#so long londn

[richbbydaddy]

SO LONG LONDON IS LITERALLY WOLFSTAR WTAF

it literally describes all the atyd chapters approaching halloween 1981

I kept calm and carried the weight of the rift Pulled him in tighter each time he was drifting away My spine split from carrying us up the hill Wet through my clothes, weary bones caught the chill I stopped trying to make him laugh Stopped trying to drill the safe Thinkin, how much sad did you think I had Did you think I had in me? Oh, the tragedy ... And I'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free

And you say I abandoned the ship But I was going down with it My white knuckle dying grip Holding tight to your quiet resentment and My friends said it isn't right to be scared Every day of a love affair Every breath feels like rarest air When you're not sure if he wants to be there So how much sad did you think I had, Did you think I had in me? How much tragedy?

You swore that you loved me but where were the clues? I died on the altar waiting for the proof You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days And I'm just getting color back into my face I'm just mad as hell cause I loved this place

For so long, London Had a good run A moment of warm sun But I'm not the one So long, London

[3dnygma]

I went to the German Comic Con in Frankfurt yesterday and got to meet Robin Lord Taylor, Sean Pertwee, Drew Powell and Erin Richards! I also got an autograph from Robin, got to talk to all four of them (gave them tiny presents!) and visited a Q&A panel with them. The amazing @robinllordtaylor was there too - and we spent almost the whole day together!! (with an irl friend of mine joining us)

As I have a lot to tell about this wonderful experience, you can read more under the cut! But to summarise: I had a great time and the Gotham cast is precious, as always.

The first event to take place was the picture with Robin. Julia (robinllordtaylor) and I met about half an hour before that. The photoshoot turned out to happen earlier than expected (because they changed the schedule) but we managed to get there in time! I asked Robin if I could “arrest” him on the picture and if he could make a shocked expression....well, this is how it turned out to be! Really happy with the result.

Next came the picture with Erin. I made the same pose with her but sadly blinked on the first picture. The photograph allowed me to take a second one (in which I didn’t blink!) but the person that was responsible for the digital version of the pictures put the wrong one on my USB stick. Still salty about that but, well, mistakes happen.

Then, we took our pictures with Sean. I made that certain pose with him because Alfred is a good character (so there’s no need to arrest him, haha)! The photoshoots were pretty rushed by the way, so I didn’t really get the chance to talk to them.

However, that all changed when we decided to get an autograph by Robin in-between Sean’s and Drew’s photoshoot! The line was pretty long and Robin was on lunch break while we joined the line - but the wait was worth it. I’m from Austria and prepared Mozartkugeln (a famous sweet over here) for all four of them. But I was scared that I wouldn’t be able to give them to the actors without buying an autograph, so I decided to gave all four of them to Robin.

Well, I got my autograph (you can see it here), told him how much I love Gotham and explained that I came to Germany from Austria. But, as I wanted to give him the sweets, he made a shocked expression and said “Why don’t you give it to them by yourself??” He then pointed at Drew (who was sitting right next to him) and went “Drew is so nice, he won’t harm you! You don’t have to be scared!! And Erin loves chocolate - go give it to them now!!” I swear, it was sooo funny and sweet of him to say that!

(My friend, who has seen the first episode of Gotham a few days ago, also got an autograph from him - and Julia did, too! Her interaction with him was absolutely beautiful, I really hope that she’s going to talk about that one on her own blog soon. It was so great to see her, and Robin’s, reaction! He also said “Tschüss!” (”bye” in german) after the autographs!)

After he was done with writing the autograph, I quickly followed his advice and went right to Drew, as there was currently no one getting an autograph from him. I explained that I had a tiny present for him, from my country, and he confessed that he really wants to go to Austria someday. “Do you live in Salzburg?” - “No, but I only live one hour away from it!” He was really happy about the sweets.

Erin’s line was a bit longer. She loved the sweets and already knew them - and she told me that she has already been in Salzburg! I asked her whether she visited Mozart’s birthplace to which she said yes! I also talked about Gotham with her and told her how awesome her white fur coat in the new promo looks. I was pretty shocked when she told me that the show had originally rented that coat, as it was worth “20 grand”. Sadly, Erin accidentally burned some of it - and they had to pay for the whole coat! I feel pretty sorry for her, despite it being a very interesting story.

I also gave Sean some Mozartkugeln. He knew them already and told me that he loves them! He also mentioned that his aunt and cousin live in Germany and that he visits them sometimes. It was wonderful getting the chance to talk to all of them and I’m very thankful for the staff for letting me do so without buying an autograph (the autographs are pretty expensive). One staff member even said “aww that’s so cute!

After the autographs session, we got our pictures with Drew. He was in another photo booth, that’s why the background of his picture is a bit different! His expression on that picture was amazing. Afterwards, I got the USB stick with the digital versions of the photos.

The last event was the Q&A panel. We arrived about 20 minutes earlier and got pretty normal seats (they were pretty narrow, though!). The panel was about half an hour long and they answered questions by the fans. I was the second one to ask a question! “What did you enjoy most about working with Ben McKenzie as a director?”, as I read that he directed one of the upcoming episodes and figured that it was a question that they would enjoy answering. A professional was filming the panel, so I really hope that it will be uploaded to YouTube soon, which is why I won’t state all of their answers here. The short version: They loved it because Ben, playing the main character on Gotham, knows that show better than anyone else and because he got the fellow actors well and gave them a lot of freedom for that episode! He will probably direct more episodes in the future.

I also met great cosplayers at that convention - Arkham!Ed and Arkham!Oswald were my faves - and bought some merch and comics. Here’s a list of what I bought:

Batgirl Vol. 1: The Batgirl of Burnside (for my cousin, she loves Batgirl but hasn’t read any comics so far)

LEGO figures of the Joker and Superman (for my other cousin, he’s four years old and obsessed with LEGO Batman)

Gotham City Sirens Vol. 9 and Vol. 10 (because they seem to have the Riddler in it - also: Harley, Selina and Ivy!!!)

a black t-shirt with the Riddler on it

Batman-themed badges (Batman, Catwoman, the Riddler and a question mark)

japanese pocky sticks (always wanted to try this snack)

a plush Ryuk and L keychain (they were in a Death Note happy bag)

Overall, I am so thankful for this experience! This was the first comic con that I ever went to and I’m so glad that it turned out to be a wonderful day. Julia was so nice and sweet irl, it was so cool having someone to talk about Gotham and the cast with irl! She is also going to meet the cast again in May (at the Heroes and Villains convention in Londn!) - including Cory, my favourite cast member. Weeks before the con, she offered me to give him a letter from me, so I wrote that one a few days ago and gave it to her yesterday!! She’ll deliver it to Cory and I’m so thankful for that!

The only criticism that I have with the convention is Frankfurt’s convention area itself. It was very hard to find the entrance to the con because everything there is so big and confusing (worse than any airport I’ve ever been to). Otherwise, I really enjoyed it! (sorry for writing so much about this!!)

[shugademus-fbandt]

houellebecq - submission (total shite) muriel spark - driver’s seat

podcasts, including:

transfert histoire d’un corps se reconnaître enfin l’enfant du bout du monde

all in the mind

arts & ideas: *philip roth in conversation *michael ignatieff and central europe ingmar bergmann wild strawberries burns, the radicall frankenstein and ai now counterculture and protest the in between landmark: the odyssey the invention of the circus ring rethinking tradition russai: totalitarianism and punishment man with a movie camera forgotten authors, the prisoner salman rushdie & uncertainty importance of networks washing in public unfinished art and literature sleep and insomnia sentimentality happiness sea journeys and voyages opium and creativity matthew arnold’s culture and creativity tom mccarthy and satirical indexes narcisissism rd lang ecstasy (medieval) tom philips japan and korea/hokusai laurent binet, the rise of the blockchain breaking free: martin luther smell; a history of dentistry leaves of grass education slow and fast killing time in imperial japan the time of your life the speed of revolution how short is a short story politics fast and slow, harriet harman monks models and medieval time fast faster fastest sleep - freedom to think play in urban design borders: on the ground, on the map, in the mind victorian bodies, citizens of everywhere the art of running elites energy and landscape capability brown the desert: geoff dyer, laurence scott, georgia okeefe walter benjamin universities: therapy or learning tale of gengi/algorithims germany/neil mcgregor concrete: marina lewycka et al sicily slavoj zizek tarkovsky’s stalker syrian buildings, georgian literature bryan mcgee

in our time arabian nights yeats and irish politics the silk road the east india company the british empire

lexicon valley getting to yes no-uh what’s the deal with 11

living with the gods

saturday review

start the week: who governs britain heart of darkness conrad and orwell the power and beauty of objects living with the gods hard work and sweet slumber pamuk competition myths self: fact and fiction india’s rise? age of spectacle paul auster american dream build that wall: borders and crossings play and creativity maps music manuscripts popular protest and patriotism island mentality loneliness and inner voices existentialism and ways of seeing is faster better scotland language and reinvention cultural lifespans france special social class and cultural capital architecture and power life in suburbia organizing the mind arabian nights al kennedy on matters of the heart france’s arab empire landscape and community digital natives dystopian future aleksandr hemon scotland -rankin and gray modernism with ali smith and kevin jackson salman rushdie werner herzog

life scientific

books and authors george saunders robert mcfarlane gg marquez

the essay

the start

in our time highland clearances hamlet beethoven moby dick thebes picts purgatory egyptian book of the dead gin craze garibaldi and the risorgimento baltic crusades animal farms epic og gilgamesh zend’s paradoxes songs of innocence and of experience gettysburg address 1816 sikh empire bedlam dutch east india company circadian rhythms empire of mali holbein at the tudor court alexander the great utilitarianism prester john lancashire cotton famine sappho the eunuch wealth of nations ashoka the great truth kafka’s the trial aesop haitian révolution caesar mrs dalloway hildegaard of bingen philosophy of solitude spartacus hindu ideas of creation microscope book of common prayer invention of radio prophecy levi strauss montaigne sakoku chekhov hardian’s wall joyce’s ulysses trojan war marco polo candide early geology measurement of time virtuous and de architectura kama sutra moon ming voyages david hume shinto minoan civilisation anatomy of melancholy bhagavad gita bannockburn medieval university mexican revolution random and pseudorandom consequences of the industrial revolution

resound

breakin’bread

guardian books aleksandr hemon’s bees rushdie toibin in conversation naomi klein islands and literature colin thubron and aggleton on memory amos oz on his new novel al kennedy, self, parson - londn walking in cities jim crace on melody short stories: my dream of flying to wake island (ballard) homage to switzerland (hemingway) my oedipus complex (frank oconnor) doll’s house (mansfield) fat (carver) the jungle (bowen) the beauties (chekhov) kitchen child (carter) conversation with my father (paley) extra (li) night driver (calvino)

long reads: why we should bulldoze business schools spectacular power of big lens fake it till you make it (instagram) post-work the diabolical genius of the baby advice industry how the sandwich consumed britain a tale of decay from unboxing to though showers how to sell a country orbiting jupiter why do we feel so guilty all the time the island for sale facebook’s war on free will how a tax haven is leading the race to privatize space trojan horse (islamic plot) neoliberalism, the idea that swallowed the world the school beneath the wave (japan) why we fell for clean eating what is a black professor in the us allowed to say unlearning the myth of american innocence is the world really better than ever the real cost of regeneration globalisation klein: how power profits from disaster the age of banter how the mod’s plan to privatize military housing ended in disaster serota and tate a reckoning for our species (anthropocene) rise of the machines accelerationism bish bash bosh - phyllida barlow rich hippies and developers went to war over instagram’s favorite beach the race to build the world’s first sex robot god in the machine into the woods: ho one man survived one in the wilderness for 27 years london bridge is down how technology gets us hooked ppe: the oxford degree that runs britain killer, kleptocrat, genius, spy (putin) total recall: the people who never forget wiley: the enigmatic godfather of grime the spy who couldn’t spell who killed the great british curry house is this what the west is really like?

ny fiction borges - book of sand coover - colonel’s daughter nelson - naked ladies williams - stuff tower - leopard july - roy spivey hasard - in these islands updike - twin beds in rome eugenides - baster calvino - love far from home cheever - five-forty-eight millhauser - a visit alexie - the toughest indian in the world gaitskill - a dream of men powers - a losing game berger - woven, sir williams - chicken hill means - the spot friel - the saucer of larks singer - the cafeteria davis - then we’ll set it right paley - my father addresses me on the facts of old age tc boyle - chicxulub brodkey - dumbness is everything couvre - going for a beer means - tree line, kansas, 1934 barthelme - chablis drury - accident at the sugar beet spark - ormolu clock nabokov - pnin polansky - leg wolff - the night in question ozick - the shawl frame - prizes bartheleme - game / school oz - the king of norway mcguane - ice johnson - work moore - paper losses calvino - the daughter’s of the moon brodkey - state of grace bolano - clara borges -shakespeare’s memory west - the lesson colwin - mr park price - his final mother schulz - father’s last escape vaughn - able baker charlie dog ishiguro - a village after dark barthleme - concerne the bodyguard dybek - paper lantern munro - axis updike - a&P mcguane - cowboy bolano - gomez palacio Cheever - swimmer millhauser - in the reign of hard iv barthleme - indian uprising johnson - two men delillo - baader-meinhof mccullerss - the jockey nabokov - my russian education george saunders - adams taylor - porte-cohere johnson - emergncy singer - disguised salter - last night jackson - the lottery malamud - a summer’s reading nabokov - symbols and signs moore - dance in america borges - the gospel according to mark barthelme - i bought a little city

ny writer’s voice vapnyar - waiting for the miracle klemmen - choking victim john l’heureux - three short moments in a long life yu - fable lerner - polish rider boyle - fugitive williams - stuff ferris - abandonment mcguane - papaya boule - are we not men couvre - the hanging of the schoolmarm li - on the street where you live batman - constructed worlds gilbert - underground sittenfeld - the prairie wife lodato - melville - volume 1 sharma - you are happy vapnyar- deaf and blind means - two rumination on a homeless brother li - a small flame alexie - clean, cleaner, cleanest mackin - crossing the river no name green well - an evening out marcus - blueprints for st louis bynum - likes gilbert - sightseers krauss - seeing ershadi orneill - poltroon husband coover - treatments

thinking allowed tipping points conspiracy theories politics of alcohol/cooperation home at riba high life and row life raoul moat hebden brige/neighbours urban protest builders and musicians odd couples, student drinking archaeology of homelessness; residential care revisited stan cohen drugs for life; subcultural identity gang labour in uk; industrial ruination thrift chic;thatcherism middle class enclaves and escapes stammering and identity; land of too much long hours work culture; empty labour scottish nationalism and identity; austerity food work in hospital words; the bangladesh india border michel foucault benjamin goffman noodle narratives; british men dancing capoeira work and consumption; neoliberal economics tooth loss; communist utopia in a spanish village prostitution in the community; drinking and moderation the great indoors generationaml divide; webcam kissing; the british hitman islamophonia and anti semitism masculinity and betting shops; new biological relatives and kinship late modern- hipsters history of surfing; coffee shops and idleness dalit parties and democratization in tamil nadu; history of the elevator creative britain;; sexology port cities; middle class alcohol use rituals at xmas harvard business school - construction of pain citizenship ceremonies; family ties andgenertic poverty in britain; unemployment as a choice the precariat the color black; mixed race people cross-class marriage; the social history of woman-only train carriages being single; modern romance ambivalent atheism zoos explored; funeral arranging everyday life; cafe society land ownership; home at work rituals end of careers; humour at work modern slavery; lunch boxes creative economy; grudge spending consumerism; work life balance weather forecasting; young people and politics imagining utopias refusing adulthood; how young people feel about being poor small towns; patient rescue and resuscitation éviction; self build happiness and govt; good parenting the flaneur - walking the city pierre bourdieu airport security shyness; names political polarization rentier capitalism house of commons hoods; construction blacklist evangelicals; troubled families foie gras and the politics of taste success and luck; cosmopolitanism and private education age of noise; british drinking health divides; counting global health brave new world of virtual work vertical cities; india’s property boom terrorism; hotlines squatting teen bedrooms elite education insuring against disasters russian prison visitor; prison boundaries meaning of the face fashion and class heritage and preservation male infertility the secret world of hair management jargon exhaustion: history of weariness restaurant: taste of class affluence politics and emotion new economy housing crisis - squatting in amsterdam

this american life quitting anger and forgiveness media fringe faustian bargains simulated worlds bob dole obsession cruelty of children factions harold running after antelope one of us stuck in the wrong decade other people’s mail who’s canadian business of death small towns delivery fire first day mapping trail of tears road trip! niagara barbara book that changed your life family business pimp anthropology 24 at the golden apple the fix is in american’s in paris million bubbles mob mentality kids as adults house on loon lake rashomon kid logic hitler’s yacht act v high speed chase allure of the mean friend fake science image makers (library) ghost of bobby dunbar switched at birth plattekill plaza number one party school stories pitched by our parents thugs what happened at dos erros 129 cars nummi harper school dr filmer and mr hyde my undesirable talent in defense of ignorance fear and loathing in homer and rockville

world book club

[aly126]

Yes, Russia is not boring :D but now my only wish is that they need to fired Nazarova and bring back Ganina :P coz Nazarova( who did bad for 2 her pupils at 3 Olympics as personal coach LOL and collapsed as a team bb coach in rio too) is awful for NT coach and Ganina is great! But it's not happen :( coz Marina is Rod's friend :/ and Raisa is pro-Aliya :)

Omg I forgot that besides Bulashenko, Nazarova also acted like BB coach too. It’s like one of those dumb jokes, how many BB coaches does Russia need to consistently produce disasters? Beam fiasco aside, I don’t think Nazarova was that bad of a personal coach though. I mean, yeah, Afan didn’t have the best time in Londn and didn’t make it to Rio, but she was one of the most successful Russians and a huge asset to the team. And both her and Semenova (and most of the girls, when she’s on the floor during competition) seem to have a great relationship with Nazarova.

So Ganina isn’t on the coaching staff anymore? When did that happen, wasn’t she a coreographer and also Aliya’s coach for a long time? Was it when she chose Starkin as a coach? So much drama lol