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Aston Martin Lagonda 1989. 📸 Bring a Trailer. - source Rétro Passion Automobiles.
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The Most Beloved Adventure Novel in Thailand
If you’re Thai, you already know what I’m going to say: เพชรพระอุมา, “Petch Pra Uma,” or “Diamonds of the Goddess Uma.” A jungle adventure yarn written over 25 years, from 1964 to 1989, it is a good candidate for the world’s longest novel. And to call it inspired by H. Rider Haggard’s “King Solomon’s Mines” is a bit generous: the basic plot comes from that book, at least to start with, before it went off in its own strange directions guided by local Thai folklore. The 19th Century Adventure novelist H. Rider Haggard is widely loved in Thailand, and it is surprising that a 19th Century British colonial author is still such a significant influence.
The story of “the Goddess Uma’s Diamonds” begins when a he-man jungle explorer skilled in hunting and hiking, Raipin Praiwan, is contracted to help discover the Emerald City in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Along the way, a young hill tribesman asks to be his expedition’s servant, only to discover that this young servant is in fact, the rightful outcast prince of the City of Emeralds. So far, this sounds absolutely identical to H. Rider Haggard’s “King Solomon’s Mines” transplanted to Asia, but where the jungle action in the novel gets strange is that it very quickly veered into the folkloric and paranormal of Southeast Asia. Haggard flirted with the fantastic in King Solomon’s Mines, but this one has a full on love affair with it. When seeking the Emerald City, Raipin Praiwan encounters forest spirits, ghosts, and intelligent, red-eyed glowing ape creatures able to use swords.
Or at least that was the first story arc. The novel was originally published in newspapers, but it was so widely popular that it kept on going well past the natural ending. To this day, Thai librarians have trouble keeping it on the shelves, and there have been numerous film and television adaptations in the Elephant Kingdom. To read the entire book in collected form now requires over 48 volumes.
One amusing part that surprises me is that it contains explicit and very casual descriptions of cannabis use. I knew....but it hadn’t quite sunk in until I read this...that the bong or water-pipe was a Thai invention (more accurately, rendered as baung).
The funny part about this book is that Thai nerds love it and base their lives on it, getting a model rifle and machete just like the manly Raipin Praiwan’s. It’s exactly like, when lots of Western nerds get money, they buy a Walther PPK and an Aston Martin to be as cool as their hero, James Bond. I cannot help but think that if you are a cool, exciting guy like 007, you could drive any reasonably stylish car and make it look cool, it doesn’t have to be that specific one....but remember, we are deep in “cargo cult” thinking.
Unfortunately, it is known that the author of the books is unpleasant to online fanfic authors, which leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth equivalent to learning your favorite actor is a scientologist.
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The signs and their Eurovision winners
Another year, another six new names to add to the list!
(As usual, special thanks to @ignatius-servatius for helping me out with this. Man straight up emailed Riva's manager to get info and believe it our not, they responded, the absolute legends 😂)
♈ Aries: Agnetha Fältskog (ABBA, 1974), Ard Weeink (Teach-In, 1975) Lee Sheridan (Brotherhood of Man, 1976), Elisabeth Andreassen (Bobbysocks, 1985), Céline Dion (1988), Nenad Nakić (Riva, 1989), Linda Martin (1992), Rolf Løvland (Secret Garden, 1995) Katrina Leskanich (Katrina and the Waves, 1997), Nils Olsen (Olsen Brothers, 2000), Sergei Morgun (2XL, 2001) Duncan Laurence (2019)
♉ Taurus: Teddy Scholten (1959), Jacqueline Boyer (1960), Jørgen Ingmann (1963), Björn Ulvaeus (ABBA, 1974), Marie Myriam (1977), Johnny Logan (1980 and 1987), Jay Aston (Bucks Fizz, 1981), Emilija Kokić, Dalibor Musap AND Zvonimir Zrilić (All Riva, 1989), Paul Harrington (1994), Alexander Rybak (2009), Victoria de Angelis (Måneskin, 2021), Oleh Psiuk and MC KylymMen (both Kalush Orchestra, 2022)
♊ Gemini: Grethe Ingmann (1963), Anne-Marie David (1973), Salomé (Spain, 1969), Koos Versteeg (Teach-In, 1975), Kaido Põldma (2XL, 2001), Ruslana (2004), Lena Meyer-Landrut (2010), Eldar Qasımov (Ell & Nikki, 2011), Måns Zelmerlöw (2015)
♋ Cancer: John Gaasbeek (Teach-In, 1975), Toto Cutugno (1990), Amen and OX (both Lordi, 2006)
♌ Leo: Isabelle Aubret (1962), Massiel (1968), Vicky Leandros (1972), Per and Richard Herrey (Herreys, 1984), Bobby Gee (Bucks Fizz, 1981), Marie N (2002)
♍ Virgo: Dana (1970), Boško Colić (Riva, 1989), Carola (1991), Fionnuala Sherry and Hans Frederik-Jacobsen (Secret Garden and Co, 1995), Indrek Soom (2XL, 2001), Nigar Jamal (Ell & Nikki, 2011), Jamala (2016)
♎ Libra: France Gall (1965), Udo Jürgens (1966), Séverine (1971), Chris de Wolde (Teach-In, 1975), Smulik Bilu (Milk and Honey, 1979), Sandra Kim (1986), Åsa Jinder (Secret Garden and Co, 1995) Vince de la Cruz (Katrina and the Waves, 1997), Charlotte Nilsson (1999), Loreen (2012 and 2023), Ethan Torchio (Måneskin, 2021), Sasha Tab and Vitalii Duzhyk (Kalush Orchestra, 2022)
♏ Scorpio: Jean-Claude Pascale (1961), Frida Boccara (France 1969), Lulu (UK, 1969), Anni-Frid Lyngstad (ABBA, 1974), Rudi Nijhuis (Teach-In, 1975), Reuven Erez (Alphabeta, 1978), Nicole (1982), Corinne Hermès (1983), Louis Herrey (Herreys, 1984), Tanel Padar (2001), Marija Šerifović (2007), Conchita Wurst (2014)
♐ Sagittarius: Corry Brokken (1957), André Claveau (1958), Gigliola Cinquetti (1964), Benny Andersson (ABBA, 1974), Martin Lee, Nicky Stevens AND Sandra Stevens (all Brotherhood of Man, 1976), Reuven Gvirtz (Milk and Honey, 1979), Mike Nolan (Bucks Fizz, 1981), Charlie McGettigan (1994), Eimear Quinn (1996), Kimberley Rew (Katrina and the Waves, 1997), Sertab Erener (2003)
♑ Capricorn: Esther Tzuberi (Alphabeta, 1978), Gali Altari (1979), Aleksandra Kalafatović (Riva, 1989) Dima Bilan (2008), Salvador Sobral (2017), Damiano David and Thomas Raggi (both Måneskin, 2021), Ihor Didenchuk (Kalush Orchestra, 2022)
♒ Aquarius: Yehuda Tamir (Milk and Honey, 1979), Hanne Krogh (Bobbysocks, 1985), Niamh Kavanagh (1993), Gunnhild Tvinnereim (Secret Garden and Co, 1995), Dana International (1998), Dave Benton (2001), Helena Paparizou (2005), Mr Lordi and Kita (both Lordi, 2006), Netta Barzilai (2018), Tymofii Muzychuk (Kalush Orchestra, 2022)**
♓ Pisces: Lys Assia (1956), Sandie Shaw (1967), Lenny Kuhr (Netherlands, 1969), Getty Kaspers (Teach-In, 1975), Yizhar Cohen (1978), Cheryl Baker (Bucks Fizz, 1981) Jørgen Olsen (Olsen Brothers, 2000), Lauri Pihlap (2XL, 2001) Awa (Lordi, 2006), Emmelie de Forest (2013)
UNKNOWN: Lisa Gold-Rubin*, Itzhak Okev and Nehama Shutan* (all Alphabeta, 1978), Alex Cooper (Katrina and the Waves, 1997)
*I did uncover some information regarding Lisa Gold-Rubin and Nehama Shutan which would make them Pisces and Leo respectively, however I was unable to confirm whether they were the actual Eurovision performers or whether they just happened to share the same names. The lead for Gold-Rubin is stronger... but still unconfirmed 😅
**Some sites list Tymofii's birthday as being in September, however his actual Ukrainian Wikipedia page shows it as February 6th, so that's what I'm going with
Corrections/additional information welcome!
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So you know that ask that one anonymous did awhile ago about beloved running away and Terry never being able to find her? I have one regarding that if you don’t mind hehe, imagine if it were only TWO YEARS LATER (so still 80’s Terry) he’s walking through a park alone, and he sees his sweet, beautiful beloved sitting by herself as well. The two look to one another at the same time, tears fill beloved’s eyes, she runs to him, and the two throw their arms around each other. What else would happen?
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There's a park near Griffith Observatory, not far from where his estate grounds stood, and a dusty trail that winds up, to a pinnacle overlooking the city skyline on a hill, riddled with shrubberies and the heat scorched flora, relatively remote, an Aston Martin with tinted windows is regularly parked by the side of the cliff at dusk, and for two years now, one Terry Silver takes a walk alone up and down the route. Sometimes he smokes, sometimes he doesn't --- he vowed to quit that shit since 1985, since approximately John and he fell out, but it wasn't the lack of discipline and willpower that kept him from it. John liked to smoke too --- a habit Terry got him to indulge in. Quitting tobacco would feel like the end of an era and he didn't want the era to end, not if it was in his power to slow it the fuck down. Command time to go at his allotted pace. Terry sometimes had this acute fear that once the 1989 comes to a close, he would disappear along with the decade itself. Evaporate and no longer be. But, up here? Above LA? Time felt slower and everything smaller. At the tip of his fingers. He could pick a street and cover it with the palm of his hand, like deity. Bribing and paying off the uniformed security detour to let him walk out here at midnight was no hassle. They know him by name, really. Mr. Silver. Night shift starting from eight in the evening, until six o'clock in the morning and Terry knows when to come to escape the buzz of the shiny city grid.
Often, he just stands there, at the precipice of the mountain.
It was the second year anniversary of you leaving, or rather, running, coincidentally, right after Johnny slipped off radar and refused to accept his calls, even though Terry immediately tracked him down to a homeless shelter somewhere in some downtown dump in San Diego. Terry went to John, but it was like talking to a brick wall. Stubborn, prideful, difficult, as always. Had to practically crawl through the window of the room to speak to him. Finding you proved to a challenge in comparison Terry hasn't yet encountered. He fired several of his people on the job for gross incompetence. He prided himself on being able to get what he wants, whenever he wants it --- or rather, who, yet it is like the ground opened up to swallow you and you were beyond his reach purely to spite him --- a thing beyond his control. He went cold turkey on the coke soon after. His Sensei back in Korea once told him and John there's nothing a man cannot conceive with sheer willpower. People get themselves out of a wheelchair with willpower. They survive wars. Crawl out of a foxhole. Terry Silver would purge himself on willpower. On discipline. Thing is, he suspected it would come with major side-effects. People usually go on Neurotin while in the state of addiction and withdrawal, meanwhile, Terry was absolutely clean, seeking to dominate his own body to function how he wanted it to. He was as clean as the pitch blackness of the skyline. He supposed he wanted to do things his own way and not someone else's way.
Sometimes, he hallucinated, though.
He spots you sitting on a nearby rock, legs practically hanging in the abyss, framed against the vastness of the shimmering vista down below, shadowed and dark, eyes meeting. You could very well be a carved, rugged statue at the edge of the cliff and the steep hiking trail, presiding over nothingness. If Terry Silver had no sense to mistake an illusion for reality and approach you, he knew he'd tumble down the mountainside and to his death, but he supposed this too was an act of discipline. Him proving a point to himself. Testing his mettle. He contemplated buying out the whole place, privatizing the observatory, so those tourists and their bullshit equipment and cars wouldn't disrupt the peace, but for now Terry comes out here and he watches, hoping to see and spot the imaginary illusions of a patterns in the face of the bare stones around him. Counts down each whiff of smoke hanging in the air he inhales before chucking the crumbled Cohiba down the precipice under his feet, extinguishing it on his own skin and feeling no pain, just as he was trained to do, adjusting his golden Rolex. It is a finely tuned nightly ritual he indulges in after he comes back from the Dynatox offices downtown, forcing himself to tick like immaculate clockwork, balancing himself out. The next time he turns his gaze towards the spot, you're no longer there. He slides a stack of money to each guard at the gate and he drives home.
Terry doesn't find you in the darkness of the night.
You're mine, he whispers to the blackness, we are one and I'll find you.
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Newey recalls the last-lap defeat which left Vettel absolutely distraught | RaceFans Round-up
In the round-up: Red Bull’s chief technical officer Adrian Newey describes how Sebastian Vettel reacted to his famous last-lap defeat by Jenson Button in the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix.
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Newey recalls podium that hurt Vettel and inspired team
Vettel took pole and led all but two laps of the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix. He began the final lap in the lead, but a mistake halfway around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve allowed McLaren’s Jenson Button through to nab the win
“Jenson beat him. And he was absolutely distraught at that because he felt he had not driven as well as he could have done, and therefore he had lost what should have been a dominant win,” Newey recalled in a Red Bull podcast.
The defeat made a big impact on Vettel as he pursued his second world championship, Newey explained. “Everybody’s packing up the computers and everything in the engineering office around him while he just sat there going through the data with his engineer, going through the television feeds and stuff. He wanted to understand what he could do better should that situation arise again.
“I think that dedication, that played through into the team as well. That meant that then the team often prepared to put in that extra mile because they saw his work and commitment that he was prepared to put in.”
Alonso banks on needing extra engine
Fernando Alonso has told his new Aston Martin team to plan on needing an extra power unit this year, The Objective reports.
While the 2023 F1 calendar has expanded to a record 23 rounds this year, and could increase to 24 if China’s cancelled event is replaced or reinstated, drivers remain limited to a maximum of three power units. Using a fourth will trigger an automatic grid penalty.
Alonso got through six Renault power units over the course of 22 events at Alpine last year due to various failures. However he is understood to have been impressed by the performance of the well-used Mercedes power unit in his car when he made his first appearance for Aston Martin during the post-season test at Yas Marina. Alonso will be powered by the three-pointed star this year for the first time since he drove for McLaren in 2007.
Hamilton pays tribute to Ken Block
Following the death of famous rally driver Ken Block in a snowmobile crash, seven-times F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton joined those paying tribute to the late American on social media.
“Today I received news of the loss of a dear friend. I am devastated to hear of Ken Block’s passing. He was such an amazing person, always lived life to the fullest,” he wrote.
“I remember our first time working together and how positive he was. So much talent behind the wheel. Years ago we had an amazing time heli skiing and snowboarding in Canada. We held so much respect for one another. He will truly be missed and my thoughts and prayers go to his beautiful family. Gone too soon. Rest in peace, Ken.”
R-ace GP reveals FRMEC line-up
French team R-ace GP have revealed six drivers for their four-car attack on the Formula Regional Middle East Championship.
Two of the drivers, Levente Revesz and Formula 4 graduate Nikhil Bohra, will do all five rounds of the series which runs through January and February.
Francesco Braschi and Martinius Stenshorne will share the third car, with Braschi doing the first two rounds and Nicolas Todt’s protege Stenshorne doing the remaining three.
In the fourth car, British F4 runner-up Matias Zagazeta will do rounds one to three then hand over to ADAC F4 runner-up Tim Tramnitz.
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Born on this day in 1989: Future IndyCar race-winner Graham Rahal, son of multiple IndyCar champion and Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal
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The Aston Martin Lagonda combined striking styling with opulent, club-like leather interior, and state-of-the-art instrumentation. It was the first production car in the world to use computer management and a digital instrument panel. The development cost for the electronics alone on the Lagonda came to four times as much as the budget for the whole car. These hand-built Lagondas were amongst the most expensive saloons in the world. The only other "production" cars to approach its lofty price tag were the Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit/Silver Spur and Bentley Mulsanne. A total of 645 chassis were built before the end of production in 1989. Each car required 2,200 man-hours to build and only about 25 were built per year for the U.S. Market. 3304 is an Exceptionally Original Example, with Just 8,200 Original Miles from Over 30 Years of Ownership 1984 Aston Martin Lagonda Series II VIN: SCFDL01S5ETL13304 Engine No. V/580/3304/LFA Built: November 1983 Selling Today! Exclusively at Auction, through @bringatrailer #astonmartin #aston #lagonda #astonmartinlagonda #luxury #automobile #classiccars #driveclassic #driversource (at Houston, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiNXwKvOVv9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Aston Martin Lagonda 1989. ©📸 by Classicmobilia Limited. - source Rétro Passion Automobiles.
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1989 Aston Martin #18 Aston Martin AMR1 racing at Grand Oak Raceway in Forza Motorsport (2023)
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Indiana JonIndiana Jones: Six things to knowes: Six things to know
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Indiana Jones turned archeology into a swashbuckling adventure of snake pits and lost treasures.
As 80-year-old Harrison Ford dons the beat-up fedora and ever-trusty whip for a fifth and final outing in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny", premiering at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, here are six facts about one of the world's best-loved movie heroes:
Born in Hawaii
Fittingly for the globetrotting Indy, whose escapades have taken him from the Himalayas to Shanghai nightclubs, the project was born in Hawaii. It was there, lounging on a Maui beach in 1977, that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg mulled ideas to follow their respective hits, "Star Wars" and "Jaws".
The beach brainstorms would make movie history.
Produced by Lucas and directed by Spielberg, 1981's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was a triumph at the box office and scooped four Oscars.
Two sequels -- "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984) and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989) -- built a legend that has inspired theme parks, video games and mountains of merchandise.
A fourth outing nearly two decades later, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" brought the combined box office takings to nearly $2 billion.
Dog's name
The inspiration behind the character came from both real and imaginary sources.
There was the archeologist Hiram Bingham who discovered Machu Picchu, Tintin creator Herge, and Clint Eastwood's Westerns.
As for the name, Lucas first chose Indiana Smith -- changed to "Jones" by Spielberg -- taking the first part from his Alaskan Malamute pet dog, already the inspiration for Chewbacca in "Star Wars".
Bond without the gadgets
Although Spielberg dreamed of directing a James Bond film, Lucas insisted part of Indy's appeal was that this hero would be a "Bond without the gadgets".
There would be no explosive watches or Aston Martins with ejectable seats -- Indy would triumph with ropes, knives and ingenuity.
He bore all the hallmarks of a classic Lucas-Spielberg character: a geeky hero with a comical, ironic side, whose affairs with women were more complicated than any Bond-style conquests.
Spielberg's comeback
While the Indiana Jones project was brewing, Spielberg was on the back foot after his film, "1941", flopped.
He was also gaining a reputation as a big-spending director who ran overtime and could be tyrannical on set, even leaving two days early from the filming of "Jaws", fearing his team would try to drown him, such was his unpopularity.
Lucas's project marked a career turning point for Spielberg -- proving he could work fast, on time, in budget, and with big success.
Ford not first choice
Spielberg wanted Ford, but Lucas was reluctant to re-use his lead actor from "Star Wars", from which he wanted a break.
Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges and Bill Murray were considered before the spotlight settled on Tom Selleck, but the mustachioed charmer had already signed up for TV detective show "Magnum, PI".
Later, thousands of actresses tried out for the role of Willie in the second film, including Sharon Stone, but it finally went to Kate Capshaw.
Capshaw did not go on to a glittering Hollywood career, but she did become Mrs Spielberg in 1991.
Eye of the cobra
Indy's extreme fear of snakes, or ophidiophobia, has been a frequent plot point.
For the classic scene in which Indy falls into a pit full of the slithering reptiles, Spielberg did not hold back on the props: 6,500 live cobras, plus a few bits of watering hoses.
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With new markets come new modifications
Especially in motor vehicles
Including
Return of rear seats doubling as a bed (debuted in 1989 Citroen XM)
On demand feed for long journeys (debuted in 1979 Lincoln Ghia Mark 1)
Safe-scratch rubber squares (debuted in 1980 Aston Martin Lagonda)
Deep pressure expanding seatbelts (debuted in 1978 Citroen SM)
VR virtual play for long journeys (debuted in 2019 JLR Van Rover (4th Generation))
Plush and pillowy back and Lumbar Support (debuted in 1974 Vauxhall Viva)
Cocoon gravity seats and deep pressure harnesses (debuted in 1997 Mercedes A-class (Europe and Africa), 1983 Cadillac Seville (North America), 1990 Pontiac Trans Sport (Asia), 1994 Lexus LS/GS (Middle East and Japan))
Also, brands like Rover, Citroen and Lotus are saved from bankruptcy because of their popularity with the Jellicle market (it makes BANK!!) and Vauxhall isn’t absorbed by Opel because of continued feline support, honoured by models like the Vauxhall Victoria (1988-2022) Citroen XS (1997-present) Rover Mini Jellicle “kitten” (1994-2014) Lotus Electra/Etcetera (1961-2002, 2017-present) and the JLR Van Rover (1984-present)
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