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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean

Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence

Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali

Michel Ray as Farraj

John Dimech as Daud

Gamil Ratib as Majid

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"Bleeding Pumpkins" by John Dimech.

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Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)

Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit, I.S. Johar, Gamil Ratib, Michel Ray, John Dimech, Zia Mohyeddin. Screenplay: Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson, based on the writings of T.E. Lawrence. Cinematography: Freddie Young. Production design: John Box. Film editing: Anne V. Coates. Music: Maurice Jarre.

It's often said that David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia is one of those films that must be seen in a theater. That statement gets my back up: If a movie's story and performances are secondary to its spectacle, is it really a good movie? As it happens, I first saw Lawrence in a theater in the year of its release (or at least its European release, which was 1963), but it was a theater in Germany and the film was dubbed in German. Only moderately fluent in spoken German, I don't think I followed the dialogue very well, though I certainly appreciated the spectacle, especially Freddie Young's Oscar-winning cinematography. It took some later viewings on TV in the States for me to grasp the movie's story, though the film was trimmed for time, interrupted by commercials, and subjected to atrocious panning-and-scanning because viewers objected to letterboxing of wide-screen movies. So this viewing was probably my first complete exposure to Lean's celebrated film. And though I watched it at home -- in HD on a 32-inch flat screen TV -- I think I fully appreciated both the spectacle and the story. Which is not to say that I think the movie is all it's celebrated for being. The first half of the film is far more compelling than the latter half, and some of the casting is unforgivable, particularly Alec Guinness as Prince Faisal and Anthony Quinn as Auda. Guinness was usually a subtle actor, but his Faisal is mannered and unconvincing. Quinn simply overacts, as he was prone to do with directors who let him, and his prosthetic beak is atrocious. Omar Sharif, on the other hand, is very good as Ali. The producers are said to have wanted Horst Buchholz or Alain Delon, but they settled on Sharif, already a star in Egypt, and made him an international star. His success points up how unfortunate it is that they couldn't have found Middle Eastern actors to play Faisal and Auda. In his film debut, Peter O'Toole gives a tremendous performance, even though he's nothing like the shorter and more nondescript figure that was the real T.E. Lawrence, and it's sad that screenwriters Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson couldn't have found room in the script to trace the origins of Lawrence's obsession with Arabia. For that omission, a good read is Scott Anderson's  Lawrence in Arabia: Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East, which not only depicts Lawrence's complexity but also the madness of the spy-haunted, oil-hungry wartime world in which he played his part. It's beyond the scope of even a three-and-a-half-hour movie to tell, though it could make a tremendous TV miniseries some day.

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The Red Goddess ~ Taking you through a tale of sex, drugs & violence. This is an ecstatic journey through the unheard history of Babalon. This is an explicit & challenging vision of a very modern goddess coming into power. From Revelation, back through the Ishtar Gate & forward into a living modern magickal current. More than a history, it is a passionate account of living magick & the transcendent power of Love. Obtain at #TheWitchery via https://www.thewitchery.ca/product/the-red-goddess-2/ The epic sweep of the text takes us from Babylon to Jerusalem to Rome, & onwards to Apocalypse. It confronts us with the language & symbols of our own culture & the denied demonic feminine. It looks at the Angelic work of renaissance mage John Dee & places it in a European eschatology. Delivering a devastating exegesis on the excesses of Aleister Crowley, & unlocks the secrets of ‘Waratah Blossoms.’ It explains the immolation of the Californian antichrist-superstar Jack Parsons & his relationship with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. There is also a full supporting cast of Solomon, Simon Magus, St John the Divine, Earl Bothwell, the Templars, Mary, the Magdalene & countless others. This is the missing history of the Love goddess in the West. Thirteen essays conclude the book on subjects including: roses, mirror magick, bdsm, aphrodisiac drugs, the information age, love vs lust, and the meaning of apocalypse. The Red Goddess is for anyone with blood in their veins, regardless of tradition, background or experience. The 2021 edition is introduced with a preface by Alkistis Dimech. First published fourteen years ago, it has not been available in hardcover for over a decade. In this modern classic, Peter Grey takes the reader on a personal, passionate historical journey of the goddess Babalon, from the Book of Revelation to a modern, powerful re-awakening, via John Dee, Aleister Crowley & Jack Parsons. Thirteen essays conclude the book: on roses, mirror magick, bdsm, aphrodisiac drugs, the information age, love & lust, & the apocalypse. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn9yI8hJjjq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Me and my friend when we want two large glasses of lemonade:

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“Lawrence of Arabia” by David Lean (1962) Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, John Dimech, I.S. Johar, and Michel Ray in Oasis de Rambla Viciana (Tabernas)

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Morning Light-Old Harry Rocks, john dimech

The rocks reflecting the morning sun and the shimmering of the calm waters make for a perfect picture I never tire of painting.

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Morning-Light-Old-Harry-Rocks/306254/1504835/view

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Track By Track: Quiet Marauder - ‘Tiny Men Parts’ EP

Today Quiet Marauder release their brand new ‘Tiny Men Parts’ EP via Bubblewrap Collective. We caught up with Simon Read from the band to give us a track by track insight into the wild and wacky world of the mighty QM.  THE BUSINESS DEAL: When we first started Quiet Marauder as an active live band, there were three of us involved and this was one of our first co-writing efforts. The song channels the darkness of characters in American Psycho and Wall Street, how their overconfident facades could easily slip into derangement. A lot of the tracks on our debut MEN were focused on these types of characters: menacing, brooding and celebrating their own outrageous behaviour with cocktails of drugs.

I WANT A MOUSTACHE, DAMMIT: I met a chap called Solomon in a bar in Cardiff who told me about his plans to write a musical about Gummo - a really strange cult film starring Chloe Sevigny. There’s a scene in it where a kid keeps saying that they ‘want a moustache, dammit, like Burt Reynolds’ so this became the central core of the song we ultimately came up with. Playing it live, we often give audience members their own Burt Reynolds face masks, ask them to chew through his eyes, and then put their tongues through the holes that are left. It still amazes me that we have such a high conversion rate of people doing this, but there is no better sight in the world than a room full of Burts all with tongues for eyes.

RODA & THE BUNKER: This was part of a collaboration with a young adult fiction writer called Lucy Christopher. She asked me to write some songs to accompany a book she had written called The Killing Woods about teenagers playing dangerous, dark games in a forest. I guess this track is about how those hormones can overspill into damaging, frightening and intimidating behaviours.

IT WASN’T ME, IT WAS THE MOON: For me, this track epitomises some of the core issues of our MEN album and subsequently Tiny Men Parts. This was intended as a critique of the duplicity embedded into our interactions, our attempts to manipulate or coerce others into doing things. Also, though, it’s about our willingness to blame situations and events on almost everything but ourselves and how, if you take that to the extreme, it grows increasingly mad and ridiculous.

THE INTERNAL MONOLOGUE DATE: My internal conversations are, at once, horrifying and bewildering. I’ve gotten accustomed to them being that way over time and, I hope, learned how to stop my mouth from talking before my brain has fully considered what is about to happen next. This wasn’t always the case, though, and back when I was single and dating I would commonly find myself saying something completely inappropriate by accident. This track takes this idea to extremes that I’ve thankfully never reached in real life. Dirty talk really doesn’t suit me somehow, I think I might sound too sarcastic for it to be effective.

LUCKY TONIGHT: The classic lad banter of ‘I’m feeling lucky tonight’ has always baffled me. I remember someone saying before a night out ages ago that they were looking to get lucky with a lady before dawn. While everyone else laughed, I started thinking to what extent this chap may try to influence his own ‘luck’ by doing some bad, bad things. So this is the extremity of the ‘lucky tonight’ position laid bare; the protagonist in the song will do literally anything to ensure their luck comes through.

THE ANIMALS ARE SPYING ON ME: I love animals. Pretty much every animal is outrageously cool. But the thought of all animals organising themselves collectively is also an incredibly daunting one for me. I was confronted by issues of these nature when I was looking at a cat from out of my window. He or she was sat in my garden, preening him or herself, when a large pigeon flew down and sat next to him. I’d heard stories about putting cats amidst pigeons and was expecting carnage, but the pigeon and the cat just looked at each other and then turned their heads towards me and started walking towards the window. I freaked out and closed the blinds and then wrote this song.

EGGS!: The full Cardiff band really did a number on this one. It has morphed from its original incarnation as a one-man, lo-fi acoustic oddity into a pop-punk tour de force which I absolutely adore. This was written on the way back from a stag do in Devon. Me and my travelling partner were listening to Radio 4 and there was a documentary about eggs on, which seemed to go on for about two hours. I couldn’t believe there was so much to say about eggs but it just kept going. Most of the eggs listed in the song were genuine phrases lifted from that documentary. But then I made quite a lot up too.

I WANT A MOUSTACHE, DAMMIT (DANCE REMIX): Myself and Reginald Foxwell from My Name Is Ian often do duo shows together where, without the full regalia of the six-piece band, we are more reliant on keyboards and acoustic type instruments. On our 2019 tour we introduced this version of I Want A Moustache, Dammit to some unsuspecting parts of the UK - predominantly through Reginald’s clever fingers - and we all fell in love with its stupidity. Casio keyboard backing tracks are the cornerstone of modern indie-pop.

Released by Bubblewrap Collective, Tiny Men Parts was be preceded by digital single ‘The Animals Are Spying on Me’, lyrically about human capability for irrational and yet somehow intractable paranoia. Following that the full EP, arriving in limited edition heavyweight white ‘fried egg’ vinyl with accompanying ‘real man’ temporary tattoos is out today.

Quiet Marauder are: Simon M. Read: Vocals, acoustic guitar Ian Williams: Vocals, electric guitar Rowan Liggett: Vocals, bass guitar John Whittles: Drums Francesca Dimech: Vocals, trumpet, melodica Kadesha Drija: Vocals, percussion

Buy it here: https://album.link/gb/i/1535505155

https://quietmarauder.co.uk

https://bubblewrapcollective.co.uk

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Lawrence of Arabia(1962) directed by David Lean

Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence

Michel Ray as Farraj

John Dimech as Daud

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 Saatchi Art Artist john dimech; Painting, “Old Harry Rocks” #art

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Lawrence of Arabia: Hi-Def, Small Screen

DATELINE: Whatever Happened to Michel Ray & John Dimech  O’Toole with Michel Ray Impossible, you might say, to watch the biggest, grandest, most spectacular epic film ever made on the small screen? High Definition is the response, and TV screens are not exactly tiny nowadays. Not since its premiere in 1963 have we seen such a gorgeous print of David Lean’s masterpiece. Though we have seen the…

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John Dimech

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Straight to the heart. A view down Raymond Caruana Street to the parish church of Gudja, Malta. THE PARISH CHURCH OF GUDJA IN BRIEF The parish church serving in the village of Gudja is the only church in Malta with three bell towers. It was built in 1656 on the plans of Thomas Dingli with a Baroque architecture and dedicated to the Assumption Of Mary (Maltese: Santa Marija). Inside the church, the titular statue of the Assumption Of Our Lady, sculpted out of solid wood in 1807 by the Maltese sculptor Vincenzo Dimech, is the oldest statue featuring the Assumption of Our Lady on the Maltese islands. GUDJA If you are looking for a small, laid back, local village where time seems to move at a slower pace than ours, then Gudja is your place! Gudja is a village in the Southern Region of Malta, with a population of just 3,148 as of March 2017. The village is located on high grounds. A walk around its streets will offer a number of interesting features and traditional local flavour. Situated less than a five minute walk from the Malta International Airport, Gudja has a lot of those typical Maltese town features we love. AN OLD VILLAGE Several remains of the Roman period are scattered in the whereabouts, notoriously the Ħal Resqun Catacombs. Scarce Punic remains were found in an area known as Xlejli, within the village. The area was inhabited during the Arab and subsequent medieval periods, and the settling found today dates to the Order of St. John. The centre of the village further developed during the British period, after which a number of modern neighbourhoods were built. The village has a concentration of churches, some dating to the medieval period, and other secular historic buildings such as Palazzo Dorell. Prominent buildings are now scheduled as Grade 1 or 2. ORIGINS The origins of Gudja date as far back as pre-1436, when the famous 500-year-old church of St. Mary at Bir Miftuħ was the parish church if those corner of Malta. Bir Miftuħ is today an area that forms part of Gudja but that existed much longer before it… Read the full article here https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=478314436983704&set=a.260153722133111 (at Gudja) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZBOqo2o_cR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The Fenris Wolf 9: VERY few left! This ed consists of the 23 first hand-numbered copies, each comes w a signed print by Val Denham!

https://store.trapart.net/details/00026

This volume contains material from the conference Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult (London, 2016), with contributions from Gary Lachman, Vanessa Sinclair, Katelan Foisy, Sharron Kraus, Demetrius Lacroix, Graham Duff, Ken Henson, Peter Grey, Val Denham, Claire-Madeline Culkin, Steven Reisner, Katy Bohinc, Olga Cox Cameron, Ingo Lambrecht, Elliott Edge, Charlotte Rodgers, Alkistis Dimech, Fred Yee, Robert Ansell, Ray O Neill, Derek M Elmore, Julio Mendes Rodrigo, Eve Watson, and Carl Abrahamsson. Topics include Sigmund Freud and the Occult, Art as Alchemy, the art of John Balance, Cut-Ups as a magical and psychoanalytic tool, Maori shamanism within therapy, Animistic art, Dance as ritual, Androgynous aspects in Austin Osman Spare’s art, Salvador Dali’s meeting with Jacques Lacan, Rebis: the Double Being, David Bowie’s Non-Human Effect, similarities between ritual magic and psychoanalysis, and much more. Trapart Books 2017. 248 pages, 148 x 210 mm, hardbound with dust jacket.

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#SproutChat Recap: Communicating With Emojis

Getting someone’s attention in our content-saturated world is challenging. Getting someone to actually click on one of your social media posts is even harder.

That’s why visuals are so important. While beautifully created graphics are great, another kind of image—the emoji—can be just as effective in certain settings. Of course, emojis may not be appropriate to include in every major communication, but they are often a useful form of shorthand for quick updates.

The bright folks of our #SproutChat community shared their thoughts on how these tiny popular graphics can have a big impact in engaging different audiences. Below are their suggestions.

Show Some Personality

Emojis have become their own sort of language. They began as a fun addition to a text message, but they can now be used to replace actual words and phrases, conveying an entire range of emotions. Frequent emoji users have set a standard for what each character means. Brands should test which ones resonate with their audiences while closely monitoring which emojis don’t get the intended reaction. Still, for the most part, emojis are a great way to foster a more personal connection.

A1 I think #smm is about talking the talk of your audience, so emoji marketing is a natural next step #sproutchat

— Lydia Nicoll (@LydiaNicoll) November 18, 2015

@SproutSocial A1: Emoji marketing is a great way to show your brand’s personality and humanize it at the same time. #sproutchat

— Michael Mckelvey (@mckelvey92) November 18, 2015

A1 Emotional connection is key to a brand. Emoji’s can help — or hurt (by being dumb or overused.) #sproutchat

— John Zebell (@JohnnyZ1959) November 18, 2015

A1: Rather than saying “high five” or “fist bump” you can use the emoji. For sports you can use ? for a player who’s doing well. #SproutChat

— Zach Solomon-Beloin (@ZachSB) November 18, 2015

@SproutSocial A2: I’d say both! Sometimes emotion doesn’t come across as clearly in text. Emojis sometimes solve that ?? #Sproutchat

— Morgan Wright (@morgganwright) November 18, 2015

@SproutSocial A2. I think emojis have gained popularity because they fill the gap caused by lack of tone of voice and gestures. #SproutChat

— Sherrie Rohde (@sherrierohde) November 18, 2015

Learn the Language

The list of emojis keeps growing, opening up the opportunity for brands to be more creative. While most may use emojis playfully, they can also be used seriously. What’s more, combining several emojis in one post can take on an entirely new meaning. Look into what emojis your community is already using to guide your brand’s overall approach and tone.

A3: Don’t think there’s any single emotion… that’s why there are so MANY FREAKIN EMOJIs! #sproutchat

— Andrew Wasyluk (@socialeyze) November 18, 2015

A3: For me they only work with humorous/light situations. Sounds weird but sad emojis feel so much more personal #sproutchat

— Tate Dimech (@tatedimech) November 18, 2015

A3 I think in terms of marketing, positive emojis are the best to use ? #Sproutchat

— Erik Maag (@Erik_Maag) November 18, 2015

Don’t Force It

While emojis can resonate with a range of audiences, some people may find them off putting. Remember: Emojis aren’t just for a younger audience, but they do tend to resonate better with millennials and Gen X. That said, there are certain situations where an emoji just isn’t acceptable at all.

If my doctor starting sending me emojis on my reminders for appointments I may think twice about him, but my dogwalker? Sure #sproutchat

— Chris Desadoy (@EliteYouTubePro) November 18, 2015

A4. Not any industry. Your audience has to be emoji savvy/emoji ready. I.e. don’t use them to target seniors. #sproutchat

— Reva Minkoff (@revaminkoff) November 18, 2015

@SproutSocial Social media focused industries for sure. Especially to connect with hyper-engaged (often, not always, younger) #sproutchat

— LexBeresfordJurowscy (@lexberju) November 18, 2015

Embrace the Emoji

Let’s face it, emojis aren’t going anywhere. They have become accepted as a normal part of everyday communication. Seeing that the language has also evolved to incorporate different skin colors, as well as various foods and sports from a wider range of cultures, we predict that brands will start using emojis with even greater frequency.

A6. Branded Emojis are the future of messaging marketing. Might even be a big factor in SEO very soon! #sproutchat

— Pratik Mohapatra (@mohapatrapratik) November 18, 2015

A6: Using it creatively to express an emotion & connect on a more #human2human level. #sproutchathttps://t.co/seOnEyhJB8

— Amanda Nelson (@MandaVision) November 18, 2015

A6: It looks bright. I think more & more brands will stop to adopt them as they become more accepted among the lexicon ? #SproutChat

— Aaron Lumnah (@aaronlumnah) November 18, 2015

A6 I’m betting little video emojis, like bursting stars, fluttering hearts. Also a central standardized system to register. #Sproutchat

— Terry Lo (@calgarydreamer) November 18, 2015

@SproutSocial A6. Emojis, I suspect, might blend into short videos/GIFs at some point. Though it is too early to say. #SproutChat

— Ayesha Ambreen (@AyeshaAmbreen) November 18, 2015

Thanks for Your Support!

With Thanksgiving just around the corner in the US, we have a lot to be grateful for this year—including our awesome #SproutChat community. On that note, we’re also thrilled to share that Social Media Examiner recently included us in its roundup of the best Twitter chats for marketers, thanks to the feedback from people like you.

Of course, if you’re new to #SproutChat, don’t be shy; feel free to stop by every Wednesday at 2 p.m. CST, and/or tune into our Facebook community for weekly discussion topics. We’ll see you next time, as we discuss supplementing data and analytics to prove the impact of social media today.

https://growinsta.xyz/sproutchat-recap-communicating-with-emojis/