#But David and his guitar work are special

[daisyfloyd]

One doesn't truly appreciate great guitar work until you try to learn the part yourself.

Yes, I am practising the final solo in Pigs, and man, I appreciate David more and more every time I try to learn one of his solos. This is a workout.

[thislovintime]

Remembering David Jones, and sending thoughts to his family and friends.

(Footage in this edit from the Blu-ray set, Getty Images, Australian TV, Extra, the 1990s documentary; audio 1 from Peter's 1999 interview with GOLD 104.5.)

“Genuine, reliable and huggable, Peter is a natural person — really gets off on talent — loves other musicians and can jam along with the best of ‘em. I saw him holding his own with Hendrix, Stills, Young. He encouraged me no end. Bought me my first guitar and my first drum kit. […] He used to walk with a swagger, shining his arms with a confident air. He calmed hysteria, and lifted depression. ‘Dried banana, anybody? Piece of orange?’ — smiling, waving, running his hands through his hair. He knew all the crew by their first names. Kids crying at his feet he lifted and hugged like a father calming a child. […] He’s the most musically talented of us all by a mile. His songs are real. ‘For Pete’s Sake’ — which replaced the Monkees Theme at the end of some of the shows of the second season — is one of my all-time favorite songs by anybody. I’ve joked a lot about Peter giving everything away. But it was true. He was always giving his spare room to someone who needed it for the night — anyone. And he always seemed far away somewhere — in a different space. But I’m glad I know him. Of all the things he gave me, he gave me lots of laughs — and food for thought.” - Davy Jones, They Made A Monkee Out Of Me (1988) “I enjoyed [Micky] the most, respected Mike the most, and loved Davy the most.” - Peter Tork, Hartford Courant, February 26, 1982 “Davy adored performing, and adored meeting and greeting his fans. He was tireless in making himself available to sing a song, do a dance, shake a hand; whatever was asked. I had heart-to-heart moments with him that were among the best in my life. I was blessed to know and work closely with him. He was one in about 6 billion, give or take. We won’t see his like again. He left much too soon. I share your sadness. Thank you again for this chance to contribute. God bless and keep you all.” - Peter Tork in a note for a Pennsylvania memorial event for Davy, also shared via Peter’s official Facebook page, 2012 Peter Tork: “He was a master of many aspects of this kind of thing [entertaining], and, you know, and we had some very wonderful personal connections, and I’m really sad to see all that gone.” Q: “He just seemed to be a fun guy. I know he loved horses.” PT: “Sure did.” Q: “And obviously loved Peter.” PT: “Sure did. Loved him.” - 94.5 FM (Phoenix), 2013 “[Micky] and Mike and I have a very cordial relationship and share a lot of common topics. We go to lunch together when we’re all in town and have a good time. I love and respect each of these guys in their own way, although the real joys that I shared with Davy were special. At one point we had some good hard connections but as the years rolled on, those things faded away. But I am sorry to see Davy go. He was the one member in the group that I had the strongest human connection with. I still have two guys that I love and respect left from the band, but we share a different dynamic.” - Peter Tork, Review Mag, May 27, 2016

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today, on 14th January, 1991 - Queen Story!

'Innuendo' / 'Bijou' single released in UK

(taken from the forthcoming album 'Innuendo', the fourteenth)

👉 Illustrations by Grandville (1803-1847)

🔸"Innuendo"

Jam session in Switzerland amongst Brian, Roger and John in spring 1989. Freddie was upstairs and heard them playing the beat, and turned it into a song, creating the melody and starting off the lyrics.

🔸"Bijou"

was an idea Freddie and Brian had of making a song "inside-out" (having guitar doing the verses and the vocal doing the break). Freddie put the chords, title and lyrics, and the two of them worked on the guitar parts

🔸"The song started off as most things do, with us just messing around and finding a groove that sounded nice. All of us worked on the arrangement. Freddie started off the theme of the words as he was singing along, then Roger worked on the rest of them. I worked on some of the arrangement, particularly the middle bit, then there was an extra part that Freddie did for the middle as well. It basically came together like a jigsaw puzzle."

- Brian May - 1991

🔸"'Innuendo' was an improvisation type song where they actually recorded it here in the big concert hall, it's just next door, and we set up like a live performance, and they just started playing, and sort of got into a nice rhythm and a groove, and some chords and then Freddie said, 'Oh, I like that,' and rushed downstairs into the concert hall and started singing along with it. Obviously then, once that initial idea was down on tape, then there was a lot of rearranging and putting extra things on, but the actual beginning of it was like a live thing. It just happened. It was wonderful. Freddie played a strong role in the writing of 'Innuendo'. Steve Howe just happened to drop in one day to say hello to me. He had been recording at Mountain some ten years before with the group Yes. As soon as he popped his head round the door Freddie recognized him and said, 'Come on in and play some guitar!' He had no guitar with him so he used Brian's Dan Armstrong acoustic guitar with a direct output and tone control. Brian played the rhythm guitar and then echoed the solo afterwards on the Red Special."

- David Richards - 2001

David Richards (1956 – 20 December 2013) record producer in Montreux, Switzerland. He has engineered and co-produced many albums by Queen, David Bowie and several other bands.

🔸American Film and Video Festival 1992 'Intuendo' song Golden Camera Award (annual German film and television award, awarded by the Funke Mediengruppe)

📸 Inner Sleeve 'Innuendo' album

by Angela Lumley

👉 'Innuendo: released February 4th, 1991

Reached no 1, chart for 37 weeks

Achieved Platinum status

[jokeroutsubs]

Interview with Joker Out's member Nace Jordan, from Slovenian magazine Kranjčanka!

"Enriched by a special experience"

We caught up with Nace Jordan, bassist of Joker Out, a week or so after the Eurovision show in Liverpool, a few days after the show in Zagreb, and just before they left for the show in Dublin, where they sold out their first show in twenty minutes… On stage, they kept company to the Irish performers.

The fact that this guy, who is otherwise from Mlaka (T.N: small village near Kranj), is fully booked, can be confirmed by telling you that he moved into a new flat in March of this year - he has been living in Ljubljana for some time now - but he has spent less than 14 days there until it was time for the Eurovision Song Contest. He still returns to Kranj at least twice a week to visit his mother and to stay true to himself: he decided to get a personal trainer a while ago, so now he also goes to Kranj to train there.

Nace Jordan came into contact with music in primary school. He first played the guitar, which he soon replaced with the bass guitar. "Around the fifth grade of primary school (T.N: 10-11 years old), I became interested in instruments and a classmate and I decided to start a music group. He bought a drum set and I bought an electric guitar. Then we quickly saw that there were no bass players. So I sold the guitar and bought a bass guitar," he explains. He has no formal musical training, but says he has been lucky that wherever he has gone in life, there has always been a good mentor who has been able to guide him.

I: How long did this primary school group last?

N: In those days it was a well-known Kranj band called Success. We did a lot of gigs. It's interesting that all the band members from that time are now living off music. They are, for example, the guitarist Nejc Ušlakar, Tajda Jovanović - also from Mlaka - who is a top classical singer and used to sing at the famous Scala in Milan; if I am not mistaken, she is now teaching classical singing in Dubai. We just created an environment for ourselves and stayed in music. The drummer and keyboard player, Aljaž Bernik and Miha Petrovič, have, for example, a very successful wedding band, called Pop Deluxe.

I: What came after primary school? (* (T.N: In Slovenia, primary school lasts for 9 years, from ages 6-15)

N: I enrolled at the then Iskra University, majoring in mechatronics, but just before graduation I started working - actually playing on a cruiser. By some chance I found myself at a jam session open mind in Kranj, where the Kranj drummer Rok Rozman was looking for someone to go on the boat with him. He was impressed with me, I auditioned and of course they weren't very happy at home when I confronted them with the fact that I was going to take my final exams the following year. I was just 18 years old.

I: Was that a cruise ship?

N: Yes. We were travelling in the Baltic Ocean. I remember that we started in Germany, in a port north of Hamburg, then continued on to Gdansk, St Petersburg and to the Scandinavian countries.

l: That was probably the only time you've been on a cruise ship of that kind, a tourist cruise ship?

I've had a lot of people ask me if I would ever go on holiday on a cruise ship. Probably not. But I would go and have another look at the one I played on.

I: When you came back to Slovenia, did you graduate from high school? N: I didn't and I still regret it a little bit. When I came back from the ship, I started working with the singer Katarina Malo. During that time, I was also taken under the wing of two musicians from Primorska (T.N.: a region in the South-Western part of Slovenia) - that's what I mentioned: I found myself somewhere and then a mentor came along. I learned a lot from them. They were David Morgan and Denis Beganovic - Kiki. The first one is a top jazz drummer from the coastal area, he organises a lot of stuff, and he also plays with Avtomobili (T.N. slovenian band), I think he even played with Plestenjak (T.N. Jan Plestenjak, a famous Slovenian pop singer) at one point. Whereas Kiki is a multi-instrumentalist. He's an extraordinary talent. He has worked with Kanzyani and other famous DJs and musicians from abroad. He has made a lot of music, and he also led the Big Band from the coastal region. That was a really nice period for me. I even moved to the coastal region for a short period.

I: Why music, why not football?

N: Certainly not football (laughs). It's the sport I'm least talented in, or rather, all ball sports fall into that context - be it table tennis or football; and, even though my surname is Jordan, I'm the worst basketball player in the world (laughs). Just two days ago, I met my first grade teacher, and of course the topic of music and Eurovision came up. She told me that she knew even back then that school was not for me, but that I would definitely do something creative in my life. It brought back memories of how bored I was at school and how I would rather draw under my desk than listen, even though I was not a bad student.

I: You haven't been a member of Joker Out for long.

N: Since last year. Martin Jurkovič, the original bass player, felt at some point that music was not his main path. He is also an extremely talented programmer and is studying in that direction. He wants to study abroad and decided to finish that chapter. I knew the lead singer of the band, Bojan, from some mutual friend groups before, and the guys were looking for someone who was around their age, professional, good at what they do, and they thought of me. And Martin was in favour of me coming into the group instead of him.

I: And did you imagine that the band would continue the way it did?

N: From the beginning I went into the band with a bit of hesitation. I even suggested a test period. I had learnt that there has to be chemistry between the members. And if we didn't get along with each other the way we do, we wouldn't have performed on the Eurovision stage. We would have had a fight otherwise.

I: Do you spend a lot of time together?

N: First there were the Eurovision showcase concerts, and now there is the summer concert tour in Slovenia. We also have quite a few problems, because we get a lot of calls from abroad. It's logistically difficult, so we're looking for a solution to link some of the concerts to the tour. After the Eurovision Song Contest, we really started to get noticed abroad.

I: Was this your first Eurovision Song Contest?

N: Yes. But I have been to EMA (slovenian national selection for ESC) several times before.

I: Was it as you imagined it would be?

N: Even better. I can say that everyone who has been through this kind of experience has told us that it will be really tough: there will be a lot of work, but that we should also expect crazy parties. But in the end, it was much less exhausting than we expected. In fact, we had such a busy schedule beforehand that Eurovision itself was almost easier for us afterwards. We were practically in the Arena for five days, the rest was socialising, interviews and other commitments. In principle, we like that.

I: You seemed to be well received.

N: We were lucky enough to have connected with practically all the performers. We were always in a good mood, which was seen and felt both in the performances and in the interviews, during the statements. We came home really enriched by a special experience. And it was really nice to see how the people at home supported us. After the first semi-final, we got some footage of how they were watching us and we were just amazed how behind Bežigrad (Ljubljana district), let's say, they watched the first semi-final show in an organised way. The energy was crazy, like at a match.

I: What about Liverpool? Was there any time to "play tourists"?

N: During Eurovision, not really. We were in Liverpool before, because we were shooting a video. I think it was after Barcelona, and we did a lot of walking around the city then. For those who like the Beatles, Liverpool is great.

I : How did it come about that you went to Eurovision in the first place?

N : When I came into the group, the guys and I immediately started talking about whether we would go to this year's EMAs. We decided to go. We knew we would definitely be one of the favourites because we have a really big and extremely loyal audience. Well, then the EMA didn't happen. The jury decided to make their own choice, from the five entries who had the most songs of the week during that year. And I think only two of us ended up applying. There was no EMA, and they sent us to Liverpool.

I: You mostly use Slovenian in your songs.

N: Of course. We have a few songs in English, but we mostly sing in Slovenian. We were talking about how we would work going forwards, and we agreed not to bother with the language. We are proud of our Slovenian language. It's really something beautiful when you see an adult Peruvian man or a five-year-old Spanish girl singing our song in Slovenian. In that moment you understand the athletes and you are proud to be Slovenian.

I: How is it on the street? Do people recognise you? You often hear: is that the bass player of Joker Out?

N: Yes, quite. Most of the time it's people who say something nice to you, or want a selfie. Of course, there are also some "admirers" who stick gum all over my car or leave messages. There's a good side and a bad side to being a public personality. Sometimes it requires of you to spend three hours taking photos - but if you enjoy doing something, that's not a problem either.

I: Do you think that it is actually the fact that you get along well in a group that "pulls" in the audience?

N: The energy between us is definitely something that is contagious. I don't know if it's what makes the audience really like us, but it's something that puts even someone who is in a bad mood in a good mood.

Translation by @kurooscoffee (jokeroutsubs). DO NOT REPOST!

[bleedingoptimism]

 AU that lives in my head

It’s ‘92, there’s no upside down and Steve is going to college to be a physical therapist.

He works nights at a bar with Robin, they live together and are very broke but very happy, he is set on not failing school and proving his parents wrong but he's a slow learner, the good grades don’t come easily and he is constantly distracted by pretty faces so he's adamant on not dating until he's done with school.

So he works nights, goes to school in the afternoons and hangs out with his kids in his free time.

Eddie owns a music shop in town that has a special room all decorated for D&D nights and that's how he meets the kids.

But the way that he meets Steve is because one night the bar is hosting a bachelorette party (Chrissy's) and the guy who was supposed to put on a show (nothing too scandalous because all of Chrissy's friends are prudes) cancels last minute and the bar owner tells Steve,

“I will pay you double if you go out there and sing”

And Steve says “No, no way” but the owner insists, 

"Triple if you grab that guitar, take off your clothes and sing two songs!" 

And Steve does obviously, because its easy money and they need it so he's thrown on the stage with only an acoustic guitar that (barely) covers his junk, ("Wait you didn't tell what song!?")

Eddie is sitting close to the bar because he can't stand Chrissy's other friends, making small talk with the barwoman and his mouth hits the ground when Steve appears on stage (Robin's mouth does too but Eddie doesn't see that) 

The guy looks shocked for a millisecond before smiling and saying “Ahoy ladies” and then immediately cringes (the barwoman behind him starts cackling) but the guy on stage takes a deep breath and then starts talking to the audience flirting up a storm and the audience is eating it up, he asks for songs requests and sits on a stool carefully, all the time making sure everything is covered.

He actually uses one hand to adjust himself behind the guitar before crossing his legs (making his audience shuffle trying to get a look) and Eddie thinks ‘big boy’.

When the man asks for requests Eddie yells Metallica just to be an asshole but he perks up and says "Oh, one of my kids has been listening to this song nonstop" before he starts tuning the guitar, Eddie thinks 'He has kids?? He looks so young.' 

So this guy, this David by Michellangelo starts playing ‘Nothing else matters’ and he's not really good with the guitar, mostly playing something resembling the right tune but these people would not know the difference, only Eddie does and he doesn't give a shit because his voice!

His voice is amazing, he’s doing an acoustic, soft version that sounds incredible and he has range, he sounds so good, and he sings looking at his audience with soft eyes that close on the chorus like he’s feeling every word and Eddie is kind of in love.

 When the song is done everyone claps, the audience is enraptured and Eddie claps really loud but not as loud as the barwoman behind him who keeps yelling "Yeah! go Steve!! that's my babyman!!!"

Steve, his name is Steve.

So Steve asks for one last song and Chrissy asks for Don Mclean and he lights up and says American Pie is one of his favorites and he sings with passion and makes everyone join him for the last part with encouraging smiles and winks and its great and Eddie write odes about the naked man with the guitar in his head all the while.

 Then he's off the stage and Eddie wants to ask the barwoman if he's a regular but before he can Steve shows up with the same black shirt she’s wearing and she screams, runs towards him and jumps, he catches her easily as she says, “That was fuckign amazing dude”

 “I’m never doing that again” 

“I saw your ass, it's great!” she says laughing excitedly and Eddie snorts, making them both look at him, Steve smiles bashfully and says to both of them, “Yeah, sorry about that” 

And Eddie, can't help himself says, “Don't be”

Steve turns red and Eddie suddenly feels hungry but he takes a step back, doesn't want to come on too strong and says “You were great, the singing I mean”

“Thanks?, thank you.”

“I’m serious, you have an amazing voice, and the guitar wasn't half bad”

And Steve laughs prettily and says, “My guitar was shit man” and Eddie is freaking out because this guy is fucking gorgeous.

They talk some more, he learns both Robin and Steve have been working at the bar for almost a year now and that that little stunt with the guitar was the first and last time is ever going to happen and Eddie thinks he’s really lucky if that's the case, he says that much just to watch Steve blush again and Robin laugh, he flirts just a little more and then goes back to Chrissy when he gets the hint that, although Steve looks interested he’s not getting his number tonight.

Robbin slaps Steve when Eddie leaves, “Why didn't you get his number?” and Steve reminds her about his rule of no pretty faces while he’s studying.

Next time Eddie sees Steve is when he’s hosting D&D at his shop. They are wrapping up and the kids are leaving but Mike’s car won’t start and he’s cursing and hitting his wheel. It’s raining heavily so Dustin, Lucas and Will are waiting inside and Dustin says, “I think we should call mom”

“No way he said we shouldn't bother him unless it's an emergency, he’s got a big test on monday!” Lucas says and Eddie thinks ‘mom?? He??? Test? What??’

But Mike comes back inside furious “Lets fucking call mom!” he says as if he knew exactly what they were talking about.

So Dustin asks Eddie to use his phone and while he’s calling, Eddie asks Will “Who’s mom?”

“Oh he’s just a friend of ours, but he’s older and really overprotective so we call him mom, it's an inside joke” he shrugs, and Lucas looks at Eddie very seriously and says,

“Not in front of him so please, if he shows up” and mimics closing his mouth with a zip.

Mike look super pissed about having to call this guy so Eddie asks him if he doesnt like him, and Mike, exasperated says “No, I fucking love him and if any of you say that to him I will kill you” and Eddie is really confused. 

Especially when, who actually shows up is Steve but like a completely different Steve from the guy he saw at the bar, that one had dark fitting jeans and an obscenely tight shirt and carefully styled hair and this one? This one is wearing a comfy yellow sweater and gray sweatpants and his hair is a mess and he’s wearing glasses and Eddie is having a breakdown because he doesnt know which one is hotter.

Steve runs to the shop because it's still pouring outside and once he’s in he doesn't even get to talk because Mike is on him instantly, “Steve! This fuckign car man! It keeps breaking and I did everything you told me, I take care of it! I’m so sick-!”

Steve calms him down first, talks him out of destroying the poor thing and says “We’ll look into it,ok?”

Then he finally greets the others, hugs them all and Dustin says “Sorry for bothering you when you were studding man” and Steve messes up with hair,

“Its ok I need it a break anyways” 

He’s so nice with the kids. It's so cute and Eddie thinks ‘oh, his kids, now I get it’ with a smile and that’s when Steve sees Eddie and goes red all over but Eddie saves face and introduces himself as if they don't know each other.

Steve is still blushing but he smiles and makes small talk for a while, then says “Well, let's look at the car”

Mike complains about the rain but Steve says “Sorry kid but I need to get back to studying, I'll check it out, you can stay inside” 

Mike sighs “No, no I told you, I want to learn lets go”

Steve hesitates before going out, whispers ‘I can't get sick tho’ and takes off his sweater and throws it to Will “Here, hold this for me BB?”

Will catches it ungracefully and blushes.

Eddie thinks it's a small miracle he’s wearing a white tank top underneath but as soon as they step outside they are both drenched and the top becomes a curse.

To distract himself he asks Will about the nickname and Will says it mean Baby Byers, “Steve is friends with my older brother so growing up Jonathan was Byers and I was Baby Byers”

Lucas whispers to Eddie that Will might like that nickname a little too much and Eddie chuckles and thinks he can't really blame him, they are all staring at them trying to find out what wrong with the car, well the kids are, Eddie is staring at Steve’s shoulders, his arms, his chest, for some reason even tho he’s already seen him practically naked, the tank top and the rain and the fact that he’s fixing a car is making it much worse.

He hears Lucas tell Dustin “He’s going to cause another accident man” and Dustin laughs so Eddie asks them,

“Another?” and Lucas tells him they once saw a girl run head first into an open car door on her bike for staring at Steve and they all start laughing.

Steve helps Mike fix the car and they high five and go back inside looking triumphant, the kids say it's getting late and while Steve dries with a towel Eddie just handed him and puts his sweater back on (small mercies) they say their goodbyes, after they leave Steve hangs around looking awkward, Eddie thinks he gets why so he tells him, “Listen man, I won't say anything about that show at the bar if that's what you are worried about”, and Steve laughs and says,

“What? No, they already know I work at a bar and Robin already told them about the impromptu concert, they laughed their asses off. I was actually going to ask you not to tell Mike I butchered his favorite song” 

Eddie laughs and tells him once again he didn’t, he was amazing. And if he sounds way too enamored when he says it, they both pretend not to notice.

[mammameesh]

Snippet it's now Monday...

Thank you @a-noble-dragon for the tag. This is a special note of thanks for @tyfinn, @characterassassination-at-9am, @beaiola, @jamilas-pen, @flowertrigger, @stargazer56, @legalgal421, and @chelle-68 for leaving comments on Blue Hydrangeas. I tried my best to comment during the Something Blue fest but time is sometimes unkind. (plus I was working my way through reading a long fic). Have a lil bit of the next Seashore installment.

I feel like I'm running terribly late but life is a lot sometimes.

"I can sit with you and Alexis!" David nods. Stevie helps him off stage. David walks backwards with Stevie there to guide him. He smiles at Patrick and blows him a kiss.

"All right. Next up, we have someone brand new to Open Mic Night. Everyone give a warm welcome to Patrick Brewer!" The crowd erupts again in applause.

Patrick puts on his guitar. "Thank you, thank you. I'm new to town, but everyone has been so great, made me feel right at home. I've made a connection to a special someone, and this song goes out to you, David Rose…

[weirdstuffinthewoods]

Bride of Chucky

A Review

Ronny Yu made the correct choice working with the one and only father of Chucky, Don Mancini. I feel like Don's seamless continuing control over the Chucky franchise paired with Ronny Yu's absolute lack of knowledge of the Chucky franchise (and his love of the monster) made for a one-of-a-kind franchise installment.

Writing- 5/5

This entire script takes the snark we know Chucky for and dials it up by giving him a dominating sparring partner in Tiffany Valentine. There are some jokes that kinda feel needless (repeating the "what a crock" joke only got an "eeh" out of me), but Voodoo for Dummies?

And lines like:

"For God's sake Chucky, drag yourself into the 90s"

"Martha Stewart can kiss my shiny plastic butt!"

When Chucky tells Tiffany to "act natural" and this is her response

The entire weird sex scene conversation that 100% does happen in a film about two sentient dolls? It was only a matter of time before we got here, let's be honest.

The addition of Tiffany Valentine allows for a totally valid reason to shake things up- creative kills, high-speed freeway chases with two DOLLS holding two whole adult humans hostage, and the film's only gay character (spoiler but RIP David) getting absolutely blasted by an 18-wheeler for no reason other than Don probably just realized the cast needed to shrink real quick.

Special mention-

The honeymoon suite kill scene. Yeah, it looks a little cheesy, but you best believe before I was old enough to watch horror movies, my older cousin was telling me about this scene in vivid, terrifying detail (much scarier than reality, but what can you do?)

Soundtrack- 4.5/5

Living Dead Girl starts this movie off with a bang and a moment I haven't forgotten for one second of my spooky sapphic life. These are the moments in which horror icons are made.

The soundtrack is mostly upbeat drums and chugging guitar riffs which I loved (it especially added to the freeway chase) I just didn't go full 5 stars because I didn't notice it as much as I'd want to in a party movie like this (because yes, if I ever do host a halloween party I will be popping in this exact VHS to play on repeat).

Also shout out to my boy, Graeme Revell. Been a legend since The Crow in my eyes (but also for so much iconic 80s and 90s horror....and Sharkboy and Lavagirl) and I'll always get excited when I see that name in the credits!

Effects- 4.75/5

First let me say Chucky looks fantastic. Can he emote as well as Tiffany with those pencil-thin eyebrows? Maybe not but this is the opus version of Chucky, so.

The animatronics are still my favorite thing to watch in a Chucky film because you forget that these aren't sentient dolls almost constantly (except when Chucky's body double is crawling on all fours- that's some nightmare fuel). Their faces are so expressive (for rubber doll faces) and there's even a shot of Tiffany walking across the floor of a Winnebago (maybe?) without a wire in sight! Oh, how far we've come.

The effects in some scenes are a little cheesy (the honeymoon suite kill, the gross, fleshy title card, etc) but it's easily overlooked because Chucky and Tiffany are by far the main event of the sfx team.

Extra ratings?

Queerness-3/5

Written by an out gay man, HELLO!

Alexis Arquette!! Easily the second-hottest person in this movie, I loved seeing her camp it up (in a masc role, but goths love to play with androgyny so I'll take it) as the try-hard Damien.

This also unexpectedly features the gbff trope usually reserved for rom-coms in David, a guy whose queerness isn't painfully exaggerated like some portrayals were at the time, and who's probably the most level-headed of the bunch.

RIP, -2 because David got blasted by a big rig and not in the fun way.

Bride of Frankenstein retelling 5/5

It's pretty obvious on rewatch, but this is a whole Bride of Frankenstein retelling. It even follows the title convention (I tell my younger self who completely missed the comparison). I haven't read the dissections of the original that explain why the bride is a metaphor, but in a more literal sense, this Bride has the power unlike her predecessor. Even though she falls in with a toxic ex, she has autonomy and pushes back, eventually sort of kind of helping the two teens (who are not interesting enough to put in this review) stop Chucky. And she gives birth to a weird demon baby while mostly charred through a non-stretch plastic vagina so. That's pretty metal.

Tiffany Valentine 11/5

TIFFANY VALENTINE THE WOMAN THAT YOU ARE

THE COSTUMING

THE TRAILER SET DRESSING

But most of all the performance!!!

I may be looking through heart eyes, but I'm not wrong!

Overall, Bride of Chucky will never not be one of my favorites. The addition of Jennifer Tilly allowed the Child's Play series (and all future iterations), to have fun, but to also play with the tone of its installments. Seed of Chucky and the Chucky series tend to focus on Chucky (and friends)'s humanity and personalities, whereas Curse and Cult of Chucky take the franchise back to an exciting, sometimes scary, and eventually openly queer and complicatedly sapphic place. Ignoring the reboot (which he was thankfully not responsible for), Don Mancini's got quite a legacy going, and Ronny Yu had a key part in that.

[puckhq]

― PERSONAL

Name: Noah Theodore Puckerman

Nickname(s): Puck, Puckzilla (if you're nasty 😏)

Age: Thirty-Two (32)

Birthday: August 9, 2024

Gender: Cisman, He/Him/His

Sexuality: Bisexual

Height and build: 6 ft 2 in/188 cm + Athletic and Lean

Place of birth: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Place of residence: Los Angeles, California, USA

Type of residence: Single Family Home (the he built)

Extrovert/Introvert: Extrovert

Optimist/Pessimist: Optimist

Illnesses or disabilities: PTSD, Depression, undiagnosed ADHD

― PHYSICAL

Eye color: brown

Hair colou: dark brown/black

Hair length: short tapered side with a little length on top

Memorable physical features: all of his features are memorable, have you seen him? but also his freckles and some notable scars

Posture: stands tal, has good posture overall

Clothing and accessories: everyday wear he's in jeans and a t-shirt or athleisure, wears tennis shoes or tims and loves a good fitted baseball cap usually worn backwards for work he has to wear a suit and non slip dress shoes and no matter what he's got his star of David necklace on other accessories his apple watch, sometimes diamond stud earrings and a gold chain necklace and a gold chain bracelet

Glasses?: no

Tattoos: one over his heart for Maya that he got at 17 with her baby hand print and her birthday 06.02.09 underneath

Piercings: has his ears pierced but doesn't usually have any studs in unless it's a special occasion

Reference: optional reference photo

��� FAMILY

Mother: Nora Puckerman

Relationship: He is his mother's pride and joy and his mom is his favorite person. Now, she is the first one to call him out on his shit but she does it with so much love and compassion so it's okay. She has always been loving and supportive and patient with him. Their relationship is and has always been rock solid. To this day, she's about the only person Puck will talk to when he's just not fucking okay. Maybe she's not perfect but she the exact right person to be Puck's mom and he loves her more than anything, except Maya.

Father: Gabriel Puckerman

Relationship: To say that Gabe and Puck's relationship is rocky would be a fucking understatement. When Puck was a kid, up until he was about ten years old, his father was his hero, he wanted to be him when he grew up. Use to sing and play guitar, was even pretty good at it. But eventually he got old enough to realize his father wasn't a good person. For his whole life, Puck's been Gabe's verbal punching bag. Yet, to this day, Puck is the only person willing to help Gabe out of a tough spot. Long story short, it's a fucked up relationship.

Parent relationship: Divorced

Birth order: first born (as far as he knows)

Child's Name: Maya Ruth Puckerman

Age: fifteen (15)

Relationship: They have a very good relationship. Puck, even at sixteen years old, was adamant about making his daughter his number one priority and that has remained true. He knows he's not perfect, he did everything he could to give his kid a good life and she seems well adjusted. He makes as much time for her as he can, although these days she'd rather hang out with pretty much anyone else. But they're still close and Puck has never and will never, love anyone more.

Sibling #1: Jake Puckerman ( @puckjake )

Age: almost twenty-six (26)

Relationship: Even though they only recently found each other, they have quickly adopted each other as family. They get along really well and Jake is Maya's new favorite person, which Puck definitely isn't jealous about. But they quickly regarded each other as family and trust one another. It's sweet and precious and Puck loves being a big brother.

― RELATIONSHIPS

Relationship status: in a semi complicated situationship with Eva Anderson ( @anderseva ) and Morgan Weston ( @morgan-weston )

Notable past romantic relationship(s): Santana Lopez ( @psusantana ) - she is the mother of his child they didnt date so much as have a week of fuckery when they were sixteen and Avery Dunn ( @averydunn ) - they dated for a bit when Puck was stationed in Louisiana, but Puck fucked it up and cheated on her

Sexual history: Zach Wilde ( @zachwilde ) - friends with benefits for the last nine months

Best friend(s): Cooper Anderson ( @actorcooper ) and his mom

Friends: Delilah Rose ( @rose-delilah ), Maeve Flynn-Abrams ( @ltcdrmaeveflynnabrams ) and Penny Sylvester ( @pennysylvester )

Antagonist(s): does Gabe count?

Roommate(s): Just Maya and also kinda Jake atp

― EDUCATION & CAREER

Past college education: none

Current education: A freshman at PSU, Fire Science Major

Past job(s): House/pool cleaner & construction - worked these in high school, Marines - enlisted at 18 was honorably discharged at 30

Current job/career: Security at PSU

Wanted job/career: Firefighter

― FAVORITES

Favorite band/musician: Queen, Kendrick Lamar, OutKast/Andre 3000 ( rap, rnb, classic rock )

Favorite color: Orange

Favorite season: Summer

Favorite scent: the way a space smells after you bae anything with cinnamon in it and the smell of whoever he's in love with

Favorite food: carne asada fries, poke, pot roast and a good ole burger

Favorite drink: water and sugar free redbull and $0.99 Arizonia drinks

Favorite movie: Fast Five, but the whole fast and furious franchise inclusing Hobbs and Shaw

Favorite TV show: Ginny & Georgia, The Have and the Have Nots and New Girl

[grandmaster-anne]

The King’s cousin David Linley on his new career

The Times article by Lisa Grainger | Published 25 January 2023

The Earl of Snowdon talks to Lisa Grainger about his book on English crafts, and mentoring future creators at his furniture-making college at Highgrove

There aren’t many people who’ll admit that crafts can reduce them to tears. The Earl of Snowdon is one of them. At one event, he recalls, musicians including Jeff Beck, Mike Rutherford and the Clash were invited to meet and interact with “incredible luthiers, who make violins and guitars and cellos”. It was “just magical”, he says. “It really did bring a tear to the eye . . .”

Since David Linley, King Charles III’s cousin, became the first royal to follow a vocation — producing handmade furniture — and set up an eponymous business, he has been one of Britain’s most vocal champions of crafts. Which is why he wrote a book, Craft Britain: Why Making Matters, co-authored by Helen Chislett, to bring attention to extraordinary craftspeople around the country.

The glossy tome, with an erudite introduction by the design writer Stephen Bayley, is not only a directory of all the key crafts organisations from Cornwall to the Hebrides but a compendium of some of our nation’s most remarkable makers. It takes in embroiderers based in Hampton Court Palace and chair craftsmen from Orkney, leather sculptors and cobblers, marquetry specialists and even a whip-maker.

Sadly, Chislett says, some crafts were left out of the book because the skills have died out. For instance, England no longer has a cricket ball manufacturer even though the game was invented here, “and we probably won’t make bats for much longer”. Hand-stitched kilt-making is on the Heritage Crafts Association Red List of Endangered Crafts, as is neon sign-making; even bell-making is on its way out, with churchgoing declining.

On the other hand, there are crafts that are growing. Ceramic-makers, for instance, have sprung up in the southwest of the country. In Newcastle metalworkers whose families previously might have made ships are constructing metal furniture. Chislett adds that crafts fairs are becoming increasingly popular, particularly with the younger generation. “They’re a lot more into sustainability . . . and you are less likely to throw something away if you know who made it.”

There’s a growing appreciation of bespoke objects at the very high end of the market, Linley says. At his furniture company (from which he resigned in November) clients loved coming in to commission bespoke pieces with little quirks: a secret drawer with a martini shaker in it, or an inkwell filled with a specific colour of ink. “You can fantasise about what you like and get someone to bring it to life,” he says.

His own London home — “a little flat, which I am very lucky to have” — is filled with handcrafted items that have meaning: a pair of candlesticks that belonged to his theatre-designer uncle Oliver Messel; cushions embroidered by British seamstresses; tables turned by fellow carpenters; a pair of bespoke British shoes made “in precisely the colour and style and shape I like”. Each of them feels special, because “there is something rather lovely about a piece that’s come from the hand of a human”, he says. “It resonates with the human spirit.”

The next part of Linley’s professional journey, he says, will be nurturing others who want to work with their hands. At Street Farm at Highgrove, the Gloucestershire home of the King, an old barn has been converted into the Snowdon School of Furniture, where Linley is going to help to mentor the next generation of furniture-makers. “I am 61 now,” he says, “and it’s time to step back and allow the young people at Linley do things how they want. I have worked all my life creating a brand. And I can now do things for the Prince’s Foundation that are enjoyable and freeing.”

Having made furniture for almost 40 years, Linley says he’s relishing the fact that crafts are becoming more mainstream. “Today you’ll hear Tracey Emin talk about craft, and even sportsmen. This morning on Radio 4 a commentator was talking about a footballer as a craftsman and comparing him to Picasso. That might have been a comparison too far — but there is now far more recognition of the skills needed to do something well. And that can only be a good thing.”

[sicariusvoit]

𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐎

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𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄: Lee Duval

𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐍 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄: Elias Jasper Voit

𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐊𝐄𝐑: Sicarius

𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒: David Lennox, user45125, & AmonUser12859HB88

𝐀𝐆𝐄: 37 (although this is usually verse dependent)

𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓: 5’ 8” (178cm)

𝐏𝐇𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: Not very tall or physically intimidating, Elias is still broad shouldered and muscular. He usually wears plaid, t-shirts, knit sweaters or henleys with a pair of levi jeans. He prefers work boots but will also wear sneakers and gym wear when playing basketball.

𝐄𝐘𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑: Elias’ eye colour is a very dark blue.

𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑: Elias’ hair colour is a chestnut/auburn brown, its style in a short back and sides cut with his curls on the top. They usually sweep down on the right side of his forehead.

𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐁𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐒: Elias uses a lot of slang terminology to seem unassuming and uneducated or for the purposes of pissing other's off with a 'joker/jester' personality for attention, he usually tends to mock people with the use of terms like ‘aw’ in a show of fake pity. When pissed off he always uses imperatives.

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐒: Elias will hunch up if trying to seem small, usually this occurs if he wants someone to believe they’re in control even if they’re not. He often fiddles with things or stims with his fingers if he’s emotionally overwhelmed. Elias is also a nail biter when anxious or stressed. When speaking he gesticulates a lot. Despite being an amazing masker, he is extremely expressive, he can’t hide how he’s really feeling if the mask slips or he chooses to take it off.

𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄: White American

𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: Elias is incredibly well educated, however, officially he only holds a high school diploma and a qualification in software engineering at community college. Elias became a black hat hacker in his late teens and early twenties. From there he continued to educate himself.

𝐎𝐂𝐂𝐔𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: Network Security Analyst and Technician (these are subject to change based on threads because I write him both before and after his incarceration).

𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐎𝐂𝐂𝐔𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒: Software Engineer

𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐒, 𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒: Elias is extremely skilled with computers and communication technology. He is good enough to frequently stump Penelope Garcia. Elias is an effective killer skilled with all manner of weapons: knives, guns, explosives, and drugs. He is self-trained in crime scene clean-up and basic forensic knowledge. He has a special interest in insects and entomology. Finally, Elias is a talented singer and plays acoustic guitar to an advanced level. Elias is also a great cook, he often prefers to make breakfast but would happily cook any meal. It's part of his love language.

𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃: Elias was born Lee Duval. His mother and father had an abusive relationship, Lee was born prematurely because of domestic violence in the home. When his father started hitting him as well as his mother, Lee burned the apartment down by putting a blanket over his bedroom space heater.

Suspecting the truth, his uncle Cyrus Lebrun, a gun runner for the Mala Noche Brazilian-American gang adopted his nephew. Cyrus and his brother Travis were born into poverty in a Texas trailer park. They were exposed to violence from a young age and developed into it together. Whilst Travis, Lee’s father, became a wife beater, Cyrus became a serial killer. The only reason he adopted Lee was because he believed that Lee had inherited his genetic predisposition for psychopathy and wanted to shape Lee in his image.

From a young age Cyrus then began to train Lee in his chosen ‘way’ of killing people. Cyrus created rules that he indoctrinated into Lee whilst he murdered people in front of Lee and forced Lee into helping dispose of the bodies. After one incident where Lee attempted to help a captive of his uncle and instead was harmed, Lee left Cyrus hoping to break what had been beaten into him.

No matter how hard he tried to fight it, however, it didn’t work. Soon Elias began to hunt people himself. When Lee killed Jasper Voit and his son Elias, Lee changed his name to Elias Jasper Voit and started to live life under his new alias.

Using shipping containers that he found buried underground, Elias started to carry out experiments. He wanted to test various methods of murders on people out of morbid curiosity: how many ways can a person die? Elias started with low risk victims such as sex workers, homeless individuals, and drug addicts but soon began to kill upper middle class people from suburban neighbourhoods.

Meanwhile, Elias was still trying to live a normal life. Hiding the morbid parts of himself, Elias fell in love with Sydney. They soon married and had two children Holly and Harlow. Elias is extremely problematic but his only positive part of his personality is the genuine love he has for his wife and his children. Even after his incarceration his family maintain that he was always a good father.

By the time the Behavioural Analysis Unit capture him, he has killed 62 people. The moniker Sicarius is given to him by the media because one of his more bizarre experiments included pouring Sicarius spiders down someone’s throat to see how long it took for them to die from it. His signature is meeting his soon to be victims on a ‘Second Street’ because that was where his parent’s apartment was located.

𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐒: Not everyone wants to write with a villain, I get that. Elias has a slightly more palatable verse where Cyrus Lebrun didn’t adopt him and he went into the care system. However, in this verse he keeps his birthname Lee. After being bounced around a couple of abusive homes, Deidre and Thomas Baker adopted Lee Duval, making him Lee Duval-Baker. They provided a good home for him and a solid foundation for his education.

At the age of 21 Lee is accepted into the police academy. First starting as a beat-cop Lee works his way up to the position of homicide detective in the Houston Police Department. Whilst he is not a murderer, he does still exhibit signs of aggression and issues with authority, often working outside of the law to enforce it.

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[cherrylng]

Great Guitarists 100 - Roger McGuinn, Tony Iommi, David Gilmour, Frank Zappa, Jerry Garcia, and Ron Asheton [CROSSBEAT (November 2009)]

Roger McGuinn The Byrds' rock arrangement of Dylan's "Mr Tambourine Man" became a big hit in 1965, setting off a folk-rock craze. The striking 'jingle jangle' sound of his Rickenbacker electric 12-string guitar became synonymous with folk-rock, and was adopted in the 1980s by Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Johnny Marr of The Smiths, and is still followed to this day. McGuinn, who came from the folk world, picked up the electric 12-string after seeing George Harrison play it in the film "A Hard Day's Night", but his originality lies in the fact that he adopted the fingering of the banjo's fretting technique to create a unique arpeggio technique. He also played solos inspired by Coltrane's modal jazz and Ravi Shankar's sitar technique on hits such as "Eight Miles High" in 1966. -Tadashi Igarashi

Representative albums "Mr. Tambourine Man" (1965, photo) The Byrds "(Untitled)" (1970)

Tony Iommi The Rolling Stones' TV special "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus" (1968) shows a young Iommi as a member of Jethro Tull's band. At this point, he was a mediocre player according to the Blues' standards. However, on Black Sabbath's first album, "Black Sabbath", recorded at the end of 1969, he developed a style of ultra-heavy repetition of single-note phrases. The groundwork for this was probably the technique exhibited by R&B-rooted psychedelic bands such as Iron Butterfly and Vanilla Fudge in their longer songs. The band's thoroughly Satanic band image, which was thoroughly developed by releasing the album on Friday the 13th, had a strong impact on the scene, combined with heavy but ear-catching riffs. The drop tuning introduced later, in which the band dropped three and a half notes from the regular tuning, had a decisive influence on later grunge and doom metal. -Masatoshi Arano

Representative albums "Black Sabbath" (photo from 1970), Black Sabbath "Master of Reality" (1971)

David Gilmour David Gilmour was a member of Pink Floyd, one of the UK's leading progressive bands, from the late 60s to the 70s, when synthesisers and other instruments were not yet as advanced as they are today, and was a renowned guitarist who created a fantastic and majestic sound world with his effective guitar sound. He is not known for his tricky fast playing, but his lyrical, elegant, and melodic melodies are his speciality. His tape echoed the sound of the time, and the spacey sound created by his excellent slide guitar (pedal steel) had a great influence on later psychedelic, space rock and acoustic bands. Although not well known, he is also an outstanding blues guitarist, and can be heard on Paul Rodgers' solo works, and his talent as a composer should also be more highly regarded. -Yoshihiro Hoshina

Representative albums "Meddle" (1971, photo) Pink Floyd "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973)

Frank Zappa Frank Zappa is an amazing man with a diverse background, doing all sorts of things from doo-wop to classical music, but if you want to get a taste of his guitar playing, which is a relentless chain of emotions and sparks, I'd first recommend "Shut Up and Play Guitar!", which shows his guitarist side like a fool. Then there's the delicious "One Size Fits All", where the guitar flutters amidst an exquisite and intoxicating synthesis of sounds, and it's clear that this is a man who thinks about the whole forest with his guitar. His sublime musical philosophy has also influenced many people, including John Frusciante. His large band is known for the many talented people who played in it, and among the guitarists he trained are Lowell George (Little Feat), Steve Vai, his son Dweezil Zappa, Mike Keneally White and many others. -Eisuke Sato

Representative albums "One Size Fits All" (1974, photo), Frank Zappa "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar" (1981)

Jerry Garcia Leader of the original jam band, the Grateful Dead, formed in San Francisco in 1965, the Dead were a psychedelic rock act that specialised in long improvisations that expressed a sense of tripping. Deadheads were intoxicated by Garcia's long solos on songs such as 'Dark Star', in which his sparkling-toned guitar weaves in and out of his signature triplets. A banjo player with a passion for bluegrass and folk music before the Dead formed, Garcia's experience with other stringed instruments - he tried his hand at pedal steel in the early '70s when the Dead became more country-rock oriented - and his love of the instrument, from Chuck Berry to Django Reinhardt (Legend has it that he bought up all the Django records available in San Francisco), and his interest in a wide range of music was concentrated in his guitar playing. He died in 1995 at the age of 53. -Igarashi Tadashi

Representative albums "Live Dead" (1969, photo) Grateful Dead "Hundred Year Hall" (1995)

Ron Asheton Ron Asheton, who played in Iggy Pop's Stooges, is a guitarist who should be recognised for his influence on later generations. From the Sex Pistols and the Damned to Sonic Youth, this is the source of the rock underground. From their formation in 1967 to their break-up in 1974, they left behind only three albums. He turned to bass on their third album, "Raw Power", in 1973, so he only made two albums as a guitarist. However, these two albums are strong. Iggy Pop and the Stooges' debut album, "The Stooges", in 1969, created the prototype for punk guitar, with simple riffs repeated on songs such as "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and "No Fun". The band's second album, Fun House, was released in 1970. The band reunited in 2003, but he died suddenly in January 2009. He did not live long after all. -Hiroshi Hirose

Representative albums "The Stooges" (1969, photo) Iggy Pop & the Stooges "Fun House" (1970)

Pictures: Stevie Ray Vaughan (left) and Duane Allman (right)

Top 10 guitarists by genre: blues rock In the 1960s, British youth developed blues-based guitar playing as the main expression of rock. Clapton was a prime example of this, but he was also followed by (4/ Peter Green) and (5/ Mick Taylor) in the Bluesbreakers, who went on to work with Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones respectively. The first guitar hero in the USA was (6/ Mike Bloomfield), who was in The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and famously played with Dylan. The 'million-dollar guitarist' who signed a contract with (6/ Mike Bloomfield) for the highest amount of money at the time (1968) was Texas-born (7/ Johnny Winter). (8/ Roy Buchanan), active since the 50s and a master teacher of Robbie Robertson and others, became widely known after a 1971 TV documentary on 'The World's Best Unknown Guitarists'. (9/ Rory Gallagher) was also the first Irish rocker to work internationally. (2/ Duane Allman) of the Allman Brothers Band was a master of the slide guitar and made a major contribution to the band's success and to Clapton's Derek & The Dominos 'Layla'. The young slide guitar prodigy (3/ Derek Trucks) is the mainstay of the current Allmans and the second coming of (2/ Duane Allman), who is also active in his own band. He was the driving force behind the unexpected blues revival of the 80s, when (1/ Stevie Ray Vaughan) appeared on the scene, blowing people's minds with his powerful playing. Most of the guitarists who emerged from the 1990s onwards were influenced by him. The 'Hendrix of Pedal Steel' (10/ Robert Randolph) is one such example. -Tadashi Igarashi

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Duane Allman

Derek Trucks

Peter Green

Mick Taylor

Mike Bloomfield

Johnny Winter

Roy Buchanan

Rory Gallagher

Robert Randolph

Translator's Note: There was a typo error on Tony Iommi's name as can be seen on the magazine page itself.

[saturdaynightghostclub]

thinking ab your characters and their hypothetical interests lol

in my head donnie has a baseball card collection worth thousands and is super into old video games

i feel like arthur is super thrifty and takes cool pictures on old cameras

adrian is a star wars fan

leander is really into some random rich people sport

and theo is thee biggest film snob

Oh I LOVE this! You’re so dead on, this is exactly what I would have said. If I can add a few, this is what I think the guys would collect/be into in their everyday lives:

Donnie: baseball cards, the Atari, VHS tapes (think Alien, The Fly, Jurassic Park but also Johnny Dangerously, Flash Gordon, The Last Dragon), Converse in too many different colors, those bobbleheads they give out at baseball games, every drawing and art project his nieces have ever given him, and Motown music (especially Gladys Knight—he can’t hit the high notes in Midnight Train to Georgia, but damn it if he doesn’t try)

Arthur: old sweaters, wool socks, film photography, leatherbound journals (he doesn’t really write in them, he just likes to have them lying around), used books that smell like cigarettes, really shitty coffee, Nick Drake, Mazzy Star, and certain Rolling Stones albums. He has a vintage turntable and displays whatever album he’s listening to on two thumbtacks he’s wrestled into the wall.

Adrian: Star Wars (especially the lost Christmas special, which he inexplicably has a copy of), Arnold Palmers, those boat parades that cross the Puget Sound, soft vintage leather, certain knitwear, Pulp, Seattle sourdough (he’s never tried the San Francisco stuff), disco balls, and rooftop patios. He’s a tricky one to pin down.

Leander: the boy is so into lacrosse. He’s got a friend on a recreational women’s team, and he’s dragged you to probably a hundred of her games. He also loves pontoon boats, though those are reserved for special occasions. See also: aftershave, aran sweaters, David Sedaris (eventually), jazz clubs, walks in the park, long coats, late-night diners, and, oddly enough, Violent Femmes.

Theo: “Spielberg is a genius” and it’s just that scene from ET where the camera pans over a cliff (he’s right and you know it), psychoanalyzing Cronenberg characters, Ralph Lauren, runner’s high, little treats after work, classic romantic literature (E.M. Forster), Dungeons and Dragons, college radio. He also buys every season of The X-Files on VHS as it comes out. He says he likes the psychology of the characters, but you know he’s got such a thing for Agent Scully.

Clark: REM, dancing in the kitchen (not even in a romantic way—like, headbanging to Pixies while he makes pasta), immediately throwing his necktie on the floor when he gets home, noise machines, going to Guitar Center just to “try everything out” (he doesn’t know how to play), that little corner in the record store where you can put on headphones and sample an album. Also Seattle public transportation, even when it sucks.

Also, sweet anon, I did see your other ask! Working on something extra special for ya, hang tight ♥️ I love this kind of prompt, it’s so fun for characterization and I love the opportunity to challenge myself by thinking about what makes these characters different from each other. Thank you so much love!

[scorpiostarseed]

I was tagged by the wonderful @ofmd-ann and @harrylovesspaezle to share five songs that I’ve been listening to a lot lately. I’m gonna give a little backstory on each song just because I’m feeling sentimental tonight. Thank you so much Ann and Lilo! Please forgive my ramblings. 😅

I have really been missing David Bowie lately, and Lazarus, one of his last songs that he wrote before he left this earth is one of my favorites. To think he knew he was going to be leaving soon when he wrote it still gives me chills. The video is a masterpiece. I miss him.

I was never a big Fleetwood Mac fan until OFMD. I recently started listening to more of their music, and I think Silver Springs is a fantastic song. The official live video of the song on youtube is hands down AMAZING. Stevie Nicks sings with a passion that makes me stop what I’m doing to just listen. The story behind the song makes the song even better.

Cemetry Gates by The Smiths has always been one of my favorite songs. I love the lyrics. “A dreaded sunny day, so I’ll meet you at the cemetry gates. Keats and Yeats are on your side, while Wilde is on mine”. I love Morrissey’s voice. I will never tire of The Smiths. Ever.

Samson by Regina Spektor holds a lot of meaning for me. It brings back memories of someone who I loved very much but who did not love me. I have been known to play this song on a loop. 😬

There is a song called The Great Compromise by an artist named John Prine. John died from Covid in April 2020. His music is very special to me. The Great Compromise sends me back in time to when I was camping for months and working doing archaeology in remote areas. The crew would sit around the campfire at night and we would all sing John Prine songs while our boss played his guitar. The great compromise is one of those songs that we sang. It was so much fun. Happy and crazy times.

Thanks Ann and Lilo for tagging me and letting me go on for a bit. 💜

[mrcatfishing]

Tagged by @fipindustries to post my playlist, and I much like her do not curate my playlists and instead listen to stuff semi-algorithmically. So here's the first 10 songs of my Supermix.

Life of Adventure, from Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode, by Dabu and Simon Swerwer. I tend to prefer videogame soundtracks when writing, as any kind of lyrics interrupt my flow of thought severely. The acoustic guitar of the classic Dwarf Fortress soundtrack is beautifully accompanied by a full orchestration that blocks out all distraction.

Beautiful Mind, by Tom Cardy & Brian David Gilbert. When I do listen to music with lyrics, I much prefer them to be narrative centred rather than emotionally centred. Tom Cardy is one of the best for this style of comedic-narrative music, and BDG is another favourite of mine for his podcast Let's Make a Music, which sadly only uploads their songs to Bandcamp, making it hard to integrate into my playlists.

HEART CONNECT, by Cute Girls Doing Cute Things. Mindless electronic music makes up another solid portion of music for when I need to focus on something I'm working on, though this kind of harsher pumping music is usually for physical activities, rather than mental ones. While I recognise this song very well, before right now I knew neither its name nor the artist.

Strike The Earth!, from Dwarf Fortress, by Dabu and Simon Swerwer. Another DF song, the entire OST really strikes a delicate balance hitting all of my preferences: Bardcore, Acoustic Instruments, and Videogame OSTs.

Soldier, Poet, King, bardcore cover by Hildegard von Blingin'. I said I was a fool for Bardcore, and that absolutely includes covers by the wonderful Hildegard von Blingin'. Seeing that she got to do a song for the latest Crusader Kings expansion was a delightful surprise to be sure.

The World Revolving, cover by NRMN, Blood Code & GameChops. Feel free to put me in the penis box, but I absolutely adore Undertale music. I also love the electronic covers of GameChops and QUMU, which is the latest form my long standing OCRemix obession from a decade ago has taken.

To Hell and Back, by Sabaton. On the far end from the narrative music of Tom Cardy, Sabaton and other power-metal bands like Dragonforce make up songs that I listen to during the morning commute. These lyrical songs also have their fair share of narrative focus, but I'm really hear for the deafening volume to activate my brain and work up my adrenaline.

Bones in the Ocean (Remixed), by The Longest Johns. These shanties and folk songs soothe me to sleep. When I need to hear something with just enough words to latch my mind onto a rhythm without spinning my brain in circles or waking it up with adrenaline, I pop on some Longest Johns or Great Big Sea, and let myself drift away.

The Bannered Mare, from Skyrim, by Jeremy Soule. The Skyrim OST has a special kind of nostalgia, pulling me back over a decade, to playing the original Xbox 360 release on a tiny CRT television that cut off the top and bottom of the screen. I didn't know this of course, so it was only months into my playing the game that I learned most people saw a compass at the top and their healthbar along the bottom.

Unreal, by Kensabeast & GlitchxCity. This is the kind of music I listen to when I need to both focus and relax. Perfect for painting or sculpting, I can pop on some soothing albums by QUMU or GlitchxCity and just zone out.

I think that gives a reasonable overview of my music taste without terribly exposing myself to the mortifying ordeal of being known. I'll tag the last few mutuals in my activity feed, and anyone else interested can feel free to give this a shot too. @theothin @obbsessivebookworm @therandominternetperson

[krispyweiss]

Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey Will Open at the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2024

- “It all started with bluegrass,” Billy Strings says of Garcia’s long, strange trip

Though he’s most associated with a long, strange rock ’n’ roll trip, Jerry Garcia’s bluegrass wanderings will be the focus of an upcoming exhibit at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum.

“It all started with bluegrass,” Billy Strings says in a trailer for the exhibit.

Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey kicks off March 29-30, 2024, with concerts highlighting Garcia’s music with Old & in the Way, David Grisman and the Grateful Dead’s acoustic side. Leftover Salmon will serve as house band alongside “special guests” to be announced later.

“Jerry Garcia really provided that repertoire to a whole new generation … many of the Grateful Dead songs have become parts of the bluegrass canon,” Vince Herman said.

Garcia’s Journey will remain open for two years at the Kentucky museum and will include the Dead man’s banjos, an acoustic and pedal steel guitar alongside other artifacts, interactive displays and exclusive interviews occupying 2,000 square feet.

“When I found out Jerry was originally a banjo player, his guitar playing somehow starting making even more sense,” Jacob Groopman says.

But some people, like hall of fame Executive Director Chris Joslin, came for the bluegrass and stayed for the bluegrass.

“As a bluegrass musician, I have long been a fan of Jerry Garcia’s banjo work with … Grisman, Tony Rice, Vassar Clements and others,” he said in a statement. “This exhibit tells the story an American music legend who simply set out to be a solid musician and to make the music that spoke to his heart.”

10/10/23

[athetos]

top 5 videogame osts?

Picking just 5 is impossible so I’m going to go off and list as many as I want

Under the cut for obvious long reasons

Chrono trigger (SNES) - listened to this obsessively when I had the DS port (which is still imo the definitive way to play, just ignore the repetitive bonus postgame quests), yasunori mitsuda is a legend (he’s also one of the composers for dungeon meshi!). I cut my teeth learning to read sheet music in bass clef once I switched to bass guitar playing the soundtrack, I have essentially the entire thing transcribed on my ultimate-guitar (username XxThreeCheersxX, keep forgetting to hype my account up here but I’m a top 100 ranked tabber 😅) personal faves are those without the will to live (beautiful tritone bass slide makes me moan), the trial, and frog’s theme.

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (PS/XBOX) - I have never played but know it’s a mediocre multiplayer game, however the soundtrack is fantastic, great rock and metal remixes of some of the most iconic tunes throughout the franchise. The series over all has some killer songs and composers who love funny time signatures so this is easily a “best of.” Castlevania Judgment, arguably an even worse game, also has a good soundtrack.

Undertale/Deltarune (many) - required to be on this list. Toby fox is phenomenal, so many great and memorable tracks. There is a reason megalovania is everywhere. Not a single bad song to be found, but personally my faves are fight against a killer queen, waterfall, world revolving, and undertale. Undertale especially is so impactful because they use an actual guitar on it and it just hits and makes it much more poignant. Fox is maybe the king of leitmotifs.

Dead Cells (many) - after putting so many hours into the game I only appreciate the soundtrack more and more, plus the option to have 8-bit themes is a treat. I love love the Bank theme and Fractured Shrines especially. Very tense and epic sounding. But the Castlevania dlc is phenomenal in so many ways and the music is no exception, always blows me away they’re doing what Konami wishes they could do in every aspect.

Donkey Kong Country 1 + 2 (SNES) - don’t get me wrong Eveline Fischer’s DKC3 snes soundtrack is pretty damn good but imo it doesn’t hit the peaks of David Wise’s ost. It kills me that the silly monkey platformer has some of the most beautiful and atmospheric music of all time. I’ve watched so many music videos on how he made the music and why it sounds so good… from the ambient and emotional aquatic ambience and bramble blast, to the epic final boss themes, that dark reprise of dk island swing in minecart madness, the jittery and unnerving tree top town, the foreboding welcome to krokodile island, the sweet and dreamy dkc2 ice theme… it has it all. Okay what the hell, I’ll mention wise’s remix of water world/aquatic ambience/(a special surprise) in the gba port of dkc3 (he had to redo the soundtrack for that port from scratch). And yes I’ll even throw in fischer’s best songs from snes dkc3 - her version of treetop tumble is way better and more somber than wise’s, water world is like you’re actually at the bottom of a lake and very moody, and nuts and bolts is a dirty rock song with a groovy bass. Good stuff!!!!

Grant Kirkhope’s stuff (many) - another favorite composer of mine, most famous for doing many rare n64 games like banjo 1 + 2, dk64, goldeneye, plus Mario rabbids 1 + 2 on switch and indie game yooka laylee. I’ve also watched many videos and studied many of his songs, he loves to use tritones and out of place dissonant notes not to make something creepy (well, sometimes creepy) but to make things whimsical and man it really works. Dk64 is my personal fav and seeing him reprise some of the themes for Mario rabbids dk dlc was truly special. I really want to do a write-up about the dk64 soundtrack on my site one day! There’s a lot of Easter eggs I’ve spotted that I haven’t seen many people mention! Highlights are creepy castle (it has the dk arcade start motif hidden!), frantic factory, and gloomy galleon from dk64, and from banjo 1 and 2, I love jinjo village, gruntilda’s lair, and banjo’s house blues.

Final fantasy x - most final fantasy games have good to great soundtracks but x is special to me. It’s my favorite ff game and the music really makes it all the more poignant. Zanarkand’s opening note is enough to make me tear up. The battle theme never grows stale unlike some other ff battle themes, besaid is calming and has the perfect vibes, the trials theme should be repetitive but instead feels very disconcerting and even claustrophobic, and auron’s theme is cool as hell. X-2 also has a good soundtrack, but I don’t think it’s quite as good as here.

Celeste (many) - Lena Raine’s soundtrack is phenomenal and the use of motifs is impeccable. Not a bad song in the entire game. Resurrections is my favorite as it’s a long piece that goes a lot of places and makes you drift along for the ride. The way Madeline and badeline’s motifs diverge is brilliant, matching what’s happening onscreen. I love how hesitant the piano in awake sounds, it makes it so heartfelt. Anxiety is dense and lives up to the title, Little Goth is less hesitant but darker… she just writes such beautiful melodies.

Metroid Prime (gcn) - they originally wanted Autechre, an ambient electronic duo, to do the soundtrack but things fell through for whatever reason so Kenji Yamamoto (who did Super Metroid) stepped up to take his place and god what a good soundtrack. Metroid music is very cool and I’ve made posts about it before, like how Metroid II has one of the most experimental soundtracks and kind of challenges the limits of the system and what can be considered game music, super Metroid has some of the most alien sounding songs thanks to weird time signatures and instrumentation. But Prime is crazy because they had the tech now to deliver Yamamoto’s vision. Magmoor Caverns is everyone’s favorite, remixing norfair, those drums just make me go wild every time. All the area themes are great and alien sounding, it’s a very isolating soundtrack, plus the boss themes and the space pirates and chozo ghosts themes are kind of terrifying in a good way.

Sea of Stars/Messenger (many) - 2 of my fav indie games with some of the most addictive songs. Sea of stars is a prequel so seeing variants of the messenger’s tracks was a true delight. Yasunori mitsuda also assisted with the soundtrack making some unforgettable pieces. I want to learn the majority of it on bass by ear!

Hollow knight (many) - somber piano and grand orchestrated pieces make this game go hard. The mantis lord battle is probably my favorite, it’s so majestic and fearsome and makes them a scary boss. I also appreciate the more ambient tracks around greenpath and city of tears. But the boss themes turn things up when needed to and makes a world feel even more alive, which is impressive.

Silent hill 2 (ps2) - Akira Yamaoka has such a great style to create heavy, melancholic or terrifying songs for the franchise but this game stands out the most to me, Laura’s theme and promise always move me no matter how many times I listen to them, very hurting electric guitars. I need to watch more vids on the games ost.

Legend of Zelda (Nintendo) - for this last one I’m not picking a specific game and getting into details for them all would be hard I’m already losing steam fast. So I’ll list my favs across the franchise. Ocarina of Time’s Gerudo Valley, Hyrule Field, and Lost Woods; Majora’s Mask’s Termina Field, Clock Town, and Stone Tower Temple; link’s Awakening’s Face Shrine; wind Waker’s dragon roost island, outset island and Gohdan’s theme; and tears of the kingdom’s colgera’s theme.