#nrs curtis

[alaskan-wallflower]

Do have curtis parents headcanons

BOY DO I!!

Mrs. Curtis

Trying to decide whether she’s be named Cynthia or Carolina

She was born and raised Jewish (religiously)

Shes about 25% Jewish ethnically (from her mom’s side-her mom was half Jewish half Irish)

She’s half Scottish on her dad’s side (her dad was like FROM Scotland)

She grew up on a farm with a lot of pets and such

She was always a bit of a tree hugger/hippie kind of person

She was never the richest person in the world-but she knew how to be resourceful

She has a twin sister actually (either named Cynthia or Carolina, whichever one Mrs Curtis isn’t named)

Her and her twin sister had a really complicated relationship because Mrs Curtis was the brighter more outgoing of the two while her twin wasn’t-so that obviously made for tension (which is why it hurt so bad to see Soda and Darry beefing when they were little because Darry’s as seen as smarter and Soda wasn’t)

She was a gardener and really wanted to go to cullinady school or music school or something but she just couldn’t afford it

She was an incredible cook though. Thanksgiving at the Curtises was always incredible

Food was also her love language-Mr Curtis definitely gained some weight lol

Shes smol (5’3’’ or so)

Mr Curtis

Darrel was always kind of…”different”

Not in a bad way! But he was raised alongside 8 other boys and their dad was this super strict man who wanted his kids to be “manly”

He was ethnically Iabkut 80% Irish and 20% English

But Mr Curtis wasn’t like that-he liked joking around and just being a boy, not being confined

He was in the middle-fifth born. Smack dab right in the middle.

One of his brothers was definitely the asshole uncle who always harassed Pony, Soda and Darry

I also headcanon Mr. Curtis had ADHD and dyslexia (which makes him a demigod in percy jackson standards)

He was the one who passed his appetite down to his boys (and would make sure to tell them that all the time 😭)

He went into the military fresh out of high school (he fought in WWII and would’ve graduated HS in 1943 if my math is right-)

He came back for small periods of time (which was when Darry was conceived) and he felt absolutely horrible that he wasn’t there for his wife during her pregnancy

But he ended up with really terrible PTSD (his kids have walked in on him having panic attacks on multiple occasions)

He tried to hide it but it was kind of hard to

He was the neighborhood dad if i’m being honest

He’s the one who nicknamed Two Bit Two Bit. He did the same to Cherry and both names just stuck (he’d see her cheering at the football games-she’s only two years younger than Darry I think?)

Whenever he got serious he got SERIOUS

Like when Darry got arrested (side bc) but he was absolutely just heartbroken

Hes BIG too—like 6’7’’

Hope these are good!

[vivian-rutledge]

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[the-third-fish]

My wrapped. Cute of spotify to make a lil personality thing this year even if mine called me basic

[spookyfoxdreamer]

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Grealish wurde nicht für den englischen Kader nominiert

Die englische Nationalmannschaft hat die endgültige Liste der 26 Spieler für den Europapokal bekannt gegeben. Die Superstars Kane, Bellingham, Rice, Saka und Foden, die das England trikot Euro 2024 tragen, haben sich erfolgreich in die Liste eingetragen. Bei diesem Europapokal liegt England in der gleichen Gruppe wie Serbien, Dänemark und Slowenien. Am 17. Juni um 3 Uhr morgens trifft England in seinem ersten Gruppenspiel auf Serbien.

Im Vergleich zur vorherigen Primärliste wurden Branthwaite, Trafford, Kuanza, Grealish und Maguire mit Ausnahme von Madison und Curtis Jones, die offiziell ihren Austritt aus dem Team bekannt gegeben haben, noch nicht in den endgültigen 26-Mann-Kader aufgenommen. Maguire, der das trikots Euro 2024 trug, fiel vor allem verletzungsbedingt aus. Er hatte sich bereits eine Muskelverletzung zugezogen. Da England über genügend Angriffsspieler verfügte, musste Manchester Citys Nr. 10 Grealish unerwartet ausfallen. Torhüter: Dean Henderson (Crystal Palace), Pickford (Everton), Ramsdale (Arsenal) Verteidiger: Dunk (Brighton), Gomez (Liverpool), Gueye (Crystal Palace), Konsa (Villa), Kwansa (Liverpool), Luke Shaw (Manchester). United), Stones (Manchester City), Trippier (Newcastle), Walker (Manchester City) Mittelfeldspieler: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Gallagher (Chelsea), Menu (Manchester United), Rice (Arsenal), Walton (Crystal Palace) Stürmer: Bellingham (Real Madrid), Bowen (West Ham), Eze (Crystal Palace), Foden (Manchester City), Anthony Gordon (Newcastle), Kane (Bayern), Palmer (Chelsea), Saka (Arsenal), Ivan Toney ( Brentford), Watkin (Aston Villa).

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Juli 2023 Im Kino / 1 Std. 55 Min. / Abenteuer, Komödie, Familie

Regie: Greta Gerwig

Drehbuch: Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach

Besetzung: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera

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In Barbieland ist alles an seinem Platz. Die Frisur sitzt, die Kleidung und jedes Accessoire passen zueinander. Kurz: Es ist eine perfekte Welt, zumindest äußerlich. Wer hier leben will, muss sich nämlich ausnahmslos an die aufgestellten Normen halten. So auch die stereotypische Barbie (Margot Robbie), eine der einflussreichsten Barbies im Land, die vom platinblonden Schönling Ken (Ryan Gosling) angehimmelt wird. Doch irgendetwas stimmt in letzter Zeit nicht, denn Barbie beschleichen immer wieder Gedanken an den Tod. Ein absolutes No-Go im Barbieland, wo jeder Tag doch einfach nur perfekt sein sollte. Ihre einzige Hoffnung ist die seltsame Barbie (Kate McKinnon), die außerhalb des Barbielands ein Einsiedler-Dasein führt. Diese offenbart ihr, dass der Ursprung ihres merkwürdigen Verhaltens in der richtigen Welt zu finden ist und sie die Person aufspüren muss, die mit ihr spielt. Also brechen Barbie und Ken gemeinsam in die reale Welt auf. Doch kaum angekommen, müssen sie feststellen, dass dort andere Regeln als im Barbieland gelten. Während Barbie sich den neuen Herausforderungen stellt und dabei mehr als einmal mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt kommt, entdeckt Ken das Patriarchat für sich…

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5 Movies - Goodbye Charlie / Operation Petticoat / Taras Bulba / Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies / Trapeze - Tony Curtis Collection - DVD Set

5 Movies – Goodbye Charlie / Operation Petticoat / Taras Bulba / Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies / Trapeze – Tony Curtis Collection – DVD Set

Price: (as of – Details) Enjoy this 5 movie set :Goodbye Charlie, Operation Petticoat, Taras Bulba, Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, and Trapeze. This Tony Curtis Collection will keep you entertain for hours. MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated) Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches; 3.99 Ounces Director ‏ : ‎ Carol Reed, Vincente Minnelli, J. Lee Thompson, Blake Edwards,…

[fred-erick-frankenstein]

Nr. One reason to watch "Some Like It Hot" (not to say that Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe aren't both gorgeous and reason alone to watch this movie😌💖💜💙):

"Most of the time I slap it." 😏😌

And of course the dance scene💞💕

One small idiot man being in love with his big beautiful wife💖

Bonus:

"Who's the lucky girl?" "I am"

She's so happy😭

[bronwynn]

7 Comfort Films!

Post 7 comfort films, tag 7 people

thank you for the tag @lurker-no-more​

1. Sense and Sensibility 

the 1995 ofc! I’m very picky about my Austen adaptions, half of them suck

2. Mamma Mia!

i have such a great memory of seeing this with my girlfriends at a packed theater and everyone was having a blast

3. Independence Day

best dumb action movie. for some reason my sister and i were obsessed with this as kids

4.The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

I even have the extended / a million extras dvd box somewhere

5. My Neighbour Totoro

the first Ghibli i ever saw, still my nr.1

6.Operation Petticoat

my mom loves all these old Tony Curtis movies

7. 21 Jump Street

legit funny

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[mattkeepsrambling]

List of  Shame

My main goal was to get to the movies that have left a cultural footprint and do this as cheaply as possible. In the cases of "Gone with the Wind" and "Pyscho," those are movies you know about even if you aren't a movie fan. These are a massive part of our pop culture. "Pretty in Pink" and "Some Like it Hot" are looked to as exemplars of a director (John Huges) and an actress (Marylin Monroe), respectively.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles 

This is the only one I would not consider a "List of Shame" movie. It is always mentioned in the conversation of greatest comedies, but I don't think it has the cultural cache of the others on this list.

Neal (Steve Martian )begrudgingly joins shower curtain ring dealer, Del (John Candy), to get home to Chicago for Thanksgiving.

I have to say I liked this one a lot. Martian and Candy are masters of comedy and rightfully earned their places in the pantheon of great comedic performers. Martian, in particular, is the perfect straight man. To watch him deal with Candy's outrageous Del makes this movie one of the best comedies. Those two have spectacular chemistry, and the heartfelt ending feels so earned. 8/10

Rated R

1hr 33mins.

Available on HBO Max 

Pretty In Pink 

I was trying not to spend any money on movies this week. I saw this on one of the streaming sites I have access to, but it was not there when I went to look for it. I ended up having to rent this one on iTunes.

Andie (Molly Ringwald) is in love with rich kid Blane (Andrew McCarthy.) She has never been popular at school because she doesn't come from money like most other students. When she and Blane start dating, she struggles to feel okay in his world.

This was good, but I was not fond of it as much as other John Huges movies. My absolute favorite is "The Breakfast Club," and that was crossed off my list of shame about two years ago. That movie blew me away. "Pretty in Pink" was fine. I enjoyed it and would recommend it easily if you haven't seen it. It just didn't hold up to "The Breakfast Club," which you should see if you have not done so.

7/10

Rated PG-13

1hr. 37mins.

Some Like It Hot

I was very confused when this movie started. When the opening scene is some bootleggers running from the cops in this movie that is one of the best comedies of all time, I had a moment when I thought I put in the wrong movie. Then I saw Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, and things started to make sense. It turns out I knew less about this movie than I thought.

Joe (Curtis) and Jerry (Lemmon) are musicians who owe money to many people. To get away from the mob, they pose as women and join an all women's band.

A few years ago, I bought a Marylin Monroe collection and had been slowly working my way through it. Luckily "Some Like It Hot" was next up (see the next movie for a much different story), and I loved it so much. I have seen the final scene of this movie more times than I can count. Knowing the ending, however, didn't ruin this in the least. To watch Lemmon and Curtis navigate the myriad of lies that have been telling is hilarious.

Did you know there have been 600 books written about Marilyn Monroe? Just a fun fact that I learned while looking as her IMDb. She is brilliant in everything I have seen her in. She knows who she is and leans into that "dumb blonde" trope. She has earned her spot as a Hollywood icon, and it is unfortunate that her personal demons caught up with her, and she died so young (I am as old as she was when she died).

9/10

NR

2hrs 1min

Psycho

I also have an Alfred Hitchcock boxset that I have been working my way through. The problem was (or not depending on how you look at it) was that there were four movies in front of "Psycho." I know. Poor me, I had to watch four Hitchcock movies this week before I could watch another Hitchcock movie. Thank you for your sympathy.

Never have I ever known so much about a movie and yet so little. As I watched this, I realized that I had no idea what the movie was about beyond Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) murdering Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) in the shower. I had no idea about the $40,000 that she stole or the investigation into her disappearance.

I have watched so many Hitchcock movies, some more than once, but I never got around to the most well known. It was not for the same reason as my former aversion to horror movies. It was just that I never got around to it. And after watching it, I can say it is one of my favorite Hitchcock movies. There is so much he does to build the mystery and create an uneasy atmosphere that he lives up to all the accolades he gets.

9/10

Rated R

1hr. 49mins.

Gone With The Wind

Now we come to the main event of the week; the three hour and 58-minute epic "Gone With the Wind." I will skip the synopsis because this, like many other movies on this list, is well known.

Given the world we live in, "Gone With the Wind" is problematic. HBO knew this, and when the Black Lives Matter protests started, they took the movie down. The said they would put it back up with a discussion of its history and its problems. I have not watched the hour-long discussion of the film yet, but I plan to this weekend. If you want an extended analysis of these elements of the film, there lots of better writers than I who have tackled that subject.

I enjoyed the movie overall, but it could have been so much better. It could have been a fantastic character study. Scarlett (Vivian Leigh) is set up to have this incredible arch of a character. She could have gone from this winey, stuck up, selfish brat to someone who becomes a better person over the almost 4-hour movie. She doesn't, and it is very disappointing. It could be that I am watching a 1940 movie as someone who lives in 2020, but things like character growth are important to me. None of the characters grow and change all that much, and it bothered me.

I can see why this is a classic. It is a sweeping epic of a movie, and it is an event. It is the type of film we don't get to see that much anymore. I appreciated it for that.

8/10 NR

3hrs. 58mins.

Available on HBO Max

[alaskan-wallflower]

Oh and i remembered one more, do you have any sleeping hcs for them all? I’m not sure if you’ve done this one before!! Like position, deep sleeper/restless sleeper, etc ❤️🎞️

i was so mad because i had this saved and tumblr deleted my long reply 😭 so take two!

Everyone thinks Darry would snore but personally? I don’t think he would. I feel like Darry is eerily quiet when he sleeps. Like you can’t even hear him breathing and the only way you know he’s alive is if you can see his chest rising and falling. He also sleeps like a rock, though he does wake up at certain things, like crying, creaky floorboards, his alarm and whatever else, but if you try to wake him you literally WILL NOT be able to. One time when they were kids, Soda wanted to wake Darry up at like…the crack of dawn (If Darry could have it his way he’d sleep ‘til noon-he is NOT a morning person.) and Sods could not wake him up and it was dark so he couldn’t see his chest rising and falling. He ran into his mom and dad’s room screaming and crying and yelling “DARRY’s DEAD” until Nr. Curtis got up and at that point Darry had woken up and he had to snuggle Soda for the rest of the morning because little bro was SO scared 😭 He sleeps on his back. He has a very very soft pillow that he keeps his head on but he sleeps with a harder pillow to support his neck because he’s sick and tired of his back pain. He sleeps with his hands over his chest too like a dead man. He doesn’t necessarily move when he gets nightmares-his breathing gets faster and it’s actually audible but he’ll literally jolt up in bed so fast and so hard-he’s pulled numerous back and neck muscles doing this. If he’s cuddling with his brothers he still sleeps on his back but he has one arm around both of them. He sleeps in just boxers (because if a burglar breaks in he wants to show them who they’re messing with)

Soda moves in his sleep. Even in his sleep he can’t stay still-it’s honestly kind of impressive to an extent. He starts out on his twice and usually ends up on him tummy on top of whatever/whoever he’s cuddling. He NEEDS someone to cuddle with at all times. If Pony isn’t there he’ll beg Darey to come cuddle him (Darey usually can’t say no unless he goes to bed earlier than Soda, to which Soda doesn’t bother asking evacsue he doesn’t wanna wake his brother (it’s not like he can tho-he sleeps like a rock). In those very rare cases he has a pillow. He starts out with an arm around the thing/person he’s cuddling but when he wakes up he’s sprawled out and either directly on top of them, wrapped around them like a koala bear. He’s seriously such a sweetie-he doesn’t snore too bad but he does snore. Like he does the inhale and then just softly breathes out and it’s the goofiest thing-sometimes you’ll get him snoring in your ear but it’s okay since it’s Soda lol-he doesn’t get nightmares often but when he does he kinda just goes rigid-he starts whimpering and crying a little too but the way you know he’s having a. nightmare is that he goes completely still. If he’s having any other kind of dream he’ll mumble in his sleep and move around a lot. He sleeps like a rock. Like nothing will wake him up. He has a natural alarm tho but there could be a nuclear war in his back yard and he’d still be sleeping. He’s just kinda like that-if you let him be little spoon though he’d actually cry and never leave your side lmao Sods sleeps with socks on. Pony said he likes walking around in jhsy “stocking feet” plus he seems like the kind of menace to sleep with socks on (same) he also just wears boxers to bed because he thinks he’s gods giving gift (is he not?)

Ponyboy is definitely a restless sleeper and if anything he snores the worst of the three brothers. I mean-he smokes like two packs a day of course he does 😭 But even then it isn’t bad. He’s just a loud breather and sometimes sleeps with his mouth open-bros lips are CHAPPED. He sleeps in a fetus position a lot and will not admit it, not even on his death bed, but he loves to be held. He lives deep pressure and a bone crushing cuddle puts him to sleep. He doesn’t often sleep with his mouth open and Soda will straight up close his mouth for him so his lips don’t get any more chapped than they already are-honestlyI like to think that he got off the cigarettes and onto nicotine gum (it was really really tough but Darry helped him and decided it was the best option and it still calms Pony down because it has the nic in it but anyhoo) he stops snoring completely when he stops smoking and he is a delight to sleep with-eeeexcept when ge gets nightmares. He starts kicking and punching in his sleep like nobody’s business-if you don’t mind a sudden swift kick to the stomach go ahead and cuddle with him lol-Soda makes Pony sleep with socks on too because bros nails ar3 sharp as hell and he has scratched Soda in his sleep-Pony doesn’t mind since he likes sleeping with socks on (he pretends he doesn’t because it’s not tuff) but he’s also a sleep cuddler. Like you will be trapped for the night if you sleep in the same bed as him. You cannot pry him and Soda away from each other. He sleeps kinda hard but sudden movements or noises will wake him up. He does not have a natural alarm and has a very fucked jo sleep schedule. So he’s either up at 5 AM or 1 PM. Darry hates it.

Johnny is honestly such a light sleeper. Sixteen years of abuse does that-he’s just always on high alert even when he’s sleeping. His parents would often come into his room just to yell at him or literally beat him awake so if you touch him when he’s sleeping to wake him up he’ll flinch so hard and it’s so sad-it also doesn’t help that he sleeps in the lot and Socs have come and literally stomped in his back so he does not sleep on his stomach much. He sleeps on his side because he feels like he can protect himself easier. He, like Darry, is very quiet when he sleeps, but his breathing tends to be a tad loud. He looks a lot younger when he sleeps-he looks at peace for once and he no longer looks like a kid who has suffered numbers of abuses. He just looks at peace. He sleeps in a fetal position as well with his mouth ever so slightly open. I feel like he tends to drool a teeny tiny bit but it’s Johnny so it’s kinda endearing and nobody gets mad at him. He’ll sleep in just about anything. Jeans. Jean jacket, he’ll he’ll even sleep with shoes on. If you gave this boy actual pajamas he’d be so confused 😭Unfortunately Johnny is highly prone to nightmares form the amount of PTSD and trauma he has, so sometimes it’s a bit rough. He goes board still and just lets out this small gasp before his breathing picks up speed. He never makes a sound other than the breathing and that alone is terrifying. He doesn’t like being cuddled much but sometimes if he has had a particularly rough day he’ll be okay with an arm around the shoulder. It takes a lot but after a lot of trust he doesn’t mind cuddles. But you have to initiate. He will never initiate. He hates sleeping in the dark-the Curtises and Two Bit don’t mind keeping a hallway light on for him. Darry bought him a flashlight tho because electric bills were too high :(

Dallas doesn’t sleep let’s be real 💀 He crashes out at Buck Merril’s place a lot and can somehow sleep through all that loud music and whatnot-he sleeps harder than Soda. Nothing will wake him up. He sleeps sprawled out with his limbs everywhere because he likes stretching out like a cat. He never goes to sleep earlier than like-2 in the morning but then he sleeps for like 19 hours. He’s lowkey nocturnal-you barely see him out in the day. He prowls around at night oftentimes until it’s very late in the night and then he just barges into Bucks and steals his room 😭 He cannot sleep with anyone in the bed. He sleeps in the pitch dark too like he will literally cram towels under the door to keep the light out-He refuses to share a bed with anyone and would rather sleep in the floor than sleep with another person in the bed next to him. He sleeps naked. He doesn’t even bother with clothes-he literally just snuck into the Curtises house and crashed into their guest room-Darry was not happy and literally yanked the covers off him only to get flashed. He never disturbs Dally in his sleep ever again. He needs a good four hours after he wakes up tho because he is literally so grumpy. He will literally like-push some old lady so he can get to where he’s going faster. He’s such a hypocrite because he’ll get mad at Pony and Johnny’s sleep schedules and then when they’re like “what about yours then 🤨” he just goes “THIS AINT ABOUT ME 🤬” like he is NOT happy when people bring up his sleep schedule-he kicks and punches a lot, especially if he’s sleeping with someone else but at that point he’s just pretending so the person will leave 😭

Two Bit is the only one WITH a sleep schedule honestly. It’s mainly for his little sister because she won’t go to bed hnless he does but he doesn’t really mind much. He goes to bed at exactly 9 every single night so his sister will sleep but then sometimes he honestly just sneaks out. He never fails to get up at 8 every morning tho. He sleeps on his back with one knee over the other and with his hands behind his back. Nobody knows how he doesn’t have neck and back pain honestly-it’s really impressive. He probably snores a little-or a lot depending on who you ask. He only sleeps in a shirt. He doesn’t bother with pants (also before anyone tries to twist this, him and his sister have separate rooms, she’s just the kind of kid to think she’s a “big girl” who “doesn’t need sleep” but they do have separate rooms( I feel like he has a white noise machine because he finds the noise comforting. He likes being in busy environments even in his sleep. He’s completely still when he sleeps but he has this easy smile on his face. If he has a nightmare he probably just sits up, screams for a minute and is like “that was kinda svary 😨” like he’s so goofy and nobody knows how-be has a lot of fever dreams and he’ll tell the gang like “yeah i had a dream that peter cottontail tried to steal my kidneys 😄” and the rest of the gang is absolutely appalled-he’s not too hard of a sleeper but of course he has a natural alarm and any time between when he goes to sleep to 8 am he’s absolutely unmovable.

I honestly feel like Steve is sorta like Johnny. I mean…his father kicks him out of the house a lot. And then pays him off as an apology. So I feel like Steve has soent a number of nights in the lot. He didn’t wanna go to the Curtises place because he was honestly too prideful but one time Soda found him and dragged him to his place and stayed with him. He drags Steve to his place a lot after that because it’s either that or the lot and Soda will be damned if his best friend goes to sleep cold. He prefers to sleep alone but if Soda wants to cuddle he’s fine with that. He probably sleeps naked just like Dallas I won’t even lie-or at the very least he sleeps in just tightie whities and Pony is DISGUSTED by this man-Steve likes to sleep in the cold so he does not use blankets. I know he absolutely SLOBBERS in his sleep tho like his pillow will just be absolutely damp in th morning. He doesn’t even give two shits he just flips the pillow 😭 He sleeps on his stomach. When him and Soda are together it’s literally the “honk mimimimimimimi” think-Steve snores but only when he exhales like he just preaches out a whistle of breath. Pony has kicked the wall and yelled at him to stop 💀 He also lowkey stuffs himself before he sleeps like he’ll literally just raid the Curtises fridge and just conk out. Hes just a bitch like that. Soda is the only one not mad at him- “Cmon, he didn’t mean it :(“ and Steve is just there with cake on his face as he’s like “yeah i didnt” as he swallows the massive mouthful of frozen steak he stole

Hope these were good!!

[sciencenewsforstudents]

Arctic waters turn out to be teeming with some of the world’s smallest entities — viruses.

Water samples taken during a three-year expedition around the world’s oceans identified around 200,000 virus species, roughly 12 times the number found in a previous smaller survey. And 42 percent of those viruses were found exclusively in the Arctic, researchers report April 25 in Cell.

The results come from the Tara Oceans global oceanographic research expedition. From 2009 to 2013, researchers dropped tanks off of an aluminum sailboat called Tara to collect 145 water samples from dozens of sites worldwide, at water depths from 0 to 4,000 meters. Scientists collected everything ranging in size from fish eggs down to viruses. Filtering isolated the viruses, which were then genetically compared.

The researchers identified 195,728 virus species parsed into five global regions that are home to distinct viral communities. The most diversity was found in shallow, temperate and tropical waters, followed closely by Arctic waters.

Almost all of the viruses were bacteriophages, which attack bacteria — not people.      

“So you can swim in the ocean and not worry about it,” says Ahmed Zayed, a microbiologist at Ohio State University in Columbus.

Bacteriophages and other viruses are credited with killing roughly 20 percent of bacteria in the ocean every day. That process stops carbon in the bacteria from passing up the food chain, and instead releases the carbon back into the ocean for other microorganisms — some of which also consume carbon dioxide. These microbes eventually produce a form of carbon that can’t be recycled and stays stored in the ocean.

Viruses may serve an important role in counteracting human-induced climate change by indirectly stashing away carbon in this way, though viruses have rarely been included in climate simulations. Having the global map of virus locations could help scientists know where carbon fallout occurs and increase the accuracy of climate simulations.

But the study gives only a limited view of viruses at play. “There’s still swaths of the ocean that haven’t been looked at,” such as the Western Pacific, says Curtis Suttle, an environmental virologist at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver who wasn’t involved in the study.

And because microbiologists can only isolate and identify viral species with DNA, viruses with RNA were excluded from the new analysis, despite being thought to make up half of the ocean’s virus diversity. “So we’re still really only scratching the surface of what’s there,” Suttle says.

[famosoentrescalles]

@banashee tagged me, thank you, love!! ♥️🌸

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Rules: answer 21 questions and tag 21 people you'd like to know better

1.) Nickname: Joschi, Alex, Michen

2.) Zodiac: Leo

3.) High: 1.64m

4.) Last movie I watched: Ice Age 5

5.) Last thing I googled: why corn-flowers were / are worn by Nazis

6.) Favourite musicians: die ärzte, FURT, The Busters, K.I.Z., Joy Division, Muff Potter and many, many more...

7.) Song stuck in my head: well it's a die ärzte song but with a different text, 'cause they're little crackheads... [to the tune of Nie mehr Krieg, nie mehr Las Vegas] "Schade, oh wie schade, jetzt spielen Bela, Rod und Farin 'ne Ballade."

8.) Other blogs? @sonnenblumen-of-death @ace-trainer-curtis @wuestenkind and a couple more

9.) Do I get asks: rarely

10.) Blogs following: I follow about 180 and I've got about 600 followers

11.) Amount of sleep: normally 9-11 hrs, on tour 4-7 hrs

12.) Lucky number: 27

13.) What I'm wearing: boxer shorts with cherry print, black socks and fine rib vest

14.) Dream job: roadie

15.) Dream trip: all over the world, lmao

16.) Favourite food: shashlyk

17.) Play any instruments: my bff taught me to play bass guitar, another best friend is trying to teach me trombone (but I'm failing)

18.) Languages: German, English, French, Latin, currently learning Spanish

19.) Favourite songs: Let's Go Below by The Busters

20.) Random fact: I just finished building my walk-in wardrobe

21.) Describe yourself as aesthetic things: Gay Fruit Goth, smoky ska concert club, lot's of elephants as decoration, urban witch

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I tag @zompire-plutopian @annika-of-the-lost @feuerficker-nr-16 @electric-kiss and whoever wants to do this!

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Chapter 49 - The surfer, the nice guy and James’ brother

In the previous chapter: Eddie's in San Diego and his friend Craig visits him. He also teases Eddie about Angie and asks to show him a picture, since he's sure he's got at least one. Of course he's right. Grace goes to the beauty salon Meg works at to have her hair cut, they talk about her relationship with Stone. Grace thinks they're at the very beginning and she's not in a hurry to take things to the next level. Angie flew to San Diego for the Mookie's show, but she finds out the concert will be the following day and that Alice in Chains' backup band for that night is someone called Pearl Jam that she doesn't know.

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“Angie, wait, calm down! Could you talk a little slower, please? I didn't understand shit. I've never heard so many words coming out from your lips all at ones. I mean, I probably never heard you say so many words in general since I first met you” Meg stops me as I'm trying to summarize all the disasters occured to me during the few hours passed since we said bye this morning. Anyway, wasn't that joke mine? We've been living together for less than a year and she's already started talking like me.

“I'd love to if I had an unlimited stash of quarters, but that's not the case” I say right as I put some more coins into the payphone.

“Ok but you sound like a 33 record pitched up to 45, you're scaring me. What do you mean the show was canceled? Where are you now? And what's this music?”

“Livingston Taylor, I'm in a café. I don't know if it was canceled of Eddie simply mixed up the dates. The fact is the concert is tomorrow, at least for the Alice guys. No trace of Mookie, neither today or tomorrow, they're nowhere to be seen...” I explain answering her questions in reverse order.

“From what I can hear, a bar for suicide candidates” she asks, showing she understood only the first part of my answer.

“Can we talk about the music selection of this place another time?”

“And who the hell is Livingston Taylor??”

“I guess the answer is no. It's James' brother”

“Does he sing too? How do you know him?”

“I'll try again: can we go back to my problem?”

“Are you sure Mookie's are not there? Take a better look”

“I'm sure Meg, I checked. There's someone called Pearl Jam... never heard of her, she sounds like a country singer. Or maybe it's a band. Or a bunch of bands getting together for a jam, I don't know”

“Country? What the fuck does country music have to do with Alice? And are there jam sessions in country music?”

“I have no idea, I only know the guys are not there”

“They must be there, maybe the bill is not updated!”

“The fact is I'm fucked anyway, because if you're right, then they're playing tomorrow night and not tonight. And I already have a flight booked for tomorrow”

“That's not a big deal, you can change the date. Didn't you take two more days off to go visit your parents?”

“Well, yeah...” I wrap the phone cord around my finger a little tighter.

“Ok, so you'll go back to Idaho another time and now you'll spend a few days in California, I can't see the problem” here's surely a better place than the one I was planning to go, anywhere is better.

“With what money? And where will I sleep? I don't even have clothes with me, I brought almost nothing with me” I have another pair of jeans and a couple of t-shirts and I think I'm gonna put on one of the t-shirts right now because I'm starting to sweat with this jumper. I already need to go to the bathroom anyway.

“I bet it's hot down there though, you don't even need clothes” she chuckles, knowing that she's just making me more nervous.

“If you're trying to be funny, you know, you're failing miserably”

“And I doubt Eddie will complain about your lack of clothes... I mean”

“MEG!”

“He'd be happy about it I think”

“What about we just cut the crap and focus on my problem once and for all?”

“This problem again! What's the problem? Just go see the guys and they'll find a solution”

“Thank you, no, thank you very much, Meg. Without you, I would have never thought about it! Where the fuck to I go?! I don't know where they are”

“Ok, call Eddie?”

“If I could call Eddie, do you think I'd be on the phone with you? I don't have the number...”

“What do you mean you don't have it?? You talk on the phone every day”

“We don't talk every day!” I answer maybe a little too loudly because the two guys sitting at the closest booth turn around at the same time and glance at me “Anyway, I don't have the number of the hotel, I don't know where it is, he's always the one who calls and... Wait, Grace! Give me Grace's number, she must have it” I go on in a lower voice, holding back my enthusiasm for the sudden brilliant idea.

“Mmm I doubt it, as far as I know he's the one who always calls too. But we can try. Wait, isn't she working today? Wait, I'll check” I can hear Meg moving around in the apartment, she's probably looking at the front of the mini market through the window to see if our friend's at work.

“I don't think so, Ian should be there. Try and come up with another idea, better before the next ten seconds, I'm almost out of quarters”

“Kelly, just call him! He must know where they are staying. Wait, I'm gonna get the number, I have it, I'm sure” this time I clearly hear hem run, surely towards the phone table and I can also hear her open the first drawer, that always gets stuck and is hard to open, as she's looking for that fucking business card that's been there for ages and we never needed before. And we won't even need it now actually.

“Curtis is here in San Diego with them, he's not in Seattle, where the fuck do I find him?”

“Shit... well... but Susan is here, she didn't leave with the band!” she adds, finally catching my attention with something interesting.

“How do you know?”

“She had told me she wouldn't have followed them. I met her and Chris at the Lemonheads concert, the one you didn't came to because you had to be asocial” she points out as I keep on hearing her rummage into the drawer.

“That is studying for the exams. Come on, give me that number” I encourage her with new found hope.

“Uhm... what should you say first?” she laughs and I figure out she's now finally holding the Curtis and Silver management card in her hands.

“Oh Jesus, I should say don't get on my fucking nerves and give me that fucking number. Please” I joke as I retrieve a pen from my backpack.

“Sweet little darling, if you ask me like this, how can I say no?”

I hang up with the promise to keep her updated about where will I and up and immediately make a new phone call, putting the coins that the payphone has just spat back into the machine and dialing the number that I scribbled down on the soda receipt.

“Curtis and Silver, good afternoon” I recognise the voice of Kelly's wife, what's her name? It's on the tip of my tongue...

“Good afternoon!” I answer, my anxiety disguised as absolutely unjustified enthusiasm “Can I speak to Su... ehm, with Miss Silver?”

“I think she's already gone to lunch, who is it?”

“Fu... well, I'm Angie, Angela, Angela Pacifico. I needed to tell her something, it's pretty important” I hope I managed to cut the word fuck before she could hear it.

“Ha you're the guys' friend! Wait, I'll try and put you through her office, if she's still there she will answer for sure” Peggy, that's her name, recognises me and immediately switch the call to Susan's room.

As the phone rings I'm on edge the whole time and not because I'm afraid I won't finde her. I mean, I have the number now, if I don't find her right now, I can still talk to her later after lunch and even if she didn't come back to work, I could as well contact her through Chris or calling her on that mobile phone she always carries with her. The reason is I'm embarrassed, I don't wanna seem the typical clueless naive young kid that just leaves like that on a plane without getting actual detailed information first and then gets in trouble and can't find her way out of a paper bag. I'm also pondering on what to tell actually: what can I do, ask her for the hotel address and take another cab? That'd mean spending more money. Do I ask her for the number and call them asking to come and take me? That'd mean ruining the surprise. Unless I...

“Silver” Susan answers surprising me when I was about to hang up.

“Susan! Hi, sorry if I'm bothering you, I'm Angie, Meg's friend”

“Hey! Hi kiddo, I recognised your voice, you know?”

“Oh really? Great! What... what's up?”

“I'm fine, I was about to leave actually, you were lucky to find me. What about you? Can I help you?” she asks me, kind of puzzled, since I never called her before. I'd better just tell things straight without beating around the bush.

“Yeah, actually you can. I'll be very fast and sorry again fot bothering you but, you know, you're like the only one who can help me right now”

“What the hell did you do?”

I briefly explain the situation and the fact her reply consists in a big laugh makes me feel both calmer and extremely stupid at the same time.

“Haha so you're telling me you don't know Pearl Jam?”

“Well, no. Is it a band?” I say and I really appreciate Susan's passion for music, but I wish she'd focus on my problem now.

“Pearl Jam are Mookie Blaylock, it's the new name of the band, didn't they tell you?”

“WHAT?!” I yell through the receiver and the Nets cap of guy nr 1 lifts up towards me “No, nobody told me”

“But you know they had to change the name, right?”

“Mookie sued them?”

“Hehe no, at least, not yet. Anyway it could get them in some legal trouble, so they had to change the name at some point, possibly before the album release. And before people started to remember them by a name that was destined not to last. So they changed it now”

“And why Pearl Jam? Where does it come from? What does it mean?” I ask curious, forgetting for a moment I am in a café in San Diego, a city I don't know, right in front of a club where my friends won't show up until tomorrow night.

“Hehe you should ask them! Anyway, back to you, you should have called me from the airport, you're basically on the other side of town.

“I knew that, I'm always so lucky... Ok, give me the address” I sigh as I turn the receipt the other way round and point the pen at the still blank corner.

“Don't worry, I'm gonna give the guys a call and have someone come pick you up”

“Oh no, Susan, you don't need to, really, I can get there myself!”

“No way, I'll feel definitely more reassured if I know you're with Jeff or Stone”

“Ok, but... do you have to call Stone or Jeff?”

“Why? What's the problem?” she ask perplexed.

“No, it's just... well, the reason I got caught up in this mess is that I wanted to surprise them and now if you tell them, it woud all have been useless, you know”

“Ok, I can call someone else... I can call Eddie?”

“Eddie's always part of Mookie, I mean, of Pearl Jam. The surprise was-”

“What if I send you Sean? Or Layne? I'm gonna call one of them, the first one I find, ok? So we're ruining the surprise for just one band instead of them both, what do you think?”

“A-alright, it's ok for me!”

“Right, I'm gonna call right now then! Sorry kid, I gotta leave you now, I'm already late”

“Oh no, no problem! I mean, thank you for saving me and everything”

“You're welcome, I'm calling them now. Bye babe!”

“Bye. Oh wait! Could you now-” I try and add something, the last condition, but Susan has already hung up. Is she already calling my saviour? She won't call him, right? I'm not so unlucky. Or am I?

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“And now? What's wrong with you?” the radio station I'm listening to starts to fuss as I turn into el Cajon Boulevard. Fuck, right when Queensrÿche were on. I fiddle with the car radio for a while, then turn it off irritated. I'm nervous, I admit it. It's not been that long since I last saw her, but it seems ages. Even further in my memory is the last time we talked. When? At the Music Bank maybe, when she told me of chlamydia. I saw her again later but I kept my distance. That was our last conversation. And now that I think about it, it wasn't that bad, I mean, we even said goodbye in the end. At some point I got a memorable slap, ok, but after all we had a normal, peaceful conversation. I remember she even laughed once or twice, who knows why. I hope I can find something to make her smile this time too. Will she expect I'll be there? Well, she knows I'm here too, I mean, she came here to Seattle to see us, she knew she'd have found me as well, didn't she? And what if... No, Jerry, hold on, don't even think about it. Do you really think she came here for you? Why? To tell you what? If that was the case, but it isn't, she'd have come here to tell you, I don't know, that she got over you and totally forgot you. But she's not here for you, she's in San Diego to see Stone and the others and maybe, yes, to see us too, and nothing else. She didn't come here for you, but despite you.

I pass the club we're playing tomorrow, but Angie's nowhere to be seen. I drive for a few hundred yards further until I find a hole to park the van and walk back to the place; as I get closer to the venue I see our name on the outside getting bigger, but I still can't see Angie. I'm right in front of the entrance and take a look around, two girls marching arm in arm pass before me and one of them looks and smile at me, while her friend talks to her excitedly. She turns around twice more once she passes me by. I smile back until I remember why I'm here. Even though she's not here for me, I don't think it's a good idea to have her catch me flirting with other girls as I wait for her. I take my eyes off the girl's ass and notice another girl sitting on the sidewalk outside the café on the other side of the road. She's got purple hair. No, blue. No, a little bit of both. She's wearing mirrored shades and a Misfits t-shirt and I got the feeling there's a nice pair of boobs under that skull. I watch her as she lights up a cigarette and she notices me right when she's putting the lighter back in her pocket. At least, that's what I think, I can't really tell because of those sunglasses, I can just assume where she's looking at. And I think she's looking at me. Actually, I think she's staring. Can't I just stop it?! The girls stands up straight away, throws a dark backpack on her shoulder and looks left and right before crossing the road. She gets closer and smiles and I look around hoping that Angie won't show up right now and see me approaching a girl. Even though now it's the girl who's approaching me. Why do I have to get girls even when I don't want to?

“I should have known that, among everybody, Susan would have called you” the unknown girl complains and she's not unknown anymore.

“ANGIE?!” to say that I'm surprised would be an understatement. I didn't get any girls and I'm an asshole.

“Were you waiting for someone else?” she takes off her big shades, revealing her frowny expression  I'm crazy for and I'm instantly brought back to the time when we were together.

“What... what the fuck did you do to your hair?” it's the first thing that comes up to my mind to tell her. Good job, Jerry, you're great at handling conversations with ex girlfriends.

“I wanted to change a little” she shrugs.

“And you call this a little! You cut it all!” I grab her arm unceremoniously and have her turn around to examine the length of her hair, thinking that maybe she just cut it on the front. No. She had at least half of her mane cut.

“It's not like I'm bald”

“I can't believe it, your beautiful hair...” I whine inconsolably as I hold one lock of hair and look at it miserably.

“Don't exceed with compliments, huh? Or I'm gonna end up building castles in the air, you know” she says ironically. But is she really ironic? What does she mean with castles in the air? That she'll end up thinking I still like her? Because I do. I like her a lot, even with a bad haircut.

“You look fine, Angie. It's just I don't really like this hair style, I can't lie”

“Really? Since when?” she gives me a sneering grin and I feel it's only the first of many direct shots I'm gonna get from her for this couple of days. I must say I'm glad to let her shoot me if this means I'm gonna spend some time with her again.

“I should have seen this one coming”

“You don't even like the color?” why is she asking me if I like it? Why should she be interested?

“I like blue, whereas purple... meh... Anyway, the length is the main problem” I'm such a jerk.

“It's more practical this way,” she explains gathering up her hair with her hands and tying them back with a scrunchie “especially when it's hot”

“It's not even that hot, it's just that we're used to Seattle, wet cold simply penetrated our bones” I'd have never imagined to find myself here in San Diego with Angie, talking about the weather, but I'm so happy right now that it seems I have been wanting this for ever.

“Yeah, there's a big temperature difference. I'm gonna get ill as soon as I'm back in Seattle, I know, but it doesn't matter”

“It was worth it, wasn't it?” I point at the van and gestures for her to follow me.

“Hehe yeah, that's for sure” she chuckles. She's laughing. And I didn't even have to make an effort for her to do it. I hope I won't be the one building castles in the air. Maybe it's too late though.

“Anyway, she called Layne” I tell her after a long silence break I didn't mind, also because I filled it by turning the radio on immediately.

“What?”

“Susan. She called Layne's room, I was there by pure chance and picked up the phone”

“Lucky me” she sarcastically remarks looking outside the window.

“Fate likes to play from time to time” just like this moment, when they announce It's love by King's X on the radio.

“Who are you sharing your room with then?”

“Uhm?” such an underrated band.

“I thought you were staying with Layne. You're with Sean, right? You wouldn't stand Mike for too long”

“Don't underestimate me, I've known Mike for ages and I can stand him easily. And when I can't bear him anymore, I know how to make him shut up”

“You're with him then” why is she so interested in my accommodation?

“No”

“Kinney? I told you”

“Actually, no”

“So you've got your own room like real rockstars?” she looks at me and giggles and I can't believe it because the last times our eyes met before today she looked like she was going to puke at best.

“No, I... I'm not staying here with the guys. Well, I haven't been here in the last few days”

“And where were you?”

“In L.A.”

“By yourself? With friends? Wait, with a female friend, right?” her smile is replaced to her well known nauseated grimace.

“Well, yeah, you guessed it right”

“Knowing you, it wasn't that difficult” she shakes her head and I figure out that if I don't explain myself I'll fuck up our conversation, which has been going pretty well up to now.

“It's not what you think though...”

“I don't think anything” she bitterly snaps back and she looks like she's thinking a lot of things, very bad things of course.

“She's a friend in need”

“It's none of my business, Jerry”

“It's Xana”

“Xana... isn't that the name of-”

“Andy's girlfriend”

“Oh. Is she in Los Angeles now?”

“Yep. And... she's not doing very well” I use an euphemism. It's almost been a year and things only get worse. She can't find peace in herself, honestly I think she's not even looking for peace. It's like she didn't think it could be possible for her, like she wanted to suffer, even though she always shows her tough side and hides her weakness. I don't like the direction her life has taken.

“I see”

“And to me she's like a sister, nothing else”

“You don't have to justify yourself, really”

“Ok, but I wanted to explain all the same”

“You don't need to explain to me that you're a nice guy, Jerry, I already know that”

“Do you?” is she really telling me a nice thing?

“I do, you're the one who tends to forget it, a little too often”

“Ah. Well, yeah, it can be...” it's not really happening “I'm not an asshole then?”

“Sure as hell you are, but it's just masking”

“Like undercover policemen?”

“Exactly, you're one of those who've just commited too much to the role”

We get to Point Loma area in half an hour, probably the faster thirty minutes of my life. I wish it  lasted much longer.

“We're almost there”

“Thank god! It's too hot in this van” she remarks leaning her head a little more out of the open window.

“As soon as we become rich and famous, we'll buy one with air conditioning, I promise”

“Once you become rich and famous, you won't even remember what my name is” she jokes without turning to me and keeps on looking at the sea. Are you afraid I'll forget you? Only yesterday I thought you'd have willingly cut out the portion of her brain occupied by the memories about me with a box cutter if only it was possible, but now...

“I don't think so”

“SUNSET CLIFFS. They do surf in here I guess” Angie reads aloud the sign on the road that indicates the national park area.

“Yeah, Eddie often goes to a beach that's right next to the hotel. He's always subjecting us to psychological pressure and convinces us to follow him. Wanna bet we'll catch him there?”

Five minutes later we're on the road that leads to Rodeway Inn and I slow down so my passenger can inspect the coast and the waves as I drive.

“I can't really tell the figures in the middle of the water. He's not on the beach anyway”

“He must be in the water” I shrug as I park the van, then get out and jog to the other side to open her door while she's still looking outside the window.

“Thank you. Does Layne know I'm here? He didn't say anything to the others, did he?”

“Nah, he knows, but he also knows he must keep his mouth shut. I told him to gather everybody in the breakfast room with an excuse”

“Breakfast room?” sha asks taking her camera out of her backpack and hanging it around her neck.

“Yeah, well, a small room with four tables where it's impossible to sit down and you gotta eat while you're standing up” I explain as we walk close to each other and if on one hand it seems unbelievable, on the other hand it seems the most natural thing to me, as if we never stopped being like this and talk and relate to each other this way.

“It's normal for musicians to get up late and have breakfast at 3:00 in the afternoon anyway, nobody would suspect anything”

“Hi guys!” I enter the room and see my bandmates plus Stone and Jeff engaging in a game, whose rules I immediately understand: if you throw the paper ball right into the bread basket in the centre of one of the tables, the other guy drinks a shot of Jameson. I guess the true point of the game is not to be thrown out of the hotel.

“Hey Jer, did you know Mike has bad aim?” Stone, who's perfectly sober like all the others minus one, makes fun of my bass player, who's clearly putting on a show.

“That ball is rigged I think, it takes weird turns” Starr mumbles.

“I think it's your brain cells that are taking alternative ways and now they're lost” Sean laughs and nudges him so hard he almost makes him fall off the chair.

“Aw come on, do you have to embarrass me right now that I've brought a girl with me” I try and play my part, but Mike's trying hard to make me give myself away and fuck this whole surprise up.

“She's right outside, she'll be here in a minute”

“Anyway, if she's dating you, she's already expecting the worse anyway, she won't get shocked” Stone goes on and I foretaste his reaction when Angie's gonna get into the scene and he'll think I was playing an act, not knowing that she dated me for real.

“Well, let her decide though” I say the words we agreed before, the signal for her to get into the scene.

“OH. MY. GOD!” the first to start screaming is Jeff, I don't know if it's for the surprise to see her here of for her hair, or both. Stone, although he's already used at Jeff's behaviour, finds his reaction to an average girl I hit on a little too much, so he gets closer and tries to understand who's the mysteroius girl now imprisoned into the bassist's bear hug. All this enthusiasm starts looking exaggerated to me too now.

“Hi Angie. California has strange effects on you, am I wrong?” Gossard finally recognises her as soon as Jeff lets her go and seems really calm, although I know he's screaming internally, mostly because he's just won the bet.

“Really? I can't explain, I was normal when I left, as soon as I landed in San Diego my hair turned shorter and colored by itself. Do you think I should be worried about it?” Angie jokingly wraps a lock of hair around her finger.

“Nah, it's totally normal, I found myself with dreadlocks as soon as I got here” Layne says when it's his turn to say hello to her.

“Hey Angie! You look good anyway, you look... you look older” Sean is about to stretch his hand, then notices he still holds the game ball in it. He puts it in his pocket then shakes Angie's hand.

“Angie! Heeeeeeeey!” Mike has a stupid smile I don't really like plastered on his face and hardly keeps his eyes open, but it looks like he saw Angie pretty well.

“Is this supposed to be the effect of California on him?” Angie gives him a pitiful look as he tries to stand up from his chair.

“No, this is the effect of games he suggests himself” I answer and I'm sure I'm not wrong.

“Did you come here all alone?” the bass player asks searching with his eye for someone else behind Angie.

“Well, yeah, the delegation of fans from Seattle has only one member due to circumstances beyond our control” she explains kind of embarrassed.

“That's so much better! It's a perfect chance to get to know each other a little more” Starr puts his arm around her neck and I'm about to do the same to him, only clenching much tighter. What is this jerk trying to do?

“It's rather a chance to have you get to know some of us...err... in a different light” Jeff speaks before me and lifts up Mike's arm letting her free from the drunktard's grip.

“A... vintage light!” Stone adds and reminds me about the bet itself. I have to choose between cop and cowboy.

“What do you mean?” Angie looks at us one by one, but we know better than tell her anything, even Mike keeps his mouth shut.

“No, darling. You surprised us, now it's your turn. Wait and see” Layne somehow grabs our bass player on his shoulders and makes him sit back down in his place.

“Talking about surprises... I've already had one, but I can't see the responsible” Angie looks around as she places her backpack on one of the tables and opens it, searching for something.

“Eddie's on the beach. Responsible for what?” Jeff asks confused, immediately guessing who Angie was referring to, while she takes a sip of water from the bottle she took from her bag.

“Hehe he got me in trouble”

“WHAT?!” Starr yelps out of the blue making all of us jump, but he doesn't have the chance to say anyhing else, since Angie explains the misunderstanding with Vedder about the concert date.

“So I'll have to change my initial plans a little” she states, gesticulating with the water bottle still in her hand.

“Don't worry, we're gonna find a solution” Layne tries to reassure her with a pat on her back.

“Anyway Eddie's at Ocean Beach with his friend Craig” Ament explains pointing at an indefinite space outside the balcony door.

“Is it far from here?” she asks putting the backpack back over her shoulder.

“Nah, a five minute walk, I can take you if you want” I suggest jokingly stealing the water bottle from her hands. Maybe I'm pushing too far, right?

“Thanks, I'm gonna go and tell him off. See you, guys”

“Oh yeah, tell him, just... tell him everything, ok?” Stone says bye with his usual stupid grin. What did he mean? Oh well, 80% of Stone's jokes makes no sense, the other 20% is simply not funny, so why should I make an effort to understand?

We leave and walk from the hotel straight to the waterfront, in silence, alone again, finally.

“No wetsuits though” she says after a while.

“What? Who?”

“I mean, some people have them, but not everybody. The water must be warm” she goes on, watching surfers riding waves.

“Or maybe they're just crazy”

“Did you try?”

“Yes, I told you Eddie can be very convincing”

“Hehe I know”

We get to the point where you gotta descend, we turn left into the narrow lane that leads to the staircase to the beach. I let Angie walk ahead and she goes quickly down the stairs, looking back from time to time to check if I'm still following her. She keeps on smiling at me and I'm starting to think that maybe she's on drugs, that California has a strange effect on her and not just on her hair, that the hair dye intoxicated her or that maybe it's not Angie, but some lookalike, a robot that took her place and now smiles at me. Halfway through the stairs she stops, she leans against the railing and just stays there apparently enjoying the view, than takes a picture of it with her camera. I see her snapping shot after shot, as I take this mental picture of her, so happy as I haven't seen her in a while. At a certain point, I see a big smile widening behind her camera, which she promptly puts down.

“I think I found the surfer” she explains resuming the quick walk down the stairs.

“Did you see him?”

“Yep, he's with another guy. Does Craig have blonde hair and a soul patch?” she asks without turning back.

“Yeah, that's him” I answer, but Angie's already on the beach and probably doesn't even hear me. Yeah, that's him I repeat to myself as I focus on the two guys walking towards us dragging surboards. When I set foot on the sand, Eddie's already left his friend and his board behind and he's quickly walking to meet Angie. No, actually he's running.

“I can't believe it!” I hear it exclaim and this is when I finally see it. I see what I hadn't seen untile now, because it wasn't there or because I didn't notice it, because I was looking for it in the wrong place, I looked everywhere but there, with him... or maybe because deep inside I knew it was right there and didn't want to see it. I see the way they run at each other, the way they look at each other, how they move, how they play and joke. Eddie shakes his wet hair splashing Angie, who laughs and tries to protect herself. I'm a few steps away now, but it's like I'm far light years from them. Eddie nods at me and Craig waves at me, I don't know if they also said something, I can't hear anything, it's like I'm not here, maybe it's because I shouldn't be here, with them.

“I think I'll head back to the hotel” I hear myself say at some point, the sentence must have come out automatically.

“Hey, tell the guys the bet will be paid tonight, ok?” Eddie says, as if I cared at this point.

“Hahaha I can't wait!” I blatantly lie to hide my disappointment.

“Can you please tell me what is this bet about?” she huffs.

“You'll know when the moment comes” Eddie retorts getting his surf board back from his friend's hands.

“Ok I'm gonna go then” I say again, I don't wanna stay here with these two lovebirds another minute.

“Bye Jerry, and thank you” Angie smiles at me again and I finally figure out why she can do it now: the truth is she just doesn't care anymore.

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“Big Audio Dynamite are not bad, I like them” Eddie says coming out of the water.

“They're too experimental for my taste” I grab my board and follow Eddie along the water's edge.

“Experimenting is good”

“You know I prefer rougher sounds”

“Angie?” that name comes out from nowher, I look in the same direction as Eddie's eyes.

“Your girlfriend? Where?”

“No, I thought I just... no, nothing” Eddie shakes his head and keeps walking.

“We've been under the sun for too long if you start hallucinating”

“Shut up, Craig”

“Or maybe you're just so much into this Angie girl you see her everywhere”

“They're about to release a new album anyway”

“It could be a close race in the charts for your band and them then”

“Yeah, sure”

“When is your album coming out anyway? In June?”

“August, if everything...”

“If everything what? Goes well?” I ask him but when I turn around to talk to him I notice he's not next to me anymore, he's a few steps behind me.

“I can't believe it” he mumbles to himself.

“I know what you mean, this project is surely more ambitious than Bad Radio. And from what I heard it's not bad at all and-” I walk back towards him, but my friend leaves his trusted board on the sand, dribbles me and walks away, slowly at first, then very quickly. It takes me a while to notice the other figure, a female one, walking as quickly in the opposite direction, running right towards him. A short girl with colorful hair, a Misfits t-shirt, jeans, backpack and some serious professional camera hanging around her neck. What if...

“I can't believe it!” he repeats aloud then his running ends up right in mystery girl's arms. Well, maybe she's not that mysterious after all.

“Eddie!” the girl protests as he picks her up.

“I love your hair, it looks so good on you!” he remarks putting her back down, but still holding on to her hips, and now I can only pick Romeo's board up from the sand and drag it together with mine as I join the new found lovers.

“Thank you”

“I can't believe you really came”

“You annoyed me so much about this that I had to”

“That was my exact purpose.” Eddie takes her hands and laces his fingers with hers “You're beautiful”

“How long have you been under the sun, Eddie?” she lets go of one hand and place hers on his forehead.

“I told him it's about fucking time to rest in the shade a little. Anyway, nice to meet you, I'm Craig” I let the boards fall on the sand and shakes the girl's hand so that she's forced to let go of Eddie's one.

“Hi I'm Angie”

“I supposed so”

“I can't believe it, you're actually here, for real” Eddie repeats like a broken record and hugs her again.

“I swear until a minute ago he could say other words too, you know. I don't know what's got into him, I have suspects though”

“Hehe, come on, Eddie, stop it! You're getting me all wet!” Angie complains and it takes all my strength and self control not to say anything, no jokes, no double entendre, nothing.

“Oops sorry” Eddie abruptly lets her go, then starts vigorously shaking his head left and right just like dogs do as they get out of the water, spreading droplets of sea water everywhere.

“Hahaha you're an idiot, stop it!” Angie covers herself with her hands, then uses her backpack as a shield.

“When did you get here? And how?”

“A couple of hours ago, by plane, then I got a ride here” Angie turns around and points at Jerry, that I only see now, standing a little further on the beach, and who says hi nodding his head.

“So you're the famous Angie, I finally get to know you” I chime into the little comfortable silence between the two of them where I felt like I was in the way.

“Famous? What do you mean?” Angie frowns a little.

“Well because Eddie often told me about you, I mean sometimes, you know, he mentioned a couple of interesting things and I was curious to meet you in the flesh” as I go on I try and reduce the amount of times Eddie talked about Angie, also because my friend is giving me bad looks.

“Interesting?”

“And then, let me tell you, pictures just don't do you justice, you're much cuter in person” Eddie clearly needs to wake up a little. He clearly doesn't do anything to hide his interest towards Angie, but at the same time he's as blatantly not able to act practically and do something. So there's only two things a friend like me can do to help him: A) just bitching him out in front of Angie about how he's so into her and everything and basically throwing him into her arms; B) jokingly flirting with Angie a little to make him jealous. I think I'm gonna test both techniques at the same time for the moment, let's see what works better.

“PICTURES? WHAT PICTURES?!” she asks alarmed and when Eddie gives me a nasty look I know I hit the nail right on the head.

“What pictures? Uh yeah, maybe I had a couple of polaroids from the show at the Moore with me, I took a lot of pictures, you know, to try the new camera”

“I think I'll head back to the hotel” Jerry interrupts Eddie's clutching at straws for a moment.

“Hey, tell the guys the bet will be paid tonight, ok?” Eddie told me about this bet that, if I remember well, was right about Angie. But I think he's only suddenly interested in the bet 'cause he wants to drop the subject and not 'cause he can't wait to spend the night dancing 70s disco music.

“Hahaha I can't wait!” remarks Jerry, who must be part of the losing team.

“Can you please tell me what is this bet about?” she asks rolling her eyes and puffing.

“You'll know when the moment comes” Eddie doesn't give in, he points at his surf board at my feet and I give it back to him.

Jerry goes away and now I'm officially the only one left third-wheeling for them.

“Anyway, I should punch you” she threatens him suddenly.

“Don't get sore over a little thing like that, you'll find out tonight”

“Not for that.” Angie gets closer to Eddie, and to me as a consequence, and slaps my friend on his shoulder. Are those eyelids so naturally long? Is it mascara?

“Ouch!” Eddie complains, but he doesn't look unhappy to me.

“This is for the light bulb”

“What light bulb?” I ask perplexed.

“It's a long story” Eddie cuts it short. What the hell are these two doing?

“And this is for making me mess up today” she adds with another slap on Eddie's hand.

“Mess up? What do you mean?”

Angie explains the misunderstanding about the date and Eddie suddenly feels the urge to try sand baths and bury himself.

“Fuck, Angie, I'm sorry! I'm an asshole”

“Ok, it doesn't matter, it means I'll stay here one more day”

“I'm sorry. I mean, I'm not sorry you'll stay longer, I mean, I'm glad you're with me, with us, I'm sorry because I caused you trouble, in general” Eddie suddenly forgets how to talk.

“Well, since it's all your fault, now you have to help her, that goes without saying” I come in with the best assist Eddie could wish for.

“Sure! I'm gonna take you to the airport first so you can solve the tickets problem”

“I can go by myself Eddie, you don't need to”

“The fuck you're going by yourself! And then you'll obviously be my guest, you can stay with me these days”

“With you? Do you think the hotel will add one more bed? How much is a room instead? Anyway, I'll need to pay and I didn't bring much money with me, I could give it back to Kelly as soon as you get back to Seattle, that's if he accepts to lend me some. If he doesn't I should have s-”

“Angie, stop. You don't need to borrow anything, Eddie's not staying at the hotel, he's got his place here” I point out way before Eddie opens his mouth.

“Your place?”

“Yeah, it's not far from here. It's small but there's a lot of room” Eddie finally says something after he let me do all the work.

“And surely there's room for Angie, right Eddie?” I elbow my friend, who must be hating me right now.

“Of course there is... Only if you want, of course”

“Well, considering my situation, you've just made me an offer I can't refuse” Angie accepts and I wasn't expecting anything different.

“Great! So here's the plan: we go take the car, take Craig home, then go to my place, I'll have a shower, you can rest a little, put away your stuff, freshen up, have a shower too, get a bite to eat, whatever you want, then we'll head to the airport and solve the problem I created, ok?” Eddie's just become a chatterbox and I'm quite impressed by the number of words he's just pronounced.

“Mmm I can walk home anyway, I live just a stone's throw away from here” I count myself out immediately, he hasn't seen the girl for weeks and I think it's better to leave them alone as soon as possible.

“Are you sure?” Eddie politely asks, but his eyes are already silently thanking me and kicking me away.

“Yeah, don't worry. Bye Angie, it was a pleasure.” I take her hand and kiss her palm and at this point I expect Eddie to kick me for real “See you tonight, for the bet”

“Ah you're in this too?” she questions as I let go of her hand.

“I wouldn't miss it for the world. See ya tonight guys!” I walk away, then stop a few steps ahead, torn between climbing up the stairs or following the path further on. I choose the stairs, turn around for a second and there's already no trace of Angie or Eddie anymore. Eh my friend, both Angie and I  laid perfect cards for you on the table, I hope you'll play them right.

[bereite-dich-zu-leben]

Di, 23. Mai 2017 | 21 Uhr

Konzerthaus Berlin, Großer Saal

BRAHMS Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 1 d-moll op. 15

Peter Serkin | Klavier

Curtis Symphony Orchestra

Osmo Vänskä | Dirigent