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Comic - Spidey #03 (Julian Totino Tedesco Cover)

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Beautiful, Rockwell-esque composition.

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*taps Tumblr*

...this thing on?

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#music #spotify

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AHA! Found it! :D

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"Tinkerbell, Tinkerbell, Batcave, kitty cat!"

--My daughter, just now.

#winning

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Nighthawk Postcards: "Now it’s just the bare bones of what I am."--Quadrophenia at 40

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Quadrophenia is a song suite (or “rock opera” if you prefer) about a young man named Jimmy, a “mod” in mid-60’s Britain who doesn’t get on with his family, doesn’t have friends he can rely on, whose girl has broken up with him, and whose addiction to pep pills is accelerating his mental illness—a form of multiple personality disorder so pronounced he calls it “quadrophenia.”*

Quadrophenia is a story about the Mods in Britain in the early and mid 1960s—a subculture that grew out of the bohemian “trad jazz” scene. Mods became typified by their tailor-made clothes, affinity for R&B music, and dancing all night while high on amphetamines, which they called “leapers.” Mods were also closely associated with rioting in seaside resort towns in 1964, where they clashed with rival gangs of rockers, notably in Brighton. The mod scene largely disintegrated by 1966, split into subgroups that were absorbed by other facets of British youth culture—notably Swinging London, the West Indian “rude boy” scene, and interestingly, the skinheads.

Quadrophenia is an album by the Who, about the Who. Coming off the greatest commercial success of their career, they were taking stock of where they had been, and where they were going … and were coming slightly undone at the seams in the process. Money issues had led to the ouster of manager Kit Lambert… but Pete Townshend insisted on keeping Lambert around as a sounding board for his ideas. (One of those ideas was to endow the Jimmy character with four personalities that reflected each individual band member.) The studio they built to record Quadrophenia was half finished when recording started, and equipment had to be borrowed to get tracks on tape. The weather was so bad and the ceiling so leaky, water was practically pouring down the walls. And all this chaos found its way, in one form or another, into the album.

Quadrophenia is about feeling disillusioned with aging; about trying to recapture past glories, and failing; about realizing that those glories were never really all that glorious in the first place; about the realization that what you’ve made of yourself is not necessarily what you wanted for yourself; about fighting the urge to go on as you always have because it’s all you know; about lashing out at others in anger you should be directing at yourself; about being sick at heart and soul and not knowing what the cure is, so you keep treating the symptoms with pills; about the loneliness of crowds; about the loneliness of solitude; about the loneliness of trying to be yourself when you don’t know who you are.

Quadrophenia is about a young man stuck on a rock in the sea off Brighton, caught in a torrential rainstorm, feeling and thinking all of these things and trying to articulate them, not so you will understand him, but so that he can at last understand himself.

Most of all, Quadrophenia is about moving past all this, and growing up.

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Artist: The Sundays Track: Wild Horses Album: 45 rpm single Year: 1992 Theme: Mammals

you know who I am

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This cover sends me spinning. Love.

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Nighthawk Postcards: "Now it’s just the bare bones of what I am."--Quadrophenia at 40

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Quadrophenia is a song suite (or “rock opera” if you prefer) about a young man named Jimmy, a “mod” in mid-60’s Britain who doesn’t get on with his family, doesn’t have friends he can rely on, whose girl has broken up with him, and whose addiction to pep pills is accelerating his mental illness--a form of multiple personality disorder so pronounced he calls it “quadrophenia.”*

Quadrophenia is a story about the Mods in Britain in the early and mid 1960s--a subculture that grew out of the bohemian “trad jazz” scene. Mods became typified by their tailor-made clothes, affinity for R&B music, and dancing all night while high on amphetamines, which they called “leapers.” Mods were also closely associated with rioting in seaside resort towns in 1964, where they clashed with rival gangs of rockers, notably in Brighton. The mod scene largely disintegrated by 1966, split into subgroups that were absorbed by other facets of British youth culture--notably Swinging London, the West Indian “rude boy” scene, and interestingly, the skinheads.

Quadrophenia is an album by the Who, about the Who. Coming off the greatest commercial success of their career, they were taking stock of where they had been, and where they were going . . . and were coming slightly undone at the seams in the process. Money issues had led to the ouster of manager Kit Lambert. . . but Pete Townshend insisted on keeping Lambert around as a sounding board for his ideas. (One of those ideas was to endow the Jimmy character with four personalities that reflected each individual band member.) The studio they built to record Quadrophenia was half finished when recording started, and equipment had to be borrowed to get tracks on tape. The weather was so bad and the ceiling so leaky, water was practically pouring down the walls. And all this chaos found its way, in one form or another, into the album.

Quadrophenia is about feeling disillusioned with aging; about trying to recapture past glories, and failing; about realizing that those glories were never really all that glorious in the first place; about the realization that what you’ve made of yourself is not necessarily what you wanted for yourself; about fighting the urge to go on as you always have because it’s all you know; about lashing out at others in anger you should be directing at yourself; about being sick at heart and soul and not knowing what the cure is, so you keep treating the symptoms with pills; about the loneliness of crowds; about the loneliness of solitude; about the loneliness of trying to be yourself when you don’t know who you are.

Quadrophenia is about a young man stuck on a rock in the sea off Brighton, caught in a torrential rainstorm, feeling and thinking all of these things and trying to articulate them, not so you will understand him, but so that he can at last understand himself.

Most of all, Quadrophenia is about moving past all this, and growing up.

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Emerald City Comic Con put its money where its mouth is — when we reported a podcaster had asked us inappropriate questions, they were uniformly concerned, respectful, and ready to help.

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