#John McMurtrie

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Warped Tour - 2005

a few screenshots from a video posted on Instagram by photographer John McMurtrie

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#Gerard Way #Frank Iero #my chemical romance #MCR #my chem #warped tour #2005 #John McMurtrie

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#Repost @/johnmcmurtrie666

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Happy Birthday to the most awesome Mr Adrian Smith 🤘🔥🔥🤘🎉🙏#adriansmith

#adrian smith #iron maiden #john mcmurtrie

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Gerard Way in 2005 (X)

Photo Credit: John McMurtrie

#gerard way #roses photoshoot #2005 #john mcmurtrie #close up

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Towards Learning the Life Capital Solution (An Essay as part of the Festshrift for Prof John McMurtry) | Bichara Sahely (2024)

This essay was written as part of the Festshrift for Prof John McMurtry which can be found here: Ten Essays In Honour of John McMurtry: Noonan, Jeff, Baruchello, Giorgio: 9781999114657: Amazon.com: Books The Table of Contents and Biographies of Contributors can be found here: Introducing “Ten Essays In Honour of John McMurtry – January 6, 2024 by Jeff Noonan (Author), Giorgio Baruchello (Author)”…

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#Bichara Sahely #Life-Value Onto-axiology #Prof. John McMurtry

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James McMurtry Live Show Review: 6/10, Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago

James McMurtry

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Something about how there were no gigs in the middle of Canada, noticing the chartreuse-colored fields on the drive from one side to the other, realizing the plants were made into canola oil: “And that’s how I knew how to finish the song,” James McMurtry admitted to the crowd at the Old Town School of Folk Music on Saturday before playing “Canola Fields”. As much as he’s labeled a political songwriter, his songs usually stem from a simple idea, or even an image or a line. “I get a couple of lines and a melody together and think, 'Who said it?' Then I come up with the character,” he told us six years ago. He certainly hasn’t strayed from his process on his latest album The Horses and the Hounds (New West); even if the album’s songs contain the occasional right-wing jab, they’re still a product of him encompassing somebody or something. That is, he’s just as likely to sing from the point of view as someone he doesn’t agree with, which is what ultimately makes him an empathetic songwriter, up there with Steve Earle and John Prine.

Tim Holt & James McMurtry

There’s no doubt McMurtry is an inspirational figure. He most recently garnered headlines for playing a Nashville show in drag in protest of Tennessee’s now temporarily blocked anti-drag law. In a recent Q & A with Little Village, he responded to a question about whether he would continue to wear a dress by saying, “If states keep pulling stupid laws like that and I need to pull it on for the encore. I carry the dress in my suitcase in case I need it.” In other words, his actions are responsive, not gimmicky statements. Towards the beginning of the show on Saturday, an audience member on Saturday night shouted, “Where’s your dress?” perhaps hoping to get a reaction out of McMurtry, some sort of rousing support for drag performers. He didn’t respond, perhaps silently demurring. A similar thing happened after the venerable band (bassist Cornbread, drummer Daren Hess, multi-instrumentalist Tim Holt) burned through “Choctaw Bingo”, a slice of rural realism that Ron Rosenbaum once proposed replace our National Anthem. “Stop all wars!” someone shouted after the song finished, again to silence from McMurtry. Good sentiments aside, McMurtry’s success as a songwriter comes specifically because he avoids generic left-leaning platitudes. He lets the stories do the talking.

James McMurtry & Cornbread

Similarly, on stage, McMurtry truly makes space for songcraft. “This is the happiest song I ever wrote,” he said introducing “If I Don’t Bleed”, citing the fact that nobody dies in it, “at least not directly.” Trading the studio version’s rollicking rocker for a gentler version, he ensured his words of compassion rang true. Ditto for “Blackberry Winter”, the Virginia Woolf-referencing tune that sees McMurtry begging the author to not go through with suicide and “leave the rocks on the road;” performed with an acoustic guitar and no mic, it was a direct prayer to the audience itself. And Holt’s wistful accordion gave Complicated Game cuts “Copper Canteen” and “You Got To Me” a sense of old timey nostalgia, perfect for the narrators’ glassy eyed reflections. It seemed like for every expected extended jam, like “Choctaw Bingo” and “Too Long in the Wasteland”, there was a similar moment of unexpected subtlety.

Cornbread & BettySoo

Ultimately, McMurtry is selfless. His one sermon of the night? Tip your bartenders, by starting at 20% and going higher. Opener BettySoo remarked how grateful she was McMurtry brought her along, considering he could easily tour by himself and play 3 hours worth of material to larger venues. And it shows in his songwriting, his exploration of characters fictional and real, his humble recognition that the truths of the world lie somewhere beyond even his grasp.

BettySoo

#live music #james mcmurtry #old town school of folk music #new west #bettysoo #the horses and the hounds #new west records #steve earle #john prine #little village #cornbread #daren hess #ron rosenbaum #virginia woolf #complicated game #tim holt

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full Ghost photo shoot backstage in 2015

[📸 - John McMurtrie]

#ghost #ghost band #the band ghost #tobias forge #papa emeritus #papa emeritus iii #nameless ghouls #backstage #ghost backstage #meliora #meliora album #album meliora

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MCR for Metal Hammer Issue #138, April 2005 🩸 #Revenge20

📸 via John McMurtrie

#my chemical romance #mcr #mcrchive #gerard way #frank iero #mikey way #ray toro #three cheers for sweet revenge #revenge20 #scans

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‘but you didn’t want it’ (i swear somewhere this works - trista mateer, 2015 // why ‘the social network’ isn’t just ‘the facebook movie, the san francisco bay guardian - andrew garfield, 2010 // the social network dvd commentary track - andrew garfield, 2010 // alive in the new machine - ao3 user fuckener, 2023 // liner notes for the mountain goats’ tallahassee - john darnielle, 2003 // brokeback mountain script - larry mcmurtry, 2005 // a heart that’s full up like a landfill - ao3 user fuckener, 2023)

#this is nothing but GOD they make me insane #my friend said something about how eduardo totally cried watching brokeback mountain and it spiralled from there #dont look at me. you understand #web weaving #markwardo #the social network #tsn

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Rammstein ❤️ (London, UK, 02-12-2001) © John McMurtrie

#the quality of the photos is poor #but paul has a kawaii make-up #mohaw till 😍 #till is love 🖤 #till lindemann #paul landers #flake lorenz #christoph schneider #oliver riedel #richard kruspe #rammstein #rammstein 2001

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credit: John McMurtrie

#ville valo #him #heartagram

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Bruce Dickinson — Abduction — 2005

#bruce dickinson #tyranny of souls #abduction #john mcmurtrie

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Screencaps of the shots I wanted from this instagram video slideshow.

Photo Credit: John McMurtrie, 2005

#frank iero #mcr #john mcmurtrie #texas #frank sitting #skunk hair #pink belt

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Introducing "Ten Essays In Honour of John McMurtry – January 6, 2024 by Jeff Noonan (Author), Giorgio Baruchello (Author)"

Ten Essays In Honour of John McMurtry: Noonan, Jeff, Baruchello, Giorgio: 9781999114657: Amazon.com: Books

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#Prof Jeff Noonan #Prof. Giorgio Baruchello #Prof. John McMurtry

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Ville Valo - 12/2017 for Metal Hammer

photo by / credit to John Mcmurtrie

#ville valo #heartagram #him #ville valo 2017 #metal hammer

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Tagged by @jinxedwood and @austennerdita2533 for my fave books, I'm going with the wordy jinxedwood version bc yes, friends, you know me by now. I am what one calls a verbose bitch.

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER and this list may not be accurate but it's accurate tonight.

East of Eden - John Steinbeck The humanity of this book is what got to me. I couldn't imagine reading another book when I finished this one, I felt bereft and that odd sense of loss that comes at the conclusion of a story with characters you deeply love. Not to mention that the Kathy angle made sections feel straight out of a modern day thriller.

H is for Hawk - Helen MacDonald.. to intertwine a memoir of grief and loss with a th white biography and a large measure of birding knowledge is quite the feat. But that sounds too pat an answer. I'll quote my goodreads review for this: This book felt like me sharing something that lurks so deep inside my heart, so carefully protected, so strewn with feelings like vines and bits of moss that shake off as I hold it out. It felt like sharing that something and absolutely, 100%, knowing that the recipient understood, with every fiber of their being.

Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi. Please, this isnt just what you think it is. It is that and more. Levi's words will leave you spellbound and aching and hopeful and everything in between.

Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury. As with most of my favorites, this is sublime writing that makes me long for a time i am too young to have experienced. Utterly gorgeous.

Provinces of Night - William Gay. This was my first William Gay novel and I am slowly making through them all. Southern Gothic with such elegant prose. I want to write like him. A negative review called Gay's work "novels with poems scattered about weak plots" and frankly? that's what i love? so good job you sold me

Microserfs - Douglas Coupland The author of my 20s. His stuff opened me up to fiction about real people with real feelings thinking the things you do in your head. The unbearable loneliness of the human condition and the wondrousness that is friendship. I am not a rereader but ive read this book at least five times. I have no idea if it has aged well, i do not care.

The Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny. Something about this urban? fantasy grabbed me in a chokehold and never let go. I first read this at the beach, paging through dog-eared paperbacks a friend urged me to read. I barely left the deck that week. The traveling into Amber, the walking of the Pattern - these things will never leave me.

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry Look yes it's a western but it's The Western for a reason. Characters that seep into your bones. The image of lightning dancing across a steer's horns remains as vivid as when i read the book 3+ years ago.

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel Something about how this post-pandemic story is paced, something about the stakes of it and how they will differ from any other post-apocalyptic book you've ever read, stuck with me. There was a simple beauty here that I never want to let go of.

Honorable mentions Les Mis, War and Peace, To be Taught if Fortunate, and i feel like i need a separate list for fave fun books? like romance and paranormal romance and ya that i love but dont come close to the above's impact

tagging @purplesigebert im curious! @ninzied cmon wax poetic with me about books @carry-the-sky i almost put the things they carried on here bc you made me read it but i can only do 9 @it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined i just feel like you'd have some cool thoughts and books to share

ok im tagged out

#tag games #fave books

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MCR for Metal Hammer Issue #138, April 2005 🩸 #Revenge20

📸 via John McMurtrie

#my chemical romance #mcr #mcrchive #gerard way #frank iero #mikey way #ray toro #three cheers for sweet revenge #revenge20 #scans