#sams moon reimagined

[sleepyzz0h]

My version of Moon

Nexus is a cover name so people don't realise it's him (for safety reasons :]) cough cough ruin

Moon - Mad manz lair

That is now 5 sams characters I have redesigned/reimagined into my own thing :]

Nice Eclipse - Eclipse and Wall.E

Bloodmoon - A master and it's puppet

Ruin/OG Eclipse - A master and it's puppet

Universe - rewired

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Tagged by @st-just (thanks!) to just press shuffle on my general listening playlist 10 times and relate the results.

Thing is, I don't have a general playlist, only current ones, and I'm currently making a mixtape of execution ballads. So sadly, you're not getting any variety. You're either getting a preview of the project (I wanna make a booklet for this, I'm aiming for the moon, baby!), OR, since the grander the project the higher the chances of me never finishing it, a taste of what could have been.

The Dubliners - Sam Hall (a classic execution ballad with many versions, some of which brim with rage, while this one is rather stoic and dignified)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Up jumped the devil (a song about a man doomed from the start to play the villain's part, and the origin of this blog's #swinging from the gallows tree tag)

Johnny Cash - 25 minutes to go (peak gallows humour at Folsom Prison, uproariously funny and defiant, and somehow still conveying the terror of a man who doesn't want to die)

Let's Play Dead - Heaven and Hell (an execution ballad recently written for the series Harlots)

Brown Bird - Gallows (an alt-folk song not strictly about gallows, but adjacent)

Joan Baez - Long black veil (a country ballad about a man falsely accused of murder, who lets himself get dragged to gallows because he won't reveal his alibi: an affair with his best friend's wife)

Ewan MacColl - Go down ye murderers (a folk song about Tim Evans, who hanged for the murder of his wife and child in 1950; the real murderer confessed 3 years later, and the case played a major role in abolishing capital punishment in the UK)

The Tiger Lillies - Hang tomorrow (the pioneers of dark cabaret reimagine Brecht's Threepenny Opera, and here, disturbingly, take all the suaveness out of Macheath)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat (the Mercy Seat is the electric chair, and this is a torrent of a song, a whirlwind, a masterpiece, a 7-minute cynic snarl)

Saga de Ragnar Lodbrock - Ballade des pendus - The OG Ballad of the Hanged, written in the 15th century by the OG poète maudit, François Villon. It paints an indelible picture:

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Marvel Studios, founded by various American Jews, recently released the first trailer for Captain America: Brave New World. 

Amid the excitement for the legendary Captain America saga to continue with Sam Wilson at its helm, Jewish and Israeli Marvel fans noticed something odd: Sabra, Israel’s Captain America, will be portrayed as a former Black Widow instead of the superhuman Mossad agent she was originally intended to be.

However, erasing a character’s Jewish identity is not something that is entirely new to Marvel. 

Although a recent Wrap report indicates that Sabra will retain her Israeli background in the film following a backlash from fans, Marvel’s approach to dealing with Sabra highlights a complex relationship between the studio and its portrayal of Jewish characters. In short, Marvel has a history of minimizing Jewish representation in its works.

In Marvel’s upcoming Captain America: Brave New World, the Israeli-born Mossad super-agent Ruth Bar-Seraph, known as Sabra, has been reimagined as a Russian spy. Her powers include super strength, speed, regenerative healing, and the ability to transfer her life energy to others. 

Sabra, an Israeli cactus that’s prickly on the outside and sweet on the inside, is symbolic of the Israeli mindset. This significant reinvention intentionally deprives her of her Israeli identity and the deeply rooted Jewish trauma embedded in her story, replacing it with a more convenient narrative. 

By sidestepping these crucial elements of Sabra’s heroism, Marvel chooses to sanitize complex identities rather than embracing their power. In light of the ongoing war in Gaza, this erasure is particularly painful, as Israelis and Jews worldwide continue their struggle for authentic representation in the media. 

Marvel’s deliberate decision to whitewash Sabra’s identity ignores the genuine, contemporary trauma and historical persecution faced by the Jewish people. The decision underscores that the delegitimization of the Jews and their homeland cannot even be escaped on the big screen. 

Marvel’s latest attempt at a Jew-free superhero lineup doesn’t begin with Sabra. It has roots in the X-Men, Avengers, and Moon Knight — all major Marvel movie standouts. 

Magneto and Hydra

Magneto, born Max Eisenhardt to a Jewish family, was taken by Nazi soldiers to Auschwitz alongside his family. Surviving due to his mutant ability to control metal, he later assumes the identity of Eric Lensherr and befriends Professor Charles Xavier. 

In one of the most poignant Jewish scenes in Marvel movies thus far, X-Men: First Class depicts Magneto drawing strength as he remembers lighting candles with his mother before the Nazis uprooted his life and sent his family to Auschwitz. In X-Men: Apocalypse, Magneto returns to the concentration camp and uses his powers to destroy it. 

As arguably the most famous Marvel character visibly rooted in his Jewish identity, Magneto exemplifies meaningful representation. However, he is also one of the most infamous villains in comic book history. Jews have a long history of being demonized and scapegoated, and Marvel’s choice to perpetuate this narrative rather than challenge it is troubling.

Magneto’s mutant legacy lives on in his two children;  Wanda and Pietro Maximoff. Wanda possesses intense telepathy and telekinesis, while Pietro can move at superspeed. In the Marvel comics, their Jewish heritage is integral to their identities. With a Romani mother and Jewish father, both Holocaust survivors, the twins are armed with a powerful legacy of resilience. Having fought both with and against the Avengers, the Maximoff twins are among the most compelling characters in the Marvel universe. 

However, in X-Men: Days of Future Past, devout fans debate Wanda’s blood relation to Magneto. The fact remains that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has presented Wanda and Pietro without a religion, hailing from the fictional country of Sokovia, and devoid of any connection to their Jewish identity.

In the MCU, Wanda and Pietro’s powers result from experiments by the evil Hydra scientist, Baron von Strucker. Originally, Hydra served as the advanced technology and weaponry arm of the Nazi regime during World War II. Hydra soldiers share the fascist red and black, the straight-armed salute (performed with both arms), and an eerily familiar “heil Hydra” chant with their mainstream Nazi counterparts. 

Beginning with Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel has largely downplayed Hydra’s Nazi roots, transforming it into a generic, timeless evil organization. By downplaying or outright ignoring Hydra’s origins as a Nazi faction, Marvel seeks to avoid the disturbing historical implications and instead focuses on Hydra as a broader symbol of tyranny and corruption.

This revisionist approach not only dilutes the gravity of Hydra’s origins but also conveniently sidesteps the uncomfortable reality of depicting true historical atrocities, thereby diminishing the impact of the narrative and the lessons it could impart about the dangers of fascist ideologies. 

The ongoing conflict between Captain America and S.H.I.E.L.D. with Hydra, persisting throughout the MCU, is presented as a battle between American strength, embodied by Captain Steve Rogers, and a vague evil represented by Hydra and its endless heads, minimizing the profound impact of Nazi ideology on World War II.

Considering Marvel’s popularity among young audiences, this depiction misleads impressionable viewers into believing that WWII was merely a struggle between America and a technologically innovative bad-guy. Hydra persists throughout the MCU, threatening the forces of good in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. 

Yet, as the technology arm of the Nazi party continues fighting, its despicable origins are conspicuously absent. If a young fan beginning their Marvel journey learned lessons about the war from these movies, they would identify a fictional Hydra, not the very real Nazis, as the primary antagonist, thereby doing a disservice to the depravity of the Third Reich.

Kitty Pryde

Kitty Pryde, another mutant in the X-Men universe with repeated movie appearances, is another revealing example of Marvel entirely revising a Jewish character’s identity to be more palatable for the big screen.

Kitty has remarkable phasing abilities, meaning she can pass through solid matter. Various websites, including fan sites and her official Marvel biography, emphasize her commitment to Judaism (see here, here, and here).  

In the comics, she has been seen wearing a Star of David, reciting blessings, and drawing parallels between her experiences of being marginalized as a Jew and as a mutant. These sometimes invisible identities deeply influence her worldview.

However, Kitty appears in four X-Men feature films, and her rich cultural and religious background is consistently absent, leaving a void where her Jewish identity should be. This omission not only strips away a layer of her character’s depth but also underscores Marvel’s pattern of erasing Jewish identities to fit a more generalized narrative, thereby failing to represent the nuanced experiences of Jewish characters on the big screen.

I’m Jewish. I don’t have a quote unquote Jewish-sounding name. I don’t look or sound Jewish, whatever that looks or sounds like… So if you didn’t know I was Jewish, you might not know… unless I told you. Same goes for my mutation. I don’t have to wear a visor or have blue fur all over me. I can walk around. Just a young woman of the world. But… I’m not. —Kitty Pryde, All-New X-Men Vol 1 13

Moon Knight

Unfortunately, Marvel’s belittling of Jewish identity endures on the little screen as well. One of the most highly anticipated TV series on Disney+ was Moon Knight, centered around, well, Moon Knight. In the show, Steven Grant is a goofy museum gift shop employee who struggles with dissociative personality disorder. His other identity is Marc Spector, a retired mercenary who becomes the Earthly representative of Khonsu, the Egyptian god of the moon.

Marc’s family embodies the American dream. Having fled Nazi persecution in Europe in the 1930s, Spector’s rabbi father sought a better environment to raise his Jewish family—a story many are familiar with today. 

The show switches between Steven and Marc’s perspectives, but hones in on Spector in episode 5, “Asylum.” Spector is immersed in the memory of a shiva from his childhood as a means of confronting his abusive mother. In the scene, mourners can be seen wearing Jewish prayer shawls, and Spector himself is even wearing a kippah.

Given that Oscar Isaac, the non-Jewish actor playing Moon Knight, confirmed Spector’s Jewish identity would be evident in the show, there is no mention of his father’s work, his family’s history fleeing antisemitic persecution, or any significant exploration of his Jewish identity beyond surface-level nods. 

This neglect strips away a layer of depth from Marc Spector’s character, reducing his heritage to mere background decoration rather than an integral part of his identity and motivation. Furthermore, it deprives Jewish fans of the same representation Marvel eagerly awards to other minority groups.

Despite its Jewish origins, Marvel continues to sanitize and diminish the Jewish identities of its characters, both on the big screen and in streaming series. 

From reimagining Sabra as a Russian spy to neglecting Marc Spector’s rich Jewish heritage in Moon Knight, Marvel consistently misses opportunities to genuinely represent Jewish experiences and identities. 

This pattern not only strips characters of their depth and authenticity but perpetuates a troubling erasure of Jewish culture and history as characters ascend from comics to movies. Marvel has demonstrated their commitment to representation as they bring their characters to life on the big screen, so why do they have a Jewish problem?

[prapasara]

9 Delightful Thai Modern Desserts 🇹🇭 🍨

In Thailand, sweets are not merely an end to a meal; they are a celebration of culture, tradition, and the bountiful natural produce of the region. 🇹🇭

Traditional Thai desserts, rooted in a rich cultural heritage, utilize a wide array of local ingredients like coconut milk, rice flour, tropical fruits, and sweet syrups. 🍍🍐🍊

This modern twist does not merely update the flavors but often reinvents the very form and essence of traditional desserts. For instance, Som Chun and Khanom Chor Moung are being reimagined with new ingredients (e.g. edible flower, various type of fruits) 🌸

As we transition from the traditional roots to contemporary expressions. Let’s look into 9 delightful Thai modern desserts that artfully blend the old with the new, each telling its own unique story of culinary creativity.

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1. Som Chun

Traditional Thai dessert sweet and sour dish, often served during the summer months.

The name "Som Chun" is another name for "lychee," which is a primary ingredient mentioned in the royal composition "Kap He Chom Khreung Khao Wan" by King Rama II of Thailand.

Main Ingredients : Lychee / Mango plum / Marian plum / Longan + Biiter orange + Gingers + Sweet syrup

2. Khanom Phra Pai

A popular dessert traditionally served in wedding ceremonies. Colorful dumplings, with a glutinous outer layer that gives a chewy texture, paired well with a filling of sweet green bean paste.The name "Khanom Phra Pai" can be translated to "breeze (Phra Pai)" symbolizing the belief that this dessert will bring coolness and happiness to the couple's life while dispelling any sorrow or distress.

Main Ingredients : Sticky rice flour + Coconut milk + Sugar + Green beans

3. Bulan Dan Mek

A traditional Thai dessert inspired by royal songs in the reign of King Rama II. This dessert features a circular dimple with a yellow colour at its center, surrounded by a bluish-purple outer layer. The name translates to "moon pushes the clouds, reflects the dessert's appearance, often crafted to look like the moon emerging from behind clouds.

Main Ingredients : Mixed flour + Coconut milk + Sugar + Egg + Butterfly pea flower water + Pandan leaves

4. Khanom Chor Moung

Thai purple flower dumplings. This steamed dumpling can have either a savoury or sweet stuffing. The purple colour is derived from butterfly pea, with lime juice added to change the colour from blue to purple. The name literally means “purple bouquet“ , a direct reference to its colour and floral appearance.

Main Ingredients : Butterfly pea flower dyed dough + Minced meat + Crushed peanuts + Garlic + Cilantro + Pepper

5. Khanom Sam Pan Nee

Thai cookies with a delightful coconut scent that melt in your mouth. The name means “beloved”, so the dessert is traditionally used in wedding ceremonies. When eaten, the sweetness and aroma gradually dissolve in the mouth, evoking thoughts of love and affection.

Main Ingredients : Roasted tapioca flour + Coconut cream + Sugar

6. Khanom Bueang

Thai crispy pancakes or Thai Crepes with white meringue-like cream on top. The cream is topped by sweet or salty toppings, like Foi Thong (sweet egg floss), or chopped shrimps. The first documented mention of Khanom Bueang appears in Thai literature during the Ayutthaya Kingdom. The name originates from the traditional cooking method used to make these crispy pancakes. The process involves pouring a batter made from rice flour and coconut milk onto a hot griddle made of fired clay tiles, known as "Kra Bueang"

Main Ingredients : Eggs + Mixed flour + Red limestone paste + Palm sugar + Icing sugar + Foi Thong/Minced shrimp seasoned with cilantro root, garlic and pepper

7. Tub Tim Grob (Red Rubies)

The red rubies (Mock pomegranate seeds) are chewy on the outside and crunchy in the middle, served with sweetened coconut milk. The name means "crisp rubies," referring to the jewel-like appearance of the water chestnuts coated in a soft and chewy tapioca gel.

Main Ingredients : Water chestnuts + Granulated sugar + Coconut milk + Tapioca starch

8. Khanom Re Rai

A noodle-like Thai dessert that perfectly presents an artistic expression. The Re Rai noodles are molded into small, beautiful pieces, flavoured with coconut cream. Served with roasted sesame and grated coconut.The name was derived from the nest of a cricket.

Main Ingredients : Grated coconut + Coconut milk/cream + Rice flour + Natural colour + Sesame seeds.

9. Krachao Sida

A Thai dessert with exquisite appearances that allure one to indulge, known as the 'Colorful Basket'. This basket is filled with sweetened, shredded ripe coconut dyed in multiple colors. The name “Sida” comes from the main characters of Ramayana, Lady Sita. So, Krachao Sida is translated as “The basket of Lady Sita”.

Main Ingredients : Shredded coconut + Mixed flour + Sugar + Butter + Natural colorants (pandan, butterfly pea, beetroot)

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9 ขนมไทยร่วมสมัย ที่ทั้งอร่อยและมีเอกลักษณ์สวยงามน่ารับประทาน 🍨

การรับประทานขนมหวานของไทย มิได้เป็นเพียงแค่การรับประทานปิดท้ายมื้ออาหารเท่านั้น แต่ยังเป็นสิ่งที่แสดงออกซึ่งวัฒนธรรมประเพณีของไทย อันสะท้อนให้เห็นถึงความพิถีพิถันและความอุดมสมบูรณ์ของพืชพันธุ์ธัญญาหารในประเทศ

ขนมไทยแบบดั้งเดิมมีรากฐานจากมรดกทางวัฒนธรรมอันยาวนาน โดยได้มีการนำวัตถุดิบในท้องถิ่น อาทิ กะทิ แป้งข้าวเจ้า ผลไม้เมืองร้อน และน้ำเชื่อม มาเป็นวัตถุดิบหลักในการทำขนม

ในปัจจุบัน ขนมไทยได้ถูกประยุกต์โดยมีการสร้างสรรค์รูปแบบเพื่อให้เข้ากับยุคสมัยที่เปลี่ยนแปล��ไป แต่ยังคงรสชาติความเป็นไทยแท้และแก่นแท้ของขนมหวานแบบดั้งเดิม ยกตัวอย่างเช่น ส้มฉุนและขนมช่อม่วงที่ถูกปรับโฉมใหม่ด้วยวัตถุดิบใหม่ ๆ (อาทิ ดอกไม้กินได้ ผลไม้นานาชนิด) 🌸🍍🍐🍊

🍨 ชวนมารู้จักขนมไทยที่น่ารับประทานทั้ง 9 อย่าง ที่ผสมผสานความดั้งเดิมร่วมกับการแสดงออกร่วมสมัย ซึ่งแต่ละเมนูล้วนบอกเล่าเรื่องราวความคิดสร้างสรรค์ในการทำขนมไทยที่เป็นเอกลักษณ์

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1. ส้มฉุน

เป็นของหวานชนิดหนึ่งของไทยที่นิยมทานในช่วงหน้าร้อน ด้วยรสชาติที่มีทั้งความเปรี้ยวจากผลไม้และความหวานจากน้ำลอยแก้�� ผสมผสานกับความหอมเย็นจากส้มซ่า ทำให้สดชื่น ช่วยคลายร้อนได้เป็นอย่างดี ส้มฉุน เป็นเมนูขนมหวานที่ปรากฎในกาพย์เห่ชมเครื่องคาวหวาน พระราชนิพนธ์ในพระบาทสมเด็จพระพุทธเลิศหล้านภาลัย รัชกาลที่ 2 ว่า “ลิ้นจี่มีครุ่นครุ่น เรียกส้มฉุนใช้นามกร หวนถวิลลิ้นลมงอน ชะอ้อนถ้อยร้อยกระบวน” โดยส้มฉุนเป็นอีกชื่อเรียกหนึ่งของลิ้นจี่ซึ่งเป็นผลไม้หลักในการทำส้มฉุน

ส่วนผสมสำคัญ : ลิ้นจี่ / มะยงชิด / มะปราง / ลำไย + ส้มซ่า + ขิง + น้ำเชื่อม

2. ขนมพระพาย

เป็นขนมมงคลโบราณที่นิยมใช้ในพิธีแต่งงาน มีลักษณะเป็นลูกกลมจากการนำแป้งข้าวเหนียวมาปั้น ส่งผลให้ผิวนอกเหนียวนุ่ม ไส้ในเป็นถั่วกวนเพิ่มความหวาน สำหรับชื่อของ "ขนมพระพาย" มีความหมายว่า “ลม” โดยเชื่อว่าเมื่อรับประทานขนมพระพายแล้ว ความร่มเย็นเป็นสุขจะเกิดแก่ชีวิตคู่และความทุกข์โศกจะถูกขจัดปัดเป่าไปนั่นเอง

ส่วนผสมสำคัญ : แป้งข้าวเหนียว + กะทิ + น้ำตาล + ถั่วเขียว

3. บุหลันดั้นเมฆ

ขนมไทยดั้งเดิมรสชาติหวานมันจากกะทิสดที่ได้รับแรงบันดาลใจจากเพลงราชนิพนธ์ในรัชสมัยพระบาทสมเด็จพระพุทธเลิศหล้านภาลัย รัชกาลที่ 2 มีลักษณะเป็นวงกลมสีเหลืองตรงกลางล้อมรอบด้วยสีม่วงอมน้ำเงิน โดยชื่อ "บุหลันดั้นเมฆ" สื่อถึงลักษณะของขนมที่เหมือนพระจันทร์สีเหลืองอร่ามที่ลอยอยู่ท่ามกลางหมู่เมฆยามค่ำคืน

ส่วนผสมสำคัญ : แป้ง + กะทิ + น้ำตาล + ไข่ + น้ำดอกอัญชัน + ใบเตย

4. ขนมช่อม่วง

ขนมไทยโบราณที่ได้รับความนิยมเป็นอย่างมากทั้งในงานมงคลและงานทั่วไป ด้วยรูปลักษณ์สวยงามที่ต้องอาศัยความเชี่ยวชาญในการจับจีบเป็นช่อดอกไม้สีม่วง โดยมีทั้งไส้หวานและไส้เค็ม สำหรับสีม่วงของขนมนั้��เป็นสีที่ได้มาจากส่วนผสมสำคัญอย่างน้ำดอกอัญชันผสมน้ำมะนาว

ส่วนผสมสำคัญ : แป้งที่ย้อมสีด้วยดอกอัญชัน + เนื้อสัตว์บด + ถั่วลิสงบด + กระเทียม + ผักชี + พริกไทย

5. ขนมสัมปันนี

เป็นขนมไทยโบราณรูปดอกไม้ที่มีเนื้อสัมผัสละมุน รสหอมหวานกลมกล่อม โดยชื่อ "สัมปันนี" แปลว่า "เป็นที่รัก" ขนมชนิดนี้มักนิยมใช้ในพิธีแต่งงานตามประเพณีของชาวไทย ซึ่งเมื่อทานเข้าไปแล้ว ความหวานและกลิ่นหอมของขนมสัมปันนี จะค่อย ๆ ละลายในปาก คลุกเคล้าไปด้วยความรู้สึกแห่งความรักและความผูกพัน

ส่วนผสมสำคัญ : แป้งมันคั่ว + หัวกะทิสด + น้ำตาล

6. ขนมเบื้อง

เป็นขนมไทยที่มีมาตั้งแต่สมัยโบราณ มีลักษณะเป็นแผ่นแป้งกลมกรอบ มีไส้ต่าง ๆ โดยที่นิยมคือ ไส้หวานที่เป็นฝอยทองโรยบนครีมขาว และไส้เค็มที่เป็นหน้ากุ้ง พบว่ามีการกล่าวถึงขนมเบื้องในวรรณคดีไทย ขุนช้างขุนแผน ในสมัยอยุธยา และชื่อขนมเบื้องนั้นมาจากวิธีการทำในสมัยโบราณที่เป็นการตักแป้งหยอดลงบนกระเบื้องดินเผา

ส่วนผสมสำคัญ : ไข่ + แป้ง + น้ำปูนใส+ น้ำตาลปี๊ป + น้ำตาลไอซิ่ง + ฝอยทอง/กุ้งสับโขลกผสมกับรากผักชี กระเทียม พริกไทย

7. ทับทิมกรอบ

ของหวานยอดนิยม ด้วยเนื้อสัมผัสของตัวเม็ดทับทิมที่หนึบนอกห่อหุ้มความกรอบของแห้วด้านใน ทานคู่กับน้ำกะทิหวานหอม สร้างความสดชื่นคลายร้อนได้เป็นอย่างดี "ทับทิมกรอบ" มาจากตัวแห้วหั่นเต๋าแช่ในน้ำผสมสีแดงเคลือบด้วยแป้งมันที่มองดูแล้วคล้ายกับเม็ดทับทิมสีแดงสวย

ส่วนผสมสำคัญ : แห้ว + น้ำตาลทราย + กะทิ + แป้งมันสำปะหลัง

8. ขนมเรไร

ขนมไทยโบราณที่มีลักษณะเป็นเส้นยาวม้วนสานกันไปมาจนเป็นก้อนกลม มีสีสันสวยงามหลากหลายตามสีจากธรรมชาติที่นำมาใช้ เช่น ใบเตย กระเจี๊ยบ อัญชัญ ทานโดยการโรยมะพร้าวขูด งาคั่ว เกิดเป็นความลงตัวของรสชาติที่หอมมันละมุนลิ้น แ โดยชื่อ "ขนมเรไร" นั้น มาจากการเปรียบเปรยถึงลักษณะของขนมที่เหมือนกับรังของตัวเรไร หรือ จักจั่นเรไร

ส่วนผสมสำคัญ : มะพร้าวขูด + กะทิ/หัวกะทิ + แป้งข้าวเจ้า + สีธรรมชาติ + เมล็ดงา

9. กระเช้าสีดา

เป็นขนมไทยชาววังที่มีลักษณะสวยงาม โดยตัวแป้งถูกทำเป็นรูปทรงคล้ายกับกระเช้า และมีไส้ที่ทำจากมะพร้าวขูดหวานมันที่ย้อมด้วยสีสันต่าง ๆ สวยงาม โดยชื่อ กระเช้าสีดา เป็นชื่อที่เชื่อมโยงมาจากตัวละครหลักในเรื่องรามเกียรติ์ คือ “นางสีดา”

ส่วนผสมสำคัญ : มะพร้าวขูด + แป้ง + น้ำตาล + เนย + สีธรรมชาติ (ใบเตย, ดอกอัญชัน, บีทรูท)

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#DITP #กรมส่งเสริมการค้าระหว่างประเทศ

# ThaiDesserts #ขนมไทย #ขนมหวานไทย

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[nancycat57]

Sam's 43rd BD

I decided to curate a list of songs in honor of himself. My own playlists are usually 10-12 songs long.

This is just for fun, amusement, edification....etc. etc.

Paradise by the Dashboard Lights by Meatloaf (1977 album Bat out of Hell)

Birthday The Beatles 1968 The White Album

Time Warp Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack 1975

Into the Mystic Van Morrison 1970 Moondance album, He should slow dance with a loved one for this one.

You gotta fight for your right to party !, Beastie Boys, 1986, License to Ill.

Fly Me to the Moon, Frank Sinatra's version 1964 Album "It Might as Well Be Spring"

Ridin' the Storm Out REO Speedwagon 1973 album Riding the Storm Out. Grab yer gal and a nice bottle of wine and watch the full moon crossing the range

Come Sail Away a song by rock band Styx, reimagined by Eric Cartman on South Park in 2007. The Cartman version for sure !!

We Won't get fooled again The Who 1971 album Who's Next...my very favorite rock anthem.

Your Song Elton John 1970 album Elton John...When I began to play, I emulated Elton John's style. This is a sweet romantic song.

Closer to the Heart, Rush, 1977 A Farewell to Kings..we all must be the ones to start !

I naively hope they will find this and give a listen with all good humor and affection !! Nancy from West Virginia

[darthkvznblogs]

Now that it's over, how do you feel about MCU Phase 4?

Well, to be honest, I haven't watched like half of it! Overall, I liked what I watched, but it's hard to deny that the MCU has been struggling to find its footing after Endgame. I'll tell you my take on what I did watch (briefly, I'm not a reviewer haha)

-Black Widow: I liked it! Kinda too little, too late for Natasha's character, to be honest, but it was a neat adventure. Yelena was the standout there, great addition to the MCU. I even kinda liked "Taskmaster" (though, yeah, not at all what I would've hoped for a live action Taskmaster) Still miffed the Widow is dead, though.

-Shang-Chi: Loved it. Could call it formulaic, origin story and all, but I don't mind that, personally. The new characters are all great, the return of Trevor Slattery was very funny, the fight coreography was excellent, and I really loved Wenwu and the reimagined Ten Rings (though I wouldn't mind if they turned out to have some of their comic-accurate powers later on wink-wink)

-Eternals: I liked the mythos it brought to the table, and the visuals are incredible, but the romance that's core to the story couldn't have been more bland if it tried, and the Deviants might as well have been an environmental hazard rather than antagonists.

-No Way Home: Loved it! I'm a sucker for that kind of fanservice, not gonna lie. Almost all the returning villains were amazing (except Lizard, he was kind of just...there), but my god, Green Goblin was crazy good. The Multiverse craziness was kind of contrived, and it had kind of a downer ending, but that's the Parker luck for you.

-Wandavision: I liked it, but I feel it didn't go weird enough. Also, you can't convince me that this Wanda and MoM Wanda are the same character. No doubt, Wanda was in the wrong in the show, but there's a far cry from that to going on a legit killing spree. I hated that choice, it felt like character assassination, and it pissed me off enough that I outright refuse to watch MoM.

-Falcon and the Winter Soldier: I guess I liked them. Bucky and Sam were great, and their struggles were very interesting to watch through. John Walker was very good, too, nailed the role. The rest was, uh...well, there's not much there to talk about, unfortunately. Also pissed about Sharon Carter, but she's probably been replaced by a Skrull, in which case I'll allow it.

-Loki: very cool, though I have to say I expected a bit more fun to be had with time travel and alternate timelines. Kind of transparent that this show exists only because Loki's so popular, lol.

-What if...?: kinda hit or miss. Refused to watch the zombie episode because I have a phobia there. Also: poor Tony can't catch a break in that series, lol.

-Moon Knight: pretty great! Like Loki, it's pretty obvious that Oscar Isaac carries the show, but I can't complain. I could see how it'd piss off die hard fans of the comics version, though. He's pretty dang different, from what I know.

-She-Hulk: I've only watched two eps so far. It's funny, and I really like Tatiana Maslany as Jen Walters, but I'm actually really not a fan of the Hulk ever since Endgame. I know the show gets pretty nuts later, so I'm curious to watch more, but who knows when I'll have a chance.

The rest of Phase 4 I haven't watched either from lack of time or because there's something about it that turns me off. I'm sure I'll catch up eventually though!

[little-cereal-draws]

Imma be completely honest, I’m literally only here as a Marvel Fan because of MK and WWBN, the writing of everything else is atrocious.

This is my fifth year being an mcu fan so i definitely have not been following it since the beginning but those two definitely are the best of phase 4.

I know this isnt' what u asked for but i'm bored here are my ratings for phase 4:

Moon Knight. I'm not going to write all the reasons i love it bc that would turn into an entire essay lol but this show is phenomenal and has captured my heart and soul

Werewolf by Night. again, just like moon knight, it's creative and cinematic and perfect in every way

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. It's funny, got good action, emotional parts, and i live for shang and katy's relationship. they're so funny and i'm eternally glad they didn't force them into a weird romance

Ms. Marvel. the kids were written like kids and kamala is so dorky and cute. i know a lot of ppl didn't like her for some reason but she also lives in my heart

Hawkeye. This is just bc im one of those comic book nerds and have read every single hawkeye book and have merch and stuff lol I'm a diehard fan and loved pointing out all the little details even if it deviated from the comics

Black Widow. I think people are right that Yelena did steal the show a little bit but i love it anyway. It always makes me cry. every time.

Thor: Love and Thunder. I liked this movie! I saw it in theaters multiple times and enjoyed it. I can see the reasons behind people's critiques and do agree that the first half felt a bit weirdly paced but the second half really saved it for me

WandaVision. I'm just a sucker for Wanda and Vision lol They were my first mcu ship and i'm glad they finally got a spotlight. ppl complain abt the ending but i thought it was pretty good

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. I loved seeing all the different dynamics that came up in this show and the real world problems it addressed. It also made me cry. I loved Sam and Bucky but Karli really stole the show for me and I was on her side the whole time lol

What If...? I actually really liked the reimagining of the characters and the odd pair ups. It was fun to see all the new interactions we would never get in canon. I think the watcher was weird and didn't need to fight ultron but the rest of it was good. Also the animation was beautiful. I was on the edge of my seat trying to get a better look at it the whole time lol

Spider-Man: No Way Home. It was a really good movie but I haven't seen all the og spider man movies so i didn't know who a lot of the villains were. and peter could have thought his little stunt at the end through a bit more but oh well. Still funny though

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. It was really exciting to see America (i'm also a fan of her comics) but really I was rooting for wanda the whole time lol Ofc I knew that america would live bc they need her for the young avengers but it was really fun seeing wanda be in her villain era. they did her dirty at the end tho and basically had her learn the lesson she just learned in wandavision... which was also the lesson she learned in civil war. when will they give my girl a new arc? also i'm in denial, I refuse to believe she's dead :) (and also dr strage was in it too ig)

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. This was fun, I had a good time. It was really funny and finally confirmed that peter and mantis were siblings but i don't think i'll watch it any time other than christmas (unlike werewolf by night which is a year round event lol)

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. ok this one got a lot of hate but i don't see why? i didn't think it was bad, i just wasn't gripped by the story. i only watched up to episode three so i can't judge the whole thing but it was a bit too slice of life-y for me to be engaged w the story but as far as i can tell, that's jen's thing. The parts that i did see weren't poorly written and it's not the shows fault the animation was so bad (cough marvelwon'tlettheiranimatorsunionize cough)

Eternals. Same problem as she hulk. it wasn't bad, it just wasn't interesting. I only made it through half the movie before i left but i was really confused by who was who. i kept getting them mixed up

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The only reason this is so low is because I haven't seen it yet. I've heard nothing but glowing reviews so i'm sure it'll go up to the top of the list but i can't judge it until i see it

Loki. I hate this show, i hate it so much. I am so fucking mad abt this bc it had so much potential! I've also read the loki comics and i think those set my bar too high. yes, the show acknowledges loki is bi but they make him fall in love with another version of himself instead of doing anything w that. yes, they acknowledge he's genderfluid but we never see it, not even in flashbacks. he's trying to redefine who he is and stuff but i was so distracted by the horrible self-cest romance, that i was actively rooting against, to notice character development. If you want a good story about a bisexual, genderfluid loki redefining themself in the most beautiful way, read the Loki: Agent of Asgard comic run

[thatmexisaurusrex]

Very Easy Ways Sam Could Have Been Referenced or Could have Cameoed Since TFATWS:

Variants of Sam could have been at the TVA (Possibly in his classic 616 deep v-neck uniform or even in the uniform he was wearing during the Falcon and the Winter Soldier comic OR in a reimagined version of his Cap uniform)

The Eternals could have been like "Wait, you can't run the Avengers, Sam Wilson is rebuilding the Avengers in the Gulf Coast"

Peter could have commented that this one guy with a bird gimmick that he webbed in an airport in Europe is now Cap

There could be talking heads discussing Sam Wilson as Captain America in the background at any point. Or newspaper articles. Any form or news. I'll even take someone writing their opinion in skywriting

Sam Wilson PSA - Could have been fun in Spider-Man or could be fun in Ms. Marvel

Sam variants anywhere in the multiverse (a fem!Sam would be fun since there's a female Sam Captain America out in the comic multiverse)

Random Sam Wilson merch

Someone dressed as Sam at the Con (how could people not??? The suit is AMAZING)

A Panel about Sam at the Con (how were there no panels at that con I swear 😂 )

People talking about visiting Delacroix because it has now become a bit of a tourist destination (with all the pros and cons of that)

How is there not even a Wilson Family Seafood shirt anywhere????

Sam showing up to help save the day at any points???

I will even take a MEANWHILE IN DELACROIX as Sam fixes the boat with Bucky 😂 😭

A rumor that Sam is visiting Steve on the moon even

[big-idiot-wolf-boys]

I’m rewriting the series (At least up to eclipse then we’ll see) But I only have the second and third books plotted right now so I’m not 100% sure how I’m going to handle the pack and things are subject to change. Right now I’m going with

The shapeshifting is still because of the proximity in vampires, and disconnected from the Quileute legends. They never claim they shift because the legends say so, they never act like it’s some kind of tribal magic.

Also the pack won’t be referred to as a cult or gang, ever.

Emotions won’t have a play in the transformation, and speaking of the transformation it won’t be painful and I’m going to deal with the clothes issue in a more reasonable way.

I like the duality of imprinting and vampiric mates, so I’m toying with the idea of keeping it but with key changes. (Maybe imprinting can be romantic, given the correct age groups, sometimes it’ll be like a sibling thing, sometimes the imprinter will take on a parental role, sometimes it’ll be solely platonic. It’s just knowing that person needs to be in your life, for whatever reason. The imprinter will, of course, maintain their free will and an imprint can be broken)

Outside of the wolf aspect of it, I’m planning on making the pack more important characters in the story, incorporating actual Quileute traditions and boosting irl native issues as often as I can on this blog.

Words like exotic, dog, etc, will never be used from the POV character, (Bella) but I feel stopping the Cullen family from doing so would be altering all of their characters a LOT (they’re all racist, lets face it) so they’ll just be called out for that shit.

As of right now, I’ve only posted up to chapter 8 of my rewrite, so the Quileutes have barely come into play so far, but you can find and keep up with the fic here, or read the first three chapters on my tumblr under the Nightfall: Twilight Reimagined tag

some questions for twilight fanfic writers/readers

how do you go about writing the quileute characters?

do you stick to canon? do you change only certain things (e.g. imprinting, emotions triggering the transformation, the hair growth)? mayhaps overhaul the entire werewolf/shapeshifter lore? if you alter them, why? in what ways? do you feel a responsibility to improve it?

if you’re not a writer, put in what you are noticing in fics

please reply in a reblog or put it in the tags if you would like to share and feel free to link your work or any fic(s) you like! :)

as i’m typing the questions, i’m 110% sure someone has asked this before, probably with the exact same questions - if you know who, please tell me, but i hope it’s okay to get this discussion going again regardless

thanks if you participate! unfortunately i haven’t properly ventured into the world of twilight fics & don’t really have the time atm but i have been wondering about it

[witchern]

Your bookshelf looks amazing! Do you have any book recs?

omg ALWAYS

idk what genre you're looking for but i read pretty widely so here's the latest stuff i've loved:

"bad blood" by john carreyrou. non-fiction. all about elizabeth holmes and the theranos scandal. if you don't know anything about that scandal – it's fucking bonkers.

"the indifferent stars above" by daniel james brown. historical non-fiction. about the donner party saga. again, if you don't know about it, it's fucking wild. hang on for a dark ride.

"the poppy war" by r.f. kuang. adult fantasy. rin is a war orphan who attends an elite academy where she gets involved with shamanism, gods, and warfare. inspired by the second sino-japanese war. at times a difficult read bc it doesn't shy away from the violence of war but probably one of my favorite fantasies of the last, like, decade. it's also the first in a trilogy that's already completed!

"ninth house" by leigh bardugo. new adult fantasy. alex is a yale freshman who's tasked with monitoring eight secret occult societies that operate on the yale campus. dark, weird, and lovely.

"the forest of stolen girls" by june hur. historical mystery. hwani's detective father has disappeared while investigating the mystery of 13 missing girls from the korean island of jeju, and now she has to find him and the rest of the girls before another goes missing. i literally could NOT put this one down until i finished.

"final girls" by riley sager. thriller. quincy, sam, and lisa are all 'final girls' who are the only survivors of different mass murders, and though they've never met, their lives tangle together as someone begins killing off the final girls one at a time. another one i was physically incapable of putting down.

"these violent delights" by chloe gong. young adult historical fantasy. if you ever wanted romeo and juliet reimagined in 1920s shanghai (as roma montagov and juliette cai) where they simultaneously have to navigate their complicated relationship AND hunt down a monster, i've got your book right here.

i'm also gonna pull my "i'm friends with a few authors" card and rec their books because i can, damnit:

"the nature of witches" by rachel griffin. young adult fantasy. clara is a witch whose magic and powers evolve with the seasons.

"made in korea" by sarah suk. young adult romance. two korean-american teens butt heads when they start running competing k-beauty businesses at their high school.

"the bright and the pale" by jessica rubinkowski. young adult fantasy. valeria travels with a group of cutthroats and thieves to buy her friend's freedom and risks unleashing something dark and sinister in the process.

"under the lavender moon" by christina mai fong. rilla's singing voice can heal any ailment and when she's discovered, the royal couple plan to harness and abuse her power to grant them eternal youth.

i actually have more recs but i'll promptly shut myself up now aljkdfhalsjf can you tell i LOVE BOOKS 😭

[aion-rsa]

Upcoming Marvel Movies Release Dates: MCU Phase 4 Schedule, Cast, and Story Details

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A bold new era for the Marvel Cinematic Universe began in 2021 on Disney+ with the wildly successful WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but Marvel Studios certainly hasn’t been resting on its laurels in terms of upcoming cinematic blockbusters. Not only does it have Black Widow (finally) ready for theatrical release, but we’ve also got Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals, Thor: Love and Thunder, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness all in various stages of production, there are also TV series on the way for the likes of Hawkeye, Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight, She-Hulk, and more!

Well, if you’ve been a little confused by Marvel’s shifting dates and streaming priorities, never fear! We’ve got a comprehensive release calendar for you here detailing all the forthcoming MCU projects, so you’ll always be able to find the latest updates when you need them.

Let’s take a look at everything Marvel has in store over the next few years…

Loki

Release Date: June 9, 2021

Tom Hiddleston will reprise his most famous role, as Loki finds himself on a heist through time and space “as he steps out of his brother’s shadow” after the events of Avengers: Endgame! Oh, and based on this trailer, there’s all kinds of time-travelling weirdness awaiting, including the return of Heimdall, some other Asgardian hijinks, DB Cooper (yes!), Owen Wilson playing an obscure character based on a beloved Marvel Comics writer, and…Loki possibly running for President!

Tom Hiddleston stars, of course, and the cast also includes Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku, and Richard E. Grant. Michael Waldron is head writer and Kate Herron is directing.

Black Widow 

Release Date: In theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access Friday, July 9, 2021

The Black Widow movie was heading for a May 1, 2020 release before the pandemic, but Disney and Marvel decided to delay it until the industry’s infrastructure was back to some semblance of normal. They seemed absolutely committed to keeping Natasha on a theatrical release rather than sending her to Disney+, but eventually semi-caved in March as it was confirmed that Black Widow would hit both streaming and theaters simultaneously in July.

Here’s the official synopsis:

“Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.”

Cate Shortland directed the film, and Scarlett Johansson stars, with Florence Pugh and David Harbour alongside her. One of the movie’s villains is Taskmaster, and we wrote a little bit more about him right here.

Natasha Romanoff will get a prequel movie of sorts here, as we catch up with Widow right around the events of Captain America: Civil War. Will the plot affect her character’s ultimate fate in Endgame? Do not count on it.

What If…?

Release Date: Summer 2021

The beloved comic book series that tells tales of how things might have turned out differently in the Marvel Universe is becoming an animated series on Disney+!

Here’s the official synopsis:

“What If…? flips the script on the MCU, reimagining famous events from the films in unexpected ways…Marvel Studios’ first animated series focuses on different heroes from the MCU, featuring a voice cast that includes a host of stars who reprise their roles.”

We know that at least a couple of these roles include Chadwick Boseman’s final performance as T’Challa as well as the return of Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter!

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Release Date: September 3, 2021

Simu Liu has been cast as the titular Shang-Chi and Tony Leung as The Mandarin (hey, that name sounds familiar! But this time, we’re getting the real Mandarin on screen). Destin Daniel Cretton is directing from a script by Dave Callaham. Given its “Ten Rings” title, Shang-Chi should be steeped in Marvel lore, going all the way back to the first Iron Man film!

Hopefully this will be Marvel’s most action-packed movie yet. The trailer sure makes us think so.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Release Date: September 17, 2021

Andy Serkis (Mowgli) steps behind the camera for Venom 2, which now boasts the catchy title of Venom: Let There Be Carnage. The first film, buoyed by a terrific showing at the Chinese box office, made an absolute ton of money, despite being released to mostly scathing reviews.

Venom: Let There be Carnage will follow up Sony’s 2018 Spider-Man-less spinoff film, but will likely be more connected to the MCU this time around, thanks to a renewed deal between the company and its Marvel Studios partners. Tom Hardy will return as Eddie Brock, of course, and as you can probably guess from that title, he’ll be facing off against Woody Harrelson’s villain, Cletus Kasady aka Carnage!

We wrote about all the cool Marvel stuff happening in the above trailer right here.

The Eternals 

Release Date: Nov. 5, 2021

Acclaimed Nomadland helmer (and Oscar winner!) Chloe Zhao is directing Marvel’s Eternals from a script by Matthew and Ryan Firpo. Marvel described the film as an “epic story, spanning thousands of years” that features “a group of immortal heroes forced out of the shadows to reunite against mankind’s oldest enemy, The Deviants.”

The cast features Richard Madden as Ikaris, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Lauren Ridloff as Makkari, Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos, Salma Hayek as Ajak, Lia McHugh as Sprite, Don Lee as Gilgamesh, Angelina Jolie as Thena, Gemma Chan as Sersi, and Kit Harrington as Dane Whitman, the Black Knight. We meet all these characters in the trailer, which we wrote more about here.

This one was another victim of the release date shuffle, but we’ll finally get to see Jack Kirby‘s wildest creations soon enough!

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Release Date: Dec. 17, 2021

The next Spider-Man movie looks like a big one! Spider-Man: No Way Home will once again take place in the MCU since Marvel and Sony solved their differences, good sense prevailed, and Tom Holland’s Peter Parker will remain a vital part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

This one, well…this might be a live action Spider-Verse movie from the sound of it. Jamie Foxx will reprise his role as Electro from the maligned Amazing Spider-Man films and Alfred Molina will return from the Raimi era as Doctor Octopus.

Wait. Are they trying to make this a multiversal Sinister Six movie? Because…we could be down for that.

Hawkeye

Release Date: Late 2021

Jeremy Renner returns as Clint Barton to train his replacement as Hawkeye, Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop! Apparently based on the brilliant run of comics by Matt Fraction and David Aja, Hawkeye will also prominently feature Lucky the Pizza Dog, one of the great canines in Marvel Comics history.

The cast also includes Vera Farmiga as Eleanor Bishop, Fra Fee as Kazimerz Kazimierczak, Tony Dalton as Jack “Swordsman” Duquesne, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Alaqua Cox as Maya “Echo” Lopez, and Zahn McClarnon as Willie Lincoln. We wrote more about all these new characters here.

Ms. Marvel

Release Date: Late 2021

Ms. Marvel is finally coming to live action! Here’s the official synopsis for the series…

“Ms. Marvel introduces Kamala Khan—a 16-year-old Pakistani-American growing up in Jersey City. “A great student, an avid gamer and a voracious fan-fiction scribe, she has a special affinity for superheroes, particularly Captain Marvel. But Kamala struggles to fit in at home and at school—that is, until she gets super powers like the heroes she’s always looked up to. Life is easier with super powers, right?”

The cast includes Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel, Aramis Knight, Saagar Shaikh, Rish Shah, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Matt Lintz, Yasmeen Fletcher, Laith Naki, Azher Usman, Travina Springer, and Nimra Bucha. Episodes are directed by Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah, Meera Menon, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

This is going to be a big one, folks, because Kamala is going to be a significant player in Captain Marvel 2. How significant? The title of the movie is now The Marvels!

Morbius

Release Date: January 21, 2022

Spider-Man spinoff Morbius is Sony’s next big Marvel wild card, and it’ll officially be the first spinoff to properly connect to the MCU (even if Marvel Studios still isn’t officially acknowledging it in their own promotional materials the way they are with Spider-Man: No Way Home). Here’s the official synopsis for the film…

“Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed and transforms this healer into a hunter.”

Safe House‘s Daniel Espinosa directs from a script by Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Art Marcum, and Matt Holloway. Jared Leto stars as the vampiric title character, and the cast also includes Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, and Tyrese Gibson.

Read more about the character of Michael Morbius here.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Release Date: March 25, 2022

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness looks like it will open up the storytelling possibilities in the MCU like never before. And that’s just based on the name alone. Scott Derrickson was scheduled to direct, but bowed out because of “creative differences” with Marvel. But the good news is that Marvel found a suitable replacement in none other than Sam Raimi, who of course has plenty of superhero experience thanks to his Spider-Man trilogy in the early 2000s!

This one has loads of connections to the wider MCU. Elizabeth Olsen will be here as Wanda Maximoff post-WandaVision, and the film will also connect to Spider-Man: No Way Home and its own multiversal ambitions. There are also a few rumors doing the rounds that Jericho Drumm aka Brother Voodoo could be introduced in this sequel. We’ll keep an eye on that and update this if there’s any substance to them.

Thor: Love and Thunder

Release Date: May 6, 2022

Taika Waititi, who gave us the delightful Thor: Ragnarok, will return to write and direct. Chris Hemsworth will be back. Natalie Portman is your new Thor (yes, you read that right, Jane Foster will wield the hammer…just as she did in the comics!). Christian Bale has also joined the cast as the terrifying Gorr the God Butcher. Not only that, this movie will finally put Olympians in the MCU with Russell Crowe as Zeus. Can Hercules be far behind?

Oh, and did we mention that the Guardians of the Galaxy will be along for the ride, too?

Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever 

Release Date: July 8, 2022

Black Panther 2 is now called Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Marvel has made it official that after the tragic, untimely death of Chadwick Boseman they have no intention of recasting the role of T’Challa, which is absolutely the right move.

Ryan Coogler will return as director, but there are no other details currently available. Interestingly, Coogler is also bringing a Wakanda TV series to Disney+ at some point in the future, too, and something tells us this Wakanda-centric title for the sequel is a sign of things to come.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sequel

Release Date: October 7, 2022

Is it technically an MCU movie? Nope. But with all the legal weirdness going on between Marvel and Sony, and this franchise’s very multiversal concept, who’s really to say that it ISN’T an MCU movie either, right? In any case, the sequel to the best Spider-Man movie of all time is coming in 2022 with Avatar: The Last Airbender mastermind Joaquim Dos Santos directing and David Callaham writing.

There’s also an “untitled Marvel movie” still technically scheduled for this date but…that is almost certainly not gonna happen now. Expect whatever that project was to move to one of these below dates or to some other currently unspecified date on the calendar.

Captain Marvel 2: The Marvels

Release Date: November 11, 2022

WandaVision writer Megan McDonnell has been tapped to write the screenplay for Captain Marvel 2, which now boasts the title of The Marvels. You know what else is really cool? Candyman‘s Nia DaCosta will direct!

We have no idea where we’ll find Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) in the sequel to her hugely successful first standalone MCU entry. Will she be fighting to loosen her former Kree pals’ iron grip on a pre-Avengers galaxy? Or will the follow up film see her fighting for justice in the present?

In any case, we know that she’ll be facing off with Zawe Ashton as a currently-unnamed antagonist, and WandaVision‘s Monica Lambeau (Teyonah Parris) will also return in her superpowered state after the events of that game-changing show. Considering that Monica was once known as “Captain Marvel” in the comics, that title of The Marvels becomes more appropriate. And even MORE appropriate when you realize that Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel, will also be making her big screen debut.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Release date: Feb. 17, 2023

Peyton Reed will return to direct the third installment of the Ant-Man saga, making him the first director in MCU history to complete a trilogy…perhaps the most unlikely trilogy in Marvel’s entire arsenal. Paul Rudd will return as Scott Lang, and you can certainly expect Evangeline Lilly to return as The Wasp and Michael Douglas as Hank Pym.

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The villain of the film? That will be Kang the Conqueror, who will be played by Lovecraft Country‘s Jonathan Majors. The inclusion of Kang opens up all kinds of interesting possibilities for the MCU, and may even tease the arrival of the Fantastic Four down the line! We wrote more about those possibilities right here.

We’re also going to need fast confirmation on Michael Pena’s return as Luis, though. Luis is key…

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 

Release date: May 5, 2023

After a tumultuous period which saw James Gunn fired and then rehired as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 director, he will finally return to complete his spacefaring trilogy for the studio. However, Gunn can’t even begin filming Guardians 3 until he finishes production on The Suicide Squad for DC, as well as an HBO Max Peacemaker prequel. Once those projects are finished, he’s free to return to the MCU.

Avengers: Endgame left the team in an interesting place. We broke down some of the story possibilities right here.

And then there are still some dates that Marvel has announced that they have yet to match projects to. Those dates are…

July 28, 2023

Oct 7, 2023

Nov. 10, 2023

Some of those dates could very well be good fits for the following films…

Fantastic Four

The MCU Fantastic Four movie is finally happening! Marvel seems to be hinting that Fantastic Four will be their next priority after Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. So is it possible that we’ll see it on July 28, 2023? That sure would be a great piece of summer blockbuster real estate to launch what might be the most important piece of the MCU going forward!

Marvel’s first family will join the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a film directed by Jon Watts, who did such a wonderful job with the first two MCU Spider-Man movies. That’s all the information that’s out there at the moment, but as soon as we have more, we’ll update this. It also appears that WandaVision started to set up the Fantastic Four, so stay tuned. We have our own theories on why Marvel went with the Fantastic Four before the X-Men, but that’s another story.

Blade

In 2019, Marvel announced that they will be rebooting the Blade franchise with Mahershala Ali playing the titular daywalker. Ali’s True Detective co-star – and former Blade villain – Stephen Dorff is excited to see what he can do with the character, and so are we.

Could Marvel decide to drop this in that Oct. 7, 2023 release date? Considering that’s the Halloween season and Blade is, y’know, a vampire hunter, they’d have to be foolish not to, right?

Captain America 4

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier showrunner Malcolm Spellman is co-writing a currently-untitled Captain America 4 with another FWS alum, Dalan Musson. Those are pretty much all the details that are currently available on this one at this time, but at least we know that Anthony Mackie will return as Sam Wilson in that incredibly badass Captain America costume they gave him for that show. We wrote some more about the potential story possibilities for this one right here.

There’s no date or director for this one yet, so even 2023 seems like it might be a longshot.

Deadpool 3

Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Loeglin will be the writing team tasked with bringing the Merc with a Mouth to the MCU. What a Deadpool 3 could look like in the interconnected Marvel Cinematic Universe is, of course, anybody’s guess, but if anyone can crack wise about the follies of this kind of corporate synergy, it’s Ryan Reynolds.

And then there’s the lingering TV stuff, at least two of which will arrive in 2022, with the balance likely to arrive in 2023…

She-Hulk

Tatiana Maslany will play Jennifer Walters, a lawyer who ends up with her cousin Bruce’s gamma-irradiated blood. Hilarity certainly ensues. Kevin Feige has promised that since this will be a courtroom show, you never know who else from the MCU could show up.

It’s possible we’ll get She-Hulk on Disney+ in 2022, but nothing is confirmed at this stage.

Moon Knight

Oscar Isaac will play Marc Spector, a disturbed fortune hunter who also happens to be the avenging avatar of an Egyptian moon god. Oscar Isaac is already training hard for the role, and the series is now officially in production, so we wouldn’t be surprised if we see this one on Disney+ in 2022.

Ironheart

The first of two series that will explore the legacy of Iron Man and Tony Stark in the MCU, Ironheart stars Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, a teenager at M.I.T. who creates her own suit of armor to right the wrongs of the world.

Armor Wars

Don Cheadle will reprise his role as Rhodey and will have the solo spotlight in the War Machine armor in a series that deals with a nightmare scenario for the MCU: what if Tony Stark’s Iron Man technology fell into the wrong hands and was getting duplicated by villains? Based on a classic comics run, Armor Wars promises big action and lots of obscure bad guys. We can’t wait.

Secret Invasion

Samuel L. Jackson will return as Nick Fury alongside Ben Mendelsohn as Talos for a series about the shape-shifting Skrull infiltration of Earth. Kingsley Ben-Adir is apparently playing the villain of the series. Olivia Colman, Emilia Clarke, and Killian Scott also star.

On directing duties are Thomas Bezucha (Let Him Go) and Ali Selim (The Looming Tower) while Mr. Robot vet Kyle Bradstreet is the head writer.

Secret Invasion could be the biggest thing to happen to the MCU since Endgame.

Wakanda

Very few details are available on this one at the moment, but Ryan Coogler will develop at least one Wakanda-set TV series for Disney+. Could this have anything to do with that Wakanda Forever title for Black Panther 2? We wrote more about some of the implications of this here.

We’ll keep updating this with new information as it becomes available!

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2021

Young Franco - Underneath (ft. Golden Vessel), Single (Mixing)

Stevan - Hope It’s Not, Single (Mixing)

Golden Vessel - Colt, Album (Mixing)

Young Franco - Fallin’ Apart (ft. Denzel Curry & Pell), Single (Mixing)

Cosmo’s Midnight - Yesteryear, Album (Mixing)

Yorke - Window Shopping, Single (Mixing)

Beso Palma - Without Measure (ft. Gia Vorne), Single (Mixing)

Cafuné - High, Single (Mixing)

G Flip x mxmtoon - Queen (Touch Sensitive rmx), Single (Mixing)

Golden Vessel - Get Forward, Single (Mixing)

Wave Racer - Left Behind, Single (Mixing)

Wave Racer - This N That (ft. LunchMoney Lewis), Single (Mixing)

Nicole Milar - Are You Kidding, Single (Mixing)

Skeleten - Biting Stone, Single (Mixing)

Arno Faraji x Two Another - Just A Phase, Single (Mixing)

Stevan - SIA, Single (Mixing)

Thandi Pheonix - Overdrive, Single (Mixing)

Mel Blue - Cleopatra, Single (Mixing)

Jalmar - La Fiesta, Single (Mixing)

Sachi - Down On My Luck, Single (Mixing)

Cosmo’s Midnight - Titanic, Single (Mixing)

Tseba - Must Be Love (ft. Electric Fields), Single (Mixing)

Hope Tala - Mad (Young Franco remix), Single (Mixing)

Andrey Azizov - TOO LOUD! (ft. Simone), Single (Mixing)

Chase Zera - Supernova, Single (Mixing)

1300 - Smashmouth, Single (Mixing)

Andrey Azizov - Braindead, Single (Mixing)

Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth, Album (Engineering)

Young Franco - Come Thru (SonReal, Jalmar), Single (Mixing)

Korky Buchek - Look @ Me, Single (Mixing)

Jack Ladder - Astronaut, Single (Engineering)

2020

Willaris. K - Chapel (ft. Wave IQ), Single (Mixing)

Stevan - Ontogeny, EP (Mixing)

Young Franco - Juice (ft Pell), Single (Mixing)

Cosmo's Midnight - Down 4 U (ft Ruel), Single (Mixing)

Genesis Owusu - Don’t Need You, Single (Engineering)

Golden Vessel - That’s Us, Single (Mixing)

Akurei - Serotonin, Single (Writing)

Angus1 - Bound (ft. Elizabeth M Drummon)

Beso Palma x Rissa - Ego, Single (Mixing)

George Maple - Fade, Single (Mixing)

Young Franco - Two Feet (ft. Pell & Dana Williams), Single (Mixing)

Jalmar - Mijo Rico, Single (Mixing)

Roland Tings - Up Close, Single (Mixing)

Winston Surfshirt - Smile, Single (Mixing)

Golden Vessel - That’s Us (ft. The Nicholas and Rei so La), Single (Mixing)

Skeleten - Mirrored, Single (Mixing)

Stevan - Just Kids, EP (Mixing)

Roland Tings - First Wave, EP (Mixing)

Golden Vessel - Midwest, Single (Mixing)

Golden Vessel - Little Bit Wild (ft. Mallrat)

Golding - Alone Together (Touch Sensitive rmx), Single (Mixing)

Juno Mamba - Siargao Dreams, Single (Mixing)

Upsidedownhead - Twice As Tough, Single (Mixing)

Nicole Milar - Boring, Single (Mixing)

Collarbones - Everything I Want, Single (Mixing)

Wave Racer - Summer Rain (ft. Kwame), Single (Mixing)

Winston Surfshirt - Apple Crumble, Album (Mixing)

2019

Mansionair - Shadowboxer, Album (Mixing, Production, tr.1,2, 5, 12,14,16)

Nicole Millar - Favours, Single (Mixing)

Kilter - No Time, Single (Mixing) Client Liaison - Champagne Affection, Single (Mixing) Arno Faraji x Milan Ring - Scalin’, Single (Mixing) Cosmo's Midnight - Have It All, Single (Mixing)

Stevan - LNT, Single (Mixing)

Arno Faraji - Bass Jumpin, Single (Mixing)

Juno Mamba - Flicker, Single (Mixing)

Muki - IKWIL, Single (Mixing)

Wave Racer - AUTO, Single (Mixing)

Stevan - Wam, Single (Mixing)

Vetta Borne - R.I.P, Single (Mixing)

Tim Ayre - Tim Ayre, EP (Mixing)

Kilter - Tmper/One In Hand, Singles (Mixing)

Rufus Du Sol - Underwater (Willaris K Remix), Single (Mixing)

Cosmo's Midnight - C.U.D.I, Single (Mixing)

Breathe - London, Single (Mixing)

Basenji - Perfect Blue (ft. Earthlings), Single (Mixing)

Sakr - Lost Steps, Single (Mixing)

ALTA - Reasons, Album, (Mixing)

Maribelle - Down For You, Single (Mixing)

Young Franco - Otherside (ft Reva De Vito & Golden Vessel), Single (Mixing)

Willaris K - Natural Selection, Single (Mixing)

Clypso - Strange Behaviour / Pop Roll Flow, Singles (Mixing)

Cosmo's Midnight - It's Love (ft Mathew Young), Single (Mixing)

London Topaz - Hideout ft Leonie Kingdom, Single (Mixing)

Riley From Earth - Just Be Over, Single (Mixing)

Roland Tings - Salt Water, Album (Mixing)

Arno Faraji - Bass Jumping, Single (Mixing)

Willaris K - Indifferent (ft Gordi), Single (Mixing)

Section 60 - AVTV Freestyle, Single (Mixing)

SKY’ HIGH - AVTV Freestyle, Single (Mixing)

breathe. - Grace, Single (Mixing)

2018 Cosmo’s Midnight - What Comes Next, Album (Mixing)

Tyde Levi - Goldchains, Single (Mixing)

Willaris. K - Alchemy, EP (Mixing)

Death Cab For Cutie - Gold Rush (Mansionair Remix), Single (Mixing)

Poloshirt - Poloshirt, EP (Mixing)

Portugal The Man - Tidal Wave (Mansionair remix), Single (Mixing)

Rhye - Song For You (Mansionair Remix), Single (Mixing)

Mel Blue - South, Single (Mixing)

Collarbones - Heavy, Single (Mixing)

Dro Carey - Atmosphere (ft Kwame, Ren & Raj Mahal), Single (Mixing)

Dro Carey - Glow Now (ft Taliwhoah & Crooked Letter), Single (Mixing)

Polographia - Heart Attack (ft Rush Midnight), Single (Mixing)

Cosmo’s Midnight - Lowkey (ft Buddy & Jay Prince), Single (Mixing)

Cosmo’s Midnight - Where You Been (ft Boogie), Single (Mixing)

Cosmo’s Midnight - Talk To Me (ft Tove Styrke), Single (Mixing)

Tyde Levi - Sober, Single (Mixing)

2017 Lucianblomkamp - Control Together, Album (Mixing)

Winston Surfshirt - Sponge Cake, Album (Production, Mixing)

Cloud Control - Treetops, Single (Mixing)

Sam Perry - Trust Myself, Single (Mixing)

Collarbones - A.I, Single (Mixing)

Roland Tings - Eyes Closed/Hedonist, Singles (Mixing)

George Maple - Kryptonite, Single (Production, Mixing)

George Maple - Hero, Single (Production, Mixing)

<2016 JOY. - Like Home, Single (Mixing)

Seekae - Turbine Blue, Single (Mixing)

Savoir - Malala, Single (Mixing)

Moon Holiday - Out of Bounds

GNL - TS012

Haliia - With You Forever, Single (Mixing)

Cliques - Dotted, EP (Writing, Mixing, Production)

Cliques - Chro, EP ((Writing, Mixing, Production)

Annie Bass - While I’m Waiting (Mixing)

Hugo Frederick - Skin, EP (Mixing)

Fishing - Shy Glow, Album (Mixing)

Giselle - Silk (Production)

Seekae - The Worry, Album (Writing, Production, Mixing)

Seekae - +DOME, Album (Writing, Production, Mixing)

Seekae - The Sound of Trees Falling On People, Album (Writing, Production, Mixing)

Video

Romance Was Born - Petals On the Wind Campaign (Engineering, Production)

Hyundai - Incredible Made Possible Campaign (Writing, Production)

Optus - This is Enterprise, reimagined (Writing, Production)

Lexus/Semi Permanent - Aperture w Toby and Pete (Writing, Production)

Sony Australia - Never Experienced Campaign (Writing, Production)

Feat. Solar Farm (Engineering)

Lynx Australia/Noisey - Live In Pitch Black (Writing, Production, Performance)

Radio National - Life Matters, Books Plus, Body Sphere, Saturday Extra, Weekend Arts themes (Writing, Production)

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Chapters: 19/? Fandom: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Alice Cullen/Bella Swan, Carlisle Cullen/Esme Cullen, Emmett Cullen/Rosalie Hale, Edward Cullen/Tanya, Irina/Laurent (Twilight) Characters: Cullen Family, Denali Coven (Twilight), Rachel Black, Jacob Black, Leah Clearwater, Paul Lahote, Sam Uley, Bella Swan, Seth Clearwater, Charlie Swan, Victoria (Twilight), James (Twilight) Additional Tags: Book: New Moon, Alternate Canon, Women Being Awesome, Vampires, Were-Creatures Series: Part 2 of Stephanie Meyers Reimagined Summary:

The continuation of the Stephanie Meyers Reimagined Series. Bella's birthday is looming right around the corner. Alice and the rest of the Cullen's/Denali's are happy to celebrate; but Bella...not so much. There is also another uninvited guest hiding in the shadows. What will happen? What events will transpire? Read and find out. PS: There may be a few WLW scenes in this story so if that's not your thing...Sorry (not sorry)

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Jennifer Kelly 2020: I’m done expecting next year to be better

Not to belabor the point, which has been covered everywhere, but 2020 sucked. My last live concert was on March 7th. It was 75 Dollar Bill in a beautiful reconfigured industrial space on the Amherst College campus, and I already had questions about whether I should be there or not. The show was worth it, absolutely riveting, and no one I know got sick from it, but a couple of weeks later, Amherst College shut down and then, basically, the world.

When I think about 2020, I think about bands that don’t fully make sense unless you see them live, and how, this year, no one got to see them live. I think about musicians who were barely making it before, now cut off from concert revenues and, in a lot of cases, day jobs at restaurants, coffee shops and bars. I think about six-digit medical bills from multi-week COVID-19 treatments, and how my insurance will only cut that to low five figures. I think about the constant spew of bile and nonsense, the willful destruction of American institutions and the persistent sense that we will never recover from any of this, and I look for refuge.

Most of the time in music. Because the music kept coming even when everything else shut down. Even the artists who were holding back for better conditions ended up releasing EVERY ALBUM ON EARTH starting about September 18th. There was always music, good music, interesting music, beautiful music, and while that doesn’t compensate for a terrible year, it was something.

Here are 10 albums I loved best from 2020, with links to reviews or other articles I’ve written about them.

1. Gunn-Truscinski — Soundkeeper (Three Lobed)

Soundkeeper by Gunn-Truscinski Duo

A gorgeous exploration of mood and tone, this double CD set includes two extended live cuts and ten more recorded just down the road in Easthampton, Massachusetts. (And I thought nothing ever happened up here.) “Pyramid Merchandise” punches the hardest, John Truscinski balancing rock solid beat keeping with abstracted sculptures of percussive experiment, while Gunn finds the sweetness and the growl in his blues-touched guitar sound. But “Ocean City” is pure lovely respite, with big rounded notes dropping slowly and with grace through wavering transparencies of sustained tone. Long, searching, “Soundkeeper” will rekindle your longing for live improvised music, while the closer “For Eddie Hazel” vibrates with supercharged intensity, the notes and the steady rhythm too bright and beautiful to look at straight on.

2. Six Organs of Admittance — Companion Rises (Drag City)

Companion Rises by Six Organs of Admittance

Chasny imbues the down-home with wonder and the inexplicable with natural grace in this album inspired by stargazing. The album’s name references the way Sirius appears close to Orion, and the rollicking “The Scout Is Here,” commemorates the appearance of the Oumuamua asteroid, but this is no squiggle-y space opera. The music is mainly made of clean, all-natural picking, blues bends, and rambling jangle, though ruptured, periodically, by rushing, whooshing, amplified electronic sounds. Warm, simple clarity is tipped with awe in finger-picked “Black Tea,” while mists and mysteries predominate in evanescent “Worn Down to the Light,” but the joy comes in the balance between the ordinary and the unknowable shimmering like stars in a black sky.

3. Gil Scott-Heron and Makaya McCraven — We’re New Again (XL Recordings)

When the estate of Gil Scott-Heron asked Chicago composer, percussionist and hip hop chopper Makaya McCraven to reimagine the artist’s last, most personal album, McCraven jumped at the chance to tackle its themes of black struggle, black family and perseverance. McCraven surrounded Scott-Heron’s words with shimmering, post-jazz arrangements that incorporated some of his father’s recordings (his dad is jazz drummer Stephen McCraven) in an ongoing tribute to the blood relatives who shape and equip young black men for a challenging world. The music is wonderful, very different from the original, spare, blues-based arrangements, but they open out the master’s words in an illuminating way. I like, especially, the hustling, shuffling movement of “New York Is Killing Me,” which summons the city’s energy as clearly as the feel of heat rising out of a subway grate in August.

4. Obnox — Savage Raygun (Ever/Never)

Savage Raygun by Obnox

Obnox’s psychedelic mayhem roars like a California wildfire, setting a torch to rock, soul, hip hop, jazz and punk with fuzz-crusted abandon. Icons like Hawkwind flare out and curl into white-hot ash, while even Neil Young’s lick from “Southern Man,” is consumed in the all-encompassing heat of Lamont Thomas’ onslaught (“Young Neezy”). A double album, Savage Raygun covers a lot of ground, but in such a kinetic rush that it seems like one entity that stretched from end to end.

5. Anjimile — Giver Taker (Father/Daughter)

Giver Taker by Anjimile

Anjimile sounds beautifully comfortable with their new vocal range in this second full-length, which follows a gender transition. Pitched low and warm, their voice effortlessly navigates subtle melodies, integrating complex, African-leaning rhythms into songs about love, identify, family friction and the possibility of redemption through embracing one’s authentic self.

6. Osees — Protean Threat (Castleface)

Protean Threat by Oh Sees

John Dwyer has fronted bands called The O.Cs., The Ohsees, Thee Ohsees and now just Osees, evolving from a one-man bedroom pop outfit to a gleefully slopping garage pop project to a droning, krautrocking motoric monster along the way. This newest iteration takes a little of this, a little of that, from the repertoire, putting Dwyer’s best Bo Diddley-esque stomper in years (“If I Had My Way”) next to a wiggy psychedelic freak bomb called “Toadstool” which is adjacent to the dub-scented, narcotic head trip called “Gong of Catastrophe.” The mix works because Dwyer and his band commit to all of it, sequentially and within tracks. It’s the best Osees in years, all the good things in one package.

7. Sam Amidon — S-T (Nonesuch)

As always, Amidon starts with traditional, mostly folk and blues material and, as always, he transforms it into something more adventurous, spiritual and faintly otherworldly. With Shahzad Ismaily and Antibalas’ Chris Vatalaro to back him up, he breaks down the unyielding contours of pre-modern banjo tunes and porch blues, finding steady drones and complex afro-beat syncopations in their steady melodies. You can hear “Cuckoo Bird” a million times in a million different voices and never hear it as luminous and open-ended as here.

8. James Elkington — Ever Roving Eye (Paradise of Bachelors)

James Elkington is always pressed for time, maybe because he works regularly for so many other people’s bands (Richard Thompson, Jeff Tweedy, Spencer Tweedy) and collaborates with others (Steve Gunn). And yet his second solo album brims with balm and solace; he finds time in the interstices between warm, jazz-scented, Pentangle-esque verses and intricate flurries of picked and strummed and electric guitar. Even “Nowhere Time,” which exhorts “It is time for you to move,” has an ease and calm to it, while “Moon Tempering” is as still and lovely as winter starlight. Ever-Roving Eye is an album that assures us we’ll get it all done somehow, but just stop for a minute and listen.

9. Jehnny Beth — To Love Is To Live (Arts & Crafts)

This riveting solo debut from the Savages frontperson is both quieter and more intense than her full-band compositions, juxtaposing incendiary spoken word with the hedonistic thump of the dance floor. Guests are varied—Joe Talbot of IDLES at one pole, the actor Cillian Murphy at the other—but the music never drifts from Jehnny Beth’s singular viewpoint. Compare her to PJ Harvey or Beth Gibbons or Bobby Gillespie as you will (I did), but this is her 100%, and there’s nothing else like it.

10. Cable Ties — Far Enough (Merge)

Far Enough by Cable Ties

Australia churns out quality punk bands like the Hershey factory makes kisses, and Cable Ties, formed in Melbourne by four young rebels, ranks as one of the best to surface here in America this year. “Tell Them Where to Go” is the money track here, all rust-crusted bass crunch and ragged estrogenated vocal energy. But let’s not put them in the “girl band” ghetto. As I said in my review, “The easy thing would be to compare McKechnie’s vibrato-zinging vocals with those of Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker or her verbal agility to Courtney Barnett, but the blunt force and agile violence of the music, brings to mind post-punk bands like the Wipers, Protomartyr and Eddy Current.”

Honorable mention

I also really enjoyed these albums in 2020.

Lewsberg — In this House (12XU)

Damien Jurado — What’s New Tomboy (Mamabird)

Bill Callahan — Gold Record (Drag City)

Mike Polizze — Long Lost Solace Find (Paradise of Bachelors)

Destroyer — Have We Met (Merge)

Decoy w/ Joe McPhee — AC/DC (otoROKU)

Thurston Moore — By the Fire (Daydream Library)

Tobin Sprout — Empty Horse (Fire)

FACS — Void Moments (Trouble in Mind)

Elkhorn — The Storm Sessions (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)  

Howling Hex — Knuckleball Express (Fat Possum)

Wendy Eisenberg — Auto (BaDaBing)

Xetas — The Cypher (12XU)

Califone — Echo Mine (Jealous Butcher)

Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers — Vodou Alé (Bongo Joe)

Shopping — All or Nothing (Fat Cat)

Bonny Light Horseman — S-T (37d03d)

Tashi Dorji — Stateless (Drag City)

The Slugs — Don’t Touch Me I’m Too Slimy (2214099 Records DK)

Dr. Pete Larson and his Cytotoxic Nyatiti Band — S-T (Dagonetti)

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Gretel and Hansel (2020): Witches, Woods, and Wonderful Film Making

Get thee behind me, Cupid, for my heart belongs to another! Just in time for February’s Valentine festivities comes Oz Perkins’ latest offering in Gretel and Hansel, a reimagining of the classic fairy tail by The Brothers Grimm. Perkins’ first got my attention with his fantastic directorial debut The Blackcoat’s Daughter. It was clear to me that Perkins knew how to direct and craft an engaging and unsettling film, but it did not prepare me for how much I enjoyed his latest effort!

A reimagining and expansion on the classic Grimm tale, Gretel and Hansel follows our titular characters as they are cast from their home in search of work and guardianship. Soon after, they run into the witch from our childhoods we have come to fear. Sophia Lillis (IT chapters 1 & 2) stars as Gretel, Sam Leakey (MotherFatherSon) stars as Hansel and Alice Krige stars as The Witch, Holda. Krige is menacing in her sweetness as the witch, and it wasn’t til sitting down to write my thoughts on the film that I realized she played the mother in Sleepwalkers, a staple of my childhood! Jessica De Gouw (Arrow) shares the role of Holda in certain scenes as well.

As mentioned, Krige does a phenomenal job as the witch, making your skin crawl on numerous occasions. I thoroughly enjoyed how creepy she was simply through good ole’ fashion actin’, and minimal (if hardly any) jump scares. Truly though, the standout for me was Lillis! First exploding onto the horror scene as Beverly Marsh in Andres Muschietti’s IT, Lillis was given wonderful material to act from thanks to the screenplay by Perkins and Rob Hayes. Lillis injects this role with a confidence reminiscent of Anya Taylor Joy in The VVitch, and a real sense of love and nurturing for her rough brother Hansel. We root for her and are pulled right into the sense of dread she feels when encountering the real, and at times surreal, world outside her home.

There are certain tales that lend themselves to being incredibly picturesque, and Gretel and Hansel is certainly one of them. Cinematographer Galo Olivares paints a wonderfully haunting landscape for us, filled with fog and dark silhouetted figures. I would be remised if I didn’t mention the spectacular use of color in this movie as well! The film paints scenes in moonlight blues and a fiery orange glow that play beautifuly off one another and also feel like a less stylized version of the blasts of color in Suspiria. Complementing the beautiful canvas is the score by Robin Coudert, who composes a score that wraps you up like a warm blanket, only to be ripped from you and leave you shivering when synths begin to swell and dance around you, crawling up your arms like goosebumps!

Perkins has once again given us a film that is at once nightmarish and yet incredibly beautiful. There are scenes that will surely disturb viewers, all the while pulling you closer and closer to the edge of your seat. Despite claustrophobic close ups, and the most off-putting stabilized shots that help to give you a sense of disorientation, I want to live in the world the director has created. I can almost smell the leaves burning in the distance, and the echoes of axes against trees bouncing in the forest around me. It is clear that Orion Studios did little to interfere with Perkins’ vision for this new take on the classic tale, and I’m all the more grateful for it. From a director who knows how to craft a dark tale all their own, Oz Perkins’ Gretel and Hansel is sure to become a Fall favorite and should fit in well with any witches collection!

Rating: 5 Full Moons out of 5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕