#v: silverlake

[breezeybreanne]

🥤 [ from tyson ]

"So I have this grimace shake... it's very purple... and has a lot of hype around it so clearly I have to try it. Bottoms up." Breanne took a few sips of the milkshake.

Morgyn would not be pleased to see the end results. Breanne lying on his kitchen floor, the purple shake everywhere. Breanne posed similar to those who had seen The Ring video. It was the creepiest post she could think to pull off on the spot.

[bedazzlingevagiatti]

Rock Climbing ||Open||

Status: Open to all

Plot: Eva’s on a date with her girlfriend and regretting going rock climbing. 

Eva stared at the giant wall in front of her. Everyone else seemed to be gearing up and climbing their hearts out. Eva on the other hand, regretted the decision to go on a rock climbing date. Hana was a few stones ahead of Eva, "You got this babe." She tried to encourage, but Eva's feet were glued to the ground. Hana had gone up to show the beginner's wall was perfectly safe to climb up. "I've made a mistake." Eva sighed. "I don't like heights."

[possibilistfanfiction]

U seem to know LA so I hope u don’t mind me dropping a q: say someone was moving to LA and they’ve never visited and they’re living on a server salary and they’re gay 😵‍💫😅 where would u suggest they live?

hey! LA is so big & takes a gazillion years to get around if there’s traffic, so there’s lots of areas you could probably find a spot, but definitely consider where you’d be working & check out some spaces near there (ideal if you can get there Without a major freeway).

my favorite area is a little outside of LA (between LA proper & orange county) called long beach, it’s very queer (TONS of queer poc especially!!) & slightly more affordable than LA proper, & ur between the good beach cities in LA (redondo, hermosa, manhattan) off the 405 (or the 710 to the 405, depending on where you are in lbc), but u can also pop down to the orange county beaches super quick on the pch. there’s a wonderful dog beach in huntington, so for me it’s ideal. my partner & i just put an offer on a house in a neighborhood we love in long beach! 🧿🧿

as far as LA goes tho, i fuck w venice & echo park/silverlake ad some good spots for queer dfab people! silverlake is inland so farther from the beach, but v fun. torrance & san pedro are near palos verdes, which is BEAUTIFUL & my favorite place in all of socal. culver city is very practical. i also like k town (it has some of the best food in LA imo). if ur working on the west side,.. i can’t rly help u bc i avoid it at all costs unless i’m going shopping in beverley hills for sneakers lmfao. i lived in midcity when i first moved here & Hated it lol, so idk if that’s helpful. to me living near the 405 has made life easier as well.

feel free to DM me & maybe i can help u narrow it down if you’d like!

[fragwuerdiger-episodenguide]

(016) Die drei ??? und der Zauberspiegel

Klappentext

Justus, Bob und Peter sind ja glücklicherweise schon allerlei gewohnt. Wenn also jemand erzählt, in einem riesigen, spanischen Spiegel, der Mrs. Darnley gehört, spuke es, und wenn dann nachts in Mrs. Darnleys Haus seltsame Geräusche zu hören sind, dann kriegt zumindest Justus weniger eine Gänsehaut, als vielmehr Lust, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen. Kaum beginnen die drei ??? zu ermitteln, stoßen sie auch schon auf jede Menge Verdächtiges ...

Veröffentlichungshistorie

Buch (Random House): 021, 1974, M. V. Carey, The Secret of the Haunted Mirror Buch (Kosmos): 019, 1977, Leonore Puschert (aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen) Hörspiel (Europa): 016, 1980

⁉️ Allgemein

Handlungsort

Rocky Beach

Kategorie

Spuk, Betrug

Figuren

Justus Jonas

Peter Shaw

Bob Andrews

Titus Jonas

Morton, Chauffeur

Mrs. Darnley

Jeff Darnley, Enkel von Mrs. Darnley

Jenny Darnley, Enkel von Mrs. Darnley

Señor Raphael Santora, Neffe von Chiavo

John Can, Diener von Mrs. Darnley (keine Sprechrolle)

Taxifahrer

Mr. Anderson, Brotverkäufer

Señor Juan Gomez, Diener von Diego Manolos (😈)

🏖 Rocky Beach Universum

Orte

Crestview Drive

Rufino, Inselstaat

Silverlake, Vorort von Los Angeles

Ocean Boulevard

Einrichtungen

Universität von Ruxton

Beverly Sunset Hotel

Zentrale

Meadow Fresh, Eiscremefirma

Sonstiges

Chiavo, Zauberer aus Spanien, ihm gehört der Zauberspiegel

Diego Manolos, persönlicher Berater des Staatspräsidenten von Rufino, heiratete Isabella, die Freundin von Mrs. Darnley

Alfredo Filippe Garcia, ist der Präsident von Rufino, seit 11 Jahren im Amt, vorher war Simon de Pellar Präsident

🛼 Sonstiges

Lustige Dialoge

Señor Santora: "Sagen Sie, war Isabella glücklich verheiratet?" Mrs. Darnley: "Nein ... Ihr Mann hat sie nicht sonderlich gut behandelt. Aber jetzt ist er ja tot."

*Justus rüttelt an einem Fenster, weil niemand auf sein Klingeln reagiert hat* Justus: "Aha, das geht auf. Dann können wir ja einsteigen."

Justus: "Vielleicht ist Jeff nebenan. Hey, da ist er ja! Hallo Jeff, was sagst du nun?!" Jeff: "*Geknebeltes murmeln*

Gomez: "Sie sind spät dran heute." Mr. Anderson: "Daran ist die Motorpanne schuld. Möchten Sie Brot?" Gomez: "Joar, warum nicht?"

Phrasenschwein

Den schnapp ich mir! Peter schnappt den Bösen … nicht

🏳️‍🌈 Queer/diversity read

Shippy moments

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Diversity, Political Correctness and Feminism

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[defyperception]

Liked on YouTube: Red Hot Chili Peppers Playing Nirvana! EPIC!!! (Silverlake Conservatory) (October 29, 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONpzIxmfAso

[tydobbsinspo]

[tenderstars]

for: @kendallrooy​ location: la indie film festival connection: henry + stevie

Favorite movie of all time? Stevie didn’t even have a definitive answer. All she kept thinking about was how her ex-boyfriend could talk all night about his, he probably would have love this. If she had to be asked that question one more time, she felt like she would actually implode. The dancer was getting a kick out of telling people horribly wrong answers only. The winning one so far had been the Twilight series, causing the filmmaker to physically walk away from her. 

She had gotten caught up in a conversation that when she tried to step foot inside the venue without a VIP pass, someone put their hand out to stop her. Big brown eyes furrowed with up as the security didn’t let her through. Her friends were nowhere to be seen as she protested with the man, knowing she wasn’t getting anywhere with the stubborn guard. Trying to text her friends, she saw someone walking by, someone she recognized far too well. “Henry?” she questioned. “—Wait, him! I’m here with him. Henry!” she called out to her ex as her last saving grace. “Will you?” she pointed at the muscular man. 

[ourcharmingscience]

location: Silverlake Meadows

Status: Open

Morgyn was used to walking this area with Breanne. But Breanne was busy at her internship and would be gone all day. What was he to do with free time in his day now that school was over? Walk around? Keep himself occupied somehow. As he had scoffed the idea of a summer job. Not because it was beneath him, but he wasn't inspired to do anything... Money wasn't an issue for him. If anything he wanted to surprise Bre, she was always finding cool things and it was his turn to surprise her for once. If he didn't fall on his face first. He tripped. He had no idea over what but Morgyn found himself falling. "Oh fuck-" He swore trying to catch himself.

[miighted]

❝ you do not want this fight . ❞

god of war ( 2018 ) starters / not accepting

                The Might caries his righteous blade in hand as he stands before the ancient Queen of the Wood that he had only heard of in barley remembered myths. The towering stark woods that rose behind her held whispers of harrowed faces in their gnarled bark, the faintest remnants of an old tragedy that sank deep beneath the soil he stood on. He did not know or recognize what any of it meant, but it made him feel cold down to his soul and made the hair raise on the back of his neck regardless. The Queen stood above him among her court of ruin, thin blades that shimmered like opals pointing down towards him where he stood. Garen knew his armor would not stand against a magic as old as that. 

                “A soldier does not chose his fights,” he answered, as still and unwavering as the Demacian mountains to the north despite vaguely understanding what kind of old god he stood before. No army followed him here, no troops stood behind him; he was the Sword-Captain of the Dauntless Vanguard in title but here, before the ancient wrath of Queen of the Wood, he was nothing but a fool. Garen knew that, but he would not be the trained, born and bred soldier he was if he fell to his feet in fear to grovel. If this was his death then he would meet it as he had met ever battle; calm and unwavering. 

                As a Crownguard, soldier of the Crown, and as a Demacian his duty past would demand he face the Queen with his sword drawn to face the villainy of the magic that she was, but Garen’s sister came to his memory and so did his promises to those of her kind.

                Garen lowered his blade to let the edge sink into the old, dark soil and sank to a knee before the Queen and her luminescent blades, his head bowed to her in admission. “But as a brother, protector, and ally— I do not,” he spoke, his voice gentler and honest as he always was. Garen’s guilt hung somberly around his neck as he knelt in this ancient forest that saw a tragedy not unlike those his own hands had committed in his life. He did not understand, but the heavy feeling of stones tumbling down his back and the tar that drug his heart down among the sorrow that was sowed into the earth here made the feeling sink into him nonetheless. 

                “Forgive my trespass, Queen of the Wood.” 

[eightysixed]

[breezeybreanne]

Chores and Nature Documentaries ||Silver Lake||

Location: Oasis Apartments

Status: Open to Silver Lake Residents Only

Breanne was beyond thankful to her older sibling. They had purchased a new streaming service, which meant... more documentaries to watch while she existed. The most interesting ones had been added to her watch list the night before. This one was about ancient Ireland a topic she knew nothing about but would soon gain whatever knowledge the show had to offer... On Today's to do list... clean the apartment and organize her school stuff. A task she should probably have done sober, but she had a blunt and she would indeed be smoking it. "You sharing this with me or am I all by my lonesome?" Breanne asked.

[betterdcyz]

Because I fucked up and forgot I had a different tag style,  here’s his actual tags aka henry oak

[ v. before forgotten realms — home sweet home at silverlake ]

[ v. main — lost in the forgotten realms ; seeking for his sons ]

[ ic. henry oak — just your nature loving dad slash friendly neighbour ] 

[ vis. henry oak — we're supposed to be doing our power cleansing energy ritual into the air ]

[ mus. henry oak — like my bumper sticker says: we can co-exist together ]

[ hc. henry oak — fun dad fact of the day ]

[ aes. henry oak — an environmentalist druid loose in the forgotten realms ]

[ des. henry oak — it is perfectly okay to want something you need in your life ; remember that ]

[graphicpolicy]

Legendary Comics Launches a New YA Imprint - Legendary Comics YA

Legendary Comics Launches a New YA Imprint - Legendary Comics YA #Comics #ComicBooks

Launching with a slate of five original graphic novels created for the young adult space, Legendary Comics has announced a new imprint, Legendary Comics YA, dedicated to telling original and character-driven stories across a wide array of genres. With a commitment to amplify new voices, spotlight diverse perspectives, and seek out passionate talent telling authentic stories, the imprint gives…

[bedazzlingevagiatti]

I Can Lift A Car

Status: Open

Location: Giatti Family Winery (Italy) or (Rose Quartz for Silver Lake Only)

Eva rubbed her eyes and yawned. The coffee was not helping her stay awake for once. It was now she realized she had stayed up way too late last night and it was only lunch time. Another sip and she tried to focus on restocking the display shelf. The store was practically a ghost town, the silence didn't help. Any moment she could fall asleep sitting in this chair and an empty space on the shelf. It seemed tempting. Resting her eyes for one second.

Her favorite band played softly in the background. It kind of kept her awake she focused on the music and the lead singer’s soothing voice left her floating... only to have the door open and it signaled Eva had to get back work.

[secretradiobrooklyn]

Secret Radio | 7.24.21, 8.7.21 & etc.

“Better, Better, Back” Secret Radio | 7.24.21, 8.7.21 & etc. | Hear it here.

- Mort Garson - “Plantasia”

1. Jean-Pierre Djeukam - “Africa Iyo” - “Cameroon Garage Funk”

The main musician I think of from Cameroon is Beti-Beti, and this is a whole different thing. Endless props to Analog Africa for providing fiery track after track. This is the sweat from their newest collection!

2. Eyedress - “Jealous”

Paige hears something in this and when I unfocus my eyes I do too. (Literal?) high school skate kids gettin in their shallow feels. I will admit that the chorus “time-time” is killer.

3. Nahid Akthar & Tafo - “Takra We Gutt Bhar Le” (I think)

Nahid Akthar’s voice is so completely bewitching that the amazing arrangements almost sneak by. Tafo is the producer of this track I believe, and the narrative structure of the music is just so confident and encompassing. But then also: man, that VOICE. She’s right up there with Ros Serey Sothea in expressiveness and character.

4. Oruã - “Escola das Roas” - “Sem Bênção / Sem Crença”

My thanks to you, Marc, for pointing this band to us. I have fallen in love with this particular recording, it just gets more thoroughly better with every listen. Calvin Johnson mentioned this band in a recent K newsletter — they’re a Brazilian band who corresponded with Doug Martsch as mutual fans until at some point Doug decided his own band needed replacing and he brought them out as Built to Spill and also as Oruã. This track also has shades of Sonic Youth’s “Master-Dik,” one of my all-time ultra faves. It really hits me in the ’90s, and I rilly want to see how some of this music is performed live.

5. Jacques Dutronc - “Le Responsable”

I’m so thankful to have Jacques Dutronc in my life. His rock songs knock me into gear like nothing else — and the whole band has its own very specific flavor. It kicks!

6. Sleepy Kitty - “Alceste in Silverlake”

At very long last, there is a new Sleepy Kitty album on the way! It’s in line at the record plant as I type this. And this is a song from the perspective of a musician-seeking drummer in LA, crossed with the most brutally honest man in all of France.

7. Sakuran Zensen - “錯乱前戦 ロッキンロール” (I Wanna Rock & Roll)

We only knew one song by this band (that we’ve played here) because the video was rad, but I looked to see what else was there and this song is just freakin great with me. The chords are really cool and his vocal delivery is just so over the top it’s impossible not to love. And the guitar solo is basically a full-on tonefest, which I appreciate more than a bunch of flying fingers. The video helps fill in the picture nicely too, I think, though I like the song while not looking at it even more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPCqT3e89SU

- Mort Garson - “Concerto for Philodendron & Pothos”

8. Clothilde - “Fallait pas ècraser la queue du chat”

All hail the French instinct for chamber music instruments as pop instruments, and then as a kind of technicolor weirdness. The orchestration of this song is a work of art in itself, and that doesn’t even account for her self-harmonizing melody. If you haven’t already, picture a brunette bob and deep mascara.

9. Public Service Broadcasting - “Spitfire”

I can’t remember now how I found this music, though I think it might’ve been from Josh’s playlist? This is from 2012, but they have a new album coming out almost exactly a month from now. In Bound Stems Tim and I got really into interlacing snatches of other people’s words into the music we were making, and this is very congruent with that interest. I feel like this song passes tests as it goes.

10. Shocking Blue - “Send Me a Postcard”

I first heard of this band when I was learning everything I could about Nirvana, and I’d heard both versions of “Love Buzz” and knew they were both great, but we only recently caught this track. It’s the bridge between “White Rabbit” and “Territorial Pissings.” 

11. Metak - “Tetrapak”

Our favorite Croatian band! Everything about this song is delightful. I feel like if this song was in English I’d probably cringe at the lyrics, but in this format I can only hear how much fun the song is to play. I am one-quarter Croatian, which means I can’t understand any of the lyrics either but I do see little ghosts of myself in the pictures of the band somehow. It’s weird.

12. Katerine - “Louxor J’adore”

-Anything I could say about this song is eclipsed by this excerpt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD7QuV6f_MA

The performance to the cemetery knocks me out

13. Erkin Koray - “Seni Her Gördügümde”

Whenever we’re listening to Anatolian psych, the songs with the most creative ideas and satisfying riffs and great vocal passages are always Erkin Koray. The four-piece arrangements are so good, and then he doesn’t hesitate to step up with his guitar to narrate a passage. Also, I really like how Turkish rock sounds so Indian and also Arabic and also French.

14. WITCH - “Chifundo”

Zambian prog rock! I haven’t heard anything like this track anywhere else in Africa yet. The thing is, this version of prog includes the exact flavor that Yes totally lacks, and thus I really love listening to this track in a way most prog rock doesn’t hit me. The time switches and the lead part over the top are just so smooth!

15. Ezra Furman - “Psalm 151”

We’ve been listening to a lot of Ezra Furman’s music lately, and it’s only getting better and more engrossing with every listen. We toured with Ezra Furman’s band about 5 years ago and every night was a pleasure. They’re finishing up a new album, which makes this a great time to listen to the others. This entire album, “Transangelic Exodus,” is a masterpiece as far as we’re concerned, and I find myself thinking the whole time too about Tim Sandusky’s production. Tim’s such a home town for us, and to hear his full attention on this album is just such a pleasure.

16. Ralph Stanley - “White Light, White Heat”

It was one of my favorite musical influence moments ever when my dad’s bluegrass band, The Prozac Mtn Boys, played VU’s “What Goes On.” Knowing that there is a recording of one of my dad’s true banjo heroes playing “White Light White Heat” is just an endless blessing. And actually hearing it is even better.

17. Kim Jung Mi - “Ganadaramabasa”

I know basically nothing about this track except that she’s Korean and this is from 1973. She’s got a real Diana Ross thing going on, and her band has a real Supremes vibe too… but it doesn’t sound like one of their songs.

18. Penny Penny - “Yogo Yogo”

We just got this record recently, and based on this track I wouldn’t’ve necessarily pictured the remarkable-looking guy who actually made this music. This is from the album “Shaka Bundu.” I’m sure it’s been cranked up and sent through some great house remixes — how could this not be? — but I like how this tempo operates at its own pace. It’s so truly and thoroughly ’80s, very 20th century. In the 21st century this tempo is practically cerebral.

19. Baris Manço - “Binboganin Kizi”

More Anatolian action. It’s really interesting to me how Turkish stuff was always associated with psych music but I didn’t really know how except for the opium thing, and I now understand that it’s in the chord relationships, well, and a lot of the vocal melody and delivery. In that way, Turkish rock pretty much defines what psych music sounds like. Wow. And check out that keyboard solo, so next level!

20. The Velvet Underground - “Countess from Hong Kong”

People are always asking Beatles or Stones and the answer is Velvet Underground. (And the Beatles, and the Stones.) They were just operating along a different balance beam than those other guys — performing different tricks for a different audience. While the Beatles were defining pop music, the VU were destroying it… but then later, they reveal their deep affinity for Western music, even as they never drop in to the blues-centric reading of it. It’s truly punk. I guess they are to punk what the Beatles are to pop — the definition of pop is whatever flows to or from the Beatles; punk is whatever flows to or from the Velvet Underground. Certainly more than any single band in 1976 or 7 or whatever.

21. Bella Bellow - “Denyigban”

The piano phrase that kicks this song off is surprisingly close to the opening of Bound Stems’ “Appreciation Night.” We got that phrase from the demo mode of Radz’s keyboard, and it’s surreal to hear a high-overlap version in a song from Togo. Her voice is so clean in tone and pitch, and what’s strangest to me is that I register the instrumentation in an almost Disney mode — but then realize that’s because Disney will draw on Caribbean and African elements at times as they establish characters and settings. Such an elegant song though!

22. Rail Band - “Mouodilo”

One of the first insights that got us into WBFF was the realization that James Brown had even more fundamental influence on the music of the world than the Beatles did — certainly in Africa. Hearing how his delivery interrelates with so many bands from all across Africa is such a revelation. This track just keeps winding around you til you can’t hardly live without it.

- Asha Bhosle - “Salma Jarir Jhalak”

All I know about this is that it’s in Bangla and it’s from a movie.

23. Unknown - “Chemirocha” - from “Love Is Love”

Several years ago, when African records looked interesting but we literally didn’t know anything about them, we bought a record called Love Is Love, in part because it was a beautiful cover and in part because the music seemed mysterious and full of possibility. Now, when I go to look for it online, I see no sign — I think it’s just a really small pressing from a… pirate group, I guess one could say? But really I think just hardcore music lovers. Anyway, it has this song “Chemirocha” on it, and there’s a story about this song that is really probably just best to link to because it’s so amazing. I guarantee you will find the information in this article worth your read:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chemirocha-how-an-american-country-singer-became-a-kenyan-star

24. Sparks - “Do-Re-Mi”

We’ve known about Sparks, but we’re late to a close listen. We’ve been listening a lot in anticipation of — not the band bio pic but “Annette,” the new film by Carax, one of our favorite directors ever. For that matter: make sure to watch “Holy Motors” by Carax. It’s probably best if you watch “Lovers on a Bridge” before that, but if you have to go straight to “Holy Motors,” dive right in. It’s amazing.

Meanwhile: This take on the Mary Poppins classic is TOO MUCH — I can’t stop smiling at the end, when the bells start tolling over the crashing drums and crescendoing vocal waves as their third finale fades away. How can anyone make this song, the very definition of not-rock, rock so fully?

- Mort Garson - “Ode to an African Violet”

25. Bob Reuter’s Alley Ghost - “She Brought Me to the Wire”

I will forever be glad that we not only landed in a city where we could find out about the person and the works of Bob Reuter, but that we got to know and work with him. Bob Reuter was one of the definitions of St. Louis to us, and when he passed, so did some of that city. But also, he left music and photos and stories in Eleven and chapbooks that I truly hope last forever. He was the hard-living romantic that you hope lives in the heart of every hard-luck case… and in his one instance, it was true. Bless your soul, Bob Reuter.

photos by Bob Reuter from The Pageant and El Leñador