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Um… I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but…

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Y'know. Can’t remember the last time I saw a dickbutt.

Um… I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but…

We had a biiiiiiiiiiiig weekend.

We had a biiiiiiiiiiiig weekend.

I’ve mentioned before that Boone’s band, The Infinity Project, has a weekly gig. And to be clear, all the members met at the boys’ music school and became the school’s house band. So, for legal reasons, when it’s a school function, they’re the “house band.” When it’s a gig they booked themselves, they’re “The Infinity Project.”

Well, his band’s front-man Preston started writing a song with Wyatt and the guy who books the club immediately offered them a gig. That was two weeks ago. Boone said he’d fill in on bass or guitar, so the trio spent those two weeks practicing over and over and they put together a modest set of ‘90s pop-punk songs. The as yet unnamed trio debuted right after The Infinity Project set on Saturday afternoon. Wyatt even sang backup vocals for the first time. (The 2nd photo is Wyatt practicing and the 3rd is of the trio gig.)

Then, on Sunday, the boys’ music school had their end-of-season show at a club in L.A. called The Goldfish. During that show, the house band played a set of rock and hard rock songs spanning a few decades — ZZ Top! Tool! Rush! Rage Against The Machine! — and brought the fucking house down.

It’s great that they’ve had weekly gigs for the entire summer. It’s really helped them hone their performance.

Anyway, we’re all exhausted and need a couple of days to recover. Not a bad way to end the summer, though.

I’ve had this Strat since the mid-‘90s.

I’ve had this Strat since the mid-‘90s.

I opened it up the other day to swap out the pickguard, realized I got the wrong kind (I accidentally got an 11-hole one, my Strat is an 8-hole), and took it as a sign from the universe to leave it the way it was.

Nice to have the old axe back in working order.

Co-inventor of the PDF, John Warnock, has passed away. If you’d like to make any changes to his…

Co-inventor of the PDF, John Warnock, has passed away. If you’d like to make any changes to his funeral plans, you’ll have to pay extra for the full memorial app.

I hope Republicans don’t find out we used all that baby blood we collected at the pizza place to…

I hope Republicans don’t find out we used all that baby blood we collected at the pizza place to fuel our Jewish space lasers solely to create a storm that would solve liberal California’s drought in one day… Maybe naming it Hilary was a bit too on the nose.

Here’s THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it’s a post made by the…

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Here’s THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it’s a post made by the master.

Anthony and Cleopatra: here’s the BBC version, here’s a 2017 version.

As you like it: you’ll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here’s Kenneth Brannagh’s 2006 one.

Coriolanus: Here’s a college play, here’s the 1984 telefilm, here’s the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here’s the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.

Cymbelline: Here’s the 2014 one.

Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant’s here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here’s A Midwinter’s Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet.

Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here’s part 1 of a corwall school version.

Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.

Julius Caesar: here’s the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010’s here.

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny’s 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.

Macbeth: Here’s the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here’s the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here’s the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here’s Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny’s 2008 version is here. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.

Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.

The Merchant of Venice: here’s a stage version, here’s the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here’s the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here’s the 1984 version.

Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you’ve got the BBC version here and there.

Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here’s the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.

Richard III: here’s the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.

Romeo and Juliet: here’s the 1988 BBC version. Here’s a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!

The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one I’m not quite sure what it is or when it’s from, it’s a modern retelling.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010’s too.

Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,

Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here

Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.

Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here.

The Winter’s Tale: the BBC version is here

Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.

(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)

Wow! Of course, my main reason for reblogging is Tennant and Tate in “Much Ado About Nothing.”

Deer Lady from Reservation Dogs and Elk Head Woman from Stephen Graham Jones’ book The Only Good…

Deer Lady from Reservation Dogs and Elk Head Woman from Stephen Graham Jones’ book The Only Good Indians is the horror team-up we need.

[Elk Head Woman 🎨 by @shoomlah]

[Elk Head Woman 🎨 by @shoomlah]

Deer Lady from Reservation Dogs and Elk Head Woman from Stephen Graham Jones’ book The Only Good Indians is the horror team-up we need.

[Elk Head Woman 🎨 by @shoomlah]

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…and we did it.

Thanks for the reminder, I had long forgotten about this. God I feel old. People of my generation, enjoy this rather … interesting … memory.

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