#acid western

[doesnotloveyou]

Zachariah (1971) ~ Matthew

[fuckyeahalfredmolina]

Alfred Molina And Actors → (1/?)

↳ Johnny Depp, Dead Man 1995. Alfred Molina as Trading Post Missionary.

Trading Post missionary : God damn your soul to the fires of Hell!   

William Blake : He already has.

[waste-it-on-something-useful]

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)

Cinematography by Robby Müller

[schlock-luster-video]

On May 4, 1978, The Shooting debuted in Italy.

[realprettybtch]

El Topo, 1970

dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky

[jetremulant]

[ VOID COMPANY ]

(SUBJECT: The Empress' own personal death squad, handpicked serial killers, monsters, and dangerous weirdos from the "freakpile". Secret police, internal affairs, assassins, and general terrorizers all in one to keep the Empress' enemies at bay and her subjects in line. Don't be fooled by the seemingly normal appearance of the mysterious Woman in Black in front, she casts no shadow, and the other freaks both revere, obey, and fear her...)

[disease]

RICHARD H. KIRK ONE THREE FOURGASM [rec. 1988/89, @ WESTERN WORKS STUDIOS]

[fortunatetragedy]

there is no fourth wall in my first drafts

From Doom Metal Love Story Book 2 Chapter 6:

"And if you have to rest you have to rest. It isn't as if we're crawling through a dungeon in medieval Europe and need to get you back to the surface immediately." "That's quite the analogy." "Yes. I'm not entirely certain where it came from." Royston was holding his gaze, his void-dark eyes soft in spite of the flippancy. Caught in it, Sullivan wanted to smile, and curl closer. But they had to stay focused. This was too important to begin screwing around.

[beevean]

That nice feeling when you're stuck between a show that wants to be progressive and its fans that are ready to call you racist or homophobe for any criticism to it and its vocal detractors who only really care about making a scene about "wokeness" being the bane of civilization, couldn't really give any less of a shit about Castlevania, and are often ACTUALLY racist and homophobic

bro i just wanted to play the funny games about kicking a vampire's ass i never asked for this :(

[saltyground]

"Neil Murray’s songs and writings speak to me about Australia, in a way that few other artists can. The loss and longing, the need for those of us, as migrant Australians, to understand this Aboriginal Country and create a new way to belong here. Neil’s never opted for the easy road. The hard edged reality of life on the fringes as well as the poetic grandeur of the landscape are all there in his powerful body of work."

Shane Howard on Neil Murray

[da-riya]

Considering how much heat you would need to reconnect terminals and wires that person is most certainly lying on that motherboard post

My only experience with board circuits is in highschool. I made a blinking light circuit by drilling holes for chips and LED lights into a copper board, then drew lines between the pins with a marker and dipped it in acid (so only the marked copper trail would remain as a "wire" connecting that all)

Those things weren't flexible at all! The idea of it stretching enough to short something was a bit odd but I didn't want to assume I knew better

[australiadexiesxtc]

Wickr : WAPERTH

Perth, wickr Western Australie, Albany, wickr dexies green XTC

Broome, wickr cold MD mg, bunbury

Delivery in western Australia 🇦🇺

Cbd

[joemuggs]

Winging It

Thirty years ago today, one of the greatest albums of the 90s came out. I wrote about it for MOJO in 2018, including some hilarious words from the sadly missed Andrew Weatherall.

👇🏻

The album that soundtracked the end of the acid house honeymoon – for the select few that loved it – has a suitably decadent beginning.

“I was playing at a club in Rimini as part of some Balearic charabanc,” says DJ / producer Andrew Weatherall, “and at about 6am when it finished the owner opened up the back of the club onto the beach and said we'd be carrying on on his yacht. Not quite a Roman Abramovic superyacht, but sound enough – and off we went. So there I was, spangled and enjoying the view, and a young lady came up and started singing in my ear. 'I'm Dorothy Allison and I've got a band in Glasgow,' she said. Then we landed and stumbled back up the beach, terrifying the tourists.”

Her band was called Dove, a trio of Allison, Jim McKinven (formerly of Altered Images and Berlin Blondes), and Ian Carmichael (producer and occasional keyboardist for Sarah Records janglers The Orchids). They'd only released one song, “Fallen”, on Glasgow's Soma label – but that song's dub space, insinuatingly whispered vocal and harmonica lifted from a Supertramp record had captured the bittersweet mysteries of the morning after the rave better than almost any, and caused quite a stir. Weatherall, meanwhile, was on a high in every sense having – despite next to no studio experience – just marshalled Primal Scream into completing Screamadelica.

The first collaboration to come out of the yacht introduction was reworking “Fallen” for the renamed One Dove. “I was nervous!” says Carmichael. “Andy [Weatherall] came to my studio in Glasgow and I was late meeting him so he was waiting outside when I got there. I thought he'd be really pissed off, but the reviews for Screamadelica had just come out, so he was reading the papers on the doorstep and was obviously delighted.” The remix happened quickly. “It was instinctive and spontaneous,” says Carmichael “The whole time I was watching recording levels on my old Revox 1/4” bouncing into the red, and splicing lots of sections of tape together with shaking hands; it was terrifying for me. I thought the whole thing would be a mess, but when we played it back at the end and heard his version of 'Fallen' it was miraculous.”

This quickly developed into a slick working relationship, releasing on Weatherall and friends' Boys Own Productions. The three would write, send tracks to Weatherall, who brought in associates like Jah Wobble and Primal Scream's Andrew Innes for embellishment. Surprisingly rapidly given the fervid times – “I remember next to nothing of the process, I'm afraid” says Weatherall, “or indeed of those years” – it fell together into an extraordinarily coherent whole. “Every song we came up with went on the album,” says Carmichael, “we were buzzing the whole time as each one came together.” The sound blended the ambient dub of the time with a rich streak of country heartbreak (something they'd nod explicitly to by covering “Jolene” on a b-side), everything covered in sonic velvet to match the purity of Allison's softly breathed mysteries. “There were no histrionics,” says Weatherall; “it was the antidote to the wailing diva thing we'd all embraced in house music.”

It's a gorgeous, lingering dream of an album with a dark heart, and it's a perennial puzzler why it didn't sell like hot disco biscuits; after all, Boys Own now had the backing of major label London. “It's easy to blame the record label,” says Weatherall, “so let's do just that. The album came together nice and quickly – if they'd just have put it out, said 'here's a cool new band' and let them get on with it, one suspects the second album would have been where they got big.” But London kept Morning Dove White in limbo for a year, insisting on more pop mixes of the album's singles by Stephen Hague, and pushing for quick fix success. In fact those single mixes are gorgeous, but, Carmichael says “maybe they put a lot of the hardcore Weatherall fans off.” William Orbit remixed too, sonically prefiguring his work with Madonna and All Saints.

Despite promising performance from the singles, MDW didn't become the hit London wanted, and the stress took its toll. The second album – made without Weatherall – was painful, the band's relationship disintegrated, their “failure to become the new Eurythmics” led to the label shelving the album, and they split in 1996. Allison would go on to make some great solo records, working with everyone from Death In Vegas via Pete Doherty to Scott Walker. McKinven still plays and DJs in Glasgow, and has released with occasional projects including the fantastically moody electro guises Organs Of Love and WomenSaid on the connoiseur's imprint Optimo Music. Carmichael worked with trip-hoppers Lamb for some time, produced for the likes of Bis and The Pastels, and maintains an ongoing relationship with The Orchids – as well as being a director of the School of Sound Recording. MDW, a couple of b-sides and some leaked second album demos on Soundcloud remain the only remaining monument to their time together: just a glimpse of what might have been, and as such perfectly evocative of the “Transient Truth” of the pleasures and regrets of its era.

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On June 7, 1996, Dead Man debuted in Italy.

[eggvlyn-arts]

Until Next Time

[iskiescape]

Bella Hadid for Givenchy SS23