Dog with Plate of Sausages (also known as Caesar at the Rubicon) and Dog with Sausages (also known as Hail Caesar, We Who are about to Die Salute You)
Wilhelm Trübner - 1878
Private collection Painting
Oil on cardboard
Inspired by a post about a GNX. Great band and Willy Vlautin is also an author of note. At any rate, I saw them play in 2003 and then bought a pedal steel guitar.
So I'll just keep posting their early stuff, but Richmond Fontaine did record more polished work, I was just less emotionally vulnerable when I heard it.
I disappear into the slender of your back
As we near the industrial line, only 20 miles out
I can't wait to get back to the state line
Where the bright lights never flicker
They just blind
Inspired by a post about a GNX. Great band and Willy Vlautin is also an author of note. At any rate, I saw them play in 2003 and then bought a pedal steel guitar.
Alright feeling the need to elaborate. The general idea is it’s freely given/consensual and no prions. So basically if there were no negative consequences.
some rambles & fun facts about the beach in project hail mary
if you're wondering what & where it is before i start yapping, it's durdle door, in dorset
some background context, my first exposure to project hail mary was when folks started freaking out on the local facebook groups - ryan gosling's coming to town for filming a new movie!! i thought to myself ahhh fuck. the city that i go to uni at is gonna cameo in a gosling film. fml i guess i have to see this now
anyways i forget about it for ages until the movie drops and i finally go see it and imagine my surprise when i'm expecting miserable fuckass portsmouth and instead. i snap upright like-
"is that durdle door?!" "yes i think so-" "the dorset fieldtrip?!" "yep" "ohh my god. they went there?!" "i guess so" "what the fuck" <- live reaction of me and my bf who both have done fieldwork there related to our respective degrees (geology & palaeontology)
anyways now for some fun facts:
the arch structure you see is part of portland limestone formation, and is going to eventually to erode away entirely
the arch itself it estimated to collapse anytime from 100 years time, to several hundred years time - depending on ongoing weathering/changes in weather patterns (woo yay climate change)
the cliffs are mainly cretaceous era chalks, and this area is so prone to landslides it's not even funny. we went for a day and literally i think the week after? there was a landslide
fun extra fact about the chalk, they contain loads of coccoliths which are great for dating rocks + analysing the palaeoclimate during deposition
whilst the directors cut implies the reason behind the beach being shingle is because the eridians can't figure out sand particle size, the reason why the beach is flint is literally because of geology; it's been eroded out of the cliffs
sidenote it would be much nicer if it was a sandy beach but unfortunately that wouldn't make much sense geologically
at the very end of the movie, we see some beds extending into the water and the camera panning out as he begins teaching the little eridians - this is in man o' war cove is is on the other side of the archway!
this is visualised in the little diagram i made at the very start of the post, so ryland's house sits atop where the pathway down IRL is located, and the beach where he and rocky sit on is the western side, and the classroom is on the eastern side
the line in the movie where ryland says "the beach is always changing. you could go to the same spot every day. you're always looking at a different beach." is so especially true because durdle door is (like i said before) constantly changing both from erosion, landslides, and just the result of it being a tourist location
it's been different everytime i've been, in fact it was closed? earlier this year because the paths were badly damaged from storms
so it's like the paths you see in the film are the old ones, and if you visited, they'd look different/they'd be new
sidenote not confirmed at all but i wonder if they chose durdle door because of its "proximity" to portsmouth because of filming locations in hampshire... it's a 2hr drive but ig that's not far if you've got a film crew
anyways here's some pictures from when i went for fieldwork a few years ago:
so yea! hope someone enjoys reading this mini info-dump about the beach. super recommend people visit, it's a beautiful place and a great way to spend a day. the beaches are fantastic, the geology is great, and you might even see an adder!
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