#whalley words

[whalleyrulz]

i will never get a fact right in a book. if you try and fact check me you are a coward. i intend to be wrong in excruciating detail as much as possible

[tavolgisvist]

Goodnight, John. - Goodnight, Paul.

We all love the Get Back moment 'Goodnight, Paul - Goodnight, John'. Let's see where did it come from. As we know, John and Paul loved The Goon Show etc. One of this scatch show was Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, an American sketch comedy TV program, hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. The first episode aired January 22, 1968. The show was characterized by a rapid-fire series of gags and sketches, many of which were politically charged or contained sexual innuendo. The co-hosts played roles of straight man (Dan Rowan) and "dumb guy" (Dick Martin).

After more short sketches leading into and out of the first commercial break, Rowan and Martin would walk in front of the show's homebase set to introduce the show and have a dialogue, generally consisting of Martin frustrating Rowan by derailing his attempt to do a proper introduction via misunderstandings or digressions.

You may say, and what? Just a moment :)

At the end of every show, after a final dialogue, Rowan turned to his co-host and said, "Say good night, Dick", to which Martin replied, "Good night, Dick!", leading into the final Joke Wall segment, in which the cast popped out of their doors and told jokes to the camera, each other, or Rowan and Martin, who stood in front. This would lead into and continue under the closing credits. One final batch of skits, including a closing appearance from Owens, and often an appearance from Arte Johnson's character, German soldier Wolfgang ("veeeeery eeenteresting!"), brought the episode to a conclusion. (info from Wiki)

So, our lads make show ('mach schau').

John hear Michael says to Tony Richmond, the head cameraman, 'Say when, Tony', and reacts: 'When, Tony. Goodnight, Dick.' Paul jiffy-quick digs it and answers: 'Goodnight, Dick.' And starts to tell some anecdot: 'Did I ever tell you about a hangover, man?' John: I don’t think I want to hear that, Dick. G— Seems like John is going to say 'Goodnight, Dick.' But Paul cuts in and say: 'Goodnight, John.' And John instead expected joky 'Goodnight, John.' answers 'Goodnight, Paul.' Paul insists and replicates Laugh-In words: 'Say goodnight, John.' But John says again: 'Goodnight, Paul.' And Paul laughs: 'Goodnight, John.' and begin to sing Two Of Us.

The same show they make January 14th, 1969:

JOHN: Ooh, the Queen of Sheba wore falsies. RINGO: [mock-surprise] I didn’t know that! JOHN: Didn’t you know that? You weren’t there at the time. [pause] Cleopatra was a carpet manufacturer. RINGO: I didn’t know that! JOHN: ‘Cause you weren’t there at the time. [pause] Edgar Allen Poe was a shithouse. RINGO: I didn’t know that! YOKO: What was John Lennon? JOHN: A patriot. [Yoko laughs] I didn’t know that. [laughter] JOHN & PAUL: “Goodnight, Dick.” [laughter] JOHN: [sighs] That was Lennon and McCartney. Northern Sheds. Great Western Railway. PAUL: Songs for all functions. JOHN: Ross-Upon-Wye. PAUL: Nige-Whalley-Mange. JOHN: Ilford two, Western Middlodeons – terrible.

With love to @i-am-the-oyster <3

[klainelynch]

Using the prompts from the @royaiweek tumblr, I'm going to continue sharing some of my favorite fics via mood boards!

Prompt: raison d'être

Fic: Things that begin in the earth by hellokerry

Rating: G

Word count: 1,066

Summary:

There were long stretches of nothing, and then there was Roy.

Photo credits under the cut

Jumping by Andrew R. Whalley

hangout by striatic

Tents in the night by davidkjelkerud

White sand dunes and dramatic cloud by Vironevaeh

[dear-indies]

hello sweetheart ! i hope you're doing well! i have a little fc issue at the moment, could you please suggest older female face claims for the beautiful synnøve karlsen? either period resources or regular resources can do, also i have no age preference. thank you so much sweetheart and have a lovely day xoxo !!

Geena Davis (1956)

Dana Delany (1956)

Sean Young (1959)

Jennifer Grey (1960)

Orla Brady (1961)

Joanne Whalley (1961) - has period resources.

Famke Janssen (1964)

Carla Gugino (1971)

Audrey Tautou (1976)

Rosamund Pike (1976) - has period resources with dark hair.

Michelle Monaghan (1976)

Rachael Leigh Cook (1979)

Christina Ricci (1980)

Michelle Dockery (1981) - has period resources,

Bethany Joy Lenz (1981)

Jessica Raine (1982)

Sophia Bush (1982)

Betty Gilpin (1986)

Alessandra Mastronardi (1986) - has period resources.

Ashley Greene (1987)

Thank you so much for your kind words!!

[nightspellpoetry]

𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏

Today it rains the same as it did when I ran home in the downpour one week after you died. It's the same in that I listen to Rammstein, making it through the rain: on my hair and soaking my backpack or on Rich's windshield as he drives me and him back home. "Memorial Highway" is all I read on a road sign that we pass toward New Haven where we live. Where do you live now that I've seen your body in a leather jacket— in a coffin, but your soul and light weren't in that coffin at all? The rain seems to pick up on the road and we pass by "Cow Path." Other road names. Most of the streets and avenues have the words "No Outlet" above them. I look down at my black Allen Edmund dress shoes and think about how I'm writing after a long time of not writing. I actively disagree that there's No Outlet. Well— sometimes it feels that way. Like there's No Outlet when I want to ask for your number, and message you "Hey! Connor here," and turn starry-eyed if or when you shared your number with me. I want an outlet. I look up on what must be Whalley Avenue and there's an "Italian Food" restaurant— oh there I am remembering that you're at least partially Italian because I learned that from your grandmother at your funerary visitation. My jaw inadvertently clenches. There's no way you were murdered. No way you're dead. What do you mean? Someone who loves or at least read John Milton's Paradise Lost and listened to Phantom of the Opera doesn't die— I learned that at your visitation too. Tears and all. I'll try to "move on," I promise you. Try to ask for others' numbers and look for other rare people. I just hope— no. Forget that. I just miss you and everything that I thought I'd get to tell you or share interest with you about: I don't get to. What do you mean? Someone who loves or at least read John Milton's Paradise Lost and listened to Phantom of the Opera doesn't die—

[senorboombastic]

Do Not Miss: Cold Comfort at The Talleyrand in Levenshulme 21 March 2024

Words: Andy Hughes We recently wrote of what a treat it is to venture somewhere new for a live show, eschewing regular haunts for Stockport Plaza and, back in December, The Carlton Club in Whalley Range. This Thursday, it’s a pleasure once again to skip town in favour of a gig in Levenshulme, the south Manchester hotspot that’s home to The Talleyrand, a lovely wee bar and live venue. Off the…

[green-scrub-chronicles]

Through the eyes and voice of an OT student analysing the theory and preparedness for practice at the community level.

The global north ideology runs the ship of occupational therapy's theoretical structures, models, and practices. The need for African contextual theories and frameworks contradicts the essence of our role in healthcare. Karen Whalley (2018) further highlights how assessments lack the inclusivity of cultural and contextual factors that are norms to the global south communities. Therefore, students and professionals must apply critical reflections and reasons behind the chosen activities and the appropriateness of the assessment. However, based on experience, occupational therapy's knowledge and academic structures are transformative and kinaesthetic, allowing for altering treatment to suit individual needs. To find more about the Western influences on the practices of occupational therapy, refer to the link below:

Ask yourself why we care so much about the mark we get yet forget about the impact we make in community practice. Naidoo and Van Wyk (2016) elaborate on how, as students, we are focused and anxious about our marks, and the fear of failure is the internal driver of our learning. This further has detrimental effects on confidence in practice, causing a gap in the connection between trust and positive rapport between the therapist and the client. The fourth year allows a sense of independent practice due to the minimized supervision and specific expectations as guidelines during fieldwork. Hence, how can you awaken and integrate the social, political, and economic factors in maintaining the PHC principles? Community practice forces you to analyze and understand the interconnected factors that influence an individual's overall function and quality of life. It exposes us to the harsh realities of most of our country, highlighting the importance of the treatment you give, which may be the first and only during the allocated time. Hence, the mark pressure becomes a maladaptive personal chase, forgetting the oath taken at the beginning of the block. Disregarding the primary principles of client-centredness.

To those asking what primary health care is, Alma Ata defines it as “the community being active participants and is essential based care that relies on the practical, scientific sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to all individuals at a cost the community can afford. That is a lot to take in, but in simpler terms, primary health care is the bridge that serves communities to access the public health system. It incorporates the different structures that are important in a community. Look at the link above explaining primary health care(PHC).

The academic structures emphasize the importance of evidence-based practices, utilizing science to treat holistically and consider the communities and the social, political, interpersonal, and economic factors at play. In 2021, my first encounter with what community is, I was bombarded with loosely used information terms, not understanding the meaning and relevance of the social determinants of health, sustainable developmental goals, and community structures and our role. COVID-19 left us vulnerable, minimizing the initial community experience and preparation for the fourth year. Proceeding to 2023. Here I am, doing projects but lacking the foundation of knowledge and the “why” regarding the needs or gaps in the community. The poor exposure during both years proved the need to re-centre my focus and think beyond the four lines of what I see or is presented, resisting the urge to be oblivious. For example, the mother's word-of-mouth responses are challenged. This is due to possible internalized stigma when the child is delayed in terms of milestones, has difficulty accepting, or is in a state of shame or guilt. Therefore, understanding the role of OT in PHC in addressing social determinants of health, alleviating health disparities in the community, and looking at the policies, social and interpersonal factors to ensure quality of care equips students to strive in community practice. It is crucial to consider the individual as a person in a community with various essential components at play that affect the quality of life and functioning. For example, when treating a parent, adult, or child, it is crucial to ask for valuable information that may evoke feelings of embarrassment, requiring communication skills to prompt the client.

The cons of the OT curriculum are the challenges of the student’s lack of understanding of lived experiences and the integration of diversity in the context of the client’s impact on treatment outcomes and effective therapy (Naidoo & Van Wyk, 2016). Therefore, based on the community block experience, the questions asked, along with handling and presentation skills, are vital in collecting information about social and interpersonal issues. The lack of a primary language skills package limits the engagement between clients and therapists, causing a loss of meaning and understanding. The loss of communication causes detrimental effects on treatment compliance and health outcomes. However, problem-solving skills as an OT are vital to making in-action changes to facilitate understanding through physical demonstration, use of the translator, breaking down words and use of laymen's terms. Read more on the article below:

Clinical reasoning develops with experience, highlighting the importance of the role of the supervisor and lecturers (Thavanesi Gurayah, 2022). A knowledgeable and conscious lecturer—we will call her Mrs Joe—planted seeds in us years before the final year of study, and she kept watering the plant with anecdotes that are starting to sprout now. Emerging and evolving perceptions as an OT: how to see an individual as a person, not a diagnosis. How to align our practice with the PHC principles. We, as Ots, need to continuously evolve, displaying flexibility with the needs of a community. Collaboration between clinical and academic supervisors is required to equip students with professional skills to ensure that treatment is valuable, purposeful, and appropriate for better health outcomes. To enhance the validity of the qualification.

In conclusion, the University of KwaZulu Natal has equipped its students with the fundamental skills to assist in the beginning stages of community-based practice. However, it will require individuals to shift their thinking patterns, broadening their views on livelihood and realities within the global South communities. To understand our role in providing prevention, promotion, and education regarding PHC principles. The ability to emerge in critically identifying the gaps and how to problem-solve. We may lack the resources, but we are exposed to the lived experiences of most South Africans, justifying the preparedness of students to strive in the community.

References

Dennill, K., King, L., & Swanepoel, T. (1999). Aspects of Primary Health Care (2nd ed., pp. 19–35). International Thomson Publishing (Southern Africa) (Pty) Ltd. (Original work published 1995)

Naidoo, D., & Van Wyk, J. (2016). Fieldwork practice for learning: Lessons from occupational therapy students and their supervisors. African Journal of Health Professions Education, 8(1), 37. https://doi.org/10.7196/ajhpe.2016.v8i1.536

Think Business Event. (2019). WFOT 2018 Final Day Plenary - Karen Whalley-Hammell. Www.youtube.com. https://youtu.be/9WipUPXx_Kk

Thavanesi Gurayah. (2022). An exploration of the facilitating factors in completing an undergraduate Occupational Therapy degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Africa Education Review, 19(3), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2023.2278050

World Health Organization. (2019). Primary health care throughout our life. YouTube. https://youtu.be/QX7Q0a8GxaA

[delafiseaseses]

Darn it, I kinda wanna make a poll in which y'vote for yer favourite Goodsprings Cemetery name, but there's 15* an' the limit is 12.

Ah, well, I guess I'll jus' list 'em all an' y'can decide individually who y'like the best. So, not countin' the player character's shallow grave, 'ere we will 'ave all 15* named cemetery people in no particular order an' with my headcanons about 'em too (yes, I have headcanons on gravestones, this shouldn't be surprisin' for me).

*(or 16, we'll get to that)

"Fearless" Dave

Full Epitaph: RIP "FEARLESS" DAVE

Like all Goodsprings bodies we know very little about "Fearless" Dave, but I'm gonna guess he was brave. Unless the name is ironic and Dave was the most cowardly man t' ever walk the Earth. I could see that too.

Count Abraham Jefferson III

Full Epitaph: Count Abraham Jefferson III

That's a pretty silly name for some lad buried in Goodsprings, a place that seems t' 'ave never had nobility. Unless you think, as I do, that Count was, in fact, his first name (like how people have the first name Baron). In reality this is probably just a joke name, but I like my theory. Speakin' of silly, tellin' capitals from lowercase wi' the words 'ere is 'ard because the all use capital forms, but the lowercase is smaller, so R and r both am R, but lowercase is a smaller R.

Jay Frenzal

Full Epitaph: Jay Frenzal

This is one that gets some trivia on a Wiki, so I'm jus' gonna copy an' past that trivia 'ere "Jay Frenzal is a reference to a song of the same name from the album B Is for B-sides by American ska-punk band Less Than Jake. The song, in turn, is a reference to Jason Whalley of Frenzal Rhomb, who has one line on the track." I 'ave no connection t' any of that means, but it seems t' be true. An Easter Egg in the graves, that.

Verl

Full Epitaph: Here Lies Verl

The Wiki also mentions somethin' for Verl, there's a bit of graffiti on the Vault 22 sign that says 'Verl is Boss!' ('Boss' is underlined, but I car seem t' do that on Tumblr). I 'ighly doubt these am the same Verl, but if y'think they am they can be. I think both Verls deserve their own individual Wiki pages.

Danielle "Mutant" Melilli

Full Epitaph: Danielle "Mutant" Melilli

Mutant's got a very cool name, I think. Other than that, we can only speculate how mutated Mutant was. Maybe a 6th toe, like y'can get in Fallout 2, maybe she wasn't mutated at all, but was strong or somethin'. We will never know, but she did 'ave a good name.

Whiskey Snakes Jr

Full Epitaph: WHISKEY SNAKES JR

Speakin' of cool names, who can forget Whiskey Snakes Jr's name? I'm not givin' the 'Jr' a dot because there seems t' be no dot. Also at the Grave is the Goodsprings Snow Globe. Maybe Whiskey was a collector like House, or just enjoyed that snow globe of the town they lived in. We will never know, but Whiskey had a good name and Whiskey Snakes Sr was right t' send it down another generation.

Jo-Jack JR

Full Epitaph: RIP Jo-Jack JR

On the topic of Juniors, Jo-Jack JR a name that kinda gives me 'Jagged Jimmy J' feelin's (no dot because there's no dot again, but the R is clearly capitalised). Jo-Jack is a fine name, but I'm less certain Jo-Jack SR's choice was a great one than Whiskey Snakes Sr, sorry Jo-Jack SR and by extension Jo-Jack JR.

Jake

Full Epitaph: RIP Jake

Delightfully simple. RIP Jake indeed.

Benny Lava

Full Epitaph: Benny LavA

Another one that 'as actual trivia on the Wiki, it says "Benny Lava is part of a line from the song Kalluri Vaanil, which gained fame in the English-speaking world due to a 2007 viral video in which its lyrics were phonetically translated into English, famously rendering the line "Kalluri vaanil kaayndha nilaavo?" as "My loony bun is fine, Benny Lava!"" which is interestin', I s'pose. This also means that Benny was smokin' near another Benny an' probably didn't know (nor would he have probably cared). Still, another Easter Egg in this graveyard.

Mr. D. DeCollibus

Full Epitaph: Mr. D. DeCollibus

A D given name an' a 'De-' surname is fun. Not much else I could speculate on him.

Mr R. Horn

Full Epitaph: RIP Mr R. HORN

Another 'Mr Initial Lastname'. R. Horn's 'Mr' has no dot, which is the way we generally spell 'Mr' in the UK, y'know. I doubt Horn was anythin' other than American, though. R. Horn is also useful because someone posted the full grave names texture file on his wiki page, which makes readin' those epitaphs an 'ell of a lot easier.

Mr J. R. Smith

Full Epitaph: Mr. J. R. SmitH

Might as well finish the trio of 'Mr Initial Lastnames', though in this case it's 'initials lastname', guess J. Smith woulda been a bit too generic.

Owen Parry

Epitaph: Owen Parry

Owen Parry, not much t' be said on Owen Parry. It's a nice name, don't get me wrong, but it's a pretty usual name wi' nothin' t' comment on about it.

Tymour Saba

Full Epitaph: Tymour Saba

Another good name I 'ave little t' say on. Not quite as usual t' my eyes as Owen Parry.

Sara "The Bear" Friedman

Epitaph: Sara "The Bear" Friedman

The Bear is a good nickname. It can paint a picture or two, but we will never be able t' guess which picture was the correct one, if any. Was Sara big and hairy? Wild and dangerous? Able to carry the weight of the world? All three and more? We can only guess.

The 16th Named Grave

So, that was the 15 featured graves, but y'may've noticed I put in brackets up at the top 'or 16, we'll get to that'. See, in the texture file PNG that's shown on Mr. R. Horn and The Bear's wiki pages, there's a 16th name. Lemme grab an' paste said image.

Y'may notice at the bottom the 16th name: Josh "The Kodiak" Anders. A name that, t' my knowledge, appears on no grave in the game (correct me if I'm wrong).

So, why was The Kodiak cut, I wonder? Well, I 'ave a theory: redundancy. We already 'ave The Bear, why would we need another grave wi' someone who's nickname is also related most likely to the Kodiak Bear species? A few names repete themes, but I'd guess someone thought that those two were jus' too close. If we indavidually agree wi' that or not is each of our personal business, but that's 'ow it is, I think.

Conclusion

So that was all 15 (16) names in Goodsprings Cemetery. Decide for yerself which ones y'like the most an' like the least. I've probably shown me bias 'ere already, but whatever y'like y'like.

Personally, I'm glad t' 'ave things like these names in Fallout New Vegas. I'd've liked 'em more if there was someone in Goodsprings tied to someone in these graves, if there was a Smiles or somethin' there, y'know they do that in Red Dead Redemption 1 wi' graveyards an' NPCs. I liked that, added interconnection that was marellous, in my opinion, but I'm still 'appy wi' what we got.

So, yeah, that's that. Think about these graves a little more next time ya rob 'em, I guess. Hahahaa.

[tangyyyy]

Oh! Calcutta!

Kenneth Tynan was one of Britain’s most influential theatre critics and has been the first person ever to use the word “fuck” live on British television.

At the end of the 60's, he created the notorious stage, Oh! Calcutta! which featured full-frontal nudity by both sexes and sexually explicit dialogue. Oh! Calcutta! proved just as shocking to the public, who considered it another example of the permissive sixties.

Tynan asked a number of celebrities, including John Lennon, to contribute a small sketch to the play.

And guess what, John had a very vivid remembrances of his wanking sessions with Quarry men and used these to write his sketch...

Paul said about these sessions : "We used to have wanking sessions when we were young at Nigel Whalley’s house in Woolton. We’d stay overnight and we’d all sit in armchairs and we’d put all the lights out and being teenage pubescent boys, we’d all wank. What we used to do, someone would say, ‘Brigitte Bardot.’ ‘Oooh!’ That would keep everyone on par, then somebody, probably John, would say, ‘Winston Churchill.’ ‘Oh, no!’ and it would completely ruin everyone’s concentration.”

You can find Four in hand (yep, that's the name of John's sketch) juste here ! That's... Interesting !

[blooms12]

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A List Of The Closest Neighbourhoods To Blackburn, UK

Blackburn is a small town in Lancashire, England. It's known for its textile mills and the Blackburn Rovers F.C., who won the FA Cup in 1884 and 1886. The town has many historic buildings, including its parish church of St Mary's Church and Blackburn Cathedral.

Blackburn

Blackburn is a town in Lancashire, England. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen and has a population of 103,723 in 2011.

Blackburn was an important manufacturing centre during the 19th century cotton boom, but during this time it also suffered from repeated outbreaks of cholera and typhoid fever. During this period, it acquired an unfortunate reputation for being one of Britain's most unhealthy places to live because there was no drainage system for many years; sewage disposal was poor as most homeowners did not have their own sewage systems. Blackburn also suffered from air pollution from extensive coal mining operations which caused smog throughout much of its history.

Bolton

Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies 10 miles northwest of Manchester city centre, on the River Croal and has a population of 141,955.

Bolton is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire. The town has been a part of Greater Manchester since 1974.

Little Harwood

Little Harwood is a village in Lancashire, England. It is situated on the outskirts of Blackburn, just south of the town centre. The name derives from the Old English word 'hara' meaning a wood or clearing and 'tun', meaning a farmstead or hamlet.

Little Harwood was once a township in the ancient parish of Whalley which became part of Blackburn Rural District in 1894 and then absorbed into Blackburn Borough Council as part of its enlargement under the Local Government Act 1972.

Bury

Bury is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Irwell, south-southeast of Rochdale and northwest of Bolton. The town is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, which had a population of 230,300 in 2013.

Leigh

Leigh is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It is part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and adjoins Worsley to the south. Leigh was a municipal borough from 1872 until 1974 when it became part of the district council area known as SELNEC (South East Lancashire North East Cheshire).

Leigh grew up around an ancient ford over the River Tame at its confluence with the River Irwell. The name derives from an Old English word meaning 'ford' or 'leek'. Settlements were recorded here from at least 1212 onwards when it was known as Legh. By 1314 there were 7 poll tax payers registered at "Leyghe" but this increased to 17 by 1377.

The growth in population meant that by 1750 there were about 200 inhabitants in 30 houses scattered along what is now Market Street; these houses would have been made of wood rather than stone because there were no local quarries nearby (the nearest was at Hurst Hill). This early settlement dispersed after William Grimshaw built Grimshaw's Mill on Stoney Lane just outside what would become known as Leigh village centre.

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[whalleyrulz]

i just realized what the book i am working on is

i had no clue how i was going to top long shots, i was like, oh my god how can i do more

and then fists of rot, once i worked out what that book was, was even better. it was more thoughtful, it had funner characters, it had cooler action, it had a more developed world, and i was like hell yeah

and then have spent months thinking "oh my god how can i do more"

and it just hit me, and i have a lot of edits ahead, but i worked it out. [untitled punk bloodborne book] is finally, FINALLY, a Thing I Completely Understand

[nerdhappenings]

First Viewing

Just saw Val (2021)!

It was really good, but really depressing.

Loved the cinematography!  It was so lovely!  Very pleasing!  I guess Val Kilmer did the cinematography, which makes sense.

Jack sounds so much like his dad, what the heck.  Like, I can tell it’s not Val, but only after the fact.  My younger sister, Val, (*chuckle*) [@icons-of-the-eighties] showed me the trailer and I was so confused at first.

It was very interesting learning things about Val Kilmer.  Some of the stuff I already knew, but there was a lot I didn’t.

‘Spoilers’ under the cut!  (Don’t really know if it counts cause it’s a documentary, but just in case.)

The stuff about Val’s brothers (his younger brother especially) was really hecking sad, but it was nice to see them all together so long ago.  The family resemblance was kind of crazy.  I think it’s really cool that Wesley wanted to be a director.  It’s kind of funny with the fact that Val wanted to be an actor.  (Also, Val putting up Wesley’s drawings in his room at Julliard and on the wall in Real Genius (1985) is super sweet and super depressing.

So, I think it’s adorable that Val went to a theater “more times than he would care to admit” (in his own words) to see Joanne Whalley cause he had a crush on her.  That’s super adorable.  It’s cool that he was interested in her even before Willow (1988).

Also, the fact that he made up a backstory for Iceman is awesome, and it fits the character well.  Having Iceman being ignored by his father, and thus striving for perfection in everything, really makes sense and adds another layer of depth to his character.  (It’s also really sad.)

The fact that he gave up all of his money instead of suing his dad for the loss of property was so great of him!

Seeing him interact with his kids, both years ago and in present times, were easily my favorite parts.  He was so sweet, and I loved seeing it.  They all so clearly love each other so much.

It was also great to see the different time periods and behind the scenes stuff of movies he’s done over the years.  Off the top of my head, I remember being mentioned Top Secret! (1984), some of Real Genius (1985), Top Gun (1986), Willow (1988), The Doors (1991), Tombstone (1993), Batman Forever (1995), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), and some stuff more recently and sometimes in-between that weren’t touched on much.  I adored seeing parts of these movies that I love (I haven’t seen The Doors or The Island of Dr. Moreau, and I don’t plan to) and it was cool seeing unseen footage.

Val talking about his experiences about these movies was really interesting to see.  I know that on a few of them at least he didn’t have good experiences, which provoked him into saying stuff, which ruined his image for a while.

Honestly, his story is so heartbreaking.

I laughed, I almost cried, but I managed to keep it in.  (If we didn’t keep having to stop it, I absolutely would have cried because I would have had no time to try to recover.)

Honestly, I can’t do this documentary enough credit, and my random bumbling can’t do it justice.

All of this rambling is to say, I enjoyed it immensely, and If you haven’t seen it yet, watch it.

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Movie Reviews - Val / Woodstock ‘99: Peace, Love and Rage

This week I got to review two docs that look back at pieces of 90s pop culture, i.e. my wheelhouse!

Val

In recent years there has been a proliferation of documentaries in which the subject was actually documenting themselves. This has a lot to do with the advent of the home video camcorder (hi-8 or VHS) in the 80s and 90s. In recent years I’ve noticed the documentaries on L7, Shannon Hoon and Soleil Moon Frye’s recent Kid 90 have all been subjects who were documenting themselves with their camcorder and now decades later their story was able to be told with that footage. Actor Val Kilmer was among the first people he knew to have a camcorder in the early 80s just as he was becoming a notable actor on stage and then film. His story is now being told with all of his footage he has kept over the years in Val, being released in theaters this week from A24 and on Amazon Prime Video on August. 6.

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I first became aware of Kilmer from his 80s comedies like Top Secret and Real Genius. I was actually surprised he made the transition to drama and never made comedies like those again considering what great comic timing he had. But after playing Ice Man in Top Gun, he was going for leading man drama and action roles. I actually had his action figure from Willow when I was a kid too. His portrayal of Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s 1991 film The Doors is one of the great music biopic performances of all time. If ever there was a performance that should have been Oscar nominated and wasn’t, this was it. The fact that years later you saw actors winning Oscars for playing the likes of Ray Charles and Freddie Mercury but Kilmer wasn’t even nominated for his lived-in performance is astounding to me. Kilmer also played Elvis in a small scene-stealing role in True Romance too. As he became a bigger star in the 90s, the stories about Kilmer were legendary: he was difficult to work with, he caused Joel Schumacher to push him on Batman Forever, yada yada yada. At a certain point, he started doing more smaller indies and supporting roles. But there’s no denying the strong performances he has delivered.

Val Kilmer in Top Secret

The documentary begins with Val’s grown son Jack narrating Val’s words. As we see Val modern-day he speaks with a voice box and his dialogue is entirely subtitled, after a procedure for throat cancer. This is Val’s chance to tell his story. He has lead a very sad life after enduring a tragic loss as a teen, something he never quite got over. He also gets into his complicated relationship with his parents, who divorced when he was a kid. He addresses the rumors about him being difficult to work with, but for him he sees it as being a perfectionist and not being a hostile collaborator. He also gets into his marriage to ex-wife Joanne Whalley, who is the mother of his children Mercedes and Jack. In recent years, he has gone to conventions and done meet-and-greet screening events even with his health issues.

Kilmer today

Kilmer aspired to work with genius filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick (we see his audition tape for Full Metal Jacket) and finally got to work with his acting hero Marlon Brando on the doomed production of The Island of Dr. Moreau. The most poignant moment in this (and there are many) is when Kilmer talks about meeting fans today and how he is signing autographs of Batman, Top Gun, and Tombstone posters and how he is selling the person he used to be, even thought he looks and sounds nothing like him anymore. At the age of 61 he’s already looking back and not forward. This does present a fascinating deep dive into the complicated man himself. Much like the aforementioned docs about L7, Shannon Hoon and Soleil Moon Frye, this also stands as a time capsule of the time Kilmer was documenting. Worth watching!

For info: https://www.amazon.com/VAL-Val-Kilmer/dp/B09888KKZK

4 out of 5 stars

Woodstock ’99: Peace, Love and Rage

About five years after the massive success of the Woodstock ’94 concert in Upstate, NY, in early 1999 they announced Woodstock ’99, a big concert festival taking place in Upstate NY to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the historic Woodstock concert, which was three days of peace and music. The 1969 concert was a cultural touchstone for Baby Boomers, and to a lesser degree the 1994 concert was a milestone for Gen-Xers. So in the name of commerce, the promoters decided to see if lightning would strike thrice. I was a music geek in college in 1999 and frequently attended concerts. I had already gone to multiple Lollapalooza’s and radio station festivals, so I was intrigued when I heard about Woodstock ’99. At first I was into it, but in the months leading up to the concert when bands like Aerosmith (who played ’94) and Foo Fighters pulled out of ’99, I bailed. Throughout the weekend of Woodstock ’99 there was reports of violence at the festival. I remember watching MTV News’s coverage and in the weeks that followed they had a roundtable discussion with Kurt Loder, Carson Daly, Serena Altschul and Chris Connelly trying to understand what happened and how it could have been handled differently. Now decades later, there is a new doc Woodstock ’99: Peace, Love and Rage that is premiering on HBO Max today, that attempts to unpack the events of that weekend.

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Director Garret Price deep dived a moving portrait of actor Anton Yelchin with the 2019 doc Love, Antosha (read my review here), and now he brought that same passion for archival footage of Yelchin to Woodstock ’99. On the weekend of July 22-25, 1999, the Woodstock ’99 festival took place in Rome, NY at Griffiss Air Force Base, a former air force base that closed a few years earlier. The doc does not hold back the irony of having a peace-loving rock festival at an air force base. The base itself had little in the way or trees or shade, which created issues for the 400,000 fans who attended and didn’t have a place to cool off like the ’69 and ’94 locations did. The fact that water bottles were $4 only added to the extreme conditions. There were not enough resources to keep up with the porta-potties either. There were also several rapes reported and several more assaults that went unreported. By the end of the festival there were some deaths and then there were fires, looting and riots. Was it the toxic masculinity of the mostly white male audience that caused this sexist environment? Was it the extreme heat and lack of hydration? Was it the under-prepared security crew? Was it the aggressive music from performers like Insane Clown Posse, Korn, Kid Rock, Metallica, Limp Bizkit, and Megadeth? This doc looks into all sides.

the audience of Woodstock ‘99

What’s interesting is that there are some interviews with Woodstock ’99 performers like Moby, Jewel and Creed’s Scott Stapp, but there’s actually more interviews with concert attendees and journalists. Its as if this documentary wasn’t so much framed as a music doc as it was a true crime doc, in which its looking at all sides of a crime scene. It would have been interesting if it had looked at some of the diversity of the performers a little more. For example, it wasn’t all rap-metal as people remembers, artists like George Clinton, James Brown (yes, THE James Brown), Los Lobos, The Chemical Brothers, Rusted Root, Our Lady Peace, and Elvis Costello also performed at the event as well. They get into that a little, but Moby talks about how he felt out of place with the show and wouldn’t have played had he known it was going to go down the way it did. Of all the artists I saw on the TV broadcast, Rage Against the Machine was the highlight of the festival IMHO.

the Woodstock ‘99 live album cover

This doc did a good job of putting this festival into the historical context. It was an age before everyone had cell phones, but it was also a time period shortly after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, just before Y2K and Millennium anxiety ensuing, and violent films like The Matrix and Fight Club. It was also an interesting time in music, where MTV was giving equal time to both rap-metal and teen pop. The one part I felt was shoe-horned in was addressing Metallica’s war on Napster, which happened the following year. Unless they just wanted to show that Metallica was out of touch with the young audience, I don’t see what that had to do with Woodstock ’99. But in the end, it’s fascinating to look at this event from the perspective of 2021 and how different the culture has changed since then. This is the kind of doc I wish I could see at a festival with an audience and hear the post-screening Q&A discussions. I guess I’ll have to settle for twitter instead!

For info on Woodstock ’99: https://www.hbo.com/music-box/woodstock-99-peace-love-and-rage

4 out of 5 stars

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

Supercorp AU train: my first thought was 'Willow", as Joanne Whalley in that was quite a gay awakening for me, and (dreamy red hair aside) the Sorcha character being a renegade daughter seems a good match for Lena.

HOWEVER, my brain made a couple of zig zags from the word 'train' to the classic Hitchcock film "The Lady Vanishes" and the divine actress Margaret Lockwood (who KMcG could totally do justice to). Kara would be a brilliantly heroic and entertaining Gilbert, the ethnomusicologist. The peril, the doubtful sanity of poor Iris, the sinister doctor, the dotty old English spinster-spy, and all on a train powering towards the border.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6gpvp1

to watch for free.

Okay, this has been in my inbox for a while, thinking I would eventually find time to watch and comment, but it’s just not happening. But I have seen Willow and 100% could see a little hobbit Kara falling for sorcha!Lena and they go off to live happily ever after, lol.

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Val Kilmer Documentary Punctures the Actor’s Bad Boy Myth

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Leo Scott and Ting Poo’s new documentary feature, Val, is not a mortality play. It is a rehearsal for an upcoming act. During a tour of his one-man stage show, Citizen Twain, Val Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer. The actor underwent two tracheostomies, and now can only speak while covering a tube. The narration of the new film is thus done by his son Jack Kilmer, allowing the pair to share a non-verbal connection throughout the journey, and through time and expression itself. While there are flourishes of humor, the documentary is a serious study of an artist who has always struggled to be understood, told through the selective memory of Kilmer’s POV.

“I’ve wanted to tell a story about acting for a very long time,” Kilmer says toward the beginning of the documentary. “And now that it’s difficult to speak, I want to tell my story more than ever.” Kilmer is an artist, one who takes his vocation very seriously and introspectively. An actor’s voice is more than a tool, it is their primary source of communication. Non-verbal exchanges are important, but dialogue is the primary idea delivery system in staged and filmed works. Surgical procedures have split his throat, shredding the scope of his instrument. In the film, Kilmer is forced to project his story on the empty space between the notes.

Among Kilmer’s many defining roles, the one which appears to ring truest is his encapsulation of Jim Morrison, the poet and lead vocalist of the Doors in Oliver Stone’s 1991 biopic, The Doors. The young Kilmer is shown onstage in a small club, lost in the music, awaiting his cue to become one with the mic. Moments in Kilmer’s personal history, like how the actor was tagged with a “difficult” label, are consigned to rests. The most overt reference to Kilmer’s “bad boy” reputation comes from Robert Downey Jr., who smashes the notoriety to bits in a moment of impromptu dismissal.

There is no gossip here. There is no discussion of A-list-bad behavior. Kilmer sees it all as artistic license.  He was searching for honesty, he remembers. Choices like lying on top of a mattress filled with ice in order to feel a real pain during his last scene with Kurt Russell in Tombstone come across as perfectly valid. Kilmer is still bitter over spending four months learning to play guitar for Top Secret!, and his first note informs him the director thinks he looks funnier faking it. There is little evidence of unprofessionalism, only growing pains.

The bulk of Val comes from clips of 8mm home video footage Kilmer has been shooting most of his life. “I’ve kept everything, and it’s been sitting in boxes for years,” Kilmer informs us. The archive was intended to tell a story about “where you end and the acting begins.” We are gifted with moon shots of both Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn, which have nothing to do with the films Apollo 13 or The First.

Early self-directed screen tests provoke a series of what-ifs. A tortuous encapsulation of a Juilliard acting class is a lesson in what-nots. Val’s hand-held approach to The Island of Dr. Moreau is a highlight. The actor respectfully rocks his co-star and idol, Marlon Brando, on a hammock they both wish was strung to John Frankenheimer. Please turn off the camera, the film’s replacement director demands. But Kilmer only hits pause when it’s time to rehearse.

The behind-the-scenes camcorder footage from sets of Top Gun, Tombstone, and The Doors are treasure troves in themselves, and possibly underused. Most of the audience will be very interested in the candid youth and truth recorded over his career. Val uses the archival clips and unearthed b-roll to establish a chronology.

Many videos were made at home in Los Angeles with Kilmer’s younger brother Wesley, who had an epileptic seizure and drowned at age 15. His death casts a mournful pall following the news that Val was the youngest applicant ever accepted as a drama student at Juilliard. Kilmer calls his brother “an artistic genius,” and one of the most revealing things to come out of the documentary is how often Kilmer used this brother’s art to augment the backgrounds of the sets he is living through on film.

Seeing how Stone speaks about Kilmer now makes me wonder if Val would have been able to put in the same performances in his movies if he knew it at the time. In his audition tapes for Full Metal Jacket and Goodfellas, we see an actor who needs to be taken seriously. He flies 6,000 miles to hand deliver his tape to Stanley Kubrick in London.

While he makes no comment, footage reveals Kilmer’s favorite Batman was played by Adam West. “Every boy wants to be Batman,” we hear, and see the Caped Crusader in every era of Kilmer’s life. A short, animated film he and his brother made with what looks like crayon is a Batman spoof. He still glories in the moment he got deposited behind the classic TV series’ iconic wheels as a youngster visiting the lot. It appears Kilmer still can’t pass a grocery store Batmobile without feeding it quarters. He wears the classic blue Halloween ensemble expecting tricks and treats as a kid, and as a daddy with his kids.

Don’t expect to see Kilmer wearing his cinematic puffed rubber suit at home, and it’s not because he left it at the dry cleaners. Footage old and new, homemade or professionally recorded, presents the Batsuit as an albatross. Heavy rests the cowl. He has to be lifted from chairs, deposited on marks, and his only identifying feature on the set of Batman Forever is a chin and bottom lip. Anyone could have been behind the mask, and the human superhero envied the subhuman villains. Kilmer comes across as quite happy Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones are able to create fully formed performance art in their portrayals. But he wanted to play with those toys.

“Batman Forever,” Kilmer laments, “whatever boyish excitement I had going in was crushed by the reality of the Batsuit. I realized it was just my job to show up and stand where they told me.” As the captured past footage is juxtaposed with modern sequences, we get an unfiltered glimpse of how little this has changed. The sequence of Kilmer at the Comic-Con autograph booth is wrenching. He initially didn’t want to take the part of Iceman in Top Gun because he felt it glorified the military. So many fans ask him to sign “You can be my wingman” on their souvenirs. It turns his stomach. He throws up in a garbage can and wheeled through hallways with a blanket over his head. Trouper that he is, he returns to the booth to finish out the signatures.

Kilmer blurred himself into the role of Mark Twain. There is a beautiful sequence where the actor walks through town to the beach, in full stage makeup, dressed in the signature white suit and long mustache of his character. It is extremely telling when Kilmer tells the camera it’s hard enough writing a good screenplay, much less a great one, which itself doesn’t even match what he feels he needs to bring to a script of a film version of Citizen Twain. Kilmer sold his ranch in New Mexico to finance the project. The documentary only captures some of the frustrations.

Most of the anecdotes are guarded, and all the admissions are part of a subjective narrative. Kilmer’s arc has rough edges, these tales are too smooth, and leave little room for impressionistic interpretation. Kilmer met his former wife, Joanne Whalley, when she was starring in a West End play directed by Danny Boyle, but he didn’t approach her.

“She was brilliant, and I was in town making fluff,” Kilmer concedes. It’s all about the art, even appearances. The documentary hints that Kilmer’s dedication to character did the most damage to their relationship. Wearing the same pair of leather pants for nine months could almost be on the books as probable cause for divorce in Hollywood.

Similarly, Kilmer’s Christian Science upbringing is brought up, and dropped. There is a loving but ambiguous undertone to Kilmer’s relationship with his once-rich-and-powerful father, who put his son in debt after trying to become a southern California land tycoon. But a sequence on his Swedish mother which juxtaposes a car ride he took with her when he was a child with one of being driven to her funeral speaks volumes without words.

Val is about the next step. “What’s past is prologue” William Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest. Kilmer pondered the “too, too solid flesh” while rehearsing Hamlet, and the documentary opens after the actor faced his own mortality. Kilmer swears he feels better than he sounds and, while he finds little to regret in his memories, he expects less in the ones he has yet to create.

Val can be seen on Amazon Prime Video.

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