#s: old souls

[violeteyedkiller]

Seems he's been the topic of quite a many conversation. Lucky him. Perhaps it's time to stop being such a hermit.

"Alphonse. Are you out here damaging my reputation."

@fashionablyenigmatic

[uncanny-tranny]

An important aspect of youth liberation is not tying the idea of later adult care with having children.

The broader attitude that only your children can ensure that you get taken care of when you grow old is not a good precedent to set. Having children should not be what ensures that you can live through old age, and fear mongering people with the idea that nobody will ever take care of them (or, rather, shouldn't) is such an awful motivator to have children.

[kellymagovern]

R.I.P. Trugoy from De La Soul

[the-woild-is-y-erster]

teehee so i mentioned a cheeky little enjoltaire permets tu thing xx editing this from the future, i put the finished piece (its shaded now and i have a background [however shitty it is] and im proud of it :3)

anyway THEM<333 today's episode on: eel needs to learn to draw proper gotdamn backgrounds<3

oh and for those of you who were wondering. just how bad the old one is.

no comment

(I CRINGED SO HARD WHEN I SAW THIS IN MY IPADS CAMERA ROLL AND IM ACTIVELY CRINGING RN💀)

ANYWAY LOOK AT MY PROGRESS! HUH, HUH!!?!!?? :D

[martianspyder]

[thatrickmcginnis]

ROWLAND S. HOWARD, Toronto, April Fool's Day, 1988.

Rowland S. Howard was one of a handful of my guitar heroes (a list that includes Andy Gill, Ricky Wilson, Keith Levene and Robert Quine.) This is probably why I made the effort to photograph Howard and his band when they came through town, despite not having an assignment or a venue where the photos would be published. I brought along my studio in a bag and found the same helpfully empty space behind the bar at the Silver Dollar Room, the same place where I'd photographed Lydia Lunch two months earlier. These three shoots I did early in 1988 were crucial and coincidentally connected as Howard worked with Lunch throughout his life (their collaborative "concept album" Honeymoon in Red had been released the year previous), as had Henry Rollins, the next subject in my ad hoc studio at the Silver Dollar, who would also work with Howard.

I found Rowland S. Howard to be polite and friendly, with impeccable manners - very different from the haunted-looking man who would stalk the stage chain-smoking in concert videos I'd seen of The Birthday Party of Crime & the City Solution. He was in town with These Immortal Souls, the band he'd formed with his brother Harry Howard, his girlfiend Genevieve McGuckin and drummer Epic Soundtracks (born Kevin Godfrey), but for some reason McGuckin didn't make the Toronto show, part of a tour supporting their first record, Get Lost (Don't Lie). I spent most of the three rolls of film I ran through my Mamiya C330 trying to get a decent portrait of Howard, but shot the band together on the last half of the third roll, where Epic is wearing a Black Flag t-shirt; These Immortal Souls were the first non-American band on the Flag's label, SST.

Rowland S. Howard smoked all through my shoot with him, which I spent trying to get something that captured his somewhat wasted elegance. My white backdrop, a painter's tarp, had taken on some impressive wrinkles while stuffed in the gym bag it lived in between shoots, and it's taken considerable skill and digital magic to get these shots to look as slick as I had imagined them while doing this shoot nearly forty years ago. In the end I think they capture a few different facets of Howard, who would be in poor health for many years after I met him, afflicted from Hepatitis C that would lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer and ultimately kill him in 2009, at just fifty. Epic Soundtracks would die suddenly in his London home in 1997, after recording several acclaimed solo albums. Autoluminescent, a documentary about Howard, would come out in 2011.

[socialc1imb]

Some unrelated but not really all that unrelated set of clue au doodles. :)

[marge1974]

[hawkeyeslaughter]

i am a henry blake understander because i am also some lame middle aged husband i’m just stuck in silly girls body

[tagmusicblog]

rowland's bio on the 2006 birthday party website

​i went to the pop crimes rowland tribute show recently and some guy behind looked at me and told his mate "he looks like he knows shivers" 🫤

transcript ↓

Had attended Swinburne Free School from which many key figures in the late 70’s Melbourne scene emerged.

Rowlands legendary band The Young Charlatans played only 13 shows before dissolving through internal competitiveness (Ollie Olsen being the other singer and writer).

He joined The Boys Next Door shortly afterwards, bringing with him a swag of great songs including “Shivers”, which 20 years on has come to be considered a classic.

With his addition the band took an enormous leap forward musically and Rowland began developing a guitar style as unique as the band would later become.

His influence on guitarists around the world has probably been as significant as The Birthday Party’s has been in general.

But Rowland was also a singer and frustrations with not getting to sing very often and Nick wanting to sing only his own lyrics became contributing factors in the internal breakdown of the group.

He has subsequently worked on many projects with Lydia Lunch and exercised his vocal chords extensively with These Immortal Souls.

His brilliant first “solo” album “Teenage Snuff Film” came out in 1999

[violeteyedkiller]

^ is just reading the newspaper as his husband torments a demon or two

"Just don't track the mud into the city, dear." He utters while flipping the page.

[flipyeahaudge]

rainy day by ice nine kills deserves more love in the resident evil fandom it is so so camp and so so slay

[ysay-art]

A scene from an AU by @papabirdurskeks. Reupload of old art.

The Ashen One meeting Father Ariandel in the cellar of the Chapel, after having snuck in through some other opening or secret passage to avoid being seen by Friede in the main hall. Thereby, her interaction with Ariandel is not cut short, and Ash gets to speak to him and learn more about the whole situation…

[dipplinduo]

So....TTPD is out.

...how in danger are we?

Yes. ✌️🤍

[duncanor]

2000's animes just hits different,

There's such an inherent beauty to them. So much love in their craft. Their atmosphere, their concepts, their cinematography,.. is something else truly.

There's a lot of beauty in animes nowadays. A lot of blood, sweat and tears spent to create them. And I'm in awe by each of them, even the worst anime has love of the art bleeding through it.

But it's different. Beyond the sword of capital hanging above the industry, there's a distinct lack something. Something with soul. I can't put my finger on it.

[dreamlogic]

so yesterday was my last day of work, and my coworkers & i were chatting about our first impressions of each other

S: honestly at first i wasn't sure, i thought you might be a bit, idk, cunty? like smug and hard to please? obviously i was wrong, you're spicy sometimes but also one of the nicest people i know. but i remember something about your tone when you came out to everyone just made me think "ugh they're gonna be a lot."

me: well yeah i'm used to having to be pretty defensive about my pronouns, i wasn't expecting y'all to actually Get It.

J: can i chime in with a correction? i remember your first impression of charlie, S, and it wasn't that...

S: okay?? what did i think of them then huh :)

J: well after their second interview, when you asked if we were gonna hire them and we said yes, you said, and i quote, "darn, now i won't have the best butt in the branch anymore!"

S: oooh yeah true, i did say that!!! you do have a pretty great butt, charlie.