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Aw, Willie Ray....
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Tear You Apart - A Dastmalchian Villains Thirst Trap
#Ray's Vids#warning for flashing lights and fast moving clips#david dastmalchian#Abner Krill#Dwight Pollard#Simon Lynch#Murdoc#Johnson Reprisal#Kyle Slade#Ray Watkins#James Lewis#Abra Kadabra#aka a list of men I want to grab me by the hair and tell me-#except Willie and Denham sorry guys you need a shower first then we'll talk okay
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Paul McCartney: Give My Regards To Broad Street
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MPL/Parlophone 1C 064-26 027 1
Released: October 22, 1984
#meine photos#vinylcollection#1984 music#vinyloftheday#vinylcommunity#paul mccartney#stuart elliot#david gilmour#ann dudley#george martin#john paul jones#alan donney#david willis#dougie robinson#henry mackenzie#jack armstrong#john barclay#ray swinfield#tommy whittle#linda mccartney#louis johnson#jeff prcaro#steve lukather#charles loper#jerry hey#lawrence williams#thomas pergerson#jody linscott#gabrielli string quartet#dave mattacks
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'Over the Hedge' – animated animals take on suburbia on Netflix
It’s nature versus prefab culture in Over the Hedge (2006), the animated adaptation of the Michael Fry and T Lewis newspaper comic strip of woodland buddies confronting the foibles of 21st century life and the absurdities of suburbia. A wound up Bruce Willis voices the streetwise raccoon RJ, whose schemes collide with the implacable caution of Vern the turtle (Garry Shandling), the paternal…
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#2006#Avril Lavigne#Blu-ray#Bruce Willis#Catherine O&039;Hara#DVD#Eugene Levy#Garry Shandling#Karey Kirkpatrick#Netflix#Nick Nolte#Over the Hedge#Steve Carell#Thomas Haden Church#Tim Johnson#VOD#Wanda Sykes#William Shatner
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Hot Vintage TV Men's Bracket - Full List
Sorry for the delay, it took us longer than expected to finalize the list. We are currently working on finishing and finalizing the bracket for round 1. For now enjoy the list of everyone in the tournament and we'll be back on Thursday evening to kick off round 1!
Boris Karloff
Clint Walker
Desi Arnaz
Claude Rains
James Arness
James Garner
William Hopper
Adam West
Alejandro Rey
Bob Crane
Cesar Romero
David McCallum
David Selby
Davy Jones
DeForest Kelley
Dick Gautier
Dick Van Dyke
Dwayne Hickman
Eddie Albert
George Maharis
George Takei
John Astin
Jonathan Frid
Larry Hagman
Leonard Nimoy
Mark Lenard
Martin Milner
Michael Nesmith
Micky Dolenz
Patrick McGoohan
Patrick Troughton
Peter Tork
Randy Boone
Raymond Burr
Richard Chamberlain
Robert Conrad
Robert Fuller
Robert Vaughn
Rod Serling
Russell Johnson
Ted Bessell
Ted Cassidy
Tom Smothers
Walter Koenig
William Hartnell
William Shatner
Alan Alda
Brian Blessed
Darren McGavin
David Cassidy
David Soul
Dean Butler
Demond Wilson
Derek Jacobi
Eric Idle
Erik Estrada
Fred Grandy
Fred Rogers
Hal Linden
Henry Winkler
Jamie Farr
John Cleese
John Hurt
Jon Pertwee
Judd Hirsch
Kabir Bedi
Kent McCord
Lee Majors
Michael Landon
Michael Palin
Mike Farrell
Peter Falk
Randolph Mantooth
Richard Hatch
Ricardo Montalban
Robert Wagner
Rock Hudson
Simon Williams
Telly Savalas
Terry Jones
Tom Baker
Wayne Rogers
Anthony Andrews
Bruce Boxleitner
Bruce McCulloch
Colin Baker
Dave Foley
David Hasselhoff
Dirk Benedict
Gene Anthony Ray
Gerald McRaney
Hugh Laurie
Jameson Parker
Jeremy Brett
Jimmy Smits
John Forsythe
John Stamos
Johnny Depp
Kevin McDonald
Mark McKinney
Martin Kove
Michael J. Fox
Michael Praed
Mr. T
Patrick Duffy
Peter Davison
Richard Dean Anderson
Rik Mayall
Rowan Atkinson
Sam Neill
Scott Thompson
Simon MacCorkindale
Stephen Fry
Sylvester McCoy
Ted Lange
Tom Selleck
Tony Danza
Alexander Siddig
Andre Braugher
Andreas Katsulas
Andrew Robinson
Anthony Head
Anthony Starke
Armin Shimerman
Avery Brooks
Brad Dourif
Brent Spiner
Bruce Campbell
Charles Shaughnessy
Colm Meaney
Craig Charles
Dana Ashbrook
Danny John-Jules
Darren E. Burrows
David Duchovny
David Hyde Pierce
David Schwimmer
David Suchet
David Wenham
Dean Stockwell
Garrett Wang
Gary Cole
Grant Show
James Earl Jones
James Marsters
Jeff Conaway
Jeffrey Combs
John Corbett
John de Lancie
John Goodman
John Shea
Jonathan Frakes
Joseph Marcell
Kevin Smith
Kevin Sorbo
Kyle MacLachlan
LeVar Burton
Luke Perry
Marc Alaimo
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Matt LeBlanc
Matthew Perry
Michael Dorn
Michael Horse
Michael Hurst
Michael O’Hare
Michael Ontkean
Michael Tylo
Miguel Ferrer
Mitch Pileggi
Nate Richert
Nicholas Lea
Noah Wyle
Paolo Montalban
Patrick Stewart
Paul Gross
Paul Johansson
Paul McGann
Peter Wingfield
René Auberjonois
Robert Beltran
Robert Carlyle
Robert Duncan McNeill
Ron Perlman
Scott Bakula
Seth Green
Spencer Rochfort
Stephen Nichols
Ted Danson
Ted Raimi
Thorsten Kaye
Tim Daly
Timothy Dalton
Tim Russ
Valentine Pelka
William Shockley
Ben Browder
Brandon Quinn
Brian Krause
Chad Michael Murray
Christian Kane
Conner Trinneer
Daniel Dae Kim
David Boreanaz
David Tennant
Donnie Wahlberg
Eric Close
Ioan Gruffudd
Jensen Ackles
Jeremy Sisto
Joe Lando
Joshua Jackson
Keith Hamilton Cobb
Michael Shanks
Nathan Fillion
Neil Patrick Harris
Reece Shearsmith
Richard Ayoade
Rob Lowe
Ron Glass
Scott Cohen
Skeet Ulrich
Tom Welling
Tony Shalhoub
Billy Dee Williams
Bruce Willis
Clint Eastwood
Colin Firth
George Clooney
Jeremy Irons
Paul Michael Glaser
Pierce Brosnan
Sean Bean
Blair Underwood
David James Elliot
Michael Vartan
Michael T. Weiss
Scott Patterson
Sebastian Cabot
Luke Halpin
Adam Brody
Jason Bateman
Matt Bomer
Timothy Olyphant
Woody Harrelson
Richard Biggs
Robin Williams
Will Smith
John Schneider
Milo Ventimiglia
Bobby Troup
Bobby Sherman
Chad Everett
Casey Biggs
Jason Priestley
Don Adams
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Heading into the 50th season of Saturday Night Live, fans of the show and its original cast may feel they already know all of the lore surrounding them and their iconic characters, such as how Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi took two white guys in black suits and rocketed The Blues Brothers to the top of the charts with a multi-platinum album in 1978 and a subsequent movie in 1980 that co-starred Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and James Brown—and in doing so, revitalized the careers of those music legends. And yet, somehow, there are revelations aplenty in a new two-hour oral history, Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude, debuting Thursday exclusively on Audible.
Aykroyd, now 72, narrates and presides over the retrospective, which features previously unheard audio from Belushi (who died in 1982), some of the last testimony of his widow, Judith Belushi Pisano (who died earlier this month), as well as anecdotes from Blues Brothers musical director Paul Shaffer, band members Lou Marini and Steve Jordan, plus drummer Willie Hall, Belushi’s real-life inspiration Curtis Salgado, filmmaker John Landis, and his wife, costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis.
As Belushi’s widow explains, the real origin story of The Blues Brothers involved a lot more than what we saw on screen.
“They were characters. No doubt about it,” Pisano recalls. “They were somewhat alter-egos, as well. They were sort of characters on the stage of life. It wasn’t a bit, exactly, that they ended up doing. I know that it’s often referred to The Blues Brothers as developed from a skit on Saturday Night Live, and you know, that’s really just not true. It’s not how it happened.”
From road trips to roadhouses to 30 Rock
While the Aykroyd-Belushi partnership officially began on stage in Toronto at The Second City—after which they did listen to a live blues band that very first night and share their common tastes in music—the idea for them to perform music in addition to comedy came a bit later when the duo drove cross-country. “They sort of jokingly said, let’s do a band,” Pisano recalls. Belushi, then already a star of The National Lampoon’s off-Broadway musical, Lemmings, as well as The National Lampoon Radio Hour, had recruited Aykroyd from Toronto, and he was sleeping on a mattress on the floor of the studio apartment Belushi shared with Pisano on Bleecker Street.
Belushi would get up onstage with bands in NYC or on road trips and sing the old Robert Johnson tune, “Sweet Home Chicago,” which Pisano says “was a well-known, popular, easy to play song.” Lorne Michaels saw one of Belushi’s performances and suggested he do it to warm up the studio audience at Saturday Night Live. Belushi got Aykroyd involved. Willie Nelson gave Jake and Elwood their first big break
Belushi already had befriended Willie Nelson, according to Aykroyd, and they laid out their initial concept for a blues band to Nelson backstage during his residency at The Lone Star Cafe, a former nightclub on Fifth Avenue. “Within a few minutes, Willie had agreed to lend us his band as a backup for a trial show in which Jake and Elwood would open for him,” Aykroyd says. He and Belushi learned a few songs for the gig. “The reaction was favorable, although clear that neither John nor I were conservatory-trained artists, we had a good feel for the music, and we knew how to feature an all-star band.”
Comedian Lenny Bruce helped inspire their signature look
“The wardrobe was inspired by Lenny Bruce, who always wore a dark suit, black string tie and white shirt,” Aykroyd says. “The hat and shades were meant to emulate John Lee Hooker from the photo on the cover of his album House of the Blues. It delighted us that we were compared to IRS agents, Men in Black, and the reference in the movie when Aretha Franklin says that we resemble Hasidic diamond merchants.”
“They found the stuff in thrift shops,” Pisano adds, “and then once the movie hit, they were on—you got yourself a designer, and custom-made suits before you know it.”
Enter Landis’s wife, costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis, who had outfitted Belushi’s “COLLEGE” sweatshirt for National Lampoon’s Animal House, and later picked out the fedora and jacket for Indiana Jones, as well as Michael Jackson’s red Thriller jacket. She recalls how haphazard their early outfits looked as Jake and Elwood: “They were using any jacket and any pair of black trousers, usually didn’t match. So they were not in suits, they were unsuited. And any hat, and any tie, and any shirt, and any glasses that looked OK.”
Lorne Michaels was initially skeptical the idea would work
That their first blues song onscreen happened in their SNL “Killer Bee” costumes? Not part of the plan. “Which John hated,” Landis alleges. “And I think it was Lorne sticking it to him.” But after that performance of “I’m a King Bee” on the Jan. 17, 1976, episode, SNL’s musical director Howard Shore dubbed Aykroyd and Belushi The Blues Brothers, and they were off and running.
Belushi tasked Paul Shaffer, an original SNL house band member (and later longtime band leader for David Letterman’s late-night reign), to hire the rest of The Blues Brothers band, which originally included Shaffer on keys, Marini on sax, Al Rubin on trumpet, Tom Malone on trombone, and Steve Jordan on percussion. “I just knew I was having a better time than I ever thought I would have in my whole life,” Shaffer recalls. “Everybody was having so much fun.” And of Aykroyd and Belushi, Shaffer says: “They were explosive individually,” but together, “like a tornado, that’s what the two were like.”
Malone suggested getting Otis Redding’s guys, Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn on lead guitar and bass to fill out the rhythm section, and then they added another guitarist, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, after seeing him perform elsewhere in the city.
“An odd mixture of people, but man, it worked,” Marini says. “But Lorne didn’t dig it. And then one of the shows late in the season, they were short, and he said, you guys want to do your silly song? Go ahead and do it. And so we did it on the show. And it was a tremendous hit. People just went crazy for it.”
Belushi was furious at anyone who dared criticize the band When The Blues Brothers scored a #1 hit with their debut album, 1978’s Briefcase Full of Blues, Belushi found himself that fall with the top album, along with a box-office smash in Animal House, to go with his fame on SNL. But he was not without his critics.
In a previously unheard interview conducted with journalist Steve Bloom for a 1979 profile in the Soho Weekly News, we hear Belushi brushing back criticism of The Blues Brothers as a novelty act or appropriating black culture.
“It’s just weird, you know. Why would I do these things?” he says. “First of all, it has nothing to do with ego. It has nothing to do with money. Or the need to be loved by an audience. I don’t have any of those feelings. What the fuck do these people think I am, anyway? I can’t fucking understand why they would attack—see when they attack me, they attack the band. And I hate when they attack the band, because then it makes them look like schmucks for doing what they did for me.” One famous scene from ‘The Blues Brothers’ film was inspired by real life
Aykroyd reveals that one scene in their 1980 film is a nod to their actual record deal: “Where we are about to escape from the Palace Ballroom and commence the final run for Chicago. A 350-pound, 6-foot-4-inch man resembling a Turkish spa attendant lunges out from the wings to offer a record deal. This scene is a direct reprise of what happened when John and I left the stage as The Blues Brothers that first night. In the dressing room halls of 8H, at the page stand, Michael Klenfner, who played the guy in the film and was an acquaintance of John’s, grabbed us and said, ‘You guys should do a record. I’m Michael Klenfner from Atlantic Records. Ahmet (Ertegun) will love this.’” Klenfner died at 62 in 2009.
Film distributors didn’t think Southern audiences could handle the film’s ‘Black’ music
Landis says he intended to make a 70mm “road movie” complete with an intermission, but he and Universal couldn’t even convince cinema distributors to roll out the film nationwide. He and Aykroyd claim exhibitors—Landis singled out Ted Mann of Mann Theatres, who’d bought the Fox Theater chain—worried that audiences in the South and elsewhere would object to a film filled with predominantly “Black” music and performers. So they only debuted in 600 cinemas instead of 1,400, and tried to mount a live concert tour to promote it.
Aykroyd saw none of the film’s massive box office profits
Even though the movie brought in more than $115 million at the box office, Aykroyd saw none of it. He says he received a $225,000 salary for writing and performing in the movie, “for which I was grateful then and am now, as I was only a net points participant in the proceeds, this is all the fee and money I have ever received from The Blues Brothers movie. Universal’s position is that due to the high costs at the time, my net points remain worthless.”
The Belushis fared a bit better, as Pisano said John Belushi used $150,000 he’d received as a bonus from Animal House’s success to subsidize the 1978 album recordings, which took place live at Universal Amphitheatre while they served as Steve Martin’s opening act. “We weren’t repaid [by Atlantic] until well after we recorded everything and they’d heard it, so I think we were probably a little naive to assume we were getting that money back,” Pisano says. “But: Best investment I ever made.”
Sean L. McCarthy @thecomicscomic
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My fave sex goddesses...
Just for fun, a list of my favourite girls of all time. Some are still my crushes. Some are just plain gorgeous. Others are there for sentimental reasons. No particular order.
Ariel Rebel Anjelica (aka Anjelica Ebbi, Krystal Boyd) Zoe Voss Tori Black Little Caprice Eufrat Tiffany Thompson Stoya Zsuzsa Tanczos Gina Gerson Monica Sweetheart Lexi Bloom Faye Reagan Anissa Kate Veronika Simon Silvia Saint Dillion Harper Sasha Grey Ashlyn Rae Malena Morgan Daneen Boone Emily Grey Red Fox Ander Page Alexis Crystal Sweet Amylee Foxy Di Remy Lacroix Sam Slayre Mila Azul Maya Nunes Eva Elfie Michelle Wild Jenna Haze Martha Gromova Evelyn Claire Krista Allen Regina Russell April Flowers Cadey Mercury Karla Kush Demi Hawks Liya Silver Brooke Banner Jenna J Ross Marcelin Abadir Emily Willis Jia Lissa Caroline Key Johnson Veronika Radke Melanie Jane (aka Melanie Rios) Kuroha Suicide Jillian Janson Tiffany Tyler Nicole Ray Heather Vandeven Miriama Kunkelova To be continued...
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Commissions
Hello everyone! I know it has been a while, but I hope you are all well.
I’m happy to be here with everyone, but I have an ulterior motive (and I apologize for this being my comeback post). Recently, there was a fire in my sister’s neighborhood and it spread to her house.
Why is this important?
Due to the fire spreading, my sister’s house took a lot of damage. With damage comes (expensive!!) costs to repair the building and replace furniture. Fortunately, no one was in the house at the time of the fire and my sister is safe.
To help my sister out, I am opening commissions where all profits go to her. As long as the rules are followed, I will be writing something personal for you! Down below, my rules, what I refuse to write, fandoms I write for, what I will write, and costs.
Here is the link to our Cash App for all purchases or donations. - Pay $LittleButterflyWrites
Note: Anyone who has made a request before the date of me posting this (07/02/2024) will get their requests free of charge as originally intended before my unannounced hiatus.
This is available until July 30th, (07/30/2024), so please act fast since I'm not sure if I'll open them again! Read more if you're interested!
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Dub/non-con
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I will NOT write NSFW for certain characters. Said characters will be in a bracketed list after their name. (example: [Character] = no NSFW). The NSFW list of characters will always be BEFORE the NO NSFW character list.
Anything I am not comfortable writing. Again, I reserve the right to refuse any request. If you are unsure and need clarification, please message me with questions.
What Fandoms Do You Write For?
With this new post comes some new fandoms!
Mystic Messenger
- Yoosung Kim, Zen/Hyun Ryu, Jaehee Kang, Jumin Han, 707/Saeyoung Choi, Ray, Saeran Choi, V/Jihyun Kim, Rika Kim, Vanderwood
Mr. Love, Queen’s Choice
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The Walking Dead - Up to season 5 in the TV show OR first comic compendium. I can write apocalypse TWD or non-apocalypse lives, just tell me your preference.
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Personalized Playlist - $2
I make you a playlist for your character x character, OC x character, or CMC x character. I will give you links via Spotify or YouTube using my taste in music along with your taste. Minimum of 20 songs.
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You choose between 1-3 characters from any fandom (can be different fandoms) and give a description of yourself to me (including MBTI, hobbies, likes/dislikes, and preferences). Can be SFW or NSFW.
Dabble (500+ words) - $4
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Jeff Buckley: They Don't Even Know Me Yet
Martin Aston, MOJO, January 2003
In 1992 Jeff Buckley gave his first ever press interview. A decade later, MOJO unearths this incredible, little-seen document.
AUTUMN IN NEW YORK, 1992. A tiny East Village cafe, the Sin-e. It's packed, but there's a seat near the very front, under the singer's nose. His, eyes are clenched shut. He's nervous, edgy, but it's a truly memorable show; jittery, comical, thrilling, mesmeric. When he's singing the voice is pure, stretching high-low, curling around a song. He closes on a song that could very well be a lullaby, and your eyes close with his.
Three days later, in another tiny cafe, via a mutual friend who knows Tim Buckley is your all-time favourite singer, and who told you, 'You gotta hear his son', you meet Jeff. He's dressed down — plaid shirt, jeans — which draws you to the face; short, thatched hair, looming eyes, rich lips, a wary expression. It's his first ever interview, and he's nervous, defensive. The first thing he says, almost before handshakes, is whether you're here purely because of Tim. No, but then again, yes. He accepts that there's little point writing about Jeff simply because you love Tim, any more than you can avoid Tim because of Jeff. In the end, only Dutch magazine OOR takes a chance on an interview with a total unknown: based, of course, on the familial connection to Tim. The interview is never published in the UK. By the time everyone catches up with Jeff the interview is out of date. But now, given his death and enshrined appeal, it's timeless.
When did music first make an impact on you?
As a child. There was my mother's breasts and then there was music. It felt like another person in the house that floated with me everywhere. All my life, I've sung along to the radio, stuff like [Spiral Staircase's] 'I Love You More Today Than Yesterday'. My mum would drive me to school, playing mellow Californian radio, stuff like Chicago, Crosby Stills and Nash, Blood Sweat and Tears, Sly and the Family Stone, James Brown, The Temptations, every day! She married a car mechanic, who couldn't carry a tune, but he had amazing taste and he turned me on to Booker T, Led Zeppelin and Joni Mitchell, Hoyt Axton and Willie Nelson. My mum pretty much sung to me — she's a classically-trained pianist and cellist. So it was mainly me and my mum, because my parents split before I was born. I hung around my grandmother too — she'd play me stuff like The Chambers Brothers.
It's rare to hear someone smitten with both traditional blues and modern blues. I'm thinking of your cover of 'Fare Thee Well'.
That's Dink's Song. It was originally written by a washerwoman. That's where the best music came from, from old European-American criminals bringing Africans to America. My favourites are Robert Johnson and Bukka White, The Staple Singers, Billie Holiday. I cover 'Strange Fruit', too. I figured I wouldn't be able to meet these people, so I learn from them by hearing them sing. Some of the coolest music is Johnny Cash, which isn't a black or white thing. I love Mariachi music, Ray Charles, Edith Piaf, the Sex Pistols, Muddy Waters…I just saw gifts dangling from them and wanted to take it. I guess I want to be an archetypal entertainer, an archetypal bard, a minstrel. I guess I have a romantic vision. Even though punk happened to me, and Robert Johnson, I want to be a realty good storyteller, and those songs have great stories.
What do you love about 'Twelfth Of Never'?
I cover the Nina Simone version. It's just the way she does it. I can't get into Elvis's version, it doesn't capture my imagination, though he had a beautiful voice. Every time I hear 'Can't Help Falling In Love', I cry. I can't separate Charles Manson from The Beatles or the Clambake movie from Elvis, though. But I love all music. I'm the Cocteau Twins' biggest fan, too. They allow their deepest eccentricities to be the music itself, and not just something they want to project. Liz Fraser is one of the only originals. They're just regular people, too. I got to meet her once, she was very shy, which puts a weird curve on music as well. Imagine that sound coming out of her mouth when she's in the kitchen scrambling eggs.
Was music your first true love?
Besides sex? One surrounds the other. I can remember being obsessed with my stepfather's stereo, getting into trouble for using it. He was really possessive of control over it, like a car. It was expensive equipment, so I was really careful. Then one day, I wanted to listen to a live bootleg of Jimi Hendrix, and he went mad. I had a tape player in my room, I shared it with another kid in the family. You had to stick a hanger in it for it to work.
How do you feel when you open your mouth and sing?
Like it's real. I feel like crying. I feel like I am crying! It's the middle point between laughing and immense joy and crying. I feel the best when I'm singing.
When did you start?
In front of an audience at a family get-together. My stepfather got drunk and fell asleep in front of everyone, and my grandmother got really embarrassed, so to direct attention away from him, I sung every Elton John song I knew. I was a huge fan then. They gave me some silver dollars for doing it. I was 13 (laughs). My friend and I started play electric guitars, you know, 'Stairway To Heaven', for a talent show at junior high school. We lost…We were living in southern California then. I later had a band in northern California, in Willetts, called Axxis. It wasn't my idea. It's one of the 19 cities I've lived in, I attended four high schools. One I spent two weeks in. My mum was quite a gypsy.
What did you make of your own voice?
I hated it, but I got over it. I'm horribly self-critical. I think the first time I heard it, I thought no way could I ever keep anything from anyone, it was all there in the voice. Some ways that people sing, they put it across in language, and it's almost impossible, because they have a wall between them and the expression. I'm trying to get deeper in the hole, trying to learn things when I hear voices.
Did the concept of singing on a stage come easily to you?
It was totally natural, I just did it. It was like going to the beach, like, I'm going into the ocean! I never thought about it. I first sang at a dance in Northern California Methodist Church, to high school kids. When I was 13, I already knew what I wanted to do. My all-time favourite was Led Zeppelin, and I knew I wanted to belong to that. In the '70s, there was an overspill of rock life, which becomes coffee table material, with books on Kiss and rock stars on TV. I knew it was possible for some people to do it for a living. I spent hours listening to Magical Mystery Tour. I felt like an archaeologist, which is fine, because I liked dinosaurs! But that was the wrong direction.
I left home when I was 17, because I was tired of moving around. I played in lots of LA bands, just to make money. There was a reggae band for a while, The AKB Band, a rag-tag motley crew, with one rasta guy. I played guitar. We ended up backing up U-Roy, Shinehead and Judy Mowatt, and at the Bob Marley day at Long Beach. We did cheesy session work for demos, too.
What did the experience teach you?
The simplicity. I guess it didn't teach me much at the time. It's like your parents telling you what not to do. But Pablo, the rasta, everything he said about playing makes sense now. Forget the next band. I then decided not to spread myself that thin. I didn't like southern California, LA especially. Hollywood isn't a real town, but that's the reality of it. I'd wanted to see New York since I saw it on TV when I was 12, to experience the energy, so I took off in 1990. I got a couple of jobs, and went hungry for a long while, before I got an offer to record songs in LA, so I flew back, and recorded four songs. I went back-and-forth a bit, before I met Gary Lucas at a show in New York, at a tribute show to my father. I thought playing with Gary would be interesting but it turned out to be a disaster. We had two completely different paths…the cart was before the horse. But I learnt to go out and sing, in impossibly intimate settings, when guys are right up against you. You learn how to move a room. The biggest challenge is to put a song across live. The audience shouldn't see your face, or your body, they should just hear you.
Do you enjoy the New York scene?
I dig it. If I was in LA, I wouldn't be doing anything, but here, there's a real respect. There's a respect for anything original. Maybe I'm overpoweringly romanticising New York, but so many amazing things happen here on an ordinary level, like Lou Reed lives here, wow! I first heard him in '76 but he got into my soul, it just takes one time, like Helen Keller…it's just the sound of the song. I was in somebody else's car, feeling lonely. Heroin is so beautiful, like a big black kiss, the way it builds. He sounds like a punk who knows everything. He's got such erudition, but he's not too smart.
What stage are you at right now?
Always at the beginning. I'd love to make a record. Clive Davis at Arista wanted to sign me but he hadn't heard me, it was just on the basis of what his right hand man, the head of A&R, had said. I plan to start from what matters. In September, I'll perform all new material, a lot of covers, and I wanna find people to play with. Yeah, a band, just because of the certain feeling I need. An energy.
Can I raise the delicate matter of your dad, Tim?
Sometimes, with people who knew him, they've come for a nice night out, but they see me, they don't think about him. Those who do, I don't hang around them. We're different. The people who knew him, they have apparently a very magic memory, but it's been a claustrophobic thing all my life. I knew him for a total of nine days. He never wrote, never called.
Do people claim that you're just your father's son?
If anyone mentions that, I walk. If I go to a club, and some writer uses that area, then I rip the shit down and say, Fuck you, see you later, we can talk about this next time, because I'm on my own.
Do you listen to his records?
Yeah, mostly to learn about him as a person. He wrote a couple of songs about me and my mother, which is sometimes tough. His style has nothing to do with what I do. It's funny that we were born with the same parts, but when I sing, it's me. Technically, I can do what he did, but our expression is not the same, it's a completely different sphere. His was a different time, influenced by Dylan and the folkies. I don't even talk like him. But I can do a good impersonation of him, knitting up my eyebrows, which makes people laugh.
As far as music goes, so many people who I know and love, who give me so much, they don't even know me yet. I want to make something completely new. I was into Miles Davis in 1984, he said he could tell when people were paying tribute to him but it was just copying. The only way to pay tribute is to bring something new to the fold. I want to work so hard that everything of me bums away, like the chemical in the match. Which leaves what really is me, or what I think is me. It can be such a joy. Like the Beatles, they were geniuses, you know? Music's like a sign language between people, so when a guy from Iran or America hears The Beatles, they go 'Wow!' They don't think of killing each other. There's something about music that hits the cavemen in us, even more than a speech or painting. I just want to achieve my own vibe. I want to go someplace else. There's more ways of saying 'I love you', more ways of saying 'where the hell do I fit in?', more ways of saying 'why doesn't anyone love me?, 'when is somebody going to want to kiss me?' I'm sick of waiting, waiting to be understood. And it's nothing arty, nothing lofty, it's just fucking different, and I want to leave this world behind a little so that maybe I will see that it's bigger and I haven't left it at all.
#jeff buckley#jeffbuckley#Jeff Buckley: They Don't Even Know Me Yet#Martin Aston#MOJO#January 2003#1992
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USS Albacore (SS-218), a 311-foot, Gato-class submarine lost 7 November 1944 of the coast of Hokkaido Japan, she was presumed lost on 21 December 1944 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 March 1945, found 16 February 2023.
The USS Albacore earned 9 battle stars, received 4 Presidential Unit Citations and was responsible for sinking at least 10 ships.
Below is a listing of the ships compliment, their names are written in memorial at the National Memorial Cemetary of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii:
IN THESE GARDENS ARE RECORDED
THE NAMES OF AMERICANS
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY
AND WHOSE EARTHLY RESTING PLACE
IS KNOWN ONLY TO GOD
Walter Henry Barber, Jr., Kenneth Ripley Baumer, Henry Forbes Bigelow, Jr., Edward Brown Blackmon, William Walter Bower, Allan Rose Brannam, Herbert Hodge Burch, Nicholas John Cado, John Joseph Carano, Charles Lee Carpenter, James Louis Carpenter, Pasquale Charles Carracino, Stanley Chapman, Douglas Childress, Jr., Frederick Herbert Childs, Jr., Perry Aubrey Collom, Audrey Cecil Crayton, Eugene Cugnin, John Wilber Culbertson, Philip Hugh Davis, Ray Ellis Davis, Fred Wallace Day, Julius Delfonso, James Leroy DeWitt, James Thomas Dunlap, Carl Hillis Eskew, John Francis Fortier, Jr., Gordon Harvey Fullilove, Jr., John Wilfred Gant, John Paul Gennett, William Henry Gibson, John Frederick Gilkeson, Charles Chester Hall, James Kenneth Harrell, Robert Daniel Hill, Allen Don Hudgins, Donald Patrick Hughes, Eugene Edsel Hutchinson, Burton Paul Johnson, Sheridan Patrick Jones, George Kaplafka, Nelson Kelley, Jr., Morris Keith Kincaid, Victor Edward Kinon, Joseph Mike Krizanek, Arthur Star Kruger,Walter Emery Lang, Jr., Jack Allen Little, Kenneth Walter Manful, Patrick Kennyless McKenna, Willie Alexander McNeill, Joseph Norfleet Mercer, Leonard David Moss, Richard Joseph Naudack, Encarnacion Nevarez, Joseph Hayes Northam, Frank Robert Nystrom, Robert James O'Brien, Elmer Harold Peterson, Charles Francis Pieringer, Jr., James Teel Porter, Jerrold Winfred Reed, Jr., Francis Albert Riley, Hugh Raynor Rimmer, A. B. Roberts, James Ernest Rowe, Philip Shoenthal, George Maurice Sisk, Joe Lewis Spratt, Harold William St. Clair, Arthur Lemmie Stanton, Robert Joseph Starace, John Henry Stephenson, Maurice Crooks Strattan, Earl Richard Tanner, William George Tesser, Paul Raymond Tomich, Charles Edward Traynor, Theodore Taylor Walker, Elmer Weisenfluh, James Donald Welch, Richard Albert West, Wesley Joseph Willans, Leslie Allan Wilmott, David Robert Wood
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For those who need it: a full list of every name in Toast of London. Credit here:
Full list of character names from the Toast of London Universe:
Steven Toast
Jane Plough
Ray Purchase
Kenton Schweppes
Ed Hauser Black
Goodhouse
Cliff Promise
Clem Fandango
Kikini Bamalam
Beezuz Fafoon
Susan Random
Jemima Gina
Kika Brite
Acker Herron
Greta Cargo
Royce Coolidge
Mr Fasili
Ellen Toast
Mick Carriage
Howard Bugawitz
Martin Aynuss
Senna Poddington
Ricky Seasack
Derek Sibling
Danny Bear
Portia De Coogan
Thomas Ledger
Strawberry Wrathbone
Lord Fotheringham
Toby Hopkinson-Finch
Blair Toast
Commander Scott Gorham
Russel House
Chris Bread
Roy Highnock
Sookie Houseboat
Brooke Hooberman
Yvonne Wryly
Kate Kahn
Hamilton Meathouse
Poshdong Mingemuncher
Nick Swivney
Wendy Nook
Linda Praise
Warren Organ
Thumper
Lola
Paige
Ruby
Norris Flipjack
Duncan Clench
Bob Fennison
Mr. Cockatip
Ken Suggestion
Penny Traitor
Dennis Thwaits
Betty Pimples
Axel Jacklin
Basil Jet
Parker Pipe
Kerry Hammersnag
Sterling Porridge
Max Gland
Lindy Makehouse
Colin Skittles
Jackie Paper
Honeysuckle
Francis Bacon
Lorna Wynde
Una Length
Rob Continental
Sue Pressure
Peggy Plywood
Scott Chesnut
Penvelope
Rupert Howser Black
Col. Gonville Toast
Clancy Moped
Vic Titball
Pookie Hook
Bob Monkhouse
Larry Muggins
Dennis Fog
Derek Bildings
Shane Fulorgy
Frank Zammer
Ormand Sacker
Varity Map
Bill Purchase
Tony Excalibur
Champion House
Cocker Boo
Michael Prance
Church Weaver
Heathcote Pursuit
Kay Tightneck
Iqbal Achieve
Basil Watchfair
Nan Slack
Peanut Whistle
Dick Weerdly
Sal Commotion
Giuseppe Race
Howard Blackcap
Daz Klondike
Kai
Sola Mirrornek
Sue Pepkins
Neil Doobla-Decca
Des Wigwam
Dr Harold Shitman
Les Tipi
Chris Marquee
Rob Scouthut
Russ Nightlife
Kenny Ethnic
Hercule Razamataz
Ray Sober
Romley Compton
Dwight Difference
Billy Tarzana
Nina Armenian
Edward Fox
Shepherd Jerbîl
Professor Map
Sonny Sam Disco
Weech Beacon
Liberty Jerbil
Ben Egyptian
Jennifyer Madraass
Snorky
Will Willis
Phyllis Willis
Carmen
Richard Chickentoss
Hoop Kaaak
Ms Wisehunt
Mrs Greenflash
Bellender Bojangles
Barney
Hayley
Blondie
Gypsy
Old Timer Bill
Wildcat Lil
Doc Brown
Rusty Halloween
Agent Saucepan
Sorry Johnson
Wallace
Kelsey Perfume
Frank Succession
Tycoon Lancaster
Jesus Bond
August Burdock
Clint Legal
Tony Fabrizio
Hawk Fahrenheit
Mews Frumpty
Frank Forfolk
Chelsea Bladdersby
Oswald Mosley
Kate Lethargy
Fancy Alexander
Dinky Critenbers
Pig Shovely
Billy Stylish
Sir Norman Brocktight
Basil Stillborn
Kimberly Banana
DI Leonard Chaffich
Una Stubbs
Surely Residue
Warren Organ
Hissy Oversight
Ms. Crawshaft
Merrody Ferrybank
Allan Chance
Doug Birka
Martin Shore
Lolly Badcock
Jill Quear
Vigo Typhoon
Danny Laroux
Cool Black
S’en hammerstad
Gerald Selfish
Peter Nose
David Geurring
Haneth khorishi
Baz Ravish
Enty Strepsils
Comma Dora Green
Vaginta Staples
Aalan Aadams
Harvey Motel
Peter Thatchelwaite
Ryslip Tyres Dot Com
Donald Suckling
Stuart Pringle
Susan Bench
Cliff Stalways
Billy Sprayman
Trevor McGuelish
Earnest Gangly
Sydney Shipton
Barry Bouffant
Drayton Curfew
Septum Crowbar
Dick Circus
Liz Pulp
Rob Darby
Vanessa Fence
Vince Kendal
Mac Darby
Sally Joint
Welk Ashby
Maggie Gail
David Hammod
Leo Seer
Kit Blackcheek
Jackie Kak
Howard Tissue
Albert Eichborn
Peter Swaff
Rob Bonnet
Perry Bluehouse
Lee Bacon
Connie Sheik
Cliff Bonanza
Rula Bingo
Oliver Whasson
Watkins Winchester
Warwick Kineer
Ruth Lingum
Adam Haalal
Lionel Harshmaker
Gary the Plumber
Royce
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The Story of Outlaw Country in 33 Songs
Pitchfork - October 29, 2018
“Streets of Baltimore” Bobby Bare
“Folsom Prison Blues” (Live) Johnny Cash
“Mendocino” Sir Douglas Quintet
“Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” Kris Kristofferson
“Me and Paul” Willie Nelson
“Kentucky” Sammi Smith
“Pancho and Lefty” Townes Van Zandt
“Dallas” The Flatlanders
“I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” Billy Joe Shaver
“London Homesick Blues (Home With the Armadillo)” Gary P. Nunn
“Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother” Ray Wylie Hubbard
“L.A. Freeway” Guy Clark
“Pissin’ in the Wind” Jerry Jeff Walker
“You Never Even Called Me By My Name” David Allen Coe
“I’m Not Lisa” Jessi Colter
“Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way” Waylon Jennings
“Bluebird Wine” Emmylou Harris
“Somewhere South of Macon” Marshall Chapman
“Texas (When I Die)” Tanya Tucker
“Single Again” Gary Stewart
“I Ain’t Living Long Like This” Rodney Crowell
“Amarillo Highway (For Dave Hickey)” Terry Allen
“I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink” Merle Haggard
“Guitar Town” Steve Earle
“Crescent City” Lucinda Williams
“Kerosene” Miranda Lambert
“In Color” Jamey Johnson
“KMAG YOYO” Hayes Carll
“Cover Me Up” Jason Isbell
“You Can Have the Crown” Sturgill Simpson
“The Outsiders” Eric Church
“Hands of Time” Margo Price
“Feathered Indians” Tyler Childers
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Rules: List 8 tv shows for your followers to get to know you!
1. A selection of movies I rewatched so many times I wore out the VHS tapes. The Terminator 1984 (when T2 came Linda Hamilton blew me away), Platoon 1986, Aliens 1986 & Die Hard 1988. It's a lot of bonding strangers to survive, h/c, antiheroes or plain charismatic bad guys, hypothermia or fever, there was only one bed and bantering. The original wet rat blorbos. Also if it's not bloody obvious I had such crushes on Bruce Willis ,Tom Berenger and Michael Biehn, I watched so many bad 80s-90s movies because of them.
2. Wait a minute, TV shows, not MOVIES. My bad, I'm keeping nr 1 as is anyway. Hmm, I always list Hannibal or Buffy tVS/Angel tS whenever I do this so I'm gonna try to list something else that's major loves. So, Miami Vice 1984-1989. Baby me had such a crush on Don Johnson you could see it from space. Adult me gets it, bought the box & rewatches it from time to time, incl writing fic but never anything going somewhere.
3. The Expanse. It's probably a very obvious choice if you ever looked around my corner of Tumblr but I want more people to post about it so. Amos (my favorite pansexual murderbear), Holden (who gave me the Captaincy? Holy shit. How can I fix everything while also being stubborn and chaotic) Naomi (I live with my choices every day but I've got a new life here to do something with & I'll defend it with everything). OT3. Sometimes I want something of poly where Naomi & Drummer (dragon in the shape of a woman, a hoarding underdog with so much fight in her belly) gets to be happy too. But that's just to name a few, it's not often I'm so very invested in so many characters in a show but they all have arcs and space to exist. Unfortunately one of the mains isn't clicking with me at all so the first season took me a while to find all the gold.
4. 9-1-1; besides the love I have for the firefam I'm completely sucked into the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one. And the sunshine one is a golden retriever who's loyal to a fault and just needs food and love. While the grumpy one finds that letting the sunshine in makes life a helluva lot easier even if both of them almost dies a lot.
5. Hawaii 5-0. Talking about grumpy and sunshine. These two fit the bill too, they just can't decide who's who depending on the day and the drama. Danny's usually the negative one always predicting chaos. But Steve tends to be tortured or have shitty family secrets so his sunshine isn't that shiny all the time. But they're brilliant at bickering about everything which kinda gets them even. Instead they're great at hugs and saying I love you. I despise several plotlines but I can't quit them (I couldn't find a gif that includes Danny saying "Stop looking at me like that" in this scene but alas)
6. Stargate Atlantis, my first team turned into family, and my one and only OT4. McShep was my biggest fave, but i enjoyed team!fic just as much as OT4 fic. Reluctant leader with slinky hips and no self-preservation, paired with a smartass with a big mouth who always came through, a smarter woman who didn't get to kick people in the balls enough and stoic warrior who actually was the puzzle piece missing and more than meets the eye. They're a comfort fandom.
7. Due South. A weird cute soft series I didn't know had a fandom until after it was finished in early 2000s. And then I fell into fic (I never got to see the Ray wars up close luckily) and read so much by Speranza among many more. I've rewatched it a few times, esp if I'm home sick it's a comfort show.
I ran out of allowed gifs😭. Well, fuck.
8. Criminal Minds. I've rewatched this show many times because it's something about catching the bad guys and solving the case all neatly tied up. Another show I love but is even sadder and more horrible is Oz because happy ends doesn't exist because humanity is rotten and we pay for our choices. But it's so good I sometimes wanna rewatch it, I bought the DVD box. But then I remember how much I cried at certain eps, like the brothers and I don't. But sometimes it's good to cry over fictional characters.
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Men sent to the Graveyard Slot
We salute our fallen men and will see them during the late night graveyard slot vintage tv marathon.
Updated daily as polls go down.
Alan Alda
Daniel Dae Kim
Avery Brooks
Alexander Siddig
Jamie Farr
Bruce Campbell
David Tennant
David Duchovny
Andre Braugher
Colin Firth
Kyle MacLachlan
Pierce Brosnan
Fred Rogers
Tom Selleck
Eric Idle
Danny-John Jules
Brent Spiner
Craig Charles
Michael Dorn
Timothy Olyphant
DeForest Kelley
Peter Falk
Patrick Troughton
Hugh Laurie
Ricardo Montalban
Richard Dean Anderson
Richard Chamberlain
Paolo Montalban
Jonathan Frid
John Astin
James Garner
George Takei
Dean Stockwell
Patrick Stewart
Tim Russ
Sean Bean
George Clooney
John Stamos
David Boreanaz
Jensen Ackles
Rod Serling
Robert Fuller
Wayne Rogers
Robin Williams
Scott Bakula
Ted Danson
Woody Harrelson
Garrett Wang
Luke Perry
Christian Kane
Dick Van Dyke
Micky Dolenz
Erik Estrada
Michael Shanks
Charles Shaughnessy
Rik Mayall
Anthony Head
Nathan Fillion
John Corbett
Rob Lowe
David McCallum
Robert Wagner
Simon Williams
David Hasselhoff
Ron Glass
James Marsters
Dana Ashbrook
Michael J. Fox
Nicholas Lea
Milo Ventimiglia
Robert Vaughn
Sam Neill
Timothy Dalton
Neil Patrick Harris
Kabir Bedi
Jon Pertwee
Desi Arnaz
Mike Farrell
Luke Halpin
Gene Anthony Ray
Joseph Marcell
Jeffrey Combs
Connor Trinneer
Blair Underwood
Michael Landon
Clint Eastwood
Jimmy Smits
David Soul
Michael Praed
Spencer Rochfort
Michael Horse
David Wenham
Scott Cohen
Tom Welling
George Maharis
Larry Hagman
Walter Koenig
Peter Davison
James Earl Jones
Jonathan Frakes
John Shea
Sylvester McCoy
Keith Hamilton Cobb
Tony Shalhoub
Ted Cassidy
Cesar Romero
Dean Butler
Henry Winkler
Ron Perlman
Mitch Pileggi
Will Smith
Matthew Perry
Seth Green
Richard Ayoade
Russell Johnson
Claude Rains
Michael Nesmith
Demond Wilson
John de Lancie
Andrew Robinson
Colm Meaney
John Hurt
Skeet Ulrich
Eric Close
Ted Bessell
William Hartnell
William Hopper
Peter Tork
Tom Smothers
Martin Kove
Jeff Conaway
Dave Foley
David Hyde Pierce
Jason Bateman
Boris Karloff
Eddie Albert
Bobby Sherman
Fred Grandy
Kevin Smith
Brad Dourif
Brandon Quinn
Tim Daly
Judd Hirsch
Matt Bomer
Kent McCord
Bobby Troup
David Cassidy
Richard Hatch
John Forsythe
Bruce Willis
Paul McGann
Thorsten Kaye
Darren E. Burrows
Adam Brody
Adam West
Randy Boone
Clint Walker
Paul Michael Glaser
Rock Hudson
Jameson Parker
Armin Shimerman
Joe Lando
Ben Browder
Kevin McDonald
Patrick McGoohan
Chad Everett
Mark Lenard
Darren McGavin
Terry Jones
Michael Tylo
Valentine Pelka
Ioan Gruffudd
Robert Carlyle
Jason Priestley
Martin Milner
Lee Majors
Derek Jacobi
Stephen Nichols
Hal Linden
Ted Raimi
Andreas Katsulas
Miguel Ferrer
David James Elliot
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Don Adams
Bob Crane
Davy Jones
Tom Baker
John Schneider
John Goodman
Marc Alaimo
Kevin Sorbo
Mark McKinney
David Schwimmer
James Arness
Robert Conrad
Michael Hurst
Michael T. Weiss
Jeremy Sisto
Matt LeBlanc
Reece Shearsmith
William Shockley
Robert Beltran
Scott Patterson
Dick Gautier
Alejandro Rey
Gerald McRaney
John Cleese
Brian Blessed
Noah Wyle
Paul Gross
Robert Duncan McNeill
Nate Richert
Michael Vartan
David Selby
Colin Baker
Randolph Mantooth
Tony Danza
Mr. T
Dirk Benedict
Michael Ontkean
Rowan Atkinson
Bruce Boxleitner
Patrick Duffy
William Shatner
Telly Savalas
Ted Lange
Stephen Fry
Michael Palin
René Auberjonois
Michael O’Hare
Joshua Jackson
Scott Thompson
Chad Michael Murray
Dwayne Hickman
David Suchet
Bruce McCulloch
Casey Biggs
Johnny Depp
Richard Biggs
Gary Cole
Brian Krause
Paul Johansson
Donnie Wahlberg
Raymond Burr
Sebastian Cabot
Anthony Andrews
Jeremy Irons
Peter Wingfield
Simon MacCorkindale
Grant Show
Anthony Starke
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WINTER PROMPTS! 5. Willie and Reggie go sledding
"Reggie!"
Reggie jolted from sleep, looking around through bleary eyes, finally landing on Willie who was almost vibrating from the end of his bed, his smile a million miles wide. "Hey Wils," he said, rubbing at his eyes. "'Sup?"
"It snowed Reggie!"
"Oh jeez, really?" Reggie jumped out of bed, running to the window and throwing open the shades. The world was almost painted white as far as the eye could see. Including the big hill that the Johnson's had at the edge of their property. "Sledding?" he asked.
"Sledding," Willie replied with a nod. "Come on, Mrs. Nash made oatmeal."
Reggie beamed, sliding on his slippers in difference to the cold floors, following after Willie. They had both come to this group home last year and made fast friends. It was Willie's third, and Reggie's fifth, the both of them used to being bounced around the country while hoping to be adopted. Mrs. Nash was nice enough, and turned a blind eyed to most of their shenanigans. She smiled as they came down, ruffling their hair, and gesturing to the table where breakfast was waiting. They devoured the gruel, thankful that Mrs. Nash had drowned the mixture in nutmeg and brown sugar, and soon enough were dressed and out the door.
The Johnson's were away, but had already given blanket permission for the neighbourhood kids to sled on their hill. There was already a group of kids from around the block trudging their way there in bulky suits and not yet broken in boots. Reggie and Willie were stuck in hand me downs from Mrs. Nash's son, but they didn't complain. Better than being underdressed like in previous homes, or forced to shovel in naught but layers of their own stuff.
They dragged their ancient toboggan to the top of the hill, with Willie taking the back, then they zoomed down the hill, screaming their lungs out as the wind whipped them down, smiles wide as they reached the bottom. "Again!" they cried, rushing back up the hill.
It was dark by the time they returned back to the house, faces wind burnt, limbs exhausted, and ecstatic from their day out in the snow. There was a snowman in the yard, the remnants of a snowball fight littering the lawn, and the start of a fort started by the garage.
Only Mrs. Nash was waiting for them, a soft smile on her face. "Boys, there's a couple here to meet you."
"The both of us?" Reggie asked. She nodded, tidying them up quickly before showing them to the living room. There was a Latinex couple there, smiling wide.
"Hello boys," the woman said, her face kind, and Reggie immediately felt at ease. "My name is Rose, and this is my husband Ray. Mrs. Nash has told us a lot about you both. We'd like to get to know you. See if we can offer you a home with us?"
"The both of us?" Reggie repeated.
Ray nodded. "We were told how inseparable you are, and we have lots of room-both in our hearts and our home. We already have two kids, but we always wanted a big family. We hope we can be that for you."
Willie and Reggie exchanged glances, and they nodded before sitting. They found they both really liked the Molinas, and before the holidays that season, they said goodbye to Mrs. Nash, and finally went home.
Sure, LA didn't snow like it did at the group home, but they both were willing to give up a lifetime of sledding for a real family.
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Kitty-anon again :) I was just wondering if you can say anything about planning a chapter with Willie Ray and Clay for The Devil's Right there in the Details? And if not, any thoughts on how they would react to Sharon at Brenda's side?
i can say that the next chapter is about halfway written, and the subject of brenda's estrangement with her mother does come up. right now we're at last woman standing which is 6x9 and we don't see the johnsons in the show again until the 6x13/6x14 christmas two parter, so probably that's when we ought to expect them.
the johnsons have one gay son already. i honestly can't remember if that's hard canon or just we've all collectively agreed it's the case, but i think they'll accept sharon as brenda's "friend" and never ask for a single detail.
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