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Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear.

"Script For A Tearful Jester, surely? As a student in Sunderland in 1982, this was the album to mourn lost loves to - or lost love, singular.

This was the foreground music to a forlorn couple of years in a wind blown sad and desperate Thatcher Sunderland, skinheads cruisng for a bruising, joy riders in Morris Itals nearly taking me out; long hair whipping in the gales, chips dangling from my new and greasy natty dreads, before I had the sense to wear a ponytail.

Desperate clumsy attempts to get a shag in poly bars and crap discos. The active attempts were never successful and sex would happen out of the blue with female friends or with strangers who took a liking to me at parties. The bad breakups - bad every time, with the women I didn't shag. The ones that I did shag remained friends and we got on fine. Where are they now, I wonder?

The Mecca on a Friday neet with the heavy metal chums; gigs in Newcastle, Marillion, ThinLizzy, Pallas,IQ and all those new progsters. Playing in bands that never quite happened.

Drizzle. Light flickering on water. The beach. Red faced middle aged women, skin scorched by the constant salt winds from the North Sea. Fog. Drizzle.

There were friends and fair-weather friends and flat mates and pals and fellow students.There were groups of us getting stones and drunk and mourning the state of the world in a mournful part of the world.

Nothing greyer than Grey Road in grey Sunderland on a grey Sunday. But the friends made it all worthwhile - the laughs we had, and the oh-so-deep putting the world to rights discussions, and back to the laughs and jester's tears.

And all the time Marillion, the script for Sunderland joy and sorrow."


Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset, 1595




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Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset (31 May 1590[1] â€" 1632) was an English noblewoman who was a central figure in a famous scandal and murder during the reign of King James I.

Lady Frances Howard was married at the age of 13 to the 14-year-old Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex. The marriage was primarily a political union; they were separated after the wedding to prevent them from having intercourse, with the view that premature sex and pregnancy was to be avoided. Essex went on a European tour (from 1607 to 1609) and when he returned Frances made every effort to avoid him. He was at the time seriously ill with smallpox, but she had also fallen in love with Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset. It is suspected that she might have purposely encouraged her husband's natural impotence by the use of "love-philters" with first Simon Forman and later Abraham Savery. Essex himself did not seem to mind the lack of his wife's company, spending most of his time drinking with other men.

When she finally took the step of annulment, unable to legally represent herself, her father and uncle, Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, represented her and drew up the libel. The situation quickly attracted public attention, and was widely observed by those with "prurient minds". She claimed that she had made every attempt to be sexually compliant for her husband, and that, through no fault of her own, she was still a virgin. She was examined by ten matrons and two midwives who found her hymen intact. It was widely rumoured at the time that Sir Thomas Monson's daughter was a substitute, which is possible because she had requested to be veiled during the examination "for modesty's sake".

The matter was a subject of mockery and ribald commentary throughout the court, including:

This Dame was inspected but Fraud interjected
A maid of more perfection
Whom the midwives did handle whilest the knight held the candle
O there was a clear inspection.[2]

In turn, Essex claimed that he was capable with other women, but was unable to consummate his marriage. According to a friend, one morning (while chatting with a group of male companions) he had stood up and lifted his nightshirt to show them his erection -- proving, if nothing else, he was physically capable of arousal. When asked why only she caused his failing, he claimed that "she reviled him, and miscalled him, terming him a cow, and coward, and beast."

The idea of satanic involvement was seriously considered by the judges and at one point it was proposed that Essex should go to Poland to see if he could be "unwitched". The annulment languished and possibly would not have been granted if it were not for the king's intervention (Somerset was the favourite of King James). James I of England granted the annulment on 25 September 1613. Frances married Somerset on 26 December 1613.

Sir Thomas Overbury, a close friend and advisor of Somerset, had tried to advise him not to marry Frances Howard, but he was a desirable ally for the powerful Howard family. The family managed to get Overbury imprisoned during the annulment proceedings where he died -- curiously enough, the annulment went through eleven days after his death. It has been widely considered that Lady Somerset had him poisoned through an agent. The Somersets were convicted of murder, but spared execution.

Lord and Lady Somerset had one daughter, Lady Anne Carr, who married the 1st Duke of Bedford.

October 23: Brett and Melanie: The Erotic Documentary with Tony Comstock




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A sneak preview of the seventh in Tony Comstock’s ongoing Real People, Real Live, Real Sex documentary series, Brett and Melanie: Boi Meets Girl is an exploration of sexual pleasure in committed relationships and the problematic place of explicit sexuality in cinema. ”Brett and Melanie” depicts a butch/femme couple, and opens up questions about strength and vulnerability in the context of how we portray and interpret gender. Throughout Brett and Melanie’s interview, there is a constant dance of who is strong for whom, of who is vulnerable and who nurtures; and this dance continues when Brett and Melanie make love.
By including frank footage of Brett and Melanie’s lovemaking along with their candid testimony, the film also opens up questions about the meaning of reality in the context of documentary filmmaking, and explodes preconceptions about the place of sexuality and eroticism in cinema.
Curated with Colin Weatherby.
Tony Comstock has been a filmmaker and photographer for more than 20 years. In a world awash in sexualized imagery, why does so little of it speak to the common pleasurable reality of sex? He has explored this and other aspects of the human condition. Subjects of Comstock’s films have included love, sex, 9/11, indigenous fisheries, hurricanes, refugees, HIV/AIDS orphans, and the visualization of God. His current focus is the Real People, Real Life, Real Sex series. Reaction to these films has ranged from film festival laurels and critical and popular acclaim, to police raids on screenings and intimidation of DVD retailers.
Diana Cage is the managing editor of Velvetparkmedia.com and author of several books on sex and sexuality including, Girl Meets Girl: A Dating Survival Guide and Box Lunch: The Laypersons Guide to Cunnilingus. She is the former editor of On Our Backs, the only lesbian sex magazine made by women, and host of her own show on Sirius XM. Featured in the Here! Television series Lesbian Sex and Sexuality, she was also named one of GO magazines 100 Women We Love. Her newest book, A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Ecstasy, will be out next spring.
Lisa Vandever is co-founder and director of CineKink, an organization that recognizes and encourages the positive depiction of sexuality in film and television. She curates and oversees an annual film festival and touring series designed to promote and showcase such works. A producer and consultant with over twenty years of experience in film and television, Vandever was formerly the director of programming for a regional network of public television stations, worked as a development executive for two New York-based independent production companies and was associate producer of the Sundance award-winning feature film, “Songcatcher.”
Vandever holds an MFA in Film and Video from Northwestern University and a BA in Telecommunications and Film from the University of Oregon. She is currently producing and directing her own documentary, A Public Voyeur, a profile of fine-arts photographer Barbara Nitke and her landmark legal challenge against the federal government’s CDA obscenity law.


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