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I finally completed my collection of Alizée studio albums. I didn’t have her fourth album, Une Enfant du Siècle. Since it was out of print, I had to get it second-hand. There’s something about having a real CD and booklet to hold in your hand over a digital download. Maybe I’m just old-school, maybe it’s the great photography by Camille Vivier. Here are some examples of the included photo’s:

The music is easily the most inaccessible she’s made. Quite experimental, no easy hooks, quite varied. But I like that: if I want to hear a copy of some of her other albums, I put in that CD instead.

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Helena Bonham Carter in Twelfth Night, pouring tea
Helena Bonham Carter in Twelfth Night
Helena Bonham Carter in Twelfth Night, almost kissing Imogen Stubbs who is dressed as a man

Helena Bonham Carter and Imogen Stubbs in Twelfth Night
Helena Bonham Carter in Twelfth Night, sharing a tender moment with Imogen Stubbs who is dressed as a man

Helena Bonham Carter and Imogen Stubbs in Twelfth Night
Helena Bonham Carter in Twelfth Night, sitting on a sofa with Ben Kingsley

Helena Bonham Carter and Ben Kingsley in Twelfth Night
Helena Bonham Carter in Twelfth Night, giving seductive side-eye

Helena Bonham Carter in Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night is a film from quite a while ago, based on a play even longer ago. Here Helena Bonham Carter and Imogen Stubbs give stellar performances in the ultimate love triangle.

Copyright notice: even though I took these screenshots, the copyright remains with the original owner

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Close up of Chloë Grace Moretz as Hit Girl in Kick Ass 2
Close up of Chloë Grace Moretz as Hit Girl in Kick Ass 2

These are some screenshots I took of Chloë Grace Moretz in Kick Ass 2. She is so good, in every film and also in this film. There are basically two characters she plays: the superhero Hit Girl and the normal teenage girl just starting high school Mindy Macready. I love how these personalities are different, even though they are the same person and how her growth moment in the film is when she learns to integrate the two.

Close up in a car of Chloë Grace Moretz as Hit Girl in Kick Ass 2
Chloë Grace Moretz as Hit Girl in Kick Ass 2, having a drink and laughing with the character Dave / Kick Ass, in front of a photo of Hit Girl's father Big Daddy.
Chloë Grace Moretz as Hit Girl in Kick Ass 2, sitting on a bed in a pink room in full Hit Girl costume

There’s also this interplay between Mindy and her guardian, Marcus. They both know they’re lying to each other and they are both keeping up the pretence. At one time Marcus busts her on a lie reminding her she’s 15, not 5, so she just switches to a more age appropriate lie…

Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy / Hit Girl in Kick Ass 2, talking to her guardian Marcus
Close up of Chloë Grace Moretz as Hit Girl in Kick Ass 2, talking to her guardian Marcus

Copyright notice: even though I took these screenshots, the copyright remains with the original owner

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Banner from her merchandising site

Heather Nova posted an Instagram video with some music from new album Pearl. The pre-order / crowdfunding campaign is still open at heathernova.lnk.to/preorderpearlin. She has finished recording the album, but all the mixing stuff, etc is still to be done.

Sounds good! I still can’t get over her voice…

I just pre-ordered my signed CD. Yes I’m late, I know.

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Installation out of plastic bottles at Glow Eindhoven 2015.
Glow Eindhoven 2015. Photo by me.

So the import from my Tumblr into my WordPress is done. Over 2000 posts… And it has become a right old mess. Here’s what I noticed so far:

  • Titles on Tumblr text posts are optional. Apparently on WordPress (or just in this theme, I don’t know) they are not. So the import tool has made the whole text of the post as the title, showing up like that in recent posts lists, archives, etc.
  • Photo sets are presented as square thumbnails, losing the layout that was in Tumblr. Often there’s a mix of portrait and landscape photos and I chose the layout to have the correct areas of the photo visible in the preview. Because Tumblr, and probably WordPress, lack the focal points that Mastodon has.
  • The previews of photos in photo sets in Tumblr are presented much nicer and closer together than they are in WordPress
  • Photo sets that were posted on mobile in Tumblr, which displayed incorrectly on the Tumblr web, also import incorrectly into WordPress. On mobile the photos were previews that you could tap to see the full image. On Tumblr web, and now here after the import, the photos are just low res inserts in a text post. It is related to the fact that on mobile, the posts no longer have different types: they have different blocks of content, same as this new WordPress editor. However, all older interfaces read those as text posts.
  • Videos, at least posted on Tumblr mobile, import as a single image. That’s not good.
  • The import tool imports everything, also reblogs. I guess that’s just how Tumblr presents the content. I would have been ok with just importing the original posts. But then, what about those reblogs where I added text or photos? I’ll be adding category classifications to these posts so they can be easily found.

I also don’t really like this WordPress theme. Maybe I should practice some more (I will make several test posts) or tweak it. Some early gripes:

  • Titles don’t seem optional
  • Fonts, especially titles and the author blurb, are way too large
  • There doesn’t seem to be a side bar, everything is in the footer
  • Featured images don’t work
  • It’s unclear where your post ends and the next one begins

I’ll probably be fixing some of the older posts that suffered most from the import. And as I said I will be making some text posts. I’ll be trying the various gallery features and see how to emulate the Tumblr mobile experience.