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New photos of Richard and Amaia Salamanca attend the "La Piel Del Tambor" photocall at the Villa Real hotel in Madrid, Spain. (October 17, 2022)

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Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer Interview: Press Record

BY JORDAN MAINZER

These days, Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer make topographical music.

The modular synthesizer artist and violist first met in Chicago, playing a performance of Terry Riley’s In C at the venue Constellation, with an ensemble put together by ambient trio Bitchin Bajas. Up until that point, Chiu primarily worked as a graphic designer, Honer as an instructor and part of a quartet. But their first collaboration proved rewarding enough for the two to continue. They moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and became more heavily involved in their various studies: Chiu as a visual artist, sound designer, and community organizer, Honer as a prominent session musician. And both as teachers.

It wasn’t until 2017 that their most fruitful musical collaboration was born. Chiu and Honer traveled to the Åland Islands, an archipelago in the Baltic Sea, to help mother/daughter duo Jannika/Sage Reed barn raise an inn named Hotel Svala in Kumlinge. They hoped to generate a space for residencies, fostering a creative community like they’d done in the cities they’d lived in. Throughout their nonstop days of labor--nonstop because during the summer, the sun never set--they found themselves recording various natural and manmade aspects of the island, for no reason other than to document surroundings that they may not ever get to go back to. But fast-forward to 2019, and Chiu and Honer did return: They were awarded a grant to return to the Åland Islands to perform a concert at a 14th century medieval church called Kumlinge Kyrka. They recorded the concert and, with a wealth of source material from both trips, decided to collage their recordings together, along with other improvisations on various instruments, to create Recordings from the Åland Islands, released on International Anthem in March. 

Independent of its context, the album is a pleasure to listen to, one that allows you to create your own associations with the sounds. Warbling synth harmonics, birdsong, and crunchy noises like a train in the rain pervade opener “In Åland Air” (which features processing from Tortoise’s John McEntire). “On the Other Sea” is reminiscent of Boards of Canada’s penchant for finding eerie atonality in otherwise beatific timbres, with its wind chimes, synths, and horns. “Rocky Passage” creaks along, full of noises like hearing a woodpecker on a hike, unable to spot the bird cascading up and down its tree. The synth arpeggios on “By Foot By Sea” sound, of course, like the up-and-down current of waves. But I find the album even more rewarding when you do know the stories behind the songs, the way the instruments try to emulate nature. Honer’s viola leads my favorite, “Snåcko”, a track named for the island next to Kumlinge, as keys circle in the background, purportedly inspired by the feeling of your eyes slowly adjusting to multi-colored moss in the forest of the island.

Tonight, in an In The Round performance, Chiu and Honer bring the Åland Islands to Thalia Hall as part of a triple (!) International Anthem release show. Along with Daniel Villareal (celebrating Panamá 77) and Anteloper, the duo of Jaimie Branch and Jason Nazary (celebrating Pink Dolphins), Chiu and Honer will start with the base sounds of the tracks from their new album and improvise from there depending on the crowd. In advance of their performance, I spoke with Chiu and Honer over Zoom about their approach in making an album about a place very few people have been, improvising in response to nature, and being a part of International Anthem. Read our conversation below, edited for length and clarity.

Since I Left You: This album has very personal associations for both of you, both in terms of the source material and its inspirations. When making it, did you at all think about the experience of a listener who hasn’t been to these islands and what they might associate certain sounds with?

Jeremiah Chiu: That’s a great question. When you’re making a record, there’s always a balance, to the point of losing one’s self in it where you question what the purpose of making it is. Is it to capture our own experience? How might that resonate with the listener? I feel a lot of what we did in the process of the music after it had been captured is put ourselves in a position of both artist and listener. We were listening to so much of what we captured there and wanted to make sure we maintained the spirit and literally the sound and essence of those recordings. A lot of it wasn’t captured with the intention of [making a record.] We were traveling and sightseeing and experimenting and just so happened to press record. A lot of that material ended up being used as-is but collaged together. The experience of the listener is something we also paid a lot of attention to. We were trying to do as little manipulation as possible. We weren’t rerecording and overdubbing. We were looking at various things that happened and trying to find a way to bring them forward.

SILY: At the same time, at the end of “Stureby House Piano”, Jeremiah, you say, “Send me that, we’ll just use it.” Do you recall other moments like that where you recorded something and immediately knew it was gonna be on the record?

Marta Sofia Honer: Well, we didn’t immediately know there was going to be a record that first trip or even fully that second trip. It was more in that moment where you hear Jeremiah talking about the Stureby, it was a really special moment and maybe we could use it for something.

JC: A lot of it started to form as we were going more and more around and started to realize a lot of stuff was being collected. So there was a little bit of an idea along the way. We’d recorded enough random material on the trip that we might form it into something later. That recording, I didn’t even know that was being taken, and when I heard it back, I thought, “There’s something really nice that could be used, whether part of a record or its own thing.”

SILY: The songs capture a lot of different aspects of the islands, both naturally and in terms of the mood. How do you go about consciously trying to make sounds peaceful, disorienting, or in between? Does that process more naturally unfold?

MSH: There were a lot of moments where it naturally unfolded because we tried to preserve a lot of those moments of improvisation where we did sit down to play, or those moments of exploring and capturing. The first trip we took during midsummer, the sun never really sets, and the days are suspended eternally. With jet lag, it can be a really surreal, trippy time, so those initial improv moments had a lot of that in it. It projected itself onto the songs.

JC: In recording this stuff, a lot of it comes from improvisations, but a lot of what you hear in the improvisations is us responding to the place. In that process, as an example, we make mention in the liner notes that this record may not be the kind of record we ever make again. What we mean by that is that the pace of the record is slow because the place is slow. We were really responding to that sense of place and our experience of time there where it would feel really strange to do something fast. That’s just not the nature of that place. It does have this in-betweenness that’s very gentle and serene but with an underlying unknown. It doesn’t always resolve. We were really responding to that when we were capturing and playing and sitting in a place having decided to pick up an instrument and press record.

SILY: It reminds me of some other records I’ve heard that collage field recording and instrumentation, where the synthesizer and the viola start to emulate aspects of the natural world to the point the listener’s questioning the difference between “music” and “recording”. Did you experience that question a lot on these islands?

JC: Absolutely. Some of our other favorite records do similar things, so there was a referential precedent we were paying attention to. Some of my favorite recordings are ones where you don’t exactly know what’s going on. Some of it feels straightforward, some of it feels organic, but there are moments where the manipulation of sound and the fidelity of the sound shifts quite a lot. On our recordings, you hear voice memos and field recordings, and there’s a way to edit or combine all of those fidelities into one thing that feels cohesive, even though it might not be the cleanest recording possible.

SILY: Marta, on a track like “On The Other Sea”, your viola has almost horn-like qualities. If I had gone into it, without context, I would have thought it was a horn. On “Archipelago”, your viola goes hand in hand with the flute. How do you get your instrument to take on so many tones?

MSH: I think there is horn on [“On The Other Sea”].

JC: Often times, you’re playing [multiple instruments]. You should talk about how you granular synthesize and MIDI your lines.

MSH: Okay, sure. I don’t think it happens on [“On The Other Sea”], though. But in terms of tone, you brought up a great point of two very different ways, where on “On The Other Sea”, I’m going for a more melodic, bell-like, or brassy tone you could imagine projecting over the ocean. We have those field recordings of the water on that track. “Archipelago”, I was doing more layering with variation and texture, so that’s created where I’m moving the contact point of my bow. If I’m moving it closer to my bridge, that’s going to start to [become] higher based on whatever tone or pitch I’m playing. If I move closer to the fingerboard, that’s more of an airy texture. I was trying to create more topographical sound. As Jeremiah mentioned, there are tracks where we took the existing melodies I recorded and we took granular synthesis to chop up the phrase and get some different melody lines coming out, which is what I also did with the flutes on “Archipelago”. On “Snåcko”, we took my melody line and converted it to MIDI.

JC: We had it triggered.

MSH: Those are moments where you hear the viola tone, and it blends into a more synthesizer tone.

SILY: “Archipelago” was recorded in an empty pool. Did you come across the pool and immediately think, “I have to make something in here?”

MSH: There’s a pool house in the back of Hotel Svala where we were staying with our friends and helping work. Jeremiah spent a lot of time in that pool house initially because there was a sauna. I think I spent an entire day staining the new sauna. We were doing some manual labor outside the perfect empty pool. Once we finished our tasks--and the day is expansive--we decided to go at the bottom of the pool and see what that sounded like.

SILY: Does “Kumlinge Kyrka”, named after the venue in which it was recorded, have most of the concert material?

JC: I think that piece is a direct pull from the concert, while more of the other pieces pull bits.

SILY: How are you performing this material live?

JC: [laughs] Great question.

MSH: Well, we have been. When the record was coming out, we had to think about how we were gonna pull it off. The performance is presenting some of the material and sounds and melodic lines people are familiar with from the record, but also improvising and expanding off of those ideas. Our setup is me on viola and percussive instruments like the chimes and bells you hear opening a lot of the tracks. I also have a little sampler I’m using to trigger the field recordings and lines I’ve prepared that I can’t do acoustically.

JC: I just have my synthesizer rig. It’s not too different from what we brought [to the Åland Islands] to do a performance. Similar instrumentation, but the nature of this record is so collaged and ephemeral and has its own distinct sound. We’re not attempting to recreate it exactly by any means, more [use it] as jumping off points. We might start at the motifs or melodic structure of the sound, but then we take it where we feel like going depending on the audience, the venue, the night. We’ve done a couple performances, and some become more melodic and serene, and sometimes we push it, and it becomes more rhythmic and percussive. It’s been allowing us to tread new territory in how we play together, in hopes that might form the beginnings of a new record in the future.

SILY: Does playing a venue the size of Thalia Hall change your approach?

MSH: I don’t think so. We always let the vibe of the crowd affect our improvisational approach. If the crowd is more active and excited, we’ll push it and have there be a bit more energy and percussion. If it’s something where everyone seems to be a little more mellow and seems to be listening attentively, we might keep it on the gentler side.

SILY: What does being part of the International Anthem community mean to you?

JC: Oh man, they’re the best. [laughs] So much of it is their approach. A lot of the way we were connected through is that Marta was starting to collaborate with [their artists], like on Daniel’s record. As we were starting to form this one, [label co-founder] Scottie [McNiece] had heard parts of it and expressed some interest. We were so fortunate to have his support and guidance of the whole team, [recording engineer and warehouse manager] Dave Vettraino, [co-founder and recording engineer] David Allen, [marketing, communications, & events person] Alejandro Ayala. It’s interesting for us because that label, on the outside, wasn’t a self-described jazz label, but of course they’re putting out so much amazing material in that realm. For us, it’s a Chicago label, tethered to a community out of that city. We’ve spent a lot of time working in that city and felt that connection working with so many artists on the roster.

SILY: What’s next for the two of you?

MSH: We’re definitely starting to explore some sounds and territory that could be interesting in terms of writing more material for us. Jeremiah is finishing up a solo record as well.

JC: There are many different projects in various states needing to get finalized. Marta’s a session musician and performer always in the studio working on other people’s projects. There’s an ongoing flood of music we’re working on. We’re hoping to expand on the momentum and incredibly positive feedback we’ve received on this record. We’re just so fortunate to have the opportunity to do anything like this.

SILY: Anything you’ve been listening to, watching, or reading you’ve been into?

JC: Celia Hollander’s record last summer was incredible. We’ve been collaborating a lot with each other. Same with Sam Prekop, Patrick Shiroishi, Dustin Wong, Ben Babbitt, Walt McClements last records. A couple of those last records that came out on American Dreams are so beautiful and wonderful. We had the great fortune of playing a couple shows with Alabaster [dePlume], and seeing how that live stuff comes together is mind-blowing and incredible, how different it can be every time, but also how powerful it can be. Lea Bertucci has some great releases too. And you have to listen to the new Daniel [Villareal] record on International Anthem. Irreversible Entanglements, that record’s incredible, too.

#interviews #live picks #jeremiah chiu & marta sofia honer #marta sofia honer #hotel svala #international anthem #john mcentire #thalia hall #daniel villarreal #anteloper #jason nazary #scottie mcniece #david allen #alejandro ayala #celia hollander #patrick shiroishi #dustin wong #ben babbitt #walt mcclements #alabaster deplume #lea bertucci #Recordings from the Åland Islands #jeremiah chiu #terry riley #in c #constellation #constellation chicago #bitchin bajas #jannika reed #sage reed

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in March 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions - Penny Guisinger 🧡 Tempting Olivia - Clare Ashton 💛 Monilinia - Free Mints 💚 Guillaume - Aurora Dimitre 💙 The Marble Queen - Anna Kopp & Gabrielle Kari 💜 The Baker & the Bard - Fern Haught ❤️ Rainbow! - Sunny & Gloom 🧡 The Safe Zone - Amy Marsden 💛 The Weavers of Alamaxa - Hadeer Elsbai 💙 The No-Girlfriend Rule - Christen Randall 💜 A Different Kind of Brave by Lee Wind 🌈 Cirque du Slay - Rob Osler ❤️ Wizard’s Debt - Niranjan 🧡 One Last Breath - Ginny Myers Sain 💛 Nothing Special - Katie Cook 💚 I Feel Awful, Thanks - Lara Pickle 💙 The Tower - Flora Carr 💜 Be the Sea - Clara Ward ❤️ What Grows in the Dark - Jaq Evans 🧡 Heirs of Bone and Sea - Kay Adams 💛 The Haunting of Velkwood - Gwendolyn Kiste 💙 Thunder Song - Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 💜 Mona of the Manor - Armistead Maupin 🌈 Like Happiness - Ursula Villarreal-Moura

❤️ Ellipses - Vanessa Lawrence 🧡 Saint, Sorrow, Sinner - Freydís Moon 💛 Blood & Brujas - Mikayla D. Hornedo 💚 Infinity Kings - Adam Silvera 💙 Really Cute People - Markus Harwood-Jones 💜 How You Were Born - Kate Cayley ❤️ These Bodies Between Us - Sarah Van Name 🧡 Icarus - K. Ancrum 💛 The Emperor and the Endless Palace - Justinian Huang 💙 How Not to Date an Angel - Lana Kole 💜 Enemy Colours - R.M. Olson 🌈 Broken Parts Included - Alyson Root

❤️ Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler 🧡 The Duke’s Cowboy - Andrew Grey 💛 The Secret Something - Emily Wright 💚 Colstead & Andie - Olivia Janae 💙 Play It Again, Ma’am - Sienna Waters 💜 Love Is…? - K.J. Wrights ❤️ Welcome to Forever - Nathan Tavares 🧡 Just Another Epic Love Poem - Parisa Akhbari 💛 The Phoenix Bride - Natasha Siegel 💙 These Letters End in Tears - Musih Tedji Xaviere 💜 Truly Home - J.J. Hale 🌈 Monster Mixer - Robin Jo Margaret

❤️ The House of Hidden Meanings - RuPaul 🧡 Promised to the Queen - Barbara Winkes 💛 A Conclave of Crimson - Nicole Eigener & Beverley Lee 💚 A Hunt of Blood and Iron - Cara Nox 💙 The Fealty of Monsters - Ladz 💜 Ariel Crashes a Train - Olivia A. Cole ❤️ Those Beyond the Wall - Micaiah Johnson 🧡 Dancing Toward Stardust - Julia Underwood 💛 Heir to Dreams & Darkness - Ben Alderson 💙 Comet Cruise - Niska Morrow 💜 Dead Girls Walking - Sami Ellis 🌈 Blackout - Carlos E. Rivera

❤️ Monster Crush - Erin Ellie Franey 🧡 Blessed Water - Margot Douaihy 💛 These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart - Izzy Wasserstein 💚 Kiss of Seduction - Rawnie Sabor 💙 Sunbringer - Hannah Kaner 💜 Evacuation to Love - C.A. Popovich ❤️ Sin - Brooke Matthews 🧡 Falls from Grace - Ruby Landers 💛 Lean in to Love - Catherine Lane 💙 A Small Apocalypse - Laura Chow Reeve 💜 Cascade Failure - L.M. Sagas 🌈 The Mars House - Natasha Pulley

❤️ All This Time - Sage Donnell 🧡 The Romance Lovers Book Club - MA Binfield 💛 View from the Top - Morgan Adams 💚 Number Call - Nagisa Furuya 💙 Crossing Bridges - Chelsey Lynford 💜 The Boyfriend Subscription - Steven Salvatore ❤️ Love the World or Get Killed Trying - Alvina Chamberland 🧡 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💛 The Prince & His Stolen Groom - J.E. Ridge 💙 Chrysalis and Requiem - Quinton Li 💜 Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 🌈 A Botanical Daughter - Noah Medlock

❤️ Wednesday Nights - by Donna Jay 🧡 The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo 💛 Song of the Huntress - Lucy Holland 💚 Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash 💙 Spirits & Sunflowers - A.D. Armistead & Austin Daniel 💜 Floating Hotel - Grace Curtis ❤️ Far From Camelot - Rylee Hale 🧡 This Way to Change - Jezz Chung 💛 Mexican Bird - Luis Lopez-Maldonado 💙 Android Affection: Unveiling - Beau Van Dalen 💜 Welcome to the Damned - Astraea Long 🌈 She Came for Blood - Darva Green

❤️ Cover Story - Rachel Lacey 🧡 The Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste 💛 The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist - Sophie Gonzales 💚 In Walked Trouble - Dana Hawkins 💙 Never Leave, Never Lie - Thea Verdone 💜 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Priest ❤️ All the World Beside - Garrard Conley 🧡 Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles - Jessica Kingsley Publishers 💛 The Feast Makers - H.A. Clarke 💙 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💜 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny 🌈 A Hard Sell - Jennifer Moffatt

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Barça's Little Buddha - Champions Journal Issue 16

Sometimes it's not just what you say, but how you say it, and as Graham Hunter discovers, Barcelona wonder kid Pedri is as cool, calm and collected in conversation as he is on the pitch.

For everyone involved, the atmosphere of a TV interview at the training ground of a major football club is usually at the rarefied end of the scale. This one is with Pedro González López - better known as Pedri - so it's important that everything is spot on. In truth, the empty room we've been given is functional and dull - two things we don't want the interview to be. However, there's nothing dull about the activity taking place: there's a whirl of moving parts and participants, busy constructing the 'studio' where part of this interview will be filmed. It's an intricate, intense and necessarily efficient business. A cameraman, two cameras worth tens of thousands of pounds, a producer, spotlights, backdrops, microphones, three club press officers, an interviewer (me) and ... the player.

Pedri appears to be in the eye of this hurricane of activity, unruffled and unperturbed. It makes a great metaphor for how Pedri plays - what it looks like when rivals fret and flock around him, trying to shackle his elegant imposition of intelligence upon Europe's football fields. But, right now, accompanying that preternatural calm is a gently amused smile. It is neither sardonic nor condescending; rather, it is the smile of someone who is deeply self-assured. And importantly, it reaches his eyes.

"My first club in Tenerife, Tegueste, were big on values. They instilled in us the idea that we shouldn't get angry during matches or argue with the referee - there's no point. They also taught us to have fun. Now, these days I do get angry occasionally. That's normal. But the self-discipline to stay calm and to do better next time you're on the ball can make the difference."

Not to overdo the theme, but Pedri's self-possession also helped him govern the emotions of moving to the Camp Nou in 2020. Just over two and a half years before, he'd been on trial at Real Madrid's Valdebebas training ground, which was a miserable experience: it was snowy, training was disrupted and those in charge told him he wasn't yet at their level. So, turning up at Barcelona with the impression that he might be put under contract only to be immediately loaned out meant guarantees were in short supply.

"When my family and I arrived at our hotel, I made a deliberate effort to stay calm. I knew that, at any time, the club might tell me they weren't going to sign me."

He was 16, small and slight, joining a great club in great turmoil. At the time of signing, he had only started for Las Palmas, in the second division, three times. After completing his first full senior season with the Canary Islanders, the best option that staying put at Barcelona seemed to offer was joining Barça B. But that's not what happened.

"The day Ronald Koeman told me that I could stay with his first team, that I might get a few minutes, was a huge shock - I really didn't expect it. The surprise opportunity filled me with determination to keep training hard, to compete fiercely and to immediately try to grab as much playing time as possible."

From his Barcelona debut (September 2020 against Villarreal) until the end of that season, Pedri played 73 times for club and country. He scored his first Champions League goal at 17; at 18 he won Spain's Copa del Rey and was named in the EURO 2020 team of the tournament (he also won the Young Player award for good measure). And now, aged 20, he has won his first Liga title.

No offence to the great sides that Pedri has faced across Europe, but his most ferocious rival so far might still be his own grandmom. The González family run an eatery in Tenerife and, as a kid, Pedri, his brother and mates would move the tables and chairs to play 2v2 football. One time, a wayward shot smashed a glass lantern; Grandma González was so furious that she tried to burst the ball with a knife. You soon learn tight control after a fright like that. So, is Pedri's ability to be surrounded by four or five opponents but skip free with the ball innate, or was it learned in the family restaurant?

"It's a bit of both. I was able to do some things like that when I was younger, and it's down to the work with all the coaches. But certain things stick with you and often you do things naturally, without thinking."

Champions League defenders, you have been warned: the boy's a natural.

#such a beautifully written article #finally came around to writing it all down #pedri #pedri gonzalez #fc barcelona #fc barça #barça #*interview

[byneddiedingo]

Ellar Coltrane in Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)

Cast: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Lorelei Linklater, Libby Villari, Marco Perella, Brad Hawkins, Jamie Howard, Andrew Villarreal, Jenni Tooley, Richard Andrew Jones, Karen Jones, Bill Wise. Screenplay: Richard LInklater. Cinematography: Lee Daniel, Shane F. Kelly. Production design: Rodney Becker. Film editing: Sandra Adair. 

Academy voters had essentially two choices for best picture of 2014, not that there weren't six other nominees, two of them, The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) and Whiplash (Damien Chazelle), quite worthy of the honor. But Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu) and Boyhood were the front-runners, in large part because they took great risks. In addition to an often surreal approach to its subject matter, Birdman was filmed to give the illusion that most of it was one continuous take -- even though the narrative was not necessarily continuous. And Boyhood was filmed over the course of 12 years, as its protagonist, Mason (Ellar Coltrane), went from the age of 6 to 18 years old. Faced with two such groundbreaking but inimitable films, the Academy chose poorly: It went for the flashy technique of Birdman instead of the profoundly revealing story of the pressures a child faces in the process of growing up. But it's not just Mason's story, it's also that of his mother (Patricia Arquette), his sister (Lorelei Linklater), and his father (Ethan Hawke). Arquette deservedly won a supporting actress Oscar, but Hawke (who was nominated) also demonstrated the remarkable ability to adapt his persona over the extended filming time. The divorced parents face pressures, too: the mother the more immediate one of becoming a single parent and then making disastrously wrong choices as she remarries, the father the long-term one of remaining a presence in the lives of his children. He seems to have it easier than his ex-wife does, but every time Hawke re-appears in the film, he beautifully communicates the sense of having lost something precious. Like his son, he grows, shedding his fecklessness and irresponsibility, just as Mason learns to sift through the continuous barrage of advice from adults and find the wisdom to become his own person. I don't know of any film that so tenderly presents what the quotidian is like, without resorting to melodramatic crisis at its turning points. The only other films I can even compare it to are François Truffaut's The 400 Blows (1959) and Satyajit Ray's Aparajito (1956), which take place in harsher milieus than the Texas towns and cities in which Linklater sets Boyhood. But even though that world is milder and more familiar than the places in France and India where Truffaut and Ray set their films, Boyhood reveals how the world shapes us -- or as Linklater puts it at the end of his film, "the moment seizes us" -- as well as those films do. I think it's a treasure that belongs in their august company.

#Boyhood #Richard Linklater #Ellar Coltrane

[anthonyvillarreal]

Confession

My name is Manuel Anthony Villarreal, and I've got a confession to make:

This is a mostly complete of what I consider my masterpiece: from the years Jan/Feb 2019 - Aug 2020, I maliciously gaslit a married woman. I started by leading her to believe I was in the process of getting a divorce while simultaneously learning about her husband in order to attempt to mimic him. I even change my radio stations to music I think her husband is into.

I scope her out at work for a couple months making notes of Tshirts she wears (bands, movies, pop culture). Then she wears the perfect sweatshirt "Marine Corps" that's my in. I start it slow just friendly texting about giving her kid martial arts lessons, slowly chipping away at her confidence in her relationship.

I get a work training gig out of town where they book me a hotel room for a week. Boom! I tell her to come by and I can teach her some stuff, I mean she knows whats up, but not quite ready to screw over her husband for some guy she barely knows ya know. I'm able to do a kind of forced awkward kissing thing the first day, but she is definitely feeling moral conflict.

A couple days later, I get her back over, and know what needs to be done. I say "take off your clothes" once the door to the room closed and it was just us. This works because not only am I planting the idea of suggestion, but for a woman alone with a stranger in a hotel room she walked into voluntarily: what might he do if I don't.

Ill be honest it doesn't go great (the Viagra hadn't quite kicked in yet) I knew I really needed traumatic emotional impact at this point so then proceeded to (without her knowing!) let myself go inside of her. I do this in order to create confusion, and fear in my victims. She cried in the shower washing me out of her. That put a smile on my face.

Dude I even gave this girl Scabies I got from one of my other side pieces, and convinced her she got it from the gym.

I let her stew in fear for days before deciding I had broken her, and told her I was sterile (A lie obviously). But I made sure I went inside her every time after that, her soul died a little every time. I could’ve easily worn a condom, but it was so much fun watching her crumble. (Side note: she actually told him all these details that’s how insane close these nut jobs are) I mean can you imagine telling your spouse that.

Over the course of the next year I progressively subjected her to more aggressive and violent sexual acts until she was no longer much of a person at all. She literally repeatedly bled all over my apartment obviously without my wife’s knowledge(from fingers being so roughly used (never even used lube) that it was actually causing urinary tract damage, and after I finished with one hand I'd make her let me use the other - no matter how much pain she was in.)

Truth be told I found her to be pretty dang boring after I ruined her, so I started losing interest, but she well you know was kind of invested at this point. I had been giving her Adderall (provided by the Veterans Affairs Office for my "ADHD" lol) - they call them happy pills for a reason folks. Very powerful at creating strong emotional attachments with little effort. It's shockingly easily directed most people can with the slightest of tools.

I broke her so completely she betrayed her husband to me in every way: body, mind, soul. She sent me videos, messages, and photos.

I either thought:

1. he was either such a dumbass he didn’t realize his slut wife was cheating when she coming home wasted 3 nights a week with no explanation.

2. He knew she was a POS bimbo, and would be glad to be rid of her.

Turned out there was a third option I didn’t consider:

3. He had genuinely been her closest friend, not the bullshit people just say, since he was 15 years old. He actually fucking respected this cheating slut. He saw her as an actual person. He must be the dumbest person alive.

At this point I feel like I should mention we both served in the Marine Corps (her husband and myself) I used that as my way in; A way for her to immediately feel comfortable. “Semper Fi” my butt lol. I mean turns out he’s not completely dumb: he literally calls out my playbook: Narcissistic Affair- he shows her how I initially mirrored her(changed my radio stations to stuff she’d like, studied pop culture shirts she wore, etc.), the the love-bombing, devaluing and so on. MFs got me cold. Fortunately, he underestimated how powerful breaking someone down can be:)

I felt bad for him figured I’d show him how wrong he was. For the next 5 months I had HIS wife chasing me! Every time he caught a message or a phone log I thought this is it: He’s cutting her loose, this MF, you know what he does he doubles gives her a fourth chance at this point, so now I’ve had it.

I set this DB up when she’s drunk texting on their anniversary knowing she’s too messed up to get it or delete it making sure he’ll see it. He does. He loses it; lays hands on her. I make her send photos of it to me. The ultimate betrayal. This dude still hanging saying if she needs to press charges then he’ll accept them no contest.

No contest!!!! I’m like bro you should have killed this girl by now; I’m trying to show you! You got 2 kids. You at home watching the young one, and this hoe out here getting boned in parking lots, and public beaches for what. Anyway I make her get him under control because he starts showing up everywhere: my house, my work, my wife’s work, even where I take other girls. I figure we let things cool down for awhile and we keep the side action on the DL.

She Rick-rolled me. I don’t know if she did it on purpose, or what. But she told him the exact dates of a meetup at a place paid for by work. He was able to get corporate to cut ties with me, so I ended up stringing her along for awhile longer, but ended up cutting it to avoid that psycho.

Listen, I ruined this chicks sense of self, her marriage, I mean I ruined her life even got secretly recorded video, photos, audio that I can use against her if they ever try me.

He’s tried to get at me a couple times, but I just make my daughter, brother, or ex-wife threaten him with legal harassment lol. Can you imagine how pissed that makes him … I literally destroyed his life for no other reason that it was entertaining to me, and now I’m threatening legal action.

IMO it’s on him for trying to rehabilitate that hoe. Wasted both our time. Just thought I throw this out there to the boys ya know. I mean I’m in the right here, right?

I know some on you will find this story shocking, or disturbing, but please take time to consider the skill and artistry it takes to not only manipulate someone into forsaking their morals and values, but I also made sure she was complicit in essentially destroying decades worth of lives lived and loved. For absolutely nothing. That is called the prestige.

Either way as a wise man or was it a foolish man who thought himself wise either way: “The truth shall set you free.”

#Cheating

#brosbeforehoes

#cuck #badbunny #loves#usmcveteran#SemperFidelis

#affair #crazy #evil #bad people

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Virginia Maestro.. Estos son OSCAR "SANTOS" y "BELEN" NAVARRO.. que te van hacer el 16 dic. de TELONEROS unas 7 horas antes en el señalado BUHO REAL x el q se poso en la VIRGEN de la ROCA de BIARRITZ cuando me subi a su promontorio.. el dia de mi año 52 (28-11-23) viniendo de SAN JUAN DE LUZ aunque amaneci en hotel ZENIT CONVENTO SAN MARTIN de SAN SEBASTIAN..

.. Al dia siguiente el VILLARREAL (donde te vi) en el BERNABEU

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Promueven el turismo de Nuevo Laredo en el evento internacional de Ciudades Hermanas

La alcaldesa Carmen Lilia Canturosas indicó que en el festival se instaló un módulo de información turística para dar a conocer las ventajas que ofrece Nuevo Laredo así como su infraestructura turística como hoteles, restaurantes, hospitales, entre otros.

NUEVO LAREDO, TAM.- Durante tres días, artesanos neolaredenses que se dedican a la fabricación de herrería, piñatas, yeso y vidrio soplado, participaron en el festival “Ciudades Hermanas” que se llevó a cabo en Laredo, Texas. La alcaldesa Carmen Lilia Canturosas Villarreal indicó que en el festival se instaló un módulo de información turística para dar a conocer las ventajas que ofrece Nuevo…

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La verdad es q esta camiseta aunque me parece muy revelador xq es de Juan ROMAN Riquelme q jugo 13 años en BOCA pues regreso tras su paso x FC BARCELONA y sus 4 años [=IVan_nus en latin] en VILLARREAL [donde vi a VIRGINIA MAESTRO animado xq esa semana supe de la existencia de la modelo y presentadora ARGENTINA SOL_EDAD VILLARREAL nacida en LAS PAREJAS, SANTA FE como VALDANO el verdugo de REAL MADRID al hacerle perder 2 ligas consecutivas en ultimo partido en SANTA CRUZ de TENER_i_FE tras sustituir como entrenador a Jorge SOLARI cuya SOBRINA "LIZ" mató FOLLANDO al hermano de la mujer de WALTER SAMUEL..y empezando VIRGINIA MAESTRO con LONELINESS=SOL_EDAD]..y la cual compre cuando les vi jugar contra INDEPENDIENTE [suman 13 LIBERTADORES o los 2 equipos q más la ganaron con 6 y 7 respectivamente] para luego salir x la noche y encontrarme la valla con el anuncio de TOKYO HOTEL x su gira PARAISO MELANCOLICO y cuyo mayor éxito es la reveladora MONSOON [MONZON] para luego en una disco fotografiar a un tipo con la camiseta de WEST del partido ALL STAR con el 24 de KOBE BRYANT q se mató el día anterior [en LAS VIRGENES, CALABASSAS] q fui al Estadio de VELEZ conocido como FORTIN=apellido de la madre de MADONNA [MADONNA FORTIN=VIRGEN INEXPUGNABLE] en avda JUAN BAUTISTA JUSTO..no me deja CLARO cuál será mi ROMANCE ETERNO ..pues una cosa es la VIRGEN o DEVOCION RELIGIOSA O CREENCIA..Y OTRA DEVOCION SEXUAL jaja

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New photos of Richard attends the "La Piel Del Tambor" photocall at the Villarreal Hotel in Madrid, Spain. (October 17, 2022)

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SPEKTAKL, PA DEBAKL - kaotični turnir u Austriji

Vienna Euro Trophy naziv je velikog nogometnog turnira koji je u austrijskom St. Pöltenu okupio nadarene mlade nogometaše iz cijele Europe. Među renomiranim klubovima (Juventus, Fulham, Atletico Madrid, Villarreal, Norwich…) našla se i Cibalia i to s tri godišta (2012., 2013. i 2014.). No, spektakl se pretvorio u – debakl! – Sinoćnje otvorenje je bilo stvarno spektakularno. I baš ništa nije dalo za naslutiti da će nastupiti nikad viđena kalvarija – s mjesta događaja informirao je Ivan Ratkić, uz Ivana Miličevića i Mladena Bartolovića jedan od trojice klupskih trenera koji su na ovaj turnir poveli 35-oricu nadarenih nebeskoplavih talenata. No… – Jutros smo krenuli iz hotela na igralište, no po dolasku nas je dočekao promijenjeni raspored prema kojem je naša prva utakmica kasnila sat i pol vremena. Nastala je, naime, pobuna u sudačkim redovima kojima organizatori nisu ispoštovali dogovoreno. Nakon natezanja nastavilo se igrati, pa je uslijedio još jedan sudački štrajk nakon kojega je sve krahiralo. I…? – Razgovarali smo s organizatorima koji su u jednom trenutku nestali, izgubio im se svaki trag. Nastala je totalna konfuzija, što da vam kažem, preko 200 ekipa je ovdje. Na kraju smo se mi treneri organizirali, odigrali smo neke utakmice, onako potpuno neslužbeno, bez sudaca. U to je počela i kiša, pa smo se pokupili u hotel. Organizatorima ni traga ni glasa, uz napomenu da je kotizacija po djetetu koštala 200 eura! – Naša kontakt osoba uvjerava nas da će nam novac biti vraćen. Što dalje? – Ništa, večera pa spavanje. Sutra je planiran povratak kući. Pokušavamo organizirati nekakav izlet do Beča, da djeci baš ne propadne vikend, pa nakon ručka polako prema Vinkovcima. Sve u svemu… – Ovo nisam nikad u životu doživio – zaključio je Ratkić. Izvor : Vinkulja.hr Read the full article

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Cadena hotelera de lujo llega a Tamaulipas

#ElPuntoEs llega a #Tamaulipas cadena hotelera de lujo con una inversión de 25 millones de dólares en #Tampico

Llega a Tamaulipas cadena hotelera de lujo con una inversión de 25 millones de dólares en Tampico Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. – El primer hotel Marriott llega a Tamaulipas, una cadena hotelera de lujo que invertirá 25 millones de dólares en Tampico. Directivos del Grupo Sooper Nova, encabezados por el arquitecto José Serur, se reunieron con el gobernador Américo Villarreal Anaya para presentar…

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#portada

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Barcelona to beat Villarreal

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Barça Travel For every Barca fan out there, to travel to Barcelona is a Must-do thing. However, most of the guides out there are concentrating on the city itself, and not the football. Although Barcelona is one of the best locations in the world for a trip, as a Barcelona fan there some things you need to do. This guide is here to spread the words for you Barca fans who reach the city, and for everyone else basically. You can find specific information on how to reach the Camp Nou, where to eat, where to party. Moreoner, in this guide we will also post recommendations in which hotels are best for you. Another important information on this section is the songs Barca fans sing in the stadium. It's important to get to the match with full knowledge. You don't want to be in a match and don't know that to sing with everybody, right? Not only for first Barca travel Did you already go to a Barca match? I think you will also find this guide useful. I with I could use it when I first went to Barcelona. Although Barcelona is a magnificent city to be in, first time travelers might go to "travellers traps". We're here to make sure you will get the best out of you stay in this amazing city. So, nothing to do now but read the different articles and catch a flight to Barcelona! Feel free to send us your recomendations after traveling to Barcelona, and we'll add the best here.

#FC Barcelona #Barca #Lionel Messi #Camp Nou #El Clasico #La Liga #Champions League

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Gobierno de Tamaulipas impulsará industria hotelera para aumentar turismo

Américo Villarreal se reúne con presidentes de Asociaciones de Hoteleros de Tamaulipas Con el propósito de fortalecer las acciones a favor del sector hotelero y del turismo en el estado, el gobernador Américo Villarreal Anaya, encabezó una reunión de trabajo con los presidentes de las Asociaciones de Hoteles y Moteles, de Reynosa, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo y Tampico. Acompañado del secretario de…

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..luego me encontré junto al antiguo HOTEL AUDITORIUM cuyo auditorio llamaron PRINCIPE FELIPE actual Hotel MARRIOT AUDIOTORIUM..el libro destrozado en Aleman "EL SONIDO ME QUITA LA VIDA"..después cruze el puente peatonal a la altura donde estaba el MEGA_PUTI CLUB SOCIAL BARAJAS al que me llevo Eduardo Sacristan Pérez o el Sobrino de FLORENTINO Perez que tomó la presidencia de REAL MADRID día que lo cerraron porque solo tenía licencia deportiva..y tenía además de canchas..bar, restaurant, discoteca, habitaciones, SPA, ..y las consabidas PUTAS del ESTE y LATINAS..y he aparecido por la parte trasera del EXPLOSIONADO restaurant EL DESCANSO que le traspaso un Yankee de la Base aérea de TORREJON al Padre del dueño del Gym EMBAJADA que lo traspaso a los que me echaron por un LIO DE FALDAS con 2 azafatas de AIR EUROPA pues monto la cadena de restaurantes RIBS donde en el de junto al CC ARTURO SORIA me cruze a MARIA [=VIRGEN] BARRANCO [=PRECIPICIO] que debuto en TU NOVIA ESTA LOCA y EL ELEGIDO divorciandose de IMANOL URIBE nacido en EL SALVADOR y que dirigió DIAS CONTADOS donde un TERRORISTA que se hace pasar por FOTOGRAFO enamora a una CASADA interpretada por Ruth GABRIEL [lo del arcángel de la anunciación se lo puso URIBE] que se deja fotografiar DESNUDA con el CHOCHO PELUDO que no PELADO y Fumando..por cierto..la BSO de TU NOVIA ESTA LOCA la puso SEMEN UP con una canción titulada igual o el grupo de Alberto Comesaña antes de formar AMISTADES PELIGROSAS lanzando cd LA ULTIMA TENTACION incluyendo GENESIS que es la primera canción que escuche en directo en VILLARREAL tras ver a VIRGINIA MAESTRO y Ana CURRA de PARALISIS PERMANENTE que solo lanzo cd EL ACTO=EL COITO

Después fotografie un avión de AEROMEXICO mientras hacia Territorial PISSING =canción del cd NEVERMIND de nIrVANa y por último me cruce con un camión de CORREOS [=TENED Orgasmos] cuya carrocería la hizo la empresa YAGÜE de LOGRo+cOÑO=LO QUE SE CONSIGUE CON LA VAGINA

Por cierto..antes del libro fotografie un CONEJO

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Participa Secretaría de Turismo en presentación de programa Héroes Paisanos •Coordinará esfuerzos con INM para facilitar paso y estadía de paisanos durante fiestas decembrinas STU-006-2022 Noviembre 05 del 2022 Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.-Al participar en la presentación del programa Héroes Paisanos, el secretario de Turismo Benjamín Hernández Rodríguez informó que la dependencia a su cargo facilitará el paso o estadía en los municipios de Tamaulipas de los paisanos, difundiendo información de hoteles, restaurantes, servicios en las fronteras y rutas de migrantes, con la distribución de flyers, difusión en redes sociales y entrega de material de información en puntos estratégicos. Asimismo, hizo la propuesta para incorporar al programa de los Ángeles Verdes, en las rutas por las que transitarán los paisanos y se les pueda brindar servicios en información turística, asistencia mecánica en carretera y primeros auxilios en caso de accidentes. El secretario de Turismo de Tamaulipas, por invitación del gobernador del estado Américo Villarreal Anaya, acudió a la presentación de Héroes Paisanos, un programa de coordinación interinstitucional, entre el gobierno federal, estatal y municipal en favor del trato digno y solidario con los mexicanos trabajadores que regresan de los Estados Unidos a México, en esta temporada decembrina. Hernández Rodríguez destacó la importancia de este programa, que tiene como objetivo, asegurar el respeto de los derechos de los mexicanos que residen en el extranjero y que regresan al país de forma temporal, mediante promoción turística y de servicios a los que pueden acceder, durante su ingreso, tránsito y estancia en México, así como su posterior retorno. El Programa Héroes Paisanos del INM fue presentado al gobernador Tamaulipas Américo Villarreal, por Ruth Villanueva Castilleja, Directora General de Protección al Migrante en una reunión de trabajo efectuada en Palacio de Gobierno. “Tamaulipas juega un papel muy importante en proteger a los paisanos que cruzan el país; gracias al gobernador Américo Villarreal se trabajará para recobrar la confianza que geográficamente tiene el estado, al ser el más cercano al centro del país, https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckn6xDXLM9l/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=