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Marilyn Monroe - Loving Our Angel

On this the 60th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's passing. Loving Our Angel

#Marilyn Monroe #Norma Jeane #60th #anniversary #passing #legend #icon #star #Marilyn Monroe Site #Marilyn Monroe Video Archives

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Will exhibition clothes at the Design Museum in London or other museums never be worn by anyone ? Do these clothes become pieces of art that not even the brand has access to?

Note: *This just bought back flashbacks of the entire debacle surrounding Kim K and the Marilyn Monroe dress and that video of her team and the Ripley’s team improperly handling that dress while trying it on her (I’m so tired of Kim’s shenanigans)* 😭

In the case of loaning out pieces on exhibit from museums that would depend on a myriad of things mainly the how old the piece is, the risk factors of damage, and ultimately who owns the pieces.

In order to preserve the condition of the clothes a lot of accredited museums STRONGLY advise against loaning out clothing to be worn because with a lot of the older pieces the risk factors are very high. With older pieces those textiles may not exist anymore and also sweat and fragrance could ruin the fabrics as well if they get worn due to their delicacy. If the piece is owned by the museum they will most definitely say NO to every single pull request for them.

A lot of the clothing seen in fashion exhibitions are either on loan from the clothing brands extensive archive or either on loan from private collectors. So if there was ever a request, they might say YES for the right person. The private collectors might be more likely to say YES because a lot of them are dealers and they might want the press for their business but it still has to be for the RIGHT person.

#FASHUN #Museums

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#and if they want to like it or reblog it or just bookmark it in their browser and i have no idea that they've interacted with it

My Top Posts in 2022:

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Add Magic To Taste aesthetics 5/20: A Family Thing by Jessica Black @alocalband

Add Magic To Taste is the debut publication from @duckprintspress, an anthology of 20 spell-binding (and scrumptious!) heart-warming queer stories.

17 notes - Posted September 5, 2022

#4

Strawberries // Red

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Supernatural Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Anna Milton/Rachel Characters: Rachel (Supernatural), Anna Milton Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Season/Series 06, Post-Canon, Fluff, Light Angst, Implied/Referenced Brainwashing, Mutual Pining, Angel True Forms (Supernatural), Femslash February, Cover Art, Collage Series: Part 1 of Femslash February 2022: Fruit Salad Summary:

A fruit, forbidden, is tasted in the Garden by a woman in love.

No, not that one. This one is an angel.

18 notes - Posted February 8, 2022

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Add Magic To Taste aesthetics 13/20: Breaking Bread by Beth Lumen

Add Magic To Taste is the debut publication from @duckprintspress, an anthology of 20 spell-binding (and scrumptious!) heart-warming queer stories.

21 notes - Posted September 13, 2022

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White Chocolate

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Librarians (TV 2014) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cassandra Cillian/Karla Characters: Cassandra Cillian, Karla (The Librarians) Additional Tags: First Dates, First Kiss, Ice Skating, Fluff, Awkwardness, Femslash February, Cover Art, Collage Series: Part 1 of Femslash February 2022: Chocolate Fondue Summary:

Just a lovely first date in a winter wonderland for Cassandra and Karla.

22 notes - Posted February 14, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

A list of songs that make me think of Bela Talbot. Listen here on Youtube.

Killer Queen - Queen

Short Skirt, Long Jacket - Cake

Material Girl - Madonna

Run The World (Girls) - Beyonce

Pocketful of Dreams - Billy Talent

Hit And Run - LOLO

Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy - Tata Young

Rude Boy - Rihanna

Mad Woman - Taylor Swift

Fevah - Viktoria Modesta

Maneater - Nelly Furtado

Primadonna - Marina and the Diamonds

Sorry Not Sorry - Demi Lovato

Me Too - Meghan Trainor

Fashionista - Jimmy James

That’s What I Like - Bruno Mars

Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend - Marilyn Monroe

Getaway Car - Taylor Swift

How To Be A Heartbreaker - Marina and the Diamonds

Everybody’s Fool - Evanescence

She’s Always A Woman - Billy Joel

24 notes - Posted January 15, 2022

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Jun 19, 2017 'We Didn't Start The Fire' music video with historically accurate news coverage accompanying all 100+ events mentioned.

Music: We Didn't Start The Fire | Billy Joel

Video: Historic Archives 1949-1989

Edited: Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer ([email protected]) Song: We Didn't Start The Fire Artist: Bill Joel Album: Storm Front Original Release Date: September 27, 1989 Release Date: October 20, 1998 Copyright: 1989 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron Dien Bien Phu Falls, "Rock Around the Clock" Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say? We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire But when we are gone It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on... We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning

#music #history #Youtube

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Selected individual set/stage design projects archive

2023

Giant Loewe sunglasses sculpture for BlinkBlink.pl x Loewe event at Elektrownia Powiśle

Mery Spolsky "Erotik Era" album cover shoot by Adam Słaboń (Kayax)

Phlov by Anna Lewandowska autumn campaigns by Tomek Janus

Stage design for Hotel Maffija, Solar&Białas, Sobel at SBM Ffestival, Warsaw

Converse All Stars Workshop 

Kmag Magazine Editorial - photos by Natalia Skotnicka

Stage design and hand sculpted masks for Sobel concert at Sun Festival Kołobrzeg

Oshee x Mata - set design for campaign directed by Alex Pak (shootme)

God Save Queens photoshoot campaign by Rogier Alexander

Youtube Awards campaign directed my Mateusz Miszczyński (shootme)

Art Faces Warsaw Zine #2 „root” issue photoshoot by Max Gronowski

Editorial for Mariola Homoncik - photos by Natalia Skotnicka

Natalia Nykiel „Bye Bye” single cover shoot photos by Krystian Lipiec (Off The Records)

Young Leosia - „Jeden dzień” music video directed by Mac Adamczak

Open’er Festival 2023 video campaign directed by Mac Adamczak

Szpaku feat. Waima - „Crazy Frog” music video directed by Jan Dybus (Widok Kolektyw)

Johnnie Walker Blonde campaign directed by Mac Adamczak (Warsaw Production)

Pepsi europe photoshoot by Kuba Bors (Analog Digital TV)

Danucera campaign directed by Tala Dołgowska (Warsaw Creatives)

Kacperczyk „Pokolenie Końca Świata” album cover by Adam Słaboń (SBM)

key visual and set design for Bizneswoman Roku 2023

Relab „Museum of Dinosaurs and Nothing Special” set design for campaign by Zulu Kuki

Waima photoshoot by Michał Mazurek

Molton SS23 campaign by Marta Sinior

Fashion Magazine cover shoot with Maffashion - photos by Dawid Klepadło

Sizeer x New Balance campaign by Karol Pojman

Editorial for Nasty Magazine, photos by Natalia Skotnicka

Żywiec campaign directed by Nathaniel Czarnecki (Spokój Film)

Shopee campaign directed by Michał Jagiełło

2022:

Białas „Głowa Rodziny” EP cover by Piotr Pytel (SBM)

Shopee christmas campaign directed by Nathaniel Czarnecki (Truskavka)

Doda „Aquaria” album cover by Klaudia Piekarska (Universal Music)

Otsochodzi feta OKI - „KFC” music video directed by @yungssebv

Warsaw Shore campaign by Dawid Klepadło (MTV)

Young Igi x Oki „Pleasure” music video directed by @yungssebv

Coca Cola x Kubota campaign by Klaudia Piekarska

White2115 - „Pretty Boy” album cover by Paweł Miśko (SBM)

Otsochodzi x Oskar83 - „Wwa Melanż” music video directed by @yungssebv

Margaret „Cry in my Gucci” music video directed by Alex Pak

Bella Fit SS22 campaign by Natasha Ivanova

Warsaw Sneaker Store campaign by Hien Dinh Ngoc

Włodi4444 x Klarna photoshoot by Paweł Miśko 

Jan Rapowanie - „Bufor” album cover by Zulu Kuki

Mrozu x Jan Rapowanie „Dym” music video directed by Magda Zielińska (Propeller Film)

Friz „Vanilla” music video directed by Filip Celen Krupa (Porobione Studio)

Julia Rocka x Kukon „Blow-Up” directed by Olaf Zażembłowski

Żołądkowa DeLuxe Campaign (Lemon Film)

Białas x Słoń „Klękaj przed Panem” music video directed by Kote & Pak

2021:

Speed Games Garage by Kuba Przygoński studio design

InPost campaign directed by Marek Sobkiewicz - Hirsch

Beata Kozidrak & Justyna Steczkowska - „Między Nami” music video directed by Olga Czyżykiewicz

Stage design for Żabson & guests concert

Sobel - „Drobna Zabawa” music video directed by Hien Dinh Ngoc

Tymek „Marilyn Monroe” music video directed by Adrian Obręczarek

Tymek „Cielo Blu” music video directed by Adrian Obręczarek

Hodak x Paluch - „C.R.E.A.M.” music video directed by Hien Dinh Ngoc

Tymek photoshoot for VOGUE Polska by Adrian Obręczarek

Garaż Acoustic studio design 

Ballantines x newonce summer campaign

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Rookie-Critic's Film Review Weekend Wrap-Up - Week of 3/6-3/12/2023

-Return to Seoul (2022, dir. Davy Chou)

I wanted to like this more than I ended up liking it. What could have been an incredibly moving story about the detriments of trying to fill voids in your happiness with the idea of others and not with love for yourself is kind of lessened by a main character that was very selfish, mean, and outside of her life situation, was mostly unrelatable. I just couldn't find an in with the protagonist of the film, Freddie, and it kept me from fully enjoying what is mostly a well-made film.

Score: 7/10

Currently only in theaters. See my full review on here.

-Argentina, 1985 (2022, dir. Santiago Mitre)

An incredibly gripping courtroom drama about a piece of South American history that more people in the world should know about. A true, mostly inspiring, but also frightening in ways, story about fascism in 1980s Argentina and how, even after it was defeated, the seeds of it remained in the democratic government set up in its place. The struggles of a handful of young law professionals as well as the work of Argentinian DA Julio Strassera. At a whopping 140 minutes, Argentina, 1985 never once feels its length, and that is just one of the many impressive things about this film that makes it one of the best non-English language films of last year.

Score: 9/10

Currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

-Rocky V (1990, dir. John G. Avildsen)

I've heard that his is the Rocky film that fans of the franchise don't want to touch with a 10-foot pole and I don't really understand why. It's not really bad, it's more just kind of boring. The story just doesn't really go anywhere and the final fight, while an interesting subversion on the previous 4 films' largely similar structure, isn't particularly gripping and is very aged, and not in the best way. Sage Stallone does a decent enough job playing Rocky Jr. and Sly Stallone is just as motor-mouthed and lovably dumb as ever as Rocky, but again, everything here mostly just ok. I don't really think I'll remember too much about this going forward.

Score: 5/10

Currently streaming on Netflix.

-All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022, dir. Laura Poitras)

This was a wonderful documentary about renowned photographer/activist Nan Goldin; half about her life coming up in the counterculture of 80s New York City during the AIDS crisis, and half about her more recent work as an activist against the Sackler family and their involvement in the opioid crisis. The two halves of Goldin's story are weaved together and related to each other wonderfully by the film's director Laura Poitras and editors Joe Bini, Amy Foote, and Brian A. Kates. Goldin's own photographic slideshows are mixed with other archival footage and modern interviews to make a story that way more succinct and whole than I was expected from something that, one the surface, seems like it would be disjointed.

Score: 8/10

Currently available to rent/purchase on digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, etc.) and coming soon to Blu-ray & DVD through Criterion.

-Blonde (2022, dir. Andrew Dominik)

I really wanted to give this one a chance. Ana de Armas does a brilliant job as Marilyn Monroe, but really the film dips it's toe too often into the wrong side of exploitation, and it makes the film hard to watch. Not in a way that makes it profound or thought-provoking, but in a way that feels cruel and unusual. The film is shot well, but the things happening on screen are more often than not too bizarrely horrible to keep your eye on. At certain points it almost felt like it reveled in portraying Monroe's suffering. This isn't to mention that it is based on a book that is self-admittedly more fiction than fact by the author. I'm interested in learning about Monroe's actual life, and I don't feel like this gave a clear image of that at all.

Score: 4/10

Currently streaming on Netflix.

-Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023, dir. Guy Ritchie)

I was not a fan Ritchie's last film, Wrath of Man. I thought it took pride in all the worst parts of machismo and was an oddly self-serious film in his filmography. Thankfully, Operation Fortune doesn't have this issue. The Guy Ritchie that made Snatch and The Gentlemen is back. The misogyny that is normally the dark spot on most of his movies is dialed way back here, which is nice. Now, the plot is almost non-existent and non-important and the characters and their motivations and personalities are similarly non-important and paper thin, but the film is funny and entertaining, and that's all I ever really want out of a Guy Ritchie film. Hugh Grant gets a special shout out for stealing every single moment he's on screen.

Score: 7/10

Currently only in theaters.

-Rocky Balboa (2006, dir. Sylvester Stallone)

Overall, probably my favorite of the Rocky films. Rocky is just a sweet old man looking to connect with his son and remember his wife fondly. Bringing back the little girl from one scene of the first film as a fully fleshed-out adult character was an inspired choice, and, while Paulie is still a giant pile of trash on fire, he actually shows a bit of remorse for his actions over the previous five films, and that can't count for nothing. Just a very impressive, deceptively incredible late-stage entry in a beloved franchise.

Score: 8/10

Currently streaming on Paramount+.

-Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022, dir. Anthony Fabian)

As someone who hasn't seen either Paddington film, I imagine this is as good as a film can make you feel without actually being Paddington. Lesley Manville is absolutely marvelous and beautifully kind as Mrs. Ada Harris. This was one that I skipped out on seeing in the theater because it didn't seem like something I would enjoy, but it ended up stealing my heart and making me feel ashamed for shrugging it off before. Watch this if you're feeling down for an instant shot of serotonin.

Score: 9/10

Currently streaming on Peacock.

-Scream VI (2023, dir. Tyler Gillett & Matt Bettinelli-Olpin)

I won't gush about this anymore than I already have. Radio Silence have done a great job picking this franchise up from where the wonderful Wes Craven left it off. The acting is superb, the horror is superb, the story is superb, Scream continues to be the best slasher franchise by a significant margin. Way to go.

Score: 10/10

Currently only in theaters. See my full review here.

-Tell It Like a Woman (2022, dir. Catherine Hardwicke, Taraji P. Henson, Lucia Puenzo, Leena Yadav, Maria Sole Tognazzi, Mipo O, Lucia Bulgheroni & Silvia Carobbio)

As well-intentioned as this is, it's not a film, it's a PSA. Half of these are barely stories and more like a video that would play in the middle of a self-help seminar to prove a point. Only one of these seven stories feels like a legitimate short film, the one directed by Japanese director Mipo O, and it's the only stretch of the film that doesn't feel like a complete waste of time.

Score: 3/10

Currently available to rent or purchase on digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, etc.).

-The Quiet Girl (2022, dir. Colm Bairéad)

Last year, right as I was about to cut off my viewing for the 2022 season and post my Best Of list, I saw The Worst Person in the World, a non-English language film the ended up ranking towards the top of my list. This year I didn't think that was possible, as 2022 was a truly magnificent and special year. My Top 20 (hell, my top 35-40, even) are all so amazing it's hard to imagine anything cracking into the upper echelon of the list. Yet, somehow, The Quiet Girl has managed just that. This massively slow-paced film managed to not only to maintain my interest, but right at the end. When you wonder how the film could possibly bring all of its themes and messaging together in a way that feels uniquely whole and satisfying, the titular Quiet Girl, Cáit (played with the emotional depth of a thousand oceans by newcomer Catherine Clinch), utters two words; or rather, the same word twice, but with two deliveries so utterly different that it shatters your soul into a million little pieces and breaks the walls of the even the most hard-hearted person on the planet down until you're just a mess on the floor of theater (not really, that's nasty, but you get the idea). Any qualm I may have even remotely had with the slow trot at which the majority of the film clips along in is immediately dashes, thrown out the window and never to be heard from again, all from just two softly spoken little words. It's truly powerful and within the next couple weeks when you see me make my Best of 2022 posts, I guarantee you'll be seeing this somewhere, and most likely pretty high up.

Score: 10/10

Currently only in theaters.

-Mandy (2018, dir. Panos Cosmatos)

Watched as a part of my college friends' Nic Cage Fridays movie night, I was very, very excited to see this. I was shocked when we were three quarters of the way through the film and everyone else except for me and one other person was cracking jokes and making fun of the film like it was The Room. It for sure has a decent number of issues: the beginning act of the film is dreadfully slow and begins to outstay its welcome, the plot of the film (if you could call it that) is so unbelievably thin, and Cosmatos' work and experiments with color in frame, while definitely a strong vibe that I liked, doesn't necessarily add anything artistically to the film. I wouldn't say, however, that it is worthy of the ire it was receiving from the crowd. Nicolas Cage's performance as Red, while sparse throughout the first half of the film, kicks into absolute high gear in the second, and manages to make the film have one of the craziest, most fun, and absolutely phantasmagorical third acts of any film I've ever seen. I guess it's not for everybody, but please, if you haven't seen it, Google it, take a look at some stills and read the basic setup of the plot, and if it sounds even remotely interesting, give it a shot. I found it to be a very rewarding watch.

Score: 7/10

Currently available for rent or purchase on digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, etc.) or on Blu-ray & DVD through RLJ Entertainment.

-Champions (2023, dir. Bobby Farrelly)

This ended up being surprisingly heartwarming and funny. A film about intellectually disabled adults that never centers them as the punchline of the joke, but rather the ones delivering said punchline, Champions excels at giving these oft-belittled members of the human race their own voice and space to be not only taken seriously as individuals, but also raucously hilarious. Directed by one-half of the Farrelly brothers (of Dumb & Dumber and There's Something About Mary fame), there are only a few moments of the signature gross-out Farrelly humor, and honestly they're the most out of pocket, odd moments of the film. Woody Harrelson and Kaitlin Olson give good performances as the central protagonists of the film, but truthfully the spotlight and the majority of the kudos should go to the basketball team at the heart of the film, namely Madison Tevlin, Kevin Iannucci, and Casey Metcalfe. Honestly, the entirety of the Friends (the name of the team) deserves the highest of praise, and I don't mean that patronizingly. They steal the show every moment they're on screen. The framework and overarching story isn't really anything special or new, but criticizing a film with this big of a heart feels disingenuous, so I'll just say I liked it and leave it at that.

Score: 7/10

Currently only in theaters.

-Thirteen Lives (2022, dir. Ron Howard)

I don't have a ton to say about Thirteen Lives other than that I really liked it. I think this is the big awards snub of the year, receiving basically no attention which, for a film like this that Academy voters generally eat up, is very surprising. It's Ron Howard's best film since 2013's Rush and, much like Argentina, 1985, is a film about real-life events that runs over 2 and a half hours that absolutely never feels like it. A thoroughly enthralling and awe-striking cinematic experience. It's an Amazon Prime Video original, but one can imagine how magical this would have been to see in the theater.

Score: 9/10

Currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

-65 (2023, dir. Scott Beck & Bryan Woods)

This was definitely a movie. There was a story and an Adam Driver and spaceship crashes and dinosaurs and a kid and everything that a movie needs to be, well, a movie. It doesn't make the most of its premise, which is disappointing, and also doesn't make much use of the dinosaurs, which is disappointing. I think what saves the film is Driver's general talent and the parent-child chemistry of Driver and Ariana Greenblatt, which is good and generates an interest in seeing them survive this prehistoric sci-fi ordeal together. This will be something I'll most likely forget a lot of in the coming months, regardless of how much fun I had while my butt was in the seat watching it. I'm not going to say don't see it if you were already interested, but I'm also saying that if this wasn't something that interested you in the first place, you're not really missing out on anything spectacular.

Score: 6/10

Currently only in theaters.

#Weekend Wrap-Up #Return to Seoul #Argentina 1985 #Rocky V #All the Beauty and the Bloodshed #Blonde #Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre #Operation Fortune #Rocky Balboa #Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris #Scream VI #Scream 6 #Scream #Tell It Like a Woman #The Quiet Girl #Mandy #Champions #Thirteen Lives #65 #65 2023 #Davy Chou #Santiago Mitre #John G. Avildsen #Laura Poitras #Andrew Dominik #Guy Ritchie #Sylvester Stallone #Anthony Fabian #Tyler Gillett #Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

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Holy Wood - Chapter 10

Feb 14, 2001 | MarilynManson.com | Archived by Nick Kushner at The NACHTKABARETT

It wasn't very difficult for Coma to find Adam's file that week. The casting storage room was like a mausoleum of never-to-bes and never-to-knows. The walls were lined with dusty stacks of half inch reel boxes filed by cut-out Polaroid faces on the bindings and larger b/w headshots on the lids. They were all marked REJECT AND HOLD. Everyone ended up here expecting to make it somewhere more special someday. No one ever did.

Adam has no idea that as he sits in the torn remains of his trailer inappropriately dressed for Celebritarian purposes, Coma White is staring at his photo and listening to the sterile rendition of the song he wrote right here for her. It was only "happy" that her birthday meant that she was finally a legal grey and free from this home. Even though she is incredibly smart, her idealism betrays her into thinking she would actually be allowed to leave here in any other way than a body bag.

Outside her window, klieg lights and a red carpet draw crowds of celebrating birthday mongers and the long legs of paparazzi, climing over one another for a shot of drama. FLASH!

Something shifts now like a cheap film flashback. The sound is reduced to the dubbed down rattle of a projector's plastic speaker. The voices sneak out through tiny holes from the past and Coma is just a little girl crying into the camera's P.O.V. It is the President's Bell and Howard Zoomatic, and although a fine photographic instrument it provides a somewhat grainy resolution. Her tiny, nine-year-old body is drowning in a white gown and an oversized platinum blonde wig as she is dressed like a kiddy-porn Marilyn Monroe. The handle-held cinematography is nauseating at times as the beautiful little girl dances like an adult.

"Sing," a voice off camera coaches her. "Sing for daddy." Her eyes are black waterfalls of mascara and her tiny nose drips down onto her her red smeared lips as she sings. "Happy birthday, Mr. President."

"The gun, baby." He whispers. The camera focus is disturbed and the sound of Mr. White's pants unzipping becomes quite clear, although it's hard to tell now if it's on the projection or in the room this very moment. The sound of her voice struggles to stay in synch with the image.

On the large screen in the President's private library, young Coma fellates the barrel of a shiny chrome revolver, gagging between syllables of Ha-ppy-Bir-day-to… The light from the projection reveals walls of film canisters where books might normally be. The President pinches a cigarette in one hand and his other has disappeared into the expensive cloth of his pants.

Through a crack in the door Mrs. White watches jealousy. Her reddened eyes seem more inclined to violence then self-pity though. This seems to be a scene she has stumbled upon in one form or another for the last time.

She turns away from the library and desperately searches her reflection in the halfway mirror for wrinkles or flaws. The 'mirror' is actually a video monitor in a frame that provides one with a more accurate assessment of one's looks, particularly on TV where it matters most. Mrs. White is no longer the fairest of them all. She grabs the phone sitting on the small stand beneath the TV monitor. "I need Child Safety here now! Do you hear me?"

The voice on the other line responds calmly, "Mrs. White with all do respect, we've been through this several times before. The President has sole authority over Coma and–"

She throws the phone against the wall and and runs to her room. Halfway down the hall she twists her ankle and splinters one of her high heels. This only makes her more determined.

In the Presidential suite there are separate beds on either side of the room. On the wall between them hangs a pristine lithograph of the same Family portrait Adam has hanging in his trailer. Mrs. White nervously reaches into her night stand. There is a Bible amidst thousands of pills resting peacefully in thin orange child-proof cylindrical coffins. She considers how sweet it must be to be as a pill, to live in such empty solitude. Sleeping softly, waiting one day to be swallowed and then digested in burning stomach acids eating you away into nothing.

She reaches for the bible instead, after all it is meant to answer any question and to solve any problem. She pulls it open and inside it is merely a hollow case containing a large black revolver. This is not a ritual handgun. This is simply used for killing.

She picks it up with both hands and sits on the edge of her bed crying.

•

Coma's bandaged arm reaches to rewind the reel of Adam's song once again. ADAM. She reads the name. This makes him real to her. The music is crude but makes her feel not so alone. If there were scientists to provide a logical explanation, they might say it contained the 'golden means' through with the human brain is satisfied, creating a feeling of completeness. To Coma it just sounded like someone who might be able to see this world like she did. It drowns out the "Happy Birthday, Coma!" chants from outside her window.

Her door is suddenly kicked in with half-assed drunken force and the President leans against the frame for support. He leers at Coma incoherently with a birthday cake in one hand. The candles make ugly shadows across his face. Coma tries to hide Adam's box and the music but her nightgown just comes open in the process. "What's that playing? That's not my song…" He loses his frame of thought for a moment staring at her pale exposed belly and thighs. "Are you too big to love daddy, now? You're all grown up my little princesss…let me see."

He stumbles toward her and with his free hand begins to grope her breasts. She resists, for what seems like the first time, and rips open his silk shirt. What she sees beneath is more disgusting than his pathetic molestation. His almost translucent skin is varicose and wrinkled. On his shoulders and chest he wears prosthetic pads that are snapped onto his skin with tiny stainless steel fasteners to augment his youthful, healthy shape. The material his fake muscles are made of looks wet and gelatinous like raw chicken meat. He is too drunk to be embarrassed, so he tears away the rest of his clothes stumbling toward her with some sort of elastic garter that holds his veiny erection upright. The cake with her face painted on it, smears down his leg onto the floor.

"Daddy, loves you. You know that's why we have to do this."

As he reaces for her arm, she pulls away and grabs a six inch tall marble statue of her father from her desk. With all her strength and eighteen years of resentment she smashes his across the forehead with it, breaking the statue and splitting open a large horizontal gash above his brow. He falls, bleeding and covered in cake. The gaping wound seems to frown above his closed eyes. She drops the statue, even though she knows he's still alive.

•

In the hallway to Coma's bedroom Mrs. White walks slowly and decisively choking back her tears with one manicured hand, carrying the black pistol in the other. When she pokes open the door with the barrel of the gun, she sees her husband sobbing pathetically. He is clutching Coma's torn nightgown and his atrophied torso is covered in his own drying brown blood. The white sheets of her bed have caught fire from the spilled candles and the bed has begun to burn behind him. The bedroom draperies flutter from an open window. Coma is gone.

It's quite obvious to Mrs. White what has happened as she enters the room. She grabs the gun with both shaky hands and points it at her husband.

"Who's going to get it up for you now?" She shrieks, looking at his still hard phallus, pinched off with a strap like a tourniquet. It twitches grotesquely in time with the short burst of blood that pulse from his head wound. "Don't come crawling to me. I married a goddamn star! Look at you now. You're just a shell. I wasted myself on you."

"Go ahead and shoot me," he taunts her, still sobbing. "I want you to. Then where would you be?" His crying is now a disgusted laughter. "You'd be nothing. You're old and worn out. You're ugly and it makes me feel dead just being near you. So do it!"

She is shaking more now and her strand of confidence is snapping. She starts crying weakly and he laughs at her, wiping the blood and tears out of his eyes.

"You're nothing, now you'll be less than nothing. Back to the ghetto for poor trash like you."

She stops the sound coming from her mouth abruptly with this realization. She opens her chapped, red lips into the shape of an 'o' and sticks the barrel in her mouth.

"You'll be worthless in hell too."

She pulls the trigger and fires. Her head explodes onto the perfect white walls. If the President had a frame of reference he would consider her blood splatter to be completely artless even by Jackson Pollack's standards.

Westmoreland and a few other secret service men arrive shortly after the gunfire. He seems more panicked than usual considering he has a neurotic personality to begin with. Valentine has accused him of being a homosexual but likes keeping him in charge because he's easy to push around. Today is no exception. When Valentine arrives seconds later, he shoves Westmoreland out of the way and start ascertaining the situation.

Valentine and Westmoreland ignore the fire and Mrs. White's corpse–the other mindless suits handle that–and they go directly to Coma's desk. Adam's reel is still spinning, although the tape has run out. Valentine notices the face on the box but doesn't bother to fill in his questionably gay counterpart out of sheer disrespect and possible plans for manipulation that could always arise for his own benefit. He stops the tape and puts it back in the box.

"What's the story here?" Westmoreland asks. He's not exactly stupid but not nearly as attentive as Valentine.

"Looks like daddy's little girl is taking this rebellion bullshit a little too far. How the fuck did she get this?" He shoves it in Westmoreland's face. "That's your job–security, you idiot. We don't need people hearing this. We give them one song. One leader. One path–Obey and consume."

Westmoreland looks over at the faceless body and the smoldering bed. "Well, what do we do about her?"

"Simple. Rebellious punk. Listening to some–what is this shit–some teenage music. She gets all fucked up over it." he's exaggeration, almost performing as he says this. "Kills mommy and runs away. Perfect. Classic even."

"I'll find this one." Westmoreland says, grabbing the tape. "Let me keep this for now." Valentine doesn't give it up. "Go do whatever you do."

Valentine walks over to the President and cleans him up like a baby with one of Coma's pink monogrammed towels. "Listen, your rating's always go up during a punk panic. Play the grieving widower. Grief is good, they love grief." He gives the President a pill. "Leave this to me. I'll get you a new daughter, the co-star you deserve."

"A pretty one?" he asks childishly.

The next day Mrs. White's funeral is held on a renovated motion picture lot still equipped with essential sound and lighting effects required for such a tragedy-inspiring media drama. This place is called the Holy Wood Memorial Cemetery and everyone is in attendance. The President wears his best mask of grief–Academy Award winning, in fact. He even adds a drop of glycerin to his eye before his eulogy. The best make-up artists available concealed his gash perfectly but a few more hours in the sun and it will get as the Gaelic say "Kennedy," which means, of course, ugly or wounded head.

Valentine cues, Infanta, the President's new daughter and she gives her best 9 year old salute as Mrs. White's coffin is lowered into an ersatz earth soundstage. After the ceremony, Valentine approaches the President.

Grief, everyone. Despair. Flash.

"We're going to need him to really take care of this little Coma situation." Valentine says matter-of-factly.

"Boniface?"

Valentine nods.

"He's such a fucking zealot. Do we have to resort to that?"

"That's just it. Religion is the best way to make people hate. And hate is what we need." Valentine makes sure no one is looking and grins, patting the President on the back. "Hate sells."

#writing #Marilyn Manson #Holy Wood #MarilynManson.com #unreleased #novel

[mizworldofrandom]

Korea 1954

#marilyn monroe #vintage #marilyn monroe video archive #old hollywood

[marilynmonroevideoarchives]

Marilyn Monroe - Loving Our Angel

Marilyn Monroe On this 60th anniversary of Marilyn's passing. Loving our Angel

#Marilyn Monroe #Norma Jeane #icon #start #legend #love #60th #anniversary #passing #Marilyn Monroe Site #Marilyn Monroe Video Archives

[8ofdecember]

The last time I did something like this was 4(?) years ago, but this is just so funny! They’re attending ZIP! from their own houses. Any weirdness is purely on my grasp of what they’re saying. I don’t own the video btw.

Masu pretends to press a button and connect the call: Ah, we’re connected! Good morning everyone!

Everyone wave and say good morning.

Masu: Amazing. This is quite the sight! Ah but I feel that there are people present who are giving out this sense of “who’s this?!” First there’s Naoki.

Kenjiro: Eh? Naoki? Why?

Masu: Probably his hairstyle?

Kenjiro: Recently he’s going for this singed Naoki style.

Naoki: Please allow me to burn you.

Masu: I also feel that Imaichi’s image is a little different?

Ryuji: Oh really?

Naoto: He feels fresher.

Kenjiro: Yeah that’s right. There isn’t that prickly feeling

Someone says he feels softer (more approachable)

Ryuji: I am at home after all.

Voice in the backgroud: The members who are showing a different side of themselves because they are at home.

Masu: There’s something I’m a bit curious about. Are the wallpapers of the homes of the members of Sandaime J soul brothers all matching brick wall patterns?

Iwata: It’s just coincidence that Naoto and I have brick wallpapers:

Masu: You’re not living together, are you?

Kenjiro laughs out loud.

Iwata, Naoto: No.

Masu: And Elly’s house is full of Marilyn Monroe (actually you only see two portraits XD)

Elly: I really like Marilyn Monroe.

Masu: How many Marilyns do you have?

Elly: All in all, 4 Marilyns.

Background voice: And then we go to this request

Masu: Since this a precious opportunity where you’re doing an interview from home, if it’s alright with you, we were wondering if you could share a treasured item with us.

Naoto: This thing (as he brings a big box into view), I’m not sure I should call it a treasure. It’s more like a treasure and a bother. Gun-chan told me, “Naoto-san this is your birthday present.” The bag holding it was really really big. I bought it home and it was really heavy and I was wondering what it was. I opened it with a great deal of excitement and it turned out to be a kayak!

Everyone just starts laughing.

Iwata: Isn’t a kayak great!

Naoto: I wanted to ask the guys: do I look like I go kayaking?

Ryuji: No you don’t.

Meanwhile Tosaka claps gleefully.

Iwata: Naoto-san is the kind who likes hills and rivers (Naoto agrees) and I have this image of him going to these places. I had this thought where maybe he would just happen to go to a river in private and think “AH, there’s a kayak loaded in my car, why don’t I bring it out for a run?”

Tosaka: Do you really expect that kind of miracle to happen?

Background voice: Although the conversation doesn’t stop here, we need to move on to the main theme.

Masu: To the members of sandaime J soul brothers, it’s still a bit early, but this year’s November 10th is the 10th anniversary of your debut. Congratulations! (The members thank him) This is a great opportunity so we would like to look back on ZIP! and sandaime’s history from our first meeting.

Background voice: From the precious archive footage of ZIP!, let’s look back on the 10 year history of sandaime J soul brothers. The first one is from June 2011 at their first album release event.

Footage-Naoto: From the bottom of my heart, I’m really happy.

Tosaka: His face was sharp!

Naoto: My eyebrows were so thin!

Background: Then two years later in April 2013 we have an interview. The members who are watching this footage (Elly and Kenjiro were partnered up: cooking demonstration + beatboxing) 7 years later are curious about-

Naoto: At the back, Naoki’s hairstyle was eyecatching.

Elly: Yes! I noticed too!

Ryuji: I noticed the hair.

Kenjiro: It was a refreshing bob cut.

Naoto: It looks like a bob.

Naoki: It was not a bob. It was an Okappa (おかっぱ, google it :D)!

Background voice: They were curious about the long hair. It’s totally different from what it is now. Then we have footage from December in the same year of their first live performance in the ZIP! studio. After that in March of the next year, Sandaime’s first participation in ZIP!’s spring fest. Here the event that left the most impression on the members was the dance collaboration with Announcer Masu. (They did 君の瞳に恋してる~can’t take my eyes off you)

Elly: For Masu-san to have managed to remembered all of that choreography, it was really quite hard.

Masu: Yes, they gave me a week and so I had the time to turn the steps into words and from there I managed to remember.

Tosaka: Oh yeah you turned them into words

Naoto: You transcribed the dance moves.

Footage-Masu: I transcribed your steps into words. (someone comments that he was all serious business) Macho pose~Macho~macho

Footage-Naoto: This has never been heard of before right? This transcription of dance choreography into words.

The clip switched to Elly rolling across the stage while everyone took turns jumping over him.

Ryuji: Masu jumped over Elly.

Masu: Elly told me, “It’s okay if you step on me”, but there was no mirth in his eyes at all so I was really afraid.

Background voice: Then in June 2014 the release of Ryusei whose dance moves became a social phenomenon. After that the star studded Sandaime J soul brothers also appeared on ZIP! several times. How much of the interview do they remember? Let’s find out! The interview we have prepared is from November 2015, where after appearing on the music special “Best artist”, they were asked about a recent “Best scene”

Naoki: So on November 10th we will celebrate our 5th anniversary, and it is coincidentally also my birthday.

Background voice: That’s right. November 10th is an important anniversary for Sandaime J soul brothers: Debut anniversary and Naoki’s birthday! On that day-

Footage-Naoki: Naoto invited me to go eat very casually, when we got there and I opened the door______

Background voice: To give Naoki a suprise, Naoto prepared a surprise. What kind of surprise did he prepare? Everyone remembers, right?

Tosaka: Eh? What was it? I don’t know.

Iwata: What was it?

Masu: Naoki you yourself remember don’t you?

Naoki: No, I forgot.

Naoto: OI! You cold hearted man!

Background voice: And we start off unexpectedly with Naoki himself not remembering what happened, but what of the other members? We asked, just in case.

Elly: Something like Naoto dressed up as a girl waiting for him?

Naoto: My image in Elly’s mind is that?!

Ryuji: Other members were also present?

Kenjiro: Isn’t that it? That’s it right? November 10th to me is a special day. Since it was a birthday, the surprise was all members gathering together right?

Masu: So if Naoki asked you all to gather together for a surprise you will all gather together?

Kenjiro: If we can gather around on that day we will.

Masu: Ah then let’s go to the video showing the correct answer

Footage-Naoki: Naoto invited me to go eat very casually, when we got there and I opened the door and Gun-chan was waiting there (as a surprise)

Kenjiro: Gun-chan?

Elly covers his face and laughs uncontrollably.

Footage-Naoto: My plan was to have all 6 members waiting for him, but after I informed everyone, only Gun-chan turned up.

Footage-Gun: I was also wondering, “What kind of energy should I be using to welcome him?” “Sorry it’s just me?”

Iwata: We’re so bad at gatherings!

Kenjiro: It’s so bad that we were all asked to go but no one went!

Naoto: And you just said, “If you ask us to go we’ll go”! That was such a huge lie.

Masu: Kenjiro-san, what were you doing on that day?

Kenjiro: I really no longer remember.

Masu: Naoki how do you feel?

Naoki: It’s really lonely. I was thinking that I should always maintain a good relationship with Gun-chan.

Iwata: That’s good. That’s good.

Background voice: A fray in a 10 year bond? and then we go to another interview, this is right before their debut, about the pose that Iwata showed the fans.

Footage-Iwata: At the time I was still an amateur who couldn’t tell left from right, and I was standing on the stage without any clue as to what posing meant. and I ended up doing _____ weird pose. (footage-naoto agreed) They’re still laughing about it today.

Background voice: The weird pose that Iwata did when he was still a newbie, does anyone remember?

Kenjiro: This one, yeah

Ryuji: This I know.

Masu: Does everyone remember?

Tosaka: If you cue us, we can all do it at the same time.

Masu: The pose from Iwata’s newbie days, cue!

They all do the exact same pose

Masu (laughing loudly): That’s right, Let’s go to the answer video.

Footage-Iwata: It was simply a pose where I held my right wrist with my left hand. They’re still laughing about it today.

Masu: Iwata-san, are they still teasing you about this today?

Iwata: 10 years later today it’s still a joke that can be thrown around, that’s conversely quite alright. At the time I couldn’t quite make my hands calm down, and while thinking that I had to do something, I ended up with this pose where I looked like I was holding an injured wrist.

Background voice: We have the actual footage here. among all the members who had cool poses, there was Iwata: holding his right wrist tightly with his left hand.

Masu: Iwata-san, would you mind showing us that pose a second time?

Iwata: Ah it’s our 10th anniversary so I would like to promote this

Naoto: Promote?

Tosaka: I’d like to see that!

Background voice: This strong bond that Sandaime J soul brothers have built up over a 10 year period, another strong bond that goes without saying is their bond with the fans. Although they were supposed to celebrate this important year together with the fans, they faced extraordinary circumstances. However, the members are already prepared for this

Tosaka: The time when we can’t meetup, whether it’s the fans or the members, the frustration that builds up from wanting to “have fun at a live performance”, that’s a good kind frustration. Of course we all hold these feelings of wanting have a live performance, the build up of these feelings clash and lead to the birth of a tremendous amount of anticipation for both us and the fans.

Naoto: After the lifting of this emergency state and we overcome all this with everyone, we hope to be able to bring you all a lot of fun with the power we have accumulated, the ideas that we have thought up in this period. We are doing all these preparations. So let’s look forward to the day when we meet up in a live performance. We hope to continue to have your support.

Lady in the studio: You could really feel their bond in the interview

Masu: I’m sure the viewers at home also have this feeling, when you’re doing meetings remotely there’s usually a clash where everyone tries to speak, but the sandaime members didn’t face this situation and everything was smooth so I felt this was the result of a 10 year bond.

Kenjiro (laughs): Really? I think you’re praising us a little too much. (Masu: no really!) Looking at the footage from when we debuted, you can only feel a sense of wonder realising that that artist has successfully stood on the stage of a dome tour. The 10th year anniversary is a really special year to the sandaime J soul brothers, although it’s shame that we can’t do any live performances, we will fully utilise this time, arrange meetings. so that when this emergency state is lifted, we can deliver unbelievably fun live performances and entertainment. I have the confidence that we will be able to deliver, so please look forward to that.

Masu: Please work hard on that. ZIP! is also in its 10th year so I hope to continue to have your support.

#sandaime j soul brothers #3jsb #Yamashita Kenjiro #naoto #kobayashi naoki #elly #tosaka hiroomi #imaichi ryuji #iwata takanori #ZIP! #translation

[weirdlandtv]

Hello!

First of all, thanks to everyone who’s following me. All 116,442 of you. I well remember when my blog was just a dry plot of land (I started in the spring of 2017), so to see it bustling with activity always pleases me. Not a second goes by—literally—that someone, somewhere on Earth, likes, shares or comments on one of my posts, or messages me.

I’m just a medium of course. You don’t go to a museum to get to know or thank the curator: you go to see the Rembrandts. So I know my place. Still, I’m just happy people come and visit. That there are people out there, basically, who are interested, and, hopefully, take something away from the things I share. I don’t know you, you don’t know me, but we meet here as friends.

Maybe you just browse for a brief, addictive e-kick. Maybe you’re an artist looking for inspiration. Maybe you just want to escape your real-life surroundings for a few minutes. Maybe, who knows, you have the same bizarre obsessions that I have. Heck, maybe you’re on the verge of unsubscribing and just seeing if things will pick up soon. Whatever the case, you’re all welcome.

Brigitte Bardot: people occasionally write me to ask why I post so many photos of her. I’ve answered that HERE.

And Marilyn Monroe? I’ve answered that too, HERE.

Weirdland’s national archive can be found HERE. Every Monday is reblog day: that’s when I take a brief break from running this blog so I can eat something.

I store everything I post here on Pinterest. There’s no need to follow me there or anything, it’s just for myself mostly. Occasionally I store a few extra images there that I don’t post here, like outtakes from a photo session and things like that, but nothing you’d miss. On Pinterest, you can find all the suggestive Archie stuff in its proper context, and also the photos that Tumblr censors.

I started this blog, originally, to promote my YouTube channel. I never really did that though, I think. A kind of misplaced natural modesty prevents me from hawking my own stuff. And apart from that, you know, I’ll survive if nobody visits or likes my little channel. When I was a kid drawing my ambitious comics, nobody read them but me, and I was perfectly happy then too. There’s no shame in being marginal. I’m proud of what I’ve done.

The channel has been quiet for a while now, but I’ll add new videos in the future. In my life, things never end: they just sleep now and then. The current batch of videos is a collection of traditional/retro styles mostly, the new batch will probably be more abstract and weird. So the channel will return in style one day. Thanks to all of you who subscribe to it though, I appreciate that.

This blog has brought me many good things. I’ve discovered, or re-discovered, a universe’s worth of art and people, and hopefully the same goes for you. Bless you all.

Oh, and now that you’ve made it this far: welcome to Weirdland!

#tales from weirdland #blog #why #about #archive #marilyn monroe #brigitte bardot #diary #weirdland diary #questions #q and a #youtube #reference #future reference #facts #blogs #tumblr

[americangodstalk]

Notes about S2E3: Muninn

# As stated previously, Betty is the modern form of Sleipnir, and we see its reincarnation here.

# Note that on the newspaper Wednesday reads that is an article about how the “Deep State is watching”, a foreshadowing of Argos. 

# Ibis is seen here eating pieces of the corpses he dissects (something that Jacquel did in the novel).

# Argus Panoptes is mixed up with “Argus”, the dog of Odysseus. He is also referred to as a “peepin’ Tom”.

# Argus backstory is honestly a mess... The backstory is told in an Egyptian style. Ibis says that Argus Panoptes was rebirthed by Hera as a “god of surveillance” (it is actually merely a metaphor, and it is show that Argus had other incarnations before the American god of surveillance, but many people took it for literal). And it is mentionned that he was a god of surveillance before joining the New Gods - in fact it is the fading of his worship that pushed him to an alliance. 

# Argus is confirmed to be the eye seen in season 1 through the bank’s security camera.

# Argus is described by Wednesday as akin to Mr. Wood, a being that adapted into “something else”. It is mentionned that his “many eyes faded”, and that only his memories stayed intact - in the form of the Argus archives. Argus actually appears to the world as a private surveillance company - we can note that the symbol of the company appeared on the jumbo screens of the “Media reinventing herself” scene.

# Argus is connected to Black Briar and offers its “eyes” to them. We see he uses drones as part of his many eyes. When one of said drones is taken down by Muninn (or Huginn), the Caretaker complains that the system was not updated and the GPS files are corrupted. Tech Boy answers that he told Argus to upgrade the system, and complains that he is not a “micromanagement”. However Mr. World quickly tells Tech Boy to put “your man on the line” (here Argus is identified as an agent of Tech Boy). Mr. World mentions the “broken window theory”, and insists that visiting Argus instead of texting him is “per tradition”. Mr. World has this very interesting concept that “We build the new world on the ruins of the old”. 

# Before New Media appears, Mr. World has strange hand gestures - which almost makes it look like he is “downloading” informations from Technical Boy he then injects into the screen New Media comes out from. Or am I reading too much into this? 

# New Media appears dressed as a Japanese schoolgirl (some mentionned a Harajuku vibe), with a Hello Kitty-look alike on her collar (hinting at the influence of Japanese pop culture over the Internet and the youth). In the background you can see the screen she comes out from becomes full with social media posts of New Media - one can see Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, a lot of selfies and videos... She is shown disdaining things that are “old”, and she also is seemingly aware of who, what and how her previous-self acted since she makes a reference to Media by imitating the Marilyn Monroe persona. Of course, one can see she literaly manifests emojis, emoticans and picture filters in the real world. She also refers to Argus as “the man with the fiber optic”. 

# The headquarters of the Argus company have a parabolic satellite antena. Wednesday explains that, for the “local tinfoil hats”, this building is a stronghold of the Deep State, the Illuminati and/or the Men in Black. But to the “local city council”, it is just an old warehouse filled with computers. And in Wednesday’s words, in the end “truth and lies mix up”. Again, it is mentionned that in the warehouse there are “miles” of fiber optic cables, and that “only the memories remain”. 

# Interestingly, we see Argus doesn’t just archive information, but also himself or rather his old versions. We get to see the “cast-away husks” he collected after he changed into “something else”. Here, we get to see the original Argus - the monstrous sheperd that was supposed to guard Io in the Greek mythology and was killed by Hermes. Apparently, only a sacrifice can allow one to move forward from this stage of the archive - the killing of Io. The fans have been splitting their head over what exactly the wooden tool Wednesday uses is - on top of that, it has an eye symbol engraved on it. 

# Wednesday mentions that Laura is a “revenant” and like all revenants, she is “single-minded”. Just like the archive and Argus, to move forward Laura needs change, but change only comes with a sacrifice. 

# We step away from all that to go to the Corn Palace, a strip-tease palace where live Old Iktomi, the Native American shapeshifter and spider-spirit (compared by the Jinn to Anansi). Actually it seems it was originally the “Porn Palace”, but the P neon letter “died” in such a way it looks like a C now. The Jinn describes Iktomi as “manipulating humans like puppets” and advices him to not look at him in the eyes. We also get to see another Native spirit - Gnaskineyan, “Crazy Buffalo” an evil spirit, looking here like a tall blind man. 

# The next incarnation of Argus seems to have been in Roman times - indeed, we see that Argus was at this point the caretaker of the Library of Alexandria, renowned as the greatest collection of knowledge in the world. It seems Argus is locked in a cycle of rebirths and deaths - more precisely murders. Indeed, Argus always end up killed, because he keeps repeating his original myth - guarding something for which he will die. He murder because he was the guardian of Io, burned down along with his library... Note here that the Library of Alexandria was located in Egypt - which might explain why Mr. Ibis had Argus story told through an Egyptian point of view. Also note that here, Argus had his eyes ripped out.

# Iktomi appears in a wheelchair (hinting at his decay as an Old God). He grows marijuana in the background of his Palace - it seems he is an expert at tricks and potions. I honestly don’t know why people keep saying Iktomi and Whiskey Jack are the same being when, from my researches, they apparently are not. Whiskey Jack is a Crane spirit from the cultures of Algonquian and Dene people, while Iktomi is a trickster from Lakota mythology. Yes, both are considered equivalents, but they are not the same. 

# We need an explanation on how Iktomi ended up having Wednesday’s spear. It seems Iktomi is also aware of Thoth, as he mentions he will be against the use of the spear for it is an “instrument of death”. 

# New Media of course uses hashtags in her talk. In her talks with Technical Boy she appears friendly, childish, energetic, but she has a snarky and nasty side to her hinting at her rivalry with the technology god. She explains that Tech Boy and her have “different audiences” and she mentions that she needs “bandwidth”. 

# Tech Boy threatens Argus to come back on their deal, which would have Argus “go back to trolling the Dark Web on IRC bots and Geocities pages” - so that’s what he as doing as a god of surveillance before taking a deal with the New Gods. Interestingly, we here have an incoherence - before Mr. World identified Argus as an agent of Tech Boy, but here Tech Boy has the hardest time acting as Argus boss, since the “surveillance god” says he was offered a deal by Mr. World and works only for him. 

# Odin explains that he wants Argus killed because he “plays both sides” (how? We never saw Argus help the Old Gods), and apparently to kill him Laura needs to stab the tattoo in his neck. Though one may actually see how he plays “both sides” by looking at what Argus says - he says that entropy leads to disorder and all systems evolve towards chaos, “even alliances with gods”. It seems as a result that Argus has a sort of nihilistic view - he doesn’t wish to partake in the war, or to really help one side or another because ultimately it doesn’t matter who wins this conflict. That’s why he is so rebellious against Technical Boy. Or at least it seems like it... 

# New Media, to interact with Argus, brutally switches personality - you can literaly see her change. She becomes seducing, flirty, very sexual. She visibly wants to take over Tech Boy by stealing Argus to herself. She mentions that she has “likes, shares and subscribers” and that everyone watches her, but what she wants is “someone to watch them back”. She wishes to “connect and merge” with Argus - which takes the form of a strange sexual scene. I personally believe this is a reference to “hentai” in its primal form - the typical diea of “sex with tentacles”. Indeed, in this episode New Media has a strong Japanese pop culture influence, and for those of you who don’t know, “hentai” originally was a form of pornographic art of Japanese culture, very old, and that often involved tentacles and sexuality with octopuses. However, the Internet took over this “hentai” style and turned it into a true meme, a recurring joke and a “common knowledge” and “popular trope” of Internet works - it is a literal representation of how the Internet takes back for itself forms of traditional art and turns them into something entirely new. 

Anyway, she talks about her “fusion” with Argus as a “synesgestic expanding” and a “marketing opportunity”. 

# Despite his death, Wednesday mentions that “Argus will come back”. Which hints that maybe Argus has enough belief/worship/popularity to keep living, contrary to the other Old Gods.

# It seems Bast is part of Wednesday’s plans, or will act at Wednesday’s request when she will “heal” Shadow. 

#american gods #season 2 #muninn #argus #new media #technical boy #mr. world #new gods #old gods #laura #iktomi

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Rare Archive Picture 1955

Marilyn Monroe and Milton Greene at a Madison Square Garden Charity Circus Gala, 1955

Marilyn at the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus Charity Gala, Madison Square Garden. Photo by Max Peter Haas, March

MARILYN MONROE in a gorgeous, candid portrait taken on March 1955 at Madison Square Garden when she made a public appearance at a Ringling Brothers fund raiser.

Hello and Welcome to the Marilyn Monroe Fan Site. Take a peek through the fine collection of Marilyn Monroe videos, photographs and gifs.

Marilyn Monroe and Milton Greene at a Madison Square Garden Charity Circus Gala, NYC, March 30, 1955.

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The Holiday Blockbuster, starring?

         In 2020, a quick search on YouTube demonstrates some amazing examples of the new filmic phenomenon, DeepFake – a technology where one actors face is supplanted seamlessly with that of another actor. The photorealistic likeness of the newer actor is painstakingly mapped using hundreds of archival photographs, stock film and current 3D scans. With this chameleon ability, we see top comedian Bill Hader’s appearance on ‘The Late Show’, where his face unnervingly morphs into that of Tom Cruise each time he impersonates his fellow actor. In a scene from ‘The Shining’, Jack Nicholson is replaced with Jim Carrey; so indistinguishably that many of the comments below the video had viewers believing Jim had refilmed the scene, nailing lighting, voice and facial expressions to perfection.

           This burgeoning technology has, so far, most effectively been utilised by living actors, providing them the ability to play younger versions of themselves in flashback scenes in films they are appearing in – Robert De Niro in ‘The Irishman’, Will Smith in ‘Gemini Man’ and Mark Hamill in ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ to name a few films from the past year. What could this mean for ageing, living actors who feel they have more, great roles in their future, but perhaps not their former star-quality looks to retain top billing?

           Of course, there will be some actors who are opposed to the opportunity. To reference Jack Nicholson again, the retired actor reportedly declined Steven Spielberg’s request to use his likeness in the 2018 film ‘Ready Player One’, in turn leading director Mike Flanagan to not even bother asking when he filmed ‘Doctor Sleep’, the 2019 sequel to ‘The Shining’.

           However, where it gets interesting, and understandably raises questions of ethics, is how the technology can be used to resurrect the dead. In the same scene of ‘The Rise Of Skywalker’ that a young Mark Hamill appears, so too does a young version of his space twin Carrie Fisher, despite her sadly passing away in 2016. In the scene, the body-role was portrayed by Carries daughter, Billie Lourd, before having Fishers face transplanted. Billie, undoubtedly, received the fee for the use of her Mothers appearance, along with her own standard acting wage. Big money, for a ghost.

           And so, it is inevitable that many actors will make their likenesses available for contract, to be managed going forward by their beneficiaries. Jack Nicholson, who has (deservingly so) made a substantial living from his illustrious career, and undoubtedly supports many family members or friends, may not only finance his children or his children’s children, but generations of Nicholson’s, hundreds of years in to the cinematic future, simply by signing away his face.

         Some audience backlash has already occurred, with the announcement last November that James Dean (or at least, his likeness) will soon appear with the consent of Dean’s family in a new film ‘Finding Jack’, despite dying 64 years ago. One would hope that family members would never betray the legacy of their famous predecessor for a quick buck, but what about when there is not family involved?

        When Marilyn Monroe dies aged 36 with no children, she left her legacy to her acting coach, Lee Strasberg, who upon his death left it to his second wife, who had only met Marilyn once. With no emotional connection to the starlet, Mrs Strasberg II sold those licensing rights to a company, CMG Worldwide, and later the full rights to Authentic Brand Group for $20-30 million. Hopefully both companies had a genuine love and respect for Marilyn, rather than being just a monetary opportunity, however that 2011 transaction was based on the continued use of existing photographs and footage in cola ads and on lunchboxes. What if your most lucrative asset (currently $13 million per year) could suddenly get a second wind, and perform in new, very profitable movies?

           And what of the Hollywood film industry as a whole, governed by five or six major studios? Is Meryl Streep really the best actress in the entire world? Or, is there an equally talented character actor performing at your local live theatre, who would be willing to perform a faceless role in a film for a fraction of Meryl’s remuneration, and the willingness to be dubbed out later? If you have the storytelling talent, with the advancement of filming and editing software on your own smartphone, could you film the next blockbuster starring Julia Roberts yourself, for just the fee of her likeness?

           What if every single film in the future was filmed with talented, faceless avatar actors, and replaced with recognisable stars at a later date, making filming movies more affordable?

           Or, what if, as the audience, we got to make that casting decision on the stars ourselves? If every film you watched, you, the audience, could scroll through and choose the celebrities of your liking, dating back through history. No two audience members, watching the same film, would have the same film experience. Pick-a-path cinema, if you will.

           Really want to see a film starring Errol Flynn and Drew Barrymore? No problem.

           Are you an African American who wants to see the latest Christmas flick starring African Americans in all the roles? Use the ethnicity dropdown box and select from the available catalogue.

           A gay male who wants to see two leading men in the latest Rom Com? Done.

           Or, what about that pornographic film, starring Chris Hemsworth and (using selfie technology)…yourself?