#John Williamson

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John Williamson - Twilight in the Wilderness (1864)

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2024-01-01 — Bound for Botany Bay — John Williamson

I've typed, deleted, and retyped variations on the same opening line for this post too many times now, so I'll just write words and hope they serve as an acceptable introduction. Once upon a time, I went out of my way to listen to new music. I really enjoyed discovering all sorts of artists and albums. Somewhere along the line though, without realising it, I stopped. After listening to the same set of songs for the entirety of 2023, I wanted to try finding new music again.

My goal is to try and listen to a new album every day this year. I don't know if I'll follow through with it. I don't know how long it will be before I miss a day, or a week. I do want to try, though, and hopefully, keeping a log of what I've been listening to online may help. I don't know how much I'll write each day. Probably not much.

Bound for Botany Bay (or Fair Dinkum J.W., which I am told is the original title) is an Australian country album. I'm not really sure how I got into it, but I really like Australian folk/country. All things considered, I didn't branch out too much today, but it was still something I hadn't listened to before. I had the album on while I was trying to piece together a Commander deck for MTG. The deck still needs a lot of work.

I think Wrinkles was my favourite song on this. I added it to my big songs playlist before it had finished. If I were to try writing a song myself, I reckon I'd be unconsciously trying to write something similar. I also added (Why Don't We) Separate and Be Lovers to my playlist, as well as his version of Brisbane Ladies.

Country Football was a very charming opening song, charming in a wistful sort of way. It didn't feel like an opening track as I listened to it initially, but on reflection, I think it works well. Your Body Feels Like Heaven to Me felt like a closing track, so I wasn't sure how I felt about there being another track afterwards, but again, on reflection, Brisbane Ladies works very well as the closer. I might add Country Football to my playlist now I'm thinking about it some more.

Some of the songs here are traditional folk songs I've heard many times now. They just automatically make me happy. Botany Bay, The Ryebuck Shearer, and With My Swag Upon My Shoulder, I've heard done by a whole bunch of people, but somehow this was the first time I'd listened to Brisbane Ladies. Not quite sure how I'd managed to miss that one before.

I wrote down two notes while I listened through the album. (I thought I'd end up writing a few more so I had something to work with when writing this, but alas.) 1) I wasn't sure about the panting in Just a Dog. I got the sense, as the song ended, that I'd grow to find it charming if I listened to the song some more. Not sure yet, though. 2) Being told I was about to hear what turns John Williamson on in Love of a True Blue Girl was a little disconcerting. As it turns out, he was using "turns on" to describe sentimental memories he is very fond of. If that's what turns on means, then I guess I'm also turned on by soup and being tucked in.

With any luck, I'll have a post up tomorrow. With some more luck, my Taigam, Ojutai Master deck will be finished soon.

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McCARTHY - 'Should The Bible Be Banned' - 12" 1988

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Co w jazzie piszczy [sezon 2 odcinek 31]

premierowa emisja 28 sierpnia 2024 – 18:00 Graliśmy: Ayumi Ishito “Sugar High People” z albumu “Wondercult Club”– 577 Records Pat Thomas “Monks Mood” z albumu “BleySchool: Where” – 577 Records Luca Perciballi “Sacred Habits I” z albumu “Sacred Habits” – Kohlhaas Records John Williamson “Contrafact 2” z albumu “The Northern Sea” – Ubuntu Music Antonio Farao “MT”  z albumu ”Tributes” – Criss…

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When Molloy died of his wounds a few weeks later, Williamson faced the gallows.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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does anyone else here on this site know what an incredible song old man emu is? it was the kenough before kenough was a thing. and all the characters, birds

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John Williamson' song Galleries of Pink Gallahs makes me so fucking nostalgic for a land I have never set foot on

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People don't forget. Nothing gets forgiven.

[abovesn4kes]

More animals!! Javier, Bill, Kieran, and Mary-Beth :-)

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Bullied by the old gang

NO SRSLY HE'S SO GOOFY HELP

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Been awhile since i've drawn any rdr2 art so here are some beefy cowbois!!! John is getting his monthly flea dip and the resident twinks have drawn the short straw

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I feel like a lot of people forget that the Van Dir Linde gang was actually famous in their universe- Dutch Van Dir Linde was as famous as the real life Butch Cassidy. The gang had as much infamy as the Wild Bunch or the Dalton gang. Arthur Morgan, John Marston, Bill Williamson, Javier Esculla, Lenny Summers, Charles Smith, Sean McGuire and more were probably as famous as the real life Doc Holliday, Jesse James, Black Bart, Rufus Buck, Ike Clanton, the Sundance Kid, Wild Bill Hickock, and more.

Sadie Adler would've been just as famous. She was a gunslinger like the real life Calamity Jane and Anne Oakley and she was an outlaw at one point like Laura Bullion, Pearl Hart, Belle Star, The Cassidy Sisters, and more.

The other women of the camp would've probably been less popular but still very intriguing figures to people in the future.

In the newspapers, we see that there are songs about Dutch's boys and books too. Trelawny mentions them being on dime novels. In the future, the pieced together story of the Van Dir Linde gang might've gotten adapted into a movie, similar to "Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid" or "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". They could've gotten biopics, documentaries, and more.

Historians and fans of the wild West era would dig up records, find pictures, and maybe even track down people who were apart of the gang, accomplices to the gang, or victims of the gang. They would try to piece together stories to figure out the mystery of what actually happened to the gang.

People would argue over things that happened in the gang and have their evidence to back it up. Letters written by gang members would become so valuable. If they ever someone come across Arthur's journal, it would probably be considered one of the most valuable pieces of documentation to ever exist for that time period.

The guns of the gang would probably be kept in museums if found. Albert Mason's portrait of Arthur Morgan would be found in history books, same as other pictures.

Dutch would probably be a very controversial figure in history- some would hail him as a failed hero and others would condemn his violence no matter the reason- they wouldn't know what the people in the gang knew- especially in the end. Same with the rest of the gang members.

They'd probably all get romanticized. Hosea and Dutch's friendship, the raising of the boys, Dutch and Annabelle and his fued with Colm, Mary and Arthur, John and his family, Javier being a revolutionary- no one would know the full story.

And then there is Jack- he may live to see the 1960s and 70s and 80s. He may have grandchildren who'd pull him into a theater to watch a retelling of the gang that he was a part of at one point. He'd be amused. He'd think that the actor playing his father was too clean looking, too pretty. He'd think that the movie Arthur was too skinny. He'd think that the man playing Dutch had a funny voice as he tried to mimic the accent. He'd laugh and make notes in his head of the historical accuracy. He'd feel sorrowful at the deaths of the characters- he knew them at some point. And no one at the theater would know that the old man with the rowdy bright eyed boys who brought him there was Jack Marston, the last of the Van Dir Linde gang.

Jack might talk about it to the public. He might do interviews. He might even write a book about his father, the infamous John Marston. Those would be priceless. Even Beecher's Hope might be kept around and visited as a historical site for history goers.

And honestly? It is such a bittersweet thing.

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i just had to actually make them a good genderbend,,,beautiful strong women

also girl arthur and her charming prince

(i forgot to put the "her" on what marston is saying)

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You could say I’m a bit obsessed with these dumb cowboys <3