C the Guitarman

Come see the guitar man while he writes, musics, and generally makes a fool of himself.

[ctheguitarman]

She Used to Be Mine - Sara Bareilles Male Cover

[amaskdescribingamask-deactivate]

This is more punk than the whole of punk history.

[soundsof71]

I’ll tell you what’s ferocious. Freddie’s comeback to Sid calling him “Freddie Platinum” when they were recording down the hall from each other at London’s Wessex Studios (Queen for News of the World, Pistols for Bollocks).

Sid Vicious made the mistake one day of bursting into Queen’s control room and antagonizing their frontman. “Have you succeeded in bringing ballet to the masses, then?” he sneered. “Oh, yes, Simon Ferocious,” Mercury replied. “We’re trying our best, dear.” 

Then, according to Queen biographer Daniel Nester, Freddie rose from his chair and began to playfully flick the safety pins displayed on the front of Sid’s leather jacket. “Tell me,” he asked, “did you arrange these pins just so?” When Sid stepped forward in an attempt to intimidate Freddie, the singer simply pushed him backwards and inquired, “What are you going to do about it?” Sid immediately backed down. [x]

Freddie Mercury may very well have had the biggest dick energy of anyone who ever lived

[criticallyacclaimedstranger]

Tags from @thirddeadlysin

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[johnbrownfunclubofficial]

We don't even need trains to drive themselves. We just don't need cars. That's it. There doesn't need to be automation. There just needs to be a change in our infrastructure.

[oxfordcommaforever]

Why does every faux leftist want to take out cars away? Is it just cause they're mostly children online and they've never had a job let alone own a car...

Beware anyone who would restrict your freedom of movement

[johnbrownfunclubofficial]

Lmao you think cars are freedom, not just another means of control. That's hilarious. Henry Ford would be proud of your ignorance.

I'm a grown adult who's tired of being a slave to my car and my town's hostile infrastructure. Sorry you're too much of a dork to get that cars and modern American roads absolutely fucking suck. Sorry you hate poor people and want to force us into constant debt and chain us to useless metal coffins.

I don't want to take anyone's car. I want a world where hardly anyone needs a car and therefore get rid of theirs willingly. I want a world where I can walk most places I need to go and can ride a bus or train or my bicycle everywhere else. But ok buddy.

[cumaeansibyl]

Taking public transit in a place where public transit is well-funded and well-designed is a goddamn delight. You want freedom? I can go wherever I want, I don't have to park, and there's a tram or bus every ten minutes so I'm not even worried about my schedule. I don't even fucking like walking and I would love to live in a city where that was an option.

Naturally this is not an experience most Americans have had because even our best city public transit is blown out of the water by what other countries are doing. It's not easy to explain how life-changing that level of transit access is!

And if you really must drive, well, the roads are a lot clearer when everyone else is on a train.

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Car dependency encourages class stratification.

[ramseyr]

"ThEy'Re tAkInG AwAY OuR--" shut up. Shut up. Fuck you, shut up.

[dissociatingdumbass]

I have a car. I hate it. I wish I didn't need that piece of money wasting crap.

I'd rather have public transportation.

I'd rather have trains and subways.

I hate driving.

I have going to the mechanic.

I FUCKING HATE IT!

[ctheguitarman]

I am a freelance musician who plays at people's parties, weddings, functions, birthdays, as well as just in pubs every weekend and most weekdays. I have to transport:

2x 15 inch speakers

1x 4x10 bass cabinet

1x 1x12 guitar amplifier

2x guitars

3x microphone stands

2x speaker stands

1x bag of power leads, microphone and guitar cables

1x bag of assorted equipment (capos, plectrums, spare strings, tuners, a laptop and cable for providing music between sets, ear plugs)

I have to transport this as far as 3 hours drive away, to places that are simply not served at all by buses or trains, and it would not ever be viable to provide said transport (why should a public transport bus stop right outside of a field in the middle of nowhere who's only purpose is to host occasional events?) Not to mention that I would have to get all of this gear from my flat to the nearest public transport station, get it all onto the public transport, then get it off at the other end, not to mention that my usual returning home time is about 2am, when it would not be economically viable to have a public transport service running to some remote field in the middle of rural England.

If I did not have this job, I would be dead. No ifs ands or buts. I would not ever have been able to make enough money with my physical health condition at a regular 9-5, and I would have been homeless and starved to death by 25. This job has given me 7 extra years of life, and will probably continue to give me another 10-20 if I am lucky.

Unless private car ownership is taken away. Unless towns and cities are made entirely no-car zones so transporting equipment through them becomes impossible. Every time I hear people saying that no one should have cars or towns should be completely car free all I can hear is 'I think that you ctheguitarman should not have a job and should be homeless and starve.'

Not everyone can afford not to have a car, not every job can be done without cars or private vehicles. Do I think public infrastructure should be massively improved? Yes. Do I think that the way our current systems are laid out is inefficient and drives people to car ownership who don't need it? Yes. But some people will always need to have a private transport that they can access at any time they like. (to say nothing of the times that having a car I could race into and drive immediately has saved my partner's life when she was on the verge of suicide and I had to get to her as soon as possible.)

[patrick-stewart]

Rachel Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan The Mummy (1999)

[ctheguitarman]

The Fugitive (1993)

Watching my DVD collection in alphabetical order - The Fugitive

There’s a very underappreciated genre of movies that I feel has never quite gotten the modern recognition it deserves, and that’s the chase movie. Part of that might well be that this film did it so well and so perfectly that anyone else would inevitably find themselves compared to it but it’s such a rich potential ground for telling stories I’m really surprised there aren’t more. It’s an…

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Frozen (2013)

Watching my DVD collection in alphabetical order - #Frozen

I’ve asked this before but how do you even review a movie like Frozen? It became such a massive hit, then had such a pronounced backlash, and even today is still viewed as either a top ten best or worst Disney film depending on who you ask. Any opinion seems destined to divide and incite. I’m going to lay my cards out early on this one and then talk my way back to this conclusion. Frozen is not…

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[ctheguitarman]

Friends With Benefits (2011)

Watching my DVD collection in alphabetical order - Friends With Benefits (2011)

What makes a good rom-com? What keeps a sex-based comedy from falling into totally puerile farce? What gives a sexy comedy a sense of heart and depth to make it more than popcorn filler? I’m actually surprised it’s taken over 60 movies to get to the first proper ‘romantic comedy’ of my collection. I have a fair few, so analysing them is definitely going to become a recurring theme throughout the…

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[ctheguitarman]

Finding Nemo (2003)

Watching my DVD collection in alphabetical order - #FindingNemo (2003)

Finding Nemo is a difficult film for me to review because despite it having once been a mega hit and that I genuinely do enjoy it, when I reflect back on it and try to think of things to say about it I actually find it quite middle of the road as films go. If Cars 2 stands as the nadir of Pixar compared to Toy Story 2’s dizzying peak then Finding Nemo for me sits basically at the exact middle…

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[ctheguitarman]

Final Fantasy: Advent Children

Watching my DVD collection in alphabetical order - #FinalFantasy: #AdventChildren

It’s not really come up so far but I am a massive videogame player. Have been since I was a child and got my first GameBoy Colour and copy of Pokemon Blue (just to also hammer home how old I am.) And I loved me some Final Fantasy games when I was younger. I played IX first and it remains my favourite, followed by VIII and then VII. Which to any fans of the Final fantasy series is going to sound…

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[ctheguitarman]

Face/Off (1997) - Review

Watching my DVD collection in alphabetical order - #FaceOff Review

What happened to movies? Seriously, I’m not even being facetious at this point. What happened to an industry that used to give $80 million to projects like this? Creative and weird concepts that no-one ever asked for but people ended up loving nonetheless? Why must we now sit forever in the shadow of Disney and Marvel as they monopolise the entire action movie industry (not to mention most of…

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[ctheguitarman]

Eurotrip (2004)

Watching my DVD collection in alphabetical order - #Eurotrip (2004)

There’s something fundamentally odd about the teen-sex-comedy, if not for nothing simply because the phrase teen-sex-comedy describes an entire genre that was for a time staggeringly popular, and not a few weird movies that will only show up on bootleg VHS tapes from the 90s. But the teen-sex-comedy did indeed dominate the late 90s and early 00s, beginning with the seminal American Pie and…

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Rachel Weisz & Brendan Fraser | The Mummy (1999) “Evelyn and Rick are basically Indiana Jones split down the middle — she’s the brains, he’s the brawn.” - Rachel Weisz

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[goth-aunt]

I am screaming lmao also this reminds me of @rosewater1997

[jayalaw]

@kingofthewilderwest

[lastoneout]

I really do love that people have legitimately always just been people. Like how many angry breakup texts have their been that end with “Come get your stuff or I’m donating it to goodwill”? People never change.

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

The concubine after reading this:

[moon-rise]

This is my new breakup format

[dancinbutterfly]

Fuck him and his harem. I hope Nisaba made you #1 wife, baby

[s1uts-deactivated20250921]

screaaaming me

[pisshandkerchief-deactivated202]

“pick up your flax shawls and sandals or else I will donate them to the temple of the moon god” idk why but this bit in particular is SENDING me humans have literally always been the same

[ctheguitarman]

This is an April Fools day joke article, sorry to say.

[ctheguitarman]

You'll Be Back - Hamilton Cover

[ctheguitarman]

Confrontation - Jekyll and Hyde Cover