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Year: 2017
Director(s): Sofia Coppola
Writer(s): Thomas Cullinan, Sofia Coppola
Region of Origin: US
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Rating: R
35mm, Color, 93 mins
Synopsis: During the Civil War, young sheltered women take in a wounded Union soldier at an all-girls school in Virginia. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tension, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events. (Source)
It wouldn't seem like it at first glance, but The Beguiled finds Sofia Coppola coming full circle. Taking what she originally explored in The Virgin Suicides, Coppola has created an inverse, spiritual sequel, pushing wartime malaise, societal pressure and repression to the fore and turning it on its head. The result is a story we've seen countless times before, but turned almost unrecognizable due to its rarely-seen female perspective. Coppola is clearly having fun with the material, but while there is some dark humor underneath the razor's edge, the affair is also an unbelievably terrifying one, sizzling with tension and precision. Anchoring Coppola's keen direction is a powerful ensemble that's irresistible from top to bottom, be it Nicole Kidman's uneasy stoicism or Colin Farrell's wicked charm. Despite the lack of ghouls or creatures, this may be one of the year's greatest horror films, one that strikes a deep nerve to confront the tenuous relationship between necessity and burning desire.
The film opens with a jolt, as wounded Union soldier Corporal McBurney (Colin Farrell) is discovered by Amy (Oona Laurence) the youngest of an all-girls boarding school. As it's the Christian thing to do, Amy brings McBurney to the school for aid, where head mistress Miss Martha (Nicole Kidman), fellow teacher Edwina (Kirsten Dunst) and a few others have taken up shelter midway into the Civil War. Martha and the girls are openly disconcerted by the interloper, but for reasons of their own, collectively decide to allow him a place to heal. McBurney's stay ends up surprising both him and his company, as his disarming persona begins to attract the diverse set of women for different reasons. It doesn't take long before a sly cat-and-mouse game forms, one in which McBurney and his newfound caretakers find themselves in over their heads.
Coppola's intentions are telegraphed right from the start, in which the school's youngest, Amy, hums a delicate tune while picking mushrooms amidst distant cannon fire. Presented through a hazy patina of uncertainty and Philippe Le Sourd's atmospheric photography, Coppola sets the stage for what ultimately becomes a haunting juxtaposition between innocence, chaos and primal urge. Diving into things almost immediately, Coppola keeps tensions fraught throughout, systematically delineating her characters, their wants, dreams and affections before breaking them down, driving each person to the edge. Through this, Coppola creates a fascinating microcosm of femininity left to its own devices, thrown for a loop with the introduction of new possibilities and experiences. Despite the film's myriad of ideas and themes, Coppola focus is the idea that none of her complex characters can be reduced to one, simple trait. As each character learns more about themselves and an outside world they can't fathom, Coppola slowly tightens the noose until things dovetail into an almost unbearable final act, never holding back on graphic repercussions ranging from the physical, psychological or even emotional.
The ensemble is irresistible. As the school's matriarch, Nicole Kidman is haunting, leading things with damning restraint and and a coldness that reveals frailty. Kidman is at her best, keeping things ambiguous, but also relatable while constantly transforming with each unpredictable situation. Next up, Kirsten Dunst's Edwina brings to life a character whose repressed desires court tragedy and complicated choices. Dunst plays the character with utmost sincerity, making her journey that much more devastating. Elle Fanning's Alicia plays the flirt, with the actor offering a more textured and weightier variation on a theme. Her exploits feel like more than salacious frivolity but rather a genuine search for connection and an attempt to push her boundaries. As the only male in the film, Colin Farrell is a real force to be reckoned with. In tandem with Coppola's female gaze, Farrell comes alive, making McBurney someone we're simultaneously attracted to and appalled by. Not to be outdone, Addison Riecke, Emma Howard and Angourie Rice all depth to each scene, even in more limited roles.
There's a lot going on in The Beguiled, and just like its characters, it would be unfair to reduce the film to just a few of its intricately rendered facets. The bottom line, however, is that Coppola has crafted a masterclass of tension and terror, dissecting female gaze, societal perception and haunting repercussion with dread and moody angst. This is a film that's as playfully wicked as it is deathly horrifying, and there isn't a single frame that feels out of place.


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I know I'm a little slow on this post - like two weeks - but I need to write it so I can write the post I really want to write.
My wife and I had an enjoyable, but cold, row on New Year's Day. It was another drift down the Yaquina River. This time my wife didn't have to work so she was able to occupy the princess seat. In stead of a full codgery of Coots, only one other vessel accompanied us: Doryman and his wife, Mary, rowed their beautiful Culler skiff Paku.
Mary and my wife have many similar interests (yarn, knitting, violins and other stuff). Doryman and I often get together to "play boats" with his fleet of small craft. The Doryman has only about seven boats at the moment, but that number can and does change with alarming frequency. All his boats are made of wood and have either been extensively restored or built from scratch by Doryman. Some are even his own designs. If that weren't enough, he is also the current international president of the Traditional Small Craft Association.
In all, an interesting couple. Needless to say, we did a lot more talking than rowing. That was OK, however, because Doryman planned the outing so the ebb tide and the river's current gave us a two-knot, or better, push down the river. How could an outing like this get any better? Food and even more conversation, which is how we ended the day in a great little BBQ restaurant in Toledo. Thanks Mary and Doryman!


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First of all thanks to all of the posters who have shared their tips on the "must visit" restaurants in town. Lots of opinions - some consensus. Makes it fun to follow. As I have benefited from the recommendations and opinions here in planning my tour, I wanted to add my trip report as a thank you to all.
Arrived last Friday midafternoon, starving, (we didn't eat on purpose) and with our hotel room in the FQ not quite ready. No problem - off to Coop's. Lucky, no waiting, beer is flowing and I opened with the Seafood Gumbo and then had the Taste Plate - a little bit of everything. My gastromically impressionable Sweetie tried the Shrimp Creole. As has been reported here, this place is a little gem. Best dive in the FQ? Maybe, but a great start to our Chowhound pilgrimage! Checked off the list.
Full, tired, and happy head back to the hotel and waited to eat the next day. Had a late night stroll in the FQ and stopped by Napoleon House for a Pimm's Cup.
Off to my conference so a quick stop at CDM. Early morning, quiet, coffee fix and of course, beignets. Spent the day at the conference and had lunch there. Typical buffet - merely sustenance - saving myself for Brigsten's! Made the reservation seven weeks ago. Sweetie dressed up and looked smokin' great! Off in a cab and greeted warmly at the door. Waited in the hall with a glass of wine for a few minutes until our table was ready. Frank came by, said hello, and chatted for a bit.
Usually when a place is so seemingly unanimously praised, one wonders if it is hype. No hype here. Our meal was fabulous. I had the seafood platter and Sweetie had the duck. She'd never ordered it before anywhere but took a chance - that's my baby - and loved it! For dessert had my first creme brulee of the trip. Creamy and sweet. Sweetie had the banana bread pudding. Both outstanding!!
Sunday was another day at the conference - no chance for a traditional Sunday brunch! Met up with a colleague who made the decision for dinner. Ended up at the French Bistro on Toulouse(?) north of Bourbon. Not bad, not great - but the opportunity cost was significant as it was one less meal I had on my Chowhound trek. Took one for the team.
Monday at the conference but skipped out for lunch at Napoleon House. Sat outside and had a great seafood gumbo with the red beans and rice. Simple but delicious. Been there before on other trips (pre-Chowhound). Wait staff have character and I like the atmosphere. Sweetie had her first muff and loved it! Toasted is better!!
Monday night was the Gumbo Shop. A bit of a wait. Busy room. I opened with the Seafood Gumbo, of course and then had the sample plate with red beans and rice, jambalaya, and shrimp creole. Was OK but not fabulous. Sweetie had Shrimp Creole again and liked it, although preferred the one at Coops.
Tuesday - things getting desperate - last day to have dinner in town. Made a reservation at the Pelican Club. Had passed by numerous times walking about the FQ. Liked the room. We left for the short walk to PC - Sweetie looked great again - dress up night!
Some folks have found the service a little false/insincere, but we didn't have that problem. Ordered a bottle of wine - what a HUGE wine list they have! I ordered the Lousiana Gumbo as an opener. It was good but Napoleon's & Coops were better. Had the Duck Trio - duck in BBQ with sauce, a duck confit which I believe is cooked in a fat bath, and sauteed duck. Each was a little different. Sweetie tried my duck and especially liked the BBQ type. Sadly, there were only a few morsels of that one on the plate. A little disappointing. Sweetie opened with tomato and mozzarella appetizer which she loved. Her entree was the jambalaya which she enjoyed but couldn't finish as it was a very generous portion. I did my duty and cleaned it up. Very nice - large pieces of sausage, chicken and huge shrimp with crawfish also tossed in. Never seen pieces this large in jambalaya dishes I have had.
Creme brule #2 of the visit followed. Delicious although as I am a big fan of it, I may be less discriminating in this area.
Last day - visit to CMD - the morning at the conference and meet Sweetie at Napoleon House for a last lunch. Shared a muff and had a couple of beers. So sad, so long Chowhounds. Keep it flowin' -your comments make a difference and help other 'Hounds make their way!


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A Heart Should Play in Tune
Paul's hospital room reminds Andre of his son's elementary school. The nurses regard him from across Paul's gurney as if it were a parent-teacher conference. His ex-wife Kathy had made sure that Paul attended St. Luke Elementary, four blocks away from Olde Kensington, where they had all once lived together. Andre had objected because Father Andrew was an inept music instructor.
At least the nurses are not severe like the nuns, wielding yardsticks over their domain; he couldn't have handled that. On his way to the lavatory, he passes under streamers of butterfly cut-outs and frogs on lily pads with nurses' caps. All that is missing is the stale must of chalk and shrill bell ringing for recess.
Paul's heart emits a perfect A-four-forty, balanced in time like a truck backing up. Andre has gone to the bathroom to throw away a soiled strip of gauze that had been between Paul's head and the starched pillow it rests on. It has a pinkish stain, mixed with pure red splotches of his son's blood and brown crumbs of scabbing. Andre continues stepping down on the can's pedal even after he finishes, as if it were a dampening pedal on a grand piano. He lets the concert hall in his head fill with glistening tones. Andre manages to create peace, and holds it desperately as he reenters the pedal point of his son's heart ticking away in the next room. His ear listens closely for any change in rhythm or pitch. It's dead-on: four hundred and forty vibrations a second at an adagio seventy-two beats per minute. A heart should play in tune.
Paul is such a smart boy, for five. On the first night, Andre sat with him by the hospital room's bay window looking out over Philadelphia where it had begun snowing. The mirrored windows of the skyscrapers reflected the streetlamps, dozens burning timidly, like altar candles. Paul had had a headache since September. They had thought it was just the change in routine of attending kindergarten, and that once his hyperactive mind settled in to the process of grade school, he would stop wincing while he played with his big red fire truck in the brown threadbare recliner. Throughout October, Paul complained about his eyes hurting. They took him to see a local optometrist. At their morning appointment, a swollen optic nerve had made the doctor suspicious; an MRI confirmed in black and white that nothing could be certain ever again. That afternoon, he and Kathy had rushed Paul to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia emergency room. He had already made the call, and the Oncology Ward was awaiting their arrival. Andre was just explaining to Paul how they had come to be at the hospital, what things like "tumor" and "malignant" meant, and why this would be a new home for a while. Kathy was in the bathroom. Andre noticed that his son was staring past his words at the snowfall.
"It's like we're falling up," Paul said in awe, completely absorbed by the atmosphere beyond the large pane of glass. "See it, Daddy?" Andre took a second to turn his mind from the images of neurons and needles, the surgery the next morning, to stare outward with his son. Kathy opened the lavatory door behind them. Lowering his head, Andre was about to get back to informing his son about cancer when he felt the vertigo of looking down their thirty-story view. Somewhere in the hospital a child was groaning like an old man. Blue-suited nurses scrambled. Against the gravity of snowflakes, the physics of Andre's world inverted and shot him silently into space.
Andre had avoided explaining what divorce meant about love. He wasn't sure how Kathy had explained last year to Paul. Andre had said his marriage to Kathy was "on vacation," as if their lives would naturally blossom again after the warm weather had absorbed into the leaves and fallen to the ground. The genuineness of their morning smiles was chipped away by the time winter swept in across the Delaware Valley in early November. The thrill of parenthood fractured, and there was once more a duality to their relationship, as if they had returned to the volatile courtship from their first years of college. Paul had become a responsibility, a name attached to his daycare in Olde Kensington, a sports club at the Northern Liberties' Community Center, and a music camp at the same place. He was listed on the refrigerator with laundry, reminders about utilities bills, the vegetables needed for dinner. Paul was schlepped the distance of the no-man's-land between them with the heaviness of guilt and exchanged like accusations of who-wronged-whom. The emotional desperation of their predicament had returned them to the bipolar state of an adolescent couple, each pleasantry passed over stale morning-after coffee offering a glimpse of Promised Land out of the turbulent sea, while every dissenting squall sank the entire armada. After they made love, they attended the funeral of their drowned selves alone in the black corners of their room.
Paul suffered the most, attempting to correct his assumed wrongs with petitions of friendship: a construction-paper heart depicting Kathy lifting their home on her shoulders, an extra energetic dig into Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier, which Andre had started teaching from at the cheap upright piano on Saturday afternoons. Paul was not eased, as Andre and Kathy descended from each tier of happiness with a renewed complacency. Paul offered them a point of reference through the directionless blind, a lighthouse that gave them guidance to land but, like a siren, attracted them to the rocks of its foundation. Kathy would take Paul to Love Park while Andre waited angrily to give him his daily voice lesson. Andre would take Paul early on Sunday mornings to sit in on his folk string quartet practice, while his wife ironed overalls that would have been worn to church by the boy not in the next room. They would once and again break upon the jagged edges of the life they had constructed for their son. Some Sundays Andre would return with Paul in the afternoon to find his clothes waiting, pressed and eagerly perched on the scratchy wicker of his mother-in-law's rocking chair, the iron curiously hot.
The surgery failed. Paul had had two masses in his brain. After the operation he only had one. The first and largest was floating in a sack of pus in the center of Paul's cerebellum; it came out minutes after Dr. Juneval trepanned the skull with a miniature drill. The smaller tumor was more deeply entrenched, toward the brain stem where it was bound to his facial and acoustic nerves. A Nerve Specialist was called in to watch the operation. The extra tutelage and repute made no difference. A micrometer of movement did the trick; no one could determine if it was the doctor or Paul who had twitched and caused the severing of those delicate, high-traffic wires. They pulled out immediately, losing a piece of the tumor down the spinal canal.
Paul woke inside a duplex of sensuality and deadness. The right side of his face was crumpled as if a landslide had initiated from his halo of gauze and been diverted by his nose, the skin succumbing to gravity like that of an infirm centenarian. There was room for only one parent on his left side, where the intravenous drips hung like barren chrysali. Andre and Kathy competed for their son's bright eye and warm flesh, banishing the other to Paul's dead half. His toy fire truck sat on the gurney next to him unnoticed. The first day after surgery, when shock set in, they gingerly touched him the way a trapped tenant taps his apartment doorknob to heed warning of the inferno on the other side.
Trapped in such a room, it is burn alive or jump from the smoking window. Their son is the smoldering door, and a fire truck full of morphine will not stop his screaming.
Andre loves to teach music. Philip Kearny Elementary in Olde Kensington is a few blocks from his brownstone sliver of house, with air-conditioning units poking out from one room on each of the three floors, and a one-way stoop licking the tar-marked side-walk. He teaches music for the entire school: around 600 students from kindergarten to sixth grade. Pictures of great classical composers like Bach, Haydn, and Mozart, and jazz musicians like Gershwin, Mingus, and Miles Davis encircle the room, and loudly colored bulletin boards offer graffiti-like depictions of solfeggio syllables. Amplifiers and cheap electric guitars sit in the corner, waiting for the usual oddly-dressed children who attend Rock'n'Roll club after school. A giant carpet-piano attached to an electronic staff sheet flashes the notes children play with their feet. Paul liked to play on it when Andre worked late and Kathy could not take him home. Andre has since rolled up the keyboard into the corner, so as not to be distracted from his lessons by the familiar music of his son's dancing.
With Andre's dynamic voice and quick transitions, eight times a day the large chorus room that serves as his daytime classroom becomes a 90-minute universe, in which music's elements create sonority in young minds, in which creative potential is tapped. He encourages his students to get songs stuck in their head, to sing phone numbers by solfeggio, to take up an instrument and play along to their stereo without written music. The children's holiday concerts are attended by more of the community than just parents.
On the last day of class before Christmas break, some of the fifth- and sixth-graders pooled their change and bought him a can of holiday toffees, which he placed next to his bed on the oil heater for weeks before he realized that the contents had melted. Perhaps divorce would have been more difficult if Kathy hadn't been a teacher or had been at a different school, but they were separate in their conferences, lesson planning, and lunch breaks from the beginning, so that togetherness was an easy thing to drop from the process. The rhythms of their lives were swinging on opposite beats, while Paul waited in the middle, his keen ear listening for a lead-in.
There was another boy, a young patient Andre saw at the hospital many times during the first week. It was usually in the elevator, when he was going to the lobby to get lunch from the cafeteria or adjacent McDonald's. Andre frequently had to block out the kitsch sounds of smooth jazz coming from the weak sound system networked through the medical labyrinth. The child was always unaccompanied, rolling his own wheelchair through the opening doors of the elevator. He was bone-thin and, under the fluorescents, looked as though he had procured his skin from the lamination machine Andre used for craft preparation at school. He could have been a creature from the dark reaches of the ocean. A bag was cupped around his mouth, held on by a string wrapped around his head. Andre understood that the boy breathed through the nose, but it was odd not to see the bag moving in and out.
One day, as he rode the elevator back up to the Oncology Ward to bring Paul and Kathy some sandwiches, the small, pale boy started to heave violently, so that his backend bucked out of the chair. Andre, afraid to touch him, stared deliberately at the vibrant mural of running children on the back of the elevator. The child made a sound like a cat coughing up a fur ball. When the boy righted himself, brown chunks and rich yellow mucus had collected in the bag. Andre was instantly sick, vomiting into a corner while he held the bags of food behind him. He wiped his mouth and nose with one of the napkins he had stored in his pocket.
"Take it easy, man," the boy said sarcastically in a much older a tone than Andre was expecting. He wheeled out onto his selected floor where an orderly was waiting.
She looked in at the mess Andre had made and chided the boy: "Matthew! I told you to keep that bag on always!" She turned to Andre and asked if he would find another elevator so this one could be cleaned. Andre nodded and closed his eyes, his breathing grave and bilious. From the low-amp speaker overhead, Kenny G moaned on his soprano a few cents sharp, and Andre felt fear enter him. His fingers were off the piano keys, but the hammers were pounding incoherently on their own power. He opened his eyes on the elevator, transfixed by the running children made of glass.
Dr. Juneval warned that Paul needed to rest since he would be getting MRIs that day, which are exhausting enough, head trauma aside. He told Andre and Kathy to go home. The surgeons would be reentering the brain on Sunday. So they left their son in the hospital's care and went back to their homes, to their teaching lives.
Kathy taught general elementary education, although her focus in college was exclusively English. She had always confounded Andre with her love for Russian literature, how she could spend hours with Dostoevsky or Nabokov, Gogol or Chekov, and then keep him awake with dissertational statements about Marxist themes or Eastern Orthodox parody. Kathy had noticed her husband's reticence and started analyzing him for literary taste. Slowly, they had begun to complement one another's interests. During the few weekday evenings when they had finished their lesson preparation before bedtime, they would sit in the upstairs office on cheap embroidered pillows. Kathy would read to Andre from The Canterbury Tales, or any selection of Shakespeare, her head resting on the nape of his neck. Listening to Kathy's lilting meter, he would play full-handed Rachmaninoff chords and runs across her thighs, her belly.
Kathy moved back in on a Saturday. Andre had been engrossed in cutting colorful music notes from a large sheet of plastic lamination when he heard footsteps on the concrete stoop and a key turn. As he came down the stairs, he recognized her sand-colored hair through the semicircle window above the front door.
"It just makes the most sense," were her only words as she wheeled her suitcase past him to claim his upstairs office as her living space. That night, with his door closed, he sat at the upright piano in his room where he and Paul had their lessons, playing with more anger and sadness than he had ever mustered. His fingers were sloppy with emotion, sloppy like his pulse as it skipped in panic when a beeping alarm clock or microwave reminded him of Paul's heart monitor. He crushed the small, ugly piano, punished it with callused fingertips and cracked nails. He did not reserve enough calm to evenly resolve the Prelude of Rachmaninoff's Opus 3 in C-minor. The final, explosive chords depicted a blind man flopping in the mud. Sweating and red in the face, he got up from the piano to lie down. Across his small sleeping space, he saw that his door was opened a few inches. He crossed the room and shut it, then collapsed onto his bed.
Andre lay staring at the molding around the base of his ceiling fan, painted over so many times that the petals in the design resorbed one another. Enough hours had passed that it was now dark. On this dark eve, the glass children came and danced before Andre. Light lanced over him. Kathy came to the bed and sat on the far edge, then slid onto her back, weightless . Her eyes were closed, but too tightly for sleep.
"I don't want to be touched. I just want to lie here," she said, her voice like glass breaking.
They are an odd species of counterpoint: two people in contrary motion, at imperfect consonances, given harmony by the boy between them. Tomorrow, Paul will live or die by another's hands, but Andre and Kathy will be forever haunted by his present melody, by the sound of how differently they love their son. But tonight, a grand pause. Kathy tells Andre that all will be well. A spotlight shines down on him. Andre rises to play his part, taking an A from his son's perfectly in-tune heart.


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I was going through some of my notes from the Cape Town conference yesterday, and came across a series of comments I had written during a paper on Choral music that focused on two performances of Ladysmith Black Mambazo's "Homeless". The performances selected were from a 46664 concert, in Cape Town, and a performance the group did with the London Philharmonic. The presenter had used spectrographic analysis to determine that there was a variation in the size of the sung 4th between the two performances, and had concluded that the reason for this was that the latter-mentioned performance had been put through some sort of pitch-altering device. For anyone unfamiliar with the music, "Homeless" is usually performed acapella, and is in the isicathamiya choral style made so famous by LBM. The first of the performances mentioned above is acapella, while the second, obviously, is with orchestral accompaniment. The presenter of the paper assumed that the 4th, which was "in tune" with the orchestra was digitally altered in order to make it so, because in the other recording, the 4th was wider. My comment in my notes was "Couldn't the singers have made the adjustments themselves, by ear?!?
These are highly competent, experienced performers we are speaking about, with experience singing both with, and without accompaniment. The fact that they may choose to sing a wider fourth when performing acapella does not mean that they have to make the same choice every time, or even, as the presenter seemed to suggest, that they are only capable of singing a wider fourth. If they felt that the wider fourth did not suit the circumstances, I'm sure they would have (consciously or instinctively) made whatever changes they believed were necessary.
Later that same day, I had a conversation with a student from another university who was seeking an explanation for the "different sound" between black and white choirs in Grahamstown. His amazement when I suggested that it may be nothing more than habit would have been comical, had it not frustrated me so.
So much time and energy is spent on trying to understand and explain differences between black and white choirs, aesthetically and physiologically, and I can't understand how educated, intelligent people can still think that the difference has some fundamentally racial basis. I have a personal theory that I intend to investigate at some future juncture, that the language we hear in infancy, and the earliest languages that we learn to speak, may alter our physiology enough that they may affect the sound of our voices. The result, I think, is something along the lines of developing strength in muscles you use frequently, and loosing strength in those you use rarely. If you fain a limp for long enough, for example, you will eventually develop a real one. But essentially, it all boils down to habit. We sing by immitating what we hear. You can experience the effect of this by holding choral auditions. the voices you are likely to encounter will probably be of several types, and will fit with voice types you will encounter in other environments. Sure, it may be predominantly black females who have a particular type of gospel voice, white males who have a particular "Anglican Church" type, or whatever, but the reason for this is that the black women listen to, and hence immitate, that particular gospel style, mostly, while the white men sing most often in church. Habit, pure and simple. If you persevere long enough, you can get even the most unwilling singer to alter their sound for the purpose of a particular performance, or number. It really is all about will. And that doesn't mean that anything other than time and perseverance will turn your top lyric soprano into a belting contralto, but it is possible. Develop the right muscles, and anything is possible.
Just please, stop trying to essentialize race! we are beyond that. Singing is about community, not segregation, and calling for cultural "authenticity" on the basis that "black people sing bigger fourths" is counterproductive.


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NCAA hoops: A look at the national championship game
AP Basketball Writer
INDIANAPOLIS A look at Monday night's national championship game:
DUKE (34-5) vs. BUTLER (33-4)
No. 1 Duke beat No. 16 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 73-44; No. 8 California 68-53; No. 4 Purdue 70-57; No. 3 Baylor 78-71; No. 2 West Virginia 78-57.
No. 5 Butler beat No. 12 UTEP 77-59; No. 13 Murray State 54-52; No. 1 Syracuse 63-59; No. 2 Kansas State 63-56; No. 5 Michigan State 52-50.
Duke's three-man perimeter attack did just that in the win over West Virginia with Jon Scheyer, Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith combining for all but 15 of the Blue Devils' points. The Big Three were 12 of 23 from 3-point range. Each has had a bad shooting game in the tournament, but the other two stepped up in each case.
Gordon Hayward had 19 points and nine rebounds in the win over Michigan State, and Shelvin Mack battled leg cramps to score 14. The two have combined to average 32.6 points for a team that has struggled from the field.
If the game were a battle of whistles and clipboards it's no contest.
Duke's Mike Krzyzewski would tie Adolph Rupp for second place all-time with four national championships. He has a record 76 wins in the NCAA tournament, 13 less than Butler's Brad Stevens has in his entire career. Coach K is in his 30th season at Duke; Stevens is 33 years old.
Butler came out of the Michigan State game with some injury concerns. Center Matt Howard hit his head with 9 minutes to play, was obviously affected by it in limited minutes the rest of the way and was not expected to practice Sunday. Mack's leg cramps limited him to 8 minutes in the second half.
Duke has outrebounded opponents by 10 per game in the NCAA tournament, an area of concern for Butler, which has been outrebounded by 3.4 per game. The Blue Devils have the only true big man in 7-foot-1 Brian Zoubek, who has averaged 10 rebounds per game over the last 15 games and is one of the big men who set screens that allow the perimeter shooters a little more room.
Butler is on one of the NCAA tournament's best defensive streaks ever, not allowing any team to reach 60 points in a game. The Bulldogs' total margin of victory in the five games is 15 points, including two-point wins over Murray State and Michigan State.
Duke's low point total in the tournament is 68, and the Blue Devils are averaging 73.4 points in the tournament. The closest any team has come to Duke is seven points.
Butler is the feel good story of the tournament, and the Bulldogs will have most of the 70,000-plus in Lucas Oil Stadium pulling for them. If Howard and Mack are limited, the Butler bench doesn't have a player on it averaging over 3 points in the tournament. Duke has a big advantage inside with Zoubek even if Howard does play, and the odds of the three Ss having their first poor game as a unit is remote at best. Duke wins title No. 4, 73-56.


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Funeral services for Jack Jones, 79, of Northrup, Texas, were held on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Serbin, Texas with Rev. John Schmidt officiating.
Jack Arthur Jones was born on March 9, 1938 in Kissimmee, Florida, the son of Heber M. Jones and Sara Mae (Fletcher) Jones. He was baptized on June 1, 1952 in Lake Hamilton, Florida by Rev. Maurice Phillips and was confirmed on February 27, 1972 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Serbin by Rev. Arthur Graf. Jack served in the United States Navy from 1956 until 1969. After receiving his Honorable Discharge from the Navy, he moved to Giddings where he began working at the Invader Boat Factory. Jack was united in marriage to Linda Faye Mutschink on October 14, 1972 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Serbin by Rev. Arthur Graf. After leaving Invader, he worked in the oil field for 25 years. Jack was a faithful and active member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Serbin where he had served in many capacities including chairman of the congregation, elder, and served on the school board. He was a proud veteran and was a member of the American Legion York Post 276 in Giddings. He enjoyed fishing and watching baseball and football and was a huge Serbin Jackrabbits and Giddings Buffaloes fan. He enjoyed being around children and enjoyed the smiles he got with his handouts of candy to each of them.
Jack passed away the afternoon of Friday, April 14, 2017 at St. David's South Austin Medical Center.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Heber & Sara Jones; his brother, Robert M. Jones and his father-in-law, Johnny Mutschink. Jack is survived by his wife of 45 years, Linda Jones of Northrup; his two sons, Mark Jones & his wife, Danielle of Northrup and Scott Jones of Northrup; his grandson, Luke Jones of Northrup; his sister and brother-in-law, Gail & Bob Howland of Lake Hamilton, Florida; his mother-in-law, Hattie Mutschink of Northrup, as well as two nieces, one nephew and several great nieces, great nephews, cousins and friends.
Because of Jack's love for children, his family recommends that memorials may be made to the St. Paul Lutheran Church Early Childhood Center, 1572 County Road 211, Giddings, Texas 78942, or to the charity of one's choice.


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- Cook pasta according to package directions; drain and keep warm. In a large nonstick skillet, heat the olive oil over medium-low heat. Add the garlic; cook, stirring occasionally, for 1 to 2 minutes or until golden. Stir in the beans, tomatoes, and snipped or dried basil. Cook, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Stir in lemon juice and, if desired, salt. Serve over hot cooked pasta. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and freshly ground pepper. Garnish with basil leaves. Makes 4 servings.
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A comfortable distance is needed when memorializing a fallen celebrity figure, particularly when your feelings go beyond polite spectatorship. Short enough a time to still be emotionally reeling from the event. Long enough to realize your exact place in the tragedy, which isn't as important as that of his close family, but isn't trivial either. Robin Williams wasn't necessarily a performer I'd have said I felt a regularly pulsating passion for, but that has so much inherently to do with why he's no longer with us. The past decade has been a rough road for him, and not tritely so in the slightest. This wasn't just somebody who'd lost the fire that made them such a bright star in the first place – I'd argue nobody's too far gone, no matter the media cynicism – and his late work shows that striving ambition.
Late films like Bobcat Goldthwait's World's Greatest Dad showed him seizing the darker side of his humor, and though The Butler is a garish revolving door of politician impersonating celebrity cameos, the desire for more challenging dramatic work was there. A The Big Wedding, an Old Dogs and a couple Night at the Museums were in their midst, keeping Williams planted cynically in the type of broad comic role people popularly knew him for, and given the unfortunate circumstances of his suicide, one can imagine he might've been acutely aware of that. One can't know precisely what troubled him towards this end, but issues both major and minor, personal and trivial, can be morbidly magnified by a spiraling depression.
I hope you'll forgive me if I sound cynical saying this end was foreseeable in his very public persona, as I obviously don't mean he was constantly reeling towards the grave. I mean simply that, in spite his apparent zaniness as a performer, the kinetic tempo of which may planted him too firmly into comedic typecasting, he was always very consistently, compellingly recognizable as human. Even in escapades like Mrs. Doubtfire, Jumanji, Hook and the like, there was a humility in his performance that elicited tenderness for even the most far-fetched sketches of characters. That he can still feel humble playing the voice of a genie gabbing a mile a minute is a reward, particularly when the film overall wasn't above run-of-the-mill.
Unlike many comic actors, he's legacy may resonate most for his dramatic work. Good Morning, Vietnam was my first experience with him in this regard, be it sufficiently entrenched in rapid-fire comedy not dissimilar to the charisma he displayed in his stand-up routine. Following that, my next brush with Robin was a good 15 years further afield in Christopher Nolan's drastically underrated Insomnia, playing the most fully deranged sociopath of his career (Mrs. Doubtfire notwithstanding). It was the most radical display of his dark side, as a man with a twisted fetishization and a more unsettling sense of serenity.
Still my biggest blind spot of his is Dead Poets Society, though even on the surface it's the kind of swooning inspiration that'll ring most romantically for many who loved his work, my parents most particularly. He's more front-and-center in that than he is in Good Will Hunting, though he nonetheless commands the screen the way a lead would, suggesting each character's life and potential is just as important as Will's. It's the kind of film that's possibly even more profoundly affecting having seen it years back and cynically written it off as cheap sentimentality. It doesn't play coy with its emotional beats, and that's part of the film's direct power, due in no small part to Robin Williams' solemn, thankful performance.
Then the rough years came, and like many a celebrated actor, few realized how legitimate an actor he still was until his suicide last Monday. It'd be callous to say his career was his only reason, or even a reason. Depression is a merciless illness, and when you're deeply ensconced in it, it's difficult to know why you make any of the decisions you do. A more reasonable cause would be his recent diagnosis with Parkinson's disease, which his wife Susan Schneider said he wasn't ready to reveal publicly, but Robin Williams always saw the darkness in the world. It's a testament to his defiant optimism that he continued to perform tirelessly to alleviate us of the world's multifaceted stresses.
If your way of remembering him is revisiting his best work, The Wire's compiled a strong, if markedly not complete, sampling of his best work. It helped turn me on to his wonderful work helping close out The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, but each of us has our own favorites to call back to. Firstly, though, our thoughts should go to his family, who are struggling more with the loss than anyone and for whom the task of living without him is impossibly harder. Speaking personally, I'm heartbroken for the loss of a major, distinct talent, and one who, despite some cynical feelings among the public prior to his death, still had so much to give us. I knew a resurgence was just over the horizon, that he had a whole new wave of energy and enthusiasm to share with us. I can't bare to say, much less believe, that I was wrong. I doubt I'll ever become cynical enough to believe that.
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There are green moles, red moles and yellow moles. Mole is served at weddings birthday celebrations, gala occasions and at Christmas time. Modern Mexican supermarkets devote whole aisles to offer all the dry ingredients necessary for mole, stocking several varieties of chiles, nuts, chocolate and spices. It is officially, "El Platillo Nacional" (the National Dish). The origin of mole is a subject of endless debate and speculation. Most scholars of Mexico's cuisine will agree that the invention of mole dates back to the end of the seventeenth century, when colonialism was the order of the day. Convent cuisine was taken to the realm of new and uncharted territory by the nuns whose aim was to please the bishops and dignitaries who passed through Puebla on their way to and from Veracruz and Mexico City. The Mestizo nuns quite naturally used a combination of ingredients rooted in the New World and borrowed from the Old World. A nun of the Dominican order of Santa Rosa, Sor. Andrea de la Asuncion, was said to have invented mole on the Sunday before Lent, circa 1680. The occasion of her creation was a reception at the convent by the bishop, Don Manuel Fernandez de Santa Cruz y Sahagun given to honor the Viceroy and Captain General of New Spain, Don Antonio de la Cerda y Aragun, Conde de Paredes y Marqués de la Laguna. Don Antonio was travelling west to Mexico City from the Port of Veracruz to accept his new post. Legend goes that Sor. Andrea browned chile ancho, chile mulato, chile pasilla, and some chipotles in lard; she toasted sesame seeds, cloves, peppercorns, almonds, peanuts, cinammon sticks and anise seeds and then ground them; she added some disks of chocolate, roasted tomatoes, onions, garlic and tortillas, all of which was ground by hand on a metate. Finally, to this melange she thinned it out with some warm turkey broth, added some cooked turkey pieces, and Mole Poblano was born. That is the neat and tidy version. In Bernal Díaz del Castillo's first-hand account of the conquest of Mexico, he relates that the Aztec high priests performed human sacrifices every day, offering human hearts to the god Huitzilopochtli. They believed that the sun would not rise the following day without this offering. He recalls, with horror, seeing some of his fellow Spaniards being sacrificed and that after the ceremony, the arms and legs were prepared in a chilmole sauce which contained chiles, tomatoes and other spices. The word, Mole is the Spanish-ization of the Nahuatl word mulli or molli which means "mixture". It was a version of this mixture that my mother's neighbor, Maricela, made for her young daughter's birthday on one of my trips to California. In the last months that my mother lived, Maricela would check in on her, take her food, and would send her pre-teen daughters to keep her company. I thanked Maricela for looking out for my mother and she responded by inviting me to her daughter's birthday celebration. The next day I headed down the street with my four year-old daughter to Maricela's house. She received us warmly and served us a plate of chicken with mole, rice and tortillas. I'm glad I had the presence of mind then to ask for her recipe because it was the best mole I have ever eaten. Months later when my family met again in California it was for my mother's funeral. I walked down the street to Maricela's house to ask her to make a large quantity of her mole for the gathering at the church. She was more than willing to do one last thing for Dona Eva. Maricela's hand-written recipe was elegantly terse and it read like poetry: Chile pasilla. Chile brito, barely. Chile puya. One onion. Fried. Garlic. Fried. Plantain. Fried. Raisins. Fried. Cumin. Fried. Cloves. Fried. Sesame seeds. Fried. Chocolate - to taste. Cinnamon - to taste. 3 tomatoes. 6 tomatillos. Cooked in water - the tomatoes. Process all in blender. My notes: The chiles should be seeded, toasted on a moderately hot griddle, soaked in very hot water for 20 minutes, buzzed up in the blender and passed through a fine strainer. In a dry sauté pan, toast 2 cinnamon sticks and grind in a spice mill. One disk of Mexican chocolate is recommended. Peel and don't seed red ripe tomatoes. Husk, wash and simmer tomatillos for five minutes. If the mole is too thick, add one or two more tomatoes or thin with chicken broth. Bring the sauce to a low boil and simmer for 20 minutes. I'm not convinced that we need to be slaves to proportions and minutiae. Cooking is, at times, an imprecise science. Serve over poached chicken breasts, or slices of roast turkey breast. < Previous Entry Back to Archived Food Notes Copyright 2018 Villa Victoria, 3829 South Edmunds Street, Seattle WA 98118 | 206.329.1717 | Website by Design for Wine & Food About Chef NaomiLinks Latest Food NotesFood Notes Archive


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FAIRMONT — Fairmont senior pitcher Randy Floyd was ready to throw against Red Springs, and a two-day delay because of rain only intensified those feelings toward the matchup.
When he finally got the ball on the mound at Fairmont on Thursday, Floyd wanted to prove the Red Devils wrong.
"They were one of the best teams in the conference according to what everybody was speaking. They were a little cocking coming in and I like that," he said. "It was something personal I wanted to do."
Behind five solid innings from their ace, the Golden Tornadoes posted early runs and never looked back to move into a tie for second place in the Three Rivers Conference with a 6-2 win over the Red Devils.
"I thought tonight was big with Randy on the mound," Fairmont coach Sandy Thorndyke said. "I think he was looking forward to Red Springs because at South Columbus he wasn't too sharp.
"He wanted us to give him the ball and he pitches well here. All these big games we throw him on the mound and he's a senior who comes through for us."
Floyd struck out 10 batters and surrendered three hits during his time on the mound, departing with a 5-0 lead in the sixth inning. After a trio of runs came in the bottom of the first inning, his intensity picked up over the final four innings.
"I felt a little iffy going in, but once I got my groove, I felt pretty good," the UNCP signee said. "It definitely built up my confidence knowing I had run support and my team was hitting it pretty decent today."
Fairmont (6-2, 5-2 TRC) struck first when Floyd helped his own cause with an RBI ground out. Two batters later, Skyler Hunt hit an RBI triple, and scored on a groundout by Jayden Freeman.
Red Springs (6-3, 4-3 TRC) went three complete innings before finally getting to Floyd when Coty Locklear led off the fourth with a single. The Red Devils threatened with two runners on, but never scored that inning.
Two more Fairmont runs came across in the fifth inning when Freeman hit a two-out single with the bases loaded. Winners of their last four games, Thorndyke has seen the young Golden Tornadoes' bats pick up in recent weeks.
"They got to mature sometime. We got sophomore and juniors playing everywhere," he said. "Skyler is on fire right now and hitting it well."
Freeman had three RBIs, Hunt had a pair of hits and one RBI, and Logan Boeshore and Michael Richardson each added two hits.
Locklear had three hits to lead Red Springs, while Jaylen Mack added a pair of base knocks at the plate.
The two Red Springs runs came late when Locklear scored on a throwing error after stealing third base in the sixth, and had an RBI single in the final frame.
Fairmont plays at East Columbus and Red Springs hosts West Columbus today.
In softball action, Fairmont held off Red Springs late for a 8-7 win at home.
The Lady Golden Tornadoes (4-4, 4-3 TRC) scored six runs in the first four innings to lead the Lady Red Devils (2-7, 0-7 TRC) 6-2. Both teams traded out one-run innings in the fifth and sixth frames, before Red Springs scored three runs in the top of the seventh, but came up short.
Courtney Purvis and Amber Hunt each had two hits and an RBI, while Kiara Page and Grace McMillan had a hit and an RBI each for Fairmont. Red Springs' Katelyn Culbreth had two hits and four RBIs, while striking out six batters in the circle. Kiera Bryant had three hits to lead the Lady Red Devils.
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GEOGRAPHIC LITERATURE Excursions and Lessons in Home Geog raphy. By Charles A. McMurry, Ph. D. Pp. 152. 5 x 7' inches. New York: MacMillan Co. A much - needed book, containing many fine illustrations. The student can find out from its pages anything from the way his own particular part of the country was formed to the most ap proved method of milking cows and maintaining a sanitary dairy. The book is written in such simple language and is so well expressed that any one can understand and enjoy it. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, vol. xxI. Edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson. Pp. 317. 95/ x 6/ inches. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co. 1905. In this 21st volume the publishers have got down to the year 1624 in their monumental undertaking. This one deals entirely with religious matters for that year, being composed of sources bearing on ecclesiastical squabbles, the founding of a Japanese seminary, and the labors of the early Recollect Mis sions. The last forms more than half of the book, and, like Jesuit writings, con tains very valuable descriptions of the country, the people, and their customs. Typographically the book is almost per fect for use, the print being large, the paper heavy, and the binding excellent. It seems a great pity that this enter prising firm should suffer a loss in their effort to advance the cause of knowl edge. C. M. Along the Nile with General Grant. By Elbert E. Farman. Pp. xviii + 339. New York : The Grafton Press. 1904. $2.50 net. The voyage of General Grant up the Nile to the First Cataract, in 1877, serves in this volume as a reason for its publication. The chapters on Luxor, Abydos, Thebes, the Temples of Kar nak, and the Islands of Philae and Ele phantine are evidences of Judge Far- man's careful observations of the re markable antiquity of Egypt. The volume is unusually well illustrated, and will be of special interest to those who have made, or contemplate making, the tour of the Nile. A.W.G. Dodge's Advanced Geography. By Richard Elwood Dodge. Pp. 333 + xix. 9 x 7~ inches. Chicago : Rand, McNally & Co. 1904. The distinguishing conception of this work is the emphasis laid upon the " causal notion " in geography-that is, that our civilization is the result of natural conditions. First come geo graphic principles,then their application in the second part, with a rapid view of the different continents and leading countries of the world. The orderly growth of industrial life from natural conditions is the central theme in all cases. Each important region is repre sented by three maps, relief, political, and commercial. There are many beau tiful illustrations and helpful sugges tions. The writer of the text has likely never gone over this ground thoroughly as a teacher, else some defects would be absent. It seems a waste of space to tell us that little is known about polar winds (50). There is much haziness about monsoons and summer and winter winds (48, 49, 50). There is a trouble some mixture of the terms "'miles" and " degrees" (89). It is confusing to speak of "northwest trade-winds " (319). Yokohama does not have an excellent harbor. To speak of Georgia growing sugar "extensively" (144) and then in the diagram (149) to show how insignificant her total is will puz zle most young minds. The work of the cartography " expert "is decidedly the most unsatisfactory part of the book. He has sugar-cane over nearly all of South Carolina (148). He has a big cotton area in the middle of the south Pacific (330). In other places he fairly riots in details, crowding his maps to
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We headed to Yokohama's massive tyre proving ground in Thailand to find out if the new Advan dB V552 really is the company's quietest tyre ever.
20 Feb 2018
When I think of the Yokohama Advan lineup, the first thoughts that come to my mind are those of high-performance, motorsports and lap times.
From the popular Neova AD08R to the race-purposed A048, the Advan range is always one of the top choices for any petrol head.
But the proficiency of Yokohama's Advan product family is much more than that, as I got to experience first-hand at the brand's Tire Test Center of Asia in Rayong Province, Thailand.
The Tire Test Center of Asia is a 1,690,000m2 site where Yokohama built a 4.1km high-speed track and a longest straight line of 1km where a high-speed test of over 200km/h is possible, as well as a multi-purpose track of approximately 100,000m2.
The multi-purpose track has been equipped with a wet test course of approximately 9,000m2 and a special test course that enables the evaluation of driving comfort and noises in a variety of road surface conditions so that tyre evaluation can be carried out in diversified conditions ranging from dry to wet.
These test courses are utilised to carry out running tests of passenger car, light truck, truck and bus tyres manufactured at Yokohama Rubber Group plants in Japan, Asia and the U.S.A. It is there that I got up close and personal with the latest addition to the Advan flagship brand, the Advan dB V552. Marketed as most silent premium comfort Yokohama tyre ever, the Advan dB V552 is the successor to the Advan dB that launched in 2009.
Developed based on the concept of 'an unprecedentedly silent tyre that changes the in-car atmosphere', I put a few sets to the test through various stations to see if it lives up to the tagline of 'Dramatic Silence' and if wet grip performance has been greatly improved by the application of a newly developed compound that raises the dispersibility of silica.
The sound of silence
To experience the improved road and pattern noise levels, we hopped into two Toyota Camrys, one equipped with the Advan dB V552 and one with the older Advan dB V551.
Thanks to the Advan dB V552's precise groove and chamfering arrangement, as well as a silent base compound, it is noticeably quieter especially over the part of the track that reproduced the rougher general road conditions of less developed countries in Asia.
The hum normally associated with tyres as they go over poorly paved roads is well suppressed in the Advan dB V552-equipped Camry, so much so that if you closed your eyes, it even feels like you're riding in a Lexus. If I had to put a number on how much quieter it is than the Advan dB V551, it would probably be a good 10 to 20 percent.
Slippery when wet… not
Alongside the Advan dB V552's silent base compound is a new surface compound and staggered arrangement of grooves and sipes that improve steering stability for better wet performance. We tested these features on a slalom and circle track, both of which received a good dousing of water.
And I'm usually sceptical about the acclaimed wet performance of tyres but this time around, I had my naysaying squashed behind the wheel of a Honda Civic that zipped around the pylons at about 40km/h without a hint of its Advan dB V552s giving up on grip.
Neither did the Toyota Camrys, which we used around a wet and potentially wild circle track. Compared to the Advan dB V551 that managed to clock 50km/h going right, the Advan dB V551s held on to 55km/h, before I began feeling a slight bit of understeer.
And even better in the dry
It's hard to imagine any Advan-branded tyre failing to provide solid grip in the dry and the Advan dB V552 continues that tradition. Fitted on a Mercedes-Benz C-Class C350e hybrid, we were allowed to get a little naughty along a man-made B-road course that was just wide enough for one car.
Make one mistake here and you're likely to end up kissing one of the many trees surrounding. Thankfully, there were speed and apex markings that recommended how fast and which line should be taken.
On one stretch of the course, the recommended velocity was 60km/h but the tyres felt like they had more to offer so I pushed them to 75km/h and with the right entry, they hung on just fine. With that proven, I then exceeded every other speed recommendation throughout the rest of the course.
So what sort of car is the Advan dB V552 born and bred for?
Given its positioning, the obvious answer is premium sedans from the likes of Lexus and BMW, just to name a few, but the beauty of Yokohama's latest offering extends beyond just that.
The Advan dB V552 size lineup will be expanded so that a wide range of vehicles that includes compact cars, minivans, hybrids and electric vehicles, can use it. This, then, shows that the Advan dB V552 hasn't just improved as a silent, comfortable premium tyre, but Yokohama has also ensured that its benefits can be enjoyed across segments by making any in-car experience a calm and pleasant one.
And judging from the area of land I didn't get to explore at the test facility, I can only hope to return when Yokohama next launches a more performance-oriented Advan.
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omg haven't blog for a while. well i'd love to share an experience i'll never forget. my school held a talent show named Gandhi's got Talent (i go to Gandhi Ancol National School) and my team (Freedom) is doing a skit based on Set Me Free sung by Casting Crowns. and it turns out realllyyyyy great. we practice for about 1 week before the audition. though at the first time most of us were pessimistic and didn't get serious on the practice but we made it through the audition.
then, here's the real deal. we were somehow not interested in practicing anymore and we only rehearsed 3 days before the show. but Thank You Lord, He did accompany us. we manage on gaining back our spirit in this thing. then, some problems arise. the day before the show, we haven't got the hoodie for the devil master and no make up for the devils. some of my friends rush to the thrift market and bought some garments for me to make the hoodie. my mom and i have to work on it until 2 pm! then, i was not sure if the hoodie would fit on my friend and it really stress me out. luckily it fit him though it was not so comfortable. my friends also manage to get the make up for us.
on the show day, we were so excited about performing on the stage that has been greatly decorated. we rush on the make up and hair do. then, when it's time for us to perform, i have never felt so nervous before. one of my friend feels like she needs to throw up her lunch. but the show must go on. i'm so happy to have lots of supportive friends in the crowd. they scream out really loud and give their applause. i can never describe the feelings when i hear the crowd from the stage. then, after our performance, the crowd scream out FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM for several times. that was really awesome! after all performers are done, the MC gives some time for the judges. and guess what? we won the first place!!! all the efforts were nicely payed up. thankyou Lord for everything :)
here's our peformance. enjoy!
here's our member:
the black guys act as the devils while the one in soft brown vest is the human. the one beside the human act as Jesus. and we got some help for lighting from the grey shirt boy. while two man in the middle are our principal and vice-principal.
Labels: blabbering | at 10:57 PM
hey it's me blabbering again. i'm just gonna say something common yet important in our daily life. Doing What people Want Us To Do To Impress Them. let's be honest, we all have done it before, right? you try to look cool by doing what you're not supposed to do. like taking alcohol, drugs, etc.
recently, a have a slack with one of my best friend. she seems like acting bad just to look cool and pleased others. i'm not trying to be a goodie goodie here, but i was like, hey girl, get a life! it's pathetic to live based on other's opinion. i (and some of my friends) told her that it's not the right thing to do. she clearly exposed that she like doing bad things. not that i hate her or something but to be honest, i didn't see her as my best friend like how it use to be. but luckily she realized her mistake and try not to do it again. case closed.
leaving the solved problem behind, i wonder. is this what happened when we hang with the wrong circle? i'm not saying that my friend's friends are bad. but we have to admit sometimes we act by the environment. when you hang with good people, you'll act good and calm. but when we hang with bad people, we let out our wild side sometimes a little bit too much. i also love to have fun and it's important to give ourselves a break. but my point is, you have to know what's wrong and right. don't let others control your life. ignore them when they challenge you to do something you know that is bad. it's all for your own good. LOVE YOURSELF, PEOPLE!
please :'(
Labels: blabbering | at 10:12 PM
hey this is my first post. my main reason to blog is to let out my thoughts but i don't feel comfortable when some friends read them. that is why i dont really mind about the grammar or spelling or anything that they say important.
i am a little sad now. since my crush seems like he is going out of the country. i even haven't talk to him :'( ah, what i am trying to be. i'm not strong. i am NOT a little sad. i feel brokenhearted. i've known him since we was on 3rd grade. he was my church buddy. but we never hang with the same circle which make me never talk to him. maybe once or twice if the situation support. i was OK with that but that was before i like him this much. we were separated for like 3 or 4 yrs. i met him again about 1year ago in a youth church (forgive me God for i have sinned). he has changed so much. a skinny quiet boy turns out to be a boy of my dream. he was tall, white, always smiling. he also plays guitar and basketball.
i am such a coward. i have been gaining my guts to talk to him since the first day i met him again but he was always surrounded by his friends. there is no way i'm going to talk to him and act stupidly (i know i will when i'm nervous) in front of a bunch of boys. i have no topic, anyway. i never thought he'll leave because i see no reason for him to do so. one of my close friend was a close friend of him (try to read it slowly if you don't understand) but she never help me to get closer to him though she knew i have this major crush for him. no personal reason, she just dont realized i desperately need her help :(
i know that he'll be leaving out of the country from his facebook account. i haven't know it for sure but this is my first hunch. i didn't see any other meanings beside it anyway. i surely hope my hunch was wrong.
lately, beside gaining my guts to talk to him, i also found his twitter and tweet him with enermous hope that he will tweet me back. i might turns out to be a lunatic thinking of him. please stay boy. please dont leave. not this soon. i need you to know that i'm not only an ordinary girl which is a friend of your friend's friend. i need you to know my feelings. i need you to know that you're my shooting star among the ordinary star. i need you to know that i want to know you more. please? :'(


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