#dead head

[headsnhippies]

Deadheads 1978

[lifecyclesofmayflies]

Went looking for morels. I think we're still a good rain away from the start of it, and it's supposed to rain all day Saturday and be 73, so by Monday or Tuesday I'm thinking I'll have found a few.

Today, however I found this old dead head!

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[pwlanier]

June 2023 is going to be a busy month for me.

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[theyuanman]

a little color fix on these 2 artworks from this year

[allhopeisghone]

Love it

[weepingfoxfury]

Jacaranda's skirts eased through the grass, her fingers extending toward every blade, sighs accompanied her shadows and the birds fell silent at her passing ...

[charlesreeza]

Decapitated Head (St. John the Baptist?), polychrome wax, human hair, glass eyes, by an unknown Neapolitan wax sculptor, late 18th century

Photo by Charles Reeza at the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

I posted three views so you wouldn’t miss anything.  You’re welcome.

[jakobian5150]

Many faces of Grateful Dead

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I bid you goodnight goodnight goodnight

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Review: Dead Head - Shadow Soul (2024)

Dutch Dead Head is probably not the most well-known thrash metal band – at least not in Norway – where I am from. But the band has actually been going strong for 35 years now, and “Shadow Soul” is the band’s eighth album. In fact, three out of the four members who started the band are still with them. That’s quite impressive for a band that has been around for so long. Despite their long history,…

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Dead Head: The War Room

The third episode of Dead Head takes us into the show's lower level of hell, the lower class one.

Once again the action of the show starts on a day delineated by an event related to the Royal Family, in this case the Queen Mother's birthday, so 4th August.

Like so many people for whom the capital has become too hot, Eddie travels to Birmingham where he hides out in a squat, and spends his time gambling. To his surprise he spots Jill, the girlfriend of his friend Caractacus in a pub. It was at Caractacus's flat in London that Eddie was picked up by MI5 and she was present then. Eddie makes her tell him where Caractacus is, and so they get on the train together to Bristol. There, Eddie begs Caractacus to make him fit for the forthcoming battle, and Eddie hides out among the Black community in Bristol. Eddie, Jill and Caractacus come back to Birmingham where they set out to persuade Stoker, the man who originally gave Eddie the commission to collect the box which turned out to contain a severed head, to tell them what is going on. Eddie obviously wants to find out what is happening and why he is being framed by the establishment for the murder of this young woman, but things don't turn out as he would like.

Every review of this episode I have seen, including the DVD commentary by the writer, Howard Brenton, comments that this episode rather goes off the rails, and indeed it does. Personally I wouldn't want people to be put off this show by that fact: in fact I think the problem of the murder is more present in this episode than it was in part 2 so in that respect it manages to stay more on subject. However since the series is very much thematic I am going to deal with this episode with reference tothe show's recurring theme of Eddie's body.

It doesn't appear in the DVD commentary and I haven't mentioned it before but there is a prominent theme of physicality in this show, and it nearly always revolves around Eddie. There isn't a single apparent meaning to the scenes where he is either in the bath, exercising, having sex, or otherwise naked, though. Far be it from this show to have a simple understandable set of symbols! In this episode the fitness aspect dominates. Roughly half the episode is spent with Caractacus putting Eddie through a fitness regime to get him fit for the war and get him off the booze. In my opinion this is where the show loses its way, because way too much time is spent on this. You could even say that it's unnecessary because other plot devices could have been used to elaborate Eddie's closeness to Caractacus.

I think that although there isn't a simple explanation for the symbol of Eddie's body, the scenes in which this device is used mostly establish relationships with other people: his jealousy that his ex-wife is sleeping with someone else, his preparation for and concentration on the task in hand, his fear of Hugo's apparent homosexuality, his forced submission to being dried by Hugo because he's handcuffed, and so on.

In this episode the purpose of these relationships delineated in physical terms is to lead us to a climax where Eddie (and we) gets a revelation of the true nature of all these relationships.

I know I said that the consensus on this episode seems to be that it loses its way, but I actually like it. As I said my own criticism would be that the fitness regime arc is too long. I am also not sure what is being depicted: we see a number of Black people who are in some sort of community with Caractacus who is clearly their boss, and so I wonder whether we are intended to think that this is some sort of opposition to the powers that be who cover up murders. However you understand this community it is never clearly developed. There is also a problem to my mind with how they get Eddie off the whisky. This episode is intended to depict the lower class circle of hell, and I think that even in the 1980s if Eddie could stretch to a bottle of whiskey to pour down the loo every day the people surrounding him could have found a better use for it than that.

Although I have fixed on one plot aspect and the relationships to which it points, I am absolutely certain that this episode of the show could lend itself to many other interpretations as well. The rich plot of this show is one which I think has also meant it isn't very popular because of the amount of work it requires on the part of the viewer.

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