#Man with a harmonica

[theoutcastrogue]

Muse - Man with a harmonica / Knights of Cydonia (Live at Rome Olympic Stadium 2013)

I remembered this because I belatedly watched Ennio. You should absolutely watch Ennio (dir. Giuseppe Tornatore, 2021).

[onemorecupofcoffee]

for a song called mr. tambourine man the guy with the harmonica won’t shut the fuck up

[arthursfuckinghat]

There's thousands of details in rdr2 that I really love, and I say it all the time, but if I had to pick one as my favourite? It would be the campfire interactions.

From chapter one to even the epilogues, there's always something going on around a campfire.

It's always touched me in an emotional way, but the vulnerability, honesty and silliness that comes out of gang members during late night/early hour campfire conversations? It's truly a beautifully written and well executed feature that I spend a lot of time paying attention to.

The campfire is almost like the gang's communal safe space. They're free to talk, vent, sing or play instruments, and the others around will simply sit and listen or sing along. They bond over sharing these funny stories and tall tales, you have the opportunity to learn so much from the gang members by just listening around the campfire.

Lenny will talk about his father and their hardships, Hosea will talk about how much he misses Bessie or how special Dutch is to him, Reverend Swanson will be open about his addiction and the relationship he has with religion, Abigail will voice her frustrations about John, Bill will talk about how he got discharged from the army, John will talk about his worries regarding Dutch's leadership, Micah will talk about damnation and being prepared for hell, and Javier will be open about Mexico or his mother passing away and not being able to bury her.

There's plenty more, there's hundreds of different campfire interactions, but on a rare occasion - Arthur will talk. He'll sit down and begin apologising for how things have turned out, he'll admit how he's struggling to find a way forward for everyone and that he doesn't want to die but is willing to, then he'll ask for their forgiveness and excuse himself shortly after.

I find it hard to describe how despite gang members having differing options of each other, there's an unspoken mutual closeness that they share whilst talking around the fire. They'll jest and laugh and quip, but they'll also simply listen when they need to.

It's so wonderful.

[gleamingsilence]

i want him to play me this hard ♪

why is he so smoll?! 🥺

[anything-4-0ur-moony]

i was listening to piano man and ive always thought it would make like a good edit or long oneshot or something so i bothered to write up my idea and imagine all the ways it could be filled with angst

james is the piano man, he brings comfort to everyone even of it harms him (how people were like why tf are you at this bar you should be doing real performances)

There's an old man sittin' next to me

Makin' love to his tonic and gin

He says, "Son, can you play me a memory?

I'm not really sure how it goes

But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete

When I wore a younger man's clothes

this is alphard thinking back on like a lover who passed, kinda like him and eli in CR

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine

He gets me my drinks for free

And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke

But there's some place that he'd rather be

He says, "Bill, I believe this is killing me"

As the smile ran away from his face

"Well, I'm sure that I could be a movie star

If I could get out of this place"

john is regulus, in this case ‘here’ is the house of black. he’s stick and he desperately wants out but can’t leave

Now Paul is a real estate novelist

Who never had time for a wife

And he's talkin' with Davy, who's still in the Navy

And probably will be for life

wolfstar. sirius is paul, remus is davy. this really needs no altering, paul and davy are together and so are sirius and remus

lily is the waitress who’s practicing politics, trying to work her way up even when things are against her

i love this song so much, i need tickets to see him and stevie

[randomizedtoxin87]

Okay hopefully not too dumb of a question, but does anyone have the harmonica tabs for the lovely post-patricide solo in One Eyed Jack's? I'm currently trying to figure it out by ear and I've got the first chunk of it, but I'm struggling. If anyone could help or even just point me in the right direction, that'd be great! [If this post sounds really awkward it's cause I like never post anywhere]

[namesisfortombstones]

Okay, we need to deal with this once and for all...

Why in the hell do people seem convinced that Clint Eastwood's character in the Dollars Trilogy are three different people? Like, who put that into their head and why are they listening to such lies?

So, because Gian Maria Volonte, Mario Brega, and Lee Van Cleef are all playing different characters, Clint has to be as well? That's an American mindset… and these are not American movies; that's not how acting and filmmaking are regarded overseas. For example, actor Michael Ripper appears in the Hammer horror films Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Taste the Blood of Dracula, and Scars of Dracula as three completely separate characters. But that does not mean that Christopher Lee's Dracula are three different Draculas.

They also point to "the Man With No Name was made up by United Artists as a marketing ploy." Yes, they did, but that doesn't mean Clint still isn't the same man in all three films. You know what isn't a marketing ploy? The Italians referred to the character as "Il Straniero/The Stranger." That was their "man with no name" name back then in the 60s. The Italians have since adopted calling him "Uomo Senza Nome/Man Without Name."

And people seem to be convinced somehow that "Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood both said he's three different people." No, they didn't. Never once has Clint made that claim. And Sergio Leone co-wrote all three films (and Once Upon a Time in the West--more there later) and he wrote him as the same man.

But the facts of the matter are there to see in the movies if you watch them. In For a Few Dollars More, the second film, il Straniero is referred to as "Manco." "Manco" in Italian means "mangled" and it refers to his hand being crushed by Chico (Mario Brega) near the end of A Fistful of Dollars. If you pay attention, you'll notice Manco does everything in that movie (play cards, karate chop, drink, etc.) left-handed… except shoot. He still shoots with his right hand. If you pay extra close attention, you'll see that the Man With No Name wears his poncho backwards… to hide the bullet holes shot into it by Ramon Rojo (Gian Maria Volonte) at the end of Fistful.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is an origin story for the character, set during the Civil War before the previous two films. The movie literally has a plot point about how the Man With No Name got his poncho! It chronicles how the character changes from a selfish, dickish drifter to the more altruistic, caring person (as seen in the previous two films) after a near-death experience. Additionally, whilst the dialogue in the screenplay for the film only refers to Clint's character as "Il Biondo/Blondie," the descriptive passages of the script refer to him as "Joe," the nickname given him by Peripero in A Fistful of Dollars.

"But the Man With No Name has $100,000 in gold at the end of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. He has to be a different character because he's poor at the beginning of A Fistful of Dollars!" According to co-writer of For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Luciano Vincenzioni, he's poor again at the beginning of Fistful because he gave the $100,000 to Father Ramirez's mission for saving his life. Now, why would he have that answer if they're all different people? Why wouldn't he have said "Oh, they're not the same man," when asked?

On top of that, Once Upon a Time in the West was originally meant to be the final adventure for il Straniero/Joe/Manco/Blondie/the Man With No Name. This gets complicated, so saddle in.

After The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Sergio Leone didn't want to do another western. He wanted to make Once Upon a Time in America, even way back then. But Paramount Pictures told him "We'll make America with you… but you have to give us another western first." So he set about on his fourth western. The script he and his writers (Sergio Donati, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento) concocted revealed that everything Il Straniero did in the previous movies was all sort of a training for a revenge duel with Frank (presumably because Frank did to him what he did to Harmonica in the finished film). This is why it would have been such a shocking moment for the audience when Frank asks who the Man With No Name is and he responds "Dave Jenkins." The audience would've gasped, thinking "That's his name?!" before discovering it's just one of Frank's victims. The problem is that on the set of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Eastwood and Leone had a huge fight that nobody seems to talk about often. I've heard that it was Eastwood finally having enough of the lackadaisical manner in which Italians made movies and I've heard it was Leone finally having enough of Eastwood cheating on his wife with his interpreter. Whatever the subject of the fight was, it is what ruined/ended the relationship between Leone and Eastwood. When it came time to make Once Upon a Time in the West, Leone flew to California to personally deliver the script to Eastwood, but Clint would not meet with him (I've also read an interview with Lee Van Cleef where he revealed he was offered the role of Frank when it was set to star Eastwood, but turned it down because he didn't like the script. And he apparently didn't like the finished film when he saw it either). So with his main star gone and still having to deliver the film to Paramount, Leone returned to Italy with his writers and was forced to turn Il Straniero/etc into the new character Harmonica and go from there (and finally managed to cast Charles Bronson in the role). Leone later came up with an idea to have the three gunmen at the beginning of the film be cameos by Eastwood, Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach (though, they were never meant to be the Man With No Name, Angel Eyes, and Tuco--just three randos like in the finished film). It was both a gag and a storytelling device to show the audience, "You thought these guys were bad/cool… Harmonica's even worse/better!" Wallach was in for it. Eastwood was having none of it and Van Cleef turned it down too. For what it's worth, Leone continued to try to work with Clint; he wanted him for the James Coburn character in Duck, You Sucker, but Eastwood wouldn't do it either.

So, whether you call him Joe, Manco, Blondie, the Man With No Name, or The Stranger, they are all the same man in all three films. Unfortunately, the lie that he's not has spread way further than it ever should have.

[jonreytrevino]

One Man Band Pico

The first boss in Parasol Stars : Bubble Bobble III

[justsomedumbperson]

"Yes, They are sharing a drink they call loneliness, but its better then drinking alone."

Billy joel the man that you are😩

[spotted-owl-sketches]

Hii! I absolutely ADORE your bw diary series, so much so that I made some fan art!

I drew the most recent entry in my style, I hope you like it!!

Btw, N and Riko are so cute together! What would their ship name be? Rikomonia? Harmoniko? HARMONICA??

In all seriousness, thank you for always making my day (and several others'!) with these silly diary entries! ^^

I need you to know I've been staring at this with tears in my eyes I love it so much. Your art style is so so so cute you absolutely caught N's kind concern for his clutzy friend and her boundless confidence (and lack of sense) aaaa

Also I never thought about their ship name before but you have absolutely sold me on Harmonica how do I say no to that. You're brilliant

This is getting hung on the fridge. Seriously thank you so much I love the fanart with my whole heart <3<3<3

[evergreen125]

My mom just informed me that I used to pronounce harmonica “whoremonica” and my first thought was Jack Twist. I am not okay y’all.

[dads-typo]

I got a strong headcanon that Nick Valentine absolutely knows how to play the piano, and will play for Sole if asked very nicely 💖

[bigcatbulges]

That Asgore pic has reawakened my love of goat dad, it's so fucking good thank you for running this blog you are truly doing great work here 💖

You are so welcome! I love the angle of that pic and of course the lil bit of pube sticking out??? Awooooooga c: Thank you for being so sweet and hope you have a good one ❤️🦁

[lesbianaelwen]

getting insanely accurate flashbacks back to my dead mormon grandfather with barsimmeon higgs

[wyndsong]

Mr. Versatile playing the harmonica. "Hey Greg, you can play me too." (Uh oh, I'm just a little bit naughty today.)