#nick forster

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Sarah Jarosz and the Brother Brothers feat. Nick and Helen Forster - “In Spite of Ourselves” (eTown)

Cheeky and ribald, “In Spite of Ourselves” is one of those songs that somehow comes across as innocent.

Onstage at eTown, Sarah Jarosz, the Brother Brothers and Nick and Helen Forster rendered Iris DeMent and John Prine’s latent classic in a playful manner that included a round-robin of acoustic guitar, piano, octave mandolin and fiddle solos. The vocals went similarly around the horn and, ultimately, in to the audience.

The result is a gem that’ll have big ol’ hearts dancing in listeners’ ears.

Grade card: Sarah Jarosz and the Brother Brothers feat. Nick and Helen Forster - “In Spite of Ourselves” (eTown) - A

7/29/24

[cbjustmusic]

Valerie June and Mick Flannery team up with Nick and Helen Forster for this rendition of John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery." _________________________ Angel From Montgomery Songwriter: John Prine

I am an old woman Named after my mother My old man is another Child who's grown old

If dreams were lightning And thunder were desire This old house would've burned down A long time ago

Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rodeo Just give me one thing That I can hold on to To believe in this livin' Is just a hard way to go

When I was a young girl Well, I had me a cowboy He weren't much to look at Just a free ramblin' man

But that was a long time And no matter how I tried The years just flowed by Like a broken down dam

Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rodeo Just give me one thing That I can hold on to To believe in this livin' Is just a hard way to go

There's flies in the kitchen I can hear 'em there buzzin' And I ain't done nothing Since I woke up today

How the hell can a person Go to work in the morning Then come home in the evening And have nothing to say?

Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rodeo Just give me one thing That I can hold on to To believe in this livin' Is just a hard way to go

To believe in this livin' Is just a hard way to go

[newtdoods]

*vibes to scam likely On hold Loop* Nark is my obsession right now and Tumblr has to deal with it ✨ Also I don‘t know how to draw the death ✨ Gonna learn it tho hehe

Why is Lark smiling? Look he is happy that he learned to love again (except the brotherly love to Sparrow) and then he died in the arms of his love :D That‘s what I love about the lore, because Lark got that hate and anger like when Henry said „It‘s okay to be angry, but it‘s not okay to be cruel“, and then he learns (in da headcanon) to love again :] The connection with the doodler was the connection to his death

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Maurice Hall/Alec Scudder - Maurice by E.M. Forster 

Tatianna/Clarissa - Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Nick Russo/Andy Fleming - We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian 

Audrey Wells/Harper Harper/Merritt Eamons - Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth

[outcastpack]

My cody character HCs because cody queer codes his characters all the damn time

Theodore "being the bait" Raeken

Asher "Do you think I can take these guys" Adams

Mike Montgomery (I switch up between BI and Unlabelled for him)

Johnny the Closet case (I was forced to add him by an IRL who got closetted gay vibes)

Peeta Mellark is a chaotic Bisexual and I will not be told otherwise

Dylan (Submerged)

Flint Forster

Since him as Nick is based on the actual Nick feels wrong to say the character is something besides whatever Nick actually is

[batri-jopa]

Maurice (1914) by E. M. Forster:

Introducing Clive Durham - the twink

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

A Wikizilla short on Godzilla Minus One's Oscar nomination, written and narrated by me and edited by @squid-in-a-party-hat. Turns out this site can't embed YouTube Shorts properly, who knew? Anyways, here's all the kaiju Oscars trivia I wrote for the comments:

King Kong has been much more successful at the Academy Awards than Godzilla. They didn’t have a prize for special effects back in 1933, but the King Kong remakes in 1976 and 2005 both prevailed in that category, while Kong: Skull Island was nominated. ‘76 also received nominations for cinematography and sound, and ‘05 won in sound mixing and sound editing.

During the opening of the 80th Academy Awards (2008), Peter Jackson’s King Kong delivered a flying kick to the TriStar Godzilla’s face.

Brad Pitt revealed that The War of the Gargantuas was the film that made him want to become an actor at the 84th Academy Awards (2012).

Japan has its own Academy Awards, which Shin Godzilla dominated in 2017. Godzilla Minus One may fare even better, having picked up 12 nominations to Shin's 10. Godzilla as an awards darling, who would’ve thought?

The 90th Academy Awards (2018) paid tribute to original Godzilla suit actor Haruo Nakajima in its In Memorium section.

Juliette Binoche (Sandra Brody in Godzilla [2014]) is the only Oscar-winning actor to appear in a Godzilla film. Other Oscar-winning or Oscar-nominated actors with kaiju connections include Nick Adams, Demián Bichir, Jeff Bridges, Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston, Brian Donlevy, Vera Farmiga, Robert Forster, Naomie Harris, Anne Hathaway, Sally Hawkins, Brian Tyree Henry, Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Jenkins, Rinko Kikuchi, Jessica Lange, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, David Strathairn, Russ Tamblyn, Ken Watanabe, and Naomie Watts.

[nnato]

Last 10 Songs I Listened To

Got tagged by @dacchamp & @nick-cassidy thank youuu ✨

Jade LeMac - Aimed to Kill

Mark Forster - Satellite (Sing meinen Song Cover)

Herbert Grönemeyer - Zeit, dass sich was dreht

Sunrise Avenue - Fairytale Gone Bad

Culcha Candela - Hamma!

Seeed - Dickes B

Rihanna - Umbrella

Herbert Grönemeyer - Mensch

Evanescence - Bring Me to Life

t.A.T.u. - All About Us

tagging @whatdidwejustdo @mrcusarmstrong @zeraparker @crozierahegao @letsgoricciardo @lost-decade if you want to ofc

[saturdaynightghostclub]

thinking ab your characters and their hypothetical interests lol

in my head donnie has a baseball card collection worth thousands and is super into old video games

i feel like arthur is super thrifty and takes cool pictures on old cameras

adrian is a star wars fan

leander is really into some random rich people sport

and theo is thee biggest film snob

Oh I LOVE this! You’re so dead on, this is exactly what I would have said. If I can add a few, this is what I think the guys would collect/be into in their everyday lives:

Donnie: baseball cards, the Atari, VHS tapes (think Alien, The Fly, Jurassic Park but also Johnny Dangerously, Flash Gordon, The Last Dragon), Converse in too many different colors, those bobbleheads they give out at baseball games, every drawing and art project his nieces have ever given him, and Motown music (especially Gladys Knight—he can’t hit the high notes in Midnight Train to Georgia, but damn it if he doesn’t try)

Arthur: old sweaters, wool socks, film photography, leatherbound journals (he doesn’t really write in them, he just likes to have them lying around), used books that smell like cigarettes, really shitty coffee, Nick Drake, Mazzy Star, and certain Rolling Stones albums. He has a vintage turntable and displays whatever album he’s listening to on two thumbtacks he’s wrestled into the wall.

Adrian: Star Wars (especially the lost Christmas special, which he inexplicably has a copy of), Arnold Palmers, those boat parades that cross the Puget Sound, soft vintage leather, certain knitwear, Pulp, Seattle sourdough (he’s never tried the San Francisco stuff), disco balls, and rooftop patios. He’s a tricky one to pin down.

Leander: the boy is so into lacrosse. He’s got a friend on a recreational women’s team, and he’s dragged you to probably a hundred of her games. He also loves pontoon boats, though those are reserved for special occasions. See also: aftershave, aran sweaters, David Sedaris (eventually), jazz clubs, walks in the park, long coats, late-night diners, and, oddly enough, Violent Femmes.

Theo: “Spielberg is a genius” and it’s just that scene from ET where the camera pans over a cliff (he’s right and you know it), psychoanalyzing Cronenberg characters, Ralph Lauren, runner’s high, little treats after work, classic romantic literature (E.M. Forster), Dungeons and Dragons, college radio. He also buys every season of The X-Files on VHS as it comes out. He says he likes the psychology of the characters, but you know he’s got such a thing for Agent Scully.

Clark: REM, dancing in the kitchen (not even in a romantic way—like, headbanging to Pixies while he makes pasta), immediately throwing his necktie on the floor when he gets home, noise machines, going to Guitar Center just to “try everything out” (he doesn’t know how to play), that little corner in the record store where you can put on headphones and sample an album. Also Seattle public transportation, even when it sucks.

Also, sweet anon, I did see your other ask! Working on something extra special for ya, hang tight ♥️ I love this kind of prompt, it’s so fun for characterization and I love the opportunity to challenge myself by thinking about what makes these characters different from each other. Thank you so much love!

[why-bull-the-fashion-demon]

movies I watched in 2023

(taking a cue from @stenka-razin)

-January

The Power of the Dog (2021, dir. Jane Campion)

Love, Simon (2018, dir. Greg Berlant)

Gamer (2009, dir. Brian Taylor & Mark Neveldine)

Men (2022, dir. Alex Garland)

The Menu (2022, dir. Mark Mylod)

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, dir. Jim Jarmusch)

The Dead Don’t Die (2019, dir. Jim Jarmusch)

-February

A Touch of Sin (2013, dir. Jia Zhangke)

Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020, dir. William Olsson)

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008, dir. Peter Sollett)

In the Mood for Love (2000, dir. Wong Kar-Wai)

The Woman King (2022, dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood)

Charlie’s Angels (2000, dir. McG)

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, dir. Tsai Ming-Liang)

Nope (2022, dir. Jordan Peele)

-March

Ash is Purest White (2018, dir. Jia Zhangke)

Shoplifters (2018, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

Three (2016, dir. Johnnie To)

Nobody (2021, dir. Ilya Naishuller)

Charlie’s Angels (2019, dir. Elizabeth Banks)

The Wonderland (2019, dir. Keiichi Hara)

-April

Rebels of the Neon God (1992, dir. Tsai Ming-Liang)

Tetris (2023, dir. Jon S. Baird)

There’s Something About Mary (1998, dir. Bobby and Peter Farrely)

The Whale (2022, dir. Darren Aronofsky)

The Fabelmans (2022, dir. Steven Spielberg)

Throw Down (2004, dir. Johnnie To)

Tár (2022, dir. Todd Field)

Yi Yi (2000, dir. Edward Yang)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022, dir. Ryan Coogler)

Catch .44 (2011, dir. Aaron Harvey)

-May

Spaceballs (1987, dir. Mel Brooks)

Bottle Rocket (1996, dir. Wes Anderson)

An Autumn Afternoon (1962, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania (2023, dir. Peyton Reed)

Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023, dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley)

-June

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)

Good Morning (1959, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Casino Royale (2006, dir. Martin Campbell)

Quantum of Solace (2008, dir. Marc Forster)

Skyfall (2012, dir. Sam Mendes)

Spectre 2015, dir. Sam Mendes)

No Time To Die (2021, dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga)

Octopussy (1983, dir. John Glen)

GoldenEye (1995, dir. Martin Campbell)

First Reformed (2017, dir. Paul Schrader)

-July

Zoolander (2001, dir. Ben Stiller)

The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022, dir. Masato Jinbo)

Mainstream (2020, dir. Gia Coppola)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005, dir. Tim Burton)

Equinox Flower (1958, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

You Only Live Twice (1967, dir. Lewis Gilbert)

-August

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (2023, dir. James Gunn)

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019, dir. Lee Won-tae)

Leap Year (2010, dir. Anand Tucker)

The Worst Person in the World (2021, dir. Joachim Trier)

Palm Springs (2020, dir. Max Barbakow)

Days (2020, dir. Tsai Ming-liang)

Kindergarten Cop (1990, dir. Ivan Reitman)

Barbie (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig)

Babylon (2022, dir. Damien Chazelle)

Shin Godzilla (2016, dir. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi)

The Flash (2023, dir. Andy Muschietti)

-September

Asteroid City (2023, dir. Wes Anderson)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023, dir. Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic)

The Little Mermaid (2023, dir. Rob Marshall)

Mulan (2020, dir. Niki Caro)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, dir. Wes Craven)

Fitzcarraldo (1982, dir. Werner Herzog)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022, dir. Halina Reijn)

Frances Ha (2012, dir. Noah Baumbach)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003, dir. Peter Weir)

A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985, dir. Jack Sholder)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987, dir. Chuck Russell)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988, dir. Renny Harlin)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989, dir. Stephen Hopkins)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991, dir. Rachel Talalay)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994, dir. Wes Craven)

Renfield (2023, dir. Chris McKay)

Theater Camp (2023, dir. Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman)

Shiva Baby (2020, dir. Emma Seligman)

-October

Friday the 13th (1980, dir. Sean S. Cunningham)

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981, dir. Steve Miner)

Friday the 13th - Part III (1982, dir. Steve Miner)

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984, dir. Joseph Zito)

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985, dir. Danny Steinmann)

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986, dir. Tom McLoughlin)

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988, dir. John Carl Beuchler)

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989, dir. Rob Hedden)

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993, dir. Adam Marcus)

Jason X (2001, dir. James Isaac)

Freddy vs. Jason (2003, dir. Ronny Yu)

Friday the 13th (2009, dir. Marcus Nispel)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010, dir. Samuel Bayer)

Easy A (2010, dir. Will Gluck)

Saw (2004, dir. James Wan)

Saw II (2005, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw III (2006, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw IV (2007, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw V (2008, dir. David Hackl)

Saw VI (2009, dir. Kevin Greutert)

Saw: The Final Chapter (2010, dir. Kevin Greutert)

A History of Violence (2005, dir. David Cronenberg)

Infinity Pool (2023, dir. Brandon Cronenberg)

Dracula 2000 (2000, dir. Patrick Lussier)

Mean Girls (2004, dir. Mark Waters)

Jennifer’s Body (2009, dir. Karyn Kusama)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, dir. Werner Herzog)

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, dir. Werner Herzog)

-November

Murder on the Orient Express (2017, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

Death on the Nile (2022, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

A Haunting in Venice (2023, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023, dir. André Øvredal)

Samurai Reincarnation (1981, dir. Kinji Fukasaku)

Legally Blonde (2001, dir. Robert Luketic)

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019, dir. Katt Shea)

The Last Duel (2021, dir. Ridley Scott)

Paint Your Wagon (1969, dir. Joshua Logan)

Thanksgiving (2023, dir. Eli Roth)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006, dir. David Frankel)

Shogun’s Shadow (1989, dir. Yasuo Furuhata)

The Conjuring (2013, dir. James Wan)

Win A Date With Tad Hamilton (2004, dir. Robert Luketic)

The Conjuring 2 (2016, dir. James Wan)

The Nun (2018, dir. Corin Hardy)

Le Samouraï (1967, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)

-December

The Nun II (2023, dir. Michael Chaves)

Bottoms (2023, dir. Emma Seligman)

Annabelle (2014, dir. John R. Leonetti)

Gran Turismo (2023, dir. Neill Blomkamp)

Battles Without Honor And Humanity (1973, dir. Kinji Fukasaku)

Jigsaw (2017, dir. The Spierig Brothers)

Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw X (2023, dir. Kevin Greutert)

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2023, dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, et. al.)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023, dir. Jeff Rowe)

Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny (2023, dir. James Mangold)

Air Doll (2009, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

The End of Summer (1961, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Air (2023, dir. Ben Affleck)

No Hard Feelings (2023, dir. Gene Stupnitsky)

Oppenheimer (2023, dir. Christopher Nolan)

Yakuza Wolf (1972, dir. Ryuichi Takamori)

Yakuza: Like A Dragon (2007, dir. Takashi Miike)

Spencer (2021, dir. Pablo Larraín)

Moneyball (2011, dir. Bennett Miller)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023, dir. Steve Caple, Jr.)

Knights of the Zodiac (2023, dir. Tomek Baginski)

Dragonball Evolution (2009, dir. James Wong)

[brokehorrorfan]

The Delta Force will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on August via Shout Studios. Produced by Cannon, the 1986 action film stars Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin in his final film appearance.

Menahem Golan (Over the Top) directs from a script he co-wrote with James Bruner (Missing in Action). Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Kim Delaney, Robert Forster, Lainie Kazan, George Kennedy, Hanna Schygulla, Susan Strasberg, Bo Svenson, Robert Vaughn, and Shelley Winters round out the cast.

The Delta Force has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby VIsion. The only special feature is the trailer.

Special features:

Theatrical trailer

When a U.S. passenger plane is seized by vicious hijackers and taken to Beirut, the President calls in The Delta Force — a crack team of commandos led by Colonel Nick Alexander (Lee Marvin) and Major Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris). Against all odds, the men blast into the compound and — taking no prisoners — rescue the hostages. But the mission isn't over yet! A few remaining passengers are being "escorted" to Teheran, initiating a desperate race against time as Alexander and McCoy attempt to save them and avenge America's honor before it's too late.

Pre-order The Delta Force.

[studywgabi]

My Favorite Retro Hedgehog Girl Media

Friend to and influenced by the Teenage Girl in her Twenties, on-and-off dating The Burnt Out Gifted Kid, and younger sister to The Frazzled English Woman, The Retro Hedgehog Girl feels she's too soft to live in this world, and that too much has happened already and that it's too late now. She's just another lost, directionless, broke twentysomething with a million passions who couldn't imagine picking one thing to do every single day for the next 50 years. She doesn't know where all her time goes. She desperately wants to change, but doesn't know how.

She's the perfect example of the hedgehog's dilemma. She's well aware of her self-destructive tendencies, but feels can't find a way to move past them. She's lonely but pushes people away. She loves fiercely but doesn't know how to express it. She does her best to be honest but her words never come out like she meant them. She doesn't feel at home around anyone. She doesn't know what to say when people ask her questions about herself. She's self-centered and sees everything as a personal attack. Sometimes she picks fights with people she cares about, though she doesn't know why. She's prideful, irritable, and has a quick temper. She lashes out when she feels hurt or abandoned or insecure and immediately regrets it but doesn't know how to fix it.

During the week, she lives in secondhand loafers and wrap dresses, and, in the bitter winters, always wears the same worn but reliable, hand-me-down, old-fashioned coat inherited from an estranged relative. When she doesn't have work, she wears jeans, an oversize sweater and the converse she's had since high school. She sometimes romanticizes her life by poking fun at the way she always spends her dead-end, minimum wage job's paycheck on things she doesn't need, but she knows she has a real problem. She loves to shop so she has an excuse to leave her house and be around other people without it being too obvious.

She craves excitement and passion and experiences, she wants to go everywhere and do everything and be everyone. She dreads the though of living a quite life forever. She's terrified of spending the rest of her life feeling this way. She wants to be okay on her own, but thinks its impossible.

The movies and T.V. shows she watches over and over. She seeks out characters that she can relate to:

Girls

Search Party

Shrill

My Mad Fat Diary

Fleabag

I Am Not Okay With This and The End of the Fucking World

In My Skin

Extraordinary

Normal People

Pure

Emily the Criminal

Some Freaks

Winter's Bone

Lady Bird and Frances Ha

The Lure

Speak

Amelie

Jamie Marks is Dead

Pretty in Pink

Yes, God, Yes

On the Edge

True Things

Secretary

I'm Your Man

The books she's read a million times:

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret and Forever by Judy Blume

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

Martita, te Recuerdo/Martita, I Remember You by Sandra Cisneros

Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Anxious People by Frederick Backman

The songs that used to make her dance like she was possessed or cry like she'd never stop but have lost their power through overuse. She wants to branch out more and find new music, but she just can't get really, really excited about anything like she used to anymore:

Flower and Canary by Liz Phair

Paper Bag and Love Ridden and Valentine by Fiona Apple

Liability by Lorde

Cool About It by Boy Genius

Love's Recovery by Indigo Girls

Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega

Nicest Thing by Kate Nash

Winter and Crucify and Enjoy The Silence by Tori Amos

Working for the Knife and Crack Baby by Mitski

Half a Person and How Soon is Now? by The Smiths

Me and You Together Song by the 1975

Modern Love by David Bowie

Hey Jealousy and Day Job and by Gin Blossoms

This is Love by P.J. Harvey

Perfect Day by Lou Reed and Candy Says by Velvet Underground

The Whole of the Moon by The Waterboys

Hyperballad by Bjork

Not Allowed by T.V. Girl

All I Need by Radiohead

Perfect and King of Pain and Your House by Alanis Morrisette

Uberlin by R.E.M.

Mr. Jones and Anna Begins by Counting Crows

I Wanna Be Yours by Arctic Monkeys

Everlong by Foo Fighters

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps by Cake

Park Life by Blur

All Apologies by Sinead O'Connor

As always, feel free to add your own.

[cbjustmusic]

eTown hosts Nick and Helen Forster join up with musical duo Shovels & Rope and musician/songwriter Nic Clark for this interpretation of the classic Rick Danko/The Band song "It Makes No Difference." ________________________ It Makes No Difference Songwriter: Robbie Robertson

It makes no difference where I turn I can't get over you and the flame still burns It makes no difference, night or day The shadow never seems to fade away

And the sun don't shine anymore And the rains fall down on my door

Now there's no love As true as the love That dies untold But the clouds never hung so low before

It makes no difference how far I go Like a scar, the hurt will always show And it makes no difference who I meet They're just a face in the crowd on a dead-end street

And the sun don't shine anymore And the rains fall down on my door

These old love letters Well, I just can't keep Just like the gambler says: "Read 'em and weep" And the dawn don't rescue me no more

Without your love, I'm nothing at all Like an empty hall, it's a lonely fall Since you've gone it's a losing battle Stampeding cattle, they rattle the walls

And the sun don't shine anymore And the rains fall down on my door

Well, I love you so much That it's all I can do Just to keep myself from telling you That I never felt so alone before

[phantomato]

Having recently finished reading Maurice by E. M. Forster (thoughts on DW), I immediately turned to AO3 to scavenge for fic that would give me some shade of that high. I return bearing two recs, both somehow crossovers, and I love that.

The Measure of Love by fengirl88 T, 2.2k, The Great Gatsby/Maurice crossover, Nick Carraway and Clive Durham

An Englishman and an American meet in a New York diner.

This was a beautifully-written crossover of two great books. Because I’ve recently read/reread both of them, I was delighted to find it. The author treats both Nick and Clive with subtlety: their conversation conveys multiple things at once, and we get to see from Clive’s POV how he picks up on the hints and implications of the offer for more. I love the choice to parallel these characters as men who have survived a great shock—it’s unrequited love, yes, but it’s also a specific tragedy and unexpected change in life direction. Nick is that man in its immediate aftermath, still physically shaking from it, and Clive is the veteran recognizing the ache of an old wound which still plagues him years on. It’s heartbreaking for both characters, especially the ending’s choice to dwell on what-could-be (but won’t).

Divagations of a Prig, Or: the Risley Reshuffle by HotUtilitarian E, 8.9k, Maurice (stealth David Blaize crossover), Clive Durham/Maurice Hall

Risley and Clive compete for Maurice's affections. It changes a few things.

This is gorgeous, just a wonderful pastiche of the Edwardian novel, wherein one can keenly feel the author’s research and experience with the style. But while the prose will catch your eye to start, the characterization is what will keep it—Clive Durham gets the consideration that E. M. Forster sets the foundation for, but didn’t love him quite enough to follow through on. Well, I love Clive, and this author does too.

Clive’s repression is woven into his character through his intellectualism and snobbery so tightly that he jumps off the page, a fully-realized person. The sex is incredibly hot—both the sex he has with himself and what he shares with Maurice—but so are his reflections on life and self, especially his references to the Phaedrus. And, happily, sex doesn’t change the essential core of Clive; the bittersweet ending continues the romantic push and pull between him and Maurice. I wouldn’t want their differences to be brushed aside in service of a tidy romance, and this gracefully avoids that outcome.

[atticusisshitposting]

HC for Nicky Close/Foster

One constant in his character (doesn’t matter if he is Glenn’s or Jodie’s) is that he is always trying to win the approval of those around him. He tries to emulate the characters of both of his dads when put under pressure. I think this consistency is more because of loneliness than anything else.

As Nick Close he tries to copy his dad and become all chill-rock because as he was left alone when his dad is off on tours he quickly realised that there was no point getting mad at him- he would only have to leave again soon. With this in mind he swapped out his negative emotions, (frustration, anger, loneliness, abandonment) with a more laid-back nature. He didn’t want his dad to see how much he misses him because maybe if he was cool enough he would get invited along next time?

As Nicholas Forster he is immediately (jokingly) picked on by the dads and dubbed ‘Narkolas’. If a group of grown men are so quick to single him out for his nature then his peers definitely would. He probably was ostracised from the friendship groups of people his age when they heard his dad was a cop. From then on they (hypothetically) saw him as a snitch and a loser. With this he would surely cling closer to family and in turn become more like his dad.

just my two pence.

[krispyweiss]

“I Wanted It:” Phil Lesh Discusses Musical Origins on “eTown”

- Former Grateful Dead bassist also played three of band’s songs with son Grahame

Phil Lesh’s long strange trip began with his grandmother.

And Brahms.

Appearing on a “Solar Sessions” episode for “eTown,” the former Grateful Dead bassist recalls his grandmother finding him listening to her listening to Brahms through a wall in their home. So, the next week, she invited her 4-year-old grandson to listen with her.

“I didn’t know what it was … but I wanted it,” Lesh said of the transformational - and foundational - musical moment that eventually led to the “honor” of playing bass for the Grateful Dead and fronting a group of Friends since the Dead’s 1995 dissolution in the wake of Jerry Garcia’s death.

“Rather than leading, my role is to demonstrate or show,” he said. “Here’s an open door. Let’s go through it.”

Joined by his son Grahame on acoustic guitar and co-lead vocals, Lesh also performed the Dead’s “Friend of the Devil,” “Mississippi Half-step Uptown Toodleoo” and “Jack Straw.” What they lack in vocal blend, father and son make up for in musical blend as the younger guitarist and the elder bassist bob and weave and intertwine and unwind their respective electric and acoustic instruments across the three numbers.

Phil Lesh is all smiles and even cracks up a couple of times during “Half-step.”

That’s no doubt because playing with his kid(s) is, as he told Nick Forster, “the pinnacle” of music-making.

“There’s an extra color and warmth to it,” Lesh said. “You end up knowing each other better than you might ordinarily. Strangely, because no concrete information is exchanged.”

6/19/23