#one of the 28 actors we have here in britain)

[ssaalexblake]

it's funny bc, i was thinking about that letter baby peter capaldi wrote about wanting to be an actor to help the doctor when he got older, and how when he was the doctor they dug it up again.

Then I thought how, it's unlikely anybody born somewhere between like 85-95 would ever have that happen to them bc said sentiments would probably have been posted online when tweens or teens, and people born between said years were taught the dangers of the internet and would have been conscious of anonymity.

Then i thought how, people born after that in the years of facebook's normalisation campaign to have you put your whole name and face and personal details online means that we've probably sprung right back round to being able to dig up stuff said as children or teenagers and say it on tv.

I know i, on one of my 'you'd never know it was me bc i practiced internet safety' accounts, when i was 14, spoke about loving doctor who on the internet. Was probably obnoxiously 14 and sappy about it. Would bother me if it got out. Account still exists. I could become the next doctor and you'd never know, though.

[littleladymab]

Cast Introduction/WIP Q&A - Knights of the Round Table

I've been tagged in several memes from @mysticstarlightduck and so here's a cast introduction (well, half the cast) for KNIGHT LITE (as we affectionately call it). This is a project that @bottlingsound and I have been leaving in the back pocket since like, 2010. Just recently we suddenly started working on it in earnest and we have having a BLAST.

The memes I'm responding to from Anya are an OC Picrew and the OC Fun Facts! The Picrew can be found here.

This post will also count as an open WIP Q&A Invitation for you to ask us about this project and the characters (even Arthuriana that we don't have listed here, because YES we do have an Arthur and Merlin we just have to find a picrew that does old people). Please ask us about our blorbos and this project!!

Project Summary: (as written by Cara!)

The original roundtable defeats the Nine Witches of Caer Lloyw, nightmare beings of warfare and magic who terrorized and ravaged Britain, unknowing that they had since been cursed. They are doomed to tear themselves and their world apart. This ended the first time with the roundtable turning on itself. They are reborn again and again, and they have spent lifetimes mostly apart, but they are always doomed by their circumstances. Now in 2024, the knights are drawn together again in Los Angeles. The more of them that are together, the more terrible monsters begin appearing. The knights must first discover who is behind the disasters and then break the cycle!

Meet our Knights of the Round Table beneath the cut!

Dakota Avery

Percival

31 | They/Them | Film Tech

Born in Oxnard but moved down to LA with their mom when their parents split at the end of their Sophomore year in HS. Moved in with their grandparents, aunt, and two cousins. 

Met Bridgette in the drama club in their new HS. Wouldn’t exactly say they became instant best friends, but she was the easiest person for them to get along with. 

Loves to surf. Learned when they were very young, and has kept up with it through everything. Over the summer, if they don’t have early set call times, they’ll always make an effort to go out in the mornings for a few hours. 

A huge fan of the Lord of the Ring movies because they are “a masterpiece in filmmaking”. Will watch the extended edition special features constantly, and has movie marathons with Bianca.

Has been told frequently they have a “face that cameras love”, but they got over the desire to be on stage after high school and focused a lot on theater tech through college. They love the production side of things, and making sure others can shine. And also ensure that sets have decent lighting. 

Always has the right ‘fit for the occasion no matter the weather or the vibe. They have gone to several production sales but also just know lots of people in costuming and are always owed a favor by one person or another. 

Will always be stocked up on excellent homemade food after they visit their family, but when left to their own devices, it’s dumplings, dino chicken nuggets, and rice. And kimchi. They also have the local thai and bibimbap places on speed dial. 

Hard kombucha person through and through, though if that’s not available then it’s beer or extremely fruity cocktail. 

Favorite color is chartreuse (they’re mid on the liqueur tho)

Song: "Hungover in the City of Dust" by Autoheart

Bridgette Blum

Kay

28 | She/Her | Disneyland Character Actor / Summer Camp Counselor

Born in Salem, OR and spent her childhood there. When her parents passed away in an accident, she and her sister were taken in by their aunt Imogen. She’s lived in Los Angeles since was 14 and definitely prefers it for her chosen career path.

Originally met Dakota in High School when they were in drama club together. She was definitely not okay after losing her parents, and acting has always been a healthy outlet for her. She enjoys the spotlight.

Also enjoys LARPing. She currently works at Disneyland as a character actor, usually playing either Tinkerbell or Chip, but she takes time to work at a LARP camp in the summer. She loves working and being silly with kids.

Barely got through college, because it just wasn’t for her. She has an Associates degree in Theatre Arts.

Would regularly get into fights in Elementary School, but she got better at not immediately jumping people who bothered her. However, talk shit and get hit. She will absolutely still fight you if you stir the pot.

Taught Bianca how to throw a punch and gave Bianca one of her old IDs. She figures that if Bianca is going to get into any trouble, she might as well be well prepared

Has a stuffed chicken in her car named Sir Robin.

One word: tequila. No further notes.

Favorite color is orange.

Song: "Haunted House" by Sir Babygirl

Logan Carver

Agravain

27 | He/Him | Tech Startup CEO

Originally from the Silicon Valley area where his parents work in the tech industry.

Went to UCLA and majored in Business Economics. He has been into cryptocurrencies since the beginning and continues to brag about his success on the crypto market. He went on to create his own business, a new tech startup. He’s the CEO and the “ideas” guy.

Had studied Mandarin briefly in college and will tell people he can speak it, but he absolutely can’t beyond simple phrases. He also cannot read it.

Likes his steaks well-done and does not like sushi.

Drives a Tesla because it is much better for the environment, but he refuses to use public transport.

Has been dating Gael on and off for 6-7 years. Has occasionally dated other men, but they have been much less willing to stick around for long.

Plays tennis and golf every now and then, but prefers snowboarding over other sports. His parents have a second house in Tahoe where he enjoys going on vacation.

Claims to have several celebrity friends who he’s invited to parties on his yacht.

Will drink anything that gets him shitfaced, but prefers to bring out the top-shelf liquor when he’s trying to impress someone.

Favorite color is black, he thinks he’s really cool for that.

Song: "The Prayer" by Bloc Party

Gael Ingram

Mordred

25 | He/They | Museum Curator

Born in Colorado and spent a lot of his childhood going to different national parks, and fell in love with archeology that way. He wanted to dig up dino bones when he got older! 

Went to UCLA intending to get into paleontology, but took a class on archeology in ancient civilizations and decided to switch his area of focus. Now he wants to dig up old roman streets! Got his Bachelors in history and a masters in archeology and museum studies. 

Loves hiking, camping, and skiing, which he did a lot of at home in Colorado when growing up. Doesn’t have many opportunities in SoCal, though he would always take the opportunity to go to Tahoe with Logan for the sake of being in snow (even if it’s more often snowboarding than skiing).

Currently working at the Getty (more at the Villa) for a year or two before he’s thinking about going back to get a Doctorate. Would love to go work on a dig site, but for now is content with the museum side of things. 

Has been dating Logan off and on for close to 7 years. Has never had any real serious relationships outside of that, often claiming that he’s too busy with school to really give it a go. Resorts mostly to the occasional hookup or a dinner date here and there via apps.

Loves vodka-based drinks/cocktails. When he’s feeling fancy he’ll go for a vodka martini; when he’s feeling the opposite of fancy he’ll knock back some shots. 

Favorite color is dark green

Song: "Second Child, Restless Child" by The Oh Hellos

Joseph Liam Barker

Galahad

22 | He/Him | Paralegal / Studying for LSAT

Alternated between Scotland and France while growing up, though all of his schooling took place in Scotland to make it easier. 

Was made a Prefect his last two years in school; could have made Head Boy but rejected the nomination. Did act as a Deputy Head Boy, though, to help with assemblies and fundraisers, student committees and community projects, etc. 

Speaks fairly fluent French though he is out of practice. People in Scotland think he talks with a French accent, people in France think he has a Scottish accent, people in America just think he’s British. He doesn’t bother to correct them. 

Got a degree in medieval history at University of Edinburgh, much to his mother’s delight, then decided he wanted to go into law, much to his father’s delight. 

He is either the best or worst person to watch any period dramas with. He’s not going to pick on the costuming (too much, he didn’t study historical fashion) but he will absolutely comment on other historical notes. 

Was named Joseph because of Joseph of Arimathea. You can imagine how confused he was when he found out he was Galahad; he wondered for a long time if his mom knew, but she was just being a medievalist and thought it was a good name. Decided to start going by Liam when he was 15 because there were two other Josephs in his school year. 

Loves kids a lot and enjoyed his duties as a Prefect in school that let him interact with all the younger students or kids in the community. He doesn’t know if he would want to be a father, but he’ll at least accept cool uncle duty (which is made harder by not having any siblings of his own).

While he does enjoy a good Scotch, he prefers wine. His mother is horrified by this concept and blames his father/the French. He has signed up to a wine of the month club once moving to LA, though he has yet to go on any winery tours. He has never had a cocktail in his life. 

Favorite colors are gold and dark green

Song: "Tell Me How It Ends" by David Wirsig

Mateo Canul

Lancelot

21 | He/Him | Chicano Studies Major / Disneyland Jungle Cruise Attendant

Is a third generation Mexican American, born and raised as a laidback SoCal jock in the Inland Empire. He enjoys football, soccer, and skateboarding. He had a few hackysacks at one point, but his older brother ended up with most of them.

Middle child of the family with three older siblings and three younger. Half of his wardrobe is hand me downs by choice, having either asked or sneakily taken clothing items from his older siblings. He enjoys to thrift for clothes, but he also loves getting himself a new hoodie or hat every now and then.

Originally decided on UCLA because he wanted to play football for the Bruins. Despite some occasionally bad choices, he’s not a bad student and does maintain a high enough GPA for his scholarship requirements. He hasn’t settled on a future career, but wants to use his degree to support his community somehow.

Is absolutely a member of a fraternity and is a typical frat boy in many ways. He’s charming, outgoing, and someone who will and can make friends with absolutely anyone. Though he doesn’t actually date often, he’s also a notorious flirt.

Raised Catholic, but he stopped going to church as soon as his parents stopped making him.

LOVES telling really lame jokes both as a result of his part time job and a genuine desire to make other people smile. His infectious charm helps him get away with it.

Enjoys swimming and will never turn down a trip to the beach or a lake!

Not picky about drinks, but he really prefers IPAs over other beers. He usually has zero opinion on wine, but does enjoy sangria.

Favorite color is blue.

Song: "C'mon C'mon" by The Von Bondies

Temple Rhee

Gawain

20 | She/Her | Photography Major / Disneyland Photographer

Named after Shirley Temple, her grandmother’s favorite movie star. Her family will always call her Temple, but she prefers Temmy.

Is a second generation Korean American, and undeniably Texan having been born and raised in Sugar Land, Texas. She speaks with a Texan accent, she loves cowboys and barbecue, and she will argue that the Houston Texans are the best football team even when they are losing. She owns several pairs of cowboy boots in different colors.

Was and is decidedly an outgoing horse girl. She never owned a horse, but did take riding lessons when she was young and still tries to go riding whenever she can.

Bounced between Taekwondo and Hapkido lessons from ages 6 to 17, and really loved it. She finally quit to spend more time goofing off with friends during her senior year of high school and just never got back into it.

Did not want to go to college, but was coerced to do so by her parents and friends. She spent two years completing most of her general education courses at a community college before aimlessly settling on photography and transferring to UCLA to complete her degree. She’s not sure what she wants to do with her degree, but she’s happy with her major and her decision to transfer.

Likes taking photos and making really ugly scrapbooks. She has several cameras and has been gravitating toward polaroids more and more for scrapbooking purposes.

Before she knew she was Gawain, she thought she might have been a horse. She had no memories of being Gawain, but remembered things about the other knights, especially Lancelot.

Enjoys really terrible and cheap beer. Booze is booze, she will drink the things you do not want to drink.

Favorite color is green.

Song: "Even In the Dark" by Company of Thieves

Bianca Blum

Guinevere

19 | She/They | Mechanical Engineering Major

Originally born in Salem, OR, but doesn’t really remember it well. Their parents passed away after a bad accident, and she and her sister moved in with their Aunt Imogen when she was very young. She has lived most of her life in Los Angeles. She does think she’d like to move back to Oregon one day out of some sort of romanticized whimsy.

Created her first robot at 9 using a LEGO Mindstorms kit and used it to wake up Bridgette as a prank by having it repeatedly poke her. At 13 she started learning programming to restructure her Mindstorm into more of a nuisance.

Had difficulty choosing a college, but settled on UCLA when her aunt insisted she at least try to stay close to home. She had scholarships at better colleges, and has given more thought to completing her Masters degree at a different school after finishing her Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. She is on the Dean’s Honor list.

LOVES the lord of the rings and it was the highlight of her LIFE to go see them in theaters with Dakota and Bridgette this year (since she couldn’t when they first came out). Will have marathons with Dakota constantly.

Enjoys science fiction shows and films, especially Star Trek and Doctor Who. Dakota has also supplied them with many sci-fi cult classics to watch. Their favorite Star Trek captain is Janeway.

Is mostly a very responsible young lady, but she also enjoys her fair share of youthful adventures. She’s kept Bridgette’s old IDs so that she doesn’t get left out when her other nerdy college friends decide to go get an occasional drink or two.

Is a cider girl at heart, but she’s always happy with a good cocktail.

Favorite color is coral pink.

Song: "I am not a woman, I'm a god" by Halsey

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[charliethomascoxuniverse]

In the Footsteps of a Saint

FAITH TODAY：MAY 2011

Catholic actor Charlie Cox is making waves across the Atlantic – and he’s about to hit the cinemas in his native UK playing a saint in a new movie.

FAITH TODAY went to meet him.

How does it feel to be a saint?  That’s something no-one alive can ever really know, since sainthood is only acknowledged after death: but up-and-coming actor Charlie Cox knows more about it than most. Cox, 28, is the star of There Be Dragons, a new movie about the early life of St Josemaria Escriva, the Spaniard who founded Opus Dei.  So – given that he’s a Catholic himself - how did it feel to Cox to walk in a saint’s shoes, and to portray his holiness on screen?

What struck him most, says Cox, is that ‘there seemed to have been no single moment when Josemaria was saintly... instead, what people who knew him spoke about and wrote about was a lifetime of consistently good decisions and a dedication of his entire life to God’.  So in fact, he explains, portraying him meant being very human – and yet aware that decisions often had to be made that weren’t directed at other people, but were directed at God. Playing Josemaria is the latest step on a path that’s fast feeling like the road to the big-time: Cox first appeared on the showbiz radar in 2007 when he got the role of Tristan Thorne in the movie Stardust, and he went on to play the Duke of Crowborough in the ITV drama Downton Abbey.  And just a fortnight before we meet, he’s filmed his first episode of HBO’s prohibition drama Boardwalk Empire, the flagship programme of the new Sky Atlantic channel, in which he plays an immigrant from Northern Ireland with ties to the IRA.  Cox says he’s loving the part: Steve Buscemi, who recently won a Gold Globe award for his portrayal of Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson in the series, is one of his all-time heroes, and he can hardly believe his luck in being cast with him.

’Working with Steve feels amazing, I can’t believe how lucky I’ve been,’ he says, as we chat over coffee at a Madrid hotel on the morning of the premiere of There Be Dragons.  He jetted in this morning from New York – he’ll be there filming Boardwalk Empire through the summer and, he says, he can’t imagine a better way of spending the next few months. ‘They’re the nicest bunch of people – and everyone is so confident about how good the series is, so there’s a great buzz about it.’

Working on Boardwalk Empire has taken him a long way from his Sussex roots.  He grew up in Hearst Green, the son of publisher parents – and he was raised a Catholic, like his father, although he was educated at a non-Catholic independent school, Sherborne School in Dorset.  ‘Only about 70 out of 700 boys were Catholics. We had to get up early on a Sunday to go to Mass at a local girls’ school... it would have been easy to skive off it, but actually we never did.  I’ve always loved churches – even now, in a strange city, I’ll often wander around looking at churches.’ There was no history of acting in the family – bar a grandmother who had been at RADA before the second world war – but even as a youngster, Cox was smitten with the idea.  ‘My mum and dad had a fantastic attitude to it,’ he says.  ‘The school wanted me to go to university, play it in safe mode, have a back-up plan.  But my parents came to see me act, and afterwards my dad sat me down and he said: ‘I think you’d be a fool not to pursue this’.  And I don’t know whether I’d be here now if it hadn’t been for that one comment...’ Despite living in the US at the moment, and the fact that his parents spend most of their time these days in France, Cox says Britain will always be home – and he’s very close to his family.  He has a brother, and three half siblings from his father’s first marriage, and his parents have flown to see him in Madrid while he’s over for the premiere of There Be Dragons. After school, he spent a gap year working for a photographer – and even before he could take up a place at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he’d landed the role of Theo in the movie Dot the i.  ‘An agent took a punt on me and put me up for the part,’ he says.  ‘I’ve been incredibly lucky, and that was just one of my lucky breaks.’

But it’s not just luck – Cox is immensely likeable, and he’s obviously genuinely passionate about acting.  He’s also been smart enough to realise that he can learn a huge amount from more seasoned actors – so he saw acting alongside Robert de Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer in Stardust, for example, as a fantastic opportunity to soak up knowledge.  And he’s learnt lots more, too, from Roland Joffe, director of There Be Dragons, who was also the film-maker behind The Mission (about the early Jesuits in south America) and The Killing Fields (about the murderous Pol Pot regime in Cambodia), both of which were Oscar nominees.

‘I didn’t think twice about taking the part of Josemaria, and that was down to Roland,’ he says.  ‘He’s such a great director – he really understands the processes that actors have to go through to give their best.  I learnt so much from working with him.’

Given the subject-matter of There Be Dragons, Cox also spent time in the run-up to filming learning about Opus Dei, which has the status of a ‘personal prelature’ within the Catholic Church.  ‘I visited several Opus Dei houses, and I went on a retreat and had a lot of help from an Opus Dei priest, Fr John Wauck.’

Before he made the film, he admits, he’d never heard of Josemaria – and all he knew about Opus Dei was what he’d read in Dan Brown’s book The Da Vinci Code.  But researching Josemaria, he says, what struck him most was the saint’s humanity – and his ability, examined in the film, to forgive.  ‘It was an example I had to put into practice, because one day when we were filming I returned to my trailer to find someone had broken in and cleaned the place out completely,’ he says.  ‘They’d even taken my computer, and the charger, and even my clothes.’ ‘The following day I was due to film one of the big scenes in which Josemaria shows how he can forgive, and I remember thinking: this is really interesting.  And the thing is that I did manage to forgive the guy who nicked my stuff.’ ‘And what I realised, through that incident, was that – though we think of forgiveness as something very moral and impressive, it’s actually something that works totally in your own favour.  Because if you don’t forgive then you’re angry inside – and that anger doesn’t hurt the other person, but it really hurts you.’ Since filming finished for There Be Dragons, Cox has been working on another movie – Moby Dick, due to be released later this year – and now Boardwalk Empire.  It all suggests, I tell him, that fame – which he’s told previous interviewers frightens him – could be beckoning. ‘It’s tricky,’ he says, candidly.  ‘I’ve got friends who have gone on to extraordinary fame, and what I’ve realised through them is that it’s never quite as appealing as it promised to be. ‘On the other hand, like everyone else I want recognition.  I like people to think I’m good at what I do. That’s human nature, isn’t it?’

~*~

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

Eddie Redmayne on ‘Red,’ the Tonys, and Color Blindness

By BlackBook Published: June 3, 2010

At 28, Eddie Redmayne has perfected a look of fresh-faced innocence masking inner commotion. He’s invoked the expression for various roles, as the chilling young murderer Alex Forbes in Like Minds and as a downward-spiraling, matricide-committing homosexual opposite Julianne Moore in Savage Grace. On stage, he’s played the emotionally charged boy whose architect father falls in love with a goat in Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Redmayne keeps a copy of the play with him in his current dressing room at the Golden Theater, where he’s starring in the Tony Award-nominated play Red alongside Alfred Molina. Redmayne, who nabbed one of those noms himself (for Best Performance by a Featured Actor), plays another permutation of the plotting innocent—not a murderer, but no less intense as the fictional assistant to abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko (Molina). We caught up with the actor to discuss the fate of Rothko’s famous murals, his own color blindness, and what he’s wearing to the Tonys.

I saw the play last night and am still recovering. It was intense! How do you do it night after night? Well, last night I had some friends in so I ended up going for some drinks after and I woke up this morning with a slightly filthy hangover. So I punished myself by doing tax receipts.

What drew you to the play? I assume it had something to do with your background studying art in college. Well, the theater in [London’s] Donmar Warehouse where the play started is one of the great gems of theaters in the world, and Michael Grandage, who runs it, is a wonderful man. I’ve seen a lot of his work for many years, and I’ve worked at the Donmar before, but never under him. So when the idea of a two-handed play specifically about art—the idea that the arts matters—came up, it was one of those rare moments where everything that I was interested in and engaged in kind of collided, a wonderful little moment of fate. 

The play focuses on the murals Rothko painted for the Seagram building before he changed his mind about giving them up. A few ended up in the Tate Modern. Isn’t the museum naturally lit, which would seem to go against Rothko’s wishes? The story is that once he withdrew the commissions he had—I think it was 35 canvases— all the museums in the world wanted to get their hands them. So obviously, Rothko was very tentative about who he would give them to. And one of the guys was Sir Norman Reed, who was the curator of the Tate, and for ten years Norman Reed would swear to Rothko that they would build or create special rooms specifically for them at the Tate Britain—this was before the Tate Modern existed. The wall color would be as prescribed by Rothko, the lighting would be exactly as he wanted, and eventually Rothko agreed to that. So ten years after the end of the play, the same day that the Seagram murals arrived off the boat in London, Sir Norman Reed got a call that Rothko had been found by his assistant with his wrists slit. So the answer is that some of these murals, which were originally in the Tate Britain, are now in the Tate Modern in a room that is lit properly. 

Alfred Molina had source material to draw on as Rothko, but your character Ken is fictitious. Where did you find your inspiration? What’s interesting is subsequent to doing the play in America, I got a letter from a woman called Virginia Foster, who is the widow of a guy called Dan Rice, and he was Rothko’s assistant during the Seagram murals. And whilst the character is not based on him, Virginia sent me this transcript of him talking about working for Rothko. And weirdly, even though I’ve done the play in London and done it here, reading the transcript reinforced some of the character. But I approached it the way I approach any character—I see what’s in the text and flesh it out with references from life. And certainly, I’ve had experiences with elder actors and bosses in the past who I’ve had complex and tricky relationships with. 

There’s a scene where Ken is talking to someone on the phone, trying to decide whether to show Rothko his own paintings. Who was he talking to? That’s a very good question. I think it’s his girlfriend, and John Logan (the writer) thinks it’s his boyfriend. It remains a bone of contention between the two of us. 

You did your college dissertation on Yves Klein, who was a big advocate of blue. [Laughs] So this is the sequel.

As an art lover, do you have a color preference? The color that Yves Klein does. Wet paint has a luminosity that dies when it dries and it loses the gloss. So Yves created this color scientifically that retains that luminosity. He was a big showman, so he got it copyrighted. The color is called IKB—International Klein Blue. And it sounds all bullshit-y and ridiculous, but when you stand in front of those canvases, the color is sublime and dumbfounding. So that specific color is my favorite color in the world. Are you going to follow this up with a colorblind question?

No, wasn’t planning on it, but if you want to discuss it. No, I talk passionately about that color and then people go “but you’re colorblind.” And I go, “I know. I don’t know what I see but I see it and I like it.” 

You must have some confidence because you already have the Olivier award for this role. Are you nervous about the Tonys? Do you know what? It’s amazing how many award ceremonies there are in America. Am I nervous about the Tonys? Genuinely, the nomination was completely beyond anything I’ve ever thought about.

 You’re being so diplomatic. I wanted to ask who you consider to be your biggest competition. Frustratingly, one problem with doing plays here is that you don’t get to see anything because your schedule doesn’t allow it. But I’ve met all the guys and I’ve heard extraordinary things about Stephen in Fences and Stephen Kunken in Enron is meant to be wonderful. Do you have your outfit picked out? I do. A couple of years ago I did some work with Christopher Bailey who runs Burberry. I’m a huge fan of his so I’m going to be cut out in British Burberry. 

So what’s next? I see there’s something called The Pillars of the Earth? I’m actually really excited about it. It’s a huge epic medieval story that was a book by Ken Follett and it was one of Oprah’s favorite books and was subsequently a massive international bestseller. It’s being aired on the Starz network in July. It’s an 8-hour miniseries and I play this young boy who is mute and has grown up in the forest and who, over eight hours, becomes a master builder. So it’s about apprenticeship and craft and it’s also set in a historical time, with monarchs changing and war. What I’ve seen looks spectacular.

https://blackbookmag.com/archive/eddie-redmayne-on-red-the-tonys-and-color-blindness/

[stone-man-warrior]

April 24, 2021: 2:28 pm:

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Everyone who asks a question or makes a comment or death threat is “anonymous” here...

There is hope.

Hope is what remains after everything else is gone.

The answer I have for you is, the COVID virus is a global attack on the populations of the world, Screen Actor Guild drives the terror army. They are using news media as a weapon over the airwaves and internet on Twitter as a command post, news on Twitter is marching orders to the terror army, once the stories are decoded.

Beta Twitter preceded the current Twitter in 2008, Most of the news stories we are seeing now already were shown once before on Beta Twitter in Oregon, I don’t have information beyond Oregon about where Beta Twitter was available in 2008.

Corona Virus/COVID already happened in Oregon, on Beta Twitter.

Most of the Oregon population was killed as a result of Beta Twitter presenting news about the mysterious and deadly COVID and Corona Virus.

Prior to the roll out of Beta Twitter, there was a infrastructure project in Oregon that began in 1996 and lasted until 2006. The project was to replace all of the bridges and overpasses in Oregon, every freeway overpass, every river crossing, every foot bridge on every trail was removed and replaced. That infrastructure project served as a base on which the SAG/Britain/Canada offensive began killing large populations of people in Oregon. It was during that time, between 1996 and 2006 when the public schools were hijacked, most of the students killed, some taken as prisoner slaves, and the terror army installed their Canadian children into the schools. That school takeover was done when the teachers at the schools all became “Substitute Teachers”, at the schools where my children attended, we did not know what happened to the teachers, and the students at the elementary school were murdered while on field trips. Buses of children went to a wild animal park in Eugene area, and the buses came back empty. I was on a field trip along with the students when  the bus went to Table Rock on a field trip.

Two busloads of fourth graders were pushed over the cliff at Table Rock by men who went to the top of the Table Rock carrying sheets of plywood, they used the plywood as a wall and pushed all of the children over the edge. There were about thirty men, each with a piece of plywood as a bulldozer to kill little kids with.

I know who some of the men were.

So,are there any doctors left in USA?

Fuck, I don‘t know, but there is hope here in Oregon. nothing but hope.

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3:19 pm:

Don‘t get on the bus, never get on the bus.

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7:54 pm:

A walk to the mailbox was uneventful.

I don‘t like the cameras that Monroe terror cell has pointed at my driveway and gate all of the time. That one attached to the tree stump is still there in view, pointed at nothing other than my driveway.

The audible signaling was delayed. Usually the audible signal in the form of bird sounds and/or dogs barking begins the moment I step onto my front porch, but today the audible signaling did not begin until I had reached the mailboxes on the road, and was in the form of exotic bird call recordings played through a powerful amplifier.

There was no visible harassment from the Monroe’s today, that is unusual.

The audible signals came from two directions, from somewhere at Chartrand’s terror cell as per usual, and at the same time the same bird sounds came from south of the mailboxes, is unusual, not unheard of.

On the way back to my house, there was other bird calls, this time from Sunflower terror cell, and those may have been the actual, real peacocks making noise at that time.

Strange cars and activity at Freeberg terror cell at 535 Jackpine was observed.

(terror bastards are hijacking my computer now, they attack the keyboard. I am not able to type the words I want to use at the time I want to use them.)

There is no sign of any help.

My leg cramp was not as bad today. My spinal injuries are hurting today.

There was one newsprint style mailer in the mailbox, nothing more.

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8:17 pm:

remarkably, the swelling of my calf that occurs during a walk only lasted long enough to write the entry above, maybe 20 minutes total, that is good news for me. So now, shortly after the walk, there is absolute absence of any calf muscle swelling, and both legs are equal in size.

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Bible App’s Most Popular Verse of 2019: ‘Do Not Worry’ (CT) In 2019 YouVersion users read 35.6 billion chapters and listened to 5.6 billion chapters through its online and mobile Bible app. In all of this reading, Paul’s advice in Philippians 4:6 was the most shared, highlighted, and bookmarked verse of the year: “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.” The verse contains similar themes to YouVersion’s most popular verses in 2018, Isaiah 41:10 (“do not fear, for I am with you”) and 2017’s top verse, Joshua 1:9 (“do not be afraid; do not be discouraged”).

Trump’s war on the WTO (Foreign Policy) This week, the Trump administration is expected to further undermine the World Trade Organization’s system for enforcing its rules by blocking new members to the panel responsible for resolving disputes. That could lead to more tariff wars, like the one between the United States and China. Meanwhile, another tariff increase on Chinese goods is set to take effect this weekend.

That banana there (Foreign Policy) The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan made news last week for his work on display at Miami’s Art Basel: a single banana taped to wall, titled “Comedian” and worth $120,000. But on Saturday, a prankster took the banana off the wall and ate it. (The artwork came with specific instructions for replacing the banana.) It’s not the first time his art has been messed with: Earlier this year, a gold toilet made by Cattelan was stolen from an exhibition at Britain’s Blenheim Palace.

Finland’s new young female prime minister breaks the mold (AP) Finland’s next government is breaking the mold in multiple ways. Sanna Marin, the 34-year-old transport minister, was tapped over the weekend by the ruling Social Democratic Party to be Finland’s new prime minister. When she takes the reins of the country, most likely on Tuesday, she will become the world’s youngest sitting head of government. In another unusual development, Marin will head a coalition with four other parties that are all led by women--three of whom are in their early 30s.

Hungarians protest for artistic freedom (Reuters) Hungary’s government submitted plans to parliament on Monday to tighten its control over theaters, triggering protests from actors and audiences who feel that artistic freedom is under threat.

Russia banned from 2020 Olympics (Foreign Policy) The global agency that fights doping in sports unanimously decided to ban Russia from international competitions, including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup in Qatar. Moscow has three weeks to lodge an appeal. Individuals who can prove they are clean will be able to compete under an independent banner.

The Afghanistan papers (Foreign Policy) The U.S. government has misled the American public on progress in the war in Afghanistan for years, according to over 2,000 pages of documents obtained by the Washington Post. The documents include interviews from 400 U.S. officials and insiders from the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, revealing how senior officials hid evidence that the 18-year war was unwinnable and lauded U.S. efforts in Afghanistan in statements they knew were false. “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan--we didn’t know what we were doing,” said Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who was a White House envoy for Afghanistan under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and a former ambassador to NATO. “What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking,” he said.

Deadly India fire in one of thousands of illegal factories (AP) Day laborers in one of New Delhi’s most congested neighborhoods demonstrated against unsafe working conditions on Monday, a day after at least 43 people were killed in a devastating fire at an illegal factory there. Dozens of workers who were asleep when the fire broke out were trapped Sunday in the burning four-story building with little ventilation and only one exit. The building, zoned for residential use, had been clandestinely and crudely converted into a cluster of small factories in a pattern repeated in old and crowded areas across the city of 28 million.

Hong Kong Protests Hit Six Months (Foreign Policy/Reuters) Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday to mark six months of the movement, two weeks after pro-democracy candidates scored a landslide victory in local elections. The protest stretched for two miles, through the central business district and Causeway Bay. The turnout suggests that Hong Kong’s unrest will extend into next year, Bloomberg reports. Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s leader ruled out further concessions to protesters, days before she is to travel to Beijing for regularly scheduled meetings with Communist Party leaders.

Ferries Halted, Alarms Triggered as Sydney Choked by Bushfire Smoke (Reuters) Smoke from Australia’s fierce bushfires settled over Sydney in still conditions on Tuesday, setting off fire alarms, and halting ferry services as famous landmarks disappeared behind some of the worst haze seen in the harbor city.

11 Australians Missing, 13 Injured in New Zealand Eruption (AP) Australia’s prime minister said on Tuesday 11 Australians remained unaccounted for and 13 had been hospitalized after a volcano eruption in New Zealand.

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It was in the middle of the night, when movement next to me, woke me up. I turned around and saw Tom, his eyes wide and scared. “Tom?” His eyes found mine and he relaxed. Then he pulled me into his arms. His breathing was shaky while he tried to calm down. I also wrapped my arms around him, still confused what was going on. “What’s wrong?” “N-Nothing. Just a nightm- a nightmare.” I pulled him tighter against me and laid back down, pulling him on top of me. “Do you want to talk about it?” He didn’t answer and just continued to try and calm his breathing. When he opened his mouth, his voice was shaky and uneven. “It began after you were kidnapped. It’s always the same. Everything that has happened, happens again, but…b-but you die.” This didn’t surprise me. “I’ve had similar dreams. But in mine, you’re the one who dies.” He raised his head and frowned. “Really?” I nodded and smiled at him. “Really. I wouldn’t be able to take it of something happens to you.” He swallowed hard and nodded, before he laid his head back down on my chest. My fingers were combing through his hair when he raised his head again. “I never notice it when you have nightmares. How come?” I gently shrug and move a strand of hair behind his ear. “I guess, as soon as I feel your arms around me, I calm down. That’s all I need.” He nodded again. “Do you want to try and go back to sleep?” He nodded and moved off of me, but I quickly stopped him. “You can sleep here, if you want to.” Smiling, he pecked my lips, before he laid down on my chest and closed his eyes.

The next morning, Eileen told me that my grandma wanted to see me, so I quickly got ready after Tom and I ate breakfast. When I entered her office, I noticed a bunch of different strangers standing around and chatting. My grandma was sitting at her desk as usual and I walked over to her. “Oh, good. You’re here.” She stood up and I pecked her cheek before I turned around. “Who are those?” “Abi, those are people that will help you with your project. Britain’s leading psychiatrist, one of the best architects for clinical facilities, all sort of managers and representatives from hospitals. They volunteered to help you.” I had a huge grin on my face while my eyes swept over the people in front of me. With their help, this will work. I hugged my grandma and she told me that we could use one of the large meeting rooms to begin.

We held a short meeting, agreeing that we would visit the facility the next day, so that everyone could take a look at it and experience the conditions. Just when I said goodbye, Tom entered. He pulled me into his arms, smiling. “Your grandma told me what was going on. How’d it go?” I grinned. “Perfect! Those people are fantastic and with their help it will be a piece of cake!” “I’m proud of you.” He pressed his lips against mine in a passionate kiss, conveying all the love he held for me. I returned it with equal passion and we just stood in this large empty room, dwelling in each other’s love.

But before long, Tom pulled away and smirked at me. “What are you planning on doing now?” I shrugged. “Donno.” He chuckled and took my hand. “Well, I know something.” He walked me to my room, where we quickly gathered the basic stuff, someone would need if they go out and walked to the cars. Tom got into the driver’s seat and started the engine. We drove through London’s street, while listening to the radio until we finally stopped in a side alley. “Where are we?” Tom chuckled, but didn’t say anything. When I got out, he held a scarf up and I sighed, before I turned my back to him and he wrapped the scarf around my eyes. Then he took my hand and started to carefully led me somewhere. A few steps up and some down. Three turns to the right and one to the left. Three doors to open and go through and we finally arrived. “Keep your eyes closed.” He took the scarf off and I did keep my eyes closed.

“Okay, you can open them.” Bright, warm light met my eyes and I looked around. I stood on a wooden stage, I knew all too well and smiled. “The first time we met.” Tom was leaning against a wooden post and smirked at me. “Yeah. I remember when I saw you up there…I forgot everything…” “Yeah.” I chuckled. “You forgot your lines.” He too began to chuckle while he walked up to me. “Don’t laugh. It was worth it.” Carefully, he moved a strand of hair behind my ear, before he leaned down and pecked my lips. When he pulled away, his lips started moving.

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;

Doubt thou the sun doth move;”

I interrupted him with a smile on my face.

“Doubt truth to be a liar;

But never doubt I love.”

He chuckled, before he intertwined his fingers with mine and started to walk towards the edge of the stage. When he stopped, he looked up at the loges and smiled. “I’m really glad I accepted this role.” He turned to me. “Me too.” I wrapped my arms around his waist and leaned my head against his chest. His arms wrapped around me too and we just stood there and held each other. After some minutes, I slightly pulled away and peered up at Tom. “Why did you bring me here?” Tom smirked, a boyish grin upon his lips. “Well…a few days ago, the director of the theatre called me. They want to establish a new play here and need some actors. He asked me to play the main role.” I smiled, proud of my boyfriend. “Which play is it?” “Romeo and Juliet.” My eyes lit up and my smile turned into a grin. “That’s so cool! I’ll come visit every performance of yours.” He laughed. “I actually need your help.” I raised an eyebrow. “They are in dire need of a female lead. I suggested you, knowing that you know the entire play by heart.” I started jumping up and down in excitement. “And?” “And they said yes!” I jumped into his arms wrapping my legs and arms around him. “Thank you so much!” Tom chuckled quietly. “You are very welcome dear. But now, let’s get you back to the palace.” I let go of him and he led me back out to the car.

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Translation of Alex Turner’s interview in ICON magazine 

Alex Turner, leader of Arctic Monkeys, the biggest rock band of the 21st century, and perhaps its last hope

"What the hell is this?"

We've just arrived at the location of our interview with Alex Turner, leader of Arctic Monkeys, who is absolutely awestruck. It's the first floor of the Bethnal Green Town Hall Hotel in London, an ancient Edwardian building with touches of art deco, converted, of course, into a hotel. In a room of the first floor, a photoshoot has just taken place.

"Well, I don't know, I think the people are getting married," says the press agent, attempting to explain some of the excitement it's provoked in Alex being in the space, without getting too carried away: we still have a job to do. Alex begins to run through the hall, the site of council meetings of the Bethnal Green since 1910, when the building was constructed. Nearly all civic government buildings in Spain are smaller, and certainly not as lovely as this place.

The writer of Fake Tales of San Francisco has already seated himself in the chair we suspect belongs to the mayor.

"What do you want? A fine or a wedding?" he jokes.

The press agent leaves, but the leader of the band formed in the era when teenagers no longer wanted to form rock bands can't keep still. He runs between the benches until he's standing in the spot meant for the speaker.

"A hundred pounds! Look here's £100!" He procures two rosy £50 notes. I suggest to him that we should keep them. He laughs. I decide not to insist. I say instead we should start the interview, after all we are here to talk about Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, the sixth album by the band, not to get married or chat. He stops laughing. It's a shame that Alex Turner becomes such a timid person, careful and cautious, when the tape recorder starts. Before he assumes the role of frontman of the group that launched AM four years ago and made it the best selling vinyl record of the 21st century, he permits himself one last question.

"Would you get married here?" We look around - myself still thinking about those £100 - while we get cozy in two benches in the last row. I answer no, that's it's all very interesting, but not at all romantic.

"I agree. Motion denied," he decides.

Rising to fame in the middle of the last decade, Arctic Monkeys have become a phenomenon thanks to a handful of songs a friend converted into mp3 - they say that they, despite being part of the digital age, had problems even turning on a computer - which soon began to spread on the Internet. It was the raucous, intelligent, and British response to The Strokes. Seeing them on the stage in those early days, before the premiere of their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not, which would see the light of day in 2006 and would become the fastest selling debut album ever in Britain within in its first week of release, was a tremendously peculiar experience. Four kids at 3 a.m. making a spectacular noise in the Sala Razzmatazz in Barcelona, but who could barely reach the bar counter to order a drink.

More than a decade has passed and they've recorded four albums more. A brilliant sequel (Favourite Worst Nightmare), another risky, rapturous and rocking (Humbug, recorded en the California desert with Josh Homme), a delicate and underrated return to pop (Suck It and See) and a million-dollar beast, a sex-soundtrack record called AM. And then, they stopped.

"When we stopped touring in 2014, nearly everyone in the band was about to get married, or having kids, or another kid. The end of those concerts was much like the end of another chapter. We were all 28 or 29 and it felt like everything was about to change. During this neverending tour I thought that record would be with me forever. It was the longest tour we had ever done. Now I think we extended it because we knew that when it ended it would be the end of something bigger than just a series of concerts. I expected everything to change, well, I felt that even though the numbers said the opposite, in the end we had less than we started with," remembers Turner, about the final days we would see the band together in public.

Now all living in the U.S., each of the band members went on his own path. Alex returned to The Last Shadow Puppets, a band loved by Arctic Monkeys devotees. There Turner splits responsibilities with his friend Miles Kane, a guy with impeccable taste but with terrible ideas. In 2016 the pair played the mainstage at Primavera Sound, where they were the headliners. That performance was grotesque. The image of Turner, who looked like a mix between an actor in Rebeldes and a finalist in an Elvis impersonators competition, had only a semblance of Arctic Monkeys of AM. In that context he made a bit of a joke of himself. Compared to the boy who, as an adolescent, was rejected by a second-hand clothing shop in Sheffield because he was too shy, it had gotten out of hand.

"That was..." His words are halting, he speaks very slowly, he leaves sentences unfinished and even stops a joke short if he finds the punchline isn't as funny as he'd thought. "I think what I wanted to say with that image and that attitude have been said. It's over."

Now Turner sports long hair and a beard which has been the object of controversy among his fans, who even launched a Change.org campaign for him to shave it.

"There's a lot of scrutiny around our next step, I know. We've always tried to be discreet with what we do, where and with whom. It's normal, but I don't think we do it on purpose. In this age, it's hard to keep secrets. With this record we tried and even just getting to the studio, the sound engineer goes and posts a picture of us. Everyone is so crazy these days, they act like they're Columbo. 'I saw this, I spotted that guy...'" explains Turner when asked how it's possible that a band as big as his, who will be the headliners at Primavera Sound and at MadCool, has managed to make sure that, even with only a month left until the record's launch, no one knows absolutely anything about it.

"I don't know if not getting involved in social media is something we do on purpose to protect the band, but it helps," says Turner, introducing the topic of being offline. "Maybe it's not in our DNA to expose ourselves. I've put so much into the music that I don't know what more I can do with that. I can't open a Twitter account because I think everything's there, in the songs. I'd make a fool of myself if I started tweeting. See, social media doesn't bother me, truthfully, but when you become the version of yourself you've created in the virtual world there's something there that allows people to do their worst against you. And you can also do your worst against them. The consequences of that I can't even imagine, but I don't want them."

We've had to listen to Tranquility Base in a version that downloads and is scheduled for automatic deletion the next week. The band have asked us not to ask anything personal, days after an encounter Alex had with a journalist from The Times. There is no single before the release, but there is a new logo for the band's image. The only photograph of Turner is the one taken by a guard in an airport days before this meeting and which has reactivated the fierce debate with respect to the Sheffielder's beard. It's a record release like the ones before, but Turner hardly seems like a global superstar. I tell him that one time I interviewed Beyoncé and they sat me at one end of a massive table and told me that I shouldn't even think about touching her, and that, on another occasion interviewing Chris Cornell, I had to go into a hotel room that was completely dark and had to confirm that the voice answering my questions was actually the grunge singer's.

"Would you like some water?" Turner interrupts, and, before I can respond, fills my glass.

During the hours after our meeting, the first new photo of the band is made public (they look as though they're dressed for a wedding in December of 1972 in Iceland) and they publish the details and tracklisting of their latest record, which was recorded in Paris, London, and Los Angeles, where the band members now reside. But what most strikes me is the first line. "I just wanted to be one of The Strokes, now look at the mess you've made me make," sings Turner on “Star Treatment”, a gem of a song that marks the tone of an album destined to confound all those who expected something bombastic, expansive, and hormonal. The LP has songs with titles as fabulous as The Ultracheese, Batphone, or The World's First Ever Monster Truck Front Flip. Imagine Richard Hawley going on tour with comedian Andy Kaufman and performing only in Sheraton hotels located in state capitals, or Scott Walker in the pub, singing after a Sheffield United match. It's deliciously decadent and promises to polarize the opinions of millions of their fans. Is [Turner] nervous? And, more importantly, is he confident?

"Let's see, I think I remember feeling a bit like that with this last record. I wasn't sure if it was the right album. Are we going down the wrong path? It always happens. When I showed the first songs to my manager, to the people from the record label and my colleagues, a lot of the reactions were 'It's very unique.' I thought it was unique, but not that much. I doubted whether it was the right record for the Monkeys. So, Jamie came to my house and stayed with me for two weeks while we recorded. His enthusiasm for the songs confirmed to me that it was the right choice. If this is what comes out of me, that's what it is. I think we can do what we want to do, it's our band. So there's no reason to worry about whether it's a hit or not," he says about a record that, from time to time, evokes loneliness.

"Yes, a little bit," concedes Turner. "There's always been something in me that has made me isolated in life. But until now, I don't know why, I've avoided touching upon that on a creative level. The words passed through a very long process of refinement. It's been complicated getting here. For example, that first line about The Strokes. I fought hard against it, I wanted it but I didn't want it. I thought, "Hell, I'll leave it, because I know I'll change it because it's impossible that I'll end up saying this nonsense." And it got to a point that I thought, "If I feel like this, why not say it? I should be honest."

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Cruella: Why Mark Strong Was ‘Fascinated’ to Work With Emma Stone

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Disney’s new film Cruella is dominated by two exceptional performances from Emma Stone and Emma Thompson. The former plays the title character, an ambitious fashion designer who morphs into one of Disney’s most infamous villains, while the latter plays the designer who hires Cruella (in her Estella persona) and then tries to destroy her.

While the two Emmas drive the story and take full command of the screen, lurking around the edges is John, played by Mark Strong, the valet to Thompson’s Baroness who doesn’t say all that much. But even his stoic presence eventually reveals a character with more nuance and layers to him than the standard supervillain henchman.

Strong often plays antagonists and heroes with a certain level of complexity to them, whether it’s the haunted assassin Prideaux in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the well-meaning but ultimately corrupt Sinestro in Green Lantern, CIA analyst George Panetta in Zero Dark Thirty, the sinister Lord Blackwood in Sherlock Holmes, or Dr. Sivana in 2019’s Shazam!

Strong himself is affable and charming in person (or at least on Zoom), marking quite a difference from the darker or more enigmatic characters he often portrays. We spoke with the London-born actor about working with the two Emmas, his own memories of the 1970s London punk and fashion scene that serves as the backdrop for Cruella, his own short career as a punk rocker, and more.

Den of Geek: John the valet is, without giving too much away about him, the silent, but watchful type. What was your take on the character and your approach to him?

Mark Strong: He’s exactly that. Silent, watchful. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. Craig Gillespie, the director, basically said to me, “I want the character to have presence.” He said, “There’s not a lot of dialogue for him, certainly not in the first half of the movie, but I want him to be present. I want people to wonder who this guy is, what he’s thinking, what’s happening, whose side is he on? And so that when there is a revelation later on in the movie, it pays off.”

I also think he was playing off the fact that I’ve played a lot of villains. So you just assume coming into the movie that I’m going to be the bad guy. And although he’s the henchman of the Baroness, who is the evil character in the movie, as we learn, as the film goes on, things aren’t all what they seem.

He’s got layers to him.

He certainly has. Yeah. Still waters run deep.

As an actor, when you don’t necessarily have a lot of dialogue, what are the tools you use to make the audience feel his presence?

Well, you’re very reliant on the director then. And when I had the meetings with Craig [Gillespie], I hadn’t actually initially read the script, because it hadn’t been made available to me. But I wanted to meet him because I loved Lars and the Real Girl and I, Tonya, his past films. And I think he wanted to meet me. So we just got together for a chat really at first.

But he said, “I will make sure the guy has presence.” So I was reliant totally on him to film moments of John thinking whatever he might be thinking. And then finally to use them in the edit. And I think he used pretty much everything we shot. Because I think he wanted that character to be noticed, so that when the revelation comes, you understand what’s going on.

Emma Thompson recently said that she remembered the ’70s punk and fashion scene in London as a teenager. I think you’re roughly around the same age or so. Do you remember that era?

I do. Yeah, but mine was much more a punk thing. So that ’70s thing of long hair and baggy, baggy trousers and stuff, that was just before my time. My consciousness kicked in around about 1977. But of course I was still wearing early ’70s clothes when I was trying to be a punk. That’s the irony.

How’d that work for you?

Well, it just meant I wandered down my high street, I remember, and I had a very ’70s cut jacket, but with silver paint, I’d written the word “punk” on the back. But I still had hair down to my shoulders, you know.

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Apparently at college, you sang in a couple of punk rock bands: Private Party and Electric Hoax.

I did, I did. And what fun we had coming up with those names, you know?

It certainly all ties into the punk element of Cruella, in a way.

Back then, England at the time, Britain, was a very strange place. I think if you probably look at what was in the charts, it’s real middle of the road stuff, you know. And society was sort of dominated by just people who didn’t really have much drive. So when punk came along, it really was a massive social upheaval. It was a proper attempt to try and change things.

I always remember reading a magazine that had a picture of three different guitar chords. And underneath it said, “Here’s three chords. Now go out and form a band.” And I took it literally. I basically said to some mates of mine at school, “Okay, you go and get yourself a snare drum and a hi-hat, you get an electric guitar, I’ll get the mics and a bass.” And then we literally just made a noise. None of us could particularly play very well, but that was the genius of punk — you didn’t have to at first. But we kind of learned on the job, and then we got quite good.

Ever had the desire to get on the mic for old times’ sake or belt out a couple of tunes?

No, I don’t think the music industry’s lost anything important by not having me as part of it.

Let us be the judge of that, Mark. You got to work with the two Emmas in this film. How are they different or similar in their approaches to these characters?

They really are fine actresses. I’d say I loved every moment on set with both of them. Emma Thompson is just very funny, very inclusive. She’s generous, she’s warm, and she’ll talk to anybody. It doesn’t matter who you are on set. There’s no hierarchy going on with her. She’s really a really lovely lady and great company.

And Emma Stone is pretty much the same. I was fascinated with her, how hard she worked. Because she has to carry that movie. And watching it, she’s just absolutely mesmerizing. She does an incredible job of really painting in that journey with such subtlety, even though it’s a kind of heightened movie. It’s really moving and she’s really brilliant. And yeah, on set, she was still chatting to people. She was very casual. You know, she didn’t rush off to her trailer and go and have to stay in character or anything like that. They were really great company, both of them.

For this film in particular, how much did the clothes, the sets and all that period stuff really help to enhance just shooting the movie for you?

Well, Jenny Beavan, the costume designer, created some unbelievable dresses for Emma Stone. But also what she did was, there were three huge ballroom sequences, in which she had to clothe everybody. So everybody looked fantastic all of the time when I was on set. The thing about being an actor is when you get on set, and all the work is being done for you, because the set is massive and brilliant and really well done, and the costumes are all vivid and real, you just feel the part. You don’t have to do any work in a weird way. I mean, as a butler obviously, or a valet, I just got the one outfit. But that was fine by me because it was a really classy one. And it does the work for you.

What’s happening with Shazam: Fury of the Gods? Is Dr. Sivana coming back?

I literally spoke to the producer last night, because I saw that Zach Levi tweeted that they’re about to start shooting in Atlanta. Dr. Sivana isn’t in Shazam! 2. What’s happened is, I think Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu and perhaps someone else — they’ve got some female villains in. And to be honest with you, I’m very happy to take a back seat to some female villains and let them have a go, because judging by the work that Emma Thompson and Emma Stone have done in Cruella, it’s about time.

Do you think Sivana will come back if there’s a Shazam! 3?

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 Who knows? He’s still got unfinished business with Mister Mind.

Cruella opens in theaters this Friday (May 28), and will also be available on Disney+ via Premier Access.

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[stone-man-warrior]

January 7, 2021: 7:49 pm:

Cries for help remain unanswered.

Twenty-five years of trying to get help while in Oregon. and more time trying while in California more than 25 years ago, all unanswered.

There remains a vacuum of assistance.

The presence of lack of rescue remains persistent.

There are no helpful people anywhere around here.

Please send help.

Please send US Military to Oregon.

Please send medical services to Oregon.

Bring your own hospital, without your own, the terror army will kill you at the hospitals if you are injured while trying to help. There are no medical services for US Citizens in Oregon, only Canadian terror army is treated for health conditions, everyone else is killed at the medical facilities. Illusion of medical treatment facilities is present throughout the state.

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9:50 pm:

Donald Trump “Insult to Injury” terror:

The whole nation is in such financial distress that it was decided that every citizen should receive stimulus payments, twice.

That’s pretty bad financial conditions for that to have happened.

On the other hand, it appears that things are not so bad after all, in fact, it looks like everything is financially hunky dory, as the social security beneficiaries were only granted a 1.3% cost of living increase, it maxes out at 3% for a cost of living increase for elderly and disabled persons, and is calculated by some asshole this year, because clearly the cost of living has increased more than any other year of record, and that is well documented with the stimulus payments to tens of millions of citizens.

I am getting mixed messages from my government leaders here. One team says “Holy shit!, if we don’t hand out some coins, millions of people will starve because of Corona Virus.” while another team is saying: “Yeah, but we need to save some money somewhere, so, we’ll just fuck the old people and those gimpy fucks in the wheel chairs. canes, and crutches, they are all a bunch of leaches anyway, so, fuck ‘em... give ‘em a 13 just to let them know we mean business, and not to talk about the cut rate increase... they are all a bunch of Tiny Tim wanna bee’s... fuck Tiny Tim, and everyone who looks like him.”

Insult to injury, Christian style, from the top 1%.

It’s 1.7% light on the increase for cost of living.

Woodstock, 1998 Live Version of Edge of Seventeen by Fleetwood Mac.

The song is all fucked up in this version and the venue looks like three farmers took the barn apart to build the venue stage and fencing with a “Farm Pack” from the local lumber yard, for the “Jesus was a Carpenter” version of Edge of Seventeen in New York Catskill Mountains at Woodstock.

Google “Farm Pack” if you don’t understand what that is, or why the Farmer wants to be a Carpenter.

Mixed messages is a life-size thing, is giant blender where old and disabled people are tossed into along with some small children, for making a product that is sprayed onto the roadsides as a erosion abatement, keeps the mudslide from being noticed after the reigns come, for a prophet, and contracted by the state.

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1-8-2021: 2:01 pm:

The Woodstock Version features Stevie wearing gold, she is famous for white and black, not gold.

It’s the “Sympathy for the Devil” version with a “Welcome to Jamaica, have a nice day” tattoo version, comes with a helicopter and alternate Harmonic Vocal Tuning, and, as noted, the screams of the crowd, were indeed heard.

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10:30 pm:

In the event that someone wants to do that math on “Jesus was a Carpenter” and why it’s associated to “Edge of Seventeen“ so heavily, need to have a look at 1985-ish United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Journeyman Wage Scale for Residential Carpenter Pay Rate.

There, you will find that the scale was about $17.50 per hour, while pay scale for Commercial Journeyman was about $22.10 per hour.

The $17.50 Residential Carpenters used to have a lot sayings, one is “I owe, I owe, so off to work I go” another was “Another day, another seventeen-fifty... and another oweee, damn, that hurt when I fell yesterday”

The Carpenters Union was hijacked back then, the story about is long and complex. It’s an important part of why the White House and Congress are all occupied by terrorists bent on ruling the world in league with Britain and the Vatican.

no one will speak to me to hear the story of Jesus worked as a Residential Union Carpenter who was making about $17.50 per hour when he was hit over he head and nailed to a cross on the jobsite.

Adam Schiff was there, part of the takeover of the carpenters union in the 1980′s. He worked for L & M Builders of Ventura County (Thousand Oaks and around there) and used the name “Cory” last name unknown, we used to have a Saturday night poker game together with some of the guys on the crew at the time.

I could be wrong... but I could be right... it was a long time ago, and “Cory” once told me he was an actor, just on the job to check things out, then one day, Cory said “I’m going to Montana”. He left, and that was the last I saw of him until I met him again here in Oregon at a dinner party at a friends house, Kurt Hill, the fork lift driver of Longboard Lumber in Merlin. There he was, “Carpenter Cory of Montana”, at the dinner party, some 25 years later on Jumpoff Joe Creek Road in Josephine county, where I was shot at by someone who ran into the forest after shooting, when Cory said “Can you go over there, and hand me that thing there...?” kind of way to put me in range. Paul Birch was owner of Longboard Lumber, turned out to be a hardcore Christian terror operative here in Merlin, and built hundreds of “Bomb Carts”... I never was able to learn more about the “Bombs” though, only that there was talk of tunnels, and a cabinet shop at Union Ave and Ringuette near the hospital. The carts were made of dimensional lumber and plywood, about four feet square, with a vertical back on one side, heavy duty castors, could haul about 1,000 lbs each, and there were hundreds made at Longboard Lumber by “Will”, an employee there at the Lumber yard, who also turned out to be a terror soldier who kept trying to kill me, for about 16 years so far, he used to stalk me to the Walgreen’s last year, often had a small boy with him. I think I killed Will at the Walgreen‘s in defense about one year ago. Paul Birch took his business dealings to Newport Oregon, to start a terror cell there when Longboard Lumber closed down about 10 years ago-ish.

Like I said, it’s a long story. is important, includes Fleetwood Mac, and Buckingham Palace.

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1-8-2021: 3:17 pm: additional:

“Carpenter Cory Montana”: My memory is that his last name started with the letter n: neuman; newsome: neuter... something like that. “Cory Newsome” sounds hauntingly familiar.

There may be a connection to a US Postal Mail Carrier by the name of “Mo” who was the carrier for this route for many years when I first moved here to Oregon in 1996. Mo, used to always wear a beany, I have “Mo’s Beany”, but I do not know why, or how I obtained “Mo’s Beany”. The words “That’s Mo’s Beany” have been said my many a terror intruder into my home over a long period of time, as I keep “Mo’s Beany” clearly on display at a place in my home where terror intruders tend to hide when they enter. There are only very few places to hide inside my house these days, I have all of the rooms nailed shut to keep intruders from hiding in them. Had I not closed off all of the rooms in my house, I would have been killed a long time ago.

I advise US Citizens to reduce their living spaces to a bare minimum, as the intruders tend to hide, and wait quietly until the intended victims are asleep in their beds. That is the reason I have not slept in a bed in more than ten years... it’s far too dangerous to use a conventional bed. Sleep is a luxury I cannot afford, neither can you.

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I think “Adam Cory Schiff” was stalking the L & M Builder’s owner’s son, Cory Reese, who was also part of the Saturday night poker game crew, back in the day when a card game was just a game of Dealers Choice, not global annihilation done by SAG Actors.

I considered Kurt Hill to be a friend until one day I saw him wrap a Pharmacist with cellophane shipping warehouse style plastic wrap, and drag the pharmacist out of the Service Drugs that used to be on 6th St. and toss him into a truck, and drive away from there. It was dusk, at the time. Kurt was a big giant of a man, very strong. I think I killed him in defense out by the mailboxes about ... a long time ago, in defense after some geese were seen running around with no heads on them, making horrible sounds out front on the road.

Seventeen-Fifty is the connection to “Edge of Seventeen“, Union Journeyman scale wages.

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11:28 pm:

Other Carpenter Union take over details:

There was a local union hall either on Ventura Blvd in Woodland Hills Ca, or near there, I belonged to that one for awhile, then moved my card to District Counsel 844. I learned that carpenters were being hired by the framing contractors, and they were being signed up as Journeyman, even when they had few skills, but I was not one of those, I did, however, join as a Journeyman having worked non-union for my whole life by the time I joined the union. There was a housing boom, carpenters were on short supply. (it turns out that the housing boom was a “manufactured housing arrangement”, so to speak, to create housing for the upcoming influx of Canadian terror soldiers. Tracts of houses, many thousands each tract, all in phased of one-hundred to four-hundred homes each phase, all around Southern California) Those Journeyman newcomers were paid union wage scale, worked forty hours per week, but were only actually paid for some other amount of hours, typically, about 20 hours were paid out at scale wage for a 40 hour week worked on the job. A carpenter and an employer came to agreement on the side, about hourly rate, about $10 was norm, so, the math was worked to pay $10 per hour, while reflecting full scale on the pay check, with reduced hours showing for the full week of work, making illusion that they only worked part time, about 20 hours or so.

Those carpenters were robbed of the necessary accumulation of hours to become vested for pension.

I demanded one dollar over scale, I was paid one dollar over scale, always, after I learned of that weird arrangement of hours. I was hurt before I became vested.

L & M Builders had a jobsite I worked on where a police officer was shot, and hand cuffed to his steering wheel, I heard him, used his radio to call for help, he died though right there in the car after I got his cuffs unlocked. That jobsite in Thousand Oaks, north side somewhere, at the edge of the city limits, was the weirdest place ever... they built the model homes, five or six different layouts, in a culdesac, to demonstrate what would be for sale later. We built those, then, some other crew of special people came and took the model houses apart piece by piece, then, we built the same floor plans again, on the same slabs. The houses were about 4,000 sq. ft. two story homes, all taken apart after completion of all trades... roofs were on, drywall was all done, plumbers had finished, electrician ran the wire, the HVAC was done... all done. Then, they took them apart, so we could build them again.

Same thing happened here in Grants Pass. The place that just is being completed now called Cascade Public Storage, was all built, completed, done... about ten of maybe twenty years ago... they took the whole thing apart, made it look as if the place was never there, and now, decades later, the exact same structures are there again. The place is weird. The construction techniques include every kind of method there is, block, iron, wood frame, metal frame, concrete... every kind of tradesman on earth was needed to build that thing, twice.

My guess is that the terror army is advertising for help wanted at that site in far away places to draw craftsmen to come to Oregon where they are captured and used as slaves, or are killed and replaced. It’s visible from I-5 at the exit 58 near Club Northwest, where the terror leadership is at, and CNW is the same as Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce as far as membership goes at the Club Northwest terror HQ. There used to be a National Security Administration Field Office next door to Club Northwest, but that seems to have been taken apart a different way, one NSA officer at a time, and was put back somewhere else as Department of Homeland Security, while they put a Department of Health Services where the NSA used to be, for confusion service. and to fulfill “insult to injury” terror protocols required by the Christian Church.

I am pretty sure that the leading Church components to the terror army are at the 9th St. Seventh Day Adventist Church, it’s next door to the Oregon State Police Field Office that’s on 7th St., but you have to hop over a block wall to get from one place to the other, last time I looked over there.

There is a fire station on Park St at the Grants Pass Pkwy intersection that is remarkable for having been built with that multi-faceted construction techniques that Cascade Storage is built with. The place is stunning to look at, is awesome building, is extreme expense for a fire station, way over the top, in my opinion.

These subjects of buildings are in the realm of a place called “Options of Southern Oregon” across from the Walgreen‘s, and another place called “Crisis Resolution Center” between where Walgreen’s and the Hospital are at, which might be the source of some of the most wicked of all of the killing contraptions used around here in Josephine County... very scary places are CRC and Options.

There are no shortages of impostors around here, so, in the event that someone who claiams to be the author of  this account has found some helpful people to talk to, that’s not the author of this account. Be advised that I think it was the Sparacino terror cell that stole all of my old pay stubs from back in the day, and has stolen much personal items, to use to impersonate the author of this information. Clyde Baum at 333 Jackpine is famous for the lengths he has gone to impersonate the author of this information also. Both Sparacino of 545 and Baum of 333 are supported in their efforts to impersonate by the local Oregon authorities.

(account is hijacked again)

[twh-news]

Kenneth Branagh interview: ‘Tom Hiddleston and I were always honest about Hamlet’

Kenneth Branagh has directed the theatrical event of 2017 – but there will be no encore, he says

Kenneth Branagh is bounding about on stage at RADA’s Vanbrugh Theatre in Bloomsbury, central London. As well as being one of the country’s best-known actors and a feted film director, he’s also president of the oldest, most prestigious drama school in the UK, and everything about his bearing suggests confidence and an ownership of this plush space. But at this precise point, he’s recalling the moment in 1979 when he recited a soliloquy from Hamlet – “Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I…” – in front of the Queen and Prince Philip to mark the school’s 75th anniversary.

He gestures round the intimate auditorium, incredulous: “There was John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Edward Fox, John Hurt, all these people – and the Queen of England! I was about 19. Talk about learning to deal with nerves!” At the end, the Queen asked him how he managed to remember his lines. He meekly replied that he didn’t know.

In contrast to that daunting rite of passage, Tom Hiddleston – playing the Dane under Branagh’s direction in a special fundraising production at the school, where Hiddleston also trained – might be thought to have got off lightly. Yet he too has felt the heat this past month. A huge talking point, “Hiddleham” has eclipsed this year’s putative standout account of the part from Sherlock star Andrew Scott.

Hiddleston, 36, became a household name in the UK on the back of his brooding (and bottom-baring) turn on The Night Manager, and has gained an international fan base playing Loki in Marvel’s Thor series, a role Branagh cast him in when he directed the first of three Thor films in 2011. Tickets for his pop-up performance at RADA – allocated by ballot for the three-week run – have been like gold dust and there has been much wailing and teeth gnashing from those, including critics, excluded from this collector’s item event. Even the Guardian’s film critic pleaded for the production to be “beamed into Britain’s movie theatres”.

That’s not going to happen, Sir Ken affirms as the final performances loom this weekend, arguing that the 160-seater Vanbrugh “isn’t set up to do a big-screen transfer – though I embrace that idea in other venues. I am pro accessibility”. He also rules out the production having a further life. “We have been honest from the word go. No one was in an option to go to the West End – and there have been no conversations with Tom about doing it again down the line.”

Rather incredibly, neither he nor Hiddleston seems to have fully anticipated the demand. “I’m very, very surprised at the amount of attention it has got,” he confesses, suavely dressed in dark blue blazer and jeans, still boyish at 56. His leading man even worried there might be empty seats. “We thought we should do a ballot, because we knew he had fans, but Tom was very sweet about it and genuinely asked ‘Do you think we’ll sell out?’”

Branagh was the golden boy of British theatre who slightly got people’s backs up in his heyday, what with his get-ahead work ethic, the precocious age at which he penned his autobiography Beginning – just 28 – and the public relationship that played out between himself and first wife Emma Thompson, popularly referred to as Ken and Em. Has he got people’s backs up again?

“I hope not. Of course, you never want to disappoint anyone,” Branagh protests. “You have to accept a choice has been made. It was about being here, using this setting, for this purpose. We wanted to do an intimate, psychologically focused staging.”

For Hiddleston, a formidable Coriolanus at the Donmar in 2013, the challenge was to stretch himself at close quarters: “He wanted to discover an emotional depth that might have surprised people who consider him a cerebral actor.” In an interpolated opening scene, the audience sees the black clad prince of Denmark at the piano mourning his dead father in song – “He’s this raw, grieving thing,” says Branagh.

No play in the canon has fascinated Branagh more. Seeing Derek Jacobi play Hamlet as a teenager in Oxford changed his life. He got the role outright at RADA in his final year, then made his name with it in the late Eighties with his trailblazing company Renaissance, reprising it again for the RSC in the early Nineties. Then there was his adieu to the part in his star-studded 1996 film adaptation that found little favour at the box office but a lot of admirers among critics.

“That I should have pursued the play’s mysteries so assiduously continues to puzzle me,” he wrote in a foreword to the screenplay. Reflecting on his obsession now, he says: “Gielgud summed it perfectly as being about the process of living, of having to deal with the problem of losing the people you love. At my age you feel that keenly.”

Some say there’s something rotten in the state of acting; that thanks in part to the profile of public school alumni such as Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Damian Lewis and Eddie Redmayne, it’s the toffs who get to the top. Branagh disagrees. “Tom will tell you that he was the only one in his year at RADA from a so-called posh background. Some 70 per cent of the people who come here receive financial assistance from us. No social group is excluded. The success of these actors resembles a wave but it’s not a trend. When working-class actors came to the fore in the Sixties, middle-class actors said: ‘Unless we have a regional accent and a rough diamond story, we can’t get a job’. But those are exaggerations.”

Things go in cycles, not least Branagh’s own fortunes. His Hollywood film career as both actor and director is burgeoning once more (after his critically slighted Frankenstein in 1994 he talked of having acquired “failure disease”, so pained were the glances strangers gave him).

He gave a sterling performance this summer as the visibly blanching naval commander evacuating terrified troops in Dunkirk, an opportunity for him to watch director Christopher Nolan in action. “It was remarkable seeing [Nolan] up there at the canvas, absolutely possessed by this thing, smart as a nut.”

His latest directorial project, a revamp of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, with a cast including Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi – and himself playing Poirot – is due for release in November. How can he improve on David Suchet’s performance? “You tip your hat to people who have played him before but it’s only the part that counts. I discovered Poirot is a surprisingly emotional character – compassionate and morally complex.”

For the moment, the “Branagh-bashing” as he himself called it in his autobiography – seems to have stopped. “My parents drummed into me not to get above myself, though that’s the sin I’ve been accused of throughout my career. I’ve had plenty of kickings, I will have plenty more but if you’re going through hell, the best thing is to keep going.”

At one point, the pressure was so intense it took all his courage to go back on stage. An actor friend of his, Jimmy Yuill, never forgot witnessing his opening night terror in 2002 at Sheffield, where Branagh was playing Richard III after a long hiatus from the theatre.

“I was in this contraption that was supposed to be realigning Richard’s spine. Jimmy told me: ‘I was coming down a corridor and heard this strange rattle and I realised it was your entire body shaking with fear’. I’m the other side of it now,” Branagh affirms, contentedly. The play is still the thing. “There are a few major Shakespearean roles circling and I hope to do more sooner rather than later.”

As for Hiddleston, fans shouldn’t feel distraught. “I’ve played Hamlet in four different productions, Derek Jacobi played it hundreds of times. And I’m sure Tom is interested in playing Benedick and Richard III. So, the public need to be assured that there will be a lot of pleasure coming our way.” Watch this space.

[minpsone]

Where are the curators in Myanmar’s art scene?

[featured in Frontier Myanmar ]

By Min Pyae Sone , Photos by Thuya Zaw - February 9, 2020

The development of contemporary art in Myanmar has been hampered by a paucity of curators, with most galleries asking artists to arrange, fund and promote their own exhibitions.

Arts reporters in Yangon have plenty of artists and gallery owners to interview, but one art world actor seems to always be missing.

Myanmar has been short on curators since the arts scene began a revival of sorts about 20 years ago. The word “curator” lacks a direct Burmese translation, and the role itself is little understood in Myanmar. Though attitudes are changing, the government and much of the public tends to view contemporary art as a novelty, with little precedent in Myanmar culture, and as an amateur passion where professional curatorship isn’t required.

Those wishing to become curators – or to work with galleries exercising a degree of curatorship – have few options. The national universities of art and culture in Yangon and Mandalay offer a degree in “Painting” that asks students to memorise only a few select details of global art history while focusing on painting techniques.

Ko Aung Khant Kyaw, 23, who graduated from NUAC Yangon three years ago with a bachelor’s degree in Painting and teaches Visual Arts at SKT (formerly Horizon) International School, participated in a group discussion at a workshop on curating hosted by the Japan Foundation last November in Yangon, which I attended. “I’ve been in many group exhibitions, but I have yet to participate in something I’m proud of,” he said, attracting agreement from the assembled artists and gallery managers..

After the event, Aung Khant told me about the exhibitions held at NUAC for graduating students. “There were no curators there, just students, parents, and other relatives,” he said. “Exhibitions in Myanmar are just for socialising; people come to drink, talk and enjoy themselves. Nobody even looks at the art anymore.”

Government patronage of the arts, such that it exists, has done little to raise standards or increase public appreciation of contemporary art. In the 2018-2019 fiscal year, the government allocated more than K35 billion (US$24 million) to the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture.

Though most of this was spent on religious monuments and ceremonies throughout the country, the ministry is also responsible for funding the national universities of arts and culture and the National Museum in Yangon. However, the museum asks artists to donate works to its staid permanent display of contemporary art and curates just a handful of events each year, mostly about history and traditional culture.

With little help from the government, the contemporary arts milieu relies almost entirely on commercial galleries. Many of the owners of these galleries, who struggle to even pay the rent, see a curator as a luxury they cannot afford. Instead, they hand their spaces over to artists, or artist groups, to supply and display the artwork as they see fit, charging them rent and taking a cut of sales, and often leaving artists to do most of the promotion.

“We let the artists do what they want and do not interfere in any way; they are the ones who pay for our space,” said one downtown Yangon gallery owner, who asked me to leave when asked if I could interview him and record his name. “No hard feelings, but you really should be asking bigger galleries, not me,” he said as I reached the door.

However, a small number of talented curators in Myanmar have been behind a number of high-concept exhibitions in Yangon in recent years, which have taken place in large public venues like the Secretariat building rather than conventional art galleries. This rise in curatorial practice has been encouraged, directly and indirectly, by grants and funding from foreign cultural organisations in Myanmar.

Sai Htin Linn Htet, 28, is a Yangon-based curator, multimedia artist and human rights activist whose work addresses the themes of empathy, pollution, gender equality, identity and discrimination. He is also programme manager of the biennial My Yangon My Home: Yangon Art & Heritage Festival and co-curated the July 2019 edition, called “Building Bridges Yangon”, with Indian curator Ms Ushmita Sahu at the newly renovated, colonial era Tourist Burma Building opposite the Sule Pagoda.

Helped by a team of volunteers, Htin Linn Htet was responsible for curating many of the Myanmar artworks featured in the international exhibition. In an email interview, he described the challenge of developing an exhibition design “that is suitable to the venue” while also providing room for “the voice of the artists”.

Htin Linn Htet, who has now worked with several foreign curators, sees it as his role to advise them on the tastes, values and sensitivities of the Myanmar public, making space for stimulating foreign subjects and styles while making sure local culture is represented.

However, despite frequently conservative and dismissive attitudes from the public towards contemporary art, he insists that “things are rapidly changing here”.

“We are going no way but up,” he said. “I’ll continue to promote emerging artists, stepping between their artworks and the public, as a mediator, curator, and a friend, as long as there is a need for one to materialise their unrealised projects.”

Yet, Htin Linn Htet says the dividing line between professionalism and amateurism in Myanmar art remains thin. Artists, who have to depend largely on self-promotion, have little recourse to feedback or guidance from galleries and other institutions. However, River Gallery, which opened in downtown Yangon in 2006, bucks this norm.

“Rather than telling the artists what to do, we focus on helping the artists articulate the 'story' behind the artwork if they need assistance on that,” said River Gallery owner Ms Gill Pattison, a New Zealander who has been living in Yangon since 2002. “The language of art does not always readily translate into regular language, and sometimes we can help the artists find a way of conveying more of their thoughts and feelings about their works.”

Pattison and River Gallery work with some of the most internationally recognised Myanmar artists – most of whom have experience working with overseas curators and sometimes curate their own shows. Pattison said that when she was planning to open River Gallery in 2005 as a professionally curated gallery in the international mould, “I really didn't have much idea of whether it would be successful, whether anyone would visit, or whether anyone would buy.”

However, it helped that she knew many talented artists.  In 2004, Pattison had organised the now defunct Myanmar Contemporary Art Awards in cooperation with Myanmar Times. “The artists entrusted me with their works at the outset, and then I think we repaid this trust through professional, transparent business practices and we did our best to promote their careers,” Pattison said.

An artist often featured at River Gallery is U Htein Lin, 53, a star in Myanmar’s contemporary scene, who has a satirical and sometimes controversial approach to social and political issues. His “Skirting the Issue” exhibition at River Gallery last year tackled misogynist taboos by featuring canvases made from htamein (a women’s longyi), which are traditionally seen as polluting for men and are handled only by women.

When I interviewed Htein Lin at a Yangon teashop late one evening in early January, he began on the subject of curatorship by talking about his six-and-a-half years as a political prisoner.

“In prison, I painted and even organised a solo show there for the prisoners. I suppose you can call it my first time curating,” he said. It was a risky venture because organising such an event in prison was prohibited.

“Dealing with the guards and prisoners for space and logistics was very hard,” he said. “First of all, it isn’t an art gallery, it’s a prison. Second, there’s the problem with the timeframe and finding the opportunity. Third, how we would invite people to my show.”

Htein Lin hand-drew the invitations on used snack packets and distributed them around the prison, a task made easier by the fact that inmates in each block of 15 cells had to change cells every day. “We asked a single-cell inmate to let us use his cell when everyone was getting ready to switch cells. The cell was nine feet by nine feet,” he said.

Htein Lin and some fellow inmates had to negotiate with the guards and arrange times when occupants of the 15 cells could view the works, which were displayed on torn plastic bags attached to the walls with toothpaste. When the day finally came, inmates showered, dressed up and visited the cell to view Htein Lin’s works.

Soon after Htein Lin’s release in 2005, one of his close friends, fellow artist Daw Chaw Ei Thein, curated and displayed a selection of the hundreds of works he created in prison. The exhibition at her house in northern Yangon, near the airport, ran for only one day because it attracted the attention of plainclothes intelligence officers.

When he returned to Yangon in 2013 after living in Britain for seven years, he started to curate exhibitions using ideas and curatorial principles gleaned from galleries in London, Paris and elsewhere. “A proper exhibition should make you feel and think differently about the things you saw after you leave,” he said. “That’s the curator doing their job.”

[sparklingrainbowdragon]

@sous-le-saule has been tagged and invited readers to do this, too. Sort of. So, here I go.

rules: answer 28 questions and tag 20 blogs you would like to get to know better

nicknames: Zari. Wtf

gender: uuugh... timelord or, sticking with Doctor Who: "variation thereupon"

star sign: leo

height: 1, 69 meters

time: 14:03 in a windy Northern German town

birthday: 4th of august

favourite bands: Wise Guys, Saltatio Mortis

favourite solo artists: Laureena McKennit, Boro Wartke

song stuck in my head: "Dancing through life"

last movie i watched: Die hard 3

last show i watched: Legends of Tomorrow, s2

when did i create my blog: 2017

last thing i googled: Jodie Whittaker for obvious reasons

do i have any other blogs: yes, funny you should ask, @wandererimsternenmeer

do i get asks: sometimes, has not happened in a while, but I am very happy every time

why i chose my url: There is a post in the beginning of my blog explaining this one, it's because I would love to have wings. For flying, but also for aesthetic. And because my hair has green streaks, which is the reason for me being associated with that colour, and I am a rather ecstatic person, if I had wings, they would be green and sparkling.

following: 90

followers: 31 all on all

average hours of sleep: 6

lucky number: 7

instruments: A wee bit of piano, also in kindergarten, we were all forced to learn how to play the recorder.

what am i wearing: creme fluffy sweatpants, Dan and Phil Cristmas sweater

dream job: actor or teacher

dream trip: Great Britain

favourite food: uuuuuuuugh, that's a tough one, uhm, I love eating and also eating various food, but if I had to pick, I would say chicken curry.

nationality: German

favourite song right now: aaaaargh, that stuff again, it's Christmas time, so I will go with "venite adoremus"

I am also inviting everyone reading this to do it. Merry Christmas, everyone!

[wallpaperpainting]

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The Montreal Building of Fine Arts appear Friday that it will date a bound reopening June 6.

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Montreal Building of Fine Arts

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[stone-man-warrior]

January 6, 2021: 4:53 pm:

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I just now returned from errand run in Dystopia, Grants Pass. where Socio-Terrific is the law of that land.

I went to:

Fred Meyer Gas Station

Walgreen's

It was raining, my car was running poorly, the fuel guage lies, can be controlled by anyone who has a garage door opener with the correct frequency, along with the door locks, the courtisy lights on the exterior rear-view mirror's, the seat-belt and "Door is Ajar" indicator lights on the dash, as well as the bell that sounds from them, and the fuel-injection... all is operational by some asshole with a smart phone.

By the time I left the Fred Meyer, the car was running as if it was going to stall, all of the bells and whistles were going off, the dash lights all indicating that "The Door is a Jar" and the door locks were all opening and closing all by themselves.

So, all was normal, I proceeded to Walgreen's with a nearly full tank of Mid-Grade fuel.

At Park Ave & Grants Pass Pkwy, the car began to operate without further aerial fuckery, except for the "Door is a Jar" dash light, which persisted to illuminate.

There were numerouse three dimensional terror communications dispayed throuhgout the town and along the route I took, too numerous to choose one over others for discussion here.

At Walgreen's, some notable conditions were present.

There is a paper sign taped to the front glass door, says:

"

"now hiring:"

Front Counter

Pharmacy Technician

That is unusual, is not verbatim, the sign is a lie, they are not going to hire anyone, everyone there is rank & file terror soldier. The "Bulleted List" was present on the sign, is significant.

Inside the store at the pharmacy counter is another paper sign taped to what I call a "Shipping Port Pier" at the pharmacy counter where there is a theater style role there for separating "Walgreen's Express Customer Counter" from "Walgreen's Regular Customer Counter". That paper sign is significant, too difficult to explain in detail, but, there is a hand scribed "underscore" beneath the word "no" on a sign that says: "no COVID-19 Testing at this location". Then, on the electronic debit card reader, an advertising that I don't recall ever seeing popped up on the screen, there were some green colored graphics, I don't recall what it said, I do recall what it means, it means "Look at the surveillance camera", or, "Don't look at the surveillance camera". So, I look for the surveillance camera, and notice that the TV screen for that camera that usually is above the pharmacy counter, is no longer there. Then, I see where the ceiling mounted tinted dome camera is at, it has a printed sign hanging from the tinted glass dome, says, you guessed it: "Security Camera" on the sign beneath the security camera. There is where it's complicated to explain here, because you need to be there to see that the hand scribed blue underscore beneath the word "no" on the COVID Test sign at the Shipping Port Pier, is to be hand carried to that surveillance sign on the ceiling. The underscore, and that "Camera" sign, are the same blue color and shape... you need per-requisit knowledge to know to take the Underscore to the Surveillance camera, so that you can know what is happening at the Walgreen's in the background today.

Other unusual terror comm:

The restrooms were open. They call that a "Golden no-no" around here. The restrooms are never available for customers at the Walgreen's. Customers are told to use the gas station across the street when they ask for a restroom.

The door to the hallway to the restrooms was wide open. There are two drinking fountains in there, one is adult level, one is child level water fountains, both were covered up with plastic bag wrapped around them. "no water" is indicated, could be they advise not to use the nitrous gas in the store today.

"Holy Shit! We are not taking any victims today, the pirating is closed until further notice" is the read I did for those water fountains and rest room hallway door opened up.

A man wearing a green USAF style pilot coat w/orange rescue color interior was at the sh

(I got hijacked while writing that, keyboard would not work. so I posted that, now will continue from where I was hijacked by the Centurylink terror cell. It’s 5:46 pm.)

...at the Walgreen‘s Shipping Port Pharmacy Counter. He had a white paper COVID mask notable for having the ear strap crossed on his cheek then around his ear, with some other white thing also present connected from mask to ear. The man looked like Paul Reed Smith, but 20 years older. The strap, coat, and mask are significant at the shipping port at Walgreen’s pharmacy in ways I am not certain of.

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Other notable giant size terror information is contained in these facts, as follows:

Medicare Part D terror: Part D recipients choose a insurance provider from Medicare.gov. Many of the plans there have a deductible amount that must be satisfied before the insurance begins to pay.

For the past three years, my plan says I am going to need to pay a deductible, however, when I get to the pharmacy historically, there is no deductible charged to me, my prescriptions cost less than $10, and the Ibuprofen is absolutely free of charge.

Today, is the first prescription of the new year that I have filled, same insurance as last year. I paid no deductible last year. Today, I had to pay a whopping deductible. Over $100 for the prescription that usually only is, lately about $25. The price for the medicine while under Medicare Part D insurance contract, kept changing last year, fluctuating from about $8 to about $28 for the exact same medicine and exact same count of pills over the course of the year, last year.

This year, I have to pay the deductible like it always has said I am supposed to pay. The truth of this is that Donald Trump has been paying everyone’s deductible amount separately from the medicare part D insurance contract, to his terror cell members, as a terror health care package. Many millions of Christian voters, who, as he worked so hard to constantly “Lower the cost of prescription medicine” for, is the terror army. That is what he was doing, he was using the US General Fund to pay millions of deductible amounts of millions of Christian terror soldiers, as a special kind of terror army Medical Health Coverage for terror soldiers.

Christian terror soldiers, in league w/hijacked Social Security Administration, track down and kill all of the US Citizen Social Security and Medicare Beneficiaries. Then, they assume the victimes names, and collect their SSI, SSDI, and SS Retirement income. The terror soldiers sign up for mandatory Part-D. Then, they are subsidized by Donald Trump, who uses the US General Fund to pay the deductible amount on the Part-D medicine. That medicine goes into a bank of medicines somewhere, I don‘t know where, but there is such a bank of medicines. The terror soldiers may, or may not keep the medicines, depending on their health needs, most, don‘t require the medicines. Instead, Screen Actor Guild is provided access to that bank of medicines, all of the narcotic pain medicine and barbiturate medicines are all made available to Actors, Musicians, Clowns, and Magicians through the “ClubMed SAG terror Drug & Murder Promotion that is part of being a terror leadership member of SAG with card in good standing, dues paid in full.

There is a MAX allowable circumstance that throws complication curve balls into the SAG/Trump arrangement. I know how it used to work, not how it currently works. The methods for doing the Part-D terror seem to change from time to time at the distribution level at the individual pharmacies.

One way:

Patient goes to see participating SAG Club Med Doctor, who writes prescription for a bare minimum of medicine to that patient, then, the doctor makes “adjustment” prescriptions later, that set of “adjusted” prescriptions is for MAX allowable per Part-D Medicare rules, for Hydracodone, Oxydodone, Diazapam, Klonazapam (that one is a take out murder order from terror doctor to pharmacy assassin) and Xanax. Others I don‘t know of but 10mg Morphine is very popular with the SAGClubMed rock stars, and is provided to them from the health records of murdered US Citizen disabled persons who were killed by the Canadian/Christian/Britain/Vatican terror army that is commanded by SAG.

Then, the paper prescription goes to the participating pharmacy to phill the Bare Minimum prescription by the patient who went to the SAGClubMed doctor. The prescription is filled, the patient leaves with bare minimum for some health ailments. Meanwhile, that other, “adjusted” prescription for “Part-D MAX Allowable” is electronically sent to the participating pharmacy in the name of that patient who already left with Bare Minimum prescription. The MAX adjusted prescriptions are all filled to the MAX as allowed by Part-D Medicare. Then, those are all processed in the background by terror pharmacy technicians. Those are paid for with a combination of the Part-D insurance plan, and, digital money moving magic that is made possible by electronic banking, at the JP Morgan Chase Bank, digital money magic department, HQ, for making the transaction paper trail look as though it was that original patient who made payment for the “Adjusted MAX” prescriptions.

See...? It’s very simple.

Those MAX narcotics go into that medicine bank I explained above, are sent UPS to different places where they are stockpiled, and made accessible to SAG Card holders upon request.

That is the old way from about two years ago, maybe is still the same. I am not seeing the UPS Bins filled with prescription bottles any more though at the pharmacies when I go, At Bi-Mart, the MAX prescriptions were put into a trash can, and the trash can was shipped UPS filled with medicines, at least that is the way it looked at the time.

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7:13 pm.... let’s make it 7:14 with a Roarer:

That’s a Qualude.

(see information about Dr. Brett Quave (AKA: Dr. Queefer, as stated by Female SAG members)

Other Walgreen‘s Blue Underscore Terror Comm on “no COVID Test Today Security Camera:

At the Walgreen‘s Potato Chip Department, there is another one iteration of that blue “no COVID Test” and “Security Camera” underscore, that one is taped onto the floor, is the same color and shape as the other two iterations of that blue underscore. It gets a little personal right there at the Chip Aisle. The blue underscore is places beneath the Cheeto’s, Cheese that Goes Crunch area on the shelf. That means that Sean, or Nicole, or Abu, or Berus Sparacino (”The Extra Cheeto’s”) are of importance somehow. They are, or were, the leading terror family cell locally, with over one-hundred thousand US Citizen kills under their belt.... others gave them the title of leading terror family, without a specific title, due to the count of kills they have made as four person family w/one slave child soldier girl. In addition to the over one-hundred thousand kills racked up by the Sparacino’s as a family terror cell, they also have participated in millions of other murders done in league with the extended cells they belong to, including but not limited to:

Li’l Pantry Markets

Josephine County Sheriff

Josephine County Courts

Mikey’s Video Rental

Velaro Gas Station

Video World

Shell Gas Station (Merlin OR)

and that taco restaurant next to Mikey’s Video Rental in Merlin.

Others...

Many Millions of US Citizens killed as they use the services provided at stores, restaurants, Law Enforcement, and Judicial matters.

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7:38 pm:

Some themes that were present in the Three Dee communication were:

“Hi, yeah...I’d like two French Crueler’s, an Apple Fritter, and a large coffee... black”

The song: Time, by Pink Floyd.

“How shall I Bus Thee? Let me count the ways”

“Fish Story”

Others. It was a full boat of themes on the roads and in the parking lots and shopping centers along the route I took to Walgreen‘s today.

It takes special, open minded consideration means to see the themes as they are presented among the terror army. You have to learn how to see through the charade, then, the themes become more visible. I saw those mentioned and was able to title them that way, among ten thousand themes all playing out at that same time. The themes serve as ID of particular terror cell members who are involved in specific terror operations throughout the town. Somewhere, there must be a central command HQ where choreography of complex terror operations are designed such that all of the different cells are able to interact, without interfering with one another, and without ever saying a single word about what they are all doing.

The buses are notable. A bus, can be almost anything, but communication about them is done with buses. So, a propane truck with large tank for delivery is a bus if the sign on the rear bumper says: “This vehicle stops at all railroad crossings”, if no sign, then no bus.

The word: “Bluebird” any where, is a bus, and a 1969 Bluebird 25 foot four-wheel-drive bus manual transmission, is a Holy Grail Bus. That is Pope Grade Bus.

There were more buses today in every configuration today on the road than Walmart has braziers. That’s Whole Lot of Rosy going on with buses today.

This style Bus is Salem Oregon Government Assassin Take-Out variety of “The Bus”:

This style in blue is the Josephine County grade of “The Bus”.

Actual real, terror bus shown, parked in front of “The Bus HQ” at the Josephine County Courthouse. Just put a sail on it somewhere, or tac a US Citizen to the front bumper... it’s a pirate ship.

Josephine County Sheriff uses one that is about 10 feet shorter than that one shown, same color. You can see from time to time the shorter version going down the rural roads loaded with uniformed deputies, some time from neighboring counties and wearing different color uniforms. and all standing up while inside the moving bus, while one of them is hanging on to a rail, and is half way out of the door as the bus is rolling, as was the case in the first week of February of 2017 when that short bus was loaded with Sheriff Cory Falls (AKA: Senator Corey Booker) and Deputy Strohmeyer of Jackson County, Sheriff Frank Skraw of Klamath County, and Sheriff Dave Daniels of Josephine County, and other deputies that I am not familiar with. That bus, that day, was on Monument Drive headed for my house with all of those guys on board, I passed it going the opposite direction towards the freeway while on the way to the terror doctor in Medford. They turned the bus around, and gave chase, all the way to the terror doctor in Medford from exit 66 I-5. There, as you can read about on this account from around that date, I was attacked by all of those guys at the terror doctor lobby, was handed a statue bomb by Strohmeyer, who said “Trump wants to see you, we want you to give him this gift” and a small sheriff statue was presented to me, with a sword. I took the sword, and defended against all of them. That bus exploded into small pieces after the terror doctor appointment, in the Sears parking at the automotive center.

They have more buses.

Sears is gone now... terrorists ate the Sears. All of them.

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8:43 pm:

Reminder:

If someone were to read all of this account from the beginning, and kept in mind that the sheriff had already come to my house, inside, poisoned me, and took controll of my computer to delete a similar account of information about a few years before I started to write more stuff later, and that the account started at Google+, but that whole platform was deleted because of the contents of my StoneMan account there, then was put here on Tumblr to keep trying to get some help to come to Oregon... if that would happen, then, what you might notice is that I was absolutely terrified to begin to write about the terror by then.

You can see that I was rambling on without really saying much, I was too afraid to speak in the first person perspective for saying that I had killed terror soldiers in defense, I was too scared to use the word “sword”, and was too afraid to say “nitrous oxide”, among observations that could be made.

Comparison from 5 years ago to now, is a lot different in the reporting, I am no longer scared, no longer frightened, and I am no longer terrified. The time and experiences spent learning how to survive have created a bright light to see with, so, I am no longer afraid of what I cannot see. I see everything I need to see for survival now. That is the main difference over about six years. There are no improvements to the conditions that surround me, they have become far worse.

I am not able to go outdoors without a physical threat of death brought on by the terror neighbors. Five years ago, I could manage to go outside long enough to mow my front grass, or cut some fire wood to stay warm in winter, but now to linger outdoors for more than about twenty minutes brings attacking terror soldiers from other parts of the North Valley area here where I live.

I see that there is No Help... ever. That remains a constant, does not change.

The implications of so much reporting of millions of murders, with absence of proper response to them for so long, is far more terrifying then is the terrorism.

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This:

9:20 pm:

I went outside just now to find that the asshole who has the electronic gizmo that has the ability to activate electronic items on my car had attacked again in my driveway, the curtisey lights and interior lights for the car were turned on with no way to turn them off. There is no user control available for operating the courtesy lights on my car, I can‘t turn them on myself, it’s not possible to do so, they operate when it’s dark outside, and the door is opened up. If it’s not dark and the door is opened, then those under the exterior mirror courtesy lights will not illuminate. But, there is some asshole nearby who has equipment that is able to operate a number of electronics on my car, as I explained today happened at the Fred Meyer gas station until I reached Park Ave. and GP Pkwy.

I know who it is.

White crew cab pick-up truck, late model, w/black lumber rack, has two bright red items hanging attached to the sides of the lumber rack, is someone who is associated with Interstate Battery dealer:

Here:

Interstate Batteries

Auto Part & Supply, Battery Store

116 SW M St, Grants Pass · (541) 476-0703

Closed · Opens tomorrow 8 AM

That Optima Dry Cell Battery above has the kind of red thing that is attached to the white crew cab w/black lumber rack who has the electronic gizmo that can operate the features of modern cars remotely, yours and mine, including the fuel injection and everything that is operated by the onboard computer and dash lighting and electronic engine sensors.

(it’s the reason that all of the old classic cars are being squished even if there is nothing wrong with them. Ultimate control of everyone by virtue of hidden remote capability within the on board computers of modern cars, beginning around 2001 on US vehicles, and far before that on Japanese vehicles.)

The red top part of that Optima Dry Cell battery shown is symbolically reproduced at about five times the size... much bigger, and is attached to both  sides of the truck of the person who is using that electronic gizmo to drain my battery (Dry Cell) and yours.

Meanwhile, there are helpful people nearby who also have dead batteries, but have been specifically instructed not to interfere with me, or provide any help to anyone, by the Terrorist in Chief himself, Donald Trump.

The people at the US Cellular phone store at Beacon Ave and GP Pkwy also have similar electronic gizmo that can access and control features of modern vehicles that are equipped with on board CPU’s. There is also a US Cellular on 6th st. called Siskiyou Communication, there is a terror call center there at that location where phone calls are hijacked, manipulated, imposters interfere with your phone call, and mine from that central place. Go there, to find where other such call centers are at. Syskiyou is the company that installed most of the cell towers back in 1999 -2004ish. They do the maintenance on them and the equipment upgrades, and are moving toward control of all of the vehicles through the cell towers, with hidden controls and listening devices in the modern cars. There is also a US Cellular store across from the Walgreen‘s on Williams Hwy. All are hijacked, been occupied and controlled by the Canadian terror army since the company was founded more than twenty years ago.

The place called Kelly’s Tool Box in the same block of stores as Syskiyou Communication do protection service for Syskiyou Communication, and Kelly who owns Kelly’s Tool Box is a leading member of the Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce, at least that is the way it’s listed, however, I don‘t think there is such a person by the name of Kelly who owns Kelly’s Tool Box, or is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. Kelly means Warrior in Gaelic old Irish language. The Toolbox is at Club Northwest, is filled with global terror warriors, each has a specialty.

A national company called “Johnson Controls” has a local office somewhere nearby, they are the makers of the secret remote access to electronic features of modern vehicles.

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10:28 pm:

This is a good place to explain some basics about Vatican terror goals and automobiles.

The idea is ultimate control of everyone one earth in every way possible, so, personal transportation has been a big target for a long time. The remote operation of features is already built into your car and mine. Some of the control is done with that Infra-red/digitally enhanced hybrid tech I mentioned recently that was invented as a rejected tech contracted by US DoD in the 1990′s.

You can see what I am explaining about control of you, by virtue of control of your car, in various places in the not so distant past. Go look at these stories to get a viewpoint:

$200 Gas Guzzler Buy Back Program

BMW crushes the cars they made for reasons that are unclear, is a news item.

Japanese motors in Japan, are only allowed to have 40,000 miles on them, after that, you have to replace the motor if you live in Japan. (Japan serves as a testing and perfecting grounds where terror ways are developed, is a laboratory. What happens in Japan is roled out in other nations ten years later)

Too Big Too Fail

Those are four stories of auto control goals. They are crushing all of the old non computer equipped vehicles solely for the purpose that you and I cannot find one to be safe from the ultimate control that is coming down the road like a freight train on your front walk way.

You can see symbolism presented by those who are involved with the automotive ultimate Vatican control. At Kelly’s Tool Box the symbolism is presented with a pristine 1965 Ford Mustang in Metallic Copper (Burnt Sienna; Oxidized Iron Metal Flake). That Mustang is contained within a glass case out front of Kelly’s Tool Box across from Siskiyou Communications who control the cell towers. The symbolism tells other terror cells who they are, and what specialty they do at Kelly’s Tool Box. The Mustang is beautiful, is pristine, is locked up tight behind a glass wall, you can look, drool, say Ooohhh, aaahhh... but you are never going to touch that car, or any old non-CPU car ever again. Those are the rules. The hidden controls that were able to illuminate my car’s courtesy lights tonight could have drained my battery, had that happened, I might need to call a service tech to help me, and the service tech would be someone sent by Kelly’s Tool Box, who heard tell that I have a 1959 Ford Thunderbird, and a 1974 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ-40.  Those need to go either to Jay Leno, or, to the car crusher if Jay Leno already has a good working specimen to keep for historical reference at the Vatican Museum of Vehicular Arts, where two specimens of each classic will be preserved behind glass, in a hermetically sealed state of existence.

Had I made call to a service person for dead battery, then Siskiyou Communications would have hijacked the call, all calls are routed to a specific call terror call center with Google style information management that is able to automatically detect what kind of service I called on a phone about. Phone calls are “forbidden“, you are supposed to use the Blue-Tooth terror network to obtain service work, that way, the terror leadership can determine if such requested service work is necessary.... Ultimate control over everyone in every way, is the Christian Vatican way. After the hijack of my call, then someone would be selected from among the specialists of the terror army to come to solve the problem, which would actually be done out in front, while terror murderers show up in the shadows, and take direction from that out front service operative who was sent to repair a “Car won‘t start” condition. I would be killed, a replacement sent to take my place, and then vote on my behalf in future elections as instructed by SAG leaders in Hollywood who supply the shills that are on the ballots. There would be no record of my death, had I made the dead battery phone call, and representatives from Kelly’s Tool Box were sent, or, from Interstate Battery of M st,

Do research about where are all the old cars at?

They started with collecting all of the old Ford Mustangs in around 1990′s, then just moved down a list of popular old classics that was organized by the people who later became Google. Pretty soon they were collecting Fairlane’s. and Pontiac Catalina’s, Ford Pinto Wagons, and Pacers, to make sure we cannot find a non-CPU car to drive without being controlled with a Big Johnson.

So, all of that presents a giant vacuum where the old classic cars used to be, some of the better specimens are allowed to linger around, while most are sent to the car crusher just so we can‘t have cars that will run, and ones that we can work on ourselves when they breakdown without having a lot special knowledge and equipment. The absence of a million 1967 Pontiac Firebird’s creates a demand for them that demands a lot of money to get one, so, they came up with the Mecum Auction.... get a load of that name to understand what is going on with that, and who is going to have any remaining Pontiac Firebird’s of the 1960 era... not you or me, that’s for sure... even old Corvair’s are selling for over a hundred thousand dollars at the Mecum Auctions, driving the price up, which drives up the reason why a thief might go hunting for them, so that Jay Leno can have another one in his garage, while at same time makes a hefty profit to feed terror soldiers with in the neighborhoods when a classic is found tucked away somewhere. They use up the destruction of the old cars while making money by throwing them into the dump.

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11:31 pm:

Local Update:

It’s quiet and dark outside.

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Other:

Research I have done about the Vatican vehicle control suggests that it’s the German elements of the terror that is behind the automotive hijacking. Symbolic indicators are varied and many, the biggest most obvious is Too Big To Fail when Bush handed out all of those billions of US dollars to companies that had already been consumed by the Canadian terror army. Chrysler was given Too Big To Fail billions, then left the country to join with Daimler Mercedes Benz in Germany. That was a symbolic move, was temporary, a terror “news flash.. this just in...” sort of announcement that they pulled off the heist successfully, all under direction of the Vatican, where there are German elements associated with the Pope Benedict parts of the Vatican. Chrysler went to Italy, and it’s Fiat now.

The Germans are some of the very best mechanical engineers on earth, so it makes sense that the Vatican would put the Germans in charge of all of the automotive hijacking. The Germans are not going to be bound by the CPU cars at all, they have and prefer Diesel technology which in my opinion is far superior to gasoline tech in every way. Diesel motors tech has come a long way since the days of the stinky city buses that we all relate Diesels to. The Diesel motor of today can compete with gasoline motors in the Quarter mile, and have far superior torque to boot.

USA should harness the Diesel for production, ditch the battery operated cars, they are all part of the trap.

Think: Locomotive freight trains run on Diesel power.... that’s good enough for me then for when I need to up the freeway ramp, haul some kids to soccer game, or pick up a load of roofing material, the Modern Diesel will do all of that and more, and can blow the doors off of a Fiat, or Dodge Charger, and do it without a CPU or spark plugs, and lasts 5 times longer than gasoline motors.

And that is why the Germans drive Diesels. They are not going to be affected by the Pope and his garage door openers that control all of the modern gasoline and electric powered cars and trucks.

The down side of the Diesel is it’s complexity, they are too complicated for most home mechanics to work on, especially the fuel delivery systems. Special tools are required, the fuel pump’s are seriously complicated, sophisticated mechanical wonders that are far beyond the scope of home repair when they break or leak.

The rest of the world is famous for the engineering they do, while USA is famous for movie making of fairy tales, and cheeseburgers.

I suspect that the overwhelming abundance of gasoline driven vehicles over the less popular diesel motors is a controlled and intentionally prescribed set of Gnosis brain wash techniques that have been thrust upon us simply because the gasoline is so dangerously flammable and explosive, as part of the terror advance from sources that have historically controlled the oil markets in Britain. The BP Company is enormous. There are other British oil sources as well, maybe all of the oil is British now. I think the Soudi’s were hijacked long ago, and all of the middle east was taken with Desert Storm under G. Bush Sr. a British terror operative disguised as US president, same as all of them since Nixon. The Diesel fuel requires much less refining and is not explosive like the gasoline is. To promote gasoline over Diesel fuel is to gain that much advantage from accidents due to fire. so, when the bastards are killing everyone anyway, they can make arrangements for passively produced death and injury where ever the terror is able to. Theoretically, the Diesel fuel should be less expensive than gasoline to make, and to purchase because it’s less refined, takes less work to make the fuel. I feel it’s falsely priced as part of the Gnosis brain wash. Maybe the price is because of supply & demand, where there is so much demand for the dangerously explosive gasoline that it is cheaper in bulk than is the less expensive to make and far safer Diesel fuel.

Why are humans so stupid?

The Diesel is safer, works better, costs less to make, and these days, is even equally clean, or dirty, certainly is not anymore polluting than is gasoline anymore. So why are we producing and prefer more danger at a higher price for less efficiency and usefulness?

The Vatican is why, the Brits make it happen.

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Do you think these titles might be personally insulting had you been the author of the past few entries here on this account and then received the email titles?

You would be insulted if you saw some of the response email that arrives from these people after I write about US Military.

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1-7-2021: 12:56 am:

More electronic car radio interference bullshit that maybe you too can identify so that we can hunt down and kill the terrorist bastard who has the electronic garage door opener that operates the features in the cars:

When I drive past the rest stop at I-5 mile 63 or so southbound, there is something inside my right rear passenger door that makes a “Pop” sound. Happens nearly every time I go by there. That same “Pop” sound in the rear door also happens at other places, today it happened at least three times, but I have forgotten exactly where at, I think it happened as I entered the freeway near the In & Out Burger, I have to pay better attention to my right rear passenger door. There is a similar thing that also “Pops” inside of the dashboard when I cruise on out of 6th Street Market, turn right on 6th, and go about 500 to 1000 feet out of the Village Square. So, maybe you have a thing that makes a sound at the same place every time you drive by, but have not noticed the coincidence.

Humans are so dumb, that by tomorrow morning at about 10:00 am there will be millions of Oregonians at work, doing terror for the Pope... terror is a nine to five job with overtime bonus for weekend warriors... they will all have bombs up their assess by ten. Millions of them... all with rocket fuel lodged up their asses, because some other asshole who has a cool hat, told them it’s good idea to put a bomb up their assess. Remarkably, all of those millions of people willing to turn themselves into rocketships because the Pope told them to, and none of them have spent a single day at astronaut school, or had bothered to even learn that nitrous oxide is indeed rocket fuel.

I can‘t even be sarcastic to say they all must be rocket scientists... they even spoiled that.

By 10:00 am tomorrow, there will be millions of live, human hand grenades, all with the pin pulled, ready to go, all over the state of Oregon.

That, and the reason none of them will fight back if they say they have no choices, is because of the heroin that the Pope gives them, to make sure none of them gang up, to fight against being turned into a live hand grenade.

Fucking brilliant.

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1-7-2021: 2:25 am:

When I go into Grants Pass, or worse, into Medford, I see all of the terror army all doing the same fake act of making the city look like a normal city, sometimes I fall for their puppy dog eyes, they make me feel sorry for them, that they are forced into killing everyone who does not have a smart phone or a bomb up their asses. I do... I fall for that. It’s bullshit though... the puppy dog eyes, those Three Dee messages they send so I will write something, is all done just so some other asshole can steal what I am writing to change it enough that it gets used as bait to kill the people who actually do come to help.

Millions of gas wielding terror soldiers who collectively know exactly where all of their commanders are at, and, they also know where the heroin they are all addicted to is at, so, why not use the gas to go take out the leadership, and take the heroin, to be free of the captivity that seems to be contained in the messages they are all sending in the streets and the stores?

There are only few of the leaders, and millions of terror soldiers who have the nitrous, the leadership is not immune to the nitrous, so take them out.

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1-7-2021: 3:15 am:

I am always so glade to be alive after a trip into Dystopia... it makes it difficult to sleep... and I feel all coffee’d up at 3:00 am.

Doing a lot of contemplation.

I thought about those German engineers.

That, sort of leads me to a place I don‘t have anything solid to say, when I say that the terror is done by the people from nations who are famously skilled historically for a particular expertise.

French people come to mind, as people who are highly skilled at sabotage.

If there is a Gremlin on a wing somewhere, it’s a French one. That is true with a lot of local terror when stuff I have is broken, it mostly is a person who speaks French as a primary language, English as a second language, like Lorena Chapman does, next door at the house behind mine. Sabatage is her specialty, she breaks things, I don‘t know her personally, but she comes into my house to break something, and leaves. I cought the bitch switching on and off a power switch to some music equipment I have so many times, in the wrong order, that none of it works any more.... sabatage,,, then she covers the French accent by speaking in baby talk, to sound cute as she is breaking my stuff. She came in did pull ups on the shower nozzle, pulled it out of the wall... while saying: “I’m gunnoo bwake it if you twy anyting!

Asshole terrorist bitch.

Follow the expertise to apply it to solving problems. Germans do mechanical engineering to take over the world for the Vatican, and the French break the stuff made by non-Germans with sabatage to take over the world for the Vatican.

British are famous for hierarchy and taxes. That makes sense in consideration of the story of “The Strawman“ where when a US Citizen is called into a courthouse they are told that they are subjects of Maretime Law and their names are forever to be spelled in all capital lettering to help convey that the Queen of Hearts says: “Off With Their Heads!”.., I told the story in detail not long ago. The British are the ones who are in charge of the taking of the US courthouses, that is where the County Tax Assessor’s Offices are at, nationwide.

British are at the Courts.

German’s are at the automakers and Boeing and Lockheed.

French are at the airports on the wings, and proceed the attack’s where they occur to weaken the structure at the attack site.

The Vatican provides the Hokus Pokus and lies.

The US movie industry supplies the two faced actors who apply the Vatican lies.

US and European music industry draws the crowds to the slaughter, Pied Piper style.

India supplies the “Please to be doing business with you” in the phone call centers in honor of the taking of the 7-11′s and management skills they learned with that.

Australia supplies the bush pilots (cart drivers of all kinds) for trafficking.

New Zealand supplies the wool, linen, people who sew, to manage the Guamese slaves at the T-Shirt factories and run the church laundry services.

Who else?

Start Whackin‘!

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