#last of the Mohicans

[summerreign4077]

Benjamin Franklin + Franklin Pierce + Hawkeye = Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce

[galleryofart]

The Young Chief Uncas

Artist: John Mix Stanley (American, 1814-1872

Date: circa 1870

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Description

Painting by John Mix Stanley, Young Chief Uncas, circa 1870. Signed toward right edge of bottom center line. Chief Uncas is a character from James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel, Last of the Mohicans. Based on a seventeenth-century Monhegan chief who allied with the English during the Pequot War of 1637, Uncas became a romantic symbol of all that was noble about Native America.

[secondlifep]

Being both a fan of Simon and Garfunkel as well as absolutely loving both the movie AND the music of Last of the Mohicans, I was surprised to see this pop up in my YouTube suggestions.

Absolutely made the hair on my arms stand up …. Beautiful…

[laurentcarbonelle]

The Last of the Mohicans (1992) Directed by Michael Mann. Alternative movie poster.

[harrison-abbott]

In order to prepare for his role in The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Daniel Day Lewis lived on his own for a month in a forest in North Carolina. He taught himself how to hunt animals and skin them, as well as practising with a tomahawk, and running at high speed with his flintlock (a heavy rifle used in the 18th century).

[phoenixfeatherquill]

Yes!

I was on a consistent updating schedule at the start of 2024 with a goal of finishing ALL of my outstanding fics, ESPECIALLY VOICES, which I've had the ending in my head for...a very long time. Voices was intended to be my May update while An Alternate Hope, my Rogue 1 fic, was supposed to be my April update.

Unfortunately, in April I was fired in a really traumatic and mortifying manner. I have been focusing hard on my mental health in the interim, trying to make sure I don't sink into SI and attempting to job hunt. Unfortunately, this meant I had to put my beautiful fanfic updating schedule on the back burner for my own sake.

I am starting to try and get back in that rhythm. I don't have a date for when I am updating them, but please know I am working on everything, but I have to do it in such a way that I don't overwork myself. My mental health is hanging on by a thread lol, and fanfic always helps improve it! So I'm just trying to get myself in order, while job hunting, while taking care of myself, before I go back into a consistent updating schedule. (Not to mention my original novel is debuting this October!)

I really appreciate everyone's understanding. Just remember, positive encouragements, DMs about your favorite scenes or whatever--all of those mean so much to me and really help inspire me to write. Please be patient with me as I navigate this huge life upset.

[grunge-samurai]

Pretty much any Michael Mann film can be described as: "the masculine urge to fuck your entire life up".

I refuse to elaborate any further.

[rolandrockover]

Reprise Vol. 1 - Master & Slave

I think it's no big secret that Paul doesn't have much good to say about Kiss' Carnival of Souls. To put it mildly. Or he simply does everything imaginable to at least create such impressions whenever this album title should rarely enough become the subject of an interview question. Of course, he's welcome to do as he pleases, but personally, from my humble perspective, I think it's a bit of a shame, because I can also remember times when he spoke a tiny bit differently about it.

For example, I can still remember the time when the subject of a reunion was still treated as fictitious, and it wasn't on anyone's horizon, least of all Paul's and Gene's. That was back in 1994/95, when Kiss' laudable motto of perseverance and giving their best was for a change increasingly emphasized in their new music.

And I still remember very well that regular little Kiss feature in the German Rock Hard magazine, which was supervised by their Kiss Die-Hard (0), and from whom one got the vivid impression that he regularly got a certain insight into the world of our favorite band. I think it must have been February or March 1995 when Paul and Gene (1), but also Eric Singer (2), apparently got in touch with the interviewer directly from the rehearsal room in a telephone interview and Paul confidently said, not without his usual side-swipe at Gene, that his songs were much more melodious and heavier than Gene's. There was a certain pride in that. At some point later he even went so far as to claim that the new album was the best and heaviest since Creatures of the Night. Oh my!

What I mean, since that's a rather thoughtful and equally rare tribute to their own music, which was previously only outspoken to give a very special shine to the indeed excellent Revenge, and the return to form associated with it. And I must add to this Paul seemed quite proud of Revenge in 1992 regardless of how hard he had contributed to the previous albums in the 80's anyway. But who knows, once again, it was probably just the latest sensationalization of the upcoming album (3). Promotion is a double-edged sword, but to wipe Revenge away so succinctly because of it, I really don't know. But maybe and probably because it wouldn't have sounded so good to say their new album was the best since... their last one.

But to get my act together and to at least briefly talk directly about Master & Slave in this context.

So, as I already mentioned in my original entry, Master & Slave had the working title: Paul's Riff. In my perception, this suggests pride and respect, not necessarily from Paul himself, but clearly from his band environment. And the fact that such a meagre, yet all-saying no-name was chosen as accepted as a working title, if not even honored from everybody involved clearly speaks for itself.

And because this is a reprise, I'll simply feature an excerpt from my original text about what I see in this song:

"What begins in Not For the Innocent with a few approaching, ominous tones, continues in Unholy as a small extension in a slightly different pitch, and a much more compact back and forth oscillation of these tones, which thereby does not form the entire riff, but only a complementary part of it. In Master & Slave the whole thing gains in drasticness, and the motif is doubled to a lower pitch, added to the previous one to secure its terrain, only to turn into a Black Sabbath motif a la After All. An endlessly repeating highly dynamic acrobatic feat in loud and quiet/guitar and bass contrast."

When writing Master & Slave, Paul must have thought to himself: Ok Gene, a dark album full of Unholys shall it be? This time I'll listen to you, then you shall get Unholy. Which must have stimulated his ambition to try to outdo Gene in terms of Unholy by more than a small margin. I think the result shows in all strength what the right ambition can achieve.

"To conjure up this wet dream of riff Paul must have really tried hard and done his very best to achieve such a result - regardless of what he claims about Carnival of Souls as a whole today."

It is a real pity that he no longer stands by it. Gene and, above all, Bruce (4) seem to have fewer problems with this.

Side Notes:

(0) Jan Jaedike.

(1) Gene emphasized the psychedelic component and compared Carnival of Souls to the Rolling Stones' Satanic Majesties Request (1967) (5) , and that they couldn't explain either why it sounded different from the previous album.

(2) Eric said the album was super heavy and exactly the kind of music he wanted to play. I love to mention this because he had also clearly distanced himself from Carnival of Souls over the past few years. Klassik!

(3) Can anyone still remember how they loud-mouthedly advertised Crazy Nights as a mixture of Animalize and Destroyer back then? There's even a Youtube video of it, but don't ask me where. Anyway, that was still was something different.

(4) Or the last of the Mohicans, as I like to call him.

(5) Hmm, which Stones album did Ace's cover of 2000 Man actually come from?

Master & Slave starts from the beginning. Unholy and Not For The Innocent are highlighted. Turn up the volume and open your ears, I assume no liability:

Master & Slave (1997)

Unholy (1992)

Not For The Innocent (1983)

I'll add After All by Black Sabbath on top.

After All (1992)

[cottoncandiescupcakes]

Looking at older movies like Titanic, Moulin Rouge, Last of the Mohicans, Pride and Prejudice, Pearl Harbor, The Notebook etc you really notice that recent movies and shows just don't have romance anymore?

I think that's a shame, Disney movies cut the romance subplot too or make it a side thing but you also see it in regular movies and shows, it's just sometimes a sex scene, sometimes awkward chemistry but there's no romance or longing or anything that gives you that swoon feeling, I don't mean romcom which are also way less romantic, I mean look at stuff like Four Weddings and a Funeral or Love Actually VS what passes at romcom these days I mean like SERIOUS romance and drama

I miss it :(

[yourapple56-blog]

One of the most romantic scenes I have ever seen!

[see2sky]

Love this version by 40 Fingers.

[iwanttobepersephone]

Watching the movie my dad got my name from, it's very good

[canonerarecsonly]

Much love to the Alice and Uncas shippers. You beauties just keep on keeping on and you don’t know how much it means to Alice/Uncas diehards like me.

[keystonewarrior]

THE GAEL from The Last of the Mohicans - Breizh Pan Celtic

Sometimes this comes up in my playlist at work while I’m grading, planning, and plotting.

[wayti-blog]

Clannad - I Will Find You (Theme from The Last Of The Mohicans) (Live)