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saturnsbabyboii · 1 year

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🍭Astro Observation for you to munch on until Fatoor 🍭

🍭People that have a Fire sign or an Earth sign on the cusp of the 3rd house are great vocalists (Exp. Ariana Grande, Whitney Huston, Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Lana Del Rey, etc.)

🍭Taurus Suns with Gemini Venus are top tier

🍭Capricorn Venus and their never-ending search for the perfect partner. (Standards are too high? or is no one worth it?)

🍭The stereotype of Cancers being homebodies seems to be very far from the truth. They're always on the go, meeting people, getting into new experiences and exploring. However, they do value their own space as they consider their home/room/inner world to be sacred and isn't to be shared with everyone. They're the true "Extroverted introvert", if you will.

🍭Synastry charts aren't a one size fits all. An aspect has a different interpretation depending on the status of the relationship (platonic, familial, romantic, or sexual, etc.) For instance, the presence of Squares can be experienced positively in romantic/sexual relationships, but a bit challenging in platonic ones. However, it is hell to have it with family.

🍭Continuing with aspects, the presence of squares or "harsh" aspects doesn't mean you're doomed to fail. In fact, people that have more harsh aspects are very well in control of themselves (or at least of the themes of the placements/houses involved). I have known and witnessed many people that have been blessed with trines that end up overindulging and disregarding the dangers of their actions. It is possible that because things usually work out for them that they take it for granted and push their luck too far. (The recurrence of trines in the birth chart is common among celebrities who overdose, but that is just what I have observed)

🍭There are many posts on placements/aspects that indicate wealth and/or fame. However, we don't talk about HOW, WHERE, and WHAT can we do to cultivate this kind of success. The answer is in the mutable houses (3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th). The sign over the house, the placements, and the position of the house ruler (even aspects and degrees but focus on the latter first) will tell you where you need to go, what should you do, how should you do it, and (most importantly) what is blocking you or in what ways can you change in order to move to that next step.

🍭Regardless of their other placements, I have never met or heard of a Pisce and a Leo getting along.

🍭It is true that Earth placements/doms guard their inner self with many walls, but the way Air placements/doms do it always fascinates me. Instead of an obvious defensive stance, they unleash a mirage that creates the illusion of openness. You never really know what's true versus what's not but the kicker is, neither do they. I still love them though.

🍭What's with Water energy and getting too much plastic surgery?

🍭Jupiter is the planet of growth, wisdom, knowledge, and luck. Wherever it's placed it'll give you "a big head". As a Jupiter in 3rd, I have to catch myself from being a smartass and a know-it-all. My friend has a Jupiter in the 1st and she could wear a trash bag and you can't tell her nothing about how she looks. On a side note, she does have a larger head and looks like a Bratz doll (no shade though)

🍭Despite what I have heard/read, I am continuously disappointed by Scorpio placements. I don't get the hype. But when it comes to Virgos and Geminis though, I have been pleasantly surprised.

🍭Aries Moon 🤝Low key being a covert narcissist

🍭Leos out here thinking they're an undiscovered celebrity, meanwhile Sagittarians and Capricorns are a living meme factory

🍭12th house stelliums and their obsession with existential questions "Why am I here?" "What's the soul?"

🍭Having your Moon reside in an Air house (3rd, 7th, 11th) makes it difficult for you to understand your physical emotional reactions (Exp. Always wondering "Why do I feel weird?") Finding a visual discord as an outlet or talking about it with other people can develop an awareness and an understanding of the connection between your body and mind

🍭Most Fire placements have such powerful minds and pure hearts but their mouths always get them in trouble.

🍭Pisces and Libra placements aren't sweet angels with rose-colored glasses. Not saying they aren't good people, but the ones that I have known had a very dark and twisted side to them with a very pessimistic point of view of the world. This could be due to their sensitivity to their surroundings and other people.

🍭Earth in the 8th is very likely to leave a big chunk as their inheritance, meanwhile Fire in the 8th is hitting the jackpot (Sorry nana)

🍭The element of your 2nd house reflects your self-esteem.

Water in the 2nd indicates a turbulent and unstable self-image that ranges from highs and lows.

Earth in the 2nd house has a sustainable and clear image of themselves with an awareness of their flaws and ways to improve.

Air in the 2nd house and their fluctuating sense of self, they are very likely to personalize and have a completely warped idea of themselves, or they absolutely don't give a damn about how they look and have an unshakable confidence.

Fire in the 2nd house, Either peak early in life then crash hard with a bruised ego or takes a long time to fully accept and love who they are

🍭Having Saturn and Jupiter in the same house is the holy grail of growth. You will forever receive lessons and discipline from Saturn along with endless wisdom and improvement from Jupiter. An indication of a very tough start (depending on the house themes) you may feel alone and conflicted with no one to turn to regarding it. However, with Jupiter as your guide and Saturn as your protector, you'll be able to take on whatever the house (and probably life) throws at you like a pro tennis player.

Bye Bitch✨

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girl-face-magee · 5 months

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Some films I would recommend for anyone to watch!

(Specifically cool people)

Appropriate Behavior (2014)-Desiree Akhavan

Pieces of April (2003)-Peter Hedges

Linda Linda Linda (2005)-Nobuhiro Yamashita

Twins in Paradise (2020)-Victoria Vincent

Catscape (2019)-Victoria Vincent

Cat City (2017)-Victoria Vincent

Kiss of the Rabbit God (2019)-Andrew Huang

Lily Chan & The Doom Girls (2020)-Andrew Huang

The Sarah Vaccine (2021)- Sarah Sherman

Strawberry Short-Cut (1991)-Tom Rubnitz

Pickle Surprise (1989)-Tom Rubnitz

Tampopo (1985)- Jūzō Itami

Supermarket Woman (1996)-Jūzō Itami

Brain Dead (Dead Alive) (1992)-Peter Jackson

Bad Taste (1987)-Peter Jackson

Meet the Feebles (1989)-Peter Jackson

The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia (2019)-Jonni Phillips

May I Please Enter? (2018)- Alan Resnick

Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Combat Zone (2017)-Rachel Wolther, Alex Huston Fischer

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beanifred · 4 months

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Have u got a watchlist/list of ur fave films/suggestions?

OK gonna call in and shout out @seadem-on for being my guide on this one, but I’ll definitely share mine!

-Baby Doll-Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams-amazing film. Don’t want the trailer it’s…well it doesn’t do the movie any justice!

-The Misfits-John Huston film, mostly location shot. He’s great!

-Ace High-fun thief character with lots of silly “business” to do. He’s gnawing the scenery but it’s fun!!

-The Lineup-a noir. Fantastic!

-The Typists-play on YouTube with him and his wife of SEVENTY years playing opposite:) Anne Jackson is a badass, too.

That’s a good start! I’m still waking up

#eli wallach #asks

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byneddiedingo · 9 months

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Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946)

Cast: Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Charles Bickford, Harry Carey, Tilly Losch, Butterfly McQueen. Screenplay: David O. Selznick, Oliver H.P. Garrett, based on a novel by Niven Busch. Cinematography: Lee Garmes, Ray Rennahan, Harold Rosson. Production design: J. McMillan Johnson. Film editing: Hal C. Kern. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin.

This is a bad movie, but it's one distinguished in the annals of bad movies because it was made by David O. Selznick, who as the poster shouted at moviegoers, was "The Producer Who Gave You 'GONE WITH THE WIND.'" Selznick made it to showcase Jennifer Jones, the actress who won an Oscar as the saintly Bernadette of Lourdes in The Song of Bernadette (Henry King, 1943). Selznick, who left his wife for Jones, wanted to demonstrate that she was capable of much more than the sweetly gentle piety of Bernadette, so he cast her as the sultry Pearl Chavez in this adaptation (credited to Selznick himself along with Oliver H.P. Garrett, with some uncredited help by Ben Hecht) of the novel by Niven Busch. Opposite Jones, Selznick cast Gregory Peck as the amoral cowboy Lewt McCanles, who shares a self-destructive passion with Pearl. Both actors are radically miscast. Jones does a lot of eye- and teeth-flashing as Pearl, while Peck's usual good-guy persona undermines his attempts to play rapaciously sexy. The plot is one of those familiar Western tropes: good brother Jesse (Joseph Cotten) against bad 'un Lewt, reflecting the ill-matched personalities of their parents, the tough old cattle baron Jackson McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his gentle (and genteel) wife, Laura Belle (Lillian Gish). Pearl is an orphan, the improbable daughter of an improbable couple, the educated Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall) and a sexy Indian woman (Tilly Losch), who angers him by fooling around with another man (Sidney Blackmer). Chavez kills both his wife and her lover and is hanged for it, so Pearl is sent to live with the McCanleses -- Laura Belle is Chavez's second cousin and old sweetheart -- on their Texas ranch. It's all pretentiously packaged by Selznick: not many other movies begin with both a "Prelude" and an "Overture," composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in the best overblown Hollywood style. It has Technicolor as lurid as its story, shot by three major cinematographers, Lee Garmes, Ray Rennahan, and Harold Rosson. But any attempt to generate real heat between Jones and Peck was quickly stifled by the Production Code, which even forced Selznick to introduce a voiceover at the beginning to explain that the character of the frontier preacher known as "The Sinkiller" (entertainingly played by Walter Huston) was not intended to be a representative clergyman. There are a few good moments, including an impressive tracking shot at the barbecue on the ranch in which various guests offer their opinions of Pearl, the McCanles brothers, and other things. Whether this scene can be credited to director King Vidor, who was certainly capable of it, is an open question, because Vidor found working with the obsessive Selznick so difficult that he quit the film. Selznick directed some scenes, as did Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, and Josef von Sternberg, all uncredited. The resulting melange is not unwatchable, thanks to a few good performances in secondary roles (Huston, Charles Bickford, Harry Carey), and perhaps also to some really terrible ones (Lionel Barrymore at his most florid and Butterfly McQueen repeating her fluttery air-headedness from GWTW).

#Duel in the Sun #King Vidor #Gregory Peck #Jennifer Jones

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videbi · 3 years

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The Best Movies

These are the movies that appealed to a large audience and had wide social impact to 1) inform, 2) educate, and 3) entertain. More movies may be added or any movie may be taken out of the list at anytime.

Intolerance (1916, Griffith)

The Gold Rush (1925, Chaplin)

The General (1926, Bruckman, Keaton)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, Murnau)

City Lights (1931, Chaplin)*

Duck Soup (1933, McCarey)

King Kong (1933)

It Happened One Night (1934, Capra)*

A Night at the Opera (1935, Wood, Goulding)

Top Hat (1935, Sandrich)*

Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)

Swing Time (1936, Stevens)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Cottrell, Hand, Jackson, Morey, Pearce, Sharpsteen)

Bringing Up Baby (1938, Hawks)

Gone With the Wind (1939, Fleming, Cukor, Wood)*

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939, Capra)

Ninotchka (1939, Lubitsch)

The Rules of the Game (1939, Renoir)*

The Wizard of Oz (1939, Fleming)*

Rebecca (1940, Hitchcock)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940, Ford)

The Great Dictator (1940, Chaplin)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Citizen Kane (1941, Welles)*

Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston)

Casablanca (1942, Curtiz)*

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, Curtiz)

Double Indemnity (1944, Wilder)*

Mildred Pierce (1945, Curtiz)

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Capra)*

Notorious (1946, Hitchcock)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)*

The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks)

Out of the Past (1947, Tourneur)

Red River (1948, Hawks, Rosson)

Rope (1948, Hitchcock)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, Huston)

All About Eve (1950, Mankiewicz)*

Sunset Boulevard (1950, Wilder)*

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Kazan)*

Strangers on a Train (1951, Hitchcock)*

The African Queen (1951, Huston)*

High Noon (1952, Finnemann)

Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Donen, Kelly)*

The Quiet Man (1952, Ford)

Roman Holiday (1953, Wyler)

Shane (1953, Stevens)

Stalag 17 (1953, Wilder)

Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu)

Dial M for Murder (1954, Hitchcock)

On The Waterfront (1954, Kazan)*

Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock)

The Night of the Hunter (1955, Laughton)

The Searchers (1956, Ford)*

12 Angry Men (1957, Lumet)

Funny Face (1957, Donen)*

Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Mackendrick)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, Lean)

Witness for the Prosecution (1957, Wilder)

Touch of Evil (1958, Welles, Keller)

Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock)*

Ben-Hur (1959, Wyler)

North by Northwest (1959, Hitchcock)*

Some Like It Hot (1959, Wilder)*

La Dolce Vita (1960, Fellini)*

Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)*

Spartacus (1960, Kubrick)

The Apartment (1960, Wilder)

West Side Story (1961, Robbins, Wise)

Jules and Jim (1962, Truffaut)*

Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Lean)*

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Mulligan)*

8 1/2 (1963, Fellini)*

Hud (1963, Ritt)

The Great Escape (1963, Sturges)

Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964, Kubrick)*

For a Few Dollars More (1965, Leone)

The Sound of Music (1965, Wise)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966, Leone)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Nichols)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Penn)*

In The Heat of the Night (1967, Jewison)

The Graduate (1967, Nichols)*

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)*

Oliver! (1968, Reed)

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Leone)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, Hill)

Easy Rider (1969, Hopper)

Midnight Cowboy (1969, Schlesinger)

The Wild Bunch (1969, Peckinpah)

MASH (1970, Altman)

The Conformist (1970, Bertolucci)*

A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick)

The French Connection (1971, Friedkin)

The Last Picture Show (1971, Bogdanovich)

Cabaret (1972, Fosse)

Jeremiah Johnson (1972, Pollack)

The Godfather (1972, Coppola)*

American Graffiti (1973, Lucas)

The Sting (1973, Hill)

Chinatown (1974, Polanski)*

The Godfather Part II (1974, Coppola)*

Jaws (1975, Spielberg)

Nashville (1975, Altman)*

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Forman)

All The President’s Men (1976, Pakula)

Network (1976, Lumet)

Rocky (1976, Avildsen)

Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese)*

Annie Hall (1977, Allen)*

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977, Lucas)

The Deer Hunter (1978, Cimino)*

Apocalypse Now (1979, Coppola)*

Manhattan (1979, Allen)

Ordinary People (1980, Redford)

Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese)*

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Spielberg)

Blade Runner (1982, Scott)*

Diner (1982, Levinson)*

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Spielberg)

Sophie’s Choice (1982, Pakula)

Tootsie (1982, Pollack)

Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Leone)

Platoon (1986, Stone)

Full Metal Jacket (1987, Kubrick)

Do The Right Thing (1989, Lee)

Glory (1989, Zwick)

Goodfellas (1990, Scorsese)*

Beauty and the Beast (1991, Trousdale, Wise)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Demme)

A River Runs Through It (1992, Redford)

Unforgiven (1992, Eastwood)

Farewell My Concubine (1993, Chen)

Schindler’s List (1993, Spielberg)*

Forrest Gump (1994, Zemeckis)

Pulp Fiction (1994, Tarantino)

The Lion King (1994, Allers, Minkoff)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Darabont)

Heat (1995, Mann)

Toy Story (1995, Lasseter)

Life Is Beautiful (1997, Benigni)

L.A. Confidential (1997, Hanson)

Titanic (1997, Cameron)

Saving Private Ryan (1998, Howard)*

The Sixth Sense (1999, Shyamalan)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Lee)

Gladiator (2000, Scott)

A Beautiful Mind (2001, Howard)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Jackson)

City of God (2002, Meirelles

The Pianist (2002, Polanski)

Finding Nemo (2003, Stanton, Unkrich)

Mystic River (2003, Eastwood)

The Incredibles (2004, Bird)

Million Dollar Baby (2004, Eastwood)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2005, del Torro)*

The Lives of Others (2006, Donnersmarck)*

No Country For Old Men (2007, Coen, Coen)

Gran Torino (2008, Eastwood)

Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle, Tandan)

The Hurt Locker (2008, Bigelow)

The King’s Speech (2010, Hooper)

The Artist (2011, Hazanavicius)

* Disclaimer: Strong sexual and/or violent content not recommended below age 16. Personal discretion or parental guidance advised.+

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coffee-n-bagels-comic-universe · 5 months

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Self-Indulgent Series December: Granite Hills

It's December, and that means I get to be self-indulgent and give myself gifts, mainly the gift of looking at actors I like.

I give you my series of self-indulgence, Granite Hills (1990):

~~💀💀~~

Set in 1980 in the fictional town of Mudslide, Wisconsin, mainly at the Granite Hills university. This cast will be a mix of actors who would and wouldn't be available at the time.

The Show's Cast Includes:

Alfred Molina as Angel Ramon Vega [Age: 24]

Anjelica Huston as Sandy Cherry Lawson [Age: 26]

Billy Connolly as Professor Darwin Derryl Rigby [Age: 40]

Billy Crystal as Jethro Mephisto Butcher [Age: 25]

Brendan Fraser as Dallas Nathaniel Gray [Age: 23]

Carrie Fisher as Veronica Beverly Chambers [Age: 21]

Cary Elwes as Easton Markos White [Age: 27]

Chris Barrie as Douglass Wilfred Bernard [Age: 20]

Christina Applegate as Storm Hekla Jóhannsson [Age: 18]

Christopher Walken as Professor Karl Cai Lowell [Age: 40]

Craig Charles as Chuck Vance Sheppard [Age: 21]

Dan Aykroyd as Cesar Clay Leon [Age: 23]

Danny John-Jules as Quentin Kingston Hollister [Age: 21]

Daryl Hannah as Bernadette Daphne Jordan [Age: 24]

Diane Lane as Saffron Elouise Mason [Age: 19]

Fran Drescher as Monique Joanne Curtis [Age: 22]

Geena Davis as Erin Kermit Cantrell [Age: 28]

Gunnar Hansen as Thor Hjörtur Jóhannsson [Age: 48]

Harold Ramis as Edmund Morgan Blackburn [Age: 29]

Jack Black as Odin Hrafn Jóhannsson [Age: 21]

Jeff Bridges as Professor Kennedy Troy Gill [Age: 40]

Joe Pesci as Professor Jeremiah Emmit Jekyll [Age: 40]

John Belushi as Julian Noel Hood [Age: 25]

John Candy as Dale Randall Newman [Age: 26]

John Cusack as Andrew Simon Garfield [Age: 23]

John Goodman as Cyrus Lars Nielsen [Age: 27]

John Leguizamo as Alijah Mrlon Cross [Age: 29}

Judd Nelson as Colton Kenelm Coy [Age: 19]

Katey Sagal as Ramona Adrienne Dunn [Age: 25]

Kevin Bacon as Brad Nathan Hardy [Age: 25]

Kiefer Sutherland as Trenton Homer Abbey [Age: 21]

Luis Guzmán as Jaxxon Garrett Flores [Age: 29]

Mandy Patinkin as Elishua Saul Zebedaios [Age: 28]

Matt Dillon as Dennis Waylon Marley [Age: 20]

Matthew Lillard as Alexander Buddy Jones [Age: 19]

Oliver Platt as Ruben Manuel Valdez [Age: 22]

O'Shea Jackson (Sr.) as Tyrese Jordan Maxwell [Age: 18]

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Parris Hayes Grant [Age: 19]

Raul Julia as Professor Marcel Gomez Agua [Age: 40]

Ray Winstone as Holden Montgomery Lynn [Age: 27]

River Phoenix as Kent Horace Woodward [Age: 18]

Robin Williams as Jaycee Aramis Ellis [Age: 26]

Sean Young as Maxine Jade Upton [Age: 26]

Stanley Tucci as Luke Robin Flynn [Age: 22]

Steve Buscemi as Hugh Chester Sweeney [Age: 25]

Tom Hanks as Mark Everett Shaw [Age: 20]

Tony Shalhoub as Orlando Jaime Guerrero [Age: 25]

Val Kilmer as Earl Blue Dior [Age: 29]

Wayne Knight as Osborne Finnegan Jarvis [Age: 28]

William Baldwin as Theodore Joshua Ball [Age: 20]

Willem Dafoe as Terry Roosevelt Jepson [Age: 27]

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noodyl-blasstal · 2 years

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New prompt! New prompt! New prompt! :D

26 and Magnus? Lol

Thank you so much for this Gab, sorry for the wait, but this evaded me despite starting it about four times. I wanted to make sure it was worthy, and it turns out I just needed to go feral.

“Please. Please tell me what podcast your horse is listening to. Please tell me, in excruciating detail, why, and how you chose this, and whether or not the horse in fact notices”

Prompt from @juicywritinghoard Prompts for Fun and Profit which can be found by clicking here.

“Please. Please tell me what podcast your horse is listening to. Please tell me, in excruciating detail, why, and how you chose this, and whether or not the horse in fact notices.” Magnus looked up to see who had spoken. One of the twins was standing in front of him, definitely Lup. She squatted down next to him so she could look him in the eyes and grabbed his shoulders. “I have to know.”

Magnus wasn’t entirely sure what to do with this. The twins had never spoken to him. They never spoke to anyone. They worked their shifts, they went home, they didn’t hang out to shoot the shit, they never came to the staff campfires, and now here she was. But, well, looks like he'd finally gotten through to her! New friend! Everyone else was going to be so pleased. “Okay, so I have a rotation. Today it’s Twiback Tuesday.” Magnus said, matter of fact. He was happy to explain.

“Magnus, it’s Friday.” Lup said.

“I know, but there’s a system! You said your wanted detail. You can ask questions at the end.” Magnus said firmly.

Lup looked like she was going to argue for a second, but flopped onto the ground next to him, leant herself against the fence of the paddock, and mimed locking her lips and throwing away the key.

“Okay, cool. So, I’m going to go back to the start. Johann was really nervous when I first started working here, he gets anxious you see. I had the time to spend with him because I was the third stable hand they took on. So, we started chatting…”

“...You started chatting to Johann… the horse?” Lup asks, sounding genuinely delighted.

“Obviously.” Replied Magnus. “But you said you’d save your questions until the end.” He mockingly narrowed his eyes at Lup. She grinned and pretended to scramble for the invisible key to lock her lips again.

“Okay, so we started chatting and I realised that it helped him feel less anxious. He was way happier with going out and about when I was there to talk. So then I started reading him stories.”

“You, you started reading to the horse?” Lup interrupted again.

“Well there’s only so many things I could think of to say, but stories have all the good words in the good order already and I didn’t have to think about it. Easier for me, and he loved them! Anyway, so I started reading him stories…”

“What are his favourite books?” Lup had turned herself round to face him now, smile cracking wide.

“Well I started him off with the classics.” Said Magnus, as if this was obvious.

“Like Pride and Prejudice?” Lup asked.

“Percy Jackson.” Magnus replied. Ignoring Lup’s snort of laughter to continue. “Anyway, it turned out he liked a lot of different books, so I got him a library card.”

“Wait, no, hold on. Magnus… You got Johann a library card?”

“Yeah, you can sign up online.” Magnus said. He wasn’t sure why Lup was confused about this, the instructions were in the welcome pack they gave everyone on the staff. “Anyway, once they sent over his card number and pin I just used the app to get books online for him so he didn’t just have to read what I had and could develop his own tastes.” He paused here, just in case Lup had anything else to say, but she just looked at him in wonder. Magnus was glad she appreciated the value of a library membership.

“So, then we started trying different genres, and it turns out he loves a good mystery, but he can be a bit of a wuss sometimes, so you need to balance it out. I read him a Shaun Huston one time and he had to have the light on in his stable all week."

"You gave Johann nightmares?" Lup asked. Her voice wobbled slightly. Oh no! She was worried about Johann.

"Shaun Huston gave Johann nightmares, but it's okay!" Magnus reassured her, we have a system now.

Lup let out a strange noise which she quickly turned into a cough. "Sorry, just a tickle. Please go on."

"Right, so, the books were working well. We just had to balance the content. So we started reading two books at once. One was horror or mystery and the other was romance or fantasy. We read the scary one first, then the other one as a palate cleanser."

"And he doesn't get confused about the plot?" Lup asked.

"Of course not! He's an avid reader, he knows what he's doing." Magnus says. "So the reading was going well, but then he was reluctant to go too far into the paddock where he couldn't hear me. So I had to start yelling…"

"Had to, yes, of course." Lup nodded wisely.

"And one day I was yelling Breaking Dawn at him when Davenport came over and suggested it might be impacting the guest experience…" Magnus still disagreed, the guests were here on the ranch for the horses, happy Johann = happy them.

Lup did another weird cough. "Uh huh."

"Dav's the boss, so I had to think of a way to read to him that he could hear better across the paddock."

"And that's why you rigged up the speakers?" Lup asks.

"That's why I rigged up the speakers! At first I got the karaoke machine and just read to him that way, but all the yelling had actually done a number on my voice and Dr Merle said I had to rest it when I went to see him. But, then I got thinking, what's like a book that I can play to him?" Magnus looked at Lup expectantly.

"Podcasts?" Lup replied.

"Podcasts!' Magnus confirms.

"Then it was just about finding the right mix. He really likes Wine and Crime, NADDPod is one of his favourites because he loves to play d&d…"

"Magnus, Magnus this is very important. Have you been playing dungeons and dragons with the horse?" Lup asked, eyes wide.

"He really likes to roll the big dice I made him." Magnus confirmed and Lup started coughing again. "Anyway, so he likes the Magnus Archives too, but he gets scared of the stories so I have to play him an episode of You Can Sit With Us or We Have the Receipts afterwards. He's going through a sci fi phase at the moment, so we just finished Girl in Space and started The Strange Case of the Starship Iris."

Lup nodded along enthusiastically. "And you said there's a schedule?"

"Yeah, it's good for him to have routines, he knows what to look forward to. Monday is The Strange Case of the Starship Iris to get the week started with a nice story. Tuesday is Wine and Crime and sometimes he listens to two because there's a big backlog at the moment. Wednesday is The Magnus Archives and whatever we pair it with because he tends to feel mentally strongest on Wednesdays…"

"How do you kno… nevermind, ignore that one." Lup sat back against the fence and looked at him expectantly.

"Thursday is a tricky one, because it's nearly the weekend, but not yet. At the moment we listen to 8 Bit Book Club and then when I groom him I explain the game they talked about - most of them were before his time."

"Does he know a lot about recent video games then?" Said Lup.

"I keep him up to date with new releases." Magnus said.

"I did not have you pegged for a gamer." Lup said thoughtfully.

"Oh no, I don't play them. They're not my thing. Johann just likes to stay current." Magnus wasn't sure how Lup had made the leap to peg him as a gamer, maybe she needed to chat with Angus about deductive reasoning, he was always happy to explain it.

"Right, so then we have Twiback Tuesday on Fridays. He wasn't that into the books, but he does like the way the hosts analyse them, puts him in a great mood for the weekend. Then Saturday and Sunday he has the longer podcasts because he's out in the paddock longer to wait between the rides from guests and day trippers. They're the d&d days. NADDPod is Saturday, then Dimension 20 on Sunday. They've done Starstruck Odyssey lately which was great timing for his sci fi thing. He couldn't stop prancing during the Plinth fight."

"Have you ever tried switching the order up?" Lup asked.

"Of course, this was a lot of trial and error, but it's what works best for him. At first I just put one on for him to listen all the way through, but he didn't like that. He likes the variety. We just have to have a conversation about it if we run out of episodes and need to find something new. Sometimes it takes a bit of time to get the schedule sorted out again, but we work together and get it done. He's so much braver now, look at him!" Magnus gestured to where Johann was playing with Fisher and Avi.

"He'd barely look at them before." Okay, so he didn't mean to get teary, it was just nice to see how far the nervous horse had come.

"You're right. He seems much more carefree. I'm glad Dav didn't have to sell him. You did great work, Mags." Oooh, a nickname? He had her! He knew he could make friends with the twins eventually. He'd have them at the bonfire before the month was out.

"But anyway, yes, to answer your questions, he notices which podcasts I play." Magnus finished.

"Thank goodness you have the same taste I guess." Lup said.

"What? Oh no, I listen to The Infinite Monkey Cage sometimes, but podcasts aren't really my thing."

#This may have been written like a fever dream at 4am #Magnus just wants to help Johann be the best and most confident horse he can be #Lup is running home to recount this whole thing to Taako and they're finally going to start hanging out with everyone else #Purely so they can ask more questions #taz fic #magnus burnsides #lup taaco #Noodyl Writes

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Giraffe's Eye View | The Hobbit (1977) REVIEW)

Wondering why the sudden case of Deja Vu? It's because this was posted as one long review called 'BINGE WEEK', but I've decided to shorten it for the sake of your sanity and mine. If you're interested in my previous review, click here for my thoughts on 1956's The Ten Commandments! For now though, onwards to a grand adventure!

Let it be known throughout the land that I am not a worshiper of the Church of Tolkien. Before finally checking out Peter Jackson's beloved film trilogy last year, my only exposure to the classic British novelist's work had been Letters from Father Christmas, a collection of letters he wrote to his children as a version of Santa who dealt with a peculiar polar bear when not fighting off goblins.

Ha, wouldn't that have been amazing? Santa Claus vs David Bowie, what would even top that?

How is that not a Marvel comic already? Oh wait, I'm getting off track, let's get back to the point shall we!

As far as The Hobbit goes, any knowledge of that comes from the three-part comic review done by Linkara of @atopfourthwall fame. Any of you who haven't checked them out really should, the show is funny and he brings up a lot of good points in regards to the book and movies. If nothing they taught me about Tolkien's bedtime stories that served the basis for this 1977 animated feature directed by, of all peeps, Rankin and Bass!

For all you young wiper-snappers wondering who Rankin and Bass are, again you have my pity. Unlike VHS though, chances are you've seen the work of these two television icons. They're responsible for seasonal staples such as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Nester, The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold, Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July, and Nester, The Long Eared Christmas Donkey. Yesir, Nester, a sad rip-off of Dumbo where the mom actually dies! Merry Christmas! Like the tale of the donkey, most of these seasonal specials show their age, but still have timely yuletide messages at their core that ring true today. Combine that with memorable music, charming characters, and the occasional nostalgic nightmare fuel, and you have a lineup of seasonal staples that's as warm and comforting as a cup of hot coco. Still, those are just half-hour Christmas outings. How do Rankin and Bass fare adapting The Hobbit?

Our story focuses around Bilbo Baggins (Orson Bean), an unassuming hobbit content on living a contempt life in the Shire. That is until a wizard named Gandalf (John Huston) randomly comes a calling alongside twelve elves. Eleven of these elves might as well be set dressing considering how much they add to the story. Asides from giving Rankin and Bass regulars like Paul Frees something to do, their only purpose in the plot is to be captured, nearly eaten, then fight in the war of the five armies at the end. Before all that though, they approach Bilbo proclaiming he's a master burglar, asking him to help reclaim their gold from a greedy dragon named Smaug (Richard Boone). Bilbo reluctantly agrees, even going so far as to sign a contract agreeing to join the endeavor. Yes, Bilbo signs a legal piece of paper declaring he's being hired to something illegal. Along the way he encounters trolls, wolf-riding goblins, giant creepy spiders, and a mysterious ring formally owned by a sickly looking creature named Gollum.

Gollum here is far sicklier in appearance than in the Peter Jackson movies, looking like a mutated frog freak that lives exclusively in mud. Honestly I prefer this design and now wish we lived in the timeline where Andy Serkis had to mocap this to life. Other character designs can be off-putting at first, but overtime you get used to them. Two good examples are Bilbo and Smaug. The amount of details on Bilbo's face can come across as creepy at first, but Bean's performance really helps sell the character's sincerity. Smaug, on the other hand, looks more like a cat than a dragon. Maybe I'm just too used to the design made famous by WETA and Benedict Cumberbatch, but every time I saw Smaug in this I kept expecting him to ask me for lasagna before shoving Odie off the table.

Meow.

Joking aside, the movie is a perfectly serviceable adaptation of this fairy tale treasure hunt, though not without a few problems. The songs sprinkled throughout the feature are catchy but ultimately forgettable, there's some wonky animation every now and again, you could've cut out a few dwarves and lost nothing, it was super disappointing how they didn't help defeat Smaug near the end, and the battle of the five armies lacked the epic scope we'd later see in the Jackson movies. Still, if one were to forget the Tolkien retellings we've received since then, the Rankin and Bass take on The Hobbit is as good as gold! I just hope a cat-faced dragon doesn't come along and take my copy...

Assuming one won't, our next feature ironically comes to us from a company founded by the animators

Fun fact about this movie that my friend Alec brought up; it was animated by Topcraft, a studio that sadly went bankrupt in 1985 before three of its members reformed what remained into the company that gave us our next picture...

GIF by daughter-of-the-king-bc

CURIOUS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? CLICK HERE FOR MY THOUGHTS ON 1997'S PRINCESS MONONOKE! MAY THE GLASSES BE WITH YOU!

#tolkien #giraffes eye view #giraffe #review #The Hobbit #The Hobbit 1977 #Hobbit #hobbit 1977 #rankin and bass #animation

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Indie Top 20 Country Countdown Show April 13th, 2024 from Indie Chart on Vimeo.

Top 20 Indie Country Songs April 13th, 2024

#1 ALCOHOL OF FAME Lee Sims - Adelphos Records

#2 I'm A Ramblin' Man Mike Hughes - Big Bear Creek Music

#3 MARGARITA MOURNING Rickie Joe Wilson - Colt Records

#4 The Grand Tour Burt Winkler - Colt Records

#5 REDNECK MONEY Colt McLauchlin - Steam Whistle Records

#6 OPEN AIR BAR Donny Smith - Colt Records

#7 RHYMIN' IN THE RYMAN TONITE Michael Lusk - Triple Jct. Records

#8 WHEN YOU LAND Dennis DiChiaro & WNO - Colt Records

#9 HONKY TONK HIPPIE Henry Jackson - Independent

#10 CLOSING TIME Dan Knight - Steam Whistle Records

#11 COLD SIDE OF THE BED Dave Nudo & Dusty Leigh Huston - Emanant Music

#12 LEAVIN' AND SAYIN' GOODBYE Mike Hughes - Big Bear Creek Music

#13 SHIP WITHOUT A SEA Trevor Carlesi - Bongo Boy Records

#14 FIGHTING FOR YOUR FREEDOM Hammond Brothers - Dynasty Records

#15 I'LL PICK YOU UP Brendan Kelly - Independent

#16 BROTHERLY LOVE Cody & Burt Winkler - Colt Records

#17 MAGIC IN THIS MOONSHINE Jeff Orson - Independent

#18 ANYWHERE THERE'S A JUKEBOX J.K. Coltrain - Colt Records

#19 UNDER THE RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES Rosemarie - Colt Records

#20 GOOD WOMAN BLUES Mike Hughes - Big Bear Creek Music

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bunniesbearsandadventures · 2 months

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So the other day in my philosophy class we decided to hold a tournament ranking system type thing to determine which singer/band was the most iconic of all time.

I don't remember who all we put in the tournament but the official top 4 of all time are:

1. Michael Jackson

2. def leopard

3. Bob Marley

4. Hozier

We had like abba, Whitney huston, mitski, the gorillaz, drake, motzart, Kendrick lamar, led zeplin, Taylor swift, clairo, and a few others.

Idk wtf we based the rankings on but a shit ton of people really wanted Hozier to be like number one.

Idk i thought it funny but also sorta wack.

#random #just completley random #like wtf are these artist #the only one who deserves to be here is micheal jackson and im not even a big micheal jackson listener #also we didnt break it up by genrw #we litterly just put whoever and determined that way #like come on #as if motzart and mitski ever stood a chance #they deserve their own category #idk

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Welcome to Literally Jesse. Thank you for taking the time to come and check out my site, but where are my manners? Allow me to introduce myself.

Hi, I’m Jesse Rosenbaum. I grew up in Green Brook, NJ and as of 2017, I am living in Vero Beach, FL. I am an author of stories for both page and screen. Literally Jesse is a place where I can share what I have been up to both literally and literarily speaking.

I am an avid reader of fiction with a love for the horror, mystery, science fiction & thriller genres, but I don’t limit myself to those genres. I’m open to reading all genres as long as the subject matter peaks my interest.

I am a soon to be published author with my first novel, ‘The Condemned‘, which is to be published by Fulton Books. I am very excited to share what I have been up to and what I am working on.

What can you expect to see on this site?

Samples of the stories I am working on.

Stories that I have enjoyed reading and think you might too.

Writing from others that inspires me.

This might be the part where you think to yourself, “How do I know that I will even like what you, Jesse, have to share?” I’m so glad you asked. Here, in no particular order, are a number of authors that I enjoy and / or inspire me, which, perhaps, you enjoy also.

WARNING: This won’t be a short list.

Richard Matheson

Hands down my favorite author and biggest inspiration. For me, it all started with ‘I Am Legend’.

William Shakespeare

If I had to pick one play, it would be Hamlet. I love that play.

Christopher Marlowe

I took an 18th Century Literature course in colleague and fell in love with his works. Tamburlaine the Great was my favorite of his with Doctor Faustus being a close second.

Edgar Allen Poe

T.S. Eliot

W.H. Auden

H.P. Lovecraft

Johnathan L Howard

For me, it began with his writing in the Circle of Blood (Broken Sword game) and re-ignited years later with his Johannes Cabal novels.

Christopher Moore

It all began with ‘A Dirty Job’.

Steve Niles

Ben Templesmith

Hands down my favorite comic book artist.

Shirley Jackson

Mary Shelley

Anne Rice

David Wellington

Henry Rollins

This man inspires me and provides a kick-ass soundtrack.

Alan Cumming

His novel ‘Not My Father’s Son’ is so beautiful and strong.

Chuck Palahniuk

I know it may be cliché, but ‘Fight Club’ is where it all started for me.

Charlie Huston

So, how many of those have read or enjoyed? Perhaps we already have some things in common. There are others I could share, of course, but we would be here a while. I hope you come back soon to see what I am up to both literally and literarily.

#intro post #Jesse Rosenbaum #writers

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