Lark: Imagine if someone handed you a box full of all the items you have lost throughout your life
Nick: Self-esteem, haven't seen you in years!
Bree: Oh wow, my childhood innocence! Thank you for finding this!
Valec: I knew I lost that potential somewhere!
William: I’ve been looking for my sense of purpose!
Sel: My moral code, is that you?
Lark:
Lark: I was just gonna show you this cool truck my mother gave me but do you guys need a hug?
Team USA wins gold in the women's 4x100 relay at the 2023 World Championship with a time of 41.03s. Team Jamaica (41.21) won silver, and Team Great Britain (41.91) the bronze.
With Chip Douglas and Hank Cicalo during the recording of Headquarters, 1967.
Rest in peace, Hank Cicalo. According to Carole King on Facebook, he died at the age of 91 on January 31, 2024. Sincere condolences to his family and friends.
“‘No Time’ was just a Chuck Berry rip-off. We assigned it to Hank [Cicalo], who got into a little trouble about it, because engineers are not supposed to solicit songs. When RCA saw his name on the thing they thought, ‘God, he solicited this tune.’ He had to go in there and explain it to them. It was just a tip.” - Headquarters CD liner notes
“We just gave him the song as a tip for being so loyal and such a wonderful engineer for so many years. He made a lot of money off that! But we wrote it; he didn’t write it.” - Micky Dolenz, ibid
“He was able to make a down payment on his first house with that. They wanted everybody to have a little something extra. That’s why they said, ‘Chip, if you’ve got a song [on the album, ‘Forget That Girl,‘] then we’ll give Hank ‘No Time’ — since that was a little jam session and stuff. They were just anxious to take care of everybody, because we’d all worked on it together and put in a lot of time and a lot of effort. It was a group effort, definitely.” - Chip Douglas, ibid
Peter Shumlin, Jim Douglas, Phil Scott, Howard Dean, Deane C. Davis, George Aiken, F. Ray Keyser Jr., Franklin S. Billings, Charles Manley Smith, Richard A. Snelling, Harold J. Arthur, Horace F. Graham, John A. Mead, Joseph B. Johnson, Lee E. Emerson, Thomas P. Salmon, William Henry Wills, Mortimer R. Proctor, Ernest W. Gibson Jr., Robert Stafford, Philip H. Hoff, Allen M. Fletcher
3 Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
Recommended for: poor little meow meow fans
4 The Night of Counting the Years (Abdel Salam, 1969)
Recommended for: Piranesi fans
5 The Long Day Closes (Davies, 1992)
Recommended for: Yann Tiersen fans
6 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000)
Recommended for: Lawrence of Arabia fans
7 California Split (Altman, 1974)
Recommended for: 'friendships are romances' posts fans
8 The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
Recommended for: actually, David Lynch fans
9 All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955)
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10 All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)
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Let me know how you like the single, askance reference approach, I'm experimenting with succinct weird ways to pitch things to the people I think will like them. Links go to my original Letterboxd "review" (comment), and if you click the poster or title there you'll be taken to the short synopsis, cast & crew, wide header image for some vibes, etc.
Most loyal? I hear you ask confusion ringing in your voice. I know Nick and Sel exist but let me explain.
Larkin Douglas is Loyal to His King aka Bree. He knows that Sel means a lot to Bree, so letting him go is a way to help him in the eyes of lark. He is not loyal to the order because and I quote:
"We were not friends at the academy, but we were not enemies. Our parents trained us in the old ways, to go beyond the title, beyond the Oaths in order to do what must be done."
He knows that Sel can protect Bree in ways he can't so letting him escape was a small way of helping both of them. They have matching tattoos, Lark probably views Sel like family, Lark is loyal to Bree. We see it again when he helps break her out, when he made her leather gauntlets that were imbued with aether.
Larks loyalty is shown in his actions, and everyone of those actions is to help Bree because Bree is his King and ultimately knows that she comes before him. Bree means more to him than any oath to the order.
I tolerate a lot but saying LARKING DOUGLAS is not loyal is wrong. That is who Lark is, I know y'all make jokes about him quitting on day one, but we all know that Lark would spy on the order for Bree. Lark is the Merlin you call if you don't want to get scolded or yelled at (Nick and Sel) when you do something wrong.
Larkin Douglas is what loyalty would look like if it was a person.
Alice: Rules are made to be broken.
Sel: They were made to be followed. Nothing is made to be broken.
Bree: Uh, piñatas.
Valec: Glow sticks.
Lark: Karate boards.
Nick: Spaghetti when you have a small pot.
Alice: Rules.
Sel:
“No more violence or surveillance: only ‘information,’ secret virulence, chain reaction, slow implosion, and simulacra of spaces in which the effect of the real again comes into play,” (Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation).
Captain Britain was created by Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe. And, of course, reinvented by the Alans Davis and Moore.