NW8E1

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

[nw8e1]

[nw8e1]

[nw8e1]

Road to Paloma; fire, water, air, earth.

[thirat-atthiraride]

The first thing Jason Momoa did before letting his mother watch “Frontier,” the new Netflix drama in which he plays a part Native American trader battling for control of the fur industry in 18th-century North America, was to prep her for the series opener. That’s when his character, Declan Harp, castrates British soldiers before skinning them alive. “It was like ‘Mom, just stick with it,’” he said. “I’m not normally that bad.” 

There’s little doubt that Mr. Momoa has delivered this speech before. In his 16-year career, this towering actor has portrayed an array of menacing brutes and killers including, most notably, Khal Drogo, a bloodthirsty warrior leader on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Drogo eventually revealed a softer side, but he still ripped out a man’s tongue for talking back to his wife, Daenerys Targaryen. 

In real life, the impishly funny Mr. Momoa, 37, is married to the actress Lisa Bonet and maintains an Instagram feed where you can find him doing outdoor activities — rock climbing, archery — with their two young children. Recently, he showed up at an interview in jeans, with a curved hunting knife strapped to his belt and the remnants of blond highlights from his turn as Aquaman in the movie “Justice League,” due this fall. “I’m going to have to dye it again soon,” said Mr. Momoa, who will start shooting his own superhero spinoff this spring. “But I’m not a big fan of haircuts either.” These are edited excerpts from the conversation. 

Keep reading

[atheistj]

I love Jason Momoa.

[nw8e1]

Trump Therapy: With Love From Abroad

Liberal Americans are distraught over Trump’s victory. So we asked eight international comedians — from Cuba to Nigeria to Saudi — how they have coped with their political angst for years.

[nw8e1]

What President Trump Doesn’t Get About America

It was already pretty great, despite its flaws, before he took office Friday.

[tumblrofthrones]

pascalispunk Mini marching to the march. #womensmarchonwashington #Resist

[justlikenonna-blog]

Hackney life. Hackney, London.

[nw8e1]

80 Books Every Person Should Read

[nw8e1]

Road to Paloma is your directorial debut? I’ve done three shorts, but yes, this is my third interview as director. I didn’t want to make a chase movie or a murder movie, and I didn’t want to see it; the story unfolds. It’s all about the repercussions of what he’s done. When we wrote the story in 2011 about 86% of the rapes that were happening on the Native American reservations were non-Native, and tribal law can’t prosecute anyone that’s non Native, it has to go to Federal Court and predominantly most of those cases get thrown out, and that made me sick. My co-star and co-writer Robert he brought that to my attention and we wanted to make this story to shed light on it. Because I’m a father, I’m a son, a grandson, I’m a husband, if anyone messed with the women in my life and then the law didn’t take care of it, what would I do? And that’s universal, you’re going to protect your tribe, you’re going to protect your family, your mother or your wife. And with that, you’re going to lose your life, you’re going to go to prison, you’re going to be on the run. My character took it his own hands and that opening scene is him knapping this knife, out of rock. He’s riding out of his reservation to go to this man’s house. And these shadow games, and he pulls up, the bike runs out of gas, the man comes outside and then he’s inside and he’s painted up. You hear in the movie that he scalps him and he breaks every bone in his body. He clubs him to death; the Mojave were known as clubbers. But we don’t show it, we just hear it. We shot it, but it left more not seeing it, and so we took it out. This little piece with no dialogue hopefully it entices you. The trailer that we wanted to make… At the end of our days – here’s a great man– we’re all good people, but if you’re hand is forced, or twisted, what do you do? Am I defined by that? Am I punished for that? Yes you are. What hangs in the air when you’re gone? All the people who inspire us, and have inspired us, they make us up. They’re the people that we live by and who we want to be like. #JasonMomoa on his directorial debut #RoadToPaloma with #PrideOfGypsies and with his Airsteam by Bruce Weber April 2011 for L’Uomo Vogue

[nw8e1]

Fame put you there where things are hollow... I'm much more interested in the process of life; what is it we're uncovering with our every move? And the celebrity side of it I couldn't give a fu.... sausage. Always remember that the reason that you initially started working was something inside yourself that you felt, that if you could manifest it in some way, you would understand more about yourself and how you coexist with the rest of society. #DavidBowie; the Last Five Years and photographed for l'Uomo Vogue by Steven Klein September 2003 From the streets of Brixton to international scene, Bowie was a pioneer, along with Marc Bolan, the unisex revolution known as Glam Rock: a counter-trend that, since 1972, has changed forever the secular concept of masculinity, replacing it with a liberal perspective that has rewritten the very meaning of being human, entering into public debate the issue of reduction of gender differences. His image and his poetry have paved the way for movements such as Heavy Metal, Punk, Goth and New Romantic. www.vogue.it/uomo-vogue/news/2016/01/addio-a-david-bowie

[nw8e1]

We’re out of characters now, just into suits. The suit will change form tour to tour but the bloke inside it is generally much the same.

David Bowie says in an interview around Let’s Dance, basically foreshadowing the rest of his career throughout the Nineties and early Noughties.

[nw8e1]

WHEN I WAS A BOY, I NEVER WANTED TO BE LUKE OR HAN, I WANTED TO BE R2D2 - BECAUSE R2D2 SUPPORTED PRINCESS LEIA IN HER FIGHT AGAINST TYRANNY pic.twitter.com/6kZXzM3Lje

— Bryan Fuller (@BryanFuller) December 27, 2016

[nw8e1]

A Reminder That Carrie Fisher Was An O.G. Mental Health Hero

She spoke out against stigma for years.

[nw8e1]

My body is my brain bag, it hauls me around to those places and in front of faces where there’s something to say or see

Carrie Fisher’s Comments on Appearance Are Even More Revolutionary Than You Think By

Keep reading

[nw8e1]

When beloved actress Carrie Fisher died on Tuesday at the age of 60, she left behind a rich legacy. She starred as the iconic Princess Leia in Star Wars, served as a mental-health advocate, and was a prolific writer. Fisher was also highly quotable and used her role as a prominent public figure to speak candidly — and often hilariously — about being a woman.

Here, we look back at some of her best, sharpest lines.

1. “There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.”

2. “Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” —On people with mental illness who may be afraid to pursue their dreams

3. “I got to be the only girl in an all boy fantasy, and it’s a great role for women. She’s a very proactive character and gets the job done. So if you’re going to get typecast as something, that might as well be it for me.” —On her role as Princess Leia

4. “Please stop debating about whether or not I aged well. Unfortunately it hurts all three of my feelings. My body hasn’t aged as well as I have. Blow us.” And: “Youth and beauty are not accomplishments.” —On critics of her appearance in The Force Awakens

5. “Blow my big bovine tiny dancer cock.” —On that time someone compared her body to Elton John’s

6. “FISHER: Listen! I am not a sex symbol, so that’s an opinion of someone. I don’t share that.

RIDLEY: I don’t think that’s the right—

FISHER: Word for it? Well, you should fight for your outfit. Don’t be a slave like I was.

RIDLEY: All right, I’ll fight.

FISHER: You keep fighting against that slave outfit.” —In conversation with Daisy Ridley

7. “It’s hard to date once you’re a big Star Wars star, because you don’t want to give people the ability to say, I had sex with Princess Leia’.” —Reportedly in conversation with Daisy Ridley

8. “The father who flipped out about it, ‘What am I going to tell my kid about why she’s in that outfit?’ Tell them that a giant slug captured me and forced me to wear that stupid outfit, and then I killed him because I didn’t like it. And then I took it off. Backstage.” —On the rumored ban on Princess Leia bikini merch

9. “I did really want to play an awful person. There are not a lot of choices for women past 27. I don’t wait by the phone.” —On her role in Catastrophe and available roles for older women

10. “I’m not as cooperative as you might want a woman to be … Every man, I think, or at least the ones I end up finding, there’s no such thing as a consort. All men are kings. That was my little discovery in the process … I really thought men’s fantasy is to have an intellectual geisha. So what I did was I learned to cook and I took a massage course. But that’s not all of it. You have to also agree.” —On her relationship with Paul Simon

11. “Oh! This’ll impress you - I’m actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I’m a PEZ dispenser and I’m in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can’t have it all?”

12. “Even in space, there’s a double standard.” —On why Princess Leia never got her own lightsaber

13. “They want to hire part of me, not all of me. They want to hire three fourths, so I have to get rid of the fourth somehow. The fourth can’t be with me. I made a joke.” —On being asked to lose weight for The Force Awakens

14. ‘Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally. You can play Leia as capable, independent, sensible, a soldier, a fighter, a woman in control – control being, of course, a lesser word than master. But you can portray a woman who’s a master and get through all the female prejudice if you have her travel in time, if you add a magical quality, if you’re dealing in fairy-tale terms.” —In Rolling Stone, 1983

15. “I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”