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onepiece-polls · 6 months

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OPLA fan cast polls - Top 10 winners!

By far most of the submitted fancasts were accepted by the fans, having had a minimum of 50% yay votes. But which fancasts had the most fans behind them? Here is the top 10!

10. Karen Fukuhara as Tashigi with 82.4% of the votes.

Her experience with martial arts and sword fighting might have convinced the fans who weren't familiar with her previous roles yet!

9. Rhey Ripley as Charlotte Smoothie with 82.5% of the votes.

Her wrestler build probably convinced a lot of people she could pull this off. And maybe the lesbians went wild about her.

8. Peter Capaldi as Dr Hiriluk with 84% of the votes.

Once a doctor... (also, he just kinda looks like him)

7. Alexander Siddig as Nefertari Cobra with 84.5% of the votes.

This Sudanese actor convinced the fans that he could play another desert kingdom ruler!

6. Amber Midthunder as Laki with 85% of the votes.

With only 1 vote really against her (we will find you and hunt you down 😛), the fans think this native American actress is perfect to play Laki!

5. Jamie Lee Curtis as Kureha with 87% of the votes.

With by far the most submissions, I had expected her to come out on top, but 5th place isn't bad at all either! Besides, she has practically been cast already, and the fans seem to agree! If someone else gets cast after all, there'd better be a real good reason for that!

4. Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson as Brogy with 88.1% of the votes.

This tall strongman from Iceland seemed the perfect fit for the friendly giant!

3. Kevin Chamberlin as Tom with 89.1% of the votes.

Tom's a fishman, Kevin is human. And yet, look at their faces: the same. The fans could do nothing but agree with this fan cast (though they would also love him as Wapol).

2. Michael Jai White as Ohm with 89.8% of the votes.

Corporate needs you to find the differences between these two pictures.

The fans: "They're the same picture."

No one voted against this fan cast, so in that aspect you could say he should be the winner! However, a few more people needed to be convinced, compared to the number one...

And the winner...

1. Javicia Leslie as Miss Doublefinger with 92.9% of the votes!

Her looks, her acting experience (as Batwoman for example), and her experience with different (combat) sports have convinced almost all of the fans that she is a perfect fit! We are looking forward to see Javicia as Miss Doublefinger in the next season (?) of the One Piece Live Action!

Thank you all for submitting your fancasts and for voting on these polls! ❤

#one piece #opla #one piece live action #opla fan cast polls #results reblog #winners post #yes you'll still get the jack black poll #but none of his characters got a high enough percentage to come close to top 10 so I wanted to post this first #half of these winners have a chance to appear in the next season (if next season is the Alabasta saga)#Tashigi and Kureha should appear at least or else I don't know what they're doing with the next season #netflix pay attention 😛#I might tag netflix 🙈

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ripempezardexerox · 2 months

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Dices Merzbow, yo digo Justin Beiber

Dices Boredoms, yo digo Katy Perry

Dices Gerogerigegege, yo digo Skrillex

Dices Coil, yo digo Lady Gaga

Dices Throbbing Gristle, yo digo Black Eyed Peas

Dices Whitehouse, yo digo Taylor Swift

Dices Nurse With Wound, yo digo Bruno Mars

Dices Einstürzende Neubauten, yo digo Maroon 5

Dices Brainbombs, yo digo Drake

Dices Egor Letov, yo digo One Direction

Dices Death in June, yo digo LMFAO

Dices Current 93, yo digo Beyonce

Dices La Monte Young, yo digo Carly Rae Jepsen

Dices Moondog, yo digo Kelly Clarkson

Dices Lou Harrison, yo digo Coldplay

Dices Henry Cowell, yo digo PSY

Dices Luigi Russolo, yo digo Imagine Dragons

Dices Popol Vuh, yo digo Lana Del Ray

Dices Fishmans, yo digo Ellie Goulding

Dices Jean Jacques Perrey, yo digo P!nk

Dices Les Rallizes Dénudés, yo digo Owl City

Dices Rainbow Caroliner, yo digo Carrie Underwood

Dices Taj Mahal Travellers, yo digo Christina Aguilera

Dices Fushitsusha, yo digo Ariana Grande

Dices Peter Brötzmann, yo digo Rihanna

Dices John Cage, yo digo Jennifer Lopez

Dices Scott Walker, yo digo Ed Sheeran

Dices Unwound, yo digo Mumford & Sons

Dices Dead, yo digo Tyga

Dices Frank Zappa, yo digo Shakira

Dices Morton Feldman, yo digo Macklemore

Dices Captain Beefheart, yo digo Big Time Rush

Dices Pharoah Sanders, yo digo Akon

Dices Albert Ayler, yo digo Foster the People

Dices Ornette Coleman, yo digo The Weeknd

Dices Alice Coltrane, yo digo Panic! at the Disco

Dices Arnold Schoenberg, yo digo Florida Georgia Line

Dices Pierre Boulez, yo digo Big Sean

Dices György Ligeti, yo digo Gym Class Heroes

Dices Karlheinz Stockhausen, yo digo Miley Cyrus

Dices Nang Nang, yo digo The Lumineers

Dices Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, yo digo Jay-Z

Dices Nara Leão, yo digoCharlie Puth

Dices Basic Channel, yo digo Mac Miller

Dices Raymond Scott, yo digo Twenty One Pilots

Dices Delia Derbyshire, yo digo Harry Styles

Dices Daphne Oram, yo digo Charli XCX

Dices Noah Howard, yo digoBTS

Dices Terry Riley, yo digo Iggy Azalea

Dices Peter Sotos, yo digo John Legend

Dices Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, yo digo OneRepublic

Dices Boyd Rice, yo digo Migos

Dices Mahmoud Ahmed, yo digo Logic

Dices Henry Flynt, yo digo Bastille

Dices Kazumoto Endo, yo digo Five Seconds of Summer

Dices David Tudor, yo digo Pentatonix

Dices Aporea, yo digo The Chainsmokers

Dices Half Japanese, yo digo Fall Out Boy

Dices Mega Banton, yo digo David Guetta

Dices Secret Chiefs 3, yo digo Greta Van Fleet

Dices Keiji Haino, yo digo Alicia Keys

Dices Ramleh, yo digo Kanye West

Dices Otomo Yoshihide, yo digo T-Pain

Dices John Zorn, yo digo Lizzo

Dices Joe Meek, yo digo WALK THE MOON

Dices Robbie Basho, yo digo Cardi B

Dices Phil Spector, yo digo EXO

Dices Faxed Head, yo digo Solange

Dices Harry Partch, yo digo Lil Nas X

Dices Wesley Willis, yo digo Disclosure

Dices Fred Frith, yo digo Sam Smith

Dices The Residents, yo digo Michael Buble

Dices Sun Ra, yo digo Paramore

Dices Sun City Girls, yo digo Linkin Park

Dices Hans Krüsi, yo digo Florence + The Machine

Dices Royal Trux, yo digo Rascal Flatts

Dices Jandek, yo digo Eminem

Dices Yat-Kha, yo digo Chance the Rapper

Dices Loren Mazzacane Connors, yo digo Mariah Carey

Dices Pärson Sound, yo digo Snoop Dogg

Dices The Dead C, yo digo Adele

Dices Comus, yo digo Shawn Mendes

Dices Cromagnon, yo digo Chris Brown

Dices Eliane Radigue, yo digo Camilla Cabello

Dices Arthur Doyle, yo digo Halsey

Dices Shizuka, yo digo The 1975

Dices The Red Krayola, yo digo Billie Eilish

Dices Henry Cow, yo digo A$AP Rocky

Dices Magma, yo digo Dua Lipa

Dices Opus Avantra, yo digo Kendrick Lamar

Dices Pan.Thy.Monium., yo digo Nicki Minaj

Dices Murmuüre, yo digo Madonna

Dices Ksiezyc, yo digo Britney Spears

Dices Gong, yo digo Post Malone

Dices Cukor Bila Smert', yo digo Jonas Brothers

Dices cLOUDDEAD, yo opino que te calles

Dices Muslimgauze, ¡¡ YO GRITO POP!!

Dices Kaoru Abe, y te parto la madre

El 92% de la juventud está escuchando Avant Garde Noise. Si eres parte de ese 8% que aun escucha música de verdad, comparte este post a tus contactos de facebook.

¡¡¡¡ No dejes que el espíritu del POP muera !!!!

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asongofstarkandtargaryen · 7 months

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DANY - TYRION - JON

Home? The word made her feel sad. Ser Jorah had his Bear Island, but what was home to her? A few tales, names recited as solemnly as the words of a prayer, the fading memory of a red door …

When he was still a lonely child in the depths of Casterly Rock, he oft rode dragons through the nights, pretending he was some lost Targaryen princeling, or a Valyrian dragonlord soaring high o'er fields and mountains.

The dragon has three heads.

There are two men in the world who I can trust,

if I can find them.

We will be three against the world,

like Aegon and his sisters.

No one had told him the Night's Watch would be like this; no one except from Tyrion Lannister

She was looking at him the way she used to look at him at Winterfell, whenever he had bested Robb at swords or sums or most anything. Who are you? that look had always seemed to say. This is not your place. Why are you here?

A blue flower grew from a chick in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness...

AGOT - DAENERYS VI// Homeless - Marina Kaye// ADWD - TYRION II // Home Work : a memoir of my Hollywood years - Julie Edwards Andrews// Game of Thrones s06ep10// ASOS - DAENERYS VI// Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister - Mike S. Miller//ADWD cover - Marc Fishman// ASOS - DAENERYS VI// Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister - Michael Komarck// AGOT - JON III// Quote by Shannon Alder// I want and I don't want - Moonassi// ASOS - JON XII//Quote by Melissa Cox// ACOK - DAENERYS IV

#valyrianscrolls #daenerys targaryen #tyrion lannister #jon snow #canondany #canontyrion #canonjonsnow #a post of ice and fire #web weaving #three heads of the dragon #mycreations

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saleszulu76 · 10 months

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Oscar Fishman by Tazaca, st. Michael Andrew, hair Tomo, for Rain Magazine, May 2022

#oscar fishman #freckles #tazaca

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boonesfarmsangria · 6 months

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Mike Farrell Reflects on Captain B.J. Hunnicutt’s Ahead of ‘M*A*S*H’ TV Special

Scott Fishman, TV Insider Dec 21, 2023 Updated Dec 22, 2023 0

Mike Farrell knew he had a lot to live up to when he joined the 4077th Medical Corps and cast of M*A*S*H as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt. The well-versed actor already had an impressive career including a stint on Days of Our Lives. However, this was a completely different kind of pressure coming into season 4 of a highly successful series after the exit of Wayne Rogers, who played Captain “Trapper” John McIntyre.

He was up to the challenge with viewers connecting with the devoted family man and what would be a long-time bond with Alan Alda’s Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce. Viewers will ever forget the shot during the historic series finale where B.J. yells out that he left a note for Hawkeye. As he flies away in the helicopter, he soon notices that his good friend spelled out the word “Goodbye” with rocks on the ground.

It’s these types of iconic moments and characters that are celebrated during FOX’s upcoming M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television. Executive-produced by John Scheinfeld and Andy Kaplan, this two-special delves into the Emmy-winning run over 11 seasons through the perspective of the cast and visionaries behind the scenes.

Joining Farrell and Alda on the doc is Gary Burghoff (Cpl. Walter “Radar” O’Reilly), and Loretta Swit (Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan) to name a few, as well as series executive producers Gene Reynolds and Burt Metcalfe. Those who have since passed, including show creator Larry Gelbart, Rogers, Larry Linville (Maj. Frank Burns), Harry Morgan (Col. Sherman T. Potter), and McLean Stevenson (Lt. Col. Henry Blake) are spotlighted through archival photos and footage.

Here Farrell opens up about his emotional reaction to the special. The 84-year-old also describes what it’s like to see the beloved sitcom still resonate more than 40 years after it ended.

Michael Farrell

How often do you go back and watch the episodes back?

Mike Farrell: The popularity of the show continues to astonish me and thrill me, frankly. I get constant emails, and mail, calls to keep it fresh in my mind, and its extraordinary impact. I don’t make a point of looking for it on television, but sometimes it’s there. And when it’s there, I can’t stop looking at it and watching those people I love so much and care about. To see and remember who they were and what we did together. It’s something that will stay with me for the rest of my life. I’m so thrilled to be a part of it that it’s hard to put into words.

I remember seeing Alan Alda share a photo of you two toasting to the 50th anniversary of the show’s premiere. How is it for you to still have these close connections after all these years?

For us, it’s a family situation. We enjoyed working together and having this kind of bond that continues to this day. We talk about how much we love each other and stay in touch regularly. It has been something that brings an ongoing extraordinary rush of gratitude and appreciation for all of us here…Then you see David Ogden Stiers, Harry Morgan, Larry Linville, and others on the special. There is that sense of longing for somebody who you knew, loved, and enjoyed working with. It’s piercing at the heart when you see that sometimes. For me, I’m overwhelmed with the warmth that comes back from seeing Harry, remembering the relationship we had not only during the show but afterward. Watching Alan and his incredible wit and hijinks. Some of those things stay with me today. When I tell stories, I can’t help but get misty about those memories. It’s an everlasting love affair for me.

It’s fun to think about what would have happened if social media had been around during M*A*S*H’s original run. For example, B.J.’s mustache would be a hot topic of conversation.

People often ask me, “What do you think of the mustache?” I will say my mother hated the mustache. The mustache was a fun thing. Alan called me at the beginning of one season and said, “They think we are too much alike. What do you think about growing a mustache?” I thought it was a great idea. We made a lot out of it, which was fun to do. I wore what started as a red long shirt. Through many washes, it came out pink. I thought it was hilarious to be wearing a pink shirt in the middle of all that. I get many comments from people in the gay community who tell me they loved my pink shirt and ask if that was a signal. I tell them no, but that I’m glad they noticed it.

One of the topics that gets tackled in the special is B.J.’s character and moment of infidelity with a nurse divorcee. After all this time, I even saw a Reddit thread asking if B.J. cheated on his wife Peg.

I remember when I first met with the guys and they were talking about the possibility of Wayne leaving. I told them the one thing I didn’t want to do as an actor was come in and step in the boots of “Trapper.” They understood. They had in mind a fellow who was married, not a womanizer like “Hawkeye” or “Trapper,” who had a child at home. And he is going to be true to his wife and family. You’re talking about modeling fidelity on television, I didn’t mind that at all. We laughed. It stayed that way. One year we did a show where Blythe Danner played the guest star. She and “Hawkeye had been having a love affair in medical school, and she was temporarily assigned to our station. She was married, but the affair popped up again.

There is a scene where “Hawkeye” asks B.J. if he has ever been unfaithful. I said never. He said, “You ever tempted?” I said, “Tempted is a different question.” He said, “So, you have been tempted?” I said, “No, it was a different question.” It was a good gag. Larry Gelbart, who wrote the scene was ont eh stage when we finished that shot. I said, “Larry, that was wonderful, but let me suggest the idea. The fact B.J. is a faithful husband is great by me, but to suggest a man was not tempted goes too far. I don’t think we need to paint in that pristine manner.” He said that was a good thought. A year later Gene remembers that conversation with Larry. He asked, “What do you feel about B.J. falling off the fidelity wagon?” I said, “It depends on how you resolve it.”

How do you feel it came out?

I loved the whole process that they cared enough to hear me out, and decided it was worth dealing with that question. I thought they resolved it in a classy way. B.J. was upset about what he had done. It was brief and a misstep. He was miserable about it. “Hawkeye” gave him hell because he was going to write home and tell Peg. He said, “Don’t do that to her. If you must confess for whatever the transgression, wait until you get home where you can be with her and talk to her. I thought it was great that they were willing to explore the kind of experience people are put through in these circumstances.

It was almost like it didn’t matter how far they went, but didn’t matter. He would feel the same way.

Exactly. But the idea of them spending the night together in a bed, under those circumstances, and didn’t go far sounds a little stretch to me.

When was the moment you felt how big a show M*A*S*H was?

I was in Southeast Asia during one of our breaks. After my second or third year there on the show when I went around, I was astonished at the no matter what part of the world, the show meant something to the.m. This one man said, “Your show constantly underscores for me the meaning of peace and the need for peace in this world.” I came back to set and Alan and I were sitting together during the first day of the season back. I said, “Are you hearing what I’m hearing out there?” He said, “Yeah, we need to be aware of the way the show is affecting people.

We decided on a regular meeting as a cast and talked through the issues of the day. Alan and I both made it a point that this show is having an impact that is beyond just being a popular television show. We need to be seriously committed to making sure we do the best work we can do. Everyone got it and agreed and rededicated ourselves to commit to doing meaningful work because of the audience’s respect and appreciation for the show.

What are your overall thoughts on the FOX special while screening it?

I watched it with tears streaming down my face while laughter burst from my mouth. It was an extraordinary tribute. Not only to the show and people involved but the people involved behind the scenes. I’m glad they included the clip of Gene, Larry, and in particular Burt Metcalfe, the casting genius who brought many of the characters to the show; me included. He was a powerful force in maintaining the integrity of the show. It was deeply touching and I think the audience will love it. It shows the significance and the work of the characters and the way the show was built and what it became. I was thrilled when I saw it.

How do you think the show would do in today’s TV landscape?

I think it would remain a touchstone for people I can’t tell you how many veterans have contacted me. Even children of veterans. They would say. “My dad would never talk about his experience in the war until he saw your show. Then he would say, ‘That’s the way it was.”…That it has stayed relevant and meaningful to people for generations speaks volumes about the show.

M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television premiere, January 1, 8/7c, FOX

@stroyent 🤝

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tetw · 8 months

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10 Great Essays about Music

Is Old Music Killing New Music? by Ted Gioia - Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.

The Dark Art of Mastering Music by Jordan Kisner - Shedding light on the elusive studio practice that’s all but necessary to make music sound great.

The Last Time New York Was Hardcore by Michael Stahl - In the ’90s, one high-octane underground music scene desperately held on to its rebellious roots of power chords, slam dancing and stage diving. What happened to hardcore?

Some Notes on Attunement by Zadie Smith - A voyage around Joni Mitchell

Is There Anything Left Of Hip Hop? by Jason England - Hip hop has reached its midlife crisis

The Problem With Saying Oontz Oontz by Spencer Kornhaber - The story of dance music in America is a story of boom and backlash. As Beyoncé and Drake turn to house-inspired sounds, will the cycle happen again?

Why Do We Even Listen to New Music? by Jeremy D. Larson - Our brains reward us for seeking out what we already know. So why should we reach to listen to something we don’t?

How Twitter Changed Music by Eric Harvey - Hashtag rap! Kanye rants! Terrifying stan pile-ons! For better and worse, Twitter has forever altered the music landscape.

What Will Happen When Machines Write Songs Just as Well as Your Favorite Musician? by Clive Thompson - Artificial intelligence tools will hurt some musicians and help others.

The Violin Doctor by Elly Fishman - He’s trusted to repair some of the world’s most fabled — and expensive — instruments. How does John Becker manage to unlock the sound of a Stradivarius?

#essays #nonfiction #articles #music

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i-watch-too-many-movies · 1 year

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50 Favorite First Viewings of 2022

1. AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001) (dir. Steven Spielberg)

2. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

3. Cure (1997) (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

4. Something Wild (1986) (dir. Jonathan Demme)

5. Sweet Charity (1969) (dir. Bob Fosse)

6. Double Indemnity (1944) (dir. Billy Wilder)

7. An Angel at My Table (1990) (dir. Jane Campion)

8. Ganja and Hess (1973) (dir. Bill Gunn)

9. In the Mood for Love (2000) (dir. Wong Kar-wai)

10. The Lady Eve (1941) (dir. Preston Sturges)

11. Barton Fink (1991) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

12. The Wedding Banquet (1993) (dir. Ang Lee)

13. Watermelon Man (1970) (dir. Melvin Van Peebles)

14. Smooth Talk (1985) (dir. Joyce Chopra)

15. Exotica (1994) (dir. Atom Egoyan)

16. Drive My Car (2021) (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

17. Paths of Glory (1957) (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

18. Smiley Face (2007) (dir. Gregg Araki)

19. Heat (1995) (dir. Michael Mann)

20. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) (dir. William Greaves)

21. Fox and His Friends (1974) (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

22. Bright Star (2009) (dir. Jane Campion)

23. Tape (2001) (dir. Richard Linklater)

24. Magick Lantern Cycle (1948-1981) (dir. Kenneth Anger)

25. La cérémonie (1995) (dir. Claude Chabrol)

26. Aliens (1986) (dir. James Cameron)

27. Better Than Chocolate (1999) (dir. Anne Wheeler)

28. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

29. Häxän (1922) (dir. Benjamin Christensen)

30. Burn After Reading (2008) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

31. The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967) (dir. Melvin Van Peebles)

32. 2046 (2004) (dir. Wong Kar-wai)

33. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) (dir. Park Chan-wook)

34. The Last Detail (1973) (dir. Hal Ashby)

35. Charade (1963) (dir. Stanley Donen)

36. Far from Heaven (2002) (dir. Todd Haynes)

37. Broadcast News (1987) (dir. James L. Brooks)

38. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

39. One Week (1920) (dir. Buster Keaton)

40. The Learning Tree (1969) (dir. Gordon Parks)

41. Clue (1985) (dir. Jonathan Lynn)

42. A Simple Plan (1998) (dir. Sam Raimi)

43. Poison (1991) (dir. Todd Haynes)

44. Fishmans (2021) (dir. Yuki Teshima)

45. Masculin Féminin (1965) (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

46. Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (1999) (dir. Jim Jarmusch)

47. Lenny (1974) (dir. Bob Fosse)

48. Kuroneko (1968) (dir. Kaneto Shindo)

49. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (dir. Vincente Minnelli)

50. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1952) (dir. Howard Hawks)

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tam--lin · 5 months

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Every book I read in 2023!

Key:

🖖 = science fiction

💀 = horror

🏰 = historical element

🚀 = space non-fiction

✨ = favorite fiction

🧠 = favorite non-fiction

A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart (🧠)

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (🖖,✨,🏰)

Free Time by Jenny Blake (🧠)

No More Police: A Case for Abolition by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie (🧠)

The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal (🖖)

Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

The Missing Cryptoqueen by Jamie Bartlett

Second Contact by Mike Resnik (🖖)

Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet - and Why We're Following by Gabrielle Bluestone

Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race by Mary-Jane Rubenstein (🚀)

Black Hole Survival Guide by Jana Levin (🚀,🧠)

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (🏰,✨)

One Giant Leap by Charles Fishman (🚀,🧠)

The New Guys by Meredith Bagby (🚀,🧠)

The Mission: A True Story by David W. Brown (🚀,🧠)

Intuitive Eating by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole (🧠)

Up To Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes by Christine Yu (🧠)

Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt (🚀)

The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud (🖖,💀)

The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown (🖖,💀)

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Michael Brown (🚀)

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes (🖖,💀)

Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space by Erika Nesvold (🚀,🧠)

The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick De Semlyen (🧠)

If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

The Possibility of Life by Jamie Green (🚀,🧠)

It Rides A Pale Horse by Andy Marino (💀)

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle (💀)

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why is a book by Bart D. Ehrman (🧠)

The Dark Between The Trees by Fiona Barnett (🏰,💀)

Ararat by Christopher Golden (💀)

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023, edited by Anya Elizabeth Johnson

Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-hour Workweek by Rutger Bregman (🧠)

System Collapse by Martha Wells (🖖,✨)

Paladin's Faith: Saint of Steel #4 by T. Kingfisher (✨)

Far and away Doomsday Book was the favorite work of fiction I read in 2023. I had a better year of in 2023 than 2022 - I didn't like the majority of the fiction I read in 2022.

Most of the space non-fiction books I read were bangers. Honestly, most of the non-fiction I read this year, I also enjoyed. The Last Action Heroes stood out to me as being a light, fun book that was both a new release and out of my regular wheelhouse.

Astrotopia was my least-favorite non-fiction, Arrarat was my least-favorite fiction. (Neither of these are saying that much, since I DNF most books I really dislike.

#2023 #books

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steampunkforever · 2 years

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The Shape of Water is an interesting film inasmuch as marine intercourse is concerned. Sure does it play with magical realism and also function as a defiant Hellboy ripoff? Yeah. But also there’s the furry/scalie/fishy(????) content. Specifically content of a more sensual nature.

Does the movie fall into the trap of “it’s the 50s-60s and we’re gonna translate the American intolerance and repression of this era by making everyone comically intolerant of something basically harmless except for one outcast character who inherently understands the target of the harm?” Also yes*. But what we’re focusing on here is what happens when a Fishman and a woman love each other very much.

Del Toro knows what he’s about. He knows what you’re here for.

The movie is of course beautiful. The set design, lighting (Del Toro loves his greens!), and acting was impeccable. Octavia Spencer was amazing, Sally Hawkins was excellent (Can’t wait to see her in “Wonka”), as was Michael Shannon, who was beautifully written into the worst human being on earth with character motivations and goals so elegantly placed that I couldn’t help but clench my fist at how well written and acted his character was. Amazing villain.

Speaking of elegance and sophistication: It’s time to talk about Marital Relations of the Maritime sort. Del Toro is a saint, and though we never see any fishsticks, he gives the scenes of seagoing salaciousness a certain sensuality that cutting to black too soon would otherwise render silly. Say that five times fast! The liquid love scenes are R rated (Sally Hawkins disrobes, throughout the film our Fishman is always rendered in full nautical nudity) but never in an overly tawdry way. It’s all very intimate, much more so than I expected.

Not that the film doesn’t understand the ridiculous nature of fishy fornication. There’s an especially charming scene later on in the film where Octavia Spencer and Sally Hawkins discuss the Fishman’s own Creature from the Black Lagoon, and it’s played very well, answering questions about what happened during the aquatic acts Del Toro chose to omit from the screen.

Yes. Acts plural. What elegance! Del Toro’s choice to portray submarine seductions only twice was the perfect balancing act. Show the amphibious affections but once and your audience asks “was that very necessary” and “did this matter to the plot” (a bunch of squares, not even It Follows would qualify as plot relevant for them). Show it three times and you risk overextension into what we like to call “being *too* into it.” in this case, two is the perfect number, and it allows Del Toro to, as with Pacific Rim, fully understand the audience expectation of subaqueous snuggling and fulfilling it while also maintaining artistic ambition.

I do recommend this film, though if you watch with a group the conversation may devolve into speculation on how the Birds and the Bees might translate over to Sharks and Anchovies.

*I wonder how many of these narratives in art, especially after the civil rights movement, were resultant of writers processing their youth in a time where society (and their parents) remained prejudiced but the writers themselves were too young to enact progressive change.

#the shape of water #filmposting

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