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Count Dracula - BBC - December 22, 1977
Horror / Drama
Running Time: 155 minutes
Stars:
Louis Jourdan as Count Dracula
Frank Finlay as Professor Van Helsing
Susan Penhaligon as Lucy Westenra
Judi Bowker as Mina Westenra
Jack Shepherd as Renfield
Mark Burns as Dr. John Seward
Bosco Hogan as Jonathan Harker
Richard Barnes as Quincey P. Holmwood
Ann Queensberry as Mrs Westenra
Sue Vanner, Susie Hickford and Belinda Meuldijk as Dracula's Brides
#Count Dracula#TV#BBC#1977#Horror#Drama#Louis Jourdan#Frank Finlay#Susan Penhaligon#Judi Bowker#Jack Shepherd#Mark Burns#Bosco Hogan
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Harvest Festival
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role model glue, ankle deep (1993, 2021).
things are never what they seem — think you have an answer?
then you’re surprised to see you’ve skipped over half the instructions
your entire internal construction based on the wrong idea
based on the wrong idea
#wimp factor 14#wimp factor fourteen#role model glue#ankle deep#harriet records#frank boscoe#indie pop#indiepop#jangle pop#think i've posted this already but w/e
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Ages of Dracula casts
This ask made me wonder how close past Dracula casts were to the ages of the characters as established in the novel. Looking at these adaptations:
Dracula (1931)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Dracula (1974)
Count Dracula (1977)
Dracula (1979)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Dracula (2020)
In some cases characters are merged or changed; I've associated each character with the person who comes closest to having the same name.
Jonathan Harker (early 20s)
Dracula (1931) - David Manners, 31
Horror of Dracula (1958) - John Van Eyssen, 36
Dracula (1974) - Murray Brown, 37
Count Dracula (1977) - Bosco Hogan, 28
Dracula (1979) - Trevor Eve, 28
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Keanu Reeves, 28
Dracula (2020) - John Heffernan, 39
On average, Jonathan Harker is cast as 32.
Mina Murray (early 20s)
Dracula (1931) - Helen Chandler, 25
Horror of Dracula (1958) - Melissa Stribling, 32
Dracula (1974) - Penelope Horner, 35
Count Dracula (1977) - Judi Bowker, 23
Dracula (1979) - Jan Francis, 32
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Winona Ryder, 21
Dracula (2020) - Morfydd Clark, 31
On average, Mina Murray is cast as 28.
Lucy Westenra (19)
Dracula (1931) - Frances Dade, 24
Horror of Dracula (1958) - Carol Marsh, 32
Dracula (1974) - Fiona Lewis, 28
Count Dracula (1977) - Susan Penhaligon, 28
Dracula (1979) - Kate Nelligan, 29
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Sadie Frost, 27
Dracula (2020) - Lydia West, 27
On average, Lucy Westenra is cast as 28.
Jack Seward (29)
Dracula (1931) - Herbert Bunston, 57 (aged up to be Mina's dad)
Horror of Dracula (1958) - Charles Lloyd-Pack, 56
Dracula (1974) - none
Count Dracula (1977) - Mark Burns, 41
Dracula (1979) - Donald Pleasence, 60 (Lucy's dad in this one)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Richard E Grant, 35
Dracula (2020) - Matthew Beard, 31
On average, Jack Seward is cast as 47, and also assigned Dad.
Quincey Morris (mid to late 20s)
Dracula (1931) - none
Horror of Dracula (1958) - none
Dracula (1974) - none
Count Dracula (1977) - Richard Barnes, 33
Dracula (1979) - none
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Billy Campbell, 33
Dracula (2020) - Phil Dunster, 28
On average, Quincey Morris doesn't exist. But when he does, he's 31.
Arthur Holmwood (mid to late 20s)
Dracula (1931) - none
Horror of Dracula (1958) - Michael Gough, 42
Dracula (1974) - Simon Ward, 33
Count Dracula (1977) - none
Dracula (1979) - none
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Cary Elwes, 30
Dracula (2020) - none
On average, Arthur Holmwood doesn't exist either. But when he does, he's 35.
Van Helsing (a generation older)
Dracula (1931) - Edward Van Sloan, 49
Horror of Dracula (1958) - Peter Cushing, 45
Dracula (1974) - Nigel Davenport, 46
Count Dracula (1977) - Frank Finlay, 51
Dracula (1979) - Laurence Olivier, 72
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Anthony Hopkins, 55
Dracula (2020) - Dolly Wells, 49
On average, Van Helsing is cast as 52.
#dracula daily#i was going to include the re dracula folks as well but couldn't find some of their ages
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Inspiration Saturday
Hi everyone!!!!! I'm finally back to writing after hard times and I'm back with angst for this secret wip I named you left me (at least for now)
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playlist + snippet
Bobby quickly brings them up to date on what happened and where they need help 136 with. Eddie finds himself paired with Buck, who only greeted him quietly, after which he continued to work as if Eddie wasn't here at all, without asking for help with anything. Eddie feels like he's back on his first day at work, only then Buck wanted Eddie not to be part of the team, and now he wants Eddie to just disappear. Painful. Considering they both swore there was no one more important for them, except Chris of course.
“So, hello and silence it’s all I'm getting?” Eddie tries to say it without the sadness in his voice, and he succeeds. But his voice sounds angry, like he blames Buck, accusing him for the silent treatment he is getting over the last two weeks.
Remembering it was him who asked, or better say stated that they need a break - he should have stayed on sadness.
Before Eddie can even curse himself for his stupid decision - he can’t say about which one exactly the whole break thing or blaming of Buck - he proved it was a bad idea to talk like that with Buck by angry dark, like the skies during the thunderstorm, eyes. Eddie swallows when he swears he can see the lightning flashes inside them.
“It's you, who wanted a break, Eddie. What am I doing wrong now? Giving you too much space? Well, you asked about it,” Buck hisses the last part and leaves him alone. He says something to Bosco who worked with Ravi. She then looks at him not impressed and goes to Eddie to take Buck’s place as his partner, while Buck starts to work with Ravi.
“He deserves better than the ex-not-ex-boyfriend to try to make him feel bad, as he is the villain in the story, for keeping the distance he was asked about by this exact ex-not-ex-boyfriend,” she pins him with such a stare Eddie surprised he is still standing and not falling dead on the place, before starts working. “Not saying that you’re a villain, but even though you have your reasons to ask about time, you have no right,” she again sends the same killing look, “no right to talk to him like that.”
“I know, I just” Eddie sights, kicking the part of the car on the road, “I hate all this situation and I hate my brain for destroying the best relationships I had. I hate that therapy about it not taking me anywhere and Frank tells me it’s because I need to talk to Buck about the problem why I asked about the break when Buck was ready for more for us. When he was so Buck to tell me we can do anything in my tempo, but my fucked up head chose the break, thinking it’s for the best, but,” Eddie looks at the way Buck barely smile on definitely a good joke from Ravi, “but it only leads for nights without sleep, our son looks at me like I’m an idiot. Everyone cast sympathetic glances, and Buck … Buck is not even talking to me while we are working. I just want everything to be ok again. I want everything to be easy. Magical,” another kick to the pure tyre.
“Life is not a fairytale, Diaz. Nothing, especially relationships, are ever easy. So talk to Buckley sooner or, trust me, you will regret you hadn’t. Because right now this man is slipping through your fingers faster than you can imagine,” on than Lena removes the last piece of metal from the road and their work is done.
The blonde woman does not even say goodbye to him, getting back to her team, taking the place near Buck, which should be his. But not now.
Maybe never again.
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#I was planning to write thew smut today but brain and inspiration and my playlist said ANGST#starting winter break with breaking pause in writing#fic: you left me#buddie#evan buckley#eddie diaz#evan buck buckley#fic rec#Spotify#my wips#secret wip
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#AI#AI art#AI art generation#AI artist#AI artwork#AI generated#AI image#AI model#AI woman#computer art#computer generated image#digital#digital art#digital drawing#digital illustration#digital painting
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Even the Supernatural Need Celebrities to Idolize...
Kaila Summers, a werewolf with a passion for Ink
Magdalena Do, an adult film actress, and the only non vampire of 9
Corbin Bosco, ever been alive so long you live to see yourself become a celebrity, no but Corbin got popular on SimsTube and is 155 years old
C@NDY B@R half alien, half human, and a pop star
Erik Frank young stand up comedian pursing "supernatural" dreams
#ts4#the sims 4#ts4cc#ts4 cas#sims 4#simblr#my sims#sims 4 edit#sims edit#sims 4 story#ts4 screenshots#ts4 gameplay#ts4 story#Gallows Valley
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Count Dracula (1977)
The 1977 BBC tv film Count Dracula might be the best adaptation of Stoker’s novel.
Other adaptations like the 1931, 1958 and 1992 films might have claims to be better as films, but as adaptations they largely ignore the novel in various ways. The 1992 film adapts perhaps a lot of scenes from the novel, but in its storyline, it is more of an adaptation of The Mummy from 1932 than of Stoker’s book. And the 1931 and 1958 films called Dracula are rightfully regarded as peaks of vampire horror movies, but are very unfaithful to the novel.
The 1977 BBC film however is remarkably faithful, with Gerald Savory’s script taking a lot of dialogue straight from the book. There are changes of course, the largest of which is probably the removal of Arthur Holmwood, whose character is instead merged into Quincey, to save time and simplify the film’s character list. There are others changes, like how Mina and Lucy are sisters, and Dracula looks the same throughout and has no moustache.
Yet the 1977 film is probably the film adaptation most based in the book. The film’s length of 2 and a half hours helps in conveying the scope of the book. This faithfulness is to its advantage, as the novel’s characters are usually more interesting than the pop cultural versions of them.
Renfield in this movie is probably the best movie version of the character. It spends time on making him a complex and sympathetic character. It gives him a genuine character arc, where he falls under Dracula’s spell but out of care for Mina rebels against Dracula’s hold on him and pays the ultimate price. Actor Jack Shepard’s portrayal is excellent. Most movie versions cut the character or just make Renfield a creepy bug-eating weirdo, and the 1977 version, by taking more of the character from the novel makes him actually interesting.
The acting and the rather faithful to the novel portrayal of the characters is this version’s greatest strength.
Irish actor Bosco Hogan as Jonathan Harker has an unfortunately 1970s hairstyle, but manages to create a close to definitive performance as Harker. He manages to convey this dynamic character’s whole register, from charming naivety at the story’s start, to haggard traumatized suffering to the fiery determined Jonathan of the story finale.
Frank Finlay as Van Helsing is another definitive portrayal. He truly feels like the Van Helsing of the book, silly fake Dutch accent and all.
Judi Bowker as Mina Harker is also close to definitive. She portrays Mina as a woman who is compassionate and kind yet her kindness is also a strength of spirit, which enables her to resist Dracula’s vampirism. She gets to save Jonathan by shooting his attacker in the film’s climax.
I also like Susan Penhaligon as Lucy Westenra, who conveys a likeable Lucy, and you do feel for her when she is victimized and turned into a monster by Dracula.
Richard Barnes as Quincey has a terrible American cowboy accent, it’s the epitome of an English actor trying to have an American accent. But like with Van Helsing its awfulness feels oddly accurate to how Stoker wrote it, as funny as that sounds. He is a goofy character because of that terrible cowboy accent, almost comic relief, although it’s nice to have Quincey in a Dracula adaptation for once. He is usually left out of adaptations, because the cowboy in a gothic horror feels out of place. Here Arthur has been merged into Quincey, which if anything is the opposite of how most adaptations do it, usually cutting Quincey and keeping Arthur if he is around.
Louis Jourdan as Dracula is an interesting take on the character. Jourdan goes for a suave and handsome Dracula, compared to the book, he doesn’t even de-age into attractiveness. I’m not attracted to men, but I can sense his charisma. And this well-spoken and handsome Dracula probably is attractive to a lot of people. I can barely believe that Jourdan was in his mid 50s when the film was made, he looks at least 15 years younger.
Yet it works, because underneath the charm Jourdan’s Dracula is fundamentally the same character as the book Dracula. He is not a sympathetic misunderstood Byronic hero. Underneath his handsome and suave exterior he is the same monster, selfish and destructive. Jourdan manages to convey a genuine air of menace even when he is being soft-spoken and suave. He exudes a threatening air of complete confidence when he speaks, like he is just playing with his food by having an erudite conversation with his future victim. He can charm and seduce people, but only to destroy them. It’s good acting by Jourdan and a great take on the character.
The film is a tv movie, and it certainly looks cheap compared to some theatrical productions. It’s visibly 70s British tv. The sets really do look like sets, and the switch to video for location shoots is obvious. This movie is uploaded to youtube a lot and youtube compression makes it look absolutely terrible, yet even my dvd copy does show its age and origin.
Yet Philip Saville’s direction is intelligent and tries to do some visually interesting things. There are some nice shots that add to the gothic atmosphere. And there is an attempt to do new things with the TV format, like a POV shaky cam shot, which was probably unusual for TV in 1977. Some of its experiments do fail, like the negative images used to convey the supernatural of Dracula’s power. But the film tries to be visually interesting within the limitations of 70s TV
Overall Count Dracula is a success. It is not the most visually exciting adaptation, but it tries its best within the budget limitations. The overall faithfulness to the novel of the script and the high level of the acting means the characters are more compelling than most pop culture versions of Dracula. Again, there might be better films based on Dracula, but this is probably the best actual adaptation.
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INDEX
CLASSICO E ROMANTICO
William Blake, Newton
Jöhan Heinrich Füssli, L'incubo
Étienne-Luoise Boullée, Progetto per il cenotafio di Newton
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Casa delle Guardie campestri
John Constable, La chiusa
e il mulino di Flatford
William Turner, Mare in tempesta
Francisco Goya, Fucilazione
Jacques-Louis David, La morte di Marat
Antonio Canova, Monumento di Maria Cristina d’Austria
Jean-August-Dominique Ingres, La bagnante di Valpingon
Théodore Géricault, La zattera della Medusa
Eugène Delacroix, La Libertà guida il popolo
Lorenzo Bartolini, Monumento funebre della contessa Zamoyska
François Rude, Rilievo dell'Arco di trionfo di Parigi
Camille Corot, La cattedrale di Chartres
Théodore Rousseau, Temporale; veduta della piana di Montmartre
Honoré Daumier, Vogliamo Barabba
Constantin Guys, Per la strada
Honoré Daumier, Il vagone di terza classe
François Millet, L’Angelus
Camille Pissarro, Sentiero nel bosco in estate
LA REALTA' E LA COSCIENZA (l’Impressionismo; La fotografia; Il Neo-impressionismo; Il Simbolismo; L’architettura degli ingegneri)
Gustave Courbet, Ragazze in riva alla Senna (Estate)
Edouard Manet, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
Alfred Sisley, Isola della Grande Jatte
Claude Monet, Regate ad Argenteuil;
Claude Monet, La Cattedrale di Rouen
Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette
Edgar Degas, L'absinthe
Paul Cézanne, L'asino e i ladri
Paul Cézanne, La casa dell'impiccato ad Auvers (Non Aversa)
Paul Cézanne, I giocatori di carte
Paul Cézanne, La montagna Sainte-Victoire
Georges Seurat, Una domenica pomeriggio all’isola della Grande-Jatte
Paul Signac, Ingresso del porto a Marsiglia
Paul Gauguin, Te Tamari No Atua
Vincent van Gogh, Ritratto del postino Roulin
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, La toilette
Henri Rousseau detto il Doganiere, La Guerra
Odilon Redon, Nascita di Venere
Gustave Moreau, L'apparizione
Pierre Bonnard, La toilette del mattino
Auguste Rodin, Monumento a Balzac
Medardo Rosso, Impressione di bambino davanti alle cucine economiche
I pittori della cerchia di Mallarmé
Edouard Vuillard, La pappa di Annette.
James MeNeill Whistler, Notturno in blu e oro: il vecchio ponte di Battersea
L' OTTOCENTO IN ITALIA, IN GERMANIA, IN INGHILTERRA
1. Giovanni Fattori, In vedetta
IL MODERNISMO (Urbanistica e architettura moderniste; Art Nouveau; La pittura del Modernismo; Pont-Aven e Nabis)
1. Antoni Gaudí, Casa Milá a Barcellona
2. Adolf Loos, Casa Steiner a Vienna
3. Antoni Gaudi, Il Parco Güell a Barcellona
L’ARTE COME ESPRESSIONE (Espressionismo; La grafica dell’Espressionismo)
1. Edvard Munch, Pubertà
André Derain, Donna in camicia
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Marcella
Henri Matisse, La danza
Emil Nolde, Rose rosse e gialle
Oskar Kokoschka, Chamonix, Monte Bianco
L’EPOCA DEL FUNZIONALISMO (Urbanistica, architettura, disegno industriale; Pittura e scultura; Der blaue Reiter; L’avanguardia russa; La situazione italiana; École de Paris; Dada; Il Surrealismo; La situazione in Inghilterra; La situazione italiana: Metafisica, Novecento, anti-Novecento)
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye a Poissy
Le Corbusier, Cappella di Nötre-Dame-du-Haute a Ronchamp
Walter Gropius, La Bauhaus a Dessau
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Plastico di un grattacielo in verro per Chicago
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Buildings a New York
Tre progetti per il Palazzo dei Soviet. Le Corbusier e Pierre Jeanneret,
Walter Gropius, Bertold Luberkin,
Teo van Docsburg e Hans Arp, Cinema-ristorante L'Aubette a Strasburgo.
Thomas Gerrit Rietveld, Poltrona con elementi in nero, rosso, blu
Pier Mondrian, Composizione in rosso, giallo, blu
Aivar Aalto, Sanatorio a Paimio - Poltrona
Frank Lloyd Wright, Casa Kaufmann a Bear Run
Pablo Picasso, I saltimbanchi; Les demoiselles d’Avignon; Natura morta spagnola
Georges Braque, Narura morta con l’asso di fiori
Robert Delaunay, Tour Eiffel
Juan Gris, Natura morta con fruttiera e bottiglia d’acqua
Georges Braque, Natura morta con credenza: Café-bar
Marcel Duchamp, Nu descendant un escalier n. 2
Umberto Boccioni, Forme uniche nella continuità dello spazio
Giacomo Balla, Automobile in corsa
Vasili; Kandinsky, Primo acquerello astratto; Punte nell'arco
Paul Klee, Strada principale e strade laterali
Anton Pevsner, Costruzione dinamica
Naum Gabo, Costruzione nello spazio; Il cristallo
Fernand Léger, Composizione con tre figure
Joan Miró, La lezione di sci; Donne e uccello al chiaro di luna
Giuseppe Terragni, Progetto dell'Asilo Sant'Elia a Como
Atanasio Soldati, Composizione
Constantin Brancusi, La Maiastra
Amedeo Modigliani, Ritratto di Léopold Zborowski
Georges Rouault, Cristo Deriso
Marc Chagall, A la Russie, aux anes et aux autres
Pablo Picasso, Guernica
René Magritte, La condizione umana Il
Man Ray, Motivo perpetuo
Henry Moore, Figura sdraiata
Alexander Calder, Mobile
Ben Nicholson, Feb. 28-53 (Vertical Seconds)
Francis Bacon, Studio dal ritratto di Innocenzo X di Velázquez
Diego Rivera, L'esecuzione dell'imperatore Massimiliano
David Alfaro Sigueiros, Morte all'invasore
Giorgio De Chirico, Le Muse inquietanti
Carlo Carrà, L'amante dell'ingegnere
Alberto Savinio, Nella foresta
Osvaldo Licini, Amalasunta su fondo blu
Giorgio Morandi, Natura morta con fruttiera
7. LA CRISI DELL'ARTE COME "SCIENZA EUROPEA" (Urbanistica e architettura; La ricerca visiva; La pittura negli Stati Uniti)
Ellsworth Kelly, Verde, blu, rosso
Morris Louis, Gamma Delta
László Moholy-Nagy, Composizione Q XX
Julius Bissier, 25 settembre 1963?
Josef Albers, Omaggio al quadrato
Arshile Gorky, Giardino a Sochi
Jean Fautrier, Nudo
Jean Dubuffet, Orateur
André Masson, Les Chevaliers
Hans Hartung, Composizione
Jackson Pollock, Sentieri ondulati
Mark Rothko, Rosso e blu su rosso
Albero Burri, Sacco B.
Antoni Tápies, Bianco e arancione
Giuseppe Capogrossi, Superficie 114
Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale: attesa
Alberto Giacometti, Figura
Ettore Colla, Officina solare
Mark Tobey, Circus transfigured
Georges Mathieu, Cast
Victor Vasarély, Composizione.
Kenneth Noland, Empireo
Clyfford Still, 1962-D
Emilio Vedova, Plurimo n. 1; Le mani addosso
Robert Rauschenberg, Letto
Mimmo Rotella, Marilyn
Roy Lichtenstein, Il tempio di Apollo
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe
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Dracula Ultra Cast
Taking actors from various Dracula adaptations for my ultra Dracula cast .These arent necessarily my favorites but who I think best brought the characters to life
Dwight Frye as Renfield
Bosco Hogan as Johnathan Harker
Judi Bowker as Mina
Susan Penhaligon as Lucy
Billy Campbell ,Cary Elwes and Richard E Grant as Quincy,Arthur and Dr Seward
Frank Finlay as Van Helsing
Christopher Lee as Dracula
Bonus:Personal favorites
Bruno Ganz and Isabella Adjani as Johnathan and Mina (Here named Lucy )
Sadie Frost as Lucy
Peter Cushing as Van Helsing
Donald Pleasence as Dr Seward
@ariel-seagull-wings @the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @metropolitan-mutant-of-ark @amalthea9 @filmcityworld1 @angelixgutz @princesssarisa
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Post the first line from your first fic on AO3 and the last line from your last fic!
Stolen from @programmedradly and encouraging you to steal from me!
Timing (Third Watch, Bosco/Faith), posted January 1, 2003:
According to the green digital numbers of the squad's clock, it was fifteen minutes until midnight.
you inherit the sins you inherit the flames (L&O: Organized Crime, Frank & Elliot), posted March 10, 2022
It's a team effort, getting the kids ready to leave the house.
#there's an older fic on a different account#but we'll go with this#anyway happy early 20th birthday to that fic
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Prophets In Our Midst!
Sloughing Towards Galilee: Prophets in Our Midst!
St. John Bosco
Mark 6:1-6
Mark 6:1-6
"1. Leaving that district, he went to his home town, and his disciples accompanied him.
2. With the coming of the Sabbath he began teaching in the synagogue, and most of them were astonished when they heard him. They said, 'Where did the man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been granted him, and these miracles that are worked through him?
3. This is the carpenter, surely, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joset and Jude and Simon? His sisters, too, are they not here with us?' And they would not accept him.
4. And Jesus said to them, 'A prophet is despised only in his own country, among his own relations and in his own house';
5. and he could work no miracle there, except that he cured a few sick people by laying his hands on them.
6. He was amazed at their lack of faith. He made a tour round the villages, teaching."
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Even in the little village of Nazareth, long before digital over load, folks had to decide how to engage the wisdom and miraculous acts of One among them. Awe and wonder battled with envy and offense--and in today's Gospel at least for some God -among-them was dismissed as unworthy and irrelevant.
In today's world of information overload, where everyone says whatever they want to say on social media how can we know what messages sorting system. But I point to a few people who have been prophets for me.
I grew up listening to "Mister Rogers", never missed a show, and his words and actions have radiated through me:
"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people to who are helping" "Mister Rogers".
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"Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like "struggle". To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he is")Mister Rogers".)
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These were words I heard, read, and my parents had me chew on, until they became reality in my life. This was the heart of the Gospel message over and beyond all else in the "Word of God!"
During my sophomore year in college, at the end of a retreat, Fr. Dan Berrigan, asked all of us: "If you are afraid when you have nothing to lose, when will you stand up to your fears?
Thirty one years ago I heard Des Moines. Iowa Catholic Worker, Frank Cardaro, give a presentation on being a Catholic Worker, pushing me to embrace my inward call, and so the next year I came to San Francisco. His life is a demonstration of the living Christ.
And in the last six or so years as I have struggled with the over-whelming sense of the anger, and hatred on the internet, the desire to simply turn tail and run away, the young fifteen year old saint, Carlo Acutis reminds me:
"Life is a gift, because as long as we are on the planet, we can grow in our ability to love. The more we learn to love, the more we will enjoy eternal blessedness with God" (Carlo Acutis).
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With their lives and ministries these four have shown me the answer.
These ordinary prophets are pillars of my spiritual, moral, and professional life. Their lives--and their few words--point me to God, to my friends on the street, whom we separate ourselves from, so often, rather than seeing them simply as human beings. I help them, and I find they help me more than anyone else! These four saints, along with my friends on the street point me to the Divine within myself. I have found in the words of Terry Pratachett: "The meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness."
Whenever I stray from my role as prophet they call me back! Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God!
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Fr. C. River Damien Sims, sfw, D.Min., D.S.T.
P.O. Box 642656
San Francisco, CA 94164
www.temenos.org
415-305-2124
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Mission in Life! (Revised January 1, 2024):
The best summary for my mission in life is found in the statement that:
"Obedience to Christ does not consist in
engaging in propaganda, nor in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such away that's one's life would not make sense if God did not exist."
Being a 'living mystery' means to love 'to the point of folly, and in the words of Kawaga:
"I am a free lance tramp, a vagabond for Christ. I must go until Christ's work is done. I go like the wind."
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Come utilizzare al meglio i colori neutri nel design degli interni
Minimalisti ma di classe: il potere dei colori neutri
Ti stai preparando a rinnovare il soggiorno o a cambiare colore alle pareti della camera da letto? Il nostro consiglio è di prendere in considerazione i colori neutri.
Queste tonalità sono tutt’altro che noiose, e sceglierle ti faciliterà nel restyling della casa. Infatti, sono la base migliore per sperimentare l’accostamento di tessuti e accessori dai colori più audaci e vivaci. Ma non solo, perché l’uso di colori neutri più luminosi può dare alla tua stanza un aspetto più aperto, pulito e fresco.
Inoltre, se stai pensando di vendere la tua casa, i toni neutri sono la scelta giusta in quanto sono rilassanti e consentono agli acquirenti di vedere il potenziale delle stanze.
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Colori neutri, quali sono?
Nel mondo dell'interior design, neutro significa senza colore. I neutri come beige, avorio, tortora, nero, grigio e le gradazioni di bianco sembrano essere senza colore. In realtà queste tonalità spesso hanno delle sfumature.
Quando si abbinano i colori o si sceglie la vernice è opportuno valutare le diverse gradazioni di ciascun colore per trovare quello giusto. C’è chi preferisce i colori neutri caldi, oppure nuance più fredde. Ad esempio, il beige potrebbe avere un sottotono rosato, marrone chiaro, oro o grigio, che costituisce il greige, un neutro più nuovo e molto apprezzato. Il bianco potrebbe essere leggermente avorio, giallo, bluastro o pesca.
I neutri possono essere utilizzati nell'arredamento in due modi: completamente neutro o come colore di sfondo per contrasti d’effetto.
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Arredare solo con i toni neutri
Se desideri donare alla tua casa un look completamente neutro, sovrapponi diverse tonalità dello stesso colore. Così facendo otterrai un effetto elegante e coerente. Questa combinazione di colori si abbina perfettamente con tutto ciò che è in legno (arredi e finiture) ma anche mattoni e pietra a vista. Elementi, questi, che aggiungeranno una nota di calore all’ambiente neutro.
Ecco alcuni suggerimenti per la scelta e l'accostamento dei colori neutri:
- Scegli una tonalità più chiara per le pareti e più scura per i pavimenti.
- Aggiungi un tappeto in un colore che si abbini al pavimento ma che non sia troppo più scuro rispetto alla tonalità delle pareti. In questo modo si valorizzeranno gli arredi.
- Crea armonia nella stanza con accessori che includano alcune o tutte le tonalità che hai utilizzato.
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Colori neutri come base
In questo caso, come per l'ambiente completamente neutro, parti dalle pareti. Scegli la tonalità neutra tenendo presente quali altri colori desideri utilizzare, la quantità di luce naturale presente nella stanza e al tuo gusto personale. Preferisce pareti più chiare o più scure? Tieni presente che le pareti più scure sono adatte a spazi luminosi perché fanno sembrare più piccoli gli ambienti. Quindi, se la tua stanza è ampia e luminosa, puoi valutare qualsiasi tonalità. Se, invece, la stanza è piccola e poco luminosa, una tonalità neutra più chiara sarà la scelta migliore.
Se ti piace il grigio, decidi se preferisci puntare verso una tonalità calda o fredda. Lo stesso vale per le sfumature del bianco.
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Supponiamo che tu scelga un grigio chiaro per dipingere le pareti, puoi valorizzarlo inserendo una poltrona o un divano colorato, ad esempio verde bosco. Aggiungi un tappeto bianco o nella stessa tonalità di grigio delle pareti (va bene anche un po' più chiara). Abbina le tende al colore delle pareti per un look coerente. Inserisci qualche oggetto decorativo o complementi in verde per aggiungere ulteriori tocchi di colore alla stanza. In questo modo, le pareti di colore grigio e il tappeto bianco sono la base neutra alla quale aggiungere dettagli colorati in verde.
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Ursula 1000 - Movin' To The Sound (Insect Queen Music)
8DPromo · Ursula 1000 - Movin' To The Sound (Insect Queen Music)
Ursula 1000 is the alter ego of Alex Gimeno, a producer, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn, New York. He has released eight albums and mix sessions that take listeners on a retro-futuristic journey of exotic grooves and electronic disco funk. He has performed in over 30 countries, collaborated with notable artists such as Fred Schneider of The B52s, Lady Bunny, and Puddles Pity Party, and has had his music featured in various TV shows, ads, and even the Olympics. Now Ursula 1000 pulls out his dusty smiley face shirt from the closet and goes full-on 303 acid house squelch and jacking 808 grooves for this new single. "Movin' 2 The Sound" showcases Ursula 1000's signature exotic dreaminess, with elements of acid house, throbbing sequencers, and pumping hip-house action. The Berlin-based duo Acid Jerks provided the first remix, taking the acid house business to peak-time bliss. Meanwhile, Fort Knox Five, a leading force in the international funk and breaks scene, focused on electro vibes and b-boy action. Finally, Red Laser Records duo Il Bosco & Metrodome, also known as DJ Absolutely Shit, cranked up the bass, bleeps, and breaks to 11, bringing rave-ready, time-stretching, day-glo dancefloor destruction. This whole single's a trip!
Tyler Stadius (Deepen) – “Yeah, love this! Never get tired of good acid.”
Frank Peisker (Bureau45 Agency) – “Killer! The dancefloor will be on fire with this retro electro smasher with a modern twist.”
Psycho-Jones (Kater Blau) – “This is Ursula 2023. Love it very much.”
Shan Frenzie (2SER FM) – “Love the funk edge on the acid grooves.”
BMD (XLNT) – “As expected, Fort Knox 5 have nailed it. Great remix.”
Steve ‘Griffo’ Griffiths (Subspace Radio Show) – “As a big fan of Acid Jerks, I was stoked to receive this. Muscular acid house vibes that transport me back to 86.”
Available Now From: Bandcamp, Beatport, Apple Music, And Spotify.
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The Ekphrastics- Special Delivery (Harriet)
Ahh…...it seems like the good old days, a new release by one of Frank Boscoe’s bands and it’s on classic indie label Harriet (which came back to life a few years ago). You know Boscoe, he was in Wimp Factor 14, Vehicle Flips and a few other bands and here he is doing what he does best, writing clever, wry pop songs about, well, quite a range of all kinds of topics.
Song include the upbeat opener “Ghost Apples,” the very current “Making Fun of Bitcoin” and the zippy, nimble “Putting the Shot” (I’ve always been kind of fascinated by shot putters).
Elsewhere, “The Steeplechase” sways and it’s almost like a waltz and “The Ballad of Becky Jane Joplin” zooms to the finish line (with a cool slower, dreamy middle part).
Oh and don’t miss the tragicomic “Sunday River Ski Mishap Could’ve Been Worse” which is just as good as the title implies.
After some singles, this is the band’s debut and they put a lot of hard work into creating it so give them the courtesy of a listen (or 10). One of the more fun listens in recent weeks/months.
www.harrietrecords.bandcamp.com
www.ekphrastics.bandcamp.com
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