It's the same old friends on New Years Eve The same snow falls on the same old leaves And there's the same old joy, and there’s the same old hurt Same old corduroy shirt

Favorite Albums of All Time: 90-81

Favorite Albums of All Time: 90-81

Having listened to every album on the Rolling Stone list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, I’m making my own list.  This list will be only 250 albums, although I had to make some tough cuts.  The list includes a mix of works of musical genius with the pure nostalgia of some albums I’ve loved throughout my life.  As always, I’d love to hear your thoughts about these albums and what your favorite…

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Meet Erin Ash Sullivan

Meet Erin Ash Sullivan

Erin Ash Sullivan is one of fourteen acts to appear at the 2022 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Thursday Night Music Stage. It’s only been a short time that I’ve known Erin and her music. She contacted me and asked if I could interview her for this blog. I agreed that I’d listen to her music and see if my journalistic muse prompted me to ask some questions. And, boy, I hit the jackpot when I sat down…

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Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti (1984)

[ID: two digital drawings of Danielle from Danny Phantom in her human form.She’s wearing her sweater tied around her waist, a backwards blue baseball cap, and a red backpack, and has a number of green band-aids. She’s walking along the rail of a train track, balancing with her arms far out to either side. The tracks are in an empty grassy landscape, bordered by power lines whose wires stretch off beyond the frame, in the direction she’s heading. The whole image is cast in purple tones, as though at twilight. The second image is the same as the first, but cropped closer in on Danielle]

♫ Well I promised I'd speed the journey home But I saw the magic tonight So I stopped...amidst the mountains And the silence and the starlight ♫

Dannymay 2022, Day 10 ↳ Wires

Hello! Is there a like… “old movies for dummies” guide you’d recommend? Film history for people who know next to nothing about anything? Extra points for emphasis on how film, American history, feminist history, and/or gay history co-evolved.

i haven’t read these ones so i can’t like technically recommend it, but the story of film by mark cousins seems to be a big one. film history: an introduction is written by david bordwell (RIP) and kristin thompson and their other book film art: an introduction (which i can recommend) is often the first book film students are assigned in class…. the thing about film history is that it’s so long and complex and you’re probably not going to find a catch-all one stop shop. i can say that you should pick up hollywood: the oral history by jeanine basinger and sam wasson, honestly ANY BOOK by jeanine basinger, the parade’s gone by by kevin brownlow, easy riders raging bulls by peter biskind, hollywood black by donald bogle. david thomson has a huge biographical dictionary on film that’s a fun read.

to answer your extra question…. again, i’m not thinking of anything that combines this all into a one stop shop, but you should absolutely read from reverence to rape by molly haskell, pretty much anything by judith mayne, and laura mulvey’s visual pleasure and narrative cinema essay for some feminist history (JSTOR has a great reading list here) and the celluloid closet by vito russo for gay history in film.

what are some of your fave love songs!! i’m in the mood to Yearn

ohhh here is a sappy list for you, i am always listening to love songs 🩷

sharp cutting wings (lucinda williams)

right down the line (gerry rafferty)

everlasting light (the black keys)

going to georgia (the mountain goats)

the book of love (the magnetic fields)

annie’s song (john denver)

don’t let the stars get in your eyes (george jones)

whole of the moon (peter mulvey)

kathy’s song (simon & garfunkel)

symbiosis (okay kaya)

in your arms again (josh ritter)

the nearness of you (ella fitzgerald & louis armstrong)

the day i found you (john pizzarelli)

little bit of rain (fred neil)

last breath (towers & trees)

apple candy (ben lee)

goodbye england (laura marling)

laundry room (the avett brothers)

dust to dust (the civil wars)

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti (Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, 1984)

Hello I’m rereading fenario in honor of November 5th and is “Dean leans back against the cabinets, eyes gone half-lidded as he swigs from his beer bottle. It goes down bitter and clean” in reference to the mountain goats song ‘this year’? I was listening to it earlier and the echo just struck me

yes !!! there were little echoes of several songs in that fic, like when dean calls sam his “tender blind spot” in his head — peter mulvey has a song by the same name :)

@pretty-thief tagged me in this and I haven't done a tag meme in a long time.

List 10 songs with 10 names in the titles that I like, and then tag 10 people.

Eli the Barrow Boy by The Decemberists - if you want folksy ghost stories this is your jam

Eloise by Penny and Sparrow - harmonizing folk music that makes me wish I had better speakers

Julie by Emily Kinney - bubbly pop by and about young 20-somethings

Matilda by Alt-J - weird alt-indie vibes

Grace Kelly by MIKA - pure discotheque pop

Danny's Song by Loggins & Messina - it's the 70s and we're singing about our young family and their astrology signs

Angie Baby by Helen Reddy - when then weird kid gets her (well-deserved) revenge

Rosanna by Toto - a love song by the band that brought you Africa

Charlie by Peter Mulvey - we're gonna die but we're gonna have a good time before we go

Oh Horatio by Tiger Lou - I love you and you don't even know my name

Idk who to tag anymore so please consider yourself tagged!!

Ten Years In A Jumbo-Collared Shirt Words: John Mulvey, Photographer: Peter Walsh Taken from the New Musical Express, June 1992 Transcription: Acrylic Afternoons

"Pulp is... being an anachronism of any kind... living in a dream world... being totally unrealistic... making contact with beings from other planets and snogging them... it's not being different for the sake of it - that's immature... it's all of these things and more - but most of all it's about you and us, and what we can get up to together - OK? - alright, here we go..." (Pulp propaganda)

Today, Pulp is... trying to be superstars in your hometown... organising party games for drunks... loving Des O'Connor and not having to say you're sorry... being fantastic... being mundane... being fantastic and mundane at the same time... dreaming of space-age Sheffield...

"Sheffield's full of half-assed visions of cities of the future that turn into a pile of rubbish," Russell Senior reflects, standing on the biggest traffic roundabout in Europe. "We grew up reading the local paper and seeing 'Sheffield, city of the future,' with a map of how it's going to be and pictures of everyone walking around in spacesuits, smiling. But we're the only ones who took it seriously..."

"When I was younger I definitely thought I'd live in space," says Jarvis Cocker ruefully. "But when you realise you're not going to, it colours your life; you can't think, 'It's alright if I'm signing on because I'll be on Mars soon', you have to try and get it down here." So what are you getting into at the moment? "Cooking. It's very good. Cooking for your friends is very therapeutic, and they always say it's nice, 'cos they're just pleased they didn't have to get out of their seats to help."

Pulp - singer Jarvis, guitarist/violinist Russell, Nick Banks (drums), Steve Mackey (bass) and Candida Doyle (Farfisa, Korg and Stylophone) - are sitting in a dressing room at the Sheffield Leadmill with a pointless prop - a large, silver, faintly sinister head - for company. It is a special day. In the afternoon, hundreds of balloons have been released to mark the debut of their new label, Gift, a perverse indie spin-off from local Techno-vendors Warp. Later, they will play a dizzily great set of twisted disco melodrama. For now, though, they have a long ten years - and extraordinarily unsuccessful career to explain.

"Music's the only thing that can keep you going," says Jarvis, reassuringly clichéd. "If you're not getting paid loads of money and not getting loads of girls sayin ' You're smashing', that's the only thing to fall back on. When I was at school I had specs and bad teeth and was a bit lanky, and so no girls were really interested, but I thought that if I was in a group they'd think I was good... So on that level I've failed miserably. But that's why all sad kids do it, innit? Standing on the stage is like wanking off in front of a mirror. People in bands are social misfits aren't they?"

Looking at Jarvis - still wearing specs, still lanky (I didn't check his teeth) - and the rest of Pulp clad in a hundred shades of brown, a bit of lamé and countless other '70s synthetic atrocities, it's hard not to conclude that they're proud to be social misfits. Russell, meanwhile, is musing on how a band who haven't released an album since 1985 have kept going. "A band that's been together for a decade and has never sold any records is either very, very crap indeed OR they've got something strong keeping them together. I can't make up my mind which of those two it is yet."

"It's about not being able to make it in the real world," reckons Jarvis, back on his misfit tack. "I haven't got a City & Guilds certificate or anything, I haven't got a skill." What about film work (he and Steve are fully trained and occasionally practising video-makers)? "Oh yeah, I have got that," he admits bashfully. "But that's why I went to college, 'cos you do see sad characters walking around who used to be in a band about five years ago, and they always look like a dog that's got lost."

Pulp are currently busier, in bigger demand, than ever before. There's a frantically groovy new single, 'OU', about someone woken up by the sound of his girlfriend leaving him and wondering whether to chase after her or stay in bed; plus there's an album recorded in 1989, 'Separations', finally set for release on their old label, Fire. Both are tense, funny, fizzily danceable and flamboyantly out of step with most of the world, let alone the music scene.

"I like the light entertainment, Des O' Connor feel more than the greasy 'I'm on Highway 66, man' feel," says arch-crooner Cocker. "It's something that's going to die out. You listen to radio 2 - well, I do anyway - and they play Matt Munro, Engelbert Humperdinck and stuff that doesn't really get made anymore. It's a bit clichéd, and that's why people think it's cheesy. But the reason why people performed in that way is 'cos it's quite effective; if you can break through the cheese barrier, you can make contact..."

And so they go on. About people who find their balloons will be treated to a night in with Pulp, to listen to sports themes and BBC Radiophonic Workshop records, and play Stereo Ker-Plunk. About how Choppers are better than Grifters, and how Russell once smashed up the Leadmill dressing room in a fit of pique, only to be caught the next morning sneaking in to replace the bulbs he'd broken.

The last I see of Jarvis, he's standing on the bar at the after-show party, trying to organise the drunken liggers to play musical statues for a can of beer, while 'Nevermind' stops and starts incongruously in the background. It is, like a knackered redcoat struggling to bring culture to barbarians, not a pretty sight. The last I see of Candida, she's leafing through the Leadmill's visitors' book. Amidst pages of revealing scrawls - Spiritualized's inscrutable squiggles, Sultans Of Ping FC's unfunny cartoons - Pulp are there again and again and again; strange, sardonic, not all there but always bloody there. Whoever said all good things must come to an end was a useless liar.

Tagged by @babytarttdoodoo and @jamietarttdodododododo for a song challenge. I’m gonna give two answers because of my two taggers!

Tell me the song that most describes you as a writer. Interpret that however you want.

🎶 On the way up I just knew🎶

🎶the night before I'd been good and true🎶

🎶 The walls come down like thunder, the rock's about to roll🎶

🎶It's the arockalypse, now bare your soul

Tagging 2 folks too! @orbitalpirate and @goodmorninglovelies42

Album of the Week: Love is the Only Thing by Peter Mulvey and SistaStrings

Album of the Week: Love is the Only Thing by Peter Mulvey and SistaStrings

Album: Peter Mulvey & SistaStrings Artist: Love is the Only Thing Release Date: August 12, 2022 Label: Righteous Babe Records Favorite Tracks: Soft Animal Old Men Drinking Seagram’s On the Eve of the Inaugural See You on the Other Side Love is the Only Thing Thoughts: Peter Mulvey is a singer/songwriter/guitarist based in Milwaukee on the contemporary folk circuit whose career I’ve been…

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The blurring of performance reinforced at the end of the play and film when the film's cast comes out to bow is reminiscent of Greenaway's own confusing roles as director, sadist, critic, and fetishist. The daughter (or actress--it is impossible to choose the proper name here), the Bishop's son and the bull are all wheeled out in carts--all seemingly dead. The baby is dismembered and only his head is present at the play's/film's end. These four are the casualties of the film--the bodies that are not recuperated through a final bow, who do not acknowledge that this is, after all, "just" a performance, "only a play," or "only a film." It is difficult to discern precisely who is deriving pleasure from Greenaway's often sadistic cinema, but perhaps what is ultimately being critiqued is the notion that the end goal of cinema is, in fact, pleasure. Though Laura Mulvey has approached this same subject matter in a radically different way, the fetishization of sexual violence can be understood as a means by which such a critique can be leveled. However, the risk of the critique becoming impossibly blurred with the uncritical fetish itself is almost inherent in such absurdist narrative. The care with which Greenaway and cinematographer Sacha Vierny photograph otherwise repulsive or unviewable scenes makes understanding Greenaway as a critic of sexual violence a rather difficult undertaking. The stunning beauty of the repulsive in a Greenaway film suggests that Greenaway takes pleasure in the act of forcing his audiences to see (or perhaps even more, to desire to see) that which would typically remain taboo, unseeable.

— Cinematic Violations in Peter Greenaway's The Baby of Mâcon, Marsha Gordon

hello cat & mouse! i was wondering if you had any face claim suggestions for disabled men, particularly someone who uses a cane? poc preferred but not necessary, also hoping for someone in their 30s to late 40s. thank you in advance!

Daryl Mitchell (1965) African-American - is paraplegic - has younger roles and for googling purposes he's an actor!

Peter Dinklage (1969) - has achondroplasia.

Brian Grant (1972) African-American - has Parkinson’s Disease.

Ade Adepitan (1973) Yoruba Nigerian - is paraplegic.

Callan Mulvey (1975) ¼ Maori, ¾ Scottish - is blind In one eye.

Hsiao Huang-chi (1976) Taiwanese - is blind due to Congenital Cataracts at birth.

Chinedu Ikedieze (1977) Nigerian - has dwarfism.

Kurt Yaeger (1977) - is a leg amputee.

MF Grimm / Percy Carey (1979) African-American - is paraplegic.

Lee Ridley (1980) - has cerebral palsy.

Paul Williams (1981) African-American - is paraplegic, is a boxer for googling purposes!

Rana Daggubati / Ramanaidu Daggubati (1984) Telugu Indian - is blind in right eye.

Nick Newell (1985) Brazilian - is a congenital amputation.

Kenta Kambara (1986) Japanese - has Spina Bifida.

Ryan O'Connell (1986) - has cerebral palsy.

Tim Renkow (1989) Mexican Jewish - has cerebral palsy.

Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton (1989) African-American - is blind.

Steve Way (1990) - has muscular dystrophy.

RJ Mitte (1992) - has cerebral palsy.

Oliver Lam-Watson (1992) - has klippel-trenaunay syndrome.

Arthur Hughes (1992) - has an upper-limb difference.

Gregg Mozgala (34 or older) - has cerebral palsy.

Hey anon, unfortunately I couldn't find anybody who uses a cane regardless of ethnicity but her are some disabled actors in that age range since you said preferred and if our followers know of more please let me know and I'll update the ask ASAP!

hii ok spotify 4, 14, 24, 34 and 44🎷🎸 and! what is ur highest numbered song that you think of as a dancasey song

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4 - shirt by peter mulvey

14 - hey julie by fountains of wayne

24 - everybody does by julien baker

34 - once in a lifetime by the talking heads

44 - riches and wonders by the mountaing goats

highest ranked dancasey song is mrs potter's lullaby by the counting crows coming in at #8 - i first listened to this on the playlist for this fic and then i promptly forgot where i'd found it and listened to it for ages and then when i fell back into sn again i was like holy shit this is such a dancasey song and Then when i read the fic again i was like Hoy Shit someone thought the same as me! i only figured this out bc i looked at the playlist again like hold up i first listened to all of these songs at about the same time wait nvm i got them from this playlist