#Neil Freeman

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Big Breadwinner Hog  -  ITV  -  April 11, 1969  -  May 30, 1969

Thriller (8 episodes)

Running Time:  50 minutes

Stars:

Peter Egan as Hogarth

 Rosemary McHale as Edge

Godfrey Quigley as Ryan

Neil Freeman as Pritchard

Barry Linehan as Spicer

Tony Steedman as Singleton

Timothy West as Lennox

Hamilton Dyce as Gould

Priscilla Morgan as Moira

Donald Burton as Ackerman

Brian McDermott as Greenwood

Alan Browning as Izzard

David Leland as Grange

James Hunter as Raymond

Frederick Hall as Croxted

Sandra Duncan as Prudence

Tenniel Evans as Nicholson

Arthur Pentelow as Walker

John Horsley as Parker

Peter Thomas as Raspberry

John Challis as Operative

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Contact sheets of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Neil Aspinall, August 18, 1965, taken by Robert Freeman.

[cowboylexapro]

hey whats with ethan hawke’s film boyfriends killing themselves????

[jaelinex]

Neil: i dont wanna do this show

Kevin: you are doing this show! you don't have a choice!

*Rico shows up*

Neil:

[hjertetssunnegalskap1]

So I noticed a strange little thing that probably only will be interesting for me. Still, I gotta share it, because I don’t know what else to do with it. In that scene in the magic trick shop in Good Omens s2 ep4, the shop owner mentions a man, William Ellsworth Robinson, who got killed doing the bullet trick in 1918. Robinson used the stage name Chung Ling Soo, pretended to be from China, and claimed to have been the pupil of Albert Taen Arr Hee, a known magician/ acrobat/ tradesman from China. I have been hyperfocusing on Albert Taen Arr Hee and his family for three years, mostly because I looked for a possible connection to my family tree, and then I ended up falling down a bottomless rabbit hole. 

You see, Albert Taen Arr Hee was part of one of the very first Circus troups from China that toured USA and Europe. Also, he had an adoptive sister, Achuen Grace Amoy Eaton, or, she was most likely sold as a child to his parents, Tuck Quy and Wang Noo. Tuck Quy led this group of Chinese jugglers and acrobats that toured the world. While Albert stayed on as a circus artist and later became a tradesman, Grace escaped the circus life, married and moved with her family to Canada. She was the mother to the well-known authors Edith Maude Eaton (“Sui Sin Far”) and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna). 

You can see how I could so easily fall down this rabbit hole, right? This family had so many intriguing stories to tell.

Oh, and Albert married Frances Poolman, the sister to Isabella Poolman, or Bella Freeman, who was a coffee shop owner, brothel madam and fence, who supposedly devoted her life and money to tracking down the Whitechapel murderer. Because she had been familiar with one of his victims. Bella was prosecuted a number of times for running a disorderly house. She ended up very rich, apparently.

Oh, and Albert founded the stores of China & Japan Goods TAEN-Arr-Hee, in Berlin and Dresden, around 1880, and his sons took over, and that’s a whole other story. 

Anyway. I just never expected to stumble over the mention of this magician Robinson, who more or less was connected to all of these other stories (and more). I shouldn’t be surprised, of course. Neil Gaiman knows how to sprinkle his stories with interesting anecdotes and historic facts like these.

So yeah. Fun times.

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Bad movie I have If a Man Answers 1962

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Crowdfunding Spotlight - B7 Media's "Pilgrim - Secrets and Lies": An Update from the Writer’s Chair

B7 Media need your help to get the word out about Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies #2, the second of a four-issue mini series written by downthetubes publisher John Freeman

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there is nobody stopping me from puttign half life gifs on this post. give this post notes if you LOVE my gordon freeman images

glad that im not popular enough to have an evil shadow version of my blog that exists just to make contradictions on my posts

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Aaron Freeman (with Joe Young)

'Old Man' by Neil Young

April 27, 2013

[thebowerypresents]

MJ Lenderman & the Wind Light a Fire at Sold-Out Music Hall of Williamsburg on Friday Night

MJ Lenderman – Music Hall of Williamsburg – October 25, 2024

“Not to freak anybody out but Shrek is here,” said MJ Lenderman a few songs into his set on Friday night. The vibe was anything but one of alarm, although the sold-out Music Hall of Williamsburg was packed and, admittedly, a little swampy. He’s an artist on the up-and-up and had sold-out shows throughout the weekend because of it, with bigger venues lined up for the spring tour. 

“You once was a baby, and now a jerk,” from the set-opening “Manning Fireworks”; “I’ve got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome,” off the searing, country-rock-punching “Wristwatch,” which followed: There’s a lot of communal joy in shouting out some of Lenderman’s best lines, fans brace for them coming, as his loose observational songwriting tightens into a fist. 

Lenderman’s backing band, the Wind, throws out similar punches, able to effortlessly transition from loose guitar plucks to locked-the-fuck-in jamming. “Wristwatch” had them following Lenderman’s quips with all the guitars (bass, slide and electric) pulling into themselves as if dragged into one another by a force of gravity.

The middle of the set came with some more tender moments. Lenderman teed up a new song, “Pianos,” highlighting the excellent Cardinals at the Window (proceeds of which go to organizations doing critical work in communities most impacted by Hurricane Helene). “Pianos” appears on it and is one of the band’s best songs yet. Played live, gentle strumming evolved into a beautiful, heartsick and atmospheric Neil Young–inflected guitar solo that could have gone on forever without anyone complaining. (Fellow star of the night was a young fan toward the front of the crowd, donning a hat that read GUITAR SOLOS that he’d lift during each solo.) 

“She’s Leaving You,” a possible breakup song with less of a heartbroken vibe and more of a “Hey, what can you do?” conviction, followed. MJ Lenderman’s songwriting contains multitudes. “She’s Leaving You” ended with just slide guitarist Xandy Chelmis singing the high harmony alone alongside the thudding bassline.

Some deeper cuts from the Lenderman oeuvre, like “Catholic Priest,” transformed the lo-fi recorded song into an entirely different hi-fi number, a transubstantiation of sorts. It hinted at Catholic references to come later in his discography and in the set, with mentions of seminaries, bibles and knockin’ on heaven’s doors. (Not to preach to the choir here but fans are fortunate that Lenderman didn’t become a priest.) 

“Bark at the Moon” featured a bold amount of the song’s finishing howling feedback, a harsh moment that resolved itself with the delicate “You Don’t Know the Shape I’m In.” “Rudolph” again featured the Wind locked in perfect rhythm. Lenderman wears his influences on his sleeve, or more literally, as was the case on Friday, on his chest, wearing a Drive-By Truckers T-shirt. The band’s encore kicked off with the underrated “Tastes Just Like It Costs,” which begins with a Drive By Truckers-esque opening line if there ever were one: “You know I’m no hard-ass / And you know I couldn’t be less.” 

Legacies loomed large on Friday night, between Phil Lesh’s passing and the Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman hitting a game-winning grand slam and then rushing toward his dad in the stands (Lenderman would welcome a random sports reference). In music, it’s never just one torch being passed but a bunch of tiny flames, and every now and then one of these flames catches a breeze and burns a place down as a young fan holds his GUITAR SOLOS hat aloft. Who’s been fanning these flames as of lately? The answer, my friends, is MJ Lenderman & the Wind. —Dan Rickershauser | @D4nRicks

(MJ Lenderman & the Wind play Brooklyn Steel 4/28-30.)

(MJ Lenderman & the Wind play Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia on 5/17.)

(MJ Lenderman & the Wind play The National in Richmond, Va., on 5/19.)

Photos courtesy of Toby Tenenbaum | @tobytenenbaum

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Brazil

The music of Brazil has developed some unique and original styles such as samba, bossa nova, choro and frevo alongside Brazilian versions of rock, pop, soul, hip-hop, rap and gospel. Instrumental music is also popular in Brazil especially jazz influenced forms. But there is also a long history of classical composers so today’s programme explores some of the composers who influenced and defined…

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sometime i get you confused with morgan freeman and i have no idea what you do when i picture you i picture morgan freeman

It is a common mistake made by people who don't know what I look like, who I am or what I do, but do know who Morgan Freeman is.

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The Flys Night Creatures EP version

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sins, douglas hickox 1986

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Nurse Betty by Neil LaBute, 2000

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Renée Zellweger is 'Nurse Betty' on Peacock

Renée Zellweger is a soap-struck innocent who starts to believe her TV fantasy world and Morgan Freeman is the world weary hitman who falls in love with her as he chases her trail from Kansas to L.A. in Nurse Betty (2000). Like a modern take on The Wizard of Oz, Zellweger’s Betty Sizemore is a Dorothy in a small town Kansas coffee shop. She’s perky, pretty, and sweetly sociable, but has checked…