#magic revue pop moderne

[etiennedaho]

🖤MARQUIS DE SADE (AUSSI) EN UNE DU NOUVEAU MOOK🖤

Il y a une semaine nous vous présentions la Une de notre trimestriel du printemps. Baignée de lumière dorée, auréolée du retour miraculeux de Beth Gibbons avec "Lives Outgrown», la couv’ du Magic n°231 annonce un dossier de 16 pages qui raconte, commente, et chronique « l’art de l’esquive » de la voix de Portishead, présence aussi discrète qu’inoubliable dans la pop de ces trente dernières années.

Mais ce n’est pas tout...

En retournant votre nouveau mook (désormais en route vers la boîte aux lettres de nos abonnés), surprise : Magic s’habille aussi de noir avec une deuxième Une qui rend hommage à l’un des piliers du panthéon rock de chez nous : Marquis de Sade.

Avec son très beau portrait signé de notre photographe Julien Bourgeois, la quatrième de couverture de ce numéro loue "la race des seigneur » du quatuor rennais. Si Philippe Pascal, son chanteur disparu en 2019 quelques mois après la reformation du groupe, en était l’incarnation torturée, alors Frank Darcel, son guitariste et confondateur, en était le moteur qui s’emballe. Il nous a quittés à son tour le 14 mars dernier et Magic ne se voyait pas composer un sommaire qui n’aurait pas fait une place à "ce menhir en mouvement perpétuel".

Pour l’occasion, notre cahier Rembobinages renferme un dossier spécial de 34 pages qui raconte l’histoire collective, la réunion de 2017 débattue à l’oral, le temps des projets d’avenir (à travers un entretien posthume inédit) et la trajectoire singulière (entre New York, la Bretagne et le Portugal) de Frank Darcel.

Ce dossier exceptionnel, nos abonnés auront la chance de le découvrir dans une poignée de jours (arrivée prévue autour du vendredi 7 juin dans leur boîte aux lettres). Si vous n’en faites pas (encore) partie, pas de panique, vous pouvez commander ce numéro dès maintenant en suivant le lien en bio 🔗

À très bientôt pour le sommaire complet du numéro !

Photo © @julienbpics pour Magic | Design © David Guibaud

#marquisdesade #frankdarcel @marquis_rennes

[ifuckinglovestvincent]

MAGIC Revue Pop Moderne:

St. Vincent par Julien Bourgeois: « C’était juste dingue »

20 DÉCEMBRE 2017

Julien Bourgeois, l’oeil de Magic, a sélectionné quatorze de ses photographies réalisées et parues cette année dans le mag Pop moderne. Il nous raconte les coulisses de chacun de ses clichés. Deuxième épisode avec St-Vincent, notre « une » du #206.

“C’était la quatrième fois que je photographiais St. Vincent. Je l’ai photographiée pour tous ses précédents albums et voir l’évolution de son image est quelque chose d’assez étonnant. La première fois que je l’ai rencontrée, elle était juste venue à Paris avec sa guitare acoustique. Quelques années plus tard, je la retrouve dans un grand studio londonien. Je la vois arriver dans cette combinaison improbable avec des bottes de l’espace et cette grosse chaîne autour d’elle, c’était juste dingue !

Il y avait tellement à faire… C’est quelqu’un qui ne donne pas énormément, qui reste un peu distante. Il fallait vraiment provoquer l’image.

Je sentais que c’était la fin de journée pour elle. J’étais le dernier à passer, il y avait eu beaucoup de retard, je devais prendre mon train pour rentrer à Paris quelques minutes plus tard… il fallait vraiment qu’on ne prenne pas plus qu’un quart d’heure ! Et tout d’un coup je lui dis “est-ce que tu veux bien t’allonger par terre ?”

Dans mon esprit je voulais qu’elle s’allonge par terre mais qu’on mette l’image verticale. Je voulais qu’on ait cette impression où on ne se repère plus dans l’espace. Ça allait très bien avec sa tenue. Le manque de temps t’oblige à avoir des idées très vite et à laisser ton instinct parler. Ici, j’ai accepté de me faire confiance.

La deuxième photo je la trouve différente du reste de la série, on la sent fatiguée, plus vulnérable et c’est quelque chose qu’elle laisse très peu transparaître. On a l’impression qu’elle est presque nue. On sent qu’elle a chaud avec ses cheveux collés sur sa joue. C’est une image qui représente le contraire du formatage et de la parfaite maîtrise qu’elle essaye de mettre en avant.”

Julien Bourgeois (série coordonnée par Julia Borel)

[hotfuss]

the killers on magic, revue pop moderne n. 106, 2006. photos by mélanie elbaz

[keyofjetwolf]

Pitch Me your thing!

HELLO HELLO MY SUNBEAMS. For most every category, there was an impressive turn-out for pitches, so I thought we’d utilize the weirdness of this year’s GIFTENING to give something new a try. The popular vote winner for each category will happen on the first day, but on the second, the winner will be chosen from YOUR PITCHES. Mostly those pitches will be to me. The exception is in Miscellaneous, where you’ll be pitching to my family, because what I want to do and what is most entertaining isn’t necessarily the same thing.

So! How will we do this thing? GLAD YOU ASKED. I’ll link you to a form in a minute with space for one pitch. Once you fill it out, you’ll be asked if you want to do another. There’s no limit to the number of pitches you can send in! But remember that if you submit multiple entries for the same category, you’ll basically be competing against yourself.

NOW WE’VE GOT SOME RULES FOR DOING THIS (which I mostly stole from Holligay, because I have no creativity this year). Please read them carefully! I’ll toss pitches that break any of these, and I’d rather your hard work not go to waste.

Pitch Me is open for your submissions from RIGHT NOW (22 December) through the very last day of this hellyear (31 December) at 11:59pm MT.

The thing you pitch must have come from what was nominated for THE GIFTENING 2020. (Full list of those nominations in every category below the cut on this post.)

Entries must be unsigned! I’m looking to chose based on the pitch alone, regardless of who submitted it.

The pitch itself must be 100 words or less. HAVE PITY ON ME I CAN ONLY CONSUME SO MUCH.

If you’d like to get some help, ideas, feedback, all that good stuff, the Discord is a FANTASTIC resource I encourage you to use.

HERE IS YOUR PITCH SUBMISSION LINK

And, as promised, below the cut you’ll find the list of all the nominees in every category you guys sent in this year. IT’S A LONG LIST HAVE FUN WITH THAT

Anime

A Place Further Than The Universe/Sora Yori mo Toi Basho Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) Action Heroine Cheer Fruits Aggretsuko Aho Girl Air Master Akuma No Riddle Alien Nine Angel Beats! Angelic Layer Appare-Ranman Aria Aria the Animation Arrietty/ The Secret World of Arrietty (Ghibli film) Ascendance of a Bookworm Azumamga Daioh Baccano! Beastars Black Cat Blood + (the series) Bloom Into You Blue Drop/Tenshitachino Gikyoku Bodacious Space Pirates (starting right where you left off) BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense Boku no hero academia Bubblegum Crisis Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Cardcaptor Sakura Castlevania the Animated Series Cells at Work Chaos; Head Chihayafuru Code Geass cowboy Bebop Cyborg 009 Death Note Death Parade Deca-Dence Demon Girl Next Door Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba) Diebuster: Aim For the Top 2 Dog Days dorohedoro Dot Hack//SIGN Dr. Stone Elfen Lied Erased (Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi) Escaflowne Excel Saga Fantastic Children Fate/Zero Flip Flappers Fresh Precure Fruits Basket 2019 Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood Ga rei Zero GaoGaiGar gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex Ghost Stories (dubbed) Girls' Last Tour Great Pretender Hoseki no Kuni/ Land of the Lustrous House of Five Leaves/ Saraiya Goyou Inari konkon koi iroha Interviews with Monster Girls Inuyasha Isekai Izakaya "Nobu" Jellyfish Princess/ Kuragehime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable Kaguya-sama Love Is War Kaleido Star Kannazuki no Miko Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Kemono Friends Kiki's Delivery Service Kimi ni Todoke: From Me To You Kino's Journey/Kino no Tabi (2003) Land of the Lustrous (Houseki no Kuni) Little Witch Academia Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files EP0 {"A Grave Keeper") Love is Hard for an Otaku Love Live! Sunshine!! lupin the 3rd part 4 Madoka: The Rebellion Movie Magic knight rayearth Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha March Comes in Like a Lion Mardock Scramble Master of Martial Hearts Mawaru Penguindrum Megalobox Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Mob Psycho 100 Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) Monster Mushishi My Bride is a Mermaid (Seto No Hanayome) My Love Story!!! My Neighbor Totoro My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom My Roommate is a Cat NANA Naruto Natsume’s Book of Friends Neon Genesis Evangelion (hateblog) New Cutey Honey Nichijou Ōban Star-Racers One Piece Ouran High school Host club Outlaw Star Paranoia Agent Perfect Blue Please Save My Earth Pop Team Epic Pretty Cure Fresh Princess Jellyfish/ Kuragehime Princess Mononoke Princess Principal Princess Tutu Project A-Ko promised neverland (/yakusoku no neverland) Psycho-Pass Ranma 1/2 Re: Cutie Honey Re:Creators Read or Die (OAV) Red Garden relife Revolutionalry Girl Utena Rose of Versailles Ruroni Kenshin Sailor Moon Sailor Moon (viz dub) Samurai Champloo (english dub) Sarazanmai School Days School-Live! Scum's Wish Senki Zesshou Symphogear (listed as just "Symphogear" on Crunchyroll.) Serei no Moribito (Guardian of the Spirit) Shin Sekai Yori (From The New World) Shirobako Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle Smile Pretty Cure (Japanese original)/ Glitter Force (english adaptation) Snow White with the Red Hair Sound Euphonium Strawberry Panic (yuri) Sweetness and Lightning The Devil is a Part-timer The Devil Lady The disasterous life of saiki k (saiki kusuo no Sai Nan) The End of Evangelion (movie) the Promised Neverland The Twelve Kingdoms Tiger & Bunny Tokimeki Tonight ToraDora Tsubasa Chronicle Umineko When They Cry Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid Vinland Saga Violet Evergarden Whispered Words (Sasameki Koto) With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun Yona of the Dawn Yu Yu Hakusho Yugioh Duel Monster Yuki Yuna is a Hero Yuri Kuma Arashi Yuri On Ice!!! Zoids: Chaotic Century Zombie Land Saga

Non-Anime Animated

Adventure Time Amphibia Animainiacs (Original) Animaniacs (Reboot) Archie's Weird Mysteries As Told By Ginger Barbie Life in The Dreamhouse Batman the Animated Series Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot Big Mouth Bob's Burgers Bojack Horseman Bravest Warriors Captain N: the Game Master Carmen Sandiego (1994) Carmen Sandiego (2019) Castlevania (Netflix) Cats Don't Dance Coco Courage the Cowardly Dog Craig of the Creek Cyber Six Daria Darkwing Duck Dragon Booster Dragons: Riders of Berk DuckTales (2017) Exo-Squad Fern Gully Fillmore! Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Futurama Gargoyles Glitch Techs Godzilla: The Animated Series Green Lantern the Animated Series Hedgehog in the Fog (Ёжик в тумане) Hey Arnold Hilda Infinity Train Iron Giant JEM Kim Possible Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts Legend of Zelda animated series (1989) Legion of Super-Heroes Liberty Kids Magical Girl Friendship Squad Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart The Legend of Korra Moominvalley Motorcity My Little Pony (Classic, NOT FiM) My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks Onyx Equinox Over the Garden Wall Over the Moon (2020 film) Owl House Primal Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure Redwall Rise of the TMNT Roco's Modern Life Rugrats RWBY Samurai Jack Seis Manos She-Ra (1985) She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Sonic Boom Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse Star vs. the Forces of Evil Strange Magic Super Mario Brothers Super Show Superman: The Animated Series Teen Titans The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo The Animals of Farthing Wood The Dragon Prince The Hollow The Legend of Tarzan (TV series) The Magic School Bus (1994) The Mysterious Cities of Gold The Pirate Fairy (Disney Fairies) The Powerpuff Girls (1998) The Real Ghostbusters Thundercats (1985) Thundercats (2011) Transformers: Prime Tuca and Bertie Twelve Forever Undone Venture Bros Wakko's Wish Wakfu Wander Over Yonder We Bare Bears (TV) Winx Club Wreck-It Ralph (2012) X-Men Evolution X-Men: The Animated Series Xiaolin Showdown

Live Action

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 28 Days Later 3rd Rock from the Sun A Series of Unfortunate Events American Horror Story: Asylum Babysitter's Club (2020) Batman (the old Adam West version) Better Call Saul Black Mirror Blackbeard's Ghost (Peter Ustinov) Boston Legal Boy Meets World Boys Over Flowers Bromance (Taiwanese tv series) Brooklyn 99 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Cadfael Cagney and Lacey Charmed (2018) Chopped Cleopatra 2525 Cloak and Dagger Clue (1985) Community Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Dead Like Me Dead To Me Deadwood Death Note (Netflix) Derry Girls Dimension 20 - The Unsleeping City Doctor Who (New) Doom Patrol Dracula's Daughter (1936) Escape to the Chateau Farscape Fingersmith Galavant Godzilla (2014) Gokushufudo (2020 Japanese TV drama) Golden Girls Good Omens H20: Just Add Water (somewhere in seasons 1-2) Happy New Year Harley Quinn movie Hateblog a REALLY STRAIGHT soap opera. Haunting of Bly Manor His Dark Materials (HBO series) Holes Hot Fuzz House Inception Inside No. 9 Iron Chef America Joan of Arcadia Julie and the Phantoms Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Kamen Rider Build Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Kamen Rider Fourze Killing Eve Knives Out Letterkenny Leverage Little Women (2019) Lucifer Matlock Majisuka Gakuen MASH Merlin Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol Money Talks (1997 film) Motherland: Fort Salem Murder She Wrote Mythbusters Nailed It! Never Have I Ever Once Upon a Time Orphan Black Pen 15 PGSM Pi (1998) Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018) Pride and Prejudice: A New Musical Puppy Bowl Pushing Daisies Rome (hateblog) Russian Doll Sabrina Sense8 Sera Myu: Un Nouveau Voyage Shameless Sierra Burgess Smallville So Weird Star Trek: TOS (or their films) Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Voyager Stargate Atlantis Suckerpunch Supernatural (out of context speedrun the last three episodes) Sweetheart Switched at Birth Tall Girl Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles The Addams Family (1964) The Big Flower Fight The Booth at the End The Bride With White Hair The Crown The Fresh Prince of Bel Air The Good Place The Kissing Booth The L Word The Librarians The Magicians The Muppet Show The Pregnancy Pact The Room The Steve Harvey Show The Stranded The Untamed The Witcher The Wolfman (1941) Torchwood Twilight Zone (original) Twin Peaks Ultraman Nexus Umbrella Academy Van Helsing Warehouse 13 Warrior Nun What We Do In The Shadows (tv show) Will & Grace Wynonna Earp X-Men 2: X-Men United Xena: Warrior Princess

Miscellaneous

Alpha Flight #41-62 Anime music dance party, the logistics of which are to be determined! Ask Hot Pocket and/or Mina-pup AskSharknado: Giftening Edition Attempt to make French macaroons Commentary on old Goggles Critical Role Crowdsourced: A Black Mirror-style day where Jetty has to ask what her choices are of the audience for everything! I give you a menu, you decide what she has for dinner? What does she wear? Does she walk on the track or do the eliptical? Does she go to a movie with Doc or play a video game with Mike? Can be done alongside other stuff. Doodle Day Dramatic readings of fan fiction! Drunk History (or whatever your favorite subject would be) with Jet Wolf! Drunk Sailor Moon Exorcising Closet Ghost Fic Prompts Day Figuarts Day! (Not specifically freeing anyone, just various fun poses and such) Guess the plot of a show based on its opening Her Shim-Cheong (manhwa) House of X/Powers of X Hubby's Choice IDW Jem comics liveblog Intros Only (watch show openings, give commentary, guess what show is about, etc.) Jackbox Games Jet Wolf paints along with Bob Ross Jet and Doc go to Heaven/Hell, respectively: Jet gets to write reams of words about the awesomeness of Rei Hino and Doc has to read all of them and say ONLY NICE THINGS. Jet does Tiktok dances Jet Liveblogs Holligay: A Nature Documentary Jet Ranks Sailor Moon Image Songs Jet Reads Goosebumps Jet Reads Legion of Super-Heroes Jet redesigns the Wolf and Gay offices! Jet shows off her knitting Jet Wolf attempts to recreate scenes from Sailor Moon with Mina and Hot Pocket and/or whatever is in the house Jet Wolf reacts to Sailor Moon tiktoks (in blog form) Jet Wolf reads Love and Rockets. Jet Wolf reads the Jem comics by IDW Jet Wolf reviews her old top 100 Sailor Moon moments list Jet Wolf talks about Archie Comics Jet Wolf talks about each cel she owns and why they are so awesome. Jet Wolf writes Poetry Jet Wolf's Top 5's Jet, Hubby and/or family play board games Jetty Rants and Raves Jet Wolf tries to crack the Gravity Falls Codes Kiwi Blitz on Hiveworks Let's Play on Webtoon Liveblog: Favorite X-Men comic book arcs Livestream Pathfinder one-shot LOONA (Collection of music videos with an ongoing story/universe about GIRLS who are FRIENDS and SAVE THE UNIVERSE) Lore Olympus on Webtoon Mike regales us with "the story of your love" while you get increasingly embarrassed Mina and Hot Pocket day - liveblog like a nature documentary Mister Tsukino Does His Taxes and the Household Budget (Sailor Moon fan comic by Shadowjack) Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake Not So Shoujo Love Story on Webtoon Pitch Mishaps for Untitled Senshi Game (it is a lovely day in Juuban, and you are a Horrible Minako.) Pitching hubby's favorite media at (readers/holligay/jill/momigay) Playing with dolls (because how could 3 women not have any dolls between them) Re-Take By Studio Kimigabuchi (All Ages Version) Real or Fake Anime (people submit descriptions of anime you guess if it is an anime that actually exists or not) Reviewing succulents Scavenger hunt! Not entirely sure how it would work, maybe folks could send in asks for you to show things like your favorite Rei Hino object, or the thing that's been with you the longest, etc. sewing/knitting/baking tutorial Share or rant about a Roman history topic Sleepless Domain on Hiveworks Talking to Docholligay 2: Doc Harder (basically you talking to Doc's future womb evictee while still in there and telling them stuff like say the greatness of Rei Hino) The Monster Duchess and Contract Princess (manhwa) The Polar Bear Plunge--I take Jetty to our finest Lake Elmo in January, and she jumps in! Note: THIS IS NOT DANGEROUS, WORRYWARTS. I'll bring a life preserver, I've done it before, and I would do it with her if I weren't pregnant. The Senshi Helpline--The Senshi, taking your advice questions, here and now! The World of Moral Reversal Virtual knitting/crafting circle! Let us craft and chat with you! What-If #24 Gwen Stacy Lived Worm the web serial Write an explanation for a drawing we send you! Yuri Hell's Kitchen

[midnineties]

tag game: 100 truths

>> was tagged by @mrs-tambourine-girl, @gilmour-may, 

1) Real Name: Jenny

2) Nicknames: none

3) Zodiac Sign: scorpio sun, aries moon, leo rising

4) Male or Female: female

5) Nursery: good

6) Primary School: ok

7) Secondary School: fuck off

8) Hair color: very dark brown

9) Long or Short: long

10) Loud or Quiet: depends on how well i know you. quiet and then obnoxiously loud if i want to

11) Sweats or Jeans: jeans

12) Phone or Camera: phone

13) Health Freak: hahahahahahahahahahh

14) Drink or Smoke: drink -  yes. smoke - depends on what it is. and i can be a bit of a party smoker ngl

15) Do You Have A Crush On Someone: nah

16) Political orientation: socialist babey !!

17) Piercings: technically my ears but they’ve closed up

18) Tattoos: one on my wrist (YES i know... how very girly of me, don’t judge i was 18)

Have you ever been in:

19) Airplane: yes

20) Car *Accident*: nope

21) Fist Fight: ehhh, i mean we were both like 13? so idk if that counts. 

Firsts:

22) First piercing: ears

23) First Best Friend: we met when we were 5 and we’re still friends to this day! we even have matching urls on here hah

24) First Instrument played: guitar

25) First award: genuinely can’t remember

26) First Crush: a boy in my kindergarden. funny story about that - i had such a big crush on him that when i learned he didn’t drink milk, he’s lactose intolerant but i didn’t know that at the time i just thought he didn’t like it, i stopped drinking it too and haven’t had any since. i don’t like milk now lmaoooo

27) First Language: norwegian

28) First Big Vacation: greece? or maybe gran canaria? not sure

Lasts:

29) Last Person you talked to: the cashier at the grocery store

30) Last Person You Texted: my uncle of all people 

31) Last Person You Watched: mom

32) Last Movie You Watched: Stick It 

34) Last Song You listened to: Streets Of Misery // New Beatnicks

35) Last Thing You Bought: A fridge

36) Last Person You Hugged: can’t remember

Favorites

38) Drinks: alcoholic - beer, cider, mojito. other - orange juice, lemonade, iced tea, powerade (asfjks yea it’s an addiction honestly..) & good ol’ water

39) Clothing: black jeans, my van halen t-shirt, also my rolling thunder revue t-shirt - i have a lot of good shirts yall 

40) Book: ingen dager uten regn and of mice and men

41) Color: earth tones

42) Flower: sunflowers

43) Music: a little bit of everything but not modern chart-pop, modern country or really heavy black metal

44) Movie: into the wild

46) Subjects: english, history, drama/theatre

In the last year

47) [ ] Kissed in the rain

48) [ ] Celebrated Halloween.

49) [ ] Had Your Heart Broken

50) [ ] Went Over the Minutes on Your Cell Phone

51) [x] Someone Questioned Your Sexual Orientation.

52) [ ] Used a Weapon

53) [ ] Breathed fire

54) [ ] Had an Abortion

55) [x] Done something you’ve Regretted  

56) [ ] Broke a Promise

57) [x] Kept a Secret

58) [x] Pretended To Be Happy

59.) [] Met Someone Who Changed Your Life

60.) [] Pretended To Be Sick

61) [x] Left The Country

62) [×] Tried something you normally wouldn’t like, and liked it.

63) [x] Cried Over The Silliest Thing

64) [ ] Ran a Mile

65) [ ] Went To the Beach

66) [x] Stayed Single

Currently

67) Eating: naught

68) Drinking: water

69) Getting Ready To: i should shower probably

70) Listening To: maybellene // chuck berry

71) Plans For Tomorrow/Today: work

72) Waiting for: nothing now...

Your future

73) Want Kids: no

74) Want To Get Married: ew no

75) Careers in mind: ugh idk man,, something in entertainment? i’d really like to work in radio actually

What’s better on a guy or girl

76) Lips or Eyes: eyes

77) Shorter or Taller: taller!

78) Romantic or Spontaneous: both

79) Nice Stomach or Nice Arms: a r m s !!!

80) Sensitive or Loud: both

81) Hook-up Or Relationship: relationship

82) Troublemaker or Hesitant: troublemaker

Have you ever

83) Lost Glasses/Contacts: nope

84) Ran Away From Home: not yet

85) Held A Weapon, For Self Defence: if you count that one month where i was super paranoid and kept a pocket knife on me at all times?

86) Killed Somebody: sigh, not yet

87) Broken Someone’s Heart: hopefully not

88) Been Arrested: nah

Do you believe in

90) Yourself: no

91) Miracles: no

92) Love at First Sight: no

93) Heaven: fuck no hahah

94) Santa Claus: no

95) Easter Bunny: no  

96) Magic: unsure

97) Is There One Person You Wanna Be With, Right Now: yes, bob dylan

98) Are You Seriously Happy With Where You Are, In Life: oh god no i wanna mcfucken die my dude

99) Are You Happy With The Person You’re With: thanks for rubbing it in that im single... bitch

[exploringatlanta]

Holiday Fun in Atlanta

The holiday season has officially kicked off and your Ultimate Atlanta Holiday Guide is HERE! Stay tuned for posts about where to catch Santa, enjoy local holiday shopping and go ice skating around town.

Garden Lights, Holiday Nights - Atlanta Botanical Gardens. 11/16- 1/11/2020 5-10pm. $19+ (non-members). Become a member and get access to the preview night event on 11/14 and also discounts on tickets! The best light display in town, over 1 million lights and 200 show-stopping color changing topiaries transform the garden into a must-do holiday event. New this year is the all-new music and motion for Atlanta’s favorite holiday spectacle, Nature’s Wonders, the largest curtain of synchronized light and sound in the world. Highly recommend buying tix in advance to secure family plans on premium nights/weekends.

Magical Night of Lights - Lake Lanier. 11/22- 1/5/20. $42+ per car. Holiday pricing 12/20-30. Enjoy 7 miles of lights, including the 12 Days of Christmas display! Visit Santa’s Elves at Work, the North Pole Express, Jack & The Beanstalk, scenes from The Wizard of Oz, the Poinsettia Candelabra, the stunning Icicle Tunnel, and the Carousel too. Don’t miss the Holiday Village with winter-themed carnival rides, fire pits, s’mores, specialty winter drinks, and more!

Fantasy in Lights - Callaway Gardens. 11/16-1/5/2020. $21+/$10.50+. Named “Top 10 Places to See Holiday Lights,” as named by National Geographic Traveler, experience an amazing light and sound show! 8 million lights, 15 scenes, Christmas Village with kids activities, Grinch Holiday Dinner Show, Character Breakfast, Story Time with Mrs. Claus, pictures with Santa, shopping, and train rides. Also check out the specialty nights like Fantasy & Fireworks on 12/31. 

Lights of Life - Marietta/Life University. 11/28- 12/31. $5-$10. One of the most affordable and always delightful light displays OTP, check out Life University’s iconic holiday scenes in lights. The 65 foot tall rendition of Santa and his sleigh is the tallest display in the Southeast!

Holiday Shows/Events for Adults:

Invasion: Christmas Carol - Dad’s Garage Theatre. 11/29 - 12/28. $25+. An Atlanta must, this show is the ultimate holiday improv experience. What happens when a new character gets introduced to a classic tale? With new characters added each night - each show is unique and will keep you laughing into 2020!

Miracle on Monroe. 11/29-12/29. The extremely popular holiday themed pop-up bar is back at it’s original midtown location this year. Get there early for your spot immersed in all things Christmas, enjoying yummy sips and eats. The bar’s ‘halls’ are decked to the max and patrons can enjoy themed cocktails in custom Miracle glassware including Santa’s Pants mugs and reindeer Collins glasses.

Merry Funkin’ Christmas - Venkman’s. 12/6 9:30pm. $20+. Join Wren and the Wravens who perform an eclectic blend of retro soul, pop and R&B, to make sure your holiday season is cool and funky.

After Dark Holiday Party - Fernbank Museum.  Friday 12/13 7-11pm. $10+. Enjoy live music, drinks/eats and the Festivi-trees as you explore two floors of decorated trees showcasing celebrations around the globe in the holiday exhibit, Winter Wonderland. And take advantage of after-hours, kid-free access to all indoor exhibits, and the special exhibit, Traveling the Silk Road.

Atlanta Santa Speedo Run - Midtown. 12/14 2pm. $30+. One of the most hilarious ways to raise $ for an amazing local charity. Proceeds benefit Bert’s Big Adventure! “Wear a little, give a lot!”

Winter Edition Atlanta BeltLine Pub Crawl. Sat 12/14 12-4pm. $30+. Bundle up and socialize with drinks at 5 bars along the beltline and yummy eats.

Puddles Pity Party & Friends Holiday Jubilee - Center Stage. 12/29 6:30p. $20+. Atlanta’s own, join the sad clown with the golden voice at this fun holiday themed show to remember!

Family-Friendly Shows/Events:

Stone Mountain Christmas - 11/16 - 1/5/20. $31+. At this holiday themed event, enjoy park attractions including Summit Skyride, Scenic Railroad, and more! Then, immerse yourself in holiday magic with evenings full of festive music, millions of dazzling lights, spectacular shows, and visits from some of your favorite holiday characters!

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Center for Puppetry Arts. 11/13 - 12/30. $15+. One of the hottest tickets in town for families, don’t wait to get yours as they will sell out. This year your ticket includes 3 activities: the performance of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer™, a Create-A-Puppet Workshop™ where you can build and perform with your very own Sam the Snowman Rod Puppet, and admission to the Worlds of Puppetry Museum. Discounts for members!

Christmas Canteen - Aurora Theatre. 11/14-12/23. $20+. This original holiday classic show is at the Aurora! Brimming with songs, comic sketches, trips down memory lane and a sprinkle of Christmas magic, it’s the holiday show with something for everyone.

A Christmas Carol - The Alliance Theatre. 11/16 - 12/25. $17.50+. Celebrate the holidays with the beloved Dickens classic in this Broadway-scale production with beautiful live music and an all-star Atlanta cast.

Disney Junior Holiday Party - The Fox Theatre. 11/19 6pm. $25+. Fans can enjoy a greeting with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, Santa photo app, DJ hosted holiday games & music, holiday snacks and beverages.

Waffle Palace Christmas - Horizon Theatre. 11/22-12/29. $30+. A fun new holiday show in the heart of Little 5 with heartfelt southern humor scattered, smothered and covered in a spicy holiday sauce. The charming characters from the sell-out Waffle Palace show are back for a second holiday helping; full of fun, laughter and Christmas cheer.

Holiday Events - Georgia Aquarium. 11/23 - 12/31. Annual lighting of the tree (two dates) include hot chocolate and holiday treats, holiday carols, and a penguin waddle. Also set your date for breakfast with Santa and more. Celebrate the holidays at the worlds largest aquarium!

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas - The Fox Theatre. 11/24 2pm/7:30pm. $45+. This neoclassical new-age music group blends classical music with elements of new age and rock for a modern and exciting rendition of traditional Christmas music.

This Wonderful Life - Aurora Theatre. 11/29 - 12/23. $20. Innovative one-man show, this hilariously touching stage adaptation of one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made will star Atlanta’s own Jeremy Aggers.

Old Fashioned Christmas - Historic Dahlonega. 11/29 - 12/31. This #FREE event features the picturesque town lighted up for the holidays, shopping and eating. Sleigh rides, musicals, annual tree lighting party, Santa and more! 

Cirque Dreams Holidaze - The Fox Theatre. 11/30-12/1. $50+. With 3 unforgettable performances, this critically-acclaimed extravaganza is both a Broadway musical and new Cirque adventure wrapped into the ultimate holiday gift for the entire family.

Vinings Jubilee Tree Lighting - 12/5 6pm-8pm. FREE! Gather the whole family together to be merry and bright with live holiday music, cookie + ornament decorating, train rides, pictures with Santa, and more!

The Nightmare Before Christmas - Center for Puppetry Arts. Friday 12/6 & Sat 12/7 8pm Free movie screening for members/museum admission for non-members. Spooktacular stop-motion movie to get you into the holiday spirit!

A Christmas Carol - Aurora Theatre. 12/6 - 12/22. $30+. Anthony Rodriguez will guide audiences through the traditional tale of Mr. Scrooge and the troop of Dickens’ characters in a one-man presentation of A Christmas Carol with a twist in this limited, four-week engagement.

Madeline’s Christmas - Horizon Theatre. 12/7- 12/31. $12-$15. The little girl from Paris embarks on a holiday adventure! Family-friendly holiday favorite.

The Nutcracker by The Atlanta Ballet - The Fox Theatre. 12/7 -12/24. $40+. Classic holiday ballet that is a must-see every season! Stunning performance by Atlanta’s best dancers. Runs 2 hours with a 25 minute intermission.

Candlelight Nights at the Atlanta History Center. 12/13 & 12/20. $20+. Candlelight tour of 3 historic houses, visit Santa, shop a holiday market with local crafted items, food/drinks, and more! Great event to learn more about Atlanta and holiday traditions.

Victorian Holiday - Oakland Cemetery. Sat 12/14 10am-4pm. FREE to attend, Tour of Eternal Homes ($16). Shop the holiday market, purchase wreaths, visit with Santa, and more.

Yacht Rock Revue Holiday Spectacular - Coca-Cola Roxy. Sat 12/21 7pm. $35+. Rock the season with this amazing performance at the new Battery by Atlanta’s kings of smooth. Rock around the Christmas Tree at this awesome annual concert!  

The Elf on the Shelf Musical - Cobb Energy Center. 12/23 12pm/5pm. $33+. The beloved holiday tradition that continues to capture the hearts of children and their families everywhere, comes to the live stage for the first time ever! 

[wcnderfulrush]

*  Roleplay history

The rules are simple! Post ten characters you’d like to roleplay as, have role-played as, and might bring back. Then tag ten people to do the same (if you can’t think of ten characters, just write down however many you can and tag the same amount of people). Aside from that, please repost instead of reblogging!

— CURRENTLY PLAYING.

@wcnderfulrush | Kotori Minami / Love Live! - School Idol Project | Active

@youngbxker | Lillian Elise Marchand | Multiverse OC | Low Activity

@shymaidxn | Diantha / Granblue Fantasy (GBF) | Active

— WANT TO PLAY. 

GBF best friend OCs | Awhile ago a lot of people where making Captain OCs and a few of those types of blogs popped up. I plan on giving Kotori a GBF verse, but I also wanted a multitude of GBF OCs. Maybe as a small crew in of itself, or a small group that joins the Grandcypher; I haven’t decided which yet, nor exactly how many OCs I want to make in this group (there’s at least 3-4 ideas in my head sooo).

Revue Starlight - Relive multimuse | I started playing this game when it first came out (and accidentally put money into it while I was too tired to function, which means I’m keeping it forever now) and I got real interested in some of the characters. Most notably Tamao, Aruru, Hikari, Nana, and recently Junna and Maya have become a bit more interesting to me. I haven’t watched the anime, so I want to watch that first before I make a huge decision / take on so many characters.

Idolmaster multimuse | This is an idea I’ve grappled with for awhile. After I watched the CG anime I loved Uzuki and Kirari, after starting deresute I loved Yuka, Kanna, and Kumiko, after watching SideM and starting msute I loved Shiki, Hayato, Touma, and Saki! If I really got into All Stars / Million Live again, I’d probably be in huge trouble with having too many people;; This right now feels like a lot of muses, but I love them all a lot and would maybe want to try it out?

FGO multimuse | I’ve been lacking in my play towards this game, but I still love some of the characters here! Nero, Da Vinci, Beni-enma, Chiron, Nursery Rhyme, Xuanzang Sanzang, Frankenstein, Nitocris, and the recently added Ganesha are the favs so far, though the blog would probably only start off with Nero, Nursery Rhyme, Fran, and Da Vinci; I need a better understanding of some of them, but some of them won’t come to EN for a bit...

Yuki Yuna / Yuki Yuna is a Hero | A character that I love from my fav magical girl anime! Simple as that lol

Maybe some of the girls from Magia Record when the EN version comes out (though i need to check when that is)

Enstars and A3 are getting animes, so oh dear you never know, I might love them...

A plethora of OCs I might want to make in the future for any reason / any fandom.

— HAVE PLAYED.

Aisling Dempsey | Ghost OC | hiatus ( but maybe collab Lillian book..........one day )

Kathleen O’Conner | Modern OC | erased from existence because she felt real mary sue and her blog gave me anxiety for some reason because of that?

Aya Maryama and Misaki Okusawa | Bang Dream - Girls Band Party | indefinite hiatus ( gonna make their blog one of those multimuses I mentioned; gonna get started on it after Tuesday because that’s when my stats class ends~).

Hanamaru Kunikida | Love Live! Sunshine!! | hiatus because...Aqours rp kind of makes me uncomfy after long-going incidents with a person I used to call my best friend. The rp stuff was on twitter rp and wasn’t directly pointed at me, but I played a small part in it because at first I thought it was just angst threads, but then it turned into...Some real bad jazz, to put it mildly. I love Hanamaru to bits, but I deleted my twitter rp accounts because being reminded of that stuff still gives me anxiety, and even dabbled with deleting her on here but I can’t really bring myself to since nothing happened with this Hanamaru, you know? As such, her blog has just kind of...Rotted in a corner, whoops. I still have all of her icons, so maybe I’ll go back to that blog one day...

Shizuku Osaka | Love Live! - Perfect Dream Project | hiatus because...I keep forgetting she exists gdjcgfhgjv. Took over Kathleen’s whole blog; I did it up and everything, and then I did no threads. Whenever SIFAS or a PDP anime comes out, I may be convinced to go on her blog and actively seek out threads there.

Abel | Lion OC | never had a blog, but literally my first muse on this place ( I rped through anon with this Edward Elric blog I found and popped in with both Abel and Lillian-prototype; that mun and I are friends on twitter and tumbr personals and occasionally strike up conversations still~). A fond memory, but also a tad cringe, but also the mun encouraged my writing and said it was really good, and that helped make the mun I am today~ *fireworks*. I thought about making him kinda like a shapeshifter with a zookeeper job, but as of this post nothing has happened outside of a few ideas.

STOLEN FROM. technically @sappines but this has been sitting in my drafts for so long;; TAGGING. Hey you? You like memes? Then go take this one!

[vanilla-blessing]

qb anime of the year list 2018

Anime of the Year 2018 - the year of girls going to aquariums together

I’ve seen at least one person who claimed that 2018 was the best year for anime in recent memory and I’m inclined to agree. A large majority of my top ten list is shows that I would consider perfect and even shows that blew away what I thought was possible in the medium. It was a revolutionary year and makes a strong argument that anime wasn’t a mistake after all. - qb

#1

Hugtto! Precure blew away my expectations every week for close to a year. I don’t exactly know what to say about it here, since this isn’t the last time I’ll talk about it for sure. It doesn’t even end in 2018, but it was such a huge part of my 2018 in anime that it would be inaccurate to not include it. The only way I can think to explain Hugtto! Precure is to talk about the Netflix She-ra reboot. She-ra’s a pretty basic modern Dreamworks cartoon, with some interesting ideas thrown in and likable characters, but mostly held back by what they could realistically allot for production. Because of this limitation, She-ra goes hard on a single perfect episode (if you’ve seen it, you know which one) that stands out in a big way and shows the full potential of what they set out to make. Usually, Precure is lucky to get a handful of these stand-out episodes in a season, and most of the time just gets by, due to being an annual series that can never, ever take a break. Normally, the first few episodes of a Precure season can be counted on to be strong, but the realities of anime production being hella tough inevitably catch up.

Hugtto! Precure started with an incredible opening arc, then never let off the gas pedal. Nearly every episode of Hugtto is a stand-out, never-before-seen, innovative tour-de-force. The combination of production miracles that resulted in Hugtto has been talked about by me on this blog before, (http://vanilla-blessing.tumblr.com/post/176000267859/hana-is-getting-unstable-a-pink-precure) but the length of time that Hugtto stayed in the paint, going extremely hard every single week with few exceptions, was just absurd. Every season of Precure has one or two peaks, sometimes a good season gets lucky and has even more, the best seasons bat a solid average, but are still expected to be held back by reality. Coming out of the fifteenth season of Precure with a majority of the best episodes in the entire franchise isn’t something that I can wrap my head around, but it definitely happened, mostly in 2018. It’s simultaneously a love letter to the franchise’s past, present, and future made by the biggest Precure fans on the planet, and it’s unquestionably the best season. Hugtto threw what we all knew was true and had accepted about Precure clear out the window, retroactively made older seasons better, watered my crops, brought world peace, ect.

Oh yeah and boys can be cures now. 

#2

I’m definitely not done with Revue Starlight and this won’t be the last time I talk about it. Revue Starlight essentially carried the Summer 2018 anime season on its back. Starlight absolutely dominated my anime watching schedule; my week was seriously just waiting for and watching different translations and releases with every other show being almost incidental, far less important than waiting for the song lyrics to get translated for an episode I had seen three times already. I won’t get into everything here, since I’ve already talked about it on this blog after all (http://vanilla-blessing.tumblr.com/post/179023723689/subtext-is-for-cowards-revue-starlight), but I need to reiterate that it was such a commanding, unique, stylized experience and didn’t drop a single episode in its entire absurdly high-level production. The only reasonable explanation for this is devil magic, and hell, it was worth it. Revue Starlight is probably in my top 5 anime of all time and I wouldn’t get this list out if I said everything I wanted to say about it. It’s great. Watch it twenty times. 

#3

Pop Teen Epic, or Hoshiiro Girldrop, was the most wildcard that has ever been in seasonal anime, and could have been absolutely anything. What none of us predicted was just how much of anything this show would be, encompassing an unprecedented range of artists, voice acting talent, and whatever AC-bu are, each giving their very individual takes on a self-described shitpost comic strip, sometimes covering the exact same material two or three times, with no regard for any sort of cohesion or structure.

Nothing about this idea should have been funded, nothing in Pop Team Epic has any reason to work, and as a straight adaptation probably wouldn’t have worked. PTE spun gold from trash through the raw effort of artists doing their own thing, which captures the original spirit that made the formerly-cancelled comic popular in a way that’s much too intelligent for haters to understand. Also it got a dub, which is the most ridiculously bad idea i’ve heard in my life, and it owns that it happened.

#4

Spider-man into the Spider-verse is legit the best comic book movie ever made. It’s a fun, expressive twist on the most tired superhero origin story of all time, and showcases some of the most sssssssssstyle and raw, real emotion I’ve ever seen in animation. Its particular selection of influences is brilliant and poignant, rising far above the simple fanservice you’ve come to expect from Spider-man. The unrelenting individualistic spirit of this movie will stick with you the longest in the soundtrack, bravely incorporating a side of pop music that you don’t usually get to see in big-budget productions, pulling soundcloud rappers out of their grody (i’m told) dens into the spotlight with equal importance alongside the heroic score. Spider-verse is all about establishing your own unique flavor, and it manages to overwrite every other entry in this cursed franchise with its bold taste.

#5

It doesn’t make sense to me how amazing Aggretsuko’s dub is. The impeccable timing of each line, the perfect integration with the comedy, and the optimal length of the episodes are all far beyond what I expected from a Netflix show. It not only converted the original series of shorts that I already had on my top 10 the first year into a godlike longer series I didn’t know I wanted, but went to the effort to bring real metal singers in for the karaoke. Honestly just repeat everything I said in my 2016 list and multiply it by five. I hope they make more. They’re making more.

#6

I was pretty slow to pick up anime in the Winter 2018 season, but I never missed Hakumei and Mikochi, maybe because it was like, the only simulcast on my favorite online anime streaming subscription service HiDiVE. The subs weren’t great, and it certainly wasn’t all that popular, but it was just the relaxing show I needed. Hakumei and Mikochi brought me back to my favorite non-racist parts of the Redwall series of books: friendly animals, delicious foods, alcohol, and rustic songs. I was ready to put it on my list for simply being a cute healing foodie anime, but to my surprise, it had much more in store within its tiny world: stark confrontations with mortality, a shy riverside necromancer, the inexplicable remake of The Raid: Redemption in miniature, fashion trends, frogs, carpenter weasels, carpenter skeletons, ghost celebrations, a country beetle with lofty dreams. The list of memorable people, places, and things contained in the gnomish roommates’ tiny world goes on and on.

Masaomi Ando’s directing went completely along with the storybook aesthetic, maybe even to an overall detriment, which is exactly the kind of reckless commitment to style I love to see. The distinctive paneling, constantly gorgeous backgrounds, and deliberate pacing perfectly captured the imaginative stories I loved to read as a kid, but with more alcohol, and more sophisticated themes under the surface. Even something anime rarely get right, endings, were perfectly capstoned every week with a short digest that explored more of the history, legends, and very personal lore of their small, unique world. At its core, Hakumei and Mikochi is the calming story of tiny roommates you think it is, but it’s also so much more. They have day jobs and get drunk and remodel their house after it explodes that one time. They gamble dangerously to escape a blizzard, help a photographer give herself a little credit, and rescue their neighbor from a fancy grave of her own making. By the end of the show Hakumei practically built half a town. The collective stories from their everyday adventures build into something tremendous, and it all wraps up on the most perfect ending sequence I could have hoped for, which calls back to every story thus far as a new verse of the show’s central duet is sung. In any reasonable AnimeOTY Hakumei and Mikochi would be my top anime of 2018, but this year, the competition was unreasonable. This show will just have to settle for being the best regular anime of the year.

#7

Bloom Into You is an incredible adaptation of an apparently yuri romance manga that raises the bar for anime adaptations in general. I don’t know when, but somewhere along the line I stopped expecting that serious capital R Romance anime would have a distinctive style, and gave up to the notion that there was no demand anymore and a stylized, seinen/josei romance would just never get made. Well that was 2016 and then Scum’s Wish happened which this blog has covered extensively.(http://vanilla-blessing.tumblr.com/post/168842023559/how-lerche-adapted-an-average-trashy-romcom-into, http://vanilla-blessing.tumblr.com/post/168789506264/scums-wish-and-our-messy-uncomfortable) To me Bloom Into You feels similar in concept, as a difficult romantic situation with no easy answers or completely happy people. The main perspective character, Yuu, is among my favorite romantic leads in any series; she doesn’t get romantic feelings, although she wants to, and despite being easily motivated, is kind of dispassionate. Her relationship that she was pushed into with Touko might as well be out of mutual convenience, since Touko doesn’t want to fall in love with someone who would love her back, and Yuu doesn’t think she can.

Yuu filters the developments of the series as they grow closer through a very different perspective compared to more emotional leads of usual romance stories, methodically breaking down and considering where she’s at, observing where others are at, before taking an action that makes sense to her. Her growth through the series takes a very different direction than the common dramatic formula; instead of running headfirst into misunderstandings to overcome romantic challenges, she’s compelled to take a step back and position herself in a way that allows her to understand and confront her girlfriend’s issues. The changes that she experiences herself during this process are extremely gradual, but are no less significant to her. Although the dramatic weight of the series is obviously all about Touko, the central thesis of Bloom Into You is to explore Yuu’s complex feelings, and ask to what degree our actions are dictated by our emotions. It’s a heavy topic to be sure, but what makes this anime adaptation special in particular is how the directing and production pull it off, to maybe an even stronger degree than the original material.

Bloom Into You’s most striking and noticeable feature is the incredible conservation of small movements that connect expressions naturally. Minute changes in characters’ faces are vital to observe the almost imperceptible changes in Yuu over the course of the series, and every aspect of the direction is in service of highlighting these subtle moments. In addition, repeated cinematic themes are reinforced over the show’s run, such as the use of light to impart a blinding realization, flower language to inform deeper personalities, even using a literal (not literal) cinema. Symbols such as trains, masks, and mirrors are used constantly and consistently to reinforce the show’s themes, which should be immediately obvious from the opening animation. I’m still kind of stunned that Bloom Into You’s ending theme is such a banger and managed to use an oscillating sine curve in a metaphorical way. These details might be lost without the brilliant layouts, intentionally resembling a stage, which always push the minute differences front and center. As an anime adaptation, Bloom Into You adds so much value in such a subdued, conservative way that it puts uninspired adaptations to shame.

#8 

Thunderbolt Fantasy 2 rounded out the year with a good old new-fashioned Japanese-speaking Chinese-Wuxia Taiwanese puppet show. The novelty of this wild series, like, existing at all, is still incredible to me, but I was really wowed by the new characters and the direction the series went in after the already high standards of the first season. Following the outrageous action and fights of the previous season, I did not expect that season 2’s introductory goon would 1. Live past the first episode 2. So quickly become my favorite swordfighter and 3. Have inarguably the most complete character arc of the entire show thus far. The Princess of Cruelty’s struggle against her inner and outer demons in a unreasonably stacked, desperate situation developed her into easily the most compelling character of the season, and the rest of the cast including a corrupt police officer with extremely disconcerting and bad puppet teeth, a ventriloquist rock-lutist, and a nihilist monk each bring their own unique flavors to the table. The table that they throw the puppets in the air from to make the show. All of the new elements of Thunderbolt Fantasy 2 improved an already strong formula even more, and revealed an emotional depth to the series that I’m excited to see developed further. Some people might not call this anime, but those people haven’t seen Thunderbolt Fantasy for longer than 2 seconds. It’s so anime.

#9

I blasted all available seasons of Star vs the Forces of Evil early in 2018, and it was basically my first foray into straight-up American cartoon magical girl, despite watching all the Japanese ones, which was probably an oversight on my part. That’s because Star Versus is really good, and provided a flavor of magical girl I had been missing out on. I could talk about the excellent sparkle witch aesthetic of the show, fluid animation, and hilarious comedy, but I’d rather spend this blogspace posting Star Butterfly faces. 

#10

A Place Further Than the Universe, or YoriMoi, or my preferred moniker That Antartica Anime, wasn’t on my radar until well after it had finished airing, but it stuck with me for most of the year. Although it’s definitely melodramatic at times, it utilizes this tendency in exactly the right way to enhance the individual characters’ emotional arcs. Even though I was personally sort of taken out of it for many of the girls’ personal trials, :penguin emoji: is obviously thoughtfully written and carefully constructed, and especially knows how to orchestrate an immense emotional reaction with pitch-perfect timing. If there’s one particular aspect this anime has absolute mastery over, it’s hitting that perfect note and cue to create a memorable narrative climax. And for all my bellyaching about not fully relating to some of the characters, Miyake is definitively the #1 qb-relatable character of the year.

Here’s the rest of my list. Don’t @ me about it because if its not on my top ten then it doesnt really count anymore i dont make the rules thats just how it is

11. Yuru Camp

12. Hisone and Masotan

13. Asagao to Kase-san

14. Devilman Crybaby

15. After the Rain

16. Planet With

- friend of the show @queuebae on twitter 

That’s why the 2018 anime of the year award goes to Kaiju Girls 2.

[faucetbacon84-blog]

Saturday, December 8 & Sunday, December 9: Mansion Tours, Cookie Crawl, TubaChristmas + 99 More

What are your favorite free & cheap things to do during winter in NYC? Share your thoughts here.

Today’s Events—Saturday, December 8

2018 BUST Holiday Craftacular + School for Creative Living (Through Sunday, December 9) Brooklyn Expo Center, Brooklyn

2018 Gracie Mansion Holiday Open House Gracie Mansion, Manhattan

Choose From 50+ Cookie Varieties During 10th Annual St. Nicholas Cookie Walk (Through Sunday, December 9)

2018 SantaCon NYC

Open Bar SantaCon Brunch

2018 ARC Holiday Record & CD Sale (Through Sunday, December 23) The ARChive of Contemporary Music, Manhattan

2018 New York State Yo-Yo Contest + Afterparty Coney Island USA, Brooklyn

Free Coffee + Prizes 23rd St. & Broadway, Manhattan

Free Candy Buffet

Free Self-Care & Wellness Party with Massages, Music, Treats & More

2018 Wizard Fest Yule Ball Harry Potter Party Brooklyn Bazaar, Brooklyn

2018 Ice Theater of New York’s Free Winter Holiday Skating Celebration + Tree Lighting

Free Bourbon Cocktails + 2018 Paragon Sports WinterFest

PaleyLand 2018 with Vintage Holiday Shows, Games & Free Cocoa (Through Sunday, January 6) The Paley Center for Media, Manhattan

NYC Holiday Scavenger Hunt

Interactive Party Musical Inspired by Festivals of the Ancient World + Free Drinks Caveat, Manhattan

2018 Rubulad Holiday Revue—Performances, Holiday Karaoke & More

History of Riotous Pagan Holiday Saturnalia + Fav ’90s Singer-Songwriter Jill Sobule Caveat, Manhattan

Free Walking Tour: Gay & Lesbian Writers & Artists in the East Village Tompkins Square Library, Manhattan

Free Comics & Zines Workshop Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library Branch, Brooklyn

2018 Colored Girls Hustle Holiday Market New Women Space, Brooklyn

2018 Parklife Holiday Market (Through Sunday, December 9) Parklife, Brooklyn

2018 FAD Market Holiday Pop-Up in 2 Brooklyn Locations (Through Sunday, December 9) Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn

Cheap NYC Ghost Walking Tours (Saturdays Through December 30)

Tomorrow’s Events—Sunday, December 9

2018 Queens Holiday Historic House Tour—Shuttle Transportation & Treats Included

2018 Accordion Festival Museum at Eldridge Street, Manhattan

45th Anniversary of TubaChristmas HOLIDAYTUBAS Concert Rockefeller Center, Manhattan

Free Harlem Gospel Choir Concert

New York City’s 10th Annual Blessing of the Animals Christ Church NYC, Manhattan

2018 ‘Menorah Horah’ Hanukkah Burlesque Spectacular (Discounted Tix!)

‘Nutcracker’ Set in Old New York

South Africa’s Grammy-Winning Soweto Gospel Choir

2018 East Village Tree Lighting Ceremony Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan

2018 Ft. Greene Tree Lighting + Carols, Cocoa & Cookies Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn

2018 Shamanic & Indigenous Arts Market The Ark, Brooklyn

2018 Holiday Market At Bohemian Hall (Sundays Through December 16) Bohemian Hall, Queens

Holiday Wreathmaking (Weekends Through December 9) Queens County Farm, Queens

NYC Gospel Music History & Architecture Tours (Sundays Through December 29)

2018 Fulton Stall Market Deck the Stalls Holiday Market + Performances (Sundays Through December 23)

2018 Vintage Holiday Subway Rides (Sundays Through December 30)

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Ending This Weekend

Tour a Historic Hotel by Candlelight + Performances & Treats (Through Saturday, December 8) Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, Manhattan

Speaking Truth to Power 2018—Screenings & Talks (Through Saturday, December 8) Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn

Cheap NYC Dessert Tours (Through Saturday, December 8)

99¢ Sandwiches at Carnegie Deli Recreation Pop-Up (Through Saturday, December 8)

Free Cocoa & Chocolate Bars at M&Ms Holiday Pop-Up (Through Sunday, December 9)

Free Drinks, Bites, Styling, Crafts & More at 2018 Thrillist Holiday Hideaway (Through Sunday, December 9)

2018 Lighting Brooklyn’s Largest Menorah + Live Music & Latkes (Through Sunday, December 9) Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

2018 Lighting of the World’s Largest Menorah in Manhattan (Through Sunday, December 9) Grand Army Plaza Manhattan, Manhattan

1/2 Price Tickets to ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Through Sunday, December 9)

2018 Chelsea Market Holiday Handmade Cavalcade (Through Sunday, December 9) Chelsea Market, Manhattan

MONO NO AWARE XI Film Festival (Through Sunday, December 9)

Ongoing

See more ongoing & upcoming NYC events

$7 Admission to the Museum of Sex (Through Sunday, June 30) Museum of Sex, Manhattan

NYC Slavery & Underground Railroad Tours (Through Saturday, December 29)

Greenwich Village Haunted Walking Tours (Through Sunday, December 30)

1/2 Price Central Park Bike Tours (Through December 2018)

High Line Art Installation Examines Art & Public Space (Through March 2019) The High Line, Manhattan

Save $5.75 on Movie Tickets

‘Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color’ (Through Sunday, January 13) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Manhattan

‘Underground Heroes: New York Transit in Comics’ (Through Sunday, January 6) New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn

‘Rebel Women’ Who Defied Victorian Era Expectations (Through Sunday, January 6) Museum of the City of New York, Manhattan

Discounted Tickets to Interactive M.C. Escher Exhibit in NYC (Through Sunday, February 3)

‘Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color’ (Through Saturday, January 5) Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Manhattan

‘Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis’ (Through Sunday, April 28) Museum of the City of New York, Manhattan

‘Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’ (Through Sunday, February 3) Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn

‘Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995’ (Through Monday, December 17) Sculpture Center, Queens

Jerome Robbins (‘West Side Story’) & New York (Through Saturday, March 30) New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium, Manhattan

Cheap Indoor Ice Skating in Brooklyn (Through Monday, December 24)

‘Harry Potter’ Exhibition Brings Rare Manuscripts & Magical Objects to NYC (Through Sunday, January 27) New-York Historical Society, Manhattan

‘Tablescapes: Designs for Dining’ (Through Tuesday, April 16) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Manhattan

Velvet Underground NYC Experience (Through Sunday, December 30)

‘It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200’ (Through Sunday, January 27) The Morgan Library & Museum, Manhattan

‘Yasumasa Morimura: Ego Obscura’ Questions Eastern & Westerns Notions of Gender (Through Sunday, January 13) Japan Society, Manhattan

Cheap Theatre Walking Tours of The Met (Through Friday, December 21)

$10 Big Apple Circus Tickets (Through Saturay, December 15)

Free NYC Circus Tickets—Human Cannonball, Acrobats & More (Through Sunday, December 16)

120th Anniversary Exhibition at The National Arts Club Displays Treasures from the Collection (Through Friday, January 4) The National Arts Club, Manhattan

The Contenders 2018: MoMA Film Favorites Screened (Through Tuesday, January 8) The Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan

2018 Gingerbread Lane, the World’s Largest Gingerbread Village (Through Monday, January 21) New York Hall of Science, Queens

2018 Holiday Fair at Grand Central (Through Monday, December 24) Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan

Andy Warhol Retrospective at the Whitney Reimagines the Iconic Artist (Through Sunday, March 31) Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan

2018 Holiday Train Show (Through Sunday, February 3) Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan

2018 Union Square Holiday Market (Through Monday, December 24) Union Square Park, Manhattan

Discounted Tickets to 2018 NYC Holiday Train Show (Through Monday, January 21)

2018 American Museum of Natural History Origami Holiday Tree on Display (Through Sunday, January 13) American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan

Check Out Charles Dickens’s Original Manuscript of ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Through Sunday, January 6) The Morgan Library & Museum, Manhattan

1st Ever WinterFest at BK Museum with Market, Performances, Tree Maze, Chocolate Tasting & More (Through Monday, December 31) Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn

2018 Columbus Circle Holiday Market (Through Monday, December 24)

2018 NYC Winter Lantern Festival with Huge Light Installations & Performances (Through Sunday, January 6)

Free Meals Paired with Art—Cook & Celebrate Together (Through Monday, December 31) Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn

NYC Christmas Sing-a-Long Adventure (Through Sunday, December 16)

2018 Vintage MTA Bus Rides for the Holidays (Weekdays Through December 21)

2018 Wreath Interpretations Exhibition (Through Thursday, January 3) Central Park Arsenal, Manhattan

Free Tickets to ‘Cleopatra’ Musical (Through Saturday, December 22)

2018 BKLYN Arctic Adventure VR Experience—Meet Santa & Have a Snowball Fight (Through Friday, December 14) City Point, Brooklyn

A Harlemettes Holiday 2018 (Through Sunday, December 16) Harlem School of the Arts, Manhattan

Holiday Classics Screened at Nitehawk (Through Saturday, December 29) Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn

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Étienne dans magic rpm

[ifuckinglovestvincent]

julienbpics: St Vincent for the cover story of @magicrevuepopmoderne London july 2017.

[merzbow-derek]

POST-SCRIPTUM 790

AGITATION FRITE 2 : DES PHOTOS DE BONDAGE, CHEZ JEAN-PIERRE TURMEL

Agitation Frite 1, Témoignages de l’underground français est donc sorti chez Lenka lente. Un second volume est en préparation. La forme en est la même : un peu moins d’une quarantaine d’entretiens dont la plupart, cette fois, sont inédits. On en trouvera ici des extraits, régulièrement. Par exemple, Romain Slocombe.

EXTRAIT…

À propos de tes débuts : s’agit-il d’emblée d’un travail associant écriture et graphisme, sans recours aux traditionnels phylactères ? Photographie et cinéma sont-ils déjà présents dans ton travail ?

Mes premiers dessins sont parus vers 1974, alors que j’étais plus ou moins inscrit comme étudiant aux Beaux-arts de Paris. Les futurs membres du groupe graphique Bazooka et moi, plutôt que de suivre les cours, songions à publier des fanzines ou à trouver des gens pour financer nos projets. Kiki Picasso était mon meilleur copain (il n’utilisait pas encore ce pseudonyme), et tous deux nous étions très amateurs de la science-fiction de l’époque. Philip K. Dick, Philip José Farmer et al. Fort logiquement, nous sommes allés voir la revue Galaxie, qui nous a pris quelques dessins. Un peu plus tard nous avons illustré la collection Chute Libre, chez l’éditeur Champ Libre. J’y ai fait la couverture de La Défonce Glogauer de Michael Moorcock. Au début, je songeais certes à faire de la bande dessinée, mais j’avais du mal à trouver un style unique du début à la fin : ça variait trop d’une planche à l'autre, alors je me suis dit qu’il valait mieux faire des illustrations. Quand mon premier album dans une collection BD est sorti aux Humanoïdes Associés (Prisonnière de l'Armée Rouge, en 1978), c’était d’ailleurs une suite de pleines pages, et il y avait pas mal de commentaires, pas trop de « bulles » (chez moi, ce sont d'ailleurs des rectangles). Ce livre m’a été inspiré par des films de gangsters japonais et des films érotiques de la compagnie Nikkatsu que j’avais vus lors de mon premier séjour à Tokyo, en 1977.

Quels rapports entretenais-tu avec le groupe Bazooka ?

J’étais très proche de Bazooka. Cependant, il y avait aussi des rivalités, un côté chapelle politique où on regarde un peu trop ce que font les autres, s’ils sont dans la « ligne » ou pas. Ce n’était pas clairement dit, toutefois je le sentais (mon côté parano ?) et j’ai fini par m’éloigner du groupe. Je les voyais plonger complètement dans le mouvement punk, drogues dures comprises, et leur attitude agressive vis-à-vis de leurs employeurs temporaires (Libération), même si elle pouvait se justifier, était trop éloignée de mon caractère. J’avais besoin de stabilité à ce moment, de laisser tomber la défonce, les dealers, tous les problèmes... Et de me mettre à l’illustration de livres. J’ai été voir Robert Massin chez Gallimard, et j’ai commencé à faire des illustrations de couverture pour la collection Folio. J’étais parti à Londres où j’habitais chez des amis squatters, à Elephant & Castle. C’est lors d’un de ces voyages que j’ai rencontré ma première femme, déjà une Japonaise... On a vécu ensemble un peu et je l’ai rejointe au Japon. J’ai donc un peu perdu de vue mes copains de Bazooka, mais ces dernières années j'ai repris le contact, surtout avec Kiki, qui est vraiment un ami très proche. Je revois quelquefois Loulou Picasso, que j’admire depuis toujours énormément comme peintre.

Futuropolis édite Silence de Loulou Picasso au tout début des années 1980. Il y est question d’Iggy Pop, Howard Devoto, The Human League. Metal Machine Music est un disque culte à juste titre. Qu’écoutais-tu alors ? Du punk-rock ? De la musique industrielle ? Le Velvet Underground ?

A l’époque, on écoutait beaucoup le Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Nico. Et puis Roxy Music, et surtout Brian Eno : j’aimais beaucoup ce qu’il faisait, le côté artiste, collage, expériences nouvelles. Je crois qu’il était étudiant en peinture avant de faire de la musique. Kiki Picasso revenait souvent avec des disques de jazz qu’il volait dans les bacs (c’était un grand cleptomane) : il travaillait en écoutant Art Blakey, les Jazz Messengers, Yusef Lateef, etc. Le père de Kiki avait été batteur dans un orchestre de jazz quand Kiki était petit. On écoutait aussi beaucoup de musique « planante » en fumant nos joints, et en descendant des litres de Coca-Cola. On aimait bien aussi la musique brésilienne (Jorge Ben, Baden Powell Astrud Gilberto, Sergio Mendes). Mais pour moi, mes plus grands souvenirs musicaux de cette époque sont l’album Another Green World de Brian Eno, certains morceaux de Roxy Music et l’album The End de Nico que j’ai entendu chez Loulou à Rouen le même weekend où j’ai vu pour la première fois des photos de bondage, chez Jean-Pierre Turmel (l’éditeur de Sordide Sentimental). Il avait acheté des revues américaines à un marchand de Soho, à Londres.

Assez rapidement semble-t-il, tu publies tes premiers livres aux Humanoïdes Associés puis chez Futuropolis, ouvrages quelque peu décalés par rapport à la bande dessinée d’alors (la collection conjointe Futuropolis / Gallimard n’existe pas encore), coincés entre la BD « traditionnelle » (Bilal, Tardi, etc.) et l’arrivée de gens plus « modernes » comme Bazooka, ceux de l’Art dégénéré, Pascal Doury, Bruno Richard…

Même si je vivais de l’illustration, j’essayais en même temps de sortir des livres personnels, dans ce milieu de la BD que je connaissais bien, ayant assisté aux débuts de Métal Hurlant (j’ai illustré la couverture du n° 16), et à ceux de Futuropolis. Au début des années 1970, tout le monde voulait sortir des collections un peu spéciales, et des amateurs montaient leurs propres petites maisons d’éditions. C’est ainsi que j’ai pu publier L’Art médical chez Temps Futurs, Femmes fatales chez Comixland, Tristes vacances chez Carton, Tokyo Girl chez Magic-Strip. Tous ces petits éditeurs ont cessé leurs activités depuis – et pas seulement à cause de moi ! Les gens comme Bruno Richard et Pascal Doury, eux, préféraient s'autoéditer, ou exceptionnellement être coédité par Étienne Robial de Futuropolis. Parfois les Humanos faisaient un album de Pascal Doury ou Olivia Clavel... Ils ne le feraient certainement plus maintenant, dans ces années de rigueur budgétaire et de retour à la BD historique, commerciale, et non artistique.

Comment travailles-tu ? À partir de photos de presse ? Arthur Fellig, le photographe noctambule américain, plus connu sous le pseudonyme Weegee, évoque forcément quelque chose pour toi…

Je travaille évidemment à partir de photos, mais si possible pas avec des documents connus. Quand j’ai fait un livre avec Marc Villard sur les faits divers américains (Cauchemars Climatisés chez Futuropolis), j’ai évité les photos de Weegee qui sont déjà des œuvres d’art et qui n’ont rien à gagner à être redessinées par un autre. Mais lors de mes séjours en Angleterre, j’avais accumulé une collection de vieux magazines sordides genre True Police, Police Dragnet, etc. (Jim Thompson, je crois, a écrit pour ce genre de revues), où les photos sont vraiment crades, avec un contraste très dur. Des éclairages qui donnent déjà un aspect graphique très fort – on ne sait plus faire ce genre de photos aujourd’hui… J’ai donc largement puisé à cette source d'images. Je travaille aussi d’après des photos de magazines trouvés dans les foires de « vieux papiers », sans compter les Paris Match qu’achetaient mes parents. Pour d'autres livres, comme Tristes vacances, ..., ..., ...

( Sordide Sentimental, par là )

[fololabel]

Faits Bleus

« Cette belle chanson française que l’on aime » (Magic, Revue Pop Moderne) « Un grand et bel album. » ( Le Cargo ) « une dimension intemporelle » ( Indiepoprock ) « Un univers d’une élégance rare et qui touche à l’âme » (Pop, Cultures & Cie) « L’inattendue relie entre elles ces douze chansons nomades » ( Sun Burns Out ) « Ce nouvel envol déclame magie » (A Decouvrir Absolument) disponible ici : http://fololabel.bandcamp.com/album/pauline-drand-faits-bleus

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Le nouveau CLIP “Aujourd’hui” en EXCLU à la une de MAGIC REVUE POP MODERNE

http://www.magicrpm.com/aujourdhui-le-nouveau-clip-de-vanessa-philippe/

[ismael37olson]

Do You Hear That Playin'?

There are too many people doing comedy on stage who aren't funny. As they say in one of my favorite movies, Funny Bones, "Some people do funny, but some people have funny bones." Those who aren't funny only understand humor intellectually; it's not in their bones. They imitate funny. As I've written about before, those un-funny sorts don't understand that all good humor does two things: it surprises us and it tells us the truth. Great humor does more than tell the truth; it reveals the truth. And the Second Law of Comedy is: nothing is less funny than the effort to be funny. If we can see you working hard at making us laugh, if you're begging us to laugh, that kills the laugh. Over the first four performances of New Line's Anything Goes, people have come up to Dowdy and me both, saying almost exactly the same words: "I've always loved Anything Goes, but I don't remember it being so funny!" WTF? First of all, you've always loved a musical comedy that wasn't very funny...? Second, I know the songs are great, but Anything Goes would not be a very good show if it weren't funny. Third, what are these other productions doing to diminish -- ignore? -- the rowdy, wacky, subversive comedy the pervades 80% of the show? The only serious moments in the whole show are "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "All Through the Night." One guy who saw our show commented on Facebook that ours was "first time I've seen Anything Goes where the book and lyrics were really concentrated on!" I'll say it again. WTF? This show isn't a revue or a paper-thin jukebox musical. It's a smart, razor-sharp satire. This plot is a masterpiece of romantic farce, as I've mentioned before, using the S.S. American as Shakespeare's Woods, where our characters escape from the rules of The City, where they can de-couple from the wrong partners and re-couple with the right ones. The characters are well-drawn and full of surprises, and the social satire is pointed and insightful. Americans still turn religion into show business, and we still turn criminals into celebrities. Nothing much has changed. But why would anyone do a brilliant satirical comedy if they're going to ignore the brilliant satire? Why share the adult genius of Cole Porter's dense, hilarious lyrics -- or the rich, complex emotion of "I Get a Kick Out of You" -- if you're not going to take the time to understand them and communicate that understanding to the audience?

So many people expected us to impose something on Anything Goes, to change it, but that's not what we do. We take excellent, though often under-appreciated (and/or misunderstood) material and we treat it like it's Shakespeare, Albee, or August Wilson. We take the characters and story seriously, we research period, we research all the unfamiliar language, we get to know the artistic and pop cultural contexts of the story, we explore backstories, relationships, motivations, textual themes, all that stuff. In other words, we take the work seriously. If a comedy is really great, treating it this way will make it much funnier than trying to think of funny gags of your own to insert into the script, the way too many directors do. So many directors and actors think you don't have to take comedy seriously. But you do. Even the most outrageous musicals, like Little Shop, Bat Boy, Urinetown, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Yeast Nation, Jerry Springer the Opera, are funnier if you take them seriously. But you also have to get out of the way -- you can't make a great comedy funny, as too many directors and actors seem to believe; you have to let it be funny. I'm starting to believe that our production of Anything Goes may serve as an accidental master class in doing classic musical comedy. You don't condescend to it, you don't wink at us over its perceived flaws, you don't impose a phony meta-style on it, you don't "excuse" it and yourself by letting us know you know it's dumb. No, you respect it, you follow where it leads, and it you let it work its magic. One of my primary agendas as director was to follow George S. Kaufman's rule of comedy, to never allow silence, unless you use it; and even then, only sparingly. We have wrung nearly every pause out of this dialogue, and I think that at this breakneck pace, the satire is more pointed, the corny jokes more about character, the lyrics more playful, and the chaos so relentless, so deliciously overwhelming. But it shouldn't be a surprise to find out Anything Goes is funny. It shouldn't be radical to treat a classic musical comedy with respect. It shouldn't be shocking for a piece of musical theatre to focus on character and story. Look at the critical reaction so far... "Funnier, sharper and smarter than you may remember. . . a spectacular treat for lovers of modern musical theater. . . .not to be missed. . . non-stop entertainment." -- Judith Newmark, St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Sharper, tarter and more satisfying than you'd think possible." -- Paul Friswold, Riverfront Times "A triumph!" -- Steve Callahan, KDHX "The entire cast of Anything Goes is simply marvelous. . . Everything about the show is extraordinary. . . New Line has yet another hit on their hands." -- Kevin Brackett, ReviewSTL "Kicky and kooky. . . .a buoyant blast from the past that revitalizes one of the great, grand old musicals with charm, humor and style." - Lynn Venhaus, St. Louis Limelight "It's bound to leave you with a smile on your face." -- Andrea Torrence, St. Louis Theatre Snob "As usual, New Line gets it right. . . this is Anything Goes as it’s meant to be performed and witnessed." -- Jeff Ritter, Critical Blast "Silly comedy, stylish music and effervescent performances in a winning combination." -- Mark Bretz, Ladue News "Energetic, smart, and very very funny. . . a sharp, witty, tuneful, and well-cast production that’s a delight from start to finish." -- Michelle Kenyon, Snoop's Theatre Thoughts "It surely is a great deal of fun, especially if you have the least bit of romantic in you." -- Ann Pollock, St. Louis Eats and Drinks

As I have been before from time to time, I am surprised and amused that treating a great piece of theatre like a great piece of theatre is cause for celebration. Shouldn't that be a bare minimum job requirement for all of us...? Though I can't complain, can I? Apparently, all those mediocre productions of Anything Goes in the past are just making us look brilliant. And we're selling out! Before we opened, I wouldn't have said this, but if you haven't seen our show yet, you probably haven't seen Anything Goes as it was meant to be. So get your tickets now. We run through March 24. According to our audiences and the critics, this is an Anything Goes like you've never seen before... The adventure continues. Long Live the Musical! Scott Click Here for Tickets! from The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre http://newlinetheatre.blogspot.com/2018/03/do-you-hear-that-playin.html

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