE OLD DAYS Many in the documentary talk about how, if you arrived in Nashville before 2012 or 2013, Nashville was a very different town. My daughter selected Nashville as her college town in 2005 (Belmont College). She can testify to the many changes that the city has experienced. The film does a good job of explaining why 43 buildings on Music Row were demolished between 2013 and 2018. It also lays bare the dilemma that Nashville faces. “It truly is a crisis situation here in Music City.” As the Mayor outlined “an unparalleled series of challenges for cities with only a few million in cash reserves” the picture begins to focus. It’s not good news for those who considered Exit/In “a sacred space for Nashville.” John Cooper, Mayor of Nashville. John Cooper, the Mayor of Nashville, explains that, although Nashville has certainly enjoyed a booming economy, “We had not been a good steward of our finances.” When tough times hit, Nashville only had a few million dollars in its contingency fund, not enough to handle the crises that beset the city, beginning in 2010. THE FLOOD, THE TORNADOES, COVID & OTHER ASSORTED CATASTROPHES First, there was the flood of 2010, which ruined much of downtown Nashville. Then came the deadliest tornado on record on March 2, 2020 (25 people died).  (There’s been another since then that killed 3 people on the block where my daughter lives in December of 2023.) Just one week later, Covid struck the nation and the world. Indie music venues were impacted very negatively. Even today, “a lot of clubs are in limbo.” It is an eco-system that cannot survive without assistance. The Exit/In closed for what they thought would be 3 months when the pandemic hit. Add to the natural disasters the 63-year-old Nashville resident, Anthony Quinn Walker, who blew himself up inside an RV parked outside an AT&T building on December 25th of 2020, taking most of historic 2nd Avenue with him, and you have the makings of the dilemma that haunts Nashville now. As the film points out so well, the residents of Nashville have to ask themselves “Where are we heading?” A GLIMMER OF HOPE Famous spokespeople like Ben Folds speak out about the potential closing of RCA Studio A, the studio where Chet Atkins and Elvis recorded. It was established on June 20, 1924. It almost met the wrecking ball on Chet Atkins’ 90th birthday, until some notable names like Ben Folds and Keith Urban stepped up to save the iconic studio Throughout the film there is much information about the fight to keep the Exit/In out of the hands of Live Nation. But Live Nation bought Ticketmaster and, as one executive told the owner of the venue, “In 10 years we’ll control the business from the top to the bottom.” There are those who are fighting to save the stages. Jeff Syracuse, a BMI executive, is a City Councilman who is well aware of the competition for space in Nashville and how new talent is struggling to find a launching pad amongst dwindling indie clubs. Mike Curb, Chuck Elcan, Chris Cobb, Representative Johnny Garrett (R, Goodlettsville) are all shown working to pass a state-wide live music fund, the first in the nation, that would help struggling indie venues. The legislative move seems to be meeting some success by film’s end. Near the end of the film Chris Cobb (last owner of the Exit/In) is awarded the Blayne Tucker Advocacy Award for his work with Save Our Stages. I’ve never heard of  Blayne Tucker. But I related to the talking head in the film who said “Money is gonna’ win a lot of the time.” CONCLUSION CONCLUSION Patrick Sheehan, Stephen Thompson, Ian Criswell (Cinematographers/Director) and Michael Gomez (Photography), with editing by Sheehan have done a great job with the film. It sounds very familiar to an Austin (Tx) resident to learn that the music industry is not a straight-arrow biz. But it does have people within it who really love what they do and want to preserve music culture in their city for all the right reasons. And then there are the others who just want to make as much money as they can as fast as they can; they don’t seem to care about anything else. The creators of “The Day the Music Stopped,” both in front of and behind the camera, who compiled this engaging documentary, obviously do care. With this documentary they hope to preserve the true spirit of Nashville. “The Day the Music Stopped” is a sobering look at greed spurred by the competition for space in Nashville. I hope those fighting the good fight catch a break in their ongoing struggle. Stay tuned for further developments in Nashville and nationwide. The documentary will screen at the Nashville Film Festival on September 20th. Read the full article

[dealz-are-sweet]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: 89th Indianapolis 500 May 29 2005 Coffee Tea Mug Indy 500 - Good Used Condition-.