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gwydion* This inappropriately focuses on the actor and not the horrific conditions for Syrian refugees in Greece, but the crisis he was trying to highlight is real and immediate. Greece can not afford to care for them properly alone. The International community needs to step the fuck up. Also, these are refugees from a horrific war who are fleeing for their lives, can we start calling them refugees in the press please? "Walking Dead actor rescues migrant children from boats in harrowing video:" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/walking-dead-actor-david-morrissey-rescues-greek-migrant-children-from-boats-in-harrowing-video-highlighting-crisis-10394427.html
* Greece is having a serious AIDS crisis as prevention efforts were amoung the first things to be cut and people can't afford medication copays.
* "Malala Turned 18 Yesterday and Opened a School for Syrian Refugee Girls:" http://rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com/post/124163073528/malala-turned-18-yesterday-and-opened-a-school-for#notes
* Prime Minister Abe took a step towards turning Japan's Peace constitution into a dead letter by getting the lower house to pass a bill letting their defense force to fight on foreign soil. We'll see what happens in the upper house.
* "How Malevolent Buffoonery Became The New Normal Of Australian Leadership
Read more at http://junkee.com/how-malevolent-buffoonery-became-the-new-normal-of-australian-leadership/59037#g63AsXLO3XjKPgVJ.99:" http://junkee.com/how-malevolent-buffoonery-became-the-new-normal-of-australian-leadership/59037
* Mike Huckabee is out claiming Palestinians don't exist and therefore ought to be forcibly relocated. O.o
* Four service men and the gunmen are dead in an attack in Chattanooga.
* "NYC Doesn't Fly Confederate Flags, But It's Still A Shrine To Slaveowners & Slave Profiteers:" http://gothamist.com/2015/07/06/nyc_slave_history.php
* Today during early lung treatment, I spotted not only a live bee in the garden (Yay, bees!), but two white butterflies. Signs of life!
* One of my long term complaints about US movies and TV is that so much takes place in California or New york. Yes those are important places. Yes, that is where the big name actors are. It is also sort of boring both narratively and visually. Yes, there are plenty of good stories that are specific to New York and LA, and that is fine, but specific is the key here. By making nearly everything about these two places they become vague and generic. Sure, the boom in shooting in Vancouver and Toronto added some slightly different vegetation and the idea of mists, but really, because everything is shot in a few places often pretending to be others, you lose specificity. A generic California Park looks nothing like anything actually in Annapolis, Maryland. I was bored in Annapolis a little over two years, trust me, I know. (I'm looking at you CriminalMinds). Reusing the same New York Street soundstage in California over and over makes it into Wallpaper. Each city has it's own look and feel and voices. Each city has stories and visuals and accents that can make a thing look specific, feel specific, and be more interesting instead of bland to the eye, the ear, the mind. What do I mean? Things like the Wire, where it really is Baltimore and a lot of the talent is from there so you get a variety of real Baltimore accents mixed with the more generic north east ones. Things like The Only Lovers Left Alive and It Follows using the unique look of Detroit's ruins and lost in time neighborhoods. Things like the Killing being so very PNW. Things like the Six Sense being a very, very Philly movie in look and feel and accent. Imagine if we shot more movies and TV in New Orleans, or Chicago, or Charleston! Imagine if we really spread out and told stories about all sorts of places around this country.
I think there is a similar problem with most of the stuff coming out of England when I was growing up. It was all shot at Shepperton, or a handful of same locations. (Look! Another seen at that quarry! Look, that same forest they shoot all the forest scenes!) The voices and faces were more diverse than Hollywood was shooting, and there'd be the occasional more lavish production, but there was often a sameness about things, and certain accents were waaaay more common than others. I love that that's been changing, that shooting in Cardiff became a thing, that shows and movies are getting shot in more cities and on different bits of landscape, that I seem more lead actors with regional accents in stories not specifically making a big deal about so and so being Welsh or Scots or whatever.
Which brings me to the Revenger's Tragedy. (I'm on a 17th and 18th Century UK kick just now. I'd read the play before, at some point, though the sense memories of things like sitting on fairly generic PNW apartment stairs reading it are not helping me pin it down further.) It's a Jacobean tragedy, a strange transitional thing both in language and style of drama, full of fury and deep class based anger. Imagine my delight on discovering they made a Dystopian future version shot in Liverpool with Eccleston, Izzard, and Jacobi, and a mostly Liverpudlian and northern cast and crew. All those rich northern accents that are closer to period pronunciation anyway! All those fascinating specific to Liverpool instead of generic looking locations! Absolutely wild Repo Man the Genetic Opera adjacent costumes! ILL delivered a copy into my sweaty little hands this week and I have been enthralled.
I am not at all surprised they had trouble getting backing, because it is not an idea that plays to generic "things we know worked already" studio head thinking, but wow, does this work! The class tension, the North vs. South tension, the raw old school punk style fury echoed in the costuming and sets work brilliantly together. This is a violent, angry play, with some stunningly beautiful language tucked in between the macabre bits and the ultra violence. This is a visually arresting movie and the visuals work beautifully with the theme. The Northern voices flinging and winging that dialog are just perfect. I am now having trouble imagining how any conventional staging could compete with this. The specificity of setting it apologetically in Liverpool made this film and made clear the way a 400ish year old revenge play still pretty damned relevant. Bravo! This was such a brilliant idea for a film, and not one I would have thought of in a million years.
* "Sea Bunnies: Japan Is Going Crazy About These Furry Sea Slugs:" http://www.boredpanda.com/cute-bunny-sea-slug-jorunna-parva/
* "Torchwood: 6 Years on and Ianto's shrine is still going strong:" http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/torchwood-6-years-iantos-shrine-9624425#ICID=sharebar_facebook
* "(SPOILERS) SOME DUDELY RAMBLINGS ON THE FEMINISM OF MAD MAX: FURY ROAD AND THE CYBER WARS OF DEFINING WHAT IS AND ISN'T FEMINIST:" http://verysharpteeth.tumblr.com/post/119984813436/spoilers-some-dudely-ramblings-on-the-feminism
* "Fangs For The Fantasy: Killjoys, Season 1, Episode 4: Vessel:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/07/killjoys-season-1-episode-4-vessel.html
* Ebay Time:
AUTUMN FANCIES 2013 (LE, Halloweenies): (Company says: Dry grasses bathed in amber light, muted by gentle shadows.) Top of label.:http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301667294922?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* My RL oldest continuous friend is doing a fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/x9g7q2k
* Trying to stay afloat until August: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com
* Greece is having a serious AIDS crisis as prevention efforts were amoung the first things to be cut and people can't afford medication copays.
* "Malala Turned 18 Yesterday and Opened a School for Syrian Refugee Girls:" http://rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com/post/124163073528/malala-turned-18-yesterday-and-opened-a-school-for#notes
* Prime Minister Abe took a step towards turning Japan's Peace constitution into a dead letter by getting the lower house to pass a bill letting their defense force to fight on foreign soil. We'll see what happens in the upper house.
* "How Malevolent Buffoonery Became The New Normal Of Australian Leadership
Read more at http://junkee.com/how-malevolent-buffoonery-became-the-new-normal-of-australian-leadership/59037#g63AsXLO3XjKPgVJ.99:" http://junkee.com/how-malevolent-buffoonery-became-the-new-normal-of-australian-leadership/59037
* Mike Huckabee is out claiming Palestinians don't exist and therefore ought to be forcibly relocated. O.o
* Four service men and the gunmen are dead in an attack in Chattanooga.
* "NYC Doesn't Fly Confederate Flags, But It's Still A Shrine To Slaveowners & Slave Profiteers:" http://gothamist.com/2015/07/06/nyc_slave_history.php
* Today during early lung treatment, I spotted not only a live bee in the garden (Yay, bees!), but two white butterflies. Signs of life!
* One of my long term complaints about US movies and TV is that so much takes place in California or New york. Yes those are important places. Yes, that is where the big name actors are. It is also sort of boring both narratively and visually. Yes, there are plenty of good stories that are specific to New York and LA, and that is fine, but specific is the key here. By making nearly everything about these two places they become vague and generic. Sure, the boom in shooting in Vancouver and Toronto added some slightly different vegetation and the idea of mists, but really, because everything is shot in a few places often pretending to be others, you lose specificity. A generic California Park looks nothing like anything actually in Annapolis, Maryland. I was bored in Annapolis a little over two years, trust me, I know. (I'm looking at you CriminalMinds). Reusing the same New York Street soundstage in California over and over makes it into Wallpaper. Each city has it's own look and feel and voices. Each city has stories and visuals and accents that can make a thing look specific, feel specific, and be more interesting instead of bland to the eye, the ear, the mind. What do I mean? Things like the Wire, where it really is Baltimore and a lot of the talent is from there so you get a variety of real Baltimore accents mixed with the more generic north east ones. Things like The Only Lovers Left Alive and It Follows using the unique look of Detroit's ruins and lost in time neighborhoods. Things like the Killing being so very PNW. Things like the Six Sense being a very, very Philly movie in look and feel and accent. Imagine if we shot more movies and TV in New Orleans, or Chicago, or Charleston! Imagine if we really spread out and told stories about all sorts of places around this country.
I think there is a similar problem with most of the stuff coming out of England when I was growing up. It was all shot at Shepperton, or a handful of same locations. (Look! Another seen at that quarry! Look, that same forest they shoot all the forest scenes!) The voices and faces were more diverse than Hollywood was shooting, and there'd be the occasional more lavish production, but there was often a sameness about things, and certain accents were waaaay more common than others. I love that that's been changing, that shooting in Cardiff became a thing, that shows and movies are getting shot in more cities and on different bits of landscape, that I seem more lead actors with regional accents in stories not specifically making a big deal about so and so being Welsh or Scots or whatever.
Which brings me to the Revenger's Tragedy. (I'm on a 17th and 18th Century UK kick just now. I'd read the play before, at some point, though the sense memories of things like sitting on fairly generic PNW apartment stairs reading it are not helping me pin it down further.) It's a Jacobean tragedy, a strange transitional thing both in language and style of drama, full of fury and deep class based anger. Imagine my delight on discovering they made a Dystopian future version shot in Liverpool with Eccleston, Izzard, and Jacobi, and a mostly Liverpudlian and northern cast and crew. All those rich northern accents that are closer to period pronunciation anyway! All those fascinating specific to Liverpool instead of generic looking locations! Absolutely wild Repo Man the Genetic Opera adjacent costumes! ILL delivered a copy into my sweaty little hands this week and I have been enthralled.
I am not at all surprised they had trouble getting backing, because it is not an idea that plays to generic "things we know worked already" studio head thinking, but wow, does this work! The class tension, the North vs. South tension, the raw old school punk style fury echoed in the costuming and sets work brilliantly together. This is a violent, angry play, with some stunningly beautiful language tucked in between the macabre bits and the ultra violence. This is a visually arresting movie and the visuals work beautifully with the theme. The Northern voices flinging and winging that dialog are just perfect. I am now having trouble imagining how any conventional staging could compete with this. The specificity of setting it apologetically in Liverpool made this film and made clear the way a 400ish year old revenge play still pretty damned relevant. Bravo! This was such a brilliant idea for a film, and not one I would have thought of in a million years.
* "Sea Bunnies: Japan Is Going Crazy About These Furry Sea Slugs:" http://www.boredpanda.com/cute-bunny-sea-slug-jorunna-parva/
* "Torchwood: 6 Years on and Ianto's shrine is still going strong:" http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/torchwood-6-years-iantos-shrine-9624425#ICID=sharebar_facebook
* "(SPOILERS) SOME DUDELY RAMBLINGS ON THE FEMINISM OF MAD MAX: FURY ROAD AND THE CYBER WARS OF DEFINING WHAT IS AND ISN'T FEMINIST:" http://verysharpteeth.tumblr.com/post/119984813436/spoilers-some-dudely-ramblings-on-the-feminism
* "Fangs For The Fantasy: Killjoys, Season 1, Episode 4: Vessel:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/07/killjoys-season-1-episode-4-vessel.html
* Ebay Time:
AUTUMN FANCIES 2013 (LE, Halloweenies): (Company says: Dry grasses bathed in amber light, muted by gentle shadows.) Top of label.:http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301667294922?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* My RL oldest continuous friend is doing a fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/x9g7q2k
* Trying to stay afloat until August: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com
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Date: 2015-07-17 05:13 am (UTC)I can also instanteously tell when things are filmed in California but the series or show is supposed to be say in, Kentucky. I can just tell by the geography and the types of trees and everything that it isn't the locale the series or show is really supposed to be in.
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Date: 2015-07-19 03:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-07-19 03:40 am (UTC)