#Lou or Bullet

[prettytm]

@parvumchao

[hansatorium]

A Bullet For The General (Quien Sabe) - 1966

"I'm not too friendly with the president of the United States."

"Ahaha, they're not friends! You see?"

"I'm with Chuncho. We keep taking arms from our enemies and pass them on to Elias."

"It's simple."

[leo-leon-leonar-leonardo]

Nothing like the whole "Machine gun date" in order to strength a blooming relationship.

Love how happy they look, even Niño (in his insides)

[beelze-the-bubkiss]

Me: I am very normal about 80s horror movies

😑: The Lost Boy's (1987)

Me: fine I'm very normal about most 80s horr-

😑: Trick or Treat 1986 (aka Ragman)

Me: I-

😑: Prom Night (1980)

Me: wai-

😑: Terror train (1980)

Me: hold o-

😑: My bloody Valentine (1981)

Me: just gi-

😑: poltergeist (1982)

Me : fine god dammit I'm not normal about 80s horror movies would you stop?

😑:...

😑: sleep away camp (1983), nightmare on elm street (1984), a nightmare on elm street 2 freddy's revenge (1985), silver bullet (1985), little shop of horrors (1986), prom night 2 hello Mary Lou (1987), Elvira Mistress of the dark (1988), now I'm done.

Me: ...

Me: asshole

😑: I deserved that.

[greensparty]

Nirvana Boston: Part 4 - Axis

This year marks 35 years since the release of Nirvana’s debut album Bleach and it also marks 30 years since the passing of Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain. In honor of one of my Top 3 Favorite Musicians of All Time, I’m doing a multi-part series Nirvana Boston, in which I look at all of the concerts Nirvana did in Boston. Part 1 looked at their July 1989 show at Green Street Station, Part 2 looked at their April 1990 show at Man Ray and Part 3 looked at their April 1990 show at MIT.

The 4th installment looks at possibly their most legendary show they ever did in Boston and their first of the year 1991. Since the last time the band had played Boston a lot had changed. Drummer Chad Channing parted ways and the new drummer was Dave Grohl, formerly of Scream.

September 23, 1991: WFNX 8th Birthday Bash at Axis (Boston, MA)

show flyer (quite a lineup)

Lynn, MA independently owned and operated alternative rock station WFNX was first launched in 1983 on 101.7-FM. The radio station was one of my favorites in the 90s and I was so sad when they ceased operation in 2012. Prior to 1991, WFNX was one of the early supporters of Nirvana in the Boston area, which is why WFNX DJs Duane Bruce and Kurt St. Thomas were at the Man Ray Show in 1990. Nirvana's major-label debut album Nevermind was going to be released the next day on September 24, but just a few weeks earlier on August 29, St. Thomas played the Nevermind album in its entirety on-air for it's World Premiere. So when the radio station was gearing up for their 8th anniversary concert celebrations they set up shows with multiple bands at multiple venues on Boston's Landsdowne Street. At Axis, the bands included Cliffs of Dooneen, Smashing Pumpkins (their debut Gish was just released a few months earlier), Bullet LaVolta and finally Nirvana. Duane Bruce says "I feel bad for the other bands that were on the bill that night, like the bands that were playing over at Bill's Bar. They were all packed houses and nobody talks about those shows. I'd say there were close to 3000 people on Lansdowne Street that night if not more. Certainly 1500 were slammed into Axis." 1500 might be an exaggeration, but not far off.

Nevermind tour poster and Boston was the second stop

Nirvana arrived in Boston the day before on September 22. They stayed at the old Howard Johnson's Hotel on Commonwealth Avenue that has since become a Boston University dorm. Reportedly the band had dinner at Division 16 on Boylston Street with some Geffen Records and WFNX employees. Afterwards, the band went to The Rat AKA The Rathskeller in Kenmore Square to see their friends The Melvins, but they weren't on the guest list and it was local singer-songwriter Mary Lou Lord who urged the bouncer to let them in even though they weren't on the guest list. She formed a relationship with Cobain for a short time. In the documentary The Road to Ruane about The Middle East promoter Billy Ruane (that screened at IFFBoston earlier this year), Lord elaborated that she took Cobain back to Ruane's apartment in Cambridge that night and they listened to his record collection.

Cobain and Grohl doing press with WFNX earlier in the day (photo by Julie Kramer)

MTV News attended this show to film an interview with Nirvana and some backstage tomfoolery including a Twister game gone wild at Bill's Bar next door to Axis! Here is the raw footage of that wild Crisco Twister game with some of the members of Smashing Pumpkins and an interview with the band:

In my friend Jason Steeves' documentary We Want the Airwaves: The WFNX Story, DJ Angie C. noted that for several months the only live footage MTV had of Nirvana was of their coverage at the WFNX Birthday Bash, so every time MTV News did an update about Nirvana they cut to a clip of them onstage with the WFNX banner behind them, so it was like the radio station and the band were intertwined for a while there.

Axis had a capacity of 1000 and it was packed to say the least. Both Nirvana and headliners Smashing Pumpkins were not going to be playing clubs this size much longer. Boston's own Bullet LaVolta had built up a huge following by this point and were WFNX favorites. Their major label debut Swandive was released the same day as Nirvana's Nevermind, and they had toured with Smashing Pumpkins, Mudhoney and Soundgarden. Bullet LaVolta drummer Todd Philips says "For us, it was just another show playing Axis. We weren't even playing the biggest room, there was a bigger room next door at Avalon. Nirvana wasn't even the biggest band on the bill at the time." As Duane Bruce puts it "if the show was a steam train, then after the Pumpkin and Bullet LaVolta, by the time you got to Nirvana it was just pure black smoke". At midnight, headliners Nirvana's set began. Kurt St. Thomas did an intro. The band did a 49 minute set. They did songs off of Bleach and several from the about-to-be-released Nevermind.

Cobain on stage (photo by Steve Gullick)

Novoselic and Grohl on stage (photographer unknown)

Novoselic and Grohl (photo by Steve Gullick)

In terms of highlights, Todd Philips says "Sliver" and "Drain You", which he says "When I heard that, I said - holy shit, this is pop. This should be Top 40 music!" Very true! There is a reason some of the songs on Nevermind made the Top 40.

Here is the audio recording from YouTube:

Of the three times I saw Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters at Fenway Park (the most recent being this past July), I couldn't help but think he had played right across the street at Axis for that legendary show decades earlier.

Up Next: When a fan mentioned that he couldn't attend the WFNX show because he wasn't 18, the band decided to do a last minute show the next day at Axis that would be all-ages. Part 5 is the second Axis show in September 1991.

[gemstarstarlight]

IDK if you've seen Crown of Candy yet, but it's treatment of Not-Christianity is much better even if ultimately still negatively-oriented. It's more centered around the historical institution with Not-God being more of a force than a sapient being, and the pagan representation turns out to be sinister so it's consistent in not endorsing any strain of divinity in particular. Ravening War likewise does some interesting stuff with church-drama that doesn't cast genuine faith in a bad light.

I have watched both of those and I agree with you! It’s definitely a bit better because of all of that. It’s also more my genre anyway, which made it more fun.

It’s so tricky because there’s truth in both Comida and Fantasy High’s depiction of religion. I’ve met the Bobby Dawns and read up on the Belisabeth Brassicas. I understand that God can feel distant, like a force and nothing more. I am so angry and grieved at the damage the church has done to people. Any time there is a grasp for power or a putting down of others or another goddamned cult I want to just cry because this isn’t what it’s supposed to be and it’s horrible to just watch. Also I do believe that as much as possible there shouldn’t be an endorsement of one religion over another in entertainment, so not endorsing any particular religion in Dimension 20 is good.

But I feel such a connection with characters like Sir Morris Brie. Because I’m a Bible-believing Bulbian. I’ve studied my god and I’ve also met him. And he’s not like Helio at all. He loves me. Has always loved me. Has always wanted what was best for me. Has grieved with me when I’ve lost everything in little ways over and over again. Has been my father and friend when I haven’t been able to trust one and didn’t know how to have the other. And I’ve been able to trust the Bible over and over again even if I haven’t always agreed or understood.

And it’s just never represented. D&D has always felt like the closest thing to representation for me, as a Bible-believing queer person. And Dimension 20 (again, understandably, it sounds like Ally’s experience was awful and part of healing has been leaving) rarely if ever portrays someone with genuine faith in a Christian-esque god. Or if they do, it’s portrayed as toxic or ill-informed. And that sucks, frankly.

I get it, I truly do. No one gets more irritated than I do at bigoted ignorant Christians and I will fully doxx myself by saying I have been to the American South and I would NEVER live there willingly because of the culture.

But I tend to listen to the more neutral Dimension 20 campaigns. It took me so long to try A Crown of Candy. Because I don’t just respect my religion; I love my God. And I hate to see the slander, especially because some of it is true and even more especially because some of it is not.

[kazu-naito]

NO REALLY

[worrynoodle]

I know Good Omens isn't really this kind of show but...

Imagine if the bullet catch had gone wrong.

Crowley was already shaking with fear of hurting aziraphale. What would he have done if he blinked and aziraphale was falling to the stage floor, his body discorporated and lifeless, and it was all Crowleys fault.

He may not be gone for good (although Furfur did say heaven may not be able to 'put him back together again') but he's gone now and Crowley pulled the trigger.

I imagine he'd run to him, and hold his head in his lap. [Like the doctor did to the master] because it would be hard to separate what you know (aziraphale is discorporated and just needs to do the paperwork) with what you're seeing (I killed my best friend and he's dead in my arms. I trusted him, he trusted me and I let him down) and desperately trying to pull up a miracle from hell to get him back.

It doesn't fit with the overall tone of the show, but I still wonder how it would have played out.

[parvumchao]

WHO WANTS SOME QUICK HCs? NO ONE? OOPS, TOO BAD.

Sparrow LOVES to surf. She’s not great by any means, but she loves it so much.

Wanna make Bullet happy? Give her a burrito and a little horse figurine. That’s… legitimately the best first step and really… all it takes honestly.

Sometimes, Eddie wishes he had decided to study anything other than journalism. Eliza… does not.

Speaking of… Eliza pesters Charlie CONSTANTLY about info he can provide on stories she’s working on/trying to work on. He… doesn’t hate it, but it annoys him, but somehow, he also finds it a little oddly endearing that she always goes to him?

Nora has a favorite brother and it ain’t Murph.

Kayla has a blue belt in Taekwon-Do.

Jacob lies about pretty much everything, but each untruth is so smooth that nearly no one questions him.

Need a grumpy dad-figure? Look no further than Suzy, Connor, and Anna's dad Sam. He tends to adopt people who need protection. On that same note, Leona does as well, but she honestly will adopt anyone and everyone and love them to bits.

Pat is… a tool.

Lou has her GED and some credits from a local college that teamed up with her high school in her freshman year. If she were to go back to that education life, she’d technically be a freshmore in college.

Do not mess with Dom’s family. Just… don’t. You may not even want to look in their direction if he’s around.

[almeriamovies]

“A Bullet for the General” AKA Quien sabe? (El chuncho) by Damiano Damiani (1966) Gian Maria Volonté, Lou Castel, Klaus Kinski and Martine Beswick in San Miguel de Cabo de Gata. #Western #Cinema #Almeria

[shesboundtobruise]

Okay but you realize that all those heated glares from Bullet are a piss-poor cover for the fact that she wants you, right? Why not give her a thrill?

NOSY ANONS (UN)WELCOME | always accepting!

"Oh, I'm not oblivious and honestly, I would love nothing more than to make her scream my name instead of talk her shit, but I don't want to make that poor woman fall in love with me. Might short-circuit her brain. Besides, she'll probably try to shoot me and I'd rather not get any more holes in my body, thanks."

[mariocki]

Larceny (1948)

"No hard feelings, Rick, I'm just doing a job. I had to check."

"OK, you've checked. Now check out of here. And don't let anybody notice you."

"Nobody ever does. I got an ordinary face."

[benreillyscarletspider]

What sounds more enjoyable to you: listening to a cute brunette geek out over her love of music or watch a redhead charm her way out of a horrible situation?

"I'm not sure how I'm gonna be able to choose. Getting out of a horrible situation is generally gonna lose to a good geekout, as far as enjoyment goes, but then again you did specify redhead, so it's a close race here. I guess I'll just have to do both and find out firsthand whose company I enjoy more."

[twistedtrait]

Having my heir start sleeping with Wolfgang Munch after I already picked out our end game boy was a severe error on my part.

[fishermansfoe]

i had a dream last night about an unreleased season of game changer with only one episode which featured brennan and grant doing an 1800s style full on gun duel as sam’s two “most hated employees” where the winner would receive the entire budget for what would have been the rest of the season as a prize.

brennan hamiltoned it in protest and did a big long speech about pitching employees against each other as perceived competition in capitalist settings. grant did actually shoot but his aim was so poor that the bullet (which was a bb pellet, not an actual bullet to be clear), hit one of the lights on the archway in the set (the ones lou wilson unscrews in sam says when told to upset a producer), ricocheted off and hit sam’s glasses, shattering them. nobody won, and brennan put sam in a headlock as the credits rolled. that was the entire season, and it got rave reviews on tumblr.

[uro3o]

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