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UNIIQU3: Jersey club's singular sensation
The raucous rhythms of Jersey club have been everywhere lately, and UNIIQU3, aka the Jersey Club Queen, is one of the main reasons why. Bruce Tantum catches up with the DJ, producer, and all-around force of nature, born Cherise Gary, to talk about her love of the music, her ascension to the throne, and her dreams for the future
Bruce Tantum
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 14:06
The voice on the other end of the phone is murmuring gentle orders: "Black, please. Middle strip rainbow. Yeah, like that." A few seconds pass. "It's gonna be cute." Cherise Gary, better known as UNIIQU3, is sitting in a Newark salon, having her hair prepped for her DJ Mag photo shoot later that night. "I used to wear a lot of wigs,' she confides, "but now I like to wear a lot of braids. It's like art, you know what I mean? Hair is art."
Gary should know; she's an artist herself. Her medium is Jersey club, that boisterous and addictive style that traveled up the I-95 corridor from Baltimore to Newark around the turn of the millennium. The sound was transmogrified by a cadre of enterprising DJs and producers from its raw beginnings into a crisp form that, in its early days, went by the name of Brick City club. (Newark's Brick City nickname comes courtesy of the building material used in the area's housing projects.)
At first largely endemic to North Jersey, the sound, generally hovering around a brisk 135bpm or more, has in recent years been infiltrating the mainstream. It's been all over TikTok, and big names ranging from Missy Elliott, Ciara, and Lil Jon to Diplo, Skrillex, and Cashmere Cat have dipped their toes into the Jersey club waters. Even the Public Broadcasting Service, of all outlets, has gotten the message; earlier this year, the network produced a documentary titled Why is Jersey Club Music Everywhere Right Now?
The answer to that question, in no small part, is UNIIQU3. She's the Jersey Club Queen — a self-proclaimed title, perhaps, though one that's largely accepted by the scene, with few pretenders stepping forward. Her love for the music, and her skill at making it, was evident on her first official release, the 'Phase 3 EP,' released in 2018 on Nina Las Vegas's NLV Records. It's there on her recent 'Bitches Is Outside Vol. 1' on 135 Worldwide. It's even more obvious on her about-to-drop 'Heartbeats EP,' with the full release coming out via London label Local Action on October 6th; the first track, 'Microdosing,' is out now, while single number two, 'Unavailable,' hits the shops later this month. And then there's her DJ sets, full-throttle affairs that tend to feature some of the most mind-blowing dance-battle moves you'll ever hope to see, especially when she's spinning on her home turf.
"I think Jersey club's appeal is a lot more than just the music," Gary says, explaining the style's ascendance. "Yeah, the music is something fun that captures people. It's like the first sensation, like, 'Oooh, I like that color,' or 'Oooh, that smells good.' It's what draws you in. But when you see the dancing and the energy, it's like, 'Damn, those people are having so much fun. They look so cool. I wanna feel that!' That's what gets people hooked. People want to get involved in the culture."
But as she says, it's the music itself that pulls you in. It's nearly impossible not to have been exposed to the sound in recent years, but just in case, here's Gary's definition: "There are a lot of elements, like the vocal chops — that's our signature sound —the bpm, the cleverness of the lyrics and how they interact with the dancers. There's a lot of call and response, like in hip-hop. Like, the MC — me! — will go, 'two steps to the left,' and the dancers take two steps to the left."
Samples play a huge role — the bed-squeak sound from Trillville's 'Some Cut,' for instance, features in the standard Jersey club sound kit. (Gary's got her own sound kit, 'UNIIQU33 Clubhead Kit Vol 1.') "And the drum pattern is essential," she adds, referring to the music's big kick-drum triplets, tightened and intensified from the beat's Baltimore origins. Those are the music's nuts and bolts, but in that PBS doc, she describes Jersey club a bit more poetically. "It's your morning coffee, it's your afternoon Red Bull, it's your late-night espresso shot," she says, before adding the core essence of what Jersey club really is, at its core: "It's rambunctious, in-your-face party music."
Newark has always had a thing for club music, dating back to before many of Jersey club's current practitioners were born. The town and its environs were the crucible of the Jersey strain of house music, the raw yet soulful sub genre birthed at Zanzibar, the Newark club where Tony Humphries served as the main resident in the '80s and early '90s. Gary is fully aware of that history; she sees it every day.
"I live right by where Zanzibar was, by Broad Street Station," she says. "I always look out the window of my apartment and think, 'ohhh, I wish I had got to experience all that.' I love talking to older house heads about all that history."
Three decades later, as the city's club music history continues to be written, UNIIQU3 plays a large role — but if circumstances had been just a bit different, she may have been expressing herself much differently. "My mom had me in piano lessons," Gary says, "and I took dance class at Newark Symphony Hall. Ballet, tap, jazz, everything. We used to have a live pianist at ballet classes, and I used to think that was big — it was the most ballet you could get! I was in concert band, too. I was always a musical kid, a performing-arts brat for real." She nearly became a Broadway baby. "My parents used to take me to a lot of Broadway auditions when I was around seven, for things like The Lion King — just mad random shows."
Even at that early age, in the late '90s, another sound was beginning to catch Gary's ear. By that time, Jersey club was already firmly established within Newark, with collectives like the Brick Bandits and foundational figures like DJ Tameil and Tim Dolla helping to codify and popularize the genre within northeast New Jersey.
"I had been hearing Jersey club before I even knew it," she says, "At that age, I don't think I ever put the name to the sound. I think the first time I really found Brick City club was when I would be going to Newark Symphony Hall, and I would hear club music coming out of the jewelry stores and sneaker stores downtown.
"There were booths set up where you could buy CDs," she continues, "and one day I bought one. After dance class, we all used to hang out and vibe anyway, so I put on this CD after all the classical stuff, and they were like, 'Oh, you don't know how to dance to this!' That's when I realized you could put a dance to this music, and that would be for the club. That's exactly when I got hip to club music. My mom hated it, of course All the songs were so X-rated!"
Within a few years, she was fully immersed in the sound, joining a series of street teams, collectives of dancers, party organizers, and DJs that were integral to Jersey club's evolution. "First I was a member of [Jersey club vet] Lil Man's team," she says. "He was a mentor to me, someone who really showed me the ropes. Then I jumped to the Bandits for a short duration, and then I went off on my own. I kind of bounced around, which is kind of looked down upon by some people," she laughs. "I needed to spread my wings. I'm like a butterfly!"
All that flitting had its benefits. "I learned so much," Gary says, "like how to be a little entrepreneur, how you could make something out of your music, and how to find the people who enjoy it." It also gave her connections throughout the community. "People were just like, 'Hey, you got a good voice. Can you make me a DJ drop?'" Soon, she was providing vocals for other producers' tracks. "But after I started doing that, that's when I realized I wanted to make my own tracks, because everybody else was taking too long. I was impatient."
"When I started to DJ all around the world, it would just be a lot of white guys, but now, I definitely have more collectives of color booking me, and more women booking me. I feel like now it's a natural thing"
At that stage, Jersey club production was a male-dominated field, and there was a dearth of hometown role models. Instead, she looked south for inspiration, specifically to the late Baltimore DJ K-Swift, who had tragically passed away in 2008 due to a horrendous accident at a backyard pool party. "K-Swift was one of the first women playing club music for real, and making something of herself," Gary explains. "She was the first person who made me realize that you could do this. She was my entry."
Gary got to work on a semi-busted laptop. ("I learned Ableton pretty quick, ahead of a lot of my Jersey peers," she says.) Some of her early production work can be heard on 2014's 'The New Klassiks' mixtape — considerably rawer than her current sound, but already her production chops and ear for arrangement were readily apparent.
Gary was still working a side hustle — specifically a liquor-store job — but her career was already beginning to percolate. She had been playing outside of the Jersey club circuit, for Venus X at her GHE20G0TH1K goth-rave affairs, and for ballroom savant MikeQ's legendary parties at Newark venue The Globe, among others. "They really trusted me at The Globe," Gary recalls. "They trusted me to provide a safe space with my club heads, whoever they may be. I had the gangsters and the gays and the girls, all together in unison." But 2014 was also the year that she began to go international, thanks to Nina Las Vegas inviting her to Australia for the 2014 NLV Presents tour.
Goodbye, liquor store. "When I was booked for Australia, and I knew they weren't going to give me the two weeks off," Gary says, "I just left. I had to block everyone at the store on Instagram — they were all texting me, going, 'Are you okay?' But I had to lay low, because I didn't want them to find out. And when I came back, I didn't even try getting the job again. I was like, 'You know what? I'm just gonna make this work.'"
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It was a couple of years later, in 2016, when her trajectory began to really take off. There were the UNIIQU3-helmed #Action135 parties in Manhattan's Webster Hall, which introduced her to a new clubland audience in NYC; there was her debut Boiler Room set, a Discwoman session that also featured SHYBOI, Juliana Huxtable, and BEARCAT; there was a date on the decks at Coachella; there were even more international gigs. "And I didn't even have a manager yet," Gary says. "There was a lot going on that year. Somehow, it was also my brokest year ever!"
Destitute or not, Gary kept at it, and the next four years were a whirlwind, with a packed schedule of gigs and, starting with 'Phase 3', a steady stream of earworm tunes, many of them exploring various corners of the Jersey club template. There's the candy-colored froth of 'Bubblegum,' for instance, and the aggressive drive of 'Outside Wit It (Freestyle),' and the skewed minimalism of 'Girls Off The Chain,' a 2018 female-empowerment anthem (sort of) made in collaboration with Baltimore's TT The Artist. "Right now, TT is doing the damn thing," Gary says. "That's my sister. Together, we make up the club queens — she's from Baltimore, I'm from Jersey, but we're both club queens in our own right."
Songwriting comes intuitively to Gary. "It usually flows out of me," she says, citing the new 'Microdosing,' a suitably trippy cut heavy on the vocal stutters and drenched in dubby reverb, as an example. "I was thinking, 'man, people are out here microdosing off your love, taking little bits and pieces. But eff that!' And then I was like, 'you know, that could be a song!' It's a song about unreciprocated love and how addictive someone's energy can be, like a drug. People can suck you dry because they like your vibes, but it's okay to practice boundaries." In the past, Gary's been an advocate for women, particularly Black women, as well as for the LGBTQ community, both within Jersey club and in the greater club music environment.
"Before, that was definitely my mission," she says. "When I started to DJ all around the world, it would just be a lot of white guys, but now, I definitely have more collectives of color booking me, and more women booking me. I feel like now it's a natural thing, and I don't have to try as hard to do it. It feels like the visibility I was looking for is there now, at least a little. And that feels good."
In March of last year, there wasn't much for Gary to advocate for — or much of anything else to do either, for obvious reasons. The exponential growth of her career was put on hold; no parties, no dancing, no anything. As it happens, she was about to embark on a tour of China. "My agent was out there, and he said, 'Man, it's not looking so good.'" Gary says. "'I think we should cancel.' I was in Australia at the time, and had to quickly fly back to Jersey before they weren't even going to let me back in the country."
Frustration set in, as it did for many. "I felt like I lost everything," Gary admits. "No outlet, no income... I had to cancel tours. I had to rethink my whole thing." But it gave her an opportunity to reassess. "When you are DJing all the time, it's kind of a distraction — like a cool way to cop out and not deal with certain things. I could just leave Jersey and go to Europe and forget about stuff. But when we got stuck at home, I finally had to deal with a lot of personal and external feelings and situations. I got to really just sit with myself. And that felt good, even though it was uncomfortable."
That period of self-reflection apparently paid off, and Gary was quickly at work filling the time afforded her by the lack of IRL gigs. "At the end of the day, I'm still creative," she says, "and no matter what I'm going through, being creative is therapeutic to me. Or drives me crazy. At times it did both! But I needed to keep busy, because it was like survival mode, too. I didn't know what else to do." And Gary did plenty. "I just kind of wanted to tap in with myself and see what else I was capable of," she says. There was merch to be worked on, and there was music to be made, and there were tracks to be loaded up to Bandcamp. "I got to make so many EPs and try out so many new styles, and fuse different genres, and support the next generation with their dance battles and DJing, and link up with other producers who I hadn't linked up with," she says. "And I got a Twitch partnership, and I taught myself how to live stream, how to green screen and all that jazz."
Her Twitch channel includes plenty of DJ sets, of course, but also boasts music-production videos. "I was literally making all my EPs on Twitch, People got to see my process, real open, close and personal." (Since before the pandemic, she's also been helming a program called BeUNIIQU3, "a creative collective that educates women, POC, and LGBTQ creatives on the basic music industry knowledge and how to obtain financial success as an independent artist.") And on top of all that, she's recently inaugurated two radio shows, Club Chronicles on NTS Radio and, starting this past July, Club Queen Radio on Sirius XM.
"Being home was a really dope experience, in a way," Gary admits. "I got to see my impact and think more about what I could do, instead of just doing mad stuff. I'd really sit down and think about what I'd be doing two or three years from now, other than another EP or album, you know? I had time to look at myself from the outside and be like, 'yo, yeah, UNIIQU3 is cool as shit.' Like, I'd want to party with her."
And in case you're wondering, one of the ways Gary likes to party is by getting high and watching musicals. "I grew up on Gene Kelly in An American In Paris, and I grew up on Barbra Streisand in Funny Lady." She's still a performing-arts kid at heart.
Hustle & Flow
The morning of her DJ Mag interview, Gary's Instagram account featured a story that included the following text: "I'm super-busy right now, doing so many things at once. I'm losing my head... but in a good way, you know? It's great to be busy with things that you're excited about."
The UNIIQU3 social-media presence alone would be a full-time gig for most people, but one of the things that Gary is currently most excited about is her recently-revived PBNJ, a traveling party that celebrates the connections between the club culture of Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Jersey. The throwdown had its genesis in 2019, with Gary working with Baltimore's Bmore Than Dance collective. "They do a lot of work with the youth — a lot of dance tournaments, and a lot of community work," she says. "I teamed up with them, because I felt like we aligned. At the same time, my long-term goal with this was to really integrate each city together, to be conducive with each other. We never really see what can happen if we're together, so I felt like it was time to do that. And it actually worked! Now there's dance battles everywhere, like Philly versus Jersey battles."
Between PBNJ, her productions, the radio shows, and her DJing schedule — international travel is looming again, with a slot at London's Body Movements Festival lined up in early October — Gary's schedule is once again rammed. How does she manage her time? "I don't know — I need help!" she says with a laugh. "Just right now, I'm doing NFTs for a new website and I'm producing remixes for other people. I just put out 'Bitches Is Outside Vol. 1,' and now 'Heartbeats' is going to be out and about in the world."
And that's just scratching the surface. "I'm doing music videos," Gary continues, "and when I do videos, I usually have to source everyone myself. I'm looking for the videographer. I'm booking my hairstylist, my makeup artists, I'm practicing with the dancers that I hired, I'm hiring the stylist and giving them inspiration on what I want to look like, or what we're trying to capture here, and I'm creating the shot list and the mood-board. So yeah, I really am ready for more help."
But before that help arrives, there's a new product to promote. 'Heartbeats,' boasting collaborations with fellow club artists Dai Burger, R3LL, Sjayy, and Deucez, is, perhaps, the best UNIIQU3 release yet. It's a rich and confident collection of tracks, full of musical and verbal inventiveness, not to mention a surplus of swagger. "It sonically evolves from everything else I've ever put out," Gary says. "It's Jersey club, but borderline pop Jersey club. Some of the songs don't even make you feel like you're listening to club music."
According to Gary, it's also her most intimate release thus far. "My fans know so much about my story in the club culture," she says, "but 'Heartbeats' will let my fans get to know me personally. The project dives into topics of self-love, heartbreak, intimacy, and lust — it's truly a compilation of beats made from the heart. It's raw and experiential; I'm evolving into a new phase."
"I want to prove to the little girl that used to try out for the theater and used to take the dance classes at Newark Symphony Hall, that I can do this"
After our interview, later that evening, in a studio in an industrial area of Astoria, Queens, Gary is being prepped for her photo shoot. A makeup artist works on her face, a stylist readies the outfits, and a pair of friends — Brian SoRandom Drama and Ahmad Cherry, both notable dancers on the Jersey club scene — are there for support. Considering the hubbub surrounding her, here in the studio and in her life, she seems remarkably chill.
But success can bring stresses. Some artists who've ascended as fast as UNIIQU3 have spoken about the uncertainties that acclaim can bring, and Gary shares some of those uncertainties.
"This is all still so new for us," she says, speaking for herself and for the entire genre. "No one involved with Jersey club ever thought that this shit would blow up like this. This is just what we grew up with! I mean, when you're a little kid, you'd love to have something like this happen: 'Oh, I wanna be on TV,' or 'I wanna be a star.' But now that it's happening... I didn't know how crazy it was gonna get."
Some of that insanity stems from her environment. "Newark isn't always the friendliest place," she admits. "I've definitely been in situations where I've been in danger. Like, I had a gun held to my face, right before I went to Coachella. I realized I had to make the decision that I just have to kind of move different, like, 'Yo, if I want success, I have to live a certain way.' So there were some personal decisions that had to be made, to keep myself out of trouble and to keep myself focused."
There are other stress factors as well, which only increase as the sound, and her role in it, become ever more known. "There's a lot of responsibility on me," she says. "A lot of people look up to me, a lot of people count on me for inspiration and advice, and I want to be that person that can give it, because I didn't have anybody like that."
She's doing her best to live up to the duties that have come her way, with just a touch of reluctance. "I mean, I'm not trying to be a role mode — though I feel like I make a good role model. That's just me, doing what I do," she says. "I feel like I shed a lot of positive light on Newark, and also I'm one of the first ladies to really represent. If I'm going to get the spotlight shining on me, why not step up and live up to my full expectations? Too many people want to play short nowadays, but no, I'm not doing that shit."
What Gary does, at its core, is keep working in order to keep growing. She wants to up her studio skills even further, including producing for other people. "I want to be the kind of person," she says, "who people will ask, 'You got a club beat?' And I can answer, 'I got a hit right here.'" But she doesn't rule out moving beyond Jersey club, at least to some extent, perhaps by someday making some straight-up R&B. "I do want to take things mainstream. I love club music to death and always will, but since I've been able to introduce mainstream elements into club, I definitely want to show that I can go further."
Another dream is to helm something akin to a club version of Soul Train. "You know the New Dance Show from Detroit?" she asks, referring to the Motor City's techno and rap dance show that ran from the late '80s through the early '90s. "Those are so fun to watch. I even watch those when I produce sometimes. I would love something like that for Jersey — or even branch it out beyond Jersey, to all genres. One week we'd do Afro club, and the next week we'd do EDM, and the next week another vibe. My curation is gonna be crazy."
Whatever the case, she'll probably be doing it from New Jersey. "I might want to spread my wings someday," she confides. "I would love to move to London for a few years, or move to New Zealand for a few years. But I'm Newark through and through. I want to have a club there, and a community center, and a women-run studio... I want to bring to Newark the kinds of things that I've seen all these other places I'm going. I know I have the potential — and the talent, hello! — to make that happen."
As Gary travels along her path, she's building on her determination and self-assurance. "I want to prove to my little self, the girl that used to try out for the theater and used to take the dance classes at Newark Symphony Hall, that I can do this," she says, as the makeup artist finishes up on the eyes and moves her brush toward the cheekbones. "I want to feel more confident in what I'm doing, like, 'Hey, whatever you happen to do next, just know that you're killing it.' Sometimes it's hard to feel that way. It's hard to be your own blueprint — and now people are looking to me for the blueprint, and I'm still here writing it."
With that, Gary, in full UNIIQU3 regalia, steps in front of the camera, working it like the star she is.
Live Gig Love
Two nights later, Gary is playing one of her first indoor club sets since the pandemic began. It's at Nowadays, a small club with a big, beautiful soundsystem that sits along the Queens-Brooklyn border in Ridgewood. The room is packed — thankfully, the club had adopted a vaccine-only policy weeks before the city made that approach mandatory.
It's one AM, and the opening DJ, Sterling Juan Diaz, is finishing his set with a 150bpm stormer, Miss Djax & Human Resource's 'Respect.' It's as high-energy as they come, and a daunting tune to follow up on, but as Gary steps behind the CDJs, decked out in a black halter top and a haul of silver chain jewelry, she exudes something like joyous fortitude.
Gary spends the next few hours cycling through revved- up Jersey cuts and pitched-up ravey house — Green Velvet's 'Percolator' makes an appearance, and there's a sample of Sil's 'Windows' winding through one of the tracks. There's a passage where she rips through a large slice of her own catalog, from 'Phase 3's 'Afterparty' to a teched-up version of 'Blow That Bag' off of 'Bitches Is Outside Vol. 1.'
The crowd, a mix of weekend warriors, fourth-generation club kids, committed Jersey club fanatics, and UNIIQU3 acolytes, is loving it — the chant-alongs to tracks like 'Pussy Lick' and 'Fuk Dat Ass' are lewdly transcendent moments. And Gary is feeling the love: DJ Mag has rarely seen a happier DJ, fully in her element. In constant motion, a wide smile on her face, greeting friends and fans over the low-slung booth, she is a picture of clubland bliss.
"I almost cried behind the decks because the love was projected so strongly, through the chants and the hands flaring in the fog," Gary says later. "Every so often, I'd feel the CDJs shake, from someone twerking on the DJ booth — which I'm totally here for. I felt like we weren't in a club, just a foggy dancefloor in my UNIIQU3 universe. I waited for that feeling for a year, I'll embody it forever."
Several hours into the set, in the wee hours of the morning, Gary hasn't let her foot off the gas one bit. The party is still in full throttle, everyone dancing with as much abandon as a fully-packed dancefloor allows, and it doesn't stop until she drops her final track and hands the reins over to ballroom-rave alchemist Jasmine Infiniti. DJ Mag is tapped out, but from the looks of Gary, she could keep going forever. And she probably will, at least until she gets to where she wants to be.
Bruce Tantum is DJ Mag's North American editor. You can follow him on Twitter @BruceTantum
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Okay, so my dropbox has been turned upside down by Dropbox themselves, leaving all links to my stuff cut and leading nowhere. Here's the set of new links to my Star Trek minis. Have fun!
You're doing the work of the Q there sir, thank you!
Hey, this has nothing to do with anything but Q, but I'm curious if anyone else felt that ST: First Contact was a major and annoying retcon of the Borg's discovery of the Federation? I remember watching the original airing of "Q Who?", in which Q exposes the Enterprise to the Borg to force Picard to admit he (and humanity) need Q's help. We were simply stunned into silence by the Borg--a foe against which the Federation seemed to have no hope--and Q's actions seemed to put the entire Federation in direct peril. At the end of the episode, after Q has whisked the Enterprise back to safe space, there is a moment when it dawns on Picard and company that the Borg now knows about the Federation...and they are on their way! My friends and I looked at each other in shock, whispering "Oh...my...God..." That was flat-out my best Star Trek moment ever, on television or in the movies.
Then along comes First Contact, which uses a time-travel retcon to insert the Borg into the Zephram Cochrane story, followed by additional retcons somehow connecting the two versions of the first contact incident (one without the Borg, and one with) to explain the creation of the recurring Mirror Universe. I love the Mirror Universe stories, but trying to rationalize its existence by revising history is simply unnecessary--it just exists, because it can. Anyway, this change turns Q's exposure of the Federation to the Borg from the incredibly terrifying, cruel, and ultimately indifferent act that it seemed when we first watched it, into a helpful warning to the Federation about the coming Borg threat!?!
I hated that every time Q showed up, they made him more silly. He was a god, for all practical purposes, and we were nothing more to him than ants are to us. When he dropped the Enterprise in front of the Borg, it was like a kid in the playground, dropping a red ant into a black-ant colony, just because he is vaguely curious see what all the ants will do. Every appearance that made him more "funny", and more sympathetic to humanity, just cheapened that first Borg appearance, which will probably never be surpassed as the scariest in Star Trek history.
Sorry for the interruption. shep, your index of ST papercraft links is much appreciated, btw!
By the way, Dropbox has dropped ;-) all my things without notice (or very quitely). You are in good company.
Mediafire is what Dave Winfield (KoolWheelz) uses.
On with the project of expanding okumarts corridor set for Star Trek adventures set in the TOS-era. I made a neat little turbolift for the important and famous elevator talks between captain and crew or crew and crew.
I know it's a bit boxy and should be more roundish, but the way I made it, it's fold-flat and offers enough space for several minis. For the convenience of all the non-metrics among you, I set the page up as 300dpi US-Letter.
Do you have more cadets? Your Cadet Cruise has only 3 human male cadets.
But you're right, only 3 of them are human... I'll make more.
Yeah, I didn't count the aliens in that count. I'm running a game with my sons starting this Saturday and it's going to start with a cadet cruise so I can work them into their characters' professions.
I really need to learn how to make ship miniatures.
2) Open your screenshots in graphics programm of your choice. I highly recommend using either Photoshop or Gimp, for they both offer layers and layer masks. Create a new paper sized document (either A4 or LTR). Select your minis in the screenshots and copy/paste them into the new document. Rescale them, if needed, and add a black box as a base.
3) Once you're done, blend out the background layer and then copy all visible layers to a new layer. Modify the brightness of that layer until the dark parts of the uniforms look medium grey. Add a layer mask to this layer.
4) In the mask, blend out the heads, hands, boots, equipment, and red part of the uniform.
Thanks for the minis and the tutorial. I'm still trying to find a good program to use on a Chromebook. It's a mixed bag.
As far as the ship, I was going to use this. It's modular and can be changed to fit the mission. I could see it being used for a Cadet Cruise within the confines of the Federation. The first mission would involve it being in the cargo configuration, as it will be resupplying a space station.
I think I can actually modify the Oberth class. It might actually work if I can find the right program to work in.
Don't worry, I'm at it... Till when do you need the ship?
Yeah, I've tried Gimp on RollApp. I'm not impressed with the user experience. It's why I don't use LibreOffice on my Chromebook. I'm going to try to get my boys involved in learning Gimp. I have an old Ubuntu computer that should run it fine, and they are always drawing stuff. I just need to get them a good art book for drawing cartoons and characters and we'll be set. Then I have to learn Gimp myself.
As far as the ship, I'm going to run the first adventure this Saturday. USS Polaris NCC-S495. The challenge with the ship is that the nacelles are angled outward but the modules aren't angled. Then there are the different modules that can be added and taken away. The sensor platform from the Oberth on this site could be modified to work with this ship. And the shuttle carrier is just a modified Constitution secondary hull. I don't think anyone has done the Starfleet cargo pods yet.
E D I T . . .
The scale is 1/5000, so it will work with my other ships. I'll do a test-build tomorrow, since the ships are not only flimsy at 1 inch total length, but also they might be a bit tricky. When putting them together, I'll take some photos as instructions.
- There is no "Phaser Cannons" variation, since I did not know how many cannons there are supposed to be.
- The "Planetary Sensor" variation is equipped with TOS nacelles instead of TMP nacelles.
- The upward nacelles version has the nacelles on pylons instead of attaching them directly to the ship.
These changes had to be made to keep the idea of a modular ship. You don't need to build various versions of the Capella, you can simply exchange the configuration modules.
Wow. That was fast work. I just found this. I'll have to print it out and build it to fiddle with it. I like how you kept the modularity.
As far as the phaser canons, I would go with one on each side. That's how I imagined it, anyway.
I did wrack my brain with ways to do this. Some of my ideas included giving the main hull thickness by adding layers (with different widths to create the angle of the outer hull. Then you could add an outline to glue on. The pylons for the nacelles and the modules would have hooked through the lower section of the hull. I can't think straight tonight after 12 and 1/2 hours at work, but I had it all worked out in my head.
Man, this model is very tiny. I'm almost afraid to try to cut it out and work with it. My old eyes can barely see some of the things on the ship. I think it needs to be scaled up a little bit. It's about 2/3rds the size of a Constitution main hull. I have the Constitution model from this site, but I haven't printed it out yet. I wonder if that would end up being tiny for me as well.
The trick is to get the layers at different sizes, so that the 45 degree angle is created as you put the model together.
I was thinking of the 4 nacelle ship, too. If you were to take that shuttle bay at the back of the ship and create another "hull" with it, then wrap that around the end of the ship with the nacelles sitting under them, I think that could work. You rework the model to take the square thing off of the little round thing on both the top and the bottom. Create some flaps to fold down and you have what you need.
Another way to do it would be to cut a slot for each of the nacelles, then make wings at the end of it to glue down. They would go into either the top layer or the bottom layer depending on whether you're using nacelles up or nacelles down configuration. Man, I'm going to have to fire up the old Ubuntu computer and see if I can figure out Gimp. Working this out would be a real challenge.
That's far too complicated for a mini this small. My other ships are in 1/5170 scale, I made this one in 1/5000 to keep it in the same size range. However, this leaves the Capella at a length of exactly 1 inch from its bow to the end of the nacelles. This is too tiny to create boxes for the shuttlebay and such.
This would end the modularity, as every part glued to the ship's hull means making that element part of the hull. You would have to choose, if you want 2 or 4 nacelles, and then have to stick to that choice. With my solution, you are totally free when it comes to the configuration of the ship.
How about roughly 1/2500? In that case you can simply scale up all ships you can find in this or okumarts thread to double their size. The Capella would then be 2 inches long, David's Connie around 12 cm (or 4.7 inches). Nonetheless, a tiny ship stays tiny. The Archer class scout would be only 2 cm long in 1/2500, since the ship in 1/1 is only 50 m long.
I think when I re-scaled it and put it on a Google Doc, it was about 2 inches. Of course, it had to be put on 3 pieces of paper to do it. Modularity on the model is nice, but not necessary when I can just build a second one with the module I want under it.
As for the layered idea, I would have a strip glued over those layers with the graphics from the edge of the ship on it. That would eliminate seeing the layers altogether. Yeah, it would add some complexity to the model, but I think it would still be a pretty basic model.
Here's my test build. I'll use it for the game tomorrow. I'm working on a modification on Pixlr. I'm slow, but I'm hoping to make some progress in the next week.
Yeah. I forgot to blacken them and tried to do it after gluing it together. It didn't work out too well. That's why this was just the first draft. I'm still a novice when it comes to papercraft.


Anybody Else Flipped 360o in the Indy Ref ?
Anykvnt genuinely interested in the commonwealth games?
when was the last rangers untainted title.
if celtic ever won 10.
Sepp Blatter:Awarding 2022 World Cup to Qatar was a mistake!
Top 3 Sci-Fi Movies of all time .
celtics 9 in a row years.
Quote of the day from Frazer Wrighta??
Why are they using a Pink Baw in the FA Cup Final ?
Anyone know how to remove a tattoo?
4 years won f*ck all!
Alex Salmond pusseyfooting wae Vladimir Putin .
Are Abergreen still the best of the Diddies ?
7 hours after the Scottish Cup Final is done .
Aberdeen didn't come 2nd, Dundee Utd didn't win cup.
cellick fhans on the Bears' disdain for Dundee Hibs.
FAO: poster back on at this time of night.
oi DABS have you seen this?
Why are there no St. Johnstone fans on here?
Sir Wattie's constant thread starting.
"Sterling is a millstone round Scotland's neck"
What constitutes a Scot to the SNP?
Bit of bother in the boozer last night.
Heres a good Idea ive just came up wae .
Anyone watch the program aboot the Commonwealth Games ?
Project Fear or Vote Guess?
Is it time to stop laughing at Dundee Utd yet?
Why is Scotland never mentioned with these countries?
Does The YES Camp Know That Scotland Has Devolved Powers?
SNP Euro candidate "has very Right-wing views"
I Don't Even Know Her Name..
documenatry i watched last night.
watching the whole world cup.


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Boned: Worldwide!
Posted: February 28, 2014 by veeshir in Exploding things, Funniest End of Civilization Evah, Obama's Fault
Remember this from Obama's lawyer at the Supreme Court in 2011 when they were arguing that Obamacare was gonna be all puppies and unicorns?
Katyal, when asked about the individual mandate, pointed out that the mandate "only kicks in after people have earned a minimum amount of income," so what's the big deal? "Someone doesn't need to earn that much income."
Of course not, it was linked at some blog nobody reads.
It's funny how they pointed that out so specifically and yet Minitrue is acting as if it was an unintended consequence that's actually great cuz now you're freed from responsibility for yourself.
It appears Saudi Arabia is ramping up the war against Iran.
The moment Syria's southern rebels have been waiting for is drawing closer. With the newly announced "Southern Front" group uniting 49 of the south's moderate factions, the opposition's momentum in the battle for Damascus may have just gotten a significant boost.
…last January, when Saudi-purchased Croatian weapons …destined for Syria's "moderate armed opposition."
So here comes the Southern Offensive, with al Quaeda fighting Iran's puppets, Syria/Hezbollah.
Obama's fecklessness has actually resulted in some good, let jihadi kill jihadi.
Since so many of you are on the east coast and it's late there now, by the time you read this in the morning I fully expect you to be watching the war in Ukraine on TV.
I'm wondering what's going to happen, Yanukovich is making noises like he's expecting to be back in charge soon so somehow I doubt the Russians are only going to take the Crimea.
Tsar Putin I doesn't have a huge army poised on their northern border as he invades in the south just to 'secure' some bases.
He's spent far too much money to just say, "So long and thanks for all the fish."
Posted: February 28, 2014 by veeshir in Exploding things, Obama's Fault
Okay, I wasn't sure about taking someone's map, so here's one I drew that's not to scale or even very well done, but it gets my point across.
You can't read the key so here it is
Dark blue is Ukraine who's been owned and about to be/being invaded by Russia after kicking out their Tsarling.
Light blue is Romania who's been invaded/been owned by Russia.
Purple is Poland who's been invaded/been owned by Russia.
Yellow is Belarus who's a brutal dictatorship run by a Tsarling.
Red is Russia, who's invaded/owned all countries on map.
Not shown, a few other neighboring countries that were all invaded and owned by Russia at one point, like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and more.
So what are Romania, Poland and their neighbors going to do about Tsar Putin I invading their friend/neighbor?
Especially considering they spent 50 years being owned by Russia thanks to FDR's love of Stalin.
Recall, we slowed down our troops and thereby extended WWII to let the Russians take ownership of eastern Europe and part of Germany.
Poland and friends, fresh from Obama throwing them under the bus in relation to missile defense, are watching Russia getting all invasiony and know that the US does not have their back.
Germany also knows that the US is fucking useless, what are they going to do? Hell, even France has had to have balls lately.
Hmmmmm, so the question is basically whether this is WWI, WWII or tanks rolling into Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
We all know Obama's (non) reaction but what about the Europeans who've seen this movie before?
While they might have liked the ending last time, acts I and II were less than fun.
While the suspense if killing me, they're about to be killed for real.
Really Charles? Really?
Quoth Krauthammer on the "All Star Panel"
Everybody is shocked at the weakness of Obama's statement.
Everybody? Geez, I guess 'everybody' has not been paying any fucking attention at all.
I was wrong, Obama didn't go to a fundraiser after saying weak shit, he went to a DNC event and gave a speech about how the Dems were going to win the election!!!!! For America!!!!!.
Not sure if it was also a fundraiser.
UPDATE: Everybody's saying it was a fundraiser, so he couldn't go golfing because of weather but he did attend a fundraiser after giving his 'warning'.
See? Transparently transparent.
On Russia invading Ukraine.
Massing warships
Massing troops.
I say 5 days and I'm taking the under. (added, I think 2 days max)
It costs millions to do that and Russia doesn't have enough money to do that for show.
Plus, Tsar Putin I really wants his empire back.
Reactions?
Obama: I'm very concerned and I would say that both sides should step back and negotiate a reasonable solution.
Then he goes golfing and attends a fundraiser or two.
Kerry: The Israelis need to give up Jerusalem to the Palestinians
Hagel: Why won't anybody talk to me?
Presented Without Comment
Posted: February 26, 2014 by veeshir in Democratic morality, Government FAIL, Liberal Fascism, Notes on the Revolution, Obama's Fault
"I have not done anything wrong."
Today's headline.
Lois Lerner wants immunity in exchange for IRS testimony.
Nothing To See
Posted: February 26, 2014 by veeshir in Exploding things, Funniest End of Civilization Evah, Hotassery, Obama's Fault
Remember that building with apartments full of single Somali men, a mosque and a halal grocery that blew up that was demolished before any investigation but we were assured it was not terrorism?
The authorities said it was a gas leak but the gas company said, "Ummmm, no."
So now, via Gates of Vienna doing their own investigation we see this.
The EUnuchs have this report
imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Al-Qaida network and the Taliban
With this guy in the list
Jama, Garad (a.k.a. Nor, Garad K.) (a.k.a. Wasrsame, Fartune Ahmed, 2100, Bloomington Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Eh, so it's EUnuchs, why did they think that
U.S. Treasury lists terror associates
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) — The White House and U.S. Department of Treasury on Wednesday released additions to the list identifying individuals, organizations and businesses with links to terrorist organizations.
We told them he was involved in terrorism.
Guess what else he does?
According to the MN Secretary of State website, Garad Nor is recorded as a "Registered Agent" of Wadani Properties, the company that owned and managed the apartments of the Cedar-Riverside building located at 510 and 512 Cedar Ave South that exploded and burned on January 1. In some reports, Garad Nor himself as listed as the owner. (links in original V)
The more I see on this the more likely it appears to me that the authorities think that it was a work accident.
A building at least managed, if not owned, by a guy the US gov't claims is affiliated with al Quaeda and/or the Taliban (I'd say just al Quaeda, the Taliban is kind of racist) mysteriously blows up and yet, they immediately said, "No terrorism" and demolished it before they could investigate.
Geez, and that's why the only people afraid of Obama are American citizens.
I know lots of people don't like Gates of Vienna, but what I've quoted is them reporting what they've found on official websites.
There are a lot of data points that seem to lead to the conclusion that our fine governmental and journalistic betters believe it's a work accident.
Some pics of terrorists below the fold. (more…)
I Think We've Found MoronPundit
Posted: February 25, 2014 by veeshir in Moron of the Day
Felony facecocking.
This Guy Was Elected to Enforce The Law
Posted: February 24, 2014 by veeshir in Liberal Fascism, Notes on the Revolution
California has the gov't they want. I hope they're enjoying it.
I've seen this story but didn't think much of it until I read it.
San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore has decided not to request the full U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to review a ruling, involving his department, that struck down the state's law on issuing concealed weapons permits. (saying "May issue" is no bueno, it must be "shall issue" V)
Sounds good so far, so why didn't he appeal it and why am I pissed?
Gore, however, has opted to stick with his department's rules, noting that the ruling is not yet final.
Because the motherfucker is not going to pay attention to the ruling. That's who Californians want to enforce their laws.
If he's going to ignore it, why appeal? They can use that money to get an MRAP in case he needs it to home invade some guy who thinks the Constitution is meant to restrict the gov't.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has made a similar decision not to change its requirements while the issue is still before the legal system.
So nobody's appealing it and it's still before the legal system? Motherfuckers.
Remember that rule of law? Yeah, me neither.
Which reminds me of this link from a Venezuelan I wanted to post.
Ban re-election
I used to be totally against term limits, now I'm not so sure. Such laws encode in our legal system that people are too stupid to know how to vote so they need to be protected from themselves.
I still find the whole idea repugnant, but I also try to be an empiricist so my resolve is wavering seeing who people re-elect.
Apparently, Dingell's wife is going to inherit the seat he inherited from his father 58 years ago.
That's 29 terms, surpassing the Grand Kegel* himself, the conscience of the Senate, Senator, I Would Die Before I'd Serve With Race Mongrels, Byrd.
The Constitution might not be a suicide pact, but I've found that civilizations don't need a pact to commit suicide.
*Not a typo.


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scum-o-rama!
loophole
tags: men are fucking selfish, saying women are selfish is a reversal, selfish, selfishness
by FCM
from → FCM, STFU, what about the menz
← some dood used my work computer to browse wrestling porn.
shes not wrong. neither is he. →
Mary Sunshine permalink
Essentially, yes, males are selfish. 😐
FCM permalink
hi mary! and you can tell by the way i spelled "evol" (and essenshulist) that i dont really care if anyone is an essentialist or not. 😛 seriously, i got over it. the important part is that we tell the fucking truth, about men. leave the "BUT WHY" to the fucking fun fems and prison reformers. WHO CARES WHY?
FAB Libber permalink
I will have to add "selfish" to my Big List of Reversals.
That list gets longer by the minute…
Sargasso Sea permalink
Yes. Men are selfish. There's a solution for that.
Ask me how! 8)
noanodyne permalink
OMG, the goops!!! I haven't seen a goop in like, forever!!!
Sargassosea permalink
The goops they lick their fingers,
the goops they lick their knives,
they wipe their hands on the tablecloths;
they lead such disgusting lives.
I'm glad that I'm not a goop!
(there's more, but that is totally from memory)
Here it is (and my memory is a bit off it seems!):
Wow, I had no idea they survived into the digital age. Never even occurred to me to look for it. I had the original book, it was my grandmother's, who expected each of us in her household to take its lessons very much to heart. The females, that is. That's why I'm so veddy, veddy polite, doncha know. (I'm not surprised you remember the lines, s4, it has that effect!)
And back to the original point, didn't men just leap on that idea of "survival of the fittest" and cling to it for all they were worth? They lurve them the idea of a "selfish gene" and the individual ensuring its own survival, even down to their itty bitty gametes. All that jumping up and down and arm waving by biologists telling everyone, oh wait, it's the collective that's selected for, not the individual? They'll just ignore that and go right on thinking of their clever selves and how great they are to have evolved to such awesome single self wonderfulness.
Claire K. permalink
Unfortunately it doesn't matter whether you think it's natural or not, making any sort of "totalizing," "universalizing" statement is considered essentialist, at least in the context of academia since maybe sometime in the 80s. This is also why the words "woman" and "women" are no longer acceptable in an academic context –just referring to women as if we could be classified as a discrete social group is considered essentialist. It's a bit depressing: feminists, rad fems included, understand the dangers biological determinism presents to women and therefore shy away from the label "essentialist," but the Deleuze-and-Derrida-loving pomo types who toss out these accusations don't care whether a generalization is based in biology or in socialization, or whether it helps or hurts women, so even a statement like "women are oppressed" (or, worse and unforgivably, "men oppress women") becomes essentialist and totalizing. This is why academic pomo types get along so well with the decidedly nonacademic and even anti-intellectual pomo types at places like feministe and feministing: the fun fems believe ardently in biological determinism –people are gay, trans, into bdsm, or whatever because of their genes or hormones– but they aren't willing to talk in terms of broad social groupings. Your genes make you who you are, but they make you one very special snowflake. So the fun fem philosophy includes the biological determinism that frightened rad fems off from "essentialism" in the first place, but not the generalizations that would get them in trouble with pomo academics.
richard dawkins has said that he misnamed that book, and that its caused him endless grief trying to undo the damage from people taking it wrong. upon reading the book, of course, anyone would realize their error, if they had assumed that he meant "there is a gene for selfishness" rather, his whole point was (apparently) that genes themselves fight for survival. or something, i dont remember. his point was that, as a writer, you lose control of your material once you put it out there for public consumption, and that most people are fucking stupid anti-intellectuals and dont actually read books, they just believe what other people say about them. and he may have also been talking about how memes get created now that i think about it? i think he invented the concept of "meme" or at least he has been credited with doing do.
anyhoo, YES, if it benefits them, they will believe it, and that includes misrepresenting data, misreading books, misquoting feminists (and others), rewriting history. etc etc. and of course just outright lies and reversals, like saying that WOMEN are the selfish ones! omg! i really dont know how i lived my entire life without the concept of "reversals." i think i first heard about them from mary daly (did she invent this?) and it was a lightbulb moment. around the same time i was introduced to a political tactic (i dont know what its called) of "take an opponents strength and turn it into a weakness." hmm! people really do that??!!! of course, men have always done this to women, when it comes to womens generosity and apparent willingness (compulsion?) to nurture. i dont know why these strategies arent completely fucking obvious, but there it is. i admit i am not so good at strategy, but apparently many people arent, if they cant recognize a very obvious reversal?!
Your genes make you who you are, but they make you one very special snowflake. So the fun fem philosophy includes the biological determinism that frightened rad fems off from "essentialism" in the first place, but not the generalizations that would get them in trouble with pomo academics.
thats a great clarification claire. now that you have outlined the differences between the pomos (academic vs nonacademic) it does seem like an uneasy alliance doesnt it? obviously the owners and writers of the websites you mention would be offended that you called them anti-intellectuals…they all have their bachelors degrees afterall, and call attention to them often. BUT they also very much like pretending to be inclusive…especially if its some fucking uneducated mansplaining transwoman who spent all "her" student loans on SRS. its also funny that ANY of them would want to be members of any "class" including class:academics. i guess if it makes them sound smart its OK? speaking of uneasy alliances…the fucking trans politickers own (pwn) the universities now…trans of course being obvious essentialists. its all extremely bizarre in my view, and you have kind of unpacked just HOW its bizarre.
im still not sure about the WHY though. whats the point of this alliance exactly, if you know? is it *merely* to run off and discredit radical feminism? because thats the ONLY common goal these asshats seem to share. that, and listening to themselves talk i mean obfuscate.
also, if this graphic causes even minor damage to the worldview of any "anti-essentialist" essentialist fun-fem/trans who are obviously reading, i will consider my work done. as you say, even *they* dont seem to know what the hell they are saying, when they call radical feminists "essentialists". when asked to define what they mean, they will say that we are wrong because "biology does not equal destiny, and sex and gender are not the same." eleventy! even though they clearly believe the opposite.
also, i am still not clear on WHY "academic" pomos would accept someone who held ANY essentialist beliefs at all? why do they let the 'stingers etc get away with any "but my genes/hormones made me this way" arguments at all? or do they just ignore it? and if so, why? do they really need the fun-fems that badly? for what?
im still not sure about the WHY though. whats the point of this alliance exacly, if you know? is it *merely* to run off and discredit radical feminism? because thats the ONLY common goal these asshats seem to share. that, and listening to themselves talk i mean obfuscate.
It does seem to be the common ground, so I guess we have to assume it is the common goal as well. Nothing else really makes sense. There seems to be a companion tactic, that works very well for tranz particularly, and I will call it 'theory/ideology cuckooisation' as a place holder. That is to infiltrate a group, and over time, change their ideologies to reflect your own. After a while the original ideologies are twisted so as to be almost unrecognisable. Best example was in adding the T to LGB. It is becoming obvious now to just about everyone how generally homosexuality erasing the tranz thing is, Chaz Bono prime example. Gays in Iran etc, example of it rolled out on a larger scale.
Great comment Claire. Good overview of current 'bedfellows' (LOL, sorry, couldn't resist it)
And on Reversals. Yes, once you 'see' the reversals, there is no going back. Thereafter it becomes rather easy peasy to unpack the bullshit. Fish in a barrel.
also, i will probably change the graphic later to say "bio-essentialist" instead of just "essentialist." because its fun to cause damage to the worldview of fun fems and trans and all, but its even better when you can do it with 100% accuracy, and in this case, i think i can. thoughts?
The unholy alliance between the pozzies, fun fems and tranz (pfft!) is, I think, just the souped-up 21st century version of the *fag hag* phenomenon.
Gay guys love to have a *girlfriend* to drive them around and buy their drinks; on call 24/7 for escort service for family/work events, *emotional support* or a fuck when he strikes out at the club.
Of course, when he's with his *boyfriends* they rip Ms. Hag to shreds; talk about how stupid and fat she is, how pathetic she is that she doesn't even know that really, secretly he despises her because she's a stinking woman who can't even *get a straight man to fuck her* (nice bit of self-loathing taken out on poor Ms. Hag in a most dangerous way).
It looks to me like it's the same thing only on a huge scale. And what SHE gets out of it, I have no idea.
pmsrhino permalink
Leave it to men to take simple scientific concepts like evolution and turn it into something that benefits only them. Actually had a conversation (well, butted into a conversation) about the concept of a selfish gene. How, using Darwinian theory, there is no reason to help the poor or for welfare or anything like that because it's all survival of the fittest. We should leave the weak to die and not help them because, also using Darwinian logic, we are all just apes so why should we be expected to act any better? Which is bullshit. Evolution is good for helping us figure out how we got here and helps us find cures and vaccines. Evolution was not meant to be some sort of moral code. AND YET! Men CLING to evo psych like it's some sort of holy grail that will let them continue being the assholes they are. This is the main reason why I have just left the atheist community entirely. It's all just a bunch of men who refuse to listen to any woman unless she is patting them on the back and backing up whatever they say. The clincher for me was the panel at a conference about how to get more women comfortable and involved in the atheist movement. The panel of 5 men and one woman who ended up just talking about how men NATURALLY EVOLVED to hit on every female in sight (or NATURALLY EVOLVED to sexually harass and rape women, in essence) and females should just get over it and realize they are only men, they can't help it. And then one one woman finally stood up in anger and mentioned that the way they keep saying "females" was pretty offensive she was mocked and laughed out of the room.
It's like if you aren't fighting some religious prick about how his God has no say over your body or whether or not a man gets to control your entire life, you're fighting with some scientific dickwad who thinks we all just naturally evolved to have men ruling over women and men sexually assaulting and raping women.
Because, you know, NATURE. It's explains everything and absolves us of any responsibility to try and fix shit.
Oooooo. Can't stand the atheist dudes. Oooooo, really, really can't stand them.
They're almost worse than the gawdsuckers.
Yes, atheist men are fucking horrible. The fact that atheism and progressivism have nothing to do with each other should be completely obvious, considering that Christopher hitchens is an atheist, but there you go. And there's DEFINITELY nothing feminist about it! Like trans perhaps, atheist men COULD TRY to be feminist allies. They'd fail, but the point is that there's nothing INHERENTLY feminist about either atheism or trans.
At least moderately-religious men can openly acknowledge that they don't know every fucking thing. Atheist men think they know it all, JUST LIKE the fucking godbags. Duh.
The thing we're really talking about when academic pomo-ism comes up is deconstruction. It is that tool that breaks down every possible human construction and concept into discrete elements, thus progressively denying that there is any such thing as… anything. The original proponents of this technique of inquiry (and destruction) are long gone and in their place are people who are left holding that bag of shattered theories, concepts, and meaning. Many of those people realized that, while the original idea was interesting and might be a good tool for some things, the movement that grew up around it (and the rock star proponents) was one big wank-off. (Some honest ones have even declared that we were never actually in a post-modern era, but are still in a modernist era and that other stuff was a side trip into a mutual jerk-off session by Derrida and his followers. Judith Butler anyone? If you read current takedowns of dear Judith, you'll see what I'm talking about. Someone has finally said, "what in the what???") But we now have academics trying to re-assemble something meaningful out of the detritus. They are trying mightily to make it look as if 40 years of conferences and papers and PhDs weren't one big circus with nothing to show for it. These folks have decided that there ARE some essential things ("unpacked" in their tireless struggle for truth and meaning) — now they're the true believers! They're now trying to prove that, while there still aren't big categories of things (like "woman" — you certainly can't let that one stand), there is core truth and they will soon know what it is. (The more things change…) That's why they are the heroes of the anti-intellectuals (who learned this crazy shit at their master's knees as undergrads). This new scenario, that breaks down progressive social ideals while propping up neo-conservatism, fits perfectly with what the none-too-bright sex-poz and tranz would like to believe with their whole hearts. Those movements don't even have to be endorsed directly by the post-pomos, it's enough to have a passing relationship because everything is always in a state of "contention" and "interrogation." And that's the classic haven for the conservative, the superstitious, and the cowardly.
And there is NO ONE more superstitious than the "skeptic" community.
Feminism should have NEVER been mixed with academics. What the hell were people thinking? The whole entire point of feminism, the real kind, is a critical examination isn't it? It's even kind of fun, if you do it right, and not in a narcissistic wanking-way. In a productive expansive way, its like figuring out a puzzle or a really great geometry proof. You know, FUN! 😛
Academic feminists all know that if feminism ever succeeded, they'd all be out of a job. Let the wank-fest begin…and above all, make sure it never ends. They are fucking shameless.
It's like a freakin' merry-go-round: There is essential truth — There's no such thing as essential truth — But there is an essential truth under another name — But you can't know what that truth is, because blah, blah, blah — But there is a core reality — But reality is suspect — AAAGGGHHHH. Anything that gets put into that is going to be useless for a political movement. Yes, as you say, that's the who point of putting it in there!!! Works for PhDs and a deeply conservative male institution (the academy) and supports all the other deeply conservative, male institutions in keeping people from making real change.
And yes, exactly, when it's not in the hands of academics, our analysis is actually engaging, interesting, fun, AND it's gets somewhere!
At one time, I was seriously considering a graduate program in gender studies. Talk about dodging a fucking bullet; I wasn't even that radical then, but I really don't know what that would've done to me. It wouldn't have been pretty, and it wouldn't have been fun. Omg! Whew!
"The original proponents of this technique of inquiry (and destruction) are long gone and in their place are people who are left holding that bag of shattered theories, concepts, and meaning. Many of those people realized that, while the original idea was interesting and might be a good tool for some things, the movement that grew up around it (and the rock star proponents) was one big wank-off." Yes, yes, yes and yes. I think you hit the nail on the head with this comment, noanodyne. And it definitely works well with neo-liberalism, doesn't it, this fragmented (individualistic) outlook?
FCM, I was thinking about some of the questions you raised. It's hard for me to really get my mind around this stuff, it ends up seeming all a big muddle. But I think that's kind of the point, as I'll get to in a minute. Anyway, yeah, I called the funfems anti-intellectual because of their emphasis on personal experiences over systemic analyses, which is another point at which their politics would seem to conflict with the ideas of pomo academics, who don't approve of words like "experience" and "identity" treasured by funfems. In fact, academic pomos criticize radfems for relying too heavily on those concepts. So as to why they can work together despite these differences: I think it's partly because of the wide divide between academia and the world of mainstream feminism. The funfems would find some of the academics' ideas offensive if they knew about them, but they don't. The academic pomos write things that go against funfem philosophy in scholarly books and journals, but they don't challenge funfems directly. The funfems themselves aren't all that powerful, but ideas like sexual orientation being genetic are popular among liberals of all stripes and the academics can't afford to take on such a large group. Nor do they have any reason to: the funfems and the academics have basically the same goals, whether that's a nice thing like gay rights or an icky thing like protecting the porn industry, so the academics don't mind if the funfems are accomplishing those goals by different means. For example, a prof into queer theory might use the introductory volume to Foucault's History of Sexuality in his classes, but in his "civilian" life he's not going to start lecturing his fellow gay rights activists on how the idea of homosexuality as an identity rather than an act only dates back to the Victorian era because the anti-feminist ramifications of sexuality-as-genetic either don't occur to him or aren't worth disrupting the unity of the movement for (male) gay rights. Academic books on feminism include the occasional swipe at Andrea Dworkin, because as low-profile as radfems already are one still has to make sure they stay that way, but not at Jessica Valenti, because even if they don't agree with her ideas she doesn't challenge their goals the way Dworkin does.
I don't think the ultimate goal of this unholy and somewhat accidental alliance is only to oppose radfems –we just aren't a big enough threat to bother with most of the time. Instead, I think the goal is to expand and secure male sexual access to women, and the conflict with radfems is a side effect of that. Of course, many or most of the people involved don't think of this as their goal at all, but a sort of intellectual survival-of-the-fittest ensures that those ideas best adapted to survive in their environment (i.e., those that best serve the interests of the people in power) are the ones that get the most press (tho the internet might be leveling the playing field a bit on the nonacademic side). So maybe the porn-defending liberal feminist prof really thinks she's helping work against the marginalization of lesbians, but the dudely dean who signs off on her tenure bid does so because he sees that despite being a feminist she's not going to take away his porn. (Or whatever. Examples abound.)
I see this opposition to the characterization of women as a social category and to related forms of "essentialism" as linked to the transition from "women's studies" to "gender studies" and from "gay and lesbian" to "queer." Replacing women's studies with gender studies ensures that there are no spaces from which men are excluded. It's probably accurate to describe this as the "penetration" of academic feminism by men. The word "queer" has become so common in academia that it's rare to even hear anyone talking about "gays and lesbians" but at the same time its meaning has been expanded to include anything the speaking academic finds cool and sexy, from companion animals to cyborgs to spinster aunts. As a result there are no longer any academically-correct terms to describe people who are just plain old homosexuals (and not cyborgs or whatever). In particular, while calling a man "queer" is still usually enough to get across the idea that he has sex exclusively with other men, when used to describe women "queer" is unofficially understood to mean something more like a destabilized and fluctuating version of "bisexual." Then make it common practice to refer both to exclusively lesbian and to celibate women as "queer" and, voila, you no longer have any women who don't have sex with men, or at least you have no words for such a phenomenon. The promotion of the word "queer" and the elimination of the word "woman" both work to create this vague soup of sexualities and gender identities in which anything is acceptable except that which excludes men altogether. To feminist academics this way of thinking is very seductive because it seems to promise to "destabilize" the patriarchal construction of gender and sexuality as absolute (this is how my favorite professor explained it to me. Right before she called me an essentialist. Sigh.) The danger is that the resulting confusion will only hide male dominance instead of dismantling it. For instance, "women's studies," as opposed to "gender studies," would have to be a temporary concept from a radical feminist perspective, because it maintains the idea of a class:woman set in opposition to a class:man, but it does take on the issue of women's oppression directly whereas "gender studies" does not. And even Derrida himself said that struggles against oppression have to include a basic 'overturning' phase, though he certainly had plenty of other douchebaggy things to say about feminists.
Really sorry this is so long and rambling; I've been turning this stuff over in my mind for the past year or so and haven't had anyone to vent to about it.
One more thing about the relationship between academic and funfem pomos: they don't deal with one another directly, but reading the funfem blogs it's obvious some stuff has filtered in from academia. So how exactly does that happen, I wonder? And the feminist pomo academics do have contact with the funfems outside of academia, so they probably feel more comfortable writing things they know would be funfem-approved even if they never mention the funfems explicitly in their scholarly writing.
… when used to describe women "queer" is unofficially understood to mean something more like a destabilized and fluctuating version of "bisexual." Then make it common practice to refer both to exclusively lesbian and to celibate women as "queer" and, voila, you no longer have any women who don't have sex with men, or at least you have no words for such a phenomenon.
Good old fashioned lesbian erasure. Well said, Claire.
Claire,
Thanks for your thoughts. Much there to nourish the mind.
Holy crap you wimmins have ENORMOUS BRAINZ!!!11!1 love!
Many excellent points Claire.
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Men are trained from day one to be selfish, so of course they are. I think it's even written in the code book, "Masculinity for Dummies." You have to be selfish because everything else is considered feminine.
As to being a gender essentialist, I've been called that so many times, I just embrace it now. It just seems to mean, STFU, you're not allowed to say anything negative about the learned behavior that the majority of men engage in. It used to mean that you believe gender is innate or biological or something, but now it just pretty much means you've said something observable and negative about men and we can't have that, you gender essentialist, you!
Gender essentialism ay? That's a new one. Srsly. Take a group who shares "masculinity" and all that entails (to varying degrees I suppose) and tell everyone else (FAABs) they cant speak aloud WHAT it entails. We have to ignore it. Yay pomo!
Seriously, is gender essentialism a real thing?
also, claire, i think you are 100% spot-on regarding the erasure of lesbians and spinsters (everyone who doesnt have sex with men!) AND the shared goal of fun fems and academic pomo being expanding and securing sexual access to girls and women. absolutely. and the lesbian/spinster erasure is very relevant to my "words on words" post on the other blog: thanks to the word "queer" now there is LITERALLY NO WORD for women who dont fuck men. the entire concept has been erased. its fucking stunning. thank you for your comments.
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How does this pomo queer stuff filter into the real world? I'm having flashbacks to a workshop I attended at some queer activist thingy in the nineties. (I spent much of that decade ignoring the small, still voice saying, "You know what real feminism looks like, and this ain't it.") It was organized by Queer Nation types who published their own alternative porn zines, but attended by earnest young people who just wanted to fight the good fight against AIDS and other bad stuff.
Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians had a hit song, Gender Trouble had just been published with the unattractive purple cover, and under-thirty lesbians, oops, I mean, queer women, were being totally transgressive by buying Susie Bright's new book at the local feminist bookstore, which had reluctantly stocked it. Standing around with a styrofoam cup of coffee, I overheard the following conversation:
Earnest Young Woman: So…I was wondering about this term, 'genderfuck.' I've never heard that before — what does it mean?
Queer Activist: Well, it's when you fuck with gender. Like if a guy with a full beard puts on a tutu and some fake breasts, that would be a genderfuck.
Earnest Young Woman: *Nods gravely.* Oh.
I forget if an exhortation to read Gender Trouble followed, but it probably did.
Seriously, a lot of women absorb, or semi-absorb, this stuff in college, but do not become academics. Some eventually figure out that their hip, queer, pomo profs were, in fact, extremely sheltered individuals with limited knowledge of the world outside their offices, but not before they've done their part for funfeminism by explaining 1.5 million times to Bob in Accounting that, you bet, some lesbians are totally into stripping for male audiences because it's a way of asserting their seckshual power — in fact, when some lesbians sleep with men it's a totally queer act, because…AGENCY! (Or FLUIDITY, take your pick.)
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Claire, excellent comments to a great post. My brain has expanded ten fold in one hour. Fantastic!!
The change to gender studies, so that the men can be included, is done to shut down expansion of female thought. Men get to clear their heads to think, expound and theorise as an exclusive group and, guess what, the same results happen when women do similar. Like these blogs which are the most fantastic havens of intellect on the planet internet.
In Norway the equalities minister decided that voluntary action to put women on the board of directors in the top 100 companies didn't work – that's selfishness working right there. So the equalities minister passed a law that if the companies didn't put women on the BoD they would be shut down. The result? Not a big surprise. And it works. I always use this example against those who say women shortlists don't work. They have to be put in place because men are selfish. Men cause women shortlists and then it's mainly them who criticise it. Men's selfishness is an eternal circle.
http://www.mba.unisg.ch/files/Norway.pdf
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Yes, men are indeed selfish. How selfish? So selfish that, when one of them actually decides to toss a random scrap of kindness at a woman deemed worthy of male compassion, both the benefactor and 90% of the female species sings the praises of his astounding humanitarianism and noble character. This "good deed" could be something as miniscule as refilling the toilet paper spool, or as dubious as refusing to succumb to the temptation of raping his stepdaughter, even though "the bitch was asking for it because she dresses like a slut". I think all women know, deep down, that most men are scum-sucking pieces of shit. But it's an ugly reality; a reality that is so horrific, women are forced to adopt all sorts of unnatural coping skills. One of those skills is hope; the hope that, despite all evidence to the contrary, men are capable of love & compassion, and capable of seeing women as whole human beings. And so, when any man strays from The Script of Masculinity (no matter how brief it may be), it justifies that self-deluding optimism. I can hear them now… "See?! ALL men aren't bad!". LOL
Well, evidently, most of them are; else women wouldn't so desperately lavish attention on the first Joe Blow who begrudgingly acknowledges (after much heated debate) that it might be possible that they were not put on this Earth for the exclusive purpose of being every man's own personal fuck-muppet. Men are also aware of their scum-sucking ways; they are not ashamed, wearing it like a badge of honor. But when a woman names it, out loud, the menfolk wail in defensiveness… "JUST BECAUSE I SAID ALL CHICKS ARE WHORES, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ME A MISOGYNIST. I'M SICK OF THIS PC CRAP!!!111!!".
Men are shit, and they know it. But they hate the fact that women know it too. Fun-feminism is just another variant of the old Dude-Aid recipe. Radical Feminism is the antidote. 🙂
mantis, just YES! there are a few new commenters here for this post, where have you been all my life?!
Right on Mantis!
Just realized that some of my cultural references are not from the same year…but the conversation is, I swear, verbatim!
FCM said:
"…where have you been all my life?!
Well, I was a reader of IBTP… till the infamous Transgate incident put a bad taste in my mouth. So, I began to search for greener pastures. I saw you commenting at 92's place, so I payed a visit to your blog, and many of the other blogs you link to. It was very encouraging to see another woman, of my own age group, whose also a fan of Dworkin. And, needless to say, I have thoroughly enjoyed your thoughts on the whole trans situation…. which brings me to a question: Have you heard about the two girls in Baltimore, who beat up a tranny at McDonald's? The public response to this incident has been rife with female-hate & racism (the girls are black, tranny is white). I keep hoping you'll post something about it, as I'm very eager to hear your perspective.
Mantis:
(only dead links so this does not end up in mod)
gendertrender.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/chrissy-dont-play/
ballbuster4ever.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/crimes-against-women-are-normal-apparently/
fabliberationist.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/not-everything-is-twanzphobic-get-a-grip/
Yes, I highly recommend gallusmags post. It was excellent reporting, and it was news to me. The Nigel heard about the beatdown even before I did, but apparently, and unsurprisingly most of what gallus reports isn't widely known.
I don't really do news reporting or current events, so I am glad there are others who do. It's just not my thing, although Jessica valenti almost dying from pregnancy related complications was just too good to pass up. And when I say good, I mean bad. 😦
@ FAB: Thanks. I just posted a comment on GallusMag's article (still in mod).
Much of the commentary I've read about this, all over the internet, has been about as ludicrous as The Spearhead's claim that men are being oppressed by Susan Lucci's breast implants. It's good to finally see a competent assessment of the McTranny situation.
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Searching for my own sexuality, I read the book on women's sexual fluidity by Lisa Diamond. She portrays women's sexuality as different than men's and complains that women's sexuality has been defined through a male paradigm. So far, so good, right? At the time I read it, some things bothered me about this book, though. I think the blurring of categories was one of the things, the "queer" woman was one of them. Something was left out. Reading the comments here, I realize that it's that there is no place for women who don't fuck men.
My biggest disappointment in reading it at the time was that sexism was not discussed in any meaningful way when it comes to relationships. In reading about PIV here, I realize that intimate relationships are not really possible with men given the PIV-entitlement culture. Trying to find the man who is the exception is barking up the wrong tree. Since women are colonized, no real intimacy is possible. The entitlement runs deep in men. They are socialized into selfishness from the start. Even those who might be less-than-selfish are part of a selfish-entitlement-privilege system that runs very deep. They may be generous, but that would only be to non-FAAB's. When it comes to FAAB's their generosity is only noblesse oblige or worse.
I wonder what a book on women's sexual fluidity would look like that started with that as a premise? It would have to make a place for women who don't fuck men, that's for sure.
assexuality i.e. spinsterhood (reviled) and bachlerhood (accepted), is considered, though only if your are FaaB, as not the done thing. Since Victorian times. Surprise, surprise. Heavens above if you want to live on your own. As a female. Cause the rumour will spread that *gasp* you'll never have enjoyed the wonders of PIV. Or motherhood. But the menz were excluded. Why?
That's a great reversal Maggie. Good catch!
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I think they were called nuns, Kate.
The men were excluded (from censure if not married) why?
I don't think they were excluded. They were the "funny uncles". I know most families have spinsters (women) and they are not thought of as dangerous. Not so with Uncle Bob the bachelor. Mothers do not not leave their children with him. Thus, bachelors, and funny uncles, (hell, men) will still get themselves a female shield to hide behind.
I think Maggie was meaning more batchelor-sewing-oats as a celebration, rather than creepy batchelor uncle dude. Spinsters are not celebrated.
Just a suggestion that we don't conflate the word "asexual" with "spinster."
I'll second that Noanodyne 🙂
Nanodyne, I'll third that. No I would never conflate the word asexual with spinster but I was suggesting that it is done.
Never thought about the funny uncle but I have cousins who are bachelors and were seen as hellraisers in their day, as FAB points out. However my sister, who is unmarried and without issue, like her cousins, is pitied (and always has been). I wouldn't leave my children with any of them as my children don't know them. Ha!
Now I have another sister, married with no kids. She has 'respectability'. I wouldn't leave my children with her either. Ha!
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Never Ever is the debut extended play by South Korean singer Jiyeon. It was released on May 20, 2014, by Core Contents Media. "1 Minute 1 Second (Never Ever)" was released as the lead single.

Release
On April 2, 2014 it was announced that Jiyeon would have a solo album. Core Contents Media released a statement saying, "Jiyeon's solo concept is sexy and will be similar to Park Jiyoon's 'Coming of Age Ceremony', but with a modern 2014-esque twist."

On May 20, 2014 the extended play Never Ever was released along with the music video for the title track "1 Minute 1 Second (Never Ever)" and a dance practice video.  "1 Minute, 1 Second (Never Ever)" is a medium-tempo song produced by Duble Sidekick. The EP also includes the melancholic "Marionette" and "Yeouido Cherry Blossom", a song by composer Ahn Young-min.
On May 23, 2014, it was announced that Jiyeon had been forced to change the dance for "1 Minute 1 Second (Never Ever)" due to the hip dance being deemed too sexy and provocative for the public. A news release from MBK Entertainment said "It is true that we received the call to adjust the mentioned dance from the major broadcast station reps... We added the sexy hip dance to the beginning and middle of the performance dance and music video not to give an erotic feeling, but rather to match the atmosphere of the sensitive dance song '1 Minute 1 Second'... However, we do think that the major broadcast music show reps do have a point, so we have decided to show a modified dance to the viewers."

Reception

Critical reception
"Never Ever" received generally positive reviews from critics. PopMatters praised Jiyeon's emotional vocals that makes it powerful and relatable. The magazine especially praised the music video and the choreography "but it's really the music video, with the unique choreography and powerful message that are going to be remembered."

Commercial performance
The EP reached number 3 on the Gaon Weekly Albums Chart.  The title track "1 Minute 1 Second (Never Ever)" made it to number 17 on the Gaon Weekly Digital Chart.

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Competing claims of love and the glory of war
Medea, ENO, Coliseum, London
Timandra Harkness
As somebody named after a character from Shakespeare's rarely-performed Timon of Athens*, I am wary of rarely-performed works. There is usually a reason for persistent neglect. And Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Medea has been so rarely staged that this David McVicar production is its UK premiere, 320 years after it first opened in Paris.
But I'm happy to report my fears were unfounded. Opera companies all over the world must be kicking themselves right now. True, a modern audience may be reluctant to sit patiently through the lengthy interludes of dancing and chorus singing that intersperse (or hold up) the dramatic developments of the plot. The production seems to play with this at one point, when it feels as if the first interval will never come, and one of the onstage characters leads optimistic applause several times, only to be cut off by the next song or dance.
But the dancing is witty, energetic and entertaining, and the fresh mix of baroque, jive and bump'n'grind styles plays with the music, the World War II setting and the modern audience's familiarity with music videos. And the spurious dancing and singing is always justified by the storyline, whether it's a spectacle commissioned by the amorous Orontes to win Creusa's heart or the diabolical writhings of the beings Medea summons from Hades to wreak her terrible revenge.
In this case, Hell hath fury exactly like a woman scorned. Medea is feared and hated by the citizens for her past deeds (unspecified in this opera, but in myth she dismembered her own brother to distract her pursuing family while she eloped with Jason). But when we first meet her she's just a woman who fears her husband has fallen for a younger blonde.
The wartime setting is all-pervasive: all the men and most of the women are in uniform, and Jason makes a convincing case that he's only courting Princess Creusa to cement a defensive alliance with her father, General Creon. There are soldiers everywhere, an oppressive atmosphere of fear and deceit broken briefly when Orontes and his squadron of gallant airmen arrive. For a while, jolly dancing brings everyone together: army, navy and air force, khaki-clad women, politicians, even the waitress serving drinks. Then the machinations resume.
The competing claims of love and the glory of war are a recurrent theme. Christopher Cowell's translation sits lightly with the music, its simplicity leaving space for the emotions to come through the music and the powerful performances. 'Mark my despair,' sing Jason and Creusa to each other, if you should regret your choice to be with me instead of Orontes or Medea. Their insecurities echo and counterpoint, 'Mark my despair, Mark my despair…' Because, though her suspicions are not confirmed until halfway through the drama, Medea is being betrayed by Jason, whose feelings are divided between her and Creusa. And it's the very human dimensions of all the main characters, who confide their dilemmas in duets as well as revealing them in soliloquising arias, that makes the tragedy emotionally plausible.
Medea has unearthly powers. The fears of the populace are justified when she summons the powers of Hades to help her take revenge, but by then we have seen her sentenced to exile from Jason and their sons, racked with fear that she has lost his love, and deceived about his intentions. So though she's a semi-divine figure from Greek myth, she's also a person like anyone we know who has been betrayed and heartbroken.
Unlike any person we know, however, she is able to turn the tables on those who thought her powerless. Her revenges are so terrible they have the chorus singing 'Oh cruel Gods!' and vowing never to worship at their temples again. We're asked to sympathise with Medea's feelings, but not to condone her actions.
In spite of being based broadly on Euripides' character, Charpentier's Medea is curiously modern, and at times her modernity emerges into the music, with harsh discords that strain against baroque formality. Sudden shifts of mood when indecisive or duplicitous lovers move from passion to fear, jealousy or anguish are propelled by nimble changes of tempo, texture and key. And yet there are pure period passages of warlike brass and kettledrums, harpsichord accompanied recitative, and diabolical thundersheet action.
If you don't like baroque music, it might be an overlong evening of spurious dancing. But if this production doesn't put Charpentier's Medea back into the opera repertoire I'm not sure what would.
*No, really, don't bother.
Till 16 March 2013
• Music	• Opera
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