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there’s something about mary but instead of mary it’s sara
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notes: I included characters explicitly stated or heavily implied to be something other than human (vampire, etc.), therefore, for example, no witches (pannochka/the sotnik's daughter qualifies because of being undead)
#if the choice of options looks rather one-sided that's bc i was only including the books i've read myself#talk talk talk#dracula#bram stoker#the brides of dracula#lucy westenra#carmilla#joseph sheridan le fanu#beowulf#la morte amoureuse#théophile gautier#the master and margarita#mikhail bulgakov#the great god pan#arthur machen#viy#nikolai gogol#samuel taylor coleridge#literature
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happy lesbian visibility day to all the girls kissing girls with sharp sharp teeth
“From 'Dracula's Daughter' to 'Carmilla,' lesbian vampire depictions prove immortal,” Elaina Patton, 2021 / “Carmilla,” Sheridan Le Fanu, 1872 (art by D.H. Friston) / “A terrifying history of lesbian vampires: From 19th century scares to chilling moral panic,” Patrick Kelleher, 2021 / The Vampire Lovers, 1970 / “Christabel,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1797 / Lesbian Vampire Killers, 2009 / “From 'Dracula's Daughter' to 'Carmilla,' lesbian vampire depictions prove immortal,” Elaina Patton, 2021 / Blood and Roses, 1960 / “Why Are We Still So Obsessed With Lesbian Vampires?,” Michelle Hyun Kim, 2019 / The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez, 1991 (25th Anniversary Edition) / “Carmilla,” Theatres Des Vampires, 2011 / Bit, 2019 / “Lesbian Vampyres From Outer Space,” Scary Bitches, 2005
(terfs and radfems fuck off, lesbian vampires eat terfs and radfems)
#web weaving#spinning wheels#lesbian#lesbian pride#lesbian visibility week#lesbian visibility day#queer#queer pride#queer vampires#queer monsters#I love queer monsters#queer horror#horror#sapphic vampires#queer music#queer poetry#christabel#female characters#queer characters#black queer characters#black#black characters#the gilda stories#carmilla#sapphic#sapphic history#queer history#tropes#horror tropes#queer film
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CHRISTABEL (2018)
dir. Alex Levy-Heller
The only daughter of a rural worker, Christabel finds Geraldine, a mysterious woman, who says she's been attacked by men and needs help. Pure and innocent Christabel gives shelter to Geraldine at home. From then on, the two women relate to each other in a way that Geraldine has a great influence over Christabel, destabilizing her convictions and promoting tradition rupture, but that sparks a feeling of passion and freedom never experienced by the young girl before. Based on the 1816 poem Christabel, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(link in title)
#lgbt cinema#lesbian cinema#christabel#christabel 2018#brazilian cinema#lgbt#lesbian#brazil#lgbt movie#lesbian movie#brazilian movie#lgbt film#lesbian film#brazilian film#lgbt media#lesbian media#queer cinema#latin american cinema#latin cinema#Alex Levy-Heller#Milla Fernandez#Lorena Castanheira#2018#2010s#2010s movies#2010s films#2010s cinema
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
Author of Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851) wrote a number of other novels, short stories, and travelogues, and edited the works of her husband, Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, early feminist author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Mary Wollstonecraft died when her daughter was only eleven days old. Family friends included Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Aaron Burr.
In 1814, shortly before she turned 17, she met and began an affair with Percy Bysshe Shelley, who abandoned his pregnant wife to be with her. Their courtship took place at St. Pancras Churchyard, by the grave of her mother. She became pregnant the same year, giving birth to a premature daughter, who died in her first month of life.
Frankenstein had its origins in the summer of 1816 in Geneva, Switzerland. Mary and Percy joined poet Lord Byron and his companion John Polidori at a rented villa. During a rainstorm, the group decided that each would write a tale of the supernatural, and that night Mary came up with the idea. Originally, she thought it would be a short story, but it grew into a novel, first published two years later, in 1818.
Meanwhile, two suicides (Mary’s half sister and Percy’s ex-wife) led to a custody battle, in which Percy’s lawyers advised he get married. Although Mary had used Shelley’s last name for social reasons, the relationship was formalized on December 30, 1816. She was pregnant with their second child. Mary Shelley would have four children altogether, three of whom died in their first years of life.
The Shelleys left England and traveled around Europe, never staying in one place for long. Shelley’s debts and the social ostracism of the couple caused numerous problems. Percy Bysshe Shelley died in a sailing accident in 1822, and she returned to England, making a precarious living by her own writing and by editing her husband’s work. She received a small allowance from Percy’s father for the support of the child.
Starting in 1839, she began having headaches and intermittent paralysis, and died in 1851 at the age of 53. Her doctor suspected a brain tumor. Her son and his wife arranged for her burial at St. Peter’s Church, Bournemouth, near their home.
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Hi! I just discovered your blog searching for IWTV quotes. I named my kitty Clawdia because she had these little stripes on her chin that looked like fangs, and she was very combative 🤭 She passed away Nov. 2020, and I want to get a memorial tattoo for her. I was wondering, what are some/your favorite Claudia quotes? I haven’t read this book in about 15 years and I can only find like two quotes online..?? I’m not sure if there’s even a good tattoo one, but I thought I might ask :-) Thank you.
Awww, I’m sorry for your loss, and I'm honored to help you find a good quote to memorialize your Clawdia ♥. Excellent name choice; Claudia is basically fangs + very combative + adorable (whether she likes it or not!) little creature. Share a few pics with us, if you feel comfortable doing so. And do share with us when you get the tattoo so I can add it to my collection here!
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I finished skimming through the first 5 books, I spent a lot of time on this, and I’m satisfied with what I pulled. I think my fave option for now is:
"A small glittering thing plucked from the raging chaos"
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Claudia is one of my top 3 favorite characters in the whole series. Reading/writing fics set in the IWTV era is like visiting with her... one of my fave fics is @codenamecesare’s Fearfully Changing, which features Claudia.
OK SO. Claudia quotes! @claudiaindarkness might have some good quotes to add to mine. A lot of what Claudia canonically said was contextual and sometimes fairly combative, which can be good for a tattoo, depending on what you’re going for. I have 2 sections, one is direct quotes from her that you could use bits of, and the second is for quotes about her, in some way. I didn't add any from the '94 IWTV movie, it sounds like you're more focused on the books, but if you want a few from the movie, I'll add them. I also didn’t add the more standard fandom fave quotes, I don’t recall that any of them are directly Claudia-related, like “Evil is a point of view,” and “If I am an angel, paint me with black wings,” etc.
Also, check out my #tattoo tag, there are other VC tattoos there that might inspire you.
IWTV Claudia quotes:
"I have no human nature"
"We must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge"
"Let the flesh instruct the mind"
"A constant never-ending search for something"
"I'll put you in your coffin, Father, I'll put you in it forever."
“You know the remedy. Let the flesh . . . let the flesh instruct the mind.”
"So now let's have peace, because there's nothing else to be had."
"Hell is people living together in eternal hatred."
"Would that I had your size . . And would that you had my heart.”
“Be en garde”
“Don't be frightened of my fancy”
“We need our language, our people.“
"This is my world, I must have it as I like,”
“Did you think I'd be your daughter forever?“
“Fire purifies“
“We have the world, come with us!”
Quotes (potentially) about Claudia:
(from IWTV) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man’s blood with cold.
"What a picture he made of her, the infant death, he called her. Sister death, and sweet death;" From those, I like Sweet Death
"Claudia, meantime, was flirting with disaster," variations: Flirting with disaster or Flirt with disaster could work!
This is a bit of a stretch, but digging back through my blog... "So we reach into the raging chaos, and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end" - Lestat, Tale of the Body Thief. I love that line, probably one of my favorite lines in the whole series. It’s about Mojo but as that book has a lot of Claudia, I interpret it as being about her, too: "A small glittering thing plucked from the raging chaos"
“Fierce and unnatural child thing”
Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young. - by Webster, in Claudia’s diary entry from QOTD.
“The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which she was always casually aware.” - Louis re: Claudia in Merrick
#vampire chronicles#the vampire claudia#the vampire lestat#louis de pointe du lac#gif#cat#reenactment with cats#quote#actual quote#tattoo#Samuel Taylor Coleridge#The Rime of the Ancient Mariner#Webster#Merrick#ask#anon#iwantmyiwtv has opinions#codenamecesare#fic#fanfic#claudiaindarkness
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”The Months” a poem by Sara Coleridge
“The Months” is a poem by Sara Coleridge (1802-1852) who was the only daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. She married a cuisine and started a family. While working on several translation projects she also wrote verses herself and was a part of the Wordsworth Circle. In 1834 Colridge published Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children; with some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme. She used to write…
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🌟 **Whispers of the Midnight Melody** 🌟
In the hush of twilight's gentle embrace,
Where whispers linger, leaving a trace,
Beneath the surface, secrets unfurl,
In the dance of shadows, a mystical swirl.
A melody of fins in the moonlit sea,
Revealing tales of what could be,
Celestial whispers in the ocean's deep,
Where dreams and reality softly sleep.
A daughter's care, a mother's plight,
Bound by love, in the still of night,
Reflections shimmer in the water's gleam,
A bond unbroken, a shared dream.
In the government's icy hold,
Lies untold stories, both young and old,
Yet within the grip of power's might,
Love and courage shine bright.
Faces lost in fields of thought,
Seeking truths that can't be bought,
In the glimmer of empathy's light,
Hope emerges from the night.
Entreaties to the heavens high above,
In acts of kindness, in acts of love,
Angelfish hearts beating true and strong,
Guiding souls where they belong.
Beneath the waves where shadows play,
A tale unfolds in Twilight's sway,
The grip of power slowly fades away,
As unity paves the way.
Mysteries swirl in currents deep,
A bond between mother and daughter to keep,
In darkness, a beacon shines clear and bright,
Guiding them through the darkest night.
With every beat, their connection grows,
Through trials and triumphs, highs and lows,
In Twilight's wake, a new story begins to spin,
Filled with love, courage, and the strength to win.
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*Inspired by the enchanting verses of "La Belle Dame sans Merci" by John Keats, the haunting "Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Part 1)" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the soul-stirring "Solitary Reaper" by William Wordsworth.* 🌙✨
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And now, let's blend the timeless melodies of "Unchained Melody" and "The Rose" by Bette Midler with a touch of rap:
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**🎵 Unchained Rose (Twilight Remix) 🎵**
*(Verse 1)*
In the twilight's tender glow, we sway,
Unchained melodies, hearts astray,
The rose blooms, its petals unfold,
A love story whispered, untold.
*(Chorus)*
Unchained, unbroken, our souls ignite,
The rose's thorns, our battle scars,
Rap verses echo through the night,
Guiding us past the prison bars.
*(Rap Verse)*
Yo, listen up, this ain't no ordinary rose,
It's the emblem of love, where the story flows,
Thorns pierce deep, but we rise above,
In twilight's embrace, we find our love.
*(Bridge)*
The moon hums secrets, the sea conspires,
Our unchained hearts, fueled by desires,
Bette's voice echoes, "Love, it's a hunger,"
We rap our truth, our souls grow stronger.
*(Chorus)*
Unchained, unbroken, our souls ignite,
The rose's thorns, our battle scars,
Rap verses echo through the night,
Guiding us past the prison bars.
*(Outro)*
As twilight fades, we rewrite the rhyme,
Unchained, unshackled, in rhythm and time,
The rose blooms anew, our love reborn,
In this twilight remix, forever sworn.
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*Feel the beat, ride the waves, and let the whispers of twilight carry you.* 🌟🎶
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Is this a list of the same type of people?
Gerald Durrell
Derrick (Fredo Santana) Coleman - rapper - purple drank
Anthony Bourdain (TV Chef) - Heroin, Methadone, Cocaine, Alcohol.
George Herbert Scott (Airship Pilot), d.1930.
Grayson Murray, American golfer
Mark Lanegan, 57
Taylor Hawkins, 50
Steve Harwell, Smash Mouth Lead Singer, liver failure.
Lisa Marie Presley, 54
Raye (Rachel Keen), British Singer
Andrea Dunbar (Playwright, age 29 - brain hem orange).
Robert Louis Stevenson - hence Jeykel and hyde (aged 44, drugs inc alcohol)
Phil Lynott
Paul Walsh, Footballer.
Andy Warhol - “Although not as big a drug-taker as many of his entourage in mid-century New York, Warhol was addicted to Obetrol – marketed today as Adderall – an amphetamine diet pill that has a similar effect to speed.” - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/24/drugs-and-alcohol-do-not-make-you-more-creative-research-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Jefferson King (Shadow)
Taylor Hawkins (died at 50) Foo Fighters, Drummer.
Jordon Peterson
Ivan Toney (Brentford and England footballer and gambler)
Wasim Akram (Cocaine)
Robson Green
Simon Pegg
Don Whillans, mountaineer
Stanislav Petrov (the man who saved the world)
Samuel Taylor-Coleridge (Laudanum)
Goethe
W.H.Auden, Benzedrine
Jared O’Mara (former MP)
Anne Robinson
Hayden Panettiere, actress https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/22079654/heroes-hayden-panettiere-addiction-alcohol-opiods-nashville/amp/
Jennifer Elliott (daughter of Denholm Elliot)
James Mangan - 19th C. Irish Poet, influenced -
Shane MacGowan.
Sir William Carr (Pissing Billy)
James Gandolfini
Lanre Fehintola
Howard Hughes, OCD, Codeine
Kirkland Laing (Boxer)
Ian Royce, Comedian.
Bobby Liebling (lead singer, Pentagram)
Rory Hamilton Brown
Matthew Mellon (banking heir)
Nora Butlin
David Berman (silver Jews)
Ted Ngoy (the donut king - gambling)
Ernst Udet - German WW1 Ace, responsible for Nazi aircraft manufacture until suicide,1941.
Blair “Paddy” Mayne (famed early S.A.S. Soldier)
David Stirling (famed early S.A.S. Soldier)
Danny Cipriani
William Golding
Luke Sutton, sports agent
Bryony Gordon
Gaddafi
Paddy “Mad” Merrigan (Jockey)
Michael K. Williams (actor)
Robert Webb (British Comedian)
Mark McManus
Brian O’Nolan
Rodney Dangerfield
Tara Palmer-Tompkinson
Marco Pantani
Robin Smith (cricketer)
Dr. John (The Scatman)
Robert Havlin (jockey)
Kenneth Williams
Victor Willis (son of a baptist preacher - Village People.
Stu Ungar
Charlie Parker
Miles Davis
Harold Shipman
Danny Trejo (ends up dead on top of Tortoise in Breaking Bad).
Sandy Ratcliff (Sue Osman, East Enders)
James Hunt
Michael David Weiss (film injustice re safety needles)
Charlie Chaplin Snr. (Cirrhosis, 38)
Oisin Murphy (jockey)
Peter Shilton (gambling)
Marvin Gaye
Robert Young, actor, brother of Roger Moore
Dick Van Dyke
Yuri Gagarin
Christopher Farley (U.S. actor)
Ronald Lacey - played Dylan Thomas (1978) - Harry Ridler in Minder on the the Orient Express
Jordan Peterson
Tanya Sarne (Fashion)
Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)
Bradley Cooper
Tom Maynard (Cricketer)
Bobby Beasley (Jockey)
Toulouse-Lautrec
Baudelaire
Montgomery Clift.
Jay Kay
Mike McCready (guitarist - pearl jam)
Elton John
Heinrich Böll, German Writer, Pervatin, during WW
Andy Fordham (The Viking)
Alice Cooper
Phil Spector
Alan Watts
Mark Lanegan
Rupert Young - Will Young’s brother
Matthew Perry (Friends sitcom)
Susannah Constantine (TV host)
Hugh O’Connor, Actor, -1962-1995. Shot himself in the head on the day of his 3rd Wedding Anniversary.
Deacon Brodie - alcoholic sinner fire-runner and example used by Robert Louis Stevenson in J & H - a hundred years later - and a life that Stevenson tried to pursue himself
Desi Arnaz, American actor
Felicite Tomlinson
Demi Lovato
William Hurt (American actor)
Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev - Author of Moscow Stations, 1969
Olivia Channon
Willie Carson Jnr
‘Bloody’ Mary Coughlan.
Roy Orbison (yo-yo dieting)
Christopher Hitchens - thinkoholic, alcoholic, smoker
Emma, Lady Hamilton
Jan-Michael Vincent (Airwolf)
Maradona
Keith Gillespie,Footballer, Gambling.
Eddie Van Halen
Richard Kiel (Jaws)
John Bonham
Matthew Perry, American actor.
Stuart Cable - Drummer Stereophonics - choked on vomit.
Cameron Douglas
Chris Langham - cocaine / alcohol. (Went to prison for 6 months for download child pornographic images. Played Orwell in 2003 BBC film.). Career destroyed after that.
Johnny Vegas
Arthur Daley.
Mike Tyson
George Harrison
Alexei Rykov aka ‘Rykvodka’ Rightist Politburo member, Premier and co- ruler with Stalin and Bukharin ‒. Defendant in last show trial
Hans Fallada (Rudolf Ditzen) - German Author
Henry Pierrepoint - executioner father of Albert the executioner.
Bob Hindley (alcoholic father of Myra Hindley)
Simon Day (fast show)
Frederick Nietzsche (Opiu re m / chloral hydrate)
Tennessee Williams
Henry Willson - Hollywood agent (Cirrhosis)
Steve Caulker - footballer aged 25 (alcohol and gambling)
Tim Bergling (DJ Avicii) - aged 28
Verne Troyer (49)
Ashley Mattingly (playmate)
Jean Michel Basquiat - artist, 27, Heroin
Keith Levene, Founder member of The Clash, and Public Image Ltd
Dolores Riordan (46) lead singer of cranberries - died drowned in her bath 2018 Park Lane Hilton. Also anorexic and bi-polar.
Demi Lovato (ex Disney Channel actress)
Charles Baudelaire - laudanum and alcohol
Chris Leben (UFC fighter)
Mike Bell a.k.a. Mad Dog (WWE - wrestler)
Freddie Starr
Irvine Welsh
Dolores O’Riordan (alcohol / anorexia)
Dennis Price.
Shia LaBeouf (actor)
Rhys Thomas (Rugby)
Russell Pearce (Boxing)
David Plunkett Greene (Heroin)
Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernon (grateful Dead,27)
Annabelle Neilson - Heroin / aristoc
Ray Wilkins
Jeff Hatch (NFL player)
Ryan Cresswell (footballer)
Jon Stewart (guitarist, sleeper)
Alexander || of Russia.
Otto Gross (influenced Jung) - addict - 1877 to 1920. 42.
Oskar Schindler
Phil Lynott
Shaun Ryder
George Brown MP
Paul Ryder (Bassist)
Gary Oldman
Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker, English Drummer.
Mac Miller / U.S. rapper (26)
Jeff Hanneman - Slayer - cirrhosis, 49
Gary Busey (American actor)
Philip Larkin (half a bottle of sherry at sunrise).
Hunter S. Thompson - pro addict - suicide Feb 2005
Gregg Allman, American Singer / Songwriter
Coolio (Artis Leon Ivey)
Martin Gore (Depeche Mode)
Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode)
William Faulkner. (American Writer)
Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce)
Eugene O’Neill. (American Writer)
Anthony Burgess
Donald Maclean
Kim Philby
Ellen Philby - wife of spy Kim Philby (47)
Anthony Blunt
Ringo Starr
Jerry Lee Lewis
Ricky Hatton
John Ford (Film Director)
Jack London (Author of John Barleycorn novel) morphine overdose and alcoholism
Tom Chaplin, Lead Singer, Keane.
Nico - H - velvet underground
Art Pepper
Liza Minnelli
Richard Bacon
Jay Kay (Jamiroquai)
Tobey Maguire
Christian Slater
Chris Cornell (lead singer of Soundgarden)
Max Jacob (French Post)
Malcolm McDowell
Fred Trump Jnr. (Eldest brother 1932-81) - alcoholism aged 42.
Owen Wilson
Gary Oldman
Keith Flint (Prodigy)
Demi Moore - actors
Danniella Westbrook
Roger Ebert (Film critic)
John Cassavetes (great director) - hobnailed liver, 59. Q.v. Under the influence (1974) - starring his co-alcoholic and co-dependent wife, Gena Rowlands (who was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of progressive madness).
Bill Evans - Heroin - jazz
Suroosh Alvi - founder of Vice media - ex Heroin
Gary Fraser - Director of T2
Trainspotting - ex Heroin
Keith Floyd.
Ant mcpartlin
Tom Hardy (aa)
Steve Coogan
Kenny Sansom
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - painter -(1828-1882) became addicted to chloral, with whisky chasers
Philip Roth - American Novelist (Halcion sleeping pill)
Lee Marvin
Bryony Gordon - terrible telegraph columnist
‘Mad Jack’ Byron
Chet Baker - Jazz Trumpeter
Berlioz
Ray Charles - Heroin.
Sir Edwin Landseer (Laudinum)
John Hurt (died 28 Jan 16 pancreatic cancer ages 75)
Anthony Eden (Benzedrine) Drinamyl also known as ‘purple hearts’ to take him up and up to four sleeping pills a night to take him down. Eventually they stopped working - he couldn’t sleep and the doctors said the pharmaceutical solution had run its course - and he had to be evacuated to Jamaica for a few weeks - presumably to withdraw, just after Suez and a Sterling crisis. https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/98/6/387/1548168 - from Dr David Owen - concluding with the line ‘a fit and well Anthony Eden would not have made all those mistakes’.
Christopher Walken
Alistair Maclean - later on.
Al Pacino
Andrew Symonds (Australian Cricketer)
Margaux Hemingway (grand-daughter / supermodel)
Amy Winehouse (27)
Brian Jones (27) Rolling Stones
Jimi Hendrix (27)
Janice Joplin (27)
Jim Morrison (27)
Rudy Lewis (27) The drifters
Alan Wilson (27)
Dickie Pride (27)
Ron “Pigpen” Mckernon (27)
Kurt Cobain (27)
Dash Snow (27) - artist
Gary Thain (27) Bassist, Uriah Heep
Pamela Courson (27) Morrison’s wife, Heroin overdose, 3 yrs later in ‘74.
See also - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
Fred Archer (29) gambling - shot himself.
Dean Martin
Eve Babitz
Pete Townsend
Courtney Love
Kevin Lloyd (Actor, The Bill)
Amedeo Modigliani
Diego Maradona
Brett Favre
Babe Ruth
Paul Merson (drink and gambling)
Bill Werbenuik (Snooker)
Kirk Stevens (cocaine - Snooker)
Mark E. Smith - d.2018. Lead singer of the Fall. 60.
Danielle Westbrook
Mary J. Bilge
Alec Baldwin (actor)
Vince Taylor from Isleworth - inspired Ziggy Stardust.
Douglas Kenney - founder of National Lampoon, 33, probable Suicide. Hawaii.
Alan McGee - Founder of creation records and property developer
Patrick Swayze
John Skipper, (former) president ESPN
David Cassidy
Steven Tyler (alive)
Hubert Selby Jr - author of last exit to Brooklyn - died sober even refused morphine.
Etta James
Slash
Bradley Cooper
Calvin Harris (Scot dj)
Eva Mendes
Colin Farell
Al Pacino
Craig Charles
Davina McCall
Anthony Hopkins
Rob Lowe
Phil Michelson (gambling)
Melanie Griffith
Jamie-Lee Curtis
Moby
W. C. Fields
Jean-Claude Junker
Christine Dolce (queen of MySpace) - cirrhosis
Franklin pierce - us president - cirrhosis
Chernenko - soviet leader 84 - cirrhosis
Jimi Hendrix - cirrhosis?
Billie holiday - cirrhosis
Jack Karouac - cirrhosis
Rob Lowe - alcoholic - 27 yrs sober
Sean Hughes (Irish comic) - cirrhosis
List of people with cirrhosis https://m.ranker.com/list/famous-people-with-cirrhosis/celebrity-lists
Etta James
Francis Bacon
Lucian Fraud (gambling)
Bobby Davro
David Warner - AUS cricketer
Baudelaire
Jesse Ryder - NZ cricketer
Herschelle Gibbs - SA cricketer
Alan Hudson (footballer)
Paul McGrath (footballer)
Kenny Samson (Footballer)
Garrincha (Brazilian Footballer)
Hank Williams aged 29
Marvin Gaye - crack before he was shot by father
Mickey Mantle (baseball player, Cirrhosis)
Joseph McCarthy (anti-communist)
Gilbert Harding - "The Rudest Man in Britain" 1907-1960.
John Paul Getty III
Caroline Aherne
Chris Difford - squeeze / clouds
Gary Shail - spider in quadraphenia
8 Mile actress
NIna Simone
Lord Lucan
Lady Lucan
Goering
Christy Brown
Edward St Aubyn
Rick Stein
Ronnie O'Sullivan (Snooker Player)
Chris Cornell
Denis Johnson (Author of Jesus' Son, 1992)
Dermot Reeve
Joey Barton
Will Self
Charles Kennedy MP (intracerebral haemorrhage)
Eric Joyce MP
Debbie Harry (Blondie)
Sir Anthony Eden - Benzedrine - buried at st Mary's church, alvediston. Un-respected.
Luvo Manyonga SA long jumper Olympic silver medallist 2016 - crystal meth
Ian McShane - Lovejoy, Deadwood - cocaine / alcoholic - 28 yrs since first AA meet.
Colin Milburn (cricketer)
Tom Petty (Heroin)
James brown
General Gordon of Khartoum - alcoholic - (according to Lytton Strachey)
Errol Flynn (absolutely everything) - in secret lives at the end "Errol Flynn made the fatal flaw of confusing his art with his life - in film they applaud Robin Hoods and rascals - in real life they tire of them soon... They stand by to let the person destroy himself". Heart problems and Cirrhosis.
Tyrone Power - 1 yr after The Sun Also Rises aged 44
Charlie Wilson US politician cv.film
Brian Clough
Sean Ryder
Greg Merson 2014 WSOP Main Event winner
Tubby Hayes - British Jazz - Heroin
Phil Seaman - Drummer - Heroin
Rick Parfitt (Status Quo)
Ian Kilminster (Lemmy)
Jack wild (oliver in artful dodger) aged 53 mouth cancer
Joe meek - pills - Telstar
Rasputin (alcohol and sex)
Boris Yeltsin
Paris Jackson (17) Michael's daughter
Jimmy pegg - walker in dads army - 39
Alexei Stakhanov (coal miner)
Seymour Hoffman
Lo ' David Coyle - Mr Bates in Downton Abbey
David Cassidy - 70s singer / heartthrob
Simon Danczuk MP
John Belushi
Whitney Houston
Bobbi Kristina Brown
William S Burroughs - writer, Heroin
William S Burroughs Jr. - Aged 34 - had liver transplant - cirrhosis
Amy winehouse
Brian Epstein - in a totally white bathroom - the only art was a giant picture of El Cordobes. And he wanted to give up managing The Beatles to manage bullfighters in Spain. L. Oo
Dante Gabriel Rosetti (Laudanum), Chloral, Alcohol)
Jimmy greaves
Mary Todd go. F FB
ST Coleridge (both Laudanum)
Sigmund Freud - a lot to answer for - cocaine
Irvine Walsh
Malcolm Lowry 1957
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Michael Phelps - most decorated Olympian
Tony Curtis
Robbie Williams
Mel Gibson
Sir James Chadwick (sleeping pills) sleeping on fear his work on a bomb would lead to mass destruction
Charles James Fox - cirrhosis whilst in office as Foreign Secretary - also Ascites (7 pints of fluid drained at death also 35 gallstones found) - lived in Chertsey and Foxhills, prodigious gambler.
Barry humphries
Daniel Radcliffe
Jack Dee
Jack karouac
Ian Fleming?
William Holden (actor, Bridge on the River Kwai)
Brad Pitt
Len fairclough
Malcolm Lowry (under the volcano)
John le Meisurer
James Beck (Alcoholic) Dads Army
Arthur Lowe - Dad's Army
Clive of India
Frank skinner
Rodney king
RD Laing (Dr)
Richard Hughes (jockey)
Johnny Murtagh (Jockey)
Jeremy Wolfenden
Jockey Wilson
Diego Maradona
John McAfee - dry drunk
Antony Hopkins
Michael Barrymore
Tara fitzgerald
Gazza
Tiger Woods https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tiger-woods-avoids-jail-on-driving-charge-dp9f6gv7n
Lou reed
Marquis of Blandford
F Scott Fitzgerald
Beethoven
Edgar Allan Poe
Diana Ross
Robin Williams
Elton John
Eminem
Lilly Allen
J.L. Austin, Academic, Lung Cancer, 48.
Johnny Cash
Samuel l Jackson
Frank Sinatra
Buzz aldrin
Ben affleck - gambling / alcohol
Ulysses Grant 18th president
Benjamin franklin
George bush jar
Alexander the Great
David Yelland Former editor of Sun.
David Bowie / Ziggy Stardust (Coke)
Eric Clapton
Bill Wilson
W.C. Fields (died of gastric haemorrhage)
Blondie - whose music is used to advertise baileys
Stephen King
Hermann Goering (Morphine)
Hermoine Norris (yellow card)
Brad davis
Tom Maynard
Alec Baldwin
Morgan Freeman
Charlie watts both recovers
William f Buckley
Charles Kennedy
Jamie lee Curtis (daughter of tony Curtis)
Lana del Rey
Barnaby conrad (bulls)
Yazz Yasmin Evans
Peaches Geldolf
Caroline aherne
King Richard 3rd died 1485 battle of bosworth
James beck (dads army)
Fat boy slim
Calvin Harris
50 cent
Prince (Perocet)
Francis Bacon
Anthony kliedis
Shania twain
Peter Townsend
Leona Lewis
Jessie j
Alice cooper
Moby
Ringo Starr
Asquith?
Constantine Chernenko (Soviet president - cirrhosis)
Chris difford (lead sing squeeze)
George IV - gambling mainly.
Henry VIII - sypillus (food issues - drink - sex)
Ozzy osbourne
Jack osbourne
Kelly osbourne
Steve coogan
Paul Gascoigne
Midge Ure
John Daly
Steven Tyler
Nicole Ritchie
Drew Barrymore
Naomi Campbell
Waylon Jennings
Nick Nolte
Martin Sheen
Keith Moon
Kurt Cobain
Rt Hon George Brown MP, Lord George Brown (1914-1985) Labour Belper, 1945-70, excused by his staff of being ‘tired and emotional
Paul Nicholls (ex Eastenders)
Alan Ladd
Jack Lemmon
David Hasselhoff
Errol Flynn - ended up supporting The (Fid)Del - worst film ever - Cuban rebel girls and the Cuban story doc - 1959 - year he died - revolution for alcohol, cocaine, and heroin - these two pieces of art marked the ego, deciept and denial.
Truman Copote
Billy Joel
Jimmy White (Snooker, Crack)
Stephen King
Ernest Hemingway
Diana Ross
Orson Welles (and father)
Ben Affleck (drink / gambling)
Abi Evelyn t (yellow card)
Trinny Woodall
Don Simpson - producer of top gun bev hills cop
Peter Doherty
Gary Richrath (REO Speedwagon guitarist)
Robert Newton - born Shaftesbury 1905 - died Beverly Hills 1956 - heart attack - Shaftesbury most famous alcoholic. Aged 50.
12th Duke of Marlborough - Ex Marquis of Blandford
Henry VIII
Thomas de Quincey - confessions of an English opium eater. (Actually laudanum).
Pat Eddery
Richard Hughes
Dr William Stewart Halsted - inspiration for Clive Owen's Dr John Thackery (The Knick).
Nero?
Frank Skinner
Alexander the Great?
Eric Joyce (former MP)
Robert Mitchum
Osgood )brother of Peter
Lionel Bart
Ira Hayes (flag man)
John Bonham (Windsor)
Joseph "Joe" McCarthy - commies
Dylan Thomas
James Joyce
James Thurber
Gary Moore (singer, 80s)
Jim Morrison (27)
Franklin Pierce (US President, 1853-1857. Liver cirrhosis 1869 aged 64.
Macaulay Culkin
Michael Jackson
Boy George
Carrie Fisher
Beth Morris (voice contestant) - cocaine
Hitler (Barbiturates)
Mussolini, Stalin, Eichmann.
Mao Zedong (barbiturates)
Jeffrey Dahmer (Alcohol)
Johnny Depp (booze)
Rodney Dangerfield
Mickey Mantle (baseball, booze)
Billie Holiday
Melanie Griffith
Ewan McGregor
Tony Hancock
Guy Burgess (spy)
Diana Ross
Shane MacGowen
Craig Charles.
Paul Verlaine (French 19th C Poet)
Toulouse-Lautrec
Melanie Griffith (Percocet)
Elvis (Percocet)
Cindy McCain (wife of John MCCain, Percocet)
Gerald Levert (Percocet)
Bill Werbeniuk
Ant McPartlin
Prince (Fentanyl overdose)
Lil Peep (Fentanyl overdose)
Alex Higgins
Bon Scott (AC/DC)
Kirk Stevens (Cocaine)
La Galue (Louise Weber) - queen of Momartre - can can dancer.
Jeff Hanneman (singer, Slayer)
Yves Saint-Laurent
Florence Ballard (The Supremes)
Colin Milburn (Cricketer)
John Barrymore (Early Hollywood Actor)
Kemal Ataturk (Cirrhosis)
Gail Russell (Early Hollywood icon)
Helen Morgan (American singer and actress)
Ulysses Grant
George Best
Calum Best
Verne Troyer
Keith Whitley (American Country music singer)
William Falkner (American author)
Caspar Fleming (Novelist’s son)
Anna Nicole-Smith
Yootha Joyce (Mildred)
Jerry Bailey - us jockey)
Joe Namath
Walter Swinburn (both dead) alcohol and also eating disorder
Bobby Fischer (Chess)
Willie Thorne ( gambling)
Kirk Stevens
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A poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Eolian Harp
composed at clevedon, somersetshire
My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined
Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is
To sit beside our cot, our cot o'ergrown
With white-flower'd Jasmin, and the broad-leav'd Myrtle,
(Meet emblems they of Innocence and Love!)
And watch the clouds, that late were rich with light,
Slow saddening round, and mark the star of eve
Serenely brilliant (such should Wisdom be)
Shine opposite! How exquisite the scents
Snatch'd from yon bean-field! and the world so hushed!
The stilly murmur of the distant Sea
Tells us of silence.
And that simplest Lute,
Plac'd length-ways in the clasping casement, hark!
How by the desultory breeze caressed,
Like some coy maid half yielding to her lover,
It pours such sweet upbraiding, as must needs
Tempt to repeat the wrong! And now, its strings
Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes
Over delicious surges sink and rise,
Such a soft floating witchery of sound
As twilight Elfins make, when they at eve
Voyage on gentle gales from Fairy-Land,
Where Melodies round honey-dropping flowers,
Footless and wild, like birds of Paradise,
Nor pause, nor perch, hovering on untamed wing!
O the one Life within us and abroad,
Which meets all motion and becomes its soul,
A light in sound, a sound-like power in light,
Rhythm in all thought, and joyance every where—
Methinks, it should have been impossible
Not to love all things in a world so filled;
Where the breeze warbles, and the mute still air
Is Music slumbering on her instrument.
And thus, my love! as on the midway slope
Of yonder hill I stretch my limbs at noon,
Whilst through my half-closed eye-lids I behold
The sunbeams dance, like diamonds, on the main,
And tranquil muse upon tranquillity;
Full many a thought uncalled and undetained,
And many idle flitting phantasies,
Traverse my indolent and passive brain,
As wild and various as the random gales
That swell and flutter on this subject lute!
And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic Harps diversely framed,
That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
But thy more serious eye a mild reproof
Darts, O belovéd woman! nor such thoughts
Dim and unhallowed dost thou not reject,
And biddest me walk humbly with my God.
Meek Daughter in the family of Christ!
Well hast thou said and holily dispraised
These shapings of the unregenerate mind;
Bubbles that glitter as they rise and break
On vain Philosophy's aye-babbling spring.
For never guiltless may I speak of him,
The Incomprehensible! save when with awe
I praise him, and with Faith that inly feels;
Who with his saving mercies healéd me,
A sinful and most miserable man,
Wildered and dark, and gave me to possess
Peace, and this cot, and thee, heart-honour'd Maid!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834)
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I've decided that Clarimonde's twin daughters will be called Carmilla and Geraldine.
The name Carmilla is taken from the vampire novel with the same name. Carmilla mainly chase women to feed on and pretends to be a dainty, sick and frail but sweet young woman. She switch between being incredibly sweet to demanding or angered by small things.
In the book she get stronger by the full moon and has the ability to step into others dreams.
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu | Goodreads
Geraldine is from the poem Christabel where she is pretending to be sick or hurt at the start to be taken in. From what I see in the poem she is confident and tries to twist stories to make people believe her. She is described as beautiful but can sometimes turn old or has snake like manners. I find it a bit unclear if she can turn into a snake or if its symbolism.
Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Goodreads
Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Poetry Foundation
I feel like both vampire stories are incredibly saphic.
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Sara Coleridge (23 December 1802 – 3 May 1852) was an English author and translator. She was the third child and only daughter of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sara Fricker.
Her first works were translations from Latin and medieval French. She then married and had several children for whom she wrote instructive verses. These were published as Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children in 1834 which included popular poems like The Months: "January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow." In 1837, she published her longest original work – Phantasmion, A Fairy Tale – which also started as a story for her son Herbert.
#Sara Coleridge#women in history#women in literature#illustration#art#arte#people#portrait#xix century
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Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Amanda Aldridge who, under the pseudonym of Montague Ring, was an extraordinarily successful composer and teacher in her day. We explore her key works, and what happened to the parlour song as a genre.
Here’s the story of Amanda Aldridge, who is being celebrated in a special Google Doodle.
In 1921, the influential American activist and scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois invited an African-British composer, teacher and singer to appear at the Second Pan-African Congress addressing issues facing Africa as a result of European colonialism.
She had to turn down the prestigious event as she was caring for her very ill sister, who was a talented contralto singer.
The composer in question was Amanda Aldridge, a prolific composer of Romantic parlour songs, and teacher of singers and composers.
“As you know, my sister is very helpless… I cannot leave for more than a few minutes at a time,” was Aldridge’s response to Du Bois. Her sister, Luranah Aldridge sadly took her own life 10 years later.
The legacy of the Aldridge family is far-reaching, fascinating and inspiring. So, who was Amanda Aldridge, and why don’t we all know her name today? Here’s everything you need to know about the composer and teacher.
See Amanda Aldridge Google Doodle >
Who was Amanda Aldridge?
Amanda Aldridge (1866-1956) was a British opera singer, teacher and composer who worked under the pseudonym Montague Ring, in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Her father was a well-known Shakespeare actor, the African-American Ira Aldridge, who was dubbed the ‘African Roscius’ when he first starred as Othello at the Royalty Theatre in London, in 1825.
Her mother was Swede Amanda Brandt, her sisters Rachael and the star operatic contralto Luranah Aldridge, who nearly made history as the first performer of African heritage to star at Bayreuth Opera House, before illness forced her to cancel. They also had brothers, Ira Daniel Aldridge and Ira Frederick, a pianist. They both died tragically young like their sister Luranah.
Amanda Aldridge studied composition and singing at Royal College of Music with Jenny Lind, who was famously portrayed in musical film The Greatest Showman, and Frederick Bridge among others.
Read more: Meet Jenny Lind, the real-life opera singer in The Greatest Showman
Amanda Aldridge – an influential composer and teacher
Aldridge pursued both performing and composing until laryngitis led to a throat injury that cut her vocal career short. She dedicated herself to teaching – with lyric tenor Roland Hayes and singer, pianist and composer Lawrence Benjamin Brown among her esteemed students – and composition, so ended up leaving quite the legacy in the British music scene and African-British circles in London.
Aldridge’s contribution to parlour music, under the pseudonym Montague Ring, was inspiringly influential. She wrote over thirty songs and dozens of pieces of instrumental music. They were popular in style, and merged different rhythmic influences and genres, selling big and delighting myriad households.
Her works include Three Arabian Dances, Lazy Dance (watch above), and songs like ‘Little Southern Love Song’ and ‘Little Missie Cakewalk’.
Read more: Meet Nadia Boulanger, the teacher behind the 20th century’s greatest composers
Many of Aldridge’s songs helped her explore her half African-American heritage, something her mentor Jenny Lind encouraged. Her involvement with the African-British community in London included a friendship with the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his family.
“She sang Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s songs and was friends with his daughter Avril,” mezzo-soprano and author Patricia Hammond tells Classic FM. “She taught singing and diction to some of the most legendary African-British, British-Caribbean and African-American figures in music and drama, including Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson and Lawrence Benjamin Brown.”
Hammond adds: “She not only taught them but was extremely generous in providing introductions and keeping a community of support going.”
Aldridge set two poems by the legendary African-American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar as songs, ‘Summah is de Lovin’ Time’ and ‘Tis Morning’, and composed Three African Dances for piano, which was probably her best-known work during her lifetime.
Read more: Who was Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ? Meet the brilliant English composer
What is a parlour song?
The best thing about parlour songs, for mezzo Patricia Hammond, is their “instant humanity”.
“The fact that they wear their heart on the outside,” she explains. “These are songs that are designed to include people, to share among friends. Memorable tunes. I remember an outspoken lady once in an audience sitting next to me who said ‘I want something mellifluous!’ These are mellifluous.”
Parlour songs were popular songs, usually for voice and piano accompaniment, designed for use and enjoyment in living rooms, often written so as not to be too virtuosic. This enabled amateur and professional musicians alike to perform them.
As well as Aldridge, many women were prolific in the parlour song genre – including May Brahe, Amy Woodforde-Finden, Carrie Jacobs-Bond and Charlotte Alington Barnard.
“The success of the ballads of Charlotte Alington Barnard (“Claribel”) in the 1860s was so astonishing that rival publishers vied with each other to insult her in print, claiming that the ease with which her works could be played and sung at home, as well as their catchiness, caused a degradation of public taste,” Patricia Hammond writes.
Read more: 27 pop songs you didn’t know were inspired by classical pieces
Why don’t we hear more parlour songs today?
The ‘amateur’ aim of the songs seems to have relegated them to the bottom of the pile in music history.
Even though ‘amateur’, in its truest sense, evokes ‘passion’ (think of the French term for love, ‘amour’, that it’s derived from), it brings with it non-serious connotations. And considering women’s position in society in the 19th and early 20th century, it was a genre they could flourish in while the more ‘serious’ professional genres deemed suitable for public life remained out of bounds.
“It’s only speculation, but I feel there was a moment, in around the 1950s, when classical music became almost like a stately home, no longer lived in but supported and preserved, so concerts started to be curated rather than thrown together,” singer and parlour song enthusiast Patricia Hammond reflects.
“Before, people were more likely to just perform music they loved. If you look at concert programmes from the 1910s and 20s, there’d be glorious mixtures that put tangos and operetta in the company of Mozart as well as [parlour song composer] Carrie Jacobs-Bond.
“But with critics becoming gatekeepers to what is and isn’t worthy of a concert series, the warmth and directness of these parlour songs didn’t seem to have a place amongst the lofty utterances of their favourite Lieder, and composers who had proved their grandeur by also writing symphonies.”
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What is the difference between parlour music and salon music?
While parlour songs and pieces were written for popularity, relative ease of performance, and amateur music-making in the home, works described as ‘salon’ music, by definition, were composed for more public-facing performances, albeit still in the living room.
Salons were gatherings of people around an inspiring host – think of Gertrude Stein in Paris – and the music it required, or inspired, was likely heard by more people at one sitting than the everyday parlour song. Composers like Chopin and Franz Behr are known for writing salon music, and Chopin’s salon music especially – thinking to his virtuosic preludes, nocturnes and waltzes – is a secure staple in the classical music canon, heard prolifically in concert halls and on the radio.
Hammond has spent a lot of time performing, exploring and writing about the genre. We ask her if the relative neglect of parlour songs will change any time soon, and if they might join salon music in being heard more in concert halls one day.
“I do believe that these Parlour songs are due a revival soon,” she says. “But I believe that not enough time has elapsed yet.”
And she reminds us: “Madrigals fell out of favour before they were given a major revival in the 1920s. Even Bach had to be revived by Mendelssohn, 80 years after Bach’s death.
“Maybe time was needed to forget the stuffy church services Bach’s works were written for, and to forget the post-prandial disarray that madrigals were performed over.”
We look forward to hopefully seeing these works by fascinating women dusted off before too long.
reposted via classicfm.com
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Half a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…9…8…3..2..1…
Found me linkedin at the end of my wits
mein kampf and hard times
playing on big screen at the Ritz
vamoose oft times motivations quits
for -- no money iz the pits
without any rich Uncle (Sam) in my orbitz
to ease worse case scenario than bing covered
head to toe with nits
if...offered residence among...
hive feel stung as beelzebub doth buzzfeed,
after being espied,
targeted in the crosshairs
of excellent marksman -
credo, ethos, and holistic lifestyle - a mitts
fa this contemplative, furtive,
and intuitive chap lits
of luminous joie de vivre
will emanate like bland kits
and biting the bullet
no less tasty than true grits,
the latter touted by Euell Gibbons
of bias, discrimination, fuhgeddaboudit
suddenly resplendent with blinding blitz
warp and whoop of bits.
Medium of spoken or written word
avast milieu this wordsmith doth assay,
the aim of said missive constitutes
avoiding living in cardboard box or bidet
house zing debacle looms approximately
soffit teen eaves from this day
if scant success, this atypical, ideal
and zeal - lot might post himself on eBay
or mebbe get swooped up
by 10,000 cannibals and turned into a fillet
which mish mashed matted mush
will resemble fifty shades of gray.
Words above and below
written June thirtieth,
two thousand seventeen indicates,
when rental lease
will find our psyches fillet
so this buster brown
(actually Eastern European Semitic caucasian)
hooped to stave then
turning fifty plus eighteen shades of gray
weigh past time of life
to gather rose buds – boot hay
touted as AARP candidate
my inner child doth inlay,
I approach outer limits
per twilight zone of this blue jay
youthful looking married male -
with doe eyed wife does not buck,
donnybrook and neigh
against mortality reckons,
a safe and secure domicile
important basic needs
(codified by Abraham Maslow) – okay
this LVIII year young chap
haint expect tin tubby be housed
in courtly Highland manor,
yet anxiety sans poverty will play
a cruel hoax ruse trick finding me
to jump off a bridge –
with pier - sing quay
King Crimson ready
to bring cessation of existence –
when nada stinging ray
of salvation pleasantly doth sashay
and bring relief before
unwelcome ominous killer fate
inches closer incrementally from today
this father of deux darling
then near grown daughters
might fare better brexit - ting America
high tailing dreams to Uruguay.
Nary a snowball chance in hell
this alter kaker will nab employment
since receiving social security
emotional disability for countless years
(viz anxiety, dysthymia,
obsessive compulsive disorder, and prone
to become emotionally panicky
and paralyzed in social situations)
relies on medications,
which palliative doth alleviate, calm, and endow
relief (from debilitating, harrowing,
and lacerating quality of being alive.
LIST OF PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS THEN TAKEN:
1. Clonazepam 0.5 MG Tablets;
(generic - Klonopin); (1 tablet 3x daily).
2. Floxetine Hcl 40 MG CAPS; (Generic - Prozac).
3. Prazosin 1 MG capsule - 1 capsule nightly.
4. Quetiapine Fumarate; (generic - Seroquel) -
50 MG; (2 tablets 2x daily).
5. not a misprint – a higher dosage,
this pop pops prior to bedtime.
Quetiapine Fumarate; (Generic - Seroquel);
100 MG; (1 tablet at bedtime).
Sought an affordable place
against the sands of time
thyself and spouse race
already envisioning an outlook
that doth harken to trace
living non social on bleak street -
forever reaching for salvation
like Samuel Coleridge Taylor,
his rime of the ancient mariner
or John Keats lovers for’ ever glazed
asper ode on a Grecian (formula) vase.
Mine status begs turing
vibrant with near blinding light
could inform this bloke
if any long term living accommodations
ever available, or perhaps
if no can do versus tae kwon do might
be privy to share information about
any eco-friendly community
to forestall any unpleasant plight
specifically being pitched out
on the streets with thee spouse
onto the bleak cobblestone streets
of the urban jungle, where right
iz determined by spittle and spite
and valuables must be clutched tight.
OCCUPATION:
I receive social security disability
for re: max him mum,
long and fostered, during the latter half
of the Fox and Roach pelted per
pesky pointedly nineteen hundred
and fifty nine
ever since my conception in utero -
likened to a luke warm Caldwell,
and the entire century 21.
STATE: protracted, anxiety
COUNTRY: United States
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Holidays 1.5
Holidays
Apple Howling Day
Avian Day (Pagan)
Carnival begins (Old Bohemia)
Eve of Wonder
Fair Deal Day
FM Radio Day
George Washington Carver Day
Get on the Computer Day
International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival (Harbin, China)
Joma Shinji (Kamakura, Japan)
Kappa Alpha Psi Day
Little Cold begins (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)
Monopoly Game Day
Mr. Ed Day
National Bird Day
National Ellen Day
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Night of the Magic Camel (Southern Syria)
Review Your Wrestling Holds Day
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney; Australia)
Tucindan (Serbia, Montenegro)
Turn Up the Heat Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Can Opener Day
Granny Smith Day
National Keto Day
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Sausage Day (UK)
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Take the Cake Day
Independence Days
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Feast Days
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Festival of Pyrotechnics
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Hayao Miyazaki (Jayism)
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Lucky & Unlucky Days
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Prime Number Day: 5 [3 of 72]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [4 of 60]
Premieres
All My Children (TV Soap Opera; 1970)
Armed Forces, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1979)
Cavalcade (Film; 1933)
Chica Chica Boom Chic, by Carmen Miranda (Song; 1941)
Come Dance with Me!, by Frank Sinatra (Album; 1959)
Giasone, by Francesco Cavalli (Opera; 1649)
Greetings From Asbury Park, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1973)
Lion Down (Disney Cartoon; 1951)
Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Book of Poetry; 1798)
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series; 1976)
Nixon (Film; 1996)
The Shannara Chronicles (TV Series; 2016)
Stop! In The Name Of Love, recorded by The Supremes (Song; 1965)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Novel; 1886)
Tiger Trouble (Disney Cartoon; 1945)
The Tortoise and the Hare (Disney Cartoon; 1935)
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett (Play; 1953)
The Wiz (Broadway Musical; 1975)
Today’s Name Days
Emilia, Johann (Austria)
Emilijana, Gaudencije, Miljenko, Radoslavl (Croatia)
Dalimil (Czech Republic)
Simeon (Denmark)
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Simon (Hungary)
Amelia (Italy)
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Gaudentas, Telesforas, Vytautas, Vytautė (Lithuania)
Hanna, Hanne (Norway)
Edward, Emilian, Emiliusz, Hanna, Symeon, Szymon, Telesfor, Włościbor (Poland)
Sinclitichia, Teona, Teotempt (Romania)
Andrea (Slovakia)
Amelia, Emiliana, Juan, Simeón, Telesforo (Spain)
Hanna, Hannele (Sweden)
Apollinaria, Teon (Ukraine)
Ladarius, Ladd, Laird, Lamont, Lane, Tania, Tanya, Tatiana, Tatyana, Tawni, Tawnya, Tia, Tiana, Tianna, Tonya (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 5 of 2023; 360 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 52 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 12 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Dōngyuè), Day 14 (Gui-Hai)
Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)
Hebrew: 12 Teveth 5783
Islamic: 12 Jumada II 1444
J Cal: 5 Aer; Fiveday [5 of 30]
Julian: 23 December 2022
Moon: 98%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 5 Moses (1st Month) [Lycurgus]
Runic Half Month: Eihwaz (Yew) [Day 12 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 16 of 90)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 15 of 30)
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Holidays 1.5
Holidays
Apple Howling Day
Avian Day (Pagan)
Carnival begins (Old Bohemia)
Eve of Wonder
Fair Deal Day
FM Radio Day
George Washington Carver Day
Get on the Computer Day
International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival (Harbin, China)
Joma Shinji (Kamakura, Japan)
Kappa Alpha Psi Day
Little Cold begins (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)
Monopoly Game Day
Mr. Ed Day
National Bird Day
National Ellen Day
National Screenwriters Day
National Second-Hand Wardrobe Day
Night of the Magic Camel (Southern Syria)
Review Your Wrestling Holds Day
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney; Australia)
Tucindan (Serbia, Montenegro)
Turn Up the Heat Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Can Opener Day
Granny Smith Day
National Keto Day
National Whipped Cream Day
Sausage Day (UK)
Strawberry Day (Ichigo No Hi; Japan)
Take the Cake Day
Independence Days
Monarchy of Craztonia (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Avian Day (Pagan)
Befana (Ancient Roman Goddess)
Charles of Mount Argus (Christian)
Feast of Poseidon (Ancient Greece)
Festival of Kore (Greek Goddess of Good Fortune & Zeal)
Festival of Lares Compitales (Ancient Rome)
Festival of Pyrotechnics
Gerlac of Valkenberg (Christian; Saint)
Hayao Miyazaki (Jayism)
Hoots the Owl (Muppetism)
International Sarcasm Day (Pastafarian)
John Neumann (Catholic Church)
Ludwig II Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Lycurgus (Positivist; Saint)
Mungday (aka Hung Mung’s Day; Discordian)
Nones of January (Ancient Rome)
Old Christmas Eve
Pope Telesphorus (Christian; Saint)
Simeon Stylites (Latin Church)
Trettondagsafton (Epiphany Eve; Sweden)
Twelfth Day of Christmas
Twelfth Night
Twelve Holy Days #11 (Aquarius, the lower limbs; Esoteric Christianity)
Twelvetide, Day #12 (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]
Ullr Festival (Norse)
Umberto Eco (Jayism)
Verbal Abuse Day (Pastafarian)
The Voyage of Hathor to See Her Seven Sisters (Ancient Egypt)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [4 of 71]
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [4 of 32]
Prime Number Day: 5 [3 of 72]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [4 of 60]
Premieres
All My Children (TV Soap Opera; 1970)
Armed Forces, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1979)
Cavalcade (Film; 1933)
Chica Chica Boom Chic, by Carmen Miranda (Song; 1941)
Come Dance with Me!, by Frank Sinatra (Album; 1959)
Giasone, by Francesco Cavalli (Opera; 1649)
Greetings From Asbury Park, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1973)
Lion Down (Disney Cartoon; 1951)
Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Book of Poetry; 1798)
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series; 1976)
Nixon (Film; 1996)
The Shannara Chronicles (TV Series; 2016)
Stop! In The Name Of Love, recorded by The Supremes (Song; 1965)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Novel; 1886)
Tiger Trouble (Disney Cartoon; 1945)
The Tortoise and the Hare (Disney Cartoon; 1935)
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett (Play; 1953)
The Wiz (Broadway Musical; 1975)
Today’s Name Days
Emilia, Johann (Austria)
Emilijana, Gaudencije, Miljenko, Radoslavl (Croatia)
Dalimil (Czech Republic)
Simeon (Denmark)
Lea, Leana, Liia (Estonia)
Lea, Leea (Finland)
Édouard (France)
Emilia, Johann (Germany)
Syglitiki, Theoni, Theopemptos (Greece)
Simon (Hungary)
Amelia (Italy)
Sīmanis, Zintis (Latvia)
Gaudentas, Telesforas, Vytautas, Vytautė (Lithuania)
Hanna, Hanne (Norway)
Edward, Emilian, Emiliusz, Hanna, Symeon, Szymon, Telesfor, Włościbor (Poland)
Sinclitichia, Teona, Teotempt (Romania)
Andrea (Slovakia)
Amelia, Emiliana, Juan, Simeón, Telesforo (Spain)
Hanna, Hannele (Sweden)
Apollinaria, Teon (Ukraine)
Ladarius, Ladd, Laird, Lamont, Lane, Tania, Tanya, Tatiana, Tatyana, Tawni, Tawnya, Tia, Tiana, Tianna, Tonya (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 5 of 2023; 360 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 52 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 12 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Dōngyuè), Day 14 (Gui-Hai)
Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)
Hebrew: 12 Teveth 5783
Islamic: 12 Jumada II 1444
J Cal: 5 Aer; Fiveday [5 of 30]
Julian: 23 December 2022
Moon: 98%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 5 Moses (1st Month) [Lycurgus]
Runic Half Month: Eihwaz (Yew) [Day 12 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 16 of 90)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 15 of 30)
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