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Thom Yorke and Dajana Roncione wedding in Sicily, 2020

The wedding took place in Bagheria, a small town near Palermo, on September 19th, 2020. The couple has chosen Villa Vanguarnera, one of the most beautiful and elegant Bagheria’s baroque villas

The wedding was celebrated amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. There were only 120 participants between families and close friends of the couple.

Yorke and Roncione got to know each other through common friends and shortly after she appeared in Yorke’s Netflix film “Anima”, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The couple started dating in 2017, two years after the Radiohead’s leader separated from Rachel Owen, his wife for 23 years.

#thomyorke #radiohead #dajanaroncione #thomyorkefans #radioheadfans #radioheadfan #radioheadlive #wedding #weddingshoot #weddingphotos taken in Villa Valguarnera by @_actheca_

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Joan Baez and Bob Dylan defined the 1960s folk movement with their powerful performances and deep artistic bond. Baez, already a folk icon, helped introduce Dylan to the world, bringing him on stage and amplifying his voice. Together, they performed at historic events like the 1963 March on Washington, delivering anthems like Blowin’ in the Wind. Their mix of Baez’s soaring vocals and Dylan’s raw lyricism captivated audiences, but as Dylan shifted styles, their relationship—both personal and professional—faded. Baez later reflected on their past in Diamonds & Rust, but their legacy as a duo remains legendary. by @_actheca_

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#jacksonpollock #abstract #expressionism by @_actheca_

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David Bowie during ‘Alladin Sane’ touring #bowie by @_actheca_

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Drain You (Live On “Nulle Part Ailleurs”, Paris, France/1994)

What Happened

• Guitar Malfunction: During the song’s interlude, Kurt Cobain’s guitar cut out completely.

• Vocals Only: Frustrated, he threw his guitar to the floor and finished the rest of the performance using vocals only.

• Fan Consensus: fans agree that the abrupt equipment failure and Cobain’s raw reaction turned the TV studio appearance into an iconic, memorable moment.

#nirvana #kurtcobain #grunge by @_actheca_

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Cohen is interviewed about his descesion to join a zen monestry, but the interview steers towards his depression, relationships.

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Leonard Cohen battled a severe, life-long background of clinical depression that he described as a constant sense of anguish and the collapse of all personal coping strategies.

The Struggle
• Lifelong Affliction: Cohen characterized his depression not as simple sadness, but as an acute state akin to “mental violence”.

• Tried Multiple Paths: Over decades, he experimented with various remedies, including relationships, artistic output, religion, and medical treatments.

• The “Godfather of Gloom”: His deep familiarity with personal darkness heavily shaped his hauntingly poetic and melancholic music.

The Turning Point
• Monastery Retreat: In 1994, when his depression reached an unendurable peak, he retreated to the Mount Baldy Zen Center in California, eventually becoming an ordained monk.

• Intense Meditation: He spent years practicing disciplined meditation, which helped him detach from the toxic, ruminative loops of his own mind.

• Lifting the Veil: While later staying in Mumbai, India, Cohen experienced a permanent shift where the heavy veil of his lifelong depression slowly and imperceptibly dissolved. In his later years, he reported feeling a renewed sense of peace and joy. by @_actheca_

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The story of “I’m So Tired” is almost an accident.

MacKaye wrote it at home, brought it to the band, and they couldn’t see how it could work for Fugazi. So it stayed unfinished — not quite a song, not quite anything. That made sense. Fugazi was coiled energy, distortion, confrontation. A piano ballad had no obvious place there.

Then, during demo sessions in Connecticut, there happened to be a piano. MacKaye asked drummer Brendan Canty — almost as an aside — if he could track it while the tape was already rolling. Canty said sure. It still wasn’t a Fugazi song. It was just a thing Ian did while the machine happened to be running.

Filmmaker Jem Cohen was there documenting the band for what would become the *Instrument* documentary. MacKaye played him a bit of the song. Cohen put it in the film. And so, almost by gravity, it ended up on the *Instrument Soundtrack* in 1999 — a piano ballad, just MacKaye’s voice and keys, completely unlike anything Fugazi had released before.

That’s what blindsided people. Any band can write something that gestures at darkness. This felt like no gesture at all — just a man, a piano, and something real that had nowhere else to go. Commentators described the lyrics as touching on depression and suicidal ideation. The song runs under two minutes. It doesn’t resolve. It doesn’t need to.

It became, quietly, the song MacKaye is most asked about — born in a room where nobody expected it, recorded because the tape was already rolling. by @_actheca_

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Belton Sutherland was born on Valentine’s Day, 1911, in Camden, Mississippi — the same year as Robert Johnson. He spent his life as a sharecropper in rural Madison County, working the land by day and playing music as release. What he made was raw, unpolished country blues rooted in soil and struggle.

On September 3, 1978, folklorist Alan Lomax arrived with two colleagues and found Sutherland on a porch in the Mississippi night. With only his Kay archtop guitar — tuned down low — and the sound of crickets around him, Sutherland launched into an improvised, fiery rendition of “Kill the Old Grey Mule.” The performance was an emotional outburst, visceral and unguarded. It became one of the most unforgettable moments in Lomax’s documentary *The Land Where the Blues Began*.

He recorded almost nothing else and spent his life largely unknown. But that single porch performance captured something rare — the authentic spirit of early blues, undiluted and alive.

Sutherland died on October 7, 1983, at 72, and was buried at St. John Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery. by @_actheca_

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Jimmy Page and Roy Harper took their performance somewhere unexpected — up the side of Scafell Pike in the Lake District, playing acoustically on the mountain for a 1984 BBC *Whistle Test* segment. The song was “The Same Old Rock,” both men playing Ovation Adamas guitars against the open landscape.

Before they played, they sat down for an interview about their forthcoming collaborative album *Whatever Happened to Jugula?* and reflected on a friendship stretching back fifteen years — two artists who had quietly orbited each other through one of rock’s most turbulent eras.

One of the Adamas guitars later passed from Harper to Page as a gift, with “1984” engraved into the twelfth fret — not just a date, but a nod to Orwell, whose shadow that year carried everywhere. by @_actheca_

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Taxi Driver (1976)

Travis Bickle is a Vietnam vet who can’t sleep, wanders the city at night, and figures he might as well get paid for it. Early on he’s almost likeable — childlike, raw, yearning for human connection. But he lacks any protective membrane between himself and the world.

He falls for Betsy, a campaign worker he sees as pure. The relationship collapses when he takes her to a porn theater — not out of malice, but deep social misunderstanding. She recoils. Travis is shattered. That rejection breaks something open. He descends into obsession, trains his body like a soldier, and loses all self-awareness. He fixates on saving Iris, a young girl trapped in prostitution — giving his chaos a shape, a mission. It ends in blood. The press calls him a hero. The film lets that irony sit.

De Niro didn’t approach this from the outside. He got a real NYC taxi license and drove 15-hour shifts for a month, absorbing the loneliness of the job. He had offers worth half a million dollars — he took $35,000, believing in the film. The mirror scene — “You talkin’ to me?” — was fully improvised. Even the mohawk worked against him physically: the latex cap limited his head movement, but that stiffness only made Travis more rigid and unnerving on screen. by @_actheca_

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Miles Davis (1926-1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer who reshaped jazz multiple times across five decades. Emerging from the bebop scene with Charlie Parker, he later pioneered cool jazz (Birth of the Cool), modal jazz (Kind of Blue), and jazz fusion (Bitches Brew).
Davis struggled heavily with heroin addiction in the early 1950s. In 1954, he locked himself in his father’s farmhouse and quit cold turkey. He remained off heroin but later battled cocaine and alcohol use during the 1970s, marking a relapse into substance abuse before eventually regaining control.
He died on September 28, 1991, in Santa Monica, California, from complications of a stroke, pneumonia, and respiratory failure. by @_actheca_

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Slowdive formed in 1989 in Swindon, led by Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell, who were still teenagers when they began shaping their signature sound. Emerging alongside bands like My Bloody Valentine, they built music that felt immersive rather than direct, layering guitars into hazy textures and pairing them with fragile, almost whispered vocals. Their early releases, including Just for a Day, introduced a dreamlike atmosphere that would later define shoegaze as a genre.

Despite their originality, Slowdive quickly became targets of harsh criticism from the British music press in the early 1990s. Shoegaze as a whole was dismissed as self-indulgent and emotionally distant, especially as the more energetic and charismatic Britpop movement, led by bands like Oasis and Blur, began to dominate. Their 1993 album Souvlaki, now widely regarded as a classic, was initially met with indifference or negativity, and by the time they released the more experimental Pygmalion in 1995, they were dropped by their label and soon disbanded.

For nearly two decades, Slowdive remained largely absent, with members pursuing other projects such as Mojave 3. However, their music quietly gained a new audience over time, as younger listeners rediscovered shoegaze through online communities and reissues. What had once been criticized began to be appreciated for its emotional depth and atmosphere, gradually transforming the band’s reputation from overlooked to influential.

In 2014, Slowdive reunited and returned not as a nostalgic act but as a band newly understood by its audience. by @_actheca_

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