#diver's van

[sohannabarberaesque]

So picture this as the diving van of the Three Wolves and the Divin' Wolf Pups:

No less than a repurposed ambulance, with motifs featuring the lupine diving crew in full SCUBA getup with the Diver Down flag in a metallic sort of look as background.

And inside ... as much living quarters as storage space for as much personal belongings as diving requisites (air tanks, harnesses, masks, fins, wetsuits, mask/snorkel combis, depth gauges, even underwater cameras and GoPro such).

Guaranteed to attract attention on the road and at stops for fuel as much as for rest. Hopefully not so much at Love's, Buc-ee's, Pilot/Flying J or even Stuckey's, let alone culturally-starved small towns too reliant on Fox News, Newsmax and other paleoconservative prolefeed conduits for their own good otherwise known to have cafes legendary for decent home-cooked cuisine.

[the80s]

The Diver Down tour, 1982

[whosyourfavevoicedby-polls]

[local-meme-lord]

Diversity win! The spy who almost start the apocalypse and the Submarine Pirate who blows up ships, are bonding while having villainous duet !

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Why does Mickey keep swapping with royalty

Eli you need to stop

[air-rising]

Trust the magic ✨🏆❤️💙 Champions 2024

[rastronomicals]

2:14 PM EDT March 21, 2024:

Van Halen - "Secrets" From the album Diver Down (April 14, 1992)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under:    Bands Whose Legend Was Cemented by Contracts Mentioning      Candy-Coated Chocolates

[fuckyeahvanhalen86-95]

1982 Eddie Van Halen defends Diver Down: "They're good f**kin' songs..." (phone interview)

July 30, 1982 — a couple weeks into the tour for Diver Down, Eddie talks to Jas Obrecht for Guitar Player Magazine. Ed talks about the new album and defends all the cover songs ...

"They're good fuckin' songs, why shouldn't they be redone the way we do 'em for a new generation of people" ...

"I don't think any cover tune we've ever done sounds like the original. It takes almost as much time to make a cover tune sound original as it does writing a song. -- so fuck the critics!"

~~~

38 years later, couldn't agree more with Eddie. Diver Down is an amazing Van Halen record on par with the others that gets dogged far too often for the cover tunes. A fun, summertime Van Halen extravaganza. A big part of Van Halen was their fun, party vibe and this is their most fun, party vibe album ever recorded.

- 4 of their coolest original songs (Hang Em High, Secrets!, Little Guitars, The Full Bug)

-3 amazing & innovative Eddie instrumental pieces

- Plus a handful of fun cover tunes that were totally Van Halen-ized including Ed and Al's dad playing on a song and a Van Halen concert staple with "Happy Trails" that was played on every show from 1982-1984.

- The Mighty Van Halen

[cockrum1970s]

[clangandclatter]

Van Halen - Diver Down (April 14, 1982)

[fruitshake]

i.... i think i dont want to work with my study after all???? every internship i did kind of sucked ass and i dont want to have a desk job i just want to work with my hands wtf..... i saw two different educations that actually looked really fun wtf.... just as i was about to graduate too :////////

i will finish this one first of course, i can always return to biology but for now it makes me sick. or i will need to emigrate because the nature in this country just makes me depressed

[beautiful-noises]

after “a violence”

you hear the high-pitched yowls of strays fighting for scraps tossed from a kitchen window. they sound like children you might have had. had you wanted children. had you a maternal bone, you would wrench it from your belly and fling it from your fire escape. as if it were the stubborn shard now lodged in your wrist. no, you would hide it. yes, you would hide it inside a barren nesting doll you’ve had since you were a child. its smile reminds you of your father, who does not smile. nor does he believe you are his. “you look just like your mother,” he says, “who looks just like a fire of suspicious origin.” a body, i’ve read, can sustain its own sick burning, its own hell, for hours. it’s the mind. it’s the mind that cannot.

nicole sealey

[listen here]

i. the bug collector haley heynderickx/ ii. time comes in roses bess atwell/ iii. garden of eden billie marten/ iv. glow alice phoebe lou/ v. poppies flipturn/ vi. my lady’s on fire ty segall/ vii. zombie! orla gartland/ viii. where the bodies are buried liz lawrence/ ix. elephant in the room kynsy/ x. sucker madeline kenney/ xi. you shadow sharon van etten/ xii. shattering the hourglass deep sea diver/ xiii. untitled god song haley heynderickx/ 

[johnnybeane]

Hold onto your seats, rockers of the world, because we just blasted into the stratosphere to celebrate the monumental anniversary of Van Halen's legendary 1982 masterpiece, Diver Down! 🚀🎸 And guess what? The party doesn't stop there! Tuesdays are officially designated as the holy grail of Van Halen fandom, where we dive headfirst into the electrifying world of Van Halen on the one and only Van Halen show, exclusively streaming on YouTube, Twitch, and Facebook! 🤘 But wait, there's more! Get ready to have your socks rocked off because we're not just talking—we're giving away epic Van Halen goodies right there in the live chat! So tune in, crank up the volume, and get ready to win some Van Halen swag! #ExclusivelyVanHalen #VanHalen #DavidLeeRoth #SammyHagar #EddieVanHalen #EvhGear #KramerGuitars #JohnnyBeaneTV 🎉🔥

https://www.youtube.com/live/aR3ER7BCXtE?si=P0Jd_BllJNst9Uio

[mikeladano]

#1099: "Can you play it a little louder?" - An Uncle Paul Story, aka "Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now"

[robynsassenmyview]

I am calling you: do you hear me?

"I am calling you. Do you hear me?", a review of Martijn de Jong's film 'Narcosis', on the European Film Festival South Africa, from 12 October.

MY Daddy: on the other end of the phone line. Ronja (Lola van Zoggel), in ‘Narcosis’, on the European Film Festival South Africa, from 12 October. Photograph courtesy Imdb. LOSS. IT’S A wound that can open at any time. An absence that will change your life forever, in ways that you cannot fathom. The complexities of bereavement are under the loupe in Narcosis, an extraordinary and deep film from…

[rastronomicals]

2:55 PM EDT April 2, 2024:

Van Halen - "(Oh) Pretty Woman" From the album Diver Down (April 14, 1992)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: EP's presented as albums