1972 poster announcing upcoming theatrical releases (and re-releases) leading up to the company's 50th anniversary in 1973.

Björk, Possibly Maybe, (3 x CD Singles), One Little Indian, 1996 [Covet The Cover]. Designed by Me Company

<1995.06.13> björk - post

2015 vinyl, one little indian, tplp51ltd

Lotus flower modelled by Martin Gardiner. Cover and Design by Me Company. Photography by Stéphane Sednaoui

Poppy Ackroyd — Resolve. 2018 : One Little Indian.

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Medúlla

Best-of musical : c'est reparti

Promis, un jour je vais sortir de ce marasme qui me plombe depuis la rentrée, faute de savoir précisément dans quelle direction me tourner après mon cursus actuel...

Un Master musico à l'EHESS ? Une poursuite d'études au Canada ? Un stage sur le darkweb pour devenir millionnaire en bitcoin ?

En attendant, j'ai le plaisir d'annoncer que notre grand marathon des Must-listen reprend, COMPLÈTEMENT À LA BOURRE, bien sûr, puisque le mois d'octobre est déjà bien entamé et que je devrais être dessus depuis la fin août, mais bon.

Comme chaque année, je m'attends à des bonnes surprises et des grosses déceptions, des coups de gueule et des coups de foudre, des groupes avec des noms à la con et des artistes inoubliables, des titres qui vont s'inscrire dans la trame même de mes journées et d'autres vite oubliés à peine entendus ; des vieilles connaissances et des nouvelles têtes.

Et je reste convaincue que le millésime 2022/2023 sera aussi exceptionnel que l'a été celui de 2021/2022, qui était lui-même à la hauteur de celui de 2020/2021.

Le signe qui ne trompe pas : en parcourant toutes les nouvelles sorties de mes labels tagués et tous les musiciens listés sur les 50 Best albums of the year de Pitchfork, de Rolling Stone et du New Musical Express, je sentais l'impatience et l'excitation monter devant tous ces noms inconnus.

A kind reminder that in Mumbai there's a restaurant where reserved tables don't hold up a sign that reads "reserved" but rather a sign that reads "promised" and I think that's beautiful.

sobbing at how happy they all look

Best Shakespeare Adaptation

since the 1600s, people have been rewriting shakespeare and writing spinoffs in good, bad, and frankly just kind of insane ways. today, they will compete until only one is left standing!

during the poll craze i ran a lot of brackets and had fun, but ended up with a couple spare blogs i ended up having to delete, so i'm running this one off my main.

q. is this a tournament for productions or adaptations?

a. adaptations! stuff that changes dialogue or medium (beyond play -> movie) or takes a really new spin on it! west side story counts, romeo and juliet (1996) doesn't.

q. will there be a limit on contestants?

i'll cut it at 64 or 32 depending on how many submissions we get! if we get a lot of adaptations of a few plays and less of others, i won't cut any of them out, but i'll make some of them face off in round one

q. are you biased?

yes. fortinbras sweep. i've been reading 'these violent delights' too and it's pretty good. oh and can't forget haider, and requiem of the rose king is an all timer... basically, yes i really like rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, but i have much room in my heart

q. is it most best portrayal/analysis, or best on its own merits?

a. a little of both, but mostly the latter

q. does [x thing] (that's pretty different than the original inspiration) count?

a. if it is common knowledge that it's shakespeare inspired

q. does the lion king count?

a. yea

signal boosting! if yall great bracket blogs will help out @gayest-classiclit @byronicherobracket (this one's still in qualifiers, it seems cool!) @straightplayshowdown (this one's getting going again!) @bestadaptationtournament @gayestshakespearecouples

dip pen ink comm round 3! for one Bakugames, one Mouse, and one Sol

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not to do a remember when mother put the kettle on post but

does anybody (UK, child of the 90s) remember ye olde Punky Penguin?

such mediocre ice cream. such thrilling packaging.

Once u notice that 99% of white americans (maybe just americans in general) operate at all times as if native americans don't even exist anymore it's impossible to stop seeing it. Like. Even if they intellectually Know that is not true at all they would never assume that a native person is in the room with them, that a particular audience they are addressing could include native people, that anyone they pass on the street could possibly be native. And because so many of the dominant cultural images of native americans revolve around like, "humorously" offensive outdated Americana (sports team mascots, old westerns, pocahontas, novelty indian statues at rest stop gas stations and shit) and actual native communities don't have enough cultural influence on their own fucking land to provide widespread, self-determined representations to counteract that (or even to convince people to get rid of the bad shit!), people just internalize the idea that anti-native racism is more gauche or ridiculously antiquated than it is genuinely harmful to any real living people.

ik i'm getting emotional over a fucking himbo but the love hannibal puts into his food is like a desi mother's hug istg

i didn’t post about it here yesterday but i made masala with a whole bunch of stuff in it (chickpea paneer AND tofu) (because i’m the boss and i get to do what i want) and it came out only ok (too much coriander, really old garam masala, weird taste) (edible but not ideal) and i just ate it as stew yesterday but today i made myself make basmati and eat it again as leftovers instead of ordering pizza. everybody clap