#jimmy ​wachtel

[thewildbelladonna]

Buckingham Nicks album outtakes.

© Jimmy Wachtel

#stevie nicks #lindsey buckingham #jimmy ​wachtel #fleetwood mac #buckingham nicks #1973 #album cover #photoshoot #outtakes #black and white

[lisamarie-vee]

#joe walsh #but seriously folks... #rock and roll hall of fame #1970s #jimmy wachtel

[spockvarietyhour]

Arte.

#he's beauty. he's grace. he's improv's greatest about face #BCS #Better Call Saul #Wine and Roses #Saul Goodman #Jimmy McGill #Kevin Wachtell #Danny watches BCS

[eurekavalley]

It's so sweet and funny how Kim gives gifts, like only to the one person she likes most in the entire world, but only for psychologically weighted milestones and accomplishments.

#it's kind of kevin wachtell of her really #a feral cat socialized by the corporation #but it makes her so happy to do it! 🥺 #i wonder if she would like gifts but there are literally zero people in her life to give them to her on a personal level if jimmy doesn't #bcs

[youngsamberg]

jimmy and kim are the most insane people i’ve ever known

#bcs rewatch #jimmy getting turned on by kim’s kevin wachtell impression….. unhinged

[mcwexlerscigarette]

[odekirk]

I’ve only seen the show once (although I wanna rewatch it again) But my question is, if you don’t mind, could you explain why Kim and Jimmy don’t like Howard? I personally love Howard, and I never understood the hate. Maybe I missed something or simply don’t remember.

No pressure to answer though! Just curious if you’re willing to explain a little. <3

(btw if you [or any of the people reading this] are interested in rewatching with pals you can join this discord where we’re gonna be watching an episode every week, starting this coming monday! open to all 💙)

i’ve gotten this question before and it always kinda warms my heart a little to know that there are people out there who love howarb so much that they don’t even know why jimmy and kim don’t like him. so true.

howard’s sins against the mcwexlers are as follows:

willingly took the fall for chuck and rejected jimmy from HHM after he first became a lawyer

willingly took the fall for chuck and rejected jimmy from HHM after he brought the sandpiper case

as kim’s boss, put her in doc review after the kettlemans walked away from HHM because of her pushing a guilty plea

as kim’s boss, put her in doc review after she admitted she had seen jimmy’s sandpiper commercial and didn’t tell anyone about it (refusing to mention that jimmy implied he’d gotten it approved)

as kim’s boss, initially did not take her out of doc review after she brought in mesa verde as a client for the firm

after kim quit, tried to retain mesa verde as HHM’s client and prevent her from taking them with her

was on chuck’s side during his effort to get jimmy disbarred

told them he suspected suicide immediately after chuck’s funeral

general air of (perceived) condescension over the years

now, i could argue in howard’s favor on each and every one of those—doc review isn’t the cruel and unusual punishment people make it out to be, jimmy deserved to get disbarred, etc—and i have, many many times. 

but that would kind of be missing the point, because to get down to brass tacks: they hated him because they allowed him to represent a bunch of other people in their minds, instead of just viewing him as one guy. he’s not a lawyer, he’s the legal system. he’s not a rich white man, he’s every rich white man. he’s chuck, he’s cliff main, he’s kevin wachtell, he’s a mirror, he’s every person they ever had a reason to dislike in one convenient package.

he fulfills this role best for them during seasons 5 and 6a when he’s kept at a distance—neither of them any longer employed at HHM, neither of them tied to him through chuck, both of them free to make their mental image of howard out to be both as big/oppressive and as small/pathetic as they need him to be in any particular moment. jimmy throws bowling balls at howard’s car from the other side of his gate. he sends sex workers to howard’s lunch and then watches the scene from across the street. his and kim’s entire scheme plays out without direct contact, and then they listen to its conclusion and snicker over the phone.

he does not fulfill this role as well when he walks into their home and looks them both in the eye and reads them for filth—laying bare the casual cruelty at the heart of their actions and reminding them that he is in fact just some guy. then he gets shot in the head, which you can’t do to a concept. you can’t shoot the unjust legal system in the head. you can only shoot a living, breathing human being in the head. that is the moment that a couple of things become Suddenly Real to kim and jimmy, howard hamlin being one of them. and that’s why, despite their longstanding hatred of him, his death is what unravels their lives.

#inbox #better call saul #thank u for the question! sorry i am answering a lil late

[rynnthefangirl]

In Better Call Saul S4E8 "Coushatta", Jimmy and Kim enact a scam to prevent Huell from going to prison. During this time, Kim is asked by Kevin Wachtell if it is at all possible to switch out the plans for Mesa Verde's upcoming branch, which based on the rules and regulations Kim tells him is impossible. However, after the scam succeeds and Huell is free, Kim ponders the Zafiro stopper. And when Jimmy tells Kim that they are "done with all that", no more scams, Kim says "let's do it again".

Lalo Salamanca is introduced in the very next scene.

Kim's moral decline HERALDS Lalo Salamanca's first appearance. Her decision to embrace scams not out of necessity or justice, but purely for her own pleasure, is narratively tied to Lalo TWO SEASONS before her scam results in the murder of Howard Hamlin at Lalo's hands. They are connected from the moment he first appears on screen. And Kim has no idea.

#i am hyperventilating #the existential horror of a character that has no idea they are foreshadowing their own destruction #how am i supposed to be normal about this #kim wexler #lalo salamanca #better call saul #bcs rewatch #bcs s6 spoilers

[pige0ns]

thinking about how jimmy and kim’s weapon of choice against chuck and howard is to destroy their reputations specifically. the numbers, the trial, the insurance, the howard scam--it all targets good opinion. same thing with kevin wachtell actually. (and on the flipside, the huell scam attempts to improve huell’s reputation). which fits the way that jimmy and kim feel that reputation is the thing chuck, howard, and the institutions they represent have judged them for. sometimes unjustly, sometimes not. it’s one of the things they see as most unfair. how come kevin wachtell gets a bank from his daddy, meanwhile jimmy has to run scams so people see him as a hero instead of someone “guilty people hire.” i just love how well it fits their characters, that reputation is the thing they’d so often go after, especially jimmy. 

#better call saul

[cauldronofmorning]

I’m sorry, this (from a massively right wing site from a lady author whining that COVID killed private schools) take on Kim is so fucking funny:

Better Call Saul recently completed its fifth season. The show started as a spinoff based on a minor character from megahit Breaking Bad. However, Better Call Saul quickly became beloved and critically acclaimed in its own right.

Much of the credit for that belongs to actress Rhea Seehorn’s stellar portrayal of Kim Wexler. She became the show’s breakout star.

Kim Wexler – wife of lead character Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman – is an enigmatic character. But viewers got a glimpse into her past during a job interview in season 2. Kim reveals she is originally from a small town in the Midwest. She decided to leave because she looked around at her life and realized that she was going to end up “married to the guy that ran the town gas station. Maybe cashiering down at the Hinky Dinky [a supermarket]…I just wanted something else.”

The interviewer asks Kim, “What did you want?” She answers with one word: “More.”

In a sense, Kim embodies the feminist dream. She rejected the traditional feminine path of marriage and family. Instead, she pursued a career. She graduated law school and landed a job at a major law firm, later leaving to start her own practice.

J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, had a relevant observation about women who are described as “economically independent.” He wrote, “It usually really means economic subservience to male commercial employers instead of to a father or a family.”

That certainly applies to Kim. The show depicts her working endlessly for various male bosses. Even after she starts her own law firm, she is beholden to her biggest client, wealthy bank CEO Kevin Wachtell. In season 3, she becomes so exhausted working over-time for him and his friend that she crashes her car.

Despite her hard work, Kim hasn’t become rich. She lives in a small apartment. At the end of season 5, she hatches a plot to frame her old boss so she can get the money she needs to fund her dream of starting a pro bono law firm to help the poor.

Kim’s sudden dark turn is surprising. For most of the show, Kim was the stereotypical virtuous woman trying to keep the roguish Jimmy on the straight and narrow.

Kim and Jimmy might have the feminist ideal of an “equal partnership.” She never lets their relationship get in the way of her career. In the early seasons of the show, they are married in all but name. They live together and share business expenses, but Jimmy never fully commits to her. Finally in season 5, Kim is the one who proposes marriage. But it’s mainly a device to ensure she cannot be compelled to testify against him in court.

Kim has probably lost her chance of having biological children. (Seehorn is 48, so it is reasonable to assume the character she plays is around the same age.) And Jimmy isn’t exactly cut out for fatherhood.

Kim said she left her hometown because she wanted “more.” Did she get it? She got a better wardrobe. The tailored suits she wears as a lawyer are more elegant than a supermarket cashier’s vest. But that seems to be the only benefit.

Her life would probably be happier if she’d married that “guy that ran the town gas station.” At least he would be more concerned for her welfare than her various male bosses. But that doesn’t fit our cultural narrative.

Kim isn’t living the dream. She’s living a feminist nightmare.

[jimmymcchill]

break me like a promise

He fucking hated Mesa Verde, he fucking hated S&C, and it was easy to blame Kevin Wachtell or Rich Schweikart for how lonely he felt. It had to be their fault, right? They had reclaimed Kim back to where she belonged, Mount Olympus itself, where Jimmy, deplorable mortal, was never going to be allowed. Resenting them was obvious, almost effortless, but maybe that was the point: she had found her place, he had found his. And they just weren’t compatible.

One sleepless night, Jimmy realizes how much he misses Kim, and how unfair that is. Missing scene from one of those nine months shown in the intro of 407.

wordcount: 960

ship: McWexler

#back already? back already. #not me thinking nonstop about kim and jimmy feeling distant during those months shown at the beginning of 407 #NOT ME OVERTHINKING AGAIN #anyway this time my overthinking became a fanfiction so... yayyyy #i guess??? #bcs #better call saul #jimmy mcgill #kim wexler #saul goodman #mcwexler #bcs fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic #one shot

[ralphiebelair]

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. Photo by Jimmy Wachtel, 1973.

[mynoisycollectionstarlight]

Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Jim Keltner

Guitar, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Danny Kootch*

Keyboards, Synthesizer, Backing Vocals – David Foster

Bass, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Paul Stallworth

with:

*Change*

Arranged By [Strings] – Jimmy Haskell*

Guitar, Soloist – Jay Graydon

Rhythm Guitar – Waddy Wachtel

Written-By – P. Stallworth*

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Producer – Attitudes, Jay Lewis

Design, Photography By – Bob Cato

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*(Dark Horse Records,1977)

℗ 2022 G.H. Estate Limited, under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

#Youtube

[retromusicart]

Alan O'Day - Appetizers (Atlantic-Pacific, 1977) - Design and photography by Jimmy Wachtel

I wonder if this is how the record label Delicious Vinyl got its name.

Songwriter Alan O'Day had a one-hit wonder with "Undercover Angel" (peaked at No. 1 on the Hot 100), from this album. While his music career didn't really work out, his songwriting career is another story (you know all those songs performed on Muppet Babies? O'Day wrote many of them).

Image courtesy of Discogs.

#alan o'day #undercover angel #1977 #cover art #album #album cover #album covers #albums #art #70s #70s music #70s pop

[bitterduck]

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, 1973

📸 Jimmy Wachtel

[mcwexlerscigarette]

if better caull saul was glee then kevin wachtell would sing “the bitch is back” when seeing jimmy at the country club