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Unless you've been living under a rock (or are one of the many still left without power in Irene's wake), you know that pop mega star and hip-hop's First Lady (and Power Woman) Beyonce Knowles made a jubilant announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards, rubbing her bedazzled belly post performance and saying, "I want y'all to feel the love that's growing inside me."
The live audience--comprised of her peers, coworkers and, if you consider MTV an enormous driver of record sales, her employers—was ecstatic. Twitter blew up, setting a new record of 8,868—per second. Onstage, Beyonce beamed.
But for moms at home, the announcement seemed a little off. Catelyn Read, 27, a public relations assistant in Telluride, Colorado, who just last week made her own pregnancy announcement at work says her emotions were mixed. "I agonized for over a month over telling my boss I was having a baby," she says. She was torn between feeling excited ("I'm a huge fan of hers and we're both three months along!") and jealous: "It's just not fair that she gets to be all 'I'm having a baby! Love me!' when I had to be all 'Is my company big enough for the Family Medical Leave Act?'" For "real women," Read says, the baby reveal is so much more complicated than sequined maternity gear and a well-timed public relations event.
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This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the Stanford University Archives. To celebrate, the Archives has launched a 50 day Twitter campaign featuring iconic images of Stanford. Follow us on Twitter @stanfordarchive or see all of the images posted thus far via #StanfordArchive50. This fall, the Archives will formally celebrate the anniversary with an exhibit in the East Wing of Green Library. Stay tuned for more information.
The National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) met in Washington, DC on June 9-10, 2015. The full report of the meeting including the powerpoints from the subcommittees and lightning sessions are available on the NGAC Website. The NGAC is a Federal Advisory Committee that reports to the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). Our role is to provide advice and recommendations related to the national geospatial program and the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.
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Before John Casper Branner came to Stanford, he spent several years as the State Geologist of Arkansas. In 1887-1888, he and his team completed the second-ever geological survey in Arkansas -- and the first in 30 years. Residents of the state were intent on having Branner verify the various reports of gold in the area; companies were busy making money off prospectors willing to buy up gold stock that promised riches and wealth.
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In response to Friday's powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal, Stanford volunteer "crisis mappers" are working with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap to assist in disaster relief by mapping Nepal's road networks, buildings, and residential areas.
Anyone with a laptop and spare time can help responders on the ground. The Stanford Geospatial Center housed in the Branner Earth Sciences Library will be hosting ongoing Introductory Relief Mapping sessions all week to help train people to use OpenStreetMap, an open source and open data sharing tool adding information to relief effort maps. Drop-in volunteers are encouraged to join all day from 9am-9pm, Monday-Friday.
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Stanford University's Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) offers classes that guide students in developing analytical and research-based argument skills. Students take PWR 2 classes in their second year to continue building the aforementioned skills. PWR 2 consists of research projects that allow students to research, write, translate, and deliver an in-depth investigation.
From the very start of Stanford University, geology students were sent into the field to learn mapping. John Casper Branner and John Flesher Newsom taught field mapping to budding geologists first on the campus and then in the Santa Cruz mountains. In 1903, an official course was inaugurated called, "Field Geology," taught by geology and mining professors Dr. Branner and Dr. Newsom. Summer field trips took place every year until 1987. Students mapped areas such as Mt. Hamilton (San Jose), the Sonoma Range, the Summit King Mine, the Santa Lucia Mountains, and the Snake Range in Nevada.
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Oscar predictions, for shits n gigs...
Would like to get it (to keep their papers flat/doors open): Langella / Rourke (this was Lang's best role, well, apart from Skeletor... Rourke's Donatella Versace turn was nifty)
Will get it (because that's how it goes): Rourke, or poss. Penn.
Like to get it (to keep their papers flat/doors open): Streep (just for turning to Hoffman and saying, "you will lose," in a really pissed off and superior way, and for having her certainty!
Will get it (because that's how it goes): Winslet (meh)
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Would like to get it (to keep their papers flat/doors open): Shannon (coz he's generally ace and for livening up a dull set of scenes called a film: cigarette, argument, cigarette, argument, cigarette, argument, glass of juice, cigarette, argument, cigarette, argument, cigarette, argument, Shannon being ace, cigarette, argument, cigarette, argument, cigarette, argument...etc
Will get it (because that's how it goes): Ledger (because it's the law... apparently)
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Would like to get it (to keep their papers flat/doors open): Davis (did you notice how Streep shut up quite a lot during that scene?), or JANE LYNCH IN ROLE MODELS!!!
Will get it (because that's how it goes): Cruz (ok, but better killing peeps and showing bust off, moaning about ghosts farting in Volver)
Would like to get it (to keep their papers flat/doors open): Van Sant/Fincher (both for making a few scenes look good)
Will get it (because that's how it goes): Boyle (though maybe not...)
Would like to get it (to keep its papers flat/doors open): no preference (if pushed, Ben Button, not the whole thing JUST for the scenes set in Russia that had Tilda Swinton/midnight meet-ups in hotel kitchens/stories about not getting to swim the channel in them)
Will get it (because that's how it goes): Slumdog, duh (but let's see what folks say in a year or two's time, hmmm...)
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Films for people who don't really like films
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"People who don't view cinema as a viable artform are only drawn to films that have been slapped with a cultural seal of approval: critically approved source material, or directors who have made their names in more venerable artforms, such as literature or theatre. They wouldn't dream of going to see thrillers starring Jason Statham, or comedies starring Will Ferrell, or horror movies starring no one anyone's ever heard of, though I would argue there's likely to be more true cinematic feeling in such movies' little fingers than in the entire bloated corpus of Atonement or Proof or Possession (and I'm not talking about the one where Isabelle Adjani has sex with a tentacled monster)."
The whole thing needs to be read really, but this is telling, penetrative commentary. I likes her.
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One of the best, Anne Billson.
Where are the meaty comedy roles for women?
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[11 Feb 2009|
Awesome mid-February news:
Werner Herzog
is making a new film,
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
(wicked, nice title).
David Lynch
is producing (extra wicked). It's apparently a horror film (a Herzog horror? Extra extra wicked) loosely based on a true story
about a San Diego man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with a sword
, shot on DV (sounds interesting).
The cast confirmed:
Michael Shannon
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Chloë Sevigny
Michael Peña
Bill Cobbs
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Willem Dafoe
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Brad Dourif
Udo Kier
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Grace Zabriskie
(awesome x awesomefuckmazing). Shannon is playing the son; Zabriskie, the mother.
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My picks for 2008's top films (and then some other bits, too)
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I haven't posted in an age, but I wanted to just post up my picks for the best flicks of last year. There's top 10 films, runners-up stuff, M/F acting, worst, disappointments and unexpected gems, too. Though there's no waffle about the lists this year, as I have done - or, more to the point, will do - write-ups on my film blog, which is where I do all of my film writing nowadays (and which I'll link to as soon as I've finished doing some final tweaking and adjustments and the like). I can add thoughts, if so choose you, in the comments bit below, where you can ask quite what exactly I think I'm playing at, young man.
All these flicks, by-and-large, were released theatrically in the UK between Jan 1st and Dec 31st '08 (though some were "premiered" on DVD, and some may have been shown first on the telly). Some picks were a complete surprise, others were entirely expected, but all either made me think, feel, laugh, and a bit more besides. You get the picture.
2008 was actually a pretty good film year. I had more thrills than complaints
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Oh shit yes.
Yes please.
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"You're going to Camp Blood, ain't ya?"
[29 Sep 2008|
has been remade into
. The name remains the same:
Friday the 13th
. I only found out about this the other day. It could be a sack of shit. Its director, Marcus Nispel, is a particularly slick filmmaker who puts a sheen of unnecessary glossiness all over his films, which means it could be tired. Very, very tired. But then again, Sean S Cunningham is executive-producing it, so he may just nudge it in the right direction. So it's an either way thing as far as I can see. We'll find out in about five months...
The poster, which would look very nifty on my door, kind of hints at the latter though:
It's a sexy poster, but not quite as amazing as the original's or its sequels'.
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BFI-related post 2
[12 Sep 2008|
So, the BFI (am I, like, on a mission or something?) is
celebrating their 75th birthday
this year. Maybe that's why they've put the extra effort in to have a standout festival line-up, who knows?
They're running this thing called
Visions of the Future
, where they asked
75 key media figures
two questions and then published their responses.
were the films chosen. You can
for one of these films yourself, or submit your own (bottom of page in link).
So, carrying on from that book post I did the other day, I wanted to pose these very same questions to you:
Q1 Which one film would you wish to share with future generations?
Q2 What excites you about the future of the moving image?
I wanna hear from you...
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BFI-related post 1
[12 Sep 2008|
Nice. The line-up for the
London Film Festival
'08 has been announced. There are some great looking titles in there. They usually get a fair few nifty titles in their selections, but this is the best line-up I've seen there for quite a few years. I think some of the films have played in fests. in various countries already - the US, France, Berlin, Canada, and so on... some were at Cannes, Toronto etc - but for London, which is always pretty late in the calendar (being in October this year, usually Nov.), this is pretty stellar.
They've got a few high profile - and politically-based - titles that will grab attention: Ron Howard's
, Oliver Stone's
and Steven Soderbergh's
double feature, for example, but I'm not that fussed about these; all three (four?) will get wide releases in the new year here anyhow. It's worth trying to catch some of the ones that may not get a general release here (cinema distribution being what it is in the UK... hmm, that's another story, another post), or the ones that will most likely take f...o...r...e...v...e...r to come out. The line-up
really good, and I'm still sifting through what's on. I just wish that the ticket prices weren't so feckin' steep; the highest is £25(!) And the average is about £11 (Swinton, why aren't you in charge?), which means that I may not get to see very many, if any, at all, due to the overall pricey-ness and work commitments.
Anyway, here are some links of ones that look rather nifty (and also here so I can keep direct links in one place, in the unlikely case of me coming into some spare cashola):
Lion's Den
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Sex Positive
Touki Bouki
The Class
Frozen River
Nathaniel Dorsky
American Teen
Beautiful Losers
Vicky Christina Barcelona
The Silence of Lorna
Medicine for Melancholy
Must Read After My Death
Three Monkeys
Cloud 9
Hamlet 2
Goodbye Solo
The Feature
A Lake
Of Time and the City
Here's the
full A-Z list
of films showing.
But this lot look ace above ace...
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Tilda and The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams
[11 Sep 2008|
Thanks to all who added some thoughts
the other day. Literature as an artform and artform as literature seemed to have been a theme. And with many shades of variety in between. As well as giving me some cracking new suggestions to look into (many, if not most, have been added to my online list of 'must read's), it let me - and others - into a few reading habits and styles. Good stuff.
There's a really insightful look into the role of the critic ("Who Needs Critics?", pp 16-26) in October's
Sight & Sound
* that's more than worth a browse. As well as what traditional print criticism means now, it takes a look at how film reviewing
criticism (some who contribute to the articles differentiate) have been altered by blogging. Many of you might find it interesting. (* the link takes you to September's edition; October's hasn't been added just yet, but the link is here anyhow)...
... there's also a great small article in it about Tilda Swinton's and Mark Cousins' new film festival,
The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams
. It ran between 15th-23rd of August (
links with some more about it). Shame I only found out about it yesterday... but hopefully it'll be an annual event. It's in Nairn (Swinton's hometown) on Scotland's Moray Firth: tickets cost £3, or if you baked stuff and brought it along you'd get in free; the cinema was furnished with beanbags and deckchairs instead of typical cinema seats; and if there was a big queue Swinton handed out free cakes! It was all ages and active audience interaction was encouraged, too.
Bless her, but somehow I can't really see Catherine Deneuve handing out slices of Battenberg and mugs of coffee at Cannes.
Some of the films shown seemed to nicely fit into the ethos of the event (the links will tell you more): Powell & Pressburger's
I Know Where I'm Going!
Murder Most Foul
(Margaret Rutherford as Mrs. Marple), Ozu's
I Was Born, But...
, Henry Hathaway's
Peter Ibbetson
, Djibril Diop Mambéty's
(I would've travelled up there just to catch this!), Mohammad-Ali Talebi's
The Boot
, and so on... also, the Coen Bros. selected a couple for it, too: Ray Enright and Busby Berkeley's 1934 kaleidoscope musical
and Akira Kurosowa's
High and Low
Most fests have themes or agendas that they adhere to for some screening strands, which show a commitment to seeking out new trends, variety in world cinema and the rediscovery of older gems and the like, but what I really love about the sound of this one is that they do all that (kind of... not sure about the 'new trends' thing, but hey), but there is a clear idea of
personal selection
(without being too self-centric specific or non-inclusive). Being made aware of the presence of certain films that you may not have otherwise been aware of is a criteria for any good, and individual, festival. Some of the films above might not get screened anywhere except at events such as this. I love Tilda.
Anyway, it looked a whole lot better than what the
Cambridge Film Festival
has on offer, in its new slot - 18th-28th Sept. The line-up this year is very, er, lacklustre shall we say? I haven't fully looked into the entire list of films, but at a cursory glance it doesn't look too exciting. I went two consecutive years as a viewer and one as a writer, and it was a blast, but why the move from early July to a week's time? For one, I can't go due to work, and secondly, positioned nearer the end of the year it may get a bit lost and forgotten amid many other, bigger fests coming up, like BFI's own London Film Festival. July was a good time for it. Now, their outdoor screenings may get rained off... or, well, more so than in July - it can certainly rain by the fuckload here in July... and the attendance figures could be in jeopardy. I may go with
and catch a couple of films on one of its weekends, but its doubtful. If the LFF wasn't so expensive (£10.50 and upwards for a ticket!) I'd go to a few there. Ho hum.
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Don't worry, be happy
[09 Sep 2008|
with a complete nerve
just casually, on a whim like, mentioned that that
Large Hadron Collider
thingy will be activated tomorrow. "OK," I said, "I'm just nipping upstairs to, er, get a, erm, a pair of socks. Yeah. Socks."
Or come to my journal and spread my fears like fucking wildfire.
Thing is, they say this could be the most intensely exciting scientific event to happen in recent times.
, if like me you're a worrier, a panicker, a-bordering-on-OCD-level Olympic-grade paranoiac or, now too, a reluctant alarmist, you'll be hiding behind the biggest, sturdiest, lead-lined, industrial-strengthened, but cleanest, sofa in existence. With a bottle of pills, a crate of Glenfiddich and a shotgun.
In reality I'm
fine, just fine, and intrigued to the nth degree. Yes, I may be in bits, but I'm also curious as to these two "possible outcomes", reported
"Some critics say the experiment will create 'black holes' of intense gravity that could implode the Earth..."
OhmyfuckinggodRUN!............ but, erm, where?
"...or that it will open the way for beings from another universe to invade through a 'worm hole' in space-time."
Ey. Hell yeah. Wicked. In that case I'll definitely take it.
But really, Stephen Hawking is a genius. I saw a documentary earlier in the year in which he discussed all this. And if he's cool about it, then, man, I'm cool.
Yes. I'm... fine.
(and I swear I had no clue when I posted
this film
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Five books
[09 Sep 2008|
A thing I was thinking about the other day: if I had to just choose, say, five books to archive as my most meaningful or favourite or whatever I'd have to think about it quite hard. I've heard people asked it before - they do it with various guests on Radio 4 I think (or is that songs?...), and they're famous types so I guess we're
to find it interesting; I want to know what us non-celebs would choose. It's a tricky one, esp. with there being, like,
more than five good books out there of course. I'm not off to a desert island with a very small suitcase and an empty timetable or anything; no one's
asking. But I wanted to. So I'm putting it to you guys. I'm interested in what reading matters to folks in this regard. And it also may bring up a few new titles for people to look into. So...
Which five books (fiction, non-fiction, everything in-between) would you select, if required to, as your most meaningful or most loved (or if you were indeed packed off to a library-less island)?
I'll have a think and post five, too.
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If they are men
[07 Sep 2008|
I've just finished watching
God on Trial
, a BBC2 TV film about a group of Auschwitz prisoners who, with half of them in a bunkhouse about to be selected, debate the whys, ifs and whereabouts of God. Cheery stuff eh? But it's a riveting, goes-without-mentioning upsetting and exemplary piece of drama. It's also engaging in a apt, albeit stark way, and it brings up some absorbing questions. This kind of 'filmed play' type drama can in great part succeed on the quality of the acting, the reliability of the cast to convey precisely what the writer maps out, and
this lot
are seriously good and faultless and more... so yeah, jus' watch it.
BBC iPlayer
has it up still, although for how much longer I'm not sure (I think they keep them on there for up to a week after the original broadcast date - which was last Wed. on BBC2 UK).
is an interview with its writer, Frank Cottrell Boyce, which is worth reading... and
reviews/comments on it (best left 'til after seeing it).
Now I think I should go and watch
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Elegant company in a painting
[07 Sep 2008|
As a follow on from the Seurat thing the other day, here, below, is another gem that now means a lot. This one came out of the blue. Again, I saw it at at the MoMA last year and was struck by how boldly
it was. I'd never been into, or, to be honest, been really that aware of most 18th Century French art, esp. rococo painters, so it was a fluke and a surprise that I took to it. During college courses back then I'd usually greet this kind of work with, "ugh, old, whatever," but its appeal now is most likely due to
the fact that that I'm a bit older now
me wanting to admire and get into stuff that initially passed me by and/or may just make a fresh departure from the (ironically) samey contemporary stuff that we are persuaded to suggest to students now; that despite the age and immediate stuffiness of the work in question, this is in some way more of a
departure and clearly still relevant. Anyway, it's probably
's fault. She bought me a Turner book for Xmas year before last and this has kinda set me off. Well, that and the fact that I saw the TV adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's
The Line of beauty
(a book I've always avoided) recently... with characters talking about, uh-huh, lines of beauty in art and furniture and mirrors n shit like that. It kind of got me thinking about all these smaller, finer points...
Also: I didn't realise when I saw it, at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge whilst on a college trip, prior to the NY visit, that
this one
was also by Pater. It has one of the best titles, too:
Elegant Company in a Park
There's obviously something in these paintings that's striking a chord: the faint v of light in
The Fair at Bezons
, below, is shaping the way we look at it, directing our eyes to notice that it's the two women in pale dresses that are its rightful focus; everything around them is perfectly in tune and in the right place to show them off and make the painting work wonderfully. Everyone looks stone drunk, too; they're clearly buzzing their nuts off.
So if you have some time spare between lunch and the rest of your life, take a squizz at this:
The Fair at Bezons, ca. 1733
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Pater (French, 1695–1736)
Oil on canvas; 42 x 56 in. (106.7 x 142.2 cm)
I wanted to post it up and look at it today because of the date:
This fair, held annually on
the first Sunday in September
in a village near Versailles, inspired several artists of the period. The theme was used for a stage play as early as 1695 and also by Favart for a ballet-pantomime in 1735. Pater was a pupil of Watteau, whose works inspired this large composition. A smaller version dated 1733 is at Sans-Souci, Potsdam. The group of commedia dell'arte players at the left in the middle distance, including the white-suited figure of Gilles, reappears in another painting by Pater entitled Procession of Italian Comedians (Frick Collection, New York). In his own day, Pater's reputation was very nearly equal to his teacher's. Frederick the Great owned over forty of his paintings. The Fair at Bezons is frequently cited as Pater's masterpiece.
Nice innit.
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[06 Sep 2008|
, again in the Guardian, is a small supplement to
the thing I posted the other day
about the Carol Ann Duffy knife poem hoo-ha. She's come back with a riposte in the form of...
another poem
. It was actually on the front page... albeit in the bottom left-hand corner of the paper. Seems like they're trying to squeeze more out of it than it had in it in the first place.
Can't say I like this poem any more than the "offending" original, but I kinda see why she's responded the way she has. It all sounds a bit silly really.
And so does this:
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Lady Sat on 'Er Arse Wiv an Umbrella
[05 Sep 2008|
This little gem here is one of my favourite drawings.
"Seated Woman with a Parasol"
(Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.")
c. 1884-85
Conté crayon on paper.
Georges Seurat
There's a little bit of info. on it
I saw it in the real live flesh at the Museum of Modern Art in New York over Xmas last year. I'd always really liked it - and his work generally; the drawings in particular - but I didn't know there was a
Seurat retrospective
on when I was there until I was in the door. Bingo.
It was great to see his work up close, as I'd only seen them in books.
and meself wandered around until we found the Seated Woman. I took in the others of course, but hey, ya know, I was on a quest for this one. It's really amazingly beautiful up close. The effortlessness of it. The black crayon on white almost tricks us into seeing a colour in there (and heh, not just grey), particularly on the neck, dress and boobies. It's quite a modestly-sized drawing but that keeps the hazy feel of slightly removed intimacy intact; it feels like we are positioned a few feet away, watching the woman watching someone else. In other words: it's a corker!
This is also a good example of how I can look at things in a technically
I never knew it was an initial study for a greater (and, heh, more famous) piece before seeing this show. Or perhaps I did but didn't quite, like,
it (I don't teach art
- this is my shallow defence). But the drawing was always wonderful as a stand-alone piece to me. It's an occasion where looking in a limited capacity at a fraction of something gives me more insight and pleasure than seeing the whole thing.
I haven't (until now) researched into it enough to sniff out if there is any solid narrative or meaning or whatnot in there. That'd usually be something I might do for work, not pleasure. I did look at the painting it was a preliminary sketch for though, and I actually like the drawing a whole lot more than I do
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
. The finished painting is most probably a masterpiece, as is often mentioned, but the quick study, the Seated Woman, is no less a great work, which is why it was all kinds of ace to see it (with many other initial sketches, and more besides) get championed anew in the MoMa show. The parts that go toward the whole can be infinitely more interesting sometimes.
I have no need for a sea view, for a sea view I have no need
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Sense and Censor-bility
[05 Sep 2008|
today's Guardian
Hmm. British exam board the AQA have called for copies of a
Carol Anne Duffy
poetry anthology to be destroyed because it refers to a bread knife. Seems the AQA don't want anything hanging around their schools with any kind of reference to "street crime" in it.
The best bit about it though is that the call for it to be destroyed came about because there were
complaints. Oh yeah,
: two about the knife and and one about
the description of a goldfish being flushed down the toilet
It's weird that the first of these three "widespread" complaints was made in 2004. Four years and three complaints. Shouldn't the AQA be focusing all their attention on more pressing things like, oh, invigilating exams?
They see the word knife and it's like a beacon of violent despair. I don't know, maybe some schools need teachers better equipped to interpret the content of poetry, or maybe because it
a poem, and not, like, one of them major classics, they thought it'd be OK to dispose of it, that originally no one would either care or notice - 'cause surely kids won't give a shit about poems, yeah? Hide it away, yeah, and all this silly-daft knife violence that the UK has recently seen more aggressively emerge will go away too. Under rug swept. I mean, it
a mere drop in the ocean in debating the overall problem of knife crime in this country, but it is telling and it speaks volumes.
In defence Duffy's literary agent, Peter Strauss, brilliantly, concisely says:
"It's a pro-education, anti-violence poem written in the mid-1980s when Thatcher was in power and there were rising social problems and crime. It was written as a plea for education. How, 20 years later, it had been turned on itself and presented to mean the opposite I don't know. You can't say that it celebrates knife crime. What it does is the opposite."
And Children's laureate Michael Rosen (quite nicely) chirped in with:
"By this same logic we would be banning Romeo and Juliet. That's about a group of sexually attractive males strutting round the streets, getting off with girls and stabbing each other."
is a comment on it by Guardian blogger Richard Lea.
I can completely see the cause for all the furore though. Flushing fish down the toilet is such a touchy polemical topic in this country.
Anyhoo, the poem is pasted under the cut for your perusal. What do ya make of it?
Education for Leisure
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Vote Asia
[29 Aug 2008|
These new Batman flicks are alright aren't they? A bit of a giggle (sorta). A bit daft in places and a bit excitin' in others. They look OK, with all that typically moody cinematography, all those nifty little hooks and gadgets and things that make the proper fans go weak at the knees, and all that freakishly scary gerning that goes on (and that's just Morgan Freeman). They have both managed to rake in plenty of cash and been talked about and mulled over to within an inch of their existences. There's been plenty of po-faced discussion out there as to possible future instalments and what could happen in them, and the like. It's all very well and good if you give a shit. But I want to know: Will any of it be surprising? Are they planning anything that mucks with the template?
People are surely demanding The Penguin (to be ideally played by some fat Oscar winner probably) and/or The Riddler (to be ideally played by some thin future Oscar winner probably). People are most likely demanding [insert multiple other Batman foes] (I don't know the names of any of the others) to be ideally played by the latest Hollywood jock/hunk with a bad-boy rep probably. So far we've had: in the first one, a wooden Liam Neeson as some kind of father figure who's, like, really strange and mystical or something, and also an errant - and possibly sexually impotent - guy with an ASBO and a potato sack on his head; and in this new one we've got Heath Ledger's tightly-wound, little-brother-gone-off-the-rails-style much-praised Joker, and a man with two heads - one all dashing 'n' that like an '80s catalogue model, the other all crispy. It's a pretty gloomy roll call; likewise, Batman lives in a pretty gloomy environment. But what about adding something a little more felid into the mix? Why so masculine?
I think it's a bit too darn manly
Don't you think these flicks really lacked a decent female presence? Someone who could not only kick ass alongside - or better than - Christian Bale dressed as a nocturnal flying mammal, but also someone who could add a touch more pouty, slinky vigour?
I mean, Katie Holmes went down, critically and commercially, like a sack of shit, and could barely perform alongside a telephone let alone a co-star; and Maggie Gyllenhaal, as talented as she is, only really wore a few dresses, danced about a bit and [left the film] about two-thirds in. That just left Gary Oldman's wife - who, actually quite hilariously, in the newer film only ever
opened doors to people in floods of tears
(I bet if someone had sent a nice singing telegram to her doorstep she'd have done the same) - and Gary Oldman's police partner, who didn't get the chance to do very much at all apart from dob someone in and receive a smack in the face for her efforts. Tut-tut boys. Those Nolan bros. do write some stern and virile stuff for sure. But Batman needs mothering. He needs to be pussy-whipped. He needs to be slapped around a bit.
Batman needs fucking with.
So, if you are saying, "oh, why yes Craig, I see how correct you are in this pointlessly trivial post. The possible new Batflick
indeed need a superior lady character to spark things up a bit", then this is the right place for you.
Yup, this is my all new
most likely futile attempt in creating a(n)
completely un
official page for
Yes, people with far more business savvy than I, financial sense and/or fanboy masturbatory inclinations will cry, "I want Emily Blunt or Kate Winslet! Rachel Weiss! Kate Bosworth! The Olsen twins! (who could alternate, Buñuel-style, in the role - one could relieve the other if they get too confused). I want that vacant blond Hollywood headline-grabber from that overpraised sci-fi TV show currently mopping up ratings!" But will any of these people stand out? Will they bring something different to the table other than what's already been done before with the role? How interesting would they be? Not very. They're all, by-and-large, really rather boring. I say
Vote for Asia
. She's frankly better than any number of carefully considered "top-draw" A-listers that casting agents would dredge up. She's better than them all.
Land of the Dead
to see her dispatch villainous hoards of henchmen (well, zombies) with a kick, thrust and punch (Sock! Pow! Zap! Ker-smash!); watch
the trailer
Une vieille maîtresse
- or indeed the actual film - and see her casually dismiss mere mortals with a flick of the wrist, whilst dressed in some ridiculously elaborate, yet fantastic, costumes; watch her dad's latest horror flick,
Mother of Tears
, and see her brilliantly interact with some gory special effects; be enthralled as she acts everyone out of an artfully reconstructed Versailles in a quarter of everyone else's screentime in
Marie Antoinette
; watch her s...l...o...w...l...y get out of bed and walk around a little bit in
Last Days
; or watch
Boarding Gate
Demons 2
The Stendhal Syndrome
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Scarlet Diva
She's got the voice, the muscles, the stamina, the femininity and, above all, the perfect
to add something that touch more lithely carnivorous to this testosterone-heavy franchise.
She'll fuckin' own Gotham town.
Pick and click on some button somewhere, anywhere else on the World Wide Web to show your support (I'm too lazy to make a poll-thingy). Or just comment below with
(nods) or nay (boo) reasons.
(If not Asia, then my second choice is
Bella Emburg
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I'm dying in this town!
[09 Jul 2008|
The Hours. The Days. The Techno.
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| K0yuk1-san chapter 10 . 10/4/2009
Good, good, good... finally you make me so curious about 'what will happen next' again! I can't sleep peacefully because of this!
But, why, why, WHY you made Raiha lost his memories... *cry hard*
Huhuhuhu... (broken heart)
Well, what about Tokiya and Fuuko's wedding? and how about their first night, huh?
I'm waiting for LEMON chap, fufufufu... *pervert mode on*
Kidding. Now, this is my true intention,
I just wanna say, UPDATE SOON! XD XD XD
| radcliffe-dreams chapter 10 . 10/4/2009
*heartbreak alert!* *heartbreak alert* oh please, enough of that, as i haven't got enough of it...T_T
forgiven on the crime of typo errors...i smell H.P. here esp the half-blood wait for the next chapter.
| satomika chapter 10 . 10/3/2009
good luck with your work and i hope you'd update soon!
that was some kind of a heart-attacking news...
i hate miki!
| thepinkmartini chapter 10 . 10/2/2009
Great chapter! Tokiya is such a tease! Hope you can update soon. Good luck with your work!
| champylin chapter 10 . 10/2/2009
OMG... and Raiha lost his memories! WAH! What a twist! PLEASE update again SOON! this is just getting better! and what will happen when they get married? Will Fuuko and Tokiya spend a night as husband and wife? LOLz
| Eirist chapter 10 . 10/2/2009
sorry i wasn't able to review the previous chapter. been busy. :) i totally like lord Eneas. hehe! interesting fellow. to be honest, i'm starting to hate Fuuko here. i want to bop her repeatedly on the head and tell her 'give tokiya a break will ya'. but... the same thing can be said to tokiya. haha!
so raiha lost his memories huh? poor fuuko-chan. her heart will break. so i'll be expecting a wedding on the next chap? or not? hahaha! good luck with your work. and hoping to see the next one soon. :D
| Ushinaware Ta Kaze chapter 10 . 10/2/2009
OMG she is actually getting married! Er...is dat good?0.o
Anyway nice chappy...and raiha has lost his memories...dats no good!...update soon!
| malo chapter 10 . 10/2/2009
raiha has amnesia! and it seems he's got his eyes on neon...good for tokiya!he can have fuuko all to himself...haha!:P
the story's taking shape now as more things are being unraveled...:) now i really want to know what happens next!so please update soon! i'll be looking forward to it!
btw, is the rating going a notch higher *ehem*M*ehem*...;)
keep writing!:D
| radcliffe-dreams chapter 9 . 9/29/2009
OMG,what the hell is happening with me?
Forgive me for saying this again but I want to see Raiha and Fuuko end up together! (okae, you may shoot me now with guns and arrows). I feel miserable...huhuhu.
It was a rather Highlarious chappie. See yah!
| Ushinaware Ta Kaze chapter 9 . 9/26/2009
Sorry for the late revieww neechan...college is really hectic! 3some chapter neechan! I really really love it! I can;t wait to see Fuuko's, Recca's n Tokiya reaction at the new turn of event...that was really a smart way of creating suspense you know! XD Awesome chapter! Update soon!
PS I will be reviewing a wee bit late cuz my term exams coming ard! But you shldn't uipdate late, ok? XD Just kiding...no seriously update fast as possible! Ja!
| thepinkmartini chapter 9 . 9/25/2009
I absolutely adore this chapter! It's the best one yet! I mean, there's not much Tofuu interaction but the revelations and sudden twists were enough of a compensation for that! Kenji's nickname for Fuuko is oh so sweet and Eneas is by far my favorite character! He's an awesome old geezer! I love the fact that he took the initiative to join Fuuko and Recca's little game of charades. I don't know whether he'll keep the act up or rat out on them in the end but damn is Eneas awesome!
| Era Jade chapter 9 . 9/25/2009
I like this story. Hope you update soon.
| K0yuk1-san chapter 9 . 9/24/2009
Tehe... What a nice chapter, ya!
I really, really like Eneas's old man part!
What a good way to twist your story!
Btw, Why Eneas laird protect Recca & Fuuko?
It's getting more interesting! Can't wait for the next chapter! ;D
Update soon!
| loujane14 chapter 9 . 9/24/2009
girl, you really know how to put a twist on your story! i did a double take on that last part. for the longest time, i kept on thinking that fuuko's busted the minute eneas gets a look on her but you just have to do that. no complaints though...i have a feeling i would enjoy eneas' input in this fic.
i don't want to get ahead of myself but, eneas, kenji, mifuuyu, and i'll even throw in the other new character teaf, are they all together in pacifying fuu and umi once and for all?
great chapter once again!
| malo chapter 9 . 9/24/2009
nice chapter!
i like kenji! he's such a nice oniichan...i felt how close fuuko was to him, and i think she might consider what he told her about ending the feud...
so the couple visited their siblings...i wonder what mifuyu told tokiya...he's getting suspiscious...well, he'll eventually find out about fuuko, but i think he won't do anything drastic to hurt her...;)
i find eneas nice...actually, i had an inkling that he would play along with their plans...i wonder, maybe he knew the feud's history? or maybe he's part of kenji and mifuyu's plan on ending the feud?
btw, what's gonna happen to raiha? how about kaoru and ganko's blossoming romance? is the wedding gonna push through? can't wait to read the next chapter! it's getting more and more interesting! i love it!3 more please!:D


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Category:Càrn Dearg (Monadh Liath)
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- For other mountains of this name, see Category:Carn Dearg.
Càrn Dearg is the highest mountain of the Monadh Liath, in the Highlands of Scotland. Its eastern flanks slope steeply down into Glen Ballach, while to the north, the large plateau of the Monadh Liath extends for many miles. It is 945 m high, and listed as a Munro and a Marilyn.
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