#Two Tone Records

[funkpunkandpunkfunk]

I can only assume that Kamala Harris was fronting a late-era 2Tone ska Band in the Bay Area in 1985, right?

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"ALWAYS SAY, "BOY HOWDY!" -- 1980 SPECIALS EDITION.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a "CREEM" magazine "Boy Howdy!" profile of English ska band THE SPECIALS, from the band's "More Specials" era, c. July 1980 issue.

HOME: "Wherever they hang their pork pie hats."

PROFESSION: "Sensual simian shoe shufflers."

LAST BOOK READ: "History of the 2-Tonic Invasion" by Adolf Costello.

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: "Paid for their barber’s Jamaican vacation."

QUOTE: "Sleep all day... it's the only way."

Source: https://flashbak.com/creem-profiles-one-page-spotlights-1970s-80s-musicians-395074.

[read-write-thrive]

some concerts Charles Rowland could've attended

Okay this is technically research for a WIP fic of mine but I'm putting too much effort in it to not share, so. Here's a list of concerts that Charles Rowland could have attended based on a few criteria/caveats, including: 1. Dates range from 1984-1989 (yes he would have been 11-12 in 1984 so I tried to keep it to notable concerts only until I hit 1986) 2. Mostly of the Ska subgenre, with other notable punk groups and bands mentioned explicitly by creators of the show/character 3. All in London, GB 4. Non-exhaustive list bc I am but one 21st century american person with limited access to this information at best. If you feel like I've missed anything major, or if you just want to add to this list, feel free to do so by reblogging!!!! Also, many of these concerts have photos, videos, posters, and more online, so I'd recommend looking further into them if that sort of thing interests you :)

Queen / General Public at OVO Arena Wembley on Sep 8 1984

The Clash at O2 Academy Brixton on Dec 6 1984

The Clash / Smiley Culture at O2 Academy Brixton on Dec 7 1984

the redskins at Kilburn National Ballroom on Mar 20 1986

Fine Young Cannibals at The Town and Country Club on April 17 1986

Redskins at Town and Country Club on April 22 1986

Ramones at Hammersmith Palais on May 4 1986

Ramones / The Prisoners at Hammersmith Palais on May 5 1986

Ramones at Eventim Apollo on May 6 1986

The Who at Royal Albert Hall on Feb 8 1988

Ramones at Brixton Academy on Jun 15 1988

Fishbone at Dingwalls on Sep 13 1988

Fishbone at Town and Country Club on Jan 5 1989

Fishbone at Brixton Academy on Jan 27 1989

Punk Weekend (not official gig/band/etc, but found at https://derelictlondon.com/music-history.html ) at The Sir George Robey in June 1989

The Who at Wembley Area on Oct 23 1989

The Who at Wembley Area on Oct 24 1989

The Who at Wembley Area on Oct 26 1989

The Who at Wembley Arena on Oct 27 1989

The Who at Royal Albert Hall on Oct 31 1989

The Who at Royal Albert Hall on Nov 2 1989

Fine Young Cannibals / Mint Juleps at O2 Academy Brixton on Nov 3 1989

[project-sekai-facts]

do u think this event could beat tone played on that day?

I'm not gonna be able to check the event leaderboard until after its ended, but tone had a T1 of 380 million, so compare that to the leaderboard and factor in that there's only an hour of thorns left

[endmeseymour]

@magitober Day 14 - NPC

Hey so what was up with those girls in MagiRepo Issue 324?

[misterivy]

Taken from LOOK-IN, October 1981

[sydney-carton-of-sour-milk]

The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 1: Hablot Knight Browne (a.k.a. Phiz)

...& a century-and-a-half-long game of telephone...

For the first post in a series on the book's illustrators, how could we start with any but the very first one?

"Although a number of critics have pilloried Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz') for his supposed ineptitude in the program of illustration for A Tale of Two Cities, the fact that he so astutely realized and graphically elaborated so many significant elements of Dickens's letterpress is evidence that his pictorial series reflects an extremely careful reading of the printed text...The visual accompaniment [that these illustrations provided to the novel's monthly installments] was not mere ornamentation, but an aide-mémoire intended to facilitate the monthly reader's keeping track of a discontinuous narrative over a period of seven months."

from "Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859) Illustrated: A Critical Reassessment of Hablot Knight Browne's Accompanying Plates" by Philip V. Allingham from the 2003 volume of the journal Dickens Studies Annual.

Frontispiece Cover to the Monthly Installments Vignette

For some perspective on the significance of this first set of illustrations - published initially within monthly installments of the novel in 1859 (the text of which was collected from the original weekly installments published in All the Year Round, also in 1859) - that single quote comes from an entire article on these illustrations that is itself 49 pages long.

The Mail

As such, suffice it to say that this particular post will not be a thorough examination of the history, context, and impact of these illustrations (though, for those interested, be sure to click on any links you see throughout this post for all sorts of further reading!).

The Shoemaker

Instead, it will simply be a place to observe and appreciate these illustrations for what they are, in their "original" glory.

The Likeness

...I mean, just look at these things! (I'm of course gonna break formality after this one because it's my favorite😌)

Congratulations

In terms of the odyssey of finding the proper edition of these to post, "original" is the operative word.

The Stoppage at the Fountain

These are the oldest (except for some or possibly all of McLenan's...more on that many months from now though) and certainly the most iconic of the illustrations of this novel and thus have also had the most mileage, having been passed from edition to edition to edition countless times over the last 164 years.

Mr. Stryver at Tellson's Bank

That means - as the gif at the top of this post demonstrates - that these illustrations have slowly been "translated" over time into dozens of distinct images - in ways as innocuous as a change in a shadow and as striking as a change in a character's facial expression.

The Spy's Funeral

These translations have happened in all sorts of ways over the development of printing technology - blemishes, xeroxing errors, low-quality or blurry scans, too much ink being used in printing, image compression, sometimes even actual tracing of the original illustrations! - and as interesting as they can be on their own, for someone determined to find the most accurate representation of Phiz's phenomenal work, they can be...phrustrating.

The Wine-shop

In fact, as a sidebar, the illustrations that I used for the Best Character Showdown bracket turned out to themselves be traces and not originals! I am Ashamed and disheartened! You could even say that I am yet another...

The Accomplices

accomplice in the mistranslation of Phiz's work!

The Sea Rises

Rest assured, though - although they are not from the monthly installments themselves (which as far as my research has gone do not seem to be anywhere on the Internet), these particular scans are sourced directly from an online scan at the Open Library project (contained within the Internet Archive) of the first edition of A Tale of Two Cities, itself also published in 1859.

Before the Prison Tribunal

I do wish that they hadn't been cropped the way that they have and that they were available in a (much) higher resolution, but as of now, they're the best representation of Phiz's original work that we netizens have!

The Knock at the Door

A Tale of Two Cities was the final novel that Phiz illustrated for Dickens - and marked the complicated ending to a twenty-three-year (yes) professional partnership between the author and illustrator - but his work here will mark a beautiful beginning to the long archiving project we will experience together here on this blog.

The Double Recognition

Throughout the work of this project, there will be quite a variety of sources being used - from direct scans by me to the two-tone abstractions of PDFs clearly not created for the purpose of storing image information - depending on the needs and availability of each edition.

After the Sentence

All of it goes to show the importance of accuracy and attention to detail in archiving art, which is itself an art form to be appreciated.

Hope you've enjoyed!

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

[msmc-796-official]

+ Good morning, Heaven's Fury!!

+ Pardon the brief radio silence, I was bogged down trying to pack, prepare, and decipher the tedious legal jargon around my 'transfer'; That, and I was not prepared for my Milkrun. Not sure what I was expecting, but I haven't been this tired in years. + Fantastic news, however! As of tonight, I am shipping out to join MSMC's 148th detachment, "Aftermarket Brokers"; I saddled up with a more R&D-centric detachment in an effort to make the most of my specializations. It should be a nice balance of ground deployment, prototype development, and study. Of course, there's still the brief training window before I can actually meet, let alone deploy with, my squadron- but my application was picked up by 148th almost immediately.

+ No more putting it off, I guess. Now's the time for that last, big step; Moving in. + Thank you all for your inspiration, and for the motivation to make this jump- I hope to make you proud.

+ (PS; I have a bottle of Kahlua to send to Slipshod, I think I owe them one, don't ask. Had to try and guess what they might like; I'll send that over once I'm settled.)

+ Thank you, again, -- "GRAY"

// Congratulations, Gray! The 148th are a very talented squadron when it comes to engineering, they're very lucky to have snagged you so quickly. I'll have your welcome gifts sent over to their hangar, so you can access them right away after you get moved in.

+ aw shit, you got me kahlua? man, I haven't had that since HORUS - I'll look forward to drinking that. (one of my old hacker buddies liked white russians a whole lot; we used to experiment with my vodka collection and see what we could come up with that didn't taste entirely awful.) oh, and you're very welcome for the help ;)

> Congratulations on joining MSMC officially, Gray. While I myself have not personally interacted with the members of MSMC-148, I have it on good authority that they're a very well put together team. I think you'll be a good fit with them - they wouldn't have picked up your application so quickly if they didn't think so, too.

+ yeah, congrats on getting in with the R&D squad - they're good pals of mine. rumor has it some of their older members were privy to our side of the zheng license back in the day - might wanna ask around and see if they still have any of the original blueprints. also, if you see him around, tell Tinkerbell (his actual callsign is Tinker, but I'm not gonna let him off that easy for beating me at poker) that it's his turn to host game night; drinks are on me since I lost last week

// You've really come into your own since we first met you, Gray; it's an honor to get to welcome both you and GRAE to the team. We're all incredibly proud of you, and look forward to piloting alongside you someday very soon. And hey, if you ever need guidance on where to go next, or just want to chat - our hangar doors (and our inbox) are always open. You know where to find us.

+ ditto that. you did good, kid - welcome aboard!

> Congratulations again, Gray. From all of us.

Yours among the stars, forever and always!

-- Angel, Slipshod, & Lockbreaker

[mellotronmkll]

I kinda miss when progressive rock music was my big fixation like I miss the long nights on progarchives which have been replaced by long nights on tmbw but the beautiful thing is that it will always be there for me when I'm ready to return...and that's a fact

[hydrachea]

MANIPULATE MOLD MOMMYNATE

GO JADE GO

[onlyfangz]

why are all of my based on your likes! posts speculating about famous lesbians not really being lesbians? i checked my likes, theres nothing in there. you all need to stop being fucking weird about lesbians tho. especially lesbians who have dated/fucked men in the past. you look like a toddler with your gold stars.

[chasgow]

One... step... BEYOND!!! Madness in the NME, November 17, 1979.

[maybeophe]

Authors being the ones to record their own audial readings is really interesting because you get to hear how the creator themself interprets their own work through their choice of vocal tone and pacing, which can result in the writing itself carrying a completely different meaning than what the reader themself would have ascribed to the written work. You get to experience the author's world as they do, and there's something intimately special about sharing the perspective of the creator.

[youronlybean]

The fact that Speedy’s voice inflections have spread to lobbies he ISN’T IN… he’s just iconic

And I’ve STARTED DOING IT WHEN I SPEAK TOO

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

one of my fav bits in gray is the ‘drop dead!’ chant scene and its juxtaposition with the ‘kiss her!’ chant in the mv for ‘a little less 16 candles…’

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

I'm 100% on board with you for your disdain for makoda

We are making out