sweet dreams and flyin' machines

yr favorite archivist/dramaturg/grad school escapee/cinephile/cinephobe/insane girl

[heartandmusic]

pov al pacino beats you to death in your car❤️

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au of my ocs where theyre a turbulent 60s folk rock group lmao

i changed them all to white men for this since most if not all the real life examples im using for this were white men but maybe theres an aau set in woke 60s america where theyre their real genders and ethnicities.

anyway the members of The Krows are John Arnold "Jackie" Staples (lead singer and occasionally keyboard), Keith Fairchild (rhythm guitar and main songwriter), his younger brother Michael "Mike" Fairchild (drums), Neil Wolff (bass), and Daniel "Dan" Remington (lead guitar). the Fairchilds are from the bay area and the rest are from the los angeles area, except for Staples and the Fairchilds met first through Jackie and Keith being classmates at berkeley and then recruited Wolff and Remingon later.

they start performing in 1964 and start recording in 1966 (what if Mike auditioned for the monkees lmfao #michaelmaxxing) and release one album a year over their five year recording career. everything implodes when Keith dies of what is publicly concluded to be an overdose in 1971. they were already having interpersonal problems due to Mike having a George Harrison esque maknae complex where he feels left out songwriting wise. Staples is catching diva allegations as frontman (of a folk rock group lmao) and Keith was jealous that all the songwriting questions and praise were directed towards Staples as the face of the band even though Keith was the main songwriter and Staples can barely play guitar. Despite all this, Staples and the Fairchilds formed a creative bloc against Wolff and Remington, who are still going through a toxic on-and-off-homoerotic creative vortex and start experimenting with psychadelics and psychadelic rock (as well as involvement in civil rights movements) against the strict creative direction of the de facto leader Keith. Mike is actually only politically against Wolff and Remington; h'es very attracted to the creatively and socially rebellious aspects of psychadelia but sides with Keith and Staples out of loyalty to his brother and ambiguously sexual idolization of Staples.

Keith's mysterious death also exposes their manager Brian Vargas for embezzlement (and generates accusations of unofficially proven drug use enabling) and The Krows are left totally directionless. They're also hit with Keith murder cover-up speculation and the rest all for the most part retreat into lowkey gig work. Mike plays with the Wrecking Crew occasionally, before retiring in the 1980s to a farm or horse ranch in Pennsylvania where he dies quietly in 2020, leaving a garage of personal papers, documentation, and memorabilia to his three daughters which is still awaiting funding for local university archivists to process to this day.

Staples marries four times and has some sort of (albeit successful) serial Vegas residency situation that's called like Jackie Staples and the [crow pun] Band and makes bank entirely off boomer nostalgia. Maybe he even plays the pharoah in a Joseph Technicolor Dreamcoat concert staging lol.

The other two release an album under the name Remington Wolff in 1974, finally letting out all their pent-up experimentation with emerging recording technology, synthesizers, and Paul McCartney/Harry Nilsson-influenced baroque pop and chamber folk into one landmark album. I'm seeing an album cover in my head where it's the two of them one sitting down and the other standing up against a purplish mauve background and they're holding like umbrellas or duck head canes or some whimsical dork shit like that. Tbh I'm probably just thinking of Bryter Layter. Over the next fifty years the album becomes utterly revered by its small cult audience of nerds and only vaguely remembered by the general public due to the lead single's use in like a commercial from the 2000s or something like that. It ends up being the one and only Remington Wolff album, as Wolff dies the next year from lung cancer with both his wife and Remington by his side. Wolff is immortalized by online listicles repeatedly praising him as one of the greatest bass players in history, and by Remington's contintued plaintive Paul McCartney-style solo career songwriting eulogies up into his 80s.

Anyway like and subscribe if you read this whole thing lmfaoooo I was not expecting it to be this long.

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i love these old evil wizard paintings sooooooooooo much theyre soooooooo me this is legit how i feel when im subtitling a 1930s movie and i transcribe a german word i dont know based on context clues and then i also learn a new word too

[heartandmusic]

controversial but cantonese food #1 cuisine in the world like gawd i could fuckkkkkkk up a dozen bolomianbaos right neow

[heartandmusic]

i get so sad reading about 1930s movies ouuugggggghhh when i die i hope all the lost films in the world are there in the afterlife too and i have forever and ever to watch all of them oouuauuuuugggggh

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Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.

"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.

“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."

More here.

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i enjoy subtitling old hollywood movies and im proud of the online archival research ive done to transcribe things like obscure oscar hammerstein lyrics but if i ever want to take this to the major leagues its like well my opensubtitles username is martyscorsexy and im gonna hand that link to a professional❓

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working public libraries vs when i worked at a private nonprofit library is kind of like wire mother vs cloth mother if this at all makes sense

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the designer of the girl scouts usa logo being saul bass still fmu

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i havent even gotten around to paris police 1900 or paris police 1905 what do you meannnnnnn theres another one

[heartandmusic]

the mandela effect is lidorly not real but me and my siblings were saying "bongwater" as a pejorative and i think one of us maybe misheard "dogwater" cause why am i seeing that all of a sudden like i thought it was bongwater

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the fact that theres a columbo format murder series where a parody of jamie lloyd gets killed by a set piece and the murderer played by andrew rannells has the alibi that hes walking in the background of the matinee performances song that they filmed outside of the theater live streamed to the house is soooo lmffaffoooooooooooo

[phoebebyers]

[heartandmusic]

my cheri pau pau …. dew yew remembair when we were on ze cafe on ze left banque❓

[heartandmusic]

all i ever needed was the minions and the monsters and the chance to dance

[bluemoonstonesy]

i like that him smiling is news

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why did she say that..