#david thomas and the pedestrians

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David Thomas and the Pedestrians - About True Friends (1985)

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The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Richard Loving: Joel Edgerton Mildred Loving: Ruth Negga Grey Villet: Michael Shannon Sheriff Brooks: Marton Csokas Bernie Cohen: Nick Kroll Frank Beazley: Bill Camp Lola Loving: Sharon Blackwood Raymond Green: Alano Miller Garnet Jetter: Terri Abney Judge Bazile: David Jensen Phil Hirschkop: Jon Bass Theoliver Jeter: Christopher Mann Musiel Byrd-Jeter: Winter-Lee Holland Deputy: Michael Abbott Jr. Percy Fortune: Chris Greene Virgil: Will Dalton Chet Antieau: Matt Malloy Laura: Andrene Ward-Hammond Alex: D.L. Hopkins Hope Ryden: Jennifer Joyner Cousin Davis: Lance Lemon Cousin Gerald: Marquis Adonis Hazelwood Older Sydney: Brenan Young Older Donald: Dalyn Cleckley Older Peggy: Quinn McPherson Middle Sidney: Jevin Crochrell Middle Donald: Jordan Williams Jr. Middle Peggy: Georgia Crawford Toddler Sydney: Micah Claiborne Baby Sydney: Devin Cleckley Infant Sydney: Pryor Ferguson Clara – Cashier: Karen Vicks Reporter #1: Scott Wichmann Construction Worker: Benjamin Loeh Court Secretary: Bridget Gethins Store Pedestrian: Mark Huber Drag Race Spectator: James Matthew Poole Secretary: Coley Campany Secretary: Sheri Lahris Construction Worker: Jordan Dickey Telephone Man: Coby Batty Drag Race Spectator / Bar Patron: Chris Condetti Richard’s Racing Crew: Logan J. Woolfolk County Clerk: Robert Haulbrook Bricklayer: Keith Tyree Spectator: James Nevins Prisoner: W. Keith Scott Photojournalist: Tom Lancaster Street Walker: Lonnie M. Henderson Court Audience Member: Brian Thomas Wise Drag Race Spectator: Ken Holliday Antieau’s Secretary: Terry Menefee Gau Driver: Marc Anthony Lowe Racetrack Spectator: Jay SanGiovanni D.C Teen: Tyrell Ford Baby Boy #1: James Atticus Abebayehu Phil’s Dad: Jim D. Johnston …: Derick Newson Boarding House Boy: Miles Hopkins Construction Worker: Kenneth William Clarke Reporter: Robert Furner Secretary: Victoria Chavatel Jimison Field Hand / Drag Strip Attendee / Shot Gun Shack Attendee (uncredited): Darrick Claiborne Courtroom Spectator (uncredited): Raymond H. Johnson Drag Race Driver: Dean Mumford Pregnant Girl: Rebecca Turner Magistrate: Mike Shiflett County Jailer: Greg Cooper Supreme Court Reporter: A. Smith Harrison Press Conference Reporter: Keith Flippen Soundman: Jason Alan Cook Courtroom Spectator (uncredited): Lucas N. Hall Film Crew: Director: Jeff Nichols Editor: Julie Monroe Producer: Peter Saraf Executive Producer: Jack Turner Executive Producer: Jared Ian Goldman Executive Producer: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones Unit Production Manager: Sarah Green Art Direction: Jonathan Guggenheim Casting: Francine Maisler Production Design: Chad Keith Storyboard: Nancy Buirski Associate Producer: Oge Egbuono Producer: Colin Firth Producer: Marc Turtletaub Set Decoration: Adam Willis Producer: Ged Doherty Unit Production Manager: Will Greenfield Costume Design: Erin Benach Music Supervisor: Lauren Mikus Original Music Composer: David Wingo Still Photographer: Ben Rothstein Director of Photography: Adam Stone Script Supervisor: Jean-Paul Chreky Special Effects Coordinator: Gary Pilkinton Special Effects Technician: Trevor Smithson Property Master: A. Patrick Storey First Assistant Director: Cas Donovan Second Assistant Director: Tommy Martin Stunt Driver: Dean Mumford Key Makeup Artist: Katie Middleton Second Second Assistant Director: Ben LeDoux Construction Buyer: Roslyn Blankenship Assistant Property Master: Hannah Ross Dialogue Editor: Brandon Proctor Genetator Operator: Maxwel Fisher Post Production Supervisor: Susan E. Novick Boom Operator: Proctor Trivette Leadman: Stephen G. Shifflette Second Assistant “A” Camera: Stephen McBride Sound Effects Editor: David Grimaldi Foley Mixer: Judy Kirschner Makeup Department Head: Julia Lallas Hairstylist: Brian Morton Sound Effects Editor: Joel Dougherty ADR Mixer: Chris Navarro Sound Effects Editor: P.K. Hooker ...

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Holidays 8.17

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Phineas & Ferb Day

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Buttered Popcorn Day

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National Vanilla Custard Day

3rd Thursday in August

National Hazy IPA Day [3rd Thursday]

Surströmingspremiären (Sour Herring Premiere; Sweden) [3rd Thursday]

Independence Days

Gabon (from France, 1960)

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Feast Days

Agostino Carracci (Artology)

Cat Nights begin (Ancient Ireland)

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Mamas (Christian; Saint)

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Walter (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 229 [50 of 72]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

After Lorca, by Jack Spicer (Poetry; 1957)

Animal Farm, by George Orwell (Novel; 1946)

Bloody Kisses, by Type O Negative (Album; 1993)

Chili Weather (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Cruel to Be Kind, by Nick Lowe (Song; 1979)

Disenchantment (Animated TV Series; 2018)

Ducking the Devil (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)

Dust, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2013)

Enter the Dragon (Film; 1973)

Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk (Novel; 1996)

Franks Wild Years, by Tom Wait (Album; 1987)

Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1876) [Ring of the Nibelung #4]

Jeremy, by Pearl Jam (Song; 1992)

Kind of Blue, by Miles Davis (Album; 1959)

Luxo, Jr. (Pixar Cartoon; 1986)

The Merry Old Soul (WB MM Cartoon; 1935)

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Film; 1979)

My Blue Heaven (Film; 1990)

ParaNorman (Animated Film; 2012)

Phineas & Ferb (Animated TV Series; 2007)

Rat Race (Film; 2001)

Roots: The Saga of an American Family, by Alex Haley (Novel; 1976)

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV Series; 2022)

Soul Train (Music Variety TV Series; 1970)

Superbad (Film; 2007)

Taking Care of Business (Film; 1990)

Tiger Rag, recorded by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band (Song; 1917)

Tulips & Chimneys, by e.e.cummings (Poetry; 1923)

Wild at Heart (Film; 1990)

Today’s Name Days

Gudrun, Hyazinth, Janine (Austria)

Hijacint, Klara, Liberat, Miron, Natalija (Croatia)

Petra (Czech Republic)

Anastatius (Denmark)

Saamo, Saamu, Saamuel (Estonia)

Venni, Verneri (Finland)

Hyacinthe (France)

Clara, Gudrun, Hyazinth, Janine (Germany)

Lefkothea, Miron, Straton (Greece)

Jácint (Hungary)

Giacinto (Italy)

Anaida, Drosmis, Oļegs, Vilibalds, Vineta (Latvia)

Hiacintas, Laisvydas, Mažvilė (Lithuania)

Verner, Wenche (Norway)

Anastazja, Angelika, Anita, Bertram, Eliza, Jacek, Jaczewoj, Joanna, Julianna, Liberat, Miron, Żanna, Zawisza (Poland)

Darya (Russia)

Milica (Slovakia)

Beatriz, Eusebio, Jacinto (Spain)

Valter, Verner (Sweden)

Hyacinth, Jachinth, Jacinda, Magnolia, Pansy (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 229 of 2024; 136 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 33 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 2 (Ding-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 30 Av 5783

Islamic: 30 Muharram 1445

J Cal: 19 Hasa; Fiveday [19 of 30]

Julian: 3 August 2023

Moon: 1.5%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 5 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Lacaille]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 57 of 94)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 26 of 31)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 8.17

Holidays

Archeology Day

Baby Boomers Recognition Day

Balloon Airmail Day

Black Cat Appreciation Day

Cartoon Day

Coats’ Disease Awareness Day

Congressional Startup Day

Davy Crockett Day

Discovery Day (Yukon Territories, Canada)

817 Day

Engineer’s Day (Colombia)

Flag Day (Bolivia)

Jade Day

Lois Lane Day

Marcus Garvey Day (Jamaica, Rastafari)

National Abel Day

National David Day

National Engineers’ Day (Colombia)

National I Love My Feet Day

National Marilyn Day

National Massachusetts Day

National Meaning of "Is" Day

National Nonprofit Day

National #2 Pencil Day

National Termite Protection Day

National Thrift Shop Day

National Workers’ Comp Adjuster Day

Parsi New Year’s Day (Nauraj, India)

Phineas & Ferb Day

Pike Place Market Day

Prekmurje Union Day (Slovenia)

San Martin Day (Argentina)

World Eggplant Day

World Pedestrian Day

Wrench Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Burgers to Beat MS Day (Canada)

Buttered Popcorn Day

Drink Coffee at the Office from a Sippy Cup Day

National Vanilla Custard Day

3rd Thursday in August

National Hazy IPA Day [3rd Thursday]

Surströmingspremiären (Sour Herring Premiere; Sweden) [3rd Thursday]

Independence Days

Gabon (from France, 1960)

Indonesia (from Japan, 1945)

Feast Days

Agostino Carracci (Artology)

Cat Nights begin (Ancient Ireland)

Clare of Montefalco (Christian; Saint)

Day of the Sacred Grove (Pagan)

Feast of Our Lady of Knock

Festival of Diana (Ancient Rome)

Gnocchi Gnawing Day (Pastafarian)

Hyacinth of Poland (Christian; Saint)

Jeanne Delanoue (Christian; Saint)

Lacaille (Positivist; Saint)

Liberatus, and six monks (Christian; Martyrs)

Mamas (Christian; Saint)

Odin’s Ordeal begins (Norse) [thru 25th]

Portunalia (Festival of Keys; Ancient Rome)

Samuel Johnson, Timothy Cutler, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler (Episcopal Church)

Sharon Mitchell Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Walter (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 229 [50 of 72]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

After Lorca, by Jack Spicer (Poetry; 1957)

Animal Farm, by George Orwell (Novel; 1946)

Bloody Kisses, by Type O Negative (Album; 1993)

Chili Weather (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Cruel to Be Kind, by Nick Lowe (Song; 1979)

Disenchantment (Animated TV Series; 2018)

Ducking the Devil (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)

Dust, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2013)

Enter the Dragon (Film; 1973)

Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk (Novel; 1996)

Franks Wild Years, by Tom Wait (Album; 1987)

Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1876) [Ring of the Nibelung #4]

Jeremy, by Pearl Jam (Song; 1992)

Kind of Blue, by Miles Davis (Album; 1959)

Luxo, Jr. (Pixar Cartoon; 1986)

The Merry Old Soul (WB MM Cartoon; 1935)

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Film; 1979)

My Blue Heaven (Film; 1990)

ParaNorman (Animated Film; 2012)

Phineas & Ferb (Animated TV Series; 2007)

Rat Race (Film; 2001)

Roots: The Saga of an American Family, by Alex Haley (Novel; 1976)

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV Series; 2022)

Soul Train (Music Variety TV Series; 1970)

Superbad (Film; 2007)

Taking Care of Business (Film; 1990)

Tiger Rag, recorded by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band (Song; 1917)

Tulips & Chimneys, by e.e.cummings (Poetry; 1923)

Wild at Heart (Film; 1990)

Today’s Name Days

Gudrun, Hyazinth, Janine (Austria)

Hijacint, Klara, Liberat, Miron, Natalija (Croatia)

Petra (Czech Republic)

Anastatius (Denmark)

Saamo, Saamu, Saamuel (Estonia)

Venni, Verneri (Finland)

Hyacinthe (France)

Clara, Gudrun, Hyazinth, Janine (Germany)

Lefkothea, Miron, Straton (Greece)

Jácint (Hungary)

Giacinto (Italy)

Anaida, Drosmis, Oļegs, Vilibalds, Vineta (Latvia)

Hiacintas, Laisvydas, Mažvilė (Lithuania)

Verner, Wenche (Norway)

Anastazja, Angelika, Anita, Bertram, Eliza, Jacek, Jaczewoj, Joanna, Julianna, Liberat, Miron, Żanna, Zawisza (Poland)

Darya (Russia)

Milica (Slovakia)

Beatriz, Eusebio, Jacinto (Spain)

Valter, Verner (Sweden)

Hyacinth, Jachinth, Jacinda, Magnolia, Pansy (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 229 of 2024; 136 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 33 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 2 (Ding-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 30 Av 5783

Islamic: 30 Muharram 1445

J Cal: 19 Hasa; Fiveday [19 of 30]

Julian: 3 August 2023

Moon: 1.5%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 5 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Lacaille]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 57 of 94)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 26 of 31)

[orleans-jester]

“Later,” Go-Go said to Nebby, much more distracted by this dead dad. He didn’t look dead, not like River over by the piano did. That made this a lot more interesting. Jetsam had a big grin on his face so Go-Go grinned too at seeing her best friend happy, and this crazy looking guy happy too.

“Yeah, that sounds accurate,” Go-Go nodded at the description of her. Beanpole, check. Computer chip? Check. Ready to go ludicrous speed? Double check. Call her a black 1970 Dodge Charger R/T because she was fast and furious, baby. She looked down at her dress, smoothing it over her small frame. “Yeah? Maybe we could do a swap sometime.”

She started to laugh at Scout’s joke too - she followed Koda on instagram after meeting him, even though they’ve never really spoken. So she knew who the horse was. And knew that there was one man in this room who would very much disagree that a horse would look good, ever. Which made her chuckle a little harder.

Think fast? Yeah, she was.

“I was thinking we could go o a joy ride with some of the cars that I saw down in town, have some fun with no speed limits and no annoying pedestrians?”

She was thinking she wanted to try car surfing too, even if it was extremely dangerous but the wind whipping through her hair? The adrenaline? Fuck, it seemed like it would be a real trip.

--

Thomas found it hard to concentrate on his own vision at times but he did practice a lot, especially while he was working on his projects at home. The little details in carvings from the bed frames to the statuettes he made, he had to have a precise eye. But he was’t looking at Valerie the same way that he looked at a project. He was looking at her like she was the finished product, and he was admiring it. She was more gorgeous and awe-worthy than the Statue of David, had more strength than the terracotta army, and more elegant than the Bust of Nefertiti.

More than her song - Thomas wanted her here for everything.

And he was pretty sure everyone else did too. Delta didn’t invite her here just to perform. She wasn’t here to provide the entertainment, Valerie wanted to do that. And now she could take a step back, relax, and enjoy the party, even with Jetsam here. He seemed preoccupied for now, anyhow. And when he would, invariably, make his way over, Thomas was going to be right there.

A smile widened on his face when she said those fucking powerful words.

“You’re goddamn right,” He said with a stiff nod. She had more right to be here than a lot of these people. Than these ghosts. But man his heart was touched and his cock was growing hard. She said that like he was special too. Like she was special because she was HIS fucking wife, when she had always had the capacity to glow on her own.

“And I’ll remind you every single time. You’re not a box. You’re a whole goddamn house,” He told her. Because there were bits of Valerie all over their home, from her loaded closet in the bedroom to the Nutella always kept in the cupboard in their kitchen. No one puts baby in a corner. No one puts Valerie in a box.

He squeezed her hand once hers had reached his. Her strength was incomparable. “Yeah - you’re here with me tonight, love, and I’m going to make sure that we have the best time.”

Though the main show was over, Valerie’s singing, Black Arts’ playing, the dancers gone to their dates or frieds, Cheshire was still playing music over the speakers. He brought Valerie’s hand up to his mouth with a small smile making the corners turn upwards. “Care to dance with me?”

--

“Thank you,” Elsa said with a small bow of her head. The dress was quite dramatic, but it seemed to fit the theme. Normally she wouldn’t go through such rigamole for a single event but - this felt different. She was REALLY here with Koda, and everyone was seeing it this time around. Everyone, all together. So she allowed her credit card to get a little wear and tear.

And then River told them that he had been working on this, and he had been around and Koda’s amazement. It made her take a step out of herself for a moment and think about what River must have been up to. She had put herself in isolation for a large portion of her life, and it had been uncomfortable. River was a social being, and he had been forced into it, into being this invisible ghost that can only be seen during rare occurrences. Of course he had been practicing for this. It made her tighten that hug up once more.

The two boys - the two most important in her life, finished each other’s sentence in a different way and it even had her laughing a little. Seeing them together was just - good. Just like how she was going to be feeling good to watch this River interact with the rest of his family tonight.

“Yes, of course,” She said, nodding towards Koda. And then a small little smile at his double-meaning. She was always cool, wasn’t she? Though not as cold. “I’ll be alright.”

There was no ‘Tell him I say hello’ because Elsa just didn’t. She had nothing to say to Jetsam.

"You're still a charmer, River."

--

Stiffness - but not resistance. A part of him had expected a tantrum - but that was going off of the young man’s face rather than his mind. He just - very much looked the type. Spoiled soft. Rotten. But he didn’t resist, he walked without causing a scene. Another interesting thing to notice.

“I didn’t ask for a history lesson,” Frank said, lowly. “I’m out of school now, don’t need lectures.”

He wasn’t the only one with imagination. Delta had it in hoardes too. Turning the horse from a metaphorical thing into something real that their uninvited guest could be shoved into, he liked that. His mind went through the old gypsy-torturing technique of cutting open a horse’s stomach, shoving the owner inside, and then putting it over a burning flame to suffocate and heat to death at the same time? He’d like to do something like that. He didn’t have a great love for animals.

Oogie had been too pre-occupied to think about Delta. The Horned King’s spell had taken some of her best and brightest from her school, and she had to reassure many grieving parents that if their kids had any sense in their goddamn heads, they would have just stayed at her school instead of venturing out into NOLA. It was their own faults for leaving Halloweentown in the first place. There was a lot of victim blaming there. And then trying to groom the ones that were leftover. She had given Silas space in her new torture rooms to do as he wished, order what he wished, play with whoever he wished. But didn’t have the proper time to actually spend with him and share her own wicked imagination.

And then his acid girl spit through the shit, getting right to the point and he focused his eyes on Silas, waiting for a lie. He didn’t find one.

Well, it wasnt exactly the most exciting reason. But it wasn’t the stupidest either.

--

Pierre had been looking at Piper over Zero’s shoulder for a full minute now. Did a part of him love her, the way that it loved few other of his paramours? Yes. She lingered. She lingered hard, like lipstick on his skin, like perfume after she left the room.

And Seven and Zero stepped back like this was some kind of a movie and this was the presentation of the hot female actress. Perfectly centered between the two men and heading straight for him, like something out of a dream.

“You think anything could completely get rid of this beautiful face?” Pierre said, closing his eyes as he hugged Piper, taking in the rich smell of her hair, her perfume. Did this girl even sweat? Seemed unlikely.

She smelled of their burning tree.

And in true Pierre fashion, his hands didn’t just go around her shoulders or back in that hug. They trailed down past her waist, to where back turned into ass, just skirting being inappropriate.

Maddy wasn’t paying attention to Pierre anymore. She had been walking towards their group of friends, Wulf, Arthur, Little John, Lance, having already called the first two’s names but they were looking around the room rather than focusing on individual people, apparently. Then Bastien returned to her and laid out that question.

She put her hand on his arm. “Oh, he’s still dead, Bastien,” She said, slowly. “Some ghosts can gather their strength and come back during the year, the way that Frollo did. But most others have to wait until Halloween to take on any sort of form. He’ll leave. He has to leave. And I’m not wasting another thought on him until I have to.”

It did show her one thing though. It was possible to hug the dead. And there were people here she definitely wanted to hug.

"I'm sure. Um, excuse me for a minute." Nebby said having heard a few things of the Laveaus herself, but never have had experience with them herself. She went gunning off looking for Black Arts. She was the one wishing she'd packed extra panties and not for the same reason GoGo had been teasing Scout about earlier.

Scout sounding so proud he was dead and just announcing it like that with no shame stoked Jetsam up. Then he got the intro of GoGo on top of it.

"I know who you are. You're that friend of Scout's that's basiclly a human beanpole shaped computer chip that seems constantly pumped up on liquid schwartz ready to go ludicrous speed at any moment. I like your dress. I think we're the same size. I'm beanpole size too." Then because he's Jet he'd off-handedly say, "I bet that'd look hot on Floppy." And no he didn't mean Koda's horse. He meant Flotsam. They were all skinny lanky people and all Jetsam saw was how they could share outfits the moment he saw her, not that Jetsam was much of a dress wearer, but two seconds on this plain and there he was trying to dress his twin again.

Scout just laughed. "I think Floppy's good in the stable tonight, Dad. But that horse would look sexy in anything." She knew how to turn it into a joke.

Then Jet said, "Well girls, I have one night on earth in my own body. That's not long. Think fast." He lifted his brow at GoGo like it was a challenge. "What should we do with it?"

--

Valerie looked into Thomas's eyes, trying so hard to focus directly on them and nowhere else. The visual lines of focus could be dizzying of one didn't have their coordination down, completely practiced with the windows. It took a long time to become natural. The triplets added a new vision field to tune into and blink through. There was a lot to shut down and hold closed. She gained it though. She held Thomas's eyes, his face, his safety. It was strange because it was only in a moment like this they realized there was very little they ever feared and one of things they feared the most was one of things they loved the most. Jetsam. It was their lack of control over Jet.

She saw what she felt there. She saw the same joy she felt when she first saw Jet making Scout happy. It was such a relief. Such a finally. It was even nice just to see him again for herself. They had such happy memories all their own. They were brothers. Then that feeling of Valerie's skin started crawl and reason's Chip grew up way too fast all rushed back. That's where Thomas's barricade was needed.

She was wanted for more than her song. Damn. Weirdly, it made her think back to Ariel's voice still stuck in that seashell Delta likes to keep. Valerie definitely didn't want to be reduced to her voice. It made it sound like her song was something that could be put away like the necklace. This made her remember Valerie being hidden under the bed. She liked being able to change when she wanted from Flotsam to Valerie now with the new magic, but the way Thomas worded it, it made her feel reminded she wasn't something that had to hide under the bed anymore. She could wasn't a parlor trick for entertainment. She was his wife and no matter what was going on around them she was wanted here. He said she could change if she wanted, but she was wanted for more than her song.

That was all she needed, that moment of Thomas having her back. His voice being her reminder helped straighten hers. She was wanted. She was Valerie fucking Laveau. "I'm your fucking wife and I deserve to be here."

"Every now and then the box under the bed likes to creep up on me. Thanks for the reminder, my love."

She kept pushing her forehead against his to keep that connection. "Plus, fuck that. I don't want to give anyone the satisfaction of me running. I'm here to stay and I'm yours. I don't want to send the wrong signals if I change." Then she slid her hand down his hand and took his hand in hers. She gave him a kiss, a nod that she'd be alright, then started to back her head up, but she did not let go of his hand.

--

As for River when he and Elsa's embrace finally started to loosen the familiar way she messed with his curl brought a smile to his face.

"And you look amazing." River replied loving her costume. It was up his alley.

But rough?

"Oh. Right." He looked down at himself. "Yeah. That happens. It always starts out so good. By the end of the night I'm rotten again. I should have waited to manifest till right when I got here. I messed it up. I've been practicing. My tangible time's been getting longer and longer. I think I wore myself out doing it too much this week wanting to surprise everyone this week too. Ah well."

Koda was amazed though, "So, you're telling us you've been around more than tonight? AND YOU'VE TOLD NO ONE. Dude. Bruh."

"I know. I know. Surprise. I'm the new-"

Koda yelled out Patrick Swayze right as River finished his sentence with Sparky. He was the new Sparky. Then the two guys laughed thinking they were going to finish each others' sentence, but finishing it so different made them laugh so hard.

Koda was all grins just behind him until he noticed Jetsam. That was his buddy. With all due respect to Elsa and River's relation's his emotions went on overdrive when he caught sight of Jet. He slapped his hand on River's back.

"I'm gonna leave you two to it for a minute. I see your ol' man over there. I'm going to go catch him before he disappears. You cool, Elsa?"

--

Silas felt the pull and didn't didn't resist. He walked like he was being escorted like a gentleman making no fuss to the partygoers. That's what's Delta wanted. Frank would be able to feel a slight stiffness in his body since he wasn't the one in complete control. This was unnerving even to a narcissistic psychopath. A loss of any amount of control is always a red flag in their mind even if regular person can't detect them feeling bothered.

The comment however amused Silas. "How very Ed Gein of you. Quite inspiring. I never did think he went far enough. So much potential there. His creativity was cut short. Your mind is far more innovative."

What he didn't say out loud were thoughts of how he'd like to work with a mind like that. Why didn't his partners ever have ideas like that? Wastes of skin, all of them. Then the random flashes of actual human skinnings would cycle through his head. He made better uses of their skin than their wastes of lives did. There was a superiority and matter of factness to his thoughts that only someone with a certain lack of understanding of true empathy has.

When Silas called Frank innovative Delta said, "Innovative? Oh honey. You have no idea. Whatever high horse you think you rode in on, I won't just knock you off the horse. I'll cut the horse off at the knees, shove those knees down your throat, and shove you up that horse's ass. That's just what I'll do. You don't even want to get in Frank's head. So, why don't we just cut the bullshit right now and you tell us what you want here? Now. Before you find out the hard way."

What a feisty, little, spunky, girl. He was finding her personality so far very acidic and inviting. No wonder his father adored this child. Memories of how many times his father left his own side telling him he had to go "take care of Delta" or he was on "Uncle Jenner duty" and that took priority over him. Memory flashes of Chernabog's face telling him he was a big boy and he had to handle himself while he carried out Maleficent's order's. Coven always came first. Time was strange because this became a simple matter of fact these facets of Silas's hidden childhood despite never having met Delta in person the whole time. Delta always to priority. Jenner was late for dinner. Oh, he was doing something with Delta and Maleficent again. Sure, he'd seen her before now. But, now they were here truly face to face.

Then of course there was the Oogie Boogie layer to his life. This came later. She never truly pushed any agenda in his head to feel one way or another about these two. Jenner tried to give the boy some stability a little too late. Silas has always had his own personal agendas and was thrown in the middle of whatever he was born into. It was difficult to navigate what he felt especially for a person who didn't feel a lot other than the urge to satisfy his own curiosities.

Silas pointed at Delta's necklace.

"I want to see my father. I know he's alive. I can feel him."

---

Then there was Bastien who picked up his hammer as he said he said he was going to. When he got it he didn't go over to Pierre. He got stuck again. He still felt like he was supposed to go rushing up to the situation and to go lay down the law on the guy or even smash smash smash. He still hadn't gotten any orders from Delta. Maybe she really did want all these ghosts here. Maybe she even invited them. So many thoughts raced through his head. He was loyal to Frank and Delta. He didn't want to fuck up, but his emotions were getting the better of him.

But by this point he was starting to reevaluate the whole situation. "Maddy?" His voice was soft. Seeing Zero and Seven with him was one thing, but what he was seeing now caused him to rethink everything.

It was Piper, the Reaper's daughter. She wasn't in her eyeball costume anymore because she'd just done the dance with Maddy and the rest of the girls. She'd caught sight of Pierre.

"Pierre?" She called his name. "The hourglass flipped over for you." She sighed like it was the most relieving news she could ever recieve. "The hourglass flipped." Then she reached out to give him a hug like all their past disagreements were wiped away with that hourglass turn. As far as she was concerned, at least for Halloween if that's what was happening, they were good until the sands ran out again. She wasn't wasting what time she had with him.

Bastien would look back at his wife. "We have to rethink this. I'm confused. Is he dead or alive?"

[humongousfanhologram]

David Thomas and the Pedestrians - The crickets in the flats

David Lynn Thomas (born 1953 in Miami, Florida) is an American singer, songwriter and musician.

He was one of the founding members of the short-lived proto-punkers Rocket from the Tombs (1974–1975), where he went by the name of Crocus Behemoth, and of punk group Pere Ubu (1975–present, intermittently). He has also released several solo albums. Though primarily a singer, he sometimes plays melodeon, trombone, guitar or other instruments.

[beginningspod]

It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode, I talk to musician David Thomas. Raised in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, David is one of the founders of the short-lived but influential punk band Rocket from the Tombs, who split up after about a year, with some members going off to form the Dead Boys, while David founded Pere Ubu. While David would record on and off with the self-described avant-garage Pere Ubu over the next 40 years, he has also recorded with a number of different collaborators under a number of different names, such as David Thomas & the Pedestrians, David Thomas & the Wooden Birds and David Thomas & Two Pale Boys. Earlier in September, Fire Records reissued two classic Pere Ubu albums Pennsylvania and St Arkansas!

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Tag Game via @passionate-reply who didn’t actually tag anyone, but that’s where I saw it.

LAST SONG: The Fallout Club - Pedestrian Walkway

Was inspired to listen to Thomas Dolby’s The Golden Age of Wireless album, and this is the last of the download bonus tracks. It’s okay. I’m not super into The Fallout Club’s glam thing, and even Dolby’s own demo is kind of only enh.

LAST FILM: Star Trek: Beyond

I’ve been doing a watchthrough of the Star Trek movies, and this was the last one. I saw it in a theater and enjoyed it a lot. It does hold up. No, it’s not the best Trek movie, but it is the best of the Trek reboot movies. I enjoyed it.

CURRENTLY WATCHING: Twin Peaks

Finally getting off my ass and watching Twin Peaks. I’ve actually never watched anything by David Lynch, and it’s okay. The soap opera elements are a bit goofy, which I think is the point, and I’m enjoying the kind of rapid tonal shifts from soap opera drama to murder mystery to goofy comedy to eldritch horror. Gonna start the second season tonight, probably.

CURRENTLY READING: SM101

It’s a book about learning S&M. Useful stuff for after the plague, I hope.

CURRENTLY CRAVING: Coffee

I’ve almost completely cut out caffeine since starting my current ADHD medication, so that’s cut down on my coffee consumption. I do have some whole-bean decaf in the freezer, I’m just too lazy to grind it and brew it. And certainly to clean up afterwards.

Tagging: @brightoncemore @bisexuhellvevo @altruisticpervert and anyone else who wants. I can’t stop you.

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Texas Architecture: Texan Buildings

Texas Architecture News, Building Images, Architects, United States of America Property

Texas Architecture : Buildings

Major Architectural Projects, USA – Texan Built Environment Information

post updated October 25, 2020

Texas Architecture News

Texan Architecture News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

Oct 10, 2020 National Medal of Honor Museum, Arlington Architecture: Rafael Viñoly Architects image courtesy of architects National Medal of Honor Museum National Medal Of Honor Museum Foundation Reveals First Architectural Renderings Of The Museum’s New Home By Rafael Viñoly Architects As Part Of A 1-Year Anniversary Celebration.

July 2, 2020 Honest Mary’s, Austin Architecture: Chioco Design picture : Chase Daniel Honest Mary’s Restaurant in Austin A 2,665 sqft complete renovation of an existing restaurant in Austin, Texas. The softly curving plaster ceiling, custom booths, shelving and wood paneling, paired with plenty of natural light and deep blue accents, resulting in a bright, inviting space.

July 2, 2020 Woodward Duplexes in Austin

June 30, 2020 River Ranch, Blanco Design: Jobe Corral Architects photography : Casey Dunn and Casey Woods River Ranch in Blanco The River Ranch is about the connection to the land. The indoor/outdoor relationship of the spaces is strengthened by specific moments that connect the user to three site features.

June 29, 2020 Filtered Frame Dock, Austin Design: Matt Fajkus Architecture photography : Charles Davis Smith; MF Architecture Filtered Frame Dock in Austin, TX This single-slip boat dock of Filtered Frame Dock is a result of liberation through constraints balanced with sensory experience. Devised concurrently with the property’s new residence, the boat dock creates both tangible and implied connections of experience and shelter.

Feb 5, 2020 Bouldin Creek Residence Architecture: Restructure Studio photography : Michael Hsu Bouldin Creek Residence in Austin, TX The Bouldin Creek Residence is a new home for a young family, Restructure Studio pays respect to a unique site, including a heritage live oak tree, Bouldin creek, and steeply sloping lot in an established neighborhood.

Nov 21, 2019 Brownwood House

Nov 20, 2019 AISD Performing Arts Center, Austin Architecture: Miró Rivera Architects photography : Thomas McConnell and Miró Rivera Architects AISD Performing Arts Center AISD Performing Arts Center (PAC) is the first purpose-built, district-wide Fine Arts facility in the 134-year history of the Austin Independent School District.

Oct 25, 2019 The Heights School Building in Arlington

Apr 12, 2019 Carpenter Hotel, Austin Architecture: Specht Architects image courtesy of architects Carpenter Hotel Austin A hidden oasis in one of the last pockets of Old Austin. It is a compound of buildings of different vintages surrounding a pecan tree-shaded courtyard and pool, and features a restaurant, café, event pavilion, and 93 guest rooms. It has a character that is unlike any other hotel in town.

Dec 13, 2018 Residence 1446, Austin Design: Miró Rivera Architects photograph : Paul Finkel, Piston Design Residence 1446 in Austin Situated in a low-lying field adjacent to both a lake and a quiet lagoon, Residence 1446 was the final element of a ten-year master plan that includes a guest house, pedestrian bridge, pool, and boathouse.

Dec 12, 2018 Hill Country House, Wimberley Design: Miró Rivera Architects photograph : Paul Finkel, Piston Design Hill Country House in Wimberley Conceived as a prototype for a sustainable rural community, the Hill Country House serves as a beacon to show what could be: a self-sustaining home in a rural setting, virtually independent of municipal water and energy.

Aug 13, 2018 Casa de Sombra, Rollingwood, Travis County Design: Bade Stageberg Cox, Architects image from Chicago Athenaeum Contemporary Rollingwood Residence Casa de Sombra, named for an exploration of light and shadow, is a re-thinking of the suburban house that examines dichotomies between interior/exterior, public/private, and what it means to experience light and its absence.

Dec 5, 2017 East Austin District, Austin Design: architects BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group image by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group East Austin District Arena The new East Austin District created by Austin Sports & Entertainment and designed by award-winning architects BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group is an entirely new sports and entertainment neighborhood tailored to celebrate world-class sports and cultural experiences under one checkered roofscape.

Dec 12, 2016 News from US architecture studio of Miró Rivera Architects image from architect Miró Rivera Architects in Texas LifeWorks and the AISD Performing Arts Center took home honors at the inaugural Austin Green Awards celebration on November 9. Launched this year by the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, the awards are the first program “to specifically highlight the outstanding accomplishments in the broad area of sustainable design and innovation” in Austin.

[Bracketed Space] House in Austin

Nov 10, 2016 Threshold House in Austin

Oct 13, 2016 Edgeland Residence in Austin

Oct 13, 2016 Annie Residence in Austin

Aug 28, 2016 Carved Cube House in West Austin

May 2, 2016 Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences, Lubbock image from architect Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences in Texas This arts complex will be built in Lubbock, Texas, birthplace of the legendary 1950s pop star whose brief career influenced generations of musicians and fans.

The Secret Life of Buildings: A Call for Objects A selection of twenty ‘Objects’ will be exhibited for two weeks around a three-day symposium to be staged by the Center for American Architecture and Design (CAAD) at The University of Texas at Austin in October 2016 called “The Secret Life of Buildings.” The Secret Life of Buildings Architecture Competition

May 23, 2013 West Lake Hills Residence, Austin, Texas Design: Specht Harpman photo: Taggart Sorensen West Lake Hills Residence On a densely tree-covered site in the Austin, Texas exurb of West Lake Hills, Specht Harpman was tasked with the renovation and expansion of a modest 1970’s house. Much of the original internal structure was maintained, but the alterations sought to erase all visible traces of the original house.

Apr 5, 2013 Observation Tower at Circuit of the Americas, Austin Design: Miró Rivera Architects picture : Paul Finkel | Piston Design Observation Tower at Circuit of the Americas Texas Austin360 Amphitheater completed: located southwest of downtown Austin, the Circuit of the Americas will be the host to the United States Formula 1 Grand Prix, MotoGP, V8 Supercar, and American Le Mans races starting with the inaugural race on November 16-18, 2012. Built around a 3.4 mile racetrack, the facility has the capacity for 120,000 visitors and will become a significant attraction for the city of Austin.

Jun 11, 2012 Menil Drawing institute Building, Houston Johnston Marklee wins this Texan architecture competition image : David Chipperfield Architects Menil Collection Houston

Jun 15, 2011 Museum of Fine Arts Houston Steven Holl Architects Selected for Expansion photograph © MFAH Museum of Fine Arts Houston This project will involve the construction of a new museum building intended primarily for art after 1900 to complement the Audrey Jones Beck and Caroline Wiess Law Buildings. It will also try to integrate the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden and the expansion of the Glassell School of Art.

Aug 3, 2011 Irving Convention Center Design: RMJM Hillier Architects image from architect Irving Convention Center The Las Colinas Convention Centre in Texas, designed by RMJM Hillier’s New York Studio, is wrapped in copper cladding designed to generate a changing patina as it ages over time – a striking and timeless icon for a Western boomtown in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

McNay Art Museum – Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions, San Antonio Design: Jean-Paul Viguier S.A. d’Architecture photo : Jeff Goldberg / ESTO McNay Art Museum

Texas Architecture

e-architect choose the key examples of Texan Buildings, USA. The focus is on contemporary Texan buildings.

We have 2 pages of Texan Architecture selections with links to many individual project pages.

Texas Architecture : news + key projects A-G (this page)

Texas Buildings : H-Z

Major Texas Building Designs, alphabetical:

Alpine Courthouse Building Design: PageSoutherlandPage photo : Chris Cooper Alpine Courthouse

Arthouse, Dallas Design: Morrison Seifert Murphy photograph from architects Arthouse

Beechwood Residence, Dallas Morrison Seifert Murphy photo from architecs Beechwood Residence

Berkshire Residence, Dallas Morrison Seifert Murphy photograph : Charles Davis Smith © MSM Berkshire Residence

Dallas Center for Performing Arts Joshua Prince-Ramus / Rem Koolhaas photo : Iwan Baan Wyly Theatre – AT&T Performing Arts Center

Destination Universitas, Nevada desert Chetwood Architects picture from architect Texan architecture

Discovery Tower – office building, Houston Gensler picture : Gensler Discovery Tower Houston

El Paso Housing OFIS, architects picture from architects El Paso Housing

Glendora I Residence, Dallas Morrison Seifert Murphy photograph from architects Glendora Residence

GSA Field Office Building, Houston PageSoutherlandPage photo : Timothy Hursley GSA Field Office

More Texan Buildings online soon

Major Texas Architecture Designs, A-G, no images, alphabetical:

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth – Philip Johnson

Annette Strauss Artist Square, Dallas 2008- Foster + Partners

Austin City Hall + Public Plaza 2007 Antoine Predock Architect

Dallas City Hall, Dallas 1977 I.M. Pei and Partners

Dallas Cowboys Stadium & entertainment venue, Arlington 2007-09 HKS, Inc. Due to be largest NFL stadium in the world

Fountain Place, Dallas 1986 Pei Cobb Freed and Partners

Globe News Center for the Performing Arts, Amarillo 2007- Holzman Moss Architecture

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi |

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics fictional character Wolverine. It is the fourth installment of the X-Men film series, the first installment of the Wolverine trilogy within the series, and a spin-off prequel to X-Men (2000). The film was directed by Gavin Hood, written by David Benioff and Skip Woods, and produced by Hugh Jackman, who stars as the titular character, alongside Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, and Ryan Reynolds. The film’s plot details Wolverine’s childhood as James Howlett, his time with Major William Stryker’s Team X, the bonding of Wolverine’s skeleton with the indestructible metal adamantium during the Weapon X program and his relationship with his half-brother Victor Creed.

In 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in Canada, witnesses his father being killed by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. Anxiety activates the boy’s mutation: bone claws protrude from his knuckles and he impales Thomas, who reveals that he is James’ birth father before dying. James flees along with Thomas’ other son Victor Creed, who is James’ half-brother and has a sharp claw-nails and healing factor mutation like James. They spend the next century as soldiers, fighting in the American Civil War, both World Wars and the Vietnam War in 1973.

In Vietnam, the increasingly violent Victor attempts to rape a Vietnamese woman and kills a senior officer who tries to stop him. James returns to Victor upon the commotion, and ignorant of his brother’s intent, he rushes to defend him. This results in the pair being sentenced to execution by firing squad, which they survive due to their mutant healing abilities. Major William Stryker approaches them in military custody and offers them membership in Team X, a group of mutants including expert marksman Agent Zero, katana-wielding Wade Wilson, John Wraith, super-strong and invulnerable Fred Dukes and technopath Chris Bradley. They join the team for a few missions, with James using the alias Logan, but Victor and the group’s lack of empathy for human life causes Logan to leave.

Director: Gavin Hood

Writers: David Benioff (screenplay), Skip Woods (screenplay)

Stars: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Will.i.am, Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Danny Huston

►Cast:

Hugh Jackman…Logan / WolverineLiev Schreiber…Victor CreedDanny Huston…StrykerWill.i.am…John WraithLynn Collins…Kayla SilverfoxKevin Durand…Fred DukesDominic Monaghan…Chris Bradley / BoltTaylor Kitsch…Remy LeBeauDaniel Henney…Agent ZeroRyan Reynolds…Wade WilsonTim Pocock…Scott SummersJulia Blake…Heather HudsonMax Cullen…Travis HudsonTroye Sivan…JamesMichael-James Olsen…Young VictorPeter O’Brien…John HowlettAaron Jeffery…Thomas LoganAlice Parkinson…Elizabeth HowlettPhilip A. Patterson…Firing Squad LeaderAnthony Gee…Carnival GuyAdelaide Clemens…Carnival GirlKarl Beattie…School ChildTom O’Sullivan…Logging SupervisorMyles Pollard…PhelanStephen Anderton…MarcuseChris Sadrinna…Van MierSeptimus Caton…BartenderMatthew Dale…SurgeonNathin Butler…Male Nurse #1Peter Barry…Male Nurse #2David Ritchie…Dr. CorneliusAsher Keddie…Dr. Carol FrostSocratis Otto…Lead Technician – Alkali LakeStephen Leeder…General MunsonJames D. Dever…Platoon LeaderMartin Obuga…Muttering ManRita Afua Connell…Nervous African WomanJohn Shrimpton…Stryker AideHenry Browne…CurtisTahyna MacManus…Kayla’s Sister / EmmaDaniel Negreanu…Poker PlayerAlexandra Davies…Woman of the NightDon Battee…Huge DoormanEvan Sturrock…Drunken Man In AlleyRob Flanagan…Amoured Humvee DriverHakeem Kae-Kazim…African BusinessmanAlison Araya…TeacherEric Breker…Special Forces CommanderEileen Bui…Vietnamese ChildAdrian G. Griffiths…Hunter #1 (as Adrian Hughes)Byron Chief-Moon…Hunter #2Mike Dopud…Vietnam Army OfficerBeatrice King…Waitress (as Beatrice Ilg)Kanako Takegishi…WaitressPanou…Tank SoldierJohnson Phan…Vietnamese ManElizabeth Thai…Vietnamese WomanJade Tang…Mutant Twin #1Joelle Tang…Mutant Twin #2Warwick Young…Helicopter PilotApril Elleston-Enahoro…Ororo Munroe (scenes deleted)Scott Adkins…Weapon XIJames Crabtree…MedicSusan Glaze-Harper…PedestrianDennis Kreusler…SoldierAndrew Maciver…SoldierGideon Mzembe…MutantPaul Padagas…WardenChris Polzot…MutantChaz Smith…Bourbon Street RevelerTerry Lee Smith…Bourbon Street PartierDerek Steen…SoldierSuzie Steen…Carnival MomPatrick Stewart…Professor Charles XavierIan Thompson…School Bus DriverElizabeth Tranchant…PedestrianJosh Dean Williams…Soldier

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david thomas & the pedestrians - bird town (1983)

[buzzdixonwriter]

Influencers

I seriously started writing when I was 13, “serious” in this case meaning I submitted carefully typed reviews and articles to fanzines and short stories to magazines.

My father toyed with the idea of being a writer at some point in his life, and we had a stack of old Writer’s Digests and Jack Woodford’s How To Write For Money in the house.*

I can’t recall how many stories I wrote and mailed out, but none of them sold (my first short story sale was “Smuggler” in the November 1983 issues of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, but of course by that time I was already well established as an animation writer; I had placed a few articles and reviews in fanzines by that time).

Recently I had reason to re-read some of my own stories, and I got to wondering who my key literary influencers were.

Here, in rough chronological order, they are:

Ray Bradbury was the sci-fi writer that school boards felt comfortable with, and as a result stories like “The Pedestrian” turned up in lots of grammar school and junior high English textbooks.  Well, that was like Hartz Mountain heroin to 10 year old Buzzy Boy.  I voraciously read everything by Bradbury in every library I had access to.   Somewhere I read his short story “Pillar Of Fire” which includes a virtual laundry list of writers of the phantasmagorical, and of course that sent me off in search of each and every one of ‘em, and that led me straight to…

H.P. Lovecraft took one look at my Southern Baptist Sunday school theology, said “How cute” and proceeded to sweep everything off the table.  I have come to realize Lovecraft was a racist and a terribly, terribly flawed human being, but his cosmic horror stories (retconned by August Derleth as “The Cthulhu Mythos”) made me realize “Holy #&%@ -- I’m not even asking the right questions!”, and while Alfred Bester and Philip K. Dick and A.E. van Vogt would later expand my imagination even more, he’s the guy who shot the lock off the door.

When I started writing seriously (i.e., for actual submission of material, not just to fulfill a school assignment), I found myself typically bouncing between Bradbury and Lovecraft’s styles (the occasional Robert E. Howard and Ian Fleming pastiches excluded).  Luckily for all concerned, I landed closer to the Bradbury camp than the insanely verbose and grandiloquent Lovecraft…

Ernest Hemingway cropped up on my radar through osmosis:  I heard adults talking about him, read his name on gag book titles in Warner Brothers cartoons, saw the TV news report his suicide.  I saw The Old Man And The Sea and For Whom The Bell Tolls on TV when I was ten or eleven, and since both were touted as based on his works, I looked them up.  For Whom The Bell Tolls was the first one I read, and for a pre-adolescent boy that’s probably the perfect introduction to Hemingway.  By the time I started reading voraciously, Hemingway’s modern style of writing pretty much became the norm for everyone, but he mastered that spare lean style better than anyone else.

Mark Twain first hopped into view with Boy’s Life reprinting “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County” even though I’d seen movies based on Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn before that.  That short story led me to his novels, and oddly his novels led me back to his short stories and essays.  Twain’s somewhat old fashioned yet naturalistic style flows so effortlessly and easily and handles asides and digressions so seamlessly that I found myself re-reading his works again and again to see how he did it.

H. Allen Smith is an unjustly forgotten American humorist from the 1930s-40s-50s.  I picked up a coverless copy of his anthology Poor H. Allen Smith’s Almanac in a remainder bin in a Dollar General Store in Athens, Tennessee more out of curiosity than anything else and was delighted to find a soul mate.  Smith, like Twain, was the literary equivalent of MAD Magazine, puncturing pretentious stuffed shirt shirts with pleasure.  Like Twain, Smith employs a seemingly effortless style to conceal a sharp cynical sting.

Harlan Ellison came to my attention as I started reading more and more science fiction digest and fanzines in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  Always controversial, deliberately provocative, and relentlessly entertaining on the page or in person, Harlan demonstrated more than any other writer I encountered the fire in the belly that represents The Work. (The Work is one of those things that can’t be described, can’t be defined; as Louis Armstrong once said of jazz “If you’ve got to ask, you’ll never know.”  Writers know what I’m talking about, authors think they know, but most people just go “…wha…?” when the topic comes up, which is why writers rarely talk about it in front of civilians.)  Harlan’s style and élan could never be duplicated, much less equaled, but damn, he left a lot of good inspirations and insights behind, and I find myself applying them -- filtered through my own style and experience, of course.  His best insight was that no matter how fantastic the story, it had to be about human emotions, or else it was just shit.

Thomas Heggen is another unjustly forgotten American writer, remembered (if at all) as the original author of the novel that became the movie Mister Roberts.  The novel began life as a series of vignettes and short stories Heggen wrote and sold to New Yorker magazine during World War II and based on is actual experiences as an officer aboard U.S. Navy cargo ships.  After the war he assembled, re-edited, re-wrote, and added new connecting material to turn these stories into a novel, and from there worked on the Broadway play adaptation.  He died a tragic early death (accident or suicidal despair over crippling writer’s block, take your pick).  Again, I was introduced to his writing through the movie based on his work, finding a reprint of the book sometime after I discovered H. Allen Smith.  In contrast to Twain and Smith, Heggen’s laconic style underplayed his humor, actually heightening the absurdity of his situations by treating them so matter of factly.

Richard E. Geis is better known as the editor of Science Fiction Review in all its various permutations (originally Psychotic then Science Fiction Review then The Alien Critic then back to Science Fiction Review then Richard E. Geis then Science Fiction Review again then Taboo) and as such one of the key influencers in the legendary New Wave vs Old Stuff feud that consumed sci-fi fandom back in the 1960s and early 1970s (which is to say just at the time when I was becoming active in fandom). Geis wrote fiction -- a handful of self-published sci-fi novels and stories in an era long before self-publishing was a viable norm, and over 100 porn novels at about $500 a pop – and I must be brutally honest, none of them were good.  But his genius and ability lay in his editorial and critical skills, and in his editorial writing for Science Fiction Review he demonstrated a lively and entertaining style that managed to meld coolly analytical criticism with engaging and often sly personal observations (Geis frequently employed Alter, his name for his darker, more sardonic alter ego, in a back and forth dialog to use dialectics to exposes the strengths and weaknesses of any work or proposition).

William Goldman’s screenplay of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid was published as a paperback by Bantam Books.  When I saw it on the spinner rack in a small drug store in Madisonville, Tennessee, I thought it would be a novelization of an upcoming movie, but when I flipped it open I realized I was looking at an actual bona fide screenplay, and of course, I had to have it.  (The kneeslapper is that Goldman never wrote in conventional screenplay format, and while his works are excellent examples of how to tell a story cinematically, they sure aren’t industry standard.)  I followed his work after that, both on screen and off, and when he wrote Adventures In The Screen Trade I devoured its lessons hungrily.  While I see a certain stylistic influence in my writing from Goldman, what I really learned from his was structure and form and style.

Walter Hill and David Giler took Dan O’Bannon’s already legendary unproduced script for Alien and -- no slam against O’Bannon -- transformed it from a really, really good B-monster movie story into a work of poetry.  Compare and contrast the two screenplays; everything’s there in O’Bannon’s work, but Hill and Giler blew it through the roof. Their writing style -- seemingly minimalistic but in reality forcing the reader to see the movie exactly as they envisioned it -- was a revelation, and while I don’t try to ape it directly, I have used it to free me from conventional descriptions of characters, scenes, and actions to good effect.

Charles Bukowski was introduced to me by the late Gordon Kent, a friend and co-writer at Ruby-Spears Studios.  I quickly became enamored of his unadorned, almost journalistic style of fiction, but his poetry is what resonated the deepest.  After reading Hill and Giler’s Alien script, I looked at Bukowski’s poems with new eyes, seeing how he used a similar technique in many of his poems that they used in their screenplay.  This in turn led to a greater interest and appreciation in poetry as a whole on my part, and to start applying more poetic styles in describing characters and situations, again paring verbiage to a minimum while conjuring up more vivid mental images.

Like every writer, I’ve been influenced to some degree or another by every story I’ve read, every movie I’ve seen, every song I’ve heard.

Some may complain there are too many old white guys in this grouping, and that’s a fair cop – if I was drawing up a list of writers to recommend.

But I’m not doing that. I’m telling you what influenced me, how and why.

Take it or leave it.

 ©  Buzz Dixon

  *  If you can find any Woodford book on writing GET IT!!!  He’s not the best of the best when it comes to analyzing the writer’s craft but sunuvagun he’s damn good and he lays it out flat in a take-no-prisoners style.  You may not like what he has to say but man, does he ever cut through the BS.

[thephilosopheroftheboudoir]

David Thomas and the Pedestrians

The Crickets In the Flat

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It’s day 8 of the #smarchvinylchallenge by @brandudesrecordvault: Stepping Out: Side Project. David Thomas And The Pedestrians - The Sound Of The Sand And Other Songs Of The Pedestrian (Rough Trade, 1981) The first full-length project by Thomas outside of Pere Ubu often picks up where The Art Of Walking leaves off and leads the way to The Song Of The Bailing Man. But with folks like Richard Thompson and Philip Moxham on board, it was always going to sound a little different. Some of it seems to be trying a bit hard to be nutty while other tracks are sublime. Still essential for all Pere Ubu fans! #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylgram #vinylgeek #vinylcollector #marchvinylchallenge #records #smarch https://www.instagram.com/p/CpjP2A9gJxs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A-T-3 072 David Thomas & The Pedestrians - Variations On A Theme

David Thomas was a founding member of Pere Ubu. He now lives in Brighton, England. I have no idea when David Thomas moves to the UK, I have a feeling it's the late 1970s

The Sound of the Sand and Other Songs of the Pedestrian was recorded in the UK and released in 1981 as David Thomas's debut solo album. Pere Ubu split for a while beginning in 1982. Variations On A Theme, Thomas's second studio album is released in 1983

David Thomas writes

"Variations On A Theme was an album recorded in snatches, as opportunity arose. It was, from start to finish, a struggle to make-do with no budget and very little money to support it. 

In November 1982, David Thomas, Lindsay Cooper and Chris Cutler [Henry Cow] were on a European tour as David Thomas and his legs (though it may have been The Pedestrians). A chance to fill some downtime by recording for free in a Swiss studio came up. Later in the tour they played the concert that was recorded by a fan and later released as Winter Comes Home. On returning to London, in December 1982, it turned out that Anton Fier [Pere Ubu] was in town. A session with Cutler was arranged at Cold Storage, an improv studio assembled in a metal-walled former meat locker. Jack Monck, a member of one of Syd Barrett's solo bands, overdubbed bass to the Swiss recordings at another studio. 

David returned to Cleveland. It was quickly arranged for Richard Thompson to fly in for a week, rehearse and record the rest of the album with Paul Hamann [Human Switchboard] playing bass and Anton on drums. Jim Jones helped out at rehearsals with songwriting."

Anton Fier sadly died last year

Variations On A Theme is long out of print, which is a shame because it's ace

Pedestrian Walk

Who Is It?

Bird Town 

Day At The Botanical Gardens and The Rain

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THIS IS OUR MUSIC: David Thomas And The Pedestrians -- "The Crickets In The Flats"

THIS IS OUR MUSIC: David Thomas And The Pedestrians — “The Crickets In The Flats”

THIS IS OUR MUSIC: David Thomas And The Pedestrians — “The Crickets In The Flats” Song from “The Sound of the Sand and Other Songs of the Pedestrian”, the debut studio album by experimental singer-songwriter David Thomas, released on this day (October 30) in 1981.