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Ultra modern industrial house made me a little dizzy. The 2006 home in Omaha, NE is called "single family / multigenerational living." It has 4bds, 6ba, 6,450sqft, Reduced $100k to $1.3m (Zillow's est.: $1,241,100)
So, there's this big, multi level main house.
And, this long box-like part jutting out the side. One-of-a-kind design by award winning Architect Randy Brown. (It's so weird, the listing is so desperate, it says that it's a family home or AIRBNB rental.) Hell, it's got Tumblr so confused they marked it Adult Content!
the more you listen to it, the funnier it gets
Audio: dramatic piano. The husky screams along, vaguely keeping the rhythm but not the tune
That last ROO always gets me
There's a scene in very early 60's Doctor Who where a character falls into a swamp, I think, and they throw not a rag doll, but a card board cut out of the actor. 10/10 they don't make 'em like this no more
Classical architecture
the resemblance to vines growing over abandoned buildings is doing something to me. are WE the force of nature reclaiming the remains of a past civilisation
I think the funniest thing in Trek (okay ignore that I say this on multiple posts I know) is the fact that like every other episode is "amazing this planet is exactly like Earth, what are the odds" "astronomical" couple episodes later you get "amazing the cultural development on this planet is just like Earth, what are the odds" "statistically speaking it shouldn't be happening"
So many things would be better if doctors could just say “yeah that is a real problem but there isn’t much we can do to treat it so our only real recommendations are other things that raise your general health level to compensate”
instead they just say “thats normal” or “oh theres nothing wrong with you”. Because in their mind “it wont kill you and i cant fix it” means its not with mentioning.
Affirm the problem doc, it wont kill you. Knowing that something just isnt the kind of thing doctors treat will save your patients so much time, money, and stress, all of which will improve their health.
girl are you a psychology study because you're one of a kind and i don't think anybody could replicate you
The Silmarillion fandom is genuinely insane. Like, you hang out on tumblr, read fic on AO3 and you think, yeah. Lots of people have read the Silmarillion. It’s Tolkien. Everyone’s read Tolkien. Barnes and Noble has a whole bunch of the HoME and also a bunch of books by people writing about the legendarium. This is mainstream, surely.
But then you actually touch grass and talk to normal people. Not even that, you talk to people who self diagnose as hard core Tolkien fans. And. None of them have read the Silmarillion. The Silmarillion is famously a book that nobody reads.
And yet. On AO3 The Silmarillion and Other Histories of Middle Earth has more works than The Lord of the Rings. Think about that. That’s baffling. It’s ridiculous. Like I realize that LotR fandom is split a bit by the movie, but still. The Silmarillion has almost four times as many fics as the LotR movies. Everybody has watched the movies!
I need to know what percentage of people who actually read the Silmarillion went on to write fic or draw fanart about it. Because it must be insane, surely. Like, I’m pretty sure the Silmarillion wins some kind of record in this department.
Thinking about the fanfic bell curve where on one end you have “Perfect, needs no improvement or elaboration” (LotR sits here) and on the other you have “So bad it’s no fun to even think about” with the middle being the fanfic zone. But I think there may be a secret fourth Silmarillion option. Which is a book that is perfect* but simultaneously non existent. It’s not even a real story! The language is super pretty and deeply incomprehensible (especially to people who, unlike me, were not raised from early childhood on both the Bible and classic literature). And it’s more of an outline and an abstract painting of cultural and world building vibes (not cultural and world building facts and information) than an actual narrative. There are story hooks galore. There are vivid and fascinating characters, but their lives are glossed over and you only get one or two paragraphs of prose that will reorder your brain chemistry and haunt you forever. There are countless more characters who only exist as names, the implication of whose existence is fascinating. All of this is deeply frustrating, both to casual readers who just want a Normal Enjoyable Book, and super fans who want All the Lore. But it is catnip to anyone who engages in transformative work.
*I am aware that not anyone who is a fan of the silm thinks it’s perfect
I bet I know what scene it was, and I get emotional just thinking about it.
I think you’re right about this being the scene.
It’s really interesting to me; he’s surrounded by actors with exceptionally strong acting pedigrees: half the cast got their MFAs at Yale, Rickman went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, even Sam Rockwell went to a top flight acting school.
The scene is also shot with multiple cameras for coverage so everyone is doing this in one big take. When you think about all the scene entails of Allen—being physically manhandled and ridiculed by Sarris, having to watch the other actor he’s working closely with in the scene feel betrayed as he explains the nature of acting to him—it’s an intense scene and it would be easy to get lost in it, to lose your sense of self a bit and start to feel like it’s a little too real.
Here’s this standup comedian with a degree in radio disc jockeying from a state school, surrounded by Real Actors, having to Actually Fucking Act for the first time in his career, and he kinda pulls it off! I think that reaction shot of Sigourney Weaver is 100% genuine and hers.
Alan Rickman is definitely taking the piss and I have no doubt he probably didn’t like Tim Allen in general, but I can’t help but think he was simply stating a fact. Tim Allen experienced acting, probably for the first time. Because that guy hadn’t had to Actually Fucking Act before.
By all accounts Tim Allen is a jerk, so I’m definitely laughing with Alan Rickman here, but I can imagine that scene would be overwhelming if you don’t have the training to prepare for it.
[ ID: image of Tim Allen and Alan Rickman in Galaxy Quest, with text: director Dean Parisot recalled how Tim Allen was unsettled after a particularly dramatic scene:
I turned back, and Tim is just completely emotional; heart-wrenching, actually. He says, "Yeah, I don’t like these feelings I'm having, I'd like to go back to the trailer." And Alan Rickman said, "Oh my God, I think he just experienced acting." /ID ]
Even if Alan Rickman disliked Tim Allen at first, they soon became friends. Five days after Rickman died, Allen wrote an article for The Hollywood Reporter about the friendship they built:
"I don’t think he liked me all that much when we first started shooting Galaxy Quest. I was a stage performer, a concert comic, and I was coming into this group of very polished thespians - Sigourney Weaver and Sam Rockwell and Tony Shalhoub and then Alan adding his English roots.
"All of them had this process and method - voice stretching and all that kind of prep - and it was so different from mine. I was doing penis jokes right up to action.
"I went to a very different school, shitty clubs and basements and big arenas. But then, one day on the set, Alan came to me and apologized. He said he mistook my behavior for lack of commitment. And we became very fast friends.
"Alan was just an amazing person and an amazing actor. We had these dinner parties during production, and Alan always brought gifts whenever he came to the house. He was that kind of guy - he had class and style and manners. But he was also gentle and funny and wonderful."
Sometimes you do have to admit that while the "lower classes" aren't the upper ones, they do have their own culture and mannerisms, and an "upper class" person will step their foot in it because they don't know the proper manners and etiquette for that social circle.
Highbrow Acting versus Comedy is very much like that. It may not look like there's etiquette in stage comedy...but there actually is, and a lot of effort that goes into making it look flawless. Comedic timing is harder to learn than physical stage blocking and delivering your lines because there isn't as much stage blocking. It's all based on what the audience is reacting to, and yes, you do have to change your performance based on their reaction. (This is why improv actors make good comedians and vice versa.) In a movie, show, or most stage productions, you don't do that.
Yes, Tim finally had an Actually Acting Moment. Good for him. And then Alan realized the dick jokes were Tim's vocal stretches, and realized yes, he does take this all seriously. it's just a completely different display of committment. A different method, literally, of acting.
I'm glad they both came to a better understanding!
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you may think the best Star Trek episode is the Spock sex fever episode or the tribble episode but it’s actually the one where a fascist from the 90s wakes up in a beautiful socialist future
