#alan is a cowboy killer

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

But you were such an ugly child. You were such an awkward child. But you were such a stupid child. We should have cottoned on.

Alan is a cowboy killer.

[marypsue]

Santa Carla, 1987. The California summer is in full swing. A killer – or killers – stalk the busy Boardwalk. And Michael Emerson is on the cusp of a life-altering revelation. Santa Carla, 20XX. The Experience Room, the Boardwalk’s hottest, most cutting-edge attraction, has just changed over its storyline. Now, within its artificial confines, a killer – or killers – stalk the 1987 Boardwalk, daring players to catch them. Edgar and Alan Frog are just here to stake anything that moves, and have a good time doing it. If a little paranoia doesn’t get the better of them first…

As promised: The Lost Boys Westworld AU! I saw a premise about examining the nature of personhood, asked 'but is anybody gonna make this also about the nature of story and narrative?', and did not wait for an answer.

Unfortunately, nobody in this fic ever gets to wear a cowboy hat.

[best-fictional-band-poll]

THIS IS THE OLD SUBMISSIONS POST. UP TO DATE SUBMISSIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE

Sorted alphabetically by band. Please click through to original post to see full list. IF IT'S NOT ON THE LIST, PLEASE SUBMIT IT. NO BAND IS TOO NICHE. Multiple bands from the same media are permitted.

Putting this under the cut because it's getting too long!

0-9

4*town - Turning Red

A

About Gardens - ROGUEMAKER

The Ark - I Was Born For This

ABXY - Splatoon

Arno van Eyck - Disco Elysium

B

The Band With Rocks In It - Discworld

The Beets - Doug

The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton - The Mountain Goats

The Bettys - Phineas and Ferb

Black Stones (BLAST) - NANA

The Blues Brothers - The Blues Brothers

Bottom Feeders - Splatoon

Boys In The Sink - Veggietales

Boys Who Cry - Spongebob Squarepants

Boyz4Now - Bob's Burgers

Boyz 12 - American Dad

Bunk Bed Junction - No Straight Roads

C

Cheetah Girls - Cheetah Girls

The Clash At Demonhead - Scott Pilgrim 

The Covey - Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Crash & The Boys - Scott Pilgrim

D

Daisy Jones & The Six - Daisy Jones & The Six

Damp Socks - Splatoon

De Bois Band - & Juliet

Deep cut - Splatoon

DETHKLOK - Metalocalypse

Dedf1sh - Splatoon

Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeros - Space Opera 

Dingoes Ate My Baby - Buffy The Vampire Slayer

DJ Octavio - Splatoon

DJ Stylbator - Samurai Jack

Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem - The Muppets 

Drive Shaft - LOST

E

Evar Orbus & The Galactic Jizz-Wailers/The Max Rebo Band - Star Wars

F

Fig and the Cig Figs - Dimension 20 Fantasy High

The Flaming Creatures - Velvet Goldmine

Fran-Shou-Shou - Zombie Land Saga

G

Gallifrey Academy Hot Five - Doctor Who 

Gem & The Scotts - Secret Life SMP

Gillion & The Tidestriders - Just Roll With It

Girls Dead Monster - Angel Beats

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Grifters Bone - Magnus Archives 

H

Hatsune Miku - Vocaloid

Heaven Seventeen - A Clockwork Orange

The Hectic Glow - The Fault In Our Stars

Hex Girls - Scooby Doo

I

Ink Theory - Splatoon

J

Jem & The Holograms - Jem & The Holograms

Johnny Casino and The Gamblers - Grease

Josie & The Pussycats - Archie (Comic)

The Juicy Fruits - Phantom of the Paradise

Julie and the Phantoms - Julie and the Phantoms

K

Kessoku Band - Bocchi the Rock

Killer Boy Rats - Horrid Henry

The Killjoys - My Chemical Romance

L

Lacus Clyne - Mobile Suit Gundam Seed

Lady Parts - We Are Lady Parts

The Last Days - The Last Days

Lemonade Mouth - Lemonade Mouth

Leningrad Cowboys - Leningrad Cowboys

Lincoln Hawk - Gossip Girl

Little White Lie - Little White Lie

Loded Diper - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Love Burger - Can't Hardly Wait

Love Händel - Phineas and Ferb

LumberZacks - Milo Murphy's Law 

M

Mad Gear & The Missile Kid - Danger Days, My Chemical Romance

Maxwell Demon & The Venus In Furs - Velvet Goldmine

The Mechanisms - The Mechanisms 

Milkcan - Um Jammer Lammy

The Misfits - Jem & The Holograms

Muppet Orchestra - The Muppets 

N 

Needy Beast - Hatchetfield

O

Octoplush - Splatoon

Old Gods of Asgard - Alan Wake

ok, kids - Andre and Karl

Off The Hook - Splatoon

P

Pink Slip - Freaky Friday

Plasmagica - Show By Rock

Proto Zoa - Zenon Sweep 

R

The Rainbooms - Equestria Girls

The Rats - Velvet Goldmine

RIP - Ruby Gloom

The Risky Fix-Ins - Buzzfeed Unsolved Franchise

The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash

S

Sadie-Killer & The Suspects - Steven Universe

Sadgasm - The Simpsons

SCÄB - Home Movies

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

Sev'ral Timez - Gravity Falls

Sex Bob-omb - Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Sing Street - Sing Street 

Soundcheck - Odd Squad

Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap

Squid Sisters - Splatoon

Squid Squad - Splatoon

The Stiff Dylans - Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging 

Sunset Curve - Julie and the Phantoms

The Superconducting Supercolliders - Designations Congruent With Things (Pacific Rim fanfiction)

T

The Three Lights - Sailor Moon

Trapnest - NANA

Turquoise October - Splatoon

V

The Vampire Lestat - The Vampire Chronicles

W

Wonderlands x Showtime - Hatsune Miku Colourful Stage/Vocaloid

The Wonders - That Thing You Do

Wyld Stallyns - Bill & Ted franchise

Wet Floor - Splatoon

w-3 (omega-3) - Splatoon

Y

Yoko & the Gold Bazookas - Splatoon

Z

Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie

[sinceileftyoublog]

Mclusky's Good Intentions

Mclusky's Andy "Falco" Falkous

BY JORDAN MAINZER

"Fuck This Band". It's the name of the song Andy "Falco" Falkous and Mclusky have been opening their sets with on their triumphant return to many North American cities, including Chicago last Friday at the Vic. It's an effective calm before the storm of noise and chaos that inevitably enraptures the moshing crowd. And it's an appropriate sentiment, tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating, referential to the very loud ruckus that presumably caused the initial postponement of these tour dates to begin with. A Molotov cocktail of aural health issues forced Falkous to make fans wait a little bit longer to celebrate 20 years of Mclusky Do Dallas. It was immediately apparent from the opening chords of "Dethink to Survive" that our patience paid off: Falkous and drummer Jack Egglestone donning protective headphones, the band launched into a burst of razor wire guitars and pummeling percussion, and never stopped.

From left to right: Mclusky's Damien Sayell, Jack Egglestone, Falkous

Sayell, Egglestone, & Falkous

The post-hardcore band's influence is wide-reaching. You can hear Falkous' everyman sprechgesang in the cubicle shouts of Pissed Jeans' Matt Korvette, his frantic non-sequiturs in the nervy yelp rock of Squid, both of whom were featured on the house playlist before Mclusky took the stage. But the band continues to be good at its own game, too. Last year, they shared their first new material in 19 years, and they played two of those released songs on Friday, sounding like 2002 just as much as 2023. "Two minutes and forty five seconds is the optimum length of a rock and roll song," Falkous declared, after letting the audience know it was okay not to pretend they like new songs. But "Unpopular Parts of a Pig" is a trademark Mclusky tune, alternating between deceptively melodic shouts and droning chants, plus a loud-quiet-loud dynamic and sardonic lyrics chiding useless platitudes. Thematically and instrumentally, it nestled perfectly between the ugly guitar distortion and Damien Sayell's meaty bass on "Day of the Deadringers", and crowd favorite "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues". Meanwhile, the blown-out bass of "The Digger You Deep" and unreleased barnburner "Et Tu, Edwards?" gave the crowd a chance to let loose between "She Will Only Bring You Happiness" and "You Should Be Ashamed, Seamus", two The Difference Between You and Me Is That I'm Not on Fire songs that satirize the tortured artist and toxic masculinity.

Sayell, Egglestone, & Falkous

Really, though, to a certain generation of Mclusky fans, Friday first and foremost represented an event we thought would never come. To hear Falkous' introductory chirping on "Without MSG I Am Nothing", Egglestone's brawny thuds on "Chases", and the shout-alongs of "To Hell With Good Intentions" and "Alan Is a Cowboy Killer" was a thrilling exercise in nostalgia for some and disbelief for others. Towards the end of the set, Falkous took the time to thank everyone involved in the show, even those he had met just that night, an act of working class solidarity before his effortless bout of sarcasm: "This cavalcade of sincerity must end soon." Given Falkous' ability to lighten the mood through his well-intentioned derision, it's easy to see why Mclusky continues to be great today.

Falkous

Sayell

[unknownchaos]

[looks at mirror] Music, music... Music! [angelic choir starts playing]

And thus, I am summoned like Betelgeuse with my scroll of music recs. Are you ready for Dad Rock? Are you ready for Metal? Are you ready for my entire 500 song playlist of music? You are now :)

(This post is long. Like, really long. And I don't even have all 500 songs in here. My recommendations from my playlist are below the cut. If you'd rather just see all the songs in my playlist, you can find them here. I'll see you on the other side, soldier o7)

These are some songs that I listen to whenever I work out/go to the gym. Nothing like a bit of rage to get you through those reps:

Reapers - Muse The Handler - Muse Psycho - Muse Winter Rain - Sick Century Welcome To the Family - Avenge Sevenfold Enter Sandman - Metallica As Above So Below - Beyond the Breach In The End - Black Veil Brides Almost Easy - Avenged Sevenfold [Obligatory Slipknot and System of a Down mention here] Sun Killer - Spirit Box Rules of Nines - Spirit Box Blessed Be - Spirit Box Twilight Of The Thunder God - Amon Amarth Dethrone - Bad Omens Inspire the Liars - Dance Gavin Dance

If you like metal bands with female lead singers, I highly recommend Spirit Box. The lead has an absolutely angelic voice and the band itself is incredible.

If you like amazing electric guitar solos/sections then Muse (Specifically their songs Psycho and Reapers) is the band for you

For drums, Welcome To The Family has a sick drum solo at the beginning of the song. It's insane

Here's some songs with gorgeous Vocals/Instrumentals that blew my mind when I first heard them (and continue to blow my mind whenever I listen to them again):

The Parting Glass - The Choral Scholars Of University College Dublin This Is How It Feels - D4VD & Laufey The Rockrose And the Thistle - The Amazing Devil Out of North - Jesper Kyd Promise - Laufey Swan Upon Leda - Hozier Secret Worlds - The Amazing Devil Inkpot Gods - The Amazing Devil Requiem - Dies Irae

All of the Assassin's Creed: Valhalla soundtrack is absolutely gorgeous and I cannot recommend listening to it enough

The Amazing Devil is similarly incredible, check it out

Now for "oldies that you've definitely heard already but I like them so I'm putting them here anyway," enjoy:

I'm Alright - Kenny Loggins Heat Of the Moment - Asia Just Like Paradise - David Lee Roth God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II - Kiss Any Way You Want It - Journey Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas I Was Made For Lovin' You - Kiss You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses Kiss On My List - Daryl Hall & John Oates The Gambler - Kenny Rodgers I'd Rather Be A Cowboy - John Denver Calypso - John Denver Make Your Own Kind Of Music - Mama Cass House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals What's New Pussycat? - Tom Jones That's life - Frank Sinatra Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Frank Sinatra Vienna - Billy Joel Dust In the Wind - Kansas Leaving On A Jet Plane - John Denver 500 Miles - Peter, Paul, and Mary El Paso - Marty Robbins Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates American Pie - Don McLean The End of The World - Skeeter Davis Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters

TF2 has done irreparable damage to me because I can't listen to half of these songs without immediately thinking of one of the mercs (cough cough What's New Pussycat? cough cough Scout cough)

I don't have much else to say about these songs besides go listen to them if you haven't heard them already

And finally, songs that didn't fit into any of the above categories but I wanted to include them anyway:

Living Proof - Gregory Alan Isakov My Love, Mine All Mine - Mitski Dark, Dark, Dark - Gregory Alan Isakov Broken Coastline - Down Like Silver Southern Soldier - 2nd South Carolina String Band Dixie's Land - 2nd South Carolina String Band Bug Like and Angel - Mitski Dandelion Wine - Gregory Alan Isakov San Luis - Gregory Alan Isakov The Stable Song - Gregory Alan Isakov Amsterdam - Gregory Alan Isakov Any Will Wood Song Dream, Ivory - Dream, Ivory Any Phoebe Bridgers Song Any Hozier Song Wishing Well - The Oh Hellos Warm Glow - Hippo Campus

While these aren't all the songs I would recommend, they're all I'm going to put on this post. I know a lot of these songs are really popular, but I hope you end up finding a song you haven't heard before or one that you like :)))

[filmnoirfoundation]

NOIR CITY returns to Chicago's Music Box Theatre August 25 - 31, to celebrate the heart of Hollywood's noir movement with "Film Noir in 1948"! Friday through Sunday screenings will be presented by Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation founder and host of TCM's Noir Alley, and films Monday through Thursday will be introduced by FNF board member Alan K. Rode.

Highlights include a 35mm screening of Robert Wise’s BLOOD ON THE MOON on Wednesday, August 30. In this Western noir, Tate Riling (Robert Preston) enlists an old friend and itinerant cowboy Jim Garry (Robert Mitchum) to help with his scheme to force an aging rancher (Tom Tully) to sell his herd at a discount. When Lufton’s daughter Amy (Barbara Bel Geddes) gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right. Alan will be singing his book Blood on the Moon an hour before the show starts and during the intermission after the film. Since this is NOIR CITY: Chicago, two films set in the Windy City will screen during the festival. First, Call NORTHSIDE 777, featuring Jimmy Stewart as a crusading reporter determined to free convicted killer Richard Conte whom he believes is innocent, plays on Saturday, August 26. Eddie will be signing his most recent release Eddie Muller's NOIR BAR: Cocktails inspired by the World of Film Noir that day as well, time TBA. Then on Tuesday, August 29, Alan Ladd plays another reporter in CHICAGO DEADLINE, screening in 35mm, who becomes obsessed with finding the truth about the life and death of Rosita (Donna Reed) after discovering her corpse.

→ NOIR CITY: Chicago's full schedule, all-access passes, and tickets are available here.

[alanisacowboykiller]

<3 - The way I use this blog will evolve and change + I will update this description as applicable. <3

Hello!

-i'm Dylan! I use any pronouns (unless ur cis in which case (1) use they/them and (2) dni lmfao this blog is for transgender freakz only)

-i'm 23 (PLS DNI IF YOU'RE YOUNGER THAN 21)

-im transmasc + t4t. I'm a stone butch dyke, + am a switch with dom tendencies.

my main is "commaiscomma" (so if They followed you - das me, babey!)

☆I'M INTO / EXPLORING....☆

->BDSM (particularly domming - I do not like to bottom in BDSM situations)

-> light impact play / breathplay (again - I don't like to be on the receiving end of this)

☆I AM NOT INTO / TRIGGERED BY☆

-needles / needle play

-blood / blood play

-physical violence

- age play

-incest

-g*ns, kn*ves

-piss + shit

feel free 2 message me - i don't have a lot of mutuals rn 🌼

p.s. Alan Is A Cowboy Killer (my url) is a song by McLusky !

[yasakajinjya]

Alan Is a Cowboy Killer

[abelkia]

La playlist de l'émission de ce jeudi matin sur Radio Campus Bruxelles entre 6h30 et 9h : David Sylvian "Blemish" (Blemish/Samadhisound Label/2003) Gastr del Sol "The Sea Incertain" (Upgrade & Afterlife/Drag City Records/1996) Lambchop "Daisy" (The Bible/City Slang/2022) Antony (ANOHNI) "Hole in my Soul" (Not Alone - Médecins Sans Frontières - Doctors Without Borders/Durtro/2006) Colette Magny "Bura bura" (Colette Magny/Le Chant du Monde/1967) Oiseaux-Tempête "A Man Alone in a One Man Poem" (What on Earth (Que Diable)/Sub Rosa/2022) Lord Buckley "The Train" (A Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat/Straight/1969) Astéréotypie "Aucun mec ne ressemble à Brad Pitt dans la Drôme" (Aucun mec ne ressemble à Brad Pitt dans la Drôme/La Belle Brute/2022) LEM "Sous les cyprès" (Bientôt Le Cosmos/Heroika/2003-2022) Carla dal Forno "Caution" (Come Around/Kallista Records/2022) The Legendary Stardust Cowboy "Paralyzed" (7"/Munster Records/1968-2016) Beat Happening "Angel Gone" (Music to Climb The Apple Tree By/Krecs/2000-2003) Françoiz Breut, Mathieu Pierloot, Claire Vailler, Mocke "Les forges" (Grand déménagement/Le label dans la forêt/2022) K'dlokk "Nagyon Szeretrek Mindenkinek" (Alien Parade Japan/Alien Transistor/2022) Malcolm Middleton & Alan Bissett "The Rebel on his Own Tonight" (Ballads of the Book/Chemikal Underground/2007) Yellow Magic Orchestra "Firecracker" (12"/A&M Records/1979) Rachid Taha "Barra Barra" (Rock'n'Raï/Barclay/2000-2020) Susanna and the Magical Orchestra "Enjoy the Silence" (Melody Mountain/rune grammofon/2006) Millie Jackson "If Loving You Is Wrong I Don't Want To Be Right / The Rap" (Caught Up/Southbound/1974-2018) Charles Stepney "Look B4U Leap" (Step On Step/International Anthem/2022) The Honeymoon Killers "A Deep Space Romance (Ariane)" (Subtitled Remix/Crammed Discs/1983) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClDynymtiP5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[iamdangerace]

McClusky, Alan is a Cowboy Killer recorded live in Cardiff, Wales on Dec. 19, 2019. From the Gateway Band: Live in London and Cardiff DVD/CD album.

[mr-craig]

I have answered the question literally nobody was asking: What would it sound like if Kraftwerk covered mclusky?

Alan is a Cowboy Killer, by Welsh hardcore punk band mclusky, in a late ‘70s / early ‘80s electro-pop style. You’re welcome.

[conradscrime]

Who is Swimsuit Boy? Unidentified Doe

May 12, 2022

Known as “Swimsuit Boy” this John Doe is the only unidentified victim of serial killer Dean Corll, also known as the “Candy Man” who operated between 1970-1973 and killed a minimum of 28 young boys and men in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. 

On August 7, 1973, Corll’s teenage accomplice named Elmer Wayne Henley went to a party with another teenage boy. Henley targeted this teenage boy and was going to bring him back to Corll’s home. However, Henley and this boy ended up getting high at the party and left together to get food. 

During this time they found a girl named Rhonda Williams, who had been beaten by her father that night. Henley told her that she could come with them back to Corll’s home. Corll became outraged that Henley would bring a girl back to his home, but Henley eventually got him to calm down. Henley, Rhonda and the other teenage boy smoked and drank until they passed out with Corll then gagging and attempting to restrain Henley with handcuffs. 

Henley woke up and told Corll that if he unrestrained him then he would help Corll abuse the other two teens. Corll told Henley to rape and murder Rhonda, however she ended up convincing Henley to stop. 

Henley tried to get Corll to stop the abuse, claiming that he had hone too far, before taking Corll’s gun. Corll mocked Henley, and Henley ended up shooting him six times before he fell. The other two teens were released and they called the police. During the investigation, Henley led police to a boat shed owned by Corll where 14 decomposing bodies were found. Among these, Swimsuit Boy or Swimsuit Doe was found and remains the only unidentified victim. 

Swimsuit Doe was a male, estimated to be between the ages of 15-19 years old, standing about 5′2 to 5′7 inches tall. He had brown hair that was 7 inches long, but the eye colour is unknown. He had good teeth with no fillings or any evidence of procedures as well as a mild case of spina bifida that may have caused him to struggle with back pain in his life. 

Swimsuit Doe was wearing a grey shirt with a peace symbol on the front and “USMC L84MF” on the back. Some sources believe that USMC stands for United States Marine Corp, possible leading to some connection to the military, but this is unknown. If there was some sort of military connection maybe the Doe had family or friends in the military, or maybe had been enlisted himself. 

The reason for the name Swimsuit Boy or Swimsuit Doe is due to the fact that he was found wearing vertically striped swim trunks that were white, green, red and blue. He was also wearing 12″ cowboy boots with the word NEOLITE across the heel, and dark blue corduroy material, measuring 32x30. The Doe was also wearing a leather ankle bracelet and a brown leather belt with a belt buckle. The buckle was silver and had the letter “C” with gold wings. 

Thirteen different missing persons have been ruled out as being Swimsuit Doe. This includes:

Richard Lamson and Peter Bonick, went missing from San Mateo County, CA on February 22, 1970

Alan Bourque, went missing from Orleans County, LA on March 10, 1970

David Waggoner, went missing from Pasadena, TX on October 9, 1971

Dermot Kelly, went missing from LaSalle County, IL on January 30, 1972

Earl Joggerst, went missing from Jefferson County, MO on August 4, 1972

James Egan, went missing from Ozaukee, WI on August 6, 1972

Norman Prater, went missing from Dallas County, TX on January 14, 1973

Derran Rogers, went missing from Stanislaus, CA on February 27, 1973

Mitchel Weiser, went missing from Sullivan County, NY on July 27, 1973

Joseph Spears, went missing from Harrison County, MS on July 31, 1973

Mark Bachelder and David Hesterlee, went missing from Bryan Beach, TX on September 22, 1974 (unsure why these two are included since they went missing after Dean Corll died) 

One source suggested that Swimsuit Doe could be Ralph Hamton Miller who went missing from Lakeland, FL on September 19, 1970. Miller was 17 years old at the time and stood between 5′5 to 5′10. While he does look similar to the reconstruction there is no proof that he would have plans to go to or end up in Texas. 

Another possibility is that the Doe is James Charles Stanford who went missing from Overland, MO on May 1, 1971. Stanford was 16 years old at the time and stood over 6 feet tall. This does not match up with what they believe the height to be of Swimsuit Doe, however, Stanford had told family members that he wanted to go to Texas or California to join a convent. 

One last possibility is that Swimsuit Doe was never reported missing or the report was never taken seriously. Police would often claim that missing teenagers were just runaways, and hitchhiking was very popular in the 1970′s, and often times people hitchhiked to other states and cities to start new lives and their families just believe that they are not looking to be found or have any contact with them. 

If you have any information that may lead to Swimsuit Doe being identified you can call the Texas Department of Public Safety at 512-424-5074 in reference to case # U0312016. 

The National Crime Information Center case # is U030020650. The NamUs case # is 4547. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children case # is 1109009. The DNA Doe Project is working on this case and hopefully one day the identity of Swimsuit Boy or Swimsuit Doe will finally be revealed. 

[bookclub4m]

Episode 155 - Literary Fan Fiction

This episode we’re talking about Literary Fan Fiction! We discuss ancient myths, fairy tales, Sherlock Holmes, copyright, Sherlock Holmes, authorized sequels, Sherlock Holmes, and sequels vs reinterpretations! Plus: Sherlock Holmes! (Okay, he didn't get mentioned that much.)

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

The Girl in Red by Christina Henry

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was reprinted in Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie (Wikipedia)

Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie (Wikipedia)

Copyright status

Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Other Media We Mentioned

The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer

Shadow Master Series Volume 3 by Andy Helfer, Kyle Baker, and Joe Orlando

Includes the comic in which The Shadow’s head is placed on a robot body

A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

Jack the Ripper in fiction (Wikipedia) (Yes, there’s an entire article and it mentions at least five additional stories that feature Sherlock Holmes.)

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

Fables (comics) by Bill Willingham (Wikipedia)

The Argonauts and the Quest for the Golden Fleece (Wikipedia)

Beowulf (Wikipedia)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and  Jane Austen

Grendel by John Gardner

Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James

The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray

The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow

A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman (Wikipedia)

A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

The Great Mouse Detective (Wikipedia)

Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (Wikipedia)

Elementary, Dear Data (Wikipedia) - Star Trek: The Next Generation episode

House (TV series) (Wikipedia)

Elementary (TV series) (Wikipedia)

Sherlock (TV series) (Wikipedia)

Dorian Gray (2009 film) (Wikipedia)

Victor Frankenstein (film) (Wikipedia)

The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (Wikipedia)

Enola Holmes (film) (Wikipedia)

Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith (Actually just about cowboys who really like Sherlock Holmes)

Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the American West by John S. Fitzpatrick

Links, Articles, and Things

Fan fiction (Wikipedia)

Matthew was probably combining Robert Ludlum (died in 2001 and since then thirty books have been published under the “Ludlum brand”) and Tom Clancy (died in 2013 and since then 18 books have been published under the “Clancy brand”)

Marple: Twelve New Mysteries A 2022 collection of new stories by various authors about Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple character

Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture (Wikipedia)

Robin McKinley (Wikipedia)

Frankenstein's monster (Wikipedia)

How Rocket Raccoon Rescued My Brother, Famed Marvel Writer Bill Mantlo by Mike Mantlo

Doujinshi (Wikipedia)

Doraemon Doujinshi Accused of Infringing Copyright

Hark Podcast

Sherlock Holmes  (Wikipedia)

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Copyrightable Character by Nicholas Perrotti

Sargasso Sea (Wikipedia)

22 “Literary Fan Fiction” (retellings, adaptations, sequels, parallel novels, etc.) books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

For this booklist, the original story being retold/referenced appears (in parentheses).

Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi (Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer)

The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (El Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández)

The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang (The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Windward Heights by Maryse Condé (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë)

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (The Stranger by Albert Camus)

Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan (A Room With a View by E.M. Forster)

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (The Horror of Red Hook by H.P. Lovecraft)

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells)

The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (The Scarlet Letter by Nataniel Hawthorne and the Ramayana by Valmiki)

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (The Tempest by William Shakespeare)

Even in Paradise by Elizabeth Nunez (King Lear by William Shakespeare)

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh (The Tale of Shim Ch'ŏng)

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (The Ramayana by Valmiki)

The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall (Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)

My Jim by Nancy Rawles (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson (Wee'git stories)

Unforgivable Love by Sophfronia Scott (Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Prince of Cats by Ron Wimberly (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)

Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita (Various works by Jane Austen)

Pride by Ibi Zoboi (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)

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Storia Di Musica #166 - Cowboy Junkies, The Trinity Session, 1988

La serie di storie di musica che si inaugura oggi, giorno di Pasqua (Auguri!) seguiranno un percorso particolare: ho scelto delle storie di dischi caratterizzate dal modo unico, economico e a volte totalmente improvvisato con cui vennero registrati. Il primo ci porta al 27 Novembre del 1987, dove in una chiesa di Toronto, la Santa Trinità, un gruppo sta iniziando a suonare, usando solo un microfono. Questo gruppo ha le sue origini una decina di anni prima, quando Michael Timmins e Alan Anton formano un duo, gli Hunger Project, e partono per la Gran Bretagna, dove si uniscono ad un gruppo rock sperimentale, i Germinal. Tornati in Canada, Timmins chiama ad unirsi alle sue imprese musicali la sorella Margot e il fratello minore Peter, e formano un gruppo, a cui danno il nome strano di Cowboy Junkies. Inizia qui, siamo a metà anni ‘80, la parabola di uno dei gruppi alternativi più talentuosi della sua generazione, sia per le scelte stilistiche che per canzoni da interpretare. Il primo disco è Whites Off Earth Now!!!, che esce nel 1986: solo Take Me è scritta dalla coppia Margot e Micheal Timmins, per il resto una selezione di blues (John Lee Hooker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Bukka White, Robert Johnson) che si sviluppano in atmosfere sognati e delicate, eteree, che trovano il fulcro nella voce, magnetica e fantastica, di Margot, che dà il meglio di sè nella cover di State Trooper di Bruce Springsteen. Il disco è l’occasione per un tour di accompagnamento ad altre band negli Stati Uniti, che serve ad amalgamare la band e a trovare un ulteriore gradino di avanzamento del loro stile. Che avviene nella sera di Novembre a cui accennavo prima. L’idea della band era di registrare direttamente le canzoni su nastro, usando un solo microfono: a rendere il tutto piuttosto complicato, era il fatto che oltre ai tre Timmins e a Anton, c’era l’ultimo fratello Timmins, John, alla chitarra, due armonicisti (Jeff Bird e Steve Shearer),  Kim Deschamps alle slide guitar e Jaro Czwewinec alla fisarmonica. Oltre a questo, c’era il fatto che la band insieme aveva provato pochissimo, e per completare le registrazioni, pagarono 25 dollari canadesi due guardie della sicurezza della Chiesa per poter provare altre due ore insieme. Il risultato però fu che The Trinity Session (1988) è il loro disco più bello, più famoso e uno dei dischi più significativi degli anni ‘80. Alla base blues la band aggiunge elementi country (figli del lungo tour negli Usa, soprattutto negli Stati del Sud), l’atmosfera rilassata e affascinante da esibizione live in un club della registrazione, la scelta di brani, sia autografi che cover, azzeccatissima. Si parte con Mining For Gold, traditional dei cercatori di ventura dell’800, riportata in auge da uno dei personaggi più importanti della musica popolare canadese, James Gordon: la voce di Margot Timmins è già da brividi, nello scarno e sottilissimo accompagnamento musicale della band; il secondo pezzo è invece la loro canzone più famosa, e per me la più bella che abbiano scritto: Misguided Angel è una toccante ballata, cantata magistralmente, dal ritmo ondeggiante e rilassante, un piccolo gioiello. E gioielli sono le loro composizioni autografe, come I Don't Get It, To Love Is to Bury,  200 More Miles (molto country, dedicata alle miglia percorse nel tour americano) e la quasi spettrale e affascinante Postcard Blues. Tra le cover, meravigliosa la rilettura del classico di Hank Williams I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Dreaming My Dreams With You di  Allen Reynolds, il traditional degli schiavi afroamericani delle piantagioni Working On A Building (che non c’era nella prima versione originale del disco) ma soprattutto due cover, una più bella dell’altra: Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis) è una versione in cui al classico di Rodgers e Hartz portato al successo da Elvis Presley è aggiunta una parte di testo scritta dai fratelli Timmins; e poi una Sweet Jane, che come riferimento ha la versione rallentata del classico di Lou Reed scritto per i Velvet Underground, e che diviene una sorta di racconto per la voce magnetica di Margot: Reed apprezzerà tantissimo e la versione fu usata da Oliver Stone nella colonna sonora di Natural Born Killers (1994). Il disco diviene un piccolo culto, venderà milioni di copie, per la gioia del produttore Peter Moore, che si dice lo abbia prodotto con soli 900 dollari. The Trinity Session è presente nelle più importanti classifiche dei dischi più belli di sempre: in alcuni però è descritto come il capostipite del cosiddetto “sad rock”, per le atmosfere cupe e “depresse” che trasmette. In verità è una forzatura bella e buona, dato che basta ascoltare la forza e la bellezza della voce di Margot per credere, già così, tutt’altro. Che il disco sia stato un culto lo dimostra il fatto che a 20 anni esatti dalla storica serata di registrazione, i Cowboy Junkies si sono ritrovati insieme ad altri amici (Natalie Merchant, Vic Chesnutt, Ryan Adams) nella stessa Holy Trinity Church di Toronto per risuonare l’intero disco, che verrà ripubblicato con il titolo Trinity Revisited: la magia non è la stessa, ma è anch’esso un bel disco per scoprire questa band interessantissima, che da ormai 35 anni sforna piccoli dischi deliziosi e preziosi.

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Diamond in the Rough

“I was sitting in my office shooting paper clips at a King size horse fly. It was a little sadistic but he was bigger than I was. Well, about the time I had him down on his knees begging for mercy, the door opened…” 

There’s nothing in Dick Powell’s early career to suggest he was destined to play hard-boiled private eyes.  Had his bosses at Warner Brothers had their way, he’d have stayed in the song-and-dance roles on which he built his career.  But thanks to a gamble by a director, Powell kicked off a new chapter to his career and the result were some great radio shows, including one of the medium’s best - Richard Diamond, Private Detective.

Powell got his start in Hollywood in the 30s as a singer in Warner Brothers musicals, including 42nd Street, and On the Avenue.  He was frequently cast in the role of a boyish crooner, even as he approached his 40s.  Despite his success, Powell was eager to expand into other roles.  His efforts were resisted by Warner Brothers, who wanted to keep Powell right where he was, even if he thought it was the wrong place to be.  He pursued the lead role in Double Indemnity, but it ultimately went to another actor pegged in “nice guy” roles - Fred MacMurray.

But later in 1944, RKO and director Edward Dmytryk gave Powell the role he’d been waiting for - Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, the film adaptation of the Marlowe novel Farewell, My Lovely.  The film was a success, and Powell received rave reviews for his performance.  In a flash, he had shed the crooner image he’d been desperate to shake and he embarked on the next stage of his career.

Powell recreated his role as Marlowe on the June 11, 1945 Lux Radio Theater broadcast of Murder, My Sweet, and he starred as private detective Richard Rogue in Rogue’s Gallery from 1945 to 1946.  While it was a fine series, it failed to stand out from the crowd of hard-boiled private eyes littering the airwaves in the postwar years.  For his next radio effort, Powell wanted to “make something a little bit different of a standard vehicle.”  He recorded an audition show as “the man with the action packed expense account,” Johnny Dollar, but he passed on the series for a show that sprang from the mind of Blake Edwards.  Edwards would later create the outstanding police procedural The Line-Up for radio, develop Peter Gunn for television, and would become a celebrated writer and director of film arguably most famous for the Pink Panther film series with Peter Sellers.

Powell and his producer, Don Sharp, asked Edwards if he had any ideas for a vehicle for Powell.  Edwards said he did (a lie), and went home to write what would become the pilot for Richard Diamond, Private Detective.  In Edwards’ original script, Diamond was a former OSS agent; he would evolve into an ex-cop.  One trait he would retain as the script evolved was that Diamond was as quick with a quip as he was with his fists.  This played to Powell’s natural comedic strengths, and it helped to give the show a unique voice in the sea of detective programs from the era.  Unlike other radio shamuses, Diamond would keep up a friendly relationship with his old colleagues on the force - Lt. Walt Levinson, his former partner; and the oafish Sgt. Otis Ludlum, the long-suffering butt of Diamond’s jokes.  Diamond flirted with every skirt that came through his office door, but he only had eyes for his Park Avenue girlfriend, Helen Asher.  Shows would often close at her apartment, where Diamond would sum up his case and (in a nod to Powell’s old career) Helen might coax him to do a little singing.

Richard Diamond, Private Detective premiered on NBC on April 24, 1949.  Powell was supported by Virginia Gregg as Helen; Ed Begley as Levinson; and Wilms Herbert doing double duty as Sgt. Otis and as Helen’s butler, Francis.  Joseph Kearns, Peggy Webber, Bill Johnstone, Jack Kruschen, and other West Coast actors filled out the cast.  Later in the show’s run, Frances Robinson would take over the role of Helen, and Ted de Corsia, Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd), and Alan Reed (Fred Flinstone) would rotate in and out as Levinson.

The show ran without a sponsor for the first year before being picked up by the Rexall Drug Company (“Good health to all from Rexall!”) in June 1950.  In January 1951, the show switched networks and picked up Camel cigarettes as its new sponsor.  The show took its final bow on June 27, 1952 (although repeats popped up in the summer of 1953).  Powell pulled the plug on the show as he entered a third phase of his career as a successful director and producer.

It was in this capacity that Powell brought Richard Diamond to television in 1957 for a four-season run starring David Janssen in the title role, minus the crooning of the radio series.  Janssen would later star as Dr. Richard Kimble on The Fugitive.  The Diamond TV show is perhaps best known today for its character of Diamond’s secretary, Sam, who was only shown from the waist down to show off her legs.  The first actress to furnish Sam’s legs was a young Mary Tyler Moore.

In honor of his anniversary, here are ten of my favorite Richard Diamond radio adventures. Sit back and enjoy some sleuthing and singing with Dick Powell and company in these sensational stories.

"The Lillian Baker Case" - This one is a good showcase for Diamond's girlfriend Helen Asher, who gets to take a rare role in the case of the week. At a department store, Helen witnesses an elderly woman shoplifting. It turns out she's a wealthy eccentric, and later that afternoon she dies - allegedly after leaping from her balcony. (9/3/49)

"The Jerome J. Jerome Case" - Joseph Kearns plays the titular eccentric character - a man who claims to be a millionaire, a genius inventor, and a private detective. He wants to partner with Diamond, but as soon as the gumshoe tries to dismiss him it turns out the kook may have information about an actual murder. (9/17/49)

"The Louis Spence Case" - An unusual, but very exciting, episode finds Diamond racing against time to save his old friend Lt. Walt Levinson. A deranged bomber has escaped from prison, and he's taken the lieutenant hostage. Unless the mayor jumps to his death from city hall within the hour, the bomber will blow the precinct - and Walt - to kingdom come. (3/5/50)

"The Statue of Kali" - It's Richard Diamond's version of The Maltese Falcon (complete with Paul Frees doing his best Sydney Greenstreet). An ivory statue is delivered to Diamond by a dying man, and it's being hunted by nefarious characters from all around the world. (4/5/50)

"The Martha Campbell Kidnap Case" - Diamond is hired to deliver the ransom when a wealthy woman is kidnapped, but both he and the lady's nephew are knocked out, the ransom money is taken, and the kidnap victim is killed. Rick has to use some creativity and theatricality to figure out what happened. (7/26/50)

"The Oklahoma Cowboy Murder Case" - Diamond trades the bright lights of the big city for the clear skies of the plains in this episode that was later adapted as an episode of Peter Gunn. Rick heads west to investigate a suspicious death - a wealthy rancher who expired when he fell from his horse. (9/27/50)

"The Cover-Up Murders" - Rick and Walt partner again when a serial killer stalks the city. Part of his MO is to call the police and boast that he'll kill someone that night at eight o'clock. But what appears to be random madness may have a clear motive, and it's up to Diamond to stop the killings before more bodies drop. (11/22/50)

"Blue Serge Suit" - Jim Backus (later Mr. Howell on Gilligan's Island) is Diamond's new client - a tailor whose supply of blue serge is raided and stolen by intruders. When Diamond's own suit is snatched, he's on the trail of a gang of spies. (2/9/51)

"Lady in Distress" - A beautiful woman hires Diamond, and then she drops dead in his office. With nothing to go on - he didn't even know her name - Rick takes the case and tries to learn what had her so scared and what led to her death. It's a story that was recycled quite a few times. Jeff Regan and Johnny Dollar both solved variations of this script, but the Richard Diamond version is my favorite. (2/23/51)

"The Red Rose" - In another story later reworked as a TV episode of Peter Gunn, Diamond is hired to keep a client alive. The man hired a hit man to do away with himself, but he's had a change of heart. Unfortunately, the hit man is a committed professional and he intends to finish the job. (3/2/51)

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