#∷『 AESTHETIC 』— lyle b. ∷

[legobatjoker]

two questions luce 1. do u think i shld make like an aesthetic lyle fancam or a sad lyle edit (wld be good for the sadyboylyle url). 2. do you think i shld either use a song from the movie but sped up to be nightcore or a song tht ppl typically use for like either tiktok fancams or tiktok sad edits (i dont actually have any v good examples of songs like tht bc i dont use tiktok but if i find some im sure it wont b tht hard lol)

SADBOYLYLE FANCAM ALLL THE WAYYY…and i feel like nightcore vers of the song from the movie wld be sooo goooddd

[atvrvxia]

dark academia verse tag dump: athena and lyle beaufort !! @splitapill

[filmaticbby]

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) dir. Ana Lily Amirpour

[wally-b-feed]

heather lyle kent

[getinformedbeexcess]

Accessibility standards in practice

The World Wide Web consortium or better known as “W3” is an international standards organization that governments, businesses and consumers look towards for guidelines regarding accessibility focused website development (Caldwell, Cooper, Guarino Reid, & Vanderheiden, 2008). These standards were named “WCAG2” standards and they were created for the consumers and yet according to the WebAIM’s “million” webpage study regarding accessibility, over “98.1% of home pages had detectable WCAG2 failures!” (AIM, 2020). What are some of the top factors that contribute to this high percentage of failure and why? Are government websites more compliant with WCAG2 than non-government websites? Will a browser accommodate for these lapses in accessible design by overriding some of the features? These are important questions that arise when discussing website design with an emphasis on accessibility and what we can do to ensure accessibility.

“85.4% of pages had low contrast text, 61.9% had missing alternative text, 63.4% had empty links, 56.1% had missing form input labels.” (AIM, 2020), what does it mean when text has low contrast? According to WebAIM, It’s when “contrast is a measure of the difference in perceived ‘luminance’ or brightness between two colors” (AIM, 2018). This perceived brightness is often harsh on the visually impaired as they cannot properly understand information on a webpage, which greatly lowers the quality of the visit. Such violations are overlooked simply because it doesn’t make for a beautiful, cathartic experience which website designers aim for as businesses cater to the majority, for their revenues are dependent on a delectable experience for the majority. According to the World health organization, over 4% of the World population has some sort of visual impairment which clearly puts the minority at a disadvantage (WHO, 2019). To mitigate such a blatant disregard for accessibility, browsers have started to add support for websites that lack high contrast text which makes a seamless transition between low contrast text to high contrast text (Lyles, 2020). This isn’t a permanent fix, it’s a workaround. But how can we ensure there’s no workaround required? That’s something you’ll have to get to the end for.

The rest of the top factors that websites don’t comply with, usually showcase a lack of good development as these issues only occur when designing lacks basic fundamentals. We’ll talk about the alternative text soon, but let’s focus on the very notion of bad development that comes from bad designing. Broken functionality is a major accessibility issue, as major components that are used in websites are dispersed across the internet and it’s very difficult and tedious to ensure that all components of a website work as intended; when they should be. When any one of those components fail to load when a visitor receives a landing page, their lovely favorite browser will trudge on and still display the page but with very little noticeable difference. This trudging on is the reason why such accessibility errors arise, as the browsers are meant to continue until their last breath. Fixing such an issue is futile, unless the web designers put a little more effort into ensuring that all functionality passes the tests and browsers must ensure they don’t showcase the website at all if it’s broken. 

Now, let’s talk designers who often overlook the power of text as it has the power to draw a viewer in, if correctly and responsibly chosen for the context the text is written in. The lack of alternative text is astonishing as the most basic task of a designer is to “avoid decorative or overly stylized fonts, which are often difficult to read even for users without visual impairments or reading disabilities” (BOIA, 2017). Some of the best fonts that ensure clean readability are of sans serif aesthetic such as, Arial, Helvetica, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, and Verdana (BOIA, 2017). If that isn’t accessible enough, there are fonts such as, Read Regular, Lexie Readable, and Tiresias which provides aid to individuals with dyslexia or visual impairments. To make matters even worse, these fonts are completely free to use. Of-course, this too can be handled by the browser which is in full support of the minority. But, why does the browser keep picking up the slack of the websites that should be doing it first on their end and then have the browsers as a fail safe?

We know that the government entities are forced to provide an accessible environment of their webpages, how do they rank up in this mess?

(AIM, 2020)

As seen from the graph, government entities are least worst culprits and every year they do better by reducing the accessibility gap that progressively gets worse for non-government entities. You might ask, why is the government the least worst culprit? Let’s take Canada for example, the Federal Government was sued by Jodhan in a disability discrimination lawsuit in 2012 and won (CCD, 2012). That lawsuit brought forth strong changes in the federal government with how website accessibility is dealt with in Canada, firstly by forcing a default open source framework that the federal government provided for its provincial counterparts and secondly by having this requirement added into the Charter of Rights. This framework that was constructed complies with WCAG2 guidelines right out of the sandbox, which is why if you visit any Canadian government website, the layout, text and color is relatively in the same ballpark. Precisely this type of lawsuit and the need for prevention, caused governments all around the world to be morally held liable for providing the most accessible experience to any and all of its citizens possible. Funny enough, the very needs (services) of our daily lives are improving but the luxury of having the wants (services), is what keeps getting worse.

Since we know that the internet is composed of non-government entities, having this framework be mandatory for all of these outstanding entities would greatly reduce the WCAG2 violations made. How can we make this framework mandatory?

Push for WCAG2 guidelines to be made law for all business and government entities operating in the residing country so they are legally liable into providing an accessible experience, so that these entities don’t earn wholesome, public loving points for choosing to offer a service that should be the norm. As demonstrated, conforming to the guidelines is not hard at all. There are even tools, all over the internet, that will alert you of any guidelines you don’t conform to. If that isn’t enough, pressure the website developers/owners into providing the necessary accessible features. 

Change is very much possible if the floor can be turned into money burning lava.

References

Caldwell, B., Cooper, M., Guarino Reid, L., & Vanderheiden, G. (2008). Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. Retrieved July 28, 2020, from https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

AIM, W. (2020). The WebAIM MillionAn annual accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages. Retrieved July 28, 2020, from https://webaim.org/projects/million/

AIM, W. (2018). Contrast and Color AccessibilityUnderstanding WCAG 2 Contrast and Color Requirements. Retrieved July 28, 2020, from https://webaim.org/articles/contrast/ 

WHO, W. (2019). Vision impairment and blindness. Retrieved July 28, 2020, from https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/blindness-and-visual-impairment 

BOIA, B. (2017). Best Fonts To Use for Website Accessibility. Retrieved July 28, 2020, from https://www.boia.org/blog/best-fonts-to-use-for-website-accessibility 

Lyles, T. (2020, March 11). Chrome tool helps developers make websites more color blind friendly. Retrieved July 28, 2020, from https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/11/21174735/google-chrome-dev-tools-new-color-blind-friendly 

[neamhnaid]

rules.

01. hello !!! so so glad you’re taking the time to read, or at least skim through this page. i’m czarina and marsali is one of my many babies on this website. while i can’t expect everybody to remember every rule i’ll be listing below, please keep in mind that you can always revisit this page or send me a question if you’re unsure of something concerning one of these !

02. as much as i’d like it to be otherwise, the state of this blog is usually slow - reply and low activity. i’m a biology major who has classes 4 days a week, around 7 hours a day on average which means i’m almost always busy and on mobile. other factors to me not being around doing replies would be my personal life outside of academics, of course, and the writing highs and lows all roleplayers regularly have. however, just because i take long in getting to our thread, writing your starter or replying to you on im / discord doesn’t mean that i don’t want to write with you ! life can just get really busy and tiring sometimes, i think we all understand that.

i won’t follow anybody who uses: dove cameron, thomas doherty, scarlett johanssen, holland roden, emma stone, jeremy renner, any known abusers and / or sexual offenders as a faceclaim. their anti- tags on tumblr say it all, and i know i can’t force anybody to do this but if you could tag them for me ( i.e. dove cameron // ) then that would be much appreciated.

i also will not follow anybody that writes incest, rape, non-con, underage nsfw, whitewashing, racebent poc / racial poc interchanging ( i.e. jamie chung as mulan, lana condor as lara jean covey / saya kuroki / jubilation lee ), or genderbends, and it’s highly unlikely that i’ll follow anybody that condones it either. keep your ‘fiction isn’t / doesn’t affect reality’ argument to yourself, thanks !

i will be very, very skeptical on following back blogs that have a graphics / aesthetic rule. to each their own and all but it just seems very elitist to me in a way? we’re here to write, not to show off who can work through photoshop best. so yeah, sorry, but i’m also not that sorry for having this here.

please please do not put the photos i reblog of any of my faceclaims into your bait tag. if you have a tag for marsali / my blog specifically then that’s fine, but otherwise? reblog it from the source.

03. this blog is mutuals only so yes, that means we’d have to be following each other in order for us to interact. this isn’t me being prejudiced or elitist or anything; i’ve always been selective with who i choose and choose not to follow, and i do this for my own management and comfort.

04. i have not read the books so my portrayal of marsali will rely mostly on how the show has her written as well as my own headcanons for her. if you happen to write marsali too, please don’t steal from me.

05. on the topic of duplicates — i love that someone else out there wants to write marsali !  however, unless i really know the mun, i won’t be following any duplicates for my own comfort, and i ask that they don’t follow me either. i know you probably mean well and i could be following you on some other blog, but please respect this rule.

06. feel free to tag me in random starters, send me random ic asks and such !! i love writing out starters and plotting but spontaneous interactions are the best. i track #neamhnaid so if you ever wanna drop me a line make sure it gets into that tumblr tag so that i can see and get to it in time ! additionally, i am always up for plotting things out so don’t be afraid to run something by me if you have ideas.

07. the only reasons for me dropping a thread would be that i a.) lost it somewhere along the way or b.) felt it had too little to go on. but if i do drop a thread, you are very very welcome to come plot another one with me ! i also don’t mind having multiple threads with somebody, so even if we’re in the middle of one and you wanna start something else then by all means, be my guest.

08. i do ships mainly based on chemistry and plotting, so don’t be afraid to reach out if you wanna ship with me! and i don’t just mean romantic shipping; i want all kinds of shipping ranging from love to hate and everything in between.

09. while i am of age and so is marsali, nothing explicitly nsfw will be written around here. other triggering topics will be tagged accordingly.

10. i like knowing the people i write with, so if we’re mutuals then go ahead and introduce yourself to me any time !! tell me about your day or your dog, or blab on about how much you love your muse. let’s be friends.

11. i am not affiliated with lauren lyle, diana gabaldon, the outlander writers and / or franchise in any way.

[legionnairelass]

Should You Let*INSERT LEGIONNAIRE HERE* Run The Universe?

Saturn Girl: She’d probably be a fine leader but, um, girl already has enough mental overload dealing with the Legion of Emotional and Horny Teenagers. Imagine if EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE brought their problems to her!?  Why would you do that?! It’s cruel and unusual punishment! Her head would probably explode or something!!!

Cosmic Boy: He’d do it. And he’d be good at it. But would unhealthily high stress levels lead to a premature death? Probably. Preserve Cos’ life and don’t make him leader of the universe. It just sounds like a dick move.

Lightning Lad: Pff why? He’d try and then get really pissed when he realizes how bad he is and then he’d throw a fit and someone else would end up running the universe.

Chameleon: I mean... his dad did it so... wouldn’t that make him and R.J. like... the 31st century Kennedys or something????

Phantom Girl: She’d be a dictator. A benevolent dictator, but a dictator nonetheless. Be prepared for lavish parties, outrageously expensive outfits, and general aesthetic changes sponsored by your new empress. Oh, and if anyone touches the Prince Consort she woN’T HESITATE, BITCH.

Invisible Kid 1: Be prepared for another benevolent dictatorship with an extreme lack of public information. He wouldn’t mean to keep everyone in the dark, and the universe would probably run rather smoothly (Lyle’s quite good at the whole leadership thing), but secrecy kinks, y’know. Doesn’t make for the most trustworthy leader.

Triplicate Girl: Great news: she’s got prior experience! Working as Mr. Brande’s secretary develops key skills necessary to organizing and running a whole frickin’ universe. Plus, if one of her has a mental breakdown, there are two more to keep the universe going smoothly in the meantime.

Shrinking Violet: Well, I she certainly needs to build up self-confidence, and I suppose leader of the universe would aid in that process so, HELL YES GIVE THE GIRL THE JOB!

Lightning Lass: Okay okay, off topic, but all I can think of is like a parody of Ayla’s first silver age introduction when she pretended to be her brother so President of the Universe Garth Ranzz dies accidentally by choking on a dick thus causing his sweet, innocent twin sister to don an atrociously fake stick-on red mustache and insist that ‘Yes, it is I, Garth McFartface Ranzz’ while Dirk nods along in the background glaring at anyone who dares question His Sprocking Greatness, Lord Ranzz.

Element Lad: Given Jan’s luck, the universe would either get culled by some homocidal dick bag, or everything would go 5YL. Anyways, E-Lad’s seen some shit why don’t we all just give him a break so he can be happy for once???

Shvaughn Erin: Ummm that would be kinda hot I guess? Welp yep. I’m gay. Hey, Jan could be the First Lady. He’d probably enjoy that way to much tbh.

Sun Boy: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ha. See, there’s this little Entire Frickin’ Era of LoSH comics titled the 5YL which is an acronym for ‘Reasons Why Putting Dirk Morgna In A Leadership Role Is A Terrible Decision Overall’.

XS: Ahhh, Jenni’s so sweet. But if you make her the leader of the universe you’d force her to make Difficult Decisions (tm). Why in all of the deathly hells would you do that.

Brainiac 5: See, there’s two ways this could go. Option A: he actually takes up the responsibility but is so bitter all the flora nearby withers up and dies from his extreme acridness. Or, Option B: he ignores the whole job and spends the days quite happily in his laboratory while the universal order breaks down around him.

[spacecommas]

Tag ten (10) tumblr friends and tell them what you like most about them, after you have done that send this message on and spread the love

yessssss ok idk how to count because i’m gay but i’ll do my best

@ot5era LYLE U ALREADY KNOW....! idk how long we’ve been talking but!!! it feels like forever and yet still not enough! i can’t believe that one of the first things we talked about was my harry styles cardboard cutout and yet u still wanted to be my friend!!! we’ve been thru a lot together, and i’m so so so happy to have your french investing backing my german birdwatching! not to b corny but i really feel like u Get Me and that’s! not something i can say about a lot of people!!!! thank u for reaching out all those months ago— you’re 1 in a trillion and i love you princelamb 💖💕💗💘💗💖💓💘💗💕💝

@thedaggertattoo the sweetest lil stinker..... diyaa ur so SO FUNNY and u make me laugh almost every single time we talk and literally you light up my world like nobody else ✨ i dont even give a Shit about plagiarizing one direction’s lyrics because They Were Right...... i’m honored to be your pal and i hope i can be the butt of your jokes for the rest of eternity!!!! ily

@chooselovex MASCARPONE! you are so so SO baby and all i want to do is shield you from the bad things in the world— but for all i joke about babying you..... you are such a strong person, with a heart of gold! and i hope that the world treats you as lovingly as you treat others, it’s what you deserve!!!!! 💛🧀

@28tpwk sam the kiwi of my eye!!!! you are such a joy to talk to and— not to sound like a broken record— you are literally an Angel!! you make us all Lusty Harlots with your accent but are immediately serious for us when we need it! even though a part of me still doubts that you’re a top, no part of me will ever doubt your friendship and kindness 😭🤧

@oceanwashing couch blast!!!!! i miss u so much & things aren’t the same without u!! you are such a sweetheart, and i can’t wait until you’re free from all your work and can bring your positivity and humor back into my life :’) you were the first person to ever legitimately make me cry on this website when you made that post about me being funny dhdhjdkdld i love u lots!! i’ll be waiting for ur triumphant return lil bookworm !

@suspendersau jay, my baby, my jayby if u will— i remember the day you followed me back and we officially became Mutuals!! i don’t think any day in my life will surpass the genuine joy i felt jdhdjdkdkdld you’re such a pleasure to talk to, and your jokes always ALWAYS have me cracking up regardless of where i am!!! you’ve also given me one of the best nicknames EVER!!!!! and i’ll always be honored to call you my friend 💖

@babyhoneyau my one and only nephew!!!! i can’t even articulate how wonderful it’s been to talk to u and get to know u! you are such an amazing artist/creator and i’m always FLOORED whenever you post something!!! you have an aesthetic that most people can only dream about having (myself included) and your instagram actually looks like an art gallery (you are the most treasured piece!!!!) i love u so so so so much!! (also i need u to do something wild so i can use some nephew memes that i’ve has in my camera roll just for u)

@microlouis kirstin.......! can i just say that when i realized The microlouis followed ME, a simple buffoon, i almost lost my marbles!!! your writing is actually what i aspire to create!! i remember trying to act cool n calm in ur askbox waaaay back but i ended up just sending u a love letter ahshshsksk what can i say!!!! you’re my favorite author :’) i know things’ve been kinda crummy on ur end but know that i’m always here for you!!!! whatever you need just ask! love uuuuu

@organicstunts kristen aka my beantown buddie!!!! i can’t believe we r basically NEIGHBORS and we’ve never met up at walgreens or seen a patriots game together smhhhhhh! all jokes aside tho, you are so funny and such a delight to talk to!! i’ll always be your dunks insider, for as long as you’ll let me ! 😭 ily

@froggystyles HOLY MOLY CELESTE you are???!!!!! one of the friendliest people i have ever spoken to???? you were there in my time of need when we watched the clip from The Show That Will Not Be Named and you are just always so so so nice????? nice probably is a simple word to describe your soft heart and open nature but i feel like you might be the embodiment of nice— look up nice in the dictionary and you’ll see a picture of yourself next to the definition!!!!! i love u!!!

[chiseler]

Atomic Pulp

“Irving Lerner was an artist -” I can remember that sentence fragment in an introduction Martin Scorsese wrote for a season of films which influenced his work. He said that Murder by Contract, Lerner’s pulpy assassination thriller, had inspired the “minimalism” he aimed for in Taxi Driver, although both films manage to make simplicity seem baroque at times. Location shooting, long-held set-ups, intense close-ups and  an unblinking view of criminal activity connect the films, but it’s a sort of tribute to Scorsese’s imagination at the time that he transmuted all his sources so thoroughly.

Lerner worked in documentaries (the famous Muscle Beach, 1948, in collaboration with Joseph Strick) and television, and his career climaxed with the theatrical adaptation The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969), which details the Spanish conquistadors’ first encounter with the Incas. Where a David Lean sensibility might have been expected, Lerner provides sumple, graphic lay-outs which flatten and compress the action into a series of comic book panels. Cramped, rather than expansive, the film looks both great and cheap.

The aesthetic of poverty was Lerner’s friend. City of Fear (1959) is a nuclear anxiety thriller in which a San Quentin fugitive (Vince Edwards) somehow acquires a canister of deadly Cobalt 60, believing in contains heroin. As the authorities prepare to evacuate LA, and Jerry Goldsmith’s score rattles and blares on the soundtrack, Edwards tries to monetize his ill-gotten gains.

From the start, Lerner makes a virtue of necessity, the chief necessity being to make a film out of spit. A wide lens frames Edwards close as he drives, sneering at the radio as it recounts his criminal exploits. Lerner holds the shot ruthlessly, relentlessly: he could easily cut to a POV, but I think he wants us to know, early on, that this is a film of limited means, in which every resource will be stretched to breaking point. Chief among these is the electrifying Edwards, a very different figure from his Ben Casey role on TV, as a prison-hardened psycho slowly eaten away by radiation poisoning. The plot is structured not by any true deadline regarding the threat to the city, but by the amount of time it takes it’s hero-villain to die.

Edwards was in Kubrick’s The Killing, and that film’s cinematographer, Lucien Ballard, is along for the ride too, bringing the kind of single-source lighting Kubrick splashed around so much in his noirs. Apart from Edwards, the cast features Lyle Talbot, corpulent and glum, looking like he’s been sat in the same chair for the twenty-five years since his days as a primo pre-code lout. Gun moll Patricia Blair is luscious, even as radiation sweat sets in.

Lerner gets a lot of Dragnet-type atmosphere out of the blankness of LA in b&w, and the lack of money for, well, anything, ends up being to the film’s benefit. Amping up the menace of that shiny canister, the sound of an off screen ice-cream van and laughing children make us imagine the awful consequences of radioactive dispersal. Every room at the police station is a featureless box, decorated only by stark shadows, and the camera glides through the wall partitions like a ghost. The sets are insubstantial as hell, the store-room of a shoe shop where much of the action takes place providing an apt analogue: the shoe box.

Pair it with Carnival of Souls; marvel at its seedy, stark deadpan; just don’t forget that Irving Lerner was an artist.

by David Cairns

[avaliveradio]

Best New Rock Songs Released September 2022 with Jacqueline Jax

We air our Rock Rising Music Show every Friday as an Exclusive Featured Spotify episode that will post to replay after it airs. 

AVA Live Radio hosted by Jacqueline Jax is a podcast that puts an unfiltered provocative spin on new music and what’s behind the releases. This show talks about what’s happening in music and Pop Culture, stripping away the walls of the music industry. 

*This show is exclusive to Spotify and all royalties from the show pay to the artists directly through spotify. In addition, listeners can replay your single right on spotify while listening to our show or jump directly to your spotify page.

Rock Rising with Jacqueline Jax

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/595JJOcuiJm2ldSshWEws0?si=b781693cf09543c2

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Rock Rising Segment Lineup:

A mix of class, punk, alternative rock music just released and ready to be discovered.

Autumn Kings -Riptide

Release date: Aug 24, 2022

Pop Rock, Alternative Rock

Similar artists: Bring Me The Horizon, Papa Roach, Imagine Dragons, My Chemical Romance, NF

‘Terrific song it’s got power in the right place the vocals sound good and I like how much energy the song carried throughout the whole entire track it never really let me go so I didn’t turn it off that’s a great sign/‘

Riptide falls into CHAPTER II - THE FALL of Autumn Kings' concept album Book of the Broken. In this chapter, the character's fear runs wild and becomes too much to bear, falling deep into the depths of despair. He stays here for what feels like eternity and yearns to find peace of mind. But he can’t. It seems there is no way to make it out. He's tried praying his pain away, yet remains stuck in a toxic cycle that keeps him wrenched by an external hex. The song is succeeded by CHAPTER III - THE FIGHT, and CHAPTER IV - THE FREEDOM.

Autumn Kings is a rock/pop band founded in Detroit, Michigan / Windsor, Ontario in 2015.

https://open.spotify.com/track/7pNxzJq0LX3xTE2QAO4hft?si=2f68f8763d87457a

Holm - Diving

Release date: Aug 23, 2022

Released by: töchtersöhne records

Folk rock, Indie Rock

Holm (Danish for "small island") are taking their listeners on a panoramic journey on their island of sound. The band's music embodies songs that want to break out of the solitude and silence of isolation. The two songwriters Sascha Höfer and Bertram Kolar present themselves as multi-layered as the landscape of the karstic Baltic Sea islands and wander from gentle and sweet tones in the South to rough and harder realms in the North of their soundscapes. "The Road" offers us the long-awaited road trip that we have all been eagerly waiting for.

https://open.spotify.com/track/67w9J6jazvwcGTx4tBf7OL?si=134c86702e224886

Jason Lyles - Bargain Bin

Release date: Aug 25, 2022

Soft Rock, Pop Rock, Indie Rock

A guitarist and talented indie songwriter, Lyles is as comfortable as a solo artist as he is performing with an ensemble. Resting comfortably somewhere between the wiry pop classicism of The Cars and the twangy rock thump of Jason Isbell, the positive music of Jason Lyles rambles around its influences, creating a bridge between the aesthetics of rock, pop, and Americana.

Jason Lyles has always been interested in what lies between genres – in that gray area where sounds tangle together and kick free of any sense of restriction or confinement. Whether it’s the sharp twang of an acoustic guitar blended with the emphatic thrust of some euphoric power-pop echo, or the tumbling movements of mid-90’s alternative rock spliced with 80’s jangle-pop, he has a unique ability to graft musical histories together in a way that doesn’t feel forced or disconnected.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4nq4LO8IB4kio3Psh1a5NM?si=8a019fd7316645cc

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Abbey Rose - Not Interested

Release date: Aug 28, 2022

Alternative / Indie R&B, Alternative Rock

Similar artists: Jazmine Sullivan, Maroon 5, Linkin Park, Yebba, Lenny Kravitz

"This is such a surprising song at first you feel like you’re sitting in the middle of a nightclub and then all of a sudden it shifts and gives you this rock ‘n’ roll edge that absolutely takes your breath away paired with a really cool female vocal I think it’s really special so I couldn’t wait for you to hear it.”

Abbey Rose is a Canadian born, Darwin-raised songwriter and performer, making music in Melbourne/Naarm. Heavily influenced by RnB, Hip Hop and Jazz, Abbey Rose and her band serve up rich lyricism, catchy hooks, and grooves that get under your skin.

“This song is for anyone who’s had to extract themselves from a poisonous friendship. It’s based on personal experience - I was devastated when I realised one of my best friends had been a wolf in sheep’s clothing all along. I was completely heartbroken, but also, I am a raging Scorpio, so naturally I had to write a savage ‘cut-them-off-and-move-on’ anthem! If something feels wrong and you’re starting to wonder if your love and loyalty are being reciprocated, I hope you can take courage, listen to your heart, and put yourself first!” - Abbey

https://open.spotify.com/track/7aGj2xNspxRunKwLI58Brb?si=c4744ed82e704fe4

Alexander Craig -I Wanna Roll With You

Release date: Aug 20, 2022

Blues, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock

Similar artists:  ZZ Top, RL Burnside, Jack White

Alexander Craig captivates crowds with his high energy fusion of Rock n' Roll, Soul, Punk and Blues music. Whether he's leading a big band, his trio, or performing as an old school one man band his shows inspire dance and audience engagement.

Between 2008 and 2018 he wrote and produced five albums and played over a thousand gigs as Crankshaft. After a decade of evolving as a person and an artist it was time to shed the persona. With a new perspective on life he decided to reinvent himself using his given name.

Alexander Craig speaks a positive message and promotes unity during these divided times bringing light to our commonalities through song and dance. Look forward to his debut album in 2022.

https://open.spotify.com/track/1Og7KD9gbxotbCkJTvtMTL?si=cdc3536d562c4523

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periodically revisiting tumblr because I had a dream I was in grad school and therefore was drawn to blogging? My feed is exceedingly boring so at this point I just look up the people that I loved reading ages 17 - 24. looking through my follow list (tumblr tells you exactly how long it has been since they last updated - as though it knows you are mainly looking for vestigiality) I see the hodgepodge of people and interests I was collecting. That one young stl queer who made me feel like a creepy older dyke at age 21,  punk b/witches living in an invisible, inter-city scene i lusted for, smart feminist academics whose impulse to archive inspired my own, various “collectives” “showspaces” “warehouses,” impossibly delightful and pretentious theory blogs. I almost wish I had spent more time on here writing instead of posting all those stupid drawings. I won’t delete though, because the longform still occasionally amuses me, and obviously so do the archives. The way I live on the internet now is shorter, but features the same split on instagram - ghostnests for tattoos, this moniker for the refuse. I used to feel conflicted about ‘the aesthetic’ of popularity and art on the internet, but now it’s just business. I don’t take it personally.

like I said, I mostly just look up the individuals whose life threads I’ve kept sporadic tabs on. usually that means what I think of as the old guard (lyle, kara, lazz, marc) and sometimes that just means myself. today at the laundromat I am reading the text from my old gpoys on the other blog. maybe i should pull a @karaj and print out my whole tumblr. it would definitely fit into the nostalgic practice i am intermittently rigorous about. maybe i’ll just reblog my favorites here.

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Happy to see this feature on ‘Mexico Masks Rituals’ author @phyllisgalembo in @photographmag !! #Repost ・・・ "Maske, an exhibition on view at Florida’s Boca Raton Museum of Art (@bocamuseum) before it closed temporarily because of the coronavirus, showcases the unique place that Phyllis Galembo has established for herself in contemporary photography. For more than four decades, she has been traveling primarily throughout Africa and the Americas to catalogue the costumes of ritual performance and celebration. A visual ethnographer with an aesthetic approach, Galembo has compiled an increasingly important cultural archive, as her most recent book, ‘Mexico Masks Rituals’ (Radius/DAP), makes abundantly clear. As societies change and practices disappear or are transformed, her portraits not only retain the details of cultural production, they also serve as a continuing celebration of creativity and a reminder of the value of human diversity."⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ From @photographmag’s March-April issue, read the #Interview with Phyllis Galembo (@phyllisgalembo) by Lyle Rexer (@lylerexer). ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷Phyllis Galembo, Affianwan, Calabar South, Nigeria, 2005. ©Phyllis Galembo, Courtesy Axis Gallery⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #photograph #photographmag #PhyllisGalembo #Interview #LyleRexer #newsletter #photography #read #stayhome #stayathome #reading #mask #maske #mexico ⁠⠀@radius.books https://www.instagram.com/p/B-cXKbsJeYc/?igshid=1fncv4wz45xsj

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Seven Worlds, One Planet: Episode 2, reviewed by how sports it is

Including a walrus massacre, volcano bears and snakes pretending that they’re spiders.

We continue our extremely important mission to conduct a scene-by-scene review of the BBC’s new nature documentary, Seven Worlds, One Planet, in order to see how sports it is. We determined that Episode 1, which focused on Antarctica, was reasonably sports. How fares Asia?

Episode 2 Asia

Scene 1: Walrus Massacre

Me on my work commute. #SevenWorldsOnePlanet pic.twitter.com/tZPZFsZTjl

— BBC One (@BBCOne) November 3, 2019

The Pacific walrus is not one of nature’s most appealing creations. They resemble nothing so much as socks left to rot in a garden and then stuffed full of blubber a few years later. And while on land, tusked animals are majestic — the eyes of an elephant convey a deep, thoughtful, almost platonic serenity — the walrus betrays its toothy compatriots, lurching about horribly on land and bringing to bear what is perhaps the animal kingdom’s beadiest stare. The sabre-tusks themselves (I seem to remember being taught that they are of use in rooting out clams, although exactly how was a mystery to me then and remains one now) are a perverse addition to the ensemble. “Well-armed” is hardly a sensible adjective for evolution to bestow upon what is essentially an enormous sausage.

The sausage-ness attracts exactly what you’d expect in the Arctic: polar bears. Both walrus and polar bear are creatures of the ice, and, as I expect you’ve seen from increasingly breathless news reports, there’s less of that around these days. Walruses need a flat surface upon which to rest, while polar bears need it as a platform from which to hunt. With no ice, walruses have to congregate on a few thin, rocky beaches, and that sort of gathering attracts hungry polar bears.

Packing maybe 100,000 tonnes of walrus on one beach sounds like a recipe for severe puncture wounds and indeed several dozen walruses attempt to escape the packed crowds by scaling the cliffs behind the beach. And here is where this scene turns from ominous to outright macabre.

Are walruses good at climbing? No, but they’re persistent enough to scale the cliffs, given enough time. If you’ve ever gone on a serious hike, however, you might have noticed that the descent is just as grueling as the ascent. Now imagine if you weighed as much as a small car, had flippers for limb and were trying to get down a large cliff in a hurry.

The ‘hurry’ is where the polar bears come in. Where a walrus can climb, so too can a bear, and when they reach the top of the cliffs, the walruses instinctively try to escape towards the sea, where they’re more mobile and thus better equipped to fend off attacks. So they race towards the sea, the fastest way possible: by hurling themselves off the cliff. A walrus might be ill-equipped to climb, but it’s even less capable of handling a 100-yard drop.

This rain of soon-to-be-former-walruses rather naturally spooks their fellows, creating a stampede in which many other walruses are crushed or slashed to death by flailing tusks. The Odobenid Vespers — more than 200 walruses die — conclude with a delighted polar bear surveying a pile of corpses, clearly stunned by its good fortune.

NB: This scene is shocking. I’m not trying to celebrate it by writing so much about; it’s just been weighing on my mind since I saw it. The knowledge that anthropogenic climate change is at least partially responsible for these events (Attenborough assures us that they’re still relatively rare) brings the horror home even further.

Aesthetics 9/10

As I’ve mentioned, walruses are hideous animals. But this category necessarily includes atmosphere, and the oppressive grimness of this awful scene carries too much weight to ignore. A bouncing walrus might not have any conventional aesthetic value, but there’s no way we can give this tragic, moving scene any less than high marks here.

Difficulty 10/10

I think that the difficulty of this one is adequately illustrated by the body count.

Competitiveness 3/10

Apart from the early scuffle between a walrus and a bear (in the water, the walrus has the advantage), this is all about walrus versus ground, at speed, and is therefore not competitive.

Overall 22/30

Walrus-diving is sports. Not the sort of sports I want to actually watch, but definitely sports.

Scene 2: Volcano Bears

When you’re desperate to get greens into your diet at any cost. #SevenWorldsOnePlanet #saladwoe pic.twitter.com/mignAvLIbv

— BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) November 3, 2019

Bears are incredible animals. Sometimes they’re ferocious, brutal predators, able to rip you basically in half with a swipe of the paw. Sometimes they’re fisherbears. Sometimes they’re honey thieves. And sometimes they perch daintily on top of a volcano, eating grass.

Go find the Kamchatka Peninsula on Google Maps. It’s the thing attached like a stubby tail to the east coast of Siberia. A winter there, you might imagine, is a cold, unpleasant thing. However, Kamchatka is also blessed by a surprising abundance of volcanos, which create unusually dangerous oases in the barren desert of snow.

And so we meet our volcano bears. These bears, who emerge from hibernation hungry, converge on the only snow-free spots around. To find greenery, they must conduct some precarious scrambles above volcanic vents, and some bears have been known to get too close or to slip and fall. Those bears do not have a good lunch.

Aesthetics 7/10

The true beauty of a bear comes mostly in comparison to other animals, and unfortunately we don’t get that here. Instead we have some scruffy-looking critters doing an ungainly shuffling to eat some grass. But ...

Difficulty 10/10

... it’s metal as fuck because they’re shuffling around eating grass that’s growing over volcanic springs which would kill them if they fell in. It’s so metal, in fact, that I’m giving some bonus points in aesthetics.

Competitiveness 2/10

Bear vs. grass? Enh. Bear vs. volcano? Also one sided (and, fortunately, we don’t see that).

Overall 19/30

All sports would be improved, at least hypothetically, if conducted over a volcano. In this case, the aggressive geology upgrades ‘skinny bears eat some grass’ from ‘definitely not a sport’ to ‘possibly sports’.

Scene 3: The Battle of Little Bigfoot

Hearing your parents car in the driveway but you’ve done zero chores.#SevenWorldsOnePlanet #runningforcover pic.twitter.com/Hghyh23hIo

— BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) November 3, 2019

The forest of Shennongjia, in Hubei Province, China, is home to some very strange creatures. Himalayan lore is rife with rumours of man-sized, furry apes, averse to human contact. And, well, here they are. Maybe. These are blue-faced, golden-coated, snub-nosed snow monkeys. They’re rare, mountain-dwelling, mostly-bipedal and overly-hyphenated primates whom you could quite happily build that sort of myth off if you were snowblind and suffering from the altitude. Granted, they’re not that much over 2’ tall, but let’s have some artistic license here. Where’s your sense of mystery?

Monkeys are not usually associated with snowy conditions. These ones have a hard time of it in the winter, surviving by huddling together for warmth (given their beautiful, plush coats, this doesn’t seem like the worst thing in the world) and feeding on what looks like a miserable diet of bark, moss and associated grime.

So desperate are they for food that when families collide at the edge of their territories we get what this hitherto serene scene desperately needed: a huge monkey fight. We begin with the dominant males baring their teeth and punching the shit out of each other and then descend into a general melee of kicking, scratching and biting.

Fight over, the scattered band must regroup for warmth, so we get another heart-rending monkey hug. Awwww.

Aesthetics 9/10

The snub nose is ugly and the blue skin is very Game of Thrones, but fortunately those considerations are overwhelmed by a) the really lovely golden fur and b) the flying hugs and c) MONKEY BABIES. These snowmen are extremely bominable.

Difficulty 9/10

I assume nobody reading this has ever tried to punch a monkey in the face. Readers, please do not try punching a monkey in the face, even if you have a monkey to hand. It would be cruel, for one, but also I imagine it would be extremely bad news for you, because monkeys are agile, strong, and mean, and seem more than capable of biting off that hand.

Now make this a small army of very hungry, oversized monkeys punching each other in the face. And it’s also freezing. They would kick your ass.

Competitiveness 9/10

The male monkeys looked well matched, and when you add the general chaos of the melee to that you get an intense, hard-fought battle.

Overall 27/30

MMMA is 100 percent sports and I will have these monkeys fight you if you don’t agree.

Scene 4: Spider-Snake

Everyone: Snakes and spiders are scary, but at least they’re mutually exclusive. Nature: Hold my beer…#SevenWorldsOnePlanet pic.twitter.com/gXpJFQ74yM

— BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) November 3, 2019

Many people are terrified of spiders. Many people are terrified of snakes. What this scene asks is: what if we COMBINED THE TWO? Here is a special guest review of the above GIF, by my good friend Harry Lyles:

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But let’s back up.

The Dasht-e Lut, in Iran, is not a fun place to hang out. It’s one of the driest places in the world. It’s also one of the hottest. There is no earthly reason to live here, except by accident.

When mishap or sheer bloody-mindedness places critters in these sorts of environments, evolution gets to work. And given long enough, evolution can come up with some absolutely wild shit. The Dasht-e Lut is on the flight path of migratory birds, which provide a rare food source — if they can be got.

Perhaps the best way of catching birds is to get them to come to you, which is the trick used by the spider-tailed horned viper. The scales on the tip of its tail have been formed perfectly to look like a plump, juicy spider with wriggling legs, and when the viper flicks back and forth it really does look like a tasty morsel (if you’re a bird) is sitting there just waiting to be plucked.

But no! It’s a snake, and now it’s going to try to bite you in the head. Have fun!

Aesthetics 8/10

Another relatively ugly scene — the shot of the shrike hovering in astonishment is a particularly cool exception — redeemed by the sheer insanity of what we’re seeing. SPIDER-SNAKE!

Difficulty 9/10

You try catching a bird with your teeth. You can draw a spider on your hand (or hold a spider model, or a real spider). I don’t care. Not happening.

Competitiveness 7/10

Some birds get away, which suggests that this is not as one-sided a match as it might appear.

Overall 24/30

Imitating a spider so that you can catch birds with your face is sports.

Scene 5: Sure, Let’s Watch a Tiny Lizard Fight

Run Forrest, run! #SevenWorldsOnePlanet pic.twitter.com/DiFZXio2Qb

— BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) November 3, 2019

Lizards will go to great lengths for love. In the breeding season, male sarada lizards strut their stuff on the open plains of northern India. They’re brightly coloured and beautiful, and have a dazzling blue and red fan on their throat they unfurl to catch the attention of those lovely lizard ladies. But there’s a problem: saradas are not very big lizards.

Standing (and their gait is quite something when they do) at all of three inches tall, male saradas need some environmental help to be seen. And so battles commence over the small rocks which dot the landscape. Throat-fans are waved with menace, and then the fight begins. Jaws snap, legs flex, and these little lizards go flying through the air, a blaze of shrieking colour.

Aesthetics 9/10

They lose a point for their ridiculous waddle, but these lizards know how to put on a show. Beautiful colours and a surprisingly acrobatic fight scene.

Difficulty 4/10

You might get a nasty bite or two but I’m pretty confident anyone reading this would clean up against a three-inch lizard if they had to.

Competitiveness 10/10

A well-matched fight between two lizards at the top of their game. It’s a shame one had to lose: he left everything on the rock out there.

Overall 23/30

Miniature sports are still sports.

Scene 6: Orang-utans

You...are...the love of my life, and I’ve never felt this way before. #SevenWorldsOnePlanet pic.twitter.com/RFaosm6JAa

— BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) November 3, 2019

Here we get to watch a baby orang-utan try to eat termites (not tasty!), struggle to climb a tree, give up after nearly getting all the way up to the top, and then take a nap on his mother. Then he eats some mangos.

Nothing else happens. It rules.

Aesthetics 10/10

Look at the little floof! I can’t stand how cute the little guy is. The nap absolutely kills me.

Difficulty 5/10

That tree looks like a very annoying but definitely possible climb.

Competitiveness 0/10

A) mother is always there to help out if he needs it and b) nothing actually happens, which is totally fine.

Overall 15/30

It’s adorable, but it’s not sports.

Scene 7: A Miniature Singing Rhino

I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t know these critters existed until I watched this episode. Sumatran rhinoceros are the smallest rhinos in the world, standing around 4’ tall and covered in red hair. They also sing little songs to one another. Or they would, if there was still a ‘one another’ to sing to: Sumatran rhinos are critically endangered, with less than 100 individuals left. So that’s depressing.

Attenborough uses the plight of the rhinos to segue into an illustration of the annihilation of the Southeast Asian rainforest. They contain valuable timber, and that land can also be used to grow oil palm plantations, which produce additives to be used in processed food and biofuels. That last note is particularly depressing: even supposedly eco-friendly technologies and techniques can lead to habitat destruction.

“Huge areas were initially stripped for timber and then a very different type of tree was planted. Oil Palm.” #SevenWorldsOnePlanet pic.twitter.com/reSWTBBfNW

— BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) November 3, 2019

Asian land is increasingly valuable as the population expands, but the growth of its cities, while substantial, cannot possibly account for the scale of habitat loss. In the battered forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, we have monuments to one of the oldest of human foibles: near-sighted greed.

Aesthetics 2/10

The rhino is ugly enough before we pivot into scenes of forests being bulldozed.

Difficulty 10/10

It’s easy to feel smug about one’s environmental footprint when the damage being done on your behalf is conducted out of sight. But we should never forget that while cheap goods come at a cost we might not feel now, the real price will be revealed soon enough.

I’m not trying to guilt trip anyone here: I live in England, and so simply by existing I am personally responsible for titanic levels of carbon generation and general destruction. But the first step in fixing the problem is recognising that there’s a problem.

Competitiveness 0/10

Pretty much beating a dead horse at this point.

Overall 12/30

Just because it’s depressing doesn’t mean it’s sports.

Scene 8: Whale sharks

Whale sharks are the largest fish in the sea. They are slow-moving, friendly filter feeders, and are absolutely enormous — the largest recorded are nearly 60-feet long. As one might imagine, they are easy to catch, and as they have so much meat that they’re extremely valuable. Unsurprisingly, there are not many whale sharks left. In this scene, a whale shark cruises near the surface, edging up to a waiting fishing boat ...

... but this scene is not so depressing as the last. Fishing for whale sharks has been banned in Indonesian waters, and instead of hunting the giants, they throw them their bycatch, causing the gentlest shark feeding frenzy ever captured on film.

Me: Oh no, I’m on a diet. Also me: ... #SevenWorldsOnePlanet pic.twitter.com/V3lB0GoTFP

— BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) November 3, 2019

Just slurping those little fish right in. Yum!

Aesthetics 6/10

Whale sharks are undeniably cool fish. But they are in fact so cool they barely do anything apart from sucking smaller fish into their hungry maws.

Difficulty 6/10

I appreciate the choice of the fishermen have made not to defy laws and go for the easy, hefty catch.

Competitiveness 0/10

Whale sharks against little fish isn’t even fair when the little fish are alive to begin with.

Overall 12/30

Not sports. Cool whale sharks, though.

Overall sports tally: Quite a lot of sports

Four definitely-sports, one probably-sports, and three nos. BBC did a nice job stepping up the sportsiness this episode.

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Every Ending Theme in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Ranked!

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has always been deeply tied to music, with many characters and Stand names being derived from various musicians, song titles, and bands, so it comes as no surprise that the ending and opening songs of JoJo’s need to be meticulously chosen and crafted to match the themes of the JoJo chapters they’re attached to. Danni already did a great job ranking the opening themes, and you can read about that over here  if you like, but today we’ll be looking at the various ending themes and trying to come up with the answer as to which one is the absolute best! Before we get into the individual songs and where they stand in the ranking, I wanted to discuss how I'm going to take a look at each one. I'll be ranking them based on suitability to their JoJo series, overall listenability, and their ability to evoke specific ideas and themes from the show itself.  

      Before we get started, I figured it’s only fair to give an honorable mention to the following songs: "Great Days UNITS" version, along with the "Akuyaku◇Concerto ~Oingo & Boingo~" and "Akuyaku◇Concerto ~Hol Horse & Boingo~" songs. "Great Days UNITS" was an amazing way to end the Diamond is Unbreakable part of the series, but since it is also the opening theme for the latter half of the series as well, it really doesn’t fit into a listing of only ending songs. The two Akuyaku Concerto songs are amazing and definitely worth a listen, but they’re really specifically dependent on those 3 episodes of Stardust Crusaders and don’t have much, if any, bearing on the rest of the series at all. While I love these, it didn’t seem fair to include them in the regular ranking, as they’d just be in the bottom anyway, so I wanted to give them a little attention here and then move on to the real list!  

5) "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles

Coming in last on the list is The Bangles’s “Walk Like an Egyptian”.  The catchy 1986 pop tune has been a hit on pop and now throwback radio stations since it came out, and the song was highly popular when it came out, hitting the top spots of the Hot 100 in the US, as well as putting out high rankings on UK and US singles charts when released. The album it came from, Different Light, had another hit in “Manic Monday”, which helped secure the band a number 2 spot on the Billboard 200.

The song itself seems to fit into the overall idea of the first half of Stardust Crusaders, in which Jotaro and company are literally trying to reach Egypt, but doesn’t have quite as much of a connection to the themes or mood of the episodes aside from that, as some other songs do. While this choice was a fun one for the series, it doesn’t seem to have as strong of a connection as later ending songs do, and doesn’t quite evoke a sense of excitement in hearing it play as an episode ends, and doesn’t have as clean of a lead in as other songs do either. Although it’s a great bop to nod your head to, there isn’t much else here to it, and the song itself floats a bit more on its popularity and notoriety as a popular song than it does on any other type of connection to JoJo or Hirohiko Araki, although you could possibly argue that the “Walk like an Egyptian” dance in the music video occasionally makes people pose like a JoJo character!  

4) "Freek'n You" by Jodeci

Number four on the list is Golden Wind’s choice of “Freek’n You” by Jodeci. This choice caused quite an uproar amongst Western fans when it was revealed, as many had initially believed Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” would have been a more fitting choice. Frankly, the content of “Gangsta’s Paradise” doesn’t fit with the series at all, being a somewhat sombre rap ballad about the danger and darkness of living in a proverbial gangsta’s paradise. Instead, the Golden Wind anime features a particularly sensual version of Italian mafia aesthetics, particularly in the Bucciarati group, making the smash hit R&B song a much better selection.

Part 5 breaks from the JoJo norm in a few ways, featuring characters that are less physically threatening, as well as more unique and odd Stand powers, such as Pesci’s deceptively dangerous Fisher Man. I've mentioned before a few reasons why Jodeci and JoJo are a great match, and the R&B group are just as unique and important to music as JoJo is to anime and manga. With that said, you might ask why it seems to be so low on my list, but with only five songs to choose from, it’s less a judgement of quality and more about which seems to match with its particular series best; in that case, Jodeci’s song is a good fit, but a few others really edge it out of my top spots.

  3) "I Want You" by Savage Garden

    The final three slots of my list are pretty close, with each one edging the other out by just a little bit! Third place goes to Savage Garden’s “I Want You”, the 1996 pop-hit that finds a perfect home as a compliment to the 90s aesthetics of Diamond is Unbreakable. Like the other songs in my top three, I felt that this one really meshed with the designs and ideas of Part 4, and it seems that Araki agrees! On his website, Araki wrote that he felt that the song’s unique style and touch of progressive music styles really meshed with his ideas for Part 4.

  I have to say that Araki is 100% right here, as the slow, rhythmic start to the song gives way to a rising change that mixes somewhat soothing beats into a more energetic song is a great fit for Diamond is Unbreakable, which tends to move between small, close comedy scenes and dramatic murder mystery. “I Want You” loses out a bit to the last two songs on my list, mostly due to their overarching thematics to the stories they’re attached to, but this one certainly deserves to be in the top 3 spot due to how fitting it seems to be for Josuke and the gang.

  2) "Last Train Home" by the Pat Metheny Group

    In another world, this choice might have been my controversial top spot, but “Last Train Home” by the Pat Metheny Group certainly takes an easy silver here as our number 2 ending song. While “Walk Like an Egyptian” is a somewhat fun and upbeat song, “Last Train Home” kicks off the second half of Stadust Crusaders with a melancholic jazz melody. For us, this song takes the cake over quite a few others due to the way the song’s melodic theme matches the grim realization of Part 3’s impending end, and is one of the best endings to mix the audio with important visual cues, such as certain characters being positioned in certain ways (across the river, facing away, number of tickets, etc.) foreshadowing the tragic fact that not everyone will make it back alive after facing DIO.

Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that Araki considered the album As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays to be particularly important to developing Steel Ball Run, Part 7 of the JoJo series, giving this song an even stronger link to the JoJo universe than it might originally seem. The Jazz fusion themes of the song help give it a particularly unique sound and style, making it individually memorable for a song that didn’t have much radio play compared to some of the other selections. Ironically, it shares something in common with my number 1 selection, in the sense that the song is about 5 times longer on its own than it is during the ending sequence of the show.

1) "Roundabout" by Yes

It’s pretty obvious what my last choice is, so without further ado, the number 1 ending song in JoJo is: “Roundabout” by Yes! It likely doesn’t come as much of a surprise that it ended up here, but I'll talk through my selection process. First of all, it’s the only song to accompany two parts of the JoJo series, both Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency, but Araki considered the song one of the influential pieces for his writing process during the beginnings of the manga, and it's a song Araki requested be used in the anime itself. The sound director, Yoshikazu Iwakami, was the one who noticed that the song fit so well with the closing scenes of episode 6, and worked to make it blend into the ending of each episode following it. As numerous memes have since made use of, the classic guitar lead in of the song giving way to the ‘to be continued’ arrow and then the ending sequence became one of the hallmarks of the first parts of the JoJo’s anime.

But I knew why the song would probably get to #1 and why it fits so well, so instead, let's talk about the song itself and what it has in common with JoJo’s. Many of the songs chosen after it were chosen for the fitting musical period and style of the era that the story takes place in, but “Roundabout” ironically doesn’t fit this mold; Part 1 is far too archaic for the song to have existed, and Part 2 is too early for the song as well, with Yes publishing the song in 1972. The link is established more by Araki’s stated influence of the song on his work, and the progressive rock stylings of Yes, that lends to the way JoJo operates as a whole. Progressive rock (or “prog rock") is a style of music that isn’t focused on progressive politics, but “progressing” music by being highly experimental, drawing upon various types of other musical styles, unusual instrument choices, song lengths, and almost any other experimental type of idea that could influence the songs.

Groups like The Beatles, Yes, Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead, and the Beach Boys were all highly influential prog rock bands, mixing technology and art theories into music which had, to that point, been somewhat simplistic and unchanging. When compared to Araki’s work on JoJo, it is easy to see the connection between progressive rock music and Araki’s unique, flowing art style and aesthetics, the combination of various types of pop-culture into a single title, and even his focus on using musically themed names in his work. While it doesn’t share the innate, timely connection to its parts like other songs, there’s no JoJo song that fits better, and better expresses the concepts of JoJo’s, than “Roundabout!”

And there you have it! As I keep watching Part 5 (and the hopeful continuation into Parts 6, 7, and 8), we’ll see if any new ending songs come out to challenge our list. Maybe in a few years, we can revist this list and see if any song was capable of dethroning “Roundabout!” Until then, I’ll keep rocking that JoJo ending playlist and enjoying the vast and different musical styles that Araki and Lucky Land have graced us with in-between waiting for new JoJo episodes!

  Do you agree with my list? What’s your favorite JoJo ending song? Let us know in the comments!

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