#William John Wainwright

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

William John Wainwright (English, 1855-1931) Parable Of The Wise And Foolish Virgins, 1899 Birmingham Museums Trust The parable of the Ten Virgins reinforces the call for readiness in the face of the uncertain time of the return of the Lord. It has been described as a “watching parable.”

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Tracklist:

Stay Home • I'm A Believer • Like Wow! • It Is You (I Have Loved) • Best Years Of Our Lives • Bad Reputation • My Beloved Monster • You Belong To Me • All Star • Hallelujah • I'm On My Way • I'm A Believer (Reprise) • True Love's First Kiss

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[hisuchanly]

WE GOT THE 7x14 STILLS

still no official outlander 7x14 stills?

[sadjestergirll]

SONGS THAT REMIND ME OF WELCOME HOME CHARACTERS ‼️

Barnaby B. Beagle

Fat funny friend - Maddie Zahm

Sucker - Jonas Brothers

How long - Charlie Puth

Candy - Robbie Williams

Cake by the ocean - DNCE

Perfect to me - Anne-Marie

Sorry - Justin Bieber

Rude - MAGIC!

I can’t decide - Scissor Sisters

Louise - TV Girl

Julie Joyful

Call me maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen

Your Reality - Dan Salvato

Jump up, Super Star! - VGR, Jenny

Falling for ya - Grace Phipps

FANCY - TWICE

Sally Starlet

The Man - Taylor Swift

Girls - MARINA

I / Me / Myself - Will Wood

Alejandro - Lady Gaga

Take a hint - Night Inn

Superstar - Toy-Box

Judas - Lady Gaga

Eddie dear

Heaven knows I’m miserable now - The smiths

Two Time - Jack Stauber’s Micropop

Love Grows - Edison Lighthouse

Boys Don’t Cry - The Cure

Head over heels - Tears for Fears

Good old fashioned lover boy - Queen (2011)

Frank Frankly

Eddie my love - The Chordettes

Your stupid face - Kaden MacKay

Despair - leo.

Somebody’s watching me - Rockwell

I do adore - Mindy Gledhill

Wally Darling

Posin - Glenn Gatsby

Oh Klahoma - Jack Stauber

Puppet boy - DEVO

Livin’ in the sunlight, Lovin’ in the moon light - Tiny Tim

The red means I love you - Madds Buckley

Honeypie - JAWNY

Another Believer - Rufus Wainwright

Poppy Partridge

Moral of the story - Ashe

Turn it down - OR3O

Home - Cavetown

Rises the moon - Liana Flores

Howdy Pillar

SPIDER WEB - Melanie Martinez

Please please please let me get what I want - The smiths

Charlie’s Inferno - That Handsome Devil

Somethin’ stupid - Frank sinatra, Nancy sinatra

Out of touch - Daryl Hall & John Oates

. . .

Another random post, I’m bored guysss, but yeah these songs honestly remind me of these guys 🙏

(All art not mine ‼️)

[nellie-elizabeth]

Outlander: Ye Dinna Get Used to It (7x14)

Is it my birthday?? John Grey-centric episode, Hal, PERSEVERANCE WAINWRIGHT?? Ahhhhh.

Cons:

Okay, like, obviously there is a ton about this show where you just kind of have to hold your nose and pretend this is like, a parallel fantasy reality that's not our own, but I have to say: the dinner scene with General Washington was just so icky to me. Everyone's getting all reverent and patriotic and Washington is painted very much in his mythic "father of our country" sort of vibe. And the whole time it's just like... yeah, future President George Washington, who also owned human beings as chattel? And Claire is not shown to have any sort of thoughts or feelings about this whatsoever. The show has always been so awkward about this, not wanting to look at it head-on. Like the Jocasta stuff at River Run always bothered me too, because Claire reacts to it more like it's casual bigotry that she's having to grin and bear for the sake of social politeness, and not literally, you know, the institution of slavery. I'm not saying Claire should throw a drink in George's face, that wouldn't be very strategic of her, for one thing. But I do wish the show didn't have her be quite so giddy and honored to be in his presence and receiving a Betsy Ross flag as a gift from him. It's yucky.

Small detail, but when William gets chastised for his uniform being in disarray, and is literally told "you look like a groom from my estate," it's like... oookay. A little too on the nose. Couldn't he have said "you look like one of those slovenly continental traitors" or something else that's also true about Jamie but that isn't so oddly specific? It was too silly.

Pros:

We don't get a ton of motion on the 20th century plot this week, but Brianna does find Rob Cameron with some accomplices hanging around her house, and by the end of the episode she's come to an important decision regarding her future: maybe it's time her and the kids go to Roger. Dun dun dun! More on that in the coming weeks, one assumes.

I loved the Ian and Rachel scene in this episode, I continue to be surprised by how much I've been converted to them as a couple. It's so cute to see them being all giggly and newlywed, and Rachel helping Ian with his war paint is something that can be so personal (and sexy) actually.

I really love the casting for Jane, too, and the way she puts William back on his heel. The scene where she explains how she doesn't know how money works is a good way to open William's eyes, and ours, about the true depth of the gulf between them in terms of not only social standing but also life experience. She's lived a life that most high born ladies would find horrifying, but she's also had this very sheltered, very small world she's never had to poke her head outside of. We learn that in order to protect her sister Fanny, Jane killed the dickhead who was hoping to take her virginity for a high price. They are now under William's protection, which is... complicated. William's got a lot going on in his life right now, not the least of which is Richardson sending him off on another quest, that we learn from a certain Monsieur Beauchamp is a trap. I continue to be really impressed with the William actor for portraying this simmering rage and despair alongside a good, stalwart heart.

While I was cringing at the canonization of George Washington as a mythic figure of good, I do still get a major kick out of Claire bumping into history while out and about in town. The stuff with Lafayette (or should I say Gilbert?) was incredibly charming. I love that Claire really loves to be flirted with? It's this thing about her that Jamie ordinarily doesn't really mind either, this courtly type of good manners paid to her by gentlemen who would never dare cross a real line about it. It was so cute, the whole bit where he offers to let her use his first name, and then gives her the cheese as an apology for bumping into her in the street. I love him.

As always I've saved my bestie John for last in this review - this was a proper John-centric episode in every way, we start the episode with a flashback to John and Hal, we end the episode with John and Percy, and we get a ton of juicy stuff in between. I was in heaven. I don't know if David Berry has ever looked more handsome to me than he did in this episode, I don't know what it is - not the gross eye or the eye patch, but like, I think the wig looks good and his constant expression of injured affront is just so tasty to me. So many little book details made it in here, like John calling Claire "my dear" when they run into each other (although I wish it had been in Jamie's hearing lol), and Claire asking Jamie to hold John still while she works on his eye. Just like... the amount of history and hurt feelings in that room as Jamie clamps onto John's shoulders, wincing in seeming horror at the sound of him in acute pain while Claire yoinks his eyeball around in his skull... there are entire essays one could write in honor of this whole situation.

I think one of the reasons this plot thread is among my favorites in the book is how... intimate and personal the anger between these people is, like, the depth of feeling between them is the reason for the break being so extreme now. John isn't an acquaintance, John isn't the father of Jamie's son by happenstance, these people care about each other, and they're entangled with each other because of that care, and that's what makes the conflict between them so rich and devastating. I really loved the bit where Jamie's like "well, I should turn him into Washington, but then he might be hanged" and then abruptly speaks to John directly for the first time like "what the devil were you thinking?!?!" Because it's like, "I'm so mad at you right now I can barely look at you and now you've put me in the position of having to protect you from being killed because obviously you're family and I can't let you die even though I kind of still want to punch you in the face again..." and then he's distressed by John's pain but not necessarily sorry for having hit him... chef's kiss.

Claire and John having this post-marriage softness in their dynamic is something I've always really loved too. After what they went through together, they're solid for life, they'll always have this deep affection and respect for each other. And you see it in the way Claire touches his shoulder, and says she's sorry to John, and offers her support to him before leaving him alone with Percy at the end, there.

And let's talk about Percy. "For your beautiful eyes" like, sir, this is a Wendy's. The minute this guy's name came up at the dinner party I made a sound like a tea kettle going off. I'm so hyped to have John's most intense reciprocal love on our screens at last. They have, shall we say, a contentious backstory, and I'm delighted to see him here and to have this juicy opening scene between the two men, because it speaks to the possibility of getting even more John-related content moving forward as we dig into the deal between these two men. Also continuing to make me feel insane about the Jamie of it all, when Percy tenderly touches John's face and asks "who did this to you?" John's response is to say "a man who has a right to touch me." Which is just!!! Big yikes! I love!!!

I don't think the words "our son" ever cross Jamie's lips in the books when he's talking to John directly about William. I may be wrong, but in any case I deeply loved it when it happened here. John tells Jamie that William is in danger, and the solution to this problem is for Jamie to set John, his prisoner, free, and send him off after William. That moment, where John makes a quip about getting used to being in chains, and Jamie says "ye dinna get used to it," is so rich with the history of these characters. The first time they met, Jamie overpowered him easily. The second time they met, Jamie was John's prisoner, and it stayed that way for a very long time. Now, John is under Jamie's power, and both of them resent the situation, but Jamie might resent it more than John does. That "our son" moment was a touch of apology and forgiveness, but mostly it was a setting aside of everything else: no matter how much anger exists between them at any given moment, they can be united in wanting to protect William.

So yeah. I'm a happy camper once again. All you gotta do is put John Grey on my screen and I'm ready to be delighted!

9/10

[cookie-de-baunilha]

for the 5 percy wainwright truthers that exist here:

ok i don’t want to get my hopes up too high BUT they are shooting the last block for outlander season 8 now (episodes 8x09 and 8x10) and carla woodcock (actress playing amaranthus) has just followed michael lindall (the actor who is allegedly going to play percy, but they haven’t announced his casting yet)

amaranthus is going to be in these last episodes according to bts photos that just got leaked

AND i think i saw someone who looked like percy’s actor on the background of a story that john bell posted on the final read through (for episodes 8x09 and 8x10)

like i said, today some bts pics got leaked and apparently they were shooting a scene that takes place after john’s rescue. we can’t know for sure because they obviously don’t shoot the scenes in order, BUT

if they move john’s kidnapping to the middle of the season (episode 7 at max), that means he gets rescued on episode 8 or 9. that would make sense because the writers need to cover bees + come up with their own ending for the show, so (this is my own speculation) they can’t leave john’s kidnapping for the last episodes. mostly bc they need time to develop the father/son relationship between jamie and william and that’s only going to happen when they team up to rescue john

which COULD MEAN NOTHING ofc but if percy is still around in episodes 9 and 10 and john’s kidnapping happens before that…

[theygotlost]

just took inventory of my CD collection 😁 if you care ⤵️

Sara Bareilles - Little Voice

Barenaked Ladies - Born on a Pirate Ship

Barenaked Ladies - Gordon

Barenaked Ladies - Stunt

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication

Beck - Guero

Beck - Odelay

Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - The Swimming Hour (ordered forever ago and it still hasnt been delivered 🤬🤬 but when it is....)

CAKE - Comfort Eagle

Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites

The Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Shoot From the Hip

Eve 6 - Horrorscope

Frente! - Marvin the Album

Marvin Gaye - S.O.U.L. Volume 2

Hoobastank - The Reason

Incubus - Light Grenades

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Pig Lib

Ruth Moody - The Garden

Nickelback - Silver Side Up

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

OK Go - Oh No

P!nk - M!ssundaztood

R.E.M. - Monster

Rent (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Ben Salter - The Cat

The Shore - The Shore

Smash Mouth - Astro Lounge

Smash Mouth - Smash Mouth

Carl Stephenson - Forest For the Trees

They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18

They Might Be Giants - Flood

They Might Be Giants - I Like Fun

They Might Be Giants - Istanbul Not Constantinople EP

They Might Be Giants - John Henry

They Might Be Giants - My Murdered Remains (and More Murdered Remains)

They Might Be Giants - Mink Car

They Might Be Giants - Miscellaneous T

They Might Be Giants - Phone Power

They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants

The The - Dusk

Third Eye Blind - Out of the Vein

Rufus Wainwright - Poses

Robbie Williams - The Ego Has Landed

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bad Hair Day

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Running With Scissors

Various Artists - HELP

Various Artists - The Lazarus Project

[arcanemoody]

Listening to two season 5 era Nygmobblepot playlists I put together that, while very catchy and grounded in a love story I hold dear, are far from joyful. Particularly Ed's which is post-5x11, where he knows he has BIG feelings, but feels clotheslined by his actions in season 3. "That" is not something he can ask for from Oswald, so he's settling for staying in his orbit and keeping the knives out of his back.

i'm getting sentimental over you (tommy dorsey and his orchestra)

you don't know what love is (chet baker)

rehab (amy winehouse)

april fools (rufus wainwright)

don't say nothing bad about my baby (the cookies)

(what can i say) after i say i'm sorry (dinah shore)

telephone (electric light orchestra)

to love somebody (janis joplin)

am i blue (billie holiday)

last dance (donna summer)

they didn't believe me (dinah shore)

i'll call you mine (the zombies)

everything happens to me (chet baker)

i'm not okay (i promise) (robyn adele anderson)

just a gigolo (louis prima)

show me the way to go home (irving king) 

keep yourself alive (queen)

the way you say goodnight (magnetic fields)

[x]

And Oswald’s bridges the end of season 4, when he finds Ed’s dead body and goes through the standard Penguin ‘stages of grief’ in early season 5: try to stop feeling and make the world eat shit. All of which lands him squarely in the middle of the Haven crisis and, shortly after, Pena Dura: staggered by senseless death and how much Ed still doesn’t understand. 

suffragette city (david bowie)

gatsu (guts' theme) (scooby)

glory and gore (lorde)

last nite (the strokes)

new town (the vitamins)

habanera from carmen (georges bizet)

real men (joe jackson)

house without windows (roy orbison)

stay with me (lorraine ellison)

faust (paul williams)

nightclubbing (david bowie)

have mercy on the criminal (elton john)

the way i do (bishop briggs)

stop the world and let me off (patsy cline)

don't look back in anger (scott bradlee's postmodern jukebox feat. maiya sykes)

sally go round the roses (the jaynettes)

i would die 4 u (prince)

prince charming (adam ant)

[x]

Because. As much as I love a renewed accord awakening new passion... I need them both to do a melancholy conga line of raw suffering until someone forces them to talk it out at knifepoint.  

[lazzarella]

Top 10 Things

For some reason, I've decided to compile lists of my various top ten things, a completely pointless venture because I highly doubt anyone will read it, and I already know what they are, but I'm doing it anyway! lol

(I've included: bands; solo artists; albums; books; poems; graphic novels/comics; tv shows; BL series; murder mystery shows; movies; actors; actresses; directors; musicals)

BANDS

The Beatles

ABBA

Belle and Sebastian

Led Zeppelin

The Raveonettes

The Decemberists

Ramones

Blondie

Sparks

Judas Priest

SOLO ARTISTS

John Grant

Rufus Wainwright

Connie Francis

Kylie Minogue

Angel Olsen

Prince

Sufjan Stevens

Kate Bush

David Bowie

Keaton Henson

ALBUMS

Queen of Denmark by John Grant

69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

Rubber Soul by The Beatles

Picaresque by The Decemberists

Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin

You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand

Purple Rain by Prince

Transformer by Lou Reed

If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle and Sebastian

BOOKS

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

The Charioteer by Mary Renault

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

POEMS

Having a Coke With You by Frank O'Hara

Every poem in Crush by Richard Siken

The Second Coming by WB Yeats (alternatively, The Mermaid)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

Love Sonnet XI by Pablo Neruda

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond by e.e. cummings

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Tired by Langston Hughes

Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

GRAPHIC NOVELS/COMICS

Paper Girls

Ghost World

Persepolis

Bandette series

Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant + sequels

The Fade Out

The Case of the Missing Men

The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken

Nimona

TV SHOWS (that are not BLs or murder mysteries XD)

Spaced

Supernatural

The Hour

Buffy

Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes

This is England 86/88/90

I Love Lucy

Pushing Daisies

Dark

In the Flesh OR The Young Ones OR Xena (I was going to choose but meh)

(A full list of my favourite TV shows on Serializd)

BL SERIES (MASTERLIST HERE)

Moonlight Chicken

My Personal Weatherman

KinnPorsche

Cherry Magic (Thailand)

Century of Love

Wandee Goodday

Old Fashion Cupcake

A Tale of Thousand Stars

Only Friends

Jack O'Frost

(I have a feeling Kidnap is going to take the place of one of these though)

MURDER MYSTERY SHOWS

Poirot

Marple

Rosemary and Thyme

Twin Peaks (it counts XD)

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Endeavour

Beyond Evil

Murder, She Wrote

Jonathan Creek

George Gently

MOVIES

(if I do subcategories for this, we'd be here all day! But ftr my favourite genres are film noir, musicals, rom-coms, horror—mostly slashers and gialli, 50s/60s sci-fi...)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Clue

Strictly Ballroom

Charade

Velvet Goldmine

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Call Me By Your Name

God's Own Country

Secretary

That Thing You Do!

(A full list of my favourite films on Letterboxd)

ACTORS

Robert Redford

Colin Farrell

James Spader

Keanu Reeves

Danny Kaye

Humphrey Bogart

Dirk Bogarde

Frank Sinatra

Jack Lemmon

Ben Whishaw

ACTRESSES

(only separating by gender to get more in XD)

Doris Day

Audrey Hepburn

Amy Adams

Lucille Ball

Jane Fonda

Kirsten Dunst

Marilyn Monroe

Nicole Kidman

Michelle Williams

Cate Blanchett

DIRECTORS

Gregg Araki

Alfred Hitchcock

John Waters

Sofia Coppola

Agnès Varda

Wes Anderson

Billy Wilder

Pedro Almodóvar

Stanley Donen

Dario Argento

MUSICALS

(only counting ones I've seen productions of myself)

The Rocky Horror Show

Little Shop of Horrors

Aladdin

Matilda

Cats

Chicago

Hairspray

Wicked

Singin' in the Rain

9 to 5 tied with Priscilla: Queen of the Desert

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.5

Beer Birthdays

Jack Daniel; distiller (1846)

Beevo Moore (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Michael Keaton; actor, comedian (1951)

George Lazenby; actor (1939)

Freddie Mercury; rock singer (1946)

Bob Newhart; comedian, actor (1929)

Raquel Welch; actor (1940)

Famous Birthdays

J.C. Bach; composer (1735)

John Cage; composer (1912)

William Devane; actor (1939)

Dennis Dugan; actor (1946)

Werner Erhard; cult leader (1935)

Robert Fergusson; Scottish poet (1750)

Cathy Guisewite; cartoonist (1950)

Werner Herzog; German actor (1942)

Jesse James; outlaw (1847)

Arthur Koestler; writer (1905)

Nap Lajoie; Philadelphia Phillies/Cleveland Naps 2B (1874)

Carol Lawrence; actor, singer (1932)

Bill Mazeroski; Pittsburgh Pirates 2B (1936)

Rose McGowan; actor (1973)

Patti McGuire; Playboy playmate, model, television producer (1951)

Giacomo Meyerbeer; German composer (1791)

Buddy Miles; jazz musician (1947)

Arthur Charles Nielsen; market researcher (1897)

Cardinal Richelieu; French minister, clergyman (1585)

Al Stewart; pop singer (1945)

John Stewart; folk singer (1939)

Frank Thomas; animator (1912)

Jack Valenti; film industry thug (1921)

Cornelius Vanderbilt III; engineer, inventor (1873)

Loudon Wainwright III; singer, songwriter (1946)

Daryl F. Zanuck; film director (1902)

Dweezil Zappa; rock guitarist (!969)

[goalhofer]

2024-25 Toronto Maple Leafs roster

Wingers

#11 Max Domi (Toronto, Ontario)

#16 Mitch Marner (Markham, Ontario) A

#19 Calle Järnkrok (Gävle Stad, Sweden)

#23 Matthew Knies (Phoenix, Arizona)

#46 Alex Steeves (Manchester, New Hampshire)**

#67 Max Pacioretty (New Canaan, Connecticut)*

#75 Ryan Reaves (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

#88 William Nylander-Altelius (Södertälje, Sweden)

#89 Nick Robertson (Detroit, Michigan)

Centers

#18 Steven Lorentz (Waterloo, Ontario)*

#24 Connor Dewar (Dauphin, Manitoba)

#29 Pontus Holmberg (Västerås, Sweden)

#34 Auston Matthews (Scottsdale, Arizona) C

#64 David Kämpf (Jirkov, Czech Republic)

#74 Bobby McMann (Wainwright, Alberta)

#91 John Tavares (Mississauga, Ontario) A

Defensemen

#2 Simon Benoit (Laval, Quebec)

#8 Chris Tanev (Toronto, Ontario)*

#22 Jake McCabe (Eau Claire, Wisconsin)

#25 Conor Timmins (St. Catherines, Ontario)

#28 Jani Hakanpää (Kirkunummi, Finland)*

#36 Dakota Mermis (Alton, Illinois)*

#44 Morgan Rielly (Vancouver, British Columbia) A

#51 Phil Myers (Dieppe, New Brunswick)*

#95 Oliver Ekman-Larsson (Karlskrona Stad, Sweden)*

Goalies

#41 Anthony Stolarz (Jackson Township, New Jersey)*

#60 Joe Woll (Dardenne Prairie, Missouri)

[imperiohq]

older (30 - 40) male and female poc suggestions?

Kim Min-Gue , oliver jackson-cohen , oscar isaac , song joong ki , kerem bürsin , kirby howell-baptiste , pedro pascal , gong yoo , gugu mbatha-raw , hannah john-kamen , harry shum jr. , henry golding , jameela jamil , jamie chung , jason mamoa , jd pardo , alisha wainwright , amber stevens-west , andrea bang , alex meraz , angel coulby , angelababy , anna diop , antonia thomas , anthony mackie , anupriya goenka , arjun gupta , ashley madekwe , bálint jaskó , ben levin , berk cankat , burak özçivit , calgar ertugrul , candice patton , carlos valdes , chai hansen , charles michael davis , chris pang , claudia kim , clayton cardenas , constance wu , daniel kaluuya , danai gurira , david castaneda , diane guerrero , dichen lachman , eka darville , elodie yung, gemma chan ,jesse rath , jessica lucas , jessica matten , julia jones , kristin kreuk , lee dong wook , lee min-ho , lesley-ann brandt , lewis tan , laverne cox , lupita nyong'o , manny montana , meaghan rath , michael b jordan , michael trevino , nafessa williams , nathalie emmanuel , nathalie kelley , ni ni , ok taecyeon , rami malek , raymond ablack , ritesh rajan , sen mitsuji , sonoya mizuno , steven r. mcqueen , steven yeun , summer bishil , tessa thompson , trevante rhodes , tuğçe kumral , xin zhilei , yusuf gatewood , zhang xinyu

[playlistjunkie]

Best Get Ready Playlist by Tyler Childers

3/7/20 - WhiskeyRiff.com - by Wes Langeler

• Housefire - Tyler Childers

• Leaving Lousiana In The Broad Daylight - The Oak Ridge Boys

• Plastic Saddle - Nat Stuckey

• East Indian Princess - Laudon Wainwright III

• Country Squire - Tyler Childers

• Lets Invite Them Over - George Jones

• Don't Feed the Animals - Shooter Jennings

• Things Goin' On - Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Matthew - Tyler Childers

• Ugly Woman - Jerry Reed

• Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken) - Tom T. Hall

• Girl On the Billboard -Jim & Jesse

• What I Really Mean - Robert Earl Keen

• Peace of Mind - Tyler Childers

• One Night Stands - Hank Williams Jr.

• Lousiana Man - Buck Owens

• Awful Lot to Learn About Truck Drivin' - Red Simpson

• A Week in County Jail - Tom T. Hall

• Ever Lovin’ Hand - Tyler Childers

• Chick Inspector (That’s Where My Money Goes - Dick Curless

• County Boy - Ricky Skaggs

• All Your'n - Tyler Chillers

• Loser's Cocktail - Dick Curless

• It’s Such a Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart

• That Just Kills Me - Wynn Stewart

• Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young - Faron Young

• Crazy Arms - Jerry Lee Lewis

• High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis

• Hillbilly Fever - Jerry Lee Lewis

• Settin' the Woods on Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis

• My Home Ain't in the Hall of Fame - J.d. Crowe

• Take Your Shoes Off Moses - Ralph Stanley

• Gemini - Tyler Childers

• Rank Stranger - Ralph Stanlay

• Over the Glory Land - Ralph Stanley

• Amazing Grace - Ralph Stanley

• I'll Answer The Call - Ralph Stanley

• Going Up Home to Live in Green Pastures - Ralph Stanley

• Boogie-John Hartford

• Holding - John Hartford

• Joseph’s Dream - John Hartford

• The Cover of "Rolling Stone" - Dr. Hook

• Welcome To Goose Creek - Goose Creek Symphony

• Whupin It - Goose Creek Symphony

• Creeker - Tyler Childers

• Chicken Train Stomp - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

• Tarheel Boys - Town Mountain

• Lawdog - Town Mountain

• Up the Ladder - Town Mountain

• Foggy Old London - Jimmy Martin

• Bus Route-Tyler Childers

• Milwaukee Here I Come - Jimmy Martin

• One Loaf Of Bread - Dave Evans

• Harlan County - Jim Ford

• She Turns My Radio On - Jim Ford

• Long Road Ahead - Jim Ford

• Working My Way to LA - Jim Ford

• Under Construction - Jim Ford

• Pinball Blues - Moore & Napier

• Mama's Got The Know How - Doug Kershaw

• Third Rate Romance - The Amazing Rhythm Aces

• Typical American Boy - The Amazing Rhythm Aces

• Countrified - John Sanderson

• Haunted House - John Anderson

• I've Got Me a Woman - John Anderson

• Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die) - Joe Diffie

• Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ - Loretta Lynn

• Gettin’ Happy - Dolly Parton

• Fancy - Bobby Gentry

• Memphis, Tennessee - Bobby Bare

• Wolverton Mountain - Southern Culture on the Skids

• Muswell Hillbilly - Southern Culture on the Skids

• Banana Puddin' - Southern Culture on the Skids

• Put Your Teeth Up on the Window Sill - Southern Culture on the Skids

• Give Me Forty Acres - Jim & Jesse

• Six Days On the Road - Jim & Jesse

• Hole in the Ground - Larry Cordle

• Death Metal in a Minivan - Dinosaur Burps

• Dungeon Map - Dinosaur Burps

• Nap in the Face of Danger - Dinosaur Burps

• Aswdwnwl - Dinosaur Burps

• Orange You Is Peachy - Dinosaur Burps

• Don’t Touch Me - Tammy Wynette

• Fuck You - CeeLo Green

• Don't Pay the Ransom - Nat Stuckey

• 4th Of July / He Stopped Loving Her Today - Shooter Jennings

• Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly - Aaron Tippin

• Kiss This - Aaron Tippin

• Tight Fittin' Jeans - Conway Twitty

• Hello Darlin' - Conway Twitty

• Slide Off Of Your Satin Sheets - Johnny Paycheck

• Woman (You Better Love Me) - Johnny Paycheck

• Country John - Allen Toussaint

• Shoot Low, Sheriff! - John Anderson

• Steam Powered Aereo Plane - John Hartford

• O.D.’d in Denver - Hank Williams Jr.

• Fax Me a Beer - Hank Williams Jr.

• She's All I Got - Johnny Paycheck

• Stop the World (and Let Me Off) - Waylon Jennings

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This was meant to be in a book, but I believe the book isn't happening now...

CON-DOM

How Welcome Is Death To I Who Have Nothing More To Do But Die

Tesco Organisation TESCO 102 (CD/2LP, 2016)

Don’t look (away)

Mike Dando’s English power electronics project CON-DOM reached its zenith with this gruelling comeback mic drop, exploring the protracted, undignified death of his mother.

The snazzily grim booklet for How Welcome Is Death features photographs chronicling Nora’s obvious suffering, under the yoke of the miserably attritive-sounding Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. An incurable neurological condition, it did for Dudley Moore and Peter Sarstedt and, at the time of writing, is gnawing at Linda Ronstadt. In short, this situation is far from the quirky world of 2023 film Quiz Lady’s rebellious care home prison-breaker.

While leftfield artists Hannah Peel and Ian William Craig have dealt extensively with relatives’ degenerative illnesses, power electronics is the ideal setting for examining the brutal physical and psychological effects of these conditions on patients and their families. They have been referenced in PE before, but How Welcome Is Death is the genre’s heart-on-the-sleeve statement on the subject. Dando credits the influence of Atrax Morgue in the sleeve notes. However, the album’s more direct ancestor is US noisers Macronympha’s legendary Bananafish interview, wherein Joseph Roemer shared photos of his dying father, and talked about having the latter’s life support turned off. It also reminds us of John King’s Shipman-skewering novel White Trash (‘He did not know what to say to this walking skeleton, felt sick just looking at him’); and of the astute closing sections of Nick Tosches’ Dino, wherein Dean Martin drifts in and out of lucidity during palliative care.

For PE, How Welcome Is Death is the equivalent of a late career classic rock album. As Bruce Springsteen and Loudon Wainwright III matured in their navigation of life’s stages, so did Dando, for whom the album is akin to his own Transformer Man, as he holds hands with Neil Young and peers under the tree canopy dappling their loved ones’ ability to communicate. A lot of time and a lot of life had elapsed between 1984’s Calling All Aryans and 2016:1 as Noise Receptor zine put it, How Welcome Is Death holds ‘a mirror up to the fallacy of the oft faux celebration of strength and the overt obsession with death that preoccupies so much of the post-industrial underground’. What else was Dando going to address in his transgressive art, when the worst horrors faced him at home?

The medicinally bitter taste of British national treasure Clive Dunn’s anodyne 1970 novelty hit Grandad begins How Welcome Is Death, before bleeding into the wounded feedback and Maurizio Bianchi-style rumbles of the first of the album’s lengthier pieces (which are interspersed with brief field recordings from Dando’s mother’s care setting, a TV dumbly blaring throughout). In Living Death, Dando imagines his mother’s thoughts on her predicament: “I have come to this.” The title track is written from a similar perspective, but moves from the minutiae of care towards Nora’s thoughts of loneliness and death after the loss of her husband: “No point with him gone.” We don’t know how much comes from real conversations and how much is imagined, but it all rings true.

The first act concludes with one of two presumably surreptitious recordings of Nora’s roommate, Sarah, adding ‘colour’ while demonstrating the unappealing, unsane, unacceptable conditions for patients in the underfunded UK care sector. They also beg questions regarding the ethics of their inclusion. One imagines Nora was unaware of her son’s project, but it was initiated by someone who would be regarded as having her ‘best interests’ at heart. This cannot be said for Sarah, much as she or her loved ones will probably never be aware of her

cameo. Those whose naked photographs are viewed by paedophiles are considered violated, regardless of whether they are aware of the abuse, but on the other hand images made of mental patients without informed consent have positively influenced that sector. Albert Maisel’s disturbing Bedlam 1946 Time photographic series, regarding two US state hospitals,came complete with leading captions such as ‘despair’, ‘forced labor’, and ‘neglect’. It led to much pearl-clutching and determination to do better: rulesbent in extreme circumstances. Whatever one makes of the record, it is clearly not meant as entertainment or prurience; rather, it is Dando’s cry of pain on behalf of two helpless old ladies.

The second act begins with How Welcome Is Death’s centrepiece, Chocolates, which reads like a mixture of the personal histories which the healthcare system cruelly punishes families into repeatedly giving; and Nora’s suicide note. Dando is clearly spoken here, the case history crisply laid out on clean white hospital sheets. T4 then steps outside Dando’s immediate situation, referencing the Nazi scheme of involuntarily euthanising the incurably sick. The booklet mirrors his family’s situation with that of a family under the Nazis, pleading for a mercy killing, while the Office of Racial Policy issues posters questioning the point of keeping the sick alive.

The third and final act abruptly switches to Dando’s own perspective, opening with the grinding Just Fuckin’ Die (the ‘hit single’), in which he is uncompromisingly honest about his own feelings on the state in which illness has left his mother. Dando is thoroughly humane (he was with his mother in her dying days, after all), but there are no sugar-coated memories of good times here; just a husk, a man at the end of his tether. And so to the inevitable elegy: the alien, windswept, near-instrumental Ending (Nora). One thinks of the drum and bass maverick Goldie, playing his hour-long composition Mother while visiting his mum in the chapel of rest.

For British listeners, if the album started with Dunn, then it must end with future Fall member Julia Nagle, alongside future actresses Sally Lindsay and Jennifer Hennessy, on 1980’s inane school choral travesty There’s No One Quite Like Grandma. Degenerative illnesses do not only affect the elderly (as per the book and film Still Alice), but Dando questions the tone and content of Britain’s most beloved paeans to them. If the album had been recorded a few years later, nonagenarian pandemic celeb Captain Tom’s hit could have featured, his not-so-dulcet tones standing in for Sarah’s anguished cries.

The falling apart of the sainted NHS. The systematic deaths of the UK care sector (Crass’ “System, system, system/Death in life”). The ashamed thoughts of “This sinner”. Swearing at and rejecting carers, like Anthony Hopkins in The Father. The interplay between love and hate; love and duty. “How welcome her death to I.” An old lady, soiled, fallen on her bedroom floor, head cracked open, crying “Kill me”. Wee. Poo. Pads. Accidents. Catheters. Puckered flesh. Wee. Poo. “My arse hurts.” Reality and Codeine dreams merged: “I don’t know what’s real and what isn’t.” “I want to go home”; “You are home”. All of that which came before corroded and forgotten. Exhaustion. Waiting. Death? How welcome.

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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Making of Tapestry Warner Bros. Pictures

Inspired by the concept art for #LOTR: The War of the Rohirrim, see the story of Rohan and the history of Helm's Deep unfold in this behind-the-scenes look that was revealed at New York Comic Con 2024. Get a deeper look here: https://www.lotrthewaroftherohirrim.c... #nycc Peter Jackson presents a groundbreaking journey back to Middle-earth through the eyes of legendary director Kenji Kamiyama. #LOTR: The War of the Rohirrim - only in theaters December 13 New Line Cinema’s original anime feature “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” returns audiences to the epic world brought to life in “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy, based on the revered books by J.R.R. Tolkien. Under the direction of award-winning filmmaker Kenji Kamiyama (the “Blade Runner: Black Lotus” & “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex” TV series), the talented voice cast led by Brian Cox (“Succession”) as Helm Hammerhand, the mighty King of Rohan; Gaia Wise (“A Walk in the Woods”) as his daughter Héra & Luke Pasqualino (“Snowpiercer”) as Wulf. Miranda Otto, who delivered an unforgettable, award-winning performance in “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy, reprises her role as Éowyn, Shieldmaiden of Rohan, who serves as the tale’s narrator. The voice ensemble also includes Lorraine Ashbourne (Netflix’s “Bridgerton”), Yazdan Qafouri (“I Came By”), Benjamin Wainwright (“World on Fire”), Laurence Ubong Williams (“Gateway”), Shaun Dooley (“The Witcher”), Michael Wildman (“Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw”), Jude Akuwudike (“Beasts of No Nation”), Bilal Hasna (“Sparks”) & Janine Duvitski (“Benidorm”). Set 183 years before the events chronicled in the original trilogy of films, “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” tells the fate of the House of Helm Hammerhand, the legendary King of Rohan. A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg— a mighty fortress that will later come to be known as Helm’s Deep. Finding herself in an increasingly desperate situation, Héra, the daughter of Helm, must summon the will to lead the resistance against a deadly enemy intent on their total destruction. With Kamiyama @the helm, the original feature is being produced by Oscar winner Philippa Boyens, from the screenwriting team behind “The Lord of the Rings” & “The Hobbit” Trilogies, alongside Jason DeMarco & Joseph Chou, who, in addition to their many separate animation projects, collaborated on the “Blade Runner: Black Lotus” series. The executive producers are Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, Sam Register, Carolyn Blackwood & Toby Emmerich. The screenplay is by Jeffrey Addiss, Will Matthews & Phoebe Gittins & Arty Papageorgiou, story by Addiss, Matthews & Boyens, based on characters created by J.R.R. Tolkien. The team of creative collaborators returning from “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy also includes Oscar winners Alan Lee & Richard Taylor, along with esteemed Tolkien illustrator John Howe. A New Line Cinema Presentation, a Warner Bros. Animation / Sola Entertainment Production, “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” will be distributed theatrically worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, released in cinemas nationwide on December 13, 2024, and internationally beginning 11 December 2024.