Yeah, it's not here. So this is about OpenSUSE on netbooks. As you can see, it apparently takes a little bit longer. Yeah, it's one of those new cool machines. Probably everybody has one with him. Yes, okay, so you all know what this is about. The new interesting stuff that Intel brought us, or at least they claim to have that. So, oh yeah. It is slower. Okay, so I introduced myself first. I'm Stefan Seifried, working at the desktop team, or at the team mobile devices at SUSE in Nuremberg. And there I'm working with all sorts of machines, among others, with the netbooks. And we are trying to get those going, if possible, out of the box without any major hackery involved. But yeah, we'll see how this is working out. And we're basically doing all kinds of mobile stuff from netbooks onward. So we are not doing much embedded stuff for phones, or so we are the PC guys still. Okay, so let's start. The talk has three parts. First part is a little bit of short overview over the hardware. Actually not that interesting. Part two is the software. There are also, again, two parts. There are kernel drivers and stuff, and there's the user interface part. And the thing that I consider the interesting part of this talk is the tips and tricks and the daily usage. What are the, because in the end, installation is usually pretty easy, and but it's, in my opinion, those machines are more than just a smaller notebook or a cheaper notebook. But they are apparently, I have the opinion that you need a little bit of different usage pattern for those. And I try to share what I have found out over the last year. And actually I was using small machines all the time before. They had not 10 inch screens, but 12 inch screens. But many of the experience is similar. So let's start with the hardware. What's so special about those netbooks? Those are usually pretty small and lightweight devices. As far as I know, actually Intel forbids the manufacturers to put in a larger display than 10 inch if they want to use the Atom processor, the cheap one. So all those machines usually have less than 10 inch display. They have a low power consumption if you compare it with other PC laptops. They have a small screen and keyboard. The hardware is fairly uniform because most of them today have the Intel Atom processor and an Intel graphics chip. And there are some with a wire processor and wire chip, but they are not very common. And yeah, they are also not that well supported. Let's say it that way. Some models, for example, this one, have a pretty low storage capacity because it has a built-in flash device which only has eight gigabytes. And this can be challenging. They are also the triple EPCs. I think they had four gigabytes of stuff. And so, of course, that's not really a problem. And this is more than 10th of the capacity for my first hard drive, but it's still for today's standards, it's not much. You need to look into that. What are the problems with this hardware? Yeah, and there we are again. It's the low storage capacity of some models. And something that I'm experiencing pretty painfully all the time is that especially those flash devices, even though they were so to us as to be faster, more reliable, consuming less power, there are at least the cheap ones that are built into the netbooks are very slow. They have a decent read and write rate, but as soon as you do an app sync, something goes awfully wrong, and yes, please come in. Something goes awfully wrong and they take very long time.  Then actually, even though they all look the same from the first look at the hardware, it's not as uniform as you think. You cannot imagine what strange kind of wireless LAN devices you find on these things because almost every business notebook you get out there today has an Intel graphics, Intel processor, and has an Intel wireless LAN. And those usually just work. They may not work perfectly, they may have some issues, but you basically never get one that just does not work at all. Those devices, there's apparently the possibility to save 50 cent by buying some strange wireless chipset from some unknown Taiwanese vendor who's brought us the RGL 8139 LAN cards or the infamous Broadcom chipset. The very reverse engineer driver exists, but it actually does not work that well all the time. So there are hardware problems, especially in the wireless area, which is a pity because especially on those machines, wireless is even, for my opinion, is even more important than on a desktop. For me, I don't really care about wireless. If I have a desktop and if I have a cable, I use that cable, I won't use wireless because it's still faster. And on a normal notebook, most of the time it works. So wireless is even more important and you have to choose the hardware carefully to get it actually going out, talk more about this. And then the machines are small, they have small batteries, which also means even though they need not as much power as a big machine, you still didn't, sometimes don't get a much longer battery life or sometimes even a shorter battery life.  They are also a little bit more expensive. Probably you get what you pay for there too. Then we come already to the software because in the end the hardware is not really that interesting from a Linux distributors point of view because it just works. The processor is not really different from an old Pentium 3, as far as I can tell, so the kernel does not need special adaptations. Driver stuff that needed to get in for a chipset is already long in mainline, so there's no real problem. Apart from some device drivers, we'll talk about that. Or as anybody had a different experience, I said, okay, I had a machine that did not boot at all and I needed some special Linux patch. I haven't seen this for quite some time, so. The hardware, it's there and it's working and so, yeah, can move on to the software. So, yeah, as I told, wireless LAN drivers are often problematic. We have a nice hit list of, actually, I asked my colleague who's doing the wireless stuff and I asked him, okay, what should I recommend? What chipsets should I recommend? And he said, okay, spare those S. There's only actually only one chipset that is sold in the netbooks that you can actually recommend and that's right now the Atheros chipset because that's the only one that has a driver that's working pretty well. I said, okay, but I have seen other netbooks also work so there must be something that, yeah, okay. After Atheros, there comes nothing, nothing, nothing and nothing and then there's rallying which have some out-of-tree driver. They're actually working on it but it's not really going upstream and it's a little bit, you need a lot of tweaking but if it works, if you get it running, then it works. I said, okay, but this can't be everything. There must be more drivers around. There's my hardware that, yeah, then comes nothing, nothing, nothing and then there comes real tech and Broadcom. Broadcom is especially funny because there is a binary only driver on the Broadcom side, which is of course very funny because you have all the, if you like this sort of fun whenever you change the control revision you have to check if the module still works and if it still compiles and it's actually not what I consider fun and there's also a reverse engineer driver but it's good enough that it detects the card and it sometimes work but it's, as far as I know it doesn't do encryption very well and it's not very well but it's really funny about Broadcom and something which I say, okay, go tell this people what you think about them is if you go to the Broadcom website you really get a strong warning to please remove all this community driver stuff. I think it's in parenthesis community drivers I said, okay, yeah, you know, this is what they're thinking about us. Should we buy their hardware? I'm not sure. So actually if you want a machine probably it's possible to get those all going but it's with a different levels of pain and of time you need to invest to get your machine running, to get your wireless going. So in my opinion it's pretty important to check out before you buy the machines they're all pretty similar you get them all with similar display sizes they have different keyboards and stuff but that's actually they're all pretty small too small to touch type so check out if there's hardware that's well supported if there's an ateros card in there I'd say go for it. There is no network known to me actually the chips with an Intel chipset I was wondering why they are but probably they are just costing two dollars more or something like that and that's yeah, just too much. I've heard rumors about a special Intel netbook wireless LAN chipset coming up but I have not seen it and so I cannot recommend it now. There's other stuff in these machines than wireless LAN for example in this Acer this is an S-Pi or one, it's the flash model A110 I think one of the first Acer's I think the card readers they need some tweaking there's you need a special module flag to force the PCI Express hot plug driver which is interesting I never knew that card readers were PCI Express hot plug and there's no other PCI Express slot no Express card but these are stuff that you need to get sometimes to get those going but it's in the end it's the same as with other relatively new hardware you need some special things there are yeah, how do I phrase that without insulting anybody some interesting bias workarounds that you need and those are from those type that I usually have only seen from the very cheap consumer class notebooks that you get at the big food discounts or stuff like that so where again sometimes I have the impression on those netbooks the bios is the same as the hardware sometimes so they oh it would cost five cents more to fix this bug but we have a patched kernel where it runs anyway with the Linux distribution we ship or it runs with Windows XP so we ship it anyway and depending on the vendor it might be hard getting a fixed bios so for example this card reader stuff with the PCI Express hot plug module the kernel developers are arguing if it's a kernel bug or if it's a bios bug for you as a user yeah it doesn't really help in the end this all is not really different from a normal machine from a normal I say that from a normal consumer class notebook they often have similar problems the hardware is the cost efficient type the bios is the cost efficient type and you have to do some stuff to get it going it's even you get those from vendors where they know how to write the proper buyers because they have business class notebooks that just work out of the box but yeah it's probably a different part of the corporation who is doing this so the one part of the corporation has the good buyers, riders and the others have the bad ones I don't know how it works okay any questions to drivers or stuff or any experience you want to share if you had a netbook and had a really hard time getting it going anyone? yeah the new rallying just works for some stupid reason okay so is it now in the staging tree or is it the new driver that you get from the no it was on the website always you had to download yourself and now there is just a default module included in the installation so I don't know where that module comes from okay so yeah of course rallying are actually not the very bad guys because they apparently have some problem working with kernel developers and well all of you who ever had to deal with kernel developers I can sometimes understand why people have problems working with those it's not always easy if there's a corporation and says okay we are doing a driver and then there come a herd of kernel developers and say yeah you're doing this wrong you're doing that wrong there's a wide space issue I don't like your ugly defines and says okay we are not really targeting inclusion in the kernel we're just going for you can download it off our site and sooner or later somebody will also clean up this driver and so if rallying is now working better very good so in this case I'd recommend a Theros and rallying okay yes so what about the camera you are going to speak about camera driver camera built-in in the netbook and I actually did not try but most of them are standard usb cameras of course there's surely one or the other one who is non-standard needs a special driver but generally usb cameras are more and more going for the there's a universal video module he needs to pull it up the bison cam that everyone has that was from as is from really old laptops that's now in everything and only two six twenty eights it's included so now to recompile everything okay so that's just because two six twenty eight was already out so they could have backpotted it but they don't do that so yeah but in that with the next kernel when factory goes to the new kernel of in the general distributions all that I'm talking here is actually not really open to the specific because it's the same for every distribution so when the distributions get the new kernel then you get a driver and what's good about this machine is actually that they are sold in pretty huge quantities so there's some some incentive for many developers to actually work on those many people who basically stuff like reverse engineering webcam protocols so you need somebody who really has a need to you don't do this for fun if if you don't have the hardware for yourself so that's they're sold in huge quantities and they're actually cheap enough that people say okay it's not fully supported but it's cheap I'll buy it and I'll try what I can do and so we're getting pretty good driver development I guess that will also happen to the wireless LAN drivers I'm just a little bit pissed off that it's the situation is not really getting better after years are not that much better so there are a few chipsets you can recommend and still there are year after year a few you can't and but in the end it's not really different from a normal machine for the user interface there's actually I'm advocating to try out new stuff if you I'm I'm a hardcore KDE user normally but on the network actually said okay let's try something different because KDE 4 in the default configuration has a pretty huge for for the small resolution pretty huge window decoration and a big panel and stuff and actually I think it's it's time with such a new machine to try out different stuff using and generally I'm using a lightweight desktop like I don't know XFCE or a very lightly configured KDE or GNOME or whatever is a good idea on such a machine because they are generally fast enough for almost everything you can even run open office on those that's they have enough memory they usually come with today with one gigabyte I think that this one still has 512 but it was one of the first that we that we bought and usually they have one gigabyte and more so you have enough and the processors are also fast enough it's not a problem but generally on a small machine using small applications is might get you better performance and more satisfaction when there's application generally the on this machine the screen with is usually not an idea I have to admit that I'm a chicken I switch to 800 times 600 for presentation because otherwise we with the white screen we would have probably have black bars left and right and I didn't have time to sort it out some but the generally the screen with is 1,024 or bigger on most machines save the small old EPC triple E which had I think 800 times 480 yeah which is very small but that those new ones all have 1,024 times 600 or 576 the new ones apparently because the bigger panels are no longer available they are sold out so they had to resort to 1629 and the screen with is not a problem screen height actually is and there is stuff that needs to be fixed in the application I have found one I just a short demo because it was so funny in the actually in the ocular KDE fewer than I was trying to set up stuff and there's where's the OK button it's gone there's nothing there's no K button so for me that's no problem I know I can hit alt and and shift it up and so I can hit OK and cancel and no there's no the next thing there's no way to resize it okay you just resized that no no somebody decided that this dialogue has to be at least 600 pixels high so you have no way to resize that and this something that I'm not sure if this for example would need to change in the also in the toolkits why is there no no flag I can say okay I can resize this dialogue and it gets a scroll bar here and without the the application program having to know that but that there's maybe a global flag something stuff like that will happen I think on the desktop another thing that I this dialogue is extremely funny because I can show all those all those pain that you have if you do it to full screen it's not going to get any more useful for me as I I'm I've never done any qt programming or KDE or any GUI programming at all why can't it just arrange this stuff side by side if I put it on full screen it's the the screen is almost double as wide as it's high so there would obviously there would be enough space to put this buttons there but there are not so this is those are issues with applications I hope and I think that they will be fixed because all those applications need to get also more more portable towards small machines mobile phones nobody wants to program everything by everything new so they want to have a just a maybe a small layer on top that I like the maybe the KDE the KDE for plasmoid stuff already which has a I don't know the word some kind of context sensitivity if you pull a plasmoid into the apple into the into the task bar it behaves it displays differently does still does the same thing but you can for example put the photo view into the task bar and there it's a button which which shows you all the contents of the photo and no longer a no longer a and I like that that's the normal desktop photo anyway before I'm discussing here that's the people are knowing and working on the issues and if you find such a dialogue like I found now I did not already file a bug but but this is a bug in the end and file a bug report if you find it on open Susie file a bug report for it because you might sometimes you might need to argue with the developer why this is needed but if nobody tells the people that this is needed they won't fix it unless they start using netbooks by themselves but probably not as the main development machine so those are those are uh... application box that need to be fixed and that this is something that you that's the that's the duty of the users to report the box we can try to fix them as the developers but the users need to report them some some stuff I think I find by myself but yeah we need back reports now comes the interesting part because that's what I found out sorry one more one more question concerning user interfaces it appears to me that almost every distro or even every vendor invents his know his own starting uh... application launcher so sometimes you have very big buttons uh... uh... on some translucent uh... uh... windows uh... overlaid over your KDE or GNOME uh... desktops and their other approaches what do you think there will be some kind of consolidation in the future or do we have to deal with all the different approaches well there's always actually the last question was what is the open-susi approach uh... I don't know I hope we will get some consolidation on the other hand there will need to be some consolidation it's just a waste of resources when everybody does the same thing over again on the other hand you cannot restrict developers because they do what they want anyway and if they think it's a good idea they will try it and so you will always see uh... variations on on a theme with this stuff then there's in every all the not all but many of the larger distributions have a company behind it that has a marketing department that says L we need something to differentiate believe me we try them that differentiation with the with the number of buttons you have on the screen or with the color of is not a good differentiation but they need to learn that and yeah it's so I fear we have to live with that for a few more years but in the end the best solution will win out the more stuff that is actually tried and to try to find out what's what's useful what's what's uh... what's really what the users actually can use what what's good for them that this is the thing that will prevail that's the one that will be see five years from now so there will always be that this is the open source world the program projects forked and and rejoined all the time and it's actually a good thing and yeah that the question is do we really need to one more application launch or don't we do I wouldn't but there's you can't fight everything then we come to the to the tips and tricks and let's start with preparing your installation some of those men i'm assuming of course everybody wants to install open susie on his brand new shiny netbook so but also if you want to install something else if there is another Linux installed already i would actually recommend to create an image of the installation if possible or tar it up completely just make a backup of it or if it's known that the rescue cd that is shipped with it will actually work then yeah this is fine but actually creating an image today is not really expensive if you write it to a new speed disk and that's always good to have a way to go back and because there is often with the preshipped installations there is a hacked colonel they have some strange colonel module or there is a you need to find the option that's needed for the PCI express hot block module to get the card reader going creating an image allows you to restore the original state backing up atc basically is where most of the configuration probably stored and this allows you also to find out how did they configure special stuff apart if there's an if they have a special colonel patch you're out of luck you won't find this in atc and also not in the image usually then explore the original installation they often have put some work into it to making it usable for non-geek normal users because those machines are actually so to normal people with linux on them so they're not yeah they're they're not solely target on geeks but also on on mom and dad basically you can sometimes get this on the food disc counters in germany those machines so they have done something to make this this linux a little bit more usable and tried out of course often this is in some annoying stuff for the advanced users but there might be one or the other night thing in there try it out explore it and maybe write it down what was good so if you later see okay i have now this open suce or fedora or debian or buntu or whatever in it and this is cool everything is working fine but this one button was really a good idea then in the case of open suce create a feature request because or or if it's just a small thing create a bug report an enhancement bug report because i'm looking at some of those machines but i can look on all of them actually for me most of the time when we get a new one yeah we create the image but then we have to get going to get susie running on it i don't have time to spend a day or two exploring the original installation i tried to but i often i just can't so this is stuff which i think it's important to the community at large to make the products better because often if aser sells this machine with it there's also i'm not sure what the desktop was that was on it but it there is as i knew there was a an application it had seven or eight buttons big buttons an application launcher that normal people could launch their office firefox email program and it had some some custom internet connection tool i think the the image was made shortly before network manager had all the features that it did something by themselves and it's i think it's important to check out somebody was paid to do this and it was probably not done totally wrong so you can at least look at it and steal from them but if they if they don't release the source code to you you can at least look okay we can do something similar or maybe something better that's important also if you later need to get the hardware going the machine the installation you have on the machine when it shipped is already running so lspci ls usb ls mod all this stuff it can't hurt to save it on an usb stick and have it later if everything works out of the box you don't need it but they also have lost nothing the first try with a live cd or a live usb's medium assumption that probably a good idea to see if it's working at all or if it's maybe in that special case of hardware maybe ubuntu works better so try before you install then the installation as such is not really interesting it just installs you need probably a usb cd rom or usb bootable usb stick and install by our network but it's not really different to normal hardware you just install on those machines those are big enough you don't need any special tricks that the installer can work to have enough memory to have fast enough fast enough processors the only thing you might need to do a minimal installation or something which is probably a good idea to not fill up the four gigabyte of flash completely in the beginning yeah sorry do all of the recent netbooks support booting by via usb? yeah I have not seen one that doesn't they all have recent bios and you can boot them from almost everything you can usb cd rom, usb just a bootable usb installation you can get one on the suzibus made with suzibus studio so they boot from that just fine okay and is there some support in to open suzibus to provide a usb memory image? I think but I'm not sure I think there already is one or at least it's it's easily createable with kivi for example yeah I think the cd image is still just a boot image and then you put you hope your network card is already detected and then it does a network installation yeah but if you don't have a that's what supported at the moment yeah but there's also I think there are also there were usb stick images around but I I always create my own if I need one to be honest I'm not sure what's distributed no of course not yeah of course I I think with every new distribution that we roll there will be new ways to to install the stuff so the more this is actually a reason the more those machines become more common they don't have an optical drive people don't have usb cd ROMs or usb dvd ROMs ready all the time so providing a usb stick image that you can just put spoke I'm not the product manager but there's something something useful yeah I will we will hand this on so during everyday usage there are some totally different problems for example you if you have installed normally the machine if you are unlucky the machine gets detected with its ten inch screen and every application suddenly has relatively huge funds on the small display because with a ten inch screen you have a very a relatively high dpi number dots per inch so the the applications make bigger funds so that you can read them which is a good idea if you have a 22 inch and a 19 inch monitor to have a similar this similar font sizes but on this small machine actually you want smaller font sizes so what do you do you go through every application change the font size from ten to eight or something like that which is actually not funny you go to cheat you cheat with the dpi settings either by entering a slightly bigger screen size in socks too doing this since years I'm having a as a regular machine a 12 inch sub-notebook and this has always had a 14 inch screen so it sucks that it has a little bit a slightly smaller dpi rating giving it smaller funds and because I'm I'm nearer to the monitor anyway I can get more information on it and still read it or there's the XR and R dpi switch where you can on the fly switch the dpi setting of the of the currently attached monitor and but it's only works for newly started programs I can demo it later if there's still time it's really funny then there's stuff like many people will probably not use this as the primary machine they would have this as a secondary machine so there's an issue of synchronizing your data you have to are when you're on the road or you're locked into a into a hotspot or downloading stuff you don't probably don't want to download again at home try unison unison is a graphical it's basically a two-way arcing for who already knows unison okay unison is basically a two-way arcing tool with a graphical conflict resolve for very nice should try it not only on netbooks but it's good you want to have your emails on more than one machine while reading them from the local mail spool is probably the old geek way but not the best one anymore so be prepared to try out new ways stuff like imap is pretty usable since a few years and actually with most old-style mail client you can still use it so this is something that if you use a central repository for a mails with imap you have the flags or you never have a mail that was already read as marked as unread on the other machine before and stuff like that works very well that's something I always had my local mail spool because it's just easier to grab but finally when I had more than one machine in an everyday usage as which to imap for example sharing the complete home might be problematic because there is just too much settings of the desktops in there it's would be nice if it would work but it doesn't you totally fuck up your KDE or your GNOME settings if you do that there's just too much stuff that's dependent on the resolution that they actually save in there yeah and to be honest I've given up filing bugs against the stuff because basically most of those bugs were closed as yeah this is not really a strange use case you are telling us here and nobody is using NFS home anymore because it's actually the same use case so sharing the complete home might not be the best idea create a directory where you have the data you need on all machines and synchronize that with unison that's what I do and this works very well when you're on the road and you find out that you need to install a few more packages if there's enough enough space on your machine having an ISO image of the latest OpenSUSE DVD or at least the CDs is very handy because you can just install additional packages without going to find where have I my USB CD-ROM or without having network connectivity this is basically yeah this is especially true because you don't have usually don't have optical drives in those machines generally saving saving resources using KDE4 and then Firefox for browsing the web and Thunderbird for reading your email is probably not the best solution on a small machine because you have the Firefox libraries twice or the Mozilla libraries twice once for Thunderbird once for Firefox and you have the whole KDE4 so trying to stick to one desktop environment in this case is probably giving you a better experience that's generally the same when we're working with older machines I recommend to use either GNOME or KDE but maybe not conqueror from within GNOME or Firefox from within KDE if you can avoid it there's always the web page that doesn't work in conqueror yeah this the last point is today not really an issue because there are no 64-bit netbooks yet as far as I know but they will come and if you have less than say 2 gigabytes of RAM there is not really a big advantage in using a 64-bit machine if you're a developer and you know you need a 64-bit environment okay then go for it but on a normal end-users machine probably actually 32-bit usually the flash plugin works much better in 32-bit so it's a often and and you 64-bit not only means that you can address more memory but every pointer is double the length and you just you need a considerable higher amount of memory without the machine doing anything the kernel needs more memory so today that's not an issue but in the near future that probably will be if you have more than four gigabytes of RAM of course 64-bit is the way or even more than two gigabytes than 64-bit is the way to go but until then not really so what have you left basically that's what I wanted to tell her yeah exactly because time for questions do you have any project with LXDE LXD is a network desktop environment and are there any plans that you do anything with LXDE maybe have a USB streak with OpenSusie and LXD on top any ideas I only did a short evaluation of it and as far as I know there are no official plans but there's always the possibility to create a product in the build service and I didn't have the time until now to look closer into it and I'm I hope that people in the desktop department will look into it but it's actually a good feature request maybe I don't know if anyone's here interested in forming a project or talking about a project maybe we can meet in a few minutes outside of the door yeah yeah anyone interested in LXDE desktop environment with OpenSusie yeah you can do okay one moment for me one of the most interesting things about the new networks is that it's giving Linux to people who beforehand would never have seen it certainly that's the experience I have among friends and family and so on but I was wondering if you'd seen any figures in the number of people who take you're happy with the standard install or actually do move on to if you like a more developed or you know what it wouldn't do or OpenSusie is something I got do you have you seen any figures of the people who stay with the lin pus for example on the on the answer I have not seen any figures I actually don't know it but we have very huge number of bug reports for the netbooks and there are also lots of requests for for enhancement and stuff and so I think there are quite some people who say no this is not the basically they are used to the distribution they want to use the distribution also on a netbook it's probably more the geek type who wants to to replace the mom and dad will probably just stay with the installed one yeah but I have don't have numbers sorry what's your experience with the USB CD drives because I used the KDE live CD from Seuss and then my CD drive is too slow so the kernel loses it and then tries to refine it and then in the meantime it gives a time out so I can never boot a live CD what's your experience with that I've had never a problem but this is probably it's device dependent and so for me they always worked I had different ones USB CD burner DVD burners and small portable ones and they also at home I have just an old CD drive in a converter case and for me they all worked so it might be bad luck or or a bug that's just never triggered for me of course that's yeah okay I see time is up so I'll be available at the booth later or in front of the door so we can get


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Source's report, his current net worth is at about $58 million, but considering he grows over $53 million on his 2019 Astral World Tour alone, I feel like that number has got to be higher. When Travis isn't spending his fortune on mega mansions, another way he likes to celebrate his successes is buying top-of-the-line cars. What's going on guys and girls, my name is Kara and we'll be doing something a little different today on this channel. I typically bring you guys house tour videos, but today we're going to take a look at the car collection of Travis Scott. If this video is a hit, I'll be sure to bring you more. I'm thinking Kanye West or Elon Musk, but you can let me know who's next in those comments down below. Smash that like button, be sure to hit subscribe and follow me on Instagram to chat. Let's get into this video. The car Travis used to cruise around in back in 2016. Clearly the rapper loves himself a Lamborghini and one of the first ones we've seen him in was this gorgeous all-white one. As for TMZ, we tell the Travis had some difficulty fitting his Lambo into the allotted parking space. He was leaving the Glendale Galleria at the time and he got a little too close to the car behind him, backing into it by mistake. The damage was reportedly minor or less. Travis eventually drives away, but the other drivers still had a little freak out. I'm not sure what exact model this white Lamborghini was. It was just the beginning of the rapper's car collection. In 2019, for Travis' 28th birthday, his ex and baby mama Kylie Jenner also gifted him a Lamborghini.  Kylie wanted to show her appreciation for Stormi's dad and bought Travis a $280,000 silver Lamborghini. He took to Instagram and posted the brand new whip in his stories, writing, Kylie wasn't the only one gifting cars in the relationship though. This is obviously a car in Kylie's collection, but I'll include it because you guessed it, Travis paid for it. That crazy machine that was posted on Kylie's Instagram is none other than the rare Ferrari LaFerrari, rumored to cost $1.4 million and Travis bought it for her as a push present. You know because she was having his kid. And to spend well over a million bucks on a car for your girl, you know he was head over heels for her. All of the cars Kylie's of course Travis couldn't resist the urge to get behind the wheel and test drive, the work of art. The LaFerrari has a 6.3 liter V12 engine capable of pumping out 963 horsepower and reaches a top speed of 217 miles per hour. It only needs 2.4 seconds to reach the air to 60 miles per hour, making it one of the fastest cars on the road. I'll also add this car, yet another set of wheels Travis bought for Kylie while they were a couple, a Rolls Royce. Now Kylie is known for having her own insane car collection where something like $14 million to boot and this includes an entire fleet of Royces. For her 21st birthday Travis gifted her a white Rolls Royce which we can see parked nicely with the others with a whopping 400K. I mean it didn't cost as much as the LaFerrari but that ain't cheap. Naturally Travis also has a Ferrari of his own, so let's look at the one that will be parked in his garage. The rapper owns a Ferrari that looks like literal fire. The entire car is finished in a burnt orange color, opting for unique shade instead of the usual red that everyone seems to go for. Instead of getting the four 5-8 Italian model like a lot of celebrities buy, Travis decided to go with the Ferrari 4-8-8. This beast has a 3.9 liter twin turbocharged V8 engine that can pump about 661 horsepower. These babies start at around 300K to purchase and considering Travis' Ferrari 4-8-8 is all decked out with customs including that paint job, I'll guess it's seven backs somewhere around half a mil. Next up, let's look at some more of Travis' Lamborghinis. These ones are super customized and unique. First, the rapper owns a Lamborghini Huracan that he got custom-wrapped in BAPE purple camouflage. Talk about flashy. Considering no one else has a Lamborghini that looks like this, it was pretty obvious in the clip that it was Travis behind the wheel taking it for a spin on the wrong side of traffic. Oops, not to mention we can see him clearly. Anyways, the Lamborghini Huracan costs about 200K to start and considering Travis got it super customized it was obviously more. This sports car boasts a 5.2 liter V10 engine, 602 horsepower and top speed of 240 miles per hour. It can hit 0-60 in 3.4 seconds. Travis also owns a Lamborghini Aventador SV which is likely the most expensive Lambo in his collection. This car is even faster than the Huracan we just saw hitting 0-60 in about 2.8 seconds and marketed as the sportiest Lamborghini ever. The Aventador SV costs about 500K and Travis wanted to make his even more special by hiring the famed West Coast Customs to wrap the vehicle which obviously costs a hell of a lot more. Travis for real though it all comes together when you see this interior. After the West Coast crew was done with his Lambo it was finished in a stunning matte brown paint looking like it was dipped in chocolate and contrasted with white rims. That Aventador isn't the only brown car Travis has we've also seen him posing with his Range Rover in the same shade on his Instagram. The Range Rover's range in price of the nicest models costing around 100K and I'm sure considering the kind of money Travis has he opted for the best one he could find. Again the custom paint job in any other details he added would also bring the price up further. Although it's slightly less lavish in some of his other wheels everyone needs a spacious family car in their collection so why not a beauty like the Range Rover. Now let's get into the super expensive cars Travis owns because you know three figure price tags just aren't enough. Last year he decided to treat himself to an ultra rare Maybach G-Wagon. Both Maybachs and G-Wagons are already super luxurious and expensive on their own never mind when you combine the two types of cars together. Apparently only 99 of these cars were made in the world and now Travis happens to be the owner of one and he took to Instagram to show off his ride. As we can see his Maybach G-Wagon was customized to sport the same shade of mocha brown as a few of his other cars which we saw like the Lamborghini and his Range Rover. It's also the same color seen on Travis's Nike Air Force One collab shoe so clearly he likes it. Reportedly this car features fully reclining seats, a built-in massage system and even silver champagne flutes. I don't know what that's about since you can't drink and drive but I guess it's supposed to be fancy. Sources say Travis got his Maybach G-Wagon delivered from exotic car dealer Dr. Bugatti and was originally white before customizations. If you're curious which I'm sure you are this whip set Travis back a massive 1.6 million and it's not even the most expensive in his fleet. While the global pandemic this year may have put a damper on any party plans Travis had for his 28th birthday it didn't stop him from treating himself. Most recently the rapper gifted himself a slick black Bugatti Chiron costing a jaw dropping three million dollars. The Chiron is a successor to Bugatti's Veyron model and it can climb a zero to 100 km per hour in less than 2.5 seconds. It also has a max speed of 420 km per hour and a total power output of 1,500 horsepower. Of course Bugatti is a famously expensive ride but they're also super costly to maintain and oil change alone reportedly costs 20 to 25K. At least Travis can afford it. And this isn't the first time we've seen the rapper in a Chiron. In Travis' Gaudi video clip with the late pop smoke which dropped last year he raps. It cost me three for the keys not the work but the V. Clearly he's referring to the car's 3 million dollar base price. Finally, although Travis loves to spoil himself with his luxury car collection he also spoils others and I don't just mean his ex Kylie. A couple years back the rapper wowed his parents with two philosophy whips as a Christmas present and he shared their reactions with fans on Instagram. The video Travis presents his dad with keys to a brand new Porsche. His dad is overcome with emotion after receiving the present saying oh my god I can't with tears in his eyes. Meanwhile his mom is overjoyed with her brand new wheels, a Range Rover. In the clip she sits in the car with Stormi in her lap and tells her grandbaby to give a big smile to the camera. Honestly that was so sweet to watch. So now we've toured the crazy car collection of rapper Travis Scott and I gotta say it's nothing less than impressive. I'm sure he has all of them lined up at his brand new modern yacht style mega mansion because the place apparently has an underground garage. Not to mention his new estate is below street level and the winding driveway actually starts on the roof of the home so his cars will look pretty nice on display. If you want to see what I mean about how Travis's new mansion is set up be sure to check out the updated house to read it on him because it's crazy. From all those wheels in Travis's collection from the multiple Lamborghinis to the Bugatti and more which was your favorite? I know it's hard to choose but I gotta say like the Maybach G-Wagon. I'm more of a bigger car kind of girl. Anyways be sure to let me know in those comments down below and if you like this car tour let me know which other celeb garages you want to see next. I'm thinking Drake or maybe an avid collector like Snoop Dogg. Follow me on Instagram if you want to chat and I'll see you all in the next video. Bye.


Felly mae'n gweld â'r cyffredinol yn gallu y llyfr, y llyfr dweud y rhan o'r pethau o'r ei ddefnyddio i ddweud yn dweud yn oed yn eu syniadau, a'r ddefnyddio i ddeud yn defnyddio i ddweud. Mae'r ystafell o'r ddweud yn ymwysig o'r rhan o'r cwrsiau i ddweud o'r ffordd o gweithio, o'r ffordd o ffordd o'r gweithio, o'r ddechrau ymdaint o'r ffordd o'r llwyddoedd y Salome. byddwch y cyngor maen nhw'n gilydd ar yr tygwyrau. Fuddem ddoch chi'n gilydd ffazio ar gywe. Ond yn ymddangos, wrth gwrs, mae'n gilydd deso eu hynny'n gwybod i'w gweithlo. Fodd fel ddim eich synod am gael eich ddau. A byddwch iddy'r cyngor rydych chi, yn rhian gyrfa a'r llythydd yr hynny, rydych chi'n chi oedd, rwyf yn y gallu llythydd o'r llythydd, pan rydyn ni dda chi ddaeth eich ymddangos. I was going to call it, always leave them wanting more. But that's quite a risky title. So I decided against that one. And I also thought, oh, cigarettes and absents and wild, wild women, which would certainly draw the crowds. But I was interested to put the cigarette at the centre of this, because it is in many ways at the centre of wild's own life. He is often photographed, as you can see, carrying a cigarette, smoking one. Now, as we know, cigarettes are very bad for you. They're a particularly dangerous form of pleasure, because they cause increasing damage whilst you kind of keep wanting more. That's how it operates. Now, the Victorians didn't entirely know this, though my medical commentators, some of them had noticed that smoking might be quite bad for you.  But they did disapprove of it, because, frankly, anything that's a pleasure doesn't quite fit with that rather prissy notion of what the Victorians are all about. And for wild, that was part of its attraction, of course. The joke about the perfect pleasure of the cigarette is one of the things he keeps going back to. It's one of his favourite jokes. The very formidable Lady Bracknell comments in the importance of being earnest against the grain of normal expectations that smoking is a very suitable occupation for an eligible bachelor. Well, it's better than banking. And the bachelor characters in the decay of lying smoke is a matter, of course, all the way through their discourse on art and morality. Wild himself famously appeared on the stage of the premiere of Lady Windermere's fan wearing a green carnation in his buttonhole and smoking a cigarette as he congratulated his audience on their excellent taste in approving of his play. And a lot of people were very shocked by that. And I think part of the issue with the cigarette for Wild is that it's actually also a slightly effeminate symbol. It was very much associated with the new woman in the 1890s, along with her bicycle, her 20-a-day habit, was the new woman's calling card, virtually. But it's not the cigarette per se that matters here, despite its rather over-determined fundusieca exoticism. It's the fact that it's defined as a perfect pleasure and that perfection is itself defined by the fact that you're never satisfied with it. It does always leave you wanting more. So that's sort of part of what I'm getting at, I guess. Now, a certain Sigmund Freud would probably have said that sometimes a cigarette's just a cigarette. It is also, amongst other things, a metaphor. Reeds of smoke and loosh. I like word loosh. Loosh is one of my favourite words. Loosh associations and its fatality. It stands for lots of different sorts of forbidden pleasures. It doesn't appear at all in Salome. So I don't know why I'm doing this, except I kind of think it almost might. It doesn't even appear in Aubrey Beardley's non-illustrative illustrations for Salome. Though he might actually have got away with it in one of the illustrations to Salome. There's a series of 1890s texts which obviously Salome could not have read in her boudoir. So it could have been there, but it wasn't. But I think what I'm interested in is that it stands for the circulation of desire that can't be met. So that you keep wanting, you keep wanting. And that, I think, is very important to Wild in general. We keep finding it over and over again. One of the origins of this paper was that I was commissioned to write something for the 40th anniversary of the publication of Jean-François Lyotard's book, Libidinal Economy, which I'm sure you all know inside out. Well, even if you don't, it doesn't matter very much. There's a sort of key metaphor at the heart of that book, which is the mobius strip. And what Lyotard suggests in his book is that it's a book which combines both Marxism and Freudianism, if you like, and was consequently very shocking in its own time in 1974 when it was first published. What he's getting at in his title and in that image of the mobius strip is that you can't easily separate desire for people, your sexual desires, your objects of lust, if you like, from your desires for things, your capitalist desires, the way that you might buy new shoes or have a new book or a new record to kind of satisfy some other thing that's going on in your head. In other words, you can't easily say that there's libidinal desire and that there's capitalist desire and that those two things are different. And the mobius strip suggests that they might actually be on a continuum, that they're the same. And that may also be important for what I want to think about in Salome. So, do you know it? I mean, some people will, some people won't. I might do a small amount of just telling you a bit about it. Cos it's not like Wilde's normal works. It's very, very distinctive and very different. Every critical commentary on Salome says it's not like the importance of being earnest, it's not like Lady Windermere's fan. One of his recent critics has said, how is it possible that the same writer who made a name for himself through writing comedies of manners like Ernest also wrote a play like Salome? I mean, it just doesn't seem to compute. They don't seem to be able to make much sense of it. And the anomaly of Salome, a phrase I was quite worried I wasn't going to be able to say, actually, is all the more remarkable because of its composition and very fraught publication history. It was written in French, which is the first thing you need to know about it, so the Irishman writes in French because English, of course, is a foreign language. It was intended to be performed by Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. But when he applied for a licence for performance in 1891, it was denied a licence for performance by the Lord Chamberlain's office. So it wasn't performed in Britain at all, ever in wildlife time. It was then translated, badly. What can I say really? It is quite a poor translation, the one we use by Lord Alfred Douglas. Produced in a sumptuous publication, it's actually a very beautiful book illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, the only artist who would understand what the dance of the seven fails would be as Wild was to put it. And it's absolutely odd and strange compared to everything else. The other plays that everyone knows are comedies of manners. We all kind of know that. And they're set in what looks like a realistic world. Though, to be fair, I have to say that Wild is also very keen to show that it's an extremely artificial world, this world of the upper classes in Britain in the 1890s. The other plays are all intensely commercial. They've always been successful. You can put them on, you'll always get an audience, it's brilliant. This is not true of Salome, which gets put on about once a generation, and usually as an experiment, let's just see what it feels like to do it. So the comedies share a decor, a set of stock characters, a set of situations. They function in the realm of epigrammatic wit. Portentous people are laughed at. It's all very light hearted, even when quite serious things happen. It's all on the surface kind of okay. In Salome, we are in the world, the biblical world of Herod Antipas in Israel at the time of Christ and John the Baptist. So you can tell straight away where somewhere else. Instead of focusing on a clearly defined genre, which is where Wilde had his major successes, we've moved to something else, a world marked by experiment. This play is really not typically wild in. Having said that, one of the things I do argue in my recent book on Wilde is that Wilde always manipulated genre. Genre is about giving you expectations and giving audiences what they think they want. So you sign something with the name Wilde and people will turn up expecting a particular kind of thing. If you tell them that Wilde's written a tragedy, which is what Salome is, a spoiler alert, she does die at the end, it's all very sad. But you get the kind of picture here. If you tell them it's a tragedy, one of the things you don't expect to happen is that we occasionally just fall about laughing. Because it's a very weird play and the Stephen Bercoff production, which some of you may have seen a long time ago now, 1989, one of the things that did really brilliantly at the National Theatre was to point out that actually there's a certain element of farce to this tragedy, that it's kind of a crazy idea that you can be serious all the time in exactly the same way as it's a crazy idea that you can laugh all the time. Having said all of that as well as tragedy and we laugh at it, it is also ridiculous. It's parody of all the things that you might expect to find in a symbolist drama, various commentators have pointed that out. The most famous of whom is Mario Pras, whose book, The Romantic Agony, is definitely to be recommended. Everybody should read that book. Pras says it's a parody of the whole of the material used by the decadence and of the stammering mannerisms of Materlink's drama and as parody it is close to being a masterpiece. So, there you are. But it does border on the ridiculous, he says.   But it's kind of interesting as well. What I think happens in a play like this is that whereas in the comedies, Wild Offers are really an interesting corrective to the punitive Victorian morality of the kind of society he was actually living in, so you laugh at the people who take that morality most seriously. There can be no tragedy in the modern world. That's the argument that he's almost making, that tragedy actually can only happen where there's savagery. And so in order to see that savagery play out, you have to go back in time. This is Wild himself. I just have to keep checking it's there. I don't know why I get so worried that it might not be there, but it is. This is Wild himself saying that he doesn't really believe that tragedy should deal with modern life. So he asks the question, should it deal with the society of middle class existence? These are questions purely to the artist's own choice. Personally, I like my comedy to be intensely modern and I like my tragedy to walk in purple and to be remote. But these are whims, really. So, to turn really to Salome itself and to where it comes from. Any brief glance at the late 19th century will tell you that Salome was incredibly vogue-ish as a subject for art and literature from the 1860s onwards. Salome is absolutely everywhere. The biblical account of her story was expanded to speak to the period's own concerns. To its own orientalist fantasies, really. The Orient, the Middle East being the place where you can displace all of your weird desires. You can put them somewhere else because they're not here and they're not now. So the Middle East becomes the repository in late Victorian culture of sexual immorality and impropriety, a decadent assault on the sacred cows of organised religion. She's associated with John the Baptist, of course. You get to be a bit blasphemous as well. It ticks every box. What's not to like? I'm really often repeated image in the late 19th century and one of the things I just quickly wanted to do was to show you that because I don't expect you to take my word for it. So I've got just collections and collections. Just by googling, actually, I could have picked up 60 images from between 1860 and 1910. I didn't even have to do any research, is what I'm suggesting there. So all of those, I think, are images that really focus on the Byzantine Middle East. Lots of jewels, a very rich decor. But at its centre, a naked woman. Why wouldn't you want to paint a naked woman? But it's respectable.  It's been put somewhere else. You couldn't represent a western white woman in these circumstances. Not in this period anyway. One of the things that really struck me as I was going through the pictures was that you'd be astonished by how many of them are knives and plates pictures. So it's like they're kind of doing something to say this is domesticity gone horribly wrong. But you get the idea, don't you? And then they do, I think, become extremely sexualised. There comes a moment where they become very sexualised. Max Oppenhower's painting there is really quite shocking. Really does make the Freudian point that decapitation and castration might be quite closely related. Would you like me to take that one down? Don't have nightmares. I can go back or... I'll leave it there. Brilliant critic called Bram Jyxtra, who's collected together a really interesting set of late 19th century images of women, says that Salome is the figure of the femme fatale for the period.  Dancing girls are always rude. We kind of know this, don't we, in Victorian culture. With a fatality, which is a direct attack on institutional religion. She's nicely exotic, which is only a letter away from erotic, of course. And she combines a powerful and unfeminine, voracious sexuality with interesting exotic artistic potential. In the turn of the century imagination, Jyxtra says, the figure of Salome epitomised the potential perversity of women, their eternal circularity and their ability to destroy the male. Stop there for a moment, because actually, of course, this isn't what really ever happens. The femme fatale is an image and an imaginary thing. I think women get destroyed by men slightly more often. In reality, as well as in artistic production. I think the artists were repeatedly drawn to this image because she's a sexualised female body that you are licensed to look at. It's okay to have a look at a dancer because dancers are performing. So it's fine. Alongside the pictorial images, which proliferate, there are an awful lot of Salome's in literature, largely in French literature. But there are an awful lot. It really begins, I think, with Flaubert's story, Eurydias, from 1859, which is from a collection called Three Stories or Three Tales. I have put on here a little... Well, I've put the whole thing, actually. I've put the description that Flaubert offers us of the dance of the seven veils. I'm not sure I want to read all of it, but I just wanted you to see how big this description was because there's another slide. There's more. Which focuses on this incredibly erotic dance which provokes frenzy in the audience who sees it. Anybody writing about Salome, and especially if you do it in French, after the 1850s, 1860s period, knows this description and they are making reference to it one way or another. It's enormously significant, I think. I'll say it goes on. In fact, it goes on quite a lot. But you'll notice that what I did was to just underline a couple of statements. One was that Herodias and... So that's the mother figure, Salome's mother. Herodias and Salome look like each other. That it's mother and daughter's plot which I think is quite interesting. The other is the ambiguity of this dance. You couldn't tell whether she was mourning for a god or expiring in his embrace. Is this sex or death? Or both? Yes, is the answer, really. I just wanted to go. Maude Allen asked me about her at the end. I haven't got time to talk about her as part of this but she's ever so interesting as well. Towards the end of that description you get an awful lot of flaring nostrils amongst the Pharisees and the... You can make a lot of those as a postroidian, I think. OK. What I'm intrigued by in Flaubert's depiction is that the dancers Flaubert presents it offers no complete fulfilment of the desire it dramatises and provokes. So you watch it and you are provoked. In that sense it's obscene. That's one of the definitions of pornography that are provoked. And then it's over. And just to show that Aubrey Beardley really did know that the Flaubert thing, all women become like their mothers, these two drawings, the left-hand drawing was suppressed for fairly obvious reasons, I think. So they weren't allowed to put that one into press because it's got a penis in it and this was not permitted. You can show bosons in the 1890s but penises are not allowed. Anyway. Now, Wilde definitely knew his Flaubert. He'd also met Malamais who wrote a very interesting version of Salamais. He was friends with various people in the artistic scene. He met Gustave Moreau, for example. So there are lots of moments where he's come across French versions of Salamais. And amongst the many comments that are made about Salamais when it's published is that one of the things that's really nasty about Salamais is that it's very, very French. And worse than that, it's plagiarised. That he's nicked it from the French. So it's French which is bad enough. But it's nasty as well because it's cheating. So this is a review. Which I've quoted at length because I actually think it says some dead interesting things, actually. Salamais is a mosaic. So there's a middle eastern image of art. The mosaic is the Byzantine form. Mr Wilde has many masters and the influence of each master asserts itself in his pages. A stripes of different colours assert themselves in stuffs from the east. The reader of Salamais seems to stand in the island of voices and to hear around him the utterances of friends, the whisperings of demigods. Now it is the voice of Gautier who also wrote a version of Salamais, painting pictures in words of princesses and jewels and flowers and unduants. And on it is Mitalanc who speaks. The chorus seems to be swelled by the speech of the silver of Anatole France, perchance by the speech of gold of Marcel Schwab. But the voices that breathe life into Salamais are dominated by one voice, the voice of Flobert. If Flobert had not written Salambo, which is a slightly later version of his Salamais story, if Flobert had not written la tentacion de Saint-Antoine or the Temptation of Saint Anthony, all if Flobert had not written Herodias Salamais might boast an originality to which she cannot now and at lay claim. Nicked it off Flobert.  Her bones want strength. Her flesh wants vitality. Her blood is polluted. There is no pulse of passion in her. Brilliant review, actually. I mean it's a nasty, nasty review, but it's brilliant. Quoted it at length because it combines lots of quite astute commentary with something that's almost parodic of Wild himself. There's something very sharp about this. The overblown rhetoric of the play is picked up, I think, in this review. And it clearly identifies his key sources, so all the people he's stolen from. Mosea, as I said right at the start, is exactly the right metaphor for a play which draws on the artistic traditions of the Middle East. What else would you use? And it skews Wild's pretensions in a thinly veiled accusation of plagiarism. And that is spoken in really vicious terms. That this is degenerate art. That his salome wants flesh for her bones, wants passion. She's a sort of feeble product of a diseased imagination is what's being suggested. Okay. Now, the reviewer's right. This is the source. But he's wrong to suggest that Wild brings nothing new to the story of Salome. In Flobert's version of the story, the dance itself, as we saw, is rendered in sumptuous and very, very lengthy detail. Wild's play notoriously reduces the dance of the seven veils to a single stage direction which reads in its entirety, Salome dances the dance of the seven veils. I leave it to your imagination what she does. He's certainly expected, whilst certainly expected, his audience to know. They'd read Flobert. They'd create what Flobert had already written. He also says repeatedly in letters and in his epigrams that imagination is more important than being told what to think, that it's your imagination as a recipient of text that matters most. So, broadly speaking, perhaps he's right. But I would also say that what he brings to the play, is really distinctive and almost feminist. I have some dance, but really distinctive and almost feminist is that Salome acts on her own behalf in his play. In the biblical story and in most of the other versions, Salome asks for the head of John the Baptist as part of the reward, the dancer's reward, because her mother tells her to. It's a very important shift to have the young woman say, I do not heed my mother. It is for my own delight, I ask, for the head of Yocanal. So that's one of the reasons that I think is quite significant. The other thing I think that's brought to the story is that Salome, because she has this consciousness of her own desires, also analyses what those desires might be. And she speaks those desires brilliantly and repeatedly. And you have to sort of think that to some extent this is an excuse for wild to spend quite a lot of time fetishising a male-blood body. Because if she dances the dance of the seven veils, something for the dads, as you might say, at the same time, she is fetishising John the Baptist's body. She talks about it obsessively and repeatedly a lot. There's a lot going on in her descriptions of that body. So something for the other dads, I guess. And maybe for the mums, I don't know. Of course, they didn't get to see it, so we'll never know how they would have responded. OK, so. It's a really perverse world we enter when we enter this world of Salome. If you know the play, it opens with a conversation between two beautiful young men, a young Syrian and Herodias' page. And they are in conversation with each other. The Woman in the Moon is Aubrey Beardley's title on that particular illustration. It's a bit of a nasty joke at Wild's expense because when you look at the moon, what you can immediately see if you know what Wild looked like is that that is a cartoon of Wild. Another suppressed one. Anyway, young Syrian. How beautiful is the Princess Salome tonight? Page of Herodias. Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems.   It goes on like this for ages, by the way. I'll keep it quite short. Now, in the original version, I think she was looking for dead things. She has a strange look.   You would fancy she was dancing.  She moves very slowly. In the original French, there is a really willful confusion between which she is being described, because in French, of course, it's all L. Is it the Princess Salome, or is it the moon, is the question? It's a bit more difficult to kind of make that connection in this passage here when you've translated it into English. But even so, even here, you can see that there comes this moment where you're thinking, moon or princess, which one am I talking about? Now, the signifier for the word she then is in the eye of the beholder. And in this masculine libidinal economy, it's through the eye that desire is provoked. Men get their kicks by looking, I think, is the idea here. Okay? For the page, all this looking at Salome is dangerous. Nice girls shouldn't look at goblin men. I was talking about Christina Rosetti this morning. So, you know, you shouldn't look, it's dangerous to look. Nice boys shouldn't look or touch when the object in question is a princess and you're not of the same status. It's dangerous to look. You must not look at her, he says, over and over again. Something terrible will happen, he says, over and over again. And it does. Something terrible does happen. It's dangerous to look at people in such a fashion, he says. But the Syrian boy can't stop looking. And as he looks, he defines Salome in a series of similes that focus on her whiteness. You could say the barren symbol of her purity, you could say the symbol of her innocence and virginity, I don't know. He goes on and on about how white she is, using an extremely cliched poetic repertoire, to be honest. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.  They are like white butterflies. She is like a dove that has strayed. She is like a narcissist trembling in the wind.  Over many pages and many hours. Well, it feels like that in performance anyway.  That over-determined contradictory symbol of feminine purity, Diana the Huntress and all of that. Apocalypse, moon turns to blood, terrible business. And then, of course, of the less attractive feminine markers of menstruation and lunacy. And all of those things are going to appear in their turn. Salamé is being compared then to a series of things that women always get compared to. And part of the problem is that she might not, in fact, be like any of them. All of these things that she's meant to be like and maybe she's not like any of them. The Syrian isn't the only one to look. What happens to the Syrian is he kills himself. He realises that he's never going to be able to touch. He kills himself. The page who has been ogling the Syrian, a very quietly understated gay moment there, I think, mourns for the Syrian for the rest of the play. So something terrible does happen. But the Syrian is not the only one to look. Hang on, sorry, I've obviously skipped a bit. Why does the tetrarch, Salamé says, look at me all the while with his moles' eyes under his shaking eyelids. It is strange that the husband of my mother looks at me like that. I know not what it means. Of a truth, I know what it means. I think that's a very important moment where she goes. She does the kind of innocent, no, I can't imagine what he's looking at. Oh, yeah, actually, I really, I know. Really, I know. The mother of my husband doesn't make him her father, by the way. This is an incestuous marriage. Her father, sorry, Herod has married his brother's wife. So it's a complicated business. The point about that moment of truth, I know it too well, is that she's just understood something quite important about her own sexual potency. She's understood for the first time the effects that her looks have on a particular kind of man. And that power remains intact so long as they don't touch, so long as there is a Nole metandre around her. The king can look as much as he likes. He's a king. But when he commands her to dance, he can't make her do it. He can't make her do it just by saying so. She undermines his power as a king. So long as she's the object of other people's desires, rather than somebody who has desires of her own, it's all very normal and very safe. What causes the tragedy is her sudden realisation that she feels things provoked by John the Baptist, and she suddenly goes, actually I want something. So instead of being an object who is desired, she becomes a subject who desires. Now the play does go on. It keeps repeating the same things. It's like a fugue, I think, in structure. It's got these kind of themes that repeats. It's actually quite difficult to talk about because I keep realising that I'm repeating myself, sort of, because the play itself repeats itself. So as I move on to each next stage, I suddenly think, I sort of said some of this before. But there comes a moment where the tetra comes out onto the balcony to have a look round, see what's going on. He looks at the moon and he says, I think, the moon has a strange look tonight. You can see the repeating thing. Everybody looks at the moon, everybody goes a bit mad, I think. The moon has a strange look tonight. Has she not a strange look?  A mad woman who is seeking everywhere for lovers. She is naked too. She is quite naked. She shows herself naked in the sky. She reels through the clouds like a drunken woman. Does she not real like a drunken woman?  Has she not? Imagine Stephen Bercoff saying those lines. He did it much better than I've just done it. Because it was a crescendo. He wanted people to agree with him. And everybody was looking at him as if to say, you're nuts, you are. That's just bonket. There is only one answer. I've broken your thing. The red light's still on. The red light's still on. I haven't broken your thing. He fell off. I've got wild now. There's only one answer to people talking such errant nonsense as that. And it comes from Herodias who says, no, the moon is the moon. That is all. And the that is all is a line that Wilde repeatedly uses in the comedies, by the way. So his way of saying definitely that's the answer. But I think the most significant commentary of all on the moon comes from Salome herself. And when she comes in, she also makes the connection between the moon and herself. And all those repetitious echoes and metaphors that have already existed, that have already been spoken, are spoken again by her. Whereas Herod's a bit bothered by the moon, he's a bit freaked out by it, she says, how good to see the moon. It's nice to see the moon.  She is cold and chaste.  She has the beauty of the virgin.  She has never defiled herself. She has never abandoned herself to men like the other goddesses. Now, what fascinates me most here is the metaphor that no one else has used.  And it's not in any of the other sources. It doesn't exist anywhere else. This is the moment where I think the play becomes really original. Because what it points out is that she has understood her object status as an object of exchange between men. Regina Gania has this wonderful phrase about Wild's Work. She talks about Wild's Work always being concerned with the interface between romance and finance. And there it is. It's in that moment.  So the moon in the play is a solipsistic signifier. It's whatever you see it as being. As Wild has told us elsewhere, the highest as the lowest form of criticism is a motorborder biography. You smelt it, you dealt it, really. You see it, that's what it is. It's whatever you make it mean. And the responsibility for meaning is put onto the viewer, not onto the poet. So what we make this play mean is our responsibility too. What I make this play mean, what I think this play means, is an attempt to negotiate ideas about desire without really a language in which to do it and without a conceptual framework in which to do it. It's not possible quite yet for somebody like Wild to understand or think through the full implications of the idea that you cannot have a reasonable libidinal relationship if you treat the other as object. It happens with John the Baptist because, of course, what happens to John the Baptist is he's beheaded. So he does become very much an object. All those pictures sort of suggested that there he was a head on a plate. And it's the end of desire because when Salome has this head on a plate she can't get a response from him. In fact, I think that's one, yes. He's a nothing. There is no gaze coming back. And she asks him, why didn't you respond to me when you had the chance? And, of course, there's no point in asking that question at the end point because he's not going to respond now. He's quite definitely dead. So, what Wild gives us in a coded way is a space of polymorphous perversity. Everybody desires somebody and nobody gets their desires fulfilled. There is nobody satisfied at the end of this play. So the Syrian fancies Salome, she doesn't even notice him. The page fancies the Syrian and the Syrian kills himself because his love is unrequited. The play ends with Herod having watched her dance, the dance of the seven veils, and understood it as perverse.   His desires are not fulfilled. The only person who's immune is Herodias because she doesn't really do desiring at all. She's sort of outside that economy completely. Wild's asking us to think about how we can manufacture a way of having equal relationships. He hasn't worked it out because they're not equal. In this play, none of the relationships are equal. I'm not sure he ever works it out and he clearly didn't work it out in his own life either. But the experiment is worth the doing because actually the questions it raises are still questions we're thinking about now. They haven't gone away. That kind of is it, really. Thank you very much for that.


Hi, everyone. Joe for jazzycasewrakes.com with a box of 2022 Panini Immaculate WWE Random Number Block Break Number 9. Here's how the number of blocks work if you're not familiar with it. Big thanks to this group right here for getting in on it. I think Joe and Joe Christian and Jackie, they don't even watch this. They're just doing this just to get into it. Get into something. Thank you guys. Thanks everybody. There are the numbers right there. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Two and a five, seven times for names and numbers. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. We got JC down to SR. And two and a five is seven times for the numbers. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh in final time. After seven, we got three down to five. All right. Joe Christian with three, Aaron with four, Sal with one, Aaron with six, Jackie with two, Joe P with seven, Rex with nine, Jackie with eight, Joe with zero, and Sal with five. Zero gets any and all redemptions, including one-of-one redemptions. Sal, you'll still get any live one-of-ones that are pulled, non-redemption one-of-ones, if any. All right, any trades? While you're thinking about a trade, usually there's no trades in numbers. We used the SmackDown die in the previous box. We'll use the Money Night Raw red die for this one. One, two, three for the top box. Four, five, six for the bottom box. Six, one, two, three, four, five, six. Bottom box. This we will save for R&B number, this is number nine for number 10, five box break. So this is the last box of the case. And then after that, we'll have another one box break from a fresh case. I don't think anyone's even making any offers for trades in the chat. So let's close the trade window. Let's print and rip. TWC trade window closed. Good luck, everybody, thank you. All right, we got an out of five to start things off. Two out of five, that's for Jackie. Jimmy Uso, Uso, USO, Uso. There you go, Jackie. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. Next up we got out of 99, Jimmy Uso. 91 out of 99, this time for Sal and the number one. We got a piece of Roman Reigns' shirt. To 59 out of 50, that's for Rex. Even I know who Roman Reigns is. Rex, you know who Roman Reigns is. Now we got an autograph we've got to 99. Relic and autograph, Dolph Ziggler. 98 out of 99, Jackie with the number eight. Next up, Relic and autograph, Queen Zelina. Out of 10, eight out of 10. That's another one for Jackie. And the last one is Ray Mysterio, I've heard of him, with most matches on SmackDown. This is to 49, and it's 44 out of 49. That goes to Trendsetter, Aaron Salinas, number four. Milestones, autograph, Ray Mysterio. There you go, gang. Thanks very much for getting in. I'm Joe for Jaspy'scasewrakes.com, and I'll see you next time for the next WWE break. Bye-bye.


Josh or Boris back again with another video the first video of the new year first video of 2022 man Hopefully you guys had an amazing new year had opportunities to spend time with your family and friends and Right back at work man. We're right back on the grind road to 70k and ultimately 100k on this channel, but we're gonna be talking about my preview and predictions For wwe day one and I got special news for you guys. I convinced dubb to actually Watch The pay-per-view we're gonna do a live stream reaction on the main page So i'm gonna link down the live stream is already set up now So i'm gonna link it down as the uh the top comment my opinion as the top comment in this video But I convinced him to actually Check it out Originally he didn't want to check it out because he knew Roman and Brock was gonna have another match So he he was he was not interested for like a whole month He was not interested and it was gonna end up being on this channel my personal page And then we were probably gonna check out the royal rumble later on this uh this month But I convinced him and finally he agreed to it So we will be checking it out. We'll be doing a live stream reactions. There go bloody in the back We're gonna be doing a live stream reactions on the main page. I'm gonna pin down the link as the first comment Uh in this video so you can join us there You'll have a good time and it's gonna be it's gonna be the first live stream of the new year So I can't wait to see you all in the chat and we just have a good time for this pay-per-view But i'm gonna give my preview and predictions work my way through the card and and we're gonna go from there So let's get right into this. So the kickoff show is Cesaro and ricochet versus Seamus and ridge holland I don't know too much of ridge holland. I've been seeing him You know align himself with Seamus, you know whatnot, but Me personally Honestly, I I don't care about this match because it's on the kickoff show It'll probably be a solid match. I don't even think we're probably gonna be watching and we'll probably still be setting up The stream make sure everything's good But i'm gonna probably go with Seamus and ridge holland only because you know, they're trying to you know Get over ridge holland as a Seamus companion and when it comes to cesaro and ricochet It don't really matter them taking a loss is nothing new You know some of the best these two guys are if not one of the best one in ring talent wise They're like some of the best in the company and you know, they're relegated to pre-show Uh Pre-show fodder man, and it sucks kickoff fodder. Like they're very talented. Wish they would be You know utilizing bigger segments, but they're not so I don't I don't see them winning So that's just my view on that think seamus and ridge holland win Next one drew mac guitar versus madcap moss didn't even know this was a thing hadn't really been paying attention I know they're trying to build up drew Um some more on smackdown, but uh, I think I'll give it a drew mac and tire Only because of what they're trying to do what are the reports is having him be inserting in the main event at wrestle mania on the smackdown side of things So you want to keep them strong so and to be honest with you He's like one of the only other people on smackdown that's like Like a notable competitor for roman range universal championships So you need all the strong people you can get on the roster. So I can see drew mac and tire winning Raw tag team championships rk bro versus the street profits rk bro is a high thing Of especially on the tag teams out of things for uh raw. So i'ma go with them I'm only i'm gonna go with them. I can see them. Um Retain in the championships. So, uh, I'ma I'ma go with them on that one in my personal opinion. I think they will retain and Continue what they got going on until the inevitable split. I don't know who will turn heel on you But you know, it's gonna come at some point. So Uh smackdown town scene championships, uh the usos versus the new day Uh, I think the usos is gonna retain The usos are gonna retain the only time I see the usos losing is when we start seeing real cracks into the bloodline like you know, real Cracks starting to appear and that's when we can start seeing maybe roman potentially losing the title But uh, I do think they're gonna retain Um new day is cool. They This is a match we've seen a thousand times over But I do think they will put on a good match just like we've seen the hardies versus edging christians A thousand times they usually put on a good match. So i'm expecting Out of the two tag team matches. I'm expecting this to be the better match in my opinion, but I could be I could be wrong edge versus the miss I think I don't it depends it depends If they're really going to extend this for you because I honestly want this to be a one and done match I'm just being honest with you. It was an interesting promo when they started it off I've been you know, keeping up with the segments and stuff and it's it's cool But at the same time, I'm not really that invested because it is I would love for him to face somebody more noticeable Or like somebody that I actually really care about more on the main roster So if it's a one and done, then I think edge to win But if they're gonna continue the feud which I can see them doing I hope they don't If they continue the feud then the miss will win I'm that's just how I'm I'm picturing it in my head. So if it's a one and done match It's still kind of the piece of purpose because I still got to choose Um, I think they're gonna probably continue the feud because wwe is lazy. So I think the miss will win this match But of course not clean. He's gonna cheat to win. But I think he will win this match All right, raw women's championship Becky Lynch versus live morgan live morgan Is uh pretty over people love live morgan. They want to see her as champ I'm not gonna lie to you.  It's the upset I know a lot of people will probably be like, uh, I don't know. They're probably not gonna pull the trigger on her but I think What will work is if they actually do it if they actually pull the trigger I don't think you know, I'm saying though They can extend this feud all the way to restaurant mania because I don't trust them with long term booking Especially a women like championship storylines. I don't see that happening. So I think I think They'll probably give Liv morgan to win here. She'll probably hope the championship for a little bit not She probably won't have a lengthy title reign and then I can see them putting it back on becky So I do think live morgan will win here, man.  I think it's just going to be a car wreck of just craziness um I want biggie to retain. I actually do I just to be honest with you I don't see biggie retaining I don't I want them to I think his title run has been okay But I don't see him retaining if he does I would be you know, pleasantly supplied prize That would be a big win for him. But I don't see him retaining um The way they've been booking bobby lashley they've been booking them more like a face So I don't think they're gonna put the championship back on him again. So soon I do And I don't think kevin owens will win it. I think they may put it on sef bro I think they will put it on sef wrongs I think they will So I think sef will win it I think so I'm uh, I'm gonna go ahead and say Sef uh will win the championship if he doesn't and biggie retain. That's awesome I just I don't trust wwe to have biggie come out looking strong in this situation because he's been looking okay in his feuds but For me, it's just as me thinking of the WWE champion. I just feel like You know, they should really have booked him a little bit more stronger. He's been okay You know in certain spots, but I just haven't really felt like Biggie is that I'm Imposing of a threat like he should be so I will say Seth Rollins will be the new WWE champion. I can see that happening. So and Of course the main event universal championship roman rames versus rock lesnar Um romans retaining And you want to know what's funny Doug was really not wanting to watch this live stream I don't think he's still as excited only because he just has a horrible feeling that rock is going to win I don't think rock is winning Roman is going to retain is going to be some and it sucks that I don't think it's going to be clean Obviously, they want to continue this view. This has been reports. They want to continue this on the WrestleMania Which are they going to do? So he's not going to win clean there's going to be some trickery and A lot of people are thinking that paul may be doing a may do a double turn like turn on Brock because you may think he's in line with brah, but he's really not So I could see that happening, but it's not going to be a clean win I can tell you that now roman's not getting a clean win over him which sucks I think you really You don't You're not putting justice to his title reign if you don't give him a clean win because he's beating people legitimate individuals Clean and he's used heel tactics as well So I like a champion that can do both and for whatever reason he can't get the job done with brock He has to cheat with brock. That's that's the only thing I'm not a big fan of If you're gonna have this guy have this amazing record this amazing title run you gotta have him Beat the guy that's always been giving them a problem for all these years clean That's that's all I care about But it doesn't look like they're setting it up that way, but I do see him retaining the championship That's just my personal opinion on it. I don't I don't think he's about to drop the belt Uh Not not anytime before wrestlemania. He's not dropping the strap. It just it just doesn't make sense So yeah, I think he will retain I'm still looking forward to the wwe championship more than the universal championship But I do think this will be a solid match. So Comment down below. Let me know. What are your predictions of Tonight show wwe day one Who you think is going to win who you think is going to lose why and why not? Um I want to start a discussion, man We we this is one of the ways to get ourselves hyped up About this pay-per-view and just I want to see where y'all Y'all mine is that on wwe's potential booking and do you think this is going to be a good show? Do you think this is going to be like a? Uh a run of a mill pay-per-view a sea level pay-per-view at best. I'm hoping it's going to be good You want to start off the year good? So I hope they do pull out the stops because the last pay-per-view they had Um was kind of lackluster So I I really need them to pull out the stops to really get this year started off right So comment down below. Let me know appreciate all your love and support, man We're running it up in 2022. I appreciate y'all kicking it with me and I see y'all on the next one. Peace