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dansnaturepictures · 1 year

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Round up of my wild week 25th March-1st April 2023

It’s been a great week of watching birds as we go into spring, with my first Wheatears of the year at Farlington Marshes last Saturday, my first Sand Martins of the year at Blashford Lakes last Sunday followed by my earliest ever sighting of House Martins in a year at Lakeside Country Park on Tuesday. A very pleasing sighting of a neat and exciting Water Pipit at Farlington Marshes was another key part of a good run of year ticks to take my year list to 160 on my earliest ever date, my year list still way ahead of where I was on these dates in previous years. Immersive Brent Geese sightings, brief and stunning Short-eared Owl view, Marsh Harrier and notable Mediterranean Gull a bird I am on a good run for and Avocet numbers at Farlington Marshes, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Scaup, Goldeneye and Siskin at Blashford Lakes, Tufted Duck, Chiffchaff, Great Tit, Green Woodpecker, Great Crested Grebes, Buzzard and Red Kite at Lakeside across the week, Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the green out the front on Friday and Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Grey Wagtail, Blackbird in a nice period of seeing them I’m having and Mute Swan in Winchester were other highlights this week.

Mallard at Lakeside on Tuesday, I got a lot of close views of them this week.

Grey Wagtail by the River Itchen in Winchester on Thursday, the key bird of the lunch breaks of my Winchester part of the working week.

It has been nice to enjoy winter wildfowl around alongside the spring birds starting to arrive, something I love at coastal marshy sites this time of year and this Shoveler was one of a pair I thoroughly enjoyed seeing at Farlington.

As I said in yesterday evening’s post, yesterday we had a fantastic time at Hampshire Ornithological Society (HOS)’s AGM and Member’s Day, it was so good to hear about the varied and important work of HOS, with engrossing talks from inspiring speakers David Lindo, James Aldred, Beccy Speight, Juliet Vickery and John Clark on a range of topics. It was great to hear all of their passion first hand and hearing the amazing work of their organisations the RSPB and BTO from Beccy and Juliet was interesting, honest and reassuring. It was good to meet/see some familiar faces too, and we even saw a Red Kite flying over the field at the school that hosted the day with Black-headed and Herring Gulls seen too. A really feel good, enjoyable and informative day.

This week has been a massive one in my flower year, with many important moments seeing my first or one of my first of the species this year for species like Alexander’s, marsh marigold, cow parsley, herb-Robert, ivy-leaved toadflax, bluebell, and three-cornered leek. It has been an amazing week for seeing snake’s-head fritillaries and cowslips with so many of these vibrant springtime beauties seen, and loads of red deadnettle, speedwell, spurge, snowflakes, violets, lesser celandine and some wild daffodils at Blashford Lakes were other particular standouts. Blackthorn and other blossom, buds and green leaves in the landscape, and flowers like tulips at home coming out have added to the colourful awakening mood of the week with a few insects seen again. In a fairly wet week - the rain feels like something we could be thankful for later on though if we have another summer like last year’s - this all made me feel so uplifted and springlike. It was good to see turkey tail and scarlet elf cup fungi - which I’ve had great winters for - at Blashford Lakes.

Three-cornered leek at Lakeside on Friday evening.

View at Lakeside on what has been a moody week for sky scenes in places.

Beautiful blossom in Winchester on Thursday.

I have enjoyed doing these round up posts at the weekend the last month and a bit, and just thought I would say because of a very exciting trip we have coming up from Friday onwards which I will mention in due course I don’t think I’ll be doing a post like this which covers today-Thursday, but as ever my daily posts this week will have key points/sightings.

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theroomofreq · 3 years

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can you give me muggle jily recs pleaaseeee <3 :D

HOW MANY HIGH-QUALITY MUGGLE JILY FICS ARE THERE?? TOO MANY TO COUNT. *cracks knuckles* BUT I am here for the challenge. Jily AUs are my JAM.

Again, shoutout to our amazing @jilyarchive friends who tag every wonderful muggle jily au they come across. here is the link that will take you to their tags page. You'll find links to specific tropes and AUs :')

I've searched through my own AO3 bookmarks and history tabs, and I present to you 28 jily muggle fics that I LOVE. I am THRILLED thinking about all the good things in store for those that read these wonderful stories. This list took me ages to make because I went through and reread most of these brilliant fics. Happy reading !! xx

properly improper by @lizardcookie

“Marry me,” Mr. Potter repeats, closing the distance between them by striding back up towards the sofa, only to stop and crouch to one knee right there at her feet, looking up at her. Burning. “Pick me,” he elaborates. “Pick me, choose me, love me instead.”

- this fic is the reason why I comment the way that I do (spoiler it's because it's amazing)

The Wedding Ring by @mppmaraudergirl

What is undeniably worse than attending your sister's wedding looking as desolate and forgotten as a wilted houseplant? Drunkenly ringing your ex-boyfriend and asking him to be your date.

- SOBS UNCONTROLLABLY AT THE PERFECTION

Oh my god, they were ROOMMATES by @magic-girl-in-a-muggle-world

Silly one-shot, Muggle AU with Fem!Jily as pining roommates and Marlene as their matchmaker.

- the fic that brought me back to jily and inspired my deep obsession of fem!jily

Swipe Right, Swing Left by @downn-in-flames

The unspoken rule of using dating apps in D.C. is that you always start with where you work.

James Potter, it seems, never picked up on that one.

- giddy just thinking about this gem

'Tis the Damn Season by @petalstofish

It doesn't feel like Christmas for Lily Evans, not after losing her parents to COVID before the Holiday season. She anticipates spending Christmas all alone until a boy from her past shows up and offers her a mutually benefiting deal that has her calling him 'babe' just for the weekend. 'Tis the damn season, after all.

- cries in respect for lyrical writing

Watch Me Unwind by @maraudersftw

Lily Evans hates her job, hates the bigoted customers she has to serve as a bartender at the richest club in the city. But the one person who makes bearing all of it worth it has someone else in his arms tonight. (Rated: M)

- obsessed with the way the plot jumps around the time line in this

oil be there for you by @abby10fanfic

Texting/Social Media AU: Lily and James haven't spoken for 2 years. But that's all about to change thanks to Peter and his involvement in an essential oil pyramid scheme. Featuring boss babes, toxin-free lifestyles, binding contracts, and a very oily journey.

- YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE HOW FAB THIS IS

a matchmaking mission by @downn-in-flames

James Potter has a mission: get Sirius Black and Remus Lupin to finally admit that they both fancy the pants off each other by Valentine's Day.

His partner in crime? Lily Evans, Remus' flatmate, who he also happens to be slightly in love with

- DOUBLE the amount of pining idiots in love :")

about time by @jilyss

'sure, yeah, I can accompany you to that black tie event for your work tonight. wait. why are we on a red carpet?'

- this is my emotional comfort fic, your honor

whiskey business by @elanev91

Sirius Black has a (bad?) habit of picking up hobbies that take over his and James' flat -- this most recent one? Homemade vodka that James now has to try and peddle to everyone in the building.

- hysterical! must read!

Fashion Disaster by @maraudersftw

James Potter is roped into an awful dare by his best-mate, which involves him wearing atrocious pieces of clothing for all days until Christmas as dictated by Sirius. If this wasn't terrible enough, he now has to contend with his maddening crush on the beautiful saleswoman at the clothing store.

- classic hijinks that I live for

it wasn't a pity invite by @elanev91

Part of the December "Winter Tropes" Jily challenge. Prompt: my family invites you to join our holiday meal as an obvious setup and omG i’m so sorry

- awkward Christmas date that owns my heart

spice and honey by @clare-with-no-i

tagging along with her food reporter sister to profile James Potter, London's hottest young chef, is not how Lily Evans pictured her Monday going - especially if he's anything like Petunia’s described.

needless to say, she's in for a whirlwind at Chez Maraudeur.

- I'm one re-read away from printing this out and putting it on my bookshelf.

Waffle Wars by @elanev91

There's only one waffle maker in the dining hall and it literally always breaks. So, naturally, the only reasonable course of action is to meticulously map out when it's working and, ultimately, do a heist.

- the witty narration in this fic can not be matched

You Can Hear It In The Silence by @alrightginger

Lily is non-verbal and deaf in a world where the things your soulmate says about you end up written on your skin. She has known about her soulmate since she was seven, but knows they don't have a clue she exists and possibly never will.

- exquisite, cue me sobbing forever

out the window by @displayheartcode

A new family moves to Ottery St Catchpole.

- everything I could ever want in a fic, forever in my mind rent free

The Christmas Guest by @thegodmachine

An Evans Family Christmas: Petunia is bringing her fiancé and Lily is bringing her…Friend…

- petunia pov that gives me WINGS

Football, Calculus, and Cappuccinos by @moonawrites

At eighteen years old, James Potter has a lot going on. He's a rising star navigating the politics of professional football, the pitfalls of sudden fame, the fallout from choosing his dream over his father's company... and a serious crush on the red headed new barista at his favourite coffee shop.

- I'm still working my way through this fic, but trust me when I say its a GEM

if u like pina coladas by @zephyrcove

Lily is desperate for a date to Petunia's wedding, James has been pining, and their friends meddle ;)

- explain to me how characters can be so perfect via texting fics?

Shelf Awareness by @ghostofbambifanfiction

It's too far out of her way and she's wasting so much money, but Lily can't help but return to the bookstore every weekend, where her passion for good literature has, perhaps, been unexpectedly reignited by the messy-haired, pun-making, rather handsome bloke who works there.

- you absolutely must know that I binge read this and then immediately REREAD it

How to win a witch in 10 days by @adenei

“She’s going to find some unsuspecting wizard, get him to fall for her, and then do all the things that turn men away to get him to break things off! Won’t it be the best way to see what witches do that drives men crazy?” But what happens when the man in question is a blast from Lily Evans's past? A Jily Magical AU based on the romantic comedy "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."

- fic based off of a rom com? YES PLZ :’)

The Fight Before Christmas by @ghostofbambifanfiction

The heartwarming Christmas tale of Lily Evans and James Potter - two plucky kids who hated one other, until the day they really, really didn't.

- complete sucker for this one

All This Time by @thejilyship

James and Lily grew up next door to one another. Their bedroom windows giving them glimpses into the others life, and also offering prime opportunities to argue with each other over every little thing. They never figured out how to be friends when they were kids, but now that they've graduated from college and are home for the summer, they have a second chance to get things right.

- one of my favvvv tropes

Let Me Love You by @thejilyship

With only a month until she's set to take the throne of Gryffindor, Lily is informed that she'll have to get married or choose to give up her throne. She never thought she'd have to even entertain the idea of an arranged marriage. Enter, James Potter.

- cries in princess diares AU

The Fabulous Baker Brothers by @frustratedpoetwrites

Lily walks a different route home from work and stumbles upon a cute little Bakery with an even cuter baker in the window.

- yes yes yes to embarrassed pining.

Marigold Mornings by @mppmaraudergirl

This is a fun game she thinks, as she removes her hand from his side and reaches up to run it down his chest. He catches her hand in his own, takes a step forward so that her nose nearly brushes against his shirt. She can feel the heat radiating off of him—or maybe it’s from her. He licks his lips and her eyes are drawn to the motion. She knows it is a bad idea, absolutely knows it.

- incredible storytelling featuring dynamic characters :') a favvv

Welcome to Pettyville by@women-inthe-sequel @alrightginger

When Lily Evans accidentally sends a text to the wrong number, she isn’t expecting to find the right person behind it. She can’t stop talking to Prongs. The only thing is, Prongs can’t stop talking about the girl in his class. What could go wrong, other than the number?

- LOVE SQUARE ANYONE

The Kiss a Stranger Project by @alrightginger

“What’s your name, then?” she asks, realizing they haven’t even properly introduced themselves yet. She nervously crosses her arms.

You shouldn’t kiss a guy without knowing his name first.

Right?

- THIS ONE WILL LIVE IN MY MIND FOREVER

#ror reqs #jily fic #mugge fic recs #jily fic rec list

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fullmoon-alpha · 6 years

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Benjamin Beaumont was from an old were family. His father could trace their family back further than the Victorian era. They were jokingly called were royalty by the community. His father was August and Marigold Beaumont. They had the three boys, Benny & Max, twins, and James,. James, the youngest, had always been a good son, smiling and polite and upholding the ideals of his father. Max was the golden child, sweet and polite, and the one who looked like he could really do good things. Everyone loved Max.

And then there was Benny. Benny stayed out past curfew and got Max in trouble when he tried to cover for his twin. Benny played football and got overly aggressive with some of the players from time to time. Benny was the child who dragged his brother for runs in the woods during hunting season and got himself caught in traps. Max had sat with him for two hours, arms crossed as he lectured Benny for getting himself stuck in a trap until his brother finally looked at him with watering eyes and he finally started helping him. Thirty four years later, and he still had the scars from the tines around his calf.

Max had gone and had a kid when he was 16. It was an accident, but he’d planned on marrying the girl anyways. And his parents still held him on a pedestal. It’d never bothered Benny, though. He remembered looking into his brother’s eyes across the dinner table the night he told the family, and hearing him. Help me. I’m so scared. They’d laid in Benny’s bed that night, Benny holding Max, trying to comfort him. He was so scared. Benny wasn’t. He knew Max would be a good dad. And he was right. Rene was born and he was the perfect father. Then Grace came along, and he only got better at the whole parent thing. The only time Benny had ever been jealous.

When he died, the family had split up, Benny and James having gone their own way. He couldn’t handle the ideals his parent so strictly upheld. He’d bought a big Victorian house in Shreveport, hidden away on it’s own personal road. Rene and Grace had been staying the weekend, helping him move everything in and paint everything, fix things up. Benny had gotten a call. An accident out in the woods on the city limits. He’d felt so uneasy, and while he’d been driving, something in his head had snapped. He’d jerked his car to the side of the road, his heart racing and a white hot pain behind his eyes. He could only see spots. Benny had stumbled out of his cruiser, the heels of his hands pressed to his eyes as he stumbled away, his foot kicking something. When he moved his hands away and looked down, his flashlight shining on the object, he’d found himself staring down at a purse. A familiar purse. He’d reached down, pulling out the wallet. Claire Beaumont. His heart raced, and he could see the lights of other cruisers on the other side of the trees.

He’d run at the trees,his heart racing and his head still aching. He remembered another cop, one he knew well, grabbing him, stopping from going forwards as they rolled a gurney past him, towards the ambulance, talking fast about what they’d have to do. He’d heard screaming in the distance, someone yelling Max’s name. Himself, he’d figured out eventually. Someone had driven him home. He’d broken the news to Grace and Rene. When they asked how, he stared for a minute. He couldn’t tell them what had happened, what he’d seen. So, “They crashed their car...Someone ran a stop sign and hit them...”

That night, the pack had shifted and gone into the woods. The whole state was filled with mourning howls. It even got on the news the next day, that the local wolf population had been especially active that night.

Benny’d gone into a depression after that. He’d been flirting with a new girl in his pack, but it stopped. Abruptly. His second, Benny’s best friend since childhood, Beau, had essentially been handed control of the pack. They tried not to bother him much, and Beau would lead the runs on the full moon and keep everyone safe. He’d gotten a vibe though, as well as the girl Benny’d been flirting with. Aspen. She was sweet, and she’d cared so much for him.

He’d come out finally after a few days, tried to socialize during the bonfire, sitting at the fire, staring at it as he dug his nails deeper and deeper into his skin until he felt it bleed and finally felt like a person again. But it’d left too fast, and he’d retreated to his room, locking himself in. He’d taken to doing anything to not feel that horrible raw sensation. The next morning, he’d come down and snuck a knife into his room. Just a small pairing knife. He’d had something else he’d been using, but it’d disappeared during the night. He’d had plenty of cuts on his skin, around his ankle and around the scars from he bear trap, somewhere he hoped they’d hide well enough. Aspen had asked to come in, tried to be sweet. Then he’d told her to go away, and she’d broken into his room. It hadn’t been hard. The doors hadn’t been replaced yet. She’d brought a first aide kit and had done her best to help him. The knife drawers had been locked for a while, and she’d held him that night while he sobbed for the first time, feeling like he could while she held him.

She’d helped him...More than he thought. He hadn’t realized he needed someone as bad as he did. Benny supposed she’d filled that empty void Max had left...Or tried to at least. Nothing would replace him. And he was happy, for a while. They were happy. They tried dating, and he felt normal again. He’d laughed and smiled and they’d had...absolutely marvelous sex. When he needed her, she would lay in bed with him and hold him when he felt himself slip again. She’d been someone he needed, and sometimes Benny wondered if they’d had a better chance together if Max had lived. He loved Aspen. He always would. But things went downhill. He started staying out late after work, going to bars and fucking anyone he could. He was always smart about it, but after a while, he knew he couldn’t do that to Aspen. She deserved better. And she’d been sweet about it. They’d talked, and they decided to keep trying. And they were happy again. But after a while, it just didn’t feel right anymore. He cared about her so much, but he couldn’t be with just her anymore. He needed something more. Benny’d approached her about it, and she was, again, sweet. But she wanted to be exclusive. He...didn’t. So they’d broken up. And then...she left. Went to join his nephew’s pack.

Benny frequented the new were bar. Usually after work. He didn’t know why, but tonight, he’d changed his clothes and made sure that he drove his truck instead of the cruiser, like he usually would’ve when he stopped off for a drink after work. He had a small grey beard that faded into the grey sideburns. His hair had been brilliant black once..when he was young. Now it was peppered with silver and grey. He’d changed into jeans and a grey shirt that buttoned near the collar, a denim button down over that, and a leather jacket layered over that as well. He strode in, his boots heavy on the wood floor. Friday nights were always a party. The lights looked like something out of a dance club, flashing and changing while people danced and bumped together on the floor, some mediocre band playing on the stand. Benny spared them a fleeting look before he stopped at the bar, ordering a whiskey, waiting. A red head approached him, and he could smell cheap perfume on her, disgusing the familiar scent of sex and were. It was so rare to find someone there who wasn’t were. She looped her arm around Benny’s, humming happily. “Captain.” she purred. Benny gave her what he hoped was a polite smile. “Millie. How you doin tonight?” he asked, unhooking his arm. “Good...What about you? Lookin like it might be a good night for you~” “Ahh...Not tonight, Millie. I’m just here for a quick drink.” he asked and took the whiskey before pulling out his lighter and a cigar. The woman wrinkled her nose as he lit it and walked away from her, settling himself in an empty booth near the window.

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toast-the-unknowing · 5 years

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tagged by @two-of-swords-621! Rules: We’re snooping on your playlist. Put your entire music library on shuffle, and list the first ten songs, then choose ten victims!

I haven’t had a “music library” since like 2011 so I had to make due with shuffling my Spotify, this means we don’t get to make fun of shameful songs from middle school I still know all the words to, it’s gonna be like 99% sad white boys with beards and acoustic guitars

1. Landfill, Daughter

'Cause this is torturous electricity Between both of us and this is Dangerous 'cause I want you so much But I hate your guts

2. If I Were You, Whiskey Farm

If I were you I'd head for the mountains Far away from the city lights Find a spot where your heart can't hear nothin' And let it fly into the night

3. Romeo and Juliet, Dire Straits

I can't do the talk like they talk on the TV And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you I can't do anything except be in love with you

4. The Weekender, The Hold Steady

There were a couple pretty crass propositions There were some bugs in the bars There was a kid camped out by the coat check She said the theme of this party is the industrial age You came in dressed like a train wreck

5. Devil Knows You’re Dead, Delta Spirit

May good luck find you at your worst And bad love lose you at your best May your days be rich and full of wealth And your nights be long when you need rest

6. Are You Sitting Comfortably, Megson

And the days and the weeks may pass us by As we fill up every moment till we die But even when we know we've finished all the jobs we've got There will always be something we’ve forgot

7. Marigold, Mother Falcon

Is this love? I don't know but tonight I'm gonna find out Is this love? I don't know but tonight I'm gonna find out

8. Absentee, Jack Campbell

love without anxiety it's like love, except you're free and I can't go back they'll eat me alive if it came to that i wouldn't even try

9. Biblical Violence, Hella

[instrumental]

10. Harper Lee, Little Green Cars

Oooh there’s a gun in the attic, let me go grab it Oooh I’d blow holes in my soul just so you can look past it Oooh yeah there’s glass on the floor, there’s a hole in the roof Oooh yeah the chandelier fell, now the rain’s falling through

tagging: @talldecafcappuccino @blusarge @ginevre @heartclover @ramenifyouplease @zpinkotter @lydia-st-james @sashahilbert @anyone eh that’s close enough for jazz

#song of the week #the lyrics aren't part of it #I just like quoting lyrics #it's not part of the ceremony I just had an extra snake

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biofunmy · 5 years

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How to Throw a Festive Korean-Inspired Dinner Party

The designer Rejina Pyo moved to London from Seoul, South Korea, in 2008 to study fashion at Central Saint Martins, under the esteemed professor Louise Wilson. Not long after, she met her husband, the chef and cookbook author Jordan Bourke — and then, much to her parents’ dismay, she never moved back home. After graduating, Pyo joined the team of the London-based designer Roksanda Ilincic — with whom she shares an affinity for deeply saturated colors (taupe, ocher, plum) and fluid, oversize cuts — before starting her own eponymous line in 2014. Now known for its easy, elegant pieces such as puff-sleeved cotton dresses, relaxed trench coats in laminated wool and asymmetrically cinched linen suits, the brand has become a fixture on the London Fashion Week schedule. (The birth of Pyo’s son, Luka, in 2017 only further entrenched her in England.) Nevertheless, after 11 years away from her hometown, the designer revisits her Korean roots on a nearly daily basis, through food.

In 2016, Bourke and Pyo released an award-winning cookbook together. Titled “Our Korean Kitchen,” the collection of hearty recipes is an ode to authentic Korean cooking inspired by the dishes the couple eat at home with their son. In the label’s early days, the pair would stay with Pyo’s parents in Seoul for weeks at a time; Pyo would finalize accounts and production for her brand while Bourke, who would later go on to work alongside the Michelin-starred chef Skye Gyngell at the acclaimed Petersham Nurseries Cafe for three years, worked in the city’s restaurants. “He learned a lot from my mum because no one really cooks from recipe books — it’s all very intuitive,” says Pyo. “I’d just watch and learn by osmosis,” explains Bourke. “Food there is all about sharing, respect, kinship, togetherness. Even if you’re working, you’ll always make time to go out for dinner and eat together.”

To share their love of Korean food and celebrate the start of summer, the pair invited 40 friends, colleagues and collaborators to come together for a Korean feast in London on a balmy evening in June. Because their family home in north London is undergoing renovations, the couple held their dinner in the airy SoHo loft of Pyo’s friend Alex Eagle, the director of a small collection of luxury concept stores: Alex Eagle Studio on Lexington Street in London, and The Store X at SoHo House Berlin and SoHo Farmhouse in the Cotswolds. Eagle moved into the apartment, a former parking garage one block from Carnaby Street, four years ago and quickly transformed it into a white-walled oasis, decorated with many of the same furniture and design pieces she sells at her stores, along with a tightly honed edit of fashion and jewelry brands such as Lemaire and Sophie Buhai. Kids ran around the open-plan living space, dodging a blue Yves Klein Plexiglas coffee table and cherry wood Nakashima chairs, with bowls of white rice in hand. Meanwhile, guests including the British artist Phoebe Collings-James, the gallerist Antonia Marsh and the arts publisher and curator Lucy Kumara Moore — many of them dressed in Pyo’s artfully low-key designs — ate an array of Korean dishes prepared by Bourke. Piled high on what Eagle calls the captain’s table — a leather-topped mahogany piece salvaged from a 19th-century ship — the bowls and small plates were replenished through the night as guests grazed. Here, Pyo explains how to pull off a similarly effortless evening.

Don’t Stand on Ceremony

The key to making your guests feel at home is to drop the decorum, says Pyo. “When we have a dinner party at home,” says Bourke, “it’s all about abundance, celebration and relaxation. I hate place names and that feeling of everyone being polite when they all desperately want the last potato.” Bourke designed the menu accordingly, allowing for guests to stand or sit, chat, drink and graze continuously: The ubiquitous Korean fried chicken (which is first confited and then deep fried and drenched in a sweet and spicy gochujang chili sauce) was served deboned — unorthodox but ideal for devouring with one hand. Soft salmon cured in white miso (it’s sweeter) came in bite-size cubes like chewy Turkish Delight, topped with a wasabi crème fraîche. The couple also served japchae, a Korean dish of sweet potato glass noodles tossed with sautéed vegetables and toasted sesame oil — it was the first dish Pyo ever cooked her husband, which “won my heart,” he says — and cut the noodles short for easier scooping.

Experiment With Tradition

Pyo loves to rework a classic, in both her design studio and her kitchen. While the traditional Korean dish bibimbap — a medley of rice, sautéed vegetables and kimchi typically served in a hot stone dolsot bowl and topped with an egg — was present and correct, Bourke also served more unusual offerings such as tiger prawn tacos and fried kimchi Gruyère toasted sandwiches (for these, half the kimchi was fried until caramelization, the other left crisp and acidic). “Koreans love a Western take,” Bourke explains. “There are so many Italian restaurants there that mix kimchi through their spaghetti carbonara for that bit of acidity — the toasties would be a hit in Korea too.”

Choose Contrasting Flavors

Eagle turned to her team at The Store X to provide cocktails that would complement Bourke’s spicy menu. Tommy Tannock, The Store X’s head of food programming and events, chose Jinro Soju — a Korean spirit akin to vodka, made from rice, barley and tapioca — for a clean lemongrass slinger. “Then we needed some cooling elements to fend off the kimchi tang,” Tannock explained. He opted for a muddled cucumber gimlet with Hendrick’s Orbium gin and a Mai Tai made with smoky Oaxacan Pensador Mezcal — “the perfect foil for the fried chicken’s moreish gochujang bite,” he says.

Go for Multipurpose Decorations

Arranged across a table, in between stacks of roughly hewn Rustico Stoneware plates, were piles of fruit: glossy orange persimmons, crackle-skinned cantaloupes, fuzzy white peaches and dusty burgundy grapes, each of which was sliced and served for dessert, having performed double duty during dinner as a tableaux that recalled a 17th-century Dutch still life painting in a palette of marigold and russet. “To me, marigold colors are happiness,” Pyo says. Simone Gooch, the founder of the florist Fjura and a regular collaborator of Eagle’s, followed suit by sourcing butterscotch yellow John Howard dahlias from a grower in South Darenth, Kent. Looming at four feet tall, they stood in their own earth, in reclaimed glass fish tanks, among the food. The following weekend, Eagle replanted the flowers in the garden of her weekend house, a 200-year-old cottage in the village of Wootton in West Oxfordshire. “My flower bed has become a smorgasbord of plants from all our parties,” she says.

Dress Down

“I have never planned my outfit longer than a day in advance — it just depends on my mood that day. I want to be comfortable,” Pyo says. For this dinner, she wore a boxy shirt in crinkled violet satin over a black bandeau top and a lime-green asymmetric midlength skirt — a mix of pieces from her pre-fall and spring 2019 collections that looked part surf, part soiree. “It’s nice not to be strict,” she says. That same spirit pervades Pyo’s label. “Tonight is a testament to how it suits everyone,” Eagle says. “Her undone tomboy style is unpretentious, not overly seasonal or designed but always with a sense of fun and vibrancy.” The same could be said of Pyo’s hosting style.

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Box Office: 'Equalizer 2' Narrowly Edges Past 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' to Land at No. 1

http://www.internetunleashed.co.uk/?p=15742 Box Office: 'Equalizer 2' Narrowly Edges Past 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' to Land at No. 1 - http://www.internetunleashed.co.uk/?p=15742 LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - In a twist ending straight out of a movie, “The Equalizer 2” shot past “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ to steal the box office crown. Cher, Lilly James and Amanda Seyfried attend the world premiere of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again at the Apollo in Hammersmith, London, Britain, July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKayGoing into the weekend, it looked like “Mamma Mia! 2” would easily debut at No. 1. Final numbers won’t come in until Monday, but weekend estimates show Sony’s “The Equalizer” sequel opened above estimates with $35.8 million when it launched in 3,388 locations, while Universal’s highly anticipated follow-up to “Mamma Mia!” debuted with $34.4 million from 3,317 screens. “Equalizer 2,” the first sequel of Denzel Washington’s nearly four-decade long career, launched ahead of its predecessor. 2014’s “The Equalizer” opened with $35 million and went on to generate $192 million worldwide, including $101 million domestically. Antoine Fuqua returned to direct “The Equalizer 2,” which also stars Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Melissa Leo, and Bill Pullman. Though it got a head start on the original film, reception has been less enthusiastic for the sequel, which currently holds a tepid 50 percent average on Rotten Tomatoes. Though “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” couldn’t dance its way to the top of the domestic box office, its $34 million opening is still a win. The original “Mamma Mia!” hit theatres a decade ago with $27 million. It became a box office hit, amassing $615 million worldwide on a $52 million budget. Much like the first film, the sequel will likely be a smash overseas, where Swedish pop group ABBA has a huge following. Much of the star-studded cast — including Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard, Colin Firth, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, and Dominic Cooper — returned for the second film. Lily James made her debut as a the younger version of Meryl Streep’s charming and carefree Donna, while living legend Cher also joined the cast. Ol Parker, the screenwriter behind “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” took over directing duties and penned the script. The final wide release of the weekend, BH Tilt’s “Unfriended: Dark Web,” got off to a scary start. The low-budget horror film debuted way below projections with $3.5 million from 1,546 locations. That might not matter, considering the Blumhouse title carries a $1 million price tag. “Dark Web” is a standalone sequel to 2015’s “Unfriended.” That film became a cash cow, opening with $15 million and going on to earn $64 million from a $41 million budget. “The Grudge” and “Texas Chainsaw 3D” writer Stephen Susco made his directorial debut with “Dark Web,” which features Colin Woodell, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Betty Gabriel, and Andrew Lees. Among holdovers, “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” nabbed third place during its second outing. Sony’s animated sequel picked up another $23 million from 4,267 locations, bringing its domestic tally to $91 million. In fourth, Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp” pocketed $16 million from 3,778 screens in its third frame. In total, the Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lily-led superhero blockbuster has made $165 million. Disney-Pixar’s “Incredibles 2” rounded out the top five with $11.3 million. In six weeks, the animated sequel has earned a massive $557 million in North America. Meanwhile, Dwayne Johnson’s “Skyscraper” continues to struggle in North America. Universal’s action adventure dropped 56% in its sophomore weekend, collecting $11 million in 3,822 locations. The studio is hoping for massive returns internationally, where it opens this weekend in China. At the speciality box office, Lionsgate’s “Blindspotting” bowed with $332,500 when it opened in 14 theatres. That’s a solid per-screen-average of $23,750. Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal co-wrote and star in “Blindspotting, which debuted to raves at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Bleecker Street’s “McQueen,” a documentary chronicling the life of iconic fashion designer Alexander McQueen, landed the top theatre average of the weekend with $24,232. It scored $96,928 when it opened in four theatres. Another new offering, Amazon Studios’ “Generation Wealth,” bowed on four screens with $33,602 for a per-theatre-average of $8,401.Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Source link

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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND – Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, The Equalizer 2, Unfriended: Dark Web and More

Last weekend didn’t prove as interesting as hoped as Hotel Transylvania 3 won the weekend easily and Skyscraper bombed badly, well below even the lowest expectations. That’s actually good news for this weekend where we see three new sequels, but bad news for a summer where we’re so full of sequels that only two of the three will likely stand out, at best.

MAMMA MIA: HERE WE GO AGAIN (Universal)

First up is one of the new sequels I haven’t seen, and if there’s anything good and right in the world, I will NEVER see it, because I saw the original Mamma Mia ten years ago, and my brain still hasn’t fully recovered.

The original movie opened pretty much on this same weekend in 2008, opening with $27.7 million but going on to make $144.1 million in North America and $465 million worldwide, and that was on a mere $52 million budget. Clearly, the success of the adaptation of the hit Broadway musical based on the tunes of ABBA warranted a sequel, and most of the original cast is back, including Meryl Streep, who received her 500thGolden Globe nomination in the convenient musical/comedy category for her performance, though not another Oscar nomination. (As if she needs another one.)

Although the original movie was written by Catherine Johnson, based on the stage musical, and directed by Phillida Lloyd (who went on to direct Streep to an Oscar win playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady), the sequel is written and directed by Ol Parker… a MAN!!!! (Cue incidental music.) Parker is best known for writing The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, but he previously directed the lesbian rom-com Imagine Me and You, starring Lena Heady (from Game of Thrones) and Matthew Goode.

While ABBA’s music and Streep* might be the movie’s biggest draw, there are other elements to consider, such as the always wonderful Lily James (Baby Driver) playing the younger Streep as well as the inimitable Cher as Streep’s mother (despite being only three years older in real life… okay, then). There are a bunch of hunkie young actors playing the younger versions of Stellan Skarsgard, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth’s Streep suitors, plus Amanda Seyfried and Preacher star Dominic Cooper are back as the young lovers, now married and expecting a child. (*Is it just me or is Streep being played down in the movie’s marketing, as if maybe she has a much smaller role?)

Obviously, there’s a lot going on here in terms of appeasing fans of the first movie, and ABBA fans of all ages, but there is a question whether the 10-year gap between movies might make this a sequel that arrives too late for its own good. Certainly, the popularity of ABBA really hasn’t diminished much since the first movie, and there will be plenty of women and gay men rushing out to see this on Thursday and Friday nights.

There aren’t a ton of comparisons other than maybe the Pitch Perfect movies (also released by Universal), the first one opening moderately with $5 million before grossing $65 million total, though it had five years of people seeing it on cable and DVD that the sequel opened with $69 million, more than the previous movie’s total. It grossed $184 million, but then the recent third and final movie ended up with $80 million less domestically. Another comparison might be the sequel Sex and the City 2, which opened two years after the original with $31 million, considerably less than the original’s $57 million opening, and grossed over $50 million less domestically. 50 Shades of Grey had a significant drop from the first to second and second to third movies, although they all still grossed at least $100 million domestically. I feel that Mamma Mia: Her We Go Again will fall more into the Pitch Perfect model, first of all because it’s a musical but also because it’s getting decent reviews so far.

The Mamma Mia sequel should be good for an opening over the $30 million mark, probably closer to $35 million or even more, since there isn’t much in theaters targeted towards women of varying ages. This definitely feels like the type of movie that can bring them out in force, at least opening weekend.

THE EQUALIZER 2 (Sony)

Denzel Washington and director Antoine Fuqua reunite for their fourth outing together after 2001’s Training Day, for which Washington won his first Oscar in a leading role, and then 2014’s The Equalizer (for which this is a sequel… duh) and 2016’s The Magnificent Seven remake.

The Equalizerwas a welcome reunion of the actor and director after having that earlier hit, and despite being a reimagining of an old ‘70s show (which has been hit or miss over the past few years), it opened with $34.1 million and grossed $101.5 million domestically. At a quick glance, that would make it Denzel’s fourth highest grossing movie after Remember the Titans (’00, $115.6 mil.), American Gangster (’07, $130.1 mil.) andSafe House (’12, $126.3 mil.).

There’s no question that Washington is one of the most reliable box office stars making movies, although he’s only doing one movie a year at this point, similar to Will Smith and other big stars. His 2017 offering Roman J. Israel Esq., an odd “indie” (from Sony Pictures) that bombed, grossing $12 million, about half what Washington’s movies usually open with. That followed Fences, an adaptation of August Wilson’s play directed by Washington, which grossed $57.6 million and earned four Oscar nominations with Viola Davis winning her first well-deserved award.

I honestly haven’t seen as much marketing or commercials for the movie that one might expect, plus Sony are giving it a mid-to-late summer release rather than the prestigious Sept. release of Washington-Fuqua’s last few movies (which also debuted at the Toronto Film Festival). I’m not sure why this might be other than Sony thinking the movie will sell itself, although this is only Washington’s FOURTH movie in 20 years to get a wide summer release. There might be a good reason for that, such as not wanting to compete with bigger summer tentpole fare, but those other three summer releases ended up grossing between $65 and 75 million.

I was supposed to see this sequel earlier in the week but didn’t get the chance – I’ll be using Moviepass to see it sometime soon, I hope – and reviews were held under embargo until Wednesday, maybe for obvious reasons as the reviews aren’t as good as for the first movie.

Because of the above things, I’m thinking The Equalizer 2��might not match the $30 million plus opening of the original Equalizereven with Denzel’s noticeable absence from theaters since last year. If this ends up somewhere in the mid-$20 millions this weekend, it will probably end up grossing $70 to 75 million total, ‘cause it’s gonna get slaughtered by Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible next week.

UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (BH Tilt)

The third sequel of the weekend isn’t really a sequel as much as it’s another movie in a series? With everyone using the internet, it was only a matter of time before using the internet would become a regular subject of horror, and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse has capitalized on it greatly after messing around with various cameras in the Paranormal Activity movies.

Unfriended: Dark Web involves a guy who “finds” a laptop that turns out to be the property of a member of a bizarre hacker death cult that gets him and his friends into deep and deadly trouble. And it all takes place on a laptop screen...what innovation!

The original Unfriended opened in April 2014, directed by the unknown Levan Gabriadze with Timur Bekmambetov producing. After a solid $15.8 million opening, it pretty much tanked with consecutive 61% drops to the point where it only grossed $32.5 million domestically. It did about the same overseas, but that’s $64 million for a movie that cost a million dollars to make and so…. PROFIT! Which leads to a SEQUEL (of sorts)!

I say “of sorts” because none of the characters from the first movie are back, similar to the Ouija franchise, which replaced everyone for the prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil two years later. This one is the directorial debut by screenwriter Stephen Susco, who wrote The Grudge remake and its sequel. The most recognizable star in the cast is probably Betty Gabriel, who famously did the “No, no, no” bit in Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning 2017 thriller Get Out. This movie isn’t nearly as good. The film’s main “star” is probably Colin Woodell, who had a small role in Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane and will be in BLumhouse’s upcoming The Purge television series.

While I don’t feel like writing a full review, the movie is just okay, and I much prefer the upcoming Searching, also produced by Bekmambetov, which also has all of its action taking place on a computer screen. By comparison, Unfriended: Dark Web is kinda of mean-spirited and gets a little too dark to be enjoyable for my tastes, and that’s coming from someone who is probably going to see Hereditary again this weekend.

Regardless, I think Unfriended: Dark Web should be able to make $7 to 8 million this weekend in a little over 1,500 theaters, roughly half the theaters in which Universal opened the original. Not having the Universal backing for this semi-sequel won’t help matters.

Last week’s movies should quickly drop away to give room for this week’s two bigger releases with a similar showing as last week’s Hotel Transylvania 3 vs. Skyscraper, but in this case Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again should do significantly better than The Equalizer 2 for reasons mentioned above. Hotel Transylvania 3 will probably be affected the least by the new offerings, since none of them are kid or family-friendly.

Here’s what the Top 10 should look like…

1. Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (Universal) - $38.2 million* N/A

2. The Equalizer 2 (Sony) - $28.2 million* N/A

3. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (Sony Pictures Animation) - $24.2 million -45%

4. Ant-Man and the Wasp(Marvel/Disney) - $15 million -48%

5. Skyscraper (Legendary/Universal) - $11.3 million -55%

6.The Incredibles 2(Disney-Pixar) - $9.8 million -40%

7. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Universal) - $8.4 million -48%

8. Unfriended: Dark Web (BH Tilt) - $7.3 million N/A

9. The First Purge (Blumhouse/Universal) - $4.7 million -50%

10. Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna) - $4 million -6%

(*Surprise, surprise! The Equalizer 2 is opening in slightly more theaters than Mamma Mia, but it’s still likely to get slaughtered this weekend as the musical sequel has a lot more anticipating fans.)

If you’ve spent the last few weeks seeing movies at the New York Asian Film Festival then I envy you, since I haven’t gotten a chance to see anything, but Asian film enthusiasts can look forward to JAPAN CUTS, beginning July 19 at the Japan Society in New York City. The 12thannual film series will features some of the recent films from the land of the Rising Sun with lots of special guests. It opens Thursday with Ramen Shop, and you can check out the full line-up on the official site.

LIMITED RELEASES

Easily the most significant specialty releases this weekend is Blindspotting (Lionsgate), written and starring Hamilton star Daveed Diggs and co-written and staring Rafael Casal as best friends and co-workers at a moving company who are frustrated with the way their Oakland neighborhood is changing. When Daveed’s character Collin spots a white police officer shooting a black man, he’s conflicted about reporting it. Although there are serious and personal issues covered in Blindspotting, there’s also humor and a good deal of freestyle rap from the Hamilton star. I really liked the film when I saw it at Sundance back in January, and it’s a terrific feature directorial debut for Carlos López Estrada, although it’s really about Diggs and Casal. Blindspotting will open in 14 theaters in 5 cities – New York, L.A., Chicago, DC and San Francisco – and the movie will expand nationwide next weekend.

I also saw some great docs being released this weekend, and my favorite among them is Rachel Dretzin’s Far from the Tree (Sundance Selects) based on Andrew Solomon’s best-selling book of the same name. It’s a fascinating doc that looks at families where the parents are very different from their children for one reason or another. In Solomon’s case, it was that he was a flamboyantly gay child whose parents tried to “correct” him, but it deals with incredibly interesting looks at parents who have severely autistic children (such as Jason, pictured above, who is obsessed with Elsa from Frozen) and other things that make them unique. It’s a wonderful film that will open at the IFC Center with a special preview Thursday night, and both Dretzin and Solomon will be doing QnAs throughout the weekend. It’s also a great follow-up if you loved some of the recent docs like Won’t You Be My Neighbor.

Generation Wealth (Amazon Studios) is the new documentary from photographer Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles), this one examining the current generation’s proclivity for living beyond their means, something I can sadly relate to, although I didn’t think the doc worked as well as Greenfield’s other doc. It’s certainly a far more personal film, pulling together her photography and filmmaking work from the past 25 years, and there are some interesting subjects for sure, but it didn’t come together quite as easily as Queen of Versailles. Either way, Generation Wealth will open in select cities on Friday.

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I balked at my chance to see Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s doc McQueen (Bleecker Street), mostly because it wasn’t about Steve McQueen (either the late actor or the living filmmaker), but actually about fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Anyone who knows me will realize that I know absolutely nothing about fashion other than when someone is on a red carpet and says that Alexander McQueen designed their dress/suit (a good thing since actor Steve McQueen is dead). Apparently, McQueen has had a fairy tale like story of rags-to-riches that might interest some, but sadly, not me.

The last doc of the weekend is Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s Love, Cecil (Zeitgeist Films/Kino Lorber), which opens at the Landmark Nuart in L.A. on Friday after playing at Film Society back in June. (Sorry for that oversight, New York!) The Cecil of the title is Cecil Beaton, the costume designer, painter, photographer and writer who did the production design for Gigi andMy Fair Lady. Narrated by Rupert Everett, the latest film from the director of Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel and Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict should be one fans of old movies won’t want to miss.

Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose previous films Like Father, Like Sonand Our Little Sister were hot festival and awards hits, returns with his 2017 movie The Third Murder (Film Movement), which won 7 Japanese Academy Awards earlier this year including Best Film. In theory, that would make it Japan’s submission for next year’s Oscars? (Kore-eda’s next film Shopliftersjust won the Palm d’Or at Cannes in May.) This one is a crime procedural about a defense attorney that reluctantly takes on the case of a factory worker accused of his killing his employer. This opens at the Quad Cinema in New York City on Friday. (Oh, and the Quad is also continuing with the second part of its Hammer’s House of Horror series, covering the “decadent years.”)

As far as other retrospective stuff, my beloved Metrograph will be screening a restoration of Barbara Loden’s 1970 film Wanda (Janus Films), in which she plays a young mother from Pennsylvania coal country who shacks up with Michael Higgins’ bad-boy “Mr. Dennis.” I haven’t seen this yet, but it sounds like another movie perfectly suited for the times rediscovered by Metrograph and Janus for younger present-day audiences. I’ll be checking it out for sure.

Other releases include Deborah Haywood’s mother-daughter drama Pin Cushion (Cleopatra Entertainment), as well as Damascus Cover (Vertical Entertainment), Daniel Zelik Berk’s Pin Cushion (Cleopatra Entertainment), a spy action-thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Olivia Thirlby and the late John Hurt.

As far as Netflix series, this Friday will see the release of Dark Tourist, a new 8-part series from New Zealand’s David Farrier, the director of 2016’s Tickled, which takes a look at the more offbeat side of “tourism.” Should be another fun work of non-fiction from the filmmaker.

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