#Jim Larkin

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1947 – Death of trade union leader and socialist activist, James Larkin.

Union Leader, James Larkin dies quietly (unlike his life) in Dublin. In a beautiful tribute, Playwright Sean O’Casey said of Big Jim, ‘He fought for the loaf of bread as no man before him had ever fought; but with the loaf of bread, he also brought the flask of wine and the book of verse.’ James Larkin was probably the most effective labour leaders in Irish history leading major strikes of 1907…

[nerds-yearbook]

Marvel released it's own version of Heavy Metal with Epic illustrated, the first issue had a cover date of March, 1980. The magazine format and lack of comic's code allowed for Marvel to release "mature content". The anthology series also allowed the artists and writers to have ownership and royalties to their work instead of the standard work for hire that dominated standard comics. The first run ran for 34 issues. The first issue lead to the creation of Dreadstar and also included stories set in the Elfquest universe and Silver Surfer from the mainstream Marvel Universe. ("The Answer", "Homespun", "Aware", "For the Next 60 Seconds", "Aknaton: Chapter One", "Lullabye of Bedlam", "Elfspire", "History of Human Absurdity Part 1", "The Victor", "Shakti", "Convert", "Heads", "Za! Chapter Two", "Juliet Chapter Three", "Detour", "Topaz", Epic Illustrated 1, Marvel/Epic Comic Event)

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A short drabble about Peter’s uncle Jim that I just couldn’t get out of my head. I hope you all enjoy!

[camyfilms]

ALADDIN 1992

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts. This is no ordinary lamp! It once changed the course of a young man's life; a young man who, like this lamp, was more than what he seemed: a diamond in the rough. Perhaps you would like to hear the tale? 

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my 90's Fest Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 marathon...Aladdin (1992) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #animation #musical #comedy #actionadventure #aladdin #RobinWilliams #RIPRobinWilliams #scottweinger #LindaLarkin #GilbertGottfried #RIPGilbertGottfried #jimcummings #HalSmith #shebwooley #vintage #VHS #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas4thannual90sfest

[mannytoodope]

Flo: Joyce is very upset.

Hopper: Well, Flo, Flo, we've discussed this. Mornings are for coffee and contemplation.

Flo: Chief, she's already in your....

Hopper: Coffee and contemplation, Flo!

[darkpeacemusic]

ℂ𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕡𝕪𝕡𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕒 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕟𝕤: 𝔽𝕦𝕝𝕝 𝕟𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤

Jeff the Killer - Jeffrey "Jeff" Alan Dan Woods

Homicidal Liu - Liuis "Liu" Victoria Woods

Sully - Sullivan "Sully" Akira Woods

Randy - Randall "Randy" Allen Warren

Keith - Keith Harvey Davis-Green

Troy - Troy John Green

Ben Drowned - Benjamin "Ben" Scott Lawman

Jane - Jane Todd Richardson-Vaughn

Mary - Mary Annabelle Vaughn

Ticci Toby - Tobias "Toby" Erin Rogers

Masky - Timothy "Tim" Buck Wright

Hoodie - Brian Hunter Thomas

Skully - Jay Gabriel Merrick

Kate the Chaser - Kate Eleanor Milens-Hayes

Charlie - Charles Matheson Jr.

Laughing Jack - Laughing Jack in a Box

Eyeless Jack - Jackson "Jack" Nicky Nyras

Slenderman - Simon (middle and last name unknown) (Human name prior to his experimentation/death)

Splendorman - Jim (Human name prior to his experimentation/death)

Trenderman - Beau (Human name prior to his experimentation/death)

Tenderman - Cedric (Human name prior to his experimentation/death)

Sally - Sally Maryam Dawn (formerly Williams)

Dr Smiley - Azerael Jesse Smiley

Nurse Ann - Annie "Ann" Lusen Mia

Nina - Nina Selene Hopkins

Candy Pop - Unknown

Candy Cane - Unknown

April Fools - Unknown

Jason the Toymaker - Jason Caleb Meyer

The Puppeteer - Jonathan Cole Blake

Clockwork - Natalie Priscilla Ouellette

Rouge - Heather Bridget Marshall

Wilson - Wilson Liam Marshall (neé Jones)

Zalgo - Z͠a̛'l͘ga̶t҉ot̡h

Queen Blackheart (oc) - Elizabeth Cindy Phillips (name prior to death)

Lazari - Lazari Natalie Swann

Stripes - Eloise Sarah Bellarose (name prior to her death)

Nathan - Nathan Maxwell Lux

Bloody Painter - Helen Delilah Otis

Kagekao - Unknown

Laughing Jill - Laughing Jill in a Box

Sadie - Sadie Marie Bennett

Hobo Heart - Unknown

Cat Hunter - Rodrigo Milo Ortiz

Chris the Revenant - Christine "Chris" Wendy Meyers

X-Virus - Cody Larkin Drake

Dollmaker - Erina Jezebel Kerenzalys

Frankie the Undead - Frankie Hades Asher (his real name prior to his death)

Judge Angels - Dina Angela Clark

Lifeless Lucy - Lucy Ava Jones

Lost Silver - Ethan Kin Fuji (his real name before his death)

Glitchy Red - Red (his real name remains a mystery)

Strangled Red - Steven Garrett Stoughton

Dr. Locklear - Evander Agnar Locklear

Lulu - Lucille "Lulu" Tiffany Greatfeil

Killing Kate - Katherine "Kate" Evelyn Knight

Screaming Dawn (oc) - Dawn Evelyn Woods

Will Grossman - William "Will" Gordon Grossman

Lulling Lauren - Lauren Robyn Ross (neé Evans)

CR - Carl Morton Ross

Emra - Emra Amelia Blake (neé Albridge)

Zero - Alice Marie Jackson

Slendrina - Charlotte (first name prior to death/experimentation)

Lily - Lily May Kennett

Nightmare Ally - Adeline "Ally" Ashley Abendroth

Zachary the Proxy - Zachary Julius Gibson

Oliver - Oliver Gorgon Henderson

Alex Kralie - Alexander "Alex" Joseph Kralie

Amy - Amy Callie Walters

Jessica - Jessica Ellie Locke

Seth - Seth Apollo Reid-Wilson (neé Wilson)

Sarah - Sarah Cassie Reid-Wilson (neé Ried)

Third Base - Richard "Doby" Vincent Doggers

Vailly - Vailly Suki Evans

[leonardperreault]

does ryleigh get to go to duel in the d/make it through the game?

she does! she does have to head down to the red wings “family room” during the third period because her head begins to hurt and it’s a lot

so she and ellen go down after getting the code to get in from Larkin and watch the game from in there

ellen Jim and Ryleigh then go out to dinner with the mcgroartys after and it’s a great night!

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 30 January:

1649 – King Charles I is beheaded for treason. He was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. When Richard Brandon, Executioner for the City of London refused involvement in the execution, emissaries were sent to Ireland, Scotland and Wales in search of a volunteer. There is much speculation about the masked executioner – it…

[swayhere]

canon starter call - open to anyone !

i have a strong urge to write some canon muses, so if you would be interested in writing against any of the canon muses listed under the READ MORE below, please comment/IM me and i can send a starter your way or reply to one of your starters.

i do not require you to know anything about my muse's canon, but i'm more than happy to tell you about it if you ask. i'd be happy to write canon muses against your ocs! also, mixing fandoms is 100% ok with me unless your canon muse is problematic and makes me uncomfy. my canon muses do not have all their memories or relationships from their life unless we plot it, but they will have the same general personality/ambitions.

if you are willing to write against my canon muses but don't care which, just like this post, and i'll take a look at your open starters and/or send you a closed starter at random with a muse i think fits the vibe.

*please don't agree to write against my canon muses if you're one of those picky weirdos that will be up in arms if i don't write a cannon muse exactly how you would.

( if you'd prefer to write against an oc muse only, check this post. )

canon muses i'd like to write: bold = extra big muse rn. strikethrough = exclusive, so not rn.

muses from tv shows: 

911 — eddie diaz , evan buckley , athena grant , bobby nash , karen wilson

911: lonestar — carlos reyes , grace ryder , judson ryder , t.k. strand , owen strand

as the world turns — dr. reid oliver , luke snyder

boy meets world — shawn hunter , jack hunter , angela moore , topanga lawrence

chuck — sarah walker , chuck bartowski , bryce larkin 

degrassi — jimmy brooks , sean cameron , ellie nash , marco del rossi , sav bhandari , drew torres , zoe rivas , miles hollingsworth iii , tiny bell , esme song , 

gilmore girls — jess , luke

good trouble — gael martinez , jamie hunter , callie adams foster , mariana adams foster , evan speck , joaquin perez , dennis cooper 

how i met your father — sid , ian , sophie , jesse

how i met your mother — marshall eriksen , lily aldrin , victoria

how to get away with murder — laurel castillo , connor walsh , oliver hampton , michaela pratt , frank delfino 

jessica jones — jessica jones

lost — kate austen , juliet burke , daniel faraday , desmond hume , sayid jarrah , sun-hwa kwon , claire littleton , walter ‘walt’ lloyd , charlie pace , hugo ‘hurley’ reyes , shannon rutherford , miles straume 

new amsterdam — lauren bloom , elizabeth wilder , casey acosta

new girl — nick miller , winston bishop , cece parekh

one tree hill — nathan scott , lucas scott , keith scott , chase adams , brooke davis 

outer banks (obx) — jj maybank , kiara carrera

please like me — arnold 

rosewell, new mexico — michael guerin , maria deluca , isobel evans

scandal — olivia pope , prezzy fitz

scooby doo — daphne blake

stranger things — robin buckley , steve harrington , jim hopper , chrissy cunningham , eddie munson , max mayfield , eleven , mike wheeler 

superstore — jonah simms

the 100 — finn collins

the bear — richie jerimovich, carmy berzatto , marcus , sydney adamu  

the mindy project — danny castellano 

the office — ryan howard , jim halpert , pam halpert , kelly kapoor , holly flax

the politician — river barkley , astrid sloan 

the young & the restless — sally spectra , adam newman , chelsea lawson , phyllis summers , lily winters , sharon newman , chance chancellor , victoria newman , tessa porter , amanda sinclair , cole howard

younger — josh , kelsey peters

muses from books: 

along for the ride ( book version only ) — eli stock , auden west , maggie  

one of us is lying ( book version only ) — cooper clay , nate

red white & royal blue — alex claremont-diaz , prince henry , zahra bankston

we were liars — gatwick ‘gat’ matthew patil

muses from movies: 

dead poets society — neil perry , charlie dalton , todd anderson

harry potter — lee jordan

les mis — enjolras , grantaire 

super 8 — joe lamb , martin , preston

twilight — irina denali , jasper cullen

[colinodonoghuebrasil]

Estrelas musicais se alinham para o drama "The Gray House" – DEADLINE (Tradução)

Estrelas musicais se alinham para o drama da Guerra Civil THE GRAY HOUSE com Willie Nelson, Shania Twain, Yolanda Adams, Lainey Wilson, Killer Mike e mais na trilha sonora.

As estrelas da música estão se preparando para THE GRAY HOUSE, de Kevin Costner e Morgan Freeman.

Leslie Greif abriu a playlist da série com exclusividade para o Deadline e há uma grande potência estelar aí, incluindo uma música original interpretada pela lenda da música country Willie Nelson, que encerra a série. Além disso, Shania Twain, Killer Mike e Yolanda Adams estão entre os que participarão, e Jon Bon Jovi co-escreve uma das músicas do programa.

A matéria completa, e em inglês, você pode ler CLICANDO AQUI. Segue tradução feita pela Equipe COBR:

“Minha ideia foi, em vez de ter uma música-título [final], ter oito músicas diferentes de artistas vencedores do Grammy e de diferentes gêneros musicais, que foram escritas para o nosso programa e que contarão a história daquele episódio”, disse Greif, que é produtor executivo e escreveu o roteiro com Darrell Fetty e John Sayles.

“Heart of America”, de Nelson, foi escrito por Erin Enderlin, Jim ‘Moose’ Brown e Jeff Fahey. Ela encerra a minissérie, que conta com Costner e Freeman como produtores executivos. A série acompanha um trio de heroínas desconhecidas que fazem parte de uma rede de espionagem que tenta virar a maré da Guerra Civil Americana a favor do Norte. Mary-Louise Parker, Amethyst Davis, Daisy Head e Ben Vereen fazem parte do elenco.

“Todas essas pessoas vieram, com base no trailer, no tema do programa e no desejo de fazer parte de algo importante”, disse Greif, que co-produziu várias das músicas da série. Shania Twain ficou evidentemente impressionada. Como parte do dueto com Drake Milligan, ela apresenta uma música intitulada “I'll Be Here With You”.

Yolanda Adams, uma das artistas gospel mais vendidas de todos os tempos e estrela da série Kingdom Business do BET+, canta “Love Will Rescue Me”, que encerra o segundo episódio. Lainey Wilson, que foi eleita a artista do ano no Academy of Country Music Awards deste ano, tem uma canção chamada “Dead End Road”.

A dupla de marido e esposa War and Treaty interpreta o tema do título principal “Blood In The River” na série dirigida por Roland Joffe, bem como a música do título final “If This Day Was The Last Day”. Killer Mike participa da ação com um número chamado “Spying Eyes”.

O episódio de abertura da série termina com “Unholy Water”, interpretada por Adrienne Warren. A música vem de uma equipe poderosa de Jon Bon Jovi, Desmond Child e Butch Walker. Larkin Poe, ganhador do prêmio Grammy, participa com uma música chamada “The Devil's Boat”.

Scott Stapp, que co-escreveu uma das músicas da trilha sonora de “É Assim Que Acaba”, apresenta “Red, White, & Blue”, que ele escreveu com Marti Frederiksen e Desmond Child. O compositor e integrante do Hall da Fama, Child, tem créditos de composição em várias músicas da série.

THE GRAY HOUSE é da Paramount Global, e seu braço de distribuição está o vendendo internacionalmente. Ainda não há notícias sobre seu lançamento nos EUA. É produzido pela Territory Pictures, de Costner; pela Revelations Entertainment, de Freeman e Lori McCreary; e pela Big Dreams Entertainment, de Greif.

Confira a lista de reprodução completa de THE GRAY HOUSE abaixo:

Música: “Blood In The River” (Tema do título) Interpretada por: The War and Treaty Escrita por: Erin Enderlin, James 'Moose' Brown, Jeff Fahey

Música: “Unholy Water” (End Title – Episode 1) Interpretada por: Adrienne Warren Escrita por: Jon Bon Jovi, Butch Walker, Desmond Child

Música: “Love Will Rescue Me” (End Title – Episode 2) Interpretada por: Yolanda Adams Escrita por: Anthony Evans, Nick Pothoven

Música: “If This Day” (End Title – Episode 3) Interpretada por: The War and Treaty Escrita por: Diane Warren

Música: “Red, White, & Blue” (End Title – Episode 4) Interpretada por: Scott Stapp Escrita por: Scott Stapp, Marti Frederiksen, Desmond Child

Música: “Dead End Road” (Featured Song – Episode 5) Interpretada por: Lainey Wilson Escrita por: Lainey Wilson (ASCAP), Trannie Anderson, Paul Thomas Sikes

Música: “The Devil’s Boat” (End Title – Episode 5) Interpretada por: Larkin Poe Escrita por: Erin Enderlin, James “Moose” Brown, Jeff Fahey, Michael Trotter Jr., Tanya Trotter

Música: “Spying Eyes” (Smiling Faces) (End Title – Episode 6) Interpretada por: Killer Mike ft. Lena Byrd Miles Escrita por: Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield, Michael Render, Vidal Garcia, Cosmo Hickox, Max Perry, Robert Mandell

Música: “I’ll Be Here With You” (End Title – Episode 7) Interpretada por: Shania Twain & Drake Milligan Escrita por: Erin Enderlin, James “Moose” Brown, Jeff Fahey, Drake Milligan

Música: “Heart of America” (End Title – Episode 8) Interpretada por: Willie Nelson Escrita por: Erin Enderlin, James “Moose” Brown, Jeff Fahey

[goosemixtapes]

max's july 2024 reads

fiction

The Cage by A.M. Dellamonica (review)

How to Get Back to the Forest by Sofia Samatar

Spider the Artist by Nnedi Okorafor

A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman (review)

Ribbons by Natalia Theodoridou

the end of The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (review)

The Spindle of Necessity by B. Pladek

more A Tale of Two Cities

started Lost Places by Sarah Pinsker

truly incomprehensible amounts of friend critique

nonfiction

Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?

a deranged amount about benny hinn

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (review)

the latter half of The Secret to Superhuman Strength (reread)

other

the Behind the Bastards episode on Jim Bakker

"Church Going" and "Aubade" by Philip Larkin

[cagetheelephantofficial]

WATCH THE NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR “NEON PILL” NOW!!

DIRECTED & EDITED BY LORIS RUSSIER

NEON PILL CREDITS

Director & Editor: Loris Russier

Production Company: PRETTYBIRD

Executive Producer: Candice Dragonas

Producer: Autumn Maschi

Director of Photography: Andrea Gavazzi

Production Manager: Kayla Fantozzi

Production Coordinator: Natalie Ruffino

Commissioner: Nicholas Robespierre

1st AD:  Daniel Bennaiem

2nd AD: Kyler Wilson

1st AC: Richard Hilton

2nd AC: Maria Valetta

Cam PA: Sam Trad

Steadicam: Larkin McLaughlin

Gaffer: Barrett Depies

BBE: Sterling Simms

Electric: Christian Vargas, Michelob Fudesenko

Key Grip: Justin Sulham

BBG: Jim Gordon

3rd Grip: Henry Carey

Grip Driver: Christian Vargas

Productions Designer: Jenna Winn

Lead set dresser: Dillion Frazier

Set Dresser: Rashelle Felix

Set Dresser: Zach Palica

Stunt Coordinator: William Leaman

Fire specialist: Alex Smith

Stunt Performer: Jeron Bray

Stunt Performer: Mary Booth

Fire Safety: Myke Schwartz, Chad Joyce, Frank Blake

Pyro Tech: Robert Duke

Casting Director: Tina kerr

Cage the Elephant Stylist: Santa Versace-Bevacqua

Cast Stylist: Jessica Sheehan

Stylist Assistant: Zoey Zimbicki

Groomer: Ryin Overton

HMU: Melissa Olshavsky

Location scout: Donald Butler

Medic: Kirstin Broc-Reyes

Colorist: Dante Giani

Color house: Ethos studio

Post production: FORMS

VFX Supervisor: Sébastien Nebout

VFX artist: Mélanie geley

Sound design: Loris Russier

[v011d]

The darkness behind every light, as you go beyond that darkness is void ... everything is void ⸻ Samiyullaha Sayyed.

V011d. An independent portrayal of Lupin Delmont AKA The Void, who is an eldritch horror, a void fox whose destiny is to destroy the world and the universe by plunging it into eternal darkness and to bring chaos wherever he goes. His narrative and lore are set mainly in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina universe but he can fit into any fandom. There will be horror and supernatural elements dotted throughout. He is written and worshipped by Foxy. She, her, 32, United Kingdom Other verses include Supernatural, DC Comics, Umbrella Academy, Lucifer, Star Wars, Dragon Age, and Doctor Who. Lupin also has a Wolverine variant verse set in the Marvel Cinematic and Marvel universe. Multiship and Multiverse. Crossover friendly.

Image credit for the pinned image goes to @miercolaes and the icon credit goes to @mockiingbirdx

Rules. / About. / Verses./ Extra information. / Style. / Aesthetics. / Soundtrack

His inner circle. Nausi. / Peter. / Calcifer./ Kai./ Frost. / Larkin./ Lila. Evan. / Sean. / Kol./ Jim./ Emmanuel./ Elijah.

FEELS LIKE. The outsider. The outcast. The harbinger of chaos and destruction. Biting the hand that feeds. The void. Self destructive tendencies. Melancholy. Encroaching shadows.

[fruityyamenrunner]

Preface

The Angry Young Men and the satire movement of the 1950s. Why the Angry Young Men aroused hostility in the critics. ‘Class barriers’. Why my second book was panned. Rousseau’s ‘Man is born free’. Why Rousseau is central to this book. The New Héloïse and The Social Contract. For Rousseau, sexual revolution came before social revolution. ‘Sexual underprivilege’. Why the British were unworried about the French Revolution. Lord Russell throws a Frenchman’s shoes out of the window. Ireland and India. Osborne’s Jimmy Porter on his in-laws. My girlfriend’s parents and the ‘horsewhipping incident’. Look Back in Anger and The Outsider arrive in the same month in 1956. Osborne is chased down the Charing Cross Road.

1 Getting Launched

London in 1951. Where was the postwar literary generation? The British Museum Reading Room. London landladies. Angus Wilson’s Hemlock and After. Marriage breakdown. Laura Del Rivo and Bill Hopkins. ‘You are a man of genius – welcome to our ranks.’ Paris. George Plimpton and the Café Tournon. Merlin and Samuel Beckett. Watt. Christopher Logue and Alex Trocchi. Bill Hopkins in Paris. Paris and existentialism. Dostoevsky and the firing squad. Girodias and dirty books. A Christmas job in Leicester. Joy Stewart. Flax Halliday. The Christmas show. Joy agrees to come to London. I decide to sleep outdoors to save rent. Writing in the British Museum. Meeting Angus Wilson. Wain, Amis and Larkin. Alfred Reynolds and Bridge. Stuart Holroyd. Working in the Coffee House. Writing The Outsider. Suicide and the romantics. Victor Gollancz expresses interest. My mother’s illness. Notting Hill. My first literary party. Iris Murdoch. Meeting John Wain. First publicity interview. The Outsider becomes a bestseller. Non-stop publicity. The Angry Young Man label. Kenneth Tynan launches Look Back in Anger.

2 He That Plays the King

Tynan at Oxford. ‘Have a care for that box, my man – it is freighted with golden shirts.’ His taste for masturbation and female posteriors. He begins to write theatre reviews. His pornography collection. ‘Just a thong at twilight.’ He marries Elaine Dundy. She objects to being flogged. His career as a director stalls. He That Plays the King makes his reputation. His London debut in Hamlet. A bad review lands him a job. He pans Vivien Leigh. The Broadway scene. Sacked from the Evening Standard. The Observer under Astor. Tynan as a ‘Right Man’. Campaigns against Loamshire and the Lord Chamberlain. The Royal Court opens. Angus Wilson’s The Mulberry Bush. Look Back in Anger opens to poor reviews. Tynan saves the day. I take Joy to see it and hate it. A press officer invents the Angry Young Men. Tynan attacks The Outsider.

3 The First Wave

‘Kingsley Amis tries to push me off a roof’. Amis’s schooling. He meets Larkin at Oxford. Their devotion to masturbation. Larkin’s scathing intellectual judgements. They collaborate on soft porn. Amis is called up. His seductions. Larkin’s Jill. Monica Jones: Amis ‘didn’t know who he was’. Larkin becomes a librarian. He seduces Ruth Bowman. Amis fails his doctorate. A Girl in Winter. Amis seduces Hilly Bardwell and makes her pregnant. Larkin in Belfast. Patsy Strang reads his masturbation diaries. Amis writes Lucky Jim. John Wain broadcasts an extract on the BBC. Success. Wain’s Hurry on Down. Amis’s infidelity to Hilly. The cultural saboteur. Amis’s review of The Outsider. My letter to Amis causes lifelong paranoia. Meeting Amis. That Uncertain Feeling. Hilly writes ‘I FUCK ANYTHING’ on Amis’s back. Wain’s second novel a failure. Wain’s persistent touch of bitterness. Larkin applies for librarianship at University of Hull.

4 Court Intrigues

Devine asks me to write a play. Nigel Dennis. Failure of Cards of Identity. My plunge from ‘intellectual stardom’. The horsewhipping scandal. Pursued by the press to Ireland. Gollancz advises me to get out of London. We move to Cornwall. Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. The Entertainer. The Death of God. Devine’s rejection note. Ronald Duncan describes my play as ‘a child’s TV serial’. In spite of which, he and I become friends. ‘A natural bigamist’. Success of This Way to the Tomb. Fame and sexual temptation. Duncan’s affairs with Petra and Antonia. Smashing crystal vases with high-heeled shoes. Ronnie persuades Rose Marie she is lesbian. ‘But I don’t like it.’ Devine engineers the failure of Duncan’s Don Juan. Influence of Tynan on Devine’s politics. Tynan and Christopher Logue form an alliance.

5 The Paris Input

Tynan invites Logue to see Look Back in Anger. I meet Logue at an Encounter party. Alexander Trocchi in London. He tells Logue he is going to New York to take heroin. Trocchi’s childhood and youth. Paris on a travelling scholarship. Jane Lougee. His wife moves to Madrid. He launches Merlin. Logue’s suicide attempt. Pornographic books for Maurice Girodias. Publication of The Story of O. Trocchi decides to research domination and submission. He joins Situation Internationale. The Society of the Spectacle. Debord orders him to break all contact with former friends. He abandons Merlin. London. He impregnates a schoolteacher. An abortion party. He leaves for America. The Beat Generation in Paris. Ginsberg reads Howl. Seized by US customs. Ginsberg persuades Girodias to publish The Naked Lunch. William Burroughs shoots his wife. Maurice Girodias and The Ginger Man. Donleavy takes Girodias to court. John de St Jorre’s Venus Bound: The Erotic Voyages of Olympia Press. Robert Pitman and Donleavy. Nabokov and Lolita. Graham Greene launches Nabokov to fame. Lolita and sexual underprivilege. How sexual advertisements reached twentieth-century London. ‘It is not a woman I want – it is all women.’ The Paris Vice Squad raids Girodias. The French minister of justice lifts the ban on Lolita and The Story of O.

6 ‘As for Living …’

Terry Southern’s Candy. Southern’s New York agent breaks with Girodias. Candy is sold to Putnam’s. Lancet’s pirated edition. Girodias goes bankrupt. Donleavy buys Olympia Press. The Hollywood lifestyle destroys Southern’s talent. Trocchi in New York. Heroin addiction. Cain’s Book. ‘As for living, our servants can do that for us.’ Romanticism and lassitude. Girodias publishes the Beckett trilogy. Beckett’s laziness. Bellacqua ‘the most indolent man who ever lived’. Beckett in Dublin and futility syndrome. The war years. Revelation on Dunlaoghaire Pier. ‘It was like resolving to go naked.’ Decides to write a play. Waiting for Godot rejected five times before Roger Blin accepts it. It makes Beckett famous. ‘The play where nothing happens, twice.’ Writes The Unnameable to establish his credentials as nihilist. The nadir of romanticism. Beckett versus Proust. Girodias publishes The Naked Lunch and makes Burroughs famous. ‘Nothing is true, everything is permitted.’ Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. My Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme judged obscene in Boston. My return to London. The Outsider. Cornwall and hostile reception of Religion and the Rebel.

7 Joe for King

Room at the Top. ‘Remember the name, John Braine …’ Joe’s interest in sex. The defeat premise in modern literature. Joy and I meet Braine. How Room at the Top came to be written. The colonel’s daughter. Failure of bid to become a writer. Braine and I share a pied-à-terre. The ménage at 25 Chepstow Road. Tom Greenwell and Stuart Holroyd. Emergence from Chaos is panned. The brawl outside the Court. The Vodi. Film version of Room at the Top. Braine and John O’Hara. John Osborne and Tony Richardson and the film of Look Back in Anger. The World of Paul Slickey flops. Osborne flees with Jocelyn Rickards. Robert Pitman introduces me to Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: ‘Very trying Communist propaganda’. The Death of William Posters. A Tree on Fire. The Flame of Life. Arnold Wesker. The Kitchen. Chicken Soup with Barley. Devine commissions Roots. Wesker’s disillusionment with Communism. I’m Talking about Jerusalem. Chips with Everything. The concept of ‘Promotion’. Wesker is appointed director of Centre 42. An attempt backed by the TUC to bring art direct to the people. Their Very Own and Golden City.

8 Declaration

Braine’s depression; he begins to drink too much. The Ibsen syndrome. Amis’s self-image problem. I Like It Here. Updating Clarissa. ‘The only reason that I like girls is I want to fuck them.’ The Egyptologists. Elizabeth Jane Howard. Hilly Leaves Amis. Bill Hopkins suggests Declaration. Bill’s The Divine and the Decay. Its unprecedentedly hostile reception. Bill and I in Hamburg. La Mettrie: The human race will never be happy until we accept that we are machines pure and simple. Maine de Biran. The launching party for Declaration. Bill Hopkin’s ‘Ways Without a Precedent’. Belief in the heroic. Stuart Holroyd’s ‘A Sense of Crisis’. My ‘Beyond the Outsider’. H G Wells compares man to the earliest amphibians. Amis declines to contribute to Declaration. Wain’s ‘Along the Tightrope’. The writer’s task is to ‘humanise the environment’. Osborne’s ‘They Call it Cricket’: I want to make people feel not think. Tynan’s ‘Theatre and Living’. ‘A society where people care more for what you have learned than from where you learned it.’ Lindsay Anderson: ‘Get Out and Push’. His part in the British film revival. Doris Lessing: from Rhodesia to London. The Grass is Singing. The Children of Violence series. ‘A small personal voice’. The Golden Notebook. The Four-Gated City. Surviving nuclear catastrophe.

9 Downhill

Osborne and Jocelyn Rickards flee to Capri. ‘He had talent for fucking up other people’s lives, and his own.’ Robert Shaw in New York. Osborne’s affair with Penelope Gilliatt. Osborne, Tony Richardson and Jocelyn Rickards take a villa in the South of France. George Devine’s nervous breakdown. Osborne’s ‘I hate you England’ letter. Osborne goes to Venice to meet Gilliatt. ‘I’m going to behave badly again, my darling’. Osborne and Gilliatt flee to Hellingly Mill, pursued by the press. Osborne, Richardson and Devine work together on the film of Tom Jones. Plays for England. The success of Luther. Tom Jones. The Blood of the Bambergs. Under Plain Cover. A Patriot for Me. Inadmissible Evidence. Devine collapses on stage. Osborne leaves Penelope Gilliatt for Jill Bennett. A Bond Honoured commissioned by Tynan. Its failure. Tynan’s decline. Success of The Dud Avocado. Tynan flees on pornography charges. Elaine starts a divorce case. Tynan as ‘Right Man’. ‘If you ever write another book, I’ll divorce you.’ Tynan’s become theatre critic of New Yorker. ‘Social game-hunting’. Tynan in Cuba. Tenessee Williams and Hemingway. Elaine instructed to call Hemingway ‘Papa’. Tynan upsets Hemingway. ‘I’ve been apologised to by a Nobel Prizewinner.’ Elaine goes off with a Scottish laird. Tynan breaks her nose. Tynan and Mary McCarthy. His mother dies insane. Tynan has a mental breakdown. The National Theatre: Olivier: ‘How shall we slaughter the little bastard?’ Literary manager. Hamlet with Peter O’Toole. Clashes with the board. His marriage to Kathleen Gates. He says ‘fuck’ on television. Oh Calcutta! Rolf Hochhuth’s Soldiers. The board rejects it. A libel suit. Resigns from the National Theatre. Emphysema. A new affair: Nicole.

9 Iris Murdoch and the Gospel of Promiscuity

Origins of existence-philosophy: Kirkegaard, Sartre and Camus. Iris on The Outsider. Under the Net. Pierrot Mon Ami. Canetti forbids Iris to sleep with John Bayley. Canetti’s egoism. Flight from the Enchanter. Rudolf Nassauer and The Hooligan. Auto da Fé. Crowds and Power. My trip to St Anne’s. Pub crawl in the Edgware Road. Magical realism in The Sandcastle. Success of The Bell worries Iris. A Severed Head. She and Priestley turn it into a play. Iris’s obsession with promiscuity. Parallel with D H Lawrence. Frieda Lawrence’s affair with Otto Gross. Lawrence accepts ‘the gospel of promiscuity’. Mr Noon. The religious approach to sex. The Plumed Serpent. Lawrence and William Blake. Why Mrs Blake Cried. The Moravian Chapel in Fetter Lane. ‘Religious ecstasy through sexual means’. Blake’s advocacy of promiscuity. An all-night orgy. Beyond existentialism.

11 ‘Now That My Ladder’s Gone …’

A trip to Leningrad with John Braine. John’s alcoholism. He arrives back home unexpectedly. John Wain on the boat to England. Life at the Top. John quarrels with Bill Hopkins. Launching Penthouse. The Jealous God. John moves to Woking. The Crying Game. Stay With Me Till Morning. Braine’s death. His last books. Amis’s marriage to Jane begins to sour. The Green Man. Amis’s alcoholism. Girl 20. The Alteration. Amis becomes impotent. Jake’s Thing. Amis becomes aware that he never liked women. Jane walks out. Getting his own back. Stanley and the Women. Amis’s final novels. The Biographer’s Moustache. The Garrick Club. Amis’s death. Why Amis and Wain quarrelled. Wain is elected professor of poetry at Oxford. A Winter in the Hills. The final trilogy. ‘I was a pretty selfish sod.’ Philip Larkin’s last years. His affair with Maeve Brennan. He sleeps with his secretary. Increasing fame. The Whitsun Weddings. The Monitor programme. Alvarez attacks him. ‘Books are a load of crap.’ ‘Now that my ladder’s gone.’ Larkin’s fear of death. Cancer of the oesophagus. Amis attends his funeral.

12 Watch It Come Down

One of the most spectacular declines in the history of British theatre. Osborne’s bitterness about Jill Bennett. Her weekend in Cornwall. The break up of the marriage. He drives on to a traffic island. The Hotel in Amsterdam. Time Present. The Charge of the Light Brigade. West of Suez. ‘They’ve shot the fox.’ A Sense of Detachment. ‘This must surely be an end to his career in the theatre.’ ‘You’ve really fucked up your life, haven’t you?’ The End of Me Old Cigar. Watch It Come Down. ‘Money back!’ Osborne leaves Jill Bennett. The curious affair of The Entertainer revival. A £100,000 overdraft. The move to Clun. Jill Bennett commits suicide. Osborne adds a vindictive chapter to Almost a Gentleman. Writing a sequel to Look Back in Anger. Déjàvu is rejected. He is found to be diabetic. ‘John Osborne, ex-playwright’. The Writers’ Guild award for Lifetime Achievement. Osborne is booed. He dies of pernicious anaemia on Christmas Eve 1994. Tynan in California. He spanks a black girl. Forced to jump from a balcony. ‘Bankruptcy, emphysema, paralysis of the will – and now this!’ The trip to Spain with Nicole. The count and countess spank a dishonest maid. ‘It is fairly comic and slightly nasty but it is shaking me like an infection …’ ‘A diabolical dream’. The disastrous summer. Burst blood vessel in penis. Wallet stolen twice. ‘Life itself is my enemy’. His death at 53. Alex Trocchi’s attitude to Tynan. He becomes a celebrity in Greenwich Village. ‘Miss Hicks of Hicksville’. Gives himself a fix on television. Lyn is arrested. Trocchi flees back to England. Lyn joins him in London. A twelve grains-a-day habit. Guy Debord excommunicates him. The International Writers’ Conference in Edinburgh. Trocchi tries to kick heroin in Herne Bay. Lyn dies in Guy’s Hospital. His son Mark contracts cancer of the throat. Trocchi opens a market book stall. The final trip with Jane Lougee. A successful operation for lung cancer. He dies of lobal pneumonia. His ashes are stolen from his mantelpiece.

Epilogue

Romanticism and optimism. Rousseau and nature. Wordsworth: ‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive’. The new pessimism. The tragic generation. The case of Iris Murdoch. The Time of the Angels. Seduction and incest. The decline of fall of existentialism. The non-existence of God. Philosophy as a search for meaning. Bertrand Russell: ‘The vastness and fearful passionlessforce of non-human things’. Heidegger’s ‘forgetfulness of being’. Sartre’s failure to understand Husserl’s intentionality. Intentionality without the transcendental ego. Sartre as depressive. Peer Gynt’s onion. La Mettrie’s Man the Machine. Cabanis: ‘The brain secretes thought as the liver secretes bile’. Rousseau and Locke. There is no ‘real you’. Maine de Biran’s objection. The robot. French philosophy continues to be mechanistic. The ‘young Turks’ who displaced Sartre. Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard. Postmodernism. The British novel after the war. The disappearance of the religious sense. The ‘moral vacuum’ in Martin Amis. ‘An intense and fascinated disgust’. What if Maine de Biran had been taken seriously? His realisation that we do not recognise our freedom. Bergson: The rational mind is a blundering incompetent. How long does twelve o’clock last? Sartre’s admiration for Bergson. He decides: ‘We are as free as you like, but helpless.’ Two kinds of freedom. ‘To be free is nothing; to become free is heavenly.’ Sartre’s physical problems. His daily intake of poisons. Sartre dies of a stroke. Beckett influences Foucault. The coming of structuralism. The influence of Saussure. Lévi-Strauss: ‘Who says man says language, and who says language says society’. Derrida’s rejection of metaphysics. The bleak landscape of structuralism. The nature of the will. ‘I seem to be a verb.’ Jung and the need for evolutionary purpose. William James’s ‘The Energies of Men’. ‘The habit of inferiority to our full self’. Dr Johnson: ‘When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.’ St Preux and Julie. Why Rousseau’s philosophy led to materialism. Dr Johnson’s Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. ‘Man surely has some latent sense … which must be satisfied before he can be happy.’ Gurdjieff: ‘Normal consciousness is a form of sleep’. Inducing a sense of crisis. Ikkyu: ‘Attention means attention’. My Sheepwash experience. The discovery of concentrated attention. The mind has gears. I’m Talking About Jerusalem. Wells’s ‘amphibians’. The meaning of romanticism.

[babydollmarauders]

can you even guess the names that they have for the ppl on the pool ranking board 😭😭

and why does jack have to have the plainest. “jhugh”

okay, i’m gonna take a crack at this.

we all know number 1 is quinn, 2 is luke, and 3 is jack.

in the middle we have gavin “brinds” brindley, who’s undefeated.

i’m taking a wild guess that 4 (“smokey���) is Trevor, but i can’t be sure.

5 is josh norris, 6 is more than likely dalton norris, 7 is matty beniers, 8 is obviously dylan larkin, 9 it seems like is “Duke jr” so Tyler Duke, 10 is “boot” and i have no clue who that could be, 11 is “Duke sr” so Dylan Duke, 12 is unreadable, 13 is probs that dorian guy they’re friends with, 14 is “Chief” and i’m thinking that COULD be jim but idk, 15 is “niko” and i’d like to believe that’s just their funny lil way of spelling nico but i’m pretty sure it’s niko porikos, 16 is unreadable, 17 is “purkoff” or “porkoff” and idk who that would be, 18 has 2 people: “pat” who i assume is Pat Brisson and “bones” and i have no guesses for that one, and finally: 19 has 2 people: “Blanks” which is Nick Blankenburg and “Dougie” who i would like to assume is Dougie Hamilton.

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