I Have Such A Hard History With This Album It’s Insane.

DOCTOR WHO | 4.14

Pulp: the Tomorrow People, 1996

when the Doctor goes to the Powell Estate on New Year’s Eve as he’s dying, he asks Rose what year it is. all of the other visits were so calculated. he saves Mickey and Martha on a distant planet, just in the nick of time. he swats Luke out of the road before a car comes. he goes back in time and finds Geoffrey Noble, borrowing a quid, and gives Wilf a winning lottery ticket worth millions. he caught Donna’s wedding, just as she stepped out of the church.

But Rose. Oh, with Rose.

the Doctor says: “what year is this?” because he doesn’t even know.

do you think he just jammed his hands into the telepathic circuit as his body failed? do you think he just dreamt of her, desperately, the one face he was dying to see? do you think he hoped, prayed, that somehow he’d end up on her doorstep?

and the he’s in an alleyway full of snow. in London. and he knows that building, knows those stairs. and it’s finally snowing, for real this time. and he sees her, doesn’t even mean to speak to her, too afraid of timelines and paradoxes as putting her at risk…

but he’s in pain, and he grunts, and Rose—always ready to help someone in pain—turns around.

and the Doctor says: “what year is this?”

and when Rose says it’s 2005…oh, how his face lights up. It’s all ahead for her. And for him, too. I bet—he says—you’re gonna have a really great year...

The Depeche Mode lads after Alan released his press statement about leaving the band (1995)

10/4/1997 Adrenaline Village, London - UK

ULTRA  Launch Party

Depeche Mode - November 1993

Photo shoot with Anton Corbijn

dave gahan in the mv for barrel of a gun, 1997

I just rewatched David Tennant’s doctor regeneration into Matt Smith scene and I totally forgot that the Ood sing him a song as he goes. It’s one of the first times in a long time where he’s alone it’s Christmas, he’s scared and struggling to stand and “the universe sings him to sleep”. Even when he doesn’t have a companion the whole universe sings him to sleep, he’s never truly alone the universe is thanking him for his sacrifice and care in his last moments.

DOCTOR WHO | 4.14

Temptation of saint Anthony (details), The garden of earthly delights (details), Ecce Homo (details), Jesus carrying the cross (details) by Hieronymus Bosch Metallica - Until it sleeps (music video), dir. Samuel Bayer Depeche Mode - Walking in my shoes (music video), dir. Anton Corbijn