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mercurytrinemoon · 3 years

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Me debunking astrology generalizations and misconceptions or smth idk...

Squares and oppositions aren't pure evil.

I can't believe I have to say this because I thought ya'll have learnt the characteristics of every aspect but here we are. Nothing in astrology is black and white. And I saw some ridiculous statements (not necessary here on tumblr) that said things like "if your Venus squares someone's ascendant then you don't find that person attractive AT ALL". Or "Mars square Mercury people can't speak politely and have an annoying voice". Like????? First of all, that's ridiculous. Second of all, square in not "everything bad" just like trine is not "everything amazing". Squares bring tension, which leads to motivation, they’re stimulating; sometimes excitement or charisma; sometimes they can make you overdo things. I'm not saying they're oh-so-marvelous because the challenges are still there, but they're not as bad as people paint them to be. Squares happen between two signs that are in the same modality so they have a bunch of things in common. Besides, some of them (Sagi-Pisces and Gemini-Virgo) are ruled by the same planet so there's a special type of chemistry between those (especially when applied to synastry). Oppositions work in two ways, planets either meet in the middle - opposite signs usually complete each other and fuel each other up. And worse case scenario? Natally this means being pulled in two different directions; synastry-wise, you can completely miss each other like two passing cars - so there may be some misunderstandings but I don't think that's the end of the world... And, as per usual, may be mitigated by other positive aspects.

This is me debunking other people's attempts at debunking Sun sign compatibility.

Sun IS very important but when people ask about compatibility and go with Suns... and then someone tries to be a smartass and debunk the "compatible-incompatible" and does the same thing without even realizing it. Like, "oh I actually see a lot of Aries and Pisces having amazing relationships because *insert someting that is a total stretch and refers to their Sun sign traits*"... But you seem to forget that they're neighbouring signs... which means they probably have personal planets in those neighbouring signs... which means they're compatible not because of some made-up stuff that you're trying to come up with but because their other planets are compatible with each other. But you're still feeding into the Sun sign compatibility talk. (So like, what I'm trying to also say, yes, the entire synastry chart comes into play; Also, side note, everyone can get along on some level if they’re mature enough).

Planet in a sign is NOT the same as planet in the house.

There may be some overlaps in some of the sign-houses associations (like in the overall energy; like for example, it sort of makes sense that 3rd, 7th and 11th are referred to as “air houses” because they’re the most social) but in NO WAY there are similarities between planet house position and the "ruling" sign. That association started a few decades ago and some would say that NOT linking houses with signs is a purely traditional approach. But there’s plenty of professional modern astrologers with 20/30/40-year experience who still differentiate between sign/house position... because they know (and have learnt along the way) that there’s a huge difference.

I'll give you 3 quick examples: Gemini planets and 3rd house planets both may put emphasis on communication, mental stimulation and gathering data. But Geminis are often scattered in their approach, they may be easily distracted, may be indecisive, may be jack of all trades and talkative jokesters. They actually hate routines and dullness. "Spice it up" is probably a Gemini's philosophy. Now 3rd house planets may indicate you actually LIKE doing things on the regular - like running errands every other day in the mornings or going to that one specific coffee shop to pick up a snack. You may actually work in logistics or as a postman (especially if your chart ruler or MC ruler is in the 3rd). Planets in the 3rd talk about your siblings, neighbours or school experiences - like having Venus in the 3rd may point to positive experiences within those areas - something Gemini Venus has nothing in common.

Venus in the 9th can study at an art/beauty or fashion school (or even teach there if the MC is involved); can be very attached to spiritual and religious matters; can also find love in a foreign land. But imagine it being in Taurus - rather shy, needing those stable values to feel secure, being an exceptionally great student at that art school thanks to its domicile. Venus in Sagittarius on the other hand, likes adventure, things being shaken up from time to time, lightheartedness and exploration. But what if we flip the scenario and that Sag Venus is in the 2nd house. This can denote earing money through travelling and looking for ways to expand but in a financial matters.

Continuing with the Venus examples, having Venus in Aries is completely different than Venus in the 1st. What do people usually say about Venus in the 1st? That it makes the native charming, lovely, well-put together, with great manners, maybe beautiful, graceful, maybe a bit shallow. When in Aries? None of these characteristics fit, on top of that, it's in its detriment. Our poor gal Venus is uncomfortable and confused in Aries. She's like, "conquer? Swords? Selfishness? Obnoxiousness? Sparring? You're telling me to fight people? What am I doing here???"

And I'll leave you here with that cause those examples weren’t that quick lol and in fact, I could give you a 100 of those. Besides, this actually inspired a 3-page rant that I've already posted not so long ago that you can read HERE.

There's no such thing as "more accurate" astrology.

Both western and vedic are valid. Both can show you the same things. JUST KEEP THEM SEPARATE AND DON'T MIX THEM WITH EACH OTHER. And don't say things like "sidereal shows your soul" - omg I saw this statement soooo many times, who the hell even came up with this?! Actually, if anything, it's the modern western approach that "psychologized" (yea I just made up a word, you mad?) astrology while Jyotish still sticks to the very real "here and now", sometimes fatalistic predictions of how exactly your life is going to roll out... But hey, reach for hellenistic methods and they can tell you the same things, just with different tools. So no, they do not show different things, it's just their language is different.

If you say you don't identify with your chart then you're just reading it wrong.

This partially connects to the last one in some ways... Switching to a different astrology or different charts is not a solution. Learn how to read your natal. If you say it doesn’t describe you, I can guarantee you that you haven’t studied it properly. (Now this hasn't turned into a rant yet but I may actually do a whole-ass post on this because if I start elaborating on it now I'll end up with another 3-page essay).

Learn how and when to generalize. Also learn how to take generalizations.

I understand that you have to pick up on every single thing separately in order to put everything together. It's like learning a new language: first you need to learn individual words and then you need to know the proper grammar to create a full sentence. This is 100% understandable and necessary, but it's important to take the entire thing into consideration. And this goes for all branches of astrology, but I guess it's especially annoying with synastry. This, again, comes down to the very black and white approach. You know, like when you see those long paragraphs where people elaborate on all the intricacies of Venus-Pluto aspects or whatever as if that one thing was determining the entire relationship between two people. (Side note, no shade but some of ya'll should start writing fiction or poetry cause the amount of fluffy speech and waffle that I see floating around here on tumblr is insane sometimes). Why are you wording everything as a make it or break it type of situation? And on the receiving end - learn how to take *properly phrased* generalizations constructively. Example: it IS a rule that Aries is a competitive one, maybe you're not one of them (for many reasons) but don't make a fuss about someone saying this. It IS a basic rule that energies of the same sign in two people are going to get along (well that depends on the planets involved but I digress), if that, for some other reasons, doesn't apply to you, don't go yelling that it's bullcrap because you hate people of the same sign. You know? Like, learn the difference.

DON'T SCARE PEOPLE WITH ASTROLOGY.

I had a mini-rant on this one a while ago, but I think this deserves a constant reminder (and refers to the last point), I don't want to see any more posts that would say things like "xxx house placements will bring you suffering" or "stay away from people with planets in your xxx house" or, even worse, making a (completely untrue btw) prediction based on one single thing like "someone with so-and-so aspect is going to harm you". And you're so casual about it??? You know there are sensitive people in the world. Learn some ethics. Learn some counseling skills. Don't be ignorant. Don't throw these random stuff at people just like that. And learn some actual astrology cause most of these aren't even closely describing that particual aspect. LIKE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

Ok now I'm pissed again.

Studying astrology and believing in free will doesn’t go well together.

It's not just psychological and spiritual. It's useful to know that western astrology made it like that because there were still people threatening astrologers for using it as a divination tool. So they moved away from the predictive/deterministic aspect of it. Now, I'm not here to change anyone's beliefs cause that's a very personal thing that everyone should develop on their own. But once you start diving deeper into astrology you'd notice that there's a heavy emphasis on fatedness and things being predetermined. That includes both the good and the bad stuff and you should learn to accept that. And with the bad things specifically, let's not excuse it with some "oh that was an opportunity for growth". Like yea, maybe, occasionally??? But just acknowledge that sometimes things happen not because there was a deeper meaning in them... but because you have a Pluto-Mars conjunction in the 6th that makes an applying square to your chart ruler and you were going through a profection year where Mars was your time lord and it transited that chart ruler while making a conjunction with Neptune so you were attacked by a baby crocodile while swimming and it bit off your toe and you got a nasty infection and that’s it (I just made that up btw, I don't actually know anyone who was attacted by a crocodile). So like, sometimes shit just happens and there's nothing psychological about it. Also, I bet your free will didn't want to be attacked by that croc.

#thank you for coming to my ted talk #that was supposed to be short #i can never keep it short #you know how many ideas i had for that house-sign differences?!#i could write an entire book #also i may do a part two #some day #astrology #mercurytrinemoon

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The hour, which features multiple scenes in which a rape kit is administered, was allowed to proceed as scripted after Shonda Rhimes challenged the network and its approach to violence, showrunner Krista Vernoff and writer Elisabeth Finch say.

[This story contains spoilers from Thursday’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy, “Silent All These Years.”]

Moved by Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Grey’s Anatomy explored consent with one of the medical drama’s most powerful episodes in its historic run.

Named after a Tori Amos song, “Silent All These Years,” the hour featured one of the most in-depth depictions of precisely how a rape kit is administered. The extended scenes in the episode — written by Grey’s Anatomy all-star Elisabeth Finch — were met with pushback from ABC’s Standards and Practices department.

In the below interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Finch and showrunner Krista Vernoff revealed that creator Shonda Rhimes pushed back and “declined” the network’s notes. In a rare and surprising decision, Standards and Practices reversed its stance — and saw the exec who flagged the scenes actually join the women who lined a hallway in support of a rape victim (guest star Khalilah Joi) who was carted off to surgery. The wall of women scene, which also featured many Grey’s Anatomy writers and Shondaland executives, was an incredible show of support rarely, if ever, seen before on a hospital drama. (Watch the moving scene, below.)

To hear Vernoff and Finch tell it, the episode was born out of the latter’s WGA-sponsored trip to UCLA’s Rape Treatment Center in which she observed first-hand the larger discussion around administering such a kit to rape victims.

The episode — the rare Grey’s installment that is driven first by an issue and not by character development — came together after star Camilla Luddington dialed up Vernoff the day of the Kavanaugh hearings and suggested that her character, Jo, be the product of rape. The series was already plotting to introduce Jo’s biological mother (guest star Michelle Forbes) who, as Grey’s diehards recall, abandoned her at a fire station.

Below, Vernoff and Finch open up about the genesis for the episode, how the “talk” about consent between Ben (Jason George) and his stepson, Tuck (BJ Tanner), is already inspiring others and the amazing women who participated in that powerful hallway scene. (It’s also worth noting that women wrote, directed, edited, served as a director of photography, script coordinator and showrunner on this episode.)

Where did the idea of this episode come from? Vernoff: Many places. I was directing an episode and the Christine Blasey Ford testimony happened and the Kavanaugh confirmation happened. I felt that through my whole body — the way a lot of women did. She got up and told her truth and a lot of pundits questioned whether she knew what she was talking about or if she could be believed or remember the face of someone who attacked her years ago. It was a pretty powerful moment to watch all of that. I felt that the most damaging thing that happened in all that is that young women and men everywhere were told that consent was irrelevant. I don’t approach storytelling through issues; we usually approach through character. But I wrote to the writers and said, “We have to find a way to come at this through character. We have to do something about consent and try to do our part to explain what consent is and how impactful rape is and how it can damage people for years, decades and generations.” We had to use our platform to do something. The same day, I got an email from Camilla, who was at home crying [amid the hearings] and who also felt like we had to do something. She said, “I know we’re introducing Jo’s mother this season. What if Jo is a product of rape?” I said yes immediately. I reached out to Finchie and said, “I heard a pitch you had some time ago that included an army of awesome women lining the hallways for a rape survivor. Can you tell me more about that?” And Finchie told me the following …

Finch: Three years ago, the WGA asked certain people if they wanted to go tour UCLA’s Rape Treatment Center in Santa Monica. It’s world renowned. I went there and learned more than I could ever possibly could on television. The most fascinating thing to me was how they treated each individual that walked into their center and the respect they gave them and how they tailored what they do as a process to every single person who comes in the door. It’s something that had been sitting in me for years and I wanted to do it. Sometimes the stars align and the people that you’re working with — and the culture is what it is — and allows you the opportunity to tell something that’s been sitting in you that you cannot let go.

Vernoff: She pitched me this imagining that she had of a bunch of women lining the hallways to support of a rape survivor. I said to please go make an hour of television that is that and Jo’s origin story. Finchie had been, at prior times, kind of discouraged from this story — as if the aftermath of rape was not in itself enough conflict to carry an episode. Finchie kept trying to make it smaller; I said it was the whole hour. She wanted to do the whole hour but had been told somehow that it wasn’t dramatic enough. The stars aligned and the moment was right. She created, what is for me, the most powerful hour of TV I’ve ever been a part of in my 20-year career.

Elisabeth, who told you no about this story? Finch: It wasn’t a matter of being told no. My brain thinks in photographs and then my writer brain thinks about how to tell the story and I try to figure out the narrative behind it. I kept seeing this army of women and kept saying that it was a race against time because they knew that there was something wrong that they had to fix surgically but in order to do that, they’d wipe away all the evidence. I think sometimes it’s hard to imagine how much people can watch when it comes to this subject matter. Normally our characters are going through something in their medical lives and then it reflects on their personal lives. When you’re dealing with issues of sexual assault, it’s really hard to go back and be like, “Well, who should I be dating?” It was hard to figure out what to pair it with and who it would impact of our people the most. With Camilla pitching this, it all felt like, “I get why it’s her and why now and why this.” It felt like the best timing of it. Watching Krista direct an episode while all of these things were coming up with the Kavanaugh hearings and watching her be such a powerful leader through all that — despite her own feelings and all of the feelings of everyone on set at the same time— really helped me understand and see an example of how you can have all the feelings and carry them and also lead. That’s where Jo is today. She’s carrying all of this collective pain of her, and her mother and all these things and still walking through her day and being of service and help and making something else better that day.

Vernoff: I don’t think anybody said no to the story. Finchie had pitched this story a couple of times and we tried to find ways to fit it into episodes and it just kept falling by the wayside. It fell by wayside because it was meant to be born at this moment with this Jo story where it becomes one great big powerful hour. As just an A or B story in a traditional episode, it wouldn’t have had quite the same impact.

What do you hope viewers take away from this episode? Vernoff: I hope viewers walk away with a greater understanding of what consent means — and a deeper understanding of how many different ways rape can impact not only the survivor but the generations that follow. I hope that medical professionals come away with conversations about modalities and systems that can be put into place to better help survivors because many of the things that you see Jo do in this episode are things that Finchie learned from the Rape Crisis Center that she visited. These are systems that can and should be implanted in hospitals everywhere.

Finch: I hope more men watch it not just for the consent — though it’s a huge part of it — but for empathy with their partners and friends. I read an article recently that talked about this woman who visits high schools talking about consent and rape and these boys with the sweetest faces and the most empathy you can see in their eyes are talking about their female friends who are hurting themselves because they were raped. And nine times out of 10, those boys will say something like, “I don’t understand, it happened two years ago.” Even the boys with the most empathy in the world can’t understand why the results are so lasting and so strong. That’s something I hope makes a dent in our younger generation.

There was a PSA for RAINN after the episode, which is an organization Grey’s spinoff Private Practiceworked with on a rape episode in 2011. What kind of feedback did you get from them? Finch: We worked closely with RAINN to make sure our language was as current as it could be. They were helpful about looking at the script and were grateful that we included men because so often when we talk about rape we talk about women. Even though the ratio is higher for women, it does exist for men as well —

Vernoff: Particularly for soldiers. Finch: I was excited to work with them because they were helpful to me when I was in college and a friend came to me and was assaulted. I didn’t know what to do — and there wasn’t the internet yet. I’d been to a Tori Amos concert and she was the biggest face of that organization when they were initially starting out. I learned about them there and she had a stand with bumper stickers and things and I’d left with one. That’s where I knew where to go to help my friend. [Editor’s note: The episode takes its name from one of Amos’ most beloved songs.]

That’s an incredible story. Finchie, you were also in the powerful hallway scene. Was that always the plan? Vernoff: No! We forced her to do it. It was the opposite of planned; it was like an intervention. That hallway contains nearly the entire female writing staff [of Grey’s]. It contains exec producers on the show, exec producers in Shondaland, most of our female crew members. That entire hallway is Shondland women and that is because they wanted to do it. So many women came up to us after the table read and asked if they could be in that scene. They were willing to lose a day’s pay to be in that scene. Finchie and I reached out to our line producer and the Shondaland head of production and to Shonda herself and said, “Can we find a way for all these women to do this without them having to lose a day’s pay?” The answer was yes. That’s not an easy thing to do — to bring other crew members in so your female crew members can be in a scene. But it’s Shondaland and we got a big yes. That hallway is full of women who read that script and wanted to stand there and be a part of this thing. They are not actors. They are holding space in the most beautiful way for the actress — Khalilah Joi, who is everything. Finchie tried to not be in the scene and we basically did an intervention and made her do it. Then she tried to say that she couldn’t be in the scene because she had to produce the scene and watch the monitors. I said, “I’ll watch the monitors!” I was there and got to be a part of it in my own way. It was really the most powerful day on a set I’ve ever had. There was a reverence on that day that I’ve never experienced.

Are you submitting Khalilah Joi for guest actress in a drama Emmy consideration? Vernoff: We are. And Michelle Forbes. Khalilah Joi came in to audition for our show four or five times over a period of a year. Every time I saw her, it was for a one- or two-page scene character. I kept saying how much I loved her but the parts were too small. [Casting director] Linda Lowy kept bringing her back and I kept saying that she’s amazing but we had to do something bigger for us. She came into audition for the episode before this one and [director/exec producer] Debbie Allen wanted to cast her. I said there was something else. Then Finchie’s script came out. Khalilahgot that role as an offer — she didn’t have to audition for that role. She’d paid her dues. She’s incredible.

Elisabeth, how much research did you do into how much of this had been depicted before? These scenes feel groundbreaking in just how extensive the portrayal was. Finch: Only one I’m aware of Private Practice did a truncated version of it and I can’t speak for SVU but PP was one most aware of and I did a lot of searching. I did a lot of research to make sure that I was doing it differently. Because it’s done so rarely, I wanted to make sure whatever we did revealed a different side of something so that people could be educated. Private was the only one that popped up.

Did you get any pushback from the network or Standards and Practices? Vernoff: We received notes initially from ABC’s Broadcast Standards and Practices. They give these standard notes: “don’t be too gory”; “don’t be too explicit in your language”; “no side boob.” But the ones we got on this script included, “Please don’t show any fluid on the Q-tips” and “Please don’t show any body fluids under the blue lights.” Shonda wrote back a pretty passionate response of the myriad ways that networks are willing to show actual violence but that what we were doing here was the medical process that happens in the wake of violence and they were trying to tell us we couldn’t show it. She said, “Respectfully, I decline these notes.” that ultimately ABC understood that she was right. I really give them credit that they came back and said, “You’re right. You can proceed as scripted.” We then extended the invitation to that ABC Broadcast S&P executive to be part of the wall of women and she came.

Why was it important to you to have this discussion about consent on a show like Grey’s that is still one of the top programs on broadcast and is sold all around the world? Vernoff: It means a lot. As partisan as the Supreme Court situation was and is, this episode is not a partisan episode. As much as the political moment that began the conversation is somehow partisan, rape is a nonpartisan issue. Rape occurs worldwide. The statists are staggering and nobody cares what your political affiliation is. It’s a worldwide blight. The opportunity to really look at it through so many different lenses that is ultimately deeply humanizing, character-driven storytelling, empathetic storytelling … I feel privileged to be a part of it and so grateful for Finchie, [director] Debbie Allen and Shonda. It feels pretty overwhelming.

Finch: Every woman on the staff wrote some piece of this episode. Because we have such a diverse and amazing and brilliant staff, I wanted that hall of women to have every woman on staff to be a part of it. Krista wrote this incredible scene between Tuck and Ben that describes consent in a way that’s so clear and relatable. A woman on our crew who is a single mother told me that when her son is a couple years older she’s going to play that scene for him because she’s trying to find the best way to get through to him. When I think about that one individual, with that idea and the number of people who will do that — and the parents who will start a conversation with that scene, it breaks my brain and heart open in a way I didn’t think possible.

Were you surprised you had the viewer discretion warning or did you ask for one? Vernoff: We requested it and ABC watched episode and agreed with us. It’s interesting because we’re not depicting violence and yet the experience of watching the episode come together made it very clear that the way we’re telling this story is so rare that women are overcome with emotion. At one point, ABC said maybe not have the trigger warning and I told them that I had yet to watch this episode without someone sobbing and felt strongly that we should give viewers the heads up to watch with a friend.

This episode also saw Jo reveal she had an abortion when she was married to her abusive ex-husband. Can you talk about the decision to incorporate that into this episode? Finch: The abortion came in because I wanted to incorporate as many points of view as possible. Jo’s mom talks about how she was trying to keep the baby and other women do that and think, “Why can’t I?” Between that and the abortion and what happened with Jo, there are so many different ways that I’ve personally known people and how they’ve dealt with it. Some mothers have a baby because they were raped and some are able to raise them. Some are not able to raise them but have them and put up them up for adoption. Some decide that they’re in a situation where they want to have an abortion. In Jo’s case, she had an abortion because she was in a relationship with someone who was abusive. But it was important to me to show as many choices as we possibly could and one of the many reasons why we should have every choice under the world in the world that we live.

Jo is the child of rape. How will knowing that affect her going forward?Vernoff: Profoundly. It was a really interesting left turn in our season because we’d planned something different for Jo and then this episode emerged. I watched the shooting of it and it became clear that it wasn’t a one-off and “Jo experienced this and now back to your regular programming!” It became clear from Camilla’s performance that Jo was going to have to process this in really profound ways that were going to derail the storytelling we had planned for the season — and we and Camilla — were good with that.

It’s already affecting Jo’s relationship with her husband Alex (Justin Chambers) and since she hasn’t told anyone, her friendships, too. Vernoff: We’re telling a story about trauma and a story about depression. Things tend to get worse before they get better. Jo knows what it’s like to be abused by someone. How will finding that out about her biological mom impact how she copes with this knowledge? Presumably there’s a struggle with not being able to get mad because she knows what her mother went through. Vernoff: Right. This is a deep and complicated well that Jo has fallen into. It’s a deep pain. Often what happens in the brain is it looks for linear ways to process information and when it can’t find one, it often just gets stuck in the shit. Jo is a little stuck in the shit and is going to have to find her way out. But it’s not going to be easy. This was a bottle episode for Jo and there’s an Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) stand-alone episode coming soon. Will that episode be issue-focused, too? Vernoff: t’s entirely different. The Amelia episode is really funny and not issue-laden. It feels emotionally satisfying for long-term Amelia fans. It’s a joy ride. We’ve been making this romantic comedy for the most part this season and had a couple episodes more exceptions to the rule — like this Camilla episode. The Amelia episode is a straight up rom-com, with some family guts underneath it and with some really lovely emotional resolve.

You’re currently in production on the season 15 finale. How would you describe that? Vernoff: The season finale is funny and dramatic and unexpected. Finch: I’m a longtime Grey’s fan and this is a favorite of mine.

Given the nature of some of the old Grey’s finales, will you be saying farewell to any series regulars in the episode? Vernoff: You know I can’t answer that!

#grey's anatomy #Krista Vernoff #elisabeth r. finch #jo wilson #jo karev #alex karev #Amelia Shepherd #15x19 #15x24 #THR #scoop #15x21

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At the height of the vaulting, I ask the brunette Ylenia if she feels like receiving her majesty again in her rai2.

Without objecting, she gets up, takes a tube of gel from a drawer, returns to the bed and showing me her nice little ass invites her friend to lubricate her, moistening her orifice well and opening her buttocks, well bent over 95 degrees.

The blonde Christine carries out her task in a workmanlike manner and proceeds with putting on my condom with my mouth, pumping me just enough to reach the state of rigor extensi.

Having widened my buttocks, I make sure I can go in and I begin to put one finger first, then two and, realizing that the elasticity deriving from the opening of the previous jammed one has lost its enormity towards the small hole which, as I imagined, it is difficult to receive me.

Luckily I am dealing with a real gheisha devoted to the satisfaction of the man who does not oppose my requests…. and so it is that after various insistences, a few pushes and a few cries of pain, the first part enters making its way into the channel which initially welcomes me with difficulty, but which then widens accepting the piston pushing movement.

Satisfied with this welcome, I am going to complete the work and I move to the rhythm of samba, first floor, then more and more powerful in that channel that wraps me and that has opened up to welcome me.

Ylenia gasps, writhes, but does not complain, although I think she suffers from pain for having spread so much and I take advantage of so much kindness and, shameless, I continue that animalistic rhythm by plunging.

Meanwhile, the blonde, always by my side, collaborates caressing me, lemoning me, widening my friend's buttocks, licking her with my command and letting myself be touched everywhere.

After so much excitement, with the desire to enjoy the vision of that beautiful open orifice, I extract the cock from the ass and already the vision of the enlarged hole excites me the desire to put it back! But this time in the ass of the blonde Christine.

By now the time has come to an end (about 40 minutes have passed since the beginning of the dances) which comes with a supreme capitulation discovered and the heavenly vision of two beautiful women who receive my candid seed partly in Christine's ass, partly on Ylenia's lips and it starts on the faces of both, while their tongues stand on the pole and on the chapel, welcoming and collecting the remains of cream left over.

Satisfied and satisfied, I remain alone on the bed and then with both; after they have washed they come back to me and together I find them in the mouth with their languages that play with me and that also play with each other.

In conclusion, I refuse the massage offered to me, I wash, get dressed, come back with chaste and lemon kisses and go out, not before accepting a bottle of water kindly offered by this wonderful couple of appearance, modality and kindness.

Too bad that from where I live there is a certain distance, because otherwise with this new discovery I would make a subscription.

The trio was certainly not on my closest menu: I had only tried it once in Varese with two very blonde Romulan girls and the feeling of having been "sbancomattato" great by two actresses did not leave me until a couple of weeks does'. Maybe meeting two women together requires a certain habit, which I don't know how many of us can have .. I definitely don't. And then, in my opinion, it requires the blow of the ass to find the two right ones who do not look at the collection but are truly bisexual and lesbian among them and try to go along with you as much as possible to make sure that you want to come back. The two blondes from Varese preferred the first option .

I make arrangements with the "dominatrix" Vanessa that I have known for a few months and she with her usual calm and education tells me that her friend is not present before Thursday, so we make arrangements for the weekend shortly after noon.

I also ask for confirmation of the installment, which is guaranteed to me and consequently the trio leaps to the top of the menu list, and I decide to jump.

I make Vanessa understand that I do not usually organize certain types of meetings, and that I do not yet know their reactions, but it reassures me by asking for some of my fantasies that once in bed will be fully fulfilled .. things seen in films and perhaps dreamed of by boy..so very few years ago !!

The fact that both are Italian, very beautiful and very young, that by now have understood what they are looking for from them and that the majority of those who seek them, in addition to doing, also want to "See" certain things, facilitate the menage of a lot, and I lie down among them anxious to see the reactions of the little brother ... this was what I was afraid of and even if I had been preparing myself for some days, the first-person tests are not imaginable ..

The little brother had no qualms and in the mouth of Pamela he soon took on consistency and vigor while Vanessa had her tits pastrugnato, and put at sixty-nine I frequently felt the change of language ...Lesbian Escort Services both excellent, deep salivuous and with digressions in suburbs ... this would be enough to pay for the ticket but I try to resist as much as possible by asking to slow down and speed up the two possessed girls ..... who respect the speed limits imposed.

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An interesting article about the Gloria films my classmate found! (in reference to the Gloria therapy films with Fritz Perls, just Google it if you’re interested in watching). All of this is taken from https://www.psychotherapy.net/blog/title/the-gloria-films-candid-answers-to-questions-therapists-ask-most.

“ When I penned an article and a book chapter on the classic Gloria Films some years ago I never dreamed these pieces would continue to bring me a seemingly endless string of correspondence. Indeed, this classic video influenced the psychotherapy training and subsequent practice strategies for thousands and thousands of helpers. To this day the battle rages on about whether this work of art was the savior of psychotherapy, or psychotherapy’s worst nightmare. Recently a graduate student contacted me with a string of seriously good questions. In this blog I shall share those questions with my answers to shed a tad more light on this major artifact of the 20th century counseling and psychotherapy movement. Okay, let’s do this! Question: Is the Gloria Film the actual name of the training video? I couldn't find an official reference for it? Answer: No, the actual title was Three Approaches to Psychotherapy I, II, and III, but folks dubbed it the Gloria Films.

Question: Is the work really as old as it looks? I mean it comes across as ancient. Answer: That’s because it is ancient. The actual filming took place in 1964 and the movie was released in 1965. In 1964 the Beatles made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show and in 1965, "The Sound of Music" was a big hit at the box office, and the mini-skirt was just released. Question: Who came up with the idea for the project? Answer: The mastermind (aka the producer and director) behind the flick was a California psychologist and psychotherapist of note, Everett.L. Shostrom. He created some self-actualization inventories and two years after the Gloria films he authored a successful book, Man the Manipulator. Question: Why do you think Dr. Shostrum got involved in this project? Answer: At that time a shroud of secrecy had permeated professional psychotherapeutic helping. The books gave mountains of information about theories, but there was very little literature about what therapists actually said to clients. In 1950 Shostrom recorded the late, great Carl Ransom Rogers with a client on a magnetic wire (yes, go ahead and laugh, this predated digital, cassettes, reel to reel, and eight-track recordings). But: It was not to be. The recording was lost forever when the head of the history department recorded his own presentation of Adam and Eve on the wire recorder! I mean seriously, could I make that up? Question: Why did Dr. Shostrom choose Albert Ellis, Carl Rogers, and Frederick (Fritz) Perls as the therapists? Answer: Well, quite frankly, it was an all-star line-up. A lot of folks in the field felt these three helpers were the dream team . . . the best in the world, if you will. Perls created gestalt therapy; Ellis pioneered RET or rational emotive therapy (abbreviated RT at the time of the filming); while Rogers was the father of nondirective counseling which in today’s world is often called person-centered counseling. Question: Why do my professors always call the approach by Ellis REBT? Is that the same thing as RET? Answer: Late in his career Ellis added the “B” to stand for behavior based on the longstanding recommendation of a well-known psychologist and psychotherapy book author Raymond J. Corsini. Question: Had Gloria met Perls, Rogers, and Ellis prior to the filming and what did she know about them? Answer: No. She just knew they were prominent therapists and would each have approximately 15 or 20 minutes to cure her of what ailed her. Question: Was Gloria a real client or merely an actress pretending to be a client? Answer: Oh definitely, a real client. In 1963 Shostrom put together a film titled "Introduction to Psychotherapy." The film featured an actress who was pretending to be a real client. Shostrom was not happy with the movie, nor the acting, hence a real client, Gloria, was cast for 1965 project. Question: I thought Perls acted like a jerk during his session. Do you have any evidence that Perls was aware of how he was coming across? I am totally sure my current internship supervisor would never allow me to treat a client in such a mean manner. Answer: I can say with great certainty that Perls was aware of his actions. At one point in the session he quips, "Well, Gloria, can you sense one thing? We had a good fight?" Question: So how do experts who practice gestalt therapy defend the practice of this theory? Answer: Well, generally speaking, they say something like, "You don't need to do therapy exactly like Perls to be a gestalt therapist." To be fair, I have heard top practitioners say precisely the same thing about Ellis, though to be sure they are not talking the way Ellis came across in this movie. If you ever witnessed a therapy session or workshop conducted by Ellis he was often prone to use a little off color language, and that's putting it mildly! Question: Okay, well here is my biggest question and the one I really want to know the answer to. In the movie, Rogers comes across in a very warm moving way. Ellis, is seemingly a tad less empathic, but not bad, while Perls is flat out mean to her. After Gloria experiences therapy sessions with all of them she is asked which therapist she would most like to continue therapy with and she chooses Dr. Perls. I was shocked. I mean, I just thought Rogers was the hands down winner. What in the world was going on here? Answer: You were surprised, I was surprised, my entire graduate class at the time we viewed the films was surprised, and seemingly countless others who viewed the sessions were in shock and awe. There was just something not quite right about her choice of Perls. I didn’t buy into it then and I sure don’t buy it now. In fact, it was her strange choice of Perls which piqued my interest in researching the movie. Personally, I thought it was the strangest response (from a client who was not psychotic) I had come across in the entire field of psychotherapy, and that's saying a lot! Question: Did you find it difficult to research this film? Answer: Do birds fly? Absolutely. Lots of people were trying to piece this puzzle together with very little success. Perhaps the most remarkable was a fellow I corresponded with in another country who was actually offering small rewards for information. Seemingly folks with connections to the film just were not talking. On one occasion a person who actually knew Shostrom told me he insisted I share anything I came up with him before I had it published! He wanted to approve or disapprove of what I was going to write. What? (Excuse me, but when did America stop being a free country? Just asking.) He also refused to give me any information and told me it wasn't relevant why Gloria chose Perls. This made me even more suspicious and made me want to research this even more! Question: Did Gloria ever see Perls after the interview and if so what transpired? I hope the transaction was more cordial than the therapy session. Answer: Yes they saw each other, but no it wasn't pleasant! According to Gloria, after the cameras stopped rolling and the experts and movie crew were preparing to depart, Perls used Gloria as a human ash tray (not a misprint). He motioned for her to hold her hands cupped with her palms facing up. He then flicked his cigarette ashes into her hand. Question: Geez, that's downright abusive, wouldn't you agree? Answer: Yeah! At the very, very least I could safely say it is behavior that was unbecoming of the father of a major psychotherapy modality. Question: Lots of folks on the web accuse Gloria of having an affair with Rogers or Ellis. Some even suggest she married one of them. Any truth to the rumors? Answer: Totally false. Junk science. Not a shred of evidence to support these claims. In fact, to the contrary, Gloria became very close to Rogers and his wife. Question: Okay, so I can't wait another moment. Why did Gloria pick Perls as her favorite? Rogers came across so empathic. Wasn't he surprised when Gloria did not choose him? I have heard therapists say that Perls was chosen because she realized she needed a tough helper and he would not allow her to remain disturbed. Answer: Rogers did admit he was baffled. In my mind Rogers gave a flawless performance. I'd give him five stars. Six if I could. As the session began to wind down Gloria says, "Gee, I'd like you for my father." Rogers replies, "You look to me like a pretty nice daughter." As you remarked earlier, it was very moving and Rogers came across as an ideal billboard advertisement for his own theory. Moments after the session with Rogers Gloria announced that, "All in all I feel good about this interview." Three years before he passed away, Ellis told me that Gloria hated Perls for the rest of her life. Ellis revealed that the movie was "a fake" in the sense that, prior to the filming Gloria had seen Shostrom for four years of psychotherapy. When the film was produced Rogers didn't know this either. At the time, Shostrom was a supporter of Perls. To quote Ellis, "He [Shostrom] got her to say it was Perls who helped her, when he actually didn't." Was Gloria experiencing positive transference toward Shostrom? Was it just that she didn't want to disappoint her therapist? Could it have been that she was petrified of Perls? I don't have the definitive answer, but I think all of the aforementioned issues most likely entered into this. Just for the record Ellis felt he tried to cover too much in his own session with Gloria, and thus while his intervention was not horrific, he was clearly not at the top of his own psychotherapeutic game. Question: So what is the take-away message you think counselors and therapists need to know? Answer: Well, first let me be 100% crystal clear that there are occasions when a helper must be direct and use confrontation. No argument about that. Not now, not ever. However, after watching the movie, countless generations of therapists came away with the false notion that a sarcastic, up in your face, card carrying mental judo therapist (in this instance Perls) will walk away with the grand prize. Over the years I routinely heard therapists, supervisors, and my own students brag, "I got right up in the client's face and came across like Perls in the movie," thinking that was the best approach. According to Gloria's daughter (referred to as Pammy, just a fifth-grader at the time of the film), who authored Living with the 'Gloria Films': A daughter's memory in 2013, these Perls wannabes got it oh so wrong. After perusing her book it is safe to say the brief session with Perls negatively impacted her for the rest of her life. Question: Is Gloria still alive? Answer: Sadly, Gloria passed away in her mid-forties after a battle with cancer. I believe Gloria said it best herself as she was fond of saying, "Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear." Every aspiring and practicing therapist who wants to complete the emerging gestalt should see this film. “

(Via https://www.psychotherapy.net/blog/title/the-gloria-films-candid-answers-to-questions-therapists-ask-most)

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Is Atlanta becoming a top biking city? Maybe something even better?

by DARIN GIVENS | March 27, 2018

There were 1.87 million users of the Eastside Trail in 2017 according to the annual report of the Atlanta Beltline. When I visit the trail and see these throngs of people walking and riding bikes, my first thought is always, “how wonderful that so many Atlantans are into active transportation!” Which is then followed quickly by: “how can we shift some of these people to the streets?”

It’s one thing to get folks out on a multi-use trail that intersects with surface streets very infrequently. That’s a safe and inviting setting for cyclists and pedestrians, obviously. But it’s a completely different thing to get more Atlantans out on the city streets outside of their car and yet elbow-to-rearview-mirror with drivers, sharing intersections regularly. That’s quite a task for a city that often gets spoken of as a place where “everybody drives,” but efforts have been made to get people out of their cars.

In 2013, former mayor Kasim Reed said he wanted Atlanta to become a top 10 biking city (in his usual “aim for world-class status” style) by the year 2016. I can’t imagine anyone making a convincing argument that we succeeded, but no one can say that we haven’t made some significant strides. A new report on cycling in the city offers a good look at those strides.

The City of Atlanta’s Department of City Planning released its first Annual Bicycle Report a few weeks ago, and in several colorful pages it details some impressive stats: the Path Parkway cycle track on Luckie Street/Tech Parkway was named best bikeway by People for Bikes; 10 new miles of bikeways were constructed; and more than 25,000 people used the Relay bike sharing system. Not bad at all for one year.

The state (and future) of cycling in Atlanta, according to Bike Czar Becky Katz

But to get truly excited about where we’re headed, you need to talk to Becky Katz who works in the city’s planning department and is known as the Bike Czar of Atlanta. I spoke with her recently and got some good info on what we’ve achieved and what lies ahead.

(Above: Becky Katz, the City of Atlanta’s Bike Czar, points out cycling info on a map.)

ThreadATL: What are some of the interesting things you’ve learned about the way Atlantans use the Relay bike share system, according to statistics?

Katz: “A lot of people thought bike share was going to be used mostly for recreational rides but we’re seeing a lot of short trips that are being taken for errands, and commuting, and connections to transit. In fact 12% of all Relay rides start or end at a rail station.”

ThreadATL: Oh, that’s cool. Sounds like it’s not just a recreational tool — people are using this for regular, daily trips. What about where they’re riding, what can we see about that?

Katz: “We know where all the Relay bikes are going — they all have GPS units on them. If you look at where more of the rides are happening, it’s on roads that have protected bike facilities.”

ThreadATL: Interesting, So is that something you can take to the City and say ‘hey, look at how popular these protected lanes are?

Katz: “For me that is a HUGE talking point. If you build protected bike facilities in areas that have some amount of density, you WILL get ridership. We’ve seen it on 10th Street, we’ve seen in on Luckie/Tech Parkway which had really low bike ridership before [the protected lane was built].”

(Above: From the 2017 bike report, this chart shows an impressive growth in membership of the Relay bike share program.)

ThreadATL: What’s happening on Juniper Street? Is the long-promised protected bike lane coming? Katz: “Yes, It’s a one-way protected bikeway, so it’ll be sidewalks, seven foot bike lane, a planted strip, a full lane of parking and two lanes of travel from 14th to Ponce. That’s an old project that was federally funded. To match that, through TSPLOST, Piedmont Avenue will get the same condition — so it’ll be bike lane one-way pairs [note: Juniper is southbound, Piedmont is northbound] similar to the one-way car pairs. And that’s under design. Juniper is ready for construction, we’re just waiting for the federal government to give us permission.”

(Above: Rendering of the Juniper Street bike lane, which can begin construction as soon as Atlanta gets final permission from the feds, who are providing funding support . Source: Midtown Alliance.)

ThreadATL: What kinds of things can we look forward to, and I mean things that you’re particularly happy about personally?

Katz: “Through TSPLOST the city is doing an expansion of Relay and it’ll include electric bikes and I think that’s going to be VERY well received. We’re looking forward to at least another 500 bikes at another 70 stations. We’ll be focused on expanding south of I-20 and also east of Moreland Avenue.” “I’m very excited about the Lee Street trail which is in southwest Atlanta. I think that’s a really needed connection and the community has been excited about the project. Also the eastside trolley trail that will run along Arkwright and will connect to Hosea Williams and to the Beltline at Mauldin.”

(Above: Vision for the Lee Street bike project, current (left) and future (right).)

So what about it? Is this a cycling city yet?

Even after looking at the bike report, and even after feeling optimistic following my talk with Katz, if I was going to answer that question of “is Atlanta becoming a top bike city,” I’d probably balk. I’d say it’s the wrong question to ask, and arguably even the wrong goal to aim for.

Consider the TSPLOST and More MARTA projects, which include not just good things for pedestrian/bike infrastructure but also transit. Those are funded by revenue we’re collecting through the 2016 referendum that City voters approved. And consider the Renew Atlanta projects, including some complete-streets redesigns, that are coming thanks to a separate stream of funding we approved. What seems apparent to me is that Atlanta has gained the resources and the energy to become something more important than a bike city. It could become a multi-modal city.

Atlanta could have streets that embody the essence of a truly public domain, designed with respect for all users. That’s a status that Atlanta hasn’t achieved since the heyday of the old streetcar system in the 1920s. Which is not to say that this is a retro goal — it’s very forward thinking, and in this emerging future of mobility, we can do street-sharing much more safely and efficiently than we did 100 years ago.

We’ve seen how plans can be undone: diligence is needed from advocactes

Part of the key to reaching this better-than-bike-city goal is going to be shifting that enthusiasm for alternative transportation off of just the Beltline and getting it onto the streets. But we can only do that *if* the various projects — TSPLOST, More MARTA, and Renew Atlanta — are carried out. The city has to fulfill its commitments. It has to stick to these good plans, even when opposition rises from people who want to maintain the current level of car-priority.

We’ve seen the way that people can rise up and scuttle or delay proposals. It happened with the scrapped bike lane on Peachtree Road. It happened with the dismantled bike lane on Westview Drive. It happened with the sad inertia regarding a fix for the deadly intersection of the Beltline and Monroe Drive after residents’ voiced concerns about car flow. And, reportedly, uproar from residents scared about car flowon DeKalb Avenue have hampered the redesign process for that dangerous road.

Just because there are some good things happening, we’re not off the hook when it comes to advocacy action. We have to be diligent and demand that city leaders follow through with designs that will produce safe, inviting streets for every type of transportation.

#atlanta #urbanism #cycling #transportation #multi-modal #bikes #bike lanes

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Rob Mazurek Interview: Galaxial & Celestial

Photo by Britt Mazurek

BY JORDAN MAINZER

At a time when we can’t physically feed off of each other’s energy, Rob Mazurek has provided an album that allows even the most metaphysically skeptical feel a connection. Dimensional Stardust is his latest with the Exploding Star Orchestra, the avant-garde collective he’s fronted since a 2005 co-commission from the Chicago Cultural Center and the Jazz Institute of Chicago, and its levels of long-distance expression are seemingly infinite. The record’s creation story itself, pre-pandemic, is evidence enough of the power of art even when collaborators are technically alone. Mazurek wrote the material after JazzFest Berlin curator Nadin Deventer invited him to present a Berlin-meets-Chicago iteration of ESO in Germany; when Mazurek returned to Chicago, venerable jazz label International Anthem in turn invited their roster and friends to record his new music. Each player tracked their performances separately over MIDI scores of Mazurek’s compositions, and his editorial and curatorial stamp took the record to the finish line.

Mazurek doesn’t play much on the record, offering his trademark cornet but mostly arranging the music for the twelve other musicians, who play in tandem referencing a swath of genres and aesthetics. Ohmme’s Macie Stewart’s violin and Tomeka Reid’s cello intertwine with Damon Locks’ spoken word (which appears throughout the album), minimal techno beats, and Coltrane-inspired piano on highlight “Galaxy 1000″. With its opening fluttering flutes and string plucks, “Parable of Inclusion” sways along like a sea shanty. Closer “Autumn Pleiades” juxtaposes solemn orchestral swells with percussive, electroacoustic blips. And only a couple songs feature prominent solos, but they’re mammoths: opener “Sun Core Tet”, buoyed by Nicole Mitchell’s flute among clattering percussion and muted horns, and “The Careening Prism Within (Parable 43)”, featuring Tortoise’s Jeff Parker ripping a guitar solo over Reed’s cello. Combine the music with videos from featured percussionist Mikel Patrick Avery and a cover sporting a flowy Mazurek painting, Dimensional Stardust is a multi-disciplinary achievement that rises above ours--and perhaps even Mazurek’s--preconceived notions of concert and harmony.

I was able to ask a few questions to Mazurek over email about his creative approach on Dimensional Stardust, some individual songs and moments, and what’s next for the prolific creator. Read his responses below.

Since I Left You: In your description of "A Wrinkle in Time Sets Concentric Circles Reeling," you talk about, "break through the galaxial ceiling of what we think we know and treat each other...with respect and dignity." Is this idea of abandoning preconceived notions implicit in your approach to collaboration, in general and on this album? Did it have anything to do with your tendency to step back and let others lead the instrumentation on this album?

Rob Mazurek: The music on this record is almost completely composed, so there was no stepping back to let others lead in respect to the written music, but of course there is natural human expression that happens, and these subtleties certainly make the music more exciting and beautiful. The music is about transformation, and letting the overall arc of the sound take you to places less travelled. When I speak of this “galaxial ceiling,” I am putting forth the idea that anything is possible, and all is acceptable within the realm of ESO.

SILY: Though I wouldn't call Dimensional Stardust "dance music," there are certainly very groovy moments, like when the beat first drops on "Sun Core Tet" and the almost minimal techno of "Galaxy 1000". When composing and playing this music, did you at all think about the prospect of people dancing to it? In general, how do you (or do you) imagine people listening to it?

RM: I make music to give myself and listeners energy and light. I make music with the notion that anything is possible and acceptable. I make music with melody, rhythm, intervals, harmonic shapes, noise, repetition, chromatics, modal, etc.…anything is danceable. I certainly danced quite a bit while making this music.

SILY: At what point in time and why did you ultimately decide to have Mikel Patrick Avery do the videos? How involved were you in the process of making them?

RM: I love Mikel’s aesthetic…I wanted someone to make the films that had an intimate relationship to the music. Since Mikel plays on the record, I thought it would be excellent for him to do it. We spoke a bit about the tendency for Exploding Star Orchestra music to be quite celestial in nature. From that idea, Mikel came up with the idea of “the First Kid in Space” and ran with it.

SILY: "The Careening Prism Within" certainly recalls Jeff Parker's work with Tortoise but also sounds like it could have come from his Suite For Max Brown from earlier this year, the other first of two collaborative releases between Nonesuch and International Anthem, which you also played on. This may be coincidental, but I thought I'd ask: How aware are you of the other music your collaborators are working on and releasing, and does it ever make its way into your compositions and playing?

RM: I am influenced by many things, and one of them is my friends' music. Jeff’s record Suite for Max Brown is probably my favorite record of the decade! I love what Tortoise has done. This music was composed almost 3 years ago. Upon recording it, there were some slight changes, but [it] stayed pretty much intact. I write music very intuitively mostly based on my own developing vocabulary these last 30 or so years. Sometimes, against my own will, something will happen…a crazy example is a composition for ESO I made some years ago which just by chance borrowed a whole section from a composition of Jeff’s! I didn't even know that until Jeff brought it up at a rehearsal! Hahaha, that was pretty stunning. Yes, influences are certainly there, but a lot of influence is insular to my own path to making sound.

SILY: The fleeting nature of time is a big theme on this record, yet you take the approach of finding beauty in the minutiae of moments and endless possibilities rather than playing "what if" games and obsessing over the butterfly effect. Have you always held this mindset, and how do you continue to hold it these days?

RM: There are a million suns in one melody, there are galaxies hidden in feedback and noise, one note = one breath = new universes. Spirals create energy, energy creates light, light moves quickly, and all is possible in the realm of love.

SILY: What's the story behind the cover art of this record?

RM: It is a painting I made titled ''Some Other Time.” The painting was basically started at the beginning of the Dimensional Stardust composition process and finished about the same time we recorded the record. It seemed a perfect complement to the sound, so we used it for the recording. My painting/art practice has been happening for 20 years or so. I have been developing the idea of sound and vision being ultimately the same thing. When a painting emits energy and light and sound to me, then it is finished, and when I can see the colors and forms and shapes from listening to a composition, then it is done. I am desperately trying to find a way where these 2 mediums coexist in the most intimate and powerful way possible.

SILY: What's next for you?

RM: I have hours and hours of modular synth constructions I am working on. I just finished some interesting work with the architects from Paris at AWP, where we worked on transforming image through sound into video into architecture. There is a new release coming at the beginning of the year with David Grubbs and Mats Gustafsson under the name “The Underflow” on Blue Chopsticks records. A new suite of material I am working on for Ballroom Marfa with Damon Locks, Lisa Harris, and Mauricio Takara. Finishing a suite of large scale paintings and conceiving the next sculpture exhibition that will happen in Italy at some point when the pandemic gets under control.

SILY: What have you been listening to, watching, and reading lately?

RM: Mauricio Takara dropped some really interesting music on Bandcamp that is quite nice, the new Autechre records are pretty great, Sam Prekop’s Comma is very nice. I have been watching the King Hu film A Touch of Zen over and over again, and I am re-reading Samuel R. Delany’s masterpiece Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand.

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