i'm fine i'm just thinking about how the children marina looked after could have ended up just like soran and the other child soldiers if it weren't for her
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Okay, I know I’ve said that I want more angst for my favs before, but I gotta admit that if you automatically think any event involving your favourite character that doesn’t have angst is boring, then are they really your favourite?
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Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith during Headquarters sessions, 1967; photos by Michael Ochs Archives.
“Mike wrote the cello and horn parts [to ‘Shades Of Gray’]; he sang them to me and I wrote them on paper and we gave them to the musicians. I wrote a little piano lick at the top and played it. That was a record we created out of our own feelings. It’s like, not only are there shades of gray, God damn it, but what happened to the black and white? What happened to those clear-cut old ways that used to be?” - Peter Tork, When The Music Mattered (1984)
“We created that stuff from scratch. Mike wrote the horn and cello parts, sang them to me, and I notated them. I was also really pleased with that little piano introduction I wrote. We were just thrilled to death with that song.” - Peter Tork, Headquarters 1995 liner notes
“Dear Peter,
There's one question I've always wanted to ask you. As intent as you all were to play your own instruments on ‘Headquarters,’ why did you not play the French Horn parts? I've read that you played that instrument in high school and college. I'm just curious. Thanks for the continuing years of great music.
Thanks,
Cyndi from Middle Tenn.”
“Dear Cyndi,
My chops weren’t up. That’s musician talk for, I was out of practice, way rusty. I don’t know if I could have played the horn part if I’d been practicing for six months, but I certainly couldn’t as out of practice as I was at the time we made that recording. I’m probably in better practice now than I was then.
Thanks for asking. Keep your eyes open for my band. Um, keep your ears open, too. Heheheh.
Peter” - Ask Peter Tork, The Daily Panic, 2008
"Shades Of Gray" via YouTube // Peter performing the song live in Japan in August 1981 // Peter's 2013 live version.
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Augh. A friend from when I was growing up keeps commenting obnoxious and rude shit on public fb posts, that then end up on my main feed. And like, the amount of those comments being him disregarding the concerns of a marginalized group with some Pithy Zinger has me genuinely feeling differently about him! But I have no clue if this is worth unfriending him over (I do wanna know what goes on in his life!) or talking about (i don't expect that to go over well considering the tone he takes in these comments).
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South Park is so wild because I think it’s hard to imagine a more controversial piece of extremely mainstream media. Maybe not so much anymore, because the reputation has shifted so greatly over the last 26 years, but back in the 2000s that shit was everywhere. I don’t need to have been aware of pop culture in that era to know that South Park was a show that everyone had heard of. And it was always, even back then, wrapped up in controversy. But it’s still going strong, with only a handful of banned episodes and an abysmal reputation to its name.
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chrissy cunningham
--STRANGER THINGS SPOILERS--
i love chrissy cunningham with my whole heart. she was the most amazing character ever and she should've outlived everyone and their grandchildren. they could've done more with her character!! currently crying in my bed. i miss her.
chrissy deserved better
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you heard about about awful adaptations that have nothing to do with the original, now get ready for adaptations that just go through every story beat without thinking or understanding the themes of the original so they cut corners by cutting out the "filler" that is the heart of the original instead of modifing the story to better suit the media it is adapted to
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