Midsomer Murders. The Axeman Cometh.

I love when George gets to have fun and make the sergeants uncomfortable 😂

I love George!!! look at him he just broke out some freshly post-mortemed liver and kidneys. he loves his job he's so happy, meanwhile Jones

ALSO in The Axeman Cometh, I got SO UPSET when Axeman was being sort of rude to Tom in that first scene they interacted. Just seeing Tom so sad :( it hurt my feelings too!! I think I was less upset when he was nearly strangled to death 😭

//In Market for Murder, Barnaby and Troy’s conversation about the comic book, especially Barnaby’s causal “You think you know someone…” line while he is skimming The Hawk, is so interesting. On one hand, it’s a bit of Andrew Payne being cheeky, giving a fun little interval that riffs on the age and priority differences between Barnaby and Troy. Barnaby’s fretting about his pension while Troy is thinking about his comic book, a theme further underlined when Barnaby asks Troy about if he’s got his pension sorted, and Troy insists he’s too young to worry about that. On the other hand, it is such an interesting nod to Barnaby’s character because, so often, we see that he doesn’t know people as well as he thinks he does. Multiple Midsomer episodes, like Death and Dreams, Destroying Angel, Sins of Commission, the Axeman Cometh, The Chocolate Box, The Noble Art, Sauce for the Goose, and Down Among the Dead Men all feature plots where Barnaby befriends/is soft upon the character who later proves to be the killer.  He gets to know the persona they present to him and, because he is fond of that persona, he is reluctant to dig deeper until he absolutely has too. In Troy’s case, it’s pretty harmless. Troy is just much more private then Scott or Jones, and wants to hide the fact he has a nerdy side because it clashes with his perception of masculinity and professionalism. In a lot of the other causes, it is much, much more serious because Barnaby is blissfully taking advice from, and discussing the current case with the murder themselves. And yet, Barnaby still tends to hold the opinion that he can read people well—temporarily being proven wrong in that area does not deter him for long.

@eclecticwildflowers tagged me to make a playlist based on each letter of my url, thank you!!!!

a - axeman cometh//wicked lady

s - sails of charon//scorpions

h - hang on to your ego//the beach boys

l - lil' red riding hood//sam the sham & the pharoahs

e - the end//the doors

y - you stepped out of a dream//tony martin

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s - say you'll be there//spice girls

l - lemme take you to the beach//frank zappa

a - act naturally//loretta lynn

s - superstar//carpenters

h - here today//the beach boys

l - lady loves//debbie reynolds

e - everybody needs somebody to love//the blues brothers

y - you got it//roy orbison

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The Axeman Cometh - Wicked Lady - 1968

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Midsomer Murders. The Axeman Cometh.

Midsomer Murders

Season 10 The Axeman Cometh

i'm watching midsomer murders & it's really fucking long

PILOT (1997): (1) the killings at badger's drift

SERIES ONE (1998):

(2) 1.01: written in blood (3) 1.02: death of a hollow man (4) 1.03: faithful unto death(5) 1.04: death in disguise

SERIES TWO (1999):

(6) 2.01: death's shadow (7) 2.02: strangler's wood (8) 2.03: dead man's eleven(9) 2.04: blood will out

SERIES THREE (1999 – 2000):

(10) 3.01: death of a stranger (11) 3.02: blue herrings (12) 3.03: judgement day(13) 3.04: beyond the grave

SERIES FOUR (2000 – 2001):

(14) 4.01: garden of death (15) 4.02: destroying angel (16) 4.03: the electric vendetta (17) 4.04: who killed cock robin? (18) 4.05: dark autumn(19) 4.06: tainted fruit

SERIES FIVE (2002):

(20) 5.01: market for murder (21) 5.02: a worm in the bud (22) 5.03: ring out your dead(23) 5.04: murder on st. malley's day

SERIES SIX (2003):

(24) 6.01: a talent for life (25) 6.02: death and dreams (26) 6.03: painted in blood (27) 6.04: a tale of two hamlets(28) 6.05: birds of prey

SERIES SEVEN (2003 – 2004):

(29) 7.01: the green man (gavin troy leaves!) (30) 7.02: bad tidings (dan scott arrives!) (31) 7.03: the fisher king (32) 7.04: sins of commission (33) 7.05: the maid in splendour (34) 7.06: the straw woman(35) 7.07: ghosts of christmas past

SERIES EIGHT (2004 – 2005):

(36) 8.01: things that go bump in the night (37) 8.02: dead in the water (38) 8.03: orchis fatalis (39) 8.04: bantling boy (40) 8.05: second sight (41) 8.06: hidden depths (42) 8.07: sauce for the goose(43) 8.08: midsomer rhapsody (dan scott leaves!)

SERIES NINE (2005 – 2006):

(44) 9.01: the house in the woods (ben jones arrives!) (45) 9.02: dead letters (46) 9.03: vixen's run (47) 9.04: down among the dead men (48) 9.05: four funerals and a wedding (49) 9.06: country matters (50) 9.07: death in chorus(51) 9.08: last year's model

SERIES TEN (2006 – 2008):

(52) 10.01: dance with the dead (53) 10.02: the animal within (54) 10.03: king's crystal (55) 10.04: the axeman cometh (simon dixon arrives!) (56) 10.05: death and dust (57) 10.06: picture of innocence (58) 10.07: they seek him here (59) 10.08: death in a chocolate box

SERIES ELEVEN (2008 – 2010):

(60) 11.01: shot at dawn (61) 11.02: blood wedding (simon dixon leaves!) (62) 11.03: left for dead (63) 11.04: midsomer life (64) 11.05: the magician's nephew (65) 11.06: days of misrule (66) 11.07: talking to the dead (aired between s12 & s13)

SERIES TWELVE (2009 – 2010):

(67) 12.01: the dogleg murders (68) 12.02: secrets and spies (69) 12.03: the black book (70) 12.04: the glitch (71) 12.05: small mercies (72) 12.06: the creeper (73) 12.07: the great and the good

SERIES THIRTEEN (2010 – 2011):

(74) 13.01: the made-to-measure murders (75) 13.02: the sword of guillaume (john barnaby arrives!) (76) 13.03: blood on the saddle (77) 13.04: the silent land (78) 13.05: master class (79) 13.06: the noble art (80) 13.07: not in my back yard (81) 13.08: fit for murder (tom barnaby leaves! also joyce & cully barnaby, gail stephens!)

SERIES FOURTEEN (2011 – 2012):

(82) 14.01: death in the slow lane (sykes the dog arrives!) (83) 14.02: dark secrets (sarah barnaby arrives!) (84) 14.03: echoes of the dead (85) 14.04: the oblong murders (george bullard leaves!) (86) 14.05: the sleeper under the hill (kate wilding arrives!) (87) 14.06: the night of the stag (88) 14.07: a sacred trust (89) 14.08: a rare bird

SERIES FIFTEEN (2012 – 2013):

(90) 15.01: the dark rider (91) 15.02: murder of innocence (92) 15.03: written in the stars (93) 15.04: death and the divas (94) 15.05: the sicilian defence (95) 15.06: schooled in murder (ben jones leaves!)

SERIES SIXTEEN (2013 – 2014):

(96) 16.01: the christmas haunting (charlie nelson arrives!) (97) 16.02: let us prey (98) 16.03: wild harvest (99) 16.04: the flying club (100) 16.05: the killings of copenhagen (betty barnaby arrives!)

SERIES SEVENTEEN (2015):

(101) 17.01: the dagger club (102) 17.02: murder by magic (103) 17.03: the ballad of midsomer county (104) 17.04: a vintage murder (kate wilding leaves!)

SERIES EIGHTEEN (2016):

(105) 18.01: habeas corpus (kam karimore arrives!) (106) 18.02: the incident at cooper hill (107) 18.03: breaking the chain (108) 18.04: a dying art (109) 18.05: saints and sinners (110) 18.06: harvest of souls (charlie nelson & sykes the dog leave!)

SERIES NINETEEN (2016 – 2018):

(111) 19.01: the village that rose from the dead (jamie winter & paddy the dog arrive!) (112) 19.02: crime and punishment (113) 19.03: last man out (114) 19.04: red in tooth & claw (115) 19.05: death by persuasion (116) 19.06: the curse of the ninth (kam karimore leaves!)

SERIES TWENTY (2019 – 2020):

(117) 20.01: the ghost of causton abbey (fleur perkins arrives!) (118) 20.02: death of the small coppers (119) 20.03: drawing dead (120) 20.04: the lions of causton (121) 20.05: till death do us part (122) 20.06: send in the clowns

SERIES TWENTY-ONE (2020 – 2021):

(123) 21.01: the point of balance (124) 21.02: the miniature murders (125) 21.03: the sting of death (126) 21.04: with baited breath

SERIES TWENTY-TWO (2021 – 2023):

(127) 22.01: the wolf hunter of little worthy (128) 22.02: the stitcher society (129) 22.03: happy families (130) 22.04: the scarecrow murders (131) 22.05: for death prepare (132) 22.06: the witches of angel’s rise

SERIES TWENTY-THREE (2024):

(133) 23.01: the blacktrees prophecy (134) 23.02: the debt of lies (135) 23.03: a grain of truth (136) 23.04: dressed to kill

SERIES TWENTY-FOUR (2024):

(137) 24.01: the devil's work (138) 24.02: book of the dead (139) 24.03: claws out (140) 24.04: climate of death

top 5 all time fave basslines ?

this may or may not be hard hhhh

bridge/breakdown (?) on sabbath bloody sabbath the bossa nova ish part

OH the one at 3:29 ish in d.i.e. by dead witches (14min vers)

THE INTRO TO THE AXEMAN COMETH actually the whole song is sooooorta the same riff but well

the main riff of skullcrusher by iron claw

thrust by white zombie. the whoooole song

I’ve made it to The Axeman Cometh and just. listen. I’m still thoroughly enjoying the show, but I don’t want to meet Simon Dixon. in my heart Cully belongs with Gavin

music post

shitty unorganized post of music i like! maybe i will fix it later if i suddenly decide my blog needs organizing. might be kinda long. i'll edit this whenever i feel like it

my favourite favourite bands: (i like a LOT of bands, some of my favourite albums and songs are by artists not on this list, but these are the ones i consistently really like)

the chameleons; 80s post punk

the damned; punk, post punk, gothic rock, pretty eclectic

magazine; 80s post punk

the sound; 80s post punk

uriah heep; 70s prog/hard rock

favourite favourite albums: (alphabetical order by artist)

living in darkness - agent orange

burning from the inside - bauhaus

fire of unknown origin - blue öyster cult

peel sessions - the chameleons

script of the bridge - the chameleons

strange times - the chameleons

the black album - the damned

machine gun etiquette - the damned

strawberries - the damned

real life - magazine

secondhand daylight - magazine

ritchie blackmore's rainbow - rainbow

underwater moonlight - the soft boys

jeopardy - the sound

albums i like that are really obscure and/or esoteric and i want to share:

guitars of the oceanic undergrowth - honolulu mountain daffodils miklågard - miklågard calling on youth - the outsiders all fall down - the sound the axeman cometh - wicked lady psychotic overkill - wicked lady

The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)

Dropout Boogie. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

Intro ++ Stack Waddy – Willie The Pimp ++ Edgar Broughton Band – Dropout Boogie ++ Stack Waddy – Hoochie Coochie Man ++ Toad – They Say I’m Mad ++ Edgar Broughton Band – Out Demons Out ++ Monument – Stale Flesh ++ Zior – I Really Do ++ Schizo – Paraphrenia Praecox ++ Wicked Lady – The Axeman Cometh ++ Stack Waddy – Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut ++ Zior – Strange Kind Of Magic ++ Armaggedon – Oh Man ++ Zipper – Bullets ++ Led Zeppelin – No Quarter ++ Yesterday’s Children – Sailing ++ Zior – Za Za Za Zilda ++ Fuzz – This Time I Got A Reason ++ Fuzz – Fuzz’s Fourth Dream ++ Black Sabbath – The Wizard ++ Jethro Tull – A Song For Jeffrey ++ Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan ++ Ready Holden – Fruit & Iceburgs (Conclusion) ++ Band of Gypsys – Machine Gun ++ Howlin’ Rain – In Sand And Dirt ++ Heron Oblivion – Your Hollows ++ Dead Moon – Walking On My Grave

The axeman cometh…

//So, I watched Blood Wedding for the first time a few days ago, and then my mom was watching it yesterday while I hung over her shoulder, so I have thoughts I need to air. I think the biggest thought I have is how unprepared Cully seems to be about getting married. Now I’m no great romantic but when it’s t-minus two days to her wedding, and she’s stressing out that marrying Simon could potentially ruin her life, and she might be making the greatest mistake ever…that may not be a great sign. Pre-wedding jitters are natural but there’s jitters and then there’s….that. Then it’s her wedding day and she explains to her father that she’s agreed to “with all my worldly goods, I thee endow”, and then adds that “chances are I’ll come out ahead”. This raises the question of why she’s getting married, and are her emotions truly sincere? Sure, she tells Barnaby that she loves Simon…but then she acts more like she’s hammering out an acting contract instead of starting a marriage. Which leads to my BIGGEST point—Simon is boring as all get-out. He’s nice…and safe….and has the personality of wallpaper paste. Now, over the seasons Cully is romantically linked in some way, shape, or form to several guys but Simon is the one she marries. One guy is Nico Bentley, who she is actually involved with clear into the third series. In Judgement Day she repeatedly refers to Nico as her boyfriend, and in Beyond the Grave he is actually in the episode, and they are very clearly a couple. I’m also pretty sure Nico is who she marries in the book series. In my opinion, Nico’s really adorable. Especially in Beyond the Grave, he just shines between his clear intimidation around Barnaby that grows into respect as he learns more about police work, and his fun friendship with Troy as the two of them get to bond over dealing with Barnaby’s expectations. Then Nico vanishes and, briefly in season six, Cully starts flirting hard with Troy. Now it is hinted at in series 2’s episode Strangler’s Wood, that she and Troy are seeing each other but nothing comes of that until series 6 (unless you’re amused by the idea of Cully living with Nico in London but seeing Troy in Causton). But the way Cully pretty much throws herself right into Troy’s path in A Talent for Life makes me think she MAY have been rebounding from Nico, which is why nothing more really came from that relationship past Death and Dreams, except a few significant looks in The Green Man before Troy leaves. Now my feelings on Troy are pretty self-evident so moving on the infamous DS Scott. Now I actually get a kick out of Scott, and I like Scott with Cully better than I like Troy with Cully so that’s that. Now, aside from a one-episode fling with John Denton in Sins of Commission (series 7), Scott seems to be her most serious relationship to date besides Nico. I think she and Scott went well together because in many ways, they challenged each other, and Scott doesn’t roll over for her like a doormat. Cully’s strong-willed and opinionated but Scott pushes back in a way the other guys don’t. However, Scott mysteriously vanishes, joins Nico into the plot ether and we get…Simon Dixon, the wall-paper man. (Now I have not seen The Axeman Cometh yet so I may be missing some brilliant bit of Simon’s personality but the other three episodes he’s in, he’s boring). Simon who, like I said, is nice…and dull….and safe…and someone Cully can basically lead around by the ear. I’ve been polishing a headcanon that Cully really did love either Troy or Scott the most, but she ended the relationships because she wanted something safer and more predictable for her life. Both men are really good guys once you get under their surface, but they’re also opinionated, a bit brash sometimes, and intense when they’ve been riled. Of course, she would be 100% safe with either of them, but they would not be able to promise a smooth and predictable ride…all she has to do is look at her own parents to prove that. So, she picks Simon. Safe, reliable, secure, milk-toast Simon because he seems like the smartest choice. And she is fond of him, and she does love him so there’s that too. And even if they do end up having a very successful and long marriage (something I lowkey doubt in the back of my mind) part of Cully is always going to wonder what would have happened if she had taken a risk and went with the Other Guy. Would she have been happier picking romance over security, even if it meant living a more unpredictable life?