#the funky gibbon

[macaron-vents]

Next time I ask fp if he loves me I hope that instead of pullung off his signature “not allowed to share that information because of the voices” spin, I hope he dances around the question in a more interesting-ly-er (word) way.

I want him to see him do the bloody Charleston, the conga, the one that hokes and pokes and quite possibly cokes, the Carioca, the Suzie Q, the hopscotch, the sock hop, the SECCOM MASADA SENSEI?! hop, the Freddy (fazbear?) the hully gully, the letkajenkka, the sprinkler, the tragedy(?), the grinding(? He does that a lot I think) the wig wam bam, the funky gibbon! the cabbage patch, the humpty dance, the roger rabbit, the algorithm match, the purge march (Amane reference), the month of march, the cha cha - possibly of the slide variety (real smooth), the one with the bear, caramelldansen (balsamic vinegar style), the lobotomy, LUKA LUKEWARM NIGHT FEVER! the whip nae nae, I need not to see him dab, the creep, the crepe, the wobble, the shake, the month of february, gangnam style, the floss, I need not to see him skibidi, EVERYTHING FROM FORTNITE, the WORM IN WHICH I WOULD INDEED STILL LOVE HIM, from ABC to YMCA to HOTTOGO to LOLXD YOU NAME IT HE’LL DO IT ANYTHING OTHER THEN CARING AT ALL HE WILL

THE VOICES CAN JOIN IN TOO!

Look. Least I’m not asking him to recite the bible in Japanese. And the yeehaw skinny white boy can actually speak Japanese. And probably not breathe simultaneously.

[gordonsgano]

Almost Live is such a g-d tier episode of The Goodies idk why the IMDB rating is so low

[denniswilsonzine]

Need to find which box I stuffed Coppy into so I can take photos for zine promo.

(promo photo of Coppy stolen off a random tumblr)

Have actual photos on my phone of Coppy in & out of it's box etc, maybe even sat on my printer lol but not with any other props/items. Probably should photograph that longarmed stapler with my zine backlog / some zine related stuff before it goes bye-bye too.

Yes I bought a Coppy figure thing on preorder (and the virtual badge) just so I could make visual zine related photocopier jokes. Totally missed the whole actual Clippy parody april fools tumblr thing but he's my zine mascot now.

I'm totally Schrodinger's zinester: got my (unused for nearly 20 years) long-armed stapler, a dymo label printer, a box semi full of identical rusty old zines, & several files and print outs of work in progress but no new zines (unless you count the one from last year).

[yharnamesque]

DESPERATELY resisting the urge to get Shadow of the Erdtree now instead of later like I originally planned.............

[radioprune]

wow. jo brand really was channeling Jeremy hardy with that. fantastic singing

[silverfoxstole]

And… it’s done!

Took just over a week and the seam ripper got a workout but the Dark Eyes coat mark II is finished:

I had to make a few more adjustments/corrections as I went along:

The day after I set in the sleeves I noticed that the right shoulder dart was slightly too far forwards, which meant the sleeve head and shoulder pad had to come out so I could unpick the top of the seam and move it to the right place, something that helpfully removed the one little tuck I’d ended up with at the same time. Unpicking resulted in the fabric tearing so I had to take some extra on the seam when I restitched it, but this actually hid some of the holes from where I’d taken out the topstitching the day before which was a plus so I won’t complain! I also took the sleeves up by 3/4 of an inch when they proved too long even for someone with gibbon arms, an adjustment I must have made before but didn’t make a note of on the pattern.

Because I’m never satisfied I changed the collar again, rounding the ends slightly as it still looked too pointed. It was too high as well but I think I may have taken a bit too much off when I cut it down; not much I can do about it now. After I’d attached everything and topstitched I realised that it wasn’t meeting the lapel on the left side by about a centimetre which meant yet more unpicking to put it right. The edges aren’t sitting completely flat, something that’s annoying but that’s my fault for not rolling them over far enough when doing the topstitching.

The front edges were sticking out at an angle towards the bottom so I took some more off the seam to level them out.

When I made my first version, not knowing what the lining looked like I used up some ladybird satin I had left from a coat I’d made a few weeks before but this time I went for plain navy lining fabric which I think is probably more accurate (I could be wrong, of course; for all I know Paul’s hiding a funky lining in there. I know I would!):

I thought I’d put some photos of the two versions side by side so you can see the differences. The major changes were: returning the back side panels and creating the belt; shortening and shaping the collar; adding the pocket detail and the false bound holes behind the second row of buttons; topstitching round all eight buttonholes. I also felt when wearing it that the first coat was too short so I increased the length by a couple of inches. With hindsight I wish I’d narrowed the lapels a bit as they’re a lot wider than the collar but by the time I noticed it was too late to change as I’d already made the bound buttonholes. Never mind!

For comparison, old coat on the left, new on the right:

Overall, I’m really pleased with the way it’s turned out. It looks much more like the original, which is what I wanted, and though there may be tweaks I’d make if I was able I always feel that way; I’m never 100% happy with anything I make as I can always see room for improvement.

Obligatory dodgy mirror selfies to finish; I’ll try and get some better pics if I manage to wear it out somewhere in the next few weeks. You’ll probably have noticed that my version buttons up the opposite way round and that’s because - apart from the frock coat where it didn’t matter - I’ve never worked with mens’ patterns and changing the crossover would just confuse me. The shirt and waistcoat for my NotD cosplay both button this way and I wear my watch chain on the other side as well; I think that’s probably partly what Paul was referring to when he said upon seeing me in May that it was like looking in a mirror!

[all-action-all-picture]

A Sez Dez editorial column from January 1980 on three of the British artists working for Marvel UK - Dave Funky Gibbons, Steve Sheriff Dillon and Stoic John Stokes. I think the Nick Fury story, with art by Dillon, that appeared in Hulk Comic is the only one of the UK originated strips never to have been reprinted.

[fitz-fool]

Thanks for tagging me @amethystamaranth!! I'm finally out of exam hell so after much soul-searching:

Fantaisie-impromptu (Chopin): x

Impromptu Op. 142 D. 935 no.4 (Schubert): x

Toccata (Schumann): x

ZUNG ZUNG FUNKY MUSIC (Orange Range): x (slight departure from genre lol)

Fantaisie (Chopin): x

O Clap Your Hands (Gibbons) : x

O freudenreicher Tag (Fuchs): x

La Campanella (Liszt): x

Tagging @filteredred @musicainextenso @shadows-echoes @toofrenchtofunction @ninemagicks and anyone who feels like it!

[inquisitorius-sin-bin]

Here, have some gibbons hugging 💙

Thank you very much gibbons are my favorite apes! I love their funky long arms and hands

Siamangs are also great, like gibbons with a frog update

[rosiewitchescottage]

Two childhood memories in one here.

The Goodies had a part sitcom part comedy sketch show, and they also released songs like this one. 'Funky Gibbon' is the most famous. And they did a version of 'Wild Thing'.

They're performing here on a super popular BBC children's show called Crackerjack.

Friday at Five to Five!

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning!  I hope you slept well and feel rested?  Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.  Welcome to the weekend!

Wow!  Here we are again: Friday!  Where did that week go?  No, seriously, where did that week go?

I spent much of my childhood and teenage years in North London but I never visited Highgate Cemetery.  Maybe, back then, it wouldn’t have meant much to me?  Now, I can appreciate it.  More a mystical, magical forest than a graveyard.  From the accents around us, visitors had come from all around the world and, for many, this is one of the reasons to come to London  

Yesterday, me and old family friend Evan Alboum spent a few hours there.  As it happens, when he was young and living in London, he visited there often.

It’s quite a remarkable place.  Graves of every shape and size, ostentatious graves, humble, modest graves, stylish graves, catacombs and mausoleums and, as you may or may not know, lots of talented people are buried there: Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (better known as George Michael), musician Bert Jansch, actress Jean Simmons, actors Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm, Alan Howard and Roger Lloyd-Pack, footballer Ugo Ehiogu, painter Lucian Freud, writers Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, Alan Sillitoe, Anthony Shaffer, Peter Shaffer, Andrea Levy and Beryl Bainbridge, artist manager Malcolm McLaren, comedian Max Wall, noted academic Stuart Hall and, of course, political philosopher Karl Marx.  Well worth a visit! 

Hope you can join me tomorrow at 1.00 p.m. for ‘The A-Z Of Mi-Soul Music’.  The Letter A (Pt. 6).  No executive producer, just me playing with myself.  No more executive producers until The Letter B (Pt. 1).

Straight after the show, I’ll be jumping on a train and heading to The White Lion on Streatham High Road.  Looking forward to spinning tunes with my brother Shaq D.     

Have a fabulous & funky Friday!  I love you all.  You’re probably thinking, “You don’t even know me!” but, if people can hate for no reason, why can’t I love?

[limetimo]

I've got 23 - not counting hamlet and wardrobe because of the above. Whoever made that list should think again

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen mum loves it

2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein both my parents love it reading tolkien was not a choice

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte mum loves it

4 Harry Potter series my blobros

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible i read a couple pages

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell for school, liked it

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens I TRIED I HATED I DROPPED IT

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller good read

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare i read a couple does that count

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye sorta reading it rn

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams classic, loved it

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky picked it up in the right moment of my life (for school), go you funky lil mess of a wet cat man

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll didnt like it

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis all of them

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis why is this one separate from the other chronicles

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne mum loved it and so did we

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell read it for school liked it

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez it was ling and weird and made me feel Things but it was ok

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert dad loves it i liked it

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 it was alright

A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck I CRY EVERY TIME

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens read it for school, fucking hated the little twerp and the ending, wished he would die.

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker turns out i dont like emails very much :/

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome i read like 15 ransome books my dad loved him and so do i

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert dont remember if i read it or just learned at it at school

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery liked it better the second time

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams i dont think i could stomch it nowadays id get upset and cry. Preteen me didn't get the brutality like what is this, the hunger games??

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare why is this separate from other shskespeare fhkh

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl and matilda and the fantastic mr fox and--

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo i read the hunchback tho does that count

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[widthtomjones]

group 3 of the mega tournament

group 2 here

please reblog after voting

[tbraithwaitefilmfestivals2022]

Cinecity volunteering experience review:

I volunteered twice for Cinecity, The first time on opening weekend on the Sunday (the 13th of November) at the screening of the universal picture "Till" about Emmett Till. Before the film, I was greeting people and asking them the survey questions mainly about how they found out about the film Festival, age range and areas they have come from. I found that majority of the audience were in the 30-40 years of age category and many had been attending the festival annually. One women even said she had been coming since the beginning, which I then replied with "wow so for 20 years then as its the anniversary this year" and she was taken aback at how long that really meant, which made me realise that the festival is something people really look forward to each year. That it brings certain groups of people together each year to have a chance to see new upcoming creators and films. Talking to everyone was really refreshing, because it just felt like I was having a chat with fellow film lovers. The film itself was really breathtaking, I myself was balling my eyes out at just how emotional it was, the subject being close to my heart just made the acting and imagery even more intense. At points I didn't expect it to be as explicit as it was but I suppose with such a strong subject there is no room to sugar coat it. Also looking around the picture house I could see tears streaming down peoples faces, it was sort of a verification that the film did its job, that the subject had effected everyone in the right way. My second time volunteering was the closing weekend on the Sunday (20th of November), at the Universal Picture "The Silent Twins" about Jennifer and June Gibbons. The Audience was majority in the age range of 40-50 but there was a couple younger people which made me happy to see because it means the festival had reached a variety of ages. The Film itself was unusual, its fair to say its not what I expected, but also I didn't do any research into the twins before watching it so I feel I go quite an intense introduction to their case. The style was quite funky, it was explained at the end that the animations were loosely based off of descriptions and illustrations from the twins diaries they kept throughout life. So I think the film was very enticing but also everyone came away from it thinking something different, which I suppose is a good film because its unpredictable.