#up your alley

[beautiesofbygoneeras]

Uschi Digard appearing in, "Up Your Alley," (1971).

[riphertoshreds]

Joan Jett photographed for Up Your Alley in 1987.

[fasterhaji]

Haji Filmography

Motorpsycho! (1965) 

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) 

Good Morning… and Goodbye! (1967) 

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) 

Bigfoot (1970)

Up Your Alley/ Bang Bang, the Mafia Gang/ The Mellon Affair (1971) 

Supervixens (1975) 

Wham! Bam! Thank You, Spaceman! (1975) 

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976)

The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (1976)

Demonoid: Messenger of Death (1981)

The Double-D Avenger (2001)

Killer Drag Queens on Dope (2003)

[randgugotur-6]

May 23, 1988

On this day thirty six years ago Joan Jett released her sixth solo album, “Up Your Alley”. The album includes the classics “I Hate Myself For Loving You” and “Little Liar”, both written with legendary songwriter Desmond Child.

Besides the hits, what are your favorite songs on this album?

[faerie-daddy]

Faerie Daddy

Romp party 07/30/23

"Adventures in kinkland"

@ 1015 Folsom

San Francisco, CA

[movieposters1]

[blackbirds-of-promise]

@actuallyyangxiaolong

getting blazed as fuck in public, thinking "boy I sure hope no one knows how high I am right now", and then having the jumpscare of your life when duolingo gives you this notification

[beautiesofbygoneeras]

Uschi Digard appearing in, "Up Your Alley," (1971).

[rolandrockover]

I Love Myself For Hatin' You

Welcome to partner therapy with Joan Jett's I Hate Myself For Lovin' You (1988) and Kiss' You Love Me to Hate You (1989), where, if you take a look at both titles, the complex of problems should become instantly clear, but you will inevitably ask yourself just where to start.

For the purpose of my endeavors at least, this should not be my problem so much as that of Desmond Child, whom I hereby appoint to take on the role of the therapist, because it was he, after all, who literally twisted the words in the mouths of our two lovebirds. Which basically says it all, but hey, why stop when it's so nice?

So, even if Joan Jett takes on the rather masculine and less squeamish part here, she complains not insignificantly about the central subject of her passion, which (un)fortunately only works in alternating current, but if she does so, then she does it in style and cuts a pretty good figure in the process (1). On top of that, she seems painfully aware of her own dysfunctionalities, which lends this already delicate situation a not exactly unwelcome masochistic framework.

Paul Stanley, on the other hand, representing his band, takes a kind of complementary approach to the matter and comes across a bit like a professional, loophole-tested first-class creep. Relatively speaking, of course. The mind games therefore seem to come more from himself, but of course he presents himself as the unfortunate victim and blames everything on the evil woman, and apparently also finds a perverted kind of pleasure in it.

If they're both into that sort of thing, they have my blessing, and even if on the surface they don't seem to be particularly happy together, they complement each other perfectly and match extremely well nonetheless.

And that suits my needs for a reasonably successful transition just fine, because the verses and choruses of I Hate Myself For Lovin' You and You Love Me to Hate You could be said to work kinda similar, because although they have little in common with each other they are pretty much interchangeable without affecting the functionality of the other song in any way. On the contrary, I would say.

However, there is still a momentum of (musical) agreement, and that would be a small but nevertheless unmistakable part between the two vocal bridges and choruses, which forms the perfect axis for such a switch. But no more horizon seems necessary for this eternally unmatched courtship like between the moon and the sun anyway.

Whether Desmond Child played them off against each other or simply did them both a favor, I can't decide. Only one thing is pretty certain:

He made a small fortune out of both of them. More with one, less with the other.

Side Note:

(1) It's not too often that another song contains more ass-wiggling than one by Kiss.

You Love Me to Hate You (1989)

I Hate Myself For Lovin' You (1988)

[primmsfairytale]

@clumio

Roman Baby Rattle || Peepy

[duranduratulsa]

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Little Liar (Official Music Video)

Song 🎵 of the day: Little Liar by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (1988) from Up Your Alley #joanjettandtheblackhearts #joanjett #littleliar #upyouralley #80s

[arcteris]

pictomancer is so vibrant and whimsical but now i'm thinking about the good dark, edgy potential

[elyfonart]

Been having COMPLETELY normal thoughts about a pre-timeskip Germa AU recently

[saint-augustines-pears]

@fartyrobbins

Fata Morgna

A Superior Mirage that comes from the Italian term named after the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay, from a belief that these mirages, often seen in the Strait of Messina, were fairy castles in the air or false land created by her witchcraft to lure sailors to their deaths. It��s also believed that this illusion caused the myth of The Flying Dutchman to emerge.

[starry-bi-sky]

i have been unmedicated for the entirety of spring break and thus have had little interest in writing this down, but i have been thinking about this for the entire week (as well as a dpdc clone danny au that resulted in it becoming its entirely separate batman au that includes a teenage vigilante bruce wayne, an ocarina, and me entirely incapable of making a batman au without making bruce dirt poor but we're not talking about that) and so i've finally went 'fuck it' and forcibly grabbed my laptop. I will get this done in one sitting even if it kills me.

BUT. This is about neither clone^2 danny nor about who i am calling Ocarina Batman. This is about my Danyal Al Ghul Au and more SPECIFICALLY it's me thinking about his relationship with Sam and Tucker specifically.

Tucker and Sam? Adore this asshole (affectionate) with every fiber of their being. And it is very much a reciprocated feeling, but Danny's thoughts will not be delved into much other than he would kill for them.

Tucker? The only person currently capable of getting a deep, loud, belly laugh out of Danny. Sam can get him to smile and to laugh, but it's the kind that's a chuckle-under-the-breath. The quiet, looks-down-while-huffing laughter. Snorts once with laughter and then grins stupidly.

But Tucker? Tucker can crack a slew of stupid jokes and Danny will be incapacitated for the next five minutes because he's laughing so hard that he can't breath. He lands one well-timed pun or quip and Danny will be close to tears. His laughter is their favorite sound in the whole world.

Sam is lowkey jealous of this ability, and she's gotten a belly laugh out of Danny a few times. But alas, it is Tucker who wields this power and has gotten it the most times out of the two of them.

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They're also both physically affectionate with Danny as much as possible. It started roughly around when they were 12-ish, a year since they befriended Danny, and they noticed that he sought after touch but never seemed to initiate (and was in some ways repulsed by it). They started slowly being more touchy with him. Hooking a finger around his to lead him somewhere, tapping his wrist, looping arms. Little touches, grabs, etc, to get him used to it, and once he started doing it back they started increasing it.

It's gotten to a point where he will now just. Lay on them. Like a lizard sunbathing on a rock. Leaning on their backs when they're sitting in class before the bell rings, his chin on their heads. He'll talk about anything with his arms looped around their shoulders.

If they're sitting on a couch at either of their houses, he'll lay his legs on theirs. Him and Tucker will press their feet against the other's and try and push against them (newsflash: Danny always wins, Tucker claims its the ghost strength but Danny's been winning since before his accident)

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Naturally, both Sam and Tucker know where Danny keeps his weapons on his person, and are allowed to grab them off of him if they need it. His only requirement is that they don't lose his weapons if they take it and forget to return it immediately.

They both understand how big of a thing this is from Danny, and so they do their best to treat his weapons with a lot of respect and care because they know its his way of saying he trusts them.

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Sam and Tucker are so fond of Danny it's insane. Like fr. That's their goddamn best friend, and they are so protective of him. Emotionally, physically, you name it. They will tear the head off a grown man if they need to, Danny's had scars since he arrived in Amity Park and Sam and Tucker both are going to find the person who put them there and make them pay for it.

One time, Tucker overheard a bunch of upperclass girls speaking nastily about Danny and about the rumors surrounding him, calling him names like 'freak', 'monster', etc. Danny was with him and heard it, and seemingly appeared unbothered by it, even telling Tucker that he was used to such rumors.

Tucker was so furious that hacked into the school system later that night and tanked those girls grades. They were kicked out of their clubs and had to go to mandatory tutoring for the rest of the year. He made sure to leave some way of letting them know it was him who did it.

And Sam doesn't like using her money for things, doesn't like abusing that wealth. So instead, whenever her parents talk bad about Danny, she causes a media incident that has her parents scrambling to deal with. She does something wild, outrageous by her parents' standards.

She heard some boys on the basketball team making fun of Danny once, similar to those girls had. She kicks up a fuss about something eco-unfriendly at school and forcibly holds a protest on the same day of the big home basketball game, forcing them to cancel the event and reschedule to a visiting school.

She anonymously donates money so that there's new uniforms for the team but oops! Looks like she "forgot" to donate enough money for them to get uniforms for all the team members, and strangely enough those boys in particular didn't get them! Looks like they'll have to wait until more money gets donated for the basketball team to get their new, nice uniforms. The old ones look so ratty in comparison, right?

And since the football team gets most of the sport money, that might just take awhile. And if (and when) they kick up a fuss? oops! Off the basketball team you go, :) such unsportsman-like behavior is unfit for the team.

(The only good thing about how corrupt the school system is is that she can use it to her advantage too.)

The both of them know that Danny suspects them for the sudden misfortune falling on these people, but he doesn't call them out on it. He's kinder than he used to be, but not kind enough to vouch for people who speak badly of him. Sometimes, he might just congratulate them on not getting caught.

Because Danny is their wonderful, hurt friend with a "slightly" Blue and Orange Moral code, and enough scars that people have been calling him a criminal (and worse) since he arrived in Amity Park when he was ten. And they'll be damned if he gets hurt anymore.