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love-menzone · 1 year ago

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"Trimmed to Perfection: Discover the Top 10 Barbershops in Canada and Around the World"

Subtitle 1: "Exploring Canada's Finest Barbershops"

When it comes to grooming, a visit to a barbershop can be a truly transformative experience. From classic cuts to modern styles, barbershops offer a wide range of services to cater to every gentleman's needs. In this article, we'll take you on a journey to discover the top 10 barbershops in Canada, known for their exceptional skills, customer service, and ambiance.

The Nomad Barbershop (Toronto, Ontario)

Located in the heart of Toronto, The Nomad Barbershop is a true haven for those seeking a top-notch grooming experience. The skilled barbers here specialize in both traditional and contemporary styles, ensuring every client leaves feeling their best

2.Victory Barbers (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Victory Barbers in Vancouver is known for its blend of classic barbershop charm and modern aesthetics. Their attention to detail and commitment to customer satisfaction make them a standout choice on the West Coast.

3. Barber & Co. (Calgary, Alberta)

Barber & Co. in Calgary offers an upscale grooming experience with a focus on precision cuts and grooming services. It's the go-to destination for Calgary's style-conscious men.

4.House of Barons (Edmonton, Alberta)

Step into the House of Barons in Edmonton, and you'll instantly feel like royalty. With an old-world charm and contemporary flair, they provide top-tier grooming services and products.

5.The Groomsmen (Montreal, Quebec)

Montreal's premier barbershop, The Groomsmen, combines the art of grooming with a relaxing atmosphere. It's the perfect place to unwind while getting a stylish haircut or beard trim.6.

6.Tommy Gun's Original Barbershop (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Tommy Gun's has become a household name in Canada, known for its consistency and high-quality services. With locations nationwide, you're never far from a great grooming experience.

7.The Barbershop Club (Ottawa, Ontario)

The Barbershop Club in Ottawa is where sophistication meets tradition. Their skilled barbers provide personalized services that cater to the unique needs of each client.

8.Dapper Barbershop (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

In Halifax, Dapper Barbershop stands out for its commitment to creating a welcoming and comfortable environment. Their talented team of barbers ensures you leave looking and feeling your best.

9.Sailor Bup's Barbershop (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador)

Sailor Bup's is a beloved institution in St. John's, known for its exceptional service and commitment to preserving the classic barbershop experience.

10.Blind Barber (Toronto, Ontario)

Blind Barber in Toronto offers more than just grooming; it's a complete lifestyle experience. With a bar and lounge, you can enjoy a cocktail while getting your haircut or beard trimmed.

Subtitle 2: "Beyond Borders: The World's Top 10 Barbershops"

While Canada boasts some remarkable barbershops, the world is also home to some iconic grooming establishments that deserve recognition. Let's explore the top 10 barbershops from around the globe that have gained international acclaim.

Schorem Haarsnijder en Barbier (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Schorem, often referred to as the "Scumbag Barbers of Rotterdam," has a cult following for its dedication to traditional barbering techniques and impeccable craftsmanship.

2.Pankhurst London (London, United Kingdom)

Pankhurst London, located on the famous Savile Row, is synonymous with British elegance. It's a place where you can get a world-class haircut while surrounded by luxury.

3.Fellow Barber (New York City, USA)

Fellow Barber in NYC is at the forefront of the modern barbershop renaissance. They focus on delivering a top-tier experience while staying true to their roots.

4.Le Barbier de Paris (Paris, France)

In the fashion capital of the world, Le Barbier de Paris is renowned for its style and sophistication. It's the place to go for a Parisian makeover.

5.Nomad Barber (Various Locations)

The Nomad Barber, known for its YouTube series, has traveled the world to explore grooming traditions. Now, they have their own barbershops in various locations, offering a taste of global grooming.

6.Truefitt & Hill (London, United Kingdom)

As the oldest barbershop in the world, Truefitt & Hill is a timeless institution. Their dedication to classic grooming has earned them a royal clientele.

7.Savills Barbers (Melbourne, Australia)

Savills Barbers in Melbourne has a reputation for combining classic barbering with a modern touch. Their barbers are highly skilled and passionate about their craft.

8.Murdock London (London, United Kingdom)

Murdock London is all about British grooming traditions with a contemporary twist. It's where you can experience the best of both worlds.

9.La Barbière de Paris (Paris, France)

La Barbière de Paris is a hidden gem in the heart of the French capital. Their commitment to the art of grooming is evident in every service they offer.

10.The Art of Shaving (Various Locations)

The Art of Shaving has made its mark in the world of grooming. With locations across the globe, they are known for their premium products and top-notch services.

Whether you're in Canada or traveling abroad, these top 10 barbershops in Canada and around the world offer exceptional grooming experiences that cater to the needs of the modern gentleman. Each barbershop on this list has its unique charm and specialties, ensuring that you'll walk out looking and feeling your best, no matter where you are.

To know more about the "Top 10 barbershop in Canada" and "Top 10 barbershop in World", we recommend you to visit the Men Zone Barbershop, as it is the best barber shop to get barbering services in Canada.

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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 years ago

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This day in history

I’m at the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend! Today (Apr 24) at 11AM, I’m signing for California Book Club at booth 111. At 12:30, I’m doing a panel called “The Accidental Detective” with Alex Segura, Margot Douaihy and SJ Rozan.

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#20yrsago “Daddy, Are We There Yet?” Alan Kay’s talk at ETCON https://craphound.com/kayetcon2003

#20yrsago A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: Clay Shirky’s talk at ETCON 2003 https://craphound.com/shirkyetcon2003.txt

#20yrsago Journalism 3.1b2, Dan Gillmor’s talk at ETCON https://craphound.com/gillmoretcon2003.txt

#20yrsago Notes from Meg Hourihan’s “Edges of the Writable Web” talk at ETCON https://craphound.com/megetcon2003.txt

#20yrsago Stewart Butterfield: “The Game Context as a Testing Ground for Social Software.” https://craphound.com/stewartetcon2003.txt

#15yrsago TSA screener who smuggled a gun into the airport is still on the job https://web.archive.org/web/20080428192830/http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6389294&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

#15yrsago Sleazy proposed new Dungeons and Dragons license seeks to poison open gaming systems https://web.archive.org/web/20080506004830/www.networkperformancedaily.com/2008/04/mysql_isnt_going_from_open_to.html

#10yrsago Man has eaten at 6,297 Chinese restaurants in the USA and Canada https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-chinese-eater-20130422-dto-htmlstory.html

#10yrsago Prof says he’ll grade students on a curve, so they organize a boycott of the exams and all get As https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/12/students-boycott-final-challenge-professors-grading-policy-and-get

#5yrsago Cops shoot man, then interrupt his funeral to press his corpse’s finger to his Iphone https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/Cops-used-dead-man-s-finger-in-attempt-to-access-his-phone-It-s-legal-but-is-it-okay-_167262017/

#5yrsago The problem isn’t that Facebook is creepy, it’s that it’s creepy AND HUGE https://www.wired.com/story/competition-is-at-the-heart-of-facebooks-privacy-problem/

#5yrsago It’s 2018, and Google just proposed an instant messaging tool with no encryption https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-accused-of-showing-total-contempt-for-android-users-privacy/

#5yrsago ISO rejects the NSA’s IoT crypto standard, believing it to be backdoored https://web.archive.org/web/20180424134658/https://www.wikitribune.com/story/2018/04/20/internet/67004/67004/

Catch me on tour with Red Team Blues in San Diego, Burbank, Mountain View, Berkeley, San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, DC, Gaithersburg, Oxford, Hay, Manchester, Nottingham, London, and Berlin!

#pluralistic

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vancouvertrueborns · 4 years ago

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Henry Ewert’s definitive account of the rise and fall of streetcars in Vancouver and Victoria, The Story of the B.C. Electric Railway Company, contains everything you need to know about urban rail mania in these parts up to 1986 – EXCEPT why these gun-toting yahoos greeted the last run of the Oak Street tram in 1952.

Answer: Oak and 44th was home to the Vancouver Gun Club. The Vancouver Archives’ pic shows the trapshooters in action circa 1919.

#Henry Ewert #The Story of the B.C. Electric Railway Company #Oak Street #streetcar #tram #1952 #Vancouver Gun Club #trapshooters #1919

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iamdangerace · 3 years ago

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L.A. Witch, Good Guys from their self titled, debut album (2017).

To me, their sound is like if 7 Year-Bitch and The Gun Club had a baby (that was a band).

L.A. Witch in Vancouver November 8, 2021. They’ll be here soon.

#l.a. witch #good guys #ellie english #irita pai #sade sanchez #grunge #cow punk #femme punk #vinyl records #vinyl albums #record collection #album collection #vinyl collection #vinyl rip

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buriedinbaltimore · 5 years ago

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Imagine the foxes playing two truths and a lie...

The upperclassmen start playing it as a drinking game one night and Neil is intrigued. Andrew is also intrigued but doesn’t show it and refuses to play.

They are all already pretty tipsy, with Kevin, Matt, Nicky, and Aaron pretty much drunk.

Allison goes first, she has an amazing poker face and calmly says all three statements with no facial twitches or vocal cues. “my first car was a Toyota Camry (truth), my prom dress cost over $10k (lie), and I once made out with Miley Cyrus (truth)”

Renee, Neil, and Aaron guess right, Matt, Dan, Kevin, and Nicky have to drink.

Then it’s Matt’s turn and he is terrible, he starts snickering before he opens his mouth. “I’ve swam with sharks (truth)” he says, but he cannot control his face and it keeps contorting as he tries to maintain a neutral expression. He takes a deep breath to try and control his giggles, “my favorite flower is sunflowers (truth)” then he can’t hold it in anymore and starts hysterically laughing and chokes out, “My favorite city in the world is Newark, NJ (lie)”

Everyone gets it right and Matt has to drink.

Dan is next, she goes for the “one of these is so out there and crazy it can’t be a lie...or is it?” method.

((It is.))

“I’ve never shot a gun (truth), as a kid my favorite food was celery with ranch dressing (truth), and when I was 18 I won the lottery but the ticket was ruined and I couldn’t claim the money (lie)”

Aaron jumps in with “Obviously you never won the lottery, how would you even know if the ticket was destroyed”

Dan has her story ready. “When I first turned 18, I played the same numbers every week. It went on for a few months when my numbers were picked, but by that point playing was more of a habit than anything else and I wasn’t too careful with my tickets. I searched for it everywhere and found that I left it in my jeans pocket when I did my laundry.”

Allison asks what the numbers were, and Dan answers with no hesitation, which makes Allison tilt her head and stare into Dan’s eyes. Dan looks back without guile, totally relaxed.

Nicky is looking at her with his eyes wide and mouth slightly open and asks how much money she would have won

When Dan answers $53 million dollars Nicky gasps and Matt groans.

Neil, Renee, and Allison get it right, but everyone else falls for it.

When its Nicky turn he forgets to say a lie.

He is sitting there trying to come up with something for what feels like forever while every goads him for taking so long.

Finally, after waiting 5 minutes, Kevin says “I’m going because Nicky obviously can’t come up with anything” and Nicky jumps across Kevins lap and goes “No no no no no, I’ve got it!”

Without moving off Kevin he says “I’m allergic to shellfish, I died my hair green once, and I’ve read all the twilight books three times“ He moves back to his spot looking pleased with himself.

Everyone starts discussing theories until Andrew says in his bored, flat voice, “Nicky, those are all true”

Nicky starts to protest, thinks for a second, then just says “Fuck!” and takes a shot.

Kevin rolls his eyes so hard that his entire head rotates then says, while slightly slurring, “Okay, my turn! I’ve played a game of pick up basketball once (lie), I know all the lyrics to We Didn’t Start the Fire (truth), and I’ve traveled to over a dozen countries (truth).”

Matt starts hysterically laughing again, “You know all the lyrics to We Didn’t Start the Fire! oh my god Kevin you are such a nerd!” everyone else starts laughing at Kevin too.

“Maybe I do, maybe it’s the lie!”

“Everyone knows you’ve never played a sport besides Exy in your life Kevin” Dan says, “Will you sing it for us? Please, please, please!”

Allison, Nicky, and Matt join Dan in asking Kevin to sing. Renee even says, “It would be lovely to hear you sing it Kevin” to which Kevin blushes a little and answers, “Maybe later” and then takes his shot.

Aaron is drunk enough at this point to spill some truths he otherwise never would, and will wish for the rest of his life that he never had.

“When I was little, I wanted to be a figure skater when I grew up.(truth)”

Everyone goes completely silent and stares at him unsure whether to laugh or not but he doesn’t realize and continues

“The first time I got high I thought the squirrels in the tree wanted to adopt me as their squirrel king (truth), and I hate Taylor Swift (lie)”

No one says anything at first, and just when Aaron starts to realize something is up, Nicky says “Nah man, you LOVE T. Swift, you can’t deny it!”

They collectively make a silent agreement to ignore this new information about Aaron until he sobers up a bit and can either defend himself, or will be more fun to tease.

In the end, everyone but Renee guesses right, but she guessed wrong on purpose because she didn’t think that Aaron should be having any more to drink.

When it’s Renee’s turn, she smiles sweetly and says, ”I can juggle up to 7 balls (truth), I have never drank diet soda (lie), and I once had a pet turtle named Vincent (truth).”

No one is confident about which is the lie and it is the longest the foxes debate after anyones turn. It doesn’t help that Renee refuses to answer questions, and whenever someone tries to ask her anything she just smiles and shrugs.

It comes out to Neil and Aaron getting it right, while everyone else has to drink.

“How the fuck has it never come up that you’re a master juggler?” Allison asks angrily

“It wouldn’t be appropriate to do it at practice, and we’re not really around balls much otherwise.”

Everyone asks for a demonstration, “I will juggle later if Kevin will sing.”

Everyone looks at Kevin who sighs but says “Okay, fine!”

They all cheer then wait eagerly for Neil to go.

Neil sits quietly for a little while, not as long as Nicky, but long enough that Aaron says, “Come on this should be easy for you! You lied to us all for a year, what’s the problem, the truth?”

Neil shoots him a dirty look but doesn’t respond for a few more seconds then says,

“My mom and I once helped deliver a baby at a truck stop in Alberta, I’ve been bitten by a camel, and I can speak 7 languages”

Everyone just stares at him.

“Two of those things are true?” Matt finally asks

“Yeah.” Neil says, shrugging. Everyone is silent again.

Nicky turns to Andrew for help, but he refuses to say anything. His eyes are bright with interest though and he looks at Neil for a long time. Internally, he thinks the one about helping birth a baby has something off about it.

After much debate, Allison, Kevin, and Matt guess the baby, Renee, Dan, and Aaron guess the camel, and Nicky says the languages, “No one can know SEVEN languages!! I won’t believe it!”

They all turn to Neil expectantly and he says, “It was the first one, we were just outside Vancouver, in British Columbia, not Alberta.”

“But you, Neil Josten, have helped deliver a baby?” Allison asks incredulously.

“Technically I wasn’t Neil Josten yet…”

Everyone groans. Everyone takes a shot.

Cut to 15 minutes later, Renee is juggling an exy ball, some apples, and Matt’s phone while Kevin sings. Nicky tries to sing along with Kevin but definitely doesn’t know the right words, Aaron is watching Renee wide eyed, Dan and Matt are playing air guitar behind Kevin, and Allison is looking for more things for Renee to juggle. Neil and Andrew sit quietly on a desk holding cigarettes, observing their idiot friends.

Stories Behind the Truths and Lies

Allison

My first car was a Toyota Camry (truth) - Allison’s parents wanted her to learn how to drive in a safe car that wouldn’t draw a lot of attention, so they got her a Camry. She only drove it for 3 weeks before demanding an upgrade.

My prom dress cost over $10k (lie) - This was almost true. She had ordered a custom Zac Posen dress but before it was finalized she made her decision to go to PSU and play Exy, and her mother canceled the order. She ended up wearing something she found in a vintage store that she altered herself. She ended up enjoying it a lot, which led to her decision to study fashion. (In my hc she played professional Exy for 3? seasons but was injured and then started her fashion line.)

I once made out with Miley Cyrus (truth) - While out clubbing one night she met Miley through mutual friends, they were attracted to each other, they made out. Miley asked for her number but Allison wasn’t looking for anything more than a hook up.

Matt

I’ve swam with sharks (truth) - He did this with his mom on a vacation and they both loved it. They also have a tradition where they watch at least one night of shark week together, or at least call each other to talk while they are both watching.

My favorite flower is sunflowers (truth) - No story lol I just think he would like sunflowers.

My favorite city in the world is Newark, NJ (lie) - I love thinking about New Yorker Matt. Raised on the Upper East Side, dad a top plastic surgeon, mom a public figure? Child grew up surrounded by serious privilege. HC that in fifth grade he made friends with a boy who was on scholarship at his school. Let’s call him… Metin. He lived in Queens? He took the subway? Matt goes to his house one day and it is 1/8th the size of his apartment and there are 9 people living there; Metin’s parents, two grandparents, his uncle, his two sisters, and his cousin. They all speak Turkish in the house and it’s loud and crowded but so full of life and love and Matt loves it. He and Metin grew apart when Matt started using, but before that they were best friends for years and explored the city together, Matt learning about and experiencing so much culture that for the first 9 years of his life he didn’t know existed. When Nicky wanted to go to Times Square for New Years Matt knew he had to be a good host and take them but inside he was DYING. I’m getting off track. No New Yorker could ever like Newark. I’m not convinced anybody could like Newark. It is indeed, very laughable.

Dan

I’ve never shot a gun (truth) - Dan hates guns and refuses to shoot one.

As a kid my favorite food was celery with ranch dressing (truth) - Idk I just thought this was cute. And also thinking about young Dan who didn’t have a lot of access to healthy foods getting celery sticks and ranch with her free school lunch and getting SO excited. Trading her cookie to a classmate for their celery.

When I was 18 I won the lottery but the ticket was ruined and I couldn’t claim the money (lie) - I like to think this is part true. After Dan turned 18 but before she was recruited for the Foxes, she played lotto a lot, always with the same numbers that she got from a fortune cookie that said, “Failure is not defeat until you stop trying.” She stopped playing once she signed with Wymack.

Nicky (all truths)

I’m allergic to shellfish - Mostly I love that Andrew knew all these things about Nicky, especially his allergy because he’s always looking out to make sure Nicky doesn’t eat something he can’t.

I died my hair green once - At first, when he took custody of the twins and started showing up for them at school at stuff, he hated the looks he got. He was a 19 year old kid who was supposed to be their guardian? Not to mention the way people eyed his skin and hair when he said he was family. One day he decided to dye his hair blond and he asked Andrew and Aaron to help, to try to bond. Aaron wanted nothing to do with it, but surprisingly, Andrew seem enthusiastic about the idea. He bought the dye and did everything for Nicky in the kitchen. When he was finally done roughly washing the dye out of Nicky’s hair, Nicky went to the bathroom to see how he looked and saw that Andrew had died his hair green. He wasn’t sure if he wanted to laugh at the prank or cry because he foolishly thought he might be getting through to Andrew. When he went back to the kitchen, he tried to laugh it off and said maybe he should go to a salon to get the color right. Andrew told him he was stupid to try and change how he looked just because people were dumb enough to think that families needed to look alike. Besides, they weren’t a family anyway. “Family” is a toxic excuse for things people put up with, a reason we accept the tragedies and inconveniences forced upon us. (Nora’s words) Nicky was upset, and dyed his hair back to his natural color once the roots started growing in, but he reaffirmed his commitment in that moment that he would show the twins what Erik had shown him, what a family could really be.

I’ve read all the twilight books three times - Nicky was a huge fan of twilight, even going to the midnight release party for the last book. He was disappointed in the movie adaptations but loved the casting and watched for the eye candy. He is loving the twilight renaissance especially the twilight is gay discourse.

Kevin

I’ve played a game of pick up basketball once (lie) - Kevin has never played a game of basketball, or soccer, or tennis, or baseball, or any other sport for that matter and can not understand why anyone would want to.

I know all the lyrics to We Didn’t Start the Fire (truth) - Kayleigh Day was a big music fan, she loved everything from classical to country, but one of her favorite artists was Billy Joel. After she died and Kevin moved into Evermore, he almost forgot about her music because the music at the Nest was all chosen for pragmatic reasons, like its BPM and ability to pump the players up. One day, when Kevin was around 15 years old, a rebellious Raven played his own music while training in the weight room. He and his partner were the only ones in there until Riko and Kevin showed up, and they turned it off as soon as they realized they had come in, but Kevin heard some of “Only the Good Die Young” and for the first time in a long time had a vivid memory of his mother. He asked the boys what had been playing, and Riko scoffed at the name Billy Joel. That night while Riko was sleeping, Kevin downloaded Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits and listened until he feel asleep, and he continued listening to it for weeks until he started remembering more of his mothers songs from his childhood. We Didn’t Start the Fire was one of his favorites because history.

I’ve traveled to over a dozen countries (truth) - Between travel through Europe with his mom while she spread Exy and professional appearances he made with Riko, Kevin is the most well traveled besides Neil.

Aaron

When I was little, I wanted to be a figure skater when I grew up. (truth) - When Aaron was around four or five, he watched the winter olympics on TV and fell in love with figure skating. Tilda never bothered to get him skating lessons, but one day, when Aaron was seven, there was an attempt to revive the Ice Capades. Aaron never thought he would get to go, but Tilda surprised him with tickets. It is one of the few really good memories he has of his mom.

The first time I got high I thought the squirrels in the tree wanted to adopt me as their squirrel king (truth) - I just imagine Aaron trying his mom’s drugs for the first time alone in the back yard, laying flat on his back looking up at a family of squirrels, saying, “I’m king of the squirrels!!!”

I hate Taylor Swift (lie) - Katelyn is a HUGE Taylor Swift fan. When they first started hanging out, Aaron didn’t really like her music but didn’t want to say anything. Eventually he started associating her with Katelyn though, and he loves watching Katelyn sign and dance so much that he now genuinely enjoys her music.

Renee

I can juggle up to 7 balls (truth) - Renee always had a natural juggling talent. She never really tried to learn, it was just always something she could do.

I have never drank diet soda (lie) - She does prefer non-diet soda, but she has tried diet before.

I once had a pet turtle named Vincent (truth) - Vincent was a gift from one of her mother’s boyfriends, the only one Renee ever remotely like. He was horrible to her mother, but had a soft spot for Renee and treated her kindly. They broke up after a couple of months, and he gave her Vincent as a parting gift. She had him until she got arrested, she couldn’t go back home to get him and when her mother went to prison he died.

Neil

My mom and I once helped deliver a baby at a truck stop in Alberta (lie) - This happened while Neil and his mom were on the way to Seattle. It was the middle of the night and they stopped to get gas a few hours out from Vancouver when they heard a woman screaming. There was nothing around for miles and only one other car in the lot that had been there when they pulled in. His mother immediately dropped the gas pump and Neil was already back in the car when the screaming stopped and his mother hesitated. Neil had never seen his mom hesitate with a potential threat around before, and he listened closely to try and understand why she stopped. All he heard was a woman panting harshly, but it sounded almost as though there was a rhythm to it. Mary signaled for him to get out of the car, and ordered him to grab some blankets, the first aid kit, and water bottles and follow her. They walked behind the locked public bathrooms, and found the woman squatting, with tears running down her face. Mary wasn’t very gentle or comforting, but she told the woman in a calm and confident voice that they were going to help. Neil didn’t do much, but he let the woman hold his hand and squeeze until he thought she would break it. He gave her sips of water between her contractions and did anything else his mother said. Once the baby was out, wrapped in a blanket, and in its mothers arms, Mary grabbed Neil and they left without another word to the woman. She stared after them, confused and grateful. Neil and his mother never spoke of it again.

I’ve been bitten by a camel (truth) - Neil and Mary spent a few days in Dubai to get some papers from a specialist there before traveling back to North America. The man did his business out of a racetrack where they held camel races. To get to his office, they had to travel through the back part of the track that the jockeys used to get the camels into position. Neil got too close to one of the camels and it bit his arm, luckily (or not), the jockey was in the middle of beating it and before it closed its mouth too tightly, landed a blow that caused the camel to immediately open its mouth again. Once he was freed, Neil was out of reach in a millisecond.

I can speak 7 languages (truth) - English, German, French, Russian, Hebrew, Czech, Greek. (To clarify he can speak 7 languages but he wouldn’t necessarily call himself fluent in all 7) We all know English, German, French, and Nora had a hc that Andrew and Neil learn Russian so they can talk to each other even with the cousins around which I love. Hebrew - In my hc Neil is jewish, as are Mary and Nathan. After running away, Mary didn’t know where to go once she had left her brother. She didn’t speak any other languages besides English, but she could understand Yiddish from hearing her grandparents and sometimes her parents speaking it growing up, and she could understand Polish from her time married to Nathan. She didn’t want to go to Poland in case any of Nathan’s contacts recognized her, so she decided to go to Israel. She knew there were communities there that spoke Yiddish and she was familiar if not comfortable with Hebrew from going to temple when she was younger. But most importantly she knew Nathan didn’t have any regular contacts there. While they were there, along with learning Hebrew, Mary pretended to be interested in converting to Greek Orthodox in order to get secret Greek lessons for her and Neil. After a while but sooner than she had hoped, Mary got a warning that Nathan had figured out where they were. She didn’t think it would be wise to go directly to Greece so she decided to move them to Prague next, since Czech and Polish are fairly similar and she really had no other ideas. While in Prague she continued her and Neil’s Greek lessons, and they went on to Greece eventually. Mary didn’t want them to lose any of the languages they learned, so she came up with a system that on certain days of the week they would speak to each other in certain languages. After Mary died, Neil pretty much gave up on Czech and Hebrew because he hadn’t been surrounded by them in so long and he hadn’t used either except with Mary since they moved from Prague or Israel. They had lived in Greece for longer than they had in Prague or Israel though, moving to a few different cities, so he felt stronger with Greek.

Fin.

This is my first time writing anything fanfiction, my first time doing any creative writing at all really, and I would love any and all feedback!! Thanks for reading this long ass post, I hope it wasn’t terrible!!

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insanethrottlebikernews · 5 years ago

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Send me 🎨 and I’ll make you a lil playlist of 5 songs shuffled from my 26 hour studio playlist

- Pork Soda by Glass Animals

- Yer Killin’ Me by Remo Drive

- Getting Naked Playing With Guns (covered) by Local News Legend

- I Moved to Vancouver and All I Got Was This Stupid Nicotine Addiction by Club Sofa

- Online Lover by Valiant Vermin

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warped-historian · 4 years ago

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Warped Tour, 2004

Dates:

June 26: Dallas, TX

June 27: Selma, TX

June 28: Houston, TX

June 29: Las Cruces, NM

June 30: Peoria, AZ

July 1: Fullerton, CA

July 2: Fullerton, CA

July 3: San Francisco, CA

July 4: Las Vegas, NV

July 6: Chula Vista, CA

July 7: Ventura, CA

July 8: Wheatland, CA

July 9: Boise, ID

July 10: George, WA

July 11: St. Helens, OR

July 13: Vancouver, BC

July 15: Calgary, AB

July 16: Bozeman, MT

July 17: Salt Lake City, UT

July 18: Denver, CO

July 20: Milwaukee, WI

July 21: Maryland Heights, MO

July 22: Noblesville, IN

July 23: Cleveland, OH

July 24: Tinley Park, IL

July 25: Minneapolis, MN

July 26: Bonner Springs, KS

July 28: Atlanta, GA

July 29: Orlando, GA

July 30: Tampa, FL

July 31: Pompano Beach, FL

August 1: Jacksonville, FL

August 2: Charlotte, NC

August 3: Virginia Beach, VA

August 4: Bristow, VA

August 5: Burgettstown, PA

August 6: Camden, NJ

August 7: New York, NY

August 8: Englishtown, NJ

August 10: Hershey, PA

August 12: Quebec City, QC

August 13: Montreal, QC

August 14: Barrie, ON

August 15: Pontiac, MI

August 16: Cincinnati, OH

August 17: Columbus, OH

August 18: Darien, NY

August 19-20: Foxborough, MA

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Lineup:

Anti-Flag (Played 6/29-8/19)

Billy Talent (Played 7/20-8/19)

Bowling For Soup (Played 6/26)

The Bouncing Souls

New Found Glory

NOFX (Played 7/1-8/8)

Simple Plan (Played 7/24-7/26 and 8/1-8/5)

Story of the Year

Taking Back Sunday

Tiger Army (Played 7/20-8/19)

The Used (Played 8/19)

The All-American Rejects (Played 6/25-6/29 and 7/29-8/1)

Alkaline Trio (Played 6/25-7/24)

Bad Religion

Coheed and Cambria

The Early November (Played 6/25-7/18)

Flogging Molly

Good Charlotte (Played 8/12-8/18)

The (International) Noise Conspiracy (Played 7/28-8/19)

Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards (Played 7/20-8/18)

The Sounds (Played 6/25-7/26)

Sugarcult (Played 7/20-8/19)

Thursday (Played 6/25-7/18 and 8/6-8/14)

The Vandals

Yellowcard

Allister (Played 7/20-8/19)

Atmosphere

Avenged Sevenfold (Played 7/20-8/19)

The Casualties

From Autumn to Ashes (Played 7/20-8/2)

Hazen Street (Played 6/25-7/18)

IMA Robot (Played 6/25-7/16)

Jackson United (Played 7/7-7/13 and 7/20-8/2)

Lilix (Played 7/13)

Mae (Played 6/25-7/18)

Matchbook Romance (Played 7/20-8/19)

My Chemical Romance (Played 6/25-7/18 and 7/24)

Piebald (Played 8/5-8/8)

The Red West (Played 6/25-7/20)

The Revolution Smile (Played 7/15-7/26)

Rise Against

Rufio (Played 7/20-8/19)

Senses Fail (Played 6/25-7/18)

A Faith Called Chaos

Alexisonfire (Played 8/12-8/19)

Another Damn Disappointment (Played 6/29-6/30, 7/8, 7/13-7/15 and 7/24-7/28)

Arkham (Played 7/9-7/13, 7/16-7/23, 7/29-7/31 and 8/6-8/10)

ASG (Played 7/1-7/8, 8/1 and 8/12-8/19)

Autopilot Off (Played 6/25-7/6)

Bleed the Dream (Played 7/20-8/2)

The Briggs (Played 7/24-8/19)

Chronic Future (Played 7/25-8/4)

Die Hunns (Played 6/25-7/6)

Don't Look Down (Played 7/7-7/18)

The Eyeliners (Played 6/25-7/2)

Fall Out Boy (Played 8/10-8/19)

Fear Before the March of Flames (Played 7/20-7/24)

The Fuck Ups (Played 6/25-7/18)

Go Betty Go (Played 6/25-7/23)

The God Awfuls (Played 6/25-7/15)

Guttermouth (Played 6/25-7/11)

Juliette and the Licks (Played 6/25-7/7)

The Kinison (Played 8/7-8/19)

Lennon (Played 7/28 and 7/30-8/7)

Letter Kills

Minority (Played 6/28)

Motion City Soundtrack (Played 7/16-8/8)

Potluck (Played 7/1-7/6)

Pulley (Played 7/7-7/18)

Rose Hill Drive (Played 8/8-8/19)

Side 67 (Played 7/15)

Single Frame (Played 6/25-6/27 and 7/16-7/28)

Washington Social Club (Played 8/4-8/19)

1208 (Played 7/11)

Amber Pacific (Played 6/25-7/13, 7/28-8/12 and 8/17-8/19)

Audio Karate (Played 8/4-8/19)

Before Today (Played 7/6)

Big D and the Kids Table (Played 7/20-7/26)

Black Fire (Played 6/25-6/30)

Black Furys (Played 7/3)

Bottom Line (Played 8/15-8/17)

Break Dance Vietnam (Played 6/25-7/6)

Break the Silence (Played 7/16-7/26 and 8/10-8/19)

Bytch Kiddy (Played 8/12-8/14)

Candy Ass (Played 8/4-8/10)

Carne Asada (Played 7/17-7/26)

The Code (Played 8/5-8/8)

Codie (Played 7/21-7/22)

The Commercials (Played 8/10)

Crowned King (Played 7/13-7/15 and 8/10-8/14)

Early Man

Eden Row (Played 8/16-8/19)

Eight Fingers Down (Played 6/25-6/29)

El Centro (Played 7/20-7/23)

El Nada (Played 7/24-7/26)

The Erks

Fear Nuttin' Band (Played 8/7)

Fighting Jacks (Played 7/8-7/9)

Happy Campers (Played 6/25-6/30)

Harpo (Played 7/22)

H is Orange (Played 7/1)

Holden (Played 7/2 and 7/7)

Hurry Up Offense (Played 8/4-8/7)

The Hurt Process (Played 7/1-7/11)

Insofar (Played 7/1-7/23)

J4 (Played 6/25-6/29)

Jersey (Played 8/7, 8/10-8/15 and 8/18-8/19)

Keg (Played 7/10)

Killradio (Played 7/16-7/26)

Lakeside (Played 7/28-7/29)

Losing Team (Playd 7/16-7/17)

Lylah (Played 6/25-6/29)

Madison (Played 7/28-8/8)

Madrepore (Played 7/4 and 7/7)

The Matches (Played 8/12-8/17)

Melee

Number One Fan (Played 7/18-8/19)

O're The Ramparts (Played 7/18)

Only Crime (Played 7/18)

Opiate for the Masses (Played 7/28-8/8)

Oreon (Played 8/16-8/19)

Pipedown (Played 7/7-7/10)

The Planet Smashers (Played 7/28-8/4, 8/10 and 8/15-8/19)

The Q (Played 6/30-7/8 and 7/31-8/3)

Reeve Oliver (Played 7/28-8/8)

Rolling Blackouts

Scatter the Ashes (Played 7/20-7/24)

Silverstein (Played 8/2-8/8)

The Skulls (Played 8/19)

Slowdance (Played 7/7-7/18)

Spell Toronto

Stereogram (Played 7/11-7/18)

Stole Your Woman (Played 7/8-7/13)

Suffocate (Played 7/20-7/26)

The Swear (Played 7/28)

Thought Riot (Played 7/2-7/6)

Truth In Fiction (Played 7/24-7/25)

Unit F (Played 6/25-7/2)

Van Stone (Played 7/4-7/7)

Victory Within (Played 7/10-7/18)

Wanted Dead (Played 7/1-7/8)

Windsor (Played 7/1 and 7/6)

Zox (Played 8/16-8/19)

A Thorn For Every Heart (Played 6/25-7/1, 7/6 and 7/24)

The Academy (Played 7/24)

All That's Left (Played 7/29-8/1)

Away From Here (Played 7/13-7/15 and 8/12-8/14)

Bayside (Played 8/15-8/19)

The Bled (Played 7/29-8/8)

Brazil (Played 7/1-8/19)

The Break (Played 7/22-7/28)

Day Two (Played 7/16-7/18)

Deville (Played 8/12-8/14)

Don't Look Down (Played 7/20-7/26)

Dynamite Boy (Played 6/25-6/30 and 7/16-8/19)

Eighteen Visions (Played 6/25-7/15)

Emery (Played 7/9-7/11)

Facing New York (Played 7/4)

From First To Last

Hidden In Plain View

Kiros (Played 7/13-7/15 and 8/12-8/14)

The Matches (Played 6/25-7/11)

Moments in Grace (Played 7/31-8/3)

Northstar (Played 6/25-6/27)

Not Quite Bernadette (Played 7/17-7/18)

Over It (Played 7/16-8/4)

Plans for Revenge (Played 7/3 and 7/8)

Roses Are Red (Played 7/16-7/21)

The Silence (Played 7/2 and 7/7)

Silverstein (Played 8/10-8/19)

The Snake, The Cross, The Crown (Played 7/2 and 7/7)

Somerset (Played 7/25)

The Spill Canvas (Played 7/16)

Stars Hide Fire (Played 8/2-8/6)

Still Life Projector (Played 7/8)

Stimulator (Played 7/1-7/8)

Tokyo Rose (Played 8/15-8/19)

Trophy Scars (Played 8/7-8/10)

Underminded

Underoath

Yesterdays Rising (Played 6/25-7/30)

5 Knuckle Surprise (Played 8/13)

13 Attempts to Fail (Played 7/9)

21 Rest (Played 7/6)

1090 Club (Played 7/16)

A Common Threat (Played 7/16)

A Second Chance (Played 8/7)

Abandon All Hope (Played 6/29)

Abstract Giants (Played 7/24)

Addison (Played 8/3)

Aiden (Played 7/10)

Air Tight Alibi (Played 6/27)

Allotic (Played 7/6)

Ambry (Played 8/19)

Arms of Orion (Played 8/6)

Antik (Played 7/18)

The Aquabats (Played 7/1-7/2 and 7/7)

Arson Cried Fire (Played 8/17)

Athena In Hades (Played 7/8)

The Autumn View (Played 7/25)

Authority Zero (Played 6/30 and 8/1-8/5)

The Bank Robbers (Played 8/8)

Benton (Played 8/10)

Bentvalve (Played 7/4)

Best Interest (Played 7/2)

The Big Screen (Played 7/31)

Billy and the Lost Boys (Played 7/13)

Bop Skizzum (Played 7/18)

Bosio (Played 7/20)

Bowling For Soup (Played 6/25, 6/27, 7/18-8/10 and 8/15-8/19)

Box Elder (Played 7/29)

Broken Horizon (Played 7/1)

BXF (Played 7/11)

Calico Drive (Played 7/15)

Capital Tragedy (Played 8/17)

Capitol Speedway (Played 8/1)

Capone (Played 8/15)

Cellar Door (Played 7/6)

Chances Are (Played 7/8)

Cheap Suits (Played 8/14)

Cherry Bing (Played 8/18)

Chernobyl Kids (Played 8/4)

Clearmotive (Played 8/18)

Coat of Arms (Played 8/5)

Crooked Edge (Played 8/1)

De La Vega (Played 7/9)

Dead Society (Played 8/8)

Death in Graceland (Played 8/16)

Deep Enough To Die (Played 8/10)

Delay (Played 7/23)

Delinquent Monastery (Played 7/3)

Deville (Played 7/15)

D.O.R.K. (Played 7/18)

Dramatic Still Life (Played 7/16)

Drane (Played 6/26)

DV8 (Played 6/25-6/27)

Each on Set (Played 8/12)

ElseWorth (Played 7/2)

Emotional Distress (Played 8/13)

Ender (Played 7/15)

The Escape Engine (Played 8/8)

Existing Away (Played 7/19)

Fail to Follow (Played 7/17)

Fallen From the Sky (Played 7/31)

Falling Process (Played 6/29)

The Feds (Played 6/26)

The Felix Culpa (Played 7/20)

Fell Far Behind (Played 8/6)

Final Underground (Played 7/9)

Firekills (Played 6/27)

Forever July (Played 8/2)

Ghetto Lust (Played 7/1)

Good With Guns (Played 7/26)

Grand Poo Bah (Played 8/14)

Her Candane (Played 7/17)

Highland Drive (Played 8/18)

Hit The Lights (Played 8/16)

Holiday (Played 8/19)

How About No (Played 7/23)

Hydra (Played 7/2 and 7/7)

I Voted For Kodos (Played 7/20)

Ill Figures (Played 7/4)

In This Day (Played 7/29)

International Businessmen (Played 7/10)

Intro5pect (Played 7/1)

Jacobs Ladder (Played 7/31)

Jane Eyre (Played 7/7)

Johnny Action Figure (Played 8/10)

Johnny Psycho (Played 7/23)

Johnny Rock (Played 7/26)

Junior (Played 6/26)

Just For A Day (Played 7/31)

JV Allstars (Played 7/26)

Kane Hodder (Played 7/10)

Key to Arson (Played 7/8)

Kick Over The Traces (Played 8/8)

Kid Deposit Triumph (Played 7/4)

Kincaide (Played 7/13)

Last Action Zeros (Played 6/30)

Last Annual (Played 7/24)

Last Collapse (Played 7/1)

Left Alone

Legbone (Played 8/17)

Light the Sky (Played 7/2)

Logik (Played 6/30)

Losers Luck (Played 7/21)

Lucked Out (Played 8/8)

Ludo (Played 7/13 and 7/21)

Made of Koncentrate (Played 8/12)

The Malcontents (Played 7/22)

Minority (Played 6/26)

Minus Vince (Played 7/3)

Monday In London (Played 8/2)

Monty's Fan Club (Played 7/7-7/17)

Much the Same (Played 7/24 and 8/3-8/10)

My American Heart (Played 7/6)

The Nancy School (Played 7/22)

Nervous Nellie (Played 7/28-8/1)

New Tomorrow (Played 7/6)

No Red Flags (Played 7/11)

The No Talent Show (Played 8/3)

Not Long After (Played 7/11)

NSF (Played 8/12)

O'Doyle Rules (Played 6/25)

Oktober (Played 6/30)

One Mile Wish (Played 7/2)

One Way Letter (Played 7/28)

Once Over (Played 7/6 and 7/8)

Oreon (Played 8/5)

Pacer (Played 8/13)

Patent Pending (Played 8/7)

Pennyroyals (Played 8/8)

The Phoenix Rising (Played 7/24)

The Pink Spiders (Played 7/28)

Plan B (Played 8/19)

Pleased (Played 8/12)

Poopan (Played 7/7)

Powderburn (Played 6/27)

Praxxis (Played 6/25)

The Preps (Played 8/10)

The Prime (Played 8/8)

Punos (Played 8/2)

Quietdrive (Played 7/20 and 7/24-7/25)

The Radikills (Played 7/23)

Rain Fur Rent (Played 7/3)

Red With Envy (Played 7/8)

Reno Divorce (Played 7/18)

The Response (Played 7/20)

Rise or Rust (Played 7/25)

Rockett Queen (Played 6/25)

Rory (Played 7/29)

Rubberhead (Played 6/27)

Rudesquad (Played 7/30)

The Salads (Played 8/14)

Same Old Crap (Played 7/26)

Sarcasm (Played 8/7)

The Scrubs (Played 8/16)

The Second Track (Played 8/1)

Sedona (Played 8/2)

The School Play (Played 7/11)

Shadow Agency (Played 8/1)

ShotBlue (Played 7/1)

Side Out (Played 7/29)

Silence The Wake (Played 8/15)

Silent Opposition (Played 7/10)

The Skeptics (Played 8/19)

Skylar Blue (Played 6/25)

The Skyline (Played 7/21)

The Slurs (Played 7/22)

Sometime in April (Played 8/6)

Sometime Never (Played 8/7)

The Sophomore Year (Played 7/28)

Soulfound (Played 7/30)

Sound Riot (Played 8/4)

The Spicolis (Played 8/14)

Spil (Played 7/22)

Spit for Athena (Played 8/15)

Split Habit (Played 7/24)

Spoiler (Played 6/29)

Spun On Ambition (Played 7/16)

Still Life Projector (Played 7/3)

The Story Changes (Played 8/17)

Straight Forward (Played 7/7)

Strutmore (Played 6/26)

Suburban Shock Syndrome (Played 6/29)

Suburban Tragedy (Played 7/30)

The Swellers (Played 7/23 and 8/15)

Tabula Rasa (Played 8/5)

Tel Star (Played 8/5)

Ten Second Epic (Played 7/15)

Ten Years From Now (Played 8/3)

Thin Dark Line (Played 8/4)

Today's Not Tomorrow (Played 8/18)

Tokyo Rose (Played 8/7)

Trace Element (Played 7/7)

The Trademark (Played 7/17)

Tragedy Andy (Played 7/3)

Transition (Played 8/5)

Truly Sunday (Played 7/30)

Uncrowned (Played 7/28)

Underscore (Played 8/4)

Unlabeled (Played 7/13)

Unjust (Played 7/3)

Useless (Played 8/6)

The Utmost (Played 7/4)

Victim 26 (Played 6/30)

Viscera's Recital (Played 8/13)

Waiting for Daryl (Played 7/9)

Westcott (Played 7/21)

When All Else Fails (Played 8/3)

When Sparks Fly (Played 8/16)

Youth in Asia (Played 7/26)

Youthinasia (Played 8/14)

Arcane

Astronautalis and Mes

B-Girl Temper

Cellar Door

Community Service

Crisis Center

Icon

Immortal Technique

Kanser

The Lordz Of Brooklyn

Pearl Crew

Shankini

Shebang!

Sisters of the Underground

Bring Your Own Weapon (Played 6/30)

Calabrese (Played 6/30)

Casket Life (Played 6/30)

Half Empties (Played 6/30)

Point 9 Percent (Played 6/30)

Scary Kids Scaring Kids (Played 6/30)

Sidetracked (Played 6/30)

Groovie Ghoulies (Played 7/1-8/19)

The Phenomenauts (Played 7/1-8/19)

A Wilhelm Scream (Played 8/16-8/19)

Alone at 3am (Played 8/16)

Amity (Played 7/13-8/19)

Anadivine (Played 8/7-8/8 and 8/18)

As Tall As Lions (Played 8/10-8/13)

Bear Vs. Shark (Played 7/22-7/24 and 8/15)

Before Braille (Played 7/16 and 7/18-7/20)

Before Today (Played 7/13-7/18)

Boys Night Out (Played 8/2-8/19)

Days Like These (Played 7/16-8/19)

Day Two (Played 7/21)

Don't Look Down (Played 8/6-8/7 and 8/10-8/15)

Emanuel (Played 7/21-7/24 and 8/2-8/6)

Endicott (Played 8/16-8/17)

Facing New York (Played 7/13-7/17)

Fear Before the March of Flames (Played 7/18)

Fifteen Minutes Fast (Played 7/21 and 7/26)

Fire When Ready (Played 8/7-8/8 and 8/18-8/19)

From Here On Out (Played 8/14-8/15)

Haddonfield (Played 8/13)

Half the Battle (Played 8/14-8/15)

Halifax (Played 8/4-8/14)

Haste The Day (Played 7/22-7/24)

The Higher (Played 7/13-7/17)

In Passing (Played 7/29-8/1)

In Reverent Fear (Played 7/13-7/15 and 7/18)

Junior Revolution (Played 8/17)

Kiros (Played 7/16-7/17)

The Letters Organized (Played 7/28-7/30)

Lightweight Holiday (Played 7/13-8/19)

The Matches (Played 7/13-7/17, 7/23-7/25, 8/2-8/6 and 8/18-8/19)

Much the Same (Played 7/21-7/22 and 8/16-8/17)

Noise Ratchet (Played 7/18-8/1)

Nor Am I (Played 7/21-8/19)

Nuclear Saturday (Played 7/28 and 7/30)

Offset (Played 7/18)

Salt the Earth (Played 7/26)

Secret Lives of Freemasons (Played 8/1-8/3)

Silverstein (Played 7/25-8/1)

The Snake, The Cross, The Crown (Played 7/13-7/15)

The Softer Side (Played 7/29-8/1)

Socratic (Played 7/31-8/1 and 8/3-8/5)

Split Sense (Played 7/26)

Staring Back (Played 7/13-8/19)

Tokyo Rose (Played 8/8-8/10)

Tora Tora Torrance (Played 7/25)

Waking Ashland (Played 7/13-7/15, 7/20 and 7/25)

The Working Title (Played 7/29-8/1)

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chiseler · 3 years ago

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The Mysterious Death of a Hollywood Director

This is the tale of a very famous Hollywood mogul and a not-so-famous movie director. In May of 1933 they embarked together on a hunting trip to Canada, but only one of them came back alive. It’s an unusual tale with an uncertain ending, and to the best of my knowledge it’s never been told before.

I. The Mogul

When we consider the factors that enabled the Hollywood studio system to work as well as it did during its peak years, circa 1920 to 1950, we begin with the moguls, those larger-than-life studio chieftains who were the true stars on their respective lots. They were tough, shrewd, vital, and hard working men. Most were Jewish, first- or second-generation immigrants from Europe or Russia; physically on the small side but nonetheless formidable and – no small thing – adaptable. Despite constant evolution in popular culture, technology, and political and economic conditions in their industry and the outside world, most of the moguls who made their way to the top during the silent era held onto their power and wielded it for decades. Their names are still familiar: Zukor, Goldwyn, Mayer, Jack Warner and his brothers, and a few more. And of course, Darryl F. Zanuck. In many ways Zanuck personified the common image of the Hollywood mogul. He was an energetic, cigar-chewing, polo mallet-swinging bantam of a man, largely self-educated, with a keen aptitude for screen storytelling and a well-honed sense of what the public wanted to see. Like Charlie Chaplin he was widely assumed to be Jewish, and also like Chaplin he was not, but in every other respect Zanuck was the very embodiment of the dynamic, supremely confident Hollywood showman.

In the mid-1920s he got a job as a screenwriter at Warner Brothers, at a time when that studio was still something of a podunk operation. The young man succeeded on a grand scale, and was head of production before he was 30 years old. Ironically, the classic Warners house style, i.e. clipped, topical, and earthy, often dark and sometimes grimly funny, as in such iconic films as The Public Enemy, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, and 42nd Street, was established not by Jack, Harry, Sam, or Albert Warner, but by Darryl Zanuck, who was the driving force behind those hits and many others from the crucial early talkie period. He played a key role in launching the gangster cycle and a new wave of sassy show biz musicals. At some point during 1932-33, however, Zanuck realized he would never rise above his status as Jack Warner’s right-hand man and run the studio, no matter how successful his projects proved to be, because of two insurmountable obstacles: 1) his name was not Warner, and 2) he was a Gentile. Therefore, in order to achieve complete autonomy, Zanuck concluded that he would have to start his own company.

In mid-April of 1933 he picked a public fight with Jack Warner over a staff salary issue, then abruptly resigned. Next, he turned his attention to setting up a company in partnership with veteran producer Joseph Schenck, who was able to raise sufficient funds to launch the new concern. And then, Zanuck invited several associates from Warner Brothers to accompany him on an extended hunting trip in Canada.

Going into the wilderness and killing wild game, a pastime many Americans still regard as a routine, unremarkable form of recreation, is also of course a conspicuous show of machismo. But in this realm, as with his legendary libido, Zanuck was in a class by himself. He had been an enthusiastic hunter most of his life, dating back to his boyhood in Nebraska. Once he became a big wheel at Warners in the late ’20s he took to organizing high-style duck-hunting expeditions: the young executive and his fellow sportsmen would travel to the appointed location in private railroad cars, staffed by uniformed servants. Heavy drinking on these occasions was not uncommon. (Inevitably, film buffs will recall The Ale & Quail Club from Preston Sturges’ classic comedy The Palm Beach Story, but DFZ and his pals were not cute old character actors, and their bullets were quite real.) Members of Zanuck’s studio entourage were given to understand that participation in these outings was de rigueur if they valued their positions, and expected desirable assignments in the future. Director Michael Curtiz, who had no fondness for hunting, remembered the trips with distaste, and recalled that on one occasion he was nearly shot by a casting director who had no idea how to properly handle a gun.

But ducks were just the beginning. In 1927 Zanuck took his wife Virginia on an African safari. In Kenya Darryl bagged a rhinoceros and posed for a photo with his wife, crouched beside the rhino’s carcass. Virginia, an erstwhile Mack Sennett bathing beauty and former leading lady to Buster Keaton, appears shaken. Her husband looks exhilarated. During this safari Zanuck also killed an elephant. He kept the animal’s four feet in his office on the Warners lot, and used them as ashtrays. If any animal lover dared to express dismay, the Hollywood sportsman would retort: “It was him or me, wasn’t it?” Zanuck made several forays to Canada with his coterie in this period, gunning for grizzly bears. Director William “Wild Bill” Wellman, who was more of an outdoorsman than Curtiz, once went along, but soon became irritated with Zanuck’s bullying. The two men got into a drunken fistfight the night before the hunting had even begun. In the course of the ensuing trip the hunting party was snowbound for three days; Zanuck sprained his ankle while trailing a grizzly; the horse carrying medical supplies vanished; and Wellman got food poisoning. “It was the damnedest trip I’ve ever seen,” the director said later, “but Zanuck loved it.”

Now that Zanuck had severed his ties with the Warner clan and was on the verge of a new professional adventure, a trip to Canada with a few trusted associates would be just the ticket. This time the destination would be a hunting ground on the banks of the Canoe River, a tributary of the Columbia River, 102 miles north of Revelstoke, British Columbia, a city about 400 miles east of Vancouver. There, in a remote scenic area far from any paved roads, telephones, or other niceties of modern life, the men could discuss Zanuck’s new production company and, presumably, their own potential roles in it. Present on the expedition were screenwriter Sam Engel, director Ray Enright, 42nd Street director Lloyd Bacon, producer (and former silent film comedian) Raymond Griffith, and director John G. Adolfi, best known at the time for his work with English actor George Arliss. Adolfi, who was around 50 years old and seemingly in good health, would not return.

II. The Director

Even dedicated film buffs may draw a blank when the name John Adolfi is mentioned. Although he directed more than eighty films over a twenty-year period beginning in 1913, most of those films are now lost. He worked in every genre, with top stars, and made a successful transition from silent cinema to talkies. He seems to have been a well-respected but self-effacing man, seldom profiled in the press.

According to his tombstone Adolfi was born in New York City in 1881, but the exact date of his birth is one of several mysteries about his life. His father, Gustav Adolfi, was a popular stage comedian and singer who emigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1879. Gustav performed primarily in New York and Philadelphia, and was known for such roles as Frosch the Jailer in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. But he was a troubled man, said to be a compulsive gambler, and after his wife Jennie died (possibly of scarlet fever) it appears his life fell apart. Gustav’s singing voice gave out, and then he died suddenly in Philadelphia in October 1890, leaving John and his siblings orphaned. (An obituary in the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent reported that Gustav suffered a stroke, but family legend suggests he may have committed suicide.) After a difficult period John followed in his father’s footsteps and launched a stage career, and was soon working opposite such luminaries of the day as Ethel Barrymore and Dustin Farnum. Early in the new century the young actor wed Pennsylvania native Florence Crawford; the marriage would last until his death.

When the cinema was still in its infancy stage performers tended to regard movie work as slumming, but for whatever reason John Adolfi took the plunge. He made his debut before the cameras around 1907, probably at the Vitagraph Studio in Brooklyn. There he appeared as Tybalt in J. Stuart Blackton’s 1908 Romeo and Juliet , with Paul Panzer and Florence Lawrence in the title roles. He worked at the Edison Studio for director Edwin S. Porter, and at Biograph in a 1908 short called The Kentuckian which also featured two other stage veterans, D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett. Most of Adolfi’s work as a screen actor was for the Éclair Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, the first film capital. The bulk of this company’s output was destroyed in a vault fire, but a 1912 adaptation of Robin Hood in which Adolfi appeared survives. That same year he also appeared in a famous docu-drama, as we would call it, Saved from the Titanic. This ten-minute short premiered less than a month after the Titanic disaster, and featured actress Dorothy Gibson, who actually survived the voyage, re-enacting her experience while wearing the same clothes she wore in the lifeboat. (This film, unfortunately, is among the missing.) After appearing in dozens of movies Adolfi moved behind the camera.

Much of his early work as a director was for a Los Angeles-based studio called Majestic, where he made crime dramas, Westerns, and comedies, films with titles like Texas Bill’s Last Ride and The Stolen Radium. In 1914 the company had a new supervisor: D. W. Griffith, now the top director in the business, who had just departed Biograph. Adolfi was one of the few Majestic staff directors who kept his job under the new regime. A profile in the February 1915 issue of Photoplay describes him as “a tallish, good-looking man, well-knit and vigorous, dark-haired and determined; his mouth and chin suggest that their owner expects (and intends) to have his own way unless he is convinced that the other fellow’s is better.” It was also reported that Adolfi had developed something of a following as an actor, but that he dropped out of the public eye when he became a director. Presumably, that’s what he wanted.

Adolfi left Majestic after three years, worked at Fox Films for a time as a staff director, then freelanced. During the remainder of the silent era he guided some of the screen’s legendary leading ladies: Annette Kellerman (Queen of the Sea, 1918), Marion Davies (The Burden of Proof, 1918), Mae Marsh (The Little ‘Fraid Lady, 1920), Betty Blythe (The Darling of the Rich, 1922), and Clara Bow (The Scarlet West, 1925). Not one of these films survives. A profile published in the New York World-Telegram during his stint at Fox reported that Adolfi was well-liked by his employees. He was “reticent when the conversation turned toward himself, but frank and outspoken when it concerned his work. Mr. Adolfi is not only a director who is skilled in the technique of his craft; he is also a deep student of human nature.” Asked how he felt about the cinema’s potential, he replied, with unconscious irony, “it is bound to live forever.”

III. The Talkies

In spring of 1927 Adolfi was offered a job at Warner Brothers. His debut feature for the studio What Happened to Father? (now lost) was a success, or enough of one anyway to secure him a professional foothold, and he worked primarily at WB thereafter. Thus he was fortuitously well-positioned for the talkie revolution, for although talking pictures were not invented at the studio it was Sam Warner and his brothers, more than anyone else, who sold an initially skeptical public on the new medium. After Adolfi had proven himself with three talkie features Darryl Zanuck handed him an expensive, prestige assignment, a lavish all-star revue entitled The Show of Shows which featured every Warners star from John Barrymore to Rin-Tin-Tin.

Other important assignments followed. In March of 1930 a crime melodrama called Penny Arcade opened on Broadway. It was not a success, but when Al Jolson saw it he sensed that the story had screen potential. He purchased the film rights at a bargain rate and then re-sold the property to his home studio, Warner Brothers. Adolfi was chosen to direct, but was doubtless surprised to learn that Jolson had insisted that two of the actors from the Broadway production repeat their performances before the cameras. One of the pair, Joan Blondell, had already appeared in three Vitaphone shorts to good effect, but the other, James Cagney, had never acted in a movie. Any doubts about Jolson’s instincts were quickly dispelled. Rushes of the first scenes featuring the newcomers so impressed studio brass that both were signed to five-year contracts. While Adolfi can’t be credited with discovering the duo, the film itself, re-christened Sinners’ Holiday,remains his strongest surviving claim to fame: he guided Jimmy Cagney’s screen debut.

At this point the director formed a professional relationship that would shape the rest of his career. George Arliss was a veteran stage actor who went into the movies and unexpectedly became a top box office draw. He was, frankly, an unlikely candidate for screen stardom. Already past sixty when talkies arrived, Arliss was a short, dignified man who resembled a benevolent gargoyle. But he was also a journeyman actor, a seasoned professional who knew how to command attention with a sudden sharp word or a raised eyebrow. Like Helen Hayes he was valued in Hollywood as a performer of unblemished reputation who lent the raffish film industry a touch of Class, in every sense of the word.

In 1929 Arliss appeared in a talkie version of Disraeli, a role he had played many times on stage, and became the first Englishman to take home an Academy Award for Best Actor. Thereafter he was known for stately portrayals of History’s Great Men, such as Voltaire and Alexander Hamilton, as well as fictional kings, cardinals, and other official personages. The old gentleman formed a close alliance with Darryl Zanuck, whom he admired, and was in turn granted privileges highly unusual for any actor at the time. Arliss had final approval of his scripts and authority over casting. He was also granted the right to rehearse his selected actors for two weeks before filming began. All that was left for the film’s director to do, it would seem, would be to faithfully record what his star wanted. Not many directors would accept this arrangement, but John Adolfi, who according to Photoplay “was determined to have his own way unless he is convinced that the other fellow’s is better,” clearly had no problem with it. His first film with Arliss was The Millionaire, released in May 1931; and in the two years that followed Adolfi directed eight more features, six of which were Arliss vehicles. He had found his niche in Hollywood.

One of Adolfi’s last jobs sans Arliss was a B-picture called Central Park, which reunited the director with Joan Blondell. It’s a snappy, topical, crazy quilt of a movie that packs a lot of incident into a 58-minute running time. Central Park was something of a sleeper that earned its director positive critical notices, and must have afforded him a lively holiday from those polite period pieces for the exacting Mr. Arliss.

In spring of 1933, after completing work on the Arliss vehicle Voltaire, Adolfi accompanied Darryl Zanuck and his entourage to British Columbia to hunt bears. Arliss intended to follow Zanuck to his new company, while Adolfi in turn surely expected to follow the star and continue their collaboration. Things didn’t work out that way.

IV. The Hunting Trip

It’s unclear how long the men were hunting before tragedy struck. On Sunday, May 14th, newspapers reported that film director John G. Adolfi had died the previous week – either on Wednesday or Thursday, depending on which paper one consults – at a hunting camp near the Canoe River. All accounts give the cause of death as a cerebral hemorrhage. According to the New York Herald-Tribune the news was conveyed in a long-distance phone call from Darryl Zanuck to screenwriter Lucien Hubbard in Los Angeles. Hubbard subsequently informed the press. The N.Y. Times reported that the entire hunting party (Zanuck, Engel, Enright, Bacon, and Griffith) accompanied Adolfi’s remains in a motorboat down the Columbia River to Revelstoke. From there the body was sent to Vancouver, B.C., where it was cremated. Write-ups of Adolfi’s career were brief, and tended to emphasize his work with George Arliss, though his recent success Central Park was widely noted. John’s widow Florence was mentioned in the Philadelphia City News obituary but otherwise seems to have been ignored; the couple had no children.

V. The Aftermath

Darryl F. Zanuck went on to found Twentieth Century Pictures, a name suggested by his hunting companion Sam Engel. One of the company’s biggest hits in its first year of operation was The House of Rothschild, starring George Arliss and directed by Alfred Werker. The venerable actor returned to England not long afterwards and retired from filmmaking in 1937. In his second book of memoirs, published three years later, Arliss devotes several pages of warm praise to Zanuck, but refers only fleetingly to the man who directed seven of his films, John Adolfi, and misspells his name.

In 1935 Zanuck merged his Twentieth Century Pictures with Fox Films, and created one of the most successful companies in Hollywood history. He would go on to produce many award-winning classics, including The Grapes of Wrath, Laura, and All About Eve. Zanuck’s trusted associates at Twentieth-Century Fox in the company’s best years included Sam Engel, Raymond Griffith, and Lloyd Bacon, all survivors of the Revelstoke trip. Personal difficulties and vast changes in the film industry began to affect Zanuck’s career in the 1950s. He left the U.S. for Europe but continued to make films, and sporadically managed to exercise control over the company he founded. He died in 1979.

In 1984 a onetime screenwriter and film critic named Leonard Mosley, who had known Zanuck slightly, published a biography entitled Zanuck: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Last Tycoon. Aside from his movie reviews most of Mosley’s published work concerned military matters, specifically pertaining to the Second War World. His Zanuck bio reveals a grasp of film history that is shaky at times, for the book has a number of obvious errors. Nevertheless, it was written with the cooperation of Darryl’s son Richard, his widow Virginia, and many of the mogul’s close associates, so whatever its errors in chronology or studio data the anecdotes concerning Zanuck’s personal and professional activities are unquestionably well-sourced.

When Mosley’s narrative reaches May 1933, the point when Zanuck is on the verge of founding his new company, we’re told that he and several associates decided to go on a hunting trip to Alaska. The location is not correct, but chronologically – and in one other, unmistakable respect – there can be no doubt that this refers to the Revelstoke trip. From Mosley’s book:

“There is a mystery about this trip, and no perusal of Zanuck’s papers or those of his former associates seems to elucidate it,” he writes. “Something happened that changed his whole attitude towards hunting. All that can be gathered from the thin stories that are still gossiped around was that the hunting party went on the track of a polar bear somewhere in the Alaskan wilderness [sic], and when the vital moment came it was Zanuck who stepped out to shoot down the charging, furious animal. His bullet, it is said, found its mark all right, but it did not kill. The polar bear came on, and Zanuck stood his ground, pumping away with his rifle. Only this time it was not ‘him or me,’ but ‘him’ and someone else. The wounded and enraged bear, still alive and still charging, swerved around Zanuck and swiped with his great paw at one of the men standing behind him – and only after it had killed this other man did it fall at last into the snow, and die itself. That’s the story, and no one seems to be able to confirm it nor remember the name of the man who died. The only certain thing is that when Zanuck came back, he announced to Virginia that he had given up hunting. And he never went out and shot a wild animal again, not even a jackrabbit for his supper.”

VI. The Coda

Was John Adolfi killed by a bear? It certainly seems possible, but if so, why didn’t the men in the hunting party simply report the truth? Even if their boss was indirectly responsible, having fired the shots that caused the bear to charge, he couldn’t be blamed for the actions of a dying animal. But it’s also possible the event unfolded like a recent tragedy on the Montana-Idaho border. There, in September 2011, two men named Ty Bell and Steve Stevenson were on a hunting trip. Bell shot what he believed was a black bear. When the bear, a grizzly, attacked Stevenson, Bell fired again – and killed both the bear and his friend.

That seems to be the more likely scenario. If Zanuck fired at the wounded bear, in an attempt to save Adolfi, and killed both bear and man instead, it would perhaps explain a hastily contrived false story. It would most definitely explain the prompt cremation of Adolfi’s body in Vancouver. Back in Hollywood Joe Schenck was busy raising money, and lots of it, to launch Zanuck’s new company. Any unpleasant information about the new company’s chief – certainly anything suggestive of manslaughter – could jeopardize the deal. A man hit with a cerebral hemorrhage in the prime of life is a tragedy of natural causes, but a man sprayed with bullets in a shooting, accidental or not, is something else again. That goes double if alcohol was involved, as it reportedly was on Zanuck’s earlier hunting trips.

Of course, it’s also possible that Adolfi did indeed suffer a cerebral hemorrhage. Like his father.

John G. Adolfi is a Hollywood ghost. Most of his works are lost, and his name is forgotten. (Even George Arliss couldn’t be bothered to spell it correctly.) Every now and then TCM will program one of the Arliss vehicles, or Sinners’ Holiday. Not long ago they showed Adolfi’s fascinating B-picture Central Park, that slam-bang souvenir of the early Depression years in which several plot strands are deftly inter-twined. One of the subplots involves a mentally ill man, a former zoo-keeper who escapes from an asylum and returns to the place where he used to work, the Central Park Zoo. He has a score to settle with an old nemesis, an ex-colleague who tends the big cats. As the story approaches its climax, the escaped lunatic deliberately drags his enemy into the cage of a dangerous lion and leaves him there. In the subsequent, harrowing scene, difficult to watch, the lion attacks and practically kills the poor bastard.

by William Charles Morrow

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My sources for this article, in addition to the Mosley biography cited in the text, include Stephen M. Silverman’s The Fox That Got Away: The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth-Century Fox (1988), and Marlys J. Harris’s The Zanucks of Hollywood: The Dark Legacy of an American Dynasty (1989). For material on John Adolfi I made extensive use of the files of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Special thanks to James Bigwood for his prodigious research on the Adolfi family genealogy, and to Mary Maler, John Adolfi’s great-niece, for information she provided on her family.

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“ROBS CARD MEN "TO FEED KIDS",” The Province (Vancouver). March 16, 1931. Page 3. --- Apologetic Thief Relieves Poker Players of $40 At Gun Point. --- CONFECTIONER VICTIM ---- "Pretty hard, boys, but I have to feed the kids," was the apology offered by an armed and masked bandit who held up six card players in a shack at 50 Dunlevy avenue Saturday shortly before 4 p.m. and robbed them of sums totalling $40.

The card players were J. Grubber, 1327 Napier street; J. Barker, 6031 Victoria drive: Jack Scott, 2612 Nanaimo street: E. Edwards, 1341 Marine drive: L. Duton, Palmer Hotel, West Pender street, and J. Scott, Federation Hall, Railway street. All were engrossed in their game and paid little attention when the door opened and a man stepped in. They were, however, somewhat startled when they heard the order, "Stick them up." and turned to. see a man, masked with a handkerchief, pointing a long-barrelled revo ver to emphasize his order.

After compelling the players to part with what money they had the bandit, offering his apology, stepped out of the building and disappeared.

GUNMAN HIDES IN GARAGE. Another bandit victim was W. M. Bain, confectioner, who was held up in the garage at the rear of his store, 2520 Main street, at 11:15 pm. Saturday. fled. After being tied to a bench, he was robbed of $100.

Mr. Bain told police that when he entered the garage to take out his car. after having closed his store, he saw the bandit hiding there. The gunman pressed the muzzle of a revolver against his side, compelled him to lie on a bench and tied him to it. With his victim securely bound, the robber made a leisurely search of Bain's pockets and took his money. Some time after the bandit departed, Mr. Bain managed to free himself of his bonds and called the police.

RUSE FOOLS THUG. A timid gunman failed in an attempt to hold up the Brunswick Sports Club. 26 East Hastings street, March 9, according to a belated report to the police. The man, brandishing a revolver and wearing a handkerchief mask, rushed into the club at 11:25 p.m. on that date and shouted. "Stick em up. George Brampton, attendant in the club, at whom the weapon was directed, threw himself to the floor be- hind a table, and the bandit, apparently thinking that the attendant might produce a weapon, turned and

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Patricia Morrison, The Gun Club, Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Canada, January 19, 1984. #punk #punks #punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #patriciamorrison #thegunclub #history #punkhistory #historyofpunk https://www.instagram.com/p/B-vmLb0qSQT/?igshid=1qyhm1kefkcs3

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Top 10 Personal Favorite Hit Songs from 2019

The last list, for now. It’s been a wild ride.

Not the best of these lists, but some really refreshing stuff charted that year, and what was good was super good. And also, here’s a barely elligible #1 that nobody seemed to care about for some reason.

Disclaimers:

Keep in mind I’m using both the year-end top 100 lists from the US and from France while making these top 10 things. There’s songs in English that charted in my country way higher than they did in their home countries, or even earlier or later, so that might get surprising at times.

Of course there will be stuff in French. We suck. I know. It’s my list. Deal with it.

My musical tastes have always been terrible and I’m not a critic, just a listener and an idiot.

I have sound to color synesthesia which justifies nothing but might explain why I have trouble describing some songs in other terms than visual ones.

In 2019, my finger was fixed, I dropkicked depression in the garbage bin (with a little help from Eurovision because it was super good and full of hilarious shit), got married, and went on a roadtrip on Vancouver Island (BC, Canada), and that was my first real travel in 13 years. Met a lot of great people, seen amazing places, trees, bears and whales. And planes are also part of the adventure when you’re not used to them (you can watch movies on little screens from your seat now?? I had no idea. I watched so many movies). It was very exciting.

I also saw VNV Nation live in February, for the third time in six years. This time I had enough budget to buy a tshirt. I wasn’t expecting that concert to be even better than the previous two. At that point the new album had only been out for a couple of months and we still knew the lyrics of most of the new songs and Ronan’s face was constantly broadcasting a kind of “...........how” expression (face it guys, we like you. A lot). And they finished with All Of Our Sins and let me tell you, half the club was ready to start a revolution by the time that was over. Super intense.

Ok. 2019 albums! First, let’s talk about some negative things. Coldplay released Everyday Life at the end of the year. It was... uh. It was basically how I stopped loving their new stuff. That’s a very sad conclusion (for now) to this saga. This is exactly what I feared would have happened after Viva La Vida, aka them trying to go back to their earlier sound - except in the meantime we’ve got three fantastic albums with songs full of energy and joy. So I’m not too mad about this, just disappointed.

Within Temptation released Resist, and it wasn’t very good either, but I appreciated the general aesthetic of it. More SF-themed albums in symphonic metal, please. NF released The Search and while I’m still not a fan there’s a song on it that would have been #1 on this list if it had been elligible, so that’s something. And Carly Rae Jepsen released Dedicated and it was super good so why isn’t she getting new hits. Why. It feels unfair. Oh, and Avantasia made Moonglow and that’s the first time I’ve cared about their stuff in like a decade or so. Ghost In The Moon is super good, check it out.

But the big event of the year music-wise, as far as I’m concerned, was the return of two bands I thought we had lost forever. Of course My Chemical Romance reformed, but they don’t have new music yet, so the main event for this post is the return of Tool with Fear Inoculum. It’s not even their best album, but having a pretty good new Tool album in the year of our lord 2019 wasn’t at all something I was counting on. Of course, the hardcore fans are still as insufferable as ever (insert the “you need a pretty high IQ” copypasta here), but it didn’t spoil my enjoyment of it. Come on! Their first album in 13 years! 80 minutes of hypnotic heavy rhythms and weird shit, an album that trolled me when I opened it by playing a music video while I was looking somewhere else (yeah I jumped), and they even managed to land a track for one week on the US hot 100! Again, Tool! On the hot 100! in 2019! Unbelievable. Are we starting to return to the good timeline? I certainly hope so.

Unelligible songs, now. The Search by NF would have topped this list super easily. Might be one of the songs I listened to the most in 2019, actually. Now That I Found You by Carly Rae Jepsen, again, should have been a hit, and I beg you to watch this music video if you’ve never seen it. The 1975 released the super unexpected People, which was still good, and also Frail State of Mind. And most unexpected of all, three artists I didn’t care about at all teamed up and made absolute gold: I Think I’m OKAY, by Machine Gun Kelly, YUNGBLUD and Travis Barker. That would have been the second slot on this list if it had been elligible. Or maybe the first, even? Not sure. I’m just so happy this kind of angry but uplifting music is starting to become popular again. I just love everything about this song.

Here’s a short list of honorable mentions!

Roi (Bilal Hassani) - I don’t like this song a lot, but I do like it, I’m glad it was our song for the ESC 2019, and Bilal is a very nice and endearing person, and everyone who disrespects him on twitter is free to come fight me in the pit, where I’m still waiting with that tambourine from my 1992 list.

Con Calma (Daddy Yankee, Katy Perry, Snow) - You already know I liked the original Informer a lot, so I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t pleased to hear this clone of it on the radio.

Breathin’ (Ariana Grande) - Here’s the usual “if I had better taste this would be higher” honorable mention.

Summer Days (Martin Garrix) - In the absence of any new hit song from Macklemore this will do in a pinch.

Circles (Post Malone) - The fact that everyone seems to adore this and I’m over there saying “it’s ok I guess” probably means I will never love Post Malone nor understand the hype about him, and that’s okay, I can live with that.

High Hopes (Panic! At the Disco) - Still elligible. Still good but too borderline annoying to make the list.

How Do You Sleep (Sam Smith) - This year Sam Smith pulled a Viva La Vida and decided to stop making boring music all of a sudden and I’m LIVING FOR THIS. I certainly hope they continue in that direction.

And now, the list.

10 - La Grenade (Clara Luciani)

US: Not on the list / FR: #55

The only semi-filler on the list. I still like it a lot. Don’t have anything to say about it, though.

9 - Panini (Lil Nas X)

US: #40 / FR: Not on the list

Wasn’t too impressed by this at first and it took a while to grow on me, but the chorus is a nice little earworm, and “hey panini, don’t you be a meanie” has a tendency to pop in my head when I read hateful comments on the internet now. And Lil Nas X is just too endearing to be ignored. We’re so lucky to have someone who became famous so quickly and instantly decided to dress like a Jojo character and have the geekiest music videos possible and still be super nice and humble. We don’t deserve this guy.

8 - Dance Monkey (Tones And I)

US: Not on the list / FR: #6

I’m super glad the US are finally getting on the hype train in 2020 because this is a ton of fun. If the voice was juuuuuust a little less grating this would be even higher. Impossible to get it out of your head and somehow in this case that’s a good thing.

7 - Dancing With a Stranger (Sam Smith & Normani)

US: #14 / FR: Not on the list

As I said in the honorable mentions, Sam Smith pulled a Viva La Vida and decided to stop making boring music all of a sudden and I couldn’t be happier about that. This song is still a bit too calm for my taste most of the time, but when I’m in the right mood, it’s just fantastic.

Again, I hope Sam Smith continues in that direction, because if you had told me a couple of years ago that I would start to like their stuff one day, I would have laughed out loud.

6 - Bad Guy (Billie Eilish)

US: #4 / FR: #16

Duh.

I’m not as enthusiastic about When The Party’s Over as a ton of people are, mostly because, well, it’s a slow emotional song with little to no colour in it and by now you’re already aware I tend to have next to zero interest in that kind of songs. Bad Guy, on the other hand, is half hilarious half scary in equal doses, and even if I’m not super fond of the weird outro, it’s still a fantastic, weird as shit song, and I’m really glad Billie Eilish exists. Can’t wait to see where she goes from there.

I’m super glad this song didn’t come out when I was a teenager myself though. Come to think of it, I’m not sure I would have survived if the musical landscape from 16 years ago had been as depressed as it currently is. Thank god music is slowly getting more energetic again in 2020. Let’s stay on that track.

5 - Hey Look Ma I Made It (Panic! At The Disco)

US: #61 / FR: Not on the list

I follow several music critics on youtube and over the course of 2019, I’ve seen undiluted vitriol and hatred against this song (Spectrum Pulse even made a list of his “worst hit songs” of the decade and put this one at #10! TEN!!). And... I don’t really get where it’s coming from? Maybe I’m too literal-minded to see what the problem is with a sarcastic song saying “look I sold out and now I found success again! And it’s not that great!”. I just think it’s a lot of fun. Thank god Todd put it on his best list, at least we can agree on one thing for once.

It is hilarious that after putting so many Fall Out Boy songs on my lists, the one that I love the most from Panic! is the sellout song. Not sure why this was huge while the even better Say Amen wasn’t, though.

4 - Sunflower (Swae Lee & Post Malone)

US: #2 / FR: Not on the list

I usually don’t get the “chill” songs that tend to be successful these days but this one, unlike most Post Malone songs (bar Circles), has lovely pastel colors and a cloudy texture and it’s a really good vibe. It took several months to grow on me but it sure did.

In about ten years, people will listen to Sunflower and be submerged by nostalgia, mark my words.

3 - Old Town Road (Lil Nas X)

US: #1 / FR: #1 (see, everyone agrees for once)

Everyone on the planet already wrote a thinkpiece about this song and yet I’ve only seen maybe one out of five mentioning, just in passing, that the entire song is based on a Nine Inch Nail track from Ghosts I-IV, superbly re-used to make a weird and insanely catchy country hip hop song out of it. Ghosts has been one of my go-to albums to listen to while I’m painting for about ten years now. I’m saying all this because hearing a track from Ghosts on the radio for months was absolute bliss for me, especially in a new and improved version.

Thank you Lil Nas X for everything you’ve been doing and I wish you a long and successful career. You deserve it. I love this and I love you.

2 - Bury A Friend (Billie Eilish)

US: #73 / FR: Not on the list

Hello again, Billie Eilish.

This song is absolutely terrifying and that was before I even saw the music video. This is the soundtrack of your nightmares right there. I’m not even sure it deserves to be so high on the list, but frankly I’m too terrified to care. Maybe Old Town Road should be higher. I don’t know.

Also you have to know that when I’m super tired I go into echolalia mode and automatically repeat words or entire sentences that my brain considers interesting, like “potiron” (pumpkin) or “dramatique” ; and recently, my brain decided “when we all fall asleep, where do we go?”, sung exactly like it’s sung in this song, was its new favorite sentence. So. Hearing yourself saying that to an empty room while you’re drawing or folding clothes or cleaning plates is not a very pleasant experience, and it makes this song extra scary to me.

And now, here’s the last #1 of the last one of these lists (for now), and I’m glad to announce it closes this series of posts in a super fitting way.

Check this out. It’s so perfect in every way.

1 - Walk Me Home (Pink)

US: #99 / FR: Not on the list

Nobody seemed to care about this song over the course of 2019, and it's barely elligible, and I still have no idea why. The music reviewers I follow only either talked about it super briefly when it came out, or not at all. The rare ones who were making top 100s at the end of the year instead of top 10s usually put it somewhere in the middle of their lists. And yet it’s the elligible song I’ve listened to the most.

If you’ve been reading this series of posts for a while now, you probably already know exactly why it’s here, but here’s a quick recap.

The second album I ever bought in my life was Pink’s Missundaztood in 2002, and I loved her music a lot:

I was still really fond of her stuff in 2007:

Then she started to become less interesting and I basically ignored her apart from a brief blip on my radar in 2017:

Meanwhile, in 2012, fun. made some of the best songs of the entire decade before vanishing instantly, and I’ve been mourning them ever since:

And in the middle of last year, here I am, listening to the radio, and suddenly I hear something that sounds exactly like a fun. song, except I’ve never heard it before and it’s sung by a female singer, and, most importantly, it’s 2019 and fun. broke up more than six years earlier. And I’m like, what’s going on. This is so good. What the hell. What is this.

And I hear it a second time weeks later, and I google it, and I discovered that 1) it was Pink singing this, which made it my favorite Pink song in literally more than ten years, and 2) it was, indeed, written by one of the guys from fun., among other people who’s influence is less obvious.

I guess the main lesson from 2019, between newcomers making great music based on dead trends, old groups reforming, and this song, is that nothing’s gone forever, and things you used to enjoy can come back at the most unexpected time and in the most unexpected form.

There’s always, always gonna be new music to love, and it’s just a question of time.

Quick note

And with this, these lists are over... for now.

I don’t regret making them even if they were a ton of work, because that was super useful for a lot of different reasons.

They helped me get a better understanding of my own life’s chronology. That may sound stupid but I tend to link events to the music I was listening to at the time, and putting all that music in chronological order helped a lot.

I rediscovered a ton of songs I had completely forgotten about, and a lot of new ones. My playlist is much richer now and I’m happy about that.

I also discovered a few artists I knew nothing about.

It forced me to analyse two depressive episodes in my life and just because everything was now in exact chronological order, it accidentally helped me pinpoint what caused both of them. Better and cheaper than therapy. Impressive.

It made me realise how important some bands and artists had been in my life, and I relistened to some of their catalogue while making these lists. For some it was really obvious (Indochine, Placebo, Mylène Farmer, My Chemical Romance among some others), and for some others (Moby, Linkin Park, Mika in particular), it was a real surprise.

It made me realise that Placebo might have been huge in France but weirdly enough not that huge in the UK nor in the US. It’s especially striking when you look at their wikipedia page in English then in French and realise how detailed the French one is compared to the English one. Can’t believe Sleeping With Ghosts was a n°1 album here and basically nowhere else. That was the band where that discrepency was the most obvious but it wasn’t the only one like that. Really puts stuff in perspective.

It also helped me realise how cyclical popular music is. 1) trends tend to die near the end of every decade and the worst year is usually somewhere between the 8th and the 9th year. 2008 and 2018 tend to confirm this. 2) For the same reason, some new & interesting stuff appears at the beginning of every decade, and reaches its high point of quality between the 2nd and 4th year of the decade. 3) Basically I’m saying we’ve now passed the lowest musical quality in recent memory and 2022-2023 will have some exceptional music.

See you in December 2020. I have no doubt there’s a ton of great music coming up in the near future.

#Johannes’ bad not good pretty terrible music lists #music #long post #the last one #I can't believe this is over #I loved making these lists #spider tw #eye contact tw

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YOUR RACIST FRIEND KARAOKE Our pal Nina put together this slick karaoke video to YOUR RACIST FRIEND. Sing along and share that video with the relative you argued with at the holiday dinner. https://found.ee/XNea

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WEST COAST, UK and EUROPEAN FLOOD SHOWS

Just to resolve a couple of things that might be generating confusion out there. We are committed to a West Coast tour starting in Vancouver and running down the coast, crossing over to Texas (where our Flood show really began!) and then carry on to points north. We will also be returning to New York City and other haunts on the East Coast at the very end of the summer.

A UK tour along with some select continental dates is in the works, but those shows have not been confirmed so it would be jumping the gun to claim there was a shape and a plan locked down.

The extraordinary situation across Australia is breaking our hearts and our concern goes out to all the people and creatures affected by these terrible fires. Needless to say, it is complicating matters looking to book a tour while focus is on more immediate issues. But, of course, we will not forget all our friends and fans in Australia and we very much look forward to our return with a special new show along with all your Flood favorites.

NOW! FLOOD CELEBRATIONS IN ITHACA AND BUFFALO It's true. One is at the beautiful State Theatre in Ithaca https://found.ee/050520 Buffalo is closing in on "going clean" as we say in the biz https://found.ee/050620

BRAND NEW PRESS Yes, our 30th Anniversary Flood shows have begun! And so have some of the public notices. The AV Club from the Onion had a nice interview with John F. https://bit.ly/2RIULpp Spin had multiple pieces including with folks from Dashboard Confessional, OK Go, Mike Doughty, KAYE, Open Mike Eagle and others talk about the effect of Flood here https://bit.ly/2TMf9bN and another fine interview with John F. https://found.ee/9q4q But John L. has also been working the phones, and will post those interviews as they go up.

John F. is going to be talking on the radio to Dan Aloi on WRFI this Saturday at 1:30. He missed it last week, so texts and emails will be sent to remind him this week. Tune in on their nifty live stream and call in a question! https://www.wrfi.org/

ROLLING STONG RAVES! They Might Be Giants Flood 2/22/90 Rating: 2 Stars

"Now that the freshness of their Dorks on Parade Shtick has worn off, the Giants - New York singer-songwriters John Flansburgh and John Linnell - need to prove themselves an all-out novelty act or trenchant musical parodists. Judging from Flood, they are unwilling to make either commitment or are simply incapable of doing so. The nineteen ditties crammed onto the album - sophomoric throwaways ("Particle Man" and "Whistling in the Dark"), ersatz jazz ("Hot Cha") and country ("Lucky Ball & Chain") and an overdose of their standard-issue oompah pop - aren't as ingratiating as the Giants think they are."

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AMAZING NEW FLOOD PICTURE DISC VINYL, AND OBJECTS WITH THE WORDS THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS ON THEM

The world of They Might Be Giants' stuff has improved considerably in the past six months. Check in with some of this great new stuff.

First off, this brand new Flood picture disk is really beyond description. The zoetrope b-side is a thrill that has to be seen to be understood. https://found.ee/floodpd

NOTE TO UK VINYL PEOPLE: we were amazed that hundreds of these sold out instantly on our UK store. For those who missed out, we are pressing more and will drop additional copies off in the UK, so watch this space.

For the music lovers out there who like their vinyl in more traditional modes, we are happy to announce that the deluxe LP reissue of Flood is finally back in stock. It includes a fully faithful reproduction of thegatefold, lyric sheet, label, and original credits on an audiophile-friendly 180g green disk. https://found.ee/floodGreen

Our brand new Flood keychains and embroidered patches are perfect for those who can never get enough of the classic Flood artwork. https://found.ee/tmbgFlood

Folks who adore elaborate and extraordinary t-shirts can celebrate the arrival of our "all over” first album design. Art superstar Rodney Alan Greenblatt’s original artwork comes alive in this insane, one of a kind garment. Not for the shy! https://found.ee/Liw4

It might be cold where you are and the practical necessity of a fresh new sweatshirt at regular sweatshirt prices seems like a no brainer. Why not up the ante with some official “Road Crew” wear just like our hardworking and grumpy road crew wear! The Brooklyn Dodgers-styled zip hoodie is a band favorite. Get one, and get one for your valentine! https://found.ee/iGV9

MAILCHIMP IS OUR #1 CHIMP We wrote this limerick in praise of our highly excellent email service:

There still is a band called THEY MIGHT BE Who had troubles although they were brightly Then the chimp got their mail Once again THEY are hale And that is to put it politely

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