#weaver bev

[fisksaturday]

i was gonna draw more of this before i posted it but drawing is hard and i drew these like 400 years ago. so here it is

generator rex swap au, a little about it under the cut

beverly swaps with rex

césar swaps with holiday

black knight swaps with six

circe swaps with noah

i considered van kleiss and white knight swap but their personalities just. would not work in each others scenarios. like the vibes are all off. so they dont swap at all its just regular for them

heres evo rex

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Unholy Alliance

▲ Strange bedfellows: Christian Right leader Tim LaHaye and Moonie official Bo Hi Pak (inset).

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Mother Jones magazine, January 1986 pages 14, 16-17 44, 46

by Carolyn Weaver

A bizarre marriage is now under way in the shadows of American politics. The coy but ambitious bride is the Christian Right. The mysterious bridegroom is the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, an international cult with apparently unlimited means and a well-developed taste for power. This peculiar alliance is blessed with Moonie money and fired by anticommunist zeal. Witnesses to the wedding may well wonder, however, what this unholy union holds for American politics.

I stumbled upon this secret liaison through an eye-opening letter that fell into my hands last summer. While interviewing a woman named Beverly LaHaye, head of a conservative women’s organization, I ran out of tape. LaHaye’s public relations director helpfully provided me with another cassette.

Searching for the end of my interview that evening (which I never found—the batteries had failed), I came upon some highly revealing correspondence that had been dictated by LaHaye’s husband, the Reverend Tim LaHaye[1], head of the largest network of Christian Right leaders. The Lord works in mysterious ways. With appalled delight I listened to the Reverend LaHaye’s chummy note to Colonel Bo Hi Pak, the number two man in the Unification Church.

The Reverend LaHaye, a former television evangelist, had dictated the letter in early 1985, a time when he was riding high on the success of his new American Coalition for Traditional Values (ACTV). ACTV, whose executives include television evangelists Jerry Falwell, Jim Bakker, and Jimmy Swaggart, claimed to have registered 2 million new Christian voters for the 1984 elections. Born-again Christians gave Ronald Reagan nearly one out of every five votes he received that year, or half his margin of victory.

The friend to whom LaHaye wrote is also a religious believer and political enthusiast, although his theological doctrines would make most fundamentalist Christians shudder. Bo Hi Pak has spent most of his life in the service of “Master,” South Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon, who teaches that Jesus Christ failed in his mission and that God is now “throwing away” Christianity.

Hinting broadly that he himself is the second Messiah, the Reverend Moon has boasted that he will “conquer and subjugate the world,” establish an “automatic theocracy,” and make fornication a capital offense. “Many people will die —those who go against our movement,” Moon has predicted. But when it prevails, he says, God himself will acknowledge, “‘Reverend Moon is far better than me, the Heavenly Father.’”

To the average fundamentalist, Pak would fit the profile of altar boy to the Antichrist. Yet the Moon empire, which he administers, is a generous supporter of many conservative crusades, and it was this generosity that apparently prompted the Reverend LaHaye’s warm, confiding letter. “Dear Bo Hi,” began the Reverend LaHaye:

This letter is being written at 37,000 feet out of Chicago en route to San Francisco. Although I don’t like to face this fact, I will not be home for one month. Sometimes I think I must be mad to keep up this pace. In fact, God has convicted me about abusing my body even in a good cause like this. So I plan to turn down more speaking engagements that do not contribute to ACTV objectives and my FLS [Family Life Seminars] ministry of radio-TV specials and writing.

Bev and I are beginning to enjoy living in Washington, D.C., more every day, and to my amazement it is beginning to seem like home. As soon as we can get our radio time changed from 7:00 to 8:00 each night to 1:00 to 2:00p.m. daily, we want to have you and your wife over for dinner.

Bo Hi, I am encouraged! Amid the bad signs I see today, I also detect a lot of good signs. The secretary of education, Don Regan, Ed Meese, Pat Buchanan, and many others. Even physical ailments to three of our 76 [year-old] flaming liberal Supreme Court justices. Bev was invited to the White House yesterday and introduced to over 300 conservative leaders as “the president of the largest women’s organization in America—over twice as large as NOW”… and was extended thunderous applause. She is rather retiring by nature and was modestly embarrassed. I believe she is going to be given some unique opportunities in the future because of the growth of her organization. In fact, the conservatives at the White House are trying to get her appointed as a delegate along with Marcella [sic] Meese to the International Women’s Year Conference to be held in June in Africa. That would be a golden opportunity for Bev to get better acquainted with the new attorney general’s wife and also to learn what the radical Left out of Moscow is planning for the women of the world in the 1990s.

On this trip, I will be going to the Holy Land with Jerry Falwell and speaking for his three-day conference on prophecy. Confidentially, during that time I am going to talk to him about 1988 and my strategy for his winning the [Republican presidential] primary. I’m convinced he can beat Teddy in the general election if we could just get him through the primary. I hope Pat Robertson doesn’t make a play for the same thing and divide the Christian vote. I think Jerry will like my plan to recruit 435 activists, one in each congressional district, to work under our ACTV city chairman. I’ll let you know what he says.

Once again, my friend, I am in your debt for your generous help to our work. You don’t know how timely it was! This move and reorganization of the whole ministry to free me for more time in Washington and ACTV activities has been extremely expensive, much more so than I originally thought. But I see daylight down the road and feel it is all part of the Master’s plan. As soon as I can afford it, I plan to hire a PR firm to give more coverage for ACTV, get our message to the people.

God Bless you! Let’s plan to sit together at the first CBS shareholders’ meeting when Jesse Helms makes his move to take it over.

Your friend, Tim.

LaHaye’s letter is a striking example of the growing bond between Moon’s well-heeled cult and fundamentalists and other elements of the New Right. It is still a love that dare not speak its name, because New Right leaders realize this affair would dismay many of their followers. Recently, however, as the Far Right has grown increasingly indebted to Moon, the relationship has begun to emerge from the closet.

Some aspects of this affair are right out in the open. The Washington Times, headed by Pak, loses millions of dollars a year, but it has bought Moon gratitude and influence among the capital’s ruling rightists. Pak legally contributed $10,000 to the Republican National Committee last year and has been photographed in friendly meetings with the president.

But much of Moon and Pak’s work is covert, accomplished through a bewildering array of Unification Church entities and front groups. In 1984 Causa[2], Moon’s anticommunist organization, contributed $500,000 to a political action group headed by New Right leader Terry Dolan. Causa has also sponsored all-expenses paid trips to educational conferences for thousands of journalists, clergy, academics, political leaders, and anyone else who appears useful. One minister who attended a five-day Causa conference reported that he had been offered the staggering sum of $150,000 for his church. Causa is also spending millions of dollars to establish a political base for Moon in Latin America.

Money seems to be no object, as far as Moon is concerned. Between 1975 and 1984, he brought $800 million into the United States from Japan alone, two former high officials in the Japanese branch of the church told the Washington Post.[3] The full story behind Moon’s wealth remains unknown. But much of it is said to come from the sale of religious icons in Japan[4] and a worldwide network of holdings that include a South Korean weapons manufacturing company, fishing fleets[5], real estate, a titanium firm, and a string of newspapers in Uruguay[6], Cyprus, and Japan.

Moon has been blunt about the purpose of his spending spree. His mission is to “unify” the world under a theocracy headquartered in Korea, and the weak-willed, democratic United States is to be only a stepping-stone. According to the congressional testimony of Alan Tate Wood[7], a former high-ranking official in the Unification Church, Moon told followers in 1970: “Part of our strategy must be to make friends in the FBI, the CIA, and the police forces, the military and business community … as a means of entering the political arena, influencing foreign policy, and ultimately of establishing absolute dominion over the American people.” In the mid-1970s, Moon and Pak were implicated in the Koreagate bribery scandal as accomplices in the Korean government’s campaign to win influence over U.S. officials.[8]

The beaming, round-faced Moon still has exuberant political visions, but nowadays he tones down his rhetoric. In less grandiose moments, he merely talks of using the electoral process to gain control of the U.S. government. The Reverend Tim LaHaye and his clerical brothers on the Christian right are also filled with visions of political glory. And they have few qualms about embracing Moon, if that’s what it takes to create their holy state.

Last October, LaHaye’s American Coalition for Traditional Values held a conference in Washington’s Shoreham Hotel on “How to Win an Election.” Several hundred “pastor-leaders” representing ACTV’s network of over 100,000 fundamentalist churches listened appreciatively to the leading lights of the New Right: Jack Kemp, Jesse Helms; Paul Weyrich, Newt Gingrich[9], Jerry Falwell[10]. One by one, they came forth, offering congratulations to ACTV for its 1984 success and encouragement and advice for 1986 and 1988. “By the grace of God, we will raise up an army,” an enthusiastic LaHaye told the gathering.

Later, LaHaye introduced an honored guest, a middle-aged man who sat quietly at a reserved table just below the dais. LaHaye referred to his South Korean friend as “a great American” and head of the most conservative paper in the United States. LaHaye neglected to tell his fellow believers in “traditional values” that this special guest, Colonel Bo Hi Pak[11], also presided over a cult[12] notorious for its anonymous mass marriages and encouragement of family breakups[13]. Nor did LaHaye cite the “generous help” Pak had given him, as he had in his appreciative letter.

Pak returned to the conference for a banquet that evening: After dinner, LaHaye revealed the coalition’s plans for the 1986 elections: a $3 million drive to recruit 50,000 volunteers[14] to work for the election of conservative Christian candidates to the House and the Senate.Then LaHaye made his pitch. ACTV needed the ongoing support of its members. He invited the ministers to make a gift that night and to commit themselves to monthly donations as well. There were envelopes on every table. But first, he said, they should search their souls to see if they could make that commitment. The banquet room fell silent as the assembled pastors bent their heads in prayer. From the concentration on their faces, there seemed to be much fervent ransacking of family budgets. When they looked up, nearly everyone reached for an envelope.

I buttonholed Pak as he concluded his warm embraces of ACTV staffers. Pak, who had shaken my hand genially, grew ominously still when I asked him if he had made a contribution. Regarding me with a cold smile, he said: “Yes, I made a contribution tonight … a personal contribution. What did you say your name was? May I have your card?”

page 44

An erect, balding man of 55, Pak has the knack of suggesting wordlessly that one has just committed an irrevocable offense, just stepped over some invisible but decisive line. I told him that I had it on good authority that he had made previous contributions to ACTV as well. “I have never made any other contribution to ACTV,” he said. He asked me to repeat my name again, as did his aide, and then bade me a polite farewell.

The Reverend Tim LaHaye is an itty-bitty man with wingy eyebrows and unnaturally brown hair, not the craggily virile pastor of his PR photographs. Communism, “secular humanism,” pornography, rape, and nuns dying of AIDS are all inseparably linked in his mind in a kind of moral domino theory. In conversation, however, LaHaye talks with most zeal about sex, or rather all the people he has helped to a fuller enjoyment of “the beautiful act of married love.” LaHaye co-wrote a Christian sex manual called The Act of Marriage with his wife, Beverly. Although the book offers some steamily detailed advice, the LaHayes don’t pretend to have all the answers. In response to a question on the permissibility of oral sex, for example, they report that the Bible is completely silent on the subject. The book also promotes a $29 mail-order device for strengthening vaginal muscles that its distributor cheerfully admits is medically useless.

Beverly LaHaye leads Concerned Women for America (CWA), a group dedicated to stamping out feminism. Even if her claim of over 500,000 “kitchen table lobbyists” is stretching it by half, CWA would still be the largest women’s political organization in the country by far. CWA members meet to pray for and against specific pieces of legislation. They also write letters—hundreds of thousands of letters, as the occasion demands. Concerned Women for America and its much smaller ally, Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, take credit for defeating the Equal Rights Amendment.

Between them, Tim and Beverly LaHaye reach a good many of the fundamentalists in the country, with CWA functioning as the ladies’ auxiliary under ACTVs all-male cadre of pastor-leaders. It’s an army, as Christian Right leaders would put it, that meets every Sunday.

“Who?” LaHaye said. “Who did you say?” when I asked him about his friendship with Bo Hi Pak. “Oh sure, he’s a very strong conservative,” he said offhandedly. “I’ve had lunch with him a couple of times, that’s all.”

LaHaye denied that Pak ever gave him or ACTV money except for the contribution he made at the conference. As for that particular envelope, said LaHaye, he hadn’t even opened it yet. He couldn’t remember ever writing to Pak; perhaps it was one of thousands of direct-mail letters he sends out? I refreshed his memory, telling him the letter was a very personal one written months ago, but the evangelical leader was still unable to recall it. Then I told him about exhibit A. “You have a what? A tape?” he exclaimed. “You can’t, it’s impossible.”

Later, I mentioned the incredible wealth of the Unification Church and its prodigious gifts to even casual acquaintances. “Yeah, and do you know where all that money comes from?” LaHaye demanded. “I’ll tell you one thing,” he said cryptically, “it doesn’t come from selling flowers.”

La Have says he was introduced to Pak by a man named Gary Jarmin[15], a former high-ranking Moonie who has long promoted the New Right’s friendship with the Unification Church. As consultant to Christian Voice, the religious Right’s political hit team, Jarmin is one of the most powerful strategists on the Christian right. He is best known for his authorship of Christian Voice’s report cards rating “Christian/moral” votes of political candidates.

Jarmin left the Unification Church in late 1973 to continue an affair started outside the sanctions of the church, and was denied Master’s blessing upon his subsequent marriage. The political strategist was nonetheless treated to a highly unusual dispensation, according to other ex-Moonies. Moon, who has a history of planting his followers among the powerful and a doctrine of “heavenly” deception, asked Jarmin to stay in touch.

Unlike most ex-Moonies, the born-again Jarmin has remained on excellent terms with the Unification Church. With LaHaye and other fundamentalist leaders, Jarmin has operated the Moon-financed Coalition for Religious Freedom. By claiming that Moon’s 1982 imprisonment for tax falsification and obstruction of justice amounted to religious persecution, this coalition has provided fundamentalist leaders with a handy explanation for their peculiar friendship with Moon. [The judge saw Moon’s document forgery as a serious crime, and jailed him.][16]

Yet there have been stresses and strains in this unusual marriage. Useful as they find the banner “religious freedom,” Christian rightists still tend to choke on Moon’s theology. Moon, for instance, clings to his own unique interpretation of the Fall: Eve, after consorting with Lucifer, so degraded the human lineage that all families except those ordained by Moon are wrong and false. Even Jesus, the resentful product of an adulterous liaison of Mary’s, failed in his one great mission, to marry and establish a “true” family. Enter the Reverend Moon, who has sired 13 children upon “Perfect Mother,” and his plan to regraft the human race. [He had 14 children with Hak Ja Han (Hae-jin died in infancy), three other known ones with other women, and there are credible rumors of others.][17]

Last year, Jerry Falwell pointedly disavowed any further connection with the Coalition for Religious Freedom. His top aide, Moral Majority vice president Ron Godwin, attacked another fundamentalist leader in the group, saying: “It strikes me as peculiar that [he] could accept financial support from a church whose founder believes he’s divine. They’re taking money from a cult whose doctrines are 180 degrees opposed. It’s a little like the Jewish National Fund accepting money from [Yasir] Arafat.”

But over the last year, a mysterious conversion appears to have taken place among Moral Majority leaders. Many of those who left the religious freedom coalition have again lined up in Moon’s defense. Falwell himself cut short his trip to South Africa last August to appear at a Washington press conference where he and Coalition for Religious Freedom leaders urged President Reagan to pardon Moon. Even Ron Godwin has apparently revised his opinions. He recently left the Moral Majority to take a job with Moon’s media company.

The Christian Right is laying big, expensive plans for 1988. The Christian Voice’s Texas chapter led a virtual takeover of the state’s Republican party in 1984. Now they want to do it to the country at large. “If we get organized,” Gary Jarmin recently told the Religious News Service, “we could very well determine the next presidential nominee. We certainly believe that.”

If they do, part of the reason will surely be the Reverend Moon’s inexplicably deep pockets. The Christian Right seems set on taking his money and deriding his religion, a profitable application of the principle of religious tolerance. “How can you be afraid of a dying church with fewer members now than it had ten years ago?” asks LaHaye. But it is not clear which of these strange bedfellows will have the last laugh.

Carolyn Weaver is a Washington-based freelance writer. Some research materials were provided by Fred Clarkson.

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Moon Speaks

My dream is to organize a Christian political party including the Protestant denominations, Catholics and all the religious sects. Then the communist power will be helpless before ours…. We have to purge the corrupted politicians, and the sons of God must rule the world. The separation between religion and politics is what Satan likes most…. Upon my command to the Europeans and others throughout the world to come live in the U.S., wouldn’t they obey me? Then what would happen? We can embrace the religious world in one arm and the political world in the other. With this great ideology, if you are not confident to do this, you had better die.

—from The Master Speaks, by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon

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[bobbie-robron]

Jack is a decent person but even decent people are driven to do desperate things. I mean there’s no excuse for it but… there are reasons. (2 of 2)

The villagers in the pub talk about Jack (innocence and guilt) and the upcoming trial.

16-Mar-2001

[thedarkoutside]

THE DA-DARK INSIDE NOT OUTSIDE AND ONLINE (or something)

in true last minute fashion, the postponed Da-Dark Outside meant for last weekend (28th March) is now going ahead online via furtherin.live  on Saturday 4th April from 12 noon UK time and finishing whenever it runs out of things to play that have been sent in.   Here is the list of everyone who sent in something ( not including the ones I don’t have artist names for yet )  If your name is missing, let me know I might have missed that in the folders.  In alphabetical order ( not order of play )  There will not be a tracklist, no listen again function, no archive.  It’s playing once only.  

1 of 100 A Farewell to Hexes Accursed Volts Adrian Carter Aet Airspace aLTERkRANKERmANN Andrew Lagowski Apta Art_no Assassin of Sound Atomluft Audio Obscura Ave Grave Avebury Sounds Bastard Flower Beatman Bev Craddock Bipolar Explorer Bit Cloudy Bleep Eater Blood Everywhere Bloody Mountain BMH Bobby Horseshoe Boodlam Boy Called Crow Braintape Bridget Hayden and Conny Prantera Cahn Ingold Prelog Cath Holland Catrin Perry Choke Chris Carter Cliver Clutchdaisy Coffin Warehouse Colony Recording Club Concretism Corporal Tofulung Correlations Cosey Fanni Tutti Cowboy Flying Saucer Cowp Cromlech Shadow CTE Curxes DAAM Daniel Crompton Danny McCann Dave Salsbury  / Dr Jolly Dea Karina Dead Sea Apes Deathwatch Headband Debord DFF Sound System Douglas Deep Edith A Graves Eduards Ozoliņš Elf and Stacy Elizabeth Joan Kelly Eric Schaming Famished for Blonds Fantasy Sequence Four Italian Pep Pills  Four Minute Warning Flexagon Forever Friday Night Weird Dreams Fushimi Inari 5 Futile Axe Garden of Surreal Dreams Gareth Blazey Gary Finnegan Gavin Inglis Giants of Discovery Gingerbread Master Ginnel Grey Frequency Gusset Hairs Abyss Half Headstart Heidi Holstad Hermann Holsgr Hinder Corp Hotgem HPL HyMettus Woods I Start Counting Ian Heustice Ian Taylor Ihcilon IK Joyce In the Long Summer Interstitia Ivy Nostrum Jack Jackdaw Jah Wobble Vs Megaheadphoneboy James Sandford James Weaver James Yuill Jane Pitt Janet Philo Jarvis Probes JD Twitch Jean-Paul Bondy Jeremy Tuck Jim Jarmo Jim King Jimmy Kipple Sound John Chambers John Kerridge John Scanlan John316 Jonathan Willoughby Juju Junklight Juxtagon Kat Five Kate Arnold Kenny Inglis Kevin Maynard KR Hide L'Incal Noir Lament Configuration Lark Lee Rosevere Leiyun Lepton Lespectre Liberty X Lippy Kid & Metis Luisa Stucchi Luke Jordan Luki Defacto M*A*R*Y M-Orchestra Macerator Manfred Hamil Mark Goodwin Matthew McCourt Max Worgan Megalophobe Melony Klien Metrix Michael Barnes-Wynters Mike Smalle Mike Tupling Moray Newlands Mothership Museleon My Pleasure Nad Spiro Nalepa & Tony Bevilacqua Nat Lyon Nathan David Smith Naturist Space Jazz Society Neil Garvey New Gold Dream Nigel Ayers Night Monitor Nitemirror / Strident Weasel Nonalogue Nunn O))) o_S_k_m Ogham Oma Outside Other Owen Sound Palm Tree Tetsuya Panamint Manse Particledots Paul Hood Payton Black Pete Warren Pinochio Possible Area Presidiomodelo Pulselovers Quadraphonic Stylus Ensemble Qualchan Quarriers R Tenevall Raen Arthur Random Dander Rangga Purnama Aji readyStateFail Redwood Drift Revbjelde Ria Bagley Richard Smith Richard Turner Robert Ellmer Robert Shaw Roberta Fidora Robin Davies Rogue Sector Rupert Lally Rusty Sheriff Rysiek/Rysiunio SABW Sacred Oak Salford Electronics Sarah Sharp Sascha Müller & Abstracto Concreto' Scanner Scumbag Radio Secret Nuclear  Security Shaun Malone Sheer Zed Si Woods Signal Jammer Simon Klee Simon Tucker SK123 and T.Brixson Skeleton Worm Sol Rezza Sophie Cooper Sonic Noir Spaceship Squirrel Natkin St James Infirmary Stephanie Merchak Steve Cobby Subject to Change Sunday Fascination Sunken Foal SVR Szuumm Telagasunyi The Dissonace Collective The Great Indoors The Guelph Basin The Heartwood Institute The Last Ambient Hero The Magus Project The Revenant Sea There Are No Birds Here Time Destroys All Things Toby Warren Todd Snow Tomoroh Hidari Tony Ferodo Tuatha TVO Ubu King UltraLux Ultraterrestrials   Unknown Rockstar Usue vdof Void Theory Von Heuser Warrior Bob Whalt Thisney Whettman Chelmets Wig William Wild & Stuart Wray Xixada Xtro YOL meets DEATHWATCH HEADBAND Yumasef

artist names for the following are currently unknown : *******203 JL *******fields *******piano angel demo *******The Keep ******aud65 ******dark outside ******in search of something concrete pt 2 ******patterns for merzbarn ******radio ******raspberry something ******SV1003 ******The Nameless City ******we dun a dibeit

[ylizam]

femslash exchange creator letter [currently a placeholder, soon to be real]

Hi, Hello, Hey. First of all–thank you! This is my standard you offered to write one of my fandoms, so you’re obviously a perfect paragon of humanity and all that jazz opening spiel, full of generals likes and dislikes, I’m sure you know the drill. I’ll make sure the fandom specific stuff is up by the time assignments go out. (That said, if you already have an idea about how you want to write about the fandom we match on—wow, I’m jealous! tell me your secrets!—just skip over the fandom stuff and go forth with your bad self.)

Things I like include, but are in no way limited to: fun with POV, fun with linear vs. non-linear storytelling, fun with tone, fun with writing. I really dig character studies, stories that really get into what makes a character tick (and something porny that can get at that is wonderful too), and I like relationships that are hard and prickly and worth fighting for. I like happy endings that don’t feel tacked on or forced. I like doubt, and hope, and theology; I like actors, and directors, and I like the random deity. I like fairy tales. I like (love) romance tropes. Forced to share a bed, marriages of convenience, fake dating, friends-to-lovers, idiots-to-lovers, enemies-to-lovers: it’s all like unto catnip. I like interesting turns of phrase, I like the perfect line, I like any story written just for me. If you have any questions about my taste (or lack thereof), feel free to ask @summervillen​ who probably knows my fannish tastes better than I do.

Things that I would prefer you not include—especially gratuitously; there are obviously ways to engage with problematic actions/thoughts/etc. in fiction, but there’s such a fine line there—are as follows: noncon, necrophilia, pedophilia, incest, non-character driven racism/sexism/[all]isms. I also have a pretty big embarrassment squick. A/B/O doesn’t do anything for me. And I’m not really interested in AUs for any of these fandoms: canon divergence is fine, but not-related-to-canon alternate universes really aren’t my preference here.

Babylon 5 Delenn/Susan Ivanova I just ship them post-canon so hard. Later in life chances at love are sort of a thing of mine, and add to that two of my favorite characters ever, well, it’s like this pairing is made for me. That said, if you can find a way to write them during canon (maybe John doesn’t return from Z'ha'dum, maybe Delenn and John just never get together at all, maybe you can think of something I can’t) I’d love that too. Delenn/Shaal Mayan I’d love a story about them that’s really Minbari–that understands that neither of them is human. Something set when they were young and just figuring themselves out (and first love is rarely forever but it feels like it must be) or something set when Mayan visits Babylon 5 in season one or, heck, something set after the series ends. (I have a thing for writing on skin, so if you can find a way to fit that in more power to you.)

ER Jeanie Boulet/Kerry Weaver Elizabeth Corday/Kerry Weaver

Oh, the women of ER, how I love them. While I don’t want a never a medical professional AU, I’m fine with playing loose with canon events for these. (That said, I love that Jeanie can be HIV+ and fall in love, have sex, be happy, so while you don’t have to go deep on that I’d rather you didn’t change it.) I love the idea of post-series Jeanie/Kerry, but would also love something that takes place earlier (does Kerry realizing she’s attracted to Jeanie make her admit she’s a lesbian? do arguments over staffing lead to heated makeouts in the break room?). As for Elizabeth/Kerry, just think of all the sparks. All. Of. Them. I’m not a huge Mark fan, so I’d rather he not be front and center, but I’m fine with you including him as part of Elizabeth’s past if you want to go that route. I’m also fine with ignore canon relationships all together. Go wild, basically. 

Doctor Who Donna Noble/Thirteenth Doctor Donna Noble/River Song

Donna. Deserved. Better. Which is to say: ignore what happened to her, fix what happened to her, however you want to go about it, but make it better. I mean, imagine a world where Donna just shows up and has fun times with whatever Doctor is Doctoring at the time, and when it’s Thirteen they have to pretend to be married for some reason or other and, oh, kissing feels good! Or maybe River meets her during one of those times, and they spend so much time rolling their eyes about the Doctor that they end up in bed! (Or, um, feel free to go a threesome route with Thirteen, Donna, and River. If you want.) I just really do not want a story that is all about how much Donna loses or that ends with her without her memories again or any of that—if you fix it but keep what happened as story-canon, go ahead and have her deal with the fallout if if you want, but I can’t really cope with that being the (eventual or in-story) ending. 

Star Trek: Classic Timeline Beverly Crusher/Vash Kimara Cretak/Kira Nerys

First of all, I don’t know book canon, so include it, don’t include, whatever floats your proverbial boat. Second of all, I am more than happy with “this character lives” stories here. Which is to say, feel free to have Cretak escape/live/etc. Feel free to ignore anything that happens to Bev or Vash or Nerys. I basically think there should be reams and reams of fic about both of these pairings, and yet there is not. For Kira/Cretak I’d especially love something that recognizes that neither of them is human; play around with what we know of their cultures, about how those cultures might clash or unexpectedly mesh, how that can affect a relationship both positively and negatively. And just have fun with Beverly and Vash (and feel free to bring Picard in if you want, either as a friend or a third romantic partner or whatever). And of course I love the crews of the Enterprise and Deep Space Nine, so their reactions and relationships with everyone involved are more than welcome additions (although, again, not necessary).

Game of Thrones Brienne of Tarth/Sansa Stark

Look, the show did everyone dirty. The show did their relationship dirty. The show did writing dirty. Feel free to fix things, either by using the canon ending as a jumping board—maybe it turns out that an all-seeing-knowing-etc. being doesn’t make for a good king and revolt happens! maybe Bran and Sansa meet up for some sort of political thing or another and Brienne’s there as Lord Commander and things happen!—or by going AU (in the for want of a sense, not the everyone’s in space sense). Oh, and this is definitely a pairing where I would dig service kink if you are interested in writing such a thing. Look, it’s right there. 

This is also the only pairing I requested a vid for; I’d love anything that builds on their relationship, maybe plays around with service and fealty and honor and the way different women fight. (I’m sorry; my ability to write about vidding is limited, but know that I’d love anything. I love all sorts of music. I love all sorts of vids.)

[tallshipandstar]

Kirsten and Michael on their careers, and working with Kaitlyn.

And therein lies another new member of their team. Marinaro said they spent about a week and a half working with Weaver “and that was a pretty amazing experience,” he said. “She brought a lot to the table. And we hope that she’ll come back in the future.”

[patrikimpson]

This was a super fun @behindvelvetrope Watch all 3 seasons of Gown and Out in Beverly Hills on @primevideo 🌍 Posted @withrepost • @behindvelvetrope Ep. 611 Pol’ Atteu and Patrik Simpson step Behind The Rope. The boys are back!! First off, the boys chat about their BFF Jeff Lewis, the extended Jeff “family/ex family” - Megan Weaver, Jenni Pulos, Gage Edward, Chaz Dean, many of whom have been guests here Behind The Rope, and Jeff’s dating life, type and up and down dating history with Chef Stuart O’Keeffe. Next we cover Scheana’s gorgeous wedding dress which the boys designed and wedding which the boys attended. We break down what working with Scheana on the dress was like plus address all of the rumors that have surfaced clarifying what is true and what is fiction - Raquel and Tom Schwartz hook up, Katie Maloney blaming Scheana, Katie being disinvited, Jax, Brittany and Kristen Doute attending but not filming for the new season of Vanderpump Rules and oh, so much more. Speaking of gowns, the boys also designed the reunion looks for two of The Real Housewives of Dubai - Nina Ali and Sara Al Madani - which we discuss as well as the just past Dubai season and reunion. Being Bev Hills locals, Season Three of their fabulous Gown and Out in Beverly Hills is out now, we share hot takes on the current RHOBH season both on and off air - Bots, lawsuits, victims, donations, cover ups, casting rumors, social media drama, one F of a reunion thus far and just who we can expect to see back next season out of Kyle, Rinna, Kathy, Garcelle, Sutton, Diana, Crystal, Dorit, Sheree and last, but certainly not least, Erika Jayne. Finally, they share news on their Anna Nicole Biopic, casting choices you wont believe and why they are still estranged from Larry Birkhead and Dannielynn. @behindvelvetrope @davidyontef #rhobh #kathyhilton #kylerichards #lisarinna #garcellebeauvias #suttonstracke #crystalkungminkoff #dianajenkins #doritkemsley #shereezampino #erikajayne #vpr #vanderpumprules #scheana #brockdavies #annanicolesmith #dannielynnbirkhead #larrybirkhead #jefflewis #gageedward #tomschwartz #raquelleviss #rhodubai #patriksimpson #polatteu #gownandout 💎🍸 💫 (at Pol' Atteu Haute Couture Beverly Hills) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjis5cCp6pw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[reynoldsrap4949]

6/12/22 Sunday. Trip to Minneapolis. First flight since 3/1/20 when I flew home from Tiawan to exercise my privilege to vote -Biden my chose at the very end . Yesterday Dee picked me up at 9 AM. I showed off my ikat scarf hanging by stove. Product of 2 day course with Mary Zikafoose at PTA. Proud. We drove the coast road to 128 then through redwood cathedral, Alexander Valley. Stopped at Pepperwood Pottery. A magical place. Pottery, gardens, childlike wonder. Potter knew Doug/Bev weavers well. Pulled over to looks at Rebecca Johnson’s old barn and sculptures. Checked out the fabulous vege and ornamental garden at Boonville Hotel. Salad and beer acoss the street. Getting hot now. 90 degrees at Hotel. Nice talk with old local at the bar. Highland ranch directions given. On to 101 through the golden hills of paradise. We drove Mountain House Rd for 10-15 minutes-just to see what was out there. A few ranches. Fire country. Santa Rosa 3:30. Hot hot hot. Motel 6 check in. Same day room rate was $300. Motel 6? I remember when the name meant a clean room with magic fingers for a quarter at $6/ night. We ditched our hiking thought. Went to explore Railroad Square then dinner at Grossmans in the Historic Hotel La Rosa. Highly recommended is you like Middle Eastern/ Jewish food—like I have never had before. **** Too excited to fall asleep but finally got 4 hrs. Dee drove me to Double Tree Rhonart Park for 7:15 Sonoma Airporter. $40 one way. Weekly parking $30-50 for future reference. Sun Country flies out of SFO unfortunately. Santa Rosa pre-pandemic was ever so efficient. But international terminal has fewer and more diverse people and languages, better art, more comfortable chairs, active pre-check. At my gate with coffee and scone 2 hours early. Thus this tumblr. Onward to Minneapolis.

[scottandtess]

Just wondering if it was something Kaitlyn Weaver said during in interview which showed she was unhappy with VM’s return? Obvs she’s been overshadowed by them a lot and that’s sad but is there like a history of visible resentment between Weapo and VM? (I think I’m asking for a timeline pls help, thank you so much)

I mean they never said anything really bad but they were always really passive/agressive about it. Tessa & Scott said in interviews that they had called Weapo before announcing it on TV but Weapo said hearing the news made them perform badly at 4CC...Also a general attitude of Kaitlyn cheering for every member of team canada except VM.

Here’s a couple quotes when asked about VM: 

From an article with Bev Smith

“Their comeback, it’s neither here nor there,’’ she continued. “It’s not involving us. But I’d be lying if I said I haven’t worked harder because of it. And that’s just the competitors in us. We’re natural competitors and I think that’s how we’ve made our career as successful as it has been so far.”

Weaver and Poje, who have won the two Canadian titles that Virtue and Moir missed by stepping aside for two years, haven’t gone head-to-head with the dance virtuosos this season yet. That will change next week at the Canadian championships in Ottawa.

“I’m not really concerned how our results will be against them,” Weaver said. “We’re still Kaitlyn and Andrew. People appreciate what we do, thankfully, and we love that they do. We bring something different than anybody else. And that’s because we’re us.

“They have no bearing on that, and will not be able to take that away from us.”

From a CBC interview:

So when Canadian teammates and Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir announced they were launching a comeback after two years away from ice dancing, Weaver and Poje took the news in stride.

"I think that it was a little bit of a shock, to be frank. I think that everybody could probably say that," Weaver said on a conference call Wednesday.

[transbilliam]

Its not realistic age wise but I think Sigourney weaver would make a great bev

she really would...... she really would

[max-morris]

21 Questions with PhD Student Max Morris

By Raven Bowen

Q: So, what do you do?

A: I’m a sociologist of sexualities and most of my research is about gay, bisexual and queer youth, but at the moment I’m writing up my PhD at Durham University based on 50 interviews with young men who have accepted money for sex online, which is something I call ‘incidental sex work.’ Basically, these guys did not advertise themselves as selling sex and most of them didn’t identify as sex workers. So selling sex is a form of sexual exploration or economic opportunism, and most often it was a one-time thing. So it challenges some of the assumptions about who sells sex and their motivations and the diversity of experiences people have about selling sex. What I want to do is to challenge some of our conventions around identity politics and sex work. I also managed to get a survey of 1,500 Grindr users and through that I found that 14.6% admitted to engaging in some form of commercial sex, with 8.2% of those doing incidental sex work or webcamming. So, it’s a lot more common among gay and bisexual men than we might realize.

Q: And your favourite colour?

A: Floral pink, because I’m a gay stereotype!!!

Q: What are you most proud of?

A: So, last year I was diagnosed with HIV and it came as a total shock to me, but I was quite proud that I was able to turn this unexpected event into an opportunity to learn from other people and educate other people. Within a couple of months of my diagnosis I had begun giving public lectures at universities and to HIV charities and I did some radio and television interviews. And they were all about the revolutionary changes in medication over the years, like PrEP as a form of prevention. I’ve been very vocal about that. I became HIV positive in a very good context with the new drugs and the normal life expectancy, and now it’s impossible to transmit the virus when you’re on effective mediation. So I want to see us move away from that stigmatized view we have of the virus from the 1980’s. Q: The death sentence idea. A: Yes, and that needs to be gone now. And this impacts my sex industry research because HIV is an intersectional issue that affects not just gay men, but trans women, migrants, sex workers. It also angers me…recently seeing prohibitionist feminists going after Amnesty International, UNAIDS and other charities because they endorse decrim as an effective way to reduce HIV infection. So that affects my life and my research in lots of different ways. Q: Amazing how your life experience now expands your scholarship and activism! A: Yes and it’s given me a feeling of solidarity for a lot of different groups with the intersections of HIV, sexual identity and feminism it definitely expanded my horizons intellectually and as an activist.

Q: What drew you to sex industry related work? What was the call for you?

A: Looking back, on the street that I was raised on, just after I left home for university, there was a ‘gay brothel’ that was raided from the Vice Squad in my home city of Bristol and my mom sent me a news clipping of the story. So, these were basically my neighbours who’d been arrested in a crackdown on drugs and prostitution in my city. Often times the laws cracking down on brothels are often policing people who are working together for safety. So it’s an excuse, so that the police can be seen as being tough on immorality. Also, when I was 16 I was on the BBC program, the Big Questions. So that was 9 years ago now and they were talking about if brothels should be legalized and I spoke up and I said that I supported decriminalization in solidarity with the two women speakers, and one of them was from the International Union of Sex Workers. The responses were moralist, right-wing. I ended up bumping into one of the speakers at the end of my street and I stopped her and said ‘hey you were on the Big Questions’ and I really remember the look of terror on her face. She thought I was going to stigmatize her or attack her for being an open sex worker. And I said, no I was one of the people how supported you. So basically, the poor diverse neighborhood where I grew up in the Southwest of England, sex workers were my friends and neighbors, they weren’t this ‘other’ identity. So, for me I took that forward when I went into university and I began my academic career looking at why we have this binary between them and us. People who sell sex are exactly the same as us. We are all sex workers in a sense. We are all selling services. My peers are engaging in incidental sex work, and that blurs the boundaries between ‘them’ and ‘us.’

Q: The last thing you laughed about?

A: I have a game that’s called Top2Bottom, which is the gay version of ‘Cards Against Humanity.’ It’s really fun. There is this one card I always laugh at. The answer card is ‘AIDS Face’ and I’m in stitches about it. When I was diagnosed, my doctor made that face at me and he said ‘don’t worry, people don’t get this face [makes face] any more because the medications have improved things so much.’ So, that card always makes me laugh.

Q: What’s your favourite food?

A: Olives, especially in a dirty martini. Q: That’s a bloody condiment!

Q: Your current project or pursuit?

A: At the moment I’m working on an article looking at the legal implications of new HIV meds for a special edition on consent in the journal of criminal law. So, looking into whether someone can consent to having bareback sex with someone who is positive, in light of the research that says that if you’re on medication you can’t transmit it, so why do we keep the legislation around transmission. My partner and I are participants in the PARTNER study, and they found zero cases of HIV transmission across 58,000 acts of condomless sex between serodiscordant couples. There is a debate within NHS about funding PrEP as well. It has big implications for sex workers as well. So much advocacy has been around gay and bisexual men but these issues are really important for sex workers.

Q: What’s your biggest regret?

A: I wish that I had been more of an ally to sex workers, trans people, migrants, people of color, people living with HIV, when I was younger. I wish I had been more active in challenging stigma before it hit me personally. The message I’d like to send is that if you have privilege and you’re not in these groups that are stigmatized, it can so easily be you or someone you know and actually these are people who you should care about. They are your friends and neighbours.

Q: Facebook or Twitter?

A: Well I went to a lecture last month by sociologist Bev Skeggs and she was talking about how Facebook collects user information, and basically sells high-end consumer goods to ‘high value’ users but sells debt to ‘low value’ users. It reinforces class inequality. And they are even tracking you when you’re not on the App. So I uninstalled the Facebook App and now I only use Twitter. Q: You don’t use Whatsapp? Facebook bought Whatsapp. A: Really!? Q: Yeah, it’s now part of their ‘family of companies’…data harvesters! A: And every website that has the Facebook logo is tracking you. Q: So, Twitter then [laughter]?

Q: What challenges you the most about your sex work or related work?

A: Being raised by a single mom on benefits, I’ve always been a feminist and class conscious, but at the same time as a man I’ve benefited from male privilege and patriarchy, so the difficulty comes in balancing my critique of sex worker and trans exclusionary feminisms with my belief in giving women a greater platform. So, that’s often an intellectual challenge I come up against. For me the best solution for that has been to use queer theory and understanding as a vocal queer person I experience some of the same patriarchy and heterosexism, so goals are intersecting and unified. Homophobia and misogyny are two sides of the same coin, especially when it comes to toxic masculinity and issues of suppressing marginalized people. That’s how I square the circle as a feminist man. Q: Yes, and no need to square the circle, we need circles, but your level of introspection outstrips most humans!

Q: Favourite Movie?

A: Alien, I absolutely love Sigourney Weaver. She was amazing in it.

Q: And the last time you cried?

A: The last time I had an argument with my boyfriend. Relationships can be hard at times.

Q: Cat or dog person?

A: I love all animals but I’m allergic to cats. I’m definitely a dog person. Me and my boyfriend dog sat for Alex Feis-Bryce who you interviewed a few weeks ago!

Q: Who understands you?

A: My boyfriend.

Q: What’s the last book or article you read?

A: I actually borrowed this from Alex: ‘Sex workers unite: a history of the movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk.’ Q: Does he know you have it, or is he going to find out here on the blog? A: Yeah he knows. Q: Oh, too bad [Laughter].

Q: Childhood Fear?

A: I used to be a surfer kid and would go down to Cornwall every summer and even though there’s nothing that can kill you in the oceans around Britain, I used to be afraid of sharks while I was on my surfboard. Which is funny because I love sharks now and I use it as a symbol for irrational fears, like those around HIV transmission. You’re more likely to get hit by a car on the way to the beach than get bitten by a shark! Q: Interesting. Let me guess, you watched Jaws as a kid, right? A: Yeah! Another great movie.

Q: What did your last text message say?

A: It was to my mom ‘Thank you for the lovely text a few days ago [mom’s name]. Happy Birthday! We are dog-sitting. Can’t wait to see more of your art exhibit.’

Q: One thing that your work or existence is aimed to do for the sex industry?

A: I think the main thing I’m interest in doing is breaking down binaries and challenging the dichotomies between us and them. The idea that sex workers are some stereotypical other…a marginalized and victimized group. There are issues of victimization and problems that the community experiences, but we need to stop thinking in such binary terms. So, feminist and queer theories are great at breaking those things down. They are more like us than we realize. Q: Yeah, ‘they’ are us!

Q: The meaning of life in one word?

A: So, part of me wants to reject the premise of your question. Q: Of course you do. Damn academics [laughter]! A: There is no objective meaning of life, but for me it’s Pleasure!

Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?

A: I’ve always liked the idea of becoming an elected member of parliament, if only to queer the House of Commons by attending important votes in full drag. I’ve said so many controversial things publicly now that I don’t think that I would ever be qualified for that, but there’s too many men in suits and it doesn’t really represent the population.

Q: Three portable items that you would have with you while stranded on a desert island?

A: How long am I on the island for? Q: Well you’re stranded. Between you and Rosie I’m starting to regret adding this question. A: [Laughter] Okay, well I’ll definitely take

(1) a sex toy, like a vibrator or a dildo or something like that, because a boy’s got needs.

(2) Then I would take a full medical kit with my insulin and HIV meds, and plasters if I cut myself on a rock. So that’s sex and health covered.

And I’d take (3) a truck full of wine!

This interview was first posted on the Sex Work Research Hub website, available here: https://sexworkresearchhub.org/2017/11/30/21-questions-with-phd-student-max-morris/

#SexWork #HIV #Research #Activism

[weekendwarriorblog]

WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND August 30, 2019  - Labor Day Blahs

I was trying to decide whether to do one of these this week, because it’s Labor Day weekend, and this is likely to be a particularly short column because I HAVEN’T SEEN ANYTHING! In fact, I’m not even doing my regular Box Office Preview column over at The Beat, because there just doesn’t seem to be much point to it. There used to be a time when studios would release movies over the four-day holiday weekend but not so much anymore, and this is a particularly weak Labor Day with no new movies opening in 1,000 theaters or more. No, it’s more about reexpanding movies already in theaters like Spider-Man: Far from Home in order to try to make more money before the summer is over.  But if this is boring, you can also read my 2019 Summer Box Office wrap-up over at The Beat.

The only new “wide” release is BH Tilt’s latest release DON’T LET GO, a thriller directed by Jacob Estes (Rings) and starring David Oyelowo and Storm Reid from A Wrinkle in Time, and it’s not even opening in 1,000 theaters. It might not even get into the top 10.  Apparently, BH Tilt is now going as “OTL Releasing” but I don’t think this movie has as much buzz as Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade, released by Blumhouse’s distribution branch in June 2018 to make $4.7 million opening weekend and $14.4 million total domestic. I don’t see Don’t Let Goopening that big as its plot is far vaguer, and I think if this make more than $4 million over the four-day holiday, it would be considered a coup since it’s only playing in less than 1,000 theaters. Who knows? I might even go see it on a lark.

Interestingly, there are two foreign language films from other countries (because as hard as it might be to believe, they speak other languages in other countries!) getting moderate releases this weekend: Sujeeth’s Bollywood action-thriller SAAHO (Yash Raj Films) and from Mexico, Ariel Winograd’s Spanish language TOD@S CAEN released by Lionsgate’s LatinX division Pantelion Films. I will be the first to admit that I’m not the best person to gauge interest in either movie because they’re not my communities, so I rarely see much marketing for these films.

Opening on Thursday, Saaho actually looks pretty cool, and if I can find three hours of time over Labor Day, I might actually check it out. It’s being released in three languages versions: Hindi, Telugu and Tamil, all with English subtitles, and that seems very groundbreaking, and it will also be in IMAX theaters. This could be another hit for Yash Raj ala the “Dhoom” series—Dhoom 3 opened with $3.4 million in 239 theaters in 2013 -- and possibly the studio’s widest release since 2018’s Thugs of Hindostan.

Check out the Hindi trailer below:

(Oddly, Saaho was supposed to be released on India’s Independence Day August 15, but then was pushed back to American Labor Day. Bollywood films tend to get day and date releases nationwide to avoid piracy.)

Tod@s Caen (pronounced “todos caen” – don’t yell at me! It wasn’t my idea!) stars Omar Chapparo, the hot Mexican star from Pantelion’s hits No manches Frida and its sequel plus How to Be a Latin Lover. No manches Frida grossed about $11.5 million after its $4.6 million opening over Labor Day in 2016 while the sequel opened slightly bigger this past March but grossed less. Latin Lover was a huge crossover success for Chapparo and Pantelion, grossing $32.1 million.  This is likely to be more in the former category and opening in 365 theaters, it probably can make around $3 million or more.

STREAMING AND CABLE

There aren’t many movies I can recommend, but at least I can recommend the new Netflix series THE DARK CRYSTAL: THE AGE OF RESISTANCE, which is a prequel to the 1982 Jim Henson movie that was made quite lovingly using the same puppeteering techniques as well as some of the same designers from the original movie. Plus the series has an absolutely brilliant voice cast that includes Taron Egerton, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anya Taylor-Joy, Alicia Vikander, Sigourney Weaver, Natalie Dormer, Lena Headey, Jason Isaacs, Theo James, Mark Strong, Toby Jones, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Simon Pegg and many, many more. As someone who wasn’t really a fan of the original movie, I found myself quite wrapped up in this series, having watched the first five episodes so far, and I think fans and non-fans alike will dig it.

You can read my interview with the writers over at The Beat.

(Netflix is also releasing a movie called Falling In Love, starring Christina Millan and Adam Demos... but that title... I just can’t!

Amazon Prime will begin streaming its own fantasy series, the very different Carnival Row, starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne, on Friday. It’s a steampunk noir crime series in which Bloom is an inspector trying to solve some Jack the Ripper style murders of the city’s fae and puck population, fantastical creatures who act as the city’s slave labor. I didn’t enjoy this nearly as much as it just doesn’t feel like my kind of thing even though I do love Victorian era stuff usually. I think it just hasn’t found its footing in the couple episodes I’ve seen. I also interviewed a few of the actors which will be on The Beat later today.

LIMITED RELEASES

Okay, I definitely lied as I’ve also seen Kim Farrant’s ANGEL OF MINE (Lionsgate), an amazing psychological drama starring Noomi Rapace as a woman whose daughter died but whom thinks that her neighbor’s daughter is actually her own. Also starring Yvonne Strahovski, Luke Evans and Richard Roxburgh, this mostly Australian film is actually a little like the recent After the Weddingin terms of the strangeness of its premise but it’s handled more like a thriller and Rapace gives another stirring performance. It will be in select cities starting Friday, and I recommend checking it out, especially if, like me, you’re a long-time fan of Ms. Rapace.

Never got around to seeing Gavin Hood’s new movie OFFICIAL SECRETS (IFC Films), because I’m such a fan of Keira Knightley, and in this one she plays Katharine Gun, a British intelligence specialist handling classified information in the lead-up to the Iraq War in 2003. She receives a shocking memo from the NSA seeking help in collecting information on UN Security Council members to blackmail them into supporting an invasion of Iraq.

Hannah Pearl Utt’s BEFORE YOU KNOW IT (1091) stars the co-writer/director as stage manager Rachel Gurner who lives in her childhood apartment with her sister Jackie (Jen Tullock), father Mel (Mandy Patinkin) and preteen niece Dodge (Oon Yaffe) above the theater they own and operate. After a tragedy, the two sisters find out their mother, long thought dead (Judith Light) is still alive working on soap operas and they need to come to terms with that. The movie also stars Mike Colter and Alec Baldwin and it opens in select cities.

Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst also has a new movie as director, a thriller called THE FANATIC (Quiver Distribution), starring Devon Sawa from Final Destination and John Travolta. Travolta plays movie fan Moose who is obsessed with his favorite action hero Hunter Dunbar, played by Sawa. With the help of his paparazzi photographer friend Leah (Ana Golja), Moose tries to find Moose as his interactions with the celebrity become more dangerous as Moose becomes more obsessed.

Liam Hemsworth from “The Hunger Games” stars in Malik Bader’s Killerman (Blue Fox Studios) as a New York money launderer who wants to find answers after waking up with no memory and with millions in cash and drugs, as he’s chased by a team of dirty cops. The movie also stars Emory Cohen, Diane Guerrero (“Orange is the New Black”) and Suraj Sharma from Life of Pi, and it’s getting a small theatrical release in select cities.

Now playing at New York’s Film Forum is Marjoline Boonstra’s doc The Miracle of the Little Prince (Film Movement) which looks at the sustained global popularity of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince in the eight decades since it was first published.

Opening in IMAX theaters Thursday and then nationwide Sept 6 is the Chinese animated film Ne Zha (WELL Go) about a young boy with superpowers who must decide between good and evil.

There’s a couple other things but I’m so behind for the weekend that I’m done.

REPERTORY

A few rep things to mention before we get to the regular theaters. The Wachowski’s original The Matrix will be celebrating its 20thanniversary with a rerelease across the nation in Dolby theaters, so I’ll be seeing that Thursday night. The Alamo in Brooklyn is also screening a special 70mm print of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and that’s where I’ll be on Saturday.

METROGRAPH (NYC):

On Friday, the Metrograph will begin screening a 35mm print of Eric Roehmer’s 1986 film Le Rayon Vert, but there lots of series continiung through the weekend including the “Shaw Sisters” series which is fairly interesting so far. Angie Chen’s Maybe It’s Love (1984) plays again on Thursday evening –that’s a weird one—and Ann Hui’s Starry Is the Night (1988) will play tomorrow and Sunday and a few others. If you want to see a weird and really bad but very funny horror film, you have to check out Angela Mak’s The Siamese Twins on Saturday night, plus there’s a few more I haven’t seen. The Metrograph has also expanded its “Godard/Karina Late Nights” series so that you can see Alphaville (1965) and Pierrot Le Fou (1965), both beloved classics, through the weekend, as well as this weekend’s offering to the series, 1962’s Vivre Sa Vie. This week’s Late Nites at Metrograph  is Leo Carax’sHoly Motors (2012) and Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue but you can also see the late Japanese filmmaker’s excellent Paprika (2006) through the weekend, as well. This weekend’s Playtime: Family Matinees  is another Ray Harryhausen classic, 1963’s Jason and the Argonauts.

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

The New Bev ends its month of mostly showing Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood before returning to repertory fare next week, but its Weds. matinee is the 1953 Western comedy Calamity Jane, this weekend’s KIDDEE MATINE is Disney’s The Ugly Dachsund (1966) starring Dean Jones, and then on Monday, you have two chances to see Michael Mann’s 1995 crime-thriller Heat, although you’ll have to see it at 9:30AM cause the usual 2pm matinee is sold out.

AERO  (LA):

Thursday begins a “Sellers and Southern Double Feature” series (?) of Dr. Strangelove (1964) with The Magic Christian (1969), Friday is a double feature of 1999’s Office Space with Kevin Smith’s Clerks(1994) and then on Saturday is a Mad Max TRIPLE Feature of the first three movies: Mad Max (1979), The Road Warrior (1982) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). Sunday is a special screening of Thom Anderson’s 2003 film Los Angeles Plays Itself, and Monday begins Aero’s “Heptember Matinees” series as in Katherine Hepburn, and it kicks off with 1940’s The Philadelphia Story.

FILM FORUM (NYC):

Marty and Jay’s Double Features runs through next Thursday and there are one or two of these double features every day with a mix of classics and esoteric and rare stuff. You can click on the link to see all that’s playing.

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER (NYC):

“Make My Day: American Movies in the Age of Reagan” continues up at Lincoln Center through Tuesday with highlights like Robocop, David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, Scorsese’s The King of Comedy and The Last Temptation of Christ, Conan the Barbarian, First Blood and more.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

This week’s Weekend Classics: Staff Picks Summer 2019 is the original, classic King Kong, while Waverly Midnights: Staff Picks Summer 2019 is Office Space (1999) and Russ Meyers’ Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). Late Night Favorites: Summer 2019 is Aliens, Suspiria and Eraserhead, just in case you missed any of those the dozen other times they’ve been shown.

BAM CINEMATEK (NYC):

Saturday’s “Beyond the Canon” offering is a double feature of Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Wadja from 2012 and Wim Wender’s 1974 film Alice in the Cities. BAM is also showing the second part of its “Programmers Notebook: On Memory”  with offerings like Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Christopher Nolan’s Memento, Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (of course) and more!

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

“See It Big! 70mm” will screen Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One on Friday and Saturday evenigs but ALSO, they’re showing one of my favorite comedies It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) in 70mm on Saturday afternoon.

ROXY CINEMA (NYC)

Tonight and Sunday, the Roxy is showing the 1965 film Juliet of the Spirits. On Saturday, the theater is showing Agnes Varda’s 1965 film Le Bonheur.

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART  (LA):

This week’s Friday night midnight film is Miyazaki’s Spirited Away.

This weekend, the Egyptianin L.A. is taken over by the Cinecon Classic Film Festivaland you can find out what that consists at the official site.

Next week, New Line releases It: Chapter Two, which I probably will have seen by the time you read this but probably will still be under embargo.

[cinemaglow]

The Beatles- George or maybe Ringo

The Who- Pete

The Monkees- Mike for tv personas, as far as the irl people I think Peter

Pink Floyd- I like them all but maybe Rick?

Moody Blues- JUSTIN

Led Zep- all of them except jimmy page

The Stones- Mick Taylor

Yes- Steve Howe

Genesis- TONY

The Byrds- Gene Clark

Queen- Brian I guess

Canned Heat- Alan Wilson

Bee Gees- ALL

ELP- Carl

King Crimson- Bill

ELO- Bev

Wigwam- Pekka Pohjola

The Strawbs- Blue Weaver

Rush- hmmm I'll go with Neil

Fanny- Alice or maybe June

The Kinks- Dave

I think the common theme here is Pretty and/or Possibly Autistic

Would you mind assisting my very scientific study by listing your band-favs?

So I’ve been pondering over what the favs you have say about you, trying different algorithms to explain and finding common threads and such… and I’m curious!

One per band and it doesn’t have to be the bands I’ve listed I’ll just go first to show you what I mean (and I love listing stuff)! some favs of mine:

Beatles- George Harrison

Who- John Entwistle

Monkees- Mike Nesmith

Pink Floyd- Syd Barrett

Blur- Graham Coxon

Moody Blues- Justin Hayward

Led Zeppelin- John Paul Jones

Stone Roses- John Squire

Rolling Stones- Charlie Watts

Oasis- Liam Gallagher

(So far I’ve concluded being called John and/or being a grumpy guitarist gets my attention but not sure what that means)

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OK YALL BUT A MEN IN BLACK/REDDIE/IT CROSSOVER WOULD BE SO PERF YOU CANT EVEN DENY

- Richie and Bev as J and K

- Eddie as Dr. Weaver

- I MEAN PENNYWISE IS A GOD DAMN ALIEN C O M E O N

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

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Just look at our lineup (I’m in a book with Chuck Palahniuk... I don’t feel cool enough for this)

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Richard Chizmar

Confessions of a Professional Day Dreamer by Jonathan Maberry

What is Writing and Why Write Horror by John Skipp

Tribal Layers by Gene O’Neill

Bake That Cake: One Writer’s Method by Joe R. Lansdale and Kasey Lansdale

Ah-Ha: Beginning to End with Chuck Palahniuk and Michael Bailey (Discussing the Spark of Creativity)

They Grow in the Shadows: Exploring the Roots of a Horror Story by Todd Keisling

Sell Your Script, Keep Your Soul and Beware of Sheep in Wolves' Clothing by Paul Moore

The Cult of Constraint (or To Outline or Not) by Yvonne Navarro

Zombies, Ghosts and Vampires─Oh My! by Kelli Owen

The Many Faces of Horror: Craft Techniques by Richard Thomas

Giving Meaning to the Macabre by Rachel Autumn Deering

The Horror Writer’s Ultimate Toolbox by Tim Waggoner

Sarah Pinborough Interview by Marie O’Regan

Conveying Character by F. Paul Wilson

Sympathetic Characters Taste Better: Creating Empathy in Horror Fiction by Brian Kirk

Virtue & Villainy: The Importance of Character by Kealan Patrick Burke

How to write Descriptions in a story by Mercedes Yardley

“Don’t Look Now, There’s a Head in That Box!” She Ejaculated Loudly (or Creating Effective Dialogue in Horror Fiction) by Elizabeth Massie

Point of View by Lisa Mannetti

What Came First the Monster or the Plot? In Conversation with Stephen Graham Jones by Vince A. Liaguno

Building Suspense by David Wellington

Conveying Horror by Ramsey Campbell

Unveiling Theme Through Plot: An Analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” by Stephanie M. Wytovich

Interview with Clive Barker by Tim Chizmar

World Building (Building a terrifying world) by Kevin J. Anderson

Speak Up: The Writer’s Voice by Robert Ford

Writing for a Better World by Christopher Golden

Shaping the Ideas: Getting Things from Your Head to the Paper or on Screen. Interview with Steve Niles, Mack Garris, Heather Graham, Mark Savage, and Maria Alexander by Del Howison

On Research by Bev Vincent

Editing Through Fear: Cutting and Stitching Stories by Jessica Marie Baumgartner

Leaping into the Abyss by Greg Chapman

Edit Your Anthology in Your Basement for Fun and Profit! . . . or Not by Tom Monteleone

When It’s Their World: Writing for the Themed Anthology by Lisa Morton

Roundtable Interview by John Palisano

The Tale of the Perfect Submissions by Jess Landry

Turning the Next Page: Getting Started with the Business of Writing by James Chambers