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Ok so i‘ve been thinking about this: You being so mad about spooky bc he‘s the reason why your bestfriend cesar has to go through all of that crap. Picture it like in S3 with him driving you home from the carnival and then confronting him. BUT: He likes you and kissed you and then you stay at his house? Maybe make it a longer one to include more from the carnival as well! :)

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You, Monse, Jasmine, and Cesar were at the local carnival with Cesar’s older brother, Oscar. It was weird with you because you had a crush on him; however, the things he had done had caused Cesar to go through a lot. The five of you had just gotten off of a ride and Jasmine had a kid vomit on her so everyone was disgusted while Oscar started laughing and began clowning Jasmine.

“Oh, I swear to God, I think I saw an entire churro on your back,” Oscar laughed.

Jasmine faked laughed before glaring at the Santo, “I’m gonna go get us some drinks,” she walked away.

“I’ll take a Corona,” Oscar called out, “but I don’t need a lime. I’m gonna grab one out of your hair,”

“Shut up, Oscar,” you laughed and hit his arm.

Oscar soon lost his amusement when he saw 19th Street, “I’ll be back,”

“Hey, you sure?” Cesar put his hand on Oscar’s chest.

“19th Street isn’t gonna start shit here. Too public,” Oscar walked away.

“So, um, how long is Oscar gonna hang out? I mean, not that I mind. I just...ok, I do mind, but I’m trying my best not to,” Monse asked Cesar, “although, you gotta admit, when he’s around, shit does seem to go down,”

You just walked away because you just didn’t wanna hear it so you quickly got a churro from a truck and got back to see Jasmine handing out slushie cups. The moment you walked back, Jasmine shoved the third cup into your hands.

“Nah, girl. Forties. I got them from the paletero,” Jasmine grinned.

“Oh. You showed ‘em your boob?” you looked at her with a ‘really?’ look.

“No. My third nipple, which isn’t even that big a deal because it’s in my belly button. I got an outie in my innie,” Jasmine did a small dance.

A cop called out for Cesar so Jasmine quickly said, “eighty-six the Forties!”

You didn’t do it because you knew that Hammel was a dirty cop so it really didn’t matter. Fast forward, you were now sitting with drunk Jasmine and Monse which kind of annoyed you, but amused you because of their conversation about getting the D. Cesar jogged up to the three of you in a hurry.

“I just ran into Dwayne. He wants me to go help my dad at the joint. I know we had a planned non-plan, but can we rain check?” Cesar asked.

“It’s fine. No problem,” Monse said bummed out.

“Thank you,” Cesar walked away.

Time had passed and you were still sober trying to get the two girls together so you could walk them home safely. However, it wasn’t going as planned because Jasmine stopped and wanted to do a challenge.

“It’s the Lunch Money Challenge, yo!” Jasmine danced.

“Work it, girl! Work that now, good girl!” Monse cheered for her new friend while you and Oscar stood by annoyed.

“Where’s Cesar?” Oscar asked, looking around.

“Went to go help Ray,” you rubbed your temples.

“All right. Well I’m bouncing,” Oscar began to walk away, but stopped short, “how are you guys getting home?”

“Someone’ll drive us,” Jasmine said, but you stopped her before she could say anything else.

“I’ll walk them home,”

Oscar shook his head and nodded his head towards the parking lot, “I’ll take y’all home,”

You sighed, but gathered the two girls and shoved them into the back to fall asleep while you sat in the front, closing your eyes temporarily. Soon, you were at Oscar’s house.

“You sure you don’t want me to drop you home?” Oscar looked at you.

“No. I don’t need any favors from you,” you groaned.

“You’re just too pretty,” he said.

“No, I’ve had too much bullshit!” you began your rant as you got out with Oscar, “you and your bullshit. Everything is always about you!” you slammed the car door closed.

“Hey! Take it easy,” Oscar pointed at the door.

“Don’t tell me how to take it,” you snapped.

“Go home,” Oscar tried to order you,

“You just want me to go home so I don’t say the things that I need to say. But I have things to say and I’m not going home until I say them. Do you ever think about Cesar and how you’re ruining his life? You got screwed and now you’re screwing him up,” you started imitating Oscar, “‘Cause I gotta follow the rules of the streets. Look at me and my muscles. I got a dumb teardrop tattoo, but I don’t cry because I’m a big man,’ toxic masculinity. Look it up,”

“You done?” Oscar looked at you amused.

“You know what? Everything bad that has happened is because of you! You jumped Cesar into the gang, you tasked him to kill Latrelle, and now, because of that, because of you, Olivia is dead, and Ruby will never be the same,” your phone started ringing, “you masterminded the take down of the Prophets, and they got kidnapped. Now, we have to find someone that is impossible to find, and if we don’t then I don’t know what’s gonna happen, but whatever it is, it’ll be because of you!” your phone chimed again so you looked down to see that it was your little sister, “it’s my sister,”

“The one you’re taking care of?” Oscar asked, “Cesar told me how you got into that position. Pretty messed up,”

“Yeah,” you sighed, “yeah, it was, but it’s whatever because I’m still gonna take care of her and make sure she gets out of here,” you teared up, “I don’t get how people will make their kids take care of their younger kids,”

“I know why,” Oscar said, “because they’re too selfish and want to do things for them. They want to live their lives and disregard the life that they made and shove them into another,”

“You’re right,” you started crying.

“Hey,” Oscar softly said while pulling you into a hug, “it’s gonna be alright. I got you,”

You pulled away, looking up into the brown eyes of the man you had a crush on. He leaned in and captured your lips with his and the two of you had moved in sync with each other. It had been going on for a couple minutes until the two of you needed to take a breath.

“W-wanna stay the night?” Oscar looked down towards the door.

“Ummm, yeah. Let me text the babysitter and ask if she can stay the night,” you sent a quick text to the babysitter who sent a yes, “alright, she can,”

The two of you went inside and laid down on his bed and just started talking about anything and everything. He turned to lay on his side to look at you, but you didn’t notice until a few minutes later.

“What?” you asked.

“quiero que seas mío,” Oscar laid his hand on your cheek.

“yes,” you grinned and kissed him again.

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half-a-tiger · 5 years

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TROPICAL FUCK STORM - Who's My Eugene?, off their album 'Braindrops' out August 23rd, 2019 on @joyfulnoiserecs & Flightless Records.

Shot on a beach on an Italian island on a telephone by Lauren Hammel and Helena Holmes aka Hammer and Tongs Productions, and edited in downtown Thornbury by Oscar O'Shea.

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MICHAEL GIACCHINO

SPIDER-MAN™: FAR FROM HOME

El prestigioso compositor Michael Giacchino, ganador de un Oscar por la banda sonora de Up, Sony Music anuncia el lanzamiento de SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) con música del compositor ganador del Premios de la Academia, Globos de Oro, Grammy y BAFTA, MICHAEL GIACCHINO (Up,The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Lost, Coco). Disponible en LP el viernes 23 de agosto, la banda sonora incluye música del éxito de taquilla de Sony Pictures, que se estrenó en julio.

Consíguelo AQUÍ

Después de componer la música de la última entrega de la serie Spider-Man: Homecoming, el compositor Michael Giacchino dice sobre esta nueva película: “Me encantó volver a uno de mis personajes favoritos de Marvel, Peter Parker. Spider-Man: Far From Homecuenta los desgarradores eventos de Endgamey se centra en el problema de Peter para lidiar con el vacío que dejó Iron Man mientras trataba de divertirse como un adolescente. El mundo de Peter continúa creciendo, lo que me permite desarrollar los temas de la última película, y encontrar formas de expresar el equilibrio entre las dos partes de su vida. Y, por supuesto, siempre es divertido aportar nuevas ideas a un proyecto para nuevos personajes como Mysterio".

Continuando la historia de Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man debe actuar para enfrentarse a nuevas amenazas en un mundo que ha cambiado para siempre.

Dirigida por Jon Watts. Escrita por Chris McKenna y Erik Sommers. Basada en el cómic de MARVEL de Stan Lee y Steve Ditko. Producida por Kevin Feige y Amy Pascal. Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Thomas M. Hammel, Eric Hauserman Carroll, Rachel O'Connor, Stan Lee, Avi Arad y Matt Tolmach son los productores ejecutivos. La película fue protagonizada por Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Zendaya, Cobie Smulders, Jon Favreau, JB Smoove, Jacob Batalon, Martin Starr, con Marisa Tomei y Jake Gyllenhaal.

LISTADO DE CANCIONES DE SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) 1. Far From Home Suite Home 2. It's Perfect 3. World's Worst Water Feature 4. Multiple Realities 5. Brad to the Drone 6. Change of Plans 7. Night Monkey Knows How to Do It 8. Mr. One Hundred and One 9. Prague Rocked 10. Who's Behind Those Foster Grants 11. Power to the People 12. Personal Hijinks 13. Praguenosis: BAD 14. A Lot of 'Splaining to Do 15. The Magical Mysterio Tour 16. Taking the Gullible Express/Spidey Sensitive 17. Gloom and Doom 18. High and Flighty 19. An Internal Battle 20. Happy Landings 21. Tower of Cower 22. Bridging the Trap 23. Bridge and Love's Burning 24. Swinging Set 25. And Now This…

SOBRE MICHAEL GIACCHINO

El compositor Michael Giacchino ha participado en algunos de los proyectos cinematográficos más populares de los últimos años, entre ellos Los Increíbles, La Guerra del Planeta de los Simios, Ratatouille, Star Trek, Jurassic World, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, y Coco.La banda sonora de Giacchino de 2009 para la exitosa película de Pixar Up le valió un Oscar®, un Globo de Oro®, el BAFTA, el Broadcast Film Critics' Choice Award y dos Premios Grammy®.

Giacchino estudió cine en la Escuela de Artes Visuales de Nueva York. Después de acabar la universidad, consiguió un trabajo de marketing en Disney y comenzó a estudiar composición musical, primero en la Juilliard y luego en UCLA. Dejó el marketing para convertirse en productor del incipiente Departamento Interactivo de Disney donde tuvo la oportunidad de escribir música para videojuegos.

Tras trabajar como productor en el nuevo Departamento Interactivo de DreamWorks, le pidieron que creara la pista temporal para la adaptación en videojuego de The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Como resultado, Steven Spielberg lo contrató como el compositor del videojuego, que sería el primero de Playstation con música de orquesta, grabada con integrantes de la Sinfónica de Seattle. Giacchino continuó escribiendo para videojuegos y se hizo famoso por la música para la serie de videojuegos Medalla de Honor.

El trabajo de Giacchino para videojuegos despertó el interés de J. J. Abrams Comenzando así una larga relación que llevaría a la creación de la música de series de éxito como Alias y Lost y las películas Misión Imposible III, Star Trek,Super 8 y Star Trek: En la oscuridad.

Otros proyectos incluyen colaboraciones con Disney Imagineering en la música para Space Mountain, Star Tours (con John Williams) y la atracción “Ratatouille” en Disneyland Paris. Más recientemente, completó la música para el nuevo Incredicoaster ubicado en Pixar Pier en California Adventure. Giacchino también fue el director musical en la 81er Edición Anual de los Premios de la Academia®. Su música se puede escuchar en salas de conciertos de todo el mundo donde se proyectan las películas Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek Beyond, Ratatouille yJurassic Worldmientras se interpreta la música con toda la orquesta. En junio de 2018, Giacchino estrenó su primer trabajo para orquesta sinfónica,Voyage. Este encargo de la National Symphony Orchestra y la Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, la pieza celebra el 60 aniversario de la fundación de la NASA.

Los próximos proyectos de Giacchino incluyen Spider-Man: Far From Home que se estrena en los cines este verano, y Jojo Rabbit, una nueva película de Taika Waititi.

Giacchino es el Presidente de la Rama de Música de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias cinematográficas y pertenece al consejo asesor de “Educación a través de la Música - Los Angeles”.

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Thor: Ragnarok DVD & Blu-Ray Release Date and Details Announced

Marvel Studios’ that the God of Thunder’s third installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, electrified both critics and audiences alike reaching $845M in the global box office. The colorful cosmic experience, packed with action, humor, drama and spectacle, bursts into houses Digitally in HD and 4K Ultra HD, and Movies Everywhere, on Feb. 20 and around 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and On-Demand on March. 6. Marvel has unveiled a brand new trailer for this DVD and Kinect launch, along with a sneak peek that includes among the film’s most memorable scenes, the humorous start of the gladiator game on Sakaar between Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).

Back in Marvel Studios’ Thor: Ragnarok, Thor is imprisoned on the other side of this universe without his powerful hammer and finds himself in a race against time to return to Asgard to cease Ragnarok, the destruction of his home world and also the end of Asgardian civilization, in the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the callous Hela (Cate Blanchett). But first he must survive a deadly gladiatorial competition that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger, the extraordinary Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), also grapple with his silver-tongued embraced brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), the fierce warrior Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) and the bizarre Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum).

Fans that bring home the supreme Cinematic Universe Edition (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital) of Thor: Ragnarok will encounter all the thunderous action and lightning-fast comedy in magnificent 4K Ultra HD with exceptionally high dynamic range (HDR) visuals and Dolby Atmos immersive sound. The Ghost’s deleted scenes include The Sorcerer Supreme, Skurge Finds Heimdall & Hulk Chases Thor Throughout Sakaar and Extended Scenes include Thor Meets the Grandmaster, Stupid Avenger vs. Tiny Avenger & Grandmaster and Topaz. The gag reel features a set of goofs, gaffes and pratfalls starring the cast, although the new short, “Team Darryl,” includes Darryl (Daley Pearson) obtaining a new roommate. New off being unseated as the ruler of Sakaar, The Grandmaster makes his way to Earth to start a new life. It has been over a year because Thor abandoned Australia and Darryl has been unable to pay his rent. Now Darryl needs a new roommate to make the monthly payments. Unfortunately for Darryl, the Grandmaster was not the only one that replied Darryl’s “Roommate Needed” advertisement and with no viable possibilities, the Grandmaster goes in.

Marvel Studios: The First Ten Years – The development of Heroes examines the Cinematic Universe as a whole and revisit every one of our personalities’ current place and their location in the recent MCU timeline, as it leads up to the one culminating occasion: Avengers: Infinity War. Getting in Touch with Your Inner Thor shows howThor: Ragnarok manager Taika Waititi has brought his unique sensibility and sense of humor to the film in a terrific many methods but it is the development of Thor’s own sense of humor, which stands out the most in the new film. This piece investigates the effect Chris Hemsworth has made about the development of his own widely-loved personality and celebrates the powerful cast and crew who show the fun and challenging work that went into building Thor’s bizarre counterparts. Unstoppable Women: Hela & Valkyrie investigates the powerful female figures at Thor: Ragnarok, their significance in the MCU, their unbelievable casting and their epic comic origins. Finding Korg is really a tongue-in-cheek meeting with Taika on casting Korg. He clarifies the tricky search for just the right development of the character style, as well as the nuances of the immediately classic personality in the MCU. This dialog will even delve into most of the outstanding visual effects that attracted Korg, Sakaar as well as also the worlds of Thor: Ragnarok to lifetime.

The bonus features are rounded out with Sakaar: Over the Edge of the Unknown, a documentary which can answer all known and unfamiliar questions while also exploring the challenging work and imagination that went into creating the appearance and texture of Sakaar. From design motivated by Jack Kirby’s classic artwork to the dedication of this visual development group to the awe-inspiring physical and digital creation, you will understand this remote universe come alive. Journey into Mystery is a deep dip narrative piece with all the authors, director and producer Kevin Feige about the inspirations for “Thor: Ragnarok” inside the comics. Most importantly, the contest of champions limited series where the Grandmaster pitted our favourite heroes against one another as he can in the film. This piece also further investigates Thor’s comic book origins and timeless arcs throughout interviews with a few of the most crucial comic creators, for example Walt Simonson and Jack Kirby. 8bit Scenes presents the climactic sequences Closing Bridge Fight and Sakaar Spaceship Battle presented in retro video-game arrangement, along with Directors Commentary. Digital exclusives include Evolution of Thor and Hulk’s Bromance, which examines this Super Hero friendship, and this has spanned through several Marvel movies. In their original Helicarrier battle game to the now iconic Hulk punch from Avengers 1, watch how Marvel’s most powerful Super Heroes become the most outstanding Super Hero friends. Additionally, There Are Additional Deleted Scenes, Travel to Asgard & Race Into The Wormhole.

Thor: Ragnarok is directed by Taika Waititi and is from a screenplay by Eric Pearson and Craig Kyle & Christopher L. Yost. Kevin Feige creates and is connected by executive manufacturers Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, Thomas M. Hammel and Stan Lee. Waititi built a talented team behind the camera which contained Oscar®-winning production designer Dan Hennah (The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies) and production designer Ra Vincent (Everything We Do in the Shadows); six-time Goya Award-winning, BAFTA-nominated cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe, ASC (Secretos del corazón,” The Others); picture editor Joel Negron (The Nice Men, Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon) award-winning costume designer Mayes C. Rubeo (Avatar, Apocalypto); VFX manager Jake Morrison (Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man, Thor: The Dark World) and composer Mark Mothersbaugh (21 Jump Street, The Lego Movie). Have a peek at the Kinect trailer and sneak peek below, courtesy of Marvel YouTube, along with the Blu-ray artwork.

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Crazy World of Sideways Sidewinder Dragsters

90-Degree Dreams and Quarter Mile Sideshow

In the golden age of drag racing the variety of surrealistic machines was challenged only by one’s ability to process the cornucopia of crazy contraptions and beautiful blitzers unleashed on the quarter mile. It was a mind game for builders, but also for fans. Of all the crazy configurations and ideas flirted with and doubled down on across drag strips nationwide, the sidewinder dragster seemed like an incredible idea that could revolutionize quarter-mile racing.

With a mid-engine location, but placed sideways in the frame, the engine’s natural torque increased traction rather than pulling to one side. With both rear tires equally loaded there would conceivably be less control problems. It also eliminated driveshaft failures because there wasn’t one; and you could build a dragster more compact to lessen weight. It was also a solution for seeing around a blower and scoop, and the obvious catastrophic results of clutch explosions and blasts of burning oil and engine shrapnel, an all too familiar scenario.

But there were downsides. Disappointing results far outweighing any perceived advantage. Broken axles were common because the hit was instant. There was no clutch slip or driveshaft flex to cushion the rear end for its inevitable absorption of horsepower. Plus wheel hop could snap a keyway axle instantly. A broken chain, used to transfer power from the engine to rear axle in most cases, could kill a run before it started. And slinging a big fat chain had its own medieval consequences.

That said; the biggest issue stymying the sidewinder onslaught was not anything mechanical. Sidewinders handled otherworldly and unpredictably. Whether due to their short wheelbase, the driver’s inability to react quickly enough, or something like a curse, sidewinders were wickedly uncontrollable. Noble drivers and also owners in most cases gave up, failing to tame these unwieldy beasts.

That’s not to say there were no winners, because there were glorious moments. But in many instances a fast, clean run was followed by an unholy terror of whipsaw fury on the next pass, requiring even veterans like Jack Chrisman to take time for reflection on what they just survived.

We should mention one of the earliest sidewinders and an outlier was Creighton Hunter’s 1955 “Slice of Pie” which was the only front engine sidewinder we are aware of. In an overhead view it had the shape of a wedge, thus the name. But aside from Pie, we’ve assembled a solid representation of sidewinders starting from 1955 to the 1980s, including a Funny Car and even a motorcycle; hopefully piquing your brain to imagine the wondrous possibilities and unique solutions for conquering the quarter mile.

1956: Bert Kessler and Dean Gammill of Mattoon, Ill, used a diminutive Crosley sedan body to house their gear-driven sidewinder. Most sidewinders favored chains to transfer power to the axle, so gear drive was somewhat novel. This was configured by removing the tail-shaft of a Borg-Warner transmission and in its place welding a gear onto the shaft. The shifting was handled by a hydraulic shifting mechanism. Power was from a 6-carb 324ci Olds appearing rather stock except for twin-coils. The Crosley competed at the NHRA Nationals in Kansas City in 1956.

1957: Paul Nicolini and Harry Duncan out of Orange County, California, originally built this car, set up with a small block Chevy engine. Bent axles and flinging chains became a common occurrence leading them to sell the evil machine to Joe Mailliard. The Long Beach machine shop owner teamed with house mover Wayne Reed and graphic artist Chuck Jones, who raced a Fuel coupe before taking the reins of the “Automotive Engineering” dragster. This became the first of three sidewinder dragsters the team would campaign. Gone was the Chevy, replaced with a 550hp blown Chrysler Hemi, driving a solid axle by a stout double-row chain. A double-row chain also drove the supercharger. 70-percent of the weight was said to be biased to the rear. On gas it ran a best of 9.05 at 151.51 with Jack Chrisman at the wheel. By 1959 it was reworked with a lengthened chassis and new bodywork incorporating a zoomy tail similar to their new “5 Cycle” car. 5 Cycle was a marketing term referring to a particular type of Isky cam.

Eventually rechristened “Me Too” it would have an afterlife at the hands of Jeep and Ronnie Hampshire in 1960. They purchased the freshened car for $450 and installed George Bolthoff’s 340ci blown, Algon-injected Chevy engine into the chassis, running in B/GD. In later years Ronnie Hampshire said finesse slipping the clutch was the best antidote for the spooky handling, netting a best 9.09 at 168mph, before retiring the car at the end of the year.

1957: Lowell Lister’s clean “Crossfire” dragster from Pennsylvania. Lister’s gas-powered sidewinder ran a best of 9.7 at 156mph. In the early 1960s it changed hands with Bill Miller, also from Pennsylvania, giving the short slingshot a try.

1958: Oscar Taylor’s small block Chevy-powered sideways dragster from Drumright, Oklahoma, seen here at the 1958 NHRA Nationals, ran in the A/Gas dragster class. Weight was stated as 1050-pounds.

1959: The second sidewinder product of Jones, Reed and Mailliard was the 100-inch “5 Cycle Special”, a more refined and sexier progression of the first sidewinder. Again powered by a blown Chrysler Hemi, this time with a Gilmer belt spinning the 6-71 blower, the short dragster was still chain-driven. This was a consistent 9-second car running over 160mph. With Jack Chrisman at the wheel both team’s sidewinders competed at the 1959 NHRA Nationals at Detroit Dragway, with this car going all of the way before losing in the final round.

1959: Though not technically a sidewinder, we couldn’t help including Fontana, California’s Ed Rannberg with his lightweight “No-Cam Special”. Powered by four-cylinder, opposed two-stroke, 100ci McCulloch drone engine, the gearbox was from an Ariel motorcycle. Running in the X class, it was driven by GR Hardin at the 1959 NHRA Nationals.

1960: Still chasing the perfect sidewinder, Chuck Jones ventured out to create the “Magwinder” with this Kent Fuller 113-inch magnesium chassis featuring a Wayne Ewing magnesium body. Total weight was 1443-pounds. Supposedly NHRA VP Jack Hart signed off on the lack of a steel rollcage.

One side note about this car is a pit mishap landed Chrisman in the hospital when the push bar broke, causing the push car’s bumper to catch the rear tires and catapult over the dragster landing on top of it. In the ensuing action the underside of the push car also caught the back of Jack’s head, scalping him from the rear forward. Finished in late-1960, the Magwinder competed in both 1961 and 1962. It is speculated that the extreme light weight combined with the rigidity of the mag chassis created launch and handling problems. Jones later owned a series of Formula 5000 racecars, and eventually raced in Formula 1. The Magwinder was later sold to Bill Mann who campaigned it with Iskenderian livery and without the rear cover.

1960: The original “Michigan Madman” was EJ Potter, known for his Harley sidewinder small block Chevy drag bike. He once famously said, “Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right times, usually even surpassing knowledge.” With no clutch, Potter would engage the center stand, rev the engine, and at the green light an assistant pushed him off. Extreme vibration, unpredictable steering, and wheelies were some of the issues EJ sorted out on his terror trek. His per-diem for exhibition runs easily netted him over $400 for three runs a night. He was limited to three runs as that was how long the tires held up before blowing out. During the course of running the Harley at over 170mph he experienced major injuries from an exhibition run in England. Eventually he switched to a rocket-powered trike he called Widow Maker, which exceeded 200mph, also resulting in a serious injury in 1971 after he jumped from his bike when the chute failed to open. He quit motorcycle exhibition runs in 1973, switching to competitive tractor pulling. He died in 2012.

1962: Lee Titus, proprietor of Lee’s Speed Shop in Santa Monica, California, would have had the most exotic sidewinder ever had he completed it. The chassis was set up for TWO gear-driven sidewinders, one in front and one in the rear. Two gears were attached to machined axles with special bearings. The back of each small block Chevy engine had a gear and idler assembly tied to the main axle gears, driven by two B&M Torque Master converters. Ron Hier was slated to shoe the twin, when Titus unexpectedly pulled the plug. It hung in the rafters of his shop for years before slipping into the ether.

1962: The Sidewinder Plus 1 from the team of Hammel, Cullinan and Mulvey from Lancaster, California, ran between 1962 and 1964 off and on, seen here at the 1964 March Meet at Bakersfield. Best times were 8s at 170mph.

1964: Jim Sivenpiper, from Buffalo, NY, and money buddy brother Dan fashioned this slick sidewinder. The S&M Speed Shop product was Chrysler Hemi-powered, featuring very clean construction. At the 1964 Nationals, where these images were taken, it bogged at the starting line and failed to qualify. The chain-drive hauler ultimately ran low 9s at 170mph.

1970: Art Malone’s novel dragster graced our November 1970 cover. 426 Hemi-powered with a 6-71 blower, weighing in at 1380-pounds, weight bias was said to be 95-percent rear, and only 5-percent at the front, for the long 265-inch wheelbase dragster. The low relationship of the rear axle centerline to the chassis was from the live axle being placed above the crank centerline and running through the engine. A Morse-link chain tied the crank to the 3-inch axle by way of a large gear attached to the specially made multi-disc Crower clutch. On the other side of the Hemi was a blower drive using a Gilmer belt, but Malone also experimented with compressed air forced-induction. Roots-type blowers are parasitic, with Don Garlits positing they strip 2000hp from an engine, so having a source for spinning the blower without the parasitic downside would theoretically add 2000hp. Also, if the compressed air was regulated, engine boost could be staged so less was used at the beginning of a run, coming on strong at mid-track where it was needed. Interestingly in this pre-rear engine dragster period, Malone installed mirrors to see how the tires were reacting, which he missed from driving with a traditional front engine viewpoint. Another problem was his inability to sense the dragster getting out of shape until it’s too late. Though used for testing, Malone’s engineering marvel was unsuccessful in actual competition. It resides in Garlits’ museum today.

1972: The Jack Chrisman “Funnywinder” Mustang made a big splash including landing on our November 1972 cover. Experiencing a fair amount of success with earlier sidewinder efforts Chrisman drove, this new Funny Car must have seemed like a chance worth taking. Curiously, it ran Ford’s 427ci SOHC for power at a time when those engines had fallen out of favor in Top Fuel. Unfortunately it never ran well, and would have evaporated into history were it not for John Force. John and his brother Louie purchased the Funnywinder—their first Funny Car effort. It became the “Night Stalker” in Force’s hands. Evil handling prevented Force from achieving any success, and it was sold and then modified to a conventional front engine setup for an Econo small block Chevy/Powerglide combo, making a few runs at Irwindale Raceway before disappearing. The Night Stalker body surfaces for sale from time to time.

1964: There were a number of Pontiac Tempest 4-banger sidewinder dragsters built, including Norm Leonard’s 262ci example from the 1964 Bakersfield March Meet. The Tempest engine featured an Isky cam, Hilborn injection, and Scott fuel pump; and was chain-driven. Best time was 10.87.

1961: Ted Cyr and Emery Cook were staples of drag racing, winning the 1958 NHRA Nationals. For 1961 they concocted this strange-even-for-sidewinders dragster. Former NHRA Director of Competition Steve Gibbs has described it as an “evil handling experiment.” The nitro small block Chevy spun a direct-drive setup incorporating a driveshaft geared off of a V-drive into the odd side-slung quickchange, in an obvious attempt to experiment with gear ratios. Transferring torque from the quickchange to the right side slick must have created some twist, creating potential spooky runs.

1961: The Stu’s AE Transmission sidewinder from Long Beach, California. One of the only automatic trans sidewinders we are aware of, the small block Chevy runs a 4-speed Hydro sliced in the middle of its case, with a fab’d case aft of the slice for adapting the chain-driven output shaft. Interestingly it accepts a complete stock Hydro pan. A larger gear attached to the rear wheel completes the complicated drive system. As there are no other images of this rig we assume the old handling gremlins kept this effort from making any dent in the sidewinder attempts continuing to trickle into drag racing around this time.

1982: One of the last of the sidewinder dragster attempts came from one of drag racing’s greatest; Big Daddy Don Garlits. Neither discouraged by friend Art Malone’s 1970 attempt, nor the crash of JT Stewart’s “Arizona Sidewinder” dragster over ten years before, which driver Dennis Wiery survived; Big Daddy unleashed this Sage Brothers creation. Chuck and Mike Sage were into tractor pulling, creating gear sets at their company SCS Geardrives in Bellevue, Ohio. They built this stunner based on experiments with a Pro Comp dragster they owned. Convinced of its merits, they contacted Garlits, who liked the concept enough to agree to run a 240-inch dragster they were building for Top Fuel competition. Using one of Garlits’ 484ci nitro Hemis, power was transferred through a complex set of gears to the rear end. At Orange County Raceway in early 1982 for its maiden voyage, Garlits lost three match race rounds to Shirley Muldowney partially due to gear damage. By spring the brothers had refined the gearbox, but in numerous match race competitions the car did not perform to Garlits’ expectations. Calling upon an engineer-friend at South Florida University, he calculated that Garlits was losing over 20-percent of the Hemi’s available power due to the gears. With that, Garlits returned Swamp Rat 27 to the Sage brothers, who continued testing for another two years before donating it to Garlits’ museum where it rests today.

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MICHAEL GIACCHINO

BANDA SONORA ORIGINAL DE LA PELÍCULA SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME

El próximo 5 de julio saldrá a la venta la BSO de la película Spider-Man: Far From Home, con música del premiado compositor, Michael Giacchino.

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Anunciamos el lanzamiento de SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) con música del compositor ganador del Premios de la Academia, Globos de Oro, Grammy y BAFTA, MICHAEL GIACCHINO (Up, The Incredibles , Ratatouille, Lost, Coco). Disponible el viernes 05 de julio, la banda sonora incluye música del éxito de taquilla de Sony Pictures,

Después de componer la música de la última entrega de la serie Spider-Man: Homecoming, el compositor Michael Giacchino dice sobre esta nueva película: “Me encantó volver a uno de mis personajes favoritos de Marvel, Peter Parker. Spider-Man: Far From Home cuenta los desgarradores eventos de Endgame y se centra en el problema de Peter para lidiar con el vacío que dejó Iron Man mientras trataba de divertirse como un adolescente. El mundo de Peter continúa creciendo, lo que me permite desarrollar los temas de la última película, y encontrar formas de expresar el equilibrio entre las dos partes de su vida. Y, por supuesto, siempre es divertido aportar nuevas ideas a un proyecto para nuevos personajes como Mysterio".

Continuando la historia de Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man debe actuar para enfrentarse a nuevas amenazas en un mundo que ha cambiado para siempre.

LISTADO DE TEMAS DE SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)

1. Far From Home Suite Home

2. It's Perfect

3. World's Worst Water Feature

4. Multiple Realities

5. Brad to the Drone

6. Change of Plans

7. Night Monkey Knows How to Do It

8. Mr. One Hundred and One

9. Prague Rocked

10. Who's Behind Those Foster Grants

11. Power to the People

12. Personal Hijinks

13. Praguenosis: BAD

14. A Lot of 'Splaining to Do

15. The Magical Mysterio Tour

16. Taking the Gullible Express/Spidey Sensitive

17. Gloom and Doom

18. High and Flighty

19. An Internal Battle

20. Happy Landings

21. Tower of Cower

22. Bridging the Trap

23. Bridge and Love's Burning

24. Swinging Set

25. And Now This…

SOBRE MICHAEL GIACCHINO

El compositor Michael Giacchino ha participado en algunos de los proyectos cinematográficos más populares de los últimos años, entre ellos Los Increíbles, La Guerra del Planeta de los Simios, Ratatouille, Star Trek, Jurassic World, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, y Coco. La banda sonora de Giacchino de 2009 para la exitosa película de Pixar Up le valió un Oscar®, un Globo de Oro®, el BAFTA, el Broadcast Film Critics' Choice Award y dos Premios Grammy®.

Otros proyectos incluyen colaboraciones con Disney Imagineering en la música para Space Mountain, Star Tours (con John Williams) y la atracción “Ratatouille” en Disneyland Paris. Más recientemente, completó la música para el nuevo Incredicoaster ubicado en Pixar Pier en California Adventure. Giacchino también fue el director musical en la 81er Edición Anual de los Premios de la Academia®. Su música se puede escuchar en salas de conciertos de todo el mundo donde se proyectan las películas Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek Beyond, Ratatouille y Jurassic World mientras se interpreta la música con toda la orquesta. En junio de 2018, Giacchino estrenó su primer trabajo para orquesta sinfónica, Voyage. Este encargo de la National Symphony Orchestra y la Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, la pieza celebra el 60 aniversario de la fundación de la NASA.

Los próximos proyectos de Giacchino incluyen Spider-Man: Far From Homeque se estrena en los cines este verano, y Jojo Rabbit, una nueva película de Taika Waititi.

Giacchino es el Presidente de la Rama de Música de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias cinematográficas y pertenece al consejo asesor de “Educación a través de la Música - Los Angeles”.

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nobelmemories · 6 years

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My parents home 1959 originally 200 Nobel Road

MORE NOBEL MEMORIES - ALONG THE NOBEL ROAD

Part I

The picture I have shown is of our old family home and was taken about 1959. I had just bought an old wringer washing machine for $5 as we were planning on getting married in a couple of months. I wanted to see if it worked before I took it up north. Lol.

As most of you will realize many of my memories are prior to my young age and come from things I have heard as well as seen. I am starting today by stating that my mother Violet May Crawford and father Sidney Ernest Crawfod were married on the 24th of October 1929. They first lived in the house that is located on Portage Lake Road, now Pineridge Drive around fire number 44. It is now vacant, but was later owned and occupied a life time by Elmer Sly and his wife Olive Crawford my dad’s sister. Followed by Don Mortson and his wife Florence Sly and is presently owned by Paul Lubbelinkhof and his wife Pam Mortson. I have many happy memories of my visits to Uncle Elmer’s and Aunt Olives. Some good and some bad. It seems to me the bad ones were more fun. I have a recollection of riding Uncle Elmer’s calves when he was not there, and no that was not cousin Florence that was seated ahead of me. LOL. We had a special way of motivating the calf. I do have one sad memory. Uncle Elmer and the rest of the family were going away one weekend and they asked me to feed the two young pigs. I don’t remember just what age I was but, I was pretty young. I got the chop and the bran mixed up and fed the pigs pure bran. The pigs died.

Sometime in the very early thirties mother and dad bought a few acres of land from Dave Lumsden at what use to be 200 Nobel Road and is now 143 Nobel Road. The Lumsden farm was directly across the road and is still there as is our old house. The old road to Nobel use to travel north from the old golf course and swing in behind the little cemetery and what was the Voyageur Restaurant then up through where the McDougall Office now sits, across Pineridge up past Greg Lubbelinkhof’s house and came out onto Hammel Avenue just past the old Claudney or Collison home. The Nobel Road was later changed again so it came up in front of where the Voyageur Property was, it then swung in front of our property and behind the old Oscar Mace property crossing directly across Pineridge and joining onto what is now Hammel Ave. The old roads marked the front and back of our property. The next change was around 1932 when it was changed to its present position coming up in front of where the Voyageur Property later was and up the hill. This later became Hwy. 69.

At the time they were building Hwy. 69 my brother Deane was just a baby. My mother had placed him in a carriage and had it beside the house for him to sleep in and get some fresh air. We had a collie dog named Nicky who was very protective of the baby. The dog was laying beside the carriage. The dynamite crew working on the highway had gotten into some liquor and were a little over zealous in the amount of dynamite they used. Just at this time Don Sly was coming through the back yard to get a ride to work with dad. He had taken a shortcut over the rocks, to our house. Just then the dynamite went off, throwing rocks all over the yard and house. Don ran for cover behind the trees in the back yard. Nicky seen Don running for cover and blamed him for the explosion. The dog tackled poor Don by biting his backside. The good news was no one was hurt badly. Poor Don!

Another story that my dad told me happened in the early thirties, One night a fairly strong earthquake shook the area. Dad was in bed, he opened up the window of the bedroom facing the road trying to figure out what was going on. He could hear a woman screaming, then Dave Lumsden yelled from across the road. Sid somethings wrong lets go. Dad and Dave headed south on the road to what was the Godfrey home. Later Fisher’s. Apparently the lady was a little superstitious, the earthquake had frightened her and she was hysterical. Dad said he had to slap her face, then placed one of her small children in her lap. She finally calmed down. I guess her husband was at work. When I think back and put myself in her position, it must have been pretty frightening, we never seem to have earthquakes in this part of the world. What would you do if everything suddenly started shaking in the middle of the night?

When the second Nobel Road went by in front of our property, it was much lower than the present driveway. Dad had built a garage right at the road for our old 26 Buick-McLoughlin car. He had to drive down into the garage. It was close to the road so he did not have to shovel a long driveway in the winter time. When the third Nobel Road or early Hwy 69 was built they raised and widened the highway a few feet. Dad moved the garage back about twenty feet and put it beside the driveway, now you had to drive up into the garage. This became a bit of a problem through the fourties. The Burwash Industrial Farm was in full swing. One of the favourite ways for the escapees to get away was to jump a southbound freight train. They would jump off in the Nobel area, walk down the tracks to the then Slaght’s Road, now Murray Point

Road, then walk out to Hwy. 69, across the road was our garage. They would hot wire our car and be on their way. I remember more than once Dad having to get a ride down to the Orillia area to retrieve his stolen car. I think it was into the fifties before he finally moved the garage up to its present position right beside the house. I don’t think there has been a car stolen out of it since. Mind you it might have had something to do with them closing the Burwash Prison Farm.

The farm across the road at present day 143 Nobel Road was the Lumsden farm. It was owned by Dave Lumsden and I believe his wife was Elizabeth Wright. She was a sister to Art Wright who owned the farm behind the Voyageur. It was a beautiful brick home with a wrap around veranda, sitting on the hill. It had a stone wall built to make the ground level in front of the house and I remember a huge honeysuckle tree in front of the veranda. In the spring you could smell that tree right over at our house. The driveway to get to the farm house went straight up from the old Hwy. 69 in a westerly direction then curled around to the north behind the house. The stone wall could could be seen on the right side as you went up the drive. As you went up the driveway at the top of the hill when you curved to the right there was a gate that opened into the barn yard. I remember the building in the barnyard being placed in a U shape, I think there was a grainary and blacksmith shop on the right two or three other buildings, then about a three team horse stable slightly to your left, and the barn with a grainary floor, hay mow and bottom stable on the far left. It was on the hill back a ways from the drop off. I don’t remember Dave ever having a tractor. I do remember his horses. He usually had a team that he would use for show and one for working. My dad had been a teamster and he loved horses, sometimes he would use Daves horses. About 1946 dad tore down the old summer kitchen that use to be on the back of our house and used Dave’s horses with a two handled scraper to dig out the basement. It was like a large metal snow scoop, built much stronger, it had two stout wooden handles. There was a heavy metal; quarter moon shaped loop fastened to the scoop at or near the balance point on each side of the scope. The clevis on the back of the double tree was hooked to the front centre of the loop. Dad would loop the reins for the horses around his neck then lift on the handles as he reached the point where he wanted to scoop the dirt. When the scraper was full, he would push down on the handles and the scraper would ride level on the ground. He would then drive them mostly by voice commands. To where he wanted to dump the scraper by lifting hard on the scraper and turning it upside down. For those that don’t remember the voice commands were simply haw for left, gee for right and whoa.

Its funny, some things you just don’t forget, a few years ago I was using my 4 wheeler with a blade on the front to plow our circular driveway. I had made a snow ramp on the side of the driveway to get rid of the snow. The ramp was about 4 feet high at the far end. It was important not to go to far or over it when pushing the snow up or I would get stuck. My wife walked out on the front deck without my noticing. She heard me shout whoa to myself each time I came to the top of the ramp. She still teases me about that.

Back to the old horse stable, I can still remember the smell and the looks of the old worn boards on the floor of each stall. He also had a lot of red and blue ribbons with a circular button pinned on the wall of the stable. I don’t remember Dave Lumsden as being a big man, but he was fairly tall, gangly and had a very strong voice. He use to plow with one of those old single furrow plows. The field from Richard Cloutier’s (Mac Campbell’s ) driveway to Murray Point Road (Slaght’s Road) the railway tracks and the Hwy. 69 was all one open field with no trees in it. There was another large field over the railway tracks to the south and one to right of Murray Point Road before you come to the tracks where the houses are now. I can remember seeing and hearing Dave plowing. I think one horses name was Dan, the other Doc. We were not allowed to swear at our house. It was with great delight that I listened to Mr Lumsden. I particularily remember one day he was plowing across the railroad tracks and I could hear him as clear as could be. He would yell gedup at the beginning of the furrow and it wouldn’t be long before he was geeing at the end and I can still hear him yelling. DAMN YOU DAN GET OVER THERE!

There was about a four acre corral behind the buildings that had a road right around it, the road went around the barn then back to the west circled again and came out behind Harry Smith’s house approximately. It was mostly fenced with cedar rails as I remember. Dave had an adopted daughter named Stella. She was Deane Simpson;s mother and had married Fred Simpson, I believe from the McKellar area. Fred was overseas during the war and Dave built a small house for her behind the old Harry Smith house. Dave sold his farm to John Vigrass and afterwards moved in with Stella and Dean. Dean and I use to chum together along with Gary Mace and John Vigrass. It was kind of a draw sometimes just who got into the most mischief, but one day Dean stole a box of 44.40 shells from his grandfather. Dean, Gary Mace and I went up on the back side of the big rock behind the pond back of Richard Buttineau’s house. We got a little fire going and were having a great time throwing handfuls of shells into the fire and hiding behind a juniper bush as they exploded. There was shells and lead flying everywhere. This was great fun until Dave hearing the shells going off appeared on the scene. Gary and I took off into the bush. Poor Dean answered to his grandfather. I don’t think our parents heard about it until many many years later. If they had I probably would still be grounded.

I am not sure when Dave Lumsden died but I do remember his wife dying and believe they are both buried in the little cemetery beside the Voyageur or old Tim Horton’s.

They say confession is good for the soul, so will leave the further stories for the next session.

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