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Pouches - Who's to blame (Not entirely serious)
Now, we remember that the king of the super pouches is Cable, and for good reason... Since his intro in 1990 he has tended to be more than slightly... pouch intensive
This isn't even a spoof cover, it's an accurate representation of his costume at the time.
But did he START the trend?
I think not.
Leaving aside Batman from the 1966 series, who had hefty pouches in his belt...
Though still not remotely large enough for some of the stuff he randomly produced from it, even if it DOES fold up... sort of.
But I digress....
I did consider the Silver Age bat villain Cluemaster
But those are specifically "plastic-glass pellets" containing assorted chemical weapons, like explosives, gas, acids and the like, so not sure they count.
It's been suggested that one of the first in the modern era to develop this was Longshot in 1986, when he did indeed have pouches on his belt, because artist Art Adams thought he needed practically-sized pouches to carry things in.
But even then are there MANY pouches? His bandolier was to store his throwing knives for easy access, so weren't pouches per se.
So technically, the first X-Men character to really lay into the pouches side of things isn't Cable, not by a long shot... it's this guy, slightly later in 1986
So Doug Ramsey was leading the field of poucher-y in the X-Verse side of things.
Just look at that vest and belt, LOADED and lined with pouches, and we never even find out what's in them... Though I think it would include pens, pencils, notepaper, some money, spare keys to the Xavier school, first-aid kit, lock picks (because he's always wanted to carry lockpicks), string (Everyone should carry string), breath mints and other things a relatively sensible teenager would want to be sure he was carrying if he had the room in his outfit and wasn't given to cargo shorts!
And yet, there are other contenders, so let's work backwards...
Also from 1986, Batman (again) from "The Dark Knight Returns" where even his BELT looks to be on a course of serious steroids!
And in 1983 we got this stylish new costume retconned into the history of the Golden Age Tarantula in All-Star Squadron who, up until this point, wore a purple and yellow spandex outfit that was, oncufsingly, identical to the Golden Age Sandman's spandex costume outfit.
Notice that he has rings of pouches on both boots, where he keeps things like spare cash in case he needs to hire a taxi and probably some spare ammo for his wirepoon gun.
But I think I've found patient zero as, from 1981's New Teen Titans #3. we have the inventor and technologist par excellence, the man who would be known (Eventually) as Mikron O'Geneus, though he would, perhaps thankfully, becomes better known by his codename:
GIZMO!
Look, even his LOGO has pouches!
In fairness, given his speciality is creating techno-widgets and devices out of other technology, him carrying dozens of gadgets and components makes a lot of sense, to the extent that he even manages to carry MORE weapons than Robin's utility belt (Which is TARDIS like in and of itself)!
So I think we have a winner!
Gizmo started the modern pouch trend!
If anyone can find earlier/other contenders, then please feel free to add them!
#pouches all the way down#cable#nathan summers#batman 66#bruce wayne#cluemaster#arthur brown#longshot#cypher#doug ramsey#tarantula#john law#gizmo#mikron o'geneus#robin#dick grayson
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Sharon Tate photographed at Heathrow Airport on July 23rd, 1966 with a Bob Dylan tote bag promoting his then-upcoming poetry book, Tarantula
(via simplysharontate on instagram)
#sharon tate#bob dylan#1960's#60's#bob dylan tarantula#tarantula 1971#classic rock#folk rock#60's actress#60's music#vintage#retro
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My copy of Tarantula (1966)
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Holidays 8.22
Holidays
America’s Cup Day
Baltic Unity Day (Latvia)
Be An Angel Day
Chuck Brown Day
Dia do Folclore (Folklore Day; Brazil)
Exercise Day
Feast of the Queenship of Mary
Flag Day (Russia)
International Apostasy Day
International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion of Belief (UN)
International Museum Meme Day
Liquid Soap Day
Loch Ness Monster Day
Madras Day (India)
National Firefighters Day (Mexico)
National Pamela Day
National Punctuation Day
National Rainbow Baby Day
National Surgical Oncologist Day
National Tooth Fairy Day (also 2.28)
Never Bean Better Day
Pocketphone Day
Rumpleskunkskin’s Wedding (Goblin celebration)
Salmon Day (French Republic)
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day
Take Your Cat to the Vet Day
Tunamint (Natural Chimneys, Virginia)
World Folklore Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Eat a Peach Day
National Bao Day
National Pecan Torte Day
World Jolly Rice Day
World Plant Milk Day
Independence Days
Arstotzkan Union (Declared, 2019) [unrecognized]
Wakamawabla (Declared, 2016) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Andrew (Christian; Saint)
Archibald Willard (Artology)
Double Seventh Festival (a.k.a. Qi Xi Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day or Feast of the Milky Way; China) [7th Day of 7th Month]
Fabrizio (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Hathor and Min (Ancient Egypt)
Guinefort (Christian; Saint)
Harrison (Positivist; Saint)
Hippolytus (Christian; Saint)
Ignatius Reilly Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Immaculate Heart of Mary (Roman Catholic)
Janmashtami (Festival celebrating birth of Krishna; India)
Philibert (Christian; Saint)
Queenship of Mary (Christian; Saint)
Symphorian (Christian; Saint)
Tarantula Teasing Day (Pastafarian)
Timotheus (Christian; Saint)
Virgo zodiac sign begins (Pagan)
The Weatherberries (Muppetism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Premieres
Alice in the Big League (Disney Cartoon; 1927)
And Now For Something Completely Different (Film; 1972)
Another One Bites the Dust, by Queen (Song; 1980)
Bojack Horseman (Animated TV Series; 2014)
Bootle Beetle (Disney Cartoon; 1947)
The Cocktail Party, by T.S. Eliot (Play; 1949)
Dancing in the Streets, recorded by Martha and the Vandellas (Song; 1966)
Ghosts, by Henrik Ibsen (Play; 1883)
G.I. Jane (Film; 1997)
Hamlet 2 (Film; 2008)
High Plains Drifter (Film; 1973)
The House Bunny (Film; 2008)
If I Stay (Film; 2014)
Joy in the Morning, by P.G. Wodehouse (Novel; 1947) [Jeeves #8]
Jumpin’ at the Woodside, recorded by Count Basie (Song; 1938)
Plop Goes the Weasel (WB LT Cartoon; 1953)
Porky’s Poultry Plant (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)
The Saint, by Burt Barer (Film Novelization; 1997) [Saint #51]
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Film; 2014)
The Skeleton Dance (Disney Cartoon; 1929)
Stand By Me (Film; 1986)
Toby Tortoise Returns (Disney Cartoon; 1936)
Today’s Name Days
Regina, Siegfried (Austria)
Marija, Regina, Vladislava (Croatia)
Bohuslav (Czech Republic)
Symphorian (Denmark)
Iivo, Ivalo, Ivar, Ivari, Ivo (Estonia)
Iivari, Iivo (Finland)
Fabrice (France)
Maria Regina, Regina, Sigfried (Germany)
Menyhért, Mirjam (Hungary)
Fabrizio, Maria, Regina (Italy)
Nadīna, Rudīte (Latvia)
Ipolitas, Karijotas, Rimantė, Sigitas, Zygfridas (Lithuania)
Harriet, Harry (Norway)
Cezary, Dalegor, Fabrycjan, Fabrycy, Hipolit, Hipolita, Maria, Namysław, Oswald, Oswalda, Tymoteusz, Zygfryd (Poland)
Tichomír (Slovakia)
María, Timoteo (Spain)
Henrietta, Henrika (Sweden)
Florence, Florent (Ukraine)
Hayden, Hazel, Heath, Heather, Hector (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 234 of 2024; 131 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 34 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 15 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 7 (Ren-Zi)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 5 Elul 5783
Islamic: 5 Safar 1445
J Cal: 24 Hasa; Threesday [24 of 30]
Julian: 9 August 2023
Moon: 32%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 10 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Harrison]
Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 10 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 62 of 94)
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 1 of 32)
Calendar Changes
Virgo (The Virgin) begins [Zodiac Sign 6; thru 9.22]
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Las 211 peliculas que he visto en 2022 (parte 1)
En negrita las que os recomiendo:
1. El sexto sentido (Nemesio Manuel Sobrevila, 1929)
2. El pan nuestro de cada día (King Vidor, 1934)
3. Luna Nueva (Howard Hawks, 1940)
4. Un sueño americano (King Vidor, 1944).
5. Breve encuentro (David Lean, 1945)
6. El capitán Kidd (Rowland V. Lee, 1945)
7. Lazos humanos (Elia Kazan, 1945)
8. La bella y la bestia (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
9. Domador de sirenas (Irving Pichel, 1948)
10. La fuerza del destino (Abraham Polonsky, 1948)
11. Nunca la olvidare (George Stevens, 1948)
12. Vida en sombras (Lorenzo Llobet Gracia, 1949)
13. Milagro en Milan (Vittorio de Sica, 1951)
14. Umberto D (Vittorio de Sica, 1952)
15. Valkoinen peura [El reno blanco] (Erik Blomberg, 1952)
16. El salario del miedo (H G Clouzot, 1953)
17. La loba (Alberto Lattuada, 1953)
18. Los apuros de un pequeño tren (Charles Crichton, 1953)
19. Tarantula (Jack Arnold, 1955)
20. El ferroviario (Pietro Germi, 1956).
21. La mala semilla (Mervyn LeRoy, 1956).
22. De dode tjern [El lago de los muertos] (Kåre Bergstrøm, 1958)
23. Cover Girl Killer (Terry Bishop, 1959)
24. Horror en el Museo Negro (Arthur Crabtree, 1959).
25. Beat Girl (Edmond T. Gréville, 1960)
26. El hotel de los horrores (John Moxley, 1960)
27. La sangre seca (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1960)
28. Macario (Robert Gavaldon, 1960)
29. Marea nocturna (Curtis Harrington, 1961)
30. El poder de la mafia (Alberto Lattuada, 1962)
31. Historias de terror (Roger Corman, 1962)
32. Vida para Ruth (Basil Dearden, 1962)
33. El demonio (Brunello Rondi, 1963).
34. El especulador (Vittorio de Sica, 1963)
35. Las tres caras del miedo (Mario Bava, 1963)
36. The small world of Sammy Lee (Ken Hughes, 1963)
37. El extraño viaje (Fernando Fernan-Gomez, 1964)
38. La mujer de la arena (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
39. Los corceles de fuego (Sergei Parajanov, 1964)
40. España insólita (Javier Aguirre, 1965)
41. El ojo del diablo (J Lee Thompson, 1966)
42. Kriminal (Umberto Lenzi, 1966)
43. Las Brujas (Cyril Frankel, 1966)
44. El desconocido de Shandigor (Jean-Louis Roy, 1967)
45. Corrupción (Robert Hartford-Davis, 1968)
46. La maldicion del altar rojo (Vernon Sewell, 1968)
47. Mr Freedom (William Klein, 1968)
48. Satanik (Piero Vivarelli, 1968)
49. Un día tranquilo en el campo (Elio Petri, 1968)
50. Queimada! (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969)
51. Ya soy una mujer (David Greene, 1969)
52. 4 moscas sobre terciopelo gris (Dario Argento, 1970)
53. El martillo de las brujas (Otakar Vavra, 1970)
54. Lokis. Rekopis profesora Wittembacha [Lokis. El manuscrito del Profesor Wittembach] (Janusz Majewski, 1970)
55. Valerie y su semana de las maravillas (Jaromil Jireš, 1970)
56. Bahía de sangre (Mario Bava, 1971).
57. La maldición de los Bishop (John D Hancock, 1971)
58. Angustia de silencio (Lucio Fulci, 1972)
59. Lejos de los arboles (Jacinto Esteva, 1972).
60. San Francisco, ciudad desnuda (Stuart Rosenberg, 1973)
61. Torso: Violencia Carnal (Sergio Martino, 1973)
62. Sintomas (Jose Ramon Larraz, 1974)
63. Trastornado (Alan Ormsby y Jeff Gillen, 1974)
64. Blue Moon (Louis Malle, 1975)
65. El quimérico inquilino (Roman Polanski, 1976)
66. God told me to (Larry Cohen, 1976)
67. Foes (John Coats, 1977)
68. La centinela (Michael Winner, 1977)
69. La ultima ola (Peter Weir, 1977)
70. El dinero de los demás (Christian de Chalonge, 1978)
71. Cristo se paro en Eboli (Francesco Rosi, 1979)
72. La hipótesis de un cuadro robado (Raul Ruiz, 1979)
73. Profecía maldita (John Frankenheimer, 1979)
74. Impacto (Brian de Palma, 1981)
75. Vida/Perra (Javier Aguirre, 1982)
76. Los jueces de la ley (Peter Hyams, 1983)
77. Ojos de fuego (Avery Crounse, 1983)
78. 1,2,3... Splash (Ron Howard, 1984)
79. Los santos inocentes (Mario Camus, 1984).
80. Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)
81. Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
82. 007: Alta tensión (John Glen, 1987)
83. El príncipe de las tinieblas (John Carpenter, 1987)
84. Walker (Alex Cox, 1987)
85. La tumba de las luciérnagas (Isao Takahata, 1988)
86. The Dreaming (Mario Andreacchio, 1988)
87. Un lugar llamado Milagro (Robert Redford, 1988)
88. Celia (Ann Turner, 1989)
89. Cuando fuimos brujas (Nietzchka Keene, 1990)
90. Temblores (Ron Underwood, 1990)
91. Clearcut (Ryszard Bugajski, 1991)
92. Mississippi Masala (Mira Nair, 1991)
93. Un lugar en el mundo (Adolfo Aristarain, 1992)
94. Anchoress (Chris Newby, 1993)
95. Dark Waters (Mariano Baino, 1993)
96. Lo que queda del día (James Ivory, 1993)
97. Lazos Ardientes (The Wachowskis, 1996)
98. Nubes pasajeras (Aki Kaurismaki, 1996)
99. Una gran noche (Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott, 1996)
100. Salvar al soldado Ryan, (Steven Spielberg, 1998).
101. CQ (Roman Coppola, 2001)
102. Funny ha ha (Andrew Bujalski, 2002)
103. Hotel (Jessica Hausner, 2004)
104. Noroi (Kôji Shiraishi, 2005)
105. The Dark (John Fawcett, 2005)
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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Welcome to Too Much Information Tuesday!
In the 1830s, tomato ketchup was sold as a cure for diarrhoea.
People who play the didgeridoo snore less.
Your inner monologue runs at 67 words per second.
Your lips are 1000 times more sensitive than your fingers.
94% of Parisians live within a five minute walk of a bakery.
79% of Britons would be happy to receive socks for Christmas.
In Tennessee, it is illegal to share your Netflix password.
Pablo Escobar – once dubbed The King Of Cocaine – once started a fire with $2 million because his daughter was cold.
Because he was so poor, Picasso burned most of his early work to keep his apartment warm.
In 1966, the Procrastinators' Club of America held a protest against the War of 1812.
In 2018, scientists accidentally created a mutant bacterium that eats plastic. “Accidentally created”? Covid-19, anyone?
The world’s first nudist colony, founded in India in 1891, was called The Fellowship Of The Naked Trust.
Only about three in ten Britons feel rested when they wake up in the morning.
'Playing chess with the pope' is an Icelandic euphemism for taking a dump.
The most common book people lie about having read is George Orwell's ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’.
There is a village in France named 'Pussy'. People who live there are referred to as ‘Pussies’.
Brazilian prisons reduce sentences by four days for every book prisoners read and write a report on.
In 2014, a pine tree planted in memory of George Harrison died after an infestation of beetles.
From 1966 to 1987, Iceland banned TV on Thursdays to encourage people to go out and socialise more.
Hangovers cost the U.S. economy an estimated $220 billion in lost productivity every year.
Music is so influential on the brain, that the type you listen to actually has the ability to change the way you think and look at the world
No need to play Six Degrees Of Separation anymore. In 2016, Facebook found that, on average, any two people are only 3.57 degrees of separation apart.
Treating a wound with maggots can save a limb from amputation. However, almost 10 percent of people would rather have their limb amputated than maggots applied to it.
‘Lord Of The Rings’ was an act of procrastination. J.R.R. Tolkien was supposed to be doing some academic work but … just didn’t feel like doing it, so he wrote ‘Lord Of The Rings’ instead!
Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as "pets". The spiders keep the frogs safe from potential predators, while the frogs eat insects that could harm the tarantula's eggs.
In 2017, a Kiwi tourist was detained in Kazakhstan because the immigration authorities refused to believe there was a country called New Zealand.
Braess’ Paradox says that, if you add more lanes to a road, congestion increases. For instance, in 2008, a Houston freeway was expanded to 26 lanes, and travel times increased by 30%.
In the 1980s, you had 17 minutes to escape a house fire in the average American home but, because of the flammability of modern furniture, it’s now closer to three minutes!
In 1945, following VE Day, the crew of the Canadian HMCS Uganda were asked if they wanted to continue fighting the Japanese. They became the only boat in WWII to vote to go home and leave the war.
In 2010, a couple purchased an entire town (Wauconda, Washington) on eBay for $360,000. The town came with a gas pump, a restaurant, a small store and a four-bedroom home.
In 1874, Max Planck's teacher told him not to go into physics, because the field was almost completely known and “will arguably soon take its final form”. Planck went on to make enormous contributions to quantum theory and won a Nobel Prize.
When Bill Shakespeare, the first man to receive the Pfizer vaccine, died in 2021, one Argentinian news channel got confused and announced the death of ‘one of the most important writers in the English language.’
According to a 2008 survey of sex therapists, sex is too short when it lasts one to two minutes, adequate is three to seven minutes, and desirable is seven to 13 minutes. If you’re still going at 30 minutes, most people will think it’s too long.
A hospital in Toulon, France had to be evacuated when an 88-year-old man turned up with a World War I bomb lodged in his anal passage! It was an eye-watering 18cm long and 9cm wide. The patient made a full recovery, after it was surgically removed.
In 2014, a man in China bought a first class ticket on China Eastern Airlines. He cancelled the ticket and re-booked for a different day over 300 times. The reason? So, he could eat free in the VIP lounge on each of those days.
Okay, that’s enough information for one day. Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday! I love you all.
#mixcloud#mi soul#dj#music#new blog#lockdown#coronavirus#books#weekend#democracy#brexit#cronyism#election#tuesdaymotivation#radio
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Holidays 8.22
Holidays
America’s Cup Day
Baltic Unity Day (Latvia)
Be An Angel Day
Chuck Brown Day
Dia do Folclore (Folklore Day; Brazil)
Exercise Day
Feast of the Queenship of Mary
Flag Day (Russia)
International Apostasy Day
International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion of Belief (UN)
International Museum Meme Day
Liquid Soap Day
Loch Ness Monster Day
Madras Day (India)
National Firefighters Day (Mexico)
National Pamela Day
National Punctuation Day
National Rainbow Baby Day
National Surgical Oncologist Day
National Tooth Fairy Day (also 2.28)
Never Bean Better Day
Pocketphone Day
Rumpleskunkskin’s Wedding (Goblin celebration)
Salmon Day (French Republic)
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day
Take Your Cat to the Vet Day
Tunamint (Natural Chimneys, Virginia)
World Folklore Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Eat a Peach Day
National Bao Day
National Pecan Torte Day
World Jolly Rice Day
World Plant Milk Day
Independence Days
Arstotzkan Union (Declared, 2019) [unrecognized]
Wakamawabla (Declared, 2016) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Andrew (Christian; Saint)
Archibald Willard (Artology)
Double Seventh Festival (a.k.a. Qi Xi Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day or Feast of the Milky Way; China) [7th Day of 7th Month]
Fabrizio (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Hathor and Min (Ancient Egypt)
Guinefort (Christian; Saint)
Harrison (Positivist; Saint)
Hippolytus (Christian; Saint)
Ignatius Reilly Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Immaculate Heart of Mary (Roman Catholic)
Janmashtami (Festival celebrating birth of Krishna; India)
Philibert (Christian; Saint)
Queenship of Mary (Christian; Saint)
Symphorian (Christian; Saint)
Tarantula Teasing Day (Pastafarian)
Timotheus (Christian; Saint)
Virgo zodiac sign begins (Pagan)
The Weatherberries (Muppetism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Premieres
Alice in the Big League (Disney Cartoon; 1927)
And Now For Something Completely Different (Film; 1972)
Another One Bites the Dust, by Queen (Song; 1980)
Bojack Horseman (Animated TV Series; 2014)
Bootle Beetle (Disney Cartoon; 1947)
The Cocktail Party, by T.S. Eliot (Play; 1949)
Dancing in the Streets, recorded by Martha and the Vandellas (Song; 1966)
Ghosts, by Henrik Ibsen (Play; 1883)
G.I. Jane (Film; 1997)
Hamlet 2 (Film; 2008)
High Plains Drifter (Film; 1973)
The House Bunny (Film; 2008)
If I Stay (Film; 2014)
Joy in the Morning, by P.G. Wodehouse (Novel; 1947) [Jeeves #8]
Jumpin’ at the Woodside, recorded by Count Basie (Song; 1938)
Plop Goes the Weasel (WB LT Cartoon; 1953)
Porky’s Poultry Plant (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)
The Saint, by Burt Barer (Film Novelization; 1997) [Saint #51]
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Film; 2014)
The Skeleton Dance (Disney Cartoon; 1929)
Stand By Me (Film; 1986)
Toby Tortoise Returns (Disney Cartoon; 1936)
Today’s Name Days
Regina, Siegfried (Austria)
Marija, Regina, Vladislava (Croatia)
Bohuslav (Czech Republic)
Symphorian (Denmark)
Iivo, Ivalo, Ivar, Ivari, Ivo (Estonia)
Iivari, Iivo (Finland)
Fabrice (France)
Maria Regina, Regina, Sigfried (Germany)
Menyhért, Mirjam (Hungary)
Fabrizio, Maria, Regina (Italy)
Nadīna, Rudīte (Latvia)
Ipolitas, Karijotas, Rimantė, Sigitas, Zygfridas (Lithuania)
Harriet, Harry (Norway)
Cezary, Dalegor, Fabrycjan, Fabrycy, Hipolit, Hipolita, Maria, Namysław, Oswald, Oswalda, Tymoteusz, Zygfryd (Poland)
Tichomír (Slovakia)
María, Timoteo (Spain)
Henrietta, Henrika (Sweden)
Florence, Florent (Ukraine)
Hayden, Hazel, Heath, Heather, Hector (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 234 of 2024; 131 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 34 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 15 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 7 (Ren-Zi)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 5 Elul 5783
Islamic: 5 Safar 1445
J Cal: 24 Hasa; Threesday [24 of 30]
Julian: 9 August 2023
Moon: 32%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 10 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Harrison]
Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 10 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 62 of 94)
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 1 of 32)
Calendar Changes
Virgo (The Virgin) begins [Zodiac Sign 6; thru 9.22]
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Taste of Shotgun (1966) by Bob Dylan
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Storia Di Musica #203 - Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, 1965
L’ultimo mese delle storie musicali 2021 è dedicato a dischi fondamentali. Chi ha la pazienza di leggermi sa che ogni anno a Dicembre scelgo un disco di Bob Dylan. Che per dischi fondamentali nella storia sta come i pilastri per una casa. Quello che ho scelto per questa domenica di santo Stefano è paragonabile ad un uragano che cambia per sempre la musica e che si chiama Highway 61 Revisited, che esce per la Columbia il 30 Agosto del 1965. Il titolo già dice tutto: la Highway 61 era ai tempi di Dylan la strada nazionale più lunga d’America, che per oltre 2000 km seguiva il corso del Mississippi, passava per Duluth, dove Dylan è nato, ed arriva a New Orleans. Come il nastro d’asfalto, Dylan raccoglie la musica del Delta, il blues, la tradizione del folk, inserisce il plug della chitarra nell’amplificatore, in modo molto più deciso e convinto che nell’altro capo che scrisse nel 1965, Bringing It All Back Home (che apre la sua leggendaria triade elettrica, che termina con l’altro capolavoro che è Blonde On Blonde del 1966) e scrive 9 canzoni una più sensazionale dell’altra, che anche a distanza di ormai 55 anni suonano nuove, incredibilmente profonde, per non parlare dei testi. Fu registrato in appena 6 giorni, in sessioni dove Dylan, che stava scrivendo una sorta di romanzo, che uscirà nel 1971 con il titolo Tarantula, in una sorta di flusso di coscienza: con il fidato produttore discografico Tom Wilson misero insieme una band formata da Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Paul Griffin, Charlie McCoy, Harvey Brooks, Bobby Gregg, Sam Lay, che in una settimana agli Studio A della Columbia a New York furono protagonisti della magia. Che parte subito con l’intro di organo di Kooper che apre Like A Rolling Stone, il primo singolo ad abbattere il limite dei 3 minuti di durata (addirittura doppiandolo in lunghezza, 6 minuti di Mito), che diviene la canzone del rock, e che partendo da Muddy Waters e dal suo pensier che “una pietra che rotola non può riempirsi d muschio” parla della generazione in fermento che viveva con Dylan, una canzone che è una dichiarazione di intenti, condensate in alcuni dei passaggi testuali che costruiranno l’epopea del rock: nessuno mai saprà a quale Miss Malinconia Dylan dice “Che effetto fa\che effetto fa\senza un posto dove stare\che nessuno ti conosce\come un sasso che rotola via?” per chiudere con “Va’ da lui adesso\che ti chiama, non puoi mica rifiutare\Se non hai niente, non hai niente da perdere\sei invisibile ormai, non hai segreti da nascondere”. Tombstone Blues è un blues pieno di figure storiche (Bette Starr, famosa bandita americana, la figura biblica di Dalila, Jack lo Squartatore, San Giovanni Battista messi tutti insieme). Ogni canzone diventerà una sorta di canone dylaniano, come le meravigliose It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry, famosa per il suo sguardo quasi malinconico sul mondo, o il blues di From A Buick 6, ispirata alla canzone Milk Cow Blues di Sleepy John Estes. Dylan suona il piano in Ballad Of Thin Man, uno dei suoi pezzi più grandiosi, una incredibile canzone di protesta, con le ossessive domande poste a Mr. Jones (definito da un grande critico, Robert Sheldon, uno dei più grandi anchetipi dylaniani), anche questo personaggio metafora di qualcos’altro, forse la società, forse la stampa musicale, forse un simbolo del conservatorismo, chi lo sa “Perché sta succedendo qualcosa qui\ma tu non sai che cosa sia\vero signor Jones?”. Queen Jane Aproximately, dal suono gioioso e composito, parla della facilità di cadere in disgrazia (in una famosa intervista del 1965 Dylan descrisse come un uomo Queen Jane). Highway 61 Revisited è, in linea con la tradizione dei racconti ebraico-cristiani, con il suo ritmo circense e zingaresco, una galleria di 5 situazioni, da Abramo che sacrifica Isacco sulla Highway 61, a Georgia Sam, omaggio a Blind Willie McTell, uno dei miti di Dylan, alle prese con il dipartimento di Sanità, a Mack the Finger che ha “un migliaio di telefoni che non funzionano”, ad una “quinta figlia” che cerca un “terzo padre” e che finirà per conoscere la “settima sorella” sulla Highway 61, fino ad un truffatore che cerca di creare la prossima guerra mondiale. Concludono due brani deliziosi: la dolce Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, forse ispirata ai padri della beat generation, e la magica, ipnotica, meravigliosa Desolation Row (unica canzone acustica), una infinita carrellata da 11 minuti dell’umanità, dei dolori, della vita, ispirata a Fellini, che parte da Einstein, passa per Ofelia ed Amleto, da Ezra Pound ed arriva a Duluth, Minnesota. Nel 2010, Daniel Kramer nel commentare la sua foto di Dylan che fa da copertina di questo album leggendario, raccontò che fu fatta alla fine di una sessione fotografica nell’appartamento che Dylan divideva a New York con il suo manager Albert Grossman a Gramercy Park. Dylan scese in strada e chiese in prestito ai negozianti del quartiere dei vestiti, che durante le foto avevano ancora i targhettini attaccati. Indossò una maglietta della Triumph, la marca di motocicletta che lui amava tanto, e tenendo i suoi Ray Ban nell’altra mano, fu immortalato nel famoso scatto, con Grossman in piedi sullo sfondo. Kramer, grandissimo fotografo e poi anche documentarista e regista, disse: “Ha uno sguardo ostile o di malumore ostile. Sta sfidando me, voi o chiunque lo stia guardando: che intenzioni hai, dico a te?”. Ed ha quasi ragione a sfidare chiunque, perchè questa è una delle pietre miliari della musica popolare contemporanea, probabilmente il disco che ha più influenzato coloro che son venuti dopo, sia direttamente che indirettamente. È il modo migliore per terminare l’anno di storie musicali, userò questi giorni per raccogliere altre storie, altri dischi, altre canzoni per continuare a fare una cosa che mi piace tanto: raccontarvi storie di musica e musicisti.
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Halloween 2021 Countdown...ranked
I decided to go forward with tonight because fuck it, in spite of something like 25 - 40 films being left off the list because I could not get around to them, whateverrr. Here’s the breakdown of everything I was able to see since mid-September for spooky season, if I have the time between real life concerns and other films I need to get around to (...probably not), I might update this by the end of November with new addendums and everything but here is what we have to work with at the moment.
85. An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
84. The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
83. The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
82. Halloweentown (1998)
81. The Black Scorpion (1957)
80. When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth (1970)
79. Werewolf of London (1935)
78. Assignment Terror (1970)
77. The Astounding She-Monster (1957)
76. The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
75. The Land Unknown (1957)
74. The Last Dinosaur (1977)
73. Mystery of The Wax Museum (1933)
72. The Blob (1958)
71. This Island Earth (1955)
70. The Mummy (1959)
69. Mighty Joe Young (1949)
68. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
67. The Sentinel (1977)
66. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
65. Phantom of The Opera (1943)
64. Mad Monster Party? (1967)
63. Man-Mad Monster (1941)
62. X: The Unknown (1956)
61. The Invisible Ray (1936)
60. The Deadly Mantis (1957)
59. Clash of The Titans (1981)
58. Jason and The Argonauts (1963)
57. Young Frankenstein (1974)
56. Evil Dead (2013)
55. Island of Terror (1966)
54. Son of Dracula (1943)
53. The Alligator People (1959)
52. The Abominable Snowman of The Himalayas (1957)
51. Tarantula (1955)
50. Planet of The Vampires (1965)
49. The Body Snatcher (1945)
48. Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
47. Konga (1961)
46. The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
45. Revenge of The Creature (1955)
44. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
43. The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
42. Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
41. Dracula (1931)
40. It Came From Outer Space (1953)
39. Beetlejuice (1988)
38. The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
37. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
36. The Birds (1963)
35. X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes (1963)
34. Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
33. The Phantom of The Opera (1925)
32. Doctor X (1932)
31. House of Dracula (1945)
30. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
29. Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man (1943)
28. Isle of The Dead (1945)
27. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
26. The Wolf Man (1941)
25. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
24. Night of The Demon (1957)
23. The Howling (1981)
22. Blacula (1972)
21. Horror of Dracula (1958)
20. House of Wax (1953)
19. High Plains Drifter (1973)
18. 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
17. Scream (1996)
16. Forbidden Planet (1956)
15. Braindead (1992)
14. The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
13. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
12. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
11. Frankenstein (1931)
10. Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)
9. House of Frankenstein (1944)
8. Psycho (1960)
7. Near Dark (1987)
6. Perfect Blue (1997)
5. Son of Frankenstein (1939)
4. Them! (1954)
3. King Kong (1933)
2. The Invisible Man (1933)
1. What We Do in The Shadows (2014)
Now for the liner notes:
This was a mixed season for werewolf films. An American Werewolf in Paris probably wouldn’t have been egregious enough on its own to justify last place, but the fact that it’s a sequel to An American Werewolf in London (1981) landed it there. Everything that works about London from the effects work to the locale establishing to the central conflict to the comedy just fucking fails in Paris. Like this shit is about the main characters using the fact that they’re werewolves to help stop an evil werewolf cult that plans to kill a large group of people and shit about drugs that accelerate the transformation and probably more stupid shit that I blocked out at this point. You know, I saw a half assed older article at some point about someone using the Evil Dead trilogy to illustrate a point about how horror gradually got replaced by action films, and it was obviously nonsense but if I came out of the theater in 1997 having seen Paris I would have taken their word for it. It’s sort of precursor to how Universal can’t revive their respective monsters without it being an action movie (Van Helsing, The Wolfman, Dracula Untold, anything related to The Mummy). Alright. Werewolf of London. It’s funny seeing which 1930′s-1940′s horror films have dedicated audiences to them and which ones don’t and it’s obvious why this one doesn’t and why it’s reputation is basically “oh yeah, there was a Universal werewolf film before The Wolf Man” (much in the same way Man-Made Monster is only interesting because “huh, there was a 1941 George Waggner film starring Lon Chaney Jr. unwittingly becoming a homicidal monster before The Wolf Man.”) Basically every element that made The Wolf Man work is absent here. Blah. Speaking of which, The Wolf Man is pretty fucking solid, though a bit more flat than you would expect. It probably has the best script and soundtrack of any Universal monster, though in execution it comes up a bit shorter than it should be. The performances, the indoor sets, and directing work, they’re all servicable but could be better, so it has to fall back on the script’s juggling act of so many themes concerning destiny, mental illness, being subtly ostracized from one’s community, etc. to work its stuff. Despite the fact that every subsequent piece of werewolf fiction is entirely indebted to this film, I cannot call it the definitive werewolf film if only because of how much it is weighed down by its racist depictions of Romani people, which is more or less the entire reason why I don’t consider it one of the “top” Universal monster films despite its reputation. In terms of genuine defining werewolf films, we have The Howling. I mostly know Joe Dante through the two Gremlins films like most people, so seeing him do pure horror is interesting, because this film goes into some disgusting territory that kind of made my skin crawl at times. I had mentioned that it’s something of a shame that this gets mostly overshadowed by An American Werewolf in London, because there’s some stuff I think I like better in this one such as how nightmarish the transformation scene is and the overall mystery surrounding what is actually going on and how leisurely it’s paced overall.
Alright, let’s fucking do this: 1950′s and 1960′s science fiction films. The Giant Gila Monster is the rare film I would actually call “cheap” in a pejorative sense because it looks like it had a budget of $100, don’t ask me where the actual budget went. I was surprised this was as bad as it was because I really enjoy Ray Kellogg’s other film, The Killer Shrews (1959), which is cheaper than this one but looks 10x more impressive. After five Universal films and three Japanese Invisible Man films, I don’t think it’s unreasonable of me to ask more out of The Amazing Transparent Man given the concept was well trodden territory at this point. The Black Scorpion was probably the only film this year that legitimately made me angry at any point, because by the final battle I just realized how much this thing was wasting my fucking time. It was a challenge not to put this at the bottom but I wanted this list to try and best reflect objective quality more than personal feelings. The Astounding She-Monster I would HIGHLY recommend ironically, this thing is so goddamn jaw droppingly hilarious in its ineptitude that I can’t wait to watch it with other people. The Blob is one where I have no idea where it got its acclaim, all the way up to a Criterion Collection release from, because it has some abysmal pacing and comedy, the whole town of oddball characters working together to stop The Blob in the last 20 minutes should have begun by the time the first act was done, just stick with the remake on this one. This Island Earth has impressive special effects but not much story to back it up...gutterball. I appreciate how the Metaluna Mutant is on all the posters and shit despite only being in the film for five minutes at the end. The Deadly Mantis I actually have an undeserved soft spot for despite it being a bad film, I couldn’t tell you why, it just tickles me for some reason. Sue me. The Alligator People was one of the biggest surprises of the season for me, I thought this one would surely suck ass but no, it’s like if The Fly (1958) was actually decent. Island of Terror I enjoyed for the opening mystery and having some unusual monsters that behave like giant bacterium. Tarantula is an oddball because 60 minutes of the 80 minute runtime is dedicated to a semi murder mystery involving growth hormones that work on animals but fuck people up, it isn’t until damn near the end that the tarantula, one of the lab test subjects, finally becomes the main focus. Planet of The Vampires is mostly enjoyable for its set design and color scheme throughout, I’ve seen better from Mario Bava (Blood and Black Lace (1964) was a casualty of me running out of time to put this list together), but stuff like the ending twist make it a worthwhile watch. Konga is a hilarious oddity that I rewatched mostly because I enjoyed the comic book follow up series, despite its name its actually not much of a King Kong knockoff and goes into some relatively new territory as far as giant ape films go. It Came From Outer Space and The Day The Earth Stood Still are two I don’t like as much as most people seem to, and while they both have great presentations and break from the usual hostile alien fare, they both suffer from the fact that they can’t 100% commit to their respective messages of non-violence in a way that’s wholly satisfactory because it’s so obvious they were both made in the 1950′s US (you know what I mean.) X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes is the rare genuinely good Roger Corman film, I’m actually surprised it isn’t more popular given its a fairly brainy film that shows genuine tragedy resulting from well meaning scientific experiments, on top of how the subject of x-ray eyes hasn’t been super well explored on film as far as I know. Between this film, The Birds, and The Terror, it seemed 1963 was the year that eye gouging was in vogue, for whatever reason. Now we get to the top tier: Forbidden Planet is one of those legitimate “ahead of its time” deals. The soundtrack is almost entirely distant mechanical noises, and taking place on a planet that’s mostly desert and having a fairly slow pace, it sets the atmosphere in such a great way through its audio. This is the closest that western science fiction got into “thinking man’s” territory in the 1950′s, given its central mystery, monster, and other random trinkets all orbit around technology that allows the mind to generate matter almost spontaneously, it’s just great stuff all around. Creature From The Black Lagoon I was kind of dreading because I’ve never liked this film and it’s a bit hard to go back to in a post The Shape of Water (2017) world but I’ll be damned, this is fucking great. Everything just comes together beautifully, it makes me wonder why more 1950′s monster movies can’t be this solid because this film makes it look easy. And then at the very top we have Them!, which is no holds barred the single greatest western science fiction film of the 1950′s, the only one that can compete on the international stage with Godzilla (1954) and Rodan (1956). What gets me about Them! is how ruthlessly efficient of a film it is, there’s no meaningless horseshit about the main character’s love triangle or whatever, it just goes full speed ahead straight from the title card and doesn’t waste a moment all the way to the end. It plays out more like a procedural than anything, just with the mystery following something that isn’t human. At the risk of spoilers, the monsters in this film are giant ants, and something I genuinely love is how it presents the fact that an animal that isn’t already somewhat dangerous immediately becomes an apocalyptic event in the making when blown up to giant size. This is probably the only film on this list that genuinely scares me, part of that is because of how much work the soundtrack is putting in, but scenes like the first survivor having a panic attack when she comes out of a state of shock, the eggs in the first ant nest all having to be burned, and plumbing around in the Los Angeles sewers for the new nest all genuinely got to me for one reason or another. Despite the exclamation point in the title, this one is 100% serious and damn if it isn’t all the better for it.
Halloweentown I didn’t plan on watching until some people on Discord had me do it and of all the films on this list, this is one I’m most obviously not in the target audience for and as such I’m probably being a but too hard on it but it’s a Disney Channel original movie so who gives a shit. I can leave it at that but I think what made this one get on my bad side was actually seeing Halloweentown for the first time and all the citizens are wearing discount Halloween costumes in a standard town that’s decorated for Halloween, in the effort of fairness I do recall the second and third films being better but goddamn at least try and put some effort in.
Oh what a sad year for dinosaur films this was. When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth might have the best stop motion monsters I’ve ever seen but goddamn are they few and far between all the plodding shit this one throws at you. If you want to see cavemen and dinosaurs tear shit up, just watch Primal, there is no reason to go back to this. The Beast of Hollow Mountain I have some odd respect for because for the first hour its a 100% western about cattle ranching disputes or some shit before the Tyrannosaurus shows up in all its awkward stop motion glory. You gotta think of how many westerns were pumped out during the 1950′s and how this one got preserved because it has a dinosaur in it, just goes to show how fucking insane and dedicated horror fans are compared to western fans. The Land Unknown and The Last Dinosaur are both the re-re-reheated leftovers of The Lost World (1925), but I’m actually upset in the latter case that the tokusatsu special effects weren’t used in a better film. Luckily I got to rewatch King Kong this year, and every time I see this film it’s like I’m seeing it for the first time all over again. This is the epitome of movie spectacle, there is no loud special effects driven extravaganza that can compete with this. Stuff like Kong’s first reveal, him killing a Tyrannosaur, his battle with airplanes, and more are burned into my memory, watching this gives the same effect that Godzilla does, I just forget everything about this film and get chills all over again. This could have easily gotten top spot but Kong is fundamentally a colonialist fantasy, unfortunately, and that prevents me from ever saying it gets the 100% clearance.
I had high hopes for Assignment Terror given that it involves aliens using a werewolf, a mummy, a vampire, and a Frankenstein to conquer the world but it ended up being a huge disappointment with barely anything actually interesting happening. The people suckered into this when it got retitled “Dracula vs. Frankenstein” suffered.
Mystery of The Wax Museum is a crock of shit, there’s no reason to touch this one because everything it does was handled better in Doctor X. They’re both pulpy pre Hayes code horror mysteries built on pseudoscience driven murder sprees and shot in that gorgeous two-tone Technicolor process, but Doctor X basically does everything right in a way where Mystery can’t compete. Mystery did give way to House of Wax, another one of the best surprises for me this year and genuinely one of the best horror remakes ever made. It takes the foundation provided by Mystery, excises all the horseshit, and expands on everything that needed more room to breathe. It is a night and day difference that completely replaces the earlier film with something legitimately great.
Harryhausen time. This might surprise everyone reading this who is somewhat familiar with my taste in film but I just do not care for Ray Harryhausen’s stuff beyond historical and technical respect, which does not translate into me enjoying his filmography on a more casual level. His films almost never have a super impressive setting, cast, setting, etc. which makes them feel more like tech demos than anything. Special effects need to serve a film but Harryhausen’s work literally started with planning the special effects scenes and then writing around them, so it’s a question of why I should watch the whole thing rather than just YouTube compilations, I mean there’s a reasom why Jack the Giant Killer, a ripoff of The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, is higher up on the list than half of the ones I’m about to mention. Mighty Joe Young is just a weaker more pussified version of King Kong and Son of Kong (1933), Clash of The Titans’ biggest contribution was allowing for Harry Hamlin to come back and voice Perseus in God of War II, and I have no idea why Jason and The Argonauts is so highly appraised. Stuff like how the Hydra’s heads independently move or there’s seven stop motion skeletons fighting three actors is impressive in terms of skill but doesn’t translate into fight scenes that are actually captivating or emotionally engaging. It’s odd that Harryhausen was inspired by King Kong yet he never made an environment that was as three dimensional and alive as Skull Island nor a film with as much energy. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is probably his strongest fantasy work, albeit you have to get past the fact that all these characters are West Asian yet played by white people, badly at that (I’m usually never super impressed by acting nor annoyed by it, so when I say performances are bad, they’re fucking bad). The backhalf of the film is what makes it worth a watch however what with the strongest round up of monsters in any Harryhausen film, I’m particularly fond of the dragon. The Beast From 20,00 Fathoms is actually legitimately good, probably because it uses the standard 1950′s monster story format to decent effect plus Harryhausen only has a single monster to work with, which allows it to have much more character. It’s also weirdly ambitious with the Rhedosaurus moving in out of shadows, destroying buildings, or being shot at high and low angles to help convey size, all of which translate to a better audience experience than anything in Argonauts. Then there’s 20 Million Miles to Earth, definitely the best Harryhausen film, and aside from Beast a little bit, the one film where his work fully elevates the material and wraps it up in a nice bow. I never feel as if I’m just watching it because there’s a stop motion monster animated by Harryhausen, it feels like it’s a fully realized science fiction film that has a great monster character at the center.
The Sentinel desperately wants to be a 1970′s European horror or Don’t Look Now (1973), but it forgets that you need to put in the work to actually craft atmosphere to do that.
House on Haunted Hill would probably be great in the theater with the flying skeleton over the audience and shit but watching it alone at home reveals how much it needs William Castle’s funhouse tricks to make it work.
Mad Monster Party? I was excited about because I actually rather enjoy Rankin-Bass’ Christmas specials and their connective wintery mythos, but good god was this a slog during the middle chunk and barely funny whatsoever. I was excited to see this many monsters doing the mash in one place but it all goes downhill after the opening credits song number. I wanted to come back here and ask everyone why this doesn’t define Halloween in the same way they defined Christmas but having seen it, now I know.
I only got around to two versions of Phantom of The Opera this year. The 1925 film is overall pretty good with no major hangups to speak of, from what I gather it’s also pretty close to the book. I had a hell of a time trying to find the right version though, because I ended up discovering that none of the like six fucking cuts we have are 100% accurate to the original 1925 release which is now semi lost. It’s a rabbit hole that I won’t recound for you here but I watched the Photoplay restoration of the 1929 release. The 1943 film...is a piece of work. I have no idea why this is included in the essential Universal monsters home media releases over something like Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, but this is a wonderful looking film disguising a shitty half assed telling of this story. Erique’s motivations are never wholly touched upon, Raoul and Anatole are competing for Christine’s affections and it never pays off until the very end with a half decent gag, stuff that should take place early in the film like Christine being escorted to Erique’s lair is reserved for the very end, it’s confounding. Though there are some pure comedies and fantasies and science fiction films on this list, this one feels the least horror of them all. It’s total unchallenging Oscar bait that reminds me of The Red Shoes (1948) more than anything. In a [sees another 1940s color films that’s about opera] “getting major Red Shoes vibes from this...” type of way.
Young Frankenstein...I laughed at one joke in this.
Evil Dead I’ve always been mildly curious about because it seemed like it caught on just a bit more than most unnecessary remakes, which get all of 30 seconds of attention before no one ever talks about them again. When was the last time anyone said anything about Poltergeist (2015) or Child’s Play (2019)? Hell if I know. For a quick rundown on my Evil Dead thoughts: I don’t give a shit about The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (1987) is one of my top 10 favorite films of all time and one where I wouldn’t be the same person today if I didn’t see it at a young age, I don’t give a shit about Army of Darkness (1992). So, Evil Dead issss slightly better than The Evil Dead? There are large chunks of this one where I was bored but little things added up, like how unnerving the deadites role playing as their victims were in this one, the brutality with shit like the nail gun, the motivations for actually going to the cabin beyond shooting the shit, the fact it didn’t try and be shot-for-shot the same. All that said it feels more generic than the first film just by virtue of it coming out in 2013, after 30 years worth of the original’s influence, and there’s nothing about it that sticks out as much as the material in the first film, in spite of me enjoying it more.
Universal monster sequels that aren’t Frankenstein: go. Son of Dracula is standard 1940′s fluff horror, unless you have to see everything related to Universal’s Dracula you can safely skip this one, which was admittedly the Universal monster film I was probably least familiar with before watching it this month, so at least something came out of it. At least it gave us Alucard from the Castlevania series. Both Revenge of The Creature and The Creature Walks Among Us have solid concepts, they just can’t recreate the lightning-in-the-bottle (rare time I say that) sensation that was Black Lagoon. A lot of the character work and subtext of that first film along with genuine suspense and fight scenes and shit just isn’t here. Also, Gillman’s design in that 1954 film was perfect, don’t fuck with it, just don’t. Dracula’s Daughter is interesting if only because it’s the only true sequel to 1931′s Dracula, with everything following being soft reboots. This is mostly me being a lesbian but the titular character is “interesting”, work with me here. It feels a bit like Dracula riding the coattails of Frankenstein with a female centric direct sequel, but it feels inspired with Countess Zaleska trying to find a cure for her vampirism now that her father has been killed, speaking of which, Van Helsing is arrested for most of the film because “the foreign diplomat was a vampire” is a not a good defense for murder in court. The Invisible Man Returns is the real deal, feeling close enough to the original film while doing its own thing, focusing on a light crime drama rather than a mad murder spree, and perfecting the effects techniques of the first film. It is sorely lacking in terms of dark comedy and world building however, and coming out after the Hayes Code, you can tell how much more neutered this one is in comparison.
Boris Karloff...oh how I love him. I needed to spend much more time this season familiarizing myself with more of his work. The Invisible Ray is mid-tier 1930′s horror, nothing special beyond Karloff and Bela Lugosi’s performances, The Body Snatcher is upper mid tier 1940′s horror but once again only Karloff is the reason why it stands out. He plays such a great shit eating bastard, when he gives that toothy smile someone is about to fucking die. Isle of The Dead is far and away the best film produced by Val Lewton that I’ve seen, another slow burn decent into madness and one thing I’ve got to thank a shit ton of these films for is being well under 90 minutes. I think, do I have enough time for this, see that it’s 70 minutes, and realize yes I do have time for this. Movies now are just too fucking long. The real highlight is The Man They Could Not Hang, a film that’s only an hour long but somehow it fits a full courtroom drama and a Saw film into its running time, I have no idea why this one is still as relatively unpopular as it is, it’s a gem of 1930′s horror.
Tim Burton corner. Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Ed Wood (1994) were two big ones I had to skip over. With Burton in general I’m of the opinion that by the time you turn 17 you’re too emotionally mature for his stuff and Beetlejuice, in spite of my overall enjoyment, didn’t do TOO much to asway my consensus. I will say, it probably had the single best instance of comedy and tragedy coming together that I’ve ever seen, with its reason for why suicide isn’t the answer being that the afterlife still sucks ass. The Nightmare Before Christmas I find interesting in the sense that it’s a post modern take on Halloween but it’s become probably the defining special for the holiday. It’s overrated for sure but it gets points from me for how nearly every song is impressive in its own way, coming from someone that doesn’t usually watch musicals, and also because Jack Skellington is gender.
Moving onto Hitchcock. The Birds is an overall satisfying nature runs amok deal but I feel like it’s sandwiched between Them! and Jaws (1975) in terms of how great animals being hostile to people and on the attack could be. Granted I think the chunk of Hitchcock’s career is sandwiched between M (1931) and High and Low (1963) but we’re sticking with horror here. Psycho however is something else entirely. I’m usually ambivalent towards horror films that people who aren’t fans of the genre can’t shut the fuck up about, but I was wrong, this is it. Another easy contender for top spot had it not been for the very end, the film comes to a crashing stop with way too much exposition for its own good. If you’re watching this, just turn it off after Norman Bates is initially apprehended to get the full effect.
Night of The Demon stands out for having one of the most impressive movie monsters I’ve ever seen but only using it at the very beginning and end as the backdrop to a supernatural mystery, as far as 1950′s horror goes this is another high ranking one.
Hammer time...I was relatively disappointed by X: The Unknown given how much I enjoy the Quatermass films, but none of the charm of those rubs off on this one. The Abominable Snowman is half a great film. First half is a slog, second half is chilling and unnerving. You just gotta invest that time to get to the good stuff. But what we’re really here for is Hammer’s remakes of Universal’s films, in color with plenty of blood. The Curse of Frankenstein, much like the Universal film, has pretty much fuck all to do with the novel but takes the basic concept to go in its own direction. The major point of this version is that Frankenstein is a somewhat predatory, homicidal, self-centered fiend that will stop at nothing to complete his experiments. It’s an interesting direction to take the character, so far removed from what Frankenstein has been and should be that it should work just on the attempt, but it feels like a warm up round for next year’s Horror of Dracula (we’ll get back to that). The Mummy is a monster I’ve never been a huge fan of and Hammer’s 1959 film didn’t do much for me as such. The Mummy is something I’d regard as a fundamentally colonialist concept, with most films about the monster involving white westerners defiling Egyptian graves, then the evil spooky Egyptian religious practicians must punish them, and the former is the protagonist in this situation. Blah. One thing I will give this film is that Christopher Lee is probably the best Mummy I’ve seen. It’s the one film where his height is used to full advantage, the design is a nice update on Universal’s, and since he can’t speak or show facial expressions, he has to emote entirely with his eyes and it comes off great.
Alright now let’s talk about Dracula, Drac’s back. The 1931 film is a mess, you can spot editing mistakes and script nonsense and technical limitations from a mile away, and how much I like it is entirely dependent on my mood that day. But there’s a weird charm to it that draws me, much like Lugosi as Dracula in the film. Lugosi is so fucking great, it’s insane. The rhythm with which words come out of his mouth make even the most basic lines like “come here” sound like the most important thing in the world. It is no wonder why popular culture at large has deemed that Lugosi and Dracula are practically synonymous, I wouldn’t have it any other way, even if the film itself has aged poorly. Dwight Frye and Edward Van Sloan as Renfield and Van Helsing round out the impressive performances. Horror of Dracula, Hammer’s go at the material, is another unusual take in that it can’t decide how much it wants to be an adaptation of the novel or not, but this one gets by just how threatening it is. From the offset, the music over the title sequence is so loud and it culminates in blood dripping on Dracula’s coffin, letting you know you’re in for some hardcore shit. This is probably the only film where I’ve genuinely been intimidated by Dracula, and Christopher Lee puts his own stamp on the role by switching from a calm and reserved man that’s well spoken to an absolutely rabid animal with bloodshot eyes, blood dripping from his mouth, and hissing rather than speaking. The way he just runs everywhere or how he opens eyes instantly IMMEDIATELY as soon as the sun goes down just does so much to emphasize how much he hungers and how everything else is of second concern. I got around to Dracula: Prince of Darkness, for shits and giggles, and this inspired me not to watch many more Hammer Dracula films, where I understand it’s just the same shit every time. Prince of Darkness has atmosphere in spades once again but everything else kind of falters, I guess, but it’s an awkward film so I couldn’t say for sure or dismiss it entirely. It takes place almost entirely inside the castle and it takes over half the film for Dracula to be revived, but it’s not necessarily...a bad thing? I don’t know. Dracula being killed by running water still sucks. Honorable mention should go to Blacula, which I had so much fun with, it’s a hilarious fucking movie, just watch it. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is probably the worst film featuring the character that I’ve seen yet. All the pieces are there for something great but none of them come together. It’s too focused on spectacle, the original material separated from the novel goes nowhere, none of the cast is any good, I could go on. When Gary Oldman says “listen to them, children of the night, what music they make”, it’s almost insulting to Lugosi how much of a downgrade it is. Admittedly no Dracula film has really worked for me all the way yet. Someone recently told me that the ideal version would have the mystery of Nosferatu (1922), the grandeur of the 1931 film, the menace of Hammer’s film, and the production values of Coppola’s film. Maybe someday...
Scream is only Wes Craven film I’ve seen that I can say is actually worth a damn, no strings attached. Leaving it at that. Was planning on watching The Hills Have Eyes (1977) so I could have a definitive bottom spot entry, which probably shows my opinion on Craven’s work in general.
Considering I didn’t do anything like watch Martyrs (2008), that left High Plains Drifter as the most fucked up, gruesome, and hard to watch film I had to get through for this countdown. This is the intersection of the western and the horror film, with the brutality of both genres in full fucking force. In terms of plot it’s not much different from, say, A Fistfull of Dollars (1964): a nameless drifter played by Clint Eastwood comes into a town full of bad people and sells his services to them but ends up taking advantage of them, with no one being able to stop him because he’s too good at killing other people. But while Leone’s film was quaint and charming, this film is Hell. Almost literally, with the town being painted red and renamed Hell before the drifter sets half of it on fire. Bad people doing bad things, fucking each other over, killing each other in the end, it’s a food chain that you want to be on top of lest the person above you comes for you in turn. This is the missing link between Once Upon a Time in The West’s (1968) ending with industrialism expanding westward, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) showing the after effects of that violence.
Braindead! This was so putrid and disgusting yet I couldn’t look away. I think I figured out how Peter Jackson went from this to Lord of The Rings: this film shows his ability to effortlessly do huge crowd shots that are also complex special effects scenes that are also fight scenes with a shit ton of choreography. It’s just that before Jackson was making some of the longest movies ever made, he was making some of the goriest, and the gore is probably Braindead’s biggest selling point. For as much as it’s funny as hell and every character is insane in their own way, it’s the blood and loose limbs that fly everywhere and coat every surface in the finale that sticks with everyone.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is probably the most important film on this list, it’s easily the most influential horror film ever made, with every subsequent genre entry having a little bit of its DNA. But how does it actually stack up for being a film that just turned 100 last year? Well, it’s very dreamlike, perfect background noise for any occasion, you just let it wash over you, the images flickering on the screen as you go into a trance yourself.
Nearing the end, and we’re at my favorite part: Universal’s Frankenstein series. This is the best horror series that made it above three entries, and it’s gonna be hard to write about because I just love it that much. Had I watched Bride of Frankenstein (1935) for this countdown, it would have been #1. No questions asked. As is, the rest all claimed high spots. Frankenstein I can’t write about at all. It’s an enigma to me, I can’t do it. Son of Frankenstein is an odd one for me because objectively speaking I would say it’s as good as Bride, but it’s so different, it doesn’t have any of the dark humor or gay subtext or identity crises of the first two films in the series, instead being a very intense character drama involving a three way struggle to stay on top that has very little scares, it takes itself the most seriously of probably any Universal monster film, almost to a fault. Ghost of Frankenstein is where you can see the diminishing returns begin. It’s the awkward one of the bunch, coming after the first three great films and before the fun crossovers. If it never existed I wouldn’t miss it, but even at it’s weakest this series still isn’t bad, I swear it’s almost like magic fairy dust got sprinkled on these so they wouldn’t languish like Son of Dracula. Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man is another film where you can see all types of editorial mishaps behind the scenes but god its so much fucking fun that I don’t give a damn. This is the real monster mash, everything after is just trying to recapture its glory. House of Frankenstein...is so fucking great. You’ve got Boris Karloff as a mad scientist that fucks over Dracula, The Wolf Man, and whoever else gets in his way so he can get petty revenge on people that put him in jail. This is the best of the crossover films for me and the most fun of the whole Universal monster cycle probably in general, it’s like an amusement park ride of everything that makes 1930′s and 1940′s horror so great and it’s going at 90 mph. House of Dracula is another case of diminishing returns, I saw someone on Letterboxd call this film the equivalent of putting a bunch of your monster cereals in the same bowl six months after Halloween. While this another one I and no one else would actually miss...I love it, it’s still doing just enough to maintain my interest even after everything in the film itself is just going through the motions. Then we have the great and glorious Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. There’s a key difference between this film and Mad Monster Party? and Young Frankenstein...this film is actually funny as fuck. There’s too many great jokes to count, some of which get me every fucking time. For as much as I’d say House of Frankenstein would have been the perfect finale to the series, I’m glad this one came along and elevated it to new heights in terms of popularity. (It’s a shame Lugosi and Chaney Jr. never got to headline A-tier films after this, it was all downhill from here.)
I have no idea what happened in Perfect Blue.
The Invisible Man is THE Universal monster film. For as much as I might prefer Bride of Frankenstein, this is the one that is 10 out of 10 every day of the week. It just gets everything right on every level and never stretches it too far with its runtime. The scene that encapsulates everything great about this film is when a radio broadcast confirms the Invisible Man’s existence, sending everyone into a panic, a montage of locking doors, a montage of militias combing the country side in vain hope of finding him, and he’s sleeping softly in a bed in he pajamas. Comedy and horror mix best when it’s hard to distinguish whether you’re supposed to laugh or be terrified. This was definitely the #1 pick until we had a late entry take top spot.
Near Dark is the sexiest film I’ve ever seen. I can’t explain it but vampires embody a really perverse sense of body horror for me. You look the same you did before but now you can’t go out into the sun, you have to feed on blood, you have to kill to survive. But Near Dark makes it all so alluring and attractive, I’m disgusted by it every step of the way but at the same time endlessly fascinated. And then came What We Do in The Shadows. Let me explain the difference between these two films, and why Near Dark is not #1. Both of these films take place from the vampires’ perspective, we learn how they live and we get to know them in spite of how they’re the night monsters we’re supposed to fear. Near Dark wusses out at the end and cures the protagonist and kills all the vampires, an extremely disappointing ending that’s throw-popcorn-at-the-screen worthy. What We Do in The Shadows commits to its premise. I was a bit nervous about this one because I learned about it through Tumblr and it seemed like it was prime time media-overrated-on-Tumblr material, but then as SOON as I saw Viago reach out of his coffin to turn off his alarm clock, struggle to levitate out, and then cautiously check that it’s night (shouldn’t he have a better system by now?), this was the #1 pick. This is the best vampire film I’ve ever seen, with Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) and Near Dark rounding out the top three. This is genuinely one of the funniest fucking films I’ve ever seen. Over the course of two viewings, I don’t think there was a single joke that didn’t work. I get it now. I get the appeal of Taika Waititi. And it’s all thanks to this film.
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1. 0:00 Pieces- The Squires (1965)
2. 1:59 Big Beat ‘65- The Illusions (1965)
3. 4:50 Nightmare- The Crescent Six (1965)
4. 7:09 Unknown Song- Unknown Artist
5. 8:55 Tarantula ‘65- The Questors (1965)
6. 11:01 It- The V.I.P.s (1966)
7. 12:52 Spooky Village- The Royal Scorpions (1963)
8. 14:31 The Graveyard Theme- The Graveyard Five (1968)
9. 16:40 Something Else- Me And Them Guys (1966)
10. 17:44 Mexican Party- Marty and the Monks (1965)
11. 20:04 Cool-It!- The Phantom Five (1964)
12. 22:22 69- The Vaqueros (1966)
13. 24:42 The Plum Song- The Pebble Episode (1967)
14. 27:11 Caliente- The Marauders (1965)
15. 30:02 Free And Easy- The Disturbers (1968)
16. 32:20 Call Of The Wild- Attila and the Huns (1968)
17. 34:58 Space Race- Gene and the Esquires (1965)
18. 37:05 Loose Lip Sync Ship- The Hogs (1966)
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Never-before seen pictures of Sharon Tate at Heathrow Airport in London, 1966. In the first few photos she is seen carrying a promotional bag for Bob Dylan’s book ‘Tarantula,’ which was written earlier that year but eventually published in 1971. She can also be seen with her beloved black Chanel purse.
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#Sharon Tate#1960s#1970s#60s#70s#60s fashion#old hollywood#vintage#london#airport#fashion#Sharon#Tate#photography#throwback#tb#beauty
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Spider-Man Real-Time Aging Timeline
I’ve been asked to get on my crazy again with this, this time for Spider-Man. Well, here goes and boy, this is about to get WEIRD!
A lot of this IS based on Spider-Man: Life Story, so if you are wondering about something, refer to that.
Because there’s a LOT of Spider-Man events out there, I couldn’t include them all without going totally nuts. If you have a question about them, ask!
Though beware, “The writers made that up” is a possible explanation.
1946 - Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson, Jessica Drew, Luke Cage, “Flash” Thompson, and Gwen Stacy born.
1947 - Peter’s Parents die under somewhat mysterious circumstances. His Aunt May and Uncle Ben Parker take him in.
1950 - Julia Carpenter born.
1962 - Peter Parker, 16 years old, invents a quick-drying temporary adhesive with properties similar to spider silk as an entry in a science fair (with hopes of catching someone’s eye to sell the invention to in order to aid his aunt and uncle). Unfortunately, one of the other entries was a might volatile and explodes. Peter is caught in the blast radius and injured. Worse, while on the ground an escaped Tarantula bites his hand in its panic. Peter recovers, but the incident was quite traumatic, and he associated everything that followed with that spider.
When he recovers, he finds himself stronger, faster, and tougher than he was before, and more ‘aware’ of his surroundings. Worse, he was ‘seeing’ things before they happened. He doesn’t know what to do with these abilities at first but is inspired by seeing the masked wrestler El Santo perform on TV. He hits on the idea of fighting for money with a masked identity. It goes rather well, but we know how this song and dance goes by now.
After his, he invents gloves and boots to better help him climb across surfaces, as well as web-shooters for ranged entrapment. He soon figured out web-swinging from there. And thus, Spider-Man was born!
But what did cause his powers to awaken?
It goes back a few hundred years. One of the greatest swordsmen of all time was a man named Zatoichi. Upon learning of this man, one of the greatest criminal masterminds of all time (Fu Manchu) attempted to re-create this man’s skills. This eventually led to the creation of the Nanjin, a sect of Warrior Monks who ritually blinded themselves to “See With the Heart”. Over time, The Devil Doctor did his best to be eugenic about the subject, but random mutation is going to random. Peter Parker his the jackpot with his genes. Upon suffering a horrendous injury, an epigenetic response kicked in and he became as they were--more in fact with an enhanced musculature and reaction time on top of it.
How strong is he? Well, starting out, he was a very athletic human, far more so for his size and weight. After fighting and working out for a few years, he could give some species of vampire a go without much problem. Especially with his “spider-sense”.
And yes, Daredevil is a trained Nanjin. Obviously.
Also, this year, Jessica Drew is the only survivor of a car crash into a chemical truck that kills her family. With no one to watch her, she is kidnapped and experimented on by HYDRA.
1962-1966 - Many of Spider-Man’s classic rogues appear in this timeframe. Notable oddities about them based on what people assume are as follows: Vulture’s ‘flight harness’ was based on the old Doc Savage designed Rocket Pack, most famously employed by the Rocketeer (Cliff Seacord) back in the Late 30s/Early 40s; Otto Octavius is a Cthulhu Cultist; The Sandman is a person who absorbed a juvenile Founder/Changeling and gained some semblance of their shapeshifting abilities; The Lizard is likely tied to the experiments which created the “Alligator Man” of Bayou Landing (The Alligator People); Electro is one of several known “Electrical Mutants” -- people who were born with an electro-kinetic ability.
1964 - Norman Osborn becomes the Green Goblin.
1965 - Peter Parker meets Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy.
1966 - Flash Thompson goes to Vietnam.
1969 - The death of George Stacy, Gwen Stacy’s Father.
1972 - Giant-Size Spider-Man #2 - Spider-Man and Shang-Chi team up against Shang’s Father, Fu Manchu.
Peter Parker marries Gwen Stacy.
1973 - Giant-Size Spide-Man #1 - Spider-Man tangles with (a) Dracula.
1974 - Giant-Size Spider-Man #3 - Spider-Man helps resolve a case started by Doc Savage in 1934.
Flash Thompson comes back from Vietnam with a wife, Sha-Shan Nguyen-Thompson, but without his legs.
Jessica Drew escapes Hydra’s indoctrination and tries to make headway as a hero on her own as “Spider-Woman”. It does not go well.
1975 - Marvel Team-Up #36-37 - Spider-Man meets Frankenstein’s Monster.
Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man - Spider-Man is tricked into fighting the legendary Superman by the machinations of Otto Octavius and Lex Luthor. They eventually team up and stop the malcontents.
1976 - Jessica Drew decides to re-invent herself as the heroine “Jewel” since her powers really have very little to do with Spiders.
1977 - Professor Miles Warren’s plan of making Gwen Stacy his own via “cloning” is exposed by the ‘new’ Green Goblin, Harry Osborn. Unfortunately, tat technology is over a decade away, and his “Clone” is more “Human Meat Puppet” and rather horrifying. In the conflagration/confrontation, he and Gwen Stacy are killed. Harry Osborn disappears for a time... Mary Jane Watson-Osborn and Peter Parker comfort each other over their mutual losses.
Jessica Drew finds herself under the thrall of a mind-mage known as “The Purple Man.” The thrall is eventually broken, but though she manages to recover, it leaves scars.
1978 - Marvel Team-Up #79 - Thanks to a mystical malady, Spider-Man battles Kulan Gath, and things could have ended up badly for him, if not for the revelation that Mary-Jane Watson was a descendant of Red Sonja of Hyrkania. Touching an artifact allowed the She-Devil to manifest in the present and aid Spider-Man in taking down her ancient foe.
Spider-Man first encounters the blind seer Madame Web.
Birth of Samuel Thompson to Flash and Sha-Shan Thompson.
Jessica Drew takes up two new identities, Knightress (for about 5 minutes) and Jessica Jones to distance herself from what happened.
1980 - Marvel Treasury Edition #28 - Spider-Man manages to accidentally thwart the plans of Doctor Doom, to turn the monster known as Parasite into a massive energy storage device after it drained the life force from the Hulk, Superman, and Wonder Woman.
Secret War - Spider-Man is one of the many people invited to this decade’s Mortal Kombat tournament. Unfortunately for Shao Khan, so is Superman (Clark Kent), and he utterly wrecks the event, making the whole thing a wash, forcing Shao Khan to wait another decade to continue his win streak. The monstrous being known as “Venom” follows Spider-Man from Outworld. One of the people taken in by this is a survivor of “The Shop”, Julia Carpenter. Taking a cue from Spider-Man, she dubs herself Spider-Woman (II).
Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson marry.
Mattie Franklin born.
1981 - Marvel Team-Up #111-112 - Spider-Man has a time-traveling adventure featuring King Kull, battling against Valusian Serpent-Men.
Marvel Team-Up Annual #5 - Spider-Man has more adventures with the Serpent-Men and their ancient enemies, Kull and Conan.
1982 - The monster “Venom” reveals himself. Its first host is Eddie Brock.
May “Mayday” Parker is born.
1983 - The Venom creature spawns, creating the horror known as Carnage. It goes on to spawn more Symbiotes.
Jessica Jones has a child with Luke Cage (Daniel Cage) and later marries him.
1984 - Spider-Man and Batman: Disordered Minds - Spider-Man and Batman (III) team-up.
Kraven’s Last Hunt occurs.
Cindy Moon, the grandaughter of Flash Thompson, born.
1985 - Batman/Spider-Man - Batman and Spider-Man team up once again.
1988 - Anya Corazon born.
1990 - Julia Carpenter retires as Spider-Woman, Madame Web begins recruiting her as a replacement for herself.
1991 - Richard Wentworth jr., the descendant of the pulp-era anti-hero known as The Spider takes to the streets, and takes umbrage with the ‘pretender’ that is Peter Parker. He and Peter clash several times over the next few years, and the comic industry uses the presence of a ‘second Spider” to inflate the “Clone Saga” to ridiculous levels.
Thanks to developments from InGen being stolen when the company was liquidated in 1990, Efforts to Clone Spider-Man go forward under multiple groups. The results are nicknamed “Kaine” but artificial again technology doesn’t exist, so it wouldn’t bear fruit for many years.
1993 - May Parker Sr. passes away.
1995 - Richard Wentworth jr. goes to more volatile places around the world to sate his bloodlust.
Miles Morales born.
1996 - Gwen Stacy (II), niece of Gwen Stacy (via Gabriel Stacy) is born.
Mattie Franklin, a half-demon with arachnid affinities decided to become “Spider-Woman”. Her desire to prove herself causes quite a few problems.
1998 - Mayday Parker has her first outing as Spider-Girl under her parent's noses. After a few of these outings, she catches Mattie Franklin’s attention, who challenges her to a “Title Fight.” Mattie loses and chooses to go by “The Scarlet Spider” for a time afterward.
Benjamin Parker is born to Peter and Mary Jane Parker.
Cindy Moon is identified by the Nanjin and is kidnapped for ‘training’ by them. She ends up with a similar condition to Peter Parker.
2000 - Peter Parker retires from being Spider-Man and working Biotech to become a teacher at his old High School. Mayday Parker takes over properly as Spider-Girl.
2003 - Anya Corazon is kidnapped by the tattered remains of the organization known as Shocker and partly transformed into a quasi-magical cyborg super-soldier by them. She is rescued before she could be brainwashed by Kamen Rider (Kamen Rider Spirits). She takes her new ‘gift’ and becomes known as “Arana”, though people often call her “The Other Spider-Girl” to both her and Mayday’s annoyance.
2004 - Mattie Franklin dies battling drug-runners.
2005 - Samuel Thompson becomes bonded to the “Venom” Symbiot (or a facsimile thereof) by the U.S. Government. Dubbed “Agent Venom” he works with them as he furthers his military career.
Julia Carpenter takes over formally as Madame Web on the original’s passing.
2009 - Miles Morales is bitten by a spider carrying an attempt to create a retroviral payload to make Nanjin Adepts. He nearly dies from the venom, but it works -- with an added perk or two.
2011 - Miles Morales becomes Spider-Man with Peter and May’s blessings.
Kaine Parker reveals his existence to Peter, but more out of obligation, as he’d rather be left alone. He is not, thanks to mystical shenanigans. Even moving to Huston doesn’t help in that regard. He dubs himself “The Scarlet Spider”.
2012 - Cindy Moon escapes the Nanjin order and goes to “Spider-Man” to help. Mayday Parker does her best to get her settled after over a decade in isolation.
2013 - The “Ghost Spider” appears, and is eventually revealed to be Gwen Stacy (II), niece and namesake of the Gwen Stacy Peter knew. She is ‘accepted’ by the family, but has been through quite a lot and is often chastised for making bad decisions.
2018 - Miles Morales has his mind swapped with that of the extremely aged Otto Octavius via a dark ritual.
2019 - Miles Morales is freed of Otto’s domination of his mind. However, the Grand-Nephew of Otto Octavius (name currently unknown) begins causing him problems, dubbing himself the “Superior Spider-Man.”
#Spider-Man#Chronology#Timeline#Peter Parker#Mary Jane Watson#Crossover#Crossover Timeline#Miles Morales#Anya Corazon#Cindy Moon#Kaine Parker#Jessica Drew#Jessica Jones#Gwen Stacy#Ghost Spider#Julia Carpenter
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Holidays 8.8
Holidays
Abbey Road Crossing Day
Agricultural Worker Health Center Day
Anjin Matsuri (Ito City, Japan)
ARDS Awareness Day
ASEAN Day
Bā bā Day (Father's Day; Taiwan)
Bonza Bottler Day
Bullet Journal Day
Burry Man Festival (Scotland)
Ceasefire Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Dalek Day
The Date To Create
Digital Nomad Day
Dying to Know Day (Australia)
Eleanor Roosevelt Day
Father's Day (a.k.a. Bā bā Day or 爸爸節; Mongolia, Taiwan)
Five Night’s at Freddy’s Day
Flag Day (Sweden)
Global Infinite Possibilities Day
Global Sleep Under the Stars Night
Happiness Happens Day
Horticulture Day (India)
International Cat Day
International Character Day
International Consensual Spanking Day
International Female Orgasm Day [a.k.a. 7.31]
International Ophthalmologist Day
International War Folly Day
Karkidaka Vavu Bali (Kerala, India)
Kranti Diwas (a.k.a. Freedom Day or Quit India Day; Mumbai, India)
Lion’s Gate Day
Mar-A-Lago Search and Seizure Day
Moon Bear Day
Namesday of the Queen (Sweden)
Nane Nane Day (Farmers' Day; Tanzania)
National Africa-US Rising Cashew Day
National Anne Day
National Assistance Dog Day
National Boundaries Awareness Day
National Braiders Day
National CBD Day (a.k.a. National Cannabidiol Day)
National Clog Dancing Day
National Dollar Day
National Garage Sale Day
National Infinite Possibilities Day
National Liam Day
National Love Your Inmate Day
National Melvin Day
National Perler Day
National Pickleball Day
National Tarantula Appreciation Day
National Taxi Day (Japan)
National Vaping Day
Odie Day
Panda Cares Day
Peace Festival (Augsburger Friedensfest; Germany)
Safe Sport Day
Salt Water Day (Uruguay)
Scottish Wildcat Day (UK)
Severe ME Awareness Day
Signal Troops Day (Ukraine)
Tendong Lho Rum Fiat (Sikkim, India)
Thistle Day (French Republic)
Top 8 Challenge Day (Australia)
TR-808
Universal and International Infinity Day
Vore Day
Wakulima ya Nane Nane (Peasants’ Day or Farmers’ Day; Tanzania)
Wear Your Mother’s Jewelry Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Frozen Custard Day
National Africa-US Rising Cashew Day
National Fried Chicken and Waffles Day
National Mochi Day
National Oatcake Day (UK)
National Spam Musubi Day
National Whataburger Day
National Zucchini Day
Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbors Porch Night
2nd Tuesday in August
Emancipation Tuesday (British Virgin Islands) [2nd Tuesday]
Erie Gives Day (Pennsylvania) [2nd Tuesday]
Fox Hill Day (Bahamas) [2nd Tuesday]
Independence Days
Batavia (a.k.a. Duchy of Batavia; Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Cote d'Ivoire (a.k.a. Ivory Coast, from France, 1960)
Majerówka (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]
Montosh (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]
Poulo Wai (Declared; 1995) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Altmann of Passau (Christian; Saint)
British Thermal Unit Day (Church of the SubGenius)
Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus, and companions (Christian; Martyrs)
Dominic de Guzmán, founder of the Dominican Order (Christian; Saint)
Festival for Venus (Ancient Rome)
Four Crowned Martyrs (Christian; Martyrs)
Fourteen Holy Helpers’ Day
Godfrey Kneller (Artology)
Hormisdas, Pope (Christian; Saint)
International Cat Day (Pastafarian)
International Goat Day (Pastafarian)
Mme. de Lafayette (Positivist; Saint)
Mary MacKillop (Christian; Saint) [Australia]
Rye Day (Pagan)
Season of Bureaucracy begins (Discordian)
Smaragdus and companions (Christian; Martyrs)
Spaghettini (Muppetism)
Venus Festival (Ancient Rome; from sunset to sunset)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]
Unluckiest Day of the Year (India)
Premieres
The Boss (Film; 2016)
Bully for Bugs (WB LT Cartoon; 1953)
Cardigan, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2020)
Eleanor Rigby, by The Beatles (Song; 1966)
Farewell, My Lovely (Film; 1975)
Folklore, by Taylor Swift (Album; 2020)
Gangsta’s Paradise, by Coolio (Song; 1995)
Another Side of Bob Dylan, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1964)
An Innocent Man, by Billy Joel (Album; 1983)
Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio, recorded by Les Brown (Song; 1941)
Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain (WB Animated Film; 2017)
Lookin’ Out My Back Door, by Creedence Clearwater Revival (Song; 1970)
One Crazy Summer (Film; 1986)
Revolver, by The Beatles (Album; 1966)
She’s Gotta Have It (Film; 1986)
Stand By Me (Film; 1986)
A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin (Novel; 2000) [A Song of Fire and Ice #3]
Straight Outta Compton, by N.W.A. (Album; 1988)
Sunday Go to Meeting’ Time (WB MM Cartoon; 1936)
Whiplash, by Metallica (Song; 1983)
Xanadu (Film; 1988)
Yellow Submarine, by The Beatles (Song; 1966)
Today’s Name Days
Cyriak, Dominik, Elgar, Gustav (Austria)
Emil, Emilian, Emiliya (Bulgaria)
Dinko, Dominik, Nedjeljko (Croatia)
Soběslav (Czech Republic)
Ruth (Denmark)
Silva, Silve, Silvi, Silvia (Estonia)
Silva, Sylvi, Sylvia (Finland)
Dominique (France)
Cyriak, Dominik, Elgar (Germany)
Triantafilia, Triantafilos Triantafyllos (Greece)
László (Hungary)
Domenico, Emiliano (Italy)
Gotlibs, Mudite, Vladislavs (Latvia)
Daina, Domas, Dominykas, Elidijus, Gustavas, Tulgirdas (Lithuania)
Evy, Yvonne (Norway)
Cyprian, Cyriak, Cyryl, Emil, Emilian, Emiliusz, Niezamysł, Olech, Sylwiusz (Poland)
Oskár (Slovakia)
Domingo (Spain)
Silvia, Sylvia (Sweden)
Amelia, Amillian, Emil, Emily, Fedir, Leonid, Theodore (Ukraine)
Dustin, Dusty, Merrill, Meryl, Muriel, Myron, Myrta, Myrtle, Vic, Vick, Vicki, Vicky, Victor, Victoria (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 220 of 2024; 145 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 32 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 1 of 28]
Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 22 (Wu-Xu)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 21 Av 5783
Islamic: 21 Muharram 1445
J Cal: 10 Hasa; Threesday [10 of 30]
Julian: 26 July 2023
Moon: 50%: 3rd Quarter
Positivist: 24 Dante (8th Month) [Mme. de Lafayette]
Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 11 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 49 of 94)
Zodiac: Leo (Day 18 of 31)
Calendar Changes
Coll (Hazel) [Celtic Tree Calendar; Month 8 of 13]
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