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Caustic Resin - Station Wagon
I pretty much have to post this band every time I listen to them. So good. So under-the-radar. I once read an interview where Doug Martsch from Built to Spill said the lead guitarist was as good as Hendrix, but not as flashy. That caught my attention...
Villains in Addams Family movies go to really unnecessary lengths to defraud them of the family fortune. These people just give it away on whims all the time. If I just walked into the house and started wearing their clothes and spending their money, they wold start introducing me as Cousin Intruder and forget there was ever a time I didn’t live with them.
Gomez in particular would enjoy your boldness, Cousin Intruder.
Oh shit.
The Addams family loves and greets every person entering one of their homes.
The Addams family adopted or married every person wishing to stay.
This is why the Addams family is full of freaks.
Of course.
So what we’re saying is, tracing the Addams’ geneology is damn near impossible and it’s just as likely that no living member of the family is actually a blood relative of the people who originally held the family name?
What I’m hearing is that Batman is actually an Addams.
He most certainly is
I mean, considering if you look at it in the light of a different story, the near (actual, factual) homicidal level of bond and love the Addams have for each other, the idea that they’re all adopted, the way that Bruce is often portrayed as a bit of an aloof, smarmy smarm in private, the possibility that young Bruce might not be wholly appreciative of his extended family’s eccentricities, of which his parents are the mildest of the bunch, the idea that those two parents are (distantly) Addams’ and get gunned down, well.
[Gomez]: I came, I came as soon as I heard
[Bruce]: I…I told you never to come back, I said, I said you were weird
[Gomez]: Please, my boy, to compliment me when you are so wracked with grief. *clutching hug* Dear Thomas, dear Martha, so full of life…
[Bruce]: *extricating* They….they fell in front of me…while he laughed…with mother’s pearls…
[Gomez]: The fiend! This dishonor cannot stand!
[Bruce]: And I felt….I felt it well up inside me, a black blood welling up…
[Gomez]: Yes, dear boy…
[Bruce]: I….will be vengeance….
[Gomez]: Yes….
[Bruce]: I…I will be the night!
[Gomez]: Yes!
[Bruce]: I….I am an Addams!
[Gomez]: YES!
[Bruce]: I. AM. BATMAN. *lightning, thunder*
[Gomez]: YES, YES!!! My boy, the rivers will run red with wonderful blood!
[Alfred]: *sigh* I’ll put the tea on and grab the foils then, shall I, sirs?
I AM DECLARING THIS CANON.
HEADCANON ACCEPTED
@copperbadge
I mean when you think about it, if Bruce Wayne is an Addams, everything he does makes sense. Gotham makes sense. Damian Wayne, trained vegetarian assassin, makes more sense if he’s an Addams.
Now that we have accepted this revelation, I want you all to think about a hypothetical situation in which Bruce brings Superman and Wonder Woman to meet the Addamses.
Alternate suggestion: after his parents were gunned down, and before the police arrived, a man on his way to the bathroom for a leak heard the gunshots and the screams, and being the sort of man who holds no fear of death or entertains any sort of disinclination to deliver a nice bit of torture or dismemberment or fisticuffs to someone who deserves it, Gomez Addams burst out the door into the alleyway, too late to do anything but comfort a traumatized boy whose eyes are filled with the sight of his parents’ blood.
His brand of comfort is considered highly unorthodox, but sometimes it’s just the sort of comfort a traumatized child needs, not too warm or too bright to be believed by someone who feels that the world will never be all right again, but the comfort of someone who has learned to walk with death, and even to dance, and by the time the police arrive, and the medics, and the coroners, and Alfred, Bruce Wayne is … not okay, at all, but a little less not-okay than he would be.
And Gomez is a wealthy man, if possessed of a rather eccentric reputation, and there is no doubting his kindness, so when the invitations start arriving for young Bruce to visit, to attend an All Hallows Eve party, to play with young Wednesday and Pugsley, to learn swordfighting or dancing or how to be a good host at a dinner party … Alfred sees no harm in letting his young charge go off to do so. Bruce always comes back a bit more settled, a bit more sure of himself, so they must be a good influence.
And when Bruce gets his idea about vengeance, and protection, and a giant bat suit, well. His mentor Gomez thinks it’s a delightful idea, here, there are live bats in the belfry if Bruce needs some references, and dead ones in taxidermied and articulated skeleton form all through the house if he wants to make anatomically correct wings, and a treasure trove of weaponry and interesting gadgets that Wednesday and Pugsley have been trying to kill each other with for years now, knock yourself out.
And nobody is prouder than Gomez when Batman brings his first sidekick home.
Bruce bringing Superman and Wonder Woman to meet the Addamses: sublime, excellent, comedy gold
Bruce bringing Dick, his new murderbaby to meet the Addamses: The Epitome Of Perfection
… The world isn’t ready for an Addams’ Dick Grayson. But I am. FEED ME!
@thebibliosphere I hope you have fun with this one, Joy. :)
Oh no. I have a mighty need.
You guys need to check out nikhilclayton on TikTok. He has a whole series of skits that are the Addams in Gotham.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that! @halfblackwolfdemon and @thebibliosphere if you haven’t yet, go have some fun. :3
To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.
Knowing all this has always made this bit of Beren’s song instantly reduce me to tears:
Though all to ruin fell the world
and were dissolved and backward hurled
unmade into the old abyss,
yet were its making good, for this—
the dawn, the dusk, the earth, the sea—
that Lúthien on a time should be!
Tolkien straight up wrote a poem that said “the world could end, but it wouldn’t have all been pointless, because she was in this world, however briefly, and that justified all the rest.” Kills me.
Who can outdo Wife Guy Tolkien? Dude was writing elaborate AUs where his wife is an impossibly beautiful magic-wielding immortal elf princess who fights Satan and wins to rescue her human boyfriend from Satan’s doom fortress. Flawless.
Woodrite Switchblade Guitar
This might be the best or worst guitar ever. It might also be the coolest I've ever seen. JazzSGuar? SGjagmaster? JagmaSG?
I'd love to see Built to Spill (aka Doug Martsch) with a bigger band, as in this cover. When I saw them/him, it was only a trio, and that puts limitations on the wall of sound. Doug was running from his pedalboard into an Echoplex and then a blackface Fender Bassman. The Echoplex was basically a preamp and smeared everything he played into a reverby, echoey wall to fill the sonic space. Anyway, would love to see them/him in a band context like this where not all the "guitar" was on Doug.
A high school friend posted a live vid of this band playing to their empty practice space (?) at the height of lockdowns. They are so damn cool.
The only girl I ever loved was born with roses in her eyes*
Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was the first album I listened to on my drive back to St. Louis from Kirksville the day my mom died, when I was still mentally preparing to deal with it all, back in 2001. The album is 25 now. I am still conflicted when listening to it.
(*This isn't actually true, but it's a good title for a post, nah?)
Soviet Soviet Live on KEXP
I had no idea this band was a trio. BRB need to play some fuzz bass. Or order a Bass VI because they are the coolest.
Aurora is a Hobbit Wizard
I had never heard of this musician before. Bless the YouTube suggestions algorithm and bless KEXP.
I Got an Oh My from George Takei
It will be a day long remembered.
Have the guts to look them all in the eye and warn them first.
My wife and dog are cute. That is all.
Shout-out to all the stories that didn't make it out of the shower with us in time to be actually written down.
Hear me out... I think there might be a double entendre here.
(Context below the poll)
What is popular singer/songwriter Taylor Swift being criticized for now?
Not sending her private eagle to carry the ring to Mordor
Faking shock when she won the Annual Lothlórien Poetry Competition... again
Only waited a mere 56 years between dating Lindir and Gildor
She's so skinny; I guess someone thinks Mirkwood's food is beneath her
Announced her new album during her coronation instead of thanking the hobbits
Didn't publicly denounce Smaug's takeover of the Lonely Mountain
Every time Glorfindel slays a balrog, the palintir shows her instead
Refuses to confirm if her song "Better Man" about Elladan or Elrohir
Didn't tell her fans to vote for Elrond for High King of the Noldor
Allowed Gríma Wormtongue to insult her for the publicity
Claims to write all her own songs, but publicly seen getting help from Bilbo
Spends a LOT of time with Éowyn for someone claiming to be "straight"
If you aren't aware, Taylor Swift is a popular singer and songwriter who has written over five songs. Although Tolkien doesn't go into her background in the Silmarillion, we do have some details about her life from The History of Middle-Pennsylvania, which Christopher Tolkien compiled from his father's notes, and particularly The Lays of Beleriand (Taylor's Version).
Damn it. My wife badhouseplant told me I would like Tumblr. She was right, as usual. She also said it might cut into my creativity when I'm writing. I still had a decent writing session today, though. Thank the spirits that I started writing from outlines finally.
Anyway, here's Slowdive before Slowdive. I bought some Christmas ornaments on Etsy a couple years ago from Rachel. Not joking.
