#the last highway

[highandlowculture]

How many people does it take to write the lyrics to the biggest selling rock album of all time? How much did Brian Johnson write? How much did Angus and Malcolm Young write? And how much did the late Bon Scott write? I address the “Bon wrote the lyrics to Back In Black” conspiracy head-on in this video, including all of my thoughts on who wrote what on this legendary album. I also discuss Bon - The Last Highway by Jesse Fink, Brian Johnson’s rebuttal in his autography The Lives of Brian, and a 1991 interview Angus Young had with Kerrang! magazine in which the AC/DC guitarist had a very interesting quote on the matter. As a lover of both the Bon and Brian eras of the band, I take an unbiased and in depth look into this controversial issue…!!

[bikananjarrus]

hey remember how caleb saw a force vision of depa being killed during order 66 before it happened. yeah was that fucked up or what ha ha. Help

[catamaris]

cabayomi monday

[lale-txt]

FUCKKKK MY STUPID BAKA LIFE FUCKKKK FIFLLLL FUKCCCC AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FUKCCCKKKKKK NO ONE TALK TO MEEE I CANT DO THISDDD ASDFJFKDLDLW

[actual-changeling]

ellie learns how to draw, and, if she might say so herself, gets pretty damn good at it, especially faces. it helps her ground herself to see happy memories physically stare back at her from her sketch book, her walls, the fridge, and wherever else joel puts up her drawings. he loves all of them, even the very first ones that aren't much more than vaguely human scribbles.

the first year in jackson is a pain, and she spends most of it holed up in their house, drawing, painting (she has no idea where joel gets all the paint from and he refuses to tell her), and once they make it through their first winter together, she feels comfortable enough to show them to other people, too. mostly tommy and maria, and in a weak moment she even gifts them a drawing she made of them and their baby.

she's over at their house a lot, it's a lot more lived in and settled than theirs but they're working on it, and notices some actual pictures, the kind you take with a camera, decorating the living room. it's obvious that they're prized possessions, framed and front and center on the walls. a handful of them show maria and what must have been her family before the outbreak, others are newer. jackson does have some cameras saved for special events, and there are two pictures of them on their wedding day, and even one from a few days after the baby was born.

she doesn't think much of it until their second summer in jackson when she notices the way joel stares at the baby pictures and realizes that all he has to remember sarah by is the broken watch on his wrist. the only tangible memory and it's one of pain and death.

ellie mulls over it a lot, it keeps her up at night and while joel picks up on it, he doesn't press the issue when she refuses to talk about it, though she assures him she's fine.

it takes her another two weeks after her realization to catch tommy alone one afternoon with joel safely away on patrol, oddly nervous and unsure how to phrase what she wants to ask. eventually she manages to explain her idea and the positively soft, distantly heartbroken look he gives her makes her breath catch in her throat.

do you think he would be okay with it?

i think he would love it, sweetheart.

they sit together for hours in his kitchen, ellie is determined to make it look exactly right and urges tommy to not hold back his criticism if something isn't accurate, and by the end, they have missed dinner and her wrist hurts like hell, fingers stained with pencil lead and color, but her chest is brimming with a warm sense of accomplishment.

tommy gives her a frame and she wraps it as well as she knows how to. he insists that she gives it to him alone, but ellie draws him into an uncharacteristically tight hug before she leaves and hides her smile in his chest when he presses a hesitant kiss to her hair. family, she realizes, is pretty damn great.

the waiting is the hardest part. she puts her gift on the coffee table and paces the living room for at least half an hour while she waits for joel to return from his patrol, switching between chewing her lips and biting her nails. by the time he finally walks through the door, she has almost convinced herself to abandon the whole thing and just pretend it never happened, but then joel's there, gaze immediately softening when he sees her, and suddenly she can't wait to give it to him. it's a pretty big frame and the best paper she owns, rivaling some of her larger paintings on actual canvas, and joel has to sit down to open it without running the risk of accidentally dropping it.

i hope you like it.

the quiet tremor in her voice makes him stop halfway through unwrapping it, but she just gestures for him to continue, rocking on her feet.

tommy helped.

when the last of the paper falls away and joel sees her work for the very first time, they both hold their breath at once, even the summer breeze stilling, air brimming with something neither of them have the words for.

joel is looking at a vibrant water color painting of sarah, face at a soft angle as she wonders at a small purple butterfly resting on her finger, hand raised in front of her, eyes and smile shining brighter than the sun, hair a shimmering cloud of brown and gold. a frozen moment in time, sarah forever fourteen, capturing the love ellie feels pouring out of joel whenever he talks about her, a wave of affection and distilled joy that makes her miss a person she has never known.

i thought you might want a happy memory of her to look at, too.

ellie points at his watch, broken glass fracturing the light falling in, hand shaking.

i hope it's okay that i- if you don't want it-

joel's arms are around her before she can finish, cutting off her stuttered attempts, frame safe on the table as he hugs her so tightly her feet lift off the floor and she clings to his neck, relief bringing air back to her lungs. he holds her with his face buried in her hair, and ellie only notices he is crying when she can feel a few stray tears run down her neck. when he sets her down again, eyes glassy even after he dries his cheeks, her knees buckle under his gaze. they're both bad with feelings, bad with words, love shown through touch and gestures, through don't forget to eat, i'll stay with you until you fall asleep, fresh cups of coffee left on his nightstand before she leaves for school, hands searching for each other in the crowd again and again and again, never letting go.

love brought to life by a painting of the daughter that taught him how to be a father, made by the one that helped him find his way back to the light.

thank you, ellie.

they both know it means i love you, too, sarah immortalized on their living room wall where the morning sun illuminates her face with every sunrise.

more rambles in the tags

[rabbitcruiser]

Alaska (No. 4)

The state is bordered by Canada's Yukon and British Columbia to the east (making it the only state to only border a Canadian territory); the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the south and southwest; the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea to the west; and the Arctic Ocean to the north. Alaska's territorial waters touch Russia's territorial waters in the Bering Strait, as the Russian Big Diomede Island and Alaskan Little Diomede Island are only 3 miles (4.8 km) apart. Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U.S. states combined. Alaska's size compared with the 48 contiguous states (Albers equal-area conic projection)

At 663,268 square miles (1,717,856 km2) in total area, Alaska is by far the largest state in the United States. Alaska is more than twice the size of the second-largest U.S. state (Texas), and it is larger than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combined. Alaska is the seventh largest subnational division in the world. If it was an independent nation, it would be the 18th largest country in the world; almost the same size as Iran.

With its myriad of islands, Alaska has nearly 34,000 miles (55,000 km) of tidal shoreline. The Aleutian Islands chain extends west from the southern tip of the Alaska Peninsula. Many active volcanoes are found in the Aleutians and in coastal regions. Unimak Island, for example, is home to Mount Shishaldin, which is an occasionally smoldering volcano that rises to 10,000 feet (3,000 m) above the North Pacific. The chain of volcanoes extends to Mount Spurr, west of Anchorage on the mainland. Geologists have identified Alaska as part of Wrangellia, a large region consisting of multiple states and Canadian provinces in the Pacific Northwest, which is actively undergoing continent building.

One of the world's largest tides occurs in Turnagain Arm, just south of Anchorage, where tidal differences can be more than 35 feet (10.7 m).

Alaska has more than 409,000 natural lakes at least one hectare or bigger. Marshlands and wetland permafrost cover 188,320 square miles (487,700 km2) (mostly in northern, western and southwest flatlands). Glacier ice covers about 28,957 square miles (75,000 km2) of Alaska. The Bering Glacier is the largest glacier in North America, covering 2,008 square miles (5,200 km2) alone.

Source: Wikipedia

[gaysails]

someone is parked right under my window listening to born to run loud enough for me to hear it 6 floors up. peace and love on planet bruce

[neunhofferart]

Not sure if there's anything official- based only on a vaguely similar shape and location and seemingly supported by the map pictures released by Dreamworks TV recently, would Yaz's island be Frank Island in Yellowstone National Park? Only for JWE2 building reference purposes 😁

It's possible it was used for some visual inspiration, but I think the EXACT location in Wyoming was probably meant to be a little vague, as a fictional location.

[minimitchell]

Callum Highway | 10.10.23

Bonus:

[figs-oliomedley]

I hope to GOD that if the Ninja *are* split that we don't get the usual pairings. Cole and Jay is always nice, but I wanna see the ever-elusive Jay and Zane dynamic. How does Pixal interact 1 on 1 with a ninja who isn't Kai or Zane? I WANT THE DYNAMICS, PEOPLE!!!

[wanderingaldecaldo]

I'm doing it. I'm meeting Hanako at Embers.

[williammarksommer]

The Last Stop

Last year, I was inspired to re-aproach Route 66 with new ideas after four years away working on different projects. Returning to the California section of this highway I had so many ideas I looked to explore that it has followed me into creating further this year as well. 

Route 66 series

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

[seaglassandeelgrass]

Highwaymen, Rapparees, and Gentlemen of the Road.

Cover is a painting, c.1860, of Claude Duval by William Powell Frith.

The Newry Highwayman- Malinky

Turpin Hero- Ewan MacColl

Allan Tyne of Harrow- Dolores Keene & John Faulkner

The Female Highwayman- Lucy Ward

Brennan on the Moor- Tom Kines

Whiskey in the Jar- The Dubliners

The Jolly Highwayman- Joan Mills & Michael Raven

The Naked Highwayman- Fairport Convention

The Highwayman Outwitted- Magpie Lane

Dick Turpin's Ride to York- John Graham Donaldson

The Wild 'Prentice Boy- Fred Gosbee

Redmond O'Hanlon- Irish Bastards

The Outlaw Rapparee- The Rapparees

Fairfax County- Joan Baez

Sovay- Pentangle

Turpin Hero- Eliza Carthy

16 tracks; 55 mins. [Spotify]

[my other playlists]

[b4kuch1n]

tdov was like a week ago already but I just wanna say when I came over to vacation slash help my sworn brother move flat he told me, "ever since you said you wanted to get top surgery I've been thinking about it. it's straight up number two on my bucket list"

[venileix]

𝜗𝜚 ℳ.𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵

“ 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘰. 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦. ”

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𝒥𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝒦𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘺 ✮ playlist

⋆𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣

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𝒜𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯 𝒮𝘬𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘳 ✮ playlist

⋆New Sensations

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𝒮𝘢𝘮 ℳ𝘰𝘯𝘳𝘰𝘦 ✮ playlist

⋆𝙉𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙨

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𝒮𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝒢𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 ✮ playlist

⋆𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣

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⋆Orange Jumpsuit

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⋆𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧'𝙨 𝙀𝙙𝙜𝙚

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⋆𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣

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⋆𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣

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⋆𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣

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[actual-changeling]

i. i just realized something. i was rewatching the first episode and went hey, wait a minute. this looks familiar.

yeah. YEAH IT DOES.

i took psychic damage comparing these shots and hopefully you do too you're welcome