#100 Flowers

[thefugitivesaint]

There's nothing better than putting some music you've neglected back into your ears and having it hit you the same way it hit you when you were 15 years old. 100 Flowers released 'Reject Yourself' on the compilation 'Hell Comes To Your House' in 1981. I didn't come across this compilation until 1989. If my memory serves me here, I brought the comp because I recognized Social Distortion who I knew from the documentary 'Another State of Mind' (one of those impossible to find movies that was passed around between young punk on VHS tapes usually accompanied by other hard to get films like 'Repo Man' or 'Eraserhead' or Penelope Spheeris' 'Suburbia' or her 'The Decline of Western Civilization' Part 1). When you're young and you're just starting to explore music for yourself, you tend to gravitate towards the music you're exposed to either through parents or older siblings (your own, which I did not have, or a friends), your peers, or, if you're anything like me, album cover art (which was how I got into Iron Maiden, Merciful Fate, Motorhead, and countless thrash metal bands in the late 80s) or random impulse purchases (does it sound weird? Do you not speak the language? Are you curious and the music is cheap?) While Social Distortion was the entry point, the song that stuck with me was 'Reject Yourself' (which I put on a mix I made in 2012 and posted here in 2017). I think it holds up well and I also think that it a contemporary punk audience would still dig it, hence this post. Given the age I came across 100 Flowers, I had no idea who they were or that they were formally the punk band The Urinals having changed their name to signal a move away from a strict punk sound for more post-punk, industrial, experimental music (my truncated summary of their discogs entry) Funny enough, I never really listened to The Urinals until recently. Not sure why.

[dialoogid]

The Urinals

[bandcampsnoop]

5/9/23.

Red Asphalt were a high school "straight edge" band in Southern California - San Clemente specifically. In my mind, they're notable because they're a piece of the musical journey of George Carpenter of The Clog. The Clog's 7" dominated my listening in 2019. Back then I mentioned how The Clog sounded like a cross between Ty Segall and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

Red Asphalt definitely has a similar feel. The cassette (mastered by Mikey Young) is a bit of auditory whiplash - going from sludgey screamo to lo-fi indie (think Pavement), to gentle picking. Really, this sounds like this could have been an early Flying Nun band (listen to "J2" - sounds like it could have been The Clean). Finally, I'll throw in The Urinals/100 Flowers as a Southern California reference point.

San Francisco based tape label Discontinuous Innovation just released this cassette in April 2023. The label has an impressive catalogue.

[chasgow]

Original 1982 flyer for On Broadway in San Francisco- the legendary Gun Club on the 21st, then a killer lineup for August 28 with The Mutants, Middle Class, Red Cross (before they were sued and had to change their name to Redd Kross), and 100 Flowers. 

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

There are ten trillion pictures of flowering trees to the point where they sometimes seem trite and overdone. But then you see a tree in full flower and go holy shit this rules and I've gotta show this to everyone so they can experience the same magic and wonder and there are ten trillion and one pictures of flowering trees

[bixels]

There's no such thing as overpreparing for love.

Happy (late) Rarijack Valentine's.

[juliaxyn]

So many books, so many flowers

[nothingbizzare]

Don't lose hope

[heartnosekid]

hummingbird clearwing moth (hemaris thysbe) | moanrchmanorfl on ig

[mx-paisley]

PRIVATE EYES AND DANDELIONS RAHHH 💥💥💥💥

close up shots below

I rendered it sketchbook style !! honestly i really love how this turned out. I'll make more art in this style again

[hadesoftheladies]

being unwilling to accept degradation on any level as a woman makes people so mad at you lmao. no i will not exist and walk around like i am here to be performative art and not a human being fuck you

[choccy-milky]

ty to @icedmatchawoatmilk13 for sending this to me! i may have gone a bit overboard but this was so much fun to fill out/think about BAHAHA💖 ill still never get over how perfect the song sarah smiles is for them...the lyrics AND the fact that its an alliteration...im gonna do an animatic about seb and clora to that song one day i swear 😩 ((blank template by oakwolves!))

[oncanvas]

White Iris No. 7, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1957

Oil on canvas 102 x 76.2 cm (40.16 x 30 in.) Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

[afurtivecake]

if andrew was a bit swayed by kevin, i cannot blame him in THE SLIGHTEST. kevin is like, specifically engineered to appeal to all of andrew's protective instincts:

fleeing horrific abuse from a grade-A asshole

thinks about going back to the abusive situation sometimes

needs him all the time

hot.

and on top of that, kevin tells him he's worth something and that he'll give him something to live for.

like idk what else andrew could have done. the man is not made of stone.

[birdsongisland]

Id : a rendered digital painting of binx and andhera on a stone building and vegetation landscape. Binx is standing on the steps of large stone stairs and leaning over the stone railing with a soft smile to tie a piece of yellow fabric on andhera's arm. She has big brown moth wings with a golden key design and moth antennas over their chin length hair. She is wearing a yellow and cream dress, with puffy sleeves and a slit in the cream body of the dress showing the yellow underskirt. Many purple and red lost objects are sewn onto the dress such as earrings, keys, socks, flowers, scissors etc. Andhera has his back to the viewer, on horseback and looking up at binx with the same soft expression. They're wearing an iridescent dark purple armour with crystal-like designs, goldwn earrings, and holding a crystalline black halberd. Shining yellow moths are flying around them, purple roses are blooming, and a slight border frames the image with cristals, thread, keys and moths./end id

im normal and spent a normal amount of time, effort and thought on this