#Bruce John Dickinson

[dickinson-devotee]

A bit of Alexander the Great! Just 2 from the Future Past tour. #alexanderthegreat #ironmaiden #futurepasttour

📸: John McMurtrie

[yorgunherakles]

bu insanlar kuruntularını kendilerinden hatta sevdiklerinden daha çok seviyorlar.

bruce fink - lacan'da aşk

[alexcita]

Hi guys, my name is Alexa and 19 and I am looking for some more metal head friends because there’s like zero in my town. I love a lot of bands like Iron Maiden, dream theater, Rush, Metallica, etc. and I would love to make friends and talk about it. Ill try to be more active on Tumblr because I don’t post much or I’m active on Instagram if ever want to hit me up there @x.alexcitaaaa.x

[buffyfan145]

Just realized if turns out to be true that Harris Dickinson is playing John Lennon in the 4 Beatles biopics that he and Jeremy Allen White are both going to be playing famous musicians as Jeremy's playing Bruce Springsteen in the movie about the "Nebraska" album. 😀 They went from playing 2 of my favorite wrestles to now playing 2 of my favorite musicians. LOL

ETA: I also just remembered how huge music fans and musicians the Von Erichs were too, so this is even more fitting as they likely were fans of both too.

[hardtickettohomevideo]

Schlocktoberfest XIII - Day 21: Forest Of Fear

Forest Of Fear (1980) Trailer: *Spoilers Throughout* What’s This About: What if Romero wrote and directed Reefer Madness. Here are some of my observations as I watched the film: All right, my copy of this is going by one of its many aka’s – Bloodeaters. That’s kooky. I’m not at all being sarcastic when I say that I love it when remastered 1080p Blu Rays show the beat up film and dirty camera…

[mosticonicbirdcallbracket]

MOST ICONIC BIRD CALL BRACKET: ROUND ONE: BARRED OWL vs. EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL

IN THE BLUE CORNER, we have the ruler of the night, the fierce and intimidating barred owl!

this humongous heavyweight has a wingspan of up to 125 cm/49 in, making it one of the larger members of the owl family. it distinguishes itself from other owls with its powerful call, which can be heard up to half a mile away. most people can recognize this call - a series of 8 hoots - with the mnemonic "who cooks for you, who cooks for you all." these hoots have even earned it a more colloquial name - the old eight-hooter. with razor-sharp talons and eyesight that could spot a mouse from a mile away, this predator is a force to be reckoned with!

IN THE RED CORNER, we have the master of the night, the most nefarious nightjar, the eastern whip-poor-will!

much like a pokemon, the whip-poor-will is a bird that sings its own name, a call that will send shivers down the spine of anyone who hears. its call has been immortalized in literature for hundreds of years, being described by writers such as robert frost, emily dickinson, washington irving, and elton john. this is a creature that has honed its skills in the art of stealth, so beware, competitors - the whip-poor-will is not to be underestimated.

[april-is]

April 12, 2024: A Small Psalm, Catherine Wing

A Small Psalm Catherine Wing

Sorrow be gone, be a goner, be forsooth un-sooth, make like a suit and beat it, vamoose from the heavy heavy, be out from under the night's crawlspace, call not for another stone, more weight more weight, be extinguished, extinguish, the dark, that which is deep and hollow, that which presses from all sides, that which squeezes your heart into an artichoke-heart jar and forbids it breathe, that which is measured by an unbalanced scale, banish the broken, the unfixable, the shattered, the cried-over, the cursed, the cursers, the curses— curse them, the stone from the stone fruit, let it be fruit, the pit from the pitted, the pock from the pocked, the rot from the rotten, tarry not at the door, jam not the door's jamb, don't look back, throw nothing over your shoulder, not a word, not a word's edge, vowel, consonant, but run out, run out like the end of a cold wind, end of season, and in me be replaced with a breath of light, a jack-o'-lantern, a flood lamp or fuse box, a simple match or I would even take a turn signal, traffic light, if it would beat beat and flash flood like the moon at high tide, let it, let it, let it flare like the firefly, let it spark and flash, kindle and smoke, let it twilight and sunlight, and sunlight and moonlight, and when it is done with its lighting let it fly, will'-o-the-wisp, to heaven.

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Also: + you can’t be a star in the sky without holy fire, Frank X. Gaspar + Untitled [I closed the book and changed my life], Bruce Smith

Today in:

2023: How to Do Absolutely Nothing, Barbara Kingsolver 2022: Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you., Gabrielle Calvocoressi 2021: I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store, Eve L. Ewing 2020: Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station And a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All its Invisible Fishes, Jane Hirshfield 2019: Flores Woman, Tracy K. Smith 2018: The Universe as Primal Scream, Tracy K. Smith 2017: Soul, David Ferry 2016: Turkeys, Galway Kinnell 2015: He Said Turn Here, Dean Young 2014: I Don’t Miss It, Tracy K. Smith 2013: Hotel Orpheus, Jason Myers 2012: Emily Dickinson’s To-Do List, Andrea Carlisle 2011: Now That I Am in Madrid and Can Think, Frank O’Hara 2010: The Impossible Marriage, Donald Hall 2009: The Rider, Naomi Shihab Nye 2008: from Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, John Berryman 2007: This Heavy Craft, P.K. Page 2006: Late Ripeness, Czeslaw Milosz 2005: A Martian Sends A Postcard Home, Craig Raine

[steveinscarlet]

thanks for answering my last ask love <3 i’m kind of in a sad mood rn but could you perhaps enlighten me with a soft steve fact or two? just as a cheer-me-up? hehe 💗 thanks so much!! <33

Aw, I'm sorry you're sad 😔

Hmm, soft Steve facts...

The Lepps had a wardrobe mistress called Robin, and Steve nicknamed her Bobbin for her sewing skills

Steve was too shy to ask John Fogarty for an autograph for himself so he pretended it was for someone else

Jamming in a club with the Phils from Girl plus Bruce Dickinson, Steve laid down on the drum riser and fell asleep

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

The Signing of the Declaration of Independence - CBS - February 6, 1955

A presentation of "You Are There" Season Season 3 Episode 24 (It was also presented in Season 1 Episode 13 on April 26, 1953 with the same cast)

Historical Reenactment

Running Time: 30 minutes

Directed by Jack Gage

Produced by Charles W Russell

Narrated by Walter Cronkite

News Reporters:

Harry Marble

Ned Calmer

Stars:

Shepperd Strudwick as Thomas Jefferson

Addison Richards as Benjamin Franklin

Philip Coolidge as John Adams

Fred Herrick as Merchant

Frank Aletter as Quaker

Bart Burns as Loafer

Bruce Williamson as Tom

Gene Peterson as Bill

Scott Tennyson as Frontiersman

Tom McDermott as Gentleman

John Shay as Captain Graydon

Rusty Lane as Samuel Adams

Philip Abbott as Edward Rutledge

Vinton Hayworth as John Dickinson

Francis Bethencourt as John Hancock

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.7

Beer Birthdays

Nicholas Fitzgerald (1829)

Henry C. Ramos (1846)

Henry J. Schreihart (1876)

John Allen Young (1921)

Mike Snyder (1964)

Teresa Politi; St. Pauli Girl 1998 (1965)

Tara Nurin (1973)

Patrick Rue (1980)

Five Favorite Birthdays

David Duchovny; actor (1960)

Stan Freberg; comedian, advertising creator (1926)

Rudolf Ising; cartoonist, animator (1903)

Alexei Sayle; English comedian, actor (1952)

Charlize Theron; actor, model (1975)

Famous Birthdays

Tobin Bell; actor (1942)

Alison Brown; banjo player (1962)

Ralph Bunche; diplomat (1904)

Bille Burke; actress (1885)

Aurelie Claudel; French model (1980)

Paula Wright Davis; suffragist (1813)

Alonso de Ercilla; poet (1533)

Bruce Dickinson; rock singer (1958)

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; feminist, labor leader, co-founder ACLU (1890)

John Glover; actor (1944)

Nathaniel Greene; Revolutionary War general (1742)

Mata Hari; Dutch spy (1876)

Louis Hazeltine; engineer, physicist (1886)

John Heathcoat; English inventor (1783)

Garrison Keillor; radio show host, writer (1942)

Rahasaan Roland Kirk; jazz saxophonist (1936)

Wayne Knight; actor (1955)

Don Larsen; New York Yankees P (1929)

Louis Leakey; anthropologist (1903)

Auguste Michel-Levy; French geologist (1844)

Emil Nolde; German artist (1867)

Jacquie O'Sullivan; pop singer (1960)

Alan Page; Minnesota Vikings DT, Minnesota supreme court justice (1945)

Jerry Pournelle; writer (1933)

Marcus Roberts; jazz pianist (1963)

B.J. Thomas; singer (1942)

George Van Eps; jazz guitarist (1913)

Jimmy Wales; Wikipedia founder (1966)

Wallace; claymation character, Gromit's owner

[nonaonann]

I like to think when Dick doesn't wanna give his real name, the names he gives are like, something similar enough to his real name/aliases but different enough to not have people think too deep about it.

For instance:

Richie Robinson

Johnathan Gray

Robby Dickinson

Kingsley Knights

Explanation for how I arrived at these:

1.) Richie came from "what if Dickie but for Richard not Dick" and Robinson cuz...well Robin's in the name.

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2.) Johnathan came from John, his middle name. DC has so many John and Jonathan's, he'll blend in. And then Gray...just take off son.

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3.) He gets called Rob sometimes when Robin, Robby's like a middle ground between the two. Dickinson, Dick's his name, explanatory enough.

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4.) Kingsley Knights came from "I wanna make one for Nightwing. Probably split it for Night and Wing, one for each name. Night for last name so that it's flipped and different somewhat. Knights seems more last name-y than Night, plus Gotham Kinghts. Wingsley sounds almost name-y, wait, Kingsley is a name I've heard."

BONUS

Tawny B. Churiee

Cameron Bawks Jr.

These come from trying to make an anagram of "I hate Bruce Wayne" and "Batman sucks" cuz I think Dick would find that funny to some extent. They aren't like, fully anagrams though maybe?

Tawny B. Churiee, the left over "bee" from "I hate Bruce Wayne" is just shortened to B. cuz the letter "b" is said like "bee." Don't know if his middle name would be Bee or if it's just something that starts with B.

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Cameron Bawks Jr. stared off as Tucamn Bawks and then changed to Cautmn Bawks. From there it was, "A name starting with Ca...Tucamn...Camn, Cam is short for Cameron—that's a name! And then taking Camn out of Tucamn leaves "Tu" which is said like "two." Maybe he can be the second of something lol. Ah, Jr. is the second for something, that works."

I've just been reminded of the time Tim Drake took up the alias Drake for that brief moment. I mean there's maybe some parallels or symbolism there but idk. Fun fact, this is how I found out Drake was Canadian.

[dickinson-devotee]

Happy birthday, Bruce! 🎂

📸: John McMurtrie

[julio-viernes]

“Peter Hammill es genial. Un verdadero original. Simplemente me ha gustado durante años. Si escuchas sus álbumes en solitario, estoy seguro de que Bowie copió mucho de ese vejete. Simplemente no se le ha dado el crédito que merece. Me encantan todas sus cosas” – John Lydon.

Lydon, un gran fan de Hammill- en la foto fotografiados tras un concierto de Van der Graaf en junio de 1978 en el Marquee de Londres-, lo mismo que Marc Almond de Soft Cell, Geddy Lee de Rush, Mark E. Smith de The Fall, Fish de Marillion, Graham Coxon de Blur, Bruce Dickinson de Iron Maiden... sólo por citar unos cuantos y bien distintos. Hermanos: todo está conectado. Quién quiera ver que vea. Leo también que David Bowie dijo ser en una ocasión un "poor man´s Peter Hammill". Punky Sinfo (Progs).

[sobbingdistantnoises]

I am a little confused about the ask game buttttt 

i just found this and i can’t stop laughing

also do you have any weird stories you’d like to tell? 

HELPPHDJSJAKKA, THAT'S AMAZING, hdjsjaj. Don't you just hate when your subconuous mind makes you build shelves? </3

BUT WEIRD STORIES, hm.

OKAY I THOUGHT OF SOMETHING. Basically, context: I've had the same history teacher and class for two years, and said teacher has taught at the school for since it was built. Therefore he was there for its whole history

What's also to note is that my course was a 2 year course with both freshmen and sophomores, and we had about 60 kids in the classroom. Therefore we needed a BIG classroom. The school didn't initially have classrooms big enough, so what they ended up doing was knocking a wall down between two small classrooms to form a big history classroom. However, because there used to be a wall in the middle of the classroom, there still needed to be a pole for integral structural support or whatever. Thus, my classroom had a 1x1 foot pole towards the front of it

Now (time), the teachers have put stuff on it, like Caravaggio paintings, some student's drawing of a theoretical mid evil (<- can't figure out how to spell it) kingdom ensignia (<- I should really use words I can spell) for my teacher, and Raphael's School of Athens. However, what my teacher told us last year is that that wasn't ALWAYS the case. Because several years back, some girl put a picture of some celebrity on it, then someone else did the same, etc etc. Basically, for a few years, it became known as the pole of hotness

However, for some reason, the hot people went away, and no one has added anything else to it.....UNTIL NOW.

You see, this year, I liked and became friends with the 3 people that sat at my table. So we hatched a PLAN ("plan") somewhere in the middle of the year to go and put someone on the pole of hotness "one day". However, then exams happened and we cried and forgot to do this until the second to last Thursday of school. Then forgot to do it until Friday morning, which was the last day of the normal school schedule and our last chance to pull it off

We all basically frantically tried to think of hot people that would be more or less universally known. Through a combination of none of us knowing universally known hot people or not wanting to confess to finding someone attractive, we settled on. Wait for it. Dante Alighieri's hat.

This is Dante ^ He was a mid evil Italian who wrote a long poem about going to hell with his friend Virgil (dead Roman poet) who he may or may not have either fatherzoned or had a celebrity crush on. Not sure if I'm honest. But either way, I don't recall his hat ever being important

STILL I managed to get a fixation on this hat. Let's go through a list of what I have done

Wrote "Dante Alighieri's dumb hat" in response to the question of the day, "what is your pet peeve". My friend drew him underneath, and my teacher pointed it out to the whole class and called it "the most humanities student thing ever" the next day

Wrote 6 pages of crossover crack fanfiction between Dante, his hat (which I named Lauren after the fact that laurel leaves exist and John Laurens (I didn't watch Hamilton by this point but I think I read a few fanfics)), and Paul Revere based on the idea that Lauren could talk for an assignment

(Not hat specific but) wrote about wanting to time travel to the moment Dante finished writing the Divine Comedy in order to appear as a divine being and scare him on my FINAL EXAM ESSAY (the whole essay was slightly unhinged in general but shh)

Added Dante's hat to a slideshow my friend's friends made called "chest hair history" in which they put a lot of shirtless people and shared with the history teachers at the end of the year (MY FULL NAME IS ALSO ON THIS THING. ON THE FIRST SLIDE) (unrelated but this whole slideshow is so dumb, there's Elon Musk, Michelangelo's David, Bruce Dickinson (I LATER FOUND OUT MY TEACHER IS AN IRON MAIDEN FAN, dying), Steven Adler, and one of Genghis Khan's grandchildren, among others)

And now we have come to the point at which a fifth point will be added. But first, my friends and I frantically panicked as we realized that I was afraid to ask my art teacher (who is actually so nice, 10/10 teacher, I just fear things) to use the printer but was the only one with a period where I could effectively do whatever since it was the last days of school

So instead, I spent 40 minutes drawing, and then it was time to go to history, equipped with a colored pencil'd notebook paper drawing of his hat

Putting it on the pole was simultaneously both simpler and more difficult that we assumed (we had no plan). My teacher talked at the start of class, we realized we had no tape, we schemed (panicked) and didn't know what to do. My teacher finished went away to his farther away desk. We decided to go steal some tape from the teacher's table that was ~two meters away from us. (ALSO NOTE. WE WERE NOT SLY. WE SAT AT THE FRONT OF THE ROOM, AND DANTE'S HAT IS BRIGHT RED.)

Tape acquired, we all looked at each other in our seats not knowing when to get up nor who will get up to put the paper on the wall. So impulsively, I took the paper, walked a few meters over to an emptier side of the pole, STUCK IT ON THERE, speedwalked back to my seat. And then the paper fell and I had to tape it again not a full 15 seconds later whilst the teacher had actually TURNED SO THAT I THINK I WAS IN VIEW while I did the deed, hfjsjaka. (And there was also a group of guys sitting right in front of the pole who looked at the new addition so ???ly, FJSJAJA)

And that is. the story of how I indirectly called some old dead guy's hat hot and subtly announced this to my history classroom for hopefully years to come (we shall see whether it's still up next year). I will also now pray that no one irl finds this post (I think at least one of the three friends has tumblr so. Fear.)

[paulalovesmetal]

Bruce Dickinson

#BruceDickinson #pic credit John McMurtrie #on the set of Abduction 2005

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | The Incubus (Hough, 1982)

I suspect the editing of the attacks was driven in part by fear of censors, but I think it works in the movie’s favour. They’re bruising, disorienting, in a way that evokes how the victims are struggling to grasp what’s happening to them. The movie also spices some of these up with the astute use of music, including one tremendous scene that cuts between an attack and an extravagant performance by metal band Samson, featuring a pre-Maiden Bruce Dickinson.

If anything, that scene foregrounds the weird gender politics at play, as it cuts between an act of misogynist violence with the opposite dynamic depicted in Samson’s stage show. And some eventual reveals (which I won’t spoil) complicate obvious reads of the movie in this respect. I’m sure somebody much smarter than me can unpack these elements with much more clarity than I’m capable of, but I think the thorniness of the material adds to the unease.

This is directed by John Hough, whose Legend of Hell House is one of the gold standards of haunted house movies. He brings the same sturdiness in directing this one, and gets a lot of help from John Cassavetes bringing the full force of his age and wear in grounding the material. It’s not an easy task, given how much of his screentime he spends talking about sperm, but I think he gives a real emotional weight to the proceedings and his relationship with his daughter feels nicely lived in.