#susan e. morse

[librawritesstuff]

My take on Federico Fellini’s film 8-1/2 and its Broadway musical adaptation “Nine” in which actor Guido Contini must face his history with the women in his past in order to heal himself in the present.

Curtain up on Endeavour! The Musical

Act I

Gwen

We Took You In! (You Miserable Git)

Susan

It Was Never You

Alice

A Little Would Have Been Enough

Joan

(I’m Tired of Being) Always His Lady-in-Waiting

Monica

You’re Just Blue

Claudine

Au Revoir, Cherie!

Act II

Carol

Oops! Now Ain’t This Awkward

Shirley Trewlove

Brilliant Idiot

Eve Thorne

Gouging for a Spike

Violetta

Peccato, Dannazione e Perdono (Sin, Damnation & Forgiveness) and

Come Meet My Wife (trio: Ludo, Violetta, and Endeavour)

Dorothea Frazil

Sit Down, Shut Up and Listen!

And the 11pm closing number:

Rosalind Calloway/Endeavour Morse (duet)

The Voice That Saved You (was actually your own)

[byneddiedingo]

Wallace Shawn and Mia Farrow in Radio Days (Woody Allen, 1987)

Cast: Seth Green, Julie Kavner, Michael Tucker, Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow, Danny Aiello, Jeff Daniels, Tony Roberts, Diane Keaton, Wallace Shawn, Woody Allen (voice). Screenplay: Woody Allen. Cinematography: Carlo Di Palma. Production design: Santo Loquasto. Film editing: Susan E. Morse. 

Woody Allen's warmest and maybe most irresistible film has none of the neurotic obsession gags or existentialist angst shtick that are so often associated with his work. It's a simple piece about the nostalgia that old songs evoke in us -- in Allen's case, reminiscences of the days when radio was the dominant, almost ubiquitous medium in people's lives, before television held people captive in their living rooms or the internet addicted them to the little screens of their cell phones or tablets. Specifically, it's Allen's childhood as seen through the eyes of young Joe (Seth Green) and his parents (Julie Kavner and Michael Tucker) and extended family. It's also, secondarily, a tribute to many of the actors who have enlivened Allen's films, with smaller roles and cameos filled by Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow, Danny Aiello, Jeff Daniels, Tony Roberts, Diane Keaton, and many others. Production designer Santo Loquasto deservedly received an Oscar nomination for his re-creation of Queens and Manhattan in the late 1930s and early 1940s, but honors should go to the luminous cinematography of Carlo Di Palma, too. The soundtrack, supervised by Dick Hyman, ranges from such true classics as Kurt Weill's "September Song" and Duke Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train" to novelty pop of the period like "Mairzy Doats" and "Pistol Packin' Mama." 

[halcyone-of-the-sea]

wait i saw you said you’re more of a book person so book recs???

I got you.

All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Sci-Fi)

Stardust by Neil Gaiman (Fantasy)

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (Fantasy)

Novice Dragoneer by E. E. Knight (Fantasy)

The Death House by Sarah Pinborough (Romance/Dystopian)

Beren and Luthien by J. R. R. Tolkien (Fantasy/Romance)

Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber (Horror/Sci-Fi) - the only horror book that genuinely made my skin crawl

East by Edith Pattou (Historical Fantasy/Norwegian Fairy Tale Retelling)

Dante's Inferno

The Summer Dragon by Todd Lockwood (Fantasy with a twist)

Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Sci-Fi/Dystopian) - MORE PEOPLE HAVE TO READ THIS SERIES IT'S SO GOOOD

Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler (Fantasy) (check warnings for this series - heavy stuff) - also one of my all-time favorites

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson (Fantasy)

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (Fantasy)

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Fantasy)

Life as we knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Sci-Fi with an interesting premise & told through journal entries)

Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman (Fantasy)

The Girl From the Other Side by Nagabe (Manga)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Historical Fantasy)

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Post-Apocalyptic)

Mythology by Edith Hamilton (Collection of stories from different mythology)

The Illiad

Edgar Allan Poe as an author in general

This is all I can come up with off the top of my head!

[ulkaralakbarova]

With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Kleinman: Woody Allen Prostitute: Kathy Bates Student Jack: John Cusack Irmy: Mia Farrow Prostitute: Jodie Foster Hacker’s Follower: Fred Gwynne Clown: John Malkovich Alma: Julie Kavner Marie: Madonna Magician: Kenneth Mars Eve: Kate Nelligan Doctor: Donald Pleasence Prostitute: Lily Tomlin Mr. Paulsen: Philip Bosco Spiro’s Assistant: Robert Joy Simon Carr: Wallace Shawn Vogel’s Follower: Kurtwood Smith Priest: Josef Sommer Hacker: David Ogden Stiers Cop at Police Station: John C. Reilly Woman with Baby: Eszter Balint Vigilante: James Rebhorn Roustabout: Richard Riehle Cop: William H. Macy Undesirables Onlooker: Fred Melamed Killer: Michael Kirby Vigilante: Victor Argo Vigilante: Daniel von Bargen Landlady: Camille Saviola Dwarf: Tim Loomis Fat Lady: Katy Dierlam Strongman: Dennis Vestunis Prostitute: Anne Lange Student: Andy Berman Student: Paul Anthony Stewart Student: Thomas L. Bolster Police Chief: Greg Stebner Cop at Police Station: Peter Appel Cop at Police Station: Brian Smiar Cop at Police Station: Michael P. Troy Cop at Police Station: Remak Ramsay Cop at Police Station: Ron Turek Bartender: Peter McRobbie Cop with Priest: Ira Wheeler Baby: Rebecca Gibson Hacker’s Follower: Robert Silver Spiro: Charles Cragin Vigilante with Spiro: Tom Riis Farrell Vigilante with Spiro: Ron Weyand Roustabout: Max Robinson Film Crew: Additional Casting: Todd M. Thaler Casting: Juliet Taylor Writer: Woody Allen Producer: Robert Greenhut Assistant Editor: Mark Livolsi Costume Design: Jeffrey Kurland Production Coordinator: Helen Robin Executive Producer: Charles H. Joffe Executive Producer: Jack Rollins Editor: Susan E. Morse Hairstylist: Romaine Greene Assistant Art Director: W. Steven Graham Casting Associate: Laura Rosenthal Supervising Sound Editor: Robert Hein Director of Photography: Carlo Di Palma Gaffer: Ray Quinlan Sound Designer: Dan Sable Foley Artist: Brian Vancho Set Decoration: George DeTitta Jr. Assistant Costume Designer: Donna Zakowska Production Sound Mixer: James Sabat Production Design: Santo Loquasto Assistant Sound Editor: Stuart Levy Co-Producer: Joseph Hartwick Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Lee Dichter Construction Coordinator: Ron Petagna Key Scenic Artist: James Sorice Production Assistant: Robert C. Albertell Makeup Artist: Bernadette Mazur First Assistant Director: Thomas A. Reilly Art Direction: Speed Hopkins Property Master: James Mazzola Assistant Production Coordinator: Ilyse A. Reutlinger Still Photographer: Brian Hamill Standby Carpenter: Joseph A. Alfieri Jr. Scenic Artist: Cosmo Sorice Set Dresser: Dave Weinman Assistant Camera: Michael Green Sound Recordist: Frank Graziadei Camera Operator: Dick Mingalone Script Supervisor: Kay Chapin Set Decoration: Amy Marshall Boom Operator: Louis Sabat Dolly Grip: Ronald Burke Key Grip: Robert Ward Wardrobe Supervisor: Patricia Eiben Second Assistant Camera: Michael Caracciolo Camera Trainee: David E. Baron Art Department Coordinator: Glenn Lloyd Second Assistant Director: Richard Patrick Assistant Editor: William Kruzykowski Transportation Captain: Peter Tavis Transportation Captain: Harold ‘Whitey’ McEvoy Production Assistant: Justin Moritt Wardrobe Supervisor: Bill Christians Foley Artist: Elisha Birnbaum Additional Casting: Judie Fixler Key Construction Grip: Vincent Guarriello Production Assistant: Danielle Rigby Projection: Carl Turnquest Best Boy Electric: Jim Manzione Costume Assistant: Lauren Gibson Assistant Art Director: Robert Perdziola Foley Editor: Lori Kornspun Assistant Art Director: Peter Eastman Location Scout: Megan Monaghan Assistant Art Director: Richard Michael Miller Apprentice Sound Editor: Yasmine Amitai Location Manager: James A. Davis Movie Reviews:

[sesiondemadrugada]

Another Woman (Woody Allen, 1988).

[genevieveetguy]

- George, I think you are the most selfish human being on the planet. - Well that's just silly. Have you met everybody on the planet?

Two Weeks Notice, Marc Lawrence (2002)

[whileiamdying]

SEPTEMBER

Twilight Time Collection

Like Interiors (1978, also a Twilight Time release), September (1987) is a film from writer-director Woody Allen that focuses with razor-sharp seriousness on relationships, familial and otherwise. And by otherwise, we mean relationships that exist more potently in the heart and mind of one participant than the object of affection can imagine or bear. Chekhovian unrequited love is very much the subject in September, and Allen attacks it with a compelling combination of fascination and fury and tenderness.

Set in a Vermont country house (and we do mean "set" the entire film was shot on a soundstage at the Astoria Studios, magnificently designed by Santo Loquasto to suggest the natural world—perhaps even a cherry orchard—lapping oppressively at the edge of every shot), September takes place, in fact, as a long summer is coming to its close; September itself is the uncertain future, for every one of the distressed characters. Front and center is Lane (Mia Farrow), a fragile woman who has come to her family home some months earlier to recover from a suicide attempt; she has fallen in love with her guest house tenant, Peter (Sam Waterston), a New York advertising man hoping that a few months in Vermont will turn him into the novelist he longs to be. Lane is almost too supportive of him—and he, as it happens, is actually in love with Lane's best friend, Stephanie (Dianne Wiest), a married woman and mother taking a tortured "break" from her husband and children. Not that Lane is unloved; sadly, her admirer is a darling older neighbor, Howard (Denholm Elliott), who longs to take care of her: too, too bad, because, blinded by her infatuation with Peter, she can't see him.

Complicating this roundelay even more are unexpected, not very welcome guests: Lane's self-described tough-cookie actress mother, Diane (Elaine Stritch), and her latest husband, Lloyd (Jack Warden), a kindly but out-of-his-element physicist. To call Lane's relationship with Diane troubled is to understate, vastly. In a back story that emerges gradually, we learn that this pair were involved, many years earlier, in a replay of the notorious real-life Lana Turner/CheryI Crane/Johnny Stompanato horror show: 14-year-old Lane allegedly shot her mom's abusive gangster lover. This catastrophic event more or less rolled off the careless Diane's back; Lane, however, was permanently traumatized and is still trying to deal with the shock decades later. Tragically, another example of unrequited love here exists between secretly yearning mother and implacable daughter.

There is material enough here for several movies, but Allen keeps his multiple narratives under a control as tight as the narrow confines of the country house that itself eventually becomes a bone of contention. Lots of bones are worried here, and the actors doing the worrying are experts. Farrow—who, in the same year, played a goofy cigarette girl in Allen's more light-hearted nostalgia piece, Radio Days (another Twilight Time release)—is heartrending as the floundering, destroyed, but ever-hopeful Lane; her outcry, at the end, that "l always wanted to live!" is supremely touching. Wiest—already an Oscar@ winner for her performance in Allen's 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters—manages to be wavering and uncertain without being annoying. Stritch is hard and selfish yet somehow poignant; Waterston is a moony kind of everyman, longing to be an artist; Warden, playing a character seemingly out of his wheelhouse, is wonderfully level-headed and honest. And Elliott reigns supreme as the sublime exemplar of selfless love; his yearning gaze and quietly passionate voice will remain with you long after September comes to a close.

t's worth noting that all this excellence comprises Allen's second iteration of September, this release version is, slightly infamously, September 2.0, the first having been shot with a somewhat different script and a substantially different cast. In the first version, Maureen O'Sullivan—Farrow's real-life mother—played the role of Diane; Elliott assayed the part of her husband; Charles Durning played the amorous neighbor; and the role of Peter was played first by Christopher Walken, who, mere days into the original shoot, was replaced by Sam Shepard. In a December 1987 New York Times interview with Eric Lax, Allen suggested that this was part of his normal process.

As Lax wrote, "Mr. Allen's penchant for reshooting scenes is so integral a part of his creative process that extra weeks for reshoots are budgeted into every film. Even entirely redoing September, he managed to come in only about 20 percent over budget." As Allen told Lax, "When I saw the first version, I saw many mistakes and character things I could do better. I didn't need certain speeches, and certain things needed to be said that weren't said. It's no different than any playwright with a show out of town. In Philadelphia, you sit in the hotel room and rework scenes. I was doing the same thing."

And doing them, as is so often the case with Woody Allen, superlatively well.

—Julie Kirgo

Prepared for Blu-ray™. Release by Brian Jamieson and Nick Redman. Project Coordinator: Mike Finnegan Layout and Design: Louis Falzarano at Soda Design, Hollywood, CA. Booklet Essay: Julie Kirgo Isolated Score Tracks Prepared by Mike Matessino.

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Jeff Jewett at West Entertainment, Studio City, CA. Blu-ray Authored and Mastered at West Entertainment, Studio City, CA. Special Thanks: Craig Spaulding, William Waybourn, Bill Hecksteden, Cindy Snuggs, Katie Chilsolm, Neil S. Buck, and Dan Hersch. The views expressed are solely those of the individuals providing them and do not reflect the opinions of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, its affiliates or employees. "OSCAR" is the registered trademark and service mark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. TWILIAGHT TIME© is the registered trademark of RED JAM, LLC. 505 N Brand Blvd Ste 1560, Glendale, CA 91203, © 2017 RED JAM, LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.facebook.com/twilighttimemovies. Available exclusively at www.screenarchives.com and www.twilighttimemovies.com.

[authoroftheaccident]

“Back in ancient Rome when there would be a conquering hero, he would come back to the city and they would have a huge parade for him with people lining the streets. As he rode through the streets in a chariot, there was a slave who was assigned to ride behind him and keep whispering into his ear “homo es”, meaning “you are only a man”, so he wouldn’t be overwhelmed by all of this adulation he was getting. Well that role, through the ages, has come down to the film editor because while the director is being told how wonderful he or she is, especially on the set, being told how fantastic the dailies are and how fantastic the performances are, the editor has to say, ‘there’s a little bit more work that has to be done’.”

- Susan E. Morse, on the origins of the editor

[ofthetimestone]

tag drop;;

🔮

[daggerzine]

You Gotta Lose? Hell, Some Of Us Ain’t Dead Yet by Mary Leary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fz3FVBlOE

NRBQ has done so many amazing songs. I never thought much about “Roll Call,” from Tiddlywinks - for one thing, it has a lighter, almost Billy Joel sound that’s more about latter day Terry Adams style than what I think of as the classic Q. Yet just as Adams’ work has grown on me, this track has made its way into my consciousness. The lyrics speak to me more in 2020 than they did when Tiddlywinks was released in 1980, before the D.C.-area music scene had lost Robert Goldstein (Urban Verbs), Kevin MacDonald (brilliant visual artist and scene stalwart who helped me design and layout [The] Infiltrator), Danny Gatton disciple/guitar maverick Evan Johns, bassist Michael Maye from the original H-Bombs, Rick Dreyfuss (Half Japanese/Chumps/Shakemore), Libby Hatch and Michael Mariotte  (Tru Fax and the Insaniacs), Sally Be/Berg - REM/Egoslavia/SHE/Robert Palmer), Nurses member Marc Halpern (heroin, 1982), Lorenzo (Pee- Wee) Jones (Tiny Desk Unit) and hybrid rocker Jim Altman (HIV, 1990s).  Goldstein, Dreyfuss, Maye and MacDonald succumbed to cancer, while Evan Johns’ deterioration followed years of touring, hard drinking and pushing himself past the limit.

(Top to bottom: Tommy Keene, Kevin MacDonald, Susan Mumford)

Those named above have been joined by Tommy Keene (the Rage/the Razz/solo/Paul Westerberg/Matthew Sweet - cardiac arrest at the age of 59; 2017), TDU’s Susan Mumford (cancer, 2018), David Byers (Psychotics/H.R./Bad Brains), and Skip Groff (Yesterday and Today/ Limp Records/Dischord - seizure, 2019).  This is just an imperfect/incomplete naming of D.C.-area losses - I’m sure journalists from other cities could make lists. A horde of New Wave and early alternative musicians have died within the past few years. Whether through the stress of hard living/poverty, substance abuse, cancer or Covid-19, we’re seeing artists pass much earlier than I, anyway, expected them to.

(Top to bottom: Fred "Freak” Smith, Michael Maye with Evan Johns, Tru Fax and the Insaniacs)

We’re already past the loss of all the original Ramones. All the Cramps less Poison Ivy. Joe Strummer. Robert Quine. Hilly Kristal. Lou Reed. As of July, 2020, since 2018 we’ve also lost Andy Gill, Ivan Kral, Genesis P-Orridge, Adam Schlesinger, Danny Mihm, Ric Ocasek, Daniel Johnston, Kim Shattuck, Lorna Doom, Mark Hollis, Keith Flint, Ranking Roger, Mark E. Smith, Glenn Branca, Randy Rampage, Hardy Fox, Pete Shelley, Matthew Seligman, Bill Rieflin, Dave Greenfield, Florian Schneider,  Ian Dury, Benjamin Orr, Kirsty McColl and David Roback.

(Top to bottom: Sally Be/Berg, Ranking Roger, Danny Mihm)

Talking about the deaths of talented, gifted creatives is a helluva way to start a column. But here we are. Older performers don’t always get the attention afforded newer, so the rest of this piece shares and celebrates artists from the original New Wave/punk scenes who are still around and active. Many are from the D.C.-area cornucopia I know best, while others have just come to my attention, or seem especially noteworthy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MED9_XK_JVQ

The Zeros’ Javier Escovedo has been steadily emitting tasty Americana-ish rock while occasionally dropping some Zeros sturm-’n’-drang - most recently with Munster Records single “In The Spotlight” and a track on Burger Records’ Quarantunes compilation. Quarantunes is a seven-album affair featuring 140 alternative/punk performers old and new, all of whom wrote songs between March-April 2020. A cursory listen to Volume 2 reveals the recorded version of a good night at a very wild bar, with Zeros still handily kicking ass of all ages.

https://velvetmonkeys.bandcamp.com/album/legacy-of-success?fbclid=IwAR0lJyS0YDE4e3o7LJiITEtw1lhBWMkUX47Vuag1Lf9fs2QozJJKD1lwkes

Velvet Monkeys/B.A.L.L. player and Sonic Youth/Teenage Fanclub producer Don Fleming reports, “We’ve put out new tracks ‘Theories of Rummanetics’ and ‘Legacy of Success.’ Jay has written a few ‘modules’ and Malcolm and I are having fun doing the music,” adding, “I play some electric six string on the new Rob Moss album - it’s fun to be on, with lots of guitar slingers from the DC daze.”

Yup, Rob Moss of Skin-Tight Skin has solicited contributions from Fleming and from Marshall Keith (Slickee Boys), along with a pile of talent including Stuart Casson (Psychotics/Dove/Meatmen), Franz Stahl (Foo Fighters/Scream), Billy Loosigian (Nervous Eaters, the Boom-Boom Band), Nels Cline (Wilco) and Saul Koll (the guy who made guitars for Henry Kaiser and Lee Ranaldo). The set is called We’ve Come Back To Rock ‘n’ Roll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdIB8a_0Q4c

Chumps/Workdogs/Jam Messengers player Rob Kennedy apparently has too much energy to throw in the towel - he’s kept recording, performing and making various sorts of lo-fi, DIY mischief that never loses that fresh, ‘70s feeling. Jam Messengers released Night And Day on vinyl in 2017. One of my fave Kennedy tracks, “A Low Down Dirty Shame” speaks to this moment as well as any.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-CRBEGVLE4

Former Tiny Desk Unit/Fuji’s Navy/Rhoda & the Bad Seeds members Bob Boilen, Kevin Lay, Michael Barron and Bob Harvey have released a new Danger Painters joint, Thank Speak Love This Record. Lay joked, “I have a voice made for Morse Code” before revealing his recent work with Rhoda and the Bad Seeds material, released June 30 as Live at Nightclub 9:30. Boilen continues to introduce artists both vital and obscure via Tiny Desk Concerts and All Songs Considered/NPR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejQ1GajwfB0

I’ve seen David Arnson play recently and can attest to his proclivity for unfettered growth via Insect Surfers, the instrumental group that originally had some trouble establishing cred. with younger D.C. punks. The Surfers’ most recent release was Living Fossils (2019). Arnson celebrated the band’s 40 years of existence with a European tour in 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SkIuWIZVkM

Jad Fair says, “Half Japanese will have a new album released in November on Fire Records.” Jad’s art was recently featured at the Hiromart Gallery/Tokyo, while David has created a Facebook page where fans can pick up his colorful images for, well, mere bags o’ shells, as far as we can see -  https://www.facebook.com/David-Fair-Painting-107055447700859/

Despite health issues for several members, Bad Brains has collaborated with Element to make BB themed skate wear https://www.elementbrand.com/mens-collection-bad-brains/ and added some killer live tracks to its YouTube channel.  

Former WGTB programmers John Paige and Steve Lorber have been presenting Rock Continuum on WOWD-LP FM 94.3 since 2017.

Mike Stax continues to give excellent motivation for hunting down a pair of Beatle boots - Munster released the Loons’ 7” EP, A Dream In Jade Green, last year. The latest issue of Ugly Things, said by Stax to be heavily focused on the Pretty Things’ Phil May, was reported in early July to be nearing publication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jSc7gEAv0

Razz (the) Documentary will tell the story of how an uncommonly combustible rock band - especially with the Bill Craig/Abaad Behram line-up - helped spread the Flamin’ Groovies gospel while throwing down oddly compelling originals and taking the two-guitar thing up several notches - the producers are purportedly seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Whether anyone can ever recreate the experience of being in an altered state via obsessive, sometimes conversational repetition of certain chords, anchored by Ted Nicely rethinking just what can be done with a bass guitar, given girth by Doug Tull’s intuitive drumming; with Mike Reidy the heat-seeking missile somewhere near the center... well, I doubt it. ‘Cause at this point you’re feeling no pain and it’s not about drinking; there is no room for anything but water - the beer will be knocked over when you’re this busy matching David Arnson’s other-side-of-the-front-line’s leaps into joydum while PCP’d out yahoos from the sticks learn the hard way that hugging Marshall amps can lead to lifelong repercussions. There (in case nothing I want to say about [the] Razz makes it into the film) - I’ve said it.

Discussions among old friends have confirmed that I’m not alone in being happily surprised at this development - we never expected our actions - which led to the hardcore explosion that’s received a lot more attention... would ever make it into any history book. Yet coverage of many of the D.C.-area musicians featured in this piece also comes with Punk The Capitol, A History of D.C. Punk and Hardcore, 1976-1983. Spring 2021 is the projected date for streaming/DVD release.

Ivan Julian came back from a scary 2015 bout with cancer to do a show in New York in 2016. The cancer has returned. Friends have organized a GoFundMe to raise money for surgery and basic needs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDB_3by-xkI

The Shakemore fest also refuses to fade, promising “eight hours of streaming steaming video” on August 1. Sounds will be provided by R. Stevie Moore, Velvet Monkeys, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, Half Japanese, Johnny Spampinato, Weird Paul and the Chumps, among many, many others.

Despite having played at CBGB and other alternative venues in 1979, at the height of the New Wave, Gary Wilson’s work is so distinctive, he’s rarely been included with any musical genre other than the oft-vague “experimental” category. Folks were too unmoored by his visceral performances to get behind him. Wilson’s 14th album, Tormented, was released by Cleopatra in February.

Paul Collins recently published a book that he wrote with Chuck Nolan; I Don’t Fit In: My Wild Ride Through the Punk and Power Pop Trenches with the Nerves and the Beat (Hozac Books).

As “Heath,” Michael Layne Heath, a journalist who contributed to (the) Infiltrator and many other ‘zines, published My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed in May (Hat & Beard Press).

In April, X released its first album in 35 years; Alphabetland.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1I-laItPI

As exciting for me as any of the above is Richard Hell with the Heartbreakers’ 2019 release of Yonkers Demo 1976. Hell’s “You Gotta Lose” is one of my picks for best punk/new wave singles of all time. The Heartbreakers version is, predictably, messier than the Robert Quine guitar-spiked classic. Its more excessive charms are growing on me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48QnsysCN_A

This piece could go on and on - compiling it has been exhausting. The best part has been the response to my social media call for any info I didn’t have re: the D.C.-centric scene I left for New York in 1983. Musicians anxious to keep their compadres’ names alive have hammered that post with 138 comments to date. Urban Verbs percussionist Danny Frankel, who’s played with a colorful spread of artists including Beck, Marianne Faithful, Lou Reed, John Cale and k.d. Lang, made a point of being sure I knew about the passing of Marc Halpern, a source of obvious pain. People were worried I wouldn’t mention John Stabb (Government Issue - 2016), rockabilly player Billy Hancock (2018), Fred “Freak” Smith (Strange Boutique/Beefeater - murdered in Los Angeles, 2017), John Hansen (Slickee Boys - 2010), record store owner/Wasp Records starter/music supporter Bill Asp, Jimmy Barnett of The Killer Bees, and David Byers.

One of the hardest for me to write about is Chris Morse, whose 1984 passing from a drug overdose wrenched so many - I managed to get an obituary into, I think, The New York Rocker (that physical trek was part of a long-ago blur; a very hot day of traipsing over steaming concrete in a narrow-skirted dress to deliver the copy). Chris popped up in my dreams for years - one “visitation” pushed me to write a poem about it in the ‘90s. Morse, who played in Rhoda & The Bad Seeds and worked as a doorman at The Pyramid after moving to NYC in the early ‘80s, was on one of the Urban Verbs’ early flyers. I’m on another.

(Top to bottom: Me in an early Verbs flyer/photo shot at the Atlantis; Chris Morse on another Verbs flyer)

I ended up getting so burnt out on the responsibility of populating this sad roll call, I’ve started a memorial page for them all on Facebook. The nature of truly alternative music is such that many of its lights still fail to fill the pages of major publications. Many of these lights gave a great deal of their lives, if not everything, for the art they believed in. It’s good to remember them, and those heady early days. It’s good to enjoy what we still can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA3IfK76mmI

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Eden Academy

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2UfgSX4

by That_Awesome_Prussian

Summary inside...

Words: 89, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Disney - All Media Types, DCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe, X-Men - All Media Types, Henry Danger (TV), The Thundermans, The Umbrella Academy (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types, Scooby Doo - All Media Types, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Danny Phantom, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard - Rick Riordan, The Kane Chronicles - Rick Riordan, Lumine (Webcomic), Hooky (Webcomic), unOrdinary (Webcomic), Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler, Soul Eater, 斉木楠雄のΨ難 | Saiki Kusuo no Sai-nan | The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Naruto, Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types, Hetalia: Axis Powers, 七つの大罪 - 鈴木央 | Nanatsu no Taizai | The Seven Deadly Sins - Suzuki Nakaba (Anime & Manga), Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Hunter X Hunter

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Helen "Elastigirl" Parr, Edna Mode, Bob "Mr. Incredible" Parr, Evil Queen | Regina Mills, Fairy Godmother (Disney), Queen of Hearts, Captain Hook, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Diana (Wonder Woman), Arthur Curry (DCU), Oliver Queen, Barry Allen, Hal Jordan, Pamela Isley, Harleen Quinzel, Selina Kyle, Alfred Pennyworth, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, Thor (Marvel), Sweden (Hetalia), Turkey (Hetalia), China (Hetalia), France (Hetalia), Ukraine (Hetalia), Raven | Mystique, Ray Manchester, Barb Thunderman, Anakin Skywalker, Hank Thunderman, Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Kanan Jarrus, Aslan (Narnia), Vlad Masters, Maddie Fenton, Jack Fenton, Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall, Newt Scamander, Chiron (Percy Jackson), Aiden (Lumine), Nicholas St. North, Toothiana (Guardians of Childhood), E. 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[byneddiedingo]

Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, and Dianne Wiest in Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)

Cast: Barbara Hershey, Carrie Fisher, Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Max von Sydow, Woody Allen, Lewis Black, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julie Kavner, J.T. Walsh, John Turturro. Screenplay: Woody Allen. Cinematography: Carlo Di Palma. Production design: Stuart Wurtzel. Film editing: Susan E. Morse.

As an actor, Woody Allen has two personae: the nebbishy neurotic that was the mainstay of his early career as a standup comedian, and the witty, self-effacing charmer who can credibly win the hearts of such co-stars as Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow, and Dianne Wiest. He appears in both personae in Hannah and Her Sisters. As Mickey, he suffers from hypochondria and a fear of death so severe that when he discovers he doesn't have a brain tumor he goes through a desperate but comic search for God, even going so far as to try to convert to Catholicism. He also plays the successful lover, winning Holly (Wiest) after an earlier misfired attempt. But Allen is not the only actor in the film who is playing the two "Woody Allen" personae: As Elliot, who is married to Mickey's ex-wife, Hannah (Farrow), Michael Caine also becomes both the neurotic and the charmer in his obsession with Hannah's sister, Lee (Barbara Hershey). So what we get is Elliot as Mickey's psychological doppelgänger. (Mickey was once married to Hannah and Holly is also her sister, reinforcing the duplication.) That all of this works as well as it does -- and sometimes it doesn't -- is why the film remains one of Allen's most successful. It was a critical and commercial hit, receiving seven Oscar nominations (including best picture) and winning three: for Caine and Wiest as supporting performers and for Allen as writer -- he was also nominated as director. It is certainly well-structured, given the intricacy of the various interrelationships among the three sisters and their husbands and lovers. I think the weakest part of the structure is Allen's own performance; unlike Caine, he never succeeds in integrating the two personae. Some of the problem is the way his role is written: The comedy of his hypochondria is too broad for a film that takes on some serious issues in the way people deal with infatuation and infidelity, and when Mickey recovers from his obsession with God and death, Allen borrows shamelessly from Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels (1941) by having Mickey snap out of it while watching the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933), just as Sullivan recovers from his own funk by watching a Disney cartoon. But there is a real sophistication in the way Allen ends his somewhat Chekhovian comedy by playing on our expectation of a happy ending. All of the characters in the film are far too morally compromised for a simple resolution, so Allen gives us what just appears to be one: a Thanksgiving party with all of the sisters and their husbands accounted for. At the very end, we find that Mickey and Holly are not only married now, but she's pregnant. Fade out, music and credits up. Perhaps only as we're walking out of the theater do we remember that it has earlier been well established that Mickey is infertile.

[iloveyoudie]

for the word headcanons thing: concert, max/morse and james/robbie. bc i'm greedy. :)

Send me a SHIP + WORD and I will give you 3 headcanons - Don’t be afraid. I don’t bite. I also like more ships and fandoms than I let on ;D  (I would do a list but it would be long and weird probably)

CONCERT

Max/Morse 

1) I actually have an unwritten ‘what if they met a different way’ headcanon that may eventually get on to paper. In this version Max is new to his job in Oxford, his first Big Job and it’s exciting for him despite his extensive training and education. And it’s Oxford and it’s lovely and so he goes with some colleagues to a choral concert at one of the colleges whereupon he spies a young - final year of school - E. Morse in the choir. And he bucks up the courage to compliment him on it after the show - just a passing thing - it was lovely or you did well - and Morse is very young and beautiful and humble about the whole thing and then he’s swept up and away by his friends - Susan and Anthony and the rest - and they never exchange names and Morse would never remember it. Max may not even when they first meet - but back then he was very struck and it was a very good introduction to Oxford for him. 

2) Max is not as dedicated to classical as Morse is. Max has expansive musical interests. Max experiments, here and there, with slipping in modern music to the repertoire to see what Morse can tolerate. Jazz is handled a bit well, though not the improvisational things as much, and rock is not tolerated much at all unless merged with an orchestra or a long clearly skillful guitar solo. Once the kinks are worked out Max strategically plans around this so that soon Morse has actually seen several rather good ‘live shows’ but they were in dinner clubs or jazz clubs or dance spots because Max sold him on the dinner and left out the music. He surprises himself sometimes when a popular singer crops up and he thinks ‘Oh... I know that one!’ or ‘I like that one!’ and realizes he’s been a pawn in Max’s musical master plan the entire time.

3) Max and Morse, as they age and fall into comfort in their relationship, plan strategic vacations. Perhaps Max has a conference so Morse goes on furlough. Maybe it’s otherwise. No one generally connects that they end up missing at the same time, not anyone besides Lewis or Strange. In remote places, away from Oxford, they go to concerts together. The listen to choirs in italian cathedrals and orchestras in Spain and they dance once to a street band in France when they have a bottle too much of wine and Morse is overly amorous and Max is reluctant but unable to say no. It’s easier to enjoy things away from home. It’s easier to enjoy things together without the concern that someone who knows them may see.

James/Robbie

1) Robbie knows about James’s band and music before he’s told about it but he only goes once - not telling James - and never again. He thinks it’s lovely and he’s amazed but James never talks to him about it. James never invites him. People from work seem to go to the shows, get invitations, but not Robbie. He may have fallen in love with him a little bit seeing him with that guitar, possibly before he’s ready to fall in love with him, so he doesn’t go and he’s not invited because James is afraid of exposing himself like that - that Robbie won’t like it - that any number of things could happen ... and Robbie is afraid of falling in love with his sergeant more than he already is. 

2) James keeps himself on the pulse of Midnight Addiction news. He gets him their memoirs, their remastered CDs, a framed reprint of the poster for the show that he met Val at. James doesn’t know how else to show he accepts Robbie for all of him, for all his past, and his future.. and when they do a reunion tour (sans-dead members) he manages to get them to play a song for Val and Robbie and Lewis is sure no one has ever done anything so thoughtful for him in his life. 

3) Robbie takes James to... dun dun dun... OPERAS. Because he learned, like Wagner, they are full of the important things. Life and Death and Regret. James doesn’t need to be woo’ed with culture but its a side of Robbie he doesn’t mind seeing. Just like he doesn’t mind seeing him in those tuxedos (you and I were talking about this today :eyes emoji: 

[denuevolomismo]

Me llamo Roberto

No lo soporto más, estoy en esta habitación, agonizando entre las 4 paredes que se derriten ante mis ojos como el primer vomito blanquecino de un bebe. Viscosas manchas blancas forman figuras a mí al rededor. De mi frente salen gotas de sudor amarillento, en su caída a la tierra veo como se transforman en caras que me susurran palabras en otros idiomas. Me duele el estómago y tengo fiebre, creo que las pastillas que me dieron  harán efecto. Tengo el presentimiento de que han pasado días desde la última vez que toque una cama. Cuando vienen los puedo sentir, nacen desde mi cervical y avanzan por mi columna vertebral hasta mi cabeza.  Los piecitos de esos soldados verdes  que irrumpen por mi espalda a la marcha de un compás divino que no logro descifrar. Obscuro, apagado, seco, desgastado. Las paredes áridas, yo húmedo.  Ahí viene, esta vez es otra cosa, es como una fuerza que cierne mi visión y la convierte en algo encandilante, los murmullos de estas voces se vuelven ecos más claros. Sé que están hablando en español, no conozco ese idioma, pero el bailar de las palabras sobre sus bocas me distrae y no sé qu�� debería responder. Siento como las caras de esas lagartijas se deforman y sus ojos caen de sus cuencos, son amarillos sus trajes, parecen de queso. Me duelen los pies, las manos, no tengo uñas. Me asusto, hay algo  amarillo enfrente mío, es esta mancha que se mueve y se hace más grande, es un lagarto. Puedo ver sus colmillos afilados serpenteándose de manera circular. Son dos lagartos que debaten a través de estas señas didácticas extrañas. Estoy mojado, creo que estoy debajo de un charco transparente, siento la calidez brotar de mi entrepierna, mis piernas están ahora sumergidas en este calor que de a poco es frio.

Me duele, me golpean, veo mi cuerpo y tengo pelo, ¿seré un mono? Siento esas garras presionarse contra mis extremidades y exigen algo de mí. Les digo que no hablo lagarto, que no hablo primate, que tengo pelo, que no soy uno de ellos. Silencian, su palabrerío cesa. De mi cara  se desprende esta sustancia roja, creo siento que es roja, porque me hace acordar alguien. Retortijones, se retuerce mi interior, creo que tengo gusanos. No veo nada. Quema, arde, fuerte, fuego, quemo, quemo, la náusea, vomito fuego. Incinerado, estoy siendo incinerado pero no brilla,  el fuego es por dentro.

SOMBRAS, veo un destello de luz que es como una línea recta que se entre corta cada tanto tiempo, ¿Los divinos me estarán hablando en código morse? Se acercan son cada vez más grandes las sombras, nomás interpreto puntos, y estos sonidos que son como voces en español, eñe, que letra graciosa, eñe hahaha. Me rio, el aire sale pausado de mi tráquea y es como un viento fuerte que choca mis  dientes, creo que hay un mundo en mi boca. Cada vez que hablo los pobres ciudadanos deben sufrir  tifones. Hahaha…

¡Estoy alucinando!  Me doy cuenta, siento como va a salir de mi pecho, me golpea como a una bolsa de boxeo, dentro de mi tórax, tengo miedo, las sombras se vuelven monstruos aullantes, ojos rojizos que me  atrapan. .-¡ME DROGRARON!.- grito y me quema el ácido de la garganta, es como un volcán que no se detiene y me duele. –ME DROGARON! ME DROGARON! ME DROGARON! LAGARTOS, LAGARTOS, LAGARTOS.-  se quiebra mi voz candente y vomito de nuevo, hablo ronco como si fuera un animal salvaje.

Luz, fuerte, focal, puntera, punteada, me invade, no veo nada. Óvalos amarillos, ondulan hacia mí. Son ellos, ya no parecen lagartos, pero tienen pelo, no son monos, son algo más. Miro mis manos mientras un sonido comienza, como un pitido, soy uno de ellos, tengo pelo pero estoy pelado. Ese ruido que no para, es molesto, ese español.

Estoy siendo arrastrado por estas cosas, que se parecen a mí, estas cosas que me drogaron. Creo que tengo un nombre, pero no me lo acuerdo. Solo sé que el frio colma mi cuerpo, me invade completamente, es una sensación tajante. Estoy desnudo. Ellos tienen trajes amarillos y yo estoy desnudo.

Estoy en una silla, estoy sentado y están enfrente de mí. Son mayores que yo, mis manos tiemblan, sé que tengo un nombre pero no me lo acuerdo. Me lo preguntan una y otra vez, les digo que no hablo español. Debaten que hacer conmigo. Está comenzando otra vez, me quema el estómago. Me quejo y me caigo de la silla  ¡agh! Me golpean, pongo el brazo, me vuelvo una bola, me jalan y me obligan a sentar.

Roberto, me llamo Roberto.- Digo entre  toses. Sus palabras se elevan como alaridos con eñe. Me dicen que no me llamo así, que no soy así, no soy Roberto. ¡Yo soy Roberto!- Insisto, me desgarra la carne ese fierro que usan para golpearme.

Puntitos blancos danzan en la absurdidad y de a poco se materializan en una imagen, caí inconsciente luego de la golpiza, puedo ver mi vientre, estoy desnutrido. Mis uñas están negras, pero sé que soy Roberto, sé que tengo 36, soy de… soy… ¿de dónde soy?, yo hablo español. Soy de España. Me tiraron agua helada, y hace frio, cuando tocó el piso se evaporó  por el hielo que del mismo nace. La planta de mis pies se pega en el suelo.

-Es la última vez que te lo pregunto ¿Cómo te llamas? ¿Quién te mando? ¿Por qué te haces pasar por Roberto García?

Soy Roberto García, Me mando la policía a trabajar en el caso de María Ángeles, encubierto, hace años que.- No podía parar, las palabras salían de mi boca musicalizando una sinfonía que  debía utilizar.- trabajo en ese caso, mi trabajo es vigilar a María Ángeles y evitar que su ex novio narcotraficante, Tomas de Aquino, sujeto que trabaja en una parte muy importante del gobierno, venga a por ella antes de que termine el juicio. María debe testificar.  

Ya está. Lo escupí todo, y ellos son agentes, ellos deben trabajar para él, me secuestraron, me drogaron, quieren que les diga dónde está la chica, pero no se los diré, soy más fuerte que esta droga invasiva que usan para sacar la verdad de las personas.

Roberto.- Hace una pausa y se prende un cigarro, se toma la frente parece frustrado, su compañero esta serio e incómodo.  Te encontramos en los bosques de Piñedo vagando, parecía que no habías comido hace días. ¿Qué hacías ahí?

No recuerdo.- respondí. Me golpean. ¡NO RECUERDO!- Afirme. Emana sangre de mis heridas más recientes, intento taparlas,  detener la hemorragia.

¿No recuerdas he? Pero te llamas Roberto y trabajas encubierto… Mh… ¿Sabes quiénes somos nosotros?- Completamente calmo  inhala una pitada de su tabaco.- Notros somos viejos amigos de Roberto. Tú no eres Roberto, ni siquiera te pareces.  Deja de mentir.

A medida que pronuncia sus palabras siento como la desesperación me va colmando. De a poco me  toma.

-Estuviste vagando por los bosques de piñedo, cuando te encontramos con  tus ropas  cubiertas de sangre seca, solamente pronunciabas que eras Roberto García, que tenías 36 años, documento 3965578.  Esa persona no eres tú, esa persona murió, hace 20 años. Esa persona fue mi compañero de trabajo. ¿Para quién trabajas? ¿Por qué te haces pasar por un policía encubierto?

Negro, las palabras desaparecen, mi mente se nubla, emana de  mí la ira. Me desespero.  Vocifero insultos.

Agua fría en la cabeza. Lloro, me duele, tengo miedo, no me griten. Créanme, por favor-  Me ahogo con mi saliva. Ellos serios me miran.

¡Dinos quien eres!- Golpea la mesa, el que esta incomodo comienza a perder los estribos, siento que hace días estoy en este lugar. Están cansados de mí.

Y entonces, vuelve. Emerge  lentamente de mi estómago la necesidad de vomitar palabras, siento como soy la desesperación, créanme, soy Roberto, yo… Soy Roberto. Recuerdo cuando nací, recuerdo donde crecí, recuerdo jugar en el jardín del prado, arrancar las petunias de raíz, la voz de la tía marta, me reta, el hielo fresco en esa limonada, el sonido de mis primos, mis compañeros de clase, la ropa que no me entra, zapatillas que me aprietan los pies. Mi madre abrazándome, su pecho contra el mío. Tomo su mano por última vez. Las paredes blancas del hospital, blancas de la universidad, el entrenamiento, barro metiéndose por entre mis dedos descalzos. El comandante un, dos. Susan, rubia, trabaja en el almacén, sonrisa liviana, manos delicadas, me rasguñan. Horror. El viento del descapotable golpeando mi cara. El maletero, tierra, las montañas de basílica. El barco. Venezuela, la oficina, cajas, el teléfono sonar. Los Bosques de piñedo. María Ángeles, joven, colorada, la luz del sol dorada reflejándose sobre su rostro, ropa suelta blanca, puedo ver sus pechos, habla suave. Siento su piel aterciopelada. La tomo. Azul. Su expresión es azul. Sus manos hacen presión contra mi rostro. Me rasguña. La pala, la bolsa.  Hace frio. Esta fría. Prendo un fuego. Basura, basura, Diarios que arden, la madera chasqueando. Puedo leer un nombre, Roberto.

Soy Roberto.-  Vuelo a decir

[themainframes]

POST PLEASANT HILL OBSERVATIONS

S.H.I.E.L.D., NOV. 2025. APPROVED BY DIRECTOR MARIA HILL.

IN THE FOUR MONTHS SINCE PLEASANT HILL...

Our specialists have been closely monitoring those who had extended contact with the town and Reality Stone in order to see if there have been any lingering or lasting effects. Analysis of the Stone have been completed by those with extensive multiversal knowledge, such as magic experts WANDA MAXIMOFF and STEPHEN STRANGE, multiversal theorists SUSAN and REED RICHARDS and specialist ERIK SELVIG. 

Findings, so far, have continued to be consistently evolving. We are able to release preliminary findings as well as recent interviews that have been conducted with Dr. JERICHO DRUMM, Agent BARBARA MORSE and Agent SHARON CARTER with respective telepaths JEAN GREY, PSYLOCKE and EMMA FROST present to ensure that the truth was being told and mental overstimulation does not occur. The following subjects were interviewed either by choice or in prison:

Barton, C. Belova, Y. Bishop, K. Drew, J. Gocking, R. Gold, M. Kinney, L. Moon, C. Romanoff, N. Walker, J. Zabo, C.

Interviews have been requested with:

Hardy, F. Lang, S. Lincoln, L. Morales, M. Murdock, M. Natchios, E. Ryan, R.

Despite initial beliefs, there is a chance those who spent substantial amount of time in the town may have residual side effects even if they were not permanent members. This would apply to live in S.H.I.E.L.D. agents or those who had their appearances changed. That includes:

Adsit, S. Carlisle, J. Johnson, D. Kincaid, A. Orr, N.

DOCUMENT ENCRYPTION CODE: p - 1 - h - 7 - o - 9 / pass: shieldguest1

This code will allow access to all unlocked interview files and observation reports. An official report will be released following the synthesis of all interviews.

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