#the monk (2011 film

[hollering-at-hooters]

monkey is ... helping

[mydaddywiki]

Charles Durning

Physique: Rotund Build/Heavyset Height: 5′ 6″ (1.68 m)

Charles Edward Durning (February 28, 1923 – December 24, 2012; aged 89) was an American actor who appeared in over 200 movies, television shows and plays. Durning's best-known films include The Sting (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Muppet Movie (1979), True Confessions (1981), Tootsie (1982), Dick Tracy (1990), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for both The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) and To Be or Not to Be (1983). Prior to his acting career, Durning served in World War II and was decorated for valor in combat.

Despite his short, roly-poly build, he was surprisingly lithe and athletic. And hot to all chubby daddy lovers. Referred to as "the King of Character Actors", Durning has been at the centre of so many of my dirty little fantasies that I almost don't want to share him with anyone else. But due to my altruistic nature, I feel I must.

Actor, World War II hero, professional boxer, cab driver, ballroom dancer - the list kind of goes on with this guy. Essentially a very talented, funny cute guy. Film wise he is probably most famous for his role in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas where he dance his ass off. And what an it was. Durning died of natural causes on Christmas Eve December 24, 2012, at the age of 89. Durning, who was married twice, is survived by three children.

RECOMMENDATIONS: (2015) Bleeding Hearts - In his underwear, holding a dildo. (2011) The Naked Run - Open shirt, shirtless on a table. Monk (TV Series) - S5/E16 (2007) - Open shirt Evening Shade (TV Series) 5 Episodes - Shirtless (1989) Dinner at Eight - Underwear, brandishing his bulge. (1976 ) Captains and the Kings - Chapter II - Shirtless bath scene. (1975) Dog Day Afternoon - He lifts up his shirt revealing his belly.

[jazzandother-blog]

An unrepeatable generation coming to an end. RIP Roy Haynes (1925-2024).

Roy Haynes en una actuación en 2015 (Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images)

(English / Español / Italiano)

The jazz drummer Roy Haynes, who played with other jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Chick Corea, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Bud Powell and Pat Metheny, died on Tuesday 12 November at the age of 99.

His daughter, Leslie Haynes-Gilmore, told The New York Times that her father, born in Roxbury, now part of Boston, on 13 March 1925, died after a brief illness.

Haynes was considered one of the most remarkable jazz drummers of all time, with an extensive career during which he collaborated with the most prominent jazz musicians in his country. Haynes was still a teenager when he made his professional debut in the 1940s in the big bands of Frankie Newton and Louis Russell (1945-1947).

He then went on to play with tenor sax master Lester Young (1947-1949) and between 1949 and 1952 was part of Charlie Parker's quintet. He accompanied the singer Sarah Vaughan on the jazz circuits in the United States between 1953 and 1958 and when he finished that job he recorded with Thelonious Monk, George Shearing and Lennie Tristano among others and occasionally replaced Elvin Jones in John Coltrane's quartet.

He was involved in the direction of the original soundtrack for the film Bird, directed by Clint Eastwood in 1988, and was awarded the 1994 Danish Jazzpar Prize.

In the late 1990s, Haynesformed a trio with pianist Danilo Pérez and bassist John Pattitucci, and they recorded an album: The Roy Haynes Trio featuring Danilo Pérez & John Pattitucci (2000). In 2001 he released Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker, followed by Love Letters (2003), and Quite Fires and Fountain of Youth, both from 2004, the year he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.

His last album was Whereas, released in 2006.

In 2011 he received the Grammy Award for his artistic career.

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El baterista de jazz Roy Haynes, que tocó con otros grandes de ese género musical, como Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Chick Corea, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Bud Powell o Pat Metheny, ha fallecido este martes 12 de noviembre, a los 99 años.

Su hija, Leslie Haynes-Gilmore, dijo al diario The New York Times que su padre, nacido en Roxbury, hoy parte de Boston, el 13 de marzo de 1925, murió después de una breve enfermedad.

Haynes era considerado uno de los más notables bateristas de jazz de todos los tiempos, con una extensa carrera durante la cual colaboró con los más destacados músicos del género en su país. Haynes todavía era un adolescente cuando hizo su debut profesional en los años 40 en las "big bands" de Frankie Newton y Louis Russell (1945-1947).

Luego pasó a tocar con el maestro del saxo tenor Lester Young (1947-1949) y entre 1949 y 1952 formó parte del quinteto de Charlie Parker. Acompañó a la cantante Sarah Vaughan, por los circuitos del jazz en los Estados Unidos entre 1953 y 1958 y cuando finalizó ese trabajo grabó con Thelonious Monk, George Shearing y Lennie Tristano entre otros y ocasionalmente sustituía a Elvin Jones en el cuarteto de John Coltrane.

Participó en la dirección de la banda sonora original de la película Bird, dirigida por Clint Eastwood en 1988, y fue premiado en 1994 con el premio Danish Jazzpar.

A finales de los años 90, Haynes formó un trío con el pianista Danilo Pérez y el bajista John Pattitucci, y grabaron un disco: The Roy Haynes Trío featuring Danilo Pérez & John Pattitucci (2000). En el año 2001 publicó Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker, al que siguieron Love Letters (2003), y Quite Fires y Fountain of Youth, ambos de 2004, año en el que entró en el Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.

Su último disco publicado fue Whereas, de 2006.

En 2011 recibió el Premio Grammy a la carrera artística.

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Il batterista Roy Haynes, che ha suonato con altri grandi del jazz come Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Chick Corea, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Bud Powell e Pat Metheny, è morto martedì 12 novembre all'età di 99 anni.

Sua figlia, Leslie Haynes-Gilmore, ha dichiarato al New York Times che suo padre, nato a Roxbury, ora parte di Boston, il 13 marzo 1925, è morto dopo una breve malattia.

Haynes è stato considerato uno dei più notevoli batteristi jazz di tutti i tempi, con una lunga carriera durante la quale ha collaborato con i più importanti musicisti jazz del suo Paese. Haynes era ancora un adolescente quando fece il suo debutto professionale negli anni '40 nelle big band di Frankie Newton e Louis Russell (1945-1947).

Ha poi suonato con il maestro del sax tenore Lester Young (1947-1949) e tra il 1949 e il 1952 ha fatto parte del quintetto di Charlie Parker. Accompagnò la cantante Sarah Vaughan nei circuiti jazz degli Stati Uniti tra il 1953 e il 1958 e, una volta terminato questo lavoro, registrò tra gli altri con Thelonious Monk, George Shearing e Lennie Tristano e occasionalmente sostituì Elvin Jones nel quartetto di John Coltrane.

Ha partecipato alla direzione della colonna sonora originale del film Bird, diretto da Clint Eastwood nel 1988, ed è stato premiato con il Danish Jazzpar Prize del 1994.

Alla fine degli anni Novanta Haynes haformato un trio con il pianista Danilo Pérez e il bassista John Pattitucci, con cui ha registrato un album: The Roy Haynes Trio featuring Danilo Pérez & John Pattitucci (2000). Nel 2001 ha pubblicato Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker, seguito da Love Letters (2003) e da Quite Fires e Fountain of Youth, entrambi del 2004, anno in cui è stato inserito nella Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.

Il suo ultimo album è stato Whereas, pubblicato nel 2006.

Nel 2011 ha ricevuto il Grammy Award per la sua carriera artistica.

Source: RTVE.es/EFE

[lazyyogi]

hi lazyyogi. i value your insights so much and am interested in how you've come to be in this space and the development of your persons.

particularly, how did you come into your medical practice? and do you feel that your spirituality at all influences your profession as a doctor/surgeon & vice versa?

also, how do you feel about the relationship and differences between holistic eastern practices and conventional western medicine? i'm in health care/pharmaceuticals myself in the west but i feel as though western medicine, as great as many aspects of it are and it has achieved much, clutches onto superficial "band-aid" treatments and management of disease states and doesn't often look into patient care with a deeper, holistic lens. it gives me cognitive dissonance sometimes, to be honest. is there anything that helps you deal with this point of conflict or has it ever come to mind?

Hello my friend. Thank you for your kind words and thoughtful questions.

I should probably write an updated bio for this blog at some point.

Long story short (so I can spend more time addressing your other question), I came to spirituality after my father died the year before I graduated high school. Faced with the reality of death and impermanence, I began seeking insight and understanding. This led me to meditation and meditation led me from there.

I came to medicine because I had spent my time in college majoring in English with a concentration in creative writing. I graduated during the economic crisis in 2011 and interned in the film industry but never really found a place for myself. At that time I sincerely considered leaving society and becoming a monk of sorts. But essentially I felt that it would be more helpful overall to stay in society and find ways to contribute. So I went back to school and became a doctor.

Regarding western medicine and other forms of medical practice, holistic or otherwise, I am open to anything that will benefit my patients. Western medicine is constantly changing, updated by new evidence-based findings and also new medical innovations.

In some areas, western medicine is highly advanced and life-altering. In other areas, it struggles to make sense of things let alone be of help to patients. Psychiatry is one such field that comes to mind that really has a hard time providing effective treatment for their patients and often feels like band-aid approaches.

Right now I am working on putting together a research study to examine the effect of a yogic pranayama breathing technique on relieving symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis. This is a condition that is typically treated initially with intranasal corticosteroids and saline sprays/irrigations. People often think that the only way research gets done is if it is sponsored by Big Pharma and that no one does other research into alternative/complimentary forms of medicine because there is no profit to be made. The truth is that all it takes is someone in the medical field with a bit of interest.

If we want alternative or complimentary medicine to become more widely accepted by the western medical community, all it takes is some evidence-based research studies. The fact is that everyone wants to have better outcomes for their patients, always. And while a famous doctor can say one thing and another famous doctor can say another, it is only through evidence-based research that we can really scrutinize how helpful something may be.

And even then, there are plenty of ways a study may misinterpret data, draw erroneous conclusions, or be in other ways flawed. This is why a lot of time is devoted to educating medical students and resident physicians on how to read research studies critically and be capable of identifying such biases and flaws. The added benefit is knowing how to avoid the same mistakes in your own research studies.

When you mention that people often don't look more deeply into patient care, utilizing a holistic lens, you are speaking to a fundamental problem in medicine today: time. The kind of doctor who would be best positioned to have such a holistic approach is your primary care provider. And yet there are not nearly enough primary care physicians out there and the ones we have are over-burdened with patient volume.

Specialists and surgeons tend overall to be more problem-focused in their specificity but it is also true that it is important to understand those specifics within the larger, holistic context. The way I approach that with my patients is to make sure that by the end of our encounter they feel heard, that we have identified the problems for which I am capable of addressing for them, and that they understand the plan that we have mutually agreed would suit them most appropriately.

Lastly, a struggle that many healthcare providers know but the general public may not is that we are often working with patients who are not fully invested in their own health. And so while we might recommend lifestyle changes and non-pharmacologic treatments, there is little follow through with things like dietary changes, weight loss, smoking cessation, etc.

A simple example from my own field is acid reflux. In most cases, acid reflux can be completely eliminated with certain lifestyle changes (don't eat within 3 hours of going to bed) and dietary modification (an apple a day may be making things worse, actually). We provide this information and yet 99/100 patients prefer a medication instead.

While there are many ways in which both the medical field and its practitioners need to improve, there are challenges from the patient side of things that are also beyond our control. And while I understand a lot of the distrust of the medical field for various reasons, it's not infrequently problematic. Some of the sickest patients I see--appearing with very late stage cancers or suffering catastrophic strokes--are the one's who "don't like going to the doctor." As if everyone else just loves going to the doctor. Although I will say the more elderly patients are often grateful for the social interaction; I try to take more time with them when possible.

In the end, I want to be capable of helping my patients to the best of my ability. And I want my patients to leave our encounter feeling supported and encouraged. The medical field is indeed a mess (one we would be worse off without, in my opinion) and I hope that over the course of my career I may be able to find a few ways to tidy things up and make a few lives better.

Much love!

LY

[knifebaby3000]

Your OC Tian looks like he could he my OCs brother and I'm so obsessed with him. The beauty marks and the oblivious glazed over look really fucking do it for me

can u share more about him :0c

Omg thank you so much!!!!! I designed Tian to be so extremely husband-coded To Me so I'm happy some of the boxes he checks 4 me ✅ are checked 4 u also ✅🙏🏼

Tian (and Zhu) is the protagonist of two of my projects, the original and its overgrown AU. The OG is........ A xianxia romcom bildungsroman like....... Swan-maiden myth meets FFIX meets Disney Hercules.......... And the AU is what I usually draw/upload, which is a neo noir like...... FFVIII meets........ Drive (2011)....... Meets........... Disco Elysium which is a connection I'm only making right here, right now, as I type?????? Anyway OG-style Baby T is "tiger", "spring", vs Big T who is "dragon", "winter". Both are True Neutral tho I think Baby T leans Chaotic...

Some quick blips: Cap sun, Aries moon, Taurus rising, bday is 31 Dec; 6'2 188cm, ~190lbs 86kg, benches above his bodyweight; vegetarian, doesn't drink, healthiest guy you know (chainsmoking is healthy); blue MCR-coded tobacco depression wifeguy to Zhu’s red LDR-coded cocaine mania guywife

Charm points: natural curls, beauty marks, underbite

Talents: carpentry, wushu, gymnastics, fixing whatever

Likes: Zhu, tofu, his motorcycle

Dislikes: texting, cardio, doing laundry

Songs: MCR – Drowning Lessons + Fashion Statement + Desert Song (it's bad!!!!!!), The National – Walk Off, Hyukoh – 似是故人來 Like An Old Friend Arrives

Motifs: chrysanthemums, smoke, temples, the moon

Not really a talker, he's all abt acts of service and can be hard to understand if you're looking specifically for words. I like to think of him as the lead in a Western film except the horse is a black motorbike – silhouetted against the horizon, never says more than he has to, does what needs doing. His catchphrase is basically "🆗", "Sure." Also he doesn't use guns but anything else goes 🔨

Some flavor:

More under the cut if this hateful app will let me add one 🤪

I think he's best understood thru the way other ppl talk abt him – so here are a couple names/epithets!

His maternal grandmother is a distinguished mobster known as The Old Empress, which is why most ppl call Tian "Crown Prince", "the Prince", etc. Their family is more/less popularly-elected local deities (see "city god" on Wikipedia) and he's the last of the bloodline But has been refusing to officially inherit for over a decade, though he performs all the duties anyway. Old, old agreements put them above virtually all modern law, generally thru loopholes that allow them to, for example, literally start a gang war at 23 bc you got a little too annoyed Or take an eye for an eye/publicly execute someone as ritual vengeance. Pls note that Zhu is a criminal defense attorney. Smile

They also sometimes call him "Bodhisattva" bc he, due to Circumstances, grew up in a Buddhist monastery from age 8, along with Jin, his baby brother. He became an ordained monk at 20 but disrobed at 22 so he could help Jin thru university. During that time, he worked three primary jobs: seasonal construction worker/contractor, auto mechanic, and plumber. "why not model" No Vanities Lifestyle. He Is Just Some Guy. He Wishes He Were Still Bald. Fuck Fast Fashion Btw.

With his name specifically, Tian Tian, family name 田 “field” + given name 天 “heaven/day/sky” is his entire character – simple, no frills, unassuming on paper, but also strong, steady, salt of the earth. It's a name that once you see him both does and doesn't do him justice, like surely there's something fancier and yet between those two characters you already have the world. The name is also 9 strokes altogether! Fav number and an auspicious one – 9 heavens + if you've ever seen an imperial dragon robe, it's 9 dragons with scales in multiples of 9, eg 81.

A few bonus reasons I chose 天:

I associate him with swans (symbol of beauty but also violent, aggressive birds), 大天鹅 Big Heaven Goose

Single-character names are so elegant/Tough to me

Canonically seen as a "Fifth Great Beauty", literally a man named Heaven, the H is for Husband TO ME

FACT I decided on the monk thing after I named him and I think it's funny. His Dharma name is 釋恒心 Shi Hengxin btw which means "monk", literally, and "resolution"

Final bonus, literally my man:

[romanceyourdemons]

the 36th chamber of shaolin (1978) is an undeniably significant piece in the history of hong kong martial arts films, and for good reason. the film combines compelling psychology with excellent and well-choreographed fight sequences, and the pacing, setpieces, and acting (though the latter was hampered by the incredibly stiff dub i had to watch) were all very good. something that is interesting to me is that, unlike the later and likewise highly renowned shaolin temple (1982), the protagonist’s intentions in learning shaolin martial arts are supported by the shaolin temple and, more significantly, by the film itself. in shaolin temple (1982), the protagonist’s consuming desire for revenge both sends him into the temple and isolates him within it, as he commits acts of violence that earn him harsh punishments until at last he moves past his revenge and changes bittersweetly into a true shaolin monk. this film, by contrast, is careful to keep its protagonist’s desire from revenge from consuming too much of the character or, significantly, of the narrative. he advances incredibly quickly in his studies, but this is attributed within the film to an intrinsic physical knack and the buddha’s favor, rather than, as in shaolin temple (1982), deriving from his all-consuming determination to improve. the members of the temple who seem to resent him prove to simply care about his progress, and the actions the temple takes seeming to censure him in his desire to fight the manchus surreptitiously help him in it. the film’s pacing carefully decentralized the character’s revenge, with the man who killed his father incapacitated by him but killed by someone else at the beginning rather than the end of the third act. after that point, there can be no question that the protagonist is acting selflessly for the good of his whole country, and in the end the film supports him where shaolin temple (1982) did not support its protagonist; the hero of this film achieves his goals of teaching the common people to defend themselves, and the final scene is one of triumph, not of resignation. it is clear that films from shaolin temple (1982) to shaolin (2011) refer back to and define themselves against the 36th chamber of shaolin (1978), and i feel i understand the later films much better now that i have seen their highly enjoyable precedent

[brookston]

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The Adventures of André & Wally B. (Pixar Cartoon; 1984)

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Armor Wars (Film; 2025)

Back in Black, by AC/DC (Album; 1980)

Batman: The Killing Joke (Animated Film; 2016)

Broken Quest (Animated tV Series; 2013)

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A Chorus Line (Broadway Musical; 1975)

Drinking Buddies (Film; 2013)

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First Lensman, by E.E. "Doc" Smith (Novel; 1950) [Lensman #2]

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Justice League: Warworld (WB Animated Film; 2023)

Kill ‘Em All, by Metallica (Album; 1983)

Lara Croft Tom Raider: The Cradle of Life (Film; 2003)

Last Train to Clarksville, recorded by The Monks (Song; 1966)

Lego Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash (WB Animated Film; 2017)

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Maximum Overdrive (Film; 1986)

Paul’s Boutique, by The Beastie Boys (Album; 1989)

Porky’s Spring Planting (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

Ruby Sparks (Film; 2012)

Seabiscuit (Film; 2003)

Step Brothers (Film; 2008)

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X-Files: I Want to Believe (Film; 2008)

Yes, by Yes (Album; 1969)

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[hividsmarttv]

Spring Fling - Movies For Sakura Season

Nothing puts you in mind for spring quite like these quintessential Japanese sakura and the warm, fresh breezes of April.

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) directed by Rob Marshall and starring Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeo, and Gong Li. Memoirs leaves an undeniable impression that will carry you through the upheaval of spring. Despite some controversy associated with the film, the bittersweet life of Sayuri and the stunning filmography have created legions of fans. This enchanting film continually reflects the change and growth associated with springtime. Gorgeous scenes of blooming cherry blossoms only add to the theme of renewal through struggle.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (2003) directed by Kim Ki-duk. This South Korean drama explores the cyclical nature of life and the passage of time through the story of a Buddhist monk and his young apprentice, who live in a temple on a floating monastery in the middle of a lake. The film features stunning cinematography and breathtaking natural scenery, including cherry blossoms and other flora that change with the seasons.

Lost in Translation (2003) directed by Sofia Coppola, starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. This romantic comedy-drama follows a middle-aged actor and a young college graduate who meet in Tokyo during the sakura season and develop an unlikely bond. As they navigate the language and cultural barriers, they discover a newfound appreciation for each other and the world around them. Lost in Translation" captures the transformative power of travel and the magic of springtime romance, as the sakura blooms symbolize the fleeting nature of life and the beauty of living in the moment.

The Secret Garden (1993) directed by Agnieszka Holland. This British-American family film follows a young girl who discovers a magical garden on her uncle's estate, and the transformative power of nature and friendship. The film features lush English gardens, including colorful springtime flowers and blossoming trees, and an enchanting score by Zbigniew Preisner. You'll recognise actors Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, and Andrew Knott.

Only Yesterday (1991) directed by Isao Takahata, starring Miki Imai and Toshirō Yanagiba. This Japanese animated film tells the story of a 27-year-old woman who takes a break from her busy city life to visit the countryside during the sakura season. Through her memories of her childhood, she reflects on the choices she has made and the person she has become. The film does a lovely job of showing the beauty of the sakura season and the renewal of spring.

Midnight in Paris (2011) directed by Woody Allen. This American romantic comedy follows a disillusioned writer who travels back in time to 1920s Paris and encounters famous artists and writers of the era. The cast includes Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, and Marion Cotillard. The film features charming Parisian scenery, including gardens and parks filled with springtime flowers and greenery, and a whimsical soundtrack featuring French classics.

A Little Chaos (2014) directed by Alan Rickman. The movie stars Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Alan Rickman. This British period drama follows a talented and independent landscape gardener who is hired to design a garden at Versailles for King Louis XIV. The film features stunning gardens and landscaping, including an array of colorful springtime flowers and topiary, and a lush orchestral score by Peter Gregson.

The Last Samurai (2003) directed by Edward Zwick, starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe. This American epic war drama follows a disillusioned American soldier who becomes a samurai in late 19th century Japan, and the clashes and alliances he forms with Japanese warriors during the sakura season. As he grapples with his identity and his loyalties, he finds inspiration and solace in the beauty of the cherry blossoms. This sweeping and epic film combines thrilling action and gorgeous visuals, while exploring complex themes of cultural identity and honor, all set against the stunning backdrop of the sakura season.

[sinceileftyoublog]

Julia Holter Album Review: Something in the Room She Moves

(Domino)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Over the past decade and a half, Julia Holter has consistently made left turns. From the drones and baroque stylings of her 2011 debut Tragedy and 2012 breakout Ekstasis, to the urban, Hollywood, oceanside chamber pop of first Domino entrants Loud City Song and Have You in My Wilderness, to the epic experimentalism of 2018 opus Aviary, Holter has found ways to shift the focus of her sonic explorations and focused curiosities, all while maintaining a cohesive artistic voice. Her 6th album, March's Something in the Room She Moves, continues Holter's penchant for malleability, though more than any of her previous albums, it exudes an air of spontaneity. During COVID, just beforehand having had to focus on film score work, Holter experienced a bout of writer's block--understandably so, as she gave birth to her daughter in 2020 and wasn't able to consistently take in her usual cures of books and films. Instead, she overcame her stasis through a mix of what was right in front of her and her imagination. The songs on Something in the Room She Moves cull from Holter's perspectives and observations, stemming from experiences watching Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo with her daughter and devouring Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary about The Beatles. But they also dare to dive into the corporeal, evoking sounds from inside the body and mind, filtered through a surreal lens.

Listening to Something in the Room She Moves, you feel that Holter wished to encapsulate a childlike spirit but was careful to avoid the pretense of forcing too much chaos into the songs. Opening track "Sun Girl" does start like you've been dropped in the middle of the it, amidst clattering percussion, and introduces a smorgasbord of instrumentation, such as Devra Hoff's fretless bass, Tashi Wada's bagpipes, and Sonjia Denise Hubert Harper's picolo and flute. It's removed from the pop of Holter's previous records, but it moves with some discernible structure, consistent in its tempo changes, vocal layering, and arpeggios. "Place me, drag me, move me, Sun Girl," Holter sings, instructional text as if to remind the listener that this isn't someone randomly banging away at instruments. Like the best surrealist paintings, or even an unintentionally humorous mistranslation, Something in the Room She Moves always has one or two moments at a time that are off-kilter, made all the more eerie by the order around them.

The album's abnormal quality extends into Holter's lyrics and song titles, too, as she subverts traditional grammar. "These morning get sunrise / Tall fjord, some time lost / Brush aside any words sinking to the abyss ago," she sings on "These Morning". The record title itself, which Holter came up with as a play on the first line of The Beatles' "Something", adheres to sentence compositional rules but is only sensible from an emotional, not physical, denotation; a line on the title track clarifies that Holter does, indeed, mean for the wordplay to be uncanny: "Then standing there he said / I love the way you move / When you move the time line." At the same time, Holter's vocals do move, her melisma traveling along with the song's woodwind instruments as the track builds up in volume. And to the best of her ability, she messes with your linear sense of time. Songs like the title track, "Spinning", and "Talking to a Whisper" dip to the point where you think they're going to end, but they shoot back up. Minimal vocal exercises like "Materia" and "Meyou" toy with divergence. On the former, Holter sings, "Of love it's a matter of / Of love it's a matter of love," an imperfect circle of a verse. The latter harks back to Holter's Meredith Monk-esque ambient days, the chorus of voices repeating "me" and "you" together acting as a pulsating instrument. It's as jarring to hear for the first time as it was to hear the same Holter who released Tragedy and Ekstasis cover "Hello Stranger".

Something in the Room She Moves is not a concept record, about the body, the technological, childhood, parenthood, or anything else. Instead, it explores those concepts effortlessly and with a sense of self awareness. On the song meant to invoke the hormone oxytocin--called, yes, "Evening Mood"--Wada plays a spacey, almost video game-esque melody before the song takes a turn for the sensual. Elizabeth Goodfellow's mallet drums buoy a bossa nova-like sway, along with Hoff's bendy bass and Chris Speed's jazzy clarinet, and Holter layers her vocals and looks inward: "I was not alone / Thinking how I could wrap / My arms all around / My face, my face / My girl, my girl," she sings. Later on, she recalls, "Daylight hits me / I was not alone / Equinox hide in a beam." She's given us an album where the cosmically impossible seems captivatingly real, where we're better able to understand ourselves and the world by coming to terms with the intangible aspects of our points of view.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 5.21 (after 1920)

1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. 1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals. 1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. 1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School. 1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out. 1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. 1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth. 1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. 1981 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries. 1981 – Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate. 1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos. 1988 – Margaret Thatcher holds her controversial Sermon on the Mound before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. 1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras. 1992 – After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show. 1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out. 1996 – The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000. 1996 – The seven Trappist monks of Tibhirine that were abducted on March 27 are killed under uncertain circumstances. 1998 – In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker. 2001 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. 2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. 2006 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence. 2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year. 2011 – Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date. 2017 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

[reviewsclown]

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)

Warning: a Roma character gets called a slur twice

The sequel to renowned film ghost rider starring Nicolas Cage, he's back in this one with Idris Elba too, there's some shit about rescuing the antichrist and some monks, and a mold guy who IMO was kind of nice with it if you ignore the mold. STUPIDEST movie I've ever seen. It's not bad! I need to clarify it's not a bad movie, it just has some deeply stupid things, the whole movie was on Nic Cages level of acting, some odd jokes in it, Ghost Rider pees like a flamethrower it's nuts.

Throughout the whole movie there was something with the camera shots and scenes they were doing that felt weird to me, like the movements or closeups or something, I couldn't pinpoint it and it didn't negatively effect the movie but it was just notably weird.

No gripes with the acting to be had it was all pretty solid, bit cheesy but it's a whole movie on Nic Cages level as aforementioned so that's unsurprising.

Having been a couple years since the first ghost rider movie there's very visible improvements made in CGI techniques, namely, the skull looks a lot more realistic and not just a 3d modeled skull floating there, good fire effects too, it's just an all around improvement

Final Rating: recommend watching, very stupid entertaining movie, enjoy this on the base level that it is fun and do no interpretation of the movie because there is nothing to interpretate.

[mydaddywiki]

Larry Clarke

Physique: Husky Build Height: 6′ (1.83 m)

Lawrence Joseph Clarke (born February 8, 1964-) is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. Primarily a television actor, appearing in Law & Order, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Sense8 and Twin Peaks, although he appeared in several films. These include Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Contagion and The Laundromat. He is also known for his role as Adrian Black in the 2011 video game L.A. Noire.

Thick and handsome, Clarke has that "dad next" that you occasionally mess around with look. The type of guy you'll offer a blow job to and they'll refuse at first, but will bring it up later. Then your sucking his cock in the garage.

Clarke is married with a kid. But for some reason, I think Larry has known the touch of a man (and you know what I'm talking about). I have NOTHING to base that on… other than a now deleted xhamster video of a guy who suspiciously looks like Larry, getting blown then fucking a guy. Sure it's probably not him, but it could be.

RECOMMENDATIONS: (2019) 3 Days with Dad - Brief clothed sex scene (2018) Bitter Homes and Gardens (TV Series) - S1/E2 'Cancer App' - partial cock shot (2009) Bones (TV Series) - S4/E22 'The Girl in the Mask' - Shirtless (2005) Monk (TV Series) - S4/E5 'Mr. Monk Gets Drunk' - Shirtless

[annbourbon]

Movies On my List

♡ 恋せぬふたり (koisenu futari; the two people who can’t fall in love) which focuses on two aroace characters.

♡ To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

♡ More movies

♡ Moonrise Kingdom

♡ Laws of Love: Pro Gay film during WW2

♡ THE FLY (1986)

♡ Lessons in chemistry

♡ A Dangerous Method (2011)

♡ Basic Instinct (1992)

♡ Priscilla & The Virgin Suicides

♡ Lisa Frankenstein

♡ The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity (2020)

♡ The cutting edge (1992)

♡ Spaceballs (1987)

♡ The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

♡ Notorious (1946)

♡ The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

♡ Challengers (2024)

♡ The boy and the heron (although tbh I'm more fond of listening the movie in japanese, seems funny that RPat would do this)

♡ Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

♡ Les Diaboliques (1955)

♡ Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)

♡ Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

♡ The French Dispatch (2021)

♡ The Great Salish Heist

♡ Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

♡ Becoming Elizabeth

♡ A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

♡ Palm Springs

♡ Ready or Not

♡ Asteroid City

♡ I saw the TV glow

♡ The taste of things

♡ Dear Ex

♡ EXHUMA 파묘 (2024)

♡ 悪は存在しない (Evil Does Not Exist)

♡ The monk and the gun

♡ Empire Records (1995)

♡ King Arthur (2004)

♡ Two movies, one post. Both by Alfred Hitchcock. Then~ one song♡

♡ Badlands (1973)

♡ Love in the Afternoon (1957)

♡ Castle in the Sky

♡ Ready Or Not  (2019)

♡ MaXXXine (2024)

♡ Canola 계춘할망 (2016)

♡ Beetlejuice

[tommyb-productions]

Critical Definition: Heritage Film

A Heritage film, or Period Drama or Costume Drama is a popular genre of British film and TV, which is distinctly set in the past, usually around the 19th century into the 20th century. The main characters tend to be landowning, wealthy, and upper-class, the plots usually are around who will marry who with younger characters, and ‘trouble in paradise’ stories for older characters. While these are only examples of the plots that tend to be present the writer does not have to limit themself to these. A sizable portion of Heritage films tend to be based on books of the time, for example, Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice,1813), Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights,1847), Agatha Christie (various Poirot books) and Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol 1843). With the first two examples above their adaptations are very much in line with the upper-class characters and themes. Christie’s books fit into a different category but they are still set in the early 20th century with the character often being in the upper class but also incorporating classist themes at points. Dickins, however, is at the other end of the spectrum, his character still tends to be upper class but he is highly critical of them in his writings.

The genre was born in the early days of cinema and has been made by various people of non-British descent. “This venerable transnational history can be traced through the Hungarian Korda brothers’ 1930s – 1940s productions at Denham” (Monk, 2011 Page 2). The genre would keep at a somewhat steady level until the 1980s when films of this nature began to be critiqued due to the changing political climate with Margret Thatcher's more conservative government. Heritage films tend to focus on the upper classes of British polite society and their dramatic lives, the house servants being very minor characters in the narratives. The critiques were generally from the political left about how the films promote an idea of tradition and ‘heritage’ to a small group of the population.

This led to heritage films of the 1990s into the 2000s being more critical of the upper classes and their beliefs giving the servant characters more of their agency within the stories. Around the 2010’s there was almost a relapse in heritage film, “also in the light of the recent global interest in British costume productions, such as the award-winning costume series Downton Abbey” (Caoduro, Screen Vol. 54 Issue 2 2013). Downton Abbey (2010-2015) and its film (2018) and the sequel A New Age (2022) have in a way become the heritage series of the modern day, even influencing British law with the Equality Titles Bill, nicknamed the ‘downtown law’. 

Sources:

Caoduro, E. (2013) “Heritage Film: Nation, Genre and Representation Figuring the Past: Period Film and the Mannerist Aesthetic,” SCREEN -LONDON-, 54(2), pp. 290–293.

Monk, C. (2011) Heritage film audiences : period films and contemporary audiences in the uk. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Accessed: November 6, 2023).

Higson, A. (2003) English heritage, english cinema : costume drama since 1980. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Vidal Belén (2012) Heritage film : nation, genre and representation. London: Wallflower (Short cuts, 49).

[wornoutspines]

Sur les chemins noirs / On the Wandering Paths (Movie Review) | Landscapes and Deep Thoughts

#SurLesCheminsNoirs / #OnTheWanderingPaths sounds more tedious than it actually is, it's oddly captivating if you're open to it. #JeanDuJardin #SylvainTesson #DenisImbert #FrenchFilm #MovieReview #FrenchCinema

Starring Jean Dujardin (The Wolf of Wall Street, OSS 117), who is most likely known in North America for his Oscar-winning role in The Artist (2011), this French film is directed by Denis Impbert and it’s the adaptation of On the Wandering Paths by French travel writer and essayist Sylvain Tesson. Anny Duperey, Izïa Higelin (Samba), Joséphine Japy (Breathe, The Monk), Dylan Robert (Vampires), and…

[romanceyourdemons]

can anyone recommend me an objectively bad but also bizarrely compelling wuxia or xianxia film, hong kong-directed for preference, from approximately 1992-1997 or 2008-2013. like something along the lines of mad monk (1993) or the sorcerer and the white snake (2011) or kung fu monster (2018). i would be deeply indebted to you for the favor, and would be open to doing a quest for you at a later date