October 12, 2018
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Love Is Magic
John Grant (whom you perhaps remember from an earlier FPP about his song Glacier) released a new album [discogs] today. Love Is Magic is the title track and was the advance-release single [lyric video]. [more inside]
Today bright Phoebus she smiled down on me for the very first time
The siblings Norma, Michael (Mike) and Elaine (Lal) Waterson, with their second cousin John Harrison, toured little clubs and coffee shops in England, playing traditional folk music. They released three albums in the mid-to-late 1960s as The Watersons and were known as the premiere traditional folk family*. Then in 1972, Mike and Lal (with various friends and visitors) recorded some unusual, original songs in Bright Phoebus. There were some mis-drilled records, and reviews of that time weren't too positive, sinking the record into obscurity. 45 years later, the album was remastered and re-released, with a set of demos (YT official audio playlist) by Domino. This is the stunning pagan Brit folk cult classic that you must hear before you die!** [via Johnny Wallflower] [more inside]
Making Christmas
“Rufi-o-o-o-o!”
Dante Basco Discusses Becoming Rufio for Hook, the Character's Legacy, and So Much More [io9] We talked to Basco about how he got the role, the food fight, the amazing costume, Rufio’s legacy and so much more.
“I think it’s one of those things that, as you grow up, you’re able to appreciate aspects of your career and celebrate them with fans out there and understand and engage on social media. Like it’s nostalgic for me too so it’s kind of fun to capsulize a part of your life which, to me, was 15. Clearly, it means a lot to so many people and it’s something I’m proud of too, work-wise. Look, everyone who ever comes to Hollywood, you hope to do something that people will remember you for. We work on so many things and I continue to work today, not just as an actor but as a writer and a producer. But [certain roles] really kind of mean things to people. [Hook] has become, for a certain generation, a part of the vernacular.”
Resembled a budgie that had inhaled a lumberjack’s breakfast
A Naturalist With a Checkered Past Rediscovered a Long-lost Parrot from Audubon. Audubon article updated October 2. Wildlife group investigates claim night parrot photos were staged today in The Guardian.
Figure / Ground
The New York Times has just created an online map showing the silhouettes of the 125,192,184 buildings in the United States of America. [more inside]
Say not the struggle naught availeth
Novelist Chuck Wendig fired by Marvel
& as I went to grab her buttcheeks she screams "NO MY GLASSES!"
please tell me about a time you laughed so hard you cried. (SLTwitter) Currently best viewed via the user's timeline, since she's retweeted the best ones, but I made the original tweet the main link for posterity. Also, I am deceased. Happy Friday!
Pick It Up!
Reel Big Fish Release Track From First Album in Six Years Reel Big Fish are partnering with AP to premiere their track “You Can’t Have All Of Me.” As if that’s not exciting enough, they’re also revealing plans to release their first new album in six years, Life Sucks…Let’s Dance!, this winter.
(Video for the first release, "You Can't Have All Of Me," is embedded therein. Also, tour dates. Enjoy.)
Wave and ripple
A Meji-era design book of waves and ripple designs is now available for download. The three book series, titled Hamonshū, was created by artist Mori Yuzan.
Direct link
Dammit, Moon Moon
It it live?
On the heels of the In Dreams: Roy Orbison in Concert hologram tour currently underway in America, BASE Hologram has announced a 2019 Amy Winehouse hologram tour, featuring "digitally remastered arrangements of the British singer’s hits — including 'Rehab,' 'Back to Black' and 'Valerie' — with Winehouse’s hologram backed by a live band, singers and 'theatrical stagecraft,' according to BASE."
Haunting of Hell Hill (1999)
Know Your Haunts: A Crash Course in Horror's Most Confusingly Similar Ghostly Titles, a brief list that mentions the new Haunting of Hill House Netflix series but omits The Legend of Hell House. Shirley Jackson’s opening paragraph To The Haunting of Hill House remains one of the best of all time.
Her interpretation: Call 911, get sticker.
قل كلمتك … وامش
Jamal Khashoggi (twitter), is a Saudi Arabian-born journalist [Al-Jazeera English] and opinion[Washington Post] writer[Al-Arabiya]. A critic[MidEastEye] of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman[aka MBS][AJE] and his policies[WaPo], he left Saudi Arabia for Turkey last year. On October 2, he was called to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul[MEE] on what was apparently a routine paperwork matter.
He has not been seen since[AJE]. [more inside]
He has not been seen since[AJE]. [more inside]
“going to the biggest-worst”
“Futility is a strategy. An indispensable aspect of this is to make people associate the unionization election itself with the pain and discomfort of the polarized, harsh language coming at them from all sides: The sooner the election goes away, the better they will feel. Things will return to “normal,” since they will stop fighting with friends and family, and the once-bad normal — the reason for the struggle in the first place — suddenly feels better, until their employer cuts benefits weeks after the election. Futility makes the act of voting, discussing and even thinking about the election feel bad.” Three Lessons for Winning in November and Beyond : What union organizers can teach Democrats (NYT Op-Ed) by Jane McAlevy, author of No Shortcuts (Labor Notes.) Jane McAlvey Structural Power Requires Structure-based Organizing (Vimeo 01:28)
Vale Greg Stafford
Dancing With Death
These vintage photographs and postcards of women dancing and flirting with skeletons (NSFW) are more than mere memento mori or snapshots of ladies at carnivals having a jolly wheeze in the face of death—they are in some respects quite transgressive. Some of these pictures were intended as, well, shall we say, “educational erotica” giving the viewer a frisson of arousal while at the same time battering them on the head with the salutary warning that the wrong kind of boner could lead to disease and death. Something those Decadent artists used to bang (ahem) on about in their paintings.
A Person Who Has Not Seen A Star Is Born Ranks Its Entire Soundtrack
Natalie Walker, who is really just the best, has done "something very dumb that will destroy my existing relationships and cut nascent ones off at the root" .
Skibidi ua-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
{randomly NSFW} Skibidi is the latest release by the Russian dance/rave/art/electro/satire Little Big. The band/collective have a reputation for their videos, which include the Disney-lawyer-baiting AK-47, Kim Jong Un tribute LollyBomb, the gangster culture Give me your money, to the retirement home Faradenza, the street life With Russia from love, the nightmare-inducing Hateful Love, and the unforgettable {definitely NSFW} piano-playing Big Dick.
libraries change lives
Of course libraries can be a temple of books. I love nothing more than a well-stocked bookshelf and a leather armchair, but if, like me, you are into that sort of thing, you probably have the benefit of a literate upbringing. You were probably never in danger of being left behind. But we need to be careful of our romantic mistake, because a "temple of books" can be a very easy target for those looking to cut costs. [more inside]
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